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Miles Archer

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5. It's a sliding scale, a matter of degrees
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:15 AM
Sunday

The average DUer is at the top of the scale, or near it, because they spend more time than the average citizen educating themselves and connecting the dots.

The 90,000,000 who stayed home and didn't vote in 2024 are at the bottom of the scale, because they don't care, they don't know, and the don't want to know.

There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the middle of those extremes. My friend is one of them. And I think it's human nature for people to look at the "opposition party" when we have a flame-thrower like Trump in office and say "WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING," but in reality we have:

1) The 25th Amendment, which is absolutely not going to happen with Trump's cabinet

2). Impeachment. LET'S SAY DEMS do NOT pick up enough seats to IMPEACH, CONVICT, and REMOVE Trump. Here's a BIG MAYBE...MAYBE if Republicans made it through the midterms and kept their jobs, they'd figure they were immune to lame duck Trump, and would side with Dems on impeachment. That's such a big maybe that maybe it's not even worth mentioning. But right now, as it stands, introducing article of impeachment would only result in Trump taking another victory lap when it falls apart.

And if you read what I wrote to my friend, I also believe Schumer is not the problem.

Yes...maybe he watches too much MS Now (MSNBC) and has heard too many swipes at Schumer. However he got into that frame of mind, my goal was to say yeah...you can replace him, and maybe we'll get a few feet closer to purging the nation of Trump, and maybe we won't.

I think it all depends on the Midterms. Trump knows that too. That's why he's trying to screw with them.

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