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applegrove

(132,207 posts)
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 07:07 PM Nov 2025

I hope it happens to Trump:

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T15:33:05.299Z
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I hope it happens to Trump: (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2025 OP
Hopefully history will repeat itself LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #1
🤞 tanyev Nov 2025 #2
Oh, I forgot about that one. progressoid Nov 2025 #4
At the very least, it rhymes. paleotn Nov 2025 #5
Too bad Andrew Johnson didn't set the standard and get himself hanged after issuing those words. erronis Nov 2025 #3
Although, Johnson was impeached Wednesdays Nov 2025 #7
It just doesn't end Grim Chieftain Nov 2025 #6

erronis

(23,873 posts)
3. Too bad Andrew Johnson didn't set the standard and get himself hanged after issuing those words.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 09:05 PM
Nov 2025

Wednesdays

(22,597 posts)
7. Although, Johnson was impeached
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 09:42 PM
Nov 2025

...and escaped conviction by just one vote in the Senate.

Maybe TSF can earn the honor that Johnson didn't.

Grim Chieftain

(1,734 posts)
6. It just doesn't end
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 09:33 PM
Nov 2025

Every day Trump sinks further and further into depravity. Will Republicans (if there are any sane, ethical ones left) join Democrats to end this evisceration of our democracy? This cannot go on.

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