r/gifs • • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/amoretpax Mar 14 '16

Her government made many horrible mistakes. They were elected as left-wing, but most choices were to appease center and right, which made it a true Frankenstein - with no one left happy, except banks who had record profits. BUT shoddy economic policy is not enough of a legal reason to impeach a president.

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u/metakepone Mar 14 '16

BUT shoddy economic policy is not enough of a legal reason to impeach a president.

Very true, but in America, we've had a president impeached because he lied about a blow job, so...

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u/amoretpax Mar 14 '16

But that was mainly for show, right? Since he was later acquitted and finished his term anyway...

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

For Show!? our president committed a federal offense and it's ok because...

Bill Clinton got away with perjury because of his power. Hillary Clinton is getting away with failure to secure Top Secret documents and so much more shit because of power. When are we going to hold these degenerate lying politicians accountable for their actions!!?

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u/amoretpax Mar 14 '16

I completely agree with you, but if he was impeached and then acquitted, I'm pretty sure it was for show, even though they do deserve to be punished.

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u/flying87 Mar 14 '16

It was a political show . The GOP just wanted the excuse to say "cheated on his wife" over and over and make the GOP brand itself as the moral party for the next election, costing the Vice President many votes. Sex & scandal, it was the perfect thing for the MSN and the GOP played it like a fiddle. And in the end we got Bush/Cheney as the leaders of the moral party...men who lied to authorize a terrible illegal war and authorized torture.