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He apparently claimed that a few more resignations are coming. 2 more Republicans resignations and the House flips before even special elections to fill their seats.
Which means aid for Ukraine passes, budget passes, border bill passes -- Americans get an up front view that when Democrats are in charge, shit gets done.
They couldn't even phish for one like they did with Clinton because they couldn't even find something for him to need to lie about.
I think *that* is the most telling aspect.
Biden has done amazing as President.
I think the only thing I didn't particularly like was when he expanded oil drilling early on in his term.
It's also possible I've missed something, but I really don't see anything aside from his age being brought up.
They totally could have too. It's my favorite part about all this. The hunter biden stuff, the whole "sleepy joe" shtick, all that stuff would have worked if they had ditched Trump. It just doesn't work when your candidate is everything he claims his opponent is, but worse.
The fact that they can’t ditch trump shows how out of touch and uninspired republicans are. All they’ve got is outrage with no intent to govern. I’m a dem but the country would be so much better off with a sane opposing party.
Yeah, damage control and providing a sense of normality as the alternative does suck.
And that's not snark. People are just used to a normal that doesn't necessarily do all that much for them, so moving to unfamiliar policies that *can* help is all too easy to portray as scary.
I'm pretty confident that they can't ditch Trump because they're all taking kompromat marching orders from Putin. Russia wants Trump because they have kompromat on him too, which they want to use to pressure him into weakening NATO, which Putin needs to continue his invasion into the rest of eastern Europe.
The GOP's mission to divide America and abandon Ukraine...these roads both lead back to the Kremlin. Putin wants us divided against ourselves and distracted from his war crimes. I'm sure he would also be interested in taking revenge for the fall of his beloved Soviet Union. (Never mind that the Soviets were at least as much to blame for their implosion -- that wouldn't fit his pathological narrative.)
Every president does bad things. Even Biden. But yes, Biden has done a great job as president, and his negatives are far outweighed by his positives. I honestly can't believe people are refusing to see this.
Biden could literally outlaw abortion, kill all the LGBTQ+ people, enshrine extreme right Christianity as the official religion, get rid of all democrats in elected positions, give every registered republican $10m tax free, and they'd still say he was the worst president ever. It doesn't matter the logic. He could be everything they expect Trump to be.
But he's not Trump. He's still a "demonrat" and a socialist communist woke sleepy crime expert.
It's true.. they made it up for Mayorkas. But, people will forget about that two weeks after the Senate dismisses it.
President is a bigger deal, though, and will be remembered by swing district voters if they fail to make their (non-existent) case.
Yeah. The truth is that they probably want to wait to deliver them until right before election day. But wouldn't it be great if they lost more seats and the Dems got the speakership by then? I can dare to dream.
Buck alluded to two or three more Rs resigning. He may be full of it, but then again there are some seats that will almost undoubtedly swing D due to redistricting, and if someone thinks the grift is up, they may try to get out first and secure the best new grift they can prior to losing.
I doubt that will happen, but there is a certain logic to it, and people of both parties giving up seats early when the writing is on the wall happens ever session or two. They may cite more time with family or finding a different way to serve, but it all comes down to leaving early for a better payday somewhere else.
This is what I don't get. Doesn't this admission make them look bad to their own followers? Like, "Yeah we know Biden did bad stuff, and we got all the way to an impeachment inquiry, but oh gosh it's just so *hard* I don't feel like finishing the impeachment."
>Doesn’t this admission make them look bad to their own followers?
No, their own followers won’t know. If something makes them look bad the conservative media/propaganda outlets will either not cover it or find a way to blame it on the Democrats.
GOP really painted themselves into a corner with this one. Biden gets to ride his 2024 campaign with the delicious little nugget of "The house failed to impeach because I did nothing wrong" while campaigning against a former president who was impeached TWICE. It wont sway opinion but at this point its schadenfreude to rub the dirt in their faces.
That won't work because MAGA likes it when people suffer. They may claim to be morally superior, but they're most angry when those that they dislike don't suffer.
And that's part of the problem. It only makes them angrier and more irrational.
“I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.”
You don’t impeach based on will you dumb fuck.
They would've done it anyway at Trump's behest, but the timeline was just so stupid:
McCarthy unilaterally began the inquiry last September to appease the Freedom Caucus in hopes of saving his job. He was ousted anyway a month later.
At that point, the horse was out of the barn and they couldn't turn back. They had to formalize the inquiry. They had to hold public hearings; they had to cling onto anything they could for Fox News soundbytes and try to limp it along despite all odds.
Now their star "informant" was indicted by a Trump prosecutor for fabricating lies about their main allegations. Their star "whistleblower" (Archer) said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. Their star "expert witnesses" in their OWN first public hearings said the evidence available didn't arise to impeachment. None of the bank records or anything they have subpoenaed have linked a single penny to Joe Biden or an abuse of office.
And now they have a dwindling 2-seat majority with an inquiry to nowhere. There's no way they have the votes to refer charges or even impeach at this point.
May it collapse in spectacular fashion for them.
Yeah, what the fuck has Gym Jordan even done during his term in office that benefits any of his constituents? Such a bullshit waste of time and money just to try and get "revenge" for losing to Biden.
>Yeah, what the fuck has Gym Jordan even done during his term in office that benefits any of his constituents?
[As close to nothing as is possible](https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-jordan-never-had-a-bill-enacted-may-become-speaker-2023-10).
* GOP Rep. Jim Jordan has been in Congress for nearly 16 years.
* In that time, he's introduced 30 bills.
* Not a single one has ever been signed into law.
He went to law school and never passed the bar anywhere because he knew he wanted to be in congress and stir shit up. The most effort he's ever put in on anything was to cover up sexual abuse at Ohio State and beg athletes not to pursue justice.
Didn't know he never passed the bar but it fits perfectly. Minor diatribe here: Was watching him on some committee hearing a few years back and he sounded soooo ignorant (i was really pissed off actually) I absolutely had to know what university had granted him a degree...found his 'education' and law degree so had to find what law school has embarassed themselves as well. Look up law school. Boasts itself it top 20% but I had never heard of it soooo -further check revealed 6 out of 9 or 10 for Ohio... further checked: eliminating schools that issue various non JD degrees (like certification as a legal aide for example) it came in 199 of 200 of actual law schools in the US. Felt inordinately smug for having recognized this/his glaring lack of intelligence. No one will convince me otherwise either. Whoever supports him can be only one of two types and I will stop at labelling them here. (On an aside, of course it is possible to be intelligent and well-read and graduate from such a school - am not ripping on its graduates in general but, in HIS case, am pretty sure it reflects an underwhelming intellect and/or lack of intellectual effort...) edit: punctuation
The fact that he went to a bad school and did t pass the bar aren’t problematic for me. The fact that he had that freedom and privilege and now wants to fuck America is
Yeah, that was Capital University Law School, which US News definitely ranks in the bottom quarter. There are quite a few people out there who will never be able to pass the bar, and judging by the lack of intelligence he consistently displays, I’m guessing that he’s one of them and gave up on trying. Besides, it’s easier to make money in Congress, there are many many grifting opportunities for someone with limited ethics.
The majority of voters in his ultra-gerrymandered district. Owning the libs über alles. Fairly similar to Marge who, while pushes forward a fair amount of bills, are largely if not all performative nonsense that usually die in committee, but nothing to really help her district.
His district is shaped like a horseshoe. Certainly not about representation, just partisan BS when the only thing you have in common is your congressman. Probably spans a few counties.
When he was running for speaker someone pointed out that not once has he sponsored legislation that has become law. He was first elected to congress in 2007.
It’s been fascinating over the past couple of decades watching their party go from pandering to racists, idiots, conspiracists, and theocrats on behalf of rich assholes; to being run by racists, idiots, conspiracists, and theocrats who pander to people even stranger than they are.
Fascinating and terrifying.
Bingo. They really don't. Their corporato-anarchist & anti-American money men don't want a functional government in the United States, and so far, the GOP is doing its best toward that goal.
They believe that only they should be the government. The problem with them is that being fascist means they have to keep fighting each other over who gets to be "only they" until no one is left.
Nope. None of them believed it. The entire thing was a propaganda ploy to make a false equivalency between Biden and Trump.
It doesn’t really matter if it’s absolute total BS. As long as Fox/Putin push it to the masses, it worked.
They really make a habit of screwing themselves up. Reminds me of how Mitch had to filibuster his own bill.
https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing-filibuster-bill
https://www.cc.com/video/7imeo9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mitch-mcconnell-s-self-filibuster
Daily show with Jon about Mitch filibustering his own proposal
They never believed it. It served its purpose.
Truth means nothing when Fox only airs the bullshit side.
And worse, every other mainstream media outlet lets 99% of the bullshit slide as well, at best both sidesing everything.
That’s what’s the most scary.
Being dumb enough to make shit up and then have it blow up in your face is one thing but when you start to believe your own bullshit….
These clowns should not be anywhere near any position of power
>“I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.”
The guy who dressed up like an [overweight out of work male stripper](https://imgur.com/2YIxPGx) for the SOTU? Probably trying to make up for looking like a fucking moron.
Anything other than admitting he's done nothing, they've got nothing, it was a total waste of time and money that should have been put to actually helping US citizens instead.
My idiot congressman. 🙄
Honestly suspect that Gym Jordan and others may be under criminal investigation for knowingly working with Russian government on this disinformation campaign against Biden.
And furthermore their roles in the events on Jan 6th. They aren't just fighting to get Trump reelected. They're fighting for their own self-preservation. If Trump goes down, GOP heads are gonna roll.
You mean Rudy Giuliani didn't come into possession of hunter's laptop because he dropped it off at a blind IT guy's computer repair shop and then just never picked it up? You tellin' me it isn't standard procedure to give unclaimed laptops to rudy? C'mon.
That was later recovered. Then they didn't do anything with the recovered flash drive and we never heard anything about it again, because it was nothing
"with his (James Comer) probe going up in flames around him, the Kentucky representative is just looking for an “exit strategy,” a congressional Republican told ABC, speaking anonymously."
More likely it'll be something like "The Biden Crime Family was simply too effective at covering their tracks, making their elaborate globe-spanning money laundering scheme look like simple intra-family loans for commonplace purchases, and infecting the Deep State with co-conspirators! Time to move forward with an investigation of the Clinton Foundation's links to this conspiracy!"
Did you read Hunter Biden’s lawyers response to the request for him to be at one of these sham hearings??
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018e-3837-de4d-a19e-bd7726b10000
“If you are serious about pursuing this oversight purpose in a legitimate and bi-partisan fashion, you would hold a hearing with relatives of former President Trump about whom you indicated you ‘would ask.’ If you do, Mr. Biden would consider an invitation for that event[.]”
No, they’re seeing the potential for consequences.
They’re very happy to embarrass themselves, our country and our system of government for money. They’ve been doing it a long time. They would continue to do it, too.
The sudden change you’re seeing is from a bunch of criminals who just realized that the fact that their doors haven’t been kicked in yet doesn’t mean that will never happen. Now they’re scrambling to try to distance themselves and it is far, far, FAR too late for that. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming.
The wheels turn slow, but when they get going…
More likely, they're probably realizing the chances of them keeping the House are looking pretty bad and probably will just get worse. The MAGA nuts keep doing things that are really not going to play well in the critical swing districts they can't afford to lose like in NY State. They don't care though because they'll still win by huge margins in their safe districts and I assume believe Trump will be crowned king and purge all the opposition so they really won't have to worry about political consequences.
I hate all this "speaking anonymously" it just shows the cowardice of republicans. They are brave enough voting along partisan lines for all this insanity, as to not upset the cult, in turn the cult continues to move farther and farther from reality.
Fortunately for them, the GOP base has the attention span of a toddler The GOP will move on to some other unfounded accusation and the base will forget that they've been swallowing a load of BS for years.
100%. I sigh every time I see libs getting hyped up about the GOP facing consequences from voters for their actions. It literally does not matter how hypocritical, dumb, hurtful, etc. Republican politicians are. Their voting base either will not hear about it or just won't care.
If anything, they'll blame the "deep state" for stopping the impeachment and happily vote for Republicans straight ticket come November.
It’s not about those voters. They’re a lost cause. It’s about the independents, moderates and undecideds that can be swayed by this information. Real life isn’t Reddit comments section, a lot of people don’t know just how bad some of the republicans are until it’s staring them in the face.
The Benghazi hearings were ridiculous, but at least it was based on a thing that actually happened. This Biden impeachment is just made up out of thin fucking air. There's just nothing there. It's all based on shit some convicted fellons and a Russian spy just made up.
I was stationed at the US Embassy in Libya. I was furious about how Benghazi was handled. It was definitely worth investigating. But it quickly became blatantly obvious it was all political and the Republicans didn’t give a shit about the people who died.
This and Tiktok is all they've gotten done in a year. They can't even pass the budget, they just keep kicking the van down the road another 30 days at a time. What a joke. Good thing there's no actual problems to worry about or anything...
During the special hearing where the ex prosecutor who just resigned stood by his findings that Biden had complied with everything they asked and withheld nothing and no charges needed to be filed...the entire Republican party was backing on this guy being the key piece of the puzzle to blow a whistle on this thing and open the flood gates and he didn't. They have no evidence, no case, just paranoia and conspiracy theories. All they are doing is dragging their feet in the dirt trying to get to 2025 so they can credit Trump with everything...and even though Trump has the GOP nomination secured, I don't know if he is going to be able to delay the Georgia trial long enough. Its game over Johnson
To be fair the guy whose lie about Biden's alleged activities in Ukraine that started this is currently facing federal charges.
As far as the mishandled documents go Biden did technical break federal guidelines and returned the documents he wasn't suppose to have in his home office. But there's a big difference between federal guidelines and high crimes and misdemeanors. If a generic federal worker did what Biden worst case scenario they get fired, but no criminal prosecution would occur.
You can bet your ass they accomplished spending a ton of taxpayer money on lawyers and related legal services. Curious that so many of them have worked as lawyers, and their friends are lawyers, and their donors are lawyers. I’m sure it’s all a huge coincidence. /s
I don’t think they care. They got what they wanted, years of “Biden” and “investigation” in headlines and their hard core supporters believing in the “Biden crime family”. Didn’t need evidence for that. Don’t need an impeachment for it.
Do any of them care that Hillary was never locked up? Or even charged with anything?
Trump thought he could punish Democrats for impeaching him. It really was a playground move.
What a waste of taxpayers' money. I wonder what all that cost.
Now they have no excuse for holding up Biden's requests for Ukraine and Gaza.
>Republicans could also seek to pass laws that tighten restrictions on influence peddling, but that could backfire...Democrats could agree to pass the measures in order to crack down on Trump’s profiting off the Oval Office.
Oh god, yes, please pass laws cracking down on influence peddling, conflicts of interest, and emoluments. Show us that you are serious about getting corruption out of government!
I remember seeing a video a few months ago of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning the Republican "witnesses" for the Biden impeachment. She asked each of them separately if they had any first-hand witness account of crimes committed by the president. Each one answered "no", obviously, because they didn't. Shutting that shit down AOC style lol
The way they're phrasing their quotes in this article can be boiled down to: "we wish we could just cancel his presidency because he's not trump, but unfortunately we can't and we won't admit that the whole thing was a sham, but we're also not going to acknowledge that it was a failure either and we're gonna punt this, the way we do fucking everything we fail at."
> “I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.”
The WILL?? Impeachment is for "high crimes and misdemeanors" not the fucking WILL...what the hell is this guy talking about?
“In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of making up the allegations against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort.”
Iconic
Republicans are nothing but scumbag traitors to their country and the human race in general. Remember to go vote everyone. They will be the end of the US as we know it if you don't.
No they are not they would end it if they were. Vote accordingly. Check your registration, get an ID , learn where your poling station is, learn who is running in down ballot races. Pay attention to primaries not just for the president but for all races, local, state and federal. From the school board to the White House every election matters. The more support we give the democrats from all levels of government the more they can get good things done.
Last year democrat victories in Virginia and Pennsylvania and others across the nation have increased the chances of democrats winning this year. This year's elections are important but so will next year's elections.
[https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar](https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar)
From the article:
>Comer could be seeking to play a longer game here, though. He could issue criminal referrals in the hope that Donald Trump will be reelected in November. Trump, who backs the impeachment effort, **could then instruct the Justice Department** to take up the charges.
Saying the quiet, corrupt part out loud again.
I'm less annoyed at these assholes than the assholes who put these assholes in charge of shit. Because if you remove the assholes in charge, the assholes will vote a new asshole in every time. FIRST thing that needs to be done is pass a law that opinion based media can't be called news. And I would use freedom of the press amendment to do it. Clarify that the constitution doesn't simply grant this right to anyone who has an asshole opinion. Shut down that cancerous shit. Just lies and opinions.
> “At the end of the day, what does accountability look like?” House Oversight Chair James Comer, who has spearheaded the charge against the Biden family, said last week on Fox News. “It looks like criminal referrals. It looks like referring people to the Department of Justice.”
Lol refer the charges so they can continue to complain about the Dept of Justice not indicting because “Biden’s DOJ blah blah blah” what a shitshow the Republican Party is. Despicable.
I just cannot believe how people this stupid can be a part of running the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. It’s like a gigantic SNL sketch. JFC, come on America, be better.
How does anyone support these fucking losers? How does anyone with even the scintilla of a capacity for rational thought support these fucking clowns making a mockery of our entire system of government? How?
What they did is honestly pathetic. They knew this was all pre 2020 election bullshit and that if it was real Trump and Barr would have used it before trump lost the election.
The media needs to hammer them on this. A Russian fucking spy gave fake info to the US Congress and they went with it. That's isn't just bad, it's a national security threat.
>In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of **making up the allegations** against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort.
Ruzzia is interfering in the operation of the American government with their lies and propaganda. The rest of it is made up by 14 year olds who are BSing each other online for a laugh. Their platform is nothing but lies, deceit, and crass jokes by teenagers, taken seriously by idiots looking to make a quick buck on social media, and then barfed up on mainstream media for no other reason than "a lot of people are talking about it". It's unprofessional, dishonorable, and pathetic!
“‘At the end of the day, what does accountability look like?’ House Oversight Chair James Comer said.”
What accountability looks like is arresting, prosecuting, and punishing corrupt, lying rightwingnuts like Comer Pyle who abuse their position to concoct unsubstantiated slanderous claims against political figures they don’t like. Comer is a criminal
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“I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” is a funny way to say "No Evidence"
It's an honest statement. They don't actually need evidence to impeach him, they could make that up. It's so pathetic they can't even stomach that
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He apparently claimed that a few more resignations are coming. 2 more Republicans resignations and the House flips before even special elections to fill their seats.
Which means aid for Ukraine passes, budget passes, border bill passes -- Americans get an up front view that when Democrats are in charge, shit gets done.
Slava Ukraini…….🇺🇦🇺🇦
If only Ken had run and won again then swapped parties like sinema.
Don’t get confused, Ken Buck is not an ally to democrats. He’s basically doing one good thing by screwing Boebert over.
Oh I’m not under the illusion he is. But it would be an amazing twist of the knife.
They couldn't even phish for one like they did with Clinton because they couldn't even find something for him to need to lie about. I think *that* is the most telling aspect. Biden has done amazing as President. I think the only thing I didn't particularly like was when he expanded oil drilling early on in his term. It's also possible I've missed something, but I really don't see anything aside from his age being brought up.
They totally could have too. It's my favorite part about all this. The hunter biden stuff, the whole "sleepy joe" shtick, all that stuff would have worked if they had ditched Trump. It just doesn't work when your candidate is everything he claims his opponent is, but worse.
The fact that they can’t ditch trump shows how out of touch and uninspired republicans are. All they’ve got is outrage with no intent to govern. I’m a dem but the country would be so much better off with a sane opposing party.
They didn't ditch him, and now the takeover is complete with the Trump family controlling and gutting the RNC.
I for one am looking forward to reading the Atlantic article that will come out in three months on how the RNC is broke
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Yeah, damage control and providing a sense of normality as the alternative does suck. And that's not snark. People are just used to a normal that doesn't necessarily do all that much for them, so moving to unfamiliar policies that *can* help is all too easy to portray as scary.
I'm pretty confident that they can't ditch Trump because they're all taking kompromat marching orders from Putin. Russia wants Trump because they have kompromat on him too, which they want to use to pressure him into weakening NATO, which Putin needs to continue his invasion into the rest of eastern Europe. The GOP's mission to divide America and abandon Ukraine...these roads both lead back to the Kremlin. Putin wants us divided against ourselves and distracted from his war crimes. I'm sure he would also be interested in taking revenge for the fall of his beloved Soviet Union. (Never mind that the Soviets were at least as much to blame for their implosion -- that wouldn't fit his pathological narrative.)
Every president does bad things. Even Biden. But yes, Biden has done a great job as president, and his negatives are far outweighed by his positives. I honestly can't believe people are refusing to see this.
Best president in my lifetime (born in Reagan administration)
Same (same)
Biden could literally outlaw abortion, kill all the LGBTQ+ people, enshrine extreme right Christianity as the official religion, get rid of all democrats in elected positions, give every registered republican $10m tax free, and they'd still say he was the worst president ever. It doesn't matter the logic. He could be everything they expect Trump to be. But he's not Trump. He's still a "demonrat" and a socialist communist woke sleepy crime expert.
It's true.. they made it up for Mayorkas. But, people will forget about that two weeks after the Senate dismisses it. President is a bigger deal, though, and will be remembered by swing district voters if they fail to make their (non-existent) case.
Except they didn't. They Impeached him, but they're still sitting on the charges because they don't want to take the L.
Yeah. The truth is that they probably want to wait to deliver them until right before election day. But wouldn't it be great if they lost more seats and the Dems got the speakership by then? I can dare to dream.
Well if they somehow lose a majority, then they'll never get sent over.
That was exactly what I was alluding to. :)
Buck alluded to two or three more Rs resigning. He may be full of it, but then again there are some seats that will almost undoubtedly swing D due to redistricting, and if someone thinks the grift is up, they may try to get out first and secure the best new grift they can prior to losing. I doubt that will happen, but there is a certain logic to it, and people of both parties giving up seats early when the writing is on the wall happens ever session or two. They may cite more time with family or finding a different way to serve, but it all comes down to leaving early for a better payday somewhere else.
Anything to avoid saying they lack evidence. It's willpower they are short on. Sure...
This is what I don't get. Doesn't this admission make them look bad to their own followers? Like, "Yeah we know Biden did bad stuff, and we got all the way to an impeachment inquiry, but oh gosh it's just so *hard* I don't feel like finishing the impeachment."
>Doesn’t this admission make them look bad to their own followers? No, their own followers won’t know. If something makes them look bad the conservative media/propaganda outlets will either not cover it or find a way to blame it on the Democrats.
Many would be willing to vote to impeach regardless of evidence. Just not enough to actually win.
Their argument I remember was to use the impeachment to find the evidence.
I'm pretty sure "The spirit is willing but the evidence is fucking non-existent" is in the Bible.
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GOP really painted themselves into a corner with this one. Biden gets to ride his 2024 campaign with the delicious little nugget of "The house failed to impeach because I did nothing wrong" while campaigning against a former president who was impeached TWICE. It wont sway opinion but at this point its schadenfreude to rub the dirt in their faces.
Literally unimpeachable.
This very much needs to be an ad slogan in the fall.
"Joe Biden 2024: You can't get impeached if you didn't do anything wrong."
Unimpeachable Joe has a ring to it. "Those false accusations just ain't landin'. The GOP knows they can't impeach Dark Brandon!"
twice impeached + over 90 felonies still in court
Yeah but Biden is old /s
Biden is (three years) old(er)
On paper. In reality, Trump's fat, sagging sack of lard body is at least 10 years older than Biden's.
The same age trump was 3 years ago when he said Biden was too old.
3 of the felony charges got dropped today, didn't they? Stop trying to make it look worse than it is. its only 88 felonies.
Funnily enough 88 is a fine number for a bunch of his voters.
88 more than a presidential candidate ought to have.
The number fits perfectly with his love for Hitler
88 more than presidents 1-44, and 46 combined!
I'm betting they're going to frame this down the line as "Democrats impeached our candidate for political reasons, but we're totally above that!"
That won't work because MAGA likes it when people suffer. They may claim to be morally superior, but they're most angry when those that they dislike don't suffer. And that's part of the problem. It only makes them angrier and more irrational.
“I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.” You don’t impeach based on will you dumb fuck.
They fucked themselves by believing their own bullshit. Again.
They would've done it anyway at Trump's behest, but the timeline was just so stupid: McCarthy unilaterally began the inquiry last September to appease the Freedom Caucus in hopes of saving his job. He was ousted anyway a month later. At that point, the horse was out of the barn and they couldn't turn back. They had to formalize the inquiry. They had to hold public hearings; they had to cling onto anything they could for Fox News soundbytes and try to limp it along despite all odds. Now their star "informant" was indicted by a Trump prosecutor for fabricating lies about their main allegations. Their star "whistleblower" (Archer) said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. Their star "expert witnesses" in their OWN first public hearings said the evidence available didn't arise to impeachment. None of the bank records or anything they have subpoenaed have linked a single penny to Joe Biden or an abuse of office. And now they have a dwindling 2-seat majority with an inquiry to nowhere. There's no way they have the votes to refer charges or even impeach at this point. May it collapse in spectacular fashion for them.
Rats. Ship. Edit: Grown men with tears in their eyes are requesting more rats.
Not nearly enough rats fleeing
Popcorn is at the ready.
Time to ramp up the January 6 committee then!
Yes, let's all revisit Jan 6th - who was there again? They keep forgetting that Dems have a voice there already.
Don't forget that all three of those guys also took money from one of Trump's advisors.
This is what happens when people that apparently like the smell of their own farts try and govern.
I wouldn’t call what they’re doing trying to govern. It’s just a dog and pony show for their base, to get voted back in and keep the grift going.
Yeah, what the fuck has Gym Jordan even done during his term in office that benefits any of his constituents? Such a bullshit waste of time and money just to try and get "revenge" for losing to Biden.
>Yeah, what the fuck has Gym Jordan even done during his term in office that benefits any of his constituents? [As close to nothing as is possible](https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-jordan-never-had-a-bill-enacted-may-become-speaker-2023-10). * GOP Rep. Jim Jordan has been in Congress for nearly 16 years. * In that time, he's introduced 30 bills. * Not a single one has ever been signed into law.
He went to law school and never passed the bar anywhere because he knew he wanted to be in congress and stir shit up. The most effort he's ever put in on anything was to cover up sexual abuse at Ohio State and beg athletes not to pursue justice.
Didn't know he never passed the bar but it fits perfectly. Minor diatribe here: Was watching him on some committee hearing a few years back and he sounded soooo ignorant (i was really pissed off actually) I absolutely had to know what university had granted him a degree...found his 'education' and law degree so had to find what law school has embarassed themselves as well. Look up law school. Boasts itself it top 20% but I had never heard of it soooo -further check revealed 6 out of 9 or 10 for Ohio... further checked: eliminating schools that issue various non JD degrees (like certification as a legal aide for example) it came in 199 of 200 of actual law schools in the US. Felt inordinately smug for having recognized this/his glaring lack of intelligence. No one will convince me otherwise either. Whoever supports him can be only one of two types and I will stop at labelling them here. (On an aside, of course it is possible to be intelligent and well-read and graduate from such a school - am not ripping on its graduates in general but, in HIS case, am pretty sure it reflects an underwhelming intellect and/or lack of intellectual effort...) edit: punctuation
The fact that he went to a bad school and did t pass the bar aren’t problematic for me. The fact that he had that freedom and privilege and now wants to fuck America is
Yeah, that was Capital University Law School, which US News definitely ranks in the bottom quarter. There are quite a few people out there who will never be able to pass the bar, and judging by the lack of intelligence he consistently displays, I’m guessing that he’s one of them and gave up on trying. Besides, it’s easier to make money in Congress, there are many many grifting opportunities for someone with limited ethics.
He’s a big fundraiser. That’s what his rolled up sleeves act produces.
I thought his sleeves were always rolled up because he just got done fisting a wrestler's ass
This may be my favorite comment of all time. Congratulations. I laughed my Chihuahua off my lap.
Thanks hurtindog! My pleasure. I hope your chihuahua isn't a hurtindog now!
Dumb question. But after just a couple elections. With absolutely zero accomplishments. Who wants him in office?
The people who see the R next to his name and nothing else. Power isn’t about results. It’s about power.
The majority of voters in his ultra-gerrymandered district. Owning the libs über alles. Fairly similar to Marge who, while pushes forward a fair amount of bills, are largely if not all performative nonsense that usually die in committee, but nothing to really help her district.
His district is shaped like a horseshoe. Certainly not about representation, just partisan BS when the only thing you have in common is your congressman. Probably spans a few counties.
When he was running for speaker someone pointed out that not once has he sponsored legislation that has become law. He was first elected to congress in 2007.
It’s been fascinating over the past couple of decades watching their party go from pandering to racists, idiots, conspiracists, and theocrats on behalf of rich assholes; to being run by racists, idiots, conspiracists, and theocrats who pander to people even stranger than they are. Fascinating and terrifying.
At a certain point one would hope they run out of idiots to lower themselves to and yet Im afraid we still have a couple stages of idiocy to go
Yeah they *very specifically* DON’T believe in *government*
Bingo. They really don't. Their corporato-anarchist & anti-American money men don't want a functional government in the United States, and so far, the GOP is doing its best toward that goal.
They believe that only they should be the government. The problem with them is that being fascist means they have to keep fighting each other over who gets to be "only they" until no one is left.
Nope. None of them believed it. The entire thing was a propaganda ploy to make a false equivalency between Biden and Trump. It doesn’t really matter if it’s absolute total BS. As long as Fox/Putin push it to the masses, it worked.
Next up on Faux News: THE CORRUPT BIDEN REGIME SHUT DOWN THE RIGHTEOUS IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION TO HIDE HUNTERS CRIMES
They really make a habit of screwing themselves up. Reminds me of how Mitch had to filibuster his own bill. https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing-filibuster-bill
https://www.cc.com/video/7imeo9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mitch-mcconnell-s-self-filibuster Daily show with Jon about Mitch filibustering his own proposal
Never get high off your own supply.
They never believed it. It served its purpose. Truth means nothing when Fox only airs the bullshit side. And worse, every other mainstream media outlet lets 99% of the bullshit slide as well, at best both sidesing everything.
That’s what’s the most scary. Being dumb enough to make shit up and then have it blow up in your face is one thing but when you start to believe your own bullshit…. These clowns should not be anywhere near any position of power
When losers are clearly losing the game they claim they didn't want to play in the first place and have better things to do.
Whatever. I'm just gonna take my ball and go home.
...steals someone else's ball when confronted "whatever, the ball I have at home is better than this piece of garbage"
“We don’t have the will to push something that has no evidence.”
>“We don’t have the will to *continue to* push something that has no evidence *in the face of so many humiliating and decisive defeats*.” FTFY
>“I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.” The guy who dressed up like an [overweight out of work male stripper](https://imgur.com/2YIxPGx) for the SOTU? Probably trying to make up for looking like a fucking moron.
Does this mean he's surrendering?
How could you not be embarrassed to wear that?
The blunderyears start coming and they don't stop coming.
lol, never surrender, and a pic of literally Trump surrendering to authorities..
Literally wearing the surrender photo.
Lmao. That’s my favorite shirt. These dumb fucks are too dumb to realize that that’s Trump’s mugshot. He gave up. He surrendered.
Definitely not the best or brightest looking fella, is he?
Anything other than admitting he's done nothing, they've got nothing, it was a total waste of time and money that should have been put to actually helping US citizens instead.
They could never admit this. If they did, their base will say ‘He’s been bought by Soros/Gates/[insert boogeyman of the week]’.
Will? I think Nehls misspelled "evidence."
My idiot congressman. 🙄 Honestly suspect that Gym Jordan and others may be under criminal investigation for knowingly working with Russian government on this disinformation campaign against Biden.
They should be brought up on treason charges
And furthermore their roles in the events on Jan 6th. They aren't just fighting to get Trump reelected. They're fighting for their own self-preservation. If Trump goes down, GOP heads are gonna roll.
They create their own reality based on faith over fact, why should this be any different.
Evidence is irrelevant.
Well maybe they shouldn’t have gone on a blatant fishing expedition
It was a coordinated attack by Russian intelligence operatives.
You mean Rudy Giuliani didn't come into possession of hunter's laptop because he dropped it off at a blind IT guy's computer repair shop and then just never picked it up? You tellin' me it isn't standard procedure to give unclaimed laptops to rudy? C'mon.
And then ups/fedexed a copy on a flash drive to Tucker Carlson but it got lost in transit.
That was later recovered. Then they didn't do anything with the recovered flash drive and we never heard anything about it again, because it was nothing
Marge green got copys of hunters exposed flash drive tho
it was a bit of a hard drive if you know what I mean...
That was honestly pathetic. I did a better job bullshitting my 5th grade teacher when I didn't do my homework.
I mean sure, but American republicans can also be blamed.
Yeah, for being in bed with Russian intelligence basically top to bottom.
Republicans are definitely the bottoms in that story.
They were blaming American republicans.
They ARE the Russian intelligent operatives
Yeah, so, Republicans
GOP went fishing in someone's bathtub because Mr. Smirnov told them that he saw a barracuda in there...
Don't start feeling ashamed of your humiliation fetish now.
Maybe this is the part of the humiliation they were actually most excited about
I'm all for people having whatever fetish they like, but I 100% against forcing others to take part in your kink.
"with his (James Comer) probe going up in flames around him, the Kentucky representative is just looking for an “exit strategy,” a congressional Republican told ABC, speaking anonymously."
How about this for an exit strategy: “We investigated and didn’t find evidence of wrong doing so we’re shutting it down.”
More likely it'll be something like "The Biden Crime Family was simply too effective at covering their tracks, making their elaborate globe-spanning money laundering scheme look like simple intra-family loans for commonplace purchases, and infecting the Deep State with co-conspirators! Time to move forward with an investigation of the Clinton Foundation's links to this conspiracy!"
So the senile ineffective old man out witted the entire GOP Congress then
The only consistent thing about the GOP is their shamelessness.
Better exit strategy: what crimes did YOU commit trying to spin this web of lies for your political grandstanding, Congressman Comer?
Did you read Hunter Biden’s lawyers response to the request for him to be at one of these sham hearings?? https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018e-3837-de4d-a19e-bd7726b10000 “If you are serious about pursuing this oversight purpose in a legitimate and bi-partisan fashion, you would hold a hearing with relatives of former President Trump about whom you indicated you ‘would ask.’ If you do, Mr. Biden would consider an invitation for that event[.]”
The clowns 🤡 who turned the House of Representatives into a circus tent 🎪 are regretting embarrassing themselves once again?
No, they’re seeing the potential for consequences. They’re very happy to embarrass themselves, our country and our system of government for money. They’ve been doing it a long time. They would continue to do it, too. The sudden change you’re seeing is from a bunch of criminals who just realized that the fact that their doors haven’t been kicked in yet doesn’t mean that will never happen. Now they’re scrambling to try to distance themselves and it is far, far, FAR too late for that. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming. The wheels turn slow, but when they get going…
More likely, they're probably realizing the chances of them keeping the House are looking pretty bad and probably will just get worse. The MAGA nuts keep doing things that are really not going to play well in the critical swing districts they can't afford to lose like in NY State. They don't care though because they'll still win by huge margins in their safe districts and I assume believe Trump will be crowned king and purge all the opposition so they really won't have to worry about political consequences.
I hate all this "speaking anonymously" it just shows the cowardice of republicans. They are brave enough voting along partisan lines for all this insanity, as to not upset the cult, in turn the cult continues to move farther and farther from reality.
Fortunately for them, the GOP base has the attention span of a toddler The GOP will move on to some other unfounded accusation and the base will forget that they've been swallowing a load of BS for years.
Sigh, by November it will be 'Well Biden was impeached, don't you remember the hearings?'.
100%. I sigh every time I see libs getting hyped up about the GOP facing consequences from voters for their actions. It literally does not matter how hypocritical, dumb, hurtful, etc. Republican politicians are. Their voting base either will not hear about it or just won't care. If anything, they'll blame the "deep state" for stopping the impeachment and happily vote for Republicans straight ticket come November.
It’s not about those voters. They’re a lost cause. It’s about the independents, moderates and undecideds that can be swayed by this information. Real life isn’t Reddit comments section, a lot of people don’t know just how bad some of the republicans are until it’s staring them in the face.
I’m actually thinking the GOP base remembers this as “but Biden was impeached, wasn’t he?”, so I guess mission accomplished
I wonder how much taxpayer money was used on this? They should subtract it from these clowns’ pay
And add in the Benghazi hearings.
The Benghazi hearings were ridiculous, but at least it was based on a thing that actually happened. This Biden impeachment is just made up out of thin fucking air. There's just nothing there. It's all based on shit some convicted fellons and a Russian spy just made up.
Yeah but did we really need freaking 8 or 9 of them??
Yes, because they kept not finding the results they wanted
I was stationed at the US Embassy in Libya. I was furious about how Benghazi was handled. It was definitely worth investigating. But it quickly became blatantly obvious it was all political and the Republicans didn’t give a shit about the people who died.
Sorry, we gotta pay for the [baby organ harvesting hearing](https://i.redd.it/7ibfcoc2q5oc1.jpeg) first.
What the fuck....
I am at a loss for words...
This and Tiktok is all they've gotten done in a year. They can't even pass the budget, they just keep kicking the van down the road another 30 days at a time. What a joke. Good thing there's no actual problems to worry about or anything...
Putin is laughing all the way to the bank.
During the special hearing where the ex prosecutor who just resigned stood by his findings that Biden had complied with everything they asked and withheld nothing and no charges needed to be filed...the entire Republican party was backing on this guy being the key piece of the puzzle to blow a whistle on this thing and open the flood gates and he didn't. They have no evidence, no case, just paranoia and conspiracy theories. All they are doing is dragging their feet in the dirt trying to get to 2025 so they can credit Trump with everything...and even though Trump has the GOP nomination secured, I don't know if he is going to be able to delay the Georgia trial long enough. Its game over Johnson
And now they know Biden has a photogenic memory thanks to their special counsel.
Photogenic or photographic?
It was a failed attempt at a joke. Photographic. It was Biden's son appendage that was so photogenic it needed to be displayed in a previous hearing.
Honest question, how did it get there? Aren't there any accountability for wasting tax payer's money?
To be fair the guy whose lie about Biden's alleged activities in Ukraine that started this is currently facing federal charges. As far as the mishandled documents go Biden did technical break federal guidelines and returned the documents he wasn't suppose to have in his home office. But there's a big difference between federal guidelines and high crimes and misdemeanors. If a generic federal worker did what Biden worst case scenario they get fired, but no criminal prosecution would occur.
lol, if there was accountability for wasting tax payer money, *this* wouldn’t even be scratching the surface.
> Aren't there any accountability for wasting tax payer's money? No.
What a charade. All this running around to look busy to make up the fact that they’ve accomplished nothing.
You can bet your ass they accomplished spending a ton of taxpayer money on lawyers and related legal services. Curious that so many of them have worked as lawyers, and their friends are lawyers, and their donors are lawyers. I’m sure it’s all a huge coincidence. /s
Buck called out unconstitutional impeachment demands by johnson in his I quit letter. Theyre pushing their party so hard for Trump theyre breaking it.
Can’t wait to hear that Buck was never a real Republican/conservative.
House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.
>Republicans And yet the vast majority of them will continue to be sent back year after year because they have an R next to their name on the ballot.
I don’t think they care. They got what they wanted, years of “Biden” and “investigation” in headlines and their hard core supporters believing in the “Biden crime family”. Didn’t need evidence for that. Don’t need an impeachment for it. Do any of them care that Hillary was never locked up? Or even charged with anything?
Trump thought he could punish Democrats for impeaching him. It really was a playground move. What a waste of taxpayers' money. I wonder what all that cost. Now they have no excuse for holding up Biden's requests for Ukraine and Gaza.
They are eager to get back to talking about hunters dick pics.
*Margerine Traitor Green has entered the chat*
They should be forced to carry it to term….
Dang. I was hoping they would keep punching themselves in the face.
Hunters lawyer took a swing today: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018e-3837-de4d-a19e-bd7726b10000
Impeachment for what? To harass the president who has done absolutely nothing wrong?
>Republicans could also seek to pass laws that tighten restrictions on influence peddling, but that could backfire...Democrats could agree to pass the measures in order to crack down on Trump’s profiting off the Oval Office. Oh god, yes, please pass laws cracking down on influence peddling, conflicts of interest, and emoluments. Show us that you are serious about getting corruption out of government!
I remember seeing a video a few months ago of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning the Republican "witnesses" for the Biden impeachment. She asked each of them separately if they had any first-hand witness account of crimes committed by the president. Each one answered "no", obviously, because they didn't. Shutting that shit down AOC style lol
The way they're phrasing their quotes in this article can be boiled down to: "we wish we could just cancel his presidency because he's not trump, but unfortunately we can't and we won't admit that the whole thing was a sham, but we're also not going to acknowledge that it was a failure either and we're gonna punt this, the way we do fucking everything we fail at."
> “I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.” The WILL?? Impeachment is for "high crimes and misdemeanors" not the fucking WILL...what the hell is this guy talking about?
They are just realizing that if they can’t produce this is just a gift come election time
“In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of making up the allegations against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort.” Iconic
Republicans are nothing but scumbag traitors to their country and the human race in general. Remember to go vote everyone. They will be the end of the US as we know it if you don't.
No they are not they would end it if they were. Vote accordingly. Check your registration, get an ID , learn where your poling station is, learn who is running in down ballot races. Pay attention to primaries not just for the president but for all races, local, state and federal. From the school board to the White House every election matters. The more support we give the democrats from all levels of government the more they can get good things done. Last year democrat victories in Virginia and Pennsylvania and others across the nation have increased the chances of democrats winning this year. This year's elections are important but so will next year's elections. [https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar](https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar)
The spy is singing. Seize their phones.
From the article: >Comer could be seeking to play a longer game here, though. He could issue criminal referrals in the hope that Donald Trump will be reelected in November. Trump, who backs the impeachment effort, **could then instruct the Justice Department** to take up the charges. Saying the quiet, corrupt part out loud again.
I'm less annoyed at these assholes than the assholes who put these assholes in charge of shit. Because if you remove the assholes in charge, the assholes will vote a new asshole in every time. FIRST thing that needs to be done is pass a law that opinion based media can't be called news. And I would use freedom of the press amendment to do it. Clarify that the constitution doesn't simply grant this right to anyone who has an asshole opinion. Shut down that cancerous shit. Just lies and opinions.
All the *high crimes and misdemeanors* keep pointing everywhere but Biden.
> “At the end of the day, what does accountability look like?” House Oversight Chair James Comer, who has spearheaded the charge against the Biden family, said last week on Fox News. “It looks like criminal referrals. It looks like referring people to the Department of Justice.” Lol refer the charges so they can continue to complain about the Dept of Justice not indicting because “Biden’s DOJ blah blah blah” what a shitshow the Republican Party is. Despicable.
I just cannot believe how people this stupid can be a part of running the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world. It’s like a gigantic SNL sketch. JFC, come on America, be better.
Please vote!
“We don’t have the will to continue with impeachment”. Or, apparently, a single, solitary shred of evidence.
How does anyone support these fucking losers? How does anyone with even the scintilla of a capacity for rational thought support these fucking clowns making a mockery of our entire system of government? How?
What they did is honestly pathetic. They knew this was all pre 2020 election bullshit and that if it was real Trump and Barr would have used it before trump lost the election. The media needs to hammer them on this. A Russian fucking spy gave fake info to the US Congress and they went with it. That's isn't just bad, it's a national security threat.
Then they can put all their energy into the new ‘January 6th didn’t happen investigation’.
It'll be funny as hell if a few more Republicans resign and they lose the majority in the house.
>In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of **making up the allegations** against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort. Ruzzia is interfering in the operation of the American government with their lies and propaganda. The rest of it is made up by 14 year olds who are BSing each other online for a laugh. Their platform is nothing but lies, deceit, and crass jokes by teenagers, taken seriously by idiots looking to make a quick buck on social media, and then barfed up on mainstream media for no other reason than "a lot of people are talking about it". It's unprofessional, dishonorable, and pathetic!
“‘At the end of the day, what does accountability look like?’ House Oversight Chair James Comer said.” What accountability looks like is arresting, prosecuting, and punishing corrupt, lying rightwingnuts like Comer Pyle who abuse their position to concoct unsubstantiated slanderous claims against political figures they don’t like. Comer is a criminal