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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If only it were for any of the actual crimes he's committed and not made up or fringe bullshit.

An overly hopeful and coping portion of my brain wants to believe all these dipshits keep one-upping each other on impeachments that eventually you end up with some senator like "you wanna impeach Obama for sucking a dick? WELL FUCK YOU! We're dragging Bush and Cheney's asses in! That'll fucking show you!"

This is my mental fanfic and masturbation material. Do not take it from me.

*Preemptively protecting my material by editing this to investigate instead of impeach since I don't think you can impeach someone out of office. Continue not taking this from me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think you can impeach someone out of office

You can actually, but the Senate has to confirm it in a ⅔ vote, and even the Senate Republicans aren’t interested.

[–] MsPenguinette 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP meant "someone who is no longer in office" not "impeach someone and remove them from office"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The House has impeached previously after resignation and the Senate voted that it had jurisdiction to try that impeachment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

actual crimes he’s committed

Since the U.S. is amazing at letting crimes against humanity happen legally, has Biden’s crimes broken any actual US law?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (23 children)

No. This is political theater and they know this will go absolutely nowhere.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having secret documents at his house?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s not illegal if you give them back when asked, since your original possession of the documents is not illegal due to your position.

That’s why they didn’t arrest Pence, Obama, Biden, or dozens of other politicians and generals.

Trump on the other hand kept them and then lied to the FBI that he didn’t have them. What the hell did Trump think would happen?

[–] elbarto777 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crimes are by definition law breakers. So, provided that you're saying that Biden committed some crime, then yes, they have broken some U.S. law.

Of course, I don't believe Biden has committed any crimes during his presidency.

[–] MsPenguinette 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, the second definition of "crime" is "an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong."

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is right up there with defining 'literally' as 'figuratively' in the stupid definitions hall of fame.

[–] MsPenguinette 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait. Do you cringe when someone say that something is "criminally underrated"?

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, fair point. I guess I wasn't thinking in the figurative sense.

Which is kind of funny, given my last comment.

[–] aelwero 4 points 1 year ago

Obama is the only one since Carter who didn't have articles of impeachment filed... impeachment was on the table for Obama, they just sorta didn't bother to fill out the forms in his case.

The shenanigans you're suggesting might end up becoming a thing have actually been a thing for decades...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only it were for any of the actual crimes he’s committed and not made up or fringe bullshit.

The issue is that the crimes he committed are legal in the US.

[–] cedarmesa 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A detailed list would surely require declassifying every single DoD, CIA, etc. document of any sort related to any African nation. We're only getting glimpses of fuckery on that continent as US capital panics over China making better and more substantial deals going forward.

But as far as out in the open, well, that depends if you accept the (US supported at one point) notion of "a nation's laws which are grossly immoral can be overridden and actions taken under said laws deemed illegal by an international court" aka the Nuremberg trials of (far too few) top Nazis post-WWII.

I would include many actions Biden supports under that classification including, but not limited to: the continuation of the embargo against Cuba, continued support for Israel, continued support of Saudi Arabia, continued sanctions and no attempt to normalize relations with North Korea/DPRK, warmongering against China (maybe not a crime atm, but if/when some war starts because of it...), sanctions against the people of Russia generally, arming and supporting continued war in Ukraine instead of peace agreement, etc. Tired of listing shit. Haven't even started in on domestic issues. Allowing the police to continue as they are is in itself a crime worthy of... a fair trial and just consequences :). For example he could stop cop city if he gave a shit so I hold him complicit personally for his inaction there and many other places. If you think he can't do anything, refer to LBJ and how he forced integration in public schools. The feds can absolutely force states to stop doing dogshit racist murderous shit if they want to, he just doesn't want to.

Yes every president is guilty basically upon stepping into office. Yes Biden didn't do this all alone. Yes congress and scotus and countless others are guilty and complicit, but you asked for crimes of Biden and due to his position as POTUS (and I'll kindly spare him the crimes he did in congress and as VP participated in) he gets to inherit all that stuff especially when a lot of it can be snapped away with an executive order or a phone call.

If you wanna play the liberal game of "uh, but, acktually, there isn't a laaaaaw in the US" then have fun defending objectively evil, immoral and, if tried internationally, criminal shit only allowed because of the position of the US geopolitically (for now). (And just to head off anything bad faith and really weird: every single living president (and honestly all the presidents...) could and should face criminal courts. Their entire administrations, entire congresses with few exceptions... this is not "just Biden," the entire US government is a bunch of criminals doing crimes but stamping them with "this is legal!" That didn't work for the Nazis, but I guess they lost. American leaders will face their own reckoning one day, god willing.)

[–] kmkz_ninja 6 points 1 year ago

"I think it's a warcrime that Biden (and literally the rest of the west) won't let Russia successfully invade Ukraine 😢"

[–] cedarmesa 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

continuation of the embargo against Cuba, continued support for Israel, continued support of Saudi Arabia

That's active participation in two ongoing genocides and the sanctions generally are considered by many people crime against humanity since they hit the population. And about the warmongering, let me remind you what Joachim von Ribbentrop was hanged for.

[–] Hazdaz 19 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when the Base of a party has been fed propaganda for so long that that they've gone off the deep end and can't be contained. Except for complete morons like MTG, the vast majority of these elected politicians know this is utterly pointless, except that they are calling for impeachment because their Base wants revenge for what Dems did to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is he related to Joseph McCarthy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No relation, although you could make some comparisons between the two

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like how this only serves to galvanise both of the supporter groups (both of which will blame leftists for whichever outcome) over basically nothing, and yet will have no actual impact no matter how it's resolved. I guess it's not an election year and there are barely any debates, so they need to get eyeballs on newscorp ads somehow.

"Oh wow, they replaced Joe Biden with Joe Biden's hand-picked Vice President. It's basically a whole new country!"

E: To be fair, the democrats might actually have a better chance at the next election if they drop Biden (dead) because of this. Which means they'll fight tooth and nail for the old geezer because if they win too much they might have to keep their promises.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm starting to believe impeachment is becoming the new UFO 'leaks', is there anything going on currently that warrants our attention more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hunter Biden indictment today?

US sanctioning Turkey (deal with it Erdogan)?

I'm sure there's lots of stories there if you look, but it's probably just political theater for their constituents to feel like they attacked the "evil Biden Deep State regime"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean Biden sucks, but please don’t make Kamala Harris president, I can’t stand hearing her speak. At least Biden is fun to laugh at, Harris, on the other hand is just boring and cringe. Remember her Taiwan clip? Basically went like this : “China is a large country. Taiwan is a much smaller island and is located close to China. China is more powerful than Taiwan. They don’t treat them fair and that is basically a bad thing.” Not a direct quote but I’m embarrassingly close to the actual words she said