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The House voted on Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong G.O.P. investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors.

Republicans said the vote was needed to give them full authority to continue carrying out their investigation amid anticipated legal challenges from the White House. Democrats have denounced the inquiry as a fishing expedition and a political stunt.

G.O.P. leaders refrained for months from calling a vote to open an impeachment inquiry, given the reservations of mainstream Republicans, many of them from politically competitive districts, about moving forward without proof that Mr. Biden had done anything wrong. Instead, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker at the time, unilaterally announced one in September as he was facing pressure from the far right to deliver on its priorities, including impeaching the president.

But Wednesday’s vote underscored how the political ground has shifted, with Republicans willing to endorse an inquiry even as some emphasized that they were not yet ready to charge the president. The vote was along party lines with all Republicans voting to approve the inquiry and all Democrats opposed.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God damn. These stupid fucks are going down with the SS Fat Ass arnt they lmao.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately we all will.

[–] cheese_greater 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its a bad-faith impeachment in search of petty crime he didn't commit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Its also a revenge impeachment for the two 45 impeachments that they fought tooth and nail, while ignoring how clearly guilty he was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Hey now, that's not fair. They didn't all ignore Trump's guilt. Susan Collins acknowledged that the president was guilty of what he was accused of then voted to acquit on all charges because she believed he "learned his lesson".

Republicans only care about power. Nothing is illegal or wrong if it helps them win, nothing is legal or okay if it doesn't. They've abandoned any pretense of fairness, democracy, or even basic governance and they're trying to seize the state so that they can turn its violence on people who upset them.

[–] JustZ 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but, like, there were tapes of Trump admitting to crimes in his impeachments

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I just watched some congressional turd [it was Grassley] actually say that there's an indication of wrong doing, but "I don't have any evidence." Okay, fine - that's not what an impeachment inquiry is for.

[–] FuglyDuck 14 points 11 months ago

You mean it’s not to, like, find- and maybe fabricate- evidence?

[–] DirkMcCallahan 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I love how the GOP is constantly whining about things like inflation, but do they ever actually try to address those issues? No, they just focus on trying to get university presidents fired and other kinds of purely performative theater.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Rafael 'Ted' Cruz is still on his crusade against preferred names. Unironically, it seems.

[–] CoggyMcFee 8 points 11 months ago

Hell, with a Democratic president, they want the inflation.

[–] TheJims 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Performance art for an audience of one. Trump the Puppeteer of the Republican Party.

[–] EatYouWell 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol, you give that brain dead moron way too much credit. Putin is pulling the strings.

[–] TheJims 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree but this is obviously just childish vindictiveness that is signature Trump.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

naaah i think the Powers That Be have some sort of massive dirt on looooots o' GOP members, which is how they got into politics to begin with.

[–] RestrictedAccount 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Remember when the NRA got caught funneling massive amounts of Russian money to these assholes?

That is just one opportunity

Remember when Trump’s campaign manager went to jail for being a Russian agent and was pardoned by Trump?

The list goes on

[–] Uglyhead 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember when the DNC got hacked into by two different hacking groups that released all the dirt on the Dems before the election of Trump.

And remember when the RNC was hacked into in the same ways, except absolutely no dirt was leaked into public?

Ruzzia (and therefore Trump) has all the dirt and Kompromat on the GOP. They’re all his puppets.

[–] Lemminary 3 points 11 months ago

That "dirt on the dems" was so tame but the news blew up anyway. And Hillary got the worst of it with that fruitless trial anyway. It was so stupid.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good to see that the Republicans are focusing on the truly big issues facing our nation...

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

I’m glad I’m not the only one with their mind’s eye trained firmly on Biden’s dong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure whether you’ve followed my pun with another joke that I’m too dim to understand. Explain yourself, buddy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Biden Jr big pp joke for those who are lost.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh look, it is Bill Clinton all over again.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's even worse, because there's not even a blowjob here. Clinton ultimately got into trouble for lying about the affair - unless Biden is getting something on the side and plans on lying about it this impeachment is even more of a fishing expedition.

[–] kittyjynx 2 points 11 months ago

There were accusations of sexual assault in his past but those were way before he became president. This impeachment is just bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Bruh he's 81; that shit is broke AF.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

wondering what sort of kompromat the Kremlin has on these GOP members 🤔🤔🤔

[–] Lemminary 12 points 11 months ago

That's literally all that crosses my mind at this point. Who else besides China and Russia could have such vested interest in destabilizing the US from the inside like this.

[–] JustZ 4 points 11 months ago

Are these the ones the Kremlin ordered to spend 4th of July in Moscow?

That event was a public reminder to the Democrats that Moscow runs the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (7 children)

More like they need to hunt for evidence. They have absolutely not a shred.

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[–] scaredoftrumpwinning 20 points 11 months ago

Everytime I hear about this the first thing that pops into my head is the little old lady in airplane that was stopped by security for nothing while people with bigger and bigger guns got by.

There's nothing to find, the top witnesses said as much but you have plenty out there that's done far worse and nothing happened. The GOP will destroy us all. Vote the GOP out of every office you can local state and federal.

[–] FuglyDuck 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s… gonna be hard to justify the second and third impeachments if there’s not enough evidence for the first.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Correction: there is zero evidence for the first.

[–] Lemminary 2 points 11 months ago

Nothing you can't do if you throw enough money on it either over or under the table.

[–] chitak166 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't their base ever get tired of this? Always being strung along, waiting for the day that never comes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

From what they see, this is the party of justice trying to finally nail those other guys for getting away with breaking the law non stop.

Every failure to do so, for either side to be honest, only pushes the extreme side further. The rhetoric and propaganda are set up to see failures as unjust defeats and not what they actually are, fundamental failures.

[–] Jakdracula 16 points 11 months ago

Look at that child molester enabler Gym Jordan over there, what a piece of shit!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago
[–] xkforce 7 points 11 months ago

Republicans told us that they view impeachment as nothing more than a political weapon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Republicans continue their government of the trolls, by the trolls, for the trolls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Which all the reason needed to know, by the principle of don't feed the trolls, to never support, in anyway, the GOP.

[–] Alwaysfallingupyup 3 points 11 months ago

Like shooting fish in a barrel

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