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[–] sensibilidades 167 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's no way the House GOP sees that as relevant, it's not about the law or what's just.

[–] Madrigal 151 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The whole point is to 'normalise' all the issues with Trump's presidency so that the public just sees impeachment etc as a normal political process rather than a sign of something being seriously wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They don't have to find a specific statute to charge him under, but they do have to present some sort of coherent accusation of wrongdoing to avoid looking quite so much like the absolute clowns they are.

[–] TechyDad 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They don't care about looking like absolute clowns. They only care about appeasing Trump and MAGA base. Both say that Biden needs to be impeached. They don't care why - just impeach him. If anyone says they look like clowns, they'll just call those people "woke liberal elites working for Soros globalists" or "RINOs" (depending on whether they are Democrats or Republicans).

Then, if they lose their elections due to a blue wave, they'll parrot Trump, claim voter fraud, and demand that they be installed into office because they won when you subtract all the "fraudulent" (read: Democratic) votes.

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[–] Omegamanthethird 149 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Wait, what accused action? I thought they didn't even have an accused action.

[–] themeatbridge 72 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Being the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

[–] Municipal0379 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We all know that was George Santos!!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (5 children)

His crime is that big fat D next to his name. Unforgivable!

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

He's finally going to get what's coming to him after his hand in the Jade Helm Massacre!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Let's not forget his involvement in the Bowling Green massacre. So many lives needlessly lost.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I don’t know about you all but I’m never voting for Hunter Biden.

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

Well, I've been voting for Hunter Biden for years now.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I haven't even voted for him once! We must keep Hunter Biden out of office!

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

He would also have to have actually done any of the accused actions.

[–] randon31415 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Republicans: This guy is the oldest president in the history of the USA, what do you mean his son isn't pulling the strings? That is how it works with all elder politicians!

[–] FlyingSquid 61 points 11 months ago (28 children)

Honestly, it's kind of amazing that they have spent all this time investigating Biden and haven't found anything crooked. How is that even possible for a politician at his level?

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

But ya know, not trump, he's young.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did they just realize he wasn't a part of the government?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lol would be hilarious if this was referring to Hunter. "Oh wait, shit this guy's not in the government? Why the fuck have we been talking about him for the last 4 years?!"

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[–] steakmeout 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mullin is a piece of shit who couldn’t even handle himself with a bored union rep who was halfheartedly teasing him.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Beginning to soften the blow of disappointment for their rabid base.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The plan is to make it appear that he gets off on a technicality, rather than them having no case from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that's embarrassing how does anyone vote for these people

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

I don’t think they actually need a valid reason for impeachment.

They could have impeached Obama for wearing his brown suit. Or Jaywalking when he went to the restaurant and put ketchup on his burger or whatever the heck that was about.

[–] NegativeInf 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Right. High crimes and misdemeanors. With no definition for either.

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[–] laverabe 27 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And also, presumably, because there were no crimes.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this the clown who Bernie Sanders chastised for wanting to have a physical fight with someone who was testifying to a Congressional committee?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The best part is their Orange Leader is trying to get Courts (at the Supreme Court now) to rule that the President has some kind of ultimate immunity. This would of course put Presidents above the law and out of reach of even the Supreme Court. It would also of course make it so Biden could do whatever he wanted (not that he actually would) - negating their whole farce.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Its so stupid too, because that's literally against the written word of the constitution. The damned thing literally says that the president is still liable under the rule of law even after being impeached and removed from office. These chucklefucks don't give a single wet shit about the constitution, they're just hoping their base is stupid enough to go along with the subversion.

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[–] HollandJim 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Washington Times is a garbage conservative conspiracy generator. If we’re not linking to Newsmax or FoxNews, we shouldn’t be linking to it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the stuff the Rs were actually going after Clinton over didn't happen in office either, Lewinsky just presented a big target they could attach it all to.

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[–] Klypto 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In my opinion it would be a disaster if you could receive compensation for future policy input, act on that input in office, and be immune simply because you were not in office when you received it.

Just prove he did or did not do it instead of whatever this nonsense take is.

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