I don’t really like Joe Biden either, but these assholes don’t even have any evidence of wrongdoing…
Their fee-fees were hurt when Biden won the election. This is all about revenge for Trump.
I get that, but they can’t just impeach him for no reason and they have not as-of-yet proven that there was any crime or wrongdoing.
Didn't the Clinton impeachment start with looking into a money-losing land deal, then end up with an extramarital blowjob? I'm just saying they can make whatever flimsy excuse they can, then run with it through the election. Idiot magats will whatabout it on the same level as all trumps current court cases.
But that's exactly what they're trying to do. It is every bit as empty as the Clinton impeachment. Just like then, the Republicans KNOW this is for show and an impeachment won't get any approval in the Senate. So they can just do a performance for the base.
I think it's worse than that. I think they want to destroy democracy by constantly praising nonsense and chaos. They keep practicing chaos techniques and they have cultivated an extremely loyal audience who will willingly die spreading diseases, cheering on climate change, etc.
“Chaos and disruption, I later learned, are central tenets of Bannon's animating ideology. Before catalyzing America's dharmic rebalancing, his movement would first need to instill chaos through society so that a new order could emerge. He was an avid reader of a computer scientist and armchair philosopher who goes by the name Mencius Moldbug, a hero of the alt-right who writes long-winded essays attacking democracy and virtually everything about how modern societies are ordered. Moldbug’s views on truth influenced Bannon, and what Cambridge Analytica would become. Moldbug has written that “nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth,” and Bannon embraced this. “Anyone can believe in the truth,” Moldbug writes, “to believe in nonsense is an unforgettable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
Problem is, I don't think they have the desperation needed to convert that energy into action. They lack the post-WWI economic devastation in Germany to convert. And their billionaire backers love the inaction on taxes and regulation, but aren't quite ready to fully shred the economy for political gain.
Problem is, I don’t think they have the desperation needed to convert that energy into action.
Once people start falling in love with fiction media, you get what humans have demonstrated in the Middle East. Constant chaos and nonsense arguing over anti-science story books and any leader can wave around the established symbols people were raised on in their childhood and garner a following - no matter how terrible the ideas are. Media itself is the cult of their chaos and they are conditioned to obey and flock when certain tone and style of media is presented to them (Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh - no matter how many times they are proven wrong, the tone itself is the signal).
It could be another outside media signal from anywhere, China or Russia, they still flock when it's in a nonsensical style with aggression overtones. It is incredibly dangerous that they have fallen into this thinking.
No wrongdoing? How about when he stole the election?!? He went and got more people to vote for him simply by not being an idiotic, self-absorbed, criminal. That's a violation of the core ethos of the GOP. IMPEACH!
You had me in the first half, I'm not going to lie.
Bidens mostly a catastrophe but these guys don’t even have an accusation of wrongdoing
We're in a weird place where Republicans are openly trying to turn the country into an autocracy, and a large portion of the country supports them.
Impeached on what grounds? ... Hunter Biden's laptop... uh... the deep state... ? I don't know.
I'm sure it will be for something totally legit and not insane at all.
It's a crime family!!!!!!!
What crime was committed? No one knows, their imaginary whistleblowers always disappear.
What a joke.
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Ian Sams said on X (formally known as Twitter) that House Republicans had not turned up any evidence of wrongdoing during the past nine months, and slammed McCarthy for not holding a vote to open the inquiry, as he had once pledged he would do.
He recently told Breitbart that any impeachment inquiry "would occur through a vote on the floor of the People's House and not through a declaration by one person."
Republicans hold a narrow majority in the House and he can only afford to lose four votes on a measure that is not expected to get any support from Democrats.
Buck said this weekend on MSNBC that while the House committees are surfacing information about Biden's son Hunter, it is clear that impeachment cannot get through the Senate.
Several GOP moderates like Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., have said publicly they weren't there yet and need to see additional evidence to back up a case for any articles of impeachment.
Trump weighed in recently on his social media platform with a message to House Republicans: "Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION."
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