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submitted 11 months ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

House Republicans this week have threatened two additional members of the Biden administration with impeachment, bringing the total so far during this Congress to seven elected and appointed federal government officials: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.

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[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

Wednesday morning, defending his impeachment announcement, Rosendale claimed there is a “shadow government” running President Biden’s administration and suggesting former President Barack Obama is actually in charge of the White House.

Why are these people allowed out in public without their caretakers?

[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Obama is secretly running the white house instead of Biden?

That's cool.

[-] Spot@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

Just the one guy and his gang huh? Wow. Not another country, not a huge corporation, not one of the rich oligarchs of the world? A former president's secret club. K. Gotcha.

Just wish one of these groups of idiots somewhere was using their, powers of large numbers of stupid people, for some real good.

[-] Municipal0379@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Sign me up!!

[-] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Ehh, I'd honestly prefer that over the two likely options for the 2024 election...

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"Always bet on black."

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

It's true, unfortunately you have to think about who was actually running the government when Obama was in office (it was Capitalists, just like it is now.)

[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This is the actual answer as to who makes most laws in this country.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 8 points 11 months ago

Stuff like this should get you walked out of Congress, leave your credentials on the desk and security walks you out. This level of government should not tolerate conspiracy theories to just be thrown around as facts like this. If you can't back a claim like this up (and you can't because it's to cover for Trump's cognitive decline at his rallies always saying Obama instead of Biden) you should be just barred from Congress full stop.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 months ago

Reminder that Mitch McConnel after having what appeared to be a stroke is still in office. Biden who has no idea where he is after 5pm is who you are going to vote for and chide others for not voting for him. Feinstein wasn't cognizant for at least 2 of her terms and only left office because she literally died.

The 117th Congress – House and Senate – is the oldest, on average, of any Congress in two decades. The average age of senators in this Congress is 63.9, and the average age of a House member is 58.3. And Congress is getting older and older; in the 107th Congress, which meant from January 2001 to January 2003, senators were, on average, 4.6 years younger and House members were 4.4 years younger.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/congress-age/index.html

It's called gerontocracy and it's what happens when political parties have fully captured the democratic process and people like you continue to vote for only the party approved candidates every election.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There should be an age cap, sadly. 65 is fair, I think.

It's not just the cognition problems that come with age, it's outdated values. There are people who privately hate black people, queer people, and women in general. Who value money above every other single thing in life. Who blindly obey authority. Who think their "team" must be supported, no matter what, right or wrong. THEY are making the rules.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

If the fascists are unable to remove their undesirables by bending the law, they will remove them by breaking the law.

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