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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.
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.
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?
No. This is political theater and they know this will go absolutely nowhere.
Oh yeah, there's for sure a ton of bribery and corruption stuff related to Ukraine that they could get him on if they really tried. But personally i doubt this is more than the usual partisan political theatre. It's called the uniparty for a reason, they may put on a show for the plebs but at the end of the day they stick together. If they do push Biden out it's because both parties have agreed that it's necessary for damage control, or to get an even bigger warhawk in there.
ton of bribery and corruption stuff related to Ukraine
Would you mind expanding on this? That was my actual question; the actual “investigation” being political theater is obvious even to members of Congress of both “parties”
I mean for one thing his ties to Burisma through his son and god know how many other shady dealings in Ukraine, though to be fair probably half of Congress has their fingers in the dirty pie of Ukraine and profiting one way or another. But the fact that we now know for a fact that he pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor looking into the very corruption the Bidens were involved in takes it one step further.
pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor looking into the very corruption the Bidens were involved in
Interesting, turns out they actually are asking questions about that…
https://www.aol.com/weather/comer-digs-questions-biden-treatment-144459279.html
Meanwhile, other sources say this firing definitely was about ousting corruption in Ukraine (despite that this makes no sense in 2023 especially given the very obvious nature to everyone that Nazis are running rampant)
Biden, his staff, and other U.S. officials and experts have repeatedly said that Biden acted in line with U.S. policies to root out corruption in Ukraine when he conditioned a $1 billion loan guarantee in part on Shokin’s ouster.
Didn't they impeach Trump for doing pretty much the exact same thing?
Yup.
Having secret documents at his house?
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?
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...
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.
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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.
Is he related to Joseph McCarthy?
No relation, although you could make some comparisons between the two
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.
I'm starting to believe impeachment is becoming the new UFO 'leaks', is there anything going on currently that warrants our attention more?
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"
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