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House Republicans may hold an official vote in the coming weeks on authorizing their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    761·
    8 months ago

    Impeachment for what? He hasn’t fucking done anything. You can’t just impeach a president because they impeached your guy the last time.

    Edit: Haha, a butthurt Republican came in and downvoted all of our posts.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      Sadly, the Constitution is very vague on this point. They could impeach him for the color of his tie if they wanted. What history would say about that vote is a secondary concern to them.

      I’m pretty sure that even Preacher Speaker Johnson knows this is a political loser for them. It’s purely red meat for their base, and it’ll piss off the other two-thirds of the voting public. But given the dysfunction in the House right now, he might not have much choice.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      8·
      8 months ago

      If it’s nepotism again, I have bad news about their favorite wannabe dictator…

      Edit: it’s “corruption,” whatever that means.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      The reason they’re giving: Something something Hunter Biden. (Despite having zero proof of anything improper.)

      The real reason they’re doing this: Trump was impeached twice and wants payback. The Republicans will fall over themselves to impeach Biden even if they have to say that his crime was blinking improperly.

    • somePotato@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      8 months ago

      And if they did manage to impeach Biden over whatever they’re making up this time… so what?

      45’s first impeachment did nothing, so couldn’t the sane people in the government just ignore a hypothetical biden impeachment and continue business as usual?

      • Alto@kbin.social
        18·
        8 months ago

        The point isn’t to remove Biden, it’s to trivialize the fact that trump was (rightfully) impeached twice. If Biden got impeached for something completely nonsensical, they’re hoping enough of the general public will just regard all impeachments as such.

        Unfortunately, they’re probably more right than wrong.

      • TechyDad@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        They know they’ll never get Biden removed. Even the craziest Republican in the House realizes that the impeachment would die in the Senate. This is purely being done for three reasons.

        First, it’s payback. Trump was impeached twice so they think they are “owed” at least one impeachment. This is especially true, they feel, because Trump wants to see Biden impeached and they must follow Trump or else.

        Secondly, it’s an attempt to make impeachment meaningless. If they impeach Biden over nothing, they can claim that impeachment is a purely political process and Trump’s two impeachments mean nothing.

        Finally, it’s a way for them to “prove” that Biden is corrupt. After all, he was impeached, so this means that he’s done illegal stuff. Note: This conflicts with the second reason, but they don’t care. They’ll argue that Biden’s impeachment means he’s corrupt, while also arguing that Trump’s impeachment proves that impeachment has no meaning.

        Removal isn’t the goal. They’re just looking to score political points. The smarter Republicans realize that this could cause a massive backlash (ala Clinton post-impeachment), but the smarter Republicans aren’t the ones with their hands on the wheel.