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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday said he is directing three House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in an effort to seek bank records and other documents from the president and his son Hunter Biden.

lol. lmao, even

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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yep. They set a terrible precedent.

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

nah, this is doa and everyone will re-learn the lesson that impeachment for piddly shit is a self-own.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any impeachment proceeding is almost sure to pass the House and fail in the Senate.

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

i understand how impeachment works and i understand the congressional math. i disagree w/ the throwaway christman thesis that the US is on some terminal course of constant impeachments: it will be seen, yet again, that the benefits of impeachments redound to the impeachees party; many republicans understand this, but they are unable to discipline the flailing MAGA wing of the party.

[–] somas@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@zephyreks

@Sasuke @judgeholden

Yup, impeaching a guy for a blowjob was a horrible precedent.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The GOP when they impeached Clinton because Clinton didn't think a BJ counts as sex?

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watch as every future president gets impeached for some random bullshit

[–] YouKnowIt@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Idk, this feels like a blue slip thing, where dems follow norms from like 40 years ago and republicans just do whatever they like with no opposition