President Joe Biden late Wednesday brushed off the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry, saying the way he sees it, they launched the investigation against him because they want to shut down the federal government.
Biden, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Virginia, said that instead of being concerned about the probe, “I’m focused on the things the American people want me focused on.”
The president’s remarks were the first since Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the launch of a Biden impeachment inquiry while the Republican House leader is also struggling to shore up votes to fund the government and prevent a federal shutdown.
Yeah, their timing on this is pretty stupid - whatever headlines they’re hoping to generate with this impeachment business are going to be drowned out by the shutdown anyway.
Trump’s impeachment (which Republicans are obviously trying to mimic to get back at Democrats), stemmed from wrongdoing that everybody was aware of, it was in the news for months. We were well aware of it by the time impeachment happened.
With this latest Republican effort though, it seems obvious to anyone not drinking the kool-aid, that there’s nothing there. They still seem to be going after something to do with Hunter Biden? Are we still on this legendary laptop or whatever? It’s completely unclear what impeachable offense they’re actually accusing him of.
This seems to follow in a long line of Republican antics aimed at muddying the waters, the root of which I’m sure probably leads back to Russia. They’re trying to kick the legs out from underneath Ukraine and so are amping up the crazy in hopes of destabilizing the US and/or throwing the election to Trump (who also needs to win to avoid prison).
It’s completely unclear what impeachable offense they’re actually accusing him of.
Something about helping him laptop the drugs? I actually don’t know and I keep up with their shenanigans.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/with-nothing-on-joe-biden-republicans-move-toward-impeaching-him-anyway/ a pretty good overview of what’s been going on with Hunter Biden (who, frankly, has done some shady things) and why and how republicans have nothing on Joe Biden.
It’s a grift, pure and simple.
Reverse cargo cult
“Impeachments are meaningless, everyone does it and they are never substantial”
Echoes of Obama. He’s focused on what matters, and that’s what matters.
This is how they all need to be - let the chimpanzees throw their shit all day, ignore them, move forward as if they don’t exist.
Laugh at them before moving on
There’s a strange mentality so many people in the states still have, which is that they *want the US government to barely exist or collapse entirely. *
It’s fucking insanity to me, because even if you live in the middle of nowhere your quality of life depends on having a functional government. These idiots think they’re “self sufficient” enough to not need one, which I guess just shows how insulated they are more than anything.
They don’t actually want this. Ask them, who’s going to ban the trans people if the government is shut down? Suddenly they’ll realize their fascism is far more important, they are the opposite from anti government.
Of course the impeachment reason is about Hunter Biden. They really have nothing else to go off of.
Don’t get it twisted. They don’t have anything on Hunter either. Republicans hate him because he worked in Ukraine to expand American influence and Ukrainian fossil fuel independence from Russia. Russia had been using its oil flow to Ukraine to control Ukrainian politics.
The company Hunter worked for starting I believe in 2014, was formed in Ukraine by ukrainians for the sole purpose of breaking its dependence on Russian fuel.
Sure, he got the job because of his name. That’s not a crime. All the newspapers covered it in 2014 when he got the job, and everything was found to be on the up and up by the federal ethics watchdog, whose name is escaping me right now. He was working to further Western interests and undermine Russia. Dude is a patriot through and through.
Well I’m not really in the interest of defending him, in fact the less I know the better lol. I don’t want to drink whatever the hell is in the republican kool-aid. I just know he’s a private citizen so my giving a fuck ends right there.
