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Impeachment for what?
"We'll figure that out afterwards"
Practically everything the GOP does these days is just retaliation. They wanted to impact Biden before he was in office ffs.
The Republicans from districts which voted for Biden must be several drinks deep already. Either they buck the party line and become reviled, or they give into the obvious far right bullshit and become reviled. Either way, their careers are done. It's the sort of unenviable position that's only possible when you sell your soul to be a Republican.
Even better, the plurality blames Republicans for the debt ceiling crisis. Leadership is aware that these childish stunts are a net negative for them. Combining a shutdown with a frivolous impeachment is throwing water into an oil fire.
Ive heard false death knells for republicans way too many times over several decades. After Trump, theres no amount of depravity conservative voters arent willing to overlook.
"Voting with the libs" will still get them Othered.
He did say "depravity"
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Gotta treat every opportunity like it's the one that'll be the death knell. We won't get to it unless we do.
what part of you treating it like a death knell is going to accomplish anything? What are you doing other than just waiting hoping conservatives learn their lesson this time? Please stop looking to conservatives to fix anything, to amend their ways. No matter the scandal, expect conservative voters to still rally behind their reps to oppose progress. If Trump went into an elementary school and started gunning down kids, expect conservatives to take it as the beginning of their uprising against education and follow suit.
Oh that isn't what I mean. I don't expect conservatives to change one bit. By death knell, I mean the end of Republican party in national relevance. Their views are quickly becoming so unpopular that even gerrymandering can't save them.
I think for instance if they lose in 2024, the GOP might collapse and fracture. What would come next however, I don't know. But we'd be rid of fascists and bigots with any real power, hopefully.
My hope (and I don't think it's unfounded) is that the democratic party splits in half. The neoliberals take the democratic party name and moderate/conservative position and a new progressive party is created to their left.
This is my thinking as well actually. It should be put off as long as possible to make sure they don't spoil each other in elections (until we get ranked choice anyway). But in the long term, I absolutely see Democrats absorbing those closer to the center and becoming a centrist/conservative party for economics, and progressives splitting off to make a progressive party, which would have enormous gains in popularity.
They'd all be socially liberal though. You'd still have a Trump party, but they'd be uninteresting and unimportant dregs, who are the home for social conservatives. They'll be who we look at to remind ourselves our opponent could always be worse.
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They're going to try to do to Biden that they did to Clinton. Investigate until anything puts him in court, whether it's true or not.
Wouldn't it be great if they could stop playing chicken with people's lives...
They treat it like a game because it's not them that suffer at the end, it's the gov employees at the bottom living paycheck to paycheck who get screwed over when their check doesn't come in because of a House dick measuring contest.
But Hunter Biden's buttery socialist laptop agenda?
Need to figure out some malicious compliance during these annual periods to wake up the Republicans. Maybe a password leak because IT is down? :)
I wish I only had to work 11 days this month.
And calling it work is being very generous
I cannot wait to get out of this fucking country.
Which one though? Countries in Europe are having fascism issues too like Italy, Poland, and probably more.
people are willingly voting a nazi party into power in germany right now. not a good idea to come here anytime soon.
Just don't go HAM and give up your citizenship.
The USA is one of the only countries in the world that will tax citizens who are living and working in foreign countries. So there may be benefits depending on your situation.
Most countries require you to renounce your citizenship to foreign nations as part of their immigration and alien residency program.
The United States is one place where they do not require you to actually live/reside within the borders to maintain citizenship, but they still tax you as if you did, even if you have dual citizenship or fully reside in another country.
Boris Johnson was a natural-born US citizen but gave up his citizenship to hold political office in the UK.
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Can you take me with you?
They going to impeach Hunter Biden?
Hunter Bidens laptop, get it right.
Or at least the hard drive.
I remember when the GOP claimed to be the party of "fiscal responsibility". Now they're going to drive the country's credit rating into the ground over spite.
Life in America is like a drunk game of Jenga.
Life in America is like a drunk game of Jenga.
- Fitch Ratings, August 1st, 2023
Such fucking bullshit the amount of time allotted to fuck off and not do their jobs, shit even without that most of em don’t show up when they feel like it
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There will be a game of Chicken
McCarthy will play the title role
Careful, he's really good at just standing there and staring awkwardly. He's been practicing a lot recently in the middle of his speeches.
The GOP is completely unserious. It's too bad they have too much power in relation to their numbers. I wish they did not gain the House, esp given the fascist-loving goons they have in there...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
The president and congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are focused on passage of a months-long funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep government offices running while lawmakers iron out a budget.
It’s a step Congress routinely takes to avoid stoppages, but McCarthy faces resistance from within his own Republican ranks, including from some hardline conservatives who openly embrace the idea of a government shutdown.
For example, House Republicans added provisions blocking abortion coverage, transgender care and diversity initiatives to a July defense package, turning what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort into a sharply contested bill.
The inquiries have not produced evidence that President Biden took official action on behalf of his son or business partners, but McCarthy has called impeachment a “natural step forward” for the investigations.
Schumer said the Senate would work on legislation to lower the costs of drugs, address rail safety and provide disaster relief after floods in Vermont, fires in Hawaii and a hurricane in Florida.
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I'm 100% on board with a compromise of an impeachment inquiry for a passed law funding the government. I don't think Biden did anything impeachable, but I think voters are smart enough to parse that. They didn't vote against Democrats in the Clinton midterm.
If Biden didn't do anything wrong, and he didn't, then he shouldn't be impeached, you're just enabling our abusers and letting them get away with subverting democracy with their bullshit political theater attempts, and wasting our tax money on it.
This is just more Benghazi level bullshit from the Republicans.
If the alternative is a government shutdown, I don't care about bullshit political theater. Newsflash, there will be bullshit political theater regardless.
It's not theatre if it's real. You should be fighting, not surrendering.
It's not surrender to make a compromise. It's politics, deals have to get made. In this case it isn't even really the Democrats giving anything up since the Republicans have the power to open the impeachment inquiry without even voting on it, Pelosi did that for Trump.
In golf, if two players decide to allow cheating then both are disqualified. There is no compromising in such a situation because to do so, when one side wants to allow cheating and the other side agrees, is a flawed compromise that ruins the integrity of the game.
You're suggesting that we should allow cheating, but in this case the cheating is violating the tenets of democracy in order to allow for a tyrannical ideological push to happen. Compromise looks like giving and taking on the details but working towards a common goal. Hyperpartisan stonewalling just 'cuz you hate the other guys is not behaviour of compromise. That is hostility.
I'm with you on this. If the cost of avoiding a shutdown were just an inquiry I'd take it; I'm worried we'll give away something more valuable. They're so inept I think the most likely outcome of an inquiry is that they embarrass themselves anyway.
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