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#3126880 13-Sep-2023 09:39

And the chance of finding something is probably close to zero.

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#3126889 13-Sep-2023 09:53

freitasm: And the chance of finding something is probably close to zero.

So what is Biden getting impeached for?

It’s not clear, and it’s possible that Biden will get impeached as an act of political theater, without any evidence of wrongdoing.

Two-thirds of senators have to agree to convict the president and remove him from office.

That has never happened before, and it definitely won’t happen with a Democratic-controlled Senate.

House Republicans will probably face a political backlash for impeaching Biden.

(source: The Washington Post)

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#3126977 13-Sep-2023 12:12

Since the end of World War II in 1945, Italy has had 69 governments, at an average of one every 1.11 years.

So while the US government hasn't reached Italian levels of fragmentation and instability, it's probably about as productive.

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#3126984 13-Sep-2023 12:31

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So what is Biden getting impeached for?

Oh, probably because some Republicans think Biden is personally involved in all of Trump's indictments and is running the show. Or something.

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#3127276 13-Sep-2023 17:40

This belongs in the Biden thread maybe. Just trying to give him an equal number of impeachments so he looks worse? Plus one more for bragging rights?😂

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#3127420 13-Sep-2023 21:43

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freitasm: And the chance of finding something is probably close to zero.

So what is Biden getting impeached for?

(source: The Washington Post)

Oh, thats simple.

Distraction. Trump is rapidly heading for a world of hurt in the court system. Republicans are trying to spin it as a political thing rather than just Trump is a criminal.

Then you have the Dipsticks like MTG who thinks it is just a political tool that you can haul out for no reason except publicity.

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#3127786 14-Sep-2023 14:17

Democrat California senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, announces she will not seek re-election

The Republican leader in the US Senate Mitch "I definitely did not have strokes or seizures; I was pining for the fjords" McConnell, hasn't.

Financial Times Limited: Retiring Romney urges Trump and Biden to ‘step aside’ for younger leaders

Republican senator Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on Joe Biden and Donald Trump to “stand aside” for younger leaders and railed against the populist wing of his own party, as he said he would not seek re-election next year.

Romney, who is 76 and was the Republican candidate for president in 2012, announced the decision to end his political career in a pre-recorded video statement on Wednesday, saying: “At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-eighties. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders.”
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#3127795 14-Sep-2023 14:39

Yes the young generation, such promising candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy !

A great defender of democracy and the constitution, a person of principle :-)
Seems to have Thiel and his followers stamp of approval.
He made a call out to Musk to throw in support too.

Just a younger meaner Trump is seems.
GOP is just Trumps, and Teaparies all the way down it seems.

From Age of Uncertainty , to Age of Meanness it seems.

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#3127801 14-Sep-2023 15:20

ezbee:

Yes the young generation, such promising candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy !

A great defender of democracy and the constitution, a person of principle :-)
Seems to have Thiel and his followers stamp of approval.
He made a call out to Musk to throw in support too.

Just a younger meaner Trump is seems.
GOP is just Trumps, and Teaparies all the way down it seems.

From Age of Uncertainty , to Age of Meanness it seems.

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#3127811 14-Sep-2023 15:53

I know it's not popular to say "you're too old" to do something.

But it's not unprecedented. In the US the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued the Airline Age 60 rule subjecting all commercial airline pilots to mandatory retirement at age sixty as a safety precaution.

Needles to say it's very unpopular.

A pilot can kill a plane load of passengers. Politician denying climate change, weakening environment regulations, supporting wars and the like can kill a lot more.

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#3127827 14-Sep-2023 16:29

Perhaps future historians will mark the death of the US democracy in two dates:

in 1906 the US Supreme Court accepted that corporations are for legal purposes persons
"campaign reform laws" enacted during the 1970s encouraging "money is free speech" Political Action Committees, PACs

Though we can't do much about the influence of the elderly and rich in the US.

Open Secrets: Donor demographics: old white guys edition, part I

Money-in-politics is not a young person’s game. While 2016’s presidential hopefuls may try to recreate Barack Obama’s successful appeal to young voters, they’ll spend much of their time hitting up the country’s wealthiest senior citizens for cash. Already Republican candidates are vying for the support of the septuagenarian Koch brothers and the octogenarian Sheldon Adelson, while Hillary Clinton prepares to rally longtime financial backers who were already middle-aged during her husband’s presidency.

It’s not surprising, then that the [leaning left] Center for Responsive Politics’ list of top individual donors is rife with retirees. Of the top 500 donors to federal candidates and committees in 2014, CRP was able to identify or approximate the age of 491. Only 10 were born in 1975 or later, and none after 1985. Among these mega-donors the average age was 65.6, while the most common age was 70.

Democrats have had much more success than Republicans with young voters in the last decade, but their top contributors are not much greener than the GOP’s. While the cycle’s biggest donor — by far — was the relatively spry liberal Tom Steyer (celebrating his 58th birthday later this month), the average Democrat in the top 500 was 64.1 years old in 2014, against 66.7 for Republicans
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#3127836 14-Sep-2023 16:32

So what is Biden getting impeached for?

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#3127863 14-Sep-2023 17:40

The Washington Post - DeSantis discourages latest covid boosters, contradicting federal guidance

14 Sept 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and the state’s surgeon general are warning residents under age 65 against the new covid-19 booster, going against the advice of federal health officials who have recommended the shots. ...

“I will not stand by and let the FDA and CDC use healthy Floridians as guinea pigs for new booster shots that have not been proven to be safe or effective,” DeSantis said in a statement after the call with Ladapo and other doctors, which opened with the title “No way FDA.”

Morons.

The current US Covid death count is 1,174,847. 😟

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#3127927 14-Sep-2023 20:05

I remember in the 1970's a friend's father telling me he kept his salesmen "hungry" because otherwise they'd do no work. He also fire anyone who disclosed their salary or commission rate to another.

Ignoring the peril, I installed software on a PC that he had supplied and purchased. The hard disk crashed; he wanted to charge me for the hard drive, but didn't because I was a friend of the family.

I guess things never change. In that sprit, out of Australia this week, Tim Gurner at a "prosperity conference"CEO says Australia workers need to see some pain again because they have too much leverage

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#3127943 14-Sep-2023 20:56

politica muy loca en Mexico. I think this explains Elon Musk wanting to ~~return to~~ visit Mars.

Euronews: 1,000-year-old fossils of 'alien' corpses displayed in Mexico's Congress as UFO expert testifies

The bodies of two alleged "alien" beings were exhibited before politicians in a special session of the Mexican Congress.

The fossilised bodies, presented by journalist and UFO scientist Jaime Maussan and displayed in glass cases, were retrieved from Cusco in Peru and are said to be 1,000 years old.

"These specimens are not part of the evolution of our world. They were not recovered from a UFO scrap. They were found fossilised in a diatom moss mine," Maussan said, testifying under oath.

The session in the Mexican Congress comes weeks after another in front of the US Congress, but this appearance was much more sensational in its content.
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