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So the Republican speaker of the house has decided to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s business dealings with hunter. I have serious doubts that this will go very far as democrats still control the senate. This looks like an attempt to stir up the base for re-election season.
I personally see this as a big distraction as we have a lot of very serious problems that need to be addressed. BRICs, Taiwan, Ukraine, inflation, and
While this is terrible because of the polarisation which it will do nothing to calm down, part of me is going "Good. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander".
Because they've been throwing everything they can think of at Trump for years, and that means that if the accusations of fraud around the alleged election fraud is correct, it's been subsumed under the tide of "But he wasn't supposed to win, there must be some way we can get him for that!" suits and impeachments and the rest of it.
So what might be a genuine solid case of attempting to interfere with the results of a presidential election has been churned into the muck of partisanship, and that makes me angry. There's little to no way to unwrap it from the whole mess of "throw enough mud to see if some of it will stick" and the hysteria about coups, fascism, and dictatorship (I've read one online pronouncement that 'Trump has said when he gets into power he is going to kill Biden, he's literally plotting an assassination!') which means that a grave charge about something that affects a democracy is now just one more stick in the bundle.
See how you like the frivolous, time-wasting, 'there must be some way we can get him' impeachment when it's your guy on the line.
I guess we're officially in the era of every US president henceforth being impeached by the other side.
I still doubt Biden will be actually impeached. This move was made to 1) Placate a subset of the caucus, and 2) To theoretically increase the House's legal position in battles for documents and witnesses.
And plus, the whole idea of Biden being impeached would be a nonstarter for Republicans if Biden's whole family hadn't gotten at least $20 million from foreign characters from corrupt countries (it aint like Hunter is doing his business in Japan and France everyone!), with the less proven, but indicated number being closer to $200 million. If Joe was currently VP and this conduct had occurred when he was SOS, he'd already be out. If Kamala was a viable candidate in 2024, he'd already be out.
Treating this like its a tit-for-tat is silly. There is no comparison between this and the Ukraine impeachment of Trump. You could debate the J6 impeachment if you want, but I find that to be mostly a genuine attempt to punish perceived bad behavior brought on by Democrats gaslighting themselves about how protests evolve into riots on occasion.
There is a very real chance that Republicans uncover massive funds that will cause everyone to agree Joe has to go. The WH is acting scared right now. I still wouldn’t bet Joe will leave but the odds are probably in the 15-20% range.
What could they possibly find that wouldn't follow the pattern "The Republicans claim they have a smoking gun, the Democrats say it's nothing, the press agrees with the Democrats (except Fox which doesn't count), nothing happens"?
Polling that Kamala is running away with it in the general election ;)
LOL, maybe Trump can commission some.
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Bank records showing dirty foreign money flowing to Joe or Jill Biden (or a for-profit company owned by them) would probably cause the Deep State to flip on Biden, and the MSM would follow the Deep State.
Evidence that Joe Biden did a favour for one of Hunter's clients that the Deep State didn't want him to do would also probably work.
Parts of the MSM would flip on Biden if Hunter turns out to have taken money from Russian oligarchs who were still in Putin's good books. (Hunter's only Russian client according to the House Oversight Committee report was Yelena Baturina who had bugged out to London in 2010, and hired Hunter in 2014).
Or if say Michelle Obama declared herself a POTUS candidate. Then there is no reason to protect Biden.
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Why would the deep state care? As long as they're still running things, there's no reason for them to care that Biden's getting a cut.
If the anti-Biden theory of Burisma/Shokin is true, then Biden has already rolled the Deep State once - by getting Victoria Nuland and Radio Free Europe to change their opinions on Shokin's performance between Biden meeting Poroshenko in December and Shokin actually being fired in March.
And a compromised Biden is far more dangerous to the Deep State as POTUS than as VP.
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