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Sen. John Fetterman on Republicans trying to impeach Biden: 'Go ahead, do it. I dare you.' (www.nbcnews.com)

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Sen. John Fetterman offered a message Wednesday to House Republicans considering impeaching President Joe Biden: “Go ahead, do it. I dare you.”

Speaking to reporters in his Senate office, the Pennsylvania Democrat suggested that the impeachment push by Republicans on the other side of the Capitol was meant to deflect from the mountain of legal problems facing former President Donald Trump.

"Your man has what, three or four indictments now?" Fetterman said. “Trump has a mug shot and he’s been impeached twice.”

"Sometimes you just gotta call their bullshit," he said.

The first-term senator went on to say that a Biden impeachment "would just be like a big circle jerk on the fringe right,” and "would diminish what impeachment really means."

Note: As pointed out by reddig33 in comments, this is an old photo. Here's a couple examples of his new look.

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[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 142 points 10 months ago

I hope he runs for president.

[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

Incredibly and with a perfectly straight face, they’d dog him for his mental and physical health.

[-] famousringo@sh.itjust.works 45 points 10 months ago

He’s too real. The electorate craves lies.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

this is why the conservative perverts voted for the fake tv businessman who does crimes (Trump) rather than the real businessman (Romney) who does things that should be crimes.

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[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago

I am part of the electorate and I do not crave lies. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

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[-] RadicalCandour@startrek.website 134 points 10 months ago

So my kid had an end of year project on someone famous from the state he was assigned to research and present. He got Pennsylvania. I immediately said, “you’re doing John Fetterman. He’s badass. Here lemme show you why..” and my kid was all about it. The kids dressed up as their famous person and I got the whole getup. Sweatshirt, athletic shorts, bald cap, stick on goatee, custom made rub on tattoos to match. That was really fun and John Fetterman is bad fucking ass. He should be president.

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago

I love how I started reading this comment in my mind's voice and it turned into the voice of some dude from my youth telling me how awesome Pearl Jam is.

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[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 133 points 10 months ago

Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Unexpected Futurama

For the uninitiated

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[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago

Who expected a sitting senator to use the phrase circle jerk?

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

I find it refreshing to be honest. He's definitely not weaseling the answer with slippery language.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

Fetterman is pretty down with it.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

For the dirst time in a long time, I'm proud of a person who represents me in the government.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 25 points 10 months ago

Dude has never pulled his punches.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

Have they found anything they could actually impeach Biden over, or do they just hope that something comes out of the nowhere once they start the process? This whole impeachment stuff sound to me just like Trumps lawsuits for "stealing my vote" and the whole "I'll hold a press conference where I will present irrefutable evidence" stuff.

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Both. They scream “BiDeN cRiMe FaMiLy!” To distract from trumps corrupt ass kids being literally employed in the White House. Like dude said trump has 4 indictments…

However I am also sure they are desperate to find anything they can twist into scandal regardless of substance. They investigated Clinton for 25 years before settling on a blowjob.

Remember Trump blackmailing Zelensky to make up dirt on Biden? Nothing. Remember Hunter’s laptop? Nothing. They will keep fishing because they would prefer that over doing jackshit for the average citizen.

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[-] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 months ago

McCarthy has admitted a few different times now that they have literally zero evidence to serve as a basis for an investigation or implement

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Well, he is a Democrat, I guess thats enough now?

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[-] jonne@infosec.pub 22 points 10 months ago

I'm sure they'll eventually find something. The Clinton impeachment investigation didn't set out to find anything about his affairs, it was some land deal that turned out to be on the up and up after all.

The point is, they just want to investigate, bog the White House down with discovery, leak anything embarrassing (I'm sure there's a ton more Hunter stuff to leak), and I'm sure they'll eventually find something that sorta kinda looks like a crime (or obstruction), because if you investigate anyone you'll find something eventually.

It's basically about hurting Biden politically, and painting Biden as a criminal, so the uninformed voter can just say 'they're both the same'.

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[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 55 points 10 months ago

That dude seems to be a good one.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 38 points 10 months ago

Im from near where he was mayor. When we were trying to get mandatory paid sick time passed in the city of Pittsburgh John came and walked the line with us. He once went on the daily show to outline his plan to get a subway to open in the little hood-ass town he was mayor of, because there was no place in that town where you could get ready to eat food and he was trying to stop tax money leaking out to other towns. Dude has a tattoo for each person who died by violence in his town while he was mayor. He's no bullshit.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

My money is on McCarthy running the inquiry so the far right will be forced to fund the government. Can’t run a government inquiry if the government has shut down. MTG has already taken the bate and has said she’d fund the government in exchange for an inquiry.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 35 points 10 months ago

Go away, 'bating

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

This typo stays.

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 35 points 10 months ago

Need more Dems like this.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Should’ve used a more recent photo of him with the stache. It looks awesome.

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[-] chili1553@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Common Fetterperson W

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

He would have had to commit a crime to be impeached. What crime did he commit, Republicans?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

He had a son who's a fuckup. Not like Trump, whose children are definitely not fuckups.

Not fuckups at all.

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[-] kalleboo@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can the US just institute a yearly recurring "impeachment day" holiday where you impeach the current president? It will make things so much easier to schedule around, and we know that from now on every president from both parties will be threatened by impeachment anyway.

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