As a Canadian, I’m genuinely confused why anyone is still investigating Biden. He’s not the president. Why bother?
They’re not criminal charges, so what’s the big deal?
Sometimes I just don’t understand why some of the things that are happening there, are still happening… But ok.
They’re trying to retroactively invalidate whatever changes or orders he implemented by proving he was incompetent.
It’s all fucking theater. Republicans in this era of Congress openly have no interest in legislation and have to fill their time with something. They’re empty husks made up only of culture war escalation.
Modern Republicans aren’t interested in governing. They’re interested in running a circus while their fascist baby in chief destroys the country.
That’s a good thing, us non-Americans want to see the Empire crumble. It’ll give us some breathing room
As an American, I want to see it crumble, it would give me some breathing room.
Modern republicans are only interested in concepts of a government
Where the fuck were videos like this during the '24 campaign? I was and remain dumbfounded that there weren’t super-clips of Fatputin’s various word-salads and crazy spew, just playing non-stop across battleground states. Didn’t the DNC have record funds, in the billions? And we got none of this, just a normal campaign with lame ads.
There were plenty of ads and videos of this nonsense during the campaign. Talk shows and news reports were covering this non-stop; people just voted Republican anyway.
Huh, weird, I must have missed all of them!
I mean, I can go get a bunch of time-stamped stuff if you want, but you can literally type “Trump says dumb shit during campaign” into any search engine and get hundreds (well, probably millions, but I’m lowballing it since I only looked at the first 4-5 pages) of links to front-page headlines, videos, online articles, op-ed pieces, etc., from every source you can imagine from The Guardian and Forbes Magazine to late-night hosts and yahoo news (all dated during the campaign-election cycle).
Cool cool, you’re right, me being in swing state and seeing dozens of ads, none of which being like I described, is wrong.
You moved the goal posts from news talking about it to ads on TV not talking about them. Which you’re, right, they didn’t run nearly enough ads about it! But it was still discussed in the news, also not as much as it should’ve been
Nope, check your reading comprehension, was clearly (at least for most people) talking about ads from the beginning, unless you think I meant the DNC should have spent some of their billions on…news stories??
Seriously. That should have been happening and enough. Fuck.
Our owners wanted it this way.
Durbin should have grabbed Grassley’s gavel and played keep away with it, making the old guy jump to grab it until he croaked from an infarction.
Pretty sure thats some sort of zombie. Are we sure this isn’t weekend at the Bernies thing or some sort of fascist necromancer?
They already did it with Feinstein. Puppeting corpses is a time honored tradition in the US government.
Chuck Grassley is living proof that only the good die young.
It’s kind of double hypocrisy when you consider the fact that Reagan was well known to be completely mentally shut down by the end of his second term.
More like the start of his second term - and it was Alzheimer’s.
Nancy Reagan was basically the president for most of his second term.
Was it just a stipid internet rumour, like that guy removing a rib for you know what, that she was the best at sucking dick in Washington?
Nancy was the throat goat, my biggest regret in life is that I wasn’t alive when she was absolutely hoovering the entire cabinet so I’ll never get to experience it for myself
And her astrologer.
So congress is wasting tax payer money by hosting a meeting to bully an old cancer patient and private citizen.
Our government is as respectable as a your average conspiracy podcaster.
Your gouvernement is largely made up of conspiracy podcasters, so that figures.
So, considering the average age of said room, would those clips be considered a hearing aid?
Go reboot McConnell, Chuck.
Maybe this time, he’ll do him a kindness and take his teeth out first.
Old people suck.
No, old people don’t suck. Exceptionally powerful people who have have let the rot of a corrupt system sink into their bones suck.
Your age doesn’t matter. It’s your choices and how you live them that matter.
Thank you. Finding yet another scapegoat helps no one. The 1% is at fault.
I may be over 60, but I’m still on the correct side of the class war.
The 1% will do everything in their power (and that’s a lot) to distract us from the fact that it’s always been rich vs. poor. It’s a tale as old as society itself.
The working class is by far the largest intersectional group, so they want to keep us from organizing by dividing and conquering.
We can’t make stereotypical assumptions about anyone.
For example, I’m Christian, but I DO NOT support the right wing lunatics who are wearing the skin of Christianity to legitimize their entire evil dance routine, like some serial killer like Ted Bundy or Paul Bernardo. Anyone who acts evil should be called out for it, and have consequences for their actions also.
And any real Christian would know that we support the poor and the downtrodden, and that a rich man can’t make it into the kingdom of heaven.
You seem to understand that
Jesus always had hard words for the leaders who pretended to be righteous, so definitely.
We could have Heaven on Earth, if we actually followed Jesus. Instead, we get clowns and conmen warping His Word for their own purposes. Wolves in sheeps clothing. It’s frustrating to say the least.
Very!
Keep being kind, we will need community in the coming years. I’m not even religious, but seeing what community can do gives me a certain kind of faith.
I am an atheist - without any hostility to the faithful of any religion. It is the character of the person’s morality that interest me. I am always willing to listen to and work with anyone with compassion for “the children of God”. Your faith is a matter between you and God. I am an ally.
Then you and I are on the same side. Love should win, always.
Durbin is 80 years old. Donald Trump is the youngest person named… Fml
I thought this had to be old, because why the fuck would they be holding a hearing on this now when he’s not president? But no, that’s what they’re doing. Fucking Republicans.
Because it was all prophesized in Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hilary Clinton’s emails.
Not president, and dying of cancer
It’s surely being done to appease the orange toddler as he wants Biden dragged through the courts as he was. Small problem is that either Bidens a much smarter criminal than Trump and didn’t leave any evidence, or he just wasn’t criminal enough to warrant charging.
We live in a gerontocracy, of course our leaders are going to be suffering from cognitive decline.
I think we can all agree that it should be steeper, going forward. Precipitously so, frankly.
The world would be so much better off if you just couldn’t be elected after a certain age.
They should index it to when you can draw social security.
Hypocrisy is the conservative way, though. The Canadian conservative party leader (but not actually an MP) got into politics saying if he were Prime Minister, he would enact a two-term limit (8 years) for all MPs.
He was an MP for 25 years until he lost his seat this spring. Ironically, one of his campaign slogans was ‘vote for change’. Upon the electorate voting for the change of their representative and him losing his seat, he then went to Alberta to steal another conservative MP’s seat, while also continuing to reside in the mansion for the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
Good old Mr. Verb the Noun
55 lol
45!
… no, wait, fuck 45! 46!
Well I guess I got one, maybe 2 elections to get a small time gov job lol. But I feel like voting should be cut off at 70 as well. There’s just too many things to go wrong with that, meaning “ok grandma it’s all filled out, just sign here” or old folks homes and stuff. We would have to enshrine SSA, and Medicare/Medicaid to protect them from attacks on benefits, but people that close to death shouldn’t be forcing their ancient views on society moving forward. It really doesn’t matter here though. We’re not getting another election, not without a fight.
I meant getting elected. As for old people voting, you have a point, but if old people’s views don’t matter at all, then you can easily imagine a world where policy doesn’t care about them, which might be dangerous.
I just wish we had fewer old people. It sounds like I’m arguing for a purge… But I just mean I wish our birth rates were stable instead of going all boom-and-bust.
Would be nice if we could mandate highly invasive and frequent cognition tests for our leaders past retirement age. Like, “surprise exam ya haggard bitch, pass this or you’re out with no pension or benefits!” Ideally conducted by some 3 agency’s door kicker team at 3AM on a Saturday, every Saturday.
