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.
I hope he runs for president.
Incredibly and with a perfectly straight face, they’d dog him for his mental and physical health.
He’s too real. The electorate craves lies.
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.
I am part of the electorate and I do not crave lies. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
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.
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.
That’s rockstar parenting right there!
Could you briefly explain why he’s so badass? As I know a little bit about him, but haven’t actually looked into him at all.
I’m not OP and I’m not American so I don’t know anything about his policies, but I know he suffers from depression and has been very open about it. I believe he checked himself into a psych facility not long after he was elected. I thought his honesty and openness about it as a man with a kinda macho image was refreshing to see and a good example against toxic masculinity.
He was mayor of Baddock, a town near Pittsburg that had and probably still has a lot of problems. He has tattoos on his one arm of the dates that people were murdered in the town. I live on the other end of the state so I don’t know Braddock well, but I believe he did quite a bit for the community. He’s very straightforward and honest about issues in his life, and many people here can relate to him. His wife Gisele is from Brazil and is an activist and involved in a lot of charity and social efforts. Fetterman doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk.
Fetterman was the mayor of Braddock PA, a place I’m rather familiar with, for a long time. Braddock was/is a forgotten borough of Pittsburgh that’s long past its glory days. Fetterman came in and wanted to clean up Braddock. How effective he’s been has been up to debate, but the man really was a strong voice for Braddock and showed that he really cared. For every violent death that happened in Braddock while he was mayor, he’d get a tattoo of the date on his arm. He also got arrested for protesting the local hospital (UPMC), to get them to bring an urgent care center to Braddock.
Personally I think he’s improved Braddock. He helped bring in a few new businesses, and it’s helped liven the place up a bit. But it’s still a rough neighborhood that needs a lot of work.
I have no idea who this is. Is he an ex-wrestler or boxer or something he certainly has the right physique.
Looking at him you’d think he would be a Republican.
Who expected a sitting senator to use the phrase circle jerk?
I find it refreshing to be honest. He’s definitely not weaseling the answer with slippery language.
Fetterman is pretty down with it.
For the dirst time in a long time, I’m proud of a person who represents me in the government.
I think that if the Republicans don’t manage to turn the US into a one-party state, Federman’s got a bright future, and his plain-speaking nature is part of that.
Dude has never pulled his punches.
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.
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.
They investigated Clinton for 25 years before settling on a blowjob
That sounds like Clinton was given blowjob by republicans lmao
McCarthy has admitted a few different times now that they have literally zero evidence to serve as a basis for an investigation or implement
Well, he is a Democrat, I guess thats enough now?
Which shows that stupidity is still a political trait and not limited to one side.
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’.
The big problem here is that you have way too many uninformed voters in your country. Which is always a weak base for a working democracy.
Not my country, but yeah, Americans are stupid (and are kept that way by the media).
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.
Go away, 'bating
This typo stays.
Every time I read MTG I don’t think the politician I think magic the gathering
My brain thinks of MGMT because autistic lysdexia but then I can hear Kids in my head and not that harpy and so it’s not so bad
Good, she didn’t start using that until she went into politics and RBG died, she always went by Marjorie Greene beforehand.
She doesn’t deserve three initials.
Nah she 100% did it because AOC, she’s weirdly obsessed over her.
Bait
Took that too.
That dude seems to be a good one.
Should’ve used a more recent photo of him with the stache. It looks awesome.
I love that he grew it because of a bet with his kid.
And that idiots online immediately thought it was proof he was using a body double
u wont no balls
Common Fetterperson W
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Fetterman offered a message Wednesday to House Republicans considering impeaching President Joe Biden: “Go ahead, do it.
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.
Talk of an impeachment inquiry has gained steam in recent weeks, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., telling Fox Business last month that he was open to pursuing the matter if the administration doesn’t turn over documents and information to House committees investigating Biden family business dealings, including Hunter Biden.
Fetterman said impeachment would be a political “loser” for House Republicans, along with the looming threat of a government shutdown if they can’t reach a funding deal before the end of the month.
Congress needs to pass a government funding bill by Sept. 30 to avoid a partial shutdown on Oct. 1, the first day of the new fiscal year.
Fetterman, who spoke to reporters using an iPad to dictate the questions asked of him as he recovers from a stroke, was also asked for his perspective about two freezing episodes involving 81-year-old Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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why this guy looks like anton lavey fr
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post a video of him saying this.
Why? You scared of the truth?
It’s strictly for masturbatory purposes i assure you
Don’t feed the trolls John…
He’s not feeding them. He’s call them out.
At a minimum, time they waste on this is time they can’t use to come up with novel ways to fuck over Americans
Trolls are only trolls if they have no power.
These people have power, as evidenced by their holding the house majority leader position hostage in exchange for their petty desires.
Ignoring trolls only works if they can’t set fire to your lawn while you’re looking the other way.
Then again, if you can get them to swarm and spend their energy on stupid shit that has no place to go, maybe they won’t be backing up Trump while he’s mired in legal cases.
The fewer of them available to run interference for him, the better.
Democrats in Congress would be right in providing ample distractions for their regressive colleagues right now.
It’s good to see a bipartisan consensus on impeaching criminal sleepy Joe
Is he sleepy or a criminal? Make up your mind.
Typical fascism. Your enemy is both weak and strong.
He’s sleepy and a criminal, there’s no contradiction there. Look at all the criminals that sleep in broad daylight on our city streets. Also I never said he was “strong”. A stiff breeze would probably knock him over
Ah, so his “crime” takes no effort and is on the level of a misdemeanor. Doesn’t sound like much of a crime.
Low effort crimes are even worse than high effort ones. At least take some pride in your work, even if your job is doing crimes.
I see, so what low effort crimes has he committed in specific?
Too many to list. Stealing money from hardworking taxpayers to pay off the student loans for a bunch of lazy baristas for example. Losing the war in Afghanistan. Letting Hunter snort cocaine in the White House. Opening up the borders so just anybody can come in. Defunding the police. Bidenomics.
Stealing money from hardworking taxpayers to pay off the student loans for a bunch of lazy baristas for example.
Not a crime. He did not steal that money and this has already been dealt with by the Supreme Court. That also took a lot of effort. That wasn’t a simple thing like changing a number in a spreadsheet.
Losing the war in Afghanistan.
Not a crime. Furthermore, Trump negotiated the end of that war with the Taliban and Biden had the very difficult process of doing it. He did do a terrible job, but that is not a crime.
Letting Hunter snort cocaine in the White House.
That simply didn’t happen, don’t lie.
Opening up the borders so just anybody can come in.
Also a lie.
Defunding the police.
Also a lie. He doesn’t even have that power.
Bidenomics.
Not a crime, takes a herculean amount of effort.
Nothing you listed was a crime, a lot of it takes tons of work. So you have proven that he is neither sleepy nor a criminal. Good job!
What? Look, I really don’t like Biden at all, but there is no “bipartisan consensus” or even grounds to impeach him. You can’t impeach someone just because you don’t like them.
Republicans want to impeach sleepy Joe for his many crimes. And now we have this article of a democrat saying “go ahead”. I see that as bipartisan.
What crimes?
And this article does not say Fetterman is in favor of impeaching Biden.
Don’t waste your time on trolls or idiots.
Too many countless crimes and schemes to count. He’s trying to turn us into a communist dictatorship. What about when he let that Chinese spy balloon take pictures of all our secrets?
Name one. “Go ahead, do it. I dare you.”
I already have named several in this thread but here’s another one: what about when he threatened to withhold money from Ukraine until they fired the prosecutor that was investigating the company that was paying his crack head son $50,000 a month?
Reading this as Richard Ayoade playing Morris Moss gave me a chuckle.
Shit… is this why conservatives have such high numbers in polls even if they support turning your country into a shithole? Is it because Republican voters can’t understand nuance in speech, so when they promise you things, you keep believing?
Wow, this is breakthrough-level stuff. Is everyone voting republican unable to discern sarcasm for example? Here - you have a really great view on politics. How does that statement make you feel? Are all republicans affected by this condition? Is every single republican out there actually on the spectrum and waiting for a cure for a condition they don’t even know they have, because half of them lack the education to understand it’s real? The ramifications of this are potentially yuuge.
Ah, but what if they have other speech/written text-related issues as well? Like how we’ve established you lack the ability to understand subtext, maybe you lose focus when reading long series of words. Are all republicans functionally illiterate or suffering from ADHD? Are you maybe too close to dementia to even be able to communicate cohesive thoughts? It’s an interesting rabbit hole we’re going down here. But hey, I probably wrote too much already, I’ll give you a hand with the comprehension.
TL;DR: lol retard
you have a really great view on politics
Thank you! Glad to see somebody around here with some common sense.
On a serious note, please don’t throw around insensitive language, I know many people who have learning disabilities, and it’s not appropriate to use those words as insults. It’s hurtful.
Thank you! Glad to see somebody around here with some common sense.
Is this Drax the Destroyer? Holy crap! I gotta say you’re my 6th favorite Guardian!
Biden commits crimes in his sleep and you can’t catch him red-handed? Ouch!
He’s been caught many times, you just bury your head in the sand and pretend it didn’t happen. Sad to see what the world is coming to.
Any evidence of that or you just blowing hot air?
He talked about doing crimes for his son Hunter on video. He said he extorted the Ukraine threatening to withhold money unless they fired the prosecutor that was investigating the company that was paying Hunter $50,000 a month.
banned
The consensus being that it’s stupid, just like those stupid trumpy nicknames.
You sound just like low energy Jeb
