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

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

The Pennsylvania Democrat taunted House Republicans who are planning to launch an impeachment inquiry, calling it a losing strategy.

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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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.
  
  Which is a fucking joke given Trump's... everything.
  Fetterman is more mentally fit to serve than most of the octogenarians that have held office recently.

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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Part of his bad ass reputation is his look. He is a big, muscular man with a shaved head and goatee (which he has shaved off). He has visible tattoos (the zip code of the town he was mayor of and the dates of every murder that occurred during his tenure as mayor). He is known for being very open and blunt during some of his speeches and lack of fashion sense (he spoke at a formal press conference in athletic clothing).
  He gained visibility on a national level after the 2020 presidential elections. As lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania (Vice President of the state), he argued against anyone who alleged that Donald Trump won the state or that the election was rigged in some way.
  After that, he ran for US Senate and won a close election against celebrity talkshow host Dr. Oz. Fetterman ran as a populist candidate, campaigning on a platform of solving the problems facing normal people.
  
  He could but first your going to need a bald cap and a stick on goatee and a suit
- That’s rockstar parenting right there!
- 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.

Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?
- Unexpected Futurama
  For the uninitiated
- He should assert dominance, and rip off all their human horns while he's at it.
- Was aksing myself the same question🤔

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.
  
  Being a fan of Diogones the cynic I to hate vanity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in congress or the house of representatives.
  Quoteth Diogones: "in a rich man's home there's nowhere to spit but his face", and republicans are trells, slaves to their masters and as vein as the emperor's New clothes, while pretending to be "rebellious". A bunch of posers, really.
- 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.
- Dude has never pulled his punches.
- 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.

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.
  
  some land deal that turned out to be on the up and up
  The most hilarious part of the land deal was that the Clintons lost money on it. Like, that's not how corruption works.
- They just want it as a historical anecdote when they talk about presidents being impeached. They're really, really sore about Trump going through 2 of them
  Shame the system is rigged to allow your friends on half the jury

That dude seems to be a good one.
- 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.
  
  At first when I read subway I thought you mean public transport and thought “that’s no small task!” When I realized you meant Subway the sandwich shop I was sad that a town didn’t even have a Subway??? They’re a dime a dozen!
- Quickly becoming one of my favorites. He looks like he belongs somewhere the 1860s.

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.
  
  I prefer Empty G
- Bait
  
  Took that too.

Need more Dems like this.

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
- Just looked it up and yeah. That stache is a good one. He should keep it.

Common Fetterperson W

He would have had to commit a crime to be impeached. What crime did he commit, Republicans?
- He had a son who's a fuckup. Not like Trump, whose children are definitely not fuckups.
  Not fuckups at all.
- Strictly speaking, not really true. "high crimes and misdemeanors" I believe is what the constitution says, which unfortunately boils down to "whatever Congress has the desire and political capital to punish" which historically does mean that Fetterman is right. Republicans would likely pay some amount of political price for voting an impeachment with no real or popular basis.
  
  Correct. They also don't need anything other than political capital to launch an impeachment inquiry and just generally be a nuisance.
  This is also literally the only reason Trump survived impeachment. Turns out, impeachment means fuck all in a minority-rule-by-design system in which almost nothing is clearly spelled out, and said system is the only check on what passes muster.
- No, a president can actually be impeached for any reason at all. They just won't be removed unless the opposing party has a supermajority.

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.
- You do realize this would cause impeachment to mean nothing right? It's not a frivolous tool however much some people want it to be.
  
  When one party refuses to hold their own guy accountable then it is indeed a frivolous tool. Trump obviously should have been removed...so what do impeachment do?
  Not much in the mind of the average texan.
  
  It already means nothing.

u wont no balls

I want to buy this man a beer! 🍺
- I would love to work on this man's support staff.

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

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
  
  Didn't feel like I had to reply to you, but since everyone seems to agree with you, I'd argue this is NOT how a senator should act.
  The fact is HIS time is worthwhile. He needs to spend it focusing on actions that will make peoples lives better - it's literally his job.
  The entire "possible impeachment" is a red herring and engaging with them on that AT ALL is a waste of time. The fact that so many people here agree with you might be why politics is such a mess. Even you all seem to think that his job is to engage these chucklefucks. It's kinda pathetic.
- 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.
  
  Oh so you DO think they can impeach Biden? That's what this is about.
  They can't, they have no power when it comes to this. What are you talking about? All of the other bullshit they do?
  Don't take the bait and go for the red herring. You're smarter than that.
- 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.

post a video of him saying this.
- Why? You scared of the truth?
  
  It's strictly for masturbatory purposes i assure you
  
  What truth? I just don't think he can say it in one continuous, uninterrupted speech.

What impeachment means has been diminishing for a fucking hot minute now... like decades...
One need look no farther than two words to understand this. The words your man.
It's become a stupid junior high finger pointing game to these assholes (ALL of them. I'm not referring to either tribe, I mean government at large). Trumps impeachmet would have been far more effective if it wasn't seen as a "your team did a no-no" politics by republicans in general.
I dare you? Seriously? Come on... Please tell me people understand this is garbage leadership in every single seat...
I do agree with the man about calling out bullshit, but I disagree on the "sometimes". Should be every time :)
- This is exactly the GOP’s plan though. They want to delegitimize Trump’s impeachments by impeaching Biden for frivolous reasons. That way it seems like it’s just “both sides” bickering when there are real reasons for Trump’s impeachment
  Congrats on falling for it
  
  He’s probably a shill man
  
  Trump isn't being impeached... He's a normal person facing normal charges, and I wasn't talking about anything current involving his dumb ass...
  The current "both sides" narrative is that anything moderate is a "both sides" defense of trump. The narrative is join the Democrats or you're a diesel truck owning, trump supporting, racist nazi wannabe... it's wholesale virtue signaling tribalist bullshit... Congrats on falling for it.
  I'll be wasting my vote on independents until one or both tribes grow the fuck up.
- Just remember the first of those impeachment hearings was about the extortion of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy by threatening to withhold military aid in “a perfect phone call” If they didn’t run cover for the election interference allegations in the 2016 election and offer up dirt on Hunter Biden.
  There is no timeline where the republicans would have received it any better.
  It only took a couple of months after the invasion happened and they realized the withholding aid in the past looked like it created the atmosphere to facilitate the invasion and suddenly all the people who were praising journalists in body armor in the Middle East were criticizing journalists for wearing body armor in Kyiv, and start backing Russia for “reasons” (I still can’t really get any concrete reason from any of them).
  The only reason I’ve been given why it was a “ Partisan attack” was that it was revenge for Bill Clinton being impeached for lying about a blow job under oath, as if that diminishes the levity of the situation in the first place.
  
  Clinton out-lawyered the GOP and they were pissed. The legal definition they gave didn't include what he and Monica were doing.
  Also, that relationship didn't even start (I don't think they had even met) until after the investigation had started because of a land deal gone bad.
  Trying to compare Clinton's impeachment with Trump's is asinine for many reasons.
- I'm not sure Democrats have any chance against the all-encompassing Republican Wall of Stupidity if they don't play the same game, to a certain extent. The fact that politics in the US is polarized like it is depends in a large part on the fact that there is no room for a third option. Not by this "your guy/our guy" kind of attitude which is inevitable.
  
  I've voted for third parties for 30 years with a few exceptions. I might only represent a single digit % of the population in doing so, but that number is growing. Independent voters have grown large enough in number to have had laws written to preserve the binary stupidity, we aren't many, but we're enough to have an impact
- Impeachment meant nothing from the beginning of the Clinton mess. You can thank Gringich for this mess.

I like the guy, but after his well documented stumble upon entering the Senate, I'd think, if he were as smart as I know he is, he'd want to chill the fuck out with the firebombs, at least for a couple years
- "Why won't this man sit out to pasture and not make waves?!"
  
  there's fighting while both your feet are firmly planted, and there's throwing haymakers with your hair on fire, and again, while his aim is true, the punches themselves could be hurting him worse than those he's aiming at. there's a lot to be said for holding your powder, and there are far more that I'd like to see take the mantle of attack dog, at least until the good senator from pennsylvania has had enough time to even out and settle, the man's got six years before re-election, he's not the only democrat, and this kind of shit doesn't impress me after seeing him spend the first six months of his current term in an pastoral institution for being unbalanced

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
- 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.
  
  Don't feed the troll. This dude makes bad takes for attention, I've seen him several times.
  
  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.
- 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.
- The consensus being that it's stupid, just like those stupid trumpy nicknames.
  
  You sound just like low energy Jeb

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