Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles. In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy, who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist, “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people—spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.” She called him the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.”
It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.
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flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 176 pts · 258d
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 257d
Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 258d
More evidence on the controlled opposition pile that will be completely ignored by the Dem guzzlers here.
ManixT@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 258d
Yeah, we should elect more republicans, amirite?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 258d
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · -8 pts · 258d
No the rest of the world is saying "VOTE IN A THIRD OPTION AS THE TWO YOU HAVE ARE ASS!"
Soggy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 258d
And we keep telling you that isn't how our system is set up but you aren't interested in understanding.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 257d
Canada has a similar system (whichever candidate recieves a plurality of the votes wins the seat in the region) and has 5 different parties in their government.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 257d
And our Prime Minister does not have royal powers like the US president. Pardons are rare.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
Westminster-style parliament is far less "winner takes all" than the US system though. We don't even really have an executive branch in the sense that the US does, and we have many more levers that can be pulled to topple an abusive government - including by royal decree.
In the US, if an official needs to be removed, they have to be impeached and convicted by their peers, after which they are removed and depending on what their position/home state/etc, they may leave a vacant seat or have a replacement appointed until the next elected. However in the case of the president, there is a clear line of succession, and it it virtually guaranteed that everyone in that line is ideologically aligned.
In Canada, there is a recall process that is initiated by the voters as a petition, put to a vote by the people, and if successful, that person is immediately removed and a by-election is called.
In the US, if the government can't pass a budget, it shits itself and shuts down. In Canada, if the government can't pass a budget, parliament is dissolved and there's a new election - but everything else just keeps running based on the last successful budget.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
A Parliamentary system is pretty different from a Presidential one and we also don't have a way to call a vote of no-confidence or otherwise change the government outside of the rigid election cycle, and Canada only really has two parties at the Federal level.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 257d
"No Way to Prevent This" Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
Maybe some day yankistanis will grow a fucking spine instead for using fear to trample on innocent lives.
Until then downvote and hope to shrug your problems away. It will surely work one of these days.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 257d
You think this is the only nation with a right wing problem?
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
You're right, every single voting adult in this country agreed on the current trajectory and aren't being held captive by an electoral system designed to give unbalanced power to Southern slave states.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · -7 pts · 258d
And we keep telling you that it is your system that you all are responsable for and we don't care that you use it as an excuse while dragging the rest of the world down with you.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 258d
My state has about as much political influence over Florida as Portugal has over Hungary. Being in the same union doesn't mean that what they do has anything to do with me even if ours is dressed up as a single country.
III@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 258d
Exactly, as you said you don't understand and you aren't interested in understanding. Thanks for making that clear.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
What are you doing to help?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 257d
And to them I say, "LEARN HOW THE FUCK ELECTIONS WORK IN THE US BEFORE TRYING TO LECTURE US"
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 257d
WE DID LEARN! WE FIND IT NOT TO BE A DEMOCRACY! AND WHY ARE WE YELLING!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 256d
I think you know why
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
LOL.
/facepalm
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 258d
Wow, I’ve managed to say a lot of things without using any words, apparently.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 258d
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 258d
I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say. How would you categorize my representation of “the entire post”? Please use quotes if possible.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 258d
antisoumerde@quokk.au · 0 pts · 124d
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 258d
These comments read like Russian propaganda that only helps trump
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 257d
Let’s turn this on its head then: what would be an acceptable way for me to provide any criticism whatsoever of a political party that doesn’t represent me well without being instantly called a *shuffles cards* Russian bot?
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 257d
How about, "The system is broken in multiple ways, a list of which can be provided, and the behavior of most Democrats is merely a symptom or self-serving response to the state of that system"?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 257d
Yes all those DNC leaders are just innocent cogs in the system taking all their bribes that they just have to take.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 257d
So, are you saying that taking bribes isn't in their self-interest, or that there are no repercussions from taking bribes which would be a flaw in the system? There are the first two items you can put on that list I was talking about.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 257d
So your logic is that politicians should always do something as long as it’s not illegal? That sounds quite MAGA of you…
AlexLost@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 257d
As if Russian bots were not just outted as major maga supporters. Do you live under a rock?! Maga is a psyop for m Russia to ruin America, and y'allkayda fell for it hook line and sinker
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 257d
I didn’t fall for jack shit. You can criticize the bullshit useless DNC without wearing a red cap, you know.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
You sure can, I was alluding to your "checks notes" as if that's just some gotcha out of left field. You are free to criticize both parties, all parties or no parties. The fact you have this shit show because the other guy "checks notes" didn't condemn Israel enough, unlike the guy that got in who is in bed with them and made the situation much worse, like everything he touches. Put your money where your mouth is or shut the hell up!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 61 pts · 258d
Can't wait for this to go nowhere.
velindora@lemmy.cafe · 24 pts · 258d
On one hand yes, on the other—at least someone is trying to impeach him… unlike Trump.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 257d
I dunno, he's only in post because of a deal trump made to get him out of the presidential race.
Do republican congress people actually like him? or do they see him as something they had to do to get into power.
Now they are in power are they likely to stick their necks out for ol' bobby brainworms?
He's not exactly doing much to make them look good. He's a constant source of controversy
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 257d
They don't have to stick their necks out. This going nowhere is the default thing that will happen if they simply do nothing. Which they will. Their supporters won't change over them not supporting RFKs impeachment.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 258d
Filed by a Democrat so DOA in the current House. Flip it in '26 and we'll talk.
Flip the House AND Senate and it might actually happen.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 257d
Has any country ever voted its way out of fascism?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 257d
Spain.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 257d
Impeachment means nothing anymore. Who fucking cares.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 257d
Call me a nihilist whatever, but nothing matters until the mid-terms because once it’s clear the elections are rigged, then shits going to get a little hotter for everyone.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 257d
Yep, these midterms are the acid test for sure.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 258d
This POS and the POS that put him there - Pedonald - should be held responsible for all the lives they are endangering.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
How nice of you to only say endanger... surely many have died already.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
So should all the Republicans reps who empower them and the voters who empower the reps to do so.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 258d
Just for him we should make a new law for the "abuse of stupidity".
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 258d
Worm abuse.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 258d
The worm DIED of malnutrition. There's nothing there.
He has enough steam to blow the whistle but not enough to pull the train.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 258d
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 258d
And heroin.
scala@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 257d
He's Valtay
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 257d
dude looks like overinflated baloon short before it pops
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 257d
I've said it before and I'll say it again, his face looks like an old catcher's mitt
man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
This is the one.
qualia@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 257d
His defamation of the efficacy/safety of acetaminophen has been quite APAP smear.
CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 257d
Isn't he enriching himself? I heard a lot of his income is from suing vaccine companies and now that he has his position, he can point to their "findings" about autism etc and say "there's the proof!"
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 258d
I pray to God and the baby Jesus that I don't believe in that he will be stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions on policy.
Or any decisions. At all... Even outside the office. Him mom should lay out his clothing for the day so he doesn't have to decide anything.
KneeTitts@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 258d
In any other sane rational country, people like RFK and Laura Loomer would be under psychiatric observation in a hospital, but in the US they are made super rich and given unlimited power. Very very strange country.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 257d
Now do Hegseth, McMahon, Patel, and Basset
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
I thought the Kennedys had learned about the negative side effects from lobotomies after Rosemary. Then this guy popped up.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 258d
This is a decent podcast about this guy....
https://podbay.fm/p/pod-save-america/e/1765094700
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 257d
There's another decent podcast about this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX7v1I9020
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 258d
Symbolic only. Everyone knows it will go precisely nowhere.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
I currently live in a Republican district. I'd like to call my representative to have her support this, but I won't. Not only am I not a big donor, which means I can be safely ignored, but my representative is in the cult of Republican-ism. So, ontop of her ignoring me because I am not a big donor, but she will ignore me because Republicans are worshipping at the golden statue of tRump.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 256d
The one thing that many people get wrong is that they act like RFK jr. is someone who is just 'wrong' on a lot of issues, when in reality he knows exactly what he is doing. While he is a genuinely insane and extremely nasty person, his anti-vaccine attitude is fuelled entirely by grift. He doesn't believe in any of it. He is vaccinated and so are all of his children. His destruction of the medical establishment is getting so fucking bad that even some MAGA assholes, like Scott Adams (the Dilbert artist) are begging him to stop, since he is preventing life saving medication that they need to survive.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 258d
pointless gestures for $100, Alex
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 258d
At least it's on the record that they tried, even if it's a futile endeavor.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 258d
It’s just one person, not even the whole Democrat party. Useless.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -17 pts · 258d
I dunno what value that has. It seems to me that the democrats really only resist fascism in these futile ways so they can point at them when asked "why didn't you do anything?" They never actually address the material conditions of Americans that lead to people losing faith in democracy and wanting authoritarianism.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 258d
Anything that takes time away from them dismantling the government is a good thing
andyburke@fedia.io · 14 pts · 258d
What would you suggest as a better, more effective, outlet?
As it stands, you are just commenting on the internet while others are advancing legislation. I am curious what you are doing that is so much more effective that the rest of us should be considering.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 258d
Focus on flipping the House and Senate in '26.
Use RFK and all the other bozos as reasons to regain control.
andyburke@fedia.io · 5 pts · 258d
An impeachment process would seem to be a great way to put RFK under a spotlight for this plan. 🤷♂️
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 258d
Except that with Republicans in control there will be no impeachment process. Johnson will not allow it to come to a vote.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -3 pts · 258d
Honey, they are literally the lawmakers and rulers of the country, I'm some dude that makes some part of some company's wheels turn. People in my position and those like mine do not have the power to run the country while those in Congress do. There is not an equivalency in responsibility.
They have a responsibility and duty to actually help address the many many issues this country is facing and they seem to conveniently only remember that when they can't possibly muster the political power to do anything useful. They knew Donald Trump and his fascist goons would try to wrestle control of the country again in 2024 and they spent four years with their heads up their own asses. And that's only looking at four specific years. For decades they've done the bare minimum to keep in power all while the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and those in power got more powerful.
When it's their turn, they don't remove or restrict the tools of oppression they know the right will use against the populace. Fuck, they expand them! They either half-heartedly talked about or actively fight against measures like raising the minimum wage, addressing the housing crisis, or the cost of healthcare. Don't even start talking to me about the civic process being roadblocks, we're watching those roadblocks break way for the GOP. The DNC never even tries that kind of strong arm behavior to improve things.
Yeah, I'm kvetching on the internet, it's a forum, that's what it's for!
andyburke@fedia.io · 4 pts · 258d
I asked for a suggestion and got back a screed. Let them worry about legislating, then.
What can you or I do right now instead of whining about their job performance? What could you do in your community? Maybe if you tell me a challenge you want to tackle toward this end, I could tell you one I'd like to take on in mine and we could try to motivate each other.
This is our chance.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 258d
dEmoCrAt bAD
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 258d
Yeah dude. They suck ass. They're the better of the two options, but they fucking blow! It would kick ASS if they didn't suck!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 258d
If they got far better, I have a feeling your rhetoric wouldn't change.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 258d
But yours would because you’re better than everyone else.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 258d
Cool
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 258d
What else can they do? I think what's despicable is that no other dems are backing this. At least all dems should back it, so that it's 100% visible for everyone who is responsible for children dying from preventable diseases.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 258d
Democrats are in the minority, they literally have 0 power to move anything like this forward.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 258d
Get caught trying, it’s way better than doing literally nothing. Where are all the other house dems on this?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -15 pts · 258d
Democrats love doing fucking nothing
Triumph@fedia.io · 27 pts · 258d
This is literally the legal process for "doing something".
danc4498@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 258d
Not much else they can do except raise awareness and get people to vote in the midterms. Which isn’t nothing.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 258d
It’s not “the democrats” it’s just one person. The rest of them are sitting on their hands and cashing bribe checks.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 258d
dead children is too political for the politicians. Holding some sort of opinion may alienate donors who have have different opinions.