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.
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.
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.
I thought the Kennedys had learned about the negative side effects from lobotomies after Rosemary. Then this guy popped up.
His defamation of the efficacy/safety of acetaminophen has been quite APAP smear.
dude looks like overinflated baloon short before it pops
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, his face looks like an old catcher’s mitt
This is the one.
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!”
No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.
Way to be there, guys…
Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.
More evidence on the controlled opposition pile that will be completely ignored by the Dem guzzlers here.
Yeah, we should elect more republicans, amirite?
No they’re saying don’t vote. That always works out so good.
No, they’re saying we need to be WAY more proactive before the primaries to replace the traditional corpo-dems with people that will be substantially more progressive, and substantially further left on the overton window. Those candidates need to win their primaries and fix the party that’s currently broken by the corpo-dems.
No the rest of the world is saying “VOTE IN A THIRD OPTION AS THE TWO YOU HAVE ARE ASS!”
And to them I say, “LEARN HOW THE FUCK ELECTIONS WORK IN THE US BEFORE TRYING TO LECTURE US”
WE DID LEARN! WE FIND IT NOT TO BE A DEMOCRACY! AND WHY ARE WE YELLING!
I think you know why
And we keep telling you that isn’t how our system is set up but you aren’t interested in understanding.
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.
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.
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.
And our Prime Minister does not have royal powers like the US president. Pardons are rare.
“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.
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.
You think this is the only nation with a right wing problem?
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.
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.
Exactly, as you said you don’t understand and you aren’t interested in understanding. Thanks for making that clear.
What are you doing to help?
LOL.
/facepalm
Wow, I’ve managed to say a lot of things without using any words, apparently.
Yah and you painted the entire post with a broad brush already, you can’t pretend to be offended.
you painted the entire post with a broad brush already
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.
More evidence on the controlled opposition pile that will be completely ignored by the Dem guzzlers here.
This is just a weird, cynical take that makes you sound like the tankies who regularly escape .ml, where anyone who isn’t marching in an olive drab jumpsuit with a red star is a “dem loving liberal.”
These comments read like Russian propaganda that only helps trump
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?
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
I didn’t fall for jack shit. You can criticize the bullshit useless DNC without wearing a red cap, you know.
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!
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”?
Yes all those DNC leaders are just innocent cogs in the system taking all their bribes that they just have to take.
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.
So your logic is that politicians should always do something as long as it’s not illegal? That sounds quite MAGA of you…
Impeachment means nothing anymore. Who fucking cares.
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.
Yep, these midterms are the acid test for sure.
Can’t wait for this to go nowhere.
On one hand yes, on the other—at least someone is trying to impeach him… unlike Trump.
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
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.
This POS and the POS that put him there - Pedonald - should be held responsible for all the lives they are endangering.
So should all the Republicans reps who empower them and the voters who empower the reps to do so.
How nice of you to only say endanger… surely many have died already.
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.
Flip it in '26 and we’ll talk.
Has any country ever voted its way out of fascism?
Spain.
Now do Hegseth, McMahon, Patel, and Basset
Just for him we should make a new law for the “abuse of stupidity”.
Worm abuse.
He’s Valtay
The worm DIED of malnutrition. There’s nothing there.
He has enough steam to blow the whistle but not enough to pull the train.
Seriously though, that poor worm!
And heroin.
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.
stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions
In any other sane rational country, people like JFK 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.
This is a decent podcast about this guy…
There’s another decent podcast about this guy
