Get Ready for the Coming Impeachment of Joe Biden. The GOP is ready to again beclown American democracy - By Jeet Heer

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It renders us nearly speechless to read articles like this. This agitprop so brazenly spins the truth that we are left dizzy.

This author warns us of a possible clown show coming regarding the impeachment of Joe Biden as if the Democrats didn't clown show impeach Trump twice, the second time when he wasn't even in office. So the author warning us about something the Democrats have already done, a politically motivated impeachment.

We have deemed this rhetorical technique Mountain Man's Law, which is: "Everything a Leftist Democrat accuses someone of doing is actually being done by Leftist Democrats." So if there is an accusation of nefarious activity, tax evasion, moral depravity, or corruption leveled by a Leftist, one can be sure that it is a cover for what Leftists are actually doing.

Also, we must remember that when dealing with a doctrinaire Leftist, the issue is never the issue. The issue is actually a smokescreen, an excuse, a diversion. The author doesn't care about impeachment, he cares about The Agenda. The Agenda is the implementation of Marxism. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to promulgate The Narrative (which is the agitprop used to advance The Agenda), nothing more.

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On Wednesday, Joe Biden delivered his second major speech in two months warning of the dangers right-wing extremism poses to American democracy. As in his earlier speech, Biden effectively cited (But later the author will claim the speech was abstract and vague...)

actual examples of such extremism—in this speech ranging from the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol to the break-in at Nancy Pelosi’s residence that ended with the brutal assault on her husband (The Pelosi attacker was a leftist nudist.

We are witnessing more agitprop: The author is redefining history, creating false narratives, exaggerating the importance of events and people for the sake of manipulation of public opinion, while completely ignoring similar examples from his own side.)

Democracy, Biden claimed, is on the ballot in the midterms. Laying down the stakes of the issue, he said, “What we’re doing now is going to determine whether democracy will long endure and, in my view, is the biggest of questions: whether the American system that prizes the individual bends toward justice and depends on the rule of law, whether that system will prevail.” (A rather clumsy and out-of-context paraphrase of the Gettysburg address, which says:

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Biden is comparing the Civil War to election deniers. Wow.)

Biden’s claims are serious, but the speech suffers from the same tendency toward abstraction and vagueness that bedevils Democratic Party discourse about democracy. (Now Biden's previous effectiveness has morphed to abstraction and vagueness. Well, the vagueness is due to Biden's cognitive impairment. The Democrats, however, have been in no way vague. They have incessantly trumpet the danger to democracy represented by Republicans. The complicit media dutifully repeats and amplifies these claims. 

The author suggests it's a problem with the clarity of the message. No sir, we hear it just fine. We simply don't like it.)

Biden made concrete points about voter intimidation, political violence, and the dangers of election deniers occupying high office. (Mountain Man's Law alert...)

All this is important. But his speech lacked any sense of how the authoritarian turn of the GOP is a danger—not just at election time but to the very normal functioning of government which affects everyone at all times. (??? The author just claimed the speech was abstract and vague. Which seems to align with his previous characterization of vagueness. But in this "vague" speech Biden said:

Yet now extreme MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections, but elections being held now and into the future. The extreme MAGA element of the Republican Party, which is a minority of that party, as I said earlier, but it’s its driving force. It’s trying to succeed where they failed in 2020, to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself. That means denying your right to vote and deciding whether your vote even counts.

This doesn't seem vague at all. Republicans are evil. It's right in his speech.)

A more far-reaching message would insist that if the GOP can govern as a minority party disregarding majority opinion, (??? How is it possible to govern as a minority party? If the Republicans win the majority, they will be the majority party and will govern as the majority.)

it will be able to carry out an extremist agenda that will hurt ordinary Americans and make the United States ungovernable. (Mountain Man's Law alert...)

An authoritarian GOP will be able to enact policies like slashing Social Security and Medicare—ideas that many Republican leaders have long advocated but shied away from for fear of popular anger. (This accusation is trotted out every election season. The GOP has never slashed anything, but the accusation is useful agitprop.)

It will be able to hamstring not just elections but the ordinary operation of government, for example by using the debt ceiling as leverage to force radical budget cuts. (There has never, ever been budget cuts, radical or otherwise.)

A robust closing message for the Democrats in the last days before the midterms would emphasize the real, tangible harm Republicans could do if they win the House of Representatives and the Senate. It would draw on the party’s record of recent years to point out how, once in power, a GOP Congress will use all its investigatory powers to bog down the White House, tying down the Executive Branch. (Mountain Man's Law alert...)

In a recent article in The Atlantic, the journalist Barton Gellman makes a compelling argument that if the GOP controls the House of Representatives, it will impeach Joe Biden. This might seem like a far-fetched claim, especially since GOP congressional leader Kevin McCarthy has shied away from issuing impeachment threats. But, as Gellman notes, Republican public opinion is running ahead of what the party leaders are willing to say.

“Already, there is enormous demand for impeachment,” Gellman notes. “A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll in May found that 68 percent of Republican voters think the House should impeach Biden. A majority expect that it will impeach him. Thwarting those expectations would be dangerous for any House Republican.”

Some might wonder what on Earth Biden could be impeached for. (Biden is mentally impaired, confused, and frequently unable to function. He is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office... and the 25th amendment needs to be invoked.)

The correct answer is that a majority in the House can impeach a president, and other officials in the Executive Branch, for anything. The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” is expansive enough to include whatever the House wants—although it will be unlikely to get the two-thirds majority in the Senate needed for removal. That means Biden could be impeached for any made-up scandal that Fox News decides to make noise about concerning his son Hunter Biden’s laptop. (The laptop false narrative has already fallen, Mr. Heer.)

Nor would Biden be the only Democratic official who is vulnerable. Republicans are already talking about impeaching other officials like Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

A Biden impeachment would be an act of pure spite and revenge. (Mountain Man's Law alert...)

Texas Senator Ted Cruz made this clear on a podcast in December when he suggested that a Biden impeachment—“whether it’s justified or not”—was a logical response to the two impeachments of Donald Trump. Cruz told listeners, “The Democrats weaponized impeachment. They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. And one of the real disadvantages of doing that…is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” (Ted Cruz is exactly right, and the author provides no response to him.)

Trump himself will be a factor because he’ll be delighted at the idea that congressional Republicans will be his agents of retribution. He’ll egg on the impeachment, creating a political groundswell on the right that will force wavering Republicans to follow the party line.

The model here will be the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton, which showed how easy it was to get the GOP to impeach a president over a trivial matter. (Clinton committed felonies and lost his law license over the matter.)

House Speaker Newt Gingrich is sometimes remembered, wrongly, as the extremist who pushed for that impeachment. The real story is more complex, as historian Nicole Hemmer shows in her recent book Partisans. Gingrich was a sorcerer’s apprentice who rode to power in 1994 by stirring up the goblins of the far right. (Notice how democracy is suddenly a "goblin.")

But once he became speaker of the House, Gingrich found he was a prisoner of the very forces he unleashed: The right kept pushing him further than he wanted to go on everything from the government shutdown to impeachment. (Gingrich disagrees: 

I understood that in a federal court, in a case in front of a federal judge, to commit a felony, which is what he did, perjury, was a felony. The question I raise was very simple: should a president of the United States be above the law?

We cannot rely on the author to tell us the truth.)

Kevin McCarthy is the new Newt Gingrich: He might be triumphant next week with a new Congress ready to crown him as speaker. But McCarthy has demonstrated no ability to tame far-right members like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Paul Gosar. (How has Pelosi done regarding taming "The Squad?")

They will be the ones who, in alliance with Trump, have the ability to stir up the base. They will be in the driver’s seat—and one of the first destinations they will want to visit is the Impeachment Cliff

This impeachment would be a squalid circus. (Mountain Man's Law alert...)

It would also make governing very difficult, (This is probably the third time the author has made this claim, but like everything else in this screed, it is not documented.)

especially if (as is likely) there are multiple targets, including cabinet officials.

Politically, of course, a clown impeachment would be unpopular and might even help Biden win reelection. But Democrats don’t need to wait until it happens to reap the political benefit. They should be making the argument right now that a GOP Congress will be a freak show that delights the partisan right but does nothing to help ordinary people. (This very message has been happening for decades.)

Even more: that governance by a radicalized GOP is likely to unleash any number of real economic threats, ranging from a crash induced by a debt ceiling crisis to cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

The winning argument for democracy can’t be made in the abstract. It has to connect to real harm that people can imagine hurting them in their daily lives. That’s a closing message that would resonate. (Resonate with the base. That's the purpose of the article, which is the purpose of all agitprop, to stir up the underclass to overthrow the power structure. 

The author has done his duty to further The Narrative.)