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Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power

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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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.
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?
His defamation of the efficacy/safety of acetaminophen has been quite APAP smear.
I thought the Kennedys had learned about the negative side effects from lobotomies after Rosemary. Then this guy popped up.
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!"
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.
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.
This POS and the POS that put him there - Pedonald - should be held responsible for all the lives they are endangering.
- How nice of you to only say endanger... surely many have died already.
pointless gestures for $100, Alex
- At least it's on the record that they tried, even if it's a futile endeavor.
  
  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.
  
  It’s just one person, not even the whole Democrat party. Useless.
- 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.
- Get caught trying, it’s way better than doing literally nothing. Where are all the other house dems on this?
- Democrats love doing fucking nothing
  
  This is literally the legal process for "doing something".
  
  It’s not “the democrats” it’s just one person. The rest of them are sitting on their hands and cashing bribe checks.
Just for him we should make a new law for the "abuse of stupidity".
- Worm abuse.
  
  The worm DIED of malnutrition. There's nothing there.
  He has enough steam to blow the whistle but not enough to pull the train.
  
  He's Valtay
  
  Seriously though, that poor worm!
  
  And heroin.
Now do Hegseth, McMahon, Patel, and Basset
This is a decent podcast about this guy....
https://podbay.fm/p/pod-save-america/e/1765094700
- There's another decent podcast about this guy
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX7v1I9020
Symbolic only. Everyone knows it will go precisely nowhere.

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