this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
532 points (92.6% liked)

Memes

45660 readers
1049 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
sexy_peach@feddit.de
cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
532
They're not even hiding it (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml
47 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I know a lot of us don’t read the news, so here’s a meme. The Republican Speaker of the House has begun an impeachment inquiry on U.S. President Biden.

Context: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/12/why-biden-impeachment-inquiry/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-us-house-republican-mccarthy-calls-biden-impeachment-inquiry-2023-09-12/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed, it's never been about ideological consistency or evidence-based governance. It's about, "hurting the right people," to appeal to the masses, and plutocracy to appeal to their donors.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.
-Frank Wilhoit