Sen. John Fetterman offered a message Wednesday to House Republicans considering impeaching President Joe Biden: “Go ahead, do it. I dare you.”

Speaking to reporters in his Senate office, the Pennsylvania Democrat suggested that the impeachment push by Republicans on the other side of the Capitol was meant to deflect from the mountain of legal problems facing former President Donald Trump.

“Your man has what, three or four indictments now?” Fetterman said. “Trump has a mug shot and he’s been impeached twice.”

“Sometimes you just gotta call their bullshit,” he said.

The first-term senator went on to say that a Biden impeachment "would just be like a big circle jerk on the fringe right,” and “would diminish what impeachment really means.”

Note: As pointed out by reddig33 in comments, this is an old photo. Here’s a couple examples of his new look.

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    What? Look, I really don’t like Biden at all, but there is no “bipartisan consensus” or even grounds to impeach him. You can’t impeach someone just because you don’t like them.

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      Republicans want to impeach sleepy Joe for his many crimes. And now we have this article of a democrat saying “go ahead”. I see that as bipartisan.

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        What crimes?

        And this article does not say Fetterman is in favor of impeaching Biden.

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          Too many countless crimes and schemes to count. He’s trying to turn us into a communist dictatorship. What about when he let that Chinese spy balloon take pictures of all our secrets?

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              I already have named several in this thread but here’s another one: what about when he threatened to withhold money from Ukraine until they fired the prosecutor that was investigating the company that was paying his crack head son $50,000 a month?

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                LOL that’s simply not true. I suspect you know that though.

                But let’s say he did that …

                Are you saying you DO believe withholding money from Ukraine is an illegal and impeachable offensive? Because oh buddy do I have a story for you.

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                  It’s obviously “impeachable”, Trump was already impeached for the same thing. So it’s a clear double standard, also it is true, Biden is on video talking about it

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                    Trump was impeached for not giving money to Ukraine?

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        Shit… is this why conservatives have such high numbers in polls even if they support turning your country into a shithole? Is it because Republican voters can’t understand nuance in speech, so when they promise you things, you keep believing?

        Wow, this is breakthrough-level stuff. Is everyone voting republican unable to discern sarcasm for example? Here - you have a really great view on politics. How does that statement make you feel? Are all republicans affected by this condition? Is every single republican out there actually on the spectrum and waiting for a cure for a condition they don’t even know they have, because half of them lack the education to understand it’s real? The ramifications of this are potentially yuuge.

        Ah, but what if they have other speech/written text-related issues as well? Like how we’ve established you lack the ability to understand subtext, maybe you lose focus when reading long series of words. Are all republicans functionally illiterate or suffering from ADHD? Are you maybe too close to dementia to even be able to communicate cohesive thoughts? It’s an interesting rabbit hole we’re going down here. But hey, I probably wrote too much already, I’ll give you a hand with the comprehension.

        TL;DR: lol retard

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          you have a really great view on politics

          Thank you! Glad to see somebody around here with some common sense.

          On a serious note, please don’t throw around insensitive language, I know many people who have learning disabilities, and it’s not appropriate to use those words as insults. It’s hurtful.

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            Thank you! Glad to see somebody around here with some common sense.

            Is this Drax the Destroyer? Holy crap! I gotta say you’re my 6th favorite Guardian!