The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday examining the cognitive abilities of former President Joe Biden.

Democrats boycotted the hearing – with some walking out once it began.

The Senate Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday digging into the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden and claims of whether his aides helped what they say was a cover up of his alleged mental decline – claims the former president and many on his staff have denied.

The probe didn’t uncover any new information on the former president – with Democratic members of the subcommittee boycotting the hearing.

Democratic senators on the committee walked out of the hearing shortly after it began, with Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin blasting the panel for even holding the hearing, while he says a number of timely investigations should be going on related to President Donald Trump’s current actions.

“So far this year, the Republican majority on this committee has not held a single oversight hearing, despite numerous critical challenges facing the nation that are under our jurisdiction,” Durbin said.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Right, but they might want to see if they can feature Hunter’s dong again? I seriously think Marj has a thing for him…

    Maybe talk some more about the hard drive, oops, I mean, “Hunter’s laptop”?

    Hey, do any of these assholes have any interest in releasing the fucking Epstein files? I thought the magas wanted that? What happened?

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    What is this even for? Is there some sort of framework a negative finding would lay that allows them to overturn policy? Trumps doing it already anyway.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Indeed, every minute they spend on stuff like this is a minute where they distract from real things.

        I wonder how that releasing the Epstein files thing is going…

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    44·
    11 hours ago

    Geez, can you stop talking about your ex for five minutes and focus on moving forward with your life?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Under an Imperial Presidency, the Congress has relatively little to do. Since everyone in the House just slaps the “Okay!” button when Trump demands more authority - and since the Presidency already has so much authority pre-allocated to it by Congress that there’s relatively little left to surrender - all the little Congresscritters can do is hold investigative hearings in a vain attempt to get media attention.

      Chasing the ghost of Joe Biden is what the Alex Jones tier of the right-wing entertainment sphere want. It gives them something to fill 4-5 hours a day of talk radio whining about. And it gives back bencher Congresscritters and opportunity to go on these shows and get some national attention.

      For the wanna-be celebrities in the GOP, this is one way they know how to get attention.

  • pezhore@infosec.pub
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    9 hours ago

    Hey, while we’re spending time rehashing presidencies - how about we have a full blown Senate investigation into Ronnie’s cognitive decline? Surely we can find some evidence there.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      The vindictive little shits cannot get over, nor will they ever get over, the fact that there was the House Select Committee on January 6, looking into the REAL CRIMES of the conservatives that carried out the terrorism and those complicit within the Republican Party.

      Even if almost nothing came from it - they were losing their minds all during the proceedings.

      Same thing goes for looking into donvict’s Russia ties.

      So now we are going to have this kind of nonsense. I suspect they’ll get back to Hunter and the hard drive, oops, I mean “the laptop”, again.