Dutifully serve your country and try to mitigate an ongoing disaster because of your boss. Treated like shit by a third of the population.

To be clear the vote was along party lines and was about him excersising his rights under the fifth amendment. So just to be clear the republicans are not just derelict in their duty to impeach the president do to his violations of the constitution but they are directly violating it themselves.

Instead of helping people buy food or dealing with the Epstein papers.

Fuck off government

Contempt of Congress for what? Exercising his right not to incriminate himself?

Can we do the Doj next then for failing to release all the Epstein files as legally obligated by Congress and failing to answer why?

Poor guy was screwed either way. It was a no-win situation for him.

If he answered the questions they would have demonized him for his answers and prosecuted him on some bullshit charges.

If he pleaded the fifth (which he did) they would have demonized him for that. And prosecuted him for contempt.

And the whole argument that he has a pre-emptive pardon from Biden is bullshit. This administration - with the judicial system firmly in their pocket - will find a way to dismiss that if they need to.

It was a damned if he did, damned if he didn't set up. The GOP are going to prosecute him no matter what. He knew that. Everyone watching knew that. GOP for sure knows that. They were looking for any trivial thing that they could possibly use as cover but whatever it was, they were going to use it to try to charge him and now they have done so. If he had answered every question they would have found some sentence that wasn't 100% the exact same as a previous time and used that to charge him instead. It is really making Americans look as stupid as imaginably possible and after decades of North Korea drama, that is something.

This is the entire problem with pre-emptive pardons and why it's fucked up whether it's Joe Biden or trump handing them out:

The pardon from Biden covered acts from 2014 through the January 2025 day it was issued. It does not shield Fauci from state-level prosecutions or from investigations into any testimony that he did give that lawmakers thought was false.

It's been fucked since Nixon got the first one over 50 years, and clearly if we don't do anything about, it's going to keep being a problem.

All this shit does is tell every single American:

The justice system is corrupt at the highest levels, but rather than attempt to fix the system, the powerful will just take care of each other and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.

Even if people don't realize that, that's what they hear. And it has a large effect on a populace and is usually the clearest sign a society has already failed.

When everyone believes the system is corrupt, they stop caring about what's right and only caring about if they can get away with something.

It's the root cause of why shit is so fucked up and everyone is so selfish.

Why? What are they trying to blame Fauci for?

To be fair, there are many reasons to be contemptuous of the Congress.

Rand Paul's witch hunt continues to waste everyone's time.

He has a legal right to respond the way that he did. Are they saying that you can no longer take the 5th?

If we have another pandemic it will kill millions. Luckily it will mostly kill those like these senate dipshits. Unfortunately it will kill a lot of innocent people with it.

Contempt of Congress. For invoking the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

This is truly the land of fuck you. It’s a race to the bottom to see who can be the biggest asshole.

So what is it when all the Trump administration lie and say that don't recall to every question? Or just don't answer at all? Or yell about the DOW for some reason while actively in violation of the Epstein File release legally required deadline and terms for reductions (and still are)?

This won't pass the full Senate, however.

we've seen the Congress. the contempt of such a corrupt genocidal body can only be a badge of honor