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-Lurid Crime Tales-
GOP Leader McCarthy: FBI Stonewalling on Briefing Congress on Eric Swalwell's Reported Chinese Spy Ties
[Breitbart] Pressure is increasing on Swalwell to answer questions about a report that alleged a female Chinese spy named Christine Fang, or Fang Fang, targeted Swalwell between 2011 and 2015 as part of a political intelligence operation.

Fang, as reported by Axios, met Swalwell while he was a council member for Dublin City, California, and she was a Chinese student organizer. She would become a campaign bundler for him and even placed at least one intern in one of his congressional offices.

Axios said Fang’s behavior was so worrisome that the FBI briefed Swalwell about her in 2015, after which he allegedly cut ties with her and she unexpectedly returned to China. However, his father and brother remained Facebook friends with her as recently as last week.

Swalwell has so far refused to answer whether his relationship with Fang was romantic. The Axios report said Fang had a romantic relationship with at least two unidentified Midwestern mayors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 04:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Must be a reason. Did she work on DNC computers in her spare time? Did she own a Falls Church used car dealership? Was she a regular visitor to
St. James Island? Was she sending Chinese steamed buns to Stacey Abrams ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 5:00 Comments || Top||

#2  When it wants, the FBI can out-Mafia the Mafia.
Posted by: b || 12/17/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Why do I tend to think that whenever the FBI is mentioned in a story it involves a cover-up?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  It really defied logic and common sense that the bureau acknowledged she was dirty, but failed to conduct follow-up surveillance and monitoring. Some things simply should not be believed.

An experienced deer hunter will generally position himself near a buck rub, if one is available.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  RE#3 It's what the corrupt do.
Posted by: Ed || 12/17/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Hunter Biden sent 'best wishes' from 'entire Biden family' to China firm chair, requested $10 MILLION wire
[The Post Millennial] New records reveal that Hunter Biden, in a correspondence with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming, wished the Chinese energy businessman "best wishes from the entire Biden family" while also asking for a $10 million wire transfer to enter a joint venture with his energy company, FOX News reports.

The email correspondence from June 18, 2017, reveals the younger Biden asked an employee of CEFC to "translate my letter to Chairman Ye, please extend my warmest best wishes and that I hope to see the Chairman soon."
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 11:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Best wishes from your (shameless, brazen) admirers at the Disney Corporation too.

Say hello to Ambassador Bob Iger when he lands in Beijing
Posted by: Beldar Smith7183 || 12/17/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||

#2  How now, kow tow?
Posted by: Jeremiah Untervehr5131 || 12/17/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden Was Due To Receive ‘Significant' Payments From Chinese Private Equity Firm Starting In 2019, Emails Show
Hunter Biden was repeatedly told by his business partner in emails that he was set to receive payments from the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners starting in 2019 and for years to come.

"BHR is due to have a significant distribution in 2019 because of the CATL exit," Eric Schwerin wrote in a November 2018 email to Hunter Biden.

Schwerin also told Hunter Biden in December 2018 he can expect BHR to generate income for him "over the next couple of years," one email shows.

The revelations conflict with a statement released by Hunter Biden’s lawyer in October 2019 which stated he had not received any distributions from BHR.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 11:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
‘Theft By a Thousand Cuts' Report Conclusive on Election Fraud, Slams Media Cover Up
[The National Pulse] A new report detailing massive fraud plaguing the 2020 election alleges there was a widespread, "theft by a thousand cuts" strategy "across six dimensions and six battleground states." The report cites comprehensive evidence, and blasts the media for its failure to cover the matter accurately.

In the report, Peter Navarro, also a White House Trade Adviser, outlines a "coordinated strategy to effectively stack the election deck against the Trump-Pence ticket" occurring in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 14:05 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Theft By a Thousand Cuts."

Slight editing of a Chinese metaphor. How appropriate.

The term lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) first appeared in a line in Chapter 28 of the third-century philosophical text Xunzi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Theft By a Thousand Cvnts
Posted by: Thrains Grundy4492 || 12/17/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 well said, well sourced.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/17/2020 19:37 Comments || Top||


Trump allies gear up for congressional election challenge in January
[Washington Examiner] The Electoral College may have made Joe Biden president-elect on Monday, but President Trump plans to dispute that outcome well into January.

"Yesterday was one step in the constitutional process," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Tuesday. And, citing a series of election lawsuits in which the president is still involved, McEnany added that Trump's legal team is doing well to pursue "legitimate litigation" as long as those avenues are open.

For many of Trump's allies, the expiration date for success falls several weeks before Inauguration Day. Instead, they look to Jan. 6 as the day of "ultimate significance." Congress on that day will count and certify the Electoral College votes. After that point, a Trump-driven election reversal is all but impossible.

Trump lawyers have bandied about the term "ultimate significance" with greater regularity since the lawsuit led by Texas to overturn the results in four states failed, arguing that it provides state legislatures several weeks to undo the results sent on Monday to the Electoral College. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's top legal adviser, referenced it almost immediately after the Supreme Court tossed the Texas case. And this week, in a statement to the Washington Examiner, Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis cited it as guiding precedent laid down by the Supreme Court in its 2000 Bush v. Gore decision. The term originated from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent in that case.

To leverage the date to Trump's advantage, his campaign has to convince state lawmakers that the votes they sent to the Electoral College represented false outcomes. And to make that case, the president's legal team has continued to file lawsuits in states where it alleges that fraud occurred. Many of those cases, including challenges filed in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, have been tossed after judges found various inadequacies with the filings. The campaign on Monday brought up a new case in New Mexico, alleging that state officials used the pandemic to orchestrate voter fraud with mail-in ballots — a charge common to nearly every election challenge.

At the same time, the Trump team has been assembling a group of "alternate electors" ready to send amended votes to Congress if the campaign succeeds in state courts. Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser, on Monday told Fox News that these state electors, many of whom on Monday cast unrecorded votes for Trump in conventions separate from their corresponding state's Electoral College delegations, were a way to "ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open."
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 12:07 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


This photo was taken moments ago by a poll watcher at the Congress Center in GA for the "signature audit" Fix is in…
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 12:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


The KRAKEN Has Hit SCOTUS docket, Has Proof of Hundreds of thousands of fake Plugs votes
[Daily Fodder] By John Paluska, Founder of The Daily Fodder

Sidney Powell's "Kraken" has finally made it to the docket of the Supreme Court. The suit is perhaps the strongest collective argument yet against voter fraud.

It contains the forensic audit done in Michigan that proves systemic voter fraud occurred through the Dominion Voting System tabulation. It also has proof of at least 200,000 FRAUDULANT VOTES casted in the election.

Further, it contains official Georgia elections records that prove the Dominion Voting Systems program's "inability to repeatably duplicate creditable election results." In other words, official Georgia election canvassers could not rely on Dominion Voting Systems' software to count the vote because it didn't repeat the same vote totals twice.

The Lawsuit states:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 11:26 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other words, official Georgia election canvassers could not rely on Dominion Voting Systems' software to count the vote because it didn't repeat the same vote totals twice.

Hence the need for the early morning processing of suitcases of additional paper ballots in Atlanta.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Expect it to be tossed within 24hours. The SC has chosen civil war to appease the establishment.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't matter. She doesn't have standing. NOBODY has standing. If Joe Biden himself confessed to rigging the election he wouldn't have standing.

That's the way Robert's Supreme Court rolls these days...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  they will pick a different reason like "too late" or "the votes have been certified" ot the SCOTUS decides on laws not elections.....
Posted by: Airandee || 12/17/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ That would be admitting that SCOTUS actually isn't the last word on pretty much anything, no?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Send in the US State Department and election observers from the OSCE. But mind the OSCE's rules:

An ODIHR election observation mission (EOM) consists of a core team of experts, long-term observers (LTOs), and short-term observers (STOs) Candidates for all positions must be citizens of OSCE participating States, excluding the country where the election is taking place..
Posted by: Ulailet Fleremble8848 || 12/17/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#7  We are the greatest seven legal minds this nation has produced. We entered law with a curiosity and duty. We built our career making notable decisions in an understanding way. We proofed ourselves and our peers. By simply being appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, we accept to and have made our mark on the history of this most rights orientated government in history.

Perhaps you would care to present your decision and opinion upon not only one of the amendments, and at the same time approach other important related topics such as Federal ID, Federal Voting Standards, Role of Trans-State Federal Authorities such as Federal Trade Commission, and no matter what cement your legacy?

Non, we have laundry to do.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#8  The Supreme Court Has Set A Ridiculously Dangerous Precedent

Please spend a few moments taking in and thinking about this video. Proof absolute that the Supreme Court, as it is now comprised, does not deserve its purported relevance.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/17/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#9  And this:

Lin Wood @LLinWood

In discussing @realDonaldTrump in phone conversation in 8/19, Justice John Roberts stated that he would make sure “the mother f#*ker would never be re-elected.”

Roberts engaged in phone conversations with Justice Stephen Breyer discussing how to work to get Trump voted out."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/17/2020 19:51 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ They really, really hate us.
The bell tolls not for OrangeMan. It tolls for thee.

Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Clem Grundy4382 || 12/17/2020 21:34 Comments || Top||


Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage
[NR - ht Insty]
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 09:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorta like Barry's and Big Mike's "credentials..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Deception and fraudulent activity sort of runs in the family.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Any word what her dissertation was about? I read the article twice and must have missed it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/17/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Something like the connection between availability of healthy snacks in the cafeteria and community college student satisfaction
Posted by: Grusogum Elmoper2846 || 12/17/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Her degree is in wokeness, you dirty peasants!
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Any word what her dissertation was about? I read the article twice and must have missed it.

See his next column.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Although some people obviously use community colleges as a stepping stone to move up to superior institutions, it's no accident such places are often referred to as "comedy colleges."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Now she's majoring in PolySci. Ever notice how Joe doesn't go anywhere without her?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  See: Edith Wilson
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 12:58 Comments || Top||

#10  If you ever make it to Wythville, VA, Edith Wilson's birthplace, be sure to visit Skeeter's Hot Dogs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Ref #8: Ever notice how Joe doesn't go anywhere without her?

Somebody has to carry his batteries and emergency injectors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 13:35 Comments || Top||

#12  ...and wipe his arse

Doctor! Doctor!
Gimme the news
I gotta ... bad case o' China Flu
Posted by: Skunky Ulolush1062 || 12/17/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#13  You, too, can purchase your earlship.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#14  This is in the middle of the next column - Jill Biden looks like yet another member of the Biden family who successfully leveraged the family name to obtain things of value that otherwise would have lain far beyond the reach of someone of such meager talents.

The author is unrelenting!
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#15  M’Lady explained the standard addresses:
If you are addressed Dr. Pookie, it is assumed you are a medical doctor.
Normally, you put your credentials behind your name:
Dr. pookie pHD, clinical psych.
Or in this case of Jill B. Dr Jill B, EdD (doctor of education)
Or Dr Jill B, PhD (Dr of Philosophy)

I listened to Tucker last night and excerpts of the text of the thesis were sloppy and poorly written.

I had a girlfriend once who went to Harvard and got a masters in education. She sent me a copy of her thesis to read and comment on it. I went through it in detail and it was the most convoluted POS I ever read. I never commented. I guessed that you pay your fee, write it up a bit, and then give you the Masters of Education when the check clears.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/17/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#16  Wasn't Smarty Jill involved in some real estate deal which made her money while bankrupting a college?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||

#17  Half surprised they didn't go full keepitinfamily and have Smarty Jill proposed for Dept. Education so the Biden Syndicate would have a seat at the table after Joey slips and falls up the stairs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#18  #16 - No, that was was Sanders' wife
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||

#19  actual dissertation is

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20407226/bidens-dissertation.pdf

a substantive critique is

https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/12/17/dr-jill-bidens-dissertation-was-unbelievably-awful/

probably worth putting up tomorrow on rantburg
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/17/2020 19:29 Comments || Top||

#20  Thank you Frank G.

Tried looking it up and got every gushing Smarty Jill story out there...except for Whoopie Goldberg's assertion that Smarty Jill would make an exceptional Surgeon General.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 21:15 Comments || Top||

#21  Smarty Jill
Hunter B = "the most brilliant guy I know"
Jimmy the Genius
Joe the Incorruptible
Posted by: Ulaimp Borgia9103 || 12/17/2020 21:37 Comments || Top||

#22  EdD of long acquaintance, very smart indeed, mentioned having contributed to the edumacashun of the original "Dr. Jill" (Elders). "Taught her everything she knows, eh?" File under "things one wouldn't have even thought of saying."
Posted by: Ominenter Stalin7955 || 12/17/2020 22:56 Comments || Top||


Franklin Graham viral Facebook post celebrates President Trump's accomplishments, proclaims he 'will go down in history as one of the great presidents'
[The Blaze] Pastor Franklin Graham has hailed President Donald Trump for being a world leader who he says will "go down in history as one of the great presidents."

Graham's remarks came after the Electoral College officially gave the 2020 election victory to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Trump, at the time of this reporting, has yet to concede the 2020 presidential election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 06:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He'll go down as the last American president, elected not chosen by the sitting ruling class.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2020 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll never believe this kak stain sock puppet was anything other than the product of election fraud.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Graham's remarks came after the Electoral College officially gave the 2020 election victory to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

It's not over yet. Seven states have submitted two sets of electors. And there are still court cases pending. Should be a challenging few weeks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||


Trump mulling special prosecutor in Hunter Biden case
[NYPOST] President Trump has spoken to advisers about appointing a special prosecutor to further a federal tax fraud probe into Hunter Biden, President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
’s son, according to a new report.Trump is angry with outgoing Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the two-year-old case — which was kept under wraps by the Justice Department until after the election — and reportedly spoke to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and counsel Pat Cipollone about the matter, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported Wednesday.

The move could set up a showdown between Trump and his incoming attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, whom he will likely lobby to follow his wishes.

Special prosecutors are protected by a federal law, making it difficult for a president or attorney general to fire them without severe backlash.

Under the regulations, a special counsel can only be fired by the attorney general for specific reasons such as conflict of interest or misconduct — meaning Biden and his as-yet-unannounced attorney general nominee would not be able to swiftly end the counsel’s investigation into the younger Biden’s business deals overseas.

Calls for a special counsel are gaining steam, with leading Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas last week calling for the Justice Department to appoint a prosecutor before the president-elect is sworn into office Jan. 20.

Barr on Monday announced he was resigning and will serve his last day on Dec. 23 amid lingering tension between him and the president, meaning Trump would need to push Rosen to appoint someone.



Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's almost embarrassing that, win, lose, or draw, Trump is only now doing something.

I find the irony of his "Apprentice" show interesting since he has hired multiple Deep State duds.
Posted by: Clem || 12/17/2020 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Well if Trump doesn't appoint a special prosecutor, odds are pretty good the next guy won't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump appointed AG Barr thinking he would get a straight shooter but instead he got another Swamp Thing. I dunno. Where do you go to find an honest AG?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump has endured an ordeal the likes of which no president has ever faced.

Not even Nixon, as hated as he was by the media, faced an attempted coup d'etat by the combined forces of the FBI, CIA, NSA and the preceding POTUS.

The closest precedent is Lincoln, who was forced to arrive in DC in stealth, guarded by Pinkerton. But even Lincoln, despised as he was by Chase, Seward and most of the rest of the establishment of his day, had more loyalists around him than Trump.

That Trump has even managed to survive this unbelievable onslaught with his. composure and sanity intact is a remarkable achievement.
Posted by: Flusosh Grolung9181 || 12/17/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  We don't advocate that here --1789---
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 20:11 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden 'disinformation' claim causes meltdown at Senate hearing
[NYPOST] A Senate hearing on irregularities in the 2020 election on Wednesday got heated when GOP Sen. Ron Johnson berated a fellow member for accusing him of spreading "disinformation."Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, went kaboom! at Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) for criticizing his probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and accusing him of "laundering" a foreign influence campaign designed to wound President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
, Hunter’s father.

"I have to talk about Russian disinformation. The people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle," Johnson said, accusing Peters of leaking "a false intelligence report" to the media that charged he and veteran Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were "disseminating Russian disinformation."

"Fifty people associated with the intelligence community, after our Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations of the Hunter Biden computer, said, ’Oh, this is Russian disinformation,'" Johnson went on, referring to The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s shadowy overseas business dealings.

"Now we find out it’s a real investigation by the Justice Department," Johnson said, acknowledging the federal tax probe into Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son.

"I can’t sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. This is getting information. We have to take a look at [it] to restore confidence in our election integrity," he said.

Peters pushed back, telling Johnson: "You say I’m putting out information. I had nothing to do with this report."

"You lied repeatedly! You lied repeatedly in the press. That I was spreading Russian disinformation," Johnson shot back.



Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We are led by idiots.

This is like a scene from one of those highlight reels of fistfights or chair-throwing on the legislature floor - the kind you see coming out of a place like Turkey or the Philippines or Ecuador or Bumfukistan.

Our governance is rapidly becoming that of a third world clownshow.
Posted by: Thang Thretle2466 || 12/17/2020 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Our governance is rapidly becoming that of a third world clownshow.

FTFY.

Don't know what we expect, though. When was the last time Congress passed a budget, a Constitutionally mandated duty? Do thy have any conception at all of the amount of money they are making up out of thin air that can never and will never be paid back?

It's theater, all of it, and bad partisan theater at that. It will go on until we hit the wall, which will happen the way Hemingway described going bankrupt:

"Gradually, at first, then suddenly."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/17/2020 6:15 Comments || Top||

#3  We need better voters.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 12/17/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  We need better live, registered voters.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Pistols at dawn.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||


Biden 'confident' son Hunter did nothing wrong
I'm confident my hair's coming back in too.
[NYPOST] President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
said Wednesday he’s "confident" that Hunter Biden did nothing wrong, addressing directly the federal investigations into his son’s "tax affairs" and business dealings in Ukraine. Asked by a Fox News news hound at an event to announce his nomination of Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too...
as transportation secretary if he was sure of his son’s innocence, Biden said only, "I’m confident."

Hunter Biden last week revealed the existence of the federal investigations, and the former vice president since then had only said he was "proud of my son" when asked about the probes that date back to 2018.

"I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Hunter Biden said in a statement issued by the Biden-Harris transition team.

In October, The Post revealed that Hunter Biden had introduced a top executive at Burisma — a Ukrainian energy company on whose board he sat — to his father.



Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little Xi, the baby of Hunter's stripper girl friend is doing well, too.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/17/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The Don says "Sonny is a good boy."
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/17/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Pardon forthcoming to stop the need for what they will claim is baseless persecution. Then watch them go after Trump et al.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/17/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Verily, thou art a shitshow
Posted by: Slelet McGurque1280 || 12/17/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Keep on (hair-)pluggin, Sniffy
Posted by: Nero Angock8148 || 12/17/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  'Been doing it for 40 years and look where I am.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||


Biden picks Pete Buttigieg, 38, as transportation secretary - making him most senior gay official confirmed by Senate
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Buttigieg, 38, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who has never held federal office

  • He was surprisingly strong in the early stages of the Democratic primary and a formidable fundraiser

  • If confirmed he would become first openly gay cabinet secretary confirmed by the senate

  • Trump appointed Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence making him first openly gay cabinet member but did not nominate him
Got that box checked...
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The rush hour traffic is gridlocked - nuts to butts"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2 
In time this will become the 'most gay senior official' tag.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  As Archie Bunker said, "The grossest national product..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Thought he'd be in charge of sewers and manholes.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh he's definitely already in charge of manholes
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/17/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  He was surprisingly strong in the early stages of the Democratic primary...

And that lasted what, two weeks?
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#7  If you don't count the shadow president in the background, yeah he's the most senior.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Wonder how many true believers are looking at the proposed olde crony cabinet with a sprinkle of elite token faces with some buyer's remorse? Maybe they read a book and know they traditionally get hammered by the elites?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||


Biden calls gun violence 'national health crisis'; Harris says 'past time' for new gun control
[BIZPACREVIEW] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him....
and running mate Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
both advocated for strict new gun control measures during a remembrance for the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.

On Monday, the eighth anniversary of the attack, Biden released a statement in which he called gun violence a "national health crisis," leading some to believe he may, as president, use that as a basis for new executive action on firearms.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go for it, piglicker.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/17/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Dog whistling her base.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/17/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  They are going to make sure that gun violence is a national crisis.
Posted by: KBK || 12/17/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  If they come after gun owners there'll be a national crisis, alright.

They really want CWII, don't they
Posted by: Nero Jeamble4623 || 12/17/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  The closing of small businesses permits the exploitation and power-grab of property and land. Armed holdouts will have to eventually be dealt with. "Gun violence" is the popular mantra of central planners. An armed Warsaw ghetto scenario must be avoided.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Shut down independent small businesses
Destroy low-end wages by importing illegals

Ship manufacturing jobs to China

Make the USA dependent on China

Bend over for China and take Chinese baksheesh
Bend over for race hustlers and send them billions in extorted payola

Trash our heritage and civilization and ruin the the public schools

Ignore trade schools and push the uneducated unprepreoared unmotivated majority to attend useless 4-year crap colleges

Stoke violence anarchy murder and looting in our cities

Elect DAs who refuse to arrest violent criminals

Cry "Racist!" any time anyone criticizes above
Impose retarded lockdown rules which they themselves ignore

Censor news of their moron and his sick family's corruption and compromise by China after spreading absurd nonsense and lies about T. and Russia

They're trying. They really are trying to set off CWII with a dozen Sumtets

Posted by: Ho Chi Panda9178 || 12/17/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  They'll resurrect Operation Chaos and the bodies will start piling up from incidents where nutcases "somehow" get their hands on AR-15s and shoot up schools, churches and shopping malls. Funny how so much of that suddenly stopped after Baraq left office.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#8  And don't forget the Islamic nutcases that Harris will invite into the country after lifting the Muslim Travel Ban.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  See how "Defund the Police" works so well for the leftist gun control agenda?
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/17/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#10 

The WOODSTERMAN BLOG
has a fitting MeMe for this Proposed Gun Grab,

GUN CONTROL LOGIC APPLIED
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2020 13:39 Comments || Top||

#11  This tired old trope.

Oh that's right, dementia people regress so this is kinda the 90s for That Guy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#12  The reasons for lockdowns
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/17/2020 19:41 Comments || Top||



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