A source “very familiar with the Bidens” tells @MarkHalperin that “Biden Inc.,” the family business that generated millions of dollars in revenue to support their lifestyle, has dried up. “The trough is empty, the spigot is turned off,” says Mark. “Biden Inc. needs a source of… pic.twitter.com/T1CVgO7p4Z
…needs a source of revenue.” Joe’s earning power is not sufficient, and “Hunter does not have great earning capacity.” Joe and Jill Biden’s appearance on “The View” today comes amid these challenges. #JoeBiden #HunterBiden
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#7
Now that he's been pardoned Hunter could get a boatload of money by writing a tell-all book about who exactly was running the country. But no doubt his sense of honor would prevent him from doing so.
Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Matt ||
05/09/2025 10:54 Comments ||
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#8
^ SOTD Candidate
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/09/2025 11:04 Comments ||
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#9
Thanks, Frank. I may take up painting.
Posted by: Matt ||
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#10
One of his properties has been re-financed 15 times...yeah he is in debt up to his eyeballs,
Yeah, they can always get somebody to ghost write a book for them and, sure enough, some friendly publisher will pay for it. Don't count on it flying off the shelves though.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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They should do the Netflix wash as well. Think of it, just a series of 10-15 minute shorts where Brandon is given a Whose Line Is It? topic, and just let him go. I bet the story mapping would be epic.
#14
Daily Mail article has a couple of interesting points, namely that apparently Jill has a secret signal to Joe to shut up when he gets into trouble (anyway is his signature term for either losing his thought or ending a risky comment), and used it to cover for him on the question of cognitive decline.
The second point is the bandage on his hand, the little dot on the vein that can be used to inject an IV when the veins in the arm are too hard to use. It implies they juiced him before the show, and that explains his semi-lucid, spry opening of the performance, and the appearance of Jill midway, to provide cover as he begins to sundown.
This is all about looking for the speaking/book deals and the hint at her "diary" reveals.
#17
Remember his little schtick of running onto the stage before a debate? To show how vigorous and energetic he is ? He should bring that back. With a longer runup and a Kramer like skid-stop.
[IsraelTimes] Far-right party celebrates; US officials had urged Berlin to reverse move, called for halting intelligence cooperation until AfD treated as ‘legitimate opposition party’.
[Breitbart] “You don’t do it legally,” Hawley said of Pelosi’s acquisition of wealth. “And here’s the thing, Nancy Pelosi and her husband last year, in 2024, beat every hedge fund in the nation, practically. So, either Nancy Pelosi is a mathematical and financial analyst genius… or maybe, maybe the information that she’s privy to turns out to be pretty darn valuable.”
#3
Dianne Feinstein-Blum was no slouch. From Wikipedia:
In 2003, Feinstein was ranked the fifth-wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million.[272] Her net worth increased to between $43 and $99 million by 2005. Her 347-page financial-disclosure statement, characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "nearly the size of a phone book", claimed to draw clear lines between her assets and her husband's, with many of her assets in blind trusts.
The problem has to be attacked both on the wholesale and retail levels — DOGE does not discover all. Strip out the individuals as they reveal themselves.
[FoxNews] 'Cameron Hamilton is no longer serving in this capacity,' a FEMA spokesperson confirmed
The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer with the agency — just a day after telling lawmakers that cutting FEMA, as President Donald Trump has proposed, is a bad move.
Cameron Hamilton, who previously served as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy with SEAL Team 8, has led FEMA since January.
"Effective today, David Richardson is now serving as the Senior Official Performing the duties of the FEMA Administrator," a FEMA spokesperson said in a Thursday email to Fox News Digital. "Cameron Hamilton is no longer serving in this capacity."
Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski requested Hamilton appear at Homeland Security headquarters on Thursday morning and informed him of his ouster, Politico reported.
FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday that a White House proposal to cut the agency’s budget was $1 billion short – but then he walked the statement back on Thursday.
#2
Kinda split on this.
FEMA serves a much-needed purpose, but has been politically corrupted and hijacked.
But, how to eliminate the Politics and insure FAST unbiased emergency support for US Citizens. While tracking how issues are handled and every penny is spent, in a way that the general-public see is a must.
Eg Western North Carolina and the FEMA workers refusing help / assistance to homes and persons with MAGA/Trump signage..
#4
Before FEMA the national agency responsible was DoD. They were happy to unload the mission that didn't come with funding. FEMA became what the Postal Service was before it was spun off as 'semi-independent', a place for political patronage.
#5
#3 what governors need from the National Guard are military police, engineers, transportation, and medical units but those are generally in the Army Reserve force structure. The NG force structure is largely combat units. It's great for tradition and history, but not functionality.
The battle of the centibillionaires for the soul of America.
[Breitbart] Creepy Bill Gates claims that Elon Musk will be responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children” through his work leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with rooting out wasteful government spending.
The Microsoft co-founder told the Financial Times that Musk will be responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children” by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The government is no longer throwing money at Mr. Gates’ vaccination NGOs, finding others better fitted the work, So Mr. Gates will have to give away more of his own money to accomplish his goals because he can no longer leverage government spending on his pet projects…
As Breitbart News reported, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in March that 83 percent of the programs directly funded and administered by USAID had been canceled, as their funding was deemed as antithetical to the core interests of the United States.
“The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio said at the time.
The remaining 18 percent of programs, the Secretary of State added, would be retained and “administered more effectively under the State Department.”
Gates, who claims to be concerned about “global health,” continued his fearmongering in an interview with Reuters, where he claimed “the last 25 years” — which notably included the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — have “been miraculous.”
#3
I have a vague recollection of either Bill or his Foundation going on about the dangers of overpopulation. If overpopulation is still a thing, would not killing the world's poorest children be a solution?
Or maybe we could teach the poors to read and write so they can get jobs in one of Elon's factories and no longer be poor.
#4
The US Liberals, Socialists and New Age Democrats have killed/aborted since 1973: 65,464,760+ US children.
That is more than Hitler and Stalin killed of Jewish Blood combined.
Yet the LSD's try to call MAGA's leaders/Voters Nazis.
Hell, they lead the way in bankrupting the USA.
Here are the projected figures of the US Government budget 4 years from now.
UNLESS TRUMP/DOGE get it under control.
Watch for DC Swamp, $$$$$$, elites and Political leaders, to dump, steal/fleece and flee in numbers as the US collapses.
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From Kunstler today: "Ms. Pirro was a Westchester County, New York, judge, and then elected District Attorney, so she knows how to work criminal cases. The interim appointment runs 120 days. In theory, Mr. Trump can appoint a new Interim US Attorney every 120 days, and keep rotating them until the cows come home — each successive one with the same support staff of assistant US attorneys underneath, the same cases ongoing, and the same trove of evidence catalogued.
All of which is to say, the blob officials and lawfare stormtroopers are mistaken to think that their ongoing circus of legalistic monkey business has somehow gained immunity from appraisal, investigation, and prosecution by de-railing Ed Martin. The cases themselves are bigger than any one particular US attorney and have a momentum of their own as the nation struggles to overcome the organized assault on the law itself that lawfare represents."
"...in his 100-plus days as Interim US Attorney for DC, Mr. Martin assembled quite a portfolio of evidence around the manifold blob wrong-doings of the past decade, but especially the treachery of the J-6 / 2021 blob operation at the US Capitol, and the ensuing cover-up of all that, including the intel community’s role in it, the perfidy and perjuries of Chris Wray, Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and others, and the gong show of lies and villainy that was the House J-6 committee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), (with remedial support from Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, (and, backstage as always, lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, Marc Elias, Ben Wittes, and Andrew Weissmann)."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
