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-Lurid Crime Tales-
There's a Serious Problem With the DOJ Investigation Into Hunter Biden
[Townhall] The trail of breadcrumbs that Hunter Biden left goes beyond that of Hansel and Gretel, but no one wants to look into this guy. The crack addict has been a public relations nightmare for his father, yet the liberal media's shield of protection prevents any accountability.

The shady government access deals have been widely known among some of us since Tony Bobulinski went on record to discuss the 2017 deal that fell through with CEFC China Energy. The Biden family was still compensated for their time, however. This deal involved Joe Biden, "the big guy," and showed the president lied about not knowing his son's allegedly corrupt foreign exploits. The Hunter Biden laptop has been a treasure trove of inquiry into potentially felonious activity, but no one wants to touch it for the most part. If Hunter were the son of a Republican, this would be the top story for months.

Mia has combed through that iCloud, a Pandora's Box of debauchery. While the crack cocaine, hookers, white claws, and M&M stories are fun, the tax evasion probe is real and ongoing. Yet, there's a serious snag. Delaware's US Attorney's Office isn't big enough to handle the investigation. They lack the resources to investigate all the angles of the case. Hunter Biden and corruption is an ever-growing amoeba, and this office is reportedly in dire need of reinforcements.

Margot Cleveland at The Federalist has more, including a recap of all the family's suspicious activities:
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/30/2022 03:45 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, there is. it's the DoJ...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Problem? What problem? Seems to be going along the plan.

Operation Lou Bega.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Once tainted by corruption, images are hard to shed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/30/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Who will investigate the investigators? Congress? Don't make me laugh.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||


#6  Call our Tokyo ambassador to hire a kabuki troupe for a multi-year gig
Posted by: magpie || 07/30/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#7  It might be worth someone giving it The Hannity Test. If he is hyping it, nothing will happen. We will have to draw straws to see who has to watch that moron, though.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2022 20:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The last major media holdout still shilling for Joe Biden
[AmericanThinker] By all accounts - by every economic indicator, every political poll, every overseas interaction, every lie at the presidential podium -- Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
is a miserable failure as president. Inflation brought on by government spending has now tipped the economy into recession and there is no end in sight. The border lies open, with the Border Patrol converted into a de facto valet and escort service for literally millions of unvetted illegal border crossers. Crime is out of control. America is a laughingstock abroad, with Biden's name on the most humiliating military pullout in U.S. history.

He's a man utterly unfit for the office, a man whose very placement in office demonstrates the horrific consequences of electoral fraud.

Even the New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

has come to much of this sorry conclusion, as has the Washington Post, and to an increasing extent, CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
and the other networks, as well as their deep-state allies. A slew of negative stories are now out on the failures and shocking corruption of Biden, as Democrats plot to remove the millstone-round-their-necks from office.

Victor Davis Hanson observed it best:

Now, that liability, that asset, Joe Biden, is a liability, and he's so low in the polls that they're going to blame him for their own progressive message, failing to attract voters. So all of a sudden out of this administrative state and the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
, the DOJ, maybe even the White House, people are starting to leak

But then there's that one lone holdout in the mainstream press, still reliving that glory moment of Joe's ascent to the presidency, still telling us there's a rainbow round the corner ... with leprachaun Joe standing at the pot of gold at the end of it.

That clown's outfit is Politico, a usually better than average source of news otherwise. It's the lone holdout, the dead-ender still resolutely insisting that Joe Biden in the White House will somehow usher in a worker's paradise and prosperity is around the corner. It's amazing how they cling to their man.

Their latest is here:

Somehow, someway, Joe Biden is back in the game.

After enduring a brutal year dominated by economic angst, legislative setbacks and sinking approval ratings, the president is suddenly on the verge of a turnaround that, the White House believes, could salvage his summer — and alter the trajectory of his presidency.

All he needs to do now is close.

Hear that? We are at the cusp, always the cusp, of a Joe Biden renaissance, just one more move to be had before unicorns and flowers will bloom.

As RedState noted, it's not even factual wishful thinking:

Besides, what evidence is there that Biden is "back in the game?" One look at the polling averages tells a far different story. The president currently enjoys a 38.2 percent approval rating in the aggregate according to RealClearPolitics. He’s only topped 40 percent in a single poll over the last week.

Don't think it's not a pattern with these guys -- it is a pattern. The same day, one of Politico's Biden fanboys, a big one, co-founder John F. Harris, put out this:

Wait, is Biden a better president than people thought? Many progressives have spent the Biden years in a mood of rising despair and even rage about the prospects for achieving the kind of fundamental change they believe the country and world urgently need. They wish Joe Manchin
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one (okay, two) Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
was a different kind of senator. They wish the Democrats were a different kind of party.
Above all, they wish Joe Biden was a different kind of president — or that a different leader altogether was in his job.

Suddenly, the mood is looking up. Manchin’s surprise decision to back $370 billion in tax credits to stimulate clean-energy technologies and other progressive environmental priorities came after many Democrats had concluded hope was pointless. Assuming the deal survives further legislative maneuvering in coming days — not a forgone conclusion — it invites a reappraisal of Biden’s leadership. Maybe that isn’t hopeless, either?

Following a pattern with long roots in his career, Biden is looking a little like the student who is failing his class for most of the semester, then pulls an all-nighter and slips the paper under the professor’s door at 6 a.m. It turns out the paper is actually pretty good.

Still shilling, still plugging for Ol' Plugs, despite the obvious failures, and despite the abandonment of the rest of the press of the idea of Joe Biden's genius.

All of that spells failure, no matter what the odd political victory that falls into his lap may signify. The huge new federal spending being touted by Politico, Biden and the Democrats is certain to stoke inflation, making it ever more hellish for Americans, and bringing the country closer to the 'you will own nothing and be happy' of the global resetters. Frighteningly enough, Joe doesn't know what causes inflation, which is government spending and a pliant monetary policy, remaining firmly convinced that he can print his way out of any problem.

That's what's pulling Biden's popularity down, along with the continuous failure of results. To confuse that with a slew of new spending his congressional allies manage to get through Congress is pinning the tail on the wrong donkey.

Politico, though, just can't quit him.
Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
Ja ja ja jah

Time Magazine put Garnir on their front page!

Fucking tools just doubled her price.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  So which group in the DNC is Politico working for?
Posted by: James || 07/30/2022 19:48 Comments || Top||

#3  They are the Titanic band. Hopefully they know Tiny Bubbles and some classics.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2022 20:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "When the levee breaks"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2022 20:43 Comments || Top||


Undocumented, underhoused chestfed kids are not in a recession, say Dems
[NYPOST] "We should avoid a semantic battle" said Janet Yellen yesterday. "A what?" In short it seems what the Treasury Secretary means is that we should not use the word "recession."

That is a shame, because people, including Yellen’s boss, used to like to use the word a lot. In October 2020, when he was running for office, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. 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....
said "President Obama and I left Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
a booming economy — and he caused a recession. He squandered it just like he has everything else he’s inherited in his life." He said the same thing in September 2020, claiming that American was in a "recession created by Donald Trump’s negligence."

Fast forward a couple of years and The White House is now reframing the meaning of the word and warning us all not to use it. It is true that until yesterday it was generally agreed that two straight quarters of negative GDP growth was the common definition of a recession. But yesterday President Biden said, "That doesn’t sound like a recession to me." This fact should surprise no one.

Because re-naming things is one of the left’s favorite pastimes. If you cannot change the facts then you can at least change the language around the facts. By doing so you can massage the facts, make them less concerning and in the process wish reality away. For a time, at least.

Remember the redefinition of another word: the "T" word. "Transitory" was the word Biden used after the third stimulus package in an attempt to claim that inflation was a fleeting issue. Back then he was dismissing inflation as a nothing-burger — all to do with supply chains that were being fixed anyhow. But many months later and the inflation is still with us. It turns out that things that are "Transitory" can stay around a lot longer than we thought.
Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, the R word won't be in the Newspeak dictionary?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2022 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Headline has me putting a dollar $2 in the jar.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||


Last Minute Pelosi Legislative Trick for an even Harsher Assault Weapons Ban
[OneClickPolitics] Tyrants in DC are pushing through a new federal "assault weapons" ban that is even more draconian than the original 1994 ban. HR 1808 - which would ban nearly all ARs, AKs, AR pistols (and even many handguns and shotguns) - was advanced by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, July 20th. By gaining the approval of the Judiciary Committee in a 25-18 vote, H.R. 1808 now awaits a full vote in the House.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hang them all
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/30/2022 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The bill passed [the House] with a vote of 217–213, largely along party lines, with Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Chris Jacobs of New York voting for it. Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas voted against.

Yahoo News
Posted by: Bobby || 07/30/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ima perfectly happy with...door numma won.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/30/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess the trick here is gaslighting the general people into thinking that The House has the authority to do anything.

I am left to wonder...did The Mall Incident swing opinion? Seemed a locked thing 'to do something' until really just recently. Put that in contrast to dude playing Candy Crush while his wife puts up her life fight. Sorry; I would have had to be more zipped up than a Freddy Mercury wet dream.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Anyone who thinks gridlock is not good, given our current crop of politicians, isn't paying attention or wants rule by fiat anyway. As long as the fiat ruler sees things their way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  FFS gridlock is the feature of the founding. It was designed to be difficult. Its the whole fucking point, not to be ruled by king dictate.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ THIS!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/30/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Hang them all

Don't say that. They'll ban rope.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2022 12:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Just like guns, the problem with banning rope is all the rope already out there. And, hey, if the rope's a bit short, well, so it goes...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't think this law would last too long with the current Supreme Court make-up. I would rather they waste money chasing this unicorn rather than spending money that we can't unspend.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2022 20:10 Comments || Top||


Rep. Linda Sanchez flips off GOP dugout at Congressional Baseball Game
[NYPOST] Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) did not hide her feelings toward her Republican colleagues during Thursday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, giving the GOP dugout the middle finger after she was pulled for a pinch-runner.

The Republican team was leading 5-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning when Sanchez drew a leadoff walk. As she hustled back to the Democratic dugout on the third-base line at Nationals Park, the politician turned her head toward the GOP bench on the first-base side, then raised her left hand and made the offensive gesture without breaking stride.

It’s unclear if something was said to Sanchez that prompted her to flip Republicans the bird. Her office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Posted by: Fred || 07/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And you got your asses kicked. Fucking lame loser.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/30/2022 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  She looks like a dyke.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 07/30/2022 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  more like a beach ball, hence the pinch runner
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  This is why I say we have to stop this being nice shit. They show their contempt for us at every oppurtunity.
Posted by: Chris || 07/30/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  "That's not who we are" = "We are losers"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Civility

[Right]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/30/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Next time she's in that game, I'd throw at her head.
Posted by: Raj || 07/30/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Chin music ain't hard to throw when the batter has five chins.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/30/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#9  More chins than a Chinese phone book.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/30/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#10  more like a beach ball, hence the pinch runner

Oh no. That's quality chatter right there.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#11  At least she didn't shoot anybody.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#12  This is so passe. Replace it with a Congressional MMA Tournament.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/30/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Jordan wins. Just give him the belt. The only contender would be MTG.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2022 20:04 Comments || Top||



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