This week marked the anniversary of one of the greatest political tricks in history: the disappearance of Hunter Biden scandal. New emails were released that added new details to what was a raw influence peddling operation that netted millions from foreign sources. A new tranche of emails connecting President Joe Biden to key accounts proves just how this political sleight of hand was worthy of Houdini. After all, Houdini only made an elephant disappear. The Bidens made the equivalent to an entire circus disappear in front of an audience of millions.
How Houdini made his 10,000 pound elephant Jennie disappear every night in New York’s Hippodrome remains a matter of some debate. There are no good pictures of his famous cabinet and Houdini later threatened to sue those featuring acts with “disappearing elephants.” What is clear is that the sheer size and audacity of the act (like that of the Bidens) contributed to the trick. The fact is that Jennie never left the large cabinet, people just didn’t see it.
The Bidens achieved the same effect. They made a full-sized scandal disappear with the help of media and members who did not want the public to see it. Twitter banned postings about the laptop until after Biden was elected. The media dismissed the story as a conspiracy theory with some mocking the “New York Post and everyone else who got suckered into the ridiculous Hunter Biden Laptop story. Take a bow.”
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff assured that public that “this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin.” Some 50 former intelligence officials, including Obama’s CIA directors John Brennan and Leon Panetta, also insisted the laptop story was likely the work of Russian intelligence.
The laptop is, of course, now recognized as genuine even by some of the early deniers. Hunter remains under criminal investigation for possible tax and money laundering violations. But the greatest “reveal” is the person referred to as “the Big Guy” and “Celtic” in these emails: President Biden.
Recently released emails reference payments to President Biden from his son’s accounts and indicate the possible commingling of funds. Even more embarrassing, the shared account may have been used to pay a Russian prostitute named “Yanna.” In one text, a former secret service agent warns Hunter (who was holed up with a prostitute in an expensive hotel) “Come on H this is linked to Celtic’s account.”
The question is whether prosecutors will continue to act like they do not see the elephant. Consider these established facts:
First, it is widely believed that Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden, received millions in influence peddling. For his part, Hunter only had influence and access to sell. He admits that he was a crack addict and alcoholic all the way up to the start of his father’s presidential campaign — in his words, “Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating,” as well as “smoking crack around the clock.”
Second, Joe Biden has continued to deny knowledge or involvement in these foreign dealings and those denials are now directly contradicted by emails and witnesses. Hunter himself contradicted his father’s repeated denials. Likewise, a key business associate of Hunter Biden, Anthony Bobulinski, directly accused Joe Biden of lying about his involvement. Bobulinski has detailed a meeting with Joe Biden in a hotel to go over the dealings. Past emails included discussions of offering access to then-Vice President Biden. They also include alleged payments to Joe Biden. In one email, there is a discussion of a proposed equity split of “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” Bobulinski confirmed that “H” was used for Hunter Biden and that his father was routinely called “the big guy” in these discussions.
Third, while he was vice president, Joe Biden allowed Hunter to fly on Air Force 2 to countries like China where he was seeking millions. He also met with Hunter’s foreign business associates. In 2015, a State Department official flagged the possible conflicts from Hunter’s dealings during the Obama Administration.
Fourth, new emails suggest a commingling of funds between Hunter and his father. Emails from Eric Schwerin, his business partner at the Rosemont Seneca consultancy, refer to the payment of household bills for both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. He also notes that he was transferring money from Joe Biden. Rosemont Seneca is directly involved in the alleged influence peddling schemes and questionable money transfers from Chinese and Russian sources.
Finally, Hunter himself admitted that his missing computers files may have been stolen by foreign agents for blackmail purposes. Hunter’s emails claim one of his laptops may have been stolen by Russian agents after a drug and alcohol binge with prostitutes.
Given the ongoing criminal prosecution, that would seem an ample basis for the appointment of a special counsel. The President is mentioned repeatedly in emails and by witnesses in relation to influence peddling schemes and even receiving funds from shared accounts. He has also denied knowledge that key witnesses refute, including his son.
Influence peddling is common in Washington and can be done legally. Yet, it has also been the subject of intense criminal investigations. For example, the FBI raided the home of Trump counsel Rudolph Giuliani and others based on allegations of influence peddling in an ongoing criminal investigation. The Justice Department wants to know if Giuliani secured contracts in exchange for access or influence. The media gleefully recounted the raids and how Giuliani may have cashed in on his access.
Yet, an influence peddling scheme that directly impacts the President and his family continues to be officially unseen. Indeed, the value of involving the media in the original trick is that it invests reporters in the illusion. It is like calling audience members to the stage to assist in the performance. Reporters have to insist that there was nothing to see or they have to admit to being part of the deception.
This is why, in Washington, the illusion depends on the specific elephant.
Houdini once said that “It is still an open question . . . as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.” The same question can be asked about a politician. President Biden is in full display in these emails. The question is whether the public – or the prosecutors – want to see him.
One has to read European news agencies to learn how poorly Biden and Democrats are trending in the US because the slanted DNC/MSM liberal media are so blatantly dishonest about everything. I still would be surprised if Youngkin won, in spite of few McAwful yard signs in Richmond. When it comes to elections the Dems cheat 25/8, 367 days of the year. The news media in VA runs hit pieces on Youngkin weekly, and McAwful has blasted Youtube with forced ads that play prior to playing any YT video. It detects our IP address and pushes McAwful’s ad. Despicable how Big Tech manipulates America’s elections. Despicable.
Democrat in key Virginia governor race hanging on by a thread in further blow for ailing Biden administration
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/18/democrat-key-virginia-governor-race-hanging-thread-blow-ailing/
The tight polling numbers in the Virginia race echo Mr Biden’s decline in national polling, amid rising inflation and a stalled domestic agenda, and has rattled the Democratic Party.
According to Rasmussen Reports, 56 per cent of voters disapprove of his record and 43 per cent approve. A Reuters/Ipsos poll gives him a more modest two per cent disapproval rating.
A defeat in Virginia could spell disaster for the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections when the balance of power in Congress – and the fate of the remainder of Mr Biden’s first term and his progressive agenda – will be decided.
Acknowledging the stakes, Mr Biden told reporters on Friday the race was understandably being read as a “bellwether of what may happen” next year.
Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told the Telegraph a loss for Mr McAuliffe would be “disastrous for Democratic prospects in 2022.”
“If Virginia is going to go Republican it would pretty much close the books on Democrats maintaining control of Congress,” he said.
Mr McAuliffe, 64, has partially blamed his narrow lead on Mr Biden’s low popularity and a spending row between Democrats in Congress that has brought their legislative agenda to a standstill.
Estovir, with the massive boost that the mainstream media and Big Tech give Democrats, it’s a surprise when any Republican or Libertarian wins any office.
The boost is significant and measurable. Perhaps such propaganda should have to be declared campaign contributions. The media squashing the perfectly legitimate Hunter Biden laptop scandal alone gave Biden an advantage.
I would like to see SCOTUS remove all legal protections against the MSM so that anyone can sue them for misinformation. We would make bank off of CNN, MSNBC and Big Tech in record time
Mr. McAuliffe’s his own worst enemy.
Turley: “Mainstream Media Must Carry Rightwing Media Stories”
Professor Turley has made it clear he wants no excerpts from mainstream media posted on these comment threads. The last thing Turley wants is well-written, fact-based coverage contradicting his columns. In this regard Turley seeks to keep these comment threads a no-go zone that seals out mainstream media.
Most Rightwing media sources shun mainstream narratives. ‘They’ will decide, on any given day, ‘what’ is really news. Fox News, for instance, feels no obligation whatsoever, to follow-up on stories broken by The New York Times. And arguably they have no obligation. Fox News is targeting different demographics than the New York Times.
Why then is the New York Times, or ‘any’ mainstream source, obligated to honor stories broken by rightwing media?? No such obligation exists! And the very idea that such an obligation exists reflects a jaded sense of both-sidism that grips Johnathan Turley. Mainstream media does not have to play by rightwing media rules.
The same thoughts occurred to me as well. Whatever the endgame is here, they have to do it quickly.
They pulled off an elaborate Oceans Eleven style heist in getting Trump out of office do a 180 and install a socialist minded government — they cashed in all their markers, spent exorbitant amounts of money from a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires, pressed in service administrators in key positions to simultaneously create, bend if not break the laws on the gamble it would not be provably discoverable, made backroom assurances that they would cover each other’s backs as the SHTF, established a plethora of NGOs to accomplish ground level grunt work and manipulation, and made sure above anything else that this baton made it past the finish line.
It is impressive as to its audacity, peddling of influence and bribes being paid in plain sight, public crimes being ignored by those who have a monopoly in prosecuting them, and the newsmedia in collusion to keep it greased up and patched together.
But the scam has a time limit, they could suppress and reframe reality only for so long, as all their machinations would eventually catch up with reality, and all would be discovered and stopped.
The time window is essentially the next Congressional election cycle, and they know it.
They blew the bank and all political/media credibility to get this thing propped up, and while it manages to teeter in place, they must rush through whatever they can during this time.
The big questions, will it work in any lasting way, and who/what is coordinating it (if any). It seems like a concerted effort to take down the American system and replace it with a European, possibly Asian, style oligarchic system of social and political control.
Very good post Gary. I’m still (probably naively) holding out hope that we have people in very powerful positions that don’t want their legacy to be that they took down the American system. Maybe they entered public service for honorable reasons. Maybe they got caught up in what they believed was a noble cause. And maybe they they want an honorable out. Whatever is going to happen next, it will be before the 2022 election and it will change everything.
It’s truly sad how delusional you Trumpsters can be, how gullible, how willing to believe conspiracy theories and especially The Big Lie. The constant drumbeat pounding of lies every single night by Fox, News Max, OAN and the others apparently works, but only for true believers. You Trumpsters are blind to reality. Each of the following is FACTUAL, not theoretical, proven by solid evidence: 1. Trump needed to cheat to get into America’s White House because all polls predicted his loss, and he did lose the popular vote. He only won the Electoral College with the help of Russian hackers who attacked Hillary Clinton by spreading lies about her on social media in key districts that insider polling showed could make the difference; 2. The majority of Americans never approved of Trump in 4 years’ time, and he set a record in the history of presidential polling for consistently below-50% approval ratings; 3. Every single poll for the 2020 election predicted Trump’s loss, including Fox’s polling; 4. Trump lost the election in 2020. The results were certified by all 50 Secretaries of State, the majority of whom are Republican. There were multiple recounts, re-recounts, and even a “forensic” examination in Arizona that did not change the results. Dozens of court challenges failed because, despite there being irregularities, like extending the hours for polling and allowing more mail and absentee voting, or not purging dead voters’ names (when there were no votes attached to these names) there is simply no proof that any of the things complained of by Trump or his surrogates could have changed the outcome. This is why 60+ lawsuits were dismissed: no proof that there was or could have been a different outcome.As a last-ditch desperate move, Trump riled his faithful to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”. So, the faithful stormed the Capitol, erected a gallows and hunted for Pence, trying to kill him because he wouldn’t overturn certified election results, even though there is no law allowing him to do that. And, morons like you complain that Democrats are engaging in a “concerted effort to take down the American system”? What the hell is wrong with you? Just how blind and ignorant to reality can you be?
You Trumpsters STILL BELIEVE the Big Lie. You speak of scams and “suppressing and reframing reality”, which is what they do on the alt-right media you rely on by continuing to indoctrinate you believers into falling for lies put out by Trump and the Republicans, including the constant attacks on Biden, shifting blame to him for problems readjusting after our economy and our health were torched by Trump’s incompetence, like the withdrawal from Afghanistan: after Trump made a deal with the Taliban to release 5,000 prisoners and draw down our troops from 14,000 to 2,500 and didn’t include the Afghan government in negotiations, and he held up SIV visas because Afghanis are Muslim, did you expect things to go smoothly? Trump didn’t even allow for a continuing presence or air base in Afghanistan, but this is all Biden’s fault? The economy was mostly shut down for a full year, and now we have supply chain problems–and, this is all Joe Biden’s fault? The only “machinations” out there to affect elections are the efforts by Republicans to rig the next election, by allowing a committee to overturn valid election results with no evidence, which is what Trump tried to do in Georgia, by bulling Brad Raffensberger into “finding” him more votes.
Riddle me this: where is the PROOF for the Big Lie? Where is it? It’s been almost a full year since the election, so where is the proof?
Whatever the endgame is here, they have to do it quickly.
Good post Gary but it appears the endgame is closer than any of us realize. China and Russia could literally annihilate us any time they wish, way before Nov 2022. Taiwan invasion could prove to be our end. Biden and Democrats would likely welcome that. We are in sad shape militarily as a nation, a truly third rate military power.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/19/us-faces-catastrophic-defeat-china-russia-hypersonic-third-world/
How the US faces catastrophic defeat by China or Russia in a hypersonic Third World War
US is lagging in the ‘hypersonic race’ as rival superpowers develop game-changing weapons including AI ‘drone swarms’ and autonomous rockets
It is fair to say there is some paranoia at the Pentagon about America’s current predicament.
Officials even recently entertained the possibility that UFO sightings over the US could be hypersonic Chinese or Russian drones.
In particular, the need to do something about China’s hypersonic lead has been given huge urgency by the results of classified Pentagon war games set in 2030.
US officials believe the likeliest flashpoint for a Third World War is Taiwan, where a Chinese invasion would trigger an armed conflict between the world’s two mightiest powers.
In a large scale war game last October the US found itself crushed.
According to General John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US information systems were knocked out immediately, and its strategy of massing forces in one place then left them a sitting target for the Chinese.
As opposed to a tight coalition of billionaires, headed by the Kochs? https://www3.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/10/14/the-kochs-want-that- tax-cut-badly/oUJ2VvCU0GAIT7cbdZfIXL/story.html tax cut bribe
After passing a $3 trillion tax cut for his corporate masters adding $3 trillion to the debt, #MoscowMitchMcConnell now says the only way to lower the federal deficit is to cut Medicare and Social Security, which millions earned and depend on.
Tell the truth. We have the tape.
If I see another quote by Adam Schiff I’m gonna puke. Can someone please make him disappear? Let’s start a Go Fund Me page for this…
Unlike Turley, Schiff has retained a large portion of his integrity and dignity.
Law Dog says:
“Unlike Turley, Schiff has retained a large portion of his integrity and dignity.”
True. Jonathan “Fox News” Turley- the name says it all.
To borrow a quote from Ronald Reagan: “there he goes again”: trying to breathe life into the Fox News/Giuliani ginned up “Hunter Biden scandal”. The reason NO outlet other than pro-Trump media carry the “scandal” is because there IS no scandal. Tell us, Turley, where did the laptop and where do the latest “revelations” come from? According to recent books, after Trump flopped badly in the first debate, proving himself to be nothing more than an ignorant bully, Giuliani came up with the idea that Biden could be derailed in the second debate by Trump confronting him with salacious material that came from the alleged “Hunter laptop”. That failed. There is NO “Hunter Biden scandal”.
Natacha. YOU should be institutionalized
Here is Natacha telling AOC that even if we were to bomb Russia, there is too much CO2, and that we need to “eat the babies”.
Now you know why the American Founders:
– required Justices to swear an oath to support the Constitution
– restricted immigration to “…free white person(s)…”
– required voters to be male, European, 21 with 50 lbs.
– designed and engineered a turnout of 11.6% in 1788
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“It’s the [Constitution], stupid!”
– James Carville
Never mind that the Framers’ Constitution was subject to revision….
Not “eat” per se. Abort the babies for social progress, cannibalize their profitable parts for medical progress, and sequester their carbon pollutants for climate mitigation.
Baby Back Ribs
Veal Parmigiana
This is so blatantly goofy, and the way she ‘revealed’ the T-shirt message with such a crazy slogan that is sure to become a right wing meme, it almost seems like a trolling of the left.
What could be better to counter and discredit the political left efforts than to propose we that “Eat the Babies”
Does look like possibly a stunt:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/04/fringe-group-planned-eat-babies-stunt-aoc-town-hall/3869116002/
It apparently it was a stunt.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/04/fringe-group-planned-eat-babies-stunt-aoc-town-hall/3869116002/
I think she is already institutionalized. She writes her claptrap while out of her straight-jacket while on bathroom breaks.
About half the country are, apparently, Mr. Biden’s co-conspirators, and you, “Natacha”, are one of them. The issue here is not whether either or both of the Bidens engaged in unethical, possibly criminal, activities. It’s whether the justice system is prepared to prosecute.
With the obvious exception of his patron Vlad Putin, every world leader recognized that Donald Trump was a moron at best, and in the pocket of Xi, Putin, Erdogan, Bibi, and Mister Bone Saw. At any number of points, Trump acted in their interest, at cross-purpose with our national interest.
Trump was for sale, and it was not subtle. Qatar rented out two floors in his SF property, which were empty BEFORE the pandemic. Following Donald Trump’s trail of dirty money, https://www.salon.com/2021/02/02/following-donald-trumps-trail-of-dirty-money-no-smoking-gun-but-plenty-of-sleaze/ Just after he was elected, $17M was transferred from a ChiCom-controlled company to a rarely-used Trump bank account; he skimmed over $15M off the top almost immediately. Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html See also, forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/02/13/trump-conflicts-of-interest-tenants-donald-business-organization-real-estate-assets-pay/ And where there is graft, you will find the Saudis. Saudi Arabia Is Making Trump Hotels Profitable Again, observer.com/2018/08/saudi-arabia-making-trump-hotels-profitable-again/ The easiest way to bribe Donald Trump (even domestic companies did it) was to over-spend at his hotels.
What did his patrons get for their largesse? MBS literally got away with the murder of Khashoggi. Bibi got the Iran deal blown up — essential to his political survival. Putin got his foothold in Syria, as Trump betrayed our Kurdish allies, who cost a pittance to support. ‘Trump betrayed us’: Fleeing Kurds condemn U.S. decision to leave Syria, pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-betrayed-us-fleeing-kurds-condemn-u-s-decision-to-leave-syria Xi got a muted reaction to his advance on Hong Kong. Trump promised Xi US silence on Hong Kong democracy protests as trade talks stalled, cnn.com/2019/10/04/politics/trump-xi-hong-kong-protests/index.html And God only knows what Trump said to his real boss from Moscow. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6585565/Trump-reportedly-confiscated-translators-notes-meeting-Putin.html
And you are worried about Biden?
Law Dog,
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“With the obvious exception of his patron Vlad Putin, every world leader recognized that Donald Trump was a moron at best,”
You ought to look in a mirror because that comment makes you sound like one By the way a lot of people evaluating Trump’s finances are coming to the conclusion that as President he lost in the vicinity of a billion dollars.
You can continue to be ignorant for as long as you please. Some others have been ignorant as well and they come back and forth onto this blog just as you do.
The American Founders did not require Americans to be smart, they required Americans to be free…free of the dictatorship of the monarchy, the proletariat and every other form of ostensibly intellectual totalitarianism.
Congress has no power to tax for anything other than “…general Welfare…” and no power to regulate anything other than the value of money, the “flow” of commerce and land and naval Forces.
The entire welfare state is unconstitutional and the IRS is unnecessary and unjustifiable – taxation should be so simple it becomes a simple local law enforcement matter.
The Founders gave Americans the one and only thing they could: Freedom.
Americans rejected it.
Trump has enough money to cover himself and his family.
One of the selling points of Trump is that he never had to kowtow to monied interests, so he does what he does shooting from the hip and from he thinks is the right way to get things done, and without the usual decorum “polite” people demand. He had no sacred cows to protect, not Russia, not China, not the American Elite.
That is the reason why he is superficially so distasteful to so many — annoying tweets and boorish behavior — enough to want him out office at the expense of the whole nation going to sheet.
From the high end, channeled through pundits and influencers down to the Karens of the world, the Elite created a narrative of his unacceptability so as to protect their own interests as well.
Sorry Natacha but judgment day is coming.
Miranda Devine’s book. “Laptop From Hell, Hunter Biden, BigTech and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide” will be out November 30. Devine is the journalist who brought the story out in the New York Post. Devine said in a recent interview that her book will present the unvarnished truth “documented” from the laptop information. She also said there is some new never released information on the Biden family that will be in the book.
Sorry, Gabby, but The New York Post is a tabloid, like the “National Enquirer”, so the people who work there aren’t “journalists”. Just like Fox, it is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Just like Fox, it is an alt-right pro-Trump media maven with no general credibility.
Gabby, you should probably go back to Gab.
Questionable ‘N.Y. Post’ Scoop Driven by Ex-Hannity Producer, Giuliani,
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924506867/analysis-questionable-n-y- post-scoop-driven-by-ex-hannity-producer-giuliani; Post reporters embarassed: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/new- york-post-insiders-slag-flimsy-hunter-biden-stories.html
For some, once a dupe always a DUPE!
Natacha — you just keep telling yourself that. And keep telling yourself that there definitely was Trump-Russia collusion, and tons of WMDs in Iraq.
One out of two ain’t bad, gio.
According to the Senate Intel Committee, the “Russian hoax” was not fabricated. According to their report, our spooks were able to do what Mueller was not: trace Manafort’s confidential polling books from him to confirmed FSB agent Konstantin Kilimnik to Russian troll farms, where that information was weaponized in the 2016 election.
It was further alleged in indictments that Wikileaks was provided HRC’s e-mails by the Russians. They were released within hours of the release of the Billy’s Bang Bus tape, in an attempt to reclaim the news cycle. Mueller Missed the Crime: Trumpʼs Campaign Coordinated With Russia, https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller-missed-the-crime-trumps-campaign-coordinated-with-russia
It is one thing to say that Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russians, and another to say that HE did. On the facts that we have, Trump himself appears to have plausible deniability, as Nixon did in Watergate. But it is usually not the crime that gets you into trouble; it’s the cover-up.
We catch most criminals because they are really stupid, and Trump is no exception. If that moron had just fired James Comey and hired one of his criminal henchmen to take his place, no one would have noticed. But he confessed to Lester Holt. THAT is what triggered the Mueller inquiry. So, stop it with this “Deep State plot” nonsense.
This was Nixon 2.0, without the tapes. Trump started obstructing justice almost immediately. He even gave Javelin missiles to Ukraine for a little favor. Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation With Mueller Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/ukraine-mueller-manafort-missiles.html And as we saw with the shakedown of President Zelenskyy, this was how Trump did bid’ness. They got the Javelins they so desperately needed, and Kilimnik got to scurry back to Moscow.
Why aren’t you upset about that?
Law Dog says:
“It is one thing to say that Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russians….”
Regrettably, even Turley has blurred the distinction between not sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and collusion with Russian backed operatives. The former is one thing and he latter is another. Turley has stated the Mueller Report found no collusion which he knows is a flat out lie.
Welcome to the RW blogosphere. Spend a little time at Gab, and you will see Earth 2.
Just waiting for the first s@@tlib to call JT a ‘nazi’ for writing this.
antonio
Liberals will never do that. They are already overwhelmed just trying to circumvent every law they can find on immigration and elections. Don’t hold your breath.
What could possibly be leveraged from having evidence of the Biden’s corruption?
– Although he’s obviously suffering mental decline, make him run for president.
– Run his entire campaign from his basement to protect him.
– Use the media and big tech to run cover on negative stories.
– Blame Russia. Blame Russia. Blame Russia.
– Blame Trump. Blame Trump. Blame Trump.
– Use the mail-in voting (Covid) scam to fix the election.
Most important and most devastating is the demand that Biden implement the Leftist agenda as rapidly as possible. He’s on the clock. They can’t hide his corruption forever and his dementia might take him out first. Either way, this is do or die for the Leftists running this presidency and their compliant members in congress. Speaking of others willing to go along with this plan; what Kompromat is held against them?
I know, crazy conspiracy theories. But if men can have babies, and porn can be in our school libraries…well
He’s always stuttered, and has found ways to cope. But mental decline? Not from what I’ve seen. But let’s look at your Orange Julius Caesar.
Trump’s own people called his intelligence into question. Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in November 2017 that Trump was “like an 11-year-old child.” At a dinner in July 2017, McMaster mocked Trump, also calling him an “idiot,” BuzzFeed News reported. At the dinner, which was with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster also said Trump was a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to that report. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in July 2017 called Trump a “moron.” Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump an “idiot,” Wolff wrote. Former economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was “dumb as shit.” Defense Secretary Mattis said Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/trumps-insults-idiot-woodward-806455
Trump wasn’t always this way. As Howard Stern fans know well, he used to be articulate and urbane. E.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJXyKKKyW0. But something happened. Specifically, dementia.
“One of the cardinal features of semantic dementia (SD) is a steady reduction in expressive vocabulary. … Relative to healthy controls, patients were less likely to produce low-frequency, high-imageability words, and more likely to produce highly frequent, abstract words. … As conceptual knowledge degrades, speech increasingly consists of general terms that can be applied in a broad range of linguistic contexts and convey less specific information.“ P. Hoffman, et al., Broadly speaking: vocabulary in semantic dementia shifts towards general, semantically diverse words, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23261549/. “TRUMP’S COGNITIVE DECLINE” – Dr. Gartner: “He’s showing signs of dementia.”: youtube.com/watch?v=5axgsXtwHMc.
It will take a turnover of the house and senate in the 2022 elections to get a special council.
The GOP will do nothing, as usual.
Maybe they can their cult to storm the capital again. Oh, thats right, the GOP were hiding in closets and barricading doors.
Where was AOC?
Did ya see the videos of the officers waving the protestors into the Capitol building? Or the video footage of the protestors walking within the velvet ropes looking around like curious tourists? Or how about the FBI undercover ‘protestors’ dressed in black and leading the charge to climb walls, break windows and cause damage? Yep, a real insurrection alright. The entire thing was a setup. Pelosi should be questioned under OATH.
Keep eating up the lies and disinformation they are feeding you, Fishy.
Republicans and Libertarians tend to be ineffective and lack unity.
All they do is complain, but nothing comes of it.
They’d better use both hands to find their backbone, come together, and fight the far Left. We’re already seeing a lawless Leftist ruling class, supply problems that could lead to shortages of critical supplies like food, businesses are folding, people are becoming impoverished, parents are seriously pushing back on schools who push far Left agendas, our energy supply is destabilized, CA can’t keep the lights on but Newsome has banned gas powered generators and lawnmowers, and criminals can steal up to $950 with impunity.
We’re rapidly throwing away our security and blessings with both hands.
Are we going to just stand there and complain about it, or are we going to be effective in fighting it?
Until and unless we can get the message out to those who don’t watch or listen to conservative or libertarian, then the masses rely upon far Left propaganda from the media, Big Tech, and Hollywood.
Although the “I Told You So Dance” is certainly enjoyable, as the Hunter Biden scandal gains ground and Biden plows the country into the ground just like we warned he would, it doesn’t change anything.
To start, I recommend Locals.com, as well as Dave Reuben’s and Prager U’s Youtube channels. For review of police incidents, check out Brandon Tatum’s channel. Take the free Constitution 101 class from Hillsdale. You can’t fight against a problem you don’t know exists, so get informed.
More of Karen’s arrogant “Us vs. the Left” bull. Karen: you pro-Trumpers and Republicans, for that matter, are in the distinct minority in this country, so you don’t speak for most Americans at all. It’s truly laughable every time you try to school people about what they need to learn, given how factually and scientifically wrong most of what you post is, which is nothing more than the blather and garbage you heard on Fox the night before. And, Fox isn’t “conservative”, either: it is pro-Trump. Trump is not a conservative, either. He is a wannabe dictator, reveling in the power, glory, and adulation associated with the Office of the President of the United States. Why not read what the Lincoln Project has to say about Trump? They are all Republicans who find Trump repulsive. Why not school yourself on the reasons why?
Natacha would be happy in Nazi Germany
Many of his/her ideological brethren would be, including the president et al. Germany 1933.
Prager? Follow him, and you will never want for moonshine.
World petroleum and other liquid fuels consumption will increase 38% by 2040, spurred by increased demand in the developing Asia and Middle East, according to projections in International Energy Outlook 2014 (IEO2014), released today by the U.S.Energy Information Administration (EIA).”The growth outlook for liquid fuels use will be largely driven by demand in the developing world, especially in Asia and the Middle East,” “Those two regions combined account for 85% of the total increase in liquid fuels used worldwide over that period.”
Renewables are way cheaper. We need to transition, and yesterday.
Politically, Libertarians have dropped the ball. A lot of infighting and jockeying for position; that and an infiltration of lefty philosophy couched in terms so as not to directly offend clear libertarian precepts, but getting very close.
That kind of behavior alienates practical libertarians from associating and backing what should be a strong Libertarian Party that currently has the best chances of success in these times of turmoil and government socialist overreach.
Instead we have to rely on libertarian leaning Republicans and Conservatives to do the heavy lifting of fighting back and shouting to the public what is going on, and instituting institutional/legal reforms that won’t let this insanity happen again.
This is more of the lawless behavior that we conservatives have been complaining about.
The media and Big Tech and in some cases the FBI are coordinating with the Democrats to create a ruling class, protected from criticism and immune from laws.
You know what this means, don’t you? The next time “50 former intelligence officials” and the mainstream media try to deny a story damaging to a major Democrat political figure, don’t believe them.
Karen: you’re not a conservative. You’re a Trump disciple. Real conservatives abhor the object of your devotion because he is the antithesis of conservative priciples. And, you believe there is a “Hunter Biden scandal” because that’s what you heard on Hannity.
Shut up comrade Natacha…Nobody reads your dribble.
I do. I don’t read yours though unless it’s like the above…, one sentence.
mf’n eb
Wen Bars: the word is “drivel”.
Natacha, you are rabid, so you dribble.
Exactly.
Karen,
Natacha and others on this blog make the claim that you, I and others are not conservative. This short article from Russell Kirk titled The Essence of Conservatism provides a very good description of what it means to truly be conservative. While we may fall short of this essence, I believe it describes many of us on this blog.
Conservatism, then, is not simply the concern of the people who have much property and influence; it is not simply the defense of privilege and status. Most conservatives are neither rich nor powerful. But they do, even the most humble of them, derive great benefits from our established Republic. They have liberty, security of person and home, equal protection of the laws, the right to the fruits of their industry, and opportunity to do the best that is in them. They have a right to personality in life, and a right to consolation in death. Conservative principles shelter the hopes of everyone in society. And conservatism is a social concept important to everyone who desires equal justice and personal freedom and all the lovable old ways of humanity. Conservatism is not simply a defense of “capitalism.” (“Capitalism,” indeed, is a word coined by Karl Marx, intended from the beginning to imply that the only thing conservatives defend is vast accumulations of private capital.) But the true conservative does stoutly defend private property and a free economy, both for their own sake and because these are means to great ends.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/10/essence-conservatism-timeless-russell-kirk.html?mc_cid=2c927aa825
You have to admit that Natacha, Jeff, Fishwrap, Paintchips/Anonymous, et al, provide us ample opportunity, gratis, to laugh, forget about our problems and otherwise make us feel completely nurmul. As former frequent commenter from Arizona, Paul S. Schulte, used to say, “Thank you Professor Turley, for allowing us to play in your sandbox”
😉
When they claim you’re not conservative, what they are admitting is Conservatism is fundamentally a great philosophy. Notice they don’t ever say Progressivism is a great philosophy. They don’t say Marxism is a great philosophy. To do that they would be inclined to provide evidence of it working to do those things that conservatism desires to conserve. They can’t. The only thing left for them to do is to try and disassociate people from the conservative philosophy by applying labels like Trumpists, Republicans, etc. What they don’t realize is conservatism is not a political party, nor is it a person; it’s a philosophy and a great one at that.
Good point, Olly.
Estovir,
I see it as insight into their minds.
Truly amazing how they project their insecurities on others, their mental gymnastics to twist everything into whataboutism, Trump, and Fox, and ignore the obvious elephant in the room, the 2020 election went to a mentally incompetent senior citizen.
They believe their own propaganda and lies.
I am likely the only one on here who sees them as sadists and psychopaths, which is why I opt not to feed them. The sadists enjoy disparaging others…it is their oxygen. I have posted the research literature on trolls as sadists in the past, and believe the literature explains perfectly what we see here.
These findings provide a preliminary glimpse into the mechanism by which sadism fosters trolling behavior. Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun . . . and the Internet is their playground!
Buckels, E. E., Trapnell, P. D., & Paulhus, D. L. (2014). Trolls just want to have fun. Personality and Individual Differences, 67, 97–102.
https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trolls-just-want-to-have-fun.pdf
Specifically, this study explored how the personality traits of outspokenness and the dark triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) predicted trolling behaviors. The results of this study revealed that the dark triad’s influence on trolling is mediated by malicious motives, particularly schadenfreude.
Pamela Jo Brubaker, D. M. (2021). The power of schadenfreude: Predicting behaviors and perceptions of trolling among reddit users – Pamela Jo Brubaker, Daniel Montez, Scott Haden Church, SAGE Journals
DOI 10.1177/20563051211021382
I am likely the only one on here who sees them as sadists and psychopaths, which is why I opt not to feed them.
Actually, those are likely two of many reasons many of us opt not to feed them.
“. . . who sees them as sadists and psychopaths . . .”
So instead of engaging their arguments, you resort to armchair psychopathology. That is not only a fallacy (ad hominem, psychologizing) — it is a vicious one.
You aren’t conservative. Full stop.
mf’n eb
Thank you for the compliment. 😎
As a former Federal Criminal Investigator….this investigation would be a slam dunk….a simple matter of Rule One in such matters….”FOLLOW THE MONEY!”.
Rule Two….there are no coincidences in life….they are all explainable.
Rule Three….If it looks like a Duck, Quacks like a Duck, Waddles like a Duck….it might just be a Duck.
Peddling access is not a Federal Crime per se….taking money for doing so and then making an overt act to do so with t he intent of subverting any Official Act IS a Federal Crime.
Passing proceeds from those payoffs along to the Principle darn tooting is a Federal Crime for all involved…to include the Principle…..in this Case Joe Biden the Big Guy.
The Republicans should make this affair the whole cornerstone of 2022….and again in 2024.
They should daily go on any outlet they can and demand a Special Counsel be named to investigate it.
They should also go after the AG for his Conflict of Interest and demand (at the minimum) he recuse himself and name a Special Counsel.
But…we know how Democrats are….they never go after their own no matter what crimes are committed.
That shall change with the 2022 Election when the Republicans take control of Congress.
There is an elephant in the Room and his name is Trump! Good grief. Trump incited an insurrection and continues to sell the big lie. The Kushners raked in over $134 million using the president as a sweetener. Barr’s son worked in the White House. McConnell and his wife raked in millions. That’s just a few. But as usual you want to talk about Hunter. When it comes to cover up the Republicans win the prize but I know you want to talk about Hunter Biden. Nothing covered up there; it’s been all over the press, truth and lies. The grid failed in Texas ..good olde Texas. But you want to talk about Hunter Biden. The professor of distraction. It used to be Law.
Justice Holmes,
Are you kidding? Trump has absolutely zero to do with the criminal activities of Hunter and Joe Biden. Trump was investigated the entire time he was in office, and is still being investigated by activists abusing their positions of authority trying to find something, anything, as evidence of a crime.
Perhaps “Justice” is a misnomer in your avatar.
As for the “big lie”:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-the-inside-account-of-how-trumps-pennsylvania-election-lawsuit-fell-apart?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=op_ed
The original lawsuit was based upon the widely disparate legal standards for ballots in Pennsylvania. They sued the state for violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. This was the basis of the Bush v Gore suit that was found to have merit, and it affected all 6.1 million Pennsylvania voters.
Rudy Giuliani muscled his way into the case, and completely changed its focus. While purging the voter rolls of deceased voters is indeed a necessary part of vote security, that wasn’t the basis of the case, and only a few hundred “dead people” had been found to have risen from the grave and voted in PA. Such phenomenon are evidence that the rolls should be periodically audited, but it was immaterial to the PA case. Giuliani focused on both non provable, and immaterial allegations. The original lawyers were upset and wanted nothing to do with the new direction the case was taking. All of them were excused from the case, although one of them had to repeatedly petition the judge for permission to leave.
Giuliani tanked a strong case that had affected 6.1 million voters, and that was in no way whatsoever a “big lie”, instead focusing on a side issue that only affected a few hundred.
When this lawsuit went off the rails and tanked, attorneys shied away from involvement on the downstream cases.
The media covers for Joe Biden, so it deliberately misled the public on the strong merits of the case. Does this sound familiar? It should, if you actually read Turley’s blog. Instead, it touted this failure of Giuliani’s as a “Big Lie”, and naive people like you bought it.
Honestly, this story about Hunter Biden should bother you. If it doesn’t, then perhaps change your name.
I think Justice Holmes is Nasty Nancy. He sounds just like the Liar of the House.
Isn’t it interesting Justice Holmes that out of the blue, Turley is so worried that crimes might be committed by the POTUS family. He had no such concerns about Trump and his family. NONE.
Have some thoughts to share about Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family operations?
Yes, let justice prevail and thoroughly look into it. Any real lawyer would tell you that the Trump crime family has more to worry about.
Hahahaa. Really now?
You know they have looked at the Trump family with a fine tooth comb for YEARS now and come up with what? Zilch, nada, zippo. Trump is about as clean as it gets at his level.
If they did the same scrutiny for the Biden Crime Family? Holy corruption! For certain they would come up with numerous crimes and ethics violations right there in the Biden cartel. Most of it is now in plain sight.
They only go after Republicans silly.
Oh, they found nothing in his foundations, and Trump University, because they paid a lot of money for doing nothing. Not to mention the payoffs, Shall I go on?
Yes, go on.
And then go on and call for multiple serious investigations into the entire Biden family ‘business’ going back decades, looking over all their finances and going through every transaction, every deposit, every dollar — and not just relying on old Joe’s laundered tax returns.
Scrutinze decades of Biden family ‘business’ with a fine tooth comb. Then give it nonstop media sensationalized coverage.
Then let’s see how the Biden family holds up to that kind of investigation.
Here’s a hint: it will never happen. Not because the Bidens are innocent, but because they are Democrats.
Start by asking if Joe Biden has paid HIS fair share of taxes.
Here’s another hint: he has not.
Neither has his son. Or his brother.
“let justice prevail”
HAHAHAHAHAHA you really are a fool aren’t ya Fishy?
“Any real lawyer would tell you…”
hahahahahaha!
How about this…..
A real lawyer would tell any Trump supporting Republican, not to say a word to the FBI….or any Republican for that matter…..do not ever speak to the FBI other than to say “lawyer”….”I want my lawyer”…..the FBI is not to be trusted. They will frame you, lie about it, and set you up to take a fall. It’s all the FBI does these days: frame Republicans and Trump supporters.
And make sure you get a *real lawyer….as opposed to a nutcase Public Defender who then makes you apologize to the court for your white privilege as we have seen happening to some of the J6 detainees.
“Trump incited an insurrection”
Provide the words that prove your case. You are short on facts and memory. Perhaps you are short on some other vital things as well.
Trump incited nothing. There was no “insurrection.” Turn off the crap you watch on TV. Your brain has been thoroughly washed.
Stop watching the pictures! Because trumpy bear said so!!
You best start watching Fox News so you can learn what’s really going on and deprogram all the lies and misinformation you’ve been fed. You are gobbling up all the Democrat/media okie doke.
You are aware that studies have been done by universities that watching FOX make you know less of what is happening in the world. And no, I will not do your homework for you.
Fishy, you think Joe Biden is doing a good job. Tell us again who knows what is happening in the world and who doesn’t.
Thank you, I made a bet that you would not look into the studies, and of course I won.
You can’t be this stupid, can ya, Fishy?
Why yes…yes he is!!!
Fishy is the blog idiot.
You are aware that studies have been done by universities that watching FOX make you know less of what is happening in the world.
By universities, you say. Yuri Bezmenov couldn’t be reached for comment. But he did have something to say about the likes of FishWings:
So, basically, America is stuck with the demoralization unless, even if you start right now here this minute, you start educating huge generation of Americans, it will still take you fifteen to twenty years to turn the tide of ideological perception of reality back to normalcy and patriotism.
The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who were educated in the sixties, drop outs or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the Government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated, They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black you still cannot change the basic perception and illogical behavior. In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To get society rid of these people you need another twenty or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and common-sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society.
https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA
Influence peddling is common in Washington. The Biden Crime Family has made it a lucrative family business for 50 years.
Can anyone imagine ever seeing these news headlines —–>
“In early morning, guns drawn, the FBI raided the homes of James Biden….. Hunter Biden…. and their legal counsel….based on credible evidence and allegations of influence peddling, fraud, and money laundering…in an ongoing criminal investigation. CNN cameras were there to capture the early morning raids showing both James Biden and Hunter Biden being escorted out in handcuffs.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! As if. Not because they are *innocent, mind you, but because they are a protected class called: Democrats.
This scandal will not end well for Biden. When the Republicans take the House next year, a first order of business will be to have public hearings into this scandal. Expect Hunter, Bobulinski, and Frank and James Biden to be subpoenaed. Unlike other scandals of this magnitude, there are no disputed facts. The evidence is in the open and cannot be disputed. The Bidens will all take the 5th but Joe will have to answer questions that will be impossible for him to avoid. Even the corrupt media will not be able to protect him.
Hunter Biden should be prosecuted. But he won’t be. James Biden should be prosecuted. But he won’t be. Joe Biden should be impeached. But he won’t be.
The Republicans will do nothing but their usual tough talk on TV.
Democrat politicians are ruthless, dishonorable, unscrupulous liars (see Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, et al) who never hesitate to destroy a Republican by any means necessary.
But the weak and feckless GOP do not respond in kind. The GOP will do their usual sound and fury political theater that amounts to nothing.
Joe Biden has been part of their club for 50 years. Joe will be treated with kid gloves and a gentle push off the stage when his time comes.
The best that can be said about The Bidens is that we will have something to watch after the football season concludes…
Much of the left have become liars and tricksters. We see that performed by some of our most prolific leftist bloggers. Washington DC Dems have better liars and a vast bureaucracy along with the media to help them out. However, we are starting to note some kickback by some of the lefts comedians. We are already laughing at some of the lefties here and they don’t seem to like it.
Do not vote for any Democrat no matter how good they seem unless the party returns to lawful activity.
The Bidens made the equivalent to an entire America’s global relevance disappear in front of an audience of millions.
FTFY
Bi high den…
Rides upon a Schwen…
He lived in France.
Where people where no pants!
The time for him to bike around ..
Has met it’s dumb past.
Joey Biden is a fool and has no paradise.
Biden will have to not run in the next election. He is too old.
Given his penchant for circumventing the law and the constitution, that provision is just a speed bump to democrats. I lost count on how many other laws they’ve broken.
The Bidens are lucky that the press will cover for them in every which way. It requires no special talent to hide something when you have a complicit press.
Just look at the Lefty posters on this site.
Think that these people want the truth?
No, they are complicit in this larceny and happy to cover it up.
Anonymous, Natacha, Fishbreath, et al are all complicit in dishonesty and the damaging of our country.
Their excuse: “But Trump…”.
+100,000