For years, members of Congress have asked for access to suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to the Biden family’s foreign business deals. Those efforts were cut off by the Biden Administration and the Democratically controlled houses of Congress. Even after the GOP took over the House, however, the Treasury Department continued to refuse to turn over the SARs. While the GOP had to threaten hearings with Treasury officials, the department has finally relented. It now appears that time is up for Hunter Biden on the SARs fight and it could finally answer a number of questions over the alleged influence peddling of the Biden family. It may also put pressure on the Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is looking into possible criminal conduct by Hunter Biden.
I previously wrote about how few people in Washington are eager to expose the influence peddling by the Biden family. Influence peddling is the cottage industry of Washington. However, even by the corrupt standards of this city, the Bidens took influence peddling to an unprecedented level in raking in millions from foreign interests, including some with alleged ties to foreign intelligence.
The least eager group to see these transactions may be the media, which not only buried the Hunter Biden story but has shown remarkable disinterest in these allegations. Indeed, this alleged influence peddling could not have occurred without the assurance that the media had the back of the Bidens. Imagine what the media would have done with even one of these deals with foreign political or influence figures if a Trump child was the recipient. The genius of the Biden influence peddling operation was to make the media an early and active participant. They became invested in the denial over two years of belittling or dismissing the story.
The SARs are relevant to the scope of the alleged influence peddling. It could also supply added evidence of possible criminal charges over tax crimes as well as unlawful work as a foreign agent. There are also possible allegations of evading financial rules, false statements, and even money laundering.
Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R., Ky) has objected that the Biden Administration changed rules governing access to these reports that stood for more than 20 years. Comer has also subpoenaed Bank of America for financial records of three of Hunter Biden’s business associates. That effort was also opposed by Democratic members. these inquiries will cover 14 years of deals and transactions.
Comer this morning revealed that the first SARs report shows money going from China to “three” Biden family members including one not previously discussed as a recipient of such money.
In Fraud Investigation the Rule is simple….”Follow The Money!”.
Any question why the Biden Administration refused to hand over the SARS Notices concerning the Biden Family?
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-03/Bank-Records-Memo-3.16.23.pdf
Sure after three years I’m sure all the union goons at treasury have altered, spindled or mutilated every one of those banks reports!!!
As a former Analyst for the Treasury Dept. (worked on cases of fraud and crimes against the national treasure and background investigations of political figures and high ranking bureaucrats, etc.) it is not uncommon to be suddenly “reassigned’ to another unit or position when someone’s (person of special privilege) shenanigans were uncovered.
“As a former Analyst for the Treasury … it is not uncommon to be suddenly “reassigned’ to another unit or position when someone’s (person of special privilege) shenanigans were uncovered.”
My wife was sent to run the technical side of a large computer system for a government agency. She saw a problem that could lead to widespread high-dollar value fraud and provided a simple solution. She was transferred elsewhere a short time later. Over a year later a bunch of the “executives” in that office were arrested, tried and convicted.
Congress needs to cut the funding of every department that doesn’t cooperate.
RAY EPPS & LIZ CHENEY IN 2024!!! They’re the Dream Team that will save America!!!
Influence peddling is a Democrat POTUS’s favorite activity. Clinton Crime Syndicate . . . Biden Crime Syndicate . . . of a piece.
A lot of critical information is withheld from reports purposely, and with this enabling of blackout of certain information, the truth can never be found. For true justice, no matter what level of government, agencies of government, including the Supreme Court, the information without any blackouts needs to be given to all citizens.
Our system has been for many years and is only becoming worse to the where it is actually enslaving the citizens by being able to hide any portion of documents. We have already become a socialist country by being able to withhold information from the citizens, and now we are heading into full-blown communism.
The levels of government have become immensely corrupt because they know they are protected from the consequences of the harm they cause, and their assets are not lost.
We get nowhere because all Congress does is talk something to death, and during this talking, the subjects/crimes expand further because these delays create ample time to create new bills to cover their crimes. I firmly believe it is because they know the citizens can not do anything, and it will be forgotten.
Too much harm is being done to the people. Our government, government agencies, and the courts have actually become destructive to this nation.
Past due? Send SWAT to collect the information.
Would you reconsider your use of the word “Democratically”? as in your “Democratically controlled houses of Congress.” Democrat controlled houses of Congress would be better and on point. The word Democratic has been hijacked.
Why wing he be pleased. GOP won’t do anything to Xiden and daddy will pardon the scum bag son and brother
So what is your point? Just ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen? No one has faith in government but at lest someone is trying to get the truth? out…
two tier justice system.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11859379/Only-ONE-member-failed-SVBs-board-experience-investment-banking.html
Just one member of Silicon Valley Bank’s board of directors had a career in investment banking, while the others were major Democratic donors, it has been revealed.
Tom King, 63, was appointed to the board in September after previously serving as the CEO of investment banking at Barclay’s. He has had 35 years of experience in investment banking. But he is the only one on the board with a career in the financial industry, while others are a former Obama administration employee, a prolific contributor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and even a Hillary Clinton mega-donor who prayed at a Shinto shrine when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.
The others were major donors to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Clinton, Obama and President Joe Biden who also made contributions to the political action campaigns for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a longtime member of the powerful Senate Banking Committee.
THE CEO of SVB, Greg Becker, was on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco……before he was forced to resign after this debacle.
I bet Treasury redacts the heck out of them. The Beltway protects its own.
My first thought too, or just delete the ones that look bigger than an outsized drug habit and very expensive prostitutes. That’s the narrative, right?
How does one indict the placeholder puppet ?
As long as we have a two system DOJ, the Biden’s will never even go to court.
Hopefully one of these systems can indict and prosecute the puppet in the WH
He”ll plead insanity.
“Documents produced by Mazars while the House was controlled by Democrats indicated that foreign governments spent large sums on visits to Trump’s Washington hotel in efforts to sway the former president’s foreign policy dealings, Forbes reported.”
You know who ran the hotel? Trump’s kids. Oops. Professor Turley, there’s a huge influence peddling scheme right under you nose. Is there a column coming in that issue? Likely not. Republicans in the oversight committee are quietly dropping that investigation, shocking, I know. Because Biden, China are the real issue. Good grief. This is way too comical.
Hass anyone noticed how negative and hateful Svelaz and Gigi have become lately? Must be what happens when people get backed into the corner with the truth.
They both disappeared for a few days, then magically reappeared this afternoon within 1/2 hour of each other.
Anonymous, they’re just acting normal.
Correlation is not causation.
Yeah, um, that’s complete nonsense. It’s as if you weren’t paying attention four years ago when we had a real president. The accusations of Trump (a hotel businessman) being accused of “emoluments” by Saudis staying at his hotel were front page headline news. They were investigated, and the accusations were trash (as always): Saudis paying standard hotel rates simply meant that non-Saudis couldn’t rent the room on those dates. See? That’s how the hotel business works.
If the Saudis staying there was bribery, then so was anybody else staying there. Which is stupid.
Paying Biden family for work they knew nothing about, and provided to benefit to the payer except access to Joe is actually corrupt – and far different from whataboutDonald.
Svelaz – if the “foreign governments” paid market rates and used the rooms, where was the gift?
Edwards, Why would they choose Trump’s hotel over all the others in Washington?
He still owned the company that runs the hotel. His sons ran it instead of him. If they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at his hotel while trying to influence policies how is that not buying access to Trump? It can be seen as a bribe too. A “gift” of patronizing his business by spending a lot of money when they could have stayed somewhere else.
If Biden did the same thing would you let it slide as easily as you are with Trump?
Legal guests being charged standard amounts for standard services.
You expect a hotel billionaire to turn away guests?
No wonder the Democrat party can’t do finance.
Svelaz – When was access purchased? Please provide dates and places. Attempting to create a favorable dispostiion to them from Trump is hardly bribery in any sense. By that logic, mere flattery is bribery. But you miss the point that bribery involves a gift of some kind. Paying market rates for rooms that are actually occupied involves no gift. By contrast, the transfer of $1,000,000 to Hunter Biden by the Chinse government in exchage for nothing is a gift.
You are being unfair. You are asking Svelaz for facts when you already know he doesn’t have any.
We all must recognize, Svelaz makes up stories to satisfy what he believes, but should he be forced to produce evidence, he will disappear.
The best way to get rid of Svelaz is to ask him questions and prove his points.
Anonymous the stupid doesn’t like to do the hard work of searching for yourself. Anonymous the stupid makes stupid comments when he has no argument.
“Attempting to create a favorable dispostiion to them from Trump is hardly bribery in any sense. By that logic, mere flattery is bribery.”
That’s influence peddling. Which is legal. But Turley keeps insinuating that it’s somehow nefarious. If it is Trump’s influence peddling is no different than the Biden’s. If it merits all this scrutiny, so should trump.
“Paying market rates for rooms that are actually occupied involves no gift.”
Paying exorbitant sums to stay at an hotel that is owned by the president and run by his sons doesn’t seem sketchy to you at all? If this was the Biden’s you wouldn’t give it a second thought?
Staying at his hotel while seeking favor of the president and paying thousands when they could stay anywhere else points out they are currying favor by staying at his hotel and paying generous sums of money. That can be seen as bribery by using a third party, his hotel, instead of directly.
” If it is Trump’s influence peddling is no different than the Biden’s.”
So says the intellectually blind. Trump is indirectly selling hotel rooms at the prevailing rate. That is known as fair pricing and a normal business deal. Biden is directly selling America down the drain, security and all.
“Paying exorbitant sums to stay at an hotel:
There is a relationship between IQ and earning capabilities. Trump’s hotel is not the most expensive but to you any rates above what a minimum wage earner can pay is exorbitant.
Anonymous says,
“So says the intellectually blind. Trump is indirectly selling hotel rooms at the prevailing rate. That is known as fair pricing and a normal business deal.”
LOL! Talk about being willfully blind. Trump is directly selling hotel rooms to people who stand to benefit from his policies. Those people purposefully chose to stay at his hotel to curry favor and access. Whether they are paying the prevailing rate or not is irrelevant. They are purposefully choosing to stay at an hotel that is owned by the president PAYING money to his business to gain favor in upcoming policies or decisions.
“Trump’s hotel is not the most expensive but to you any rates above what a minimum wage earner can pay is exorbitant.”
Actually Trump raised rates quite a lot depending oh who was staying and what he did as president.
“Back in December 2020, when Trump announced a “big protest” in D.C., the room rates swelled from $476 to $1,999. Pivoting on certain explosive events, these rates saw a tremendous incline and decline. According to Forbes, in only a week, they clambered to $3,600. In no time, the least-expensive room at the iconic Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. was given for $8,000 a night.”
That is not the “prevailing rate”. LOL!
“Trump is directly selling hotel rooms to people who stand to benefit from his policies. Those people purposefully chose to stay at his hotel to curry favor and access .”
No smiles or one will be currying favor.
“Actually Trump raised rates quite a lot depending oh who was staying and what he did as president.”
Rates are mostly dependent on room occupancy. I see you have never stayed at a hotel. That is common practice for almost every hotel. Check the room rates near Disney World during spring break.
I’m curious how an accounting firm came to that conclusion you quote, …or am I reading it wrong and it was Forbes that inserted that. People spend lots of money at many hotels, because they want a room for the night. Quit trying to cover up Biden crimes with the imagined crimes of others.
He donated all profits from that hotel.
“Imagine what the media would have done with even one of these deals with foreign political or influence figures if a Trump child was the recipient.”
Multiple Trump children have engaged in deals with foreign political or influence figures. In fact it’s been reported multiple times except in Fox News because we all know they wouldn’t want to upset their biggest cash cow, MAGA gullibles and sycophantic supporters.
Turley ignores the whole point of why the media largely ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story and the influence peddling. Because even Fox News didn’t buy it. We already know Fox News knew Rudy Giuliani was not credible, they deemed him a nut job. That’s why he went to the New York post after he was turned down by Fox News.
The media, including Fox News didn’t buy into the laptop story. Influence peddling which is not a crime is largely ignored because it’s not really a crime and it’s not surprising that it happens. Yes, Trump’s kids did it too and according to reports it’s in the billions.
Fox News ignores it just as Turley accuses the rest of the media of ignoring the Bidens.
Surely Turley isn’t THAT naive. He’s just peddling the narrative just as Fox News was peddling the narrative that the election was stolen. Both “scandals” come from the same guy Fox News privately knew was a an unreliable consummate liar. But they had to keep their gullible well groomed viewers happy. Just as Turley does. It keeps those precious viewer counts up.
The election was stolen. You, and everyone else knows that. It will eventually be proven just like most of the other things the left claimed were “conspiracy theories.”
What really shows how unhinged and Crooked the left is the fact that even after these conspiracies are proven true, you lunatics continue lying.
socopathic much?
Todd, it is no longer election day. Now it’s election season and in some states the vote counting is not finished till 2 weeks after election day. Hell no, there’s no fraud.
Thank you!!!
You have a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, like all narcissistic commie leftist. TRUMP 2024!!!
Svelaz, I take it you”re one of the viewers!
Gibberish. The media (and social media) didn’t publish the Biden laptop story because they knew that it would tilt the election – as it should have.
A sleazebag bribefest should not be elected, and Hunter’s laptop provided documented evidence of the entire family’s corruption. The fact that the FBI pushed for non-publication and non-verification should bother you. But it doesn’t, because the senile guy “won.” The fact that the 51 intelligence “experts” who claimed it looked like Russian disinformation have now backtracked on their assertions should cause you to rethink your stance. But it won’t, because you are willfully deceived.
Svelaz – please give us examples where Trump children sold access to Trump.
Edward, Trump’s children ran his hotel in Washington.
“WASHINGTON – Six foreign governments — including China and Saudi Arabia — spent a total of more than $750,000 at former President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel in 2017 and 2018 while “seeking to influence American foreign policy,” The first questionable transaction happened in August 2017, when a delegation from the Chinese embassy spent nearly $20,000 at the luxury hotel two months before Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.“
Also in late 2017, government officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE began spending tens of thousands of dollars at the Trump hotel, adding up to at least $164,929 by mid-2018. In addition to the hotel rooms, Turkish officials incurred costs on renting ballrooms, ordering room service and paying $500 smoking fees, according to the receipts.
Guests “seemingly” included members of the Saudi royal family, according to the report, with receipts including the title “His Excellency” alongside redacted names.
Again, Maloney said the committee suspects the finances may have influenced Trump’s decision-making, noting that the former president fired then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, 2018 while Saudi and Emirati officials were staying at the hotel.“
https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/china-saudis-spent-hundreds-of-thousands-at-trump-hotel/amp/
Why are they staying at the Trump hotel run by his children and spending a lot of money to HIS business while lobbying to him on policies? That’s selling access to Trump. They could have stayed at a different hotel, but clearly they stayed at his hotel and spent a lot more than necessary.
That’s influence peddling. Not illegal, but it’s no different than what republicans accuse Biden of. There’s more evidence against Trump than Biden.
Not evidence of “influence peddling,” unless they were paying more than any other customer would be charged for the identical services.
The fact that Royal family spent a ton of money is not, by itself, evidence of anything more than billionaires spending pocket change.
Svelaz – So, your “evidence” is that foreign emissaries stayed at Trump hotels and a rabidly patisan Democrat “suspects the finances may have influenced Trump’s decision-making,” This is nothng; just more smearing of Trump. No gift, no access, no quid pro quo. At most, Trump have been flattered that the Saudis stayed at this hotel. Tat does not rise to the level of bribery or influence peddling.
“Svelaz – So, your “evidence” is that foreign emissaries stayed at Trump hotels and a rabidly patisan Democrat “suspects the finances may have influenced Trump’s decision-making,” This is nothng; just more smearing of Trump.”
Edward, it’s hilarious how you’re so close to understanding it yet so far.
Republicans “suspect finances may have influenced Biden’s decision-making” without any proof other than allegations of business deals which are not illegal. Making money from foreign deals is not illegal either. Making money by relying on the family name isn’t illegal. Biden has done nothing different than what trump and his children have. The only difference is he’s a democrat. Because of that doing the exact same things trump did is somehow a crime. If Biden was a Republican he wouldn’t be accused of committing crimes. That’s the only distinction you see. It’s only illegal or a crime if you’re associated with the other party.
President Biden sold access through his son and brothers for very high prices.
Edward, and your evidence of that is? You and others keep making claims without any evidence. Republicans are looking for evidence of a crime they claim was committed without being able to articulate exactly what is the crime. It’ a fishing expedition. Nothing they have been saying about the Biden’s is illegal or criminal. Turley has never been able to clearly articulate exactly what is criminal or illegal about these “influence peddling schemes” he is alleging. He’s always hedging his claims with words such as “alleged”, “may”, “reportedly”, or “perhaps”. He’s creating suspicion and making allegations seem more nefarious than they really are so YOU can keep spinning your conspiracy theories into bigger and bigger “schemes” that the Biden’s may be “guilty” of. He’s grooming your opinion by insinuating a lot of things that you already believe despite the fact that there is no evidence to support it. The only thing that supports any of it is pure speculation and innuendo that is based implied criminality or illegality. Turley is a lawyer, he should know better than to speculate in the absence of evidence.
Unbelievable. Saudis pay market rate to utilize briefly a Trump hotel premises, and somehow that’s terrible.
Hunter’s laptop clearly has evidence of Hunter being paid millions of dollars for no value whatsoever, with 10% being siphoned off for his “Big Guy” dad.
Oooooooh. Nothing to see here. Move along…
“Making money by relying on the family name isn’t illegal”
It isn’t unless that money is made by selling America down the drain. Biden was even dumb enough to leave a video behind. His son was dumber. He left an entire laptop.
Anonymous. What exactly was being sold? What exactly is the evidence besides the speculation? Because nothing in the “laptop” or “video” proves any crime was committed. What is th crime?
The laptop is evidence that crimes were committed. You don’t realize that. I understand. Some people are unable to put 2+2 together and you are one of them. That is OK we accept you for what you are, but we don’t trust you.
“Why are they staying at the Trump hotel”
Because they didn’t want to sleep on the streets. Are you that ignorant?
Trump’s hotel isn’t the only one in town. You didn’t know that?
In other words, a businessman can never be in politics, because every commercial exchange involving his former business becomes a bribe.
No, but when the president who OWNS an hotel in the town where he lives is frequented by businessmen or foreign governments who stand to benefit from from patronizing his establishment by spending copious amounts of money in said hotel can be seen as a bribe when they have plenty of other choices on where to stay.
You don’t see that it is strange that the only hotel OWNED by Trump and RUN by his children is frequented by people who stand to benefit from his policies and influence? Why choose to stay at an hotel that is part of the president’s business? Even paying the “going rate” is irrelevant. They are showing him they want to do business with him by frequenting his hotel in exchange for favorable outcomes. That’s influence peddling, especially when Trump’s children market the hotel to businesses or foreign governments who stand to benefit from his influence. That is selling access to Trump. How are you not seeing that? If Biden did the same exact thing you wouldn’t be concerned at all? Could you really accept that as appearing to be legit?
You falsely assume that nobody else would rent those rooms, and therefore somehow the billionaire president is going to be swayed by the thousands of dollars he would have gotten from somebody else should the Saudis have not stayed there.
They probably got a better rate, service, or maybe they preferred the fortune cookies.
Profit margins across the industry run from 10% to 20%
Your example is gross by nation. We have no idea how many Room/nights are involved. numbers would include hotel tax and other service fees.
Not once have you claimed the Trump hotel charged more than the posted prices.
$200,000 between two nations over 18 months is a pittance. Strip away hotes taxes sales taxes, and service fees, you’re down to about $160,000 and of that 12% margin and you don’t get $20,000…..$20k over 18 months. Just a bit over $1000/month. What was Hunters Burisma take? $80k per month. Net, not gross
This is nothing but ignorant blathering from people that believe revenue is the same as profit.
Oops. I already see a detail I missied. (thats why doing numbers get tricky.
All the above took in all spent at the Hotel. A good chunk of that was F/B Food and Beverage. Profit margins are much thinner on that side of the business. So net is even less.
I am not sure of your exact numbers but your explanation is on target. A business owner generally receives only a fraction of the gross revenues. Biden, however wasn’t selling anything he owned or nurtured, so his gross and personal profit were the same. One million dollars spent by the Chinese meant One-million dollars went into Biden’s pocket. Svelaz can’t see that because he is blind as a bat.
Iowan2, Trump changed rates all the time depending on who was there and what events transpired in town.
“Back in December 2020, when Trump announced a “big protest” in D.C., the room rates swelled from $476 to $1,999. Pivoting on certain explosive events, these rates saw a tremendous incline and decline. According to Forbes, in only a week, they clambered to $3,600. In no time, the least-expensive room at the iconic Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. was given for $8,000 a night.”
https://luxurylaunches.com/hotels_and_resorts/rooms-at-the-iconic-trump-international-hotel-in-washington-dc-are-7500-cheaper-for-the-night-than-they-were-exactly-a-year-ago.php
Their rates varied by a lot and depending on who was there. He made a lot of money while he owned the hotel. It wasn’t just foreign governments. Lobbyists also paid a lot of money to stay at his hotel. Even congressmen used his hotel for fundraisers and events that paid a lot of money to his business.
“Little wonder that the hotel has become a gravy train for Trump and his family, undercutting his pledges to drain the lobbying and big money swamp, say analysts.
Last year, Trump’s revenues from the hotel were just shy of $41m, a little less than 10% of his 2018 overall revenues of at least $434m, according to his financial disclosure forms. By contrast in 2017, Trump’s overall revenues were at least $452m, of which his hotel provided about $40m. Even Trump’s daughter Ivanka notched $4m in revenue from the hotel last year, her 2018 financial disclosures reveal.
According to data compiled by Crew, as of late June Trump had visited the hotel at least 21 times, and executive branch officials have been there at least 263 times. Further, members of Congress or their chiefs of staff have been to the hotel at least 453 times, according to Crew.
Trump and his congressional allies have also capitalized on the hotel to do major campaign fundraisers. His campaign and the RNC hosted a fundraiser in 2017 at the hotel that pulled in just under $10m, according to reports. Last month, days after announcing his 2020 campaign, Trump held another money bash at the hotel that raised $6m for his campaign.
The hotel has become a money machine for key Trump congressional allies like the congressmen Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows who, respectively, held fundraisers there last month and in 2017.
Other conservative and business allies including the gun industry are also ponying up for hotel events, in some cases not long after Trump unveiled gun policies that could benefit them.“
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/trump-international-hotel-dc-guests-lobbyists-republicans-executives
There was a lot more going on than just simple “room rentals at the prevailing rate”.
“Back in December 2020, when Trump announced a “big protest” in D.C., the room rates swelled from $476 to $1,999.
By law hotels have to post the room rates. By Law Trump never exceeded those rates.
There was a lot more going on than just simple “room rentals at the prevailing rate”.
Prevailing???? What exactly is prevailing? I have a room for Friday night in Davenport. $300. That is not a prevailing rate for Davenport. But I like the place, so I pay the bill.
Last year, Trump’s revenues from the hotel were just shy of $41m
Revenue has little relation to profit. I explained that to you. Obviously you lack the capacity to learn.
Again. The hotel cannot charge more than posted price. Like all finite resources, as supply dwindles, price goes up.
The Guardian? Sure.
Multiple Trump children have engaged in deals with foreign political or influence figures. In fact it’s been reported multiple times except in Fox News
You are lying by intentionally leaving out relevant context.
Multiple Trump children have engaged in deals with foreign
political or influence figures.business entities for decades before Trump ran for office.I believe they will Treasury will remove all the incriminating transactions.
When Joe left the WH his net worth was about 500 thousand dollars on a 200 thousand salary . Now Biden is worth over 14 million and has multiple homes value in the millions . Let’s not forget Hunter and Joe share joint crecking accounts which should be a red light in it’s self .
Nothing happens until it does.
When will Joey be doing the perp walk?
DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH WAITING!
By my best estimate Joe will be perp walked about two and a half years after he is dead.
Not even then. Wilson is still the pride of progressive parades. His AG, Palmer, preceded McCarthy in time and scope. Whether it is the wicked solution, progressive prices, immigration reform, wars without borders, cargo cult science, gender redux, diversity (inequity, exclusion), nationwide insurrections, etc., there is only liberal license, and no repercussions forthcoming.