In Friday’s open thread, I talked about the disgusting comments a Seattle Police Department offcer said about Jaahnavi Kandula, who was hit by an officer going way too fast. I didn’t realize at the time, but it was flagged by an SPD employee. I don’t know if that’s an officer or someone else. But I do want to acknowledge that they are one of the good apples we keep hearing about. I hope that there are systems in place to protect them.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
My guess would be that the suit filed this morning against the IRS by Hunter Biden’s new attorney Abbe Lowell, and naming agents like Shapley, is an indication of the new, mor aggressive direction his legal strategy will take.
The government may have done better to have moved ahead with the settlement they had previously arranged after five years of cooperation.
The IRS had absolutely no business authorizing media interviews for government agents to offer their highly prejudicial and defamatory speculations about private citizen taxpayers.
We are better off with Trump in exile facing a long prison sentence for trying to violently overturn the election he couldn’t win.
The cop claims he made sarcastic remarks about the legal system which were taken out of context, and SPOG is defending him on this basis. Seems plausible, but if so, illustrates the necessity of people in high-vis public service positions choosing their words carefully even in private office conversations. At best, this cop was egregiously sloppy. He forgot or overlooked that the printed word doesn’t pick up tones of voice, inflections, or gestures, all of which affect meaning and leave bare words open to misinterpretation. Cold hard type is a harsh and unforgiving mistress.
Another possibility is that he’s the callous, cold-hearted, and arguably racist asshole his cold words suggest he is.
Looks like the “moderate” House Republicans are falling in line behind Kevin’s impeachment inquiry.
Impeachment isn’t a criminal proceeding, of course, but this inquiry can be likened to the Island County sheriff opening a murder investigation against Doctor Dumbfuck even though there’s no body, crime scene, or missing person report simply because the sheriff doesn’t like doc and hopes he committed a crime. On this basis, the sheriff wants to search doc’s home, seize his computers, subpoena his bank and phone records, and haul him in for interrogation.
And doc is fine with this kind of process if the subject of the inquiry is an opposition political leader rather than himself. So are a bunch of GOP politicians with legal backgrounds who ought to know better.
3,
In the always prescient words of Sterling Archer, “context”.
In all professions worthy of the name, sarcasm is unacceptable and never an excuse. But in this context it scarcely matters.
A young woman was slaughtered in the prime of her life, stripped out of her community and her family, by the callous indifference and willful negligence of a Seattle police officer. Remorse or complete silence are the only appropriate responses from any other city employee.
This one has demonstrated his inability to offer his respect and obedience to those he is employed to serve and who pay his grossly inflated salary. He needs to ride a desk next to a property locker for the rest of his career.
J. D. Vance is adopting Tuberville’s tactics, but unlike Tuberville he doesn’t have a stupidity alibi.
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2665585635/
It’s illegal for South Carolina teachers to assign reading material by a black writer. Sympathetic biographies of Jefferson Davis and Bedford Forrest are fine.
https://www.rawstory.com/south-carolina-book-ban/
@5 A well-managed bureaucracy always keeps a large supply of paper clips on hand, should they find themselves saddled with a civil service-protected employee in need of task reassignment.
At such times, management has a compelling need to know exactly how many paper clips it has in inventory, down to the last individual paper clip.
It’s okay if some of them are bent or were previously used for picking dust out of small holes by previously task-reassigned employees, but the employee assigned to counting the paper clips should make notes of these in his weekly written reports.
As Matty Gaetz continues his Xitter war on Brave Kevin this week, let us remember that time a couple of months ago when Brave Kevin restarted the House ethics probe into Gaetz pre-teen hooker girlfriends and drug parties.
https://newrepublic.com/post/174322/house-ethics-committee-coming-matt-gaetz
Majestic.
This TexAss school superintendent is going to teach his district’s (black) students to “respect authority” even if he has to break their backs doing it.
https://www.aol.com/news/black-student-suspended-hairstyle-school-051047925.html
7,
If you had offered me a chance of obtaining a good grade in AP ENG without having to read Chaucer I would have jumped all over that shit.
Under this new system, SC high schoolers are in AP LANG are going to get assigned nothing but TikTok makeover tutorials.
“Reading makes me feel bad about my race“.
Good luck on that test, kids.
@ 1
The IRS had absolutely no business authorizing media interviews for government agents to offer their highly prejudicial and defamatory speculations about private citizen taxpayers.
This from the wing which begged for an IRS leak when Trump’s tax returns were a desired entity.
POS Hunter Biden’s failure to pay federal taxes was known previously to the public because of the emails on the privileged fuck’s laptop. At worst the IRS confirmed that POS Hunter Biden is a tax cheat.
Good luck with putting the cat back in the bag on the POS son of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.
@ 7, 11
“Reading makes me feel bad about my race“.
It’s only minority students who should be lauded for feeling unsafe due to material taught in class.
Caucasian students should just STFU unless to express guilt for possessing the learned ability to speak in complete sentences.
Actually, the IRS whistleblowers have conducted themselves under the realization that the accountability that applies to every other American citizen does not apply to POS Hunter biden.
Hunter Biden’s failure to pay federal taxes
knock, knock, knock…
CHECK’S IN THE MAIL!
It’s hilarious that kreepshit is so frightened of an audit.. Why?
Cuz widbee shitstain cheated… “Re-erect” drumpf (paraphrasing babblin’ butthole) and the IRS is once again knee-capped.. yawwwn..
ABC Newsv calls it a riot, not an insurrection.
‘We’ll be fine’: Top US military officer confident there won’t be a Jan. 6 repeat
Gen. Milley said he was not concerned about more riot threats after he retires.
So, this “threats to our democracy” crap is just that – crap.
Milley @ 16 said that Trump didn’t issue an illegal order.
We’ll be seeing references to this interview well into the future.
“threats to our democracy” crap
yawwwn.. the intention was to stop the legitimate transfer of power..
And possibly do violence to elected representatives charged with facilitating that constitutional mandate. One was the repuke veep…
treason in my book… and you’re a fucking fellow traveler..
Let’s hear it now for fucking fraudulent electors! asswipe..
Invest like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and support the Republican party. Generac will build a plant in Beaver Dam, WI.
Hey, if you’re gonna lose money, at least lose it by supporting the people you hate the most, amirite?
@ 18
treason in my book…
And Joe Biden accepting $5M in bribe money from companies linked to the CCP is treason in my book.
If you, Queen YLB, wish to argue that the first $5M went to corrupt POS Hunter Biden and the second $5M went not to his father but instead to a slew of other members of The Biden Crime Family, well, you are free to make that argument, and I will have to be content with the electronic proof that The Biden Crime Family, collectively, and not Joe Biden individually, was paid $10M to do nothing but provide access to Joe Biden.
Such is life. Presidents have been impeached based on less objective evidence.
…the accountability that applies to every other American citizen…Unserious twat troll gets down on his knees and gives thanks and praise to Moloch that his tax files are not published on HA.
It might be only bad enough of IRS agents had accepted payment to appear on network television programs to merely share confidential details about Hunter Biden’s individual tax filings.
But that isn’t all that they did.
And if I appeared on KVI to discuss my personal speculations about which local retired simi-professional athletes and off duty sailors from Oak Harbor were appearing every Saturday night to service OfDumbfuck in the privacy of the Whidbey Island trailer’s spare room, I could indeed be sued for defamation for that.
And my only possible defense would then be the truth of it.
I’d like to see less cheerleading and more objectivity, so will await future reporting, and there’s no question that Tesla is behind schedule on the truck, as QoS McHillbilly will be quick to point out.
But still.
Pepsi Tesla Semi Truck Drives 1600 Miles Over Two Days in Real World Tests
I don’t see anyone else doing better.
Mercy and empathy are great threats to an unjust society.
@ 21
Unserious twat troll gets down on his knees and gives thanks and praise to Moloch that his tax files are not published on HA.
After the 2023 Q3 1040-ES check I wrote on Friday, the Treasury Department gives thanks to my wife and me.
A plurality of those polled support impeachment inquiry. Still uncertain whether a plurality of the House GOP does.
@12
Fortunately for voters those returns are now public record as part of a civil and criminal prosecution.
And they said what we all knew. Donald Trump is
Not a billionaire
A tax Cheat
Defrauded multiple financial institutions
Paid of a porn star
Tried to write off the payment to the Porn Star
But do go on about the NOT candidate for office.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward! Happy New Year.”
Uh Jerod…your father in Law’s Rosh Hashanah message seems to be calling for harm to the wrong kind of Jew.
@17
Good takeaway. For the first time in American History the second in command accountable only to the President believed that it was possible if not likely the lane duck president would order him to use the military to enact a coup. So much so that he discussed with others how to get around sunh an illegal order.
A Dumbfuck thinks that it didn’t happen is the more noteworthy part.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit
So lame. Is “Robinhood” supposed to be the investing firm or the hero from British folklore, Robin Hood?
It was years ago when I had read this for the 1,000th time that I decided the stupid fucking troll needed a new name. That was when I came up with “Doctor Dumbfuck”.
A few years before that I had tagged Mr. Cynical as “Mr. Klynical” and my friend Puddy as “the loon”.
Who’s better at this shit, me or Doctor Dumbfuck?
Speaking of Puddy, he and his very beautiful wife have just wrapped up a month-long visit to the Middle East. They went everywhere you can think of.
My fav photo was of Puddy eating ice cream on a Roman ramp at Masada and the other being a pic of him eating ice cream in front of a profile view of the Sphinx.
Unlike the dumbfuck*, Puddy knows how to live life to the fullest in retirement.
As for me, I’m preparing for WWII. My former president says it’s coming.
* “Doctor Dumbfuck” nailed the stupid fucking troll so well that one need only say “dumbfuck” and everyone here knows who you’re talking about, including the dumbfuck.
So, this “threats to our democracy” crap is just that – crap.
Indeed. Your rabid, violent mob of a dozen cosplaying grandmothers merely built a gallows and invaded the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence” for funzies.
If you’re trying to convince yourself or anybody here that you’re not a fucking traitor to your country, you’re going to have to try harder.
“The auto workers’ strike is the latest in a series of labor-management conflicts that economists say could start having significant growth impacts if they persist. So far, the United Auto Workers stoppage has impacted just a small portion of the workforce with limited implications for the broader economy. But it is part of a pattern in labor-management conflicts that has resulted in the most missed hours of work in some 23 years, according to Labor Department statistics.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/striking-unions-impacting-the-economy-at-a-level-not-seen-in-decades.html
This, of course, would be the fault of employers who’ve failed to pay wages that keep up with inflation. The autoworkers, for example, are demanding a 40% raise, which sounds like a lot, but 30% of that is catch-up for the decline in real wages, and by the time you spread the other 10% over a multi-year contract, all of that will be COLA, too. So once you take the cost of living into account, they’re not asking for a raise, just the wages they’ve been paid under previous contracts adjusted for inflation, and they’re on strike because the automakers raking in record profits won’t agree to that. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who’s responsible for the hit to the economy.
@20 A hysterical fantasy from a moron desperate to escape an IRS audit…
No evidence whatsoever MBNA Joe Biden got a dime from Hunter.. None.. zip.. zilch..
George Dumbya Bush traded on the family name too, ya pos. Was bailed out of every failed venture with munee from a host of shady Saudi characters including the bin Laden family, failed all the way up into the Texas Rangers and cashed out with like 13 million, iirc..
Why? Access to the House of Bush…
Ya voted for it twice.
from companies linked to the CCP
I guess Burisma didn’t pan out for the troll… awwwww…
“In 2021, Stellantis said it wanted to have a majority of its salaried employees work remotely most of the time, including the then-17,000 employees in North America. Following those plans, the company confirmed it was ‘evaluating how we work to enable our teams to be their most innovative, creative and efficient. That analysis includes potential adjustments to our real estate portfolio.’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/uaw-strike-stellantis-could-close-18-facilities-under-deal.html
In the past few decades, employers have offloaded health insurance and pension costs, traditionally elements of employee compensation, onto workers. They also expect workers to come pre-trained, meaning training costs have also been shifted from employers to workers. Now companies like Stellantis are trying to fatten their bottom lines by making office workers provide the workspaces and office accoutrements for their jobs, too.
It’s just a matter of time before employers re-label “associates” as “customers” or “guests” and begin charging them to work for the company, so that a job is something you pay for instead of getting paid for. Of course, in order to do that, the government will have to give you money.
But regardless of that, given these trends it’s better to be a capitalist than a worker, and to be a shareholder than an employee. That’s what I’ve been doing for years now.
Wanna feel my tits? Can I feel your peepee?
The Plane, The Plane!
“Legendary golfer Gary Player thinks government and sports shouldn’t mix, as the golf world goes through a major merger that has triggered antitrust concerns. … We’ve got to get governments to stay out of sport …’ the 87-year-old hall of famer said.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/gary-player-says-government-should-stay-out-of-sports.html
The article says Player “supports the proposed merger between Saudi-backed LIV Golf and the PGA Tour,” which is widely criticized in the golf world. So it’s tempting to ask, what’s in it for him? Answer: Money.
“He was an ambassador for Golf Saudi, an organization pushing to make the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a more prominent force in the sport. Today, he is an ambassador for the Saudi energy giant Aramco. He displays its logo on his golf shirts.”
The next question to ask is why CNBC treated this is as a news story instead of paid advertising.
@12 Nothing is known from Hunter’s laptop until an authoritative and credible determination is made of which entries were made by him and which were added after the laptop left his exclusive custody and control.
@13 “Learned ability” includes more than speaking in complete sentences. Tommy Tuberville can speak in complete sentences, but that doesn’t make him “learned.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/tommy-tuberville-apparently-doesnt-know-what-wwii-was-about.html
I wonder if the learned man @16 will tell us the Civil War was a riot and no threat to our democracy. After all, the Jan. 6 “rioters” talked about “civil war.”
@19 “Generac will build a plant in Beaver Dam, WI.”
Generac is a Wisconsin company that already has manufacturing facilities in half a dozen small Wisconsin towns. Building another plant obviously is a response to demand growth. The Roger Rabbit Not-A-Dumbfuck Investing Plan is owning shares of growing companies. What’s your plan? Rolling the dice on Generac options trades?
@20 “And Joe Biden accepting $5M in bribe money from companies linked to the CCP is treason in my book.”
It is in mine, too. But coming back to reality, as “Joe Biden accepting $5M in bribe money” didn’t happen, what should it be called? How about “GOP fantasy”? Or is “GOP lie” more apropos?
@22 “I don’t see anyone else doing better.”
Trains. Elon didn’t invent moving freight with electric motors; railroads have done it for decades. The only thing he does that’s different is use electricity drawn from power grids instead of generated on board.
@24 Yeah, I have to send those, too. I don’t have taxes withheld from my wife’s Social Security, either.
@25 A sad commentary on the state of civics education in America, but predictable in light of how Republicans run schools in their states.
Imagine if our legal system was run this way: “The police chief doesn’t like you, so he’s launching a fishing expedition in the hope you committed a crime.”
@29 “That was when I came up with ‘Doctor Dumbfuck’.”
For which we all are unceasingly grateful, because it fits him so well. Again, thank you. Saying you nailed it isn’t praising yourself, it’s describing how well the term describes him. “Stupid fucking troll” does, too; but to put it in proper context, the understanding of everyone here is that he’s fucking a horse (or it’s fucking him).
@31 “If you’re trying to convince yourself or anybody here that you’re not a fucking traitor to your country, you’re going to have to try harder.”
I have reservations, as I’m not sure he’s capable of forming the mens rea required to satisfy the intent element. In laymen’s terms, using your terminology, he’s too fucking stupid to be capable of treason. He’s merely a clumsy and mentally lazy troll.
“Indiana’s Republican attorney general is facing three professional ethics charges stemming from public statements he made last year about a state doctor he sought to punish for providing abortion services to a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim.
“In a 56-page complaint filed Monday with Indiana’s Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, Attorney General Todd Rokita was accused of violating three separate state professional conduct rules for a series of public comments he made about Dr. Caitlin Bernard. …
“Rokita conceded that the comments at issue from the Fox interview ‘could reasonably be considered to have violated’ professional conduct rules, wbut [sic] that ‘should a hearing be necessary, Respondent demands strict proof thereof,’ adding that he denies any allegations stemming from his comments about his office’s probe into Bernard.
“Bernard’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, said in a statement that her legal team ‘had no involvement in the recent charges filed and therefore cannot comment on them.’”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/indiana-attorney-general-todd-rokita-disciplinary-charges/index.html
The irony is that Rokita threatened to go after Dr. Bernard’s MD license for making public remarks about the case.
BoboClown dumped her groper date after finding out from media reports, to her horror, that he’s a Democrat.
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-date-democrat/
43)Tge train he bought for taking workers to his Berlin factory, is a diesel.
WaPo reporting that POS Hunter Biden is about to be indicted in California for tax evasion.
That indictment is much, much closer to my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president. “Mr. Biden, was your inability to pay your federal taxes linked in any way to the necessity that you send half of your income to your father?”
While in office as president, twice impeached Donald Trump currently facing over 90 felony criminal indictments, personally negotiated over $2 billion dollars in payments from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to his daughter and son-in-law.
The Kushners pay no income taxes.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/13/nyt-report-jared-kushner-taxes-nr-vpx.cnn
New video of Ray Epps at the barricade is posted. Nearly 2 minutes. I didn’t see much, if anything. He might have yelled, “Go!” once.
Righties are trying to make something of it but I didn’t think it was worth watching a second time.
While in office, as president, Donald Trump personally received more than $160 million dollars in income from foreign countries.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-made-up-to-160-million-from-foreign-countries-as-president/
In 2017, his first year in office, Trump paid less than $750 in income taxes.
In 2020, the year that he lost his corrupt effort to remain in office, Trump claimed no income tax owed and filed for a tax refund of $5.47 million of your dollars.
Extremist reactionaries… like this troll.
Republicans created Ray Epps:
https://youtu.be/0s4m_r9bvOM?feature=shared&t=189
He’s a real person. But he’s also an imaginary construct built to nurture the perverted fever dreams of wildly disappointed, and humiliated Republicans like our troll, Tucker Carlson, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Thomas Massie, Ted Cruz, and their extremist propaganda networks.
This is Every Republican You Know.
And it’s pathetic.
@ 54
In which we learn that “up to” and “more than” are the same thing. And in which we learn that revenue paid to a corporation and income paid to an individual are the same thing.
While in office, as president, Donald Trump personally received more than $160 million dollars in income from foreign countries.
It’s a sad thing that QoS McHillbilly’s reading comprehension is approaching that of Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Shout out to Senator John Fetterman, who based on an interview I just watched is either recovered or nearly recovered from his stroke.
Hey, maybe it was only $159,999,999.99?
Right kids?
Cuz that one penny of difference would suddenly make President Joe Biden a Crime Family Boss and Donald J. Trump “the most innocent man in the history of… ever.”
Like I said, pathetic.
I’m not recovering at all.
My doctors tell me that in only a few months I’ll probably completely lose my…
…
… um…
… um…
…
(Okay folks. That’s all for now. The Senator has to get back to his chambers for a big meeting.)
I sincerely hope my good friend Mitch McConnell can make a complete recovery from whatever the fuck it is that is going wrong with him.
And I pledge my full support to him during his struggle.
I’ve reached out to Mitch and his family to offer them my personal support.
Congratulations to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, whose pitifully small 3M holding has broken the Benjamin, albeit headed in the wrong direction.
I could have sworn I read that paying all of those billions of dollars in settlement money would give 3M nothing but sun and rainbows going forward. That’s what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit said would happen.
@56
It’s on the up and up as long as it funnels through an S-Corp.
Doing the lord’s work. But you need a kleenex. You’ve still got a little on your chest.
@51
Side note…
This appears to be a lie by the Dumbfuck.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/search/?query=hunter+biden
Congratulations to First Vegetable Joe Biden, who has accomplished what Barack Obama and Donald Trump could not.
US poverty rate jumped in 2022, child poverty more than doubled: Census
Biggest losers: Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s relatives.
Well done!
I am being accused by some cocksucker @ 63 of lying for sharing @ 51 that POS Hunter Biden is facing indictment, soon, in California for being a tax cheat.
No lie:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/18/hunter-biden-lawsuit-irs/
It’s not enough to just read the top paragraph of a WaPo story. When WaPo shares bad news about a Democrat it’s always buried well into the piece.
’cause Democracy Dies In Darkness, the same way Democrats get voted out if people understand the crap Democrat politicians are trying to pull.
US poverty rate jumped in 2022, child poverty more than doubled..
“Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.
In contrast, when calculated by the official poverty measure, child poverty declined only 0.7 percentage points, from 16.0% to 15.3%.”
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/record-drop-in-child-poverty.html
2021? Well, one can say drumpf was preznit then (like drumpf itself likes to babble) but that would be a delusional degen only widbee shitstain could love.
Congress has the power of the purse.. What’s its fucking priorities at the moment?
Making the rich richer, “re-erecting” drumpf and a fucking laptop.
@64
Kind of exactly how Joe and the Democrats said would happen when Manchin exclaimed that parents aren’t suffering enough and should have to forego more meals or the drugs rather than get an extended tax break. Or if we give them family leave they’ll just go deer hunting with the time off.
Don’t you have a BBB site to go celebrate that you vehemently opposed funding?
@65
you have the reading comprehension of our old pal the Super Christian.
is facing
might soon file
The existence of a qualifier for an unknown future event to a Dumbfuck is in actual fact a thing that has actually or is highly likely to occur in the near future.
Excellent work. Even when you take umbrage you say some stupid ass shit.
Stories of a degen dipshit whose “research” that widbee shitstain loves to whack off to:
Ziegler doesn’t have a degree in personal finance. He doesn’t personally know the president’s son. But Ziegler, whose first job out of college was working as a low-level aide in the Trump White House, has fashioned himself into a Hunter Biden specialist, compiling personal and financial records from anywhere he can get them. Then, his nonprofit posts them online…
And what a terrific guy!
He promotes posts of inflammatory memes and conspiracy theories. He has shared rhetoric saying that Christians are better than others and that White people have been particularly persecuted. He has promoted photoshopped images of women he dislikes in compromising positions with Hunter Biden…
he portrays himself on social media as a devout Lutheran and family man.
After being questioned by the committee in July 2022, Ziegler unleashed a 27-minute inflammatory tirade on his Telegram page calling the investigation discriminatory against White people and using sexist slurs to describe female ex-colleagues who cooperated with the committee.
He has accused several Biden allies of being Bolsheviks, prompting Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, to note that such words are “often used as a code for Jews.”
Ziegler also has posted, on his Telegram page, photos of his targets’ daughters wearing bathing suits or partying with friends, sometimes ridiculing the girls’ appearances. In other posts he has shared with his following, women are mocked for being bad drivers or purportedly being biologically unfit for military combat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/17/garrett-ziegler-pursuit-hunter-biden
i.e. a degen after widbee shitstain’s own heart.. perhaps shitstain can counsel the “devout Lutheran and family man” with strategic use of “cunt” and “twat”…
That boosts “seriousness” and “intelligence” up a notch.
As usually reliable witnesses continue to contradict him, the question becomes whether Shapley is a liar, or just has an atrocious memory.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/politics/witness-testimony-disputes-irs-whistleblower-hunter-biden/index.html
I vote for “liar.”
63,
The process will have to unfold and that could take until next year.
But the JM (USAM) as well as the authorizing memo for the Special Prosecutor do not give an open-ended authority to dangle indictments forever.
Keep in mind that Hunter Biden’s attorneys have been meeting with, cooperating with, and negotiating with this particular United States Attorney for five years concerning these potential tax charges. And they had an agreement in place as of this past July which the same United States Attorney scuttled at the last minute by announcing that he would reserve the right to file additional charges relating to these taxes after that agreement was entered.
Weiss’s next mandatory status report would be due no later than June 30th. But other circumstances could force his hand before that.
At some point the Special Prosecutor will have to shit or get off the pot. Either his authority to bring an indictment will lapse, or he will come into violation of the JM (USAM) and the controlling federal statutes regulating the conduct of US Attorneys. Clearly Abbe Lowell is laying the ground work for a suit, if it is needed, to compel the Special Prosecutor to either file or drop the underlying criminal investigation identified as Criminal Action Nos. 23-mj-274 (MN) and 23-61 (MN) (D. Del.) . To the best of my knowledge, and as far as the media reports have indicated so far, Weiss has developed no new evidence or leads in this investigation in over two years, and that would of course also take into contemplation all the mountains of pearl-clutching bullshit generated by Farmer Jim and Wrestler Gym in the last few months, none of which would ever be useful or admissible in a constitutionally regulated criminal proceeding.
I think the reason for much of the speculation about the “imminence” of an indictment is because of these issues. But it could also be owing to giddy media interest in discovering how Weiss and his employees conducted themselves in the lead up to the failed, defective plea agreement hearing. Weiss may be very unenthusiastic about that discovery process.
Hunter Biden earned a bunch of money for doing no work that any average person would identify as having value. But as we’ve seen in just this thread alone, that’s not noteworthy among the children of powerful people. And by current standards, Hunter Biden’s efforts are pretty weak, if we compare them to the most recent examples given by the Trump family and other Republicans. Clarence Thomas’ wife has earned millions of dollars in recent years for apparently arranging introductions between influential wealthy crypto-fascists and her husband.
But Biden did not file taxes for a couple of the years he was earning that money. That also is not noteworthy, as about 7 million other Americans do likewise each year, with only a few hundred criminal investigations initiated in relation to those failures to file.
This case certainly is not a “nothing-burger”. But it has all the makings of exactly what it was seen to be when the plea agreement was negotiated. A routine failure to file by a tax payers whose life was in a shambles (of entirely his own making) during the period when he was failing to file. And the previous plea would have been an exceptionally good outcome for the Department.
@53 “… I didn’t think it was worth watching a second time” in a courtroom in front of jurors.
The part you intentionally omitted.
@54 “In 2020, the year that he lost his corrupt effort to remain in office, Trump claimed no income tax owed and filed for a tax refund of $5.47 million of your dollars.”
I gather this was child tax credit for 4,000 Russian orphans he claimed to have adopted?
@ 71
But the JM (USAM) as well as the authorizing memo for the Special Prosecutor do not give an open-ended authority to dangle indictments forever.
In the case of the gun charge it was the approaching expiration WRT statute of limitations, I read.
POS Hunter already benefitted from the intentional expiration of the greater 2014 crimes. Doubtful, now that everyone is watching, that he’ll benefit twice from an intentional run-out of the clock.
@56 Ever heard of “piercing the corporate veil”?
@60 “whatever the fuck is wrong with him”
Old age. No cure. Note, however, it’s OK for senators to be past age 80, that expiration date only applies to presidents.
@64 So now I’m the White Rabbit?
@65 So now you’re a Defender of Democracy?
We’re in for an entertaining day, provided Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t fall off his bar stool.
@68 What do you expect from a troll who routinely treats evidence-free accusations as irrefutable facts?
@71 “Hunter Biden earned a bunch of money for doing no work”
Isn’t that what capitalism is? Aren’t we a capitalist country? Isn’t that a privileged form of income in a tax system like ours, as opposed to heavily-taxed wages paid for work?
@71 “This case certainly is not a “nothing-burger”. But it has all the makings of” a political prosecution urged on by the derelict shell of a once-great political party that has nothing else to run on (as it certainly can’t run on its policies or the quality of its candidates).
@74 Keep your fingers crossed, doc. Keep watching for rustling in that pile of straw. You want to fuck that pony so bad your shorts are splitting in the crotch.
Another version of #83:
If doc was an anti-aircraft gun …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGfao1Acqc
Brave Kevin doesn’t have the votes to prevent a government shutdown.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4212036-house-gop-pulls-key-vote-on-stopgap-spending-bill-amid-conservative-opposition/
He might have to ask the Democrats to bail him out again.
What the fuck does that bullshit have to do with this profoundly stupid troll’s completely fake prediction of tax charges being filed in California?
Raise your hand if you actually believe this glib tax cheating troll doesn’t know the SOL for failing to file.
Although freshman GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden was not their employer, he couldn’t restrain himself from acting like a boss toward the Senate pages on break:
“After chasing the Senate pages off, Van Orden returned to his tour and ‘took a bow to his group’ …” as if lowly employees are there to be harangued and bullied, which unfortunately is how a ton of bosses think of workers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4212361-republican-congressman-took-a-bow-after-confronting-senate-pages/
Republicans just can’t control themselves.
Why isn’t G-clown discussing the mayoral election in CT? The one where the Democrat mayor won the primary because an absentee ballot box was stuffed by his Democrat operative friend, and it was caught on the City video recording?
Alleging voter fraud, Gomes seeks to halt certifying Bridgeport vote
So, this “threats to our democracy” crap is just that – crap.
This is why our stupid fucking troll should stick to avoiding talking about J6. .It only serves to make him come off as a stupid democracy-hating traitor to his country.
Best he stay in his intellectual comfort zone – calling the people here “twats” and “cunts”.
ballot box was stuffed by his Democrat operative friend
and the other shoe drops in that article:
“The Ganim campaign, however, also highlighted another investigation this weekend that was opened into Bridgeport city councilwoman Maria Pereira, a Gomes supporter who was caught on camera entering a Bridgeport apartment and allegedly looking for a resident’s absentee ballot.
Gomes was asked about that video on Monday and said that if people have any evidence that his supporters committed absentee ballot fraud or any other election-related crime, they should report it to the proper authorities.
“If anyone in our campaign was involved, please report it. Please provide evidence,” Gomes said.”
And an old adversary of Joe Lieberman weighs in:
“I saw those videos. They were disturbing. That said, don’t jump to conclusions. I say that every time,” [Ned] Lamont said. “But I really want to thoroughly investigate this. The integrity of our electoral system is so important. I got to make sure that people have confidence.”
Yawwwwn.. Yes, the incumbent seems sketchy and the challenger has issues as well but East Coast politics are known for a bit of dirt.. It’ll be worked out.
BREAKING NEWS FLASH!
Despite three straight years of mindless, dipshit yammering about bamboo fibers, pizza boxes, and SEEKRIT JOO SPACE LASERS, today the actual stupidest person you know just discovered for the very first time that real (not imaginary) ballot fraud is incredibly rare, incredibly difficult, and laughably easy to catch and kill.
The next time the profoundly stupid troll dipshit posts some more of his desperate 2024 wish-casting predicting a Trump flip in PA, remind him of this:
That today in 2023 Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law automatic voter registration expected to another 1 million new voters next year. In 2016 Trump won PA by 54,000. And about half of those idiots are now dead.
And about half of those idiots are now dead.
200k excess deaths from Covid due to klownservatic politics..
Yes quite a few are dead or maybe too tired from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease to fucking care anymore..
It all really started to go to hell when we stopped wearing powdered wigs on the floor of the Senate. – John Adams
Tell me about it. The Waistecoat was classy and dignified. -Henry Clay
I know, the top hat was my thing, what stood me apart as a serious man. – Abraham Lincoln
In my day no one took you seriously unless the suit was double breasted. – Sam Rayburn
I made the mistake of wearing a tan suit – Barack Obama
“Dress code is one of society’s standards that set etiquette and respect for our institutions. Stop lowering the bar!” – Marge TrailerTrash Greene
That freak cripple Duckworth needs to start wearing pantyhose like the rest of us.
I know, the top hat was my thing, what stood me apart as a serious man. – Abraham Lincoln
And also made me look taller, even though I was already the tallest person in the room, and towered over Ulysses Grant, the shortest person in the room (except he wasn’t around very much, he was always away somewhere, chasing Bobby Lee).
Best of all, the top hat made me America’s first skyscraper, for which I’ll always be remembered.
@ 90
and the other shoe drops in that article:
Queen YLB helpfully if unintentionally points out that election fraud was committed by supporters of two Democrat primary candidates, not just one.
Thanks, girlfriend!
Vivek has a problem at home.
“Apoorva Ramaswamy, wife of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, said she does not regret taking the Covid-19 vaccine, breaking with her husband on a central issue of the biotech entrepreneur’s outsider campaign thus far.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/politics/apoorva-vivek-ramaswamy-covid-vaccine/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It’s one thing to get vaccinated, another thing to publicly talk about it when your husband is running a political campaign based on an anti-vaccine platform.
@ 98
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has no idea that Ramaswamy’s wife is a surgeon, and probably is required to be vaccinated in order to have operating privileges pretty much everywhere.
She has a choice, of course, but that choice might be to be barred from practicing should she refuse to be vaxxed.
None of this is inconsistent with her husband’s political position.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit fails to comprehend the basics, such as how he would feel if the physician re-establishing his rectal patency for the umpteenth time was not vaxxed.
@99 “Ramaswamy’s wife is a surgeon, and probably is required to be vaccinated”
That’s the “one thing.” Now address “another thing,” to wit, what requires her to blab about it; and, specifically, the “split between the couple” referenced in the CNN story.
election fraud was committed by supporters of two Democrat primary candidates
So what’s your point, Dumbfuck? That your violent 1/6 insurrection intended to end our democracy was justified?
Or is it that to be an unserious twat means that you’re a fucking bore who is utterly lacking in courage?
Brave Kevin may go down in history as the hostage who shot himself.
He could’ve neutered Gaetz simply by ignoring his demands. After all, the Democrats hate what Gaetz wants so much they would’ve protected Brave Kevin. But then Brave Kevin foolishly gave Gaetz the impeachment inquiry, who pocketed that ransom payment and demanded a government shutdown. Now the Democrats are saying, “Why the hell should we rescue him?”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4212944-democrats-face-big-decision-on-mccarthy/
“The Alabama Republican added that he has not talked about the situation with anyone from the Pentagon since July.
“’Zero. Nilch. None. Crickets,’ Tuberville told reporters Tuesday. ‘They know where I stand. I’m not changing my mind.’”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4212731-tuberville-to-try-going-around-his-own-blockade-to-confirm-marine-commandant/
Well then, what is there to talk about? If someone says he’s not going to discuss a compromise, it’s his way or the highway, what is there to discuss?
“I’m an army of one, and I demand your immediate and unconditional surrender!” while shaking fist at the Pentagon. People watch from windows.
two Democrat primary candidates,
Both are alleged to have engaged in fraud, but nothing is proven..
yawwnn.. asswipe…
@ 104
… but nothing is proven..
Yes, ya dumb twat, sometimes more than six days after a crime is committed must elapse before a jury can convict the person(s) responsible.
Sixty two legal challenges filed by Crybaby Republicans in 2020. Sixty one tossed like stinking fish heads. One granted an extra three days for ballot curing.
So Republicans went home, built pipe bombs, and packed up duffel bags filled with guns and ammo and attacked the Congress.
@105 You’ve never required a jury conviction and don’t now. For you, an allegation is more than enough. Heck, even Gateway Pundit is good enough for you.
If I ever defend anybody in Island County Superior Court and there’s a retired doctor in the jury pool, I won’t hesitate to strike him from the jury. He might not be you, but that’s not a gamble I’m willing to take for my client.
Yes, ya dumb twat, sometimes more than six days after a crime is committed must elapse before a jury can convict the person(s) responsible.
This is from the unserious dumbfuck fascist traitor-twat with zero courage who claims that J6 was “crap”, nothing but “a dozen cosplaying grandmothers”.