If it’s Wednesday, it’s Carl is talking about his bus trip home from Drinking Liberally. I know it’s very complicated, but man is it annoying when it says 6 minutes away for 10 minutes. Is it traffic? Is it technical issues? Is it one of those things where the drivers switch in the middle of the route, but something happened?
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The tears. Are they salty?
By Radical, you mean the notion that a woman should have the right to make decisions about what does and doesn’t happen to her body?
By Radical, you mean the notion of one man one vote?
By Radical, you mean the idea that we can just say that slavery was bad and not a work study program?
If not the FBI, who can you trust?
This set of crimes:
is otherwise known as a Hunter Biden Business Dinner With Joe Biden In Attendance.
@ 1
By Radical, I mean that some issues are left to the states to decide.
It’s somewhere in the Bill of Rights, I have been told.
Another set of bank records has been dropped by the House committee crawling up The Biden Crime Family’s ass with a microscope.
Just think how much more we’ll know by October of next year.
Gee. I certainly hope that Senator Feinstein is OK. May she have a long, comfortable recuperation in her San Francisco home, while remaining a US senator.
Otherwise Newsom will appoint Whoopie Goldberg as a placeholder, so as not to spoil Adam Schiff’s chance to take the seat while still fulfilling his promise to award the seat to as black woman more likable and more competent than Kamala Harris.
@2 “A former FBI agent accused by U.S. prosecutors of working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch …”
How about a sitting president working for a sanctioned Russian dictator? Shouldn’t that at least be sanctioned at the polls, if he runs again?
Actually, if DiFi resigns, Kamala Harris could resign the vice presidency, enabling Newsom to appoint her to the US Senate, and Biden could then nominate Newsom to be vice president.
Eliminates the awful Kamala Harris from the ticket and replaces her with someone who will then run for president when Biden is forced to resign by the combined inescapable burdens of senility and well-documented family corruption.
@ 6
How about a sitting president working for a sanctioned Russian dictator?
How about a sitting Vice President working for a corrupt Ukrainian president in exchange for $10 million wired to his family’s accounts, and bragging about it on camera?
@3 I always was under the impression that “radical” is an adjective used to describe the content of a policy, not who enacts it.
Worked with agent Butina.
‘Amember me?
Seems rather conclusive. You can’t trust high ranking Republicans at all.
They have very consistently betrayed the United States for many years now.
By which he means left exclusively to corrupt Republican lawmakers in the states to decide.
See Ohio Measure 1
Just think how much less we’ll care.
@3
Yes, and a solid majority of the state said, “Fuck off Republicans. Changing the rules just to suit a minority is radical. Radical is claiming that that district you drew to have 1200 Republican farmers and 44 Democrats should have the power to say no to ANYTHING the rest of the state might want to do.”
The kids are coming for the Republican party and it isn’t going to be pretty.
Now remember, the vice president had nothing to do with his POS son’s business dealings. That’s the story.
Gee, why were Obama’s people worried about Hunter Biden?
@4
Show me on the record where there is criminal or even unethical, by the standards set by previous children of politicians, activity.
We have time.
“You see if we leak this stuff to the right wing blog-o-sphere like “Just The News” we can create enough of our own smoke that no one will realize it’s just the weed we’re smoking and not a fire.” -Comer
Sure. Gonna be like the any day now for four years that Durham was going to bring charges. And the Pain. “I just know we’re going to find something THIS TIME!”
@4 Funny. I still don’t see Joe Biden’s name on any of those bank accounts.
@8 That certainly would be corruption if it were true. However, all the evidence to date, including the latest committee drop, indicates that Hunter Biden was trading on his father’s name, and all the accounts described as “Biden family accounts” in the committee memos are Hunter Biden accounts.
Sorry to see the Shit-Lord Crybaby attempting such a weak comeback from his recent doldrums.
Now claims he can prove Joe Biden worked for Poroshenko?
He’s surely got the proof. Keeps it in his nightstand with pictures of President Obama thrusting his giant, erect black penis into Kathleen Parker’s admiring gaze aboard AF1.
@ 13
Yes, and a solid majority of the state said, “Fuck off Republicans.
Each and every state has the opportunity to say the same thing to Republicans. The GOP deserves the blowback. Glad to see you agree with the Dobbs opinion.
Republican political strategy has evolved over the decades. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was “your cousin is a communist, therefore you are a communist.”
Seventy-five years later, it’s “Hunter Biden received cash from Ukrainians and Chinese, therefore Joe Biden received cash from Ukrainians and Chinese.”
What it really shows is that Republicans, who have absolutely no imagination and are incapable of having a new idea, are still playing the guilt-by-association card because over the course of 75 years they haven’t thought of anything better.
16,
And all the earnings were perfectly legal.
Maybe they shouldn’t be.
But then where would Clarence Thomas’ mother have to live?
And who would pay for Ginni Thomas’ Ozempic injections?
@8
Newsmax has joined the chat.
@18 From a purely constitutional analysis standpoint, I always thought a constitutional right to abortion was a stretch, but so is legal reasoning based on a medieval scroll.
19,
I remind you that as President Donald Trump received many hundreds of millions from corrupt foreign nationals directly appealing to him as President for favorable treatment.
And it was legal.
Do not agree to debate with these assholes about this.
It is pure bullshit. Literally none of them believe in any part of what they claim, including the allegations that any of this stuff is illegal.
It is not illegal for Americans to earn money from foreign nations or foreign owned businesses.
In order to even begin to claim criminality it must first be shown that the money was received and used for a corrupt purpose. That is not the case even where President Donald J. Trump and his family members received hundreds of millions of dollars in such payments from foreign nation states, foreign businesses and individuals while they were employed by the United States government and were thus bound by law to disclose.
Which incidentally the failed to do in more than half of those cases.
@14
So, a cease and desist situation arising from Burisma trying to give the appearance that Vice President Biden had endorsed the company in some way.
You are so fun. Try this, Take the lube you use to make it more comfortable for the horse and create an e-commerce site to sell it. Now put a picture of famed horse American Pharoah on the page and see how long it takes for a Zayat Stables, LLC to tell you to take it down.
@ 16
@4 Funny. I still don’t see Joe Biden’s name on any of those bank accounts.
It’s not necessary, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
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U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Comer’s statement (link @ 4) echoes this:
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, do you think that everything that the GOP has on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden has already been released into the public domain? Or do you think it’s possible that a continuing drip of increasingly damning and incriminating material will be punctuated sometime in early October 2024 with a smoking gun release?
After all, it’s a laptop stuffed with indiscretions. Do you really think someone with the last name Biden isn’t dumb enough to have on his computer the type of incriminating data that, say, Anthony Weiner possessed on his?
There are multiple reasons that Newsom is running a shadow campaign. This is probably the biggest.
@18 Drowned kids entangled in underwater razor wire or sliced up by circular saw blades strung between floats is a wonderful opportunity for the Supreme Court to revisit states’ rights and decide whether to narrow federal preemption.
@ 23
It is not illegal for Americans to earn money from foreign nations or foreign owned businesses.
Operative word in that sentence is earn. See @ 25.
Unless Republicans corruptly alter state laws to prevent it.
Then it becomes:
A carefully defined Republican minority in each and every state has the opportunity to say the same thing to Republicans.
The granting veto authority to a selected minority in the US Senate is not a model for democracy nationwide. If voters in the states should decide, and if Republicans truly believed that, they’d stop trying to make it unlawful for them to vote and then requiring twice as many of them to show up in order to do anything.
When a Republican says “Let the states decide” what they obviously mean is “Let an extremist Republican minority decide”.
@ 26
Drowned kids entangled in underwater razor wire or sliced up by circular saw blades …
Chain-saw. You need to use the same terms that the people going for maximum silliness are using, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Liberals prefer that brownskin kids continue to drown, as hundreds and hundreds have done before the water barrier was erected, but without the post-mortem cuts that arise from dead brownskin kids getting caught in the water barrier.
@24 The rules in politics are different. Free speech plays a much larger role. Wild exaggerations and outright lying are permitted. So, too, apparently, is campaigns using copyrighted songs over the artists’ objections. And photoshopping images without the permission of the original photographer. All in the name of furthering the robust debate essential to a health democracy, by parties and individuals inimical to the very idea of democracy. The underlying theme is, “Let the voters decide.” Now Republicans want to take their criminal behavior out of the realm of the legal system and put that up for a popular vote, too. I’m not sure that’s a wise move on their part.
Always has been. The proof standards have been the same for more than a century. Which is why you did not see House Democrats under Speaker Pelosi devote two years to investigations of Jared and Ivanka Kushner’s corrupt foreign financial schemes or Donald Trump’s foreign payment schemes even when agency IGs and private sector watch dogs flagged them.
Trump “earned” the money.
@29 “Chain-saw. You need to use the same terms that the people going for maximum silliness are using, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.”
I haven’t heard that one yet. Is someone describing Gov. Abbott’s floating barrier as “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II”?
@25 As the dumbfuck you say I am, I’m under the impression this law addresses Americans bribing foreign officials, not the other way around. At least, that’s how it reads to me.
@25 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, do you think that everything that the GOP has on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden has already been released into the public domain?”
Yes. If they had more, why would they hold it back?
@27 Well, you and I are in big trouble then, because “earn” certainly doesn’t describe how we’re making our money these days, given that neither of us has worked in years.
@29 Doctor Dumbfuck now wants us to believe that putting razor wire and circular saw blades in the river is doing “brown kids” trying to cross the river a favor.
Arguments like this is how you become a minority party.
@27
Here’s where a dumbfuck is force to acknowledge that every child of a politician given a job where they likely did little no work is corrupt. Like a Bush or Clinton kid at a news organization. Or being handed some patents, or just straight up cash to run a hedge fund, a job for which one had no relevant experience…
In Florida, elections are advisory. DeSantis will appoint a Republican if voters choose a Democrat.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-elected-florida-state-attorney-monique-worrell.html
25,
Wrong fucking statute ignoramus.
By now, FFS, you should have observed that Comer would not be your best “go-to” for any legal reasoning or analysis to prop up your bullshit. He does not know the law. And he’s got the wrong statute that simply may not be applied to a U.S. citizen receiving payments.
Beware of shit bubbling up from Murdoch opinion mills. They don’t know these laws either.
FCPA defines within the statute that the criminal subject of the statute is the “issuer” of a corrupt payment.
Work on that. You fucked up again.
Well this is shit Bob can believe in or just ignore. Why? Well because it’s normal behavior for Heterosexual Neanderthals. They suffer from an STD virus that kills…..daily, if not by the hour.
Bitches, The Neanderthals don’t want you to know but they’ve been grooming you for milleniums and you just accept it and allow, which is really stupid behaviour on your part. And sometimes you are smart of enough to take back your Heterosexual Neanderthal virus yourself and you get your Neanderthal first – Bravo!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/07/domestic-homicide-prince-georges-clinton/
But this one is not so fortunate.
Call 1-666-YOU-DEAD Bitch!
The irony is kind of strong.
So if you’ve been paying attention the last several decades Native Hawaiians have been gentrified out of housing in huge numbers and local activists have been trying to do something about it.
Reading through pieces and local news reports of the devastating fires on Maui a common name keeps getting quoted and interviewed. He’s a gallery owner from New York originally.
Yes, the practice of mainlanders overpaying for a house and then buying a second as an income property is EXACTLY why housing costs exploded on the island making it impossible for the guy who checked you in for your tee time to have anything but a shared apartment.
This is on the guy’s gallery website.
Seven years, seven generations…what’s the difference.
Heil DeFuckFace!
Today we learned Twitter was fined $350,000 for stalling on Jack Smith’s subpoena of Trump’s Twitter account records.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/special-counsel-trump-twitter-search-warrant/index.html
“House Oversight Republicans laid out their intention to accuse President Joe Biden of corruption even without direct evidence that he financially benefited from Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, a clear shift in their strategy that they said was launched to investigate the president.
“The new strategy is highlighted in a memo released by the committee on Wednesday. ‘President Biden’s defenders purport a weak defense by asserting the Committee must show payments directly to the President to show corruption,’ the House Oversight Republicans wrote. ‘This is a hollow claim no other American would be afforded if their family members accepted foreign payments or bribes. Indeed, the law recognizes payments to family members to corruptly influence others can constitute a bribe,’ the memo says.
“The panel points to a resource guide of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that states ‘companies also may violate the FCPA if they give payments or gifts to third parties, such as an official’s family members, as an indirect way of corruptly influencing a foreign official.'”
Postcript: “Hunter Biden has not been charged or convicted of accepting bribes at this point.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/house-oversight-republicans-hunter-biden/index.html
Well, now I know what mouse hold Doctor Dumbfuck’s comment @25 crawled out of: He’s parroting the House Republicans.
So let me get this straight. If they accuse my son of robbing a bank, but it turns out all he was doing was depositing his paycheck, that makes me a bank robber because he’s a “family member.” Yes? Is that how this works now?
@ 34
Yes. If they had more, why would they hold it back?
1. If the release it now then it will be claimed to be “old news” by the time the Fall election season gets into gear.
2. “October surprise”. Think Access Hollywood tape (OK, that one didn’t work). Think GWB DUI arrest (OK, that one was November 2, and also didn’t work). Even Comey’s actions, while probably not intended to harm a candidate, had an effect because it dropped late and very likely made a big difference.
I have no idea if the GOP has a smoking gun. But if they don’t now, in another year they might. Six banks filing 170 SARs means The Biden Crime Family is every bit as stupid as Joe Biden has always shown himself to be.
@39 “By now, FFS, you should have observed that Comer would not be your best ‘go-to’ for any legal reasoning or analysis”
At this point, perhaps one should ask what kind of dumbfuck goes to a farmer instead of a lawyer for legal reasoning and analysis?
Axios:
Biden loses ground with working-class Black, Latino voters
They know that free shit isn’t really free. Unlike Queen YLB, they realize that the consequences are borne by them, and by their children. They know all that money going to EVs will never be seen in their neighborhoods.
@45 “I have no idea if the GOP has a smoking gun.”
It looks to me like you just suggested they do, and now you’re backtracking.
“But if they don’t now, in another year they might.”
How many naked call options in money-losing companies have you bought on this premise?
@47 Now that Comer’s witch hunt has come up empty for him, HA’s resident prospector is shifting gears and trying his hand at mining Latino votes.
@ 41
… a common name keeps getting quoted and interviewed.
He’s as qualified to speak for native Hawaiians as Greta Thunberg is to speak on climate change.
And it likely was one CBS interviewed that was repeatedly aired or quoted elsewhere. BBC is a CBS broadcast partner. One reason is that communications are down, so there might only be one interview available for rebroadcast or or to be quoted.
How do you make Marjorie Taylor Greene look like a moderate?
By comparing her to her constituents.
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-treason/
@ 48
How many naked call options in money-losing companies have you bought on this premise?
You can’t buy a naked call option, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You can sell one. But you cannot buy one.
Stick with utilities, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Your poor investment decisions have harmed your poor family enough.
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.
In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told him disturbing stories about their congregants being upset when they read from the famous “Sermon on the Mount” in which Christ espoused the principles of forgiveness and mercy as central to Christian doctrine.
“Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — ‘turn the other cheek’ — [and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?'” Moore revealed. “And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/
I see an opening here for the Federalist Society to reinterpret the Bible.
The way you don’t get a grand jury on your side is by waging a harassment campaign against a mom and daughter who just wanted to earn a few bucks by taking a short-term gig with the local elections department as ballot counters.
https://www.rawstory.com/fulton-county-2663081017/
Due to the unacceptable and corrupt teacher response to the pandemic, public school students have effectively lost a year of learning.
I’d like to congratulate The Even Bigger Fucking Moron who, because public school students are now underperforming by a year, now can claim to have a fourth-grade level of comprehension, rather than merely third-grade as we’ve seen from him each and every time he spews.
@55 Yes, what got into those teachers? Every teacher knew, when she enlisted in the education army, that she might be called on to lay down her life for her students’ reading and math scores. Demanding safe classrooms was an unacceptable and corrupt display of battlefield cowardice. What should we do with the survivors? Court-martial them? Make them face a firing squad?
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, I should have sold naked calls against Proterra.
Granholm, a member of my corrupt president’s cabinet, cleared a $1.6 million profit on this turd of a company.
@ 57
What Granholm did is known as “pump and dump“.
Since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit brought up naked options, I’d again like to thank him for the
• $2600+ I will clear for the naked put contracts on GNRC that I sold, as long as the shares don’t fall below the strike price of $95 in the next 10 days.
• $3000+ I will clear for the naked call contracts on GNRC I sold, as long as the shares don’t exceed $160 before mid-November.
That’s without ever owning the shares themselves. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit refers to this as gambling.
Q: What’s the difference between a Guatemalan kid drowning while trying to cross the Rio Grande and a Puerto Rican kid drowning in a hurricane?
A: Generac generator sales go up after hurricanes, and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit makes money.
Eight GOP primary candidates will be on the first debate stage.
That’s eight assuming Trump shows up.
On last night’s Marketplace segment (NPR) I heard that US credit card debt rose 4.6% last month. In just 31 days.
$1.03 trillion now. That’s some Bidenomics right there. We’re seeing rising delinquencies in credit card payments at the consumer level, and we’re seeing rising rent delinquencies at the commercial level.
This won’t end well. Gee, I hope Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has hedged his accounts against the coming decline in equity prices.
Keeps his proof of such claims in the same place James Comer keeps his license to practice the law.
That other shoe that always drops is called disappointment. And it’s the only thing Republicans are “clearing” in abundance these days.
Oddly enough, this same troll advised anyone dumb enough to listen that Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection effort would end well.
@38. How soon before Desantist goes full Republican Aparthied and replaces ALL the black and democratic politicians in Florida with federalist society flacks? By Christmas?
Speaking of gas prices,
Gasoline is up 29 cents a gallon in the last month.
Diesel is up 37 cents a gallon in the last month.
Remember how the fall in inflation during June was primarily due to falling energy prices? Guess that’s over for now.
Oh, and the corrupt Biden administration just canceled a planned 6 million barrel oil purchase to begin refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Why? Because that would have driven fuel prices even higher. Instead the SPR will remain the piggy bank of my corrupt, incompetent, senile president, and the empty SPR tank will be the problem of the Republican president in 2025.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned into such a disaster during this administration that you’d think Kamala Harris was put in charge of it.
@47
It’s almost like you didn’t want anyone to know who you’re quoting. The previous paragraph.
@ 63
That other shoe that always drops is called disappointment.
I am disappointed, in retrospect, that I did not invest more heavily in opposition to what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has done.
After all, he’s right. I should have shorted GE back in late 2017. His defense of GE was a clear signal for me to do so, and I didn’t.
Using my Notadumbfuck Method has been reliably profitable. I should use it more than I do. The thing is, since Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has bragged less about his imaginary stock market exploits, there’s less material for the rest of us to take advantage of.
@55 aww shucks, greedy racist incel, you care about education. Big kiss.
NYT has obtained, and now other outlets are reporting on, memos authored by then President Trump’s attorney Kenneth Cheeseboro in early December of 2020 in which Trump’s attorney lays out his operational plan for the fraud scheme. In the last of these memos Cheseboro notes that no state legislature had certified the slates of fraudulent electors the conspirators had assembled. He goes on to describe the specific timeline of events that needed to happen for the fraudulent electoral slates to be counted instead of the lawfully certified slates.
One of the steps outlined in the timeline was for then Vice President Pence to “recuse” himself from presiding over the count, citing “constitutional” conflicts in the ECA. This would then open the door for the Republican Senate majority to “select” Chuck Grassley, as president pro tempore to preside. And then Grassley would then “choose” the fake electoral slates over the real ones.
Kinda puts Grassley’s DIC PICS lunacy into better context.
62. Why do you feel it’s Democrats , and not the republicans, responsibility to save people from making bad personal financial choices?
@ 68
Hi Nate. As you’re the numbers guy I chose commentary from someone that HA readers wouldn’t get to see themselves. Hey, the reason I’m here is to see commentary that I otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to, and I appreciate the additional perspective. So I figured that HA libbies would similarly appreciate a different perspective.
But you’re right, I didn’t share numbers. From that link, here are some:
More signal. Less noise.
What “service” of value did Jared and Ivanka provide to Sheikh Bonesaw in exchange for a payment of $2 billion?
@ 72
Why do you feel it’s Democrats , and not the republicans, responsibility to save people from making bad personal financial choices?
I don’t think it’s either party’s responsibility, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. It’s the individual’s responsibility.
Just think how bad it will be once student loan debt repayments begin, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, and while filing for personal bankruptcy a year from now young voters realize that Biden lied to them when he told them he’d pay for their outstanding student loan debt.
What he meant was that if he was telling the truth, it would be Queen YLB’s fucked kids who would pay for it.
And yet PPP corruption was fine
This just in:
“The FBI shot and killed a Utah man on Wednesday while trying to arrest him for threatening to murder President Joe Biden ….
“Many other politicians were also allegedly threatened by the man, Provo resident Craig Deleeuw Robertson, who was accused in court documents of vowing to retaliate against the FBI during an investigation.
“Court documents say the FBI described Robertson as a white man ‘approximately 70-75 years old’ who was surveilled ‘wearing a dark suit (later observed as having an AR-15 style rifle lapel pin attached), a white shirt, a red tie, and a multi-colored (possibly camouflage) hat bearing the word ‘TRUMP’ on the front.
“Robertson was fatally shot by at least one FBI agent at 6:15 a.m. in Provo, about 12 hours before Biden was due to visit the state in Salt Lake City No agents were injured. ‘The incident began when special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence,’ the FBI said in a statement. ‘The subject is deceased.’”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/fbi-shoots-and-kills-utah-man-wanted-for-biden-threats.html
NBC News, which is doing the primary reporting, doesn’t provide any details but it sounds like the subject started shooting when FBI agents attempt to serve the arrest and search warrants.
In other news, CNN says “Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a grand jury next week, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/trump-georgia-fani-willis-dozen-indictments/index.html
And DeSantis, much as he might like to, can’t replace this prosecutor with a Federalist Society lackey (as he just did in Florida) because she’s not under his jurisdiction.
He daydreams about having jurisdiction over every federal and state prosecutor in the country, but polls suggest that ain’t happening in this election cycle.
Remember how the fall in inflation during June was primarily due to falling energy prices..
ooops.. oh ye of little faith.. in Joe’s spending…
So now higher prices are driven by the rising cost of energy.. who knew?
yawwn..
77,
‘nother
And Trump has only barely gotten started with ordering assassinations.
Let’s hope for their sake the FBI is really coming with their A-game in the next eighteen months.
Greta Thunberg is to speak on climate change…
Who’s better qualified then? oh it has to be the kreepshit of widbee..
Just off the transom..
Maui’s burning.. people jumping into the ocean to escape the flames..
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/lahaina-maui-fires-live-updates-rcna98986
but.. but.. prager u and teh kreepshit sez (reaching for the cut of cliff mass’ jib) the climate is always changing.. it’ll get cooler like it has in the past.
@59 I can’t guarantee anything, of course, but I think you’re probably on fairly safe ground with respect to the $95, but may be sticking your neck out on the $160.
@60 Is this a plea for a way to monetize brown-skinned kids being cut to ribbons trying to cross the Rio Grande?
@60 By the way, I don’t see the moral equivalence between hurricanes (natural) and razor wire or circular saw blades (volitional human conduct). Can you explain that for me?
@71
There’s quite a bit more evidence that Grassely was aware of this plan than there is Joe was aware of Hunter’s business accounts.
From the link @ 81:
Scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said there have been 15 extreme weather events so far this year that each caused at least $1 billion in damage. These included severe storms, tornado outbreaks, hail, one flooding event and one winter storm.
The pandemic cost a fuckton too. Why has it been so fucking expensive to reduce the number of repukes in this country? They’ve cost sane people nothing but munee.
@62 Last week’s Barrons, which you no doubt read from cover to cover, made clear that while consumer spending remains strong, buoying the economy, it’s now being sustained by credit card borrowing and people dipping into 401(k)s instead of pandemic savings (which are largely exhausted). In addition, the pattern of spending is shifting from discretionary items (e.g., “revenge travel”) to necessities.
At some point, this consumer spending burns itself out. Despite the major banks now declaring a recession won’t happen, recession risk is still on the table, and is affecting equity pricing. When consumer spending finally does burn out, and the recession finally arrives, it’ll affect equity pricing even more.
With this in mind, I’m stockpiling cash to buy cheap (or at least cheaper) stocks with. I also unloaded some overvalued stock to add to my cash pile. Meanwhile, the World’s Greatest Investor (TM) is betting GNRC won’t go under $95 or over $160 before December, and insisting that isn’t “gambling.”
We’re all gamblers in this game, doc. Some of us are better card counters than others. Me, I make no claims to know what the market or any individual stock will do next; I just play Moneyball, i.e. spreading my chips over dozens of stocks, and getting on base with some of them to make 5% – 10% a year.
@66 “Gasoline is up 29 cents a gallon in the last month. Diesel is up 37 cents a gallon in the last month.”
I guess that’s a problem if you live on an island and have to drive an F-250 20 miles to buy a quart of milk.
I don’t really notice gas prices much, because I buy gas only a few times a year. My problem is I don’t drive my car enough to keep the battery charged. Those are the consequences of not living on an island or owning a gas guzzler.
Just think how bad it will be once student loan debt repayments begin.. while filing for personal bankruptcy a year from now young voters realize
realize that student loan debt is almost impossible to discharge through personal bankruptcy???
https://money.usnews.com/loans/student-loans/articles/can-you-file-for-bankruptcy-on-student-loans
or realize that boomer degenerates once again have their heads where the sun don’t shine?
just resentment from always wrong wing boomer degen.. we know.. that young voters are young.. and boomer degenerates are old and will pass from the scene one day.. it all speaks so well to boomer degen “intelligence”..
Funny just the other day, kount kreepula said black voters aren’t stupid.. But apparently kreepula believes young voters are so stupid they can’t read the news and see who were the degens who interfered with their debt relief.
Yet those same voters are turning out in droves to support a host of more sane policies..
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/younger-voters-are-poised-to-upend-american-politics/
Nov 2022 anyone?
One less nutjob! One less vote for The FuckHump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-killed-fbi-raid-connection-threats-biden-officials/story?id=102138966
Amen. Thoughts and Prayers. Alleluiah.
about 1 month ago I said I was three steps ahead of The Dumbfuck. I knew it was only a mater of time before he’d whine like a little snowflake baby bitch. The sky is falling, the Sky is Falling. You can time it like 2-3 months after an oil production cut. He prefers treasonous undemocratic unpatriotic, unjust and non equal shit over having to pay another penny for gas.
Don’t forget to Speed like a mother fucker – it helps!
Vroom, Vroom, Vroom….like my big flag on the back of my Taliban Truck!? Vroom, Vrooom, Vrooooom, me Heterosexual Neanderthal. I have STD Virus – kill my wife and children. Where the fuck is the ape?
Fucking Heterosexual Neanderthals. Costing the taxpayer money.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/09/national-guard-leader-fired-sexism-toxic-culture-complaints/70498437007/
Frank LaRose made himself the face of Ohio Issue 1 that Ohio voters just rejected overwhelmingly.
And he has been the standout poll leader among Republicans competing to challenge Sherrod Brown next year.
Good.
RCP favorability ratings…
Joe Biden 40.3
Donald Trump 38.4
Momala Harris 37.6
Ron DeSantis 37.5
Sadly, it still looks like Ron DeSantis will never be the other unserious twat’s president. He’ll be lucky to have 20% favorability after his crash and burn plays out. Momala, on the other hand, is a different story. She might well be running for re-election as president come 2028.
Momala-Newsom 2028
Has a nice ring to it. Probably not so much for the other unserious twat.
Question. Once convicted and sentenced, will all these people be incarcerated in Fulton County Jail?
‘They’re coming for everyone’: Looming Georgia indictments send Trump allies running for cover
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms – the latest blow to US gun regulations after the Supreme Court cleared the way last year for courts to reexamine the nation’s gun laws under a new legal standard.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/appeals-court-firearms-illegal-drug-users/index.html
But hey, Hunter Biden is still guilty under this law!
@85 If Joe Biden (b. 1942) is too old to be president, then why isn’t Chuck Grassley (b. 1933) too old to be a senator? I don’t hear Republicans talking about that.
“GOP memo argues direct payments to President Biden not needed to show corruption”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4146309-gop-memo-argues-direct-payments-to-president-biden-not-needed-to-show-corruption/
I already commented on this, so this comment is kind of redundant, but doesn’t this prove they have no evidence that President Biden received such payments?
As I understand the Republican memo, their new argument is that the mere act of Biden saying “hi” to his son on the phone is an impeachable offense because it aided his son’s influence peddling activities.
More about this morning’s suicide-by-FBI-agent in Provo, Utah: After identifying the author of online threats, FBI agents contacted the subject to assess whether he posed an actual threat. After confirming he made the posts, the subject said, “We’re done here. Don’t return without a warrant.”
It’s still not clear exactly what happened when they returned a warrant, but according to Daily Mail: “Just two days ago, Robertson posted: ‘Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can be sure to have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again.'”
This is just a guess, but I surmise that when agents dropped by with a warrant, he did what he promised he would do, and they returned fire per the policy and procedure manual.
If Joe Biden (b. 1942) is too old to be president, then why isn’t Chuck Grassley (b. 1933) too old to be a senator? I don’t hear Republicans talking about that.
And old Moscow Mitch is reportedly a bit “unsteady” these days? He’s older than Biden too – by less than a year but so what?
According to the degen babbling of teh widbee shit-stain, that old age puts old Moscow in the veggie bin.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms
One of the first things repukes did when they ran the table in 2017 was prevent krazy fucks from getting flagged when they obtained firearms..
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/3/14496774/congress-guns-mental-illness
I’m sure that was a great relief to Asshole1, that old pork sauce troll, who disappeared when drumpf was defeated and now “it’s baaaack” to keep dopes alive in 2024.
Look at this groomer! Now this is the dick that Bob and the rest of the GOP don’t mind sucking.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gop-donor-anton-lazzaro-sentenced-21-years-sex-102137858
Today is the ninth anniversary of the day that Michael Brown fucked around and found out.
TSLA keeps sinking like a Florida condominium built on sand.
@104 Today is one year away from the first anniversary of the day that Craig Deleeuw Robertson fucked around and found out.
In states where an abortion question is put before voters, Dobbs is consistently driving significant percentages of Republican voters to cross over and side with Democrats.
Let’s make it a habit.
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I wonder who Republicans will choose to fill that now vacant keynote speaker slot in next year’s convention?
I hear Pol Pot has limited availability.
Florida is recruiting history teachers. This video will help you prep for the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJB925iC7Xs
Here’s one for the ages. A resident of The Villages — you can bet your ass he’s a Trumper — got his picture posted on villages.com for making a hole-in-one at a Villages golf course.
Police matched that picture to a suspect wanted for punching an 87-year-old man who died. Mr. Hole-In-One is now facing manslaughter charges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEVZx8tZu8
What kind of sicko punches an 87-year-old?
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Bribe-Taking Crooks Bombshell News –
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Racist Republicans are hatching a plot to give Trump immunity from prosecution for all his terrible crimes!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/matt-gaetz-outlines-bold-plan-give-trump-immunity/
Today is the daily anniversary some chic fucked around with the hubby and died of Heterosexual Neanderthal STD.
Bitches be dumb.
Thirty eight Fed Soc/GOP arranged and billionaire paid vacations in thirty two years on the Supreme Court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
“The lifestyle Justice Clarence Thomas has enjoyed over the last three decades bankrolled by gifts and hospitality from his wealthy friends is more extensive than previously known, according to a new ProPublica report, and has included numerous flights on private planes, skybox tickets to sporting events, stays at luxury resorts, and a standing invitation to play at a high-end private golf club in Florida.
“The new report is the broadest look yet at how Thomas’ social circle has funded – with limited disclosure to the public – a regular stream of extravagant excursions and events since he became a Supreme Court justice. These costly trips and travel perks often went unreported on the justice’s financial disclosure forms, ProPublica said in its investigation.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/politics/clarence-thomas-gifts-hospitality-propublica-report/index.html
Anyone want to believe his wealthy friends gave him these handouts after he became a Supreme Court justice from the kindness of their hearts? Isn’t this the very definition of corruption? Lower court federal judges have been impeached for less.
Postscript: “None of the Thomas benefactors highlighted in the new report appear to have had direct business in front of the Supreme Court, ProPublica said. However, their donations to political causes on the right put them in sync with the justice’s far-right jurisprudence, and the friendships that were the source of the gifts and hospitality confirmed by ProPublica all seem to have begun after Thomas joined the most powerful court in the country. … Though the total value of the recently revealed gifts is unclear, ProPublica estimated that they are likely in the millions of dollars.”
This isn’t a snipe in the bushes, like the millions that Joe Biden supposedly took from his son’s influence-peddling “customers.” This is actual millions being showered on a public official with policy-making responsibilities by rich and powerful people very interested in what those policies are.
It. Is. Corrupt. Which doesn’t bother Republicans a bit; buying justices’ votes on important issues is perfectly fine, as long as he’s a conservative justices and his votes go their way.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/politics/supreme-court-ethics-bill-clarence-thomas/index.html
“Tesla and X owner Elon Musk is mulling the suggestion of having a ‘noble’ debate instead of a cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4147066-musk-mulling-noble-debate-with-zuckerberg-instead-of-cage-fight/
To intellectuals and academics, debating is more noble than fighting; to red-blooded Americans of the kind who watch Clint Eastwood movies, it’s cut and run.
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” “None of the Thomas benefactors highlighted in the new report appear to have had direct business in front of the Supreme Court, “
But this is exactly how you would do it if you wished to buy off an Associate Justice.
These are people with the kind of wealth that makes it fairly trivial for them to send an entirely empty 737 from Florida to DC to pick up a single individual and then fly him to Florida. Then do it again in reverse. They have lots of money to throw around.
So rather than give ten million to a particular “leadership PAC” or to a “bundler” to fund a fascist Senate campaign, a few of these individuals are instead recruited to do this kind of corrupt shit buying off a member of the Supreme Court. This is the role that the Fed Soc plays in all this. They are the go-betweens who convey the value represented by Thomas giving his allegiance to these “friends” rather than to the United States and the constitution. So of course they take pains to ensure that there is no direct, legal, causal connection between an individual paying for Thomas’ lavish and exceptional “lifestyle enhancements” and any business coming in front of him.
They were never expecting this corrupt shit to remain secret.
Just barely deniable.
And that fact more than almost anything is what justifies Congress intervening to impose an ethical conduct code on these justices. They are brazenly demonstrating that they are not capable of protecting the integrity of the institution without that intervention. Left to their own devices, even if Thomas were to fall to a long anticipated aneurysm tomorrow, the immense risk and the practical likelihood of corruption would remain.
C-SPAN video of Hunter Biden taking the Fifth in early October 2024 will play quite nicely.
More likely the POS Biden son refuses to appear and he is held in contempt of Congress, with a criminal referral sent to the AG, who will sit on it.
What an absolute shithole of a family is The Biden Crime Family.
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This touches Sotomayor as much as Thomas. The money – it was in the millions – Sotomayor received was from a corporation with business before the Court.
Please, do go on.
This is the sixth update to the story. Drip, drip, drip…
Washington Post quietly ‘updates’ Hunter Biden laptop story after Devon Archer testimony
Each update is that The Biden Crime Family got caught lying about its blatant corruption again. This is where congressional subpoenas come from.
@117 “These are people with the kind of wealth that makes it fairly trivial for them to send an entirely empty 737 from Florida to DC to pick up a single individual and then fly him to Florida.”
I doubt very much — no, extremely much — this is a personal expenditure. Rather, the airplane is owned by a corporation, its operating expenses are reported as a business expense, and personal uses of the aircraft aren’t broken out for tax purposes. In fact, there are no personal uses; when the CEO flies to the Bahamas for a weekend vacay, he takes employees and/or business associates with him, and they discuss business on the flight, so you see the aircraft is essential to the conduct of the corporation’s business. When it flies empty to pick up a salaried government employee and fly him to Florida to discuss business, that’s business too. So not only are these billionaires bribing a Supreme Court justice, they’re also doing it on the taxpayers’ dime. Meanwhile, the billionaire’s cleaning lady can’t deduct her bus fare to his mansion as a work expense.
@118 “This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the Committee,” Comer replied. “We are going to subpoena the family,” he said.
Non-lawyer ex-farmer Comer apparently thinks there’s no separation of powers problem with issuing a House subpoena to a sitting president, unless “the Bidens” and “the family” refers ti Hunter and Joe’s dogs (he’s slightly vague on this point).
“More likely the POS Biden son refuses to appear and he is held in contempt of Congress, with a criminal referral sent to the AG, who will sit on it.”
Non-lawyer ex-doctor Dumbfuck apparently thinks there’s no constitutional impediment to holding a witness in contempt of Congress for invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.
If only anyone watched.
Here’s what a “political movement” looks like when their best hope of gaining traction relies on a cable-only media provider that people quit watching ten years ago when cord-cutting really began to take off.
Don’t forget to POUND that subscribe button, Dumbfuck!
@123 Also, it’s not like MAGA spokesperson Bartiromo has a following outside Trump World.
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Recapping, the reason Grubby Hobo Bannon is currently in appeals over a criminal conviction is because he declined to even give any reply to a subpoena from a House committee before the deadline, including even to request more time to respond. And then when he finally did reply weeks late, he never actually cited a valid reason that he could defend in court later. So it was a pretty easy pinch.
Here is the list of quite successful books that author Sonya Sotomayor has had published:
My Beloved World – Knopf
Just Ask! – Philomel
Turning Pages: My Life Story – Philomel
Just Help!: How to Build a Better World – Philomel
The Beloved World of Sonya Sotomayor – Delacorte Press
In the modern history of the court, about nineteen justices have published books ranging from court histories, to memoirs, to popular fiction even. Justice Breyer is the clear productive standout, but Sotomayor having already successfully published five books could surpass him some day. Three other current members of the court have publishing contracts and books to their credit. Every single one of these justices has earned royalties from the sales of their successful books. And Justice Sotomayor is no exception. Justice Sotomayor’s royalty income from the sales of her successful books have been reported in every single one of her financial disclosures since she began her service.
As you can see her most successful book, My Beloved World, was published in January of 2013 by Knopf Doubleday, at that time owned by German parent company Bertelsman AG. The Knopf Doubleday imprint became part of Penguin Random House when Bertelsman AG merged with rival publishing conglomerate Pearson plc six months after the publication of Justice Sotomayor’s book.
Remember that this bullshit started when the Moonie Times reported that Justice Sotomayor’s “staff” improperly pressured a university to purchase copies of her books and compensate her in various ways prior to a speaking engagement. That since turned out to be false, when the university administrators involved reported that the purchase of the books was at their suggestion, and that the Justice had actually declined their efforts to upgrade her accommodations during her speaking visit to the school. So naturally, now this bullshit has been Etch-a-Sketched again into something else, equally false.
Lets all have a vigorous debate about judicial ethics and standard codes of conduct. Let’s agree if we like that serving justices can’t accept any outside income at all. Or let’s require at least that they DISCLOSE all outside income, for fuck’s sake.
But let’s not bullshit.
But let’s not bullshit.
That’s asking an awful lot from an unserious twat.
The latest RCP chart really sucks for DeSantis. The trend is not his friend.
This must suck too.
Vivek Ramaswamy (11%) overtakes Ron DeSantis (10%) as the second-place candidate behind Donald Trump (53%).
The other unserious twat sure knows how to pick’em.
@111
Show me where Congress has the power to grant immunity in a criminal proceeding.
This is what happens when you read Gateway Pundit.
Literally impossible stories get reported as a plan being set in motion.
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The indumbification of Republican voters has to be continuous in order to sustain and prolong the grifting.
Look around the country at all the Republican campaign treasuries, state and county GOP orgs, and the various RNC affiliated national orgs. Do you really believe that they can all be so “broke” after so much fund raising for simply having spent the money “poorly”? The legal retainers Trump has handed over from these funds are stunning, far outside of any previous norms. They ought to be. There are very few attorneys willing to attach their names to this mess. And making it all so much worse is the now well known record Trump has of not paying. So they all get their money paid in advance and doubled. Meanwhile Melania is still on the payroll along with her decorators and party planners as “consultants” and Trump is fueling a 757 to fly a dozen people to a rally in Iowa. These “conservative” fools crow and strut over how much money they have handed over, believing that their own victimization somehow represents a kind triumph over “the libs”.
They have to keep propping the victims back up so they can shake them down again. And each time the supporters are required to get just that much dumber in order to take the next dumb step.
Putting Trump in jail will be doing them all a favor.
Let’s not do it too soon. He still has lots of damage to do.
Twenty years for witness tampering sounds light to me. I’d feel better if he gets fifty. So would every Jew in America. But at least Hardy Lloyd is off the streets for now. Now that the coal mines are shut down, does West Virginia produce anything besides turds like this neo-Nazi POS?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hardy-carroll-lloyd-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-jury-threats-robert-bowers-trial/
@130 “Look around the country at all the Republican campaign treasuries, state and county GOP orgs, and the various RNC affiliated national orgs. Do you really believe that they can all be so ‘broke’ after so much fund raising for simply having spent the money ‘poorly’?”
Yes. I could readily believe that every county and state GOP chairperson is embezzling party funds. I’m not saying they are; all I’m saying is it’s a plausible theory, based on what we know about the character of GOP leadership.
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I wouldn’t call it “embezzling”, at least not in any legal sense.
The GOP is now all set up on a transactional basis like an organized crime family thanks to Trump. The vendors, consultants, and firms hired are all “made”. It’s a pay to play system. Ultimately a lot of the money all winds up going back to Trump and Trump affiliated groups and individuals. Everything is tracked carefully on the take. And if your packet is “light” it gets noticed. Nobody gets driven out to the Meadowlands for a dirt nap. They just get cut out of the spoils, which might as well be death.
“Good earners” get noticed and cut in for more. Crews further down the food chain are expected to engage with “approved” vendors and joint fund raising committees and keep the money flowing upstream.
I would have to imagine that actual naked embezzlement would be very unwelcome. But that doesn’t have to mean the money actually gets spent on effective campaigning either.