Surprise! One of Hunter Biden's Shell Companies Made Direct Payments to Joe Biden's Bank Account

And this is one of the shell companies which was receiving money from China.

Jake Tapper will be all over this story, I just know it!!!!

Not only that, this wasn't just a one-time payment. You know -- a "loan repayment."

Hunter set up his account to make a monthly payoff to the Big Guy. You know -- how companies set up direct deposit with employees to pay their salaries for working there.

But nah, I'm sure this was just a string of "loan repayments."

Hunter Biden initiated direct monthly payments from his company to President Joe Biden's personal checking account in September 2018, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee and shared with the Washington Free Beacon.

The records are the most direct evidence to date that Joe Biden profited from his son's overseas business dealings. The company, Owasco PC, served a critical role in Hunter Biden's Chinese ventures, receiving nearly $5 million from the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC in 2017 and 2018. Hunter Biden signed a document in early September 2018 authorizing Owasco to make monthly payments of $1,380 to Joe Biden's checking account, with the first payment landing in his father's account on Sept. 17, the records show.
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"Payments from Hunter's business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited from his family's influence peddling schemes," House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) said Monday. "This wasn't a payment from Hunter Biden's personal account, but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world."
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The White House did not return a request for comment.

Watch Karine Jean-Pierre quickly exit the briefing room when asked about this:

Hunter Biden continues insisting that he will only testify publicly. His strategy is obvious: He will deliver a 20 minute opening statement in which he recounts the pain he suffered smoking crack and banging Ukranian hookers, and whines about his persecution by the evil GOP, then he will invoke the Fifth Amendment -- without actually invoking it -- and get up and leave the room. He will dare the GOP to exercise its power to instruct the Sergeant of Arms of the Congress to arrest him and sit his ass down in the witness seat, and they will gutlessly back down.

As for how to invoke the Fifth without invoking the Fifth -- I think a Clinton-connected asshole did this. He invoked "any of his rights to not answer" without specifying he was invoking the Fifth Amendment's right against self-incrimination. "Any rights" includes that one.

Hunter's newest legal stunt was demanding he be allowed to subpoena Trump and former AG Bill Barr in the fake prosecution of his gun crimes and tax crimes by Very Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Even the leftwing partisan Democrat Jack Smith had to tell Hunter that a very firm "No."

Special Counsel David Weiss blasted Hunter Biden's recent request to subpoena former President Trump and other former officials in a court filing on Tuesday.
Weiss submitted the filing in Delaware federal court, arguing Biden's request "is meritless and should be denied." President Biden's son had requested subpoenas against Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr and two other former Trump administration officials, arguing his gun crimes charge had originated in a vindictive Justice Department.
"Not only does defendant's motion fail to identify any actual evidence of bias, vindictiveness, or discriminatory intent on the Special Counsel's part, his arguments ignore an inconvenient truth: No charges were brought against defendant during the prior administration when the subpoena recipients actually held office in the Executive Branch," Weiss wrote.
"Instead, every charge in this matter was or will be brought during the current administration--one in which defendant's father, Joseph R. Biden, is the President of the United States and Merrick B. Garland is the Attorney General that was appointed by President Biden and who personally appointed the Special Counsel. Defendant has not shown, nor can he, how external statements by political opponents of President Biden improperly pressured him, his Attorney General, or the Special Counsel to pursue charges against the President's son," the filing continues.

Biden attorney Abbe Lowell had argued last month that the investigation into the president's son arose only due to "incessant, improper, and partisan pressure" during the Trump administration.

“LOOK, FAT”:

Four years ago today, Biden called an Iowa man “a damn liar” after the man accused Biden of “selling access” (which was completely true)pic.twitter.com/upSdTQCJlw
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 5, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:08 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:09 PM (JrojV)

2 "That's not evidence!"

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:09 PM (1u0wM)

3 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

4 Hi, Ace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (JrojV)

5 Hunter Biden continues insisting that he will only testify publicly.
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Does he have a choice? Under antiquated notions of law, I mean?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:11 PM (d04cU)

6 Memo: For (1) One Family Truckster

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 12:11 PM (/S2W0)

7 Hi everyone. Good to see your Monicker-Faces.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

8 Hunter who?

Never heard of him!

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (qfEk2)

9 No evidence!

No direct evidence!

Shutup racist!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (MGB5H)

10 Defendant has not shown, nor can he, how external statements by political opponents of President Biden improperly pressured him, his Attorney General, or the Special Counsel to pursue charges against the President's son," the filing continues.
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B-B-B-B-But Trump!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (d04cU)

11 The House really needs to bring up Impeachment, if only to throw it to the Senate and watch them embarrass themselves in the course of killing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (i9ffA)

12 No controlling legal authority.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (JrojV)

13 >Surprise! One of Hunter Biden's Shell Companies Made Direct Payments to Joe Biden's Bank Account
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Yeah, well, the GOPe won't prove it, so there!
pllppt

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (geLO8)

14 Joe lent money to everybody. At very low rates. He's just a giver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (63Dwl)

15 Hunter Biden initiated direct monthly payments from his company to President Joe Biden's personal checking account in September 2018, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee and shared with the Washington Free Beacon.
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I am sure it was legitimate payment for non-political consultation because Joe's diplomatic experience is generally useful to help an enterprise navigate the minefield of international business.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (d04cU)

16 >>>Does he have a choice? Under antiquated notions of law, I mean?

yes, I mean, he has a choice because Congress will flinch from employing its own enforcement mechanism. They will merely refer him to Hunter's Dad's DOJ to prosecute him for defying a subpoena, and Hunter's Dad's DOJ will let that referral sit without action.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (KRtlO)

17 Why do we care. There's literally a paper trail and messages from Hunter during the commission of countless other crimes where he just straight out says he gets money from foreign govts and cuts his dad 10% of it.
This has been known for years. We don't need more evidence. The stupid party for sure. Wake me up when something happens

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at December 05, 2023 12:14 PM (AepaD)

18 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2023 12:14 PM (aQy7p)

19 >Hunter Biden's Shell Companies Made Direct Payments to Joe Biden

and he accepted them out of love

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:14 PM (geLO8)

20 Hiya

Posted by: JT at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (T4tVD)

21 No reasonable DA or Head of the Justice Dept would file charges...

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (xT7BI)

22 5 Hunter Biden continues insisting that he will only testify publicly.
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Does he have a choice? Under antiquated notions of law, I mean?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:11 PM (d04cU)

legal depositions in a case are never public, although his attorney can attend. If he wishes to refuse to speak, then he can, and see if he can get away with taking the 5th when he's charged for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (i9ffA)

23 “LOOK, FAT”:

Four years ago today, Biden called an Iowa man “a damn liar” after the man accused Biden of “selling access” (which was completely true)

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Was that the "dog-faced pony soldier" incident or the "pony-faced dog soldier" one?

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (1u0wM)

24 I always liked Monicker Crowley. Pat Crowley, too.

Posted by: Bon Vivant at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (83IzV)

25 Hi everyone. Good to see your Monicker-Faces.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM

Hello to you, big boy!
*twirls cane

Posted by: Mr. Peanut at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (w9Wax)

26 Sigh... yes, yes... all this is true but Biden entered into a plea deal with the DOJ whereby he would become President and ensure both massively increased funding for the department and a free hand to persecute anyone they don't like. -- KJP

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (zhLdt)

27 Why is this only coming out now? Serious question. I'm not clear on how this document investigation and review is proceeding. Are documents only being released in dribs and drabs, and the documents showing these direct payments to Beastmode Biden only just produced?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

28 Whadda ya mean Steiner won't come?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 05, 2023 12:16 PM (mu+VK)

29 Nothing will happen, because all roads lead to King Barry's Cabal in Kalorama.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (sm6Pk)

30 I seem to have misplaced my Monicker-Face. Sigh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (V8he0)

31 Hi everyone. Good to see your Monicker-Faces.

"Bill, my face is up here!"
-- Moniker Lewinsky

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (JrojV)

32 Mopsy hit de' road...

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (dzZCL)

33 Hell Ace, hope all is well in you neck of the woods.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (xT7BI)

34 27 Why is this only coming out now? Serious question"

Best speculation is that someone high up in the Dem Party is trying to convince Joe to step down. Just who that is...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (i9ffA)

35 The memo doesn't say "Bribe Payments" so it doesn't count.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (N1tpc)

36 I keep hearing the phrase, "Manchurian Candidate" like an earworm.

Weird.

It's not even a song or commercial jingle.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (+fq/G)

37 Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (3sx6x)

38 How many times do I have to say it?

If it's not flamboyantly gay men on Twitter telling me how great I am, I'm not interested.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (OBuuS)

39 To be fair, KJP had a floor to mop with her head.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (v0R5T)

40 This is all so ridiculous. The uniparty has become slike a Soviet Politburo where money and influence make you members of an elite group not subject to the laws that apply to everyoone else.
They are able to subjugate and imprison their political enemies without recourse. They are free to manipulate the economy to make themselves billionaires so as to be above the economic deprivations they impose on everyone else.
I don;t know how we overcome this.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)

41 Hahaha, I know this will sound a little silly, but bear with me.

It was a loan repayment! I bought a truck!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, entrepreneur and tax expert at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (hkZDC)

42 Are documents only being released in dribs and drabs, and the documents showing these direct payments to Beastmode Biden only just produced?

The White House has stalled on releasing every single thing, so it's definitely been slow to get a hold of anything.

There's also the Andrew Breitbart effect: release a drip, wait for the media to come up with a nice bedtime story to convince the AWFLs that it's all above board, and then blow that out of the water with a new drip. Comey's intro in the video above definitely lays out that he knows that strategy.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (2ocoG)

43
no reasonable prosecutor...
no evidence of criminal intent...
no standing...
no reasonable expectation of conviction...

am I missing any?

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (geLO8)

44 I don’t floss. Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:08 PM (JrojV)

Merely more liable to be carious.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (D7oie)

Well, and...perio disease, bone loss, tooth loss (no bone, no teeth)

And if you're gums are really funky increased heart attack and stroke, etc.

Remember if your gums bleed, that is blood cells leaving your gums. That also mean bacteria can get into your bloodstream. BONUS! Chronic inflammation is something your body doesn't care for either.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (QzZeQ)

45 We are:

[ x ] fucked
[ ] not fucked

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (R4t5M)

46 >>Why is this only coming out now? Serious question. I'm not clear on how this document investigation and review is proceeding. Are documents only being released in dribs and drabs, and the documents showing these direct payments to Beastmode Biden only just produced?

Yes. Comer has been fighting with the Treasury and banks for a year and a half to get these documents.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (ZLI7S)

47 29 Nothing will happen, because all roads lead to King Barry's Cabal in Kalorama.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2023 12:17 PM (sm6Pk)

Of course they do... but what if they are the ones who are actually behind this?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (i9ffA)

48 Monica = soft r, Moniker = hard r.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (Z8Yh2)

49 After i wrote the last rant, I lost connection and I thought Oh No, have they finally caught up with me?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

50 To be fair, KJP had a floor to mop with her head.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (v0R5T)

Well at least I'm not the only one that calls her Scrubbing Bubble.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (VwHCD)

51 They could have a picture of Xi handing Joe a PGA sized check with "bribe" written on the memo line and nothing would come of it. But norms restored or something.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (MGB5H)

52 5 Hunter Biden continues insisting that he will only testify publicly.
++++
Does he have a choice? Under antiquated notions of law, I mean?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:11 PM (d04cU)
____________

He doesn't have a choice . . . but he can simply refuse to testify by objecting to the subpoena unless they reach an agreement on the forum for testifying. No, ordinary people can't refuse a subpoena unless for a very good reason. But who is gonna enforce the subpoena against Hunter?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

53 He was going to say 'fat-ass', and caught himself halfway.

The Democrats have to make a move soon. If Biden is still there after the holidays, they are close to locked in. I don't seem them being able to maneuver at the convention.

Posted by: norrin radd at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (A7GQ0)

54 I always liked Monicker Crowley. Pat Crowley, too.
Posted by: Bon Vivant at December 05, 2023

***
Pat Crowley and Senta Berger were two of the few actresses my father ever admitted to liking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (J2vNu)

55 "Where's the Money?"

Indeed.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (/S2W0)

56 Does it matter? If someone had actual visual evidence of a Chinese spy handing Biden a bag of cash, would it matter?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (cYpPN)

57 Mopsy looks like she's getting worn.

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (dzZCL)

58 Why do we care. There's literally a paper trail and messages from Hunter during the commission of countless other crimes where he just straight out says he gets money from foreign govts and cuts his dad 10% of it.

This has been known for years. We don't need more evidence. The stupid party for sure. Wake me up when something happens

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at December 05, 2023 12:14 PM (AepaD)

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Peter Schweizer documented all this -- among other brought-off traitors in the feral government -- years ago. He had the receipts then.

It's only getting play now because some among TPTB on The Left want to throw Senile Joe under the bus.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (1u0wM)

59 The Bidens are no where near being the most corrupt of our rulers.

They're just sloppy and uncaring at hiding their corruption.

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (SYTee)

60 I'm sort of flummoxed as to why there has been no public statement to the effect that members in good standing of the uniparty are exempt from the laws.

Everybody knows it, why not admit it?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (lTGtQ)

61 It's nice having all this evidence, and I'm sure there's plenty more out there. It's not like these people were careful or smart; they were tools.

The worthless Republican't twerps either 1.) Aren't smart enough to run these goats to ground, or 2.) Just what to "Harrumpf!" enough that they think were fooled into believing that they're doing something. Either way, nothing will happen to the illegitimate Meat Puppet or his crapsack whelp.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (xQoA0)

62 I think Joe Biden may be a crook.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (mQ8ar)

63 Not even a Kamala Harris Presidency will deter you guys from removing Joe Biden?

No.

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (3sx6x)

64 Maybe they make her clean the toilets. With her head.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:21 PM (v0R5T)

65 I just saw this comment on X, originally about Hamas defenders, but it also applies to Biden defenders. In fact it applies to any argument with a leftist, it is their default template:

"That didn’t happen, and if it did it wasn’t so bad, and if it was it’s not our fault, and if it was our fault you deserved it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (i9ffA)

66 For Joe Biden so loved the greenbacks that he gave his misbegotten crackhead son, that whoever invests in him shall not be boxed out, but have eternal access.

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (geLO8)

67 Why is this only coming out now? Serious question. I'm not clear on how this document investigation and review is proceeding. Are documents only being released in dribs and drabs, and the documents showing these direct payments to Beastmode Biden only just produced?

For the same reason the J6 documentation was destroyed. And by the same people.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (lTGtQ)

68 The cynic in me (is there any part of me that isn't cynical?) believes the Dems are letting all this come out now, so the Republican Party does the dirty work of forcing Alzheimer Joe out.

Look at what they did! All this fake news about Joe being a crook, taking bribes, but what can we do. Beating up on an old man. You are MAKING us insert Gavin Newsome into the slot.

You mean ol' Republicans, you.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:23 PM (dGCAG)

69 "That didn’t happen, and if it did it wasn’t so bad, and if it was it’s not our fault, and if it was our fault you deserved it."
Posted by: Tom Servo

You must some mental-defective cousins of mine. Adult baby monsters with Masters degrees.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2023 12:23 PM (R4t5M)

70 Mopsy looks like she's getting worn.

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (dzZCL)

The who was Flopsy and Cotton-tail?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:23 PM (QzZeQ)

71 Trump's kids made money so this is only fair. Nobody's going after them, even though they're guilty of something. Anything.

They're icky.

They don't stick up for the Palestinians either.

Joe loves Hunter. Leave Joe alone!

Posted by: Some Karen at December 05, 2023 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

72 The Democrats have to make a move soon. If Biden is still there after the holidays, they are close to locked in. I don't seem them being able to maneuver at the convention.
Posted by: norrin radd at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (A7GQ0)

Senator Toricelli disagrees.

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:24 PM (3sx6x)

73 This seems more consequential and substantial than other past revelations. Subpoenaed bank records… direct deposit from Hunter’s corporate entity to private Brandon account. It’s an actual smoking gun. So now watch FNM and Dems (redundant I know) jump up and down and point at a bunch of squirrels….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2023 12:24 PM (ixCnf)

74 Posted by: whig at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (JAi95)

Thanks I mistakenly was thinking of Biden vs Missouri.

Posted by: Drive by at December 05, 2023 12:24 PM (MNhXM)

75 I'm back at my desk after a visit to the tire store to have one tire repaired -- a slow leak allowed it to lose one psi every three hours. Twenty bucks, and worth it . . . though like a lot of you, I remember when a leak or flat repair cost $5-6 at any Exxon (or Esso), Mobil, Chevron, Conoco, Amoco, or Gulf service station.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

76 That is why Biden got the Grammy. His supporters are stupid like those girls that screamed at Beatles concerts.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (J8LnB)

77 The House really needs to bring up Impeachment, if only to throw it to the Senate and watch them embarrass themselves in the course of killing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (i9ffA)
.......

The Senate is too busy listening to Z-dog beg for money.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (v0R5T)

78 They're just sloppy and uncaring at hiding their corruption.

it's because they're really dumb

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (AcWfM)

79 For the same reason the J6 documentation was destroyed. And by the same people.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (lTGtQ)

I'm almost as if you're saying there's some sort of depth to the state, that accomplishes whatever it chooses, to achieve whatever results it is seeking.

That' can't be right though... can it?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (dGCAG)

80 The Democrats have to make a move soon. If Biden is still there after the holidays, they are close to locked in. I don't seem them being able to maneuver at the convention.
Posted by: norrin radd at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (A7GQ0)

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One of the advantages of being Democrats is that they can Save Our Democracy however they want. Doesn't have to be legal, doesn't have to be constitutional, it just has to be expedient.

It's one of the Blessings of Liberty.

They could replace their candidate mid election day I'd bet and get away with it.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (+fq/G)

81 Hunter was just catching up on car payments his dad made for him during a rough patch. Ahhhh a father's love.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (JIPOo)

82 Hunter must claim all his rights, including the right to write checks will on coke and getting a BJ from a Chinese hooker. His error in judgment should be pardoned, by his father, who really loves his son.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (Cus5s)

83 >>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

Always have a Plug Kit and a 12v Compressor.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (/S2W0)

84 >>It's only getting play now because some among TPTB on The Left want to throw Senile Joe under the bus.

I don't think that is the case. The Biden administration and their allies have been stonewalling document requests since the Republicans took the House and their defenders in the House like Goldman to this day deny there is any evidence tying Joe to any payments. They really don't want this to go further.

I think sometimes we make the assumption that because we know what happened the entire country does and I think that is completely wrong. The average person hasn't got a clue about almost any of this and to the extent they do know something they believe the media spin.

Hunter isn't going to prison and Joe is not getting removed but there is still value in exposing as much of the corruption as possible and forcing the left to defend it. It appears the left is stuck with Joe for now so make him as unelectable as possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

85 Hi everyone. Good to see your Monicker-Faces.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

Did I miss something?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (Q0kLU)

86 Can they buy off Dr. Jill Biden with the promises of a grand and flashy McCainesque State Funeral?

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (3sx6x)

87
There's also the Andrew Breitbart effect: release a drip, wait for the media to come up with a nice bedtime story to convince the AWFLs that it's all above board, and then blow that out of the water with a new drip. Comey's intro in the video above definitely lays out that he knows that strategy.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (2ocoG)

———-

Could be.

Or could be incompetence doing the same thing

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (++4z6)

88 I am Shocked, Shocked to hear that gambling is happening here,

Here are your winnings Sir

Thank You
Joe Biden

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (dKiJG)

89 "Karine, I knows your girlfriend likes it, but ditch the bowl brush look and get a weave."

Sheila Jackson Lee

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (0EOe9)

90 They could replace their candidate mid election day I'd bet and get away with it.
Posted by: Just Lily

They left a dead guy on the ballot and then installed his wife cause reasons. Dates and rules are barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (MGB5H)

91 After i wrote the last rant, I lost connection and I thought Oh No, have they finally caught up with me?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

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Someday we will all start disappearing one by one ... #Soon.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (niARo)

92 Impeachment doesn't require a criminal conviction. It does, however, require a willingness to take it all the way, which I strongly doubt Republicans possess.

I can't shake the feeling GOP politicians at the national level like the status quo: they like being a minority party, they like being what amounts to a controlled opposition, and many if not most of them very much like the opportunities for graft and--like Dan Crenshaw--the privileges of their position that allow them to game the stock market and make millions.

For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people. They don't understand or refuse to understand what the Democrats are now.

Posted by: troyriser at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (7Cx1V)

93 I simply can't believe those mean Republicans are attacking Joe's child!

Posted by: Beartooth at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (4iIQh)

94 Peter Schweizer documented all this -- among other brought-off traitors in the feral government -- years ago. He had the receipts then.

It's only getting play now because some among TPTB on The Left want to throw Senile Joe under the bus.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023

Did you mean to write feral government or Freudian slip?
I don't know how to bold or underline.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 12:28 PM (ocULy)

95 "That didn’t happen, and if it did it wasn’t so bad, and if it was it’s not our fault, and if it was our fault you deserved it."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (i9ffA)
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Yup, perfect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:28 PM (d04cU)

96 >>>Does he have a choice? Under antiquated notions of law, I mean?

yes, I mean, he has a choice because Congress will flinch from employing its own enforcement mechanism. They will merely refer him to Hunter's Dad's DOJ to prosecute him for defying a subpoena, and Hunter's Dad's DOJ will let that referral sit without action.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (KRtlO)
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Hunter is a "made man" of the FJB junta. He don't do squat unless he get orders from his superiors. That doesn't include a single member of Congress. It certainly doesn't include anyone in the GOP.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2023 12:28 PM (7fElN)

97 The narrative has already been written: it was only a few thousand dollars.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 12:28 PM (++4z6)

98 The cynic in me (is there any part of me that isn't cynical?) believes the Dems are letting all this come out now, so the Republican Party does the dirty work of forcing Alzheimer Joe out.

Look at what they did! All this fake news about Joe being a crook, taking bribes, but what can we do. Beating up on an old man. You are MAKING us insert Gavin Newsome into the slot.

You mean ol' Republicans, you.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:23 PM (dGCAG)

You may have something there! (it’s a show about nothing, Jerry… everyone is doing something; we’ll do nothing)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2023 12:28 PM (ixCnf)

99 Karine, I knows your girlfriend likes it, but ditch the bowl brush look and get a weave."

Sheila Jackson Lee
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

Her cnn hag left her like a month ago.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (MGB5H)

100 Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Chris Wray to the rescue!

He announced Maga and traditional Catholics have prompted the FBI to move the terror warning to eleventy. As soon as the FIB can get it organized, there will be an attack.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (hkZDC)

101 Comer also said on Maria B. that Hunter wants public only because there is a time limitation on questioning--I think five minutes per questioner or something. Whereas in a private deposition they can go forever, and Comer said they have reams of evidence and questions.

Posted by: Senile Joe at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (G1dq6)

102 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023
*
Always have a Plug Kit and a 12v Compressor.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023

***
I carry a compressor unit in the trunk. As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*? I have no way to dismount the tire from the wheel, or to put it back afterward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (J2vNu)

103 I simply can't believe those mean Republicans are attacking Joe's child!
Posted by: Beartooth at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (4iIQh)
.......

He OD'd in Iraq.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (v0R5T)

104
They left a dead guy on the ballot and then installed his wife cause reasons. Dates and rules are barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (MGB5H)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Sen Fetterman at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (ocULy)

105 Someday we will all start disappearing one by one ... #Soon.
Posted by: ShainS

Sid will be the last one left.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:30 PM (JrojV)

106 Pat Crowley and Senta Berger were two of the few actresses my father ever admitted to liking.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:20 PM (J2vNu)

Pat Crowley was quite beautiful and talented. She could sing and dance, do comedy, and anything she was in was improved by her presence. She co-starred in one of the last Martin-Lewis movies when very young, and was a favorite of Dean Martin, who booked her on his variety show a couple times. Mystery as to why she wasn't an even bigger star. She just turned 90.

Posted by: Bon Vivant at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (83IzV)

107 Could have been worse, Biden might have called him “ a lying, dog-faced pony soldier”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (XeU6L)

108 102 I carry a cell phone and a AAA card. The aging process sucks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (0EOe9)

109 If Joe gave Hunter a loan, surely he'd have receipts.

Did Joe user a bank transfer? Did he do it in cash (if so where'd he get that kind of cash?)

Why did his sugar daddy in CA also need to give him a big loan, because we know Hunter's companies weren't failing and burning through millions.

Where was that money spent? Because if there's not receipts to justify hundreds of thousands in loan repayments, then it means the money must have been spent on items you don't get receipts for, so was Joe pay for Hunter's crack and human trafficking?

I can easily account for where my money goes, so surely the cleanest, least corrupt, president in our history should easily be able to do the same.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (za+38)

110 Sid will be the last one left.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Paul hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (MGB5H)

111 I think sometimes we make the assumption that because we know what happened the entire country does and I think that is completely wrong. The average person hasn't got a clue about almost any of this and to the extent they do know something they believe the media spin.

Which is why I continue to insist that 2024 is Biden's (or whomever it is on the left) to lose. Yes, my view is skewed because I live in MA, but if the people here still wear the slave mask despite massive proof it doesn't work, they will never believe that Biden is a treasonous nickelfucker.

Trump said pussy. That's all they know. That's all they want to know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (Q0kLU)

112 yes, I mean, he has a choice because Congress will flinch from employing its own enforcement mechanism. They will merely refer him to Hunter's Dad's DOJ to prosecute him for defying a subpoena, and Hunter's Dad's DOJ will let that referral sit without action.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2023 12:13 PM (KRtlO)
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Right. The reality, of course, is that he's all good.

I meant in the form of, "would I, a normal rube, have this choice under law as written and normally handled?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (d04cU)

113 I seldom watch the clips of KJP or anyone in the govt, actually. Haven't for some years. But I watched ths one above. For the ones I HAVE watched, she seems says that a lot: "I haven't seen that..."

What exactly do you do here, again?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (Rbu5d)

114 Shouldn't Biden's brother be getting a subpoena to testify as well?

Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2023 12:32 PM (88xKn)

115
It appears the left is stuck with Joe for now so make him as unelectable as possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

Pretty much my take, too. The slow drip as corruption is exposed is not something that's gonna win him any favor-ability rise. Just the opposite, unless he can come up with some incredible story about why his pants are down around his knees.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 12:32 PM (enJYY)

116 For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people. They don't understand or refuse to understand what the Democrats are now.
Posted by: troyriser at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (7Cx1V)
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In some ways the GOP gets all of the goodies with none of the hassle. They get to exercise the illusion of power and are not required to take any responsibility.

Meanwhile, the Dems are thrilled with exercising *real* power, but also have to work hard to reject accepting responsibility for all of their deliberately-caused mishaps.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2023 12:32 PM (7fElN)

117 For Joe Biden so loved the greenbacks that he gave his misbegotten crackhead son, that whoever invests in him shall not be boxed out, but have eternal access.
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:22 PM (geLO

In the same region Ukrainian soldiers kept watch over their gun positions at night. And upon them came the Angel of the Russian artillery. The glory of their rounds shone all around them, and they were sore afraid....

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (dGCAG)

118 Can I ask, what the he** does Fat mean as in Look, Fat?

Posted by: PJ at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (G1dq6)

119 51 They could have a picture of Xi handing Joe a PGA sized check with "bribe" written on the memo line and nothing would come of it. But norms restored or something.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (MGB5H)

At politifact we Rate that as False, the Word Bribe in Chinese has multiple meanings one of which is Present and Joe Biden was there. It was all just lost in the translation, because Joe Biden in Chinese translates to Donald Trump and he's Guilty of taking bribes

Posted by: Politifact at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (dKiJG)

120 I carry a compressor unit in the trunk. As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*? I have no way to dismount the tire from the wheel, or to put it back afterward.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (J2vNu)

Long ago and far away...

I patched my own tires quite a bit.

Stupidly easy (at least in the old kits).

You had a little "push tool" and you'd hook this soft, wormy piece of rubber slathered with adhesive onto the tool and then you'd pull the tool out of the tire and snip off the excess.

Worked every time.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (QzZeQ)

121 86 Can they buy off Dr. Jill Biden with the promises of a grand and flashy McCainesque State Funeral?
Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:26 PM (3sx6x)

How dare you! And while I'm still mourning my father at his funeral!

Posted by: Meghan McCain at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (a/dOO)

122 I carry a compressor unit in the trunk. As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*?
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Yes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

123 116 For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people. They don't understand or refuse to understand what the Democrats are now.
Posted by: troyriser

Because the dems and republicans both agree on the destination. They only disagree on where to stop for lunch along the way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (JIPOo)

124 Can I ask, what the he** does Fat mean as in Look, Fat?
Posted by: PJ at December 05, 2023 12:33 PM (G1dq6)
.......

He was a big guy and Assho Joe was insulting him.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

125 $1380/mo seems like a weird value. It doesn't appear to correspond to anything obvious and -- while it would be a nice little bonus for someone like me -- it sounds like chump change in Bidenland.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (nfrXX)

126 Ok, we know he was selling access, presumably for favors. Apart from paying off Ukraine over Burisma, what exactly was China and other payers getting for their money?

Posted by: Dantes at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (tpxOj)

127 Pat Crowley was quite beautiful and talented. She could sing and dance, do comedy, and anything she was in was improved by her presence. She co-starred in one of the last Martin-Lewis movies when very young, and was a favorite of Dean Martin, who booked her on his variety show a couple times. Mystery as to why she wasn't an even bigger star. She just turned 90.
Posted by: Bon Vivant at December 05, 2023

***
She was the very first Innocent (i.e., non-spy guest star character) in the pilot for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. A couple of years later she starred in the TV series version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies. In one episode of that, in fact, Robert Vaughn and David McCallum guested *as their U.N.C.L.E. characters* -- so that made at least twice Pat worked with RV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (J2vNu)

128 Can I ask, what the he** does Fat mean as in Look, Fat?
Posted by: PJ

Joe, does this tablecloth make me look fat?
-- DR. Jill

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (JrojV)

129 80 The Democrats have to make a move soon. If Biden is still there after the holidays, they are close to locked in. I don't seem them being able to maneuver at the convention.
Posted by: norrin radd at December 05, 2023 12:19 PM (A7GQ0)

They have plenty of time. In fact, having less time, an 11th hour event, may even be to their advantage.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (cYpPN)

130 Maybe there's a power struggle of sorts between Kalorama and the Biden gang. Kalorama wants Biden out, but Biden knows things.

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (SYTee)

131 If Joe gave Hunter a loan, surely he'd have receipts. ...
Posted by: Rbastid at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (za+3

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At least that much.

I've leant money without paperwork, but we're talking either small amounts (like under a thousand dollars) or "loans" that I knew damn well would never be paid back.

But if it's a significant sum, there's paperwork like a contract and a payment schedule. I've been fortunate enough to have been able to make some large loans to family members in the past, and those *always* came with a signed contract, terms and tracking. Real money has real requirements.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (d04cU)

132 >>As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*?

Yes.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (/S2W0)

133 The House really needs to bring up Impeachment, if only to throw it to the Senate and watch them embarrass themselves in the course of killing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 12:12 PM (i9ffA)

To that end, the Hunter Biden deposition is a useless waste of political theatre - completely unnecessary given the evidence Comer says he has right now - so all you're doing by allowing it is giving Senate quislings some straws to clutch in order to dismiss - ie "Just look at this poor drug addled 5th pleading President's son - forced to give backroom testimony in a case the House suggests that they already have enough evidence. Outrageous, salacious, preposterous!"

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (K+UlC)

134 One of the advantages of being Democrats is that they can Save Our Democracy however they want. Doesn't have to be legal, doesn't have to be constitutional, it just has to be expedient.

It's one of the Blessings of Liberty.

They could replace their candidate mid election day I'd bet and get away with it.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 05, 2023 12:25 PM (+fq/G)

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"Super-Delegates" parachuting in Gruesome Newsom, Big Mike, Gretchen the Witch, Hillary, Oprah, or [fill-in-the-blank] at the DNC Convention FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (niARo)

135 My internet keeps dropping out so may have to actually do something, like get dressed and go outside preferably in that order.
BBL

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

136 I can't shake the feeling GOP politicians at the national level like the status quo: they like being a minority party, they like being what amounts to a controlled opposition, and many if not most of them very much like the opportunities for graft and--like Dan Crenshaw--the privileges of their position that allow them to game the stock market and make millions.

For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people. They don't understand or refuse to understand what the Democrats are now.
Posted by: troyriser at December 05, 2023 12:27 PM (7Cx1V)

======

Or Epstein's videos and Hillary's FBI Files are still working? How many goto Washington DC, try to be the cool kid, and get compromised?

The ones that get exposed are the ones that don't go along. They make good examples for the rest.

Posted by: rd at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (pGXo5)

137 $1380/mo seems like a weird value. It doesn't appear to correspond to anything obvious and -- while it would be a nice little bonus for someone like me -- it sounds like chump change in Bidenland.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (nfrXX)
++++
Probably the phone bill or something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (d04cU)

138 Not even a Kamala Harris Presidency will deter you guys from removing Joe Biden?

Do you know how much free material that would generate for Ace and the cobs?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (2ocoG)

139 My internet keeps dropping out so may have to actually do something, like get dressed and go outside preferably in that order.
BBL
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)
++++
Preferable for whom?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (d04cU)

140 . . . I patched my own tires quite a bit.

Stupidly easy (at least in the old kits).

You had a little "push tool" and you'd hook this soft, wormy piece of rubber slathered with adhesive onto the tool and then you'd pull the tool out of the tire and snip off the excess.

Worked every time.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023

***
I'll look for one to keep in the car. Of course, with my luck, I'll get a nail and leak when it's pouring rain or snowing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (J2vNu)

141 A couple of years later she starred in the TV series version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (J2vNu)

I liked that show. She was a great TV mom.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (cYpPN)

142 130 Maybe there's a power struggle of sorts between Kalorama and the Biden gang. Kalorama wants Biden out, but Biden knows things.
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (SYTee)

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Probably best case scenario.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (+fq/G)

143 "I keep hearing the phrase, "Manchurian Candidate" like an earworm."

It is an accurate assessment, except that Corrupt Joe coalesced right out of the American Swamp. Birthed in an orgy of mafia/communism/corruption/treason, many such creatures are still crawling out of that swamp to devour America (as we once believed it to be).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (Cus5s)

144 You had a little "push tool" and you'd hook this soft, wormy piece of rubber slathered with adhesive onto the tool and then you'd pull the tool out of the tire and snip off the excess.

Sounds like a bris.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (ufFY8)

145 Can I ask, what the he** does Fat mean as in Look, Fat?]

sorry, I don't speak Roombanette

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (dCxaZ)

146 I'll look for one to keep in the car. Of course, with my luck, I'll get a nail and leak when it's pouring rain or snowing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (J2vNu)
++++
Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (d04cU)

147 My internet keeps dropping out so may have to actually do something, like get dressed and go outside preferably in that order.
BBL
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

Aw, dang it.

Posted by: Sharon's neighbor at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

148 I've said this before; the purpose of an impeachment for *biden isn't to remove him. Everyone here knows that. The real reason to go through the impeachment motions is to air all the *biden family dirty laundry.

Muck raking. Slander the fuck out of the demented shit bird in a public setting. Make him uncomfortable. Make the White House press uncomfortable. Make this THE single topic of conversation for however long the GOP can string it along.

But they won't do any of that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (Q4IgG)

149 122 Plug kits work fine. If you can't do that, fixaflat will get you down the road to a garage. When you get there, tell them you used it. Small but real chance of fire when dismounting the tire if not properly deflated.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (0EOe9)

150 My internet keeps dropping out so may have to actually do something, like get dressed and go outside preferably in that order.
BBL
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)
++++
Preferable for whom?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Watch it, Sharon. I think Joe's getting his photographic drone ready. He can't run out of Mannix girls, you know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (JrojV)

151 Maybe there's a power struggle of sorts between Kalorama and the Biden gang. Kalorama wants Biden out, but Biden knows things.
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (SYTee)

I'm not saying it's Team Clinton, but people seem to want to discount Team Clinton, as if it no longer exists.

These are crime families. Just because Joe Tessio seems to be in charge now, doesn't mean Hillory Corleone isn't biding her time, waiting for her time to strike.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (dGCAG)

152 137 $1380/mo seems like a weird value. It doesn't appear to correspond to anything obvious and -- while it would be a nice little bonus for someone like me -- it sounds like chump change in Bidenland.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (nfrXX)
++++

The WH said it was a "loan" repayment for a car Hunter got..... Sure..... So why didn't it come out of Hunters account instead of one of his "businesses"?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (n2vyf)

153 Yea but, Trump inflated the price of his house just like all other businessmen do and the banks made money !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (15lwl)

154 Wray- terror threat at unprecedented levels. Blinking red lights everywhere.

Posted by: It's happening at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (91ruN)

155 Can I ask, what the he** does Fat mean as in Look, Fat?
Posted by: PJ at December 05, 2023

***
Direct insult, as in "Fat Boy" or "Fathead."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (J2vNu)

156 >For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people.
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there's a reason- they're afraid of the press

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (geLO8)

157 Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Oh, there's lots of snow there.

Posted by: Hunter B. at December 05, 2023 12:40 PM (JrojV)

158 The Federal government gives Harvard $800 million per year, according to the Congressional bloviators today.

$800 million.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 12:40 PM (AzEXR)

159 there's a reason- they're afraid of the press
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (geLO

++++
Not really. Cowardice is at best a convenient excuse.

The GOP doesn't go after the enemy because it's *not* the enemy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:40 PM (d04cU)

160 39,000 new neighbors since Saturday.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:41 PM (v0R5T)

161 149 122 Plug kits work fine. If you can't do that, fixaflat will get you down the road to a garage. When you get there, tell them you used it. Small but real chance of fire when dismounting the tire if not properly deflated.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (0EOe9)
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I did that once and made it to a Goodyear center. When I told the guy, he hissed at me as if he were Dracula and I'd just pulled out a crucifix.

I've thought of fix-a-flat as a last-ditch fix ever since.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:42 PM (N3zMI)

162 "Super-Delegates" parachuting in Gruesome Newsom, Big Mike, Gretchen the Witch, Hillary, Oprah, or [fill-in-the-blank] at the DNC Convention FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:35 PM (niARo)

I won't predict who, just that I don't expect it to be Alzheimer Joe, and whoever it is, will be selected by the supers, not voted in by the sheeple.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:42 PM (dGCAG)

163 tireject I used it on our UTV when we ran over an antler, Project Farm on Youtube does a really good comparison video of other Products and I used that one because you don't have to use as much and according to the label it repairs Sidewalls and Bead leaks at the rim.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 12:42 PM (dKiJG)

164 You had a little "push tool" and you'd hook this soft, wormy piece of rubber slathered with adhesive onto the tool and then you'd pull the tool out of the tire and snip off the excess.

Sounds like a bris.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2023 12:37 PM (ufFY

That's why they called me Mohel of Bee Caves Road.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:42 PM (QzZeQ)

165 Probably the phone bill or something.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM (d04cU)

$1380 is roughly the 30 year monthly mortgage payment for a property worth ~$330K loaned at around 3.5% - so, yeah, it's not nothing. Biden needed the monthly cash to pay off something fairly similar - mo. country club membership payment comes to mind right away.

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:42 PM (K+UlC)

166 For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people.
---

there's a reason- they're afraid of the press
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 12:39 PM (geLO

That, and they're not afraid of their voters. "You don't want the Democrats to win!" has been their winning play for the last 60 years. And it will work next year, too.

BTW, I like your nic. Don Black is one of my favorite lyricists.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (Q0kLU)

167 I carry a compressor unit in the trunk. As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*? I have no way to dismount the tire from the wheel, or to put it back afterward.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:29 PM (J2vNu)

Yes, had it done a couple of times. There is some waxy/oily type rope material that, with a special T-handle tool is jammed into the hole. Worked for me but YMMV as they say.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (N6UT3)

168 I'll look for one to keep in the car. Of course, with my luck, I'll get a nail and leak when it's pouring rain or snowing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 ++++
Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023

***
It has and does so about every ten-fifteen years. Three days before Xmas in 1989, it snowed steadily for most of the day. People panicked. Took me two hours to commute my usual half hour home. Then the stuff stayed on the ground for three days since the temp never rose above freezing. A once in a lifetime event, I'll warrant.

I was thinking of when I move to a climate for four seasons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

169 Sometimes you have to structure your withdrawals/ payments to.avoid mandatory bank reporting requirements.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (XCYMa)

170 I was thinking of when I move to a climate for four seasons.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (J2vNu)
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I was just razzin' ya

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:44 PM (d04cU)

171 Sometimes you have to structure your withdrawals/ payments to.avoid mandatory bank reporting requirements.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2023 12:43 PM (XCYMa)
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Which is itself illegal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:44 PM (d04cU)

172 Which is itself illegal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:44 PM (d04cU)
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For normal subjects, I mean. Royalty are, of course, exempt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:44 PM (d04cU)

173 It appears the left is stuck with Joe for now so make him as unelectable as possible.

Posted by: JackStraw

He's already been unelected once.

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2023 12:44 PM (FhXTo)

174 Because the dems and republicans both agree on the destination. They only disagree on where to stop for lunch along the way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 12:34 PM (JIPOo)

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In addition to the destination, they're also in agreement on who gets to play the rapist and who gets takes it up the ass.

Every. Fucking. Time. (SWIDT?)

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:45 PM (niARo)

175 Gonna start my Christmas shopping today, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:45 PM (JrojV)

176 None of the checks had a Memo of "bribe" or "quid pro quo" so obviously this isn't a bribe or quid pro quo

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (XqcwY)

177 tireject I used it on our UTV when we ran over an antler, Project Farm on Youtube does a really good comparison video of other Products and I used that one because you don't have to use as much and according to the label it repairs Sidewalls and Bead leaks at the rim.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Slime. Beforehand. Helps plug punctures when it happens. Not bragging, but am still running original tires on a 2007 Honda Rancher.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (h8TYC)

178 t, fixaflat will get you down the road to a garage. When you get there, tell them you used it. Small but real chance of fire when dismounting the tire if not properly deflated.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (0EOe9)

Bill: the problem with fix-a-flat is that if your have tire pressure sensors, it will fubar it. But if you’re stuck, easy decision I guess.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (N6UT3)

179 So, basically, Hunter Biden wants to pull a Lois Lerner. Make a big ass heart felt speech invoking her innocence, and then invoke the 5th so they can't show her to be full o bull excrement.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (dIske)

180 Somehow I think the same Repub's that voted to remove Santos will vote to Not Impeach Biden, regardless of clear evidence of treason and various other crimes.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (Cus5s)

181 None of the checks had a Memo of "bribe" or "quid pro quo" so obviously this isn't a bribe or quid pro quo
Posted by: 18-1

How about "10% for the Big Guy?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:47 PM (JrojV)

182
I have diplomatic immunity.

Posted by: Joe Biden & that guy from Lethal Weapon II at December 05, 2023 12:47 PM (+oR7L)

183 >>Sometimes you have to structure your withdrawals/ payments to.avoid mandatory bank reporting requirements.

An automatic monthly payment of $1038 is an oddly specific amount. The threshold for reporting is a withdrawal of $10,000 so this doesn't come close.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 12:47 PM (ZLI7S)

184 Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (d04cU)

Of course. They even had giant ground sloths and terror birds!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 12:47 PM (D7oie)

185 I'll look for one to keep in the car. Of course, with my luck, I'll get a nail and leak when it's pouring rain or snowing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:36 PM

I just figured out that new cars don't have spare tires anymore. They at least used to have that little donut tire.

Posted by: Sen Fetterman at December 05, 2023 12:48 PM (ocULy)

186
there's a reason- they're afraid of the press

Nah, that's too generous.

Look at the Santos vote. Everyone that voted to expel him is part of the uniparty. They want what the Dems want.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 12:48 PM (XqcwY)

187 "I don't recall."

"Well, I certainly believe him."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 12:48 PM (cD1dp)

188 I carry a compressor unit in the trunk. As for a plug kit: Can a leak (presuming the nail is in the tread portion, not the sidewall) be patched from *outside*? I have no way to dismount the tire from the wheel, or to put it back afterward.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ryobi compressor with two fully charged 18v batteries. Reason I went with that, is because it's easier to keep those batteries charged that one of the tire pump battery jumpers.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 12:48 PM (h8TYC)

189 Bill: the problem with fix-a-flat is that if your have tire pressure sensors, it will fubar it. But if you’re stuck, easy decision I guess.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 202

***
I carried a can of FaF in my car trunks for years. After hearing about these drawbacks, and seeing that the can was fifteen years old, I tossed it. A good plug kit would be a useful addition to my tools, which I keep in a vintage doctor's bag.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:49 PM (J2vNu)

190 We've got him this time!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 05, 2023 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

191 Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:38 PM (d04cU)

Of course. They even had giant ground sloths and terror birds!
Posted by: Kindltot

Pleistocene gumbo was fantastic!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:49 PM (JrojV)

192 Has it ever snowed in New Orleans?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Recently saw pictures of snow in Hawaii. Of course, it was on the big island on top of a 13,000 ft mountain.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (h8TYC)

193 So now it's a tire-repair thread?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (JrojV)

194 178 Never used it on this car with sensors. As said up above I call the auto club. I have to agree with you that TPMS are a pain in the ass and would be easy to defeat in a bad way.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (0EOe9)

195 The last time I recall it snowing in the Big Easy was the winter of 1990, IIRC.

1/4" and the whole city was in shut-down panic; they closed the GNO bridge over the Mississippi.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (w9Wax)

196 And leftists still won't believe because they are disconnected from reality.

Was playing on Facebook and a leftist had this as his Header:
"Wish I lacked critical thinking skills, because all of you look happy."

Then one of the memes he re-posted states the only recent presidents to reduce the deficit were Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

No helping with that level of delusion.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (QgUWg)

197 For whatever reason, the GOP simply won't fight these people.

Say UniParty. Over and over again until you understand it. Then you'll understand why the GOP won't fight.

This gets frustrating. We talk about the UniParty all the time, but then we collectively lapse back into this fake outrage as to why the GOP isn't a serious opposition party. And then we get all excited about a possible election with a serious opposition party. And then we are somehow surprised when the GOP under-performs yet again.

It's like listening to a group of Washington Generals fans.

Posted by: Seriously ... It's a UniParty at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (+Id8U)

198 Political Wire-

Playbook: “There’s a new word you’re going to be hearing a lot of in Washington: ‘MAGAnomics.’ Back in September, that’s what Biden started calling the GOP’s policy plans. It seems to have been dropped from the Biden lexicon in favor of pushing ‘Bidenomics.’ But recently congressional Democrats and party strategists have expressed misgivings about branding the party with that awkward label. After all, if voters hate the economy, why tie Biden closer to it?”

https://tinyurl.com/yd3v2e6w

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

199 39,000 new neighbors since Saturday.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:41 PM (v0R5T)

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You left you live in Colony Ridge, TX?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (niARo)

200 This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:51 PM (d04cU)

201
I just figured out that new cars don't have spare tires anymore. They at least used to have that little donut tire.
Posted by: Sen Fetterman at December 05, 2023

***
My '16 Buick has a donut spare. I keep it charged to the 60 psi it requires, and used it last year when a regular tire got slashed on the road. The '15 BMW 3 Series, on the other hand, had nothing. I was planning to buy a space-saver spare when the 3 got totaled in a rain flood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

202 I am shocked cotton, this is the most shocking thing in things in the last hour!

//FIB

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2023 12:51 PM (X0I7i)

203 $1380 is roughly the 30 year monthly mortgage payment for a property worth ~$330K loaned at around 3.5% - so, yeah, it's not nothing. Biden needed the monthly cash to pay off something fairly similar - mo. country club membership payment comes to mind right away.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:42

That's a good guess, country club dues.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM (ocULy)

204 Trump was impeached a record three times, and the corrupt Republican Party refused to convict him. It's just revenge for the righteous impeachments of Trump.

Posted by: Sid at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM (Y5n7d)

205 This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Wow. Nice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM (JrojV)

206 Somehow I think the same Repub's that voted to remove Santos will vote to Not Impeach Biden, regardless of clear evidence of treason and various other crimes.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (Cus5s)

What??? Next you'll tell me Bob Menendez is going to continue to be the Senator from the great state of New Jerky.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM (dGCAG)

207 Speaking of Hunter - remember his favorite hooker got a COVID loan?

This would be one of those things an opposition party would be taking about now wouldn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM (XqcwY)

208 It rarely snows on the California central coast, but it did twice while I lived there. Snow was on the ground for about an hour, but the number of wrecks was off the hook.

It's like everyone suddenly turned into a monkey behind the wheel.

Chaos ensued.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2023 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)

209 205 Also, the peekaboo hair. Mmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:53 PM (JrojV)

210 President Biden's son had requested subpoenas against ... officials, arguing his gun crimes charge had originated in a "vindictive Justice Department".

.. yeah, Trump to witness to that

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2023 12:53 PM (RHGPo)

211 Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at December 05, 2023 12:14 PM (AepaD)

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Why do I suddenly have the overwhelming urge to listen to "Feels So Good?"

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 05, 2023 12:53 PM (N66D6)

212 The last time I recall it snowing in the Big Easy was the winter of 1990, IIRC.

1/4" and the whole city was in shut-down panic; they closed the GNO bridge over the Mississippi.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023

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I think that must have been the time I wrote about above, December of '89. That was more than 1/4 inch accumulation, though. They did close the bridge, but I made it across that first day before they did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:53 PM (J2vNu)

213 This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:

Apparently she's taken the next logical next step from "no pants"

Posted by: Some Commando at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (XqcwY)

214 Best
Economy
Ever

Job openings slide to 8.7 million in October, well below estimate, to lowest level since March 2021

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (WY6dk)

215 My '16 Buick has a donut spare. I keep it charged to the 60 psi it requires, and used it last year when a regular tire got slashed on the road. The '15 BMW 3 Series, on the other hand, had nothing. I was planning to buy a space-saver spare when the 3 got totaled in a rain flood.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:51 PM

My previous car had a full size spare but my Tahoe doens't have one. I keep a tire guage and jumper cables in my car and I was asking my husband where is the spare and he told me new cars don't have them anymore. It's stupid.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (ocULy)

216 It rarely snows on the California central coast, but it did twice while I lived there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Was one of those times in December 1990?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (JrojV)

217
In 1980 Ronald Reagan got ~51% of the vote and won in an electoral landslide of near historic proportions. How you may wonder? A third party candidate siphoned off about 7% from Jimmy Carter who got ~41%.

Can RKK Jr siphon off 7% from a mortally damaged Biden and make the cheat impossible? I think yes. Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (enJYY)

218 What's all this about 10%?
I need to know what is really meant.

Posted by: A Big Guy Named Fezzik at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (DZrNt)

219 My previous car had a full size spare but my Tahoe doens't have one. I keep a tire guage and jumper cables in my car and I was asking my husband where is the spare and he told me new cars don't have them anymore. It's stupid.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (ocULy)
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Per my understanding, if a car doesn't come with a spare (many don't because it's dead weight and CAFE hates dead weight), it's supposed to ship with run-flats.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:55 PM (d04cU)

220 So now it's a tire-repair thread?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Her air pressure looks good.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

221 "I think sometimes we make the assumption that because we know what happened the entire country does and I think that is completely wrong. The average person hasn't got a clue about almost any of this and to the extent they do know something they believe the media spin."

So true. We need to never overestimate the LIV. If they do hear anything about it, it's something like the harridans of The View making nasty remarks about Trump and the evil Republicans. Then the trained seals in the audience applaud. And crazily enough, the MSM has been able to basically bury this.

So the LIV goes on with his or her life and pulls the D lever in November.

Posted by: RM at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (urbih)

222 It rarely snows on the California central coast, but it did twice while I lived there. Snow was on the ground for about an hour, but the number of wrecks was off the hook.

It's like everyone suddenly turned into a monkey behind the wheel.

Chaos ensued.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2023

***
The odd thing during the local snowfall in '89: I'd never driven in snow before, and yet I realized the rules were pretty simple. Slow down; leave 3x as much space as usual between you and the car ahead; and don't change direction abruptly. Helped to have an FWD car, too.

I saw so many people spinning their wheels and driving into curbs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (J2vNu)

223 None of the checks had a Memo of "bribe" or "quid pro quo" so obviously this isn't a bribe or quid pro quo

With how stupid and drug-addled the Biden family is, it's almost certain there *will* be a check with "bribe" or "10% for the Big Guy" as the memo.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (2ocoG)

224 106...Mystery as to why she wasn't an even bigger star. She just turned 90.
Posted by: Bon Vivant at December 05, 2023 12:31 PM (83IzV)

Probably did not comply with the casting couch.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (Rbu5d)

225 Her air pressure looks good.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023

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Pneumatic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (J2vNu)

226 Her air pressure looks good.

But I need to check just to make sure.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (JrojV)

227
Trump was impeached a record three times, and the corrupt Republican Party refused to convict him. It's just revenge for the righteous impeachments of Trump.

OMG. Sid is predicting a win for Trump and a third impeachment!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 12:57 PM (enJYY)

228 So now it's a tire-repair thread?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Her air pressure looks good.
Posted by: wth

It's dangerous to operate with them over inflated.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 12:57 PM (h8TYC)

229
OMG. Sid is predicting a win for Trump and a third impeachment!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 12:57 PM (enJYY)

😂

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (WY6dk)

230 One Trump impeachment was for not starting WWIII over the Russia collusion hoax and the other was for saying pussy right?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (XqcwY)

231 Posted by: Sid at December 05, 2023 12:52 PM

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Tell me this is a joke.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (dGCAG)

232 An automatic monthly payment of $1038 is an oddly specific amount. The threshold for reporting is a withdrawal of $10,000 so this doesn't come close.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 12:47 PM (ZLI7S)

Jack - its $1380 - so unless its a farily expensive car loan - or it's a 30 yr mortgage mo. payment for a sub 500K property - but more likely it's a country club membership payment - I suggest someone do some research into what CC memberships Hunter or James or Joe had at that time and see what the down payment with interest was plus their CC monthly fees...i'm guessing...$1380/mo.

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (K+UlC)

233 1/4" and the whole city was in shut-down panic; they closed the GNO bridge over the Mississippi.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023 12:50 PM (w9Wax)

Portland does the same thing. Even the mentioned of possible snow and the Portland metro area spasses out shutting down everything and turning the freeways into parking lots.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (4iIQh)

234 212 DC snowstorms. Many a time stationed at Andrews (NAF DC) they would shut things down for a dusting of snow so folks would get home safely. The Andrews AFB NCO open mess was very crowded.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (0EOe9)

235 Per my understanding, if a car doesn't come with a spare (many don't because it's dead weight and CAFE hates dead weight), it's supposed to ship with run-flats.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 202

***
My '15 BMW had those. RFTs are supposed to ride hard, but my 17" tires were pretty comfortable to drive on. I planned to replace them with regular tires eventually.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

236 Sid is off his anti-psychotic meds again.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at December 05, 2023 12:58 PM (QgUWg)

237 In 1980 Ronald Reagan got ~51% of the vote and won in an electoral landslide of near historic proportions.

That election, in a nutshell, is part of why even I get tired of hearing how much more smart the older generations used to be.

In 1980, even while paying credit card rates for home loans, lining up on odd and even days for gas, watching hostages sit in Iran for over a year, and tracking the Misery Index on the nightly news ? At least forty percent of Silent and Boomer Americans still thought four more years of Jimmy Carter was a fantastic idea. You can't blame that on Gen X, Millennials, or Gen Z.

Posted by: Seriously ... It's a UniParty at December 05, 2023 12:59 PM (+Id8U)

238 Got 6 or 7 inches of snow in San Antonio in '97. Shut the city down for 3 days.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2023 12:59 PM (R4t5M)

239 With how stupid and drug-addled the Biden family is, it's almost certain there *will* be a check with "bribe" or "10% for the Big Guy" as the memo.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (2ocoG)
++++
I doubt it. Addled, but not silly. But I'll laugh my ass off if it happens.

I have a buddy whose wife divorced him after meeting a new man. She decided to go after him for lots 'o alimony. He produced a canceled check she had written to her new beau some time earlier where she wrote "sexual favors" on the memo line as a joke. The lawyers told her that it didn't matter and told him that it would look very, very bad for her in court.

His lawyers were right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:59 PM (d04cU)

240 We've become a lot more dangerous than the Klingons.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 05, 2023 01:00 PM (J8LnB)

241 Hunter was paying back his college expenses to Joe

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2023 01:00 PM (RHGPo)

242 Half of me can't even muster the effort to care because I'm certain nothing's going to come of this.

The other half of me thinks that going after the Bidens is almost a waste of time anyway. Even if someone in the Biden family ends up going to jail, the left got what they needed from Joe anyway, he's not getting kicked out of office mid-term. I'm less interested in investigating Hunter than someone in the Democratic party that's still electable.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 01:00 PM (fKIdX)

243 At this point I now expect there to be an actual physical check with bribe in the re: line.

At which point the Narrative will be a. Biden was out of office and had nothing to sell and II. that is just good statesmanship as that's how things are done over there.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 05, 2023 01:00 PM (ZRTzG)

244 Hunter was paying the "hooker allowance tax" levied by Joe

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

245 Can RKK Jr siphon off 7% from a mortally damaged Biden and make the cheat impossible? I think yes. Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (enJYY)

But Lizzo Cheney is going to throw her hood into the ring!

Surely she is going to siphon off, not 7 but 77% of the vote from Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (dGCAG)

246 Remember if your gums bleed, that is blood cells leaving your gums. That also mean bacteria can get into your bloodstream. BONUS! Chronic inflammation is something your body doesn't care for either.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (QzZeQ)]

carious is funnier. It is kind of abstruse, sounds like something else, and starts with a "K" noise.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (D7oie)

247 With the snow before Christmas '89, I got home and let my part-Maine Coon cat, Arizona, out into the tiny high-fenced patio we had at that apartment. I told him, "Let's see how you deal with your ancestral Maine environment."

He trotted around on the snow without trouble and held his big face up to catch snowflakes on his muzzle. I got cold before he did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (J2vNu)

248 >>One Trump impeachment was for not starting WWIII over the Russia collusion hoax and the other was for saying pussy right?

One impeachment was because Trump mentioned the Biden family corruption in a call to Ukraine where all the bodies are buried not just the Biden crime families. It's also where a good part of the Russia collusion hoax came from.

Ukraine not Russia is the source of a lot of the shit this country has been going through for the last 6+ years.

Eric Ciamarella is CIA. That's why we weren't allowed to say his name.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

249 238 Got 6 or 7 inches of snow in San Antonio in '97. Shut the city down for 3 days.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2023 12:59 PM (R4t5M)

We got about 15 inches there in two days '84-'85. Shut the place down for a looooong time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (N3zMI)

250 He trotted around on the snow without trouble and held his big face up to catch snowflakes on his muzzle. I got cold before he did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (J2vNu)
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Sure, but he had a fur coat! I doubt you had a fur coat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (d04cU)

251 This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj

Jailbait. Would not.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (Q0kLU)

252 You can’t assume every Anderson voter would have voted for Carter.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (WY6dk)

253 Wolfus -
We lived in Marrero in 89 when it snowed. Took 3 hours to drive from the base in Belle Chasse to the house. Went to the grocery store that was at the corner of Barataria and LaPalco (at the time) and there was nothing but empty shelves. But the drive through daquiri places didn't shut down.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (r9a0/)

254 At least forty percent of Silent and Boomer Americans still thought four more years of Jimmy Carter was a fantastic idea. You can't blame that on Gen X, Millennials, or Gen Z.

At that point, the FDR coalition was still strong. I knew old people who would always pull the D lever reflexively because FDR was for the little guy.

An alternate explanation is that a large fraction of the population is just really stupid.

And/or

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (I/Qkd)

255 Greetings! I missed commenting on the thread from Diogenes but I appreciated it. Re the topic of this thread, $1380 a month seems like a trivial amount but important that we understand what it is for. As for snow, we don't get much in my AO but once we got sleet so heavy that it accumulated and driving was right out. As soon as my car leaves my garage I'm on a 30 degree or so hill incline. That would have been a long slide into chaos.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (MeG8a)

256 My previous car had a full size spare but my Tahoe doens't have one. I keep a tire guage and jumper cables in my car and I was asking my husband where is the spare and he told me new cars don't have them anymore. It's stupid.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 12:54 PM (ocULy)

Speaking of spare tires; the Christmas Story should be on soon. What a great scene for any young boy who has “helped” his Dad

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2023 01:03 PM (N6UT3)

257 I'm telling you, they wanted to charge Trump over hotel rents, but for Biden they are going to need a notified cashier's check certified as "For Favors".

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 01:03 PM (krQz2)

258 He trotted around on the snow without trouble and held his big face up to catch snowflakes on his muzzle. I got cold before he did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I imagine he liked it better than the usual weather in Da Swamp.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 01:03 PM (JrojV)

259 Can you believe these shell company payments have all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign again? What are the odds?

Posted by: Deep State at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (JojsZ)

260 Certainly not "influence peddling" as that can only happen with an employed public official, not an ex public official. a
Posted by: Paul at December 05, 2023 01:03 PM (hgDJr)

Told you so.

Posted by: alexthechick at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (ZRTzG)

261 He trotted around on the snow without trouble and held his big face up to catch snowflakes on his muzzle. I got cold before he did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:01 PM (J2vNu)
++++
Sure, but he had a fur coat! I doubt you had a fur coat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023

***
Not fur, but I wore a topcoat. Probably forgot the gloves, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

262 I just figured out that new cars don't have spare tires anymore. They at least used to have that little donut tire.

Posted by: Sen Fetterman at December 05, 2023 12:48
PM (ocULy)

-------------

For those unaware (learned this lesson the hard way earlier this year), the reason you see full-sized and not those donut tire spares with AWD or 4WD vehicles is that if all four tires are not approximately the same size (degree of treadwear) -- you will eventually damage your transfer case.

So places like Costco Tires recommend buying four new tires if you have to replace one used tire -- or you can buy one new one and have it shaved by someone who does that.

Costco (and they should have known better, and I was ignorant of this fact) put a new tire on my AWD (unrepairable sidewall puncture) with the tread half-warn on the other three) -- and eventually I started hearing a noise that was the transmission; but a mechanic explained the cause and that the transfer case had been damaged.

I'm surprised how few people know this; virtually everybody I tell the story too is surprised to hear it as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (21U6R)

263 Oh. Is KJP wearing her favorite shade of green today? Christmas, or some other occasion?

Posted by: Emmie at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (Sf2cq)

264
In 1980, even while paying credit card rates for home loans, lining up on odd and even days for gas, watching hostages sit in Iran for over a year, and tracking the Misery Index on the nightly news ? At least forty percent of Silent and Boomer Americans still thought four more years of Jimmy Carter was a fantastic idea. You can't blame that on Gen X, Millennials, or Gen Z.

Posted by: Seriously ... It's a UniParty at December 05, 2023 12:59 PM

Disregarding the generation thing, it is amazing it was that close. But the third party candidate (John Anderson) sealed Carter's fate.

I'm hoping RFK Jr does the same thing. You think it's any coincidence that Biden's people don't want RFK to have Secret Service protection? I sure as hell don't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (enJYY)

265 44 I don’t floss. Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:08 PM (JrojV)

Merely more liable to be carious.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (D7oie)

Well, and...perio disease, bone loss, tooth loss (no bone, no teeth)

And if you're gums are really funky increased heart attack and stroke, etc.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (QzZeQ)

Flossing itself can force bacteria into the bloodstream. And evidence for flossing efficacy is lacking. See, for example, https://tinyurl.com/3x66tb9d. (Yes, it's a little old, but the data *remain* unconvincing.)

Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (Qn72k)

266 Here's a video of the kimono girl the horde may enjoy with the sound muted.

https://is.gd/AQpHwI

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 01:05 PM (R38qh)

267 > It rarely snows on the California central coast, but it did twice while I lived there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Was one of those times in December 1990?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
___________

Around Monterey... 2005-ish and then a few years later. One of the storms dumped hail, which sorta' acted like snow for a while.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2023 01:05 PM (Q4IgG)

268
Jack - its $1380 - so unless its a farily expensive car loan - or it's a 30 yr mortgage mo. payment for a sub 500K property - but more likely it's a country club membership payment - I suggest someone do some research into what CC memberships Hunter or James or Joe had at that time and see what the down payment with interest was plus their CC monthly fees...i'm guessing...$1380/mo.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:58

Going by some of the private clubs in Santa Barbara, like Birnum Wood, the membership is about 300,000 for a full golf membership. You pay usually about a 10 percent transfer fee and monthly dues of about 2500 per month. A lot of the clubs have minimum amounts you have to spend at the club and if you don't they add it to your dues.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2023 01:05 PM (ocULy)

269 265 Jeepers, folks, I only said that I don't floss, not that I don't brush!

I also use Listerine, so that oughtta count for something.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (JrojV)

270 Wolfus -
We lived in Marrero in 89 when it snowed. Took 3 hours to drive from the base in Belle Chasse to the house. Went to the grocery store that was at the corner of Barataria and LaPalco (at the time) and there was nothing but empty shelves. But the drive through daquiri places didn't shut down.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2023

***
Oh, across from the Belle Promenade Mall? Not sure what's there now; the mall is gone and replaced with standalone big-box stores.

Why am I not surprised about the drive-through daiquiri dispensaries.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (J2vNu)

271 I also use Listerine, so that oughtta count for something.

Screw you man

Posted by: 1% of germs at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (XqcwY)

272 Hunter was paying a Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission tax for landing Chinese "whales"

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (RHGPo)

273 Slime. Beforehand. Helps plug punctures when it happens. Not bragging, but am still running original tires on a 2007 Honda Rancher.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 12:46 PM (h8TYC)

tireject is the same type of product but it's more liquid and you don't use much to seal, I don't think Slime will do side walls or bead leaks

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (dKiJG)

274 I'm surprised how few people know this; virtually everybody I tell the story too is surprised to hear it as well.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (21U6R)
++++
AWD requires symmetry of tires, at least per axle. Fronts can be more worn than rears and it isn't great but isn't likely to blow up. Left-rear being quite different from right-rear (or equivalent combinations) are no good at all. It's also why tire rotation pattern is different for AWD (front-to-back, rather than corner swapping).

I got this lesson every time I put tires on an AWD vehicle. No tire shop didn't go over it. But that might have been because I was in CO, where both snow and AWD are extremely common.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 01:07 PM (d04cU)

275 Around Monterey... 2005-ish and then a few years later. One of the storms dumped hail, which sorta' acted like snow for a while.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I imagine Monterey would look enchanting in the snow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 01:07 PM (JrojV)

276 219 Per my understanding, if a car doesn't come with a spare (many don't because it's dead weight and CAFE hates dead weight), it's supposed to ship with run-flats.

and it's not like the big foot inside a run-flat that makes it a run-flat is dead weight or that you need four of those big feet instead of one itty bitty doughnut or anything.

Posted by: anachronda at December 05, 2023 01:07 PM (oY6Yp)

277 225 Her air pressure looks good.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023

***
Pneumatic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 12:56 PM (J2vNu)

Oooh. Tell me more!

Posted by: The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning at December 05, 2023 01:07 PM (4j1D9)

278 At least forty percent of Silent and Boomer Americans still thought four more years of Jimmy Carter was a fantastic idea.

-
Knowing what I know now, I'm not sure the op hadn't begun in earnest back then and the number was being established / propped up as a baseline

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 01:08 PM (9Wrck)

279 He trotted around on the snow without trouble and held his big face up to catch snowflakes on his muzzle. I got cold before he did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
I imagine he liked it better than the usual weather in Da Swamp.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023

***
Like all my cats have, he lived indoors in the A/C with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:08 PM (J2vNu)

280 It rarely snows on the California central coast

Heard it snowed in Big Sur!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (mu+VK)

281 Yeah the awd tire thing isn’t well known. You’d think tire manufacturers would push some education since it means more sales for them.

But most people barely change the oil so not sure how many would buy 4 new tires if one needs to be replaced even if they know they should.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (WY6dk)

282 tireject is the same type of product but it's more liquid and you don't use much to seal, I don't think Slime will do side walls or bead leaks
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (dKiJG)

Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks. Would that stuff be good for this?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (N3zMI)

283
Oooh. Tell me more!

Tell me more Tell me more
Was it love at first sight
Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight

Posted by: The cast of Grease at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (XqcwY)

284 237 Sirius

Many people forget (or weren't even born yet to experience it) how thoroughly the liberal media had defined former Gov. Reagan as a dangerous rightwing extremist. Just like Goldwater-- someone too dangerous to trust with the nuclear codes.

I think that's completely forgotten now, & it created a lot of doubt about whether RR could be trusted as POTUS.

Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (NLIak)

285 If you have a pickup/suv, you should have 5 identical tires

running with an off-size spare is ungood

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 01:10 PM (geLO8)

286 " But the drive through daquiri places didn't shut down.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead"

I think they "cracked down" on that practice of selling "open container" liquor, so the shops started taping of the straw hole in the large cups. (or something silly like that).

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2023 01:10 PM (Cus5s)

287 Disregarding the generation thing, it is amazing it was that close. But the third party candidate (John Anderson) sealed Carter's fate.

I'm hoping RFK Jr does the same thing. You think it's any coincidence that Biden's people don't want RFK to have Secret Service protection? I sure as hell don't.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (enJYY)

John Anderson was my first vote. I have a doozy of a record.

Posted by: LASue at December 05, 2023 01:10 PM (bLe0J)

288 269 I also use Listerine, so that oughtta count for something.

rimmerine > listerine

Posted by: arnold j. rimmer, bsc ssc at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (oY6Yp)

289 >Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks.

get a new tire

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (geLO8)

290 Oh. Is KJP wearing her favorite shade of green today? Christmas, or some other occasion?

Displaying her envy for people with above room temperature IQs.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (Bd6X8)

291 Here's a video of the kimono girl the horde may enjoy with the sound muted.

https://is.gd/AQpHwI
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 01:05 PM (R38qh)
......

She really likes boners.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

292 Per my understanding, if a car doesn't come with a spare (many don't because it's dead weight and CAFE hates dead weight

-

It's the manufacturers. They chase CAFE MPG standards, and a can of fix a flat weighs a half a pound vs 40 lbs or whatever for a spare.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (9Wrck)

293 John Anderson was my first vote. I have a doozy of a record.
Posted by: LASue at December 05, 2023 01:10 PM (bLe0J)

I voted for carter.... Both times

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (n2vyf)

294 Got 6 or 7 inches of snow in San Antonio in '97. Shut the city down for 3 days.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Got that much In Galveston winter of '83. Shut down the Causeway. I was headed back from Dallas and the kept opening and closing the Causeway. I got lucky and the reopened it just as I got to it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (h8TYC)

295 One of Trump's impeachments was for calling Ukraine PM. He released the tape a month later, which I figured would make them call off the impeachment ... expected sanity.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (44ww/)

296 Slime.

My bicycle repair shop hates that stuff.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (mu+VK)

297 Also I'm betting bent wheel.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (9Wrck)

298 Yeah the awd tire thing isn’t well known. You’d think tire manufacturers would push some education since it means more sales for them.

But most people barely change the oil so not sure how many would buy 4 new tires if one needs to be replaced even if they know they should.
Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023

***
On some of my cars years ago, I didn't rotate the tires but once every couple of years. Then tires started to get to be $$$. My Buick Regal came with four free oil changes and tire rotations, so I did that. The factory Michelins lasted well beyond the rated life of the tires. Now I have my tires swapped around every 6-12 months.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (J2vNu)

299 and everybody knows, that little emergency spare is NOT for the front, right

RIGHT?

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (geLO8)

300 Hunter was paying back his college expenses to Joe
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2023 01:00 PM (RHGPo)

Nope - he was paying for his membership at Fieldstone Country Club - just like I suspected:

https://tinyurl.com/2hhx6hz2

An annual membership could cost as much as $100K -
https://tinyurl.com/ym9mahp3 - a partnership buy in could be over $350K.

A partnership buy in with interest could come to ~$1300 a month - so yeah, I think Biden used it for this.

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (K+UlC)

301 282 Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires

didja check the valve stem?

Posted by: anachronda at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (oY6Yp)

302 289 >Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks.

get a new tire
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (geLO

This one's pretty new and has lots of life left. Would like to save if I can.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (N3zMI)

303 I swap winter/summer tires every November and April. So it’s automatic rotation as well.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (WY6dk)

304 I think that's completely forgotten now, & it created a lot of doubt about whether RR could be trusted as POTUS.
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (NLIak)
---
An otherwise friend I was watching the election with was mad at American voters. He couldn't understand how they could vote for the inevitable nuclear war.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (krQz2)

305 I voted for carter.... Both times
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (n2vyf)

Good Lord.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (pohLc)

306 I don’t floss. Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 12:08 PM (JrojV)

Merely more liable to be carious.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 12:10 PM (D7oie)

Well, and...perio disease, bone loss, tooth loss (no bone, no teeth)

And if you're gums are really funky increased heart attack and stroke, etc.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 12:18 PM (QzZeQ)

Flossing itself can force bacteria into the bloodstream. And evidence for flossing efficacy is lacking. See, for example, https://tinyurl.com/3x66tb9d. (Yes, it's a little old, but the data *remain* unconvincing.)
Posted by: NotEnoughLampposts at December 05, 2023 01:04 PM (Qn72k)

That study doesn't align at all with what I've seen in real life practice, however-

believe as you wish. and don't floss.

I or someone else down the road will appreciate your non-effort.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (QzZeQ)

307 One of the organizers of Columbia's "teach in" on the "October 7th Palestinian counteroffensive" has been identified.

https://is.gd/h6fx1R

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (R38qh)

308 Here's a video of the kimono girl the horde may enjoy with the sound muted.

https://is.gd/AQpHwI
Posted by: bonhomme

Yowza.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (JrojV)

309 Completely OT, death of a Thunderbolt pilot with surprise ending for those familiar with '60s - '70s game shows. (11 1/2 minutes)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vAd4y73KCI8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (FVME7)

310 Oh-WAHS-Co. Oh-WAHS-Co. Learn it. Practice it. Live it!

Posted by: LASue at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (bLe0J)

311 I've never needed the spare on the front right

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (9Wrck)

312 This busty blonde in a loose oriental robe wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to change a tire for her, much less attempt to fix a flat:
https://is.gd/xL1Hsj
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 12:51 PM (d04cU)

Pretty. And with no botox or plastic embellishments.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (BdMk6)

313 I also use Listerine, so that oughtta count for something.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2023 01:06 PM (JrojV)

Something I heard on the internet (so you know it's true) is using mouthwash is associated with higher incidence of heart problems. Killing all the germs in your mouth interferes with your body's nitric oxide production. Nitric oxide is important for heart health.

Posted by: Emmie at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (Sf2cq)

314 Project Farm on Youtube he is what Consumer Reports use to be, I am amazed watching his videos he uses the same pen and it's all just one person. I suggest you check his videos out for tool testing and other products

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 01:14 PM (dKiJG)

315 Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks.

That it to a tire place and have them put it in a water bath. It's either something in the tread, the bead, or the valve stem.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 01:15 PM (h8TYC)

316 > Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks.

Did you take the tire off the car and do the soapy water spray test? You may want to overinflate the tire a bit to make the leak easier to find.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 01:15 PM (R38qh)

317
So two 'ettes voted for either Carter twice or John Anderson. Do we have an impeachment inquiry committee formed yet?

/ jk

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 01:15 PM (enJYY)

318 John Anderson was my first vote. I have a doozy of a record.

Posted by: LASue at December 05, 2023 01:10 PM (bLe0J)

Seminole Wind wasn't bad. Just overplayed.

Posted by: Seriously ... It's a UniParty at December 05, 2023 01:16 PM (+Id8U)

319 I think that's completely forgotten now, & it created a lot of doubt about whether RR could be trusted as POTUS.
Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (NLIak)

I remember them painting him as he dangerous, not-so-smart, loose cannon candidate who talked craziness about Star Wars.

Posted by: LASue at December 05, 2023 01:17 PM (bLe0J)

320 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2023 01:17 PM (h8TYC)

321 So two 'ettes voted for either Carter twice or John Anderson. Do we have an impeachment inquiry committee formed yet?

/ jk
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2023 01:15 PM (enJYY)
++++
Ah, I understand the confusion.

They voted for John Carter. Something just hiccuped during transmission, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 01:18 PM (d04cU)

322 An alternate explanation is that a large fraction of the population is just really stupid.

And/or
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 01:02 PM (I/Qkd)

I don't think it's about smart or stupid. It's about susceptibility to media manipulation.

Posted by: troyriser at December 05, 2023 01:18 PM (7Cx1V)

323 I'm embarrassed by many of my first votes when I was young & dumb(er), starting with HHH in 1968.

In those days, my family's generational loyalty to the DEM party was a factor.

Posted by: mnw at December 05, 2023 01:19 PM (NLIak)

324 290 Oh. Is KJP wearing her favorite shade of green today? Christmas, or some other occasion?

Displaying her envy for people with above room temperature IQs.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2023 01:11 PM (Bd6X

I was assuming it is Hamas green.

Posted by: Emmie at December 05, 2023 01:19 PM (Sf2cq)

325 I don't think it's about smart or stupid. It's about susceptibility to media manipulation.

If you're that easily swayed by people as stupid as the media ? Then you're not all that smart.

Posted by: Seriously ... It's a UniParty at December 05, 2023 01:20 PM (+Id8U)

326 Got a very slow leak (that I can't find) in one of my tires. Have to top up the inflation every couple weeks. Would that stuff be good for this?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 01:09 PM (N3zMI)

Yes, I suggest you watch this video, it tests several products, I use it for both car and my Son's UTV Kart and he got an antler in the tire and it worked, which shocked me.

https://tinyurl.com/4uy988rx

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 05, 2023 01:20 PM (dKiJG)

327
*I don't think it's about smart or stupid. It's about susceptibility to media manipulation.*

Really?

Posted by: COVID 19 at December 05, 2023 01:20 PM (26UOe)

328 Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 01:12 PM (K+UlC)

numbers don't make sense to me. Memberships are almost always in round numbers...

$16560 for a year is an odd number... and I don't know about your family, but we don't charge each other interest if we're loaning money.

Plus, this is from a BUSINESS ACCOUNT, to a personal account, even when there is a Biden Family Trust that they all use.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 01:20 PM (xaFKb)

329 Jack - its $1380 - so unless its a farily expensive car loan - or it's a 30 yr mortgage mo. payment for a sub 500K property - but more likely it's a country club membership payment - I suggest someone do some research into what CC memberships Hunter or James or Joe had at that time and see what the down payment with interest was plus their CC monthly fees...i'm guessing...$1380/mo.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 12:58

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Congressional Course and the Army/Navy Course get you within $500 of the the annual tally on that $1,380.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2023 01:25 PM (dIske)

330 I have a couple photos of the snow in and around Monterey from years ago. Mostly shots from across Monterey Bay at the coastal range.

I'll try to post them online. They're not the greatest, but the imagery is pretty cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2023 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)

331 I or someone else down the road will appreciate your non-effort.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2023 01:13 PM (QzZeQ)

You are the expert, what is your opinion on xylitol on mouth bacteria?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 01:26 PM (D7oie)

332 Plus, this is from a BUSINESS ACCOUNT, to a personal account, even when there is a Biden Family Trust that they all use.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 01:20 PM (xaFKb)

No, sorry, national management groups run country clubs for the most part - they provide the financing for members who want to actually buy into partnerships - these are like mortgages, not monthly dues.

If you just want to join a CC for a year and check it out - then monthly CC dues plus a joining fee, I suppose, can be evenly spaced out. But actual buy-ins are an asset you can sell back to the CC - or to another approved member, and are not CC dues - they add to that.

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2023 01:35 PM (K+UlC)

333 Oh come on. That was the tell. Time after time Biden showed us how guilty he was. You don't have to be Cornpop to know that Joe Biden is a lying dog-face pony soldier. And he has been that way for years. We knew that when he said to Blacks, "they're going to put you all back in Chains" he was lying. Everybody knew that when he said, "you ain't Black if you vote for Trump". No, the color of a person's skin is determined at conception, not by how you vote.

Posted by: william ferrin at December 05, 2023 01:43 PM (bePxA)

334 What is stunning is how simple to track this is. Any money launder worth his salt is going to run this through the Caymans, then Nicosia, maybe Tel Aviv or Modovia, and then back into the States.

Cuntie Xiden is just trying to save on nickel-and-dime 40-dollar wire ACH fees after he pays Daddy the vig.

Posted by: HR Dept Dibersity Hire at December 05, 2023 01:43 PM (MIu4T)

335 Jack - its $1380 - so unless its a farily expensive car loan...
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March 2022:

"Prosecutors leading the Hunter Biden tax probe are investigating his purchase of a $142,000 plug-in hybrid sports car whose manufacturer defaulted on a massive Obama administration loan touted by his father, according to a report Monday."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2023 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

336 What is stunning is how simple to track this is. Any money launder worth his salt is going to run this through the Caymans, then Nicosia, maybe Tel Aviv or Modovia, and then back into the States.
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Look, we have offshore accounts. We could handle this.

Posted by: SPLC at December 05, 2023 01:47 PM (XeU6L)

337 In the unlikely event JFB actually runs in November the GOP should run that clip wall to wall in every swing state. What a complete jackwagon.

Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2023 01:58 PM (5FPX4)

338 "The GOP doesn't go after the enemy because it's *not* the enemy."

100% correct.

We are.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 02:19 PM (Z8Yh2)

339 I do because it’s an albatross around the GOP.
Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 02:40 PM (WY6dk)

It certainly is a wedge issue, isn't it.

At the risk of putting words in AOP's mouth, I will say you talk a lot about wedge issues, and how important they are.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2023 02:46 PM (D7oie)

340 This is more reasons for Biden's Impeachment

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (wGqjj)

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