The Hunter Biden Pardon Has Stripped Bare the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law"

Mike Howell
@MHowellTweets
There's a ton to be said on the Hunter pardon, but for now:
The real worrisome part about the undeniable fact that the First Family (not just Hunter!) was so flamboyantly corrupt was that the entirety of the government legal and intelligence apparatus worked overtime to let it go. And they did it for a very long time and turned themselves into pretzels to keep doing it again.
All while doing the exact opposite on contrived and sometimes legitimately insane plots against Trump and those who supported him.
Major systems level damage was done to the integrity of the whole system. So many will want to move on to the next thing but if not addressed, we are in a world of long term trouble.
The Bidens clearly belong in the history books as an asterisked blight, but the story is so much bigger than just them. When they exit it doesn't just get resolved naturally.

Scott Jennings: This drains every ounce of credibility from Biden's media surrogates.

SCOTT JENNINGS: Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump's fault, that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump.
"Oh, he's appointing the wrong people. Oh, he did it." This is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country. To sit for a year and say, "I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system, juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy." These people are liars.
"Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success. The border is secure. Robert Hur is a liar. The videos are cheap fakes. Biden has a cold. He'll never drop out. Oh, I'll never pardon Hunter." It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan brain-rotted people are going to be outraged by this today.
He is going to leave office--you think 38-39% job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He's disgraced, disgraced today. Outrageous.

The Free Beacon:

When President Joe Biden and his White House aides repeatedly promised Biden wouldn't pardon his son, their allies in the media didn't push back--they ate it up.
MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann, for example, cited the pledge as proof that Biden was "living the rule of law ... in the most personal way" and taking "heroic action in terms of what it means to live a principle." Weissmann's colleague, Morning Joe co-anchor Willie Geist, said Biden's pledge "should not be extraordinary ... but in our times it is, and important."
On CNN, meanwhile, political commentator S.E. Cupp lauded Biden's "restraint."
"For Joe Biden to sit there and say, 'Well, I'm not going to intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son,' I argue that requires more restraint than if he were talking about himself," Cupp said during a June segment. "Which is what Trump does, right? He's talking about himself."
Biden went on to issue a pardon of his son Hunter for the crimes of illegally buying a gun and tax evasion--as well as any other crimes the recovering crackhead may or may not have committed between 2014 and 2024. The "full and unconditional pardon" is one of the most sweeping in U.S. history and makes Biden the first president to pardon his son. In a Sunday statement, the octogenarian said he did so because Hunter Biden was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."
Weissmann is yet to react to the decision on both X, which he left last month, and Bluesky, the liberal copycat of Elon Musk's social media platform. Cupp did address the pardon in a Monday morning X post, blaming the move on Trump.
"It doesn't get sad enough, but Trump's enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters," she wrote.

This fat nobody continues humiliating herself for her CNN paycheck.

Meanwhile, the rest of the media continues humiliating itself. Whoopie Goldberg forbade a fellow View panelist from saying Biden "lied" about the pardon, insisting he had told the truth when he repeatedly vowed that he held the justice system sacred and would never pardon Hunter. He just changed his mind, Whoopie insisted.

Well, for one thing, it's still a broken promise. For another thing, he's clearly lying. The explanation he gave for Hunter's pardon tracked exactly with the claims Hunter's lawyer Abbie Lowell has been making for a year -- that the unprecedented plea deal rejected by a judge for containing a secret absolution for all crimes Hunter committed, not just those he was being charged for, was a perfectly routine and reasonable one and should be "honored," and was only repudiated because "partisans" got to the judge and pressured DOJ officials.

Biden heard this argument a thousand times before he pardoned Hunter. There is no new information or new argumentation here. He didn't change his mind -- he was just lying, to establish that only venal criminals like Trump believe that the DOJ is ever biased or criminal in its operations.

Nate Silver pretends to be shocked and stunned at the actions of the corrupt Joe Biden and corrupt Democrat Party.

Polling guru Nate Silver dragged President Biden through the mud after the commander-in-chief pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday night -- telling voters to abandon every Democrat who doesn't likewise criticize and reject the "selfish" move.
"A selfish and senile old man," the founder of the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator wrote of Biden, 82, in a scathing series of criticisms on X minutes after the sweeping clemency announcement.
Silver -- who said he voted for Biden's successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election -- also told voters to boycott every Democrat who doesn't disagree with Biden's pardon over the next two days.
"Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours," the enraged polling Nostradamus wrote.
"I'm not saying this is going to be the decisive issue of 2026/28 etc. Probably second tier. But both the ethically *and politically* correct behavior is to call it out. Stop being so afraid of your own shadow," Silver added.

Paid Democrat Twinkfluencer Harry Sisson has never been prouder of A Father's Love:

Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson
Such a well written statement by President Biden on pardoning Hunter:
"In trying to break Hunter, they ve tried to break me - and there's no reason to believe it will stop here."
"I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

Well, you'll be happy to know that Biden is plotting more and more pardons, including of his influence-peddling brother, his "business" associates, and Alejandro Mayorkas, who serially lied to Congress.

A Brother's Love.

A "Business" Partner's Love.

A Commander-in-Chief's Love.

Miranda Divine says that all conservatives knew Joe Biden was lying and would pardon Hunter -- why didn't the self-appointed "fact" checkers and assorted Experts of the media know?

We always knew Joe Biden would pardon his troubled son Hunter, no matter how many times he promised he wouldn't.
So it is fitting that one of the final acts of this mendacious president before leaving office was to break yet another promise to the American people.
Thus on Sunday night, the president issued a statement from the White House declaring that he had just signed a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" for Robert Hunter Biden, 54.
Joe claims that Hunter was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently ... singled out only because he is my son."
In an amusing twist, the president explained away all his lies to the American people by lying about his lying: "For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth."
...
Hours after Joe and Hunter dined at a Nantucket restaurant named, appropriately enough, the Brotherhood of Thieves, the Washington Post published excerpts Saturday from a document written by the first son's lawyers that made the emotional case for his pardon.
Since his father was the only person on the planet with the power to pardon Hunter, at least until his presidency ends on Jan. 20, the 52-page paper would seem to have been written for an audience of one -- the Oval Office guy vacationing with his family on Nantucket.
But why would Hunter and his lawyers feel the need to leak the heartstrings-tugging document when he was right there with his dad every day, hanging out in the borrowed mansion of private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, poking around in bookstores buying anti-Israeli books and watching the town Christmas tree lighting?
Clearly the document was a carefully crafted excuse created to help Joe fool the American people into believing that Hunter was a victim of political persecution, who suffered due to his father's power and influence.
If you read the excerpts of his lawyers' mournful missive, titled "The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden," you would see echoes in Joe's Sunday night statement. You would see that they hold grave fears for Hunter's future now that the dreaded Donald Trump is taking power.
"With the election now decided, the threat against Hunter is real," the lawyers wrote.
"There is no disputing that Trump has said his enemies list includes Hunter ... The prospect that Trump will turn his vengeance on the Special Counsel prosecutors if they fail to take a harder line against Hunter no doubt exerts considerable pressure on them."
Hunter's pricey lead lawyer, Abbe Lowell, described the opus in dramatic terms as "the complete and reprehensible history of the political persecution of Hunter Biden ... a seven-year saga propelled by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to hurt his father."
It is "a wild and terrifying story ... a stark warning of what is to come as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to resume power and have stated their intention to use the government's vast power to pursue their perceived enemies."
His thesis is laughable.
Hunter knowingly committed the crimes for which he has been pardoned and he did so in the arrogant belief that his father's power made him untouchable.
How right he was.

As I said, Abbie Lowell has pressed these arguments to Biden and the DOJ and every judge in the Hunter Biden case for years now.

But we're supposed to believe this is the first time Joe Biden heard them? And that his mind was suddenly changed by them?

Latrine Jean-Pissoir now admits that that the DOJ is politicized -- against the Bidens only.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed Monday that President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax and gun crimes because "war politics" prompted Hunter's prosecution -- while insisting the Justice Department is not broadly politically biased, as President-elect Donald Trump claims.
Jean-Pierre used the term "war politics" three times as she fielded fiery questions aboard Air Force One from journalists as Biden, 82, flew to Angola for an official visit hours after the pardon, which Biden said was necessary because his son was being "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."
"Karine, when the president says that the justice system is infected with politics, how deep is the rot and how much of the blame does the president take on himself for the fact that his own Justice Department, his appointees, have allowed it to get this bad?" a reporter asked.
Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden "believes in the Justice Department."
"He just said it's infected with politics!" the journalist exclaimed.
"So how deep is the rot? How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?" the journalist pressed.
"What I can speak to is this particular case, which is Hunter Biden, who has the last name of the president," she said. "There were political opponents who were very clear and very vocal about going after his son."

Below, Scott Jennings says that NBC "News" is reporting that Biden's advisors always "kept open" the possibility of a post-election pardon even as Biden was sent out to publicly deny that anything like that was even possible.

I can't find the article he's referencing -- it could just be Google, as usual, hiding results that hurt their beloved Marxist cause. If you know which article he's referencing, please let me know in the comments.

Come for me on @cnn nailing Biden & his WH staff for lying, stay for me finding the apparent bipartisan consensus that Joe Biden�s DoJ is corrupt & engages in selective prosecutions for political reasons. (I�m a uniter, not a divider). pic.twitter.com/5rLVG2hNH5
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 3, 2024

Jon Stewart absolutely nails the Hunter pardon and why it eviscerates so many �rule of law!!!� claims. pic.twitter.com/6LkgRP3LT5
— Andy Grewal (@ProfGrewal) December 3, 2024

Community Notes slays pic.twitter.com/QNZfUIcNPl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2024

people who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves

they can't imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 13, 2024

In case you missed it: Hunter spent the day celebrating his pardon.

Posted by: Ace at 03:37 PM

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1 First?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at December 03, 2024 03:36 PM (pgwxJ)

2
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at December 03, 2024 03:36 PM (3ek7K)

3
ESPONJA!!!111!1!!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2024 03:36 PM (w9Ycv)

4 it was all a lie, anyway

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 03, 2024 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

5 Yeah.

Posted by: Grayman27 at December 03, 2024 03:37 PM (pgwxJ)

6 And now, content.

Posted by: Grayman27 at December 03, 2024 03:37 PM (pgwxJ)

7 The Democrats respect nothing.

They want power and will do anything to get it.

Rule of law is a laughable idea to them, but if it cons the rubes, that's all that matters.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 03, 2024 03:38 PM (N1DT3)

8 Nate Silver pretends to be shocked and stunned at the actions of the corrupt Joe Biden and corrupt Democrat Party.

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The party of Obama corrupt?

Heaven forfend!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

9 It's like I've said: They're all about the Rule of What Are You Gonna Do About It.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2024 03:39 PM (OUMaO)

10 Now, the Democrats are HONESTLY angry about this pardon.

Not because they think it subverts the rule of law, but that it harms their own power.

They are now clearly hypocrites and more of the rubes have had their eyes opened.

THAT is why they are mad.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 03, 2024 03:39 PM (N1DT3)

11 Now that’s a long post.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 03, 2024 03:39 PM (9mfKN)

12 Who honestly believes the Demoncrats are the party of the law?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:39 PM (kTd/k)

13 the entirety of the government legal and intelligence apparatus worked overtime to let it go.

And only Hunter got pardoned...

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (c/Z2E)

14 So the party of relative truth (because absolute truth doesn't exist in their world) become the Party of Liars.

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly wordy at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (i0xsb)

15 Aw, shucks. Just regular folks, don'cha know.

Posted by: PG at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (uZ2lt)

16 Oh, they respect "The Rule of Law" alright. But it's their rules of law.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (WXNFJ)

17 The real worrisome part about the undeniable fact that the First Family (not just Hunter!) was so flamboyantly corrupt was that the entirety of the government legal and intelligence apparatus worked overtime to let it go.

Le mot juste. It encapsulates this whole sorry administration.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (xCA6C)

18 "Cupp did address the pardon in a Monday morning X post, blaming the move on Trump."

Ahahaha! Drain bramaged by TDS. Never seen anyone sing so hard for supper.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 03:40 PM (aXxgO)

19 How much fun must it be to be a press secretary for this administration. Every day you wake up to some disaster you have to try to spin. Even John Stewart is outraged by this crap.

Nobody, and I mean nobody sees this as "poor dad protecting his son."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:41 PM (RsS92)

20 Nah, that nice man Joe is just protecting his beloved son from the evil revenge of Hitler Trump.

Like he protected little girls from water in the shower.

Posted by: Stateless at December 03, 2024 03:41 PM (jvJvP)

21 Latrine Jean-Pissoir now admits that that the DOJ is politicized -- against the Bidens only.

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After Biden was told he was not allowed to run for POTUS and he was being gotten rid of even though he had already gotten primary votes (and Harris didn't get a single one), I can sort of see him thinking this.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:41 PM (NXhou)

22 Now that’s a long post.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

The Paolo, how you say, says "Thank you."

Posted by: The Paolo at December 03, 2024 03:41 PM (WXNFJ)

23 I'm sure our weak sisters in the republican party will hold them all accountable.

Posted by: Bob Bender at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (/U5Yz)

24 Who honestly believes the Demoncrats are the party of the law?

Well, nobody, but it gave Democrats a nice warm feeling thinking they were the party that cared about law regardless of position or power.

Instead now they understand that the Democrats stand for empowering elites and ignoring the common man.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (RsS92)

25 Democrats believe rules are for fools and deplorables.

Posted by: Scarymary at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (sPtu7)

26 Dems deleted this but the Internet is forever:

https://tinyurl.com/mt2mcets

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (CflQn)

27 SE Cupp's mouth has always been filled with that thing she was promised you would not do.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (vGiQ3)

28 We often say that part of Trump's value is the dropping of the masks.

Trump accepted the debate with Biden and fully exposed the lies of not just Biden and his administration but all of the lying liars who covered up for him.

I know Lefties who were dumbfounded by it - that were actually hurt that they had been lied to for so long.

It becamse undeniable, and all they had was denial.

Everything since has just been a pile on.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (xhfG9)

29 On CNN, meanwhile, political commentator S.E. Cupp lauded Biden's "restraint."

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Oh man, I'd forgotten about her. How badly did the wall get her? Because it was fast approaching about 10 years ago.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:43 PM (NXhou)

30 Like he protected little girls from water in the shower

It was very compassionate of him to carefully check the girls for dirty hair by sniffing it, and tweaking that little asian girl's nipple to see if she was wearing a bra or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:43 PM (RsS92)

31 Democrats are The Law the same way Anthony Fauci is The Science.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:43 PM (vGiQ3)

32 Whoopie Goldberg forbade a fellow View panelist from saying Biden "lied" about the pardon, insisting he had told the truth when he repeatedly vowed that he held the justice system sacred and would never pardon Hunter. He just changed his mind, Whoopie insisted.

I didn't lie about what I'd do in your mouth, I just changed my mind.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 03:43 PM (gKWVE)

33 Joe & Mika say the liberal outrage for this pardon is way over blown.

In other news, MSNBC has rolled out its new "Friends & Family" viewership plan to advertisers for the 25-54 demographic.

Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 03:43 PM (G0vdT)

34 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 21m
JUST IN: Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D) denounces President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden - Nevada Indy

“I respect President Joe Biden, but I disagree with the pardon. I don’t think pardons should be used for political favors or family members of the president.”

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (hovnC)

35 [LEIGH MCGOWAN, SOCIAL MEDIA HOST AND CONTENT CREATOR, POLITICSGIRL] No. I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads, who’s talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who his enemy is going to be punished.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

36 This fat nobody continues humiliating herself for her CNN paycheck.

Is Cupp fat? I thought it was just the glasses.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (aD39U)

37 OK, legal types... has the limits of immunity ever been adjudicated by the Supremes?

Seems this is a blanket immunity for a 10 year period, not a pardon... on the surface those are very different things.... but the Supremes are known for changing the base meanings of specific words to get a result they want.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 03:45 PM (QAkQ3)

38 >>Now that’s a long post.

The longer the Thread, the more satisfying it is to not read.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:45 PM (vGiQ3)

39 "they can't imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word"

I laughed so hard I almost choked.
Biden? No; I can't imagine that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 03:45 PM (/riCx)

40 The longer the Thread, the more satisfying it is to not read.
Posted by: garrett

More bang for the buck, I sez.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 03:45 PM (IG4Id)

41 35 [LEIGH MCGOWAN, SOCIAL MEDIA HOST AND CONTENT CREATOR, POLITICSGIRL] No. I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads, who’s talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who his enemy is going to be punished.
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

Ashli Babbit could not be reached for comment...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (QAkQ3)

42 They don't pay you big money to tell the truth.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (jFCkp)

43 Read the whole content and only 7 comments. Wonder where this lands?

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (jgdZo)

44 27 SE Cupp's mouth has always been filled with that thing she was promised you would not do.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (vGiQ3)

SE Cupp… Ho-Ho-Ho???

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

45 Come for me on @cnn
nailing Biden & his WH staff for lying, stay for me finding the apparent bipartisan consensus that Joe Biden’s DoJ is corrupt & engages in selective prosecutions for political reasons. (I’m a uniter, not a divider).

Scott Jennings is the Christian thrown to the lions on CNN, and every time, he delivers an ass-whupping to the lions. CNN needs better lions.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (xCA6C)

46
Howdy, howdy, howdy, all you raw doggers of our precious air!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (eodUi)

47 Yes, Joe only discovered the "persecution" of his partner in crime after he knew the Democrats were going to lose the Executive. He had full faith in Justice before the election, but, magically, that all changed on 11/6.

What are the odds?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 03:46 PM (aXxgO)

48 >>OK, legal types... has the limits of immunity ever been adjudicated by the Supremes?

Yes. The limit to Immunity is the Office through which it was awarded.

So, a Fed District may offer you immunity...but another may opt to ignore that.

Executive Immunity is basically unlimited.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (vGiQ3)

49 According to the Babylon Bee Patel and Ramaswamy will celebrate the inauguration with a Bollywood dance number.
I laughed out loud. Laughing feels good.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (kTd/k)

50 Now that’s a long post.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

an 8 incher!

Posted by: Female Engineer at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (Aqu9a)

51 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (aD39U)

52 Is Cupp fat? I thought it was just the glasses.

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An image search of S.E. Cupp 2024 makes her look like she's transitioning.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (NXhou)

53 The hunter biden pardon gives Trump the legal and moral authority to pardon anyone he wants to. The left no longer has standing to question any pardons that Trump issues after defending biden's pardon of his crack head son after he said repeatedly that no one is above the law.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (Rcnd3)

54 It becamse undeniable, and all they had was denial.

Everything since has just been a pile on.
Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 03:42 PM (xhfG9)

Worse, it shows they are absolutely OK with the Politicization of the Justice system...

Masks ripped off.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (QAkQ3)

55 John Harwood owned the chuds on that day.

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (fV+MH)

56 Scott Jennings is the Christian thrown to the lions on CNN, and every time, he delivers an ass-whupping to the lions. CNN needs better lions.

I love how he showed them that CNN its self did a report on how Twitter is more ideologically balanced now than it used to be. Its like an adult with a bunch of middle school kids

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (RsS92)

57 My thoughts.
- I am a bit confused why this is such a big story. It was expected, no?

- I think the big news is that Trump must have refused a request Biden must have made. I suspect Biden offered some quid pro quo, and Trump told him to pound salt.

- I really hate the appeals to family compassion - "as a father, I can relate and understand the pardon." bullshit. As a father, I would have wanted the kid in prison where he could not destroy himself on the hope that he would reform.

- Why all the talk about the pardon with nary a mention that this does not preclude an investigation--in fact, the pardon demands and investigation so the public can understand what he was pardoned for!

-That last point goes back to the first. With a blanket pardon, there is *more* incentive to investigate and catalog all the crimes. If he had just pardoned the crimes being prosecuted, or even made a deal for a trivial sentence it would have been better for him assuming Trump didn't set the dogs on him in Jan. I imagine Biden and Trump understood this, so I have to ask why is the press not screaming for an investigation?

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (MYl6U)

58 Executive Immunity is basically unlimited.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (vGiQ3)

Can you give it away at Tribal Council?

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (jgdZo)

59 Do the Dems really think George Clooney would have been a better Candidate than Kammie?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (jFCkp)

60 It's been said already, but *biden was clearing himself every bit as much as he was issuing a pardon to Hunter.

And, word is that there are a host of others in the administration what will be granted these "blanket pardons" for various periods of time.

If true, it doesn't mean that they can't be on the receiving end of weekly, 3AM no knock raids. Just because. Call them "training" raids. Whatever...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (Q4IgG)

61 If that is the SE Cupp clip I assume it is...she could not be wearing a shorter skirt.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (vGiQ3)

62 49 According to the Babylon Bee Patel and Ramaswamy will celebrate the inauguration with a Bollywood dance number.
I laughed out loud. Laughing feels good.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (kTd/k)

Will it have scarfs?? Because it has to have scarfs… yuge luxurious scarfs flowing to the sound of drums and sitars..

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (PCK5/)

63 58 Executive Immunity is basically unlimited.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (vGiQ3)

Can you give it away at Tribal Council?
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:48 PM (jgdZo)

========

Survivor is the Big Brother of Bachelorettes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

64 Let's be honest, "he didn't lie, he changed his mind!!" is completely on brand for the same people who insisted that there was no inflation, ok there is but it isn't significant, oh oopsie, inflation means a ROARING ECONOMY!

These are the same people insisting nobody wants children on puberty blockers. They are so idiotic and irrelevant that mocking them has become boring.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (i7Q7S)

65 I respect President Joe Biden, but I disagree with the pardon.

Because he now has complete immunity from his testimony and can only serve time if he chooses not to testify!

Posted by: D's at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (AGNk7)

66 "An image search of S.E. Cupp 2024 makes her look like she's transitioning.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie"

She always had that jaw. But I would (have).

That leg chair was something else.

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (fV+MH)

67 According to the Babylon Bee Patel and Ramaswamy will celebrate the inauguration with a Bollywood dance number.
I laughed out loud. Laughing feels good.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (kTd/k)

Impressive!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (Aqu9a)

68 "Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours," the enraged polling Nostradamus wrote.
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How long before Nate is rooting in the turds with the rest of the dung beetles? I give this whole mess a 0% chance of effecting any of the Dems. They've just sucked too much ass to notice a difference.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (1bNHn)

69 Will it have scarfs?? Because it has to have scarfs… yuge luxurious scarfs flowing to the sound of drums and sitars..
Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (PCK5

Absolutely. And elephants.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (kTd/k)

70 It's not a lie if you guys believed it.

Posted by: Joe Costanza at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (Av2Ad)

71 I hope Trump takes office and says "Now that he's been pardoned, here's what we know about Hunter so far. Also here's all the info on the Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bush family, etc. Also mine, because I'm the most investigated president in history and because of that I'm sure my fellow presidents won't mind. It's for the good of the country, after all."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (NXhou)

72 68 "Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours," the enraged polling Nostradamus wrote.
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How long before Nate is rooting in the turds with the rest of the dung beetles? I give this whole mess a 0% chance of effecting any of the Dems. They've just sucked too much ass to notice a difference.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 03, 2024 03:50 PM (1bNHn)

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Silver is a partisan and will continue to be a partisan.

We're just entering primary season real fast these days, the only time when it's acceptable to critique a Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

73 "Survivor is the Big Brother of Bachelorettes."

Mind. Blown.

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (fV+MH)

74 "Below, Scott Jennings says that NBC "News" is reporting that Biden's advisors always "kept open" the possibility of a post-election pardon even as Biden was sent out to publicly deny that anything like that was even possible."

Corrupt old politician Joe Biden was not going to say anything other than "No pardon" before the election. No matter which Democrat was running in his place. I'll bet that was part of the deal forced on him by Pelosi and Obama. Keep saying no pardon before the election, or else. Because doing this pardon before the election would have cost the Democrats votes nationwide, from POTUS on-down.

Posted by: Gref at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (aBgBM)

75 For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth.
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Followed it for what? Opposite Day?

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (3hycG)

76 Update on my approval:

'All managers are waiting on salary approvals, and I would like to have that in-hand as part of our discussion. We are supposed to have them very soon, so I had been optimistic I was going to have it for 1500 today.'

Merry Fucking Christmas.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (jFCkp)

77 Will it have scarfs?? Because it has to have scarfs… yuge luxurious scarfs flowing to the sound of drums and sitars..

They have to do the dance fight from RRR

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (RsS92)

78 "An image search of S.E. Cupp 2024 makes her look like she's transitioning.
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She always had that jaw. But I would (have).

That leg chair was something else.
Posted by: eleven

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I was looking more at the harsh, flat, uninspired pulled-back hair combined with the weird button-up shirts.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (NXhou)

79 DaH FBEyE aRe DuH gOoD gUyS, yOu 'ThUgLiCaN~!!

@amuse

From March 2022 to July 2023, Nicholas Anthony Williams, 37, of Houston, exploited his position to steal money and property from multiple residences of January 6th defendants while executing search warrants in his official capacity. According to the plea agreement, Williams stole nearly $10,000 in cash, several silver bars which he attempted to sell, and retained these stolen items for his personal use, using some of the money to purchase guns and related items. Additionally, Williams provided false statements about fraudulent charges on his government-issued credit card, falsely claiming they were case-related expenses, and even pawned legitimate FBI-purchased property for cash.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (IG4Id)

80 Why would anyone vacation in Nantucket this time of year?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (1bNHn)

81 I respect President Joe Biden, but I disagree with the pardon.
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BOLD

Posted by: ... at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (3hycG)

82 Cupp did address the pardon in a Monday morning X post, blaming the move on Trump.
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First, let me just say Cupp is a DC. And no, it's nothing to do with the District of Columbia.

In a Sunday statement, the octogenarian said he did so because Hunter Biden was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

Biden must have balls the size of coconuts to say that about Hunter. What about Trump??

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

83 71 I hope Trump takes office and says "Now that he's been pardoned, here's what we know about Hunter so far. Also here's all the info on the Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bush family, etc. Also mine, because I'm the most investigated president in history and because of that I'm sure my fellow presidents won't mind. It's for the good of the country, after all."
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (NXhou)

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Have the unredacted classified documents brought to the Oval Office and let the girl who types out his Tweets take pictures of them all with the text, "As President, I declassify this document," whenever Trump is in the room.

"This one, Mr. President."
"Yup."
"And this one?"
"Yup."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

84 Pudgy tub of goo, Colorado Governor Polis the Penis Lover, also came out against the pardon saying that Biden was putting family over country. He actually thinks that he has a chance in 2028 and this will fool the rubes. Either that or he got ahold of some primo Rocky Mountain Kush.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 03:53 PM (oiNtH)

85 Unfortunately, Biden's pardons are not recognized in the Kingdom of Hell.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 03, 2024 03:53 PM (wtvvX)

86 >>I hope Trump takes office and says "Now that he's been pardoned, here's what we know about Hunter so far. Also here's all the info on the Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bush family, etc. Also mine, because I'm the most investigated president in history and because of that I'm sure my fellow presidents won't mind. It's for the good of the country, after all."

Fireside Chat Style. Every week.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (vGiQ3)

87 David Harsanyi nails it
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In May, when the lawfare against Trump was heating up, Joe Biden claimed that no one is “above the law.” This is not true. James Clapper, who lied under oath to Congress about spying on the public, is above the law. FBI agents who abused their power and conspired against the duly elected president are above the law. Generals who make secret calls to our enemies to circumvent the president are above the law. John Brennan, who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop and a spying operation on Senate staffers, is above the law. Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder, unlike Trump appointees, was never going to be handcuffed or thrown into prison for ignoring a congressional subpoena. He is above the law. As were Black Lives Matter rioters whom Vice President Kamala Harris helped bail out of prison.

And the Biden family is definitely above the law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (aUXr0)

88 Jon Stewart - still not funny.

Posted by: wth at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

89 Diddy's world about to be turned upside down:

https://tinyurl.com/3e4p5m66

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (CflQn)

90 Survivor is the Big Brother of Bachelorettes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

Why ya gotta do me like that?

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (jgdZo)

91 Polis, Shapiro, Newsome, Whitmer…. names we will get sick of hearing about over the nexy 4 years…

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

92 90 Survivor is the Big Brother of Bachelorettes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

Why ya gotta do me like that?
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (jgdZo)

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Fans of reality TV must be punished at every opportunity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

93 Update on my approval:

'All managers are waiting on salary approvals, and I would like to have that in-hand as part of our discussion. We are supposed to have them very soon, so I had been optimistic I was going to have it for 1500 today.'

Merry Fucking Christmas.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (jFCkp)

Maybe you'll get a Jelly of the Month 1-year Membership!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (Aqu9a)

94 According to the Babylon Bee Patel and Ramaswamy will celebrate the inauguration with a Bollywood dance number.'

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+1 ! Hopefully to Chikni Chameli !

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (QTCRF)

95
The love of a President is very different from that of a square...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (y9nCu)

96 Scott Jennings: This drains every ounce of credibility from Biden's media surrogates.

Well, except for me, right?

Posted by: Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

97 The Aristocrats

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (QSrLX)

98 Maybe you'll get a Jelly of the Month 1-year Membership!
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Beats Biden dollars.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (jFCkp)

99 "I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

Oh, we understand all right. And you can be sure it isn't because the reason your lawyers wrote.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (aXxgO)

100 Mayorkas has done a lot more than lie to Congress, Millions of illegals and the problems that they've created are all due to his "deep convictions" (communist, no doubt). If Biden pardons treason, go after every last person involved. Take down HIAS, Catholic Charities, fuckhead employers, and sanctuary state/city officials. Destroy them. And go after the "pardoned" civilly and take every last penny they have. Drag their families to court as accomplices, ruin their friends. The democrats were willing to do this to us and we didn't fill the country with criminals.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (2NXcZ)

101 >>Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.

foreplay?

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (MYl6U)

102 I hope Trump takes office and says "Now that he's been pardoned, here's what we know about Hunter so far. Also here's all the info on the Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bush family, etc. Also mine, because I'm the most investigated president in history and because of that I'm sure my fellow presidents won't mind. It's for the good of the country, after all."

Absolutely, lay out the entire case. That was my advice before the pardon: Lay out the entire case with all the proof, with all the evidence to the public. Release everything you can from the laptop. THEN pardon them. See, they are totally guilty and absolutely jaibound, but I will show compassion on an old man.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (RsS92)

103 My son is a good boy. If they hadn't left all those laws laying around like raw meat, well, you know.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 03:56 PM (LHPAg)

104 Also, John Harwood tweeted in Feb 2024:
"Biden's mental acuity is fine"

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 03:57 PM (i7Q7S)

105 " Jon Stewart - still not funny.
Posted by: wth"

Does he still do the eyebrow thing? Cause that slays.

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 03:58 PM (fV+MH)

106 "If the President issues a pardon in a case in which he or his family are implicated, the American people need to know whether it is part of an attempt to obstruct justice."

- Adam Schiff

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 03:58 PM (i7Q7S)

107 [LEIGH MCGOWAN, SOCIAL MEDIA HOST AND CONTENT CREATOR, POLITICSGIRL] No. I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads, who’s talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who his enemy is going to be punished.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (RHGPo)
________________

Another DC heard from.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

108 Scott Jennings: This drains every ounce of credibility from Biden's media surrogates.

That would be like draining every ounce of water out of the Gobi desert.

Don't be looking to fill too many kiddie pools.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 03, 2024 03:58 PM (pA2OL)

109 Survivor is the Big Brother of Bachelorettes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

Why ya gotta do me like that?
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (jgdZo)

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Fans of reality TV must be punished at every opportunity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

Just because I know what they are doesn't mean I'm a fan.

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (jgdZo)

110 Someone in the Regime is working hard to get convictions in all these well publicized court case travesties:

https://tinyurl.com/2yxtftv8

There's a pattern here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (CflQn)

111 wth: "Jon Stewart - still not funny."

He should mug for the camera more. Extend the pregnant pauses. Maybe get a bigger clown nose.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (aXxgO)

112 109 Just because I know what they are doesn't mean I'm a fan.
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (jgdZo)

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That's just what an undercover fan would say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

113 >>bsolutely, lay out the entire case. That was my advice before the pardon: Lay out the entire case with all the proof, with all the evidence to the public. Release everything you can from the laptop. THEN pardon them. See, they are totally guilty and absolutely jaibound, but I will show compassion on an old man.

Also. Remind the entire country that a Pardon is not absolution of Guilt, but rather a suspension of penalties for the crimes you admit to being Guilty of.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (vGiQ3)

114 BREAKING: Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.
LibsOfTikTok > Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (CflQn)

There was a rumor Suge Knight did that to Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice claims that it didn't happen although Suge did shake him down for cash (which he paid).
Diiinsdaaaale?

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (gKWVE)

115 Release everything you can from the laptop.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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The laptop has been investigated and written up in a book available on the web. It catalogs everything.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (MYl6U)

116 Hunter is really a good lad who fell in with the wrong crowd. His father, for instance.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (kTd/k)

117 Dang... it looks like the Supremes have decided in multiple cases that the Pardon power, which would seem to this layman to mean you don't have to do this punishment... encompasses both Amnesty, and Immunity.

So essentially Biden can 'Pardon' the entire US Government, for anything they did, during his entire administration?

Like Nixon did the Draft dodgers (to effect large unnamed groups) and under this precedent, Units of time?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (QAkQ3)

118 Another DC heard from.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

OK, what's a "DC" in this context?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)

119 >>Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.

Holding her like a bowling ball?

I'll see myself out.

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (jgdZo)

120 "we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads"

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Note how they just keep repeating these absurd lies.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (i7Q7S)

121 S. E. Cupp at her best:

https://tinyurl.com/35uawdd7

Posted by: wth at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

122 Typical libs doing everything they accuse us of doing

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (IyPmt)

123 For argument's sake let's just agree with S.E. Cupp that Biden pardoned his son in fear of what Trump may do. Can we assume that at the end of his term Trump will be justified in pardoning every member of his family and administration to make sure they cannot be prosecuted later? And can we assume that S.E. will approve?

Posted by: Decaf at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (unUNN)

124 BREAKING: Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.
LibsOfTikTok > Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (CflQn)

Did he hold her like a bowling ball?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (kTd/k)

125 OK, what's a "DC" in this context?
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)

I'm thinking it rhymes with numb stunt

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (jgdZo)

126 OK, what's a "DC" in this context?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)
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Take a guess!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

127 Of course I support the pardon of my son.

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at December 03, 2024 04:02 PM (a3Q+t)

128 123 For argument's sake let's just agree with S.E. Cupp that Biden pardoned his son in fear of what Trump may do. Can we assume that at the end of his term Trump will be justified in pardoning every member of his family and administration to make sure they cannot be prosecuted later? And can we assume that S.E. will approve?
Posted by: Decaf at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (unUNN)

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No, because no matter who the next Democrat president is, they are rule-bound and dedicated to law and order and would never abuse power, which Trump does prima facie without argument.

That's just the way things are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

129 BREAKING: Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.
LibsOfTikTok > Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (CflQn)

My apologies Doof.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 04:02 PM (kTd/k)

130 52 Is Cupp fat? I thought it was just the glasses.
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An image search of S.E. Cupp 2024 makes her look like she's transitioning.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020

Glenn Beck wrecked her with his wife's dick.

Posted by: Bob Bender at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (/U5Yz)

131 Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis? No, seriously, whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?

@ChuckCallesto
·
2h
BREAKING NOW: Georgia judge ORDERS Fani Willis to make public ALL COMMUNICATIONS she had with Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee regarding the RICO case against President Trump.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (IG4Id)

132 124 BREAKING: Diddy is now being accused of s*xual battery in a new lawsuit by a woman who claims that he dangled her from a 17-story balcony.
LibsOfTikTok > Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 03:54 PM (CflQn)

Did he hold her like a bowling ball?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 04:01 PM (kTd/k)

Right where she was split!

Posted by: P. DIDDY at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (wtvvX)

133 Hmmm... OK, so Hunter is off the hook, BUT, if subpoenaed would still have to testify under oath and because he cannot be prosecuted, can't hide behind the 5th Amendment...

Time to go after the big guy and his 10%.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (QAkQ3)

134 I'm thinking it rhymes with numb stunt
Posted by: Doof

Ah, got it. Thanks, DJ Doof.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (v6JzV)

135 A big factor in this pardon is how visible it is. A lot of things in DC is inside baseball stuff, and LIV’s never hear about it. But every single person in the country will hear about this, and will know instantly how dirty it is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (W6hoT)

136 My apologies Doof.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 03, 2024 04:02 PM (kTd/k)

None needed. Fistbump to ya for the horde-mind!

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:04 PM (jgdZo)

137 Absolutely, lay out the entire case. That was my advice before the pardon: Lay out the entire case with all the proof, with all the evidence to the public. Release everything you can from the laptop. THEN pardon them. See, they are totally guilty and absolutely jaibound, but I will show compassion on an old man.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

100% agree. Not just the Bidens but Clintons, Obama, Bush, etc. Lay it all out. Let them sputter and rage all they want but leave them humiliated and what is left of their reputations in ruins.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:04 PM (oiNtH)

138 "Is it safe?"

https://tinyurl.com/5adymf29

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2024 04:04 PM (CflQn)

139 Just because I know what they are doesn't mean I'm a fan.
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 03:59 PM (jgdZo)

That kind of rhymes with "I respect Joe Biden but disapprove of the pardon."

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 04:04 PM (xhfG9)

140 we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing

It's a stupid lie and the woman saying lots even stupider wearing a pony tail bobbing around like a 14, year old.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:05 PM (TcMyL)

141 NBCNews:
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8cmy7x

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 03, 2024 04:05 PM (UWRAE)

142 135 A big factor in this pardon is how visible it is. A lot of things in DC is inside baseball stuff, and LIV’s never hear about it. But every single person in the country will hear about this, and will know instantly how dirty it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (W6hoT)

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I do think this breaks the DC bubble, but you may be overstating it.

It will gain purchase outside of political news junkies, but it's also about a lame duck president leaving in less than 50 days while the people who burned their credibility only ever had credibility with fellow partisans who will forget all about this news item in a week because partisanship dictates that they were right even when they were wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

143 I'm thinking it rhymes with numb stunt
Posted by: Doof

Ah, got it. Thanks, DJ Doof.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (v6JzV)

You're welcome.

I'm accumulating a lot of nicknames lately.
Disco Doof.
DJ Doof.
100 Proof Doof.

There are probably others that I don't want to know about.

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (jgdZo)

144 He didn't pardon his son, he pardoned his co-conspiritor.

Posted by: Say it right at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (EY4oe)

145 135 A big factor in this pardon is how visible it is. A lot of things in DC is inside baseball stuff, and LIV’s never hear about it. But every single person in the country will hear about this, and will know instantly how dirty it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM (W6hoT)

I think that and the fact that it not only pardoned things he was convicted of but any crime he committed in the last ten years. ANYTHING!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (OA79/)

146 Like Nixon did the Draft dodgers (to effect large unnamed groups) and under this precedent, Units of time?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (QAkQ3)
Ahem...
- J Carter

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (LHPAg)

147 Leigh McGowan is Canadian. There is so much political support for Biden in Ontario!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (aUXr0)

148 143 There are probably others that I don't want to know about.
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (jgdZo)

========

Bachelorette Superfan Doof.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

149 141 NBCNews:
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

So it wasn't a "lie" lie... Riiiiight

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (IyPmt)

150 I'm accumulating a lot of nicknames lately.
Disco Doof.
DJ Doof.
100 Proof Doof.

There are probably others that I don't want to know about.
Posted by: Doof

Don't forget "Food."

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (v6JzV)

151 146 Like Nixon did the Draft dodgers (to effect large unnamed groups) and under this precedent, Units of time?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:00 PM (QAkQ3)
Ahem...
- J Carter
Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2024 04:06 PM (LHPAg)

Point still stands...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (QAkQ3)

152 Hunter has contempt for everything and everybody. Stiffing his landlord for $300,000 rent is just another way of spitting in the face of someone unlucky enough to be in his orbit. I would say he hates his dad the most (with good cause) and that is why he continues down this road of very public, very outrageous behavior. Snorting coke on the White House balcony for the world to see is just another example.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (mzoqX)

153 Hunter would never have been prosecuted if Joe wasn't President. We own Joe an apology for giving up on him. Once again, voters not turning out to support a Democrat for President have given us Trump. It's a damned shame!

I'm sure he would have liked to honor his initial commitment to not pardon, but the selection of Kash Patel was the last straw. With an evil person like that, Biden had no choice.

Rethugs were planning, and may still be planning, to reopen the whole Burisma thing. I personally think they want to nail Hunter for Treason and that they would subpoena Joe to testify before Congress to defend any involvement they insist he had.

Congress will subpoena Hunter Biden to hearings, and he no longer has criminal liability so he cannot (legally) refuse to answer. If he refuses he will be held in contempt of congress and AG Bondi will prosecute. Any objection to a contempt of congress prosecution by Democrats will be blunted as President Biden's DOJ prosecuted Bannon for the same thing.

Biden really did screw up in pardoning Hunter. He should have done it the moment the verdict was handed down instead.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 03, 2024 04:08 PM (JCZqz)

154 NBCNews:
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

Oh. Okay then, all good.

This is precisely how I figured. He decided to say no until after the election even though he always intended to.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 04:08 PM (xhfG9)

155 See in Whoopie Goldberg's world Biden didn't lie lie, he lied then changed his mind:
there's lie-lie
and there's lie-change your mind

To a democrat mind there's nothing wrong with that logic.

Posted by: Ciampino - weird weird at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (i0xsb)

156 "@$(*&!!! Now what am I going to do with this stupid piece of crap painting I bought for 2 million???"
--idiot who bought a Hunter Biden painting

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (RsS92)

157 Bachelorette Superfan Doof.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

Asshole status - confirmed

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (jgdZo)

158 Rethugs were planning, and may still be planning, to reopen the whole Burisma thing.

oh how dare they

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

159 153 Hunter would never have been prosecuted if Joe wasn't President. We own Joe an apology for giving up on him. Once again, voters not turning out to support a Democrat for President have given us Trump. It's a damned shame!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS

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True, but not how they intend.

Hunter's corruption was intimately tied to Joe's political career. Without Joe's political career, Hunter's corruption wouldn't have existed at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

160 'All managers are waiting on salary….I was going to have it for 1500 today.'

Merry Fucking Christmas.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Let me help you - managers were given a budget and told they had to differentiate between employees. If you rated an employee average, you cannot give that employee the same 2.5% as your super star. 10 managers did this. 5 managers did not, blew their budget because everyone in their group is a rockstar (they aren’t) and expected the money to be found. This was kicked back and the managers were told you fix it, or I will. Their managers are looking at it, moving things around, submitting then saying “just kidding! I forgot about this situation from last January, will you undo it and send it back?” Then the entire roll up goes to the headest of honchos who sits with their HR Buddy and wonders why he is paying them so much when they can’t do math. Neither the bonus roll up nor the merit roll up is within parameters. More phone calls, usually saying you can’t take from this bucket for that bucket, but if you feel strongly, I will request an exception and take it from your bonus, fix it or we will, wash rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (pZEOD)

161 This, and the coming mass pardon of likely hundreds of leftist scum, is no problem at all for the half of American voters who "voted" for Harris.

To them, lying on their side, their elected officials, their bureaucrats, everyone in the media lying also, hey, it's all just allowed in the by-any-means-necessary flow of using power. Total nothingburger.

In fact, they celebrate it all, this pardoning of anything and everything, as a key part of resistance to everything Trump. It prevents him from achieving retaliatory justice.

The needle is unmoved and will remain so.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (KiBMU)

162 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 03, 2024 04:08 PM (JCZqz)

Oh boy.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (IyPmt)

163 Ace, the NBC News article mentions Biden thinking about pardoning Hunter here:

"it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table."

https://tinyurl.com/4cy9xkhk

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)

164 153 Rethugs were planning, and may still be planning, to reopen the whole Burisma thing. I personally think they want to nail Hunter for Treason and that they would subpoena Joe to testify before Congress to defend any involvement they insist he had.

Congress will subpoena Hunter Biden to hearings, and he no longer has criminal liability so he cannot (legally) refuse to answer. If he refuses he will be held in contempt of congress and AG Bondi will prosecute. Any objection to a contempt of congress prosecution by Democrats will be blunted as President Biden's DOJ prosecuted Bannon for the same thing.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 03, 2024 04:08 PM (JCZqz)

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These two are surprisingly lucid.

Gonna get banned soon, I bet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

165
SE Cupp

Kat Timpf

Katie Tur

Krystal Ball

What is it with leftist female journalists and stripper names? The guys there must be bitching about how they keep finding glitter all over the set

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 03, 2024 04:10 PM (y9nCu)

166 "@$(*&!!! Now what am I going to do with this stupid piece of crap painting I bought for 2 million???"
--idiot who bought a Hunter Biden painting
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

If it's the one done in his feces, flush it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:10 PM (v6JzV)

167 157 Bachelorette Superfan Doof.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

Asshole status - confirmed
Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (jgdZo)

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Wait...it was unconfirmed?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

168 152 Hunter has contempt for everything and everybody. Stiffing his landlord for $300,000 rent is just another way of spitting in the face of someone unlucky enough to be in his orbit. I would say he hates his dad the most (with good cause) and that is why he continues down this road of very public, very outrageous behavior. Snorting coke on the White House balcony for the world to see is just another example.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (mzoqX)

I think this a wrong read. He does all this because he can, and its to rub everyone else's nose in it.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 04:11 PM (xhfG9)

169 When did the US government start censoring the internet?

2014, the same year that Hunter started working for Burisma, Obama/Biden ran a coup in Ukraine and the date where Hunter's pardon begins.

Coincidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (LkLld)

170 Rethugs were planning, and may still be planning, to reopen the whole Burisma thing.

oh how dare they
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (Pv3Rg)
====================
Yes, why would Rethugs be concerned with an $11 million aggregate payment to the Biden Crime Family from Ukraine? Crazy to worry about that!!

PS. Biden sent them $750 million yesterday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (aUXr0)

171 There are probably others that I don't want to know about.
Posted by: Doof
......

You can always revert to the more formal "Dufus".

Posted by: wth at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

172 Piper, I sure wish you were in charge of HR where I worked - like, in any place I ever worked. All we get are DEI drones who think they're princesses.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (gKWVE)

173 If karma is real, this pardon will significantly reduce the amount of money Leftist publishers will offer Joe for his ghost-written Presidential memoir. The potential amount had already been reduced due to Joe's debate performance and his dropping out of the POTUS race. Hopefully the pardon will end-up hitting cheap bast@rd penny-pinching Joe and his low-class wife, hard, where it will really hurt. Joe's wallet.

A Decrepit Joe POTUS memoir, if ever published, would still set records. Fewest real sales of the memoir of any modern POTUS. And more lies per 100 words than any book ever written.

Posted by: Gref at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (aBgBM)

174 Wait.

Just wait.

Hunter's rent in *Venice* was $25K a month??? In Venice, generally conceded to be the *low-rent* district of the LA area???? What kind of place was this -- one with a pool and a hooker in every room, and with a hot live-in maidservant?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (J2vNu)

175 See, primary threats do work!

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) says Kash Patel is likely to be confirmed as FBI director - CBS

"I like Kash's chances of getting confirmed."

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (i7Q7S)

176 BREAKING NOW: Georgia judge ORDERS Fani Willis to make public ALL COMMUNICATIONS she had with Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee regarding the RICO case against President Trump.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 04:03 PM

Now why would they order that when she has claimed under oath in court that she did not communicate with anyone in DC about this case?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (Rcnd3)

177 Daily Mail's reporting on the pardon says that Jill influenced Joe to pardon Hunter as she was Hunter's fiercest protector. I say bullshit. She is protecting her husband which in turn protects her image. If her husband's "legacy" is further tarnished and criminalized by having their dirty deeds exposed, her own image goes down with them. Remember who wants to be called Dr. Biden and really enjoys being photographed on AF1 at a desk looking busy and Presidential.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (oiNtH)

178 175 See, primary threats do work!

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) says Kash Patel is likely to be confirmed as FBI director - CBS

"I like Kash's chances of getting confirmed."
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (i7Q7S)

========

That poll (spit) showing Lara Trump beating Tillis by about 40 points in a primary was probably pretty illuminating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

179 Paid Democrat Twinkfluencer Harry Sisson has never been prouder of A Father's Love
---

Show us on the doll where Grandpa Biden touched you.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (+oR7L)

180 >>Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (LkLld)

Heh - I am running the Mike Benz episode of Joe Rogan in another window. He said that right as I read your post.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (vGiQ3)

181 177 Daily Mail's reporting on the pardon says that Jill influenced Joe to pardon Hunter as she was Hunter's fiercest protector. I say bullshit. She is protecting her husband which in turn protects her image. If her husband's "legacy" is further tarnished and criminalized by having their dirty deeds exposed, her own image goes down with them. Remember who wants to be called Dr. Biden and really enjoys being photographed on AF1 at a desk looking busy and Presidential.
Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (oiNtH)

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The quote I saw from that report (I think it was that report) called Hunter Jill's son.

He's not, of course. I'm sure all the other reporting was true, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

182 In Venice, generally conceded to be the *low-rent* district of the LA area???? What kind of place was this -- one with a pool and a hooker in every room, and with a hot live-in maidservant?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Heh, no. Venice is very expensive. A 1800sqf bungalow famously sold for 1mill in 2010 that was right next to a former crackden.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (IG4Id)

183 "Hunter has contempt for everything and everybody. Stiffing his landlord for $300,000 rent is just another way of spitting in the face of someone unlucky enough to be in his orbit. "

How can you even owe that much rent? What does a super luxury rental cost. Maybe $20,000 month? He didn't pay rent for more than a year?

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (GUOwU)

184 Hunter's free for now.... But there's just one more thing.

Posted by: Lieutenant Colombo, LA PD at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (2e+pG)

185 You can always revert to the more formal "Dufus".
Posted by: wth

Or the German Düph.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (v6JzV)

186 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

187 This pardon is wonderful news for our side.

We always knew that Hunter was going to be pardoned, but the specificity of the timeframe of the pardon now calls into question 'what exactly were the Bidens doing between 2014 and 2024?'. Why did the pardon extend to activities that may have happened last week?

Joe just gave us breadcrumbs that we will have to follow. If there is any roadblock to Kash Patel heading up the FBI now, we can throw this back in their faces. We may not be able to prosecute Hunter or the Bidens anymore (you know James is getting pardoned too), but we can expose the 'Culture of Corruption' that the Dems engaged in for the last ten years. Between this and what happened to the $2 billion Kamala spent and the money laundering actions of Act Blue, the Dems will have a very uncomfortable two years of hearings. If the RINOs are smart, they will get right with Trump now or be exposed as well.

Looking at you, McConnell.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (aH121)

188 In defense of joe biden, this is the.first thing that said not plagiarize somebody else's words

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (8XibL)

189 Not only is the entire democrat party not about "the rule of law" but they are not really for "democracy" or self rule either.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (17s+e)

190 186 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

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Trying to figure if Penny has black blood in him? 1 drop rule is back, I've heard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

191 How can a guy named Henry Sisson be a twink?

I mean really?

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (fV+MH)

192 Now why would they order that when she has claimed under oath in court that she did not communicate with anyone in DC about this case?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Didn't Sweetdick who worked for her go to the WH for meetings of some sort?? I think she may have as well? Maybe they just went on a tour of Lincoln's bedroom and the Rose Garden.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (oiNtH)

193 >>> "There is no disputing that Trump has said his enemies list includes Hunter ...

"Trump said" ?
I dispute Trump ever he has an "enemies list" much less he ever said his "enemies list includes Hunter".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (OCycp)

194 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
Posted by: tankdemon

Might be a good sign, no?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (v6JzV)

195 183 "Hunter has contempt for everything and everybody. Stiffing his landlord for $300,000 rent is just another way of spitting in the face of someone unlucky enough to be in his orbit. "

How can you even owe that much rent? What does a super luxury rental cost. Maybe $20,000 month? He didn't pay rent for more than a year?
Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (GUOwU)

Forgive the debt, send hunter a 1099 with a copy to trumps irs. Let him get taxed on his 300k income. Bet the irs won't accept a painting in pmt.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (OA79/)

196 >>Heh - I am running the Mike Benz episode of Joe Rogan in another window. He said that right as I read your post.

I can't wait to watch that. Benz is an incredible font of knowledge of the deep state moves.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (LkLld)

197 146
Yes Carter pardoned the draft dodgers but for a named crime. I think a blanket pardon requires specifying the underlying crimes. I really think we need that Truth & Reconciliation Committee.

Posted by: Ciampino - what is truth? at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (i0xsb)

198 Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:13 PM (oiNtH)

Yeah, Hunter aint her kid... so the only reasons for protecting him is to protect Joe, and thus her... or...

The Biden motto of 'the Family that F's each other, stays together' is in play.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (QAkQ3)

199 190 186 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

Should have only taken 5 minutes to find him not guilty

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (IyPmt)

200 Who writes X's Community Notes? How are they different from other fact-checkers?

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (XYJTg)

201 197 146
Yes Carter pardoned the draft dodgers but for a named crime. I think a blanket pardon requires specifying the underlying crimes. I really think we need that Truth & Reconciliation Committee.
Posted by: Ciampino - what is truth? at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (i0xsb)

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Ford's pardon of Nixon didn't list specific crimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

202 Why is anybody angry over this, hunny is going to commit more crimes in the future and go to the graybar then.

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (8XibL)

203 Nice. A reporter does a silly local news story on scene.

http://tiny.cc/btwyzz

Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (Odg76)

204 191 How can a guy named Henry Sisson be a twink?

I mean really?
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 04:16 PM (fV+MH)

Lord Peter Wimsey says I know, right??

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (PCK5/)

205 154 NBCNews:
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.
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That's really gonna be a stomach punch to the "he didn't lie, he changed his mind" crowd.

Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (G0vdT)

206 Silver is a partisan and will continue to be a partisan.

We're just entering primary season real fast these days, the only time when it's acceptable to critique a Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
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Silver is a hack. And a democrat one at that. His system is nothing but his feelz.

Anyone surprised by this action by FJB should automatically not be on your listen to ever again list. FJB was always going to do this, and anyone with half a brain knew he would do this.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (GZYu7)

207 Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2024 04:07 PM (mzoqX)
Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 04:11 PM (xhfG9)

The laptop has lots of emails. Hunter doesn't seem to be mad at his dad; he was big mad at his sister Hallie though, for keeping him away from Natalie.
Hunter does drugs because he's a druggie. Druggies don't make good decisions.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (gKWVE)

208 I wouldn't be surprised if Hunter dies before Joe. A whole lot of people don't like Hunter.

And to the Fibbies monitoring this site, I am not wishing or planning any harm to Hunter. Just Justice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (TcMyL)

209
I think this a wrong read. He does all this because he can, and its to rub everyone else's nose in it.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2024 04:11 PM (xhfG9)

++++++

Just because he can? No way. Most people would not act out in with this heinous behavior just because they could get away with it. Offering up shit on a canvas in lieu of rent, just because he can? That's not normal.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (mzoqX)

210 >>Who writes X's Community Notes? How are they different from other fact-checkers?

For one thing to tend to actually check facts.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (LkLld)

211 Oh Lt. Columbo, can we PLEASE hurry this up? I'm having tea with the Mayor's wife!

Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (fV+MH)

212 That's really gonna be a stomach punch to the "he didn't lie, he changed his mind" crowd.
Posted by: WisRich at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (G0vdT)

Is the View going to make Caryn Johnson read another legal note? Those are the most entertaining part of the show.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (gKWVE)

213 141 NBCNews:
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8cmy7x

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 03, 2024 04:05 PM (UWRAE)

Well, well, well. The press is finally doing some 'reporting' now. I think they realize that they need to get waaay ahead of what's coming for them once Trump investigates all this stuff. The next target is the presstitutes who covered for Biden and the Dems all these years. Patel said that himself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (aH121)

214 They took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Instead many at least collected a paycheck until they could draw a pension while spending maximum time on moonlighting, side jobs, watching porn at work, day trading and arranging political networks, betraying public trust and maybe even evading taxes with bogus medical claims as the retirement date loomed.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (QSrLX)

215 Anyone surprised by this action by FJB should automatically not be on your listen to ever again list. FJB was always going to do this, and anyone with half a brain knew he would do this.

I believe if Harris had won, or "won" then he would not have bothered with a pardon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (RsS92)

216 184 Hunter's free for now.... But there's just one more thing.

Posted by: Lieutenant Colombo, LA PD at December 03, 2024 04:14 PM (2e+pG)

There are two more things, Lieutenant. Hunter loses his Secret Service protection/chauffeur/crime scene clean-up service in 48 days. He also loses most or all of his gravy train before that, if he hasn't already.

Posted by: Gref at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (aBgBM)

217 I think this a wrong read. He does all this because he can, and its to rub everyone else's nose in it.

Posted by: b

No

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:19 PM (8XibL)

218 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (TcMyL)

Fen, do you know what the political leanings of your congregation are? I'd be interested in knowing that, if you don't mind sharing.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

219 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
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They are all trying to put their homes on the market, and change jobs before the verdict.

Posted by: And that's the best case scenario at December 03, 2024 04:20 PM (EY4oe)

220 Hunter has contempt for everything and everybody. Stiffing his landlord for $300,000 rent is just another way of spitting in the face of someone unlucky enough to be in his orbit.
_________________

Who would be stupid enough to rent to Hunter Biden? Unless, of course, the landlord viewed this as an investment to gain influence.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:20 PM (YqDXo)

221 23 skidoo! is not just a warm spot in my underpants. Hunter may be full of malarkey but he's my malarkey so why don't you go for a short walk on a long pier there Fat!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Redskins Fan at December 03, 2024 04:20 PM (Y5VD5)

222 There are two more things, Lieutenant. Hunter loses his Secret Service protection/chauffeur/crime scene clean-up service in 48 days. He also loses most or all of his gravy train before that, if he hasn't already.
==
Gonna get Epsteined....

Posted by: And that's the best case scenario at December 03, 2024 04:21 PM (EY4oe)

223 Democrats are screeching at Pam Bondi about J6 prosecutions.

These people are so sad.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 03, 2024 04:21 PM (i7Q7S)

224 > Hunter's rent in *Venice* was $25K a month??? In Venice, generally conceded to be the *low-rent* district of the LA area???? What kind of place was this -- one with a pool and a hooker in every room, and with a hot live-in maidservant?

This DailyMail article says the property is worth $4.25 million.

http://tiny.cc/4uwyzz

Here's a Zillow listing of the property.

http://tiny.cc/duwyzz

Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024 04:21 PM (Odg76)

225 Thom Tillis needs to show up in the Senate wearing a big leather spiked collar, and a jacket reading "PROPERTY OF DONALD JOHN TRUMP" emblazoned in gold, from now on.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (gKWVE)

226 They will eat shit today for covering for Biden for years and then go right back to covering for the Democrats tomorrow.

Posted by: Drew in MO at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (0QPY6)

227 "The Hunter Biden Pardon Has Stripped Bare the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law""

Ace, did you see Chuck Todd speaking with Cilizza yesterday? He's outraged over the pardon, and he now says that Biden should never have run for POTUS. Hunter got Hallie addicted to crack, and Joe should have been taking care of his family, not running for office. Again, this is F CHUCK TODD saying this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (aH121)

228 He didn't pardon his son, he pardoned his co-conspirator.
Posted by: Say it right

And you know, if he was "pardoned", then if called to testify, he cannot claim the 5th Amendment excuse of being forced to incriminate himself.
Hunter may indeed be a man marked to have an "accident" and be pushed out of the way.
Joe and Jim Biden are in it up to their necks.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (vcOmj)

229 224 It has bohemian chic.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (XYJTg)

230 I admit I don’t know a thing about Pam Bondi… someone fill me in??

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (PCK5/)

231 Shawn Maguire, the landlord in question, is a partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the premier VCs in Silicon Valley, and until recently Maguire was a big Democrat donor.

He flipped to Trump this election.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (LkLld)

232 It is interesting that everybody , dem and rep, are saying the knew biden would do this because who would not pardon a son or daughter.

Somebody who had sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution that does not have an exception for retard crackhead children?

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (8XibL)

233 Justice will happen after all these Bidens shuffle off the mortal coil. Jesus may have a thing or two to say about their pious Catholic faith and how they lived it out in the world. I suspect Jesus' mom is a bit irked, and I know his Dad is not pleased.

But hope springs eternal. Perhaps they will all repent and do penance and find their way back into grace. Doubtful, but with God all things are possible. Easier perhaps for God to forgive than the rest of us.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (yKhjs)

234 >> I don’t know a thing about Pam Bondi

I know she would be the first AG I would want sitting on my face.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (vGiQ3)

235 227 Ace, did you see Chuck Todd speaking with Cilizza yesterday? He's outraged over the pardon, and he now says that Biden should never have run for POTUS. Hunter got Hallie addicted to crack, and Joe should have been taking care of his family, not running for office. Again, this is F CHUCK TODD saying this.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (aH121)

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The correct read is that Todd is more loyal to a faction within the Democrat Party that is currently anti-Biden, blaming Biden for the loss, than he is to any pro-Biden faction within the party.

The only thing to watch now is how wide and deep the brewing conflict between factions goes over the next year and a half (through the next primary season).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

236 Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV

I don't ask them, but from what the majority has shared with me about their views on various things, I would guess they are mostly Republicans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:24 PM (YPEWm)

237 201 197 146
Yes Carter pardoned the draft dodgers but for a named crime. I think a blanket pardon requires specifying the underlying crimes. I really think we need that Truth & Reconciliation Committee.
Posted by: Ciampino - what is truth? at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (i0xsb)

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Ford's pardon of Nixon didn't list specific crimes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, so we have precedents of the Pardons going to large groups of unnamed people... and also for all crimes during a certain time period... also the 'Pardons' of Southern Civil War Veterans... large groups over a large period of time, for unspecified crimes.

So, under these precedents, a President could 'Pardon' all crimes for all Black people for the last 50 years.

Don't think this is what the Founders intended.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:24 PM (QAkQ3)

238 232 It is interesting that everybody , dem and rep, are saying the knew biden would do this because who would not pardon a son or daughter.

Somebody who had sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution that does not have an exception for retard crackhead children?
Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (8XibL)

My son is forever in trouble with traffic cops, he lives mostly in his car or on somebody else's couch. He boozes and drugs, and doesn't work for a living if he can help it. I would wholeheartedly support any judge who sent him to jail, and I love him like anything. That excuse holds no water.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 03, 2024 04:24 PM (yKhjs)

239 Hunny is essentially a npc biden family game character, he's the biden family scapegoat, he barely has agency

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (8XibL)

240 say bullshit. She is protecting her husband which in turn protects her image. If her husband's "legacy" is further tarnished and criminalized by having their dirty deeds exposed, her own image goes down with them.
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Image my ass. She's a coconspirator on the graft, and likely in on the hit on Trump, since they pulled agents from him that day to cover her event....

Posted by: And that's the best case scenario at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (EY4oe)

241 186 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

Must be difficult to convince one or more jurors that their lives, the lives of their families, and all their property will be forfeited with extreme prejudice if white man Penny is acquitted or there is a hung jury.

Posted by: Gref at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (aBgBM)

242 Here's a Zillow listing of the property.

four bedrooms and FIVE bathrooms? 2,926 square feet of ugly box for over 4 million? LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (RsS92)

243 > Who would be stupid enough to rent to Hunter Biden? Unless, of course, the landlord viewed this as an investment to gain influence.

Maybe Hunter had a law firm negotiate the rental.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (Odg76)

244 Let them all swim in the pool of Don Lemon’s sweet.

Posted by: Braenard - some best friends are more important than others at December 03, 2024 04:25 PM (J5DyF)

245 Oh, yes "The Other McCain" has a good essay on the liar Joe Biden. and the terrible smear he made about the truck driver whom he said was drunk and killed Biden's wife.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (YPEWm)

246 My philosophy is thus:

If a sitting Vice President can go to a foreign country and withhold a $1 Billion Loan guarantee until the prosecutor investigating his son is fired (having made that concrete stipulation)...and then brag about it on video with 100% confirmation of doing so. There is NO threat of any type of repercussions whatsoever to him in any way by way of legality, civility or otherwise.

The very least that should have occurred is that Biden should have been impeached from the VP position after leaving office using the Belknap decision. This didn't even occur to the Republicans.

Posted by: Orson at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (dIske)

247 WisRich: "That's really gonna be a stomach punch to the 'he didn't lie, he changed his mind' crowd."

La la la I can't hear you la la la...

Posted by: The 'He Didn't Lie, He Changed His Mind' Crowd at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (aXxgO)

248 Biden is in Angola? I assume there must be a beach in Angola that is a bit more comfortable to dig his toes in the sand than Rehobeth Beach in order for him to be able to do his presidenting from.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (o+xVs)

249 Shawn Maguire, the landlord in question, is a partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the premier VCs in Silicon Valley, and until recently Maguire was a big Democrat donor.

He flipped to Trump this election.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:22 PM (LkLld)
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So, in response to my question in #220, the answer is that the landlord was stupid.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (YqDXo)

250 234 >> I don’t know a thing about Pam Bondi

I know she would be the first AG I would want sitting on my face.
Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:23 PM (vGiQ3)

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"I could scent my farts at will. A favorite in the office was lavender."
-Caesar Augustus Rodney

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

251

Hey Joe, where you goin with that son of yours ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (NtVYv)

252 And I'm sure they'd invoke the "father's love" exemption if this was about Trump and Don Jr.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2024 04:27 PM (UseAb)

253 2,926 square feet of ugly box for over 4 million?

Harris is escorting now?

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:27 PM (8XibL)

254 I admit I don’t know a thing about Pam Bondi… someone fill me in??
Posted by: tubal
.......

She has a nice torso.

Posted by: wth at December 03, 2024 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

255 >>What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?

They generally have to take a minimum of time before they can come out with a verdict.
If they come back hung, they will be turned around and asked to work through it before that is accepted by the Court.
And I think in NYC that is the best you can hope for.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:27 PM (vGiQ3)

256 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2024 04:24 PM (YPEWm)

Good to hear.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:27 PM (v6JzV)

257 Who would be stupid enough to rent to Hunter Biden? Unless, of course, the landlord viewed this as an investment to gain influence.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

In the landlord's statement he acknowledged that he should have never rented to him and it was a big mistake.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (oiNtH)

258 222 Gonna get Epsteined....
Posted by: And that's the best case

No, he is going to OD and no one will be around to save him. He was tweaking on the balcony July 4, 2023. He was stoned out of his gourd in Disney last week. Sober 5 1/2 years? Hardly. He has never faced a consequence for his behaviors and it shows.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (pZEOD)

259 I would wholeheartedly support any judge who sent him to jail, and I love him like anything. That excuse holds no water.

Love does not overlook wrongdoing, it seeks to make someone better and to get them to stop doing evil. My eldest brother was much the same way, hugely talented and intelligent and basically a waste of skin

Mom and dad tried so hard with him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (RsS92)

260 The very least that should have occurred is that Biden should have been impeached from the VP position after leaving office using the Belknap decision. This didn't even occur to the Republicans.
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There's only one party.

Posted by: Zombie Spiro Agnew at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (EY4oe)

261 190 186 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

Should have only taken 5 minutes to find him not guilty
Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (IyPmt)

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I agree, it's not a good sign.

Posted by: Decaf at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (unUNN)

262 255 If Penny is convicted, his pardon is a slam-dunk for Trump on Inauguration Day. I'd bet money on it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (XYJTg)

263 So, under these precedents, a President could 'Pardon' all crimes for all Black people for the last 50 years.

Don't think this is what the Founders intended.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2024 04:24 PM (QAkQ3)
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All Federal crimes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (YqDXo)

264 Heh, no. Venice is very expensive. A 1800sqf bungalow famously sold for 1mill in 2010 that was right next to a former crackden.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024

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I drove around it some in Sept. 2014, and it was nice-looking, but I thought with all the drainage canals that gave the place its name, it was considered a less desirable place to live.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (J2vNu)

265 And that's the best case scenario: "Image my ass. She's a coconspirator on the graft, and likely in on the hit on Trump, since they pulled agents from him that day to cover her event..."

That's crazy talk. That's like saying The Corleones knew what dad was up to. Of course they didn't or they would've tried to stop the Don.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (aXxgO)

266 262 255 If Penny is convicted, his pardon is a slam-dunk for Trump on Inauguration Day. I'd bet money on it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (XYJTg)

Not a Federal case so he can't

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (IyPmt)

267 >>If Penny is convicted, his pardon is a slam-dunk for Trump on Inauguration Day. I'd bet money on it.

He can't Pardon for a State Crime.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (vGiQ3)

268 I don’t know a thing about Pam Bondi

I know she would be the first AG I would want sitting on my face.
Posted by: garrett

Eh. She's no Janet Reno.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (v6JzV)

269 71 I hope Trump takes office and says "Now that he's been pardoned, here's what we know about Hunter so far. Also here's all the info on the Obamas, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bush family, etc. Also mine, because I'm the most investigated president in history and because of that I'm sure my fellow presidents won't mind. It's for the good of the country, after all."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - leftists, remember Trump would be out soon if you hadn't stolen 2020 at December 03, 2024 03:51 PM (NXhou)
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I like how you think. Do you have a newsletter?

Posted by: Ciampino - #5 Alive at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (i0xsb)

270 Not a single person called "Marxist" in the last 10 years, with a gun at their head, could describe even the most minor aspects of actual Marxism (such as it was), much less demonstrate any understanding of it. But no battle to preserve meaning in words has succeeded in some time, so, there it is.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (1m82a)

271 266, 267 Well, I already lost the bet. Somebody should have taken me up on it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (XYJTg)

272 Gonna get Epsteined....
Posted by: And that's the best case

No, he is going to OD and no one will be around to save him.
==
Honey, its gonna look like he od'd, but he won't. They won't leave it up to him, lest he fuck it up.

Posted by: Dead Man Walkin at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (EY4oe)

273 248 Biden is in Angola? I assume there must be a beach in Angola that is a bit more comfortable to dig his toes in the sand than Rehobeth Beach in order for him to be able to do his presidenting from.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 04:26 PM (o+xVs)

Be funny if he bought a place on the beach there and never came back. Do his prezzie pardon for hire service as an expat.

Fucker is ballsy enough to try.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (OA79/)

274 Is Penney charged with voluntary, or involuntary manslaughter?

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

275 The Hunter Biden Pardon Has Stripped Bare the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law"

I don't know how much stripping there was to do. Anyone with eyes can see it was never true unless it was convenient.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (hB7mE)

276 In the landlord's statement he acknowledged that he should have never rented to him and it was a big mistake.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:28 PM (oiNtH)
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The small, low-wattage light bulb over his head gets feebly illuminated.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

277 Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (RsS92)

278 If you stand back and watch it would seem that biden sold his soulful a second rate scandal ridden career

He did his daughter, whored hunter , cheated his wife, annoyed hunter is a crack addict whoremonger and biden is too incompetent to atone for or even understand his sins ,

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (8XibL)

279 If I remember correctly, the plea arrangement got tossed by the judge because it was a super secret codicil which was somehow left out of the stack of paperwork submitted to the judge..and the only reason it didn't go through was the judge noticed the missing pages and asked where they were.

Which should have been a major scandal at the time, but, crickets, naturally.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

280 233 Justice will happen after all these Bidens shuffle off the mortal coil. Jesus may have a thing or two to say about their pious Catholic faith and how they lived it out in the world.
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Pope Francis is probably forgiving the Bidens of all sins that may or may not have been committed from Jan 1 2014 through to passing, wherever that may be. It's in the new catechism that Francis just made up in his head so it's all good.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (o+xVs)

281 272 Gonna get Epsteined....
Posted by: And that's the best case

No, he is going to OD and no one will be around to save him.
==
Honey, its gonna look like he od'd, but he won't. They won't leave it up to him, lest he fuck it up.
Posted by: Dead Man Walkin at December 03, 2024 04:30 PM (EY4oe)

The ole drown in a hot tub trick.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (OA79/)

282 255 If Penny is convicted, his pardon is a slam-dunk for Trump on Inauguration Day. I'd bet money on it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:29 PM (XYJTg)
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It's not a Federal prosecution, though, is it?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

283 What's taking the Daniel Penney jury so long?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 03, 2024 04:15 PM (BzPol)

Should have only taken 5 minutes to find him not guilty
Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (IyPmt)

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I agree, it's not a good sign.
Posted by: Decaf

On the other hand, if they were uber-biased against him, they would only take 5 minutes to find him guillty. So I view this as a (slightly) hopeful sign.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2024 04:32 PM (v6JzV)

284 Biden inc has $billions salted away in offshore accounts. A lot of powerful people invested in Biden inc, how many are now getting stiffed? What will they do about it?

Posted by: davidt at December 03, 2024 04:32 PM (i0F8b)

285 Hunny was pardoned so there's no need to epstein him

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:32 PM (8XibL)

286 Should have only taken 5 minutes to find him not guilty
Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:17 PM (IyPmt)

It's New York. How many demented leftists on the jury?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (UseAb)

287 >>Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??

Does it have a Pool?

3 Storeys?

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (vGiQ3)

288 This DailyMail article says the property [Hunter rented] is worth $4.25 million.

http://tiny.cc/4uwyzz

Here's a Zillow listing of the property.

http://tiny.cc/duwyzz
Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024

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Oh, it's gated and all that sort of thing. Well, still insane pricing, but at least it *looks* like you'd get *some* value for $25K a month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (J2vNu)

289 Pope Francis is probably forgiving the Bidens of all sins that may or may not have been committed from Jan 1 2014 through to passing, wherever that may be. It's in the new catechism that Francis just made up in his head so it's all good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 04:31 PM (o+xVs)

Franky has some answering of his own to the big "Guy"

Posted by: It's me donna at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (IyPmt)

290 It's important to remember 81 million votes, your neighbors and family, agreed that this guy was the bomb.

The best of the dem party at his peak of power.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (OA79/)

291 282 No. I'm a big law dummy.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:33 PM (XYJTg)

292 Biden inc has $billions salted away in offshore accounts. A lot of powerful people invested in Biden

No way it's billions,

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:34 PM (8XibL)

293 If Penny is convicted, his pardon is a slam-dunk for Trump on Inauguration Day. I'd bet money on it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024
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It's not a Federal prosecution, though, is it?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2024

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Trump might be able to wangle a deal with somebody. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

294 >>Should have only taken 5 minutes to find him not guilty

That's the issue.

It might be hung in either direction.
With a NYC Jury, I would bet more so on Innocence than on Guilt.

Posted by: garrett at December 03, 2024 04:34 PM (vGiQ3)

295 >>Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??

Guests

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:35 PM (8XibL)

296 Pope Francis is probably forgiving the Bidens of all sins that may or may not have been committed from Jan 1 2014 through to passing, wherever that may be.

As I understand it, the Pope can issue indulgences as we wishes. Not that God cares, but just saying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:35 PM (RsS92)

297 Wish me luck, everybody!

Daughter and I made a pact to get back into shape. I'm about to get on the rower for the first time in I don't know how long.

Time to die.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 03, 2024 04:35 PM (LxER7)

298 "the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law"

I have to disagree with your on this one.
The Dems will never change their mind about that, because -- that's the 'party line.'

However, individual Dem voters, once reality literally or figuratively slaps them up the side of the head (like Gabbard), they won't change.

IMO.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 03, 2024 04:35 PM (Rbu5d)

299 Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024

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One of them has an open space where the hot masseuse can come in to "relax" the tenant?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (J2vNu)

300 As I understand it, the Pope can issue indulgences as we wishes. Not that God cares, but just saying

Yeah, that is a catch there

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (8XibL)

301 Hunter spent the day celebrating his pardon.
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LOL!
[spews coffee all over the keyboard]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (XeU6L)

302 50 Now that’s a long post.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

an 8 incher!

Posted by: Female Engineer at December 03, 2024 03:47 PM (Aqu9a)

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Eight inches on the internet = 5.5 inches IRL ... but I assume a female engineer already knows this.

Posted by: The_Hoser at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (3qNLt)

303 Hunny was pardoned so there's no need to epstein him

Said joe biden to James.

James: OKAY.

*TWO HOURS LATER* JAMES: I'm taking out a contract on hunter 2 million. Make it look like an accident. Hit man: he'll be dead in 48 hours.

Posted by: Dead Man Walkin at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (EY4oe)

304 When President Joe Biden and his White House aides repeatedly promised Biden wouldn't pardon his son, their allies in the media didn't push back--they ate it up.

Anyone who knew about Hunter Biden knew that Joe was going to pardon him.

The issue is how few LIVs knew that Joe Biden's son was his bagman, a drug addict, and a pedophile. I suspect the left's preening about Trump "grabbing 'em by the pussy" wouldn't have worked so well if people were more interested in just how underage Hunter's girls were and just how much Hunter was giving to the big guy

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (oZhjI)

305 First pull quote (whoever that it) nails it. And of course the lawlessness isn't just about the histrionically, artlessly, brazenly stupid and corrupt Biden family.

Hillary's historic crime rampage on the 7th floor at State easily dwarfs Biden's amateurish influence peddling, in every respect. Rent-a-foreign-policy shakedowns of foreign states were routine, not opportunistic, as with the Biden idiots. The Espionage Act violations - systematic, deliberate, widespread, with assessed foreign adversary exploitation (a key element in sentencing of such cases), *by a NSC member* - really have no analogue in our history.

And of course there's the mass systemic lawlessness of abandoning oaths to enforce the law on anything related to immigration or sovereignty.

And whats-his-name's description of the problem is good - it's system-wide, its institutional, and it's appalling.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2024 04:36 PM (1m82a)

306 I see gasoline went up 20 cents a gallon overnight. WTH

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 04:37 PM (RHGPo)

307 Hell, Joe, just give a blanket pardon to all 2.25 million Federal civilian employees.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 03, 2024 04:37 PM (ZtMVG)

308 I have to disagree with your on this one.
The Dems will never change their mind about that, because -- that's the 'party line.'

Yep, "Its different when we do it" is also the left's mantra.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 04:37 PM (oZhjI)

309 That Penney trial has some nuance in it. The primary witness was not necessarily reliable (having admitted lying to the police upon their arrival)...and, lying to Penney upon his arrival as well.

From what I understand, Penney reacted to the witness's story that the deceased was physically attacking people, when he was just threatening to do so. Penney, given that information reacted accordingly (and reasonably, IMO). The witness, then told the police the same story, but changed it under oath...

So, the jury has to weigh all these factors in their decision, which may explain the delay.

Posted by: Orson at December 03, 2024 04:37 PM (dIske)

310 "Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??"

Owner with an enlarged prostate?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 03, 2024 04:38 PM (aXxgO)

311 As I understand it, the Pope can issue indulgences as we wishes. Not that God cares, but just saying.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Does Francis get "10% for the big guy" in exchange?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 03, 2024 04:38 PM (o+xVs)

312 305 Well put!

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at December 03, 2024 04:38 PM (XYJTg)

313
So, the jury has to weigh all these factors in their decision, which may explain the delay.

If I were on the jury I would ask if we could instead convict the prosecutor.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 04:38 PM (oZhjI)

314
However, individual Dem voters, once reality literally or figuratively slaps them up the side of the head (like Gabbard), they won't change.

IMO.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker
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They are so inculcated with the Party line that anything that contradicts that does not make it past their eyes or ears.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2024 04:39 PM (XeU6L)

315 Why would a house have more bathrooms than bedrooms??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

For a guest bathroom downstairs and en suite bathrooms upstairs.

Posted by: Cheri at December 03, 2024 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

316 284 Biden inc has $billions salted away in offshore accounts. A lot of powerful people invested in Biden inc, how many are now getting stiffed? What will they do about it?
Posted by: davidt at December 03, 2024 04:32 PM (i0F8b)

This gets said here and stuff like this (Biden resigns, Harris sworn in as #47)turns up in Sean Hannity's mouth.

Go, Horde!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 03, 2024 04:40 PM (QSrLX)

317 Let me help you - managers were given a budget and told they had to differentiate between employees. If you rated an employee average, you cannot give that employee the same 2.5% as your super star. 10 managers did this. 5 managers did not, blew their budget because everyone in their group is a rockstar (they aren’t) and expected the money to be found. This was kicked back and the managers were told you fix it, or I will. Their managers are looking at it, moving things around, submitting then saying “just kidding! I forgot about this situation from last January, will you undo it and send it back?” Then the entire roll up goes to the headest of honchos who sits with their HR Buddy and wonders why he is paying them so much when they can’t do math. Neither the bonus roll up nor the merit roll up is within parameters. More phone calls, usually saying you can’t take from this bucket for that bucket, but if you feel strongly, I will request an exception and take it from your bonus, fix it or we will, wash rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2024 04:09 PM (pZEOD)
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That is one crazy company you work for.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 03, 2024 04:40 PM (GZYu7)

318 the FNM "didn't push back, they ate it up". Oh Free Beacon, are you naive, or part of the problem? Because from where I sit, I'm pretty sure the FNM scripted what they wanted Joe Bribem to say.

Meanwhile my work is getting rid of the offices of DEI; oh wait they are only changing the name to Office of Access, Culture, and Opportunity, and for one group Collaborative Opportunities for Research Engagement.

Call it Access and Culture vs Equity and Diversity but it will still be "bend over backwards to include exotic ethnicities and self labeled LGBTQ folks wherever possible"

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2024 04:40 PM (UKUm3)

319 They are so inculcated with the Party line that anything that contradicts that does not make it past their eyes or ears.

I remember talking with a coworker years ago and Bill Clinton's sexual assaults came up.

I knew the coworker was left of center but he professed to never having heard that Clinton did anything non-consensual, just that he had sex with Lewinsky and maybe some other women.

And this was an intelligent person who believed himself to be well educated...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 04:41 PM (oZhjI)

320 Several top officials at Mountain Home VA facility in Tennessee have resigned after investigators discovered widespread sexual depravity happening there

http://tiny.cc/lywyzz

Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024 04:42 PM (Odg76)

321 The Dems don't seem to realize, with a few exceptions (Polis, Mastro) that denouncing the pardon is the easy and intelligent thing to do. They are tying themselves into knots trying to justify the pardon and there is almost no way to do it. Keep humping that football, monkey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 03, 2024 04:42 PM (FxDm7)

322 Piper, I sure wish you were in charge of HR where I worked - like, in any place I ever worked. All we get are DEI drones who think they're princesses.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 03, 2024 04:12 PM (gKWVE)
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A lot fewer of those types now.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 03, 2024 04:42 PM (GZYu7)

323 Nood.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024 04:42 PM (Odg76)

324 Several top officials at Mountain Home VA facility in Tennessee have resigned after investigators discovered widespread sexual depravity happening

Define depravity

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:43 PM (8XibL)

325 That is one crazy company you work for.

The core problem is that with the current hyperinflation everyone wants to get 10%+...because you have to to just break even.

But companies can't just give everyone raises to match the inflation or they'll become noncompetitive...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2024 04:43 PM (oZhjI)

326 Several top officials at Mountain Home VA facility in Tennessee have resigned after investigators discovered widespread sexual depravity happening there

http://tiny.cc/lywyzz
Posted by: bonhomme at December 03, 2024

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I see Elon, Vivek, and DOGE have been copied on this. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:43 PM (J2vNu)

327 "It is clear that Hunter was treated differently ... singled out only because he is my son."

I love the "singled out" argument. It admits, "Sure, he was guilty, but everybody was doing it, so it's unfair to prosecute only him for it." It's the "I was just keeping up with traffic, why'd you pull me over?" argument.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 03, 2024 04:44 PM (VGRuw)

328 Noodus PMSNBC bye-bye (?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 03, 2024 04:44 PM (J2vNu)

329 One guy slept with — wait for it — a whopping 32 women he worked with there. That’s not a typo — THIRTY TWO.

In addition, there was an ORGY that included at least a dozen people who worked at the VA hospital. It’s unclear if the orgy happened on VA grounds or off site.

The Paolo really will miss this job. Well not the orgy stuff you Americans seem to like, but the Paolo brought so much joy to those thirty two women. But no, not at the same time. No. Never more then three at once. Because the Paolo he has the standards.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 03, 2024 04:45 PM (oZhjI)

330 "It is clear that Hunter was treated differently ... singled out only because he is my son

Which is why ss agents were running interference for him with whores and gun dealers.

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:45 PM (8XibL)

331 Remember when the media called Biden "Consoler in Chief"? LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 03, 2024 04:45 PM (RsS92)

332 NOOD ALERT!!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at December 03, 2024 04:45 PM (q177U)

333 Nood is for retards

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:46 PM (8XibL)

334
And now you know why the stupid notion of biden resigning to make malaka harris for a couple of months was Never gonna happen -- biden needs the time to sort his affairs.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 03, 2024 04:46 PM (7vDsG)

335 Biden had to get out of the race and not get 25thd so he could run his pardon game

Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:48 PM (8XibL)

336 Re: Penny trial. No good deed goes unpunished, at least in Communist New York. It's taking this long because some of the Commies want to convict. It ain't unanimous.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 03, 2024 04:55 PM (pohLc)

337 [LEIGH MCGOWAN, SOCIAL MEDIA HOST AND CONTENT CREATOR, POLITICSGIRL] No. I believe the circumstances have changed. I think that we have now have a president coming into office who’s talking about firing squads, who’s talking about running people around the country and making sure that everyone who his enemy is going to be punished.
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2024 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

what a damn idiot. If Trump is pulling out firing squad a scrap of paper with PARDON on it isn't going to make a damn bit of difference.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 03, 2024 05:54 PM (n7h9X)

338 Who writes X's Community Notes? How are they different from other fact-checkers?

For one thing to tend to actually check facts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2024 04:18 PM (LkLld)

My vague knowledge of CN is that anyone can submit one, and then if they are found useful they are posted. How the find useful is defined I don't know but I don't think there is a specific group creating them in X

Posted by: Oldcat at December 03, 2024 06:02 PM (n7h9X)

339 Several top officials at Mountain Home VA facility in Tennessee have resigned after investigators discovered widespread sexual depravity happening

Define depravity
Posted by: N at December 03, 2024 04:43 PM (8XibL)

Chili WITH CARROTS

Posted by: Oldcat at December 03, 2024 06:03 PM (n7h9X)

340 DaH FBEyE aRe DuH gOoD gUyS, yOu 'ThUgLiCaN~!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2024 03:52 PM (IG4Id)

There's more Ham and Eggers in a synagogue than in the FBI

Posted by: Oldcat at December 03, 2024 06:06 PM (n7h9X)

341 X demonstrates its bankruptcy by allowing the Lefturds to post the most hateful comments while it faults commenters who want Biden punished for his corruption, obvious treason and sedition. According to the government he accepted at least 25 million in bribes from foreign players. X says this is hate speech and violence. Really? It is pointing out a crime and the penalty for that is what?

Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 03, 2024 06:16 PM (bXvrr)

342 Holding her like a bowling ball?
I'll see myself out.
Posted by: Doof
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Did he hold her like a bowling ball?
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Great minds think alike.

BTW, that's a thing in girl's water polo. DAMHIK

Posted by: buddhaha at December 03, 2024 09:55 PM (MnMvi)

343 cannot give that employee the same 2.5% as your super star. 10 managers did this. 5 managers did not, blew their budgeted
Posted by: Piper
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2.5% for a "superstar " in a 5%+ inflation environment?
2.5% is what you give the guy who's making it, but at the bottom, comparatively.

You must have been in upper management. :-)

Posted by: buddhaha at December 03, 2024 10:06 PM (MnMvi)

344 X would censor the following cand call it hate speech or inciting violence but how much would you bet that massive pardons for DOJ, FBI, CIA, DOSD personnel are in the works for the past 11 years?

Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 04, 2024 01:57 PM (bXvrr)

345 Your style is so unique in comparison to other folks I've read stuff from.

I appreciate you for posting when you've got the opportunity,
Guess I'll just book mark this page.

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