How Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal eviscerates his father’s credibility |

  Just The News

News Analysis: Joe Biden’s persistent claims that his son did nothing wrong, that his laptop was Russian disinformation and he never met son’s partners have all been destroyed

"In his job interview with voters during the 2020 election, Joe Biden assured Americans that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, he never had any dealings with his family’s business partners and that his son was innocent of any wrongdoings.

"While the first two claims were shattered long ago, the 46th president has held firm on the last. “My son has done nothing wrong,” he proclaimed just a few short weeks ago.

"The criminal information filed Tuesday in federal court charging Hunter Biden with intentionally avoiding payment of federal taxes and lying about his drug use to buy a handgun debunks Joe Biden’s last line of defense.

"Conservatives from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on down derided the plea agreement as a “sweetheart deal” and a “traffic ticket” emblematic of a “two-tiered” justice system because it spares Hunter Biden from prison while leaving Donald Trump facing hundreds of years in prison on 71 felonies in two separate indictments.

"But the plain language of the deal threatens to boomerang on the Biden Democrat agenda for 2024 that has made one of its centerpieces harsher gun control and an IRS crackdown on tax cheats.

"Hunter Biden has agreed to “two counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax” and can have dismissed a felony charge of “possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user,” holdover Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote the court Tuesday outlining the plea deal.

"The extraordinary reversal in the Democrats’ definition of Hunter Biden truth was in full view in the statement his lawyer Christopher Clark issued Tuesday." . . .

School “There Are Only Two Genders” T-Shirt Ban Upheld By MA Federal Court

  (legalinsurrection.com)

Court comes close to adopting the “words are violence” campus mantra, finding the words on the t-shirt put other students at risk. And you can’t even mock the ban by putting “Censored” over the censored words. That is banned too.  Hopefully this absurd ruling will be overturned on appeal.

 

"I’m asked from time to time whether the radical race and gender ideologies penetrating deeply into all levels of education eventually will corrupt the legal system, harming our freedom of speech and other individual rights. Usually the question regards Critical Race Theory and its progeny, such as “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” and Ibram Kendi’s “anti-racism.”

"The short answer is yes, but not in the way you expect.

The legal system will be corrupted for the same reason free speech has suffered on campuses – various forms of the “words are violence” argument. You see, the argument goes, we are not stifling speech, we are stifling the harm you cause the listener or reader of the words. The non-legal term “hate speech” usually is the banner under which this censorship flies. Your words allegedly are the equivalent of a violent assault causing physical and emotional manifestations that themselves are not speech, and in the educational context, damage the educational opportunities of others by making them feel unsafe.

"This turns freedom of speech into a power play — who gets to decide what is “hate speech” turns into who has political and cultural power.

"The fiercest cultural battle is being fought by gender identity activists, and as a Massachusetts federal court decision that was just handed down shows, the courts—or at least that judge—are ready to sacrifice free speech in school for the comfort of the gender-identity cultural and political power." . . .

Xi wanted to show he had the upper hand

 

The Setup And How Antony Blinken’s Family Connections To George Soros Sent Russia To War In Ukraine - The American Report

Five things we learned from the China-US talks after President Xi calls a surprise meeting with Antony Blinken - ABC News    . . ."There was also a conspicuous lack of red carpet to welcome the first US secretary of state on Chinese soil since Trump-appointed Mike Pompeo visited Beijing in October 2018.

"In a country where optics mean everything, Mr. Xi was sending "a clear message" to his people, according to Ms Schneider.

"I think it was very obviously a carefully orchestrated affair," she said.

" 'If you look at that table, Mr Xi was all by himself at the head of the table, and the Blinken team was off to the side. That's a very clear message that he wanted to show to his people that he had the upper hand in this relationship.

" 'I think both the US and China are very interested in showing their respective domestic populations that they're not being overly conciliatory or even moderately conciliatory towards the other side."

' 'State media had criticized video showing Mr Blinken's arrival in the Chinese capital under a sky cast in a dark filter, with the international press accused of "maliciously fabricating the weather in Beijing as cloudy and hazy". . .

Pride Month? Take Pride in Your Traditional Family Values

Pride Month? Take Pride in Your Traditional Family Values - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

 In polite society, homosexuality always was personal and private — and so was and is “straight” heterosexuality. 

. . ."Pride Month,” huh? Proud of what?

"Honestly, what is the actual message when someone parades that he-she-they is “proud” to be LGBTQIA+? If we penetrate the static, he simply is declaring that he wants the world to know his coitus preferences. That’s it. He is not declaring his religion, ethnicity, or political views. He simply is declaring, “I consort physically with …”

 Dov Fischer: A Day of Pride Month 2053 in San Francisco, Mexico

"Aside from all other concerns, isn’t that, uh, terribly private? It is shameful to prattle on about even normal heterosexuality to others. TMI.

"In a normal society, people sensibly would be repulsed: “That is something to parade? My father and mother — and all other billions of fathers and mothers — do not promenade, bellowing whom they prefer in the bedroom. Who parades to tell the world he lusts for redheads? Or for certain body shapes and dimensions? Who does this? Keep your private business to yourself — we don’t want to know.”

"'That simple commonsense reaction would be true even if LGBTQIA+ behavior were not outside of nature. It is no one’s business. Do people with irritable bowel syndrome parade behind a brown flag to proclaim pride in their common situation? Or people who need to wake up several times nightly to micturate? How did this perverted and corrupted culture ever come to this?

"And what could be more perverted than for a baseball team to give a stage to “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a group that devotes itself to tearing down Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular? They began in San Francisco as homosexual men dressing as nuns. They choose names based on the process of renaming women inducted into Catholic orders, but that are sexually offensive: Sister Anita Blowjob, Sister GladAss of the Joyous Reserectum, and such. The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club is a professional athletic organization that has offered apolitical entertainment primarily to the residents of Southern California, and also to Dodgers’ fans throughout America. Baseball is an inter-generational family pastime, and the sport historically has been associated with wholesome family values. There is no place in baseball for the interjection of political partisanship or woke counter-cultural advocacy that offends mainstream religious family sensitivities. Drag queens who dress like nuns and mock the sacred sacraments of the Catholic Church have ample other platforms to promote their depraved activities and deeply offensive images." 

(READ MORE: Don’t Just Blame the Dodgers: Blame the Collapse of Catholic Fidelity)

Is Joe Biden about to get Al Caponed?

It's Good to Be a Member of the Biden Crime Family

 Ted Cruz Compares Biden to Al Capone and John Dillinger After Bribery Denial (msn.com)  . . ."Cruz appeared on Thursday’s edition of Kudlow on Fox Business, where host Larry Kudlow aired a clip of Biden responding to an allegation of bribery by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

“Congresswoman Nancy Mace says there’s damning evidence the FBI filed that you sold out the country,” a reporter told Biden at the White House on Thursday. “Do you have a response to congressional Republicans?”

“Where’s the money?” Biden cracked. “I’m joking. It’s a bunch of malarkey.”

"Kudlow asked Cruz about the charge.

" 'When do we figure out whether or not Joe Biden took a bribe?” he asked.

“Well, I’ll tell you what – one person knows for a fact whether it is true or not and his name is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.,” the senator replied before slamming the president’s denial. “You know what Joe Biden could’ve done? He could’ve stood at the podium and said – if in fact the allegation was false – he could’ve said, ‘This allegation is false. It’s ridiculous to say that I took a bribe. And I’m instructing the FBI to release that document now, make the evidence public because I’m innocent.’ That is what Biden could do.” . . .

Is Joe Biden about to get Al Caponed? - Bookworm Room   "The facts are a little different because Al Capone was nailed for evading taxes, but Biden’s tax returns suggest the possibility of serious corruption.". . .

"Fascinating, right? But why does Al Capone matter? Because sometimes it’s a person’s dealings with the IRS that reveal their sins.

"In Biden’s case, it appears that he reported all his income to the IRS. The problem, as the Daily Mail discovered, is that the origin of $5.2 million of that income is completely mysterious: . . ."

Tucker Carlson's 'Wannabe Dictator' satire master class the left desperately had to ignore - American Thinker   "The walls are closing in on the fascist far left's echo chamber; that's the reason they couldn't allow their outrage to show over Tucker Carlson's takedown of their dear leader. 

" If you're one of the 30 million people who have viewed Ep. 4 of Tucker on Twitter, entitled Wannabe Dictator (or on Rumble, YouTube, or Odysee), you were treated to a master class in the deadpan satire that is the hallmark of Mr. Carlson as he mocked the left while having a rollicking good time doing it." . . .

Bret Baier Confronts Trump Over Derogatory Remarks He’s Made About Top People He Hired In His Admin

 The Daily Wire

Comment to this post: "This is my biggest complaint with Trump. He claims to know people, but he obviously doesn’t. He trusts the wrong people, and he often throws the wrong people under the bus as well."

"Former President Donald Trump pushed back on claims that he rips on a lot of top people who he hired in his administration by saying that for every one bad example there is, there are ten good examples.

"Trump made the remarks in response to a question from Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who noted that Trump said in 2016 that he was going to “surround myself with only the best and most serious people.”

“ 'Well, I did do that,” Trump told Baier. “That’s tremendous. Look, we had the best economy we’ve ever had, the world has ever seen.”

"Baier responded:

"This time, your Vice President Mike Pence is running against you. Your ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, she’s running against you. Your former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said he’s not supporting you.

"You mentioned National Security Adviser John Bolton. He’s not supporting you either. "You mentioned Attorney General Bill Barr. Says you shouldn’t be president again. Calls you ‘the consummate narcissist’ and “troubled man.” You recently called Barr a “gutless pig.”

The Wit and Wisdom of John Kennedy, R-La. -

  Don Surber (substack.com)

 . . .“My Democratic friends just can't accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president — it's called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a Hurt Feelings Report and let’s move on.”

"When I was 7, America elected a fellow named John Kennedy president. He had been a senator and he was witty. His daddy was rich as he made money the way John Hancock did, by smuggling. Hancock smuggled tea. Kennedy’s dad smuggled hooch.

"In 1958, Kennedy began a speech to the Gridiron Club — a journalist organization when newspapers ruled the land — by saying, “I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy: ‘Dear Jack — Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary — I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.’”

"Looking back as an adult, I realize he was not joking. He was bragging. But he was so charming that I secretly have wished for a Republican John Kennedy. Ronald Reagan came close. Donald Trump too. Maybe the John Kennedy we need is the senator by that very name from Louisiana. He uses humor and common sense to make his point and his points are always good ones.

Early in his days in the Senate, the Republican John Kennedy said, “This is Washington, D.C. Politics is in everybody’s blood, kind of like herpes.”

"He was a Louisiana Democrat until he decided he wanted to win election to an office bigger than state treasurer. He converted to Republican but skipped the testicle-removal ceremony. In 2016, his state sent him to the Senate. He wound up on a boring committee that overlooks banks and the like.

"At a hearing on October 9, 2017, he said something that shocked the Advocate, Louisiana’s biggest newspaper." . . .

Tucker Carlson’s 'Wannabe Dictator' satire master class the left desperately had to ignore. -

  American Thinker   The walls are closing in on the fascist far left’s echo chamber; that’s the reason they couldn’t allow their outrage show over Tucker Carlson’s takedown of their dear leader.

If you’re one of the 30 million people who have viewed Ep. 4 of Tucker on Twitter entitled Wannabe Dictator (or on Rumble, YouTube, or Odysee) you would have been treated to a master class in the deadpan satire that is the hallmark of Mr. Carlson as he mocked the left while having a rollicking good time doing it."  . . .

Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator pic.twitter.com/MDcs5g0gxB

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 15, 2023

. . ."The walls are closing in on the fascist far left’s echo chamber; that’s the reason they couldn’t allow their outrage show over Tucker Carlson’s takedown of their dear leader.

"If you’re one of the 30 million people who have viewed Ep. 4 of Tucker on Twitter entitled Wannabe Dictator (or on Rumble, YouTube, or Odysee) you would have been treated to a master class in the deadpan satire that is the hallmark of Mr. Carlson as he mocked the left while having a rollicking good time doing it."

The fruits of Barack Obama

 

Obama tells GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott just how he's allowed to be black - American Thinker    . . ."Which has got to leave a sour taste in Scott's mouth, given that he's the only black man in the presidential race, and what's more, he's actually lived firsthand through the era of real racism as a child growing up in the South.

Obama, by contrast, is only half black, from late-to-the-party immigrant stock, meaning, he's never had one whit of commonality with Scott, who has lived through Jim Crow racism under southern Democrats firsthand.

"Obama is coming off as a sanctimonious white liberal in his pronouncements, and in some ways he is just that these days, living like a billionaire, and flying around in private jets on some kind of permanent vacation to all his many mansions.

"Scott, by contrast, pulled himself up by his bootstraps and earned everything he's ever got. 

"Which must seem like a threat to the Democrats." . . .

List: 200 reasons why Obama is ‘worst president in history’ | Washington Examiner

"A sampling of the 200 pulled from the book:

• Blaming Bush and Congress for his woes. “During Obama’s first term, he blamed Bush for the economy, for the botched Operation Fast and Furious, for the massive deficits, for our plummeting national wealth, for our problems in the Middle East -- for just about everything that went wrong.
• War on coal and oil. “Obama forced more than 200 coal-fired plants to shut down over a five year period.”
• Cut funding to fight aids. “This inexplicable decision had a devastating effect on Africa, where most AIDS deaths occur.”
• Nominating John Brennan as CIA director. Brennan has gone on to be President Trump’s critic.
• DACA via executive order. Obama went around Congress to give amnesty to some 800,000 younger illegal immigrants.
• Assault on the press. The Committee to Protect Journalists, said of Obama’s media attacks, “In the Obama administration’s Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. Those suspected of discussing, with reporters, anything that the government has classified as secret are subject to investigation, including lie-detector tests and scrutiny of their telephone and e-mail records.”

Obama-Appointed Judge Rules In Favor Of School That Sent Student Home For ‘Only Two Genders’ T-Shirt | The Daily Caller    . . ."I don’t complain when I see pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school, do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs just as I do,” Morrison told the school board." . . .

Fresh evidence Obama ordered up the phony Russiagate scandal (nypost.com)

  "On learning that the FBI was set to close its investigation into Flynn after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, Obama and Biden suggested finding ways to keep it open, with Biden bringing up the (dead letter) Logan Act."

BLACK PEOPLE PREFER TRUMP OVER OBAMA. WATCH THIS

 

Why Hollywood's woke movies do so badly at the overseas box office

  Thomas Lifson, American Thinker   "The movie industry has plenty of problems, but some of the biggest ones are related to the pushing of politically correct woke themes on a public that doesn't want to be lectured to when it lays out close to twenty bucks per person for a theatrical release, not counting popcorn.

"But it seems that this problem is even worse when it comes to the overseas market, which is absolutely essential to the success of big-budget "tentpole" films, which have little hope of recovering budgets that ran well into the hundreds of millions of dollars for production and marketing.

"Currently, the best example of this phenomenon is Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.  It is full of wokery such as "'drag queen' Ursula, King Triton the environmentalist, mixed-race mermen, and 'affirmative consent' slipped into prince's love song."

"Based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen, a man from Denmark, where Caucasians accounted for virtually one hundred percent of the populace, the live-action remake nonetheless has an African American actress in the starring role despite demands for other demographic groups such as gays, blacks, and Asians to be portrayed solely by members of those groups. ". . .

" Mickey Kaus passed along a tweet from an overseas man-in-the-street interview on politically correct American films flopping in South Korea.  I have spent a lot of time in East Asia and find the lack of political correctness of many (but not all) people there quite refreshing.

"See what you think.  It's less than a minute long....

Korean explaining why Woke movies are failing so often in South Korea 🤔

🔊 pic.twitter.com/6HDvqrrwit

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 15, 2023

If Joe Biden's economy is as great as he says it is, why have 401(k)s plunged 20%?

If Joe Biden's economy is as great as he says it is, why have 401(k)s plunged 20%? - American Thinker 4

Well, lucky us. Let's just say that these things don't happen in a healthy, growing, economy, such as we saw in President Trump's. 

 "Joe Biden and his minions have been unwavering in their claims to have been the great engineers of a stunning economic recovery.

"Here's the dotard's yawping:

Look, here's where we are. We have the fastest growing economy in the world, the world, the world. We have 8.6 million new jobs just since I got in an office. Unemployment rates down to 3.6%. We've reduced the deficit last year by $320 billion, this year going to reduce it by $1.7 trillion dollars, trillion dollars.

"But according to Fox Business:". . .

Even Democrats can’t support Joe Biden for 2024.

 Key Dems Decline To Back Biden For 2024 (thepalmierireport.com)

"Even Democrats can’t support Joe Biden for 2024.

"Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, two Democrats who chair powerful committees, declined to say they’d back Joe Biden in 2024.

From Breitbart:

The prospect of President Joe Biden running again in 2024 is being increasingly stymied by senior establishment members of the Democratic Party lining up against him, a report Wednesday details.

AP outlines Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, two establishment liberals who chair powerful committees and are competing for a Manhattan-area House seat, declined to back the president when asked in a televised debate whether the incumbent should run again.…

Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary committee, said: “Too early to say. Doesn’t serve the purpose of the Democratic Party to, to deal with that until after the midterms.”

Maloney, who chairs the Oversight committee, said, “I don’t believe he’s running for reelection.”Biden’s approval continues to sink lower and lower.

"His average approval is currently 39.5%.