Here We Go – Garland and Weiss Throw Bag Over Hunter Biden Investigation with Declaration of Special Counsel Status

 The Last Refuge   "Oh, there will be voices who will proclaim this is the beginning of the end for Joe and Hunter, but that’s nonsense.  We don’t do pretending on these pages.  What happened today was an agreement between USAO David Weiss and US Attorney General Merrick Garland to fortify a silo of protection around the Biden family.

The shift in David Weiss from an investigative US Attorney to an officially appointed Special Counsel [SEE pdf HERE], is nothing more than loading the new color spray paint into the cannister.  Pesky House Oversight Committee inquiry now hits the block of an “ongoing investigation,” a purposeful deployment of a DC replay we have seen repeatedly in the last several years.  The cancer of corruption is institutionally metastatic.

We know the specific motives of USAO David Weiss as a result of the conflict between his public statements, letters to congress and the private statements he gave in meetings with IRS investigators.  Toward the public, Weiss said he had full autonomy and power to investigate Hunter Biden; however, in private he told four investigators the decision-making was not his.  The public statements were refuted and affirmed by two investigators who were witness to his private statements and gave testimony under oath.

As a result, the intent and institutional alignment of David Weiss is clear. This is the cold hard truth of the matter, and it will not change regardless of how much disingenuous concrete they pour around the walls of the silo Main Justice has built.  Ignore any voice who would demand us to pretend the reality is not self-evident.

Here’s the SILO as presented by Garland:

This Girl Played A Stupid Game And Won A Stupid Prize

 Matt Walsh   "This girl went viral on TikTok after she posted her story about being accosted in San Francisco, but am I supposed to feel sorry for her?"

Comments to this video:  "As a San Francisco escapee and Conservative I couldn't agree more with Matt. I used to live right in the middle of that once great city. Married to a woman born in The City. Still a SF Giants fan. But can't stand the stupidity. Left over 16 years ago and moved back to the old country where my family is from, South Carolina. Love it here."

"I'm a Canadian, but I loved Indiana when I visited it. Honestly, coming from Toronto, the town I visited there just seemed so wholesome... people seemed unironically happy and genuine. Lots of people socializing, of all different cultures and colours. I loved that there were churches every few meters and pro-life and Jesus billboards. It was just... refreshingly" wholesome. I would have loved to live there.

Guess What Group Is Threatening Boycott if the Washington Commanders Don't Restore the Name 'Redskins'

 Native American Group Wants ‘Redskins’ Name Reinstated – PJ Media

Yet here is not a gang of the cloddish, culturally insensitive, racist white males that the left loves to imagine exist demanding that the old name be restored, but the very people that name is supposed to have offended.

"Look, Fat, here’s the deal, as Old Joe Biden would say: the left has won the culture wars. But that was just the first round. The second round isn’t going so well for the fascist forces of hatred and division masked as equity and inclusion. Patriots continue to pour Bud Light down the drain for trying to force the trans madness upon its unwilling customer base, and now the nickname wars, which Leftists had every reason to believe were won and settled once and for all, have taken an unexpected turn: a Native American group wants that football team in Washington to start calling itself “Redskins” again, or else face a boycott. Yes, a Native American group.

"Washington’s WJLA reported Monday that “in a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change.” Healy Baumgardner, who is president of NAGA’s Global Impact Campaigns, said that NAGA has asked the Commanders for a meeting several times before, and been repeatedly stonewalled: “We attempted to have an open dialogue with the now Washington Commanders since they made the name change several years ago with no response by them to have a conversation. We felt that it was time to apply public pressure.”

"That public pressure comes in the form of a boycott threat, which, after the crash-and-burn of Bud Light, the Commanders should take seriously. NAGA’s letter “is the latest step in the organization’s ‘Reclaim the Name’ campaign, which seeks to bring back the team’s previously retired ‘Redskins’ monicker [sic]. A petition supporting the effort boasts over 60,000 signatures as of Monday night, a figure which matches the seating capacity of the Commanders’ FedEx Field.” The petition has bite: “the organization punctuated its meeting invitation by threatening to push for a boycott if their requests continued to go unheard.”

"NAGA’s letter explicitly invokes patriots’ recent massive victory in the culture wars: “Should we need to encourage a national boycott similar to what happened with Anheuser Busch which is now down $27 billion (note, not one brick thrown, not one highway blocked, not one bridge burned) – WE WILL DO JUST THAT.” Oh, what a glorious paragraph." . . .

Who *Really* Runs the Biden Show? Closer Look at Doocy Clip Reveals Clues

"This lady is the President now."

 Turley Reveals How WH Exchange With Peter Doocy Can Magnify Trouble for Biden on Impeachment – RedState  "President Joe Biden’s handlers have become infamous among the White House press corps and beyond for, among other things, the aggressive way they usher reporters away from Biden in order to shield him from uncomfortable questions and embarrassment.

Kamala Harris to be his running mate. During that period of time, members of the news media were literally herded away from Biden like farm animals, so much so that the yelling at them to leave the room even left Harris of all people looking tense at times.

The practice has only gotten worse during his time as president, so much so that at various points the handlers have gotten physical with reporters, which it goes without saying takes things to a whole new and disturbing level.

But while usually we see Biden’s handlers directing everyone else around and away, sometimes their responsibility is to handle Joe Biden – as in to guide him away from dangerous reporters, especially the kind who aren’t easily intimidated.

Such was the case on Wednesday, when during the now-infamous clip of Biden losing it with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, a handler stepped in moments after Doocy began asking the Devon Archer speakerphone question — and proceeded to promptly take control of the situation… and Joe Biden.". . .

Fox reporter Peter Doocy shouted a question to the president during the event in New Mexico. When the president could not hear him, he asked him to get closer. Doocy jumped over the barriers to speak with the president. It is hard to hear the conversation, but it was an… pic.twitter.com/dgRxxmTqam

— Emel Akan (@mlakan) August 9, 2023

It’s an honor to meet you, President Thank You We Really Have To Go Now.

. . ."Whatever the case may be, while we all know at this point who the Handler in Chief is (cc: Jill Biden), I think we’ve just figured out who perhaps more than anyone else in the White House unquestionably has Jill and Joe Biden’s six – quite literally." . . .

Turley Reveals How WH Exchange With Peter Doocy Can Magnify Trouble for Biden on Impeachment – RedState   "I wrote the other day about George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley’s take on the latest Trump indictment, and how Special Counsel Jack Smith’s approach in it could backfire on Joe Biden.

"Turley made the point that Smith was trying to criminalize political “lies” but if they wanted to do that, Biden would be in a great deal of trouble, particularly when it comes to an impeachment inquiry." . . . 

Peter Doocy is back and he is holding nothing back! He just walked up to Joe Biden and asked him about Devon Archer's sworn testimony implicating the President in Hunter's business dealings. pic.twitter.com/PtI2d5gjpu

— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) August 9, 2023

A leftist just admitted to what President Trump has been saying all along

This is how President Trump is correct in saying “They are after you, I’m just in the way,” but it’s time we stood up to the extreme leftists who are turning into Nazis without the uniform. 

  D. Parker - American Thinker   "The political persecution of President Trump is just the beginning; the fascist far left wants to go after anyone who speaks out against them.

"For years, President Trump has said “They are after you, I’m just in the way” and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) recently confirmed that by saying the quiet part out loud. On an MSNBC segment, Crockett said that Republicans defending Trump:

…are really getting dangerously close, in my opinion, to criminal culpability in and of themselves, as well….

"In essence, the most recent political persecution of President Trump is for the “crime” of speaking out against the irregularities of the 2020 election, a tried-and-true tradition of the far left whenever they lose an election.

"Call it the Stacey Abrams Syndrome of just about any other Democrat the past few years documented in videos of leftists complaining about elections. Such as these 24 STRAIGHT MINUTES of Democrats denying election results. The key difference here is that President Trump is on the wrong side of the Department of (in)Justice, just like the rest of us.

"So, the larger question becomes, why did Crockett make the veiled threat? We could be “getting dangerously close… to criminal culpability” for defending Trump and defending free speech?

"Well, it should be easy to follow the “progression” for want of a better word. You can see in going after President Trump, it’s not just to distract from the antics of the Biden crime family. It’s far more sinister than that. It goes to what the left has become and how it has to defend its actions. It’s a similar pattern in a story highlighted on Glenn Beck today, outlined here:. . ."

Scared Jurors, Intimidation: Reporter Andy Ngo's Case Against Antifa Shows How Desperately Lost Portland Is –

  PJ Media

Journalist Andy Ngo was chased, beaten, and chased again when he burst into a downtown Portland, Ore., hotel in May 2021 to get away from his black-bloc-clad Antifa attackers. “They’re trying to kill me,” he told the understandably frightened hotel workers. It wasn’t the first time he’d been attacked by the notorious Portland terrorist gang. If Portland’s criminal justice system wouldn’t stop these guys, Ngo figured, he’d sue them for $1 million.

On Tuesday, a Portland jury decided that two key alleged Antifa conspirators whose cases went to trial were not civilly liable for Ngo’s injuries, both physical and otherwise. The trial was marred by intimidation tactics — not just from the attackers but from their attorney who declared to the unidentified jury members, “I am Antifa” and “I will remember each one of your faces.” We’re talking Godfather stuff here.

Before you dismiss this as “Hey, you signed up for this, Portland, you voted in these knuckleheads who gave Antifa a wide berth,” let’s consider what this case means.

I sat in a Multnomah County courtroom in the trial of another journalist who was beaten by Antifa members and who pulled a pistol to fend off a second attack in 2016. Not a shot was fired, the second attack was thwarted, and instead of prosecuting his attackers, woke politicians went after Mike Strickland for showing his gun. He went to jail. His attackers were never pursued. In fact, they were never identified in court or by any of the undercover cops that had infiltrated the protest crowd that day." . . .

Megan Rapinoe and Necessary Schadenfreude; She led the team by attitude when it wasn’t game time, embarrassing herself and the country. But when it mattered, she choked.

  Townhall

Whatever off-field leadership she had to offer could still have been offered, though much of what she brings off the field is described by former teammates as bullying on political activism. 

"The United States Women’s National Soccer Team is out of the Women’s World Cup. You couldn’t have missed the story, the media was more invested in the team than some team members appeared to be – hyping their every move. But the dream is over, they lost to Sweden on penalty kicks. While the press laments their defeat, a lot of normal people, myself included, are either engaging in schadenfreude over the loss or desperately fighting the urge to. If you fall into the latter category, let it go. Sometimes schadenfreude is warranted and useful to prevent the need for much more of it in the future.

"Megan Rapinoe is a hard person to like. Personally, I find it impossible. There’s something especially annoying about people who have so much whining about what they don’t have like they’re entitled to it. That’s why I can’t stand Democrats – you want “more”? Get off your ass and earn it. 

"Rapinoe felt like she deserved more because she was the best women’s soccer player in the world and she wasn’t making as much as men were. So what? Women’s sports don’t bring in nearly as much as men do, so the pay should be less. Draw a crowd, sell some merch and the cash follows. She didn’t want to earn it, and it turns out she didn’t have to." . . .

 . . .Megan got her activism – many on the team disrespected the national anthem, something Rapinoe pioneered. Who knows what would have happened if she and her toxic attitude weren’t there?   Even if she were honest and realized her making the team was more of a PR stunt than merit based, she could have told the coach to put someone else, someone younger and better, in the final game over her. But ego is was Megan Rapinoe had more than anything else throughout her career."

Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe Offers to Be Joe Biden’s Running Mate! | Tony's Thoughts (cuny.edu)   

“I don’t want to put you on the spot — I think I could still play soccer and do this,” Rapinoe said. “But if you need a vice president, I’m just saying I’m available for an interview. We can talk logistics and the details. Put it on your list.

Congratulations on your suicide, Baltimore

  Don Surber

. . ."So the newspaper’s worries not about the millions in value vanishing from the owners of commercial real estate. The newspaper’s only concern is that city won’t collect as much from onerous property taxes as it used to.

"One South Street lost 64% of its value in 8 short years.

"Now what happened 8 years ago when the owners sold the 30-story building cashed in and pocketed $66 million for a building that is now worth $24 million?

"The Freddie Gray riots.

"When a career criminal died in the hospital from spinal cord injuries, the ignorant masses blamed the police. The city filed charges against 6 officers but none stuck because they were political prosecutions. Nevertheless, the city gave Gray’s family (spins dial) $6.4 million.

"The real problem was Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake sided with the rioters. She ordered police to stand down and allow rioters to loot and destroy businesses.

"She told the press, “I made it very clear that I work with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech.

" 'It's a very delicate balancing act. Because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.”

"Rioting is free speech!". . .

Nine Years Later, Race Hustlers are Still Lying About the Death of Michael Brown

  Legal Insurrection

The “hands up, don’t shoot” lie gave birth to the formal Black Lives Matter movement. Possibly the most significant social and political movement of the past decade, one that has re-shaped our country, was based on a lie that is repeated year after year after year. I’m never, ever, going to stop telling the truth about it. 

"Nine years ago today, Michael Brown was shot dead by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The death created the Black Lives Matter movement, which prior to that was only a hashtag, and took it to national fame, based on the claim that Brown was shot with his “hands up” while pleading “don’t shoot.”

"But the Black Lives Matter movement was birthed based up on a lie. Two lies, actually. The first was the lie about the Trayvon Martin shooting that created the hashtag – Martin was not shot because he was black while wearing a hoodie. He was shot one time by George Zimmerman while Martin was beating him to a bloody pulp mixed martial arts style and slamming his head into concrete. We covered the trial exhaustively, and Zimmerman properly was found by the jury to have acted in lawful self-defense.

• Five years after Trayvon Martin’s death, myths and lies about case live on (February 16, 2017)
• Seven years after Trayvon Martin shooting, the falsehoods, propaganda and misinformation are worse than ever (February 26, 2019)

"But the Brown lie was even bigger, because it birthed both the formal movement and the movement’s overarching propaganda slogan, “hands up, don’t shoot.” . . .

Cori Bush Hit With Immediate Reality Check After Mourning Michael Brown Nine Years After His Death – RedState   "Like the other members of the so-called “Squad” of woke liberals in Congress, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) has become infamous for giving Democrats nightmares by inadvertently calling attention to how far out of the mainstream they’ve become on issues like abortion, community policing, and pronoun politics.

In addition to being a raging hypocrite, Bush has also become notorious for racial arson in the way she belittles black conservatives and completely revises history when it suits her political purposes." . . .

. . .Then-Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden shamelessly did it in August 2020. In 2019, then-presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren also got in on the action with claims so wildly off the mark regarding what happened that even the Dem apologists at several leading fact-checking orgs stepped in to correct the record.

If Democrats did not have the race card to fall back on as a crutch and rallying cry, their party as we know it would cease to exist. . . .

CNN Hosts Under Fire For Putting 'Hands Up' On Air, Critics Claim Bias | HuffPost Latest News

'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' makes WaPo's list of false claims | Washington Examiner

No post about race hoaxes should omit a quote by ex-slave Booker T. Washington.

Way back in 1911 he said:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

California’s New ‘Gas Price-Gouging Law’ Flunks the Basic Economics Test - Foundation for Economic Education

 "The truth is, Gavin Newsom's Division of Petroleum Market Oversight cannot solve a simple economic reality: scarcity." Yet when you had the chance to remove Gav the Gov for a better man, California chose to keep this albatross. TD

AF Branco; Townhall

Nothing to see here: Devon Who?, Rah Rah “Bidenomics,” “Illusions of Access” (legalinsurrection.com)    "Another week, another week of Democrat propagandist media antics. From ignoring stories about their Dear Leader that they would be cycling 24/7 if they were about any Republican to promoting absolute crazy in lieu of actual news, the Democrat hacktivists have had a busy week.

"Having been in around-the-clock propaganda mode about what a wonderful, leg thrill-inducing success “Bidenomics” has been, the Democrat hacktivists are not breaking through.

Newsbusters: “MEDIA FAIL: New CBS News Poll Shows Most Americans Think ‘Bidenomics’ Sucks”

ZeroHedge: “Biden Gaslights Americans With Fake ‘Manufacturing Boom’ As US Production Plunges”

Speaking of gaslighting (via Twitchy): The NY Times “reports” that “it’s ‘long been known that elder Biden’ interacted with son’s business partners.”

Fee.org   "Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took to Twitter earlier this week to crow about California ’s “first-in-the-nation” gas price-gouging law designed to prevent oil companies from overcharging consumers.

“A NEW independent watchdog — The Division of Petroleum Market Oversight — will monitor the industry to help ensure you’re not being ripped off,” Newsom tweeted. “Time to hold oil companies accountable.”

"The legislation, which was signed into law in March and went into effect on Monday, requires refineries to send daily reports to the petroleum oversight division — all to protect consumers by shining “a light on price manipulation so Californians aren't vulnerable to the greedy whims of Big Oil," in Newsom’s words.

"The idea that greedy oil companies are swindling consumers is alluring, especially since California has the highest gas prices in the country — about $1.08 more than the U.S. average, according to Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog.

"But there are better explanations for California’s high gas prices than “price gouging.”

"or starters, California consumers pay 83.5 cents in taxes and fees for every gallon of gas they pump, according to the Energy Information Administration — more than any other state with the exception of Illinois (85.8 cents per gallon).

"This alone is a big reason Californians pay much more for gas than most other Americans, but it’s not the only reason." . . .

Gavin ‘Gruesome’ Newsom weds his state to a foreign communist province to ‘fight climate change’ -

 American Thinker

Alabama didn’t ban incandescent light bulbs; a bunch of unelected bureaucrats did. Texas didn’t erase the statutes on the books regarding the immigration process; Alejandro Mayorkas just has no respect for the rule of law.  

"The fact that a seedy and unregulated Chinese-linked lab containing bioweapons can somehow operate right next door to a naval base in California undetected for months while the FBI simultaneously hunts down every single American that breathed near D.C.’s capitol or mentioned anything about stolen elections on social media, makes even more sense in the context of Gavin Newsom’s recent press release—anti-American actors have friends in the highest of places.

"On August 3rd, Newsom’s office announced that California had partnered with the Chinese province of Hainan to “fight climate change.” What a strange marriage, considering China remains the number one producer of CO2 in the world, and emits more than twice as much as the United States. The objective of the accord, signed by both Newsom and Hainan’s Vice Governor Chen Huaiyu, read:

The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding is to establish a flexible framework between the Participants in order to permit them to collaborate on protecting the environment, combating climate change and advancing clean energy development. 

"So what do those collaborative efforts look like? Among other things, the scheme iterates the “implementation of carbon neutrality plans” and the “deployment of zero emission vehicles” along with the “phase-out of fossil fuel” engines.

"Almost sounds like wartime language if you were to ask me; “neutralizing” carbon strikes a familiar chord with, “You are the carbon they want to reduce.' ” . . .

Budweiser Humiliated at Sturgis After Woke Company's Stunt to Win Back Fans Epically Backfires

 Budweiser Humiliated at Sturgis After Woke Company's Stunt to Win Back Fans Epically Backfires (westernjournal.com)

"The punishing conservative boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand continues unabated, as the beer giant was unceremoniously blackballed at a major motorcycle event it sponsored in South Dakota.

"The grim situation was captured in a TikTok video by user CycleDrag, who posted shocking footage Tuesday showing tent after tent with row after row of empty Budweiser booths that had been set up to promote the beer.

"The TikTok video was shared on Twitter by a user who noted that there were “ZERO attendees at the Budweiser tent in Sturgis. This may be the BIGGEST marketing blunder of all time!”

"The no-show was especially jarring because Budweiser was an official sponsor of this year’s City of Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. So even when it lavishes money to woo customers to a free event, beer drinkers stayed away in droves." . . .

Bud Light Losing Shelf Space: Will Probably Never Recover Sales - The Lid (lidblog.com)  

You may remember at the beginning of the Bud Light boycott, this writer emphasized that boycotts never work. The Bud Light boycott worked. The marketing effort with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was the wrong marketing effort at the wrong time. It severely hurt the brand, releasing Americans’ hatred for the wokeness shoved down our throats for too many years. Someone in the Marketing Dept. didn’t do the job of understanding the product’s consumers.

It goes on; the Babylon Bee: Beverage Pretending To Be Beer Features Man Pretending To Be Woman | Babylon Bee

. . ."Long a staple drink of people who hate actual beer, Bud Light felt putting Dylan Mulvaney's face on a can would also attract people who hate actual women. "As a man acting out the most horrendously offensive stereotypes of women, Mulvaney taps into the soul of people who despise real women," said Mr. Whitworth. "As a company dedicated to serving those who detest real beer, the partnership made perfect sense. The new beer can just shouts, 'Come, enjoy this atrocious substitute for the real thing'."

"While a few in the media questioned the move, so far Bud Light fans have welcomed drinking out of a can featuring the face of a guy with a little girl fetish. "It really completes the experience," said Bud Light fan Mason Olsen. "If that dude with his massive jaw can pretend to be a little girl - well, I can pretend this is real beer. It's pretty inspiring."