Open Thread

Hunter skated. Of course he skated. We all knew he would skate. He’s the son of a prominent Democrat. Even if Pudding Brain hadn’t been installed into the White House, Hunter would have skated. That Daddy was given the office just makes it even more existentially sure that a skate would occur.

This doesn’t really make any of us mad. We’re already angry with the two-tiered justice system. What we’re mad about is supposed fellow Righties justifying it.

The most absurd take – so widespread on the Never Trump Right that it must have been a memo sent out – was “well, Hunter cooperated and this is what happens when you do that, unlike Trump!”. FFS…cooperated on what? He committed several obvious felonies – especially given Democrat shrieks regarding guns his weapons violations. When you play ball with the prosecutor it is to get a light sentence as you drop dime on your criminal partners…Hunter isn’t dropping dime on anyone. He doesn’t have to: he had a “get out of jail free” card issued to him the moment his Dad showed himself to be a loyal Democrat Party foot soldier. So, like back by 1975. Getting to the VP slot and the White House just gold plated that ticket. Hunter got off because his name is Biden; plain and simple and that is all there is to it. Meanwhile, Trump is indicted not for breaking a law, but for being Trump. He’s guilty on an infinite charge of being Trump.

But what should also be noted here is that to justify this deal – to either participate in making it happen or excuse it after the fact – indicates sheer sociopathic behavior. Narcissism of the serial killer variety. It really is that stark; no person with any sense of decency can say other than the evidence in the Hunter case at least merits felony charges be issued. Whether or no Hunter could beat the rap in court is an unknown…but sending him to trial is warranted. Not allowing him to plea out with no jail time. But people are out there saying just that – it is all cool! These are the people who will happily shove you into a boxcar for the death camp. Who would happily inform on you to the secret police. Who would shout the loudest during a show trial.

Heard about that missing tourist sub on the Titanic? More I read, the more ridiculous it becomes…seems like it was a home-brew submersible with off-the-shelf equipment. I’m pretty confident those poor people are dead. But I would like to point out that the Titanic sits at 12,500 feet deep and the pressure is 390 times greater than on the surface. My point: it is dangerous. Even the best designed sub with the most experienced crew can be killed in an instant if something goes wrong. People simply should have a little more sense – certainly a greater understanding of risk/reward.

Looks like we “accidentally” sent an extra $6.2 billion to Ukraine. Yeah. Accident. How much you wanna bet me we never see a dime of that back and it all wound up in Swiss bank accounts?

A Muslim-majority town in Michigan banned the display of the “pride” flag on public buildings. A completely reasonable stance to take and one which Christians should duplicate in communities where they hold a majority. Naturally, this has caused some problems on the Left – how to square that “refugees welcome” and “pride” circle? After a few days to think it over, they’ve arrived at their solution: tell Muslims they are being fooled by White Supremacists and they better get their kids into transition indoctrination centers right quick.

I don’t think this will work.

29 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Amazona's avatar Amazona June 20, 2023 / 9:44 pm

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan June 21, 2023 / 3:25 pm

      He nailed that!

  2. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 21, 2023 / 3:37 pm

    Where do you suppose Hunter got all that money that he tried to evade income tax on?? I know I have to provide my sources of income. But then again, I’m a MAGA extremist

    I’ve been suspended from Twitter for a week for telling a particularly ignorant and over emotional Democrat to go put on some makeup to help him feel better. Can’t even criticize the poor darlings now.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan June 21, 2023 / 7:15 pm

      The thing is, I bet that Hunter is a piker at this – that CA bullet train is ballooning to a $100 billion project from originally about $10 billion…that money isn’t being set on fire; it is going into pockets. Taking inflation into consideration you’ve got to figure they are planning on using that one project to steal at least $80 billion.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 8:43 am

        Remember when George Bush was adding $4 trillion to the debt bringing the total to $8 trillion back in 2008? And Obama accused him of taking out a credit card from China and spending our kids futures?? Well 15 years and $23 trillion dollars later, we now have the ruling class telling us how fiscally responsible they are. And it’s the same f****king people.

        If you haven’t realized that this country is f**ked and currently led by grifters in both parties … you’re not paying attention.

      • jdge's avatar jdge1 June 23, 2023 / 1:41 pm

        I remember some 55 – 60 years ago when there was a proposal to build the first Nine Mile nuclear power plant in upstate NY, currently the oldest working plant in the US. The construction portion began in 1965 and received its operating license in 1974. The “experts” calculated it would cost about $30 million and take about 3 years to build. Some $300 million plus and nearly 10 years later it was completed.

        The estimated cost to build a nuclear power plant today is in the $2 – 4B dollar range and that’s just for construction, as there are all kinds of “additional” costs that are not part of that projection. For example, the estimated costs to decommission Nine Mile is $1.5B with over 1,300 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel left on site. Probably well before the construction of this plant, politicians understood how these kind of developments would provide them with all kinds of personal monetary gains AND greatly increase reelection prospects, in part because there are so many jobs and families attached that to pull the plug would negatively impact those on the ground.

        I learned back then in my younger teen years, the experts rarely know what they’re talking about and politicians connected to these type of projects will be rewarded.

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 8:48 am

    There are few people in Government willing to call out the bullshit, and Matt Gaetz is one

  4. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 9:02 am

    I’ll leave this here and note that thanks to Democrats, you’ll see a lot more of this in the years to come

    ‘My daughter was murdered by a gender ideology’: LA mom slams CPS after it took away her daughter and let her transition into a man – before she killed herself three years later aged just 19

  5. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 9:18 am

    If you didn’t watch the Durham hearing yesterday … Democrat Steve Cohen said the quiet part out loud lol. Democrats are unhinged and obsessed

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 12:07 pm

      You could’ve stopped at “I’m a little confused”

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook June 22, 2023 / 1:40 pm

      LOL!!

  6. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 22, 2023 / 7:24 pm

    If the new reporting on Hunter Biden isn’t enough to impeach Joe, then I give up. It’s beyond any shadow of doubt that Hunter Biden used his dads position in government to shake down foreign governments to the tune of $17 million of which he got $8.3. And Joe knew about it and profited.

    Impeach 46

  7. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 23, 2023 / 8:44 am

    Joe’s money is in his multiple homes, and the 20 LLC’s he set up. Hunter’s take was $8.3 million of which he evaded over $2 million in taxes, something that has sent many other people to prison, and re: the laws Hunter broke?? Well there’s tax evasion, illegal drug use, lying on a fire arm application, and quite possibly statutory rape.

    Oh and Hunter was kicked out of an LA sex club for wait for it …. being too creepy.

    Other than that, you support a nice family

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 12:30 pm

      But…but….MEAN TWEETS!

  8. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 23, 2023 / 8:58 am

    Casper, we all know how painfully partisan you are, but just imagine for a moment if all this grift from foreign countries, tax evasion, illegal drug use, drug fueled sex tapes, etc. that the Biden family is engaged in, was being discovered about the Trump family.

    How do you suppose people like you, and the media, would react? Do you think the Media would just say “well there’s no direct link to President Trump, and we can’t find the money, so nothing to see here??

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 12:29 pm

      I would have a hard time hiding millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains, but then to do so I would have to have some legitimate reasons to travel internationally to have access to banks in various countries where banking is less regulated than here. So I would need to have the cover of, for example, having companies and associates in places like China and Ukraine and Russia, for example, so I could explain extensive travels.

      It would really be handy if I had a partner whose stepfather has several private jets—maybe someone like Chris Heinz—or if I could hitch a ride on Air Force Two every now and then when my dad was globe-hopping to set up the transfer of billions of American taxpayer dollars to various foreign nations—some of which were then happy to work with me on “business” deals that moved a lot of that money around.

      The limited perspective of a mediocre middle school teacher from Casper, Wyoming about the issues of how to hide money is not very impressive.

  9. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 23, 2023 / 9:18 am

    Let’s just all imagine for one second if Don Trump Jr sent the following text to a Chinese Energy official …

    “I am sitting here with my father and would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Biden wrote in a July 30, 2017, message to Henry Zhao.

    “I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

    How does everyone suppose MSNBC would cover this story?

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 23, 2023 / 10:05 am

      And there we have it folks, thanks Fielding for chiming in and showing us all the blind partisan ignorance all Democrats suffer from. Let me help you with this fielding … first of all, it does not matter if Joe was in the room with Hunter, this text proves beyond any doubt, that Hunter used his Dads position to extort money. Secondly, the whistle blower Gary Shapley just gave an interview to CBS, sorry you missed it, and he will be testifying to Congress and just a hint: he’s a lot more believable than Alex Vindman. Finally, Barr did nothing, because he’s a fat weak piece of shit. He just handed the case off to Delaware, and the DOJ is shutting him down.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 12:19 pm

        Everyone is more believable than Vindman.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 12:17 pm

      Let me amend your comment: BARACK OBAMA IS THE FACE AND FRONT MAN FOR THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Remember what the Left fought so hard to obfuscate, lie about, distort and deny—-Barack Obama was a blank slate, a moderately bright unmotivated slacker who hated the United States and who was easily formed into a weapon of the Left. He was groomed and trained, and dropped into the heart of the country, with no real credentials. Any questions about his past were howled down as RACIST!!! or CONSPIRACY THEORIES!! while a carefully crafted flurry of other “issues” was floated to distract from the mystery of who he was and where he came from and most of all, who was paying for him.

      The whole citizenship issue was crafted to invent a conflict. All the Dems had to do was present the fact that his mother was 18 when he was born and had spent the requisite number of years living in the US before he was born and there would not have been an issue, no matter where he was born. But pumping up the matter with all sorts of red herrings like the COLB and so on kept the focus on this, allowing people to take sides based on ideology, allowing accusations of racism, and generally creating such a firestorm that the real issues of how he got into Columbia, how he got into Harvard, how he managed to be named editor of the law journal with no record of classes or grades or published articles, or who paid for all of this, were buried under the massive garbage heap of CITIZENSHIP!!!

      From his earliest days in Hawaii he was groomed by his real father, Communist and America-hater Frank Marshal Davis to hate the United States. His eventual stepfather gave him good cover as a citizen of Indonesia, till his anti-American tendencies faded and he started to like the U.S. and had to be kicked to the curb. The important question of how admitted stoner and member of the Choom Gang constantly chided for being a slacker in school somehow ended up in Harvard as editor of the prestigious law journa, not to mention how all of this was paid for, was always met with various distractions and organized howls of racism, till they faded.

      Obama was just smart enough to play the role, but there is no way he personally could be responsible for the elaborate multi-layered strategy being played out in this country.

  10. Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 2:53 pm

  11. Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 3:00 pm

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 23, 2023 / 3:41 pm

      “Conspiracy” is just another cudgel the Establishment class uses to diminish those who question conventional wisdom. Or I should say their conventional wisdom. Jimmy Neutron, aka Joe Scarborough, was on MSNBC this morning saying that Durham doesn’t know what he’s talking about because he was unfamiliar with all the reporting MSNBC did on the issue. So in Joe’s world, what MSNBC reports is gospel truth and anyone who doesn’t subscribe to that thinking, are conspiracists. So how it works? Also notice now the number of times the word “extremist” is mentioned whenever MAGA is mentioned. It’s a conditioning and people like fielding, are easily conditioned.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 5:16 pm

        The narcissism of the Left is truly astounding. Durham is a professional investigator, and MSNBC is a propaganda arm of the State parroting what is has been fed.

        Is he really claiming that MSNBC did not reveal what its massive investigative powers unearthed? If so, why not? Wouldn’t that be their job? Don’t they posture as “investigative journalists”? We know they are not journalists, but if we are supposed to buy the “investigative” part why didn’t they share their findings with the public? Or with Durham?

        If he’s right, then what is MSNBC hiding? And why?

        As for “extremist” yes, the Left does love its catchphrases, and of course this is because they know so many on the Lemming Left suck them up and never question them. “Nationalist” is another one. Of course they never explain what is wrong with being a nationalist.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 23, 2023 / 5:40 pm

        Are YOU an extremist? Let’s take the quiz and find out:

        Do you:

        Love the United States?
        Believe we should govern according to our Constitution?
        Believe that our elections should be structured so we can be confident they are honest and fair?
        That parents have the authority to make decisions for their children?
        Believe in God?
        Go to church?
        Believe it wrong to judge people by the color of their skin?
        Believe it is wrong to discriminate for or against people for the color of their skin?
        Agree that children do not have the maturity to vote, own firearms, drive, join the military or sign contracts?
        Believe the primary role of education is to teach objective facts about math, science, history and language?
        Believe it is the responsibility of families to teach cultural and sexual matters, not the schools?

        This is only a partial list of things that, if answered with a “yes”, classify people as “extremists”. (Only one “yes” is all it takes.)

        And sometimes as domestic terrorists. And often as enemies of democracy.

        It’s a scary and dangerous world we live in, here in the United States, surrounded as we are by domestic terrorists and extremists, who come right out and say they take parental responsibility seriously and believe in God and like our Constitution, who think riots are stupid and arson is bad and the law should apply equally to everyone.

  12. jdge's avatar jdge1 June 23, 2023 / 9:38 pm

    New York to appeal after judge strikes down ‘unconstitutional’ quarantine law

    Communist governments have these powers and the NY governor and leftist politicians want the same. This is could easily be used to shut down any opposition, under the guise of “for the benefit of the public”.

    Under the regulation, she said, New York public health authorities “could have removed you from your home with the force of police and put you into a detention facility of their choosing.”

    You had no say where you went and they could have held you there – or locked you in your house – for days, for weeks or months. There was no time restriction in that regulation.

    And they could have done this not just to you, but they could have done this to your child or your grandchild or your elderly parent. There was no age restriction in that regulation.

    There was no way for you to get out once they put you in there, meaning there wasn’t a procedure built into the regulation that said, for example, you can take a test so you could prove that you don’t have COVID or that you don’t have tuberculosis or whatever other disease is on their list.

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