A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1481483
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1481483
2 Likes
68 Likes
48 Likes
What Does Former Fox Shrink Keith Ablow Have To Do With The Hunter Biden Case? | Crooks and Liars
For starters, confusing sawdust with cocaine. Yes, it’s funny, but there’s also an ominous connection to the former Fox News psychiatrist who sent the photo to Hunter Biden.
Also, for those who missed this picture the first (and third) times I posted it, bc it’s hysterical, this is what experienced drug prosecutor Derek Hines called cocaine.
By NewsHound Ellen — February 21, 2024
As part of its “proof” that Hunter Biden lied about his cocaine use when he purchased a gun in 2018, prosecutors submitted a photo it obtained from his phone of “apparent cocaine.” In reality, the photo is almost certainly sawdust.
Furthermore, Biden’s lawyers note, the photo was sent to Biden, not taken by him.
> More specifically, the discovery identifies this as a photo of a photo taken in the office of Mr. Biden’s then-psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, which Dr. Ablow initially received from an [sic] master carpenter and later texted to Mr. Biden, stating: “This one in my office is of lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.” The message accompanying that photo was meant to convey that Mr.Biden, too, could overcome any addiction. The prosecution does not provide a date for the photo, but the message from Dr. Ablow is dated November 20, 2018.
…Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Yes, indeed. But what jumped out at us at C&L was Dr. Keith Ablow’s role in all this. How on earth did Hunter Biden become a patient of that dangerous nut job? Ablow’s involvement makes my spidey senses tingle.
Long-time readers will probably recall that Ablow made a name for himself as one of Fox News’ craziest contributors, and that’s saying a lot. For example, Ablow claimed that then-President Obama’s push for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was due to abandonment issues that led him to push for “disempowering the individual” and a belief that “the collective needs to be empowered and all the better if [Obama is] the center of the collective and the most powerful person."
57 Likes
Because the guy’s last name is Smirnov, I keep on hearing variations on “in Putin Russia, source impeach you.”
44 Likes
Garland must open investigations of congresscritters criming against their own country.
Dontcha think?
41 Likes
I have absolutely no doubt that the case against Hunter Biden will continue to be in the news throughout the 2024 election. So will the Burisma story. And the Biden impeachment (run by a complete moron in the House). These, despite the debunking of all the so-called ‘evidence’ the GQP has been pushing, in some cases, for a couple of years.
It would be seriously nice and helpful, if the media would finally start calling out the bull#$%^ coming from these GQP morons, who’ve yet to do anything useful in their elected positions, so they can be kicked to the curb in November.
I have to wonder what it’s going to take, with all this clear and admitted connection to Russian intel, to get people to figure out we’re getting suckered by the GQP. What’s it going to take?
85 Likes
Republicans will always make sure their wives and mistresses will have access to abortion…
34 Likes
Same shit, different day NY Times edition
49 Likes
The Guy might be a perv, but he sure has his theology right…
Gloria Branciani, 59, appeared at a news conference with one of the most prominent Vatican-accredited lawyers in Rome, Laura Sgro, to tell her story in public for the first time. She detailed the alleged abuses of the Rev. Marko Rupnik, including his fondness for three-way sex “in the image of the Trinity” which, if confirmed, could constitute a grave perversion of Catholic doctrine known as false mysticism.
35 Likes
I always use a bandsaw when I cut cocaine; the narrower kerf produces less waste
81 Likes
“it doesn’t change the … fundamental facts.”
The “fundamental facts” being that Biden will be impeached, no matter what.
32 Likes
Is there any doubt what the outcome would have been if Trump had any say in the matter?
Elections and the rule of law have consequences in more than one nation sometimes.
48 Likes
For any who might have missed it last night, Lawrence O’Donnell gave a long and worthwhile lesson (particularly for the bedwetting types). Well worth watching. Lawrence on what they don’t tell you about the Dump Biden ‘fantasy’ (youtube.com)
49 Likes
Yes, but he won’t.
10 Likes
Virginia Gov. Sweatervest at the anti-abortion rally in Richmond
Only the best people
56 Likes