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James Comer’s Latest ‘Biden Scandal’ Fizzles Out | Crooks and Liars
By Karoli Kuns — December 4, 2023
If you’re James Comer and Jonathan Turley there is nothing too petty, too stupid, and too dishonest to slap on President Biden. The latest “scandal” is a series of monthly payments from Hunter Biden’s company, Owasco PC, to Joe Biden in 2018, when Joe Biden neither held nor sought public office and certainly had no influence over foreign affairs. I shouldn’t even have to say that, but I do because these yahoos are trying so hard to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, or something.
So here’s what the hoo-ha is about: Hunter Biden borrowed one of Joe Biden’s cars – a truck, actually – and paid him for the car payments while he had the car, according to the Washington Post . “The 3 payments of $1,380 that occurred in Sept, Oct & Nov of 2018 — nearly 2 years after Biden left as VP — were actually for a 2018 Ford Raptor Biden had purchased that Hunter Biden was using, according to an email verified by a Post forensic analysis.”
Worse yet, these payments were reported in the New York Post 18 months ago, so they’re not any kind of revelation at all.
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Fox News headline
Media panic over possible Trump second term grows with warnings of ‘dictatorship,’ dystopia (msn.com)
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"Desperate people do desperate things."
"Piggy pigs act like piggy pigs."
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Wow. What a depressing Morning Memo today.
Its either time to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head or start an action plan for 2024. Although I’m still hoping that the MFWWBN gets convicted and incarcerated or kicks the bucket in the most spectacular way.
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Disappointing that the Morning Memo has returned to being mainly an accumulation of links, some of which are to publications that require subscriptions.
This is so much fun, though -
Trump Gag Order In NY Trial Not Going Away
Donald Trump missed a deadline for expedited review of the gag order imposed in the New York civil fraud trial, meaning it will likely remain in place through the remainder of the trial.
So Trump lawyers who failed to check the box for a jury trial request (judge said it wouldn’t have been granted, but they still should have asked.) have now missed the deadline to appeal for the expedited review. Cue the clown car!
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I prefer this order:
- Convicted,
- Incarcerated, and then
- Kick the bucket.
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You can take the producer out of Fox but you’ll never take the Fox out of the producer…
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Meanwhile in Oklahoma…
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$4140 ain’t going to buy shit, influence from China, or any other country. I really have to ask if any banking regulatory agency on KY has looked into how Comer ran that bank back home.
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All those luxury vacations, and RVs are about to pay off…
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“She’s not the most articulate Trump critic, she doesn’t come with the least baggage, and she no longer holds elected office or much sway in official GOP circles, but former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and people like her could serve as an important bridge for conservatives looking to re-enter normal, consensus-based, majority-rule politics. That’s an important function – creating and serving as a form of permission structure – for eventually bringing wayward conservatives back into the fold. I admit that “eventually” is doing a lot of work there.”
Ain’t gonna happen. If any Republicans were morally disposed to ditch the GOP, they would have jumped at some point during the Trump maladministration, at the latest on January 7, 2021. Unfortunately, these people are spiritually corrupted beyond redemption. They will remain a threat to democracy for the rest of our lifetimes.
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Sigh…
Can’t we just forward ahead to the part where TFG is jailed and penniless?
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I’ve already started my action plan for 2024. First up is collected initiative signatures for our new redistricting initiative here in Ohio. I’ll probably add canvassing for the initiative and canvassing for Sherrod Brown after Labor Day. I’m not sure what else needs or should be added. I mean, obviously I’m going to vote. If the redistricting initiative passes, I’ve thought about applying for one of the Commission positions, but that’s more of a 2025 action plan.
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I’ve personally asked the Krampus to rid my neighborhood of those noisy, obnoxious, little kids!
I’m back home but very sore and very tired. Mostly just lurking around for a while.
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I don’t care what the route is, and I sure don’t know what the transition matrix looks like, but the important thing to me is that TMFWWNBNH reaches that absorbing state (3) with alacrity.
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Here are some of his clients
The Violent and Extreme History of Mike Johnson’s Old Legal Clients (thedailybeast.com)
The Daily Beast’s review turned up one former Johnson client who said the government “should be a terror” to abortion providers and the LGBTQ community, another who opposed the condemnation of domestic terrorist attacks on abortion clinics, and another client who went on to record himself endorsing the hanging of government officials while in the thick of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
That former client now leads a militant organization tied to one of the darkest chapters in the anti-abortion movement: the 2009 murder of a Kansas abortion doctor. And that plaintiff’s father also turned to Johnson when he wanted to secure a permit in 2003 for an anti-LGBTQ protest—a protest that ended in the attempted stabbing of a gay man.
In that particular case, Johnson’s client—anti-gay activist and former radical Christian preacher Grant E. Storms—later made national news in 2012 when he confessed to masturbating in his van by a playground in Metairie, Louisiana. Storms was convicted of indecent exposure and sentenced to three years probation.
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I’m sorry Ms Scoutmom but we’re experiencing a shortage of clown cars at the moment. A certain political party has booked them through 2025, with an option to extend their lease to 2029.
Sincerely, 
INC
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