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-Lurid Crime Tales-
BREAKING: Hunter Biden Cops a Sweetheart Plea Deal - No Jail time
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/20/2023 10:15 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Exactly as predicted by pretty much everyone. The US can now only ever be destroyed. Whether by its own citizenry or a foreign adversary, our leaders are too busy making bank to defend us rubes. We've been on our own for some time but this puts the shine to that.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/20/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ We've been on our own for some time but this puts the shine to that.

Some things simply cannot be polished Rex.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Hunter = member of "the protected class."
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/20/2023 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  REMEMBER.... The sentence has been established for those crimes at Federal Court system level now.

So, IF you are or someone you know is charged similar crimes.
Demand the same the NO-JAIL Time sentencing deal provided Hunter.

Because, under US Constitutional clause of the right of EQUAL JUSTICE, anything else handed out, would be Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/20/2023 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  But I was promised that there would be no scandals. Maybe we were promised no sandals and it autocorrected.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/20/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The proper procedure would have been to threaten him with felony charges and hard time unless he agreed to testify against the Big Guy. Instead, he gets a slap on the wrist in the hope that it will satisfy everybody and that now everybody will just shut up about Hunter. Two tier justice system is still firmly in place.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/20/2023 11:50 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ The 'proper procedure' would have involved electricity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/20/2023 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Joe said Hunter is grounded on Friday nights all Summer and can only drive the Corvette to Church on Sunday.
Posted by: airandee || 06/20/2023 12:13 Comments || Top||

#9  are we sure this is the end of the investigation

the charges don't cover 'acting as a unregistered foreign agent' which seems like an obvious charge

also, money laundering seems obvious
Posted by: lord garth || 06/20/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#10  How long until the big guy pardons him?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/20/2023 13:34 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 06/20/2023 13:46 Comments || Top||

#12  The “investigation” will be ongoing for the purposes of stonewalling any action against the Bidens.

It does not matter. In reality, this is the Bud Lite can for our favorite Delaware crime syndicate. Joe’s polls will tank tonight and there will be no plateau. This action was DC business as usual in an environment where the American people have no more patience.
The toilet will now be plunged and flushed. By the end of July, everyone will be talking about what a bad mistake this was. Like the Target CEOs, all of the Washington crowd will be brainstorming how to JBWeld their Humpty back into the papier-mâché puppet that had been so useful for their purposes. It won’t work. This day was neap tide in their dukey show. Now they will flow out to their doom. The last chance to step on the beach has passed at noon. The Titanic is in the news for a reason that they did not discern. Bon Voyage.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/20/2023 13:58 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ I think this is correct. They can't help themselves and they don't even recognize they have a problem.

And by "they," I mean the entire dem party, the media (but I repeat myself) and the deep state, which includes many people whose ideology is neither left nor right, but "me."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/20/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||

#14  They went too far. They won’t know it for weeks because the shift will happen in the 40 states that they pay no attention to.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/20/2023 14:18 Comments || Top||

#15  ^^^^
Ditto
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/20/2023 14:19 Comments || Top||

#16  I dunno, Super. Hope you're right but MSM will make scant mention of this and then drop it down the Memory Hole. Since most people get all of their information from the TV nightly news, that could well be all that comes of it. A lot of people know what it's like to have one or more "troubled individuals" in their families. The point will be made that Hunter is not Joe and Joe didn't know. MSM will not contradict it. Target and Bud Lite will ride out the storm without apology. Biden's puppet masters will try to do the same.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/20/2023 14:19 Comments || Top||

#17  I declare Bidenweiser.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/20/2023 14:27 Comments || Top||

#18  I think we can all agree on that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/20/2023 14:39 Comments || Top||

#19  As a rule, tipping points look unremarkable in hindsight. The notion that this isn't bad enough to be it is probably incorrect.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/20/2023 14:57 Comments || Top||

#20  As to "they", paraphrasing: "I admire their purity... unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality. I can't lie to you about our chances, but you have my sympathies.".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/20/2023 16:46 Comments || Top||

#21  Poster child for WHITEPRIVILEGE
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/20/2023 17:43 Comments || Top||

#22  P2k I would say Democrat privilege
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/20/2023 18:40 Comments || Top||

#23  The leftist control of most media isn't enough to prevent people from occasionally getting the facts.

At this point, most people still want election integrity despite years of leftist agiprop on the subject.

Likewise, affirmative action is opposed by a solid majority.

Likewise a solid majority thinks Biden is too old and/or crazy and/or senile to be Pres again.
Posted by: lord garth || 06/20/2023 19:55 Comments || Top||

#24  It's the stuff people talk about among themselves, not the curated lies of the lamestream media that will do the damage.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/20/2023 20:25 Comments || Top||

#25  DEEPER... WHAT IF THOUGHT.

A political deal was made to allow Hunter to skate in exchange for some type of DOJ cease fire on Trump?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/20/2023 23:07 Comments || Top||

#26  Those January 6th political prisoners did less (if anything) than what our artiste did.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/20/2023 23:13 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Gavin Newsom greets Biden in California: Governor tries to shut down speculation he is running a shadow 2024 campaign by showering president with praise over his green agenda
Looking for a VP slot?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/20/2023 06:24 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why run for President when you control the current one.
Posted by: airandee || 06/20/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  This picture says it all. Sleazoid that he is, Newsom is at least "with it" and smiling. Newsom knows where he is and what he's doing there. Biden has that blank expression on his face that says he hasn't a clue.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/20/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Yosemite Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change
[WFB] Several firefighters injured in 'ginormous' blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project
What happened: Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a "ginormous inferno" in Yosemite National Park. Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.

• Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.

By the numbers: The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan's failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.

• The so-called Oak Fire destroyed 127 homes and 66 outbuildings. Roughly 6,000 people were forced to evacuate as the inferno torched 30 square miles of land and smoke from the fire drifted more than 200 miles into parts of Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area.

What they're saying: "Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson. These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice," Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said in a statement. Authorities did not say how Wackerman is believed to have started the fire.

What they said: "Thank you to all the firefighters and first responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions to combat the #OakFire," Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) wrote on Twitter on July 25, 2022. "Worsening drought and severe weather will only continue to put lives and property at risk from wildfire if we don't take climate action NOW."

• "More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake," former Vice President Al Gore said on July 24, 2022, citing climate change as the reason "droughts and fires are hitting us so hard."

Crucial context: Several days before Wackerman's arrest, authorities busted Democratic donor Themis Matsoukas for allegedly performing sexual acts with his dog at Rothrock State Forest in Pennsylvania. "I do it to blow off steam," the Elizabeth Warren supporter told investigators.

• Matsoukas is 64 years old; Wackerman is 71.

Bottom line: We need a total and complete shutdown of liberal Baby Boomers entering state and national parks until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/20/2023 07:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats commit all kinds of crimes that they blame on others. Once in a while they get caught.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/20/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Caught, yes. Punished? Rarely if ever.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/20/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope he bought offsetting Carbon Credits.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 06/20/2023 15:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Now that ^^^^ is a candidate for SOTD...
Posted by: Nero || 06/20/2023 18:08 Comments || Top||

#5  what letter or letters describe the dog guy.?
Posted by: By now || 06/20/2023 18:16 Comments || Top||

#6  POS works
Posted by: Frank G || 06/20/2023 19:38 Comments || Top||



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