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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hunter Biden's Ex-Lover Wants Him Arrested over Child Support Dispute
[Breitbart] Hunter Biden’s ex-lover, Lunden Roberts, who is the mother of his young daughter, wants him arrested as trouble brews regarding their child support deal.

In 2020, Biden agreed to pay child support to Roberts ahead of a hearing in which he faced the prospect of being held in contempt of court, Breitbart News reported at the time.

The New York Post reported Friday that Roberts, whose child is identified as seven-year-old Navy Joan, is asking an Arkansa judge “to reopen the long-running case between the former lovers and arrest the felonious 55-year-old until he complies with the agreement they settled on in 2023, according to court records viewed by The Post.”

Biden initially agreed to give the proceeds of some of his artwork to the child, while her mother abandoned her demand that her child take her father’s last name and agreed the child support payments could be reduced from $20,000 to $5,000. The Post noted that a court-ordered DNA test showed Biden is the girl’s father.

“Roberts backed her call for Biden’s arrest by arguing he only responds to issues in the child support dispute when ‘he has to do so,’ and incarceration would motivate him to answer,” the Post article said, adding, “Roberts also called for a modification to the court-ordered child support, arguing that Biden’s income has changed significantly since the last ruling in the case — with her daughter shut out of the perks the former president’s other grandchildren are receiving.”

In 2019, Roberts began looking into financial information linked to Biden’s time as a board member with the Ukrainian energy company known as Burisma Holdings, which was at the center of allegations of corruption linked to the former president and his son, Breitbart News reported.

A few years later in 2024, the ex-stripper said now former President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, had yet to meet their granddaughter, who was five years old at the time.

The Breitbart News article said “Biden at first refused to acknowledge Navy as his daughter, but later settled a child support lawsuit with Roberts. President Biden only acknowledged Navy’s existence publicly for the first time last year.”

Roberts told Inside Edition in 2024 that she met Hunter Biden when she was a dancer at a gentleman’s club in Washington, DC. At the time, Roberts said he was drinking a gallon of vodka per day, was addicted to crack, and having an affair with his sister-in-law:

“There’s a certain package that comes with Hunter, and you either accept it or you don’t. Hunter is Hunter and he came with a lot of different things but he was very charming,” Roberts explained.
Clearly charm is in the eye of the beholder. To summarize: Stripper meets free-spending alcoholic druggie while he’s cheating on his brother’s widow. The expected ensues. If any hearts of gold are involved, nobody’s saying nothin’.

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1837 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another example of a woman picking a bad sperm donor. Choose better!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/17/2026 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Bonnie always suspected Clyde had a bad side.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2026 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ...This is the weirdest Lifetime movie plot I've ever seen.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/17/2026 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  My prediction is that Hunter will not be held accountable. I’m pretty sure she has another possible revenue stream that can provide a steady flow of singles.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2026 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  ...her mother abandoned her demand that her child take her father’s last name ...

That name would have done the child no good.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2026 12:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Why was that even a demand? You just go to court and do the paperwork. I would have advised her to have name the kid Sailor Trump. That would have been a better guarantee of long term success.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2026 15:07 Comments || Top||

#7  "This is my daughter NotACrack Head"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2026 15:13 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2026 23:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Hunter brilliant? Her standards are clearly low.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2026 23:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump says he will stop federal payments to sanctuary cities next month over immigration policies
[JustTheNews] "Starting Feb. 1, we’re not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens," Trump said. "And it breeds fraud and crime and all the other problems that come. So we’re not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary."
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2026 02:34 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  A judge will block it and things will head to the Supreme Court. Everything ends up there.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2026 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Judicial Lilliputian strategy focused on bringing everything to a standstill to help the anti-ICE rioting create another "deja-vu 2020" sense of national paralysis for the mid-terms. Trump is beleaguered on every front by a resistant federal work-force, a massively hostile Media, insanely activist judges, lukewarm, self-serving legislative members, failed FBI/DoJ prosecutions and an increasingly disappointed, clueless, mid-American electorate whose desires are increasingly, "make-it-all-just-stop" and "the Orange Man is being really mean to the little brown people!

Trump isn't helping things with his glib commenting and endless on-screen media commentaries... you are over-exposed Mr. President!, try shutting up for a while!

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/17/2026 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  A judge will block it and things will head to the Supreme Court. Everything ends up there.
Posted by Super Hose


Yes, the "useful idiots" will undoubtedly surface to fire very soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2026 14:33 Comments || Top||


Rand Paul presses Congress to vote on ending refugee welfare, forcing charities to pick up tab
[JustTheNews] Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who serves as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is drafting a transformative new bill that will return the responsibility of care for refugees to their sponsors and the charitable organizations who brought them to the United States, removing them from the tax bill of Americans.

"They will survive the way we traditionally did. When we admitted people, if you sponsored them, they're your responsibility," Paul told Just The News.

"You have many of these church charities involved in bringing people here, and then the church charity thinks that charity involves signing them up for welfare. No. Charity is if your charity brings them here, and they can't or aren't working enough to have food, you feed them. It's charitable to give your own money. It's not charitable to take someone else's money."

Paul, along with other members of Congress in both the House and the Senate, have been sounding the alarm on a key component of welfare program eligibility, which was redefined by the Biden administration, who ushered in millions of illegal immigrants under novel parameters for eligibility.

Under U.S. law, most legal immigrants are subject to a five-year waiting period before becoming eligible for major federal means-tested public benefits like Medicaid, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), but refugees and asylum-seekers are fully exempt from this bar and can access these programs immediately.

$1.6 TRILLION IN WASTEFUL SPENDING IDENTIFIED
However, Paul argues, "What we have done is we've gone around the legal immigrant status, and we've added this whole other category of a special visa or refugee status, which is hundreds of thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands of people come in on this, and they're on welfare. It's supposed to be against the law."

Paul, who began publishing his annual Festivus Report to highlight examples of federal government waste through his "airing of grievances," has been a consistent voice opposing government waste and fraud. In the December 2025 edition, he identified approximately $1.6 trillion in wasteful spending, including funding for cocaine experiments on dogs, payments to influencers promoting COVID vaccines, and massive interest on the national debt.

Paul went on to warn against other Senate Republicans who are inclined to keep the refugee funding as a part of the next federal budget. "I found out in the last couple of months that the refugee money, the $5 billion, is still in the appropriations process. In the Republican Senate, virtually every Republican senator voted to keep the refugee money in."

Paul is prepared to throw a wrench in the machine. As of now, that bill was slated to come up this week. "They delayed it because I think they heard that I'm going to bring an amendment to strip it, and so it'll still be in the money January 30. If there's 4, 5, 6 million in there, I will do whatever it takes to get an amendment vote. And usually if I threatened to slow the process up, I can get a vote," Paul said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2026 02:09 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Charities = NGOs. We know where that leads to.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/17/2026 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  In this case, Rand Paul makes sense.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/17/2026 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  "Even a blind pig can find a acorn every now and then."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2026 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey look at that. The check didn't clear so Rand went back to his "libertarian" roots.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/17/2026 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Credibility is like the surface of a bubble of dish soap blown from a plastic wand.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2026 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  It's charitable to give your own money. It's not charitable to take someone else's money.

In fact, it's more like armed robbery.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2026 12:26 Comments || Top||


Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles
[LegalInsurrection] New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is learning that winning an election and governing the nation’s largest city are two very different things. Just weeks into his tenure, the city’s first Muslim mayor is facing growing scrutiny over his leadership choices — most notably, the fact that none of the five deputy mayors he has appointed are black (and just one is Latino), a reality that has sparked criticism and raised questions about representation at the highest levels of City Hall.

According to The New York Times, “Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. … It has become a problem.”

[Note: Black and Latino residents make up more than 50% of New York City’s population.]
"Where's OUR boodle?"
Mamdani won his shock victory in the Democratic primary last June with very little black support. At the time, The Times reported that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “dominated in precincts where at least 70 percent of residents were Black, more than doubling Mr. Mamdani’s support, 59 percent to 26 percent.”

Acknowledging that gap, Mamdani pledged to strengthen his ties with black communities and appointed community organizer Afua Atta-Mensah to lead his campaign’s outreach to black voters. As per The Times, he “vowed, from Black church pulpits around the city, that he would have a diverse administration representative of the city.

Post-election analysis by The Times suggested those efforts paid off: Mamdani went on to win 61 percent of the vote in the 479 precincts with large black populations.

After playing an outsized role in carrying the young Democratic socialist to victory in November, Black leaders expected their community to be represented at the highest levels of his administration. Instead, many say they have been deeply disappointed.

Posted by: Chantry || 01/17/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1807 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Instead, many say they have been deeply disappointed.

You ain't seen nothing yet!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/17/2026 4:20 Comments || Top||

#2  he isnt white so it cant be because hes racist
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/17/2026 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Given how well Mamdani plays with others, he is probably going down in history as a 1 term mayor that didn't get much done.
Posted by: Chantry || 01/17/2026 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like a plan, Chantry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2026 10:09 Comments || Top||

#5  The Orange Man is keeping Mamdani close. "Friends close, enemies closer."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2026 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  It’s hard to see who could be his replacement. It requirement seems to be that the next administration must meet the criteria of being worse. Geraldo Rivera lives in Cleveland, Rosie O’Donnell has fled the country, Omar will be deported by then and Moslems aren’t voting in Jossie.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2026 12:10 Comments || Top||

#7  How about that wild-eyed Stalanist harpy that hates middle-class homeowners? The one he put in charge of renters rights? She seems qualified to be mayor of the big apple!
Posted by: Secret Master || 01/17/2026 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm surprised that blacks are surprised by this. Maybe they should study their own history a bit more closely.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2026 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ They are not "surprised" in the least.

In America, we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unit in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.

A Zohran Mamdami quote? No, it's from Obama's first election in his 1995 Illinois Senate Seat run and win. Surely you remember Obama. He's the pal of America hating preacher Jeremiah Wright.

This is not our fist dance with communists.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2026 14:23 Comments || Top||

#10  it's from Obama's first election in his 1995 Illinois Senate Seat run and win.

He replaced incumbent State Senator Alice Palmer on the ticket in 1996 (by political maneuvering and deception) after she came up short in the Congressional race to replace Congressman Mel Reynolds who was under indictment for sex crimes.

Chicago politics could be serious entertainment if they weren't so egregious.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/17/2026 16:54 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Why I read SecondCityCop, even though I've never been there. Makes me feel a little bit better of my situation
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2026 17:38 Comments || Top||



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