Some thoughts on The Regime which must be dislodged from power and installed comfortably in prison.
John Hayward
@Doc_0
The Hunter Biden saga illuminates the Biden family's rapacious corruption, and even worse, the corruption of federal agencies to protect them. Also, it's further evidence that we must shatter the elite bubble and force them to live in the America they made for the rest of us.
Of COURSE the corruption angle is huge, arguably the story of the century in American politics. Socialists claim they can create an all-knowing mega-government run by honest, selfless geniuses - but what they always deliver is a corrupt sewer state run by greedy mediocrities.
There are no big, honest governments, and every one of the many, many embarrassing tales of mega-corruption must be spotlighted to keep proving it, over and over again. The most important goal of civic reform today is shattering the pernicious illusion of Honest Big Government.
Hunter Biden is an absolutely perfect example of what socialism actually delivers: a privileged elite of boundless greed and degenerate morality, milking cash out of the trillion-dollar state by peddling influence and selling protection, insulated from all legal consequences.
Of COURSE that corruption slid easily into outright fascism over the past generation. It was only a matter of time before the mega-State began using its corporate Little Partners to skirt the Constitution and exert compulsive force against the people.
Big Biz had long been a paying customer for political corruption. Under fascism, Big Biz becomes a junior partner instead of just a customer. It gets drafted into the ruling Party's political crusades. Hunter's brand of influence peddling and racketeering always ends that way.
And Hunter is the poster boy for elite privilege, giddily committing countless crimes that would put any middle or lower-class American behind bars. The entire machinery of the Justice Department has been perverted to protect him. His plea deal should touch off a revolution.
One of the crimes our politicized "justice" system is trying to give Hunter a perpetual free pass for is a gun crime - the subject of countless rants by his senile father, who fantasizes in public about murdering Americans with military weapons if they resist his demands.
Joe can't control himself when he starts blubbering about sending F-16s to bomb your family if you refuse to give up your guns - but Hunter gets to violate every gun law he pleases, and federal agencies conspire to HELP HIM GET AWAY WITH IT.
Likewise with tax law, where Huntie gets to skate on multi-million dollar tax cheating, but you Little People will be hunted down by armies of new IRS agents for penny-ante mistakes - and that same IRS just keeps leaking confidential data on the ruling Party's political enemies.
Hunter is a grotesque, almost cartoonish, but very real example of how the ruling Party elite are completely insulated from the world they're forcing on the rest of us. This isn't just outrageous - it's DANGEROUS. It's ruining lives and killing people, and it will get worse.
Today the Party's extremists are talking about shutting down agriculture in the name of global warming. They'll kill countless people and destroy the American way of life without a second thought, because they know THEY will eat well, and they won't be eating bugs.
They've already unleashed killer crime waves on YOU, because they know THEY have armed protection and privileged homes. They wrecked the economy with foolish policies because they know THEY will be taken care of. This process is accelerating, and Hunter is a major milestone.
We urgently need to shatter elite privilege, force them to live in the same world as we do, and make them understand that not even the silver-spoon sons of corrupt political dynasties get to live above the law anymore. Nothing less will make the elite receptive to reform. /end
Don Surber: The Biden Crime Family is... all of Washington, DC.
There is no way Joe will be impeached or Hunter will do any jail time because if they go down, all of Washington will go with them. Washington protects its own because they fear if one goes to jail, he will bring them all down.
Hillary said she would bring DC down with her. Guess what? She never was indicted even though she forwarded state secrets via email to foreign donors to her fake charity when she was secretary of state. Jim Comey, then FBI director, even admitted publicly that he had the evidence but would not recommend prosecution.
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Comey made it clear that the fix was in by warning others not to try the same thing. He said, "To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."
His FBI spied on political opponents to please Barack Hussein Obama.
When this became public knowledge, do you know what a Republican-controlled House and a Republican Senate did?
Nothing. They did nothing. No prosecutions were recommended. Paul Ryan likely laughed. He hates President Donald Trump with a passion because Trump is an existential threat to the Banana Republicans and their allies in the Democrat Party. Life is good in Washington. Everyone goes along to get along, and the pay is great.
Ryan entered the House a pauper. As he began his final term in 2017, his net worth was $7,307,041.
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Which brings us to Biden who has been a fixture in DC for the past half-century. Everyone in DC knows he's an idiot, knows he's a fabulist, and knows he's a crook. I say that under the Surber Stipulation that if I can see it all the way here in Poca, West Virginia, the people in DC see it and more.
I suspect that the 10% for the Big Guy that his children surrendered from their loot did not mean Biden but rather his boss, Obama. And I suspect that Obama spread the wealth around. If Red China and Corporate America can buy off politicians, why not the president of the United States?
Obama didn't wrest the nomination in 2008 from Hillary because he was "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean," as Joe Biden put it. No, no, no. Obama had Chicago money and the Cook County Democrat machine behind him.
In 2016, the money and the machine helped Hillary swipe the nomination from Bernie Sanders. And that same money and machine bought off Sanders and the rest of the pack to pave the way for Biden in 2020.
I am convinced that Ukraine is Chinese for money laundering. How else can you explain why a weird province of Russia (come on, Kyiv was once the capital of Russia) attracts so many American political consultants after our presidential elections end?
Politico reported a year after the 2008 election, "Obama consultants land abroad."
The story began, "In Kiev and Kharkiv and other cities in Ukraine, American political consultants who worked against one another in Iowa and New Hampshire and then in the general election are facing off again in a somewhat surreal Eastern European replay of the 2008 campaign.
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Land abroad? They should land in jail.
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Hunter's criminal case offers a small hope that Biden won't get away with it this time. Maybe Judge Maryellen Noreika will stick to her guns and not allow the Biden administration to give Hunter Biden a parking ticket instead of indicting him with 37 counts of accepting bribes, money laundering, tax evasion, and felonious ownership of a gun.
Elizabeth Stauffer wrote, "Biden never dreamed he would have to answer to the American people for any of his actions and that made him sloppy. He and his wayward son left behind a substantial trail of evidence. And the DOJ has been complicit in covering it up. That's called obstruction."
Conservatives looking to expose the full extent of the Biden family's corruption have a problem: the scandal might be too big to break.
Typically, there are three main entities involved in taking down a politician over a corruption scandal. First, there is the media, which broadcasts the details of the scandal, eroding public support. Second, there is law enforcement, which investigates and, if necessary, presses criminal charges. Third, there is the party establishment, which ultimately abandons the politician as a matter of self-preservation, signaling that it's "game over."
But what happens when a scandal is so big that the people responsible for breaking it are implicated in it as well?
That is the situation which now faces the mainstream media, the federal intelligence bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party. For years, they have all parroted Biden's lies and created an echo chamber of denial about wrongdoing by the president and his family. Now, with it all beginning to crumple around them, they're seeing that the downfall of the president spells the end of their own reputations and careers as well.
Motivated by self-preservation and in a desperate effort to sustain Biden politically, then, they are doubling down on their complicity in Biden's wrongdoing by continuing to try to cover it up. As House Republicans investigating the matter have released one bombshell report after another, the liberal media have simply refused to report it, while top intelligence officials have denied any responsibility and Democrat leaders have claimed the whole thing is a farce.
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All of this has the makings of the biggest scandal in U.S. political history. Yet as AMAC Newsline reported last week, less than half of Americans even know about it. The story is virtually absent from the pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times, while outlets like CNN and MSNBC are engaged in a coordinated reporting blackout.
Although partisan loyalty to Biden likely has something to do with the silence campaign, the mainstream media also undoubtedly understands that they have played a primary role in suppressing this scandal from the start.
Ahead of the 2020 election, they engaged in a relentless effort to discredit the New York Post's bombshell story about the infamous laptop that provided clear evidence of the Biden family's corruption...
Now, the media is desperately trying to distract from the mounting evidence against the Biden family by insisting the whole story is just about a father caring for his drug-addicted son. They know that as soon as the scandal becomes real, they will lose what little credibility they have left.
The media's chief collaborator in discrediting the case against the Bidens was the intelligence bureaucracy and federal law enforcement officials. IRS whistleblower testimony in June revealed that the FBI had verified the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2019 -- meaning that the nation's top cops knew the story was legitimate during the 2020 election cycle, but allowed the media to discredit it anyway.
Senate Republicans have also alleged that the FBI has throughout Biden's presidency refused to turn over evidence of the First Family's corruption, including by redacting documents showing a $5 million payout to the president from a Burisma executive.
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With so many powerful institutions now implicated in the charges against the Bidens, it's perhaps no surprise that the president has escaped almost all accountability despite a wealth of evidence against him.
Jonathan Turley: "I think this is shaping up to be one of the greatest corruption scandals in Washington history, and that is saying a lot."
Every time there is major news about the Biden Crime Family, the Biden-appointed prosecutor investigating his most likely political opponent announces fresh indictments against Trump.