Possum Reviews on X - "The people who didn't know Joe Biden was senile until a couple months ago because they only consume media that's friendly to Democrats believe themselves to be better informed than you."
Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: AOC has meltdown after she tells Tony Bobulinski to give her a crime Joe Biden committed and then he gives her a crime Joe Biden committed. After demanding that he tell her what crime Biden committed, AOC refused to let Bobulinski answer. Bobulinski: "You asked me to answer the question. I answered the question. RICO, you're obviously not familiar with corruption statute." AOC: "Excuse me sir. Excuse me sir. Excuse me sir." Video: @mazemoore"
Meme - Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital: "As the Biden/Harris administration comes to an end, reminder that they drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, risking national security for short-term political gain, and will now leave office without ever refilling it… Lowest level in ~40 years."
Bonchie on X - "Kind of wild that the White House clearly broke the law by illegally editing an official transcript *over* the objection of the Stenography Office, and it's not even a question that no one will be investigated, much less charged."
Exclusive | Ex-White House stenographer on Biden 'garbage' transcript edit: 'Don't recall this happening ever' - "A former White House stenographer told The Post Friday that they can not recall a single instance of the presidential press office altering a transcript to soften inflammatory or embarrassing remarks — as officials have been accused of doing after President Biden called former President Donald Trump’s voters “garbage” Tuesday night... the Associated Press reported that the stenographers’ office had complained of “spoliation of transcript integrity” and a “breach of protocol” by the press office after Biden, 81, said on a campaign call with the Voto Latino group that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.”... “I don’t ever recall the press office changing a transcript at the president’s request,” added McCormick, who now openly supports Trump. “In fact, I can recall in the Bush years, President Bush being occasionally surprised and disappointed in how the transcripts reflected his words. But he never changed them. Those words are his words, but the transcripts belong to the American people.”... A stenography supervisor wrote in an email to the press office that the edit was “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices”"
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right"
Election 2024: Biden suggests Trump supporters are 'garbage' - "The comments recalled then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton dismissing Trump supporters during a 2016 fundraiser in New York by saying that half would fit into a “ basket of deplorables.”"
Why are Republicans so divisive and hateful?!
Meme - Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv: "No need to wonder who Joe Biden voted for anymore 😂"
"PRESIDENT BIDEN ADDRESSES NATION AFTER TRUMP VICTORY *smiling happily*"
"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right." : r/WayOfTheBern - "Bernie Sanders said 10 DAYS AGO that Biden "has been the most progressive, pro-worker president since FDR." Now, he claims the Democratic Party has "abandoned the working class.""
Shock Poll: 8 in 10 Think Biden Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election - "A whopping 79 percent of Americans suggest President Donald Trump likely would have won reelection if voters had known the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop—that it was real and not “Russian disinformation,” as intelligence officials aligned with Joe Biden falsely led the public to believe, a new national poll reveals... Former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe recently said there is growing evidence the FBI politically interfered in both the 2016 and 2020 elections while claiming they were worried about Russian interference. “The names have changed, but the allegations are the same, that these FBI agents were attempting to influence the outcome of the 2020 election by suppressing derogatory information about Hunter Biden and potentially Joe Biden,” Ratclifffe said. “It is the FBI that is the primary domestic authority for investigating and leading to the prosecution of election influence and election interference. It’s really a problem when the agency that is responsible for investigating those things is engaged in those things.” Ratcliffe in late October 2020 issued a forceful denial against the prevailing spin about “disinformation” after prominent Democrat leader Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee proclaimed the Hunter Biden laptop story was “a smear on Joe Biden [that] comes from the Kremlin.” “I very clearly came out and said, ‘Look, Adam Schiff is making this information up. There is no Russian disinformation involved here. It is Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the investigation is real,’ “ he said. “And that has proven to be true.”"
From 2022
Speaker Johnson dangles probe of Dem cover-up on Biden, suggests GOP will challenge efforts to replace him - "GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he has seen President Biden deteriorate behind the scenes and indicated Republicans have held discussions about investigating Dem efforts to cover it up... Moderator Jake Tapper was taken aback by Johnson’s reference to a “cover-up” and asked whether that’s something that should be “investigated in a serious way by Congress or even law enforcement?” “Well, that’s something we’ve discussed,” Johnson replied without giving specifics. “Top Democrats in Congress and elsewhere were coming onto television regularly and saying Joe Biden is running circles around us. “It was just comical. They all knew that wasn’t true,” Johnson said. “They put up a false pretense about his capabilities. Now the whole country sees it, and they have painted themselves into a corner.”"
From July 2024
Meme - Logan Lancing @LoganLancing: "Your daily reminder that you don't hate the press enough."
The New York Tim... @nytimes: "For years, far-right commentators have floated a conspiracy theory that Democratic Party elites were secretly plotting to replace President Biden on the ticket. Now those conspiracists are using the moment to lend credibility to their work."
The New York Tim... @nytimes: "Many elected Democrats announced their support for Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the Democratic ticket in the hours after President Biden stepped the out of the race on Sunday. See who did."
Bad Hombre on X - "Sources on Capitol Hill say that Nancy Pelosi has confided to Democratic colleagues that she deeply regrets her role in the coup that replaced Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. She expressed that she should have trusted her political instincts, which told her that Harris was too weak a candidate to face Donald Trump. Pelosi has also confided in her colleagues that she fears she permanently damaged her longtime friendship with the Biden family, who have not spoken to her since July. Pelosi has also shared with colleagues that a significant factor in her decision to file for re-election in 2026 is her desire to spend at least two more years working to repair the damage done to her reputation and legacy. The joy is gone."
Meme - John Harwood @JohnJHarwood: "people who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves. they can't imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "On December 1, 2024, President Joe Biden announced that he had in fact pardoned his son Hunter"
Defiant L’s on X - "Biden’s presidency began with him denying the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop and is now concluding with him giving Hunter a pardon for everything uncovered on it."
President Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to - "President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California... Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump’s first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing. In a statement released Sunday evening, Biden said, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.” The president’s sweeping pardon covers not just the gun and tax offenses against the younger Biden, but also any other “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” In June, Biden categorically ruled out a pardon or commutation for his son, telling reporters as his son faced trial in the Delaware gun case, “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.” As recently as Nov. 8, days after Trump’s victory, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ruled out a pardon or clemency for the younger Biden, saying, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.”... “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Biden said in his statement. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.” “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” Biden added, claiming he made the decision this weekend... Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced this month in the two federal cases, which the special counsel brought after a plea deal with prosecutors that likely would have spared him prison time fell apart under scrutiny by a judge. Under the original deal, Hunter was supposed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses and and would have avoided prosecution in the gun case as long as he stayed out of trouble for two years. But the plea hearing quickly unraveled last year when the judge raised concerns about unusual aspects of the deal. The younger Biden was subsequently indicted in the two cases. Hunter Biden’s legal team this weekend released a 52-page white paper titled “The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden,” describing the president’s son as a “surrogate to attack and injure his father, both as a candidate in 2020 and later as president.” The younger Biden’s lawyers have long argued that prosecutors bowed to political pressure to indict the president’s son amid heavy criticism by Trump and other Republicans of what they called the “sweetheart” plea deal."
Criticising the justice system is only dangerous if it threatens the left wing agenda
Joe Biden on X - "No one is above the law."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "On December 1, 2024, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”"
Ted Cruz on X - "This aged like fine milk."
Torsten Prochnow on X - "Exactly. President Joe Biden is a bloody liar. He blatantly lied when he claimed he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden—yet he went ahead and did it. He also lied when he declared that nobody is above the law, as both he and his son clearly see themselves as exceptions to that rule"
It's only misusing your office to benefit your relatives if you're not on the left
Eric Abbenante on X - "Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden:
Jessica Dean: "President Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden."
Joe Biden: 'How dare Trump accuse the justice system of being weaponized against him.'
Also Joe Biden: 'The justice system was weaponized against my son Hunter.'"
Scott Adams on X - "The best part of the Hunter pardon is watching Democrats discover they supported a huge liar whose son is above the law. Lol."
Andy Kaczynski on X - "Esquire wrote an entire piece saying that people should “ shut the fuck up” about Hunter Biden’s pardon claiming that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil. The entire story has now been corrected to note this is not a thing that happened. “ Esquire regrets the error.”"
Bill Ackman on X - "Biden is attempting to make permanent the Deep State before he leaves office by burdening the government with untenable contracts so that @realDonaldTrump and @DOGE cannot succeed. This needs to stop now. Federal Employees Land Work From Home Deal"
Community Notes & Violations on X - "Chuck Todd turn on Joe Biden for selfishly running for president in 2020 while Hunter was busy turning Beau's widow, Hallie, into a crack addict. Where was this energy in 2020 Chuck?"
Razor on X - "Journalists: "We had no idea Biden sold influence to China."
"We had no idea of Biden's mental health decline."
"We had no idea Hunter would get pardoned."
"We had no idea the laptop was real."
If only there was a group of people who did!"
Feds finally release photos showing then-VP Biden meeting son Hunter's China biz partners — days before he leaves office - "The National Archives has finally released photos showing then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden’s Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the president lied about not interacting with his family’s foreign patrons. The cache of photos, released long after their potential political salience and days before Biden retires on Jan. 20, also show Chinese President Xi Jinping grinning as then-Vice President Biden introduced his son during the same December 2013 trip to Beijing... The newly released photos, which would have been politically explosive if they were released during the now-closed House impeachment inquiry into alleged Biden family corruption, show the elder Biden shaking hands with incoming BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li and greeting the company’s managing director Ming Xue. Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for both of Li’s children and, according to Archer, greeted Li during a subsequent speaker-phone conversation when Hunter returned to Beijing. BHR Partners was officially registered as a company 12 days after Air Force Two landed in Beijing with the Biden family for that trip, the Wall Street Journal reported. The firm played an important role in foreign acquisitions for China, including the 2016 purchase of a Congolese cobalt mine from US and Canadian companies. Cobalt is used for electric car batteries... The photos were released to the America First Legal Foundation in response to a transparency lawsuit... “NARA had planned to release these photographs on October 23, 2024 — thirteen days before Election Day. Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photos — as they did with other critical records — until after Election Day.”... A May 2017 email written by Biden family associate James Gilliar penciled in a 10% cut for the “big guy” in reference to Joe Biden and another former family associate, Tony Bobulinski, said he spoke with Joe Biden the same month about the CEFC venture. A further $5.1 million flowed directly to entities linked to Hunter and James Biden after Hunter wrote to a CEFC associate in July 2017 that he was “sitting here with my father” and expecting payment... The fact that Joe Biden met with his son and brother James Biden’s foreign associates throughout his vice presidency and in the years that followed has been established by witness testimony — including Hunter’s own in February — though the president continued to deny it as he sought re-election. “I did not interact with their partners,” Biden told a Post reporter in March, about five months before mutinous fellow Democrats forced the incumbent to relinquish the party’s presidential nomination in July following a disastrous debate performance. Republicans then ended the impeachment inquiry in August with a report accusing Biden of abusing his power... Last December, Biden similarly denied interacting with his son and brother’s partners, saying: “I did not. And it’s just a bunch of lies. They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies” — when asked about an Associated Press poll finding that almost 70% of Americans, including 40% of Democrats, believed he acted either illegally or unethically in regards to his family’s business interests... Joe Biden interacted with an array of other foreign associates of his family members. As second son, Hunter organized dinners at Washington’s Cafe Milano in 2014 and 2015 featuring his father and his business associates from Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, he confirmed... Pozharskyi’s thank-you note to Hunter was the subject of The Post’s first bombshell report from the now-president’s son’s abandoned laptop in October 2020, though his father’s campaign vaguely denied the report, claiming that official calendars showed no such meeting. Documents from the laptop cast doubt on Joe Biden’s claim he “never” discussed business with his son or brother and the then-Democratic presidential nominee falsely claimed the document cache was a “Russian plant” during the final debate of the 2020 election... The outgoing president on Dec. 1 issued a sweeping pardon of his son — heading off potential criminal charges for unregistered foreign lobbying, which could have further probed his own role in business dealings, and wiping the slate clean of Hunter’s June conviction on gun charges a September guilty plea to $1.4 million in tax fraud."
Meme - Drew Holden @DrewHolden360: "Might be a good time to update this one, NYT."
"The New York Times. Questions and Answers About the Bidens and a Deal in China. There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother."
New York Post @nypost: "Feds finally release photos showing Then VP Biden meeting son Hunter's China biz partners - days before he leaves office"
All the times Biden denied meeting with Hunter's biz associates -- as more photos emerge and expose president - "The question of Biden’s degree of involvement in foreign dealings now is largely academic, as he and his family are no longer expected to play a significant role in American foreign policy following his retirement on Jan. 20. The matter could present future credibility issues for Biden allies, however, such as top Oversight Committee Democrat Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who insisted in February that “there were no meetings with the president.” A review of Biden’s public statements demonstrate a pattern of dishonesty as a mountain of evidence — including photos, emails and witness statements — showed that he did indeed interact with his family’s business partners."
'Good Time to Update This One'! NYT Report on Biden & Son's Business Dealings Just Aged Badly - "Joe Biden will be leaving office the same way he entered: Lying about everything. The same goes for the legacy media. One of the biggest whoppers Biden served up when he was running for president was a flat denial about any involvement in his son's business dealings. Biden even claimed he'd never even spoken to Hunter about his business. This week photos surfaced that show Biden's claims to have never spoken to Hunter about his business dealings and certainly never talked to his business partners to be the usual BS from Joe... The press not only gave Biden a pass, but many media outlets actively defended him against the evidence Republicans were putting out, and they kept moving the goalposts ("Biden never spoke to his son about it" became "Biden wasn't actively involved" and then "Biden never profited," etc.). The media's used to running cover for the Bidens. Remember when Leslie Stahl told Donald Trump that stories about Hunter's crimes were "discredited," and the press helped Dems push the "51 former intelligence officials say claims about Biden's son's laptop and its contents are likely part of a Russian misinformation campaign"? All that turned out to be true, but the media won't bother to update their stories. This story is no different. Ahead of the 2020 election the media either knowingly lied on behalf of Biden or took his denials at face value in order to publish "Republicans are claiming with no evidence"-style reports. The New York Times did what the media was doing at that time, which was to claim "there's no evidence" while seeming to be disinterested in looking for any evidence themselves... This is from the Times' story in 2020 under the subhead "there is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother." These kinds of defenses of the Bidens were conveniently published shortly before the 2020 election and it was a coordinated media effort at the behest of the Democrats... The Times and other outlets won't be updating any of their "no evidence" takes just like Politico hasn't updated their story about the more than 50 former intel officials signing a "Russian disinformation" letter about Hunter's laptop. Having no shame allows them to be fine with that... It's been a banner few years for "journalism," all while they sit back and wonder why trust in their industry has gone down the drain."
I still see left wingers mocking "conspiracy theories" and "conspiracy theorists"
AG Merrick Garland corrupted the DOJ with political persecutions - "As what’s left of the Biden administration winds down, I’d like to offer an end-of-days reminder: Joe Biden wasn’t just a terrible president. His Attorney General Merrick Garland was an equally terrible leader of the Department of Justice. Garland, you may recall, was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly a few months before the 2016 election. Republicans sat on Garland’s nomination, maintaining that the seat should be filled by a new president. We were told that this was hideously unfair and partisan, especially because, as the Obama administration and its friendly media repeatedly assured us, Garland was a moderate, a nonpartisan straight shooter, a person with a first-rate judicial temperament: honest, just, fair and wise. What a crock that was... Garland went on to spend his entire time as AG demonstrating to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that he is anything but honest, just, fair and wise. Let me be clear (to use an Obama phrase): Garland has been a dishonest, unfair, partisan hack. And none too wise, either. As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told the AG in hearings about the FBI’s war on political opponents, “Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.” Those hearings involved Garland’s inexplicable decision to hurl federal law-enforcement resources at parents who spoke against critical race theory and unpopular transgender policies at school-board meetings. In response to a letter from the left-leaning National School Boards Association, which described those meetings with lurid language but scant evidence of any real threats, Garland ordered the FBI and the Department of Justice into action against these “domestic terror” threats. It turned out the Biden White House was talking to the National School Boards Association about the matter before its letter was even sent, the Washington Free Beacon reported, raising questions of collusion between the administration and outside “activists.” The FBI also infiltrated traditional Catholic congregations — all while leftist groups were promoting riots and terror in cities across America, unhindered by the feds. Garland’s Justice Department showed less pity to grandmas praying outside of abortion clinics than to actual domestic terrorists who were inciting riots and trying to burn federal buildings. Biden’s AG has also presided over the absurd “lawfare” prosecutions of Trump. He approved the FBI SWAT raid on Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, where agents pawed through Melania’s underwear and left bogus classified-document covers lying around so as to produce photos that gave the false impression that Trump had, well, left classified documents lying around. To add to the outrage, special prosecutor Jack Smith, who Garland sicced on Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents, had to admit to the court that his office had . . . mishandled those very classified documents, mixing them up in ways that disadvantaged Trump’s defense lawyers, then falsely representing that the documents were exactly as they had been received. Garland prosecuted former Trump official Peter Navarro and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, sending both to jail for months But when Garland himself was held in contempt of Congress, he did not, surprisingly, bring charges against himself, or appoint a special prosecutor to objectively investigate. Garland was charged with ignoring a congressional subpoena regarding its probe of Biden family business dealings. Hey, ignoring a congressional subpoena is what he jailed Navarro and Bannon for! That doesn’t sound very judicious or fair. Well, no surprise. Garland just followed the lead of Obama’s attorney general and “wingman,” Eric Holder, who also let himself off the hook when charged with contempt of Congress. In a bid to polish up Biden’s rusted image, The Washington Post on Sunday reported on the president’s private complaints that Garland should have been faster to prosecute Trump, so that he could have staged a “politically damaging trial before the election.” Funny, as I recall Trump had a lot of trials before the election — and they all seemed to drive his approval levels up, not down. In any case, this seems like an admission, as law professor Ann Althouse observed, that “Biden intended to use the Justice Department to destroy his political adversary!” Indeed. That now seems to have been Garland’s role throughout this administration, which — in the name of “protecting democracy” and our institutions — has only undermined our democracy and corrupted our institutions. That’s Biden’s sorry legacy. And Merrick Garland’s, too."
Clearly it's a Danger to Democracy that Trump has threatened to prosecute his political opponents
