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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Bidens Are About to Get 'Harvey Weinstein-ed,' and Here Are Joe's 'Secret Audio Bribery Tapes' You've Been Dying to Hear!
[PJ] Bye-bye Bidens The Bidens are done.

I know, I know, we have reasonable suspicion to believe the Biden crime family will never be held accountable for the treasonous bribes Joe has accepted and passed through to his family of Delaware trash, but remember this:

  • Everyone knew Harvey Weinstein was a pig and no one said a word...
  • Until one person started talking about it...
  • Soon everyone was talking about it...
  • Then cops had no choice but to stop playing dumb and arrest him.

    That is where the Bidens are now. We all know they took mad stacks to make decisions for Burisma — and God knows who else — but the cat is out of the bag. Too many people know the truth. Will the swamp-dwelling lizard people risk losing their pensions to protect him? Not for much longer.

    The FBI now has a choice: step aside or go down with him.

    Remember when we heard there are 15 tapes of Hunter Biden and two of Joe discussing bribes? You can hear (what at least are allegedly) Joe’s tapes below (hat tip to OAN and Dan Bongino):
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 07:11 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  It's probably best to keep in mind.... 'the house always wins.'
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

    #2  Joe is someone’s puppet. He is looking progressively decrepit and soiled in a way that can’t be fixed with Windex, paper towels and elbow grease. The puppeteers will soon be dropping Joe into the Goodwill bin and substituting the Kamala puppet.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 06/19/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

    #3  Trump was an anomaly, an accounting error. All the rest back to Ike have been Deep State and Military Industrial Complex picks.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 8:05 Comments || Top||

    #4  Those sly Rooskies and their collusion and misinformation. Hats off to 'em!
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

    #5  Might as well quit writing these articles. Nothing is ever going to happen to tese POS.
    Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

    #6  Exactly. Just a bunch of click-bait articles to stir up the base.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

    #7  Thought I'd read the article anyway...until I saw early in the article a Happy Juneteenth wish. Then I stopped.
    Posted by: Warthog || 06/19/2023 10:01 Comments || Top||

    #8  Not holding my breath. Worst that happens is Crack Biden gets charged and does not kill himself and Joe is put into a home with full blown dementia so he can't stand trial. Everything else is swept under the rug.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 06/19/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

    #9  If/When Joe pardons Hunter, that'll certainly mean the end of anything resembling what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 10:59 Comments || Top||

    #10  Another scenario is that there is another stolen election and another smuck is installed in the WH. Essentially, Marxist Obummer gets a 4th term.

    Another scenario is that the vote is honest and the country is liberated.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 06/19/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

    #11  It just slays me that there is actually discussion of M... Obama running for prez.

    Then again, the more ya think about it, does it really matter anymore?
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

    #12  #10 The crux is, neither of those scenarios end amicably.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/19/2023 12:55 Comments || Top||

    #13  Trump was an anomaly, an accounting error. All the rest back to Ike have been Deep State and Military Industrial Complex picks.

    Indeed.

    Also, I would point out that nearly 100% of Democrats could watch a live video of Joe Biden murdering 100 school children and not give a damn, and still vote for Democrats.
    Posted by: no mo uro || 06/19/2023 18:45 Comments || Top||

    #14  ^ I used to say back in the day that Billy Jeff could bugger a kid on the White House lawn and the press would say he was "doing it for the children."
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2023 18:53 Comments || Top||

    #15  He was shooting blanks, anyway...Hi Chelsea Hubbell!
    Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2023 21:32 Comments || Top||


    US Virgin Islands Democrat Representative Corrects Herself After Saying Trump Should Be Shot
    [Daily Wire] Congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) had to correct herself on Sunday after she said during a live television interview that former President Donald Trump should be "shot."

    Plaskett made the comment during an appearance on MSNBC, during which she discussed the federal charges against Trump relating to his alleged mishandling of classified documents following his departure from the White House in January of 2021.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 02:48 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  KNOCK - KNOCK - DOJ Are You Still Enforcing US Code Law?


    USC 18 Section 879 of Title 18 prohibits knowing and willful threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm against the president, former president and family members that are protected by the United States Secret Service.

    Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/19/2023 5:20 Comments || Top||

    #2  BTW: This Federal felony level criminal act is good for up to 5 years in prison.
    Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/19/2023 5:22 Comments || Top||

    #3  She’s sort of like Epstein’s elected rep, right?
    Posted by: Super Hose || 06/19/2023 7:37 Comments || Top||

    #4  What is it with Socialist Libs - but I repeat myself - named Stacey anyway? Abrams carries more "weight" as a politician however and her only attractive force is gravitational in nature.
    Posted by: Warthog || 06/19/2023 10:06 Comments || Top||

    #5  Hey - it's not like she's even close to being the 1st idjit to say such things. At this point, outrage is just a dodge to actually taking action to stop this criminality.
    Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/19/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

    #6  I'd say, just by looking at the mug, that she is not a Rhodes Scholar.

    And, yeah, just what is it about dumbbells named Stacey?
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

    #7  /\ Is she speaking in the graphic, or is that an alternative breathing method ?

    Inquiring minds, etc.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 13:21 Comments || Top||

    #8  She's definitely robbing the world of oxygen, that's for sure.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

    #9  But what would happen to MSM ratings if they couldn't vilify Trump anymore?
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/19/2023 13:26 Comments || Top||

    #10  ^ Licht would get fired.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 06/19/2023 14:01 Comments || Top||


    US Government Sued for Allegedly Seizing $100,000,000 in Cash, Gold and Jewelry From Citizens Without Explanation
    [DailyHodl] The US government won’t specify why it abruptly seized more than $100 million from people’s safety deposit boxes in California, according to a new lawsuit.

    The nonprofit Institute for Justice says it’s seeking to halt forfeiture proceedings for a group of citizens who’ve had their assets confiscated by the FBI with little to no explanation.

    The case is centered on a Los Angeles-based couple who says the FBI abruptly seized $40,200 of their life savings from a safety deposit box.

    Linda and Reggie Martin want to know why the FBI took their cash, along with the contents of hundreds of other people’s safety deposit boxes, from a financial storage company in Beverly Hills in March of 2021.

    The couple says the agency seized their money without providing any evidence of illegal activity.

    Attorney Bob Belden says the FBI’s move is plainly immoral and violates the Martins’ rights as American citizens.

    “The government shouldn’t get to take your property if it can’t tell you what you did wrong.

    Using civil forfeiture, the government decides for itself whether to take and try to keep property, even when it doesn’t suspect the owners of any crime. Then, the FBI sends copy-and-paste forfeiture notices that fail to tell owners anything about why it is trying to take their property. That’s not only wrong; it’s unconstitutional.”

    In total, the FBI’s operation seized more than $100 million in cash, gold, jewelry and other valuables from hundreds of people at the Beverly Hills location, according to the Institute for Justice.

    The agency sent blanket notices that “indirectly refer to hundreds of federal crimes”, but the government refuses to say what the couple specifically did wrong.

    The new lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asks the court to halt administrative proceedings for everyone who has received one of the FBI’s forfeiture notices.

    To date, Linda says she and her husband have not been charged with a crime, and there is no indication that they will ever see their money again.

    “The FBI took my savings nearly two years ago but has never told me why. It’s been a confusing and frustrating process from the day my money was taken. No one should have to go through this.”

    Institute for Justice senior attorney Rob Frommer says civil and criminal forfeiture is a big money maker for federal law enforcement.

    “Thousands of times every year, people receive paltry notices that merely say the government wants to forfeit their property because it might be wrapped up in one of hundreds of federal crimes.

    Linda’s plight highlights the ugly truth that federal forfeiture incentivizes agents to seize as much as they can, even absent any reason to think that a crime was committed. The FBI’s ‘policing for profit’ deliberately leaves property owners in the dark in order to keep them from fighting back.”

    According to the Institute, a federal judge has stated that a separate client involved in the same safety deposit seizure operation received an “anemic” forfeiture notice, and the FBI violated due process and the Fifth Amendment.
    Posted by: Sniling Omelet8298 || 06/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The Feds are resistant to legislative and judicial oversight at the moment. Tyranny is my expectation under those conditions.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 06/19/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

    #2  Marikana Mine, 16 Aug 2002 - Should have taught us who really owns the gold, diamonds, and precious metals. Labor problems since Marikana? Practically non-existent. To no one's surprise, government mine seizure now accelerating.

    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 7:43 Comments || Top||

    #3  These same pukes were probably cheering the confiscation of private property from Russians over the past year or so.

    Rule of law in the US? Yeah, right.

    Speaking of rules, Rule #1 - Do NOT have ANYTHING in a bank safe deposit boxes. Even sans the gum shoe feds, if the bank has to close/shutter, then good luck getting your shtuff out of those boxes.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2023 8:53 Comments || Top||

    #4  FBI afraid that Congress really will defund them?
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/19/2023 14:54 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Biden's Deputies Hide Mass Fraud in H-1B Middle-Class Outsourcing Visa
    [Breitbart] Indian-born CEOs are closing their firms and fleeing back to India to escape charges of fraud in the annual lotteries for visas to import H-1B foreign contract workers, says a lawyer for many Indian-owned subcontractors and visa workers.

    “So yes, they are getting prosecuted, they are getting investigated, and that’s the reason why some of them are packing their bags and closing their companies,” said Rahul Reddy, an immigration lawyer in Texas.

    Reddy made his comments during an online question-and-answer session with Indian graduates who are worried about the federal investigations into the H-1B fraud in the annual lottery for 85,000 new H-1B work permits. The work permits are used to import lower-wage migrants to take the jobs needed by U.S. college graduates.

    Many Indian graduates in India cooperate with the fraud because the H-1B visas put them on a long, indentured-service path to U.S. jobs, green cards, and citizenship.

    But many other Indian graduates from U.S. colleges oppose the lottery fraud because it hinders their three legal chances to convert their “Optional Practical Training” (OPT) work permits into an H-1B visa with its valuable path to U.S. citizenship.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2023 07:31 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Not a single Indian CEO is named. Nor is a company fingered. An article based not on investigation but hear-say.
    Posted by: Tarzan Grolump8219 || 06/19/2023 8:45 Comments || Top||

    #2  Those of us who worked IT in the early 90s saw the fraud. Companies would ads in Computerworld for professionals that would be the length of nearly the entire page with 'requirements'. No one could meet those but the company could say it did advertise for Americans and found none, so they would get a H1B fill. No one in the government would bother to check if the H1B fit all those 'requirements'. It was a game. Today they don't even bother with the game - see Disney fire American employees and use H1Bs openly.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2023 9:08 Comments || Top||

    #3  Biden's Deputies Hide Mass Fraud in H-1B Middle-Class Outsourcing Visa

    Fixed it for you!
    Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/19/2023 13:51 Comments || Top||

    #4  My older sister, PhD in Education, explained to me that there were jobs for fewer than 50% of the graduating PhDs even in the Baby Boom Era. The Search Committees already had a candidate picked out when they announced an 'opening' -- so, yes, it was a racket then and now.
    Posted by: magpie || 06/19/2023 15:00 Comments || Top||

    #5  /\ Committees already had a candidate picked out when they announced an 'opening' -- so, yes, it was a racket then and now.

    You mean like the dreaded DoD Civilian (Pre-selection) hiring ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2023 15:51 Comments || Top||


    GOP hopeful Tim Scott hits back as Obama critiques stance on race relations: 'No higher compliment'
    [NYPOST] GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Scott on Sunday dismissed Barack Obama
    I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
    ’s recent attack on him as a "compliment" — and a sign that Democrats "feel threatened" by his candidacy.

    Last week, Obama chided Scott’s stance on race relations, saying "there’s a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, ’Everything’s great, and we can make it.’"

    Scott (R-SC) brushed off the criticism, telling "Fox News Sunday," "There’s no higher compliment to be attacked by President Obama.
    The Halfrican
    "Whenever the Democrats feel threatened, they drag out the former president and have him make some negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down. The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left."

    Scott has publicly reflected on his experiences with racism and has recounted getting stopped by security on his way to work in the Senate seven times within a year despite being a sitting senator.

    Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, brushed off former President Obama’s criticism, telling "Fox News Sunday," "There’s no higher compliment to be attacked by President Obama."
    AP

    Host Shannon Bream asked him if those experiences proved Obama’s point.

    "Absolutely not," he replied.

    Obama’s remarks came on a podcast with Democratic strategist David Axelrod
    ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out....
    , who surmised that Republicans like Scott share "half" of Obama’s perspective on race relations — the part about the United States making progress.

    Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Bath House is on the same trajectory as Billy Jeff. Nobody but the True Believers™ care what he says.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2023 7:07 Comments || Top||

    #2  This seems like an undercard to me. Obama is relevant if he has Biden’s strings, but his is not running for anything. Tim Scott is riding in the peloton at this point.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 06/19/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

    #3  From Insty today -

    Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is the son of a white woman from Kansas who gave birth to him in Hawaii. Afterward, he moved to Indonesia, returned to Hawaii, and attended a prestigious private school.

    Barack Obama has decided to call out Senator Tim Scott for dismissing America as a racist nation. Tim Scott grew up in the heart of the Confederacy — Charleston, SC — and was raised in working-class poverty as the descendant of slaves and went to public schools.

    Barack Obama is a descendant of Irish settlers on his mother’s side, and his father is from Kenya. Tim Scott is the descendant of slaves on both sides.

    It is really notable that Obama and Scott are both from broken homes, but the one who got to travel the world and go to a private school in Hawaii wants to lecture the South Carolina descendant of slaves about race and opportunity in America.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||



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