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Why Is the DOJ Suddenly Pretending to Care About Biden’s Corruption?
One way for a President to avoid impeachment is to serve the American citizenry, and do his best to promote freedom and prosperity. Democrat Presidents can’t do that, obviously – they know that their leftist policies are destructive, and supported by only a small minority of voters. So they instead hope to avoid impeachment by selecting Vice Presidents who are even less appealing and more incompetent than they are. Clinton had Gore. Obama had Biden. Biden has Harris. (Fun thought exercise: Who would President Kamala Harris select as Vice President? The mind boggles…)
Anyway, there appears to be a growing contingent of Democrats who would prefer President Biden not run for re-election. I personally just cannot imagine why. He has been incredibly successful, and has given the left everything they possibly could have hoped for. But for whatever reason, it seems that many Democrats want him to step aside. Which he won’t, obviously. Plus, there is the matter of Vice President Harris to deal with – she would not necessarily be an improvement for them.
My conspiratorial mind wonders if the Justice Department making noises about possibly indicting Hunter Biden is an effort of the power structure of the Democrat party (by which I mean the FBI, the Justice Dept, the news media, social media, etc.) to encourage President Biden to spend more time with his family. Because despite Andy McCarthy’s predictions, it’s hard to imagine that court case not involving President Biden. As I and many, many others have written over and over again, NOBODY HAS EVER BRIBED HUNTER BIDEN. If any of Hunter’s misdeeds ever see a courtroom, surely that court case would involve the big guy at some point. Surely. Or, perhaps, Mr. McCarthy is right, and they can make this disappear like fairy dust somehow. But geez. I just don’t see how they can avoid mentioning why America’s enemies were paying Hunter Biden millions of dollars.
Again, I’m not sure I understand why Democrats seem to be so eager to dump the most successful Democrat President in decades. But for whatever reason, his polling is remarkably low, even among Democrat voters. Many in the Democrat party are wondering how they can replace him.
This is a good conspiracy theory, but it’s probably wrong. Again, President Biden has been a remarkably successful President. And a court case exploring his corruption doesn’t help Democrats at all, as far as I can see. It won’t affect the votes of their devoted base, but it might not help their case with independents.
The impact of this story on independent voters is an important point. Presuming that we still have elections in which we count the votes of actual voters. If we don’t, then how voters feel about anything obviously becomes less problematic for Democrats. Much simpler.
On the other hand, there’s a lot going on that we don’t know about. Perhaps someone at Justice or the FBI has decided, for whatever reason, that President Biden just cannot remain in the Oval Office for the next six years. Again, we have no way of knowing what’s going on behind the scenes.
But this just can’t be a coincidence. Joe Biden has been obviously, openly, and thoroughly corrupt for decades. Why is The Justice Department pretending to be interested now, all of a sudden? Surely there is a reason for this shift. I wonder what that reason might be?
Hard to say. What do you think?
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Let’s go one level higher in paranoia. Or politics. If the Ukes and the Russians and the Chinese have all that dirt, you can bet the FBI and other “three-letters” have it too. They know the pressure that can be put on Joe, and they also know that Joe is not a clear thinker, tends to overreact and give stupid orders. But Joe can’t do a [redacted] thing no matter what pressure the Ukes/Russians/Chinese apply if he’s not in power.
I can imagine the discussions. “Look Big Guy, if you suddenly developed some infirmity that requires you to step down for the good of the country, a lot of things could be swept under the rug. Hunter might get off with a plea bargain, a fine, and no time served. We wouldn’t need to investigate your connections. It’s a win-win. Think about it. Just don’t think too long. Actually, send DrJill over. We’ll explain the options to her too.”
Mayor Pete.
So it can be framed in such a way as to minimize it, then it can be put into the “Old news! Move along!” bucket.
And don’t forget “adjudicated!”
They’ll find a fall guy to make it seem even handed
Then will go full bore against right to lifers and parents at school board meetings and the Trump family
It takes a real optimist to believe Hunter is going to be indicted for anything. Just like Durham was going to indict the swamp for the Russia Hoax. And we all know how that worked out. . .
This is what we plebes like to call “Democrat privilege.” Hunter can rest easy. I predict he’s not going anywhere. Not even to court.
Or “Governor” Stacy Abrams.
The contest would not be over debating points, merely who could stand for 90 minutes.
The Dems won’t let Harris run.
It has been said by many that Wandering Joe is being run by some group. Is it possible that the group didn’t believe he would decline so quickly? That they thought 2024 would not involve Heels Up Harris being the incumbent? That 2024 would allow them to easily nominate Governor HairGel?
What happened the day before the story that Hunter Biden might be indicted?
Joe Biden told Al Sharpton he was going to run for reelection.
Think the two are connected or merely coincidental?
Think it might be a way for TPTB to tell slow Joe who’s really in charge? And then right after there’s the “Nobody F***s with a Biden.”
These are not coincidences. These are signals from one crook to the other gangster bosses.
Wouldn’t surprise me, except for the idea that Biden could be so competent.
There are different competencies.
Maybe. Or someone else was writing, while Joe just mumbled the Oompa-Loompa song.
And it wasn’t the first time, either.
When the GOP retakes Congress, Wray and Garland will be grilled about many things but burying the Hunter Biden scandal will be near the top of the list. If they manage to force Hunter into the news, the coverup and complicity become a problem for the perpetrators. If they go the route that McCarthy anticipates, then that gives the media cover that the matter was properly dealt with. We need no broader conspiracy than the self-interest and image protection of the corrupt FBI and DOJ leadership.
Exactly! “The DOJ has looked at this. There is nothing else to it. If there were evidence of higher crimes, the DOJ would have done this, that or the other thing. They have proven that they are not biased and nobody is above the law, etc…” The talking points almost write themselves.
If Biden was sitting at 50% in the polls, this would never come up. This is the signal that he will not be useful for a re-election run and a change will be made. There will be indictments of some sort against Hunter but not of any great depth because the objective now is to appear as “even-handed” as they can so they can indict Trump for something, anything to influence 2024. That election is quickly becoming the next objective because of the way this one seems to be going.
The real signal that the powers that be are giving up on 2022 is that the Jan 6 Committee will only meet this one time and not issue much at all before the election since they dont have anything – affecting this election and keeping Trump from running again has been their sole purpose.
On what basis do you think the DOJ is showing interest in BidenCorruption? Have I missed something that’s been in the news recently? (I intentionally miss a lot, but would try not to miss something like this.)
What the Democrats need is a new Vice President that could appeal to a broader sector of the electorate so Biden could step down soon after being elected. Or he could die or collapse even more obviously than at present and make getting rid of him costless. The Chinese need Biden in power until they have sunk us. Let’s face it, Biden should be impeached as soon as possible. If they can steal the election again we have to just pull out and start over. She wont be president any more than Biden is. He’s there to protect the Chinese.
Whatever is happening on the Democratic side of political life seems to me to be related somehow to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. I can’t help thinking that Trump had something concrete on Joe and Hunter that the Biden administration wanted to be squelched but that the DOJ, having found it, is now using to bribe or extort the Biden administration. There is no honor in a den of Democrats.
This is the problem with immoral leaders. They can be easily controlled.
One more level of paranoia: If Trump had the info, why didn’t he use it given how the GOPe and the Demo-rats have made it a priority to destroy him? I can think of only two reasons, one being that Trump is just a blow-hard and a coward, and the other being that the Swamp told him in no uncertain terms that they’d take out his family. I lean toward the latter, though I don’t completely discount the first.
or he didn’t know he had it. That’s what I’m guessing. Trump isn’t a guy I picture patiently reading cartons of documents. :-)
I don’t see him that way at all. To me, he’s my fellow peanut-gallery, tomato-throwing friend who “made good.” I can see how he would drive people crazy who are serious about policy and politics because his one-liners just scrape the surface. He’s the class clown who constantly pokes fun at the teacher from the back of the room. :-)
He’s the unlikely president. :-) :-) But what a great job he did, just using common sense and hard-earned knowledge of how money works.
I have thought all along that he was this generation’s H. Ross Perot. That is, someone who shot his mouth off and got more than he bargained for. He wanted, IMNSHO, to be king-maker and wound up being king. Once he took the lead his ego wouldn’t let him back off. It was quite a ride for the country, and I’d give most of my portfolio to make him president again, but for his sake it would have been better if he’d just said, “Never mind.” BTW, the pond scum who put Biden in office have taken a good chunk of my portfolio anyway. May they take up permanent residence in a much, much hotter climate.
Yup.
But wow, he did so much for so many people in the two years before the pandemic was unleashed. Veterans, the newly less regulated small businesses . . . I could go on and on here. He never forgot his friends in the peanut gallery. :-)
That too, but sometimes the left uses “adjudicated” just in reference to the media.
So sad that even on Fox news, this is not much of a talking point.
What nation does our donation of a 100 billion dollars to Ukraine, that let’s face it, we are borrowing from the Chinese, hurt? The USA.
What nations are going to suffer from a prolonged military intervention in The Ukraine?
Answer: Ukraine, USA and Russia. China and India, the two nations now considered by most impartial observers to be the dominant forces in the 21 Century, will have their positions improved.
And to quote Kurt Vonnegut “And so it goes.”
you know that are going to throw Biden under the bus when corporate media starts reporting on “Biden Inc”
It would have came sooner, except he chosen the only person in the USA who is worse as VP