1. I cannot overstate how much I adore stuff like that BBLDrizzy breakdown. I wouldn't see that kind of thing otherwise and I find myself just as in awe of how it's working as you. Plus it lets me keep up with the kids these days. The other day I said, in a group of zoomers, that somebody was sweating like "Drake at a middle school!" and I thought they were going to die of laughter.
2. It's worthwhile to consider exactly how the Hunter Biden prosecution came to be. Initially there was an incredibly broad plea deal on the table that pretty much served to dispose of *any* criminal liability for Hunter dealing only the lightest possible smack on the wrist for things that would preclude any possible examination of the Biden family's finances. That became public and was blown up by the publicity. It was so obviously corrupt that the lightest amount of public scrutiny was fatal.
...but this poses problems. The government cannot just withdraw promises made because of bad PR. So deciding to junk the deal and prosecute Hunter is potentially disposable by appeal in the first place.
That being said, Hunter's legal problems were supposed to be wrapped up before the Trump trials began. When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea. When the optics shifted nailing Hunter on charges that have absolutely no tie to Biden family business became useful. It serves multiple interests, allowing a talking point that pretends we're not living in a two tiered system of justice where police and prosecutorial power is being weaponized against this administration's political enemies. At the same time it puts Hunter on a very short leash.
Hunter is getting scrutiny because of things he said in interviews and critical evidence he "accidentally" left laying around...at about the same time Ashley Biden's rehab diary was "stolen" and became public knowledge. I do not believe these two events are merely coincidental. I think it was an attempt by both to get out from under the thumb of their sociopath of a father. Well the DOJ and "intelligence community" closed ranks pretty hard and worked to cover all that up nicely, didn't they?
It's been rumored for a long time that if you are facing a federal case, the right check written to a Biden will result in The Big Guy making a call to DOJ HQ and the case disappears. In fact, it's even been rumored that a number of DOJ cases were begun precisely so that you would write that check.
The best way to understand Biden is as a mob boss or a small feudal king. His children are treated like instruments in his larger goals. Like LBJ, but not as smart. No less animal in his cunning or corruption, but not as smart at working it. People often act as if Biden's selection as VP was because Obama saw him as a bumbling idiot. It's much more likely that he was picked as VP specifically to assist in the conversion of the "counter-terrorism" infrastructure (that should have never been allowed in the first fucking place) to going after political enemies of the deep state. Having Biden's ties to DOJ and the intelligence community on board with the effort only helped Obama's efforts become more efficient. That expanded to the IRS, too.
That resulted in the IRS going after political groups that challenged Obama's power and it led to the Obama administration seizing the most intimate medical records of hundreds of thousands of important people. Most people were unaware this happened because naturally it doesn't serve The Narrative, but it did:
The medical records of judges, celebrities, athletes, politicians, and financial titans were all seized by the IRS under the guise of Obamacare in an effort so brazen and corrupt that I'm sure J Edgar would lift his dress and bend over so he could get fucked by it. This gave the Obama administration and the IRS the most intimate details of all those people's lives. What medications they were taking. What psychiatric conditions they were being treated for. What STD's they were being treated for. What they were addicted to. All that good stuff that the government isn't supposed to know about ANY OF US.
Biden was a key player in creating all of that. And he likes to brag about it, too. Like a mob boss. "Nobody fucks with a Biden!" ...remember that?
What I've heard about the defense in Hunter's trial is utterly laughable. Abbe Lowell is supposed to be one of the best defense attorneys in the nation and based on what I've heard I could have generated a more competent defense with ChatGPT than what was presented at trial. Either Lowell's reputation is completely fabricated...or *it wasn't supposed to be a well defended case.*
What does Biden have now? He gets to claim that others are weaponizing police powers against *him and his family* while he's busy doing exactly that to Trump and anyone who worked in the Trump administration. His functionaries get to go out and claim that the prosecution of Hunter justifies the prosecutions of Trump...even though Biden supposedly had nothing to do with any of that, but ignore that old talking point for the new one. And it keeps the kid who couldn't shut the fuck up and couldn't stop leaving damning evidence about Biden family business all over the place on a short leash. Hunter isn't doing interviews anymore. And he's not leaving laptops anywhere anymore. He's nicely under control.
And even if he has to sit in a cell for a little while, it's only until the election and we all know he'll get a pardon as soon as it's decided. Right along side the pardon Biden will cut for himself and all his little functionaries to guard against any accountability for their multiple violations of law in pursuing all this weaponization in the first place.
All of this is win/win for Biden.
Expect Hunter's defense against the tax charges to be much, much more competent. Because the fix will likely be in on that one, too.
People cheering for Hunter's conviction are damn fools who don't see what's actually going on. They just want some sort of retribution...not realizing that this isn't retribution, it serves Biden's interests beautifully. Lots of people have gone to jail on the charges that he faced for sure. He shouldn't just get a pass if none of those people did. But cheering for charges that keep as far away as possible from the real dirt that Hunter Biden has been involved in as bag man for his corrupt family for decades is not a fucking victory. Quite the opposite.
" When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea"
This very much echoes the Lewinsky case. IIRC Starr was begging to be allowed to pursue the poverty stricken/millionaire Bhuddist nuns' payments to Clinton bagman and future two time Virginia governor (in violation of the spirit if not letter of the law) McAullife. Reno said no, you can only pursue this <strike>perjury case</strike> private matter between a married couple.
Damn...This is all assuming Biden has a functioning brain and is smart enough to be machiavellian. Methinks not. I'd like to see who's pulling the strings though. Susan Rice? Obama 3rd term?
Let me ask you this: Do you think that seeing Biden as a complete puppet serves his interests or harms them?
I have no doubt Biden has some sort of serious mental issues with declining mental faculties. If you've ever dealt with someone like that, though, you will have seen that they do not live in a fog of complete unknowing. They have moments of perfect lucidity, too. Biden really is shitting his pants on a regular basis. There are even very unauthorized nicknames that have resulted from it.
But the dude who shits his pants and gets confused on camera sometimes when he needs more injections is the same vindictive, corrupt, and malicious character he's always been when he is perfectly lucid. And he's surrounded by people he has hand selected to facilitate his ability to keep the party going.
Biden has been a mastermind of political intrigue his entire career. He orchestrated the hit on Clarence Thomas, remember, only to have Thomas effectively counter it by calling it out for the high-tech lynching it was. By the way, anyone remember how hard in the paint the Biden functionaries went on Clarence Thomas' wife? Think that's mere fucking coincidence? Dude is literally still grinding an old grudge. Because nobody fucks with a Biden.
Biden is a corrupt criminal fighting the grim reaper and father time with all his might. The fact that they land blows on him that are evident doesn't change his fundamental nature. And the fight with them ain't over.
My dad went through something similar to what we are seeing with Biden in the last dozen or so years or his life. It amplified all the worst parts of his personality, so, if the same holds true with Biden, good lord.
That is the case with Alzheimers and other similar mental degradations. It amplifies the dominant parts of your previous personality. There are old clips of Biden out there from decades ago where his mean streak is on display. He’s always been a mean SOB.
There is speculation that he was medicated in an attempt to hide his cognitive decline. While there are anti-Alzheimer's medications, they probably added some amphetamines.
I have no idea about any of this, but if it looked like "old man on amphetamines," it might have been partly that.
Being a puppet only serves you for a short time. While he may have moments of lucidness, the person with dementia quickly reverts back to their state of unknowing or confusion. I also think he's always been too stupid to really succeed at anything and even Obama admitted it as much. I think he got away with it for so long because he was so useless and not powerful, that it didn't matter much. Or, others more powerful used him as the conduit. Clintons per se.
I’m curious but too lazy to track down the source of the 170 claim, but didn’t he have a fractured skull in the crash that killed Biden’s first wife? You’d think that some dain bamage would go along with that.
For those unfamiliar, the LSAT is scored from 120-180, much like the SAT/GREs are scored 200-800. But it's quite a bit harder. So getting a 170 is sorta like getting 700 on the GRE, but not the same. Having taken both (decades ago), I'd say the GRE was much easier.
A 170 puts you in the 98th percentile of *law school applicants* which is a self selecting group of high achievers -- and 170 is the very high end of these high achievers. A rough extrapolation to the general population, it's more like >99.75 percentile. Mad respect to anyone who can get there -- even Hunter.
For me, the difference is this: I think Hunter broke the law but I think the law is wrong and should be challenged, whereas in the case of Trump, I don't think he did anything wrong nor broke the law, even though a jury thought he did under poor instructions from a judge.
Many on the right are not cheering on Hunter's conviction because many actually disagree with the federal law. There are some on the left cheering because it's a way to push back on Trump's conviction.
Hunter most definitely broke the law as written on his gun purchase. But does that law even hold any power under the standard set in Bruen? Has yet to be decided. Plenty of people have been jailed on that law, but usually people who the government doesn't like. They rarely...and I mean RARELY...use it on actual violent criminals. Generally it gets whipped out when they can't get you on something else they'd like to have you on more.
So one can argue it's always been a primarily political charge, and one that with the various "legalization" efforts in the states (as it remains illegal at the federal level) that they can use against pretty much anyone anytime they like.
Usually when it serves their interests or prejudices...neither of which makes Hunter's prosecution on this look any more legit.
I'm sure the government will somehow try to convince a jury that a guy who smoked weed when he was 18 and bought a gun when he was 35 is somehow addicted to weed to a guy they don't like.
I'll go even further: Have you ever met an addict who admitted they were an addict...even to themselves? That usually doesn't happen until they've hit rock bottom. So if someone who doesn't think they are an addict answers a question about whether or not they are an addict negatively, how do you criminalize that? Oh, they should have known they were an addict based on objective measures from the outside that all the best evidence shows that they were literally unable to grapple with at the point where they said it?
This isn't to excuse Hunter because he knew he was lying his ass off, but at the same time the entire exercise gets really fucking sketchy as soon as we apply some scrutiny.
"Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences."
If there are no harmful consequences, you're not an addict! What harmful consequences has Hunter ever had? This countries views on addiction baffle my autistic personality. Addiction to caffeine? OK! Addiction to sugar and carbs? OK! Addiction to Nicotine? Bad (not smoking, nicotine). Addiction to prescription painkillers? OK! Addiction to non prescription pain killers? Bad! Addiction to Adderall? OK. Addiction to meth? Bad (ok, i agree with this one)
In addition to the 5th Amendment issues, I think we have a systemic issue with unnecessarily invasive government forms in general, with the BOI thing being a current flashpoint:
This belongs in a comment Hall of Fame. Nothing really more to add. I'm hopeful that Trump will be re-elected for a third term. I'm not really hopeful that anything will or can even change. I think we may be beyond the event horizon politically and culturally. There's no going back without something really bad happening.
On the contrary, I'm optimistic. The first step to fixing a problem is figuring out you have one. I'm watching people who told me the FBI is a bunch of heroes ten years ago tell me that the organization is to corrupt to allow to exist today. That's progress. All this excessive stuff is laying bare the realities of how the system has been weaponized against the common man, too. And people don't like it. You don't even have to like Trump. Anyone watching the Young Thug trial taking place in the same courthouse as Fanni Willis' RICO case against Trump is seeing just how corrupt that entire court system is. The judge jailed Young Thug's lawyer because that lawyer found out the judge had an illegal ex parte meeting with a witness and the prosecution.
When called out, he threw the lawyer in jail. This roused the entire criminal defense association in Georgia to come forward immediately to challenge it. When faced with that, the judge doubled down and is demanding everyone in that illegal meeting show cause why he shouldn't jail them for contempt, too.
It's a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional use of force by the Fulton County court and Fanni Willis' office...and it's made plenty of people go "Wait, this is the same people prosecuting Trump?"
People are finding out en masse that the system is rigged against them. Not just the other guy. And they don't like it.
We're not even sixty years out from normal political assassination's. These corrupt guys never think someone will take it into their own hands. A certain segment of the population fantasizes this will happen tomorrow. I don't think we're that close but I somewhat expect it in my lifetime and definitely in my childrens.
The sad thing is that the most prominent assassination was by the Deep State removing a popular President who cared about the good of the common citizen.
The opposite of "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants."
I want to be optimistic as well but they act with impunity. It's out in the open and people don't like it but short of a full on coup there is little recourse.
I respect your optimism but can’t share it. They’ve gutted all the military from the warrior class. They don’t want any multi-generational people from joining up. I could probably find the link. Did you seen the picture last year of the Marine recruits.
The purging in the FBI has been in the news the last week. I suspect the same for the rest of the justice department and likely the IRS as well in Treasury.
Congress has punted their responsibility for appropriations and passed omnibus spending bills for however many years. PS where did the announced $404 million to Hamas and the $360 million for the late pier come from? And thousand page bills they actually pass nobody reads and leaves it up an unelected bureaucracy to make up thousands of pages of regulations.
Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us.
"Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us."
Between that and blowing up the pipeline... history will judge him harshly for that.
History belongs to those who write it. And I doubt that today's current crop of history majors will ever write anything harsh about the Obama/Biden presidencies.
I try to share your optimism but I still fear Michelle will be brought out for the second or third ballot in Chicago. Kamala will be told to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Democrat RFK Jr votes will immediately flip to her, Trump won't stand a chance and our "democracy" will be saved.
What you have to understand about the Obamas is that they are not masterminds of anything. Barack Obama was selected early on as a magnificent avatar for the deep state. He's not the idea guy. He's the salesman. Remember that before he was president even black "civil rights" leaders complained that he was never really "down with the struggle". He hooked up with leftist radicals who went from mailing bombs to eagerly participating in The Long March through the institutions after auditioning for the intelligence world in college. He was a perfect intelligence plant, too.
He's got multiple names, his father is a foreigner, he's a closeted bisexual, and boy howdy he just seemed to keep falling into exactly the right spot at exactly the right time didn't he?
Well he and Michelle have done their time. Now they're reaping their rewards.
Michelle Obama is an insufferable elitist. Dealing with we the proles literally makes her skin crawl. She's not about to give up her lifestyle of running around on yachts and private jets to small gatherings of ridiculous rich white women adoring her to actually get back in the mud and blood of real politics.
Especially not against a ruffian like Trump who will not care a tinker's cuss about her reputation and when called a big meanie by the press will be able to very rightly point out that not one of them ever pulled a punch on HIS first lady, so don't expect him to pull any with this one.
She doesn't want any part of that. And, frankly, her appeal would be significantly lower than what people fear. What you are seeing right now in the US and around the world is especially younger people coming to grips with the consequences of the Obama umbrella of policies. They don't like it. She can't run on how awesome the Obama era was because we're literally living with the consequences of Obama era policies. The economic nightmares, inflation, and immigration issues driving people to the polls isn't going to play now.
A lot of the millennials and zoomers never knew "republican" as anything but Bush. Well, Trump certainly isn't Bush. And their definition of "democrat" is a bunch of corrupt elitist pricks who rig everything and want to make it impossible for them to own anything.
Michelle would be an utter fucking disaster for them.
Believe it or not, Biden is the best shot they have simply because there are some ridiculous boomers in places like PA and Wisconsin who still spontaneously ejaculate complete hogwash like "Democrats are fur the workin' man!!!" because they had their brain replaced by a union sixty years ago. Michelle Obama isn't going to pull them to the polls.
You've perfectly described my 81 year old UAW Committeeman retiree father so I'll try to have faith in the rest. Shelly does continue to maintain, or has someone maintain, social media accounts for prole distribution so we'll see.
I'm completely with you on Barry's origins but 8 years as Puppet Leader can make a man and his wife think above their raisin'.
oh god i hate pailcarriers as my father refers to them
huge ndp voting block despite the fact that the ndp has changed so much over the last 30 years to where its now just liberal plus but hurr durr its for the working man
Democrat party rules say that if the candidate drops out _after_ the convention, then the party leaders can select a replacement nominee without a popular vote.
Biden will be nominated at the convention and accept. Soon after his handlers will suddenly "discover" that Joes health will not permit him to be president again and he will step down.
The party has someone already lined up. It won't be Schumer (too useful where he is), won't be Newsom (too toxic). It will be Gretchen Whitmer -- because she's a girl governor and somehow popular enough to win re-election in spite of her draconian Covid mandates.
Toxic doesn't bother them, and Newsome is popular among the AWFL cohort. Newsome/Whitmer could make it to bumper stickers on Priuses and Lesbarus nationwide.
Toxic may not bother *them* but the democrat party wants to make sure they win. And there are at least 40 states full of people that would say "God, I don't want the USA to end up like California" and vote accordingly. And I doubt the party feels confident that they can pull off election tampering in ALL the states.
Newsom is about as electable nationwide as Bernie Sanders.
I’m so old I can remember the argument from the MSM that blogs were inferior because the MSM had layers and layers of editors and fact checkers to keep from getting the story wrong and the facts right.
My favorite is everything search related has chat gpt generated responses now. They'll clearly contradict itself from one paragraph to another. I miss when the internet didn't suck
If the case of US v Biden unwinds one or more portions of the GCA69/the 4473 on appeal, so much the better. At that point the Bidens will have done more for gun rights than any republican president. “Never underestimate Joes ability to fuck things up” I believe was the quote.
Also, people do get strung up for 4473 victimless crimes. I can’t give you chapter and verse to another example but it does happen.
The case that was overturned in the 5th circuit, US. v. Daniels, had resulted in a 5 year sentence IIRC.
[did not read the entire article, nor do I intend to spark a debate on the editorial positions of the publication; it was just a fairly high link that contains the case citation]
In a motion to dismiss the gun charges, Biden's lawyers argued that Section 922(g)(3) is inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Last year in United States v. Daniels, they noted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a marijuana user's conviction under that law,
The 5th circuit doesn't include Delaware so their decisions do not apply. Unless the 3rd circuit has something then Hunter's lawyers were just fishing.
Until either the Supreme Court hears an appeal of the Davis decision or another circuit (or more) comes to a different conclusion under similar circumstances (a Circuit split) and then the Supreme Court decides, one has to abide by their home circuit's decisions.
I understand that the 5th Circuit does not include Delaware. But it seems to me that a theory that has worked in the 5th might also work in the 3rd, and it is possible that this argument has not been tested in the 3rd Circuit post Bruen, which is less than two years old.
Hunter is actually guilty of a real felony that has been championed by his father. Oh the irony. Trump is guilty of a past-due misdemeanor that was somehow elevated to a felony, except we don’t know how because the jury could (individually) chose from a list of options. I’m not sorry for Hunter except that he was born a Biden.
The media handling of this is predictable. What kind of sucker do you have to be to believe the media if you have any understanding of both cases and see how the media handled both. Willful ignorance will be how Biden gets elected (if it happens).
The charges against Hunter are also a great example of the overcharging that prosecuting attorneys do that Jack mentioned in his article discussing the multitude of charges against Trump. For instance:
Lying on a 4473 — unconstitutional, but ok
Causing incorrect information to be recorded in the FFL’s bound book — where did the FFL get that info from? Oh right, the 4473. No non FFL can commit this crime without lying on the 4473 first as far as I’m aware.
Possession of a firearm by a “prohibited person”—well his status as such is the only reason his responses on the 4473 were “lies”
So if there’s any crime, it’s only one—he had a gun as a crackhead. Yet three charges.
It’s the result you get when you have prosecutors that treat real life like a law school “issue spotter” final.
Can't disagree with MOST of what you said, except to laugh at the McLaren reliability. Sherman can jerk off to the architect of the building they came from all he wants.
I don't get the dig at wet wipes.... just because people you make fun of use them?
The McLaren GT4 is an interesting car because it's deliberately crippled from the street version. The Mustang, by contrast, is hopped up. They cost about the same, which is amusing.
The wet-wipes phenomenon among straight men is repugnant. I understand why gay men do it, but if you're not planning on being railed in the ass any time soon it's an odd and prissy thing to do.
I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb.
Its a bit odd to say that superior personal hygiene should only be the purview of homosexuals, or ONLY in certain use cases. If you are going to get swamp ass and not be able to shower for a while, you'd be surprised at how good a job baby wipes do to get you through the next few hours. You can revel in having porta john quality toilet paper and shit residue mixed in with sweat on you, and adding to your musk, but maybe some people don't like it IF there is an alternative?
Jack Baruth: Cleaner is repugnant if you're straight!!!
P.S. I do not use 'man wipes'. I have kids and have been cleaning THEIR nether regions for the last 3 years. Judge me if you want.
'Man wipes' are just baby wipes that are scented differently and marketed to morons. Maybe make fun of them for falling for that marketing, but then it would in line with falling for Porsche's marketing as well....
Allow me instead to LEAN IN with a deranged theory that will have you shutting your laptop in disgust: the "DUDE WIPES", as they're marketed, is just part of an effort to sexualize men in a receptive sense.
As I noted below, the "Truckstop wipe" has been a thing forever. But the DUDE WIPE isn't about that. It's about keeping your asshole and nuts fresh and inviting so you're always ready for sex, even if you're not the receptive partner. In 2024, everything has to be either about the Omnicause or about having sex. It's critical that men be perpetually in a sex mindset, as opposed to the mindset where they are thinking about the Roman Empire, the XB-70, or homemade firearms manufacture. We used to force this always-be-ready-for-sex mindset on women; now we do it to men.
Reading your posts is so interesting because I'm nodding along like 90% of the time and then there's stuff like this where I'm like 'do we even live in the same world?'
Much like axe body spray, these are for teenaged boys with BO who don't have the "I don't give a fuck" benefits of old age to just use the kids baby wipes.
Not disagreeing with you but I did recently stumble across a twitter thread of many women complaining about their various ex husband's, boyfriend's, one night stand's skid marked underwear.
I keep generic Target baby wipes in all my cars, and it’s by far the most commonly used “emergency” gear I have. And I think only once it has been to wipe up from a shit, the rest of the time it’s been to clean up after ice cream, wipe down a spill, clean off a piece of equipment, etc etc. Don’t sleep on baby wipes, you learn how versatile they are as a new parent and then you never want to be without them again afterwards.
No idea about the dude wipe/buttfucker connection though.
"I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb."
Farley raced in the spec Mustang series at Mid-O and finished 11th overall.
I'm not defending his decisions, but he is a lot closer to the product than anyone at GM and Ford hasn't made the number of unforced errors the RenCen crew made.
I'm sorry what? Every single Ford launch is still trash.. every single Ford vehicle except for HD trucks is uncompetitive in their respective classes. They're losing money hand over fist on the quality problems on the F150s.
Also GM doesnt really do any work out of the ren center. All the real development happens in Warren, Pontiac and Milford.
Just because an exec touched a car doesn't make it competitive. He isnt going to be the person to figure out how to not trip up the torque limiting from the non contact sensors for BoP globally where the mustang is being sold and deployed as a turn key product to customers paying what Jack believes is the same money as a McLaren. That's a double insult cause half the time the McLaren finishes every time. This shouldn't be your f'ing benchmark.
He may be a real petrolhead, but he's a moron as far as running the auto business is concerned. I almost think furniture head did better when he had the reigns. Farley does not have a single hands down product success that he is responsible for during his whole tenure in any capacity at Ford.
Or while hiking through the desert on vacation and you realize that the lead singer of one of your favorite bands has a winery and restaurant on the way back to your hotel. So you stop at the Walmart for a fresh $12 dollar t-shirt and wet ones to have a "shower" in the parking lot to reduce, not eliminate, the red dirt that accumulated on your body before a late lunch...we tipped very well.
1. I cannot overstate how much I adore stuff like that BBLDrizzy breakdown. I wouldn't see that kind of thing otherwise and I find myself just as in awe of how it's working as you. Plus it lets me keep up with the kids these days. The other day I said, in a group of zoomers, that somebody was sweating like "Drake at a middle school!" and I thought they were going to die of laughter.
2. It's worthwhile to consider exactly how the Hunter Biden prosecution came to be. Initially there was an incredibly broad plea deal on the table that pretty much served to dispose of *any* criminal liability for Hunter dealing only the lightest possible smack on the wrist for things that would preclude any possible examination of the Biden family's finances. That became public and was blown up by the publicity. It was so obviously corrupt that the lightest amount of public scrutiny was fatal.
...but this poses problems. The government cannot just withdraw promises made because of bad PR. So deciding to junk the deal and prosecute Hunter is potentially disposable by appeal in the first place.
That being said, Hunter's legal problems were supposed to be wrapped up before the Trump trials began. When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea. When the optics shifted nailing Hunter on charges that have absolutely no tie to Biden family business became useful. It serves multiple interests, allowing a talking point that pretends we're not living in a two tiered system of justice where police and prosecutorial power is being weaponized against this administration's political enemies. At the same time it puts Hunter on a very short leash.
Hunter is getting scrutiny because of things he said in interviews and critical evidence he "accidentally" left laying around...at about the same time Ashley Biden's rehab diary was "stolen" and became public knowledge. I do not believe these two events are merely coincidental. I think it was an attempt by both to get out from under the thumb of their sociopath of a father. Well the DOJ and "intelligence community" closed ranks pretty hard and worked to cover all that up nicely, didn't they?
It's been rumored for a long time that if you are facing a federal case, the right check written to a Biden will result in The Big Guy making a call to DOJ HQ and the case disappears. In fact, it's even been rumored that a number of DOJ cases were begun precisely so that you would write that check.
The best way to understand Biden is as a mob boss or a small feudal king. His children are treated like instruments in his larger goals. Like LBJ, but not as smart. No less animal in his cunning or corruption, but not as smart at working it. People often act as if Biden's selection as VP was because Obama saw him as a bumbling idiot. It's much more likely that he was picked as VP specifically to assist in the conversion of the "counter-terrorism" infrastructure (that should have never been allowed in the first fucking place) to going after political enemies of the deep state. Having Biden's ties to DOJ and the intelligence community on board with the effort only helped Obama's efforts become more efficient. That expanded to the IRS, too.
That resulted in the IRS going after political groups that challenged Obama's power and it led to the Obama administration seizing the most intimate medical records of hundreds of thousands of important people. Most people were unaware this happened because naturally it doesn't serve The Narrative, but it did:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records/
The medical records of judges, celebrities, athletes, politicians, and financial titans were all seized by the IRS under the guise of Obamacare in an effort so brazen and corrupt that I'm sure J Edgar would lift his dress and bend over so he could get fucked by it. This gave the Obama administration and the IRS the most intimate details of all those people's lives. What medications they were taking. What psychiatric conditions they were being treated for. What STD's they were being treated for. What they were addicted to. All that good stuff that the government isn't supposed to know about ANY OF US.
Biden was a key player in creating all of that. And he likes to brag about it, too. Like a mob boss. "Nobody fucks with a Biden!" ...remember that?
What I've heard about the defense in Hunter's trial is utterly laughable. Abbe Lowell is supposed to be one of the best defense attorneys in the nation and based on what I've heard I could have generated a more competent defense with ChatGPT than what was presented at trial. Either Lowell's reputation is completely fabricated...or *it wasn't supposed to be a well defended case.*
What does Biden have now? He gets to claim that others are weaponizing police powers against *him and his family* while he's busy doing exactly that to Trump and anyone who worked in the Trump administration. His functionaries get to go out and claim that the prosecution of Hunter justifies the prosecutions of Trump...even though Biden supposedly had nothing to do with any of that, but ignore that old talking point for the new one. And it keeps the kid who couldn't shut the fuck up and couldn't stop leaving damning evidence about Biden family business all over the place on a short leash. Hunter isn't doing interviews anymore. And he's not leaving laptops anywhere anymore. He's nicely under control.
And even if he has to sit in a cell for a little while, it's only until the election and we all know he'll get a pardon as soon as it's decided. Right along side the pardon Biden will cut for himself and all his little functionaries to guard against any accountability for their multiple violations of law in pursuing all this weaponization in the first place.
All of this is win/win for Biden.
Expect Hunter's defense against the tax charges to be much, much more competent. Because the fix will likely be in on that one, too.
People cheering for Hunter's conviction are damn fools who don't see what's actually going on. They just want some sort of retribution...not realizing that this isn't retribution, it serves Biden's interests beautifully. Lots of people have gone to jail on the charges that he faced for sure. He shouldn't just get a pass if none of those people did. But cheering for charges that keep as far away as possible from the real dirt that Hunter Biden has been involved in as bag man for his corrupt family for decades is not a fucking victory. Quite the opposite.
Pinning this so it can be read by everyone. Thank you.
It's kind of a shame that we can't turn the comment section into a book.
Maybe we can!
" When the plea deal got nuked that killed the timeline. Incentives shifted. I firmly believe that this prosecution was dad's idea"
This very much echoes the Lewinsky case. IIRC Starr was begging to be allowed to pursue the poverty stricken/millionaire Bhuddist nuns' payments to Clinton bagman and future two time Virginia governor (in violation of the spirit if not letter of the law) McAullife. Reno said no, you can only pursue this <strike>perjury case</strike> private matter between a married couple.
Damn...This is all assuming Biden has a functioning brain and is smart enough to be machiavellian. Methinks not. I'd like to see who's pulling the strings though. Susan Rice? Obama 3rd term?
Let me ask you this: Do you think that seeing Biden as a complete puppet serves his interests or harms them?
I have no doubt Biden has some sort of serious mental issues with declining mental faculties. If you've ever dealt with someone like that, though, you will have seen that they do not live in a fog of complete unknowing. They have moments of perfect lucidity, too. Biden really is shitting his pants on a regular basis. There are even very unauthorized nicknames that have resulted from it.
But the dude who shits his pants and gets confused on camera sometimes when he needs more injections is the same vindictive, corrupt, and malicious character he's always been when he is perfectly lucid. And he's surrounded by people he has hand selected to facilitate his ability to keep the party going.
Biden has been a mastermind of political intrigue his entire career. He orchestrated the hit on Clarence Thomas, remember, only to have Thomas effectively counter it by calling it out for the high-tech lynching it was. By the way, anyone remember how hard in the paint the Biden functionaries went on Clarence Thomas' wife? Think that's mere fucking coincidence? Dude is literally still grinding an old grudge. Because nobody fucks with a Biden.
Biden is a corrupt criminal fighting the grim reaper and father time with all his might. The fact that they land blows on him that are evident doesn't change his fundamental nature. And the fight with them ain't over.
My dad went through something similar to what we are seeing with Biden in the last dozen or so years or his life. It amplified all the worst parts of his personality, so, if the same holds true with Biden, good lord.
INDEED.
King Lear, but retarded.
The jet, or Jill? 🙄
That is the case with Alzheimers and other similar mental degradations. It amplifies the dominant parts of your previous personality. There are old clips of Biden out there from decades ago where his mean streak is on display. He’s always been a mean SOB.
Let’s not forget that Doctor Jill is around to carry on Joe’s crime boss vindictiveness when he’s not lucid. She married him in 1977 so she’s all in on carrying on the family business, and she obviously knows where all the bodies are buried. Also, quite curious that she was jetting back and forth from the trial to France. Just why did she need to be in the courtroom as an observer? https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/dnc-will-foot-the-bill-for-part-of-jill-bidens-pricey-back-and-forth-delaware-france-flights-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-the-rest/
What explains the state he was in at the SOTU Address?
BTW, this is Bereft Insane Osama’s third term.
Didn’t watch, don’t know.
There is speculation that he was medicated in an attempt to hide his cognitive decline. While there are anti-Alzheimer's medications, they probably added some amphetamines.
I have no idea about any of this, but if it looked like "old man on amphetamines," it might have been partly that.
Being a puppet only serves you for a short time. While he may have moments of lucidness, the person with dementia quickly reverts back to their state of unknowing or confusion. I also think he's always been too stupid to really succeed at anything and even Obama admitted it as much. I think he got away with it for so long because he was so useless and not powerful, that it didn't matter much. Or, others more powerful used him as the conduit. Clintons per se.
Hunter got a 170 on his lsat. That likely came from somewhere.
Kinda seems unlikely that someone with that score would drop off a laptop with that much incriminating evidence at a mom n pop repair shop.
You would be surprised how many smart people are stupid
it's unlikely that he could repeat his score now, after all the drugs
I didn’t think that dumbfuck could fog a mirror!
maybe he cheated?
I’m curious but too lazy to track down the source of the 170 claim, but didn’t he have a fractured skull in the crash that killed Biden’s first wife? You’d think that some dain bamage would go along with that.
For those unfamiliar, the LSAT is scored from 120-180, much like the SAT/GREs are scored 200-800. But it's quite a bit harder. So getting a 170 is sorta like getting 700 on the GRE, but not the same. Having taken both (decades ago), I'd say the GRE was much easier.
A 170 puts you in the 98th percentile of *law school applicants* which is a self selecting group of high achievers -- and 170 is the very high end of these high achievers. A rough extrapolation to the general population, it's more like >99.75 percentile. Mad respect to anyone who can get there -- even Hunter.
For me, the difference is this: I think Hunter broke the law but I think the law is wrong and should be challenged, whereas in the case of Trump, I don't think he did anything wrong nor broke the law, even though a jury thought he did under poor instructions from a judge.
Many on the right are not cheering on Hunter's conviction because many actually disagree with the federal law. There are some on the left cheering because it's a way to push back on Trump's conviction.
It's all maddening.
Hunter most definitely broke the law as written on his gun purchase. But does that law even hold any power under the standard set in Bruen? Has yet to be decided. Plenty of people have been jailed on that law, but usually people who the government doesn't like. They rarely...and I mean RARELY...use it on actual violent criminals. Generally it gets whipped out when they can't get you on something else they'd like to have you on more.
So one can argue it's always been a primarily political charge, and one that with the various "legalization" efforts in the states (as it remains illegal at the federal level) that they can use against pretty much anyone anytime they like.
Usually when it serves their interests or prejudices...neither of which makes Hunter's prosecution on this look any more legit.
I'm sure the government will somehow try to convince a jury that a guy who smoked weed when he was 18 and bought a gun when he was 35 is somehow addicted to weed to a guy they don't like.
I'll go even further: Have you ever met an addict who admitted they were an addict...even to themselves? That usually doesn't happen until they've hit rock bottom. So if someone who doesn't think they are an addict answers a question about whether or not they are an addict negatively, how do you criminalize that? Oh, they should have known they were an addict based on objective measures from the outside that all the best evidence shows that they were literally unable to grapple with at the point where they said it?
This isn't to excuse Hunter because he knew he was lying his ass off, but at the same time the entire exercise gets really fucking sketchy as soon as we apply some scrutiny.
"Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences."
If there are no harmful consequences, you're not an addict! What harmful consequences has Hunter ever had? This countries views on addiction baffle my autistic personality. Addiction to caffeine? OK! Addiction to sugar and carbs? OK! Addiction to Nicotine? Bad (not smoking, nicotine). Addiction to prescription painkillers? OK! Addiction to non prescription pain killers? Bad! Addiction to Adderall? OK. Addiction to meth? Bad (ok, i agree with this one)
In addition to the 5th Amendment issues, I think we have a systemic issue with unnecessarily invasive government forms in general, with the BOI thing being a current flashpoint:
https://www.avoidablecontact.com/p/wednesday-or-thread-d-rizzy-bbl-drizzy/comment/58924909
This belongs in a comment Hall of Fame. Nothing really more to add. I'm hopeful that Trump will be re-elected for a third term. I'm not really hopeful that anything will or can even change. I think we may be beyond the event horizon politically and culturally. There's no going back without something really bad happening.
On the contrary, I'm optimistic. The first step to fixing a problem is figuring out you have one. I'm watching people who told me the FBI is a bunch of heroes ten years ago tell me that the organization is to corrupt to allow to exist today. That's progress. All this excessive stuff is laying bare the realities of how the system has been weaponized against the common man, too. And people don't like it. You don't even have to like Trump. Anyone watching the Young Thug trial taking place in the same courthouse as Fanni Willis' RICO case against Trump is seeing just how corrupt that entire court system is. The judge jailed Young Thug's lawyer because that lawyer found out the judge had an illegal ex parte meeting with a witness and the prosecution.
When called out, he threw the lawyer in jail. This roused the entire criminal defense association in Georgia to come forward immediately to challenge it. When faced with that, the judge doubled down and is demanding everyone in that illegal meeting show cause why he shouldn't jail them for contempt, too.
It's a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional use of force by the Fulton County court and Fanni Willis' office...and it's made plenty of people go "Wait, this is the same people prosecuting Trump?"
People are finding out en masse that the system is rigged against them. Not just the other guy. And they don't like it.
That is progress.
That...is hope.
We're not even sixty years out from normal political assassination's. These corrupt guys never think someone will take it into their own hands. A certain segment of the population fantasizes this will happen tomorrow. I don't think we're that close but I somewhat expect it in my lifetime and definitely in my childrens.
The sad thing is that the most prominent assassination was by the Deep State removing a popular President who cared about the good of the common citizen.
The opposite of "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants."
I want to be optimistic as well but they act with impunity. It's out in the open and people don't like it but short of a full on coup there is little recourse.
I respect your optimism but can’t share it. They’ve gutted all the military from the warrior class. They don’t want any multi-generational people from joining up. I could probably find the link. Did you seen the picture last year of the Marine recruits.
The purging in the FBI has been in the news the last week. I suspect the same for the rest of the justice department and likely the IRS as well in Treasury.
Congress has punted their responsibility for appropriations and passed omnibus spending bills for however many years. PS where did the announced $404 million to Hamas and the $360 million for the late pier come from? And thousand page bills they actually pass nobody reads and leaves it up an unelected bureaucracy to make up thousands of pages of regulations.
Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us.
"Finally who gave Biden the authority to basically declare war on Russia by bombing highly sensitive radar installations which are used to detect a nuclear attack that could only come from us."
Between that and blowing up the pipeline... history will judge him harshly for that.
History belongs to those who write it. And I doubt that today's current crop of history majors will ever write anything harsh about the Obama/Biden presidencies.
Oh, they're not going to live long enough to write the books, I don't think.
They're purging the FBI and military because they'd rather have agents and soldiers who will swear an oath to protect their dental plan.
I try to share your optimism but I still fear Michelle will be brought out for the second or third ballot in Chicago. Kamala will be told to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Democrat RFK Jr votes will immediately flip to her, Trump won't stand a chance and our "democracy" will be saved.
What you have to understand about the Obamas is that they are not masterminds of anything. Barack Obama was selected early on as a magnificent avatar for the deep state. He's not the idea guy. He's the salesman. Remember that before he was president even black "civil rights" leaders complained that he was never really "down with the struggle". He hooked up with leftist radicals who went from mailing bombs to eagerly participating in The Long March through the institutions after auditioning for the intelligence world in college. He was a perfect intelligence plant, too.
He's got multiple names, his father is a foreigner, he's a closeted bisexual, and boy howdy he just seemed to keep falling into exactly the right spot at exactly the right time didn't he?
Well he and Michelle have done their time. Now they're reaping their rewards.
Michelle Obama is an insufferable elitist. Dealing with we the proles literally makes her skin crawl. She's not about to give up her lifestyle of running around on yachts and private jets to small gatherings of ridiculous rich white women adoring her to actually get back in the mud and blood of real politics.
Especially not against a ruffian like Trump who will not care a tinker's cuss about her reputation and when called a big meanie by the press will be able to very rightly point out that not one of them ever pulled a punch on HIS first lady, so don't expect him to pull any with this one.
She doesn't want any part of that. And, frankly, her appeal would be significantly lower than what people fear. What you are seeing right now in the US and around the world is especially younger people coming to grips with the consequences of the Obama umbrella of policies. They don't like it. She can't run on how awesome the Obama era was because we're literally living with the consequences of Obama era policies. The economic nightmares, inflation, and immigration issues driving people to the polls isn't going to play now.
A lot of the millennials and zoomers never knew "republican" as anything but Bush. Well, Trump certainly isn't Bush. And their definition of "democrat" is a bunch of corrupt elitist pricks who rig everything and want to make it impossible for them to own anything.
Michelle would be an utter fucking disaster for them.
Believe it or not, Biden is the best shot they have simply because there are some ridiculous boomers in places like PA and Wisconsin who still spontaneously ejaculate complete hogwash like "Democrats are fur the workin' man!!!" because they had their brain replaced by a union sixty years ago. Michelle Obama isn't going to pull them to the polls.
You've perfectly described my 81 year old UAW Committeeman retiree father so I'll try to have faith in the rest. Shelly does continue to maintain, or has someone maintain, social media accounts for prole distribution so we'll see.
I'm completely with you on Barry's origins but 8 years as Puppet Leader can make a man and his wife think above their raisin'.
oh god i hate pailcarriers as my father refers to them
huge ndp voting block despite the fact that the ndp has changed so much over the last 30 years to where its now just liberal plus but hurr durr its for the working man
Democrat party rules say that if the candidate drops out _after_ the convention, then the party leaders can select a replacement nominee without a popular vote.
Biden will be nominated at the convention and accept. Soon after his handlers will suddenly "discover" that Joes health will not permit him to be president again and he will step down.
The party has someone already lined up. It won't be Schumer (too useful where he is), won't be Newsom (too toxic). It will be Gretchen Whitmer -- because she's a girl governor and somehow popular enough to win re-election in spite of her draconian Covid mandates.
Toxic doesn't bother them, and Newsome is popular among the AWFL cohort. Newsome/Whitmer could make it to bumper stickers on Priuses and Lesbarus nationwide.
Toxic may not bother *them* but the democrat party wants to make sure they win. And there are at least 40 states full of people that would say "God, I don't want the USA to end up like California" and vote accordingly. And I doubt the party feels confident that they can pull off election tampering in ALL the states.
Newsom is about as electable nationwide as Bernie Sanders.
honestly why would i bother with news when based takes like this are available
another banger comment tim
I’m so old I can remember the argument from the MSM that blogs were inferior because the MSM had layers and layers of editors and fact checkers to keep from getting the story wrong and the facts right.
now they hire people to get the story right and the facts wrong
that narrative wont push itself
Naturally. The media is now, and has always been, propaganda. But they really despise competition.
My favorite is everything search related has chat gpt generated responses now. They'll clearly contradict itself from one paragraph to another. I miss when the internet didn't suck
me too buddy
me too
can we get a weekly Tim post?
man i hope so
One of my favorite enlightening articles on the Biden family
https://archive.is/7OJR6
If the case of US v Biden unwinds one or more portions of the GCA69/the 4473 on appeal, so much the better. At that point the Bidens will have done more for gun rights than any republican president. “Never underestimate Joes ability to fuck things up” I believe was the quote.
Also, people do get strung up for 4473 victimless crimes. I can’t give you chapter and verse to another example but it does happen.
Edit, the Abramski decision form 2014. Absolute miscarriage of justice.
The case that was overturned in the 5th circuit, US. v. Daniels, had resulted in a 5 year sentence IIRC.
[did not read the entire article, nor do I intend to spark a debate on the editorial positions of the publication; it was just a fairly high link that contains the case citation]
https://reason.com/2024/06/11/hunter-bidens-gun-conviction-does-not-resolve-a-constitutional-dispute-that-pits-him-against-his-father/
In a motion to dismiss the gun charges, Biden's lawyers argued that Section 922(g)(3) is inconsistent with the Second Amendment. Last year in United States v. Daniels, they noted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a marijuana user's conviction under that law,
Here’s another example from the same judge over the Hunter Biden case: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13490177/judge-hunter-biden-gun-trial-doubled-sentence-recommended.html
No way she was going to find for Hunter on constitutional grounds.
The 5th circuit doesn't include Delaware so their decisions do not apply. Unless the 3rd circuit has something then Hunter's lawyers were just fishing.
Until either the Supreme Court hears an appeal of the Davis decision or another circuit (or more) comes to a different conclusion under similar circumstances (a Circuit split) and then the Supreme Court decides, one has to abide by their home circuit's decisions.
I understand that the 5th Circuit does not include Delaware. But it seems to me that a theory that has worked in the 5th might also work in the 3rd, and it is possible that this argument has not been tested in the 3rd Circuit post Bruen, which is less than two years old.
Hunter is actually guilty of a real felony that has been championed by his father. Oh the irony. Trump is guilty of a past-due misdemeanor that was somehow elevated to a felony, except we don’t know how because the jury could (individually) chose from a list of options. I’m not sorry for Hunter except that he was born a Biden.
The media handling of this is predictable. What kind of sucker do you have to be to believe the media if you have any understanding of both cases and see how the media handled both. Willful ignorance will be how Biden gets elected (if it happens).
The charges against Hunter are also a great example of the overcharging that prosecuting attorneys do that Jack mentioned in his article discussing the multitude of charges against Trump. For instance:
Lying on a 4473 — unconstitutional, but ok
Causing incorrect information to be recorded in the FFL’s bound book — where did the FFL get that info from? Oh right, the 4473. No non FFL can commit this crime without lying on the 4473 first as far as I’m aware.
Possession of a firearm by a “prohibited person”—well his status as such is the only reason his responses on the 4473 were “lies”
So if there’s any crime, it’s only one—he had a gun as a crackhead. Yet three charges.
It’s the result you get when you have prosecutors that treat real life like a law school “issue spotter” final.
Can't disagree with MOST of what you said, except to laugh at the McLaren reliability. Sherman can jerk off to the architect of the building they came from all he wants.
I don't get the dig at wet wipes.... just because people you make fun of use them?
The McLaren GT4 is an interesting car because it's deliberately crippled from the street version. The Mustang, by contrast, is hopped up. They cost about the same, which is amusing.
The wet-wipes phenomenon among straight men is repugnant. I understand why gay men do it, but if you're not planning on being railed in the ass any time soon it's an odd and prissy thing to do.
I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb.
Its a bit odd to say that superior personal hygiene should only be the purview of homosexuals, or ONLY in certain use cases. If you are going to get swamp ass and not be able to shower for a while, you'd be surprised at how good a job baby wipes do to get you through the next few hours. You can revel in having porta john quality toilet paper and shit residue mixed in with sweat on you, and adding to your musk, but maybe some people don't like it IF there is an alternative?
Jack Baruth: Cleaner is repugnant if you're straight!!!
P.S. I do not use 'man wipes'. I have kids and have been cleaning THEIR nether regions for the last 3 years. Judge me if you want.
I'm not going to judge you for cleaning your children, for God's sake. I just dipped my son in rubbing alcohol.
'Man wipes' are just baby wipes that are scented differently and marketed to morons. Maybe make fun of them for falling for that marketing, but then it would in line with falling for Porsche's marketing as well....
See, I gave you an out..
Allow me instead to LEAN IN with a deranged theory that will have you shutting your laptop in disgust: the "DUDE WIPES", as they're marketed, is just part of an effort to sexualize men in a receptive sense.
As I noted below, the "Truckstop wipe" has been a thing forever. But the DUDE WIPE isn't about that. It's about keeping your asshole and nuts fresh and inviting so you're always ready for sex, even if you're not the receptive partner. In 2024, everything has to be either about the Omnicause or about having sex. It's critical that men be perpetually in a sex mindset, as opposed to the mindset where they are thinking about the Roman Empire, the XB-70, or homemade firearms manufacture. We used to force this always-be-ready-for-sex mindset on women; now we do it to men.
Reading your posts is so interesting because I'm nodding along like 90% of the time and then there's stuff like this where I'm like 'do we even live in the same world?'
bro what
Much like axe body spray, these are for teenaged boys with BO who don't have the "I don't give a fuck" benefits of old age to just use the kids baby wipes.
Look at the reviews
https://www.amazon.com/Dude-Products-Wipes-Flushable-Dispenser/product-reviews/B00L1GHHV2/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews
Jack that is wacky even from you. I am not saying your ideas have no merit but do you think most men care if their bungholio got the TP or the wipes.
Not disagreeing with you but I did recently stumble across a twitter thread of many women complaining about their various ex husband's, boyfriend's, one night stand's skid marked underwear.
I walk 10 miles a day so I just wear black.
I think your conclusion is just on the wrong side of exaggeration. I agree with the sentiment though.
Everclear works just as well as rubbing alcohol and if you're in a pinch...
I keep generic Target baby wipes in all my cars, and it’s by far the most commonly used “emergency” gear I have. And I think only once it has been to wipe up from a shit, the rest of the time it’s been to clean up after ice cream, wipe down a spill, clean off a piece of equipment, etc etc. Don’t sleep on baby wipes, you learn how versatile they are as a new parent and then you never want to be without them again afterwards.
No idea about the dude wipe/buttfucker connection though.
Baby wipes: useful, unscented, cheap
Rebranded and scented “masculine” wipes: overpriced, niche, possibly exclusively used for horny motives
I think this is the argument
"I wasn't commenting on the mustang at all. The speed for the Mustang will come, the car's development has been screwed up by Farley's decision to throw out anyone that knows anything to the curb."
Farley raced in the spec Mustang series at Mid-O and finished 11th overall.
Him driving the car is different from his headcount reduction process and cost savings imposed on different parts of the company?
I'm not defending his decisions, but he is a lot closer to the product than anyone at GM and Ford hasn't made the number of unforced errors the RenCen crew made.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GeneralMotors/comments/1d8nqvn/is_mary_wrong_about_evs_avs_carplay_android_auto/
I'm sorry what? Every single Ford launch is still trash.. every single Ford vehicle except for HD trucks is uncompetitive in their respective classes. They're losing money hand over fist on the quality problems on the F150s.
Also GM doesnt really do any work out of the ren center. All the real development happens in Warren, Pontiac and Milford.
Just because an exec touched a car doesn't make it competitive. He isnt going to be the person to figure out how to not trip up the torque limiting from the non contact sensors for BoP globally where the mustang is being sold and deployed as a turn key product to customers paying what Jack believes is the same money as a McLaren. That's a double insult cause half the time the McLaren finishes every time. This shouldn't be your f'ing benchmark.
He may be a real petrolhead, but he's a moron as far as running the auto business is concerned. I almost think furniture head did better when he had the reigns. Farley does not have a single hands down product success that he is responsible for during his whole tenure in any capacity at Ford.
the wet wipes thing is how deployed dudes way in field do it or so ive heard
Also how truckers do it. But it's meant to be a last resort, not a freshen-up between meetings in the cube farm.
thats true
aint nobody freeballin it outisde the wire at hewlett packard
Absolute hack in the Navy when you're 6 on/6 off in the engine plant and/or 18 hours+ working the flight deck.
I hear it's the USMC standard shower. Add deodorant and it's a night on the town.
Or while hiking through the desert on vacation and you realize that the lead singer of one of your favorite bands has a winery and restaurant on the way back to your hotel. So you stop at the Walmart for a fresh $12 dollar t-shirt and wet ones to have a "shower" in the parking lot to reduce, not eliminate, the red dirt that accumulated on your body before a late lunch...we tipped very well.
Tool?
Yep
How’s his wine?
HEY
WE HAVE A POLICY ABOUT INSULTING FELLOW READERS
It's all fun and games until Maynard pulls a gun on you.