Another day, another roundup
(1) The folks at the Babylon Bee are funny: “GoFundMe Page Started To Help Complete MLK Statue.” When I first saw a photo of that statue, it was from an angle that didn’t show the pornographic and/or scatological elements. But still, I wondered where the heads and bodies were. What a vile piece of “art.”
(2) Rat seen leaving sinking ship?
White House chief of staff Ron Klain is reportedly expected to step down from his top position in the coming weeks, marking the most significant resignation the Biden administration has seen since President Joe Biden took office two years ago.
Klain has been privately telling colleagues he plans to resign since the midterm elections, according to the New York Times.
(3) Chauvin’s appeal is likely to fail, but not through lack of merit.
(4) Orchestrating the suppression of the Biden documents story:
The handful of advisers who were aware of the initial discovery on Nov. 2 — six days before the midterm elections — gambled that without going public, they could convince the Justice Department that the matter was little more than a minor, good-faith mistake, unlike former President Donald J. Trump’s hoarding of documents at his Florida estate…
The discussions on how to deal with the matter, at least at the start, were confined to the husband-and-wife pair of Bob Bauer, the president’s top personal attorney, and Anita Dunn, a White House senior adviser; Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime confidant and speechwriter; Mr. Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Stuart F. Delery, the White House counsel; and Richard Sauber, a White House lawyer overseeing the response to investigations, according to people familiar with the situation…
Once the discovery of the original batch of documents was revealed, Ms. Dunn was adamant that the White House should keep the public information flow to a trickle and focus instead on how different Mr. Biden’s case was from the broader investigation into his predecessor, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Anita Dunn keeps turning up like a bad penny.
(5) Shellenberger on what he learned about the FBI from the Twitter files. None of it’s anything good:
While the FBI hyped “hack and leak” operations it was itself engaged in “brief and leak” operations. There is strong evidence that FBI agents have repeatedly warned elected officials, including President Donald Trump, of foreign influence with the primary goal of leaking the information to the news media. This is a political dirty trick used to create the perception of criminality…
In response to the Twitter Files revelation of high-level FBI agents at Twitter, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said, “I have concerns about whether the government was running a misinformation operation on We the People.”
Anyone who reads the Twitter Files, regardless of their political orientation, should share those concerns.
And yet a lot of Democrats aren’t reading those files and do not share those concerns, and probably wouldn’t share the concerns even if they did read the files.
On the Biden classified papers: We don’t yet have any explanations for why they were in his possession in the first place, or for why they were suddenly “discovered” by lawyers.
pResident Biden’s rogue’s gallery of corrupt enablers:
Bob Bauer, Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Biden’s sister Valerie Biden Owens; Stuart F. Delery and Richard Sauber
But it really doesn’t matter because for all intents and purposes the entire Federal government has been corrupted with the majority of the States as well.
“However they [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” Sept. 17, 1796 George Washington’s Farewell Address
Tucker Carlson argues that neither party truly controls the US government but rather an unelected bureaucratic Deep State has long been in charge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgXq8S02NJc
According to this, in the late 1970s Biden spiked Ted Sorenson’s nomination to be CIA Director because Sorenson had taken classified documents home to write a book about the Kennedy administration.
https://instapundit.com/565275/
Hunter’s laptop is the gift that keeps on giving: “A professor at the University of Pennsylvania once pointedly urged Hunter Biden’s [presumably legitimate] daughter to attend a lavish all-expenses paid conference in China, advising that her family name would open doors for her in the country, according to messages found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop. . . . Frank Plantan Jr., a lecturer emeritus at the university, assured Naomi Biden that China’s Boao Forum — which he described as an ‘Asian Davos’ — would be easy. . . . ‘I don’t think it would surprise you that they are interested in you thanks to your family name. I would not take offense at that — it is truly the Chinese way.’. . . . The China invitation came when Naomi Biden was studying law at Columbia University, and her grandfather Joe Biden was gearing up for his 2020 presidential campaign.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/21/upenn-teacher-urged-hunter-bidens-kid-to-cash-in-on-name/
No wonder Klain is looking for an exit, graceful or otherwise.
Fox News is reporting today that in Northern Virginia more than a thousand students were not told by schools that they had won a National Merit award.
See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/winsome-sears-slams-teachers-unions-over-virginia-merit-mayhem-making-education-in-their-own-image/ar-AA16Bwg3
Yeah, but Klain’s been a Biden guy for years. He knows what Joe is. I view this as an acknowledgment that he’s now a lame, lame duck.
In Northern VA, it’s at least seventeen high schools which did not notify students of National Merit commendations before early admission deadlines at colleges. At the schools in question, according to Fox Business, the Asian population is 25%, but the percentage of students not notified was 75% Asian. No discrimination there, of course not.
The infighting amongst Biden’s handlers must be very intense these days with Klain leaving and fingers pointing. A struggle is underway about who is in charge of our country and we are almost completely in the dark about what is really going on behind the scenes. Anita Dunn never struck me as a particularly capable person, how is it that she keeps turning up with her hands on the reins of power?
And now the third or fourth combat boot has dropped. On Fri a search was conducted at the Biden house by the DOJ (not FBI) with Biden atty present. They found at least 6 more docs. Bet the Atty’s thought that things just got worse. Wonder who didn’t retrieve these new doc earlier and burn them.
But wait there’s more (classified docs found at a Biden home)!
Jan 21 2023
Search of Biden’s home by DOJ finds more classified documents
Banned Lizard…and as was noted earlier in the week…these are more CLASSIFIED documents. NOT, AFAWK UN-classified ones.
Just ones he should not have had AT ALL where they now are.
Hmmm…
Re: Klain
I remember the good ol’ days when Klain was rumored to be the Acting-US-Prez.
I never believed that, though I imagine Klain had more input to running the US than previous Chiefs of Staff.
My suspicion is that there is no shadowy Mr. Big, not even Obama. I think the Biden administration is a Happenin’ Thing, a semi-free-for-all for multiple Dem shot callers.
huxley: I beg to differ. I see an Obama behind every tree. We have gone from greed and evil to senile and stupid. Who was Hussein’s Veep again?
Speaking of roundups and trees, a gang of emotional infants known as Treehouse Antifa has run afoul of the law in Atlanta. Be sure to unmute for priceless audio.
The NYT piece is classic spin.
First, the article starts by admitting an undeniable fact that the White House, with the cooperation of the DOJ and National Archives withheld critical information immediately before a key midterm election with the undeniable intent to influence that election. Demonstrate what straight shooter you are by acknowledging something that everyone knows after you helped the White House keep it quiet for as long as you could.
Second, show what well sourced journalists you are by providing a scoop identifying the only six White House people who were involved in the cover-up. But, this seems like hide the ball to me. It is probably true that these six fall guys (who will suffer no consequence) were in on the cover-up from the beginning, but that a lot different from them being the only ones in on the cover-up. We only know these names because they were helpfully leaked by the same White House that has just engaged in a two-month cover-up. Do we really think they would tells that Joe and Jill knew nothing until the rest of us did? In other words, what the NYT is actually doing with its scoop is proclaiming that Joe knew nothing and was perhaps badly served by well-meaning underling. Why would the NYTs unnamed sources lie?
Third, use a story about Joe Biden secretly mishandling classified records for more than six-years, documents that he never had any presidential authority to deem de-classified to misstate the undisputed facts about the Trump documents, (i) Everybody knew from January 21, 2021 on that Trump had possession of documents arguably subject to the presidential records act. (ii) The National Archives and DOJ knew where the records were and how they were being stored. (iii) Trump had been negotiating with the National Archives and DOJ about the storage and disposition of the records, he had just not agreed to roll over and play dead. For six years, neither the National Archives nor the DOJ new that the documents existed or where they were stored because Biden never told them.
Forth, use the opportunity to make the extraordinary claim the Trump has acted in an unprecedented fashion by arguing with the National Archives about the disposition of presidential papers. In fact, every president has had that argument since the inception of the vague and almost impossibly over-reaching presidential records act. All the better to distract attention fro the fact that was unprecedented was the DOJs criminalization of this negotiation and sending an FBI SWAT Team to execute an unprecedented subpoena so broad that it included the former Mrs. Trump’s undoubtedly alluring lingerie drawers.
Well done NYT – a ‘fake news’ master class in a single article.
Hans Mahncke:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1616966806635253762?cxt=HHwWhMC8scuvz_AsAAAA
huxley: I beg to differ. I see an Obama behind every tree.
Cicero:
Entirely your right. I would like to know more specifics.
Initially, I was fond of the Obama Hypothesis, but the Afghan Fiasco left me wondering how any single person could be truly in charge.
Thought on Sundowner files – two reasons to keep them, either souvenirs or hiding information.
So much for Ron being the power behind Jello Brains
Leftists in the country are fine with the Eff Bee Eye and what government was doing in Twitter, and no doubt still doing in Facebook, YouTube and any other social media sites
If you can’t read the NYT article Neo linked, here’s a good summary.
https://notthebee.com/article/biden-administration-caught-attempting-to-cover-up-discovery-of-classified-documents
Biden description of his felonies:
“documents were filed in the wrong place”
Biden clearly suffers from terminal rectocranial inversion– from the Bee (where else?):
“The White House is on edge this morning after investigators revealed a fourth stash of classified documents from Biden’s tenure as Vice President was found deep in his colon. ‘This morning a routine colonoscopy revealed hundreds, possibly thousands of partially chewed top-secret documents crammed in the President’s digestive tract,’ said White House physician Kevin O’Connor. ‘It seems many of them were eaten, while hundreds of others were inserted rectally by an unknown party or Biden himself. We have handed over all partially-digested documents to the Special Counsel in charge of the investigation.'”
https://babylonbee.com/news/fourth-stash-of-classified-documents-discovered-during-bidens-colonoscopy
Why is his atty anita dunns husband obamas fmr counsel making the announcements
More mythical activity in Atlanta.
Zeus, presumably, had a bad-hair day and threw a tantrum….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atlanta-rioters-torch-police-car-vandalize-office-tower
And in more Secure Border(TM) news:
“Texas border sheriff sends SOS: ‘Illegal aliens wreaking havoc in our communities’;
“Kinney County sheriff sent letters to all 254 counties in Texas, 75 counties in Arkansas and 77 counties in Oklahoma asking for help.”;—
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-border-shariff-sends-sos-illegal-aliens-wreaking-havoc-our
“Border crisis keeps growing as more than 200,000 migrants illegally crossed in December”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/more-200000-migrants-came-us-december-amid-mounting-border-crisis-cbp
Meanwhile the NYT doesn’t miss a beat:
“New York Times heralds Biden’s ‘integrity and honesty’ but omits record of plagiarism, fibs”—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/amid-biden-docs-scandal-nyt-cites-bidens-honest-rep-omits-history-plagiarism
An additional thought on Car-a-lago (probably not original but I haven’t seen a pundit-summary connecting these particular dots):
To the question of why were high-priced DC attorneys boxing up old papers:
IMO the lawyers went in to clean the crime scenes of evidence of Hunter & Joe Inc. because they have attorney-client privilege, so long as they are not actively abetting any criminal activity — which we all know they don’t actually shy away from if there is any legal spin possible, and if your name is Clinton you don’t even need that.
(hey, just cleaning the house!) (what, those papers? well, they weren’t under subpoena when we trashed them!)
Anyway, anything incriminating on that front was removed in November & December, final touches in January. Make the announcement of the classified docs (because messing with those IS a felony, lawyer or not), invite the DOJ/FBI to come take a look , they take the boxes of “clean” artifacts, and everything is copacetic.
Because having classified docs is WAY less problematical for Joe now than having solid evidence of criminal malfeasance in public office.
my friend clarice, said corvette files, I don’t trust anything they say, specially when it comes from miss holmgren (nee remus) and anita dunn’s husband,
Apropos of (2), Ron Klain’s (rumored) replacement is Jeff Zients: “Klain and his likely successor have remained close for the past several years, Politico reported, with Biden considering Zients a ‘master implementer.’ Zients was the director of the National Economic Council from 2014 to January 2017. . . . He was also the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2010 and again from 2012 to 2013. The soon-to-be chief of staff has close ties to Big Tech, and has served as a member of Facebook’s board of directors from 2018 to 2020.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/22/jeff-zients-to-replace-ron-klain-as-president-bidens-chief-of-staff/
Aren’t we lucky– a Bammy and Zuckerberg alumnus as JoJo’s chief of staff.
Jeff Zients was Biden’s Covid czar. This does not inspire confidence.
down with the new boss, same as the old boss,
Oh come on guys. Why the long faces?
Just follow the Zients…
https://www.frontpagemag.com/director-of-movie-co-starring-sex-predator-goes-after-justice-kavanaugh/
If it was found by Biden lawyers, why didn’t they just hand the documents to Joe?
POTUS has the authority to handle classified documents as he wishes. He could read them live on prime time TV if he wanted to. The only illegal aspect is holding them as a private citizen, but you would have to prove that.
This looks to me like yet another deep state influence op aimed at the American people.