Hunter & Joe Biden corruption scandal

[dogmush]

Nice of the Biden administration and its supporters to introduce arguments in favor of supporting States Rights, 10th Amendment Supremacy, and such into this.

Also to conflate the inhalation of a burned leafy plant that is legal in some jurisdictions but not in others, with the mucous membrane intake of a chemically refined dried extract that is universally illegal.

Also, for that article to have any relevance to the pot split legality issue, coke would have to be legal somewhere.

Since we are talking federal law here (GCA '68), it's worth pointing out that both drugs are universally illegal everywhere in the United States.  In Fact Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, and Cocaine is only a Schedule II drug, so arguably Hinter's drug use was less dangerous and less severe under the relevent laws.

So we can highlight the absurdity of Federal drug laws and Federal gun Laws in one story.

But the whole "split legality issue" is a non issue.  Pot is not legal anywhere in the US, as stated by the folks that enforce the gun laws.  If you pop up on their RADAR, they'll grab you.

[HankB]

I'd be willing to see Hunter beat the gun charges because his case went to SCOTUS and they declared NFA '34 and GCA '68 unconstitutional . . .   

[zxcvbob]

I'd be willing to see Hunter beat the gun charges because his case went to SCOTUS and they declared NFA '34 and GCA '68 unconstitutional . . .   

That would be nice, but NFA'34 would be beyond the scope of the case so it ain't happening.  GCA'68 is a possibility but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Ben]

Well, we have gone from "You guys are crazy and making *expletive deleted*it up about Hunter and Joe!!!!!!!" to "Influence peddling is perfectly normal and everybody does it."

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/19/gov-gavin-newsom-tells-cnn-its-hardly-unique-to-use-family-members-to-get-a-little-influence-n2387468

[Tuco]

This will surely result in Hunter losing his license to practice law.

[dogmush]

Well, we have gone from "You guys are crazy and making *expletive deleted*it up about Hunter and Joe!!!!!!!" to "Influence peddling is perfectly normal and everybody does it."

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/19/gov-gavin-newsom-tells-cnn-its-hardly-unique-to-use-family-members-to-get-a-little-influence-n2387468

Next Stop:  "It's good that Joe used every tool at his disposal to gain influence.  He's using that now to champion US interests and save Democracy!"

[WLJ]

And now this

The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California states Giuliani is "primarily responsible" for the "total annihilation" of Biden's digital privacy. It also names Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor who previously represented Giuliani, as a defendant, Fox News has confirmed.

"For the past many months and even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy toward looking for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from Plaintiff's devices or storage platforms, including what Defendants claim to have obtained from Plaintiff's alleged ‘laptop’ computer," Biden's attorneys wrote in the complaint, claiming that the date was not  even from a "laptop," but from an "external drive."

They're going to try every trick in the book and then some to deflect from what was found

Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani over laptop, accuses ex-Trump lawyer of 'hacking'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-sues-rudy-giuliani-laptop-accuses-ex-trump-lawyerhacking

[WLJ]

    "The only thing the president can be guilty of here is of being a father," says @RepMaxwellFrost.
    — Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) September 28, 2023

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/09/28/dem-rep-acknowledges-the-only-thing-the-president-can-be-guilty-of-n2387884

Right.....

[Ben]

Holy crap man - using his kid's college fund for hookers and blow, and still getting emails that he has insufficient funds to pay for porn sites.

https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2023/10/08/jesus-take-the-wheel-latest-hunter-biden-scandal-drops-and-whoa-nelly-its-a-doozie-n2388226

[WLJ]

Back To Hunter's favorite subject

EXCLUSIVE - First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation - and the culprit has still not been found
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744675/First-photos-reveal-COCAINE-White-House-Images.html

[WLJ]

    SENATOR KENNEDY: "Why didn't the FBI just say, hey, the laptop's real?!"

    FBI DIRECTOR WRAY: "We have to be very careful about what we can say, especially in the middle of an election season..." pic.twitter.com/jRAUdrh56g
    — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 5, 2023

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1732096637973967070

[230RN]

I'd be willing to see Hunter beat the gun charges because his case went to SCOTUS and they declared NFA '34 and GCA '68 unconstitutional . . .   

From your keyboard to G-d's laptop.  I agree about '34 not being relevant, unless there's something tucked away in there about drugs.

IIRC, at the time, drug usage was pretty much none of the fed's business.

Of course, neither was alcohol, until...

[WLJ]

Of course, neither was alcohol, until...

IIRC you were still allowed to make your own for your own consumption

Edit: Wine

While the manufacture, importation, sale, and transport of alcohol was illegal in the United States, Section 29 of the Volstead Act allowed wine and cider to be made from fruit at home, but not beer. Up to 200 gallons of wine and cider per year could be made, and some vineyards grew grapes for home use. The Act did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol. Many people stockpiled wines and liquors for their personal use in the latter part of 1919 before sales of alcoholic beverages became illegal in January 1920.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

200 gallons a/year = 0.55 gallons a/day. *hick*

[230RN]

^ True.  Did it myself when I was drinking.  Two 5-gallon water fountain jugs.  Found out how to clean them by putting kitty litter and a quart of water in them, swished vigorously.  Like a charm it worked.

Got ticked off when I discovered (beforehand) that you had to allow inspection by the postal authorities on demand.  AFAIK, not that I'm interested any more, that's still the case.

Ran out of storage bottles.

[WLJ]

^ True.  Did it myself when I was drinking.  Got ticked off when I discovered you had to allow inspection by the postal authorities on demand.  AFAIK, not that I'm interested any more, that's still the case.

How would they even know you're doing it?

[Pb]

I make hard cider.  It's easy.

There's no way you can stop people from making alcohol.  A bottle of fruit juice with a balloon (with a pin prick) on the top of it and a pinch of yeast... or just leave the bottle open for a while to pick up wild yeast.

Illegal hobby distilling is big... there are efforts to legalize distilling for home use, but its gone nowhere so far.

[230RN]

WLJ: "200 gallons a/year = 0.55 gallons a/day. *hick* "

IIRC, that was per family, however they defined that.

"How would they even know you're doing it?"

Doing what?

Pb: "I make hard cider.  It's easy."

I was amazed to find that freezing to concentrate the alcohol was considered "distillation" under the law, hence required taxation and the attendant licensing.

This was all quite a while ago, but I suppose not much has changed.  Quit drinking altogether in 1993, lost interest in the nitties and gritties.  Finally developed the balls to quit smoking in 2017.

Ain't I so-o-oooo noble?  And I only charge $5.00 for touching the hem of my robe.

Terry, 230RN

REFs:
Matthew 9:18-26,Mark 5:22-43,Luke 8:41-56

[HankB]

. . . Got ticked off when I discovered (beforehand) that you had to allow inspection by the postal authorities on demand.  AFAIK, not that I'm interested any more, that's still the case . . .

POSTAL authorities? Did they think you might be mailing the booze?

And as someone said - how would they know?

I've known a few people making their own beer and wine and not once did any of them mention an "inspection" requirement.

I also remember a time as a youngster when we - I mean some kids I barely knew and whose names I've long forgotten - distilled applejack and potato vodka. Nobody went blind from the product . . .

[230RN]

Sometimes surprising what agencies regulate what.  I was shocked to learn that your laser gun sight was regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Who would know...

As I asked before: knew what?

They may not have mentioned it if they did not know about it.  However, that may have changed by now.

IIRC, the danger of fermenting toxic alcohols is mainly if one uses natural airborne yeasts. I always used Fleischmann's packaged yeast from the bakery aisles and regular cane sugar.  Pure stuff in, known reaction, pure stuff out.

PureA + PureB -----> PureC

[Ben]

[WLJ]

Add this into the mix

    Banks filed at least six reports concerning Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings that flagged President Joe Biden's home address in Delaware and raised concerns about possible criminal activity involving money laundering or human trafficking, according to a U.S. Senator who investigated the first family's finances for years.

    Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the top Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told the Just the News, No Noise television show Thursday night that the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) chronicled about $12 million in transactions over several years, some of which passed through Joe Biden's Wilmington, Del., home where he had allowed his son to stay.

HMM: Here's a GREAT Question About Biden's 'Loan Repayment' Excuse
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/12/08/hmm-heres-the-question-of-the-week-about-bidens-loan-repayment-excuse-n2390640

[WLJ]

Now the real questions is
Was Hunter in Washington on January 6th 2021?

[230RN]

Yeah, sorry about the diversion starting with 337.

[WLJ]

When a satire site cuts though the noise

Hunter Biden Indicted For Not Paying Taxes On His Bribes
https://babylonbee.com/news/hunter-biden-indicted-for-not-paying-taxes-on-his-bribes

[WLJ]

Meanwhile on James Wood's twitter page

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1734026750680879363