Biden Investigation Falls Flat on it's Face! Again.

Yes he was VP in 2017...early 2017 until Trump was inaugurated.

That's because it's bullshit.

“Grasping at straws”? Big talk from the side that has absolutely no evidence

Like usual

Every normal person knows this is just more bullshit. Another Benghazi.

If there’s evidence, great, proceed with the trail. But there is no evidence.

Repugs just lie. They have nothing else, so that’s all they can do.

OP, learning English can be fun! Tip: review contractions.

R1 and R3, if you actually watch the exchange, you could learn the facts before providing commentary. The WhatsApp message is from August 2017, when Biden was not a candidate, VP, or President. You really should be embarrassed.

R1, Biden was only VP in 2017 for about 20 days in Jan before Trump was sworn in. The "evidence" of political influence that supposedly took place was much later in the year. So the reporter was correct. Biden had now political power at the time. He was out of office. He was done.

Sexy little Ryan Nobels was the reporter pointing out the GOP stupidity.

CLOWN SHOW 🤡

"U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) melts down as an NBC reporter questions GOP claims of DOJ political interference in favor of Joe Biden before he was president."

[quote][R1] and [R3], if you actually watch the exchange, you could learn the facts before providing commentary. The WhatsApp message is from August 2017, when Biden was not a candidate, VP, or President. You really should be embarrassed.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they're not capable of embarrassment.

Jason Smith sounds like a QUEEEN!!!!!

Has anyone mentioned the connection Cassidy Hutchinson revealed between Hunter Biden’s business partner, Tony Bobulinski, and Trump?

She said that Bobulinski had a clandestine meeting with Mark Meadows at a Trump rally in 2020 where they met between secret service vehicles. Bobulinski wore a ski mask and Meadows handed him an envelope. And now Bobulinski is the GOP’s key witness against Hunter.

Hmmmmmm.

r7 OP claim was " Here's the rub, Joe was not VP or President in 2017. " When he clearly was. No other claim was made.

A ski mask? Jesus Christ

OMG, stop being so literal R14. The main point stated is still a solid one. Biden was not a VP when the event occurred.

If this Investigation depends upon the Efficiency and Skill of the Republicans in charge today, it's going nowhere. The current Republicans in Congress couldn't conjure water from a well.

Bobulinski has been trying to take down Biden for years. Guess what? He's full of crap. The only evidence he has took place......wait for it.............wait for it........2017! That's right, he's making the same BS claim as the one discredited. 🤣🤡

"The meeting appears to have taken place on the night of May 2, 2017, in Los Angeles. "

Maybe it's me but I don't get why Democrats are so inept in defending President Biden over all of this. To me, it seems as if Governor Gavin Newsome is the only one speaking out loud and proud about President Biden's accomplishments and combatting all of the misinformation. However, President Biden said it best when he asked; "Where is the money?"

Does anyone else remember that President Biden (then Vice President) was placing his house on the market to sell in order to help cover his son's Beau medical expenses? But it was President Obama who stopped him and offered him a loan. Is anyone looking at President Biden's tax returns where one would clearly see that he made his big money after his term as Vice President when he wrote his book and did a lot of well-paid speaking engagements? Prior to that President Biden was known to be the "poorest" Senator of the Senate. Okay... Hunter Biden (and President Biden's brother) may have their issues ie. Hunter Biden's drug addiction but with all of this money supposedly flowing in neither one would offer to help in paying Beau's medical and family expenses? Besides their issues are they jerks too? It just doesn't add up, and with all of this supposed money inflowing in, why don't either of them have A LOT of money? That's A LOT of money to blow through on blow and whatever else.

Why are Democrats allowing these scenarios to take some sort of root?

That’s an interesting defense, that if evidence that ties Joe to Hunter’s corrupt activities is dated between Joe being VP and president, it doesn’t count somehow.

Jason Smith represents one of the poorest, trashiest, methed out districts in Missouri, and that's saying something.

If only these Republican clowns were as eager to improve their constiuents lives as they are in creating fake scandals

R3, what corporate media is telling everyone to vote blue no matter what? Hint: none of them.

R20, not sure why this has to be spelled out for you. The point is that Joe supposedly used his political influence. Since he wasn’t holding any public office at the time—and there wasn’t any talk of him running in 2020–he had no political influence to wield.

[quote] Jason Smith represents one of the poorest, trashiest, methed out districts in Missouri, and that's saying something.

[quote] If only these Republican clowns were as eager to improve their constiuents lives as they are in creating fake scandals

Tom Nichols, Feb 14, 2021

[quote] For all of their complaints about “The Swamp,” these GOP careerists are creatures of Washington. No matter where they were born, they are now the squires of Northern Virginia and Georgetown and they are not going back. For all their populist bravado about how the “elites” hate the Real Americans, [bold] no one is more elitist and hates Real America — including their own constituents — as much as the Republicans who will do anything rather than risk being sent home to live among them. [/bold]

R20, I don't know that Hunter's business dealings are themselves inherently corrupt. The corruption arises if political influence by an officeholder was used to help them.

Jason Smith is George Santos-lite.

Republicans love to waste their time doing nothing of merit.

They seem to have no clue that you actually have to have evidence

They think thoughts and prayers will stop hurricanes and mass murderers. If course they think they can will evidence into existence when there is none.

Is the evidence against Biden on Noah's Ark, guys? Is it under the Shroud of Turin? Will the evidence appear right before The Rapture? Tell us more, 🤡!

[quote]That’s an interesting defense, that if evidence that ties Joe to Hunter’s corrupt activities is dated between Joe being VP and president, it doesn’t count somehow.

Yeah, get back to us when trading on your family's name is made illegal.

[quote] get back to us when trading on your family's name is made illegal.

Would that we could...

While an EXCELLENT opening statement, those that need to listen and really hear/understand what is being spoken will be ignored. Comer appears as if he is just humming a tune to himself without taking in one word of what Raskin is saying. It's the same with this Jason Simth. He's unable to support HIS presented evidence when asked legitimate questions and so he instead pivots to asking the reporter's affiliation and then offers a snide retort of "You'll never believe us anyway."

What do you do?

Jonathan Turley was the first witness at today's hearing. Why, I don't know. Yet even this partisan blowhard couldn't keep the wind in Republicans' sails:

"While I believe that an impeachment inquiry is warranted, I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment."

Republicans are admitting they don't have any evidence, but they keep telling us they're SURE there has been illegal wrongdoing, and they're going to go forward towards impeachment because they're SURE something will be discovered. Just like Benghazi.

And Whitewater. Who knows, maybe they'll finally dig up evidence that Biden had an affair with an intern.

[quote] Jason Smith is George Santos-lite.

Well, OK, . . . but not really all that light. . . .

⭕️

What an inspirational speech that our POTUS just gave!!!

R36. Yes, that's why it's "lite" and not "light."

Yeah. Got that R38. It was a joke about his weight.

R39 No. It was reference to him being a cheaper version of Santos.

Oh, my God. Jasmine Crockett is channeling her inner DL queen and I am here for it!

"This looks like our national secrets in the shitter to me!"

YESSSSS HUNNEY, R41! She went uptown, downtown, and then to the West and East side!

R42 I almost spit out my drink when I heard her say that.

This fierce bitch brought her flame thrower to chambers and left Republicans charred and smoking! She should've gotten a standing ovation.

Welcome to the fan club R41, R422 & R43

This is par for the course with her.

Summer Lee as well...who triggered MTG to break decorum and stomp away

DAMN! That was amazing take down R41. We need more Democrats to speak up like that.

Just give the House to the sistahs! They can and will run it just fine!

Summer Lee is my congresswoman. Pittsburgh represent!

R44 Love her! And MTG is such a juvenile little bitch. "I know you are, but what am I?" she whines, then walks away.

[quote] Moskowitz went full borscht belt and sparked constant guffaws from Dem side of the room. At one point, it looked like @AOC had to cover her mouth because of how much she was laughing

Moskowitz:

[quote] As a former director of emergency management, I know a disaster when I see one

Okay... this made me chuckle, R41

Joe Biden Press Release (Parody) @joebldenpress

Ok Jasmine. You can cash the check now.

R44 Large Marge is such a stupid cunt--"Democrats love shutdowns" and then she runs away with her tail between her legs.

r20, your posts on this thread are ridiculously transparent.

Countdown to DL's racist KKKlan Grannies complaining about uppity, big-mouthed, disrespectful negresses in four, three, two.......

Girlfriend has the finger, pencil, and neck roll, at the MASTER level! Just DL in its most EXCELLENT presentation!!!

HUNTER BIDEN IS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER AND DESERVES TO BE IMPEACHED!!!

Let's also impeach Willow Biden, the White House cat. That bitch is using taxpayer dollars to feed her catnip habit. She's the Don Corleone of the Biden Crime Family

[quote]Countdown to DL's racist KKKlan Grannies complaining about uppity, big-mouthed, disrespectful negresses in four, three, two.......

Not happening. 🙄

Yes, remember the fishing exposition they had to go through to try to trip Clinton up for a tiny lie.

Yet they don’t think we should have impeached TFG for inciting an insurrection.

The impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was already a disappointment before it started on Thursday. In prepared testimony, two of the three witnesses called by Republicans explicitly said there was not enough evidence to warrant removing President Joe Biden from office. This included Jonathan Turley, the law professor and Fox News contributor, who said, “I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.”

Republican Lauren Boebert asked Turley “where does selling access to an executive office fall in terms of what justifies an impeachment inquiry and what is deemed an impeachable offense” and got an extended legal discussion, which included multiple references to the U.S. code. “I shouldn’t have asked Turley a question,” she told a staffer, disappointed, as she got up to leave the hearing room. “He was a crappy witness.”

The hearing, which was an effort to lay out the Republican case for connecting Biden with his son Hunter’s sleazy overseas business dealings, started with some promise. The hearing room was full, overflowing with reporters and the full array of perennial hearing attendees. The left wing Congressional Integrity Project sent observers—-one in a mask—-wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the face of committee chair James Comer with the slogan “no evidence” written above his face. Only a few chairs down sat the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the insurrectionist shot dead by Capitol Police on January 6 while trying to break into the House chamber, and conservative media personality Tom Fitton.

Other low-lights included one member referring to a “shitter” in a hearing while another repeatedly used the word “bullshit” in a hearing was unusual. This was likely the first time in the nearly 250-year history of the United States that a member of Congress made a point of order to ask the chair to instruct another member “not to introduce pornography today,” as well.

[...]

[bold] Few Republicans were in the hearing room most of the time. Instead, they wandered in and out, bringing coffee and energy drinks to stay alert as the hours ticked by. The Democratic seats were mostly occupied for the first half of the hearings as Raskin seemed to have a grin constantly appearing on his face throughout the proceedings. In contrast, Comer sat mostly grim-faced [/bold] and spent time peering at his iPhone when not expressing exasperation that Democrat Dan Goldman repeatedly asked for unanimous consent for the same deposition from one of Hunter Biden’s business partners be introduced into evidence again and again and again. By the end of the hearing a visibly peeved Comer agreed yet again in a near empty room “for the seventh time without objection” as Goldman continued to use the deposition to play defense for Biden.

Perhaps the quintessential moment for what the hearing became was when Democrat Jared Moskowitz used his five minutes to deliver a borscht belt style comedy monologue that repeatedly provoked guffaws of laughter from the Democratic side of the hearing room and, at one point, forced Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to cover her mouth because of how much she laughing. Moskowitz began his remarks by saying of the hearing “as a former director of emergency management, I know a disaster when I see one” and proceeded with an array of props and charts.

Wasting time on this bullshit and the government is going to shut down on Saturday. You people better vote blue no matter who--these fools need to be gone.

"I'm not going to pinpoint one specific thing."

But you presented it--it was the first thing you said. Douchebag.

Remember Benghazi, forget J6

Joseph Randall Biggs is an American veteran, media personality, organizer of the Proud Boys, and convicted felon for his participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

After serving in the United States Army and suffering a traumatic brain injury, Biggs began working for various conservative media organizations, including InfoWars and Censored.TV. As a leader for the far-right Proud Boys group, he organized and promoted the End Domestic Terrorism rally; was found jointly culpable for an over-$1 million judgment for trespass and vandalism at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church; and helped lead the organization's destructive efforts in the attack on the United States Capitol.

For the last of these, in 2023, he was found guilty on six criminal counts (including seditious conspiracy), and sentenced to 17 years of federal imprisonment.

No evidence

Raskin Delivers OPENING STATEMENT the GOP May Never Recover

R59: Your link is sufficient, and you need not cut and paste its lengthy text into a comment box. Attributing the copy might save you (and Muriel) from a plagiarism charge.

You're welcome.

“Can you tell me 3 concrete goals your party has once this investigation has passed? Does this party care about anything other than retribution?”

[quote] You're welcome.

All unsolicited advice is criticism

These Repug yahoos are just throwing sh*t around hoping something will stick. Waste of time, patience and tax payers money.

When is someone gonna straight up ask on the floor, “Are you full of shit?”

R69 The party of small government and fiscal responsibility.

The Rethugs are lightweights and no match for the likes of Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman. Raskin served as a well-respected law professor and Goldman was a top-notch federal prosecutor. Gym Jordan couldn’t even pass the bar exam.

So tired of this! Everyone should know they have nothing on Joe Biden except loving his troubled son. That is not illegal.

Jasmine for president!!!

[quote]Gym Jordan couldn’t even pass the bar exam.

Gym Jordan was too chicken-shit/stupid to even *take* the bar exam! Who does that?

Raskin says that he thinks today puts an end to impeachment proceedings

[quote] Raskin says he heard directly from Republicans on the House floor that the right-wing believes Kevin McCarthy set up today’s inquiry hearing to fail.

Raskin:

[quote] They couldn’t believe that such a disaster would just happen by accident

Gym Jordan couldn’t pass the oral!

They need to leave Joe alone. Hunter, too.

Squeaky voiced men repulse.

[bold] Two Stars Are Born: Jared Moskowitz and Jasmine Crockett Destroy The Republican Party's Impeachment Inquiry [/bold]

[quote] As Republicans flopped, the future of the Democratic Party was on full display during today's impeachment hearing ... Two Democrats stole the show: Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30).

Who is the dude @00:18 with the long, long, very long face?

I'll bet Easter Island has a BOLO out on him.

Jared and Jasmine should start posting at the datalounge!

Coincidentally, R82, she does represent the Oaklawn gayborhood while his district includes Ft. Lauderdale...

The concern trolls/whiners who say we have no younger Democrats who are fired up and prepared to lead, in the coming years need to STFU and sit down. We have ample. Meanwhile, the Republicans have Nazis and escaped mental patients.

Republicunts

The funniest thing was when that ka-ween Jason Smith said to the reporter, “Well, I guess you’re just never going to believe me!” What a dumb queen.

You’re trying to impeach the POTUS, dumb ass. It’s up to you to present the evidence and timelines! Just embarrassing.

Is Smith out?

Stay in the closet freak

How dare you stand up there and lie, look hideous and speak using a squeaky female voice.

I need to speak with Moskowitzs’ agent regarding booking for a fundraiser - he has IT !

R81, Jared Moskowitz new 1st term in House Of Reps. He's doing a great job with showing how under-prepared the Repugs are in everything they do. He's not afraid to speck up and stir them up.

*speak up...sigh

Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS 10h

Replying to @PodSaveAmerica

Y'all know I had to. And we still need help to take back the house from this McCarthy shutdown. Donate if you can: (Secure Blue ...)

Jasmine Crockett is amazing. We are lucky to have her on Team Democracy.

I legitimately hope Rep. Crockett has security in place to protect her from the incitement from people like this.

Yesterday "ghetto" was trending and, because the hearing was an unmitigated disaster, the lowest of the low flock to comment and share.

I dont care if they call her ghetto, that's what we need right now, a street fighter. All those old men dont know what to do with that. Especially since she's a woman. The white trash women in that room are afraid of her. GOOD!

LOL that Republicans think Jasmine is "ghetto" when it's Large Marge who was showing porn on the house floor

Ghetto is different than Trash. But yeah, Large Marge is trash.

Well, if being "ghetto" means reading the spineless, dimwits of the repug party to filth, then I wish more dems were "ghetto"

r99

Her look is ghetto, her words are Ninja.! That woman cut through the BS like no one else.

“I don’t care about you! Fuck you and your fascism!”

LOL! I love this guy...

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan 12h

So the GOP just got rid of their own Speaker after bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown, while their presidential frontrunner is in court for fraud and getting gagged by the judge for defaming the clerk.

The big question then: what about Joe Biden’s age?

I like Mehdi, he can really kick ass on Republicans especially calling them out during an interview no matter how much they try to talk over him.

Mehdi is one of the few out there who deserves to call himself a JOURNALIST

Here's another one...

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan 12h

On January 6th, 2021, Kevin McCarthy voted to try & prevent Joe Biden from becoming president.

On September 12th, 2023, McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry to try & remove Biden from the presidency.

Tonight, Joe Biden is still president.

Kevin McCarthy is out of a job.

That guy in the blue suit. Fat slug. What is his problem

Comer, R107? White hair, bad half brows? He's crazy and a closet case.