House Republicans issue new report on Joe Biden corruption… that again offers no evidence
House Republicans issue new report on Joe Biden corruption… that again offers no evidence
In its third report, House GOP Oversight panel claims evidence Joe Biden benefitted from son Hunter business dealings. White House says it shows no such thing
The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, said in the report that it plans to continue to investigate Biden to find evidence of corruption, even as it acknowledged that it had no evidence that he financially benefited from the myriad foreign business dealings of his son Hunter.
These people never grew out of high school.
97It's a show for low-information voters to establish false equivalency in their minds, fuel for whataboutism. Sadly, it will probably work on the intended audience.
75Conservatives always assume there is a democrat counter part for every evil thing that emerges from their party. Alt-right, what about the alt-left?? Ignoring the fact they adopted the moniker the alt-right and all the scumbags they pandered to joined up. If there was some counter group on the left why the fuck would they adopt the name the alt-left like its some celestial inevitability and if they don't call themselves that the universe will become unbalanced.
Fucking stupid.
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Those people never went to begin with.
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Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
Never trust a conservative.
72Every accusation is a confession...
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The GQP held many, many hearings on Hillary Clinton's supposed crimes, released multiple reports with no evidence, and you'll notice Hillary Clinton isn't President. Why would they change when it worked?
41This ignores the fact that Hillary is deeply unlikeable and thus unelectable. imho you’re giving repug disinformation too much credit here.
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My Trump supporting family members seem to think Joe's son's crimes cancel out Trump's kids crimes. I shit you not.
I always respond with, "Is Joe's son part of the government in any official or unofficial role?"
32Except do they really think that? Or to they think that Trump didn't really do anything wrong and Biden needs to be impeached?
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Lmao if USA today is calling them out you know it's a cringe report.
27They know it's bullshit. They know you know it's bullshit. They are playing the long game for their fan base.
"Biden was investigated for the same thing, and just like Trump they didn't find anything! But that's because Biden was in office and hurr durr.... I forget the point but Biden is definitely murdering and trafficking children for the DNC. That movie from the passion of the Christ guy told me so and he's practically Jesus."
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22Well it worked with Hillary in 2016 with "but her emails" and now they are trying that again with Biden "but his son's laptop". It just doesn't really have the same impact.
Also, in 2016, Trump still had the benefit of the doubt. I'm confident most people, especially independents, are not interested in another 2016-2020 filled with scandals, obvious lies and another White House turning door where nothing get accomplished.
That said, these countless investigations on the Bidens are actually proving me wrong. In 2019-2020, I was disappointed that Biden was the candidate because I thought since he had been in politics for 45+ years, he had to have been corrupted at some point. But Republicans are proving me wrong. The guy is squeaky clean and I find this really refreshing.
21but her emails
Fun fact: the Republicans' email server was also hacked around the same time, but the contents of the server weren't released by the Russians like the DNC's emails were. I suspect the kompromat contained within was too good to release to the public. That would certainly explain a lot about their behaviors since then.
Also, regarding private email servers for, "unofficial communications," Republicans were using those too.
25Oh right, yeah, I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. So much corruption in the GOP it's hard to keep track.
It's funny because we KNOW for a fact, as per the Mueller report, that the GOP is 100% compromised and infiltrated by Russian spies. We just, uh, kinda went along with it and accepted it as the new normal.
5Just because part of the Democratic party has a major issue with corruption doesn't mean that I don't think the entire GOP is rotted through to its racist and fascist core.
Also thank you for summarizing a part of the Mueller report that I listened to as much as a as was publicly released(thank you fuckhead weasel Barr.)
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Biden was the poorest (least affluent?) senator for decades. If he was corrupt, he was very bad at it.
It's likely that Hunter was trading on his father's name (as do many children of famous/influential people). But Joe being corrupt just doesn't pass the smell test. And this time, I don't think the Republican smear campaign is going to work, President Biden isn't Hillary Clinton. I mean, it will work with some people, but they're already too deep into the GQP's alt-universe to be reachable.
10They also timed that one way better. Unless they're holding things back the chances of them having a bombshell at this point is essentially zero. Every day they come up empty makes Joe look more and more vindicated while making the GOP look more and more inept. If you can't pin a crime on a guy you call "Sleepy Joe" what the fuck can you do?
1Except she did actually get caught manipulating the Democratic primary leading up to 2016, as well as collaborating to manipulate the GOP one as well.
Hell, the hacked/leaked democratic party emails listed him as their preferred GOP candidate because they thought he'd be so easy to beat.
Biden is innocent. He makes enough on his own from lobbyist bribes like the rest of DC.
-13Except she did actually get caught manipulating the Democratic primary leading up to 2016
No she didn't. It's hard to combat conspiracy theories since they just shift the claims around but if you're referring to the joint fundraising agreement (my best guess), that's a standard agreement signed between campaigns and the party so that when a nominee is eventually chosen, the campaign and party can work in unison.
The reality is that nobody did more to raise Bernie's national profile than Hillary. He was able to make a serious go at the nomination only because she had already cleaned the floor. And when it came time to vote, actual Democrats overwhelmingly chose her, which is obvious since she was the only Democrat running. Bernie just temporarily pretends to be a Democrat when he wants their money and is unwilling to do any of the ongoing work to support the party and its other down-ballot candidates.
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“I heard on the news that Congress wrote a report on how corrupt Biden is”
2 hours of Biden ad-homs
It doesn’t need to have anything more than a headline to work for those people.
17Yup. Or trump tweet/email. I legit used to go to work and be like "wow people sure are talking a lot about unemployment today" then later get on reddit and see trump tweeted at like 3am about how low unemployment is under him or some such shit. It happened a lot. I could tell what was fox news theme of week based on the chatter. Getting him off Twitter helped a LOT with that though
I think it's dangerous too that so many people seem to laugh at and treat it like it's dumb that these GOP senators, congress, and other positions of power say or do this dumb shit. They aren't dumb, they know what they doing clearly. All you have to do is look and see how ramped up citizens are and FFS they have people willing to kill for this crap they are pushing. I get why it is amusing but at the same time I hope people realize it is definitely, always, way more than that.
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I know that this is political backlash for Trump's impeachments, but I will never not support investigating people in high amounts of power, or the rich. Even if it has a 2% conviction rate, I would support it.
8There are limited resources to undertake such investigations. Devoting those resources to investgating frivolous and unfounded accusations take away from the ability to investigate accusations with any real evidence.
Which is probably part of the point.
10Do you think this will be a fair and honest investigation?
2Honestly, I think it's just for the press to level the playing field for Trump to win in the general.
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If there is no evidence, then why do they speak so confidently and strongly?
7An empty barrel makes the loudest noise.
16Wow. I'd use that one in the future if my memory wasn't reset every 5 seWow. I'd use that one in the future if my memory wasn't reset every 5 secWow.
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When you have the facts, pound the facts. When you have no facts, pound the table.
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GOP-bags: “We’re impossibly corrupt and use our corrupt kids to further our corruption, so you must, too! And we’ll prove it!” [find nothing]
Dark Brandon: “Ice cream doo-wop skippity-bop!" 😎
6There's plenty of stuff I don't agree on with him, but if I found out he put plastic in the glass bin, I'd be surprised.
6What was that word used over and over regarding other political investigations?
oh yeah - "nothingburger"
5The problem with the defense being offered by the White House and being repeated by most of the non-conservative press is that it rests on, there’s no direct tit-for-tat ergo no corruption. Problem is, when politico’s palms get greased (at least if they’re smart) it never goes direct, family members and close associates are always used as the go-betweens.
The real problem for Republicans here is that they’ve made their own bed and then have to lie in it with regards to DC corruption. They spent four years screaming “Nothingburger!” over every Trump scandal, which created a desensitization to scandal, and now they’re finding that they can’t switch people back to be scandalized.
Of course, the Democrats have their own issue in this in that they made Trump out to be this extreme abnormality from the DC status quo. If it turns out that it’s more like, Trump was just too stupid to do DC corruption in the usual discrete ways, it undermines that rationale for keeping Trump out of the White House.
2The problem with your equivocating is that the Republicans haven't even been able to turn up the usual "DC status quo" corruption. The absolute worst they've been able to find so far is that Hunter promised (but never actually delivered) access to his dad, lied on his taxes, likes his nose candy, and is hung like a horse. Nobody's scandalized over this because there's nothing to be scandalized over. Hunter isn't part of the administration, there's no evidence he ever discussed business with his dad, and he's getting punished for the crimes he's committed. The real scandal is how much he's been harassed over nothing, up to and including people sending out fucking revenge porn to their followers.
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James Coomer
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