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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I have dealt with FEMA. Top men. They show up well after the hurricane has passed. What a boondoggle.

I have dealt with them as well. They were here some years ago after large flash floods. They holed up in a empty technical school shop. Lots of security for some reason. This was back in my courier delivery days. I delivered fresh lobster and steak, shrimp or scallops at least twice a week. I guess the local restaurants weren’t good enough.

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officials reportedly craft an agreement ensuring that the buyers of the scandal-plagued son’s art, which is expected to sell for up to half a million dollars, will remain anonymous, even to Hunter himself.

Little H and the Big Man don't care where the money comes from, so long as it comes in large amounts.

Shysters.

If the buyers are to remain anonymous to the Biden Crime Syndicate, there won't be any buyers. The only reason people would buy that crap would be to get their names out there.

This time I bet the former VP Sniffy Joe demands more than the typical 10% mordita

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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officials reportedly craft an agreement ensuring that the buyers of the scandal-plagued son’s art, which is expected to sell for up to half a million dollars, will remain anonymous, even to Hunter himself.

Little H and the Big Man don't care where the money comes from, so long as it comes in large amounts.

Shysters.

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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...officials reportedly craft an agreement ensuring that the buyers of the scandal-plagued son’s art, which is expected to sell for up to half a million dollars, will remain anonymous, even to Hunter himself.

Little H and the Big Man don't care where the money comes from, so long as it comes in large amounts.

Shysters.

If that doesn't REEK of a money laundering scheme, I don't know what does! Jeezus Christmas!!!

Here's hoping that they can't get this done

A global corporate tax of 15%



Leaders from 130 countries last week agreed to a major overhaul of global tax rules, and we have some advice for Congress: Read the fine print carefully. The deal represents an intersection of Europeans’ longstanding dream to tax American tech companies and the Biden Administration’s attempt to bamboozle lawmakers into passing a competition-killing corporate-tax hike at home.

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The agreement is the latest step in years-long negotiations at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to change the way companies are taxed around the world. It comes in two parts. “Pillar One” would introduce a new tax targeting mainly U.S. tech giants. “Pillar Two” creates a global minimum corporate-tax rate of 15%.



The bigger sleight-of-hand concerns timing. The OECD promises to implement this once-in-a-century overhaul of global taxation by 2023—including scores of tax-treaty renegotiations to implement the tech tax and national legislation in all 130 signatories. Presumably this is meant to goad Congress into moving first with Mr. Biden’s tax hikes in the expectation other governments will follow.

Don’t be so sure. Ireland, Hungary, Cyprus and Estonia didn’t sign last week’s agreement, and their consent will be necessary for the EU to adopt the minimum tax. Every other government will have ample opportunity to tweak its laws on the minimum tax to its advantage. All while the U.S. would impose damaging global taxes on American companies.

This is still a bad deal for the U.S. Congress will need to pay close attention to what is—and isn’t—in it before making American firms less competitive around the world.



https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...-the-u-s-11625784716

Hunter's "art sales" are nothing more than a money laundering operation.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
If the buyers are to remain anonymous to the Biden Crime Syndicate, there won't be any buyers. The only reason people would buy that crap would be to get their names out there.

If only that were true.

Let's say you need to go pick up some laundered and pressed shirts from the local laundry. Does the lady behind the counter know you? Not necessarily, in fact she may not even care whether you're the one picking up the shirts or not. So how do you get your shirts? By presenting the laundry ticket you were given when you dropped the shirts off.

Those paintings now become laundry tickets, presumably priced by size, complexity (snort, giggle) and perhaps the materials used.

Need a favor from Uncah Joe? Well, in this yer 21st century that's a snap. Take a picture of the painting you (or your principal) bought with your cell phone, and show that picture to whoever Uncah Joe's bagman is. Voila - you have instant underhanded under-the-table credit on the dirty favors market.

The scary part? Uncah Joe's crew will be keeping track of the credit, and they're not known for being meticulous. If possible, the most efficient way to go is to simply buy a painting for each favor you need.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Here's hoping that they can't get this done

A global corporate tax of 15%

There’s no way Ireland is going to go for this, their low corporate tax rate is why so many corporations set up shop there and they’re never going to kill that Golden Goose and harm their own economy to appease idiot Joe Biden.

Dead on arrival.

since Piglousy won't release the name of the Capitol 'Police Officer' that killed that lady, why not simply charge them ALL

every one of them get charged with everything you can think of

time to cripple that little section of Gestapo beholden to no one other than Piglousy

Biden fires the Social Security Commissioner that Trump appointed to a term ending in 2025.

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2...ontract-date-n401443

Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul was appointed by Donald Trump to a term that isn’t supposed to expire until January of 2025. But on Friday, Joe Biden told him that he was fired. Saul’s deputy, David Black, was told to resign on Friday, which he did. But Saul refused, saying he would report to work on Monday remotely, logging in from home. And now the Social Security Administration is pretty much in a state of chaos

However, Saul, 74, told the Washington Post that he would report for work on Monday morning by logging on remotely from his New York home.

‘I consider myself the term-protected commissioner of Social Security,’ he said, added that an email asking for his resignation was the first of the administration’s plans for him.

‘It was a bolt of lightning no one expected,’ he said. ‘And right now it’s left the agency in complete turmoil.’

Kilolo Kijakazi , currently the deputy commissioner for retirement and disability policy at SSA, has been appointed acting commissioner in the meantime.

Chuck Grassley:

Social Security Commissioner Saul has bipartisan backing / I’m hrg Pres Biden may oust him which wld b outrageous Saul was confirmed by Senate in 2019 w a vote of 77 to 16 to 6yr term that doesn’t expire til January 19, 2025/ DONT POLITICIZE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMIN

Mitch McConnell:

I agree with
@ChuckGrassley This removal would be an unprecedented and dangerous politicization of the Social Security Administration.



Kilolo Kijakazi on closing the racial wealth gap

no other details yet.

seen at CTH

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-a...izona-215644215.html

Trump ally in Pennsylvania pushes for Arizona-style audit of 2020 election

state Senator Doug Mastriano said he sent letters to "several counties" seeking information needed for a "forensic investigation" of the November presidential election and of municipal primaries this past May.

Democratic President Joe Biden won the state by about 81,000 votes

Heavily Democratic-leaning Philadelphia, the state's most populous county, and York County confirmed receiving Mastriano's requests for information

he might get 6, perhaps as many as 8 to show up

Bidet getting involved in using the WH to launder money using Hunter Bidet's painting may be almost as fun to watch as finding all that kiddie porn on Hunter's laptop - if you believe Rudy Giuliani

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sdy:


Has anyone else noticed yet that the only time these people trot out the word "sacred" is when they want to strike a pose and raise hell about how horrible attempts to fight back against the election steal were?

Our "sacred" right to vote, and our "sacred" halls of Congress, my ass! I don't give a damn how many times the Dems want to insist that challenging their ability to steal elections is sacrilegious when all they're doing is pretending that the virtuous thing to do is to have the same faith in their venal, corrupt bullshit that someone religious might have in religious beliefs - which is to say, to treat the Dems' horse manure as being something that all "good" people know is simply beyond question.

Try an experiment, if you happen to know any liblibs. The next time they, or the news, or Joe, trot out the word "sacred", ask them when the last time was that they actually used that word and in what context. Hilarity may not ensue, but the squirming should be amusing for a moment or two.

He should visit the Kensington area for a few hours.

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Has anyone else noticed yet that the only time these people trot out the word "sacred" is when they want to strike a pose and raise hell about how horrible attempts to fight back against the election steal were?

Yes...

Looks like Dems are panicking over the planned forensic audit of the Pennsylvania 2020 presidential election

This is quite a coincidence: Two days after Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano announced that the committee he heads was preparing a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election, the White House announced a trip to Pennsylvania by President Biden "to deliver remarks on actions to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote."


Source.

The stakes are just too high to allow the Senate in Pennsylvania to conduct a 2020 election audit; and all prior corrupt activity must be protected and maintained. As a direct result the White House is announcing the people behind Joe Biden are immediately dispatching all federal resources to Philadelphia to begin the war against Pennsylvania voters.

The Obama regime officials cannot permit the State of Pennsylvania to challenge or expose the scale of election fraud executed in Philadelphia county. They will manipulate every narrative needed, instruct every corporate media ally, call out every labor union and community activist group, pre-position Antifa, trigger every BIG Tech mechanism, activate the DOJ, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and even the U.S. military if that is needed to quell any rebellion.

Senator Mastriano's committee, the Intergovernmental Operations Committee of the Pennsylvania state Senate, will predictably have trouble getting the information it is requesting (and has the right to demand) from the local authorities, especially after a visiting president meets with them or their significant influencers and lobbies them to resist and delay. Mastriano's announcement stated:

Today [July 7], as Chair of the Intergovernmental Operations Committee, I issued letters to several counties requesting information and materials needed to conduct a forensic investigation of the 2020 General Election and the 2021 Primary.

Same Story, Different Ending

We have asked these counties to respond by July 31st with a plan to comply. The counties represent different geographical regions of Pennsylvania and differing political makeups. Some are Republican while others are Democrat, which means that this will be a balanced investigation.

The Intergovernmental Operations Committee is a standing committee of the Pennsylvania State Senate with oversight and investigatory responsibilities regarding activities relating to or conducted between two or more governments or levels of government, including the administration of elections across the Commonwealth. As set forth in Pennsylvania Senate Rule 14 (d), each standing committee is empowered with the authority to inspect and investigate the books, records, papers, documents, data, operation, and physical plant of any public agency in this Commonwealth, including county boards of elections.

The hysteria with which the left and its NeverTrump allies proclaim that questioning the election results is a Big Lie reveals their fear. These same people had nothing to say about years of phony claims that Russian collusion placed Trump in the White House and treat Stacey Abrams as an icon after her claim to have been elected Georgia's governor despite losing by tens of thousands of votes.

Suddenly, sunshine no longer is a disinfectant. Ignorance is bliss (if you are a cheater and your marks are the ignorant).

We're still impatiently waiting for the Arizona audit to be completed and results announced. Georgia is another state that provided a margin of victory where suspicions abound and preliminary data suggest that fraud determined the outcome. There is no constitutional or established legal remedy for a stolen presidential election, and the words "constitutional crisis" would not be an exaggeration of the trouble ahead if audits demonstrate that the presidential election was stolen. That may be why so many disturbing moves like the national expansion of the Capitol Police are being put in place by Democrats.

https://www.americanthinker.co...ential_election.html

^^^ There we go. If the audits turn up anything, I'll be happy to give that bit about "sacred" right back to every Dem I meet.

This does smell of fear to me as well - if Joe's on a grand civil rights crusade, why isn't he speaking from the marbled halls of DC? Here's hoping that leaks through during some of the little press ops all those little side trips will engender.

FWIW, he also issued that Executive Order I posted about earlier. On top of everything else, it looks like he's telling the Federal Trade Commission and Department of (In)Justice to not only make mergers harder so that big tech companies can't just buy their competition anymore, but to also unwind some mergers in that industry.

Amazon and Facebook are unnamed targets of Biden's Executive Order
Yahoo Finance, 7/9/2021
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...order-204655556.html

I'm looking forward to seeing how deep that effort goes.

Some good coverage at Treehouse on joebama’s trip to Filthydelphia -

Joe Biden Heading to Philadelphia July 13th, Will There Be Protests?

Mastriano is fearlessly leading the charge -

Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State and State AG Warn Philadelphia Not To Comply With Senate Authorized Ballot Audit, Senator Mastriano Responds

Seems the Pennsylvania audit is a far greater crisis to the Left than the invasion at the Southern border.