Good news! Joe Biden just authorized $700 in aid for the displaced residents of Lahaina, Maui, which will buy them one hotel night, without tax, and nothing left for the mini-bar.



Some observers found Biden’s use of the phrase “laser-focused” discordant, given the swirling rumors of space weapons being used to start the fires. Was Biden trolling the conspiracy theorists? I report, you decide.

Meanwhile, in totally unrelated news from the Hill on the same day:

US announces new $200M Ukraine aid package
https://thehill.com/policy/def...ukraine-aid-package/

Biden’s generous aid package to displaced Hawaiians is expected to cost $2 million. It’s true that, if we’d sat out this current round of Ukraine funding and sent it to Hawaii instead, the Lahainians would be all taken care of. But don’t complain. We have to keep our priorities straight.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email

Wth? Is that a fucking joke? How much has that sack of shit given to Ukraine again? Disgraceful.

Ukraine? What about the border?

Hunter Biden's Lead Criminal Defense Attorney Asks To Withdraw From Case

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...y-asks-withdraw-case

Christopher Clark, Hunter's longtime defense attorney, filed a motion with the Delaware judge overseeing Hunter's case on the grounds that he could now be called as a witness in future proceedings, CNN reports.

Last week federal prosecutors announced that the had reached an impasse on Hunter's plea deal related to tax offenses and a "diversion agreement" to take care of a gun possession charges.

After the deal unraveled, the feds asked Judge Maryellen Noreika to withdraw a late August deadline to renegotiate the plea deal, after she said she was not ready to accept it & asked both sides to file additional briefs explaining the legal structure of the revised deal.

Noreika also called the deal federal prosecutors reached with Hunter over his gun possession offense "unusual," and that it contained some "non-standard terms," such as "broad immunity" from other potential charges.

quote:

Joe Biden just authorized $700

Remember when $1,000 was called "crumbs" by Pelosi?

And that's not 700 fabulous dollar per person, it's per household. It should be twenty times that. Some families have lost everything but the clothes on the back and their phone. Imagine a mother and father with, say, four children. House gone, car gone, clothes, food, everything. Seven hundred bucks!

Meanwhile, the corrupt Ukrainian government is receiving pallets of cash.

This is the kind of thing that should start a revolution, but it won't. At the least, I hope the voters of Hawaii turn their scorn and ire on the Democrats come election day. If they can't now see the utter contempt bordering on outright hatred the Biden administration and the Dems in Congress have for the people of the United States, they'll never see it.

Any hotel still standing should be offering free room and board to the victims.

Hey Paris Hilton, why dont you offer free room and board as well? Cheap bitch.

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Wth? Is that a fucking joke? How much has that sack of shit given to Ukraine again? Disgraceful.

https://babylonbee.com/news/di...ii-on-way-to-ukraine
Disaster Relief Plane Flies Over Hawaii On Way To Ukraine

Meanwhile, in Ukraine...

https://twitter.com/fncischen/.../1688373398999887872

maybe Ukraine could send a couple of pallets of cash they have laying around to Hawaii.

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Wth? Is that a fucking joke? How much has that sack of shit given to Ukraine again? Disgraceful.

I read a moment ago we're over $113 billion now.

So she is posting on Joe's twitter account. Biden is a fraud even on twitter.


https://www.washingtonexaminer...esident-deleted-post

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made a bizarre statement on social media, claiming in a since-deleted post that she once ran for president of the United States.

"Investing in America means investing in ALL of America," read Jean-Pierre's statement on social media. "When I ran for President, I made a promise that I would leave no part of the country behind."

Well, not a surprise, but at least someone was looking when Toto pulled back the curtain.

Hunter Biden's lawyers were (are ?) claiming the "diversion agreement" was valid because the prosecutors had signed it. This document lets Hunter get off on future prosecutions.

but a report now argues the diversion agreement is also invalid.

two pages from the diversion agreement:





note that Margaret Bray had not yet signed it

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...deal-withdrawn-null/

Lawyers for the president’s son argued on Sunday that terms of the “diversion agreement” within their failed plea deal remained intact. The diversion agreement gave Hunter Biden immunity from potential future charges.

The lawyers also tried to force Weiss into a corner to abide by the irregular deal, claiming the government “reneged” on a “previously agreed-upon Plea Agreement.”

Prosecutors pushed back on those claims.

“First, the Government did not ‘renege’ on the ‘previously agreed-upon Plea Agreement,’ as the Defendant inaccurately asserts in the first substantive sentence of his response,” prosecutors wrote. “The Defendant chose to plead not guilty at the hearing on July 26, 2023, and U.S. Probation declined to approve the proposed diversion agreement at that hearing. Thus, neither proposed agreement entered into effect.”

“In sum, because Ms. Bray, acting in her capacity as the Chief United States Probation Officer, did not approve the now-withdrawn diversion agreement, it never went into effect and, therefore, none of its terms are binding on either party,” prosecutors wrote

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bid...enges-010345379.html

Biden shouts during speech, challenges anyone to name 'one thing' the US set out to accomplish and failed

Greg Wehner
Wed, August 16, 2023 at 8:03 PM CDT

President Biden on Wednesday changed his tone during a speech from the East Room of the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, challenging anyone to name a single objective the U.S. ever set out to accomplish and failed to do.

Biden touted his accomplishments, including what he considers a success in the Inflation Reduction Act.

But as he continued, Biden pointed to "our friends on the other side of the aisle," and commented that all his administration hears is how they claim what is wrong with America.

"They’re telling us America is failing," Biden said. "Let me tell you, they’re dead wrong. They’re dead wrong. America isn’t failing. America is winning. And I’ve said a thousand times…there is no quit in America."
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What a total, freaking, clueless, pants-shitting BUFFOON!!! JSMH...

Umm, Joe?

War on Drugs
War on Poverty
Vietnam War
Afghan War
Securing the Border

Every military intervention basically since Korea. We’ve failed a LOT, we aren’t some demigods…

The fact that that ass-hat is even sitting in the Oval Office is a COMPLETE failure of this country.

Hunter Biden Tax Charges Dropped by Delaware Judge

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...U6dCPNOvtGFi3XMeGXXv


A federal judge in Delaware dismissed misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden on Aug. 17 in a move that was widely expected after his “sweetheart deal” with federal prosecutors was put on hold last month.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by President Donald Trump and is presiding over the case, dismissed the charges against the younger Mr. Biden.

The decision came after special counsel David Weiss—the U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the federal prosecutor leading the case against Mr. Biden—earlier asked the judge to dismiss the charges, citing venue problems.

Dismissing the two misdemeanor tax charges against Mr. Biden potentially allows for new charges to be bought against him in another jurisdiction, such as California or Washington, D.C. , as part of Mr. Weiss’s ongoing probe.

“The Government, in the exercise of its prosecutorial discretion, is considering what tax charges to bring in another district and may elect to bring the same charges set forth in the instant information or different ones,” prosecutors said in court filings last week.

Mr. Weiss was appointed as special counsel on Aug. 11 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, meaning he will oversee the case, United States v. Robert Hunter Biden, as well as for any other matters that arise from the ongoing investigation into the president’s son, who is also being investigated for possible foreign lobbying violations.

“On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that in his judgment, his investigation has reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed,” said Mr. Garland in announcing Mr. Weiss’s appointment last week.

“Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel. This appointment confirms my commitment to provide Mr. Weiss [with] all the resources he requests. It also reaffirms that Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently, based only on the facts and the law,” Mr. Garland said.

Multiple Republican lawmakers have raised concerns that Mr. Weiss, who earlier signed off on the sweetheart deal for Mr. Biden, will not remain impartial in the case against the president’s son, while others have questioned whether or not he is qualified enough to hold the latest role.

Two IRS whistleblowers have also alleged that Mr. Weiss has been restricted by the Department of Justice from filing certain charges against Mr. Biden and that the president’s son has received preferential treatment.

Mr. Biden’s two misdemeanor charges stem from his failure to pay taxes on time in 2017 and 2018 and each carries a prison term of up to one year upon conviction.

Sweetheart Deal Crumbles
The president’s son had earlier this year agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and accept probation in a third charge in which he acknowledged lying on a federal firearm purchase form during a time when he was using illegal drugs.

Under an agreed diversion program, Mr. Biden, if he complies with the terms, would be able to avoid future prosecution and would not go on trial for the gun charge, which is a felony and would carry up to 10 years in prison.

However, the deal was rejected by Judge Noreika in July during a hearing amid confusion over a separate gun charge and questions about the immunity it would have granted Mr. Biden, who subsequently pleaded not guilty to the tax charges.

Despite the sweetheart deal being rejected, lawyers for Mr. Biden said last week they consider the arrangement is still in effect because both sides had signed it.

However, Mr. Weiss has said this is not the case and noted that the probation office did not sign off on the agreement.

“In sum, because Ms. [Margaret] Bray, acting in her capacity as the Chief United States Probation Officer, did not approve the now-withdrawn diversion agreement, it never went into effect and, therefore, none of its terms are binding on either party,” Mr. Weiss wrote in a court filing (pdf) earlier this week.

“Seeing that the parties were at an impasse, the Government informed the Defendant, in writing on August 9, 2023, that it was withdrawing the most recent version of its proposed plea and diversion agreements,” Mr. Weiss said. “That is why the Government has asked the Court to vacate its briefing order and has moved to dismiss the criminal tax information.”