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Zorro

(18,695 posts)
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 09:53 PM Aug 2023

If Republican panic about 'Hunter Biden' is any clue, a new Trump indictment is about to drop

A rough measure of how close House and Senate Republicans believe Donald Trump is to new criminal charges can be summed up by two words: Hunter Biden. The volume of Republican screeching about "Hunter Biden" seems to reach its peak in the days just before each new Trump indictment. If past is prologue, then House Republicans are currently expecting Trump to be indicted in Georgia for everything from a conspiracy to corruptly overturn the results of an election to a conspiracy to block every McDonald's toilet from Rome to Augusta.

House Republicans are currently freaking the entire hell out, seemingly inventing new Biden conspiracy theories by the hour after the latest of their supposed star witnesses–the one who was to accuse President Joe Biden of a great many things and seize all the news cycles from now until 2025–delivered a big fat zero. Rep. Greg Steube is the latest to go Full Freakout, and it's ... honestly, it's more pathetic than anything else. In a hilariously overhyped Newsmax "exclusive," the Florida congresscritter says he's going to file a new resolution calling for Biden's impeachment for "bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution." That there is no evidence of this is at best a side note. Steube promises he'll provide proof in a press release.

Aaah, this takes me back to the days when all the nice respectable Republican lawmakers and pundits super-duper insisted that Bill and Hillary Clinton were running drugs out of an Arkansas airport, but only in their spare time between murdering half of the people on the American East Coast. It's possible the Queen of England was involved, but it depended on which crackpot you asked. And then the same crowd told us President Barack Obama was a changeling, smuggled into a Hawaiian hospital crib in a worldwide plan to make some random day-old infant the future president. From there we went to, "The Russian government is innocent. Actually the Democratic Party hacked itself and Hillary put the evidence of this in Ukraine, in some dude's house or something." Now we're back to Dark Brandon allegedly doing all the crimes Steube was able to spell correctly without help, because it turns out Biden's lifelong political passion promoting better rail transportation was all a front for whatever the fuck

I'm not sure whether Steube realizes that fellow crackpot Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene already beat him to the "impeach Biden" punch literally months ago and keeps re-announcing it every time someone around her so much as sneezes. Greene is even doing Steube one better by demanding that Congress expunge the two impeachments of Donald Trump so as to cleanse Dear Leader's tainted record.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/11/2186630/-If-Republican-panic-about-Hunter-Biden-is-any-clue-a-new-Trump-indictment-is-about-to-drop

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If Republican panic about 'Hunter Biden' is any clue, a new Trump indictment is about to drop (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2023 OP
I knew when the repukes took over in November, 1994, Aristus Aug 2023 #1
Yeah, it's kind of like... 2naSalit Aug 2023 #2
Benghazi II Boogaloo, critics say the first was a hit with the base, but OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2023 #3
OOOOOOOH, I like that! "Benghazi II Boogaloo"! calimary Aug 2023 #6
She'd like to cleanse his taint Effete Snob Aug 2023 #4
Reich wingers flip that. "If indictments drop, it is to distract from the proof of Biden's crimes" Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2023 #5
SO DAMN INFURIATING to see the Sunday chat show casts just pushing that meme. calimary Aug 2023 #7
This is Why NowISeetheLight Aug 2023 #8

Aristus

(72,193 posts)
1. I knew when the repukes took over in November, 1994,
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 10:25 PM
Aug 2023

that we were in for a world of shit. I just had no idea it would get so bad or last so long.

It’s frightening how much more powerful and invigorating a motive hatred is over love.

2naSalit

(102,836 posts)
2. Yeah, it's kind of like...
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 10:31 PM
Aug 2023

How the music gets more intense during the exciting parts of the movie.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,164 posts)
3. Benghazi II Boogaloo, critics say the first was a hit with the base, but
Fri Aug 11, 2023, 10:47 PM
Aug 2023

this one seems like a tired rehash of unsubstantiated claims, designed to lower Biden's approval numbers. Because that is easier than defending Trump with a straight face.

calimary

(90,067 posts)
6. OOOOOOOH, I like that! "Benghazi II Boogaloo"!
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 01:28 PM
Aug 2023

Lordy Lordy, OAITW r.2.0!

You make me think back to John McCain beating the Benghazi talking point to beyond death and almost into resurrection. Resurrection that comes nowadays, evidently. At least the bad guys hope so. I remember the tone of his voice and this oh-so-serious-and-somber frown on his face whenever he said the word "Benghazi." Almost like it was some verbal talisman that would trigger the genie to come out of the bottle and destroy everything that wasn't gonna help John McCain take the White House.

Sure glad enough voters saw through him, one way or another.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
5. Reich wingers flip that. "If indictments drop, it is to distract from the proof of Biden's crimes"
Sat Aug 12, 2023, 01:41 PM
Aug 2023

Dersh is missing the key point of the rushed indictment. It is merely
a cut and paste from the Jan 6 select committee. It isn’t intended to
survive a legal challenge. Its only purpose was to get the Devon
Archer testimony out of the headlines and away from the Sunday talk
shows.
EC
20 posted on 2023-08-03 by Ex-Con777

calimary

(90,067 posts)
7. SO DAMN INFURIATING to see the Sunday chat show casts just pushing that meme.
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 01:33 PM
Aug 2023

Sloppy lazy reactions. I'm still waiting for SOMEBODY to speak up and nail why those talking points are so toxic. DELIBERATELY toxic. If I ran one of those shows, I'd have cleaned house by now. And started giving tutorials in how you AVOID falling into the hysteria talking points and Stay On MESSAGE.

Dammit!

NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
8. This is Why
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 09:26 PM
Aug 2023

This is why members of Congress should NOT have Immunity for anything they say in the course of Congressional business. Its a fxxkin license to lie. It should be stopped.

a new resolution calling for Biden's impeachment for "bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution." That there is no evidence of this is at best a side note. Steube promises he'll provide proof in a press release.

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