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Finished the goddamn bouncer missions. I discovered that you can’t die while in Extreme Heat mode, and couple that with the payback ring that increases your damage when your health is low, everything is easy pickings.

Now I just need to finish the game on Legend (easy peasy with my lightsaber) and do the Majima Saga to get a juicy platinum.

Quote from: bloop_bleep on September 14, 2023, 01:45:47 pm

Is there any evidence of Biden doing or agreeing to do something in exchange for money? A guy helping pay his father's bills using the money he makes from his business dealings doesn't really implicate either of them.

You mean was he dumb enough to be recorded saying that specifically? No. Just dumb enough to brag on TV about firing a Ukrainian prosecutor in return for US aid money, and then expect everyone to believe he had no idea his son worked for Burisma. Add that to the fact that money earned from Burisma is paying his bills and you have a corrupt action. But of course the standard of proof for a Biden impeachment is different than a Trump one, where you don't even have to tell the Ukrainian you'll withhold any money.

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What were they talking about in the "JRB Memo" email thread, also?

You mean besides paying Joe's mortgage with not-Joe's money, obtained in the usual fashion?

Quote from: hector13 on September 14, 2023, 05:45:50 pm

Hunter has had his taxes looked at by federal investigators for years. If there was any evidence that the senior Biden was getting kickbacks, they would have found it.

Yeah, sure. The same investigators who slow-walked the investigation and allowed the statute of limitations to expire on Hunter's 2014-2015 tax evasion charges, despite Hunter's lawyers approving of extending it. The same investigators that tipped off Hunter's lawyers that his Virginia storage unit was about to be raided. The same investigators that wouldn't allow Biden's guest house to be raided (despite probable cause) due to "optics", according to a whistleblower. They'd totally have found it.

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The Daily Mail is another tabloid. Let’s have a look at some of their headlines…

Oh, look. A distraction from actual screenshots of the e-mails. Yawn. But I guess the e-mails have all been "debunked" by 50 former intel officials, or something?

Apparently Biden's comm director Kate Bedingfield sent a 2015 e-mail to Schwerin that Biden signed off on some talking points about Hunter's role on Burisma's board, so you can deny those too if they get released to the public.

I can say Biden signed off on things too, doesn’t mean anything does it?

If those e-mails - the ones from the outlet that recentlt paid damages and admitted lying - actually said anything they’d have already charged big Joe. They don’t say anything, which is why nothing is happening about them.

The investigators lead by Trump appointed Delaware AG David Weiss, yeah. The same David Weiss who was recently given special counsel status by Biden’s own DoJ.

Now, you mentioned a while back re:VP Biden pressuring Ukrainian authorities re:Hunter’s indiscretions that Biden would just flex for his kid. Why hasn’t he done that to his own administration, like Trump did when Jeff Sessions refused to take the reins of the Mueller investigation?

The rest of it is just nonsense. Money changing hands doesn’t equal corruption, the reason behind it does. Once they find concrete evidence of that, fire away, get Biden out. None of the things you’ve pointed out meet that standard.

I would suggest that hourly workers have a much bigger impact on the buesiness than the executives do. If you take away the executives, cars are still being made and sold because the infrastructure is still there to do that without “higher functions”.

Do the same with hourly workers, and you’re making no money.

Quote from: Frumple on September 12, 2023, 06:27:34 pm

Dumbshits actually went for it, huh. My guess? It's not even going to reach the senate. If the idiot speaker had the votes to push it through, he'd have held one on opening the inquiry itself.

You could just as well be talking about Speaker Pelosi in September 2019. Formal vote for inquiry happened over 30 days later.

Article, quote:

"If we move forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People's House and not through a declaration by one person," he said last month in an interview with Brietbart.

Yet, on Tuesday, McCarthy and his team are indicating a vote is not expected.

In 2019, McCarthy introduced a symbolic resolution slamming Democrats' impeachment inquiry, which was initially launched without a vote.

In that resolution he wrote that then-Speaker Pelosi's "extraordinary decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry without any debate or vote on such a resolution by the full House undermines the voting privileges afforded to each Member and the constituents they represent," and represented an "abuse of power and brings discredit to the House of Representatives."

Sounds like a bit of a hypocrite, but then again if I was being threatened by my colleagues to replace me or make me look inept, I might do that too.

How many Republican led committees have looked into Biden’s corruption? Two, three? How many years has Hunter’s been investigated for his taxes? Four, five?

If they had evidence of his corruption, they’d have presented it already, and voted on it.

However, they decide to embellish the evidence they do have, which only shows Hunter being a greedy fuck:

Three separate memos based on bank records obtained by the committee, however, have failed to identify any specific payments made to President Biden or provided evidence that he benefited from them directly.

An analysis of the evidence published by the Washington Post in August found that only $7m went to Biden family members - mostly Hunter - while the rest went to "associates". Mr Comer and other Republican lawmakers had suggested that the entire sum of $20m went to the Biden family.

Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, has said that the elder Mr Biden was put on speaker phone with potential business associates - including foreign nationals - "maybe 20 times" over the span of 10 years.

House Republicans have said the calls contradict Joe Biden's claims that he had never discussed business deals with his son.

Mr Archer testified that the phone calls were "casual conversations" that never delved into Hunter Biden's business dealings, and "never once spoke about any business dealings"

Republicans have also focused on an unverified tip to the FBI that said Joe Biden pressured Ukraine's government to fire a top prominent prosecutor to halt an investigation into Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, where Hunter Biden was on the board. The claim first emerged in 2019, during then-President Donald Trump's first impeachment.

An FBI document detailing the claim was obtained and released by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in July. According to the document, former Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said that he paid $5m to both Joe and Hunter Biden.

The justice department investigated the claim for eight months during the Trump administration, but ultimately abandoned its probe due to "insufficient evidence".

Mr Zlochevsky later rebutted the claim and said that he had had no contact with Joe Biden or any of his staff members and that Mr Biden had never helped him or the company while serving as vice-president, according to a transcript of an interview released by Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin.
In his testimony, Mr Archer also said that he was unaware of any such payments.

Citing testimony from two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers, House Republicans have also suggested that the justice department intentionally interfered in a multi-year investigation into Hunter Biden's tax return…

The department has denied the claims. Other witnesses called by Republican representatives in July testified that neither President Biden nor Attorney General Merrick Garland interfered in the investigation.

So they’ve basically made shit up, forgotten/ignored what people said, taken unverified information as truth and then been told not to be so stupid, and made more shit up.

If you can read the WashPo article there and not get a paywall pop-up, it details some of the financials more than the BBC one.

In short, they got nothin’, and know it.

Edit: forgot to mention in pointing out the massive lack of evidence that McCarthy doesn’t even have the votes with his own party!

From the ABC article at the top, emphasis mine:

As of right now, House Republicans likely do not have the 218 votes needed to impeach President Biden, and some Senate Republicans are on record saying they don't think there's enough evidence to proceed.

Many Republicans have said they haven't seen enough evidence against President Biden to support impeachment and/or an impeachment inquiry.

House Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has said he doesn't believe the House has produced any evidence that Biden profited from or influenced his son's foreign business deals.

He has also cast doubt on whether the evidence even exists -- which is particularly significant since he is a senior member on the Judiciary Committee that would help oversee an official impeachment inquiry.

Senate Republicans also are not sold on the idea of a third impeachment trial in so many years.

Senators are solely focused on funding the government ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline and have largely said they haven't seen any evidence against Biden that amounts to impeachment or -- conviction in the Senate.

He can’t have died, he was putting chips in all the Covid vaccines.

If you still have a contract that would be ideal

My wife and I left a rental agreement a few years ago in which they tried to keep part of the deposit to replace a door that was damaged when we moved in (the door frame was damaged by our cats though) and reminding them of that with a copy of the inventory they made us do at the start of our lease ended that right quick.

I think that’s the most analysis that a Segal film will ever receive.