Roundup
There’s so much news today that a roundup is in order:
(1) Turley on Blinken and Hunter Biden. Turley believes Blinken may indeed have committed crimes as well as impeachable offenses.
I predict nothing will come of this.
(2) Ted Cruz on the possibility of Hunter Biden being indicted:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he thinks the Biden administration’s Department of Justice is very close to indicting Hunter Biden, but that it likely will only be used to justify its pursuit of former President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena to the FBI, ordering that a bureau form alleging a “criminal scheme” involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and an unnamed “foreign national” be turned over after a whistleblower told Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that it alleges a “bribery scheme.”…
“And I got to say, the evidence, not only against Hunter Biden, but the evidence against Joe Biden being complicit and profiting from this corruption, is growing and growing and growing,” the senator added. “Look, I think the Biden Department of Justice is going to end up indicting Hunter, but if they indict him just for the gun crime or just for a tax crime, they’re going to try to explain it as ‘he is a troubled soul. He’s got substance abuse issues, but look how fair we are, and now we can go target Donald Trump, which is what the Biden Department of Justice wants to do. That will be the tell.”
The DOJ is also likely to tie in some sort of prosecution of Trump with today’s conviction of the Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy, as I indicated in my earlier post today.
(3) The story behind the latest allegations against Clarence Thomas. Excerpt:
Harlan Crow’s tuition payments made directly to these schools on behalf of Justice Thomas’s great nephew did not constitute a reportable gift. Justice Thomas was not required to disclose the tuition payments made directly to Randolph Macon and the Georgia school on behalf of his great nephew because the definition of a “dependent child” under the Ethics in Government Act (5 U.S.C. 13101 (2)) does not include a “great nephew.” It is limited to a “son, daughter, stepson or stepdaughter.” Justice Thomas never asked Harlan Crow to pay for his great nephew’s tuition. And neither Harlan Crow, nor his company, had any business before the Supreme Court.
[St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Noble]….held that there was sufficient evidence to find that Gardner and Assistant Circuit Attorney Chris Desilets had acted with “intentional disregard for the judicial process” and announced that he would be appointing a special prosecutor to pursue a case of “indirect criminal contempt” against them both.
(5) If you’re looking for a good summary article about the trans youth contagion movement, here’s one from City-Journal.
‘I predict nothing will come of this’
I’m finding it hard to even follow so much of this stuff when this is the obvious reply to most if not all of it.
Not to forget the big “Do As We Say” … not as we do:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-scotus-justice-took-3m-from-book-publisher-didnt-recuse-from-its-cases
https://www.theblaze.com/news/soros-kim-gardner-resigns-scandal
Need a new definition of ‘Vote’… it ain’t what it used to be.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/auto-sig-verifcation-russia/
Likewise ~ Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Disgusted by Navy’s New Recruitment Tactic: ‘I Can’t Believe I Fought for This’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/navy-seal-killed-bin-laden-disgusted-navys-new-recruitment-tactic-cant-believe-fought/
Let us give thanks to [fill in blank], we are SAVED!
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/05/04/kamala-harris-named-ai-czar-to-save-us-from-artificial-intelligence/
Keep your eye on the prize: Prosecution of the Biden Crime Family.
RE: Kim Gardner
“intentional disregard for the judicial process”
Perhaps this reason can be used to prosecute other Soros DA’s. After all, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors – allowing violent criminals back on the streets – is disregard of the law, and thus the judicial process.
Soros DA’s, like Gardner or Bragg, are abetting criminal behaviour and, in effect, are also accessories to criminal acts by literally protecting the criminal after the crime has been committed.
It’s too bad that repeatedly arrested and released violent felons cannot be encouraged to violently assault the family members of the Soros DA’s.
That would end arrest and release real quick.
great nephew because the definition of a “dependent child”
I’m glad they cleared that up.
And on a more positive note, Westinghouse Nuclear today announced a new Small Modular Reactor, the AP300 based on the company’s AP1000 technology for larger reactors.
Lots of positive things going on in the nuclear world, as well as some outright crazy things (looking at you, Germany and Taiwan), here’s my roundup from a couple of weeks ago:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69222.html
A crop circle for the King ?
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/giant-penis-mowed-into-lawn-at-king-charles-coronation-bash-site/
re cb @ 8:04pm— It looks like we may soon find out whether artificial intelligence can be a match for naturally occurring stupidity. Stay tuned.
Thanks for the nuclear tidbit, David. My best friend from college was a nuclear engineer who worked for GE. In 1982 he found himself without a job as GE decided to downsize their nuclear operation. He landed a job with the federal government as a nuclear regulator. A job he didn’t care for but at that stage of his life he couldn’t be too picky. He was always a believer in nuclear as the solution to our long-term electricity generation needs. Sadly, he passed on about ten years ago. He would be pleased to see this new interest. I know I certainly am. If only the left would accept the impracticality of using wind and solar. If only they had a brain. 🙂
Re (5), it looks like Red Sox Nation has weighed in on the Bud Light boycott:
“Boston Red Sox fans at Fenway Park are seemingly walking past Bud Light vendors to purchase their stadium refreshments at other concession stands as the Dylan Mulvaney controversy continues to saddle the beer maker. A TikTok video posted Wednesday shows fans waiting in line while the adjacent stand that appears to be selling the blue Bud Light cans is deserted.”
Video at the link: https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/red-sox-fans-at-fenway-shun-bud-light-over-dylan-mulvaney/
David Foster: Thanks for that link. Good article, and perhaps somewhat hopeful.
Another Mike: Good question. Not just natural stupidity, though — natural stupidity augmented by government meddling. Incompetent government meddling, at that.
Another Mike—The fact that the Biden Administration has assigned that cackling moron, VP Kamala Harris, to oversee government efforts to deal with the very real—one might even argue existential threats—from AI shows just how little the idiotocracy that is the Biden Administration understands the threat, or really cares about it.
P.S.–Saw a few Administration officials–cabinet level and below–testifying in front of various Congressional committees in the last two weeks or so, and I’ve got to say that I am totally unimpressed by the caliber of these people.
AI will be the end of a lot of knowledge professions. Lawyers will be hard hit.
Chases Eagles:
I’m having a hard time understanding your comment. Every time I read it I get the impression you are including lawyers in the category of knowledge professions.
F – it depends on whether you can program AI to bullshit and weasel.
All kidding aside, assigning incompetent and patently unqualified VP Kamala Harris to deal with such a potentially major threat–not only to the U.S., but very conceivably to the whole human race–is extremely reckless, and certainly anti-survival; it’s like they’re cheering on the formation of SKYNET (if they even know/realize what SKYNET might be).
While very technologically savvy people like Elon Musk are very afraid of headlong, unrestrained research on AI–and want a pause in such research to allow for the creation of a surveillance and regulatory regime to oversee such very dangerous research–the geniuses at the Biden Administration apparently see so little threat from an emerging AI that they can afford to hand off dealing with the AI problem to someone who they most know (given Harris’ total failure as “Border Czar”) will be totally overwhelmed by this issue and incapable of doing anything effective.
Hell, Harris probably can’t even put together a couple of coherent (and correct) sentences describing just what AI is, and what the possible threats it presents might conceivably be.
Hence the satirical clip i included upthread
Snow on Pine: “Saw a few Administration officials–cabinet level and below–testifying in front of various Congressional committees in the last two weeks or so, and I’ve got to say that I am totally unimpressed by the caliber of these people.”
It’s DEI in action. These people are not chosen for their knowledge or ability. Meritocracy is dead in Biden’s government.
David Foster:
Let me add my thanks for your nuclear power update.
We can’t have civilization without vast, reliable amounts of power. Unless we are willing to allow *billions* to die and/or live in medieval misery,
Sadly, I have come to believe our elites prefer the latter.
Kim Gardner can’t be said to have resigned until you can walk into the St. Louis courthouse and not be deafened by the roar of the shredders.
David Foster, huxley,
Even scarier, they would get their wish while doing nothing. Current evidence shows human population naturally diminishing as we go forward. As societies trend from 3rd world to 1st families naturally produce fewer children, going below replacement rate.
This is known. The U.N.s own research includes this data. So why are they still forcing all these control measures on populations?