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Friday, February 5, 2021

Senate passes resolution to advance COVID-19 relief package




The end result of losing the runoffs in Georgia.
And I'm sure more to come.

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The Senate early Friday narrowly approved a budget resolution for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package — allowing Democrats to push the legislation through Congress without Republican support.

The upper chamber ended the “vote-a-rama,” which began at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, by adopting the resolution in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaker.

It marked the first time Harris — in her capacity as president of the Senate — cast a tie-breaking vote after becoming veep on Jan. 20.

The adoption allows the Senate to proceed toward a final bill under the budget reconciliation rules, which would let the Dems pass a coronavirus stimulus plan by circumventing a GOP filibuster if their caucus remains united.

“I am so thankful that our caucus stayed together in unity. We had no choice given the problems facing America and the desire to move forward. And we have moved forward,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “Many bipartisan amendments were adopted, so this was a bipartisan activity.”


Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to approve a budget resolution for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images


He added: “We cannot underscore enough how much help America needs during this awful crisis and we cannot miss the point that we still have a long way to go. This was a giant first step … to bring America back, to overcome this horrible crisis and then move America forward.”



Sens. Bill Cassidy (from left), John Barrasso, Cory Booker and Pat Toomey make their way to a series of Senate votes known as a “vote-a-rama.”Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images



Democrats had flexed their muscle by offering an amendment reversing some earlier votes about the future of the Keystone XL pipeline and coronavirus aid to immigrants living illegally in the US.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) indicated earlier that Republicans would try to extract concessions from Democrats in uncomfortable votes.

“We’re going to put senators on the record,” he said Thursday, according to Fox News. “Expect votes to stop Washington from actively killing jobs during a recovery — like terminating the Keystone pipeline; that job-killing, one-size-fits-all minimum wage hike; and whether to bar tax hikes on small businesses for the duration of this emergency.”Mitch McConnell indicated that Republicans would try to extract concessions from Democrats in uncomfortable votes.

On Thursday, Schumer slammed Republicans for planning to introduce “messaging amendments” to “score political points.”

“What amendments our friends in the minority propose is entirely up to them,” Schumer said. He added that he hopes Republicans don’t use “the debate over pandemic relief to sharpen … partisan talking points.”



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Hunter Biden Writing Memoir Based On Drug Abuse – Gets A Cool $2 Million In Advance


Check out the tweets below.


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The Biden White House recently put out a statement saying that members of Joe Biden’s family would not cash in on his presidency.



Days later, we learn that Hunter Biden is writing a book, for which he has already been paid an advance of $2 million.

It must be nice.


Hunter Biden ‘nets $2m advance’ for his upcoming memoir Beautiful Things about his battle with drugs – despite Joe saying his family would NOT cash in on presidency

Drugs, prostitutes, shady dealings, a quickie marriage — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is too easily depicted as sleaze in human form.

Who else would have left his wife and jumped into bed with his recently departed brother’s widow only for her to end the affair when he got a stripper pregnant?

Is it only Hunter who could have received two special waivers to join the military and be commissioned at a special ceremony in the White House, but then blow his chance on his very first day when a blood test came back positive for cocaine?

Who but Hunter who could receive a diamond from a would-be Chinese business partner whose existence would come to light in divorce papers?

Now the president’s son is getting to tell his side of his unsavory life — warts and all — in a book that could embarrass his father even further, less than three months into his term in the Oval Office.

Beautiful Things — the as yet unexplained title of Biden’s tome — promises to center on his well-publicized struggles with substance abuse according to Gallery Books, an imprint of publishers Simon & Schuster.

And get this. The company publishing Hunter Biden’s book is the same one that dropped Josh Hawley’s book.

 

 




It’s like there’s a different set of rules for Democrats. 





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Thursday, February 4, 2021

Hunter Biden memoir ‘Beautiful Things’ to be published in April, will detail drug addiction and sobriety





WOW... can't wait to get my copy.


While we're waiting for the seemingly never to be released Durham report, not to mention he's being investigated for tax fraud, the son of a bitch found the time to write a book (ghostwriter?) most likely making millions more. I wonder in Chapter 3 if he's going to mention taking his ‘beautiful' Mac to the repair shop? Maybe Bobulinski should get a hold of Simon and Schuster and tell them he wants to write a memoir. I take that back. He's probably banned by every major publishing company. 

BTW... Stephen King and Dave Eggers are just raving about the book. You know, just like they did when Don Jr wrote the first of his two.




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This cover image released by Gallery Books shows “Beautiful Things” a memoir by Hunter Biden. Biden, son of President Joe Biden and an ongoing target for conservatives, has a memoir coming out April 6. The book will center on the younger Biden’s well publicized struggles with substance abuse, according to his publisher.
Gallery Book | AP


“Where’s Hunter?”

Apparently, he will be all over your favorite bookstores’ shelves come April.

Hunter Biden — the troubled son of President Joe Biden — will have a memoir published this spring, mere months after Republicans desperately tried to turn his drug- and booze-abusing, sexually reckless and dubious business behavior into political poison for his father.

The book, entitled “Beautiful Things,” allegedly will deal with a lot of those ugly things in the younger Biden’s life, according to a press release Thursday by Gallery Books, the Simon & Schuster imprint that is publishing it.

The memoir was announced on Biden’s 51st birthday — and less than a month after his father took office.

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” he writes in the book, which the release calls a “deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.”

Hunter Biden, along with his older brother Beau, were both badly injured as small children in a 1972 car crash that killed their mother Neilia and their 1-year-old sister Naomi, less than two months after Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate from Delaware.

His book, the release says, “details Hunter’s descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety.”

While that suggests the last page will be a happy ending, the memoir is being released amid some unfinished business for Biden that could make for an unhappy afterword in later editions: a criminal tax investigation by federal prosecutors in his home state of Delaware.

Biden has denied any wrongdoing on his taxes.

Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden arrives for the inauguration of their father Joe Biden as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images


Such legal concerns haven’t marred advance praise for the book, which is trotted out on the release in the form of quotes from mega-selling horror author Stephen King, as well as the writers Dave Eggers and Anne Lamott.

Eggers gushes: “Beautiful Things is so concise, so unflinching and propulsive, that outside of turning the pages and occasionally picking my jaw off the ground, I didn’t move between the first page and the last.”″

King, himself a recovering alcoholic, writes: “In AA we say it doesn’t matter if you come from Yale or jail, all addicts are the same. In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody — even the son of a United States President — can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley.”

According to the publisher, Biden — who graduated from Yale Law School — actually begins his book with the question “Where’s Hunter?”

That popular right-wing catchphrase became a verbal tic of former President Donald Trump, his own son Donald Trump Jr., and a slew of Trump supporters last fall.

Team Trump acted as if the media paid more attention to Hunter Biden’s personal and financial history then voters would choose not to cast their ballots for his dad on Election Day.

That history includes cocaine abuse, which in turn led to Hunter having to resign as an officer in the U.S. Navy reserve, leaving his wife to start dating his late brother’s widow, and denying but then ultimately admitting under legal pressure that he fathered a child out of wedlock with a woman from Arkansas.

In 2019, in the middle of that paternity case, Biden impulsively married a young South African filmmaker, Melissa Cohen, less than a week after meeting her. The couple had a son, named Beau, in March 2020.

In addition to Biden’s complicated personal life, his business career also has created angst for his dad, fodder for Republican conspiracy theories, as well as the seeds of Trump’s first impeachment.

Over that career, Biden has worked as a lawyer for one of his father’s biggest political donors, a business consultant, a lobbyist, an investor and a board member of companies in Ukraine and China.

In the summer of 2019, Trump tried to pressure the new president of Ukraine to announce an investigation of Biden and Joe Biden — who at the time was a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Trump’s action, which came at the same time that he was withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine, led to him being impeached by the House of Representatives. Trump was later acquitted in a Senate trial.

Shortly before the 2020 election, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave The New York Post a copy of a computer hard drive that is believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden, who had allegedly left some computers at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, the prior year.

The Post ran a series of articles about the contents of that hard drive, which reportedly included information about business activities, personal emails and photographs.

Even after losing the election to Joe Biden, Trump continued to focus on using Hunter Biden to damage his dad.

Trump even reportedly considered pressuring the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s taxes. But then-Attorney General William Barr said he would not do so.

While the evidence in Biden’s tax case remains to be seen, the existence of his book proves that young dreams often die hard.

In the early 1990s, Biden applied to Syracuse University’s creative-writing program, according to a 2019 profile of him by The New Yorker.

Hunter Biden at the time was a fan of the writers Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff, both of whom had taught at Syracuse, and his “favorite novel at the time was Charles Bukowski’s debut, ‘Post Office,’ ” according to the magazine.

Bukowski’s first book, like his other autobiographical novels, frankly and unapologetically details a life laden with alcohol.

The magazine noted that “Hunter imagined a more artistic career for himself” than his brother Beau, whose rise through the law profession ended with him becoming attorney general of Delaware.

“He considered getting a joint M.F.A.-law degree at Syracuse,” The New Yorker article said.

“But, with a baby on the way, he decided to go straight to law school.”







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You just never know...



I was expecting some sort of monster pervert who shot the two FBI agents in Florida.




Child porn suspect Huber (above) shot dead two FBI agents in a dawn raid on his Florida apartment before killing himself






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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Officer Who Shot Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Shouldn't Be Charged



When asked why...



Let's be honest if she was black the pill wouldn't go down this easy.


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Ms. Babbitt died after being shot by Capitol Police officer on January 6th.


A memorial for Ashli Babbitt in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7.Photo: shannon stapleton/Reuters




WASHINGTON—Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the U.S. Capitol riot shouldn’t be charged with any crimes in connection with her death, according to people familiar with the review.

Ashli Babbitt died from being shot by a Capitol Police officer.Photo: Maryland MVA/Calvert County Sheriff's Office/Associated Press



Ms. Babbitt, who served for more than a dozen years in the Air Force and Air National Guard and became a passionate supporter of former President Donald Trump, died from being shot by a Capitol Police officer after rioters smashed through a door to the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6. She had entered the building as part of a crowd aiming to disrupt the certification of President Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.


The officer who shot her had been placed on leave soon after the riot while Ms. Babbitt’s death was being investigated, including on the question of whether it was a violation of her civil rights.

The Justice Department said in announcing the investigation that it was following routine procedure for whenever a police officer uses deadly force by having the Washington Metropolitan Police Department examine the shooting. The police investigators have made an initial determination that charges against the officer aren’t warranted, the people said, adding that Justice Department officials haven’t yet made a final determination on the matter. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington is leading the broader investigation into the riot and prosecuting the more than 150 cases that have resulted to date.









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