CYNICALISM of GUN CONTROL.

California Gov. Newsom wants 
more gun control and more 
gun control as mass
shootings go on in a state 
with the strictest gun laws .

America has a serious problem . It's the plague of MASS SHOOTINGS . My heart goes out to anyone who’s a victim. Gun violence, domestic violence, random violence.  (1)>>California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the country’s failure to address gun violence on Monday, saying “the Second Amendment’s becoming a suicide pact.” Moments later he learned about yet another mass killing in his state, the third in eight days. (1.1)>>Newsom promised he would continue fighting for strong gun control laws, while also attacking Republicans for getting in the way of making the country safer. He singled out several by name, including Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.  Meanwhile, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to ban “military-style assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines – a bill that would have outlawed the modified 9mm semi-automatic weapon used by (2)>>the gunman in Saturday’s mass shooting in Monterey Park. President Joe Biden has signaled his support for the measure.  Newsom What weapons of war were used?? Pull your head out of whatever sand pile it is in. Handguns were used. Are you surprised?  “I don’t want this to happen again”. Well, there’s been a shit ton. 33 mass shootings in 2023 so far. no, 33 days have not passed since new years.Last year we averaged 1.57 a day or 11 per week. We're on track though (by last year's data we'd be 34.54).What don't you understand. You flood the market with assault weapons, deprioritize mental health and then build a society that vilifies people who don't think like you. [ Through some MIND CONTROL IN] It's  (3)>>VERY CYNICAL that ANY KIND of EVEN MORE STRICT gun control is going to work , CASE in EXAMPLE = CALIFORNIA . It’s a very interesting case, California has the highest amount of mass shootings but has some of the lowest amount of death due to gun violence. The big thing is that mass shootings is the stuff that makes the headlines but is a tiny percentage of actual gun deaths. So the counter your looking for is that mass shootings is not very good evidence for how good a states gun control is.The point I’m trying to make is we can see first hand in our country that gun control doesn’t work. It’s societal issues we need to address and nobody is acknowledging that at all. People who want to commit atrocities will do so no matter .So our goal should be making sure people don’t want to commit atrocities not pushing them to more extreme means.And who the hell are these "Good guys with guns" I keep hearing about? The police are becoming less trustworthy with guns, and I am saying this as a white person in a town that has yet to have the cops randomly kill a minority on a routine arrest or traffic stop, and key word is yet. You'll excuse me if I think a roving band of citizens with guns dispensing justice is just going to lead to a staggering amount of murders that will do more harm than good. (4)>>So who are these "good guys with guns" who will save us from the bad guys with guns?Also the rise in mass shooters seems to roughly coincide with the decrease in serial killers. I think some a lot of it is the news covering mass shooters so much more than serial killers.While many say the psychology is not the same. People imitate what they know. How many would have taken the steps to go though with that form of violence if they hand been exposed to it so much. All gun control legislation is a political stunt without regard for the fact that more gun control will lead to more violent crime. Among their biggest con jobs, the left has managed to get its sheeple to believe "gun violence" is a problem, but "violence" is not.There are more guns in the US than human beings. I don't even know what the solution is any more. 

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(1)>>California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the country’s failure to address gun violence on Monday, saying. Newsom mentioned the role of mental health in mass shootings, but he singled out gun access as a factor exacerbating the problem."I'm really proud of the work we've done in this space, but we've had decades of neglect," he said. "But respectfully, I will submit that regardless of the challenges it relates to behavioral health, there's not a country in the world that doesn't experience behavioral health issues."  (1.1)>>Newsom promised he would continue fighting for strong gun control laws.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said that gun regulations were falling short as he visited the scene of the deadly mass shooting in Monterey Park.Gavin Newsom believes that this is his moment. He woke up with an idea. He clearly wants to run for President on the Democrat ticket for 2024, but his record plagues him. After being widely known as one of the most criticized, most morally bankrupt Democrat politicians known far more for his infidelity than his policymaking, but still hoping to run for the Democrat ticket in 2024, why not use faux concern for the victims of gun violence. He does not care one bit about the victims of gun violence, and is not passing this legislation as an opportunity to implement long-term, comprehensive gun control. H  Isn't it curious that with all these calls to criminalize guns there are District Attorney's in California that refuse to use firearm sentence enhancements for crimes committed with firearms!?!California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Yet police said the Monterey Park shooter was still able to use a modified pistol, which is illegal in the state during the shooting that killed 11 people and injured nine others.Even with California’s laws, people can just bring weapons into the state from elsewhere — The shooter also could have obtained the gun legally out of state, or illegally from a gun trafficker. Neighboring states like Nevada and Oregon have clamped down on gun trafficking by requiring background checks in recent years. But Arizona doesn’t require background checks to purchase any type of weapon, which made it the largest out-of-state source of guns traced to California in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.  (2)>>the gunman in Saturday’s mass shooting in Monterey Park.  Did news of one massacre set off the other? It reads that way, but who can know? Were mental health issues a factor? Maybe so, but there are similar mental health issues in all the countries where these kinds of shootings happen either very rarely or virtually never.If you’re looking for a more stereotypical shooting, there was one that came on the day between the two California mass shootings, this one in Des Moines, Iowa, where two were killed and one wounded, and an 18-year-old with a 9mm pistol and an extended clip was charged. We hardly noticed it.(3)>>VERY CYNICAL that ANY KIND of EVEN MORE STRICT gun control is going to work.  If we could prove that increasing gun control would lead to fewer deaths, yes, although through places like Chicago etc we learn that increasing gun control does not always make the world a better place. We have a right to own a gun because it is in our own Constitution just as other rights like the right to vote are. No, not everyone in the world has the right to own a gun. It is the constitution of the United States thus it is only applicable to US citizens.There is a difference between a responsible gun owner and a mass murderer. The issue is, it seems, we seem to have more mass shootings in this country that we have responsible gun owners. But that may be due to the fact responsible gun owners are not committing mass murder.Chicago's ban on in-city firearm sales predated the city's crime-spike by almost a decade. A great deal of Chicago's harsh guns laws were put into place in the early 1960s but Chicago didn't really become a "violent" city until the late 60s and early 70s, with 700-800 homicides per year throughout most of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. By the 2000s violent crime crashed in Chicago, and for the past decade, the number of homicides has been well under 500 per year, despite the fact that the city has a population double what it was in the 70s. This is all without repealing or changing those gun laws.(4)>>So who are these "good guys with guns" . I genuinely don't understand this fear. Gun owners are an incredibly powerful group. If they decided to pass some gun control/background-check to make illegal sales more difficult, they could easily do so without losing any power to stop the legislature from passing more restrictive laws. The concept of citizens stopping acts of violence – often called “good guys with guns” – originates back to the 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” by economist John Lott, VICE reports. The book and its arguments have been resourced for many gun advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association. “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre famously said after the Newtown shooting in 2012. LaPierre has repeated the line several times since. Every time there is another mass shooting, more and more money floods into the budgets of police departments and they go out and buy military-spec M-4 rifles and military-spec shotguns and military-spec body armor and military-spec helmets and military-style camouflage uniforms. Why? Because they're cool, that's why. If they're going to go up against one of these mass shooters, every one of whom is outfitted in military-style tactical gear and carrying military-style AR-15 rifles, then by God, they're not going to be one-upped! Just like Greg Abbott and his exhortation to Texans to buy more guns so they could catch up with California (!), the cops are going to buy more guns and more body armor — more of everything — so they can be ready the next time they're called upon to stand around in a parking lot of a building after 10 or 20 people have been shot and their dead bodies are strewn around the floor somewhere inside.So this idiotic question about where are the good guys with guns? They’re following the rules, and staying out of places where they’re not allowed with their guns, while the bad guys have free reign. And the rest of this idiotic question, about 30 mass shootings in 49 days? Wherever you got that, they’re smoking some good stuff. Stay away from that, because it’s screwing up your reality.

How COVID made AMERICA and the WORLD DUMB!

A Tiny Virus made America and 
the World DUMB !

Way BACK , February 2020 AD . The socall outbreak of  (1)>>Covid -19 played like a superstar on all network  TV mainstream news media That's what happens when globalists buy off the media to spew only their propaganda and nothing else. Lack of actual journalism is a real threat in any democracy..... (2)>>THE DAILY DIATRIBE. COVID has uncovered all that is wrong with us, our society, our values, our humanity. It has highlighted how we are self-righteous, keen to apportion blame, self-absorbed, unempathetic to the plight of others, void of reason, and the list goes on. Sure, the hotels were a debacle, the tracing wasn't up to fight, poor decisions have been made, but. how many world leaders have made poor decisions in battling this. Why has Victoria copped this so badly? For the same reason NSW, who let hundreds of COVID positive Ruby Princess travellers. Now we have been reduced to arguing whether (3)>>the lives of the elderly are worth protecting at the cost of possibly  (4)>>destroying our economy for years to come. We seem happy to ignore one other salient issue. The elderly are dying because they don't have the strength to fight the disease, yet by far the greatest cohort to acquire the virus, by far, is 20 to 39 y.o.The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. The one thing about this I don't understand -(5)>>Why are so many "scientists" afraid to talk about this possibility? Why did so many deflect away from this? etc etc .I don't see what they have to gain. Unless they just don't want to admit that this could have been a lab accident and that would make all of them look bad and threaten their future lab work or something.I doubt we ever find "proof" and the people who were on the ground are probably all dead by now. (5.1)>>And China probably destroyed all the evidence etc etc. So we will just have theories and studies and 'perhaps it did come from the lab".Follow the money. "Science" follows (largely federal) grant money. Grant money follows political regimes. The political regime has a policy of appeasement towards China. Meanwhile, direct payments to individuals (scientists and politicians and university administrators alike) permeate the ecosystem and corrupt it at all levels.Let's embrace a new concept: (6)>>'Smart Masking' ALL OVER AGAIN !! Where was flu or a cold during covid? Mysteriously vanished yet replaced by a virus with identical flu symptoms for exact duration. No scientific curiosity about it only silly comments that masks helped yet the mask box says otherwise. World wake up your critical thinking skills. The Omicron wave is receding, but..... (6.1)>>Democrats’ insane COVID policies Fauci just vanished . It seems reasonably obvious to me that were the health department actually encouraging more people to seek testing that positivity rate would drop well below that 5% threshold and there would be no plausible excuse for keeping schools closed. Way back in 2020 there was some data manipulation to inflate the numbers . RIGHT now its the reverse , now the numbers are being hidden. With mask mandates dropping all over the country and virus transmission rates falling as well, the future of our pandemic is starting to look a little brighter .  Alleged  COVID-19 ‘global pandemic’ has been the mysterious disappearance of the seasonal flu in medical and public health record keeping. It’s as if the Flu just vanished into thin air after being the most common perennial seasonal respiratory virus.Is there no flu this year or is flu “the second wave of Covid?”  (7)>>Don’t expect any honest answer from health authorities. They have the fear running strong, so strong that people are submitting to needless lockdowns that are causing economic havoc to their lives and to mask mandates that do more harm than good.What is it all about? Is it simply about vaccine profits for Big Pharma?More lockdowns? Put economies back on life support? What about all those profiteering billionaires? Shut borders? Close airports? Our leaders are running scared. 

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(1)>>Covid -19 played like a superstar on all network  TV mainstream news media.  WE STILL GET THE DAILY FRIGHTMARE of the news about the dangerous variants of this covid virus . Talks of MOORE BOOSTERS . While we all have been distracted , pointed the finger at China , Wuhan lab as the possible leak of the COVID virus . That has always been part of the "conspiracy theory" . Yes, there is a lot of things we will never know how this pandemic was cooked up . The pandemic of the media! The media has fueled fear for two years now.Additionally, media hysteria in the face of COVID-19 and the new vaccines has gotten much worse.How many articles have we seen about COVID vaccines and the hope they present to the American public? Or how cases have begun to drop as a result?The simple answer is not that many because in the eyes of many newspapers, good news isn’t worth talking about. The reason why: it’s beneficial for them and their political allies to focus on other topics.I have suspected for a long time that we are the victims of mass panic.  (2)>>THE DAILY DIATRIBE. EVEN WORSE is hiding facts from the American public , using the main stream media to brainwash people into a corner of fear . Another factor that drove my skepticism was the daily covid numbers that started to appear on CNN . You know the daily count  how many people a day were "testing" positive .LONG BEFORE there were Covid Test Kits !What if the Chinese had not tested their patients for coronavirus or there had not been any test? Would we have carried on with our lives, without restrictions, not worrying about some deaths here and there among old people, which we see every winter? I think so.(3)>>the lives of the elderly. THE COVID INSANITY put elderly in nursing homes to exposure to this virus . REMEMBER that One?  Cuomo has been dogged by criticism for months over his March advisory directing nursing homes in the state to accept patients who had or were suspected of having COVID-19.As the virus tore through nursing homes, killing dozens at some of them, Cuomo came under withering censure. His administration’s policy, implemented with an eye toward freeing up hospital beds for an onslaught of COVID patients, seemed to disregard the risks to frail and elderly nursing home residents who were especially vulnerable to the disease. IT WAS a CRIME , but Cuomo got away with state murder in my view . (4)>>destroying our economy for years to come. The single most important thing people need to know about how COVID-19 has affected the economy is that federal aid really kept the wheels from falling off completely. Personal stimulus checks or unemployment allowed people to continue spending and keep some businesses afloat. Direct aid to state and local governments kept really harmful budget cuts at bay.You do realize if the economy collapses, we’re going to deal with deaths from that? Plus we’ll have no immunity to COVID, so we’ll have more people dying from that too?Economic recession kill people. The study from the great depression is the only one that went the other way but that was because people stopped working in extremely hazardous factories and it's not really applicable to today.The emphasis after the emergency first lockdown should have been on test, trace and separate the sick/suspected sick from the healthy. Locking up millions of healthy people will prove to be catastrophic for the economy, mental and non-covid illness and future prospects of millions. I also fear deeply the authoritarianism of future governments now they know how easily human social interactions can be curbed. We have lost much more than we currently realise in allowing these disastrous lockdowns.(5)>>Why are so many "scientists" afraid to talk about this possibility?   We’ve seen these types of tactics dozens of times before. Government officials repeatedly buried vital public health data about the pandemic during the Trump administration. To be clear, Americans have no obligation to take every scientist’s idea seriously. Misinformation about Covid-19 is abundant. From snake-oil cures to conspiracy theories about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, the internet is awash with baseless, often harmful ideas. We denounce these: Some ideas and people can and should be dismissed.At the same time, we are concerned by a chilling attitude among some scholars and academics, who are wrongly ascribing legitimate disagreements about Covid-19 to ignorance or to questionable political or other motivations.   NOW that the question of Covid’s origin has “mostly been tackled by people outside the mainstream scientific establishment.” People inside not only have been “disappointingly incurious” but have tried to shut down the inquiry “to protect the reputation of science as an institution.” The most obvious reason for this resistance: If Covid leaked from a lab, and especially if it developed there, “science finds itself in the dock.”The politicization of science leads to a loss of confidence in science as an institution. The distrust may be justified but leaves a vacuum, often filled by a “much more superstitious approach to knowledge.”  A letter signed by 18 scientists , said that both the theory that the virus spilled over from animals and the theory that it escaped from a lab “remain viable.”Even vocal proponents of the lab leak as a viable hypothesis are quick to dismiss theories that the virus is some sort of engineered bioweapon as far-fetched. Facebook, Google, and Twitter have engaged in multiple acts of censorship against scientists holding a range of views on COVID-19 and the public health response to it. This censorship sets a dangerous precedent — allowing large, unaccountable corporations to set themselves up as arbiters of not only acceptable public speech, but also of what constitutes acceptable science.(5.1)>>And China probably destroyed all the evidence etc etc.   If China destroyed the "evidence" , but home of the U.S. government was involved ? At issue is whether the National Institutes of Health funded research on bat coronaviruses that could have caused a pathogen to become more infectious to humans and, separately, if SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 — transferred naturally from bats to humans, possibly through an intermediate host animal, or if a virus, a naturally occurring one or a lab-enhanced one, was accidentally released from the Wuhan lab. U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them, despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci. people suggesting that the coronavirus was engineered, rather than having jumped from animals to humans, the explanation favored by most experts on coronaviruses. The uproar has also drawn attention back to a decade-long debate among scientists over whether certain gain-of-function research is too risky to allow.(6)>>'Smart Masking' ALL OVER AGAIN !! I had hoped that would be one of the silver linings in all this, that most Western countries would adopt the practice as a social norm too. And that might end up being the case in some of the more left-leaning/educated areas, but on the whole a disturbing number of people have been easily poisoned against doing a simple thing for the common good. F'n  bizarre, is what it is.It’s really surprising that if I go to the store 1 mile to the west from my home, it’s probably 90% mask compliance, but the store one mile to the east and it’s more like 10 or 15.As I’m standing in line, with about 10-15 other people, first one lady starts coughing. Then another, then another. Literally every person near me/in line was sick/coughing, and I was the only one wearing a mask. Frankly, I don’t care if people stare at me, or make fun of me. I HATE being sick, and masks clearly work.(6.1)>>Democrats’ insane COVID policies Fauci just vanished .  Three-quarters of the country — basically everyone but the lunatic wing of the Democratic Party — now accepts that Covid has become endemic. Those of us who doubted that mask madness and vaccine mandates would be effective were proven absolutely correct last month, when New York, a state that is more masked than a superhero convention and whose principal city has a Checkpoint Charlie–style regime of demanding vaccine papers from everyone, topped the coronavirus charts. The New York–media-safetyist complex wailed, “Well, it might have been worse!” Worse than everyone getting Covid?The political messaging is playing out during record-high and deeply partisan skepticism of figures like Fauci and federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While roughly the same share of both parties agree that the government was unprepared for the pandemic, more than half of Democrats say they trust public health officials. What has passed for "science" over the last two or three years largely isn't. Science is about honest and open debate. It's about questioning assumptions and conclusions. Censorship and demonization of contrary opinions is actually anti-science. If there is censorship going on, be wary of motivations and robustness of data. Additionally, public agencies have become corrupt. Fauci could be an excellent example. Accusing critics of being "anti-science" with a connotation of tinfoil-hattery is a classic propaganda technique. (7)>>Don’t expect any honest answer from health authorities.  COVID is now BIG BUSINESS  & a BIG CON JOB on the American people.Americans are largely divided into three camps: those that consider COVID-19 over, those that feel left behind by their peers, and those that still think there is a pandemic but are less bothered by it. Little consensus exists over whether key pandemic metrics like cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are increasing or decreasing. New figures from the Peoples Vaccine Alliance reveal that the companies behind two of the most successful COVID-19 vaccines —Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna— are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute. The figures based on the latest company reports are released as CEOs from pharmaceutical industry meet for the annual STAT summit —the equivalent of a ‘Big Pharma Davos’— from 16-18 November.These companies have sold the majority of doses to rich countries, leaving low-income countries out in the cold. Pfizer and BioNTech have delivered less than one percent of their total vaccine supplies to low-income countries, while Moderna has delivered just 0.2 percent. Meanwhile 98 percent of people in low income countries have not been fully vaccinated.That people aren't smart enough to understand waning efficacy and are jumping to conspiracy theories instead?That people aren't aware that 4 or 5 dose regimens for vaccinations aren't unheard of?Or that the initial 2 dose regimen barely even functions as 2 separate doses so we're really more like on our 2nd dose?Maybe drop the /s and have a conversation like an adult so I can actually understand what you're trying to say.My point is that, on one hand, you have an unprecedented pandemic in modern times that a lot of people have difficulty to grasp or even accept. On the other hand, a lot of the same (or not) people are sick of multinationals taking advantage of them and their ignorance about complicated subjects like medical care to make a profit. It's understandable that these people are reluctant, or even hostile to the whole thing in reaction. Take into account the trend for bipartisanship, and demonisation of "the other side", general fatigue of the public, and you get a clusterfuck like we've had for two years now.I am disappointed in the public health agencies / bureaucrats that negotiated the deals with Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies, without developing an adequate safety net/system. For example, reserving a portion of funds, having access to a team of qualified vaccinology/immunology experts (who are well versed in the mechanisms of vaccine action and spectrum of responses) that can be consulted.

BIDEN'S DOCUMENT Document Disaster !

Can't point the finger at Trump
when you did the 
Same thing ....
Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn and wolves are once again baying at the door of the Oval Office.

In the last week, media sources are reporting that  (1)>>classified documents from Biden's time as Vice President have been discovered sitting unsecured in multiple unauthorized locations, including a think tank (the Penn Biden Center) and in a garage in his home in Delaware.  surfaces about these classified documents I am really starting to lean in that direction for starters let's start first with the very first document dumped just as a quick reminder check out this article on thehill.com in his headline what we know about the Biden documents so far and the article goes on to State the first batch of docs were discovered on November 2nd 2022 right at midterm elections at a Washington office Biden used when he worked as an honorary Professor for the ufp from 2017 to 2019. there were reportedly (2)>>10 documents there with classified markings mixed in with other personal materials such as info about Beau Biden's funeral which took place in 2015. the documents reportedly contain briefing materials about Ukraine.the UK and Iran now to add a little icing on the cake we also know that you Penn was was uh receiving Anonymous donations from well Chinese donors quick coincidence I don't think so but take a look here at breitbart.news  (2.1)>>Biden Center at UPenn received five 4.6 million from Anonymous Chinese donations you mean in that First Data dump uh the very location that he kept these secret files is the same location that received 54.6 million dollars from some Anonymous donor should somebody be asking about the relationship between Hunter Biden Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and all these dealings that happened with the CCP hopefully something comes out with a  (3)>>GOP investigation now originally with that First Data dump I thought maybe uh that the doj and the FBI were doing this to look like they weren't being biased to president Trump look we we brought documents on on Joe Biden too we discovered classified information on Joe Biden too but while I think that's still the case considering the timing of the release of the documents they didn't release it until after the GOP announced their investigation of the weaponization of the FBI and doj and suddenly bang we start hearing about these classified documents however I also believe that there's a lot more to the story we already know that  (4)>>Democrats do not want Joe Biden to run again as president could this be the icing on the cake so to speak that well makes Joe Biden not run for president and second could they attempt to say well Joe Biden can't run because he had classified documents neither can president Trump and they knock them both out of the water I believe Democrats are desperate enough to do something like that and I state that with the new information about more data dumps and documents or not data dumps but classified document dumps that are coming from his Delaware home take a look at the second batch of documents are second and third I should say and this is on that same Hill article it goes on a second batch of classified documents were found in a storage space in the garage of  (5)>>Biden's Wilmington Delaware residents on December 20th 2022 and another this would be the third Discovery one page document was discovered among stored materials in an adjacent room the search of Biden's residence was completed on Wednesday mind you no raid was done on Joe Biden but there you have it so one of them was found in his garage in his home and here's what  (6)>>Joe Biden had to say about his secure location in his garage take a listen to this clip here classified classified material next to your Corvette what were you thinking let me uh I'm going to get a chance to speak on all this God willing soon but as I said earlier this week people and by the way my Corvette's in the lock garage okay so it's not like you're sitting out in the street but anyway yes as well as my Corvette um but as I said earlier this week people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously people know I take it seriously but don't worry it's in my garage locked in my garage and you know my Corvettes locked in my garage and it's in a locked safe space is it Joe Biden because I remember this little beauty that was put out by the RNC as a nice reminder here's Joe Biden pulling that locked Corvette in his locked garage where those classified documents are kept here we go you think I'm kidding I'm not kidding so I'm excited about it you're excited okay watch as he pulls in the back here because you can see some oh pause you see a whole load of documents right here uh right here by my head right here I just tap the mic but there it is and all that document hey that's not locked none of that looks locked just saying just saying but don't worry Joe Biden picks it seriously seriously uh so much so that well I want you to see this little beauty here on Fox News emails suggest that Hunter Biden had access to the garage where president kept classified documents and his girlfriend crack pipe Son,  I it's a very sad situation and I'm unhappy about it but to give somebody like that access to the garage (7)>>classified top secret information weight now and then there's this little beauty which I find interesting uh and you know the validity it's there however it says in 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept the documents alongside his Corvette and here it is in a background screening now I believe he was out of his keister saying that but either way he claimed to oh the house on some kind of apply check that he did now  (8)>>Ducey questioned Miss uh uh Kareem Jared Pierre kjp on this entire thing take a listen uh to what he had to say on that create another one on garage gate what is the White House trying to hide president statement to read on Tuesday that was incomplete at best misleading at worst who so I have read out the president's statement I read it out yesterday and what he said he said that he will he respects or he takes classified information and documents very seriously that's what he said he said that he did not know that the records were there he does not know what's in them he said that you heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully fully and not only that again I'll say this the attorney general said this himself that he heard from the team shortly after so we have laid out laid out uh what has occurred here you've heard from the White House Council I just read the statement from from his lawyer and again uh you know we take this very seriously and the president does as well completely she doesn't answer the question as usual no surprise! Famously, former President Trump has also been dealing with legal problems relating to his own mishandling of classified documents that he took back with him to Mar a Lago after his presidency was over. To be clear, there are differences between the two - for example  (9)>>Biden's lawyers cooperating with authorities while Trump's lawyers not cooperating. However, this still brings to mind the elephant in the room: Since politics and optics is everything on Capitol Hill, does this make it more difficult for the DOJ's ongoing efforts to prosecute Trump? Could we see pressure to drop the investigation or soften it, for concern that it may come back to hurt Biden himself either legally or in the court of publi opinion as he prepares for a 2024 re-election run?

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(1)>>classified documents from Biden's time as Vice President. The discovery of the documents was first reported by CBS News. The president and vice president are required under the Presidential Records Act to turn over documents to the National Archives for secure storage.That classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president were not in possession of the National Archives is sure to ignite criticism from conservatives given former President Trump is under investigation for allegedly taking numerous classified government documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida upon leaving the White House in 2021. During an unprecedented FBI search of the property, more than 100 documents were obtained that federal officials said were marked with varying degrees of classification. In response to the news involving Biden, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “When will the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team storm one of Biden’s many vacation homes bought and paid for somehow by a lifetime of being a humble public servant?”  (2)>>10 documents there with classified markings mixed in with other personal materials such as info about Beau Biden's funeral which took place in 2015. "On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel's Office immediately notified the National Archives." It's not clear why he took these documents to these places, or why they were left there (optimistically, he forgot them or mistakenly mixed them with other, non-classified paperwork; pessimistic answers will vary by ideology). The office documents were found first, though, when his attorneys were clearing out the offices and found them in a locked closet. I THINK Biden was covering up something about his Son Hunter , but that is speculation . They did what they're supposed to do - they immediately notified the relevant authorities and made sure the documents were turned in. Further documents were found in his storage and library, and turned in as well - it's not clear if they were found on accident or if, on finding the first batch, the lawyers started really digging around for anything else.Formal investigation is still ongoing, but the currently-available information says that Biden, in his time as VP, took a small number of classified documents to at least three places: his office at a think tank in Washington DC, a storage space in his garage, and his personal library in his home.(2.1)>>Biden Center at UPenn received five 4.6 million from Anonymous Chinese donations. Much remains unknown about the nature of the documents and the circumstances by which they ended up at Biden’s offices. Biden did not respond to shouted questions during an appearance Tuesday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As the Trump investigation has reiterated, many cases involving the mishandling of sensitive information turn in large part on intent – and no indication of nefarious intent in either the possession of the materials, the timeliness of their return or the cooperation with authorities has immediately emerged.“Documents obtained by Committee Republicans reveal Hunter Biden’s business partner and close personal associate was linked to the Communist Party of China (CCP), her employer before the Biden family. JiaQi “Jackie” Bao provided Hunter insight into purchasing liquified natural gas reserves in the United States to sell to China, had access to the Biden family’s financial information, and liaised with CCP-affiliated agents on the Bidens’ behalf. After infiltrating the Biden family, Bao urged Hunter to encourage Joe Biden to run for president months before he announced and then supplied the Biden family campaign advice related to China. Media reports and documents reviewed by Committee Republicans suggest that Bao and Hunter’s relationship extended beyond professional obligations—a common tactic employed by Chinese intelligence agents. Committee Republicans are concerned Hunter Biden may have been compromised by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and foreign intelligence services (FIS).  Due to the interconnected nature of the Biden family’s finances and business dealings, this type of access would jeopardize U.S. national security,” wrote Ranking Member Comer.(3)>>GOP investigation now originally with that First Data dump I thought maybe uh that the doj and the FBI were doing this to look like they weren't being biased to president Trump . NOW the discovery of the documents – which the White House said were found in a locked closet at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington – together with speculation and conspiracy theories stemming from the fact that the university writ large has received donations over the years from donors in China.  Sean Hannity suggested that President Joe Biden being in possession of multiple batches of classified documents is part of a conspiracy to remove him from the 2024 ballot. Other Republicans have followed suit with similar ideas .At first glance, last week’s revelations that old, possibly outdated classified documents had been found at a thinktank where Biden worked after leaving the vice-presidency in 2017, and in a garage at his home in Delaware, may not seem such a big deal. But such a view fails to understand the way Washington works. Significant or not, the find has given the flailing Republican party a stick with which to beat the president and it has seized it with grateful alacrity.The distraction of attention from Biden’s agenda and achievements is one of many prospective negatives for the president. Another is the unfair, potentially disastrous conflation of his alleged wrongdoing with the ostensibly much more serious case of his predecessor.(4)>>Democrats do not want Joe Biden to run again as president . President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating.The extent of the damage to Biden and the Democrats will depend in part on whether Trump, the Republicans and their Fox News boosters succeed in sustaining and widening the scandal. But Attorney General Merrick Garland's naming of a special counsel on Thursday to probe the Biden administration's document handling has neutralized Democrats' ability to target former President Donald Trump, Republicans' top 2024 candidate so far, over classified documents.(5)>>Biden's Wilmington Delaware residents on December 20th 2022 and another this would be the third Discovery one page document was discovered .  Now, Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, is coming under fresh scrutiny as a repository of classified material.The White House confirmed Thursday that classified records were found in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington home, as well as an adjacent room that the president later identified as his personal library. So far in his presidency, Biden has spent part or all of 194 days in his home state of Delaware, spending most weekends in either at his Wilmington home or in Rehoboth Beach, where he owns a $2.7 million home, according to an Associated Press tally. He will head to Wilmington again this weekend. (6)>>Joe Biden had to say about his secure location. The President held a press conference today where he addressed the issue as follows: "I’m gonna get a chance to speak on all this -- God willing -- soon. But as I said earlier this week, people, and by the way, my Corvette’s in a locked garage," Biden said. "So, it's not like it’s sitting on the street." "But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. I also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department's review. As part of that process, my lawyers reviewed other places where documents in my -- from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night," Biden continued, echoing an earlier White House statement. "They discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home and my personal library." (7)>>classified top secret information weight now and then there's this little beauty which I find interesting uh and you know the validity .I think we should be asking why he would be keeping those documents in the first place. Must have been very important to him. Did they contain information having to do with making money or dirt on political opponents. Yes, boys and girls, i would say they were VERY important information for his personal gain.Shouldn't Jim Jordan take a look at the UPenn china doonations connection and why Pennsylvania elections have appeared change laws for the Pandemic? Maybe China donors influenced the election out come in 2020 and 2022?I’m also a bit confused abt the classification(s). I mean, is it based on just the content or, could it be as innocuous as just between 1 or more high ranking officials (as their rank determines as classified) deciding on where to go for lunch?(8)>>Ducey questioned Miss uh uh Kareem Jared Pierre kjp on this entire thing take a listen uh to what he had to say on that create another one on garage gate what is the White House trying to hide. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in the first press briefing since the discovery of the documents became public on Monday, avoided answering questions on why the administration didn’t inform the public sooner when attorneys for Biden made the discovery on Nov. 2 — just six days ahead of crucial midterm elections. "How could anyone be that irresponsible?" Doocy asked with a straight face. "Isn't that what this president says about mishandling classified documents?"WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre replied: "Here's what happened when his lawyers found out the documents were there. They immediately turned them over to the Archives... I'm not going to go into specifics. What I am reiterating to you is what you heard from the president yourself... How he truly respects the process and takes this very seriously... And the right actions that the lawyers took."(9)>>Biden's lawyers cooperating with authorities while Trump's lawyers not cooperating. He had lawyers moving his Office? Did these lawyers have security clearances? How many others saw these "classified" documents? Who "secured" these documents and when? Where is Merrick Garland and the FBI home invasion squad?"Here's what happened when his lawyers found out the documents were there." Who cares about what happened in the last few months...how/why they were there for the last several years is the problem.Biden has mis-handled classified documents and somehow it's Trump's fault. This is what passes for journalism in the 21st century.Trump had the power to declassify anything he wanted as President. There is simply no way to prove that Trump DIDN'T declassify any of those documents unless there's a smoking gun which exists saying explicitly, "I didn't declassify those docs!" So, really, this whole exercise is a complete waste of time. You can't prosecute a former President for mishandling classified documents. He isn't required to register his declassifications. His power under the Constitution -- like the pardon -- is unlimited.