Flotsam and Jetsam - So Who's Telling the Truth, the Whistleblower or AG Garland?

Well, back to the the story of the crime family that's currently in charge of our country. John Solomon at JTN brings the news Feds built $2.2 million tax case against Hunter Biden dating to 2014 before being thwarted,  "Earliest evidence involved $400,000 in undeclared income from Burisma energy deal in Ukraine, whistleblowers allege to Congress." And then let the statute of limitations run out. At Fox, Hunter Biden-linked account received $5 million days after threatening messages: 'Sitting here with my father' "'I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,' Hunter Biden wrote to a Chinese associate in 2017, days before receiving $5.1 million from a Chinese firm." Was he lying about sitting there with Joe? Maybe, but evidence shows they were together that day. At Twitchy, Jonathan Turley asks who's lying: Merrick Garland or the whistleblowers. The only way I can reconcile their two stories is that somebody under Garland nixed Weiss becoming a special counsel, and charging Hunter is if somebody below Garland did it, and concealed it from his boss. On da Hill, Turley himself, Who is lying? Merrick Garland or the whistleblowers? "The only thing abundantly clear is that someone is lying. Either these whistleblowers are lying to Congress, or these Justice Department officials (including Garland) are lying. The response from both Hunter Biden’s counsel and the attorney general himself only deepened the concerns." 'Bonchie' at Red State sees the IRS Whistleblower Calls Merrick Garland's Bluff, Starts Naming Names. Empower Oversight@EMPOWR_us:

Statement from IRS Agent Gary Shapley's legal team: "In an October 7, 2022, meeting at the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office, U.S. Attorney David Weiss told six witnesses he did not have authority to charge in other districts and had thus requested special counsel status. Those six witnesses include Baltimore FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ryeshia Holley, IRS Assistant Special Agent in Charge Gary Shapley and Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon, who also independently and contemporaneously corroborated Mr. Shapley's account in an email, now public as Exhibit 10, following p. 148 of his testimony transcript. Mr. Shapley would have no insight into why Mr. Weiss's would make these statements at the October 7, 2022 meeting if they were false.  That Mr. Weiss made these statements is easily corroborated, and it is up to him and the Justice Department to reconcile the evidence of his October 7, 2022 statements with contrary statements by Mr. Weiss and the Attorney General to Congress."

Twitchy,  IRS whistleblower is naming NAMES from Hunter Biden bombshell and it just got REAL. Bob Spencer at PJM, Garland: Questioning the Integrity of the Justice Department Is an Attack on — You Guessed It. Josh Hammer at Town Hall says Don't Let Hunter's Plea Deal Distract From the Real Biden Problem: Ukraine. Our problem with Ukraine is that they own too many US politicians.

At 1945, Yes, Joe Biden Could Be Impeached Soon. "Perhaps now is not the right time for the Republicans to bring articles of impeachment against Joe Biden. But that time is coming soon." Lindsay Graham 1.0 is back, at WaEx, Lindsey Graham claims articles of impeachment against Biden would be 'dead on arrival' Of course, but that didn't stop the Democrats from impeaching Trump not once, but twice. Tit for tat is a valid concept. 

Stacy McCain, on WaPoo putting the Biden scandal on page 15 on Friday, Undertakers of Democracy: How the Washington Post Is Deliberately Burying the Hunter Biden Influence Scandal. "Probably I muttered a few other obscenities, so offended was I by this blatant malfeasance of editorial authority. After five years of federal investigation, the controversy over the “laptop from hell,” and everything else we’ve seen in this scandal, an IRS whistleblower delivers the smoking gun in testimony to the House Oversight Committee, and you’re going to BURY THE STORY ON PAGE A15? You deserve contempt." To be fair, the next day a similar (heavily slanted toward Biden) article was on the front page yesterday. The NYPo ed board notes that Suddenly, liberal media aren’t so keen to blare whistleblower charges. At Twitchy, NY Times columnist explains why the 'Hunter Biden saga' should be an inspiration to us all. But even the media is starting to balk at the amount of gas-lighting, Matt Vespa at Town Hall, Here's What Caused the Liberal Press Corps to Turn on Karine Jean Pierre Today. 

At ET, Special Counsel Jack Smith Requests Delay in Trump Classified Documents Trial, "Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested a delay in the classified documents trial involving former President Donald Trump, proposing a new trial start date of Dec. 11" just in time for the election! Ben Whedon at JTN reports Jack Smith secures cooperation of fake electors in Jan. 6 probe "The outlet reported that the prosecutors on the case have recently "played hardball" with witnesses in a bid to secure their speedy testimony before the end of June." "Fake electors?" I guess so, since winners write history. 

At the Daily Fetched, Foreign TV Host Says Biden’s “God Save the Queen” Remarks during Speech Was a “Coded Message,” That seems a little far fetched to me, he can barely remember his wife, let alone a code. PM has a poll, 65% of all voters say inflation top concern. "Pew Research Center also found that the majority of voters disapprove of Biden’s job performance at 62 percent." At Fox, Josh Hawley demands hearing after top Biden official admits false testimony about stock purchases. "'Secretary Granholm needs to return to the committee to correct the record,' Hawley wrote to Manchin." From across da pond, Da Mail, Biden administration FINALLY releases declassified report detailing 'potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the COVID pandemic.' "The Department of Energy, which oversees biological research labs in the U.S., concluded with 'low confidence' in February of this year that the virus most likely came from a lab in Wuhan. The FBI concluded the same with moderate confidence. The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies disagree, saying the pandemic likely begun naturally. The CIA, meanwhile, is on the fence and has been unable to say with certainty how it begun, given repeated blocks imposed by the Chinese authorities."

Mike Miller at Red State likes how Vivek Ramaswamy Blisters Liberal Newspaper for Wildly Racist Political Cartoon Featuring ... Him, Iowa’s ⁦@qctimes.

Natalia Mittlestadt at JTN sees ⁩ Democrats fret about possible third-party bid by Manchin, new poll shows it would hurt Biden "Some Democrats believe Sen. Joe Manchin is unlikely to run for president and would instead run for reelection." I would say he has little chance either way. The only way I see him winning WV is to go Republican.

Cami Mondeaux at WaEx reports Democrats seek redistricting changes in key states to regain House majority. Gerrymandering is bad, except when they do it. 

NCEN, Democrat State senator arrested for damaging a vehicle in Rhode Island "Police say Miller was then seen on surveillance footage and admitted he had damaged the pickup truck because the owner had been yelling at him and "dared him" to do it." Beege Wellborn at Hat Hair,  "Let’s play “guess that party”! Also, as a tweet about the arrest of the senator points out, you’ll never guess what the senator was packin’ while he was keyin’… "

Althouse cited Gleen Grenwalt, "Establishment using RFK to affirm their favorite lie: they don't spread conspiracy theories." At Front Page Bob Spencer notices YouTube Goes to Bat for Joe Biden  ans "Removes Jordan Peterson's interview of RFK Jr." SLAY reports Facebook Hires Ex-CIA Agent ‘Misinformation’ Chief to Lead ‘Elections Policies’. Breitbart highlights Australia’s Ultimatum: Elon Musk’s Twitter Has 28 Days to Combat ‘Online Hate’ or Face Hefty Fines, "on line hate" being whatever the ruling junta doesn't approve of. Twitchy says Nice TRY as Canadian journo tries DELETING bats**t allegation about Elon Musk's followers BUUUT we got it. Weird even by Canadian standards. Also from Twitchy, Updates from the Prigozhin uprising in Russia, while Kinzinger focuses on Tucker Carlson for some reason. Kinzinger blew his seat, then he blew his mind. The Free Bacon reports Washington Post CEO Has Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars To Democrats. "Patricia Stonesifer, who has praised the Post’s coverage of Trump, sent six-figures to Biden campaign alone" Well I never mistook it for an objective news source. Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw catches Michigan  criminalizing opinions

with a new bill passed in the state House this week, they are taking things to a cartoonish level. If (more likely “when”) House Bill 4474 is signed into law, you will literally be able to be thrown into prison for hurting someone’s feelings. This is being hidden under the guise of protecting people from “hate speech,” and includes standard liberal online tropes about “feeling threatened.” To be clear, you don’t have to actually threaten someone with violence. They simply need to “feel” threatened by something you say or post online. There is no word from Governor Whitmer yet as to whether the State Police will be directed to establish a new “thought police” unit. (Washington Examiner) . . .   There’s still a chance that the bill will fail or that Gretchen Whitmer will suddenly develop a streak of common sense and veto it. But given her track record, what are the chances of that?

Stacy McCain waxes eloquent on The Wonderful Joys of ‘Progress’ as New Hampshire's first transgender representative arrested for child abuse and child porn. "Wow, this is bad — even by Democrat standards. Does the community feel “inspired” yet?" It's not like they didn't warn you, Cathy Salgado at PJM, NYC LGBTQ Activists: ‘We’re Coming for Your Kids’. From the Daily Fetched, Pedophile Antifa Member Who Stabbed Black Conservative Avoids Jail, "Antifa member, Blake David Hampe, 46, pleaded guilty in a sweetheart deal to felony second-degree attempted assault against the black conservative and will serve no jail time and instead receive three years of probation. The charge was downgraded from the original felony second-degree assault charge, and the charge of unlawful use of a weapon was dropped in the plea deal. During the height of far-left rioting in downtown Portland in 2020, Hampe was videoed stabbing Andrew Duncom, who was hospitalized and narrowly survived being paralyzed after the blade pierced inches from his spinal cord." Forget it Jake, it's Portland. 

At TNP, Mayor Ousted For Refusing To Fly Pride Flag. "A Republican mayor has been forced out of his position in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, by a coalition of Democrats and his own party members because he refused to fly the “pride” flag above the local town hall." Alex Parker at Red State finds a Christian College Turns Students Into Drag Queens, Tells Them It's 'Violence' to Ask if Someone Is a Guy. Fox, Texas Christian University offers 'Queer Art of Drag' course requiring students to create a 'drag persona'  "Students are also required to 'engage queer theories in relation to performance practice'" Yes, but think of what kind of idiot would sign up for such a course. At the Freep, Federal Judge Blocks Florida “Drag Queen” Law. A Clinton judge. Jazz Shaw reports More detransitioner horror stories emerge. At Da Signal, Is Truth Winning? Musk, Rowling Deride Use of Term ‘Cisgender’. Ace's KT, Is Pride Month starting to lose its way?

Taylor Silverman

At Outkick, Taylor Silverman Will Join Riley Gaines In Protest At Women's Cycling Championship  , and Serena Williams Told The Truth About Differences Between Men And Women 10 Years Ago. At Breitbart,  ‘We Did Not Give Our Consent’: Riley Gaines Blasts NCAA for Allowing Men to Compete as Women. Fox, NHL players will not wear Pride jerseys during warm-ups anymore: 'Keeping the focus on the game' "'It's become a distraction,' Gary Bettman said of issues surrounding jerseys. At WaEx, Mark Judge (remember him?) decries The sad decline of the journalist as athlete. It certainly makes it easier for them to believe and write bullshit about equality of men and women's athletics.

Hat Hair's KT compares how Bud Light and Yuengling handled drag controversies, Yuengling Brewery to Bud Light: Hold our beer. They are helping to sell it, after all. 

Peter Wood at Quillette examines what happens After College and "The coming cultural collapse of American higher education."

We are witnessing the transition from “college is for everybody” to “college is unnecessary and often useless.” Going to college “to be able to get a better job” is likely to fade away as the primary reason students attend. And the institutions themselves—universities and colleges of various types—will have to accept a much less prominent role in our social and economic systems. They are in danger of becoming cultural relics.

Did something happen in Russia yesterday? It seems like it's probably important, but nobody seems to be able to make heads or tails of it.