https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/21/mtg-shows-hunter-biden-lawyer-photos-congress/70445956007/
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for reaching a “new level of abhorrent behavior” after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of him during a hearing Wednesday.
Unfortunately she's protected by congressional immunity. If only people in power didn't create special rules for themselves.
Only when she says it on the floor as a congresswoman. She doesn't have carte blanche to say whatever she wants anywhere else.
And since she sent out his nudes in a mailer, he can sue
I’m not sure she had immunity here. Did she have a lawful right to obtain those pictures or to release them in a public hearing? Probably not.
Further, I’m pretty certain this didn’t fall under legitimate legislative purposes.
She may be personally interest in hunter’s giant cock, but it’s difficult to imagine a legitimate governmental interest- especially since he’s a private citizen not employed by the government. Him doing a porn shoot or having a dick are irrelevant to an irs investigation.
Yeah. Probably. I mean, maybe not for this. but generally you can try and sue people for anything. You do have to demonstrate harm- and that's a very specific legal context. if you can find a lawyer willing to sue for it, it's fair game. that said, it would be extremely difficult for the average american to show she harmed them sufficiently to justify a civil lawsuit.
in other words, you'd probably loose.
Unfortunately, she does have carte blanche, implicitly, when nobody has the guts to stand up for justice and charge her for the crime.
How else would we see the presidents sons penis? This is America! It used to be tradition to show your tax return. Now they will just show their sons penises.
Hubter doing porn and getting out.... Doing drugs from the crack of a prostitute that he paied with your money... Hahahh
it's just going to exponentiate from here. we've only been on the curve of the hockey stick so far. about to be vertical
Yeah. We are not in a good place to deal with AI propaganda and the consequences of climate change.
We let pond scum take too much power and wealth because none of us wanted to become politicans, union leaders and protest organisers.
This is why if you want to maintain security, you can’t have exposed hinges. Well there’s ways Around the problem.
That's how she goes. Things get worse bit by bit, then all at once
It's how systems fail
Again. What the fuck does Hunter Biden matter, and why is this Scarecrow looking scab insist on wasting our money on this garbage?
hunter biden matters to republicans because he's the only thing they can hang on joe biden, who has been honestly masterful in the way he's navigated the late and post-pandemic.
I honestly don't understand why they act like Joe Biden is the only politician with a child who has addiction issues and/or failed relationships. Donald Trump Jr. is also divorced and has had alcohol addiction problems. During the Biden/Trump debates I almost wanted Biden to mention Don Jr's problems since Don Sr kept bringing up Hunter, but fortunately familial attacks are beneath Biden.
If they cared about what close relatives of presidents were doing, they should be investigating Jared's deal with the Saudis.
The Kushner family sounds almost even more dysfunctional than the Trump or Biden families combined. Jared's dad has been in jail for a while because he solicited a prostitute for Jared's uncle(elder Kushner's brother-in-law) because he wanted to prove to his sister that her husband was a bad person and divorce him. Jared and Ivanka's kids will probably have to have a lot of therapy, not to mention Jared's cousins and their children.
I honestly don’t understand
you're still assuming good faith. stop it. they're not interested in developing a well-rounded worldview and a rational approach to solving the problems that face America. They're interested in seizing as much power as possible and hurting their opponents as much as possible. Once you realize that, their actions start to make perfect sense. Acting like Joe Biden is the only politician with a problem child serves that end. Ignoring Don Jr's obvious coke and booze habit serves that end. There is no guiding philosophy to them, no principles they serve, no basis of human decency in which they even pretend to embed themselves. They've gone full Lee Atwater: they know who they're enemies are and they'll hurt everyone as long as their enemies get hurt too.
People's mistake is thinking fascism is an evil ideology that uses any tactics necessary to achieve its goals.
What they don't realize is that "ideology" and "tactics" need to be reversed in this statement: fascism is a cynical tactic that uses any ideology necessary to achieve its goals.
It will hate groomers on Tuesday and find grooming "the only way to raise responsible, patriotic citizens" on that same exact Tuesday, later in the afternoon.
It will hate nepotism and family connections in the same breath as it calls Ivanka "smart" for wielding her presidential clout to enrich herself.
It will defend the sanctitude of the life belonging to a fetus right up until the main threats to that fetus are poor access to medical care, financial stress leading to miscarriages, and our unsustainable car infrastructure killing off pregnant mothers right alongside every other type of person. THOSE fetuses were killed by the laws of nature of course, (and they certainly lack a level of sanctity that competes with Americans' right to be forced to drive twenty minutes to the nearest grocery store and ninety minutes to their place of employment on threat of homelessness. That "right" is inviolable.)
There's no ideology here. No utopia on the map. No belief about how to improve society. There is merely the last, dying , defiant warcry of a certain subset of corporations. A subset that profits more from maintaining underclasses than they do from providing a product to a stable society. A subset that needs to keep reminding black people that if they don't like working for dirt wages at Amazon, they can always get the police involved and die with a police officer's knee on their neck.
And the question isn't, "can our ideology defeat theirs?" Because there was never a single belief to defeat in the first place. The question here is "can democracy survive?"
And so far, it's holding up better than it did in Italy and Germay. 1930s Germany wouldn't have thrown the Patriot Front in jail. Wouldn't have convicted the Wolverine Watchmen, either. Certainly wouldn't be prosecuting the Proud Boys who showed up to Jan 6.
Thanks for saying what needs to be said over and over.
My concern is this is all going on the slow cooker. Sending proud boys to prison so they can be trained into better terrorists for next time. The right wingers who were willing to take decisive action were able to organize, meet up, and commit violence against democracy while our surveillance state did... Essentially nothing to prevent it?
I can see that. Like how Hitler wrote Mein Kampf during his 264-day incarceration in Landsberg Prison for his Jan-6-style insurrection attempt.
What? No that's not it. They highlight this because when liberals all respond saying they don't care about this they help reinforce to republicans that they shouldn't care about Trump's prostitution stuff or "grab em by the pussy". It makes liberals look like people doing a performance who don't actually hold those things as principles because they're entirely willing to toss them aside for certain issues.
I don't have a dog in this race because I'm not american.
I'm not American either but my wife is so I know more about this than I would like. Like Hunter Biden is not in government and all he has done is smoke crack, have sex with prostitutes, swindle money from corpos by saying who his dad is and have a massive shlong so I don't see the connection.
Like american politicians in general come off to me as the most insincere people in the whole world. Like half of them probably do cocaine regularly, quite a few are obvious child molesters, pretty much all of them abuse their position just to fill their wallet with platant insider trading and the rest are owned by major corporations. No one there needs help to seem like it's just a performance. Like the only thing in American politics that seems sincere is republicans hating minorities, they are just making that their central focus even if it's not popular.
I'm American and have so far not had to see Hunter Biden's cock, but now I know it's massive. Good. Now I know republicans just LOVE showing off massive cocks to everyone they can.
Like american politicians in general come off to me as the most insincere people in the whole world.
To be fair this isn't limited to america. Liberals in europe are equally as detestable and insincere. Macron being the premiere example. I think it's just highly noticeable in american politics because they have no left.
Does Macron even count as a liberal? He outright said the French revolution was a mistake and a monarchie would have been better. That along with trying to do some police state shit makes it seem he's just an authoritarian.
Does Macron even count as a liberal? He outright said the French revolution was a mistake and a monarchie would have been better. That along with trying to do some police state shit makes it seem he’s just an authoritarian.
Modern liberals all believe that. Liberals gave up the social and economic justice beliefs of the Enlightenment as soon as they attained power post-revolution, socialists inherited the Enlightenment thought and became the new left opposition pushing for real justice.
Unfortunately a lot of people who claim to be socialist just follow Stalin's and Lenin's ideology of authoritarianism not much better than fascism with a history of executing actual socialists the moment they get into power. Thankfully Eastern Europe, having lived through the horrors of Stalin's regime, are better at seeing through that bullshit.
Also while most of liberal policies are just a way to make the rich richer, believing monarchy is the way to go and wanting a police surveillance state does not seem to be a common belief.
We're not really saying "we don't care." What we're saying is: Hunter Biden isn't on the ballot. There's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegal so this isn't changing our voting plans. If Hunter did something illegal, he should get an appropriate punishment for it, but this should also apply to Don Jr, Ivanka, and everyone else.
Instead, Republicans want to "get" Hunter Biden on something - anything - and tie Joe Biden to that by virtue of being Hunter's father. However, they also don't want anything Trump's kids do to be tied to Trump. It's an obvious double standard employed for political gain without any regard for the truth.
It’s not Trump vs. Hunter Biden, but Trump vs. Joe Biden, so this sounds like the typical brainworm-reasoning that you get from right-wingers.
Donald Trump himself is the one doing the bad stuff, Biden‘s son‘s actions can’t be pinned on his father. Especially so because Hunter is not in in the government, unlike the monsters that are Trump‘s spawn.
Oh grow up. I'm half Czech, half British and reside in the UK. I also moderate the UK's largest leftist subreddit /r/greenandpleasant.
oh you're right in that this serves an overall strategy they call "flooding the zone", which is where you try to make your actual hideousness seem equivalent to your opponents in order to encourage people to just check out of politics. In 2016 one of Trump's key campaign strategies was getting Clinton voters to stay home on the idea that "they're all the same anyway, what does it matter?" But the fact is liberals do care, and they want to see justice done. Hunter Biden has been charged with federal crimes and plead guilty, and there's no liberal backlash because he did that shit. They tried this with the Epstein plane too. They were like "But Bill Clinton was on the plane too" and most people's reaction was "he can have the cell next to Trump's".
They don't need an overall backlash though. They just need some people to do it, even in this thread there's a bunch of people doing it. This then becomes all the evidence that people in the other tribe need to believe it on the whole as a widespread thing.
Yea... Who cares of all the money he took? Fucking crack head good for nothing..... Doing coce at the white house... My God
A more plausible explanation is that a visitor on a tour brought it and left it there, and Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.
But that doesn't feed your insane narrative about Biden Crime Family, so I can see why you'd rather live in a fantasy world where you feel vindicated for having bad opinions.
It's more plausible that some random someone on a tour left their cocaine in a place they weren't returning to rather than someone with regular access left their stash for later.
Ok, I guess.
Because people high on drugs are known for their excellent decision making and clear-mindedness, right?
Regardless, whoever left it there probably didn't intend to leave it there. Maybe they left it in there along with their cell phone (which gets checked at the west wing entrance when you go in for a tour) and then forgot to grab it when they went to leave.
I guess we'll never know, since the investigation closed with zero suspects.
It sounds like you don't understand nearly how many people go into the White House every day.
Typically, when you have no idea what you're talking about, it is more prudent to keep your thoughts to yourself until you do.
You should be telling me whose cocaine was found at the WH instead of all this nonsense.
You seem to know a lot about this cocain, I guess it must be yours. It doesn't take a genius to piece the two together.
I thought the fbi, cia and all the other 3 letter agencies were just Astral projections from the lizard people living one floor up on the flat-earth?
These chemtrails keep making my brain hurt. the more I think about Jewish space lasers disrupting our electoral process and stealing the election for the Biden crime family, the more I get disgusted by their feverish use of adrenochrome.
Anyway, I ran out of tropes to mock you with. Have a great day.
You remind me of a redneck I went to high school with who once told me, "my opinions is facts." I wonder what correctional institution he ended up in?
Possession of drugs by family member of president, no proof needed.
Sitting president inciting a riot on live tv and Twitter, ‘we need to wait for all the evidence’.
I’ll go first, investigate Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and any other dem boogeyman you can think of. If they broke the law, send them to jail.
Now your turn, except do Trump.
Cope with what? That Biden is the President? Cope with the fact fascists republicans will get their asses handed to them in the next election? Or should we cope with the plain as day fact that Don Jr and his wife are coke addicts and dropped coke on the floor while on drug infused binges in the WH. This is the coke traces they found, from Don Jr and his wife doing drugs in the WH. Sad.
Yeah, I think people will cope just fine. If I were interested in you I would ask "you OK?" but then again, you do not matter at all so no need to know the state of nothingness.
Indeed, like we all know Don Jr and his wife are coke addicts and dropped coke on the floor while on drug infused binges in the WH. This is the coke traces they found, from Don Jr and his wife doing drugs in the WH.
This is a simple fact and I have heard so many people say Don Jr did drugs in the WH, it is quite sad actually.
C'mon, the FBI was not able to name him after fake conducting an investigation. Dumb dumb.
Is Don Jr a coke addict or not? He is, I have it for a fact. And he did coke in the WH, the little basterd left coke traces in the WH and they now found them. Him and his druggie wife are really despicable.
You agree of course!
Sneaking it in and hiding it in a visitors' belongings section! That's definitely plausible!
Isn't going to happen. People in power, especially Republicans, don't get in trouble for anything.
Except he very much did consent to disclosure by turning a drive and it's content over to someone else
That's not how it works. It's explicitly NOT how that works. That's the entire reason revenge porn laws exist.
What you are claiming, would be equivalent to sending a nude to someone and then them posting it online and because you consented in the first to send it to them they're okay to repost it. That's literally revenge porn.
You numpty.
cause they're afraid of precedents
it is hard to realize it but they do illegal asshole shit too
“She accused Biden of making amateur pornography, sex trafficking and paying for prostitutes”
I think she’s confusing Hunter Biden and Matt Gaetz again
Hunter Biden is a private citizen. He can make all the amateur porn he wants and paying for prostitutes may be looked down on but it certainly isn’t worthy of a congressional hearing. It is a really poor decision on her part.
I don't know how this hasn't been the focal point all along. This dude is an American citizen that happens to be the President's son. Sure he's made mistakes, but fuck so have I and everyone else. Furthermore he's not a politician and he's not running for office. This is a pattern with the right in positions of power from a historical perspective unfortunately; Rush Limbaugh going after Chelsea Clinton for being "dog ugly" when she was a 14 year old child, many such cases. Right wing rhetoric is unintelligent, hateful bullshit. This is nothing new
She sent the nudes to her newsletter. Her newsletter doesn't have any form of age verification when signing up. It's very plausible that some minors have signed up.
Ohhhhh too bad!!! Lets publish how to have anal sex to minors this will do it! Yeeeaaaaa
Look at the wit on this guy. What an outstanding observation, the 80 year old man is old. You sure got 'em.
well, if Trump hawking Goya foods quite literally from the resolute desk taught me anything, it's that Republicans will ignore blatant lawbreaking from other Republicans.
Ask aout the crackhead of biden? Hahahha may be if you ate looking for all the money they took! Ask the "big guy"
I mean she's a meth head it makes sense? Also what's it like to be in a political cult? Do you guys have cookies and cool aid?
Only the damn GOP would prop someone like this cunt, since they're a party of other fellow groomers.
Why are these two sacks of shit (you know the other female (unfortunately) shit stain) allowed to be in the fucking government dude
What implicit protections does our political system have against corruption (hidden in their past or bound to happen in the future)
Country is a fucking joke, and unlike it has ever been before. The cancer is metastasizing.
What implicit protections does our political system have against corruption (hidden in their past or bound to happen in the future)
That's what the second amendment is for, right?
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