Don't Shoot
First, I have to say I ventured into a theater for the first time in a few years last night to see the new Spider-Man movie and it was truly stunning. My son and I both think it is one of the best superhero movies ever done and, just as a stand-alone film, it is incredible.
Now, please don’t shoot. I’ve just been around the block a few times and want to note something.
A whistleblower has come forward with some pretty damning accusations against the White House, IRS, and Department of Justice, among others, about the Hunter Biden affair. The whistleblower claims both a massive cover-up and a massive effort to stymie the investigation into Hunter Biden.
I’m going to meditate more on the accusations and want to explain why.
The whistleblower statement is so on the nose, so damning, and so precise in describing exactly how I’d envision a coverup that it confirms every single prior and does not challenge any of my priors.
In my long experience and time in politics and law, it is so good at telling me exactly what I want to hear and so damning of the bad guys that my spidey sense is going off that it just might be too good to be true.
I’ve just gotten so used to seeing this stuff blow up in all our faces that I feel like we have to be being played because, wow, this stuff is so damning. It implicates the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Head, etc., like in a movie script.
And then I think about all the accusations the GOP trotted out a month or so ago, and only afterward did we learn that, actually that whistleblower can’t be found. This, at least, has partially gotten the attention of the New York Times. That’s actually a big deal given how dismissive they have been, and though they try here, they cannot dismiss everything. Clearly, Hunter Biden claimed his father was with him when texting a Chinese businessman, and it seems clear some of his messages were not handed over to investigators. So there are some truths still to be uncovered, some of which are so damning the Times cannot dismiss them. But then there is the entirety of what was released.
I’ll put it to you this way — if this stuff is true, Biden, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and many others should be carted off to prison. But also, that’s exactly why it seems to be telling me what I want to hear, which suggests it is too good to be true.
So I’m going to take a cautious approach on this one. Don’t shoot. I will move slowly and not take it all at face value because I’ve been down this road too many times. I want to believe it is as described, but so too did Democrats with Alexander Vindman and the Steele Dossier — the stories were all so perfect, so neat, and so tidy.
I was an early adopter of the lab leak theory, but I’ll my time on this. And, who knows, maybe all our priors about the level of corruption within this White House will prove to be true. If so, indicting Trump really was a terrible move for Team Biden.
I've tried to withhold judgement on Merrick Garland. But have always wondered if this guy wouldn't come into some office where he could do a little axe grinding. To be a judge on the Supreme Court would have be reaching the mountain top of that profession. And that was taken away by the Republicans.
The link at the bottom of this comment is an article written by NPR in 2018, with a look back at what happened to his opportunity to be on the Supreme Court. You know, the government funded 'fair and balanced' NPR. :). This written with blue tinted shades, does give you an idea of the mindset of the left. My favorite line, "considered to be a moderate by many". I remember this being widely claimed at the time. I think it is now fair to say that based on the actions of our Attorney General to this point, that he is no moderate. And is basically the tip of the spear for the Biden Administration to attack Republicans where it can benefit them most.
Like Holder was to President Obama, Garland has proven to be an agent of cause or chaos to push forth different democrat agenda's. This comes straight from the Attorney General's Website:
The Justice Department’s mission is to uphold the rule of law, keep our country safe, and protect civil rights. Our work across the Department—including all 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices, our law enforcement agencies, grant making components and litigating divisions—is guided by these three co-equal priorities. (This is pretty easy to pick apart, don't you think).
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624467256/what-happened-with-merrick-garland-in-2016-and-why-it-matters-now
To be fair, I should go back and check the actions of both Attorney General under President Trump and the Attorney General's under President Bush, but frankly do not have the time.
Bottom-line, at least in the case of Garland, he has proven to be just as corrupt as the President himself, which should be a disappointment to us all.
NBC news prime time actually covered this last night. I was surprised. Maybe they just don’t want to be the last ones reporting it in the event it is true (like the Hunter Biden laptop). Like Erick, I will wait and see to pass judgement. I did note it to my wife as she is the one who doesn’t believe anything unless it’s reported by one of the “mainstream” networks.