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WHOOPS. NEW: Hunter Ex-Wife Testifies He Could Function While Addicted ABC NEWS 12:40 PM | June 05, 2024 In what could be a blow to one of Abbe Lowell's lines of defense, [Kathleen] Buhle said Hunter Biden frequently interacted with friends and family, worked, and socialized while under the influence of crack cocaine -- and would often try to hide it from those close to him. "Did you see him, for lack of a better word, function?" prosecutor Leo Wise asked. "Yes," Buhle confirmed. I'm pretty sure that's already apparent from the millions of dollars Hunter raked into Biden Inc during this same period. Some have questioned whether the prosecution may make the jury more sympathetic by leaning into Hunter's addictions in this way, but they don't have much choice with a charge that relies on establishing that Hunter used drugs when purchasing and possessing a firearm. This testimony will make it clear that Hunter had the capacity to know better and violated the law anyway. I'd still worry about jury sympathies in this case, though. Especially in Delaware. https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hunter-biden-gun-trial/?id=110723981#110865540

"The state has proven there's no God !" Vermont to Christian Foster Families: Change Your Religion, Or Else ED MORRISSEY Is Vermont still in the United States of America? Or has it joined the Khmer Rouge, the Soviet Union, or other relics of totalitarian regimes that demand "re-education" of citizens with opposing viewpoints for access to government programs? Two fostering families filed a lawsuit this week, as reported yesterday exclusively by Mary Margaret Olohan at the Daily Signal, for violations of their First Amendment right to free religious expression. According to their lawsuit, these two families have a long track record of success in foster placement, especially for babies born from mothers struggling with addictions. Care to guess why Vermont, which faces a foster-placement crisis at the moment, kicked them out of the program? Oh, let's not always see the same hands ... A new lawsuit alleges that Vermont blocked two families from fostering children, despite the state’s foster care system crisis, because the families held traditional, religious views on gender and sexuality. Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti and Michael and Rebecca Gantt accused the Vermont Department for Children and Families of mandating an “ideological position at the expense of children” in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Both Brian Wuoti and Michael Gantt are pastors, and both families hold traditional, Christian religious views. Between them, the families have not only established records of success in fostering at-risk children, they have also adopted five of them along the way. And that's a good thing too, as Olohan reports, because Vermont is practically begging for families to open their homes to children in state custody -- especially with the uptick in drug addiction in recent years. It had gotten so bad last year that Vermont government agencies went out and campaigned for more families to enter the program, as they had been forced to leave children in emergency rooms and police stations to live. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/06/05/vermont-to-christian-foster-families-change-your-religion-or-else-n3789672

LOL. Wednesday afternoon drunk posting is the best. (and if you are not drunk, how embarrassing for you with your Trump lies rant) .

President Biden landed in France and almost immediately called a lid for press coverage for the day. It is unclear why he did that. Biden arrived in France early Wednesday morning time in America. Perhaps he needed a nap. This isn't just a trip commemorating brave young service members who fought for freedom during WWII. That is all it should be. It is enough. But, no. Joe Biden will turn this trip into a campaign event. He is both desperate and shameless. That is a dangerous combination for a politician clinging to power, hoping to win re-election. Joe Biden promised to have the most transparent administration ever. That turned out to be a bogus promise. His is a very secretive administration and very unfriendly to the press. We can recognize that Trump was highly critical of the press but he spoke with them daily, if his schedule allowed. He stood and answered questions at every opportunity. That is not how Joe Biden governs in the White House. He avoids the press. We've seen how Biden is approaching his re-election campaign. He holds very small events in battleground states. The press is kept as far back as possible. He usually does not take questions. Most of his events are held in Pennsylvania because it is near Delaware and an easy trip from Washington, D.C. Biden has to win Pennsylvania in November to win re-election. {snip} The grand finale, though, is a speech scheduled on Friday about "the importance of defending freedom and democracy" at Pointe du Hoc, a promontory that overlooks Omaha Beach, the site taken by U.S. Rangers on D-Day. Biden's intended audience is American voters back home. There is no doubt in my mind that Biden will use his speech on Friday to talk about the threat to democracy another term for Trump will present. This is a key Democrat talking point in the election. They have little else to run on so they have to scare voters. The irony is that Team Biden is doing what they accuse Trump of wanting to do - destroy democracy, aka, America as we know it. Biden has introduced lawfare into the presidential campaign to keep Trump out of the White House. That can never be forgiven. Biden and his fellow travelers are the true threat to our way of life. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/06/05/biden-takes-his-campaign-to-france-n3789670 .

JOHN BRENNAN COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT Today’s New York Post cover story updates the saga of Hunter Biden’s laptop: “Hunter Biden gun trial jurors shown infamous laptop first exposed by The Post in dramatic courtroom reveal.” Yes, indeed, the Post is entitled to keep taking victory laps over its coverage of the laptop from hell. https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/us-news/hunter-biden-gun-trial-jurors-shown-infamous-laptop-first-exposed-by-the-post-in-dramatic-courtroom-reveal/ Over on the editorial pages, Miranda Devine keeps running. Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” is government exhibit 16 at the first son’s gun trial in Delaware. The silver MacBook Pro 13, covered in a clear plastic wrapper, was first publicly sighted Tuesday at 2:10 p.m. when it was carried across the court by prosecutor Derek Hines to his first witness, FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen, who confirmed it was Hunter’s laptop from the serial number on the back. Sitting at the bar table, Hunter was inscrutable behind salmon pink reading glasses as the laptop that threatens to put him in jail and politically scorch his ­father coasted serenely across the room. Three years and eight months since you heard it first in the New York Post, Jensen said that the laptop was obtained by the FBI in 2019 with a subpoena from The Mac Shop in Wilmington where it had been “abandoned” by Hunter. She said that investigators corroborated content on the laptop with Hunter’s iCloud that they obtained from Apple with a subpoena. {snip} John Brennan, Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta, and the rest of the Deep State 51 apparently couldn’t be reached for comment. Then-presidential candidate Biden lied to the American people that the laptop was a “Russian plant.” He was lying, but he had the Deep State 51, the Democrats’ media adjunct, and the social media giants in his corner. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/john-brennan-could-not-be-reached-for-comment.php

Oh those poor children. 135 Hotels in New York City Are Being Used as Shelters for Illegal Immigrants https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/06/04/135-hotels-in-new-york-city-are-being-used-as-shelters-for-illegal-immigrants-n2396981

OOPS. ACLU Announces It Will Sue Biden Over Border Executive Order

JIM GERAGHTY: What Did the President Know, and How Long Did He Remember It? On the menu today: Way back in June 2022, I wrote, “I think the single most predictable ‘bombshell’ of the coming years is that sometime in 2025, someone like Bob Woodward or Robert Costa will publish a book with a title like Perpetual Crisis: Inside the Biden White House, and we will ‘learn’ something like, ‘the president’s official health report said he was in fine shape for his age. But behind the scenes, Jill Biden, Ron Klain, and Susan Rice were deeply concerned the president’s health was rapidly declining, and that he would soon be unable to perform his duties.’” This morning, the Wall Street Journal takes us another half-step toward that minimally shocking revelation, interviewing more than 45 sources and offering a grim portrait of President Biden behind the scenes: forgetful, mumbling, increasingly reliant on notes to remember basic facts, and seemingly oblivious to his own administration’s policies and decisions. The assessment from some sources that Biden has some good days and some not-so-good days reminds our Luther Ray Abel of visits to family in nursing homes throughout his childhood and early adulthood. It’s as bad as you fear, Americans, because all of us with experience with elderly relatives know that over time, the good days become rarer, and the bad days become more frequent. Put another way, Biden’s never going to be as young and sharp-minded as he was yesterday. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/what-did-the-president-know-and-how-long-did-he-remember/ https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-taboo-lifts-on-discussing-bidens-age/ If the Journal is shocked by how Biden behaves behind the scenes:

That's why it wasn't in quotes, but you knew that. You always try to divert from the information in articles with minutia QUASH: put an end to; suppress. "a hospital executive quashed rumors that nursing staff will lose jobs" Similar: put an end to put a stop to curb

The J6 committee didn't want the truth, it interfered with their narrative. Rebuffed? Is that a fancy way of saying ignored? Denied? HID? Deliberately kept from the American people so Cassidy Hutchinson could lie and make Trump look unhinged and dangerous? https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/06/05/things-just-got-a-whole-lot-worse-for-liz-cheney-and-the-entire-j6-committee-n2396992

Yikes: Inside Reports of Just How Much Biden Is Slipping Behind the Scenes By Nick Arama We've seen Joe Biden getting worse right before our eyes. We've been giving you a running account of it and, indeed, how much worse he's gotten since he even began to occupy the Oval Office. Now, a new report from the Wall Street Journal reveals even more troubling concerns about his performance in meetings over the last few months. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/06/05/biden-slipping-report-n2175062 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246 .

Trump Strikes As Biden's Campaign Falters With the Youth Vote By Brandon Morse The youth vote has always been something that's eluded the Republican Party, but now, the Democrats seem to be tripping up with Gen Z and younger millennials. According to NPR, Biden's youth support is bleeding out and quickly, especially from minority youth: https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/06/05/trump-strikes-as-bidens-campaign-falters-with-the-youth-vote-n2175071 https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4987296/young-voters-biden-gaza-inflation-abortion-trump-genforward-poll And remember, no Trump doesn't need to get a majority in these groups, but every switch is another nail in the Biden coffin. .

A new low for Billstime. 18 years later... https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/43506-banning-contraception/page/7/#comments His cry for attention is childish. .

Fauci and Democrats Signal Shift in COVID Messaging at Congressional Hearing By Jennifer Van Laar FTA: Still, there were a few notable themes in the hearing that, in conjunction with pieces out in the media, show the direction the Democrat messaging efforts are headed. Those themes are: A lab leak origin for the pandemic is "possible" and "not a conspiracy theory" Fauci's Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens' efforts to avoid FOIA were undertaken in a vacuum, and nobody else at NIAID would have ever acted in such a fashion Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) are the real bad guys here, who didn't report things on time or completely, and Fauci's underlings at NIAID never alerted him to issues with EHA There were never any studies to back up CDC's masking-in-schools requirement, but that's OK since we were all just doing the best we could at the beginning of the pandemic - and we never forced states and municipalities to go along with them long-term Now, by listing those out I am not saying in any way that I agree. But we should all be prepared for the mainstream media and those in the Cult of Fauci to embrace these talking points and to act like they always have, for example, entertained the lab leak theory. And, we should all be prepared for any NIAID failings that can't be glossed over to be the fault of everyone at the agency except Fauci. https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/06/04/fact-checking-fauci-n2175007

Dr. Birx: Yes, We Tried to Quash the COVID Lab-Leak Theory Bob Hoge Dr. Deborah Birx, the scarf-wearing former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Donald Trump, finally admitted what we’ve all known for a long time: the “experts” tried to quash the idea the COVID virus came from a Chinese lab, and they moved to discredit and humiliate anyone who said otherwise. In a CNN interview Tuesday, she said the country is still suffering from the blatant censorship: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/06/04/dr-birx-yes-we-tried-to-quash-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-n2175048 https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-deborah-birx-admits-effort-squash-covid-lab-leak-theory

Sinister silence over vaccine damage in pregnancy By Sally Beck THE Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) monitored 2,000 pregnant women for adverse reactions post covid vaccination rollout, but have refused a Freedom of Information request to release the data. They admitted last April that they had it but cited the exemption that they planned to issue a report. They have still provided no publication date for the information recorded during the first six months of 2021. Although birth rates had dropped before the covid pandemic and before covid vaccination, there is evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can damage the ovaries and testes but made no statistical difference to the birthrate. It was only nine months after vaccinations were offered to pregnant women that a decline began to show. More at the link: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sinister-silence-over-vaccine-damage-in-pregnancy/

Me Too. Mea culpa, Fetterman: I was wrong about the senator and his illness By Glenn H. Reynolds It’s time for me to do something that pundits seldom do: flat-out admit I was wrong. This is a rarity in the commentating world. But boy, was I. Here goes: I was wrong about Sen. John Fetterman. Writing in The Post on Valentine’s Day 2023, I opined that Pennsylvania’s new US senator lacked the mental and physical abilities needed to serve. According to reports, he couldn’t understand voices, had trouble walking and generally wasn’t up to the job. The mainstream press rallied to protect him (there was a D next to his name, after all), but even a New York Times puff piece admitted that to Fetterman, voices sounded like the adults in the “Peanuts” cartoons — indecipherable noise — and that his health problems had left him with “physical impairment and serious mental health challenges.” From all this, I concluded that Fetterman was just going to be a party tool — shepherded around by his staff, told how to vote by handlers, an institutionally pliable vote for the Democratic Party and the leftist activists who control it. Basically, a Senate voting machine programmed by the apparatchiks. Again: Boy, was I wrong. Fetterman’s health has improved more and faster than expected, and in what may not be a coincidence, the more his brain damage recedes, the less he agrees with lefty activists and the Democratic Party’s functionaries. Speaking at Yeshiva University’s commencement, Fetterman dramatically stripped off his Harvard hood and announced he was “profoundly disappointed” at his alma mater’s refusal to address the antisemitism rampant on its campus, a discontent he extended to the entire antisemitism-enabling Ivy League. Quoth Fetterman: “As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course, it was always a little pinko. But now, I don’t recognize it.” “The Jewish community everywhere deserves our support,” he added. “And I promise you will always have mine.” https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/opinion/the-more-fetterman-recovers-the-less-hes-with-the-left/

Fauci’s Evidence It just sort of appeared. You know, from nowhere. It’s taken me a few days to get round to it but I wanted to say a few words about Fauci’s behind closed doors testimony in January 2024, which has only just been publicly released by the Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The text that has now been released is remarkable in several ways. For convenience, and hopefully to give a fuller sense of how impactful this all is, I’ll bullet point the key admissions first: When asked where the 6 foot social distancing rules came from, Fauci replied that “they just sort of appeared”. Fauci admitted there were never any scientific studies (any scientific evidence) for the social distancing rules. Asked if he had seen any studies supporting a 6 foot social distancing guideline he replied “I was not aware of studies that [did that]”. Asked if he had ever seen any evidence to support the masking of children he replied that he didn’t recall doing so, but “might have”. Asked about the cognitive learning, educational impacts and psychological impacts of mask wearing on children, Fauci admitted that no studies were done to assess these impacts as they developed. Fauci admitted that lab leak origin was not a conspiracy theory. Now none of the above is exactly revelatory for anyone sensible. In fact, the lack of any scientific or rational grounding for social distancing was obvious in 2020 to anyone capable of applying their own critical reasoning rather than instructions from media and government. Lots of us instinctively recoiled from the totalitarian aspects of it all-the uniformity, the propaganda, the social pressure, the hysteria. Or we saw the absurdity and the illogic of it. More at the link: https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/faucis-evidence .