βοΈ GAME ON β Wednesday, September 13, 2023 β C&C NEWS π¦
Full one-stop impeachment coverage and context; Damar Hamlin NFL news; SADS soccer star; SADS NBA player; dems keep running sex perverts for some reason; and soda crooks kill self-serve fountains.
Good morning, team C&C, itβs Wednesday! Todayβs roundup mostly features the dramatic impeachment story, but also: Damar Hamlin news that will startle and amaze you; SADS sixteen-year-old soccer star;Β SADS ex-NBA star; another literally unbelievable story about yet another perverted democrat politician; and McDonalds forced to deny self-service drinks due to widespread soda stealing.
ππ¬ WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY π¬π
π₯ The game is afoot! Yesterday, as you must already be aware, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the initiation of a formal presidential impeachment inquiry into the former Vice-President, Joseph Robinette Biden. McCarthyβs comments at the clip:
https://x.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1701616470793547969
An impeachment inquiry can be opened in two ways. The first, traditional, way is a vote of the full House of Representatives, which until President Trumpβs term was the only way you could do it. The new second way has been called the βPelosi Precedent,β where the Speaker of the House can just βannounceβ an impeachment inquiry, and bingo-bongo, youβre cooking with gas. Thatβs how former Speaker Pelosi started the Trump impeachments, both of them, breaking from prior procedure and creating a whole new easier and faster way.
It was turbo impeachment! So, thatβs what Kevin McCarthy did. He just followed the Pelosi Precedent and announced the impeachment. It only takes one person now. Game on.
There seems to be some confusion over whether McCarthy actually commenced impeachment proceedings. He did. And if you have any doubt, Establishment Media sure thinks he did:
The funniest headline I saw was Vanity Fairβs. This is, supposedly, a straight news piece:
Speaking of fiesty Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), she explained the process at length yesterday. She also confirmed that the impeachment process has in fact begun. Clip:
https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1701637744663929236
Is the long-awaited Biden impeachment a good thing? Some Republicans wonder whether there is even any point in trying to impeach President Peters, since the Senate is unlikely to vote to convict, no matter what the evidence shows.
There are two compelling reasons why impeachment is necessary.
First, as Marjorie explained in the above clip, the hearings and the investigation could roll right through November 2024, giving Republicans a high-profile forum to drip out damaging information on Biden, which could arguably help with the presidential campaign.
That might also explain Governor Newsomβs stealth presidential campaign. If Biden steps out and doesnβt run for a second term, democrats will start wailing that the impeachment inquiry is moot, since thereβd be no chance or even any point in removing Biden before next yearβs election.
But second, and maybe even more important, the impeachment inquiry turbo-charges the Houseβs investigative powers. For example, Biden directed the National Archives to refuse to turn over 5,400 emails he sent under his various clever pseudonyms like βRobert L. Peters.β
With impeachment powers, the National Archives must now turn those emails over to House investigators. I canβt wait to see them.
Democrats are in denial, so far keeping a brave face on that this impeachment thing is just a lot of political smoke and no bribery fire. So letβs turn to the democratsβ clownish argument that there is βno evidenceβ Biden did anything wrong and the whole thing is a partisan witch hunt.
The Evidence
Democrats are claiming thereβs no βevidenceβ Joe Biden did anything wrong. Itβs a go-to argument for democrats (see, e.g., βno evidenceβ of election fraud), but it wonβt work this time.
First of all, keep in mind that during the first Trump impeachment, the only βevidenceβ required by democrats was some highly-sketchy testimony from a sold-out partisan witness about something Trump said on the phone that, if you twisted it just the right way, could possibly be interpreted as being improper political pressure for partisan purposes. In other words, βquid pro quo!β
Ironically, the call fueling Trumpβs first impeachment discussed the exact same Biden corruption in Ukraine that is now driving Bidenβs own impeachment investigation (from Epoch Times):
Itβs impossible to argue about evidence without first defining terms. So letβs start by defining what βevidenceβ is, under the law, since the legal standard is what applies to impeachment inquiries. Donβt let anyone gaslight you on the definition of βevidence.β Hereβs how Blackβs Law Dictionary, a recognized authority that can be cited in legal memoranda, defines βevidence:β
Something, including testimony, documents, and tangible objects, that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an alleged fact; anything presented to the senses and offered to prove the existence or nonexistence of a fact.
Hereβs the screenshot in case you need to send it to someone.
In short, βevidenceβ is anything that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an alleged fact. Thatβs it. βCircumstantial evidenceβ is evidence.Β Granted, some types of evidence can be excluded under some circumstances, such as hearsay, but those things are still evidence. Theyβre just called βinadmissible evidence.β
The way democrats try to confuse people is they conflate the word βevidenceβ with βabsolute proof.β When they say βthereβs no evidence,β they actually just mean βyou canβt prove it.β Itβs an argument from ignorance. If you asked democrats, they wouldnβt agree that bank statements, for example, are evidence, even though bank statements are used as evidence every single day.
Democrats just want to argue about what the bank statements mean.
But no one needs to engage with that kind of argument. The decision about what evidence means is not up to democrats or anyone else, it is up to the legal fact finder: the judge, the jury, or the House of Representatives in this situation.
Hereβs how Republican Representative Scott Perry responded to an Establishment Media reporter demanding βevidenceβ of high crimes and misdemeanors. Note that the reporter pretended not to understand what βevidenceβ means. Perry described a bunch of evidence. Later, another representative cited the lack of prosecution of Hunter Biden for his obvious FARA violations, which is also βevidence.β Hereβs the clip:
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1701696818915201281
From comments to the various impeachment-related Twitter posts, itβs obvious that a common democrat talking point is βthere might be evidence to impeach Hunter, but heβs not the president!βΒ The implication being that Republicans might be able to prove Hunter committed some crimes, but canβt link Hunter to Joe.
Thatβs a rubbish argument, and hereβs why.
If a politician does a βfavorβ for a crime boss, and the crime boss pays the politicianβs wife, itβs still bribery. If the crime boss pays the politicianβs crackhead son on account of the favor, itβs still bribery. So, evidence that Joe Biden did a favor for a shady Ukrainian oligarch who was paying Hunter millions β for doing nothing β is also evidence that Joe Biden was bribed.
Itβs up to the judge or jury to evaluate (βweighβ) all the admitted evidence and decide whether itβs more likely that Biden took a bribe or whether it was all just a fabulous coincidence. In the case of impeachment, the βjuryβ is ultimately the full House of Representatives.
Apart from Bidenβs Bribery, what about Hunterβs Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations? Isnβt that just Hunterβs business? What does that have to do with President Peters?
Everything!
In my opinion, when Biden directed his DOJ to not prosecute his sex-trafficking son who was peddling political influence and lobbying for shady oligarchs without registering, that was also βhigh crimes and misdemeanors.β
And I bet a lot of folks would agree with me. The excuse that βany loving father would do the same thingβ is a defense Bidenβs lawyers can try out during the impeachment hearings.
Finally, Republicans arenβt required to already have all the evidence in order to justify starting the impeachment process, because it begins with an investigation.
For instance, if democrats say, well, you canβt prove Biden corruptly influenced the DOJ β thatβs what the impeachment investigation is for! Itβs about collecting all the evidence to prove the case. Maybe the DOJ has been keeping secret its wonderfully compelling reason why it never prosecuted Hunter. The DOJ can now reveal that compelling reason under oath if it wants to.
But of course, the democrats donβt really mean thereβs no evidence anyway. Itβs just the politics of convenience. Former Fox News commenter Kyle Becker made a great point yesterday, comparing and contrasting the tiny scraps of βevidenceβ required for the democratsβ two Trump impeachment inquiries versus the Republicansβ mountain of actual evidence against Joe Biden:
Let the games begin! And here you thought the Fall was going to be a long boring news cycle. Nope. Get ready. Itβs on like Donkey Kong.
Finally, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the historic significance of the Biden Impeachment Proceedings. Three out of the last five presidents have now faced impeachment (Clinton, Trump, and now Biden). While I agree β a hundred percent β there is more reason to impeach President Peters than maybe any other president in history, this serial impeaching is not a very healthy sign for our Republic.
Weβre ultimately going to need some kind of great reset.
π Shocking news from the NFL: Damar Hamlin wonβt be playing football after all. For no reason!
βBuffalo Bills prioritize playing it safe with Hamlin.β Theyβre playing it safe all right. If Damar Hamlin is ever diagnosed with a vaccine injury, heβll have a half-billion-dollar lawsuit against the NFL for forcing him to take the jab.
I hardly need to point this out, but if Hamlin is fine, there isnβt anything to βplay it safeβ about.
Anyway, I wonβt say I told you so. Iβll just say: Safe and effective!
π The UK Sun ran a story last week headlined, β'A TRUE STAR' Tragedy as AFL star Samara Whitney, 16, dies suddenly as club pays tribute to βpocket rocketβ player.β
Samara Whitney was a star player on Australia's Wynyard Football (Soccer) Club in Tasmania. She was only sixteen years old. She died suddenly and mysteriously a week ago last Tuesday.
Samaraβs principal Gregg Sharman said Samara was one of the schoolβs brightest stars. βMore than football, Samara was a vivacious, charismatic, engaging, friendly, and compassionate student to every person,β principal Sharman said. Well, she was.
The cause of Samaraβs untimely death has not been disclosed, and probably never will be, either.
π The Sun ran another SADS story yesterday, headlined β'WAY TOO SOON' Brandon Hunter dead aged 42: Ex-NBA star for Boston Celtics dies suddenly as friend reveals he spoke to him βlast weekβ.β
Brandon Hunter, 42, was a former power forward who played in the NBA for two seasons with the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic. Hunter died suddenly and mysteriously this week.
Following his successful basketball career, Hunter went into coaching, real estate, and sports management. Fans were devastated to hear that he had died and tributes quickly poured out on social media for the former NBA star.
Hunter's friend, retired NBA point guard T.J. Ford, addressed Hunterβs passing on social media: "We just spoke last week. Losing a lot of my friends lately," Ford said.
Indeed.
Unsurprisingly, Hunterβs sudden, mysterious cause of death was not disclosed. After all, it happens all the time.
π₯ In the latest unsavory story about the democrat partyβs new fascination with sexual deviance, the New York Post ran an eye-popping article Monday headlined, βVa. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips.β
The 57th District is a suburban Richmond seat that is key to democrat hopes of overturning the current 50-46 GOP state House majority in Novemberβs elections. If they succeed, democrats could bring Governor Younkinβs conservative agenda in Virginia to a full stop.
The key candidate, democrat Susanna Gibson, 40, a nurse practitioner and married mother of two, pictured above, is running against retired home builder Republican David Owen. Gibsonβs catchy campaign slogan is βStanding up to Special Interests,β but it appears it would be more accurate to say she is laying down for them.
According to the Post, for several years up to at least last September, Gibson streamed live videos of herself performing sex acts on an βadult entertainmentβ site called Chaturbate, which allows the βperformersβ to chat live with the viewers and earn tips. Gibsonβs username was βHotWifeExperience.β
Apparently, in several videos that the Post obtained, Mrs. Gibson often chatted with her viewers asking for donations in exchange for performing various indescribably-shameful sex acts, which I cannot even hint at on this family blog and will not link.
Occasionally, on-screen candidate Gibson explained to ogling viewers she was βraising money for a good cause.β One suspects Mrs. Gibson considered herself to be the unidentified good cause. In one chat last year, the democrat candidate begged her perverted viewers: βIβm raising money for a really good cause and itβs my birthday so give me more please because itβs my birthday nightβ¦β
The pay-for-play democrat is one of the partyβs more prominent Virginia contenders.
Gibson is not sorry, embarrassed, or ashamed; she sees herself as the victim. In a written statement, Gibson called exposure of the publicly-available videos βan illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.β Sheβs not humiliated though. In fine feminist fashion, she vowed that βit wonβt intimidate me and it wonβt silence me.β Gibson feels that alerting the media to her pornographic videos was just plain old dirty politics, below the belt, as it were, aimed only at silencing all βwomen when they speak up.β
βSpeaking upβ is a new euphemism with which I wasnβt previously familiar. And I suspect βall womenβ might prefer not to be included in Gibsonβs moonlighting adventures.
Virginia democrats have no problem whatsoever with the videos, and see Gibsonβs entrepreneurial online activities as signs of pluck and initiative. Even after the story began to break, Gibson appeared Saturday alongside U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) at a fund-raising event. βI think itβs fantastic you have someone running who has an open sex life. Itβs actually very refreshing,β explained Corey D. Silverstein, a prominent adult entertainment industry lawyer, who was quoted for the story.
βRefreshingβ is one word for it. Revolting is another. Reprehensible, repugnant, repellant, and so forth. There are lots of words.
Gibsonβs two largest donors are abortion rights outfit Emilyβs List and environmental group Clean Virginia Fund, and she is endorsed by Moms Demand Action, a group pushing radical woke-left candidates in Virginia schools and around the country. Her campaign websiteβs priorities are: preserving abortion rights, banning assault weapons, lowering the cost of living and protecting the environment.
I was on the fence about reporting this story, but then I recalled the Burbank Mayorβs campaign recent spank-a-thon. There seems to be an unsavory pattern emerging with democrats, their obsession with recruiting perverts to run for office. Itβs troubling that this kind of thing actually makes candidates more attractive to democrats.
Hereβs an honest question: How many years ago would Susanna Gibson have been made unelectable on this news, and would have withdrawn from the race in disgrace? Much less kept her job as a nurse practitioner.
What kind of downward trajectory is the democrat party on, and where will it end?
But lest we despair, there are some signs of civilizational life. Although she claims to be proud and not embarrassed, Mrs. Gibson has not posted to her Twitter account since the story broke. The comments to her last couple tweets are off-the-chain critical, and are not for the faint of heart. Social media posters are tearing her a new one.
Maybe public humiliation will accomplish what self-control has failed to do.
Iβm sorry for Mrs. Gibson on many levels. But she needs to withdraw from the public eye β in all her βjobsβ β and spend a lot of time in quiet self-reflection.
Meanwhile, the Spanky Burbank Mayorβs story continues growing legs, which I find to be another encouraging sign that society might not be completely lost in the woods. The last couple days have featured headlines like this one from the Washington Examiner:
To turn things around, I think all that people need to do is starting calling bad behavior what it is: immoral, unethical, shameful, and reprehensible. We need to stop being afraid to use words of judgment and the language of values. This might be controversial, but maybe we need more judginess, not less.
π₯ The New York Post ran an amusing story yesterday headlined, βMcDonaldβs to scrap self-serve soda fountains over theft, hygiene concerns: report.β
According to the story, the self-service soda policy, which began in 2004, is now being phased out because of soda thieves. The honor system has completely broken down. (I guess soda crooks were bringing their own cups in or something? The story didnβt describe how the thefts worked.)
The fast food giant is trying to find the silver lining. For instance, deleting the soda fountain could make the locations feel more like a restaurant, if servers bring drinks right to dinersβ tables. On the other hand, people are using more call ahead orders and going through the drive-through, so fountain-less restaurants isnβt even a big deal.
Or maybe people should stop stealing soda. Kids are still being taught βthou shall not stealβ in school, right? Hello?
Have a wonderful Wednesday! And come right back tomorrow for a great news roundup, with stories to lift your spirits higher than todayβs slightly rushed impeachment post.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah H Sanders just announced Arkansas will ban COVID vax mandates for public employees and will publish ALL potential risks related to the vax.
Challenge thrown to all other states!
For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
β Colossians 1:9-12 NASB1995