# GOP House investigation of President Joe Biden follow along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111 "2022-11-18T00:25:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/61 "2022-11-19T05:14:14Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I must say, I’m intrigued by this: > > > There is zero transparency related to Hunter > > Biden’s art career. Hunter Biden sold some paintings for far more than they were probably worth based purely on artistic merit (although to my eye they are actually quite good). Some people therefore assume that the people who bought them did so as a way to hide a bribe, the same way one might, say, rent a whole floor of rooms in a hotel owned by a politician one wanted to curry favor with. However paintings by celebrity artists will always go for more than paintings by some unknown Joe, so its not clear that there was any ulterior motive behind the purchases. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/62 "2022-11-19T05:33:16Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > However paintings by celebrity artists will always go for more than paintings by some unknown Joe,… I’d like to own an original Bogataj, someday. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/63 "2022-11-19T05:35:02Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Is it just me or does this read like a direct C&P of everything Trump did during his administration? The only thing missing is “fomenting an insurrection.” 100% And I’m sure it’s not just you. These clowns can’t think of anything original, so they just accuse others of what they have done themselves. It’s nuts. Bunch of morons and lunatics. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/64 "2022-11-19T05:46:17Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > These clowns can’t think of anything original, so they just accuse others of what they have done themselves. It’s nuts. Bunch of morons and lunatics. [Billy Beer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/65 "2022-11-19T05:59:13Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Unanswered questions Hey I could get behind Congressional hearings about that! We could start with the poincare conjecture, and then move on to the nature of consciousness… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/66 "2022-11-19T13:12:38Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > [Billy Beer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Carter) > > Stranger Ummm. Maybe I’m dense, but I don’t get that reference to what I said. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/67 "2022-11-20T03:05:05Z")
Seems to be a bunch of lame ass shit. You agree? Where is the eggplant going limp emoji? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/68 "2022-11-20T07:51:20Z")
Legal Insurrection? The ambulance chasing equivalent of OAN. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/69 "2022-11-20T12:49:37Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > - False assurances to the American people > - Misuse of his public positions to enrich his family > - Potential exposure to being influenced, blackmailed or extorted by malign foreign powers > - Suspicious activities that warrant investigation > - Unanswered questions > - Efforts to obstruct the committees investigation (which is a neat trick since there isn’t a committee investigating any of this yet) > - TV pundits and social media sites not reporting this the way they want (not sure how that is Biden’s fault) > - Abuse of the Executive Branch for personal gain (this one made me laugh out loud) > - Potential violations of the Emoluments clause (another one that made me laugh) Aaaaaugh! My eyes! Too much projection!! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/70 "2022-11-20T14:53:13Z")
What the heck are “false assurances to the American people”? He said something and it didn’t happen? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/71 "2022-11-20T14:55:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What the heck are “false assurances to the American people”? He said something and it didn’t happen?. Hey, that sounds familiar. Didn’t the last guy promise to build a “big beautiful wall” and to “make Mexico pay for it”? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/72 "2022-11-20T15:00:58Z")
Trump only needed one week to deal with infrastructure! What’s taking Biden so long? I’d be very curious to know how many GOP. members would passively work against the Hunter Biden/Fauci/COVID agenda. Not stick their necks out, just kind of fail to give it the momentum it needs. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/73 "2022-11-20T17:05:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’d be very curious to know how many GOP. members would passively work against the Hunter Biden/Fauci/COVID agenda. Not stick their necks out, just kind of fail to give it the momentum it needs. Me too. I mean there have to be _some_ of them who are embarrassed by this List of Projection. I mean, he made efforts to obstruct an investigation that they are currently proposing, so they can investigate his obstructions to this proposed investigation? Are their heads so far up their own asses that they can’t see this is idiotic (do not answer. Rhetorical question) I guess he did obstruct this hypothetical future investigation because he campaigned for Democrat house members and senators. That’s probably an impeachable offense in their tiny brain-pans. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/74 "2022-11-20T19:38:57Z")
They want to be re-elected, and there are many MAGA voters. There is a right facebook group I follow, where I ventured to compliment the Republican loser for congratulated the winning Democrat.One reply was that “we don’t need to be sissy nice guys, we need to take the gloves off”. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/75 "2022-11-20T19:54:37Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Me too. I mean there have to be _some_ of them who are embarrassed by this List of Projection. Anyone who would have a sense of shame or decency has been drummed out of the GOP, often even those who didn’t have any particular political ambitions within it, i.e. Cindy McCain. As this point, it is a self-selected group of would-be proto-fascists goosestepping in time with whichever candidate their leadership deigns to be there next _Führer_. Don’t look for any dissent, passive or otherwise, within the Republican party. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/76 "2022-11-20T20:03:54Z")
I still struggle to understand why nearly half of the voters have no capacity whatsoever to look at what is clearly and obviously happening, and instead, place their votes based on some sort of misguided “rah rah my team” approach. They are fucking over their own country, and don’t seem to care. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/77 "2022-11-20T20:04:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They are fucking over their own country, and don’t seem to care. The ultra-rich donors who control them don’t care. That’s all there is to it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/78 "2022-11-20T20:08:36Z")
The ultra-rich donors I can understand; They are sociopathic scum, who simply see an opportunity to make even more money. What I don’t understand are the voters who get sucked in by the propaganda that these donors pay for. The propaganda has become patently ridiculous, and in some cases increasingly unhinged. I just don’t see how anyone with an ounce of common sense can buy the bullshit that they’re selling. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/79 "2022-11-20T20:16:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What I don’t understand are the voters who get sucked in by the propaganda that these donors pay for. The propaganda has become patently ridiculous, and in some cases increasingly unhinged. I just don’t see how anyone with an ounce of common sense can buy the bullshit that they’re selling. I, too, am at a loss. It has cost me both my parents, whom I would have said were reasonably intelligent people before Trump. The power of focused propaganda scares the shit out of me. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/80 "2022-11-20T20:19:04Z")
Many years ago, I discussed the Democratic nominee with a guy at work. He later said, “I wanted to vote for your guy, Plant, but I didn’t think he could win”. The guy wanted to be on the winning team. Perhaps as the bullies at school congregated about the meanest, ugliest bully, some good old boy voters want to be on the winning team. Some sort of tribalism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111.md?page=5)