But……maybe he had a drug fueled orgy with Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Kim Guilfoyle on top of a pile of classified documents. Who knows, anything is possible, I’m just asking questions.
It’s ambiguous too. Are they asking about today, or recently, or ever?
Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?
Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized
for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.
I lied on my form if remote use of marijuana requires a “yes” answer.
If those people weren’t imaginary.
I recommend to use non-imaginary people, yes.
Quick question… then why did you use imaginary people to spin your tale? You were NOT explicitly asked to do so.
You’re free to demonstrate that Karim Massimov is not a real person. I grant that I just trusted, from his Wikipedia page, that he’s a real person but I have no particular reason to discount it?
If he is, as you contend, imaginary then I do apologize.
I read that to say that any user user of weed cannot possess (or cannot buy?) a gun. Is that right? Must be a lot of unconvicted felons (oxymoron alert!) out there…
Wait, what? How can you use marijuana remotely?
Ok, so when a right wing conspiracy theorist says Hunter Biden got off easy I can point to this guy who has never been charged with a crime in the US and say that Hunter probably got off easy for flipping on this guy?
That’s a “strong defense”?
- Curveball was an Iraqi in Germany. Hunter’s business activities spanned China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and possibly other locations. If the information he had to offer would prove more useful to the State Department or CIA, rather than to the FBI and DOJ, that’s still just proffering information to the government and getting some answer back. We’d like Kazakhstan to move our direction more than we’d like it to move in Russia’s direction, and information that helps Tokayev police the elites might be useful to the interests of the USA. (No, I’m not claiming that this is what happened. I’m saying only and specifically that US national interests aren’t limited to the DOJ. Nothing more. Nothing less.)
- I was discussing the strategy in general, not that specific example.
- Specifically to that example, I was asked to give a real world example for a hypothetical by someone who had clearly not read what they were responding to. It’s like if I said “Imagine that a man is arrested for the crime of moping” and someone asks for an example. If I find a country that has invented an actual crime of moping, and post that as my example, the asker can’t complain that it’s not in the US where there is no such crime.
Got it.
To you a “strong defense” of a right wing conspiracy theorist saying that Hunter Biden got off too easy is to conjecture that he may have engineered a deal between DOJ and the the State Department to get let of lightly for flipping on the former prime minister of Kazakhstan who was recently convicted of undisclosed charges in a secret trial in Kazakhstan.
This is, of course, a specific example of a more general class of defenses you feel is roughly equal to something like he got off lightly because he committed non-violent crimes and has already paid the back taxes with penalties and interest on top that.
I don’t doubt that you could produce a better example, but that’s only because I can’t imagine one that is worse.
If Hunter got a more serious sentence, they’d use that as evidence of corruption in the White House.
If he was never charged, they’d use that as evidence of corruption in the White House.
If he crossed the street, they’d use that as evidence of corruption in the White House.
It’s what they do. It’s pointless to even think about how to counter the charges of corruption in the White House, because there is nothing anyone can do to change the broken record narrative going on in their heads.
Yes. Deals are a relatively common artifact of the criminal justice system.
Not in particular.
I do my best to write clearly and concisely, and to correct any obvious misunderstandings. But there’s a level where it’s not my duty to divorce someone of every flawed assumption and TLDR that they pull out of their ass against all reason and evidence.
If you read this:
And your understanding of it is, “Hunter Biden is in with the Deep State. Shit be real, yo.” Then I feel like I’ve done my reasonable duty.
Why did you use that as your one and only example when it is so ridiculous on its face?
If the only thing you’re trying to get across is that Hunter could have a made a deal to flip on bigger criminals, just say that.
And when asked if there’s any reason to believe that Hunter made such a deal, come up with a “real world” example that doesn’t involve the former PM of Kazakhstan.
When asked for a particular example this is what you provided. I didn’t bring this ridiculous shit up. You did.
Yes. And it’s worth noting that he’s already repaid the unpaid taxes.
I don’t think so. This is in fact a charge that is rarely brought. Hunter’s violation consists of owning a gun while being an addict – not that he ever did anything illegal with the gun itself. That could be a lot of people on a bad day. In my opinion, this was the overreach. But hey, ok. It was technically a violation. I’m fine with the outcome of all these charges.
Moderating:
@Sage_Rat and @Lance_Turbo, drop this ridiculous hijack speculating about Hunter Biden flipping on bigger criminals now. The outcome of these charges is now a known result and no further speculation need occur.
Thank you.
Or an alcoholic.
If the Republicans make a big deal about this, I think the Democrats should call their bluff and start proposing legislation that would investigate the applications of all gun owners and come down hard on those who lied. That would probably shut them up right quick.
I might have missed it, but just so I’m clear, the “plea deal” between Hunter/prosecutors that keeps him out of jail is what the prosecutors will recommend to the Judge. The Judge will sentence Hunter, and can accept the recommended plea deal or not (ie, Judge could, in theory, put him in jail for 6months; or something easier than the deal). Is this accurate? Or is this deal what is going to happen?
I saw the prosecutor in a press release today mention jail time (ie, this tax charge can carry this sentence) and that the investigation is still ongoing. I didn’t take it to mean there wasn’t a deal or anything, but it was also kind of odd in way I don’t understand.