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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (199703)6/21/2023 12:42:27 PM
From: marcher  Respond to of 217714
 
biden's balloon troops:

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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (199703)6/21/2023 6:44:08 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217714
 
am I wrong in thinking that chris presupposes that all parents are qualified to be parents?

zerohedge.com

Christie Says Transgender Procedures On Minors Should Be Allowed If Parents Consent

Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a declared candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, says he thinks transgender procedures on minors, including hormone blockers, should be allowed as long as a parent consents.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a town-hall-style event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 6, 2023. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)



While governor of New Jersey, Christie signed into law a measure that allows self-identifying transgender minors to use the bathroom that accords with their professed gender identity. That proposal advanced amid national debate over whether transgender people should use opposite-sex bathrooms, particularly biological males using female bathrooms.

Now, a number of states have passed laws restricting access to transgender procedures for minors as the country has seen a sharp uptick in the number of youths who question their gender identity.

States with laws that limit transgender procedures include Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Similar legislation is pending, having been approved by at least one state legislative chamber, in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Missouri, Kansas, and Wyoming. In total, 33 states have at least a pending bill addressing the topic.

Critics of transgender transitions by minors say minors aren’t developmentally equipped to make such decisions, arguing that the procedures used—double mastectomy, chemical or physical castration, and potentially sterilizing hormones and puberty blockers—are permanent and don’t take into account the prospect that a child may become more comfortable with their biological sex later in life. Supporters say these procedures are the most effective way to treat gender dysphoria, the subjective feeling that one’s “true” gender does not align with the gender they were “assigned” at birth.

Christie took a midline position on the issue, suggesting that he would allow the procedures as president but would emphasize the importance of parental involvement.

“Many Republican governors across the country have been banning hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender people under 18 years old,” anchor Jake Tapper said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“As governor of New Jersey, you signed into law some legal protections for trans people, including students. What do you make of your fellow Republican governors and candidates going in the opposite direction?”

Christie responded, “Jake, what I believe we should be focused on most importantly in these issues, is making sure there’s parental involvement and every step along the way.

“I don’t think that the government should ever be stepping into the place of the parents in helping to move their children through a process where those children are confused or concerned about their gender. And I just would say the parents are the people who are best positioned to make these judgments. And so what I’d like to make sure each state does is require that parents be involved in these decisions.

“The fact is, that folks who are under the age of 18 should have parental support and guidance and love as they make all of the key decisions of their life. And this should not be one that’s excluded by the government in any way.”

The comments put Christie at odds with some of his top rivals for the Republican nomination.

Read more here...



To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (199703)6/21/2023 6:52:45 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217714
 
glad the distraction / hunter case is now finally closed and folks of the beautiful-country (mei-guo, translation of Chinese name for America) land can get back to true issues, should they wish, or just get on with busy lives



btw, what are the inkling of issues for November 2024, you best guess, and I shall not hold you for them

zerohedge.com

DOJ 'Violating Its Own Internal Policies' With Hunter Biden Wrist-Slap

Joe Biden's DOJ violated its own internal policies to hand Hunter Biden a sweetheart plea deal for tax crime and gun charges, according to former US Attorney Brett Tolman.

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Putting aside for one second the fact that the DOJ completely ignored the body of evidence on Hunter's laptop which, at minimum, reveals several FARA violations (more on that later), Tolman noted in a Tuesday Twitter thread that the DOJ failed to follow its own guidance in its handling of the Hunter situation, and are "ignoring decades of policy and precedent to seek felonies not misdemeanors and seek sentences within the guideline range."

Continued (emphasis ours):

Thousands of people have been prosecuted under Project Safe Neighborhoods by DOJ. They brag about getting nearly 5 years of prison time on average for their gun cases. If they followed policy, Hunter would be looking at a minimum of 5 years in federal prison. But he’s a Biden.

Take a look at 18 USC 924(c) charges. Easy to prove given Hunter was distributed/dealing drugs with a firearm in his possession. Such charges were brought against thousands in inner cities across the country for last 20 years. Mandatory minimum sentences for all. Except Hunter.

Since Hunter “brandished” his firearm during the commission of a drug crime, he would be looking at a mand min of 7 years in fed prison.DOJ could also add on top mand min possession of child pornography if any of the girls were underage, plus on top of that years for tax evasion.

Still digesting all of this but the tax evasion being viewed as misdemeanor is perhaps the most shocking. If DOJ treated this consistently they would “source” the money and they would see the movement of monies and they would clearly bring money laundering and conspiracy if others received the money or the funds went into shell companies then you may have a large conspiracy and sophisticated means to hide the illegal monies and movement. This would be 100 percent consistent with all other cases involving such schemes and would mean years in prison.

One can’t truly appreciate how shocking this is by DOJ unless you have watched closely what DOJ has done over the past 30 years. This is the the most blatant hypocrisy that screams to the level of injustice many have suffered at the hand of DOJ pounding average Joe defendants.

Everyone can now see what so many have observed growing, the politics of prosecuting. When absolute power is given with no accountability or transparency, then consistency and fairness become obsolete.

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Of course, as The Federalist puts perfectly - this whole thing has been a completely smokescreen in order to help the Biden family politically.

Hunter’s lawyers are scrambling to declare “the five-year investigation” into their client as “resolved.” Corporate media like NBC News, similarly, claimed the DOJ’s “resolution suggests that prosecutors did not find cause to file charges related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with foreign entities or other wrongdoing.”


Nothing could be further from the truth. Just like when it strategically timed its political arrest of a Republican congressman to coincide with a GOP press conference detailing evidence of Biden corruption, the DOJ is working overtime to ensure that Hunter serves as a distraction from the bigger Biden problem. -The Federalist


What's more, Hunter's tax crimes were slow-walked by US Attorney David Weiss because, as Politico described, "the investigation would become a months-long campaign issue" that would have hurt Joe Biden's chances in the 2020 US election.

As IRS whistleblower Gary Shapeley told CBS News; "There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice," adding "These deviations from the process seemed to always benefit the subject."

A carefully orchestrated plea deal between the DOJ and Hunter means the younger Biden will only face probation — not jail time — for the two misdemeanor tax charges he plans to plead guilty to. A felony gun charge like the one Hunter received holds a maximum of 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine. The younger Biden, however, will successfully avoid prosecution for his firearm falsehood so long as he forsakes his drug-plagued lifestyle for 24 months and never owns a gun again. -The Federalist


The federalist also points out the Ashcroft memo cited above by Tolman, which instructs federal prosecutors to pursue the "most serious, readily provable offenses."

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