The ‘Biden Brand’ Racket.

National Review ^ | 8.05.2023 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Carriage Hill]

In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician. Though the case was a slam dunk, a corrupt judge had let the brutes off with no jail time. That the system is rigged against those who play by the rules suddenly dawns on the law-abiding undertaker, whom the film’s co-writer, novelist Mario Puzo, named Amerigo Bonasera — as in Goodnight, America, where threats lurk around every corner, and the rules turn out to be strings pulled by puppeteers.

[Carriage Hill]

"Pols like Joe Biden and their hangers-on — like Archer, his son Hunter’s partner in slime — don’t like to think of their “brand” as extortion. They’re more in the mold of Don Corleone’s equally ruthless but more progressive son, Michael, who swore that any year now the family business would become “completely legitimate.” In such “completely legitimate” businesses, the muscle to do extortion is the family’s “brand.” The brand’s stock-in-trade is “influence,” an aura of intimidation to which beleaguered businesses — including foreign “partners” connected to corrupt and anti-American regimes — buy “access.” That’s what they expect will protect them from the metastasizing peril of, yes, “regulation.”"

[NautiNurse]

The Big Guy Briben Brand™
Once Upon A Time Bodacious Tatas

[elpadre]

“The Big Guy Briben Brand™ “

The Godfather????

[VTenigma]

So McCarthy thinks he’s going to buff up his bona fides by writing an easy hit piece on the turnip and his “brand”. Go back to your never Trump buddies at NR Andi. Once a putz always a putz.

[Avalon Memories]

...if you’re not at the table then you’re on the menu,

This is the most crystal clear explanation of what US politics is all about these days. Every politician, from city council level all the way up to President of the US wants to be at the table, not on the menu.

[Bounced2X]

[Carriage Hill]

Yes, THAT!

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Biden brand, the Bud Light of politics.

[George J. Jetso]

Joe Bribem needs a bra. Is he like a size A or B cup?

[Carriage Hill]

Ol’ Joe needs a bra.

[Carriage Hill]

Heh... so freaking true.

[bitt]

[antidemoncrat]

When Democratic Presidents appoint judges, you don’t actually believe they wil be impartial about their decisions like John Roberts said:”Roberts responded to the president in a statement, writing that the United States does not have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”

[kiryandil]

”Roberts responded to the president in a statement, writing that the United States does not have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”

Which is why a bunch of Clinton and Obama "judges" waited until after the US color revolution of 2020 removed to Trump to retire and have themselves replaced with Biden appointees.

[USS Alaska]

Once Upon A Time Bodacious Tatas

I heard him say it, but I never saw them.

Just regular working girl tits, but that Okie 'queer or steer' killed himself over them.

That was the only part of the "Officer and a Gentleman" that I found incongruous.

40 + years later, I still watch and love that flick.

[Bob Ireland]

“The owner of this website (www.powerlineblog.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/ed-assets/2023/08/F2d291CWQAErgH—600x600.jpg).” ¯\_😐_/¯

[Larry Lucido]

If Fredo had taken over the family business.

[Carriage Hill]

Someone ought to take Joe & Hunter for a rowboat ride on the lake...