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Today’s Five Quick Things does not cover Thursday night’s debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The reason for this is less profound than you might imagine.
I’ll have something to say about the debate when it’s over. I might do something early next week on the subject. I’m not covering it on this page simply because this edition of the 5QT was posted hours before Trump and the Adderall King, he of the large black pupils redolent of copious stimulative pharmaceuticals not to be identified in a drug test because he refused to accept Trump’s challenge on one, did battle.
Melissa and I offered a preview of the event at The Spectacle. Feel free to check that out and see how we did.
No, this column is going to delve into other subjects that perhaps lay beneath the radar of the legacy corporate media that will furiously peddle the idea that since Joe Biden remained upright for 90 minutes, assuming he did manage that feat, Thursday night’s tussle was a win for him.
By now you probably need a break from that. I’m happy to provide one.1. Call Him Re-Fi Joe, I Guess
Did you see that Daily Mail article about the nonstop mortgage refinances that Joe and Jill Biden have engaged in? You can’t get much more of a telltale sign of corruption than this:
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill have been using their homes as an ATM, taking out multiple mortgages and refinancing their Delaware properties an astonishing 35 times, a DailyMail.com investigation has revealed.
The president has lived in two houses in his home state since 1975, when he bought his first property in Wilmington that he later sold in the late 1990s.
But records obtained by DailyMail.com show the couple have had a habit of negotiating a new mortgage or credit deal on both homes every 17 months.
Over the decades the Bidens have borrowed a total of $6million on both properties – and there’s still an outstanding $541,000 mortgage on their current three-bed, 4.5-bath Wilmington mansion nearly three decades after they bought it.
The constant refinancing raises the question of why the Bidens, who have a reported net worth of $10million, needed a constant flow of extra cash.
‘It doesn’t make a lot of sense unless they were desperate for cash,’ a finance expert told DailyMail.com.
The revelation comes as questions grow about the president’s involvement in his son Hunter’s shady business dealings with Chinese oil giant CEFC and other foreign entities.
According to the mortgage documents, the president and first lady purchased their current four-acre lot for $350,000 in March 1996 but have since saddled it with 20 different home credit agreements and mortgages totaling $4.23million.
Their previous five-bed, 2.5-bath home in the same town was purchased for $185,000 in 1975 – and sold controversially for $1.2million in 1996.
Records show the property had a total of 15 mortgages and lines of credit attached to it.
Yeah, that’s not normal. Why would this guy refinance his mortgage again and again like that? What’s the advantage?
The obvious answer is almost assuredly the true one: because home mortgages are just about the most basic way to launder money.
The way it works is, you use real, legal money to put a downpayment on a house, and you use dirty money to make the payments on it. That’s laundering the money going out, and it buys home equity that is clean.
Then you refinance the mortgage, which gives you clean cash coming in.
This isn’t me talking. It’s what ChatGPT told Glenn Beck when he asked about all this.
Is THIS the Shady Reason Joe Biden Keeps Refinancing His Home⁉️
A report has come out in the Daily Mail that claims, “Joe and Jill Biden have been using their Delaware house for fast cash – refinancing 20 times with loans totaling $4.2 million since buying the $350k home.”… pic.twitter.com/TAM8SvbEdp
— TheRealCherokeeOwl (@RealCherokeeOwl) June 26, 2024
So those houses Biden keeps refinancing every 17 months are literally money laundries, and nobody seems to care. This is happening out in the open.
Of course, you’ve known that for a while.
And Biden’s sycophants nevertheless insist on describing him as a “decent” man.
He isn’t clean. He’s freshly laundered and has been for the better part of 40 years. That isn’t the same thing.2. Anarcho-Tyranny and Weaponized Governmental Failure Are Pretty Much the Same Thing
Nate Hochman had a pretty good piece here at The American Spectator on Thursday, describing as “anarcho-tyranny” something this column discusses a lot:
There is a term that one hears on the Right from time to time: “anarcho-tyranny.
