Stories & Opinions Worth Knowing but Maybe Not Quite Threadworthy 11/21

[Eupher]

SharterJoe sets his birthday cake on fire - too many candles on it. 

The Twitter comments are priceless. Lots of allegory comparing the roaring blaze that is the birthday cake of the 81-year-old decrepit pervert that steals air from inside the WH when he isn't at his beach house.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/21/biden-posts-flaming-birthday-cake-that-sets-the-internet-on-fire-n2166614

[Eupher]

White House Denounces Some Democrat Protesters Calling Biden ‘Genocide Joe’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/20/white-house-denounces-some-democrat-protesters-calling-biden-genocide-joe/

The White House strongly denounced young Democrat protesters referring to President Joe Biden as “Genocide Joe” for his staunch support of Israel in its fight against Hamas.

Speaking with New York Post reporter Steve Nelson, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called the nickname “Genocide Joe” inappropriate while standing on the side of free speech.

“We’re not worried about nicknames and bumper stickers. I mean, it’s First Amendment free speech. The president’s focused on … making sure that we can continue to support Israel as they fight a terrible terrorist group, Hamas,” Kirby said.

Kirby said that the term “genocide” has been misapplied, given that Hamas wants the extermination of Jews.

“People can say what they want on the sidewalk, and we respect that. That’s what the First Amendment is about. But this word genocide is getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks,” he said.

“What Hamas wants, make no mistake about it, is genocide. They want to wipe Israel off the map. They’ve said so publicly on more than one occasion, in fact, just recently. And they’ve said that they’re not going to stop,” he added.

Kirby warned that terrorists would continue to commit atrocities like October 7 “again and again and again.” He also addressed the high amounts of civilian deaths in Gaza while asserting that Israel was “not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map.”

“Israel’s trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we’re going to start using that word, fine, let’s use it appropriately,” he said.

As the New Yorker recently noted, the far-left has been coming hard against Biden for his unwavering support of Israel.

“Like all crises, the war has nonetheless revealed something important about our politics—a rift between the Democrats’ young and increasingly left-leaning base and an old-fashioned liberal of a President who is turning eighty-one on Monday,” it noted.

“A party divided against itself will only have a harder time standing up against Trump—or Xi for that matter,” it added. “Biden, as the drama of recent weeks has reinforced, is and will remain a proud and unyielding son of the twentieth century. Is it enough, in this age of TikTok, to give him another go?”

I love it when the left eats their own.

[Old n Grumpy]

It’s to bad he didn’t go up in flames with the cake 

[DefiantSix]

It’s to bad he didn’t go up in flames with the cake 

I gotta give Satan an 'A' for effort, though.

[Ptarmigan]

Former Democrat Mayor Patrick Wojahn Gets 30 Years in Prison for Child Porn
https://www.dailyfetched.com/former-democrat-mayor-patrick-wojahn-gets-30-years-in-prison-for-child-porn/

Former mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojahn, a Democrat, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday over possession and distribution of explicit child porn material.

Wojahn pleaded guilty to over 100 counts connected to the child abuse material.

The former mayor, who was a regular White House guest and “mentee” of Pete Buttigieg, was arrested in March on child pornography possession and distribution charges, The Daily Fetched reported.

A press release from the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) said Wojahn faced multiple counts of possession of exploitative child material and 16 counts of distribution of exploitative child material.

The department was alerted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in February that a social media account operating within the county was distributing “suspected child pornography.”

Another creep going to prison.

Wojahn said:

“I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015. I went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting in D.C. in January and he was assigned to be my buddy.”

Hey, @PeteButtigieg…

Your good pal and mentee just received a 30-year prison sentence over a child p*rn case involving 500 victims.

Any comment? pic.twitter.com/hB97pHcXcb

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 21, 2023

Patrick Wojahn was friends with Pete Buttigieg.

[Ptarmigan]

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao pleads guilty to federal charges, steps down
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/21/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges-step-down.html

Binance chief Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges and stepped down as the company’s CEO as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice, according to court documents. The plea arrangement with the government resolves a multiyear investigation into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Zhao appeared before Judge Brian Tsuchida in a Seattle courtroom to enter his plea. Zhao and others were charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to implement an effective anti-money-laundering program and for willfully violating U.S. economic sanctions “in a deliberate and calculated effort to profit from the U.S. market without implementing controls required by U.S. law,” according to the Justice Department.

Zhao said Tuesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that he had “made mistakes” and “must take responsibility.” He said Richard Teng, the company’s former global head of regional markets, has been named the new CEO of Binance.

The action against Binance and its founder was a joint effort by the Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Treasury Department. The Securities and Exchange Commission was notably absent.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been fined for money laundry.

Binance has agreed to forfeit $2.5 billion to the government, as well as to pay a fine of $1.8 billion.

The Justice Department said in its filing Tuesday that Binance “knowingly and willfully” caused the supply of services to Iran, in breach of U.S. sanctions. It follows a report that Binance processed billions of dollars worth of Iranian transactions.

“Let me be clear: We are also sending a message to the virtual currency industry more broadly, today and for the future,” Yellen wrote in a press brief.

The settlement comes after FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of several criminal counts of fraud and conspiracy on Nov. 2 following just three hours of deliberation by the jury. Experts told CNBC that, for a high-profile monthlong trial that involved nearly 20 witnesses and hundreds of exhibits, they’d never seen such a speedy decision.