GroveHillWanderer

Oh, they most certainly do. On the firearms charge, as others have pointed out, almost nobody is jailed for putting false information on a gun purchase application. And as I already mentioned, Roger Stone got an even better deal on failure to pay taxes. He owed 10 times as much in unpaid tax as Hunter Biden, the offences stretched over a much longer period of time and he refused to cooperate, contesting the charges for years before finally admitting guilt. Yet he also got off without any jail time. So if Hunter got a "sweetheart deal" only because people in the Biden administration were helping him (of which there is no evidence) then who in that administration do you think intervened to help Roger Stone? Or maybe, just maybe, both cases illustrate how such offences are routinely handled.

Please provide some evidence that Hunter Biden ever lobbied the US government on behalf of foreign clients - or laundered money. A Trump-appointed prosecutor investigated him for 5 years but the only crimes they could find were the tax and gun-related offences under discussion here.

That's untrue. Starmer never said any such thing. What happened was that a Labour Party spokesperson initially said she wasn't there, before correcting the record after finding out that in fact, she was there. And just to remind you what Durham constabulary found, here's part of their statement on it. This one, work-related meal stands in sharp contrast to the multiple, clearly and obviously non work-related, parties held week after week at No 10 and as now seems apparent, Conservative Party HQ.

This is true, at least in my experience - when I got a new passport last year, I updated my TTB account at the branch nearest me, not the one where I originally opened the account.

For those saying Trump is being unfairly targeted solely for political reasons and prosecuted in a way that other people would not be for similar offences, take a look at the story below of a woman sentenced just today: Former KC FBI analyst sentenced for keeping documents related to national defense

If that's the case, then perhaps it also pays to be an associate of and adviser to Donald Trump, since it's very similar to the deal given to Roger Stone. Hunter Biden owed around $200,000 in taxes covering just two years, which he had already paid, plus fines, very early on in the piece. Roger Stone had failed to pay his full taxes going all the way back to 2007 and eventually ended up agreeing in 2021 to pay $2,000,000 to the IRS. He, like Biden was also given a deal that did not include any jail time. So where's the massive disparity there? If anything, Stone's offences were even more egregious than Biden's, since he owed more, the offences covered a longer period of time and he was less cooperative in terms of paying back the money promptly, vowing initially to fight the charges and dragging it out for years before finally agreeing to pay up. Roger Stone Finally Agrees to Pay $2 Million in Back Taxes

Also, the wider point is that all the various voting restrictions being introduced by Republican-controlled legislatures is specifically aimed at reducing the number of Democrat votes. And how do we know this? Because one of their lawyers, when arguing before the Supreme Court no less, openly admitted it. When asked about the more restrictive requirements for voting, this was his response: In Supreme Court, GOP attorney defends voting restrictions by saying they help Republicans win

Voter ID requirements (a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, since there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud) disproportionately affects poorer voters, according to the article below. Free voter IDs still burdensome for poor people, says voting rights group

You might have thought that even Trump would realise that, "I'm very busy," is not a valid legal reason for failing to comply with a subpoena. Clearly not, though.

Here's an article about that change of emphasis at Toyota. Toyota Wakes Up To Find That It’s 2023 & There’s An EV Revolution Going On As it states:

I'm not sure what you mean by that - it was a straightforward shot taken with my phone on normal settings, in outdoor light (without flash). Even with indoor light, it's still clearly only dark blue.

The new passports are dark blue (I got mine earlier this year) not black. There has been this persistent "urban myth" that back in pre-EU days UK passports were once black but that's also not the case. There was a time when the passports were a dark navy blue that actually darkened further with age to where they looked almost black but as the Passport Office themselved stated in response to enquiries, the UK did not issue black passports. Here's a photo of my passport taken outdoors in natural light. I'll admit that in dim indoor light it looks darker but even so, it's clearly dark blue rather than black.

Not sure if you're being deliberately disingenuous there but I'm sure you know fine well that charging for 21 hours is not the alternative to stopping 10 mins in a gasoline station. About the only time it would ever take 21 hours to charge an EV would be if doing an overnight trickle charge on a 110V power supply. Even on a normal household 220/240V supply it will only take around 6-12 hours (depending on battery size). With a dedicated EV wall charger (which a large proportion, if not a majority of EV owners have) the recharge time is normally 4-8 hours. But once again, even that's not the equivalent of gasoline station refuelling. The equivalent to that would be a service area charging station, where the charging time with current batteries and CS charging speeds is more like 20 minutes to an hour depending on the various charging parameters (battery size, CS power output, starting percentage, desired ending percentage etc). And, as mentioned in another post, we are already at the stage where within a year, batteries may well be available that can charge to 100% in only 6 minutes. You're also ignoring the fact that rather than being some kind of impediment, the overnight charging scenario actually provides a benefit to EV's that ICE vehicle owners just don't have - the possibility of arriving home (or at some other destination) with your vehicle almost out of juice and leaving the next morning with it 100% refueled, without needing to go anywhere in the meantime.

Well that's the thing - based on the reporting, it seems the only reason anyone found out about this was that when she got pregnant, she told her aunt. Had she not got pregnant, the abuse may have continued to go unnoticed.

1MW chargers will be available (as they already are in several European countries) in regular EV charging stations. And yes, they will be available for any vehicles capable of using them. At the moment they're used primarily for heavy goods EV's but that's because not many smaller vehicles can use them yet. As more and more private vehicles like the Lotus Elise become capable of using them, their availability and use will obviously increase.

The stupidest thing about this whole affair (to me at least) is the fact that this is a problem entirely of Trump's own making. If he had just returned the documents when asked, like so many of his advisors were telling him to (or like Biden and Pence did) he would not be having any of these current problems. As pointed out in the article below: Trump rejected lawyers’ efforts to avoid classified documents indictment

You really should stop flogging this dead horse - it's not going to get up again. Virtually every single Republican politician being interviewed on this issue on the last couple of days has now admitted that there is no evidence these tapes exist. No-one knows where they might be or even where the person who said he had them, might be (he may not even be alive). How can you say there is "credible witness testimony" when even those who were touting this originally, now all concede to a man, that there is not a single shred of evidence to support it.

I haven't seen anyone except Comer calling this person a "trusted" informant. Most of the reports I've seen described them as a "confidential" informant. Just because something is told in confidence, doesn't make it automatically reliable. Anyway, even if the informant is reliable, the source may not be. If you follow that Twitter conversation, it contains the following direct quote from Republican Senator Ron Johnson:

Just to update this, even Chuck Grassley, the person who made the announcement about the tapes in the first place, has now admitted in an interview that the tapes may not even exist (as has James Comer, also in an on-air interview). Senator Admits Biden Bribery Tapes Might Not Exist After All

There is already a prototype of a new battery being trialled in a Lotus Elise S1 concept car, that can fully charge to 100% in just 6 minutes. Lotus Elise reimagined as a sporty EV that can fully charge in 6 minutes According to the manufacturer, these ultra-fast charging batteries should start commercial production next year. Apparently the 6 minute charging requires a 350kW (or better) fast charger of which admittedly there are not very many around yet but they are becoming more common and as another poster alluded to, 1MW chargers are already being introduced. In Europe their roll out started around a year ago - the announcement below is from June 2022. CharIN Officially Launches The Megawatt Charging System (MCS)

According to the full article that is linked to, the abuse only came to light after the girl missed her period and told her aunt about it (and how it had been going on for four years). The mother was apparently unaware of what had been going on until after the girl told her aunt.

The issue isn't whether to get treatment for anxiety, it's about whether, having experienced anxiety (and not having been treated for it yet) it needs to be declared as a pre-existing condition when applying for health insurance.

Thaksin didn't raise the amount from 200,000 to 800,000. In 2003, while he was in power, it was raised from 600,000 to 800,000. It was raised from 200,000 (to 400,000) in 1998. See post below from the late, great UbonJoe.

Did you miss the part where it's been established that nobody involved in these claims actually knows whether there are any tapes? All we have so far, is Chuck Grassley talking about an unverified, uncorroborated tip from an unidentified "confidential human source" who claimed that there was somebody who had some tapes. There is as yet, no evidence that these tapes actually exist, as both Jim Jordan and Ron Johnson have acknowledged.

The problem with this story of tapes "proving" the whole Joe Biden-Burisma bribery scheme is that there's no evidence the tapes actually exist. As that article also points out: