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Enabling the Enablers
This October has been a long few months. Breaking news about Hunter Biden today seems like just another October Surprise in a string of surprises. Even though the news isn’t really a surprise, because if you haven’t been living under a rock you know by now that dad’s power enriched the son and has basically enabled him to make the poor choices he has.
I know, I know. Hunter is an adult who makes his own decisions. Anyone with grown children, such as myself, can attest to the fact that your kids might do some things that don’t sit well with you and you can’t figure out where you went wrong. Then a well-meaning friend points out that you can’t control what your adult children do, because, well, they’re adults. But this isn’t that. Who among us hasn’t gotten a $50,000/month paycheck from a foreign entity in exchange for favors from your powerful dad? When Joe Biden proclaims, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” he knows what he’s talking about.
It’s a fact that Joe has had very sad things happen to him during his lifetime. Since when does that pass as an excuse for bad behavior and preclude any person from taking responsibility for their harmful actions? In the real world, that doesn’t work. We need to stop disconnecting the trouble that this son has had from his dad’s power, wealth, and corruption. The appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy and has no play here. This is co-dependency on display; not only about many giving Joe a pass because he’s had some tough times, but also the issues with his son.
Let’s also remember that a family is allowing their elderly patriarch to campaign for the highest position in the land when they know darned well he isn’t fit for service. (Don’t “But Trump” me.) It takes a brave truth-teller to intervene and no one is doing that on either count. Or maybe someone is. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors, but if I were running for president and this was going on with my child, I would have admitted long ago that it was a problem and tell everyone we were handling it in private. End of story. Instead, it seems we might get a First Family full of enablers, which we probably deserve because it’s fairly indicative of what’s going on in the rest of the country.
This story is just a small part of what I see as a much bigger problem. There are those on the right who continue to speak out and others who want to tell the hard truths but won’t because we’re afraid of being canceled or upsetting the wrong people. We enable the many more unhinged voices to change the narrative in real-time, including changing the meaning of words in the dictionary, and they, in turn, enable one another by cheering it on. We can get on Twitter (or on Ricochet) and opine about how things have gone so very wrong, but the Orwellian path continues and it feels like a runaway train that can’t be stopped. People are losing their ability to think rationally and it’s unnerving. I’m not sure even “four more years” will stop any of it, and either way the election goes we’ll get unhinged hate or unhinged gloating and power tripping from the left. None of which are a good look.
Get ready as I “But Trump” this story: if this had been a Trump kid, the news would be shared far and wide with glee. Just like Melania’s secretly taped phone calls. Instead, the press is trying to hide this news about Hunter because, well, you know why. To enable Joe. Our firefighter journalists are bashing others in their own profession who share it, and are tying themselves in knots to explain it all away. Let’s just call them the sup-press, because that’s what they do. I just want it to stop.
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Or Billy Carter and “Billy Beer.”
That, plus being a unregistered lobbyist for a chap named Muammar Gaddafi.
Ok, so we all agree Biden is scum and the leftist techies shouldn’t be censoring this and the leftist media and Dems have double standards and these allegations are worth taking seriously.
I still have no idea if the emails are real. The backstory is 2020-level weird.
Does anyone in here know how one can verify or falsify that? Do you need the original hard drive? Is there a way of knowing by looking at the copied emails? Or is the only way to tell to interview possible witnesses and look at the email accounts of people on the other end?
The FBI can investigate based on the data on the drive to both confirm the connection between Hunter Biden and the drive and whether the information on the drive provides fruitful leads. If they find his private emails, credit card information, online account information, they can corroborate with a high degree of confidence that the drive is associated with Biden. That can be done pretty quickly. That does not mean that the data on the drive has not been tainted, but leads that stand up to investigation and result in actionable material in time. All of this will go away when daddy is elected. The rule of law does not reign unless zealously defended.
What do you want to bet that the FBI no longer has the drive? Or can’t find it. Or wiped it, like with a cloth?
One sign they’re real is that Biden’s story has already changed to match the emails. He previously claimed to have never even discussed Hunter’s business dealing, then that he didn’t meet with the guy in question because it didn’t appear in his official schedule, now they say, sure, he might have met him but it wasn’t a real meeting, just an introduction.
He denied such a meeting emphatically and repeatedly. Now the story changes to match the email that the Bidens have never said were faked.
I’d have gone with “Russian intelligence forgery” myself.
Yeah, the fact that they’re not contesting that the emails are real is AMAZING.
And that is how an October surprise managed to surprise me. In 2020, when we thought nothing short of zombies could still surprise me. And I was even expecting the zombies!