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Joe Biden for Father of the Year

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And I suppose you could add Grandpa of the Year.

From Nicholas Kristof comes this astonishing thought:

Even for a toady like Kristof that’s pretty astounding. And the photo that accompanies it – with Hunter’s vacant eyes staring into space – is the perfect illlustration.

From the replies:

How exactly did he tackle his son’s addiction? Other than to set him up as a bagman for the family and then when caught bail him out to retain his silence all while helping him ignore his responsibilities as a father to a child he despises.

Hunter Biden is 53 years old. He’s Joe’s child but hardly a child, and of the age when addictions often have faded away of their own accord, especially after they’ve taken a huge toll. Hunter Biden was an addict for several decades, most of his adult life. During that time no intervention – although the family tried quite a few, plus rehab stints for Hunter – worked. At some point, though, Hunter apparently got clean (that’s the claim, anyway, and it certainly may be true), but that was quite recently and it’s not the least bit clear why it happened. My guess is that it had more to do with age and burnout than anything else.

I’ve noticed that Kristof isn’t the only one trying to frame the Hunter Biden saga as being a case of those mean old Republicans exploiting a family tragedy in the face of a family’s noble efforts to save a wayward but beloved and sensitive son. See for example this.

But, of course, Hunter’s addiction is actually not the issue for the right. I think anyone can sympathize with a family having a member who is addicted to alcohol and/or drugs for a long time. The issue is what crimes Hunter committed, as well as what advantages he got without earning them, and what money he funneled to others leveraging his position as Joe Biden’s son, and what the Bidens gave those people in return for the dough.

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Joe Biden for Father of the Year — 41 Comments

  1. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this level of sycophancy. I mean I’ve brought this up before but the Sienna College poll of historians about presidents actually tried to convince us that Joe is reasonably intelligent and has integrity. You’d think they’d actually have some standards but even historians are utter whores trying to prop up this stupid crook. (But hey he’s smart enough to pull off his grift, just not smart enough to actually run the country.)

  2. Hunter is sticking close to Joe; even went with him to Ireland. Who is watching whom?

  3. A social worker whose stock-in-trade was attempts at straightening out alcoholics and drug addicts told me he had two allies in his work. “Banks and the criminal justice system. Banks, they don’t care about your problems. They just want their money. For all the the things wrong with the criminal justice system, it has one virtue. Once it gets you in its maw, it just keeps coming after you and after you until it is DONE with you. Both are reality checks” (for people who have a portfolio of lies they tell themselves). The Bidens have been working assiduously to sabotage the work of banks and the criminal justice system.

  4. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. When has the Biden tribe tackled Brandon’s addiction to money, power, and little girls?

  7. Speaking of the criminal justice system, I woman I knew since high school married my closest friend and had three children: a son and two daughters. The youngest daughter had a drug problem from a very young age, and my friend tried everything she knew to get the daughter clean and keep her clean. Nothing worked, and around age 35 my friend just washed her hands of the daughter. It was a terrible thing to see, but nothing else seemed to work.

    I tell this story because apparently Joe never did give up. I have to admire him a little, even though I don’t find anything else to admire about our President. It looks like he retrieved an addicted so from his addiction. Not an easy thing to co.

  8. You are exactly correct Neo. Hunter was no child during his cocaine days.

    I messed around with drugs in college and beyond. In college I had no money, and cocaine is a ridiculously expensive drug. I only took a snort when offered to me for free. The only ‘kids’, i.e. 20-30-year-olds, that can afford a serious cocaine addiction are if they have some sort of inheritance, or they start dealing the drug themselves.

    I always maintained a career after college, but it was a bit choppy. Although I never got seriously into the drug underworld, I did partake occasionally. At 40, I understood that the time for messing around with narcotics was over, that I needed to focus on my career and save money for retirement. Which I did.

    Hunter was seriously into a cocaine addiction in his 40s. This is not a ‘kid’ drawn into addiction. He reveled in it, used his name to extort foreign businessmen to feed his habit, and like you pointed out, my guess is that he only stopped using because at some point you just get burnt out on it. If you are a serious cocaine addict, life SUCKS, even if you are extremely wealthy. I’ve seen it. It is perhaps the ugliest thing you can see outside of child-sex crap, and I’ve seen quite a bit in my life, pushing 60, having never married nor ‘settled down’.

    For a good popular culture representation of serious cocaine addiction, watch the movie ‘Less Than Zero’.

    Erronius

  9. At some point, though, Hunter apparently got clean (that’s the claim, anyway, and it certainly may be true), but that was quite recently and it’s not the least bit clear why it happened.

    –neo

    Geez. I admit I haven’t followed the Hunter Biden saga closely.

    Is Hunter really clean and sober? Did a father’s unconditional love truly rescue his son after decades of failure?

    I’ve seen my share of family addicts. Nothing stopped them except death or horrific consequences.

    I wish it were otherwise.

    Love can give an addict a soft landing *after* they’ve hit bottom, but that’s not the same thing.

  10. huxley:

    I doubt Joe or anyone else in the family had much to do with it, if Hunter is indeed now clean. But the Democrats and the Bidens would very much like us to think it was Joe’s love that rescued him.

    One also could make the argument that Joe enabled him all those years.

  11. Biden as ‘Father of the Year’? Sure, we can do that… only after you make this person ‘Homeowner of the Year’

    tiny.cc/p0c8vz

  12. Honest journalism will get a person fired at The NY Times. Obviously, I have no way of knowing if he even has the capacity to recognize honest journalism. But if he does, he knows better than to try any.

  13. I was once impressed with Kristof. He once reported on the USSR and was even expelled for his reporting. He is now apparently old and interested only in his retirement.

  14. Hunter is irrelevant, except that there is evidence that he facilitated high levels of criminal behavior on the part of his father, who was a Senator, Vice President, and is now President of the United States!

    As a US citizen, THAT is what I care about, and I not only have every right to, I have a responsibility to!

  16. You could turn that around and argue that the Bidens were exploiting Hunter’s condition to make him the cash cow for the whole family.

    The idea of Joe as a decent, upright, big-hearted guy dies hard in spite of all the evidence. He’s very good at playing a role and tugging at people’s heart strings. I always thought of it as a kind of emotional blackmail. I’d like to judge politicians based on what they do and how well they do, rather than how much they make people feel sorry for them.

  17. I was once impressed with Kristof. He once reported on the USSR and was even expelled for his reporting. He is now apparently old and interested only in his retirement.
    ==
    Are you referring to Nicholas Daniloff, who the Soviet government seized as a hostage in 1986? He’s 88 years old. AFAICT, he hasn’t been a working reporter since 1987. He was on the faculty of the j-school at Northeastern University in Boston from 1989 to 2014.
    ==

  18. Kristoff surely has to know that President “Unconditional Love” has a little granddaughter in Arkansas that he staunchly refuses to even acknowledge. Even to the point of backing his son’s efforts to keep the child from taking the Biden name. The responses to Kristoff’s tweet above mention this and much more. They make him look like the poor unknowing kid at school walking around with a “kick me” sign on his back.

  19. It looks like he retrieved an addicted so from his addiction. Not an easy thing to co.
    ==
    I wouldn’t attribute anything to the dement occupying the White House. Some other family member, perhaps.

  20. Such a terrific Dad that he was able to enlist 51 CIA officials to LIE in public to protect his son (or should that be “protect himself”?)

    Now THAT’S dedication!!

  21. Actually, Kristoff has a whole series of “investigative columns” just waiting to be written about Joe Biden’s extraordinary inordinately selfless dedication!
    – Biden’s Unconditional Love(TM) for his son meant that he HADTO establish ten? twenty? (more?) dummy off-shore corporations to protect his son (and himself and his entire family…oh, and the entire country) from untoward scrutiny that would ONLY have caused damage to the UNITY of the American people. Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Biden” Unconditional Love(TM) for his country meant that he HAD TO downplay inflation while promoting and deploying policies that caused inflation to go through the roof. You think that was EASY for a man such as him to even contemplate, let alone implement?? Moreover, he tried—desperately, FEARLESSLY—to allay the anxieties and apprehensions of his fellow Americans by telling them that the projected inflation was nothing to worry about, by informing them that it was “only transitory”. (And oh, what a relief that was…) Can one imagine how hard this was for him to do? To go so against his grain? His integrity? But he DID IT! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Biden’s Unconditional Love(TM) for the Iranian people (and principled desire for peace in the region) means that Biden simply HAD TO force himself—AGAINST HIS WISHES—to ignore the mass murders and incarcerations of Iranian protesters (the majority of them women) on the part of the Mullahs! Now THAT’S dedication!! (And of course all those PRINCIPLED feminists understand and agree completely…)
    – Biden’s Unconditional Love(TM) for his country meant that he HAD TO open the southern border to anyone and everyone who wants to enter the country. How else can one change one’s mind about American elemental racism?? What greater love for one’s country can one possible demonstrate? Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for supporting reparations for Black Americans (and keeping them enslaved by promoting their victimization)!!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for encouraging crime throughout the country, particularly in the cities!!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to promote DIE and destroy American Education and industry!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to promote CRE and destroy Education in America…as well as the American family and social fabric!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to promote transgender ideology and destroy American medicine (as well as put another nail in the coffin of the American family)!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to promote Soros prosecutors and destroy the rule of Law!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to destroy the American Energy industry!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measures to promote and implement massive government surveillance and media/infotech censorship!! Now THAT’S dedication!!
    – Ditto for his measure to weaponize ALL government agencies against those who disagree with him. He has done all this, no doubt, with a heavy heart—IN SORROW more than anything—but HOW ELSE can you achieve unity of purpose in the country you LOVE? HOW ELSE can you TRULY actualize “E Pluribus Unum”?? Now THAT’S dedication!!
    And this is merely the tip of the iceberg….

    The common denominator will, of course, be the OPPOSITION of the Republican Party—something along the lines of “Outrageously irresponsible, unsympathetic, unempathetic, INHUMANE Republicans POUNCE!!!”

    Yep Kristoff is going to be one busy dude….

    File under: Dedicated! Committed!! (or should be)…

  22. More material for St. Nick to “explore”:
    “Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office Buried Biden-Bribery Allegations AG Barr Sent For Investigation”—
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/23/delaware-u-s-attorneys-office-buried-biden-bribery-allegations-ag-barr-sent-for-investigation/
    H/T Powerline blog.

    Just imagine how AWFULLY DIFFICULT this was for Biden to have to cover up.
    The man who served his country for SO LONG, having to deal with the IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS of his hyper-tuned conscience in such a manner??
    Can one even DOUBT the EXTRAORDINARY INTEGRITY of the man??

    My God THERE ARE NO WORDS!! THOSE AWFUL, AWFUL REPUBLICANS!!!!

  23. Yikes! Forgot to mention the COVID DIVIDEND (Dr. Deborah’s absolutely spot-on “We HAD TO LIE for the sake—HEALTH, PROSPERITY, etc.—of our dear nation!!”) to which Biden has been wholeheartedly dedicated…along with the whole Fauci killer-clown show.
    + Bonus:
    “Fauci’s Flip-Flopping Lab-Leak Denier Subpoenaed After Stonewalling Congress On ‘Proximal Origin'”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/faucis-flip-flopping-lab-leak-denier-subpoenaed-after-stonewalling-congress-proximal
    – – – – – – – – –
    Nor would one wish to forget the person touted as Biden’s potential successor (and nephew, no less—the actual source of that lovely word, NEPOTISM!—of that illustrious if malignant FRAUD, Nancy Pelosi…just more fodder for in-depth article, Nickie…):
    “Gavin Newsome for Governor of the YEAR!!”
    …as California “decides” to go the well-trod path to SOCIALIST PARADISE…
    “The Endless Lies Democrats Tell In Defense Of Their Failed Californian Utopia—”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/endless-lies-democrats-tell-defense-their-failed-californian-utopia

    (Actually, there’s no end of material for an enterprising seeker of truth….)

  24. At this rate, I’m pretty sure they’ll have to give Biden & Son a Nobel Prize for Peace…

    Speaking of which, here’s a continuation of the Obama commentary from a previous “Open Thread”— https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/06/23/open-thread-6-23-23/#comments
    (Hint: It’s a CNN interview with Christine Amanpour…so you know it’s going to be, um, er, entertaining?)
    https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1672221210044686338?cxt=HHwWhICzqZWV9rQuAAAA
    H/T Lee Smith Twitter feed.

  26. Alas the BBB/BLM/Unity/Transitory-Inflation/If-You-Don’t-Vote-Fer-Me-You-Ain’t-Black Syndicate sure isn’t funneling the money to the right people.
    “Eviction filings are 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic in some cities as rents rise”—
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/eviction-filings-are-50-higher-than-they-were-pre-pandemic-in-some-cities-as-rents-rise/ar-AA1cF4LT
    H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
    At least not yet.
    – – – – – – – – –
    And it’s a bleak day for Greta…(poor grifter…):
    “Sweden Dumps Climate Agenda, Scraps Green Energy Targets”—
    https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/06/25/sweden-dumps-climate-agenda-scraps-green-energy-targets/

  27. Barry M. In my mind I hear Biden sincerely offering, for every item on your list, “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you!”

  28. “Father of the Year”? ?

    Hunter is irrelevant, except that there is evidence that he facilitated high levels of criminal behavior on the part of his father, who was a Senator, Vice President, and is now President of the United States!

    This is exactly my feeling. Hunter is the tool Joe has used to enrich himself and the rest of his family. He is a private citizen and his dealings ought to be dealt with the way anyone else’s lawbreaking and gross behavior would be.

    BUT. The extent to which Hunter’s grifting has been facilitated by and benefits Joe is what we need to know. It is not just unseemly but a threat to national security to have a president (or veep, or senator) in office who will sell American foreign policy for personal gain, and that’s certainly what it’s been looking like ever since the “Senator from MBNA” days.

  29. take cofer black the spy on the burisma board, he was recruited to facilitate oil exploration in africa, he had been station chief in khartroum

  31. Hunter sticks to his dad like glue. They just left for Camp David. Is the Biden family keeping a close watch on Hunter so he doesn’t relapse, or is Hunter keeping a close eye on dad so he doesn’t collapse?

  32. I think they’re sticking close together to get their stories straight. “Hunter, you were bluffing when you said I was right next to you as you were trying to shake down that Chinese guy, right? Right?”

  34. Clay Travis makes my point about the GOP and getting out the message. On twitter:

    “Republicans in the House have to realize that the only way most media in this country will cover the Biden crime family is through primetime impeachment hearings laying out all the evidence. There are tens of millions of persuadable voters who still have zero idea of Biden’s behavior. That has to change. I think primetime impeachment hearings would be that change.”

    —

    I’m not sure there are tens of millions of persuadable voters, but the effort has to be made to reach every single one.

    The MSM is the enemy. Instead of complaining about it, fight. Yes, of course they lie, slander and cheat. They’re Democrats. Fight or die. I don’t even think that the GOP should expect the MSM to cover hearings. Flood every other zone available.

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  36. The summing up:
    “This is an inspiration. We too have been dealing with some difficult issues with our young child….
    “Our child was crying out for help. But it was only after reading
    @NickKristof’s beautiful article about another parent and his struggles with his child that we finally realized we weren’t alone.
    “Thank you Nick. For everything.”—
    https://twitter.com/AshleyRindsberg/status/1672871496346214402?cxt=HHwWhIC96efwnbcuAAAA
    H/T Hans Mahncke Twitter feed.

  38. I guess that if I had to be Biden’s bag man I’d be a total mess too.

  39. Well, that’s just it:
    Hunter’s a victim.
    In fact, the First Victim.
    (How can one not feel for him?)
    And the sky’s the limit…
    …I guess Dear Old Dad is a victim, too.
    Howzat? you might ask…
    Because the World’s Turned Upside Down…
    (AKA the Second American Revolution….)
    …according to which the Evil Republicans—claim the innocent Resistancia, saboteurs and subvertionists—are trying to bring down the Republic…

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