I do not mean to be melodramatic, but as I think about Hunter and Joe Biden’s problems with the law, it seems to me that we are facing a national tragedy. The president has a son who has been out of his depth for years. Hunter tried to please his father. On that, we all agree. He brought in millions of dollars from dubious sources. Hunter was on the boards of high-powered foreign corporations with worldwide reach. Then the pictures began appearing in the New York Post: Hunter with his pants open, Hunter unshaven and smoking what look like contraband substances of some sort, Hunter sleeping blissfully, Hunter referring to his father as the “Big Guy” and the “brand.” Hunter should be happy. His father is the president of the United States. If his father were anything less, Hunter would be in jail.
How exactly Joe got to be president of the United States is subject to dispute. Yet he is president of the United States, and so we are stuck with him over the months ahead and maybe even over the years ahead. Let us make the best of it, but what if his son is found guilty? Moreover, what if Joe has been involved in shady businesses, too? I cannot think of a president — not Richard Nixon, not Bill Clinton, not even Warren Gamaliel Harding — with greater legal exposure than Joe, and it is all because he wanted to stand by his son. Joe once said that Hunter was the smartest guy he had ever known. Possibly he is. But then, Joe’s circle of friends is not that wide, and now the walls are closing in on the Bidens.
Can you imagine if Hunter ends up going to jail? If he does, he will have to clean up his act. There will be no more sleeping on the floor. No more smoking a joint in bed. Very few calls from the “Big Guy.” He will not be frequenting the company of strippers as he was in photographs published in the New York Post a week or so ago.
Sociologists tell us that conservatives, when polled, usually are happier than liberals. I found this finding questionable, and I offer the Bidens as my idea of a typical happy family of liberals. Joe is always joking, even under stressful circumstances. Jill is always pleasant and jolly, and even Hunter has his joyful moments. His photographs with the joint in bed particularly come to mind. But maybe the Bidens are the exception. Maybe Hillary typifies the average liberal, or Elizabeth Warren, or the average sufferer from road rage.
Recently, I undertook a study of who might be happier, conservatives or liberals, and to my surprise, I discovered that within the scholarly community, conservatives were happier.
Anne Hendershott summed up the findings when she wrote: “More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given up trying to dismiss the data and have instead tried to explain why.”
Hendershott concluded, “The reality is that true happiness, and a truly satisfying life, comes from caring for others — being physically present to them. Conservatives know that marriage and family life make one happy.” Liberals have forgotten this if they ever learned it.
I suppose Joe Biden’s loyalty to Hunter started out as admirable, but it quickly devolved into what seemed like corruption. If it was not corruption for the president, it surely was corruption for Hunter. Now what lies ahead for both of them is unknown, but it does not look good. Not for the Big Guy or the Little Guy. As I have said, this is a national tragedy.
He would be in Prison where His Father could be his Cellmate and with Clinton(Bill)and Obama in the cell next-door and Holder with Soros, Bragg, Gates and Dr. Fauci on the very same cellblock
Don’t forget Epstein
You forgot Hildebeast.
I guess this piece is tongue in cheek. Or the author doesn’t know that Democrats don’t go to prison. Not anymore
Most have been let out and are wandering the streets doing their thing. Biden’s will wander more lucrative streets. While they & their pals indict their enemies.
Ain’t life in the US grand?
For the Democrat voting social scientists, a new hypothesis: “Will conservative colleagues remain happier than you if you get them indicted for nothing? Or will you finally make them as miserable as you are? “
He’d still be living off the State, undoubtedly imprisoned
“Hendershott concluded, “The reality is that true happiness, and a truly satisfying life, comes from caring for others — being physically present to them. Conservatives know that marriage and family life make one happy.”
How do you care for others if you don’t first care for yourself? How do you love others if you don’t first love yourself? How do you care for yourself if you live in a society dominated by the code of altruism and self-sacrifice that forces every person to sacrifice their life for others?
There were plenty of intact families in the Soviet dictatorship and the Nazi dictatorship, were they happy? Indeed, the Nazis practically forced German couples to have as many Aryan babies for the Aryan Race as possible, did this make the Germans happy? Did the Soviets and the Nazis thrive by sacrificing the individual to the family collective? The CCP forced Chinese couples to only have one child for the “common good”, for the alleged good of others, allegedly caring for others.
There are plenty of families in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and China today, are they happy?
Happiness requires freedom and liberty. The freedom and liberty of each individual to choose values and pursue and achieve them. For some individuals that may be raising a family for others it may be a career trying to discover a cure for cancer that does not leave them enough time to raise a family. In a free society each individual must decide for themselves what rational values will make them happy. And for that to happen they must be SELFISH, selfish in the rational sense of the word, in the sense that each individual is an end in himself not the means for the ends of others. That the achievement of his individual and personal happiness is his highest moral responsibility,
It is NOT the altruist, self-sacrificing, Mother Teresas of the world that keep us alive but every PRODUCTIVE individual on whatever scale he can produce who wakes up in the morning to pursue his selfish motive to produce and make his living. Without the producers Mother Teresa would have had no one to give her the charity she depended upon to run her hospices. Charity depends on production and people produce not out of self-sacrifice but out of the selfish love of selfishly loving their own lives.
“Thank God We’re Not All Mother Teresa” – Michael J. Hurd
And this long exhausting trite post has what to do with Hunter Biden?
Your NPD seems to be on the upswing this week.
Another load of crap about the loving father-wayward son criminal enterprise.
Why is it a tragedy?
The Bidens are corrupt hacks. Always have been. They deserve to go down.
The Biden’s personal tragedy is self-inflicted. The Big Guy, aka the Senator from MBNA, has always been a “handsy” serial fabricator of limited intelligence and a nasty streak. Not a good combination for a career in “public service.” Hunter has been an addict since he was 18. Putting him in charge of the family business was a prescription for trouble.
In any event, can there be any doubt Obama knew what these guys were up to al along and went with it? Just another case of our government at work.
REALITY: Biden knew that Hunter was as stupid as he was. Joe’s been pimping Hunter for years!
Getting Biden Wrong
By Paul Gottfried
Okay, I get it! From listening to Republican TV and reading Republican publications, I have learned that Joe Biden is a sleazy, mendacious, and demented chief executive. He has weaponized the entire Justice Department and the IRS against his real and suspected political opponents, thrown open our southern border to drug cartels, and reduced our armed forces and international posture to shambles. Moreover, Joe has a gangster son with whom he has engaged in illegal business ventures; and it’s entirely possible that the cocaine recently found in the West Wing of the White House came from son Hunter, who is a drug addict as well as many other bad things.
The problem is not that Joe stood up for Hunter. Hunter was bringing in all the money to pay for the mansions and yacht and all the other luxuries that a Senator, VP or president cannot afford on their government salary. The author sounds as though he thinks Joe did Hunter a favor. But Joe would not have all his wealth without the deals that Jim and Hunter struck with the help of Joe as the guarantor of their promises.
I do not know where they come up with this rubbish about how Joe loves his family. Trump loves his family too, but he earned his wealth Joe got it by selling influence and political favors, much like the Clintons. No liberal wants the trials against Trump ended because Donald loves his sons. Maybe that argument would work if he were a leftist. But for a Republican who tries to make conservative reforms, jail and disgrace are the right remedies. It seems.
Biden is not president
to put all accolades to bed of mother teresa all you need to do is read christopher hitchens book , ” the missionary position ” she was just a catholic opportunist buying her way into heaven and filling the coffers of the catholic church . most of the money given to her charity went directly to rome while her charges wasted away on a slab in a hovel given the minimal medical care instead of dying in the street . the bidens and the democrats are no different , stashing their coffers at the expense of the large swathes of americans struggling to clothe and feed themselves while avoiding death by homicide .