In a depressing AP story about a poll supposedly showing that a large majority of Americans don’t believe democracy is working as it should in the U.S. today, one disillusioned voter, a “moderate Republican,” singled out the GOP’s investigations of Hunter Biden as a prime example of misplaced priorities.
“Hunter Biden — what does that have to do with us?” he asked, neatly demonstrating why the Founders decided that a pure democracy was dangerous, and that a republic was much safer in many respects.
Hunter Biden is not important at all isolated from what he represents, which is strong evidence that the President of the United States is 1) lying 2) abusing power and influence to assist his pathetic ne’er do well son 3) possibly benefiting from his son’s influence peddling 4) corrupting the justice system to protect his family, and 5) untrustworthy, because he is willing to place other priorities above the interests of the United States of America. The fact that the “moderate Republican,” whose argument is that the President’s son has “nothing to do with the economy,” can’t comprehend this, is a perfect example of how most U.S. citizens don’t understand the basic concepts of ethics, government and law.
Consider the White House cocaine fiasco. A white substance in a plastic bag was found in the White House library and identified as cocaine. Hunter Biden had been to his father’s abode three days before the discovery. Hunter has been a cocaine user in the past, and there is video and photographic evidence of that. From the beginning, the White House made every effort imaginable to keep the public and the media’s suspicions going to the obvious place. On July 5, less than 72 hours after the discovery, a law enforcement source leaked to Politico that the owner of the drugs would likely never be known. National security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested the drug could have belonged to construction workers renovating the West Wing Situation Room, and Joe’s paid liar Karine Jean-Pierre flipped into indignant “How dare you!’ mode when a reporter asked if the envelope might have belonged to a Biden. She also said, laughably, insisted that the Secret Service would never allow the President to dictate how they handled delicate matters at the White House. “We are not involved in this,” Jean-Pierre said. “This is something that the Secret Service handles. It’s under their protocol.” Sure. Who believes this?
On July 13, the Secret Service concluded its investigation without naming a suspect, saying that it could not narrow the group of people who had access to the area to “a person of interest.” Hunter was never questioned. The Secret Service briefed members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on its findings.
Senator Tom Cotton had an amusing analogy to this narrative.”This is like if the Hamburglar lived in the White House, all the hamburgers disappeared, and they said they didn’t have any suspects or no one they could question,” he said. Meanwhile, conservative pundit and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says that his former colleagues are furious, and that they know who brought the cocaine into the White House, adding,
“So there’s probably less than 200 people who could have left this cocaine, by the way, in a bag which is plastic, which is non-porous, meaning it’s probably not that hard to pull a latent print. They’ve got to know who did it. The question is, who’s pressuring them to not find out who did it? And it’s gotta be coming from this White House. This is terrible. Don’t destroy this agency like the FBI. It’s really unbecoming. A lot of my former colleagues at the Secret Service who retired, they are absolutely furious about this. Oh yeah, yeah, I can tell you, I got 50 emails, communications, texts from people. ‘This is embarrassing, humiliating.’ These are good guys, man, guys who worked for Obama and Bush, non-partisan guys, most of them aren’t even political. This is embarrassing. They know exactly who it was.”
And sports bookies are releasing odds on who owned the drugs.
Observations:
1. Why is this important? It goes to the core of the dangerously escalating public distrust in our basic institutions. The public must not think for a second that the President is covering for his son’s illegal activity. If that is happening, then all of the agencies with law enforcement power are similarly suspect. It would also be an impeachable offense, unlike either of the two excuses the House used to impeach Donald Trump.
2. The Secret Service is especially vulnerable. Most educated Americans know about the agency hiding Jack Kennedy’s paramours. Many have seen Clint Eastwood’s “Absolute Power,” in which the Secret Service hustles to shield a President from manslaughter. It had to make sure that its handling of this potential scandal was above reproach, and it has not been.
3. Nor does it help that Hunter has acted guilty. After Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Does anybody really believe that the cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for the use of anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden?” Biden had his lawyer send Trump a cease-and-desist letter charging that the comments could lead to violence. Trump’s comment was typical and stupid, but Hunter Biden trying to muzzle Trump looks worse.
4. Coming on the heels of the Supreme Court being unable to find out who leaked the Dobbs decisions draft, the quick burial of this scandal just feeds distrust.
5. In stark contrast to Cotton’s Hamburglar quip, Democrats and the mainstream media’ are sticking to the narrative that this is a “nothingburger.” Of course they are. Democrats think adults using illegal drugs is no big deal anyway, and the party wants to encourage the perspective of the civic dolts who can’t see why a President following the maxim that “laws are for the little people” raised crucial issues about our governments fairness, trustworthiness, and honesty. Democratic strategist Brad Bannon’.’s perspective is revealing.
“The Biden administration has much bigger fish to fry,” he said. “They’ve just undertaken a new initiative to sell their economic agenda and program, and rather than get caught up in whatever miscellaneous issues the Republicans bring up, the administration should focus on its top priorities.” The administration, he says, should be targeting “swing voters who care more about the economy than anything else.”
You know, like corruption, elite families being above the law, news media-assisted cover-ups, and a politicized justice system.
Ethics Alarms 
Are they really pulling the old, “It’s the economy, stupid” motto again? The economy was booming under Trump but all they could fixate on was his character. Now, all of a sudden, character doesn’t count but the economy does?
They are shameless. And any American should be ashamed for accepting it.
While Hunter Biden has by far the most name recognition among known cocaine users with access to the White House, I wouldn’t bet on it being his. As you pointed out, to committed Democrats, drug use is no big deal. The White House is full of staffers and assorted toadies, with a lot of privileged backgrounds and incomes comfortably into the six figure range, who view cocaine use as no big deal. Honestly, the staff that mans the White House during Republican administrations is probably culturally closer to those Democrats than it is to most of your commentariat. I would be pretty shocked if there weren’t at least a kilo or two of powdered cocaine going into the White House every year, with the Secret Service instructed to turn a blind eye. The oddity here is not the security breach that allowed drugs to get in, but the piercing of that veil of silence that allowed the public to find out.
Which is probably part of the silent decision by the woke media to cease their protection of Dementia Joe, who is probably going to go down with the ship next year as we see the return of you-know-who.
Given a first principle that Democrats would be fine with the system being completely replaced by one created in their image, anything that happens that undermines faith in the system is fine by them.
I think that first principle is accurate which is why it isn’t a surprise to me that the democrats aren’t worried about the utter lack of decorum and the complete appearance of impropriety and corruption in this episode.
The trust issues are huge, however the implications for national security are even bigger. Why did the Secret Service get worked up over this to begin with, if there wasn’t the possibility of the white substance being something like anthrax? And what this incident says about White House security generally is horrifying, if at all true.
On of the most surveilled sites in the country, but no security camera records available? Just like the hallway where Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt!
Wasn’t it also SS agents allied with SloJo who tried to disappear Hunter’s pistol purchase records?
What actual proof is there that the drugs belong to Hunter Biden? Other than he was there 3 days prior along with hundreds of other people and is a drug addict?
None whatsoever. What there is, is handling of the matter is a way that raises suspicions of obfuscation, dishonesty, and lack of transparency.
Ok I don’t see any of those things here, but
It’s safe to assume your post is claiming the cocaine belonged to Hunter Biden?
No, it doesn’t say that at all, and according to the Stupidity Rule, which you would have read in the Commenter Rules above, you are banned. I am not putting up with this kind of deliberate (or sadly accidental) idiocy.
No further comments from you will be allowed to stay here. Get lost.
Note: All time record for getting banned; just two comments!
And where was the baggie of blow found? Was it in the library? That was where it was first reported to have been found. Then it was reported to have been found some other place I don’t remember. Then it was reported to have been found in a cubby hole near an entrance to the west wing. How can anything they’ve said be believed? This episode is really maddening. And, of course, it’s a big nothingburger. Next Lanny Davis will write an opinion piece saying if this had happened in France, no one would care about it. James Carville will likely weigh in any day now. And the “Democrats are busy doing the hard work the American people want them to do” talking point will go out like a cluster bomb and be everywhere.
The fix is well and truly in. A Republican will never win a presidential election again. The Dems have totally coopted the voting process. Through government employees, they control every branch of government. The DOJ, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Supreme Court administration, all the departments including the IRS, the EPA, Energy, Education, Agriculture. They’re all controlled by Democrats. Of, by and for the government workers.
I don’t believe a damn thing that comes out of the mouths of anyone in the current White House or anyone in their lapdog Pravda-USA media, they default to lies, half truths and pure propaganda to protect their political circle and agenda, it’s just that simple.
Biden has a legal, common, transparent, constitutional method to helicopter in and bail his son out. He should be urging the justice system to proceed without special favors and condemn any iota of the system that shows weakness to just treatment of his son.
Pardon me for believing that its better to just use that instead of the apparent corruption. It doesn’t matter if he’s actively pushing an unfair thumb on the scales of Justice or just ignoring corruption already there, both are bad.
I’m of the opinion that the government shouldn’t be running a war on drugs, but it unethical to give the president’s son a pass while millions sit in prison for the same thing.
Well, the bag was labelled cocaine hydrochloride. I don’t know about you, but I doubt any illegal drug dealer did that. That sounds like prescription cocaine. That would make it VERY easy to track or even more disturbing. There is a lot of paperwork involved with prescribing cocaine to someone. If it was Hunter Biden’s, that would make this even more interesting. As a prescribed medicine, it is legal. However, a physician prescribing cocaine to a self-avowed and documented cocaine addict should raise some questions. happeningin
The main reason this incident is important is that it illustrates our multi-tiered justice system. Hunter Biden can engage in all kinds of money transfers without scrutiny, while normal citizens who do 1/1000th of the same thing have their money seized or get a criminal audit. Hunter Biden can falsify his 4473 on purpose and throw away a firearm near a school, admit it, and not get in trouble, but a mere citizen would be sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the same thing. Law-abiding taxpayers are at the bottom of the system. At the top is the leftist elite, then the career criminals, then the law-abiding taxpayer.
Let’s say you don’t believe the taxpayer is at the bottom? What is happening NYC to people who defend themselves? They are charged with serious crimes. The criminals are not usually charged. The ATF is going door-to-door to try to charge citizens for possessing arm braces that were legal when purchased, but now are retroactively illegal. Contrast that with 10,000 auto-sears to make Glock pistols into machine guns get dumped in Chicago and the ATF does nothing.
From 10,000 hours of Capitol security camera footage they’ve ID’d almost every single participant of the thousands of participants in the J6 riot.
But they can’t find the one individual who left a bag of smack in the one house whose occupant has a son who’s drug enthusiasm is known world-wide.
A lot of those rioters were caught by cell phone footage or because they were dumb enough to brag about their crimes on social media.
Wasn’t the area where the drugs were found accessible to hundred of people, including tour groups? Wasn’t Hunter there three days prior to it being found? That makes it incredible unlikely that it was Hunter’s, and I don’t understand the idea that having his lawyer tell Trump to stop saying it was his is evidence of guilt. By that logic, any defamation claim is evidence that you’re guilty of what you’re suing for defamation over.
1. It is by definition more likely that anyone actually staying at the White House as a family member is more likely to use an illegal substance than a transient visitor, doubly so if said family member is a confirmed coke-user. Who uses coke while a tourist in a public building? Since this has never happened before in about a century of White House tours, I believe the answer is, “Just about nobody.’
2. Anyone can opine any way they please about anyone’s guilt of anything, unless they allude to non-existent evidence. Trump knows that better than anyone. It’s not a valid defamation claim, and yes, trying to use bullying (and unethical) lawyer tactics to intimidate critics is an extreme tactic that can reasonably be interpreted as suggesting guilt.
Weird- Masked Avenger’s comment for some reason glitched and had several comments by Steve Witherspoon and Steve-O append to it. These comments were made by them 3 days ago to banned Chris. Their comments disappeared when his were deleted.
And now WordPress saw some identifier in Masked Avenger’s login that caused it to think the orphaned comments by the two Steves that had been aligned to a identifier in banned Chris’s login.
I wonder why it would do that?
Anyway, it’s probably just a complete and utter coincidence that Masked Avenger shows up literally the day after Chris’ umpteenth banning and just so happens to take the same stances on topics that Chris does, albeit with a subtly moderated tone.
Bet that lasts.
I assure you, he’s not Chris.
Sooooo, who had early Friday evening in the pool for the latest EA troll to show up…..?