PURELY POLITICAL CURIOSITY
There are so many curious events surrounding Joe and Hunter Biden and their dysfunctional family but no one in the mainstream press seems to care.
It gets Curiouser and Curiouser
So, what happened to curiosity?
The kind of old-fashioned inquisitiveness that would cause a young man or woman to choose to attend journalism school?
“Daddy, how come a crackhead addict was paid a million dollars a year for sitting on the board of directors of an energy company in far-off Ukraine when he didn’t know anything about oil or energy?
“Was it because his daddy was Vice-President of the United States?
“And, how come he didn’t have to pay taxes on all that money he got?
“How come it took more than five years to ‘investigate’ that man? Doesn’t everyone have to pay their taxes every year?
“Is it because his daddy was Vice-President and now President?
“Is it because he’s got ‘White Privilege?’”
“Why did they fire the man who was investigating corruption at that energy company in Ukraine? Was it because they were afraid they would find crack cocaine at the board meetings?
“If President Obama gave you the job to oversee what was going on in Ukraine and if you were the crackhead’s daddy, would you let him take that job at the energy company in Ukraine?
“Wouldn’t that look bad, Daddy?”
“And, how come the president’s son, wife, daughter, daughter in-law, brother, and grandchildren all got money from Ukraine and other funny-sounding places?
“Were they working for energy companies too?
“Daddy, how come nobody cares about this?”
Elections then, Elections now
Once upon a time, there was a code of ethics in politics, particularly American politics. U.S. politicians regularly advised the rest of the world on how to conduct fair and honest elections.
In most of the United States – outside the big cities – elections were carefully monitored and were dependably open and fair.
We could rightly brag about how honest our elections were.
Of course, that was when they were held on one day and decided that same day.
But now that ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots, and drop-boxes (outlawed in most Western European countries) have been institutionalized here in the U.S., cheating has become easier and more organized.
Election results now take weeks, sometimes months.
All U.S. elections are now suspect.
Once upon a time, journalists and editors cared about such things.
Not any longer.
There is no newspaper, no TV station news crew, no network news division (other than FOX Cable News and a few smaller conservative outlets) in what most consider the “mainstream” press, that seems to have even the slightest interest in the machinations of politicians, especially when someone with a “D” in front of his name has won.
It’s difficult to understand.
It makes no sense.
Perhaps it is because cities throughout the United States now regularly spend millions of dollars a day taking in and paying for the hotels, breakfasts, lunches, and dinners of the hordes of “border crossers” flooding across the unprotected wide-open southern boundary of the United States and the public has become inured of over-spending at all government levels?
Maybe.
The Prodigal Son
My thesaurus offers the following options for describing “prodigal”: wasteful, reckless, dissolute, profligate, extravagant, uncontrolled, someone who acts without caution, a squanderer. Which describes fairly accurately President Biden’s son, Hunter. If you haven’t seen any of the activities Hunter Biden self-recorded during his various drug-crazed binges, you cannot be fully aware of just how self-indulgent, uncontrolled, reckless, and dissolute this son of our current president was and probably still is.
I guess you could say Hunter represents the kind of out-of-control spending of the entire Biden administration.
“I’m proud of my son; he’s done nothing wrong,” Joe Biden scolds.
Much of the mainstream press has soft-pedaled the scandalous goings-on contained in the “Laptop from Hell,” as described by New York Post reporter Miranda Devine.
But, going back to the curiosity factor, it has always baffled me how so many so-called journalists and editors have no curiosity whatsoever concerning this troubled and dysfunctional First Family. For example, Hunter Biden (Joe Biden’s son with his first wife, Neilia), Joe and Jill’s daughter Ashley, Joe’s brother Frank, Joe’s brother Jim’s daughter Caroline, and the late Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie, have spent time in various rehab treatment centers.
How often, if ever, is this brought up?
All this seems at least worthy of more research. As do the nearly two-dozen Mafia-like Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) set up by Hunter and his business partners, mostly to dole out money to the rest of the Biden clan, including the grandchildren.
But, nah, nothing to see here; just a former Senator, Vice-President and now President of the U.S. doing business as usual. That various family members have received large sums of money from China, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, or other unsavory regimes doesn’t seem like something worth looking into.
Congress and the President have been vacationing the entire month of August, but they’ll all be back (presumably) in Washington, D.C.; the Senate on September fifth, and the House a week later, on 12 September.
Perhaps then Congressional Republicans will tweak the interest of members of the mainstream press with further allegations and revelations of corruption at the highest levels of government.
Maybe they too will decide that some of this is worth looking into.
But, as I’ve warned in the past: unless you are a certified deep-sea free-diving expert, don’t hold your breath while waiting.
So what if the debate moderator and Lyin' Biden were against him? The entire political establishment was always against him. He had experienced that for years. He had been impeached for his July 25, 2019 phone call to Zelensky about Hunter's Burisma corruption. So he just lies back and takes it? Why didn't he go on the offensive and launch a full investigation into the Biden Family Influence peddling in July 2019? He had 18 months to get the goods on his crooked opponent. And he sat on his hands. And now he is probably going to get convicted of obstruction in the Documents Case. It was all avoidable if he had done to Biden what the entire political establishment had always done to him.
Okay. Say he first learned about it when the NY Post printed the story on October 14th. That gave him two weeks before the election to learn that Hunter had earned millions from Ukraine, but did not report the income -- the exact offense that sent Paul Manafort to prison. He also had two months after the election to start a full Biden Family investigation, perhaps even appoint a special prosecutor. Had he done that, the exposure of the Biden influence peddling would have put him in a better position for 2024. Very poor strategic thinking.