Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for reaching a “new level of abhorrent behavior” after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of him during a hearing Wednesday.

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109 points

Again. What the fuck does Hunter Biden matter, and why is this Scarecrow looking scab insist on wasting our money on this garbage?

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52 points

hunter biden matters to republicans because he’s the only thing they can hang on joe biden, who has been honestly masterful in the way he’s navigated the late and post-pandemic.

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41 points

I honestly don’t understand why they act like Joe Biden is the only politician with a child who has addiction issues and/or failed relationships. Donald Trump Jr. is also divorced and has had alcohol addiction problems. During the Biden/Trump debates I almost wanted Biden to mention Don Jr’s problems since Don Sr kept bringing up Hunter, but fortunately familial attacks are beneath Biden.

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34 points

If they cared about what close relatives of presidents were doing, they should be investigating Jared’s deal with the Saudis.

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28 points

I honestly don’t understand

you’re still assuming good faith. stop it. they’re not interested in developing a well-rounded worldview and a rational approach to solving the problems that face America. They’re interested in seizing as much power as possible and hurting their opponents as much as possible. Once you realize that, their actions start to make perfect sense. Acting like Joe Biden is the only politician with a problem child serves that end. Ignoring Don Jr’s obvious coke and booze habit serves that end. There is no guiding philosophy to them, no principles they serve, no basis of human decency in which they even pretend to embed themselves. They’ve gone full Lee Atwater: they know who they’re enemies are and they’ll hurt everyone as long as their enemies get hurt too.

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What? No that’s not it. They highlight this because when liberals all respond saying they don’t care about this they help reinforce to republicans that they shouldn’t care about Trump’s prostitution stuff or “grab em by the pussy”. It makes liberals look like people doing a performance who don’t actually hold those things as principles because they’re entirely willing to toss them aside for certain issues.

I don’t have a dog in this race because I’m not american.

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20 points

I’m not American either but my wife is so I know more about this than I would like. Like Hunter Biden is not in government and all he has done is smoke crack, have sex with prostitutes, swindle money from corpos by saying who his dad is and have a massive shlong so I don’t see the connection.

Like american politicians in general come off to me as the most insincere people in the whole world. Like half of them probably do cocaine regularly, quite a few are obvious child molesters, pretty much all of them abuse their position just to fill their wallet with platant insider trading and the rest are owned by major corporations. No one there needs help to seem like it’s just a performance. Like the only thing in American politics that seems sincere is republicans hating minorities, they are just making that their central focus even if it’s not popular.

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We’re not really saying “we don’t care.” What we’re saying is: Hunter Biden isn’t on the ballot. There’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegal so this isn’t changing our voting plans. If Hunter did something illegal, he should get an appropriate punishment for it, but this should also apply to Don Jr, Ivanka, and everyone else.

Instead, Republicans want to “get” Hunter Biden on something - anything - and tie Joe Biden to that by virtue of being Hunter’s father. However, they also don’t want anything Trump’s kids do to be tied to Trump. It’s an obvious double standard employed for political gain without any regard for the truth.

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It’s not Trump vs. Hunter Biden, but Trump vs. Joe Biden, so this sounds like the typical brainworm-reasoning that you get from right-wingers.

Donald Trump himself is the one doing the bad stuff, Biden‘s son‘s actions can’t be pinned on his father. Especially so because Hunter is not in in the government, unlike the monsters that are Trump‘s spawn.

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oh you’re right in that this serves an overall strategy they call “flooding the zone”, which is where you try to make your actual hideousness seem equivalent to your opponents in order to encourage people to just check out of politics. In 2016 one of Trump’s key campaign strategies was getting Clinton voters to stay home on the idea that “they’re all the same anyway, what does it matter?” But the fact is liberals do care, and they want to see justice done. Hunter Biden has been charged with federal crimes and plead guilty, and there’s no liberal backlash because he did that shit. They tried this with the Epstein plane too. They were like “But Bill Clinton was on the plane too” and most people’s reaction was “he can have the cell next to Trump’s”.

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4 points

I don’t have a dog in this race because I’m not american.

Ok Boris.

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Yea… Who cares of all the money he took? Fucking crack head good for nothing… Doing coce at the white house… My God

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2 points

You need to take another esl class.

Or go back for your GED. Whichever. Fucking moron.

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-3 points

Fucking retard

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-115 points

Because he’s sneaking cocaine into the White house?

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24 points

Y’all been calling his dad sleepy for years he had to help wake him up somehow

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-30 points

Well if you put it that way, how am I supposed to argue against that. 😆

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20 points

A more plausible explanation is that a visitor on a tour brought it and left it there, and Occam’s Razor says that the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.

But that doesn’t feed your insane narrative about Biden Crime Family, so I can see why you’d rather live in a fantasy world where you feel vindicated for having bad opinions.

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It’s more plausible that some random someone on a tour left their cocaine in a place they weren’t returning to rather than someone with regular access left their stash for later.

Ok, I guess.

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-24 points

Doesn’t take a genius to piece the two together.

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19 points

Is he smuggling the drugs in his penis? Or

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-44 points

Ask the FBI maybe they can tell you.

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18 points

Sneaking it in and hiding it in a visitors’ belongings section! That’s definitely plausible!

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4 points

Plausible deniability!

Nah I’m just kidding, but that would be a good place to hide it.

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18 points

Source?

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Just trust 'em.

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-63 points

Some things don’t need a source. TM.

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7 points

prove your allegation, troll

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3 points

Ok, Boris.

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