The people who used his addiction as a weapon for six years are now uncomfortable that he survived it with enough clarity to make jokes about it. That discomfort is not your problem to manage.
Seven years of sobriety through federal prosecution and national humiliation is not a political event. It is a human one. The wit he's bringing to it — the crack pipe photoshop correction, the cocaine denial with the punchline — is the specific register of someone who has fully processed the worst thing that happened to them. You cannot fake that register. It takes years of actual work.
His account of what happened to his father is coherent and worth hearing even if you disagree with it. His criticisms of Democratic establishment figures are the kind serious people across the spectrum have been making for years. None of that becomes wrong because he's the one saying it.
The question isn't whether Hunter Biden deserves sympathy. The question is whether we're capable of giving it to someone whose name became a political symbol before it became a person again. That's a test of us, not of him.
Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”
Health insurance is one of the biggest scams going. It costs a quarter of your salary but covers almost nothing. It spikes healthcare prices while seriously degrading quality. Everyone is worse off for it except health insurance executives.
It exists to subsidize capitalism.
The left has one job right now: stop treating authoritarianism like a debate club topic. It is here. It is funded. It is organized. It is wearing a flag pin and thumping a bible.
It is important to understand this one thing: No Republicans actually believe there was fraud in California's voting.
This is all a pretext to sabotage the November elections.
@factpostnews Sounds like a great strategy. Anger the senior citizens, the most dependable voting block in history who has historically voted GOP. You can have all of it if you reimburse me and my spouse for the 75 years we’ve paid in.
RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.
You should ask yourself why all of the people who are screeching about election fraud on social media are always unwilling to repeat these claims under oath.
Let me help you: it’s because they know they’re full of shit. The entire purpose is to keep people angry.