BREAKING: Hunter Biden charges into battle to defend Graham Platner against the bad faith smear campaign — and Republicans are furious.
This is an absolute must-read…
“To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud,” Biden wrote on X.
“Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t,” he added.
The tattoo in question was a skull that Platner got done while in the military only to later discover it was associated with Nazism. He promptly got it covered it up by a new, benign tattoo. Platner has also come under fire for past erratic behavior brought on by the PTSD he incurred fighting in wars started by a Republican administration.
“You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster,” Hunter continued. “Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are.”
Hunter, of course, has personal experience with this kind of invasive humiliation because right-wingers gleefully disseminated photographs of him at his lowest, in the grips of drug and alcohol addiction, in an effort to politically harm his father. He is now clean, sober, and living proof that people can change.
“My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock,” he wrote. “I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.”
“I no longer believe that.”
“Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.”
“And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.”
“Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.”
“Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next.”
“We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.”
“So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.”
“You won’t.”
“The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.”
“That is the only definition that matters,” he concluded.
Republicans predictably responded to the thoughtful, empathetic message with their usual psychopathy. The comments are littered with MAGA cultists attacking Hunter for his past drug use and his father’s imagined crimes. But it doesn’t matter, Biden is undeterred. He’s proud of the man he’s become and ready to fight for what’s right.
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*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.