On Ol' Joe And His Boy Hunter

NYPost:

WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s top prosecutor said he hasn’t seen any evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden nor his son Hunter Biden in dealings with the country.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said Hunter Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian private gas company of which the younger Biden served on the board, were not the targets of investigations by his office.

He also said the former vice president, and current Democratic 2020 hopeful, didn’t act improperly when he called for the dismissal of Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Victor Shoki, who had been investigating the company.

“I do not want Ukraine to again be the subject of U.S. presidential elections,” Lutsenko said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws – at least as of now, we do not see any wrongdoing. A company can pay however much it wants to its board.”

President Trump’s allies – including Donald Trump Jr. – have suggested the Bidens acted inappropriately. The president’s outside lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, had threatened to travel to Ukraine to investigate things on his own, but has since canceled those plans.

“All the reports indicated that not a single, solitary thing was inappropriate about what my son did,” Biden told WMUR in an interview this week.

First, knowing a little something about how fucked up everything is where Ukraine and Crimea and Russia are concerned, we can't assume there's nothing going on that's maybe a little funky.

Second, Hunter Biden was probably benefited simply because of his dad's name and position. And that's not good.

But third, we also know how strictly the Obama administration adhered to ethical guidelines.

If anything, they overreacted and came down on the side of extreme caution, always taking steps to make sure there was as little cause as possible to be worried about shenanigans.

This was, after all, the "black man's behavior having to be orders of magnitude better than the average in a white man's world".

So while I'm not willing to dismiss entirely the prospects of some insider shit going on, the whole thing passed muster with Obama's ethics watch dogs, and when Joe announced his candidacy, Hunter bowed out of his board membership so there'd be no room for criticism.

Of course, as usual, that means nothing to Cult45, and so we're seeing all the same Republican shit we always see from the crowd that brought us such political high points as Willie Horton, John McCain's illegitimate black baby, Swift Boat, The Kenyan Usurper, Death Panels, Pizzagate, etc etc etc.

With the big tell being: Don Jr making lots of dirty noise about nepotism and trading on the family name - because that's exactly what the Trump kids do all the fucking time. They can't imagine Hunter Biden not taking the easy path because of his dad's prominence.

Daddy State Awareness - rule 1:
Every accusation is a confession.

BTW - this brings to mind the word "entitlement" as a great example of how the Daddy State has twisted and over-turned the language (rule 4). 

Entitlement, as currently understood in our political environment, means I'm entitled because of the happy accidents of my birth - my parents, my neighborhood, my advantages etc. But you can't claim "entitlement" to respect or fairness or equal opportunity, or anything else if I feel it threatens my superior position by forcing me to compete on a level field.