Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the rather bizarre filing of Hunter Biden this week in the Delaware gun charge case. Hunter draws comparisons with the children of undocumented migrants, dead Tsars, and Japanese internment camp victims. It then gets really weird…
Here is the column:
Hunter Biden is comparable to children in Japanese internment camps, to undocumented immigrants, to the murdered descendants of the Tsar.
At least that’s what he argues in a new court filing in his federal gun case, which presents Hunter as one of the most tragic figures since the fall of Troy. Literally.
Hunter v. Hunter
The brief starts by asking the court to ignore Hunter’s own admissions as to his use of drugs during the period of his gun ownership. As discussed in earlier columns, Hunter faces a serious problem in proving a prior defense by his counsel Abbe Lowell.
Last October, Lowell argued that Hunter had not lied on ATF Form 4473 when he indicated he was not an unlawful user of, or addicted to, narcotics: “At the time that he purchased this gun, I don’t think there’s evidence that that’s when he was suffering.”
The problem is that Hunter discussed his roaring addiction in his book, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, which he has used to excuse years of alleged influence peddling and an array of possible crimes from drug use to sex trafficking to tax offenses. The narrative was pushed by his counsel and picked up by the media which showered him with praise for his courage.
Now, however, counsel wants the Court to forget the admissions such as Hunter admitted that he was “drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating” as was “smoking crack around the clock.” He describes his addiction as running up to the announcement of his father for presidential election.
The book is not his only problem. Recently, the government has revealed that, when it recovered the gun after its was discarded near a school, the gun pouch was coated in cocaine.
Lowell expressed outrage that the government would cite his client’s own words or cite the fact that his gun pouch looked like it came from the desk of Tony Montana.
Calling the use of his client’s words “despicable,” Lowell suggests that the prosecutors “should visit an Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meeting.” If that was not bizarre enough, he then describes Hunter’s other towering burden: being the son of one of the most powerful people on Earth.
Hunter Through History
While Hunter repeatedly used that connection for appointments and influence peddling, it is also apparently his curse. Indeed, he suggests that it is a protected “immutable characteristic,” a term used often in cases protecting minorities from racial discrimination. Somehow his prosecution for a gun violation would raise constitutional concerns since “the First Amendment … protects the freedom of association among family members—particularly as the parent-child relationship is an immutable characteristic.”
He shares how he carries the same burden as other accursed children.
In a brief that borders on delusional, Biden’s lawyers say the son of the president who burned through millions from influence peddling is comparable to all those unfortunate and destitute souls.
While the media has endlessly covered how Donald Trump’s arguments are over-the-top in issues such as immunity, there appears to be comparably little interest in the president’s son’s self-aggrandizing demand for dismissal of his criminal charges.
One of the filing’s main arguments is that Hunter Biden is being selectively prosecuted because of his father.
Hunter profited massively from the Biden name, but now, his lawyer Abbe Lowell argues, he’s suffering from the “burden” of parentage.
To back up this argument, Lowell cites Plyler v. Doe, a case involving the providing of free education to the children of illegal immigrants, to say that the Constitution, “prevents the government from inflicting harm on children for the conduct of their parents.”
That’s right, Joe Biden is like an undocumented migrant father who carried his kid over the border for a better life.
One can only imagine the press response to any comparison of the Trump children to migrant children.
Hunter also cites cases involving children born out of wedlock in need of court protection. The argument is particularly ironic since Hunter Biden fought to prevent his daughter Navy Joan from using his last name.
Perhaps the most insulting analogy is to the treatment of children in Japanese internment camps.
Hunter quotes the dissent in the infamous Korematsu v. United States in describing how the government in that case was attempting “to make an otherwise innocent act a crime merely because this prisoner is the son of parents as to whom he had no choice, and belongs to a race from which there is no way to resign.”
It is not exactly the image that comes to mind in photos of Hunter in high-priced hotels surrounded by prostitutes and a Smörgåsbord of narcotics.
It then gets even weirder. Hunter tells the court that it is precisely “great privilege” that makes children like him “the target of animus for that very reason . . . History is replete with children of political figures being abducted and assassinated literally (e.g., murder of Romanov children by Russian revolutionaries) or figuratively (e.g., Odysseus murdering the son of Crown Prince Hector when sacking Troy).”
There seems to be no victim in history who was not a precursor to Hunter.
At one point, they suggest that prosecuting Hunter for a gun charge is similar to Joe McCarthy forcing a senator to retire by threatening to reveal that his son was homosexual.
Of course, that analogy omits that Hunter wrote a book about his conduct and that this is a gun charge of the type that his own father pushed for strict enforcement.
Nevertheless, this twisted historical reference allowed counsel to remind the court that Roy Cohn worked for Joe McCarthy and later for Donald Trump. Of course, Robert Kennedy also worked for Joe McCarthy, but the Cohn connection was somehow relevant to Hunter lying on a gun form.
Moreover, it is hard to see the selective prosecution in a case that resulted from a sweetheart deal collapsing in open court after a prosecutor admitted that he had never seen such a generous deal.
As his father once said, “no one f–ks with a Biden.” Whistleblowers have testified that Hunter avoided prosecution for years precisely because he was a Biden. Indeed, the evidence shows Biden reminding everyone of his father in shaking down clients.
In one call he literally describes his father sitting next to him to drive home the threat, declaring “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled…I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight…I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Still, the motion is worth reading for its unrivaled chutzpah.
Hunter even cites Article III, Section 3 in claiming that he is being punished for his father’s position. He suggests that the Framers would have been appalled after they sought to prohibit “the common law ‘Corruption of Blood’ penalty that would destroy inheritance rights of children based on their parent’s crimes.”
Of course, the only corruption of the blood evident in the broader scandal is the corruption of influence peddling by the Biden family for years. For the moment, it is the crimes of the son, not the father, that demands answers in Delaware.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
Here is the filing: Hunter Biden Reply Brief
N.B.: I removed a line on the Trojan War that erroneously said that the motion referenced the killing of Hector, not his son.
A number of esteemed scientists (genuine ones) have suggested that apart from the property loss and the human toll, the fastest most certain way to secure a substantial drop in global temperature is nuclear ‘winter.’
I think it’s time we asked this question: how many dollars of taxpayer money have been spent so far on the attempt to bring Hunter Biden to justice?
To be clear,, this is about Joe Buydin “the Big Guy”, the “Chairman” ‘Celtic”, “JRB Ware”, “Mr. Peters” etc. How many aliases does JRB have, might be the question, and why? Hunter is his own worst enemy, and the stunt of showing up in DC recently at a Congressional hearing, with atty in tow only leads to more speculation. IMO he should have to answer questions regarding having sex with underage girls, potential FARA violations etc. Federal tax charges in CA, gun charges in DE are only the tip of the crime sprees of Junta. He’ll be testifying tomorrow under oath, behind closed doors. Expect “I’m taking the 5th amendment” to be invoked-over and over.
“. . . Hunter as one of the most tragic figures since the fall of Troy.”
That fall was caused by a theft. So the comparison is apt.
Somebody associated with Turley must read the comments.
Because Turley removed two mistaken sentences from the column — “Just as an aside, Hector was not killed by Odysseus but by Achilles. However, I could find evidence that indeed Hunter was also chased down outside the walls of Troy by Achilles” — after someone pointed them out in the comments (https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/01/hunters-heroic-epic-the-presidents-son-files-bizarre-motion-comparing-himself-to-migrant-children-dead-romanovs-and-ancient-greek-heroes/comment-page-2/#comment-2364766), and he added the N.B. at the end: “I removed a line on the Trojan War that erroneously said that the motion referenced the killing of Hector, not his son.”
Trump needs to pull a “Lincoln” and impose martial law; suspend habeas corpus.
From there, the sky’s the limit.
GO FULL LINCOLNESQUE!
Make America Great Again!
Make America America Again!
Make America American Again!
Trump isn’t President.
Trump is going to lose in 2024 just like he lost in 2020.
Oops!
Wait!
Real President Donald J. Trump did not lose in 2020.
2020 was “fixed” and “rigged.”
Just ask Zuck, who performed like a pretty ballerina for Missy Chrissy Wray at the Federal Bureau of Corruption, about his spiking the Hunter “Gift That Keeps On Giving” Laptop story, and don’t leave out the swing States that violated their own constitutions to change the election in 2020.
Wait. Why didn’t the judicial branch correct those anomalies?
Oh, yeah, more corruption to advance the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America” by Comrade General Secretary and Uber Mullah Barack Hussein “Barry-I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta-Soetoro” Obongo.
“WE THE PEOPLE SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY”
Remember those guys?
Don’t be so quick to write off DJT’s odds — 74 million voters in 2020 and though some may have changed their minds, new ones are lining up.
and you stake your reputation on that prediction!
Jonathan: Forget Hunter Biden. The real action is going to be in the Supreme Court next week when it hears oral arguments on DJT’s appeal of the Colorado SC decision barring him from the ballot.
A lot of groups have filed Amicus briefs in the case. The latest blockbuster is by 25 leading historians and constitutional scholars on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The group is led by James McPherson, professor emeritus at Princeton University. He is the preeminent authority on the Civil War and Reconstruction. McPherson and his colleagues looked at the legislative history, the congressional records and the debates surrounding Section 3 of the 14th amendment. They have concluded that DJT is an “officer” within the meaning of Section 3 and is disqualified because he engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution. So when McPherson and his colleagues speak with such declaratory language the Supremes are going to have to take judicial notice because you just can’t ignore what the creme de la creme have to say about Section 3. And even old Sam Alito, the “originalist”, the “textualist” will have to pay close attention to what McPherson and his colleagues say in their extensive brief.
Strange, very strange you have yet to weigh in on the battle of battles in the SC next week. While you have criticized the Colorado SC decision you have yet to opine on how the USSC might or should rule. Why are you suddenly AWOL?
The vote on this case will be 9-0 in Trump’s favor. But it might be 12-0 in his favor if mail-in voting is allowed.
The real problem is not the witch hunt by those who are obsessed and severely suffer with TDS but for the lawlessness that so called “progressives” and democrat DAs who are beholden to George Soros and his ilk. Let illegals in by the millions. Come one come all, even if you are a criminal thug. Beat the crap out of law enforcement officers in NY City and then let them free. Now they have fled. Way to go! Are they thankful for such generosity? No the shoot the double finger with a giant, smug “F…You!” To the authorities. This is the pure and unadulterated Bull Excrement of those who are in power and lean hard left.
They are evil to the core and should be removed from office and incarcerated. Shame on them! They care lower than low.
Shame on this administration for causing the cost of living to rise by 20% since they have been in office! They have caused nothing but misery and suffering since they have wiggled their way in power.
Bravo. But incarceration of the leftist Soros types who allow this country to be trod on is not nearly enough punishment for their acts. “
Make them take fentanyl until they join the sainted George Floyd.
“. . . the creme de la creme . . .”
All hail the the creme de la creme! And the other cremes: Lord Fauci, the CDC, the “protectors of democracy,” the Czars of appliances . . .
When did the party of “question authority” become such sycophants?
Even so, was Trump convicted of insurrection? Since insurrection is a federal crime, the opinion of state officials is just that, an opinion.
Everything Hunter’s counsel claims in this reply brief seems to apply in a much greater degree to Donald Trump in the NY “fraud” case, or to the J6 defendants in comparison to other rioters around America in recent years.
Nothing prevented them from making those arguments. But I doubt they’d win them.
Agreed, anon. Just like Hunter will (or should) lose. It’s the equivalent of saying “you can’t bust me for speeding because you didn’t bust the other guy”
I gather that you’re unaware of racial profiling cases involving drivers and police.
Fourteen-year-old girl cleans an incompetent school board’s clock. This is the only kind of thing that can expose our incompetent and greedy governing class, and that it has to come from a teenage girl puts the adults in the room to shame:
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1752776053209366921
“He shares how he carries the same burden as other accursed children. In a brief that borders on delusional, Biden’s lawyers say the son of the president who burned through millions from influence peddling is comparable to all those unfortunate and destitute souls.”
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Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
LOL
9 million on top of the 30 million that were already here. Impeachment
Jonathan: What is it with your continued obsession with Hunter Biden? Maybe you think Hunter is the key to bringing down Joe Biden. Believe me when I say Hunter is not the goose that laid the golden egg. He is at best a distraction.
I say this because the real action is in the House Oversight Committee. But Jim Comer has come up empty-handed. All the witnesses he has called in for depositions have clearly stated that Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s business affairs and never financially benefited from them–that includes recently Eric Schwerin, Rob Walker, Mervyn Yan, Kevin Morris and the art dealer Georges Berges.
So, instead of focusing on Jim Comer’s failures you want to distract us with Hunter’s gun charge in Delaware and Abbe Lowell’s filings. Your hyperbolic characterization of the filings adds nothing to the discussion. The Q is whether Hunter’s gun problem is in any way connected with your claim of the “corruption of influence peddling by the Biden family for years”? The answer is simple. There is NO connection and why you should stop hyper ventilating over Hunter because it just makes you look silly!
Professor Turley,
PROOFREAD before you write!
You wrote:
“It then gets even weirder. Hunter tells the court that it is precisely “great privilege” that makes children like him “the target of animus for that very reason . . . History is replete with children of political figures being abducted and assassinated literally (e.g., murder of Romanov children by Russian revolutionaries) or figuratively (e.g., Odysseus murdering the son of Crown Prince Hector when sacking Troy).” Just as an aside, Hector was not killed by Odysseus but by Achilles. However, I could find evidence that indeed Hunter was also chased down outside the walls of Troy by Achilles.”
No is claiming Odysseus murdered Hector. The claim was that Odysseus murdered the SON of Hector, which is Astyanax. Astyanax was either killed by Odysseus (per the Iliupersis, aka the Sack of Troy epic), or by Neoptolemus (aka Pyrrhus) (per the Little Iliad).
If you are going to try to correct the filing’s recitation of Greek history, at least get it right.
How did NO ONE at the New York Post correct this simple yet SIGNIFICANT error?
That’s another example of Turley being sloppy with details.
The NY Post published somthing containing wrong facts? Res ipsa loquitur. I’m surprised that you’re surprised. The NY Post is not a journalistic publication. And, thanks for that correction.
Aninny:
“PROOFREAD before you write!”
(…)
“No is claiming Odysseus murdered Hector. ”
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“No is” !!! What’s that about proof-reading?
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
~Matthew 7:1–5 KJV
You should take Matthew’s advice yourself Mespo.
How do you proofread before you write?
Thanks to your comment, Turley deleted those sentences and added a correction at the end of the column!
Another day, another column that’s light on legal analysis.
The thing itself speaks…
Romanov, Bidenov, Badenov
Bezmenov.
Kissoff Bidenov.
Very interesting brief. I intend to re-read it. I wonder what would happen if you substituted Donald Trump’s name in it for Hunter Biden, and changed the applicable facts. I think the modified brief could be filed every legal farce filed against him so far. Just with Trump, it would be accurate.
I look forward to your actually making the analogous arguments for Trump. I think you’ll have a hard time. And for context, you’d need to see the original motion.
Copies of the Lowell motions, Weiss responses, and Lowell replies here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/31/chessboards-hunter-bidens-replies/
Thank you, Professor Turley. I have read many inane filings by opposing counsel, but “Mr. Biden’s Reply” looks like a prize-winner.
Another facet of cases like this, which happen even at the grassroots level, is the dichotomy of citing a famous, or at least successful, parent as the cause of, or a contributing factor to, a child’s misdeeds – “the stress of living up to Daddy” – then citing Daddy as some sort of defense – the affluenza thing.
And whatever one’s legal or personal opinion on affirmative action in higher education, ponder the reality of Hunter and Lowell graduating from Yale and Columbia Law. (Don’t forget one of MSNBC’s Harvard (not law) alums, Joy Reid, making an issue of two of Donald Trump’s wives having Eastern European heritage and birth, clearly proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a direct Kremlin connection, but botching both the history and geography of their birthplaces.) Sometimes Ivy League ivy is more moss on the brain.
OT: This blog would be so much more readable and understandable if posters were required to use an identifier OTHER THAN “Anonymous.” On any given page of comments nearly half of the posts use that appellation often taking multiple different sides of the same argument. It’s no better than standing in a room with everyone shouting at the same time and not being able to discern the different voices. You don’t need to use your real name, just pick a moniker and use it consistently. Everyone will be better off and probably appreciate the debates better.
==> Anonymous wrote: “Dear Lord, help us rid ourselves of this rolling clown act called “The Bidens”!”
It is possible that only by the grace of Lee Harvey Oswald have you been you excused from being forced to regard the Biden Rolling Clown act as an inferior sequel to the Kennedy Kavorting Klown Komedy, with Teddy in the role now filled by Hunter Biden…
We can kvetch all we want about this, but it ultimately is of no moment compared to the debt/death spiral the US is in:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-living-borrowed-time
A balanced budget amendment can never come too soon. But getting the whores in DC to pass that is not going to be easy. Last time it made a serious run, it lost by a single vote in the Senate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/budget/stories/030597.htm
@oldman
Agreed. So many people are living on credit at the moment, and that bill is going to come due. The Biden debacle with student loans is but a preview. I honestly don’t know what we are going to do when the piper comes. Really: The damage these people have done in less than four years will already take generations to fix, and when it starts to earnestly hit the folks that haven’t been paying attention – sheesh. Vote the entire dem party out (and that doesn’t automatically equal ‘republican’), like, right now. We seem to have been clipped of any ability whatsoever to imagine ramifications.
James,
I agree with your assessment the damage done will take decades to fix. It will also require some serious austerity, social program cutting, infrastructure cutting which is something we really cannot afford. Even defense cutting.
Watching CRE crashing, and now seems regional banks are taking a hit, will we see more bank bailouts?
Invest in chickens, precious metals, ammo and your own health.
Trump increased the debt more than Biden has. But I don’t see you complaining about Trump.
Congress decides the budget. POTUS then either signs or vetoes.
And he didn’t veto it. Not only that, but he advocated much of the increase (e.g., his tax cuts for the wealthy).
@Anon
You are a ridiculous person. Nobody is listening to you.
The single biggest increase in the debt was under Trump.
But in MAGA world Trump built a wall 100 feet high for 1,000,000 miles. And the pandemic would just go away.
No, in MAGA country the biggest disappointment of the Trump years was the fact that large deficits were incurred each year. Most of the time people realize they have to choose the least bad candidate, and this year is no exception. In a mirror image, the biggest pleasant surprise of the Clinton years was two or three years of budget surpluses (once Congress was controlled by R’s). But we went back to deficits under W even when Congress and POTUS were solid R.
Thank you and FIsh for acknowledging that Trump adminstration’s biggest costs were saving lives caused by the Pandemic, and attempting to keep Covid and Fentanyl out our country.
No doubt you liked Trump’s lies that about Covid quickly going away: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/
These statements were as the # of cases was increasing and increasing and increasing to over 60,000 new cases per day. And then there was the fact that he told Bob Woodward that he knew it was airborne but didn’t bother to tell the American people. It’s not going to disappear. It’s now endemic. And people are still dying from it, though thankfully many fewer. If Trump had done a better job managing Covid and hadn’t lied about it so much, he probably would have been reelected.
And the Biden Admin. has captured more fentanyl that people were attempting to smuggle in than the Trump admin. did.
. It’s not going to disappear. It’s now endemic. And people are still dying from it
Like every respiratory virus ever.
But the CDC spread the lie a shot that did not prevent contracting the virus, nor stop the transmission of the virus.
CDC and every other government entity continue to ignore the staggering numbers of VAERS cases starting the moment CoVid’s so-called ‘vaccines’ launched, as well.
Glad that you agree that Trump lied over and over when he repeatedly insisted that it was going away while the deaths were increasing.
Trump was not the only one.
We know Pelosi insisted some big ethinc celebration could go on because there was no danger.
Cuomo ordered nursing homes were required to take hospital transfers of covid positive patients. Knowing the Elderly were the MOST vulnerable. Cuomo killed more than any politician
Trump was responsible for more deaths than anyone else. He didn’t even have everyone on the cruise ships quarantined when they got off the ships. He allowed Americans returning from China to freely mix with people on the flights coming back to the US. Cuomo was responsible for some of the deaths in NY. Trump was responsible for more of the deaths nationwide.
OldManFromKS,
Thank you for posting that article.
That is not the first time I have seen cutting interest rates will lead to more inflation.
And he is right about the middle class getting hollowed out.
Wall St. may be doing well, but Mains St. not so much. Record numbers of Americans are resorting to using credit cards to make ends meet, and just recently the record number of Americans having month to month credit card debt is a record.
More Americans are having to resort to raiding their retirement funds and 401k to make ends meet. That is a really bad sign.
64% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Those making $75+, 53% are having difficulty making ends meet.
24% have NO money in savings.
Last months unemployment numbers just got revised down, for the 11th of 12th time.
The Household and Establishment surveys show more Americans are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet.
These are extremely worrisome statistics, and they don’t even mention unfunded liabilities, such as entitlements and state and local pension obligations that might never be met. They dovetail with the debt/death spiral of the federal government.
We need a balanced budget amendment. Nothing short of that will do. The Congress members of both parties will not exercise adequate discipline as long as large deficits are constitutional.
I’m concerned about my state’s pension debt but also it’s one of the Sanctuary States. How are they ever going to pay the costs for all of the illegal migrants?
On the topic of job reports, here’s the latest report on lay-offs: https://www.challengergray.com/blog/job-cuts-announced-by-us-based-companies-surge-136-to-82307-to-begin-2024-financial-tech-lead/. Half of the current hires are from the government, an additional burden on those of us who actually pay taxes, a declining population.
While the stock market hits records, it doesn’t feel right partly due to the above. The CRE is scary.
The VIX hasn’t been normal for a while, and mostly it’s all just margin expansion of a few stocks.
Now back to our regularly scheduled reporting, I’m surprised that Lowell would file that. It doesn’t seem to live up to his reputation for being really good.
I love Zerohedge. First place I go each morning. However, I think the financial problems are not solvable. Theoretically, maybe, but there is something I call “practical unsolvability.” Like with Sears. At the time Walmart began to rise, theoretically Sears (the world’s biggest retailer at the time) could have adapted its business policies to adapt and survive. However, there were too many conflicting interests for Sears to have actually instituted those polices. And Sears had a top-down power structure. Same with America. We can’t even solve an illegal alien invasion problem because of competing interests.
That’s why the solution has to be imposed. It has to be unconstitutional to run a deficit. It is unconstitutional for many state governments (because of the state constitution), and – lo and behold – those states are not in fiscal trouble, at least not to the same degree (they do still have unfunded pension liabilities).
Floyd,
I agree but only to a degree.
I think a massive economic collapse, which forces everyone to suffer, to include the 1%, and have to reset the system with things like OldManFromKS says, no more deficits. Return to fiscally sound economic practices, a gold backed currency or a mix of gold and commodities, etc.
@upstate and oldman
I don’t know how you can rebuild with the deadweights we have in the country. Half the country is on drugs, a large number of young people can’t make change for $20, not to mention the fact they are not even sure if there are such things as men and women. Then you have the welfare class, who, if they had to work to maintain full support for themselves and their children, have no real job skills outside of running a fryer at Church’s Fried Chicken. A lot of young men are incapable of changing a tire, and then we have the morbidly obese youth, who would probably keel over if they had to chop wood. Add to that a sizeable number of senior citizens. A lot of Americans could come thru this, but there would have to be a whole scale abandonment of social welfare programs, and zero tolerance for crime. Add to that the fact that much of our industrial base is located overseas, so that we would have to re-tool ourselves. This would require massive deficit spending, at a time when that would be impossible.
I mean imagine if you just had to rebuild Baltimore, from what is currently inside Baltimore. You would have a huge number of black kids with high school diplomas, but no actual math or English proficiency. Those same people have little or no socialization, and tendency toward crime and violence. How would put a new factory there? Who is even capable of working there and running machinery. Worse still, who would have the will? And, imagine if you had to try to do this in a democratic fashion, where the necessary harsh leadership could be replaced at the polls any time?
I don’t see a good outcome, and I think things will get a whole lot worse.
Dear Prof Turley,
The ‘poor, poor pitiful Hunter’ brief is a work of ‘art’. Constructing a legal molehill out of a mountain of evidence
It’s important to remember Kevin Morris esq. is the ‘quarterback’ (congressional transcript) of all brother Hunter’s art work and personal affairs, including his legal defense. Abby Lowell’s brief is another ‘hail Mary’ after punting SC Weiss’s ‘sweetheart deal’ last year.
And it’s not, exactly, like SC Weiss has been scoring any touchdowns. .. iirc, his full report on Hunter Biden’s sordid affairs [exonerating Joe Biden] is not due until sometime after the election?
*chutz*pah. unusual and shocking behaviour, involving taking risks but not feeling guilty, in Hunter’s case actually makes him a Better Person.
It’s not a “‘poor, poor pitiful Hunter’ brief.” It’s a selective prosecution reply.