“They are trying to, in their most illegitimate … but rational way, they’re trying to destroy a presidency,” he said in the episode of Moby Pod.

“What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way,” he said, adding that they want him to relapse to drug abuse.

“It’s not about me,” he continued, adding that “these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives that they’ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they’re going to inflict on the rest of the world”. He also accused conservative news outlets of “harassing” him.

Mr Biden added: “I’m gonna survive it clean and sober, is because I am not gonna let these [expletive], OK, use me as just another example of why people in recovery are never gonna be OK, never to be trusted, they’re all degenerates.”

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    i didn’t care who Hunter was before Joe became President, and i still don’t give a single fuck… Republicans are nothing but fucking trolls, and they can all fuck off to Russia any time they like, if that’s the kind of place they want to call home… they can live in a country full of trolls like them…

    and if you mindlessly vote for Republicans because you think you’re a Republican, you can starve for all i care

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      Hunter Biden is also 53 years old. This isn’t some juvenile runaway with a cushty job provided by his dad, he’s some old dude. At what point is Joe Biden no longer responsible for him?

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      It’s all performative nonsense. They literally have nothing else. They definitely don’t believe their right-to-life bullshit because Republicans have mistresses that have had abortions. They don’t believe in their gay bashing. They still do it because they have nothing else. It gets them into office so they can sell out the public interests as usual. They believe in nothing.

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      Yeah, I don’t think he’s going to get much of a defense given the only people who know who he is are over-the-top obsessed with him. I mainly know him as just another (Anthony) wiener in the soup making everything worse.

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    My first thought was he was being a drama queen, but given his history of substance abuse and Republicans’ general level of ethics, I have no trouble believing they’re trying to literally kill him.

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    Wait until Republicans hear about the traitors that tried to undermine democracy on Jan 6, 2021.

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      You mean the BLM trans anteefah false flag that tried to overthrow the gubment - which was a good thing, and the hundreds of conservatives that were arrested are heroes, and their charges don’t count because that was a naval flag, and they tried the legal entity not the living person… Besides, Trump is the first legitimate president since Nixon, and Kennedy will come back from the dead with his running mate Elvis…

      Nothing has any meaning to these fascist dipshits - so long as they have a marginalised group to be terrified of and lash out at.

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    Hopefully the guy is right and doesn’t have a relapse.

    Also, I hope he gets to vanish back into obscurity soon.

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    I actually agree with this but its also an impossible situation in the sense that he has to answer for shit and society must answer by fully pursuing and prosecuting any rich asshole who plays games with the system. Hunter has a mitigating defense in the sense he was a drug addict who had major addiction issues but there needs to be consistency and predictabillity in how and to whom these cases are investigated, charged, prosecuted, and punished.

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      He’s being prosecuted for something people are almost never prosecuted for, especially when they pay the money back, which he did. On top of that, there’s a gun charge which, for some reason I can’t imagine, Republicans aren’t rushing to his defense about.

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        Yeah this is bullshit theater. But the prosecution decision came from the DoJ, not Congress. It’s not that you’re wrong per se it’s just that I find it hard to get up in arms about powerful people being held to account

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      Yeah it’s hard to describe how little I care about Hunter Biden as a political issue. As a human I want him to continue to get the help he needs to stay clean and healthy. As a member of society I want to see the rich and powerful held accountable. As a political event I could not care one iota less.

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    I think Hunter is maybe a little right, but that would be the bonus. This is mob style tactics, make you guys hurt (go to court and be harassed) if I have to go to court. This is regardless if trump is supposed to be tried or not. This is the stuff we know about, I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes for all of the politicians or government employees daring to try to hold trump accountable.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    His death “would be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle”, the younger Biden told musician Moby in a podcast that aired on Friday.

    The first of the two-part broadcast was recorded before Mr Biden was charged with nine major tax crimes on Thursday.

    Hunter Biden, a recovering crack cocaine addict, was speaking from his home in Malibu, California, to Moby, whom he befriended while in recovery for drug and alcohol abuse.

    “What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way,” he said, adding that they want him to relapse to drug abuse.

    On Thursday, federal prosecutors in California filed an indictment that accuses Hunter Biden of failing to pay taxes from 2016-2019 and instead pursuing an “extravagant lifestyle” of drugs and escorts.

    As President Biden flew to Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday for a campaign event, his press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked aboard Air Force One about the latest charges for Hunter.


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    Maybe don’t be such a hoodlum and doing absolute delinquent shit that is obvious to every ome not a picky leftoid.

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      What “obvious delinquent shit” would that be? Not paying taxes? The thing that Trump said was smart? Having a gun despite a history of drug use? The thing that Republicans say should not take away a Constitutional right? Because those are the things he’s being charged with and those don’t sound like “obvious delinquent shit.”

      So please enlighten this picky leftoid and let me know what obvious shit I’m missing. Thanks.