July 21st, yesterday, was the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden stepping down from his reelection campaign. To mark the occasion, President Biden’s only living son gave an absolutely incredible interview to Andrew Callaghan. I’m now prepared to either marry Hunter Biden or vote for Hunter for president. Hunter spoke about everything that happened last year during the election, including how many Democrats knifed his father in the back. Hunter called out the party’s pod-bro pundit class, the white millionaires who are still milking their association with Barack Obama after sixteen years. Hunter also spoke about what happened during President Biden’s debate last year. Some highlights:
His father’s poor debate performance: “I know exactly what happened in that debate,” Hunter, 55, claimed. “He flew around the world, the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as s—. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep, he gets up on the stage and looks like a deer in the headlights.”
On George Clooney: Hunter offered a particularly scathing takedown of George Clooney, who famously penned an op-ed for The New York Times in July 2024 that publicly urged Biden to drop out of the race. “F— him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be f—— nice,” the former first son said. “George Clooney is not an actor. He’s a… I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand….F— you,” Hunter continued, as if speaking to Clooney directly. “What do you have to do with anything? Why do I have to listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f—— life to the service of his country and decide that you, George Clooney, are gonna take out basically a full-page ad in The New York Times… and replace their judgment over his?”
On David Axelrod: “David Axelrod had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama, and that was because of Barack Obama.”
On Jake Tapper: “What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news.”
The Ambien thing… I remember some subdued speculation online that someone dosed President Biden just before the debate – it wasn’t just that Biden was sleepy or tired, he seemed drugged to some people. It’s worth considering, especially since that debate performance changed the course of American history. Hunter also calls out many Democrats by name, including Nancy Pelosi and everyone who wanted a pipe-dream “mini-primary” at this time last year. I wish he had gone even harder on Clooney, honestly.
In this clip, below, Hunter rips into the Pod Bro douchebags who are “four white millionaires dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago.” Hunter analyzes how all of the “Democratic intelligentsia” underestimated Biden’s 2020 campaign and lied about his administration. Honestly, give Hunter his own podcast – this analysis is dead-on.
Hunter Biden calls out the Pod Save America team as "four white millionaires dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago" as he outlines his issues with the greater Democratic establishment pic.twitter.com/dDrOlf6ZMk
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- United States President Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden and grandson Beau Biden Jr. arrive at Fort Lesley J. McNair Featuring: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Beau Biden Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 25 Jun 2023 Credit: Julia Nikhinson/POOL via CNP/startraksphoto.com
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- Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, seen leaving the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building, 2024, after a second day of Hunters trial on charges of illegally possessing a handgun and lying about his drug use when purchasing the weapon in 2018. Opening arguments are expected to begin today. Featuring: Hunter Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden Where: Wilmington, Delaware, United States When: 04 Jun 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages **NO Daily Mail. NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers**
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- Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, arrive at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware for the fourth day of his trial on allegedly illegally possessing a handgun and lying about his drug use when he purchased the weapon in 2018. Featuring: Hunter Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden Where: Wilmington, Delaware, United States When: 06 Jun 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages **NO Daily Mail. NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers**
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- Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, arrive at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware for the fourth day of his trial on allegedly illegally possessing a handgun and lying about his drug use when he purchased the weapon in 2018. Featuring: Hunter Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden Where: Wilmington, Delaware, United States When: 06 Jun 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages **NO Daily Mail. NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers**
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- Hunter Biden, son of United States President Joe Biden, attends a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House Featuring: Hunter Biden Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 03 Jul 2024 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Joe Biden greets his son Hunter Biden after addressing the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid, as first lady Dr. Jill Biden watches. Credit: Evan Vucci / Pool via CNP Featuring: Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 24 Jul 2024 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- United States President Joe Biden gestures to his Team USA jacket as Hunter Biden looks on while exiting the White House to board Marine One en route to Camp David. Featuring: President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 26 Jul 2024 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Hunter Biden looks towards United States President Joe Biden and Valerie Biden Owens while exiting the White House to board Marine One en route to Camp David. Featuring: President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Valerie Biden Owens Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 26 Jul 2024 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
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- Hunter Biden attends an event celebrating the 2024 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House Featuring: Hunter Biden Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 30 Sep 2024 Credit: CNP/INSTARimages
I’ve been saying EVERYTHING that Hunter said for EXACTLY A YEAR…and as part of the 92% I will NEVA forgive what those Dems did to Biden & Harris & 🇺🇸 democracy. ..which showcased their DECADES of being complicit AF to White Supremacy….to say the LEAST…
Not in THIS life…nor the NEXT😡
This part- the complicity! (Those) Democrats had ample time to address the industrial prison complex, give citizenship to DACA kids, address economic disparities and injustice in our country and they didn’t. It really looks like they continued to line their pockets while naive Americans thought there was a difference between parties. It’s the one thing that another trump term (imo) undeniably reveals to anyone paying attention. White supremacy benefitted them and there was not a moral obligation or conscience to dismantle that.
There is a huge difference between the parties. One supports reproductive choice and one does not. One wants more gun control and one keeps obstructing it. One wants to be part of global climate change initiatives and one does not. I could go on.
The idea that there is no difference between the parties is a dangerous one and it’s part of what got us the disaster that is Trump. No party is perfect and there is plenty of room for change and improvement in the Democratic party, but it is still a thousand miles better than the other.
What you said. Black people clocked this mess last summer!
I get so angry that everyone wants to blame Biden for not stepping down, MFs, you all let the press attack him and Kamala for 4 years. The Dems were terrible at fighting back and then let their dirty laundry be shown. I will forever be disgusted that Pelosi did this shit to get Gavin who had the opportunity to run and primary Biden if he wanted to.
Go Hunter!
I love and agree with the part about “four white millionaires dining out on their association with Obama”.
I read part of Ezra Klein new book abundance (I think he’s one of them?) and it is the stupidest gd thing I’ve ever read. I worked in construction in my 20s, and all of his ideas around construction and housing is what the Bush republicans in Texas were pushing 20 years ago. It’s anti union, anti permits, we should just get out there with bulldozers and build shit bs.
Completely ignores reality, and the reasons for regulation, which isn’t created to make life harder but because companies legitimately have to be told don’t kill your workers to save $100. I could go on about this forever because it makes me so furious. But anyway, these pro corporate, Obama adjacent white boys are the gd problem, and I thought they were last year too.
It’s like they want people to think these regulations were put into place to hurt industry instead of protect people. It is maddening.
Klein isn’t an Obama pod bro but I agree that it’s odd that a segment of liberals have elevated Abundance to some agenda setting masterpiece.
Seriously. I’ve been bitching about them, especially axelrod, for years. They were ALWAYS contemptuous of Biden even as vp. Saw him as somehow less intelligent, less polished, just less than Obama. Like he was some dumb rube. So snobby. This was all well documented.
100%!!
💯 can’t stand those Bros anymore. All of these folks who stabbed the sitting President in the back can kick rocks.
That line was amazing.
I do think there was a time when Pod save America/the World was helpful and played an important role in the first years of Trump’s first administration. but it always centered Favreau, Lovett and Tommy, not Dan Pfeiffer and definitely not Ben Rhodes. And okay the first three founded Crooked but Dan and Ben were the ones with better credentials and better takes.
i don’t remember when i stopped listening (well before the pandemic), but I do remember being turned off by an interview with Hillary where Lovett kept saying to her “you do realize though…..you have to admit…..” and it was so off putting. she’s a former secretary of state and US senator. she doesnt have to admit jack to you.
anyway fast forward to now, and yeah, the Crooked guys need to take some seats.
The only thing I know about these pod dudes is one of them was on Survivor proclaiming how he was such a huge strategy dude and the best to never play and was the first person voted out.
I loved every second of it.
I think most families have a Hunter. Someone who you’re always thinking “man, if they got their shit together they’d be a force to reckon with” I hope he wins against his demons, he’s lucky to have a dad who loves him so much and we’re all better for seeing it.
I love his full throated defense of his dad and everyone who wants to focus on “but Hunter” instead of how the establishment is failing us needs to dig in and get to work.
This particular comment was so effing true. I actually clapped when I read it, lol.
Four white millionaires LIVING IN BEVERLY HILLS while dining out on their association with Barack Obama. Hunter not only knows how to stick the 🗡️ in. He knows how to twist it. 😂
He should’ve gone after Obama also.
Thank you Hunter Biden for saying what needed to be said. F*k all of those who stabbed Biden in the back
His dad got a raw deal.
Also from a lot of regular non-MAGA Americans who never bothered to look up or talk about the many good things he did.
And the non-voters who only now slowly realize they are losing a lot of things that were arranged for them by Democrats throughout the years but never appreciated.
I too would like to marry Hunter 😂
He’s not wrong about anything especially those stupid POD bros that have been eating off Obama for over a decade. James Carville looking like the f@cking crypt keeper who clearly is out of touch.
I live in SC and I remember Jim clyburn single handedly revived Biden’s campaign. We were called “low information voters” which is racist AF. Like it or not black people are the heart of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is addicted to losing at this point.
I’m glad he’s going scorched earth. I would be too if they did that to my father. And people forget, people came to Biden asking him to run. Now all of the sudden he’s old??
F@ck George Clooney forever: does he even live in the US??
They always underestimate Clyburn too. Like they were so shocked a) he endorsed him (even knowing how close they were) b) did it so full throatedly (no tepid endorsement, he even invoked his popular late wife) and c) it made such a huge difference. Other people saw what was what and that’s why most dropped out in the next week or so. Axelrod and Plouffe were caught flat footed.
I’ll be in line to marry him. i’m so glad to hear someone saying what many of us have thought for the past year, and I’m so glad that it’s Hunter saying and fully defending his father.
I was always disgusted by the debate criticism because……have you seen/heard the other guy?!?!?!?
I am (or should say was) a George Clooney fangirl – way before ER. All the way back to frickin’ Facts of Life ffs. But I’m done. At one time he may have had something relevant to say, but his success has insulated him from what is actually going on in the world and turned him into just another insulated, privileged white dude who keeps multiple mansions in multiple countries, goes everywhere by private jet, but still feels like he is a righteous warrior for truth and justice. And to answer @BlueSky’s question – I don’t think he has a full time residence in the States any more, no.
Who knew that Hunter Biden was such a breath of fresh air?
I agreed with every bit of what Hunter said because he’s right. The Pod Shits, Axlerod, Rahm Emmanuel, Clooney and Tapper are all insufferable babies with no heart or vision.
Listening to Hunter I realize why Donnie Jr. is so obsessed with him. Donnie wants to BE Hunter.
Also, Hunter is soooo hot…whew.
So was his dad when he was young.
Clearly not a Pod listener, but yeah comment on Hunter’s ‘hotness’ that’ll get a dem back in office.
Laura what are you going on about? The Pod Shitters suck and have for YEARS and Hunter is a hottie boom body. What does that have to do with dems getting back in office?
And for many people Hunter and Don Jr are seen as the same. Kids riding on the coattails of their parents.
If Dems want to target the grifting of the Trump family, it absolutely didn’t help when Hunter was doing stuff like the art scheme.
Hot or not, Hunter Biden was always a liability for the Dems.
He did so much damage to his father’s career.
I watched that 6 min clip and damn! I want more of that scorched earth energy Hunter is bringing here. Finally! I love that he is calling out ALL those insufferable aholes who knifed Joe b/c they thought they knew better than him? I will never forgive Clooney for what he did. Same for the rest of them.
It’s about dang time a democrat said all this out loud with their full chest. His interview was fire and needed to be said. Do I think that the PTB in the Democratic Party will heed his words? No, I don’t. They are addicted to power and way too comfortable and especially LOVE all that special interest money flowing to them. Which is the main reason they won’t retire.
I particularly love what Hunter said about that despicable ghoul, Rahm Emanuel. That guy is a cancer in the Democratic Party. They need to break his influence & shut him down.
As for George Clooney, Hunter is 100% right, he can take a long walk on a short pier imho. NEVER liked that guy and I began to really loathe him after his op-ed last year. The press needs to stop asking H’wood guys like him their opinions on American politics. George can get b*nt.
I think Rahm might be the worst among this group. I am astonished at how he just refuses to go the F away.
Hunter is problematic in many ways but I love when people give honest, unvarnished, DGAF interviews and he’s spot on with everything he said. Pete Buttigieg has been doing that a bit too, though he’s more snarky.
I do think Biden shouldn’t have run again; debate aside his age was showing and the Dems did not know how to go after the jugular with Trump, which sadly is a Repug skill.
And none of the Trump kids have the charisma to run for president…the one I’d be afraid of in that group is Lara. She seems the most ambitious and the most vicious.
The age thing doesn’t really hold water when Trump ran against Kamala and won. The media never really brought it up again. And Trump is CLEARLY in bad health.
……ummmm, yeah–but did he REALLY win?
He won like he was shot in the ear, if you know what I mean.
Yes Trump won. Let’s not turn into the January 6th people. I know tons of people who did not vote for her. I love how everyone wants to ignore the racism and sexism at play. Even the unions who endorsed Biden didn’t want to endorse her. It was a mess.
The ‘Pod Bros’ have done more to get Dems elected (through Vote save America) than Hunter’s ever done.
He was too old. The Senate/House in general is. And now we have orange facist it’s depressing.
his age was not the factor that the press – including the pod bros – made it out to be. if it was, Trump would not have beaten Kamala. his mental fitness was not the issue they made it out to be. again, if it was, Trump would not have won.
It was an issue, voters have said that in focus groups etc. The problem with Trump being that although he is close in age to Biden he didn’t look it (does now). Biden had aged terribly in the 4 years and this was sadly no more evident when the debate happened.
It’s shocking the age of legislators in the US, the fact that the last couple to die of old age in the Senate/House have been Dems is so so bad.
He never should have ran for a second term, but I understand from a human pov why he wanted to. He’s waitied his while life for the job and he had a great agenda he was inacting.
His age wasn’t a thing until the debate. Then it was. The optics were bad and even though the orange one is worse, many people who were likely to vote dem or consider it viewed that moment as something important.
Now I think that once kamala was the nominee that issue should have been removed, but it didn’t go away. Thats what needs to be examined. Why was one side hit with the age thing even when the other side was talking about eating cats and dogs.
I didnt say it wasnt an issue at all, i said it wasn’t the issue they all made it out to be.
trump is mentally gone at this point but even in 2019, 2020 he was in mental decline.
When Kamala became the nominee Dems should have turned the tables on the Rs and hammered away every chance they got at Trump’s health, mental issues, age etc. and no trump did not look great a year ago. he looked like an old doddering fool.
even with biden running, the talking point should have been about trump’s mental health, and it wasn’t. and thats in large part due to the Dems working against themselves (ie Favreau, Clooney, etc.)
His age was a factor well before the debate, actually–the debate was just the final nail in the proverbial coffin. I feel like people here just weren’t paying attention to polls and public sentiment beyond what they saw reflected in their carefully curated social media.
“A February 9–10, 2024 ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 86% of Americans thought President Biden was too old to serve another term. Similarly, a Quinnipiac University Poll released on February 21, 2024, found that 67% of voters believed Biden was too old to effectively serve another term. ABC News reports that this figure came after a special counsel’s report highlighted concerns about Biden’s memory. The Quinnipiac University Poll in February 2024 found that only 34% of voters believed Biden had the mental fitness to serve a second term, while 48% believed Trump was mentally fit. ”
We have got to get away from the gerontocracy guys. 3 Democratic congressional members just died in office within a couple months reducing the margin from 220-to-215 Republican House majority at the start of the year to 220-to-212 seats.
Emotions aside, this is a serious issue. The last 8 members to die in office were all Dems.
Correct.
I saw on websites that are mostly about funny memes etc, that his age was constantly pushed as an issue long before the debate.
Hunter blames everyone but the voters, who overwhelmingly agreed that Biden was not up to the job. Also, it took him until 2:50 to FINALLY mention Gaza, which was a major fraction among the Dem voting base. Its amazing, given what so many marginalized people are dealing with during Trump’s presidency, that somehow Hunter sees himself as a victim. Enjoy your pardon, Hunter–folks unlawfully detained by ICE wish they had your “problems”.
Thank you. I understand that Hunter is angry and hurt but another thing I think he fails to acknowledge is his own part in continuing to encourage his dad to run for another term when clearly all polling showed voters thought he was too old.
No THANK YOU lol. But seriously, everything you said. I think we can all understand and relate to him being protective of his father– I don’t fault him for coming to his father’s defense. It’s the lack of self-awareness and accountability that grates on me.
You really should listen to the whole podcast. It’s 3 hours. He goes in on a lot of things. Get the full context of his comments.
This. I realize pointing fingers and dishing out takes is fun, but like it or not, the Pod Bros have done more to engage people and elect Dems than most internet warriors ever have. And certainly more than Hunter Biden.
All that said, I agree with many of his criticisms. Especially of those all too eager to enrich themselves at the expense of offering any real, actual solutions.
I totally agree with you and the comments here about “hot Hunter” make me sick. You want to marry a serial philanderer and addict? Go for it. But seriously, let me poke holes in Hunter here – Biden’s schedule before the debate was set by his team. They knew his schedule and they agreed to the debate. In fact, the Biden team is the one that wanted this very early debate, so hush up about the timing and his travel schedule. Second, Biden was too old. Period. He said he would serve one term and he should have stuck to that. Trump is also too old. Most of both parties are too old. The Biden team (and I include not-hot Hunter in that) should have read the room and understood that Biden appeared older and more feeble because it was a change from what we have seen from him. Trump has been Trump in various degrees his entire life. Lastly, the whole “Grandpa/Uncle Joe” schtick is relatively new. Those of us who are my age (63) remember the Joe Biden who presided over the Clarence Thomas hearings, who was a self-righteous SOB for most of his career, but who had appeared to change as he aged in a positive way. Biden ended up being very similar to Trump in his belief that “he alone” could win. Dude, you won once in how many tries for the Presidency? What he did, was hamstring the party and Harris and give us Trump 2.0. I do not care one whit what Hunter Biden has to say about any of it.
Your beloved Pod brats haven’t done anything but inject arrogance misogyny, misogynoir and cynicism into the conversation. Hunter is very flawed but unlike your brats he admits to his.
Thank you. I hate that a lot of white men who then got involved with Kamala’s campaign is what torched it. Obama advisors screwed up and I wish people would stop listening to them.
None of them want to endorse Biden’s presidency either. They want to write him off and out. But he had more overall progressive legislation than Obama (who got the aca and then was hamstrung the rest of his presidency by the Rea Party), got HUGE bipartisan legislation on infrastructure, passed the Green New Deal and child poverty bills, had the CHPS act and more. They should’ve defended him, and then Kamala, last year. We had a TREMENDOUS economy, thr envy of the world. No where near perfect but we had low unemployment, wages were going up, the stock market was booming. We were producing more oil than anyone ever while making huge investments in green energy, inflation was too high but consistently decreasing, no recession unlike so many post covid. But they just ran from it.
This! The US was finally turning some things around, Biden had passed some great legislation, and we were on an upward path on many things. They should’ve defended that and Kamala, and focused on the threat of Trump and project 2025. That they didn’t is, in my opinion, in defensible, and the reason that we are where we are right now.
Yes!
I am SO glad he went off like this! We need more of this. George Clooney can get lost, he doesn’t even live here anymore. Hunter gives zero fucks and I am here for it.
Go, Hunter! I have never heard him speak before and he was bang on point with everything he said. No wonder so much magat hate is directed at him. Without the history of drug abuse (and the fact Democrats are policed for drug abuse while Elon, mango, mango, jr and most of the magats look high as kites without any criticism), he would have been a party superstar.
It’s great to blame everyone, but does Hunter blame himself for part of this? He has been the Achilles heel for his father for years. The Burisma thing does not exist if he didn’t get the job solely because his dad was VP. Or what about the art stuff. How is that different from the schemes of the Trump kids?
Joe Biden did a good job as president, but he was surrounded by insular people and the polling was saying months earlier that he had no shot of winning.
The interviewer also has some sketchy connections too.
Venting against all those figures might be cathartic, but he’s also pretty blind to how his dad sacrificed a lot to protect him. And the right wing were able to use that so that Dems lost the election.
And why is he doing this now when it looks like the Epstein stuff is taking hold? Again, he’s making it about himself.
Hunter has been his father’s achilles heel because of the press and republicans. Congressional Rs care more about Hunter getting a job because of his father’s connections (like every well-connected white man before him) than they do about ANYTHING relating to Trump.
He’s different from the Trump kids because they are not weaknesses for Trump. The press doesn’t care. Republicans dont care. dems dont care. But they all seized onto Hunter as a weak point and we have just let them do it for years and years now.
hunter biden isn’t perfect, not by a long shot obviously. but the hate campaign against him was always ridiculous.
Attacking him for the drugs was cruel, but the Burisma stuff is an issue. He doesn’t get that position but for who is father is. And his actions on that board gave the other side ammo to try and discredit Joe. Sure we might think Joe acted above board, but not everyone does and Hunter being part of that is an example of how this wasn’t just a media created event.
The art stuff was also not great. Does anyone seriously think his art gets sold without being related to a president?
This is not that different from the Trump branding on steaks.
The Dems always have to run on a level of perfection but Hunter was there giving them nuggets for the media to start attacking Joe’s credibility.
Hunter talked about “the art stuff” in the interview. I actually listened to all of the three hours. It was revealing and gave me a new perspective. He pointed out that it seemed like an innocent enough way to make money since he had been painting for years. He contrasted that to Don jr. starting a private club where people who do business with the government can join and have access to Cabinet officials. Yet, his art sales are treated as corruption while the Trumps peddle influence out in the open without consequences. But it is true that his dad was on track to lose even before the debate from hell. He kinda glosses over that difficult reality.
Hunter can say what he wants but it comes off as a scheme no different than the Trump stuff. There may be slight differences in how it was sold, but in an environment where the standards are different, Hunter once again doesn’t seem to care.
Is it fair? No. But that is the current playing field and for Dems to win they need to work with that. Not pretend the media is going to be fair.
Oh boy, I could give a s**t if Hunter used his connections to get a job🙄this is why Dems are where we are. One side gets nitpicked to death while the other gets away with EVERYTHING.
Which is why it is better to avoid these fiascos if one can help it. That’s the lesson for the Dems.
The media ecosystem is biased to help to GOP and wishful thinking or saying it’s not fair isn’t going to help the, regain power.
He actually does. He knows he’s problematic. He talks about a lot.
Hunter Biden has been an absolute godsend for Republicans. His questionable business dealings in Ukraine, the inflated prices paid for his art, his rampant drug use, his mishandling of sensitive information, he’s the exact person Republicans want to use to paint all democrats as corrupt insiders. And now finally when democrats are on the front foot against Trump with this Epstein issue, he decides to speak up again and remind everyone who he is and disrupt it. Republicans couldn’t ask for better timing.
His timing is truly impeccable. Time to talk about Hunter’s laptop again and forget about the Epstein files.
So keep talking about Epstein. i don’t get why we constantly let Republicans dictate what we talk about*. We can have a post about Hunter Biden while also hammering away at the Epstein issue. (and this podcast is out now bc it was a year ago that his father was forced to step aside.)
*I know this is a little idealistic of me but I am so frustrated with Dems constantly letting Rs control the narrative. Even with Hunter – yeah there were issues, yeah he was a problem – but how many congressional hearings were held about him? While Trump Jr is off doing god only knows what (while high as a kite) because the press doesn’t cover it. Why aren’t WE painting Republicans as corrupt insiders???? I just find it so frustrating on so many levels. I feel sometimes we’ve lost before we’ve started.
@ Becks–The problem is that the Left doesn’t drive the narrative and never has. We have no massive media ecosystem like the Right has and we aren’t good at dominating the attention economy.
Look, I get and accept that people here love Hunter Biden for reasons I clearly do not understand. But to give you a different perspective, Hunter represents something that the average American voter detests. He got the job at Burisma because of his last name, he used his father’s position as VP to get help for an energy project a Ukrainian gas company was pursuing. He took $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud. He is no angel, guys.
Using and abusing one’s position in government to wield corporate influence and to enrich oneself is Trump-style shit. This is what the average American voter DESPISES about politicians. Additionally, his sketchy behavior HURT Biden politically. If you claim to love Biden that should matter to you guys.
If we ever want to win again, we should be calling this shit out instead of applauding it when it’s our side doing it. We can’t call the Right hypocrites when we do the same damn thing.
Don’t you know Dems have to be absolutely perfect in every single way. Hunter was and is still made a scapegoat goat by both sides. It’s maddening at this point. Let’s focus on a guy that will in no way whatsoever affect you life while an orange p.o.s destroys everything.
I think at this point no one on Team Biden has anything to lose so I guess I’m not surprised he would go off.
I do think he was trouble for his dad ( then again, Trump has way more baggage and yet…,), but at this point everyone has been shooting their mouths off so I guess I can see why he would too.
George Clooney seems like a fair target haha. What can Clooney possibly do to him? I’d pick on him too.
I don’t listen to podcasts so I hardly know who those dipshits are, but they came on Jimmy Kimmel after the election and one of them always invokes Obama’s name. I rather listen to Hunter go off on these aholes.
Apparently we have to bow down to them because they’ve done more to get dems elected than anyone ever in the history of politics so I guess…ummm thank you for the current state of the country cause damn they really turned out the vote this last cycle!
Now that Hunter has had his say, let’s hope we get down to business and win the midterms next year. Circular firing squads only help the fascists, no matter how entertaining.
The focus needs to return to Epstein and how orange man is trying to distract.
Agree💯!
I’m so thrilled you’re covering this Kaiser!
If this can prevent Clooney and Tapper from rewriting themselves as heroes, then I’m ok with this tirade 🤣
He picked targets that I don’t think would cause trouble to the Democrats. Who is going to contort themselves into a pretzel for Clooney or Tapper? Everyone will just shrug and maybe they’ll gain some self-awareness that no one is going to go down fighting for those two.
He really reminds me of his father in this interview. The more feisty side of him, the one that would curse and get pissed off at fools. Looks like him too.
I am also furious at Clooney and Tapper, etc. I also think Biden was showing his age and should have considered stepping aside sooner. But I don’t know what internal polls were showing. Biden beat Trump. Harris didn’t. Biden was a good, effective President. Maybe they really believed, based on solid evidence, that he still had the best chance to keep Trump out of office again in 2024. I just don’t know.
I do know that some of these guys – and I will throw Jon Stewart in there too – have ALWAYS been snidely contemptuous of Joe Biden and it’s disgusting. He’s a decent man, a lifelong public servant, one who really cares about people and wants to address their concerns and problems. He’s an effective speaker, just not a soaringly eloquent one like Obama or a Rhodes scholar like Clinton. I don’t care. I’d do anything to have him back in office right now.
Hunter should be asking why isn’t Fox covering the Epstein files 😡😡 his timing is the worse 😡
Were they covering it before this interview? Who exactly is he beholden to? Congress is about to recess rather than deal with it but Hunter calling out the Pod Bros is the problem here? Whatever.
Hunter Biden is probably saying what Jill Biden is thinking. He doesn’t really have a reputation to lose so he can go off and what is anyone going to do? If Jill Biden said anything, the other Democrats would come for her and Joe Biden. But what can anyone say about Hunter that hasn’t been said already? You can’t really hurt him
through words. That’s already been done.
The only positive thing that came about the backstabbing by establishment Democrats is just starting to be seen now. So many millennials and younger are calling for them all to be primaried even though they thought their jobs were locked on until they decided to retire.
I watched some of these clips and good for him. Half the Dems are asleep so if his anger gets to them, so what. They’re so complacent and have no respect for the base, so f*ck them. He also detailed his career before addiction imploded it. This guy has a lot of experience and worked with a lot of NGOs and the UN world food program . He’s not just some useless son who paints and goes to rehab. It is worth a listen and hope it shakes things up.
I’m so thrilled you’re covering this Kaiser! I started watching the 3 hour video last night and I thought I’ll just speed watch this skipping to the interesting parts, 3 hours later I was in love. He is so much more than the media’s half-assed portrayal of him. I was so moved by this evolved self aware man, this guy has been through some shit. I can’t imagine how he clawed his way out of a crippling addiction while simultaneously enduring that mortifying lap-top scandal.
I hate to be petty but does anyone think either of the Trump brothers could survive this level of scrutiny? Hunter emerged from that mess a humbled triumphant survivor. I remembered what it felt like to be a proud Democrat, I’d happily vote for him any day.
For all those concerned about what Hunter said in his interview pulling focus from DT & the Epstein files — the House panel voted to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell over Epstein files.
It’s all over the news as we speak 🙄
Some of the people on this board right now are why Kamala lost. Hey, if the media decides to ignore what is going on with Trump to cover this, I don’t care. That was one of the things I got fed up about. The media in essence gave Donald Trump an in kind donation for all four years of Biden’s presidency. That man had 4 years to run for office and won because of that. Biden could have stepped down the year before and it would not have mattered.
The press brought up Biden’s age, Hunter, Kamala (and how she wasn’t smart or respected), lack of bipartisanship, and Dems in disarray for 4 freaking years. People bought into the Kamala is not smart rhetoric so much it was maddening. The press bought into well Kamala does not know what race she is. Biden had a bad debate and was firing the next freaking day, talked for several hours a week after and no one would let it go. The Dem insiders gave the go ahead to push him out. I said last summer the plan always was that live primary BS that Pelosi was pushing which was a bad idea. Tons of Dems felt robbed and cheated that Biden got pushed out and blamed Kamala for it instead of the Podcast bros, obama, the media, etc.
They’re in a podcast cult and repeating what their leaders tell them.
I am sick of it. Those podcast bros were going after Kamala for 4 years and Biden too. They were ticked Biden wouldn’t hire them. The fact that Rahm is talking about running in 2028 and wants to throw transpeople under the bus? Newsom is another one. None of these men are our saviors and all the election taught them is to run to the right since they are all delusional that Dems are going to vote for a Light Republican.
Americans not voting are why Kamala lost. And they didn’t vote because there isn’t a left wing media echo chamber to combat the non stop stuff about Biden’s age. Once Kamala was the nominee she should have won. She is younger and she didn’t flop her debate.
But why didn’t she win? That’s what needs to be examined here.
Hunter rehashing things and blaming celebrities and pundits wont help the Dems. It’s the missing voters that they need to find.
She didn’t win cause she’s a Black woman. Full stop. States and counties that carried Biden/Harris to the win did not come out at all for Harris/Walz. Crowd size does not equal votes. And again, a ton of voters didn’t even know election day Biden wasn’t running again.
THIS!! All day this!
Dems need to figure who the American people are and how they will vote for them. There are a lot of comments here that completely ignore that many Americans don’t automatically support democrats the same way there is a cult mentality with the GOP.
To win, they need to convince the voters who exist, not the ideal people who do not exist.
Is the standard of perfection for Dems unfair? Yes. But this is the second time a more competent politician lost to a racist criminal. There needs to be real talk at finding solutions.
It’s honestly quite astonishing to me that most Americans don’t realize how much the collective zeitgeist, especially around national politics, is explicitly defined by mainstream, corporate media. No one was “concerned” about Biden’s age until Cheeto Mussolini started hammering on it and the national press ran with it. Then the polls were done, then hundreds of articles, interviews and more polls. After all that, everyone accepted as fact that the public is very concerned about Biden’s age. You don’t have to believe me, you can just review history and do an actual comparison to the reality that a) Biden has a speech impediment (stuttering) that is well known and impacts his speaking cadence and delivery, yet this is Never highlighted in the countless articles about him; b) outside of the debate performance (which thanks to this Hunter interview we have a better understanding of the overall cause), there was scant public evidence of Biden’s mental decline (unsourced rumors don’t count); c) Cheeto’s speech, cadence, intelligence and knowledge of current events, much less world history is never fucking questioned by corporate media. Why TF is that? Why would millions of Americans be ‘concerned’ about Biden’s mental acuity and age, but have no concerns about those same issues in Cheeto? Could it be because corporate media never told them that they need to be concerned? There have been hundreds of articles, books, podcasts speculating about Biden’s mental health, but corporate media actually cleans up quotes from Cheeto’s speeches to make them seem sane and cohesive. Why would American media outlets, by default, put in effort to bolster the public perception of a political figure?
If no one can address these issues, then they shouldn’t be making the fucking argument that the American public gave a damn about Biden’s mental health or age. Once again, the public was manipulated and once again, white America especially, fell for the manipulation.
What you said. Honestly I don’t care if the media is being sued by Trump. They bought into this mess and did hit pieces for years. Democrats have one set of rules and the GOP another. The press hammered at Biden about Gaza and chose to ignore that Trump is legit going to sign off on a whole genocide so he can build buildings.