Why Hunter Biden s laptop really matters – spiked
The real Hunter Biden laptop scandal is not the laptop itself. It isn t the sordid contents of this computer that was dumbly handed in to a repair shop in Delaware. It isn t the fact that the hard drive contains lewd images of Hunter and others doing drugs and having sex. It isn t even the fact that the laptop contained a trove of emails showing that Hunter was not averse to namedropping daddy who was then vice-president in the Obama administration to secure sweet deals with foreign businesses. No, it s the fact that America s media elites studiously ignored the whole damn thing and even flat-out censored it. The scandal is the fact that the scandal was buried, on the grounds that nothing, not even the truth, could be allowed to scupper Joe Biden s ascendancy to the White House.
Yup, Brendan has this right. These are the crazy years, as the Instafather has said. Law students heckling speakers at Yale! Obviously newsworthy laptops censored! And lots of other things far less funny, and even more serious. What will become of us? I think it’s a good time to reacquaint oneself with the wisdom of the Stoics, some of whom who were Christians, evidently. Of course, it’s easy to be stoic about the suffering of others. It’s your own suffering that is harder.