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<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\nAs a criminal enterprise, for instance,\u00a0the Biden family influence-peddling operation among foreign powers reflects exactly the racketeering character of corporate America today<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 which is to say, making money dishonestly, and often for doing nothing. In America\u2019s biggest industry, finance, this is absolutely the case. You may have forgotten what finance is, and what it\u2019s supposed to do: namely, to lend money for activities intended to produce things of value, useful things that people need and want, sometimes even public works that benefit everyone in society.<\/p>\nAmerican Finance now is in the business of receiving free money (loans at minimal interest) from government-chartered central banks (issuing \u201ccredit\u201d from nowhere), that banks, hedge funds, private equity outfits, and sundry freebooters can roll into instruments such as interest-yielding bonds (loans back to government) and derivatives (algorithmic bets derived, abstracted from, and tuned to market movements) magically multiplying money that finally produces nothing of value \u2014 though it may translate into yacht purchases, alimony payments, luxury suites at ballparks, private Caribbean islands, and traffic in humans for use as sex toys.<\/p>\n
The Biden business model also applies nicely to medicine and higher education,<\/strong>\u00a0two endeavors saturated in prestige and pomp, like the doings in the White House, but which, similarly to that hotbed of policy and action, in the case of medicine, produces shocking amounts of unnecessary death (est. 251,000 a year from iatrogenic treatment errors), and in the case of higher ed, the production of specious and harmful Big Ideas \u2014 while both endeavors expand like turbo-tumors within the dying body of an expiring manufacturing economy.<\/p>\nAs in the Biden model, dishonesty is now the keystone in both \u201cMeds\u201d and \u201cEds.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Our public health officialdom hasn\u2019t stopped lying about the Covid-19 episode since it began, and in every aspect from the origin of the disease (if that\u2019s even what it was), to the deaths statistically attributed to it, to everything about the \u201cvaccines\u201d cooked up to stop it. In turn, those officials coerced America\u2019s doctors into withholding the best treatments (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine) while applying deadly protocols (remdesivir plus intubation) guaranteed to kill hospital patients \u2014 which the government then rewarded with gargantuan bonus payments.<\/p>\nHigher ed has now turned its energies from learning to\u00a0political activism<\/em>, meaning the performance of morality preening stunts for acquiring status under the pretense of addressing social problems that boil down to bad behavioral choices and mental illness. Higher ed is now in the business of generating more of both those things in the form of manufactured racial antagonism and sexual torment (in partnership with the medical establishment). All fields of study in college are now racialized and genderized, and all at the expense of organized knowledge, which gets burdened with fatuous theory and spurious crypto-religious missions. The price of admission to this carnival of fakery multiplies at a faster rate than the generalized annual dollar inflation, abetted by federal loan guarantees that \u201cJoe Biden,\u201d in his munificence, seeks to abridge with a jubilee for student debt.<\/p>\nOf course,\u00a0it\u2019s the fantastic psychodrama within the Biden family that presents the most arresting model for America.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cJoe Biden\u201d tells us over and over that he loves his son, who he calls \u201cthe smartest man I know.\u201d A father\u2019s love is a wonderful thing, for sure. And yet, is there anything that Hunter Biden has not done to destroy \u201cthe Big Guy,\u201d short of, say, driving a number nine knitting needle ear-to-ear through the old man\u2019s skull?<\/p>\nLook at what Hunter has loosed on his loving dad:<\/strong>\u00a0a photo archive of amateur pornography (including sex acts with children), drug crime, and bribery deal memos so vast and clear-cut that a first-year law student could write them up into a federal criminal case and \/ or a bill of impeachment. Hunter went and got a pole-dancer pregnant and lately tried to weasel out of paying to support the daughter he refused to acknowledge until DNA testing pinned it on him. He only just wriggled out of tax evasion and handgun charges due to his father enlisting the US DOJ as a private protection service, thus befouling the agency and destroying the public\u2019s trust in it. Now Hunter\u2019s suspected of leaving a bag of cocaine in a West Wing cubby, where White House security was sure to find it.<\/p>\nWhat we\u2019re witnessing is an order of magnitude greater than Greek tragedy: the implacable drive to destroy not just the father, who happens (by the sheerest electoral subterfuge) to be president, but to take down the nation with him. And it\u2019s working.\u00a0<\/strong>The Biden family is crashing into smoldering wreckage, and so is the USA \u2014 as acted out in the sad-sack nation of Ukraine, a festering hub of Biden family moneygrubbing going back more than a decade, now being needlessly sacrificed as part of a massive criminal cover-up, with America\u2019s geopolitical prestige on-the-line.<\/p>\nI know, the complexity of this melodrama is overwhelming.\u00a0How can one bumbling political idiot wreak so much havoc?<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s a wonder, all right. But it\u2019s all playing-out before us in real time. \u201cJoe Biden\u201d \u2014 who (let\u2019s face it) is only partly there \u2014 Hunter, brother Jim, and the rest of this sorry clan are all going down. We won\u2019t miss them, when their gone. Everything about them is ignoble, which you can\u2019t exactly say about our country itself. One way or another, they will be thrown overboard, and then we\u2019ll see if we can get this ship righted and under sail again.<\/p>\n*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n
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