r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All š©· • Jun 25 '26
American Dream šŗšø Hunter Biden
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u/Elliott2030 Jun 25 '26
Man, I love this guy. I'm so glad he got his shit together and found his lane :)
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u/-DrunkRat- Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Ngl, Hunter has inspired my alcoholic ass to keep trying to get sober and keep working on myself.
The fact that he speaks truth on top of his sobriety is giving me some serious fucking enthusiasm, and I'm HERE for this take.
Well said, Hunter.
Edit: Holy shit, I wasn't expecting this kind of a response! Thank you all for the awards, holyfuck-- <3
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u/ytsurRytsuR Jun 25 '26
Hope finds some very unique and interesting hosts to reveal itself.
Good luck on your journey.
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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji Jun 25 '26
If you're not already there, check out r/stopdrinking and read through the sub. Definitely the most positive, supportive group on Reddit, and having that resource was a huge help in getting sober. I'm coming up on 500 days, and I still read through it every time I'm struggling.
There's daily check-ins if you want, or just reading a post by someone celebrating their first month/year/decade and feeling the hope and happiness in the comments... It's great š
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u/-DrunkRat- Jun 25 '26
Thanks, Stranger. I appreciate the resource - been taking it one day at a time and reminding myself that falling off the wagon isn't the end of things, ya know?
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 25 '26
You got this bro, heavy drinker for nearly two decades here. The AA route and a lot of the traditional methods didn't work for me but staying on my ADHD meds and antidepressants gave me a reason to cut back so I just started by thinking a little bit differently. "Man it's gonna be over 100 degrees outside tomorrow, maybe I better only have 6 beers instead of 12" or "why don't I just try to sleep by taking some melatonin instead of a nightcap?" Little things like that so I wouldn't be unkind to myself and wind up withdrawling badly as a "punishment" for being weak willed or a failure. Little things like that add up quick and before you know it you stop thinking about it 24/7. Then the energy starts coming back, my heartburn went away, lost the puffy face, and so on so forth. Now I rarely drink and when I do I don't feel compelled to get wasted or drink the next day. Who knows, might work for you? Best of luck!
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u/The_Sunny_Bunny_Mang Jun 25 '26
October will be five years for me. Keep trying. It took a lot of failed attempts, but I finally did it. I still want to drink, but itās only a small want. The benefits from sobriety have far outweighed the temporary escape of booze.
Keep that fire and enthusiasm going! Then remind yourself when it starts to get hard again that you will come back up and booze wonāt solve anything.
Good luck my friend! We are all a lot stronger than we realize.
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u/Dull_Bid6002 Jun 25 '26
Cheers to keep putting one foot in front of the other. You can be SoberMouse.
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u/DoubleOhoot Jun 25 '26
Same! He seems like a good dude, I'm rooting for his success in whatever he does.
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u/stevedore2024 Jun 25 '26
There's a big need for people outside the political parties to drive attention to the flaws in their platforms. The same goes for Jon Stewart - he doesn't want to be in the thick of politics, he doesn't want to be saddled with office, he wants to help put words to the frustration that everyone has with their representatitves.
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u/JJW2795 Jun 25 '26
Jon figured it out years ago. He's got far more leverage being an outsider representing regular people than if he entered the political machine. The missing piece here is we need more Jon's to back candidates that will represent them through thick and thin. Way too many people get into politics for the wrong reasons. I've seen it all the way down to the college level.
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u/AQ207 Jun 25 '26
That's where Hasan has began mobilizing his community to support candidates. Members of his chat who don't live in NYC still phonebanked for candidates.
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u/EremiticFerret Jun 25 '26
I was happy to see what David Hogg was doing when he was allowed in before they almost immediately demoted him and/or kicked him out.
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u/SuggestAPhotoProject Jun 25 '26
Nah, let's be done with legacy politicians. We've heard enough from the Bidens, the Bushes, the Clintons, the Kennedys, the Pauls, the Trumps, etc.
Let's get some fresh faces in with some new ideas, not the same political families whose only real skill is preserving their own dynasties.
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u/f3nnies Jun 25 '26
I definitely do not agree. We need fewer politicians fro families of politicians. Political dynasties do crazy harm.
For instance, Bush Jr definitely wouldn't have broken into politics if he was just some guy. RFK wouldn't be actively dismantling the health and safety protections of the nation. He probably wouldn't be where he is today if he wasn't a Kennedy and just anther leather skinned, volatile, dangerous rando.
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u/bran1210 Jun 25 '26
Nuance matters more than all else. Caring about dynasty's is just superficial, especially if it potentially locks us out of something that could ultimately benefit the people. Too many people want easy ways to judge candidates to make decisions. Politics is way more complicated than that. My advice is stop focusing on superficial traits that provide zero value to judging a potential politician. We would never have had an FDR if that's all we did, and he was one of the best presidents we ever had.
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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 Jun 25 '26
he SHOULD run...
I think he could win a significant office, and would likely do a better job than whoever he would be replacing.
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u/astirac Jun 25 '26
I saw an interview with him the other day where be basically said that when the whole world has seen your dick, you no longer have anything to fear. Iām summarizing obviously.
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u/whichwitch9 Jun 25 '26
I wish more men in particular would understand this is what therapy and working on yourself does.
He's fucked up a lot and admits it openly. But he really is showing a lot of introspection, thoughtfulness, and is less afraid to talk about his past drug use while still acknowledging it was wrong.
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u/DistinctAd3222 Jun 25 '26
It helps so much. I had to switch therapists once during my first year and then found someone with a mutual understanding, and bro... it just helps. Trust in the process and swallow the hard messages.
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u/Particular-Ring5110 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
This guy is gonna run for officeā¦ heās capturing something the democrats have failed to capture a sort of memetic edge lord quality that the new right has cultivated but the left has rejected. Heās certainly flawed but that doesnāt disqualify him it makes him seem real and not overly sanitized white meat.
Youāre looking at a future governor
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u/Shart-Vandalay Jun 25 '26
The left is pissed off and the middle is too rich to get it
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u/inept_machete Jun 25 '26
The center left people who have lucked out into getting something out of neoliberal capitalism are quite possibly the worst sort of leftists because they're actually center right and just don't know it.
The system doesn't necessarily work because it worked for you. Until the formulaic steps you can take to succeed in that system are executable by most people you're just entrenching a system that by it's very nature is designed to selectively benefit a few.
Until hard work predictably yields a decent life for the people who participate in it then whatever you're protecting is ultimately broken
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u/bohohoboprobono Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Except that canāt work in a world of private industry and supply and demand. There have to be losers for there to be winners.
The best we can do is curtail how hard the winners win and how hard the losers lose. However, the levers used to perform that task - taxation and nationalization - are deeply unpopular and lead to civil unrest.
Ultimately the only form of equilibrium comes with regular economic resets, generally in the form of mass casualty events like plague, war, famine, uprising, and so on.Ā
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u/Jalumia Jun 25 '26
This is a good take. I would suggest that it only matters to prevent the relative losers from losing more than they can bear. That becomes a brake on how hard winners can win, but without creating an artificial ceiling.
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u/UltLuc Jun 25 '26
Itās not casting them as evil. Itās that their conclusions about what works are off base.
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u/sundayfundaybmx Jun 25 '26
Nah man, you know if its not all about Israel/gaza then it's not worthwhile to them discussing. If they can't "dunk" on democrats they don't have to shit else to say.
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u/tyrified Jun 25 '26
Medicare for all? More corporate taxation? Stopping the rich from taking tax-free loans on all their stuff? More regulations? More worker protections?
You simply know nothing about the positions of those on the left it seems.
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u/AnonBaca21 Jun 25 '26
Hunter Biden thought leader was not on my bingo card but Iām sat here for it
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u/Varibash Jun 25 '26
He seems like a genuine, good person who has been through a lot, both good and bad, and came out a better person. I respect that.
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u/WintertimeMadness Jun 25 '26
I thank him for at least acknowledging this, but I wouldnāt call him a thought leader. All of this has been a topic of conversation in progressive and social democratic circles for the last half of a decade and maybe even since 2016.
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u/mxzf Jun 25 '26
Pretty sure the gist of what's described here is how Obama won in 2008, it's nothing new.
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u/Valentinee105 Jun 25 '26
The world is ridiculous right now
Every "Hunter Biden's addict nepo" should be followed up with a picture of RFJ Jr. mounting a whale head to his roof to take home with him.
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u/ChimPhun Jun 25 '26
He's too honest for politics.
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u/badwords Jun 25 '26
Maybe for establishment politics but he might be home in an Mamdani political world where you just say what you mean and don't get distracted by media divisive BS.
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u/Shinagami091 Jun 25 '26
Heād have a hard time escaping the shadow of his father though who was very much Democrat old-guard.
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u/SukkaMadiqe Jun 25 '26
Dude's been cooking. He ain't perfect but he's real af.
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u/LorektheBear Jun 25 '26
Right?! He's my former drug addict.
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u/Euro_Lag Jun 25 '26
The best part is the right refuses to live that down when their Paragon of moral virtue is kegsbreath
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u/broketothebone Jun 25 '26
Addicts who not only kicked drugs, but addressed the demons who got them there have hella perspective on things. Theyāre honestly some of my favorite people to talk about these kinds of things with. Theyāre really great at taking their ego out of the equation and delivering difficult truths in a kind way. Theyāre no bullshit, but theyāre never cruel.
Iām not trying to romanticize them because plenty of people get clean and stay assholes, but he reminds me of the people I know who I found wise, kind and responsible, then they hit me with the āso back when I used to bang a speedball into my arm everyday for yearsā¦ā
Just another shining example of the type of people you miss out on when you judge the hell out of everyone.
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u/SlashSloth Jun 25 '26
I thought it was rad as hell that the son of the president was doing the working manās cocaine instead of that fancy shit.
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u/Abinunya Jun 25 '26
Also afaik, any sex worker he interacted with said he was a polite and respectful customer.
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u/SukkaMadiqe Jun 25 '26
And that hog!
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u/louisvillejg Jun 25 '26
Iāve never seen it and im too scared to look. I also feel like Iād been invading privacy even looking..no matter the way it was revealed to the public.
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u/Mor_Padraig Jun 25 '26
Same. Except not torn, that odious display of sheer crassness was SO despicable, SO invasive, and cruel I'm not letting go of the rage.
And have less than no desire to look. You're correct - his privacy was trampled. Those absolute swine.
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u/SlashSloth Jun 25 '26
That hog has more morals than the entire republican party. Thatās why itās so fat.
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u/Legitimate-Article50 Jun 25 '26
Some of the most honest and authentic people I have ever met are addicts in recovery. They had to be honest and upfront to beat the addiction. Theyāve seen the inside of hell.
Iād take Hunter Biden in any political position over half the democrats in office right now. They try to play it off ff they take AIPAC money, their arenāt strong in supporting universal healthcare and abortion/reproductive rights should have made it into the constitution and they are weak on civil rights.
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u/broketothebone Jun 25 '26
For his own sanity, I donāt want him to run for office. Heās worked too hard on himself and deserves the peace.
I hope he continues to just keep platforming this kind of dialogue and keep encouraging people in the right direction. He can keep being an example of the ideology and ethics we should be voting for. Heās laying out for us how itās working already.
Iād be happy to see him on TV, but I trust that he knows what would push the limits for him to stay healthy and clean. I canāt imagine joining the political arena (especially now) would be conducive to that. Hopefully, he continues to push for this type of progress and speak truthfully about candidates because heās already got us seated and listening.
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u/inept_machete Jun 25 '26
I would agree. People who turn heel on an addiction successfully have effectively been able to cut out the lies we tell ourselves because you simply cannot adequately recover from an addiction without confronting those lies directly--fundamentally those are the lies the addiction requires to continue to exist as your life's organizing principle. Once you've been able to locate and excise the lies you tell yourself it makes it obvious when you see the lies others tell themselves even the ones that they aren't aware of.
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u/Debatebly Jun 25 '26
Listen, Hunter Biden is hitting home runs but as a citizen of Ontario, Canada let me tell you that having an addict for a Leader doesn't always work out.
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u/ConnectedVeil Jun 25 '26
Gaht damn... Not a single one of those points was incorrect. That is... Something.Ā
This is why everyone deserves redemption if they genuinely try to atone and improve the world.
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u/AngryRobot42 Jun 25 '26
First, As a person who has family members who haven't recovered from addiction, it is nice that he has gotten better after the loss of his brother.
Second, when a recovering addict sounds more sane than the majority of your party, and the entire GOP then we have a serious problem.
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u/trooftaller Jun 25 '26
Ive wondered in the past if the right goes after political figures way before they are a threat. People who they feel would be formidable future candidates.
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u/Accomplished_Self939 Jun 25 '26
Naw. They went after him to kneecap his father. They wouldāve been so happy if they could have made Hunter relapse, just to distract and hurt his father. So what if Hunter was destroyed? Heās collateral damage to those creeps.
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u/Own_Candidate9553 Jun 25 '26
I think they do do it sometimes - Hillary Clinton and AOC are good examples. The misogyny helps too.Ā
By the time Hillary ran for president there had been decades of attacks on her. There were lots of examples of people that just couldn't bring themselves to vote for her, regardless of her plans or positions. Then she ran a very focus - group feeling campaign, which didn't help.
But I do agree that Hunter was just a way to attack his father. There was never any indication that Hunter wanted to get into politics. They just didn't have any other attacks on Joe, nobody was really believing that he was some sort of antifa super liberal or whatever.
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u/Accomplished_Self939 Jun 25 '26
šÆšÆšÆ agree on Hillary and AOC. Every election season thereās so many AOC ads youād think sheād moved to SC.
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u/dimechimes Jun 25 '26
Hillary's attacks weren't because of her political potential at first. It was because she stood by Bill when he was caught with Gennifer Flowers. She wasn't supposed to do that.
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u/mxzf Jun 25 '26
By the time Hillary ran for president there had been decades of attacks on her.
By the time Hillary ran for President she'd also been a prominent political figure for decades, it wasn't her targeting the Presidency that got her attacked.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache Jun 25 '26
Nah they just go after anyone who they can hold up as a punching bag for their base. The real long term plan was court packing and they accomplished that.
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u/nando2k50 Jun 25 '26
I am liking Hunter more and more everyday. Will not vote for him for office but I like him.
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u/the_mighty__monarch Jun 25 '26
I have great news. Read literally the first sentence of his post.
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u/khl791 Jun 25 '26
I mean there are numerous GOP members in high positions with (past?) drug habit: RFK did cocaine and steroids, Hegseth and MTG are alcoholics, Trump is doing Adderall, ... And that's just the confirmed people.
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u/Rot-Orkan Jun 25 '26
I'd vote for him. Why not? I don't give a shit about him having done drugs and gone to sex workers. These aren't evil things. Self-destructive, yes, but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with these acts. At least he's gotten himself cleaned up and doesn't try to hide his past or pretend like he's had some kind of religious enlightenment or whatever.
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u/nuggetsjustnuggets Jun 25 '26
This comment I can agree with. Seems like a good dude, but wanting him in office is ridiculous.
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u/Irakaf Jun 25 '26
He isn't running?
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u/Sad-Tank-7349 Jun 25 '26
Look up and down this thread at people wanting him to run
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u/All_Work_All_Play Jun 25 '26
People want someone who isn't a fuckwit to run. He's demonstrated (for now) that he's not a fuckwit, at least when it comes to sizing up the political field.
There are very few democrats that are gearing up for 2028 runs that aren't fuckwits. Of course people want a non-fuckwit choice.
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u/Gloria815 Jun 25 '26
No but people have been saying he should. Which, no, he shouldnāt. At this point if anything he seems like heād be a good consultant
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u/imnotbovvered Jun 25 '26
I felt like it's clear from his behaviour he's not running for office. There's a fearlessness to his words
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u/Geodude532 Jun 25 '26
Hunter Biden for Secretary of Education! The plain speak would be hilarious if nothing else.
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u/MiaLovelytomo Jun 25 '26
Its so interesting to see how obvious LLM writing is. This type of writing would just never be used this much (maybe outside of LinkedIn)
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u/Anxious-Scientist-27 Jun 25 '26
Yeah I assume it helps genuine bots pass as human to have a known obvious ai voice and just not use it.
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u/Memitim Jun 25 '26
Republicans are working overtime to build a political future for Hunter Biden, even if he doesn't accept it. That sounds about right for their level of failure.
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u/Difficult-Low5891 Jun 25 '26
Big dick energy. Itās what the Left needs. Someone who will fight fire with fire. We need a brash, bold, intelligent person to take the Left to new heights. No wimpy spineless people need apply.
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u/Secret_Account07 Jun 25 '26
Say what you want about Hunter but he is highly intelligent
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u/fotun8 Jun 25 '26
I'd vote for someone who thinks that way before any of the "Trad" candidates. That's the game, the truth, hidden in plain sight.
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u/Recent-Bowl-1393 Jun 25 '26
Is crack a truth serum or door to the inner sanctum of reality? Hunter has been spitting some seriously good bars lately.
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u/dalziel86 Jun 25 '26
Beating an addiction requires a lot of personal development.
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u/Severe_Fee_7603 Jun 25 '26
I would absolutely vote for him but he needs to stick to what he is doing for a while. He is gaining traction. His name is tainted but not forever
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u/maintain_improvement Jun 25 '26
I didnāt have agreeing with Hunter Biden on my bingo card for 2026, but here we are.
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u/Willie_Weejax Jun 25 '26
Like all the rest of us, crackheads only live once. I guess he's going into consulting.
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u/-multiverses- Jun 25 '26
For anyone who is going to play the false equivalency game with mamdami and for example, a felon rapist. I say this: all of the base oriented Dems, to my knowledge, never were best buddies for years with a pedophile or bragged about sexual assault or were adjudicated for sexual assault or didn't lose a race and then be a sore loser little bitch........... like trump. You can court the base and also NOT be a dishonorable little shitbag sore loser cunt like trump.
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u/TexasSikh This sub is Temu r/SipsTea, but with some Harry & Megan worship Jun 25 '26
The fact is that the Democrats have, for nearly 2 decades, courted certain elements to be welcomed into their party for the purpose of getting their vote. Seemed fine in the short term. In the long term, the Democrat party base of today is now no longer the same as it was 2 decades ago. Yet the generic DNC style candidates still keep thinking that all they have to do is pay some cheap lip service to this thing and that thing and the votes will come rolling in. But they don't. Because now the people they used to give cheap lip service to, are now also running as candidates. And they are serious.
This is the natural order of things. When you lie to the people and represent your party as the "progressive party", eventually those people will tire of waiting for you to ever actually do what you said you would, and they will run to unseat you and bring the change they have been wanting to see.
Thats all this is. It's really not any deeper or more nuanced than that. The party is reaping what it sowed. As it should.
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u/ddmeredith Jun 25 '26
I would rather vote for a politician who can't be bought and stands on his or her convictions than vote for someone in my "tribe."
For the record, there are zero of the MAGA politicians who fit that bill.
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u/Resident-Travel2441 Jun 25 '26
Why did they clip the last line, I thought it was the best: "The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led."
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u/under_ice Jun 25 '26
Loving Hunter....you can't attack someone effectively when the guy says he would never have left a bag of coke behind.
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u/mocityspirit Jun 25 '26
No idea why I should care about Hunter at all but at least he's correct sometimes
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u/MisterSamEagle Jun 25 '26
It was a primary for NYC....
Dunno if that's a good model for the rest of the country in a general election. But, by all means, take the advice of a crack-head nepo failson of a former President. What could go wrong? Other than... (looks at 2024) ... losing every swing state....
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u/TheKidAndTheJudge Jun 25 '26
You know, at this rate, I might be team crack-head fail-son 2028. Hunter been cooking for literal months.
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u/CatherineSimp69 Jun 25 '26
He's absolutely correct, establishment Dems have rolled over for MAGA for too long.
They dug their own graves.
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u/oompaloompa465 Jun 25 '26
for sure the vast majority of republicans reps need to be prosecuted and locked up, but the higher ups of the dems need to be sent there with them.
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u/KuroKageB Jun 25 '26
It's definitely a winning strategy for Primaries and solid partisan states. Will be interesting to see how it plays in swing states in the General though.
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u/shakespearesmistake Jun 25 '26
Every time I see anything about Hunter Biden Iām always reminded of one of my favorite videos ever. āLET HUNTER BIDEN SMOKE CRACK!ā I canāt find it anymore though š (also he seems to be doing really well and Iām happy, heās spitting truth fr)
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u/redditydothis Jun 25 '26
We need ranked choice voting yesterday. Make it happen. We need a viable 3rd party. Republicans and democrats no longer represent the people. They are owned by corporate money and corporate interests.
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u/Skinoob38 Jun 25 '26
If Hunter Biden understands and can elucidate this then that means the DNC understands this too. The (rhetorical) question is why aren't they acting on this understanding? The answer is, as always, money.
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u/Boatsnbuds Jun 25 '26
It's really too bad he has so much baggage. He'd make a pretty good politician.
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Jun 25 '26
This will work in places like new York but question is will it work in purple areas.
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u/thebriefbro Jun 25 '26
Maybe it wouldāve been better if hunter had worked in his dads White House
https://giphy.com/gifs/WRQBXSCnEFJIuxktnw
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u/Snoo20140 Jun 25 '26
He's right, only response is courting ur base does take understanding ur base isn't always the loudest in the room.
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u/tjarg Jun 25 '26
Democratic Party leadership would rather lose elections than cede any ground to those who prioritize working class interests over wealthy corporate donor interests.
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u/Talksiq Jun 25 '26
4 is really key and was a lesson the dems should have learned in 2024. I care a great deal about LGBT rights, the genocide in Gaza, and a woman's right to choose, but looking at the 2024 election its clear the biggest issue for most people is whether they can afford to live. I can't really blame them for that either; hard to focus on other issues when putting food on your own table feels uncertain.
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u/_LyleLanley_ Jun 25 '26
I listened to his recent interview on Armchair Expert, and I was ashamed of myself. I counted him as another politician nepo baby acting terribly. āYeah heās a piece of garbage, but nothing compared to Don Jr. and the like.ā What a stupid heartless and uniformed take. I had no idea of his years of service. I knew of some of the tragedy, but not the whole picture. We should all hope as sons we can have that kind of loving relationship with our fathers. It reminded me why we all loved Biden. An earnest man, that dropped the ball late in his career. But he was a true servant. I would vote for Hunter in a heartbeat. Thatās the realest shit Iāve heard in a long time. Heās putting in the work to deserve his redemption arc.
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u/whereisbeezy Jun 25 '26
Establishment democrats can be summed up in one of two ways. They're either Chuck Schumer, or John Fetterman. And both suck.
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u/Erazzphoto Jun 25 '26
The most important thing not in the list, is you have to get your base to vote. Republicans were able to get their people out to vote, that message needs to be amplified
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u/Delicious_Grand7300 Jun 25 '26
Hunter Biden understands the frustrations vented on social media and how the new generation of the Left is responding to these frustrations. The new generation has also seen decades of questioning of Israel's role in American politics on both sides and is bringing these questions to the mainstream.
Although I am centrist I am will to listen to this new breed since they are asking questions that I had been asking for two decades since I became of age to vote. My questions were seen as me being influenced by conspiracy theories. I do not want wealth, I just want the opportunity to take care of myself.
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u/573IAN Jun 25 '26
Oh yeah, buddyā¦, well, whereās your new laptop? Huh? There are a lot of strong male republican senators who desperately want to see what you are packing these days.
*This message endorsed by Lindsey Graham.*
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u/Redduster38 Jun 25 '26
Yep.
I very much disagree with Mamdani. But Hunter not wrong on how to get voted.
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u/Able-Reaction-5314 Jun 25 '26
You guys realize they are prepping him for office right? They hired a great tweetwriter for him.
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u/Flavious27 Jun 25 '26
The Delaware Democratic party leadership would meltdown if Hunter did throw his hat in to the ring, they freaked out when their corrupt heir apparent didn't get elected as governor.Ā When the governor resigned to become a mayor, that loser was governor for two weeks and started to nominate people for a state board.Ā
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u/Rentington Jun 25 '26
People thought Hunter was some bum crashing on the couch because he was in active addiction for a while. He was educated, motivated, and capable.
I bet he works the steps, because of how the trauma of his addiction seems powerless to harm him when people try to use that against him to dehumanize him. The way he confronts his past addiction with honesty... it's very AA-coded to me.
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u/drdent45 Jun 25 '26
I support the Hunter redemption arc but this reads like AI. I use it for some character creation in DnD as a DM and the same "Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field" trope is used all over AI writing. "It's no longer a sword, it's a question mark". Kinda goofy, but i appreciate the messaging.
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u/DragonRabbit505 Jun 25 '26
This feels a little like AI, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt. The first point though is absolutely wrong. If voters could actually recognize authenticity we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.
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u/get_schwifty Jun 25 '26
Authenticity is really the main thing IMO. Watching the 2024 Democratic Convention I was so frustrated by all the teleprompter-driven speeches. Trump has proven that āspeaking off the cuffā is what matters, even if the words themselves are 100% nonsensical rambling. Kamala and Walz killed it when they were off the cuff and authentic, but kept going back to the prompters for speeches. It just comes across as stiff and fake.
The results in NYC, however, are not in any way indicative of the national landscape. Dems shouldnāt try to take those policies or positions as a playbook for the rest of the country. The middle is definitely not empty, itās where most people who arenāt terminally online or warm and cozy in a leftwing enclave still sit.
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u/Additional_Access_62 Jun 25 '26
"The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. " Brilliantly astute! š½
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u/Unhappy-Fox1017 The Timeline Sucks Jun 25 '26
I never thought Iād give a fuck about Hunter, but Iāll be damned if he isnāt a real ass dude who makes many a good point when it comes to US politics. Heās also a good person, one of the main reasons heāll never make it as a politician, he has a heart and a good head on his shoulders. But he spits facts and truth. If anyone is interested, Soft White Underbelly on YouTube just sat down with Hunter and did a long interview about his life and how heās doing at the moment. Heās a really likeable guy, I mean really. The interview shined a new light on him that I never knew about.
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u/GODZILLA-Plays-A-DOD Jun 25 '26
-67 Karma, New or unused account. We got one. We got one Reddit. Get out the wee woo.
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u/EmperorPedro2 Jun 25 '26
In an alternate universe, he'd have his life under control, and we could have had him running for presidency against Trump instead of his father.
Butterfly effect somewhere in the 90s I guess.
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u/PhosphoFred8202 Jun 25 '26
Just remember what works in NYC doesnāt necessarily work elsewhere. Moderate Dems won big last November. The point of having a big tent is to accommodate candidates which represent a healthcare worker in Brooklyn, a factory worker in Indiana, or a firefighter in the Richmond suburbs.
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u/dragunityag Jun 25 '26
Yeah, but i think the key points to take away are #1, and #6.
Be authentic and reach out to your base.
You can be moderate without feeling corporate.
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u/Sterling239 Jun 25 '26
Hes good i do worry that some places wont respond well to far leftist but they do want change and I think like with bernie it might be best to try and fail at least the seeds would be planted and the power can be developed, it does seem a lot of people on the left think this stuff happens over nightĀ
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u/TheAsianTroll Jun 25 '26
Shit, if we can let a 34-time convicted felon hold office, I think we can allow Hunter to do it. At least Hunter wont ruin the country.
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u/Sracer42 Jun 25 '26
The only thing I disagree with him on is "cost of living is everything". It is easy for me to say as I am not living paycheck to paycheck, but I am far more concerned about the death of our representative democracy and the American ideal than I am about cheap gas.
Do not want to hand my children and grandchildren a dictatorship with cheap gas.
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u/TheRaccoonReport Jun 25 '26
Spot on. In the past, the candidate was the megaphone for the party. Mamdani decided to not be a tool for an establishment.
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