He is not perfect. If you want an argument pick another subject.

I had a sister who used to whine like that too, when she got caught.

So she suffered the negative effects of liberal hypocrisy too, Larry?

Our parents were "Rock-Ribbed Republicans."

We’re you dropped from a shopping cart as a toddler?

I've seen no real evidence of bribes. If you have it or know where I can find it, please post it here.

Larry, please tell us the search text you used when you didn't find evidence of these bribes. Somehow I suspect its logic was nearly the reverse of the search term you used that proved to you that DeSantis is a racist dog.

"After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that they had yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations that he and his family have been involved in criminal conduct and corruption.

At a much-publicized news conference on Capitol Hill to show the preliminary findings of their premier investigation into Mr. Biden and his family, leading Republicans released financial documents detailing how some of the president’s relatives were paid more than $10 million from foreign sources between 2015 and 2017.

Republicans described the transactions as proof of “influence peddling” by Mr. Biden’s family, including his son Hunter Biden, and referenced some previously known, if unflattering, details of the younger Mr. Biden’s business dealings. Those included an episode in which he accepted a 2.8-carat diamond from a Chinese businessman. G.O.P. lawmakers also produced material suggesting that President Biden and his allies had at times made misleading statements in their efforts to push back aggressively against accusations of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.

But on Wednesday, the Republicans conceded that they had yet to find evidence of a specific corrupt action Mr. Biden took in office in connection with any of the business deals his son entered into. Instead, their presentation underscored how little headway top G.O.P. lawmakers have made in finding clear evidence of questionable transactions they can tie to Mr. Biden, their chief political rival." New York Times Mat 13, 2023

No "specific corrupt action found."

"Old students of Ron DeSantis, who taught at a Georgia boarding school for one year in 2001, have accused the Florida governor of being “mean and hostile” towards Black students, playing “devil’s advocate” when teaching lessons about the Civil War, and teaching factually incorrect history to students. The New York Times reports that at the 20 year reunion for Darlington School, students recalled their experiences with DeSantis, who also reportedly attended parties where alcohol was served to former students right after they had graduated. A handful of students recalled debates he would get into about the Civil War and abortion, with one particularly tense argument recorded. “The Civil War was not about slavery! It was about two competing economic systems,” DeSantis allegedly said." The Daily Beast November 5, 2022

This is one of dozens of reports on similar comments about De Santis. Just provide one post of a first-hand witness to the "bribe."

Pure and absolutely total and complete bullshit.
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Serious questions Larry, and based entirely on what you posted in the meme as a statement of fact.

Please be specific with your answers.

- what amends is Hunter making for his past miscreant behavior?

- what is Hunter changing (that he can...)

- what is Hunter accepting that he can't change?

The reports say Hunter Biden is in "diversion program for drugs," as part of his plea bargain. He was said to be in a 12-step program prior to the agreement. Agreeing to pay back taxes and fines can be seen as making amends. Agreeing to enter a Court Supervised drug diversion program is part of changing what he can. In working his program he will discover many things he cannot change and must accept. But, just entering a program means he accepts that he will be an addict for life and cannot change that.

And you know all this... how, Larry?

As Administrative Officer for Psychiatry at the Sepulveda VA Medical Center I provided Support for the largest Chemical Dependency Program in the San Fernando Valley. I have met hundreds of guys just like Hunter. I have seen them all work to recover their lives. That was a few decades ago, but the road t sober living is still the same.

Thanks for confirming that you don't know. I knew that before I asked, but I thought it only right that you at least try to explain why you were speaking as if you did know.

So while your previous work was quite admirable, it in no way means you can speak with authority regarding Hunter Biden's specific situation. Drug addicts in general, okay. And given what you explained to me before about your background, these these were folks in the military, right? Not exactly cut from the same cloth as Hunter Biden, would you agree?

So you don't know Hunter, you don't know what treatment he may or may not have received / sought, you have zero clue the type of effort he may or may not have made to get off drugs and stop being a gun criminal. You don't know what strings Dementia Joe has pulled to keep him out of jail prior to this latest sweetheart deal. You just don't know enough to make the observation that you did. (He is changing what he can... etc.)

Addiction, is addiction, is addiction. with apologies to Gertrude Stein. A Veteran is a citizen, and no longer in the military, no different than Hunter Biden. Addiction is a disease, and just like Heart Disease is No different for a Veteran as a non-Veteran. The Big Book has 12-Steps for every addict.
I don't know Hunter Biden personally, but neither do you. But I do know that the Trump appointed judge who started overseeing his case when Trump was president, was given a free hand to do as he saw fit by AG Garland. This is his plea deal, not Garland's or Joe Biden's.

"Addiction, is addiction, is addiction"

Yes, but Hunter is not Bob who is not Susan who is not Dave who is not... well, you get the idea. Yeah, we're all human, and you can speak in general terms about human addiction. But even with just those few simple examples I provided of what you don't know about Hunter, should show that there are more variables involved that you don't know than you do.

This is like those people who were saying they had diagnosed Trump as whatever, when they had never even spoken to him. You simply cannot make the claims you made, because you just don't know Hunter.

"No different for a Veteran as a non-Veteran."

Yeah, but as we've seen with events today, it's 100% different for a Biden versus a non-Biden.

"This is his plea deal, not Garland's or Joe Biden's."

I hope I'm never as naive as that statement sounds.

There are Twelve Steps to recovery, whether it is Bob, Dave, Susan or Hunter. Since all people in successful recovery will work all twelve, not eleven six or some other number, it is fairly easy to see a story about Hunter paying back taxes and relate it to a step in recovery. Looking at a news story about his questionable business practices it is easy to see signs of addiction. The lack of a moral compass, unwillingness to accept responsibility, short cuts like tax-evasion are addressed in the 12-steps, which are:

1. We admit that we are powerless over alcohol and that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. We believe that a power greater than ourselves can help us.
3. We decide to turn our wills and lives over to the care of a higher power, whatever that may be.
4. We make a searching moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admit to a higher power, ourselves, and another person the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We are ready to have a higher power remove these defects in character.
7. We humbly ask the higher power to remove our shortcomings.
8. We make a list of people we have harmed, with whom we are willing to make amends.
9. Whenever possible, we make amends to these individuals.
10. We continue to take a personal inventory and promptly admit when we are wrong.
11. We ask for the knowledge of a higher power’s will for us and the strength to carry it out.
12. We try to carry this message to other people with alcohol use disorder and practice these principles in all our affairs.

Each program follows 12 standard steps. These 12 steps of AA, which all the other programs adopt, making only minor variations to address their specific purpose. Hopefullly, Hunter and others like him will continue to work their programs for the rest of their lives and remain sober and productive members of society.

@LarryCaird. 👍

trump does not have the balls to come clean and admit what he did, unlike Hunter Biden. trump is so dang narcissistic and pyschopathic that he will never to do this. trump truly IS a con man criminal mob boss. And, when the maga repubs accuse Hunter of being an addict ‼️⁉️ ...
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Jesus forgave the "unfaithful." The only stipulation is that they "Go, and sin no more." That is how amends work. You admit you are wrong, pay any fines or restitution and avoid doing bad, again.

So in Hunter's case, to make restitution, shouldn't he do the same amount of jail time as others who committed the same crimes he did, even though they're often Black or Hispanic, and aren't White Bidens?

I accidentally flagged this comment. I am sorry. I did not mean to... my old, fat, arthritic pointer finger mashed flag instead of reply. I'm not sure how to undo that. ☹️
But, what I wanted to say is that I agreed with your statements. This is something trump will not do... admit he is wrong, that he did and said something wrong... even criminal. trump is so narcissistic and evil... just how real Christians could support him is beyond me. I mean in order to support him, be in his maga cult, one must give up their family, friends, every penny they have, even their lives and their freedom. And most importantly, they have to completely throw out all the morals, all the Biblical teachings they have all their life. js. $!!CULT!!$