Right-wing trolls who visit the site all make the same mistake — they think we’re cheering for our football team vs. their football team, and so we must love the players on our football team the way they love their players, no matter how vile.
Trolls should do an archive search on how this blog has felt about the Bidens over the years. Joe is far from admired or revered. And as little love as we’ve shown Joe, we’ve shown none at all for his wayward son Hunter, who always played Goofus to Beau’s Gallant. Some pity for his addiction problems, but that’s about it.
I can’t speak for my colleagues, but I actually welcome an investigation of Hunter Biden, for two reasons.
First, think of all the more damaging ways the Republicans could be wasting their time. I’m sure they’ll pursue lots of damaging courses of action, but most of them will involve harming lots of average people. This one won’t hurt anyone but Hunter Biden and by extension Joe, so the more time and energy they spend on this, the less they’ll spend abusing those scary, scary trans kids.
Second, there’s always the slim possibility that this will lay bare the deep-seated rot in our political system that sees the relatives of politicians use that connection to peddle their services, usually as lobbyists. That’s an ugly feature of our system that nobody ever addresses because a majority of the people who enter “public service” do it for themselves, not the public, and they don’t want their own dirty laundry aired.
So go for it, Republicans. If they think this will bring them the support of average Americans, well, fuck around and find out.