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10 Jun, 11 tweets, 3 min read
"Why doesn't the media care about the president' sson"

Okay, I'll bite: what's a president's son?

A monarch's son might be a prince, might be the heir apparent to the throne.

A business mogul's son might be an heir.

What's a president's son?
I guess in the sense that "it happens every other century".

And, like, the political news media covering how much of a screw-up a current president's son is as though he were the crown prince or something just exacerbates that.

I'm worried about a lot of things on both sides of the aisle but I am not worried that Joe Biden is going to give Hunter the keys to the kingdom, and I don't believe you are, either.
Let me know when you think Hunter Biden is going to file to run and if you're willing to put money on it, please.

I get the feeling people are viscerally responding to this thread based on 4 years of Javanka, who were Politics News Fodder *because they were core White House Staff*, which also made them being Trump's heirs matter more.
Right, nepotism in politics, which matters if we're talking about somebody who is in politics.

I'm not arguing there's no nepotism in politics, I'm arguing that Joe Biden has not appointed Hunter Biden the Secretary of White People Who Think They Can Say The N Word, nor anointed him president-in-waiting.
"Maybe if there'd been more coverage of Dubya's business deals, drug use, and casual racism he wouldn't have been president."

I don't know, I think if the coverage was premised on the idea that he was a future president, the results of the harsh spotlight would be less clearcut.
I am worried about one of Donald's children or in-laws making a presidential run and it becoming an entrenched dynastic power *because that is a thing they have openly explored doing*, not because there's a natural correlation between "my dad was president" and "so I am, too."
We've had more vice presidents be elected as presidents than we've had presidential offspring be elected as presidents, and the idea that the vice presidency is a stepping stone to the presidency is still almost entirely a myth.
And I'm also not writing Hunter Biden a pass for throwing around the N word or anything else. I am not a pass writer. You want to tear him to shreds? Call him out? Feel free.

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First birthday after my vaccination feels less real or like a birthday or milestone than my birthday during Quarantimes, I think because last year I was way more consciously doing things to mark "Yes, this is happening and it's my birthday."
On the plus side it not feeling like my birthday means it also doesn't feel like the anniversary of my last day with a living mother. Though maybe that's why I've been so blah/down lately, anniversary effect creeping up on me unnoticed.
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His Invisible Man was Mr. Cellophane meets Henry Bemis, an overlooked man who made himself invisible and decided the best use of his power was to redistribute as many resources as a single pair of invisible hands could.
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