Posted on 11/02/2023 6:48:25 PM PDT by bitt
Hunter Biden has written an opinion piece claiming that his drug addiction is being used as a political weapon. He tries to paint himself as an advocate for others who might be suffering from addiction and implies that an attack on him is an attack on everyone with this problem.
He goes out of his way to say that he is not a victim, even though that’s clearly one of the messages behind the piece.
If he was an average guy from middle America, he would be in jail right now and everyone knows it.
From USA Today:
Hunter Biden: I fought to get sober. Political weaponization of my addiction hurts more than me.
Over four years ago, I chose life over the slow strangle-death grip of addiction, which in my case consisted each day of a bottle of vodka and as many hits on a crack pipe as possible. I am prouder of that choice and of my recovery than anything I’ve ever done.
My experience is not a unique one. At least 20 million Americans today suffer from substance abuse disorder. I don’t know a family that hasn’t been impacted in some way by addiction. What is distinct about my situation is that I’m the son of the president of the United States.
My struggles and my mistakes have been fodder for a vile and sustained disinformation campaign against him, and an all-out annihilation of my reputation through high-pitched but fruitless congressional investigations and, more recently, criminal charges for possessing an unloaded gun for 11 days five years ago – charges that appear to be the first-ever of their kind brought in the history of Delaware.
I am not a victim. By any standard, I grew up with privilege and opportunity, and fully accept that the choices and mistakes I made are mine, and I am accountable for them and will continue to be.
That is what recovery is about.
What troubles me is the demonization of addiction, of human frailty, using me as its avatar and the devastating consequences it has for the millions struggling with addiction, desperate for a way out and being bombarded by the denigrating and near-constant coverage of me and my addiction on Fox News…
Hunter should try walking a mile in Donald Trump’s shoes, or the shoes of the J6 prisoners, or any of the people who have been dragged through the mud by the Democrat Media Complex for the last seven years.
He is delusional.
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I guess all that crack made him make millions from Russia , Ukraine, china, etc etc damn that crack it makes ya do crazy stuff like making millions in foreign business dealings for your corrupt ass family
I was just going to ask, “Who here actually believes he has recovered and is no longer an addict?”
The recovered addicts I know, including myself, don’t blame anyone other than ourselves if it’s true recovery.
I think I still recognize 9 names on this thread.
But who knows if I’m right?
I’m not the 31 year old young buck full of hopes and dreams that I was when I joined FR :)
My hopes and dreams have been replaced by aches and pains :)
This piece of garbage has been a disgrace for so long...and his sickening daddy has made me turn on and drop out.
If Jack Daniels counts as turning on.
I got that phrase completely wrong before I looked it up.
I’m old now but not THAT OLD. Yes that was a tiny rib at some friends here :)
In a year, I am desperately hoping we don’t need to discuss this family ever again
But sometimes I feel like ex dem presidents never die, nor do they fade away.
He may not be recovered.
I’m quite sure Hunter is not recovered or in real recovery based on his actions and words. At best, he’s a “dry addict” but seeing him at the WH on the 4th of July he was clearly under the influence of something. He brought cocaine into the WH and his family and Secret Service covered for him. That’s not a realistic way to help and support someone supposedly in recovery.
I saw him in GV at the WH on the 4th of July and as a fellow addict in recovery, I could tell he was high as can be on the WH deck with the family during the fireworks show.
He’s in complete denial and they keep him hidden because if he was truly 4 years sober, thus ghoulish family would be parading him around as a success story.
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