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Biden son may be as dumb as a box of rocks (no offense meant rocks) BUT he is in the position because of his father’s influence.

Put him in front of an HONEST panel and one would probably find he needs to drop trou to count to 21.

However, it is absolutely no different than ANY pols wife getting named to ‘the board of directors’ of ANY major business in the state they reside and when they go further up the ladder, the wife/kid/gf/etc rises also.

Much easier to get away with bribing someone if the money is ‘laundered’ through relative etc.

Of course when I ran the asphalt plant, I would get ‘freebies’ from ALL the suppliers whether I used them or not and definitely took advantage to the Pro Basketball/Baseball/Football tickets and booze at Christmas etc.

I never really considered it a bribe-in the sense of how ‘we’ use it - BUT in the explanation that NOTHING IS FREE, I imagine myself or someone in the company paid one way or the other.

We sort of changed the language in that respect when it was considered the corner store giving the cop his coffee and donut was to be considered a bribe when nothing else could be dug up on someone ‘they’ ‘wanted’.

Oh..for me not to be considered receiving a ‘bribe’ one night at a Bullets game MY ‘program’ # was selected for the ‘free shot’ from half court for a Million (back when a million was a lot of money) and a hamburger if a layup was made. I did ‘win’ a hamburger and offered to ‘split’ it but always wondered whose Million bucks it REALLY was, mine or the gifter...In the back of my mind I always figured if I had passed the ticket to you, that ‘MAYBE’ a finders fee should come my way.
Guess it REALLY does depend whose ox is being gored.