Politicians often get called out for
being apathetic, immoral, and incompetent.
It is claimed that they are usually
busy backing initiatives and approving bills that will be beneficial for their
big donors and lobbyists.
Apart from election season when they
hold babies and shake every hand that is presented, they usually have very
little patience or time for their voters.
When the voter is in need of a
solution they provide a bridge over a lake when little boats would have solved
the problem.
Cynics will point out that the
contracts for construction and material for the bridge over the lake went to
donors, but cynics do not know how government works.
However there is one area where they
are this the political class proactive, creative, innovative, and clever, it is
self-enrichment.
They know they cannot exchange suitcases full of
cash in shady bars after doing their bit for their big donors or lobbyists and
neither can they allow a direct electronic transfer of cash to their accounts.
So they contrive innovative ways to legalize
self-enrichment.
The oldest trick in the book is speaking
engagements, where the politician is invited to the botanical society of a
prominent business house to talk about the effects of climate change on Balsam
flowers. But the retired politician has no expertise in the field, he actually
studied literature at University. It hardly matters, the retired politician
read the prepared speech for which he is paid a million dollars. There could be
myriad other forms of paybacks in the form of podcast deals or book deals or
even a documentary.
A look through the politician's voting records
shows that he had voted for a bill that benefited the business house.
Some cynics have mischaracterized self-enrichment
as corruption, but again what to do they know.
It would be a great disservice to the noble act of
self-enrichment if Hunter Biden isn’t mentioned.
While Winston Churchill took to painting in his
early forties, Hunter Biden began even later in his early fifties. But in the
matter of pure talent, Hunter may have surpassed old Winston.
Hunter’s recently discovered talents are so
prodigious that his paintings were sold as Christie's for an astounding $ 500,
000. Also at Christie's, a painting by lesser talents
such as Claude Monet, founder of
impressionist painting, and Edgar Degas, the French impressionist painter
sold for $700,000 and $500,000, respectively.
Clearly, Hunter is a self-taught genius. Unlike
other ‘geniuses’, Hunter didn’t waste precious time in artistic
training or in any kind of apprenticeship with an artist of great ability.
A lot of people may not know this but genius
cannot be taught neither can it be honed by hours of practice.
Genius is, as the name itself suggests in the
genes, all one has to do is look at Hunter’s father Joe to comprehend that
genius in this family doesn’t run, it gallops.
It happened one bright sunny morning, Hunter rose
from his bed, he was feeling particularly creative after smoking an inordinate
amount of Parmesan cheese the previous night. Miraculously before him was a
blank canvas, a brush, and a wide array of canvas poster colors.
Hunter picked up his brush, dipped it in color,
and dragged the hairs of his brush across the canvas, in minutes the painting
was done. It was a miraculous work of genius.
But the world, as slows as it is often takes its
time to recognize genius, this happened with Einstein and Beethoven as well,
Hunter was unable to find an art gallery to showcase his brilliance.
All that changed after 2020, currently, a single
piece of art from Hunter Biden sells for more than
the price of an average American home.
Sad little cynics would again suggest that this
had something to do with Hunter’s father entering the White House, but they are
devoid of an artistic bone in their body.
Fairly recently, Hunter
Biden’s art dealer George Bergès was photographed
wearing a Camp David cap alongside notorious Gossip columnist George Wayne.
Wayne has since deleted the photo from his Instagram Page.
The cap obviously caused critics to question
whether the controversial art dealer joined the Bidens as Camp David.
It has to be remembered that Joe Biden took a
break to the president’s country residence in August, criticized because it
came amid the fallout from the disastrous withdrawal of US troops from
Afghanistan.
Perhaps Bergès traveled along with the Bidens to
Camp David?
The White House expertly dodged any questions
pertaining to Hunter’s talents and his work, as they always do. They also claim
that neither they nor Hunter will know the identity of any patrons. There
were unconfirmed reports of premature nasal elongation as the syllables were uttered.
Once again the compulsive contrarians will
needlessly nitpick through all this and the term is a conflict of interest and
even corruption.
They even paint numerous scenarios such as Joe
revoking the permit for the Keystone pipeline that they claim made America
dependent for its energy on OPEC. The price that these paintings fetch could
payments for this Joe's actions
Among these obsessive nitpickers worked
for Joe’s former or perhaps current boss Barack Obama.
“I find it
deeply troubling,” said Walter
Shaub, who
was director
of the Office of Government Ethics in
the Obama administration.
“Merely following the incredibly weak ethics rules
that we have doesn’t win you any points and the legalistic approach blinds you
to obvious commonsense problems. And here we have an obvious problem.
We’ve got a family member clearly trading on his
father’s name. The man has never sold a piece of art before, has never even
juried into a community centre art show, but suddenly he’s selling art at
fantastical prices. There is simply no way anybody paid $75,000 for anything
other than his name.”
The extremely well-spoken humble genius that
Hunter is, he told the Nota
Bene: This Week in the Art World podcast that
art prices are “completely subjective”, insisting: “Look, man, I never set my
prices – what my art was going to cost, what it costs or how much it would be
priced at. I would be amazed, you know, if my art had sold at, um, you know,
for $10.”
So how do regular citizens process all
this?
They must adopt the stance of the
mainstream media, who chose to ignore the entire story. They must applaud
social media for blocking the pointless Hunter story.
They must learn to appreciate the creativity
of the political class in the art of self-enrichment and laud their ability to
not be trapped in the clutches of the law.
They must never aspire to attempt to
emulate such feats in their personal lives because this art of enrichments is
performed by experienced and trained professionals.
The ideal time to ponder about is
their evening walk after work unless the lockdowns prevent walks or maybe they
are just unemployed owing to their skepticism regarding the vaccine.
If they are lucky enough to afford an
evening walk they ensure to not get too lost in their thoughts such that the
masks fall over their face, because that could mean imminent arrest.
In conclusion, the lesson to learn is
to abandon skepticism and the unfavorable practice of questioning everything.
Just fall in line, do as you are told,
and look at your supreme leader in unrelenting awe!
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