JOE BIDEN UPDATE: Banana Republic, American-Style: Angola Is Here. “Because this is the banana-republic era of American politics, the news from Angola hardly sounds foreign at all. With the impeachment drama in full swing and Donald Trump’s enemies wailing about the impropriety of his actions vis-à-vis Ukraine, it is strange that so many in Washington are so studiously not talking about Hunter Biden, or indeed about other Bidens and other members of politically connected families who have grown wealthy through questionable means.”

I suspect the press isn’t talking about this because they know that so many members of the ruling class — from both parties, no doubt — have similar skeletons in their closets that exposing them all would upend politics in a way the press wouldn’t like.