Hunter Biden sat down for a 3 hour podcast interview with Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan and obtained rave evaluations from king podcast bro Joe Rogan.
Rogan stated of Hunter Biden, “He might be president. No bullshit.”
Rogan additionally stated “He’s quite a bit smarter than folks give him credit score for,” Rogan added. “He’s speaking, and one of many issues he was speaking about was why smoking issues are so addictive, why smoking cigarettes are so addictive, and the psychology behind it. He’s not dumb.”
And, “It’s the best crack commercial of all time. No. If crack wasn’t horrible for you, this man makes me wish to attempt crack. I’m not going to. Don’t do it. I’m not giving any recommendation, however I’m saying this man, like legitimately, this may be the most effective commercial for crack of all-time.”
Heady reward.
FWIW, Helen Lewis at The Atlantic was equally enraptured (though she saved any private curiosity about crack cocaine to herself):
About two hours into the Gen Z influencer Andrew Callaghan’s interview with Hunter Biden, I had a second of piercing readability: Here’s a Democrat you can placed on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
I’ll come again to Hunter Biden on the finish of this piece however first, let’s have a look at the larger image dealing with Democrats.
This got here similtaneously The Wall Avenue Journal launched a ballot with horrible information for Democrats.
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 28, 2025
From the WSJ article on the ballot:
Democrats have been hoping {that a} voter backlash in opposition to the president will probably be highly effective sufficient to revive their majority within the Home in subsequent 12 months’s midterm elections, a lot because it did throughout Trump’s first time period. However the Journal ballot reveals that the celebration hasn’t but completed a wanted first step in that plan: persuading voters they’ll do a greater job than Trump’s celebration.
On the entire, voters disapprove of the president’s dealing with of the economic system, inflation, tariffs and international coverage. And but in every case, the brand new Journal ballot discovered, voters nonetheless say they belief Republicans fairly than Democrats to deal with those self same points in Congress.
In some circumstances, the disparities are putting. Disapproval of Trump’s dealing with of inflation outweighs approval by 11 factors, and but the GOP is trusted greater than Democrats to deal with inflation by 10 factors. By 17 factors, voters disapprove fairly than approve of Trump’s dealing with of tariffs, and but Republicans are trusted greater than Democrats on the problem by 7 factors.
Voters have important issues in regards to the centerpiece of Trump’s agenda—his immigration insurance policies—opposing a few of his deportation ways by double-digit numbers. And but they belief congressional Republicans greater than Democrats on immigration by 17 factors and on dealing with unlawful immigration by 24 factors.
Final week additionally noticed experiences emerge that the Democratic Nationwide Committee is conducting an “examination of what went mistaken within the 2024 election.”
From the NYT article on the audit:
The audit, which the committee is asking an “after-action evaluation,” is anticipated to keep away from the questions of whether or not former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ought to have run for re-election within the first place, whether or not he ought to have exited the race sooner than he did and whether or not former Vice President Kamala Harris was the suitable alternative to switch him, in line with the folks briefed on the method to date.
Neither is the evaluation anticipated to revisit key choices by the Harris marketing campaign — like framing the election as a alternative between democracy and fascism, and refraining from hitting again after an advert by Donald J. Trump memorably attacked Ms. Harris on transgender rights by suggesting that she was for “they/them” whereas Mr. Trump was “for you” — which have roiled Democrats within the months since Mr. Trump took again the White Home.
Get together officers described the draft doc as specializing in the 2024 election as an entire, however not on the presidential marketing campaign — which is one thing like consuming at a steakhouse after which reviewing the salad.
Paradoxically, the NYT piece trashing the Dems for avoiding the apparent explanations by no means mentions the phrase “Gaza,” probably the heaviest albatross across the neck of Kamala Harris in final 12 months’s presidential election.
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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 3, 2025
Submit-election polling was clear as Ryan Grim reported in January:
From 2020 to 2024, Democrats noticed a staggering dropoff in help on the presidential degree, with some 19 million individuals who voted for Joe Biden staying residence (or not mailing of their ballots) in 2024. Now, a brand new survey carried out by YouGov suggests Biden’s help for Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza performed a surprisingly giant function within the alternative of these earlier Biden supporters to not vote. (Learn the complete ballot right here.)
The highest purpose these non-voters cited, above the economic system at 24 % and immigration at 11 %, was Gaza: a full 29 % cited the continued onslaught as the highest purpose they didn’t forged a vote in 2024.
It’s grimly ironic that the DNC can’t even deliver itself to take a look at the foundation causes of Kamala Harris’ spectacular 2024 failure, a lot much less the function of her help for genocide in Gaza in that failure whilst many celebration stalwarts have lastly discovered their tongues to sentence the deliberate hunger of thousands and thousands of Gazan civilians by the Israelis.
Politico experiences:
A rising variety of Democrats from throughout the celebration’s ideological spectrum are talking out in regards to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, calling for the Trump administration to intervene within the Israel-Hamas struggle amid warnings from international leaders and worldwide reduction teams that the scenario within the war-torn strip has reached a breaking level.
It’s wild to instantly see Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar, and Hakeem Jeffries talking out, however don’t get carried away, the Centrist script nonetheless blames Hamas:
Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), two Democrats who’ve remained staunch supporters of Israel, joined the outcry of concern for these in Gaza — whereas nonetheless maintaining the onus on Hamas.
“The humanitarian scenario in Gaza is a full-blown disaster, with harmless ladies and youngsters who’re ravenous,” Scholten wrote in a press launch Saturday, including that “we should stay clear-eyed about one factor: Hamas began this struggle and might finish it as we speak. However they select to not.”
Goldman gave the same response, expressing concern for the quantity of ravenous Palestinians, whereas maintaining the blame on Hamas: “And let’s be clear: Hamas may finish it as we speak in the event that they wished to. Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal, Hamas has rejected it. Launch the hostages and finish this travesty.”
Gaza isn’t the one intra-party break up Democrats are dealing with. Matt Stoller wrote about two competing financial proposals put ahead by Congressional Democrats final week:
I wish to begin by specializing in two coverage roll-outs that obtained little or no consideration, however signify tensions throughout the out-of-power Democrats.
For context, a report 63% of voters have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Get together, versus 33% with a good view. That’s actually fairly dangerous, and as you may suppose, there are deep disagreements throughout the celebration about what to do about this hole. Two completely different visions have been quietly launched this week, in deep pressure with one another.
The primary is a brand new Senate bundle of payments designed to decrease the price of capital for constructing and proudly owning housing. It’s led on the Democratic facet by Senator Elizabeth Warren, although each Senator on the Banking Committee has authored provisions. The second is a proposal from a caucus of Silicon Valley pleasant Congressional Democrats on easy methods to foster know-how and innovation. Each are about easy methods to channel capital, and who ought to channel it.
…the invoice is sort of modest. It’s a bipartisan invoice in a Republican Congress. The Chair, Republican Tim Scott, has his personal priorities, so numerous the helpful packages are restricted. However on this laws one can see the considering of easy methods to tackle among the challenges put ahead. It’s what good religion elements of the Abundance motion are in search of, and but led by the populist Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The second, and in some ways reverse proposal, is an “Innovation Agenda” put ahead by the New Democrat caucus, which typically skews extra Wall Avenue and Silicon Valley pleasant. There are 110 Home members of the New Democrats, which is greater than half of Home Democrats. Their doc too is lengthy and sophisticated, so I don’t wish to go over each element, however it’s basically simply an autopen of Nineteen Nineties Clinton-style policymaking, with subsidies for generative AI thrown in there.…When you cobbled collectively the want lists of crypto lobbyists, protection contractors, huge tech corporations, and pharmaceutical pursuits, you’d get this doc. In reality, it’s nearly similar to what you’d discover with a Republican financial advocacy group, besides this group additionally desires to finance universities, and seeks to have “various views” and “various illustration in AI ethics boards and decision-making our bodies.” They don’t even point out the pursuits of labor, not even in a perfunctory approach.
…basically, this agenda is about decreasing financing prices for highly effective corporations and subsidizing Wall Avenue-style financialization and offshoring. So who’s behind it? Properly, it was spearheaded by Silicon Valley Rep. Sam Liccardo, NC Rep. Valerie Foushee, and Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen, although it’s actually simply the Clinton-Obama Wall Avenue-Silicon Valley lobbying world on autopilot.
And there we go. These are the 2 factions of Democrats. One group is making an attempt to determine easy methods to deliver down the price of capital for regular folks, the opposite is in search of a trickle-down method. When you vote for a Democrat, there’s no telling which faction you’ll get. And that may be why the celebration polls so terribly.
However let’s get again to Hunter Biden. I’ll skip the rhapsodic passages about crack cocaine that so enthralled Joe Rogan and get straight to his surprisingly cogent criticisms of some main Democratic Get together influencers:
…the Pod Save America saviors of the Democratic Get together with what 4 white millionaires which can be eating out on their affiliation with Barack Obama from 16 years in the past. Dwelling in Beverly fucking Hills telling the remainder of the world what Black voters in South Carolina really need or what the waitress dwelling outdoors of Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin actually believes.
I imply, I can’t imagine that we did we do that time and again. Or I hear Rahm Emanuel goes to run for president. What a fucking… like I David Axelrod’s going to run his marketing campaign for him. Oh boy. There’s the reply. There’s the fucking reply. Genius.
I’ve coated Rahm Emanuel’s 2028 presidential aspirations beforehand and really feel obligated to incorporate his patronizing reply to Hunter Biden, delivered in an interview with former Fox Information star Megyn Kelly:
“I feel we’re giving this extra time than it’s due. That’s my very own view. Just a little empathetic, you will have a son who’s blinded by his personal love for, in impact, and loyalty for his father, and I get that, however not the primary cellphone name I’m going to make for a strategery.”
That’s our Rahm, eloquently chopping the child proper down the center.
And earlier than I wrap this up I wish to return to Helen Lewis’ tackle Hunter Biden and his publicity tour as a result of she does such a sublime job of conflating the narcissism and crass language of Hunter Biden with populism:
Joe Biden’s surviving son grew to become MAGA world’s favourite punching bag due to his suspect enterprise dealings in Ukraine, his notorious laptop computer, and his presidential pardon for tax and gun offenses. However in temperament and vocabulary, Hunter is MAGA to the core.
Throughout final 12 months’s presidential marketing campaign, Donald Trump’s interviews with Rogan, Theo Von, and Logan Paul resonated with many younger males. I can think about that very same viewers watching Hunter Biden inform Callaghan about his crack dependancy and considering: Give this man a break. One of the vital upvoted feedback on the YouTube video is from a poster saying that the interview prompted him to go to rehab.
Since their crushing loss in November, Democrats have questioned how they’ll win the battle for consideration and attain voters who discover them weak, distant, and passive. Their elected officers have been tiptoeing towards utilizing the occasional cuss phrase of their public appearances, like youngsters cautiously puffing a joint for the primary time and hoping to not cough. Hunter Biden, against this, went straight for line after line of the onerous stuff. Donald Trump is a “fucking dictator thug,” and Democrats ought to combat in opposition to his deportation agenda as a result of “we fought a fucking revolution in opposition to a king, based mostly on two issues specifically: habeas corpus and due course of. And we’re so prepared to present them up?”
Hunter’s cadences and mannerisms are eerily harking back to his father’s, besides the place Joe would say “malarkey,” Hunter Biden says: “I don’t need to be fucking good.” At instances, he seems like his father’s id, saying the issues the ex-president wish to say however can’t.
Clearly, Republicans haven’t cornered the market in gossipy aggression, though in each their and Hunter’s circumstances, most of that aggression is directed towards the Democrats and the media. Within the Callaghan interview, which was launched on Monday, the youthful Biden has no time for James Carville (“hasn’t run a race in 40 fucking years”), George Clooney (“not a fucking actor”), or CNN’s Jake Tapper (“fully irrelevant”). His biggest animus is reserved for his celebration’s anti–Joe Biden faction, equivalent to the boys behind Pod Save America, who’re “4 white millionaires which can be eating out on their affiliation with Barack Obama from 16 years in the past, dwelling in Beverly fucking Hills.”
When you grew up within the pre-Trump media period, your response to this may be: Hunter, you will have additionally made cash off of your affiliation with a president. However America has lengthy since handed the purpose the place allegations of hypocrisy are a helpful political assault. Most voters now suppose that every one politicians are hypocrites, however at the least a few of them are open about it.…You don’t have to love it, however that is the media world now—podcast chats like this are the place elections are received and misplaced, simply as a lot as on the televised city corridor, on the entrance web page of the New York Submit, or within the stately sitdown with 60 Minutes. The minimal bar for the subsequent Democratic candidate for president must be the flexibility to react, stay on digital camera, in a plausibly regular vogue, to the existence of grownup baby-diaper lovers.…I now ponder whether Hunter’s instincts have been right for as soon as. He reveals Callaghan the bullish allure of the narcissist. Unhealthy issues occur to him. Unhealthy issues may additionally occur to these round him, however, in his telling, he isn’t actually their trigger.
That portrait is tough to sq. with the out there info. Many individuals handle to grieve for his or her brother with out beginning an affair along with his widow, or introducing that widow to crack. Many presidents’ kids have wrestled with the inevitable allegations of nepotism that their careers have created; few have so clearly traded on their father’s energy as Hunter did with the Ukrainian firm Burisma, for which he lobbied when his father was vice chairman. (His protection for that is that Burisma wasn’t a giant deal, that he additionally labored for a lot of charitable organizations, and that in any case the Trump sons and Jared Kushner are worse.)…Hunter’s perpetual refusal to be held accountable is clearly a personality trait that many individuals are ready to miss. However then, when did a populist ever settle for accountability for something? He has understood that to achieve the trendy media setting, it’s best to throw out intimate particulars about your life in a approach that appears like whole, uncooked, unfiltered honesty whereas glossing over the uncooked, unfiltered particulars that replicate poorly on you.
Lewis’ enthusiastic insistence on labeling Hunter Biden a “populist” based mostly on his narcissism, cursing, and different purely superficial elements brings to thoughts the MSM’s love affair with Darkish Woke” or their knack for focusing solely on probably the most superficial facets of Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign such that they’ll declare his “motion” “misplaced momentum” in an Arizona Senate major he had nothing to do with.
At The New Republic, Greg Sargent factors out how centrists like Ezra Klein misunderstand Mamdani’s method:
(Ezra) Klein not too long ago prompt that Democrats can mission authenticity and attraction by speaking like an “offended average.” Contra that, Mamdani—who can be campaigning on tax hikes for the wealthy and making bus service free—presents what you may name “cheerful populism.”
…not each Democrat can emulate Mamdani’s charisma and political abilities, which drive his digital success. However Mamdani’s actual innovation isn’t simply private. It lies within the deliberate fusion of private appeals with substantive ones. He has found out easy methods to make discuss neighborhood boards and metropolis council payments go viral by being a dude you wish to hang around with and get to know higher on social media. As Epstein instructed me, what’s crucial is the mixture of “demonstrating a optimistic agenda that improves folks’s lives” whereas placing “this full particular person entrance and middle.”
A variety of retailers have breathlessly coated “darkish woke” however nobody has executed it with “>the heft and staggering cluelessness of The New York Occasions.
The NYT piece is subtitled “Democrats are attempting out a brand new perspective. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the road of not being too offensive” and it platforms “Consultant Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, has on multiple event directed name-calling and insults at her political opponents.”
Apparently, the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been selling its ballot claiming that Rep. Crockett is approach forward within the Texas Democratic Senatorial major, though she hasn’t really introduced her candidacy.
Do I really want to say that Democrats ought to run screaming from any tactic inspired by each The New York Occasions and the Republican Get together?
Should I additionally add that the basic break up within the celebration is between servants of oligarchy and financial populists and no quantity of crassness or vulgarity (or as Pete Buttigieg calls it “message self-discipline”) can flip a cynical centrist into the subsequent Zohran Mamdani?
Additionally, we must always always remember that Hunter Biden has already had his shot, there was a quick post-debate, pre-drop out interval when some claimed Hunter was performing POTUS.
Thanks Hunter, that will probably be all.
