How much grace should we extend to people who screw up'like, really screw up' After many years as an addict and a general failson, Hunter Biden's history includes felony gun convictions, tax evasion, smoking crack, and smoking Parmesan cheese that he thought was crack. But in the past few weeks, the son of the former president has launched a new career as'a sober counselor' A life coach' Since reviving his dormant X account on May 19, the younger Biden has fully embraced a persona he soft-launched last year, when the Gen Z influencer Andrew Callaghan interviewed him about his past drug addiction. His strategy is not to deny his past transgressions, but to flagellate himself so thoroughly for them that no one else can land a hit. 'I was definitely a degenerate crackhead, 100 percent,' the 56-year-old recently told Soft White Underbelly, a YouTube channel that encourages sex workers, homeless people, and drug users to tell their stories in their own words. His addiction had been a...
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