Power Mongering

The word monger means to sell, or to make deals. It’s an older word, used only in certain circumstances today, more of them nefarious than on the up-and-up.

Power monger means dealing in power, as a commodity. It implies an insatiable hunger for getting it. I introduced the term in one of my earliest blog series, back in 2011. Grammatically, I debate still on whether to attach the words, or hyphenate. Words move from separate to hyphenated to attached, usually gradually, based on continuous frequency of connection. I’ve made an editorial decision for now to keep them separate, to make it clear what is being mongered.

 

Definition and note both from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.
It can also be a verb, transitive, meaning peddle

This definition from the online American Heritage Dictionary, which pops up
at the top of the search, gives additional shades of meaning.

This week I’ve been watching “Who Is Hunter Biden?” the Part II second season of which came out last week. (It’s behind the paywall at Fox Nation.) There are an additional five episodes. It’s a lot to stomach. Don’t watch with children in the room—although actual graphic imagery is brief and blurred. The subject matter is the utter depravity of a man and his family who sell their influence for money and power.

Jeanine Pirro in the Who Is Hunter Biden? series,
screenshot from the series

While there is more detail, I didn’t see anything new. The Fox Nation series, led by Judge Jeanine Pirro, lays out what we’ve known, and what has been corroborated by the infamous laptop. A fair amount of commentary comes from Miranda Devine, author of The Laptop from Hell, as well as investigative journalist Mollie Hemingway and others. You can read their writings if you can’t get to the series. (You'd do well to read them in addition to watching the series.)

The shocking thing is that this much can be known, and yet nothing has been done about it.

The short version is Joe Biden, his son Hunter, his brother Jim, and the rest of the family have been making quid pro quo deals for many years—the entire time Joe Biden has been an elected public official (we won’t call it public service in his case).

Hunter has been the main deal maker, it appears, at least since his father became vice president in 2009. He is a crack addict and whoremonger and self-made pornographer. He has no marketable skills beyond selling his father's name. He is not a person to be trusted. And yet Joe Biden trusts him. They are liars and cheaters all.

One of the recovered texts, screenshot from the series

Another of the recovered texts, screenshot from the series

Deals have been done around the world, most notably in Ukraine and China. When you look at foreign policy today, with Joe Biden in the White House, there isn’t a more logical reason for the pouring of our resources into Ukraine and the kowtowing to China—which, by the way, recently included drawing down our strategic oil reserves, purportedly to help assuage the soaring gas prices here in the US after Biden shut down drilling and the Keystone pipeline, and then selling the reserves to China so that they could do nothing for struggling US citizens.

I won’t go into all the details of the series. There are too many today. What I will say is that these details are corroborated and known. If you’re unaware of them, that has been your choice. They were known before the 2020 election—although at that time you were told by biased media that it was Russian disinformation, until half a year later when they did a half-hearted mea culpa.

One of the things that struck me as I listened to the series was a quote of what Hunter Biden told his longtime friend and business partner Devon Archer after Archer’s incarceration for defrauding an American Indian tribe (as punctuated in the original): 

“Every great family is persecuted in the US-you are part of a great family-not a side show not deserted by them even in your darkest moments. That’s the way Biden’s are different and you are a Biden. It’s the price of power. And the people questioning you truly have none whereas you do through the perseverance and poise.”

Hunter Biden defines “great family” very differently from the way I do. After years of infidelity and betrayal to his first wife, he had a drug-binge-based affair with his brother’s widow shortly after his brother’s death. And then he went on to have an affair with the widow’s sister. There were tens of thousands of dollars spent on multiple occasions—subsidized by his father—for high priced hookers. Joe and Jill, by the way, didn’t meet on a blind date; they met at a campaign event and started their affair while she was still married. The lying and cheating are part of being a “great family,” according to Hunter.

But here he has a friend, in prison for a crime they both committed, that Hunter got off scot-free from. He tells him it’s part of being in their great family. The Bidens, however, get the benefit of the name; the extras, who are only like family apparently do not.

Then Hunter says it’s the “price of power.” All that persecution and prosecution is what he means. But prosecution for crimes isn’t, as he says, because you have power and “the people questioning you truly have none”; when you’ve committed crimes, the prosecution is for the crimes. Unless the prosecutor is corrupt. Maybe Hunter assumes everyone is corrupt, because that is the world he knows.

What does he know of power? He knows how to monger it—to sell influence in exchange for money, which allows him a lavish and self-indulgent lifestyle, at the expense of his country.

Worldly power is a temporary and fleeting thing. He doesn’t know real power. He doesn’t have the power to say no to drugs, or lying, or cheating, or debauchery beneath the tolerance of the vast majority of people in the world. He is too weak to say no to himself. He has relinquished his power to a lower authority—the source of evil, the source of all power mongering.

In the end, when those who have mastered themselves are given “all that the Father hath,” this so-called great family will be forever powerless.