OPINION:
If you have no capacity for shame, you have no conscience.
In Jeremiah 8:12, the prophet describes hypocrites who sin openly and yet still expect to be blessed: “Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.”
Hunter Biden has come out with his own cryptocurrency meme coin that he dubbed (wait for it) $LAPTOP.
Here is a quick refresher on that story. The laptop was full of shocking evidence about Hunter’s escapades with drugs, prostitutes and shady business deals, and it could have affected his father, President Biden.
The FBI under Christopher Wray had the laptop for months before the New York Post broke the story. America’s Democratic-controlled legacy media and social media buried the story a month before the 2020 election.
Surveys indicate that if the laptop’s contents had been widely known, it could have changed the presidential race’s outcome.
Anyone with a scintilla of conscience who did the things on the laptop would want it buried forever. Not Hunter. He thought he would name his crypto coin $LAPTOP as a big, obscene gesture to law-abiding Americans.
Why not? With a presidential pardon in hand and the fact that Democrats hardly ever pay a price for criminality, it seemed like a good idea. He believed America’s culture had become so debased that he could cash in on the moral depravity.
Here is a silver lining if you like poetic justice: The coin debuted at $200 to $300 and lost more than 95% of its value within 24 hours. As of Thursday, it was at about 60 cents.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, jurors cited postpartum blues as the reason they resisted finding Lindsay Clancy guilty of strangling her three children. Some of the female jurors trashed the one juror who thought the facts outweighed reasonable doubt. His holding out led to a mistrial.
The women even trashed the prosecutors for trying Ms. Clancy and praised her defense attorney, who should be disbarred for trying to dox the holdout juror.
Jim Treacher, political comedy writer of the razor-sharp daily podcast “Cue the Crickets,” said: “I guess it makes sense that crazy people think a crazy person should get away with murder.”
Hordes of women in pink rallied to support Ms. Clancy and raised $1 million for her defense. The case may or may not be retried.
As Mr. Treacher said: “Now the tough part’s going to be finding 12 jurors in Massachusetts who aren’t insane. That state is infamous for witch hunts, and now they’re giving us a witch hunt in reverse. Instead of coercing people into condemning an innocent woman, they’re trying to free a guilty one.”
Postpartum depression is no small thing, and women who suffer from it deserve our sympathy and support. Yet turning a child killer into a heroine is shameful.
While we are on the topic of shame, news broke that socialist and Islamist podcaster Hasan Piker again parsed his remarks from 2019 about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He famously said that America “deserved” 9/11. Later, he said he could have phrased it better. Recently, he denied ever saying that he hated America, even as video surfaced. In one clip, he declares, “I say I hate America all the time.” In another, he says, “People will be like ‘Hasan, you hate America.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I do. I do hate America.’”
Mr. Piker has campaigned with Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other Democrats.
Last month, during his live podcast tour, Mr. Piker told an audience, “America does not deserve 9/11. That’s my new thing now.” (Translation: “I’ve got to say stuff like this so I won’t hurt the Democrats, but take it with a grain of salt.”)
The crowd erupted into booing and jeers. Like their idol, they really do hate this country and cheer for our enemies.
Whenever you see these frauds interviewed, they launch into virtue signaling to show their superiority. Democratic Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico excels at this. A self-professed Christian, he mangles Scripture and portrays Jesus as a rainbow-sporting free love guru from Portlandia.
The Apostle Paul warned us about people like Mr. Talarico in 1 Timothy 4:1-2: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.”
Voters must resoundingly end Mr. Talarico’s political career in November.
• Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.
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