When I read people like Steve Andrist calling for the Republican majority in the House to eschew applying the “Trump” standard to the Bidens and those protecting them, it makes me want to tear my hair out (which is unfortunate because I have so little).

Andrist, the co-chair of the North Dakota News Coopertive, says in his Dec. 6 opinion piece that any Republican pushing for investigations in the next session is stepping outside their mandate, and should get back to the basics of “passing laws.” His lack of curiosity is not unique in this business, but it is nonetheless very telling.

The recent releases of internal Twitter communications by Elon Musk to the journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Wiess have been revealing on a number of levels. Not only do they show a clear throughline of censorship between government agencies and tech companies, they’ve gotten little coverage from the national media, which instead has committed their airtime and word counts to mitigating the damage they cause. At this point, such efforts only reveal how little credibility these institutions still have.

What the incurious are deliberately being obtuse about is what exactly Hunter Biden’s infernal laptop reveals and most pertinently, what the greater efforts taken to protect the Biden’s says about our federal bureaucracy and politicized media class.

The whole reason people are still harping about the damn thing is the clear and obvious peddling of the elder Biden’s influence by his son from one corrupt nation to another, and the overzealous efforts of many partisan hacks within our government to influence the outcome of an election by obscuring it. The defense being proffered is that Twitter and other tech companies were just listening to what the FBI was telling them to do, never mind the constitutional violations that resulted.

We are also told they were just following their “hacked content” or “revenge porn” policies. This might be compelling if Hunter Biden hadn’t already satisfied his exhibitionist fetish by uploading a majority of this X-rated content onto his personal Pornhub account. Keep in mind, at this point Twitter was actively refusing to remove child sex abuse material being shared by their users despite the victim herself begging them to take it down. If that isn’t indicative of their priorities, I don’t know what else is.

It has come out that internally Twitter employees did experience small bouts of consternation about the heavy handed and dubious reasoning behind the decision to censor the New York Post story, but they were ultimately overruled by the censorious activists running the place at the time.

However, these releases have also laid bare how willingly partisans like the ousted Vijaya Gadde bent their ears to government agencies, and then ran with their recommendations with a righteous fury. Gadde would go on to serve on a Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the Biden administration. She used this position to recommend the streamlining of the mechanisms of censorship between her company and the federal bureaucracy. It’s safe to say she’s got somewhere to land now that Musk has canned her.

That’s only the beginning of the incestuous and unconstitutional alignments of tech companies like Twitter and the Federal government. Heck, it’s even come out that Musk had to fire an in-house attorney who was filtering the released documents to Wiess and Taibbi, who was none other than the fired FBI Lawyer James Baker, a key player in ginning up the initial FBI probes that built the “Russian Collusion” house of cards.

The fact that Anthony Fauci’s daughter was also a Twitter employee during the 2020 pandemic and election season is somehow the least surprising disclosure we’ve had.

Meanwhile, Biden’s DOJ is prosecuting a half dozen Republican figures for FARA violations, and have thus far refused to empower a special prosecutor to look into the matter of Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine, Russia, and China. Imagine if we were talking about one of Trump’s children, we would not be hearing calls for us to be magnanimous and to “stick to passing laws.”

Why were so many powerful people willing to throw out any notion of ethics and free and fair elections? As has been abundantly clear, it’s because Trump was elected president in 2016, and Hillary Clinton was not. They haven’t exactly been quiet about their motivations, after all her election was “stolen” by some random Russians buying a few thousand dollars’ worth of Facebook ads, anonymous 4chan posters and Pepe the Frog memes tricking rubes on the Internet.

We all know how wrong they were about that election, but the real thing I want to talk about, is how every single one of these institutions and the people in them responded to Clinton’s historic defeat. The conclusion that many of these institutions came to was that the openness and free flowing of information online was the reason why Clinton had lost, and that it would never be allowed to happen again.

It’s been seven long years of “Trumpus Contra Mundum” or “Trump against the world”, as my father coined it while we watched protesters torch police cars and riot in Washington, D.C., in January, 2017. The legitimacy of his administration was questioned from the beginning, and the inquisition into him and anyone adjacent to him will surely be carried forth into the foreseeable future with a religious fervor.

If the years of endless investigation into Trump and the allegations that the 2016 election was stolen by a foreign power were necessary, how can anyone say the Biden family should be spared from the same scrutiny? 2024 isn’t that far away, and Biden has made it pretty clear he is running again. Such calls for magnanimity like the one from Steve Andrist, ring pretty hollow given what we know.

Unfortunately, Trump is the worst ambassador for his grievances, and his thrashing about on Truth Social is staining the waters around him rather red. The narrative that the nation is finally “done” with Donald Trump, I’m afraid is going to be nothing more than wishful thinking from establishment aligned Republicans and their friends in the Democratic party. Trump’s outrage over how many fingers have been found on the scales of our electoral process is not his alone, no matter how much Rob Port whines and poopoos the concerns of many Republican voters.

Based on history, I’m not ready to declare him dead. Trump is a lot like the slasher villain Michael Meyers from “Halloween.” The moment you think you’re safe, he’s popping up behind you with a butcher knife. If those in power want to continue to play dumb about the Twitter Files revelations and the dubious activities of the Bidens, Trump won’t be the only one looming in the background.