Hunter the snark

Published June 14, 2026 6:30am ET



It’s hard to keep a good man down, but it’s even harder to keep a bad man out. Hunter Biden is back. Best known as an influence-peddler, crackhead, whoremonger, struggling artist, and innocent man who got a presidential pardon from his father, the prodigal son and former first son reappeared on X, formerly Twitter, in mid-May. 

“Just the place for a Snark!” cries the sailor as he lands the passengers who want to hunt the mythical creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem of 1876, “The Hunting of the Snark.” Social media rewards the worst in human nature, and Biden is to vice as Martha Stewart is to baking. He cracked the app’s code and latched on to its algorithm like a hungry baby or a lobbyist for Ukrainian natural gas. He now has half a million followers. That’s a lot of snark.

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