"We aren't incompetent, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't corrupt, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't satanists, we're just being ironic!" *several years later* As it turns out... Someone is going to claim that Hunter Biden was pretending to be peddling influence to US policies, but that doesn't actually happen, in order to ingratiate with foreign dictators and divert bribes to the black budget.