They don’t make nepo babies like they used to.

Hunter Biden, the poster boy for unearned privilege, just publicly bit the hand that fed him, and in doing so underscored so much of what was wrong in Joe Biden’s administration.

Hunter Biden turned on his former president pop in a podcast interview this week, slamming Joe Biden’s immigration policy and move to pull US forces out of Afghanistan.

“We need vibrant immigration,” the 55-year-old told “The Shawn Ryan Show.”

“But we don’t want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and being prioritized above people that are actual, literal heroes, that are still recovering from 21, 20 years of endless war — or anybody else in our society.”

He also told interviewer Ryan that the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco “was an obvious (expletive) failure.”

“I think that there was a better way to do it, and … I can blame it on his generals, I can blame it on (other) people (for) the way in which we did it, but — and my dad always knew this also, is that the buck stops with him.”

Excellent points — why didn’t he make them when his dad was in the White House?

Because Hunter was part of the problem. His position on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president and subsequent allegations of influence peddling, the infamous laptop revelations, and ultimate conviction of felony charges related to a gun purchase added to the narrative that there was one set of rules for the rich and well-connected, and another for the rest of us.

Joe Biden pardoned Hunter for his tax and gun crimes.

To his dubious credit, Hunter took the concept of “it’s not what you know but who you know” and ran with it. The “artist” nabbed nearly $1.5 million during his dad’s campaign and the early years of his administration, the New York Post reported.

His abstract paintings have been compared to “hotel art,” but were snapped up for good money. The fact that they were painted by the president’s son was mere coincidence, surely.

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48, but since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000,” Hunter Biden’s attorneys said in his legal filing asking a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he issued against a former Trump White House aide.

Hunter had lost his house in the LA wildfires, adding to his plummeting fortunes.

They haven’t improved. In the Ryan interview, he said he’s nearly $15 million in debt, saying “I have no idea” how to pay it back.

Well, since he served on the board of a gas company back in the day, surely he has business credentials that would land him a similar post, no?

We suggest a career as a stand-up comedian, judging from this interview nugget.

“My dad, you know, entered the presidency as the poorest man to ever take the office. And he left the presidency (as) the, you know, not poorest, I mean, he’s fine, but he has no, we have no generational wealth.” According to Forbes, Joe Biden’s net worth was an estimated $10 million as of June, 2024. He can still afford an ice cream cone.

Generational wealth is elusive for many, in fact, just getting by is the order of the day for most. When most people are convicted of crimes, they do the time. They don’t get presidential pardons for them.

Welcome to life as an ordinary person.

Editorial cartoon by Steve Kelley. (Creators Syndicate)