Left out the part where the guy who dropped them off said “Da, is me, Hunterrr Bidenski, very bad man. Important not to let hard drive be looked at, da?” And then vanished. Not suspicious at all.
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I suppose he could say that he regularly erases his security cam tapes… then again, he probably received the laptop in a dark alleyway.
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Well, yeah, that’s how disinformation campaigns work best, they mix fabrication and innuendo in with a layer of truth to create something that present all kinds of difficulty to deny. Hunter Biden had a position on Burisma’s board. That part is literally true. It’s probably true that some of the emails/texts supposedly contained on the laptop are legitimate.
That’s the trap that they’re laying, that thus far the Bidens are too smart to stumble into: if Biden says that the emails are fake, then they corroborate the email to the caterer requesting chicken rather than fish and say SEE, BIDEN DENIED THESE EMAILS BUT WE HAVE PROOF HE WAS LYING.
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It’s the reason disingenuous garbage piles like Greenwald are saying things like this:
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Yep. That clickbait headline is what most people read then when you get to the meat of it there’s the nothingburger right in the center. Very nuanced. Classic.
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Love that line of attack. Guilty until proven innocent.
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I have a feeling Rudy is going to be busy the next few days fending off his own scandal.
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I don’t care for Sacha Baron Cohen’s humor, but he does serve a positive purpose in exposing the true nature of these scumballs.
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Holy shit, but Greenwald has gone badly off the rails.
Has he endorsed Trump yet, or said that Covid-19 is a fake? I wouldn’t be surprised by either.
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On the one hand, I have empathy for him as a human being. I imagine that believing yourself to be (and being told for years you are) a righteous champion of the oppressed who smites entrenched power, only to find out one day that a good deal of that career was spent as a tool of one of the most odious autocrats on the planet is probably jarring to one’s sense of self. How he’s chosen to respond to that realization, with the refusal to acknowledge reality and the insistence that being anti-anti-Trump is the only worthwhile worldview, is less than admirable.
I think he’s a good cautionary tale in believing in your own righteousness to exclusion of all other possibilities. Also, he’s a fucking diiiick.
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In the film Borat is dispatched by the Kazakh government back to the US to present a bribe to an ally of Donald Trump in order to ingratiate his country with the administration. After the monkey earmarked for the gift is indisposed, Borat’s supposedly underage offspring becomes the replacement present.
Seriously? Bribed with a monkey? (I know, probably a typo, but the most Borat plot possible!)
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I’m hearing that his Abbie Hoffman is dead on.
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“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Giuliani told the New York Post. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.
WTF? First, clothes are not “transgender”… second, he seems to be awfully invested in describing said clothes… so maybe he was “distractingly attractive” to Rudy after all.
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Well see it had a Biden 2020 sticker on it. So obviously, it was worth the computer repair shop owner’s time to dig into all of these files. He allegedly did contact the FBI … but then also contacted Giuliani for some inexplicable reason? And Giuliani responded to the random Delaware computer repair shop guy?
I’m also not clear why Hunter had 3 busted laptops that all needed to be dropped off at this random place in a state his dad used to represent, but where Hunter doesn’t even live.
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I tried to ask someone about it once…they said it made the conversation feel more natural…you’re not always talking in these sharp, declarative sentences…you’re just saying things…like a real-life conversation…where you leave ellipses between every clause…
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That became blatantly obvious to me when Greenwald repeatedly went to bat for that physically and psychologically abusive “revenge porn” teenager running for office in Kansas this summer.
In retrospect I’m sure the signs have probably been around for a while now but I hadn’t really been following Greenwald that closely.
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IIRC, Biden’s job with Burisma didn’t technically violate any conflict-of-interest policies, but even Joe admitted in hindsight that the optics were not good. Which is true — it looked bad. At the end of the day, that rests on Hunter though, not Joe.
It was also about the optics for Burisma. They had been in some shit for a long time. They got rid of some of the old guard to make it look like they’d cleaned up their act, and then of course they’d hire a consulting firm run by the son the US VP to help with PR, and then of course they’d bring that same guy onto the board. It makes it look like they’re playing ball, and appeasing the US and all their allies! And Hunter went along with being used that way, because the money was good, because he struggles with addiction — and like a lot of addicts, the thrill of the hustle of making money is often gives them a similar dopamine fix to their other cravings.
Ultimately, Hunter’s presence alone wasn’t enough to get the US and the international community off of Burisma’s back, which is why Joe — with the backing of the entire fucking world — pressured Ukraine to get rid of the guy who wasn’t investigating Burisma.
I suspect that Hunter was an unfortunate patsy in this whole optics charade for a shady corporation, which backfired. That should have been the end of it. But the Trump campaign (with help from Rudy’s Ukrainian friends) has muddled it even more, to the point where the optics are the story. Confusion is, unfortunately, an effective PR campaign in politics.
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We used ellipses a lot when I was writing for TV news for that reason. It helps the on-air talent reading off the teleprompter. It took me years to get out of the habit when writing conversationally on BBS’s.
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