The right-wing outrage over the Hunter Biden nothingburger is a tried-and-true propaganda tactic

My dyslexic brain will always read it as

no matter how out of context it would be.

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My non-dyslexic brain does, too. It is the only word that makes sense with that spelling.

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Young people do not know what ‘bingo’ was.

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How tragic.

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So do I, and I also use an ellipsis to indicate an incomplete sentence where the remainder can easily be inferred by the reader. And if you think I’m going to change at my age…

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Do we really even know that there’s a laptop? I don’t think the FBI has confirmed or denied that they have one, and the supposed receipt from the FBI is a hand-filled form that looks like it was printed ~1994.

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I don’t think that bringing more manufactured outrage into the public consciousness counts as increasing manufacturing jobs.

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Hell, my kids associate spelling whole words and use of punctuation with old people. It’s ok, I ain’t a spring chicken.

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To add to confusion, the German prefix “ur-” has been creeping into English. Used that way, it signifies something as ancient, original, or the root. Like “I can has cheezburger” being the ur-meme, or ENIAC being the ur-computer, things like that.

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Oh, they were clever in claiming that they only got copies that the repair shop made, not the actual laptop. The excuse for why they can’t prove it was his was already baked in. After all, they only want FUD, and fake physical evidence is risky.

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My totally-real-and-not-imaginary Canadian girlfriend’s dog ate the laptop.

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