My intent was to avoid writing about the nothing burger from two nights ago, but the right wingers have all embraced it with such orgasmic delight that I feel I should. Seriously, there were some sore right arms out there, yesterday morning. The document release was done over 20 something tweets, which was annoying as fuck, especially since they seem to have been written by an 8 year old autistic child. But someone figured out the format would blow up engagement numbers, which I'm sure it did. Advertisers still won't touch the train wreck, though, for the same reasons they exited in the first place. But I digress as usual.
What was actually said in the release: In October, 2020, Twitter suppressed a New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop. The action was initially justified based upon Twitter's TOS on hacked material, but the internal emails admitted that was a stretch. Also, Twitter apparently suspended Kayleigh Fuckininey's account for two weeks. It wasn't clear whether the two were related or if it was, I didn't care. Also, the Biden campaign requested some defamatory posts be taken down. It was specified that both the Trump and Biden campaigns had access and could / did make such requests. Trump's requests weren't noted (and apparently won't be in the next cluster fuck, either).
Joe Biden had the Hunter laptop story buried and had incriminating evidence removed, which influenced the election. Although, some rightly picked up that Twitter actually suppressed the NYP story.
The right wingers were pissed that they lost (as usual) and began marching out all of the baseless accusations and claims of what's on Hunter's laptop back to the surface, which further worked the chimps into a lather. Seriously, they were euphoric.
For clarification, some research in the internet archive uncovered the tweets the Biden campaign requested be remove were nudes of Hunter and tantamount to revenge porn, something quite illegal. So, the right wingers are full of anger over not seeing Hunter Biden's dick.
And now, for the context: Twitter burying the laptop story didn't violate anything; most certainly not the First Amendment. No government forcing the act, so no foul. If it influenced the outcome of the election, who cares? It's not as though Fox News, OAN, and the others haven't done the exact same thing for the Republicans. If anything, one would have greater expectations of truth from a "news" outlet.
If you haven't already, right now, you should be asking yourself why you didn't hear about the NYP Hunter's Laptop story from another source. The paper is a Murdoch property, so why didn't it show up on Fox News? News agencies frequently report on one another's investigations, so why wasn't this bombshell everywhere? Why hasn't there been follow up in the two intervening years? One might conclude that the story really wasn't one.
My research has shown that's the case. Apparently, it was well known within the journalism community the NYP story was a hail mary at an October surprise, by the right, in an attempt to influence the election (my, how did that worm turn!), and was considered toxic.
Others wouldn't touch it because a large portion of the hard drive's data is questionable or at the very least, unable to be verified to belong to Hunter Biden. Of the 130k emails on the drive, less than 15% were able to be established as original. That's to say they aren't authentic, just that they can't be 100% sure they are. This comes from a Washington Post story in March, where they gave the hard drive to two forensic computer experts. Here's a link to the article.
When you read it (and I highly do), take note of the number of files written to the drive after Biden dropped it off at the repair shop, including three folders titled “Mail,” “Salacious Pics Package” and “Big Guy File” — an apparent reference to Joe Biden.
But what about CBS stating the hard drive was confirmed to be Hunter's and the data was uncorrupted? CBS received a copy of the version in the FBI's possession. You see, there are two versions of Hunter's hard drive. From the CBS article:
Some other versions of the laptop data circulated later appeared to have had data added after April 2019, a sign they could have been tampered with, according to reports in other media outlets, including The Washington Post.
There was to be a second drop last night, but that didn't happen. Elmo made a comment they're still filtering through the data (translation: cherry picking material that seems more salacious), so it might be tonight. The course to excellence continues at Twitter LOL.
To wrap up, the Twitter Files was about the furthest thing you can get from a bombshell; more like a dud. Hunter's laptop is a dead end because people fucked with it. Bottom line, I don't know what Hunter was involved in and neither do you, because any evidence on the hard drive is suspect. So long as the President wasn't party to it, I don't care. If Hunter Biden committed crimes, he should be tried, convicted, and punished accordingly.
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