Wednesday, March 30, 2022

💩 All The Way Down

I really don't care about Trump's claims of crowd size. It doesn't mean anything except Trump is an empty soul hungry for approval and affirmation at all times. The visual, however, is useful, especially since we all have a hard time imagining how big a crowd really is. Makes me realize I've never seen crowds at any Trump rally which would fill even a smaller football stadium.

And according to reports from Georgia the people that did come were uninspired, bored, and finally started leaving early to avoid the rush.  I knew Trump would stop being entertaining eventually; it seems about time for that to happen.  And I'm just gonna couple this, with this:
Altogether now, kiddies: how do we know Trump is lying? HIS LIPS ARE MOVING! And since that distraction isn't working: Trump couldn't rely on Tucker to carry his water for him: So Matt Gaetz did: I really had to refresh my memory on this stupid story, so now you can, too:

In April 2019, someone dropped off three water-damaged laptops with him for repair, Mac Isaac claimed. He couldn’t say for sure who dropped them off, because he is legally blind, but he said the person identified himself as Hunter Biden and signed a receipt with what appears to be Hunter’s name.

One of the laptops had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker. No one ever returned to pick up the laptops, so Mac Isaac (an enthusiastic Trump supporter) started looking at what’s on one of them. He saw what he thought was lots of scandalous material, so he called authorities and handed it over — but also kept a copy of its material on a hard drive. At some point, he gave that hard drive to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, and they gave it to the New York Post (and circulated it among other Trump supporters like Steve Bannon).

The Post and other conservative media outlets’ coverage of Hunter’s files partly involved lurid material about Hunter’s personal life. Hunter’s struggles with drug addiction were already a matter of public record, but the files contained further embarrassing details, as well as sexual material. The other focus of coverage was Hunter’s lucrative foreign work, most notably with a Ukrainian gas company and Chinese business interests. Trump allies had long claimed this work proved not just Hunter’s but Joe Biden’s corruption, and they combed through Hunter’s emails to try to make that case.

The Post’s coverage was controversial, including inside the paper — per the New York Times, one reporter refused to put his name on the story due to credibility concerns, and other Post staff “questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents.” But Trump cited what he dubbed “the laptop from hell” constantly. And conservatives began to argue that the mainstream media and social media companies were suppressing the story to help Biden win.

Three years later, and it's still a thing.  Although whether or not it's even Hunter Biden's laptop has not yet been determined.  Vox assumes the e-mails are "authentic," but says they have no real news value for Biden pere.  Given the story that goes with the laptop, and the chain of custody that story tells, I'm inclined to think it's all bullshit.  Mostly because this:

Gaetz concluded his questioning [to which all answers were "I don't know because that's not my job!"] by presenting a hard drive that he claimed contained the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. He asked that the contents of the hard drive be entered into the congressional record.

Which allowed the New York Post (!) to claim:

Hunter Biden laptop material entered into Congressional Record

Which is true because the NYPost says so, and no further.  Gaetz produced that hard drive after never getting Vorndran to say where the "real" laptop is (somewhere in the custody of the FBI, but apparently Gaetz wants the GPS coordinates for it.).  Mighty convenient, eh?

Sorta like Trump's crowd claims, or that he's never heard of a "burner phone."  It's all bullshit.

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  1. The Thought Criminal9:50 AM

    It's Murdoch media, you can tell they're lying because something resembling semiotic significance is coming from it. Sometimes because lips are moving, too.

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