It wasn’t spy vs. spy. Hunter Biden didn’t pay an 85 dollar fee for computer repair. His backed up files, by default, became the property of the shop’s owner. One day he was browsing through his miscellaneous collected data for the lols and found the goddamn motherlode. That $85 may do more to alter the course of this election than the millions in campaign spending thus far.

Paging Matt Stoller, paging Josh Hawley.

It was a good idea if you’re Joe Biden.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1316341249989849088

Hidin’ Biden

You know this is all 15th-dimensional chess by Mr. Trump, don’t you?

If they serve everyone who wants to post on their site and someone posts something salacious/outrageous/libelous, they can crawl back into, “We don’t govern the content that appears here, our users do.”

The more they moderate and regulate what goes out on Twitter or Facebook, the harder they will fall to a court suit that they indeed moderate, regulate and and even specify the content that appears in those places.

Clever, wouldn’t you say?

I just don’t get it. Signalled to the tambourines. Holy hell, as in the book.

> Paging Matt Stoller, paging Josh Hawley.

Sorry, too cryptic. This was in response to Steve’s penultimate line, “Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?”

Stoller is one of the few on the left raising the alarm on tech-giant oligopolies, perhaps not coincidentally, he has been condemned by the great and the good as a racist. On the right, Sen. Hawley has spoken about similar concerns.

Johnson, Cruz and Hawley have already taken action. This will slow drip for a few days and the the public will demand an explanation. They’ll demand in person debates to see them hash this out and to see Biden hang himself. This election is insane.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316501350658707456

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316515656360099841

That’s real cute Steve . The struggle between those who want free access to information and freedom and those who seek to control access to information and enslave their fellow humans is Darwinian . Like the the never ending contest between science and bacteria ; they develop an ABx and the bacteria counter it , develop resistance . They may win in the short term , and the “short” term maybe decades or centuries , but in the long term the “infection” will kill them , their system is unsustainable . Even if we all submit nature will triumph . So in the long run it’s either the poisonous system will die of it’s own toxicity or man’s “noble” nature will triumph and this eternal struggle between the light and the dark will go on . It can never be otherwise . I’ll bet most of your “fans” are here because they have been burned after rebelling against the Law . I know I am .

I think we need to ban social media and go back to the good olde days of getting catalogs in the mail and such and such

People are slowly going insane

Suspect provenance of Hunter Biden data cache prompts skepticism and social media bans

https://news.yahoo.com/suspect-provenance-hunter-biden-data-213825705.html?guccounter=1

Great timing.

The tech oligarch stooges have been testifying in Senate Subcommittee hearings about how they aren’t harmful monopolies or doing censorship.

They are “neutral content carriers” per Sec. 230 of the FCC Act.

Uh, no.

Why some major news publication’s article about the VP’s errant son is somehow “harmful” etc. is absurd. Purely political. How many lefty lies have they eagerly retweeted from the TDS mafia about Trump, Russiagate, Ukraine impeachment, etc. ?

But it appears they aren’t yet up to Chinese level standards of content blocking. Not yet.

“Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?”

The problem got its start a long time ago however, when people decided they wanted to use corporate chats like AOL Instant Messenger over IRC, web message boards and reddit over nntp/usenet, etc.

Facebook just took that trend and made it worse. And of course now people are moving from blogs to twitter, from e-mail to facebook messages.

The sad truth is, people want the zillionaire intermediaries. For one thing, they do a better job at blocking spam than e-mail and usenet.

People also seem to like “smart feeds” where they follow/friend 500 people, and the zillionaire’s algo picks and chooses for them what to display.

Finally there’s ease of use.

It’s not that complicated.

Hunter was paid by foreign agents in fake foreign jobs as a front so the foreign agents could gain access to the V.P.

Joe denied it, and claimed he never even spoke to Hunter about his foreign jobs or had such meetings. Even though Joe admitted to protecting Hunter from Ukrainian prosecution by forcing Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor going after Hunter.

According to these emails, Joe’s denials were lies; Hunter was actively coordinating meetings between his father and his Ukranian agents.

So, its kind of like the Clinton Foundation, except instead of using a fake charity as a front, Joe just got his kids on payrolls of foreign corporations.

I hope it damages Biden-Harris. But if Americans aren’t already alarmed at what these two will do to their country, it would take a massive scandal to rouse them from their stupor.

Aside from the obvious lies Biden told ( though I believe there’s a good case to be made that he truly remembers nothing), a President was impeached over this.

Yahoo News is garbage.

These pictures really do emanate energy that says "my dad will take care of it"

it doesn't matter if he's 55, he's forever 21 asking for an allowance https://t.co/IakVvUrHjf

— LindyMan (@PaulSkallas) October 14, 2020

This looks really bad for FB and Twitter, imo.

I’m also somewhat skeptical of the NYPost claims and i’m curious to hear more… esp about what the FBI found when investigating this for the past 9 months.

However, even if it turns out the NYPost was had and the laptop or email is fake or doctored, i don’t see how it’s FB’s place to prevent the story, and i’m surprised they chose to block this.

This just validates all the slippery slope arguments people were making a year and two ago when Milo, Alex Jones and the like were de-platformed. Those guys were relatively fringe, but now FB and twitter are really putting their foot on the scale for Biden right before the election.

It’s hard to see this as anything but partisan. Where was the blocking of all the unproven “russia conspiracy” stories that ran for years? Kavanaugh accusations? Accusations of police misconduct against the cops who encountered St. George Floyd? Althea Bernstein’s “frat boys” ?

One very tiny pushback Trump could make today would be an Executive Order requiring all federal agencies to stop using twitter for public communications and switch over to Parler. Some accounts like NASA have tens of millions of followers so this would instantly help Parler gain a more mainstream following from regular Americans curious about government affairs and start providing Jack Dorsey with some more competition.

But if Americans aren’t already alarmed at what these two will do to their country, it would take a massive scandal to rouse them from their stupor.

“A new scandal every week!” wasn’t all that effective a slogan for Bob Dole 24 years ago. He’s still around for consulting services, the second-oldest former Senator.

Our old partner Baloo was a big fan of Sarah Palin, who ran against Joe in 2008. That means a number of cartoons to recycle:

The blatant bias by the MSM and big tech companies is terrible, but nothing new. Republicans have had to deal with this as long as I can remember.

As to the accusations, doubt they will change the election results at all. Even if you had the media giving them serious attention, I don’t think it will sway many voters. Very few people are voting for Biden; many, many people are voting against Trump, if that makes sense.

I just checked the Washington Post website. They still seem to have nothing about this story.

It’s mind-boggling to me that Trump was falsely accused of doing basically the same thing that Biden actually did in Ukraine — but Trump got impeached, while the media is censoring news to protect Biden, who should actually be in handcuffs over this.

We are truly living in a house of mirrors…

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/house-gop-evades-twitter-censors-to-share-posts-hunter-biden-story/

Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost's story on Hunter Biden.

So we put it on our website for you to read and share.

Click, share, and RT! https://t.co/tZwybnoW0e

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) October 14, 2020

A Pentagon insider, United States Marine Corps Colonel “Jiggs” Casey (the Director of the Joint Staff), stumbles on evidence that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by its charismatic chairman United States Air Force General James Mattoon Scott who was a former fighter pilot, a war veteran, a flying ace, Medal of Honor recipient and an honorable patriot, intend to stage a coup d’etat to remove Lyman and his cabinet in seven days. Under the plan, a secret Army unit known as ECOMCON (Emergency COMmunications CONtrol) will seize control of the country’s telephone, radio, and television networks, while Congress is prevented from implementing the treaty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

Twitter and FB apparently wants to be the “ECOMCON” as envisioned in the fictional scenario.

Meantime, lots of people have already voted, or are voting now.

New campaign theme:

Joe Biden 2020:
Come for the Corruption.
Stay for the Senility.

Twitter has blocked distribution of original NY Post article on alleged Hunter Biden hard drive

It has not yet censored distribution of report on @SenRonJohnson's committee investigating contentshttps://t.co/aj2ukKFlK7 pic.twitter.com/8MN119z2Ol

— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) October 14, 2020

The Post's primary Twitter account (@nypost) has also been locked because the Hunter Biden stories violate its rules against "distribution of hacked material," per email we received from Twitter https://t.co/wbeYd6c3CA

— Noah Manskar (@noahmanskar) October 14, 2020

I think we need to ban social media and go back to the good olde days of getting catalogs in the mail and such and such

People are slowly going insane

Well, the First Amendment is pretty clear. It guarantees two specific and separate freedoms:

1. Freedom of speech (from one’s lips to another’s ear)
2. Freedom of “the press” (a machine that presses ink into paper)

I doesn’t guarantee freedom of all communications. Perhaps the founders anticipated improvements in communications that could lead to the wall of propaganda we are now deluged with.

So, there’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution that guarantees “the media” the right to propagandize for their “friends” and suppress the voice of their “enemies.”

Let the banning begin.

No one will care. Biden is winning in a landslide, up in SC of all places. According to the FT.

And it’s a referendum on BLM, lockdowns and no cops. So far a landslide. I see a ton of Biden signs in my neighborhood, enthusiasm through the roof. Almost no Hillary signs last time.

BLM signs everywhere in my neighborhood. And in OC. Reperation polls very well in CA

He could start by ceasing to use it himself. But he won’t even do that. #WeakCuckPresident

When was it that Comey re-opened the investigation of Clinton emails? How many days before the election? NYP is a little bit early or Comey was late.

I want to live in the timeline where this video is true and getting wall-to-wall MSM coverage:

BREAKING: Whistleblower Drops HARD Evidence, Biden, Obama, Hillary EXECUTED Seal Team 6, Audio Proof

Biden re Ukrainian fracas:

“Look fat, here’s the deal….”

You want the New York Post

https://nypost.com/

It looks like the top 4 or 5 stories right now early on Oct. 15, 2020 are on the Hunter Biden exposé and the censorship by Facebook & Twitter:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/trump-slams-censorship-of-the-posts-expose-on-hunter-biden/

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/house-gop-evades-twitter-censors-to-share-posts-hunter-biden-story/

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/kayleigh-mcenany-locked-out-of-twitter-for-sharing-posts-hunter-biden-story/

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-twitter-block-the-post-from-posting/

They only need to sway about 40,000 votes in MN, WI and PA and Nevada to alter the election results.

this is why Facebook banned the NY Post article. this is why the major media ignores all stories which hurt the Democrats. It works to sway a few thousand voters in the states which matter. This is why the polls cannot be trusted. the oligarchs will stop at nothing to get the Democrats back in power.

“I hope it damages Biden-Harris”

The nest of snakes writhing around in my head indicate that it was an Obama op intended to get the obviously senile Grinning Skull Joe to step down, replaced with Kamala. But Senator Harris is palpably awful and scares the children with her leer. So I don’t think the snakes are right.

I doubt that anybody who has already voted for Biden could be shown any piece of information that would make them want their ballot back. Same for Trump.

I always marvel that there are supposedly people that say they are “undecided” 3 weeks from a presidential election – liars or morons?

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?

Actually, if Facebook and Twitter are two distinct companies with no business relationship between them, and yet are united in this, breaking their respective monopolies is not likely to change this situation.

A PM, talk-radio guy was all over the story, especially the filtration angle.

What difference does it make?

Any political conservative who cares will know all about it before tonight’s late, local news (which won’t cover it).

“Air Force General James Mattoon Scott”

I haven’t read the novel on which John Frankenheimer’s terrific film was based, but I’m pretty sure screenwriter Rod “Preachy” Serling wrote the character with Air Force General Curtis LeMay in mind.

https://twitter.com/emilybazelon/status/1316438330901442561

At first I automatically read the title as saying “NY Times”, as you are always reading this one for us. My first reaction was “whaaaa?”, as of course, that would never happen.

I wanted to answer your question about how people use the internet now in pretty much the same way as Lot. Most seem to value convenience over a real search for the truth, which is still possible right now. Personally, with autocomplete, at least for one’s normal device I don’t see what is so damn hard about typing, or starting to type, in a URL. Failing that, doesn’t anyone use “Favorites” anymore? That’s pretty easy.

Do people only want to read news when tweets and links are sent to them from their friends or just “Friends”?

Another thing I’ve seen is people typing into google the same site name they know by heart over and over to get started each time. They do not know that google is not the browser. I believe google likes it this way.

Note how they don’t dispute the photos.

The more they moderate and regulate what goes out on Twitter or Facebook, the harder they will fall to a court suit that they indeed moderate, regulate and and even specify the content that appears in those places.

That would have been a lot more of a threat if it weren’t already 3 weeks before the election. President Trump had over 3 years to either bluff or actually implement this threat, but, no, it wasn’t personal yet. If it’s not personal, I just don’t think the man gets it.

It’s mind-boggling how incompetent Hunter Biden proved himself to be here. He had a job that was extremely fishy on its face, and he documented his influence peddling in writing….in unencrypted emails…stored on an unencrypted hard drive…that he gives to a computer repair shop….and forgets to pick up. He deserves to be convicted for sheer stupidity alone.

Those are good arguments for monopolies, not for zillionaires and intermediaries.

Russian Disinformation? Or more simply Hunter’s ex-wife he left to nail Beau’s widow? She has motive, had the Laptop, phone pics etc? Maybe even a bitter daughter or son of theirs found it at home? Her divorce lawyer? Occam’s Razor, anyone?

The more they moderate and regulate what goes out on Twitter or Facebook, the harder they will fall to a court suit

I’ve been waiting for that public square redeeming lawsuit for years, but every time a likely suit emerges, … something odd happens.

https://www.unz.com/article/what-finally-happened-in-our-suit-against-twitter/

Finally there’s ease of use.

Yes, but who is using whom?

There now is an article on this on the Washington Post website.

Twitter’s CIA liaison/manager told them it was Russian misinformation. They would tell you all about it but then they would have to kill you. : )

The wrong president was impeached over Ukraine and endlessly investigated over Russian meddling. What asshole was in charge of the Executive branch during both of these events?

Agree. If the White House were serious about about winning, they could hit the Twitter and Facebook with massive campaign finance violation charges for their in-kind donations to Democrats, but … they won’t bother.

Similarly, Trump keeps calling to “repeal Section 230” yet his DOJ had three years to force the tech oligarchs to acknowledge their public square status or lose section 230 protection, yet they did zilch. Now Trump tweets impotently days before the election with many votes already cast.

I assume the third debate will be off now.

The writing was on the wall about where this was all going with Big Tech years ago. They had the plan to institute a Chinese-style lock down even before 2016. It was supposed to happen under Hillary’s administration: a “public-private partnership” to “fight online extremism and disinformation” so that someone like Trump would never happen again. The plan went off the rails when Trump won.

Unfortunately, Trump spent the next 4 years on whatever petty beef he was consumed with any particular week on Twitter, rather than regulating it. And congressional Republicans, with only a handful of heroic exceptions, were more interested in doing their usual thing of being business agents for big business than regulating it either. So the narrow window to do anything about this was lost.

Remember that Hillary’s emails got leaked thanks to Anthony Weiner. There’s always a “Fredo factor.”

Even if the MacBooks’ data dump is a forgery, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised by any other forthcoming accusations that Hunter Biden was habitually lax on infosec and DoD 5220.22-M compliance.

If it’s real than I am again impressed by how Ukraine punches above its weight in geopolitical crap-stirring.

Steve, why are you tweeting out links you haven’t even read? I suppose twitter has lower standards than your blog, but one would hope you’re engaging in at least a minimum of curation.

The “billy bush tape” revenge?

Agree. I recall about ten years ago asking an extremely online friend why she was using (proprietary) Facebook rather than (open standard) email for all her digital communications?

Her reply: the little photo bubble next to each message. (At the time, Facebook was the only one using this gimmick.)

She recognized it was a slightly silly answer, but didn’t care.

Most people are like this.

Remember according to the Trump campaign Biden is a socialist, which is the worst thing in the world. So if Biden is guilty of a little bit of corporatism, then that just means he’s less of a socialist which makes him a better candidate by the Trump standards.

This Ukraine stuff doesn’t fit with the overarching (ridicuous, studid) Trump campaign narrative about Biden the way the Clinton stuff did in 2016. If Trump had been attacking Biden for being in the pocket of the credit card companies for decades and for promising a continuation of Obama era center left corporatism, then maybe it would resonate.

Twitter, originally aimed at techies, instead made it childishly easy for beautiful idiots to have an “online presence”

October surprise!

They only need to sway about 40,000 votes in MN, WI and PA and Nevada to alter the election results.

Yup.

We’re going to lose this wonderful country to Bolshevism on the backs of a few thousand dumbass goodwhites and Karens.

Notice that the way the First Amendment is worded does not enumerate freedom of speech, assembly, press or religion as positive rights that people possess, but rather as activities which the Legislative branch of the national government may not regulate. If Bill of Rights author James Madison had meant to stipulate them as positive “rights” belonging to the citizenry all he had to do was write it that way, but he chose not to. In the next clause of the amendment, peaceful assembly and petitioning the government are clearly stated in Madison’s deliberate and careful legal language as rights (presumably inalienable) of the people.

In any case the first sentence of the amendment imposes no restrictions on the Judicial or Executive branches or on state governments or non-governmental entities concerning the stated “freedoms.”

I’m a trial lawyer in NYC and pick juries all the time. I always ask prospective jurors where they like to get their news as a way to determine potential bias.

In the last 4-5 years, I was amazed at how many people respond that they get their news from Facebook. I have a Facebook account but rarely go on it. So was initially confused by these responses.

But the reality is that Facebook is the largest purveyor of news content in America now. To treat it as something different than a publisher is insanity.

Trump could’ve checkmated Jack Dorsey beginning 2017 by dedicating one day a week to using Parler or Gab or literally any other social media.

“See what I can do Jack? I can take the action away from twitter for 24 hours.”

And then if necessary just slowly increase the pain. Start breaking potus news away from twitter every weekend. Jack would’ve behaved like a trained seal. Raise the pain to three days per week and Jack would be wearing a diaper full time.

But this all supposes that Trump has serious negotiation skills when there’s no evidence he actually does.

TRUMP BLEW THE TWITTER NEGOTIATION RIGHT OUT HIS ASS A LONG TIME AGO.

There now is an article on this on the Washington Post website.

I went to look for it and, when looking at https://www.washingtonpost.com (the homepage) the article is nowhere… the articles are all about “Barrett’s Cagey Testimony”, “Barron had Covid”, and “Trump struggles to mount clear closing argument against Biden”.

except if you scroll down … the #1 item under “Most Read” is…
“Hunter Biden’s Alleged Laptop. An Explainer” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer/)

So even when they finally acknowledge there’s a story… they apparently try to bury it by not showing it to people. (presumably it showed up in the top read list due to hits from the URL being shared on social media or something)

These gals at the NY Post have committed journalism.

Is that even legal? Shouldn’t they be in jail?

A few hours ago I had a little fun messing with whoever is running the Drudge Report now. There is a box allowing readers to report news that Drudge might consider reporting. I wrote in the following: “Breaking news! Twitter and the Drudge Report are spiking stories of Biden corruption in Ukraine.” I just noticed that Drudge is now beginning to cover the story, albeit in a very restrained manner.

Very few people are voting for Biden; many, many people are voting against Trump, if that makes sense.

And against their own children, which does not.

Soccer mom votes; soccer son suffers.

This Ukraine stuff doesn’t fit with the overarching (ridicuous, studid) Trump campaign narrative about Biden the way the Clinton stuff did in 2016.

Huh? The Hunter Biden stuff isn’t corporatism, it is open corruption like the Clinton Foundation pay-to-play deal.

Trump’s only said “Drain the Swamp!” maybe a thousand times.

The problem here is–just like his failure to explain why Hillary had a private email server and why you should care–Trump’s just really bad at explaining anything in a few coherent sentences. You get some sentence fragments from the guy “Hunter’s a coke head”… then his brain is on to something else. If you already know the story and what it means you can kind of suss out what Trump’s talking about. But since the establishment media is full on spinning against Trump, most people, not already plugged into conservative media networks, don’t know. And Trump with direct–past the media filter–access, doesn’t get his act together enough to tell them.

The situation going into this election is unprecedented and horrifying. Unlike last time, I’m not certain of a Trump victory. However, I’m also not as certain as the MSM claim to be of a Biden-Harris victory. I don’t trust the MSM or the polls. Last time they were wrong. This time they may be wrong again and for the same reasons plus some new ones:

(1) They are almost wholly run by progs, who fail to account for any subtle socio-politico-economic phenomena occurring outside the bubble in which they live.

(2) Non-progs have learned to quietly oppose progs by various forms of passive aggression, e.g. not participating in polls and ignoring the MSM. This is a well-documented phenomenon yet pollsters still fail to compensate for it in any meaningful way.

(3) Trump supporters have learned that it is often costly to reveal their political preferences to strangers.

(4) The coming election may ultimately be decided by the level of enthusiasm/hatred potential voters have for the two pairs of candidates. The dimocrats are raking in money from big bucks, fat cat donors but few voters, sometimes literally none are showing up at Biden-Harris rallies. Meanwhile, Trump-Pence rallies are drawing record crowds.

(5) The lockdowns, the blm/antifa rioting, the destruction of the economy are all pretty clearly the fault of progs of various stripes. This is not a situation the MSM choose to discuss but most potential voters are aware of it. This is likely to influence voting, once voters are in the voting booth or filling out their mail-in ballots.

As I wrote earlier, I’m not as sure of a Trump election win this time as I was the last but I am certainly not ready to regard a Biden-Harris win as anywhere near inevitable.

Years back someone I knew quoted, “Where’s the outrage?” but admitted to not knowing who had said it originally, just that it was “a politician.” This was funny to me since I had once jokingly complained, “I remember! I was there!” in a different context, but likewise couldn’t remember the identity of my riff muse until who knows how long after the moment of saying it.

I always marvel that there are supposedly people that say they are “undecided” 3 weeks from a presidential election – liars or morons?

They are undecided whether or not to vote at all. Hell, I never made up my mind which third party to give my vote until the last week.

Actually, if Facebook and Twitter are two distinct companies with no business relationship between them, and yet are united in this, breaking their respective monopolies is not likely to change this situation.

“United” implies collusion. That’s monopolistic behavior right there.

I can see Hunter laying back on his barcalounger, crack pipe in one hand, a Newport in the other, being secretly delighted by all this. Just burn it down man. Burn it down.

If there’s credible information present that the sources were obtained illegally, Twitter has every right under the law to bottleneck its dissemination. Hunter Biden is a private citizen, not an elected official.

We’re living in 1984. 36 years late.

Trump’s only said “Drain the Swamp!” maybe a thousand times.

Trump hasn’t said anything about draining the swamp in 2020. As deluded as Trump is and as hyped up on his own nonsense as he is, I guess even he has his limits there. In a failed presidency, draining the swamp may be Trump’s singular, signature failure.

Huh? The Hunter Biden stuff isn’t corporatism, it is open corruption like the Clinton Foundation pay-to-play deal

Neither of them are “open corruption” at this point. We don’t know what, if anything, Burisma got from their cozy, corporatist connection to Biden. Maybe there’s enough there already to say that Biden should have recused himself from being the point man in Ukraine or that he lied about ever meeting with anyone on account of his son, but those are just more data points supporting Steve’s idea that Biden is the second most Trump like figure in american politics.

Meantime, lots of people have already voted, or are voting now.

Only partisans vote early. Democrats will vote for Biden no matter what.

I always marvel that there are supposedly people that say they are “undecided” 3 weeks from a presidential election – liars or morons?

I don’t plan on voting, but I’m basically split down the middle in terms of preference so it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Though supposedly most undecideds are just really low information voters.

In other Lysenko’s Ghost news, JAMA tweeted an article showing racial differences in a protein that lets the coronavirus into your nose, and Twitter was unhappy…

Given the essential role of TMPRSS2 in #SARSCoV2 entry, higher nasal expression of TMPRSS2 may contribute to the higher burden of #COVID19 among Black individuals https://t.co/YE0G3ZKu9p

— JAMA (@JAMA_current) September 10, 2020

If Biden gets elected, Harris–though domestically disastrous– will be the lesser of two evils. The Deep State is concerned with external matters, and will not permit even one term for Biden.

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/biden-son-china-business/
CHINESE FUND BACKED BY HUNTER BIDEN INVESTED IN MAJOR CHINESE SURVEILLANCE FIRM
The flurry of media reports about private investment in China’s increasingly sprawling surveillance state left out a prominent investor: Hunter Biden. {,,,] The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang.

Five years ago today, Beijing Joe Biden demonstrated why American workers cannot trust him to stand up to China. “We want to see China rise,” Biden said. “A rising China can be a significant asset for the region and the world”
Biden’s comment was part of a long pattern of him repeatedly dismissing China as a threat, defending the Chinese government, and parroting its propaganda while selling out America’s workers:
Biden said in 2001: “China is not our enemy.”
Biden said in 2011: “I’ve held the view for so many years and continue to hold the view that a rising China is a positive development.”
Biden said in May 2019 that China is “not bad” and “not competition” for America.
Biden asked in June 2019, “what are we worried about?”
Biden said in October 2019 that “China’s not a problem.”
Biden said in January 2020 that “we should be helping” China.
Biden said in Febuary 2020 that “The idea that they are our competition, they’re going to beat us, is bizarre.”
Biden sided with China during the coronavirus and opposed President Trump’s life-saving restrictions on travel from China, attacking it as irrational and “hysterical xenophobia.”

This is not America circa 1970. During Watergate, we had a homogeneous educated population and a functioning press that allowed the Republic to continue moving along after a political / constitutional crisis. The country could accept Nixon’s resignation as sufficient because shame was enough punishment to satisfy the voters.

We now live in an era where identity politics is manifest. It is actually much further along on the left and they are nervously watching the right start to follow suit and they better strike now. For the left, it really does not matter whether Biden Jr. took a billion dollars from the Chinese or that Obama was spying on ALL of his political opponents as well as the SCOTUS and most businesses. RBG was a hack but she is held up as a saint. All that matters is that she always voted for and supported the “other” and fought against the evil goy. And the Lugenpressen is nothing more than bought and paid for propaganda arm of (((wealthy))) oligarchs that would not last more than a few minutes if they were stripped of their ill gotten gains.

We are witnessing history. Enjoy it.

Undecided whether or not to vote at all. Hell, I never made up my mind which third party to give my vote until the last week.

I hear you – I live in California, so the whole thing is an exercise in futility. There’s a bunch of crazy California propositions this time – let felons vote, continue to treat Uber drivers as serfs, um, I mean entrepreneurs, etc, but I’m moving out of here so f*** it.

The chance Rudy got his hacked Hunter Biden emails from Russians seems extremely high https://t.co/0hs2DJ8d7G

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 14, 2020

Whiskey’s Greatest Hits, Part II

Part I is here:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/its-almost-as-if-the-democrats-coalition-of-the-fringes-tends-to-turn-into-a-circular-firing-squad/#comment-4139570

Fearless Prognostication

September 4, 2020

The coup is in place. Drudge has retired Generals blasting Trump and of course Deplorables and White people.

Trump might not even make it to Election Day. The Joint Chiefs could remove him in the planned color revolution on Sep 17.

It’s clear Trump is toast. No way military let’s him be re-elected.

What is not clear is who takes over. Generals in a Woke Pinochet? Helicopter rides for us? Nancy Pelosi? Harris? Or say a Soros puppet? Obama again? Hillary?

None of that is known. But it is guaranteed that Trump is toast. The military hates him and wants wokeness 100%

October 2, 2020

OT Trumps luck has run out. In critical condition in Walter Reed according to msnbc.

President Harris.

Tingles All the Way

September 25, 2020

White women love the tingles that thuggery makes. black women the same of course see Breona Taylor. There is not a woman alive that does not tingle to the thought of violence and danger — as long as its not directly on her of course.

All black people ESPECIALLY thugs and those thug adjacent are special and holy and have magical redemption powers. I saw it in the Green Mile movie. It had Tom Hanks, so it must be true!

That is the thinking of most White women, and urban soyboy professionals. Anyone who has been around blacks knows that thugging it up is something that comes natural. Heck that Madea Writer/Director/Producer has made a whole career out of movies where big Momma tells it like it is to thugging it up younger ones and gets them on the non-thug path.

Thug adjacent chick loves the thug. Get lots of thug. Then gets shot when thug shoots it out with cops. The end.

But that truth conflicts with the fantasy of the Green Mile, so every nice White lady who gets tingles over rap videos and the NBA (that’s all of them) won’t have that. Feelz don’t care about your facts.

September 8, 2020

Standard stuff. Women if all races vastly prefer black men to White as sexual partners. Kanazawa has a fairly conclusive study. Of course the reverse us true. Men of all races vastly prefer White to Black women.

White men are at a severe disadvantage compared to Black men. The nerdiest black men are perceived as more potential ly violent and dangerous than the average White man.

White men don’t like hearing this but it’s true. A level playing field = loserdom. It’s why BLM events are filled with White women and black dudes. Segregation did a lot to improve the sexiness value of White men by making their rivals lower in status.

In the post industrial world male provision has zero value. Thats why Jacob Blake Jr and George Floyd have 11 kids between them because not in spite of being scumbags and Zuckerberg has one in vitro conceived designer baby.

Sexiness Uber tingles and black thugs do that better than White dudes.

September 2, 2020

Biden can’t lose. White women are dumping Trump big tine. They care deeply more about distant violent black thugs than the White men in their lives. And if they think about ut, the White men in their lives are not really Brad Pitt now. So they need to go. Msn has a story on White women trending 75% for Biden. They love riots and looting. Lady tingles time. blm displays are all black dudes and young White women. Telling. Like those color revolution s.

It would not shock me to see the military remove Trump and install Hillary. The military from top to bottom hates Trump.

August 25, 2020

Trump is toast. Even Steve is calling it. Biden is surging on the riots as nice White ladies get tingles.

Soros hrough his donor and DA network is keeping the riots going. More likely, the riots get worse and the military installs a Castro. Some one like Keith X as then front man. Military is 100% cucked and pozzed.

Soros dies not hit the head without a plan. This is color revolution time aimed at the old White Pelosi wing and Schumer as much as Trump and the Deplorable.

At any rate there is no way to turn it off. No cop or guardsman will do anything but get donuts now for three generations. Black crimes are like the Purge movie. Legal.

August 24, 2020

Proof positive that White women are the eternal and natural enemy of White men.

Her son’s as allies will be at best janitors or Starbucks baristas or gig workers. While blacks get all the good, high paying jobs.

But White women tingles for black criminal uber alles. Blm knows what it is doing. About 85% if White women tingle for black criminal s. Highlighting thugs is a feature for tingles. Not a bug.

Biden and Harris especially are likely to get 85% of White women voters. Off tingles for black thugs.

People tend to forget how narrow Trump’s victory in 2016 was. Add in massive fraud and Trump has a long, hard road ahead of him.

Trump’s had three years to do a lot of things, and done almost none of them. “Promises kept” my left ear.

Senator Hawley sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission and another to Twitter.

My letter to the FEC re ⁦@Twitter⁩ ⁦@Facebook⁩ potential violation of federal election law pic.twitter.com/EhOMlj8jzX

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 14, 2020

Earlier today I sent a list of questions to ⁦@Facebook⁩. I want the same questions answered by ⁦@Twitter⁩ pic.twitter.com/JOsOhmPKgR

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 14, 2020

That’s some serious Sheen-grade Tiger Blood energy.

I sent that bitch a link to Unz’s article about Jewish gangsters in CA. Asked her about her grandfather looting confiscated Japanese properties after WWII.

Class interests. A populist implicitly drawing on the ethnic majority is every billionaire and his handsomely paid hirelings’ worst nightmare. Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than superrich people to not band together in order to defend their money. Biden became senator from Delaware in 1972; he is big business’s man (Delaware being corporate home to more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies). Media and social media corporations’ alarm at Trump fostering an implicitly ethnic populist outlook with implication for their profits is perfectly understandable. He might as well be using ‘Cross Of Gold’ rhetoric.

Yes, reminds me of when Twitter banned links to NYT stories about the Steele Dossier because of its unclear provenance.

Hunter Biden was a long time drug addict, it would have been easy for the idiot to have forgotten about the laptop or easy to get it from him in other ways. This clutching of pearls is ridiculous. I don’t know, without Assange, what WikiLeaks policies are, they very well could be another ACLU now but these releases could very well been given to them instead. There was supposedly a 12 min sex tape involving Biden on the laptop. Lol

Joe denied it, and claimed he never even spoke to Hunter about his foreign jobs or had such meetings. Even though Joe admitted to protecting Hunter from Ukrainian prosecution by forcing Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor going after Hunter.

The prosecutor wasn’t just investigating Hunter Biden, but was investigating the firm he worked for – Burisma. Joe Biden was exerting US Government influence not only on behalf of his son but on behalf of a foreign company.

Yahoo News is garbage.

Indeed. They shut down comments on their articles a few months back, because they were getting too many comments on their articles. They are just establishment propaganda.

OT – very iStevey advice column in NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/im-jewish-and-dont-identify-as-white-why-must-i-check-that-box.html

African instructs Jew to check the white box – you look white to me. Times (Jewish)readers object, vigorously deny being white – read the comments. Who is this uppity Negro to tell them that they are white?

The problem got its start a long time ago however, when people decided they wanted to use corporate chats like AOL Instant Messenger over IRC, web message boards and reddit over nntp/usenet, etc.

Aw crap, I’m agreeing enthusiastically with Lot, what comes next? CORonaVINUS?

It was obvious in the 90’s. One needed only look at the idiots using @aol addresses while the rest of us were hanging out at “elite” and pirate BBS’s and hacking MERIT. It was clear then that the low IQ multitudes were coming and would fuck it up like everything else.

The FT relies upon business readers. When they note that Trump can’t even carry SC that’s news. They are telling their business readers to bank absolutely in a big Biden win and a flipped Senate.

I live in OC. Biden enthusiasm is sky high. No Trump support.

As for my guess, if Trump wins he wont, the Joint Chiefs will remove him after riots. The military is 100% pozzed. The ruling elite can’t stand Trump and won’t allow him to remain.

Twitter and Fb take a risk if Trump retains the Presidency. They have much better Intel than you in what people really think and will vote.

Guess which bet they made?

As for tingkes, thygs, and blm that’s about as established as it gets. All those nice suburban ladies with blm signs in my neighborhood don’t have them for chess club members. George Floyd was a thug and that was the whole point . If he had been Urkel no White women anywhere would care.

Well, too late for me, I already dropped it in the mail with a party-line Republican vote, except on the Presidential ballot, where I voted for Biden. It wasn’t “accelerationism,” it’s just that I have two young children I don’t want to grow up amidst four more years of “waaaaahhhhh, it’s sooooooo unfair!!!!” Here’s an idea, Donald, why don’t you grow a pair and do something about it for once in your pathetic Presidency?

Jack Dorsey tweets: “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”

This reminds me of the type of response Obama always had when something that reflected poorly on his administration was revealed, such as the botched Obamacare roll-out, the IRS scandal, and the Veterans Administration disgrace: “No one is more angry about this than I am!”

Even Jennifer Rubin noted it: “What’s up with the ‘madder than anyone’ routine? For one thing, it takes the place of being remorseful or embarrassed. It’s a way of distancing himself from the scandal and making others responsible. It’s also a way of trying to disarm his critics and the true victims. Hey, GOP critics of Obamacare aren’t really angry; he’s the really angry one!”

Jack Dorsey can’t plausibly disclaim knowledge of, or responsibility for, his company’s suppression of non-liberal political views. So who’s going to bring him to heel?

These social media monopolies are developments (I won’t dare call them inventions) as important as, or even more important than, the telephone. They are a cross between private communication and public broadcasting. They give every individual the ability to broadcast to every one of their friends or followers what’s on their minds.

But can you imagine if, when the telephone was introduced, the phone company had decided it was going to record all of your conversations? Then scan for the subjects of your conversations and sell that information to advertisers? Then only let one out of every ten calls from some of your friends or colleagues through? Then bleep out entire portions of your conversation if it didn’t like what you were discussing? Then randomly and without warning just disconnect your service because someone, without proof, alleged you were doing something inappropriate?

And not only can Twitter and Facebook do all that, but they can change the rules on a whim. They can rise to monopoly status based on one set of rules, then abuse their power once they have achieved that status.

They are monopolies, and they are also essential forms of communication. They need to be regulated as such. If not, then they should be held liable for every single violation of the law committed on their platforms.

I always ask prospective jurors where they like to get their news as a way to determine potential bias.

In the last 4-5 years, I was amazed at how many people respond that they get their news from Facebook.

In the decade before that, did you get many who said the Daily Show with John Stewart? I kept hearing that that’s where hip people got their news back then. However, during the few episodes i watched i always wondered what people who did that would take away from it.

i.e. if you were well versed in the actual news then sometimes the satirical twists were funny, but if you DIDN’T know the underlying story i don’t know how you were supposed to know which part was true and which part wasn’t.

During Watergate, we had a press that focused like a laser beam on bringing down a president it had always hated.

During the ongoing Russia-Collusion Coup Attempt, we once again have a president the press hates, and as a result it has averted its attention from the worst political scandal in American history.

Seems to me the press is pretty much what it always was.

These are all the water boys, complete frauds, they have had control of all kind of purse strings over past few years and I have absolutely done jack shit. It’s like Republicans believe that any private company can do no wrong, even if they are hell-bent upon killing their people. A true Stockholm syndrome.

A few hours ago I had a little fun messing with whoever is running the Drudge Report now. There is a box allowing readers to report news that Drudge might consider reporting. I wrote in the following: “Breaking news! Twitter and the Drudge Report are spiking stories of Biden corruption in Ukraine.” I just noticed that Drudge is now beginning to cover the story, albeit in a very restrained manner.

I wonder what happened at Drudge. What was once a great portal for hot breaking news, is now another Democrat shill site. Their traffic must have slowed as a result. I haven’t been on it in weeks, in the past it was several times a day.

If there’s credible information present that the sources were obtained illegally

Does the press have any concern over whether information from Trump’s taxes were obtained illegally?

I don’t particularly care that Hunter’s a dirtbag. I wouldn’t even hold his father responsible for that. I do hold old Joe responsible for using his dirtbag son as a bagman for payoffs.

It’s funny how Biden’s supporters will insist that there’s nothing illegal about any of this. Shouldn’t it be illegal, though? It stinks to high heaven. The only reason there would be nothing illegal about it is that politicians like Biden have taken care that there are no laws against it.

Exactly. And the ridiculous “Intelligence Community Assessment”. And the claims that Flynn discussed sanctions with the Russians. And a thousand other lies much more dubious than this claim.

During Watergate, we had a press that focused like a laser beam on bringing down a president it had always hated

Watergate is Fake History and it’s funny how even Steve uses its mythology to make certain triple bank-shot rhetorical points- for example, selling immigration restrictionism by invoking the ghost of Rep. Barbara Jordan, who was both an immigration restrictionist and a star of the Watergate hearings.

In 1968 Nixon coaxed the President of South Vietnam to stay away from peace talks that year so as to not give his Democratic opponent, who happened to be VP in the administration saddled with hugely unpopular Vietnam War, a foreign policy coup. Johnson was aware of this because he was wiretapping the Nixon campaign (all this is readily discussed on Wikipedia).

So basically Nixon was going to be impeached for what Johnson did to him 4 years earlier while in the course of- he, Nixon- committing treason. Watergate, what a joke.

Jack Dorsey apparently hasn’t learned about the Streisand Effect yet. Weird, for the CEO of Twitter.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/fbi-narrows-down-sighting-location-of-man-flying-in-jet-pack-near-lax/2423858/%3famp

Elton John jokes aside, this is the 2nd time in a single month that a man in a jet pack was spotted near LAX. As in spotted by credible airline pilots who reported it to dispatch.

It was seen again today…..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxla.com/news/jetpack-spotted-flying-near-lax-for-second-time-in-weeks.amp

What is weird is that Harry Reid the former Majority Leader of the Senate says the spooks are covering up UFOs:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/10/13/harry-reid-claims-us-has-been-covering-up-ufo-evidence-for-years/amp/

Not saying this is an alien thing but some DARPA spook Area 51 project thing…..

This reminds me of the stories from a decade ago where a mysterious”falling man” was spotted in New Jersey in September of 2010:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/witnesses-watch-person-free-fall-from-the-sky/1854558/%3famp

Is this some spook thing where they’re testing jetpacks or something? Its all very James Bondish, isn’t it?

Reminds me of the 60 minutes episode where Mike Wallace says that he’s not white, but rather Jewish.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morgan-freeman-on-black-history-month/

WALLACE: Black History Month, you find …
FREEMAN: Ridiculous.
WALLACE: Why?
FREEMAN: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?
WALLACE: Come on.
FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.
WALLACE: I’m Jewish.
FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?
WALLACE: There isn’t one.
FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?
WALLACE: No, no.
FREEMAN: I don’t either. I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until …?
FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You’re not going to say, “I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.” Hear what I’m saying?

This is not America circa 1970. During Watergate, we had a homogeneous educated population and a functioning press that allowed the Republic to continue moving along after a political / constitutional crisis.

The function of your “functioning press” was to manufacture a scandal and remove the President from office, which was easily accomplished only because there was no way for supporters of the most popular President in history to communicate with one another.

The chance Rudy got his hacked Hunter Biden emails from Russians seems extremely high.

As if that would make a difference! What a lunatic! The gaslighting these people do is shocking.

I’m having a hard time distinguishing between hacked emails relating to Biden and leaked/stolen tax returns of Trump. Twitter’s policy seems arbitrary. Presumably they would block images of copies of the tax returns?

Nice Streisand Effect, however. It’s harder for media to ignore the story.

True in its way; but the again, this popular President’s “supporters” had not the clarity of vision to see that their entire public communications system had been infested and colonized by a hostile, invasive alien force. Moreover, they took no steps in counter action, did nothing to create a samizdat communications system of their own (hey, remember samizdat? You’re reading it right now.)

Hell, even the Founding Fathers with their 18th century technology had the Committees of Correspondence. Where was that in 1971? Where is it now? Because you’re fighting an Evil (((Empire))) just like they were.

Now I feel better.

In the book, the Prez has negotiated a disarmamentt treaty with the Sovs. Many of the top generals think it’s a fraud – that the Soviets are taking bombs apart at site A and re-assembling them at point B.

Turns out they’re right.

Will big media block awareness of the Biden-Burisma scandal?

Place your bets.

It’s worse, they blocked the DNC email dump from Wikileaks last time, so this is nothing new.

This is why techies like me never used centralized social media like these apps, but we should have built decentralized apps that would replace them too. I hope to chip in on that someday.

The answer to your questions is that today smart phones account for 50% of the way people get on the internet. I have an android phone and haven’t a clue where favorites (bookmarks) are saved.
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet-usage-statistics.
I had a good laugh the other day from an article that said the youngsters have no idea what it means to save a file in a folder. They don’t know what a folder is. This says to me they only know smart phones and are computer-illiterate.

“Yahoo News is garbage.”

Roughly half of Yahoo’s News/Stories/Articles/Fabrications are now AI generated. Have to assume in the not too far off, all of Yahoo’s content will be human input free.

I didn’t write this and don’t know what it means.

“Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?”

Laziness, whiners could post on twitter alternatives, but they don’t.

Good news,

“When Congress enacted the statute, most of today’s major Internet platforms did not exist. And in the 24 years since, we have never interpreted this provision,” Justice Thomas wrote. “But many courts have construed the law broadly to confer sweeping immunity on some of the largest companies in the world.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/14/justice-clarence-thomas-section-230-protections-for-big-tech-are-too-broad/

The reason all this is happening is he’s not a private citizen, he is an illegal parasitic growth upon an elected official, totally dependent on exploiting political office.

We don’t know what, if anything, Burisma got from their cozy, corporatist connection to Biden.

On the contrary, we know exactly what they got: they got the prosecutor who was investigating them for corruption fired. Biden bragged openly about getting him fired by threatening to withhold aid from the Ukrainian government.

If there’s credible information present that the sources were obtained illegally, Twitter has every right under the law to bottleneck its dissemination.

The Washington Post still pats itself on the back for publishing illegally obtained material – The Pentagon Papers. Hollywood even gave the Post a big wet sloppy kiss over the incident a few years ago.

Hunter Biden is a private citizen, not an elected official.

He’s a private citizen on behalf of whom a government official – the Vice President, his father – extorted a foreign government to sack one of thier officials so as to quash an investigation into the son and his employer. Jo Biden even admitted it in a public forum. His son has admitted in interviews that he’s only gotten a lot of the jobs he’s gotten because of his father.

I’m also somewhat skeptical of the NYPost claims and i’m curious to hear more… esp about what the FBI found when investigating this for the past 9 months.

You make it sound as if the FBI’s job is to actually investigate crimes. The FBI’s job is to cover up the government’s crimes.

14th Amendment expands 1st Amendment protection against state and local action.

Good thing I can just go buy a print edition of the New York Post. Hopefully no one with scissors got to it first.

It’s funny how Biden’s supporters will insist that there’s nothing illegal about any of this. Shouldn’t it be illegal, though? It stinks to high heaven. The only reason there would be nothing illegal about it is that politicians like Biden have taken care that there are no laws against it.

Occasionally, some pundit or journalist – channeling that old WASP good-government ethic – will talk about the need for government officials to avoid “even the appearance of impropriety”.

But what the Biden clan has done (and not just with Hunter’s foreign gigs, but with Beau’s domestic credit-card company lobbying as well) is not “the appearance of impropriety”.

It IS impropriety. It IS corruption. It IS malfeasance.

I want my , I want my

‘member ‘member when ?

Facebook removed the page of New Zealand’s Advance NZ Party, just days out from national election.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/advance-nz-partys-facebook-page-removed-for-breaching-misinformation-policies/XLKCVSZF7LRV6LKOMWVITWWAXI/

OT: Saw this on Twitter. Bari Weiss finally starts to notice that the Woke don’t much care for the Chosen:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/stop-being-shocked

We are truly living in a house of mirrors…

Wilderness of mirrors didn’t Mister Angleton say? And he would have known.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316558554732531713

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316580278568022016

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316581285691830275

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316596552757063680

BBC News web front page isn’t reporting it at all , or on the “US Election” page, or the “US and Canada” page.

Guardian confines itself to reporting on the Twitter and Facebook ban, heavily implying it’s fake news.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/facebook-twitter-new-york-post-hunter-biden

“Facebook and Twitter restrict controversial New York Post story on Joe Biden – Social media platforms move to limit spread of article amid questions over its veracity”

Facebook and Twitter took steps on Wednesday to limit the spread of a controversial New York Post article critical of Joe Biden, sparking outrage among conservatives and stoking debate over how social media platforms should tackle misinformation ahead of the US election.

Unfortunately, Trump spent the next 4 years on whatever petty beef he was consumed with any particular week on Twitter, rather than regulating it.

You attribute this to incompetence, but it’s likely by design. No President wants to accomplish his entire agenda in his first term. Trump wasn’t about to finish the wall or he’d lose a major campaign issue. Likewise why have a neutered (at best) tech sector when he can run against it along with the partisan propagandists masquerading as journalists.

If you get yourself a Trumpy Bear it will be just as effective in getting you through the scary times ahead as a President Trump.

Just so you know, doing such things will have zero effect. At most, the interns who comb through such entries will roll their eyes at you.

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?

Because they need more money? #OligarchNation #ReturnUsToSerfdom

Because most folks are uncurious and like to consume narratives spoon-fed to them rather than do a little research on their own? #FastFoodNation #ReadingIsHarderThanMath #BarbieNation

In the good old days when a guy with ADD could still follow random hyperlinks, you would find gems like this

http://www.facade.com/cindy_crawford_concentration/?begin

Here’s an iron -clad rule: whatever the democrat/MSM accuse Trump and the republicans of doing is exactly what they are doing…….The Clintons ,obamas and the Bidens are criminal organizations .

I’m a trial lawyer in NYC and pick juries all the time. I always ask prospective jurors where they like to get their news as a way to determine potential bias.

I know it’s a shadow of its former self, but for kicks I tell people ZeroHedge just to see what sort of reaction I get. Many in the finance biz give a slight knowing grin.

Yes, but only because the crack pipe Hunter left behind in a rental car along with his ID couldn’t be tied directly to Creepy Joe.

If Joe Biden died today, it wouldn’t make the MSM news until January 7th, 2021.

Yeah,the polls are wrong by design ….those shit=heads know damn well how to conduct a fair and accurate poll…..they’re hoping the deplorables get demoralized and OD on fentanyl…..Buy a gun instead.

>In 1968 Nixon coaxed the President of South Vietnam to stay away from peace talks that year so as to not give his Democratic opponent, who happened to be VP in the administration saddled with hugely unpopular Vietnam War, a foreign policy coup. Johnson was aware of this because he was wiretapping the Nixon campaign (all this is readily discussed on Wikipedia).

Yeah, comparing Watergate with Chennault is a pretty instructive exercise in MSM priorities, but that being said…

The South Vietnamese did not need Chennault’s help to figure out that LBJ was a lame duck who was bluffing: he could not force them them to do diddly-squat, and they knew it. Nixon being Nixon, of course, he couldn’t help himself and tried anyway, but Thieu was a fluent English speaker who was not ignorant of people waving NVA/VC flags in the streets at the Democratic convention. Why would he have sacrificed his own political position in Saigon (accepting the VC as a “legitimate state” was a recipe for yet another coup) and more broadly his own nation’s chances at survival so the Democrats of all people could win?

Nor were the North Vietnamese ignorant of the election: the reason they agreed to the “advance” in the talks was to improve Humphrey’s chances and get that sweet bombing halt that Nixon would be stuck with after the fact. Le Duan’s strategy remained what it always had been: reunification with the South through military means, no negotiations, Just Get Out. This issue suffers from the same problem a lot of Vietnam War topics do in American memory: the Vietnamese themselves are ignored entirely or reduced to passive observers in their own civil war. That’s not how it worked.

>It IS impropriety. It IS corruption. It IS malfeasance.

It is. So are a LOT of the dealings of our political class, Democrat and Republican alike. Biden’s just another classic Watergate baby grifter who has a failson to deal with. Biden is not The Problem. Trump is not The Problem. McConnell and Pelosi and Pence and Schumer and Obama and Bush and Clinton are not The Problem. They are Symptoms of The Problem-well, now a secondary problem, because Kamala Harris intends to make life miserable for anybody without any pull with the mandarinate. As much as corruption sucks, petty micromanagerial woke technocrat authoritarianism is worse.

The American people would be pretty shocked if the degree of post-Cold War elite malfeasance, economic, military, media, and political, was ever given the light of day.

Twitter is refusing to let users tweet out the Post’s cover story. Facebook is said to be blocking as well.

Semi-unrelated, but Alien:Isolation had a good pesentation of robots, mechanical or bureaucratic, maintaining lockdowns and controlling communication

“You are becoming hysterical”

It even had BLM-style graffiti everywhere, giving a real Chaz feeling (although the AI, or rather the finite state machines, animating the human characters gave hilariously bad results).

Well, collusion or no collusion, the only solution would be to do away with social networks altogether, an opinion which seems to be implicitly shared by Steve, making my previous comment probably pointless. Anyway, when social networks helped elect Trump no Trump backer seemed to think they were such a bad idea.

“Democracy” for Jewish Supremacists and their lackeys is what they perceive to be good for Jews.

In another tweet in this thread, she implies “hate speech” should be censored.

“Hate speech” of course is nothing more than speech Jews hate.

You attribute this to incompetence, but it’s likely by design. No President wants to accomplish his entire agenda in his first term.

Stan d Mute – are you serious here? No – or are you? Just curious.

Guess what? The Post has more stories coming from that hard drive.

It's not just one email. There are probably dozens of stories.

Will @Twitter and @Facebook try to suppress them all?

"Obama conference call leaked to Burisma: Biden emails"https://t.co/6B9QP6if8h via @nypost

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 14, 2020

The @NYPost (now on my bookmarks bar as it is being censored by @Twitter and @Facebook) has another "Hunter-Biden-Did-What?" story this AM: His ties to Communist China money: https://t.co/Y6n4jDbdDw Emails are clearly to him and they appear authentic. How did Post get them?

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) October 15, 2020

Highly doubtful. Over 50% of Americans are regularly abusing street drugs, alcohol, or prescription meds. All you guys found were images of Hunter smoking cigarettes and with a crackpipe in his mouth. This is nothing out of the ordinary for the average American. The average American has smoked crack, or meth, or heroin, etc, at some point in their life. The average American has made pornographic images of themselves. All these photos show is that Hunter Biden is an authentic person with character flaws — like everyone else.

Instead, the photos will bolster his father’s chances of getting elected, and yours of committing suicide on election night when he wins by an historically wide margin. Living in a state of perpetual denial can do that to you.

Joe is technically a private citizen now.

When he was a public official, his “private citizen” son used him for personal benefit, and Joe apparently used his official power to help his son.

I don’t know much about where the FBI fits into the US justice system, but it seems remarkable that they’ve been sitting on this for nine months and done exactly nothing with it.

Is it that it contains no prima facie evidence of breaking US law, or are they complicit in covering up to help the Biden campaign?

“Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and web content they want to access?”

A few other examples of “Why was it a good idea to …?”

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and {[ Doctors ]} they want to access?

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and {[ Dentists ]} they want to access?

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and {[ Elected Officials ]} they want to access?

Why was it a good idea to set up a handful of zillionaire monopolists as the intermediaries between individuals and {[ You Name It ]} they want to access?

One possible answer: it wasn’t and never will be.

Trump spends so much time whining about unfair treatment, he reminds me of a woman or a negro. Someone, maybe here, described Trump as “the first negro president”. A real man, a real white man, would brush it off, plow through it, and get the job done. I also voted for Biden because I dislike the Female Negro emotional style in a president.

Now you know why criminal organizations hate drug addicts in their ranks ………it’s hard to be a smooth operator and a crack head . If Hunter wasn’t sleepy Joe’s son he would have been arkancided by now.

This is why techies like me never used centralized social media like these apps, but we should have built decentralized apps that would replace them too.

As I learned from this piece two years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and some open-source acolytes are already working on it:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

Having previously imagined this solution–as I’m sure many, many others had before me–I was very happy to know the inventor of the Web was on the case. Sadly his team’s work has yet to eviscerate these absurd monopolies, but I have hope.

I bet you’re looking forward to the war with Russia the D’s have been agitating for the last four years. I’ll feel sorry for the pets and wildlife.

Yeah, the “Trump Administration.” What ‘as the Trump Administration done for us, anyway?

Well, there is standing up to China and other trading partners about their unfair practices?

OK, there is standing up to China . . .

And there is putting pressure on Mexico to follow UN rules on the handling of refugees so the caravans aren’t streaming over our border?

So, there is standing up to China and stopping the caravans through Mexico.

What about the Federal and Supreme Court judges. Lot’s of judges . . .

Alright, there is standing up to China, stopping the caravans AND the judges . . .

And then there is roll-back of Federal regulations and the encouragement of fracking. We achieved “energy independence” after years and years and years of just talking about it.

(rolls eyes in exasperation) Well, the fracking goes without saying. Everyone KNOWS about the fracking.

‘ee didn’t start any foreign wars. ‘ee supports “law ‘n’ order” and opposes the rioting and Defund the Police. If we defund the police, we all know what it was once like around ‘ere to go out after dark . . .

Alright, apart from standing up to China, stopping the caravans, the judges, low-regulation and the fracking, not starting foreign wars and being endorsed by every police organization out there, what has the Trump Administration ever done for us?

(silence)

If you get yourself a Trumpy Bear it will be just as effective in getting you through the scary times ahead as a President Trump.

Sure.

But you don’t vote for Trump to slay dragons, you vote for Trump to keep the dragons *out* of power.

Spooks near LAX? I agree, things are getting a little strange.

exactly correct. For many people voting is a waste of time. Often they do not bother voting, but may vote if the weather is nice and they have nothing better to do on the first Tuesday in November. My wife has not voted since 2004. She may actually vote this year, since New Jersey is sending everyone a ballot to vote by mail. One reason she does not vote, she hates waiting in line.

The media is again pushing the narrative that Trump is way behind in the polls in order to demoralize the opposition. Many people hate to vote for a loser, so they would rather stay home than go thru the psychological pain of voting for the losing candidate. People like to vote for a winner, so democrats are more apt to vote if they think Biden is going to win. It almost worked in 2016.

Thank you, Clyde. Yeah, it’s a whole different way of thinking. Where is that image I wanted to show you, in a text, in photos (no more “My Photos”, my this, my that, thankfully!), on facebook? Maybe there’s so much information that people don’t even try to organize anymore.

In the old days of picture albums, you made a big effort. Now, the hundreds, or thousands of pictures one may take in a day, some just as screenshots to pass textual information are usually just left in date/time order. “Oh, yeah, I have a photo of you and that dog! Let’s see, was that last year?” Swipe, swipe, swipe … swipe some more. Did I ever link you all to my post that maintains that, though touch screens don’t make us gay, they are a big factor in making us LOOK gay? If not, here’s “Are modern electronic devices making us gay?”

That was a digression, so while I’m at it, let me ask you, Clyde, if you don’t mind my replying to your last comment about Trump (under a 2 or 3 day-old thread) in another place, when it comes up again?

I also voted for Biden because I dislike the Female Negro emotional style in a president.

Oh dear. Let the nation go to hell so long as your delicate sensibilities aren’t offended.

Degenerate imbecile isn’t even nearly a strong enough description of you.

Hunter knows no one in the Justice Dept or FBI will ever touch him. So what if he was careless? It was a bipartisan approved coup done to the Ukraine. The FBI set up NABU, and I believe still has a field office over there. Both Barr and Wray are swamp monsters and waste of space. Trump hired both because he is either a monumental dope, or just a willing role player.

I’m having a hard time distinguishing between hacked emails relating to Biden and leaked/stolen tax returns of Trump.

How do these false ideas get spread? The Biden emails were not hacked. Stupid Hunter left a computer at a repair shop, didn’t pay his bill and didn’t come back for the computer. After 90 days, the computer and everything on it became the property of the shop owner.

The shop owner has 100% legal right to give the information to anyone he wants. Twitter is full of it. On the other hand, Trump’s tax returns were stolen. The NY Times broke laws revealing them. Nothing gets done about any of this, but Twitter hypocritically promotes the spread of the Times story (in violation of it’s own published “rules”) and blocks the spread of the Hunter Biden story, which violated none of its rules.

Between blocking White House accounts and blocking content posted by Republicans on Congressional servers, Twitter is now censoring content on its platform from 2 of the 3 branches of the US federal government. https://t.co/amwtGiymEY

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 15, 2020

Sorta ironic because if Sleepy Joe wins, there’s a pretty good chance that we will get an actual Female Negro as the President within the next couple of years.

Rights and freedoms both in quotation marks – you really fit right in here.

Isn’t it funny that Twitter didn’t avail itself of any such “right” when it came to illegally obtained tax information of Trump’s?

I wonder what happened at Drudge.

I’ve run across three theories:

(1) Drudge sold the site to some rich prog for an immense amount of moolah.

(2) Drudge’s current boyfriend is a prog who is exercising considerable influence over how the Drudge
Report is manned and managed.

(3) Drudge is repelled by Trump to a degree that amounts to Trump Derangement Syndrome and this has affected his judgement in other areas.

I no longer pay any serious attention to Drudge although I still visit the site regularly. There are now many other news aggregation sites out there.

Indeed, but in this case he hadn’t made any promise, and bringing the Tech Censors to heel would help him even more that his voters, yet he still did nothing.

The email dump on Hunter Biden’s corruption and his father’s participation in and enabling of it will be hard to bury. Drudge is now no longer ignoring it but posting to desperate prog efforts to discredit the story. Many of those who check this material out will go on to learn more. This story has legs and staying power.

Auntie (the BBC) found this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54552101

down the back of an old chifferobe.

Apart from the dull, dubious resort to the tired propagandist refrain – Russia!!! – the authenticity and significance of the content stands apart from the identity and motive of the source.

The chance of Jonathan Chait being a first ballot inductee to the American sleaze journalism Hall of Fame seems extremely high.

Jack Dorsey: Is this behavior unacceptable and wrong? Yes. Will we keep doing it? Yes.

Chait sounds pretty desperate. I sense that a lot of the fake news we’re seeing these days, Drudge has become a prime source, is a measure of prog desperation. They are terrified of the very real possibility that 2030 will prove to be a reprise of 2016.

This early voting thing is a load of crap.

Some of those voters will die before Election Day. I thought only Chicago allowed corpses to vote.

Primary season, including selection of candidates for all the contests that will eventually appear on the ballot, is finished by the spring. Soon partisans will be able to cast their votes in June.

For that matter, since partisans vote like robots anyhow, why not let them pre-vote their party ticket for every election going forward to the maximum voting age, e.g. 150 years?

Time to remove Section 230 protection from Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter and Facebook hide behind Section 230 protections, stating they cannot be held liable for what customers post on their platforms. But now that they are actively editing content , they should be held to the standard of a publisher, so that people like Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School teen, can sue Twitter and Facebook for defamation. This may result in Twitter going bankrupt, which is why the oligarchs strongly support the Section 230 protections granted to them by congress.

The justice department should also be investigating these firms for violating the civil rights of conservatives and other minorities. Since 1965 firms have been prohibited from discriminating against minorities. Banning conservatives from their platforms for disseminating news stories published in major newspapers violates the civil rights legislation statutes , which forces equal treatment of Americans by businesses. It is clear that Twitter suspends and blacklists mostly white men, this Disparate impact can be measured and used to litigate against twitter for its Discriminatory practices which denies equal access to their “platform”.

Why are 99% of the suspended twitter accounts run by White males ? Why does Twitter refuse to ban speech from Blacks who advocate for violence, while banning Whites for attacking violence ? Twitter and Facebook deny equal access to their platform. It is a federal crime to deny equal access to all Americans. I cannot refuse to rent my home to BLM activists , nor can i refuse to rent my home to Mormons , Muslims or Republicans. Why is Twitter allowed to refuse service to me ?

Yikes. It’s like you’re not even trying, CIA/DHS/State Dept./JDIF/deepstate whomever.

I think that during the Watergate affair the Republicans still believed in process, while Democrats, then as now, believed only in goals. Republicans like Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott and House Republican Leader JohnRhodes felt that Nixon had to be punished for process crimes, and so he lost the support of his own party. Democrats were only using those “crimes” to unseat him. They didn’t actually care about them, as they showed during the Clinton impeachment, when the Democrats voted “not guilty” in lockstep. Even Sen. Joe Lieberman, who had initially expressed disgust at Clinton’s behavior, fell into line and voted for acquittal.

We can now infer that the Deep State was there every step of the way advising him to do exactly the wrong thing to hide a crime he had no part in committing.

Three possibilities:

1. The email is fake. The drive apparently contained many intimate images of Hunter smoking crack, having sex, etc. that are almost certainly authentic and indicate that it was his computer, but the email could have been added separately. Anyone can type up an email.

2. Pozharskyi is lying in the email and never met the VP – this would be a strange lie to tell.

3. The Biden campaign is lying (or the denial is a carefully phrased non-denial denial) and the VP did in fact meet with Pozharskyi.

I vote for #3.

Also the FBI supposedly has the original drive and computer but it appears to have disappeared into a black hole in the FBI offices. FBI did not want to throw this election like they did the last one. The shopkeeper wisely made a backup copy of the drive before giving it to the FBI or else this story would never have seen the light of day. What is the legality of them subpoenaing the computer and then black holing it? Very fishy.

Yesterday in Iowa:

“We did not come this far to overcome this much and fight this hard only to surrender our country back to the depraved Washington swamp.”

President Trump talked A LOT about the swamp.

Jake Novak mentions that much of the pressure to censor any pro-Trump news comes from below — the fanatically ultra-woke young employees at Twitter and Facebook who are constantly pitching fits and threatening to walk.

Harris meanwhile announces a COVID-alert pause to her campaign, conveniently giving the media something to talk about besides Burisma

All procedural arguments are insincere. When Obama wanted to nominate someone to the S. Ct. in his last year, Rs were against it and D’s were for. This year it is vice versa. The underlying principles have not changed but the who:whom has and that is what really counts.

The R’s turned against Nixon because they saw their own careers being dragged down by Nixon’s sinking ship and they wanted to save their own asses. Lieberman weighed the vote calculus and decided he had more to gain by staying with Clinton.

In the good old days all left-wingers were fervent trust-busters and wanted to end any type of de jure and de factor monopoly.

These days they take over the monopolies and demand the government defend and fund them.

Even the craziest SF writer could not have imagine this weird dystopian future.

Wishful and/or delusional thinking!

Steve,

Work is underway; please see urbit.org. This is the real thing. Adoption is path-dependent and there are obstacles, but much thought has been put specifically into overcoming them.

You miss the key point of who controlled the Senate in each term: Republicans.

Their advice and consent as Republicans was “No” in 2016 because Merrick Garland in a Liberal, but “Yes” in 2020 because ACB is Conservative.

There is remarkable precedent in 235+ years about who gets a confirmation hearing in the last year of a Presidency, and it is contingent upon who is running the Senate.

A Democratic vote in California is wasted, a Republican vote is not. It is very useful. Each one moves the needle closer to, not further from, 50%, which concentrates the party committees’ minds. So work on that.

This is why both parties are paying closer attention to Minnesota each time, despite that state’s 11 consecutive D(FL) victories. The state’s post-Nixon Democratic presidential vote averages less than 50%, and centrist third parties– Anderson, Perot, McMullin– do very well, a sign of a flexible electorate. Jesse Ventura was governor, if you remember. Gopher electors are the brass ring on the GOP merry-go-round.

Of course, Minnesota is more than twice as white as California…

I think Trump as figurehead and identity of the right is counterproductive to the prospect of the Republican party developing into a robust, articulate populist alternative to all the bad, ill-considered progressive ideas emerging on the left: identity politics, “antiracism”, nuclear-free green new deal, replacing much of the police with social workers, etc. While I didn’t vote for Trump (or Hillary) in ’16, I couldn’t help but wonder what sort of course lied down the radical prospect of a Trump presidency, and seeing it develop into reality on election night – counter to my perception of the whole thing as a well managed show – was a thrill. The administration has of course been largely thwarted and, it seems, persuaded down off of the populist wave of concerns it rode into office, and besieged by Democrats throughout in their determination to find a way to remove him from office, but I’m nevertheless in agreement with Sullivan and Will that Trump is unfit for office, in temperament and competence. Better perhaps for Americans to get a dose of what the left has in store and for the alternative to this course to regroup under competent leadership (such as Hawley) capable of being effective.

Joe Biden’s campaign is punching back at a New York Post story that alleged a direct link between the Democratic presidential nominee and his son's business dealings in Ukrainehttps://t.co/zBrYoHGDzR

— POLITICO (@politico) October 14, 2020

Biden’s campaign would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi, which wouldn’t appear on Biden’s official schedule. But they said any encounter would have been cursory. Pozharskyi did not respond to a request for comment.

This seems like they are hedging their denial. Where is the line between “some time” and a “cursory” meeting? 10 min? 15? 30?

Three possibilities:

1. The email is fake.

Hunter’s employer, Rosemont Seneca- what is that, a law firm, a consultancy? in any case just another swamp creature halfway house if Hunter was working there- certainly has a well-funded IT department with email server backups that would prove the legitimacy of this. Rudy (GAWD, I LUV HIM! His loyalty and service to Trump despite Deep State/Swamp attempts to personally destroy him a-la Roger Stone out of nothing more than personal friendship and honor makes me teary-eyed; Rudy is probably the most commendable figure of the entire Trump-era, beating out Trump himself and edging out Stephen Miller by a whisker)- what was I saying?- oh yeah, Rudy may not be a tech whiz but he’s sharp enough to understand that email has a forensic trail and so would never fabricate evidence that can easily be disproven.

Oh, what’s that!- Rosemont Seneca’s IT department just announces the email backups for that month went to a tape with factory defects making them totally unrecoverable? Rear assured those emails are at peace now in Bit Heaven next to Jeffrey Epstein’s cell block suicide vid.

OT- what’s with Netanyahu’s corruption trail? This has been ongoing for what feels like 5 years and 3 Israeli elections! The fact this keep repeating without any resolution or progress like Groundhog Day makes me think I’m living in some virtual reality as this is definitely a glitch in the program.

Rudy wouldn’t, but there are hypothetical questions about the chain of custody. Maybe someone planted those emails on Hunter’s laptop. I doubt it, but without a clear chain of custody it is possible to raise doubts over their authenticity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemont_Seneca_Partners

I think Rosemont Seneca IS Hunter Biden. Crack addicts are not known for their careful record keeping or paying their cloud server’s IT bills so it wouldn’t surprise me if there were no backups.

continue to treat Uber drivers as serfs,

AB5, the law that prop 22 is trying to address was an overly broad law that many industries got opt-outs for.

I suggest voting against prop 22 only so Californians get to actually feel the impact of their policy preferences which would be that Lyft, Uber etc would be more expensive, less convenient (remember waiting 45 minutes for a cab? ) or not operating in the state at all. This would have already happened if AB5 weren’t on hold due to legal action.

Note that cab drivers were independent contractors too (at least in the US cities I’m aware of).

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/AB5-gig-work-bill-All-your-questions-answered-14441764.php

re: #2

I wouldn’t put it past Ukrainians on the make to send fictional “thank you” emails to various public figures, just to establish Disputed Allegations via chutzpah. They are like the nation-level equivalent of a scheming stalker ex-gf.

However, if Vadym [insert ridiculous Slav surname] is in fact an established log-roller and palm-greaser, a journalist *ought* to be able to establish a pattern. His schmoozing wouldn’t end with the Bidens. Instead, they are playing as ca. 2003 bloggers and complaining unctuously that the story is “full of holes.” Not helping matters, blogs and official Journalism have pretty much merged since then.

Either way there’s a story here the Anglophone-search-engine sphere has been oblivious to (for better or worse). But licensed press don’t care, automatically reverted to “Protect the Queen!” type. As the saga of the Chappaqua Water-Closet Server demonstrated, it’s a non-sequitur to point out that an email might be a Dan Rather-style forgery. Anything in media can be a forgery. But an email by its telos, has to exist in more than 1 place, for at least a little while.

I also thought it funny when a Twitter Journo observed, “There aren’t many Apple stores in Delaware.” Of course, the laptops weren’t taken to a Genius Bar, they were dumped off on lumpen-GeekSquad. But the Twitter Expert seemed to be pointing this out not in support of the local USB-jockey’s connection to the Biden brood, but to suggest rather risibly that the family would be unlikely not to take extra care with corporate IT policy, go through the proper channels, etc. You wouldn’t expect from them such lazy and tacky behavior. Inconceivable!

“So, its kind of like the Clinton Foundation, except instead of using a fake charity as a front, Joe just got his kids on payrolls of foreign corporations.”

The Clintons got away with it, why won’t the Bidens?

“what the FBI found when investigating this for the past 9 months.”

Where’s the evidence that they ever investigated it? Too busy looking for white supremacist terrorists I guess.

Couldn’t the FBI substantially clear up this whole thing? They subpoena’d the hardware pretty fast after the event.

Stand back and wait for Liberals In Good Standing to inveigh against the integrity of the “corrupt, Trump-controlled” FBI in 3, 2, 1… Remember back when LIGS were all on-board w/ mail-in voting having just *the most* integrity– so many integrities, oh my God… That was a few weeks ago

Maybe for Jewish people but wasps have been known to make procedural arguments against their own interest- norms were important they were gone before I entered the world so I don’t give a shit about them but at one time they existed and were the basis of western exceptionalism.

My wife has not voted since 2004. She may actually vote this year, since New Jersey…

She couldn’t have voted in 1804. But had she one, a widowed mother or unmarried heiress sister could have. There was no sex qualification for voting in New Jersey until 1807, but there was a property requirement.

However, married women’s property was in their husbands’ names. Thus, they were disenfranchised on that score. When a girl married (after her 21st birthday), she gave up not only her name, but her vote.

This wasn’t well-thought-out, or thought-out at all, really. It seems to have happened by accident. Jersey’s early election laws were a holy mess in general, and were thoroughly rewritten in 1807 to model other states’. Women’s suffrage was a minor issue; it just went by the wayside.

Random store owner has it, copies it (a crime) and gives it to the president’s lawyer while also responding to a federal subpoena? A bit odd. https://t.co/KKECYxBRcE

So after stealing and publishing the President’s personal tax returns the MSM is now censoring evidence of Biden’s corruption because they are worried that someone made an unauthorized copy of the smoking gun? This MSM/Big Tech election meddling is really the death knell for any notion that they are anything but hack propaganda.

Yes, reminds me of when Twitter banned links to NYT stories about the Steele Dossier because of its unclear provenance.

You don’t need to go back that far, the NYT is still running stories this week about Trump tax returns that they illegally obtained from some Deep State agent at the IRS.

Right now the NYT is, of course, just crickets on the both the New York Post and Big Tech censorship stories. The current MSM/DNC/Big Tech cabal is to just suppress anything that hurts Biden. We’ll see if they can get away with it.

“I do have questions about letting a handful of monopolists censor the news.” By your own showing, this “censorship” is not very effective.

How hard would it be to fill a balloon with helium and let it go near am airport? A lot more likely than any jetpack.

Three possibilities:

1. The email is fake…

2. The check is in the mail.

3. He’s from the government, and he is here to help you.

I see a fourth:

4. He respects you in the morning.

That отправлено с iPhone is suspicious on its face. For one thing, it’s Russian, not Ukrainian (відправлено з iPhone). But as there are no angels, we set the devils against one another. The Bidens are guilty, even if this Slav or the other is as well.

It’s hard to see this as anything but partisan.

Going after the social media monopolists is tricky. You can threaten them with consequences to try to keep them somewhat honest. But, OTOH, if they feel too threatened, they may go all-in to simply keep you out of power.

At this point, however, they’ve gone so far and so obviously to the side of interfering for the Democrats, that Republicans might as well run like Teddy Roosevelt on a platform of busting their monopolies.

Rosemont Seneca is a Registered Investment Adviser. Friends and Family Office. Private Equity investments.

Created by Biden, Christopher Heinz and Devin Archer to benefit their families.

“Is it that it contains no prima facie evidence of breaking US law, or are they complicit in covering up to help the Biden campaign?”

I say cover up. We need a new FBI director — I nominate Matthew Whitaker.

On the contrary, we know exactly what they got: they got the prosecutor who was investigating them for corruption fired. Biden bragged openly about getting him fired by threatening to withhold aid from the Ukrainian government.

As far as I can tell that’s just right wing echo chamber bullshit. Show me the link that says the old prosecutor was doing an investigation that threatened Burisma and the new prosecutor stopped it.

(4) Drudge realized that his website is like crystal methamphetamine for Republitards, who are intellectually challenged and induced to grand mal seizures by mainstream news websites, with their incorporation of color and boundaryless content presentation; and thus he can serve them any kind of news he wants to, knowing the Trumptards will never be capable of kicking the habit.

Despite the shift in bias, Drudge’s traffic rankings remain excellent:

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/drudgereport.com#section_traffic

Like I’ve been telling Trumptards… Do you actually think you can run other people’s companies for them? Are you so deluded that you think your erratic and delusional political opinions are a pertinent business model in the 21st century? Do you really believe that Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Drudge, UCal, etc, would be investing in wokeism if it wasn’t profitable? Time to wake up and smell the biscuits. The world doesn’t need you anymore and is desperately trying to kick you off of it.

That tweet seems to be gone. What crime was it for the store owner to copy the disk? When the customer (Hunter) abandoned his computer without paying the repair fee (typical crackhead behavior) it became the property of the store owner and he could do whatever he wanted with it.