how did 50 former intelligence officials get this wrong? wrote and signed a letter that this had the classic earmarks of russian disinformation. intelligence officers? oof.
The Hunter Biden laptop was real, the data on it was real. The chain of custody was however cooked. Very likely the laptop was stolen. Let's be fair here, at the time and place, Hunter Biden was going on massive coke and crack and heroin benders.
If this was black bag media optics, the easiest way to do this ( but grim) is to honeypot Hunter Biden with a minor. Then he can't contest that the laptop was stolen without confirming that he had sex with an underaged escort/prostitute/hooker to do it.
If you source the escort, you can run a side by side in the MSM. It's not just that she's a minor, but she looks like X or Y or Z. Consider the brutal fallout for the Biden Administration is Hunter Biden is outed as paying an underage hooker who looks like his dead brother's wife. Or Jill Biden. Or any of the family in place. Media optics cannot spin away from biological imperative. Incest or allusion to incest is treated as such because it deviates from our primary reproductive drivers inherent in our internal hard wiring. Incest risks health child birth and development. Thus it is opposed at a core visceral level. Find someone with a bad skin condition, see how people react to it. It's no longer about rational behavior and processing context, it's a natural instinctive defensive reaction based on our primary survival mechanisms. Skin lesions and bad skin condition could indicate disease which could indicate potential death.
Did the FBI intentionally sit on the laptop? Yes. Did the majority of the existing MSM pretend it didn't exist and that it was all some big lie? Yes. Did Jack Dorsey screw up in juggernaut fashion by insisting the NY Post needed to delete the old "offending tweet" to be unlocked then they could repost the article? Yes ( That decision created an instant leverage point to crush Section 230. That's indefensible from a legal standpoint. If you got that kind of legal advice in some non Western nations, those lawyers would literally be put to death)
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Vijaya Gadde runs Twitter's Trust and Safety and she got her lunch handed to her by Tim Pool. Pool is not some wildly skilled savant here. I wouldn't hire him to wash my fleet of trucks in my company motor pool.
Rudy Guiliani came up with the most bizarre poorly thought out incompetent story to explain why there's a stolen laptop in the hands of "civilian" and why it needs to be investigated. Guiliani left the opening and those in the military industrial complex/intelligence cabals had a reason to denounce the material in place.
Trump also made enemies in the military/intelligence establishment for no good reason at all. He just had to keep trying to hammer everything as if the world was set of nails in front of him. Many despised him and he created headaches all across the board for his entire Staff, his Cabinet, the overall media, Congress, donors, special interests, the entire judicial system.
It doesn't make what happened right, there was clear suppression of viable then current information that would have made a difference in the election. But it was fruit from a poisoned tree and both Trump and Guiliani did nothing to help the entire situation.
The radical leftists here don't care but they don't realize that one day their kids might grow up to say something unpopular that violates this very tiny narrow window of acceptable woke viewpoint lest they be torched in yet another purity test.
Getting laptop and closing out Hunter Biden's counter narrative was good effective black bag media ops.
Putting it in the hands of Guiliani to bring it home was both bizarre and insane at the same time. If you want a closer for Game 7 of the World Series, you get Mariano Rivera, you don't get Mitch Williams.
The most ridiculous part of this is a pure liability like Hunter Biden should have had a full time revolving security detail around him at all times. To protect him from himself. Joe Biden could have literally gotten any number of people to do it on the taxpayer's dime. It's completely inexplicable. Just let loose an out of control crackhead with massively damaging material that could change the landscape of the future of all America. It's like seeing Warren Buffett clip coupons and shoplift from grocery stores for free cheese.
Sitcom writers couldn't come up with this. Tina Fey would shout at everyone in the writer's room that no one in America would believe this kind of story even in a single camera half hour comedy built on old tired SNL tropes. This goes beyond stupid, it goes into a realm where no one with functional competence at actual media optics would actually understand why this is happening.
That anyone at all is trying to defend any aspect of this cooked scandal is just plainly tragic.
