Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Because they never hear about that shit while driving around all day listening to doom loop talk radio.

 

There were considerable questions about the story of the laptop to begin with. First, let’s take the idea that a Presidential candidate’s son had somehow forgotten that he had left a laptop computer at a repair store. Then take into account that the computer magically ended up in the hands of Rudy (Truth Isn’t Truth) Giuliani. Then you have multiple conservative outlets who have zero problem talking about imaginary Obama birth certificates and Hillary drinking the blood of aborted fetuses in non-existent pizza parlor basements not being willing to put out the story because even they have some serious questions about this. Then you have Rupert and Co. finally deciding to put it out, with the byline of an editor who even admits publicly she doesn’t know why her name is on the story.

Then you have a presidential administration that had verifiably lied about 30,000 times in four years, even about things that are actually on video. This is an administration that actually had a spokeswoman claim that there is a thing called alternative facts.

Couple that with the story coming out weeks before an election and mere days after the president was hospitalized with COVID and supposedly nearly dying after dismissing the virus as a political hoax.

Oh yeah, and we haven’t gotten to that it’s the President’s adult kid, who doesn’t have a government role and isn’t involved in politics. And the supposed corruption that allegedly involves the current president is little more than rumors and speculation.

Who wouldn’t think that this was some sort of bullshit October Surprise designed by a political party comprised of compulsive liars to distract from their party’s refusal and inability to join the 21st Century.

 

Jared and Ivanka were written about constantly. Without end. So were the Trump sons.

 

What I remember most about the fall of 2020 is that because Twitter wouldn’t share the story, the troll farms put out marching orders to talk about it anywhere and everywhere. I saw “When are you going to report on Hunter Biden’s laptop?” in places where it could not have been more off-topic. I must admit it was a brilliant strategy. Flood the zone so everyone had no choice but to hear about it. Though to this day, I still don’t know what Hunter Biden’s laptop has to do with the NFL or Bruce Springsteen.

 

Except Twitter did keep the world from seeing the story — and others. It blocked the story. It suspended the NY Post's account, as well as that of other journalists and outlets who shared the story. Those moves damaged those parties' credibility and cost them money. They discouraged other outlets from chasing the story, or even reporting on the Post's story.
And they're not alone. Other platforms like Facebook and YouTube have done similar things. YouTube is notorious for demonetizing accounts for any perceived violations of its rules, no matter how innocuous. Amazon, which more or less has a monopoly on servers — and is entrenching it in a number of ways — is threatening to strip server access from some sites who walk the fine line of whatever is considered "disinformation" this week.
These things are being done by private entities, yes, but often it seems done at the urging of the government. It's an end run around constitutional accountability.

 

And Hunter worked just as hard as they did. Twitter cost him a scholarship.

 

He should've just taken out a student loan and gotten it forgiven.

 

Oh, there definitely were issues. They should have unleashed this thing around Labor Day, not late October. Make it a topic at all of the debates as the story unfolds. Let additional reporting flow from it. Let its provenance be proven.
All of that leads into another political science discussion for another time and place, though (namely, how after two disappointing cycles the Republicans just now seem to be waking up to the fact they need to realize elections begin in October now, and to reset their calendars accordingly).

 

Who was in charge of the government in 2020 and how did it benefit them to sue press the story?

 

Just an interlude to the storm re: Hunter's laptop and the technician. Jean Paul, the guy who evidently turned in Hunter Biden's laptop was our Apple go to guy for many years. Quick, thorough, and precise. He wore thick glasses, but was never "blind" in our dealings. He seemed to be the sole person in is office. And I'm here to tell you the attitude was calm and supportive. His counter top where computers were left felt like a coffee shop where orders were placed. And his shop was exactly in that type of area. Upscale, urban, young. Again, just an personal interlude

 

surprised elon felt like he needed taibbi to go to hunter as a closer i think desantis will win comfortably