So, admittedly I hadn't been paying that close attention to the "Hunter Biden laptop" story...
I knew the very general basics of it, knew that it had changed hands and thus there would naturally be issues about chain of custody on it.
So I naturally just wrote the entire story off as right-wing bullshit/disinformation, even though people on right wing social media were screaming and yelling how it was a "SMOKING GUN" of...well, something. I don't know.
As it turns out, it was in fact right-wing bullshit/disinformation.
But I had no idea how extreme right-wing bullshit/disinformation it actually is.
Turns out, it is a pure dumpster fire on a train-wreck level of bullshit/disinformation that only the stupidest, most gullible idiots would possibly believe has any merit.
To wit:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/...leaked-it/
Last month, The Washington Post was able to publish a report based on a copy of material that we obtained from a Republican activist named Jack Maxey who’d gotten it from Giuliani. We had multiple experts examine the contents of a hard drive that purported to contain the laptop’s contents, validating tens of thousands of emails as likely to be legitimate.
But an enormous amount of the material on the drive couldn’t be validated as legitimate, in part because of the game of telephone that the material had undergone by the time it reached us. (The report notes that efforts to obtain the material in 2020 were rebuffed.)
“The experts found the data had been repeatedly accessed and copied by people other than Hunter Biden over nearly three years,” our report explained, with those we spoke with being unable to “reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.”
For example:
“[An expert] also found records on the drive that indicated someone may have accessed the drive from a West Coast location in October 2020, little more than a week after the first New York Post stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop appeared.”
“Over the next few days, somebody created three additional folders on the drive, titled, ‘Mail,' ‘Salacious Pics Package’ and ‘Big Guy File’ — an apparent reference to Joe Biden.”
So let's just get this straight.
1. Someone had access to Hunter Biden's laptop
2. Someone added new files to that laptop thinking that wouldn't be easily detected
3. Someone actually decided to title those files "Salacious Pics Package" and "Big Guy File" because they thought that would somehow make this a SMOKING GUN of criminality.
I mean...holy shit.
What sort of brain dead thought process is that?
It's as if I wanted to frame my neighbor for murder, and so I dig a hole in his back yard, put a gun in it, and then fill it up and place a sign saying "MURDER WEAPON BURIED HERE" right above it.
That's just so pathetically lazy and half-assed I would almost feel bad for the person who thought they were a genius doing it, except that there are plenty of people out there who are more than happy to buy that story, hook, line and sinker.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216611231
12. "that only the stupidest, most gullible idiots would possibly believe has any merit."
That is the republican base.
15. None of this matters to the right.
What they "know" is that Hunter Biden's computer went to a repair shop. He didn't claim it. The shop owner examined the content and called "Trump's lawyer." It had tons of information to prove that Hunter and his Father were bad, bad, people. It is the same kind of operation of "her emails." It doesn't have to make any sense, and using logic to demonstrate how flawed the story is only proves the "coverup.
It is easy for the Republican Army to launch their disinformation campaigns because their followers are so damn gullible.
17. You're probably right, but sheesh
How stupid do they think Hunter Biden is? Yeah, "I've got all these emails and pictures and other incriminating shit on my laptop, so I think I'll drop it off at a random repair shop across the country and then I'll forget about it."
The people who believe that are the same ones that believed PizzaGate, I guess. They also remember the Weekly World News story about Hillary giving birth to an alien baby back in the 90's.
I knew the very general basics of it, knew that it had changed hands and thus there would naturally be issues about chain of custody on it.
So I naturally just wrote the entire story off as right-wing bullshit/disinformation, even though people on right wing social media were screaming and yelling how it was a "SMOKING GUN" of...well, something. I don't know.
As it turns out, it was in fact right-wing bullshit/disinformation.
But I had no idea how extreme right-wing bullshit/disinformation it actually is.
Turns out, it is a pure dumpster fire on a train-wreck level of bullshit/disinformation that only the stupidest, most gullible idiots would possibly believe has any merit.
To wit:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/...leaked-it/
Last month, The Washington Post was able to publish a report based on a copy of material that we obtained from a Republican activist named Jack Maxey who’d gotten it from Giuliani. We had multiple experts examine the contents of a hard drive that purported to contain the laptop’s contents, validating tens of thousands of emails as likely to be legitimate.
But an enormous amount of the material on the drive couldn’t be validated as legitimate, in part because of the game of telephone that the material had undergone by the time it reached us. (The report notes that efforts to obtain the material in 2020 were rebuffed.)
“The experts found the data had been repeatedly accessed and copied by people other than Hunter Biden over nearly three years,” our report explained, with those we spoke with being unable to “reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.”
For example:
“[An expert] also found records on the drive that indicated someone may have accessed the drive from a West Coast location in October 2020, little more than a week after the first New York Post stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop appeared.”
“Over the next few days, somebody created three additional folders on the drive, titled, ‘Mail,' ‘Salacious Pics Package’ and ‘Big Guy File’ — an apparent reference to Joe Biden.”
So let's just get this straight.
1. Someone had access to Hunter Biden's laptop
2. Someone added new files to that laptop thinking that wouldn't be easily detected
3. Someone actually decided to title those files "Salacious Pics Package" and "Big Guy File" because they thought that would somehow make this a SMOKING GUN of criminality.
I mean...holy shit.
What sort of brain dead thought process is that?
It's as if I wanted to frame my neighbor for murder, and so I dig a hole in his back yard, put a gun in it, and then fill it up and place a sign saying "MURDER WEAPON BURIED HERE" right above it.
That's just so pathetically lazy and half-assed I would almost feel bad for the person who thought they were a genius doing it, except that there are plenty of people out there who are more than happy to buy that story, hook, line and sinker.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216611231
12. "that only the stupidest, most gullible idiots would possibly believe has any merit."
That is the republican base.
15. None of this matters to the right.
What they "know" is that Hunter Biden's computer went to a repair shop. He didn't claim it. The shop owner examined the content and called "Trump's lawyer." It had tons of information to prove that Hunter and his Father were bad, bad, people. It is the same kind of operation of "her emails." It doesn't have to make any sense, and using logic to demonstrate how flawed the story is only proves the "coverup.
It is easy for the Republican Army to launch their disinformation campaigns because their followers are so damn gullible.
17. You're probably right, but sheesh
How stupid do they think Hunter Biden is? Yeah, "I've got all these emails and pictures and other incriminating shit on my laptop, so I think I'll drop it off at a random repair shop across the country and then I'll forget about it."
The people who believe that are the same ones that believed PizzaGate, I guess. They also remember the Weekly World News story about Hillary giving birth to an alien baby back in the 90's.
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