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That was the only point about the laptop -- to smear Biden.

refurb 4y ago
It’s relevance is for the American voter to decide, not the FBI or Zuckerberg. The best part is that the attempted suppression only sheds even more light on it.
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someguydave 4y ago
But it was a true story? You don’t want to hear about true bad things if they are about people you like?
- pstuart 4y ago
  The only part of the story that's true is that Hunter Biden was given money with the expectation that he'd have political influence over his father. There's zero evidence to show that happened. Turnabout is fair play: are you willing to hear true bad things about the people you like?
- pstuart 4y ago
  My (current) understanding of the truth: * Hunter Biden was (is?) a drug addict * Hunter Biden has done stuff to be ashamed of * Hunter Biden got a board member seat on Burisma because of who his dad is * Content (some percentage) on the laptop in question came from Hunter Biden I could do this all day long, because I have no partisan loyalty/ideology binding me. I care about corruption regardless of which party is committing it. Do you want to hear the awful truth about people you like?
  - someguydave 4y ago
    I think the politcaly relevant points were: * Hunter Biden appeared to have sold access to Joe Biden to Chinese officials And suppressing that story before the election was a form of “election interference”
    - pstuart 4y ago
      But he didn't. The point I'm trying to make is the whole point of the story was to insinuate Joe Biden had an active part in this. Yes, Hunter, his adult son who he doesn't control, was engaged in a corrupt enterprise. There's zero proof Joe was involved but yet you hold on to the story like it matters. The story is pure election interference, hoping to be a repeat of Buttery Males. You all are proof that the only thing that matters is that there's a possibility that "the other guy" is corrupt. Yet mountains of evidence that Trump is corrupt have no impact on you. Hmmmmmmm, so do you really care about corruption or do you just hate the other team?
      - someguydave 4y ago
        https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/joe-biden-met-chinese-energy-execs-with-ties-to-hunter-in-2014/ https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/joe-biden-met-chinese-energy-e... Trump’s corruption and Biden’s corruption are both relevant to voters.
        pstuart 4y ago
        https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171221/https://www.washi... No evidence of actual corruption by Joe Biden. Again, if there was he should be prosecuted accordingly. Nobody is above the law, right?
        someguydave 4y ago
        Sure, crimes should be prosecuted. There is enough questionable evidence here that voters should know about, the information should not have been suppressed.
beeboop 4y ago
The only point of the Steele dossier paid for by Hillary was to smear Trump. Should that story also have been censored? It was provably full of fake information.
- pstuart 4y ago
  Opposition research is a foundation of all campaigns, so get off your high horse. The Steele Dossier is the next gen version of RatherGate (discredited reporting on a subject that can still be assumed to be true). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

It’s relevance is for the American voter to decide, not the FBI or Zuckerberg. The best part is that the attempted suppression only sheds even more light on it.

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someguydave 4y ago

But it was a true story? You don’t want to hear about true bad things if they are about people you like?

pstuart 4y ago
The only part of the story that's true is that Hunter Biden was given money with the expectation that he'd have political influence over his father. There's zero evidence to show that happened. Turnabout is fair play: are you willing to hear true bad things about the people you like?
pstuart 4y ago
My (current) understanding of the truth: * Hunter Biden was (is?) a drug addict * Hunter Biden has done stuff to be ashamed of * Hunter Biden got a board member seat on Burisma because of who his dad is * Content (some percentage) on the laptop in question came from Hunter Biden I could do this all day long, because I have no partisan loyalty/ideology binding me. I care about corruption regardless of which party is committing it. Do you want to hear the awful truth about people you like?
- someguydave 4y ago
  I think the politcaly relevant points were: * Hunter Biden appeared to have sold access to Joe Biden to Chinese officials And suppressing that story before the election was a form of “election interference”
  - pstuart 4y ago
    But he didn't. The point I'm trying to make is the whole point of the story was to insinuate Joe Biden had an active part in this. Yes, Hunter, his adult son who he doesn't control, was engaged in a corrupt enterprise. There's zero proof Joe was involved but yet you hold on to the story like it matters. The story is pure election interference, hoping to be a repeat of Buttery Males. You all are proof that the only thing that matters is that there's a possibility that "the other guy" is corrupt. Yet mountains of evidence that Trump is corrupt have no impact on you. Hmmmmmmm, so do you really care about corruption or do you just hate the other team?
    - someguydave 4y ago
      https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/joe-biden-met-chinese-energy-execs-with-ties-to-hunter-in-2014/ https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/joe-biden-met-chinese-energy-e... Trump’s corruption and Biden’s corruption are both relevant to voters.
      - pstuart 4y ago
        https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220816171221/https://www.washi... No evidence of actual corruption by Joe Biden. Again, if there was he should be prosecuted accordingly. Nobody is above the law, right?
        someguydave 4y ago
        Sure, crimes should be prosecuted. There is enough questionable evidence here that voters should know about, the information should not have been suppressed.

beeboop 4y ago

The only point of the Steele dossier paid for by Hillary was to smear Trump. Should that story also have been censored? It was provably full of fake information.

pstuart 4y ago
Opposition research is a foundation of all campaigns, so get off your high horse. The Steele Dossier is the next gen version of RatherGate (discredited reporting on a subject that can still be assumed to be true). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy