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I think the leak of thousands of authentic emails from a direct family member of a presidential candidate is newsworthy, regardless of what is in the emails. P

I think the leak of thousands of authentic emails from a direct family member of a presidential candidate is newsworthy, regardless of what is in the emails. People should get to decide for themselves whether "10% for the big guy" is incriminating or not. If the story had gotten to run its normal course, my overall opinion would be that it actually makes Biden look pretty good (20k emails and this is the most incriminating line that they could find?) But the moment that Twitter took unprecedented measures to prevent the story from even being discussed, it became something that bothered me a lot. The way to gain credibility in an age of misinformation is to make the truth your north star. To have credibility, you have to be willing to call out misinformation on your own side, like the Steele Dossier. To say that it "raises credible concerns" is to excuse misinformation. You asked me to demonstrate that I am against corruption regardless of which side does it. Can you demonstrate that you are against misinformation regardless of which side does it?

pstuart 4y ago
> People should get to decide for themselves whether "10% for the big guy" is incriminating or not. I applaud your faith in humanity but the same population isn't likely going to read the exonerating report that I cited elsewhere and will note here. Read the conclusion at the end and then tell me again why the laptop story still needs to be promoted: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Fin... > If the story had gotten to run its normal course Nobody pushing that story cares about anything other than the story sticking around to be a campaign talking point. The Steele Dossier is far more complicated because of its origins and handling (yes Clinton helped fund some of it but McCain and Comey were alarmed by it). It was also always framed as raw, unverified intel that, once public, compelled verification of it. At that time it was also paired with the Buttery Mails investigation which likely tipped the scales away from Clinton. Read the wiki and you can see that it's not cut and dried. Meanwhile that whole thing has been turned into RussiaGate and categorically denied. MSM has dropped that line. Nobody on the left is defending Hunter Biden. But again, he's not the candidate, so why is there such concern? Because it's ButteryMails v2. The laptop story is the story. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to condemn about the Dossier affair -- it had its moment in the sun and then was squashed, with the bonus that it's now projected that Trump is 100% innocent in regards to dealing with Russia and that just ain't the case.

pstuart 4y ago

> People should get to decide for themselves whether "10% for the big guy" is incriminating or not. I applaud your faith in humanity but the same population isn't likely going to read the exonerating report that I cited elsewhere and will note here. Read the conclusion at the end and then tell me again why the laptop story still needs to be promoted: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Fin... > If the story had gotten to run its normal course Nobody pushing that story cares about anything other than the story sticking around to be a campaign talking point. The Steele Dossier is far more complicated because of its origins and handling (yes Clinton helped fund some of it but McCain and Comey were alarmed by it). It was also always framed as raw, unverified intel that, once public, compelled verification of it. At that time it was also paired with the Buttery Mails investigation which likely tipped the scales away from Clinton. Read the wiki and you can see that it's not cut and dried. Meanwhile that whole thing has been turned into RussiaGate and categorically denied. MSM has dropped that line. Nobody on the left is defending Hunter Biden. But again, he's not the candidate, so why is there such concern? Because it's ButteryMails v2. The laptop story is the story. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to condemn about the Dossier affair -- it had its moment in the sun and then was squashed, with the bonus that it's now projected that Trump is 100% innocent in regards to dealing with Russia and that just ain't the case.