Poor poor Hunter and the invasion of his privacy by the big bad Republicans
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin”]
“The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop;
“The most invasive data breach imaginable is a political scandal Democrats can’t just wish away.”
In other news, nudists protest invasive gaze of onlookers.
And actually, Democrats don’t have to “just wish it away.” They covered it up (metaphorically speaking) when it was most important to do so, and helped Biden get elected.
And let us not forget that Hunter is still in good favor with father Joe Biden, who has called him “the smartest guy I know.”
The NY Magazine article begins like this:
Imagine the entirety of your digital existence plotted out before you: your accounts and passwords; your avatars; your contacts; every exchange of written dialogue; the full history of your logged interests, banal and forgettable and closely held; the note where you scrawled once-urgent word fragments that now make zero sense to you; the rabbit holes you fell down or the minor obsession or the thing that connected to the thing that led you to decide to do another thing that became a part of a part of a part of who you are, or a part of who you are to some people, or a part of who you are only to yourself, barely recognizable in the light of day. Your selfies. Your sexts. Your emails. Your calendar. Your to-do list. Your playlists. Your tabs.
That certainly wouldn’t also involve my own obsessive documentation of drug use and pornographic photos of cavorting with prostitutes, as well as documentation of corruption involving foreign countries my father dealt with as vice president.
They try to cover that in the next paragraph:
Now imagine that you are both the son of a man running for president and a lawyer and lobbyist accustomed to mixing with powerful people and doing business overseas premised on your proximity to those powerful people, and that you are in the throes of a divorce and a midlife catastrophe brought on by the early death of your older brother and that, in your distortion field of grief, on a hell-bent drug-and-alcohol binge, you have been making even more horrible choices, taking up with your brother’s widow and, while in considerable financial debt, hiring prostitutes and zoning out with camgirls and staying awake for days at a time on crack cocaine and generally hurting everyone in your life who is trying to help you with your cruel and idiotic behavior.
That’s a bit more like it, but it still leaves out an awful lot, including his corruption involving foreign countries. It also distorts the extent of his drug problems, which did not start after his brother’s death but have been pretty much lifelong and very very serious. And his divorce occurred after he took up with his brother’s widow. Plus, of course, he didn’t have to document all of this on his computer, which I assume he did for a combination of reasons that involve narcissism, self-titillation, playing with fire, and perhaps a desire to get caught.
That desire to get caught also may have featured into his leaving the laptop at the computer repair shop.
The article goes on to attempt to still cast at least some doubt on the laptop’s contents’ authenticity, and to act as though somehow this “breach” wasn’t 100% Hunter Biden’s fault. Here’s a typical sentence along those lines:
Hidden inside the laptop, according to those (almost exclusively on the right) who have reviewed the data or who trust the word of those who claim they have, is a corruption scandal that implicates not just Hunter but other members of the Biden family, including the president.
Then there’s this, for which the author ought to get some sort of Pulitzer for weasling:
Without a counterargument from the White House or the Biden family, and with mainstream political reporters only now trying to catch up to the tabloid coverage and the ideologically motivated actors who have been advancing the story, Democrats in Washington simply don’t know what to say. There has been no penalty for silence while they’ve been in power, just the vague assumption that it does seem like there’s something to the story, if only anyone credible would bother to check it out.
Oh, I see: “mainstream political reporters” (that is, papers on the left) are “only now trying to catch up to the tabloid coverage and the ideologically motivated actors” (that is, the actual reporters who were not part of the actual vast conspiracy of the Democrats, the intelligence community, and the MSM to lie about the laptop’s contents, mischaractize it as “disinformation”, and block any bona fide reporting about it, in order for the implicated Joe Biden to get elected). I also like this – “the vague assumption that it does seem like there’s something to the story, if only anyone credible would bother to check it out.” How do we define “credible”? Seems that NY Mag defines it as “anyone on the left, who all have political reasons to suppress and lie about the story, and who did so previously with vigor.” I guess that makes them “credible” and makes the actual truth-tellers “liars not to be trusted.”
[NOTE: I didn’t read the rest of the very very long article. I am quite familiar with the facts of the laptop revelations already, and how they came about.]
It does teach the lesson that if the Bolshevists won’t touch the story, the Whites get the scoop.
Yes, it’s the rehabilitation of Hunter Biden in living color, imbuing him with features that evoke passionate struggle and pathos for our delectation.
But he’s not a sympathetic character – he’s a scumbag, top-to-bottom, and every thing that his life touches seems to be as a result of corrupted, debauched, cynical impulses, a wasted life on a privileged path, leaving behind a trail of wreckage, damaged lives, and a junkie’s squalor.
Neo says, “In other news, nudists protest invasive gaze of onlookers.”
There’s a former professor/administrator at Eastern Michigan University who’s been suspended for driving naked down Michigan Avenue in a Jeep Wrangler with the top down and “fondling himself,” in the words of the Dearborn police chief. The perp (aged 62, so plenty old enough to know better) was an associate provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Services, and previously served EMU as Director of Equality. He’s been charged with one misdemeanor count of aggravated indecent exposure and one felony count of indecent exposure.
Video of this male version of Lady Godiva at the link:
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/why-are-you-naked-truck-driver-catches-emu-professor-driving-jeep-naked
I bet that if the perp had been wearing a COVID face diaper, his governor (Gretchen Whitmer) would have had the charges dismissed.
Well fortunately, not many Americans read New York Magazine.
Surely some day, hopefully this November, the Democrats, and their elitist brethren and Sistren(?), will realize that they are in a tightly wound, closed loop communication effort.
Or maybe they will just continue to blame the right wing, semi-fascist, closed minds of their intended audience because their message was either ignored or rejected.
Anyone deemed credible by the left, who then publicizes anything detrimental to the left’s narrative… instantly loses all credibility.
So it’s impossible for anything deterimental to even exist that a “credible” investigator might discover.
Remember. There is no such thing as objective reality. Only the subjective reality of the “greater good”, as decided from moment to moment by our ‘betters’.
“We must choose truth over facts” Joe Biden, Aug 8, 2019
PA Cat:
It’s also possible that the naked guy in Michigan is having disinhibition issues due to early cognitive decline.
Neo–
It’s reported that Tew did the same thing ten years ago in Livonia, when he was only 52. If he’s in early cognitive decline, he’s been doing so for a decade, and you’d think someone at the university would have noted other signs.
I have this thing about bylines, olivia nucci has some serious judgement issues once upon a time, she volunteered to work for anthony weiner, after the first time he humiliated himself,
hunter’s laptop is like a boschian tableau of how the uniparty works, how it sells out the people to oligarchs all across central asia into xi’s twisted kingdom, he also stuck his appendage into a recovery deal in libya, the hillary server was a less graphic representation of this same framework, so they d noticed it,
PA Cat:
These days, universities probably consider cognitive decline to be a feature, not a bug.
JournoList may be in the back of the author’s mind. It’s great to be a big name journalist at a big name publication — at least until your own emails get leaked. Then it all comes tumbling down.
But it certainly is strange that the “credible media” doesn’t care about people it brings down, but there’s this strange compassion for Hunter Biden, who is truly the maker of his own problems. Apparently he is part of the charmed circle who are supposed to be immune from criticism.
Neo says, “These days, universities probably consider cognitive decline to be a feature, not a bug.”
A feature he was, it seems. Judging from the reviews posted by his students on Rate My Professors, he was well liked because he was an easy grader (“Easy A”); and didn’t give tests, just writing assignments (“I think I only read one chapter in the textbook and got an A in the class”). He also had that other qualification for teaching in the modern university– hating Trump. “It was super annoying that over half of the time all he did was bash Trump.” More here, for anyone who’s interested: https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=392609
Myself, I wonder whether he might have been under the influence of alcohol or something else when he took his last ride– he looks unkempt and bleary-eyed in his mugshot.
I love, love, love it when Biden proclaims he believes in the rule of law! I swear I laugh every time! I guess just not in Hunter’s case. No speculation here, Hunter lied on the Federal form you fill out to buy a gun. This is a felony. There is a laxity in the prosecution of this crime, but not when the evidence is so blatant.
Reading those excerpts from New York Magazine was almost as unpleasant as viewing the contents of Hunter’s laptop.
The Right is trying very hard to change the narrative on the election. Embarrassing allegations of fraud by the unwashed masses will be replaced with “that darn cover-up!” Covering up the laptop is not the reason Biden is in our White House. Last I checked, voting machines don’t know or care about laptops and sociopaths. And neither do corrupt officials while “counting” votes.
How much did the traitor get paid for altering the hard drive lest his wife see it? He can’t have been dim enough to just alter the “proof” without a rea$on.
That’s what you call using a spatula to smoothen a pile of fecal matter. It might please the eyes, but still terrible on the nose.
JFM:
“There is a laxity in the prosecution of this crime, but not when the evidence is so blatant.”
Blah!!!! No reasonable prosecutor would take this up.
/Jimmy C, former head of the dem praetorian guard.
Neo:
Josef Xiden’s claim his spawn is the smartest guy he knows. Smart people make sure to keep track of their criminal activity and don’t let it get out. Josef’s statement is another example of his mental decline.
“But it certainly is strange that the “credible media” doesn’t care about people it brings down, but there’s this strange compassion for Hunter Biden, who is truly the maker of his own problems.”
Nothing strange about it; Hunter is firmly attached to Joe in the public mind. They can’t make him into a balloon (sow’s ear, anyone?), but they’re trying to keep him – successfully, so far – from being an anchor.
}}} who has called him “the smartest guy I know.”
Well, this may well be a random bit of Truth from “Teh Number Two” (in contrast with “Teh One”, as Obama was called).
It may reflect one of two things
A — Brandon may not have a very wide array of intelligent people around him, and this could be indicative of that.
B — Hunter may actually BE smart as fuck. He is, however, a complete fool and an addict. He may be, as a result of those or even other factors, a total fuckup. None of these reject him having considerable intelligence. Many of the copious supply of obvious errors he has made could easily be tied to his being a fool, as almost all self-described “Liberals” are, or be tied to his excessive drug abuse. Or both.
I’m going to note once more, as I have commented previously, here and elsewhere. We tend to use “idiot” and “fool” interchangeably, which is correct in a sense, esp. when you are only looking at the results of said “idiot-fool”s actions. But the cause of those actions definitely ties to whether they are an idiot (low intellectual skills) or a fool (low common sense skills). I repeat also my assertion that pretty much anyone who is a self-described “liberal” these days is a PostModern Liberal (as opposed to a “Classical Liberal”) and almost certainly has a low “WQ” (Wisdom Quotient, a hypothetical test & metric for measuring Wisdom as opposed to “Intelligence”).
The main notable aspect of having a low WQ is the inability to learn from experience. Like, say, favoring Marxism, regardless of how many times and how abysmally it always fails. Experience does not apply. Also, it favors the practice of throwing money at government, and when the government solution does not work, it seeks to throw more money at it.
The STUPID!!! It BURNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
https://i.chzbgr.com/original/4922590208/hA637DD53/
He’s sure having trouble staying out of the news cycle.
Cruel and Unusual persecution, no doubt…
“Hunter Biden cries poverty in trying to slash child support for 4-year-old”—
https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/hunter-biden-trying-to-lower-child-support-for-4-year-old-love-child/
“…Treasury Blocking Hunter Biden Inquiry ‘at Every Turn’ “—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/newsmax-rep-james-comer-hunter-biden/2022/09/14/id/1087534/
Joe Biden is provably an international grafter, and is saved only from prosecution by a corrupt DOJ and media. With this protection, he not only escapes justice, but facilitates the persecution of his most dangerous rivals, up to and including their imprisonment without trial and withholding of exculpatory evidence from them.
The present government of the United States is in the hands of organized criminals, and the only alternative available to peace-loving citizens is their complete defeat at the ballot box.