The New Neo

[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin”]

In NY Magazine:

“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.]