After making sure I wouldn’t see anything illegal, I I finally took a look at the Hunter Biden images leaked by the Chinese dissidents, and for the most part they are just nude selfies and pictures of himself banging young hookers while smoking crack. Accusations of pedophilia and incest linger, but cannot be published for obvious reasons. Apparently the laptop was sent to the FBI back in Dec. 2019 with no action take as of yet. Guilliani brought his own copy to the Delaware police recently, claiming there was illegal images on there. The Delaware police sent the copy to the FBI. My guess is we’ll hear nothing of it.

As a matter of principle I don’t like how Bannon and his friends are leaking Hunter Biden’s private affairs. His degeneracy, as ugly and predictable as it is, is his own business.

What we can say is that any claims of “Russian Disinfo” is complete horseshit, itself the wildest disinformation, and spread by the most useful of idiots. But the most staggering of blows is the media blackout on the subject. A media who spent weeks searching through Brett Kavanaugh’s year book or Trump’s tax documents will not touch this story.

The famed “anonymous” has been revealed to be Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s chief of staff Miles Taylor, who is now a CNN contributor.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/miles-taylor-former-dhs-official-and-adviser-to-john-kelly-is-anonymous

Amy Coney Barrett was just sworn in yesterday. She is Trump’s third Supreme Court appointee. Another originalist on the court is a good thing in my estimation. But the political hand-wringing is equally as fascinating and satisfying.

Your interlocutor’s argument is a homunculus argument because it raises the question as to exactly what is sensing “perception” or “experience” (or whatever medium we wish to posit), and how it is able to sense at all. This leads to an infinite regression because it lacks any grounding in a self. It's selves all the way down. So when you ask who or what is experiencing this "perception" you might find he is unable to provide a decent answer. Besides, one cannot perceive perception any more than he can observe observation, employ employment, or legalize legalization. Nominalizing verbs often confuses things whenever the verb collides with its noun version.

I think it is the other way about: the solipsist requires leaps of faith. He must believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that he is not in direct contact with the rest of the world, like a fish in a fishbowl. He must then conjecture how he indirectly receives information through what I assume is some curating interface, possibly prone to error and deception, maybe run by an evil demon, but no less able to project “experience” onto what is surely a veil. Most likely he does not think about how solipsism could be possible at all.

Maybe try extending your notion of self to the very surface of your skin, no more no less. I think solipsism is impossible to believe on such a basis. Only then is one able to conclude that he is in direct contact with the rest of the world, and that it can be known.

Right, all those alcohol-swigging, 15-year-old journalists. Only a pervert would pretend such a person was 15.

I’m not a republican.

A global pandemic is worse than Benghazi? Man, I never would have figured that out.

I'll assure you that the GOP will Benghazi the living hell out of this for the next 4 years.

Anyways, the COVID death toll is currently sitting at 55500 Benghazi's and counting. GOP remains silent.

Comparing Benghazi and coronavirus? No strand of chewing gum could connect the two.

Here’s the Giuliani scene from the new Borat.



It’s deceptively edited, but clearly he’s tucking in his pants after she removes the microphone from him. A dupe’s idea of a story is a still-shot from deceptively edited Borat film. So awesome.

A US-brokered deal has been reached between Isreal and Sudan, marking another win for Arab-Isreali relations. In exchange Sudan will be taken off the state-sponsored terrorist list, but first they had to pay the compensation for the victims of American embassy bombings.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-sudan-agree-to-normalize-ties-in-u-s-brokered-deal-11603469178

Previous administrations and their nanny-state allies could only ever dream of such advances in Middle East peace.

Here’s a number of investigations regarding Trump, his family, his campaign, the Trump organization. Lobbying violations, inflated insurance claims, hush money payments, tax practices, campaign contributions etc. I’m sure they’ll let you know if they find anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/13/us/politics/trump-investigations.html

Let’s hope the Biden family’s dealings will receive the same scrutiny.

It looks like the idea that Hunter’s emails were Russian disinfo was itself disinfo. The director of national intelligence denied that this was some ploy by the Kremlin. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners confirmed the emails. If the press and social media continue to suppress it, no one will forget.

State checkpoints, stay at home orders, closed businesses aren’t a sign of peace and quiet, to me. We’ve reached peak statism. Despite our educated populations, who no doubt know by now what one has to do to protect himself, the nanny-state forces new restrictions. Police checkpoints on roads leaving Melbourne; shuddered businesses with a new lockdown in Ireland; curfew in Madrid. They have taken power and refuse to relinquish it.

is an example of defending racists, rapists, sex offenders, colluders and tax evaders. Oh, and killers. Let's not forget killers. 300,000 dead through sheer stupidity and counting.

If you keep repeating it it will magically become true.

So now we believe the FBI. But not before. :smirk:

Now we don’t believe them, nor do we care, but before we did?

Iran just got busted pretending to be Proudboys, intimidating Dem voters, in order to hurt president Trump and help Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/proud-boys-emails-florida/

How does that definition not include oral sex?

Lewinski was guilty of performing “sexual relations”, while Clinton was just a passive object, I suppose. It’s a kind of lying that only a lawyer could muster.

It’s true, and I never said otherwise. For the record I supported Clinton back then, regretfully.

Accusations you can easily make but can hardly prove.

Racists, rapists, sex offenders, tax dodgers... I forgot tax dodgers.

Another unjust accusation. There is a pitchfork-wielding mob out there somewhere waiting for you.

You mean neo-cons. And you mean the Bushes Sr. & Jr. You really are a vicious liar, aren't you!

Are you that ill-informed?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/us/politics/joe-biden-iraq-war.html

The phrase “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinski” is embedded in the American psyche, I’m surprised you forgot about it.

Do you ever get tired defending racists, rapists and sex offenders?

Couldn’t come up with an answer, could you? I never tire of defending people from unjust accusations, just as you never tire of making them.

People can be impeached for obstruction of justice, as history has shown.

So if a woman asks you out for coffee you'd think it appropriate to start rubbing your dick!

I thought he “reached into his trousers”. I haven’t seen the scene, but the article makes no mention of dick rubbing. Have you seen it?

No. He was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction of justice.

I never said impeach Giuliani. I was just reminiscing about the time where another public figure had consensual sex with a 25 year old and the right lost their mind.

In the Oval Office, and then he lied about it.

From your article:

“ Although unfortunate, the circumstances of the setup appear consensual, with Giuliani led to believe he was being courted.”

Who impeaches a private citizen?

I’m glad I can make an appearance in your hopes and dreams, Tim. But these sorts of hopes are compelling you to vote for the same neoliberal politician who brought us the Iraq war, gave us the largest crime bill in US history, and compromised with segregationists.

Damn. A consensual act with a 25 year old woman? How could you do this, Rudy?

Giuliani brought Hunter’s laptop to the Delaware police, citing illegal images. I wonder if he picked up a girl-sniffing habit from ol’ pop?

I think we've all been gratified to see that he wasnt bright enough to pull off what he seemed to want to.

So yay for whistleblowers.

Yeah, the prognosticators who predicted a future dictator that never arrived. It’s a good little racket. You can keep predicting fascism, and when it never arrives, you can say your slander helped keep it at bay instead of admitting you were wrong about everything.

“Fascistic”—an adjective often bandied about to describe the Trump administration, but it never turns to be accurate. Meanwhile, an illiberal strain of communo-fascism, with actual concentration camps, slave labor, a national socialism, threatens the world, only to be met by the reticence of self-proclaimed antifascists.

Trump’s DOJ is going after Google for unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets under the Sherman antitrust act. Silicon Valley soyboys might need to lay off the election interference for a while.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328941/download

The senate investigation disproved nothing. In fact they have a laundry list.

IV. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.

V. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY FALSELY CLAIMED HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.

VI. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VIEWED MYKOLA ZLOCHEVSKY AS A CORRUPT, “ODIOUS OLIGARCH,” BUT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS ADVISED NOT TO ACCUSE ZLOCHEVSKY OF CORRUPTION.

VII. WHILE HUNTER BIDEN SERVED ON BURISMA’S BOARD, BURISMA’S OWNER, ZLOCHEVSKY, ALLEGEDLY PAID A $7 MILLION BRIBE TO UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE TO CLOSE THE CASE.

VIII. HUNTER BIDEN: A SECRET SERVICE PROTECTEE WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.

IX. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND A DEMOCRAT LOBBYING FIRM HAD CONSISTENT AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH FORMER UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL ANDRII TELIZHENKO.

X. THE MINORITY FALSELY ACCUSED THE CHAIRMEN OF ENGAGING IN A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND USED OTHER TACTICS TO INTERFERE IN THE INVESTIGATION.

XI. HUNTER BIDEN’S AND HIS FAMILY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, KAZAKH AND CHINESE NATIONALS RAISE CRIMINAL CONCERNS AND EXTORTION THREATS.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf

The political censorship of the New York Post story has nearly doubled the attention in the story, according to Technology Review. Not exactly the smartest move. But even though no parties have disputed the validity of the emails, we’ve gone from “Russian disinfo” to “Hunter isn’t running for president”, minds whipping like a windsock in whatever direction the propaganda tells them to.

I do not necessarily agree with the left/right distinction. There are some principled lefties who have been critical of the Biden/Ukraine saga, and righties who have called it Russian disinfo.

Many Bernie bros and former Obama-voters have flipped to Trump, many vocal conservatives have flipped to Biden. I think there are new divides at work here.

Your concerns about Biden are dead on. Hunter Biden is the product of affluence and power par excellence. While Biden’s crime bills led to mass incarceration, his crackhead son has avoided troubles. As the recent emails make clear, Hunter and his partners profited off the Biden, at the very least. Biden is possibly compromised, a national security threat.

(Just a small correction: the outlet that reported on the emails was the New York Post, the paper of Hamilton.)

Basically everything the alt-right accuses the left of is usually a projection of something they themselves are guilty of, so even without the details you give to support this claim, it's prima facie probable.

There were those high-profile Virginia Giuffre accusations she made against many, including 2 Dem politicians, governor Bill Richardson and former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. In the same deposition, she says she never saw Trump and Epstein together, let alone at any of his homes, and she claims previous reporting on Trump’s involvement was fake news.

So I wonder if the projection statement is a little ironic.

It was confirmed by one of the people in the emails, none of whom are Russian.