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Matt Taibbi BREAKS Twitter Hunter Biden Scandal

Matt Taibbi has broken the story on Twitter suppressing the Hunter Biden scandal during 2020 election

The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

In a nutshell - The Biden campaign asked the Twitter moderation team to remove some posts and accounts that featured Hunter Biden dick pics, which is basically a form of revenge pornography.

THAT IS IT

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by Anonymousreply 413February 26, 2023 8:29 PM

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by Anonymousreply 1December 2, 2022 11:33 PM

So....that's it? A private citizen's dick pics. And the Biden campaign did what anyone would do: Ask to have private pics removed from a platform.

Jesus fucking Christ, the right-wing is such shit. Just a group of complete idiots with nothing of substance. What a garbage group of flying monkeys.

by Anonymousreply 2December 2, 2022 11:33 PM

So basically after wading through a lot of one line tweets (Matt should be hit upside the head for that alone) the point he was trying to make is Twitter was the liberal version of Parker, Gab, Truth Social and Fox News.

Oh, the horror.

by Anonymousreply 3December 2, 2022 11:35 PM

R3, then he's a fucking moron if that was his "point," because Twitter would never allow nudes of any of the Trump kids on their platform either if it was revenge porn.

by Anonymousreply 4December 2, 2022 11:38 PM

Do you have voicemail messages saved to your laptop?

by Anonymousreply 5December 2, 2022 11:40 PM

No one saves voicemail messages to a computer. You save these messages on your phone.

by Anonymousreply 6December 2, 2022 11:41 PM

Don't forget when FOX did this, R3:

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by Anonymousreply 7December 2, 2022 11:41 PM

All they have is nothing

by Anonymousreply 8December 2, 2022 11:43 PM

So how did Sean Hannity get ahold of voice mail messages President Biden left for his son in 2018?

by Anonymousreply 9December 2, 2022 11:43 PM

All I know, r4, it was a slog to get through and I came away with “so what…They didn’t do anything different than other right wing social and main stream media” They reason why I think I’m right, r4, is because the Post story, which didn’t have unpixelated nudes, couldn’t be shared. It real was a big nothing.

by Anonymousreply 10December 2, 2022 11:43 PM

That's it, I'm never voting for Hunter Biden ever again.

by Anonymousreply 11December 2, 2022 11:44 PM

[quote]Do you have voicemail messages saved to your laptop?

Actually, I do…from backing up my phone.

by Anonymousreply 12December 2, 2022 11:46 PM

Glenn!

[quote]I'll be on Tucker Carlson's program tonight near the top of the show discussing the meaning of these [bold]obviously blockbuster[/bold] documents.

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by Anonymousreply 13December 2, 2022 11:47 PM

"they" are shopping around the top secret triple xrated diary written by Ashley Biden.

Hmmmm... Secret diaries and private voice mail messages ... How'd they get this stuff.

by Anonymousreply 14December 2, 2022 11:47 PM

Actually, my voicemail messages are saved. To my icloud account.

by Anonymousreply 15December 2, 2022 11:48 PM

To quote NBC's Ben Collins re: Taibbi

[quote] Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions.

[quote] He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster.

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by Anonymousreply 16December 2, 2022 11:49 PM

Twitter confessing to election interference on behalf of Biden is huge. No other tech companies have made that kind of confession of guilt before.

by Anonymousreply 17December 2, 2022 11:50 PM

I am not sure that many people outside of that right wing bubble care at this point either.

It all sounds like a bunch of nerds making a big deal over a high school election

by Anonymousreply 18December 2, 2022 11:50 PM

Matt's rubles must still be coming in

by Anonymousreply 19December 2, 2022 11:51 PM

Suppressing dick pics? Quite the scandal

by Anonymousreply 20December 2, 2022 11:51 PM

[quote] Twitter confessing to election interference on behalf of Biden is huge. No other tech companies have made that kind of confession of guilt before.

Stopping nude pictures is "election interference?"

by Anonymousreply 21December 2, 2022 11:52 PM

I care.

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by Anonymousreply 22December 2, 2022 11:52 PM

[quote] BREAKING: Twitter removed some nude photos of a guy that were posted without his consent. The horror! SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK

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by Anonymousreply 23December 2, 2022 11:52 PM

You save your dick pixx on your computer or do you keep it your nekkid selfies on your phone?

by Anonymousreply 24December 2, 2022 11:53 PM

Well I think it would be bad if Twitter was still around as is, but now that they've been fired, who cares?

by Anonymousreply 25December 2, 2022 11:55 PM

Ben Collins' "Substack Man" slap at R16 is pretty sharp

Taibbi has lost most of his journalism jobs and is left trying to get people to subscribe to his substack in order to pay the bills.

That is one thing if you are 24 and trying to break in.

Another if you are 52 and trying not to have to resort to food stamps.

The assumption is Musk is paying him to do whatever Musk wants and Taibbi is desperate enough to do so.

SEE ALSO: Greenwald, Glenn

by Anonymousreply 26December 2, 2022 11:55 PM

Election, "interference".

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by Anonymousreply 27December 2, 2022 11:55 PM

I think Hunter is a sleazy train wreak of a person, but I really don't care about this "scandal" there is a FBI investigation underway, either they find shit or they don't. The Matt Gaetz and Rudy Giuliani investigations have been shut down. As far as we know there is no investigation into Jared getting sweetheart deals from the Qataris and the Saudis. Mitch McConnell's wife escaped investigations, Ryan Zinke escaped prosecution and now is soon to be a member of congress again. Roger Stone walks free as does as does Steve Bannon and the Justice Department didn't even seem interested in investigating Trump until the Jan 6th committee released so much shit.

by Anonymousreply 28December 2, 2022 11:58 PM

The Twitter acknowledgment will likely be used to support a J6 style committee to investigate censorship by the tech companies. It will be good to bring everything out into the open.

by Anonymousreply 29December 3, 2022 12:00 AM

R29 There is nothing new in what Taibbi has said so far. We've known all of this for ages now and there was even a congressional hearing about it. Dorsey said that it was a mistake made by internal processes.

by Anonymousreply 30December 3, 2022 12:04 AM

He isn't sleazy, he has substance abuse issues. It is a common problem throughout society.

The Biden administration COULD be addressing the drug problems of Americans with personal insight but they are too busy keeping American Democracy intact!

by Anonymousreply 31December 3, 2022 12:04 AM

Don't topics that "break" Twitter usually trend?

by Anonymousreply 32December 3, 2022 12:09 AM

Here is what the Biden administration COULD be working on. There is no reason for a city in the United States to look like this

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by Anonymousreply 33December 3, 2022 12:10 AM

Still waiting for the unredacted Mueller Report.

by Anonymousreply 34December 3, 2022 12:13 AM

Christ. He had a major head injury and nearly died in the wreck that killed his mother and sister. What are the Saudi Billions and cokewhore Trump's excuses?

by Anonymousreply 35December 3, 2022 12:16 AM

I literally laughed out loud when it turns out the hoopla was a Matt Taibbi thread proving that Twitter did their jobs like they were supposed to. Scandalous!

Right-wingers are such fucking jokes. Just absolute crazy, stupid garbage dumps of human beings.

by Anonymousreply 36December 3, 2022 12:16 AM

Biden didn't win. We've been right all along. We knew we were.

by Anonymousreply 37December 3, 2022 12:19 AM

[quote]"they" are shopping around the top secret triple xrated diary written by Ashley Biden.

I thought that the diary was considered stolen and therefore anyone who publishes material from it can be punished.

by Anonymousreply 38December 3, 2022 12:22 AM

What a coincidence!! Every thing incriminating, whether from his phone or email, ended up on the same computer!!

by Anonymousreply 39December 3, 2022 12:23 AM

Like Trump, Biden family will be ultimately protected. Elites and all .

by Anonymousreply 40December 3, 2022 12:25 AM

And the computer was found in a repair shop!!!! Wow! How fortuitous.

by Anonymousreply 41December 3, 2022 12:25 AM

This Matt Taibbi?

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by Anonymousreply 42December 3, 2022 12:25 AM

R41, and the blind owner of the store just happened to have a connection to Giuliani!

by Anonymousreply 43December 3, 2022 12:27 AM

I just looked up Ashley Biden diary on Google, it's out there

by Anonymousreply 44December 3, 2022 12:28 AM

I look forward to hearing Vijayjay explain this on Capitol Hill.

by Anonymousreply 45December 3, 2022 12:32 AM

If there were really anything of value in that diary, we’d all have seen it by now

by Anonymousreply 46December 3, 2022 12:32 AM

Wow! What an amazing coincidence!!!! R43

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by Anonymousreply 47December 3, 2022 12:32 AM

Let the Republicans stew in ut for the next 2 years.

by Anonymousreply 48December 3, 2022 12:34 AM

[quote]Taibbi tweeted "there’s no evidence - that I've seen" that the federal government had a role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story

... and that should be the end of it.

by Anonymousreply 49December 3, 2022 12:36 AM

[quote]Twitter confessing to election interference on behalf of Biden is huge. No other tech companies have made that kind of confession of guilt before.

What did they suppress about Biden? Please be detailed because I'm fucking tired of right-wing shits and their hyperbolic bullshit. What specifically did they suppress about Biden. Do tell!

by Anonymousreply 50December 3, 2022 12:37 AM

[quote]... and that should be the end of it.

Well, you could try wishing it away, but you should probably prepare to be disappointed.

by Anonymousreply 51December 3, 2022 12:40 AM

R45 THERE ALREADY HAS BEEN A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ABOUT THIS.

It's such bullshit, Elon is doing this on purpose. Nothing new has been learnt and nothing illegal happened.

by Anonymousreply 52December 3, 2022 12:40 AM

Erection circumference!

by Anonymousreply 53December 3, 2022 12:40 AM

The emails show that not only was the laptop genuine, but the very night the Post released the story, Twitter executives knew it was genuine and spent the whole night discussing how to convincingly lie that it was not genuine so they could apply their censorship policies on behalf of the Biden campaign.

Everybody on the inside knew it was real and had absolutely no compunction on gaslighting voters about in order to interfere with the election.

Anyone who says this is "nothing" is also gaslighting. And I say this as someone who loathes Trump.

by Anonymousreply 54December 3, 2022 12:41 AM

HA HA HA

by Anonymousreply 55December 3, 2022 12:42 AM

^^^ Having said that, nothing will happen. The US is hopelessly corrupt.

by Anonymousreply 56December 3, 2022 12:43 AM

Matt Taibbi? What's next? Glenn "Favela Raider" Greenwald or our little pockmarked Hawaiian orchid Tulsi?

by Anonymousreply 57December 3, 2022 12:43 AM

R54 They didn't know if it violated their hacked materials policy.

by Anonymousreply 58December 3, 2022 12:43 AM

R54 why does the public need to see nude pictures of Hunter Biden?

by Anonymousreply 59December 3, 2022 12:43 AM

Aesthetic appreciation, R59.

by Anonymousreply 60December 3, 2022 12:45 AM

Because he's got a nine inch cock and pukes are small people

by Anonymousreply 61December 3, 2022 12:45 AM

Trump May Have Sold Classified Documents, Should Be 'Arrested':

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by Anonymousreply 62December 3, 2022 12:46 AM

Taibbi has finished his thread of tweets for the night. It pretty much said that some of the Twitter employees thought the laptop had been hacked and that this violated their policy. Others were skeptical and thought it would just bring more trouble to Twitter for censoring. There wasn't anything very juicy. Taibbi sums it up:

"The problem with the "hacked materials" ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a "whirlwind" 24-hour, company-wide mess."

by Anonymousreply 63December 3, 2022 12:46 AM

BTW Taibbi's tweet #8 is the one Republicans are retweeting the most. It has some tweets that the White House wants looked into and someone at Twitter replies that they've been "handled".

by Anonymousreply 64December 3, 2022 12:48 AM

The mainstream media kept saying the laptop wasn't really hunter bidens and that it wasn't true. They only admitted it AFTER elections.

by Anonymousreply 65December 3, 2022 12:48 AM

Considering that Liz Cheney was able to stretch out J6 for two years, the GOP will likely be able to do the same with Hunter.

by Anonymousreply 66December 3, 2022 12:49 AM

Stolen phone. Data put a USB. USB data uploaded to a computer that is found in a repair shop.

That is how the voicemail messages were found.

From his fucking phone

by Anonymousreply 67December 3, 2022 12:50 AM

R65 = Kari Lake.

by Anonymousreply 68December 3, 2022 12:51 AM

R68 if I said something incorrect please refute it

by Anonymousreply 69December 3, 2022 12:52 AM

Elon Musk a few minutes ago:

"Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is."

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by Anonymousreply 70December 3, 2022 12:52 AM

R64 Can't be the White House because that was Trump/Republicans at the time.

by Anonymousreply 71December 3, 2022 12:53 AM

Grateful I had the sense to close the Twitter account

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by Anonymousreply 72December 3, 2022 12:53 AM

r71, Not the White House. It was members of Congress.

by Anonymousreply 73December 3, 2022 12:55 AM

Are there any DLers who would make Hunter Biden feel inferior? Asking for a friend!

by Anonymousreply 74December 3, 2022 12:55 AM

Rudy gave everything to China. That's where all the sites that had the Hunter nudies were located.

by Anonymousreply 75December 3, 2022 12:56 AM

R73 The Biden campaign team making requests if that is what it is isn't going to fly as legally constituting 'the government'.

by Anonymousreply 76December 3, 2022 1:01 AM

You all think this is a joke. It's not. The world just blew up.

That useless, piece of shit, Hunter Biden is going to be the downfall of America. He truly ruins every single thing he touches.

Trump is going to get away with everything. I guarantee you the republicans already have a hearing scheduled. They'll be up all weekend planning and plotting. They're going to keep the democrats so busy, they won't be able to get anything done.

I could honestly see the republicans try to bring this to the Supreme Court and have them rule on this / overturn the election. And we all know how they'll rule.

by Anonymousreply 77December 3, 2022 1:04 AM

[quote] I could honestly see the republicans try to bring this to the Supreme Court and have them rule on this / overturn the election. And we all know how they'll rule.

Oh, honey, that's not how the government works. At least not in America. Maybe in Russia, from where you are, but that's a whole different story...

by Anonymousreply 78December 3, 2022 1:06 AM

Musk just said he's is holding a Q & A on this tomorrow.

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by Anonymousreply 79December 3, 2022 1:07 AM

This time, definitely. For sure.

by Anonymousreply 80December 3, 2022 1:09 AM

This seems like an in-kind campaign donation.

by Anonymousreply 81December 3, 2022 1:09 AM

Loves that spotlight shining on his pasty ass

by Anonymousreply 82December 3, 2022 1:10 AM

What a giant nothing burger. I mean this supposed scandal, not Hunter's dick.

You're way out there in looney toon land, R77.

by Anonymousreply 83December 3, 2022 1:11 AM

Taibbi just tweeted:

It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.

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by Anonymousreply 84December 3, 2022 1:11 AM

[quote] You all think this is a joke. It's not. The world just blew up.

I don't think the American public is going to feel they have to vote Trump because of Hunter Biden.

by Anonymousreply 85December 3, 2022 1:12 AM

[quote] The world just blew up.

Your imaginary, QAnon-flavored world?

by Anonymousreply 86December 3, 2022 1:13 AM

It seems like the evidence Elon is pointing to is a request to review tweets that could violate TOS. Even IF this came from government, such a request is probably not 1A violation, right? Anyone know the legalities of this?

by Anonymousreply 87December 3, 2022 1:16 AM

[quote]You all think this is a joke. It's not. The world just blew up.

And yet we're still here.

The problem with this — beside it being pretty much a nothingburger — is that there's nothing than Dan and Dee Plorable can hang onto here besides repeating "The Laptop from HELL!". The rest is arcana.

[quote]That useless, piece of shit, Hunter Biden is going to be the downfall of America.

This earns you the rare Q-Anon "MARY!" badge.

by Anonymousreply 88December 3, 2022 1:16 AM

[quote]besides repeating "The Laptop from HELL!"

Which is what all of this seems to be about. The constant repetition of this laptop story. Dragging it back up, making a big thing of it. Repeat, repeat, just like with 'Hillary's emails'.

by Anonymousreply 89December 3, 2022 1:19 AM

Nothing to see here keep moving..

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by Anonymousreply 90December 3, 2022 1:19 AM

This seems like something that doesn’t mean jack shit to people who don’t live their lives on Twitter. Taibbi’s whole gripe boils down to grievance that some users and posts get more likes than him. Meanwhile gas is expensive, people are getting laid off left and right, and there’s a hot war in Europe. There are big potatoes and small potatoes in the world, and Hunter Biden’s stolen dick pics being suppressed on social media is definitely small potatoes.

Unfortunately this is going to be the number one focus of the Republican controlled congress for the next two years ago — some internet dork shit coupled with pearl clutching about long-dong Hunter doing coke and getting laid. Gym Jordan and Marjorie Cromagnon Green are going to stake their reputations on their idiotic assertion that Hunter’s dick pics are hastening the fall of civilization. Godspeed.

by Anonymousreply 91December 3, 2022 1:24 AM

Hunter Biden has one of the best dicks I've seen and I felt dirty in a bad way seeing it because it wasn't meant to be seen by me.

by Anonymousreply 92December 3, 2022 1:26 AM

[quote] Unfortunately this is going to be the number one focus of the Republican controlled congress for the next two years

less time GOP spend talking about the real issues people care about, the more they let Biden off the hook for the economy & employment

by Anonymousreply 93December 3, 2022 1:30 AM

Biden was a private citizen and not in government at the time of the request. He held no political office at the time. So nothing illegal happened.

by Anonymousreply 94December 3, 2022 1:33 AM

Nothingburger. Really the only interesting here is how Taibibi joins Greenwald in the Reactionary-Used-to-be Rational club.

The coming hearings in the Rep House will drag all this out, and drag it on and on... and get play in MAGA media, but for most of the country this a big yawn.

by Anonymousreply 95December 3, 2022 1:33 AM

Exactly, R93. Let them waste a couple of years on this nothingness while ignoring actual issues. It'll make for a great 2024 campaign. Haven't they learned anything from the red tsunami that wasn't?

by Anonymousreply 96December 3, 2022 1:34 AM

[quote]The coming hearings in the Rep House will drag all this out, and drag it on and on... and get play in MAGA media, but for most of the country this a big yawn.

Will it be as big a yawn that J6 was for most of the country, not as much, or more than that?

by Anonymousreply 97December 3, 2022 1:40 AM

Taibbi is a nepo baby who raped his way thro Russia and is now getting raped in kind. Hope it's worth it you bald bitch

by Anonymousreply 98December 3, 2022 1:41 AM

I do find it interesting that Taibbi studied, worked and lived in Russia for years. Might be nothing, of course.

by Anonymousreply 99December 3, 2022 1:43 AM

I'd suggest not leaving your parents' basement just yet, R97. I heard FBI is still arresting Jan 6 insurrectionists.

by Anonymousreply 100December 3, 2022 1:43 AM

This is such nonsense. Is there some huge story about to break that they need a distraction from?

by Anonymousreply 101December 3, 2022 1:43 AM

[quote] Might be nothing, of course.

Of course not. Just like us, he was there since he was researching Russian folk music.

by Anonymousreply 102December 3, 2022 1:46 AM

Taibbi and Musk say that part 2 is coming tomorrow.

by Anonymousreply 103December 3, 2022 1:47 AM

What - are they actually going to release the photos tomorrow?

Clowns.

by Anonymousreply 104December 3, 2022 1:51 AM

I'd settle for a photo of the laptop. Where exactly is it these days? Anybody know? Anybody?

Is it in that warehouse with the Arc of the Covenant?

by Anonymousreply 105December 3, 2022 1:52 AM

It seems like unusual timing, being a Friday night, for releasing bombshells like this. I imagine tomorrow's will be even bigger than today's.

by Anonymousreply 106December 3, 2022 1:53 AM

It's in Al Capone's vault.

by Anonymousreply 107December 3, 2022 1:54 AM

What’s the bombshell? They censored a penis?

by Anonymousreply 108December 3, 2022 1:55 AM

[quote] Twitter confessing to election interference on behalf of Biden is huge. No other tech companies have made that kind of confession of guilt before.

Yes. So huge. Much wow.

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by Anonymousreply 109December 3, 2022 2:03 AM

Censoring pics of a penis of that size and girth is criminal

by Anonymousreply 110December 3, 2022 2:05 AM

It's interesting because there's nothing illegal here (aside from, perhaps the DNC, but I don't know what those laws are) but the election was won right after this time period, so Elon is heavily implying that the Biden team continued doing this after they got in the White House, and that would be illegal.

Elon hasn't implicated anyone in any crime with this drop, but he has opened the floor for nonstop Congressional investigations into this WH's relationship with social media censorship. He's also given new life to all the "it was stolen!" trolls.

by Anonymousreply 111December 3, 2022 2:15 AM

R93 ... let Biden off the hook for matching the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years?

by Anonymousreply 112December 3, 2022 2:16 AM

R111 Well, Taibbi himself says that Trump's White House made requests too so I am thinking that it is probably legal for them to make requests for tweets to be reviewed but not legal for orders to be made. But I am not sure so I'd like that clarified.

by Anonymousreply 113December 3, 2022 2:18 AM

^ The relevant tweet

"@mtaibbi

10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:"

by Anonymousreply 114December 3, 2022 2:20 AM

This is all a giant nothing-burger.

by Anonymousreply 115December 3, 2022 2:21 AM

I don't know if President Biden is responsible for this but I am signing the papers for my dream job next week.

by Anonymousreply 116December 3, 2022 2:22 AM

Dear Lord in heaven!

by Anonymousreply 117December 3, 2022 2:23 AM

Fucking HUGE, r115. 🤤

by Anonymousreply 118December 3, 2022 2:23 AM

The 2020 election was stolen from Trump, because a majority fired him. The Republicans are trying to gin up all the fake belief that he got more votes on 2020 (which he didn’t). Lame. They can’t handle that they are a whiny minority.

by Anonymousreply 119December 3, 2022 2:24 AM

But is it worse than groomer drag queens? Which of these two crises will bring America down?

by Anonymousreply 120December 3, 2022 2:25 AM

r114 That request is about the fact that they banned the WH press secretary from twitter.

by Anonymousreply 121December 3, 2022 2:31 AM

R121 And you know that how? Was there only one request? Is it not also a request regardless of what it was? Strange comment.

by Anonymousreply 122December 3, 2022 2:34 AM

The drops include the relevant emails, r122.

by Anonymousreply 123December 3, 2022 2:35 AM

It's in the screenshots Taibbi posted.

by Anonymousreply 124December 3, 2022 2:36 AM

R123 What the requests were about is irrelevant anyway. It was still a White House request - that's the point.

by Anonymousreply 125December 3, 2022 2:37 AM

As a private company Twitter is allowed to choose whether they host Kayleigh McEnany on their platform or not. It would be a transgression of Twitter's 1A right to free speech to force them to unlock McEnany's account.

by Anonymousreply 126December 3, 2022 2:41 AM

Bullshit, r125 The White House asked for an employee to be reinstated. They weren't trying to get people cnesored and kicked off, which is what the Biden team was demanding.

by Anonymousreply 127December 3, 2022 2:41 AM

R127 Not how the law works.

by Anonymousreply 128December 3, 2022 2:42 AM

There is nothing improper. Twitter is a private company, not the government. They can make their own decisions. Like Mark Burnett and the Trump tapes.

by Anonymousreply 129December 3, 2022 2:45 AM

Does it matter, R128? Trump and JFK Jr will manifest it. Like when Trump magically declassified those documents just by thinking about it.

by Anonymousreply 130December 3, 2022 2:46 AM

To me this just shows Elon is a shit stirrer and a Russian tool. It’s pathetic.

by Anonymousreply 131December 3, 2022 2:48 AM

The cheese has started sliding off his cracker. Now, the scary part is that it's not some random frau on Q-Anon boards or some 8chan incel but the richest person in the world.

by Anonymousreply 132December 3, 2022 2:53 AM

R132 Yeah, I think this makes a huge case to at least break the monopolies of these oligarchs (for that's what they are). Whether it's Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google et al, they are too big and powerful.

by Anonymousreply 133December 3, 2022 2:58 AM

What does any of this have to do with Qanon? These are verified emails, not some crackpot conspiracy theory. Actual receipts are the opposite of theory. They are facts.

by Anonymousreply 134December 3, 2022 2:58 AM

Facts of what? What exactly do you think was improper?

by Anonymousreply 135December 3, 2022 3:00 AM

R134 And nothing illegal happened! But it's being promoted as a conspiracy and whipped up. It's a laptop with dick pics on it in the end.

by Anonymousreply 136December 3, 2022 3:01 AM

There's more to come tomorrow, and the House is going to investigate if these practices continued after the election. I sincerely doubt this all suddenly stopped just because there is an election. The house will hold hearings, Elon will hand over all the files they ask for, and at that point there could be a problem.

But you're right, r136. Nothing illegal in this drop that I can see.

by Anonymousreply 137December 3, 2022 3:08 AM

R137 There did actually look to be something illegal in this drop. I went and looked at the McEnany screenshot. And that looked like an outright demand from the White House. Not just a 'request' but a demand.

by Anonymousreply 138December 3, 2022 3:10 AM

A problem with what?

by Anonymousreply 139December 3, 2022 3:10 AM

You're one persistent little MAGA foot soldier, aren't you R134?

by Anonymousreply 140December 3, 2022 3:10 AM

Again, Twitter is a private company. Anyone can make a request. Stop falling for this BS.

by Anonymousreply 141December 3, 2022 3:11 AM

The boy thing that alarms me is that Elon is a right wing nut job.

by Anonymousreply 142December 3, 2022 3:13 AM

[quote] It seems like unusual timing, being a Friday night, for releasing bombshells like this. I imagine tomorrow's will be even bigger than today's.

It's only a "bombshell" in your little corner of Truth Social. Or Rumble. But diddle your little skittle in anticipation. I'm sure you're as perched as Don Jr and Kimbo are before their coke dealer shows up.

by Anonymousreply 143December 3, 2022 3:13 AM

^ only

by Anonymousreply 144December 3, 2022 3:14 AM

[quote] I think this makes a huge case to at least break the monopolies of these oligarchs (for that's what they are). Whether it's Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google et al, they are too big and powerful.

That could be another benefit from Musk revealing the corrupt practices of companies with this kind of power. The hearings could lead to legislation dealing with them, in addition to exposing corruption by the Bidens.

by Anonymousreply 145December 3, 2022 3:19 AM

Yawn. Another drive-by troll.

by Anonymousreply 146December 3, 2022 3:21 AM

No surprise that Cucker Carlson would be all over this. Must be jealous of Hunter's huge dong. Like father like son.

by Anonymousreply 147December 3, 2022 3:21 AM

All this because the Repugs' 2020 October Surprise flopped spectacularly and they just can't get over it.

by Anonymousreply 148December 3, 2022 3:21 AM

I forgot that the weekend has started and, with it, the usual swarm of right wing shit troll locusts.

by Anonymousreply 149December 3, 2022 3:22 AM

I believe the Trump family has the monopoly on corruption, but thanks for trying.

by Anonymousreply 150December 3, 2022 3:23 AM

Every troll on this thread is on my ignored list, meaning they've been trolling prior to this thread. These are not drive-by trolls. These are our regular trolls.

by Anonymousreply 151December 3, 2022 3:24 AM

Tucker Carlson Asked Hunter Biden for Help Getting His Son Into College—Leaked Email

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by Anonymousreply 152December 3, 2022 3:25 AM

[quote]No one saves voicemail messages to a computer. You save these messages on your phone.

Exactly right, voicemail and text data gets saved to the cloud, then someone hacks the cloud and downloads it to a laptop.

There's metadata on the laptop showing it's got some artifacts of iPhone data, so it clearly came from a phone.

by Anonymousreply 153December 3, 2022 3:26 AM

Also, hope none of you have any private DMs on Twitter, because Elon's clearly going through them all and could leak them for the lulz at any second. Enjoy.

by Anonymousreply 154December 3, 2022 3:27 AM

If they did this on this one topic, what other topics did they do this on?

Elon must be able to see everything.

by Anonymousreply 155December 3, 2022 3:28 AM

This is like Benghazi 2.0. Nobody is going to care.

by Anonymousreply 156December 3, 2022 3:30 AM

Don't click on his nudie pics and vids. They're Chinese virus sites- and I don't mean Covid.

by Anonymousreply 157December 3, 2022 3:31 AM

Elon dropped this as a warning to the Biden government not to fuck with him. Very carefully chooses to drop stuff which does not implicate them in anything illegal, but shows he also has stuff which likely was illegal on them.

Shot across the bow.

This means Apple will never, ever drop Twitter from the App store now. Among other things.

by Anonymousreply 158December 3, 2022 3:46 AM

HA HA HA

by Anonymousreply 159December 3, 2022 3:50 AM

[quote]Elon dropped this as a warning to the Biden government not to fuck with him. Very carefully chooses to drop stuff which does not implicate them in anything illegal, but shows he also has stuff which likely was illegal on them.

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by Anonymousreply 160December 3, 2022 3:52 AM

[quote] Elon dropped this as a warning to the Biden government not to fuck with him. Very carefully chooses to drop stuff which does not implicate them in anything illegal, but shows he also has stuff which likely was illegal on them.

If you only used that much creativity in what matters in life, you wouldn't be a sad incel unable to hold a job.

by Anonymousreply 161December 3, 2022 3:55 AM

Yes, if Elon's proven nothing else recently, it's that he's a strategic mastermind. You best hope Elon doesn't have the goods on you, cause he'll probably fire the guy who can access it and then wonder where the hell it went to.

by Anonymousreply 162December 3, 2022 3:55 AM

Extra, extra: Grown Son of Lifelong Politician is Fuckup!

What a scoop!

by Anonymousreply 163December 3, 2022 3:58 AM

Twitter is an echo chamber for idiots. No one who matters pays attention to it. Truly. No real academics, DC operatives, business people, or luminaries post their thoughts on Twitter.

You can corral and eliminate the morons and famewhores based on their Twitter status. And the people in charge know this. That's why he bought it.

It's a cattle feedlot. For advertising dollars. Like all social media.

by Anonymousreply 164December 3, 2022 4:01 AM

[Quote] The emails show that not only was the laptop genuine

And yet no one has seen the emails and no one has seen the laptop.

We know the laptop has been in a lot of hands, including Giuliani’s—who actually created files on the laptop.

The chain of custody is fishy as hell. Why would anyone trust anything about what “people are saying”?

by Anonymousreply 165December 3, 2022 4:13 AM

R152, Why the fuck would Carlson want a letter of recommendation for his son from Hunter??!!

by Anonymousreply 166December 3, 2022 4:15 AM

So you're still sticking with the "laptop was fake", r165?

Sorry, honey. That train left the station quite a while ago.

by Anonymousreply 167December 3, 2022 4:19 AM

I believe this is indeed an offence under the well-known Eastman-Giuliani-Powell Doctrine. Great legal minds of our time have spoken.

by Anonymousreply 168December 3, 2022 4:20 AM

Ben Collins is not a journalist.

by Anonymousreply 169December 3, 2022 4:40 AM

No, Ben Collins IS a journalist. Matt Taibbi is the one who is no longer a journalist. Thinking you have some "breaking news" about Hunter when all it is is fucking with a guy who had a drug problem and nudes on his laptop, will never get you a Pulitzer.

God, you fucking idiots who ignore the years of Trump corruption to obsess over THIS, are disgusting and despicable beyond words.

by Anonymousreply 170December 3, 2022 5:05 AM

Matt Taibbi is a propagandist/vatnik, along with his buddy Greenwald. I wouldn't call them journalists at this point, they are hired hands.

by Anonymousreply 171December 3, 2022 5:07 AM

[quote][R152], Why the fuck would Carlson want a letter of recommendation for his son from Hunter??!!

Because he's an elitist and figured having a connection to the VP would look good to a prestigious university. Tucker would rather eat shit than ever be around the trash who actually worship him. He'd rather be having dinner with the Bidens or the Clintons or the Obamas, than the troglodytes who make up most of his fanbase.

Tucker was the one who first gave Rachel Maddow her break. He may have gotten shittier and more cruel as he's gotten older, but he's always been an elitist. He would rather be at a cocktail party with an Ivy League liberal than the hick trash who think Olive Garden is high-end Italian cuisine.

by Anonymousreply 172December 3, 2022 5:11 AM

Is this story really that that the NY Post is angry that their October 2020 surprise - set up by Giuliani- with the “laptop with dirty Hunter pictures” was a bust? Do people really think that is an important story? Yikes.

by Anonymousreply 173December 3, 2022 5:12 AM

The Post is claiming that only half the files have been released and is demanding more.

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by Anonymousreply 174December 3, 2022 5:23 AM

Because his son wasn't smart enough to get into the school of his choice without assistance

by Anonymousreply 175December 3, 2022 5:28 AM

"Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you," a grateful Susie wrote. "Always!"

"I can't thank you enough for writing that letter to Georgetown on Bucky's behalf," Carlson later added. "So nice of you. I know it'll help. Hope you're great and we can all get dinner soon."

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by Anonymousreply 176December 3, 2022 5:33 AM

Conservatives rally around Tucker Carlson’s son Buckley amid nepotism allegations

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by Anonymousreply 177December 3, 2022 5:37 AM

Fox News is running this story as breaking news about how lib Twitter employees suppressing the truth. Not a work about the dick picks or it being revenge porn. They alwasy take a shred of a story and spin it into something entirely different.

by Anonymousreply 178December 3, 2022 5:38 AM

Have you notice Tucker Carson has been all over Hunter and Pete lately? Closet queen jealous he cant get good quality dick. He will have to settle for label queen Milo.

by Anonymousreply 179December 3, 2022 5:40 AM

MOAR TEN INCH DICK PIXXX

by Anonymousreply 180December 3, 2022 5:43 AM

Are we supposed to feel sorry for The New York Post? Who thinks up these lame strategies?

by Anonymousreply 181December 3, 2022 5:43 AM

Uh, Twitter is not DOJ. They are crazy.

by Anonymousreply 182December 3, 2022 5:45 AM

R70, has anyone asked dumbass Elon who from the TRUMP administration issued these "orders?"

Or has dumbass forgotten who was president for all of 2020?

by Anonymousreply 183December 3, 2022 5:47 AM

The Bidens are truly as corrupt as they come. Twitter tried to suppress this. Thanks to Elon Musk the dirt has been brought into the open.

by Anonymousreply 184December 3, 2022 5:48 AM

Is this the best they can do? Revive the laptop story from 2020? They seem obsessed with BIG DICKS!!!

by Anonymousreply 185December 3, 2022 5:48 AM

You can't suppress a magnificent ten inch cock. 🤤 its too good to be true

by Anonymousreply 186December 3, 2022 5:51 AM

A ten inch, ROCK HARD cock isn't dirty, its a rare object worthy of discussion and obsession and reverence.

by Anonymousreply 187December 3, 2022 5:53 AM

"Grown Son of Lifelong Politician is Fuckup!"

Actually he's a multi-millionaire, married, several kids, an artist and struggled valiantly out of addiction. I think he's tremendous.

What he needs to do is find some high-powered lawyers and sue everyone who stole his private property and exposed it to the world. For billions.

by Anonymousreply 188December 3, 2022 5:55 AM

The people who think this is all about dick pics have been keeping their head in the sand throughout this whole time and STILL don’t know what they’re talking about. There are messages and correspondence that tie Hunter and his father into influence peddling in foreign countries.

Whether or not that’s a deal breaker for you and your vote should be your decision, not that of private enterprise. Suppression of information before an election is a big deal.

And, again I don’t know why I’m the first person to say this two hundred posts in, but if you have an iCloud account and you sign into an Apple laptop with your account information, you can access all your saved voicemails, messages, photos, videos, etc. on your laptop without transferring anything. The old queens are embarrassing themselves with conspiracy theories of planted information.

by Anonymousreply 189December 3, 2022 5:56 AM

Trump literally used the DOJ like his own personal law firm and went after his perceived enemies. Used the IRS to go after McCabe and Comey. STOLE files he had no business taking, tried to overthrow the govt of the US because his petulant toddler ego couldn't handle losing and was prepared to have his cockroaches KILL MoC including his own VP to keep him in power, his parasitic cunt daughter and her parasitic cunt husband used the WH like a fucking piggy bank, they bilked the US taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars by price gouging at his properties, he's a rapist and sexually-assaulting pile of dogshit....but sure, the Biden people asking Twitter to remove the nude pictures of a PRIVATE citizen who had his laptop stolen, is the REAL problem the American people face.

I seriously think euthanizing every MAGAt is the only way to save humanity.

by Anonymousreply 190December 3, 2022 5:56 AM

R89 - just like the Trump Jan. 6 inquiry. Nothingburger.

by Anonymousreply 191December 3, 2022 5:57 AM

[quote]Which is what all of this seems to be about. The constant repetition of this laptop story. Dragging it back up, making a big thing of it. Repeat, repeat, just like with 'Hillary's emails'.

And what happened when the democrats were so busy with nonsense like her emails and all the hearings? They lost and Trump won. The republicans are going to waste so much of the democrat's time with similar bullshit. The democrats won't be able to get anything done. The next two years will be wasted on this nonsense. And all because of that useless, piece of shit, junkie, hunter biden, who doesn't have a ounce of shame.

by Anonymousreply 192December 3, 2022 5:58 AM

Un huh

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by Anonymousreply 193December 3, 2022 5:58 AM

Donald Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, National Archives says

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by Anonymousreply 194December 3, 2022 6:00 AM

[quote]There are messages and correspondence that tie Hunter and his father into influence peddling in foreign countries.

No one gives a shit hearing about it from assholes who defend the Trump family who did far worse. And perhaps if YOU were paying attention, you asshole, you'd know the US Atty in Delaware was already looking into Hunter Biden. They're looking into his tax filings which would show where his money is coming from, but it seems MAGAts think nothing short of murdering Democrats they view as all being guilty of whatever deranged shit pops into your heads, is the only outcome you're willing to accept.

by Anonymousreply 195December 3, 2022 6:00 AM

R192, just like the left blew two years of total control of the House, Senate, White House, media, and tech on the Capitol Riots.

by Anonymousreply 196December 3, 2022 6:01 AM

[quote]There are messages and correspondence that tie Hunter and his father into influence peddling in foreign countries.

Ah, nope.

by Anonymousreply 197December 3, 2022 6:02 AM

IT is adjusting ITS arguments in real-time

by Anonymousreply 198December 3, 2022 6:02 AM

What a stupid fucking post, R196. Of course you think nothing of the white terrorist trash who tried to overthrow the govt. Meanwhile, make it *one* "Antifa" or BLM or a Muslim so much as breaking one window and you'd call for a round up. Fuck you, terrorist-enabling trash.

by Anonymousreply 199December 3, 2022 6:04 AM

Im accessing my old photos right now from my icloud account.

My images aren't stored locally on my laptop.

You are lying. Again.

by Anonymousreply 200December 3, 2022 6:05 AM

[quote]The democrats won't be able to get anything done. The next two years will be wasted on this nonsense. And all because of that useless, piece of shit, junkie, hunter biden, who doesn't have a ounce of shame.

Honey, no. A real American would know that the onus is now on the Republican led house to get shit done. Democrats don’t control the house anymore. They have the senate and the democrats in the senate don’t give a flying fuck about this shit.

by Anonymousreply 201December 3, 2022 6:06 AM

They have looked at Hunter up and down. It’s a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden is somehow going to be harmed by his son. Let it go.

by Anonymousreply 202December 3, 2022 6:09 AM

the Republicans really haven't learned a fucking thing from election day, have they? And the only reason they even got the house was the fucked up gerrymandering NY and CA.

by Anonymousreply 203December 3, 2022 6:09 AM

[quote]Im accessing my old photos right now from my icloud account. My images aren't stored locally on my laptop.

That’s the only thing I agree with Boris about. It’s not unusual to store phone data locally, especially if you’re concerned about your sensitive data being hacked, which, as we know has happened before.

by Anonymousreply 204December 3, 2022 6:10 AM

what are you talking about.

Hunters mobile phone wasn't hacked. It was stolen and the data transferred to a laptop mysteriously found in a repair shop.

by Anonymousreply 205December 3, 2022 6:14 AM

R200, are you signed into iCloud? You should be able to click on Messages and Photos and get all that information.

by Anonymousreply 206December 3, 2022 6:16 AM

[quote]Trump literally used the DOJ like his own personal law firm and went after his perceived enemies. Used the IRS to go after McCabe and Comey. STOLE files he had no business taking, tried to overthrow the govt of the US because his petulant toddler ego couldn't handle losing and was prepared to have his cockroaches KILL MoC including his own VP to keep him in power, his parasitic cunt daughter and her parasitic cunt husband used the WH like a fucking piggy bank, they bilked the US taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars by price gouging at his properties, he's a rapist and sexually-assaulting pile of dogshit....but sure, the Biden people asking Twitter to remove the nude pictures of a PRIVATE citizen who had his laptop stolen, is the REAL problem the American people face.

You're not getting it. Yes, Trump did all that stuff. And the democrats let him get away with all those things. They didn't bother trying get a cogent message across. They just sat back and let it happen. They couldn't be bothered trying to fight back.

I FUCKING KNEW the repugs would do something like this and the democrats needed to start investigating Trump for the insurrection on DAY ONE. Merrick Garland just started investigating trump a few months ago. SHAMEFUL.

If the situations were reversed, the republicans would have rounded up all the democratic politicians and had them arrested.

So now we will have 2 years of around the clock bullshit about hunter's laptop. It will be 10,000 times worse than Bill Clinton's blowjob ever was. This is ALL the media will cover

I guarantee you the republicans already have a reason or two to try and impeach the president.

The republicans constantly do the most despicable things, because the democrats continue to let them get away with every type of crime for over 50 years.

by Anonymousreply 207December 3, 2022 6:17 AM

I didn’t say it was hacked, r206. I said people don’t always use their ICloud to store sensitive data because of the hacks in the past.

by Anonymousreply 208December 3, 2022 6:18 AM

The phone was stolen and the data uploaded to a laptop mysteriously found in the parking lot of the Four Seasons Landscaping Group, across the street from a crematorium and next door to an adult gift shop

by Anonymousreply 209December 3, 2022 6:22 AM

[quote]So now we will have 2 years of around the clock bullshit about hunter's laptop. It will be 10,000 times worse than Bill Clinton's blowjob ever was. This is ALL the media will cover

Honey, people are angry about politicians not getting shit done. We’re angry that corporations are using inflation as a cover to raise prices; we’re angry about taxes, a looming recession and the loss of civil rights. Let congress focus on nothing but the laptop for 2 years…it means they’re going to face an even angrier electorate in 2 years.

[quote]I guarantee you the republicans already have a reason or two to try and impeach the president.

So? As we’ve come to learn that without the backing of the senate, impeachment is pretty meaningless.

by Anonymousreply 210December 3, 2022 6:24 AM

[quote]So now we will have 2 years of around the clock bullshit about hunter's laptop. It will be 10,000 times worse than Bill Clinton's blowjob ever was. This is ALL the media will cover

On the plus side, instead of talking about stanky cigar in Monica's gash, we can talk about Hunters thick beautiful cock. It's going to make some Repugs and Tucker very jealous. I predict Truck will be the first to get on it. Pun intended.

by Anonymousreply 211December 3, 2022 6:27 AM

Hunter Biden for President 2028 !

Big Dick Energy!

by Anonymousreply 212December 3, 2022 6:30 AM

Jim Jordan hasn't been this hard since the locker rooms at OSU.

by Anonymousreply 213December 3, 2022 6:31 AM

Miss Lindsey Graham wants her own private copy to um, cough, cough, study. 😍❤️💕

by Anonymousreply 214December 3, 2022 6:37 AM

[quote]has anyone asked dumbass Elon who from the TRUMP administration issued these "orders?"

This is all because President Biden wouldn't invite Elon Musk to the White House, but he invited all the other electric vehicle manufacturers. It embarrassed him and hurt his feelings. That was very stupid of President Biden. This is not some conspiracy with Trump. Although Musk is very much like Trump. They both have the mentalities of 10 year old spoiled brats.

Biden thought Musk would say or do something embarrassing. How hilariously ironic is that? Biden has the most embarrassing fuck up for a son. In the next two years every single person in America over the age of 3 is going to hear about Hunter Biden's penis.

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by Anonymousreply 215December 3, 2022 6:41 AM

Several things may be true:

1. Hunter is sleazy.

2. The Biden campaign request that Twitter take down the pics, and they complied.

3. Biden was not President and thus was not abusing his power, and Twitter was a private company and did not have to comply with the request. No laws were broken.

4. Hunter may have tried to sell influence/access. There's no evidence that there actually WAS access. Go back to point 1.

5. This story is less than nothing.

6. We know that Fox and the Trump campaign colluded on coverage. What's the difference? There is none.

Christ, even I saw the dick pics here on DL. The Biden campaign did a really shitty job "scrubbing" them.

by Anonymousreply 216December 3, 2022 6:44 AM

Just a little FYI, Tesla manufactures 74% of all electric vehicles in this country. And Biden didn't want him at the white house for the big Electric vehicle summit.

Musk complained and whined about it for over a year. He has so many trump qualities. He also has no problem tearing down the entire country

by Anonymousreply 217December 3, 2022 6:46 AM

And

7. Musk is a troll in the vein of Trump. I'm thankful that he's not a natural born citizen and thus cannot run for president, because the fucktards would surely vote for him.

by Anonymousreply 218December 3, 2022 6:46 AM

I saw the pics and can't forget those images if a man. In his prime.

by Anonymousreply 219December 3, 2022 6:48 AM

You are right R216. But the democrats will never be able to get the points you made in your post across to the American public. The media is salivating over this whole sordid mess. It will be Hunter's dick, nonstop for the next 2 years

Watch CNN try to outdo Fox News. Just WATCH.

by Anonymousreply 220December 3, 2022 6:49 AM

Of a man. In his prime.

by Anonymousreply 221December 3, 2022 6:50 AM

The nypost has devoted yet another front page to the magnificence of a ten inch penis, remarkable in its size and solid state.

Take a good look at the image.

It is a selfie, taken with a mobile phone. That data? Was removed from his mobile phone. Not a laptop.

by Anonymousreply 222December 3, 2022 6:59 AM

Matt is strangely, oddly sexy. The sum of his ugly parts should not be, but here we are.

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by Anonymousreply 223December 3, 2022 7:03 AM

[quote]This is all because President Biden wouldn't invite Elon Musk to the White House, but he invited all the other electric vehicle manufacturers. It embarrassed him and hurt his feelings. That was very stupid of President Biden

That's not what happened. Tesla was already producing electric vehicles. The summit was for the gas guzzling American manufactures to twist their arms with a carrot and stick to start doing the same. Tax incentives, charging stations etc. But Elon being such a self absorbed little child cant understand such nuance. He's butt hurt and whines like a little baby because he fells left out. But this meeting was about reducing emission, last time I checked Tesla's dont have a tailpipe.

by Anonymousreply 224December 3, 2022 7:09 AM

R224, that may be, but the Musk Rat was still upset about not being invited. And he whined about for over a year.

And now, here we are.

by Anonymousreply 225December 3, 2022 7:15 AM

He has such a nice penis. The shape!

by Anonymousreply 226December 3, 2022 7:16 AM

This Hunter thing is going to backfire. Straight people are eventually going to be just as curious about Hunter's dick picks as the DL. Going to be a lot of talk about dick size for the next 2 years.

The tiny penis brigade will be the ones who speak up the most. Looking at you Tucker Carlson.

by Anonymousreply 227December 3, 2022 7:20 AM

And the size and its strong looking

by Anonymousreply 228December 3, 2022 7:20 AM

I would rather see thousand of Hunter's dick picks everyday than what we endured with Milania for 4 fucking years. Just saying.

by Anonymousreply 229December 3, 2022 7:22 AM

I find Matt sexier than Hunter. Hunter is gross and disgusting. Matt seems clean. He's a quarter Asian you know and I prefer mixed race guys. Team Matt here.

As for the labtop/Twitter thing I'll wait to decide once everything is out and settled. And I most certainly will not be deciding on the basis of troll opinions on DL!

by Anonymousreply 230December 3, 2022 8:35 AM

"Having Taibbi post this allegedly groundbreaking reportage on a Friday night is just a perfect microcosm of how inept Musk is when he's winging it. Anyone who's spent any time around media or PR knows that Friday is the night you drop stories that you want to be buried, because people are already tuned out for the weekend."

by Anonymousreply 231December 3, 2022 8:45 AM

[quote]Or has dumbass forgotten who was president for all of 2020?

If you've seen his comments then it's clear that he absolutely HAS forgotten who was president in 2020. He's really dumb, I don't think most people expected him to be THIS dumb. Maybe he used to be smarter and the drugs are taking their toll, he's in his 50s now and cognitive decline from drugs or alcohol is not unheard of in men his age.

by Anonymousreply 232December 3, 2022 9:06 AM

Obnoxious bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 233December 3, 2022 9:26 AM

[quote] There are messages and correspondence that tie Hunter and his father into influence peddling in foreign countries.

Those have been bad enough already, but the Congressional investigation will work to flesh it out further with witnesses and whistleblowers. I don’t think Joe Biden’s participation in and profiting from his son’s corrupt business deals will cause impeachment by itself, but it may be tacked on as part of a package of offenses.

by Anonymousreply 234December 3, 2022 11:40 AM

[Quote] So you're still sticking with the "laptop was fake", [R165]?

Sure, the laptop is real. How all that stuff got on the laptop is a big question. If all those (not yet seen by any journalist) emails got on that laptop is a big question. If any docs were created to make it look incriminating is a big question

by Anonymousreply 235December 3, 2022 11:57 AM

The whole point of the Hunter Biden hearing will be to try to link it to Joe Biden so they can impeach him for something.

by Anonymousreply 236December 3, 2022 11:57 AM

[quote] I don’t think Joe Biden’s participation in and profiting from his son’s corrupt business deals will cause impeachment by itself, but it may be tacked on as part of a package of offenses.

You actually need evidence of that.

by Anonymousreply 237December 3, 2022 11:57 AM

R236, that “make sure the big guy gets 10%” line will come up again.

by Anonymousreply 238December 3, 2022 12:02 PM

[Quote] I don’t think Joe Biden’s participation in and profiting from his son’s corrupt business deals will cause impeachment by itself, but it may be tacked on as part of a package of offenses.

Plus all those murders Joe committed and children he molested

by Anonymousreply 239December 3, 2022 12:05 PM

[quote] that “make sure the big guy gets 10%” line will come up again

Try that argument out in a court of law, see how far that takes you.

by Anonymousreply 240December 3, 2022 12:06 PM

Last night, Friday, December 2, FUCKER CARLSON and his show and appearing on his show the usual suspects of loons, nutjobs, assholes and those were their skeletons in the closet, were LITERALLY GOING APESHIT ON THIS!

THE BIDEN ADMINSTRATION IS EVIL, CENSORSHIP, ILLEGALITY, CONTROLLING MEDIA, AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON!

by Anonymousreply 241December 3, 2022 12:08 PM

FUN FACT: Back in 1975, I lived in a Framingham, MA apartment complex and Matt’s father, television reporter Mike Taibbi, was my neighbor.

by Anonymousreply 242December 3, 2022 12:09 PM

The only thing this non-scandal has done is remind me just how much I want Hunter Biden’s big cock deep inside me.

by Anonymousreply 243December 3, 2022 12:15 PM

A WaPo analysis settles on “The Big Guy” not being Joe Biden but Jim Biden (his brother, maybe?)

by Anonymousreply 244December 3, 2022 12:28 PM

I saw Matt Taibbi at the height of his journalistic fame just before the Obama 1st inauguration at Union Station in DC. He was tall and pretty hot—I swear he cruised me but now I doubt myself because of the tales of him and the ladies

by Anonymousreply 245December 3, 2022 12:31 PM

r77 The world did not blow up. Republicans, Russians and their servants like Elon have been pushing this bullshit for years and nobody but other Republican assholes care.

Hunter is a mess. He's been a mess since he suffered brain damage in an accident that killed his mother. He's suffered through addiction problems. He lost a brother. He is emotionally scarred.

And Republicans are using that damaged, suffering individual to try to sully his father, a good and decent man.

Republicans are lower than scum and are not going to win any votes with this. They're just going to get more people to see how truly despicable they are.

by Anonymousreply 246December 3, 2022 12:50 PM

CAN ANYONE post Hunter's dick pics, I saw them once, but that was it, and i'm too worried about going to sites with viruses and all....

by Anonymousreply 247December 3, 2022 1:01 PM

I realize it’s all camp and pretense but I can’t get over how anyone can find a drug addicted mess sexy.

Matt Taibbi is so much more interesting looking and sexy in his own way.

by Anonymousreply 248December 3, 2022 1:05 PM

R248 Matt Taibbi was/is a drug addict himself (heroin).

by Anonymousreply 249December 3, 2022 1:11 PM

I get the impression Taibbi has been recovered for some time. From his IG he seems to have a loving relationship with his children and a stable family life.

Where is Hunter in his recovery? What’s his personal life like?y

by Anonymousreply 250December 3, 2022 1:21 PM

R250, Hunter’s married and has a kid, right?

He was holding a kid at the inauguration

by Anonymousreply 251December 3, 2022 1:23 PM

Does anyone really ever recover from heroin addiction?

by Anonymousreply 252December 3, 2022 1:23 PM

R250 Can I show you some pics of Chris Watts and his loving relationship with his family?

by Anonymousreply 253December 3, 2022 1:24 PM

R253, Yes, please.

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by Anonymousreply 254December 3, 2022 1:43 PM

Hunter just seemed cool to me like a guy I'd want to be buddies with. We wouldn't talk much, I'd only call him when I really wanted to burn down the town. We could comb through the hairs of his carpet together looking for specks of coke. Sounds fun!

by Anonymousreply 255December 3, 2022 1:43 PM

Hunter!

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by Anonymousreply 256December 3, 2022 1:45 PM

Look, if it wasn't this, then it would have been something else. They were always going to find *something* and blow it up, because that's what they do.

by Anonymousreply 257December 3, 2022 2:00 PM

R250 see R26 re: Taibbi

by Anonymousreply 258December 3, 2022 2:04 PM

No one seems to care about Taibbi's big "discovery" outside of right wing Twitter.

Which fits in perfectly with their narrative about the "Deep State" so they are thrilled.

by Anonymousreply 259December 3, 2022 2:05 PM

Richmond faggot trying to rile up the right wing loonies....

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by Anonymousreply 260December 3, 2022 2:27 PM

🤔

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by Anonymousreply 261December 3, 2022 2:29 PM

Getting just the responses she was fishing for:

[quote]Kathy Hoffarth Pantele - Now we need to know who the SCOTUS leaked was, and who was on Epstein Island.

[quote]Craig McLendon - It’s why I don’t have confidence in our elections anymore.

[quote]Bill Finch - I want my president back. NOW!!

[quote]Barbara Becker - And now to find a DOJ that is not as corrupt as the current administration…

[quote]Thomas Lee Gilsdorf - Democrats "whatever it takes to win". Republicans assume that everyone is playing by the same rules.

[quote]Carl Gouldman - We just heard the tip of it , wait until people really learn what the chinavirus was really about . Maybe the brain washed 🐑🐑 will wake up . The government is 100% corrupt

[quote]Donna Foster - You know, this may crack the door on election fraud, if republican leaders dig just a bit more.

[quote]Sandra Koll - Oh no it’s OK because they’re democratic liberals and we’re all supposed to bow down and obey them. Didn’t you know that? We’re all a bunch of sheep.  now go get your booster Covid vaccination m!🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[quote]Cheryl Lynn Dunlevy - Arrest everyone involved for sedition and treason.

[quote]Duane Prince Jr. - Democrat is just another word for retard

by Anonymousreply 262December 3, 2022 2:31 PM

" ... among Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump, the ability to post Hunter Biden’s cock shots on Twitter is the number-one issue in America this weekend. They believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy.

I truly, truly wish I were joking."

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by Anonymousreply 263December 3, 2022 2:32 PM

Shouldn’t the title of the article be “Russia linked sex-pest insists posting revenge porn is constitutional right?”

by Anonymousreply 264December 3, 2022 2:36 PM

I saw someone I used to follow for a different reason - before I couldn't take any more of his right-wing digressions and unfollowed - respond to one of Elon's fire breathing tweets about this with a rabid "we need people IN PRISONS, investigations, etc.!!" and I'm like, aren't you Canadian?

by Anonymousreply 265December 3, 2022 2:36 PM

Didn't go through the whole thread but.... wasn't Taibbi once considered a good journalist? When did he become another Musk mouthpiece? I seem to remember some good pieces Taibbi wrote many years ago.

by Anonymousreply 266December 3, 2022 2:45 PM

What is ridiculous about all this is that it must be all Republicans have. Where are their policy plans on inflation, gas prices, building the economy, and infrastructure? If all they're going to do for the next 2 years is investigate Hunter then, as a party, they are completely out of ideas. I often complain about Democrats not focusing enough on kitchen table issues, but if your sole focus is on an unelected person's laptop and dick picks (some states have anti-revenge porn laws, asking Twitter to remove illegally obtained explicit photos is not some smoking gun) what is the point of you being in DC?

by Anonymousreply 267December 3, 2022 2:51 PM

[quote] wasn't Taibbi once considered a good journalist?

Yes, but his innate contrarianism and easy Republican money took over.

by Anonymousreply 268December 3, 2022 2:57 PM

this is a personal matter and worst of all, the offspring of POTUS is being blackmailed.

by Anonymousreply 269December 3, 2022 3:14 PM

He's bought way, way, way into the Both Sides Do It frame, also r268. He NEEDS to believe that Democrats are as corrupt as the Trump Cult. They just aren't. Trump has been a complete con artist and grifter all his life, and the Republicans loved and worshiped him and didn't care about that for five seconds. The idea that the exact same thing is happening with Biden is just going to fall flat, despite Taibbi's religious belief that it JUST HAS TO BE TRUE!

by Anonymousreply 270December 3, 2022 3:37 PM

Hunter’s dick pics have provided much pleasure to many.

by Anonymousreply 271December 3, 2022 4:20 PM

I live to give, r271

by Anonymousreply 272December 3, 2022 4:23 PM

Taibbi has always been a Russian asset.

by Anonymousreply 273December 3, 2022 5:24 PM

Now Trump is saying we must suspend the Constitution because of Hunter Biden’s laptop and Twitter’s internal moderation process in 2020.

I am not making this up.

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by Anonymousreply 274December 3, 2022 5:47 PM

One of the many, many, many occasions when the only reasonable thing is for all of America to shout in unison: Shut the Fuck Up, Donnie!

by Anonymousreply 275December 3, 2022 5:51 PM

As much as this is all bullshit, I'm hoping that more attention is paid to Taibbi's point about THE WHITE HOUSE asking Twitter to delete posts critical of Trump. If it was THE WHITE HOUSE, that is the government which makes it a violation of the First Amendment.

Biden's campaign broke no laws. Trump's broke literally the first and most important law in America.

The whole story just backfired in the Republicans' faces.

by Anonymousreply 276December 3, 2022 6:48 PM

If your ex steals your mobile phones and decides to put your nekkid pics up on Facebook and you contact Facebook to get the images scrubbed, that ain't censorship.

by Anonymousreply 277December 3, 2022 6:56 PM

In therapy, you can be encouraged to write your feelings down in a journal.

If your ex, steals your journal, digitizes the pages and puts your data up on Facebook without permission and you contact Facebook to get the data removed, that ain't censorship.

by Anonymousreply 278December 3, 2022 7:00 PM

The media is running with the Hunter Biden Laptop narrative and after seeing images of the victims massive appendage, I can understand their interest.

What the media won't ask is how images and voicemail recordings stored on a private citizens personal property became public.

That diary? How did they get it?

by Anonymousreply 279December 3, 2022 7:06 PM

The Hunter Biden scandal is a private citizen has been completely doxxed and had his personal data disseminated and weaponized in their ongoing battle against American Democracy.

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by Anonymousreply 280December 3, 2022 7:12 PM

James Woods is ranting like a lunatic that his tweets of Hunter's Junk were suppressed.

[quote] This post is rated three Boeberts and a Hershel for how stupid it is

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by Anonymousreply 281December 3, 2022 7:14 PM

The REAL Hunter Biden scandal is a private citizen has been completely doxxed and had his personal data, STOLEN, SOLD, disseminated and weaponized in their ongoing battle against American Democracy

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by Anonymousreply 282December 3, 2022 7:18 PM

Maga has no arguments against wearing a facemask when they are being ARRESTED..

by Anonymousreply 283December 3, 2022 7:26 PM

[quote]Didn't go through the whole thread but.... wasn't Taibbi once considered a good journalist?

He was. Then he moved to Russia.

Funny how that works.

by Anonymousreply 284December 3, 2022 7:28 PM

The only thing I can think of that would make this more "interesting" would be if Perry Greene posted photos or video from any number of MTG's affairs.

Then we would really see how MAGA feels about revenge porn.

by Anonymousreply 285December 3, 2022 7:30 PM

I don't think humanity is prepared for pictures of MTG's dick.

by Anonymousreply 286December 3, 2022 7:31 PM

No, Taibbi was considered good long after he worked in Russia. He did a lot of good, savage reporting on the banks and the 2008 crisis and its aftermath. He's kind of dwindled now into this blinkered hair-splitter, the sort of easily refuted contrarian you'd think he would have once ridiculed.

He used to be kind of cute, too.

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by Anonymousreply 287December 3, 2022 7:39 PM

Isn’t it weird that all these people go running off to Russia—lots of Republicans especially

by Anonymousreply 288December 3, 2022 7:50 PM

[quote] While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, an insular community of MAGA activists and online contrarians led by the world’s richest man (for now) were getting riled up about a cache of leaked emails revealing that the former actor James Woods and Chinese troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos of Hunter Biden’s hog on a private company’s microblogging platform 25 months ago.

[quote] Now if you are one of the normals—someone who would never think about posting another person’s penis on your social media account; has no desire to see politicians’ kids’ penises when scrolling social media; doesn’t understand why there are other people out there who care one way or another about the moderation policies surrounding stolen penis photos; or can’t even figure out what it is that I’m talking about—then this might seem like a gratuitous matter for an article. Sadly, it is not.

[quote] Because among Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump, the ability to post Hunter Biden’s cock shots on Twitter is the number-one issue in America this weekend. They believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy.

[quote] I truly, truly wish I were joking.

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[quote] And that’s the big hubbub. Social media company removes unwanted dick pics: News at 11.

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[quote] Musk and Taibbi have promised more editions of the “Twitter Files” in the coming days, maybe next time they won’t come up so limp.

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by Anonymousreply 289December 3, 2022 7:58 PM

Should have been more specific: Taibbi fucked underage girls in Russia.

Which may explain why he's spent so much time licking Putin's taint, not to mention the MAGA shit.

by Anonymousreply 290December 3, 2022 8:09 PM

R237, if there is any evidence, hunter biden has it on that laptop. I have never seen anyone record their entire life on their phone/computer. What little he didn't record, he wrote about. His big mouth is going to get him & his dad in big trouble, maybe even arrested. God, he is without a doubt, a supreme fuck up. He's toxic waste

And when this stupid ass realized the republicans had the computer, he should have hired the best tax attorney & criminal attorney and settled with the IRS.

by Anonymousreply 291December 3, 2022 8:14 PM

R191 "big trouble"....Friend, none of this matters to 80% of the country.

by Anonymousreply 292December 3, 2022 8:18 PM

It's a damn good thing that nobody planted data on this magic laptop, so we all can be 100% certain the leaked data is real...

by Anonymousreply 293December 3, 2022 8:19 PM

[quote] none of this matters to 80% of the country.

...and the other 20%...?

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by Anonymousreply 294December 3, 2022 8:24 PM

[quote] for fuck's sake, no one outside of the wingnut outrage-industrial complex gives one chicken-fried fuck about Hunter Biden. stop it already, you sound like a sad idiot

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by Anonymousreply 295December 3, 2022 8:30 PM

Any Congressional investigation of the son, a provate citizen with known substance abuse issues, etc., will only backfire, and only help Joe Biden in 2024. Seriously? They're doing the people's work? Idiot GOP keeps digging its own electoral grave. Good. Die, bunch of cunts.

by Anonymousreply 296December 3, 2022 9:00 PM

Can someone post the penis again? We all know how amazing it is.

by Anonymousreply 297December 3, 2022 9:16 PM

R297, See R256.

by Anonymousreply 298December 3, 2022 9:26 PM

[quote] Just to give you a better idea of the kind of person @elonmusk turned to for his #twitterfiles thread, here’s a page from @mtaibbi ’s memoir that I’m not even going to describe. Just read it. This is what Elon and the Republican Party are. “Deplorable” was always far too kind.

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by Anonymousreply 299December 3, 2022 9:47 PM

R298 👍 Man he is hot down there.

by Anonymousreply 300December 3, 2022 9:48 PM

Musk is on a public group Q & A call right now and said the

1. The next drops are down to Matt Taibbi and - interestingly - Bari Weiss (former NY Times)

2. They will be about what happened AFTER the election

by Anonymousreply 301December 3, 2022 10:03 PM

^^^He also says he think Hunter seems like "a fun guy" and that this is not about Hunter. It's about how the Twitter employees handled a pre-election story of "this magnitude".

by Anonymousreply 302December 3, 2022 10:05 PM

^^^ he says there are some amazing people at twitter, and that there are "amazing people who left in the last few years as it descended into [couldn't understand]" who he hopes will come back now that he's "righting the ship"

by Anonymousreply 303December 3, 2022 10:07 PM

He is deleting Twitter just as he was instructed to.

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by Anonymousreply 304December 3, 2022 10:23 PM

crazy that he's so pussywhipped by that ex. She's basically the driver behind this and his new views.

by Anonymousreply 305December 3, 2022 10:27 PM

He's saying that buying twitter was not a sudden decision, but had been building for some time as he saw increasing "groupthink" and "toeing the line" among media companies and his concern was rising for a few years. He says he would have bought it sooner than he did if he could have. "My biological neuronet said 'it's important to buy twitter' and that if twitter was not bought and steered in a good direction it would be a danger for the future of human civilisation."

by Anonymousreply 306December 3, 2022 10:29 PM

^^^ From the live Q & A right now

by Anonymousreply 307December 3, 2022 10:30 PM

Musk and Riley married and divorced two times. And are still in contact.

by Anonymousreply 308December 3, 2022 10:31 PM

What he's saying doesn't make sense.

A citizen who is a victim of revenge porn deserves to have those images scrubbed from a website.

by Anonymousreply 309December 3, 2022 10:32 PM

[quote]My biological neuronet said 'it's important to buy twitter'

Translation: My dick said it's important to buy twitter.

by Anonymousreply 310December 3, 2022 10:32 PM

r309 I completely agree. Twitter had to be sued several times I believe) by revenge porn victims after refusing requests to take them down.

But that was under the previous ownership.

by Anonymousreply 311December 3, 2022 10:35 PM

There's a bs poll over on MSN com regarding Twitter. 150,000 people participated in it, most people don't have a Twitter account.

by Anonymousreply 312December 3, 2022 10:36 PM

He says he is adamantly not a Republican, but favours a mixture of parties in control at any given time because it promotes moderate politics. He says he is "fanatically moderate".

by Anonymousreply 313December 3, 2022 10:38 PM

Hes a Boer in every sense of the word and needs to fuck off back to his native land

by Anonymousreply 314December 3, 2022 10:39 PM

^ He's lying.

by Anonymousreply 315December 3, 2022 10:39 PM

He says Taibbi knows far more about what's in the remaining files than he does, and that he is focussing on "getting twitter healthy".

He says he has handed them over to Taibbi who is working with Bari Weiss and that he has barely read them.

"If there's something the publish should know about, we'll put out there" and has told Taibbi and Weiss that they have full discretion as they go through the "many thousands of files".

"Once we think all the critical stories have been told, we will provide a public data dump so people can check us and find anything that may have been missed"

by Anonymousreply 316December 3, 2022 10:44 PM

^^^ the public

by Anonymousreply 317December 3, 2022 10:44 PM

[quote]He says he is "fanatically moderate".

Everyone can tell this just simply is not true. Who does he think he's fooling? Fanatically moderate CEOs are those who don't push political views, who have sensible moderation policies and don't tolerate extremes on either side.

by Anonymousreply 318December 3, 2022 10:47 PM

In its previous iteration, Twitter was a moderate platform and this infuriated extremist white wingers.

by Anonymousreply 319December 3, 2022 10:57 PM

Elon Musk dated Amber Heard after her divorce from Johnny Depp.

by Anonymousreply 320December 3, 2022 11:02 PM

Musk looks like a character in a bad movie and the mustache twirling villain faces he makes are unintentionally hilarious.

by Anonymousreply 321December 3, 2022 11:09 PM

Taibibi is an old school leftie journo, one of the very few non bought and paid for ones working. Seriously.

by Anonymousreply 322December 3, 2022 11:20 PM

R322 Maybe once upon a time but not anymore when he's being used as a PR man for Elon Musk to rehash tawdry and cheap propaganda on behalf of the Republican Party. Nothing new was learnt since all of this has already been gone over in a congressional hearing over a year ago and it has been presented in a biased way.

by Anonymousreply 323December 3, 2022 11:23 PM

Washington Post, December 3, 2022

"Current and former federal officials are warning that a surge in hate speech and disinformation about Jews on Twitter is uniting and popularizing some of the same extremists who have helped push people to engage in violent protests including the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.

The officials are predicting that Twitter will contribute to more violence in the months ahead, citing the proliferation of extreme content, including support for genocidal Nazis by celebrities with wide followings and the reemergence of QAnon proselytizers and white nationalists.

Since billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk bought Twitter just over a month ago, he has slashed more than half the staff, including most of the people who made judgment calls about what counts as impermissible slurs against religious or ethnic groups.

Musk announced a broad amnesty for most previously banned accounts and has personally interacted with fringe activists and white nationalists on the site in the weeks since he assumed ownership. Other actors have experimented with racist and antisemitic posts to test Musk’s limits as a self-declared “free speech absolutist.”

Even before Musk’s takeover, some Twitter users were encouraging confrontations with transgender people and others who were falsely depicted as “groomers,” or predators who sexually target underage victims. But the new wave of antisemitism has reached millions of people in just days, brought new followers, and helped galvanize a broader coalition of fringe figures.

“This type of escalation and hate and dehumanization, the hatred of the Jewish population — it’s a really directed target. Violence is inevitable,” said Denver Riggleman, a former Air Force intelligence officer who later served as a Republican member of Congress and then on the staff of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday warned that domestic terrorists were maintaining “a visible presence online in attempts to motivate supporters to conduct attacks,” citing increased risks for racial and religious minorities and gays and transgender people, as well as government institutions. “Recent incidents have highlighted the enduring threat to faith-based communities, including the Jewish community,” it said.

The bulletin made clear that online and offline conduct often reinforce each other in a cycle of escalation. The recent shootings at a Colorado gay bar drew praise online, encouraging potential copycat strikes, it said. Likewise, a New Jersey man was arrested last month after publishing an online manifesto for attacks on synagogues, and a second man was caught with a gun after tweeting about plans to “shoot up a synagogue and die.”

“The idea that there is a difference between online chatter and real-word harm is disabused by a decade of research,” said Juliette Kayyem, a security business founder and former assistant DHS secretary. Open expression on Twitter “re-socializes the hate and rids society of the shaming that ought to occur regarding antisemitism,” she said.

Most alarming to Joel Finkelstein, co-founder of the nonprofit Network Contagion Research Institute, has been the unification and elevation of voices little heard since the Capitol attack.

The NCRI has been tracking various indicators that show antisemitism is on the rise, including fast-multiplying Twitter references to the New World Order, a bogus theory that features cosmopolitan elites, sometimes explicitly Jews, wrecking institutions and values in multiple nations to exert more control."

“Kanye is using antisemitism to popularize a list of actors who have been censored for a long time,” Finkelstein said. “Trolls are climbing over the walls to start new accounts. This is a bonanza.”

by Anonymousreply 324December 3, 2022 11:25 PM

Tell that, r319, to any twitter feminist who maintained that the definition of "woman" is still what our childhood biology books said, and not what the TRA's who were freely harrassing, doxxing and having them arrested via twitter, dictate it to be.

I think you'll find those women would strenuously disagree with your dishonest characterisation of former twitter as "moderate".

by Anonymousreply 325December 3, 2022 11:29 PM

R325 = EVERYTHING is about Trans.

by Anonymousreply 326December 3, 2022 11:48 PM

And. ^ it's so fucking tedious and unnecessary.

by Anonymousreply 327December 3, 2022 11:58 PM

I'm just popping by to see if the nothingburger needs flipping before it gets all charred.

by Anonymousreply 328December 4, 2022 12:09 AM

And Matt Taibbi is an accelerationist vatnik, like his buddy Glenn.

by Anonymousreply 329December 4, 2022 12:10 AM

Re: R285

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by Anonymousreply 330December 4, 2022 12:27 AM

[quote] Tune in next Friday night, when Matt Taibbi spins a 78 tweet thread exposing McDonalds for putting salt on its fries.

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by Anonymousreply 331December 4, 2022 1:48 AM

Why am I not shocked that vile twat Bari Weiss has weaseled her way into this.

by Anonymousreply 332December 4, 2022 3:17 AM

You guys are unbelievable. What will it take?

by Anonymousreply 333December 4, 2022 3:31 AM

I don't know who this Matt guy is, what I learned from news today is Elon retweeted it and sent it all over the internet, it's the top headline news.

by Anonymousreply 334December 4, 2022 3:46 AM

So what happened to Drop 2?

by Anonymousreply 335December 4, 2022 3:57 AM

Don't believe anything written by MSM journalists.

by Anonymousreply 336December 4, 2022 4:03 AM

Probably an even bigger nothingburger than Drop #1, R335. The only piece I've even seen today in response to this was this one (and David French is actually a staunch conservative)

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by Anonymousreply 337December 4, 2022 4:04 AM

No, R336. I'll trust you and other accelerationist randos.

by Anonymousreply 338December 4, 2022 4:06 AM

It's big headlines on Fox News and the NYPost but everywhere else has either not mentioned it or panned it.

by Anonymousreply 339December 4, 2022 4:08 AM

Because there's nothing there.

by Anonymousreply 340December 4, 2022 4:13 AM

Breaking & Related:

[quote] The documents, compiled by the Trump Organization and obtained by the New York attorney general, show a previously unreported liability of $19.8 million listed as “L/P Daewoo.” The debt stems from an agreement Trump struck to share some of his licensing fees with Daewoo, a South Korean conglomerate that partnered with Trump on a project near the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

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[quote] Although the debt appeared on the Trump Organization’s internal paperwork, it did not show up on Trump’s public financial disclosure reports, documents he was required to submit to federal officials while running for president and after taking office. Trump’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, told the New York Times in 2016 that his boss disclosed all debt connected to companies in which Trump held a 100% stake on the documents. That was not true.

[quote] ...the fact that the former president managed to keep the debt secret for so long underscores how weak the government’s ethics safeguards are, how difficult they are to strengthen—and how easily Trump could barrel through them again as he runs for president again in 2024.

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[quote] “The system is kind of predicated upon people actually following a law because they want to follow the law.”

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by Anonymousreply 341December 4, 2022 1:31 PM

Twitter censoring news they don't like is nothing new. The MSM does censor news. I don't think anyone is surprised so it's not a big deal. If Trump wasn't such a crook this would be a story. But he's a bigger criminal than Hunter.

by Anonymousreply 342December 4, 2022 2:04 PM

Rep. James Comer

[quote] We’re not going to be on fishing expeditions..When we go down a certain path, it’s because we have credible evidence and what Elon Musk is doing for the American people and Reputation Oversight, is that he’s providing evidence

[quote] Unlike Adam Schiff

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by Anonymousreply 343December 4, 2022 3:07 PM

[quote]Taibibi is an old school leftie journo, one of the very few non bought and paid for ones working. Seriously.

Oh you sweet summer child. Putin paid good money for that whore.

by Anonymousreply 344December 4, 2022 3:29 PM

It's weird how often you see right-wingers described as "old school lefties."

by Anonymousreply 345December 4, 2022 6:22 PM

Matt Taibbi is not an old-school leftie. He's a pugnacious, mysoyginistic piece of shit who buddied about with Mark Ames, another entitled prick.

by Anonymousreply 346December 4, 2022 6:27 PM

This morning, Sunday, Dec 4th on faux "news", that CUNT WHORE bartoromo had the gall to say on national tv that there was NOTHING to the Mueller investigation and no collusion, no proof whatsoever! WHEN SHE KNOWS that they listed 10 points of collusion, but it was the Republicans who didn't do and didn't want to do anything about it, didn't want to pursue it any further.....

and that WE KNOW that biden and his family committed illegality! we have PROOF OF IT she went on and on about! HOW IN THE WORLD CAN someone state this and not get sued for slander?

by Anonymousreply 347December 4, 2022 10:26 PM

[quote]He used to be kind of cute, too.

He has those wide-set hammerhead shark eyes like Jackie On Assistance.

by Anonymousreply 348December 4, 2022 11:43 PM

Media is mad that PRIVATE CITIZEN Hunter Biden won't talk to them while he attends cultural event with his family and wife.

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by Anonymousreply 349December 5, 2022 4:00 AM

Literally cheerleading for people to be upset over the perception of victimization.

Not policy.

Not inflation or gas prices.

Or actual fraud....

Just be angry for the sake of being angry.

[quote] "Americans have got to get mad" -- Rick Scott

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by Anonymousreply 350December 5, 2022 1:00 PM

R349, if only they had that same energy when covering orange dogshit years ago when he chose to run for president. Instead, assholes are constantly "shocked" that orange dogshit turns out be scum of the earth.

by Anonymousreply 351December 5, 2022 7:08 PM

So how did Elon Musk pass the US citizenship test if he doesn't even understand what the first amendment actually means and that the Democrats didn't violate "free speech" via Twitter?

Did he get someone to take it the way Trump had someone take his SATs?

by Anonymousreply 352December 5, 2022 8:05 PM

What test? I paid my $millions!

by Anonymousreply 353December 6, 2022 12:02 AM

Three words, MAGA fucklechucks:

chain

of

custody

If you can't produce evidence showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the data on this computer wasn't fucked with, you've got jack shit.

by Anonymousreply 354December 6, 2022 12:46 AM

R354, you think they don't have the capability to do that? They do. And, if it's been messed with, they can tell you when it was done.

The FBI has had the computer since 2019 and they know it's Junior's. They knew it was his and the info coming out of it was real. They knew this when they visited tech companies, told them to expect some news on the computer and put pressure on them to quelch the story. Before the story broke. They knew then the laptop tory was true.

I find this very troubling. If you don't then perhaps you are in the wrong country.

by Anonymousreply 355December 6, 2022 1:06 AM

What are your sources for those allegations, R355?

by Anonymousreply 356December 6, 2022 1:38 AM

They also know his data was hacked and put in that computer.

They also know Giuliani had it for a long while before the FBI got it

by Anonymousreply 357December 6, 2022 1:55 AM

I'll let the time-and-space-altering stupidity of R355 speak for itself.

Go suck the shit out of Donald's diaper, MAGA freak.

by Anonymousreply 358December 6, 2022 2:18 AM

well this has turned into another "who is worse" thread, how far we have fallen!

by Anonymousreply 359December 6, 2022 5:22 AM

We need to have more trust in the system. If after the investigations are completed one or more Bidens are sent to prison, we should trust that it was a just process.

by Anonymousreply 360December 6, 2022 7:00 AM

I went back on Twitter but couldn't stand it. It's so unhealthy and psychologically damaging unlike DL. I thought new info was supposed to be released Sunday by Taibbi. Did that happen? What was it? Please fill me in.

by Anonymousreply 361December 6, 2022 9:01 AM

Hunter's laptop has been thru so many hands by now...totally compromised data.

by Anonymousreply 362December 6, 2022 9:06 AM

This is SO much worse than inciting a violent insurrection, stealing Top Secret documents, claiming elections have massive fraud, etc.!

by Anonymousreply 363December 6, 2022 9:07 AM

R29, Last I looked the "tech companies" were privately-owned enterprises.

In a Capitalist society, the owners/share-holders make the rules, even unto "censorship."

If said owners WANT to accede to government requests, that is their legal prerogative.

There is no "here" here, to paraphrase GS.

by Anonymousreply 364December 6, 2022 9:17 AM

[quote]I'm hoping that more attention is paid to Taibbi's point about THE WHITE HOUSE asking Twitter to delete posts critical of Trump

The media is studiously avoiding mentioning that Elon's (probably illegal, or at least a tort) leaking of those documents proved that the Trump administration was demanding tweets be deleted. Like you, I wish they weren't.

by Anonymousreply 365December 6, 2022 9:26 AM

[quote] THE WHITE HOUSE asking Twitter to delete posts critical of Tru

R365, agreed. This is the ACTUAL story, not Hunter's dick pics.

by Anonymousreply 366December 6, 2022 10:25 AM

Truman Copote? ^

by Anonymousreply 367December 6, 2022 11:01 AM

I fucked up the quote. I'm so ashamed.

by Anonymousreply 368December 6, 2022 12:44 PM

No, this wasn't an official WH request. Joe Biden asked that the nude pictures not be shown in Twitter, not that the entire story be censored.

Twitter is an independent company. IT made the decision and explained its reasoning to not allow posting of hacked materials. It wasn't forced to by the WH.

by Anonymousreply 369December 6, 2022 1:27 PM

[quote] We need to have more trust in the system. If after the investigations are completed one or more Bidens are sent to prison, we should trust that it was a just process.

Um...Trump.

by Anonymousreply 370December 6, 2022 1:27 PM

[quote]this wasn't an official WH request. Joe Biden...

R369, please pay attention. No one said that Joe Biden's White House made this request because: 1) they did not; 2) Joe Biden was not president and/or held no official government position when they asked Twitter to comply with their own policies and not allow Hunter's dick pics.

However, the then-current occupant of THE WHITE HOUSE — Donald Trump's WHITE HOUSE — demanded that information critical of Trump not be allowed, implying the full weight and force of the Federal Government to require it.

The TRUMP WHITE HOUSE broke the most important law in our Constitution. It is that simple.

by Anonymousreply 371December 6, 2022 2:33 PM

But did the Trump WH break the Constitutional "law" (First Amendment?) ?

by Anonymousreply 372December 6, 2022 7:36 PM

Taibbi reported yesterday that former FBI counsel James Baker was "vetting" the Twitter Files before anyone could see them and that's what caused the delay in additional releases Friday and over the weekend. We can guess now why it looked like FBI references were scrubbed.

If you are one of the ones trying to minimize this whole debacle, then I assure you that you would have been one of the ones minimizing Watergate and the Pentagon Papers back in the day.

First Principles matter.

by Anonymousreply 373December 7, 2022 5:02 PM

[quote]Matt Taibbi BREAKS

Pics please.

by Anonymousreply 374December 7, 2022 5:03 PM

[quote]If you are one of the ones trying to minimize this whole debacle, then I assure you that you would have been one of the ones minimizing Watergate and the Pentagon Papers back in the day.

Are you really comparing a break-in and coverup to a social media company debating internally how to handle sketchy information? Really?

by Anonymousreply 375December 7, 2022 5:16 PM

R375, the entire meaning of what Twittergate is about has sailed right over your head.

by Anonymousreply 376December 7, 2022 6:16 PM

Yes. It landed squarely into the toxic sewer right wing part: Truth Social, gab, and such. Which of these did you emerge from, R376?

Or, are you just some retarded accelerationist?

by Anonymousreply 377December 7, 2022 6:54 PM

I think this needs be repeated: zzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

by Anonymousreply 378December 7, 2022 6:58 PM

FAUX "NEWS": decisions, decisions! should we go with twitter and hunter or the mass invasion at the southern border? Hell, why not both, will do it first thing in the morning with the 3 "D's" hosts on fox and friends (douche, dummy and dickhead) and then later with the cunts of variety of color short skirted ladies on Outnumbered!...

by Anonymousreply 379December 8, 2022 12:24 AM

Nothing new?

Or are they falsifying info?

by Anonymousreply 380December 9, 2022 3:16 PM

Still waiting….

by Anonymousreply 381December 9, 2022 11:03 PM

The last two releases have barely registered…that’s how stupid this all is.

by Anonymousreply 382December 10, 2022 4:39 AM

[quote] The guy who has been turning over confidential employee information to the press tells employees they must sign a statement saying they will not leak confidential information to the press by 5pm today to remain @Twitter. More loyalty tests to the manchild emperor with no clothes.

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by Anonymousreply 383December 10, 2022 2:51 PM

Some accounts The Owner of Twitter has replied to favorably in the last 7 days:

CHARLIE KIRK

GLENN GREENWALD

TIM POOL

TOM FITTON

LARA LOGAN

CERNOVICH

LIBS OF TIK TOK

CLAY TRAVIS

DAVE RUBIN

CATTURD

IAN MILES CHEONG

AVI YEMINI

VIVA FREI

BAD KITTY CENSORED

ELIZA

SOUR PATCH LYDS

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by Anonymousreply 384December 10, 2022 3:03 PM

^^^Kyrsten Sinema

by Anonymousreply 385December 10, 2022 3:04 PM

More dumps last night but it all I'm seeing is a private company taking precautions to keep itself safe from liable due to incited violence.

Am I missing something here?

Cuntress Supreme, Bari Weiss is supposed to drop more today in regards to Trump.

by Anonymousreply 386December 11, 2022 5:29 PM

Snore.

Not sure Sunday is a good time to dump stuff

by Anonymousreply 387December 11, 2022 6:04 PM

Sunday is the best time to dump if you only want people to pay attention to what others recap later rather Han the actual information you are releasing.

by Anonymousreply 388December 11, 2022 6:10 PM

R388 Based on? The only publications I'm seeing that are into this stuff are the tabloidy right wing ones. Even the WSJ has pretty much ignored the 'revelations'.

by Anonymousreply 389December 11, 2022 6:23 PM

Based on that.

The right wing echo chamber is counting on people turning to their fav podcast/YouTube/twitter activists to tell them what it says.

They would wither on the vine if people bothered to actually do their own research when they “do their own research”.

by Anonymousreply 390December 11, 2022 6:40 PM

I really hope Yoel Roth fries his ass. Musk’s groomer/pedo posts about him were beyond the pale.

by Anonymousreply 391December 11, 2022 6:58 PM

R391, but they were true. If Roth wants to explain what he "really" meant by his past statements and lack of safeguarding, then he can. Twitter did practically nothing about this or MAPs aka Pedos on twitter before. In fact, they'd defend them against complaints.

by Anonymousreply 392December 11, 2022 8:34 PM

[quote]In fact, they'd defend them against complaints.

Really? Do you have some examples of Twitter defending pedos?

by Anonymousreply 393December 11, 2022 8:35 PM

R393, Exhibit One - Keffles.

by Anonymousreply 394December 11, 2022 8:36 PM

I'll take that as a no then. No clue what 'keffles' is.

by Anonymousreply 395December 11, 2022 8:38 PM

Oh, excuuuuse me. Keffals.

by Anonymousreply 396December 11, 2022 8:45 PM

Is that anything like a kerfuffle?

by Anonymousreply 397December 11, 2022 8:52 PM

[quote]The only publications I'm seeing that are into this stuff are the tabloidy right wing ones. Even the WSJ has pretty much ignored the 'revelations'.

Unfortunately for the legacy media trying to suppress the story, it's being aired loudly on Twitter itself, so millions of people are seeing the story despite the media's best efforts.

by Anonymousreply 398December 11, 2022 9:26 PM

[quote] Unfortunately for the legacy media trying to suppress the story

What exactly are they trying to suppress? What is the scandal here?

by Anonymousreply 399December 11, 2022 9:29 PM

Revenge porn R399. How dare the legacy media not put the President’s son penis on the front page??? Where are their journalistic standards? The right to publicize private citizens’ genitals without their consent is a kitchen table issue for creepy stalkers types. And if Taibbi and Musk and R398 are all three creeps, well then isn’t everyone?

by Anonymousreply 400December 11, 2022 9:45 PM

[quote]If Roth wants to explain what he "really" meant by his past statements and lack of safeguarding, then he can. Twitter did practically nothing about this or MAPs aka Pedos on twitter before. In fact, they'd defend them against complaints.

If he has smart lawyers they’re telling him not to engage. And, besides…there’s absolutely nothing to defend. Elmo either didn’t read what the guy wrote or has some major ass reading comprehension problems.

But thanks for identifying yourself as an Elmo simp, r392.

by Anonymousreply 401December 11, 2022 10:25 PM

Roth is in some deep doo-doo.

by Anonymousreply 402December 12, 2022 12:15 AM

[quote]Roth is in some deep doo-doo.

Proof please.

by Anonymousreply 403December 12, 2022 12:16 AM

[quote] Unfortunately for the legacy media trying to suppress the story

In EXACTLY the same way suppression occurred to:

Pepsi Clear

Latoya Jackson's singing career

Kevin Sorbo's acting career

Ishtar

NOBODY CARES

As Tom Nichols and other have pointed out, the underpinnings of MAGA are grievance and self-perceived victimization and boredom. People with real lives and hobbies and self awareness don't spend all of their time obsessing over how their pride has been wounded. While. yes, there are many poor MAGA, overwhelmingly it is a movement of people who are comfortable enough to have time and energy to waste.

The rest of us...not so much...

by Anonymousreply 404December 12, 2022 2:44 AM

R404... well said. It's like (analogy here) those who attend rallies, those who are constantly writing "letters to the editor" column of their local newspapers and so on.. THE VAST MAJORITY of people do not feel the need nor have the time to do this. They are confident and assured of their own beliefs, knowledge and facts, to not feel the need to bitch and have their "voices heard"...

I recommend Tom Nichols book "the death of expertise" to everyone...

by Anonymousreply 405December 12, 2022 1:25 PM

[quote] The crowd erupted into a mixture of cheers and boos, before the boos clearly won out, according to footage posted on Twitter. The booing got louder as Musk wandered around onstage with a microphone in hand. Musk started pacing and waving, clearly unsure what to do about such a negative reaction.

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by Anonymousreply 406December 12, 2022 1:41 PM

Elon Musk

[quote] Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter).

[quote] It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.

JoeMyGod

[quote] Do a lot of unhinged leftists attend Dave Chappelle shows?

random twitter poster

[quote] Watching people with insane amounts of money unable to process that people dislike them is so damn sad. “Money can’t buy happiness/love” is a tough pill to swallow for those who have always had wealth on their side.

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by Anonymousreply 407December 12, 2022 1:55 PM

Elon is sounding like Trump there.

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by Anonymousreply 408December 12, 2022 2:05 PM

[quote]Roth is in some deep doo-doo.

It has been 17 hours and I'm still waiting for proof, please.

by Anonymousreply 409December 12, 2022 5:08 PM

[quote]In evidenza: Elon Musk Removes BBC Doc at Request of India PM Modi

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by Anonymousreply 410January 25, 2023 7:33 AM

enjoy, I know you want to watch it!

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by Anonymousreply 411February 15, 2023 6:45 AM
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by Anonymousreply 412February 26, 2023 4:37 PM

Thanks, r412, for that reminder that Donald Trump is a pussy-ass bitch.

by Anonymousreply 413February 26, 2023 8:29 PM
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