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18 Oct, 9 tweets, 2 min read
You’d think that Trump’s own DOJ would be shouting from the rooftops about “Hunter’s hard drive” if it was found to be legitimate after a digital forensics analysis. But they’re not.

One thing we do know: the FBI was investigating if it’s a Russian disinformation campaign.
The repair shop owner said the computer (an an external hard drive that appears to have been purchased by the shop after the laptop was allegedly dropped off) was given to the FBI for a grand jury investigation in December 2019.
Also in December 2019: NSA Chief O’Brien told Trump that he believed Giuliani was being targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign in an effort to influence the 2020 election by discrediting Joe Biden.
In the ten months (!) since the FBI took possession of laptop and external drive, no official finding has been released by the bureau. And the repair shop owner hasn’t been able to keep his story straight, even during a single interview
So I’ll say again: if the FBI determined that the data on “Hunter’s hard drive” was uncompromised, and had a “smoking gun” about Joe Biden’s son (or Joe Biden himself), don’t you think we’d have heard about it from them by now? With Americans actively voting all over the country?
The right is quick to call out “the lamestream media” and “big tech” for burying this story, but the fact is: the Executive Branch is wholly beholden to (and in breathless support of) Derp Führer, and if there was a “there” there, they’d be endlessly crowing about it.

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I’m really astonished this hasn’t been amplified more, tbh. It’s the obvious answer to “lol, Biden’s done.”

If he’s so done, why the fuck would all of Trump’s lackeys at the FBI not be shouting about Hunter RIGHT NOW, WHILE VOTES ARE BEING CAST.
The right is the special kind of gullible and stupid that money can’t buy…but it sure is profitable for the ones that become congresspeople.
(Of course, that should read “why the fuck *wouldn’t* all of Trump’s lackeys…” etc)

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German journalist Sebastian Haffner, writing in 1939 about Nazis.
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As some of you may remember, I spoiled my mail-in ballot. Rather than risk a mail delay and requesting a new one, I planned to surrender it and vote early, in person.

It struck me how lucky and privileged I am to live in a (mostly) blue state, and in a (mostly) white county.

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After arriving at the county clerk’s office—where early voting has been live for three weeks—I waited in line to surrender my mail-in ballot. By “in line,” I mean, “I waited three minutes to be helped by a county official.”

I then waited for them to process my replacement.

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15 Oct
This Hunter Biden laptop story is fucked.

Docs show the laptop was dropped on Apr 12, 2019. They also show an external drive and its serial number.

Western Digital’s web site says that drive’s **3-year** warranty expires Apr 18, 2022…meaning it was manufactured Apr *18*, 2019. ImageImageImage
If the data was on the MBP’s NVMe SSD, it was either readable or not. The TRIM command is constantly shuffling blocks around to level the wear on the memory cells, and any legit data recovery firm will tell you: recovery of damaged/deleted files from an NVME drive is impossible.
The external drive was claimed to be used to recover the data, but there is no “recovery” of a solid state disk drive, such as the one in Hunter’s alleged Mac. If the data is corrupted or deleted, it’s lost forever, unless the Mac’s owner runs a *specific* command from a shell.
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My primary isn’t for two weeks. If you’re doing any math around who gets whose Warren’s votes if she drops out before then:

I am a progressive Warren supporter. I decry racial, financial, gender, and social inequality.
I believe that big corporations have an obligation to “pay back” (by way of higher taxes) the rest of us that paved their way.

I believe that free markets result in a consolidation of power and wealth that benefits the already-rich and powerful…which harms of the rest of us.
I believe in civil liberty. The right to privacy. The right to be forgotten. The right to choose. The right to be seen & treated as an equal. The right to an education that improves one’s capacity to contribute to society. The right to not live in fear of guns every-damn-where.
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I'll list them in this thread, along with sample news stories about Trump that align with them.
1) Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.

Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao Zedong curated dysfunction in their respective governments, in order to gain power.

foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/02/the…
2) No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.

Trump's constant railing at the impeachment process itself betrays his intolerance for critical inquiry, as discussed in this Situation Room clip.

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