The problem I have w/reporting on the alleged emails between Tucker Carlson and Hunter Biden is:
It assumes the Definitely Real Hunter Biden Laptop is in fact real, and, uh, I have a lot of questions about that.
I mean, a LOT of questions.
To @pinealdecalcify’s observation below, I would add that Tore in particular — the one who first made this public in May of this year — is so fringey and untrustworthy that *other QAnon influencers* make fun of her for it.
Also, someone reasonably asked me: “How does it assume that?”
Good question! The answer:
The content is almost certainly sourced from the Definitely Real Laptop. There have been QAnon/stolen election cranks circulating bits and pieces of “damning emails” from it for months now.
And the thing is, the laptop’s provenance has always been the dumbest fucking story you could possibly imagine.
Its contents are, therefore, SUPER suspect and not to be trusted. Trusting it is the equivalent of putting in a USB stick that you found in the parking lot.
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3. Some of the Definitely Real Hunter Biden Emails I've seen floating around, in my judgment, *are* probably forgeries. Pretty crude ones at that!
This, for example, is just... not at all how humans talk, but it IS a bunch of red meat for GOP'ers who wanna gin up a scandal.
That said,
4. Some of the items will probably be genuine too (in Macronleaks a LOT of items were genuine -- and boring -- while a few hand-crafted fakes were meant to lob a grenade into the French election right before people went to the polls).
The allegation is based on the public remarks of candidates & others involved with this effort.
Also, here’s the QAnon connection: Juan O Savin—a secretive influencer best known for the fact that some people think he’s JFK Jr—played a key role in recruiting some candidates. 🙃
To be clear: Boebert has been relatively chill about the investigation, putting out a public statement that she trusts the prosecutor to conduct it fairly and impartially.
I don’t wanna see people going “LAUREN BOEBERT SOMETHING SOMETHING, CONSPIRACY!”
Lauren Boebert is a shitty human being, and is a big part of the anti-democracy alliance that is… you know… almost the entire Republican Party these days.
Her former campaign manager is simpatico with that, as you would expect, and is running a large Stop the Steal campaign.
It would be easy -- and wrong -- to point and laugh at this post from a Trumpist attorney.
The truth, however, is VERY unfunny: as these people accept that the system -- as currently constituted -- simply won't give them the hangings they want, they will search for alternatives.
One alternative is to just go out there and kill your enemies your own damn self. This is rarely done, because the cost to the doer is *ruinous.*
Another is to change the system so that it WILL give you those sweet, sweet judicial murders.
This is the one I'm most worried about
I *am* glad to see any of this energy diverted into things like "LET'S BUILD OUR OWN ALTERNATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM," bc it's basically a LARP.
Now, they /are/ still trying to LARP it into reality, so you could see it as political theater aimed at building a more fascist system...