The thing to understand about the Hunter Biden laptop story was that it was SUPPOSED to be the Trump campaign’s “October Surprise.”
Mainstream media and social media were supposed to take the bait and focus on the appearance of scandal for the last weeks of the election.
(1/x)
Mainstream media and social media were supposed to take the bait and focus on the appearance of scandal for the last weeks of the election.
(1/x)
They didn’t take the bait. The New York Post story was shunned. Social media platforms treated it as manufactured propaganda with questionable sourcing.
And conservative elites have been PISSED ever since.
(2/x)
And conservative elites have been PISSED ever since.
(2/x)
They’re supposed to be these brilliant media manipulators.
Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and the rest of the Pepe Patrol pretend at being these incredibly sophisticated actors, injecting precision memes to bend the public will.
But they’re actual just blunt instruments. (3/x)
Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and the rest of the Pepe Patrol pretend at being these incredibly sophisticated actors, injecting precision memes to bend the public will.
But they’re actual just blunt instruments. (3/x)
Trump got impeached the first time for trying to condition congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine on Zelenskyy announcing an “investigation” of Biden corruption.
He wanted the appearance of corruption, so he could wrap the media’s attention around it.
(4/x)
He wanted the appearance of corruption, so he could wrap the media’s attention around it.
(4/x)
The laptop was basically Plan B.
They wanted everyone to freak out about it for a few weeks. Normally what happens is conservative media shouts about it, mainstream media genuflects and “covers the controversy,” and Bannon and co high-five each other for setting the agenda. (5)
They wanted everyone to freak out about it for a few weeks. Normally what happens is conservative media shouts about it, mainstream media genuflects and “covers the controversy,” and Bannon and co high-five each other for setting the agenda. (5)
It didn’t work this time. They’ve been pouting ever since.
It’s a lot like a kid who loses a video game and starts slamming the controller, insisting it’s rigged or the system is cheating.
It’s NOT FAIR! Their plan was supposed to WORK! (6/x)
It’s a lot like a kid who loses a video game and starts slamming the controller, insisting it’s rigged or the system is cheating.
It’s NOT FAIR! Their plan was supposed to WORK! (6/x)
Musk and Taibbi are tapping into that well of resentment.
Why should we care about the President’s adult failson who doesn’t work in the administration? Two years later, what’s the scandal supposed to even be?
The media didn’t take the bait. No fair. That’s the scandal. (7/x)
Why should we care about the President’s adult failson who doesn’t work in the administration? Two years later, what’s the scandal supposed to even be?
The media didn’t take the bait. No fair. That’s the scandal. (7/x)
They’re gonna keep bitching about it for years. It’s going to be louder and emptier than the Benghazi hearings.
The scandal is that their clever propaganda effort sank like a lead balloon. And that has to be SOMEONE ELSE’S fault.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
(Fin)
The scandal is that their clever propaganda effort sank like a lead balloon. And that has to be SOMEONE ELSE’S fault.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
(Fin)
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