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  1. AroundTheWorld

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    Considering "nobody cares", the resident leftists seem to care a lot, as evidenced by their triggered posts on this thread.
     
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  2. Os Trigonum

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    A Britney Spears jukebox musical is headed to Broadway

    https://theweek.com/britney-spears/1018946/a-britney-spears-jukebox-musical-is-headed-to-broadway

    excerpt:

    Once Upon a One More Time, a jukebox musical inspired by the music of Britney Spears, is headed to Broadway. The show announced Friday it will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre in May 2023 before opening on June 22.

    With a book by Jon Hartmere, Once Upon a One More Time combines Spears' music with iconic fairy tale characters, including Cinderella, Snow White, and the Little Mermaid, whose "stories get a rewrite when a fairy godmother gives them Friedan's landmark 1963 feminist tome The Feminine Mystique," Playbill.com explains. The songs featured include "Baby One More Time," "Oops! … I Did It Again," "I'm a Slave 4 U," and "Toxic."
    more at the link
     
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    im not sure if I’m now considered one of the”resident leftists” now, but I’m responding because I forgot what was supposedly on the laptop and I am enjoying bashing Republicans for all the hoopla surrounding this silly victimhood.
     
  4. AroundTheWorld

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    No
     
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    The whole thing is basically eye rolls at this point.

    It's a permission mechanism for the party of snowflake to be outraged, because that is the platform these days. Find something to to outraged about, and then something else, so Republicans don't have to focus on the real issues people are facing, which they mostly caused.

    It didn't work the first time and good luck spending the next two years trying to make it matter again. Literally no one cares.
     
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    it's great keep bringing it up! an easy coast to ANOTHER win for Dems!

    You are helping the Dems thanks for playing!

    Woo!!
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    good thing nobody cares

    FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly’ meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation’ before censoring The Post

    https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/fbi-warned-twitter-of-hunter-biden-hack-before-censoring-the-post/

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    The FBI warned Twitter during “weekly” meetings before the 2020 election to expect “hack-and-leak operations’’ by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden, and “likely” in October, according to a sworn declaration by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth.

    The warnings were so specific that Twitter immediately censored The Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020, citing its “hacked materials” policy, a move described on Saturday as “election interference” by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk.

    The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how the FBI was involved in pre-bunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau’s possession for almost a year.
    lol. nothing to see here
     
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    Didn’t we already know this happened from that Zuckerberg interview back in August?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532

    This huge revelation does undercut the claim that Twitter execs used the potential of this being hacked as a convenient excuse to censor the story on partisan grounds. Rather, they were lead to that conclusion by an earlier warning from tbe FBI (which, we should be reminded fell under the Trump DOJ).

    Edit: Looks like the article does mention that Zuckerberg interview and provides some additional interesting info.

    The FBI surveilled Guiliani to determine that the Post would release the story as an “October Surprise”. This lead them to warn Twitter in advance that hacked data may come out , possibly relating to Hunter Biden, and they lobbied for them to update their TOS to censor dissemination of stories that include this data.

    The unknown is whether the FBI legitimately believed this to be the result of a hack or not. Seems like they did not have such evidence. They knew where the laptop had come from.

    Edit 2: Or maybe they didn’t know where it came from. Apparently whistleblowers said the FBI sat on it without investigating the contents because they didn’t want the details that might emerge from such an investigation to affect the election (like with Clinton’s email server in 2016).
     
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    Tucker apparently cares about Hunter Biden.

     
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    pretty sure you answered your own question. The wiretapped/surveilled Guiliani which gave them access to the NY Post's reporter's emails detailing when the Post's story would come out. Hence the "Russian disinformation" shtick/subterfuge/bullshittte ;)
     
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    as usual the WSJ puts things into perspective

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tw...t-laptop-taibbi-11670189776?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

    The Twitter Censorship Files
    The mistaken claims in 2020 by former spooks about Hunter Biden’s emails framed the social-media site’s decision to block the news.
    By The Editorial Board
    Dec. 4, 2022 5:57 pm ET

    Elon Musk’s release of internal emails relating to Twitter’s 2020 censorship is news by any definition, even if the mainstream media dismiss it. There will be many threads to unspool as more is released, but a couple of points are already worth making.

    The first is that Mr. Musk would do the country a favor by releasing the documents all at once for everyone to inspect. So far he’s dribbled them out piecemeal through journalist Matt Taibbi’s Twitter feed, which makes it easier for the media to claim they can’t report on documents because they can’t independently confirm them.

    A second point is an huzzah for Rep. Ro Khanna, the California progressive Democrat, who warned Twitter in 2020 about the free-speech implications and political backlash of censoring the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. That was good advice, even if Twitter didn’t take it.

    A third point is the confirmation of the central role that former spies played in October 2020 in framing the Hunter Biden story in a way that made it easier for Twitter and Facebook to justify their censorship.

    Recall that former Democratic intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan led the spooks in issuing a public statement suggesting that the laptop may have been hacked and its content was Russian disinformation. On Oct. 16, 2020, Mr. Clapper told CNN that “to me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.” On Oct. 19, 51 former spooks released their statement claiming that the arrival of the emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” (The statement and signers are published nearby.)

    We now know that the Clapper-Brennan claims were themselves disinformation and that the laptop was genuine and not part of a Russian operation. CBS News recently waddled in two years later with a forensic analysis of its own and concluded it is real.

    But the claims by the spies gave an excuse for the media to ignore the Hunter Biden story and even to dismiss Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, who went on the record before the election to confirm much of the content on the laptop with documentation in the form of voluminous text messages.

    We examined those messages ourselves at the time, and our Kimberley Strassel spoke with Mr. Bobulinski and put it all on the record before the election. We also wrote an editorial. But nearly all of the rest of the press ignored or trashed the story.

    The Twitter documents published by Mr. Taibbi include part of what appears to be a memo from James Baker, the Twitter deputy general counsel. “I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted,” Mr. Baker wrote.

    He continued that “there are some facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes. We simply need more information.”

    With an election so close, any delay helped the Biden campaign, which was trying to squelch the Hunter Biden story that raised questions about what Joe Biden knew about Hunter’s foreign business dealings. Twitter went ahead and suppressed the story across its platform, going so far as to suspend the New York Post’s Twitter account.

    Readers may recall that Mr. Baker was director Jim Comey’s general counsel at the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the Russia collusion fiasco in 2016. He was the main FBI contact for Michael Sussmann, the Clinton campaign lawyer who spread falsehoods about the Trump campaign regarding Alfa Bank, among other things.

    Mr. Baker’s ties to the former intelligence officials who signed the “Russian information operation” statement may have influenced his Twitter memo and the censorship decision. All of this is likely to be fodder for House Republican hearings into the FBI’s role in the Hunter Biden story.

    The partisan foray by current and former U.S. intelligence officials in the last two elections should be deeply troubling to Americans on the left and right. They have authority by dint of access to information that isn’t confirmable by the press, which takes their spin as gospel. This is a form of political corruption that needs to be exposed, and perhaps the Twitter documents will help to unlock the story.

    Appeared in the December 5, 2022, print edition as 'The Twitter Censorship Files'.



     
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    The only reason we are here is because MAGA propaganda spammers like you are blowing up the internet with posts like this alluding to a bombshell, and the "evidence" of a bombshell reveals nothing but

    -FBI communicating with media companies about disinformation smear campaigns with potential hacking involved.... which this very much looked like, and still very much looks like
    -Media companies having production meetings vetting what should or shouldn't be covered
    -Dick pics

    If the story was about the FBI contacting FoxNews about the Dossier, and FoxNews having a producer meeting to discuss whether or not to disclose on air or on their website to disclose, and what to disclose.... you'd have no problem with any of that.

    In this case though, it goes beyond that because the contents.... A. are personal, and pornographic and B. are cloud based, digital, and have been passed through lord knows how many hands. The contents could very well have been altered, and even a producer at FoxNews would be worried about publishing something that then later could be disproven, and they could be made to look like pawns. FoxNews usually has very low standards, but I'm sure at some level of the organization there are some producers who voice concerns, and then are overruled if there's more to be gained than lost.

    So I'm here again to ask you what I am missing? You, as a MAGA propaganda online spammer, are telling me that there is something here, and I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS about what that really is?? Because so far all that propagandists like you have showed me is that you are excited about dick pics and that you think that media companies taking calls from the FBI and having production quality control meetings is something out of the ordinary... which of course it isn't and would just prove your ignorance if that's the case you are making.
     
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  18. Os Trigonum

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    lol. the good news is I don't care about Hunter Biden
     
  19. dobro1229

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    @Os Trigonum I'll ask the question again too cause it might have been clear:

    Why are you so excited about Hunter Biden's penis pics? Just asking questions.
     
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  20. dobro1229

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    "LOL Nothing to see here" is a clear representation of you caring very much about Hunter Biden's penis pics.
     
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