100% immaterial, MDLax.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:09 pm Hold on youth, I'm not so sure that there's been any assertion by the Feds that ALL of the data on the laptop has been verified. Same as no assertion that the laptop itself is Hunter's own.
It's 2024. Verifying something YEARS LATER, and pretending that's the same thing as "before the 2020 election....is playing Giuliain's game.
YA gets it, which is why he walked away from the conversation: he, like Old Salt, have FINALLY acknowledged why US intel and every reputable called BS on Giuliain's claim: they weren't allowed to inspect Hunter's laptop to verify it.
This is how modern Republicans think: when the news in question is bad for Republicans, like the Steele Dossier? Oh, they DEMAND that every claim is vetted, right?
But if it's about Democrats? They move the goalpost, and want it published IMMEDIATELY as gospel truth.
Same stupid hypocrisy we've been dealing with since Trump arrived.
WaPo called BS on BOTH the steele dossier and Giuliani's claims....and ran neither. Just like they're supposed to do. Anyone notice that besides me? Apparently not.
Old Salt and YA know this....and that's why they bailed from this discussion. They know they're wrong, and acting like partisans, and can't defend their nonsense. It's not my fault that the media, including guys like Maher, have conveniently forgotten that it was IMPOSSIBLE to verify Giuliani's claims before the election. You can't send the "data" to a lab, as YA is asking, if you don't have the freaking data.
It's logic my 9 year old daughter could follow. "Hey sweetheart? Can you tell me if this your stuffed Bear "Muffins"?" "Can I see it, Dad, so I can tell you one way or another?
Dad: "no."
Daughter: " I can't answer your question".
Duh, how about that, fellas? If you can't examine the item in question, you can't verify if it's authentic. In other news, water is wet, and bears sh(t in the woods.
Why the heck do I have to explain this to a bunch of educated men? Oh, that's right: Partisanship. Lovely.