Althouse: At the Sunrise Café...

October 20, 2020

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

78 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I am pleased to inform you that, for the sake of accuracy in reporting, I am considering posting my interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, PRIOR TO AIRTIME! This will be done so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about...; 10/20/20, 7:26 PM
ga6 said...: "The editor-in-chief of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student newspaper wrote an op-ed going over the history of the Molotov cocktail and posted instructions on how to make one."

Getting ready for Nov 4th?

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15956; 10/20/20, 7:26 PM
Jaq said...: Update (1930ET): In yet another death blow to Adam Schiff and the '50 former senior intelligence officers' "Russia, Russia, Russia" claims, the FBI and DOJ have told a Fox News producer that they do not believe that Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents are part of a Russian disinformation campaign, confirming that the 'current' intelligence community agrees with DNI Ratcliffe's comments yesterday.

Additionally, a Federal Law Enforcement Official also confirmed to Fox News' Martha MacCallum that the emails are "authentic". - ZeroHedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-russian-hoax-tucker-carlson-has-seen-nonpublic-information-proving-laptop-was-hunter; 10/20/20, 7:29 PM
Jaq said...: Top. Men.; 10/20/20, 7:31 PM
Jaq said...: Remember when Hillary purportedly said “If that bastard wins, we’ll all hang from nooses!” Snopes said that the quote didn’t come from a “credible source” but you know what? It looks more like she said it each day.; 10/20/20, 7:39 PM
Yancey Ward said...: From The Babylon Bee

"Jordan Peterson Returns To Find Americans Worshiping Golden Statue Of Karl Marx, Breaks 12 Rules For Life In Anger"

If you don't immediately get the reference, just click through to the tweet.; 10/20/20, 7:39 PM
Dex Quire said...: Somebody, please, advise the president's advisors to have him say the line on Thursday night, "I drink your milkshake!"; 10/20/20, 7:40 PM
Todd Roberson said...: Just watched the Indiana gubernatorial debate. Complete moron Democratic candidate (who has no chance), milquetoast incumbent Eric Holcomb (R) and Libertarian Donald Rainwater.

Polls show Rainwater gaining sharply on Holcomb.

After tonight's debate it'll be interesting to see where things are. Rainwater kinda made both look like idiots with his simple commonsense answers.; 10/20/20, 7:42 PM
Todd Roberson said...: Just checked Twitter. Indiana Republican party in panic mode.

Idiot Democrat just made his case worse.

So ... could Indiana see a Libertarian governor?; 10/20/20, 7:45 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: YMCA is obviously the song of 2020.

Trump 32 with 6 cheating including PA.

Trump 38 without any cheating what what what?

Thank us all Althouse for allowing you to start to be offended by your generational bigotry toward us. It's the only way.; 10/20/20, 7:49 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Biden is a liar, a coward, and a handsy groper. (See Tara Reade, 60 Minutes, Australia).

It appears now that he is also the Capo in a minor crime family, where he sells influence via his crack-head, Grifter Son, Hunter, the International Man of Mystery (Ukraine, China, Moscow). Hunter has to tithe 50% of the grifter earnings to "Pop".

He is the temporary head of the Democrat Party, too.

Nice party there of Jefferson & Jackson. Not.; 10/20/20, 7:50 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: After Lengthy Refractory Period, Toobin To Return --CNN

---

AP News: Rioters were just "regular citizens caught up in the moment"

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it; 10/20/20, 7:54 PM
Jaq said...: Clinton/ Obama loyalist and Democrat party donor Preet Bharara was interested in putting Bevan Cooney in jail. Did Preet Bharara look the other way on Cooney's connection to Hunter Biden ? Going after Hunter Biden probably wouldn't be a good career move for Preet.

Seemed like a good idea, exept Bevan Cooney has a gmail account with 28,000 emails in it and has been pretty pissed off that Hunter, I mean Joe Biden didn’t use his connections to spring him, like they did Devan Archer.; 10/20/20, 7:58 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Evers.; 10/20/20, 8:02 PM
Matthew Heintz said...: Another great Trump rally in the can. Hidin' Joe Biden isn't taking questions. Doesn't get any better than this!; 10/20/20, 8:03 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: I visited my sister in Portland, OR this weekend.

Portland and Oregon in general is a beautiful place. We went downtown for a day and the wealth contrast is pretty stunning. The homeless population has grown dramatically since I was there a couple of years ago, but housing prices are astronomical. A 150K house here in the Detroit Metro area goes for 500K in Portland.

The politics is what you would expect. We walked around east Portland, checking out the open shops and restaurants. It's vibrant and youthful, but decidedly hostile if you're not 100% down with BLM and ACAB.

It looks like the mayoral race will be interesting to watch. I think the commie is going to win. It will be as interesting to see if the polity follows through with their abolishing the police mantra, which is everywhere in graffiti and stickers.

Oh and 20 minutes outside of Portland, there's plenty of Trump support. Was surprising to me.; 10/20/20, 8:09 PM
Marshall Rose said...: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-purported-hunter-biden-laptop-sources

the FBI and Justice Department officials concur with an assessment from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe that the laptop is not part of a Russian disinformation campaign targeting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Care to revisit your assesmebt that it is all fake, and will you revisit your commitment to allow Biden become president by your abdication of your duty as a citizen?; 10/20/20, 8:11 PM
Sebastian said...: OK, so Hunter took a lot of money from a lot of shady characters. Those characters didn't give it because they like Hunter.

So, did he give any of it to "big guy" Joe? Even with my low opinion of Biden, I find it hard to believe. The Clintons were more crafty, setting up a foundation to launder foreign bribes and all.

But if Joe did get a percentage, there's gotta be some kind of record. There's gotta be some kind of discrepancy between his official sources of income and his net worth. Who's looking into it? Where are they looking?; 10/20/20, 8:19 PM
roesch/voltaire said...: Now it turns out Trump has a hidden bank account in China, must be part of his chocolate cake diplomacy?; 10/20/20, 8:21 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Where does one of the greatest of the great, the great Jeff Goldstein, fit in?

Seems to me he was an intellectual hero when most were absconding or going full Communist.

If you don't know proteinwisdom then fund U.; 10/20/20, 8:21 PM
Chipotle said...: I love our host's sunrise photography!

BTW, anyone know why the markets are acting normal, even bored, when the news is saying we're about to experience some real trouble come election day?; 10/20/20, 8:28 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Yeah Trump 2016 wasn't his thing. He still let me post before the winners of the web won again.; 10/20/20, 8:28 PM
Jaq said...: I am really pretty pissed off at the FBI for not warning the Democrats off of Biden. Of course they probably wanted Biden in and then they, like everybody from Putin to the Chicoms could push around Biden all they wanted with threats to put his son away for a long time or to. end his political career.

Biden also badly failed his son as a father. And Jill was in on it too.; 10/20/20, 8:30 PM
paminwi said...: A poem:

There once was a man named Toobin,

Whose fondest delight was in Zoomin’,

As he wiped off his screen,

After makin’ a scene,

He asked, “How did you like my oozin’?”

Courtesy of theaspenbeat.com; 10/20/20, 8:32 PM
Jaq said...: CBS admits they are real

https://twitter.com/MajorCBS/status/1318697910922481666; 10/20/20, 8:33 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "They do a poll, it costs like a million dollars, they interview about 12 people..." Trump; 10/20/20, 8:35 PM
Jaq said...: Twitter is precious, they want the shop owner to go to prison for stealing the laptop from Hunter, who stiffed him on the bill for $85 and never came back. $85. At the time, Hunter was dealing with his baby momma the Arkansas stripper.; 10/20/20, 8:36 PM
Drago said...: Well well well.

As was rumored, Rudy Giuliani is now publicly stating he has turned over the very authentic Hunter laptop video content involving alleged child pornography and child sexual abuse by Hunter himself to Delaware State Police.

That would be a fatal step if the information was false....and it looks like it isnt.

So now we wait to find out if the worst rumor of all will be publicly alleged as well (yes, what I wrote above is not the worst rumor of all...if you can believe it).

The worst rumor of all involves alleged child torture by our intrepid crackhead Hunter.

Of course, it is now clear why the combined and politically aligned might of the democrat party, our own deep state intel services, Big Tech and Big Media now transparently operate as a single entity to shut this story down.

Worst of all, these types of abuses are likely the very reason so many FakeCon LLR's have joined with the totalitarian left.; 10/20/20, 8:41 PM
Drago said...: roesch/voltaire: "Now it turns out Trump has a hidden bank account in China, must be part of his chocolate cake diplomacy?"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Alpha Bank Hoax 2.0.

I get it r/v.

You guys didnt have time to craft better hoaxes and this is what you are left with.

Face it r/v, you are now officially in support of child sexual abuse.

Congratulations....you earned it.; 10/20/20, 8:43 PM
Michael K said...: Oh and 20 minutes outside of Portland, there's plenty of Trump support. Was surprising to me.

My wife's son and his three sons live about 60 miles south of Portland. That is Trump and gun country.; 10/20/20, 8:44 PM
Michael K said...: But if Joe did get a percentage, there's gotta be some kind of record. There's gotta be some kind of discrepancy between his official sources of income and his net worth. Who's looking into it? Where are they looking?

Clinton Foundation II? These people all have millions stashed away and nobody looks very hard.; 10/20/20, 8:46 PM
Jaq said...: BREAKING: Hunter Biden associate Bevan Cooney reportedly has been walked out of federal facility where he is serving time. Cooney recently released 26,000 emails on past dealings.

Have to protect him from the Arkancide virus.

There once was a pol name of Biden
His favorite M.O.? Basement hidin’
The October Surprise
Was to prove all his lies
On a rail out of town he’ll be ridin’

"Courtesy of theaspenbeat.com”

All of my limricks are mine own and composed on the spot.; 10/20/20, 8:52 PM
Jaq said...: Maybe Althouse could bring herself to read this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html; 10/20/20, 8:57 PM
Jaq said...: NBC has a story about Hunter and Joe’s tag team corruption

Hunter Biden provided legal advice to a Romanian charged with real estate fraud, at a time when his father was pushing corruption reforms in the country.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-s-legal-work-romania-raises-new-questions-about-n1071031; 10/20/20, 9:04 PM
Gospace said...: Far less discussion overall today on multiple blogs and on threadreaderapp than I expected. Looks like everyone is awaiting Giuliani's next big reveal. But at this point anyone looking at what has been revealed who voted for Biden is deliberately voting for a crook.

In fact- anyone who sits it out and doesn't vote for Trump or votes 3rd party is saying "Hey, I'm okay with corruption at the highest levels of government!" Anyone, no exceptions.; 10/20/20, 9:08 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Hunter is a mere factotum for Slow Joe. He is essentially Joe's bitch. Go out and dredge up business, Son. Cozy up to foreign dictators and potentates - let 'em know if they pay you, they got my ear at the highest levels.; 10/20/20, 9:11 PM
pacwest said...: I am really pretty pissed off at the FBI for not warning the Democrats off of Biden.

The FBI's behavior in this has been very strange. Their actions viewed from either side of the aisle don't make sense to me. They've had the HD contents for nearly a year.; 10/20/20, 9:11 PM
Kathryn51 said...: Seen on Twitter tonight:

McConnell has set the stage for Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation vote to happen on October 26th.

That is Hillary Clinton's birthday.

That is all.

With the usual gif of the Turtle and his smile. You are welcome.

Happy Birthday Hilldebeast.; 10/20/20, 9:15 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: How many of these antifa rioters are employees of Twitter and Face Book?; 10/20/20, 9:15 PM
Jaq said...: https://twitter.com/Autumnvessel/status/1318729356471132163; 10/20/20, 9:17 PM
Gospace said...: So it's here I first heard about the Trump bank account in China. Which is a corporate account in China for one of the many Trump businesses. So it's a big "so what?" to anyone who knows how business works. I've always had at least two accounts- a local one and one at NFCU. Now that I can deposit checks from my phone with a mobile banking app I'm figuring out how to untangle everything from the local account. Doesn't work that easy across national boundaries.

Just a few American companies that have accounts in China- because they operate in China:
https://www.thebalancesmb.com/china-largest-retail-chains-2892250

A further study of Trump corporations will show accounts in multiple countries. It's the nature of business. As for personal accounts outside the USA, I'll bet anyone here Trump doesn't have any. But I wont bet that Biden doesn't have a Cayman Islands (or equivalent nation with strict banking secrecy laws) account.; 10/20/20, 9:23 PM
daskol said...: Guild, proteinwisdom/goldstein and steven den beste are my personal early blog era touchstones. Goldstein, like only a few others I've encountered, was clued in early to the twisted logic, the burnt pretzel epistemics of our current era. Like Nassim Taleb, he had a brilliant central insight, which he used like a flamethrower to torch an amazing amount of bullshit. Flamethrowers burn hot.; 10/20/20, 9:29 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Boris & Natasha, call your office!!

Several Charged In Florida Flying Squirrel Trafficking Operation

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-flying-squirrel-trafficking-operation-officials-say-several-people-charged/ar-BB1acUf0?ocid=uxbndlbing

...either a low demand for Moose, or just too large to smuggle; 10/20/20, 9:33 PM
Jaq said...: The New York Times has abdicated. First to Twitter, now to Fox.; 10/20/20, 9:38 PM
Drago said...: Remember, Joe Biden said publicly that his son has done NOTHING WRONG.

Trafficked child sexual abuse, selling the foreign policy of the United States to foreign criminals and US enemies, crackheadin' around with "the big guy" in his back pocket.

According to r/v and readering and LLR-lefty *****, this constitutes doing nothing wrong.

I'm thinking this sentiment is not going to age well......; 10/20/20, 9:39 PM
Jaq said...: Oh Jesus. I was hoping that they were just mean memes.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1318724692660932609

ChiComs had themselves some serious “kompromat” on good ole Joe.; 10/20/20, 9:42 PM
Jaq said...: Joe Biden probably couldn’t get cleareance to mow the White House lawn.; 10/20/20, 9:45 PM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/20/20, 9:59 PM
madAsHell said...: Yeah....I'm kinda thinking the Humper Biden's self-destructing behavior just saved the USA.; 10/20/20, 10:04 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: which is more credible/appalling?

---The "Pee Pee Tapes"

--- Humper's Laptop Contents; 10/20/20, 10:06 PM
narciso said...: Evergreen

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1318673847365832706; 10/20/20, 10:14 PM
Jaq said...: This is like Christmas

“What’s very curious about this is not only that they got these meetings on November 14, 2011, but they actually, according to members, had a private, secret meeting with Joe Biden himself,” Schweizer said. “We don’t know about this because it appeared on the White House visitors logs or the White House calendar — it doesn’t. We know about it because the Chinese that were on that trip bragged about it in their blog posts back in China that they had this private, secret meeting with Joe Biden.”; 10/20/20, 10:22 PM
Jaq said...: "Clinton Foundation II”

The laptop had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it.; 10/20/20, 10:30 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Ghislaine update:

Unsealed documents MUST be made available no later than Thur at 9 a.m.,
there is now a time frame.
Judge Preska has ordered MINIMAL redactions, just to keep families not involved safe.

...will there be a surprising(?) list of elites?

Christine Pelosi warns Democrats: 'Some of our faves' may be implicated in Epstein scandal; 10/20/20, 10:46 PM
sterlingblue said...: How's everybody liking the "Communist China" version of America we've seen this year? Censorship and corruption is hot in 2020!

After the Dems sweep the election, we'll be even more China-like! (Except without the superior education or the respect given to men, of course.); 10/20/20, 11:00 PM
stephen cooper said...: Another way I spend my time ...

the baseball guys did a good job tonight with the first game of the World Series.
No racist nonsense before the game that I could see --- the first ball was thrown out by a nurse who was a Covid-19 first responder - and the catcher was her husband, another first responder.

Want to hear some trivia questions YOU PROBABLY CAN'T ANSWER (I can... I don't think you can. I would love to be proved wrong ....)
think about this:For the first time in baseball history, the World Series started tonight with more than 50 players on the two teams.

There are more than 60 people on the rosters of those two teams, combined.

Here is the trivia question you probably can't answer: What was the last year where a player who was in the starting lineup in the first game of the World Series was someone whose father was a combat veteran of WWII? (remember, the average 27 year old - which, year in and year out, is the average age of a starter on a World Series team - the average 27 year old was, on average, in the USA of yesteryear, 30 years younger than her father (well this is world series baseball we are talking about, so "his father" is more correct - a little less than that ( a little less than 30 years younger) in the 50s and 60s, (a little more than 30 years younger) in the 70s and later)) ---- so the peak year for WWII combat vets having a chance to watch their sons be on the starting lineup in a World Series game (average combat vet from WWII was 20 years old in 1945) (which gives us 1955, as the average birth year, when Dad was 30, for the sons of those veterans) (and which gives us 1982, believe it or not, as the peak year when their sons were playing in the World Series) (that is not the answer, but that is where you want to start).

There are still, as we speak, tonight in 2020, lots of American kids in high school whose dads are combat vets who fought in Vietnam. More than you would think.

Anyway ....

Think of what they went through. Be grateful. Or if you can't be grateful, at least try and give some thought to whether or not you are wrong not to feel at least some gratitude. You won't be wasting your time ... well, anyway, you won't be wasting time.
When you think about it, Nobody owns time, or almost 'nobody', anyway (the wind was quiet like a whisper) and to say "wasting 'your' time" is to say something that is sort of what the great writers and saints, bless their humble souls, would have Recognized as a solecism.; 10/20/20, 11:11 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: with the trending exposition of sexual abuse of under-aged,

...imagine if someone like, say, Justin Bieber were to name names; 10/20/20, 11:32 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: tim in vermont said...
Maybe Althouse could bring herself to read this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html

10/20/20, 8:57 PM

It's not real to Althouse if it's not in the NY Times.; 10/20/20, 11:47 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Tim in Vermont wrote:

"Maybe Althouse could bring herself to read this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html"

It is funny, isn't, how the NYTimes was so interested in Hunter Biden's corruption in December of 2015 when there was still rumors about Joe Biden challenging someone, I forget the name now, for the 2016 Democrat nomination. That story was a shot across the bow of the USS Biden, to stay out of the race.; 10/20/20, 11:48 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "But if Joe did get a percentage, there's gotta be some kind of record. There's gotta be some kind of discrepancy between his official sources of income and his net worth. Who's looking into it? Where are they looking?"

Basically they will tell you, "We have looked nowhere, and we are all out of ideas what to do next."; 10/20/20, 11:49 PM
Yancey Ward said...: tim in vermont said...

Top. Men.

If the warehouse is in the middle and the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, then sure.; 10/20/20, 11:59 PM
Yancey Ward said...: The Democrats are going to face a tough choice this weekend, I believe- try to move Harris up to the top spot, or just roll the dice and hope Biden can somehow survive the hits and win.

Let's face facts- Hunter Biden was selling access to his father's office, and his father was taking money by selling it, either directly or indirectly. The e-mails all but confirm this, and there is no really honest way to argue against this assertion. This was true a year ago during the impeachment brouhaha, but the missing piece was the confirmation from the Biden e-mails- you really can't deny it now- that ship has sailed.

Additionally, if Hunter Biden really did have sex on those tapes with underaged girls, his father's campaign is likely to lose catastrophically the rest of the way if he isn't removed ASAP- right now his problems are already showing up in the early vote numbers- it will only get worse.; 10/21/20, 12:57 AM
gadfly said...: @tim in vermont said...
Update (1930ET): In yet another death blow to Adam Schiff and the '50 former senior intelligence officers' "Russia, Russia, Russia" claims, the FBI and DOJ have told a Fox News producer that they do not believe that Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents are part of a Russian disinformation campaign, confirming that the 'current' intelligence community agrees with DNI Ratcliffe's comments yesterday.

Additionally, a Federal Law Enforcement Official also confirmed to Fox News' Martha MacCallum that the emails are "authentic". - ZeroHedge

You need to keep up with the real news, Tim. Ratcliffe works directly for Trump, for God's sake and apparently Rupert Murdoch does as well.

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a foreign intelligence operation, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The FBI seized the laptop and a hard drive through a grand jury subpoena. The subpoena was later published by the New York Post. The bureau has declined to comment [citing its practice of neither confirming nor denying investigations.]

The Treasury Department last month imposed sanctions on four people linked to Russia for attempting to influence the presidential election, including a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andriy Derkach, who has worked with Donald Trump’s consigliere Rudy Giuliani to smear Joe Biden. According to the Treasury, Derkach has been “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian intelligence services.”; 10/21/20, 2:59 AM
tim maguire said...: Sebastian said...But if Joe did get a percentage, there's gotta be some kind of record. There's gotta be some kind of discrepancy between his official sources of income and his net worth. Who's looking into it? Where are they looking?

Right. We know that Joe got rich off a job that doesn’t pay very well, but they all do. There probably aren’t 5 elected officials in Washington who don’t belong in jail for insider trading. And if there is an accepted route to riches that never leads to prosecution, then why pursue this one, which does?

We know Hunter used his position as Joe’s son to solicit bribes from foreign companies and governments, but that doesn’t necessarily implicate Joe. Hunter seems like exactly the kind of guy who would take the money and do nothing for it. Or make you think you’re getting something by arranging a handshake at a barbecue or reception.

To tie this to Joe, there needs to be evidence that “the big guy” is a reference to Joe or that the “half your money” line isn’t a family joke that doesn’t actually mean anything. So far, neither of these has been shown.

This is an embarrassment for Joe, which may be enough to swing the election, but right now, it’s no more than that.; 10/21/20, 5:01 AM
tim maguire said...: Chipotle said...BTW, anyone know why the markets are acting normal, even bored

Because they’re hardnosed money men and they know the most likely outcome of this election is no change—Dems keep the House, Reps keep the Senate and White House and Trump’s pro-business policies continue for a few more years.; 10/21/20, 5:07 AM
Jaq said...: "Federal investigators are examining whether emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden”

A story based on *former* officials denied both the the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice.

"Ratcliffe works directly for Trump”

You know, all of those former officials that are quoted worked for the most corrupt administration that we know about in our history. What the story should say is that former officials wish that the laptop was being investigated because that would be a good way to discredit this obviously true story.

I know you have gone all in with the crook Biden and this must be hard for you to be faced with the evidence that you have been wrong all of this time, but you must have suspected it when the hard evidence against Trump kept failing to appear.; 10/21/20, 5:43 AM
Jaq said...: I don’t know @tim maguire, does hosting a secret meeting with the ChiComs in the White House, set up by Hunter, count?; 10/21/20, 5:46 AM
Jaq said...: Biden skips another opportunity to say the emails are fake:

“The vast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said, there’s no basis at all.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/20/biden-no-legitimacy-to-claims-hunter-profited-off-family-name-desperate-campaign-to-smear-me-and-my-family/

He is referring 40 former intelligence officials who admit in their letter that they have no new evidence but are suspicious because this is so helpful to Trump at such a key time, as if that were evidence that it’s fake. Also somehow the fact that Trump is behind in the polls proves that these emails are fake.

Here is a question you won’t answer gadfly, why would the Russians who fund their military off of oil revenues, want anybody but the guy who has promised to put an end to fracking? You guys never answer that question.; 10/21/20, 5:54 AM
stevew said...: Why do people in Massachusetts put up Biden/Harris signs in their yard? In an attempt to convince undecided or squishy voters to vote for Slo' Joe? To signal to us how special and responsible they, as voters, are? Because they just hate Trump so very, very much? Or are they worried that Biden really is as bad a candidate (demented, corrupt, and a puppet) as everyone else says and fear he could lose the state? Is this a situation that calls for 'and' rather than 'or'?

It is a puzzle.; 10/21/20, 5:59 AM
Rory said...: "But at this point anyone looking at what has been revealed who voted for Biden is deliberately voting for a crook."

It's not just Biden. Biden himself is proof of the insincerity of all the leadership of the "resistance." True reform movements don't puke up nonentities like Biden. The implication in influence peddling just tells us more about the people behind him.; 10/21/20, 5:59 AM
Jaq said...: Why would Giuliani risk prison for giving the police fake evidence against Hunter?

New: Rudy Giuliani visited a Delaware police station Monday to share files from what he said was Hunter Biden’s laptop.

New Castle County Police then called the state AG

The Attorney General then called the FBI.

The Delaware police called the FBI because they figure it is Russian disinformation.

Jennings’ office subsequently gave the device to the FBI because the federal agency *reportedly* had opened an investigation into the veracity of claims about the origin of the laptop and how its alleged contents were shared with Giuliani’s team, Marshall said.

They completely ignore the child abuse aspect. Aren’t the police supposed to check this stuff out for themselves? Oh that’s right, this is Xi’s America.; 10/21/20, 6:06 AM
Rusty said...: daskol said...
"Guild, proteinwisdom/goldstein and steven den beste are my personal early blog era touchstones."
Toyally agree. He's a highly underused asset. Maybe Althouse could do some podcasts with him.
Just puttin' it out there.; 10/21/20, 6:08 AM
iowan2 said...: Gadfly, the FBI has had the laptop since December 2019. The FBI as said there is no evidence the laptop or contents are Russia misinformation.

Time lines prove your wishcasting is wrong. Respond if you dare.

Can we agree the FBI has had the laptop for 10 months? Can we agree that 10 months is enough time to do the counter intel work/
Can we agree sexual contact with minor(s) is a crime?

Let us start with agreeing on simple facts and build from that.; 10/21/20, 6:32 AM
Jaq said...: Email accounts of “secret” meetings with Joe set up by Hunter match secret service logs. Such verisimilitude in fake evidence! And all of this stuff was done a year ago, and they were so confident of their work, they gave it to the FBI!

@gadfly obviously thinks that Trump is an evil genius.

It’s obviously fake because it helps Trump though. I learned that in Philosophy 115.; 10/21/20, 6:33 AM
iowan2 said...: The contents of Bidens laptop have been given to Delaware law enforcement. What a great move. Squeezing the feds to do their job, or explain why they refuse to see a crime.; 10/21/20, 6:38 AM
Original Mike said...: Blogger stevew said..."Why do people in Massachusetts put up Biden/Harris signs in their yard?"

Here in our Madison neighborhood virtually every house has 2 or 3 signs. Our signless house is pretty conspicuous. The sign that really sticks in my craw is the one supporting a large increase in school spending for facilities the teachers refuse to use.; 10/21/20, 9:10 AM
Original Mike said...: "It’s obviously fake because it helps Trump though. I learned that in Philosophy 115."

Isn't that also Althouse's position?; 10/21/20, 9:14 AM
Michael K said...: It's not just Biden. Biden himself is proof of the insincerity of all the leadership of the "resistance." True reform movements don't puke up nonentities like Biden. The implication in influence peddling just tells us more about the people behind him.

Yes, and The Resistance is made up of those with snouts buried in one of the troughs. Not just China but all the feeders in DC that pay for those expensive homes.; 10/21/20, 12:19 PM