OK, I freely admit that's not a very clever moniker for the Biden scandal. If you've got a better one, let me know. And don't try LaptopGate. That's totally lame. And it has to be family friendly.
Anyway, my guess is that this will get VERY bad. A selection of titles from TGP will give you the idea of how bad it is already--well before the Big Drop date. Most of these titles work off a Steve Bannon interview, but Bannon's statements appear to be corroborated by the NYPost, which is so far leading the charge.
Oh Boy: Hunter Biden’s Computer Camera Roll Turned Over to Bannon and Giuliani Contains 25,000 Images With Sexually Explicit Selfies and Porn
According to the blog and Bannon--and confirmed by the NYPost--the 25K WORTH OF IMAGES portrays "a drug-addled, depraved lifestyle." I'll bet they do!
Then there's this:
WOW! Crooked Joe Biden to Go into Hiding Starting Monday Until Debate on Thursday Night — in Final Weeks Before Election!
That's confirmed by CBS:
CBS's Ed O'Keefe on Face The Nation: "[Joe Biden] will not be seen again after today until Thursday night." REMINDER: Joe Biden and his campaign have not disputed the authenticity of the bombshell emails which detail the extensive corruption of the Biden family.
Now, they say the retreat to the basement is all about debate prep. Me neither. But what kind of damage control is this? Looks like more self inflicted damage to me, but that's what you end up doing when you're jammed up by the truth.
How wild will it all get? This wild:
WARNING: Liberal Groups Caught Posting Fake Photos Online So They Can Claim the Hunter Biden Stories Recently Uncovered Are Conspiracies
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Revolver, Bannon promised that there's much more to come. Can we bear it? Oh, what the hell ...
Revolver: Is there any reason to expect that the contents of the hard drive will be revealed before the election? If yes, will people actually care enough for it to substantially affect the outcome?
Mr. Bannon: The Bidens are about to be hit with multiple stories from multiple media sources based off evidence beyond the hard drive. Fox and Peter Schweitzer have already started but bigger more mainstream companies are going to weigh in. We already have set in motion the various apparatuses that will release everything.
Revolver: What are your thoughts on the efforts to discredit the hard drive as “Russian disinformation?” Is there any evidence this is Russian disinformation at all? At any rate, what matters is not whether Biden-supporting media calls it “disinformation” — what matters is whether it’s true. Has the Biden camp explicitly denied the factual accusations pertaining to the hard drives?
Mr. Bannon: Rupert Murdoch’s team at the NY Post is as sophisticated and tough as there is in all media. They had the metadata and they signed off to go forward. The Russia excuse — and it is an excuse — collapsed when Fox verified the information with someone on the email chain. The Biden campaign has yet to say these emails or photos are not real. The reason? Hunter’s lawyer sent emails trying to recover the hard drive. These are real — the Bidens know they are real — and they are going to have to deal with that reality.
Finally, Howie Carr has an article, behind an adblocker, that's a real must read Fear and loathing in the Biden Crime Family. It's totally devastating and shows--for anyone with half a brain--that Hunter was nothing but the bagman for "The Big Guy." The decades long influence peddling was Joe Biden's baby.
A particularly fascinating portion reveals how the Biden campaign attempted to innoculate Biden from his son. Good luck with that! But they tried:
Dementia Joe’s keepers have always understood that Hunter was capable of getting Pop into this kind of a jam. That’s how far gone Hunter Biden is.
Which is why last year they commissioned one of their Democrat stenographers with a press pass to try to inoculate the campaign. The Bidens ordered up a sob story about Hunter in one of their party organs called The New Yorker.
At the beginning, the obsequious scribe engaged in that Democrat tradition of projection, accusing the Republicans of everything he was up to, “promoting, without evidence, the dubious narrative that Biden used the office of the Vice-President to advance and protect his son’s interests.”
Dubious? Again, Biden hasn’t denied anything. Without evidence? Ditto. And as we know now, it’s not just his son’s interests “Pop” is protecting — Hunter told his own kid he’s kicking up half to the old man.
But that's just scratching the surface of an incredibly devastating article.
The Dems may have thought that "pee tape" hoax was funny at the time. Who'll laugh last now?
UPDATE: Very clever: Pardon Joe Biden Now! I suppose the right way to go about it would be to offer him a pardon. If he turns it down, well, he's open for prosecution.
How about Dumbass Gate? Or there's Lying-cheating-corrupt- sleazy-deep state-politician gate? Kinda long, huh?
ReplyDeleteHarddrivegate.
DeleteRob S
I still maintain that its not that harmful to his campaign to disappear:
ReplyDelete1-the media continues to blackball the stories anyway. And for an LIV who could be persuaded, it DOES matter that CNNBCBSWPNYT et al are not even mentioning it. Its not swaying any of us because we're already decided.
2-unless there is a smoking gun to Joe himself and they cut this slow drip crap out, what little obligatory coverage the media brothels are forced to do will be under the guise of trying to smear Joe with the well-known hooker and blow adventures of his son.
I am trying to nail a detail down, and your readers are the most informed around- it concerns the attempt by Biden's lawyer to retrieve the laptop from Isaac.
ReplyDeleteGiuliani said that the lawyer attempted this on Tuesday- the day before the NYPost story landed. Now, I am sure the NYPost reporters contacted Biden and asked for commentary, and I seriously doubt they gave him the article as it appeared in Wednesday's newspaper, so, did the reporters tell Biden and his lawyers about Isaac's connection to the laptop?
It matters because if the Post reporters didn't tell Biden this on Monday or Tuesday, or whenever they first contacted him, then it demonstrates that Hunter Biden knew where the laptop came from and told his lawyers to go retrieve it.
I read somewhere, not sure where, that the lawyer was on the phone calling different computer repair shops in that area, and got the right one on the third try or so. Only a year or two too late, though...
Deleteanother whole front...Facebook conflict of interest and another nest of vipers?
Deletehttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/does-explain-why-facebook-was-so-quick-suppress-hunter-biden-revelations
If Biden wins the election, Harris' people will see to it that the laptop story does not disappear from the media. It will probably happen this way if Biden wins:
ReplyDeleteBiden attends the inauguration and is sworn in, then around the end of January, the NYTimes does their first in depth story on the laptop that "reluntantly" admits that the data is real and that Biden likely was on the take using Hunter as a bagman. An editorial will then be written after about a month that for the good of the country, Biden needs to resign- it will be proclaimed as the non-Trump thing to do.
A real possibility but I think they will let it roll around in the "investigative" stage 'til Jan '23; that way Kamala (did I pronounce that correctly?) can be Prez for a full ten years.
DeleteTom S.
@Anon;
DeleteWhy else would Pelosi saber rattle the 25yh amendment. For Sleepy Joe’s but she hacking event post election.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Trump mentions this at the next debate?
As for the fake pictures- I saw that one yesterday on another thread somewhere- I could find it in any of the NYPost's reporting, so I wondered where it came from. It is disheartening to see the lengths to which the media will go to buttress a lie.
ReplyDelete"disheartening to see the lengths...."
DeleteI urge you to get used to it.
If they don't publish photoshopped pix of DJT biting hippopotamus crank, it'll only be because they bet that such pix won't fly.
Yacov with the goods:
Deletehttps://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/operation-snort/
AbovetheLawgate?
ReplyDeleteFor a decent moniker, how about "BigManGate" (for Hunter's label for pops)?
ReplyDeleteAnyone here have an idea, about when we see the Big Drop date?
PopsGate or CornPopsGate
Deletehttps://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/18/biden-campaign-manager-warns-race-will-come-down-to-the-wire/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/18/think-tank-funded-by-u-s-and-foreign-governments-calls-for-suppression-of-breitbart-fox-conservative-media/
Expect to see a counter-offensive on multiple fronts. Scare the base into turnout because Orange-Man-Bad, attacks on the messengers via the circular verification tactic, which they have made cliché by overuse, and the ol’ faithful fake fake-but-true meme.
Watch the outrage over dragging children into politics when Trump brings it up at the debate, if there is one.
Tom S.
Isn't the question whether every last Republican politician pounds this ceaselessly now until forever? Isn't the lack of fire support from these repubs the real issue, regardless of what Dem media outlets and big tech try to do?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the lack of fire support has always been suspect, but now it's hugely more so.
DeleteRight now Fox has on the WSJ's John Bussey, a notorious never-Trumper, puking out Dem talking points, unopposed.
DeleteI'll bet few Fox viewers know boo, of the real story about this shill.
Grew up in Wilmington, Del and became familiar with the “Delaware Way” over time. Mostly “harmless” corruption but the Bidens have obviously upped their game. My first thought on these revelations was how great turning the tables on these people must feel for Trump after the incredible abuse foisted on him and his family. Then I read some more about Hunter and while a grown man how difficult it has to be seeing your son go through this-6 times in rehab. Then today I realize that Joe Biden has at some level enabled this lifestyle and what kind of father does this? I am more disgusted than ever with the big guy.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I see Obama is campaigning in Philly for Joe this week. When you need Obama to get out the vote in Philly things are not looking up. I am sure he will hold a lengthy news conference thereafter.
"When you need Obama to get out the vote in Philly things are not looking up."
Deletehttps://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/10/18/pres-obama-headed-to-philadephia-and-the-reason-is-in-the-numbers-bad-numbers-for-joe-biden/
DeleteThis is a good break down of why, "The mountain must go to Mohammed."
I just did a new post on that. Yes, very nice break down.
DeleteLieGate?
ReplyDeleteThe Godfather has to be fit into the scandal name somehow, with Joe being Don Corleone and Hunter playing the part of Fredo.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Howie Carr. He does have a nice way with words.
ReplyDeleteI’m astonished a liberal group would upload fake pictures as a way to discredit the laptop. Very unethical. It goes along with Harry Reid’s comment on his Romney tax lie “he lost, didn’t he”.
ReplyDeleteThe LA Times in their main section did a great job of I think page 25 of mentioning the scandal with no details. It was a work of art. Key term was unverified allegations about a Hunter Biden. Article talked of how much trouble Twitter was in for blocking the story / scandal. I saw this at my parents house, they still subscribe. Fortunately I had sent Tucker’s video of him explaining the scandal already to my parents.
News media has a choice, either continue to block the story and chance having their credibility destroyed along with Bidens. And Trump Will get around the media wall of silence and destroy the Bidens credibility, and especially show their collusion with China. Russia / Ukraine I don’t see moving voters, to confusing, China on the other hand will move voters. There is lots of anger over lost jobs to China among blue collar voters.
"a choice, either continue to block the story and chance having their credibility destroyed...."
DeleteMost of them are likely too far invested, to go the other way.
Esp. since, if Dems win, the DS will systematically smash *all* opposition to these MSM empires.
"Bi-den of thieves"?
ReplyDeleteHalf-To-Pop-Gate
ReplyDeletePop! Goes the weasel has a nice ring. Everyone can sing along.
ReplyDelete"Hunter Biden’s Computer Camera Roll Turned Over to Bannon and Giuliani Contains 25,000 Images With Sexually Explicit Selfies and Porn"
ReplyDeleteHunter Biden's.
Not Joe Biden's.
SWC has a short tweet-storm throwing cold water on the CP claims re: Hunter's laptop files.
DeleteThere may be porn; there may be smutty selfies, there may be a variety of images that show inappropriate and possibly illegal behavior, but there is no evidence so far to suggest they include Child Porn.
I saw that earlier and thought to myself, With all the things to tweet about today, he's spending his time making these distinctions?
Delete"Hunter Biden's.
Delete"Not Joe Biden's."
Your point being that Joe Biden's BagSon should be treated with as much deference as Trump's children have been treated?
@ EZ
DeleteIf his point is that we don't know what the FBI may be investigating, that's true. But it's also pretty much beside the point when we're dealing with material in the public field of politics now. And with emails already released that show clearly that both Hunter and "Pop" were running a pay to play scheme with Ukraine and China.
SWC is making the distinction, IMHO, because there is an active discreditation campaign underway to suck stupid Trump supporters into believing fake drug snorting or CP photos are on Hunter's laptop. To the extent Trump supporters get caught up in the fake stiff, it will be used to discredit ALL claims about illegal behavior, even that which is real.
DeleteIn fact that wasn't my point.
DeleteI expect the Biden campaign to throw Hunter Biden under the bus if necessary. Their media henchmen will do all they can to smother it, but there's a danger in attempting to hang on Joe Biden some of his son's behavior over which he has no control, and over which fair-minded people would not expect him to.
...and Kazakhstan, apparently. It looks as if Hunter Biden went around setting up "business" ventures all over theplace, with the main commodity he brought to the table being his father's USG influence. I'm sure Jivin' Joe had no idea any of this was going on.
Delete@ EZ, you managed to make that point in 52 words. Why waste time on a tweet storm?
Delete@ Anonymous
DeleteAre you out of your mind? Hunter Biden was/is Joe Biden's Bagman. The millions of dollars that Hunter blew on drugs, prostitution, and likely other criminal activity was financed entirely by the fruits of Joe Biden's criminal influence peddling schemes--we've seen the email evidence of that. What kind of father involves his son in criminal activity, sees the fruits of that criminality financing his son's life of depravity and criminality, sees his son going in and out of rehab his entire adult life and ... just keeps going on? Knowing that his own criminality is financing his son's downward spiral?
Do you have any moral conscience yourself?
Also, apparently a focus on CP because the FBI agent who had the subpoena for the drives has been described in the press as a specialist in crimes involving child pornography.
DeleteFrank
@ Anonymous
DeleteCan you not see the connection between Joe Biden's character--as revealed in his financing and enabling of his son's gross degeneracy--and Joe Biden's fitness for office?
Mark, not sure its necessary to go after Anon above - he is simply saying how the optics go. We all agree its gross. To the degree, however, that the media brothels can position the salacious stuff up front - they get to brush aside the connective tissue to the father for corruption.
DeleteIn fact, I would bet money they position almost identically to what you said above: "Do you have any moral conscience yourself?" - e.g. - how could you mean-spirited republicans drag a kid, who has a known problem, through the mud, to try and besmirch Biden??? Haven't you any integrity??? To an LIV, the salacious hookers and blow stories overpower the rest, and it seems like you're trying to hang it on the poor old man who tried so hard to keep his son in line.
This is why I keep saying (not like Giuliani or anyone else would care what I say) that unless they have a smoking gun email or spreadsheet and unless they release it ASAP and stop the drip drip - this is going to be a wash. The media borthels know that only LIV's are persuadable right now. and they own that conduit.
Couldn’t agree more re fitness for office. I think hammering home this point about father enabling son’s depravity will resonate with some suburban women taken in by decent Joe. Also, how criminally incompetent were Joe’s advisers when they did not take control of every device Hunter ever had and wiped every online activity in last few years? They certainly knew what a time bomb this guy was.
Delete@ Anon @ 5:46
DeleteTo some extent I agree in that, being unable to refute the LT/HD data directly, the media will attempt to bury the corruption of the family under a mountain of salacious mat'l meant to distract from, if not outright hide, Ol' Joe's evil. Giuliani has to be careful not to let them steal the initiative.
@ MjH @ 6:01
"Also, how criminally incompetent were Joe’s advisers when they did not take control of every device Hunter ever had...."
Ol' Joe was working a grift with the kind of people that don't let you just walk away. However flawed a courier Hunter might have been Joe still needed him rather than recruit someone outside the family.
That being said I'm thinking some Dem donors want the head of the person that sold them on Joe as their best shot on a pike.
Tom S.
Bleach bit the old stuff, have Brennan get Hunter and Joe the latest technology! If Hillary was put on Joe’s technology advisory board, this would not have happened.
DeleteMW wrote:
ReplyDelete"It's totally devastating and shows--for anyone with half a brain--that Hunter was nothing but the bagman for "The Big Guy." The decades long influence peddling was Joe Biden's baby."
I commented a few days ago that Hunter is the feckless Fredo Corleone of the Biden family. And, as we all recall, Fredo was the bagman who delivered the suitcase of cash to his brother in Cuba.
Discreditation photo details:
ReplyDelete>> https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/operation-snort/ <<
How 'bout The Pop Flop
ReplyDeleteGiuliani is the guest on Mark Levin's TV show tonight.
ReplyDeleteMore emails coming out tonight:
ReplyDelete>> https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1317843325190344705 <<
Get the popcorn machine warmed up!
Only an Establishment Hack would recommend pardoning Joe Biden
ReplyDeleteIf we had a press interested in anything more adult than Joe's favorite flavor ice cream someone would ask him if he would accept a pardon. Would love to see his reaction to that question.
DeleteTom S.
No “gate” name yet. But a campaign slogan:
ReplyDeleteBig Guy for the Big House
And maybe a headline:
This is a big f..., I mean Big Guy, deal.
Boy go out for the day with the Mrs. and miss a little... lot.
ReplyDeleteSince we’re all having fun with naming this thing...
How about:
Pop-son-gate
MSM-miss-gate. Rhymes with mistake. LOL
ItwasHillarysfault-gate.
Or BigguyLittledope-gate.
ReplyDeleteI've commented previously that the documentary evidence available to Durham is, in itself, sufficient to obtain convictions in many of the cases that will be forthcoming. And rather than put the nation through a long nightmare of embarrassing trials of dozens of government officials, a determined effort is underway to secure guilty pleas from many of the lesser participants, and this will include some pretty high level people in the Executive Branch. Their role will largely be focused on establishing the reality of the coup for public consumption rather than trial assistance.
ReplyDeleteBut more specifically, after the extent of the Obama Administration's corruption becomes evident through revelations such as those that will be forthcoming, e.g. Hunter Biden et al., the attempted coup will pale into insignificance. That is how bad the corruption in DC has become. Trump himself has implied that it may not be feasible to fully reveal all that has happened, lest it could tear the country apart.
Rocky road ahead.
Crackgate is going to be a train wreck, it's my least favorite type of political reporting but like the national enquirer people seem to eat it up.
ReplyDeleteI said the other day this will end up dominating the news cycle and guys like Steve B and Rudy G will tick tock this to death. Just dump the data, you've more info than you can possibly sort. Let the reddit and 4chan kids have at it.
Somethings I did pick up on worth noting is Devon Archer + another currently unnamed participant rolling over on team Biden.
The other is the Chinese connection, there is an apparent Chinese official to Hunter connection peddling young girls in advance of visits.
That's the type of drama that makes fox news headlines.
Otherwise like most players in DC politics the majority involved are too big to prosecute.
Now back to things that really matter.
The currently unnamed participant is Bevan Cooney
DeleteHaven’t seen Margot Cleveland for a while, but here is her take on what she characterizes as being all about Joe Biden. Cautions us to not get hung up on the salacious Hunter stuff as that is what the Biden camp wants us to do. Drug-addicted son, etc., etc. Joe’s power addiction is what this scheme was all about. She also goes into the big issue of Joe’s being a national security risk:
ReplyDeleteThe Biden Corruption Scandal Isn’t About Hunter, It’s About Joe
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/the-biden-corruption-scandal-isnt-about-hunter-its-about-joe/
>> "Let me be clear: the intelligence community doesn't believe that [Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign] because there's no intelligence that supports that... It's simply not true." - Director of National Intelligence John Ratfliffe <<
ReplyDeleteQuestion: are they releasing the actual email files in addition to screen grabs? (Obviously screen grabs can be manipulated, but the metadata in the files would be much harder to change.)
ReplyDeleteI understand the barking dog argument, but at some point real forensics has to be undertaken or this has potential to be a sleazy political stunt.
Guidogate?
ReplyDeleteFredogate! With Joe Biden as the Godfather and Hunter as the third string bagman son.
DeleteChinagate?
DeleteAs Mark has been saying, at the end of the day, this story exposes that Biden has been totally and intentionally compromised by China.
Chinagate--we could be going there!
DeleteSomething to maybe add to this whole saga is the narrative build and why I will personally NEVER trust our DOJ or FBI again.
ReplyDeleteWere right back to giving the MSM the clout and narrative creation via the DOJ. The fact that there even recycling one of the guys Muller already charged and ended up dismissed is just mind bending!!
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925423705/doj-unveils-more-sweeping-cyber-charges-against-russian-intelligence-officers?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
"Jack Posobiec
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BREAKING: Hunter Biden associate’s emails reveal details of deal with fmr Moscow mayors wife to launder funds into the US in avoidance of sanctions, Devon Archer claimed firm received $200M - @OANN"
>> https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1318292666681995264 <<
"Money laundering."
Elsewhere, John Solomon reporting on Hannity radio that more whistleblowers will become known in the next few days, and he believes the story cannot be suppressed once that happens.
Sounds very promising.
DeleteMoney laundering makes total sense.
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