but you're incredibly naive.
Sure but that doesn't get your laptop verified, does it?
It's not mine, and my claim was that three orgs had confirmed it (and by it I mean the data that is being shared around because all you can confirm about a laptop minus the data is that it is a laptop)
Why is it that you aren't "sure you would have heard about it" if the FBI had failed to authenticate the laptop.
Because Giuliani, Bannon, and Gaetz would have leaked it.
Because Guiliani etc.. would have leaked FBI findings? That doesn't make sense. If the FBI has the laptop (they do), then they can look at serial numbers, data, everything. If they could show it wasn't Biden's why do you think they would do anything but immediately announce that?
FBI would do everything possible to help the democratic party
If
you think that the FBI is not an overwhelmingly Republican institution
that you don't know anything about the FBI. There are a few liberals
and a few Democrats but before Trump, a substantial majority of the FBI
voted Republican by all accounts.
I'm sure that's why they framed the Trump campaign.
Your job was to prove that the laptop(s) were thrice authenticated and you have failed on all 3 counts.
No my job was to show three orgs claiming to be using the information as true, and I have. I didn't say I had authenticated it three times, I said two media orgs and the DOJ had.
The FBI saying that it has no evidence of Russian disinformation
That isn't all they said. They seized the laptop, haven't let it go, widened the investigation shortly thereafter, and then said it wasn't Russian disinformation and that the emails were authentic. Not that "it had no evidence Russian disinformation".
If you take as a given that there is a
laptop which appears to have Hunter's stuff on it, and you can compile a
finite list of plausible explanation for its existence then eliminating
every possibility except one is a strong argument in favor of the one.
Well,
if we are going with PLAUSIBLE explanations, then the notion that a guy
who spent much of his life as the target of Republican smear campaigns
would just casually drop off three laptops with any kind of personal
information on them to a guy who just happens to be Giuliani's biggest
fan and never even bothered to make a call back to find out what
happened to all this important information is not one of those PLAUSIBLE
explanations, is it?
Why do you believe there was ever more than one laptop?
As for why he would leave it and never pick it up? Essentially the same reason Joe bragged about using his influence to affect US foreign policy to extort the removal of his personal enemy in the form of a prosecutor going after corruption. Sometimes the bad guys are so used to being bad and invulnerable that they forget what they need to hide.
This is of course glossing over the fact that what you're doing right now is special pleading.
I don't think you understand what special pleading means.
I think I do, you have a categorical statement or principle and then you try to claim that it shouldn't apply for any reason other than actually being outside the given category.
- You said, "Here's Biden signature on the receipt!"
- I said, "Why doesn't it match his Driver's License?"
I call that a fairly comprehensive rebuttal.
You are acting like it's not a match, it is neither a match nor a non-match to the untrained eye. People DO write signatures very differently depending on the time and formality. My signature is almost always illegible, everyone I know has illegible signatures on all receipts, but not on their driver's licenses or marriage license.
I still call it special pleading because there is no way in hell that the media you rely on would ever reject a signature match if they thought it implicated one of Trump's sons in something. It wouldn't have even been brought to your attention because left-wing news does not feel the need to show pictures for corroboration. They assert, and if you don't believe that shows how racist and antidemocratic you are.
If I treated all news with the skepticism that extends to demanding photographs of receipts and my personal opinion on whether they match I would reject everything and I am 98% sure you aren't like that.
What's the alternative hypothesis?
I can think of plenty but right now we're just disproving your claim. My unproved theories would only muddy.
You think you've come anywhere close to disproving my claim? You have outright dismissed the citations you requested, the citations were complete and irrefutable proof of my claim. Even if (against all odds) it (and by it we mean the emails and other contents on the laptop) was a super complicated Russian plant my assertion would still be true, they would have still confirmed it and they (not me) would have been wrong.
The simplest explanation, the least "conspiratorial" is
that the confirmed emails and confirmed videos came from Hunter's
laptop and that his laptop was left at a Mac repair shop.
With so many prior copies made that experts can't confirm that what hard drive they originated? Why would you have 217 Gb of copies of
email files on your personal laptop rather than just mails in your
account? That's just maxing out your entire storage for no reason.
Who said the email cache was 217 Gb? You may be entirely used to webmail with cache size limits, but desktop mail clients have no such restrictions and most will try to maintain local copies for indexed searches and rapid startup. Without an enormous amount of attachments not 217 Gb of course.
Doesn't the fact that Biden is alleged to have accidently chosen Rudy
Giuliani's biggest fan to fix his PCs rather strain credulity?
Not more than the alternative. There are a lot of people who are political. Assuming election exit polls are accurate it's 25/25 you'll run into a strong partisan.
Why
would Hunter Biden, who lives in California, take three laptops to a mac
repair shop in Delaware? Yes, his father lives there and Hunter used
to live there so he might be visiting but would you travel with three
laptops? And if those laptops were so important that you had to bring
them with you on vacation and you did accidently get them all
simultaneously water damaged on the same trip how would they then be so
unimportant that your forgot to pick them up. How big do your vodka
tonics have to be to get three laptops water damaged simultaneously
anyway?
I haven't heard about the three laptops thing, just one, but that cuts both ways. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction and why would anyone make up a story with such obviously unnecessary components?
If Guiliani is your evil mastermind and he can be stupid why can't Hunter?
You have to believe a whole long line of totally crazy shit is true to buy Giuliani's.
I think we can both agree that Guiliani cannot fabricate a local email cache, so the alternative hypothesis isn't that simple either is it.
This isn't the sole piece of evidence of the
conspiracy either. Joe's statements about what he did, Biden's unusual
positions, meetings, the testimony of Bobulinski and Shokin.
Even
if you bought everything else, your conspiracy falls apart on motive.
Trump claims that Shokin was investigating the Bidens but we now know
for a fact that was never true.
Oh do we? He was investigating burisma. Unless you're claiming investigating burisma isn't the same as investigating Hunter I look forward to having you "prove" your claim here under the same exacting standards you have thus far implied were necessary. (if you are claiming that then you will have convinced me there is little to no hope for you)
Trump claims that Biden was trying to stop an investigation into Burisma but everybody in Ukraine knows that's not true.
Everybody.... it must of taken a long time for you to interview that many.
There was an investigation into Burisma but Shokin was corruptly slow-walking that investigation.
Oh yea that nasty Shokin, Joe just couldn't stand how he wasn't investigating the company his son questionably extracted large amounts of wealth from. Joe is simply that just and honourable.
When Biden demanded Shokin's termination, he was literally representing
the Free World- EU, NATO, IMF, World Bank all demanded Shokin out before
Ukraine could make any claim of improving democracy and transparency.
More claims, I'm looking forward to declaring media organizations to be "not credible"
POST #33- what about Hillary?
Hilary was not presenting evidence.
