Daily Verse | Philippians 3:17
Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you.
Monday’s Reading: Colossians 1-4
Happy Monday, my friends.
Late Friday afternoon Elon Musk began to deliver on a promise to reveal the truth about Twitter’s effort to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. Musk chose to give Matt Taibbi the honor of releasing the information.
The main thing to take away from the reveal is this: we weren’t wrong. In fact, we were right, just as we and any other level-headed, fair-minded, rational human being was when we looked at was going on.
Twitter conspired with the federal government to hide a damning report about Joe Biden’s son, who appears to be not only morally bankrupt, but was laundering Chinese money for his father.
There were some introductory formalities from Matt Taibbi, but let’s get to the juicy part. On Oct. 14, 2020, less than a month before the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the New York Post broke the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop, full of drug porn and — more importantly — his emails telling the story of mass corruption involving his uncle Jim and his father Joe, also known as “the Big Guy.”
The best place for you to see the thread of tweets that Taibbi posted is here (HT Kevin Downey). They’re too hard to read on Taibbi’s account, so I recommend clicking the link and reading them there, in the order they were posted.
Here’s a few to whet your appetite:
By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
Collusion anyone?
This system wasn’t balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.
Let’s just round up, shall we? 100%. 100%. 100%.
On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dadHunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-b
Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
Back to Kevin Downey’s story:
According to Taibbi, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was the only Democrat to express concern about the decision to shut down the laptop story.
A representative from NetChoice then let Twitter know that Republicans were not happy and that the suppression of the laptop story might be a “tipping point.”
Meanwhile, other Democrats pushed for “more moderation,” even going so far as to state that Hillary “did nothing wrong” in her email scandal and claiming, “the First Amendment isn’t absolute.” You know, the same way Biden said, “no amendment is absolute.”
It’s maddening, and there’s more to come, according to Taibbi.
There’s a reason gaslighting is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, 2022.