What was suppressed and would it have made a difference?

Genuinely don't know.

There is a positive to it in that it is so blatant that nobody with even a modicum of political nous can deny the double standards.

It helps make the divide stronger and more permanent.

Edited by Matov (04 Dec 2022 1.06pm)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I know, but what I also know, which you apparently don't, or just choose to ignore. is that it's a non story.

There is no evidence that that this involved anyone in government, let alone the current President. At worse this was a troubled son trying to gain advantage from his father's position.

That the right add two and two and try to make it ten is just evidence of their desperation.

Would it have made a difference? Probably. It did when Clinton's emails were released without FBI intervention in 2016, which they learned from and have tried to avoid a repeat.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

What is blatant is that the hard right press, on behalf of the Trump base, are desperately trying to find some dirt to pin on Biden in the hope it will deflect attention away from Trump.

It's unfortunately another example of a Big Lie being told so often that some start to believe it must be true. Fortunately this time it seems there won't be enough.

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"The FBI has a duty to warn social media platforms about any perceived threats of election interference by foreign actors."

No they don't. They choose to interfere when they don't like the politics.

Perceived means no proof just a narrative.

Your repeated description of Hunter Biden as " a troubled son " is designed to suit your own view of what happened.

My view is he was a corrupt entitled opportunist who leveraged his father's position to make money for both of them.

For Joe Biden to state he had no idea about any of his son's business dealings is risible.

Time will reveal a lot more of what happened, the blank spaces in Biden's official diary of meetings in the White House when Hunter bought in his business connections will be interesting when the truth comes out.

As we stand, it's all speculation of both guilt and innocence.

That to one side, as mentioned on here before, Twitter and the MSM were sufficiently concerned to try and bury the story.

Edited by HKOwen (04 Dec 2022 9.56pm)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

The FBI are politically blind. They serve the USA, not a party, or a President. Don't that fact get in the way of your prejudice though!

Perceived means exactly what it says. They had warnings of another dump of misinformation from sources, which were non-specific. So they made the social media companies aware of this and asked they take special care with anything that could not be independently authenticated. Keeping the USA safe is their duty. That's part of it.

My description of Hunter Biden is indeed how I view him, as yours is just yours. I am sure his father had a broad idea of what his son was involved in, but almost certainly not the detail. He has quite a lot of other things to be dealing with. I know what my daughters do, but not who their contacts are, where they based etc. And I am nothing like so busy as Joe.

The MSM didn't "bury" the story at all. They wouldn't run it whilst it remained unverified. Like you I think there is a great deal more to come out, but unlike you I think it will tell us much more about the role that Bannon and Giuliani played along with the guy who first made the copies of the hard drive. Evidence is beginning to seep out that these were tampered with. The only authentic copy is with the FBI, and they aren't saying anything. Yet.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (05 Dec 2022 8.38am)

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