This is a thorough once-over giving the lie to the "conservatives'" self-serving bullshit squealing that "Butbutbutbutbut if you don't tolerate my intolerance you're a hypocrite!" The short version, as put forth in the article, is this: tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact.
Put another way, it's social technology, just like laws. It allows us, in an ever-more-connected global society, to exist and function. Like a treaty it covers those, and only those, who are party to it.
This means that if you're a genocidal fucking psychopath then no, Virginia, we do not have to "tolerate" your unhinged ramblings. You are cancer in the body politic. You have gleefully ripped your human card to shreds and dropped the pieces in an incinerator, cackling like a hyena on PCP at how you have "owned the libs." You have placed yourselves outside the treaty. We are not obligated to put up with your shit.
tl;dr: if you can't behave like a civilized human being, don't be surprised when you get treated like a rabid animal. Read and be better, or don't, it's your choice, but don't bitch when you get your find-outs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @03:48AM
(2 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 16, @03:48AM (#1306509)
Former President Donald Trump on Monday has responded through a spokesman, saying that the report [justice.gov] "proves" a coordinated effort by the federal government to interfere with the 2016 US election.
"The Durham Report spells out in great detail the Democrat Hoax that was perpetrated upon me and the American people. This is 2020 Presidential Election Fraud, just like ‘stuffing’ the ballot boxes, only more so."
"This totally illegal act had a huge impact on the Election. With an honest Media, we are looking at the Crime of the Century!"
Here's a summary of the main findings from Techno Fog via The Reactionary: [substack.com]
“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”
Crossfire Hurricane “was opened as a full investigation without [the FBI] ever having spoken to the persons who provided that information.” Days after it was opened, Peter Strzok was telling a London FBI employee that “there’s nothing to this.”
Internal FBI communications discussing the Crossfire Hurricane during its early stages: it’s “thin” and “it sucks”.
British Intelligence pushed back on Mueller requests for assistance: “[a British Intelligence person] basically said there was no [expletive] way in hell they were going to do it.”
Durham documents TWO investigations into Hillary Clinton - one involving the Clinton Foundation and one involving illegal foreign contributions to Clinton’s Campaign.
In one Clinton Campaign investigation, an FBI confidential human source (CHS) had offered an illegal foreign contribution to the campaign through an intermediary. The Clinton Campaign was “okay with it” and “were fully aware”. The CHS offered the FBI a copy of the credit card charge; the FBI never got receipts. In fact, the FBI handling agent told the CHS “to stay away from all events relating to Clinton’s campaign.”
As a result of ELECTION INTERFERENCE by @HillaryClinton and the @DNC in the 2016 election, President Trump faced 4+ years of relentless investigations and narratives BASED ON A LIE. The DOJ and FBI were actively working AGAINST him and the will of THE PEOPLE. Trump was right. pic.twitter.com/qHyFDVRFTQ — Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) May 15, 2023
Props to Aaron, @ggreenwald, @mtaibbi and everyone else on the liberal-left who told the truth about RussiaGate from the beginning. They were slandered, blacklisted, betrayed by so-called friends, and they deserve credit. https://t.co/EoMKxJ55LJ [t.co] — Martyr Made 🦉🪓 (@martyrmade) May 15, 2023
Ready to give your Pulitzer back now? https://t.co/3UH1cPibWN [t.co] — Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) May 15, 2023
At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of their corrupt Chinese business partners, DOJ documents and federal court records reveal.
In 2016-2017, the evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, a Chinese national suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and brother James.
DOJ later used information obtained from the searches and wiretaps – which included conversations with the current President’s son and brother – to convict Ho of bribery and money laundering, as part of a separate corruption case involving United Nations officials. But it declined to tap into its trove of evidence – including “over 100,000 emails” – to explore the connections between Ho and the Bidens, who received millions of dollars from Ho and a Chinese intelligence front and discussed sharing office space.
At Ho’s 2018 trial, prosecutors hid Hunter’s connection to Ho, redacting his name from court exhibits while describing Ho as “the person who flies around the world paying bribes to advance the interest of the oil company [CEFC China Energy],” according to hearing transcripts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @11:59PM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 16, @11:59PM (#1306642)
U.S. — After John Durham's newly released report confirmed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was entirely fabricated, several notable media figures admitted they lied to the American people for 3 years but promised that they're totally telling the truth about everything else.
"I would never lie to the American people. Except for that one time. That doesn't count," said CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley. "Just look at how serious and trustworthy my face is. Look at my sincere gaze as I stare soulfully into the camera and deliver my prepared lines with the gravitas of a real truth-teller. Come on!"
"You can still trust us," agreed CNN Anchor and part-time anonymous message board foot model Jake Tapper. "Even though we divided the country in hatred and anger for three years to try to destroy Trump over a false narrative, and then continued to do so even after we found out it was fake, and then insulted the intelligence of everyone who was skeptical about what we were saying, it doesn't mean we would ever lie to you or anything."
Media-approved anonymous sources claim that 10 out of 10 media experts agree that in spite of the lies about Trump and Russia, Americans should still unquestionably believe every claim the media makes about Ukraine, COVID, domestic terrorism, the 2020 election, and who is a racist and who isn't.
At publishing time, Joy Reid also chimed in, saying everyone who doesn't agree with her is a racist.
A lot of the reporting was based on the Steele Dossier, which has been thoroughly debunked for awhile now. Back in 2021, CNN posted a pretty good discussion of the issues with the dossier: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-reckoning/index.html [cnn.com]. Even so, the Washington Post ran an op-ed harshly criticizing CNN for not drawing more attention to the discrediting of the dossier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/23/cnn-steele-dossier-reckoning-stelter/ [washingtonpost.com]. Russia did attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, but the media did fail in corroborating the salacious claims in the dossier, and they should reported this accurately. It's an absolute failure of journalistic ethics. CNN and other outlets that reported on the dossier as if it were credible should be harshly criticized for this. They were wrong.
Here's the problem. We also know the narrative pushed about election fraud in 2020 pushed by outlets like Fox, NewsMax, and OANN was absolutely false. As part of the Dominion lawsuit, Tucker Carlson's text messages were obtained. These messages show that Carlson privately knew claims of election fraud were nonsense. But he went on the air and pushed that narrative anyway. It is a fact that Fox hosts were well aware that claims of fraud in the 2020 election were highly suspect, but reported on them as if they were accurate.
If you're going to criticize media outlets like CNN over their reporting of the Steele Dossier, you need to hold Fox, NewsMax, and OANN to the same standard. Unfortunately, the Babylon Bee has completely failed to be intellectually honest. This probably isn't something you should be quoting as if others should take it seriously.
The Steele Dossier has been thoroughly discredited. It should never have been reported on as if it were credible. It's time to hold Fox, NewsMax, and OANN to the same standard about the 2020 election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20, @07:39PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday May 20, @07:39PM (#1307168)
On Monday – The Durham Report was released – the FBI, Obama, Hillary, and Deep State knew the Trump-Russia collusion was a lie in August 2016.
On Wednesday the FBI revoked the security clearances of the FBI whistleblowers before they testified to Congress on the criminal conduct at the FBI. The 51 intel community signatories who signed the bogus Hunter Biden laptop letter still hold their security clearances.
On Thursday we learned the FBI retaliated against the brave whistleblowers who exposed their corruption and political targeting of conservatives including their spying on Catholics, parents at school board meetings, and the FBI ties to January 6. The whistleblowers included FBI agents Marcus Allen, Brett Gloss, Steve Friend, and Garrett O’Boyle.
On Friday The Gateway Pundit reported on how the FBI dropped FOUR DIFFERENT INVESTIGATIONS on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. They wanted her to win so they dropped their investigations on Crooked Hillary.
Also on Friday we learned that the FBI improperly used warrantless search powers more than 278,000 times in 2021 following the January 6 protests in Washington DC according to an unsealed FISC filing. The FBI searches included Trump supporters who attended protests in Washington DC on January 6, 2021.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03, @03:58AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday June 03, @03:58AM (#1309512)
"It's taken us a couple of months to, one, go through the photos, about 10,000 of them, and redact the genitalia on the photos," said Ziegler, adding "The number one thing we're about… is truth and transparency."
"If the American people want to know what their first family is like, they're going to get it. And we're not going to be taking out photos that paint the Bidens in a good light."
The site includes;
Pictures (with location metadata)
Emails
Suspicious Activity Reports
Influence peddling
Ashley Biden's diary
According to Ziegler, several photos including private data were redacted, including those containing Social Security numbers, banking information and credit card numbers - as well as multiple nude photos of Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden.
Of the many photos found on the laptop, Ziegler provided Fox News Digital with two never-before-seen photos from the laptop. One photo showed Hunter Biden cozied up to his then-lover Zoe Kestan in 2018. The other image — featuring an array of drugs and a condom wrapper sitting on a table — was from a text message conversation Hunter had with Hallie Biden — the widow of Beau Biden and former lover of Hunter Biden — the same year.
Providing further insight on the type of content viewers can expect on the website, Ziegler said some content that does not carry "news value" will not be featured. -Fox News
"There are, for example, screenshots of Candy Crush games where we are fairly confident in saying there's absolutely no news value to those," he said. "So it's going to be, I would say, 98% of the photos on the device, around 10,000 in total, although it'll be slightly less than that."
"It's going to be a completely authentic recounting of the photos on the device," he continued.
Our servers for https://t.co/zQirhFz1PJ [t.co] are under heavy stress and we are working to get it fully functional and secured. Incredible engagement already in the first couple hours. https://t.co/70HD65aFyL [t.co] — Marco Polo (@MarcoPolo501c3) June 1, 2023
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15, @06:31PM (10 children)
11 Brand New Biden Family Scandals the Networks Are CENSORING [newsbusters.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15, @10:57PM
At Least 5 Whistleblowers Come Forward Against Biden Family [breitbart.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @03:48AM (2 children)
"The American Public Was Scammed": Trump Responds After Bomshell Durham Report 'Exonerates' [zerohedge.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @05:32AM (1 child)
JimBob Hunter Biden laptop posts are the very epitome of Spam. Mod accordingly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @06:46AM
From Special Counsel John Durham? He seems like a fairly reliable source.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @09:37PM
Feds Arrested and Convicted Hunter Biden’s Chinese Business Partner Patrick Ho But Ignored Hunter’s Role in Corruption Case and Even Redacted His Name – Then The Laptop From Hell Pieced It All Together [thegatewaypundit.com]
Feds' Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld [realclearinvestigations.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16, @11:59PM (1 child)
Media Admits They Lied About That Russia Collusion Thing But Are Totally Telling The Truth About Everything Else [babylonbee.com]
Hillary Clinton: The Only Crime I Ever Committed Was Stealing The Hearts Of The American People! [babylonbee.com]
(Score: 1) by dalek on Thursday May 18, @06:39AM
A lot of the reporting was based on the Steele Dossier, which has been thoroughly debunked for awhile now. Back in 2021, CNN posted a pretty good discussion of the issues with the dossier: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-reckoning/index.html [cnn.com]. Even so, the Washington Post ran an op-ed harshly criticizing CNN for not drawing more attention to the discrediting of the dossier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/23/cnn-steele-dossier-reckoning-stelter/ [washingtonpost.com]. Russia did attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, but the media did fail in corroborating the salacious claims in the dossier, and they should reported this accurately. It's an absolute failure of journalistic ethics. CNN and other outlets that reported on the dossier as if it were credible should be harshly criticized for this. They were wrong.
Here's the problem. We also know the narrative pushed about election fraud in 2020 pushed by outlets like Fox, NewsMax, and OANN was absolutely false. As part of the Dominion lawsuit, Tucker Carlson's text messages were obtained. These messages show that Carlson privately knew claims of election fraud were nonsense. But he went on the air and pushed that narrative anyway. It is a fact that Fox hosts were well aware that claims of fraud in the 2020 election were highly suspect, but reported on them as if they were accurate.
If you're going to criticize media outlets like CNN over their reporting of the Steele Dossier, you need to hold Fox, NewsMax, and OANN to the same standard. Unfortunately, the Babylon Bee has completely failed to be intellectually honest. This probably isn't something you should be quoting as if others should take it seriously.
The Steele Dossier has been thoroughly discredited. It should never have been reported on as if it were credible. It's time to hold Fox, NewsMax, and OANN to the same standard about the 2020 election.
EXTERMINATE
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18, @06:15PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20, @07:39PM
FIVE REVELATIONS IN FIVE DAYS Expose Chris Wray’s FBI as Criminal Enterprise Devoid of Morals and Legitimacy [thegatewaypundit.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03, @03:58AM
Trove Of Nearly 10K Hunter Biden Laptop Photos, Docs Appear On Organized Website [zerohedge.com]