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All righty. So, you will recall that just before the 2020 election, October 2020, the New York Post broke a story.

It was about how Hunter Biden, who is a formerly drug addicted derelict, now he may not be a drug addict, he's still a derelict.

Hunter Biden, now an artist derelict. But at that time, a drug addicted derelict, he left his laptop at a Delaware repair shop and just left it there because this is what drug addicted derelict do. And it turns out that that laptop was filled with all sorts of good stuff

about Hunter Biden, including pictures of him with prostitutes and smoking crack. And there were

text messages between him and his dad and him and his business partners about his dad and all this

stuff. And the New York Post reported this.

And you will also recall that social media immediately cracked down on it. Facebook said,

sure, this has not been subjected to a fact check yet, but we're going to shadow ban it.

We're going to reduce its distribution because it looks suspicious to us.

Now, what looked suspicious about the story is that it was about Hunter Biden and it was bad.

That's what looks suspicious, because the notion that it was completely unthinkable that a doof,

like Hunter Biden, would have just left a laptop at a Delaware repair shop.

That's not particularly unthinkable.

But the entire media instead swiveled into action to declare that this was, in fact,

Russian disinformation because everything I don't like is Russian disinformation. Every single thing. When my scale tells me that I am

four pounds more than I was just a couple of weeks ago, that is Russian disinformation. I don't know how

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