Of Laptops and Ne’re-Do-Well Sons

“A PROTECTED SPECIES”

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020

(Oct. 15, 2020) — The New York Post (“NYP”) has disclosed what it claims are several emails extracted from a laptop computer purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden.  The emails are claimed to establish a direct tie between Ukrainian executives at the Burisma Holdings energy company and Joe (“I’m-Joe-Biden-and-I’m-running-for-the-Senate”] Biden.  If true, this would confirm that any and all prior denials by Joe Biden that he “knew nothing” about Hunter Biden’s relationship with the company – which placed him as a board director of the company at compensation estimated to be more than $50,000/mo. – were…, let us be polite here…, lies.

More recently, the NYP discloses that one of the emails details that operatives of the Second Usurper in Chief (“SUC”), Barack Hussein Obama, allowed the participation by a Democrat public relations firm working for Burisma Holdings – Blue Star Strategies – to take part in a conference call about a planned visit to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden.  Again, if true, this would further undermine Joe Biden’s claims that he had no idea what his ne’re-do-well – but filthy rich…, emphasis on “filthy” – son, Hunter, was doing with Burisma.

Immediately following the NYP articles, seemingly on cue, the vermin of the mainstream media and the Internet sprang into action.  Facebook and Twitter began censoring and blocking postings of the NYP article on the Biden trove of emails in an effort to shield and protect both Hunter and Joe Biden from the revelations.  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was “permanently barred” from Twitter for posting a link to the NYP article and refusing to delete it.

In addition, if one tries to access the NYP story from the Twitter website, one gets the message: “Warning: this link may be unsafe.”  This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to frighten users into abandoning any continuing effort to visit the NYP website and to intimidate them into avoiding learning or reading about the emails.

Yikes!  Your computer could catch the Wuhan virus, or even worse, display the truth.  Thus far, the Twitter warning still concludes with the option: “Ignore this warning and continue,” the last word being a “live” link to the NYP site.  The only thing missing is a skull and crossbones emoji. Let us see how long that option remains available at Twitter.

Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda (and censorship) in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, would have been super-proud of Facebook and Twitter for their adherence to the principles of censoring information and facts deemed contrary to acceptable dogma and the shielding of “protected” persons.   On the other hand, Facebook and Twitter are beginning to get some well-deserved blowback.

Not to be outdone, the Washington (“Tyranny Thrives in Darkness”) Post published an article entitled “Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: an explainer.”  Note the use of the term “alleged” to set the stage for the suspicion that the device may not have even belonged to Hunter Biden.

But the gold medal/Nobel Prize for the most hypocritical argument advanced in the WaPo “explainer” comes under the heading “How do we know the email is authentic?”  The author of the WaPo “explainer,” Glenn Kessler, then furnishes his own answer: “We do not. The New York Post published PDF printouts of several emails allegedly taken from the laptop, but for the “smoking-gun” email, it shows only a photo made the day before the story was posted….”  The article further casts doubt by stating that the WaPo “has not been able to independently verify or authenticate these emails, as requests to make the laptop hard drive available for inspection have not been granted.”

Seriously?  Really?

If the WaPo thought back in 2011 that an original, certified long-form Hawaiian birth certificate produced by the SUC for forensic examination was unnecessary and that a PDF image of the SUC’s purported “birth certificate” posted to the Internet was good enough to silence the “birthers” and “confirm” the SUC’s constitutional bona fides as a “natural born Citizen” under Art. 2, § 1, Cl. 5 of the Constitution, where, pray tell, does it get off questioning the authenticity of the email extracted from the “alleged” Hunter Biden laptop?  Huh?

Oh…, wait…, that’s right: tyranny thrives in darkness.  And Democrats are a protected species.  I forgot…, my bad.  That which was once a legitimate, essential component of this constitutional republic – the Fourth Estate – has now metastasized into a sinister creature which would be unrecognizable to the Founders.  On the other hand, it would likely be embraced as a useful tool by Goebbels…, like a reptile on a leash.

Vote very carefully in the general election… very…, very carefully.