The Marjorie Taylor Greene case

[robnisch]

Isn't it a crime to show porn in public in DC?

 

[bilby]

Isn't it a crime to show porn in public in DC?

What if it is?

Crimes don't matter if you're wealthy or powerful.

If they did, Trump would be in jail awaiting his trial.

Sorry, trials.

 

[ZiprHead]

Dafuq?

Spoiler: MTJ shows image of Hunter Biden getting a blowjob

I guess this is MTG's answer to KP's notorious whiteboard ...

Derec, Hunter Biden is an admitted drug addict who used prostitutes. Everyone knows that, but this kind of thing only shows the lengths to which some Republicans will go to display their hatred of Democrats. Also, this is the kind of picture that spoiler tags are meant for, since instant displays of pornographic content aren't a good thing for everyone, especially if they are reading IIDB threads in a public place.

It is illegal in Washington DC to show lurid content of individuals without their permission.

 

[Copernicus]

Isn't it a crime to show porn in public in DC?

Not in the current Republican-controlled Congress, unless the House member were a Democrat showing a Republican engaged in sex acts with prostitutes. Then it would become a huge scandal. Nobody expects MTG to restrain herself from using sleaze to go after the son of a Democratic president. She does the dirty work for them. Democrats would likely do something to restrain one of their own engaging in that kind of behavior. Note that there are constitutional limitations on whether representatives can be arrested for actions taken as part of their official behavior.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Yes, MTG is going to save us from the horrors of socialism. And is going to return America to its pre-FDR Golden Age. Hoovervilles, hobo jungles, and poor people dying from lack of medical care. Stupid bitch.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Dafuq?

Spoiler: MTJ shows image of Hunter Biden getting a blowjob

I guess this is MTG's answer to KP's notorious whiteboard ...

Derec, Hunter Biden is an admitted drug addict who used prostitutes. Everyone knows that, but this kind of thing only shows the lengths to which some Republicans will go to display their hatred of Democrats. Also, this is the kind of picture that spoiler tags are meant for, since instant displays of pornographic content aren't a good thing for everyone, especially if they are reading IIDB threads in a public place.

Exactly. This is why we have the policy we do about NSFW content. We aren't being prudes about it, we recognize that people might be looking at the board in prudish environments.

 

[ZiprHead]

Hunter Biden’s ‘laptop’ looks more and more like a politically motivated criminal scheme

During the 2016 elections, Russian government agents hacked into the Democratic National Committee and into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, then dumped the stolen data in an effort to sabotage Donald Trump’s election opponent. The more we...

www.dailykos.com

During the 2016 elections, Russian government agents hacked into the Democratic National Committee and into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, then dumped the stolen data in an effort to sabotage Donald Trump’s election opponent. The more we learn about the supposed “Hunter Biden laptop,” a scandal meant to roil the campaign of Donald Trump’s election opponent four years later, the more it looks like somebody was following the same hack-and-dump playbook.

Marcy Wheeler has a new post that breaks down some of the many, many known oddities of the supposed "laptop." When you consider that the whole premise of the story to begin with is that a "Hunter Biden" allegedly wandered into a random Delaware computer repair shop, handed over a damaged laptop, completely forgot about it afterward, and then somehow the computer dude and/or allies decided that Donald Trump ratf--ker Rudy freaking Giuliani was the person he needed to deliver the laptop's data to, dozens of other oddities piled on top of that begin to turn what started out as farce into a full three-ring circus of weird.

WaPo Is Suppressing Information that Might Debunk Devlin Barrett's Latest Spin - emptywheel

The two reports WaPo had done last year, assessing the "Hunter Biden" drive forensically, are two of the only available reports that might explain anomalies disclosed by IRS agents in testimony to Congress. But unlike the Washington Examiner, WaPo won't release those reports.

www.emptywheel.net

That all led me to start looking at the publicly released (but unreliable) emails at BidenLaptopEmails dot com, where I’ve discovered that during a period when Hunter Biden was getting Ketamine treatment and bookended by two communications from him that indicated he was not getting outside comms, someone:

• Split Hunter’s Uber account, on which his two iCloud accounts had previously been joined
• Accessed Hunter’s rhb iCloud account from a browser
• Changed the password and related phone numbers to his rhb iCloud account
• Installed and gave full access to his droidhunter gmail account a real app, called Hunter, that can send email on someone else’s behalf
• Signed into that droidhunter account using a new device
• Again changed emails and phone numbers associated with his rhb account
• Asked for a full copy of his rhbdc iCloud account
• Reset the password of that rhbdc iCloud account
• Made droidhunter account the notification email for the rhbdc account
• Downloaded all Hunter’s Apple Store purchases
• Made changes to the Uber (and Waze) account associated with an XS phone that would be included in the “laptop”
• Restored rhb as an alternate address to the account
• Restored contacts from an unidentified prior change
• Obtained — including at the droidhunter email account — a download link of the entire rhbdc iCloud account
• Backed up the XS phone to the laptop
• Gotten a trial app of a photo editor
• Backed up an iPad to the laptop
• Changed the iTunes password
• Added the Dr. Fone account, allowing you to adopt a chosen second phone number for a phone, to a second of Hunter’s accounts
• Signed into the droidhunter account from a burner phone
• Restored the prior trusted phone number
• Added software that could record calls
• Started erasing and then locked a laptop — probably the one that would eventually end up in Mac Isaac’s store
• Got a new Mac phone for the droidhunter account

That series of changes are not the only emails in the MarcoPolo set that should raise questions about whether Hunter Biden’s digital identity may have been compromised.

Two that are important to the topic of this post are, first, that a great many devices logged into Hunter Biden’s iCloud accounts in 2018 and 2019, yet many of them don’t appear to be tied to him getting his own new iPhone or computer, and only rarely are the existing devices shut down or passwords changed afterwards. The sheer number should have raised alarms that people had broken into Hunter Biden’s iCloud accounts when the IRS asked Apple for Hunter Biden’s subscriber information in November 2019, in advance of writing a subpoena for the laptop in custody of John Paul Mac Isaac. Additionally, there were a bunch of attempts to get into Hunter Biden’s Venmo account, and the account added two new Remembered Devices within 12 minutes of each other in August 2018, one in the LA foothills and the other in Las Vegas. That and other details (including texts and emails) might have raised questions about whether sex workers from the very same escort service on which the IRS had predicated this entire investigation took steps to compromise Hunter Biden’s devices.

 

[ZiprHead]

Marjorie Taylor Greene questions if UFOs and aliens are really angels: 'Honestly, I've looked into it'

WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee will move on from its attacks on Hunter Biden to address UFOs next week.According to the GOP's schedule, Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) will hold a hearing Wednesday on UFOs after intelligence agencies submitted a new report of incidents over...

www.rawstory.com

The House Oversight Committee will move on from its attacks on Hunter Biden to address UFOs next week.
...
Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who sits on the Oversight Committee, appeared to reject the idea of aliens from space.

"I'm a Christian," she explained, "and I believe the Bible. I think that, to me, honestly, I've looked into it, and I think we have to question if it's more of the spiritual. Angels or fallen angels."

She "looked into it."

 

[Derec]

Derec, Hunter Biden is an admitted drug addict who used prostitutes. Everyone knows that, but this kind of thing only shows the lengths to which some Republicans will go to display their hatred of Democrats.

I know. "Dafuq" was for MTGs actions, not for Hunter having some naughty pics of himself on his laptop.

Also, this is the kind of picture that spoiler tags are meant for, since instant displays of pornographic content aren't a good thing for everyone, especially if they are reading IIDB threads in a public place.

I forgot. They didn't have to delete my whole post over it.

 

[Copernicus]

Also, this is the kind of picture that spoiler tags are meant for, since instant displays of pornographic content aren't a good thing for everyone, especially if they are reading IIDB threads in a public place.

I forgot. They didn't have to delete my whole post over it.

Take consolation in the fact that it is preserved in my reply to it, but with the NSFW "spoiler" tags. It's obvious that Hunter Biden himself didn't take the picture, so who did? Or was it just photoshopped? If this is from the infamous laptop delivered to the repair shop owned by a MAGA droid, none of that material can be considered reliable. MTG, of course, wouldn't care. For her, it's just another day of trolling.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

What was the point of MTG waving Hunter Biden's nude photos around? Is America supposed to swoon in paroxysms of prurience? To distract from Donald Trump's sex crimes? What does this silly bitch think this will accomplish? Sleazy bitch!

 

[Gospel]

Hold on a moment, Charlie. It would be unfair to disparage bitches by drawing any association with Marjorie.

 

[southernhybrid]

Hold on a moment, Charlie. It would be unfair to disparage bitches by drawing any association with Marjorie.

That's a good point. My two little dogs are bitches and they are much smarter and much nicer than MTG.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Derec, Hunter Biden is an admitted drug addict who used prostitutes. Everyone knows that, but this kind of thing only shows the lengths to which some Republicans will go to display their hatred of Democrats.

I know. "Dafuq" was for MTGs actions, not for Hunter having some naughty pics of himself on his laptop.

Also, this is the kind of picture that spoiler tags are meant for, since instant displays of pornographic content aren't a good thing for everyone, especially if they are reading IIDB threads in a public place.

I forgot. They didn't have to delete my whole post over it.

FYI: We sometimes soft delete posts while we are discussing them. Your post has been restored with tags in place.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

WaPo Is Suppressing Information that Might Debunk Devlin Barrett's Latest Spin - emptywheel

The two reports WaPo had done last year, assessing the "Hunter Biden" drive forensically, are two of the only available reports that might explain anomalies disclosed by IRS agents in testimony to Congress. But unlike the Washington Examiner, WaPo won't release those reports.

www.emptywheel.net

That's a scenario I didn't even think of. I assumed a later compromise.

 

[jab]

Trying to scare voters by saying Biden is continuing the policies of the president so popular he got elected 4 times.

and 'Big Labor'? those greedy, fat cat laborers, trying to take everything away from... uh... look, the border wall!!!

Back to the future: I am reading David Corn's American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. Margie/ MAGA Barbie is simply repurposing far right, wealthy Repugs' 1940s-1960s anti-commoonist attacks on FDR & LBJ. In the 2000s, "librul" was the chosen epithet of scorn and distrust that the Repugs flung at Demos. Now, it's back to red- and pink- baiting, "soshullist" & "commoonist".

 

[lpetrich]

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter: "I just watched ..." / Twitter

I just watched the @TheDamageReport for the first time.

These two admitted atheists are attacking President Trump about his Christian faith while claiming to hold “moral beliefs”.

They only attacked Trump and Republicans and never defended any Democrat policies.

But they complained about summer heat. Too bad they can’t understand that the Earth’s climate has been changing since God created the Earth.

Oh and if you are a white Trump supporter, they claim you are racists and that you need CRT to understand your whiteness and your racism.

There I watched it so you don’t have to waste your time.

With a screenshot of John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini. FF responded

Francesca Fiorentini on Twitter: "@mtgreenee @TheDamageReport Well done. Mondays are the best day to watch. Some say they’re Frantastic." / Twitter

and

Francesca Fiorentini on Twitter: "Yes, God wants us to overheat the planet and kill the crops so we can help oil execs get fifth homes. (I knew we dressed up in our Barbenheimer aesthetic for a reason. )" / Twitter

JI responded

John Iadarola on Twitter: "You're going to need to do better than this to distract from Trump's obvious disdain for the Christians who support him.
Trump worships money. That's it. Tweeting at me won't change that.
Take it up with your false savior." / Twitter

John Iadarola on Twitter: "To any who find themselves in the tragic position of trusting Greene, feel free to actually watch @thedamagereport. You might find Marj is being just a wee bit dishonest about it.
And ads a bonus, we actually advocate for policies to improve the lives of you and your family." / Twitter

 

[Shadowy Man]

"Too bad they can’t understand that the Earth’s climate has been changing since God created the Earth."

I never understood this argument. How do these people know that the climate has been changing over history? Well, they know from what climate scientists tell them. You know what else climate scientists are telling them?

So, if you want to impeach the source of information for one piece of information, how does that not impeach the source for all pieces of information?

 

[Elixir]

how does that not impeach the source for all pieces of information?

I’d doesn’t impeach what God said, no matter WHO else also says it!

(You’re expecting sense from people who are into talking donkeys.)

 

[Shadowy Man]

how does that not impeach the source for all pieces of information?

I’d doesn’t impeach what God said, no matter WHO else also says it!

(You’re expecting sense from people who are into talking donkeys.)

It’s basically: “I believe the experts when they tell me what I want to hear but I don’t believe them when they tell me what I don’t want to hear.”

You know, the way God intended science to be done.