[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[John Clark]

Spike  <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>… you have seen no indication that the current POTUS is acting like a
>> king in ways that no other American president ever has before?*
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> *> John if the current POTUS was acting like a king, he could force
> reopening of the government. *
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*He's not a king yet, but he's certainly a king wannabe, and he no longer
even attempts to hide that fact. He already staged an unsuccessful coup
d'état to stay in office after his first term ended and I think he will be
more successful when his present term is supposed to end, and he will only
leave the oval office when he assumes room temperature.  *


* > the FBI, which had already been caught falsifying evidence by that
> time,*
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*Please tell me more, this is news to me. *

*>> …It turned out that in late 2019 the FBI had verified it but that fact
>> had not been made public…*
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> *> Sheesh that’s quite the admission. *
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*An admission that has absolutely nothing to do with the New York Times and
the accuracy of their news reporting which was what we were talking about. *

*The FBI could have verified that story for it has legal access to
> metadata. *
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*The FBI is not in the business of publicly releasing data that is on
somebody's laptop computer that they happen to have access to unless there
is evidence a crime has been committed and they believe the evidence is
strong enough that they think they could get a conviction.  If those
hurdles have been passed then the next step is to present some (but usually
not all) the evidence that they have to a grand jury in an attempt to get
an indictment. And is exactly what happened in 2023. Why did it take so
long to bring charges against him? Probably because the gun charges were
pretty minor and the justice department only has a finite number of
lawyers, and they had bigger fish to fry.  *

*The indictment came after a plea deal fell apart which would have allowed
Hunter Biden to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding prison time, it was
unusual that such a deal would fall apart, a deal like that usually happens
for minor charges of this sort so that the government doesn't have to go
through all the trouble and expense of a trial. And that deal would almost
certainly not have fallen apart if he had not been the son of the
president. *


> >>…*And what did we learn from that laptop? Not much except that Hunter
>> Biden liked pornography…*
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> *>We already knew that, don’t care.*
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>> *>>…and cocaine…*
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> *> We already knew that, don’t care.*
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*>…And that he bought a gun illegally…*
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*> But wasn’t prosecuted for some unknown reason, ja we knew that.*
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*Untrue. Not only was Hunter Biden prosecuted for that, he was convicted
for that, and it all happened while Joe Biden was still president. **Today
it is inconceivable that the son of He Who Must Not Be Named (who also
likes cocaine and pornography) could ever be indicted for anything, much
less convicted. Biden later gave his son a presidential pardon and that
will always be a serious blot on his presidential record, but that pardon
was not nearly as bad as the many hundreds of pardons that He Who Must Not
Be Named gave to various thugs, nazis, swindlers, and traitors. *

*>… And that he tried to cash in on the fact that he was the son of the
>> president of the United States… John K Clark*
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> *> We DO care about that,*
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*Spike, I can only assume that you are joking.  *

*> Once the legal system gets weaponized as a political tool, that might be
> impossible to stop. *


*At last, something that you and I agree on! *

*John K Clark*





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