Happy Anniversary to Hunter's Laptop

Four wonderful years

Four years ago today, my Twitter account was instantly suspended for posting the following picture:

That’s Hunter Biden. The photo came from the laptop he abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, less than five miles from his father’s house.

Vladimir Putin didn’t take that snapshot. He didn’t plant the laptop. It belonged to Hunter, who then abandoned it and lost legal custody of it because he’s a drug addict.

And yet when I posted that photo in October 2020, just weeks before the election, my Twitter account was instantly locked down.

I don’t mean within minutes, either. The instant I clicked the button to post that, I was locked out of my account.

Here’s the warning I received:

I had been censored. Lil’ ol’ me!

So I removed the tweet, under duress, to restore access to my account.

As it turned out, I was far from the only one. Anybody who shared any part of that news story — and it is a news story — got instantly locked down by Twitter. You couldn’t even share the URL of the original NY Post story. A complete blackout.

The Democrats wanted Trump out of the White House, and they thought this story would interfere with that. So they locked it down.

It was only after this brazen censorship that the journos tried to come up with a rationale. NPR’s Terence Samuels should’ve won the Pulitzer for Clueless Pomposity with this excuse for refusing to cover the story:

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”

This was, of course, a lie. It was a legitimate story and they knew it. But they got the electoral result they wanted, so now they just pretend they never lied to us.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: As a libertarian, I respect Hunter Biden’s right to party. But as a conservative, I condemn the brazen corruption that pays for his lavish, hedonistic lifestyle.

And censorship has been a big part of that corruption.

Four years later, a few things are different. Joe Biden isn’t the nominee, despite the best efforts of the entire Democratic Party and its propaganda arm. They all lied to us about Joe’s mental condition, just like they all lied to us about Hunter’s laptop.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t censor Joe’s debate performance. It would’ve been humiliating for them, if they had normal human emotions.

Although I’ll bet they would’ve tried to censor the debate too, if not for another big change to the playing field: Elon Musk is running Twitter now. He decided to buy it because he was tired of the censorship. The whole laptop thing was the last straw.

I have a lot of problems with Musk these days (his bizarre feud with Substack, for one), and I’m sure right-wingers would freak out if Mark Zuckerberg jumped around onstage next to the Democrat running for president. But my hat is off to Musk for refusing to allow Twitter to remain a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.

Four years after the most blatant act of censorship I’ve ever experienced, the Democrats have learned nothing. Hell, they’re only getting dumber. The ratchet only turns one way.

But can you really blame them? Now they’ve got the only possible candidate who’s even worse than Biden. No wonder they’re taking such comfort in ignorance and stupidity. If they allowed themselves to think for a moment, their whole world would collapse around their ears.

Hunter’s laptop. COVID-19. “Climate change.” Letting boys beat up girls in sports. No matter the issue, some very powerful Democrats want you to shut up about it.

You can vote however you want, but you can’t make me complicit.

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I’m just gonna leave this here, and you can decide whether you think it’s funny.