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Date Posted: 9:00:24 1/07/23 Sat
Author: Jasper
Subject: A David Cole article from Taki's site

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Arc of the Incompetent
Speaking of Hillary, it’s fascinating how her 2016 election tampering claims and Trump’s 2020 election tampering claims have followed the same arc. The initial accusations involved claims of blatantly illegal activity (Hillary—“The Russians hacked the election!”; Trump—“Venezuelan voting machines altered ballots!”), but soon enough, the claims weakened (Hillary—“The Russians bought some phony Facebook pages”; Trump—“Twitter was pressured into briefly removing the Hunter laptop story”).

As bad as FBI/Twitter collusion is in terms of government interference in speech, I don’t think it sunk Trump in 2020. For people on Twitter (a small percentage of the American public), Hunter’s laptop became a story specifically because of Twitter’s ham-fisted NY Post ban. I think a more important factor is the “legacy media’s” blackout of the story, which kept it from Americans not on Twitter. And like it or not, that blackout was legal (a free press can choose not to cover an issue. It might be a foul choice, and a biased choice, but it’s lawful).

So in the end, Hillary and Trump are both left whining about stuff that wouldn’t remotely justify an election “do-over.” Not that that’ll stop Trump from demanding one.

https://www.takimag.com/article/purge-and-cleanse-no-loose-ends/

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