Hunter didn't pay his bill and didn't bother collecting it within the time window on the contract, legally the ownership of the laptop and its contents belong to the store owner.
Anyway, doesn't matter if the crackhead didn't actually forget about the laptop and just bought more because he's a super rich, and instead was a cover for Ugandan Special Intelligence sneaking a laptop full of hacked materials into useful hands, it was still full of pictures of Hunter Biden and his emails detailing improper things.
Putting aside his history of narcotic usage, it still makes no sense that Hunter would allow something with sensitive documents that can compromise his future to be kept by someone. Either he had faith that the hard-drive was fucked beyond repair, or he would have picked it up. Personally, in the past when I had financial woes, if I had to pawn a laptop, I would make sure payday was within the same period that the shop gives me to reclaim the device, and my worst "secrets" are the h-games I've collected over the years.
Also, legally, the store owner would need to wipe the drives before re-selling. He's not even supposed to share any content he finds, unless that content is deemed so dangerous (like child porn, a hit-list, etc) that authorities would need to be alerted immediately. The FBI also wouldn't keep it under wraps for 3+ years.
Well let's take this step-by-step.
What does it matter if he's legally blind? I'm legally blind in my left eye, it doesn't mean I can't see through it just that it's difficult to read small text at a distance. A nice article from webmd:
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If you have trouble reading small text, then the guy is probably having a hard time doing his work. I don't doubt that, 20+ years prior he could read you script with ease. Now, he probably has enough difficulty driving.
There happen to be quite a few. Might have something to do with the left being a bunch of raving lunatics but I digress.
Same with the republican right. Hell, we have a wannabe Trump here in Canada named Jason Kenney who just crippled worker protections after waging war on medical professionals and setting up a propaganda committee for big oil. Whataboutism is a bad argument when "your side" is proven to do more harm than the guys you're comparing yourselves against.
You don't like the man, neat-o, you do realize that doesn't actually discredit evidence, right? And yes, he's totally using it to make Biden look bad. Still doesn't discredit it.
The man is known for
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Incorrect, the guy tried to turn over a copy to the FBI and was initially ignored. Months later the FBI contacted him and then Subpoenad the original laptop and all related documents. Rather smartly he had ghosted the sucker ( given the FBI's attempted coup, a prudent course ) and after seeing nothing come of this he contacted several members of congress trying to provide it to them, he was ignored and then contacted Giuliani's office and discussed it with them, afterwards while they were attempting to verify that, he submitted information about the drive through the whistleblower link on Senator Johnson’s website, information was leaked to the nypost and the leftist media along with big tech went batshit crazy.
Okay, I have a bunch of questions that smash the credibility of this story.
1) The FBI didn't even bother checking into what amounts to a potentially-damning piece of evidence that can expose a member of congress as being part of something that harms national security? They weren't even curious for months? Something like that, they would be on that faster than stink on shit. Protecting national interests is their MO. Not always, but still.
2) Ghosting the FBI when you have damning evidence is a criminal offence. If you are subpoena'd, a warrant is issued for your arrest and all your assets are frozen if you refuse to comply. That guy also wouldn't be able to get out the front door before he had 50 party vans on his ass. Oh, but he somehow pulled off a miracle and evaded the law, despite having poor eyesight and, if pictures are to be believed, not exactly having the stamina to run long distances?
3) He contacted several members of congress and wasn't taken serious? I can think of at least a few Democrat's who would attempt a meeting just to claim the laptop and destroy it. I can think of double the number of Republican's who would take it just to expose Hunter Biden and potentially destroy Joe's career. And, again, this guy tried to contact elected representatives while being pursued by one of the top law enforcement agencies in the country? A man who the DoJ would release a public statement about as withholding state secrets? You do know the wikileaks guy had to flee to China because there was no safe haven for him in the US, right?
4) Leftist media didn't go nuts. Only FOX news went nuts, and only because they were the only ones who found it out, allegedly. Interesting that the most right-wing "news" network are the only ones who break the story, and nobody else is talking about it. It's almost like everyone knows Giuliani is full of shit and a story like this is right down his alley in terms of bullshit.
This doesn't constitute a conspiracy theory, big tech attempting to use covid to reshape our economy and abolish physical currency as a gateway to transhumanism is a conspiracy theory. This? It's a goddamned open secret that the majority of our politicians are corrupt and entities both foreign and domestic funnel money into them to further their own agendas that often run counter to the prosperity of the United State's citizens. Just change the words "China" "Russia" and "globalist left" in that quote to "NRA" "Big Oil" and "GOP" and suddenly you'd not object. Maybe the term "puppetmasters" was a bit strong I'll give you that though.
When an alleged "controversy" is unable to withstand even the most surface-level scrutiny, it's a conspiracy theory. You're gonna next claim the Earth is flat and a race of subterranean reptiles are constantly keeping tabs on you for all the "truths" you know. Take your meds and get some sleep, grandpa.
If you replaced nouns with other nouns, I'd still be skeptical and give you the same response. You're talking a large-scale conspiracy where one man claiming to have evidence that damns the Biden boys wasn't of interest to the FBI until he was, evaded them after receiving a subpoena, somehow couldn't get the attention of elected representatives, and Rudy Giuliani and FOX news are the only ones who he trusted enough to sell the story to. C'mon, man. I know you're an idiot, but even I have to grant you the benefit of believing you're not
that dumb.
Also; don't like that I'm a mod? QQ moar.
As I recall, it wasn't just you among the mod staff that was believing this bullshit. Nice ego check, bud.
Also, also, you're less a mod and more a glorified maid for a single section of the forums. I'm insulting maids by giving you that much, though.
Paying a corrupt politician to push one-sided trade agreements isn't exactly virology. But good news for your dismissive view of China, they fucked this up too! Using a crackhead as a middleman is a great way to get caught after all.
China isn't exactly known for handling their affairs competently, but even they would know that trusting a junkie with something like this is pants-on-head retarded. You're under the misguided assumption that every country capable of having an intelligence network isn't keeping tabs on each other. Hell, even Iran has an intelligence network that is probably running profiles on all of us. Welcome to the 21st century, where even your VPN will keep tabs on you. Hell, your cell carrier keeps transcripts of
everything, phone call or otherwise.
Sure, just like "winning" by having your hand forced by your constituents into pulling out of a pointless conflict in an Asian country because nobody knows why the fuck you were there to begin with. You can "win" all the way to the end of the line, right behind Al Qaeda and whatever the fuck Turkey is doing.