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Another measles case in my county.
https://www.phila.gov/2025-04-11-health-department-issues-notification-about-potential-measles-exposure-4/
I’ve been in Holy Redeemer ER a few times and it can get very crowded.
Just got my MMR lab results and I’m immune. Whew! If you’re not sure get tested for MMR immunity.
So you’re implying it doesn’t get crowded at Pennsylvania Hospital Emergency Department Sundays between 3:55 p.m. and 11:20 p.m.?
It’s so refreshing and gratifying to read the names of the Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Public Health Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson and Medical Director, Philadelphia Department of Public Health Immunization Program Dr. Mayssa Abuali instead of the asshole Kennedy and all the others in this administration, legislature and courts who feel that people need to be treated worse than a used tissue.
No, I’m not implying anything; I’m telling you what I’ve seen. I would not want to be in a crowded room with a highly contagious virus in the air but to some people that should be left to “personal choice.”
So devil’s advocate. Why exactly is it Hunter’s hard drive and not Hunter’s laptop?
I ask as someone who has read all of the articles here, multiple times, about anything involving Hunter.
And as someone who believes that there was most likely a conspiracy, a theft, and unauthorized access to Hunter’s iCloud.
And as someone who believes that Israel had a large role in such a theft and transfer to Trump folks. And that would also go towards explaining the lackluster response by the Bidens, the deep state, and the mainstream media. In that gap, the right wing was free to run amok with whatever narrative they wanted, without pushback, and the narrative was often false.
I haven’t before heard of “Israel had a large role in such a theft and transfer to Trump folks.”
Where are you getting that from?
And as far as “lackluster response by the Bidens”, it’s a story about a troubled family member, who I would believe the family is more interested in family, empathy, peace and harmony than dealing with BS.
Israel’s role in the theft is a conclusion that I arrived at from all of my research.
As far as I know, I am the only person making that claim.
If I am correct – if -based on only publicly available information, then I assume the intelligence community with all kinds of analysts and information collection would have found this out years ago.
Hunter being too troubled to respond is one narrative to believe.
But keep in mind he became sober in 2019 shortly after the alleged theft. He didn’t respond when everything became public in 2020.
He wasn’t too troubled to do that CBS interview in 2021 saying “it could be the Russians”. He wasn’t too troubled to write his book.
And he finally responded to Mac Isaac in March 2023, which the judge ruled too late. Coincidentally, March 2023 is the same time Lev Parnas and MSNBC began their information operation to make left wingers think Russia was responsible for the theft of Hunter’s data/laptop.
And his dad is a politician who by not dealing with this BS let it destroy his presidency and 2024 election.
“And his dad is a politician who by not dealing with this BS let it destroy his presidency and 2024 election.”
I am beginning to wonder if you are the same entity who was here throughout all of the Hunter Biden debacle, because that person would wholly understand that in a non-MAGA-ified US democracy, POTUS takes a hands-off approach to the operations of the DOJ to ensure impartiality, and POTUS cannot intervene in any investigation related to family or friends because of a conflict of interest, an impeachable abuse of power. That threat of impeachment by a GOP-majority Congress hung over the Biden presidency.
But instead whoever is at the keyboard identifying as zscoreUSA today has forgotten all of this dynamic, forgetting also that the fucking US corporate-owned media failed to point this out with any regularity — failed to point it out at all, instead parroting Russian talking points without any pushback.
Bring more than your conspiracy theories. You could be making a far better case than “I did my research.”
Reply to Rayne
Yes, Same person here.
I came to believe this about Israel’s involvement in September 2023, then kept my mouth shut about that until I think after the election.
From the get go I think the Bidens should have pushed back more once the laptop became public. Biden even lied during the 2020 debate, twisting the words from the 51 intelligence officials into a more definitive statement trying to pin the laptop on the Russians.
And from my view that Israel was involved, and that he has known that, influences how I view his Gaza policy and getting pushed around by Netanyahu and which did impact the election. It was frustrating to watch this play out.
The narratives about the laptop impacted regular people that I spoke to. Just regular interactions and conversations. They would connect Hunter and millions and the Biden family and the rising prices over the past few years.
Because there is not one laptop but multiple laptops, and multiple copies of laptop data onto separate hard drives.
See Marcy’s helpful summary, and note the very helpful chart of all the various devices involved.
Separate chart link here.
Thanks for the response to my primary question above.
Is there a link to “Marcy’s helpful summary”? I can’t click on anything.
The second link is to Thomas Fine’s chart, which though demonstrative, I don’t think answers my question.
Btw, Thomas harping on Mac Isaac’s story not adding up was one of the things that inspired me to pursue this research topic.
You seem to have missed Rayne’s comment, which tends to prove her point. If you’d read all the material here, as you claim, you could have written Peterr’s first paragraph yourself. Plus, the govt failed, at least in court, to verify and document the data or its provenance on any of those hard drives.
So, back to Rayne’s question….
Reply to earlofhuntingdon
Sigh
are you saying that because the govt failed in court “to verify and document the data or its provenance on any of those hard drives” is hard proof that Hunter never owned that particular laptop?
Fixed the link. Try it again.
Thank you Peterr. Yes, I’ve read that article multiple times.
Is the belief here, that by referring to it as Hunter’s hard drive and not Hunter’s laptop that he never owned or used that particular laptop that ended up at Mac Isaac?
Here’s what I’m getting hung up over:
* Dimitrelos lists that laptop
* Dimitrelos doesn’t list any other laptops of that model
* On Marco Polo, there are images taken on Hunter’s phone showing a laptop of that model that Hunter was using
So it seems likely to me that Hunter really did own and use that exact laptop.
Sigh. The first rule of holes.
The laptop is so old news. Do you see anyone in the current admin groping on that? No. It served its purpose between the trump admins. Drop it and get with the current talking points. Moving brown people toward the cause of all woe in the U.s…. followed by any non-brown “anti-democratic” peoples.
Asked about Trump’s remarks, Leavitt said on Tuesday: “You’re referring to the president’s idea for American citizens to be potentially deported. These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws repeatedly. These are violent repeat offenders in American streets.
“The president has said, if it’s legal, right, if there is a legal pathway to do that, he’s not sure, we’re not sure, if there is. It’s an idea he has simply floated and has discussed in an effort of transparency.”
It’s not his hard drive. What Rudy had was A bootable hard drive, which JPMI says he made for him. That hard drive is at least a generation removed from the saved date that JPMI claims came from the laptop. But we have some reason to believe it’s not an exact match of the laptop that the FBI received (which I agree was used by Hunter Biden for at least a few weeks). And we know for a fact that other things uncritically referred to as his “laptop” do include additional material.
Thank you. That clears up, as referring to it as Hunter’s drive and not his laptop implied to me that he never used the laptop ended up with Mac Isaac. Do other people interpret that as such?
Why do you believe that the laptop the FBI received from Mac Isaac was used by was by Hunter for at least a few weeks as opposed to a few months? Are you looking at a specific few weeks window of time?
It began use in October 2018 and I think was in use at least until Mid February 2019 by Hunter. There is a photo in late January with that model being used by Hunter. (Allegedly it was in use by Hunter through mid March when it stopped working before he brought it to Mac Isaac in April)
I’ve been posting on here about the 10 year treasury interest rate freaking out with an increase of approximately 12.5% this week but after reading https://apnews.com/article/treasurys-bond-market-yield-tariff-46b4818710f01b8cc93fd002081167b0, I realize that I am too panicked as we have “like, really smart, a very stable genius” running the US. A guy who’s casinos debt probably had an interest rate closer to 100% than 0%.
So I’m even more confident of where interest rates are going next week when in that AP story I read
My capitalization of “I’M VERY GOOD AT THIS.”
It reminds me of the part in The Big Short re-2008, the real estate agent says to Mark Baum: “The market is in an itsy-bitsy little gully right now.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MesrrYyuoa4
And another confidence booster, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXixaoKYfm4, “troubled” Watters on Fox starts off about the Cabinet Meeting this week, “Season 2 of the Apprentice White House edition is off to a hot start, Trump gathered the contestants…”
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was The Big Short the one where the one trader said something like “Short everything he is buying”.??
That might apply here, also.
What awesome headlines to wake up to:
*Trump DoJ lobbies for liar Alexander Smirnov to be released from prison pending appeal
* Immigrants to be debanked as a result of being declared dead so they self-deport
* Lying disgraced Milwaukee cop responsible for gay Venezuelan make-up artist being wrongly deported to El Salvador
*Trump envoy to push for ‘Berlin Wall’ type solution for Ukraine
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I’m going back to bed.
But an awesome story after death and destruction for decades, I hope this is true, “Cambodia’s Ronin is first rodent to set world record for sniffing out more 100+ land mines, explosives”
https://www.newser.com/story/366867/this-rat-goes-where-no-human-wants-to.html
I would love to get Leo Wise reaction to his replacement agreeing to let Smirnov out because of his eye condition lol
You think it’s because of clean, beautiful coal?
Or maybe drill baby, drill?
“”This whole generation is damaged,” Kennedy said, according to the transcript, claiming that rising rates of chronic disease, allergies and other illnesses are the result of some “environmental toxin.”“
And there’s more insanity from Kennedy to department staff, https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-deep-state-183340624.html
HELP!!!!!!!!
We didn’t used to know anything about all of those things – he seems to think that science and medicine should have been frozen at some point in the past, instead of learning more and helping more people.
(I think I’m going to wish shingles on him.)
Too bad. The brain worm has already devoured his pain centers. s/
I’ve spent a lifetime doing human health risk assessments on contaminated sites, and the evidence of “ that rising rates of chronic disease, allergies and other illnesses are the result of some environmental toxin.” Is pretty well supported – amongst other inputs. I’m not a RFK Jr. fan by any margin, but he’s an idiot who speaks in occasional truths.
That companies and regulators don’t act more proactively before releasing new chemicals into the world is repeating tragedy. See PFAS as the latest one they’ve belatedly recognised.
Please don’t ignore that bit of truth just because he speaks a lot of complete crap. The clean beautiful coal comment deserves mockery, but the environmental toxin stuff is pretty solid.
He isn’t doing anything to clean up the messes of the past, or prevent future ones. He isn’t using the studies that have already BEEN done.
But Kennedy’s particular comment brings attention to a real problem, and shouldn’t be discounted because the speaker is an idiot.
Also, it is the rapidly disappearing EPA that “cleans up messes of the past etc.”. The EPA is not in any better state than stuff under Kennedy’s purview, but whatevs.
We knew about the environmental toxins before Wormhead Kennedy came along. Because Kennedy is unreliable on so many issues in no small part because of his lack of qualifications, he becomes a toxin himself making easy to discount any and all claims about environmental toxins.
He inoculates polluting corporations against accountability — all they have to ask is whether RFK Jr. is reliably credible. Nope.
And because it is easy to discount anything Kennedy says, I’m stressing that this particular comment shouldn’t be discounted.
As you say, the fact that he said such a thing makes it easy to discount the content of what he says. In this particular case, we shouldn’t.
Also, for PJ, it is the rapidly destructing EPA that does the studies, and cleans the messes. It’s not doing any better than Kennedy’s stuff, but whatever.
When the 2024 World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House recently, Trump attempted to talk about the team’s resilience in the playoffs and wound up saying whatever this random assortment of words is: “When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy, they had great arms, but they ran out, it’s called sports, it’s called baseball in particular, and pitchers I guess you could say in really particular.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-babbles-way-doing-bad-164258380.html
That’s definitely word salad.
Most people who heard something like that from a parent would send them in for a brain check. (FWIW, dementia doesn’t run in my family.)
I wish some journalist or several would make an effort to document the circumstances under which Trump burps out his word salad.
I have a sneaking suspicion it’s a symptom of his form of sundowning.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to take back the Panama Canal because he said that he could “feel” communism there when he visited.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-touts-historic-deals-deter-chinese-influence-panama-canal
Hegseth: “Barack Obama took his eye off the ball and allowed China in.”
If this is true, so did the Trump 1.0 because Trump did nothing during his first four years but pass a YUUUUUGE tax cut for the wealthy that never sunsets. (So why is the 1% tax cuts getting re-evaluated now?)
Just read that it was Erik Prince who recommended Hegseth to Trump. Makes sense; one Xtian nationalist to another.
https://6abc.com/post/governor-shapiro-police-investigating-potential-arson-governors-residence-harrisburg/16165046/
Antifa must be at it again.
Pro’lly a J6 MAGA terrorist. You know how they are prone to recidivism.
Attempted murder.
https://apnews.com/article/josh-shapiro-arson-police-fire-pennsylvania-governor-2d17ec60c48f7d4d15123dda60c88699
As usual Trump was quick to condemn political violence against his opponent. Here’s his statement:
What I don’t understand is that they were awakened by state troopers pounding on their doors.
WTF, no smoke detectors in the governor’s mansion?
Possibly none in the White House either or would they not be deafening as Meadows was burning documents?
It was in a function space, AIUI from news stories, not in their living quarters.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/police-someone-set-fire-to-pennsylvania-20273655.php
The suspect got over the fence, into the building, and had an incendiary of some kind.
The Felon Guy apparently watched “60 Minutes”, which re-ran the Harris interview, and he’s trying to sic DOJ and the FCC on them. Again.
Because he doesn’t remember seeing it before.
Like he doesn’t remember pushing the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which he says now was “negotiated by an idiot”.
“…he doesn’t remember pushing the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which he says now was “negotiated by an idiot…”
Trump is not wrong (this time). Even a broken analog clock is correct twice a day.
As far as Hunter still battling Garrett Ziegler… Hunter abandoned that endeavor in frustrating fashion, and right now is only battling whether and how much he needs to pay Ziegler in legal fees.
Here’s a sequence of events:
1) Hunter motion to dismiss WITHOUT prejudice due to fires and lack of money
2) Ziegler filing calling out Hunter’s claims as a ploy to evade a deposition
3) Social media posts including by Laura Loomer that Hunter is going on a 3 month vacation to South Africa with secret service protection
4) Ziegler filing which adds vacation allegation
5) Right wing push to cancel Hunter’s secret service protection
6) Judge dismisses case WITH prejudice, not buying Hunter’s claims, and seeing it as an effort to related to upcoming deposition
7) Trump revokes security clearance for Biden and “Biden’s family”
8) Hunter filing stating he did go to South Africa to visit wife’s family (duration of vacation unclear) at her family’s expense, and that he assumed he could do a virtual deposition if needed
Probably also some rw narratives about Cobalt and mineral rights in South Africa.
Where do you think Hunter Biden is going to get the money to pay for what you personally deem a necessary fight?
An d why should Hunter have to do all the heavy lifting?
Who else is in a position to do heavy lifting? This is Hunter’s data and encrypted information that was put out there.
Emptywheel has been doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Would Hunter give access to someone like Emptywheel to all of his forensic reports? Really, who else in a position to do heavy lifting?
Did he attempt a legal defense fund? Is that an option? I would support it. I’m sure he would have been able to generate interest by going into the information space and giving people a reason to support him.
Did he not really walk into Mac Isaac’s shop and his signature was forged? Why not write a book that covers this and fights Mav Isaac’s clearly false narrative.
When MSNBC and Lev Parnas executed their operation in September 2024 to pin the laptop on Russia, there was a clear demand on the left, which I pointed to in real time.
I think one of the main lessons with this whole ordeal is that passivity in an information warfare doesn’t work. Even if wrong, the active narratives are going to have influence.
Why are *you* trying to get Hunter Biden to do anything?
You haven’t gamed out each of your propositions; this is such a disconnect with the person who spent so much time and effort examining the evidence and developments behind the “Hunter Biden laptop” operation.
Stephen Miller states: “…The Supreme Court says “clearly” that the president or secretary of state cannot be compelled to retrieve Abrego Garcia…”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy03j9vddlt
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Sounds like the Trump admin is so dense, they literally have to have instructions in small words so they can truly understand the direction being given.
Bukele claims *he* doesn’t have that power, either. Which is obvious bull excrement.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/a-key-ally-in-trump-s-migrant-crackdown-is-coming-20274368.php
A strawman argument, which is all Stephen Miller ever seems to have. The issue is not “retrieve,” but facilitate or effectuate his return, at least within the rights granted to the USG under its contract regarding “final disposition” of the detainees the USG has sent him.
Hopefully the courts will hold the administration responsible for damages—even if Garcia is eventually returned, and especially if he is not. Contempt of court, too.
Trump doesn’t believe in contracts. He even broke his own negotiated 2018 USMCA contact with Mexico and Canada.
Anyone making a “deal” with Trump is a fool – because Trump will ultmately break or not honor the deal that Trump, himself, signed. Trump is the ulitimate welcher and any deal that Trump makes is as useful as teats on a boar.