Heads. Pikes. Some glorious assembly required

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For four years, we keep hearing about election interference, all because Russia tried some disinformation strategies by using half-assed social media efforts that no one actually ran across.

That was supposedly enough to discredit Donald Trump as president, all despite a passionate base of supporters.

But what about when taxpayer-funded agencies sit on information, and seek to discredit it, just because it’s potentially harmful to a preferred candidate? Well, then that information becomes disinformation right up until it’s convenient for it to stop being so.

And this wasn’t a case of anyone getting it wrong.

No, with the Hunter Biden laptop story, they knew it was legit. They just didn’t want you to know that.

Hunter Biden’s infamous "laptop from hell" may be the most damning trove of evidence tying the sitting (if sleeping) president of the United States to the over $27 million that his family raked in by peddling his political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes – in particular, the communist regime of Xi Jinping in China.

Still, the enduring relevance of the laptop is not as a Biden story, but as a story of the political corruption of the government’s law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus – pillars of our rule of law and our national security.

Think about this: The FBI took possession of the laptop in December 2019, and quickly authenticated it – not hard to do because there was a mountain of publicly available information for purposes of corroborating the data, which was incontestably Hunter Biden’s.

What’s the significance of that? Well, Election Day wasn’t until November 3, 2020. Hence, while early voting was already underway in the weeks before the election, the FBI had already known for nearly a year that the laptop was the real deal. 

Despite that, the bureau induced major social media titans, such as Twitter (now X) and Facebook, to suppress derogatory reporting about the Bidens – specifically, the New York Post’s mid-October 2020 reporting on the laptop. How? By deceptively intimating that the Post’s reporting was likely the result of an influence operation carried out by Russian intelligence.

In reality, this was an influence operation carried out by current and former U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI was not alone. 

No, they weren’t.

And everyone who was complicit in this engaged in election interference.

See, if they’d allowed the story to run, there would have been debate over it. Some would have dismissed it. Others would have trumpeted it as a smoking gun, but the voters could have decided for themselves.

Since some of that evidence implicated Joe Biden in various misdeeds, a lot of people might probably have made a different decision on election day, 2020. I mean, Trump said mean things on Twitter, but Biden was apparently selling his country out for a few bucks.

At least, that’s sure how it looked.

Only the American people didn’t get that opportunity. Discussion of the laptop was silenced. The New York Post, one of the largest publications in the nation, lost its Twitter account for a time because of it. The entire thing was labeled misinformation. It wasn’t to be taken seriously.

So, Biden won when that probably wouldn’t have happened had people known the truth about the laptop, that it was legit as hell.

We were lied to.

I knew we were being lied to at the time. So did many of you. Many of your friends and family, however, bought into the lie. They told you it was Russian disinformation. They told you it was a fake. They pushed the lie, believing it to be true because they trusted the media pushing it.

And the FBI knew it.

I’m sorry, but the FBI is taxpayer-funded. That means our tax dollars went into the pot that paid for election interference. They willfully hid the information, pretending it to be false, pushing the idea that it was false, all because they didn’t like Donald Trump. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

Which is why the headline is what it is. No, that’s not hyperbole. Yes, I really want heads on pikes.

Look around at our nation. It’s difficult for people to live on the wages they had been thriving just fine on. I’ve spent months scrambling to find a way to cover the bills. You guys were great when I asked for help before, and I may end up having to do so again in the very near future unless some things change, but I shouldn’t need it. I should be able to survive just fine.

And yes, this is the direct result of the actions of the FBI. They lied to the American public in order to affect the election. That’s wrong and heads need to roll over that.

I’d say that even if I weren’t struggling because of those actions, mind you, but it makes it far more personal for me.

It’s why we need to question everything. The people we should trust aren’t trustworthy.

So, heads. Pikes. Some assembly required and then, maybe, we can make our institutions not suck so badly.

If that doesn’t work, though, we can repeat it as many times as necessary.

(Yes, I know the pic above is a halberd. It’s what I could find in Substack’s database of pics.)

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