Across the media, journalists have recognized that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic and, as established early by American intelligence agencies, not “Russian disinformation.” With the authentication of the laptop in the Delaware trial as “real” and untampered, most media has chosen to walk away with a slightly embarrassed shrug. Not the Washington Post. Its columnist, Philip Bump, was one of the most prominent purveyors of what the U.S. government now calls a “conspiracy theory.” This week, Bump ran another column to assure liberals that they were right all along about the laptop story.
In 2021, when media organizations were finally admitting that the laptop was authentic, Bump was still declaring that it was a “conspiracy theory.” Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bump continued to suggest that “the laptop was seeded by Russian intelligence.”
After Bump had a meltdown in an interview when confronted over past false claims, I wrote a column about the litany of such false claims, including the laptop conspiracy theory. The Post surprised many of us by issuing a statement that they stood by all of Bump’s reporting, including the laptop conspiracy theory. That was in August 2023.
Well, Bump is back.
In his column, Bump takes after various people calling the media to account for burying this story before and after the election, including myself. I felt that it warranted a response.
In hitting Sean Hannity for a recent segment, Bump makes a common evasion among those who have long downplayed the laptop scandal. He objected that Hannity “is conflating the laptop presented as evidence at the trial, the one obtained by the FBI in 2019, with the ‘laptop’ that was the source of the New York Post story.”
For those of us who have covered the laptop since the story ran at the New York Post, it is as maddening as it is mendacious.
At the time of the story, some of us noted that the contents of the laptop could be confirmed since these emails and messages involved third parties. Some quickly confirmed the contents as authentic. The Bidens had long been accused of influence peddling and special dealing by using Joe Biden’s positions as senator, vice president, and president.
Moreover, as the media was referencing the debunked letter of former intelligence officials on this possible likely Russian disinformation, American intelligence quickly confirmed that there was no such evidence to support that claim.
The media ignored the actual intelligence agencies in favor of former intelligence officials who were organized by Biden campaign operatives to release the letter. Biden then cited the letter to refuse to answer questions about his son’s influence peddling and unlawful conduct.
Bump and others used the question over whether the laptop was an authentic copy or a tampered copy to avoid any serious investigation into the underlying emails. Many simply threw up their hands and said “oh well, what can we do.” To this day, the media has shown little interest in the influence peddling operation. Few people seriously argue that the media would have shown the same limited response if these emails tied Trump children to millions in foreign influence peddling schemes.
But Bump was not done:
After Hannity lamented the media’s silence on the so-called “critical development,” Turley offered a theory for why that silence had ensued.
‘If the laptop is authentic, if those files are real,’ he said, “then you have these detailed accounts of a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation run by the Biden family. Those would also be authentic. But the media just simply doesn’t want to go there.’
Except that we already know that many of those files were real, because we got access to them and verified them. The reason the media ‘doesn’t want to go there’ on breathless claims about a ‘Biden family’ influence-peddling operation is that the material doesn’t prove any such operation. It shows — as has by now been exhaustively explained — work done by Hunter Biden and his Uncle James that involved lots of money but did not demonstrably involve President Biden. The entire point of the House Republican impeachment effort has been to prove Joe Biden’s involvement; they have been unable to do so.”
Once again, Bump makes it sound like the Post vigorously and quickly verified the laptop. The belated acknowledgement did not come until much later. It was not until March 2022 that the Post finally admitted that the laptop was real, but then did comparably little to pursue the corruption and other unlawful conduct detailed on the laptop.
Washington Post columnist Thomas Rid appeared to state the quiet part out loud by telling the media: “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.”
For many, the Post has alienated readers who want to see equally rigorous attention to scandals on both sides of the political aisle. Indeed, the Post’s new publisher recently dropped a truth bomb on his writers by telling them “let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
Yet, it is Bump who is insisting this week that it is Fox News (the most watched cable news network) that is being tuned out in his column titled “The right takes a Biden-laptop victory lap around an empty arena.”
In deflecting questions about the coverage of the Biden corruption scandal, Bump simply ignores witness testimony that has proven that President Biden lied about having no knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings and met with his clients both in person and over the phone. More importantly, he ignores that this was a massive influence peddling operation where President Biden was the object. He was the “brand” being sold.
Influence peddling is a form of political corruption that the government continues to denounce worldwide. The fact that millions went to Biden family members rather than the President does not change the fact that this was one of the largest influence peddling operations in history. Just this week, even Politico stated the obvious that seems to escape Bump on this elaborate Biden operation involving not just family but close associates of the President. As I explained in my testimony in the Biden impeachment hearing, federal courts have repeatedly stated that it does not matter if a principal received money as opposed to family members. It can still constitute bribery and other offenses.
In the end, Bump continues to express frustration with those who would question his conclusions, as he did in his interview when confronted by a host asking about disproven claims. Bump exploded at the hubris of the interviewer and suggested that he is all the proof that the interviewer should need on such issues: “I’m sitting here and I’m telling you, you’re wrong about these things, and you don’t listen.”
Update: Notably, after the authentication of the computer in federal court, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, filed a motion on withdraw the lawsuit against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in which claimed that the laptop contained manipulated data.
Turley tries to lay down the groundwork of denial for playing his huge role in the McCarthy-esque Swiftboating campaign of Hunter. We know what you did, Turls.
It’s still early, but this just could be ‘Stupidest Comment of the Day’.
Ahhh…, the dangers of speaking in present tense, ay?
So to be clear, since I’m speaking to a moron…, you just labeled your own post the stupidest post of the day. You dunked on yourself. Like a dog, as your orange God would say.
Except that those of us that comprehend on more than a 3rd grade level, knew exactly what he meant, Lawn Boy.
Hint, it was a reply.
Elvis Bug is a true spastic idiot non savant. And the resident moron.
I said,
AbuBug, don’t cry. I wouldn’t have cried. CrybabyBaghdadiElvis, that’s what we called him.—-Orange God
See the full skit here.
Bwahahahahahahahaha
Good to know I’m speaking to a 4th grader! Just think, there’s a lot of time left for you to come to grips with the realities of the language. Much for you to look forward to!!
I know you are but what am I?
bwahahahahaha
A full on idiot by all appearances.
I know you are but what am I?
I think you’re the one who I used to shave one eyebrow off and paint your nails pink when you’d pass out at the thrasher. Prove me wrong.
I know you are but what am I? Prove me wrong?
A long time ago when I worked in Washington, DC, I had a friend who was an executive assistant to the boss, a political appointee. My friend used to get to the office between 6 and 7 every morning – two hours or so before the rest of us. I asked him once why. He said that he had to read the Washington Post cover to cover in case there was a story about “us” that appeared in the paper. He told me that th boss read the Post every morning as he was driven to work and if there was anything mentioning “us,” that he would be called in immediately and asked to explain the background, etc. The boss thought my friend was a genius for knowing so much. That was a long time ago. Today, because of the Bumps of the world, hardly anyone reads the Washington Post and for good reason. Democracy dies in darkness. Newspapers die from bad reporters like Bump. That’s why people don’t read your stuff anymore. Too bad my friend had to get up so early. In today’s world he probably could sleep-in or better yet, work from home where no boss will bother him and no one cares what’s in or out of the Washington Post.
Nah. Newspapers die due to the massive dumbing down of the populace.
Anon: I’m not so sure. It could be just the opposite; that the people today because of the Internet have so many choices from which to garner their daily news that stooges like Bump and Co. simply cannot bamboozle them into believing their nonsense. I think the people dumbed down the media into thinking they could spin the news. When Walter Conkrite was the most trusted man in America, it mainly was because he was the only man in America with the nightly news. Today, I can flip my channel to BBC or the Fishing Channel and about a hundred other sources for news and entertainment. Bezos is smart enough to know what sells and what doesn’t sell and he’s not about to let the Bumps of the world drive his newspaper into the toilet. Just look at how he runs Amazon.com. Prices and goods are fair and honestly priced, delivered quickly and problems resolved immediately. He knows that if you gyp the people, they will walk away from you. It’s the same with the news. Bump is probably on a short leash, as are his co-workers and editors if they don’t get the message.
As someone who works in TV and film in my day job I’m very familiar with shaping market content to fit niche and genre…, and it seems this is what you’ve defined ‘news’ as being in the current sphere. In other words news is ever increasingly tabloidized for hit counts. It’s actually how Turley monetized this blog….
Still, the net effect of this tabloidization of being able to choose your own news content in order to enhance a serotonin blast certainly paves the way for the dumbing down of the populace. Just read much of the moronic sentiment on this comment section…, not exactly honors level material, let’s just say that.
Furthermore, this news tabloid climate works on on all ideologies and what the Post is experiencing is as much due to the spike in audience they got from covering the mad man trump when he arrived in D.C…
Everyone made money off the con man from Queens who learned over decades in NY how to play the tabloids. As it became increasingly more clear trump was more PT Barnum than serious political figure, audiences began to shrink.
“It’s atually how Turley monetized this blog….”
The Boozer forgets there are no advertisements on the blog. Empty bottles are devoid of substance as well. Boozer is rambling again.
^^^Diesel powered moron remains ignorant to the fact social media influencers make their money from blog traffic hit count and/or selling the rights to their blog to bigger entities that want their audience more than they want to sell product….
But he’s happy remaining mired in the 90’s despite having this explained to him many times before.
Enjoy the visuals in the fever dream!!
Elvis dumb ass bug, who can’t see the irony in his contributions to turley’s post count.
What a spastic idiot non savant. Not just his own unhinged posts, but the traffic he generates in responses to his stupidity.
Turley thanks you, drunktard. Or Fox, or whoever owns it in your fever dream.
Also, Lawn Boy, if some corp or “influencer” owns this site, why do they let you reminisce about “getting fvcked in the ass” by all the “magats” here??
Why do they let you opine about how much you “love thick maga moron jiz” running out of your little shit tube?? Why do they let you brag about cornholing your 11 year old nephew and not passing your syphilis on to him???
wait for it….”uh duh dup duh dup, stop sharing your fever dreams, turd magat tommy”. Brilliant. yea, you write for a living LMAO
Bwahahahahahahaha
See, magat, once again you can’t tell me from another poster.
Sure, I love magat cock in my ass, but I NEVER used the term maga moron!
Here let me help you.
/Bug
I actually have thought often about my contribution to turley’s hit count and have come to the conclusion that is it is indeed futile for me on the one hand to comment here because I just spur stalkers such as yourself to respond. That’s why I’ll disappear for stretches and be entertained by your fixation on me. It’s entertaining seeing you go all ‘that post was from Elvis bug!’ When you’re clearly paranoid…
So therein lies the trade off for me: spur on turley’s hit count vs. Take satisfaction in the psychotic reactions of his paid trolls.
“I take satisfaction in psychotic reactions from his paid trolls”
If only your mom were alive. She would be so proud. But hey, whatever gets you off, boozer.
“paid trolls”. Hmm, where have we heard that before? Outed yourself again, dum dum. “Disappeared” my ass. You’re right, I have credited Ralph with some of your unhinged nonsense.
There must be a reason you spontaneously beat the kid when you say the word spastic. C’mon share with the group. We’re all friends here.
Spastic idiot non savant says what?
Boozer, you are correct about social media influencers, but where has Turley sold his blog. You can’t answer that behttps://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/13/bump-is-back-the-washington-post-makes-last-plea-to-keep-the-laptop-conspiracy-theory-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-2412199cause you are as empty as your bottles.
I told you 1000 times, I quit the booze 40 years ago. But somehow I was able to critique turd magat tommy’s choice of Whistle Pig as his go to whiskey.
So what if it was founded in 2007???
Now leave me alone. I have another (hiccup) story to write.
Party on (that doesn’t mean what you think it means)
Quitting Booze doesn’t mean getting rid of the mindset of a Boozer, and saying so doesn’t make it true. You are judged by your posts not the number of empty bottles.
Meyer, read that again, but imagine it is ridicule
Boozer, no reason to read you again. Your crap remains crap.
LOL perfect!!
But Meyer’s already been told that all those mean people that spit at him in public are just giving him applause…
You love me more than your Whistle Pig. Just say it.
It a toss up, loverboy😘
If it’s not clear to you that Turley’s ‘blog’ is really just a workshop for fox talking points you’re gullible in a beyond help sort of way.
Thanks for the contribution! And glad you watch Fox!!!
Always good to have visual evidence of Russian assets at work!
You do love looking at guy’s “assets”
The blog likely has no significant influence on Turley’s finances. Turley’s prestige comes from being a professor, looked up to by the legal profession, and in the cases he is involved with, especially Trump’s.
Your hateful and libelous rhetoric is typical of Boozers.
The jealousy drips from Bugs keyboard daily
It’s because he likely sold the rights to it when signing on as a fox cock smoker.
I’ve already accused you of blowing rescue dogs so I guess I can’t use that anymore.
S. Meyer,
I have modded for a WP site.
The way it works is the site gets an amount of money for every hit the site gets and the person sees the ads that are on the side, in the middle of a article, or at the bottom. And if someone just so happens to buy a product linked from that site, they get a small commission. The FTC mandates that disclaimer be posted somewhere on the page.
As you noted, the good professor does not have any ads on his site. He is not selling anything. He does not have to. Why would any of the news outlets pay the professor a second time when they already paid him once for his columns? Why would Fox pay him for an column for The Hill, or USA Today? He might provide a link to the outlet. But who goes there, when we can and do read it here.
The good professor is a tenured professor.
He writes for several outlets.
He appears on some TV shows.
He has given speaking engagements.
He has a book coming out.
Why would he need another stream of revenue?
He is clearly successful.
Fox pays to channel his audience to fox. When they bought Turley it was done so as a franchise. And they workshop future talking points here to fine tune them. Once you idiots go live on Fox the Mike pillow of the day sells you stuff and Fox gets the advertising rates. A typical win win for them. It’s called a funnel in internet world. Remember the poker saying, if you get well into a hand and don’t know who the mark is…, you’re it.
There is no “mark”, “well into a hand”, dum dum. A “mark” is identified before you begin playing with him, or across any number of hands playing with him.
If you’re trying to be clever, and people are laughing, but you don’t know why, they are laughing AT you.
UpstateFarmer said: “I have modded for a WP site.
The way it works is the site gets an amount of money for every hit the site gets and the person sees the ads that are on the side, in the middle of a article, or at the bottom. And if someone just so happens to buy a product linked from that site, they get a small commission.”
Interesting. I use FF locked down with NoScript and UBlockOrigin extensions, so for all intents and purposes, I do not see any ads, anywhere on the web. The only exception is if an ad is coded directly as part of the hypertext for the main page, and that is very rare. If the page appears to rely on ads, and I think it valuable enough, I will send a donation directly to the author. Frankly, that is also very rare 🙂 I do sometimes wonder how, and to what extent, the difference between an ad-infested and ad-free version of a page might affect the reader’s perception of it.
RE:”…shaping market content to fit niche and genre…” ‘MAD Magazine’ put it succinctly decades ago when spoofing ‘The Grey Lady”…..”All the news that fits…we print!’ ….and that’s the way it is.
Who knew it would be as predictive as it’s become??? Lol
I suspect the WashPost is going to continue to lose a lot more money. Maybe they can pull off a Harry Houdini act and just disappear totally. I suspect Jeff Bezos would like to see his money more actively engaged in (wait for it) Making Money.
I would suspect if things don’t turn around quickly, Bezos may just close down the paper and/or sell it. Sometimes you just have to move on. You cannot simply continue to reinforce failure. Eventually you have to accept good business practices and starve failure and reinforce success.
It’s sort of like the DOJ. Which just keeps throwing money and investigators at anyone who contests the radical progressive ideology. It just seems to piss off more and more parents and others.
Compared to the UK the DOJ is totally off the wall in Transgender care and rights. When whistle blowers alarmed newspapers and the National Health Service with reports of illegitimate care in the Tavistock Gender Care clinic in London, there was a quick response and investigation that shut down the clinic, eventually permanently and then after further investigation and studies, wholesale change and de-emphasis of surgical and hormonal treatment of “transgender” children were made, and this reverberated all through Europe as this madness had the curtain pulled away.
In the US, when a Doctor reported illegal transgender surgeries and hormonal treatments at the Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston, and blew the whistle, the DOJ swooped in and lodged Federal Charges against the whistle blowing doctor alleging HIPPA violations. It will be interesting to see what happens because the Texas AG is now getting involved. HIPPA is important but there are relatively easy means of getting out the information without compromising patient identity. I don’t think the DOJ gives a Rats Ass about patient identity but trans ideology is That Which Must Not Be Touched or Refuted. To my mind and a large proportion of Doctors out there the DOJ is protecting Malpractice, Malfeasance , and Conspiracy. Sort of reeks of medical boards going after doctors for opposing recent covid vaccines and bar associations trying to shut down any conservative lawyer who questions an election.
These transgressors are just following the lead of the MSM. Never admit an error, that anybody actually hears.
“I would suspect if things don’t turn around quickly, Bezos may just close down the paper and/or sell it. Sometimes you just have to move on. You cannot simply continue to reinforce failure.”
With or without Bezos’ approval, the Washington Post financially helped Bezos’ Amazon grow while it put many small businesses out of business. The Washington Post supported the nation’s shutdown, and during that time, Amazon was the primary way people could purchase much of what they needed.
The 51 “intelligence experts” that signed the election interference letter were cobbled together by Antony Blinken who was rewarded with the Sec State job that he is unfit for and is ubable to do.
Imagine that a political operative like Blinken got these now infamous 51 lying swamp creatures to interfere in the election and not one reporter for the Times, WAPO, CNN or any other mainstream “news” group could figure it out? Of course they knew, they are all in on the game.
They new that JFK was sleeping around with anything with a pulse, they knew that JFK and LBJ used a taping system in the Oval Office, they know that the Intel agencies have their favorite little “sources” that they “leak” info too whenever they need that poison injected into the veins of the body politic. AND THEY KNEW THAT THE LAPTOP WAS REAL.
In my little opinion Philip Bump could be either a weak little man who does the bidding of some unknown power source that might have some kind of a hold on him or he is just a weak little girl that wants to fit in because he knows deep inside that he is a talentless hack. Of course this is just my opinion, but the fact that he is a snobbish boor is hard to debate.
Either Bump is a true blue Biden believer and has completely swallowed the Kool Ade or he knows the laptop is real and continues to support the narrative because they have something on him. It comes back to Schumer’s six ways from Sunday comment about the IC.
I know it’s too much to ask that politicians should be honest with we, the people. Is it too much to ask the press to be honest?
Or….he’s telling the truth.
He knows it real. So does George.
Please never fail to understand that the purpose of people like Bump is never to bring truth to light. He is a dedicated acolyte of the Progressive Left. His job has nothing to do with Truth. It’s to feed the Confirmation Bias of those who need manipulation of reality to survive and achieve their nefarious goals. So, don’t wonder why facts are ignored, why ridiculous lies are invented, promoted and perpetuated. It’s because Truth not only doesn’t matter, but that it is the antithesis of the Progressive Left’s agenda.
How do you know? Because Turley said so. Hannity? Closing your mind off to the possibility because someone else just said so is the surest way to stay ignorant about the issue. You have the entire internet and its vast cache of information to determine for yourself if Philip Bump is telling the truth or not.
Partisans love to stay in their own information silos and wallow in confirmation bias. I’m not afraid to admit that I have been guilty of that. At least I am willing to entertain the ideas and views of the “other side” and keep an open mind. But, it’s hard not to be skeptical. That’s why I post here among the hardened Trump supporters and foul mouthed trolls whose only purpose is to argue and whine and clutch their pearls because of the never ending impending doom that has been befalling the country….for years.
Bump’s views have one thing Turley doesn’t. Details. Haven’t you noticed Turley never dives into the details? He either refers to past columns or articles that don’t really say what he claims they say.
Well, that’s another lie, Bump. You had your chance to share the details in the interview you stomped out of, after being called on the first “detail”.
It’s akin to Fauci declaring that to deny his perspective would be to deny science. “I am the science!” God save us from those who believe we can’t think for ourselves or trust our “lying eyes.”
Fauci was just relaying the data driven strategies for dealing with a pandemic that had catastrophically infiltrated the American populace. The fact your orange God conned you so hard wasn’t Fauci’s fault.
What a good little mindless drone you are. The regime is pleased with your obedience.
ATS like all left wing nut garbage this is false
First fauxi was covering his own complicity
Next the so called data driven strategies were contradicted by the data and the science
One of trumps worst mistakes as president was trusting fauzi
Let’s see fauxi was wrong
About pretty much everything
Trump was wrong except when he was at odds with fauxi which was rare
Biden was completely wrong
The people who were mostly or completely right
Actually followed data and science and were censored and pi$$ed on by the likes of you
And your take away is to praise fauxi and pi$$ on Trump ?
If Trump said the sun will rise tomorrow you would be telling us that was a lie for decades
John Say (dhlii),
Fauci did what every scientist does. Follows the science and evidence at the time. The whole situation with the pandemic was that it was constantly fluid. It was a new viral threat with little to no knowledge of how to affected people in the early stages of its discovery. What was certain is that it was spreading fast and it did kill a lot of people early on due to a lack of information. Remember Italy? They were in the dark about how it was transmitted or how it affected different groups of people. Science will always go with what is known and what has worked in the past and dealing with the pandemic was essentially trial and error until more information was known AND shared.
The mask issue was at first not seriously considered because little was known about how it was transmitted. Did mask prevent infection, no. They never claimed it would prevent infection. What they did know is that at a minimum it would limit exposure. At the time limiting exposure even a 10% effectiveness was better than 0%. Masking in conjunction with distance decreased transmission rates. Stopping it all together was not logically or practically feasible. Limiting or reducing the rate of transmission was and that was their focus in areas of high transmission rates and hospital bed availability.
It was an ever changing situation at a few were able to grasp and that includes people who suddenly knew more or better than those who have been in the field for decades like Fauci. Crackpots and the ignorant prolonged the epidemic and made things worse by spreading what amounted to armchair medical diagnosis and scientific expertise in reading scientific papers regarding the virus and its effects. A lot of ignorant people made things worse. Any hint of being “talked down to” by experts was immediately dismissed as a hoax or smeared by rampant conspiracy theories. Trump, who is really not a very smart man made things a lot worse because he was clearly afraid to look bad and take responsibility if things went wrong.
Fauci is not to blame for the majority of what happened during the pandemic. He did what years of experience taught him to do with such a situation as Brett he could. People wanted simple accurate answers that were not possible or required much more explanation. That led people to feel and look like they were being seen as too stupid to understand and that may have been true for some of the population. People like to be or prefer to be under the illusion that they have some control over things they don’t fully understand. Instead of accepting or acknowledging that they attacked and smears people like Fauci.
“Fauci did what every scientist does.”
WRONG! On many of the most basic things, Fauci advocated the opposite of the way he was trained and, at the same time, didn’t deal with opposing positions. That is what science is: moving forward with new ideas while keeping one’s mind open.
“it did kill a lot of people early on due to a lack of information.”
Silly statement. It killed people early and later. We knew early enough that the policies used did more damage than good.
“They were in the dark about how it was transmitted or how it affected different groups of people.”
Wrong. We quickly knew how it was transmitted and who it was likely to kill. Don’t you bother reading before mouthing off?
I skipped the rest of the post because, after all this time and discussion, you still need to learn more about Covid—most of what you think you know is wrong.
Fauxi followed the faux science
Real scientists
Not politicians contradicted everything he said
And were silenced
Are you this stupid?
Can you name a single recommendation by fauxi that was not known to be false before Covid?
This was politics not science
It was done under the delusion that left wing nut could test out mass social control
It failed because it was at odds with the science
And because always pushing people all the same way Fails
But left wing nuts were enamored by what appeared to be success by social control in china
Though in the long run China predictably demonstrated the total failure of total social control
Contra your claim fauxi and the rest of the government world health establishment conduct a massive never before tried experiment and it failed spectacularly
The Real science told us before this started that
Lets dissect this “data driven strategy” for this spastic non savant.
26 years and 28 billion dollars studying coronaviruses, and Fauci didn’t know it was spread by aerosol. You get that?? He didn’t even know HOW the virus would spread.
The whole presumption was that this GOF research was to come up with a plan to combat a pandemic, and the stupid fvck couldn’t even tell us how it spreads???
Fvck off with that nonsense. He admitted to congress that the 6 foot rule was based on NOTHING.
Fauci responded saying he was unaware of studies supporting the 6-foot social distancing guidelines. He then clarified that it wasn’t based on randomized control trials.
I reject your reality and substitute my own—Lawn Boy the booger eating troll
“ 26 years and 28 billion dollars studying coronaviruses, and Fauci didn’t know it was spread by aerosol. You get that?? He didn’t even know HOW the virus would spread.”
Nobody did. That’s the problem. Scientists around the world were still in the process of figuring out how fast it was spreading, how it was spreading, and who was and wasn’t vulnerable. Not all coronaviruses are the same.
That is why so many precautions were taken during the early months of the pandemic. It was better to go overboard than do too little. The whole point scientific discovery and research is testing and trial and error and learning from it. It’s not about instant certainty that one method is always going to work or will work fully. We live in the most scientific illiterate country when it comes to the general population. Conservatives are always complaining about the poor state of education in the country and yet suddenly they are all experts and armchair scientists who think they are qualified to say experts are wrong. Dealing with ignorance was the biggest challenge to scientists during the pandemic and it didn’t help that we had a total moron in office at the time.
Your kind of ignorance is what exasperated the spread and prolonged the duration.
Nobody did??? “Nobody” didn’t spend 28 billion studying it and “preparing” for it.
Yea, spastic, because that was never the purpose. It was to create a virus that would “necessitate” a vaccine. That could then be MANDATED, to ensure its profitability. In order to get mandated, it had to be deadly and spread like wildfire. Way more deadly and contagious than any coronavirus EVER encountered before. And, by some fantastic stroke of luck, never encountered again outside of humans.
Nah, Fauci’s “royalties” from Moderna are just another coincidence. Riiiiight.
You have NO FVCKING IDEA what my reaction was to the pandemic, so who is the ignorant one? Was it “my kind of ignorance” that sent sick patients back into nursing homes, fvckhead? Or was that “Trumps fault”?
Not all coronaviruses are the same.
I’m going to just let that one sit and simmer, MR EXPERT.
think they are qualified to say experts are wrong
Irony and self awareness are not your strong suit, are they?
These “experts” had forever and a day to come up with a strategy. THAT was their whole premise for fvcking around with nature and spending tens of billions that could have fed starving people. They FAILED miserably. If I was as piss poor at my job, there would be a submarine parked on the ocean floor off the coast of Florida, and the people of Fort Lauderdale would be glowing green.
Let me ask you…how IGNORANT was the statement “if you get the vaccine, you won’t get the virus and you won’t transmit the virus”? Who said that, jack ass?
We would have been better off to do NOTHING. In the nuclear field we had a saying about 3 Mile Island. The operators there made several critical errors in their RESPONSE to the problem, that nearly resulted in a Chernobyl style catastrophe. This was from the conclusions of the AEC, after their investigation.
The 3 Mile Island incident would have enjoyed a better outcome if the operators, on hearing the first alarm, had simply gone outside and eaten their sack lunches.
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Gigi is none other than Philip Bump
The WaPo has a speech Bump.
Dump the Bump!
Jonathan play nice with the other Boys, little Philippe just got his dick stuck in the ringer again.
Just remember that it might happen to you.
Mom 💕
All that is necessary to avoid the stupid mistakes of the left is to check your facts and engage in the least bit of critical thinking
It required very little logic to grasp the collusion delusion was garbage near the start
It required even less to grasp the laptop was real
The left constantly posits scenarios that suit its narrative without considering whether they make sense
Turkeys most common error is being slow to grasp how Batschiff crazy the left is
He never goes way over his skis
“Turkeys most common error is being slow to grasp how Batschiff crazy the left is”
John, add to being a bit slow, a bit naive.
So, the Washington Post, which I no longer read, continues to employ morons. Is that news?
@jacklifton – you sure the morons are the people they employ or those who pay to read what the morons they employ write?
And now Bump has become a notorious meme for the willingly obtuse.
One would have to consider many of these outlets and their “reporters” are receiving dark money from inside our government. They all have the same message and in many instances speak them word for word. As if they gathered were given a script and got their marching orders.
Makes me wonder, too, Margot.
Margot Ballhere said: ” They all have the same message and in many instances speak them word for word. As if they gathered were given a script and got their marching orders”
Almost as if the CIA found what they had been looking for with the MkUltra program and applied that solution to the talking heads.
Refusing to believe the vessel was lost, he’d have been the last one off the ‘Titanic’ along with Chief Baker Joughin, maintaining to this day that the wreck was a deliberate conspiracy designed to to commit insurance fraud.
This is another reason why the WAPO is dying. Guys like Bump just want Biden to get to November 5th and then they will admit the truth, turn on him, dump him and pretend that they never liked him. Kamala will then be anointed as a Saint, decreed the first of everything and sacrosanct regarding being criticized.
After the dumping of Biden and the Sainthood of Harris they will put Newsome into the VP slot and they are off until 2036.
Lying partisan hacks like Philip Bump will look you in the eyes and tell you that the laptop doesn’t mean the Joe Biden is a corrupt. They will say that having everyone in Biden’s family making millions doesn’t make Biden corrupt. Having everyone getting rich as a Biden then writing checks to Joe doesn’t mean he is corrupt. Nope, just lifelong civil servant Joe Biden lending hundreds of thousands to his son and brother that he also helped make millions.
Philip Bump, and his girl glasses, will sneer at you that you are a rube, that he is the professional, that he KNOWS and you don’t about what the facts are. Guys like Philip Bump, and his designer, elite, big city, faux intelligence glasses, are the reason why Europe is turning rightward, why Trump is winning and why the Democrats cannot run on any of their issues other than abortion, which is rightfully a state issue.
Guys like Philp Bump, and his Tic Toc glasses, support men competing against women, children being ripped apart by surgeons to appease their Munchhausen Mommies, an open border, paying off the loans of rich kids, AND ONLY RICH KIDS, making gas prices prohibitive in order to force feed us EVs, banning meat, banning gas stoves, banning air conditioning, banning gas cars (as they fly all over the world), housing illegals, paying BILLIONS to students for their loans as Biden vetoes a pay raise for the military.
Philip Bump, and his glasses, are the face of the elite Democrat party that has lost their way, lost their true base and will now lose an election to a dislikable Republican.
BTW, I wear glasses.
Hullbobby-👍
Philip Bump – poster child for the mainstream media as cheerleading squad for the Democratic Party.
He injects new life into George Orwell’s adage: some ideas are so stupid, that only an intellectual would believe them.
He also fits the definition of insanity: trying the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
It will take a surgeon of superhuman skills to extract his foot from his mouth.
Joe, through his son, profited from influence peddling. Public knowledge of this should have swayed the prior election to Trump.
Hopefully when Bezos tires of the goat rodeo that owning the Post must be, and sells it, the new owner will kick that pandering, mendacious a-hole B-Pimp Bump out he door immediately. Unfortunately, there is no doubt MSNBC or some other woke MSM outlet with negative regard for the truth would pick him up just as quickly.
This was me, Number 6. Somehow my sig got lost AFTER posting (I initially saw it) which is damned weird, even in the context of this site…
My sincere congratulations to the WAPO staff writers for sticking to the narrative, and not allowing pesky facts to enter their thinking. They are true to their cause. You might compare WAPO to AI and how both operate. Both are tied to their respective narratives, allowing only a preponderance of new information to dislodge it. And only then if they are retrained. Perhaps we could say the WAPO staff needs to attend a re-education seminar.
You simply cannot fix stupid.