Phantom Roxas Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-putin/putin-rejects-donald-trumps-criticism-of-biden-family-business-idUSKBN27A0TA The biggest irony of the GOP's recycled conspiracy theory about Hunter Biden is that even Putin thinks the Republicans are full of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Man, I love the irony of the right spending the past several years dismissing all scrutiny of Trump, and now they hop onto this, hoping for an October surprise, and even then they need to try and stoke the flames of their conspiracies by pretending that their damning evidence was somehow totally stolen. Regardless of whether or not you believe anything about Trump, at least Democrats have specific people to point fingers at, whether it's Barr being hired specifically to sweep the case under the rug, or John Bolton knowing more that could have contributed towards impeachment, but withholding it until he could get a book deal. But this? It's just "I totally had evidence about Hunter Biden, but it got stolen in transit." I'd say this a low effort smear campaign, but you actually have to try pretty hard to come up with a conspiracy that falls flat this hard. Investigations into Trump's actions at least try to sway people, regardless of how successful those efforts are. This is just about playing to Trump's base and telling them what they want to hear. I realize that people may be tired of hearing that Trump won 2016 illegitimately. However, I full expect that once Biden wins, the right will spend just as long insisting that the left stole this election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryusei the Morning Star Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 ohhh we trust putin now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 No one was saying that? You had dismissed criticism of this Hunter Biden conspiracy by bringing up Putin, so I found it ironic that even Putin thinks there's nothing to it. Winter, I realize this has been a problem with you for a while, but it's been especially prominent in recent weeks. You do realize that people can hold seemingly contradictory positions, right? I can distrust Putin and also find amusement in him pouring cold water on Republicans. "See, even this guy I don't trust thinks it's bullshit" is far different from "Wow, if this guy doesn't believe it, then I think I might trust him now!" What was the reason you used recently? That it's a "Let you and him fight" mentality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(GigaDrillBreaker) Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 I think winter's point is that putin would only be claiming to not believe it, and could be lying to help the democratic campaign. Not really sure why putin would do that, but Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Eh, just seemed like Winter thought that I've expressed many suspicions of Putin, taking Putin's dismissal of what the Republicans are talking about is somehow inconsistent with that. I mean, I could see Winter claiming that this is somehow meant to help the Democrats, but that really doesn't seem to be the case. It's just him trying to get another gotcha where there isn't one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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