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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 24, 2024

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I mean, he voluntarily undertook the search for documents, and they found a couple at an old office of his as well. To me, that seems fairly organic.

The problem here is that I don't actually have any faith that the people doing the searching and investigation are doing so with a desire to actually find the truth. While I can't actually prove that Biden's case was soft-walked, there's a comparable case that happened just recently - the Hunter Biden laptop. Given your level of knowledge I'm going to assume you're familiar with the details of the case, but they paint a picture of an FBI that's thoroughly unwilling to go after Biden despite impeccably documented evidence of serious crimes. While they did eventually prosecute Hunter after it became a major issue and was leaked to the press, this only happened as a result of serious public pressure and attention. The FBI actually had his laptop for quite some time before the contents were leaked to Giuliani, and they didn't do anything about it. We know from the contents of the laptop that there were several unarguable and undeniable crimes (the doing crack part at the least) as well as traces of what seemed like an obvious influence-selling case... but the government did absolutely nothing with it, only intervening when the contents of the laptop started showing up in the media. Furthermore, there were multiple figures in the intelligence community who came out to knowingly lie about the origination of the laptop in order to help Biden's election chances. At the same time, we know that the government has actually been reprimanded in court for fucking with and manipulating evidence in the Trump documents case. The two sides are very clearly not being treated equally.

I freely admit that there's no direct evidence of serious wrongdoing here, but the last time the FBI came out and said that a Biden hadn't really done anything worth being charged for they were lying through their teeth and were only forced to recant once the evidence became public. That they were forced to actually admit something happened at all is enough to make me extremely suspicious - but I don't know what they could really do to assuage my doubts. Politicisation is a hell of a drug, and it means that I don't really have any trust or faith that they're telling the truth THIS time, when a lie would be perfectly in character and advance their political goals (for the record I believe these goals are anti-Trump rather than anti-Republican).

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