I think we may be talking about two different things. Reasonable minds can certainly differ as to how much corruption is too much and how low a bar we should set for our elected officials.
It may not matter to some Americans that Hunter received "millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch" for sitting on the board of Burma. This is documented: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf).
Or that he helped expand Chinese influence in America in a $10 million a year agreement and an $80,000 diamond:
We can debate whether the Biden family crimes exceed Trump's crimes or whether it's okay to believe an election was "stolen" in 2016, but not in 2020. But I don't think this is the issue we should be focusing on, and it wasn't the point of my article.
The real issue, and the biggest danger the Hunter Biden laptop saga has revealed, is that legacy media and Big Tech worked in lock step to keep Americans from knowing about the Biden family corruption. They did everything in their power to deny Americans the power to determine -- on their own -- whether that corruption was equivalent to Trump's crimes. I believe this is the kind of truth that Americans should be allowed to suss out for ourselves.
I don't think sussing out the truth for ourselves in this regard has anything to do with believing Q conspiracies, and it's completely distinguishable COVID hoaxes or moon landings. Having the right to assess the import of the information on that laptop -- without being shamed, silenced, or censored, without having the information summarily banished from public discourse -- is the real danger here. Otherwise, we proceed down the most slippery of slopes.
Imagine if 50 years ago Woodward and Bernstein were silenced for breaking the Watergate scandal. Some might argue that it was just a break-in, and who was harmed? No big deal, right? But it was up to Americans to determine whether or not it was a big deal. We had the right to suss out the truth for ourselves. Held to the standards that corporate media/Big Tech are imposing today -- and if the break-in had occurred under the watch of a president the media supported, Watergate would surely have been swept under the rug as a "conspiracy theory".
That's the real issue here. That's the real threat to our freedom now. Our media isn't just completely biased; it's using its power to create an information vacuum for voters. That isn't a baseless claim; it's a fact.
