The More We Know Is Important
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112876)
United States
January 12, 2023 2:17pm CST
If you don't know why the Hunter Biden laptop story was silenced. Perhaps now we know why.
If you don't know why January 6th happened, and who coordinated it in order to present a major distraction from the Hunter Biden laptop, the 2020 election result, and what might be revealed as what was really going on when Joe Biden was vice president. Perhaps now we know why.
Perhaps the classified documents are nothing in the case of Biden as it turned out to be in the case of Trump. I honestly hope so, and I do mean that. Perhaps the Biden Crime Family story, which much of Hunter's laptop reveals details of is also not true.
Because despite my feelings toward Biden as to his policies as president, I still care deeply about the country. I still feel deeply about the integrity of our elections no matter which side wins. I still wish for us to be, while somewhat divided in our political leanings, a country of people who truly want our elected officials to be honest people with at least the best interests of the country at heart.
If what is believed to be found is truly found, in the end, is true, it will become easily the biggest scandal in this country that we have ever faced. Bigger than Nixon. Bigger than anything anyone has accused Trump of.
It rips at the fabric of America and does so at a time when the fabric is worn and very fragile.
Perhaps it could offer us a lesson for the future though. To be more aware and pay better attention. To be less divided and more focused on the truth. To have more interest in the truth rather than allow ourselves to be shadowed in the mire of deception.
Perhaps it also would present very big questions about our media, and how much trust we can place in them to deliver truth to the American people.
If we care more about our politics than the stars and stripes. If we care more about parties than the red, white and blue. If we care more about personal feelings than what's right...
We will lose our beloved nation forever.
I truly hope there is nothing here to see much like was the case with Trump. I sort of hope it is nothing more than another witch hunt posed by a disgruntled other side.
Because to me, nothing matters more than country. Nothing is more important than America. And nothing is more sacred in this country and our freedom than the integrity and honor of that place we call The White House.
What scares me is the substance of the information that may be presented to us, which has real things behind it. That scares me to death. What scares me as well is that even if the truth is ever truly presented, there may be many people still unwilling to accept it.
America first. Forever and always. No matter who is president.
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@kaylachan (84815)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Jan 23
I can't help but agree. We need to put our country first, again. We need to think about who's better for the country, not who we do and don't like. When did elections become nothing more than inflated popularity contests?
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
13 Jan 23
That is a spot on description of what it has become. We are perhaps becoming more like voters in an American Idol contest than a presidential one. Using that same analogy, one would suspect that true talent, and true greatness would never win out on a show like that.
Can you imagine Bob Dylan or Neil Young making it anywhere on those shows? But of course they are legendary talents even if they are not the best singers.
Part of what made no sense to me in the "voting out" of Trump was the stark difference between how things were going when Obama was in and when Trump was in. It seemed remarkable to me that with that many successes (despite his character, and I stress that), that it would have even been a contest in 2020.
In other words, there was no perceived need for any actual change. Trump, in any other time, in any other world, would have gotten another four years.
But something has changed. It's the attitude of the voter and the manner in which they cast their vote. It's that popularity contest you mentioned, where policy and success does not matter so much as whether or not someone is liked personally.
But again, I do partially blame the media. Because they are supposed to report the truth. They are supposed to present the news. They aren't supposed to take sides. And because they did choose NOT to report the news, or slant it in a way that made the news sound terrible, and chose narratives over truth—many people either did not get the whole picture, or got one that was painted in a terrible light.
If we want this country to succeed, we are going to have to take one of the greatest rights we have, the right to vote, very seriously.
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@kaylachan (84815)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jan 23
@porwest I agree with you on that. Let's face it, we've had people in the White House who aren't the most wholesome people, but they knew how to do their jobs. Trump, being a businessman, was one of those people. He took a different approach to running the country, and garnered a lot of hate for it. Which is quite sad. And, now, three years later, people are trying to get him put behind bars. And, with our our legal system works, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Jan 23
@porwest I saw a small bit of it on the news this morning. It will be interesting how it will all play out.
I agree. People living in glass houses should not throw rocks. Though in the case against Trump it was more like boulders.
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
17 Jan 23
@just4him Right. But with Trump it wasn't him doing the throwing. And now they are finding more classified documents in Biden's house. This could get more and more interesting, AND there's still that laptop. THAT'S the 800 pound gorilla in the room, honestly.
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
13 Jan 23
It may turn out it is much to do about nothing. The problem, of course, is that there is actual substance to many of the allegations against Biden, unlike the ones against Trump which have been mostly made up and turned out to be nothing but things for the media to try to trash Trump on.
The Biden crime family thing, which seems apparent from Hunter's laptop, which I suspect we will be learning quite a lot more about in the coming months, could be very damning and quite a revelation.
It sort of reminds me of some advice someone gave me once which I always found valuable. Don't eff yourself trying to eff somebody else. In other words, the more light you try to bring to someone else to try to bring them down, the more someone else may start asking questions about you. And you may not be as squeaky clean as the other guy.
The democrats, and the Biden's may have bitten off more than they can chew, and potentially have quite a bit more to hide.
Perhaps that's just a play on another piece of advice. He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
13 Jan 23
I hope you're right, but I really don't have much optimism for the future of our country. I think this decline has gone on for too long to change direction. And I would love to be proved totally wrong.
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
13 Jan 23
One of the things I was trying to stress here, and hopefully that point came across, is that as much as I do not think Biden should be president, and regardless of any questions I may have as to how that came to be, he IS the president right now, and because I love my country more than anything, despite the D after his name, I still want the country to thrive and succeed and be good for the American people and the American way.
I don't want the president to be a crook. I don't want him to be a failure. I don't want to just be able to sit back and say "I told you so." Because all any of those things do is allow my country to crumble just to get a jab in.
I don't want that.
I mean, it IS an "I told you so" moment, and a huge one. But I don't want to have to say it. I take no pleasure in high inflation, wars, higher unemployment, empty shelves, high gas prices and looming recession just because my guy didn't win.
At the same time, while it appears conspiratorial some of the suggestions I am making, the pieces of this puzzle do seem to fit amazingly well. And I am trying not to necessarily change any minds, but to simply get some people thinking a bit outside the box. I am trying to get people to ask more questions, and to be more willing to set aside their biases in order to ask the RIGHT questions for the RIGHT reasons.
Because, as I alluded to in this post, I think it matters much more than some of us happen to think it does.
At the end of the day it's not about Trump or Biden, or republicans or democrats, or liberals and conservatives. It's about America.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
13 Jan 23
@porwest You are exactly right. I have never wanted the Dems to fail just so I could prove them wrong. I want our country to succeed...whoever the president is.
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Jan 23
Well said Jim. The strength and integrity of this country should always take precedent over politics and individuals in power. Like you, I may not like Biden as our President, but he IS our president and I will respect that.
We do need to restore honesty and integrity in the White House, but unfortunately I don't think anyone who is honest would be dumb enough to ever want that job.
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
16 Jan 23
I keep going back to an interview Trump did many, many years ago when he said, when asked if he may ever run for president, "Only if I feel the country needs me to." He was painted as a man in it for himself and his own personal gain, but I tend to believe he ran because that time came that he felt like we needed something new. A fresh set of eyes and a fresh perspective from an outside view.
What irks me more than people's vehement hatred for Trump is their denial of what went right POLICY wise. And worse than that, the denial of things policy wise going wrong now.
And now they have found more classifed documents in Trump's home, and there may be more. And there's still this Hunter laptop thing. I just think we are way too distracted in this country and it is costing us, because if the American people would have demanded as hard for the release of information on that laptop as they called for the release of Trump's taxes, we may not be in this boat right now.
@NJChicaa (127152)
• United States
12 Jan 23
I am disappointed in you for implying that Biden, the Democrats, the DNC, antifa, etc were responsible for January 6. You are too smart to believe those insane conspiracy theories. People who have been convicted and sentenced to prison for January 6 have testified under oath that they were there because Trump et al (Rudy, Mo Brooks) told them to storm the Capitol.
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@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
13 Jan 23
I think a lot of people have got caught up in the who and not the what. They get obsessed with who the president is that they lose site of America.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
12 Jan 23
Scandals and distractions. Nothing to see here they say. I just hope the Hunter laptop info will finally see the light of day. And who knows, if anything will be in these mysterious documents found in November and December, (“in Biden’s locked garage with his Corvette”). And just now being talked about. As I said, nothing to see here is their attitude. There is a lot to see but coverups and scandals are the solutions it seems.
