Thomas A. Fine

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This is long, and a few weeks old, but I haven't seen a better summary of the current Jewish experience. www.instagram.com/reels/DeP-rS...

At the same time, it has sort of become a litmus test. Because it is long (and yet still ultimately a very shallow summary of the Jewish experience), there is invariably a thing in here you might disagree with; which might rub you the wrong way. Does that lead you to dismiss the entire message?

x.comThomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 (It's the media, stupid.) (@thomasafine) on XOK. Not sure how this was missed. The meth pipe photo was 100% staged. I guess now we know why the prosecution is having such a hard time proving Hunter was doing drugs in October 2019. Because all...

Today seems like a good day to remind people that, after dozens of media outlets scrutinized "the laptop", after multiple so-called "expert" analysis, and after the FBI held it for YEARS, NOBODY (not even the FBI) noticed that "the laptop" included STAGED photos of Hunter with a meth pipe.

Also, regarding the Smirnov mentioned above, literally a convicted of lying to the FBI to influence an election, you might think he'd be a perfect candidate for Trump to pardon. But instead of pardoning him, they just let him out of prison without telling anyone. We don't even know exactly when.

He was sentenced in January 2025, right as Trump took office. He was reported as no longer being in prison in November, where they described him as having been furloughed, and stated that he had been out at least four months.

It is also notable that, when the DOJ needed in court documents to establish Hunter's drug usage, they did NOT use the staged meth pipe photo (while at the same time accidentally using a photo of a photo of sawdust). That does make me wonder if they did in fact know that the meth pipe was staged.

I should also add for completeness that it does remain possible that the staged photo was in fact photoshopped, not staged. I went back and forth on that a lot. I say "staged" now as it seems generally more likely.

So, we know there was absolutely a real foreign intelligence op related to Hunter Biden (too much to go into here, but among a long list of many things, there is the Aleksandr Smirnov indictment). And we know "the laptop" included staged photos portraying something that never happened.

But somehow, both the right wing nutjobs, and now the DOJ itself, can't get past the straw-man argument about whether or not "the laptop was real". Of course the laptop was a real physical object. And it 100% contained a ton of real Hunter Biden data. AND it 100% contained staged photos.

The famous photo of him with a meth pipe, among the images released on day one that the story broke, turned out to be part of a series of photos (or video frames) in which you can see a sleeping Hunter, in the same position, with the bedding unchanged, both with and without the pipe. Seconds apart.

It's from a weekend where Hunter appeared partying with two other women (presumed to be sex workers, at this point I can't recall if that was established) at a location in California with a pool and water slide. I also can't recall if the identiy of these women was ever established.

Of Course the Internet Apocalypse comes when I'm home with a terrible cold.

I still had to fix stuff. Remotely. Between coughing fits.

And the "W" key on my laptop doesn't ork.

Hundreds of millions of dollars. A rigged demo. A vaporware product. The headline they distracted us from: "Still No Self-Driving"

You know, as the gradual but inevitable pivot progresses from "criticizing Israel", to stereotyping Israelis, and ultimately to all Jews generally, I had not picked Obama as one of the leading voices to take the "Jews" step.

The tragic or funny thing is the vast numbers of quotes and replies unable (or more likely unwilling) to see my point so that they could mock me for "cluelessly" listing out valid criticisms. To be clear, ON 9/11, the focus should be about the victims, not the political fallout.

Thomas A. Fine@thomasafine.bsky.social

Imagine if I, as a politician, made a statement on 9/11 in which 70% of my statement was describing how American hegemony and the suffering in the middle east was the important takeaway from that event. That's what Mamdani did in his statement recognizing October 7th.

In several hundred responses, I hoped there would be SOME legitimate discourse. I never found any. (To be fair I may have missed it, i could'nt keep up with all the hate.) Discourse is dead. The ability to hear people who hold different ideas is dead. Bigotry rules. Bluesky is no better than X.

And yes, i limited replies and turned off quotes because there was no utility in wading through that sea of hate, because I have a life.

Thomas A. Fine@thomasafine.bsky.social

Because real people died and regardless of opinions over our response, people with empathy should acknowledge that for just one day. But instead, clueless fascist got in line to ignore that point and repeatedly call me a clueless fascist.

Every. Single. Response. to my earlier thread about 10/7 (and there've been literally hundreds) is about one thing: Emotional Reframing. 100% pure propagandist responses. And so many of them hitting on the very same few "issues" (twisting of my words). Almost like it's coordinated.

The goal is to take something out of context and then distort it by way of description, and to make people FEEL something about WHO I AM, so that what I am actually saying is misunderstood and ignored. Just another way to try to silence me.

It's like clockwork.

People are mocking me for posting a 57 post thread on Zionism as a way to signal to peers that they should not read that thread and hence not listen me. "Ignore those uppity Jews". That's the message. Is that really a progressive leftist value?