I watched the BlazeTV and the Steve Turley video, which were at least short. I didn't watch the B Tatum video which was an hour and half. The Steve Turley video at least showed testimony being given in court. But what was being presented in court in their clip was the contents of an anonymous email!!! Turley acted shocked and outraged over the contents of the email -- I was shocked that a fucking anonymous email was being presented as evidence in court.
Furthermore, yeah, some people can be nuts, just grinding an axe, indulging fantasies, whatever. The seriousness of the events in question though--and the integrity of our election system--warrants thorough and comprehensive investigations.
Instead, what we get is told to sit down, shut up, there's nothing to see here. There's no fraud! There's no widespread fraud! There's no substantial fraud! and on and on--but little or no investigation. It's like a knee-jerk response, all of the talking heads repeating it all like a mantra. Meanwhile a whole bunch of people are screaming bullshit. Politicians, witnesses, mathematicians, cyber expert people, professional bookies, IT people, and so on.
Here you're equating *not* finding fraud with *not* investigating -- when there is a huge difference. I think claims should be investigated, but it is a definite possibility that after investigating a given claim, the conclusion is that the claim is false. The thing is, it seems to me that there is far more investigation happening by those who are looking critically at the claims -- rather than those who are screaming fraud. For example, much has been made of the claims of cybersecurity Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, whose expert witness declaration is here:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.19.pdfThat has been cited earlier in this thread, but most people haven't even read it, let alone investigated. Notably, it contains the claim "
In another case for Edison County, MI, Vice President Biden received more than 100% of the votes at 5:59 PM EST on November 4, 2020 and again he received 99.61% of the votes at 2:23 PM EST on November 5, 2020. These distributions are cause for concern and indicate fraud."
To the people who are screaming, this is proof right there. The guy is a cyber-security expert, and he says what they want to hear. But the problem is, this claim is blatantly false. There is no such place as Edison County, MI. Look it up for yourself.
This is a very simple check - and yet those crying out fraud haven't even bothered to do this simple check. I'm seeing a lot of such checks on the claims from fact-checkers and reporters - but never from the people who are screaming fraud. For example, in the BlazeTV video, they even made a point of going to Snopes to check out the claim of the Frankfurt raid. They dismissed the Snopes finding, but they didn't do any sort of investigation of their own. Instead, they just swapped opinions between themselves about how outraged they were, and how could this be happening.
Again, all's I hear from the MSM and Democrat talking heads and morons like Politifact--is the Reeing that it never happened, nothing to see here. Like Politifact can be trusted? *laughing* Like the MSM such as CNN and MSNBC can be trusted? No, they have never lied, distorted, or ignored the facts. They have never bent over to get plough fucked by their Democrat candidate or favourite ever, showering them with praise and glory and cock-sucking, while hiding or ignoring uncomfortable truths?
So, no, I don't feel such sources are trustworthy at all, in the slightest. I would trust my coffee girl at the restaurant more. She might not always be right or accurate--but she is not intentionally seeking to lie to me. The MSM outlets lie on a constant basis.
It sounds like you're prioritizing *intent* over *truth* here. i.e. It doesn't matter if what I hear is the truth, as long as it isn't an *intentional* lie. But even if they aren't intentionally lying, listening to people's Twitter feeds and Youtube videos are passing on the lies of other downstream sources. Worse, they're passing on the most outrageous lies, because outrage gets the most "likes".
I feel that believing the local gossip and the social media of friends is promoting ever greater falsehoods. For my local restaurants and my social media feeds, it's usually liberal-leaning falsehoods. I have to call people out on fact-checks regularly.
I also have concerns about the mainstream media, and I try to balance by also reading conservative sources like Fox News and Breitbart. What I care about is the truth, not intent.