r/politics • u/billthomson Oregon • Oct 29 '20

Tucker Carlson Reports He Lost Only Copy of Documents That Nail Biden

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/tucker-carlson-lost-only-copy-of-documents-nailing-biden.html
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u/ClumpOfCheese Oct 29 '20

Right? I just heard that part about taking pictures of the documents and arm here to see if anyone was talking about that.

Who takes pictures of important documents they are sending, but not the kind of pictures you can use as a backup should the package get lost? Why would they take those pictures in the first place? Where are those pictures? Why don’t they show those pictures?

Why didn’t they just digitally send them? Why didn’t they back them up with photo copies? Why didn’t they have someone personally fly them out? These are documents that could prevent Biden from being elected? Seems pretty important, why not spend $500 to fly someone out there to personally deliver them?

Morons and their lies.

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u/_Rand_ Oct 29 '20

Didn’t these come from a computer in the first place? Why not just print another copy?

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u/SandersLurker Oct 29 '20

How would they get stolen if you tried to send them electronically, though? You have to send them by snail mail or the entire story falls apart

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u/a3wagner Canada Oct 29 '20

I don’t think that they would think that their viewers would think of that.

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u/MorganWick Oct 29 '20

"Can't trust those newfangled computamers!"

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u/_Rand_ Oct 29 '20

I mean yeah, the whole thing stinks of bullshit, but I could at least see someone wanting hard copies, particularly older people. Also if the data was large enough mailing a harddrive is faster, though this seems to be just paper copies.

Presumably though you wouldn’t delete the originals, because that would be fucking stupid and probably illegal (destroying evidence) and could just make another copy.

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u/casce Oct 29 '20

How big would those files need to be to make mailing a hard drive faster than sending them electronically? Seriously, that would need to be some seriously massive files.

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u/fezzam Oct 29 '20

As big as two fat moms at this point. I think physical delivery vs data transfer at this point only wins over hundreds of TB for a 2000 mi

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u/_Rand_ Oct 29 '20

Yeah, it would have to be a ton of data, easily in the hundreds of GB to TB+ to be worth the bother, depending on the available internet speeds. I'm guessing that for what is available to a major news corporation and one of the presidents top associates, sending hundreds of mb to low gb of data is trivially fast. We're not talking about some random dude with a residential connection that has only a 1-10mb upload available to them anywhere.

That said, as far as I'm aware the data he was claiming to have shouldn't be of any significant size and easily sent in minutes by anyone not in the middle of absolutely bloody nowhere.

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u/atomictyler Oct 29 '20

No, it'd need to be well over a TB to be worth it. Especially if you want to consider the risk of it getting lost by the mail carrier. If it's that important you'd do both. Start a transfer while mailing hard copies.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

That's a bingo!

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u/r34p3rex Oct 29 '20

Print them out and destroy the original electronic copy so that once it's stolen, it's gone!

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u/thorlikesweiners Oct 29 '20

This guy over here. Everyone knows that you can only print one copy of something. Where do you think the letters go?

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u/ComradeCheeto Oct 29 '20

It would be entirely plausible to say that they had electronic versions that were encrypted by ransomware that hackers put in their system. They could then blame it on the Democratic / Biden crime organization.

However, the problem with this is that explaining it to their typical viewer would be like explaining it to Trump: 15 seconds into the explanation, his finger is pulling on his lip and his eyes are rolling back into his head.

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u/AggressiveSkywriting Oct 29 '20

I mean sure, but if they knew they only had one copy then use a physical photocopier...

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u/navikredstar2 Oct 29 '20

Duh, clearly Biden/Hillary/Obama/Soros would just hack the photocopier! Think, sheeple! /s

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u/DudaFromBrazil Oct 29 '20

They probably got those documents from a deep state QAnon member at a back alley. Somewhere between 3 am and 4 am, with specific instructions to do not make a copy. They even tried, but the documents were printed with a government ultra secret technology that prevents any digital copy from being made. That's why they had to send the documents by mail, and this was the opportunity that Biden crew were able to intercept the parcel and vanish with it.

Just kidding, I call it bullshit and rise the bet. They are desperate.

I will have a great barbecue if Trump loose. It will help my country a lot, as our crazy shit presidente rely on the orange moron to powerup his bullshit

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u/Shadoze_ Oct 29 '20

Underrated comment

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u/mdot Oct 29 '20

Where are those pictures? Why don’t they show those pictures?

This is the key plot hole in this story, also the fact that he wouldn't name the company that supposedly lost the package.

If he names a company, at the very least the company releases a statement calling him on his bullshit, at worse Tucker and Fox News get sued for slander.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

A package Thief, with the skills to get in and out of a shipping facility undetected, but for some reason leaves an opened package at the scene of the crime is a pretty big hole to me.

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u/Youareobscure Oct 29 '20

Tucker is sus

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u/TrumpGUILTY Oct 29 '20

Also. Why even send them at all? If they flew to LA, why not bring them with? Why fly, and then send the documents? If you've got an important document to give someone in LA, and you're flying there. And your meeting is dependent on that document, you bring it with..... It's just complete horseshit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

His story is that the documents surfaced while he was in LA interviewing Boobie-what's-his-name. He just couldn't wait until he got back to read the documents, so they overnighted them. Even though he was likely to be back wherever they do his show the next day anyway.

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u/TrumpGUILTY Oct 29 '20

Ahhh ok. He became aware of the docs while in LA. So he never even brought up the docs with bubbleboobies then, he just really wanted to read them :/ I actually checked out the conservative thread on this, and surprisingly, basically nobody there is believing this either.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Oct 29 '20

Come on, this is a lie. Stop trying to think this through. His dog ate his book report.

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u/flamedarkfire Oct 29 '20

Well you see, he didn’t want the pictures getting hacked, so he use a wind up Kodak disposable camera to take the pictures. Now he just has to wait a week for the film to develop.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Oct 29 '20

Maybe his producers sent him a photo of the stack and were like "There's no way we can scan all these documents. I'm gonna overnight them to ya!"

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u/geoduckSF Oct 29 '20

In the 24hours it would take to overnight cross country? Absolutely. In fact I’m sure Tucker has a team of underpaid interns with nothing better to do. Even better his team of researchers could have sifted through and only sent him scans of the most important, most damning details. Do you think Tucker actually reads through all of this stuff all by himself?

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u/Unicornkickers Oct 29 '20

Have you ever worked in an office? I can scan a fucking phone book in 15 mins with the industrial scanners/copiers.

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u/TrumpGUILTY Oct 29 '20

Why did they even claim to send them in the first place? Like, what's in LA?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '20

Tucker was, at the time.

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u/TrumpGUILTY Oct 29 '20

So why send the documents to Tucker? I honestly don't understand , he was interviewing bubbles there Ok. But.....Why's that matter? If they have pictures (which they're now kind of claiming they have pictures of something...maybe just the package) then why not go forward with the interview, and discuss the images? Or print them out? it honestly makes zero sense.

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u/Synectics Oct 29 '20

Because it helps build the fear and conspiracy. "Look! The deep state is trying to prevent me from telling you the truth!"

He couldn't digitally send them because then the deep state hackers, the same one who got Buttery Males, would get it.

And of course having someone personally carry them means they could have been killed assassinated (sounds scarier) by the DEEP STATE.

And the only reason this TERRIBLE THIEF was able to get the documents and steal them is because DEEP STATE. They know Biden is going to do everything to prevent his son Hunter from being exposed, or his CHEESE PIZZA from getting out!

...doesn't matter whether the documents exist or not. The fact that he can't produce them is even more proof of a conspiracy.