I finally dug a little bit into the "Hunter Biden email" story because I could not figure out what the supposed scandal was. Let's assume the "smoking gun" email is real. The "scandal" is even more ridiculous than it seems, and depends on the endless stupidity of Trumpers....
...so, again, presume the Hunter "smoking gun" email is real. According to that, Hunter introduced Vadym Pozharskyi to Joe. I had *no* idea Pozharskyi was who the introduction was supposed to be with, and I literally laughed out loud when I saw it. Who is Pozharskyi? And is.../2
...the conservative media so stupid they don't even know???
Let's begin: They year before the email, Pozharskyi became the national coordinator for a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) project in Ukraine. This was a MAJOR economic development program.../3
...in Ukraine. So major, in fact, that the real surprise is apparently Biden DIDNT meet with Pozharskyi, since Ukraine and its economic development were part of his portfolio.
Is that all? NOPE! The year before the email, Pozharskyi also joined the UN Environmental Program as...
...a consultant.
Is that it? No! There's more! Pozharskyi was also Executive chairman of the International Forum on Energy Security for the Future. Now this where it gets fun. That group was founded by Prince Albert II of Monaco, as well as the former president of Poland...
...and Burisma itself. AH! BURISMA! SCANDAL!
Nope. It was after this that the former president of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski's (who set up IFESF through his Amicus Europae Foundation) and Pozharskyi were asked to join Burisma as directors. Along with Cofer Black, USA head...
...of CIA counterterrorism under GW Bush & strong Republican. AND that was when Hunter Biden, who worked with Boies Schiller - a top American law firm that represented Burisma - joined the board of Burisma as *lawyers from law firms representing overseas corporation often do*...
...So, let's recite the scandal (again, assuming the email is real):
Hunter Biden offered to introduce to his father - who was responsible for Ukraine - to the national coordinator for a UN's Industrial Development Organization project in Ukraine who was executive chairman of...
...the International Forum on Energy Security for the Future and a consultant to the United Nations Environmental Program. And Hunter likely met Pozharskyi as a director - one of many, including the former president of Poland and America's former counterterrorism chief at CIA...
...but let's keep going. The WAS NEVER a Burisma investigation. It. Is. Fiction. It would be as if you said that Bill Gates was being investigated for taking bribes through his foundation, which means Microsoft is under investigation. It never happened....
...there WAS an investigation of Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, but it had nothing to do with Burisma. It was about him, personally, allegedly taking foreign bribes while in the government as Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources in Ukraine. And guess what?...
...that investigation, which began in *Britain* was killed by a British court because of obstruction by (drum roll please) Viktor Shokin, the Ukraine prosecutor now held up as a hero by the GOP. The same Shokin who protected enormous number of corporate kleptocrats in Ukraine...
...and which undermined Ukraine economic development. As a result,these groups demanded Shokin be fired (which is supposedly the big scandal done to protect Burisma, which wasn't under investigation):
The International Monetary Fund
The European Union.
The USA (through Biden...
...playing out official policy of the Obama Administration)
Western Institutional Investors
Canada (without economic pressure, since it was working with the IMF on that)
...and in Ukraine:
100 members of Parliament
The deputy Prosecutor General (Shokin's deputy)....
...Ukranian Bar Association
Protesters in the street
...and on and on and on. So my bet is, the email could well be real because, duh. Why wouldn't Biden meet such a person? And what possible benefit would come to Hunter, who was already on the board of this company NOT under...
...investigation.
The Russians know us well. Conservatives are both facile liars and fucking morons. They dont know what was going on in Ukraine (or are lying about it) they dont know who these people are (ditto) but they know "scandal!"
Stupid people are easy to fool.
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This...scumbag...@BMorgenstern45 is the worst. I urge my 500,000 followers, bombard anyone who hires him with this info so they know he's no better than a nazi.
They rip kids away, cant find parents to return, & he lies "oh, parents don't want them"... linkedin.com/in/brian-morge…
...how the FUCK do you live with yourself, @BMorgenstern45? To benefit your God King, you say for these kids to see in perpetuity that their parents didn't want them? Rather than just admit you incompetents fucked up again? How do you look at yourself... linkedin.com/in/brian-morge…
...without puking in utter disgust at your inhuman, bilious existence? Is your hatred of brown people so severe, @BMorgenstern45, that you think it's ok for them to lose their children? For you to torture them and their kids? To rip apart families?...
I'm going to tweet about this 1 more time since 2019. The way we know the Hunter Biden "scandal" is BS is it has ALWAYS been BS. Victor Shokin was corrupt & forced to resign by global pressure, including from EU, IMF, institutional investors & USA. Let's just discuss IMF.../1
...Shokin was a corrupt guy who let Ukraine corruption flourish - including by letting Mykola Zlochevsky (a government official and founder of Burisma) to skate on public corruption and bribery charges. There was never a Burisma investigation. The corruption of Shokin was..../2
...a global issue given Ukraine's importance vis a vis Russia. Biden made his statement in December 2015, after EU & institutional investors had threatened to pull out of investing in Ukraine because of Shokin. Nothing happened.
In 2017, I wrote that GOP tax cuts were a catastrophe for USA because they came at a time of economic strength and massive debt - something never been done in history of the world. The problem, I said, was that there would inevitably be an economic.../1
...turn, one that could easily transform into a disaster because of the precarious nature of our fiscal house caused by the cuts. The big danger: The interest on the debt as a percent of the budget. We are borrowing more money to pay the interest, which means we are paying....,/2
...more interest, which means we have to borrow more, etc. Traditionally, during a financial catastrophe, government increases spending and cuts taxes. But, because of GOP recklessness, we did the *opposite* - increased spending and cut taxes during boom times. It is like.../3
This election year is the ultimate evidence that the GOP is an anti-American, anti-democracy relic of a white racist past that must die. The massive lines for voting, the millions of hurdles placed in front of an exercise that is supposed to be *encouraged,* not suppressed.../1
...that is hindered by a minority party that regularly fails to win the popular vote, that is opposed by the majority of voters at all levels of federal government, & that has nothing to offer but lies, conspiracy theories, racism and voter suppression. This morning, one of.../2
...my sons was bemoaning that we dont have a system like in Australia, where voting is mandatory. When I asked why, his answer was so revealing: "Then I'd have a government working to help me vote and make it easier, not trying to stop me from voting by making it hard".../3
While @BenSasse gives his "Oh, Im so much purer than everyone else, let me tell you about civics," let's discuss what a lying sleaze he is.
He declared in 2016 that Merrick Garland would not be confirmed. Period..../1
...so the president and the senate can do whatever they want under the Constitution. Got it.
2nd, he said hed confirm only if Obama's nominee specifically repudiated the very concept that Obama used sometimes, but Sasse cheered when Trump made it a hallmark of his presidency...
...oh, and once again, he said of COURSE he would confirm a nominee, if of course, that nominee followed the policy prescriptions Sasse wanted, until Trump took unilateralism and turned it into a sledgehammer, to Sasse's cheers....
Just to show why I will dedicate my life to tearing the GOP to the ground, a few items I have written over the years which might put meat on the bones of my rage.