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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
He's the son of a President who was receiving Croesan sums for no show board seats of Ukrainian energy companies?
Oh really? What do other people make for serving on the board seats of Ukrainian energy companies? Is it your general experience that
Maybe that's a tad newsworthy? Maybe, just maybe? And maybe what you think is immaterial, as it's what the public in general thinks.
Are we seriously having this discussion?
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OK, we can have this discussion. I would not be surprised if a Ukrainian energy company paid him what seems like a lot of money to you (do you have any idea what directors of comparable companies make?) in the hopes of getting access. I have seen how directors get picked in this country, and NEWS FLASH it's not a meritocracy out there. Who you know matters, and people give you seats in the hopes that you will use your network, hopes that do not always pan out.)
But the internal workings of a Ukrainian energy company are not newsworthy in this country.
By "newsworthy" I am excluding the public's interest in invading other people's privacy. Lots of people are interested in porn or seeing the insides of other people's houses. That does not make porn or Zillow listings newsworthy. Similarly, a political party's interest in harming the other side does not make something newsworthy. If there were a Hunter Biden sex tape, and if Trump wanted it out there, it would not be newsworthy.
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(By the way, for a guy who routinely chides others for whataboutism and asserting false equivalencies, to hear "What about Trump?" is a surprising argument from you. Almost as surprising as it is misplaced.)
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You misunderstood. It's not "what about Trump?" The ONLY REASON ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN IS TRUMP'S DESIRE TO GET PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN. The New York Post is not running stories about him out of some abstract sense that Hunter Biden's doings are newsworthy. They only did it when Joe ran for President. It's a transparent effort to create a controversy like the Hillary emails, and the very fact that it's a bogus story is part of the way that it becomes a story. People like you can pretend not to care and yet keep repeating "Hunter Biden's laptop" in a way that convinces other people that there is something sinister about Hunter Biden's laptop.
