• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Well he did some business dealings in Ukraine with oil companies before the war. That’s pretty much it.

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      2 years ago

      What’s funny is he didn’t even have any real operational authority. It was a total rich-kid-nepotism “show up a couple times a quarter” gig. The corruption shit is true, it’s just boring regular rich people corruption.

      Dudes a fuckup, but like, yeah. Families have fuckups. My sister is a fuckup. Republicans are pushing on this just because it sucks to have your fuckup sister or kid have their shit put out there for people to see.

      They’re just assholes.

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        Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter both had (have?) fuckup brothers. Imagine if the Republicans had spent this much time probing into their lives just as pointlessly?

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        Exactly! They’re just manufacturing a narrative by suggesting that this guy is nefarious and doing shady stuff with his drug addiction and nude pics on his laptop that was stolen by a private company.

        Speaking of which, how in the hell did the people who stole his laptop not get charged with theft and identity theft?

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            It’s funny, I actually was awarded on Reddit for posting some stuff about the Hunter Biden laptop that won me an argentinium award. I believe it had to do with the fact that an invoice was generated many months after Hunter Biden dropped off the laptop. I still wonder if the laptop was stolen, or how the hell it ended up in the possession of the repair shop and they never returned it to him.

            I used to work in computer repair, and that kind of behavior would be illegal and highly unethical. Unless the repair shop had found evidence of something like CP or other illegal activity (although drug use here would count in that regard), they would try to maintain the integrity of the client’s data and try their best to return their hardware back to the owner.

            A whole situation is really odd.