So why did Burisma hire Hunter Biden?

SFGbob

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

2001400ex

They didn't hire him. He was a paid board member. Maybe they needed access to hookers and blow. You telling me you hate hookers and blow now? @Swaye

UWerentThereMan

Hookers and blow is not a partisan issue!

WestlinnDuck

For the same reason the chicoms sent billions to Hunter's investment company. Slo Joe jumped to the defense of the chicoms when Trump went after their unfair trade practices. Once you buy a Biden they stay bought.

HoustonHusky

One reason is so they could use his name/connections to lobby the state department to get Ukraine to back off investigating Burisma. At least that's what some FOI emails showed.

RaceBannon

No wonder the ambassador got fired

SFGbob

HoustonHusky said:

One reason is so they could use his name/connections to lobby the state department to get Ukraine to back off investigating Burisma. At least that's what some FOI emails showed.

Gosh, if Burisma was using the fact that Hunter was on the BOD in order to proclaim their innocence and vouch for their lack of corruption, that sure seems like more than O'Keefed's sword swallowing act on behalf of Hunter where he dismissed the hire as nothing more than Hunter trading off his name.

PurpleThrobber

Why does a oligarch controlled private company need a board?

An independent board is not required.

HustlinOwl

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

Likely potential future political favors. Next question.

PS. You do realize President Trump would likely be a nobody without his fathers seed money and significant influence in the real estate industry?

PurpleThrobber

PurpleThrobber said:

Why does a oligarch controlled private company need a board?

An independent board is not required.

Hint: There's only two reasons - neither of which have anything to do with 'advisory' capacity.

HHusky

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

I have no idea what they got. Maybe they believed they'd get something and were mistaken.

Tell us what they got, blob.

MikeDamone

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

HHusky

MikeDamone said:

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

Sounds like Burisma got screwed then.

creepycoug

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

For political influence. I mean, if Biden Jr. had been a captain of [other] industry or otherwise important, then sure, public companies appoint people like that all the time. For sure, he didn't have to be an expert or PhD in whatever energy or mining or whatever it is that company does. Boards have directors from academia who've never worked in real life outside of the academy. I've dealt with them. The ENRON board had a guy from Yale who testified that he didn't know the business and just flew into Houston on a company plane for a nice lunch and dinner and some board comaraderie and listened to a bunch of shit he didn't understand and left. There's less of that now (precisely because of ENRON), but still ....

With that said, Biden Jr.'s only real quals were his government connections. But even that isn't in and of itself that outlandish. Usually it's the person themselves who have the connection, ie, Biden Sr. In this case, it's the son.

So, in any context in which there is suspicion of monkey business between the company, a government and the US government, sure, it's ripe for questioning. But it's also fair to say, you don't need to be a specifically-impressive person to get on a board. There are a lot of board members out there who can't find their asses w/o someone helping them.

MikeDamone

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

Sounds like Burisma got screwed then.

Especially knowing grandpa hairy legs used quid pro quo to end the investigation into their corruption. Well son a a bitch...

HHusky

MikeDamone said:

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

Sounds like Burisma got screwed then.

Especially knowing grandpa hairy legs used quid pro quo to end the investigation into their corruption. Well son a a bitch...

You actually need evidence that his objective was ending the investigation. Without false equivalents, you gals would have any equivalents.

RaceBannon

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

Sounds like Burisma got screwed then.

Especially knowing grandpa hairy legs used quid pro quo to end the investigation into their corruption. Well son a a bitch...

You actually need evidence that his objective was ending the investigation. Without false equivalents, you gals would have any equivalents.

Demanding the investigation end is kind of a tell

For someone who has imagined Trump's guilt for four years your inability to see real evidence is hilarious

UW_Doog_Bot

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

HHusky said:

MikeDamone said:

Hired for his name and connections to the government through his family that he would use to influence policy to help Burisma. It’s not that hard

Sounds like Burisma got screwed then.

Especially knowing grandpa hairy legs used quid pro quo to end the investigation into their corruption. Well son a a bitch...

You actually need evidence that his objective was ending the investigation. Without false equivalents, you gals would have any equivalents.

So 2 + 2 isn't good enough for an investigation but it's good enough for impeachment. Got it.

SFGbob

HustlinOwl said:

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

Likely potential future political favors. Next question.

PS. You do realize President Trump would likely be a nobody without his fathers seed money and significant influence in the real estate industry?

You do realize that with just a little more effort you can get Obama’s cock further down your throat.

I forget, how much Federal tax revenue did Trump get from his father?

SFGbob

creepycoug said:

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

For political influence. I mean, if Biden Jr. had been a captain of [other] industry or otherwise important, then sure, public companies appoint people like that all the time. For sure, he didn't have to be an expert or PhD in whatever energy or mining or whatever it is that company does. Boards have directors from academia who've never worked in real life outside of the academy. I've dealt with them. The ENRON board had a guy from Yale who testified that he didn't know the business and just flew into Houston on a company plane for a nice lunch and dinner and some board comaraderie and listened to a bunch of shit he didn't understand and left. There's less of that now (precisely because of ENRON), but still ....

With that said, Biden Jr.'s only real quals were his government connections. But even that isn't in and of itself that outlandish. Usually it's the person themselves who have the connection, ie, Biden Sr. In this case, it's the son.

So, in any context in which there is suspicion of monkey business between the company, a government and the US government, sure, it's ripe for questioning. But it's also fair to say, you don't need to be a specifically-impressive person to get on a board. There are a lot of board members out there who can't find their asses w/o someone helping them.

What’s the number of crack heads on BODs?

PurpleThrobber

creepycoug said:

SFGbob said:

O'Keefed screwed up his courage enough to lightly rap Hunter on the knuckles and concede that he was trading on his dad's name. But why would Burisma hire him in the first place? What were they getting out of the deal? We know what Hunter was getting, but what benefit was Burisma getting from hiring Hunter?

And spare me the GDS cock suck that they were getting a highly qualified lawyer who was well qualified to overlook high level contracts and business negotiations.

For political influence. I mean, if Biden Jr. had been a captain of [other] industry or otherwise important, then sure, public companies appoint people like that all the time. For sure, he didn't have to be an expert or PhD in whatever energy or mining or whatever it is that company does. Boards have directors from academia who've never worked in real life outside of the academy. I've dealt with them. The ENRON board had a guy from Yale who testified that he didn't know the business and just flew into Houston on a company plane for a nice lunch and dinner and some board comaraderie and listened to a bunch of shit he didn't understand and left. There's less of that now (precisely because of ENRON), but still ....

With that said, Biden Jr.'s only real quals were his government connections. But even that isn't in and of itself that outlandish. Usually it's the person themselves who have the connection, ie, Biden Sr. In this case, it's the son.

So, in any context in which there is suspicion of monkey business between the company, a government and the US government, sure, it's ripe for questioning. But it's also fair to say, you don't need to be a specifically-impressive person to get on a board. There are a lot of board members out there who can't find their asses w/o someone helping them.

You got one reason for lackey board members reasonably correct:

Those kind of board members are called 'shills'. And they are who the Chairman/CEO hides behind when shit hits the fan with the always chuckling "but the board approved it' defense.