Can someone boil down

[cilla4progress]

the latest on Hunter Biden?

WTF?!

[RockRaven]

1. "BS"

I got it down to two letters. I don't know how to make it any shorter than that.

[2naSalit]

4. Perfect!

[Solomon]

5. Ha ha!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Far too confusing to nail down. It was far too terrible to even...

think about him making a buck while related to a soon-to-be President, while it was perfectly fine for the actual President at the time to make millions ripping off the country and his followers.

The laptop in question was abandoned and eventually played with by many, including Bannon and Giuliani, so has no possible use as evidence at this point.

That's all I got.

[usonian]

3. There are other threads on DU addressing this,

and some saying that HB or others should sell lots of hacked up laptops to idiots dumb enough to buy one, i.e. to "own the libs". They could be loaded with any bullshit imaginable or unimaginable, computer viruses, malware, spyware, illicit content, or not so good batteries.

But fundamentally, even the "origin story" is such a stretch that everything about this is likely a fairy tale. Hint: like a Russian novel.

And then a story about taxes. No idea.

I started to write to Hunter about this:

Dear Hunter,

And I stopped there.

[Walleye]

6. The Democratic president has a troubled son with a catchy name.Fair game, pile on

They are not content to just be making up lies about the economy and the border. They have to pick on Joe’s only remaining soon. I don’t think Hunter really did anything wrong. He made some money when his dad was out of office. Of course that must be punished. 3 1/2 million dollars is chump change to the farmer guy

[JHB]

7. The nearest I've seen that might actually fit is...

..."relative of public figure is brought into and benefits from some deals" for "connection" purposes, even if they don't do much.

I'm not really sure how accurate this may be for Hunter Biden, given how much RW BS is flinging about.

I just know that it also happens to perfectly describe the business career of George W. Bush (and a number of others in that clan). At least HB is not and likely never will run for office, much less get elected to one.

[Achilleaze]

8. Russian-Republican gish-gallop blackops are highly effective

There you have it.