The appointment of “truce” candidate Dara Khosrowshahi as Uber’s new chief executive has apparently done little to bring peace to the company’s warring board of directors. On the one side, venture-capital firm Benchmark is still suing ex-C.E.O. Travis Kalanick for fraud, in what amounts to an attempt to prevent him from maneuvering to regain control of the company. On the other is a group of diehard Kalanick loyalists and Uber investors including Sherpa Capital’s Shervin Pishevar, Yucaipa Companies’ Ron Burkle, and Maverick’s Adam Leber, who are seeking to oust Benchmark in retaliation.

During his first all-hands meeting, Khosrowshahi greeted Uber employees and talked about the future—including plans to go public in 18 to 36 months. But while Uber’s new C.E.O. signaled a fresh start for the company, which is trying to recover after months of scandals, Pishevar can’t seem to stop talking about Benchmark. Last week, he demanded that Benchmark drop its suit against Kalanick, writing a letter to Uber’s board and filing a legal motion asking for the case to be dismissed. On Wednesday, he released a grandiloquent statement—apparently sent to Kalanick’s legal team last week—making his exact feelings unusually explicit.

The unusually florid letter, which quickly went viral on social media, must be read in full to be fully appreciated. We’ve annotated some of Pishevar’s most memorable remarks below.

We begin with a master class in mixed metaphors: “Let us take pause in this moment, when we find ourselves swimming in the crucible of one of the grandest business and moral battles of our generation, and find strength in each stroke of our proverbial digital pens, that we wrote with the indelible, eternal and permanent ink of righteousness.”

It’s an eyebrow-raising opening for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Uber is hardly a vanguard of moral righteousness. Uber underpaid drivers in New York City by millions of dollars for nearly three years; the company now faces a lawsuit from a woman in India who was raped by her Uber driver and whose medical records were allegedly accessed by Kalanick and other executives; and the company’s former S.V.P. of business once suggested at an off-the-record dinner that the company might do opposition research on reporters critical of the company. More than 20 people have been fired as a result of the company’s sexual-harassment probe, which Uber board member Arianna Huffington initially denied was a “systemic problem.”

Pishevar continues: ”We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.”

Multitudes of drivers will be further liberated from their precarious contractor gigs at Uber when the company eventually switches to autonomous vehicles and puts its drivers, some of whom have subprime auto loans on cars they rented for the express purpose of working for Uber, out of a job. Indeed, Kalanick has described replacing Uber’s labor force as an “existential” initiative, without which the company may never be able to make its business model work.

”We write with the spirit of Bonnie Kalanick, who raised her son with deep unconditional love and unfading faith in his ability to do good for the world. Whose tragic and untimely death was used against her son at his most vulnerable, unspeakable time of pain.”