Slow down there, Hunter.
I care about the children obviously, but you’re on to something. If Hunter alone is culpable, it likely sinks Joe’s campaign just by association. If Joe is complicit, having pulled strings to keep Hunter out of jail, the seismic fucking shock that this would send through the American political system would be absolutely immense. It would break the conditioning on huge swathes of people. I think it’s what we need right now.
Without the child porn, we have a plausible future US President being caught in a boldfaced lie about his son being complicit with engaging in a pay-for-play scheme with one, if not two, foreign nations. At worst, we have a plausible President directly embroiled and profiting off it. This by itself is nuts. This is really the capstone of 2020 and by itself does such a terribly effective job of tarnishing America's standing in the world. Fuck Biden.
But if the rumors of child porn involving actual torture of a Chinese girl are true?
This wouldn't just send shockwaves through American society, but Chinese as well. I find it plausible, like
@Otterly said above, that this has vying cliques looking to oust Xi written all over it.
Imagine if we woke up tomorrow and discovered that Vladimir Putin had raped and tortured an American girl. If the Russians didn't have Putin marched off to the guillotine the very next day, your average American would be frothing at the bit in rage. This isn't some thug on the street who has done this - this is someone tied to the greatest power in the land.
I was going to sit here and conjecture what this could mean with our international relations, particularly with China, but really, who the fuck knows? If true, this is pure fucking insanity that will change the course of history.
Edit: Slight powerlevel that I didn't think a separate post was needed for. I can speak anecdotally, from friends and family in China, that there is a push in China for a Biden presidency. How much of this is just Trump fucking with them and blackmail by the CCP on Biden is anyone's guess, but they are pushing hard in the Party.