NEW LOW: Ted Cruz stoops to posting nude photo of Hunter Biden

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NEW LOW: Ted Cruz stoops to posting nude photo of Hunter Biden​

by STEPHANIE BAZZLE

Senator Ted Cruz, on the day after Elon Musk giddily released information about Twitter’s content moderation processes, took it upon himself to publicly post nude photos of the current president’s son.

President Joe Biden has never denied that his son, Hunter, has struggled with addiction and other issues that are often associated with it. Instead, he’s called for compassion, expressed his love and support for his child, and in leaked messages, we’ve seen him urging his son to get help.

Republicans, however, prefer to go for the salacious and have produced a photo that was allegedly found on the laptop that they say is Hunter’s, although their atrociously lax chain of custody makes it unlikely the public will ever know the truth of the real contents.

In this photo, the subject — reportedly Hunter — is lighting a pipe, lying nude on a couch, with genitals visible in the shot.

It’s hardly a surprise that a tabloid or the lowest of political operatives would be happy to publish this as an attack on the president (although the tabloid, at least, would probably censor it), but in this case, a sitting U.S. Senator seems to have decided it would be an appropriate thing to share on his Twitter timeline.

The screenshot shared below is censored; in the version that Senator Cruz posted there was no black rectangle, only ...

NEW LOW: Ted Cruz stoops to posting nude photo of Hunter Biden

In an act condemned by people with morals, Texas Senator Ted Cruz used the nude photo of Hunter Biden like revenge porn.

washingtonpress.com

That seems to meet the definition of revenge porn which is illegal - think Hunter is the one who has to press charges tho ...

 

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The underlying political dynamic is the real story here S2 #1.

Generations ago politicians pandered to their entire geographic constituency, not merely a subset of rabid Glen Beck fans.

What Trump has taught them / us is, no need to appeal to the broader public. A rabid, radical subset is all that's necessary for electoral victory, and political power. Years later after Trump contemptuously unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Obama / Britain / France / Germany / China / Russia / Iran nuclear agreement, we're still scrambling to recover from this Trump betrayal.
It's the non-reciprocity of destruction. It could take weeks or months with special skills & tools to build a beautiful barn. But it doesn't take a full minute to set it aflame with a lit match. Destruction is easy. Construction, seldom so.