"it's pretty clear the laptop is a weak sauce nothingburger argument"
only if you need it to be.
I think for a lot of other people, the son of a president peddling influence to foreign powers (including the CCP) and the president denied being involved but evidence (emails on laptop and witness statements) saying otherwise.
Then on top of this you have the current govt working in collusion with big tech to censor this story. And just prior to an election where the impact could be significant.
All of these things would be considered the opposite of a "weak sauce nothingburger".
I find this view fascinating, and somewhat dishonest. For a start the Biden campaign were not the government at this point and the tweets they asked to be removed were Hunter Biden dick pics so I’m told… it’s not likely these would have spread but they are embarrassing. They didn’t tell Twitter to remove the story.
It is very easy with hindsight here to be absolutely certain of things such as the authenticity of the laptop; Twitter cannot have known that at the time and they were simply scared to promote information that was being leaked to smear political opponents. I would probably have made similar decisions if I was Facebook, Google and Bing etc. and as it turned out they also made the same call. To make this into a conspiracy, one Trump using to try to have the constitution changed (let me guess, term limits will be removed), is proven to be completely fabricated in my opinion.
"were Hunter Biden dick pics..."
This is a completely false representation. The laptop provided clear and direct evidence of the Biden family influence-peddling scheme with lots of shady people, and notably America's primary geo-strategic competitor, China.
Hunter Biden, with zero relevant experience, was pulling in millions of dollars purely on the basis of his father's position.
Hunter Biden's business partner, Tony Bobulinski, has stated that Joe Biden was the effective chairman of the enterprise and was present at multiple meetings (Joe Biden lied about this). Tony Bobulinski also mentioned to Jim Biden (Joe's brother) he was concerned about some of the things they were doing. In reply Jim smirked and commented about "plausible deniability".
To try and pretend the son of a US president can do this and this is not significant or not deserving of any further investigation is absurd.
I think you've just been getting your news from particular sources and have a very limited understanding of the situation. (As I've said before, the media is garbage).
only if you need it to be.
I think for a lot of other people, the son of a president peddling influence to foreign powers (including the CCP) and the president denied being involved but evidence (emails on laptop and witness statements) saying otherwise.
Then on top of this you have the current govt working in collusion with big tech to censor this story. And just prior to an election where the impact could be significant.
All of these things would be considered the opposite of a "weak sauce nothingburger".