Yes I agree. In English English "if Biden became POTUS" is a comparable expression for "if Biden would become POTUS." In fact if you were really intending a past tense then it is bad grammar - how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?
But maybe this interpretation is not valid in your alternative version of English I don't know.
how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?
I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What "if" Jeffery Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"
Yes I agree. In English English "if Biden became POTUS" is a comparable expression for "if Biden would become POTUS." In fact if you were really intending a past tense then it is bad grammar - how can you say "if" when something has already occurred for sure?
But maybe this interpretation is not valid in your alternative version of English I don't know.
I see it as Q asking the question in the manner that he/they did because they already knew the answer and they wanted the reader, that may or may not know anything about the topic, to dig into it and discover the answer for themselves. It would be like one of us asking someone that is totally in the dark about Epstein: "What "if" Jeffery Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and another of G.W. Bush flying paper airplanes into to jenga towers that resemble the World Trade center?"
The date on that quotation is BEFORE the election took place. How can you say anything other than "if" when the "something" hasn't yet occurred?