McBain
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If that's their approach they can give up already. They need to bring in all the big guns this time round.
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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If that's their approach they can give up already. They need to bring in all the big guns this time round.
Even Bush, a fellow republican, came out in a thinly veiled criticism of Trump, so it's not like he's the first or it's purely partisan politics.
TN Toffee
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I do as well, but we also had a long-standing tradition of the incoming President continuing to behave in a presidential manner and do what, in his mind at least, was best for the American people. Trump has diverged from that precedent at each and every turn for the past four years, so if ever there was a time....
BirkenheadBlue
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Yeah, but "a thinkly veiled criticism" is hardly what's called for.
No it's not, but the point was that the usual etiquette of ex-presidents not criticising would usually be for those of the opposition.
A republic criticising a republican is not the norm, at all. It’s a big message in itself.
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FWIW, Obama's criticism was leaked from a private conversation, so he hasn't really bucked the convention of not publicly badmouthing the incumbent.
The GOP's claim of 2008-16 that Obama was some kind of radical was among their more laughable rhetorical efforts. In his attitudes toward institutional power and conventions he's nearly a Burkean conservative.
The GOP's claim of 2008-16 that Obama was some kind of radical was among their more laughable rhetorical efforts. In his attitudes toward institutional power and conventions he's nearly a Burkean conservative.
It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.
Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.
“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.” But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer. “I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.Bowen persisted. “We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”
In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.
Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.
“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.” But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer. “I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.Bowen persisted. “We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”
In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.
That's so infurating. I go in to supermarkets often enough and I often see people shooting me dirty looks because Im not wearing a mask. I cant FIND a fn mask to wear ffs! We have a couple on order but they are already late in getting here.
Using his official twitter account to advertise his private business
Toffee in Jandals
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jaspercabbage
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Because he can barely read and write after having the most privileged education that money could buy. If it was not for his dad's vast wealth he would struggle to keep a job flipping burgers.
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