I know some people are upset that Booker and others criticized aspects of Obama’s record but: 1. there are valid criticisms of Obama, and 2. Biden is running almost exclusively as a return to Obama so it leaves his opponents little choice but to say: “We can do better”
Campaigns are about the future and making it better than the past so you shouldn’t run for president unless you think you can make America better than it was when Obama was president
I don’t think there is any reason for handwringing about Dems criticizing each other. No one will remember or care by Nov 2020. Think about all the things Republicans said about Trump.
A greater risk is not adequately testing the candidates and ending up with the wrong one
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1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation.
Why would Trump listen?
Follow the money.
2. Oddly, the NYT does not mention that earlier this year the Saudi government financed a $7 billion development with the Trump Organization.
These licensing deals are essentially all profit for Trump. It's putting money right in his pocket.
3. The NYT story also does not mention that Trump’s chief negotiator, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions annually by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is controlled by MBS.
And Kushner is actively soliciting MBS for billions more right now.
1. HealthEquity, the nation's largest administrator of health savings accounts, just donated $1 MILLION to Trump's Super PAC.
Previsouly, the company had never donated more than 5K to any political committee
WTF is going on?
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2. Today, Americans are facing dramatically increased health care costs, with millions losing coverage and 1 in 3 cutting daily living expenses to cover medical bills.
For the HSA ndustry, however, these are boom times
3. In a triumphant March 17 earnings call, HealthEquity, the nation’s largest administrator of HSAs, reported “accelerating earnings power… significant margin expansion, and record HSA sales.”
Founder Stephen Neeleman attributed the success to Trump policy, including the "Big Beautiful Bill"
1. A few months before it started a war in Iran, the Trump administration decommissioned the last of its four mine countermeasure ships. These ships were “capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines.”
Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
2. The anti-mine vessels were to be replaced with three more advanced ships. But those ships have been plagued with technical problems. And two of the three ships were just spotted in Malaysia.
3. Had the Trump administration been competently preparing for Iran to try to close the Strait of Hormuz, it would not have begun operations without an effective anti-mine fleet in the region.
3. Kushner is seeking billions in additional funding from the Saudi government as he serves as one of Trump’s top negotiators with Iran. Notably, “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [MBS] made multiple private phone calls to Trump” in February, advocating a U.S. attack"