Grown-up children of public officials are fair game if they are reasonably suspected of taking advantage of their parent’s position. This goes for Biden, Trump, and everyone else.
This is very different from going after Chelsea Clinton or Barron Trump while they are kids over things that are entirely beyond their control.
I make no comment about the merits of the allegations. They may be fair, they may be entirely unfair. I have no way of knowing. But scrutiny, in such cases, is in no way illegitimate.
This is particularly true when it’s the office-holding parent, not their child, who is accused of improper actions.
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In all seriousness, my response: because America’s dysfunctional COVID response - we could have all been vaccinated months ago - is setting a dangerous impression of internal weakness abroad, seen by friends and foes alike.
Seriously, given the enviable head start we had, we look like f-ing idiots.
How we would we respond to an invasion of Taiwan? To a REAL cyber attack that disabled the power system or the banks? Potential adversaries looking at the US right now might be right to conclude we’d be at each other’s throats.
Companies in China are getting sudden directives from their provincial government to slash their electricity consumption by 50%. Which is not exactly an easy thing to do, if you’re a manufacturer.
People in China are posting all kinds of theories about these power cuts on WeChat. Most of them sound pretty silly to me.
Well, about 75% of qualified Americans (age 12 and up) have gotten at least their first shot, so that leaves people who Tucker considers "sincere Christians" who "don't love Joe Biden" in a real minority.
The “men with high testosterone levels” part is so predictably dumb.
Of course Tucker pretends, after basically denigrating anyone who has gotten the vaccine, that he's neutral about it and “just asking questions”, rather than actively discouraging people from getting it.
Here's a quick installment from Microsoft Flight Sim, about an airplane that - unless you live in the UK and trained for the RAF - you may never have heard of: the Grob G115E Tutor T1.
Why is the Grob Tutor interesting? Because since 1998 it's been the primary elementary training aircraft for the UK armed forces, in which pilots (many of them still in university) first learn to fly.
So I'm here (virtually at least) at RAF Wittering near Peterborough in the English Midlands, where the 16th Squadron trains new pilots and the 115th Squadron trains flight instructors in the Grob Tutor.
There are three immediate possible outcomes to the Evergrande crisis:
1) the Chinese government allows Evergrande to fail while containing the panic and insulating the rest of China’s economy.
2) the Chinese government loses control of the situation, contagion takes over, and China finally faces a broader financial crisis.
3) the Chinese government papers over the situation, socializes the losses, and pretends the problem has gone away while I actually festers and grows worse.