Subj : Investments
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 18 2022 10:28:00

>  RM>  AT> The anti-Trump effort was unprecedented; there has never been this m
>  RM>  AT> "need" to remove and defame a president." And now these money grabs
>  RM>  AT> unprecedented too. Do you think that is a coincidence?
>  RM>
>  RM> I don't accept pretty much anything you said there:
>  RM>
>  RM> 1) I think that the anti-Obama effort was much worse, do you not remember
>  RM> the subtly racist remarks about President Obama's birth place and
>  RM> suggestions that he was Muslim? Obama was attacked mercilessly for things
>  RM> that were patently not true.

> That comparison is flawed. Trump attacked Obama, yes, but nobody else did.

I believe it is flawed because it assumes that people only questioned his
birthplace because his father was Black, not because he was a citizen of
another country.  If people had reason to suspect that Candidate X was born
in Europe because one of his parents was a citizen of Sweden, I am sure it
would have also come out in exactly the same way.

Other people did attack him aside from Trump.

> What about all the unofficial charges? Like the one about him calling dead
> soldiers "cowards?" Or that "Trump refused to rent to blacks?" How about the
> one about "The president had a bad day today, and Melania appears to now have
> a black eye?"

He came close to, at the very least, mistakenly claiming that captured
soldiers were cowards.  I never heard the second one.  Coming from the
left, I always felt that last one was pretty weird, i.e. domestic abuse is
nothing to joke about, and it seemed even weirder when a left-wing type did
it.

> I wasn't around in those days. Was the media giving it their all? Did Johnny
> Carson make Nixon jokes nightly for several straight years?

People made Nixon jokes right up until he passed away, at least.

>  RM> 4) I do not see any money grabs.

> So you're feeling good about Biden's investments? I'm glad! But what is there
> to feel good about? Have you seen a return on this investment in any way yet?
>
> Does it seem like it's the right time to start spending millions on
> influencing Pakistani culture?

Most certainly not.

> Or how about billions to the same central
> American countries that send their people backpacking to the USA because of
> "problems back home?"

If it was keeping them home by improving things there, maybe.  Politicians
for years (since at least the Cold War) have been all about investing in
Central American countries to keep Communism out, for example.  More
recently, some have been trying to encourage more left-wing governments
there.  Problem is that nearly all efforts to meddle in Central American
politics have backfired.  I don't see this changing for this administration,
either.

You also forgot selling some of our Strategic Oil Reserves to foreign
countries.


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