Quote (fender @ 18 Aug 2021 01:27)
nice whataboutism, trying to deflect from blatant corruption and self-enrichment by pointing to incompetence and shitty planning (just for the record, i've been saying that spahn has to go for months now, not that i think it's even remotely in the same ballpark). there's literally nothing a right wing politician could do that you wouldn't try to defend, is there?
Promoting a drug of questionable usefulness that your donors are invested in is shitty behavior.
But these tweets your linked are twisting facts to make the case sound a lot worse than it actually is.
First, Citadel LLC has an AUM volume of $32bn, or 32 000m. If they are holding Regeneron stock priced at 185m, this means that their investment into Regeneron contributes only very marginally to their portfolio and profit.
Second, DeSantis has not been downplaying vaccine effectiveness to the best of my knowledge. This claim seems blatantly untrue and intended to demonize him.
So all in all, this is still a form of corruption, and bad, and I don't condone it. Nonetheless, the case is FAR less egregious than your pics made it out to be.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 17 2021 05:45pm