I’m going to share more of my thoughts on Jonathan Tapson’s recent trip to Washington, DC another day, but I didn’t want to let the above post by
@manny100 go unchallenged.
With the Trump administration undermining foundational democratic principles by eg. repeatedly ignoring the constitutional separation of powers (at least from my point of view), one could be forgiven to confuse the White House (a metonym for the executive branch of the US Government) with Capitol Hill (a metonym for the legislative branch of the US Government aka the United States Congress, which is made up of two chambers - the House of Representatives and the Senate).
Nevertheless, it is a fact they are not synonymous (think checks and balances…), and neither are Capitol Hill and the White House directly adjacent to each other geographically. Just ask the mob of Trump-supporters that stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021 to violently halt Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s presidential victory, after their MAGA Messiah had incited them at a rally near the White House - the sad culmination of Trump’s baseless claims of an allegedly stolen election.
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But I digress. Anyway, no one needs to agree with me on politics in order to concur with me when I state that Capitol Hill and the White House are not one and the same.
Which begs the question: Were you not aware of the distinction between the two names when writing that post,
@manny100, or was your post deliberately misleading?
Nowhere did the social media posts about Jonathan Tapson’s visit to Washington, DC (and the Beltway) say or imply in any way that he had been invited to a meeting at the White House or met up with someone from Trump’s inner circle somewhere else.
In some readers, your post will likely have evoked the mental image of our Chief Development Officer having been granted an audience at the Oval Office in order to brief POTUS and his entourage on why BrainChip’s technology is going to be indispensable to the USA for maintaing their global supremacy - all top secret, of course. And some of those same readers may even have envisaged Trump immediately whipping out a golden pen and sweepingly signing a big beautiful contract that would end our company’s financial woes once and for all.
In reality, though, Jonathan Tapson merely stated “I visited several
legislators last week to promote our Federal contracting agenda”, and listed three of them by name.
Yes, it is encouraging to read about our company actively engaging with US lawmakers and the defense industry to promote BrainChip’s technology.
But to depict this kind of lobbying work as far more advanced compared to what we heard straight from the horse’s mouth and to unfoundedly portray Trump and his motley crew at the White House as converts singing our praises in secret services (sorrry, I couldn’t help making this pun) is pure ramping and IMO does more harm than good.
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