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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭Economics101


    You seem to overlook that the Biden-supported Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare and Medicaid to negotiate lower prices with big pharma. I think the Act would have gone further if Republicans had allowed it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    US reporters are completely spineless, it’s time they grew a pair and stood up to him . Next time when he asks “who are you with”, reporters should reply “not relevant, please answer my question “ and be backed up by other reporters. Of course they’ll probably be banned but at some stage they’ll end up with just loopers from the likes of newsmax feeding soft questions.

    How exactly does he plan to set drugs prices? Is this not socialism that they hate?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,982 ✭✭✭yagan


    The irony of how health insurance works in the US is that many who want more affordable care don't want it to be equal, like those Trump supporting federal workers that DOGE sacked complaining about the wrong people being fired!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭nachouser


    “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”

    Swap out dolls for pills and that's what will happen with his concept of a plan for drug prices.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,130 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,347 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    From Trump down to the bottom-feeders like MTG they have absolutely no shame when it comes to blatantly lying.

    How anyone with an ounce of sense or decency can believe a single word out of their mouths is mindboggling.

    The land of the free and the home of the brave is now shamelessly being shown to the rest of the world as the land of the liar and the home of the scumbag.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,265 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Big Pharma likes to spin that story. It's not true.

    Cost of production and distribution is incidental just look at how cheap patent expired generics are. The bulk of revenue is spent on marketing and dividends. And too much of the R&D is spent on "me too" drugs or patented replacements for patent-expired pharmaceuticals. Stuff like pain killers that aren't an improvement on what's already there.

    It would be nice to remove patents so that they all become generics. And then we could keep Big Pharma R&D going for a quarter of what the corporate welfare costs now. And there'd be a whole bunch of people who'd be alive or not suffering.

    R&D budget as percentage of revenue:

    Merck & Co. 28%

    Johnson & Johnson 19%

    Roche 21.5%

    AstraZeneca 25%

    AbbVie 23%

    Bristol Myers Squibb 23%

    Eli Lilly 24%

    Pfizer 17%

    Novartis 20%

    Sanofi 17.9%



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,094 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Given how Trump had included them in his and the GOP's plan to change the overseas postal vote rules to deny them that right, the military can use their electoral franchise to effect a change in administration legally and peacefully at central and local govt levels. Stick it to them before them deny you the right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭Stanley 1


    Mels and Stormy on the same page.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,094 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Ref the reduction in tariffs, according to Trump; "Basically what we're doing is equalizing. That's a new word that I came up with, which is probably the best word". The quote doesn't end there, is somewhat longer and includes the words "most favoured nation" along with the "we'll pay the same as the lowest nation"…..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,173 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It's also worth nothing that they spend twice on marketing what they spend on R&D.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,561 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    When he uses "nasty", it just means he can't bully them.

    The EU will have Trump and his team for breakfast.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,894 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I got as far as "We have all the cards" and figured there was no need to continue readong

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    From Trump down to the bottom-feeders like MTG they have absolutely no shame when it comes to blatantly lying.

    Absolutely everything about the modern right wing is a lie. They are all liars from the top down to their supporters. It's nothing but falsehoods.

    Lying is absolutely intrinsic to their politics.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭Economics101


    I think that this is the best take on Trump's latest tariff move: kind of appropriate that it should be a nursery rhyme.

    Oh, the grand old Duke of Trump,

    He had ten thousand men;

    He marched them up to the top of the hill,

    And he marched them down again.

    When they were up, they were up,

    And when they were down, they were down,

    And when they were only halfway up,

    They were neither up nor down

    With apologies to the Grand Old Duke of York, who seems a master strategist by comparison.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,076 ✭✭✭CFlat


    I think he might be missing some cards, cause he's definitely not playing with a full deck.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭Will_I_Amnt


    If your concern is for the constitution, then the means of removing the president or presidential candidate should not be unconstitutional....which this is



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,368 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Was listening to a clip of Trump today on the radio speaking about the deal with China and the suspension of tariffs and how the Chinese were having to close factories because of the tariffs and how everything he did was great. I was thinking how can anyone with a bit of common sense take this man seriously, everything that comes out of his mouth is about how wonderful and brilliant he is and how everyone even the chinese are coming to bow down before him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,788 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

    Authoritarians (the supporters of demagogues) do not care about political facts or history or logic. They only care about fulfilling their roles that allow their side to 'defeat' their enemies and support their faction.

    As long as they are defeating their 'opponents' they feel like they are on the winning side, and trust that they will be rewarded by being loyal to their faction.

    Fascists don't necessarily hate minorities. They just see the world as a battle between 'us vs them' and if they don't dominate their opponents, they will be dominated.

    In reality, the vast majority of fascist supporters will actually be harmed personally by their support for the demagogues. The are pawns that are strung along as long as they are useful and will be jettisoned as soon as it is politically expedient for the demagogue to abandon them.

    Once the fascist has played their hand, they then become irrevocably hitched to the movement. In a world where there are 3 types of people in the world:

    The in group,

    The Other,

    Those who used to be in the in-group and have been cast aside

    From the 'us vs them' mentality of the authoritarian, the 3rd group is in the worst of all positions. They chose a side and were evicted from that side leaving them hated by the other two groups and rejected by all of their social network

    (In reality, there is a 4th option, which is to build alliances across the divide and try to come to mutually beneficial arrangements where society flourishes and it isn't divided into camps of dominators and subjects)

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,788 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    He

    He wasn't a presidential candidate when he did the insurrection on Jan 6 2021 and he absolutely should have been prosecuted for all of his many crimes. The Democrats were too weak and short sighted to crack down on fascism when they had a chance to prevent it. So now there are fascists in government.

    The hubris to think that they could just ignore the multitude of warning signs and the 'checks and balances' would save the day is why they are where they are today

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,561 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,850 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    trump supports woke pope?

    trump always supported the woke pope....

    He's just doing what he always said he was going to do and has always done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭REDBULL68


    He's stopping people killing each other ,is that a bad thing for you?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Trump did? When did he do that?

    If somebody survives any war, Trump would be last person on the planet that deserves to be thanked or praised for it.

    All Trump has done in the last 100 days is emboldened Putin and Netanyahu.

    …And turned Ukraine upside down to shake down any loose change it had.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    1000050784.png

    Always a tweet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    "RFK Jr. Swims in Sewage-Tainted Creek with Grandchildren Despite National Park Service’s Bacteria Warning."

    The worm in his brain was looking for company.

    Hope he gets absolutely riddled.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,687 ✭✭✭threeball


    He shouldn't be allowed an antibiotic as they cause autism too. It's for his own good



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    It is. But the fact that MTG is a committee chairwoman, is fucking terrifying.



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