The Next President is...

[Biff_T]

3 hours ago, GrndPndr said:

hard on

Sts

[dream big]

On 5/7/2025 at 12:10 AM, GrndPndr said:

https://notthebee.com/article/the-supreme-court-allows-trumps-trans-ban-to-take-effect-immediately

This may well be really hard on the Navy.

This is very much a good thing. The number of issues folks who suffer from gender confusion cause in the military makes absolutely no sense as to why they should be serving. They should have never been given the exception by Obama and then Biden.

[Banzai]

Some potentially good policy coming out. If he follows through with increasing the top tax rates, that will be a huge win for the vast majority of society.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-urged-speaker-johnson-raise-175235463.html

[brickhistory]

From a criminal referral to a criminal investigation:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-opens-investigation-into-ny-ag-letitia-james-real-estate-transactions-reports/ar-AA1EqGyD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=2ea7007451244e5188be5a9869d700ae&ei=53

 

One hope this leads to a criminal indictment.

Love me some schadenfreude...

[kaputt]

On 5/8/2025 at 5:02 PM, Banzai said:

Some potentially good policy coming out. If he follows through with increasing the top tax rates, that will be a huge win for the vast majority of society.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-urged-speaker-johnson-raise-175235463.html

It’s a fascinating shift in American politics to see what is essentially “old school” 1990s Democrat policies - union supportive protectionist tariffs, tax hikes on the wealthy - be simultaneously despised by those who call themselves democrats and embraced by those who call themselves conservative. Interesting times. 

[Banzai]

12 hours ago, kaputt said:

It’s a fascinating shift in American politics to see what is essentially “old school” 1990s Democrat policies - union supportive protectionist tariffs, tax hikes on the wealthy - be simultaneously despised by those who call themselves democrats and embraced by those who call themselves conservative. Interesting times. 

The sooner you realize that both parties support corporatism above all else, the sooner you’ll be enlightened.

[Banzai]

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out?

Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

[brabus]

I don’t think price control is the right answer, but I do think erasing the PBA position and reining in big pharma playing games with pricing (which seem illegal to me, but nobody challenges it, I don’t get it). Ultimately the best thing for people is to stop buying big pharma’s bullshit, literally and figuratively. They’re an evil industry with zero give-a-shit for anything beyond huge profits, people are generally better off without them and their products.

[ClearedHot]

5 hours ago, Banzai said:

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out?

Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

Come on brother...you are smart and there are better ways to make an actual point about economic policy.

Think critically...this is a FAR more complicated issue than Communist price control.

This is more about trade and ending a sweet heart deal the Pharmaceutical industry has had for FAR too long.  It is not a free market when the rest of the world limits the price and the only "free" market is in the U.S.  The United States represents 4% of the world's population but we generate 66% of the profit in the pharmaceutical industry.  The high price of new drugs has always been falsely explained as the cost of research...true or not it is now time for the rest of the world to share in that development cost.

[Lord Ratner]

6 hours ago, Banzai said:

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out?

Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

If they are going to set the price of the drug, that's bad. Price controls are never a good thing. But if they are going to establish rules by which pricing must be fair across trading partners, that's an entirely different thing altogether. 

 

This is a perfect example of how other countries take advantage of the United States by methods other than tariffs. We don't participate in the same sort of fuck fuck games, so using tariffs as a retaliation are a simple way to make the problem go away.

[TreeA10]

My theory is nationalized health care systems could not afford or would not pay what U.S. health care insurers would pay so pharma would price gouge in the U.S. because they could.  How the drug pricing settles out with leveling the playing field will be interesting.

[ClearedHot]

[herkbier]

I’m definitely interested in how this pricing plan plays out.. it’s definitely an unusual approach. Hope it works out. 

[ViperMan]

At bare minimum it'd be easy to say to the pharmaceutical companies they cannot charge the US more than the lowest price they sell their drug for in any other country. Not a price control. Just a balancing of the scales and an evening out of the "markets."

Wanna sell your drug for .15/pill in Zimbabwe? Cool with us. That's our price too.

The differential price structure is what's fucked. It allows triangulation of the American taxpayer via the mechanism of Medicare, Medicade, and all our other socialized healthcare. I get to work everyday and pay a lot of taxes at the threat of gunpoint for the privilege of lining these massive drug companies' pockets so they can deliver "healthcare." If anyone thought this was a free market, they were consuming mushrooms.

Edited May 13 by ViperMan

[disgruntledemployee]

Changing Big Pharma is like moving the moon.  From firsthand experience, the money and lobby influence pharma has, it gets the job done, and it ain't changing anytime soon.  Trump can try all he wants, they'll maneuver and still come out on top.

Me, I'd start with banning all drug commercials.  And then fuck with their execs, taxes, etc.

[Lord Ratner]

34 minutes ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Me, I'd start with banning all drug commercials

🎯

[disgruntledemployee]

Another Biden Decline book coming out.  Apparently, the staff was gonna wheelchair the old feller.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/13/biden-book-wheelchair-2024-campaign-original-sin

[ClearedHot]

11 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Changing Big Pharma is like moving the moon.  From firsthand experience, the money and lobby influence pharma has, it gets the job done, and it ain't changing anytime soon.  Trump can try all he wants, they'll maneuver and still come out on top.

Me, I'd start with banning all drug commercials.  And then fuck with their execs, taxes, etc.

The money that flows through that line of business is disgusting.  Why do the sales people need to visit doctors and drop off all sorts of swag to incentivize them to prescribe said drugs.  How about doctors honor the Hippocratic oath and simply do what is best for their patients. 

[Day Man]

like, totally donny 😂

[skybert]

10 minutes ago, Day Man said:

like, totally donny 😂

Biff, could we get your opinion?

[Lord Ratner]

2 hours ago, Day Man said:

like, totally donny 😂

I never thought she was hot, but whatever she was, she's certainly not less of it because of Donald Trump. 

 

Here we go again, Donald Trump sabotages his own success because he's another Boomer addicted to social media. Oh well.

[ClearedHot]

10 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

I never thought she was hot, but whatever she was, she's certainly not less of it because of Donald Trump.

Two!

[Biff_T]

14 hours ago, skybert said:

Biff, could we get your opinion?

Taylor = Dibs

 

[disgruntledemployee]

He did a weave to the UAE Dude on that old word, grocery.  He needs to hire Jill Biden to hide those senior moments.

“Costs are way down, groceries are way.  They have a term, ‘grocery.’ It’s an old term, but it means basically what you’re buying: food. It’s a pretty accurate term, but it’s an old-fashioned sound, but groceries are down.  Costs are down, eggs are down.  They were, first week they were hitting me with ‘Eggs were up 200%’ and now they’re down to a number that is amazing. We’re down 97, 98% from where they were. And everybody, they said, ‘You won’t have eggs for Easter.’ Well, everybody had eggs for Easter at a very reasonable price.”

[uhhello]

13 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

I never thought she was hot, but whatever she was, she's certainly not less of it because of Donald Trump. 

 

Here we go again, Donald Trump sabotages his own success because he's another Boomer addicted to social media. Oh well.

Yeah, it's starting to happen more often.  He can't control it