All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[NineBerry]

Ramblings

[aufbahrung]

Ramblings of a madman with a gnu

[Tero]

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[Svartalf]

[Tero]

Heather Cox Richardson
https://www.threads.com/@arpeejaay/post ... kef&slof=1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... irect=true

[aufbahrung]

[macdoc]

The Economist nails it

[Tero]

Trump demands Macron to raise drug prices two fold to "lower prices in the USA"
https://www.threads.com/@alluring/post/ ... HIiM_AxZug

[Svartalf]

no way we'll ever do that, it would wreck our health security system... not even sure what influence the pres has on their drug price control system...
haven't the slightest idea how OUR inflating drug prices would do anything about the prices in the US, or how we've been mooching on the US for that as the liar in chief says...
because if the logic is that our raising prices on drugs from American big pharma companies would allow them to lower the prices at home, the idea is so dumb I can't believe even an eejit like frump could think anybody would believe it... everybody knows that if we pay US big pharma more for drugs, the result will be more money in the pockets of the pharma fat cats, not cheaper drugs for americans.

[Brian Peacock]

Starmer bent over and took it though - not that US drug prices depend on drug prices in Europe. Drug profits on the other hand...

In the meantime, has the Trump Cartel just chickened out on Greenland, or is it all about the optics (even if the 'deal' on Greenland is fully covered by the 1951 treaty with Denmark)? The fact that the markets took a dive may have influenced things.

[Tero]

The drugs are made by the exact same company, including Ozempic. If you sell a drug at 1000 dollars here and 100 dollars in EU, covering the cost of production, and you make them in the same plant in the same overall process, the costs for making the 1000 dollar product go down. The increased production size also cuts down on paperwork. You only need the same quality control for the entire lot, plus some random testing of product that has already been packaged.

[rainbow]

no way we'll ever do that, it would wreck our health security system... not even sure what influence the pres has on their drug price control system...
haven't the slightest idea how OUR inflating drug prices would do anything about the prices in the US, or how we've been mooching on the US for that as the liar in chief says...
because if the logic is that our raising prices on drugs from American big pharma companies would allow them to lower the prices at home, the idea is so dumb I can't believe even an eejit like frump could think anybody would believe it... everybody knows that if we pay US big pharma more for drugs, the result will be more money in the pockets of the pharma fat cats, not cheaper drugs for americans.

We can be sure of two things about the Don.

He is either lying, or ignorant.

He is lying and ignorant.

[Tero]

[Tero]

The USA is the same thing as Trump after all. We just needed the counselor to guide us to it.

Another prediction: We are about to see the free world stop referring to the great unraveling as a Trump problem. They will soon understand that it is an America problem.

Many people comfort themselves by saying some version of “Donald Trump is an aberration” or “This isn’t who we are.”

Both of those sentiments are incorrect.

If Trump was an aberration and his actions did not have sufficient public support, then he would be removed from office. There are two mechanisms for doing so—impeachment and the 25th Amendment.

How long will the dollar remain the world’s reserve currency? The advantages America reaps from the rest of the world using the dollar as the global reserve currency has been discussed frequently.

The de-dollarization trend was already moving before America renounced its commitments. If American debt is no longer attractive and the American central bank is no longer independent, then markets will look elsewhere for a global reserve currency and will settle on either the euro or, if China makes some changes, the yuan.

Americans are neither materially nor psychologically ready for this future. For eight decades, they have inhabited a liberal international order shaped by America’s predominant strength. They have grown accustomed to the world operating in a certain way: Largely agreeable and militarily passive European and Asian allies cooperate with the United States on economic and security issues. Challengers to the order, such as Russia and China, are constrained by the combined wealth and might of the U.S. and its allies. Global trade is generally free and unhampered by geopolitical rivalry, oceans are safe for travel, and nuclear weapons are limited by agreements on their production and use. Americans are so accustomed to this basically peaceful, prosperous, and open world that they tend to think it is the normal state of international affairs, likely to continue indefinitely. They can’t imagine it unraveling, much less what that unraveling will mean for them. . . .

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-end-2a9

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new victim of ICE
Scuffle of ICE agents kicking man on ground, then two shooting him
The man was initially recording ICE with phone