Isn't Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?
Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D
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Fresh off the ozempic fields.
There's nothing the markets love more than uncertainty.
This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
How about going abroad for treatment?
Look, I've been worried about being under surveillance for my political views and personal connections since the Bush era (made friends in college with middle eastern exhange students who went back to their home country and kept in touch). Technically (not really) being part of the queer community because I date transwomen (transwomen are women, duh) further complicates the matter. Not looking to be the first white cisman US citizen to be disappeared to El Salvador, thanks.
If I manage to leave the country I better god damn have a plan to not have to come back and to get some form of political asylum elsewhere.
You sound based af dude
Well I'm glad someone out there thinks so. I am pretty self assured that I am on the right side of history, but fuck living in this country beats down your mental health, doesn't it?
And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!
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Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.
Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.
For global politics is still next level stupid.
It's sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you're already betting 100x your starting bet.
If you've lost 8 times in a row, you're actually now betting 256x your original bet.
It's NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn't by any means whatsoever ensure you'll end up net positive.
It's called "Oscar's Grind" and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.
It is called the Martingale system.
Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.
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Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?
Everywhere else ? Probably
Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.
He'll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.
His tariffs are the best/perfect, it's all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹♂️
Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!
That includes generics, majority of them are created in india
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I absolutely can't wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning
I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
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Alot of generic drugs come from India.
Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities
Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.
That's good medicine wasn't expensive enough already in this country.
The man is literally an existential threat to Americans
Krasnov Russian asset
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This mother needs to be jailed for murder
We're going to win the midterm elections and we're going to have a tremendous, thundering landslide, I really believe that . . . and I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on," Trump said. "Which is a good situation, not a bad, it's great. It's going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way.
You'll all be so poor and stupid you'll have to vote for us.
Heh. With how they're taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there'll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it's going to get worse.
Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.
Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.
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I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?
FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.
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I foresee a cave-in.
Found this recently and I'm betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/661
Introduced in House (01/23/2025)
Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.
Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say...
"My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don't want to make America great again. Because that's what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don't want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me."
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