• TipRing@lemmy.world
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    I guess I need to contact my pharmacy and find out where my check is for the drugs. According to Trump they owe me a lot of money.

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    Lol.

    I grew up in the 90s. If someone had told me America was roughly 20 years out from letting a felon rapist pedophile roll over the U.S. while it just stood by and watched I simply would have dismissed it as absurd.

    Such a comically pathetic nation.

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        In their defense I don’t think most people knew what trends to look for since such skills are attached to historical literacy the long suffering child of the humanities. History ain’t boring the way it’s taught in elementary, middle, and highschool is shit, rather than focusing on the push and pull of history, society, culture, and economics they focus on ye olde facts that have the same general depth as one of my ancestor trade ledgers. There’s a tale in said facts but it takes a good bit of skill to weave it back together.

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      You know how in the Final Destination movies, when someone escapes death, then death incessantly tries to take them by other means.

      COVID was supposed to take a lot of old people, but we wore masks.

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    Trump cannot and will not lower drug prices. That’s just another lie… Oh, how about the Eppstein files? He could certainly publish those, but he won’t for obvious reasons – almost as obvious as the reasons for not lowering drug prices.

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    Oh, this ISN’T the onion.

    This guy needs to be in a home, this is not healthy behaviour.

    Edit: are they trying to say a 33% drop?

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      My guess is someone told him the markup on drugs in the USA is 1,500% so he reversed the logic without understanding how percentages work.

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    Yeah, it’s true. I just went to get my son’s inhaler, and the pharmacy paid me 14 times what I normally pay them for it. Thank you, Mr. President.

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    Fucking what? Am I going to receive a check for hundreds of dollars next time I pick up my Adderall?

    He’s so fucking stupid it makes my head hurt.

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      You understand basic math and percentages. You’re definitely not a Trump voter!

      For them this is a huuuuuuge win 🫠

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    Wait, doesn’t this mean they have to pay us? If a drug used to cost $1000/year, the drug companies will now have to pay us $14,000/year to take it, right?

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            It’s the newest junk manwha “after being reborn in the United States I was cursed with every dibilitating disease but my medical card grants me a 15x cashback reward system!”

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        The number of people who think this is really going to happen is sadly large and I weep for the loss of our species’ collective cognitive capabilities.

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      Google search trends identifies concerning uptick in “how to give yourself cancer” as a search term.

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    wtf does this even mean and how does he or any of his sycophants think this could possibly be implemented outside of a command economy?

    Guess we’re getting a command economy, everyone. Hold on to your butts.

    I’m sure they’ll blame the “socialists” and “communists” when it doesn’t work.

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    The full article on Forbes gives some terms more or less guaranteeing that companies will simply stop distributing in the US. Or raise global pricing to match US levels.

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    So you go to the pharmacy and they give you a pile of adderal and, like $2000? Way better than socialism.

    If y’all thought you had an illegal immigrant problem before, lemme tell ya…

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    Well, MAGA followers can’t do the math any better than trump himself. My thoughts … two months from now drug prices went up, the difference flows to DJT and his inner circle while MAGA celebrate the new prices