Cue big increases in drug insurance prices and in percentage of people who can’t afford needed medicines. Just another tax on those who have no say – taxation without representation like days of yore.
We just got done establishing that tariffs are not a presidential privilege! What contrivance will they think up this time to “justify” it? Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?
Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?
Pretty sure we’re well past that point, but that word “officially” just means you can pick any arbitrary point and call that the “official” point we crossed the line. heh
Here I was, believing that the US was the country of capitalism where the free market decides what prices should be. It seems like it’s getting less and less free, just like it’s people
Its always been a captive market. Always. Trump just doesn’t know how to conceal it like the other scumbags do.
Does he ever stop to think, am I allowed by law to do this before writes these EOs?
Good, make it harder for people to get the medicine they need to survive, surely that wont radicalize a whole bunch of even more people into hating your fucking guts with the fury of 100 suns.
The problem is we’re all too tired and too used to the bullshit. People believe “gummit can’t do anything” so don’t believe that this shit works - like it works in every other OECD (“Developed”) country…
So just one more thing? It won’t be enough.
But that’s why we need the continued discussion online, and the protests that don’t appear to be accomplishing much of anything yet - we need that groundswell of energy to increase. It’s not increasing quickly, but it is slowly increasing.
For example, 5 years ago when I’d talk about how fascism was breaking our democracy, I got some support but mostly feedback. That’s changed. So the discussion online has at least made progress. That’s the type of thing necessary to get us to making change.
It sucks because it’s going to take a long time because the fascists have done a decent job with propaganda and education.
More and more of us need to be more and more fed up to get to the point where enough of us demand change and are willing to fight for it[1] - enough to overcome the exhaustion of living like this and the bombardment of bad news.
It’s not easy.
in any of the possible ways, from becoming representatives to perhaps actual fighting if we get to that point ↩︎
JFC, this guy is such an asshole.
Christ. And this is already after our few scripts have tripled in cost over the last few years.
