Trump calls on drug makers to increase production and reduce prices. I’m not sure how he plans to get them to comply. Perhaps some new regulations. Anyway, it’s good to see him finally cleaving to traditional Republican values like setting production quotas for private enterprise.
I heard someone say on NPR the other day, “Trump believes in the invisible hand. He just thinks it’s his.”
Aaaaand he caves like the pathetic little wimp he is:
No word yet on whether the “wedgie” or the “swirlie” was the more effective industry tactic.
Drugs don’t cost what they cost because the drug companies can’t make enough pills. They cost what they cost because that’s what the market price for them is.
I guess “Donald Trump knows a lot less than he thinks he does” isn’t a shocking revelation.
Chuck Schumer, who lost family members in the Holocaust, broke down in tears yesterday when discussing the immigrant ban. Trump has now chosen to make fun of those “fake tears”, and is calling him “Fake Tears Schumer”.
“Fake Brain Trump”
He really should stop insulting people. Not only is it embarrassing for The President to act like that, he’s appallingly bad at it.
Hey-hey, ho-ho…
No surprise there given Trump’s treatment of Captain Khan’s family.
Wow, remember when wearing a tan suit was a great insult to the dignity of the Office of the President?
Good times…good times.
Anonymous has released a list of White House Staffers’ phone numbers.
http://usuncut.com/news/anonymous-group-reveals-phone-numbers-white-house-staffers/
Should be interesting.
Yeah, I think RoguePOTUSStaff probably is fake, because if they were real they would have been caught by now, but I really don’t get the “It’s really the Russians!” / “It’s really Steve Bannon!” conspiracy theories. Why wouldn’t it be far more likely to be an ordinary citizen with a knack for making up plausible-sounding White House gossip? It’s not like a huge amount of insider knowledge is required – the people and personalities involved are a matter of public record, and any predictions that turn out to be false can be explained away as “well, the POTUS changed his mind at the last minute after Jared Kushner yelled at him,” which is exactly what they said about the anti-LGBT EO that turned out not to be.
The Russian theory is due to odd spellings that apparently commonly arise in text written by people whose first language is Russian.
He folded to them.
After all his tough talk about tough negotiations and tough guy this and tough guy that and all his super negotiationg powers, he folded.
Today, after a meeting with pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and executives, he abandoned that pledge, referring to an idea he supported as recently as three weeks ago as a form of “price fixing” that would hurt “smaller, younger companies.” Instead of getting tough, Trump’s new plan is that he’s “going to be lowering taxes” and “getting rid of regulations.” […]
As recently as January 11, President-elect Trump was promising to revisit this policy.
“Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power. And there’s very little bidding on drugs,” he said at a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan. “We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don’t bid properly.”
Today he apparently changed his mind. According to Herb Jackson, the designated pool reporter for the day, Trump’s new policy on prescription drugs is that drug companies should get tax cuts and deregulation.
So he was lying. Again. **Surprise, surprise. **
To paraphrase from Ghostbusters:
My bold.
You mean, like a 400-lb guy sitting on his bed?
Someone should kick the shit out of him. Literally. On the national news.
It’s even more complicated, because Bannon is supposed to be in league with Robert and Rebekah Mercer. I need a corkboard and a box of colored string.
Well, first off, House Mercer is allied with the Lannisters, and have secret connections to the Harkonnen.
At Sally Yates’s confirmation hearing, Jeff Sessions, Trump’s AG nominee, asked her if it was the responsibility of the AG to refuse to carry out illegal Presidential orders.
White House spokespeople won’t appear on CNN anymore because CNN isn’t willing to “promote our agenda”.