• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Its almost like he’s letting Americans foot the bill so other countries can get cheap meds through government price regulation. Nice way to own the libs

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      46 minutes ago

      I dont pay $5 for a med in my country simply because an American pays $460 for it. It doesn’t work like that.

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    9 hours ago

    I wonder how many of his loyal idiot voters noticed. They’ll probably somehow blame Democrats even though the GOP is running ruining everything right now.

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      5 hours ago

      They straight up live in a fantasy. Replies I saw were: “the price isn’t going up, he is keeping the price the same but to get them lower he needs to cancel budens order” 🙄

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I wonder how many conservatives reliant on prescription drugs are going to be able to connect the dots on this one.

    Can you even connect dots if you don’t have multiple brain cells to connect?

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      23 hours ago

      No, he wanted to “reduce spend”. You can either do that by negotiating better prices: good.

      OR, you can just cut funding for medicare and social security entirely: horrible, what he said he was going to do, and what all the fucking morons who just decided to ignore his statements insisted he’d never do because it would “hurt the working class who supported him”.

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        22 hours ago

        If you’ve been living under a rock for the past year you can try to stomach the new whitehouse.gov site which pretty clearly states he wants to “lower costs for all Americans”, then goes on to dog whistle about fascist policies.

        The annoying orange wants to reduce spending too, which is why he’s funding a brand new federal advisory board, DOGE. Satire is dead.

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          22 hours ago

          Retranslate the page. “All Americans” means only the Americans he can see within 50 feet of him, which shocker! Are all fascist billionaires. And himself.

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        5 hours ago

        You could always come up to Canada and get yourself some eggs for the equivalent of about $2.50 US. Of course, the prices up here are high because we have a marketing board that limits competition.

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          I am not sure if you are telling me thats a low or high price. A few weeks ago I purchased a dozen and the cheapest one was $6 US and the highest reached $10. I havent seen it this bad even when it was at its worst a few years ago.

          From my understanding, the prices have gone up again due to bird flu causing the killing of a lot of chickens. Has this not been the case there?

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            I was being ironic. We have an egg marketing board, so prices don’t fluctuate very much. To be honest, I don’t really understand why us prices are consistently so much higher. Occam’s razor would suggest that it is Monopoly control of the market.

            We usually buy our eggs directly from local people who have free-range chickens. We end up paying CAD $5 a dozen, about $3.50 US. In the supermarket, eggs start at about CAD $4 a dozen.

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      1 day ago

      He needs an executive order to force crops to be sold instead of rotting on the vine. Until he does that, prices remain.

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      10 hours ago

      What are you talking about? It makes perfect sense, he will continue to enrich billionaires and business interests at all other costs. His supporters are gullible or weak or both and won’t fight yhe narratives that will come out. My guess is it’ll be an ego play combined with bribes - remove the actual government regulation and enforcement, then make himself the guy who “puts the hurt on” the drug companies and some fake stats about how much better it will get. It won’t of course, but his supporters are gullible or weak or both. He gets bribes and his ego inflated, health companies and pharmabros get their God and hero in him, and poor people get fucked and say thank you.

      As it ever was with him.

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        His supporters are gullible or weak or both and won’t fight yhe narratives that will come out.

        With the current state of right-wing news and now social media, they won’t even see these news. They have more important concerns anyway, like which people can use which bathrooms, and ending wokeness.

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      7 hours ago

      Expecting the most well recorded liar in history to suddenly tell the truth is what doesn’t make sense.

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    22 hours ago

    “Bandaid measure for systemic problem soon to be removed”