• bent@lemm.ee
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      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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    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.

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      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.

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        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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          Two months ago people kept telling me I was wrong for saying this that “the Judiciary is working” as if it isn’t acting as scotch tape

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          Everyday Americans with little power on our own are stepping up. Republicans are refusing to do town halls in their own districts because even their constituents are showing up and yelling at them. Congressional voice mailboxes are routinely full and people are writing letters and emails. Last Saturday, there were 1300+ protests with like 1,000,000 people taking to the streets. And that was just the first one. There’s a lot more people who support the protests but didn’t hear about them ahead of time or couldn’t make it (for whatever reason; work, disabilities, childcare, etc.).

          The problem now isn’t with “Americans” writ large. It’s spineless leadership. And not just “leadership” in the sense of corrupt elected officials and judges. I also mean major university presidents and law firm partners that capitulated rather than fight back. Business leaders not speaking out (anonymous quotes in the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal isn’t speaking out; they’re like $400 a year and most people don’t know how to get around paywalls). Religious leaders — white evangelical Protestant ones, anyway — failing in every possible way. Retired generals (or anyone else who swore an oath to the constitution) should be livid.

          Maybe now that he tanked the global economy and is fucking with rich people’s money, there will be more resistance from so-called “elites” but I’m not holding my breath waiting for them to stop being cowards and protecting their own asses. But regular people are doing what we can.

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    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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        Oh they’ll pay all sorts of crazy tariffs, just like the rest of us. They just won’t pay them for fentanyl.

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      Fentanyl is for the poor, the rich prefer the white flour. Why should he care? 🤷

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    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.

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    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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    Great. Now that I finally got my 100$/mo med that I need.