Yes, and a lot of mainstream media turned into Trump's lapdog mainstream media, so it's up to those who won't bow down to build uncorrupted media, and for enough regular people to subscribe, support, lift them up and make sure they're heard!
I sincerely hope that MAGA starts to LEARN and LISTEN once they realize they aren’t better off. You thought eggs were a problem, you ain’t seen nothin yet!
It's not our media anymore. It's Trump's media. He calls the shots, they bend the knee. Never is it more apparent than CNN exiling Jim Acosta from days to the MIDNIGHT to 2PM slot. Why, because Trump doesn't like him. Jim was pushy,
tenacious & outspoken when it came to Trump and he did not like it.
“Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king.”
Sideshow Bob was so real for that quote, because it perfectly described what is happening right now.
NOT something I secretly wanted I was very happy with Obama & Biden - HATED Trump the first time & he is 100x worse now - he decided that he's entitled to be a dictator bc he WANTS to - I pray our democracy holds it is up to our lawmakers & courts to see that it does BADGER LAWMAKERS DEMAND ACTION
Drumpf’s favourite thing is to continuously look for ways to harm other people. If he can lower their standard of living he’s happy. MAGAts love it just as much. They’ll soon be on the receiving end of it and will be too stupid to realize it.
We need to protest his bad policy's. This means alot of people go back to deciding medicine or food, housing or medicine, life or death and/ or can you afford insulin for mom or dad or do you need to feed your family this month.THIS IS A BIG DEAL. why is trump making these people suffer?
Yes…WHERE IS the outcry?? Have they not heard as yet? I suggest going to neighbourhood locals and ask your MAGA neighbours what they intend on doing??? Put it on those that voted him in for their solutions!!
For 4 years the right screamed that the MSM was in Biden's pocket and the left didn't contradict it. 1 week I to Trump's term and we got "Trump's lapdog media".
Maybe just maybe the media isn't Trump's or Biden's, let's or right's but out for themselves and themselves only.
Exactly. Basically all of them are compromised because they’ve either kissed the ring or refused to be brave like Bishop Budde and speak truth to power.
If the wealthy elites don't care about the average American, why should average Americans care about the wealthy elites? You know how good average American lives would be without the 1%class abusing their power. The 1% class is the minority by far when it comes to power in numbers.
Invariably, people republish these posts complaining “the media” are not reporting about this or that, and when I take a second to look I find a dozen or more news articles about it.
What they're usually complaining about is factual reporting vs opinion. They don't want a headline like "Trump Orders Deportations" (fact) - they want to see "Trump Does A Really Bad Thing" (opinion). What they actually want is a liberal version of Fox News. No thanks. I can form my own opinions.
Why is that then? Surely all media should be non partisan, don’t you think. I’ve been watching for the last 12 years and it has been so removed from that and so blooming obvious
And the big hit won't actually happen until 2026, when the more common big $$ drugs were supposed to go down in price. I think many don't even realize it yet.
I cannot emphasize enough the damage mainstream media had inflicted on our country. The corporate oligarchy bought them up decades ago and have used them ruthlessly to brainwash our populace, while pretending to espouse Free Speech. Diabolical & effective.
Amazingly and sadly there many people who voted for Trump who were benefiting from the negotiated lower prescription drugs but will not realize that the reason that the new lower prices are gone is because Trump screwed them by nixing Biden’s RX negotiated lower prices rules.
Are these social websites making us think we are actually DOING something when ...i know I'm not really doing anything...i don't know about anybody else. We really should be in the streets. Nobody is going to save us.
That's true. It is better that we are at the very least here and not on X or Instagram. Either way, you are correct on that we need to be in the streets.
This makes me irate because my uncle takes meds and 2 of them cost over $500 for a 90-day supply! When my family and I heard Biden moved to make prescription meds cheaper and more reasonable we were ecstatic! Now this douche rescinds it his first day! I hope he needs meds but can't get them!
I have seen the headline that Trump raised the price of drugs but haven't seen the specifics. Is it the Medicare Drug negotiation law? Do you have the details?
Got it. That's what I figured. Are these the Medicare drugs where the prices were just negotiated to be lower? Did he just withdraw the cap that was agreed to?
F him. I hope he gets really sick and they don't even make the kind of drugs he needs to get better. I just freaking hate him so much. My pills already cost me 200. Per month. That doesn't even count all the freaking vitamins I have to take. He really is the embodiment of evil.
Why are YOU blaming “main stream media” for this? This and other such Trump horrors are being relayed through main stream media (NYT, Guardian, Politico, etc), and then filtered down to memeland, where idiots on social media feed and blame “main stream media” for their own MAGA-like ignorance. 🙄
He did so much horrible stuff and the media is focusing on the 2 obscure things that are both pretty supported by existing laws. Defunding NIH research is an absolute tragedy for humanity.
It would be nice if *someone* could report that trump ended the program *he took credit for* (even though he didn’t).
Strangely, MAGA would be more upset that trump ended “his” program than if it was known as Biden’s.
Because revenge & reversal of Dems, with a bonus of cruelty, is the goal.
MAGAts like to complain but they really don't mind paying double and triple++ the price..
As long as their orange slave owner charges them they will pay more than double...That's good because that is what they are going to pay..
Have you watched the regular network channels? I actually heard them praising Melania’s outfits when they showed up in NC to pretend that Trump didn’t manipulate the House repubs into killing a bill that would have funded FEMA. How does he explain that he lied about FEMA stealing their land?
This is the same group that made the epi pencil bc the epipens started to be sold at such a high markup that ppl couldn't afford this LIFE SAVING medication
So many people bitched about the price of eggs and how 45 will reduce the prices. Not only did he go back on that promise, he made their medicine unaffordable. People will die for a broken promise of a cheaper breakfast.
And apparently they’ve never heard of bird flu which has an almost 100% death rate. Millions of chickens are dead and it will take a long time (I’ve heard 8 months minimum) to come back from those losses of “production” (terrible but accurate description of those chickens).
No outcry from the general public either, what in hell is wrong with Americans, why have they given up and let an Orange Painted Diapered Fat Man ruin their lives. All of this is the product of bad voting and a rigged election. There's dire consequences to bad voting. You hurt one, you hurt all.
Just like the right wing propagandists have neither covered or cut out any dumb shit the old fat fascists felon has done and said for almost ten years now.
This is his strategy. He’s doing everything all at once to dilute the opposition. Prescription drug prices, Inspector General firings, DEI elimination, reproductive health information, pretty much all the progress that has been made over the last 70 years is being wiped out.
This is Poooootin's strategy that he's forcing Melon Felon to implement. He said he would destroy the United States from the inside, without firing a shot and he's using Diaper Donnie to do it. Add Project 2025 to the mix and it's a recipe for an absolute nightmare.
A real Simpson's episode: Homer Simpson goes to Canada buying up massive quantities of one of Canada's most popular exports — prescription drugs, which sell for a fraction of the retail price in Springfield. They predicated the future once again.
It was lost in the flood of badness. Though to be fair, I did hear it from a psychic granny on YouTube. Because I'm one of the idiots who have given up on traditional American Media
MAGA were the most affected by Biden's actions & now are the most harmed by Trump's & (1) they may not cotton to the fact they are once again spending an add'l $700 for the same medicine or (2) they will not say a thing against Trump because their egos are so frail they can't admit they were wrong
part of the problem is that there is not a 1 to 1 correspondence between the prices that Part D providers pay for drugs and what individual enrollees in Part D pay for those drugs. Folks in Medicare Advantage plans are further buffeted and it may take some time before a rise in prices is noticed
We need the Blue State governors to tell the taxpayers to declare a Federal tax holiday and they have our backs. Have the mechanisms to do it automatically into an"escrow" account for State funding of denied Federal reimbursements and possible future tax refunds. Blue States will to fund an army.
Let’s say it’s California (where I live). Newsom could simply direct all residents of California to file their federal taxes on a different website that is run by the state. He tells residents that if they do so, they will be protected by the state of California from any threatened repercussions.
With the way things are going Gavin Newsom will be the first President of the Republic of California and probably include Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. New England, most of the original Colonies probably will become a new nation. That or it is martial law everywhere Trump works for Putin's mob.
Agree. I like to think of us as the New Union fighting the New Confederacy. Because that’s what it really is. It’s the same kind of asshole who doesn’t want to give up their slaves, then and now. They never got over slavery being made illegal in the Union.
And that’s just one idea off the top of my head. It would be no trouble to direct the populace to stop filing taxes with the IRS and start filing them with whatever agency we make up to take the place of the IRS. What’s the old IRS going to do, sue? In what court? And who would enforce a judgement?
Why Trump wants tariffs, really a draconian consumption sales tax on the poor and middle class to fund his militias and theft. I believe Roger Krugman said his 25% tariffs would generate only 25% of the current income tax system and is just a shake down of countries for bribes for lower tariffs.
Sure, that sounds good. I really don’t care what the bureaucratic details are. How did Abe Lincoln do it? I know he didn’t just have everyone in the North keep sending their tax dollars to Jefferson Davis! That would be absurd.
The outcry is very real ,but also Very Suppressed, tRump 0 the NAZI is going to destroy this nation and MAGAts will be smiling and dancing in their poverty while buying even more of tRump 0 the Nazis Trinkets and gold shoes and Bibles.
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It will be an interesting showdown between Trump and the MAGA Crowd when the price of drugs climb, Medicaid disappears, Snap is gone and food stamps disappear.
You can thank the likes of Rupert & Lachlan Murdoch. They will gaslight you every which way.
Dump Fox tv.
Dump Meta
Dump anything Bezos touches.
Dump instagram
Dump TikTok.
That's not entertainment. That's actually legit news. The mainstream is only interested in entertainment. These are interesting times and this dumpster fire is entertaining
I thought the Biden admin canceled Trump's plan and reintroduced it with a different name to take credit for it. I think that's what's happening now, again. Cancel and replace with the same (but different name). Politicians playing games while we pay the transition price.
It is not only gene and cell therapy, which while experimental, are extremely successful (like for sickle cell). Those were included in the repeal. It is also the caps on prescription drugs (like insulin) that people need. We will see how it plays out.
The only country that "may" still have a working guillotine left is France. The last guillotine execution in the Western world was in 1977. Hamida Djandoubi was executed by guillotine in September 1977, in France.
I've read different things. One source said that insulin is still capped at $35 out of pocket. True? False? What about the $2k drug limit for Medicare?
Insulin is still $35 at the moment. As long as it is specifically 30 days.
We've been told Medicare has a bigger deductible this year but no "donut hole" later in the year now. I do not know exact numbers atm though.
It seems that rulings from last year are still in effect though.
Thank you! I will check with my pharmacy on the other stuff. I don't use insulin, but have friends and family members who need the drug. Everyone is worried.
What’s even the purpose of the media. The media have been reporting Trumps crimes for years. No one cares. Once you are so fatigued from constant crime after crime after crime you just stop caring. That’s actually the strategy.
Mainstream Media is owned by rich Republicans and all they care about is that huge tax cut The Convicted Felon and Rapist promised them at the expense of Hard-working Americans
He is bombarding us all with his constant, barrage of illegal executive bull 💩 orders…. Who in the 9 hells can keep up with the chaos and destruction he is unleashing on the country…
Most of his loyal followers won't know it happened until it effects them. So in a month or so when insulin costs $300 again, that's when the outcry will occur.
The mass media is not owned by trump. it is owned by Rich Deep State. get over the brainwashed red/blue fake crap. but then, why is blue(sky) here? to be the perfect balance to X, to keep us divided and fighting, otherwise, YOU might realize the rich own U.S. and keep ruling it.
Very true. I didn’t hear jack shit about those, but I knew they had to be happening.
A little bit of digging later, I found the info about that.
It’s truly disheartening to see. I remember some protests that were happening late 2015/early 2016. I was in HS at the time but activism was there, even.
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Thing and didn’t have anything to replace it with for months
tenacious & outspoken when it came to Trump and he did not like it.
Sideshow Bob was so real for that quote, because it perfectly described what is happening right now.
And MAGA Kelsey Grammer likely meant that diatribe.
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/tv/frasier-reboot-canceled-after-just-918392
https://youtu.be/asOvnGHwtDU?si=H9eu2kXmFgujVFwu
They are his henchmen.
Maybe just maybe the media isn't Trump's or Biden's, let's or right's but out for themselves and themselves only.
I'm so fucking scared dude
And then I block those people.
Yep, look ripe for a take over of Oligarchy
I know I'm fucked. I don't need to be reminded every goddamn time I open my eyes.
By cutting out any work done online and saying it's useless is undermining disabled ppl who can only engage with change online.
You need agitators and educators everywhere.
And I hope everyone who voted for Convicted Felon Trump suffers horribly from his actions.
😂😂😂😂
You truly live in an alternate universe...
The genie's out the bottle.
Know that Trump is using their money to fund his other nefarious agendas.
Most of the media?
Strangely, MAGA would be more upset that trump ended “his” program than if it was known as Biden’s.
Because revenge & reversal of Dems, with a bonus of cruelty, is the goal.
As long as their orange slave owner charges them they will pay more than double...That's good because that is what they are going to pay..
We have presurrendered.
If they won't prescribe it... Make it
This is the same group that made the epi pencil bc the epipens started to be sold at such a high markup that ppl couldn't afford this LIFE SAVING medication
Most media today are just paid propagandists.
I'll ask them if they every watched that movie about Jim Jones that starred Powers Boothe (a great character actor).
If they say yes, then I'll say, "Apparently, you didn't remember the story."
If they say no, I'll say, "Sucks to be you."
have you been living under a rock for eight years?
https://bsky.app/profile/theresavazquez.bsky.social/post/3lgl2aujibk2d
And it’s absurd now, too.
#6'Elon
Dump Fox tv.
Dump Meta
Dump anything Bezos touches.
Dump instagram
Dump TikTok.
But, I've got my popcorn ready... :)
Correction: 'because they don't "listen" to...'
Sleep deprivation and information overload is a terrible thing :))
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/01/21/trump-ends-program-to-lower-prescription-prices-make-disease-therapy-available/
gives sloppy top 🔝
perhaps 🤔 a trebuchet addition ➕ is in order for the most egregious of criminals.?!
It's been one week.
I'm just hopeful I can still get my very necessary ADHD meds. I cannot function without them.
We've been told Medicare has a bigger deductible this year but no "donut hole" later in the year now. I do not know exact numbers atm though.
It seems that rulings from last year are still in effect though.
trump is such a nasty little fucker! I'd like to punch him in the nose!
& one side is def out corrupting & greeding z other.
Outwhimper ✔️
A little bit of digging later, I found the info about that.
It’s truly disheartening to see. I remember some protests that were happening late 2015/early 2016. I was in HS at the time but activism was there, even.