He has been wrecked by drugs and alcohol, had a worm die in his brain, looks like hell, and sounds like he’s on death’s doorstep, but sure - let’s put him in charge of the nation’s health. 🤷♂️
They probably would've gone with Bannon, but not being able to drink half a gallon of vodka a day while in the clink made him look slightly less like a rotting corpse....
No vaccinated folks means lots of really sick folks.
Creating a whole new market.
And, no FDA means no approvals. They just make something and release it.
Testing be damned.
Be interesting to see who can afford it, though, since nobody will have insurance...
Hurting NIH eliminates basic research. Not paying attention to data is harmful. Not letting the FDA do its job harms our food and drug supply. Nobody is saying to not exercise and get sunshine. Please do, you still need a safe food and drug supply
Isn't his beef that Big Pharma has "captured" the agency (FDA)? So then the solution would be to end the capture, but that means re-regulating? The opposite of deregulation. What will Bannon say?
Mainstream big donors, yes. But not bigger donors like Robert and Rebekah Mercer, and others, who have an entirely different world view. There’s an entirely different, scarier billionaire universe quietly pulling the strings.
It will make it very difficult to develop any new medicines in the US. But there’s still the rest of the world. The collective result of the “America First” agenda will make America Last
I'm sure they will lobby hard against his nomination, but the reality is MAGA is such a big powerful cult that if they oppose it too hard, Trump may retaliate against them in myriad ways. Plus they will gain from tax cuts and deregulation, for example.
They make huge money on all the vaccines and they wouldn't make that money if they weren't forced to be covered under the ACA. And I don't see Big Medicine wanting to deal with a resurgence of polio and tuberculosis. It's not sustainable.
He's frosting on glass. His opinions do not matter. The corporations can do what they want, and he will release (and control) data saying always that he and Trump are right
Just got off phone with some friends who work around the CDC and people do not have a good understanding of just what it is they do and how easily it can be wiped away by a president.
He will undoubtedly be kept on a short leash. All of them will be. When the lobbyists complain loud enough to the guy at the top, our overbronzed wannabe despot will make his wishes clear.
No one can live in a country where medical services are not available or inferior, as I anticipate will happen, once RFK ic confirmed. How can a person without the requisite background head a government department? He explained he has expertise by reading books. I read a lot of books too.
Good question. For all his faults I don’t see RFK as being bought out by them. He will have us eating cauliflower pizza and drinking kale smoothies. And ban Ozempic.
It’s a head scratcher indeed….. nothing makes sense anymore except for people like who share what they know and question the schemes and open flouting of the law 🤦♀️
I'm trying to figure out if Trump's insane nominations are serious, or if they're flash bombs being thrown at us to distract from other, even more heinous stuff, that he and his deplorable minion are currently cooking up.
I anticipate more messaging than policy coming from most of the nominees we've read about this week. The AG choice is nothing more than cover for a friend of the prez elect, and will be withdrawn shortly.
Maintains his skeptic base…if anything he learned from Putin is that defenestration is always an option for oligarchs who don’t fall in line (especially with immunity)
my guess is that it helps big pharma in long term. like if RFK announces that cow dung prevents cancer while increasing virility, big pharma will come up with 37 new brands of overpriced cow dung pills, gels, and liquids for the maga masses to gobble up.
It’s all about leverage and negotiation power. Big pharma will be fine. They’ll just have to pay more or pander harder to stay in bed with CDC and FDC. It’s reality TV. An intricate, decades long con laced w/ counter intel fed to the public as news. All the politicians are playing the game. 🍿
Not necessarily. But could hurt big consortiums that are funded by the government, like Manufacturing USA, NSF, etc. Those do tremendous work on pulling the industry together with academic researchers and developers life life-saving & changing technologies.
Possibly it will hurt the corporations but help the actual owners because they will not be paying taxes and they have already made their money. Perhaps big pharma's owners are knowingly running it into the ground because they only care about short-term personal gains.
Serious question because I saw you talk about this several years ago. Do you think our current moment is the culmination of what Yuri Alexandrovich said would happen with the Soviet Union/Russia using psychological warfare over a few generations to basically capture America and our freedoms?
Maybe this is just Trump fulfilling his end of the bargain to get RFK’s endorsement during his campaign. He doesn’t care if RFK gets confirmed or not because he has never cared about governing— only consolidating power.
Excess deaths in the US from Trump’s bungled Covid response ran to several hundred thousand. This time he’s teeing up the ball for several million, if we’re lucky. None of his supporters think that they’ll be one of them.
Big pharma has a way of dealing with these sorts of issues and people. Like hypothetically, they find a way to slip him a brain worm while he sleeps.
Wait...
It is a sad day when we are relying upon lobbyists to save us. But yes. I do think they will likely stop negotiating for drugs which will go sideways with the Elon Vivek committee
I said this to my husband this morning. I bet Pharma & AG lobbyists are frantically making calls to Trump world this morning. But will it matter when the goal is to destroy everything. 🤷🏻♀️
This administration is a chaos circus. It's just about who is loyal to Trump. He stands for nothing other than being in power, making money and staying out of jail. RFK has brought up strong concerns about wireless techs and EMF exposure as well. Which would go against everything Musk stands for.
They know just as well as his nominator that he has zero chance of being confirmed. They aren’t concerned because they know another friendlier face will take his place.
Because he will be utterly incompetent.. so deputies, likely handpicked by big pharma will make them decisions and protect them by cutting reg on billing, testing requirements, efficacy, etc
Exactly! My Pfizer stock tanked (again) this week. I really hope they didn't give any money to Trump....On another note, Trump is getting a billion dollars from big oil so he can pay his legal and grocery bills for a while. The political inflation rate is out of control!
We get plenty of recalls, blackbox additions, and billion dollar settlements for issues with drugs that make it through current standards. Don't think loosening them will improve that.
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Creating a whole new market.
And, no FDA means no approvals. They just make something and release it.
Testing be damned.
Be interesting to see who can afford it, though, since nobody will have insurance...
https://bsky.app/profile/ericcolumbus.bsky.social/post/3laws7o3iqc2s
2. I don't think Trump cares
He just wants to cause chaos and get revenge
I am sure he promised that kook HHS in return for his aid, that doesn’t mean he’s gonna care is the Senate says nope
This is sadopopulism, but the people are aligned with Big Pharma?!
They keep finding little issues to press against and polarize their base against "demon" Ds.
https://www.biospace.com/mrna-vaccines-and-therapeutics-market-size-to-reach-usd-72-7-billion-by-2032-augmented-by-advancements-in-personalized-medicine
my guess is that it helps big pharma in long term. like if RFK announces that cow dung prevents cancer while increasing virility, big pharma will come up with 37 new brands of overpriced cow dung pills, gels, and liquids for the maga masses to gobble up.
snake oil salesman dynamic on steroids.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lawqgvlssc2b
They give a fuck about nothing but "their" money.
Wait...
It's all easy to figure out once you realize Trump's sole policy goal is government by paywall.
Exception only for companies such as Moderna that makes only or almost only vaccines.
Unless you like sawdust and pink slime in your food