the mighty fuck around, the meek find out.
funny how the people who claim it’s “the groups” that make it so democrats don’t win somehow seem less exercised by the people who make it possible for them to do all the good and ill they do. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/if-i-were-the-plutocracy/index.html
even while he is standing for reelection, he is still the sitting president.
Lina would’ve won.
@rieyin The US allows certain drugs to be sold inside the United States, where the same drug is also sold in, eg, Canada. The drug might be produced by the same manufacturer, in the same plant, for both countries.
But if you try to bring that first-sold-in-Canada drug across the border, the US imposes its steep “tariff” in the form of legal risk.
The arrangement, like a tariff, protects the ability of sellers inside the US to charge much higher prices than prevails elsewhere. 1/
@rieyin But a tariff is charged based on where the manufacture took place, but with pharma, the “charge” comes by virtue of where the drug was first (legally) sold. /fin
the more you protect from foreign competition on strategic grounds, the more essential it is you ensure a brutally competitive industry domestically.
we're usually better at the first half of that than the second, unfortunately.
one way to think of it is we have huge effective tariffs on pharma products *first sold elsewhere* regardless of where they are produced.
it seems to me people in the US don’t love this. we maybe feel a little ripped off by comparison to our neighbors.
years from now, where you least expect it, there will be sightings of dark brandon.
politicians draw the lesson being dickish is the superpower but it only works for a very special kind of dick.
“it was a lie,” he quietly admitted to himself, “but at least it was an honest lie.”
“you say you are an honest man, but *have* you read the terms and conditions?”
Via @chrisp, a quote from Grover Cleveland, the last guy to win two non-consecutive terms as President:
“the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil.“
they call it x because it’s all of our ex.
the murderer is scandalized.
“do you see? do you see? do you see what i am up against? *they mean to hang me!*”
“it is i, it is me, who is the true victim here.”
hypocrisy is a mark of status, as consistency is only enforced on those of low status.
It breaks my heart when my kid is sick.
“The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.” #MichelleGoldberg https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opinion/i-cant-wait-for-matt-gaetzs-confirmation-hearings.html
a parasitic worm that infects the brain, drives its host to take over his nation’s public health service, then drops larvae into the raw milk the population is now forced to imbibe.
the twitter files was pretty lame, but i am looking forward to the x files.
“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice ht @costrike