Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Ironbite4

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So Trump fired the Librarian of Congress today. Cause...reasons. Here's the article.


But what gets most people going is the reason that Trump's press secretary cited for her ousting.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
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I...I think Trump actually thinks the Library of Congress is an actual public library with all the fixings. Including a children's section.

Ironbite-that he should go sit in and maybe read "How Not To Be a Dictator for Kids".
 
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Ironbite4 said:
So Trump fired the Librarian of Congress today. Cause...reasons. Here's the article.


But what gets most people going is the reason that Trump's press secretary cited for her ousting.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
bsky.app bsky.app

I...I think Trump actually thinks the Library of Congress is an actual public library with all the fixings. Including a children's section.

Ironbite-that he should go sit in and maybe read "How Not To Be a Dictator for Kids".
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I cannot shed any light on the actual allegation, but the Library of Congress DOES have a children's section.

I feel like there should be a little boom-tish there, because sometimes it seems like the adult section is the weird thing there. But seriously. It really does have a children's section.
 
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He is correct that a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not. I think they will. Unfortunately the rest depends on whether people will abide by the courts' instructions and that part gets pretty murky.
 
CoffeeHorse

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He'll donate it to some "charitable foundation" he likes.

Or the administration will just take a "What'cha gonna do about it?" stance until this drops out of the news.
 
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I heard about it from my news sources on youtube: but trump also does so much jive every ******* week that it's easy for stuff to get buried. As was his plan.
 
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Am I a bad person for hoping it really is something like that? Because it's entirely possible that he's being totally serious and is about to use his bullshit dictator powers to force drug prices into the realm of the affordable with no strings attached, just because he knows how popular it would make him. Why not? The drug companies' money isn't his money, after all. He's not beholden to lobbyists. He's not beholden to anyone. And he would love nothing better than to prove that this makes him the ideal person to solve everybody's problems the easy way.

That part where he says this is what the Democrats, his sworn enemies, have been pushing for for years, though... did hell just freeze over? It was in no way necessary to mention that. It was in no way beneficial to him to mention that. And, depending on your point of view, it's not even entirely accurate. Democrats occasionally make a big show of wanting drug costs to be lower, but of course they're beholden to the same lobbyists as the Republicans, so they've been playing along with the scam.
 

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This is a dirty subject, but my first hot take is that Harris had a troubling gaffe in the campaign where she said she would do price controls to fix inflation and she paid a price for it. Will Trump? If you don't know exactly what you are doing when you fix prices, you get shortages. You don't want to be President of the United States when people cannot get medicine.

Second take is that there probably isn't anything he can actually do to fix drug prices. I mean he doesn't have the legal power, but he also doesn't really have any mechanism to enforce it illegally either. Putting a tariff on it won't work.

Third take is the dirty part. Other countries do get the drugs cheaper. Some because they cannot pay more. A lot because single payer systems can bring a lot of clout to the table and companies have been willing to cut deals because the United States was still going to pay the bills. This really is true. If the USA went single payer or had some other way to actually yank at the prices, it would knock down a big house of cards.
 
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