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[–] [email protected] 145 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is dumb and then there is MAGA dumb. Next they will be banning women speaking to each other.

[–] A_cook_not_a_chef 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

They saw Saudi Arabia and said, "I want that."

[–] CharlesDarwin 25 points 2 weeks ago

The ones that will be most surprised when they come for the Republican Karens will be the Republican Karens: "Yes, YOU TOO, honey. Here is your handmaid's tale outfit....and make sure you are quiet and submit to the male in your life that is your ruler" ... they will tell the Marges and the Boeberts of the world...

[–] expatriado 95 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

he's aware the pharmaceutical lobby has deep pockets, so this is more like a ransom

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. He will ask for 99.9% of what they make.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

So you're saying prices will go up 99%

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah.

Gotta make profits somehow and avoid Seal Team 6 liquidating your ass on the way to the Hamptons.

[–] P1nkman 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be more wary about windows.

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[–] someguy3 6 points 2 weeks ago

More like racketeering I believe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vaccines are not cash cows, so they might put some cash in his pockets just to make his threat a reality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Interestingly, "vaccine" comes from the latin vaccīnus which means "from the cow".

[–] mwproductions 66 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What happened to "my body, my choice?" I choose to put vaccines in my body.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 52 points 2 weeks ago

Don't stop there like some middling bitch. Require that all Americans be rounded up and injected with incurable, chronic diseases.

As a display of Christ's love for us all.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So he’ll have concepts of a decision?

[–] ripcord 16 points 2 weeks ago

He'll announce his plan in 2 weeks.

It's always 2 weeks away.

[–] ryrybang 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hint of a major and disrupt health policy shift, not backed by any science, with a Trump-knows-shit-about-shit answer of "we'll have to look into that" two days before an election. What a fucking guy this idiot is.

[–] Boddhisatva 41 points 2 weeks ago

These are not hints. He means what he says. The lunatic flat out said he's going to put RFK, a rabid anti-vaxxer, in charge of the FDA.

"I'm going to let him [RFK] go wild on health. I'm going to let him go wild on food. I'm going to let him go wild on medicine."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I fear it starts with messing with vaccinations and we have long dead diseases come back, but then shifts to other things, like "you don't need those meds for depression because I'm not a Dr. but I know better than them and they are trying to poison you". Then they are sending people off to for profit torture "treatment" camps like the rich do for the "troubled kids" now.

In the end you have people in essentially old school psych facilities where they aren't really treated, they are just "out of the way", and when they die they put them in the mass grave out back.

[–] CitizenKong 2 points 2 weeks ago

This has all happened before and will probably happen again. The German Nazis were also opposed to vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Americans, I have the solution. Simply declare vaccines, abortions, whatever you fancy as weapons handled by the second amendment and the hillbillies will fight for it till the end of time.

[–] _bcron_ 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd rather sprinkle a box of finishing nails on a golf course and say "oops"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] _bcron_ 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, I'd rather leave everyone in suspense

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump will say anything and do whatever he decides is in his own best interests. Every time the media reports him saying some stupid shit, he gets media coverage, which gets him more support from morons.

He'll keep spouting shit as long as it keeps getting reported and amplified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Execs at Pfizer: "Shit, time to fire up the checkbook. That'll shut him up."

Basically the US response playbook for NKorea for the last 50yrs. Them: Does something antagonistic. Us: $hutup.

[–] billwashere 5 points 2 weeks ago

So this is essentially when you’re eating and the dog starts barking so you give him some food to quiet down. All you’re really doing is training the dog to bark when you eat.

[–] Rapidcreek 16 points 2 weeks ago

Oh boy. Black market vaccine time.

Keep talking Donnie

[–] CitizenKong 11 points 2 weeks ago

Of course, only no vaccines for the rabble. They themselves would still enjoy all the newest medical treatments.

[–] CharlesDarwin 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess we don't have Presidents any more if donnie were to slither into the WH - we have a king.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

~~King~~ Dictator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That would be an improvement. We know how to deal with kings.

Someone find me an eviscerated priest.

[–] Doomsider 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It may hurt a little at first. But soon you will all be succumbing to ailments modern science had thought were extinct. Just the way God intended it.

[–] rickdg 6 points 2 weeks ago

Abortion? States’ rights. Vaccines? Careful with that.

[–] Intergalactic 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He won’t. Big Pharma will pay him handsomely. They’ll pay him more to remove ObamaCare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

that's a double-edge for them, though. do they want more patients and more scripts being filled but perhaps at a lower, negotiated rate; or do they want fewer but cash-paying patients?

[–] BradleyUffner 2 points 2 weeks ago

They might figure they could make more money treating the sick than they could selling the vaccines.

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