Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.
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Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!
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Deny. Defend. Depose.
I absolutely can't wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning
I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
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I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?
FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.
We're on course to becoming the White Lords' Church from the VN White or Black.
In that world, Trump is dead by the 2030s. Unrest and political troubles killed an alien attempting to make first contact. But religious MAGA, looking for a leader, decides to support the aliens. They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence. And then, since the people are eager to overthrow Musk, they decide to sign up with the aliens. Musk and his buddies are all dead/converted when the Church assumes control of the US in the late 2060s/early 2070s. And then they take over everything else by the start of the 22nd century.
The Church is Gilead if they favored Brave New World over 1984. And they're a lot more stable, and rule a lot longer than Gilead, lasting until the 27th century at least.
They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence.
Lol wait, so the Ancient Aliens people are gonna influence nation wide decisions? Hell yeah, that'll be fun.
Yep. All of them. They're considered a joke at first, but things get a lot more serious when they elect a Pope to run the US. China holds out for a while, but things turn south for them when they legalize conversion to the White Lords' Church faith.
So yeah. Jesus was brought back to life by an alien. Muhammad spoke to an alien named Gabriel. The Buddha is actually an alien inhabiting a human body (they can do that in the story).
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That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.
Oh also, apparently Elisabeth Moss is a Scientologist. So, eck. Unsure if I’ll continue.
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I foresee a cave-in.
FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS
Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free
Hey, worms have feelings too.
Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say...
"My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don't want to make America great again. Because that's what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don't want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me."
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We're going to win the midterm elections and we're going to have a tremendous, thundering landslide, I really believe that . . . and I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on," Trump said. "Which is a good situation, not a bad, it's great. It's going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way.
You'll all be so poor and stupid you'll have to vote for us.
Heh. With how they're taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there'll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it's going to get worse.
Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.
Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.
Two months ago people kept telling me I was wrong for saying this that "the Judiciary is working" as if it isn't acting as scotch tape
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Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.
Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.
For global politics is still next level stupid.
If you can’t win at blackjack, you are doing it wrong.
Well if you keep digging, eventually you'll end up in China on the positive side.
You just have to overflow your casino balance back into the positive
It's sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you're already betting 100x your starting bet.
If you've lost 8 times in a row, you're actually now betting 256x your original bet.
It's NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn't by any means whatsoever ensure you'll end up net positive.
It's called "Oscar's Grind" and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.
It is called the Martingale system.
Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.
Thank you for this. I knew how the strategy plays but not the name.
It’s actually the strategy with the best return of any strategy, including card counting. In any blackjack strategy you need a large bankroll to take advantage of the law of large numbers.
Seriously, this works so well and is the reason for table limits.
Because you will never find a no limit blackjack table you cannot actually apply this strategy in the real world. But it is mathematically sound.
It's not sound actually because it trivially ends up in nonsensical amounts of money and any sufficiently long series of rolls will have an increasing chance of having a sufficiently long series of losses such that no reasonable person can possibly recover from it. For instance who that can afford to bet 1024x 100 or $100,000 on a single game of chance is excited by betting $100?
It's nonsense.
It’s mathematically sound because you do guarantee a net positive with enough of a bankroll. As I have mentioned in other comments here this is not a strategy that can be used in the real world.
You even admit it would work with absurd amounts of money… The math works.
The math doesn't work because given enough rolls you literally always go bankrupt no matter what bankroll you start with. Take the simplest option a fair coin where you win on tails and lose on heads. Real actual random flips will contains runs of heads. Let N be the number of rolls required to bankrupt you for any value of N. The more you roll the more the probability of such a run increases towards 1.
You could end up bankrupting a billion dollar bank starting with 10 dollar bets. It's only sound if you have a literally infinite bank. For any finite bank you just have to play longer to lose but you always end up losing.
A valid losing strategy, sure.
But doubling down can only be done during play, not at the start of a hand.
You misunderstood. A person doubles the bet on the next hand after a losing hand. This is different than doubling down on a 9, 10, or 11 during play.
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So, he really IS going to try and put tariffs on fentanyl?
Somehow I don't think smugglers pay tariffs.
these are called bribes
Oh they’ll pay all sorts of crazy tariffs, just like the rest of us. They just won’t pay them for fentanyl.
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This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!
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Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?
Everywhere else ? Probably