2024 Presidential Election

[cowboyinexile]

Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team

“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.

newrepublic.com

Musk starting to piss off Trump's inner circle by acting like Trump is endedited to him and like they are co-presidents.

 

[CowboyJD]

Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team

“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.

newrepublic.com

Musk starting to piss off Trump's inner circle by acting like Trump is endedited to him and like they are co-presidents.

When two grifters with huge egos collide, there is absolutely no way they don’t end up trying to grift each other.

True collaboration and cooperation is never the end result….or even the original goal of either one.

 

[Stillwaterman]

And who appoints those lifetime appointed officials?

Elected officials.

No doubt about it.

For better or worse, trumps biggest stamp on term one was the appointment of 3 supreme court justices. It's crazy honestly. Hopefully he has made his last appointment.

My point is, nothing is going to change on these topics come January 20th (or whatever the date is). There is no reason to run out and stock up on guns or pills.

 

[Stillwaterman]

Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team

“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.

newrepublic.com

Musk starting to piss off Trump's inner circle by acting like Trump is endedited to him and like they are co-presidents.

OMG, kill me for giving that a click. Really, you got three anonymous quotes from who knows who? Just, WTF?

 

[GOGETUMPOKE]

Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team

“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.

newrepublic.com

Musk starting to piss off Trump's inner circle by acting like Trump is endedited to him and like they are co-presidents.

And so it begins.

 

[TheMonkey]

OMG, kill me for giving that a click. Really, you got three anonymous quotes from who knows who? Just, WTF?

Yeah, they usually let reporters use their names in these articles, so they’ll get fired. What’s up with the secrecy, wussies?

What part do you find unbelievable?

 

[mugatu]

Here's my thing with DOGE. If the goal is improving gov efficiency then they are already talking about it wrong. Yes, there are too many gov jobs, but thats because of gov beaurocracy. If Elon and Vivek want to go in and look at redundant or unnecessary paperwork requirements and help streamline the flow of things that would be awesome. But if they aren't going to touch that side of things and are just going to "improve efficiency" by mass layoffs, they will kill function.

 

[Stillwaterman]

Yeah, they usually let reporters use their names in these articles, so they’ll get fired. What’s up with the secrecy, wussies?

What part do you find unbelievable?

I'm not even attacking this article in particular. Just the shear lack of substance that it takes to hook people today is crazy. I'd think we would all know better. I mean seriously "Two people in Trumps Orbit". LOL. Even if the two nameless individuals rotating around trumps gravitational mass actually spoke to the reporter directly (I doubt it) it just sounds like jelly juice to me. But hey, it makes people smile to read so why not write it, put it out there, and let folks enjoy themselves.

 

[steross]

No doubt about it.

For better or worse, trumps biggest stamp on term one was the appointment of 3 supreme court justices. It's crazy honestly. Hopefully he has made his last appointment.

My point is, nothing is going to change on these topics come January 20th (or whatever the date is). There is no reason to run out and stock up on guns or pills.

The SCOTUS ruled that the doctors suing over misoprostol did not have legal standing therefore the FDA decisions on that stand.

-This ruling would not prevent a lawsuit by others who could have standing.
-As things are now, access to the pills is based on FDA rulings. There is nothing to stop the FDA under Trump changing those rulings.

Guns are clearly not at risk. Misoprostol is.

 

[DxCowboy]

The combo. And it seemed like they ran one commercial per missed tackle. So, a lot!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-rules-tv-drug-ads-144242476.html

 

[RxCowboy]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-rules-tv-drug-ads-144242476.html

At the VA we recently made a formulary conversion from the DPP4 inhibitor alogliptin to a different medication in the class, sitagliptin. In my opinion, sitagliptin is the superior agent, and the VA saved a lot of money in the swap. However, patient information leaflets went out with sitagliptin and mentioned in the list of potential adverse effects was “kidney problems (including dialysis).” The thing is, kidney problems are common to diabetes and nearly every diabetes medication lists kidney problems, including the alogliptin which the sitagliptin replaced. Yet, I was getting all kinds of phone calls from patients who were refusing to take sitagliptin because “I don’t want to take that s**t if it’s going to kill my kidneys.” This leaves me explaining over and over why the PI leaflet says that and how likely it is to happen and how it’s my job specifically to monitor for adverse effects which includes monitoring their kidney function.

People simply don’t understand how adverse effects become listed for medications. They don’t understand the patient information leaflets and those are written specifically for broad understanding. Placing more emphasis on them in commercials won’t help. It would be better to simply do away with the commercials. All DTC pharma advertising does is increase costs.


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[Vakarian74]

At the VA we recently made a formulary conversion from the DPP4 inhibitor alogliptin to a different medication in the class, sitagliptin. In my opinion, sitagliptin is the superior agent, and the VA saved a lot of money in the swap. However, patient information leaflets went out with sitagliptin and mentioned in the list of potential adverse effects was “kidney problems (including dialysis).” The thing is, kidney problems are common to diabetes and nearly every diabetes medication lists kidney problems, including the alogliptin which the sitagliptin replaced. Yet, I was getting all kinds of phone calls from patients who were refusing to take sitagliptin because “I don’t want to take that s**t if it’s going to kill my kidneys.” This leaves me explaining over and over why the PI leaflet says that and how likely it is to happen and how it’s my job specifically to monitor for adverse effects which includes monitoring their kidney function.

People simply don’t understand how adverse effects become listed for medications. They don’t understand the patient information leaflets and those are written specifically for broad understanding. Placing more emphasis on them in commercials won’t help. It would be better to simply do away with the commercials. All DTC pharma advertising does is increase costs.


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I met with a lot of animal pharma reps when I was in the Veterinary industry. Anything thing that happens to the animal during the trial gets put on the label. If they get pancreatitis during, the med will say it could cause that. Doesn’t matter if it actually can or not.

 

[steross]

I was channel flipping this morning and CBS Face the Nation was on. A republican Senator was asked "Matt Gaetz was serving as a public official. The US taxpayer has paid for a House Ethics Investigation on him and that investigation is complete. Why isn't the report being release?"

He gave a complete non-answer about committees and precedence and blah, blah, blah.

There is no bigger joke than this crew claiming they are going to "drain the swamp." There is nothing swampier than a US Representative with evidence he paid for sex with 17-year-olds who is somehow able to resign to avoid the investigation's release and then go for a Cabinet position.

 

[RxCowboy]

I met with a lot of animal pharma reps when I was in the Veterinary industry. Anything thing that happens to the animal during the trial gets put on the label. If they get pancreatitis during, the med will say it could cause that. Doesn’t matter if it actually can or not.

Yep. Anything that causes a patient to seek health care when they are on a study medication has to be listed as a potential adverse effect of the study medication, even if the patient is on placebo. If a patient is in a phase III trial and walks out in the street and is hit by a bus and killed, "accidental death" is listed as a potential adverse effect.

There was a famous case of accidental death. Patient was in a phase III trial and died in a plane crash. The patient was a passenger on the plane. Unlike the "walking in front of a bus" scenario, there is absolutely no way that the medication could have had any causal link to the plane crash. Yet, "accidental death" still has to be listed.

There are side effects (unwanted effects) and adverse effects (harmful unwanted effects) of every medication. When I am starting someone on a new medication I talk with them about the serious and common adverse effects.

 

[TheMonkey]

I'm not even attacking this article in particular.

LOL! Goes on to attack this article in particular.

 

[RxCowboy]

I was channel flipping this morning and CBS Face the Nation was on. A republican Senator was asked "Matt Gaetz was serving as a public official. The US taxpayer has paid for a House Ethics Investigation on him and that investigation is complete. Why isn't the report being release?"

He gave a complete non-answer about committees and precedence and blah, blah, blah.

There is no bigger joke than this crew claiming they are going to "drain the swamp." There is nothing swampier than a US Representative with evidence he paid for sex with 17-year-olds who is somehow able to resign to avoid the investigation's release and then go for a Cabinet position.

On Wall Street Journal Editorial Report this morning they were talking about the new administration using recess appointments to get all or most of their appointments through because appointees like Gaetz and Hedgeseth face opposition not only from Democrats but also from Republican senators. Doing this wholesale, using recess appointments this way would be the swampiest of the swampiest.

 

[steross]

The DOGE jokers are going to have to explain their impossible math. They are strutting around like fools discussing saving Trillions from a $213 billion budget. They point out that they are going after specific agencies yet the agencies they point out have the fewest employees. They use the word "bureaucrat" even though 15% of the federal workforce is administrative or clerical. The most common employees are in health care, mostly for veterans.

Either they are going to fail to do anything close to what they claim, or they are going to devastate the Veterans Administration and DOD.

Finally, they havent even mentioned a real source of government inefficiency in the workforce. The massive amount of federal work that has been given out in lucrative contracts to big business with sweetheart deals that feed congress with campaign funds. Elon isn't dumb, he knows not to complain about the golden egg even if it is the real problem. They are happy to whine about education and call it "local." What about farming, isn't that local? They don't mention getting rid of the Dept Of agriculture. Can't piss off the red state Senators.




Article:

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2-3-million-jobs-the-federal-workforce-in-charts-6b490ad3?st=yKRhbQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

[Coco Cincinnati]

Women stock up on abortion pills and Plan B, fearing new restrictions under Trump NPR

Seinfeld did an episode like this. The sad thing is if women who don't need it right now buy every Plan B off the shelves, then what happens to the women who do need it now and can't find any. I guess they're just screwed....all because of politicians peddling fear.

 

[PF5]

The 9 GOP senators who could derail Trump’s Cabinet picks the hill

Multiple Republican senators are looming as potential obstacles to President-elect Trump’s controversial Cabinet picks, especially his two most polarizing choices: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump has had a rocky relationship in the past with a handful of Republicans senators who won’t likely give him the same deference as loyal allies such as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who last week called on his GOP colleagues to “get out of the way” and approve Trump’s nominees.


Trump can afford three defections within the Senate GOP conference and still get his picks confirmed.

But four Republican senators would be enough to sink any of his nominees, and two moderates — Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — have already voiced deep reservations about Gaetz, who was embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, of leading the Justice Department.
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[UrbanCowboy]

The DOGE jokers are going to have to explain their impossible math. They are strutting around like fools discussing saving Trillions from a $213 billion budget. They point out that they are going after specific agencies yet the agencies they point out have the fewest employees. They use the word "bureaucrat" even though 15% of the federal workforce is administrative or clerical. The most common employees are in health care, mostly for veterans.

Either they are going to fail to do anything close to what they claim, or they are going to devastate the Veterans Administration and DOD.

Finally, they havent even mentioned a real source of government inefficiency in the workforce. The massive amount of federal work that has been given out in lucrative contracts to big business with sweetheart deals that feed congress with campaign funds. Elon isn't dumb, he knows not to complain about the golden egg even if it is the real problem. They are happy to whine about education and call it "local." What about farming, isn't that local? They don't mention getting rid of the Dept Of agriculture. Can't piss off the red state Senators.

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Article:

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2-3-million-jobs-the-federal-workforce-in-charts-6b490ad3?st=yKRhbQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Interesting - dismantling military support structures would seem to be their obvious attack point. Do we know anyone out there that would like to see the US military brought down a peg or two? Anyone? And would this TOTALLY THEORETICAL person be connected to Trump in any way?