SaintsInDome2006

Ah, I see, sure, Biden had cognitive and physical deficiencies. And that affected the fact that Putin bombed and shelled Ukrainian cities and towns throughout Trump's administration?

IIRC this was part of the Biden Inflation Reduction Act. I had no idea it was this successful.

I think in general we have a problem in this country with distraction and attention spans. It's reflected in the current president but yeah both parties are affected.

Just so I'm clear, are you asking about the 2019 cease fire?

This is an odd comment, war raged in Ukraine between Russia, who was invading, and Ukraine, who was defending, the entirety of the Trump administration. Russia was shelling and bombing cities. There was even a cease fire which Russia, just like now, completely ignored, which happened under Trump1 just like it's happened under Trump2.

I wasn't being partisan. I was against the ACA (Obamacare). But it's not exactly a controversial statement to say the GOP is far more against state intervention, subsidies, regulation, call it what you will than Dems. Almost the whole GOP is against that. I was acknowledging that yes there are some Dems against it too. - And the whole point about the ACA is true here too. The costs do not go away, they get shifted, and state interference might even drive the costs up not down. Here Trump is the one sticking his hammy fists into the market and ok if you want to say it's necessary for self-defense or manufacturing jobs or other laudable reasons I might even agree with you but don't forget just like Obama there are still costs, someone's gonna pay.

I don’t know, but maybe. I’m personally against pharmaceutical advertising & for campaign finance reform.

Federal and provincial law provides for subsidies - that means the government pays for the drugs. IIRC they also have government negotiated prices.

One of the most amusing things in the Zelensky-Trump presser at the WH was when Zelensky pointed out that Russia had broken numerous cease fires, including in 2019, and Trump says, 'who was president then?'

I'm really surprised you say this and I think you know. They have publicly funded health care.

Look HT I'm only going toi agree with you if you want to point out that the Dems are just as manipulated as the GOP when it comes to health care.

China used to howl they hated the WTO because the US controlled the majority on the top commission. Trump hasn't even bothered to appoint the commissioners. The whole point is conflict on the global and US media and frankly many Americans love it.

See my last point. Congress can easily require that medications or certain of them be made here. But Republicans and many Dems don't, they won't, and Big Pharma would raise holy hell. The other people that will object are consumers: these same medications will go way up in price. The Feds will have to subsidize medicine. It's a tangle.

I've heard this debate and it came up in Covid. The main point of the debate is that if we go to war with China we will be up sh1+s creek. I don't think it's unreasonable, but by the same token a trade war with China increases the likelihood we go to war with China and economic integration lessens it. The answer to this is probably regulation, but guess who doesn't like that.

It's a fair point. However Trump is publicly demanding Murdoch fire the pollster. He obviously cares even more than the libs.

I don't think he believes that. The whole point is for the US to recognize Crimea (and maybe other areas) as Russian, then withdraw support and then drop sanctions. Trump just has to wend his way through constantly proposing impossible demands on Kyiv so he can declare they're uncooperative.

I actually agree with this. But fwiw technically Biden was threatening or warning Iran not to retaliate against Israel implying the US would intervene (they didn't). Trump meanwhile previously used similar threatening rhetoric with Kim, and NoKo just continued developing its nuke ICBM program even as Trump just increasingly ingratiated himself to Kim more and more and more even to the point he claimed they were sending love letters to each other. He also threatened Hamas that 'all hell would break loose' if they didn't release all their hostages (they didn't). And trump isn't threatening anything here either. Trump crowed about the "cease fire" arranged with Russia like 45 days ago and Russia has been sending cruise missiles, ballistic missiles (some North Korean), bombing raids, all targeted at civilians and infrastructure. The whole exercise is silly, I'm just surprised how completely incompetent this charade is.

Yes actually, we created the system for our benefit. But my point is if people don’t like the rancor, disruption & panic associated with screwing with global financial markets & the supply chain they should stay away from populist politicians who promise & do just that.

If only there was some organization, one devoted to trade and global jurisdiction, maybe one even created by the US, where trade disputes could be brought in an orderly, boring, processed fashion & without dragging partisanship into it.

I take it you agree with this?

It’s Sweet Home. Not close.

Well for one thing there isn’t a single concession by Russia, it doesn’t even require them to halt hostilities.

We’ll be lucky if we get out of this. Again.

There have already been supply chain interruptions. It will be felt this summer, 60-90 days.

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