budaatum:


Really? After all the supposed shenanigans of DA Kim Foxx?

Basilico, you must go and fire the judge that freed Jussie, and fire the DA that failed to have Jussie convicted, and even his lawyer that got his conviction overturned and the jury that let him go free as a bird, and you should start a new case against Jussie where you are the judge and the DA and Jussies's lawyer, and make sure you are the only juror too so you can find Jussie guilty so you can throw his Jussie ass in jail.

Also consider being the judge and the DA and the jury and Chauvin's lawyer too so you can free Chauvin too please.

budaatum:


Really? After all the supposed shenanigans of DA Kim Foxx?

Basilico, you must go and fire the judge that freed Jussie, and fire the DA that failed to have Jussie convicted, and even his lawyer that got his conviction overturned and the jury that let him go free as a bird, and you should start a new case against Jussie where you are the judge and the DA and Jussies's lawyer, and make sure you are the only juror too so you can find Jussie guilty so you can throw his Jussie ass in jail.

Also consider being the judge and the DA and the jury and Chauvin's lawyer too so you can free Chauvin too please.

GloriousGbola:


you really think the guy knows what double jeopardy is?

Gerrard59:

It is funny how some people malign capitalism yet use the results of its system and work in profit-oriented organisations.

4) The Novo Nordisk market capitalization of $570 billion is larger than the entire economy of Denmark,

5) Its $2.3 billion income tax bill for 2023 made it the largest taxpayer in the country, and its rapid growth was driving nearly all of the expansion of Denmark's economy.

IbeOkehie:
It looks like the USA is subsidizing the entire Danish economy 😳 Something stinks in Denmark for sure.

basilico:
Anyone who doubts Liz Cheney don't go jail is severely compromised. Her key witness whom she spoke to without her lawyer, changed her testimony. Liz tried to disbar her lawyer
Cassidy Hutchinson also ruined her colleague and friends reputation .

https://x.com/_WilliamsonBen/status/1869196673995485339

I haven’t spoken much about the below incident publicly due to ongoing investigations — but given the good work of today’s House Admin report on the J6 Committee and its revelations on possible “witness tampering,” I’d like to share a relevant episode involving another fabrication from the Committee, Liz Cheney, and my former colleague Cassidy Hutchinson.

Almost three years ago, in early 2022, I got a phone call from Cassidy telling me her closed-door deposition with the J6 Committee (under subpoena) was approaching. Cassidy claimed to be worried that our old Trump WH colleagues, including our boss Mark Meadows, might think she was “disloyal” for following a subpoena and showing up to the deposition.

I cut her off mid-convo and responded: “No one will think you’re disloyal just for following a subpoena. And Mark would never, ever ask you to do anything other than the right thing and tell the truth. He wouldn’t think you’re disloyal.” She agreed, and the convo ended perfectly fine.

Months later, Cassidy appeared out of nowhere at her now infamous public J6 hearing, making completely outlandish claims untethered from reality — many of which were rightly disputed or shot down within minutes. But you may also recall that after Cassidy’s appearance, Liz Cheney put up a bizarre anonymous message on a big screen, allegedly received by Cassidy before her (aforementioned) private deposition. Cheney claimed it was evidence of “witness intimidation.”

The anonymous message Cheney displayed read, partly: “He (Meadows) told me you have your deposition tomorrow. He knows you're loyal, and you're going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.”

Via public news reports, I later learned this was in reference to me. It was a completely twisted, utterly nonsense re-telling of the phone convo where Cassidy had fretted to me about “loyalty.” She (and the Committee) embellished parts of the exchange, made up others, and spun it into a lie that appeared like witness intimidation.

The J6 Committee presented this account as factual — when it wasn’t — and then leaked my name to reporters to create the narrative that I was guilty.

In the weeks and months that followed, I faced accusations of criminal exposure over it – all over nonsense. Members like Dan Goldman publicly accused me of “witness tampering.” The FBI called me in for hours of questioning. Meanwhile, the J6 Committee never once followed up with me or my attorneys to ask me about this interaction before uncritically airing the dishonest version. It was all based on fabrications, yet the J6 Committee never even bothered to get the other side. It’s one of many reasons why none of their claims about President Trump, or frankly anyone else, should ever be believed.

This is just one story in a long list, and relatively, I ended up one of the lucky ones. But I’m glad to see the report today take the J6 Committee and their ‘star witness’ to task. They spread an untold amount of falsehoods about my friends, colleagues, and bosses, and forced many good people to defend themselves in ways they should’ve never had to. I will never forget it.

budaatum:


If you were honest with your self, you'd say something stinks in USA for its citizens to be "subsidizing the entire Danish economy" instead of subsidising its own citizens healthcare.

I doubt its me you'd say something is wrong with if your money was feeding me while you starved, but correct me if I'm wrong please.

Oh. And its stock dropped because its fat drug it would have sold to you in US is a dud.

IbeOkehie:
Most people have no idea at all that the USA massively subsidizes healthcare in other countries.

basilico:

He believes HCL healed him when he got infected with COVID.

IbeOkehie:


Again, stop personalizing. It's off putting. Come on.

My reply was for a mutual conversant, but I'll courteously give you a reply.

It's not about honesty, everyone has their own ideology and thus opinions. The best that can be said is that the results of our choices will be clear in 4 to 20 years. The best example of that is the policy choices made regarding fuel subsidy in Nigeria in 2012. The policies about tackling Covid were also debated, certain choices were made and massive world wide inflation was the result.

Most people have no idea at all that the USA massively subsidizes healthcare in other countries. It's not part of any conventional conversation about the cost of our healthcare but the experts know the truth of the matter. It's easy to criticize, but the GLP's that are the subject this morning are miracle drugs and the ONLY reason companies like Lilly and Novo Nordisk put effort into inventing them is the expectation of profit FROM THE USA. Anyone can argue anything, that true and simple FACT can never be taken away. I'm a pharmacist and I dispense these drugs everyday. I know they're making a difference.

By the way, the trial failure for the new Novo Nordisk drug was about COMPARED EFFICACY to other alternatives, not about side effects or dosing. The drug itself works, just not as good as others out there. It's not a dud. The payments game for meds is another subject altogether, best left alone here.

The next popular frontier for medicine is dementia medicines for diseases like Alzheimers. Many people all over have elderly relatives with dementia and I'm sure those in middle age are thinking about their own risks for the next 20 to 40 years of life remaining. USA subsidies for healthcare are right now driving drug companies all over the world to search for cures in that area. Whatever the arguments, people worldwide in every developed country should be thanking the USA for bearing the burdens that make miracle drugs possible.

Good Luck to Nigeria

budaatum:


The USA is not massively subsidizing healthcare in other countries!

Your own politicians, who likely have shares in those companies and who also receive lobby money from them are the ones ripping you off of your tax money and not giving you the healthcare you deserve!

budaatum:


He believes? Are you sure you are an engineer? I'm asking because you don't even sound like you did sciences.

Don't you think he should do proper research and collect verifiable evidence so he can prove to himself so he knows, and then present it to others so they can repeat his experiments and know too?

cococandy:


The real gist being that these medications can be affordable to both Americans and other people in other countries and the manufacturers can still walk away with large profits. But they don’t wanna hear that.

Standing on ten toes defending greedy people who use public funds to manufacture drugs and then turn around to charge 500x the cost of manufacturing because they have to recoup “their money”. For generations on end.

Tsk 😏

GloriousGbola:
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budaatum:


1) The USA is not massively subsidizing healthcare in other countries!

2) Your own politicians, who likely have shares in those companies and who also receive lobby money from them are the ones ripping you off of your tax money and not giving you the healthcare you deserve!

cococandy:
It’s not entitlement to expect that the medications your tax dollars paid for the research and manufacture of should be affordable to you.

I would quote you but you might get upset about that.

Also not saying those companies are not entitled to compensation. They are. But to the extent that the people whose taxes are being used to fund the research and development can’t afford it? SMH

IbeOkehie:
1) The rote denial of the existence of subsidies isn't a unique Nigerian schtick...

basilico:


You have any study that shows HCL doesn't heal COVID?

IbeOkehie:


As long as the quote isn't rude, there's no problem.

Subsidies CAUSE corruption and high prices. Anyone working or around academia and labs that get USA government funding knows this. There's complaints on this thread about CORRUPTION, government research funding is chock full of it.

Do I have to spell out the ways? The truth is that socialist and liberal idealogues have long seized on moral concerns and used it to EXPLOIT the government and subsidies created to fix problems they complain about. That's how Democrats have become the party of the CREDENTIALED class who collect government money by QUALIFICATIONS. Yep, all the PhD's vote Democrat while all the blue collar workers vote Republican.

Anyway I understand all these things. It's like the weather, hard to get upset because it's raining. Hopefully the clouds that have broken will lead to sustained sunshine. The USA can't go on like this, it just can't. Every reasonable person knows it. Thank goodness Trump won, hopefully he will set the country in a better direction.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

cococandy:


You have equally been occasionally offensive, belittling and tone policing in your comments. Someone disagreeing with you or pointing out inconsistency is not rudeness. I could very well pick apart this your post and find areas that lean towards rudeness but that’s not why I’m here. So let’s move on.

I think if you’re against subsidies, it should be against subsidies for all. Not just no subsidies for individual but billions for corporations. That’s what republicans are good for. Giving corporations welfare from the public coffers and starving their citizens while telling them the wealth will trickle down.

Decades of trickle down economics has shown it’s not working. Corporations just get greedier because their greed is rewarded with more tax payer funds. So if anyone is doing the thing they’re complaining about, it’s republicans.

SUBSIDIES CAUSE CORRUPTION and INFLATION.

cococandy:
You have equally been occasionally offensive, belittling and tone policing in your comments.

IbeOkehie:


Interesting a cardinal thesis of the comment I posted was ignored.

SUBSIDIES CAUSE CORRUPTION and INFLATION. For that reason, I support scrapping ALL subsidies to everyone and every corporation.

Hillary Clinton complained about Trump getting tax write offs.

Trump replied that Senator Clinton and her colleagues wrote the rules.

It's on video, one of their 2016 debates. Anyone can look it up.

Why won't these politicians simply scrap corporate welfare? It's CORRUPTION enabled by subsidies. Simple, nothing complicated about it.

When it comes to subsidies and taxes, it's the liberals, socialists and leftists who want them. And when those government measures are applied, they generally hurt those it's supposed to help. Nigerians should be very aware of this because their country is heavily subsidized, but for whatever reason they just aren't interested in examining why their country is a Zoo...instead they're more interested in imposing the same structure on the countries they migrate to. The thing is mind blowing.

In the 1960's liberals in the USA complained about women's rights and especially Black women. So welfare was devised as a way of government helping women, but it was mostly directed at Blacks, Whites were accidental beneficiaries of these reparations for slavery. The historical record is clear about these Great Society programs.

I challenge ANYONE to go check the stats. In 1950 under Jim Crow the Black American middle class was growing fast with stable families where 80% of children were born into two parent homes. They were engaged in the same kind of migration we Nigerians have engaged in to search for better lives and they ended up in Chicago, New York, Philly and other great cities of the North. Then came the Welfare check.

Welfare intended to help Black Women has instead destroyed the Black American Family. I think I saw a stat that Black poverty rates now are HIGHER than in 1950. Why? Because in the USA and EVERY COUNTRY, single parenthood tends to produce poverty. Today over 75% of Black children are born into single parent homes. Which for the vast majority of them means poverty.

What good did the welfare subsidy do?

It provided jobs for countless government bureaucrats, many of whom get their jobs by who they know, via nepotism.

Welfare subsidizes CORRUPTION. Anyone can go online and check food stamp and welfare fraud, especially those committed by government clerks and managers who operate the system.

So let the government STOP subsidizing research. I support that. Corporations should make their money in the market place. If insulin is priced too high, nobody will buy. People will - and are right now - going abroad for some medicines and surgeries. It's a free market, take the government out of it.

We know who will cry "but the poor will suffer" AND "it's immoral, healthcare is a natural right".

We can go on and on.....student loans? These have caused an EXPLOSIVE inflation of college costs. When universities realize anyone can get a loan, they raise prices. Simple, it's a DIRECT relationship PROVEN by extensive research done by the New York Federal Reserve.

When I came to the USA, I worked for 2 years before starting college. I paid for my tuition CASH at a top State University, $1500 per year. Today the same school charges $15,000 per year tuition alone. Yes!!! Where does the money go? Professors get paid millions in research grants. And who knows the kind of nepotism and corruption around building and maintenance contracts. CORRUPTION, that's what it is.

Then the first President George Bush pushed to make loans more available and here we are. Today it's almost impossible for a low wage worker. In fact the heavy subsidy of student loans have made university education something that is fast becoming out of reach for the poor and middle class. I know MANY White American parents that simply decided against college for their children.

Liberal solution? Forgive all student loans, tax the plumbers, carpenters and dishwashers and use the money to pay the student loans of middle class people. It's crazy. And the Biden Administration EXPLICITY ignored Supreme Court rulings to do it for many loan deadbeats.

Now Nigeria has introduced student loans. No prizes for guessing how it will go for the POOR who supposedly NEED this help.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

budaatum:


His condescending "generality of Nigerians" infuriated me so much I barely constrained myself from jumping down the web and ripping his eyes and heart out, but I just moved on.

cococandy:

So the plight of the African American community today has absolutely nothing to do with the war on drugs that oversaw the pumping of crack into black communities, the over policing and subsequent incarceration of black fathers for crimes that white fathers got a pat on the back for?

The massacre of multiple successful black communities and looting of their properties? They were told to develop themselves and when they did, their communities got burnt to the ground.

Nope. If we let republican propaganda tell it, it’s all because of govt aid.

Since there’s data to show that white families are also dependent on govt aid, why hasn’t the same fate befallen them?

If student loans are what caused the rise in college tuition? I’m assuming you’re blaming all inflation on govt aid then? Food cost, housing cost, transportation etc. all have increased since the last time you paid for your college education. Was every hike in price a direct consequence of govt aid? If you say yes, I disagree. No explanation needed.

That being said, Correlation is not causation Mr Okehie.

As with low-income minority women, many disadvantaged white women believe they’re better off having babies and cohabiting with men, or simply living on their own, than marrying men who are suffering economically, experts say.

Misunderstood as reckless people who use babies to leverage welfare cash, many single mothers actually are making rational decisions, based on meager circumstances and limited choices, experts say.

“There’s an economic basis for marriage, and if both spouses can’t earn livings, it takes away the underpinning for marriage,” said Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs, a Washington nonprofit that focuses on poverty.

“But it doesn’t take away the longing for children. So, children will be born in the absence of marriage.

“To us it’s clear, then, that poverty causes unwed motherhood.”

cococandy:

It was definitely condescending.

Sometimes I just wanna give people grace that maybe they don’t realize how they’re coming across. Especially with long posts back to back and somewhat heated exchanges in between. Personalities can get muddied. And I hope that was the case with him.

I applaud you for constraining yourself.