How did I know that a book review I did 41 years ago when I was at Bowdoin College with our newspaper we created with strike me as one of the best things I've ever written 41 years later? From my scrapbook I had not looked at for many years! and yes, if you want to read HUMOR III, go ahead! (remember it is satire!!, most reporters in my run for the U.S. Senate would not report the titles when they went after me!)
Some snippets!
The Power of Truth and Mobilization in Politics
“But why are they saying things that are demonstrably not true? Because what happens to people who hear things, people who are really conservative, who love Trump, let's say, are really Republicans, who are going to give them another chance, they're not hearing that. But the person in the middle who doesn't care is like, wait a second, that's not true. I just paid $2.94. you know, jug and whatever, right over here. So they know these things aren't true. So someone should get to the press and say, you're doing some good things. Stop saying things and don't let your administration say things that are demonstrably false because it hurts him. I'm trying to help him, right? And I would definitely be the guy to lead the charge because you would have more people at the nation's capital You'd have more people on a percentage basis than Andrew Jackson had swinging from chandeliers when he was inaugurated, right? When everybody went down there and ate all the cheese and destroyed the White House. You'd have more people at the Capitol if we were going to take on the drug companies as a nation, as a whole. You would. It'd be widely popular.”
The Influence of Big Pharma on Drug Pricing and Policy
Yes, and let's go back over what President Trump wants, which is totally tremendous. You and I have talked about this for years. He wants American consumers of prescription drugs, for one, to pay no more than what they pay in Germany, which is far less. And the giant drug companies use America as their giant cash cow, and on the margin, make tiny little money in Germany, a little bit in France, a little bit in the UK, because the drug prices are one-fifth. They're 80% low on many of these drugs. So he does an executive order that says this has to stop. Well, it's not going to stop, right? This is the tyranny of the status quo. Just so everybody knows the numbers, because I'll give you the numbers that Trump won't. Last year, the drug companies were the biggest lobbyists in Washington at $327 million. That's a lot of money whipping around one capital. Two, they give huge amounts in unlimited quantities due to our campaign finance laws to candidates and politicians. They give them cash, they give them this, they take them on trips, they send them to different places, they pay for the trips, all this happens. It's at least a billion dollars of lobbying efforts if you add it in together, right?”
Reparations as a Political Strategy
“It's a House Democrat will now introduce a reparations push. Right. And America has a moral obligation to say. black Americans. So I'm thinking if the Democrat Party's team is trying to find a message to counteract Trump, you know, the Republicans don't have to be on their A game, and I'm not sure they are, because now you've got somebody, a prominent Democrat, saying, well, let's run on reparations. Let's see if that gets anywhere. Can you imagine seriously that if that would pick up some speed and we head to next year and Trump's House members could be defeated because of bad economy, whatever would happen, right? And yet all they do is put up for a mostly white America and more than half the black people who don't even know you're talking about reparations because they agree.”
Debate Strategy and Biden's Perceived Decline
“That before the debate, that Trump accepted all the terms of the debate with no question, knowing that he would crush Joe Biden, knowing that when they turned off the mics, the Democrats are this stupid, that it would make Donald Trump seem even more reasonable. And knowing, as we talked about, you and I talked, that Joe Biden could not keep it together for an hour or 20 minutes. And his famous quote that no one will talk about is that everybody's being raped here and there by uncles and brothers and whatever, right? I mean, he just went off on that, remember? That was when I, who's the guy on CNN? I forget his name. He's a black man. And he went to, you know, he was like, it was over. He knew it was over then. in history. It hasn't been told yet. We're finally being honest about he was demented and he was gone and they were covering it up. They said he was never better, but he wasn't.”
From Rotterdam!
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