• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    452 days ago

    I just don’t get the incongruity of the Trump admin. In pretty much every other area they are “show me the money”.

    big tech AI: whatever you guys want!

    crypto: whatever you guys want!

    big banks: whatever you guys want!

    big oil: whatever you guys want!

    big pharma vaccines: No, this is where we must draw the line!

    the only constant is “maximum damage”.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      117 hours ago

      Trump bragged about how he fast tracked the COVID vaccine during his first administration.

    • Erasmus
      link
      fedilink
      English
      221 day ago

      It’s pretty simple. If it helps the rich or his grifter friends then this administration is all for it.

      If it helps the average Joe, then fuck that.

      • Pup Biru
        link
        fedilink
        English
        121 hours ago

        But even then it makes no sense! The rich aren’t immune to disease… I don’t even know who is meant to make money on this shit

        • @[email protected]OP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          220 hours ago

          Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine).

          When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into “Traditional Chinese Medicine” to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk.

        • Erasmus
          link
          fedilink
          English
          221 hours ago

          You got to follow the money, sorta

          The rich will always have access to good drugs and treatments that work. They will peddle any snake oil nonsense that they think will make them more money or whatever they think their followers will buy to make them look better in their eyes. It’s a take as old as time in politics/religion.

          Back a year or so ago I remember posts on Reddit and other places where there was some deep dives into RFK JR and his investments in the supplement industry. The reason they are cheering him on is because he stands to make so much money by ditching common sense medical practices and pushing vitamins and supplements that he has a hand in.

          If you want to learn more about his background Behind the Bastards did a multi part podcast on him last year (I think it was now) that was worth a listen. While it is a little outdated it does go into his childhood and really explore how he got so fucked up. Dude was (and probably still is) a serious crack head and narcissist.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        91 day ago

        Suddenly wishing big pharma were better friends with and getting bigger handouts from the admin WHATTT is this world

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            41 day ago

            The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to.

        • ilovecheese
          link
          fedilink
          English
          11 day ago

          There’s more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick.