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Big Pharma — How much power do drug companies have? | DW Documentary
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/new-...t-is-an-important-part-of-being-a-republican/A new poll from CNN finds that a majority of Republicans think that believing Donald Trump won in 2020 (which he did not) is an important tenet for being a Republican.
One of the beliefs listed for Republicans is the false assertion Trump won in 2020. 59 percent believe that to be an important part of being in the GOP.
36 percent said it was “very important,” 23 percent said “somewhat important,” 15 percent said “not too important,” and 25 percent said “not at all important.”
The two things that surprised me:Is it a surprise with the eating habit alone is enough to draw the averages down a few notch.
Thanks, DW has some interesting stuff.Big Pharma — How much power do drug companies have? | DW Documentary
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Is this AOCs way of getting attention ala Melania “I don’t care, do you?”Proper activism by a sitting member of Congress.
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Maybe next time she can tag team her wardrobe with Sinema.
I honestly hope she becomes President one day.Proper activism by a sitting member of Congress.
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Maybe next time she can tag team her wardrobe with Sinema.
Meh,Proper activism by a sitting member of Congress.
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Maybe next time she can tag team her wardrobe with Sinema.
It would certainly make the entire American right-wing collectively lose their shit, which would be worth something it itself.I honestly hope she becomes President one day.
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An expensive joke, that recall effort.
Maybe now my trumpy neighbours will take down their yard signs for Elder but who knows; they still have their Trump 2020 signs up.
Raise awareness.Such an ill advised move what did she hope to achieve with this bs?
Society of the Spectacle shit.
Met Gala is an event that celebrates decadence and excess. Looks weird advocating progressive leftist policies while partaking in a party where everyone competes to be the winner of the most outlandish and ridiculously expensive outfit.Raise awareness.
Back up her actions in Congress with something in the media that is sure to gain attention.
Be a lot more honest than most of what goes on at an event like that.
Why do you feel it's ill-advised?
All the more reason why it was not at all ill-advised in my opinion.Met Gala is an event that celebrates decadence and excess. Looks weird advocating progressive leftist policies while partaking in a party where everyone competes to be the winner of the most outlandish and ridiculously expensive outfit.
Not really sure what you mean here at all.truly embarrassing and just downright disingenuous. next she will say hipsters, techies with million dollar houses in brooklyn aren’t necessarily rich because the private schools in manhattan are too expensive.
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she is being fast and clumsy with her definition of rich. according to her it doesn’t involve doctors, lawyers etc which is a sick joke and a straight up lie coming from someone born and raised in nyc like herself.Not really sure what you mean here at all.
this was his comment prior to the one you just posted - “I don’t understand how this is confusing…the doctor next door with 2 extra cars isn’t oppressing you, the billionaires who globally exploit people are”But this is a good comment in that thread "America spends billions on propaganda for poor people to hate other (relatively poor) people rather than blame the ultra wealthy, and that is ON PURPOSE. I want you to know that poverty, global warming & world hunger could be solved TOMORROW. but they aren’t, because the rich want you to be poor. Period."
Not, she addressing an important point and counteracting typical conservative criticism before it happens. Fact is, a majority of doctors and lawyers aren't "rich" in the way people think when we criticize the wealthy. Doctors, lawyers, tenured college professors and other professionals with a good salary are still far, far below any threshold for what really makes the rich and powerful that influence politics and control the state of affairs.she is being fast and clumsy with her definition of rich. according to her it doesn’t involve doctors, lawyers etc which is a sick joke and a straight up lie coming from someone born and raised in nyc like herself.
And he is 100% percent correct.this was his comment prior to the one you just posted - “I don’t understand how this is confusing…the doctor next door with 2 extra cars isn’t oppressing you, the billionaires who globally exploit people are”
there are rich professions and then there are poor ones. going to med school, law school doesn't usually fall in the latter. of course, it goes without saying not everyone who takes up this line of work is rich. but at the end of the day, these are well-paying professions.Not, she addressing an important point and counteracting typical conservative criticism before it happens. Fact is, a majority of doctors and lawyers aren't "rich" in the way people think when we criticize the wealthy. Doctors, lawyers, tenured college professors and other professionals with a good salary are still far, far below any threshold for what really makes the rich and powerful that influence politics and control the state of affairs.
Sure you have a few superstar lawyers (like Doucheowitz) and a few super-wealthy doctors (like the tiny percentage of successful plastic surgeons for the stars) but you also have far more doctors like those that take Medicare or work in the thousands of clinics around the country(and world) and plenty of lawyers who aren't the ambulance chasers with billboards all over town.
When I personally criticize the "richest Americans" I make the exact same disclaimer that she does because its important to differentiate salary earning professionals who might make a good living (say 200-350K per year) by the time they are in their 50s, but are not remotely in the leisure class, the wealthy people that truly control the vast majority of assets, people that pay far less taxes with their "unearned income" from investments. The salaried professionals are the ones that in reality pay the highest federal income tax rates as a share of income in the country. A bog-standard public defender or prosecutor or ER doctor with hundreds of thousands in education debt or even an eventual tenured university professor with great benefits will still pay far more in taxes (percentage wise) than Trump or Mitt Romney while not even earning remotely close to what the truly rich make.
So she is 100% spot on to make that distinction. Someone earning 100K is not fecking "rich" the same way the donor class of unearned income cnuts are rich and shouldn't be lobbed into the same bucket. Trying to lob a salaried professional (public defender, general practitioner that takes medicare, typical tenured professor) into the "rich" along with Trump, Romney, and the Kochs is the really disingenuous tactic that the right-wingers use to a great effect to subvert the message of progressives. Don't fall into the right-wing populist trap.
Define "rich af" first.@oneniltothearsenal if you're a doctor/lawyer in nyc with two cars you are rich af. it isn't even up for debate tbh.
i just did. if you are able to afford to live in nyc with two extra cars then you are richer than the majority of the working-class folks. most people in nyc don't even have a car and those who do are stuck paying car payments and delivering uber eats.Define "rich af" first.
I would disagree with your odd take here especially since a lot of doctors and lawyer with "two cars" are just driving typical cars and have extra cars because they have families with 2-4 kids (not Ferraris and Bentleys). AOC is 100% correct and sorry entropy but you are falling into a typical conservative trap trying to lob people like a public defender with a pick-up truck, a Subaru, and a 6-year-old Prius into the same 'rich af' category as the Jared Kushners and Koch brothers of the world.
But there's a clear difference between a wealthy and well off doctor in NYC compared to the hedge fund managers who literally sit on their ass, take a shit, piss, eat, and they're making money somewhere hand over fist while losing money on days, but gaining it all back by simply doing nothing compared to that NYC doctor. There's a difference. Do you live in NYC or the U.S.?i just did. if you are able to afford to live in nyc with two extra cars then you are richer than the majority of the working-class folks. most people in nyc don't even have a car and those who do are stuck paying car payments and delivering uber eats.
Poppycock! There’s no way to know that so it most definitely is up for debate, tbh. They may not be on the breadline but I could see how they’re not rich af.@oneniltothearsenal if you're a doctor/lawyer in nyc with two cars you are rich af. it isn't even up for debate tbh.
of course, there is no way to know for sure. but a quick google will tell you doctors are some of the highest-paid people in this country.Poppycock! There’s no way to know that so it most definitely is up for debate, tbh. They may not be on the breadline but I could see how they’re not rich af.
Those two doctors/lawyers are most likely upper middle class but could be ridden by debt for their schooling and if they have kids they’ll be paying huge money for private schooling and to live in a nice area. They could actually be close to being broke.
fcuk you! I said poppycock and you didn't even acknowledge that ridiculousness.of course, there is no way to know for sure. but a quick google will tell you doctors are some of the highest-paid people in this country.
they are still rich though. not as rich as hedge fund managers maybe (some might be) but still rich. and their politics are more likely to align with rich hedge fund managers than with those who make 40-60k per year. which is why i find it weird to label them as "not rich". the doctor with two extra cars will be just fiiiineee. he won't even think twice before voting against someone like bernie sanders.But there's a clear difference between a wealthy and well off doctor in NYC compared to the hedge fund managers who literally sit on their ass, take a shit, piss, eat, and they're making money somewhere hand over fist while losing money on days, but gaining it all back by simply doing nothing compared to that NYC doctor. There's a difference. Do you live in NYC or the U.S.?
It's "easier" to become a doctor than this actual uber rich folks in NYC we're talking about. Like the ones who own empty apartment buildings in NYC, multiple of them units acting as a front or tax right off....then compare that to the NYC doctor who has two cars. At least that guy drives his cars, unlike the uber rich folks who have chaperones and the like.