 Talking about Trump, alright, this is a good transition, talking about Trump, today President Trump signed 4-4. Executive orders, dealing with drug prices. None of which, by the way, liberated the market for drug prices. None of which reduced government involvement in drug prices. None of which involved freeing up the market for drug prices. There we go, see, TDS, because I mentioned drugs. I mentioned Trump, it's TDS. TDS time, guys. The anti-concept of TDS, and all the people who love to flaunt it, flaunt it, whatever. Go read the executive orders, don't have to believe me. Basically, Trump is advocating for the same drug pricing measures that are in Joe Biden's platform. You can check that out, you can read Joe Biden's platform about drug prices, and you can pay what he wants to do when he gets elected with what Trump has just done. Now, executive orders like this, they don't get implemented immediately, it takes months, and they probably won't get implemented by the election, so either Trump will implement them in the second term, or they'll be implemented by Biden when he is president, but in any case, they have exactly the same policy on drug prices. And it happened today, so just go see it, right? Or is that gonna offend your Trump lobotomy syndrome, or whatever it's called? Number one, of the four, there were four of these, right? First one was that drug companies will be forced. Forced, forced, forced, forced. No, but this is capitalism, right? We forced drug companies to do stuff because we have a free market president. So drug companies will be forced to sell prescription drugs in the United States at the same price that they have negotiated with other countries. Now, other countries have socialized health systems, so they negotiate as a country because the socialist system negotiates to buy the drug. And other countries, the drug company has no choice. They use the course of power of government to tell the drug company, you either sell it at this price or we won't buy it from you, or even some countries go as far as to say, you sell it for us at this price, or we will fund a generic. Even if you've got it on the patent, we will violate your patent, sue us, go sue Canada, or sue the European Union. In other words, other countries use brute force, literally brute force, to negotiate drug prices with drug companies, guess what? They get the drug cheap. But the drug company still has to make money and it still has to fund the R&D. So in the one country where we still don't believe in using force, I emphasize force, but you know, don't pay attention to me because I've just got Trump derangement syndrome. Oh, so now it's not Trump's fault for sucking up to the electorate. Oh, okay, I get it. So you believe now politicians should just suck up to the electorate. They shouldn't be, I mean, let's just listen to yourselves. They shouldn't be leaders. They shouldn't try to guide the country in the direction of which they were supposedly elected on, you know, of free markets, let's say, of pro-capitalist, but they should just, the electorate wants the government to control and force pricing and drug companies, they should just do it. And you will continue to worship a president's like that. So that's beyond criticism. So to criticize Trump for doing something clearly wrong, anti-free market, anti-capitalism, anti-American, because the people want it, that's Trump derangement syndrome. And you think it's not an anti-concept that is just used to smear, people like me who are objective critics of President Trump. I mean, you guys are just, thank you, philosopher Kay, you're just providing the evidence every time you open your mouth and how nutty you guys are. He should really drop the philosopher because based on his commentary, this philosophy is very remote from anything he holds. I'm not measuring Trump against an objectivist, I'm measuring Trump the way I would measure any president based on the role of government. I'm measuring Trump on the same standard I measured Obama, on the same standard I measured Clinton and Bush and I will measure whoever comes after Trump. I am measuring Trump on the basis of should government be doing this? Is this the role of government? By any standard. But I didn't measure Obama by the standard of objectivism, I measured him by the standard of the role of government, the principles on which this country was founded. And if you say, yeah, okay, he violates our rights when it comes to drugs, he violates our rights when it comes to the stimulus package, he violates our rights when it comes to a million other things, but he's the best we have, fine. You know, you can vote for whoever you want, you can support whoever you want. But my job as a cultural commentator is to comment on what's going on in the world. And when a president done something that is anti-individual rights, anti-American, anti-capitalism, I comment on it and it strikes me as bizarre that those of you who claim to be pro-free markets think I shouldn't. Wow, that's so weird, that's just weird. So we're gonna be forced to pay the same price as Europe and Canada, because we're the same as Europe and Canada, according to Trump and Biden, according to a majority. Now there are people, by the way, in the Republican Party who oppose this, and this is why it hasn't become legislation. There are better people within the Republican Party who understand these kind of things and oppose this. But they can't stop in executive order, so the executive order is in place. What that will do is deny drug companies from any ability to make money. It will deny drug companies from the ability to do any R&D. It will kill the production and discovery of any new drugs and innovation, because we are going to kill the last country in the world that actually makes it possible for drug companies to make any money. This is, of course, all done through Medicare. So what it'll do is it'll raise your insurance cost, you, every one of you individuals. Insurance costs will go up. Why? Because Medicare will be paying Canada prices, but you as an individual will pay whatever the insurance company can negotiate with the drug company, which will be higher. And it'll be much higher, because not only now will you have to be subsidizing Europe and Canada, but you'll have to be subsidizing even more Medicare patients, Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare patients, government patients. You'll be subsidizing government healthcare. And all this does is it moves one step closer and one, you see, one step closer and one step closer to socialized medicine. So for the last two cases, but Trump has appointed conservatives for people who are judges and he's better than Clinton. He didn't write that one. He supported good conservatives. Who cares? Am I talking about something caught now? Did I tell you to hate Trump? Did I tell you not to vote for Trump? I'm just telling you what Trump did with drug prices today. And you guys lose it. Lose it. If that is not indicative that you have a problem, then I don't know what is. I don't know what is. So, it sucks. By the way, I find it curious that when I criticized Obama on Obamacare, nobody said, but he's not an objectivist. Of course, he should do Obamacare. Well, what's the difference between Obamacare and the government now regulating the pricing of drugs? When I ran criticized Nixon for price controls, people didn't say, but Nixon isn't an objectivist. I mean, you guys are babies. All right, now you guys just philosophically. Anybody else who thought what he was thinking during that? That's executive order number one. Executive order number two, prevents drug companies from giving rebates to insurance companies. So insurance companies get these rebates that they can either pass on to you or not pass on to you. It's a complicated, convoluted system created by government regulation. And Trump is gonna do away with these rebates, which the drug companies like because they don't like this, but the insurance companies don't like, but the whole thing is a product of bizarre Byzantine regulations that we should get rid of that would free up, free up the insurance companies and drug companies and healthcare industry generally to provide us with actually market services. But no, we don't wanna move towards solutions that are capitalist because the voters don't want that. And God forbid we lead the voters. Instead, we're gonna vote every, we're gonna adopt everything in Biden's plank in order to appease the voters before an election. Okay, I mean, again, you can check to see if both of these features are not in Biden's plan. They are. What were the other two? The other two, one was to allow states, states, to go out there as a state and buy drugs from a foreign country. So they can buy the state, let's say, of New York, can go and buy drugs from Canada at those cheaper prices that Canada has negotiated. And then the state, I guess, can use them in their Medicaid programs and whatever. Again, driving up your cost if you have private insurance. So it's statism on steroids. I mean, it's bad enough the way we treat drug companies today. It's bad enough, bad enough that healthcare in this country has been socialized to the extent that it has. Now we have Republicans, not objectivists, Republicans, moving us towards greater and greater and greater statism. I've often said that we will get socialized medicine under Republican administration. And then the fourth executive order is about health centers are gonna be forced, again, that word forced, to pass on negotiated discounts and insuline and epipense to patients. Again, we need government involvement for this. You wouldn't think that if we eliminated regulations, maybe these things would happen anyway because of markets, maybe markets provide cheap efficient solutions to products. But no, we need the force of government to force solutions on the markets. Just fine, not an objectivist president. Just don't tell me he's a pro-market president, pro-capitalism president, pro anything president that's good. That's good. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. 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