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[–] 139 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure the flow chart for identifying scams goes.

"Is trump in the name?" With yes leading to "it's a scam"

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    I wouldn't say that... there are indeed scams out there that aren't related to trump... at least not until the scammer gets caught and trump pardons him.

    So would be more accurate to say on the ven diagram, the trump circle is completely inside of the scams circle, (though the scams circle is certainly bigger than the trump one).

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  • [–] 79 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    This is the first time I've heard of "TrumpRx", and let me say, goddamn, Trump is one stupid bastard piece of shit. He really called it "TrumpRx" with his own name in it. He obviously doesn't realize that "Obamacare" is actually the "Affordable Care Act", and that it was Obama's political opponents who first called it "Obamacare."

    Trump is a walking fucking joke.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    As an aside, I always hated how Dems completely caved on the terminology of the ACA. They should've been saying the words "Affordable Care Act" at every turn, keeping the actual goal of the whole thing more in the popular consciousness. Going along with calling it "Obamacare" implicitly accepted the GOP's framing of the bill and allowed them to more easily control the narrative.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It was in keeping with how they totally caved on the actual underlying policy and accepted the GOP's ideas there too at least

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah the Rs were determined to make it as bad as they could so they could point at it later and say how bad it was.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    The Dems were also determined to make it as bad as they could so that it wouldn't affect their donors or rock the boat in any way. That's why they used Mitt Romneys healthcare plan to "gain bipartisan support" despite it not being needed with zero Republicans voting for it.

    We could have had single-payer but instead we're left with largely the same model we had prior except now more of our tax dollars get funneled to insurance companies in the name of "subsidized healthcare."

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    As if he could resist making it into a scam to benefit him directly.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    Everything made or initiated by Trump is a scam.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    "...question if it's a giant scam..."

    Right, ask this one question:
    "Does the {whatever} have the word tRUMP involved in or near it or have the obese orange paedo involved or near it?"

    If the answer is no, then it's possibly not a scam.

    If it's a yes then it's DEFINITELY a scam. Definitely.
    No ifs or buts, it's just a scam. Could be blatant, or disguised very intricately but it's definitely a scam all the same.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Yes. There solved it for them.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If? You have to ask? Let's do the math:
    The president of a nation wants to run his own "cheapo" pharmacy. Said president loves Mammon more than his own children. If you don't know what Mammon is, Google it.
    Big Pharmacy also loves Mammon more than their own kids.
    Yeah. It's a scam. Idiots.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Great, now your daily medication will be under the capricious supervision of Trump. Hope you don't take anything that your life or well-being depends on.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    "Sorry, we can't give out your insulin, according to our data you said something negative about president Trump on Reddit three years ago."

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    It's a Trump deal, of course it's a scam.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Trump + words out of his mouth = lie. It's a law of metaphysics at this point.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    ... and, assuming it is, why aren't they getting their cut?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They'll all bend the knee.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    TrumpRx delayed, as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma

    Fixed.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Anything with Trump's name attached is a GRIFT! No exceptions.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    ...and ask how they get cut in on the scam.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    How is any of this the least bit legal? And why in the fuck is it named after him?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He's jealous of Obamacare catching on as a name

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    And here the cons are showing themselves to be snowflakes again - they tried the same thing with ACA as they did with Hillary and "Hillarycare", hoping to attach a name to it to scare off morons - you don't want healthcare coming from a woman, they have cooties! They thought they could scare off most of the country by tying ACA to the black guy and thus sink the whole thing. So they kept repeating "Obamacare, Obamacare" at every turn for years and years, even long after it passed.

    Turns out most people like having health care. And they like ACA, AKA, "Obamacare". It polls well. Yeah, as every liberal knew before and could tell you ever since - it's hardly perfect, it came from Romney and Heritage Foundation, and so on. Still, it's better than the nothing that the conservatives offered.

    Now a jagoff like Donvict is jealous that it's commonly known as Obamacare instead of ACA.

    🤣

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago
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    TrumpRX might be the ONLY good thing Trump has ever done for consumers, but I constantly see articles like this and Democrats pick it apart in favor of...our current prescription system?

    There's a reason Mark Cubans cost plus drugs is revolutionary for low income folks and even myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Narrator: "It was, but it didn't matter."

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I think that they are going to try to do something with the weight loss drug. Like basically offer it super cheap to win over fat Americans. Cause most of us are over weight. Trump has already mentioned this drug multiple times.

    But I really doubt that deal will happen. Some European county (Norway?) owns it. And they won't budge on the inflated price.

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    [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    Instead of asking the obvious and wasting time amd effort, just: IMPEACH REMOVE PROEECUTE!

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Probably. There's never been a Trump branded anything that wasn't a scam, so no senators are genuinely questioning whether it's a scam, they just haven't figured out how to square it with their base yet.

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