Joe Ferguson forever

No. Just asking a question. Hard to post and work as a bench scientist simultaneously. as far as “price controls” here’s a very different assessment https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/harris-food-prices-economy-speech-00174112 Harris will also lean into her experience cracking down on corporate greed as California’s attorney general. She’ll more aggressively investigate and prosecute price-fixing through meat supply chains, and direct her administration to take new steps to crack down on unfair mergers that could inflate food prices, according to the campaign official. That follows dozens of cases in recent years alleging price-fixing by major meat companies and the FTC’s ongoing challenge of the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history, between Kroger and Albertsons.

The D’s aren’t the ones giving tax breaks to the uber rich and a pittance to everyone else. But whoever this “cowboy” is, he looks to be a learned economic expert…

When do you work? R u on disability. Welfare? And you drone on about socialism and communism….

This is a big winner for the good team. Should have been done decades ago. Use the power of the huge Medicare population to lower prices. R’s beholden to big pharma voted against it repeatedly https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/15/medicare-releases-prices-for-first-10-drugs-subject-to-negotiations.html

Asheville is among the most educated cities in NC. Talking down to the people there isn’t a winning strategy. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5128283/donald-trump-tictacs-demonstrate-inflation

well the panhandle elected gaetz so there's that. I'm vaguely remembering a hurricane there that did some serious damage recently. Don't honestly know - was the surge a factor?

Alger was no saint. But his stories were about the American Dream. An ideal worth remembering.

Horatio Alger story https://www.horatioalgersociety.net/100_biography.html

There are many of us...and she's a great story. trump, not so much.

It's American politics dude.trump believes it's about what you can get away with. No laws were broken by the D's here. The constitution doesn't mention political parties rules.

Good for her. Nikki Haley said the first party to jettison an 80 yo wins.

Love their sound His too

Depends on the specialty. Surgery has practicals as well as written. and lower pass rates than medicine. They've gotten higher the last decade or so. Endocrinology (Medicine) they're in the mid 70's. Some very smart folks fail... https://absurgerydata.shinyapps.io/PassRates/

I'll need to look into that. I'm on more than I'd like to be too.

Never liked the guy. That could change.

It is a pronoun, yes.

trump turned over the rocks they were hiding under...

except it isn't moving some earth, putting down gravel and a "little drainage pipe. That's why there are all these cookie cutter developments where big contracting companies do massive grading and drainage projects.;

Orange man pi$$ed. Congratulating Musk on firing union workers was stoopid https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-white-working-class-voters-poll-1938946

I know some brilliant Docs who failed their specialty boards the first go round. Some of the most intelligent are also the most arrogant and figured they didn't need to study. It happens. These exams are f'in difficult and rightfully so. The certification has to mean something. People taking them are competing against an already elite group who have cleared many difficult hurdles.

We've had some fairly rough allies in the past. Sometimes expediency outweighs principle. Orban is not a guy I want anywhere near running America https://crd.org/vorban/ Yet, I read that 30% of Americans are now in favor of authoritarianism. Same damn 30%...

The Gods must be crazy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25131282/ Life imitates Art

Vance was right the first time...and he knows it. Do you hear D's using marxist or communist rhetoric? Words like "vermin" and "Gestapo". Vance has his own authoritarian tendencies such as admiring Orban as the article explains. But it appears that until recently, he noticed trump's nazi inspired rhetoric and disapproved. So do most decent Americans...

Even JD Vance recently thought of trump as a nazi: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-political-views-trump

One is false, one is at least partially true. I don't see leading D's extolling the virtues of Mao or Lenin. Alternatively, we see trump praising and paraphrasing Hitler and showing admiration for dictators like Orban and Putin. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/with-gestapo-comment-trump-adds-to-numerous-past-nazi-germany-references