The Trump 2nd Term

[Sid Belzberg]

Trump made a lot of promises during the election campaign.

I would like to focus on economic issues.

Promises made to his working class MAGA base included: bringing back manufacturing jobs, fighting inflation, a better health care system, and lower interest rates on credit cards.

Promises made to his new billionaire friends included: extending and further tax cuts, more drilling “drill baby drill”, abolishing the EPA, major cuts to regulations and federal spending.

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.

In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Trump has crushed the Republican party, defeated the Democrats, won the House and Senate, a majority on the Supreme Court, a loyal MAGA base, and immunity from prosecution for official acts. In just over a month Trump will basically be a King.

I have one question. Will King Donald prioritize his promises to the MAGA base or to his new billionaire friends?

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.
In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Bob, the conversation about healthcare reform must go deeper than the public vs. private debate. The problem is not who administers care, but the deeply corrupted system that suppresses affordable, life-saving solutions while prioritizing corporate profits.

In 2020, a close relative was diagnosed with late-stage multiple myeloma. His prognosis was grim—months to live. Faced with the choice between grueling chemotherapy or dying in peace, he chose the latter. But I refused to accept this. Drawing on my background in Molecular Biology and decades of scientific research, I turned to repurposed drugs and metabolic approaches that mainstream medicine had ignored.

We combined Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, sugar restriction, and Allulose (a rare sugar substitute cancer cells can’t metabolize). In just seven months, he achieved complete remission. His oncologist was stunned, but the results were undeniable.

I presented this success story, backed by research and reproducible evidence, to a forum of doctors and scientists. Many of them, seeing the potential to save lives, adopted these protocols. Since then, thousands of late-stage cancer patients—individuals given no hope, with prognoses of weeks or months—have achieved full remission. These results are no fluke. They are consistent, reproducible, and lifesaving.

https://isom.ca/article/targeting-th...ular-protocol/
https://www.newstarget.com/2023-06-3...at-cancer.html


Here’s the sad truth: millions will die if the status quo in cancer therapies continues. The contaminated COVID-19 vaccines, containing the SV40 promoter that integrates into the human genome, have triggered an explosion of turbo cancers—fast-growing, aggressive malignancies in people who were previously healthy. Children are being diagnosed with cancers that doctors with decades of experience have never seen at such rates. This is a global catastrophe, and it will only worsen unless we act.

We must reject the expensive, ineffective therapies dictated by a system that cares more about shareholder profits than human lives. The solutions exist: therapies that are affordable, accessible, and exponentially more effective with ZERO side effects. Repurposed drugs like Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, when combined with metabolic approaches like sugar restriction, have the power to save millions. The evidence is overwhelming, but it has been ruthlessly suppressed by the medical-political complex.

Healthcare cannot be fixed by simply shifting who pays the bills. It will only be fixed when we confront the corruption that has allowed millions to die needlessly while affordable cures are buried. It is not too late, but the clock is ticking. Lives depend on this. Millions of them.

[Bob Gillanders]

Trump made a lot of promises during the election campaign.

I would like to focus on economic issues.

Promises made to his working class MAGA base included: bringing back manufacturing jobs, fighting inflation, a better health care system, and lower interest rates on credit cards.

Promises made to his new billionaire friends included: extending and further tax cuts, more drilling “drill baby drill”, abolishing the EPA, major cuts to regulations and federal spending.

Recent events have brought to centre stage problems with private health insurance. Profits are prioritized over health care resulting in preventable death, suffering, and economic ruin for those without the means to fight the system.

In my opinion the best solution is to adopt a universal single payer affordable government run health care system like we have in Canada and many other rich countries.

Trump has crushed the Republican party, defeated the Democrats, won the House and Senate, a majority on the Supreme Court, a loyal MAGA base, and immunity from prosecution for official acts. In just over a month Trump will basically be a King.

I have one question. Will King Donald prioritize his promises to the MAGA base or to his new billionaire friends?

[Vlad Drkulec]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7s381xRtA

I like this one better.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Robert Reich correctly identifies what is wrong with the system, but his so-called 'solutions' cannot deliver. Starting government run businesses is like starting businesses destined to lose money and fail, and robbing the hard and smart working just stops people from putting in hard and smart work, and opt for corrupt collusion with politicians, instead...

I hope the democrats listen to him. That should banish them to the wilderness for at least twelve to sixteen years.

[Dilip Panjwani]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

Robert Reich correctly identifies what is wrong with the system, but his so-called 'solutions' cannot deliver. Starting government run businesses is like starting businesses destined to lose money and fail, and robbing the hard and smart working just stops people from putting in hard and smart work, and opt for corrupt collusion with politicians, instead...

[Bob Gillanders]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xnj...el=RobertReich

[Vlad Drkulec]

I don't know if you intended it, but your post makes it look like Trump said "Jump!" and Justin replied "How high?"

Canada could have been doing things to limit fentanyl entering the USA and chose not to do those things? I'd like more details about that.

My understanding is that fentanyl is 99% a problem coming from Mexico. Most of our fentanyl comes from the U.S.

We have a trade surplus with the U.S. in goods mostly because of oil. We have a big deficit in services. If Canada were to join the U.S. it would probably be as ten or possibly more separate states which would likely lean Democrat so this is on a par with buying Greenland. Not likely to happen.

[Pargat Perrer]

Canada



Trudeau spoke by phone with Trump today - promise - 1. will be tougher of border security; 2. will be tougher on stopping fentanyl for entering USA (The two demands Trump made when saying he'll impose 25% tariff on all goods from Canada (& Mexico) going into the USA.

Is Trudeau looking more Prime Ministerial? Is this good to raise the Liberals from the depths?

Bob A

I don't know if you intended it, but your post makes it look like Trump said "Jump!" and Justin replied "How high?"

Canada could have been doing things to limit fentanyl entering the USA and chose not to do those things? I'd like more details about that.

[Dilip Panjwani]

...the cost of living is so high, and pay is so poor...

Bob A

You have accurately pin-pointed what the real problem is, Bob A.
And the only solution to this is "vastly more (efficient) enterprises creating demand for vastly more workers"! Something which can never be achieved by having government-run businesses where everyone's business becomes nobody's business, or by simply robbing the hard and smart working successful citizens, but something which is the very purpose of the system of Libertarianism...

[Bob Armstrong]

The USA is a mess:

My Canadian Stat:
53 % of Canadians have $ 200 or less in savings for an emergency. They live from paycheck to paycheck, often working more than 1 part-time job.


Save capital to invest (A good plan)........don't think so.

Comparable USA Stat:
the same for 60-80% of the US population. Nearly 50% struggle just to pay bills and we have a crisis of the working homeless--the cost of living is so high, and pay is so poor, many working people are being forced to live out of their cars. They can't afford to pay rent. And what's worse is few people are willing to unionize. It looks bleak.



Bob A

[Vlad Drkulec]

"too old" - to old to run for President in 2028.

"very rich" - define "very rich"

He is probably worth three to five million dollars U.S. based on just his real estate (3 houses bought with cash) and disclosed investments. The net present value of his book income is probably worth about $4 million dollars. He's no Nancy Pelosi but he is not lining up at the food bank.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Who is the better champion for the average guy, Bernie or Donald?

I think Bernie, but Donald will get his chance to prove me wrong.

The voters picked Donald Trump over Bernie's protege Kamala Harris. They had a good baseline of comparison between Trump's previous presidency and what Kamala was suggesting which was more of the Joe Biden policies that put the U.S. in its current mess.

No doubt, if you are a consumer of the main stream media line, you don't think the U.S. is in a big mess.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Bernie is allied with the USA Democratic Socialists (The right smears all the left with the old USSR "Communist" label)........effective but not accurate.

The proponents of this smear are just showing their ignorance, or are lying on purpose, knowing it is a false statement..

Bob A

At the time of the Cuban revolution, when there was still hope that Fidel Castro was some kind of reformer my father told the other doctors that he was a communist. They denied it and made very idealistic claims. Those who were honest later asked my father how he could have known about Fidel Castro and he said that he had heard those same speeches before. They lead only to oppression, poverty and starvation and of course much murder and misery.

Now Bernie will never live in his worker's paradise and so we will probably never see the outcome of his looter mentality built on envy as all communistic and socialistic philosophies are.

[Bob Gillanders]

My assessment of Trump at the time was the same as yours. However, most politicians tend to be arrogant. Some just hide it better than others.

Bernie is now too old to be a factor. He is a very rich communist.

"too old" - to old to run for President in 2028.

"very rich" - define "very rich"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6mg...=TheYoungTurks

"communist" - No.

Who is the better champion for the average guy, Bernie or Donald?

I think Bernie, but Donald will get his chance to prove me wrong.

[Bob Armstrong]

Bernie is allied with the USA Democratic Socialists (The right smears all the left with the old USSR "Communist" label)........effective but not accurate.

The proponents of this smear are just showing their ignorance, or are lying on purpose, knowing it is a false statement..

Bob A