The Trump 2nd Term

[Bob Gillanders]

What lessons will the Democrats learn.

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

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[Dilip Panjwani]

Sid has raised some important issues regarding Big Pharma. One needs to realize that most vital research leading to useful drugs occurs in Universities, Big Pharma then pays a pittance to 'buy' this research and then patents it, making incredible profits out of these patents. Patents also lead to dishonest marketing. This makes no ethical or business sense at all. The society (government using tax dollars) needs to reward those who do all the valuable research and ban patents on them. Only then will the drug prices become reasonable.

The interaction between the doctor and the patient is pivotal to the health of the patient, and has to be guided by the doctor's knowledge, wisdom, empathy and respect for the patient; this can happen better in a 'private' set-up than in a 'public' system, because in the latter, factors other than the highlighted four often ruin the sacred doctor-patient relationship... Sid has referred to some aspects of this ruining in some of his posts on chesstalk.

[Bob Armstrong]

Americas - USA

Republican Party Government

Policies

9 Initiatives for Day 1 of the new Republican Government

1. Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants - Are all terrorists and criminals? Do some have circumstances that make a humanitarian application for temporary residence legitimate?

2. Sweeping tariffs - numbers of economists have warned they could have drastic and harmful effects on the U.S. economy.

3. Pardons - defendants charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Should they not go to trial first and be convicted? If already convicted, does the situation of the conviction not matter? What about democracy? What about rule of law (Vs Right of Kings)?

4. Foreign policy

Ending the war in Ukraine - with Russia keeping all the Ukraine territory it has stolen??

5. Climate Change

a. Cancel the electric vehicle 'mandate' - are we to wean ourselves off the suicidal fossil fuels ever?

b. Increase oil drilling in the United States - just what the climate needs!!

7. An America 1st Economy

Auto industry - to be “fueled by American energy,” “sourced by American suppliers” and built by American laborers.

Works in the "short" run; but fails in the long-run when the American market is saturated, and USA needs foreign markets to continue (Which have just been shafted for years by USA tariffs???)

8. Human Rights

Transgender rights

a. Military & Women's Sports - Limit participation by transgender women.

This is a complicated area - I wouldn't think this headache is needed on Day !???

b. Gender Identity - resources and guidance are currently provided to ensure accessibility and information about the "gender-affirming care" options, including hormone therapy.

The Republican government will revoke this program.

NBC News - 25/1/16

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...x-newtab-en-us

9. Social Media

Chinese TikTok, owned by Chinese ByteDance - recently SCOTUS upheld the current Democratic Party ban on TikTok, if not sold by ByteDance.....the issue is one of national security.

Republicans will stop this federal ban.

The New York Times - Breaking News Newsletter - 25/1/19

https://messaging-custom-newsletters...d396a4debfd6ce




25/1/19 Helms Deep USA Update

Bob A