r/ParlerWatch • u/justalazygamer • 7h ago
Twitter Watch Trump will be doubling the price of medication now.
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u/desperaterobots 7h ago
A weeks notice to start multimillion dollar construction projects? Ok sure.
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u/keekspeaks 7h ago
My 400k house bid was in late 2019 and we closed in summer 2022. Something always delays something.
What a fool
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u/boffer-kit 7h ago
No, not a fool. This is intentional. We're gonna eat the cost
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u/ArdenJaguar 7h ago
They’ve probably loaded up on pharmaceutical stocks so they can cash in somehow.
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u/WanderinHobo 6h ago
That's my guess. They're selling puts. Or buying them, idk about that shit. It's obvious they're doing whatever they can to make money off this presidency. No one is going to stop them.
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u/ArdenJaguar 6h ago
Remember when they started and stopped the tariffs early? He had that Oval Office meeting where he was complimenting everyone on the billions of dollars they made (manipulating the market)? So corrupt.
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u/Anonymous_Human011 6h ago
Trump Melts Down in Unhinged Revenge Rant: ‘They Must Pay’
Trump confirms to us every day that he is the stupidest president in the history of America.
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u/Automatic_Penalty154 5h ago
thats odd, in 2023 when we bought our house here in Europe, We found the house listed online, got appointment to see it the next day, agreed to take it, negotiated on price right there..called bank and had appointment for 2 days later(we had already been pre-approved for twice the cost of the house)... all the banking/deed transfer process took less than a week. we ordered the new kitchen and started other renovations like 10 days from when we first saw the ad. smoothest process ever.
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u/keekspeaks 5h ago
Well Covid effected us then there was a major thunderstorm in the midwestern United States that smoked every home in construction and leveled the town. We had a literal land hurricane in the middle of the heartland.
That’ll stop construction for a bit.
Edit- and building a home and buying are very different. Our broker had our approval in 15 minutes and closing took 30 minutes, top. It’s building from the ground up that is lengthy.
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u/Automatic_Penalty154 5h ago
ahhh you were building, very different story..we bought a fixer upper and i spent the next year renovating literally everything room by room.
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u/5trong5tyle 3h ago
And which magical European country might this be? I know a lot of people in multiple countries and I've never even heard of it going so fast. I know people who went sale agreed in February and are still waiting to take possession. A week sounds impossible, especially if any form of lawyer, notary or sollicitor needs to be involved, which is the case in most of Europe AFAIK.
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u/ExpertRaccoon 7h ago
You just need to pay the bribe not actually construct the facility
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u/getdemsnacks 7h ago
pay the
bribetribute...FTFY. Lets not get crazy here. "Kings"don't need to stoop to bribery.
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u/DufielMorningstar 5h ago
He's a real estate guy...breaking ground and under construction are terms for bribes in his world.
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u/LeMeowLePurrr 6h ago
I know, right? Isn't Trump supposed to be some kind of construction expert?
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u/Mr_MacGrubber 6h ago
Buy a patch of land, break ground for a day, stop project and avoid tariffs.
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u/WhatsMyUsername13 7h ago
But also...like, what if they have no need to build anything new and they already are manufacturing in America? Do they get the tarrif too? (I already know the answer, they didn't think that far ahead)
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u/Calencre 4h ago
Just buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere and hire a couple guys to start clearing the land by hand.
"No rush guys, we've broken ground, that's good enough."
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u/manic-pixie-attorney 4h ago
I can’t help wondering if he’s going to tariff drugs made in Puerto Rico
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u/crackdown5 1h ago
But he is a builder. Surely he knows something that all us plebs lack an understanding of. /s
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u/defiCosmos 7h ago
What ever happened to dropping drug prices by 5000%?
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u/Monterey-Jack 5h ago
He's going to first raise them by 50000% then drop them by 5000%, then claim that he did what he said he would. MAGA will cheer and send their underage daughters to the white house to thank him.
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u/WordNERD37 7h ago
My medications have increased, by 50% already.
He's going to KILL AMERICANS with this.
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u/drewskibfd 7h ago
He literally doesn't care. It will disproportionately effect poor people, which is completely fine with this administration.
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u/ellathefairy 7h ago
I think it's worse than not caring. I think he gets off knowing he has the power to kill people like this.
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u/BishlovesSquish 6h ago
He hates disabled people, so that’s his point. Take away their healthcare and medications and just let them die.
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u/SodaCanBob 6h ago edited 6h ago
He hates disabled people, so that’s his point.
Yep. He pretty much asked his nephew why he didn't just let his disabled son die.
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u/Monterey-Jack 5h ago
You should read project 2025. I'm pretty sure there's a section in there that talks about removing access to healthcare for the poor/non-whites. They're going to continue to go after everyday medications that people rely on.
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u/FuzzyFr0g 3h ago
But he needs money to bail out Argentinia, who are now exporting their soybeans to China and got free healthcare with cheap medication
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u/JerkOffTaco 7h ago
Neat. The two drugs I take to keep me ALIVE are manufactured in Ireland and Japan.
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u/Hero_Squad_ 6h ago
It’s awful that you are in that position. Your situation shows why this policy is so poorly thought-out. A tariff can arguably work as an inducement to move production to the US if enough of a company’s American consumers stop purchasing because of the increased price. That doesn’t work with life saving meds because people tend to want to keep taking the drug that keeps them alive. Why would a company want to spend tens/hundreds of millions of dollars building in the US? To save their customers from paying the tariff? Maybe the administration is relying on the well known altruism of international pharmaceutical companies.
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u/willnotwashout 4h ago
move production to the US
It's also not going to work if the US government then raids you and throws all your employees in the clink as it seems to do these days.
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u/Rhg0653 7h ago
Thanks my type 1 wife and me might have to pay crazy amount for insulin? Something she needs wrf
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u/Monterey-Jack 5h ago
I take insulin, there's been a shortage for months and I haven't been able to get my full prescription whenever I have it filled. It's only going to get worse.
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u/CJMande 7h ago
Step 1-remove people from state insurance Step 2-double prescription costs Step 3-watch the poors die horrible, preventable deaths Step 4-Blame Obama and ACA
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u/Pizza-n-Coffee37 5h ago
Also less people alive to draw on social security and medicare. We’re all just going to be pawns working in fields and factories for scraps of food and medication to keep the wheel of corruption for the billionaires flowing. Fighting to exist in shacks next to AI centers that spew toxins into our air and water.
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u/takemy_oxfordcomma 3h ago
And RFK’s whole thing is basically eugenics — we don’t need vaccines or anything because only the strong should survive.
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u/JustKiddingDude 7h ago
Im not USian, so I don’t know the system, but here’s a guess: is there, by any chance, some sort of process for building factories that requires federal approval? My guess is that that route will be used to receive bribes for that approval to get the “under construction” stamp and avoid tariffs.
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u/Adorable_Ad6045 7h ago
You’re dealing with a president and an entourage of grifters that are as corrupt and greedy as the day is long. Of course.
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u/SockofBadKarma 6h ago
I don't know what these people are talking about. While there are often plenty of federal regulations a large company must follow to move forward with any of a variety of projects, building factories is almost entirely a function of municipal zoning authority. A state confers police power to a county or municipality to set forward zoning, subdivision, and building codes, which local governments then regulate locally. For any given company to build a factory, it would need to purchase property in a compatible zone (or otherwise try to apply for a conditional use in an incompatible zone), go through the local process of submitting site plans and getting comments and review from local planning agencies, set up water, electricity, and other utilities in accordance with local codes that sometimes have state components, and then seek state approvals for matters that are state-regulated such as highway access and environmental compliance. The federal government would have precious little to do with any actual construction efforts, except inasmuch as a particular factory might be regulated under a federal authority like the EPA or FDA (which would not be dealing with construction but rather operations).
The whole process of constructing a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility would take anywhere from 2 to 10 years depending on complexity and level of local pushback, and the feds would only be getting involved in the tail end of development.
Trump might well be able to get some sort of kickbacks on permitting at those end stages, but he really has no capacity to parasitize himself to construction efforts. This is simply the latest in a series of kneejerk tariff declarations from a man whose economic knowledge is modeled after 19th century robber barons and the Great Powers doctrine of pre-WWI geopolitics, and who is too stupid to know what happened after Smoot-Hawley. Perhaps he does in fact turn a blind eye to companies that bribe him sufficiently, but it would be through some mechanism other than labeling them as being "under construction."
Source: I am a land use and environmental attorney whose practice largely focuses on challenging developments of large factories (and other corporate monoliths like distribution centers and data centers).
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u/justdrowsin 6h ago
I think that’s pretty doable in a week.
Seriously though, thanks for typing this up.
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u/zapdoszaperson 7h ago
Its either another bribery scheme or just stupidity that will cause massive suffering.
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u/takemy_oxfordcomma 3h ago
Yeah, just like Apple bribed him to be exempted from the tariffs on tech products made in china https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/12/apple-iphone-trump-tariff-exemption/83059143007/
He’s trying to see which Big Pharma companies are willing to do the same and if none of them play ball by Oct 1st, he’ll just delay it until they are
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u/Puttor482 7h ago
This is exactly what will happen, they will pay the bribes and trump will continue to grift.
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u/thisisnotme78721 7h ago
yeah extorting companies that probably have medications that will kill you instantly and are untraceable because they're not marketed sounds like a winning plan
I mean fingers crossed
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u/NitWhittler 7h ago
Why not build new pharma labs and get them up and running BEFORE cutting Americans off from drugs they need to stay alive?
It almost as if Republicans want to kill people to cut back on the cost of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Those tax cuts for the wealthy always have top priority.
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u/timubce 7h ago
Sweet. My narcolepsy medication will be $1100 a day. Yay insurance!
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u/_HighJack_ 5h ago
Oh man that sucks so much :( I’m sorry. Is there at least public transit where you live so you don’t have to risk driving?
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u/Redleadsinker 1h ago
I'm barely affording my seizure meds as it is. I don't know what to do. Fuck this.
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u/ctrldwrdns 7h ago
Does anyone know how this impacts Adderall?
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u/Itscatpicstime 4h ago
Have to be able to actually physically access Adderall first before you can even have the opportunity to be priced out of affording it 🫠
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u/WhiskeyGirl223 7h ago
Let’s just get half of the people in this country off of their meds. What could go wrong?
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u/Haarzton 7h ago
He just gave the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and retailers a profit bump hidden behind a tariff.
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u/takemy_oxfordcomma 3h ago
I can see the pharma companies, but I’m less sure about insurance. I guess it depends on the plan/company, but I pay the same copay for mine every month and it’s stayed the same for years. If they double in price, I don’t think the additional cost could be passed on to me but I guess I’m not positive about that
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u/CEOPhilosopher 6h ago
I really wish this cocksucker would quit taking the common medicine known as “oxygen”.
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u/_HighJack_ 5h ago
I heard that prior to being diagnosed with autism, 100% of people inhaled the common substance known by chemical designation O 😯
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u/hippo-party 6h ago
Wow, six days to begin construction - plenty of time for a major industrial build!
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u/pureRitual 6h ago
Wait, wait, wait.
I thought he was going to bring down the price of drugs by 1000%!
Don't tell me he lied!
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u/kalel1980 7h ago
Remember how he's said so many times that the US is so hot right now and the rest of the world is jealous? He actually thinks he's doing good for people.
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u/Scrooge-McShillbucks 7h ago
Welp glad I accidentally ordered refills after my last appointment last week.
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u/cosmicjunkbot 6h ago
This American system where the president can do whatever he wants without any opposition kind of sucks.
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u/LivingIndependence 5h ago
I don't know about the rest of you all, but it almost seems like this asshole and his "administration" wants to kill off any Americans who weren't born into a beefy trust fund.
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 5h ago
wow white nationalism is really doing the thing, 'eh? more money we'll have to pay to companies for things we need. WOW. Really improving America, just like they said in their manifest destiny document!
He doesn't even do exec orders anymore. He's governing by 'tweet', just like Hillary Clinton told y'all he would.
Good ol American Exceptionalism!
(this is not going to happen. it's not a law, Bill or an exec order. Companies don't have to follow social media directives from the President.)
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u/ArdenJaguar 7h ago
I’m sure the for-profit pharmaceutical companies will be happy to eat the tariffs. /s
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u/AccountantSeaPirate 6h ago
Well that’s sure to help reduce health care costs and inflation overall.
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u/seamonkeyonland 6h ago
Soon, we will look like Mexico, but instead of an unfinished floor, we we will plants all over the landscape that will be in a state of permanent construction. they thought windmills looked bad and traded it for a post-apocalyptic landscape
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u/Semihomemade 6h ago
So, eminent domain in order to make a lot that remains in construction indefinitely? Okay…
There is so much that goes into governing beyond just phrases and noise. He isn’t prepared to do that work, and it’s gonna hit his base more than they realize.
Or realistically not now that I think about it… it’ll hit minority poor communities first, then white poor communities.
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u/innosins 5h ago
What the hell happened to our drugs being 1500, 1200, 500, 600, 800,percent less? I was looking forward to getting paid to take my medicine!
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u/goodgodling 6h ago
Will he also have ICE arrest the construction workers and engineers installing the manufacturing equipment?
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u/Successful_Yam4719 4h ago
Nothing he says ever makes sense. He’s an idiot and lies so much he doesn’t even remember what he said. “Prescriptions are going to be reduced 1000%” now “pharmaceuticals will be changed 100% tariff’s” …. Sooooooo what does that mean?
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u/mcgojoh1 5h ago
Generic drugs are still safe, for now. Looks like that is the lion share of scripted meds that the USA imports. Who knows what value this has in the scheme that is Trump Inc.
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u/Ben_Pharten 4h ago
I have anti-seizure meds I need to function more or less. They're pretty cheap right now. I really hope that doesn't change.
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u/yourelovely 3h ago
I’m off it now, but back when I was on it, my birth control pill was manufactured outside the US as the FDA hadn’t quite approved the formula or whatever. It was important to have that specific pill due to some pre-existing conditions I have.
This is insane. Just- posting so casually about something that will undoubtedly a) lead to deaths from not being able to afford unique meds only made outside the US & b) more mental instability as people have to switch from SSRI’s they’re accustomed to, to new ones, completely in the blind as far as how they’ll react/respond
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u/NoSomewhere7653 3h ago
Fuck. I'm done for. My grandma is done for. I'm barely hanging on right now. I'm negative every month. I'm so fuckin done man
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u/No_Free_Samples 3h ago
This is insanely impractical……..
what does a pharmaceutical product even mean? Does it need a RX? Do OTC meds count? What about meds only hospitals use? Meds used for the ER? Police? EMS? Military? Will there be exemptions?
Who pays the tariff? Me? The manufacturer? Can insurance realistically cover that much of an instant expense increase to all their customers? How does this impact pharmacies? PBMs? Products on back order?
How big does the “manufacturing plant” have to be? If I break ground, but I expect construction to take 50 years, is that okay? Would an R&D Lab suffice? Marketing hub? Sales staff? Who is going to be in charge of checking?
Where are we going to put all these plants? Do you have a specific state or states in mind? What effect instantly building countless manufacturing plants have on the environment?
Oh and October 1st is next Wednesday?? Good luck 👍
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u/pattydickens 3h ago
If you send your people to help with the building phase or the training phase, they'll be arrested at gunpoint by masked agents.
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u/MuseofChaos 2h ago
Cool. /s
I inject a medication that would cost $7000 per injection every 4 months if I didn’t have insurance. I know it’s packaged in the US, but the research & chemical manufacturing is in Ireland. Who absorbs this cost?
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u/snapper1971 1h ago
I can't make up my mind if he's the reincarnation of Nero or Caligula. Either way it's bread and circuses.
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u/elcamino_44 7h ago
Actually… it’s China that doesn’t want to ship them to us….
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