Money talks.

And a portion of the population still believes they can attain that level of wealth just by working hard. The 1 Percenters have done a good job convincing people they started as any other average Joe.

There are millions of poor, rural, southern people who vote Republican. When you ask them why, they answer, "Daddy always told me, Don't you ever vote for no Democrat, 'cause if they get in, they'll only do for them blacks... 'cept daddy didn't use the word Blacks".

They're also a significant number of lower middle class people who vote for the rich (Republicans) because they believe they will one day be rich. These people also buy lottery tickets.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

It's a lovely thought.... But none of these people get gas, buy groceries, or even fully first class.... They got servants for that, their days are spent in exclusive clubs and private islands

Where is cancel culture when you need it.

Going after the lobbyists accomplishes nothing.. go after the Congresspersons who listened to the lobbyists and the money they were given instead of working for the American people

Tar and feathering is back on the menu!

I sympathise with your sentiment but that is a seriously bad idea. There are always going to be people that take that too far and there is a risk of harm to the innocent families of these leeches. Not to mention if it is successful it will just mean the other side will start doing it to people trying to do the right thing and everyone will be afraid of doing anything remotely controversial for fear of being publicly stalked.

Imagine how they'd all act if they couldn't just hide in obscurity. I doubt they'd be this audacious if they were in arms reach of someone they were going to fleece.

Yep! The best investment American oligarchs made was in SCOTUS and Thomas. And since our vote has become so deluded, it may be time to go the extra-judicial route against these same people.

I mean, the US is a fascist colony, and the supreme court has backed up the landed gentry this whole time

It was broken WAY before citizens untied, it just got a thousand times worse after that atrocious supreme court decision.

Imagine If a bunch of our richest passed away from sudden lead poisoning…

Doctors are fictional. Youre acting like youre a fictional thing and/or tortured into appearing to?

That was my thought. If they are so opposed to price negotiations, they should tell all the insurance companies, no more negotiating. And the US Chamber of Commerce officers should tell their insurers, they don't want them to negotiate lower drug prices for them.

Yeah Medicare is insurance

​@@rockqinrobertmI say, becareful what you ask for. It's possible that the Supreme Court could actually decide exactly that.

Are you using that fiction to comment on anything outside of the fiction its from?

In the 19th century the USA's democratic process was unthinkably corrupt. In order to put a stop to this, lawmakers legalized said corruption and called it "lobbying"

You have to wonder what those Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson executives, directors' boardspeople, and stockholders think people suffering from those treatable issues did to have this deprivation coming to them. Those cash-chuckers come off as flat-out vengeful!

Precisely!

As well as dying from severe side effects of many, many medications...which of course is hidden & denied by medical system....who are compelled to prescribe them in many cases !

Exactly! So many citizens are being bled dry but they want to say "THINK of US POOR companies!" They could stand to lose "a few grand"

they have gotten ROTUND with greed, it seems. disgusting

Regular people should have the RIGHT to reduce corporate profits as much as they bloody well want.

Corporations don't want _some_ of the money, though. They want _all_ of the money.

@@LexYeen If you have ALL the money: it is no longer worth anything. Just ask your local cryptobro.

They want all of the capital. People gotta have money to buy your shit, and they gotta buy your shit to live and make your shit. But they need not own any capital. Money is only capital if spending it results in the creation of a surplus for its owner. Survival wages or below leave no room for that.

Shame money hoarders. Greed is a sickness

Rampant unchecked greed will only accelerate humanity's path to extinction. And if humanity goes extinct, then it is no more profit or power, period.

Greed is irrelevant, money is irrelevant, faith is irrelevant. This is all about power, just as it always has been. The world is organized and run by psychopaths, for psychopaths.

It is not just greed. It is also group shifts and the bystander effect. Corporations are groups, in which every one is supposed to only display part of their mind which is committed to making profits. It is not so much about the individuals inside these corporations (some of them are evil, or on ideological auto-pilot) but the kind of cognitive network the situation of corporations gives birth to. A hive mind is more extreme than an average of isolated individuals.

@@realsushrey Like the Borg.

Welcome to Oppositeland, where people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

An eye for an eye????

Especially since many of the doctors / researchers released their results for free to benefit humanity!

@@denelson83 In corporate Kochistan, burgers eat you!

What right do you have to someone's property? None. What makes your life so important as to use government to to force someone to give up their property? Nothing.

And this is why Republicans need to be voted out, while our votes still count.

That second half is both sides honestly... That's more of a "politicians" problem

What people don't seem to understand is that these people don't live by the same moral standards we do. It's like expecting a scorpion to stop using its sting because "It's not morally right to sting". Our rulers are just doing what rulers do (Yes - Rulers. Not "Leaders"... Rulers). They are in the business of manipulating the masses to gain power and profit by any means. When people start getting into their heads that we are simply being farmed like cattle, there might be some gradual movement in a direction that favors the people. Until then, expect everything to get continually worse.

Jesus was spot on when he said $$$ is the root of all evil.

​@@Volfan2That was Paul, and it's actually "The love of money..." Jesus did say, however, that one cannot serve both God and Mammon (commonly translated as wealth).

oh sweet summer child

Its not just the corporation, its also your politicians! Your government is rotten to the core!

I’m surprised you even had faith in our political system. I moved to the netherlands as fast as i could when I turned the legal age to do so. Sure moving there was expensive but the government there makes sure you’re able to work, get paid fair, have right, vacation days off while getting paid, extremely good healthcare for a fraction of the price compared to my insurance in the states and you can live in an actual free country. America’s a fucked mess and it’s always been that way, move or you’ll be stuck in an ancient society with bad education and lacking services other countries have had for decades and suffer. There’s not changing unless there’s a collapse

@@miles5600 yeah, you've got a good point(s). Revision being "the last shred of faith was lost after Roe V Wade was overturned"... or something to that effect

@@miles5600 Most people can't just leave. This isn't a real solution.

​@@cryptbeast3222Yeah, leaving requires money and probably an in-demand career in whatever country you want to live in. I hate when people say stuff to the tune of "if you don't like it just leave" as if that's within reach for anyone but the upper classes.

The government had nearly 50 years to make abortion legal via federal legislation/constitutional amendment. Maybe abortion wasn't as popular as you thought.... It is not the judicial arm of the governments job to make law only rule if something is constitutional or not. Did you ever learn how our republic is designed to work

And I think it's important to show just how much the supreme court is at fault here.

oh you sweet summer child. No its far more absurd then just that. The US *pays* for the Reaserch and Development costs, and a good deal of the excutives base wages via grants. And then is not allowed to negotiate costs. So the US is *subsitizing* the entire industry. Making everything happen. And I mean everything, every innovation, down to the needles and admistration devices and means, that all comes from the US military and US tax dollars. EpiPens? Came from the Army, IV bags? i think that was Navy, the list goes on. And the Pharma companies are allowed to charge what they want and hold patents on them. the things they either did not pay to develop, or did not innovate at all.

Other countries don’t negotiate prices, there’s a standard price for every drug that gets described in the EU and your insurance always pays for all your medications. It’s that easy if you just have a society with laws protecting their well being and wallets vs profit for companies. America’s shit.

@@miles5600 I know Germany does negotiate drug prices. The government doesn't actually buy the medicine but it does set price caps.

there are many multi billion dollar pharmaceutical companies in Europe, Korea, Japan etc. that are among the best and most advanced in the world, they sell mainly to governments with universal healthcare, some cannot breach the US market due to US companies lobbying against them coming in and introducing competition. these companies outside the US are doing very well, making good profits and providing quality products that match or exceeds their US counterparts. The only difference is the US companies spends more then their production and research costs on marketing, lobbying and even greater on middlemen like insurance companies.

Great job! I follow Dr Eric Berg, and do keto & Intermittent Fasting..I've lost 60 pounds this year.

If we had universal health care maybe our government would Be more willing to Go after some of the food manufacturers Our foods here that we sell in the United States Canada or European countries will not allow in their countries they're so unhealthy Maybe they would clean up our Drinking water If the government was picking up the tab they would be concerned about our health

BRAVO !!🤗

Make sure you buy your olive oil from California or US based sources. Greek sources sound fancy but there is legitimate concern the mafia adds vegetable oil to sneak into their own profits

Awesome! Way to go

"Your money or your life" is the textbook example of a mafia racket.

@@denelson83 aaaactually i think thats the dictionary definition of highway robbery

The US spends 2 times as much per capita for healthcare as any other modern country while have average outcomes and the only one without universal coverage.

But but is socialism and the wait time would be loner. We been duped. We have the same amount of doctors that Canada has. When I make an appointment to a specialist it's like a 3 month wait. This is the US

Funny how people say they want to run government like a business, but don't want to be treated as the employee. I cocked up half as bad as some of these politicians, my next review would be dressing down, if not a complete termination. Imagine having a job where you are guaranteed to work and be paid for several years before the boss could hand you your walking papers.

Which is exactly why we need a govt with some teeth to defend us and keep that money in our pockets where it belongs

And we live shorter lives because of it. I lost my dad last year, and I 100% that our "for profit" healthcare system killed him.

@@stevechance150 I am sorry for your loss. And, I have a friend who recently lost a loved one, in large part due to the lack of staffing and the overworked providers. I had to wait a year for a procedure that cost me a lot out of pocket (with insurance), and cost me a year of steady work as well. It's about the worst system anymore could possibly imagine.

The industry is only doing what the laws allow. Who writes the laws? They're the ones responsible.

@@krejados1 and who elects the people that write the laws?

@@KevinBaumanYep, my point exactly. All these people who keep saying 'we need to vote for the right person' fail to realise that there is no right person. The system itself is broken.

Its called an oligarchy. They own the media, and the universities as well. Including the science done by the universities.

And, yes, this means they are paying universities to confirm non-sense that helps them profit. Theres a lot of problems in the science industry.

They call it "progress."🤢

Americans "think" they have a good Healthcare system. My father fell while on vacation in France. We were on a house boat on a river and stopped at a small camp ground for medical help, this was on a Sunday. The hospital in the nearest city SENT A DOCTOR TO THE CAMPGROUND to examine my dad. She said he had broken ribs and drove dad to a nearby small town, to a pharmacy. She got the pharmacist to open his store, she took dad to the back to an exam table, wrapped his chest and got him medicine for the pain. The hospital arranged free transportation the next morning, Monday, for chest x-rays. EVERYTHING WAS FREE. In America you'd have to be a multi millionaire with an expensive contract for "concierge" doctor services, in order to receive the same level of service that everyone in France receives. We were Americans on vacation, dad is NOT a French citizen, we aren't rich or special. Americans cannot imagine how good it could be, until you see it with your own eyes.

I hope these rich assholes have long, healthy lives(also lie)

@@stevechance150 Most Americans don't think this and want a universal healthcare system.

That's the part that gets me about all these videos. That, and the fact that the blame's never laid on those responsible.

Nothing. The average person has been stripped of that kind of power.

@@denelson83That's the perfect expression of learned helplessness.

@@krejados1 You try to fight, and you literally get owned.

@@denelson83Yes, that's rather the point, isn't it? Keep the masses compliant with threats to their lives and livelihoods. Meanwhile, schoolgirls in Iran and the starving population in Gaza have no qualms about standing up to their oppressors.

Such a cheap wh**e. Spend less than a million to get billions in profits

I was literally thinking that earlier today. It sounds like total bullshit and likely has more to do with understaffing and bottom lines.

From what I heard China is still doing covid lock downs, chiba ships alot of goods, if their ports get locked down due to the covid scare that I'd not a companies fault

I've got another one that's obviously a thing that's everywhere, but always wonder who keeps pushing it; The obsession with pushing narratives about social unrest in movies and TV. Detective Pikachu starts off talking about Pokemon and people living and working together in peace, an obvious heavy handed reference to melting pots. Live action Cowboy Bebop starts off with this whacko ranting like a conspiracy theorist about "WHO DO YOU WORK FOR??!" I mean politics is one thing, but they wear the fact they're scared shiteless of an Arab Spring happening here in the west on their sleeves, and I can't imagine your average sceen writer is obsessed with that, so why is it in everything produced by Hollywood and major networks? Who keeps demanding that it gets cribbed into everything and anything, no matter the content? I will say the reason manga and anime are so popular is because they don't push the same hangups, Luffy just wants to be a pirate king and beat up bad guys, Goku just wants to keep testing his limits, the theme us usually sportsmanship or competition and not some social programming BS the powers that be are kept up night's over and just have to reminds us over and over again about so we don't burn the county to the ground.

What a smelly little communist 😂

The democrats are a centrist party no matter what the media likes to claim. The US is screwed politically cause it has no left wing party which leaves the right without any serious pushback.

Never happen. Ince you understand politics & the system, it becomes crsytal clear.

​@@RKZX2our system isn't much different from the systems that have much better results... it is completely possible. It is people like you preventing it. Once you understand how humans work that will become crystal clear.

That's a lot of work there, with a lot of roots to pull out. We're gonna have to get our hands dirty if we want to see significant change before we shuffle off.

Please, the entirety of the Democrat party is the 'corporate wing'. They don't want to break up any of these corporate monopolies either. Don't let the kente cloth and rainbow flags fool you, the democrats are just Republicans in blue ties

No, try imagining a country without _capitalism._

If you think Democrats are meaningfully different - especially on the topic of pharma - you are brain dead.

Would it really matter? It's all theater. Why is Biden only pushing to get such a small number of drug prices managed? Its window dressing

It's easy if you try

@@denelson83 Yeah, that will never bappen

After what the government has done with social security I don't know why we don't give them all our money to help us

@@mr.horrorchild4094 Another person who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. We in no way would have to give them ALL of our money. In fact we already pay more than enough in taxes to cover healthcare. Canadians actually pay 4% less than us in taxes and have free healthcare. And its better than ours too, don't listen to the propaganda. If you just look up life expectancy by country you will see that the US is in 47th place. Well behind every country with socialized medicine and behind several third world countries with socialized medicine too. Do your own research and stop falling for obvious insurance company propaganda.

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