You're right to remind us of how these billionaires' make their money. While true that historically "the promises made to the megadonors get fulfilled by the Government," there are several differences with Trump. He's tough and tempered, and even Max Blumenthal calls him "unpredictable." No other American President has missed three assassinations before being even sworn in. Trump knows his days are numbered, and you can tell this just by how quickly he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whiste blowers. He can offset some of those losses with such things as border security contracts - far better to my mind than blowing up limbs of Palestinian children or Ukrainian children. He has already fulfilled mandates of his unpowerful electorate, freeing the protestors, returning TikTok, and guaranteeing medical freedom. At 78, after winning all swing states, uniting diverse demographics, Trump has nothing more to prove, and no political future to protect. He can use and discard any billionaire he cannot placate. A young Portuguese friend told me she sees Trump as a guy already successful, who did not need to be President but woke up one day sincerely pissed off at how messed up everything has gotten and decided to fix it. Watching Trump's inaugural speech, that is what I see. His breadth of scope, specific plans and Orders drawn up, and his humility, sincerity and courage moved me. Just let the grandfather live and hope be reborn. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/20/trump-inauguration-full-speech-watch/77837318007/
Here is a quick look at what I'm referring to: Response to Eric ZEUSSE
My criticism of all speculative hand-wringing about what Trump will or will not accomplish is they are spreaders of Trump Derangement Syndrome (which started in a Wuhan wet market - or was that a diffeernt virus? It's hard to keep up.) The guy was elected in a landslide against massive amounts of money including our tax dollars going to "combat disinformation" and we need to be one-thousandths as patient with Trump as we were with Obama and Biden. How his promises and Orders will work out remains to be seen but to me the Pharma Arms Dealers losses are evident below: These are from Trump's official site: https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com/ I copied relevent parts. ITALICS ARE MINE:
CHAPTER SIX: PROTECT SENIORS Our Commitment: President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security. American Citizens work hard their whole lives, contributing to Social Security and Medicare. These programs are promises to our Seniors, ensuring they can live their golden years with dignity. Republicans will protect these vital programs and ensure Economic Stability. We will work with our Great Seniors, in order to allow them to be active and healthy. We commit to safeguarding the future for our Seniors and all American families. 1. Protect Social Security Social Security is a lifeline for millions of Retirees, yet corrupt politicians have robbed Social Security to fund their pet projects. Republicans will restore Economic Stability to ensure the long-term sustainability of Social Security. 2. Strengthen Medicare Republicans will protect Medicare’s finances from being financially crushed by the Democrat plan to add tens of millions of new illegal immigrants to the rolls of Medicare. We vow to strengthen Medicare for future generations. 3. Support Active and Healthy Living Republicans will support increased focus on Chronic Disease prevention PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE. RFK JR. AS HHS SECRETARY, AND DEPARTING FROM THE TOTALITARIAN AND PHARMA-CAPTURED WHO SHOW HOW SERIOUS TRUMP IS ABOUT ENDING PREDATORY PHARMA HEGEMONY and management, Long-Term Care, and Benefit flexibility. We will expand access to Primary Care and support Policies that help Seniors remain in their homes YOU CAN IMAGINE THE COUNTLESS WAYS THIS TAKES MONEY OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE HEATH INDUSTRY and maintain Financial Security. 4. Protect Care at Home for the Elderly Republicans will shift resources back to at-home Senior Care, overturn disincentives that lead to Care Worker shortages, and support unpaid Family Caregivers through Tax Credits and reduced red tape.
CHAPTER NINE: GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE Our Commitment: Republicans will offer a clear, precise, and USA oriented plan to stop the Radical Left Democrats’ Weaponization of Government and its Assault on American Liberty. We will restore Government of, by, and for the People, ensuring Accountability, protecting Individual Liberties, MEDICAL AUTONOMY OR FREEDOM and fixing our once very corrupt Elections. We commit to upholding the Constitution of the United States, appointing judges who respect the rule of law, and defending the Rights of all Americans to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We will maintain the Supreme Court as it was always meant to be, at 9 Justices. We will not allow the Democrat Party to increase this number, as they would like to do, by 4, 6, 8, 10, and even 12 Justices. We will block them at every turn. 1. Republicans Will Stop Woke and Weaponized Government We will hold accountable those who have misused the power of Government to unjustly prosecute their Political Opponents. We will declassify Government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees. 2. Republicans Will Dismantle Censorship & Protect Free Speech We will ban the Federal Government from colluding with anyone to censor Lawful Speech, defund institutions engaged in censorship, and hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring. We will protect Free Speech online. 3. Republicans Will Defend Religious Liberty We are the defenders of the First Amendment Right to Religious Liberty. It protects the Right not only to Worship according to the dictates of Conscience, but also to act in accordance with those Beliefs, not just in places of Worship, but in everyday life. (THIS MEANS NO MORE GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES SUPPRESSING VACCINE DATA, AND CLINICAL STUDIES, SUPPRESSING PUBLICATIONS, FIRING MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND WORKERS OF ALL KINDS FOR CHOSING NOT TO BE VACCINATED Our ranks include men and women from every Faith and Tradition, and we respect the Right of every American to follow his or her deeply held Beliefs. To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America. 4. Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within the States, on the Issue of Life We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are, therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. REFERENCE TO STATES RIGHTS AND MEDICAL FREEDOM AWAY FROM WHO OR CDC DIRECTIVES After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People. We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments). 5. Republicans Will End Left-wing Gender Insanity We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender transition, NIPS IN THE BUD PHARMA'S NEW GENDER DYSTOPIA, PSYCHOTROPIC AND HORMONE DRUG CASH COW reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls. 6. Republicans Will Ensure Election Integrity We will implement measures to secure our Elections, including Voter ID, highly sophisticated paper ballots, proof of Citizenship, and same day Voting. We will not allow the Democrats to give Voting Rights to illegal Aliens. 7. Republicans Will Protect Americans in the Territories. The territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and…
FROM POLITICO " A RUNNING LIST OF TRUMP'S PLANNED EXECUTIVE ORDERS…
Health
Trump said in his speech the White House will instruct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, as well as other agencies to remove “nonbinary” or “other” options from federal documents, including passports and visas, according to an incoming administration official.
“It will officially be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said.
He also signed an executive order removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Among Trump’s other planned moves:
• Reinstate military members who were penalized for not getting vaccinated against Covid-19
DITTO
investigate and address trade deficits and unfair trade
You linked to his campaign-promises, NOT to any of his actual Executive Orders (as you had been referring to in your original comment, to which I had replied). So, this reply from you is not relevant to your original comment, which said "he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whistle blowers." I had asked you "What are his 'Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries'?" and your reply here is non-responsive. Furthermore, your saying that "PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE. RFK JR. AS HHS SECRETARY, AND DEPARTING FROM THE TOTALITARIAN AND PHARMA-CAPTURED WHO SHOW HOW SERIOUS TRUMP IS ABOUT ENDING PREDATORY PHARMA HEGEMONY" is false, because prevention does not "mean fewer drugs to manage." It could even require adding regulations that don't already exist, such as to add new warnings to recently discovered dangers of existing drugs; but, in any case, your statement there is false, and it ignores the real corruption that now reigns in the U.S. FDA, much having to do with the revolving-door between the drug companies and the regulatory agencies. So, your response is both irrelevant and also false. I am sorry to have to say that, but I believe it to be true, and I never mince my words. If you disagree that it is irrelevant (to your claim that "he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whistle blowers") or that it is false (when you say "PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE"), please tell me how and why.
Otherwise, I suggest we give Trump the same chance we gave Obama and Biden. In those cases, waiting years for minimum wage increase and healthcare, maybe a reduction in mass shootings before the speculative hand-wringing. (Instead we got more wars, war spending, and mass surveillance.) Trashing Trump in his first few days on the job is at best unreasonable. At worst it's pandering to Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers. Haven't they suffered enough without your daily headlines? Regarding the billionaires cited to condemn Trump as another President intent on screwing working Americans, entrepreneurs are simply opportunists. They are anti-ideology. Trump is a deal maker - it's his whole MO. Stand back and let him try. Trump is 78; he has no political future to protect, he has no more need to build a fortune. When I look at him I see historically unprecedented courage, and sincerity to be the "unity President." I was writing from a public library with limited internet and grabbed the platform from Trump's site because its almost impossible to find unbiased news anywhere, including headlines supposedly listing his Orders.
Except for RFK Jr's Zionism (which might be a reaction against Sirhan Sirhan), I passionately endorsed him for President, and now continue so in regard to his heading HHS. (Incidentally, I've conversed many times with him via email, and he simply was non-responsive to all of the information I supplied to him about the history of the Israel-versus-Palestine matter; so, I have no understanding of his views on that matter.)
However, this note from you is non-responsive regarding my comment. My article today (January 26th: "What Putin Misunderstands About Ideology") deals with Trump's versus Putin's ideology; and your saying of billionaires (and maybe also of Trump) "They are anti-ideology," reflects, in my view, a misunderstanding of what an ideology IS, because every person has an ideology regardless of whether the person is even aware of what it is.
You're right to remind us of how these billionaires' make their money. While true that historically "the promises made to the megadonors get fulfilled by the Government," there are several differences with Trump. He's tough and tempered, and even Max Blumenthal calls him "unpredictable." No other American President has missed three assassinations before being even sworn in. Trump knows his days are numbered, and you can tell this just by how quickly he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whiste blowers. He can offset some of those losses with such things as border security contracts - far better to my mind than blowing up limbs of Palestinian children or Ukrainian children. He has already fulfilled mandates of his unpowerful electorate, freeing the protestors, returning TikTok, and guaranteeing medical freedom. At 78, after winning all swing states, uniting diverse demographics, Trump has nothing more to prove, and no political future to protect. He can use and discard any billionaire he cannot placate. A young Portuguese friend told me she sees Trump as a guy already successful, who did not need to be President but woke up one day sincerely pissed off at how messed up everything has gotten and decided to fix it. Watching Trump's inaugural speech, that is what I see. His breadth of scope, specific plans and Orders drawn up, and his humility, sincerity and courage moved me. Just let the grandfather live and hope be reborn. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/20/trump-inauguration-full-speech-watch/77837318007/
What are his "Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries"?
Here is a quick look at what I'm referring to: Response to Eric ZEUSSE
My criticism of all speculative hand-wringing about what Trump will or will not accomplish is they are spreaders of Trump Derangement Syndrome (which started in a Wuhan wet market - or was that a diffeernt virus? It's hard to keep up.) The guy was elected in a landslide against massive amounts of money including our tax dollars going to "combat disinformation" and we need to be one-thousandths as patient with Trump as we were with Obama and Biden. How his promises and Orders will work out remains to be seen but to me the Pharma Arms Dealers losses are evident below: These are from Trump's official site: https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com/ I copied relevent parts. ITALICS ARE MINE:
CHAPTER SIX: PROTECT SENIORS Our Commitment: President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security. American Citizens work hard their whole lives, contributing to Social Security and Medicare. These programs are promises to our Seniors, ensuring they can live their golden years with dignity. Republicans will protect these vital programs and ensure Economic Stability. We will work with our Great Seniors, in order to allow them to be active and healthy. We commit to safeguarding the future for our Seniors and all American families. 1. Protect Social Security Social Security is a lifeline for millions of Retirees, yet corrupt politicians have robbed Social Security to fund their pet projects. Republicans will restore Economic Stability to ensure the long-term sustainability of Social Security. 2. Strengthen Medicare Republicans will protect Medicare’s finances from being financially crushed by the Democrat plan to add tens of millions of new illegal immigrants to the rolls of Medicare. We vow to strengthen Medicare for future generations. 3. Support Active and Healthy Living Republicans will support increased focus on Chronic Disease prevention PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE. RFK JR. AS HHS SECRETARY, AND DEPARTING FROM THE TOTALITARIAN AND PHARMA-CAPTURED WHO SHOW HOW SERIOUS TRUMP IS ABOUT ENDING PREDATORY PHARMA HEGEMONY and management, Long-Term Care, and Benefit flexibility. We will expand access to Primary Care and support Policies that help Seniors remain in their homes YOU CAN IMAGINE THE COUNTLESS WAYS THIS TAKES MONEY OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE HEATH INDUSTRY and maintain Financial Security. 4. Protect Care at Home for the Elderly Republicans will shift resources back to at-home Senior Care, overturn disincentives that lead to Care Worker shortages, and support unpaid Family Caregivers through Tax Credits and reduced red tape.
CHAPTER NINE: GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE Our Commitment: Republicans will offer a clear, precise, and USA oriented plan to stop the Radical Left Democrats’ Weaponization of Government and its Assault on American Liberty. We will restore Government of, by, and for the People, ensuring Accountability, protecting Individual Liberties, MEDICAL AUTONOMY OR FREEDOM and fixing our once very corrupt Elections. We commit to upholding the Constitution of the United States, appointing judges who respect the rule of law, and defending the Rights of all Americans to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We will maintain the Supreme Court as it was always meant to be, at 9 Justices. We will not allow the Democrat Party to increase this number, as they would like to do, by 4, 6, 8, 10, and even 12 Justices. We will block them at every turn. 1. Republicans Will Stop Woke and Weaponized Government We will hold accountable those who have misused the power of Government to unjustly prosecute their Political Opponents. We will declassify Government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees. 2. Republicans Will Dismantle Censorship & Protect Free Speech We will ban the Federal Government from colluding with anyone to censor Lawful Speech, defund institutions engaged in censorship, and hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring. We will protect Free Speech online. 3. Republicans Will Defend Religious Liberty We are the defenders of the First Amendment Right to Religious Liberty. It protects the Right not only to Worship according to the dictates of Conscience, but also to act in accordance with those Beliefs, not just in places of Worship, but in everyday life. (THIS MEANS NO MORE GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES SUPPRESSING VACCINE DATA, AND CLINICAL STUDIES, SUPPRESSING PUBLICATIONS, FIRING MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND WORKERS OF ALL KINDS FOR CHOSING NOT TO BE VACCINATED Our ranks include men and women from every Faith and Tradition, and we respect the Right of every American to follow his or her deeply held Beliefs. To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America. 4. Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within the States, on the Issue of Life We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are, therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. REFERENCE TO STATES RIGHTS AND MEDICAL FREEDOM AWAY FROM WHO OR CDC DIRECTIVES After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People. We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments). 5. Republicans Will End Left-wing Gender Insanity We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender transition, NIPS IN THE BUD PHARMA'S NEW GENDER DYSTOPIA, PSYCHOTROPIC AND HORMONE DRUG CASH COW reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls. 6. Republicans Will Ensure Election Integrity We will implement measures to secure our Elections, including Voter ID, highly sophisticated paper ballots, proof of Citizenship, and same day Voting. We will not allow the Democrats to give Voting Rights to illegal Aliens. 7. Republicans Will Protect Americans in the Territories. The territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and…
FROM POLITICO " A RUNNING LIST OF TRUMP'S PLANNED EXECUTIVE ORDERS…
Health
Trump said in his speech the White House will instruct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, as well as other agencies to remove “nonbinary” or “other” options from federal documents, including passports and visas, according to an incoming administration official.
“It will officially be the policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said.
He also signed an executive order removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
Among Trump’s other planned moves:
• Reinstate military members who were penalized for not getting vaccinated against Covid-19
DITTO
investigate and address trade deficits and unfair trade
THIS IS FROM USA TODAY RE: GAZA CEASEFIRE:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/24/gaza-ceasefire-trump-israel-behind-the-scenes/77875251007/
You linked to his campaign-promises, NOT to any of his actual Executive Orders (as you had been referring to in your original comment, to which I had replied). So, this reply from you is not relevant to your original comment, which said "he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whistle blowers." I had asked you "What are his 'Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries'?" and your reply here is non-responsive. Furthermore, your saying that "PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE. RFK JR. AS HHS SECRETARY, AND DEPARTING FROM THE TOTALITARIAN AND PHARMA-CAPTURED WHO SHOW HOW SERIOUS TRUMP IS ABOUT ENDING PREDATORY PHARMA HEGEMONY" is false, because prevention does not "mean fewer drugs to manage." It could even require adding regulations that don't already exist, such as to add new warnings to recently discovered dangers of existing drugs; but, in any case, your statement there is false, and it ignores the real corruption that now reigns in the U.S. FDA, much having to do with the revolving-door between the drug companies and the regulatory agencies. So, your response is both irrelevant and also false. I am sorry to have to say that, but I believe it to be true, and I never mince my words. If you disagree that it is irrelevant (to your claim that "he signed consequential Orders that screwed with the profits of the pharmaceutical, and arms industries - neither shy about murdering eoither customers or whistle blowers") or that it is false (when you say "PREVENTION MEANS FEWER DRUGS TO MANAGE"), please tell me how and why.
"Prevention" magazine, around since 1950, is devoted to avoiding taking drugs. I believed you would know the meaning of this term Trump used. You can look up RFKjrs work as head of Childrens Health Defense. There is an urgent call to attend his confirmation hearings in DC this Wednesday and Thursday. Please share and go if you can: https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass/p/several-health-freedom-groups-are?r=28bp27&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Otherwise, I suggest we give Trump the same chance we gave Obama and Biden. In those cases, waiting years for minimum wage increase and healthcare, maybe a reduction in mass shootings before the speculative hand-wringing. (Instead we got more wars, war spending, and mass surveillance.) Trashing Trump in his first few days on the job is at best unreasonable. At worst it's pandering to Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers. Haven't they suffered enough without your daily headlines? Regarding the billionaires cited to condemn Trump as another President intent on screwing working Americans, entrepreneurs are simply opportunists. They are anti-ideology. Trump is a deal maker - it's his whole MO. Stand back and let him try. Trump is 78; he has no political future to protect, he has no more need to build a fortune. When I look at him I see historically unprecedented courage, and sincerity to be the "unity President." I was writing from a public library with limited internet and grabbed the platform from Trump's site because its almost impossible to find unbiased news anywhere, including headlines supposedly listing his Orders.
Except for RFK Jr's Zionism (which might be a reaction against Sirhan Sirhan), I passionately endorsed him for President, and now continue so in regard to his heading HHS. (Incidentally, I've conversed many times with him via email, and he simply was non-responsive to all of the information I supplied to him about the history of the Israel-versus-Palestine matter; so, I have no understanding of his views on that matter.)
However, this note from you is non-responsive regarding my comment. My article today (January 26th: "What Putin Misunderstands About Ideology") deals with Trump's versus Putin's ideology; and your saying of billionaires (and maybe also of Trump) "They are anti-ideology," reflects, in my view, a misunderstanding of what an ideology IS, because every person has an ideology regardless of whether the person is even aware of what it is.
Not surprising.