Comments by Tetradon (page 34)

@25, until they're in my face, they're just virtual tits. @Jimmy, true, but I'm not going to fawn over them like some people do.

@CMI, agree, why should I treat someone differently here because they claim to have tits? We're all blocks of text here.

I love how Dems like Clyburn insist 2020 was the most secure election ever, with all its new procedures and accommodations for the pandemic. The Dem slogan for this election should be "who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?"

VDH is a bit red meat-ish, but he's fundamentally accurate. The left cannot defend its last two years' failures, and is instead trying to deflect to "democracy is at stake!" A vote for Democrats today is a vote to speed up on the path of the last two years.

Why would I change who I am? To impress them? There's no need. If I feel like talking, I do; if not, I don't. I don't lie about who I am, though I don't volunteer every piece of information about my life. If anything, I'm _more_ authentic in the strip club. There's no one to impress except with my wallet.

Man or woman, fucking someone without a condom who only consented to sex _with_ a condom is sexual assault. If it breaks, and I'm sure it's happened to all of us, you stop, put on a new one, and buy the lady a Plan B.

@CMI, not to mention that Pinterest linked to his real name. Despite my political differences with him, we usually got along. But connecting girls by name to specific extras should be a bannable offense.

Gun to my head I'd vote Trump over Biden or Harris, but I'll keep making protest votes in this sapphire blue state. I'd love Trump to disappear but know it won't happen except for health reasons.

The canceled trials weren't related to profits. They're related to exemptions if an orphan drug is approved for one indication but not two. The devil is in the details. If it doesn't materially reduce revenues, it isn't going to materially save the consumer dollars. The difference has to be made up by the government, i.e spending which means inflation. As a matter of fact, the rebate rule rewards PBMs and insurers who literally add nothing to the process. Both parties need to look at removing their influence in the system.

"Your point was, and is, incoherent." If a company's revenues are expected to decrease, their stock falls. That did not happen. We've seen stock price dives happen in direct response to government regulations. Hence the lab industry precedent that I mentioned. Can you understand how outside news affects a stock price? You yourself pointed out Merck's share price hit a record--if the "inflation reduction act" was expected to decrease their revenues, this would not have happened. If you can't comprehend this, I give up, since I can't reduce it to grunts. "The IRA has been advertised and is expected to provide financial benefits to millions of seniors who have difficulty affording their medications. Do you refute this or not? Don't deflect to some other tangential point, just answer the question." It provides subsidies for seniors. Subsidies cost money. This is guaranteed spending. Drug price "negotiation" (which is actually price fixing) will decrease spending by not even 3%. There's your "savings," not enough to even be a speedbump in their stock prices. I could get into where the price of insulin comes from (not pharma, but PBMs and insurers), but when presented info contrary to White House sound bites, you're sticking your fingers in your ears and going "lalalaIcanthearyou"

^ You are an ignorant troll. Shut up when the adults are talking.

"Merck is at an all-time high. Oops" You're showing an impressive ability not to get it. If that bill reduced drug spend, pharma stocks would have dived, not hit all time highs. Especially with Merck's Keytruda at the top of the list. Thanks for making my point. When bills have actually cut spending, like PAMA for labs, their stocks dove 20% in a day. In fact, by repealing the Trump rebate law, the "inflation reduction act" takes those small savings and funnels them right to PBMs and insurers. Bra fucking vo. This is what I study for a living. Come back better prepared than democratic talking points

^ Damn, uptightcitizen, you got me with those sound facts and logic. Where can I donate $10,000 to the Biden 2024 campaign?

^ Speaking of spin. Outside research shows no significant impact on inflation. Drug cost controls are already resulting in clinical trials not being performed and won't have a significant impact on overall drug spending. Look at pharma stocks since then. Love how you say tax credits and deficit reduction in the same sentence. And look forward to your tone after you get audited. There aren't enough rich people to go after. How's inflation looking these days anyways? Oops.

Great post, but I don't think dedicated ITC-only people need as many. It's a much more controlled situation. No forcing or sneaking something on a girl who isn't into it. It's sad that this needs to be said. Nothing with a girl who's too fucked up. Nothing with a girl who might be there against her will. That means avoiding certain clubs (and AMPs) and girls who don't speak English. I'll name and shame any ROB, defined as a girl who promises something (whether dances or extras), and doesn't deliver at an agreed-upon sum. A girl who doesn't promise something and doesn't deliver it, or given an air dance when you didn't know you'd get one, is not an ROB. You were just an idiot.

^ Nope. Not when a vote for the Democrats is a vote to let the Biden agenda--the endless green subsidizing, student loan debt transferring to the American people, extra bailing-out Biden agenda--proceed two more years. The "inflation reduction act" (never typed without quotes) was a mini version of Build Back Better, which is itself a mini version of the Green New Deal. Want more of that? Want more releases from the SPR and less energy exploration in America? Vote Democrat. It's a straight line. We vote for that, we get it. Speaking of imaginary monsters, I'm hearing a lot of crap about the "end of democracy if you don't vote for us." I'm suffocating on the irony. That an ex-president with no power and little platform is going to rise from the dead, like a zombie, and consume America. Right now, the main thing a Republican Congress can do is _stop_ the Biden agenda. And that's an awesome idea.

@ilb, this election is a referendum on the Biden agenda. Red light or green light. Republicans won't have a filibuster proof majority nor the executive.

@Papi, the Dems had a filibuster-proof majority for a bit after Obama's election. GOP could have one in 24. Need to be prepared for all the dirty tricks in the books for as long as it lasts.

Only Club Desire, RI Dolls, and Tattletales. I love traveling and strip clubbing, but rarely at the same time.

@PSD, I'd love to see more dancers writing reviews. What's life like behind the curtain.

@mark, 2022 is actually a very Dem-friendly Senate map. In 2024, the Dems will defend 23 vs the GOP's 10. Several of those Dems (Tester in MT and Manchin in WV) are running in deep red states. It's an outside shot in this polarized age, but strong GOP 2022 and 2024 could set up a filibuster-proof majority for President DeSantis.

"But elements of the bill do address inflation" Speaking of dishonest, referring to the "inflation reduction act" as a bona fide attempt to address inflation, is a willing dupe. Most of that bill is more green giveaways. No serious economist believes it will decrease inflation. BTW the Medicare component is already dissuading drug developers from testing in new indications (see Alnylam and Stargardt's Disease). How many more cures are we going to skip so Biden can have something to campaign on? Meanwhile we've got $1T for the "infrastructure" bill which was mostly more green garbage and $0.5T in student loan bailouts. Biden is, by any objective metric, highly inflationary.

"If he does, absolutely that will be a concern to Dems and to many Republicans as well who care about democracy." Only in James Clyburn's little head. In no major poll does "democracy" outweigh inflation and the economy. Speaking of Trump loyalists, how's that Dem effort to fund Kari Lake's primary campaign thinking she'd be easy prey in the general? LOL. If they really believed Trump and MAGA Republicans were a threat to democracy, they wouldn't be funding them. Everyone sees through this. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/11/03/briefing/04morning-poll-issues-chart/04morning-poll-issues-chart-articleLarge-v2.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale

"You can thank Joe Biden for paying less at the pump today." LOL! That's some ninja-level spin. The reference point isn't some arbitrary peak; it's the $2.379/gal when Biden took office. "We're not fucking your wallet as hard as we used to" isn't a winning line. And that's not even getting to how releasing oil intended for _strategic_emergencies_ compromises our national security.

"Biden had good messaging last night." If by "good" you mean "reassuring to Democrats," then sure. Out in the real world, Trump hasn't been president for two years, and still hasn't been reinstated at his favorite platform. He's off fucking around with his social media wet dreams that are going nowhere. Out in the real world, January 6 is just another day, not this Pearl Harbor or 9/11 equivalent that Dem muckety-mucks seem to think it is. But most of all, out in the real world, Dems have had the trifecta for two years while the American people are hurting from inflation, illegal immigration, and crime. Kathy Hochul made her strategic blunder by asking her GOP opponent why it's so important to lock up criminals. In the face of that, good luck getting the American people to chase an abstract "democracy's in danger." It's telling how the Dems are complaining that the American people are too stupid to share their priorities of abortion and "threats to democracy." All the GOP needs to repeat is Reagan's line of "are you better off than you are (two) years ago?" When the final tallies are in, I can't wait for Doocy, or one of the other non-lackey journalists, to ask if the US is still a "democracy." Psaki was at least a skilled liar. KJP is outmatched.