A rare bargain

Karoline Leavitt, "President Trump is negotiating to bring down drug prices by, 200%, 300%, 100%" - why didn't they all burst into laughter? It literally doesn't make mathematical sense. How did she pass high school?

Contains only the choicest swearing

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello there. I thought I do a little thing. I
used to do politics on here, and I stopped doing
it because it drove me nuts. There's just no way
you can keep up with a stupidity in the assholdery
of it all. And I'm sorry to use those phrases,
but there's no other phrase that actually dumbfuckery might work.
But we're living in a time where people are just

(00:23):
eating stuff up purple rubbish and they're not nobody's analyzing anything,
and the media isn't helping either because they're not probing
the subject. They should be in there like the aliens
taking off on a spaceship, taking a politician off on
a spaceship and give them a good examination and sending
them back to Earth, but they're not. It's like the
maximum difficulty of questions used to be is if you've

(00:46):
got enough cushions on your chair, is your coffee warm enough?
Would you like another quassant? And none of that really
helps anyone. So yesterday Caroline Leavitt was addressing the White
House what is laughingly called a Preyer score, but he's
more a sort of fawning bunch of wannabes who will

(01:08):
just go, oh, yes, that's a really good idea. Yes,
technical nugal weapons put on sunglasses, that would be a
good idea. And she made this statement, and I'm trying
to make head no tail of it, but have a
listen to this.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Resident is definitely committed to fixing and improving our healthcare system.
You saw it again last week when he had one
of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world coming into
the Oval Office and promising to lower drug prices by
two hundred, three hundred, one hundred percent in many cases
for various types of drugs for American patients. That is

(01:43):
a huge fix to a broken system that has been
ripping off the American people for far two longs Now, I.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Don't mean to be sort of picky about stuff, but
you can only have one hundred percent of anything. You
can't have two percent three hundred percent of stuff. It's
either one hundred percent or it's less. And if people
are saying if people are thinking, oh, two hundred percent
of that means that the manufactures of drug companies, that

(02:10):
people who are providing the medication are paying you money
to take their product. Does that sound like it works
to you? If I go into a car showroom, and
I want a car that's twenty twenty five thousand, let's say,
and I ask him for fifty percent off, so it's
twelve and a half thousand. Okay, you know you can
work with that because people are still making money out

(02:31):
of it. If I say I want three hundred percent
of he's got to pay me fifty thousand pounds to
take the car off his hand, and he loses the car,
so you live. The only person who comes out of
that who wins, is me, the customer. And that's not
how any of this works. Now, if you believe a

(02:52):
word that these people say, because it's all smoke and mirrors,
nobody's asking questions. They've got a press call who essentially
so busy kissing their ass they can't get the questions
out of their mouth. And when they do get the
questions out of their mouth, if the questions are pertinent
in any way whatsoever or not to the administration's liking.
And it's getting the same way over here, they get banned,

(03:15):
their coverages were drawn, they can't interview anybody, they can't
talk to anybody, and they're just putting them out palpable rubbish.
And if you buy into this crap that they're coming
out with the cities that are under democratic control are
somehow vicious, monstrous centers of crime and a hive of

(03:40):
villainous activity. Just crap, just palpable crap. Or that healthcare
they're interested in protecting your healthcare when they are actually
severing it off. Or they're interested in looking after soldiers
who come back for fighting from their country when they
round them up and put them in the you know,

(04:02):
because they don't like the side of homeless people, the
people that they said by the covenant that they were
going to look after it. The covenant meant anything, they'd
turn it into law. As soon as you've come back
and you've seen the unaccountable horrors of what soldiers have
to face off your pop. You're used to us anymore.
They're gutting everything. But to say that medical companies that

(04:26):
Matt pharmaceut you manufacturers are actually going to pay you,
they're going to reduce their prices by two hundred, three hundred,
five hundred percent, is palpable crap. And if you believe it,
then I've there's nothing I can say to you, because
you must really enjoy being laughed at, because that's what
they're doing. They're treating you with contempt. They're not on

(04:49):
your side, they've never been on your side. They're quoting
these figures, but nobody's actually saying, well, how the hell
does that work? Because it doesn't. The media is failing you,
but you're letting it because you're not asking the questions,
you're not thinking about it. Nobody will ever give you
two hundred percent of an item. Nobody will ever give

(05:11):
you one hundred and one percent of an item. To
do so would be business suicide. But please, if you
buy into that, you're more than welcome. I do have
a very attractive way of getting across a large river,
though without getting your feet wet in your car. If

(05:31):
you're interested in that, contact me