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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
“What else did you expect from McConnell?” he asked. “He won’t even give us a hearing on Merrick Garland.”
God damn, I miss Obama.
He added that “we’re about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world.”
God damn I miss Obama.
edited 30th May '18 9:53:00 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.It didn't get much attention, but apparently Trump has signed right to try
legislation.
Even some left wing sources seem to be happy with this without realizing that it's the first major step towards completely gutting the power of the FDA.
Using terminal patients as their cover, they're essentially allowing patients to pay(like insurance would ever consent to cover it) companies to be their lab rats without any guarantee of success, and the companies have almost total malpractice protection.
The only "safeguard" is that the treatments go through phase 1 clinical trials, which only sets the maximum dose before it becomes life threatening. No controls over actual efficacy whatsoever.
He's drastically overstating the impact of this. According to The NYT, The FDA already has a similar program in place since the 70s, that has proven to work reasonably well, and other state laws "right to try laws" have had very limited effects, as the process tends to be more cumbersome and expensive, and most it is covered through the existing program anyway.
Whether it will save “hundreds of thousands of lives” is a prediction that is, at best, unclear. But the effect of similar laws in some states has been muted.
A program known as compassionate use, or expanded access
, has been in place since the 1970s. It allows patients with a serious disease or condition to obtain experimental medicines; the Food and Drug Administration says it authorizes 99 percent of the requests for expanded access that it receives.
The new national law — like similar laws in more than three dozen states — allows patients and doctors to ask drug companies directly for access to the experimental drugs, rather than wait for approval by the agency.
Yet these laws “do not ensure that manufacturers will provide the drug or that insurance companies will cover the cost,” according to a policy report from Rice University. Obtaining the medicines from manufacturers can be more cumbersome than going through the Food and Drug Administration’s existing program, the report found.
Colorado enacted the first right-to-try law in 2014. Since then, “there have been no documented cases of anyone receiving access, because of a right-to-try law, to an experimental product that would not have been available via the F.D.A.’s expanded access program,” a 2017 study by researchers from New York University concluded.
edited 30th May '18 10:17:01 PM by megaeliz
While those were points of concern, I am more concerned about terminal patients having their fears preyed on and wasting their final days on largely useless experiments and false hope, rather than palliative care and living out the remainder of their lives more comfortablly.
Edit- previous state level laws would be little more than tissue paper given that the FDA is a federal agency and overrules them.
edited 30th May '18 10:21:46 PM by carbon-mantis
As if it wasn't shitty enough that we've got All-Natural Snake Oil "alternative medicine" peddlers doing that...
Disgusted, but not surprisedEnough experiment fodder for any number of Wily Wonka-esque hijinks!
And bilking the last dollar from the dying.
A friend of mine said, "Is there anything Trump has done which has not been evil? It's a serious fucking question. I mean, even Emperor Palpatine freed Naboo."
edited 30th May '18 10:27:02 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.He did bomb that one facility that was using nerve gas. My only complaint is that he didn't bomb it more.
Leviticus 19:34To be fair, Palpatine did save Anakin from Mustafar, that's probably the closest thing to being nice he's ever done.
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He only decided to do that because his most trusted advisors at Fox and Friends told him to, and the rest of his admistration didn't find out until he announced it to the world on twitter.
Which was also another problem, in itself. Even if it had been planned in advance, instead of an impulsive Fox and Friends driven decision, announcing it to the world in a tweet a week beforehand, is exactly what he shouldn't be doing.
edited 30th May '18 11:14:08 PM by megaeliz
It's kind of funny how people are complaining about the politics in the current Star Wars film when the "jingoism leads to totalitarianism" message of the prequels was so much less subtle
I did mention (though i forgot if it was here or in the narrative thread) that the new trilogy is likely a potshot to the people Rooting for the Empire because of their ideology.
edited 31st May '18 12:18:28 AM by MorningStar1337
So Dinesh D’Souza is getting formally pardoned.
The Law and Order President, everybody. Along with a nice clear sign that he'll pardon anyone who kowtows to him loudly enough as the Mueller investigation ramps up.
"Yup. That tasted purple.""U.S. hits EU, Canada and Mexico with steel, aluminum tariffs" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-metals/u-s-hits-eu-canada-and-mexico-with-steel-aluminum-tariffs-idUSKCN1IW1UY
It is even more stupid when you consider how George Lucas used Nazi Germany to make the Empire in the first place. Iconography, the officer uniforms, the authoritarianism and the obsession with uber weapons.
But the average alt-righter is too stupid to realize that, including the obsession with Fight Club and missing the point over toxic masculinity completely, like they miss Star Wars being an anti-fascims movie.
Inter arma enim silent leges

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/politics/obama-reaction-trump-election-benjamin-rhodes.amp.html
I couldn’t figure out how to copy and paste the article for those who don’t subscribe or out of free articles but
It’s a piece about Obama and his reaction towards Trump’s election sources by an upcoming memoir from one of his advisors
It’s incredible, very humanizing and makes me feel so much for him and well everyone that stands to lose from this current presidency