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August 15, 2024
Fox News quickly removes their ticker showing the Dow hitting 40,000 after Trump tries to claim the stock market is going to “crash
Gerren Peterson @GerrenPeterson 13m
Fox News aired #DonaldDump press conference on “inflation” at his ritzy golf club in Bedminster NJ. They started off with the stock market ticker at the bottom but removed it when they realized it contradicts his statements about how bad a shape the country is in.
Fox News screen shows ticker with the Dow hitting 40,000 while broadcasting Trump press conference on "inflation"
Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ 17mFox News quickly removes their ticker showing the Dow hitting 40,000 after Trump tries to claim the stock market is going to “crash
Gerren Peterson @GerrenPeterson 13m
Fox News aired #DonaldDump press conference on “inflation” at his ritzy golf club in Bedminster NJ. They started off with the stock market ticker at the bottom but removed it when they realized it contradicts his statements about how bad a shape the country is in.
August 15, 2024
Travis Akers @travisakers
Read the headline on the paper.🤫
"Inflation hits lowest level since 2021."
Vance with an in-kind contribution to the Harris/Walz campaign
Travis Akers @travisakers
Read the headline on the paper.🤫
"Inflation hits lowest level since 2021."
August 15, 2024
https://x.com/KellieMeyerNews/status/1824123473695776824
https://x.com/NnamEgwuon/status/1824120162779570222
Raquel Martin @RaquelMartinTV
Judging by the “H-U, you know” chants at today’s Biden/Harris event in Maryland, I’m going I estimate a sizable portion of attendees are Howard alumni.
x.com/harryjsisson/status/1824151776381243753
x.com/ChrisFromGA68/status/1824162528458575928
Crowds pouring into the Biden-Harris event in Maryland today (WATCH)
watch (speaking about 1:30) :
https://x.com/KellieMeyerNews/status/1824123473695776824
https://x.com/NnamEgwuon/status/1824120162779570222
Raquel Martin @RaquelMartinTV
Judging by the “H-U, you know” chants at today’s Biden/Harris event in Maryland, I’m going I estimate a sizable portion of attendees are Howard alumni.
x.com/harryjsisson/status/1824151776381243753
x.com/ChrisFromGA68/status/1824162528458575928
August 15, 2024
BREAKING: Prices for 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs will be cut after deals struck with drug companies.
The discounts, agreed to after months of negotiations with drug manufacturers, range between 38% and 79% on the medication’s list price, which is the cost of medication before discounts or rebates are applied — not the price people actually pay for prescriptions.
The newly negotiated prices will impact the price of drugs used by millions of older Americans to help manage diabetes, blood cancers and prevent heart failure or blood clots. The drugs include the blood thinners Xarelto and Eliquis and diabetes drugs Jardiance and Januvia.
It’s a landmark deal for the Medicare program, which provides health care coverage for more than 67 million older and disabled Americans. For decades, the federal government had been barred from bartering with pharmaceutical companies over the price of their drugs, even though it’s a routine process for private insurers.
“For years, millions of Americans were forced to choose between paying for medications or putting food on the table, while Big Pharma blocked Medicare from being able to negotiate prices on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “But we fought back -– and won.”
https://apnews.com/article/biden-drug-prices-medicare-prescriptions-34886d6f362c242be268c05d5efd5411
...this was part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022.
All Democrats in the Senate and House voted for the bill while all Republicans voted against it.
Every single republican voted against the legislation that made this happen
The Associated Press @APBREAKING: Prices for 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs will be cut after deals struck with drug companies.
The discounts, agreed to after months of negotiations with drug manufacturers, range between 38% and 79% on the medication’s list price, which is the cost of medication before discounts or rebates are applied — not the price people actually pay for prescriptions.
The newly negotiated prices will impact the price of drugs used by millions of older Americans to help manage diabetes, blood cancers and prevent heart failure or blood clots. The drugs include the blood thinners Xarelto and Eliquis and diabetes drugs Jardiance and Januvia.
It’s a landmark deal for the Medicare program, which provides health care coverage for more than 67 million older and disabled Americans. For decades, the federal government had been barred from bartering with pharmaceutical companies over the price of their drugs, even though it’s a routine process for private insurers.
“For years, millions of Americans were forced to choose between paying for medications or putting food on the table, while Big Pharma blocked Medicare from being able to negotiate prices on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “But we fought back -– and won.”
https://apnews.com/article/biden-drug-prices-medicare-prescriptions-34886d6f362c242be268c05d5efd5411
...this was part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022.
All Democrats in the Senate and House voted for the bill while all Republicans voted against it.
August 15, 2024
Trump's 'economy speech' yesterday was just another farce
...just like this upcoming 'press conference will be just another attention-seeking forum for his rambling, disassociated, prevaricating weirdness.
Here's Trump yesterday repeatedly trying to remind his dementia addled brain that his speech was supposed to be on the economy:
Catherine Rampell @crampell
Funniest part of Trump's big "economy speech" today was that he kept reminding himself aloud that he was supposed to be talking about the economy, but then immediately returned to rambling about tampons or San Francisco crime or whatever
https://x.com/crampell/status/1823881758619689406
August 15, 2024
...and Social Security.
Smokey Robinson Says He's Voting Harris-Walz to Protect Social Security in Happy Birthday Message to the Program
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1823885785101427186
Quiet Storm for Kamala Harris
...and Social Security.
Smokey Robinson Says He's Voting Harris-Walz to Protect Social Security in Happy Birthday Message to the Program
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1823885785101427186
August 15, 2024
The way JD Vance and other Republicans talk about women is truly creepy and weird:
The way JD Vance and other Republicans talk about women is truly creepy and weird:
Miranda Yaver, PhD @mirandayaver 4hThe way JD Vance and other Republicans talk about women is truly creepy and weird:
Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal
NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”
He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a "weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman."
https://x.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1823811043375907296
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc 1h
I have 15 grandchildren. I can assure you I love them with everything I have, but my children are doing a great job raising them and I’m, uh, well busy.
August 14, 2024
Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ
Q: Tim Walz agreed to debate you on CBS on October 1st. Are you in?
Vance: Look, Laura... We’re gonna talk to them...
Q: Is there any doubt that you will be there on October 1st to debate Tim Walz on CBS?
Vance: Look, we want to look... We’re not gonna do one of these fake debates...
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823863868869038217
https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1823838938802610374
Vance is chicken shit, too
...Donald's not the only one afraid to debate.
UPDATE: CBS News is proposing four dates for a vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN).
The network said in a statement, “Today, CBS News invited both vice-presidential candidates to participate in a debate in New York City. We provided the campaigns with four dates as options: Sept. 17, Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. We look forward to their responses and providing voters with an opportunity to hear directly from the vice-presidential candidates.”
Walz quickly accepted the Oct. 1 date. Vance has not said whether he would also debate on that date.
https://deadline.com/2024/08/cbs-news-vice-presidential-debate-2024-1236040624/
The network said in a statement, “Today, CBS News invited both vice-presidential candidates to participate in a debate in New York City. We provided the campaigns with four dates as options: Sept. 17, Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. We look forward to their responses and providing voters with an opportunity to hear directly from the vice-presidential candidates.”
Walz quickly accepted the Oct. 1 date. Vance has not said whether he would also debate on that date.
https://deadline.com/2024/08/cbs-news-vice-presidential-debate-2024-1236040624/
Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ
Q: Tim Walz agreed to debate you on CBS on October 1st. Are you in?
Vance: Look, Laura... We’re gonna talk to them...
Q: Is there any doubt that you will be there on October 1st to debate Tim Walz on CBS?
Vance: Look, we want to look... We’re not gonna do one of these fake debates...
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823863868869038217
https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1823838938802610374
August 14, 2024
Trump campaign says "over $1 million was raised" from the links for the X Space interview with Elon Musk.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-campaign-announces-1-million-haul-x-space-elon-musk
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1823442015000125807
I know that X Space inteview cost Elon more than $1 million
Philip Melanchthon Wegmann @PhilipWegmannTrump campaign says "over $1 million was raised" from the links for the X Space interview with Elon Musk.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-campaign-announces-1-million-haul-x-space-elon-musk
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1823442015000125807
August 14, 2024
New this morning - Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will roll through Pennsylvania on a bus tour Sunday, dropping in on the crucial battleground just days before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Nidia @NidiaCavazosTV
•The tour will begin in Pittsburgh
•Several stops will be made including retail stops to meet with voters
•SG Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz will also be on the bus tour
VP Harris and Tim Walz, will roll through Pennsylvania on a bus tour Sunday
Eva McKend @evamckend 2hNew this morning - Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will roll through Pennsylvania on a bus tour Sunday, dropping in on the crucial battleground just days before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Nidia @NidiaCavazosTV
•The tour will begin in Pittsburgh
•Several stops will be made including retail stops to meet with voters
•SG Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz will also be on the bus tour
The Harris campaign is also discussing holding a rally Tuesday in Milwaukee in the battleground state of Wisconsin, just about 90 miles from the site of the Democratic convention in Chicago, according to a source involved in the talks.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/pennsylvania-harris-walz-bus-tour/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/pennsylvania-harris-walz-bus-tour/index.html
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