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How many prescriptions could Bernie buy for people if he sold a few houses?***
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May 24, 2025, 10:12 AM
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Ring of Honor [23946]
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Wait, I found words to the level of stupidity. See above.***
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May 24, 2025, 10:22 AM
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Of COURSE Bernie hates RFK Jr - - -
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May 24, 2025, 1:57 PM
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- - - between 1990 and 2024, only Mitch McConnell (from among current US Senators) has received more money from pharmaceutical firms than Bernie Sanders.
#1 - Mitch McConnell: ~ $2,000,000
#2 - Bernie Sanders: ~$1,900,000
Bernie’s doing work to pay back his masters.
Below are the stats:
List of U.S. Senators with Pharmaceutical Contributions (1990-2024):
1. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI): $600,000
2. John Barrasso (R-WY): $500,000
3. Michael Bennet (D-CO): $1,500,000
4. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): $600,000
5. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE): $320,793
6. John Boozman (R-AR): $200,000
7. Mike Braun (R-IN): $150,000
8. Katie Britt (R-AL): $50,000
9. Ted Budd (R-NC): $100,000
10. Laphonza Butler (D-CA): $50,000
11. Maria Cantwell (D-WA): $200,000
12. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV):
$300,000
13. Ben Cardin (D-MD): $1,200,000
14. Tom Carper (D-DE): $800,000
15. Bob Casey (D-PA): $1,790,780
16. Bill Cassidy (R-LA): $600,000
17. Susan Collins (R-ME): $700,000
18. Chris Coons (D-DE): $400,000
19. John Cornyn (R-TX): $900,000
20. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV):
$421,000
21. Kevin Cramer (R-ND): $150,000
22. Mike Crapo (R-ID): $600,000
23. Ted Cruz (R-TX): $300,000
24. John Curtis (R-UT): $450,000
25. Steve Daines (R-MT): $200,000
26. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL): $150,000
27. #### Durbin (D-IL): $1,000,000
28. Joni Ernst (R-IA): $150,000
29. Deb Fischer (R-NE): $200,000
30. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ): $244,135
31. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY): $800,000
32. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): $500,000
33. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): $400,000
34. Bill Hagerty (R-TN): $100,000
35. Maggie Hassan (D-NH): $90,000
36. Josh Hawley (R-MO): $100,000
37. Martin Heinrich (D-NM): $300,000
38. George Helmy (D-NJ): $10,000
39. John Hickenlooper (D-CO): $200,000
40. Mazie Hirono (D-HI): $200,000
41. John Hoeven (R-ND): $250,000
42. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS): $100,000
43. Jim Justice (R-WV): $50,000
44. Ron Johnson (R-WI): $300,000
45. Tim Kaine (D-VA): $600,000
46. Mark Kelly (D-AZ): $100,000
47. John Kennedy (R-LA): $200,000
48. Andy Kim (D-NJ): $106,778
49. Angus King (I-ME): $150,000
50. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): $700,000
51. James Lankford (R-OK): $150,000
52. Mike Lee (R-UT): $100,000
53. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM): $200,000
54. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): $50,000
55. Joe Manchin (I-WV): $600,000
56. Ed Markey (D-MA): $400,000
57. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): $2,020,462
58. Bob Menendez (D-NJ): $1,474,575
59. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): $200,000
60. Jerry Moran (R-KS): $300,000
61. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): $100,000
62. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK): $400,000
63. Chris Murphy (D-CT): $300,000
64. Patty Murray (D-WA): $1,000,000
65. Rand Paul (R-KY): $100,000
66. Gary Peters (D-MI): $400,000
67. Jack Reed (D-RI): $300,000
68. Pete Ricketts (R-NE): $100,000
69. Jim Risch (R-ID): $150,000
70. Mitt Romney (R-UT): $2,700,392
71. Jacky Rosen (D-NV): $300,000
72. Mike Rounds (R-SD): $150,000
73. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): $1,918,361
74. Brian Schatz (D-HI): $200,000
75. Adam Schiff (D-CA): $196,635
76. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): $1,500,000
77. Eric Schmitt (R-MO): $50,000
78. Rick Scott (R-FL): $200,000
79. Tim Scott (R-SC): $596,000
80. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH): $400,000
81. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ): $556,000
82. Tina Smith (D-MN): $200,000
83. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI): $187,096
84. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI): $800,000
85. Dan Sullivan (R-AK): $150,000
86. Jon Tester (D-MT): $1,000,000
87. John Thune (R-SD): $400,000
88. Thom Tillis (R-NC): $300,000
89. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL):$50,000
90. JD Vance (R-OH): $50,000
91. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD): $300,000
92. Mark Warner (D-VA): $600,000
93. Raphael Warnock (D-GA): $50,000
94. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): $822,573
95. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI): $300,000
96. Roger Wicker (R-MS): $300,000
97. Ron Wyden (D-OR): $1,500,000
98. Todd Young (R-IN): $300,000
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I cant imagine Bernie going to work too hard to
May 24, 2025, 2:06 PM
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serve people who pay an average of $56k a year to a campaign.
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Re: I cant imagine Bernie going to work too hard to
May 24, 2025, 6:05 PM
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(Snope’s reply to the common criticism of Bernie re Never had a 9 to 5 job)
“This criticism is too vaguely worded to allow for much cogent analysis. What does holding a "9 to 5 job" mean? That one literally works from 9 AM to 5 PM (and not some other period of the day)? That one holds full-time employment? That one is paid on an hourly basis? That one toils at what is commonly referred to as a "blue collar" job? That one works for someone else rather than being self-employed?
If we assume the most seemingly relevant application of the term — that it refers to holding steady, full-time employment — then one might fairly say it applies to Bernie Sanders. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1964, Sanders primarily worked a series of odd jobs while attempting to get his political career off the ground, and a Politico article observed that he "didn't collect his first steady paycheck until he was an elected official pushing 40 years old." However, that same article did list a variety of jobs Sanders held (even if they weren't steady or didn't provide a livable wage) before he finally reached public office upon being elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at age 39 — working as an aide at a psychiatric hospital, as a Head Start preschool teacher, as a carpenter, and as a freelance writer for local publications:”
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What liberal leaning Snopes admits is that Bernie never held a job that had a liveable wage until he entered employment as an elected official at age 39.
After decades of touting himself as a man of the little guy, he’s become a rich gu6 with multiple homes who supplements his US S3nate lifestyle via schlepping for those very same pharmaceutical companies that he trashed for decades.
What a role model.
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According to your post Bernie got $56k a year from
May 24, 2025, 8:12 PM
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pharmaceutical companies for the last 34 years, and you think that is enough to make him committed to serving their interests. I wouldn’t work a single day for my employer at that wage, and their money goes directly to me, not to a campaign or PAC.
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Re: According to your post Bernie got $56k a year from
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May 25, 2025, 1:09 PM
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Bernie never earned enough money to support himself before getting into elected politics as May of Burlington, VT at age 39.
$56K of campaign money every year for 34 years is enough to get a politician’s attention.
For some peculiar reason, Bern Dead, within the past ~ 5 years, went from being the biggest mouth against ‘big pharma’ to being stone silent -or- outright attacker on the men who are working hardest to make meaningful change in the pharma industry for the benefit of all Americans.
I suspect that Bernie’s annual haul of contributions from big pharma are much larger than $56k.
Bern Dead, as seen from his existence prior to entering politics, is a parasite by nature. Parasites don’t want to kill off their source of blood.
Big Pharma been berry berry good to Bern Dead.
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Re: Of COURSE Bernie hates RFK Jr - - -
May 24, 2025, 6:16 PM
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That and the fact that RFKjr is an absolute unqualified nutcase.
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Re: Bernie is sponsoring a bill to lower drug costs, be sure to write Lynsgay Graham
May 24, 2025, 8:45 PM
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Lowering costs via the Trump plan puts the onus on getting the pharma companies off their lazy keesters and actually negotiate the price point with EU countries where value & affordability intersect. Their current practice had been to give whatever price that the EU countries wanted to pay; good ole America would then make up for profit dearth in medicines sold into the EU.
(*). The Trump-47 tariff threat makes it imprudent for the EU countries to use their long-used threat to pharma that, if pharma didn’t agree to the EU’s demand for low prices, then the EU would violate the patents from American pharma companies by making generics.
Stupid Bernie’s historical plan to get drug prices down did not utilize any threats of serious consequence to foreign countries that threatened American pharma with disregarding patents. Stupid Bernie’s plan has always been flat out socialist tactic of creating a law that forced the American pharma companies to lower their prices.
OK, back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.
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Re: Bernie is sponsoring a bill to lower drug costs, be sure to write Lynsgay Graham
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May 25, 2025, 8:44 AM
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That was for show, it will never happen. But for sure, Bernie's legitimate bill will do what trump is saying he is trying to do.
Why not support it, if you are really supporting lower drug costs?
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Re: Bernie is sponsoring a bill to lower drug costs, be sure to write Lynsgay Graham
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May 25, 2025, 1:29 PM
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Lean to walk and chew gum.
Simply forcing the pharma countries to reduce prices guarantees harm to them. TDSers (fraudulently) complain that Trump’s efforts to balance out global pharma prices to benefit ONLY American citizens (while destroying big pharma’s ability to earn enough profit to be able to afford R&D for new drug development) is an incomplete argument.
Bern Dead wants to cut prices by some arbitrary amount to benefit American citizens. Does he cut those prices to those which are currently paid by EU countries? If he did that, then ‘big pharma’ that butters his political campaign bread goes out of business. If he doesn’t reduce prices meaningfully, or if he cherry picks one drug as tokenism of popular appeal (such as what Biden proposed for [one? several? related-to-insulin?] “insulin”), then the ‘I’m going to reduce drug prices’ promise is akin to the attention that the matador’s cape has to the bull.
In other words, Bern Dead’s ‘lower drug costs’ program is largely a mirage. It is good for electoral politics, but does little to help the people who vote for him.
Trump-47 / RFK Jr drug plan will protect pharma countries that do business in America from having their patent rights violated when they raise prices to EU countries -while simultaneously- dramatically reducing drug prices from those same pharma companies that sell their medicines in America. The Trump-47 / RFK Jr plan simulaneously helps Americans in a meaningful way and gives the pharma companies the ability to maintain their business model.
And, while we’re at it, boy oh boy, the Trump / RFK Jr plan will save Medicare & Medicaid hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Re: RFK is an another trump cabinet disaster.
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May 25, 2025, 12:56 AM
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So you post a video where RFK doesn’t even respond?
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Re: RFK is an another trump cabinet disaster.
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May 25, 2025, 8:38 AM
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With the exception of the measles vaccine, Bernie and RFK not too far apart.
RFK wanting double blind vaccine studies is not at all unreasonable. It would put the issue to bed once and for all.
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There is no issue to put to bed,***
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May 25, 2025, 8:42 AM
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Re: There is no issue to put to bed,***
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May 25, 2025, 9:40 AM
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There is. Autism.
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