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How much proof do you need that Democrats have no idea how economics works or how to run a business?

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris Tweeted this thinking it was a good idea:

As president, I’ll give Congress 100 days to send legislation to my desk to stop Big Pharma from raking in massive profits at the expense of Americans.

If Congress won’t act, I will.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 21, 2019

Profits drive investment, investment drives R&D.  Without profits, companies contract and the first thing to get cut is R&D.

Always.

Massive profits make R&D possible.

So Kamala Harris believes, or is banking on her followers believing (or both), that the government can curtail the profits of the pharmaceutical industry and all that will happen is that fat-cat executives will have to cut back on their cocaine and $1000/hour hooker parties aboard their champagne powered mega-yachts.

What will really happen is that new drug development will drop to zero meaning that eventually, the big pharmaceutical companies will go belly up as their IP goes generic.

The real result of her executive action will be:

1. New and better cures for diseases or conditions will go undiscovered.
2. Lots of people will lose their jobs.
3. The economy will take a massive hit.
4. Sick people will suffer.

But at least no fat-cat executives will be making huge profits, and this is something for the envy mongers.

What I can’t figure out is if this destruction of pharmaceutical R&D is a feature or a bug.

What I do know is that whenever I have seen pharmaceutical executives testify before Congress, the one question I want someone to ask, I’ve never seen asked.

“Alright.  Tell me, as a member of Congress, what I can do to make it possible for you pharmaceutical companies to make crazy huge profits while at the same time lowering the cost of your drugs to the consumer?”

If the goal is lowering drug costs that should be the focus.  Not attacking the profits of the industry.  I want high profits for R&D with low drug costs.

I believe it’s possible to have low-cost drugs and high profits for R&D, then again, I don’t hate it when other people make a profit.

And personally, I don’t care how some pharmaceutical CEO sleeps on top of a pile of gold like a dragon’s hoard, if the exchange is that if some woman in my life that I love gets breast cancer, the latest and greatest chemotherapy saves her life with no surgery and minimal side effects.

I smell somebody wanting to re-do the Lesbian Cake Incident

A transgender woman was left “humiliated” after a Melbourne, Australia salon refused to give her a Brazilian wax, saying they were not qualified to do “male genitalia”.

This Trans Woman Couldn’t Get A Brazilian Because She Hasn’t Had Surgery

I call this bullshit. As a male, if I accidentally pull a hair from my scrotum, I am ready to give up state secrets and passwords for ATM even when I do not know them. That hurts like a MoFo. This guy wants to wax the whole MOPAR transmission with Hurst Shifter still installed?   Not unless he has a spinal block and half a bottle of tequila already ingested.

IWI Uzi with a vertical, folding stock.

I got a nosebleed just laying my eyes on the page. And where did she get the registering thing? If that was true, you’d be hearing the screaming all over gun forums and the thunder of chest thumping like African drums in an old Tarzan movie

I still have family in Spain that are shepherds, but I know squat about sheep and do not write about the cursed animals nor I pretend I know about them.

It will make you cringe in more ways than one.  Holy flock!

Why do they need a campaign? I thought it was all done and bought back or confiscated decades ago.

It is Florida and I should have expected Florida Columnist to do his dumb thing.  So Fred Grimm opened his laptop and penned this idiocy.

Not all that shocking, I suppose, coming from the state that concocted America’s first “Stand Your Ground” self-defense statute. I suppose if Florida sanctions gunning down a human if a gunman experiences a bit of trepidation, it’s not much of a leap to authorize mass iguanacide. And pity the poor geckos caught in the crossfire.

First, let’s get the legal crap out of the way: You can’t kill any animal in the state of Florida  in a cruel manner as it is stated in FS 828.12

828.12 Cruelty to animals.—(1) A person who unnecessarily overloads, overdrives, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily mutilates, or kills any animal, or causes the same to be done, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner, commits animal cruelty, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or both.

And if you do not kn ow what killing with cruelty is, then the problem is with you and the disappearing nighborhood cats.

Now, at the other thing: Dear Fred, baby, mi amigo. I know you hate Stand Your Ground like you hate Trump, but you cannot write an article about how bad is going to be for the uniformed people if they don’t know how to kill iguanas humanly and at the same time lie about Stand Your Ground.

Stand Your Ground cannot be claiming whenever somebody feels a bit of trepidation (like when you see a Hillary video) but as part of the chain of Self defense which includes among others the very important reasonable fear of death or grave bodily harm.  You getting a small woody because you got to read a tweet from Michelle Obama does not reach that level.

Second, Stand Your Ground was not a Florida concoction. Stand Your Ground cases before the Supreme Court date back to 1895, yet he seems to need to continue the false narrative that it was an evil preparation one in the Florida cauldron of the NRA.

As a journalist (yeah right) it should behoove you to publish accurate information and not what the gun control groups that rub your intellectual  tummy say it is. Notice I am not asking you for the truth, but for a degree of accuracy. If you would happen to hit it in the same zip code, your readers would stay out of jail and appreciate your word.