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sounds like a Siouxsie and the Banshees song

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Heh. While it's not impossible for Portland and Seattle to be buried under volcanic dust, at this point Brooklyn seems unlikely.

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Casey Jones you better watch your speed!

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the pope shit in mine/sn

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quoniam venit dies magnus iræ ipsorum : et quis poterit stare ?

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I know!

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Ta, Dok.

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So WTAF does this posturing actually accomplish? Congresspeople say bad things about pharma companies in committees, journalists write bad things about pharma executives in the media, then some pharma PAC writes checks to Congressional re-election campaigns and it all goes away.

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His new career right now is as a board member for a U.S./China company called Antengene that was partially funded, ($120 million), by Celgene.

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For now all the Democrats who were big pharma donation recipients are gone, including Beto O'Rourke who was one of the biggest.

I'm sure they'll capture others to take their place.

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Unfortunately , after he left the room , ........................................

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As Mrs. Rickyphoo just pointed out, time and time again, we see these price fixing motherfuckers, (my word, not hers. She's too much a lady), getting called out by Congress but in the end, nothing happens. No one goes to jail or even loses their job. Prices don't come down and the government continues to pay through the nose, as do people without government help. And Big Pharma just keeps getting bigger.

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but see, the real question is, would you SELL YOUR SOUL for multiple billions of dollars.

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I can't wait for her to be President, after Joe and Kamala have their turns.

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Make Porter Secretary of Commerce. Make Elizabeth Warren Secretary of the Treasury.

Make these robber barons pay.

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Which is why I said that - after he left the room ..........

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