Trump says 'major tariff' coming soon on foreign pharmaceuticals

This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
- And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!
- Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
  Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I've only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.
  Hope you manage to beat the cancer!
  
  India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn't import them.
  
  You might not see them made in India on the label since the tablet is assembled in UK but the API (the molecule that actually does the job) and additives might be sourced elsewhere. China and India produce a lot of them. They might also sell precursors later used to make API in UK so there might be always some contribution form India / China etc.
- Trump wanted to support the black market pharmaceuticals.
- How about going abroad for treatment?
  
  Look, I've been worried about being under surveillance for my political views and personal connections since the Bush era (made friends in college with middle eastern exhange students who went back to their home country and kept in touch). Technically (not really) being part of the queer community because I date transwomen (transwomen are women, duh) further complicates the matter. Not looking to be the first white cisman US citizen to be disappeared to El Salvador, thanks.
  If I manage to leave the country I better god damn have a plan to not have to come back and to get some form of political asylum elsewhere.

Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.
- Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.
  For global politics is still next level stupid.
  
  It's sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you're already betting 100x your starting bet.
  
  A valid losing strategy, sure.
  But doubling down can only be done during play, not at the start of a hand.
  
  Well if you keep digging, eventually you'll end up in China on the positive side.
  
  If you can’t win at blackjack, you are doing it wrong.
- He’s definitely got double downs syndrome
  
  fuck you

Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?
- Everywhere else ? Probably

Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.
- He'll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.
  His tariffs are the best/perfect, it's all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹‍♂️

- He's a Nazi. It's actually an efficient way to get rid of all ill people that are not rich. Don't need no concentration camps yet.
  
  This right here is exactly what he's up to.
  
  And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.
  It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.
- I take a topical for atopic dermatitis that is better tolerated than a topical corticosteroid. And it's primarily made in India as a generic. Also because topical corticosteroids long term effects are rebound disease and skin atrophy.
  
  As someone who was considering taking a week off work as I would have needed to attend Donald Duck style to avoid fabric-on-leg contact, tell me more about this well tolerated topical

Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!
- That includes generics, majority of them are created in india
- Because ozempic is just too cheap.
  
  Novo produces a lot of Wegovy/Ozempic in the US, in North Carolina specifically. But I don't know if it's enough to cover US demand, probably not.
- As always, the misery is the point!

I absolutely can't wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning
- I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
- There's only so much I can pump 😩

Alot of generic drugs come from India.
- Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities
  
  Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.

That's good medicine wasn't expensive enough already in this country.

The man is literally an existential threat to Americans
- Krasnov Russian asset
- l i t e r a l l y

This mother needs to be jailed for murder

We're going to win the midterm elections and we're going to have a tremendous, thundering landslide, I really believe that . . . and I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on," Trump said. "Which is a good situation, not a bad, it's great. It's going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way.
You'll all be so poor and stupid you'll have to vote for us.
- Heh. With how they're taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there'll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it's going to get worse.
  
  Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.
  Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.
  
  Or the voter suppression system already in place too

FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS
- Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free
  
  Hey, worms have feelings too.

I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?
FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.
- We're on course to becoming the White Lords' Church from the VN White or Black.
  In that world, Trump is dead by the 2030s. Unrest and political troubles killed an alien attempting to make first contact. But religious MAGA, looking for a leader, decides to support the aliens. They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence. And then, since the people are eager to overthrow Musk, they decide to sign up with the aliens. Musk and his buddies are all dead/converted when the Church assumes control of the US in the late 2060s/early 2070s. And then they take over everything else by the start of the 22nd century.
  The Church is Gilead if they favored Brave New World over 1984. And they're a lot more stable, and rule a lot longer than Gilead, lasting until the 27th century at least.
  
  They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence.
  Lol wait, so the Ancient Aliens people are gonna influence nation wide decisions? Hell yeah, that'll be fun.
- That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.
  Oh also, apparently Elisabeth Moss is a Scientologist. So, eck. Unsure if I’ll continue.
  
  Well I grew up having a crush on Moss from The West Wing but, no, not gonna watch it.
- Technically, Gilead is a breakaway state from the US ☝️🤓

So, he really IS going to try and put tariffs on fentanyl?
- Fentanyl is for the poor, the rich prefer the white flour. Why should he care? 🤷

I foresee a cave-in.

Found this recently and I'm betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/661
Introduced in House (01/23/2025)
Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.

Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say...
"My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don't want to make America great again. Because that's what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don't want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me."
- I don't think he's that smart, but if he is that's actually brilliant.

Deny. Defend. Depose.

Isn't Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?
Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

Great. Now that I finally got my 100$/mo med that I need.

There's nothing the markets love more than uncertainty.

How do I find out if my meds are made outside of the US?
- I mean, if domestic pharmaceuticals raise their prices to match the foreign ones to pocket the profit… does it matter?
  
  My problem is finding my medications. It'd be nice to know where they come from.