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Peter Marks originated the Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures
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Bloomberg’s new anti-Substack piece couldn’t suck more:
We’ve been funding our own demise. A revolution was fought over a tiny tax on tea, our reaction to this Lawfare should be 1,000 times worse.
It's looking like Trump (who I definitely prefer to Biden and the Democrats) is simply using his shrewdness and astute bargaining skills, harnessing people's legitimate anger to create a "Trumpocracy".
Problem is, he is pushing 80. The feudal regime he is creating will be picked up by the "tech moguls" wing of big capital, the ones who helped JD Vance make the jump from hillbilly to venture capitalist to a heartbeat away.
Not that it will be much of a feudal state for the masses, as the USA is po…
And yet Steve Bannon and others want to change the Constitution to allow Trump to run again in 2028 (doubtless with Trump's assent), when he'll be 82. The thought is, since Trump's terms were not consecutive, the Amendment is unclear in this situation. I don't like the president to be term limited (would Russia have advanced so quickly if Putin had only 8 years to turn it around?), but reelecting an 82-year-old man brings to mind images of the gerontocracy that brought down the USSR.
At this point, whether Trump runs in 28 is moot. Personally, I think he says shit like "doing a 3rd term" just to aggravate, and it does reveal a lot, doesn't it? Panicking "things" come out of the woodwork in response. Considering we almost lost the country, the whole discussion is - well, amusing.
Conversations about him running a 3rd term are moot and a waste of time. The Constitution must be amended and that isn't going to happen with there being nearly a 50 50 split in Congress. Sorry.
I agree - and I have doubts about how serious he is. But it does distract the DEMs and various power brokers, which has to be a good thing. LOL Of course, as disgusted as the populace is with the DEMs right now, come midterm elections, the ratio could change.