[ExI] Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent

[John Clark]

*It's not surprising that a man would fail a fourth grade arithmetic
test, because he didn't understand how percentages work, would declare
bankruptcy 6 times, and is only rich because he got a lot of money from his
daddy. But what is surprising is that you think such a man understands the
Nash Equilibrium, or has even heard of it. *

*As for Tony Schwartz and the wisdom of his book "The Art Of The
Deal", Schwartz now says that writing that book was the "greatest regret"
of his life and it should be recategorized as a work of fiction, and he
wished he had titled it "The Sociopath". Schwartz feels very guilty and
describes the money he earned from the book as "blood money" so he has
donated all royalty checks to charities, like "the National Immigration Law
Center" and the "National Immigration Forum" to support groups that are
being targeted by King Donald The First.*

*Biden did show signs of senility in the June 2024 debate, but the signs of
dementia were not nearly as strong as what the President of the United
States demonstrated in Switzerland during the last two days. His mental
decline is accelerating and he's  now in such a sorry state that he
hallucinates he had a conversation with the French president and in just 3
minutes had convinced him to quadruple drug prices in France, even though
he doesn't have the power to do that even if he was looney enough to want
to. Even crazier, POTUS thinks high drug prices in France would somehow
help the US.  Biden was never EVER that bad, not even on his worst day.  *

*You'll probably accuse me of engaging in hyperbole but before you do
please answer one question, do you believe that the private conversation
with the president of France **as described by POTUS bore even a slight
resemblance to what actually occurred? *

*John K Clark  *





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On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 1:05 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *Cc:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent
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> *> **The cognitive decline of POTUS has become so intense that it's time
> to invoke the 25th amendment and JD Vance needs to become the president, I
> like him a lot better, and I hate HATE HATE JD Vance. *
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> *Now He's Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 2000 Percent*
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcv0NhpfBLY>
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> *> **John one of the rules you have over on your own list is don’t be
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> *>…Spike, did you actually listen to the demented hallucinogenic speech
> that POTUS gave in Switzerland yesterday? Do you feel that the most
> powerful man in the world, a man who has access to the nuclear launch
> codes, showing clear signs of senility, is boring?! I find it terrifying. *
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> *No, that same guy has had those codes for over five years and has
> demonstrated he has no intentions of launching a nuclear war.  He never had
> any intentions of going to war over Greenland either.  In accordance with
> transactional negotiations, he was coaxing Europe to recognize the failure
> of the philosophy “Speak softly and carry a big stick” if they are
> depending on the USA to be the big stick.  Without the US nukes, they have
> only speak softly.  *
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> *Solution: Europe, beef up your military.  Keeping Putin back on his own
> side is Europe’s job, not the USA, particularly considering the US federal
> government is staring down bankruptcy from the end of the barrel with the
> hole in it.*
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> *John it might help if you understand transactional negotiations and
> business philosophy, as described by Tony Schwartz in The Art of the Deal.
> If you really just get too terrified by seeing the name on the cover, just
> keep reminding yourself that guy didn’t write AotD, Tony Schwartz did.  It
> was used as a textbook in corporate negotiations training in a lotta
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> *In transactional business philosophy, the goal is not to win every round
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> negotiation, in order to facilitate further deals in the future.  So it is
> sacrifice some profit on this deal in order to enable more deals, which
> benefits everyone in the long run.  The transactional analysts wins in
> multi-round negotiations-enable prisoner’s dilemma.  It is the fruition of
> the stunning insight by John Forbes Nash known as Nash Equilibrium.  Once
> you read Art of the Deal by Schwartz, you will get what POTUS is doing, but
> not until then.  A lotta the bluster will make sense.*
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> *On a fun side note, once you get transactional negotiations, you will
> understand why our medical insurance system is the way it is, and why it
> will fail in the immediately foreseeable future, regardless of what we do.
> Deetz available on request.*
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> *Thanks for the good word on JD Vance, or rather the less LESS LESS bad
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