Joe Zaja

America has a GLOBAL TRADE SURPLUS on services. Services have the highest margins and profits of our exports. That is where capital and expertise focused, to gain the greatest return for investors. Which is EXACTLY why the USA DOMINATES in tech globally. The smart money will invest in tech long before more inexpensive consumer goods.

@CNBC On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

A lack of clarity from the White House is driving stocks down, Jim Cramer says cnbc.com/2025/03/06/a-l…

These are called “bribes.” The President of the United States is openly accepting million dollar bribes and we’re so used to his corruption that it doesn’t even crack the news cycle. This is what an oligarchy looks like.

One thing that’s become absolutely clear: The Trump administration isn’t isolationist. It meddles on behalf of authoritarians all over the world. Or to put it another way: The Trump administration isn’t America First. It’s Authoritarianism First.

@HuffPostPol On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

He threatened not to support others if they haven’t “paid” enough, but did not seem to know that the only time the alliance was triggered was to help the U.S. after 9/11. huffpost.com/entry/trump-na…

@mcuban On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. clients see promising early returns   Providers, insurers, employers and patients grappling with steep drug costs are testing an unconventional model to rein in spending, and early signs indicate it may be working.   The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., named after its billionaire co-founder and also known as Cost Plus Drugs, has taken on the roles of online pharmacy, pharmaceutical manufacturer and drug wholesaler in a bid to disrupt the healthcare industry. In just three years, the startup has inked more than a dozen partnerships with health systems, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers desperate to reduce expenses.   “Drug costs, just every year, that's quite frankly where I feel like I have had the least amount of levers to pull,” said Coreen Dicus-Johnson, president and CEO of Network Health, an insurer owned by Froedtert ThedaCare Health, a Milwaukee and Neenah, Wisconsin-based nonprofit health system.   Pharmaceutical spending is hitting insurers’ bottom lines, pressuring employer health plans and straining health system finances. This year, employers are bracing for a 7.8% increase in healthcare expenditures driven by prescription medicines, and health systems expect drug prices to rise 3.8%.   For some, the problem is more acute. MultiCare Health System’s drug spending has increased by as much as 5.5% some years, said Tyson Frodin, assistant vice president of pharmacy supply chain at the Tacoma, Washington-based nonprofit health system. MultiCare signed on with Cost Plus Drugs as a secondary wholesaler last March to procure lower-cost generic medications and boost inventory, he said.   Cost Plus Drugs mostly focuses on generic oral and topical medicines, which it sells at cost, plus a 15% markup and a labor and shipping fee, as the company's name suggests. As Cost Plus Drugs expands more deeply into brand-name pharmaceuticals and injectable drugs, its customers say they expect greater savings opportunities.   “There's visibility, there's price transparency, as well as new lines of accessibility, especially when we're seeing all-time high shortages across the pharmacy industry,” Frodin said.   Not all medications sold through Cost Plus Drugs are cheaper than drugs dispensed by other pharmacies or sourced from other drug wholesalers, so insurers are helping members make the most cost-effective decisions and hospitals are being strategic about what they buy.   Network Health, which made Cost Plus Drugs available to members in November, is banking on about $1 million in savings this year, Dicus-Johnson said. Per prescription, the insurer expects it will save $400 and members will save $100, on average, she said.   Some medications generate bigger savings than others. Cost Plus Drugs sells a monthly supply of the generic blood thinner warfarin for about $6.70 while the retail drugstore price is $13.50. More strikingly, a month's worth of the generic cancer medication imatinib costs $34.50 at Cost Plus Drugs versus more than $9,500 at other pharmacies.   Purchasing through Cost Plus Drugs can yield noticeable savings for patients in high-deductible health plans, said Scott Musial, chief commercial officer at Rightway, a PBM that started using the company's online pharmacy in 2022.   “The first $1,500, $2,000 or $2,500 in a year is all out of the member’s pocketbook, so they're thinking, ‘I can go to Cuban, and this is $40, versus I go someplace else, and it's $4,000,’” Musial said. “There's some dramatic differences in how Cuban prices versus others that you have to take advantage of if you're paying cash.”   Providers using Cost Plus Drugs as a secondary wholesaler have to make sure they’re spending a certain amount of money buying medications from their primary partner to stay in compliance with existing contracts.

@SenatorDurbin @SenAmyKlobuchar @SenDuckworth On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

President Trump’s tariffs will increase food prices and hurt IL farmers. I joined @SenAmyKlobuchar, @SenDuckworth, and other Senate Dems in urging President Trump to reverse these tariffs. We should be expanding foreign markets for Illinois farmers, not Brazilian farmers.

@PeteButtigieg On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

@donwinslow On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

What is paramount for the American people and world leaders to understand is that Donald Trump is a coward. He has always been weak. 1. Big 3 auto companies stood up to him, HE FOLDED. 2. Mexico stood up to him, HE FOLDED. 3. Every time he is confronted, HE CAVES, DELAYS or RESCINDS

@chucktodd On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Whatever gains were made based on expectations of Trump in charge of economy are now almost all entirely erased… took less than 60 days.

@SenWhitehouse On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Why would Trump be telling so many lies about Social Security? There’s a simple answer.

@DarrigoMelanie On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Civility and decorum are fascism’s best friends.

@sbg1 On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Powerful speech about Trump’s betrayal of the democratic world. My question watching this — where is the American version? Why hasn’t US’s own opposition to Trump been able to speak out with such clarity and force? Tempus fugit.

@CNBC On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Trump says he's not even looking at stock market, tariffs will make U.S. 'very strong' cnbc.com/2025/03/06/tru…

@SteveSchmidtSES On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

As Donald Trump starts tariff wars and abandoning our allies around the globe, the opposition in America is nowhere to be found. I look at the Democratic response to Trump and how the best example of opposition was from a Senator in France. Watch here: youtu.be/M2Lft577GWs

@Messina2012 On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Just 43% of viewers of Trump's speech said it was relevant to their daily lives, down from 62% who said the same abt his inauguration address 6 weeks ago. Dems, this is an opening to show voters "we hear you, we see you, and here's what we're gonna do to make your lives better."

@BarbMcQuade On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

DC’s interim US Attorney Ed Martin is now demanding to know about the curriculum choices of Georgetown Law Center, part of a Catholic university.

@lisamurkowski On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

This week, I met with some Alaskan USAID employees. They not only informed me of the confusing and callous handling of personnel matters by OPM and DOGE, but they also painted an incredibly troubling picture of what the world looks like without humanitarian assistance from the United States. Although I support measures to find inefficiencies within the agency, USAID’s mission to keep people healthy and safe in even the most remote corners of the world should not be eliminated. Dr. Peter Kerndt, an Alaskan physician who has dedicated his career to treating tuberculosis in Alaska and around the world, shared with me, “America is great, because America is good.” It is imperative we not lose sight of that.

@CalltoActivism On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

BREAKING: A Republican finally ADMITS what they’ve been denying for months: Rick Scott: “Republicans are ‘going to have to’ cut your Social Security and Medicare as well as ‘any program you care about.’”

@McFaul On Nov 5th, Trump inherited the best economy in the WORLD. His HELTER SKELTER acts on tariffs is due SOLELY to his PSYCHOPATHIC behavior towards his enemies for REVENGE. Sadly, there was never a plan for Americans. Trump is petty and feeds on hate & fake praise from his weak GOP.

Trump has sparked fights with democratic Denmark, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Canada, and Ukraine but can't do enough to please autocratic Russia. How do you explain it?