terday Trump signed four executive orders, I guess. They're all designed to lower pharmaceutical costs in this country. Now there are a few interesting things about this, aside from the fact that wouldn't it be good to have lower pharmaceutical costs?

Number one interesting thing: Why wasn't this done before? Even the president says it should have been done long ago. Well, he's been president for three years, so long ago also includes the current presidency. And so the question is, why wasn't it done before now?

Let me say, I don't know the details of the executive orders, but one of them is to have most-favored-nation status, which is fairly common in contracts, common enough that people know it exists. And the idea is that we can't be charged more in this country than some other country. So we don't want to be the ones who are subsidizing other countries by paying high costs so that some other country could have low costs. That's pretty basic contract stuff. But the government had not been involved. Rather, these were private companies doing private things.

So why is it that now the president can make this kind of a change, which seems to comply with all common sense? And on the surface it looks like just a smart thing to do. Why'd it take so long? Same with buying from Canada. Apparently we'll have the option now of getting some meds from Canada where the prices are lower, which is similar to the most-favored-nations thing. And then a few other things that do the same thing.

And here's what I think it is, but I need to see some reporting on this by smarter people. Yeah, you're saying in the comments where I was going. Could you tell I was teasing for the answer? Because I think the answer is that the Supreme Court has upheld enough executive orders from the past, and I think it was with DACA and maybe Obamacare. So that's the part that's murky. Somebody can fill me in on the Supreme Court part of it. But I think what's happened is that Trump has discovered he has more power as a president than anybody would have imagined, meaning that the Supreme Court has now set a standard that says that Trump can do this now because he's doing this at about the same size and this-ness of other things that the Supreme Court has allowed. And so it gave him room to operate that didn't exist before.

So here's the fun part. The Supreme Court, by voting against the president's wishes a few times, has turned him into the dictator that nobody wanted. But as long as he's a benevolent dictator, it's going to be okay. And the same with Obama, right? Obama did some big executive orders, but as long as society looked at them and said, yeah, well, your intention was good and a lot of people do like it—not everybody agrees, but it's not like the worst thing in the world—the Supreme Court can let that stand.

So you can never underestimate—no, you can never overes