The GOP's fucked up priorities

So Republicans ARE regulating tampons, vaginas, Michelangelo’s David, kids’ books, girls talking about periods

But they’re NOT regulating guns, greedy Wall Street banks, railroads, Big Oil, Big Pharma, tax-evading billionaires and corporations?!

Got it 🤦🏻‍♀️

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) March 26, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Republicans just love fellating Big Pharma

Millions of Americans struggle to pay for their prescriptions and Republicans just don’t care. https://t.co/46KE8NOADe

— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) August 7, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Pay it backward

 

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

After a week in which it came to light that drug manufacturer Mylan has raised the price of the EpiPen (a lifesaver for those who suffer from severe allergies with reactions that result in anaphylactic shock) over 1000% (from $54 to $640) since 2009, and that during that same period, Mylan CEO Heather Manchin Bresch's (daughter of Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, and a huge WTF for that one, even if Sen. Manchin is a DINO) compensation rose from $2.4 million to $18.9 million (a 671% increase for those of you who aren't math majors), Bresch had the audacity to say that we shouldn't blame her but rather our broken healthcare system.

And just who the fuck does she think designed the system?

Because it certainly wasn't working class stiffs like us--no, it was Corporate America and its legion of lobbyists who set it up so that people like Bresch could feed at the trough filled by America's poor and middle class.

Keep in mind that there is a dollar's worth of medicine in each EpiPen.

Someday we need to teach these folks that greed kills--in more ways than one.

Peace,
emaycee

First they came for the pharmaceuticals

In light of The New York Times story this past weekend on price gouging in the drug industry (who could have ever guessed?), hedge fund manager and drug industry investor Martin Shkreli tried to do damage control on TV for raising the price on a drug his company makes for $1 from $18 a pill to $750 per pill.  The drug, which is used to help pregnant women and HIV patients with parasitic infections, was developed 62 years ago so it was hard for Shkreli to argue they were trying to recoup investment costs, but he nonetheless claimed the pill was still a bargain.

And caviar might be a bargain at $70 an ounce, but you aren't going to see too many everyday Americans spreading it on their Ritz crackers....

After much blowback from ordinary Americans (and Hillary Clinton vowing to take on the drug industry which caused Big Pharma stocks to drop), Shkreli said he would reduce the price, though he didn/t say to what price.  Make no mistake, though, about the bigger picture:  folks like Shkreli will not be happy until they have all of our money.

And don't be surprised when they start fiddling with the price of our food next.

Peace,
emaycee