Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for January 21, 2025

They’ll fit right in with the new administration.

Big Pharma doesn’t do research anyway.

They BUY research.

They MARKET products.

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But mostly they LOBBY for laws and regulations that allow them to LIE about their products and RESTRAIN TRADE and obtain favorable tax treatment all to maximize Shareholder Value.

Which, of course, is all that matters.

Heroin cough syrup? That’ll get RFJ Jr.’s immediate okay.

Ye ha!

Already been done, Barney.

If only he were joking.

Put the Coke back in its namesake…

If you stop manufacturing vaccines, how will you have any “feel good shots” to sell? The rebranding might actually help.

Now with extra Ivermectin!

I don’t shop online, because I like to feel the goods that I’m considering buying.

Now playing “Dr. Feelgood.”

When I was a kid, my parents gave me turpin hydrate for coughs. I remember the label said “May cause addiction”. (It also contained codeine).

It’s now a non-regulatory environment. The regulations that protect the people are gone with tRump’s executive orders. It’s no surprise. Cover your 6. You asked for this.

Do whatever you want, and then let the lawyers argue it out. The next four years are going to be the Golden Age of Litigation.

Cocaine soothing syrup.

at one time, heroin, morphine, cocaine and laudanum were over the counter drugs in the usa, but you needed a prescription for aspirin (until 1914)

Under Trump, EVERYTHING, however outrageous, is possible if it robs from the poor to give to the rich.