John Oliver explains how the Sackler family has been handling lawsuits related to the opioid crisis, how hard they’ve been fighting to defend their name, and why you should judge the situation for yourself.
The War on Drugs was a war on blacks and minorities, white people using prescription drugs were not part of the campaign.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Opioid addiction killed my friend and boss a couple of years ago. His name was Keith Weinstein. That loss killed the company resulting in a closure, jobs lost and a great shop being torn down. I will never forgive the dealers, purveyors, spokespeople, or producers of opioids.
if only there had been a fraction of the attention given to opioids as vaccinations it would have been a different story. The odd thing is opioids have to be taken regularly. Not once a decade or once a year like vaccines. But no. All the negative attention is saved for life-saving tools, and none is left for truly dangerous drugs.
It’s insane how the people buying fake vaccination cards are literally the same people who complain about undocumented immigrants using fake documents.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) August 9, 2021
Venn diagram would find near complete overlap.
Mind you, these people are buying fake vaccination cards, and even considering buying fake masks (whatever the heck that is) instead of getting a vaccination that is free of charge, and masks that are actually cheaper than what they’re trying to do to circumvent the mask rules.
These people aren’t just dangerous. They’re stupidly dangerous. That’s the worst combination because they don’t know/care how stupid they are and how their actions affect everyone else. They lack the self awareness.
They’re also sociopaths.
Another angle to opioid addiction: How many people are using these painkillers to keep going because they cannot afford more expensive treatment and surgeries for underlying chronic conditions?
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Another angle to opioid addiction: How many people are using these painkillers to keep going because they cannot afford more expensive treatment and surgeries for underlying chronic conditions?
And one tragic needless fatality is traded for another. So very sad.
re: #4 lawhawk
Venn diagram would find near complete overlap.
Mind you, these people are buying fake vaccination cards, and even considering buying fake masks (whatever the heck that is) instead of getting a vaccination that is free of charge, and masks that are actually cheaper than what they’re trying to do to circumvent the mask rules.
These people aren’t just dangerous. They’re stupidly dangerous. That’s the worst combination because they don’t know/care how stupid they are and how their actions affect everyone else. They lack the self awareness.
They’re also sociopaths.
Their anti-vax actions seem to only affect others by taking up hospital beds and staff. We’re all Delta factories, vaccinated or not.
Sure, but the undocumented immigrants came here for a better life, and the maniacs with fake vaccine cards are throwing away that better life because they’re too dysfunctional to take advantage of living in a developed nation. Maybe we could work out a trade.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 9, 2021
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon to require members of US military to get COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to memo obtained by AP.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 9, 2021
From last thread -
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why was everybody allowed to leave the building unhindered? Why was anybody allowed to leave without at least having their ID checked?
I think that DOJ is looking at this. Apparently the problem is that there is so much data (in general) from the Jan insurrection that DOJ is overwhelmed analyzing it. Plus DOJ is still collecting new evidence and expects to do so for months to come.
Govt submits a whopping 20-page filing asking for a continuance in Couy Griffin’s case (he is charged w/misdemeanor and is not accused of entering the Capitol), bc they’re not sure they’ve found all instances that may look like cops supported rioters yet.https://t.co/6Pyne7a9rE pic.twitter.com/wJ5TfpZDHS
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2021
In three years, a federal judge in San Diego has dismantled major parts of California’s gun-control laws, including the state’s longtime ban on assault weapons.
How did one man get that kind of power? @kristinadavis and I explain in this profile: https://t.co/U2M0oa6xtQ— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) August 9, 2021
With the pandemic surging again, I don’t understand why Democrats aren’t pushing for another round of “stimulus” (read: survival) payments.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 9, 2021
I’m watching America: The Motion Picture on Netflix. I highly suggest it. It’s a way more accurate depiction of our history than anything the MAGA cult believes.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Democrats are moving ahead with the reconciliation plan, that would greatly expand the safety net.
From the previous thread:
re: #226 JOE 🥓
Old Pulpit Pimp Cult Leader Moon was bad enough but his kids are even worse!
In the previous century, I seriously considered getting a Kahr pistol. They had an excellent reputation at the time. Do not know about these days. I decided on a Kimber instead.
From wikipedia:
Hyung Jin Moon is backed by his elder brother Kook Jin Justin Moon, who effectively serves as assistant pastor of the church and owns small arms manufacturer Kahr Arms.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Another angle to opioid addiction: How many people are using these painkillers to keep going because they cannot afford more expensive treatment and surgeries for underlying chronic conditions?
That was the case for Jay Bennett. He played with the band Wilco at the time it was starting to really get popular. He had hurt himself years before jumping off of stages and needed surgery for his hip, but couldn’t afford it. I don’t doubt that he was fully addicted as well by the end. But anyway, he was anxious about going to a local charity show and ended up taking more than usual. (Come to think of it, similar in outline to Prince’s addiction.)
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
REPORT: Vegetables Do Feel Pain, and They Love It: https://t.co/SPjzn3oMk0 pic.twitter.com/dsT2r7yPQF
— Reductress (@Reductress) August 8, 2021
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re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Another angle to opioid addiction: How many people are using these painkillers to keep going because they cannot afford more expensive treatment and surgeries for underlying chronic conditions?
Ex-GF has a cousin, a pain management doctor in Texas, who bought himself a 14,000-square-foot house a few years back. Would be a shame if we had an oppressive government-managed health-care system in this country that would force legal drug dealers like him to settle for a mere 11,000 square feet of living space…or even worse, practice medicine and not just prescribe horse-choking amounts of addictive pills.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Another angle to opioid addiction: How many people are using these painkillers to keep going because they cannot afford more expensive treatment and surgeries for underlying chronic conditions?
Another question, is how many people are using painkillers because _some_ insurance companies* are not funding physical therapy or other non pharmacological treatments that can help in some cases of chronic pain and can be cheaper.
Trying Physical Therapy First For Low Back Pain May Curb Use Of Opioids - NPR
The Insurance Company Paid For Opioids, But Not Cold Therapy
* I know that some insurance companies do pay for physical therapy that can alleviate pain, but I don’t think it’s universal.
I think that Pathogen Rights Activists won’t like it at all if you share when they do things like this.
Please don’t retweet, quote tweet or share this 😉😉😉 https://t.co/IydWuxfrn7— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 9, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
The problem is that most states are still pretty open right now with economies that are chugging along (I know, subject to change anytime).
Secondly, there’s been the ongoing thing with there being way too many available jobs than workers willing to do them (which yes, you and I both know why that is).
I might be wrong, but obviously the GOP are going to fight tooth and nail against more stimulus and I’m not sure how easy it would be to get all 50 Democratic senators on board for another round.
Trump’s newest mouthpiece is even more nuts than her predecessors!
The United States no longer exists — according to Trump spokesperson
I won’t link to the Twitter since Trump snuck back on that platform using this dingdong as a sock puppet account!
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
And what’s more, a quick Google Images search will give you genuine lot numbers (Pfizer, Moderna) thanks to dumbasses posting pics of their filled-in vaccination cards.
re: #19 aatharuv
That’s what is happening with my husband. He had physical therapy until the insurance company set a limit. Three years ago last week he had congestive heart failure that triggered a major heart attack. Part of his recovery was physical therapy at the hospital. He was making progress, and then Ambetter decided nope, no more for you. After that his health deteriorated. He now has a pain management doctor, and they do limit his prescription amounts, but has to see that doctor twice a month, once online/phone and once in person for a drug test. Because if he uses weed to help with pain, they will not prescribe the very weak opiate for the next month or just drop him entirely. He could have been through with much of this had he been allowed to continue with the therapy. At 250 dollars a session out of pocket we couldn’t do it.
We have the worst healthcare system in the developed world. Yay us.
re: #22 JOE 🥓
Trump’s newest mouthpiece is even more nuts than her predecessors!
The United States no longer exists — according to Trump spokesperson
I won’t link to the Twitter since Trump snuck back on that platform using this dingdong as a sock puppet account!
Sadly, this isn’t actually extraordinarily nutty by the standards of conservatives these days. Conservatives, especially paleo-cons have been saying, we have a country no more for quite a while— take a look at Rod Dreher’s “Benedict Option” for conservatives to completely withdraw themselves from the country which is no longer theirs (while still physically staying here).
From previous thread:
re: #240 sagehen
And the mercenary troops the British Crown brought in for backup? Turns out mercenaries don’t stay bought. We gave the Hessians 50 acres each to switch sides, and more than 20% of them did.
Very true.
After the Saratoga Campaign, the Americans captured about 6000 British and German troops.
The official surrender terms stated that they were to be exchanged for American prisoners of war and returned to England. Which would free up other British troops for the American Theater of War.
To avoid this, the Americans marched the Saratoga POWs all over the place in loosely guarded columns. (Ostensibly to prison camps in Virginia.) More than 1300 ‘escaped’ the first year alone.
re: #24 A Mom Anon
That’s what is happening with my husband. He had physical therapy until the insurance company set a limit. Three years ago last week he had congestive heart failure that triggered a major heart attack. Part of his recovery was physical therapy at the hospital. He was making progress, and then Ambetter decided nope, no more for you. After that his health deteriorated. He now has a pain management doctor, and they do limit his prescription amounts, but has to see that doctor twice a month, once online/phone and once in person for a drug test. Because if he uses weed to help with pain, they will not prescribe the very weak opiate for the next month or just drop him entirely. He could have been through with much of this had he been allowed to continue with the therapy. At 250 dollars a session out of pocket we couldn’t do it.
We have the worst healthcare system in the developed world. Yay us.
My wife is in the same boat.
re: #27 piratedan
Hah!
Of course, I grew up with the opposite approach.
If I did not eat something on the first pass down the dinner table, my two brothers would. And with three teenage boys, there were never any seconds.
Plus my mother grew up within a rural Midwest farming family. Where naming any farm animal was quickly shown as a bad idea.
re: #23 Dr Lizardo
And what’s more, a quick Google Images search will give you genuine lot numbers (Pfizer, Moderna) thanks to dumbasses posting pics of their filled-in vaccination cards.
Yep. While I was doing my 15 minute wait after getting mine they specifically said to not take a pic and put it on social media for that reason. People were taking the info and making fake cards even then, and that was back in March of this year.
re: #26 ckkatz
From previous thread:
To avoid this, the Americans marched the Saratoga POWs all over the place in loosely guarded columns. (Ostensibly to prison camps in Virginia.) More than 1300 ‘escaped’ the first year alone.
Ah, the “Trail of Tears” technique. By ‘escaped’ you mean starved to death or ravaged by sickness and buried in unmarked graves, I presume?
re: #31 Nojay UK
I added the scare quotes because my understanding was that the pows generally just left the column. And little to no effort was made by the guards to track them down.
I am not aware of any deliberate top down ordered cruelty. Nor am I aware of deliberate withholding of food or medical treatment.
Hint -medical treatment was essentially non-existent for both pows and guards. And food was not well supplied for either group. Although an advantage of moving was that local supplies were more plentiful and locals more willing to provide them, the first time a large group moved through an area.
I admit that the history I have seen was written by the victors. I am always willing to revise my opinion upon finding new and credible information.
re: #32 Teukka
Just got his in my YouTube feed… Then it struck me, this is obligatory music for having in the background when reading the IPCC report…
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Re: The IPPC Assessment Report #6:
Summary For Policymakers: https://t.co/yUTj8LXb77
/1— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 9, 2021
Obligatory Music for listening to while reading the report: https://t.co/WEISrCK94z
/END— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) August 9, 2021
Hah!
Nice of Mitch McConnell to wear a tan suit in honor of Barack Obama’s birthday. pic.twitter.com/QAdJzOXpgj
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 9, 2021
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— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) August 9, 2021
re: #31 Nojay UK
Ah, the “Trail of Tears” technique. By ‘escaped’ you mean starved to death or ravaged by sickness and buried in unmarked graves, I presume?
They used locations like Fort Frederick (en.wikipedia.org) in western Maryland as the camp locations. Areas like this grew food for the Revolutionary forces and essentially were secure from a serious British campaign and probably little more than potential harassment by Native Americans from the west. If the prisoners escaped there really wasn’t anywhere for them to go.
And I it was less Trail of Tears than not caring if an individual skipped off into the brush. They might join in nearby settlement as a laborer, get lost in the woods and die, or potentially get taken in by someone. In either case they’re no longer on the roster to be exchanged.
en.wikipedia.org
Though you’d still have people dying from disease and forced marches.
And once in the camps they can effectively be put to work farming to provide for their own upkeep. Which is something I think POWs pretty much were used to do in multiple wars.
I have never seen the term “Fucky Wucky” before and I’m ROTFLMGDAO!
re: #39 JOE 🥓
I have never seen the term “Fucky Wucky” before and I’m ROTFLMGDAO!
I saw this on FARK this morning (along with an updated version that has a model of the coronavirus in the hazard triangle) and I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
And I never saw the term Forever Box before. I just picked up the terms Pine Condo and Dirt Nap from my Dad!
re: #40 Dopamine Fish
I saw this on FARK this morning (along with an updated version that has a model of the coronavirus in the hazard triangle) and I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
That is where I picked up this random piece of Internet debris that I felt the need to show you.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is that most states are still pretty open right now with economies that are chugging along (I know, subject to change anytime).
Secondly, there’s been the ongoing thing with there being way too many available jobs than workers willing to do them (which yes, you and I both know why that is).
I might be wrong, but obviously the GOP are going to fight tooth and nail against more stimulus and I’m not sure how easy it would be to get all 50 Democratic senators on board for another round.
Yeah, 5.3% unemployment rate, 10 million job openings, a highly effective vaccine freely available to anyone who wants it, a trillion dollar infrastructure package, a 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill in the works, 9% annualized inflation.
There is no other stimulus coming any time soon.
re: #15 ckkatz
They also own these companies/trademarks: Kahr Arms, Thompson, Auto-Ordnance, Magnum Research, BFR, and Desert Eagle. Fortunately there are plenty of decent alternatives (S&W, Kimber, Tristar, Rock Island, etc) for a firearms purchase.
re: #33 ckkatz
I added the scare quotes because my understanding was that the pows generally just left the column. And little to no effort was made by the guards to track them down.
We have more recent and better-documented instances of columns of prisoners being marched hither and yon by their captors — the “Bataan Death March” got its own capitalised title but the Nazis did a lot of the same sort of thing at the end of the war, emptying prison camps and concentration camps and forming up the inmates in columns on foot under guard to move away from the front lines. The death toll from such operations was atrocious of course given the levels of disease and malnutrition among the inmates.
It seems foolish of the Founding Insurrectionists to waste precious manpower to operate these roving POW columns (for over a year!) when they could have simply traded their prisoners for their own people as the British authorities had apparently offered — the idea of parole was well understood, prisoners freed in such exchanges were not to be put back into military service under terms. Strange.
re: #41 JOE 🥓
And I never saw the term Forever Box before. I just picked up the terms Pine Condo and Dirt Nap from my Dad!
My favorite is referring to a cemetery as a Dead People Farm.
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I wish stupid Tweets didn’t have Tweets from other stupid people placed below them in a suggested Tweets from idiots section. If a person is stupid, Twitter keeps them that way, rather than try to pull their heads out of their asses.
The failed crime President. Only people who are keen for fascism act like corrupt Donald Trump belongs on social media despite lying about everything just because complete lunatics who insist on being lied to once made the madman President. This is stupid even for you.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 9, 2021
Rand Paul today: “It’s time for us to resist. They can’t arrest all of us .. No one should follow the CDC.” He then says he will introduce amendments to defund any govt agency that seeks to enforce CDC guidelines, including schools. pic.twitter.com/PYOQtKDYBN
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 9, 2021
Rand Paul RESISTING ! pic.twitter.com/VfI6225am9
— chickeee (@chickeee) August 9, 2021
Resist? He’s vaccinated and is just murdering stupid people who think he’s a leader at this point. He’s a psycho-killer Republican. They’re what’s left after calling any remotely sane Republican a RINO and running them out of the radicalized killer-party. pic.twitter.com/STP4F8UfXp
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 9, 2021
re: #50 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That picture is from 2015, impressive that he got a covid vaccine that early.
re: #48 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I wish stupid Tweets didn’t have Tweets from other stupid people placed below them in a suggested Tweets from idiots section. If a person is stupid, Twitter keeps them that way, rather than try to pull their heads out of their asses.
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Whoa there scooter mike
He didn’t follow the rules he agreed to when he joined
When dominant social media platforms can suspend and then ban a president of the United States, there is too much power in too few hands.
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) August 9, 2021
Is this because they don’t understand that movies aren’t the real world, or is it supposed to be evidence of a deep state conspiracy? Because we all know the deep state is always making movies about their nefarious schemes. https://t.co/GloB4Lp1gY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 9, 2021
re: #53 Charles Johnson
One of the hallmarks of the most deeply and disturbingly insane conspiracy theories is that the conspirators are supposedly so bold that they make movies or write “fictional” books that actually describe their nefarious plots, and only the enlightened are able to see it.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
The movies said that people would act rationally when faced with a pandemic and take reasonable precautions to keep themselves and their families safe.
Guess they were wrong, because in the real world World War Z against covid19, the GOP know nothings are actively courting getting infected with a deadly pathogen and think that clinging to their guns and ammo will save them. Right wingers are out there openly calling on the zombies to bite them and turn them into the walking dead and don’t care how many are sickened or die from this pandemic.
In reality, World War Z accurately figured on governments being slow to respond and not directing the kinds of resources they should have at a problem, and not coordinating their efforts until it was very late in the game.
re: #52 Dangerman
Whoa there scooter mike
He didn’t follow the rules he agreed to when he joined
Does it not occur to fascists that having a criminal former President force himself on private business will not be OK with Liberals or Conservatives? That would be too much power in the hands of the government.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 9, 2021
re: #55 lawhawk
The movies said that people would act rationally when faced with a pandemic and take reasonable precautions to keep themselves and their families safe.
Guess they were wrong, because in the real world World War Z against covid19, the GOP know nothings are actively courting getting infected with a deadly pathogen and think that clinging to their guns and ammo will save them. Right wingers are out there openly calling on the zombies to bite them and turn them into the walking dead and don’t care how many are sickened or die from this pandemic.
In reality, World War Z accurately figured on governments being slow to respond and not directing the kinds of resources they should have at a problem, and not coordinating their efforts until it was very late in the game.
16 months after having Covid, my friend is still a mess, and these suicidal morons want to get as sick as possible from it despite the availability of vaccines. If the vaccine was $1,000, I’d understand some people having to face Covid, but it’s free and convenient.
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