Expedited FDA approval for the covid vaccines

[TigerGrowls]

Its quite a fricking coincidence how all these executives bounce between FDA and the pharma giants. All the squawking about the shots being free is also BS. Phizer and the others billing the US taxpayers billions of dollars for the shots. Ever hear the term the medical mafia? Well this is that mafia in action.

 

[firegiver]

Um yes but you see republicans nominated Justice Roberts who swung the vote on the supreme court and we got The Citizens United ruling, released in January 2010, tossed out the corporate and union ban on making independent expenditures and financing electioneering communications. It gave corporations and unions the green light to spend unlimited sums on ads and other political tools, calling for the election or defeat of individual candidates.

So you see it doesn't matter what the **** you think you tiny little citizen. Your speech is small, and quiet compared to the much louder and more important speech of corporations. So get fvcked... welcome to the boring dystopia.

 

[clemben]

I love that Republicans have no idea that THEY are the ones who made corporations and money into political speech--meaning it can't be regulated by the govt and then pushed that idea all the way into the Supreme Court and made it the legal standard.

Before that there was actual bipartisan legislation McCain-Feingold that did some things to push back. Now anything done would be deemed illegal thanks to Citizens United--one of the worst Supreme Court decisions along with Bush v. Gore in recent times.