How many people actually end up "asking their doctor about flubblubgeriatricide" for their "heart valve issue"?

"The Night of the Mary Kay Commandoes"

Two weeks worth of Bloom County got banned from most newspapers in the 1980s because of a storyline that blasted animal testing of cosmetics, because the newspapers in question got big bucks from cosmetics advertising.

I fucking hate the cosmetics industry.

Well, duh. Why do you think governments run ad campaigns in the media for shit nobody cares about? They don't give a shit about the campaign. It's just a way to bribe the media.

Y'know I never even thought about it like that. "Hey, talking head news anchor! Spew our propaganda or we'll cut funding and you'll be out of a job!"

All you need to do is stop and ask why is X company advertising?

If they're not selling something like a service or a product; then it's most likely the above.

For example; I've been getting Snapdragon adverts on YT. Advertising this just doesn't make sense at all- most phones have an SD processor and to over 99% of the population its irrelevant. Because they'd just buy a Samsung, or OnePlus, or whatever.

It's like Boeing running adverts for a new jet engine.

It all just stinks and makes me wonder what they're paying for- whether it's innocent enough or if they're hiding something.

What is Ozempic?

Semaglutide is an antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and an anti-obesity medication used for long-term weight management.

So push for Americans to get fat then offer them a weight loss drug? Sounds about right.

“They’ve already bought off the doctors.” This is quite true. Doctors don’t treat patients anymore. They push pills. If there was a pill to mend broken bones and stitch up wounds they would push that as well. (They do have those pain meds however!)

I’ve become such a distrustful cynic of our healthcare industry since 2020…. And I’ve always been a little skeptical. they are as untrustworthy as big government at this point.

Of course it seems obvious. He is deliberately saying it in the exact way you want to hear it and he knows that. A greasy, wide eyed "former insider" comes onto a news show and describes how everything is an "open secret" (so they know how evil they are) and its so much more "insidous" than you'd ever imagine! Why we have never seen that before!

Looking up anything about this guy reveals he is an "insider" because his wife was a doctor and they founded a company to say "the medical industry is a sham, buy my book to unlock the huge secret they don't want you to know" which seems to just be them telling you to eat healthy and you suddenly aren't as sick. And he has been doing the rounds on every Mainstream Right wing-ish network as the "insider" to shill this book.

So its just a random grifter who only seems more credible now because Covid sowed enough distrust in the industry that the obvious scam he is running isn't as obvious.

And he might in fact be telling the truth, but everything about him and the way he is delivering it makes him only a margin more trustable than the Mainstream News he has been all over. Unless you guys suddenly think Fox News (where he was on just as recently as Tucker) is letting on real dudes spewing real talk.

Defense contractors too.

How long before these people start treating these shows like a public confessional, confident that no one will believe their blatant admissions as long as tucker carlson or some other right winger name is next to it?

''Ask your doctor if Glabadarchtrhyn(TM) is right for you.''

~Nobody asks.

Heh, yeah. If TV ads make any money for the pharma corpos, then why aren't they advertising all of their products there? How much of a jump in profits do they see from the occasional nasal drops or indigestion tablets? Yeah, obvious.