For as many foolish things Kennedy has talked about wanting to institute, a drug ad ban is not one of them. Kinda awesome, actually.
This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula
Broken clock
yeah curiously this is like the second thing I could actually get behind.
Rare RFK W.
The other was avoiding processed foods. I'm guessing he won't be allowed to implement that either when his boss gets a wheelbarrow full of cash from the McClown.
There's a shot of RFK and the rest of the Dream Team holding a Big Mac somewhere and he genuinely looks like they've asked him to pose with a freshly laid dog turd.
Trump is smiling in the picture like he just made his new stooge pose with a dog turd
Seriously, he gives me major whiplash. Like 90% of his opinions are pure bullshit, but I often agree with the remainder.
He also left the dead carcas of a bear in Central Park.
He also drove over 300 miles to cut the head off a beached whale and bring it home.
RFK does a lot of strange things, and i don't think it was 100% the brain worm either.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
He's a weird mix of "cannot be allowed near the job" and great ideas.
Well, two. This and getting the stigma off of psychedelics.
Nothing's worth having an anti-vaxxer in charge, though. Not even close.
You forgot his third one, he supports stem cell research, which is odd given that his new buddies don't approve of creating new sources of stem cells (aborted fetal tissue).
This idea has been around longer than RFK Jr. has been relevant in politics. These ads are illegal in most of the civilized world.
The more I read about him, the more my opinion solidifies that his position is simply: be against all of mainstream medicine.
The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements. In the U.S., television viewers are subjected to an especially increasing volume of drug commercials. In 1996, $550 million was spent by pharmaceutical companies on drugs ads. That number increased more than 10-fold by 2020, reaching $6.58 billion annually.
A stopped clock...
This is a good thing. His motivation may be more sinister. It could create a situation where non medical treatments can be advertised without restriction and genuine medicines can’t. It needs to be applied to all treatments, even unregulated ones.
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Heh, he's crazy as all get-out, but I agree with getting drug ads away from the uneducated public. If an ad has to have "ask your doctor about", it shouldn't exist anywhere, not just TV.
He just wants this one to de-educate people on the existence of drugs in general, but honestly, if you need to see a doctor to talk about them/get them, they don't need advertising in the first place. It does open up a bigger discussion on knowledge about the availability of pharmaceutical treatments, though, since some people probably ask their doctors about symptom treatment based on ads. It's purely reactive and the wrong way to take care of your health, but, I won't ignore the obviously systematic issues with access to affordable healthcare for proactive care, vs. "make this hurting stop" care.
Fuck him and his insane and dangerous suggestions about medical stuff.
But "ask your doctor about X" ads where X is a prescription-only drug should definitely be banned. Why the fuck would I ask my doctor about a medication if they haven't already suggested it to me?
Read what a lot of you are saying in this thread about "rare W" and the like and thought of this poignant saying...
"You can't only piss in one PART of the pool"
You won't get just the one thing you want from RFK jt, you'll get it all - Stop taking the bait, dipshits. This is the candy he's trying to give you while sliding down your pants with the other hand and slathering coconut oil on your b-hole.
Trump won, so the US will get a pissed pool no matter what.
To say “rare w” isn't to deny that, it's acknowledging that even though the pool is absolutely disgusting with 80% piss, at least that'll help some people with skin conditions.
Yep that's basically it. "Rare W" is not an endorsement, it's pretty much the opposite : recognizing that an otherwise terrible person/organization did something good or made a good point for once.
Every once in a while the worm in his brain takes over pulls of something like this
This is how people end up down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. A conspiracy nut has just enough actually good ideas that people start to think they’re smart and believe the utter nonsense they spew afterwards.
I still don’t like him, but I’d love to see this happen.
Ads, yes. Class action legal ads for pharmasutical side effects/injury can stay. Do your testing ya smucks.
Fishing for bribes imo.
I guess the worm didn't eat all of it.
"No way to fix this" says only country where this happens
Finally this loser advocates for something I don't like.
When I used to live/work abroad then come back to the US it was so alarming seeing drug commercials again. It just shouldn’t exist. So i completely agree with the worm on this one
Drug ads are the only thing keeping cable TV floating
Two birds with one stone! While I understand there are people who still have cable and a large portion are elderly who are less comfortable with technology …. This just needs to end. Cable TV companies are one of the most exploitive, customer abusing companies there are. Their monopoly is gone (well, ISP monopoly is less than cable monopoly), so let’s just end them. Kick them while they’re down. Usher them into capitalist hell
Nearly all countries do this. Even the regressive ones. It's one of the biggest reasons why pharma is a massive cash cow in the US, alongside the fact that we don't negotiate drug prices aside from a handful of drugs and only medicare/medicaid and only the past <4 years or so.
Legitimate good ideas wrapping around a few extremely terrible ones is exactly how people get pulled in to the scam.
Can medicine finally stop getting jingles?
Fuck you (drug you all wanna mention but I won't give them the exposure here) and your randomly changing cast of dancers and main singer.
No more big story to tell got you.
So RFK2 with this and Trump trying to end DST.
If they can stay on the fringe of everything like that then maaaaybe it won't be so bad? But they can't.
calling it now: RFK be gone in less than 6 months
doesn't say much, considering most of the "best people" trump picks don't last that long
Yes, that would be good, but let's be real here, this is basically a statement that says "hey big pharma, I'm not getting enough campaign contributions!! Get off your ass and give me some cash!" - Trump
This will NEVER get passed in a Trump administration. It's all window dressing on a big pile of streaming shit.
This would be huge
I would be curious if a commercial reminding people it's flu season, or that the new COVID boosters are out would fall under this. As I don't think banning reminders without a specific drug push is in the spirit of a ban like this, but then looking at who is proposing it gives me pause. And I know that the article mentions seniors seeing vax commercials to remind them, but it doesn't 100% say if those are included or not.
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