New FDA rules for TV drug ads: Simpler language and no distractions

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12. Such advertising used to be illegal. Then saint ronnie came to town and the downward spiral began.

These ads are sardonically funny. An example is the happy smiling cartoon bee flying around being friendly with people while the voice in the background is rapidly saying how the drug will give you irreversible brain damage and/or just kill you.

In the "good old days," TV ads like this were forbidden and, even in print, the entire package insert had to be printed with the ad, making it impractical to run print ads in mainstream print media.

When saint ronnie assumed power, due solely to his secret back-door dealings with the iranians to keep the hostages until after his election (and no republican has legitimately won the white house since,) the federal government has been systematically dismantled or de-fanged. We're now a country where "freedom" means "freedom to do anything" when, instead, it should be "freedom from" things like religion, guns, school massacres, dangerous or ineffective drugs and "supplements," etc.