(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Truth Sandwiches: Back to School and Big Pharma [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-01 New Truth Brigade campaigns: Teach our Children Well, and Big Pharma Lies. The whole point of these campaigns is to motivate people to vote, so that we don’t have to take this any more, and to counter vicious disinformation. Both campaigns build on earlier ones, as I will show you below. x They say if you have your health you have everything. But at what cost, when big pharma cheats? Look who enables and excuses the cheaters. We can do better. We don't have to take this any more.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Big Truths—Big Pharma + Big Lies = Big Harm https://t.co/D1vDpwdtmW pic.twitter.com/i3nYXtPj3f — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) August 20, 2023 The biggest news on medications is that Medicare has started the process of negotiating prices on the top ten medications under the worst pricing policies affecting the most Medicare recipients. The first round of negotiations will end in Sept. 2024, and the new prices will go into effect in 2026. (Yes, that’s too slow, but it was what we could get from Congress at the time, after 25 years of Republican obstruction.) More will be added every year, rising to 20 a year in 2026. Some pharmaceutical companies are suing to stop all of this. Schools have opened, and school shootings have resumed. Also Milton Friedman’s war on the public schools is back in full force. More on that tomorrow, in my next economics Diary for Readers and Book Lovers. The government should support education, but not control it—thus vouchers for all. x Truth is our most precious possession. Therefore many politicians have learned to be most sparing in its use. Mark Twain The Truth shall set you free. Jesus Christ The gift of Truth excels all gifts. Shakyamuni Buddha#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Teach Our Children Well https://t.co/tno921ikDB pic.twitter.com/myj3P3NSYl — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) August 11, 2023 x The USA is the "land of the free". So why are extremist Christian nationalists fear-mongering and attacking basic freedoms with all these anti-LGBTQ+ laws*? This #PrideMonth, I'm supporting my LGBTQ+ friends & family by spreading facts--not fear. #TruthBrigade pic.twitter.com/VgL8Ytc8uQ — #StayAndRaiseHell (@amcotn) June 15, 2023 x Nobody wins when #GunViolence devastates our communities. Why are some big platforms sending graphic gun videos to kids? “Who profits?” when we see a violent solution to violence! Let’s stop the spread of profiteering gun lies.#TruthBrigade https://t.co/T3ZoDRVHyH — Jim_38976🤔🔍 (@Jim_38976) August 6, 2023 x In what state, of mind or the US, is selling guns to kids legal? Children should not live in constant fear of mayhem & personal hate. We can vote against this insanity next year nationwide. We don't have to take it any more.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Kids are Not Collateral https://t.co/3ljzFP3xZX pic.twitter.com/mgEEwKgl7b — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) August 8, 2023 x In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made school boards. Mark Twain Don't let the crazies vote the even crazier onto your school board. Voting is good for all, or it is good for none.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: All kids belong https://t.co/B2YaDPvwJ4 pic.twitter.com/34OV6RvFff — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) April 27, 2023 CRT. Diversity and inclusion. Don’t say gay. Banning AP courses on Black history and psychology. Declaring war on “Woke”. Hostile takeovers of school districts. Closing libraries and firing librarians. German schoolchildren learn about the Holocaust, and visit concentration and death camps on school trips. Don’t tell me our White children are all such sensitive snowflakes that they can’t learn about slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, the Klans, while all Black and other minority children have to sit there and take the lies and ongoing hate. x Crime is a real problem, & has been in almost every society. That gives no excuse to those who lie about crime stats, claiming that crime is worse in "woke" cities &c. Sharpen your Google-fu when you see disinformation. Find out the truth & pass it on.#TruthBrigade https://t.co/o1ESrMcoer pic.twitter.com/lzqGRyWPpW — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) July 2, 2023 Hmm. All of this gives me ideas for some more Truth Sandwiches. How about you? [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/1/2190452/-Truth-Sandwiches-Back-to-School-and-Big-Pharma Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/