April 2023
“A Texas federal judge’s decided to suspend the FDA’s approval of a common abortion pill. Evidently, this judge thinks he knows more about medication than the FDA. The medication, mifepristone, has been on the market for more than 20 years. You can’t just randomly ban things that have been around for decades just because you don’t like them! You know how I know that? Mel Gibson.” —Stephen Colbert
“According to a new poll, 70% of Americans oppose the ban, including 53% of Republicans. Wait a second! Democrats and Republicans agree on something? That feels weird. It’s like one of those unlikely animal friendships, where you see a deer and a lion. It’s kinda neat but it feels unnatural because you know one of them gonna get snacky.” —Stephen Colbert
“More than 400 leaders of the pharmaceutical industry also condemned the decision with a letter, which pointed out that mifepristone is ‘safer than Tylenol, nearly all antibiotics and insulin’. So it seems like there wasn’t much about protecting public health in this ruling. We ingest way worse stuff than medication. Have you tried fried Oreos? They are schedule 1 controlled delicious.” —Stephen Colbert
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.”