November 2021
“The legal maneuverings of the health products giant Johnson & Johnson to avoid liability for its popular talcum baby powder. The company is facing thousands of lawsuits over allegations that its powder was contaminated with asbestos. Johnson & Johnson has long denied the link, but documents reveal the company knew about small amounts of asbestos in its products as far back as 1957.
The company has recalled the product and been forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements for women who attribute their ovarian cancer to the powder. That’s a lot of lawsuits. I mean, you know you fucked up when your company is giving away more money than Power Bowl.
You cannot be selling baby powder with asbestos in it. People are rubbing the stuff all over their bodies. Not to mention the cocaine dealers who mix it in with their product – now you’ve got innocent cokeheads snorting asbestos, it’s unacceptable!
Johnson & Johnson has found a cure, but unfortunately, it’s not a cure for the cancer. It’s for the company’s legal problems. Through an audacious legal loophole, a shadow company of Johnson & Johnson, based in New Jersey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas.
J&J founded the alternative company, LTL, in Texas, a state with lax regulations; dumped all the billions of legal liability into it; and then promptly filed for bankruptcy. This is insane, people – Johnson & Johnson is pretty much trying to do the first thing everyone thinks of when they get caught: blame it on your evil identical twin.
I mean, we’ve all tried it, but it somehow actually works if you’re a large corporation. Honestly, I’m almost impressed, I just wish they put as much effort into Covid immunity as they did into legal immunity.” —Trevor Noah
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night
of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”