Ramblings of a Mad Woman

arm: *harmlessly brushes against titty*

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND READ THIS BEFORE WATCHING THE NEW AMERICAN HORROR STORY PREMIERE! 

 Within 20 minutes of the episode starting there is an extremely violent, graphic, bloody, loud rape scene. It comes out of nowhere, there is no build up to it, it just happens. It is not brief, it is very long and loud and the camera hides nothing. It’s extremely disturbing and could seriously affect your mental state. 

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT WATCH IT IF YOU ARE SPECIFICALLY TRIGGERED BY SCENES OF RAPE OR EVEN DISTURBED BY SCENES OF RAPE. 

 It is beyond disturbing and it really comes absolutely out of nowhere. 

 IF YOU STILL WANT TO WATCH THE EPISODE BUT AVOID THE SCENE IT STARTS JUST AFTER 18:00 (18 minutes in) AND CONTINUES UNTIL 22:30 (22 minutes and 30 seconds in) 

A former hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical businessman has purchased the rights to a 62-year-old drug used for treating life-threatening parasitic infections and raised the price overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750.

According to the New York Times, Martin Shkreli, 32, the founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, purchased the rights to Daraprim for $55 million on the same day that Turing announced it had raised $90 million from Shkreli and other investors in its first round of financing.

Daraprim is used for treating toxoplasmosis — an opportunistic parasitic infection that can cause serious or even life-threatening problems in babies and for people with compromised immune systems like AIDS patients and certain cancer patients — that sold for slightly over $1 a tablet several years ago.  Prices have increased as the rights to the drug have been passed from one pharmaceutical company to the next, but nothing like the almost 5,500 percent increase since Shkreli acquired it.

This is absolutely monstrous. He’s like a parody of a capitalist from a Marxist propaganda film. Jesus H. Christ what a piece of trash.

“We know, these days, in modern pharmaceuticals, cancer drugs can cost $100,000 or more, whereas these drugs can cost a half of a million dollars,” he explained. “Daraprim is still under-priced relative to its peers.”

Asked if the pill really only costs $1 to manufacture, Shkreli agreed and said, “It costs very little to make Daraprim.”