“Too over the top,” Jane said, “and besides generic drugs are off strategy for this assignment.”

“Yeah, but they cost our clients billions in sales.”

Dick seldom overreaches.

No one hides lies and half-truths more cleverly. He buries them deep inside mostly true statements.

“Your turn,” Dick replied. “What’s your spin?”

“It’s the patriotic duty of God-fearing Americans to shell out twice as much for prescription drugs as Europeans do,” Jane said.

“And when those good, God-fearing folks complain about subsidizing countries richer than us?”

“We do Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!”

“No way they’ll buy that shit,” Dick said.

“They believed 2020 was stolen,” Jane replied.

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