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Andy Reed's avatar

"But this is all political. It’s about vengeance against the bad liberals and the bad scientists who have made them feel stupid, it’s about getting to declare 'victory' over something big, BIG! It’s about their own egos. They just want 'a win.'"

I have news for these people (having known a few of their type over the decades): The ONLY reason that "bad liberals and scientists," along with patriots and other smart people, are able to "make them feel stupid" is this: THEY ARE STUPID.

That's the bottom line. (They remind me of Fredo Corleone: "I'm smart. I can do things. I was passed over!") People who are actually intelligent (and sane) don't feel belittled or stupid no matter what others tell them. I've often felt ignorant when a brilliant person has tried to explain astrophysics to me, but never stupid.

Trump? Kennedy? They're so far beyond the dismal combination of arrogance plus ignorance that they have to fall into the category of "dumb as dirt," and crazy to boot.

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Marycat2021's avatar

I expect the manufacturers of acetaminophen are gearing up to sue the living daylights out of Kennedy, Trump and the Dept. of HHS.

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Pixeloid's avatar

Nobody had autism when I was growing up. However, we DID have kids who acted out, were nervous, mentally defective/deficient, emotionally disturbed, had behavioral issues, were discipline problems, rode the short bus, were the R-word, or just "weird". You know, the kinds of things that would be diagnosed as autism now.

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gigi's avatar

Think that Robert F. Lyssenko Jr will now brag that autism is solved with the standard swindler trick : you cannot tell he’s wrong for at least a few years, since you must wait for a maphumaphmonin aka tylenol free generation to prove him wrong. And any knew case is the Mother’s fault again – how long did it take to get rid of Bettelheim’s conclusions ?

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Steve's avatar

Robyn, since you’re a Chicagoan, I’d like to know if I’m just being an optimist, or NBC5 seems to be pushing back more lately on the regime’s narratives. They have called on experts that deny the vaccine/acetaminophen BS. They have presented evidence against the ICE narrative on several (a shooting, an alleged assault, the Broadview protests) recent immigrant activities.

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

"Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was. They took the flag out and they were hitting. Then they put the flag back and they went to the table. And he hit and the other hit.

"'Shut up that moaning,' Luster said, 'and take you one of these here acetiman... aceticons... goddamn Tylenols, you goddamn loony.'"

Guess there were autistic people in the 1920s, since Faulkner was writing about one.

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Asphalt-Type Person's avatar

Fidel Castro took over Cuba in... 19-freaking-59.

He and his brother Raoul are both dead.

Can't we just lift that damn embargo already?

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Kirsty Gnome-Poledance Himmler's avatar

Tylenol? Huh. I thought it was from putting ketchup on hot dogs!

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

Morning spuggers, all well? My predictive text now jumps from "Mor" straight to "Morning spuggers" and "Nig" gets me "Nighters sheeple". The latter is slightly reassuring.

Cool and autumnal here, should be dry so not too bad. Yesterday was a reminder that while fit, I really need to work on my suppleness as navigating a crawl space and fitting brackets in a tight corner was not as easy as it used to be. Not that my lumbering 6'3" was ever the best fit.

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motmelere's avatar

Presidents don't come out and announce scientific breakthroughs, only insecure douchebags who thinks that they have a chance of distracting their base from all of the spectacular failures of their miserable existences. Presidents laud the great achievements of the scientists they continued to fund and direct toward urgent public needs; PAB wants a cookie for pulling another paranoid fantasy out of his voluminous ass.

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DemoCat's avatar

Trump, caught on a hot mic just before the breakthrough autism speech, “well, if fucking Ben Shapiro’s security wasn’t so tight I wouldn’t need to throw Tylenol under the bus to create another distraction from Epstein!”

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I had Scarlet Fever as a kid, among most of the other childhood illnesses. Fever fucked up my hearing for life. Wish to hell we had a vaccine for it back then.

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Joshua's avatar

Eve was framed.

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Lady Tavestock's avatar

Sorry for ignoring JFK Jr , my friend and I, both autistic engineers, were too busy drinking sangria and talking about: how many generations of monarchs it takes to migrate from my backyard in Maryland to Mexico, expecting rejection from neurotypicals, drones, typhoons, why Bezos/Zuckerberg/Theil/Musk seem like Bond villains, and how people can get lucky once in life and promptly think that they're geniuses.

Anyway, the sangria was good.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Although it takes multiple generations for the monarchs to get from Mexico to Maryland or Michigan, a single "Methuselah generation" which is long-lived for a butterfly goes all the way back in one epic migration.

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Lady Tavestock's avatar

You're invited to our next sangria meeting!

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

*

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Crystalclear12's avatar

Yep, makes sense.

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

He's a wise man.

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

The way that Dorothy Fink—“doctor”, my bony white ass—is beaming with admiration at Shitler and Brainworm during this clown show is really disturbing.

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