The Absurd GOP

[Angrboda]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14...s-00592146

[The Grand Nudger]

LOL, exclusive. That's been every discord in america for fucking ages now.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Trump's office, and the big swing young males made in 2024 that put him there, foreshadowed this, yeah.

[Rev. Rye]

So, Cheryl Hines just went on the View, and around 3 minutes in, the subject went to her husband RFK Jr.'s brain worm





Apparently, the worm only ate a little bit of his brain and then died.

Then again, I'm not sure there's that much brain a worm can even eat without causing some damage. At the very least, it appears his speech has been clearly affected by it, as you can see by comparing this 2008 interview with anything you see him in now (even disregarding the bullshit he spews about autism making my blood boil, just the manner in which he speaks is really hard to listen to):




And then there's the metaphorical brain worm that wound up being trouble for the rest of the world: the kind that latched onto the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit, and not only stayed with it even after The Lancet retracted it entirely, but let it spiral into what basically amounts to a denial of germ theory and a rejection of 200 years' worth of advances in medicine that's somehow being enabled by the most powerful people in the land.

[awty]

Wait, So Now It's Circumcision That Causes Autism? Here's What the Science Says.

[The Grand Nudger]

The important thing to remember is it's something the mom did or failed to do, and government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing lifestyle choices. Circumcision, tylenol, high fructose corn syrup, aggravated blackness - whatever.

[awty]

Don't forget to inject bleach and shine a light up you butt....add a little horse wormer and all these causes of autism that are just now identified will be taken care of.

[Angrboda]

LOL, exclusive.  That's been every discord in america for fucking ages now.

Must be worse than the shit I read on X. I don't know why I go there. It's just depressing how stupid and evil people can be when there's nothing to restrain them.

[Rev. Rye]

Wait, So Now It's Circumcision That Causes Autism? Here's What the Science Says.

You know what, say what you will about the Tylenol claims, but given that the scientific consensus on the origins of autism has converged to "mostly hereditary, with a small percentage left for possible pre-natal factors," at least that was only mostly idiotic.*

Now, we're not only regressing back to post-natal factors, but we're also blaming something that (at least in the West) is a strictly gendered phoenomenon, and thus leaves out a decent-sized proportion of the autistic population.





* It looks like the science is against the Tylenol-Autism link after all. That said, given that it's at least not focusing on things that happened after birth (at this point, the consensus seems to have ruled out any post-natal causes), at least it's something vaguely resembling a step in the right direction if you kind of squint at it.

[awty]

Wait, So Now It's Circumcision That Causes Autism? Here's What the Science Says.

You know what, say what you will about the Tylenol claims, but given that the scientific consensus on the origins of autism has converged to "mostly hereditary, with a small percentage left for possible pre-natal factors," at least that was only mostly idiotic.*

Now, we're not only regressing back to post-natal factors, but we're also blaming something that (at least in the West) is a strictly gendered phoenomenon, and thus leaves out a decent-sized proportion of the autistic population.





* It looks like the science is against the Tylenol-Autism link after all. That said, given that it's at least not focusing on things that happened after birth (at this point, the consensus seems to have ruled out any post-natal causes), at least it's something vaguely resembling a step in the right direction if you kind of squint at it.

The cause of autism is the new dog whistle for the GOP and MAGAts.  They are busy throwing anything they can out there (except the Epstein files) to see what will stick.

Sadly, many of the faithful will swallow it all...hook, link, and sinker.