Grotesque, greedy, gullible, graceless, gaslighting, gormless, god-forsaken grifter - Trump thread #147

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Desperately seeking that Peace Prize.
May have to settle for the Hero of the Russian Federation award. Bigly sad.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5372669-still-dancing-the-tariff-tango-vlad-and-bibi-still-playing-him-like-a-fiddle-and-epsteins-list-must-be-written-in-invisible-ink-trump-thread-146

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e9dd1a0e2b77037f

Trump condemns Israel’s bombing of Qatar.....yeah, right!

Actually, thinking about it more, he probably sanctioned Israeli attacks on Doha because the Qataris gave him a dud plane they've been trying to get rid of for years, but they couldn't give it away. Bit of a Trojan plane!

Certainly cleverer than the 🍊 🤡

Thanks, @Evenstar, I’m stressed out about nothing to do with politics at the moment, and that last of yours gave me a great belly-laugh. I love it! Thank you!

So the private contractor providing security at the GHF sites in Gaza are employing members of a known racist biker gang as guards.

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo

Something to cheer

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lygys57ar22o

Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)

@CaveMum that news makes me want to scream at the unfairness and cruelty. Sadistic bastards. The poor people of Gaza, even heaven must be weeping.

Just putting this here for any scientists (or anyone, really).
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/09/rfk-jr-autism-tylenol-acetaminophen/684136/?gift=e2u7q4bY0aDA8U4mEoqTWeS2XT9PLNsEyddpCD5sis0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Not condoning (or condemning) Israel’s attack on Doha, but Israel’s ambassador responded to the orange one not being thrilled (apparently), ‘we don’t always act in the interests of the United States’, made me snigger and wish more would mention that.
Seen On BBC news live reporting.

Paracetamol causes autism?

So it appears to be more nonsense. Who'd'a thunk it.

news.ki.se/no-link-between-paracetamol-use-during-pregnancy-and-autism-or-adhd-in-children

Obviously (to the current people in charge of Health in the USA. Not to anyone else who might actually know the medical facts.). FFS again.

Wow - anecdotally that hasn’t been a cause for at least some I know of - does RFK jr ever consider science, ever?

I think he prides himself on his lack of scientific knowledge. Or any sort of knowledge, really, except how to brown-nose Trump.

RFK causes severe indigestion. He is barking mad, a dangerous, self-important ignorant loon. I wonder how much his education cost? Refunds are long overdue.

I've just read Tina Brown's Fresh Hell substack summarising the dystopia horror Bigly is visiting upon USA. She's put it perfectly. I don't know how to share it, unfortunately.

Just find some links to historical despots.

Who makes paracetamol? Not going to be happy bunnies - difficult to see whether Trump is for the money making legal drug lords (to boost his pockets) or for random and rabid health destroying crazy as he likes to be, idk, different?

who makes paracetamol?

india and china are

Anyone can make paracetamol (I vaguely remember that I did, once, in a previous life) as it's off license, which is why it costs pennies.

Pharmaceuticals have been in crisis for a few years now. Certainly I can remember warnings going back to the 1990s.

TL;DR is that all the "good stuff" has been discovered or invented and as a result the law of diminishing returns means it's getting more expensive to license fewer drugs. (Remember modern medicine, like education, isn't about outcomes. It's about selling shit).

This means there is a scramble to try and squeeze the last cent out of everything (a la Mickey Mouse).

Hence the push to look for profitable side-effects that can be marketed as a new treatment (with the associated resetting of the patent).

Obviously a great part of the costs are regulatory.

Paracetamol is one of the painkillers that are safe in pregnancy. I had to take the full dose for months when I was pregnant. That’s evil.

There have been rumours on the science side of my Twitter feed for a couple of weeks that this sort of misogyny may well have a lot to do with the ‘discovery’ that tylenol in pregnancy is responsible for the rise in autism. It will remove pretty much the only pain relief that many women in pregnancy will take.

Given that it’s been used in pregnancy since the 1950s (I think) we seem to j e moved from correlation = causation to no correlation also = causation.

Between this and the dickhead who’s surgeon general in Florida removing their vaccine mandates this administration are going to set the US decades back in health care/science research. I’d imagine there are a lot of US scientists and companies looking outside the US at the moment.

Luckily for the U.K. we’ve never done something completely stupid like put up barriers between our science research and that of our neighbours, losing loads of funding in the process so we could take advantage of this. Oh wait…

Reports of shots being fired at an event being hosted by Charlie Kirk in Utah.

BBC reporting Kirk hit in the neck and has been taken to hospital.