• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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      Congress too, we need them to step down. The rich are afraid of taxes, congress needs to be more afraid of us than they are of taxing the rich. they still need to get food. They still have family that live in our communities. They should feel as safe as an illegal immigrant smuggling thought crimes across the border.

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    Touted ‘Unfit’

    By senators prior to his appointment?

    No, by some anonymous posts on social media last week

    So will this result in any actual consequences?

    Absolutely not

    Great

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    He’s dumber than most people can imagine. Jack, Ted, and Bobby might have been morally bankrupt but they weren’t stupid. Something went seriously wrong with this one.

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    Hey, that 65 year old neighbor with the $200k model trainset? Yeah, probably autistic.

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    I love how this is the hill people finally die on, and not the other absolutely wild shit this guy has said before he even got this gig, like collecting roadkill or his extremely well documented conspiracy-esque, anti-vaccine history.

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    Unfortunately lots of old folks think this way, actually today in the morning this same topic was brought up at breakfast by my mom, she was not being disrespectful necessarily but still is incredible how she cannot see that herself might be autistic and just never got a diagnosis

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    Plenty of older people have ASD. I know a couple personally. They have childhood stories of being beaten, yelled at, difficulty with teachers and peers. They claim to be fine today, but telling horror stories of your trauma as a kid really says otherwise. If ASD was bad enough to be “retarded”, they were kept from society and/or put in State Homes. RFK is ADHD, and the only thing that kept him out of jails due to the untreated effects when he was younger is hs family name and wealth.

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    The moment has reignited broader concerns about Kennedy’s qualifications and judgment…

    He has no qualifications and an exactly equivalent amount of judgement.

    🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

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      He may have 0 qualifications, but I wouldn’t say his judgement is exactly equivalent. His judgment goes much more into the negatives, since everything he says and every decision he makes is actively causing harm. We would be better off simply having the role vacant, or giving the job to someone in a coma.

      Ironically, even the most profoundly autistic people, the ones that resemble his characterization of the condition, would still be better at the job than he is.

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      He is a cis white male. Pretty sure thats all the qualifications he needs unless you are one of those “woke” people who think we should have experts running things.

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      Methinks the “doctors” fucked up his so-called brain worm incident…

      Evidently, they removed what there was of the brain and left the decaying dead worm in its place.

      🤷‍♂️

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        It’s not doctor’s. Dude spent his life eating trash at the dump and no I don’t mean that figuratively.

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    A friend of mine learned she had adhd at 65, and autism very recently at ~78. She said that her behavior and interests finally make sense.