I’m still waiting for that taco truck on my corner.
Alas, that was if Hillary got elected.
I’m still waiting for that, too.
I’m starting to think RFK Jr. doesn’t actually know what autism is.
“I’m starting to think RFK Jr. doesn’t actually know what ______ is.”
Just fill in the blank.
They don’t wear sweaters. They’re not good dancers. They don’t play drums.
And they’re roly-poly.
Cue Randy Newman:
Autistic people got no reason…
No pony? Fuck that.
All they know is mcdonald’s charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie.
I understood that reference.
I figured some people would.
Every once in a while I manage to slip a cultural reference through unnoticed. There was one last week, I think.
They’ll never teach second grad. No, wait, I have a niece who is doing that. Hmm.
I was supervsior over a lab job that required attention to detail and tended to be tedious. It also required a college degree. Some of my best employees were on the spectrum-they knew what they needed to do and made sure it was done exactly according to the rules. They were great and I’d hire them back in a minute.
Not that’s it any less dehumanizing, but that speech took place in April 2025. After the backlash, RFK’s office walked it back (a little) by claiming that he was referring to the small subset of people with very profound autism.
I remember because one of my Trumper “friends” on Facebook responded by saying something like, “Yeah, I used to have a boyfriend who was autistic, and there was all sorts of stuff he couldn’t do!” She didn’t like the replies of “Well, if he was your boyfriend, he must have at least been able to go out on dates, right?”
I didn’t. Thank goodness for google.
Now I have that song stuck in my head. i hate you all.
I didn’t know my meme there, either. I am old. but I try!
It was president Obiden’s fault for letting all those commies have guns, as if they were normal god-fearing Americans, or something!
As I read it, a high-pitched voice in my heads was chanting, “Whale heads, whale heads…”
Donald would have liked to promise ponies, but he was overruled by the fossil fuel industry. (Can’t have people traveling around on pony-back!)
Of course RFK Jr. intended to terrify people about autism in general, not just in severe cases.
If you don’t terrify people, you can’t use their fears to make a fortune by manipulating the market. (As in ‘Tylenol causes autism.’)
(A lot of Trumpian horror comes from the weirdness of his acolytes and minions----but a huge proportion of it reliably comes from their universal greed for cash.)
During the Manhattan Project, at the Y-12 electromagmetic separation plant in Oak Ridge, although not on the spectrum, the local high-school girls hired as operators famously outperformed Berkeley scientists.
Tennessee Eastman was hired to manage Y-12 on the usual cost-plus fixed fee basis, with a fee of $22,500 per month plus $7,500 per racetrack for the first seven racetracks and $4,000 per additional racetrack.[59] The calutrons were initially operated by scientists from Berkeley to remove bugs and achieve a reasonable operating rate. They were then turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators who had only a high school education. Nichols compared unit production data and pointed out to Lawrence that the young “hillbilly” girl operators, known as Calutron Girls, were outperforming his doctorate-level scientists. They agreed to a production race and Lawrence lost, a morale boost for the Tennessee Eastman workers and supervisors. The girls were “trained like soldiers not to reason why”, while “the scientists could not refrain from time-consuming investigation of the cause of even minor fluctuations of the dials”.[60]