Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

I've been on the immigration thread banging that drum since before he was elected. The western world is going through an illegal immigration disaster currently.

Why are autism and ADHD rates increasing so much? I imagine it is in part due to increased awareness among doctors of these disorders. Back in the old days they were rare. On the subject of autism and acetaminophen, bear in mind that an association does not imply a causal relationship. Opened umbrellas are highly corrected with rainfall but they don’t cause it. Similarly, there are many possible reasons why pregnant women who use acetaminophen may on average differ subtly from those who don’t. This is why sibling studies are so important which compare pregnancies in the same family where acetominophen was and wasn’t used. One of the best studies of this type was conducted in Sweden. They reviewed the cases of 2.5 million children and found 185 909 children (7.49%) who were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. They then looked at the sibling cases in this group where the presence of acetominophen use differed in pregnancies. Overall they did find a slightly increased risk.of autism in the group using acetominophen but when they looked at siblings they found no correlation within families between acetaminophen and autism. The link to the paper is not cooperating so I’ve put this one in instead. Lots of expert opinions.

The USA is going to implode.

it certainly wasn’t trump:

The republicans are the party of corporate America. Most of the debt they incurred has been as the result of giving big tax cuts to multi millionaires and billionaires.

Eating themselves alive.

"Debate" about what though?

Look, Dr. Noel Browne wiped out TB in this country with a vaccine campaign. TB was something that affected nearly EVERY family in Ireland to some degree at one point in our country's history and now it's a thing of the past. Measles, mumps and rubella was reduced to insignificant levels because of the MMR vaccine. Polio has been practically eliminated and was once an awful disease that people genuinely feared.

Vaccines work. But that doesn't mean that there may not be side effects among some people, as there is with ALL drugs. That does not eliminate the overall good that vaccines have done in our battle against diseases, especially crippling diseases.

There is no real "debate" here, because the opposite side of the "vaccines are generally good" argument are the loons that say that they're "bad" and we should stop using them.

Really, the only data worth looking at in so far as a vaccine "debate" is concerned is a numbers one with regards to how many people could, possibly, be affected negatively by a vaccine. But, frankly, I reckon such numbers would be so low as to be practically negligible and the universal benefit that vaccines provide will outweigh the, possible, detrimental effects.

The fact is this, however…if we stopped vaccinating against certain diseases the amount of people that would be affected negatively by that would vastly exceed the amount of people negatively affected by their continued use.

The whole anti-vax movement is utterly absurd.

Considering Trump knows nothing about vaccines, or medicine in general, it’s best to ignore what he is saying.

You’ve heard him speak, right?

1. So it was Trump all along that pressured ABC to drop the show
2. It was nothing to do with Kirk, but his hurt feelings. I hope all the posters here feel pretty stupid for saying otherwise
3. Kimmel's show was never cancelled, at least not publicly. Sounds like a backdoor deal was done.
4. I'm sure moaning about it will drive the ratings up
5. The 16m settlement related to a journalist saying Trump was found liable for rape, when in fact it was sexual assault. Bizarrely people seem to forget that
6. Release the Epstein files

I wonder who the late night host from Ireland is that he's referring to?