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Lonestarblue

(13,354 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:31 AM Oct 2025

Where do babies come from? Robert F Kennedy Jr doesn't seem to know

Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:24 AM - Edit history (1)

I just had to post this article because it highlights the utter ignorance of many in the Republican Party. The article cites Kennedy, who demonstrated his ignorance at a cabinet meeting last week, as well as several Republican legislators who proved their ignorance simply by speaking. Evidently, Republicans have never heard the old adage that "it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt.”

“In a shocking development, however, it seems that Kennedy – an anti-vaxxer who says his brain was partly eaten by a parasitic worm – may not know what he’s talking about. During a cabinet meeting last Thursday, Kennedy reasserted unproven claims that taking the common painkiller acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol or paracetamol, while pregnant causes autism. Doubters of this theory, he said, were motivated by Trump derangement syndrome. To underscore his point, he referenced a TikTok video he’d seen of a pregnant woman “gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta”.

Foetuses, of course, develop in the uterus, not the placenta. It’s possible, if we are being generous, that Kennedy misspoke. Then again, he would hardly be the first US politician to make it clear he knows nothing about the female bodies he is so keen to legislate, would he?”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/where-do-babies-come-from-robert-f-kennedy-jr-doesnt-seem-to-know

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Where do babies come from? Robert F Kennedy Jr doesn't seem to know (Original Post) Lonestarblue Oct 2025 OP
I was going to comment Bettie Oct 2025 #1
At least he didn't say odins folly Oct 2025 #2
Ignorant men legislating womens' bodies. Diamond_Dog Oct 2025 #3

Bettie

(19,457 posts)
1. I was going to comment
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:37 AM
Oct 2025

and hoped it could be clever....but really, there is nothing to say except: they are so fucking stupid and I have no idea how they even manage to function in life..

Wait, I do know. Apparently, rich people can be so stupid because they have others to keep them alive day to day.

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