Well possibly yes but not diet, more like medications for autoimmune disorders, and making more effort not to lump everything into “schizophrenia”.
(paywall, turning of javascript works)
21 Likes
Maybe he read this and extrapolated far too far and far too simplistically. (NB It’s not about genes at all, it’s about gut bacteria. And for those with an interest in gut bacteria and the microbiome, it is fascinating.)
(Nah, he would never read this. It was one of his minions.)
19 Likes
This also belongs in the Ahole topic.
O’leary is a piece of work and makes you wonder who he’s trying to protect.
“If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn’t drag these women who are in childbearing years now, some of them now having children, back into the limelight, back into the same story, to expose them again to this hideous outcome,” O’Leary said Tuesday. “These guys, they don’t want you to help them anymore.”
25 Likes
They’re in childbearing years NOW? Think about what you just said, dude. (Dude = O’Leary, not tcg550)
Also, if you’re saying it’s bad to “expose them again to this hideous outcome”, you’re further admitting how egregious the crimes are.
28 Likes
By that argument, rapists and child molesters should never be prosecuted. “It’s too hard on the poor victims. Won’t someone think of the victims?”
Of course, that’s hardly unintentional, now is it?
28 Likes
I mean, it still feels like hyperbole to me. Early in Trump’s first term, I was already prepared for concentration camps, but the idea that they’re heading towards mass murdering people in the streets is taking some time for me to wrap my head around, even as they’ve already made it obvious that’s their goal.
21 Likes
Well, if he’s not on the list, that’s one way to make people think he is.
22 Likes
All the right-wing CNN commentators are pretty awful, but O’Leary with his smarmy and slimy arrogance really takes the cake. About his only comeback to anybody talking about Epstein is something along the lines of, “he’s dead, nobody cares, Americans don’t care about this”. He says absolutely nothing of value or substance, all too often trying to recontextualize things in investment terms when it makes zero sense with dumb things like “Biden’s stock is falling, what a poor investment”. Which to be fair isn’t much different than any of the other right-wing commentators, but he is somehow even worse than that fuckwit Scott Jennings.
24 Likes
Sadly, I believe it’s because he read (or heard one of his lackeys reference) a book by a psychiatrist named Uma Naidoo. She wrote a popular cookbook that essentially stated that she could treat schizophrenia with diet alone. I would be willing to bet that she is in the vicinity of the topic of the gut biome. She actually has solid credentials and was a real scientist at some point. But her conclusions are…extravagant. My limited knowledge of her trajectory has me put her in the same category as Oz and Carson. Once very good in their fields, then they decided they were qualified to speak on other fields.
25 Likes
I have seen this claim made completely as fact on a couple different YouTube channels. Apparently we are about to experience a lot of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia forgoing medication and evaluation by medical professionals in favor of self-directed dietary “cures.”
I mean a healthy diet will improve your mental health and people having mental health crises often struggle to eat healthy, but these claims are too extreme.
25 Likes
And why would he? The US can’t produce Brazil’s main exports, and can’t just change suppliers.
This is literally moronolini saying he’ll punch himself in the face until Brazil stops the prosecution.
25 Likes
Naidoo’s book burst onto the scene in the early stages of the pandemic, and I think it gathered steam as part of that zeitgeist. I expect she started with some actual science in the vicinity of what @anotheroldbbaccount referenced, she started making money when the crankosphere latched onto her, and she is now a “treat everything with food” nut primarily because it made her rich and at least semi-famous. I am not surprised to hear you say it’s in YouTube now. I have seen patients who read her book argue with their psychiatrists and refuse meds, leading to inpatient stays because of decompensation. I am guessing they probably learned of the idea from those vids. It’s bizarre the way we reject expertise in the one hand, then latch onto the wrong kind of “expertise” on the other.
24 Likes
He has no expertise in politics, no expertise in policy-making, no expertise in legal matters, and apparently no expertise with women.* CNN loves to have that kind of person on a panel because they think it makes for interesting viewing. For me, I stopped watching CNN precisely because of this sort of decision-making.
Also, I have no idea who O’Leary is, but from @tcg550’s post from The Daily Beast I truly wonder about how he’s treated every woman he’s ever met or who has ever worked for him.
27 Likes
22 Likes
The problem is we simply cannot ignore the American market. Trump knows it and like a mafia low level thug, He is trying to intimidate the world.
27 Likes
22 Likes
I understand, what I meant is that for many of the products, such as coffee and tropical fruits (mangoes, pineapple), optics, etc., there are no immediate alternatives.
The tariffs may slow trade because of increased prices in the US, but it’s not like the US can just produce locally or find another supplier that can take up the slack immediately. (For example, the only two US territories that produce coffee are Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico doesn’t produce enough for local consumption.)
Politically speaking, Lula doesn’t have to levy taxes on most US goods, as it is a tax on the buyer, which would be popular. He can, of course, use his bully pulpit to encourage people to buy non-US products (essentially boycott the US) which would hurt both long term and short term.
20 Likes
Pretty much the approach taken in Australia. Back in April, the Prime Minister was asked whether his response would include tariffs on US products. He replied with words to the effect of: “That would feel good today, but what about tomorrow? We just got out of an inflation crisis, nobody wants another one.”
Australia has the luxury of the US being around 5% of our export market. Tariffs will sting, but won’t harm us deeply.
23 Likes
And these very same products were exempt from the tariffs. At about 700 Brazilian Goods won´t pay tariffs, or at least abusive ones.
It probably won´t work, as we are very divided these days. And there are a lot of american companies here with goods loved by us.
22 Likes
He was the most obnoxious panel member of Dragons’ Den, the Canadian equivalent of Shark Tank The idea was the same, but whenever he offered some hopeful entrepreneur a deal, his naked greed was revolting. He was drooling at the chance to screw them over. This is probably why he was kicked off the show.
Then he decided he would run for office and become Prime Minister, despite, as you say, having no political experience. After he was laughed out of Canada for that, he slithered south and joined the MAGA bandwagon.
Consider that even David Frum, the other Canadian mouthpiece who left the country for Republican-style conservatism, has backed away from T***p and the MAGAs, and you’ll get some idea of how stupid O’Leary is.
27 Likes