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Politics Break

Written by: Barry Seymour
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News and Commentary about the current state of Politics in America. (It's broken.)Barry Seymour Political Science Politics & Government
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  • Politics Break - 09 September 2025
    Sep 9 2025

    WELL. There is not only no "art", and there also is NO "deal" when it comes to Donald Trump. There goes one of our closest trading and military partners,

    South Korea. Easy come, easy go. Who needs allies? Who needs trade? Who needs a reputation for keeping one's word, and being respected? Who needs to rise to the challenge of setting the bar for integrity, justice and democracy?

    Not Trump. So America doesn't either. America will just do what Trump does, when things don't go our way, and throw a little tantrum, pick up our marbles, and go home and sulk.

    Trump is sulking. His BFFs, Putin and Kim Jong Un, and former pal Modi from India, joined China's President Xi for a huge summit capped by a military parade in China, and they didn't invite him.

    "Looks like we've lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!" Trump posted in a snit on Friday.

    He has been lashing out at everybody. Declaring war on our own cities. Saying Black kids are "born criminals". Blowing up a boat of civilians while threatening Venezuela. Weaponizing religion.

    And rounding up every foreigner in sight. To hell with the "worst of the worst" criminals. Hit everybody where it HURTS. Round up our neighbors and coworkers. Take healthcare workers and construction workers and farm workers away from us. Terrorize the students that support our colleges and the tourists that support our businesses. Bring America to its KNEES, so it can plead for forgiveness.

    And bring the WORLD to its knees as well. Tariffs are not enough. Slap 'em all DOWN. Teach 'em who is BOSS.


    Only a couple of weeks ago the President of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, met with Trump in the Oval Office. A few days before that, Trump had made some grumpy postings about South Korea, so, hoping to avoid the kind of treatment Zelenskyy had received, Lee responded by heaping praise on Trump in public posts.

    The meeting in the Oval Office started amicably. Lee buttered Trump up right off the bat.

    “I heard that you recently redecorated the Oval Office, and I would like to say that it looks very bright and beautiful,” Lee said through an interpreter. “It has the dignity of America, and it symbolizes the new future and prosperity of America.”

    Then, knowing Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, Lee urged Trump to reunify the two Koreas, which might even result in the construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea, where they could all enjoy a round of golf together, Trump, Kim and Lee.

    And then Lee sat there, stoically smiling, while Trump had the bad manners to speak wistfully about wishing he could be sitting with his old pal Kim Jong Un.

    Lee did not come empty handed; he brought Tribute to the King.

    He had already pledged to invest $350 billion in the U.S. That was part of the DEAL he made with Trump, to avoid the extortion threats Trump had made to cripple the South Korean economy with crushing tariffs.

    Now, during his visit to the White House, Lee pledged an ADDITIONAL $150 billion investment.

    However, Lee learned within DAYS that Trump's "deals" are not worth the paper they are written on.

    There is no "art". There is no "deal".


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  • Politics Break - 08 September 2025
    Sep 8 2025

    Trump Regime BS of the Day Report:

    Seriously. There is something ridiculous, outrageous, or terrifying that comes out every single day - sometimes several TIMES a day. But today's BS is not only fake, not only will it confuse Americans, it is also going to cause a great deal of unnecessary pain and suffering.

    The Wall Street Journal and Reuters have both just reported that Kennedy is planning to announce a link between autism and acetaminophen use by pregnant women, as well as folate, an essential vitamin that helps the body produce cells, as being potential causes of autism.

    Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol. And already the Conspiracy Queens like Laura Loomer are broadcasting far and wide - shares in Kenvue, the company that produces Tylenol, have already dropped sharply, 14% on Friday.

    Robert F Kennedy Jr's QUACK report is going to smear - and ultimately remove - the one SAFE pain relief option women have when going through pregnancy. And gentlemen, let me tell you, there are a WHOLE lot of pain issues during pregnancy.


    And that fear will spread to everyone, from children to seniors, who have been relying on this ONE source of safe pain relief, no matter what condition, disease, or surgery recovery they are going through.


    Tylenol/acetaminophen has been put through studies SPECIFICALLY concerning pregnant women and their developing fetuses.


    NBC News reports that doctors and researchers have spent decades studying acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and have broadly found it to be the safest option for pain relief during pregnancy.


    For both mother AND developing fetus.


    The latest scientific study, published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy was not linked to autism, ADHD or intellectual disability.

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    But RFK Jr is taking ONE facet of the study out of context, and using it to "back up" his quackery.


    Initially, when researchers looked at the general population, reports NBC, there was a very small increased risk of autism in children whose mothers took acetaminophen while pregnant.

    However, after the researchers compared siblings within the same family — one exposed to the drug during pregnancy, and the other not — they found no link.


    NO LINK. The scientists researched it further, and found NO LINK. Siblings with the SAME genetic make-up, from the SAME mothers did not develop autism.


    “We were able to adjust for things that we saw that other people might have missed before,” said Brian Lee, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of epidemiology at Drexel University.


    Dr. Joshua Gordon, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University, said “it seems clear to me that the risk is low to non-existent.” He added that “RFK Jr. and those he supports have a long history of ignoring very large scale, well-controlled studies, instead promoting findings from much smaller studies and those with suspect methods.” That from NBC News.


    Reuters reports that "Large 2025 studies from Europe and Japan that suggested what might appear to be small associations between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders might actually be due to confounders, that is, other underlying factors - such as environmental conditions, parents' health and genetics, other medications the mothers may have been taking, and illness.


    "A 2024 study, of nearly 2.5 million children in Sweden found no causal link between in utero exposure to acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."


    "What's striking to me is that this report is supposed to uncover all these new causes, and so far, all we're learning is that they're rehashing existing research," said Dr. David Mandell, a professor of psychiatry and autism expert at the University of Pennsylvania.



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  • Politics Break - 05 September 2025
    Sep 5 2025
    So, while America burns, Trump fiddles.Why worry about the victims of his agenda, when he gets to party tonight (Thursday, September 4) with the predator class his Big Beautiful Bill is benefiting.Oh EXCUSE me, he is rebranding the BBB "the Massive Tax Cut" now, to "sell" it to the middle class. Even though we know full well by now that the "Massive Tax Cut" only benefits the super-rich.Trump has a massive project planned for what used to be The People's House, too - besides gilding every nook and cranny like the imperial palaces of Russia, he is adding a ridiculous ballroom to rival Versailles.And The People have been kicked out. We may not set one foot in there again until he says so. But the Royal Oligarchs of America? COME RIGHT IN, he says.And there they are. A who's who of the tech world's elite have assembled for dinner at the White House, Trump has been a major booster of all things crypto and AI - he even appointed venture capitalist David Sacks as the official White House AI and crypto czar.Why wouldn't Trump be a fan of AI and crypto, when he has used the office of the presidency to enrich his family by billions of dollars?
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