#CAUSE CARSONS AUTISTIC

[laguna-lesbian]

petition to change gretsons ship name to flappybird

[queerlyloud]

All of this and also! @dimonds456 If you would love a happy story about a lovely person with parsley green teeth who gets a wonderful romance and happily ever after, Gail Carson Levine wrote "For Biddle's Sake," a remixed fairytale in a book of remixed fairy tales to help little girls love themselves no matter what.

This story is included in an anthology called The Fairy's Return and Other Tales which includes a story that was really uplifting to me as a chronically ill autistic child: The Princess Test. The main character is extremely particular about her environment, to the point that changing anything or using a less expensive version of something would cause her physical pain, but instead of being upset with her, her parents loved her and did everything they could to make her comfortable despite financial struggle to do so because she is their precious child and they loved her and loved taking care of her. She is never made out to be a "problem" child for her accommodations.

It also includes a male Cinderella adaptation called Cinderellis and many other wonderful stories to build children's confidence.

Genuinely, if you are ever looking for books to make young people feel capable and confident and strong, you can never go wrong with Gail Carson Levine, whom many of you probably know wrote the Newbery Honor* book Ella Enchanted, the book about learning how to tell others no. :)

Hey, guys? Make peace with yellow teeth. I'm so serious right now.

[jinxpologist]

it’s completely okay to enjoy media the way you want to but the dream smp fandom is, i hate to say it, one of the worst fandoms i��ve ever been in for genuinely exploring characters and their personalities/cores and carson made a good case as to why.

i couldn’t tell you why the fandom culture is like this, and i’m not saying i’m immune to this (i am so far from immune to it) but there’s this weird fucking tendency to sort of soften characters into good people when they. aren’t. and carson pointed this out, a LOTTT of c!tommy content softens him and victimizes him so much he loses all of his interest. he’s a fucking asshole. c!tommy is not perfect, he is not soft, he is not gentle, and he never was. and portraying him like that so often that we get upset when he’s not portrayed like that in canon is a huge fucking problem because it makes it that much harder for tommy to stay true to his character and for other people to do lore that involves him. (also the weird “tommy-centric” thing where any content tommy so much as touches just becomes saturated with him. yeah i don’t like it and it’s upsetting to see that it’s leaked over to other fandoms adjacent to ours.)

i’ve also noticed a trend among wilburians to like. sort of sand away c!wilbur’s sharp edges, in fashion similar to what i’ve seen some inniters do with c!tommy. and i used to just ignore it but it’s starting to REALLY get to me a bit now. because i love c!wilbur because of the horrible fucked up bad things he did. that’s why i love him. i love him BECAUSE he blew up l’manberg and i love him because he will not apologize for that. and i will defend him to the death yes but also i think we should be allowed to acknowledge that this character is violent and prone to horrible fits of anger and is actively destructive. and not only acknowledge that but love that, because it’s fun to watch. he’s not real guys. he’s not real. he does not have to strive for morality. in fact he shouldn’t be perfectly moral because that’s fucking boring and i hate it.

please don’t get me wrong and think anyone who likes c!tommy is bad or that the whole fandom sucks or that everyone but me is wrong. cause like that’s not true. but this is something that’s actively driving me away from the fandom, i’m gonna be honest. i haven’t ever felt this miserable in a fandom, i don’t think.

i think a lot of the problem with the way the dream smp fandom treats it’s characters is that we’re all projecting very fucking hard and have deep bias for the characters and so take it personally when bad things happen to them and that’s like... that’s bad. it’s not bad to care about things. but caring about art so badly and attaching ourselves to characters so much that it restricts artistic freedom in that way is bad. it’s a sign to step back.

i know a LOT of us are autistic or have adhd and some of us have other attachment/mental health issues on top of that. and that complicates things, obviously. but please like. idk. be mindful and try to cultivate a healthy relationship to fiction and also be aware that while death of the author is a very very real concept, it doesn’t mean that mischaracterization is valid.

[many-bees]

I swear to god the backlash to tumblr’s anti-cure, mental-illness excuses-everything culture is one step away from being like “You have to look people in the eye when you talk to them or else you’re a terrible person . I don’t care if you’re autistic being mentally ill is no excuse to treat people like shit”

[marriedtojbiebs]

me: [looks up Cody Carson's cover of Talk Dirty To Me]

me, the whitest of the white: what white nonsense is this????

me, the next day, looping it: these guitar hits???? heaven???

[dear-indies]

hi there! can you please give some recommendations for fcs who have goth/alternative resources? i'm open to all ethnicities and any age, really! thank you so much!

Laura Dern (1963) - Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).

Pauley Perrette (1969) - NCIS (2003-2018).

Jada Pinkett Smith (1971) African-American / African-/Creole-Barbadian, African-/Creole-Jamaican - Gotham (2014-2017).

Freema Agyeman (1979) Ghanaian / Iranian - Sense8 (2015-2018). 

Krysten Ritter (1981) - Jessica Jones (2015-2019). 

Beth Ditto (1981) - lesbian. 

Inez Jasper (1981) Sto:lo, Ojibwe, Metis.

Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German - Supergirl (2016-2017).

Harry Shum Jr. (1982) Chinese - Shadowhunters (2016-2019). 

Mon Laferte (1983) Chilean. 

Manny Montana (1983) Mexican [Aztec, Spanish, Irish] - Good Girls ().

Levy Tran (1983) Vietnamese.

Tessa Thompson (1983) Afro-Panamanian / Mexican, mix of English, German, Scottish, and Irish - bisexual - Sorry to Bother You (2018).

Richard Cabral (1984) Mexican. 

Asia Kate Dillon (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish - nonbinary (they/them). 

Jaimie Alexander (1984) - Blindspot (2015-2019).

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

Janelle Monáe (1985) African-American - pansexual.

Maika Harper (1986) Inuit. 

Hale Appleman (1986) - queer - The Magicians (2015-2019).

Juliana Huxtable (1987) African-American - trans.

Tuppence Middleton (1987) - Sense8 (2015-2018). 

Ryan Ashley (1987) 

Lights Poxleitner-Bokan (1987) 

Nico Tortorella (1988) - nonbinary (they/them). 

Yeng Constantino (1988) Filipino. 

Nadia Hilker (1988) Tunisian / German.

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese - Titans (2018-2019).

FKA twigs (1988) African-Jamaican / English, Spanish.

Robert Sheehan (1988) - The Umbrella Academy (2019-2020).

Zoë Kravitz (1988) African-American, Afro-Bahamian, Ashkenazi Jewish.

Eliza Taylor (1989) - Thumper (2017).

Kat Blaque (1990) African-American - trans.

Olly Alexander (1990) - nonbinary (he/him) - gay. 

Adelaide Kane (1990) - Into the Dark (2019).

Eduardo Casanova (1991) - gay.

Safiya Nygaard (1991) Indian / Danish.

Willy Cartier (1991) Vietnamese, Senegalese / French.

Jade Hassouné (1991) Lebanese - unsure of sexuality but not straight.

Foteini Aristakesyan (1991) Armenian. 

Awsten Knight (1992)

Tommy Martinez (1992) Venezuelan - Riverdale (2017-2018).

Sky Ferreira (1992) Portuguese Brazilian / Ashkenazi Jewish, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Chippewa Cree, Scottish, French, English, Irish.

Emma Sulkowicz (1992) Chinese, Japanese, and Ashkenazi Jewish - non-binary (they.them).

Dorian Electra (1992) - genderfluid (they/them).

Ryan Cassata (1993) - trans.

Kiersey Clemons (1993) African-American / European - DJ Snake and Bipolar Sunshine’s music video (2016). 

Taylor Cranston (1993) 

Kawennahere Devery Jacobs (1993) Mohawk - The Sun at Midnight (2016).

Linnea Berthelsen (1993) Indian - Strange Things (2017).

Julia Michaels (1993) Mexican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous] / Dutch, English, French, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish.

Sofia Carson (1993) Colombian – including Arab [Syrian-Lebanese, Palestinian], Spanish, possibly English, possibly other - Descendants (2015-2019).

Nyané Lebajoa (1994) Basotho.

Lynn Gunn (1994) - lesbian.

Lina Ahn (1994) Korean. 

Emma Dumont (1994) - The Gifted (2017-2019).

Khadijha Red Thunder (1994) Cree, African-American, Spanish.

Lyrica Okano (1994) Japanese - Runaways (2017-2019).

Asami Zdrenka (1995) Japanese / English, Danish, Irish.

Stef Sanjati (1995) - Sweet/Vicious (2016-2017).

Kehlani (1995) African-American, French, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Spanish, Mexican, Filipino, Scottish, English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and Welsh, as well as distant Cornish, Irish, Choctaw.

Ryan Potter (1995) Japanese / Ashkenazi Jewish, Swedish, English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - Titans (2018-2019).

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020).

Nikki Gould (1995) Mi'kmaq, Unspecified White -  Degrassi (2013-2017).

Ziibiwan (1995) Ojibwe - Two Spirit (they/them).

Miles McKenna (1995) - trans. 

Tati Gabrielle (1996) Korean / African-American - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020).

Elliot Fletcher (1996) - trans. 

Mina Mahmood (1996) Pakistani. 

Luka Sabbat (1997) Haitian, Irish, English, German.

Esfir Khan (1997) Naskapi, Ojibwe, Oglala Lakota Sioux, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sihasapa Lakota Sioux, Yankton Dakota Sioux, Nakoda Sioux, Jicarilla Apache, Iranian, Armenian, and Russian - autistic, bisexual, and a practising Muslim

Shannon Taylor (1997) 

Ziruza Tasmagambetova (1997) Kazakh. 

Taylor Reilly (1997) - has a unique form of chondrodysplasia punctata which caused scoliosis, trouble breathing, and unilateral deafnes.

Ariela Barer (1998) Ashkenazi Jewish, some Mexican - bisexual - Runaways (2017-2019).

Hunter Schafer (1999) - trans - Euphoria (2019).

Sivan Alyra Rose (1999) Chiricahua Apache / Afro-Puerto Rican & Creole - gender questioning (she/her and they/them) - pansexual. 

Minni Jo (?) Puerto Rican - NCIS (2012).

Jeff Chen (?) Chinese. 

Sandra Mae Frank (?) - deaf - Daybreak (2019).

VIZIN (?) Two Spirit - she/her and he/him - gay. 

Caligo Bastet (?) Israeli - agender. 

Roseanne Supernault (?) Cree Metis. 

Some aren’t goth / alternative but could work for said characters! -C

[promof1976]

not to be a dick and ask too much but how about all 20 for ncfom for the autism ask thing u reblogged

anon, i assure you, you are 100% NOT being a dick believe me i have been waiting for this

1. how are they with clothing textures? are they fine with fashionable but uncomfortable clothes or do they prefer casual & comfy? or other?

basically, if it’s stiff or too tight, he’s out. i’m guessing that he’s hyposensitive to denim (it’s probably like a really specific kind of denim tho) because it’s the only way i can explain why he wears it all the damn time. also he literally only has like three (3) outfits because they’re the only ones he can stand).

2. stimming head canons?

he stims by chewing, rapping his fingers against a hard surface, running his fingers through his hair, and flipping things (usually coins. he tried pens a few times and every time he ended up smacking himself in the face).

3. how do they feel about touch?

do nOT DO THAT YOU WILL D I E

4. favourite foods & textures?

textures - smooth & soft (preferably both at the same time)

foods - anything that’s not Gritty really (he’s not really that picky)

5. hated foods & textures?

he Hates foods that are like…gritty?? like individual particles and stuff. and dry/stiff/ridged textures are Bad and must be avoided

6. how do they feel about music?

none. no music. Only Silence.

7. what calms them down?

getting somewhere dark and quiet (hotel room for instance), laying flat on his back on the bed and just. stare at the ceiling for a couple hours

8. do they know they’re autistic? if so, when & how did they realize?

he doesn’t know (bc it’s the late 70s-early 80s), but he is aware that he’s “different” from most people. very aware of that, in fact.

9. if you hc them as self diagnosed, how did that impact their life?

n/a

10. do they have friends? if so, are they accepting and accommodating?

as of no country, no.

he once had carson, and carson’s well-meaning and tried but he didn’t really…understand it, you know (the way anton is, as like a person, didn’t really help matters either lmao)

11. how do they prefer to communicate? are they non verbal/have periods of being non verbal? do they use sign language? do they talk? do they prefer text, etc?

he’s actually nonverbal most of the time. but sometimes he has periods where it’s like he’ll try to Talk Normally like a Regular Person for like a few days, and then he’ll just give up and have like three weeks of saying Nothing. he doesn’t write or sign either (he Can, he just. doesn’t bother lmao), so basically you gotta play the guessing game during these moments good fucking luck with that

12. Is there any senses they struggle with particularly? (hearing, taste, etc)

he’s hyposensitive to smell (and taste kind of), and he’s very hypersensitive to sight, touch, and hearing (especially hearing)

13. their special interests?

his special interests are coins (and their history), improvised weaponry, and medicine (more specifically anatomy and Cutting Things Up)

14. are they open about being autistic, or do they prefer to keep it to themselves?

well. he doesn’t know, but if he did, i doubt he’d care much.

15. if you ship them with anyone how is the other person(s) with them? (do they like listening to them info dump cause of how happy it makes them. do they know what smells/textures/places/etc to avoid so not to stress them out. etc)

n/a (i hc anton to be ace/aro)

16. if you ship them with anyone, how are they with the other person(s)? (do they figure out code words together to understand what each other is feeling better, etc)

n/a

17. how do they prefer their hair? (if they have hair of course), is it a big issue sensory wise or is it not?, do they have their hair for style? comfort? do they find it hard to take care of it? or is it well maintained? do they have to have a certain product or is any okay?

his thing with his hair is that it’s gotta be long enough to cover his face and that’s it. but it can’t be too long or else he’ll be constantly focused on getting it out of his eyes, and you can’t do that when your whole career is killing ppl

18. are they generally well kept? or do they find it hard to keep up good hygiene?

on good days, he looks like he’s well kept but in reality he hasn’t showered in days. on bad days, he doesn’t even bother getting out of bed, much showering, shaving, etc.

19. what would be their ideal happy place?

dark and quiet hotel room, preferably with little to no other occupant in the other rooms (probably raining a little).

20. what would be their idea of sensory hell?

BRIGHT, HOT, AND LOUD (like think of being in the desert and trumpets are blaring everywhere you go)

[that-kit-kat]

DONALD J TRUMP

During a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pressured him to launch an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, over unsubstantiated allegations of corruption.

Then reports of the call — and the disclosure of a whistleblower complaint filed against the president — spurred Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump that could lead to his removal from office.

But this certainly was not the first debunked or unverified conspiracy theory Trump has floated and encouraged during his time in the political spotlight.

Here are 24 of the most notable conspiracy theories Trump has entertained over the years.

President Donald Trump is swept up in an impeachment inquiry that seriously threatens his presidency — and an unfounded conspiracy theory that reached the Oval Office is largely responsible for it.

During a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pressured him to launch an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, over unsubstantiated allegations of corruption. Then reports of the call — and the disclosure of a whistleblower complaint filed against the president — spurred Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump that could lead to his removal from office.

But that certainly was not the first debunked or unverified conspiracy theory Trump has floated and encouraged during his time in the political spotlight.

Throughout his presidency, on the campaign trail, and even in the years prior, Trump has floated theories fueled by the conspiratorial-minded corners of supermarket tabloids and the darkest corners of the internet.

Here are 24 of the most notable conspiracy theories Trump has entertained over the years.

Questions about Ted Cruz's father's potential ties to President John F. Kennedy's assassin.

On the eve of the Indiana primary in 2016, Trump attempted to undermine former Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz's father's legitimacy by parroting an unverified National Enquirer story.

It claimed Rafael Cruz was photographed in the early 1960s handing out pro-Fidel Castro leaflets with President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

The Cruz campaign denounced the piece as "garbage."

Questions about President Obama's birth certificate.

While mulling a potential 2012 presidential bid, Trump became the most high-profile figure to promote the rumors suggesting that President Obama was not born in the US.

Trump claimed he'd deployed private investigators who "could not believe what they're finding" about Obama's place of birth.

He also repeatedly clashed with reporters who pushed him on the issue. During one contentious interview, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he'd been "co-opted" by "Obama and his minions" when the anchor tried to push back on Trump's claims.

When Obama eventually released his long-form birth certificate, Trump questioned the document's authenticity.

Trump has since continued to push the conspiracy theory in recent months during his presidency, according to advisors who spoke with The New York Times. One sitting US senator echoed these reports.

"[Trump] has had a hard time letting go of his claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States," the senator told The Times.

Questions about a former Bill Clinton aide's suicide.

After Vince Foster, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, was found dead in 1993, various law-enforcement agencies and independent counsels determined he committed suicide.

But Foster's death spawned conspiracy theorists who questioned whether the Clintons themselves were involved in Foster's death.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump suggested Foster's death was "very fishy."

"He had intimate knowledge of what was going on," Trump said of Foster's role in the White House. "He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide."

He added: "I don't bring [Foster's death] up because I don't know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don't do that because I don't think it's fair."

Questions about whether Syrian refugees are ISIS terrorists.

Trump has, in part, justified his plan to temporarily bar Muslim immigrants from entering the US by claiming that refugees coming from Syria "could be a Trojan horse."

"It could be one of the greatest coups of all time," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity in 2015. "They could be ISIS. It could be a plot. I mean, I don't want to think in terms of conspiracy, but it could be a plot."

But the process for vetting refugees typically lasts 18 to 24 months, and immigration experts maintain it is one of the most difficult ways for terrorists to attempt to enter the US legally.

"It is extremely unlikely that someone who is a terrorist will be sent through the refugee resettlement program," Greg Chen, the director of advocacy at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told Business Insider.

He added: "It takes a great deal of time, and it wouldn't make sense for someone who is a terrorist for someone to go through that process. There are going to be easier ways for a terrorist to try to infiltrate, rather than going through the refugee resettlement program."

Questions about whether an ISIS-linked terrorist attempted to charge at Trump on stage.

After an attendee at Trump's March 2016 rally in Dayton, Ohio, attempted to charge the stage, Trump claimed a video he retweeted proved the attendee was a terrorist linked to ISIS.

"He was playing Arabic music. He was dragging the flag along the ground, and he had internet chatter with ISIS and about ISIS. So I don't know if he was or not," Trump said. "But all we did was put out what he had on his internet. He's dragging the flag, the American flag, which I respect obviously more than you."

He added: "What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the internet. And I don't like to see a man dragging the American flag along the ground in a mocking fashion."

Multiple news outlets and fact-checkers debunked the video's authenticity. No government agency has said the man was connected to ISIS or other terrorist groups.

Questions about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death.

Law enforcement determined there was no evidence of foul play in Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death in 2016.

Asked about the circumstances of Scalia's death, Trump said he was unsure about what caused Scalia's death. Trump noted a pillow was found over the justice's face, a claim authorities rebutted.

"I'm hearing it's a big topic," Trump said in a radio interview. "It's a horrible topic but they're saying they found the pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow."

He added: "I can't give you an answer. It's just starting to come out now."

Questions about whether childhood vaccines cause autism.

At a Republican presidential debate in 2016, CNN host Jake Tapper asked Trump about his position that vaccines can cause autism.

"We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic," Trump said.

Shortly after Trump's assertion, former presidential candidate and neurosurgeon Ben Carson corrected the real-estate mogul, pointing out that overwhelming medical evidence suggests that there's no link between autism and vaccines.

A 2013 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no connection between vaccines and an increased risk of autism.

Questions about whether Muslims in New Jersey were cheering after 9/11.

Trump emphatically claimed he saw televised news reports of Muslims cheering in New Jersey after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down," Trump said during an ABC interview.

He added: "I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well-covered at the time."

However, there is no evidence to suggest there were any American celebrations aired on television following the attacks. Some media reports at the time cited rumors of celebrations in New Jersey. But reports were never substantiated, and there's no evidence these protests were broadcast on national television.

Questions about whether wives of 9/11 hijackers fled to Saudi Arabia before the attacks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee repeatedly stated last year that the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001, attacks moved their families out of the US to Saudi Arabia several days before the hijacking.

"When you had the World Trade Center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends, and they were put into planes and they were sent back, for the most part, to Saudi Arabia," Trump said. "They knew what was going on. They went home and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."

The 9/11 commission report, the most extensive investigation into the events surrounding the attacks, determined that few of the hijackers kept in contact with their families, and none had family members living in the US.

PolitiFact also called the claim false.

Questions about the legitimacy of climate change.

Though many Republican leaders remain skeptical of climate change, Trump has taken his skepticism a step further. In 2012 he suggested that climate change is a "total, and very expensive hoax" perpetuated by China's government.

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive," Trump tweeted in 2012.

Trump backed off the tweet, telling Fox News that his comment was a "joke." Still, the real-estate mogul has repeatedly maintained that climate change was a hoax, and said climate-change studies are "done for the benefit of China."

According to NASA, 97% of publishing climate scientists believe that human activities such as burning of fossil fuels have caused climate change.

Questions about whether asbestos is a "great con."

In a 1992 interview with New York magazine, Trump suggested the mob's "strong lobby" in New York may be responsible for asbestos.

"One of the great cons is asbestos," Trump said. "There's nothing wrong except the mob has a strong lobby in Albany because they have the dumps and control the truck."

Trump has more recently embraced the reality.

Last year, the real-estate mogul cited how he increased the valuation of one of his properties by millions after embarking on a massive asbestos-removal operation.

Questions about Marco Rubio's presidential eligibility.

Trump has a long history of speculating whether potential presidential rivals are constitutionally eligible to serve.

In February 2016, the former reality-TV star retweeted a supporter who claimed Rubio was ineligible to run because his parents were not natural-born US citizens, a claim that no major constitutional experts support.

When confronted on ABC's "This Week" about whether he believed Rubio was not constitutionally permitted to occupy the presidency, Trump, whose mother was born in Scotland, refused to disavow the tweet.

"I've never looked at it, George," Trump said of the tweet. "I honestly have never looked at it. As somebody said, he's not. And I retweeted it. I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, and I retweet things and we start dialogue and it's very interesting."

He added: "I'm not sure. Let people make their own determination."

Questions about Fox News being owned by a Saudi billionaire.

Trump's war with Fox News' Megyn Kelly recently reached a detente.

But during the peak of Trump's rhetorical battle with Kelly, he perpetuated a prominent outlandish theory from one of his Twitter followers.

In January 2016, the real-estate mogul retweeted a photo purportedly showing Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal with Kelly. The photo claimed the prince was a partial Fox News owner, which multiple outlets found was untrue. Alwaleed's investment company owns a small share of 21st Century Fox.

Questions about the legitimacy of the "Access Hollywood" tape.

Toward the tail end of his presidential campaign, the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape featuring Trump apparently admitting that he likes to grab women "by the p----" received broad coverage, and Trump apologized for his comments shortly afterward.

More recently though, after various allegations of sexual harassment in media and politics have begun to surface, Trump has walked back these comments.

"We don't think that was my voice," Trump reportedly told a senator, according to The New York Tiimes.

The Times' sources did not elaborate on why Trump has begun to doubt the authenticity of the tape's audio.

Claims that Joe Scarborough killed one of his interns.

In a tweet Trump sent in November 2017, he made references to a conspiracy theory that claims MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough of "Morning Joe" murdered one of his staffers in Florida in 2001.

"So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin?" the tweet read. "And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the 'unsolved mystery' that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!"

While Scarborough was serving as a Republican congressman in Florida's 1st district, one of his interns, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in the office. A coroner found no evidence of foul play, and indicated that the death occurred because of a heart problem that caused the intern to fatally hit her head on her desk.

Claims that Obama had wiretapped Trump's phone.

In March 2017, Trump sent a tweet accusing Obama of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower.

"Terrible!" Trump wrote, "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"

PolitiFact and other outlets have debunked the claim. An Obama spokesman also issued a response to the allegation, saying: "Neither Barack Obama nor any White House official under Obama ever ordered surveillance of any U.S. citizen."

Claims that voter fraud in the 2016 election cost him the popular vote.

In a tweet sent shortly after the November 2016 election, Trump wrote: "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

This unsubstantiated claim was repeated by Kris Kobach, the chairman of Trump's panel on voter fraud, in July. The fact-checking site Snopes has debunked the claim entirely, citing "zero evidence."

Retweeting anti-Muslim conspiracy videos.

In November 2017, Trump caused diplomatic havoc by retweeting three videos posted by Jayda Fransen of the ultra-nationalist, anti-Muslim organization Britain First that purportedly showed Muslims in Europe committing crimes and destroying Christian icons.

Britain First has frequently targeted mosques and Muslims in the UK in order to brand all Muslims as violent extremists, and Trump's retweet of the videos was widely seen as a tacit endorsement of the group's efforts.

Although the authenticity of the videos has been called into question, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has maintained this doesn't matter.

"Whether it's a real video, the threat is real," she told reporters.

Claims 3,000 people didn't die in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and that Democrats inflated the death toll.

In a September 2018 tweet, Trump claimed 3,000 people didn't die in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and accused Democrats of inflating the death toll to make him "look as bad as possible," rejecting the findings of a government-funded study in the process.  

"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico," he said. "When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…"

He then added: "This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!"

A study commissioned by the Puerto Rico government that was released in August found that 2,975 people died in the wake of the storm.

Trump has been widely criticized for his response to Hurricane Maria, particularly by San Juan Mayor Carmin Yulín Cruz.

In response to Trump's claims on Thursday, Cruz tweeted, "This is what denial following neglect looks like: Mr Pres in the real world people died on your watch. YOUR LACK OF RESPECT IS APPALLING!"

Claims windmills cause cancer.

In April 2019 Trump railed against wind power and claimed the noise fron windmills causes cancer.

If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value," Trump said at a Republican congressional fundraising dinner. "And they say the noise causes cancer."

Iowa's two Republican senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, called his remarks "idiotic" and "ridiculous," respectively.  

A 2014 report for the National Institutes of Health concluded while wind farms could cause disrupt a person's sleep or induce headaches, its negative impact health doesn't go beyond that.

"The weight of evidence suggests that when sited properly, wind turbines are not related to adverse health," the researchers wrote.

Claims the Clintons killed Jeffrey Epstein.

In August 2019, Trump promoted a baseless conspiracy theory on his Twitter account connecting former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the death of financier and alleged sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump retweeted a video from conservative comedian Terrence Williams, who claimed without any evidence the Clintons were responsible for killing Epstein. The multimillionaire reportedly killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in early August.

Law enforcement officials are investigating Epstein's death, but none have suggested so far there was foul play, much less allege political figures were involved.

Claims former vice president Joe Biden was corrupt in his dealings with Ukraine during the Obama administration.

In a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump repeatedly pushed his foreign counterpart to probe Biden over baseless allegations that he helped oust Ukraine's top prosecutor in the midst of an investigation into an energy company his son held a board position on.

"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great," Trump said in a rough memo of the call released by the White House.

There isn't any evidence to support that allegation, which has been spread by Trump and his conservative allies. Nothing has come to light that proves Biden tried helping his son in Ukraine. Biden instead had been pressing Ukraine to dismiss a prosecutor who failed to curb corruption in the country in a campaign backed by other world leaders and institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

The investigation into Burisma Holdings, the natural gas company, was dormant around the time Biden started traveling into Ukraine in 2014. And Ukraine's general prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko recently told the BBC he didn't "know any reason to investigate Joe Biden or Hunter Biden according to Ukrainian law."

Claims a cybersecurity company named Crowdstrike framed Russia for election interference.

Trump floated the baseless conspiracy theory during the same July phone call with Zelensky.

"I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine. They say CrowdStrike," Trump said in a rough memo of the call released by the White House.

Crowdstrike was the cybersecurity company that the Democratic National Committee contracted to investigate its hacked servers during the 2016 presidential election, and it concluded Russia was behind the attack.  The theory, however, maintains that Crowdstrike framed Russia — exonerating it from interfering in the election to aid Trump's victory.

According to NBC News, the thoroughly debunked theory originated on 4chan and has also been spread on far-right blogs and Fox News.

Claims Ukraine may be hiding Hillary Clinton's missing emails.

Trump recently said he believed that Hillary Clinton's deleted emails could be on a server hidden away in Ukraine.

Asked by a reporter if he believed some of Clinton's deleted emails could be in Ukraine in September, Trump said, "I think they could be."

Then he doubled down on it: "I think one of the great crimes committed is Hillary Clinton deleting 33,000 emails after Congress sends her a subpoena."

This theory is grew out of the unfounded Crowdstrike allegation and its been debunked as well. NBC News reports that Clinton's team sorted her emails into private and work-related batches to turn them over to the State Department in 2014. Then the employee managing the server was ordered to delete the 33,000 personal emails in December, around four months before Congress subpoenaed them.

Weeks after the subpoena was issued, the employee deleted the emails when he realized he hadn't done as he was instructed.

In a 2016 statement, then-FBI Director James Comey said the investigation"found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them." FBI agents later recovered many of them and the agency concluded Clinton was careless in handling her emails.

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Professeur des universités, ancien directeur adjoint de l'environnement à l'OCDE, Rémy Prud'homme voit dans l'hystérie écologiste un caprice d'enfant gâté et une pulsion totalitaire.

Valeurs actuelles. Que vous inspire le personnage de Greta Thunberg ? Rémy Prud'homme. Qu'une adolescente suédoise autiste (Asperger), manipulée comme une marionnette par des parents militants, dise des sottises, cela peut malheureusement arriver. Il s'agit là d'un événement rare, aléatoire, qui appelle notre tristesse et notre compassion, mais qui n'a aucune signification. Ce qui a une signification, en revanche, c'est l'accueil extraordinaire fait dans le monde, ou en tout cas dans le monde occidental, à la personne de la jeune malade, à son discours irrationnel, à ses préconisations. Les plus hautes autorités civiles et religieuses, du président de la France au pape, la reçoivent, la prennent au sérieux, l'écoutent, la cajolent. Le Parlement européen est bien la seule institution à avoir, malgré les Verts qui y siègent, refusé de l'entendre proférer une adresse solennelle, en notant, avec un bon sens inhabituel, qu'un mardi matin, la place d'une gamine de 16 ans était sur les bancs de son école plutôt qu'à la tribune du Parlement. Mais partout ailleurs, pour des dizaines de millions de zélotes, chez les jeunes et même chez les moins jeunes, Greta est devenue une star, une icône, un modèle, un maître (on hésite à écrire : à penser), une sainte.

Comment expliquer cet incroyable succès ? J'y vois trois raisons principales. Tout d'abord, ce succès a été savamment orchestré, avec des équipes de spécialistes et pas mal d'argent, comme on orchestre le lancement d'un nouvel iPhone ou d'une nouvelle lessive. Ensuite, il correspond sans doute à une demande sociale, au moins dans les pays riches. Une demande de religion. De violence aussi : le désir de casser ses jouets est classique et puissant. Enfin, les gouvernements et les financiers y trouvent aussi leur compte. On a besoin de coercition, donc de pouvoir, et de financement, donc de profits.

La capitulation des autorités morales et politiques qui font semblant de prendre au sérieux toutes ces fariboles, et peut-être même les prennent au sérieux, est le fait significatif.

Qu'est-ce que ce succès dit de notre jeunesse ? Il en dit bien plus sur les adultes que sur la jeunesse. La capitulation des autorités morales et politiques (de Macron au pape) qui font semblant de prendre au sérieux toutes ces fariboles, et peut-être même les prennent au sérieux, et qui s'agenouillent devant ce pauvre pantin de Greta est le fait significatif. Qu'une partie de la jeunesse, la jeunesse riche, applaudisse lorsqu'on lui dit de sécher l'école n'a rien de très neuf.

Le catastrophisme écologique est-il entrain de devenir une religion ? Il en a tous les aspects. Il avait sa doctrine, son catéchisme, ses pontifes, ses clercs, ses processions, ses conciles, ses jésuites, ses banques. Il lui manquait ses saints. Il prétendait reposer sur la science, une science officielle, certes, mais une science tout de même. Il jette cette béquille aux orties. Aucun responsable du Giec, aucun député écologiste, n'a dit - et sans doute ne dira - que la capacité de Greta à « voir à l'œil nu » des rejets de CO2 repose sur du vent - le vent des éoliennes peut-être. Le réchauffisme préfère maintenant s'appuyer sur les miracles de sainte Greta. Il a raison : c'est plus sûr. Une tournée d'apparitions de sainte Greta fait plus pour la cause que deux ou trois Cop. À un coût en CO2 bien moindre. Malraux disait : « Le XXIe siècle sera religieux ou ne sera pas » ; il serait sans doute surpris devoir comment sa prédiction se réalise.

Quel regard sur la nature, sur la technique s'exprime ici ? Le mépris de la science et de la technique, et plus généralement de la connaissance. Que le refus d'aller à l'école soit socialement accepté, justifié, encouragé (en Occident) est peut-être le point le plus significatif de cette affaire. Depuis toujours, l'école, symbole de la connaissance, était considérée comme le principal instrument de l'émancipation de l'individu et de la société (avec le suffrage universel, peut-être). « Ouvrir une école, c'est fermer une prison », disait Victor Hugo. Fermer une école, à la Greta, sera peut-être ouvrir une prison. On est passé en moins d'un siècle de la science glorieuse à la science officielle, et on bascule avec Greta dans l'antiscience. Mais, je le répète : en Occident, pas en Chine.

Il est indécent lorsqu'on est riche ou aisé de prêcher aux moins riches ou moins aisés de se serrer la ceinture.

Arrêter de prendre l'avion, de manger de la viande, choisir la sobriété heureuse, la décroissance raisonnable… Que répondre à ces propositions qui semblent susciter une certaine adhésion, au moins médiatique ? Que personne ne songe à les forcer à prendre l'avion, à manger de la viande, à avoir des enfants ; que personne ne songe non plus à les empêcher de donner la moitié de leurs manteaux à ceux qui ont froid, comme l'a fait saint Martin. Mais qu'il est liberticide de vouloir imposer ces comportements aux autres, de créer une police des mœurs, avec délateurs, censeurs, châtiments. L'idée d'un comité de salut public qui délivrerait au cas par cas l'autorisation de prendre l'avion est aussi odieuse qu'impraticable. Et puis, surtout, qu'il est indécent lorsqu'on est riche ou aisé de prêcher aux moins riches ou moins aisés de se serrer la ceinture. Cela s'appelle appauvrir les pauvres ; mais ces derniers ne se laisseront pas faire.

Quelle généalogie établiriez-vous de ces prophètes d'apocalypse ? L'histoire de la collapsologie est vieille comme le monde. Cela commence par le Déluge, dans le premier chapitre de la Bible. Cela continue avec l'Apocalypse de saint Jean (les Grecs et les Romains ne sont pas tombés dans ce panneau-là). Puis la grande peur de l'an mille. Puis Malthus. Et Jevons, sur l'épuisement des ressources. Et Rachel Carson dont l'ouvrage Silent Spring, publié en 1962, soutenait qu'il n'y aurait plus un oiseau vivant dans vingt ans. Puis le Club de Rome, qui rassemblait le gratin de l'industrie et de la politique. Ou encore Josué de Castro et Paul R. Ehrlich qui, à la fin des années soixante, prophétisaient, du fait de la surpopulation, des famines généralisées. Ce qui me frappe, c'est que les catastrophismes d'alors étaient portés par des gens intelligents et cultivés, alors qu'ils le sont aujourd'hui par des Greta Thunberg…

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