That's a clever take. I certainly thought I heard RFK point to the vaxxes, and DJT as well, in saying that the mothers should be listened to. His recounting of the tears of his employee "losing" her beautiful son: she didn't say that loss had occurred after her having taken Tylenol. And: I was watching the press conference while I was skinning 26# tomatoes for canning today. I am so oppressed.
Yes, while at the same time I keep checking my Schwab to see what DJT is doing to my investments. Stratospheric! (I also have been making all of our bread and soap for 50 years….)
Only now did I grok the vaccine-Tylenol link! I was on board with vaccines causing autism from the early 90’s but somehow missed the Tylenol issue entirely.
Tylenol - like, remember the kool-aid guy who would burst through walls in the commercial? Like a life-size bottle of tylenol that comes crashing through the wall of the press conference 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, they are, but most people wouldn’t think that OTC products are just as dangerous. I know people who regularly take Tylenol just to help them go to sleep. They assume it’s innocuous.
I’m on absolute bullshit overload. Thank God there are people like you willingly diving into the trenches of these nitwit writers (and she couldn’t come up with a shorter title?!)
God, so am I. I went out to my local conservation site yesterday where the mowing guy had already flattened a huge stand of milkweed before the seeds could take flight, all the late summer wildflowers and prairie plants in full bloom, buzzing with bees and bugs around the large pond are gone. Me, a 77 yr old, ran (ran) to where the mower was churning and stood in front of it. He stopped and I questioned this abomination. Our first frost is but a few weeks away and the majesty of Gods creation couldn’t stand until then? They burn appropriately in the spring. He just shrugged. I consider this place my church which supplies me with a relationship with the Creator I never got with the church I left during Covid. I was bereft and went into the trees crying. On top of all the other shite going on—this broke me. Like Charlie, this beauty and important area was taken down with indifference before its life was complete. I’m contacting the district.
Thank you so much for trying in that situation. I totally understand.
I only participate in ONE social media and that is my local Nextdoor. I joined for that reason. To ask my neighbors to consider nature.To ask my neighbors to consider not cutting down their trees,pruning hedges,etc,till nesting season was over…to not use rodent poison,to not use glue traps,to consider that a plant/ weeds lifespan might provide sustenance for our wildlife….
I have stood in front of people spraying Roundup along our creek beds. It actually worked,that time and the stopped doing it…
I absolutely let my yard and surroundings do as they will. The wild sunflowers popped up and abounded and kept out the other noxious weeds and the birds will have a great winter with all the seeds. I can't say how the snowblowing will go with all the big stems along the 700 foot driveway though. Spraying and killing is one more way to disconnect us from how we were meant to live. It is amazing, the things they tell us are weeds are actually herbal remedies for many things. Dandelions and stuff...we have lost so much of that knowledge and we need to find it again.♥
It has been an ongoing stressor with my husband. He is more of a “scorched earth “ person when it comes to weeds or the timing for pruning. However,after many years he has pretty much given up harassing me and letting what I chose to live it’s life cycles, and no pruning in the spring and summer….
I have been learning what marvelous abundance our weeds provide. Food and medicine all around. I made a delicious flat bread using our local Plantain( not the banana type) leaf,like spinach..it was beautiful and tasty. The Common Mallow has delicious leaves that I like to use as little wraps. And,the seeds are wonderful for the throat ( sweet,too) as it is in the okra family and gets slippery..I let my little vegetable garden go to seed then spread them all over.. I have Swiss chard coming up in the cracks of the driveway 😄
My goal,before I’m done, is to have EVERY weed on my property edible or medicinal,and,to teach my heirs their value. That is the hardest part.
So true. Disconnect is so right. At least they all stayed open during Covid. Closed the toilets but I armed myself with Kleenex and could find secluded trees to lean against. Hahaha. Watched 12 goslings flourish that summer. One day they were flying and landing and 4 parents honking at them. I’m sure they were doing flying and landing lessons. Unforgettable. So what they tried to take from us then, I held on to just as much. Important things.
Thank YOU for standing up. I sent some recent photos of what it looked like before yesterday with my email. Exactly. I mentioned the nourishment of the plants too. The nearby woods is overgrown with rubus, nasty choking vines, junk trees etc. and lots of invasive species. This destruction was easier. They actually have workshops on increasing milkweed and native plants.
Around the corner from me is a Monarch butterfly “rescue “. They have been doing a wonderful job teaching people how to grow Milkweed and support the failing butterfly population…
In my youth,it was not uncommon to see a tree loaded with migratory Monarch butterflies…not in many,many years have I seen that. I see one or two if I’m very lucky…some years,none:(
I have some strong plants right outside my back door. I protect them. I’m going to let some of the seeds out at that place when they are ready to fly!! Monarchs in the trees. Wish I could see that. 👍🏻
The last time I saw that was at least 35 + years ago. My husband and I used to enjoy trespassing on abandoned farm properties around the Pt Reyes national seashore. We would wander around and fantasize about what we’d do if we could own it🤗
The tree was behind a dilapidated farmhouse. It was the ONLY tree around the property. We were stunned when we saw the tree, dripping with monarchs…sigh…..There ARE no abandoned property in that area anymore,either…the government owns most of it…
Thanks. It might not seem a worthy thing to feel so bereft but it was just another pile on. I used to write poetry with nature metaphor and emotion comparisons. I now paint landscape on location. I stand and feel it all. Out there ieverything still feels and looks normal. Patterns remain. I’m still on the edge of tears this morning. I’m not looking forward to going out but this could also herald a new plan and rebirth. I get that. Even we have to be broken and mowed down sometimes to flourish. I believe this is happening after the tragic loss of someone beautiful and in the midst of an extraordinary life. Sorry for what may sound corny but it still hurts. Everything.
"bullshit overload" sums it up PERFECTLY. normally i can just laugh-wince through Jenna's posts but something about this really GOT to me. I'm on complete bullshit overload and I feel like I can no longer process this stuff!!!
28 Years ago I declined to jab my infant son with the Hep B VAX. I asked the Doc, Why does he need a Vax for a sexually transmitted disease at 2 month old? The Doc's Answer: " Because it's hard to get the teenagers in for the shot". I also requested the MMR in 3 separate doses instead of one shot. We were thrown out of the office. The office refused to have us as a patient UNLESS we complied with the Vax schedule . I hope the next presser addresses the VAX Schedule School Mandates.
Speaking of school mandates, this has some encouraging news, with interesting information on the history of school mandates as well as considerations going forward.
Thanks for the hefty dose of rage this morning, Jenna!
I can't bring myself to read more than your excerpts.
This - is - MADNESS.
The cope is VERY real.
I follow a mom who's autistic with 2 autistic kids. Last night she posted an unbelievably long cope (which I can no longer find unfortunately, I skimmed it last night and wanted to come back and read it again) - from what I remember, the gist was rationalizing that autism existed way before Tylenol, autism is just better diagnosed now (in short: autistic people were institutionalized in the past which is why we never saw them, or they had to mask and people didn't know) and that there are studies about Tylenol that also take into consideration whether one parent is autistic and when corrected for that Tylenol does nothing, it's all genetics (something like that), and she said since an autistic mom who is more likely to have joint pain from things like Ehlers Danos would be more likely to take Tylenol during pregnancy to manage their pain, it's clearly genetics more than anything. (bangs head into wall) AGAIN, people: sure, genetics are always a factor. But what's the TRIGGER? CAN WE LOOK AT THE TRIGGERS PLEASE
I always love your writing. But for some reason the fact that Marcotte (ANYONE!!!) could not just reach but TRUMPET this absolutely batshit crazy idea is overwhelming me right now. I absolutely feel like I am living in another universe than half the people right next to me on the physical plane. (deep breaths, deep breaths....)
If I step back - I again can see that this is all based in DEEP fear. No one wants to face "blame" - no one wants to admit they hurt their child because they didn't know any better. Who wants to go down that road?
But also, she needs to put a sock in it. (A 100% regeneratively-raised GOTS-certified cotton sock of course)
I do agree it's better diagnosed now - but then again, how is it even defined!? I think back to my elementary school years in the early 70's. There was one boy in our class that was very likely somewhere on the spectrum. Totally obsessed with dinosaurs, poor social skills, prone to outbursts and repetitive behaviors. That was in a class of 25 or so kids. Didn't even know anyone with food allergies until HS. So yes, it IS more prevalent now but it's the same people who blame side effects of covid shot on 'Long covid' - head in the sand is too common!!
Well I have also read that putting total BS posts that are the opposite of our views in front of us on social media is all part of the plan to pit us against each other. It's working. I have been avoiding social media for the last 3 days as I have already burned a lot of bridges with people and decided I needed an arson break. Substack is where it's at for news updates and sane commentary anyway.
Wouldn't that just make perfect sense?? Elizabeth Nickson alluded to the fact that "magazines" are one of the biggest money laundering operations in the world. Just sick of all the things. And the internet has given voice to idiots. One has to keep the boundary fence high to keep out insanity.
Reminds me of the quote (can't remember who said it) It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
an arson break....hahaha. That's funny/sad. I relate! I had to walk away during an extended family dinner tonight to go "do the dishes" just so I didn't have to hear the vitriol happening.
This has been round 3 for me. In 2016/17, I unfriended FB 'friends' who were mostly acquaintances who could not stop posting about their TDS (although I don't think that was a term yet). Then the triple whammy in 2020 and 2021 with covid/election fraud/J6 was the big break. That one hurt as I lost some long time friends and even my daughter wouldn't speak to me for a while. This round was just disappointing. People who I liked, leaned liberal, but felt compelled to slander Charlie Kirk over lies they bought wholesale from the media. Have not burned a couple of client bridges in the bio/science space yet; staying off of LI too. Self-employed and need the income but if they say something to my face bashing RFK Jr I may have to bite the bullet. One part of me thinks if I burn all the bridges I will end up on an island with no way back, the other side is like you - on BS overload and consequences be damned.
I remember back in high school (I’m 68, so looong time ago) having to write papers that had to meet a word quota. I realized then that bullshit had a place in writing. Filling in to make that quota when you’d run out of facts. So you’d go back and insert more words(the bullshit part)
Apparently nowadays bullshit is all that’s required but they have to insert a bit of a fact.
Haha, takes me back to my elementary/middle school days where our punishment at times was to write a xxx-word essay on some topic. Like: why it's wrong to misbehave for a substitute teacher. Hated those essays but I did get to HS with a lot of writing experience!
Got to jump in with you, Bridget! The heavy dose of righteous rage, snark, and appropriate sarcasm was the perfect tonic this morning, JENNA!
I was late to the Jenna Party yesterday, but I did join and commented. Here is what I said, and it stands even more valid today:
"I am tired. I am weary. I am fed up, and I've had it with my eyeballs swimming in excrement for literally years. But, too bad for me. Now is not the time to back off the gas pedal. LFG! Do not comply!"
Unbelievable. Well, when the vaccination stats change because less people are getting vaccinated, the evidence will prevail. SIDS and autism WILL decrease .
I read somewhere today that researching autism and only considering genetics without taking external factors into account is like researching lung cancer looking only at genetics and ignoring cigarettes.
48 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter and I had 104 fever for multiple days I went into the emergency room. The doctors told me not to take Tylenol because it was not an efficient fever reducer. So I just looked it up. Tylenol reduces fever by resetting the brains temperature Regulation mechanism. It does not reduce inflammation in the body. So the body is just as inflamed, but the brain doesn’t allow the body to respond properly. WTF? Sounds like a stupid drug to take for fever any which way. Just like those doctors told me so many years ago.
Same here. I had some serious pain in my 1st pregnancy and my ob said is it so bad you want your unborn child to take it too? Yep. I sucked it up and pain went away on its own. Now it's okay to take anything when pregnant. 🤔
Libbie women being Libbie women.🙄 I mean if they can actually define what a women is. And isn't saying "woman" sexist? I thought they believed women can have a penis and men can have babies too? 🤔😉 They are wack jobs.
She's not. She means every word she wrote. I have, mostly, gotten over the shock of realizing they are that brainwashed/stupid/vaxx injured - one or all three. That's who they are.
I didn’t vote because I can’t read what each choice is. On the Substack app it cuts off each choice after just a few words. Usually I can figure out what the choice is but I couldn’t today. Lol
Same here. I saw people posting yesterday about how they'll take advice from a doctor or scientist, not from a guy with a brain worm (or whatever idiotic phrase they used) because sure - RFKJr did all the research himself. He's just the messenger, but these idiots can't see past their hate.
Patti Google or whatever browser people use make it impossible to go straight to RFK's words directly. I entered RFK jr vaccine research in Google and this is what came up.
Again… repeat, repeat, repeat, rather than going directly to the source and reading and listening to what he has done and continues to do. Not a very wise way to form an opinion.
A friend of mine posted a statement by the American Psychologist Association (so radicalized that my PhD mother fled over 20 years ago) completely debunking everything the admin put out yesterday 🤦♀️.
I participate in PETA petitions daily and I’m pretty sure their app is “Blue Sky.” I was so disappointed when I signed on and saw what their discussions were about. I assumed it would be all about animal welfare.
This kept whapping me upside the head as I watched yesterday: in my own reproductive years (late 70's, 80's), no pharma product other than pre-natal vitamins was allowed. None. I had daily migraine for the whole 3rd month: I just had to "tough it out". Same during birth: (but my choice)--no pharma product as it might/would hurt my baby. This was a whole movement of natural birth in that time. About 15 years ago, I noticed the number of young teachers, pregnant, who were planning "medicated birth". Huh? What happened to "whatever goes into the mother goes into the fetus"?
I took one sinus Tylenol before I knew I was pregnant. My girl was born with Tetralogy of Fallot and had to go through an open heart total repair surgery before she was 6 months old. I’ve never felt guilt, but I have always wondered if that one pill could have caused the issue. (She’s had a wonderfully healthy life since the operation and is now 36 with a two year old and one in the oven.)
These days, doctors shoot entire photo albums with ultra sound and these moms trust that their doctors wouldn’t do something that could potentially cause harm. Not a good idea.
John Droz writes about Critical Thinking. I wonder if we are witnessing the result of a generation of mothers-to-be (and their husbands) who did not learn to think critically.
GENERALLY SPEAKING,this generation was raised to believe they have one psychiatric or physical disorder or another and if not them, their friends do. Thank god for the doctors! Being in their 20’s or 30’s during covid , out of fear, they bought into the pandemic and proudly, “the science.” The doctors sold the science. The media sold it. They likely view the absurd number of ultrasounds simply as “modern technology “ and trust the medical industry because they trust “the science.” Also, these kids believe they are using critical thinking and get agreement from a dozen podcasters to prove their point.
When my first child was due for the MMR, I insisted on a prescription for just the mumps vax, because I had natural immunity from measles infections, and if what science claimed was true, he would be protected from all of the measles based on my transmitted antibodies. It was hard to manage, but I a had a great pediatrician and pharmacist.
Marcotte should be irrelevant but, there is a manufactured audience for her poor attempt to spew propaganda. That audience suffers from irreversible TDS, too many boosters and a shriveled pineal gland.
One of the highest concentrations of fluoride is found in the pineal gland which lies outside the blood brain barrier. Its plausible that could lead to all kinds of pathology.
First, in any MAHA argument, who should you give credence to…those with health to lose or those with money to lose?
Second, thanks for reminding me that Honey Boo Boo was once a thing. I think it adequately paints the picture of how dumb the public is and how the first point has been kept under wraps for so long.
I was hoping for an answer to who poisoned tylenol in the 1980's which forced the packaging of everything to have impervious plastic shields almost impossible to remove. I always figured it was someone in a plastic company that wanted a reason to sell the darn seals.
LOL. Would totally make sense that the “protective security seal association “ would have conjured that. But I think it was just a crazy deranged girlfriend trying to poison her boyfriend. Missed him, but killed a few random people… yet started a worldwide movement.
I fantasized that yesterday was a 4D chess method of getting Tylenol to come out and scream, "FU GUYS, IT'S THE VACCINES!!!"
That's a clever take. I certainly thought I heard RFK point to the vaxxes, and DJT as well, in saying that the mothers should be listened to. His recounting of the tears of his employee "losing" her beautiful son: she didn't say that loss had occurred after her having taken Tylenol. And: I was watching the press conference while I was skinning 26# tomatoes for canning today. I am so oppressed.
You are going to be so happy this winter, when you are eating that oppression.
You’d better believe it! I’ve been living this same oppression each summer, fall, and winter since I married 53 years ago.
🤣
...in case it's not clear, I obviously am laughing at your being oppressed :D
It was indeed clear. At this moment waiting for the canner water to come to a boil.
Waiting....and thinking about how trapped you are in this role lol
Yes, while at the same time I keep checking my Schwab to see what DJT is doing to my investments. Stratospheric! (I also have been making all of our bread and soap for 50 years….)
Hahaha!! That’s correct! It was after the vax and DT did say that!!
My fantasy yesterday was (and still is) that Tylenol is one of the strands in the noose that Kennedy is making with which to hang ALL vaccines.
I'm sure you are right. One step at a time; I have deep faith.
Only now did I grok the vaccine-Tylenol link! I was on board with vaccines causing autism from the early 90’s but somehow missed the Tylenol issue entirely.
Tylenol - like, remember the kool-aid guy who would burst through walls in the commercial? Like a life-size bottle of tylenol that comes crashing through the wall of the press conference 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No, but I do remember the Tylenol scare in the 80’s when a number of people died from extra-strength Tylenol.
It’s deadly for your liver.
Most pharmaceutical drugs adversely affect the liver.
Yes, they are, but most people wouldn’t think that OTC products are just as dangerous. I know people who regularly take Tylenol just to help them go to sleep. They assume it’s innocuous.
I know someone who gave it to her children for that purpose .
I forgot ALLLL about that. Wow. Yikes
Btw the poisoned product had been fatally polluted by a whacko Iin a few stores Causing a nationwide recall of Tylenol
The person you are referring to was released and ultimately they never found out who did it.
Oh my goodness WHAT THE ?
let ‘em go
and let em go fast
Must be a long-standing protocol in our
Law “enforcement”
Thanks for that fascinating bit of info ! Id forgotten or never knew
I e SNAFU
😂
Russ this would indeed be brilliant!
🤣 brilliant!
I’m on absolute bullshit overload. Thank God there are people like you willingly diving into the trenches of these nitwit writers (and she couldn’t come up with a shorter title?!)
God, so am I. I went out to my local conservation site yesterday where the mowing guy had already flattened a huge stand of milkweed before the seeds could take flight, all the late summer wildflowers and prairie plants in full bloom, buzzing with bees and bugs around the large pond are gone. Me, a 77 yr old, ran (ran) to where the mower was churning and stood in front of it. He stopped and I questioned this abomination. Our first frost is but a few weeks away and the majesty of Gods creation couldn’t stand until then? They burn appropriately in the spring. He just shrugged. I consider this place my church which supplies me with a relationship with the Creator I never got with the church I left during Covid. I was bereft and went into the trees crying. On top of all the other shite going on—this broke me. Like Charlie, this beauty and important area was taken down with indifference before its life was complete. I’m contacting the district.
Thank you so much for trying in that situation. I totally understand.
I only participate in ONE social media and that is my local Nextdoor. I joined for that reason. To ask my neighbors to consider nature.To ask my neighbors to consider not cutting down their trees,pruning hedges,etc,till nesting season was over…to not use rodent poison,to not use glue traps,to consider that a plant/ weeds lifespan might provide sustenance for our wildlife….
I have stood in front of people spraying Roundup along our creek beds. It actually worked,that time and the stopped doing it…
I absolutely let my yard and surroundings do as they will. The wild sunflowers popped up and abounded and kept out the other noxious weeds and the birds will have a great winter with all the seeds. I can't say how the snowblowing will go with all the big stems along the 700 foot driveway though. Spraying and killing is one more way to disconnect us from how we were meant to live. It is amazing, the things they tell us are weeds are actually herbal remedies for many things. Dandelions and stuff...we have lost so much of that knowledge and we need to find it again.♥
Agreed!
It has been an ongoing stressor with my husband. He is more of a “scorched earth “ person when it comes to weeds or the timing for pruning. However,after many years he has pretty much given up harassing me and letting what I chose to live it’s life cycles, and no pruning in the spring and summer….
I have been learning what marvelous abundance our weeds provide. Food and medicine all around. I made a delicious flat bread using our local Plantain( not the banana type) leaf,like spinach..it was beautiful and tasty. The Common Mallow has delicious leaves that I like to use as little wraps. And,the seeds are wonderful for the throat ( sweet,too) as it is in the okra family and gets slippery..I let my little vegetable garden go to seed then spread them all over.. I have Swiss chard coming up in the cracks of the driveway 😄
My goal,before I’m done, is to have EVERY weed on my property edible or medicinal,and,to teach my heirs their value. That is the hardest part.
So true. Disconnect is so right. At least they all stayed open during Covid. Closed the toilets but I armed myself with Kleenex and could find secluded trees to lean against. Hahaha. Watched 12 goslings flourish that summer. One day they were flying and landing and 4 parents honking at them. I’m sure they were doing flying and landing lessons. Unforgettable. So what they tried to take from us then, I held on to just as much. Important things.
Thank YOU for standing up. I sent some recent photos of what it looked like before yesterday with my email. Exactly. I mentioned the nourishment of the plants too. The nearby woods is overgrown with rubus, nasty choking vines, junk trees etc. and lots of invasive species. This destruction was easier. They actually have workshops on increasing milkweed and native plants.
Around the corner from me is a Monarch butterfly “rescue “. They have been doing a wonderful job teaching people how to grow Milkweed and support the failing butterfly population…
In my youth,it was not uncommon to see a tree loaded with migratory Monarch butterflies…not in many,many years have I seen that. I see one or two if I’m very lucky…some years,none:(
I have some strong plants right outside my back door. I protect them. I’m going to let some of the seeds out at that place when they are ready to fly!! Monarchs in the trees. Wish I could see that. 👍🏻
The last time I saw that was at least 35 + years ago. My husband and I used to enjoy trespassing on abandoned farm properties around the Pt Reyes national seashore. We would wander around and fantasize about what we’d do if we could own it🤗
The tree was behind a dilapidated farmhouse. It was the ONLY tree around the property. We were stunned when we saw the tree, dripping with monarchs…sigh…..There ARE no abandoned property in that area anymore,either…the government owns most of it…
I feel your sadness
Thanks. It might not seem a worthy thing to feel so bereft but it was just another pile on. I used to write poetry with nature metaphor and emotion comparisons. I now paint landscape on location. I stand and feel it all. Out there ieverything still feels and looks normal. Patterns remain. I’m still on the edge of tears this morning. I’m not looking forward to going out but this could also herald a new plan and rebirth. I get that. Even we have to be broken and mowed down sometimes to flourish. I believe this is happening after the tragic loss of someone beautiful and in the midst of an extraordinary life. Sorry for what may sound corny but it still hurts. Everything.
Corny is acceptable! Grief is messy and painful.
Your making that stand is beautiful. How awful.
"bullshit overload" sums it up PERFECTLY. normally i can just laugh-wince through Jenna's posts but something about this really GOT to me. I'm on complete bullshit overload and I feel like I can no longer process this stuff!!!
You are just being nice. Calling that writer a nitwit...I prefer a tool of satan.
Tool of satan nitwit.
28 Years ago I declined to jab my infant son with the Hep B VAX. I asked the Doc, Why does he need a Vax for a sexually transmitted disease at 2 month old? The Doc's Answer: " Because it's hard to get the teenagers in for the shot". I also requested the MMR in 3 separate doses instead of one shot. We were thrown out of the office. The office refused to have us as a patient UNLESS we complied with the Vax schedule . I hope the next presser addresses the VAX Schedule School Mandates.
Speaking of school mandates, this has some encouraging news, with interesting information on the history of school mandates as well as considerations going forward.
https://nationalhealthfreedomaction.org/florida-moves-to-end-k-12-vaccine-requirements-while-blue-states-look-to-keep-mandates-and-delink-from-cdcs-immunization-schedule
Florida's looking more appealing all the time.
Bingo! Those Frankenstein shots are horrible. Individually packaged with less harmful ingredients is the way to go.
Thanks for the hefty dose of rage this morning, Jenna!
I can't bring myself to read more than your excerpts.
This - is - MADNESS.
The cope is VERY real.
I follow a mom who's autistic with 2 autistic kids. Last night she posted an unbelievably long cope (which I can no longer find unfortunately, I skimmed it last night and wanted to come back and read it again) - from what I remember, the gist was rationalizing that autism existed way before Tylenol, autism is just better diagnosed now (in short: autistic people were institutionalized in the past which is why we never saw them, or they had to mask and people didn't know) and that there are studies about Tylenol that also take into consideration whether one parent is autistic and when corrected for that Tylenol does nothing, it's all genetics (something like that), and she said since an autistic mom who is more likely to have joint pain from things like Ehlers Danos would be more likely to take Tylenol during pregnancy to manage their pain, it's clearly genetics more than anything. (bangs head into wall) AGAIN, people: sure, genetics are always a factor. But what's the TRIGGER? CAN WE LOOK AT THE TRIGGERS PLEASE
I always love your writing. But for some reason the fact that Marcotte (ANYONE!!!) could not just reach but TRUMPET this absolutely batshit crazy idea is overwhelming me right now. I absolutely feel like I am living in another universe than half the people right next to me on the physical plane. (deep breaths, deep breaths....)
If I step back - I again can see that this is all based in DEEP fear. No one wants to face "blame" - no one wants to admit they hurt their child because they didn't know any better. Who wants to go down that road?
But also, she needs to put a sock in it. (A 100% regeneratively-raised GOTS-certified cotton sock of course)
I do agree it's better diagnosed now - but then again, how is it even defined!? I think back to my elementary school years in the early 70's. There was one boy in our class that was very likely somewhere on the spectrum. Totally obsessed with dinosaurs, poor social skills, prone to outbursts and repetitive behaviors. That was in a class of 25 or so kids. Didn't even know anyone with food allergies until HS. So yes, it IS more prevalent now but it's the same people who blame side effects of covid shot on 'Long covid' - head in the sand is too common!!
Much too wide of a “spectrum” too, imho… Geeky, genius & need to be constrained, cannot take in public & in diapers for life, are not the same!!
I’m with ya!! Sometimes reading their insane views does completely deplete me of any hope… 😔🙏
Someone above described being on "bullshit overload" which is where I am now.
Well I have also read that putting total BS posts that are the opposite of our views in front of us on social media is all part of the plan to pit us against each other. It's working. I have been avoiding social media for the last 3 days as I have already burned a lot of bridges with people and decided I needed an arson break. Substack is where it's at for news updates and sane commentary anyway.
Wouldn't that just make perfect sense?? Elizabeth Nickson alluded to the fact that "magazines" are one of the biggest money laundering operations in the world. Just sick of all the things. And the internet has given voice to idiots. One has to keep the boundary fence high to keep out insanity.
Reminds me of the quote (can't remember who said it) It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain as I remember, but I love that quote. Think about how peaceful it would be if everyone lived by that rule.
an arson break....hahaha. That's funny/sad. I relate! I had to walk away during an extended family dinner tonight to go "do the dishes" just so I didn't have to hear the vitriol happening.
This has been round 3 for me. In 2016/17, I unfriended FB 'friends' who were mostly acquaintances who could not stop posting about their TDS (although I don't think that was a term yet). Then the triple whammy in 2020 and 2021 with covid/election fraud/J6 was the big break. That one hurt as I lost some long time friends and even my daughter wouldn't speak to me for a while. This round was just disappointing. People who I liked, leaned liberal, but felt compelled to slander Charlie Kirk over lies they bought wholesale from the media. Have not burned a couple of client bridges in the bio/science space yet; staying off of LI too. Self-employed and need the income but if they say something to my face bashing RFK Jr I may have to bite the bullet. One part of me thinks if I burn all the bridges I will end up on an island with no way back, the other side is like you - on BS overload and consequences be damned.
Bullshit overload for the win. 🥇🤦🏻♀️
I remember back in high school (I’m 68, so looong time ago) having to write papers that had to meet a word quota. I realized then that bullshit had a place in writing. Filling in to make that quota when you’d run out of facts. So you’d go back and insert more words(the bullshit part)
Apparently nowadays bullshit is all that’s required but they have to insert a bit of a fact.
Please, make it stop.
Yes. It’s an old trick to make us BELIEVE bullshit. Feed us a little truth,then “word salad” us to look anywhere BUT the truth..
For me,I find it difficult to believe much of anything ( which is exhausting) that I don’t see with my own eyes,in real time…
Haha, takes me back to my elementary/middle school days where our punishment at times was to write a xxx-word essay on some topic. Like: why it's wrong to misbehave for a substitute teacher. Hated those essays but I did get to HS with a lot of writing experience!
Exactly!!
I wonder if Tylenol helps with bullshit overload 🙃
That's the reason they write it, right? To make you feel hopeless?
Agree 💯 Don't fall in despair. Pity them. Mock them. Pray for them. Encourage them to get every and all shots. 🙂
El Gato: "Meme them until they cry." Time to get busy.
Or to ramp up one's victim status to make you feel (learned) helpless?
Both I think. Depress and confuse.
Got to jump in with you, Bridget! The heavy dose of righteous rage, snark, and appropriate sarcasm was the perfect tonic this morning, JENNA!
I was late to the Jenna Party yesterday, but I did join and commented. Here is what I said, and it stands even more valid today:
"I am tired. I am weary. I am fed up, and I've had it with my eyeballs swimming in excrement for literally years. But, too bad for me. Now is not the time to back off the gas pedal. LFG! Do not comply!"
Unbelievable. Well, when the vaccination stats change because less people are getting vaccinated, the evidence will prevail. SIDS and autism WILL decrease .
I think- if I recall correctly - SIDS decreased during the COVID scam shutdown, it was actually noticeable.
YES! It sure did!!
Kanner's first 11 cases of autism had exposure to Ceresan, a toxic mercury based fungicide.
https://www.ageofautism.com/kim_stagliano/
I read somewhere today that researching autism and only considering genetics without taking external factors into account is like researching lung cancer looking only at genetics and ignoring cigarettes.
Yes!!!!!!!
48 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter and I had 104 fever for multiple days I went into the emergency room. The doctors told me not to take Tylenol because it was not an efficient fever reducer. So I just looked it up. Tylenol reduces fever by resetting the brains temperature Regulation mechanism. It does not reduce inflammation in the body. So the body is just as inflamed, but the brain doesn’t allow the body to respond properly. WTF? Sounds like a stupid drug to take for fever any which way. Just like those doctors told me so many years ago.
Same here. I had some serious pain in my 1st pregnancy and my ob said is it so bad you want your unborn child to take it too? Yep. I sucked it up and pain went away on its own. Now it's okay to take anything when pregnant. 🤔
Exactly. And liver damage - let’s not forget all the elders who have liver damage from the stuff that doesn’t work for arthritis 🙄
Libbie women being Libbie women.🙄 I mean if they can actually define what a women is. And isn't saying "woman" sexist? I thought they believed women can have a penis and men can have babies too? 🤔😉 They are wack jobs.
That woman’s entire worldview is so cringeworthy; so embarrassed for her.
She's not. She means every word she wrote. I have, mostly, gotten over the shock of realizing they are that brainwashed/stupid/vaxx injured - one or all three. That's who they are.
Yeah, it’s mind boggling. How can we possibly combat that level of tunnel vision?
It takes wisdom to know we cannot.
It will just drain you.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will come “…but,for them,maybe not in this lifetime 🤷🏻♀️
I don’t know that we can; but nothing is impossible for God. Maybe praying for people like this is honestly the best thing we can do for them.
I love that.
And it is her $$$.
I think she’s bipolar…dumb and dumber.
I'm totally on board with RFK Jr. But I voted for Other because of Squirrel.
*damn short attention span*
I almost did, too. But I didn’t because of “duh” 🤣🤣
I was tempted,too:)
I didn’t vote because I can’t read what each choice is. On the Substack app it cuts off each choice after just a few words. Usually I can figure out what the choice is but I couldn’t today. Lol
The article in Salon is a clear sign that the tide is turning. Less people, especially moms, read dribble like this and even fewer take it seriously.
Thanks Jenna for a good laugh 😆.
ohhhhhhh I can think of plenty of people who will agree with this. I bet Bluesky will pass it around like candy.
Same here. I saw people posting yesterday about how they'll take advice from a doctor or scientist, not from a guy with a brain worm (or whatever idiotic phrase they used) because sure - RFKJr did all the research himself. He's just the messenger, but these idiots can't see past their hate.
Patti Google or whatever browser people use make it impossible to go straight to RFK's words directly. I entered RFK jr vaccine research in Google and this is what came up.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=rfk+jr%27s+vaccine+research
Only the most determined to seek the truth will find it.
Again… repeat, repeat, repeat, rather than going directly to the source and reading and listening to what he has done and continues to do. Not a very wise way to form an opinion.
A friend of mine posted a statement by the American Psychologist Association (so radicalized that my PhD mother fled over 20 years ago) completely debunking everything the admin put out yesterday 🤦♀️.
Amer Psychologist Assoc? They don’t even dispense meds. Wth?
Blue Sky - the place where all good liberals go to wallow in their own bull💩
I participate in PETA petitions daily and I’m pretty sure their app is “Blue Sky.” I was so disappointed when I signed on and saw what their discussions were about. I assumed it would be all about animal welfare.
Go to "Indivisible " pages on Facebook or other social media. Get popcorn ready because it is entertaining. 😄😉
a dear friend of mine runs a chapter :/ I would NEVER look
This kept whapping me upside the head as I watched yesterday: in my own reproductive years (late 70's, 80's), no pharma product other than pre-natal vitamins was allowed. None. I had daily migraine for the whole 3rd month: I just had to "tough it out". Same during birth: (but my choice)--no pharma product as it might/would hurt my baby. This was a whole movement of natural birth in that time. About 15 years ago, I noticed the number of young teachers, pregnant, who were planning "medicated birth". Huh? What happened to "whatever goes into the mother goes into the fetus"?
I took one sinus Tylenol before I knew I was pregnant. My girl was born with Tetralogy of Fallot and had to go through an open heart total repair surgery before she was 6 months old. I’ve never felt guilt, but I have always wondered if that one pill could have caused the issue. (She’s had a wonderfully healthy life since the operation and is now 36 with a two year old and one in the oven.)
Goodness, what a story. So happy that she is well, and a mother.
Ooooo that must have been horrifying at the time. Glad it turned out well.
These days, doctors shoot entire photo albums with ultra sound and these moms trust that their doctors wouldn’t do something that could potentially cause harm. Not a good idea.
John Droz writes about Critical Thinking. I wonder if we are witnessing the result of a generation of mothers-to-be (and their husbands) who did not learn to think critically.
GENERALLY SPEAKING,this generation was raised to believe they have one psychiatric or physical disorder or another and if not them, their friends do. Thank god for the doctors! Being in their 20’s or 30’s during covid , out of fear, they bought into the pandemic and proudly, “the science.” The doctors sold the science. The media sold it. They likely view the absurd number of ultrasounds simply as “modern technology “ and trust the medical industry because they trust “the science.” Also, these kids believe they are using critical thinking and get agreement from a dozen podcasters to prove their point.
I home birthed. I never trusted “the science.”
When my first child was due for the MMR, I insisted on a prescription for just the mumps vax, because I had natural immunity from measles infections, and if what science claimed was true, he would be protected from all of the measles based on my transmitted antibodies. It was hard to manage, but I a had a great pediatrician and pharmacist.
That was 55 years ago.
Many of us had the measles. Everytime they say it’s “deadly” I just shake my head.
Marcotte should be irrelevant but, there is a manufactured audience for her poor attempt to spew propaganda. That audience suffers from irreversible TDS, too many boosters and a shriveled pineal gland.
They are a damaged group.
Amen. While I shake my head and am baffled, I DO pray for them. They’re so lost.
One of the highest concentrations of fluoride is found in the pineal gland which lies outside the blood brain barrier. Its plausible that could lead to all kinds of pathology.
First, in any MAHA argument, who should you give credence to…those with health to lose or those with money to lose?
Second, thanks for reminding me that Honey Boo Boo was once a thing. I think it adequately paints the picture of how dumb the public is and how the first point has been kept under wraps for so long.
Can you imagine Marcotte able to survive after a disaster? How do you even take care of yourself with that mindset? Geesh…..
She’s be forced to find a man, who, once she started yammering at him about the patriarchy, would be forced to abandon her to the maddening crowds.
🤣
I was hoping for an answer to who poisoned tylenol in the 1980's which forced the packaging of everything to have impervious plastic shields almost impossible to remove. I always figured it was someone in a plastic company that wanted a reason to sell the darn seals.
They never found out.
LOL. Would totally make sense that the “protective security seal association “ would have conjured that. But I think it was just a crazy deranged girlfriend trying to poison her boyfriend. Missed him, but killed a few random people… yet started a worldwide movement.
Get another COVID shot , Amanda . Your brain has not yet entirely rotted
😂🤣😂