The Scales of Truth

DeMarcus and I have very few critiques! Overall, granted a week late, but a performance that shows a turning of the corner by the 2025 Kansas City Chiefs squad.  A 30-17 victory against a team who will hang 50 on you if you give them the reason and momentum to do it. Night and day difference in their full focus versus how they looked a week ago against the Jaguars. A great performance to build on, as Rashee Rice can now be a part of the approach. Congrats all around. Even, and I NEVER thought I'd say this, to Matt Nagy.  (ouch... I felt like I SHOULD say that, but it still feels weird to ever think that is the right thing to do, in any possible universes)  ;-)

NOTE: Please be gracious regarding audio quality. Tyson apologizes for not realizing his keyboard sounds were so loud!  ( GAH! ) We'll be better next week! Still only like my fourth episode recording with someone else and for this one I'm keeping track of our opinions.  In order of slate, not including TNF and Monday Morning London game. 

Good and bad signs, but overall, the Chiefs waste an at-times quite crisp performance, showing no urgency after being up 14 - 0 in first half but then allowing Jags to cut it to 14-7, dinking around like high schoolers for two three-and-outs instead of understanding the known commodity known as "any given Sunday" (or Monday).  As a result of that, plus some tendencies towards mistakes and penalties, and several moments of low-probability desperation instead of belief  (or ability? Or practice?) in precise execution, they find themselves on the wrong side of the clock scenario in the fourth quarter.  A solid Jaguars team that the Chiefs should have seen early were very game today give the Chiefs a very disappointing loss, considering what was at hand. 

The first official purposefully scheduled episode with DeMarcus. As we are both (native-born) Chiefs fans, we emphasize and spend a lot more time on that, but that game is at the end.  We will tighten up, and already have planned for a tighter structure for the next episode. Due to length, we've added the convenience of time stamps below. But it is here, so have fun disagreeing with us!  0:00 intro 2:16 Last Thursday react - 49ers over Rams 6:24 Browns at Minnesota (London) 15:19 Texans at Ravens 23:25 Raiders at Colts 34:59 Dolphins at Panthers 41:50 Giants at Saints 51:25 Cowboys at Jets 59:10 Broncos at Eagles 67:22 Titans at Cardinals 73:51 Buccaneers at Seattle 79:15 Lions at Bengals 82:41 Commanders at Chargers 88:17 Patriots at Bills 94:05 Chiefs at Jaguars

You can have a list of people and groups who do not agree with you, or who do not 100% support you.  Sensible. But what that list is NOT is a list of who hates you. That requires more and would be a much smaller subset.  Never mind that by even making such a claim you've basically proclaimed that what you hate is free speech.  (Recorded before FBI's parallel announcement about the jackass SPLC. AKA Tyson dot connecting again.) 

(A follow-up to TSOT-131. Please note I added significant specific information and links to the description that I did not particularly emphasize during the episode.) EXCELLENT work by Daily Caller News Foundation. They likely had this information, and were deciding when to drop it, considering they dropped it only four days after RFK Jr's "fanciful" press conference*. Regarding internal Tylenol monitoring and knowledge over a period of time of studies in 2018 and before that showed connections between use during pregnancy, and activities that prove that they were very aware of those studies and concerns by customers and doctors, up to and including specifically monitoring how much the public was becoming aware and mentioning it on social media. The information comes from discovery documents related to a class action lawsuit against Kenvue / Tylenol. =============================================== This is about where deniers stop thinking. So I'll add on CHANCE it turns their brains back on (I'm ever optimistic and idealistic), that as part of actions towards a summary judgment in favor of Tylenol, the judge supported the "noble lie" by throwing out the expert testimony from the case. After all... their testimony, I shit you not, would have "great public health implications” of pregnant women not having the drug) Ummm... Well, that's circular, don't you think? If there are great health implications, due to a lot of usage, then would not the harms alleged, have great health implications?? ============================================= Besides... on one side of the scale is pain being reduced. The other, potential life-long deficits mentally and physically, and possible lifelong dependency on caregivers. ============================================== In 2018, not just ANY employee that happened to see emails, but Janssen's U.S. Director of Epidemiology Rachel Weinstein "The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me.” Janssen was the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson. For one 2018 study, which was a review of existing literature, Weinstein specifically reached out to those involved in the study to compliment them on how sound their study set-up was and how that bolstered the study's conclusion. She has since retired. But J&J first got indications of the problem a decade earlier, via queries and concerns by doctors and customers, which were flagged for internal note and safekeeping. Also in 2018, a Johnson and Johnson internal presentation "High-Level Overview of Epidemiological Studies" pointing out 16 individual studies, 6 systematic reviews, and one meta-analysis expresses the internal opinion of there being among the 16 individual studies a "somewhat consistent of increased occurrence of neurodevelopmental outcomes with prenatal exposure" (AKA, the exact conclusion Trump and RFK Jr announced). Conveniently (?), in 2022, Johnson & Johnson spun off its consumer products division, to Kenvue. Kenvue became entirely separate from Johnson and Johnson in 2023. Discovery has also revealed, I kid you not, an internal Kenvue 2023 presentation about "Project Cocoon," which addressed "Acetaminophen and Neurodevelopmental/Urogenetical Abnormalities." ===================================== *That dude doesn't do anything fanciful. He has studies memorized. ====================================== Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: a sibling-controlled cohort study 2013, International Journal of Epidemiology Maternal use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and risk of autism spectrum disorders in childhood: A Danish national birth cohort study 2016, Autism Research - Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research The role of oxidative stress, inflammation and acetaminophen exposure from birth to early childhood in the induction of autism  2017, The Journal of International Medical Research Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: A review 2018, Hormones and Behavior Paracetamol use during pregnancy — a call for precautionary action 2021, Nature Review Endocrinology

Things are looking up in Chiefs kingdom.  And other week 4 results imply further potential reshuffling. 

A Sports Scales of Truth (SSOT). Turns out DeMarcus was up for my idea for breaking out a new episode type about which we both share an interest, so welcome to the show, nephew! We spin through the NFL week 4 matchups. This is NOT the final product or final plan, as we decided impromptu to just extend our initial equipment check. We look forward to an approximate weekly cadence. 

With source audio. He thinks the term, which echoes exactly what Trump and others say* about unhinged lefties going over the top with their characterizations of people who disagree, is a "brilliant" term. He goes on to tell the young influencer skulls full of mush, who LOVED that term, that the "Woke Right" (wait what?) is just as  bad as the "Woke Left" as they're both "insane." Wait... aren't American religious conservatives by definition closer as a class due to that whole upholding of "Judeo-Christian values"? PFF... No. Only a certain segment are. The rest are "insane." Hmm.. wonder what the dividing line is? Ahem. ( Stay asleep little "Christian" babies, we love and accept you as long as you don't take that whole "Prince of Peace" thing too seriously. If you don't make Old Testament PRIMARY over your New Testament that we don't believe in, you're insane and you're the equivalent of Nazis.)  My Obligatory Attempt for rabids to not misstate and mis-take me: This is not not NOT about saying Yahu and his kind deserve anything EXCEPT the very same case-by-case questioning of motives and actions that we all deserve. No regime or authority is above reproach or above the law. Let alone when they recruit the money, weapons, and manpower of other countries to continually spread death and destruction upon their neighbors. BTW... It's The Old Testament that says "Love Thy Neighbor". Hmmm... *You compare Americans speaking their mind to literal historical mass murderers and you wonder why violence occurs? 

I've said this before - the side who is actually getting punished VALIDLY will ALWAYS say the side doing the punishing is "burning 'witches' at the stake." Yet IF someone disingenuously wields the mechanisms of government to lie and deceive to harass political adversaries, it MUST be punished, or you get an "above the law" corrupt political class that turns your country into a banana republic. (and, more simply, lying under oath is the most basic law violation that can put any of us in prison, so there's ultimate validity to that, that "high offices" do not have immunity from (technically - they do practically, for most of our history). To that end, a quick reminder of the supreme levels of illegal misconduct that occurred during Comey's FBI. But that's not my conclusion only. So we highlight what I covered in a previous episode: (QROT-084: DOH says FBI omitted known contradictions about Steele Dossier when using it as a source to get warrants against Trump Team) So you'll hear them that "there's nothing to it" and "it's political."  You'll hear (the stand-in for?) Hillary whining about being nice (ahem. . . speaking of ultimate ironies). But they also told you there was nothing to your claim that you could still get "Covid" if "vaccinated"... until they admitted you could (nearly innumerable Scales of Truth episodes).  And they also told you that the vaccine was very very safe, except for that time before it was even released that they admitted, via powerpoint slides in front of experts (Two Scales of Truth episodes: QROT-093 & QROT-094) So "they" can go take a long walk off a short pier.  As usual, what "they" say is most usually your initial indicator of what the truth is NOT.

Oh it's laughable at this point. An announcement by the administration, or RFK Jr. specifically, then gets lambasted by the media. This time about problems about taking acetaminophen too much during pregnancy. And then the most basic research shows its validity, and yet again undresses the Big Pharma teat-sucking "news media." They didn't find it at "Joe's Conspiracy Corner." Instead, a few little places you may have heard of - Mount Sinai, Harvard, UCLA - were the originators of the information. 

You know the "I'm HIM!!" exclamation from sports.  I voted for him. A CRAZY big exception for a truly devoted Libertarian such as me. But right now, let's be honest, Trump isn't "HIM." He's not dominating. He not imposing his will to gain his intended and expressed victory.  Latest example... How do you "denounce globalism" on the same day you use the bully pulpit to extend both wars he said he'd end??!!  That is not winning. That is not MAGA (aka the interests of common Americans) winning. Vote Libertarian. 

A horrific start turns into a comfortable week 3 win with at least some positive signs for the Kansas City Chiefs (Correction: about 27 minutes in I referred to of the two times Patrick and the Chiefs succumbed to relentless pressure and mumbled that it was San Francisco. I meant the Buccaneers) 

A follow-up to TSOT125, about a government database being deleted nefariously. In that episode I saw a salvage operation as possible.  And this ties to an announcement by Trump during Kirk's memorial service. If they are able to follow through, it is Earth shaking as to victories of truth over long held lies.

"Like raw calamari. Like some kind of rubber seafood." Never forget.  I've told you many times about one of the (predictably) disastrous and deadly effects of a plan to hijack the protein-forming function of the body to simulate a material foreign to the body instead of just introducing the foreign material and let the body react naturally. But sometimes it's good to not just remember that you heard me say it, but instead original testimony from others. When we say the Fauci, and Bourla, and company are world-class murderers... never forget.  Maybe they never get punished. Who knows. But we must never forget.

Reviewing original audio of an on-the-ground witness testimony, a network reporter.  A LOT missing. Particularly plane parts and bodies.  Sometimes even if you've heard the idea it is a good refresher to review original stories.  Plus an emphasis on "well that settles it!" evidence in other cases, and the importance of appreciating how standalone evidence can overwhelmingly prove what happened or at least what definitely did not happen.

This is purely speculation about motivations that were at least there. It is NOT saying those motivations actually manifested in any participation whatsoever in the tragic acts.  But where thoughts on motivation are valuable is to understand potential persons or circles of interest.  In ALL ways, Turning Point is the EXACT ecosystem susceptible to "this guy has 'lost his way', we must do something!!" temptations, and back room whispered conversations about solutions.  Jax, in Sons of Anarchy, anyone? JFK,  and the objections to his peace stance. Anyone?  Game of Thrones' intrigue-filled battle for the Iron Throne. Factions.  Arguments of right person to continue the legacy. Et Cetera.

Tommy Boy, due to any number of factors gets access that literally no other human on the planet in the same situation gets. It's not primarily about whether we should be "paranoid" about it (though there's that), but that the rule does make sense, and of ALL people to be able to circumvent the rule, it probably makes the LEAST sense for it to be someone with a top 0.01% football mind. Parallel to what tiny fidgets and tells that most of us don't see can mean for a world-class poker player.  Never mind when you add the level of competitiveness inherent in a QB that has delivered SEVEN Lombardi's.

Audio from interviews to back up what I've said about Kirk's change of heart. And related thoughts. Please note that I expressed his opinion change occurred publicly only in the last few months. I'm now unsure that is correct. It might be that it because more consistent and obvious during that time period, but that he initially to a lesser degree showed the "turning point" in his views many months before that. I'm just uncertain.

A follow-up to TSOT127, with an emphasis on what Charlie Kirk's very close strategic and personal ties to Trump could mean regarding potential motivations and what the "message senders" would really mean.