Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (About How Little The World Still Knows)

 

"You get your news from Chris Cuomo on CNN when he's married to a woman selling quackery out the back door." 

- The Crack Emcee, NewAge Poop 

 

"My wife is a wellness person, you know. She runs this business where she's learning about homeopathic and all these different things, so she's given me a ton of stuff. I don't even ask what it is." 

- Chris Cuomo, Democrat party royalty, supposed-journalist, and science critic

   

Take a moment to understand what Chris Cuomo can say, on American television, while talking to a Doctor and another journalist - and recieve no pushback. He's admitting he and his wife have a deep proclivity, not just for quackery, but for the Daddy of them all. Two people who are, both, living in a world of madness (being parodied above) while CNN helped them drag society further into it with them. 

I love the vague formulation, "She runs this business where she's learning about homeopathic," which is accepted - again: with no pushback - as though it's perfectly normal for a journalist's wife to be educating herself after she starts charging people for what she's selling (Chris Cuomo's wife is a grifter).

And what is she selling? "Homeopathic and all these different things". When a journalist should know homeopathy is water. "I don't even ask what it is" he says, instead, revealing his worth as a journalist. (His niece, Andrew Cuomo's daughter, also runs a NewAge podcast).

Dr. Oz's wife, Lisa, is also a "reiki master" and homeopath, so one can only assume he's a physician who also doesn't question what the missus is up to. 

RFK, Jr. was supposedly "vetted" by Congress, without a single question tying him to other quacks, or quackery.

 

Which brings us, once again, to the question: if "The Age Of Unreason" was declared by Frank Furedi in the same year Richard Dawkins exposed who "The Enemies of Reason" were (by that time, and specifically mentioning people into homeopathy) then, by now - 20 years after we haven't done a single thing to address a single issue raised back in 2005 - is it fair to say reason's enemies have won, and the west has legitimately gone insane? I mean, how could we ever stop something so few see (or ever saw) as a threat?

 

Take all the time you need,...

 

America's Still Trapped In Suspended Animation (As The GOP Runs America)

 

 This is obviously a strange time to be alive. It's even stranger if you started a blog in 2005, called The Macho Response, that predicted the cultural shift we're now experiencing, including - and probably especially - the defeat of the Democratic party. In hindsight, it wasn't that hard to see coming, because TMR was analyzing the deeper reasons America's been failing, not just moaning how bad it is to be where we are. And those underlying forces - like a love for NewAge cultism - still aren't being anywhere near fully addressed. If they were, we wouldn't have the husband to a "reiki master" and homeopath in charge of Medicare. 

Oh well. At least cartoons, today, better reflect our cartoon lives.

  

While the "6-7" meme is cute (and definitely not some "Satanic Numerology bullshit") it's also illustrative, in the wake of "Rapture" claims and the shooting of Christian grifter Charlie Kirk, because it reflects how easy it still is - even in 2025 - for seemingly-educated and intelligent people to get swept away by low-calorie ideas. South Park's contrast (of kids enamored by "6-7," with something equally powerful but invalid that adults are into, like Peter Thiel and the Christian concept of an Anti-Christ) nails how dangerous this cavalier treatment of beliefs is: as school authorities are coming down on innocent kids over nothing, for religious reasons, the powerful also decide they also see threats to us all. 

The difference is, the kids know the idea they're playing with is nothing, while, by the time they become adults, they're treating all of it like it's very real. And - except for kids having fun for a while - no good is coming from any of it. As everyone takes action.

    

Today, contradictions, of all kinds, are starting to pile on top of one another. When Democrats were in power America saw encroaching fascism. Now, the GOP was complaining that people are shooting at them, before the Young Republicans were caught admitting they're Nazis who love them some Hitler. And this led to JD Vance - who, at the start of the administration, made it known he'd punish anyone being so antisemitic as to criticize Israel's genocide - now claiming these ultimate of antisemites on the right are just kids (in their 20s and 30s) having fun. 

You know, like 8-year olds, on South Park.

 

The Significant Other Can't Stay Hidden Forever (As They Destroy Everything)

Aaron Rodgers warped his world, and ours, by listening to his NewAge girlfriend. We're not learning much, but, more people are listening to her - and women like her - more closely.

Like, after CNN fires Chris Cuomo over ethics, the quote that currently opens his wife's NewAge website becomes remarkable: “If the truth is hidden in a vault that you don’t have access to, how can you make the right choice?”

Right? THAT means - since NewAge is about spreading misinformation - we can see Mrs. Alec Baldwin's "truth" is now inverted, as an "unthinkable nightmare" her husband can't explain. Which is nice, for her.

That's how NewAge "works": even if Oprah Winfrey is blamed for Dr. Oz’s rise to power — and possible Senate seat - his wife's still listed on Wikipedia as a "Reiki Master",...and nobody's blinked. YET.

 

Ain't Newspapers 'Sposed To Make The Comfortable Uncomfortable? (Part I)

"The story of this 'meme queen' hints at how hard it will be to bring people like her back to reality'" 

As usual, The New York Times devotes it's vast resources to discussing QAnon bullshit ("a New Age eccentric who could use some time away from screens") when they know QAnon's NOT what's really going on. But, they're not gonna tell you what's really going on, directly - you gotta suss that out for yourself - because "media" rules and journalism's dead. This article is the nonsense that keeps the ignorant chattering - and that's all that matters: it's the height of distraction, perfectly executed.

Think about it: She's the NYT's example? That obscure woman is the one who's gonna show us all how hard it is to bring people back to reality? Really? All because she's a NewAge Republican? Oh. My. God. In no particular order:

Guess who else is a NewAge Republican?

   

And he's the real thing, too - a true NewAge quack - dragged before the U.S. Congress, once, for selling "magic beans" on American television.

But while the NYT complains of message-spreaders, and how hard it is to bring people back, they haven't devoted one inch of space to worrying one minute that, over all these years, nothing has gotten through to this man - who has an internationally released TV show hawking quackery - and no one has ever seriously tried to get through to him. Not Oprah. I never expected it of the NYT.

If they did, they'd have reported his wife, Lisa Oz, also has a little untreated problem recognizing "up" from "down" - as evidenced by Wikipedia listing her credentials as "Author, radio and television personality, Reiki master" - as though "Reiki master" was a real thing, and not the acknowledgement she's a kooky cult member. Which, in that, she's not alone nowadays.

Journalist Chris Cuomo Is Setting Back Science Embracing Homeopathy And 'Oxygenated Herbs' As Coronavirus Treatment 

If this is who America gets it's fake news from on CNN - and the NYT hasn't busted THAT story wide open - then, what good is it? And - if the New York Times would rather pick on some poor woman than Chris Cuomo and his high-end luxury NewAge bullshit wife - then, who is the NYT even for, anymore?

 

The Mystery That Only Deepens

All the first quotes are from Lisa Oz's Wikipedia page:

"Lisa Oz is an American producer, and frequent co-host of The Dr. Oz Show on the Oprah and Friends XM radio telecasts...."

BUT

[Oprah] may be the most powerful crank enabler on the planet.

- Vox, 2018

"[Lisa Oz] is a Reiki master..."

BUT

Reiki is a pseudoscience.

- Wikipedia

"[Lisa Oz] is co-producer of the Dr. Oz Show and credited with the idea for the television show as a way 'practicing preventive medicine on a grand scale'..."

BUT

Scientists tallied up all the advice on Dr. Oz's show. Half of it was baseless or wrong.

- Vox, 2014

"In 2011-2012 She collaborated...in narrating the documentary film Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives asserting health risks from GMO foods...."

BUT

Are you anti-GMO? Then you’re anti-science, too.

- The Washington Post, 2018

AND

"According to the New York Times, Lisa Oz's mother 'believed fervently in New Age approaches like homeopathic remedies and meditation' and also introduced her husband to 'alternative medicine and Eastern mysticism' which he now integrates into his advice programs."

BUT

Cancer patients who use alternative medicine die sooner

- Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPEd, 2013

But - Even After A Congressional Inquiry - No One Can Figure Out Why Dr. Oz Is A Quack!!!