I talk a lot about “learned helplessness” here. It’s the psychological state that animals tortured in labs eventually get to, where they don’t even bother flinching to get away from the pain. It’s also the end state our elites seek for citizens throughout the West — a condition George Orwell saw as the outcome of totalitarian politics, depicting it with searing power in 1984.
You’re just supposed to accept as normal that every city is a chaotic favela full of homeless lunatics, drug addicts, and criminals. Of course public schools are unusable shooting galleries where far-Left teachers try to groom eight-year-olds into developing gender dysphoria. Haven’t London streets always been blocked by hundreds of military-age Muslim males prostrating themselves toward Mecca? Surely that was depicted in Charles Dickens’s novels. Anyone suggesting otherwise is a far-right domestic extremist who deserves a visit from the police.
And we’re meant to think it obvious that the number of mandatory vaccines increases every year, and that the huge spike in autism has absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s just simple justice that vaccine manufacturers are totally immune from litigation when their products cause injury, disability, or death. Big Pharma funds the news programs and keeps the networks on life support, so don’t expect any dissenting views to break through there.
But thanks to the influence of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the MAHA movement, President Donald Trump is trashing such groupthink. He backed Kennedy against the full-on offensive pharmaceutical companies conspired to whip up to force his resignation. Trump has finally reversed his longtime stubborn insistence that Operation Warp Speed was a success, admitting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx lied to him, among others. And now Trump is announcing a potential breakthrough on one of the most heartbreaking conditions that’s become rampant in America: childhood autism.
Fox News reports:
President Donald Trump is poised to unveil a “significant” medical and scientific finding for U.S. children Monday — and said Sunday he believes there may be an “answer” to autism now.
The Trump administration said in April it would kick off a massive research initiative to understand the cause of autism by September. …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a survey in April that found that autism prevalence is on the rise and said the increase “might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.”
Specifically, the survey found that one in 31 8-year-old children were diagnosed with autism in 2022 — up from one in 36 in 2000.
Did you get that? It works out to a 14% increase in autism diagnoses in a little over two decades. If cancer or heart disease had increased by that much in a comparable period we’d be calling it a public health crisis — which it is. Good for Trump that he’s not just taking such numbers in stride.
In a press conference yesterday, Trump and Kennedy revealed one of the culprits they suspect: the use of Tylenol by pregnant women.
Tylenol Use in Pregnancy Linked to 3x Higher Autism and ADHD Risk
A Johns Hopkins study of umbilical cord blood found that babies with the highest acetaminophen exposure were three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism or ADHD.
This wasn’t fringe science—it came from… pic.twitter.com/BX6zD8rmeU
— Epoch Health (@epochhealth) September 22, 2025
But is there more to the story than that? COVID era hero Dr. Peter McCullough wonders.
BREAKING: White House Announces Tylenol–Autism Link, Opens Door to Vaccines
The pathway to developmental regression begins with vaccines, not acetaminophen. Tylenol used for fever control for sixty years. Confounding by indication likely behind the association. A leading… pic.twitter.com/n9hStIFq7P
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® (@P_McCulloughMD) September 22, 2025
Expect a massive, well-funded backlash, and keep the president and his team in your prayers.
Britain Gets Its Reward for Recognizing “Palestine”: Demands for Reparations Amounting to Its Entire Economy
Sometimes justice seems to be a long time in coming. But the thuggish, censorship-happy, pro-jihadi British government is receiving its comeuppance in record time for recognizing the fantasy state of “Palestine,” the Washington Free Beacon reports:
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly demanding that the United Kingdom pay it reparations, which could be worth up to trillions of dollars, after U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer on Sunday formally recognized a Palestinian state.
“Abbas, who has a long history of threatening to sue Britain, is demanding ‘reparations in accordance with international law’ based on the value of the land which was under British rule between 1917 and 1948,” the Daily Mail reported, noting that the payments would be “compensation for land ‘taken from the Palestinian people’ when Britain relinquished control of the region after the Second World War.”
Under Abbas, the Palestinian Authority has paid millions of dollars to the families of killed or imprisoned terrorists under its “pay for slay” program. While Abbas claimed in February that he would end the program, he told his party later that month that “even if we have [only] one penny left, it is for the prisoners and Martyrs,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations. There is no evidence to suggest the authority ceased its payments to terrorists’ families following Abbas’s order.
The Daily Mail‘s report says that “some international law experts” have said that reparations worth two trillion British pounds, “roughly the size of Britain’s total economy,” are “a good place to start.” [emphasis added]
As Oscar Wilde once quipped about a sappy, tearjerker novel, it would take “a man with a heart of stone … to read this without laughing.”
Trump Frustrated with Bondi’s Inaction
President Trump’s first term in office arguably was wrecked right out of the gate when he dabbled in magnanimity, declining to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her abuse of classified information. That freed her and her team up to manage the Russia collusion hoax in cahoots with the Deep State and Vice President Mike Pence — who cleared General Mike Flynn out of the way by forcing his resignation as Director of National Intelligence. Trump’s biggest supporters have been frustrated in his second term by the failure to clean out the Deep State and legally pursue its worst abusers of power.
Now Trump himself seems to be getting fed up with the glacial progress on that front:
President Trump just posted what appears to be a text message he sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, telling her the lack of arrests and accountability for Deep State Trump haters is “killing our reputation and credibility.”
He is urging her to take action.
Now it’s public. pic.twitter.com/PxdA9kY7nF
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 20, 2025
Trump Takes Firm Action to End the H1-B Visa Scam That Steals American Jobs
Last week, Trump issued an executive order making it much more difficult and expensive for big corporations to fire American workers and replace them with cheap foreign labor imported from Third World countries. That’s good news for U.S. workers, but maybe not such great news for countries like India, which have been gaming our immigration system for decades. Bloomberg reports:
Donald Trump’s move to curtail H-1B visas threatens to rewrite the rules for one of India’s biggest business success stories, a decades-old model that’s grown into a $280 billion industry and underpins much of the technology behind the world’s largest corporations.
The US president’s order on Friday — which requires a $100,000 fee for H-1B applications — will force a rethink at Indian outsourcers led by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Ltd., who use the program to deploy tens of thousands of engineers across American clients from Citigroup Inc. to Walmart Inc. The two Indian software exporters’ shares slid more than 3% on Monday.
The abrupt move — a response in part to accusations of abuse — forces Prime Minister Narendra Modi to once again deal with the fallout from America First policies.
Are you tired of winning yet?
Along The Stream…
Watch this short, informative video to learn “Why the Left Worships Monsters Like Karl Marx.”
Don’t miss this thoughtful essay on the contrast between American unity in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and our grim division in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s political murder.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
