Bethany Mandel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always melodrama with this one. I remember a few months ago my mom and I saw her tweet ranting about the fact that her pediatrician had separate cups for clean and dirty pens. We thought it was the most hysterical thing that, of all things in the world happening right now, this was Bethany's biggest concern right now: sanitized pens.

She was manic about the fact that "COVID ISN'T SPREAD VIA SURFACES THIS IS JUST THEATER." Madame, it's a pediatrician's office. I agree covid may not be spread from a pen at a pediatrician's office, but sick kids have a lot of germs that are spread via touch. Cold. Flu. Stomach bug. Pink eye. Those were my first assumptions about germs they were trying to wipe away when she tweeted that. For someone who claims covid isn't a big deal, it's certainly ever-present in her deranged mind.

I remember reading that tweet and wondering why Bethany was bothered that her pediatrician's office provided clean pens, labeling it theater. First of all, I'm sure doctors' offices, especially during COVID, have enough to worry about than to take time to invent ways to make people go through the motions of caution, or whatever Bethany meant by "theater". I would probably be conscious of germs at a pediatrician's office and would have (quietly) appreciated the staff thinking of that detail with the pens. Weren't we all just a tad uncomfortable going into doctors' offices at first? Also, even if studies eventually found that COVID isn't spread by surfaces, who wants to get ill with anything at all during COVID if they can help it, or have kids get sick with other stuff while doctors are so busy dealing with a pandemic?

Until reading this thread, it never occurred to me that Bethany is deliberately provocative. I see that possibility now.

Blows my mind that Bethany spent all summer ranting and raving about how RSV is more deadly to children than covid, and yet, when there's an RSV outbreak and a pediatrician's office takes preventative measures to stop it from spreading from family to family, she loses her shit.

[Anonymous]

Bethany is in histrionics on twitter because she won't vaccinate her children so they won't be allowed to dine indoors in NYC (where they do not live).

I don't understand how she is supposedly homeschooling multiple children + caring for an infant but she tweets no less than 50 times a day.

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Anonymous wrote:She was threatening divorce on her public professional Twitter account.

Need I say more?

Read the Deseret article above. Pretty easy to read between the lines that she still has a lot of unresolved trauma from her teenage years. Hence the oodles of kids and her promotion of Big Family as the "right way" for women to live.

People who speaking in certainties are scary.

Just read the Deseret article and yes, x10 to the bolded.

Yikes. It's enough to make me feel sorry for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was threatening divorce on her public professional Twitter account.

Need I say more?

Read the Deseret article above. Pretty easy to read between the lines that she still has a lot of unresolved trauma from her teenage years. Hence the oodles of kids and her promotion of Big Family as the "right way" for women to live.

People who speaking in certainties are scary.

Just read the Deseret article and yes, x10 to the bolded.

Yikes. It's enough to make me feel sorry for her.

Losing her parents young was no doubt difficult and it sounds like their divorce really hurt her too. But I would take a lot of her stories with a grain of salt, also. She's pretty inconsistent with her claims and doesn't seem like a reliable narrator. Most recently she's yelling all over twitter and instagram that she was "born and raised in New York City" which is not true at all, at least not according to her own prior stories and professional bio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethany is in histrionics on twitter because she won't vaccinate her children so they won't be allowed to dine indoors in NYC (where they do not live).

I don't understand how she is supposedly homeschooling multiple children + caring for an infant but she tweets no less than 50 times a day.

I was wondering why I wasn't seeing her tweets. I forgot she blocked me.

[Anonymous]

She isn't some new bright young starter with conservative views. Yawn. Being politically conservative is normalized in her community. Most, young and old, voted for Trump, just like young evangelicals in Christian circles. She has plenty of company and has just decided to go public on social media, that's all. If she's pissing anyone off, all the better for her.
Just don't give these people any play. Why bring her up at all- you are just helping. Scroll on. Get off her, and other's media accts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethany is in histrionics on twitter because she won't vaccinate her children so they won't be allowed to dine indoors in NYC (where they do not live).

I don't understand how she is supposedly homeschooling multiple children + caring for an infant but she tweets no less than 50 times a day.

I was wondering why I wasn't seeing her tweets. I forgot she blocked me.

If you do want to see her insanity she started a new instagram account solely dedicated to complaining about politics. @bethanyshondark. It's mostly her talking to the camera about illogical political ideas while she's allegedly homeschooling 5 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She isn't some new bright young starter with conservative views. Yawn. Being politically conservative is normalized in her community. Most, young and old, voted for Trump, just like young evangelicals in Christian circles. She has plenty of company and has just decided to go public on social media, that's all. If she's pissing anyone off, all the better for her.
Just don't give these people any play. Why bring her up at all- you are just helping. Scroll on. Get off her, and other's media accts.

I mean, her community is Montgomery County - I wouldn't call that an especially politically conservative place. But regardless, she definitely is some kind of conservative rising star. She goes on TV regularly to be a pundit about stuff she has no qualifications on. Her spouse edits the National Review, which holds itself out as some kind of more refined conservative outlet. Her and her husband do have an impact on and sometimes seem to shape the conversation in a certain part of the conservative political ecosystem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She isn't some new bright young starter with conservative views. Yawn. Being politically conservative is normalized in her community. Most, young and old, voted for Trump, just like young evangelicals in Christian circles. She has plenty of company and has just decided to go public on social media, that's all. If she's pissing anyone off, all the better for her.
Just don't give these people any play. Why bring her up at all- you are just helping. Scroll on. Get off her, and other's media accts.

I mean, her community is Montgomery County - I wouldn't call that an especially politically conservative place. But regardless, she definitely is some kind of conservative rising star. She goes on TV regularly to be a pundit about stuff she has no qualifications on. Her spouse edits the National Review, which holds itself out as some kind of more refined conservative outlet. Her and her husband do have an impact on and sometimes seem to shape the conversation in a certain part of the conservative political ecosystem.

Conservative political ecosystem? Very cute. And can we call today's conservative political scene an ecosystem? Is it an ecosystem when it's largely artificial turf?

No, not at all, no shaping happening. It's all self marketing.

[Anonymous]

Is she a Never Trumper?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is she a Never Trumper?

“I Was a Never Trumper. I Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong”

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-i-was-a-never-trumper-i-couldn-t-have-been-more-wrong-1.9280338

“The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel’s territorial maximalists, is a sad tale of indifference to human suffering.”
https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-the-pro-trump-jews-who-sold-out-the-bible-to-buy-the-president-s-cruel-bigotry-1.9284444

[Anonymous]

Dude in pictures has great hair

[Anonymous]

Bethany, referring to families with small children who have a hard time wearing masks: "This can't go on. Families are driving across the country to see relatives because they're worried about being kicked off flights."

Easy Bethany. Pace yourself. I think she makes valid points regarding masked pre-schoolers and elementary school students. Airlines are trying to protect their employees and they're not going to lift their mask policies until the pandemic ends. That doesn't seem tragic.

[Anonymous]

^ I meant to say that Bethany makes better points regarding young children wearing masks in school. I disagree with her passion regarding children wearing masks on airplanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She isn't some new bright young starter with conservative views. Yawn. Being politically conservative is normalized in her community. Most, young and old, voted for Trump, just like young evangelicals in Christian circles. She has plenty of company and has just decided to go public on social media, that's all. If she's pissing anyone off, all the better for her.
Just don't give these people any play. Why bring her up at all- you are just helping. Scroll on. Get off her, and other's media accts.

I mean, her community is Montgomery County - I wouldn't call that an especially politically conservative place. But regardless, she definitely is some kind of conservative rising star. She goes on TV regularly to be a pundit about stuff she has no qualifications on. Her spouse edits the National Review, which holds itself out as some kind of more refined conservative outlet. Her and her husband do have an impact on and sometimes seem to shape the conversation in a certain part of the conservative political ecosystem.

Seth does NOT edit National Review lmao. Seth is the editor of the Washington Examiner, which is far less prestigious.