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of years. But anyway, that's where I'm at. Happy to be here. I'm also doing this live on YouTube. Well, we'll see how that's gonna go live streaming that one. So that one you'll be able to hear all the crazy noises that might pop up. You know what I should transition? Let's see, when that transition that leads me to the first story but that transition in a way that that most people transition in the modern world. I think I need to take a swig of coffee before I start this one because

I ran across a story yesterday. And it's if it's true, if this isn't a massive trolling, we finally gone too far in this world. So let me get to it here. It's a tweet. I got to put on my glasses for this asshole. Oh shit. I put my headphones on first. Okay, headphones off. glasses on. Okay, headphones. background. There we go. Now you can read things. All right. Okay, an asshole from the UK. British asshole. Ollie London

has transitioned. What's the transition to? He hasn't done the popular one of male transitioning to female or female transitioning to male No. He's decided to transition to being Korean. Or anyone on mine as British because I identify as Korean. That's just my culture. That's my home country. That's exactly how I live now. And I also identify as German that's my Korean name, but not only that, I just I know it's a little bit confusing for some people. Nobody's ever come out

as German or Korean. But this is something that you guys know has to be a massive trolling eight years I've really struggled with identity issues with who I am. You know, or anyone online as British because I would ever I can't. I mean, did you really get plastic surgery for this? Or did he just tape his eyeballs back like they like they used to in the old Charlie Chan movies when? What the hell was his name? He was a Jewish man that

played Charlie Chan was one of my father's favorite. Charlie. I can't spell. Okay, hit the wrong stupid button. There we go. I'm a little bit off off my usual sharpness of the first nine episodes. Because I'm doing this on video and live on youtube with zero viewers. Well, there's one there's me. Excuse me as I'm watching this happen. Anyway, Charlie Chen movies. I think it's Sydney. Sydney. toller What was his name? I don't have a

chat room. I don't have anything here to help me out here. I think I have some of them. Alright. Where the fuck is his name? Here we go. Sydney. Yeah, Sydney toller. Were in the movies. They were just going to. He was a white man that taped his eyeballs back to the movies. I love the movies. The movies are great. And my father. I'm half Korean. My father used to I love to refer to his children as

my number one, son. Number two, somebody wasn't like Charlie Chan, where he had Rami kids Charlie Chan had in the movies. But my, you know, at the time, it was just me and my older brother. So there were just two of us. So you would have to stop at number two son, and then he got remarried had two other children. So at least he could go through the process of saying number three son, and I don't think ever referred to our sister is number four daughter. I don't know. But anyway, back

to Ali London. If If this is true, are we accepting this stuff? As transitioning finally jumped the shark? Can you just claim to be Asian or Korean, in this case, where that's now his culture, which it's obviously not his culture? I'm half Korean, and it's barely my culture. Anyway, that one just pissed me off. Or it made me laugh, because I can't figure out if it's real or not. So this new setup here, oh, yeah, there's the the blog post, oh, it's uncategorized goddamnit.

You know, okay. So I've set this new thing up, where, you know, I don't subscribe. And I don't pay too close attention. Although I do. Get some information from Tim Poole, from his YouTube channel. I don't really watch the videos per se. Because he's, he's a millennial is younger than I am. Obviously, I'm in my 50s. I'm Gen X. So I like getting points of view from younger people. So I can see, you know, because they'll look at things that are not important to me. They'll look at whatever

is important to them. So, you know, as I'm looking through, and I see his, his setup, you know, it's kind of cool. He's got the little picture and picture thing there. So how can I do this for myself. So I found some software that will run off of my Logitech webcam, and it actually works on multiple devices as well, I can put it on my laptop, my surface go, I could put it on my phone and have, I could actually have a multiple camera shoot within my office here. Welcome to my

office, by the way. That is my kids. And over my right shoulder. On the left of the screen, I think it's showing is my you can see the bottom corner of my Batman Beyond the BB poster. I used to be in television, and we launched a web affiliate in Iowa City. And that is one of the first posters I got big fan of Batman Beyond the need to make a live action show of that one. down in the lower corner. You see it this

interesting office setup I have here. One of my dogs beds. You know, maybe at some point, I'll dress this up and show something nice but and then you get the beautiful garbage can over here just behind me a couple of my backpacks, one that I use for hiking when I use for travel. And I'm not even sure what else can you see back here. Let me cut to the big version so I can see it. You got my cup of coffee. Hello. Above me. Over there back there is a drawing that my daughter had. This is my

back over here. This is my Magna cum lodhi metal. I didn't even know they gave medals back then for this kind of stuff. But I graduated with honors from North Eastern Illinois University, very prestigious. I have a degree in computer science with a minor in Business Law. And business law actually did me some good computer science. You know, I've always been

interested in computers and software. And I learned to code like 14 I was terrible at it. And I was horrible at it when I went to college as well. I received straight A's in business law, Business Law, mathematics, all that kind of stuff. But computer science Oh my god. I can I can make out algorithms. But I can code to save my life. I don't know if you can hear my wife in the background. She's talking to somebody Filipinos talk loud.

They are very, very loud people. I've been married for over 30 years. So I can say that unequivocally that Filipinos are loud. Anyway, I can probably remove that in post for the podcast but for the video. It's live and it's just going to be there. So I don't have a built in noise gate, a hardware noise gate for my microphone in my, my podcast setup, which here this is my podcast setup. It's a pod drag before. Can you see this? Okay. fix that now. I screwed that up. Let's see. And you got

my microphone here. It looks, looks nice on video looks like like it's serious. I just need something behind me to make it look interesting because this is really bad. Let's see, that's me rambling for 10 minutes, let me get into the meat of my post. I'm going to switch over to doing to recording on Mondays. Because it kind of gets in the way of the weekend. I was recording on Saturdays because I do another podcast financial

podcast. And it was easier to kind of compile my information and do it on Saturday because the markets closed on Fridays. So I can put all my my stuff together and then create that podcast on Saturday. Usually afternoon, sometimes evening. But now I think I'm gonna just do it on Mondays. It's easier for me at least. And now I think it's more entertaining for you. back into the posts from the week, let's get rid of Ali. There was one that I did not post. But I read about her over

the weekend. And this is the everybody was talking about it obviously over the weekend, I think was on Friday, the Justice Department filed suit against the state of Georgia over the new voting law. And when you listen to assistant ag Kristin Clark, one of the first things she says in her opening paragraphs, She cites the as if it's some kind of crime for the Georgia Senate to pass a bill that was three pages long, which I think it was only two pages but anyway. And that the way she

puts it, it expanded to over 90 pages days later. That makes it sound like something drastic happened in like three days, which is not the case it was about 17 days. They went from March 8 to march 25 when the thing was signed and voted on or voted on and signed. Regardless, this is Kristin Clark comm

later, the bill days later, into over 90 pages in the house. The house held less than two hours of floor debate on the newly inflated sb 202 before governor camp signed it into law the same day. So now it's a crime

bill and just added all this stuff. There were all these other things that they were already working on. So they they passed the different version. They in the in the house. They debated they made amendments. And then they finally passed the final bill, which was I think, 95 pages. And yes, it was passed on March 25. And Kemp did sign it on the 25th. Here's governor Kemp disputing what our assistant ag didn't say 50

federal government is trying to pass. And their voting rights bill, which is called the for the people act went now, you know, when it's called for the people, it is not for the people, it's for the politicians, period, end of story. I'm sure it's happened before the Patriot Act, but ever since the Patriot Act was introduced, and passed, every single bill that seems to come out of Congress, whatever it's

called, it means the exact opposite. It is not I mean, the Patriot Act, this was the least patriotic bill ever signed into law. And, you know, personally, I voted for George W. I liked him. Personally, I like George W. But the Patriot Act and the creation of the TSA, the Department of Homeland Security. It was the least American thing. The least patriotic law signed, it just gave sweeping powers to the executive to do all kinds of crap to the people. And we're still living with that legacy

now. over two decades later, or over two decades, now, almost two decades later. I'm a little bit a little bit ahead of my time in the months anyway. So federal government, they want to push through their stupid for the people act, which will make sweeping changes to voting laws across the country for federal elections. They don't have the power to change things for state elections, but the US Constitution gives them the power to regulate federal elections. But how big is the

for the people act? You think 90 pages was big. This thing is 888 pages 888. And much of it has nothing to do with voting. There was an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, by what's this guy's name? Jamie, Jamie Dupree. And in there, he highlights this 888 page bill. And aside from things in here about the election, then scanning through this thing trying to find I should have highlighted what it was, but I can't, I didn't do it. I do 00 show prep, you know, I blogged

during the week. And so I've got all these tabs open with all this crap from my blog. But I should have highlighted this one because it was in here. Here the Table of Contents alone, for the act of the Federal bill was 14 pages. And it includes things like ethics, conflict of interest provisions for the US Supreme Court, Congress and the executive branch. The package also has lobbying disclosure requirements, campaign fundraising changes, new rules and congressional redistricting

and much more. So that if the Justice Department's gonna come out against the state of Georgia, and I'm sure they're going to file suit against the state of Texas, and whoever else, change voting laws, I think Florida did the same thing. They need to go after Congress 880 pages, this thing was already in the works. What year was that? 2019 says here, and I saw something earlier about 2017. But anyway, 2019, much of this bill was sitting in waiting in the wings. And they

were just waiting for the right moment to spring this thing. And it's full of all kinds of crap that have nothing to do with voting. So they're all being disingenuous pricks when they talk about the length of the bill. And you know, what, what Georgia really wants to do with voting. And if you if you look at it, the the provisions in the voting bill, the voting law in Georgia, if you look at it with an objective I there is nothing in there. That is racist. There is nothing in

there that restricts voting, it expands voting. It gives extra weekend days. You know, they're talking about the big deals they make about not being able to give people water in line. First of all, it's not true. You can give somebody water In light, you just have to be 150 feet away from the entrance of the

polling place. And, honestly, you can't bring your own bottle of water, or you cannot survive long enough, even, let's say even if the weight is two hours long, you can survive for a couple of hours without drinking some water for crying out loud. You know, if you're voting in the morning, go have a breakfast, drink some water, then go vote. You know, then the other thing they made a big deal out out of are the drop boxes. drop boxes didn't even exist, they weren't part of the voting

law prior to COVID. So they brought those out as a response to COVID. So people could go drop off their ballots, and not have to actually talk to somebody in person, you know, brush up against somebody. So when the temporary provisions for COVID voting expired, the dropboxes would have just gone away. So they could have just let that expire and just not even have pass allow with drop boxes in it. So they made it permanent. So now there will be drop boxes for voting

permanently. They just have to be secure. Now, you're not going to just be on every street corner like a mailbox that there'll be available 24 hours a day without any kind of security. There'll be inside of a building where the early voting takes place. So that way they can be monitored. They can be watched, they can have a camera on them if necessary. You know, it's just a little matter of security. Which what is what is racist about that? If you can go drop off your ballot at a

Dropbox location. And granted, they've reduced the number of them because you don't need them. You don't need that many if we're not dealing with these stupid lockdown provisions. Okay, let's see, there were some COVID stuff in the news that I covered. What did I do with it? I'm gonna save that draft. Maybe I'll post that one later. Close that tab. Okay. So I said my headline was researcher discovered scientists aren't

really interested in the science. And the short of the story is that the researcher How did I put it I said researcher meets data researcher publishes paper examining data researcher gets attacked by scientists researcher gets dragged through the mud and has to aggressively protect their reputation. And finally, the researcher becomes jaded and cynical regarding the real motivations of her peers. You know, so so what happens here is that the scientist was

publishing some information that was just based on data. And that the findings were inconvenient to the scientific community that was covering the topic that she was studying. And they put enormous pressure on her. To kind of recant everything that she found. What else did I say here? This is what happens when you have zero show prep. So in her story, is on site Science Direct comm I shouldn't touch my face while on camera today. A naive researcher published the scientific article in a

respectable journal. She thought her article was straightforward and defensible that used only publicly available data and her findings were consistent with much of the literature on the topic. Her co authors included two distinguished as statisticians. To her surprise, republication was met with unusual attacks from some unexpected sources within the

research community. These attacks were by and large not pursued through normal channels of scientific discussion, or research became the target of an aggressive campaign that included insults, errors, misinformation, social media posts, behind the scenes, gossip and maneuvers and complaints to her employer. So the moral of the story is that, quote, unquote, the science, you know, that everybody wants to follow. It can't be trusted, because it's delivered by human beings,

human scientists with their own agendas. People need to look critically at the information that's being pushed and use their common sense as to whether or not things make sense. And

that transitions to you know, COVID-19 sorry. As COVID when they first started giving information, and if you, you get away from the emotion and the fear of some new virus, and you look at what they were reporting, which was consistent across all reporting outlets, is that largely, the people that were getting severely ill and dying, were people who are over the age of 65. And I think the heavy concentration of them is

over 75 and 80. And that people younger than that, that were being affected, they were having really bad cases of COVID and dying. Were people with what it's like the favorite word of 2020 2021, co-morbidities, people who had diabetes, people who suffered from inflammatory diseases, because it seems that their immune system was already in overdrive, trying to

compensate for the other issues that they already had. And when they contracted SARS Coby to and developed, the illness now known as COVID-19, their immune system really went into overdrive and ended up killing them. So when you look at it, and you look at that, at those facts, that first of all, 100% of the people do not get infected with COVID-19. Some people just do not get infected, then of the 85%, that do, at least these were the

numbers, I don't know what they are right now. But throughout almost this entire pandemic, 85% of those who were infected, either were asymptomatic, or had mild symptoms, nothing that was fatal or life threatening. That other 15% some of them got, seriously ill where it was a really bad flu, but that they didn't have to be hospitalized. And it was something like more than half of that. And then there was a smaller percentage that was hospitalized. They were hospitalized, and they

recovered. And then the tiny percentage of the small percentage that were hospitalized and died. Now those are the facts of the pandemic. And so people should be able to judge for themselves. Am I at high risk? Am I old? young people, you know, well, yeah, now the stories are coming out, oh, the variant, the Delta variants, killing all the young people sending them to the hospitals. But they're not really publishing the numbers on any of this stuff. Right now. They're just talking about it.

Primarily, people that are low risk, didn't really have to do anything, we could have gone up along with our lives as normal. But the science, the science, you can't, you can't trust the you were not allowed to take the facts out and assess your own risk, and then act accordingly. No, you had to, you had to have people, not just tell you what to do. But they came out and they shut everything down. This is why you cannot trust human scientists. They can you know, they may be smarter than some of

us. You know, they may know more about the transmission of diseases, sure. But give us the facts get tell us what you know. And then let us make our own decisions. And I think that's also where Trump got played. He got played badly by Dr. Fauci and Dr. Burks. He trusted in them to provide accurate information. And Fauci, it turns out was lying from the beginning lying for who knows what reason? I mean, you know, people say,

you know that the NIH has a vested interest in Madonna. And that Fauci is irrevocably or irrevocably tied to the pharmaceutical industry. Whatever, whatever his reasons, are, he he lied, he lied about so many things. You know, the masking in particular, he seemed to be lying about hydroxychloroquine seem to be lying about ivermectin. But you take you know, he lied specifically about masks. At

least that one we can see for sure. And he even came on admitted that he lied, because he didn't want the according to him. He didn't want the supply Have masks to not be available

to frontline workers, nurses, doctors, whatever. So once you get a guy like that out there lying, okay, instead of just telling adults in America in the United States of America telling adults like, Hey, I mean, of course, adults are stupid Anyway, you know, they went out and bought tons of toilet paper because they thought they weren't going to be able to wipe their own assets. Regardless, you tell the His job is to tell

us the truth. Whatever he knows, he supposed to tell the truth and advise, you know, there, he's supposed to advise the President of the United States, he's saying don't wear a mask, saying I'd do anything for you, which it turns out anyway, multiple studies show that it may not be all that effective at

preventing infection. So once they lie about something so small, you now have to discount everything else these people say you can't trust anything that comes out of their mouths, you have to look at what's the agenda behind what they're talking about. And they may still under some facts. But you have to be able to pull those facts out yourself and make a determination for yourself. And you know that this is happening

not just in in COVID. And you can see from the frontline care doctors, COVID care doctors that are heavily pushing ivermectin, and that are adamant that in their clinical experience, that this drug is effective, not just as a treatment, but also as a preventive measure. You can see what they're going for, with following the science and that it doesn't just apply to COVID. It also apply it applies to climate change. And I just finished the book written by a former Obama administration

official. And of course, I didn't say that either. So I don't I can't remember the name of the book offhand. But in there, he talks about climate science. I'm going to blog post that book this week. But he talks about how the media screws this all up and how they just follow a set narrative. That is not the truth. Okay. Chicago Tribune. That's where I'm from. I was born in Chicago. I'm now living in the lovely state of Georgia in the north eastern suburbs of Atlanta.

I still read the Chicago Tribune every day. And they were recently purchased by a by Alden capital. I think they were some hedge fund that owns other newspapers, well known for purging these papers after they buy them. So recently, over the last week, the Chicago Tribune saw a mass buyout of prominent colonists and reporters. I think it was something like 40 of them, accepted buyouts prominent of voices like john Cass, Aragorn, Mary Schmidt, Darlene Glanton. Everybody except Rex,

Husky. I think that's how you pronounce his name Husky. That guy. I don't read them because he's just such a boob. But I mean columnists that I read that we're good columnists? I mean, john Cass was probably the last of the conservative columnist at the Tribune. Even the editorial board, I don't think is as conservative as his cast wasn't cast really wasn't all that conservative necessarily. He to me was classic Chicago, classic Illinois, where we're sort of moderates. You know, we like

people to leave us alone. You know, we like we like to leave people alone. And just go about our lives, you know, but he was heavily into the politics of Chicago. And so now he's just posting on his on his own website, john Cass news calm, which I will continue reading because he is now these. He's not constrained by the editors at the Tribune. He can open up a little bit more, which which he really didn't last column about

Lori Lightfoot. He really let it let it fly. Which was, which was good because there were things that I think he covered there that he wasn't Able to quite say while he was a constant in the Tribune. But the Tribune, okay, they get rid of 40 columnist. And then what did they do? They sent me an invoice, they sent me an invoice where they raised raise my subscription rate. not granted this subscription anyways cheap. But it went from a buck. It was like a buck a month I was paying to $7 or

almost eight bucks. I was like, wait, you got a lot of nerve. You get rid of everybody that I read. And then and then you raise my rate. Now, I called them up. And you know, this is what I always do is I'll call them up and I'll say, I'm going to cancel because you raise my rate, and then they always drop it back down. So now again, I continue my Tribune subscription. But for it's it's for $1 a month, through the end of the year. So you know, this happens every six months. I

gotta call them back. But it's there, you know, with the tribune what happened over the years, which is what happened with a lot of other big city newspapers that are not the New York Times Washington Post, is that they use syndicated information, syndicated stories. So they pulled to too many stories from the Associated Press, from the New York Times, the Washington Post, even the LA Times, and, you know, for national news, things that weren't in Chicago. So, you

know, some of that stuff. It was just the stories weren't good, because they were all very slanted. You know, I would still, if depending on the importance of the news story, I would still read them. But you have to really read those critically, to take out the bias that's in there so you can get to the facts of what the story is. But their local reporting, the Chicago Tribune is local reporting was always on point. And they may have also had a little bit of a slant to it, but

I'm going to Chicago, but they covered it. They covered Chicago very well, they covered a lot of a lot of the corruption in the state. So now with all these columnist and reporters gone, who knows how that's going to be I hope their local reporting continues because I still read the paper every day. But the Atlanta Journal, I read the Atlanta Journal, that is a really bad paper, even locally, it's ugly to look at. And, you know, they do the same thing that the tribune did with

syndicated stories. But the rest of it, you know, they do a lot of local coverage. It's different here, in that the county structure has more importance than city sense than city structures. in Chicago. We don't really talk about the counties that much. I mean, Cook County is one of the is one of the largest counties in the country, population wise. And Cook County is where Chicago was, and it was also where I was

living in one of the northern suburbs. But we didn't really talk about county government much at all, you know, it's there. And you know, he got the election for county board president and stuff, but we didn't really talk about it that much. It was more about mayor of Chicago or where I used to live. I used to live in a suburb called Glenview. Even there, I mean, we talked about the Glenview police department, you know, the Glenview government there, which is different here.

So while while they do have city structures here, as well as the county, the county seems to take precedent over everything. And the way that they report the news is just kind of like, I don't know, maybe I just can't get into the rhythm of it yet. But it seems so scattershot. And the editorial page of the Atlanta Journal is, I mean, they're they're just there. They're not middle of the road to put it that way. And they're they're expensive, then they keep bugging me. So I do the

same thing with them. I'll cancel it and then I will subscribe back and I'll get it for like 99 cents for the next month. But what they wanted to do is they want to go from charging me 99 cents for a month to charging me like three bucks a week. Yeah, I'm not paying that much for this rag. It's It's terrible. You know, we'll see how I continue. I can continue my cancellation and restarting of my subscription. Hold on, I just had to burp. So is this compelling on video? I

can't imagine this is compelling video at all. This 41 minutes of the Anyway, I shouldn't be down talking my own my own content. I went hiking. I had this beautiful picture of this crazy woman here. This is at subtles Bridge. I guess it's, I guess it's a national park. I don't know it was in. This is a it was a federal Park. It wasn't a state park. And I just thought this picture was kind of funny. I was searching for places to hike, you know, you know, maybe 20 minutes, half an hour from my

house because I was going to go hiking on Friday. So I just want to play someplace close by. So I discovered this park and this get this cool old bridge that's been closed off. And the framework of it's still standing. This is just it's just such a weird picture of this woman who is in full. I don't know what you would call that. I'm guessing she's Muslim. She's

got a full dress on sort of with a headscarf. And then in the background, you get these three boys, which are, you know, climbing on this bridge, which they're not supposed to be on. But it's just kind of a juxtaposition of cultures and people. And the creepiest part is their hand. Look at this woman's hand. It's it's, it looks like a skeleton. I don't know. It's just it was a freaky picture. I posted it. And I did go hiking there with my dog on Friday. And that was a good

time. You can see that ad on Instagram. I got a bunch of photos. Oh, you know what, you can see it on his his is where I have all the photos. Yes, I do have an Instagram account for my dog. Just for entertainment purposes. It's called his handle is at gluteus maximus. His name is Godfrey. And I think there's some pictures on mine. My Instagram is at Kevin Bae. Moving on, study at the Cleveland Clinic finds no need for vaccine in those previously infected with SARS COVID.

So this is again another one of the debates raging on and common sense should tell you if you've been infected with an illness, virus and you recover from it. Your body has produced antibodies to fight off the infection. This has been the truth about the human body since antibodies were discovered. So you, you get your contract SARS COBie two, you come down with

COVID-19 you recover. And now you have your body now has the ability to recognize this virus and the variants of the virus, because you know, the variants are still over 99.9% the same as the original virus. So your body now has the ability to fight that off. So why would you get vaccinated? You've already recovered? Why would you inject yourself with some foreign medication that you don't need? Like I i've I had chickenpox. I had I got the

disease I didn't get. I wasn't vaccinated for it as a child. So I recently I got chickenpox as an adult when my son got chickenpox, so I came down with that. So now, I am immune to chickenpox. I don't have to worry about it anymore. You know, thank goodness, I didn't have a really severe case as an adult, but whatever. So what makes seires Coby to COVID-19 different than the history of other infections? You know, none

of it makes any sense. But at least there are studies that are coming out that showing that you don't need to do what they are all being what they're all pushing us to do. Politics seems to be infecting reporting of adverse reactions from COVID-19. So it seems that politics just covers everything now. And it's politically desirable to push COVID-19 vaccines if you haven't noticed, I don't watch TV news. I just read my news. And the push is so strong, that it's just incredible. If you haven't

noticed the push to get vaccinated. You haven't been paying attention. So let's see in this story from the Wall Street Journal, there were four very serious adverse events following The vaccination so according to data taken directly

from the vaccine adverse event reporting system. You got thrombocytopenia, otherwise known as low platelets, non infectious Myo carditis, which has been in the news, you know, it's hard inflammation in young people, deep vein thrombosis, and there have been 1000s of people that have died post vaccine. In the government, at least the US government and I believe the EU and the UK, they've all been downplaying

deaths, post vaccine. And some of the stories I've been reading that in the past when vaccine studies were done prior to roll out to the population, when deaths were just in the hundreds vaccine trials were stopped. Now, have you noticed too, with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine back, back when there was six reports of blood clotting, six reports of blood clotting over like six or 7 million doses. They did almost an immediate halt. They didn't pick it, pick it back up for for a couple of

weeks. And you know, then they started blaming that on the cause for vaccine hesitancy. But the CDA and the FDA, they seem to be ignoring all the data around this and covering it up. Or, let's say not covering it up, but just ignoring it. It doesn't get played up in the News, the news media is they're totally worthless now. So in the Wall Street Journal they write.

The implication is that the risks of a COVID-19 vaccine may outweigh the benefits for certain low risk populations such as children, young adults and people who've recovered from COVID-19. This is especially true in regions with low levels of community spread, since the likely host hood of illness

depends on exposure risk. And while you would never know it from listening to the public health officials, not a single published study has demonstrated that patients with prior infection benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, that this isn't readily acknowledged by the CDC or Anthony Fauci is an indication of how deeply entangled pandemic politics is in science. So, you know, this isn't a Wall Street Journal op

eds. It's a It's a miracle it gets published. That's probably the only place right now where that's going to get published. The digital dollar This is dangerous. Oh, that figures? I'll let that play out. Why don't I hear that back? Anyway, the US government seems like they're gonna come out with a digital dollar, the

financial system. But others worry it could potentially up end commercial banking. There are some very, very difficult questions to answer. But I think we and we are engaged in a serious program to understand both the technology and the policy issues. A central bank digital currency or CB DC is exactly what it sounds like a purely digital form of a country's money issued by a central bank that people can use just like cash.

you up. It's YouTube. It's Facebook, its Twitter. But what is to stop the federal government from shutting off your money spigot once. Cash is all digital. If they totally eliminate paper money. They then the government has a choke point on your life. They can prevent you from doing anything. So let's say you're accused of a crime Whatever the crime is, and they say you're a flight risk. Maybe you are a flight risk. Maybe you're not. But now, you won't be able to use that cash

to do anything or go anywhere. Because they'll just shut it off. They're saying, okay, we will control what you're allowed to spend and where you're allowed to spend it. So your digital dollars cannot now no longer buy you train ticket, plane ticket. Hotels, you know what we think you're spending too much money. say this has nothing to do with criminal behavior at all. Let's say this has public health implications

like COVID you're spending too much money on fast food. Now your money is only good for produce, or we think you're eating too much meat. Too much red meat. So now we're gonna we're gonna limit you, we're gonna, you know, we think that you should only be able to mail by X, X number of dollars of red meat a week. There's no limit to what the federal government can

do to you with a centralized digital dollar. Now, if it's a decentralized digital dollar, and I'm not talking about Bitcoin, I'm talking about a US dollar that is decentralized that is handed out by the banks, you, you have more control. But still not optimal. Because you still can't squirrel away some cash somewhere that nobody knows about, and have it for an emergency. I don't know where this is going. I don't necessarily like it. You know, I hear all the arguments about

Bitcoin. It's decentralized. No government can control it. But again, you know, Bitcoin is not backed by any military. So to me, it's only worth what a government the big governments of the world say it's worth the EU, the US the UK, China and Russia. If they don't recognize it, if you're not allowed to convert that currency in the government, fiat currency is worthless to you. Yeah, you can still trade it with other

people. But once you need to go outside the Bitcoin ecosystem, you know, and you need to buy something from you know, normal, it's with us, but it is normal society. The government won't let you you know, you could have a billion dollars in Bitcoin, but if they don't let you trade that for us dollars, you won't even be able to buy a candy bar at the store. Okay. Oh, here's that funny video. This is a video tweeted and now there's

some colorful language. It's a black man in the videos. So he's allowed to say what he wants to say that the rest of us cannot say. But he's, he was being carjacked. And he thwarted the carjacking. And the funniest part is take a look at this guy's gun. Pull my gun down when they pull up. It's the longest magazine you've ever seen in your life and a handgun. may tell you go jump in my car pull out and it's a stick nigga to you. That's the funniest part to drive a stick. And he just he

stood there to get arrested. Anyway, that part just cracked me up. Let me move on. Okay. And it's a stick can even drive stick? That was hilarious to me. Okay, well. Wall Street Journal. There's a story about how this businesses adapt and change according to the cost of labor. This is well known to anybody who has operated a business. I was on the employer side for over 30 years. And I know firsthand that employees never

take any of this stuff into consideration. You know, employees generally think that a business owner is Have a bottomless pit of money that, you know they're they're extremely wealthy because they own a business. Or at least as generalizing most employees, I think, these days, they don't understand what it takes to keep a business operating, they don't understand what it takes to make a single payroll. They don't

understand that, you know, a business. a business's purpose for existence is to make a profit, it's not to do good out in the world. And that's not to say a business can't do good in the world. And that can't be part of the business. But if the business itself doesn't make money, it doesn't exist to do anything. So that is the first and foremost purpose of a business to make money. And it doesn't matter what the business does doesn't matter if you're selling candy doesn't matter. If

you're selling books, it doesn't matter. If you're selling paper to print receipts, doesn't matter if you're selling post it notes. The purpose is to sell post the notes and make enough money to continue going to the next day. And you know, in case of these large, large corporations, their purpose is to maximize returns to shareholders. It's just the fact

of life with a business. So in California, they found according to the wall street journal that raising the minimum wage in California didn't significantly affect the number of hours worked per store. But Excuse me, what did change, as the company apparently tried to keep its labor costs down, it changed, who worked and the hours as the moon as the minimum wage

increases by $1. According to the authors of the study, the number of workers scheduled to work per week increases by 27.7%, and the hours assigned to each worker decrease by 20.8%. For the average employee earning $11 an hour, losing that much time in the clock would translate to a wage reduction of 13.6%. One way this can create savings for the company, however, is that workers generally need 20 hours a week to qualify retirement plans and 30 hours a week for healthcare.

The authors of the study calculate that for an average California store, when increasing the minimum wage by a book, the percentage of workers with weekly hours longer than 20 and 30 decreases by 23% and 14.9%, respectively. So the revelation here is that a business that sees an increase in the cost of labor will find ways to decrease that cost of labor. In order to maintain profit, they will either do that or they have to raise prices. That's just the way it goes is there's no free lunch.

And if you are a follower of Walter Williams, who passed away last year, you would know that the minimum wage, the creation of the minimum wage is racist. You want systemic racism, it's the minimum wage. From Walter E. Williams, Professor Walter E. Williams, it's on his website. It's on his website. Walter E. Williams comm slash minimum dash wage dash and dash discrimination. I've got it linked on my website. Quote from there as our nation's first minimum wage law, the Davis

bacon act of 1931 had racist motivation. During its legislative debate, its congressional supporters made such statements as quote, that contractor has cheap colored labor that he transports and he puts them in cabinets, and it is labor of that sort. That is in competition with white labor throughout the country. And the quote, during hearings, American Federation of Labor President William green complained, quote, colored labor is being sought to demoralize wage rates and quote.

So you want systemic racism, racism, you don't have to look very far. All you have to do is look for the policies that Democrats and socialists the democratic socialists are

pushing forward. $15 minimum wage, there's nothing more racist than a $15 minimum wage, especially when you're talking about the statistics of higher unemployment among black people, higher unemployment among Latino people, higher unemployment among immigrants that are coming in a hierarchy minimum wage prices, those people with few skills out of the market. There's just it's just common sense.

it makes him unemployable. That is the Davis bacon Act, or any kind of minimum wage discriminates against the employment of low skilled people. And so of course, unions give a lot of support of the Davis bacon act. But if you go to the Congressional Record, you see some of the history of it. March 31 1931, page 6513. You can read what was argued by

Congressman in support of the Davis bacon act. One congressman said is congressman all good see that contractor over there, he brings cheap colored labor up from the south and puts them in cabins, and it is labor of that kind that's competing with white men around America. It's much more fun, you'll find similar statements in support of Davis bacon act by other congressmen. The thing is, the Davis bacon act was written to exclude non

union laborers from construction projects. And today, the Davis bacon act is still on the books support it tooth and nail by labor unions in general.

pandemic. But just the news reports that the group poured millions of dollars into multiple key Wisconsin democratic strongholds in the months leading up to last year's presidential race, ostensibly in an effort to shore up voting systems and infrastructure amid the pandemic. The organization was ultimately funded with more than a third of a billion dollars by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. That money was funneled to additional election funding efforts across

the country. They claimed the following following the infusion of the cash into Green Bay, the mayor's office and Chief of Staff began to take over election functions. And it's not that something and that is not something under the state statute that they have authority to do. Because under Wisconsin, lamesa Municipal clerks, the county clerk and Wisconsin elections commissions are the individuals charged with running the elections. So we're always concerned about money in

politics. And mainly it's always it's been centered around advertising. That if a group has advocated for a candidate, that if there's all this flood of advertising coming out, that somehow it's evil, at least that's in your face. Nobody knew about this Chan Zuckerberg initiative. I don't think that wasn't widely known at all. until after the election. I didn't find out about it until after the facts like what the hell are they doing? providing money to local governments to

handle the election. That's that's, that's a taxpayer has to be only a taxpayer funded initiative elections that cannot come from outside private businesses that have an agenda. You know, it's even more clear now with Facebook shutting everybody up when it comes to debate, either for the election. No, now, now we know that they have a vested interest in that election, because they interfered with it.

And moving to Joe, I can stop smacking, smacking. It's something I do unconsciously but I hear It now that I have to have headphones on, when I podcast I hear this all the time and I can't stop myself. Part of it is to is I think the microphone the microphone picks up every you know every little bit even like dry mouth. That's got to be really disturbing triggering to some people to hear that. We have we had creepy Joe come up with us whispering

counted after it's been cast. We can not dismiss it at all. So she might and I wrote the

stream. So the last two years I've had a kind of upheaval in, in my taxes, where before, you know, I sort of plan things out where, you know, I usually had to pay some on April 14, you know, cuz I would rather me have the money than the government has the money. But in the change of my employment and the change in what I'm doing, you know, my income isn't the same. So I have no, no, I had no idea what kind of tax consequences I'm going to

have from the way I currently have my life structured. So I'm supposed to be getting a refund. I know the state of Illinois gave me my refund, which they're broke already. Somehow they paid me the federal government though. Federal Government still holding on to my money. You know, you check the stupid website. And it says that they received it and it's processing but nothing's happening. And you can't call anybody. It's all automated. Nobody answers the freakin phone. I contacted my

now Georgia representative. They reached out to the IRS and the IRS came back and just told them I'm part of the backlog. So while you know, our illustrious president is whispering how much money he's sending the people. Send me mine. process, my fucking return, send me my cash. Now, I'm supposed to get plus interest, but still, I would rather have the money in my pocket. So there's stuff that I can do with it. And I think is this the last story? Yes, this is the last story and I was

gonna name it. I was gonna name the podcast episode. President Kamala Jo, not particularly clever, but whatever it was in my head. So I may still change to that right now. It's, it's called the self identification has finally jumped the shark, which is kind of too long. So I will probably rename it to that. But anyway, I'm sure everybody's seen this by now. Where President Biden was delivering remarks about whatever the hell he was talking about. I don't know exactly. I don't watch the

speeches. You know, he doesn't see anything of consequence and nobody asks him any questions of consequences. There's not really much point in watching them. You know, I will read them later. If there's text editor or if it's something important that everybody's making a big deal out of I'll go watch but this one is just takes the cake. I've got to get helicopter travel. We asked you about Florida what you've learned about Oh, yes. Oh, you forgot something else. Thank you. I've spoken so smug.

Coincidentally, that's rare. I told him

more that his staff seems to be sabotaging him a lot. A lot. All right, I think I've run out a topic, they still haven't found a good transition to end an episode. Because I think it's mainly because I'm talking to myself. But anyway, so if you're watching this on YouTube, congratulations. It's an hour and 12 minutes. If you're listening to this on the podcast, congratulations, as well. I know there's at least 10 of you. I don't know if you're listening all the way through,

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