Kevin Bae: Hello, it's Saturday, June 12 2021. Think I'm on
episode eight. Let me check.
Yes, it's number eight.
Eight episodes. Eight seconds, eight days, eight months, eight.
I don't know, I didn't even know what I'm saying. I didn't know
if I was gonna record this or not today. But I'm here. I just
finished the different podcasts. So I figured I'd throw this one
in while I can. And while the dogs appear to be sleeping, they
were walking around like mad on my last podcast, or at least my
my big dog Godfrey was and he was just making all kinds of
stupid noise. I don't know I hope the noise gate function in
Audacity can take that out. Because it's a more straight up
podcast where I'm not rambling like I am here. For today, let's
see. I you know, when I get to Saturday, and I take a look at
what I blogged over the previous week, and I didn't think I did
anything. And then I look at it like, Oh, yeah, you listed a lot
of crap. More than more than what I thought. So you know, I
don't know if I'll get through it all or not. And I'm going to
start out with something I just literally ran across just in the
last few minutes. I saw a post on daily wire COMM And it was
from us regarding Senator James Lankford, Republican from
Oklahoma. He was quizzing our HHS Secretary and I can't
remember his name. His last name is Sarah. But I don't I can't
remember if he goes by Xavier or Javier, I'm gonna guess Javier.
Because his name is spelled XAVI er, and I heard his last name
said, you know, they call them Secretary viscera. So that one
hopefully, I got that one. Right. So I think it's heavier.
Sarah, the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It's a short
video on YouTube. It's like five minutes long, but you cut into
about one minute and Senator Lankford Lankford asks him if
he's cut a certain division out? And I don't know why. I mean, I
guess I know why. But is it that difficult? Just to answer a
question directly? Nobody does it anymore. Almost nobody, that
that was the one refreshing thing that you got out of Trump?
You know, if you didn't like what he was saying, or who was
saying it, at least he would give you a direct answer to a
question. He might even give you more than what you bargained
for. But listen to this bullshit
Unknown: at your nomination hearing. You and I talked about
the conscience and freedom and freedom of faith. All of those
protections that are there, I was surprised to see the
language in the budget is stripped up much of that
language that had existed in previous budgets about freedom
of conscience, freedom of religion. And it also seems that
you're eliminating the conscience and religious freedom
division.
Kevin Bae: So eliminating that division. And I wish he would
just launch into that question, you know, first of all, I don't
even think we need a Department of Health and Human Services,
there should be that that cabinet position should just be
eliminated as as as much of the modern presidential cabinet. But
he asked this question, it's pretty direct question. Have you
done this or not?
Unknown: Is that true in your budget? Are you eliminating the
conscience and freedom, religious freedom division,
we are going to continue to do the work to protect the
religious, civil constitutional rights of all Americans under
HHS purview. And we are going to continue to be a solid
organization through the Office of Civil Rights that we have to
make sure that we're protecting everyone's rights, including
religious conscience rights.
Kevin Bae: Oh, my God, what a fucking load of bullshit. Why
can't you just say you did it and then follow up with with
either what you've replaced it with or what the goal is why you
were why you got rid of it. Just answer the goddamn question. You
know, there isn't anything really that HHS should be doing
anyway, with regard to religious freedom. They shouldn't be
discriminating against any American for any reason. Period,
end of story. So whether they have some stupid division, you
know, for religious freedom or not, should really make no
difference. Yeah, just the whole thing was just fucking
infuriating.
Unknown: But you, you're taking away that division as a priority
and putting it under something else? Or where is it going,
Oh, it continues to function, the work continues to be
functioning under the Office of Civil Rights.
Kevin Bae: So there you go. Finally, finally, he says where
it went. But he, he cannot bring himself to say that they
eliminated that division. So it's still, you know, whatever.
He's claiming whatever those functions are that that one
division was doing. It's now under the Civil Rights Division.
Unknown: Okay, so it has not changed or it has changed,
the work will not change. I mean, we continue to have a
responsibility to protect the religious freedom of all
Americans, when it comes to any of the health care programs that
are out there, we will continue to provide protections for the
civil constitutional rights of all Americans, including those
that involve religion, and so nothing there changes.
Okay, we'll follow up on that in the days ahead, to be able to
see that often
Kevin Bae: comes at bat shifts.
Unknown: I also know she changed the term in your budget work.
You shifted from in places from using the term mother to
birthing people.
Kevin Bae: Can you even believe that this is where we are today
that you can't call a mother a mother, that because of, you
know, where we are today with transgender rights, whatever
that is, I mean, that, you know, rights are not something that
exists for a label rights are something you're born with. You
just you have them because of your exist because of your
existence, not because of some label that you want to place on
yourself. It's a biological fact. Women, females have
babies, you can call yourself a man. But biologically, you
cannot have a baby unless you have a womb, females have wombs.
So traditionally, you you would call that person a mother. So
now, starting in the federal government, the Department of
Health and Human Services, has changed the term mother to
birthing person. House how just absolutely asinine is this? And
the senator asked some asks, Mr. bursera, this question, Amber,
Sarah wants to say, Mom, when you're watching the video, he
wants to say, Mother. But because of the current policies
and the ridiculousness of it all, he can't just say birthing
person is a mother. But we're just using this more, he can
even say we're using this more inclusive term, to capture more
than just females who identify as female as a woman. It's good
to encompass females that identify as a man. So they're
using the new term birthing person to be inclusive. But why
is it that he couldn't say it still means mother? Because it
does, it still means mother eating it, it would encompass
that
Unknown: rather than mother, can you help me get a good
definition of birthing people?
Well, I'll check on the language there. But I think if we're
talking about those who give birth, I think we're talking
about
Kevin Bae: right there. He wanted to say Mother explaining
to them he wanted to say Mother, but he couldn't do it. I was a
little taken back in his read a few videos just so stupid. Her
Unknown: mother was gone in spots. using the term mother, we
got a birthday. Listen that again, rather than mother, can
you help me get a good definition of birthing people?
Well, I'll check on the language there. But I'm talking about
those who give birth. I think we're talking about mothers say
it. I don't know how else to explain it.
I was able
Kevin Bae: to bring himself to say it
Unknown: and it was replaced with birthing people. And I
didn't know if this was a direction that you were going if
there were shifts, if there are regulatory changes that are
happening related to that or what the purpose of that is.
I think it's probably and again, I'd have to go back and take a
look at the language that was used in the budget, but I think
it simply reflects the work that's been done
Kevin Bae: and It's just such an asshole thing to do. You know,
it, just say it. What what? What would the senator be able to
say? Okay, he's a republican senator from Oklahoma. So you
must we assume he's asking about religious liberties. And now
about the term mother being taken out and replaced with
birthing person, which just how does that how stupid does that
make us sound anyway? What would the senator be able to do if the
HHS Secretary just said a birthing person is a mother, but
we've replaced the word mother with birthing person to try to
be more inclusive to these other groups? You know, and the
senator would be able to maybe make a little bit of a stink,
but what what could actually be said, I mean, how is he going to
combat trying to include more people rather than exclude more
people, when everybody knows anyway, biologically, a person
who gives birth is a mother is a woman is a female. Anyway, it
just it when I saw that it just like so. This is just so stupid.
And nobody can ever even just answer a goddamn question. So
what I see started off the week with Jeff Bezos, his face What
the hell happened to his face. Here's a video about him and him
inviting his brother on the first flight of Blue Origin.
Love the inspiring music, from space, new changes, even sounds
different relationship with this
Unknown: planet with humanity. It's one Earth, I want to go on
this flight, because it's a thing I've wanted to do all my
life. It's an adventure. It's a big deal for me. I invited my
brother to come on this first flight.
Kevin Bae: I mean, he can barely say, brother there. It's just so
weird. I don't know what it is. Maybe he's got an illness, who
knows? It's just like, you can't go from being what you see all
the time to having that face and that speech pattern. And nobody
says anything. I searched around for it. I couldn't find any.
Anything on what is happening with Bezos? Oh, let's see, okay.
The Atlanta Journal, they had a story about epilepsy and
patients being enrolled in drug trials here in the Atlanta area
without their consent. And it revealed that doctors and
researchers are, in fact, human beings. Really, they're humans.
They're not perfect. You know, and the world looks at right
now, doctors and scientists, researchers, they're they're put
up on this pedestal as if they are more than human, is if they
don't have human biases and prejudices, you know, so, we
always get the follow the science as a science is somehow
unbiased. You know, science is performed by humans, therefore,
science is biased. You cannot have science without a bias. You
can do your best. And that's why they're supposed to have peer
review and other scientists look at it so that way, if somebody
who who's not maybe blinded by a certain bias can come in and
take a look at something and say, Well, this isn't right.
Because of this, this this, you know, you didn't take this data
into consideration because you didn't even want to look at it.
So it turns out the hospitals and doctors they sometimes they
use feelings and prejudices regarding drugs, and they play
favorites, according to some researchers. Let's see it from
the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta Journal Constitution. They see
for example, the researchers who did the epilepsy drug study said
doctors in different hospitals often had feelings or prejudices
about one of three drugs that didn't really have a basis in
fact, so much for putting faith in the science. The study put
those to rest the critics of the E FF IC and I forgot what the
hell that stood for, say abuses against patients have piled up
under it because the leaders involved in designing, approving
and publishing studies are also usually researchers and people
sympathetic to researchers. their mindset inevitably tips
over from care from the individual patients in the study
to the public gains that might be made, said George anass are
Ana's director of the Center for Health Law, ethics and human
rights at Boston University. No, this can't be This just can't be
that they don't take individual patients and their welfare
patients welfare into consideration instead of their
own personal bias. That's not what I've been told, especially
over this last year with COVID. You know, we get this kind of
bullshit with climate change, we get this kind of bullshit with
COVID-19. And the vaccine, the the vaccines, and the PCR tests
and all this other stuff. Don't Don't question anybody because
they always have your best interest at heart. Bullshit,
they're they're human, they're human, like the rest of us. And
they'll make decisions based on their own personal best
interest. You know? Sure, do people exist that take others
into account more than they more than they take themselves? Yes,
people do exist that do nice things for people just because.
But I, you know, I subscribe to, you know, the Ronald Reagan
method of, you know, trust, but verify, you know, you can take
somebody at their word, but then watch what they do is what they
do are the things that they do. Honestly, following up on what
they say, you know, they say, follow the science is our, you
know, are the things that they do, following the science. At
least in this year, you know, I think much of it's just been
bullshit, nobody's done anything. They've just always
been looking for their own interest. story out of the Wall
Street Journal, talking about being educated, and woke, could
cause you problems. It was an opinion piece in The Wall Street
Journal, where this guy was saying that he's not interested
in hiring people that
want to waste their time and energy on things that just don't
matter. He wants to hire people that are interested in moving
his business forward. Who the heck was he see, I got a link
here on my site to The Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
And this was written by somebody by the name of our our Reno, and
our Reno is editor of something called first things I have no
idea what first things is, I don't know who Mr. Reno is. Let
me search for that real quick. First thing,
that's a website. So they publish something, let's see
what the heck the published by the institution, the Institute
of religious and public life first things is an educational
institute aiming to advance religiously, and to advance a
religiously informed public philosophy. So I think you can
gather from that he would be anti woke to start. But he says
here, and I would think most companies would want to go in
this direction, because, you know, what does IBM want to do?
Do they want to provide it technology solutions? Or do they
want to worry about some, you know, somebody's perceived
slight or micro aggression that may not even exist, except for
only the head of the person who thinks they're a victim. Anyway,
this guy says the biggest liability that comes with hiring
graduates from places like Harvard, Haverford, where he's
from he graduated from is that they have both colleges. So I'm
not just mispronouncing haber, Ford, or Hereford, and Harvard.
They've been socialized to panic over pseudo crises, talk of
systemic racism, fixation on pronouns inculcate in young
people, an apocalyptic urgency, a mentality that often disrupts
the workplace and encourages navel gazing about diversity,
inclusion, and other ill defined notions that are far removed
from the main work of his organization, which is good
writing, good editing and good arguments. He says a few years
ago, a student a student, a student at an Ivy League school
told him let me let me just read the quote from his article. A
few years ago, a student at an Ivy League school told me quote,
the first things you learn your freshman year is never to say
what you're thinking unquote. The institution He attended
claims to train the world's future leaders from what the
young man reports the opposite is true. The school is training
future self sensors, which means future followers. So if you're
too woke, and you're, you know, trying to get hired in certain
companies, He might want to either on wake or on woke, you
know and see the world as it really exists, you know, or you
might not get hired. And you'll never know, you know, that kind
of discrimination will happen internally. You'll just never
know you'll you'll show up. They'll ask you some questions
and based on those answers, and in your interview, they'll just
pass any go to the next person. The big story this this past
week was the What do they call it? The having such a brain fart
right now? What do they call a big stupid story? I don't know.
It was a bombshell bombshell report. I don't know who it was
that a pro publica or pro publica, I hear it pronounced
both ways. And I don't know which I prefer pro publica where
they received a whole bunch of tax returns from people like
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg,
and Jeff Bezos. And they were making a big stink and how
wealthy these people are. And you know, what they do here? The
story was not it wasn't enlightening at all. It was
really kind of disgusting. And not because they obtained
personal IRS records of these wealthy people. It was
disgusting, because they are preying upon an ignorant
American public that has no idea how they're being taxed or what
is being taxed. They just hear this is a wealthy guy, he paid X
number of dollars in income taxes. And that percentage is
some low percent. So he's not paying his fair share. That is
such a load of horseshit. And if you have if you look at their
wealth and their income, and that's what you come across
with, you're being extremely ignorant. Because the only thing
pro publica uncovered in this report. Is that income taxes,
taxes, income. I know it sounds stupid
to have to even say that. But people do not understand what an
income tax is an income tax taxes, your income, people
receiving paychecks. Now, other things are added into income
like dividends and capital gains, but those are not
technically income taxes. A capital gains tax is a tax on
capital gains, not on income. A dividend tax is a tax on
dividends, not on income. And that's why income taxes you
could raise them to be 100%, you could raise it would be 99%. And
that income tax rate will not affect people like Warren
Buffett Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff
Bezos, because they don't make what would be considered income.
They have wealth. And you can take you know, somebody like
Bezos he could take you know, he could cash out let's say he
cashes out a billion dollars. Okay, takes it out in stock. He
pays whatever capital gains rate is on that stock. I don't
remember what the current capital gains rate is capital
gains tax. capital gains tax rate 2021. Let's see. Of course
I can't find the stupid answer. Very easy. Stupid Motley Fool
has got a whole bunch of crap here. I just want it simple.
That's what I get for using Duck Duck go. capital gains tax rate
2021. Alright, it maxes out right now. At 20%. So out of a
billion dollars you know, he's gonna pay 20% of that. So 10% of
a billion is 100 million. So $200 million in tax. That leaves
him still with 800 million $800 million. I didn't do the math
earlier, you pull out a calculator. I'm sure that
sounded great if you're listening in headphones, opening
the door.
So 800 million. I don't even know if you can do this. But
let's say you want to put it in a savings account. Right now, if
you look at synchrony bank synchrony bank.com, they are
giving you a half a percent annual percentage rate ever
present used to be over 2% and a half percent. So you take that
$800 million dollars, multiply that by half a percent. And that
gives you a cool $4 million a year. So he could do that. Put
it in a savings account. Okay, interest in dividend tax, he's
gonna he's gonna pay some small tax on that. But he's gonna be
pulling down $4 million a year just to let it sit there and to
sit in a rig what would traditionally be like a passbook
savings account. That's why income taxes don't matter to
them. You could do a wealth tax. But a wealth tax is difficult.
Because how do you value wealth? You know, if you have cash and
stocks sitting in an account, you know, you've got a brokerage
account, you got the cash in a in a bank account. Those are
easy. You know, and even a brokerage account that will go
up and down in value depending on the value of the stocks held
stocks and bonds held. But real estate, other types of physical
assets. Those are almost what anybody says they are, you know,
there's there's a range. So you could say a house, you know, a
house in a neighborhood say, you know, it's worth half a million
dollars. But if somebody wants to come in, suddenly buy it for
750,000 kind of changes things. You know, or say the
neighborhood goes down. And now this half a million dollar house
is only worth about 300,000. This did happen in 2008, if you
remember, not that long ago, where the price of real estate
just plummeted homes. Because there were so many so many
foreclosures and so many homes on the market. That houses that
were previously half a million bucks, they lost a couple
$100,000 in value. So if somebody was applying for a
loan, to buy a house, before that, say in 2005 2006, they
took out a half a million dollar loan, they bought a house. And
now in 2008, the price plummets to 300,000. And now the home
buyer is underwater, they technically owe more than what
the house is worth. Did they lie on their application? It was
there is their wealth higher than what they're currently
claiming because of the loss of value in the house. And this is
why wealth to me is difficult to tax. You know, and when they
look at somebody like Trump, the current investigation happening
against against him in New York, where, you know, they're,
they're claiming that for insurance purposes, he
downplayed the value of properties. And for loans, he
played up the value of his properties. That's that's just
business. That's just what people do. You know, if you're
looking to get a loan, you're going to want to maximize that
loan. So you know, you're going to want to say okay, you can
always get an appraisal, that'll give you a high end of a range
that you're looking for, you know, and then for insurance
insurance, you want to pay as little as possible because
you're not going to use insurance unless something bad
happens. So you want to you know, downplay it so you've got
a building in you know, most people they over insure anyway,
I think, I don't I don't think a whole lot of people under
insure, but you want the value to be played down. So your
premiums are less. It's just smart business, you know, and
you can't you can't really criminalize that if you do it.
We're in trouble but So pro publica, you know, they go
through what each of these guys pays in, in taxes, and they give
some new calculation of effective tax rate that takes
their wealth into consideration. But you can't take wealth into
consideration when it comes to income tax. Because right now,
we don't have a wealth tax. And you cannot include the, you
know, the value of assets. When you're trying to figure out the,
you know, tax rate effective tax rate. But when you, you know,
they had the numbers in there, what they paid in taxes, and it
was an obscene amount of money that they had to pay. And what
the article doesn't take into consideration. Let's just take
Bezos, for instance. Because he was a target.
What? What is he contributed to the US economy to the world
economy, as compared to what they believed he should be
taxed?
not sound like my dog was crying. But think about that.
Basil opens up a distribution center someplace. How many jobs
has he just added? How many people now are providing for
their families paying for college? buying goods and
services? Just in one location. I mean, you look at all of it.
You look at Blue Origin. Hold on, she is crying. Hold on one
second. I gotta go get it open the door for
right. Rex is in the house. All right. Rex is in the house.
Sorry about that. But I could just hear her crying. I don't
know if you could pick it up on the microphone. But I could hear
her crying. It was just stupid. Yeah, how much? How much
economic activity have these people put into the world? Just
think about that, just for a second, Warren Buffett, Bill
Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos? You
know, is it in the trillions, all combined. It's an enormous
amount of economic activity, those people just by doing what
they do, what they have done. You know, and I'm not the
biggest fan of any of these people. But you cannot deny the
accomplishments and you cannot deny the economic activity that
they've put into the world. And it to me it far outweighs any of
this income tax bullshit. If we want if we want to have some
type of a fair tax. First of all, don't tax income or habits
severely limited. Because attacks attacks is designed to
limit an economic and economic activity. When you tax
something, you get less of it. That's why they have sin taxes.
You know, when you tax look at cigarettes, cigarettes are
taxed, you know, through the wazoo. So people, fewer people
smoke, the only people that smoke now Are they really want
to smoke because it's not cheap. or alcohol taxes, they always
lump on more taxes to to limit the consumption of alcohol. Same
thing with gasoline. If they want you to drive less, they'll
raise the gas tax. It's not just a revenue generator, it's also a
behavior modification system. So you know, what, what should we
do, we should replace the income tax, either with a flat tax of
very low flat tax or no tax at all, and move to consumption
taxes. Because who spends more who spends more wealthy people
or poor people? Now we can play around with that consumption tax
and tax food at a very low rate. You know, groceries, maybe,
maybe not food in general because you know, you're not
going to want to do that with eating out like restaurants and
things like that. But tax, you know, maybe groceries, grocery
stores, tax, those are very low rate. You don't have just a
tiered level of retail consumption taxes. So that way,
wealthy people who spend and they spend a lot they'll pay
more in tax. Now. We already have of sales taxes, but we
don't have a national sales tax. And the sales taxes are
relatively low depending on where you live. But this way to
human beings we can better moderate or modify our
consumption behavior if there's a tax added to it you know, in
that way as well, you're not penalized when you make more
money because what do you know people who make a lot of money
put more money back out into the system some some people are
safe, you know, big Savers, they put it away but rich people
rarely take money and shove it into a mattress and it just sits
there forever. They put it out there into the world to either
make them more money you know, or to buy goods and services. So
to me that's that's the fair way of doing it. The only thing pro
publica did is just prove that income tax taxes income. Oh,
let's see. Okay, I was perusing other news and I came across Oh,
I forgot to record on my podrick So where am I at home I'm
already at 36 minutes while it's time flying. I just ran across
this video and ice live in the Chicago area so I had watched a
lot of W Gen news and discovered how much I miss it because they
have a nice banter. I don't know it's just there. It's all very
Chicago's week on at the forefront live will talk to you
Chicago medicine me This is a 14 heartstrings figure, you know
the pace. You know, I really hated from the surgeon who
helped pioneer this technique, all that mute that I hate when
they have pre roll ads. I just hate it here. All right. This is
from the wjc Morning News. It's got here the number one question
people under this
video too long to play the whole thing. Julian channel 70 of the
homeless. There was a controversy recently in Chicago
where one of the most favored sports casters or favorite
sports casters was fired because of comments he made at the end
of a sports segment. I can't even remember what it was, but
it was Mark Mark Jean Greco. He's I've watched them forever.
And he made some comment about Cheryl Burton being a ditzy
decorator or something for some reality show that he would like
to put together. It was just a joke. And I guess she complained
at least that's the story. She complained to her bosses and
ended up with him getting suspended. And later, they came
to an agreement where he left the show, you know, essentially
he was just fired. But here's the agenda. was amazing.
Unknown: All right, really made that party already. The next
item on the differences between working ew g n and ABC seven.
Here you can call your co anchor any name you want. Right Right
And speaking of traffic of Val I think I see an accident on top
of Robin said great job. Yeah with everyone but me. He forgot
about the part that she's a whore.
Kevin Bae: Morning News for that day and age well. Anyway, they
they're just an entertaining show. It's very Chicago filled
with people. They're very Chicago and it's something that
you don't find anywhere else. It made me miss watching the Nine
O'Clock News and occasionally the morning news. I didn't watch
a lot of it. Let's see. Oh, then we have racial harmony in New
York City. I don't know where this is. Okay. Apologize for the
bad language. I want to start welcome on the sidewalk. So it's
okay for him to call an Asian carp a chink. But, you know,
Hunter Biden can use the N word in texts. But as mere mortals,
you can't go anywhere near that word. So the whole world
sometimes feels like it's falling apart and you get this.
He's right in this guy's face. No, no. I'm good. All right, all
right. How is it under any circumstance? How is that right?
And then later on, somebody calls them out for being racist
and he's he spews out black people can't be racist. Anyway,
critical race theory is in the news all over the place. This
reminds me a bit of Common Core, although Common Core did become
curriculum in a lot of places. critical race theory is
something to me that should not be taught in the elementary or
high school levels, you can discuss this in college all you
want. But to include this kind of stuff in elementary in high
school, is indoctrination. You know, Elementary in high school,
all this should be concentrated on his math reading. And, and
writing sorry, I just had another brain fart anyway. You
know, at a time when, especially in big city schools, kids that
are graduating high school, can't do math, and they can't
read at grade level. So they if they do enter college, they're
stuck doing all kinds of remedial work just to catch up.
So their first year in college is catching up to where they
should have been when they graduated high school. So
introducing something like critical race theory, which
plenty of people want to discuss it as a theory of systemic
racism, whatever, fine, but leave that to college, where at
least in college, you have at least a little bit more
maturity, you know, you're 18 at minimum. And you've Have you
have a little bit of life experience. And at least now you
you know how to read and critically, critically think
about what you're reading, you know, do some basic math. And
then you can, you know, delve into these deeper subjects. You
know, all these subjects that deal with politics versus, you
know, elementary education should be thrown out all of it.
So, you had a woman in I think it was a Virginia School. And
she came from China. And she grew up during Mao's Mao, Mao
Tse Tung's, China,
Unknown: I've been very alarmed about what's going on in our
school, you are now teaching, training our children to be
social justice warriors, and to load our country and our
history. Growing up in Mao's China, or the same, we're
familiar, the communist regime use the same critical theory to
divide people. The only difference is the use class
instead of race. during the Cultural Revolution, our
witness, students and teachers can turn against each other, we
change school names to be politically correct. And we were
taught to denounce our heritage, destroy anything that is not
communist, oats, statues, books, and anything else. And we are
also encouraged to report on each other just like the student
equity ambassador program, and the bias reporting system. This
is indeed the American version of the Chinese Communist, the
Chinese Cultural Revolution. The critical race theory has its
roots in Cultural Marxism, it should have no place in our
school.
Kevin Bae: So she handed it to her. She had a pretty good
amount of applause, a lot of people raising their hands. I
don't know why they're raising their hands and on applauding
that was a weird thing when you see this video. But yeah, I
agree with her. You know, this kind of stuff should be just not
taught at elementary level because the kids can understand
it. So if they can't understand the concepts of what being
talked about, you know, when it's being pushed on them, it
then becomes indoctrination. What they should be learning is
the traditional meal math, you know, reading and how to write
you know, maybe I should learn how to talk but
they just lacked the maturity to discuss this in a in a
meaningful way. And I'm not saying that, I believe in
critical race theory because, you know, I don't I think it's a
lot of gobbledygook. But I'm also saying that, that saying
that you can't talk about it, and that maybe you know that it
doesn't, as a theory, you know, that some people want to put
forward that you can't talk about that in school or teach it
as a thing. You know, but it that belongs at university. It
doesn't belong in high school or grammar school. The CDC this
week. Here's some COVID News. It was kind of laid out in the
COVID news this week, at least for me. They're acknowledging
that inflammation of the heart seems to be a thing after the
second dose of Pfizer or Madonna. Here's what it says
from CNBC. There have been a higher than expected number of
cases of heart inflammation and 16 to 24 year olds after
receiving their second dose of Pfizer or Madonna's COVID-19
vaccines. They cite preliminary data from its vaccine safety
monitor system, the CDC has received reports of 275 cases in
that age group as of May 31. The agency center presentation
prepared for Food and Drug Administration advisory panel
meeting Thursday, scientists expected between 10 and 102
cases of Myo carditis or pericarditis were the heart
muscle or lining this route or the lining surrounding it became
inflamed, according to the CDC. Does anybody remember when the
Johnson and Johnson vaccine was pulled? Because six people got
blood clots at a 6.8 million doses? I know a lot more doses
have been given a Pfizer and Madonna. But, you know, I don't
know what the number is because I haven't seen it yet. In the
number of teens that have been vaccinated. So if you have 275
cases of heart inflammation, it's more than double what they
were expecting. Don't you think there should be a halt in
vaccinating children, you know, and yet Madonna has failed to
expand, there's two children 12 years old and an older you know,
they got to stop this now. Because children aren't even at
high risk. And asymptomatic spread is bullshit. It's been
said so many times before and now it's the only time that
they're that they're trying to push asymptomatic spread. It's
not a thing. The Wall Street Journal had a piece about the
CDC, and it was an opinion piece, talking about
hospitalizations. This is what they said the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention released a report last week
warning that adolescent hospitalizations due to
COVID-19. Were on the rise. The media picked up the message and
ran with it but it isn't true. The CDC misrepresented the data
and play down a more important finding that provides further
evidence that pandemic control measures are likely having a
serious adverse impact on young people's mental health. So it
isn't true, but they say the CDC misrepresented they didn't
misrepresent. They lied. They flat out lied. And here it is
the Wall Street Journal goes on to say the CDC truncated thanks,
Godfrey. That's my Labrador. The CDC truncated its analysis at
the precise date April 24. That would cast an increase in teen
hospitalization in the worst possible light. The 10% rise in
early March that attracted so many headlines was similar to
rises and other age groups, and had declined sharply by late
April, adolescent hospitalizations for COVID-19
were back down 2.6 per 100,000. By late May, before the CDC
report was published and well below the rate of 2.6 for the
adults for the adult US population. Moreover, COVID
cases among children in 2021 have now fallen by 84%. And
hospitalizations are down by 69% since January, thanks largely to
adult vaccination. So they got to follow the science unless
they want to ignore the science. We got to follow the data unless
they want to ignore the data.
You know, and then they go on to ignore the depression that teens
are going through with dealing with lockdown. Again, according
to The Wall Street Journal 20% of teen hospitalizations in the
study between January 1 and march 31 were for psychiatric
emergencies, not COVID. Although pandemic related closures have
made it difficult to study the mental health of children during
the past year the available data point to a crisis. lockdowns and
school closures have led to greater incidences of obesity
and eating disorders according to experts at the Stanford
Children's Health Network. So they just omitted these things.
Why? And you know, why doesn't the Wall Street Journal just
come straight out and say it they lied? They're not
misrepresenting anything. They're just lying to the
people. And you know, Dr. Fauci is his liar and chief this guy
just says anything depending on Whichever the way he wants the
wind to blow moving on here in Georgia. I moved to Gwinnett
County, Georgia from Cook County, Illinois. Okay, I lived
in a northern suburb of Chicago. And now I'm in a North Eastern
suburb of Atlanta. So I'm in Gwinnett. County, so I don't
live in Fulton County, but it seems that Fulton County has a
lot in common with Cook County, Illinois when it comes to voter
fraud. So here is Hold on one second, I have to clear my
throat. There is an article in real clear investigations calm.
And it's got all kinds of funny business that it's happening
with their mail in ballots.
They're supposed to be audited. And the audit. what was supposed
to happen is county officials were supposed to scan these
ballots and hand them over to auditors. The original ballots
were never supposed to leave anybody's hands. And when they
before they started this process, the place where the
ballots were stored, was supposed to have a 24 hour
guard. Somehow, conveniently, prior to the audit, the 24 hour
guard that was supposed to be standing there, they left their
post, and exactly at that time when they left their post. The
place was left empty that anybody could go in. Now,
supposedly things were locked down. But it was just so
convenient. And nobody knows whether anything was tampered
with and whether anybody looked at anything or stole anything.
Nobody knows.
And here's one of the things. They have people that are
testifying and stating that there were problems with the
ballots there. There's one woman a poll manager Susie voyles.
According to the story, when Fulton County Georgia poll
manager Susie Boyle sorted through a large stack of mail in
ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd
pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph arbeiten.
One after another the absentee votes contained perfectly filled
in ovals for Biden, except that each of the darkened bubbles
featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a
tiny Crescent, indicating they've been marked with toner
ink instead of a pen or pencil. So somebody was printing them
off apparently. But nobody can look at them. You know, there's
nobody wants to investigate. Who knows what's going to be fun,
but you know, I, I didn't know stuff like that was happening.
In other states, places like this. I assumed it would be
happening more in New York, New Jersey, la you know, DC, Boston.
But down south, I didn't think that they would have these kind
of voting shenanigans, but I guess it's just everywhere. Back
to some COVID News, J and J. You know, they're they're Johnson
and Johnson, their vaccine was about to expire this month. But
like, like Groundhog Day, when the vaccine vial came out, and
the FDA looked at it, it must have I don't know, when you see
a shadow or don't see a shadow, which one gives you six more
weeks of winter. Anyway, the FDA just magically said, poof, your
vaccine is no longer expiring. You've got six more weeks.
That's kind of nice. Yeah, my father was in pharmaceuticals,
he made pharmaceuticals, for Walgreens, you know, made cough
medicines and all kinds of different over the counter and
prescription drugs. So expiration dates, you know,
they're not, you know, it's it's like, it's an artificial
expiration date. It's like a best guess, I guess, as to when
it's effective. You know, all all of these drugs generally,
can be used far beyond the expiration date. You know, it's
just most of the time, they don't break down into something
harmful. What happens is they just become less effective. So I
don't think it's a big deal. I just find it funny that you
know, that Johnson and Johnson dollar stuff is going to expire
the magically they just extend the expiration date on Camila
Kamala Harris, what a week she had. Biden taps her to handle
the border and the influx of illegal immigration. And just
she's such an empty suit. And the big deal was in her
interview with Lester Holt, where she just kept repeating
that we've been to the border. We've been to the border. We've
been to the border, you haven't been to the border. And I
haven't been to Europe. What an empty suit. What an empty suit.
Where's, there's, there's one other topic I wanted to talk to
you about. But let me just this is the section of that video to
visit the border. face. She was dumbfounded by the question. You
know.
Unknown: We are going to the border. We've been to the
border. So this whole this whole this whole thing about the
border? We've been to the border. We've been to the board.
You haven't been to the board.
And I haven't been to you? I don't know. I don't understand
the point. I'm not just the board. Well, I
mentioned because I know Republicans have certainly
commend you on this. But democratic congressman Quasar
has a border district is said to you and the president come.
And I care about what's happening at the border. I'm in
Guatemala, because my focus is dealing with the root causes of
my
Kevin Bae: son and she recovered and, you know, that's where she
should have gone with that in the first place is that I'm
dealing with the root causes of of the problem at the border,
you know, that she'll get there eventually. But just I don't
understand why she just doesn't go to the freakin border. And
there's so much pressure and both it's not like it's gonna
make a difference anyway. So you just go and you remove that
argument from everybody's baloney, but she's such a dumb
empty suit. We've been to super clean.
Unknown: You haven't been to the border.
And I haven't been to Europe. Listen, I I've been to the
border before I will go again. But when I'm in Guatemala,
Kevin Bae: dealing with her nervous laughter What's going
on? Just gotta go. Under. So can you commit right now that you
will indeed visit the US Mexico border? And will you do it soon?
Unknown: Jeremy, let me tell you something. Yes, I will. And I
have before I said, I'm gonna go to the border. And when are you
going to the border? Vice President ministration has
asked. I'm not finished. She says that I'm going to the
border.
Kevin Bae: I shouldn't say but she just sometimes seems so
bitchy. Anyway, she just coming off is such a moron. I don't
understand why she just doesn't go. Last thing I'll leave with
is that I was watching this video. It was a conversation
with Cornel West and Glenn Lowry. And the other they they
talk. How do I put it? It's either it's either, you know,
they're so smart that they're talking so far above me. Which
is possible. Let's say it's not impossible. It's possible. You
know, or Cornel West is just spewing a lot of gobbledygook. I
don't think that's the case. You know, when he when he when he's
got like a free flowing ideas, and then he's just free flowing
with with what's coming out of his brain. It just sounds like
such word salad sometimes. But it was still a very fascinating
conversation. I think I need to rewatch it in order to really
let it soak in. You know, I've read books written by Cornel
West and he writes better than he talks which I think that's
what I do. But sometimes to me sounds like he's saying so much,
but I don't quite understand what he just said.
Unknown: Alright, let's see what's going on is pathological
in my blackness, we cannot judge the black experience. So that
point that and we have to situate it. We have to situate
it within the larger forces, among which are economic and
political and institutional forces. We have to situate it.
I'm granting all of that these things I understand, but I still
have a point. We are responsible for how we live we are
responsible for how we raise our children to black people. We
have to take responsibility for our lives. It is far too
seductive to allow the narrative, the story that we use
to interpret our experience to become solely in singly our
victimization. That's a deep mistake. It's a political
mistake. More importantly, it's a spiritual mistake. Yeah, it's
an existential mistake? Absolutely. Absolutely.
Absolutely, oh, we cannot allow the machinations of the forces
up here to impede our embrace of that responsibility. And we
cannot allow the narrative in the service of transitory
political interests, to obscure the responsibilities or their
stake here in our community. So I want you to situate my concern
just expressed within both the failure of democracy point that
you're making about the forces up here, and the
commercialization commodification point that
you're making which two are valid points, but I think the
clock is ticking on black people in America, the world is not
standing still. And I'll stop I know I'm making the speech. But
I really want you to react to the world as the Chinese are
coming. American Empire is Cornell is fond of putting it
will not last forever, as true black people are in no position
to miss an opportunity to realize the full, productive
possibilities of our human potential.
Kevin Bae: I think everybody should go back and look at that,
because they they talk about a whole wide range of subjects,
from religion, to economics to capitalism, and socialism and
communism. China, you know, victimhood as you, as you heard
there, you know, that when people start out being a victim
before, you know, before they do anything else, you're already
starting from behind. And I think that's the mental position
that Glenn Lowry was basically talking about that you can find
yourself very difficult to rise out of something if you believe
you're a victim always being held out. But it was it was a
hour long conversation. And to me, it was very interesting. And
I will listen to that again, just so I can absorb it more.
Cornel West is very entertaining speaker, but sometimes I just
have no idea what he's saying. And I you know, he's probably
just talking right over my head. So see, I had more to cover than
I thought. You know, I was kind of amazed. I didn't realize I
blogged so many things this past week. So I don't even know what
to call this, this episode, but it's getting late. So I'm going
to close it there. See what I come up with next week.
Hopefully, things open up more. And everybody's a little bit
happier as we stop wearing masks, and reclaim the freedoms
that we supposedly already have.
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