Kevin Bae: Hello, welcome to still tentatively named. That's
all I got podcast. I plan on changing it. I'm not exactly
sure what I'm going to do, but that's what it is for now. So
let's just all live with it and pretend that it's good. This is
episode number 10. So, two and a half months that I've been
talking, I can't even believe it's Episode 10. I don't know
how people do this over 1000s of episodes, like the no agenda
show, or even hundreds of episodes because it's a couple
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
Unknown: plate today alleges that several provisions of SB
202 were passed with a discriminatory purpose in
violation of the Voting Rights Act. The Georgia legislature
passed SB 202 through a rushed process that departed from
normal practice and procedure. The version of the bill that
passed the State Senate on March 8 was three pages long. days
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
Kevin Bae: to have a bill of one size debated amendments and
habit of another size when it's finally voted on and passed on
to the executive. What she's not telling you. Is that okay, the
Senate portion, the Senate bill that was passed was I think it
was two pages was the one that I saw. And
after that was voted on and passed. There was a totally
different version that was presented in the House of
Representatives in Georgia. It wasn't like they took the senate
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
Unknown: election bills that were introduced that were
consolidated into the final version, or at least parts of
them work. They didn't mention that some of the recommendations
from the bill came from the county commissioners association
of Georgia what represent republican counties and
democratic counties and several other lawsuits have already been
filed against the state dill
Kevin Bae: recipe. So that's from channel 11. Here in the
Atlanta, Georgia area. What a bunch of crap all of this was.
This is The text of the ledger under the legislation from the
attorney general. So again, what you know, it's a big deal, three
pages, to over 90 pages. What's not mentioned here is what the
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
Unknown: Federal Reserve might want to fix your wallet. By
turning it from this into this. Though your wallet is still
designed for dollar bills, Americans have been using cash
to buy things less and less over the years. That's part of why
the Fed is considering digitizing the US dollar, giving
people money they can access on their phone in bypassing
electronic What if you don't have a phone oh and costly for
businesses. Some see this as a necessary upgrade to the US
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.
Kevin Bae: Here's the problem. You know, if you wanted to stash
some cash away for a rainy day, put it in your home safe put it
in a safe deposit box stuffing in your mattress. A digital
dollar eliminates all of that. Not only that, now look at look
at what at what what has happened over the last two
years, your year and a half since the pandemic with shutting
people up online. And granted it's not the government shutting
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.
Unknown: A lot of people just think labor unions are their god
sins. Well, not for everybody. Let me give you one example. And
that example is really talked about in a forthcoming book of
mine is called race and economics. They'll be out
towards the end of March or something like that. Maybe
April. And in one of chapters, I talked about the minimum wage.
And I talked about a super minimum wage called the Davis
bacon act of 1931. And here's what the Davis bacon Act does.
And it turns out to be very common
Kevin Bae: that that
Unknown: workers receive what's called the prevailing wage on
all federally funded and federally assisted construction
projects. And the Department of Labor illegally decides that the
prevailing wage is the union wage in the area or higher. Now,
if you tell a contractor, you must pay any Carpenter you hire
$25 an hour? Well, what is the effect of that? Well, it makes a
carpenter who has skills that are only worth say $12 an hour,
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.
Kevin Bae: That tells you everything you need to know
about systemic racism, and what people are really willing to
look at when they're talking about it. And to 2020 elections,
it was found out I found that a while ago, and I blogged about
it before that the Chan Zuckerberg initiative interfered
in our elections in 2020. They sent out hundreds of millions of
dollars across the country to supposedly to shore up
infrastructure voting infrastructure during the
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
Unknown: people are waiting for relief. I got $1.9 trillion
relief so far, they're going to be getting checks in the mail
that
Kevin Bae: are consequential this week for childcare. A lot
has been happened already. I don't think it has anything to
do with this dementia. He's just a creep.
Unknown: I'm gonna fight like the weird dude, to get them the
rest of what I think has to be done. I'm gonna be going around
the country, spending time making the case to the American
people, that this isn't about a debt showing and identification,
that this is who I am when I vote. This isn't just about
whether or not excuse me, you can provide water for someone
standing in line while they're waiting to vote. This is such
bullshit. This is about who gets to judge whether your vote
counted after it's been cast. We can not dismiss it at all. So
she might and I wrote the
Kevin Bae: route it Why would I not be out the bill of words
can't find workers at the beginning yet pay them more $1.9
trillion relief $1.9 trillion in relief. The IRS still has not
processed my tax return. I filed in March. I just read a story
where they just finished the backlog from 2019. Um, wait, you
know, they've I've changed my entire employment and income
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
Unknown: of Miami Dade was in my office yesterday. And I talked
to her today. Not about that, obviously. And so I had a long
discussion with her today. I've also spoken with we've come in
contact with a Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who has
that district
Kevin Bae: Anyway, what he says Is that important? The fact is,
is that it's not just Kamala reminding him, what's wrong with
his staff. He had a book in front of him about what he's
supposed to talk about. And he refers to it all the time. Why
didn't they put that in there? Joe, don't forget to talk about
the Miami building collapse. You know, I think it's less really
about Kamala Harris jumping in and say, Joe, you forgot
something. I think it's less about his dementia. I think it's
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
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