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This week, we start in California, which is the subject of two piece published by The Founders in the current issue of National Review. Then, all the way from South Africa, COVID sceptic Nick Hudson, CEO of PANDA, a collective of leading scientists, actuaries, economists, data scientists, statisticians, medical professionals, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople working as a collective to replace bad science with good science. Hudson and his group have done real research on lockdowns, their effectiveness and the various policies put in place around the world to mitigate COVID. Then, our old friend Tevi Troy joins to talk about Presidents, the coming financial crisis, electric cars, and more. Finally, we wrap up with some impressions of the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis from someone who lives there.
Music from this week’s episode: Behind the Wall of Sleep by The Smithereens
The video mentioned in the Nick Hudson segment may be viewed here. Part II is here.
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That Nick Hudson Q&A session is amazing. Lots of questions about why they wrong things were done. Spoiler alert: Big Pharma, China, Big Media, and the Davos crowd. Controlling a $100 Trillion global economy makes for strange bedfellows.
In the discussion with Tevi Troy, it’s mentioned that in the past there was at least somewhat more federal acceptance of nuclear power, but companies were reluctant to undertake new development because of local resistance, lawsuits, etc. It seems now the situation might be exactly reversed: localities/states might be eager for nuclear power especially after what happened in Feb. But the Biden feds would say “no way” and that’s a finality they didn’t face just from “risk” of lawsuits etc.
The Republican party is the big tent. You dont need to live in lock step with others to run as a republican. A republican that could get elected in NJ probably couldnt get elected in Florida. I would rather have a party of debate and discussion, than a party of smears and insults.
How much of the Covid corruption is illegal?
How much is illegal but immoral and obviously immoral and the corrupt people should know and probably do know that it’s wrong?
And how much is just making bad decisions while under the influence of powerful people or big money?
(I ask because I have no idea.)
I know in Canada, its quite a lot. Billions. Since the outbreak of the lock downs. The Canadian parliament was prorogued, and Justine Trudeau with his minority government was able to operate, completely without any oversight. IF the opposition isnt holding the government’s feet to the fire at question time, politicians will act in their partisan interests, instead of the national interests. It happens nearly every time, I think its part of the reason why single party dictatorships go so wrong – its not the power that can corrupt – its the unsupervised exercise of power that can corrupt.
I think it should be called the, “What do you have to lose party.”
Elections?
The party that Rob Long (?) described doesnt sound like a winner. Such candidates would be smeared from stem to stern on every issue. The problem with the middle of the road guy – there is nothing there but a yellow strip and a dead skunk.
The best thing to do, is to run as the sane candidate – the party opposed to cancel culture. Who support free speech and open debate. I think people have had enough of being cancelled.
People, even non-Woke Democrats, hate cancel culture.
Both corrupt. One does so eventually, the other rapidly. The benefit and intent of term limits, is that it saves the good guys from failing completely to temptation, and reduces the damage the others would extract by limiting the amount of time they can wield their self serving behaviors.
Toward the end of the podcast, did Rob really say (words to effect of) Joe Biden hasn’t perpetuated any classic Biden-isms for the past two years? So the lying dog-faced pony soldier, cursing out the autoworker in Michigan, 150 million gun deaths, 120 million covid deaths, you ain’t black, asking a reporter if he was a junkie, you know the thing, the Harris Administration, etc., etc. don’t count?
Just because the media covered for the guy doesn’t mean he wasn’t gaffe-ing it up like there was no tomorrow.
Yes, for the guy at the top, he’ll have absolute power – and he’ll tolerate the corruption of his minions (even if the results are counter productive to his goals) so that they turn a blind eye to his corruption.
Ignorance must be bliss for Rob.
Biden also kept telling stories on the campaign trail in 2019 and at a few of his rare appearances in 2020 about his old Senate (Democrat segregationist) buddies James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge. As 2020 wore on, he’d preface the stories more and more with “they don’t want me to talk about this, but…” or “they don’t want me to tell this story…”, obviously referring to campaign staff pleading with him to stop waxing nostalgic about his old Senate Democrat segregationist mentors and friends.
More recently it’s the Jim Eagle line and the repeated AFT (ATF) flub, although the latter just happened a couple days ago, after this podcast. The only reason there aren’t more are Biden’s attenuated schedule, and every public appearance involves only short, prepared teleprompter speeches with little to no off the cuff interaction with the press. He was a gaffe machine before his cognitive difficulties. It’s only getting worse, but the American public is prevented from witnessing most of it.