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week and the following week. I'm taking some time off

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and I still have vacation days leftover. I always say

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that because people are like, oh are you taking all

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this time off? I got to roll vacation time into

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next year. Okay, that's how much I love doing the

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job that I don't even take all of my vacation days.

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So but I am taking some cobbling it together with

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the Christmas holiday. So gonna be off next week and

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the following following week, and then I will be back

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on that Monday. So what is that? The first Monday

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of twenty twenty five. So I will be sure to

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say lots of times talk to you next year, because

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everybody thinks that's hilarious, right, exactly. Let me see here.

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Oh is that a drone? No, never mind, it's a

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cleaning lady. All right. So Argentina, remember them, They elected

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that guy with the chainsaw, and everybody was freaking out.

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Turns out they have now emerged from a deep recession. Wow.

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Who could have seen that coming, except obviously the guy

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with the chainsaw. Javier Milay the new president, a major

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victory for the country's quote on orthodox president. I mean, well,

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I guess, I guess it's unorthodox to be campaigning with

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the chainsaw. This was the guy. Remember you probably have

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seen the video where he's standing at the like chalk

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board or whiteboard. The kids even know what a chalkboard

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is any longer? Yeah, I don't even know. Yeah, it's

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all just whiteboards. Wid they gotta be whiteboards, I don't know.

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But they're at the whiteboard and he's got like all

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of these uh like cards or post it notes on

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the board, and there are these different departments inside the government,

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and he's reading off the name of the department and

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he rips the card, the note, the note, the sticky note.

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He rips it off the wall and he's like cut

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or gone, this other department gone, this department gone like.

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And so that's what he's been doing. That was the

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point of the chainsaw that he was, you know, sending

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the message that he's going to be just clearing out

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a whole bunch of government bureaucracy. He spent the past

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year in acting sweeping This is, according to CNN, sweeping

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and painful reforms. In Latin America's third largest economy. Gross

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domestic product grew three point nine percent in a three

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month period, so a four point increase in GDP in

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three months compared to the previous three months. Argentina Statistics

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Agency reported these numbers. The agriculture and mining sectors drove

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the expansion, with consumer spending also growing strongly. Wait a minute,

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Hang on one second, are you telling me that if

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people get to keep more of their own money that

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that means they will spend that money. That's nuts. Wait

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a minute, Why won't they just let us spend it?

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We know better than they do. Manufacturing and construction, though

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suffered sharp declines in output. It's one of the things

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about economic news you should always keep in mind that

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rarely is economic news good or bad. These are all

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just data points for different things they are measuring, you know,

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different things at different points in time, and you have

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to look at all of it, and usually it's a

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mixed bag. Right there are as Thomas Soule says, trade offs.

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All of this stuff is trade offs. This was one

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of his big complaints about the way media reports on

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economics or economic news. The news of the economic rebound

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comes a year after Malay was elected on a ticket

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to tackle chronic hyper inflation. Think about that, chronic hyper inflation,

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not just hyper inflation. Chronic is lasting, it's continuous, it

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keeps coming back hyper inflation. And he was also elected

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to overhaul the long suffering economy. He has slashed government spending,

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reducing sky high inflation and helping repair the country's finances.

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Wait a minute, or I should say, wait another minute,

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how is it? How is it that tackling chronic hyper

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inflation slashing government spending? How are those two things related?

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Why would slashing government spending reduce sky high inflation? CNN

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tell me, tell me why are these two things connected?

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Because I've been assured recently for the last few years

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that deficits don't matter, and we could just keep printing

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more and more money, and we just keep spending. This

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is the MMT theory, right, the modern monetary theory MMT

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modern monetary theory, which is just basically old theory Marxism right,

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Kenesy and economics just priming the pump. Just spend, spend, spend,

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None of it matters where the world reserve currency? Who cares?

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How would slashing government spending reduce sky high inflation? That's right,

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that's right. The inflation is tied to the sky high

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government spending. That's why you've got sky high inflation. CNN

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goes on to say, these measures, though, have also pushed

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up unemployment and the poverty rate, so keep in mind. Also,

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I believe unemployment is a lagging indicator. So like after

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a recession, or like when a recession hits or you've

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got a hobbled economy, people get fired, takes then as

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the economy rebounds, then hiring starts up again. It takes

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time for people then to get into those jobs. So

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it's not on I believe it's a lagging indicator. But

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also I would I would doubt this that these measures

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have pushed up the unemployment and poverty rate. I would

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submit that it was the hyper inflation, the long suffering economy.

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Just using your words here, I would think those are

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the problems. Those were the problems that drove up the

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unemployment and poverty rates because those were structural problems. They

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weren't going away, and the only way you're going to

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fix it is to go through this process. So yes,

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they say painful reforms painful because you have to fix

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the thing that is broken. Right. They got to like

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you got a dislocated shoulder. You can't just keep walking

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around with that, and it's going to be painful when

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you pop it back into it socket. But once you

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do that, you're gonna be okay. You gotta go through

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that little bit of pain first. So that makes sense.

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So why wouldn't you blame the structural problems in the

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Argentinian economy rather than blaming the guy who's coming in

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to fix it. And there were signs that what he's

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doing is working. And I would also note that when

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he was saying these are the things that will fix

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the economy, everybody said, no, they won't, And now here

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comes the evidence that it does, did anybody? And they're

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going to offer any apologies for getting this wrong? Of course? Not,

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of course, not. This was like the lefties here in

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North Carolina that predicted economic ruin when Republicans took over

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and started doing tax cuts, and they were like, no,

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it's going to create more spending and actually more revenue

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to the state treasury because when people get to keep

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more of their own money, they make more investments, they

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buy more stuff, and that generates more tax revenue rather

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than just confiscating it all. If you allow it to

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work in economic activity, then it will generate more tax revenue.

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And they have been proven correct on that. Yet no

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apologies from all the people that were predicting catastrophe. They

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still get quoted in news stories as if they haven't

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been wrong about this stuff. Argentina's flagship stock index, called

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the Mervole, is up one hundred and seventy four percent

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as investors have welcomed Malaise reforms. Malay inherited an economy

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in crisis, racked by hyper inflation that reached two hundred

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eleven percent last December. It was fueled by the prior

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government's money printing to fund spending. Look, even CNN understands this.

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They pretend that they don't understand the connection, but they

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do they're saying it right there that when you print

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all the money to fund all of the spending, you

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get all of the inflation. And that's what did end

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Joe Biden. Right. According to the International Monetary Fund, the

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country's biggest creditor, Malay has delivered quote better than expected results.

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a message here on the Twitter machine, which is at

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Pete Callander k A l I n e R. It's

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wild Pete. How Javier Malaise economic reforms along with Bukeles

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criminal reform. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right,

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but Bukulele, Buckley, Bukele. What's his first name here? It's Naib.

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He is the president of El Salvador. His criminal reforms,

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the crackdown on all the gangs, which now he is

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apparently like the most popular leader in the world. This

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guy Naib Armando Bukele Ortez Salvador l salvadoran or Salvadoran

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politician and businessman, eighty first president of El Salvador, and

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he is waged this crackdown on crime and gangs, and

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he has become the world's most popular head of state.

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So yeah, it's pretty amazing how that kind of thing happens, right,

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But anyway, back to the message here on Twitter, from Russ,

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who says it's wild how malaise economic reforms bougualis criminal

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reforms were framed as impossibly to implement and unlikely to

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have any impact even if they were. Maybe there are

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some lessons or models there. Let me think about that. No,

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definitely not nothing to learn. Nothing to learn from these

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two men. Speaking of not learning, Cuban American Congresswoman Maria

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Elvira Salazar has successfully pushed a bill through the House

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that should make it very difficult for leftists on the

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local and state level to appose teaching the truth about

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communism to school children in the United States. Naturally, there

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will be challenges this, according to Carlos Eire at the

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Babbaaloo blog. He says it's inevitable giving the extreme leftist

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lean of American higher education, where all teachers receive their training.

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By the way, you've seen this the polling, I mentioned

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some of it yesterday. There's another poll out that shows

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forty one percent of the youth ages eighteen to like

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thirty thirty four or something like that, Like forty one

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percent of them think that it's okay to murder CEOs

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of companies. Where do you think they got those ideas

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another mystery we may never know, but at least for now,

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there is now a firm legal foundation that should deflect

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some of these legal challenges. A companion version of the

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bill has been introduced in the US Senate. The vote

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was three hundred and twenty seven to sixty two. There

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were forty three abstentions. These were people that were like,

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I just don't know if we should teach communism was bad.

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I don't know what. I'm just gonna abstain. Surprisingly, twenty

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eight of the no votes were cast by Republicans. Now,

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I think those Republicans are probably in the camp of

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we shouldn't be doing anything at the federal level regarding curriculum,

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which I understand the argument, but horses already out of

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the barn on that one. So until you deconstruct the NEA,

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or sorry, the Department of Education, okay both, But as

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soon as you once you deconstruct the Department of Ed,

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then okay, fine, you shouldn't be doing any of this

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stuff anymore. That being said, we still have a Department

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of Education. So as long as you guys are already

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involved and still involved, and I won't believe you're not

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gonna be involved until I see it happen. Then yeah,

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you should probably say, you know what communism is bad?

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You know why? Because it is. It's bad, And you

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don't need to lie about communism. That's the best part

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of it all. You just teach the truth about it.

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It is, on its face inherently awful. And so if

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you just tell people what it is and be like, hey,

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look at all the murdered people associated with this religion

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then or ideology or economic theory, but it's not. It's

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that's the thing. It's it is a religion, that's what

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it is. Okay. It cloaks itself in this idea that

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it's economic theory when it's not. It's way more than that.

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like they all these commies, these Marxists they always talk

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about as an economic theory. Yeah, commis lie, okay. Rule

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number one about commis is that they lie. Okay, So

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if they're telling you it's economic theory, that's a lie.

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All right, Hey, real quick, If you I would like

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to get your product or service in front of about

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Run the numbers with you again. That's Pete at the

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Pete calendarshow dot Com? Cell phones and all the fights

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that people are engaging in in the schools using the

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cell phones and social media. It was exacerbated during the

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pandemic and then the communism. It's bad now the materials

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are going to be provided for high schoolers and middle

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schoolers to learn about that murderous ideology. What is the connection?

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Jim Garretty at National Review writes that the US House

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are rept Presentatives, Oversight and Accountability Committees. COVID nineteen panel

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issued a final report on the COVID pandemic. The committee

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begins with what some people aka conspiracy theorists said, it's

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the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed about

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seven million people officially, and anywhere from eighteen to thirty

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two million if you count all the suspiciously high excess

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deaths in places like China and Russia, quote four years

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after the onset of the worst pandemic in one hundred years,

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the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab league hypothesis.

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I'm as shocked as you are. What was always amazing

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to me about the weird insistence that it started at

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a wet market where they were eating bat soup or whatever,

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or pangle in pie or something like that. That was

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somehow the non racist position. That was always weird to

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me that when I said, hey, you know, they've got

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this WIV, like right down the street from where the

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first guy was reported, the patient zero was reported to

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get the COVID, and they got the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

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and one of the employees there, her name is like

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the bat Lady. She's got all these news stories about

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her from all over the world, going into bat caves

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everywhere and scooping up batpoop and running all sorts of

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tests and mixing up viruses from them and stuff, and

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that's where she worked. And then lo and behold, here

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we have this respiratory virus that just so happens to

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erupt a block or two away from the WIV and

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they were like, you racist for saying that. You can't

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call it the China flu. You can't say it's the

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Wuhan flu, even though we named every other flu from

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like the original location of where it starts, like dengey fever,

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Spanish flu, rocky mountain, spotted fever. Right, that's how we

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name things of this nature, not all things. We named

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storms very stupidly, but although I guess it would make

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sense because if you named us, if you named all

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the hurricanes from where they start there, you're gonna be

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like basically naming them just three names all the time,

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So I guess that does make sense. Anyway. The argument

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was that it was racist to name it the Wuhan flu,

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so that we had to come up with the COVID

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nineteen and you're not allowed to say that. No, no, no.

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The non racist explanation isn't that it came from a

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Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak no, no, no, it

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came from those Chinese people who eat pangolins. Like that's

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the that was the non racist really, because that sounds

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way worse than me saying a bunch of scientists were

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doing some like highly specialized, super smart science y stuff

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and then it broke containment Like that seems to me

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like like way less racisty, you know. In their application

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to DARPA, a company called Eco Health member them EcoHealth

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Alliance and its partners at the w stated they're intend

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to create a stars like virus with a furin cleavage

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site that's to attract all the dudes, which is the

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exact same feature that made humans susceptible to COVID nineteen infection,

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the fur and cleavage site. This is what rand Paul

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was questioning the science when he appeared before the Senate.

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Can doctor Fauci aka the science he was asking about

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the fur and cleavage site. Also, the WIV has a

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bit of a track record of engaging in this type

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of airborne viral research under low biosafety conditions. Yet the WIV,

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it was known that Chinese researchers conducted this kind of

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research under BSL two protocols Biosafety Lab two. So two

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is the thing there. Two does not require masking at

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all times, and it means you don't have to wear

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all of the same kinds of protective equipment in the US.

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If we were doing this kind of research at one

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of our labs. It would be conducted under a BSL

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three protocol, and that would be stricter. You got to

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use a respirator at all times, got to wear more

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protective equipment. In fact, in a draft proposal for the

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grant money that was sent to DARPA, a fellow by

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the name of doctor Pedick Dajak, remember that name. Yes,

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he acknowledged that some of the SARS COVID two research

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would be conducted out of BSL two at the Wuhan

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Institute of Virology, but there's no indication that it could

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have escaped that lib. Furthermore, no infected animal has ever

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been verified at the Wuhan market or its supply chain.

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Key evidence that would be expected if the virus had

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emerged from the wildlife trade is still missing. In previous

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outbreaks such as SARS in two thousand and two and

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MERS in twenty twelve, infected animals were found. The earliest

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cases occurred in people exposed to live animals, and ancestral

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variants of the virus found in animals were also discovered,

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but none of this evidence has ever been discovered for

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COVID nineteen. We may never know. Look, if you want

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to say it came from a zoonotic source, right, if

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that's where you want to argue that, then at least

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make the argument that it originated in bears. That at

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least makes sense, specifically Winnie the Pooh. That makes sense.

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All right, let me head over to the phone line

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here and get Chris on. Hello, Chris, Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Hey Chris, excuse excuse me? Hey, happy you too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we could say Mary Christmas. Now Trump won, we

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can say Mary.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 2: Look, I know you're from New York, but did you

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hear about the Darwin Award that happened in Rochester?

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Speaker 1: Rochester is in That's Canada.

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Speaker 2: Well it will be.

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Speaker 1: No anything north of the Bronx is Canada.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm from Long Island, so yeah, that's what we think.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear about these two Darbin Award winners who

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were putting batpoop on their marijuana.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, to grow it and they both died?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Have you not heard that? No?

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Speaker 1: I have not. Oh yeah, so they used it as

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a fertilizer. Yes, okay, wait a minute, hang on, where

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did they get the batpoop?

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Speaker 2: Well, the first guy.

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Speaker 3: The one guy's in his fifties, one guy's in the sixties. Well,

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the one guy had bats in his attic, so he

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was scooping the poop out and putting it in his

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own This is homegrown marijuana, okay, God, So he told

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one of his friends, and evidently you can buy bat

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guano online, and his buddy did it. It was doing

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the same stuff.

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Speaker 2: They're smoking this stuff and it caused resptory issues. So

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there you go. But when I heard you talking about COVID,

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I was like, I gotta let him up because he's

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from New York.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that they would call that the Rochester

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flu if there was an outbreak that occurred.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Rochester happy flows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, So that's yeah, that's love man. Next chriss,

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I appreciate I had not heard about the idiots in

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uh in Rochester? Good lord? Really, Like you're that desperate

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to get the plants to grow faster, just get some

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extra grow lamps. Everybody knows that, all right, So I'm kidding.

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I'm kidding. I'm not advising. I had a friend back

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in college who okay, never mind, I barely knew him. Actually,

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it wasn't even a friend, like, I didn't even talk

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to the guy, just had heard rumors about him. Okay,

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I forget his name. Key evidence that would be expected

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if the virus came from wildlife has been missing. This

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has been a pretty glaring hole in the whole theory

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of the wet market origin story for COVID. It's been this.

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This hole has existed since the beginning of the pandemic.

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I was talking about it like, well, where's the connection.

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Where are the animals? How come they haven't been able

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to trace it back? And there is this gap. It's

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like the missing link, and it just so happens to

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be the link where the thing makes the jump, like

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the most important part of the link, the thing that

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proves the whole theory, that's the one that's missing. It's

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kind of like, this is not persuasive. And then on

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the other side you have the bat Lady. You got

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the BSL two protocols. You got people that go that

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got sick, that went missing, that were employees over there

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right the proximity to the wet market where they say

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it happened. You had all of these other they had

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want eds or want the wanted edds, the classifieds for

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because I guess the commis are still running like newspaper

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classifieds for job descript or job openings, and they had

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all these job openings that came open at the with.

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You know, for scientists, there's way more evidence over on

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that side. Jim Garretty at National Review, he has been

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doing a ton of work on this for years, and

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he said, for those of us who find the lab

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leak theory the most plausible explanation, quote won the argument

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in the realm of public opinion in the United States.

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And then nothing happened. Yeah, nothing happened. There have still

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been few any real consequences for the Chinese government, and

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certainly no consequences commensurate to unleashing a freaking plague on

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the planet. Right, nothing at all, not even a little

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uh hush money here or there. Nothing. Maybe we'll get

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something after Joe Biden. See, well, yeah, that might be it.

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With Joe Biden in office. Maybe they never were going

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to be held accountable. That's possible. Oh, I saw a

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hunter Biden's posing with social media influencers and TikTokers. I'm

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sure it's unrelated. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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