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everybody thinks that's hilarious, right, exactly. Let me see here.
Oh is that a drone? No, never mind, it's a
cleaning lady. All right. So Argentina, remember them, They elected
that guy with the chainsaw, and everybody was freaking out.
Turns out they have now emerged from a deep recession. Wow.
Who could have seen that coming, except obviously the guy
with the chainsaw. Javier Milay the new president, a major
victory for the country's quote on orthodox president. I mean, well,
I guess, I guess it's unorthodox to be campaigning with
the chainsaw. This was the guy. Remember you probably have
seen the video where he's standing at the like chalk
board or whiteboard. The kids even know what a chalkboard
is any longer? Yeah, I don't even know. Yeah, it's
all just whiteboards. Wid they gotta be whiteboards, I don't know.
But they're at the whiteboard and he's got like all
of these uh like cards or post it notes on
the board, and there are these different departments inside the government,
and he's reading off the name of the department and
he rips the card, the note, the note, the sticky note.
He rips it off the wall and he's like cut
or gone, this other department gone, this department gone like.
And so that's what he's been doing. That was the
point of the chainsaw that he was, you know, sending
the message that he's going to be just clearing out
a whole bunch of government bureaucracy. He spent the past
year in acting sweeping This is, according to CNN, sweeping
and painful reforms. In Latin America's third largest economy. Gross
domestic product grew three point nine percent in a three
month period, so a four point increase in GDP in
three months compared to the previous three months. Argentina Statistics
Agency reported these numbers. The agriculture and mining sectors drove
the expansion, with consumer spending also growing strongly. Wait a minute,
Hang on one second, are you telling me that if
people get to keep more of their own money that
that means they will spend that money. That's nuts. Wait
a minute, Why won't they just let us spend it?
We know better than they do. Manufacturing and construction, though
suffered sharp declines in output. It's one of the things
about economic news you should always keep in mind that
rarely is economic news good or bad. These are all
just data points for different things they are measuring, you know,
different things at different points in time, and you have
to look at all of it, and usually it's a
mixed bag. Right there are as Thomas Soule says, trade offs.
All of this stuff is trade offs. This was one
of his big complaints about the way media reports on
economics or economic news. The news of the economic rebound
comes a year after Malay was elected on a ticket
to tackle chronic hyper inflation. Think about that, chronic hyper inflation,
not just hyper inflation. Chronic is lasting, it's continuous, it
keeps coming back hyper inflation. And he was also elected
to overhaul the long suffering economy. He has slashed government spending,
reducing sky high inflation and helping repair the country's finances.
Wait a minute, or I should say, wait another minute,
how is it? How is it that tackling chronic hyper
inflation slashing government spending? How are those two things related?
Why would slashing government spending reduce sky high inflation? CNN
tell me, tell me why are these two things connected?
Because I've been assured recently for the last few years
that deficits don't matter, and we could just keep printing
more and more money, and we just keep spending. This
is the MMT theory, right, the modern monetary theory MMT
modern monetary theory, which is just basically old theory Marxism right,
Kenesy and economics just priming the pump. Just spend, spend, spend,
None of it matters where the world reserve currency? Who cares?
How would slashing government spending reduce sky high inflation? That's right,
that's right. The inflation is tied to the sky high
government spending. That's why you've got sky high inflation. CNN
goes on to say, these measures, though, have also pushed
up unemployment and the poverty rate, so keep in mind. Also,
I believe unemployment is a lagging indicator. So like after
a recession, or like when a recession hits or you've
got a hobbled economy, people get fired, takes then as
the economy rebounds, then hiring starts up again. It takes
time for people then to get into those jobs. So
it's not on I believe it's a lagging indicator. But
also I would I would doubt this that these measures
have pushed up the unemployment and poverty rate. I would
submit that it was the hyper inflation, the long suffering economy.
Just using your words here, I would think those are
the problems. Those were the problems that drove up the
unemployment and poverty rates because those were structural problems. They
weren't going away, and the only way you're going to
fix it is to go through this process. So yes,
they say painful reforms painful because you have to fix
the thing that is broken. Right. They got to like
you got a dislocated shoulder. You can't just keep walking
around with that, and it's going to be painful when
you pop it back into it socket. But once you
do that, you're gonna be okay. You gotta go through
that little bit of pain first. So that makes sense.
So why wouldn't you blame the structural problems in the
Argentinian economy rather than blaming the guy who's coming in
to fix it. And there were signs that what he's
doing is working. And I would also note that when
he was saying these are the things that will fix
the economy, everybody said, no, they won't, And now here
comes the evidence that it does, did anybody? And they're
going to offer any apologies for getting this wrong? Of course? Not,
of course, not. This was like the lefties here in
North Carolina that predicted economic ruin when Republicans took over
and started doing tax cuts, and they were like, no,
it's going to create more spending and actually more revenue
to the state treasury because when people get to keep
more of their own money, they make more investments, they
buy more stuff, and that generates more tax revenue rather
than just confiscating it all. If you allow it to
work in economic activity, then it will generate more tax revenue.
And they have been proven correct on that. Yet no
apologies from all the people that were predicting catastrophe. They
still get quoted in news stories as if they haven't
been wrong about this stuff. Argentina's flagship stock index, called
the Mervole, is up one hundred and seventy four percent
as investors have welcomed Malaise reforms. Malay inherited an economy
in crisis, racked by hyper inflation that reached two hundred
eleven percent last December. It was fueled by the prior
government's money printing to fund spending. Look, even CNN understands this.
They pretend that they don't understand the connection, but they
do they're saying it right there that when you print
all the money to fund all of the spending, you
get all of the inflation. And that's what did end
Joe Biden. Right. According to the International Monetary Fund, the
country's biggest creditor, Malay has delivered quote better than expected results.
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wild Pete. How Javier Malaise economic reforms along with Bukeles
criminal reform. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right,
but Bukulele, Buckley, Bukele. What's his first name here? It's Naib.
He is the president of El Salvador. His criminal reforms,
the crackdown on all the gangs, which now he is
apparently like the most popular leader in the world. This
guy Naib Armando Bukele Ortez Salvador l salvadoran or Salvadoran
politician and businessman, eighty first president of El Salvador, and
he is waged this crackdown on crime and gangs, and
he has become the world's most popular head of state.
So yeah, it's pretty amazing how that kind of thing happens, right,
But anyway, back to the message here on Twitter, from Russ,
who says it's wild how malaise economic reforms bougualis criminal
reforms were framed as impossibly to implement and unlikely to
have any impact even if they were. Maybe there are
some lessons or models there. Let me think about that. No,
definitely not nothing to learn. Nothing to learn from these
two men. Speaking of not learning, Cuban American Congresswoman Maria
Elvira Salazar has successfully pushed a bill through the House
that should make it very difficult for leftists on the
local and state level to appose teaching the truth about
communism to school children in the United States. Naturally, there
will be challenges this, according to Carlos Eire at the
Babbaaloo blog. He says it's inevitable giving the extreme leftist
lean of American higher education, where all teachers receive their training.
By the way, you've seen this the polling, I mentioned
some of it yesterday. There's another poll out that shows
forty one percent of the youth ages eighteen to like
thirty thirty four or something like that, Like forty one
percent of them think that it's okay to murder CEOs
of companies. Where do you think they got those ideas
another mystery we may never know, but at least for now,
there is now a firm legal foundation that should deflect
some of these legal challenges. A companion version of the
bill has been introduced in the US Senate. The vote
was three hundred and twenty seven to sixty two. There
were forty three abstentions. These were people that were like,
I just don't know if we should teach communism was bad.
I don't know what. I'm just gonna abstain. Surprisingly, twenty
eight of the no votes were cast by Republicans. Now,
I think those Republicans are probably in the camp of
we shouldn't be doing anything at the federal level regarding curriculum,
which I understand the argument, but horses already out of
the barn on that one. So until you deconstruct the NEA,
or sorry, the Department of Education, okay both, But as
soon as you once you deconstruct the Department of Ed,
then okay, fine, you shouldn't be doing any of this
stuff anymore. That being said, we still have a Department
of Education. So as long as you guys are already
involved and still involved, and I won't believe you're not
gonna be involved until I see it happen. Then yeah,
you should probably say, you know what communism is bad?
You know why? Because it is. It's bad, And you
don't need to lie about communism. That's the best part
of it all. You just teach the truth about it.
It is, on its face inherently awful. And so if
you just tell people what it is and be like, hey,
look at all the murdered people associated with this religion
then or ideology or economic theory, but it's not. It's
that's the thing. It's it is a religion, that's what
it is. Okay. It cloaks itself in this idea that
it's economic theory when it's not. It's way more than that.
And then and like but p no, you don't understand,
like they all these commies, these Marxists they always talk
about as an economic theory. Yeah, commis lie, okay. Rule
number one about commis is that they lie. Okay, So
if they're telling you it's economic theory, that's a lie.
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Pete calendarshow dot Com? Cell phones and all the fights
that people are engaging in in the schools using the
cell phones and social media. It was exacerbated during the
pandemic and then the communism. It's bad now the materials
are going to be provided for high schoolers and middle
schoolers to learn about that murderous ideology. What is the connection?
Jim Garretty at National Review writes that the US House
are rept Presentatives, Oversight and Accountability Committees. COVID nineteen panel
issued a final report on the COVID pandemic. The committee
begins with what some people aka conspiracy theorists said, it's
the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed about
seven million people officially, and anywhere from eighteen to thirty
two million if you count all the suspiciously high excess
deaths in places like China and Russia, quote four years
after the onset of the worst pandemic in one hundred years,
the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab league hypothesis.
I'm as shocked as you are. What was always amazing
to me about the weird insistence that it started at
a wet market where they were eating bat soup or whatever,
or pangle in pie or something like that. That was
somehow the non racist position. That was always weird to
me that when I said, hey, you know, they've got
this WIV, like right down the street from where the
first guy was reported, the patient zero was reported to
get the COVID, and they got the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
and one of the employees there, her name is like
the bat Lady. She's got all these news stories about
her from all over the world, going into bat caves
everywhere and scooping up batpoop and running all sorts of
tests and mixing up viruses from them and stuff, and
that's where she worked. And then lo and behold, here
we have this respiratory virus that just so happens to
erupt a block or two away from the WIV and
they were like, you racist for saying that. You can't
call it the China flu. You can't say it's the
Wuhan flu, even though we named every other flu from
like the original location of where it starts, like dengey fever,
Spanish flu, rocky mountain, spotted fever. Right, that's how we
name things of this nature, not all things. We named
storms very stupidly, but although I guess it would make
sense because if you named us, if you named all
the hurricanes from where they start there, you're gonna be
like basically naming them just three names all the time,
So I guess that does make sense. Anyway. The argument
was that it was racist to name it the Wuhan flu,
so that we had to come up with the COVID
nineteen and you're not allowed to say that. No, no, no.
The non racist explanation isn't that it came from a
Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak no, no, no, it
came from those Chinese people who eat pangolins. Like that's
the that was the non racist really, because that sounds
way worse than me saying a bunch of scientists were
doing some like highly specialized, super smart science y stuff
and then it broke containment Like that seems to me
like like way less racisty, you know. In their application
to DARPA, a company called Eco Health member them EcoHealth
Alliance and its partners at the w stated they're intend
to create a stars like virus with a furin cleavage
site that's to attract all the dudes, which is the
exact same feature that made humans susceptible to COVID nineteen infection,
the fur and cleavage site. This is what rand Paul
was questioning the science when he appeared before the Senate.
Can doctor Fauci aka the science he was asking about
the fur and cleavage site. Also, the WIV has a
bit of a track record of engaging in this type
of airborne viral research under low biosafety conditions. Yet the WIV,
it was known that Chinese researchers conducted this kind of
research under BSL two protocols Biosafety Lab two. So two
is the thing there. Two does not require masking at
all times, and it means you don't have to wear
all of the same kinds of protective equipment in the US.
If we were doing this kind of research at one
of our labs. It would be conducted under a BSL
three protocol, and that would be stricter. You got to
use a respirator at all times, got to wear more
protective equipment. In fact, in a draft proposal for the
grant money that was sent to DARPA, a fellow by
the name of doctor Pedick Dajak, remember that name. Yes,
he acknowledged that some of the SARS COVID two research
would be conducted out of BSL two at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, but there's no indication that it could
have escaped that lib. Furthermore, no infected animal has ever
been verified at the Wuhan market or its supply chain.
Key evidence that would be expected if the virus had
emerged from the wildlife trade is still missing. In previous
outbreaks such as SARS in two thousand and two and
MERS in twenty twelve, infected animals were found. The earliest
cases occurred in people exposed to live animals, and ancestral
variants of the virus found in animals were also discovered,
but none of this evidence has ever been discovered for
COVID nineteen. We may never know. Look, if you want
to say it came from a zoonotic source, right, if
that's where you want to argue that, then at least
make the argument that it originated in bears. That at
least makes sense, specifically Winnie the Pooh. That makes sense.
All right, let me head over to the phone line
here and get Chris on. Hello, Chris, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: Hey Chris, excuse excuse me? Hey, happy you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we could say Mary Christmas. Now Trump won, we
can say Mary.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 2: Look, I know you're from New York, but did you
hear about the Darwin Award that happened in Rochester?
Speaker 1: Rochester is in That's Canada.
Speaker 2: Well it will be.
Speaker 1: No anything north of the Bronx is Canada.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm from Long Island, so yeah, that's what we think.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about these two Darbin Award winners who
were putting batpoop on their marijuana.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, to grow it and they both died?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Have you not heard that? No?
Speaker 1: I have not. Oh yeah, so they used it as
a fertilizer. Yes, okay, wait a minute, hang on, where
did they get the batpoop?
Speaker 2: Well, the first guy.
Speaker 3: The one guy's in his fifties, one guy's in the sixties. Well,
the one guy had bats in his attic, so he
was scooping the poop out and putting it in his
own This is homegrown marijuana, okay, God, So he told
one of his friends, and evidently you can buy bat
guano online, and his buddy did it. It was doing
the same stuff.
Speaker 2: They're smoking this stuff and it caused resptory issues. So
there you go. But when I heard you talking about COVID,
I was like, I gotta let him up because he's
from New York.
Speaker 1: Do you think that they would call that the Rochester
flu if there was an outbreak that occurred.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Rochester happy flows.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, So that's yeah, that's love man. Next chriss,
I appreciate I had not heard about the idiots in
uh in Rochester? Good lord? Really, Like you're that desperate
to get the plants to grow faster, just get some
extra grow lamps. Everybody knows that, all right, So I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. I'm not advising. I had a friend back
in college who okay, never mind, I barely knew him. Actually,
it wasn't even a friend, like, I didn't even talk
to the guy, just had heard rumors about him. Okay,
I forget his name. Key evidence that would be expected
if the virus came from wildlife has been missing. This
has been a pretty glaring hole in the whole theory
of the wet market origin story for COVID. It's been this.
This hole has existed since the beginning of the pandemic.
I was talking about it like, well, where's the connection.
Where are the animals? How come they haven't been able
to trace it back? And there is this gap. It's
like the missing link, and it just so happens to
be the link where the thing makes the jump, like
the most important part of the link, the thing that
proves the whole theory, that's the one that's missing. It's
kind of like, this is not persuasive. And then on
the other side you have the bat Lady. You got
the BSL two protocols. You got people that go that
got sick, that went missing, that were employees over there
right the proximity to the wet market where they say
it happened. You had all of these other they had
want eds or want the wanted edds, the classifieds for
because I guess the commis are still running like newspaper
classifieds for job descript or job openings, and they had
all these job openings that came open at the with.
You know, for scientists, there's way more evidence over on
that side. Jim Garretty at National Review, he has been
doing a ton of work on this for years, and
he said, for those of us who find the lab
leak theory the most plausible explanation, quote won the argument
in the realm of public opinion in the United States.
And then nothing happened. Yeah, nothing happened. There have still
been few any real consequences for the Chinese government, and
certainly no consequences commensurate to unleashing a freaking plague on
the planet. Right, nothing at all, not even a little
uh hush money here or there. Nothing. Maybe we'll get
something after Joe Biden. See, well, yeah, that might be it.
With Joe Biden in office. Maybe they never were going
to be held accountable. That's possible. Oh, I saw a
hunter Biden's posing with social media influencers and TikTokers. I'm
sure it's unrelated. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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