Speaker 1: Lad with MOA.
Speaker 2: Here is my final thought. I didn't acknowledge it earlier.
Speaker 1: You might have heard in the news reports that thousands
Speaker 1: of people were protesting in Washington, DC and all around
Speaker 1: the country on this being President's Day. People are quote
Speaker 1: unquote angry at President Trump and what Elon Musk are doing.
Speaker 1: And they're calling this a five oh five oh one movement,
Speaker 1: which stands for fifty protests fifty states one movement. Do
Speaker 1: you all know what I'm getting ready to say? Can
Speaker 1: you tell me what I'm getting ready to say. I
Speaker 1: understand that some people may not support President Trump. I
Speaker 1: understand the anger intellectually at what Elon Musk is doing,
Speaker 1: and how he has not been elected, how he has
Speaker 1: not been appointed and also confirmed by the Senate as
Speaker 1: a member of the Cabinet, how he does not constitutionally
Speaker 1: have any of the powers that he is using right now,
Speaker 1: be it to look at your personal IRS data or
Speaker 1: any other data for that matter. I understand why you
Speaker 1: are concerned. I understand why you're even angry and quote
Speaker 1: this is what one of the organizers said, as far
Speaker 1: as the protest was concerned. To oppose tyranny is to
Speaker 1: stand behind democracy and remind our elected officials that we
Speaker 1: the people, are who they're elected to serve, not themselves.
Speaker 1: The events over the past month have been built to
Speaker 1: exhaust us, to break our wills.
Speaker 2: But we are the American people. We will not break close. Quote.
Speaker 1: It's a nice quote, it's a nice sentiment. But once again,
Speaker 1: if you actually were paying attention as an informed voter,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the candidate and then former president, told you
Speaker 1: step by step exactly what he was going to do.
Speaker 1: That he was going to bring Elon Musk into his administration,
Speaker 1: that he was going to allow Elon Musk to form
Speaker 1: DOZE the Department of Government Efficiency, that it would not
Speaker 1: be an official arm of the government. That he was
Speaker 1: going to empower Elon Musk to root out government waste
Speaker 1: quote unquote wherever that is, and however he was going
Speaker 1: to do it, and he had free reign. He said
Speaker 1: that before the election, and you know what, you did nothing.
Speaker 1: You did not show up on election day. You were
Speaker 1: not there. Either you stayed home or you had a
Speaker 1: protest vote a protest of another kind of people like
Speaker 1: Jill Stein. Maybe you thought, like in twenty sixteen, that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump could not possibly win again given the events
Speaker 1: of the past few years, given the court cases, given
Speaker 1: the belligerent behavior in the debate, you thought there was
Speaker 1: no way he could win. But he did, and he
Speaker 1: told you it advanced what he was going to do.
Speaker 1: And you can protest three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 1: of the year in all fifty states, and you can
Speaker 1: raise your voices and keep on crying as loud as
Speaker 1: you want, and not a g damn thing is going
Speaker 1: to change. Why Because the election is over and you
Speaker 1: again missed your moment. So whatever happens, you allowed to
Speaker 1: happen because you had every opportunity to make sure that
Speaker 1: it did not. For KFI AM six forty, I'm O Kelly.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the show tonight, I was talking about how
Speaker 1: there was legitimate speculation as to whether sports broadcaster and
Speaker 1: analyst Steph A. Smith would throw his hat into the
Speaker 1: ring and run for president. To be fair Smith, he
Speaker 1: said that he's more disinclined to run than anything, but
Speaker 1: it is something he at least casually has considered. And
Speaker 1: I don't know personally. I don't personally know the guy.
Speaker 1: I only pseudo met him once while on opposite sides
Speaker 1: of an issue, you know, debating politics on MSNBC many
Speaker 1: years ago. In fact, it was the Chris Matthews Show.
Speaker 1: I say that to say he has been trending in
Speaker 1: this direction for a mighty long time. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: presume to know him or his politics. But this is
Speaker 1: not about that. This is not even about him per se.
Speaker 1: This is about us as a country. This is about
Speaker 1: how we have devalue the importance of the presidency, where
Speaker 1: now it's just about whether someone likes you enough on TV,
Speaker 1: or whether you have a large following, or whether you
Speaker 1: have a large social media presence. If you do well,
Speaker 1: then you can be seriously considered for the position of
Speaker 1: leader of the free world.
Speaker 2: Ain't that something? Carry the nuclear football set both our.
Speaker 1: Domestic and foreign policy agendas, send troops into battle, maybe
Speaker 1: even to their deaths, make decisions which could define history
Speaker 1: and or destroy us as a nation, because that's where
Speaker 1: we are as a nation. You need not have any
Speaker 1: applicable experience on any level, because that's how little we
Speaker 1: think of what it means to become president of the
Speaker 1: United States. Because right now, as of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: we want to be entertained more than anything. Here's the
Speaker 1: flip side, and the flip side is that the people
Speaker 1: considering and maybe even actually running, like Steven A. Smith,
Speaker 1: they also think just as little of the job. Here's
Speaker 1: how I know, because they only endeavor to start at
Speaker 1: the very top. They've managed nothing, they've never led an agency,
Speaker 1: managed a bureaucracy, but ready to step in and manage
Speaker 1: more than two million federal employees on top of those
Speaker 1: other aforementioned responsibilities which are very very important. And they
Speaker 1: think that they can do that, that they're ready to
Speaker 1: do that, that they're qualified to do that because they
Speaker 1: have some sort of cool podcasts or some sort of
Speaker 1: an engaging TV personality. And don't get me wrong, Steven A.
Speaker 1: Smith has a cool podcast, he has an engaging personality,
Speaker 1: but don't tell me he's qualified to do anything that
Speaker 1: the President of the United States is required to do.
Speaker 1: And these individuals, it's not limited to Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 1: but they aren't content to run for state assembly or
Speaker 1: mayor demonstrate that at least on a small level, a
Speaker 1: local level, that they are of the metal mettl e
Speaker 1: to become any elected official. They just go straight to
Speaker 1: president who thinks like that. I mean, evidently Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and others and of course millions of would
Speaker 1: be voters, because we're okay with that. It's one thing
Speaker 1: to think that you can run, it's another thing to
Speaker 1: vote for that person. So it's all of us. It's
Speaker 1: about us as a country. We've turned the phrase career
Speaker 1: politician into some sort of slur or scarlet letter, as
Speaker 1: if there's no competency requirement attached. Imagine for me, for
Speaker 1: just a moment, imagine pointing at someone and calling him
Speaker 1: or her a career doctor or career accountant, or career
Speaker 1: teacher or career pilot, and thinking that's some sort of insult.
Speaker 1: Put all those jobs together times five thousand, and they
Speaker 1: won't ever have the collective responsibility of one president of
Speaker 1: the United States. They won't touch as many lives, they
Speaker 1: won't be responsible for protecting as many lives, or appoint
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices who will preside for the next forty years.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, we require fewer qualifications than any of those
Speaker 1: five thousand doctors, teachers are pilots. We only require our
Speaker 1: candidates to become president of the United States, to become
Speaker 1: leader of the free world. We only require that they
Speaker 1: say stuff we like retire America because eventually, Eventually, there
Speaker 1: will be consequences for not prioritizing qualifications for k If
Speaker 1: I am six forty, I'm mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: It goes without saying that. I'm going to say it anyway.
Speaker 1: This world is changing so very fast, probably faster than
Speaker 1: any of us could have ever imagined growing up, or
Speaker 1: at least when I was growing up. I dreamed of
Speaker 1: the day of just having my own phone in my room.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about my own number.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about my own physical rotary or touchtone phone. Yes,
Speaker 1: I said rotary that I could answer in my own room.
Speaker 1: That was the dream once upon a time. Now I
Speaker 1: got my own phone and personal computer on my hip,
Speaker 1: put it in my pocket, which communicates with my watch
Speaker 1: on my wrist, and you know what, I upgrade just
Speaker 1: about every single year both of them. I can use
Speaker 1: my phone in my car thanks to Bluetooth. In fact,
Speaker 1: I can answer of calls on my wrist. I can
Speaker 1: play music through my wrist. I could talk to my
Speaker 1: phone and tell it to call anyone and everyone, as
Speaker 1: if there's some mini person in my dashboard dialing the
Speaker 1: phone for me. It's like the Jetsons, but in real life.
Speaker 1: And you got to be a certain age to remember
Speaker 1: what life was like with the advent of the mobile phone,
Speaker 1: combined that with the Internet and the world in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five. Back then, it's nothing like now in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. In my day, we didn't have computers in
Speaker 1: every classroom for all students. We had a single room
Speaker 1: a computer lab that you had to walk to to
Speaker 1: use a computer for a limited amount of time. And
Speaker 1: there was no internet teachers, and this is the point
Speaker 1: of this. Teachers back then only had to deal with
Speaker 1: students having sony walkman's remember them, I do, or calculators
Speaker 1: remember them. And don't get me wrong, I wanted to
Speaker 1: communicate with the girls in my class just like anyone else.
Speaker 2: It was high school. I mean I was going through puberty.
Speaker 1: But the only way we could communicate back then was
Speaker 1: passing notes, which was tantamount to the pony Express, very
Speaker 1: low tech.
Speaker 2: But here's my point.
Speaker 1: Students today have all of that in just their mobile phone,
Speaker 1: from the computer to the walkman, to the calculator, to
Speaker 1: the passing note communicator, all of it. It is heaven
Speaker 1: in a box for an adolescent. They can talk with
Speaker 1: their crushes all day and all night, and not make
Speaker 1: a sound.
Speaker 2: Mom and Dad would be none the wiser but worse.
Speaker 2: In a word, they are addicted. In fact, so are
Speaker 2: the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And despite that addiction, or maybe because of it, our
Speaker 1: children are relatively speaking, less educated than ever before. And
Speaker 1: although LAUSD may have taken a very very small step
Speaker 1: to try to correct both, there has to be far
Speaker 1: more done. And parents don't pull the phone news back
Speaker 1: because those phones serve a purpose for them as well,
Speaker 1: a constant tether in this very very dangerous world.
Speaker 2: I don't condone it, but I damn sure understand it.
Speaker 1: But I do wonder if we are better off today
Speaker 1: with this proliferation of cell phone technology, because we're all
Speaker 1: pretty much generally dumber than ever before. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: are we more dumb than ever before? It sure seems
Speaker 1: like it, It sure sounds like it. We surely act
Speaker 1: like it from the way we talk to each other,
Speaker 1: from the way we communicate with each other. Ask a teacher.
Speaker 1: When a child turns in a paper, they're turning in shorthand,
Speaker 1: they're turning in text shorthand they're not even communicating in
Speaker 1: complete sentences. And that is a direct derivative of the
Speaker 1: texting the environment and the way we speak to each
Speaker 1: other on our phones. And we know from the State
Speaker 1: of Education, at least here in California, we are performing
Speaker 1: worse than ever before, although we have this technology which
Speaker 1: is supposedly making life easier for us, more so than
Speaker 1: ever before.
Speaker 2: I just don't know.
Speaker 1: Are we generally dumber or not given all this technology.
Speaker 1: And after I send these texts, and after I post
Speaker 1: on social media, and after I check all my emails
Speaker 1: on my phone, I'll let you know. For k if
Speaker 1: I am six forty, I'm O Kelly. Earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: I was talking about Beaesels and it disappointed me where
Speaker 1: we've progressed or regressed actually as a country. And I
Speaker 1: was asking the question, did you know that one hundred
Speaker 1: and seven thousand, five hundred people worldwide died from measles
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, not infected, not hospitalized, but died
Speaker 1: from measles? And did you also know that most of
Speaker 1: the one hundred and seven thousand, five hundred people who
Speaker 1: died from measles were not only children, but under the
Speaker 1: age of five, children under the.
Speaker 2: Age of five.
Speaker 1: Did you know that about one in five unvaccinated people
Speaker 1: who get measles will be hospitalized about twenty percent, and
Speaker 1: one out of every one thousand people who are infected
Speaker 1: with measles will develop brains and quite possibly brain damage.
Speaker 1: And you probably think, well, that's reassuring, that's not a
Speaker 1: very high percentage. All right, Well how about this one
Speaker 1: in twenty that's five percent of those infected will develop pneumonia.
Speaker 1: And we all know about the complications of pneumonia and
Speaker 1: how it's pretty easy to die from pneumonia, especially with
Speaker 1: an advanced age. But here's some other stats to at
Speaker 1: least consider. One to three people of every thousand infected
Speaker 1: with measles will die even with the best care. In
Speaker 1: other words, it doesn't matter if it's in Asia, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's in Ukraine, doesn't matter it's in
Speaker 1: Africa where most die from measles because they are the
Speaker 1: least vaccinated. One in three who are infected out of
Speaker 1: a thousand will die even with the best care. And
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to the whole asteroid hitting
Speaker 1: the Earth and the plane hitting the side of the mountain,
Speaker 1: analogy that I often use.
Speaker 2: It may not be a.
Speaker 1: High mortality rate until it involves your child and the
Speaker 1: possibility that he or she might end up as one
Speaker 1: of the one hundred and seven thousand, five hundred children
Speaker 1: worldwide who dies of measles. There's just some things you
Speaker 1: don't play with. There's some games you don't play. And
Speaker 1: I'm only talking about those who are unvaccinated and infected.
Speaker 1: And speaking of unvaccinated, here's another step that I really
Speaker 1: want you to consider on this evening. More than ninety
Speaker 1: percent of those who were unvaccinated, including your unvaccinated children,
Speaker 1: and also come in close proximity to someone infected with measles,
Speaker 1: will also become infected. In other words, if you're unvaccinated
Speaker 1: and you come in contact with someone who's infected with measles,
Speaker 1: there's a ninety percent chance of you contracting measles. If
Speaker 1: you are elderly and unvaccinated for measles, your outcomes, of
Speaker 1: course are worse, worse in terms of contracting it, to pneumonia,
Speaker 1: to brain swelling and even death. And what bothers me
Speaker 1: the most is we're not talking about a COVID vaccine,
Speaker 1: which was relatively new. I say relatively because it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five now. COVID was twenty nineteen and twenty twenty
Speaker 1: MMR measles, mumps, and rubella. That vaccine has been around
Speaker 1: since nineteen sixty three. That's longer than anyone on this
Speaker 1: show has been alive. And my ass is getting old.
Speaker 1: It wasn't luck or heard immunity that measles had largely
Speaker 1: been eradicated. It was because people still trusted science, still
Speaker 1: believed in doctors, and that had not changed in the sixties, seventies, eighties,
Speaker 1: nineties and so forth. Measles, polio, whoopee cough, and others
Speaker 1: have re emerged in twenty twenty five because we collectively
Speaker 1: stopped believing in science. We the non doctors, the non physicians,
Speaker 1: believe that we knew more than the doctors, than the virologists,
Speaker 1: the pathologists, the immunologists, the epidemiologists. But here's the truth.
Speaker 1: We don't actually know more. We just believe we know more,
Speaker 1: and it ain't true. And because we have placed YouTube
Speaker 1: research over peer review studies, here we are dealing with
Speaker 1: another measles outbreak in America. Two doses of the measles
Speaker 1: vaccine are over ninety seven percent effective. Just in case,
Speaker 1: math and science are still welcome in this country. Twenty
Speaker 1: YouTube videos espousing the contrary are zero percent effective. Now,
Speaker 1: it may be just me, but I'll choose the ninety
Speaker 1: seven percent over the zero any day of the week.
Speaker 1: But for you, choose wisely, for our children's and Grandmammy's sake.
Speaker 1: For KFI AM six forty, I'm Moe Kelly
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