Episode 579: Two Pulitzer Sam
Added 2021-05-30 16:10:49 +0000 UTCShow Notes
Rand Paul Is Now A Covid Death Toll Denier
Covid Saudi Arabia: Anyone refusing vaccine banned from travel and gatherings
Auschwitz Memorial calls Greene Holocaust comments a 'sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline'
Jim Bakker: I Was Imprisoned Due to “Cancel Culture” (It Was Actually Fraud)
Catholic priest who spread COVID lies blames 'cancel culture' for his forced resignation
How Ted Cruz Ended up Sharing Russian Propaganda in US Military Attack
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Comments
I just wanted to chime in in regards to your asking "How do they (anti-Vaxxers) propose to fix this situation? / They want to ride on our coattails back to normality". Sadly, there's quite a bit of overlap, at least from what I've seen, in the Venn diagram of anti-Vax and Covid deniers, and I'd be surprised if it wasn't just a circle. So the answer would be, they don't need to solve anything, since nothing is wrong to begin with, in their worldview--the Covid deaths are inflated, the virus is no worse than the flu, masking and social distancing are tyrannical attempts by the government to control its citizens, and so the solution to the problem is to admit the "truth" that there isn't a problem to begin with. These are opinions of some of my family members, and I know they're not coming up with this stuff on their own, they're picking it up in whatever Internet and Youtube backwaters that they wander off to. Worst of all, that worldview, while very wrong, is internally consistent, meaning it's hard to poke holes through. I've tried bringing evidence to dispute their "facts", but CDC and WHO are not a reliable source of information, and the only people willing to come forward with the truth are labeled kooks and fraudsters by the brainwashed mainstream Big Medicine (I guess). If anyone has suggestions on how to battle this, I'm all ears, but as far as to your question, "How would they solve this?", they wouldn't, since in their view, nothing needs to be solved.
Lisa Hodges (vassekocho)
2021-06-03 23:10:44 +0000 UTCThanks for reading my comment about the Wonderfully informative and scathing Rep. Katie Porter! I totally agree that Katie’s public eviscerations of financially irresponsible corporate execs are absolutely critical for public educational purposes, and I certainly didn’t mean to imply that they weren’t. They are extremely valuable in that regard. And like I said, I LOVE Katie, and I take gleefully malicious joy watching her work. It’s a (not so) guilty pleasure of mine, I confess! Lol I guess my question regarding there never being any consequences for America’s financial corrupters was more rhetorical in nature. Still, it’s so very maddening that they get to go to DC, take their public licks, then go back home and right back to business as usual, screwing over everyone they can do they can wipe their asses with $1000 bills instead of slumming it with off-brand Charmin as we the peasants must. :-(
Cheryl
2021-06-01 08:25:03 +0000 UTCAs to the vaccine and its use authorization classification. I agree with your comments about the misuse of nomenclature and its deleterious impact on national communications in America. Words matter. Their conveyance matters. Their perceptions matter. Because of that, it’s important to note that the ‘E’ in the ‘EUA’ authorization classification which all three versions of the Covid vaccines were granted stands for ‘Emergency’, NOT ‘Experimental’, as in Emergency Use Authorization. NONE of the vaccines were experimental AT ALL. EUA is a standard of authorization that allows for nationwide dissemination of a drug that has gone through R&D, clinical trials, peer reviews, professional analyses, etc., but has an urgent need to be made immediately available due to a critical public health emergency. EUAs are not granted constantly, regularly, nor very often at all. That doesn’t mean they aren’t safe or effective or experimental. It means they don’t have the time to wait in line behind all the other new to market pharmaceuticals that are waiting in line for final FDA approval, which is an ordeal, and always has a lengthy line because, as we all know, Big Pharma is ALWAYS rolling out new drugs for FDA approval for mass sale on the market. Big Pharma corporations have to continuously churn out more new drugs into the market so as to maintain their competitive edge over each other, manipulate market demand, keep their revenues and executive bonuses and shareholder returns up, etc. We didn’t have time to let the typical federal processes for the typical corporate dope game bullshit play out during the Covid crisis. That’s EUA.
Cheryl
2021-06-01 07:58:13 +0000 UTCAs someone born and raised in Kentucky, I can't thank you enough for the pic of Mitch as vaginal dryness! 🤣
Julie LaVoice
2021-05-30 22:38:58 +0000 UTCHustle culture is a real problem for sure! The budget is a good step in the right direction, but I admit I am heartbroken that it doesn't include what I personally really need--student loan forgiveness. There is no proposal on the table that would wipe out my debt, but I am trying to change fields right now and it is especially hard to do when I have so much debt looming over my head and no guarantee that I'll actually get the public service loan forgiveness I should be entitled to. $50K in forgiveness would bring my debt down to close to $20K, and I would have a real chance of actually paying that off myself. As it stands right now, I am on income-based repayment and my debt increases every year despite only having federal loans, because the interest rate is so bad compared to my actual income level. I don't pay enough to touch principal because I decided to go into public service. It's so frustrating. Loan forgiveness would literally change my life (and the government might actually get more than the absolute bare minimum back out of me!).
Michelle C
2021-05-30 19:10:25 +0000 UTCTom, I’ve been working in manufacturing since I got out of the Air Force about eight years ago, and I’ve been to very large name places, and tiny third tier suppliers, and I find your analysis to be absolutely spot on regarding salary and work life. I do have a specific fetish towards work, but it’s simple math, the people under me actually make more because they get paid overtime, and I’m expected to work well into 12 hours a day and be responsible for juggling three different peoples jobs because I could and it was necessary, but the company refused to hire people. Everywhere I’ve been, leadership is a myth because what matters is the money, the widgets, then the humans producing them. The only point you did not hit on which requires a bit more deep diving, is the management methods adopted along with financial management theories adopted in the 70’s which steered companies towards dividend loyalty and it is absolutely tragic to see the internal gutting of the manufacturing infrastructure inside the building that you would not otherwise see, in the name of a bonus to management and dividends. It’s insane.
Chad from Cincinnati
2021-05-30 16:57:50 +0000 UTC
