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Hello Lewis Black here and before I start

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0:58

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1:01

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1:03

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Ketchum, Idaho. I don't believe I've, I have

1:08

not been there. It's the home of Sun Valley

1:10

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1:13

excited about also that week returning finally

1:16

to Salt Lake City. It's been too long.

1:19

Go to lewisblack.com. I'll be in Cleveland.

1:21

I'll be in Cincinnati. I'm

1:23

going to Biloxi. Back to Biloxi,

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Mississippi. I could go on and

1:28

on and on, but check out the website lewisblack.com.

1:31

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1:36

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they'll tell someone. By the time it gets to the last

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person, they'll show up in another

1:52

city that I won't even be performing at. And

1:54

I hope that they enjoy whatever show they see

1:56

at that theater.

1:58

I really look forward to getting out of this. Access

2:00

Studio and coming out

2:03

and seeing people again. I am

2:05

losing my mind here. I'll be back

2:07

in a moment with the Rancast.

2:10

This

2:13

could all go horribly

2:15

wrong at any minute. Hello there

2:18

and welcome to the hundred and forty second episode

2:20

of Lewis Black's Rancast entitled Consciousness

2:24

is the opposite of leadership. Yes

2:27

and it was certainly on display this

2:30

week at the Republican Convention

2:32

and it's on display really every

2:34

single day. Every day that they're

2:37

working in Congress or wandering through

2:39

the hinterlands, talking to

2:41

their constituents or running

2:44

for office as they always are

2:46

or from the White House wherever

2:49

our leadership is, consciousness

2:52

is not there. It is somewhere

2:54

else and God knows where it is. It

2:56

could be out there really

2:59

in the vapor, in the ether, somewhere

3:02

wherever the the internet may have sucked

3:05

it. There is no consciousness in

3:07

our leadership.

3:08

Okay if there were we would

3:09

be discussing the major issues

3:12

of our time on a daily basis and

3:14

the news would cover it and they'd be focused

3:16

on it because our leaders got them to focus

3:18

on it and you wouldn't know at all from watching

3:21

that Republican debate

3:22

that there was any consciousness. As a matter of fact

3:24

the the idea of the title

3:27

today came from

3:30

from Mike Pence. It's a brilliant

3:32

line in response to something that Nikki

3:35

Haley had said. He went on to say

3:37

that consensus is

3:39

the opposite of leadership

3:42

and that showed that he's got

3:44

no consciousness because if you want

3:46

to run and be the president

3:49

of a democratic country, okay,

3:51

you got to have a consensus. That's what you've got

3:53

to do all right because it doesn't work any other

3:55

way and it's certainly not diametrically

3:58

opposed to it. It's

3:59

what you focus on. All

4:02

right. Leadership is taking

4:04

leadership is not only creating a consensus,

4:07

it's saying something that will make people go.

4:10

Yeah, let's do it. It's called common

4:12

fucking sense.

4:13

All right. Mike Pence. Okay.

4:16

And we got a little rhyme in there. It's really

4:18

ludicrous. It's

4:21

just to me, unbelievable

4:23

to have sat there and watch

4:25

that debate

4:26

with those that they're not they adults.

4:29

They were like fucking six

4:31

year olds and five year olds for whatever. The last

4:34

time I played in the sandbox, the

4:37

whole group of kids in a sandbox,

4:39

all taken a tinky on each other.

4:41

I mean, literally. And why, how are

4:43

you going to decide anything when you give people 45

4:46

seconds to talk about major issues?

4:48

You're kidding me. Like

4:50

the white, what planet do we think

4:52

we're living on? That this should be

4:54

an event. We had a longer debate when I was

4:57

in high school. All right. And

4:59

we also had a basic

5:02

boat at the beginning that kind of go, okay,

5:05

both, you know, in order to kind of get separated

5:08

and find the candidates that we wanted. And

5:11

people put up their posters and by popularity,

5:14

which is always the way a lot of it is, we

5:17

decided who would actually do the debates

5:19

on stage. And then we actually talked about

5:21

things. We talked about fucking issues about

5:24

whether this is something should be done in the

5:26

cafeteria or should

5:28

there back then be a smoking lounge.

5:30

That's how old I fucking am. It's

5:34

my brother actually was the

5:36

president of the student body when

5:38

he got a smoking lounge put in the school,

5:41

which is unbelievable. But

5:43

it was like better that they smoke there than who

5:45

knows. I can't even remember. But he

5:48

certainly, he went on a

5:50

number of issues, real issues.

5:53

Okay. Not this kind of like, well,

5:55

I mean, that debate was what was that about? You're

5:58

going to talk to me like that. And you know, They're

6:01

yelling and shouting at each other. You

6:03

know, five-year-olds could have done a better job

6:05

debating, all right? You can

6:07

teach them in 10 minutes what

6:09

it's about. Civility, all right? You

6:11

listen to the person. How do you know who

6:14

you're talking to? If you're going, well, you know, I heard that, but you're

6:16

talking to me like that. Is it gonna be, well,

6:18

what do you mean? I'm listening to you, but I'm not

6:20

really hearing you because I'm too busy trying to

6:23

think of what it is I'm gonna be saying to

6:25

you after you've finished talking because it's

6:27

really important what I have to say. It ain't

6:29

even 45 seconds to say it, so I've got to get it all right

6:31

in my head right now. Like, what are you, what? No,

6:34

I'm talking to you now. You heard me, I'm telling

6:36

you this out loud so that you'll know what's coming

6:39

when I tell you. Okay, what were

6:41

they doing?

6:41

This constant

6:43

badgering back and forth, but you said

6:45

my name, and so I get to talk now.

6:48

What? That's no way to run anything. You

6:50

don't have eight people debating at once, all

6:52

right?

6:53

No, you get four of them, and

6:56

you give them at least three minutes to

6:58

discuss this stuff, all right? At least

7:01

three minutes to discuss this stuff.

7:04

I mean, minimally, okay?

7:06

It is that stupid too. They should have

7:09

to talk for eight to 10 minutes on

7:11

major subjects,

7:12

all right? Give them two, three subjects

7:14

to talk about. They talk about abortion,

7:17

it was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

7:19

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They were up

7:21

there searching for what it was, how

7:24

the Republicans are gonna find

7:26

a way to get people

7:28

to vote for them because of their kind

7:30

of hardcore positions

7:33

on abortion. So they're looking for

7:35

another route

7:36

so that we had to watch that. There's a post

7:38

to each of them laying out some sort of a plan,

7:41

and then they finally bring in a kid. Finally,

7:44

and a kid, he's 38, but

7:47

somebody from the other generation,

7:49

which is Generation A, Generation

7:51

X, Generation Z, Generation

7:53

Millennial, whatever, I don't give a shit.

7:56

He's 38, oh good, this

7:59

is some really new.

7:59

Two bright, interesting ideas

8:02

to the table. Let me read you something, okay?

8:05

Because this was, it was listening to him, and I don't

8:08

know if you watched the debates, before

8:10

I even get to him. If you watched

8:12

those debates, as I did, you

8:14

deserve as I do,

8:16

we should have been compensated for every minute

8:18

we sat there listening to that stuff. Because

8:21

that was completely a waste

8:23

of our time. Well, all of us had

8:26

major, major thoughts during the day

8:28

that were more important, more interesting,

8:31

smarter, and to the point

8:34

than they did, okay? And I'm gonna

8:36

read you something, its name

8:38

is Vivek, that's what they just

8:40

said, it rhymes with cake, Ramaswami.

8:43

I'm gonna read you what he considers to

8:45

be a few of the truths.

8:48

This is 38 years old, we're going, God, this is

8:50

the guy, finally someone

8:53

from a younger generation, he's gotta have

8:55

a different perspective, he's gonna point us

8:57

in a new direction.

8:59

Boy, that's what I hope for. So

9:01

the first thing he says is God is real, well,

9:03

that's okay, all right, keep it to yourself.

9:06

I know you gotta say it, because you're running for office. But

9:08

we let's, that's where we're starting. And then

9:10

he goes, one of my favorite scientists, Blaise

9:13

Pascal, said it best, if you

9:15

have the whole, a whole, the size of God

9:17

in your heart, and God doesn't fill it,

9:19

something else will. That's how you get climatism,

9:23

climatism, I guess, which

9:25

means you believe in climate,

9:29

that there's climate change, COVIDism

9:32

and transgenderism. That's

9:34

how you get it.

9:35

If God is not filling the hole that's in your

9:37

heart, we all got holes in our heart. And every one

9:39

of us has got a hole in our fucking head after listening

9:41

to that debate, or spending time listening

9:44

to the Democrats fucking

9:47

basically try to tell us what it is that

9:49

they did, even though that by the time they're finished

9:51

telling us what they did, even though

9:53

you might want what they did, you're against it because

9:55

it was, they told us so badly. That

9:58

we have, I don't want to do this, but really. but thinking

10:01

about was there was a giant tuna

10:03

that I saw the other day and that's what we need to

10:05

be dealing with because the scope

10:07

of the, shut up, just shut up, there

10:10

are two genders he says, two, that's

10:12

it, Zippo two, male, female,

10:15

that's it, two sexes. If

10:17

you have XX chromosomes, you're a woman, if you have

10:20

XY chromosomes, you're

10:22

a man, that's it, totally no such thing,

10:24

no gaze, no nothing,

10:26

couldn't be happened.

10:27

Gender dystopia, it's a mental

10:29

health disorder, affirming

10:31

confusion isn't compassion, come

10:34

on, all right, you're

10:37

the one who's supposed to be telling these idiots

10:40

on stage, who might be wandering

10:42

around with misconceptions and you're

10:44

promoting one on a level that is

10:47

like,

10:48

where did they find him? Okay,

10:52

I didn't want to end up talking about any

10:54

of them but god damn it, it

10:57

was too much for me, was he on

10:59

ice? Okay,

11:00

they found him in ice somewhere and

11:02

he was 38 and they, but he was actually,

11:05

he lived from 1948 to the, to

11:07

like the, the

11:10

50s to the 1960s, whatever, 1938 to the 1960s, whatever make

11:13

him 38 years old and they took him out

11:19

and then they defrosted him and he's talking

11:21

like that,

11:23

that's, it's like, it's, you know, it's like the

11:25

50s, that kind of thing and he's

11:27

gonna, and the youth shall lead the

11:29

young, the

11:31

reverse racism is racism and

11:33

then, but my favorite, human flourishing

11:36

requires fossil fuels and then

11:38

I could go on and

11:40

that's the kid, Bebake, well done,

11:43

huh?

11:44

That's the one, I take, and

11:47

they just, from the very end, from

11:49

Asa Hutchinson, Christy,

11:52

and I'm sitting here, I can't believe I remember

11:54

those, Mike Pence,

11:56

I can't remember the one next to

11:58

Christy, eight of them! them. Eight,

12:01

babbling away. Oh, Tim Scott,

12:05

Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, who

12:07

has the charisma

12:10

of a goldfish. As a matter of fact, the goldfish

12:12

has more charisma. Even doing this,

12:15

any fish

12:17

has more charisma than he does.

12:19

And then

12:22

are you going to let him, you know, if,

12:24

and then meanwhile, the other candidate,

12:27

the next day is

12:29

getting a mugshot taken is

12:32

P01135809. This is just a special time.

12:37

And then, and then we're not going to get a debate

12:40

from the Democrats because what's he, Biden,

12:42

maybe we can listen to the echoes inside of his head.

12:45

All right. Because nobody can hear him. Speak

12:48

up.

12:49

Speak up.

12:53

Nobody hears him. And then when he tries to explain what it is

12:55

that he's doing, nobody pays attention. He

12:58

could be, I mean, and then Kamala

13:01

Harris,

13:04

she doesn't have to debate anybody. They're

13:07

doing a reboot for her.

13:09

I just heard that two weeks ago. Well,

13:12

things are, you know, that somehow we've really got

13:14

to get people to understand how good she is.

13:17

And she's fine, but not

13:19

as the vice president.

13:20

Okay. It doesn't work.

13:23

It doesn't work. Something has gone askew.

13:27

She's very, very bright. You know, people like

13:30

Teddy Kennedy

13:31

was tremendous, but he was actually

13:33

in the end, probably going

13:36

to be a better Senator was a great Senator.

13:39

The money man, he's a, he's a commie liberal

13:41

fascist. Shut up.

13:43

Okay. God talking about

13:45

his father was the genetically he's,

13:48

he's, he's got the genes

13:50

of a capitalist for God's sake.

13:53

All right. He's, he's, his father

13:55

was like major in terms

13:57

of capitalism. So he, he at least,

13:59

He was he was not gonna

14:02

be I don't think as good a president Yeah,

14:04

I think he was a much better senator

14:06

and could work with people

14:08

and get things done Okay And

14:11

I gotta sit there and watch these guys Rattling

14:13

on when that Nikki Haley in the midst

14:15

of that must be losing her mind

14:18

or she came out looking better Of course she did because

14:20

she's up with those those guys just just

14:22

from being another gender

14:26

She's way ahead of these

14:28

guys. They discuss an abortion for

14:31

like 30 45 seconds to

14:33

discuss abortion

14:35

Really really really

14:37

really really like I've

14:39

got it and now I've

14:41

got it afterwards they How

14:44

many people and I'm doing it myself? I'm

14:46

sitting here kind of analyzing. I went off on

14:49

V fake

14:50

Because I thought well, maybe something would

14:52

happen there but the others I expected

14:55

what I got from them except for the the

14:57

amount of like Sniping at each

14:59

other and the kind of like talk trying to talk

15:01

over each other,

15:03

you know, they you've only got so much time Did

15:05

you get any you're getting it any? Lou

15:09

Then you turn on the then there they can't

15:12

stop talking About

15:14

it afterwards. Oh all

15:16

of those people the condrants of them Interpreting

15:19

what it is that we saw we saw

15:21

it we saw it we saw it There may

15:23

be like three or four people

15:25

five six max That

15:27

should be discussing what it was and then zip

15:29

it and then move on to try to figure

15:32

out an analysis Try to put

15:34

each one of you guys who were sitting there

15:37

fucking discussing what it is that and

15:39

how the people didn't debate

15:42

All right. This isn't a game show fucker

15:45

Go sit down with them and

15:48

get what it is that they think their solutions

15:50

will be well, you know this

15:52

You know, he's got the worst inflation

15:54

ever and we're gonna get rid of that how

15:57

just tell us fucking how

16:00

Okay, I'm gonna do better than that. I'm

16:02

gonna do better than he is. That's not a fucking,

16:04

it's not a position, all right?

16:07

For God's sake, don't tell us that

16:10

you're gonna do better. Tell us what

16:12

you're going to do. What

16:15

is your position paper? What did you

16:17

write down about it? Did you write anything

16:19

down about it? Do you have any idea

16:21

of how we're going to deal with inflation or climate

16:23

change

16:24

or the health issues

16:27

or the mental health issues or our

16:29

educational system, which Flounder's

16:31

about, but you're gonna, really what we

16:33

should need to do is to strip the public schools

16:35

so that other schools can just stop

16:37

it

16:38

and stop trying to fuck with public education,

16:41

all right? There are plenty of people who've been doing

16:44

it a lot longer than you have, all right?

16:46

And the reason you're standing up being able to talk

16:48

like that in public is because most of you had a public

16:51

education.

16:52

And then some of you jackasses actually went into

16:54

Ivy League schools and got stupider, which

16:57

were ludicrous,

16:58

beyond belief. And I use the word ludicrous way

17:00

too much now because I can't seem to find

17:02

other words for it. And I

17:05

just have this, and

17:09

everything in the news now

17:11

is conjecture. It's like the weather, everything

17:14

is like, all news is a weather report.

17:16

Well, we got a cloud coming down there. We got DeSantis

17:19

is coming down from the sky over here. And

17:21

he's just off the coast

17:24

of South Carolina. He could come in here. It

17:26

could be a big storm, but we don't really

17:29

know if he's gonna go there. He could go over here.

17:31

He might shoot up there. It could be Nikki

17:34

Haley's coming up through Florida trying to chase

17:37

whatever it is that she's after trying to come

17:39

up through. It's all conjecture.

17:42

They're telling us what they think

17:45

is going to happen. That is what our news

17:47

is about. Stop it.

17:49

Things are actually happening. People

17:51

are running for office. Find out why

17:54

they should be the ones who

17:56

either should leave the, should be leaving

17:58

this.

17:59

campaign trail behind or

18:02

find the couple of

18:04

nuggets out there. All right. Force

18:06

these people to speak in public about what

18:09

they're going to do. All of them.

18:11

Force Joe Biden to speak

18:13

so that somebody fucking hears him.

18:15

All right. This is ridiculous.

18:17

Speak up, Joe. This

18:20

is enough. All right. I've just

18:22

about done it. I'm kind

18:24

of, I

18:27

hope I made myself, if a book

18:29

was understandable

18:31

about news being conjecture and it's like a weather

18:34

report because

18:35

they're all, so all their reporting is

18:37

which way the wind blows. That

18:40

it's the Bob Dylan thing. Or

18:42

as Bob Dylan said, you don't need a weatherman to tell

18:44

which way the wind blows. That clears it all

18:46

up. That should really do it. I'm going to read

18:48

you a little something before we

18:51

wind this thing up. And I'm sorry, I

18:53

yelled from beginning. No, I'm not.

18:55

And, and I hope we all get checks

18:57

for sitting there. And I can't wait for the next

19:00

one because, uh, and is he going

19:02

to come back? We don't know if he's going to come back. He's got,

19:04

uh, he's got a, uh, a mug

19:06

shot now. So we don't know. Is he going to run as the much?

19:09

So some Trumpified evangelicals

19:12

are now rejecting the teachings of Jesus

19:15

as weak. What

19:17

is the matter with people? Even I,

19:19

the Jew know that the

19:23

teachings of Jesus were not

19:25

weak. Okay. Russell Moore, former

19:27

head of the Southern Baptist convention told NPR

19:30

of all places, multiple pastors

19:33

have reported the congregants have objected

19:36

to their preaching, to their

19:38

preaching Christ's sermon on the

19:40

Mount saying,

19:41

love your enemies is a liberal

19:43

talking point that doesn't

19:46

work anymore. Wow.

19:52

He wasn't running for office folks.

19:55

All right. He's, he's,

19:58

he's the son of God. He had a message,

20:01

had a story to tell, and he was

20:03

trying to tell folks to straighten the

20:05

fuck up.

20:07

Okay?

20:08

That's what he was doing in the most powerful

20:11

terms possible. Okay?

20:14

Nothing weak about it.

20:16

All right? He was telling

20:18

them,

20:19

love thy neighbor.

20:21

All right? That's the deal. Love

20:23

thy enemy. That's the

20:25

deal. You love your enemies. You

20:27

embrace your enemies. That's what he said. It's

20:29

tough. Almost

20:32

impossible. It's like those folks who

20:35

forgive someone, murders someone close

20:37

to them,

20:38

a family member, and they forgive them. Unbelievable

20:41

to me. Unbelievable. Takes

20:44

a kind of a strength that I don't have. But

20:47

to say that Jesus

20:50

is using liberal talking points, you fucking

20:52

idiots.

20:53

All right? You know? No,

20:56

you know. How

20:59

do you, he wasn't a Democrat

21:02

or a Republican. Okay? He

21:05

knew nothing of liberal talking points. He

21:07

was trying to make us better people. Even

21:10

I know that. And you should know that.

21:13

Then with that, we're done. With the nonsense

21:16

and hoo-ha of another week in

21:18

America. I will be heading out

21:22

this weekend, and I am gone

21:24

for a bit, and

21:26

I hope the end of your

21:28

summer, the end of the year summer, it's not really, but

21:31

not until the 22nd of September, I believe. But

21:34

as we roll into Labor Day, and these last

21:37

few days of summer are upon us, and boy

21:39

does that suck. But I

21:42

need out again. I need

21:44

to get some focus and some bearings and

21:46

be able to come back and take this a little

21:48

more lightly. And

21:50

go somewhere where they don't talk

21:52

about this shit for a while. He's not talking

21:55

about it. He's as intelligent as

21:57

talking about it.

21:58

I look forward, I'm getting to spend my time. time in Ireland.

22:01

Well, can't wait to grab a Guinness

22:03

there and watch the world lighten

22:06

up. I'll be drinking, I'll be drinking a Guinness

22:08

on my birthday in Dublin and

22:11

can't wait. And I do wish

22:13

you all nothing but the best. And

22:16

so I

22:18

leave you with some really great rants.

22:21

It's, it's always a privilege and a pleasure

22:23

to read them. I hope you enjoy

22:25

them as much as I did. I think you

22:27

will. They get

22:29

better and better and please

22:32

continue to send them. When I get back,

22:35

because I will not be paying attention, I look forward

22:37

to reading them and see what I miss.

22:39

Thank you for that. Thanks

22:41

for everything you do. Wishing you all

22:43

nothing but the best.

22:47

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22:50

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24:50

Garrett Cheney is expressing his anger

24:53

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24:54

it certainly helped to make my

24:56

day.

24:58

Just saw that Mr. Potato

25:00

Head is now Potato

25:03

Head to be gender fucking neutral.

25:06

We just castrated Mr. Potato

25:08

Head. Mr. Potato

25:11

Head. Is

25:15

nothing sacred? This

25:17

shit has got to stop. Legos.

25:21

Fucking Legos are adopting a

25:24

gender neutral policy. When

25:27

I was growing up, Legos

25:30

were gender neutral. They were

25:32

blocks that allowed you

25:35

to build things from.

25:37

Wait for it. They were blocks. I'm sorry,

25:40

I couldn't get through that. They were blocks that allowed

25:42

you to build things from. Wait for

25:44

it.

25:46

Your imagination!

25:49

No figurines. No instructions.

25:51

And you got about a hundred pieces

25:54

in a big cardboard tube. Burns

25:57

my ass like a four-foot plane.

26:00

I say we give Mr. Potato

26:02

Head back his pipe. Looks

26:05

like he may need it. Thanks,

26:07

Lou. No. Thank you, Garrett

26:09

Cheney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thanks

26:12

for letting me know where you're from. And

26:14

someday your pirates will be back in the

26:17

thick of things just like my Oreos.

26:21

I really appreciated that. I

26:23

hope you folks out there did, because

26:27

I did not know that they had done

26:29

that to Mr. Potato Head.

26:31

I'm sorry. Potato

26:34

Head. What is the matter with

26:36

us? What the fuck

26:39

is the matter with us? From

26:41

David Rubin. My

26:43

wife has suffered from mental illness for

26:46

many years. And thus I'm grateful

26:48

that there's increased attention

26:50

to the mental illness crisis, which includes

26:53

opioid addiction, depression,

26:55

trauma, suicide, et cetera.

26:59

But why are so many people increasingly

27:02

facing these demons? Is it possible

27:05

that our culture, obsessed with profit

27:07

at any cost and willing to monetize

27:10

every last human being, including and

27:13

especially young people, is one

27:15

of the leading causes?

27:17

If a gunman is walking around

27:19

a neighborhood and killing people, do

27:22

we say we have a gunshot epidemic

27:25

and focus all our attention on the

27:27

importance of wound management?

27:29

Or do we say, hey, there's a gunman that

27:32

needs to be caught and taken out of

27:34

circulation? Nobody

27:36

appreciates mental health services more

27:39

than me and my wife. And I

27:41

contribute to many such services.

27:44

But the truth is, in our society,

27:47

things like depression and anxiety are,

27:49

I believe, very sane

27:52

responses to the culture

27:54

we are creating. Who is not

27:56

depressed and anxious about

27:58

life in America? In a culture

28:01

where you can only speak to a virtual

28:03

person on the phone, where

28:06

gaining access to a real

28:08

human helping hand is getting harder

28:10

and harder on purpose,

28:13

where we are getting flooded and baked

28:16

while our leaders yawn, where our

28:18

Supreme Court is open for

28:20

business, where the answer

28:22

to everything is to take another

28:25

drug, and where our leaders in

28:29

Washington are like two parents

28:31

at war with each other. Of course

28:34

we've got mental health issues.

28:37

It's like we're all in a dysfunctional

28:39

home where our parents are each telling

28:42

us how horrible the other parent is.

28:45

That's child abuse. Do

28:47

we have a mental health problem or

28:50

do we have a cultural problem that is

28:52

exacerbating our mental illness? How

28:55

can we look beyond how

28:57

many movies we can get on streaming

28:59

services

29:01

and see what is happening to us? But

29:04

that would take some reflection

29:07

and some balls. Many

29:11

thanks, my friend. No, many

29:13

thanks to you, David Rubin, because

29:16

I think

29:17

in many ways you

29:19

kind of come close to nailing it.

29:21

It

29:25

certainly does exacerbate the problem, and there

29:28

are no adults in the room, and that doesn't help. It's

29:31

just extraordinary. I

29:34

believe it all kind of kicked

29:37

itself in a hyperspace during the pandemic

29:39

when it was just kind of like ... I

29:43

joked about the emperor having no clothes,

29:45

but all the emperors and

29:47

the mini-emperors from

29:50

all walks of life. Not

29:52

many clothes on. Not anymore.

29:58

Stood in front of all those people. All

30:02

of these supposed leaders could

30:05

not get together and

30:08

meet and come up with

30:11

any type of plan that

30:13

might have allowed us to get through what

30:15

was one of the most, well certainly

30:18

for me, I don't know for others, but one of the most

30:20

traumatic times.

30:22

But it was really created by, no,

30:25

it wasn't.

30:26

It wasn't created by those

30:28

who were pushing one way and those

30:30

who were pushing another way. It was created by the

30:32

fact that both sides couldn't get together and

30:35

fuck it, and not just both sides, the entire spectrum. People

30:38

needed to sit down and fucking discuss

30:40

this. And that

30:42

was when I realized, I mean, if I've said it for a number

30:45

of years, there are no adults in the room and they're truly,

30:48

that was when they, they, all of them,

30:52

all of them left the room. I don't

30:54

know where they ended up. That's

30:58

why we have space travel. Get

31:01

the fuck out of here and

31:03

search the universe for adulthood. That

31:08

was kind of upbeat. David,

31:11

you set my day into a tailspin. As

31:15

I've said on numerous occasions, if someone

31:17

has a point of view counter

31:21

to what many of you have sent in

31:23

or the ideas that you have, I've

31:26

asked for this. For

31:28

the folks out there who are coming from

31:31

a completely different point of view. And I've

31:33

got one here and I think I will

31:36

read some of it because it's, it is very, very long. And

31:39

it's a number of quotes. It comes

31:41

to us from someone who calls

31:44

themselves a proud anti-vaxxer.

31:47

There does not exist one single

31:50

fact in all the experiments and improvements

31:52

made in science, which

31:55

can support the idea of vaccination. A

31:57

vaccinated people will always be. sickly

32:00

people, short-lived and degenerate.

32:04

Dr. Alexander Wilder, M.D.,

32:06

editor of the New York Medical Tribune, 1879.

32:09

I've seen

32:12

leprosy and syphilis communicated

32:16

by vaccination. Leprosy

32:19

is becoming very common in Trinidad.

32:22

It's increased being coincident

32:25

with vaccination, and that comes to us from

32:27

Dr. Hall Blackwell, Vaccinator

32:31

General of Trinidad, 1868. Cancer

32:36

is reported to be increasing not only in England

32:38

and the continent, but in all parts of the world

32:41

where

32:41

vaccination is practiced. 1892,

32:45

Dr. William S. Teb.

32:50

From another M.D., Sir

32:52

Ronald Martin, 1868. Leprosy

32:55

arose with vaccination. We'll move up out

32:58

of the 1800s

33:00

to more

33:02

present day. The great epidemics of

33:05

deadly diseases in animals and humans

33:08

are caused by vaccinations. That

33:10

comes from us from Charles M. Higgins, 1920.

33:12

There's no,

33:15

doesn't appear

33:17

to be a doctor or doesn't

33:20

have science degrees.

33:22

But I thought I'd

33:25

read it. It certainly was

33:27

sent in. I believe vaccination

33:30

has been the greatest delusion

33:33

that has ensnared humans in the last three

33:35

centuries. It originated

33:37

in fraud, ignorance, and error.

33:40

It is unscientific and impracticable.

33:43

It has been promoted of a very

33:45

great evil, and I cannot

33:48

credit it any good.

33:50

From Dr. R.K. Noyce, M.D.,

33:53

resident surgeon of the Boston

33:56

City Hospital. The chief,

33:58

if not the soul,

33:59

Cause and the monstrous increase

34:02

in cancer has been vaccination. Dr.

34:04

Robert Bell, Vice

34:07

President International Society for Cancer

34:09

Research, British Cancer Hospital, 1922. Here's

34:15

one.

34:16

Vaccination is the most outrageous

34:18

insult that can be offered to

34:20

any pure-minded man or woman.

34:22

It is the boldest and most impious

34:26

attempt to mar the works of God

34:28

that has been attempted for ages.

34:31

The stupid blunder of Dr. Kraft

34:33

has wrought all the evil that it ought

34:36

to, and it is time that free

34:38

American citizens arise in their

34:40

might and blot out the whole

34:43

blood poisoning business. Dr.

34:45

J.M. Peebles, M.D.,

34:47

M.A., Ph.D. To

34:50

continue, my honest opinion

34:52

is the vaccine is the cause of more disease

34:54

and suffering than anything

34:57

I could name. Dr. Harry

34:59

R. Bybee.

35:02

Vaccination, instead of being the promised

35:04

blessing to the world, has proved to

35:06

be a curse of such sweeping devastation

35:09

that it has caused more death and disease than

35:12

more pestilence and plague combined.

35:15

There is no scourge, with the possible

35:17

exception, of atomic radiation

35:20

that is more destructive to our nation's health

35:23

than this monument of human deception,

35:26

this slayer of the innocent, this

35:29

cripler of body and brain, the

35:31

poisoned needle.

35:33

Dr. Eleanor McBean,

35:35

Ph.D., M.D. The

35:41

greatest lie ever told is that vaccines

35:43

are safe and effective. Dr.

35:46

Leonard Horvitz,

35:47

a Harvard University graduate

35:50

and M.P.H., a

35:52

master of public health.

35:54

Vaccinations are now carried out for

35:56

only commercial reasons because they fetch

35:58

huge profits. for the pharmaceutical

36:01

industry. There is no scientific

36:04

evidence that vaccinations are

36:06

of any benefit. Dr.

36:08

Gerhard Buchwald, MD.

36:12

Vaccines are the backbone of the entire

36:15

pharmaceutical industry. If they

36:17

can make these children sick from

36:19

a very early age, they become

36:21

customers for life. The money

36:24

isn't really to be made in

36:26

the vaccine industry. The money is

36:28

made by Big Pharma,

36:32

with all of the drugs that are given to

36:34

treat and address all of the illnesses

36:37

that are subsequent

36:38

to the side effects of vaccines.

36:41

That's from Dr. Sherry Tenbenny,

36:43

an osteopath. The pediatrician

36:46

indoctrinated your child from birth into a lifelong

36:49

dependency on medical intervention.

36:52

The first stage of introduction is

36:54

the well baby visit. The

36:56

well baby visit is a cherished ritual

36:58

of the pediatrician that enhances their

37:01

income and does nothing constructive

37:03

for your child.

37:05

It's a worthless visit. Dr.

37:08

Robert Mendelson, a certified board

37:11

pediatrician.

37:15

Studies are increasingly pointing to the conclusion

37:21

that vaccines represent a dangerous

37:23

assault to the immune system, leading

37:25

to autoimmune diseases like multiple

37:28

sclerosis, lupus, juvenile

37:30

onset diabetes, vibromyalgia,

37:33

and cystic fibrosis, as well as,

37:36

previously rare disorders like

37:38

brain cancer, sudden infant

37:40

death syndrome, childhood leukemia,

37:44

autism, and asthma. That's Dr.

37:46

Zoltan Rona, an MD. And

37:50

finally, the vaccine industry

37:52

is itself a fraud. I

37:54

spent my whole career studying

37:56

vaccines. He's a fellow

37:59

of the World Health organization is named Dr.

38:01

Sheeb Shiv Chopra.

38:06

BBS AHM SC

38:10

PhD. I'd

38:13

like to thank the proud anabapture for sending

38:15

those in. I'm not gonna

38:17

sit here and get into a discussion of

38:19

this. I will let those of you out

38:21

there who have something to say to this to

38:24

let it rip. It's out

38:26

there for you

38:28

if it bothers you or if you want to

38:30

support it to be honest with you because

38:32

I know that there those of you that this is gonna drive

38:35

crazy and then there those of you who

38:38

believe what he had to say was true or made you

38:40

think of something and I look

38:42

forward to reading it and I

38:45

appreciate you sending this out here

38:47

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38:50

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