Riffing on The Newspaper 4.17.26

Yeah, well, good day, folks. No intro, just popping in, just popping in, no intro. Let me go over here and get the instagram started. Epic times, Epic of the times. It is the day. I've been holding on to this thing for a few days. I read one section because there was a section about prepping, and then I couldn't believe it. Pretty good, not bad, not bad at all. Let me get situated here so we can do this thing. Can you guys hear me? The MIC's like a little far kind of got a crane over here, but I think we should be good. So we're gonna riff on the news a little bit. We're gonna read some news, pep hell and talk. This guy is uh April eight through the fourteenth. Just so you understand that right around the moon, Artemis two completes historic flyby. How do you guys feel about the Artemis? Real? Fake? What was it? Was it a real thing? Was it a fake thing? I know it launched on it launched on the what's it called? And everybody was like, there is no way that's real. Victor Davis Hansen, NATO was a big loser in Iran A thirteen. How do you guys feel about that whole alliance, Like, step outside of the we paid for everything and they're week and you know what I mean, not really effective. Step outside of that and think, how do you really feel about that? Sort of the dissolution of Iran? What is going on on Instagram? Are we obliterated on Instagram now too? Probably? Trump suspends Iran attacks, agrees to two weeks ceasefire. That's old news, right, This is the part of But this is the one that I don't understand. H h. I was talking to a buddy, and uh, he's an interesting guy, man. I don't want to put him on blast, a Muslim guy. His concerns about starting a young guy. His concerns about starting life are the same as everyone else's concerns about starting a life. Where am I gonna live? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna drive? My situation now sustainable and tenable because I'm a single man. Uh, But once that's over, what and all of that kind of goes back to this idea for well, my original idea, which was, let's just get rid of taxes for a while, get rid of taxes for a while. Why not? Why not get rid of taxes for a few years, decade, five years, half a decade something. Taxes are over, taxes are done. Trump's got tariffs. Make that work right? Cut cut cut, cut cut. Kick people out who are illegal and they're on welfare. How can you be illegal and be on welfare? Let me read that again. This doesn't make any sense to me. Fifty nine percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more major welfare programs. How does that work? Rap? I mean, help me understand. The word illegal is in it the world. The word illegal is in it. Okay. There are senior citizens in this country who make very little money after having worked their entire lives in the country and paying into a system that said, don't worry, we got you covered. We're the federal government. We're here to help. They can barely get food stamps. If you make too much money as a senior citizen from your Social Security so you're not even like working, then you can't get food stamps, or you get like a nominal amount that's laughable, twenty bucks, you know what I mean. Uh, But if you roll over the border illegally. See this is this is the fundamental issue with America, right Now, this is the issue that will break America. It just is. It's that sense. This is how simple the American system will break. It's not enemies within that will defeat us. It's not the tax burden. Right. We know at the end of the day, you see it. You look at the equipment we send right to pick up two guys who flew out an airplane one hundred and sixty five US aircraft on a rescue mission. Okay, and tell me which nation or nations are going to knock on our door and say, hey, you better pay the tax burden back, buddy. We've already made it very clear that you're going to buy oil with US dollars. We've made that very clear. I've been harping on that for years and telling you if you're a nation, and you're a leader, and you want to be damaged, then just come out on TV and say we're not gonna use the US dollar anymore, and we're not gonna we're not gonna buy oil with it either. Okay, before long, you're gonna you're gonna hear those helicopters in the air. You're gonna look out on Yonder on your coastline and go when is that big thing? What are those ships coming at a rapid pace? So if you think that some nation is gonna come knocking for the debt, or like we can't reset the whole currency situation, you're kidding yourself. Man, it's just a joke that you're buying. I don't know what else to tell you, you know, but what will break the United States, What will break the United States, what will break the good men and women and turn them ruthless, is if they see that the illegal game is better than the good game. If they see that the illegal game is better than the lawful game, and if they see it enough, nobody will follow any laws. I promise you this. It is such a razor thin margin that keeps the the good man good right. It's it's people don't understand how perilously fragile it is when you have a man who decides and a woman. You know, men and women who decide. I'm going to do the right thing, despite the stress, despite having no money, despite losing my position, despite not getting the job I wanted, despite being buried in college debt, despite you know, not being able to afford a home, now not being able to afford a car now not, you know what I mean. All this kind of stuff we can recover from. What we can't recover from is if you're a woman fresh out of college and you go, my girlfriend was raped and stabbed fifty times and the guy who did it is out un bond, right, Or if you're you're a man and you see you know, people doing it illegal things everywhere, and the guys who are following the law, crashing and burning, they can't get a hand, they can't get a leg up nothing. You know this, If this becomes endemic in the society, then the good people will go away. The good people will say, well, just by any means necessary, that's where we're at. By any means necessary, why why follow the laws? Keep coming to by the way, That's the funny part. The funny part is the divide in America is becoming this lawless sector that goes in and out of judge courtrooms and ah, no big deal, Just come of put the leg bracelet on and put this on and do that, and go to this rehab and go to that, and that these people get out and they jump on a government program that that DUFAS is like us pay for and it's this revolving door of chaos. Meanwhile, you are on a high wire. I get this bill paid on time. I better make sure that I don't. I better do everything just right. The society is depending on me. If we keep with the illegal making out and the legal crashing and burning, then your laws won't matter. Okay, no one will follow them, and that's it. I mean, that's the whole scoop. The laws won't matter and no one will follow them. It will be the end of rule of law in the United States. Or people will selectively follow them, you know what I mean. They'll be like, I'm not doing that one. Not doing that one today, I don't like that one. Beijing's influence a concern and KNT chair visit. Am I dumb because I don't know what KMT is? Opposition Qon Tang leader Chang Lee Wound delivers her speech during a Cooman Tang twelfth National Congress in Taipei. Oh, okay, Taiwan, China Beijing's influence a concern in KMT chair visit. Oh, that's right, because of the meeting. Didn't hear much about that meeting. That meeting seemed staged and just the worst time ever right. The US war with Iran could cost as much as forty seven billion from the end of February to the end of April, according to a recent prediction from the pen Wharton Budget Model. Man, see what a state of affairs we're in now? Where I see that? And I think, who even cares about your model? Like your predictive model, I don't care. Tell me about what it actually costs. You can't put the costs on a sheet of paper. After you've been lied to about climate change for so many years, models start to make you feel like I don't care. I don't care, and I don't trust your model. That's the problem, right, I don't care and I don't trust your model. Calculate it. You've got artificial intelligence. You can't plug into data for what fuels spent and you know all that kind of stuff, and give me the real number. I don't want to model opinion. You guys want to do opinion. You want to do mind and body. What do you want to do pencil and paper learning versus screens? That's a no offense to Jeff Minnick. But that's an article not worth reading. We all know the answer, right, We all know the answer to that one. The quiet collapse of the American restaurant is sad. It's a lot of those things. There's a lot of those things. But at the same time, you know, what, is it really right? These are wild numbers, But at the same time, it is so expensive to go out and eat. It's too expensive, you know what I mean. It doesn't have as much to do with COVID nineteen. I don't believe that. I don't buy that, you know, I think we rebounded from that. But the truth of the matter is we can't afford it. You can't afford it. Nobody can afford to go out and eat regularly, right, And even if you can't afford it, you still feel stupid doing it. I mean, how do you not feel stupid doing it? It's crazy to go out and eat and have to spend one hundred plus dollars for a family of four, And then you go grocery shopping and you're like, wait, how did one meal cost this much at a restaurant compared to what I buy and cook at home? And you know, buying a cooking at home is probably way better. Anyway. Restaurants that you know, sort of like chain restaurants are probably going to be the last bastion of the worst kind of food you can get your hands on, if you think about it, right, If America is I think America is making a turn in terms of quality of food they bring into the house and cooking at home and that kind of stuff, because we have a better understanding of how adulterated the food is. But the people who are gonna make that last turn away from from those highly you know, bioengineered ingredients, they're gonna be these locations, right Wendy's closing three hundred locations, Pizza Hut two hundred and fifty, Papa John's the worst pizza in the world, closing two hundred locations. Didn't even know Jack in the Box existed anymore, but they're closing one hundred locations. Red Robin closing seventy locations out Back, forty Denny's, one fifty, Red Lobster, dozens of locations closing bankruptcy, Noodles in company, Popeyes, come on, you know there's a problem. If Popeyes is in bankruptcy, like what they have a twenty dollars family bucket meal job. It's amazing Fridays, Dozens of locations closing TGI Fridays was always craph just is what it is, you know what I mean? These restaurants I think are really suffering because a lot of them it's price point. Man, there's a weird justification I learned from McDonald's. Right. It's a justification that I didn't realize existed. But I realized that as McDonald's price is kept going up, Like it was cool to eat McDonald's when the kids were young, and I would do a like a twenty dollars McDonald's run or less, right, and me and the kids could eat and we'd be you know, it would be good. In other words, you could justify the crap ingredients and the terrible amounts of sugar and salt because it was occasionally because it was cheap and fast. You can't make that same justification once it gets expensive. You know. We rolled up into McDonald's forty dollars bill or something like that not long ago, and it's like, I just put it back. Why states are right to reject AI legal personhood? H What is AI? My dad was talking to me about this like two months ago. What is AI? When does it get a bill of rights? These are big questions in the United States, Man, what is it? And when does it get a Bill of rights? Does it get a Bill of rights? Okay, A quiet but consequential legal movement is gathering momentum. Idaho and Utah have enacted statutes declaring that artificial intelligence systems are not legal persons. See this is this is this is it. This is the crux. My dad was literally talking about this two three months ago. All the things that are being posted, all the things that are being all the content being created right by artificial intelligence. This stuff is auto created, auto posted by some sort of program that doesn't have a First Amendment, right, this is the thing. I mean, this has to be reckoned with. This is a thing. Ohio's House built four sixty nine, proposed to declare that AI systems are non sentient entities and bar them from acquiring any form of legal personhood. Similar bills are advancing it because because we're not gonna know. It's not like we're gonna wake up and go, oh AI's people. Now, it's smart enough, it's a people. It's a person now. No, they're going to declare it. And before they declasee people their geniuses, before they declare it. They're not to sit there and go, Okay, what does it mean when we declare that AI is now sentient? It is a person? Oh, it has certain rights? Okay, Well what does that mean for us? How can we make the most profit from that? How can we make the most How can we gain the most influence from that? How can we the most, the most, the most, the most, the most, the most, and so on. Aristotle argued in de Anima that all sendient creatures share a basic cognitive capacity to perceive the world, retain impressions of it, and recombine impressions into new configurations, what he called fantasia or imagination. A dog, a crow, and a chess grand master possessed this competency. Aristotle dis thing which human beings is categorically different, possessing noose the capacity to grasp universal abstract concepts ideas such as justice, causation, and the good that cannot be derived from any sensory experience alone. A dog can recognize its owner, but it cannot grasp the concept of ownership. What is this distinction? Can't we simply feed an AI system the Webster's Dictionary definition of fairness and let it work from there no feeding a machine. The dictionary definition only gives it more words to pattern match against. The concept is not in the words. Any child who grass fairness can apply it correctly to a situation. No definition anticipates the moral stakes for real people. A deeper moral issue underlies all of this. Legal personhood is not merely an administrative category. It cares, It carries normative weight. It signals that an entity is as standing to make claims, to be wronged and to bear obligations. You imagine AI starts running up the welfare when you had like subsidizing its own electric costs to government. You you, we have not yet seen cured the full benefit of legal personhood for all human beings in practice, for all the displays stateless and structurally invisible. Rushing to extend it to AI, I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. The specter of communism is ruling our world. Wow, Wow, this is a lot. This is a lot. I kind of want to show it to you. Do you see the majesty of the news though, Do you see the magic of the newspaper? How we're not watching a video that's been edited and predetermined We're not watching a short, We're not reading a blog that is infected by AI and uh, you know every type of terrible ad you can imagine, right, ads popping out of every corner, you know what I mean, legging, laggings, the Communist economic trap. The Epic Times here serializes an adaptation from the Chinese of how the specter of communism is ruling our world. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, Hatred and Jealousy, The origin of absolutely galitarianism continued. Egalitarianism continued under the influence of absolutely galitarism. Vigorous calls ring out in the West for social justice as well as minimum wage laws, affirmative action, and other demands. What lies behind these is a desire for equality of outcome, of which communist elements can take advantage. From the communist perspective, it doesn't matter whether these vulnerable groups obtain equality or if their social status improves. There are merely pawns for inciting resentment and eventually revolution. We live in a in a review society and largely negative review society, and it is the low point in society in my opinion, that's the worst thing to deal with for me is to live in a time like this. If you could see the things that are in this room right now, it drives the point home so much because this is like a playroom that I'm in. It's like an adultish teenagish playroom, and the things that we have access to today. I'm always trying to drive this home with my kids because my kids are programmed, just like you know, everybody's to attack new stuff, you know what I mean. It's it's back in the day people would write restaurant reviews very rarely, you know what I mean. What was that program that came out and people could write their own reviews? They did on Yahoo and stuff like that. Now everyone does reviews on everything in life, and I see the pre programming and a lot of people to find the bad thing, find the bad thing, and the great new thing. Oh, the great new thing is here. Okay, what's bad about it? It is so inherently communist that it makes me sad to see it amongst so many people, and it's so ungrateful. Greater than being communists, I mean, worse than being communists is just the sheer lack of gratitude, you know what I mean. I think the lack of gratitude also goes goes into the misunderstanding of the struggle to create a thing, because we are a consumer of society, not a creationist society. Not creationist, but not a you know, we do much more consuming than we do creating. And I don't think people understand the war of creation. What it takes to make something, I mean, what it takes to make a movie. They don't care. They go spend ten twelve bucks, watch a movie, come home, make a YouTube video, tell you everything that sucked about the movie. This happens in real time. Like in real time. My son and I watch Invincible, my oldest son and I and we watch watch it on Amazon Prime. And if I don't get up and watch it early, he can come home from school and tell me everything that's wrong with that episode before we've even watched it. Because the content creation is so built into being irate and angry and completely un grateful, right that just it seeps from us. Now, it seeps from the society. It really does. Should we go into mind and body? If we got something good, we'll go on to mind and body. We've got great stuff at PPN today. Okay, you have to to into PBN you really want to share today's show for foil Friday because it really speaks to PBN, the intuition of PBN, the just the AI, the large language model that is PBN. Right, it's a thing, you know what I mean? Like we are an entity. PBN is an entity. There's so many hosts and shows and concepts and ideas, and then there is a status quo of forward thinking that all of us share. And I found the perfect example of that today for today's show, and it is called Vaccines, Viruses and Vers Similitudes. And it was a show hosted by Dave Jones, the NBC Guy November twenty No, Yeah, November twenty nineteen. November twenty nineteen, him and Jay Ferg sat down to talk about vaccines, viruses and you know, vaccine stories and the things that could go wrong with vaccines and viruses, and in two months COVID hit And I mean, believe what you want about what you want, you know what I mean? I look at that as a group of people and this is what we have been for many, many years, as a group of people who are just on, just locked in and on. This is a forward thinking group of foreshadowing group. If you listen to what they say and what I say. I'm telling you you will. You'll see the things happen. You'll go, oh, I guess I should have bought that. I guess I should have planned that. I guess I should have listened to him when he said this was going to happen. We're not always right, but we're not. We don't make predictions. That's not our goal. But where our minds are, what the topics that we're exploring. We're exploring for a reason. It's not because we're like, oh, let's make a bet on the stock market. We're just we just get there naturally, you know what I mean. And it happens. You could watch it in the eyes of Dave Jones. You can watch it in the eyes of Jordan in real time. They see a story, the they start it's I don't know what the process is called, but it's a process. It's a process that starts to go through a rolodex of information and go, how do I respond to this? How can I now respond to this? Because the next thing is gonna happen, this is the next, second, third, and fourth order of effects. What can I do? Am I safe? Am I covered? Is what I'm prepped, good or bad? And then boom boom, boom boom down the line. Amazing, Right, we got a great church in state today, We've got, of course, the I was a Communist for the FBI. Awesome am show. You guys get to really enjoy those shows. I see the stats. I'm glad you enjoy them. This vitamin may affect your bowel movements. Okay, yeah, vitamin B one. I read vitamin B one and I read another one too about this stuff B one? What was the other one? E? No? Omegas? Was it omegas? I think it might have been omegas? No, it was vitamin D? Was it vitamin D? Think it was vitamin D? Yeah? Yeah, it's all out of whack. If you were a member, you should really go listen to my Dirt Cheap Nutrition and Health podcast I put out for Prepper Fit in Health Thursday yesterday. Yesterday it went out in the morning, Dirt Cheap Fitness in Health. There's like eight items in that podcast, all cost under twenty bucks, like most of them cost under five bucks. It's food, it's supplements that you s you put in your diet. You know what I forgot is the Himalayan sea salt. Yeah, that's a great one too. The cheapest stuff works, The cheapest stuff works, that's always worked. You know, all those things are amazing. And then if you can fight off sugar as long as possible every day, like that's like a battle, I think that's worth waging. You wake up on Your intent is how long can I go without sugar in overwhelming amounts? You know? Well, folks, seventy baby foods are ultra processed. God, get them started early. I think I'm gonna wrap it up and get some breakfast. I do appreciate you. Thank you so much. If you are looking at newspapers yourself and a little nervous about the news, citizenfoodprep dot com is our sponsor for today. All right, unbelievable resource, one hundred percent free guys, not looking to make a buck off you. He literally just put together this incredible food and water calculator for preparedness. Go check it out. Let me know what you think about it. What really is valuable to him is your input. 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Soil test whereas soil Test seventeen right garden bed soil test and compost Amendment Plan rock with tactical stops three miles twenty plus burpees every mile. WHOA, I don't think I'm gonna do that today, but I like that. That's pretty sweet. And our Bible reading is Corinthians two sixteen. You should be doing the routines. You should at least have the routine. If you don't do it all the time, I'll link to it in the podcast description. Again, we're halfway through the month. You still got time, right, soil test is a big one. That's a big one, all right, folks. Prep on the weekend is upon us. Man. Now is the time to make a difference, right. You got a little bit of free time, maybe got a little paycheck, the whole thing. I'll talk to you guys soon. No outro. Just have a good weekend, make the most of it. Oh, we will be doing a water preparedness omnibus over the weekend, sponsored by inert mugs dot com. Don't miss It'll be up Saturday, all right, see you