 Good day mate, Forty here. Welcome back to Forty University So we had a horrific attack at the Kabul airport that killed 12 Marines Let's have a look at the New York Times Top story in the news today 12 US troops among scores killed at the Kabul Airport, so There's going to be tremendous pressure on Joe Biden to Reverse the American withdrawal from Afghanistan to me. This just makes the case even stronger. We need to get the heck out of there We don't have any vital national security interest being served by hanging out in Afghanistan so Let's get the heck out to me. This is even more of a reason to get out So Joe Biden says we're going to hunt down the people who did this. I don't think that particularly matters All right, sunk costs like sunk. So we've invested a trillion two trillion in Afghanistan Domestically we spent trillions of dollars trying to even out lifelong outcomes for underperforming groups and none of this has Done any good. So good on Joe Biden. He's going to continue the evacuations of Americans out of Afghanistan and like what kind of crazy American goes to Afghanistan and what kind of crazy Afghan sides with the Americans All right, as Steve Salas says Why did the Taliban when because they live in Afghanistan? We don't live in Afghanistan So the people who live there are going to decide the fate of Afghanistan so Obviously a horrific day for United States military So two suicide bombers struck a parked Pact crowd outside the Hameed Kazai International Airport in Kabul. So how much longer will this be known as the Hameed? Kazai Airport So 15 American service members were wounded. So apparently Joe Biden sent 5,800 troops To help evacuate Americans and Afghan allies Well Maybe that was not such a a great idea. I think do you reward people to make bad decisions? All right, so what what American would be there? When Joe Biden said the enemy is closer to home. Who did he mean? I? Assume he means right-wing domestic terrorists but You're probably wondering what the heck does The dispenser have to say about all this so Richard tweets I voted for Joe Biden He has exceeded my expectations. I did not vote for Joe Biden He was not my choice for president But I think he's done okay, and I think his Afghan policy has been right to wind up American Involvement in Afghanistan Richard says he's a good president. He deserves steadfast support Don't fall into the obvious traps laid before you blaming him for partisan reasons or without thinking through the implications Asking the question who benefits also leads us to understand how other powerful interests could benefit from today's terror bombing But a rising Mujahideen pleading for American support in op-eds in the Washington Post Be inclined to engage in such violence might they benefit from a renewed American presence the answer is yes Muslim terrorism isn't even terrorism, which has a political objective. It's just sheer murderous lunacy The people jumping to blame the Taliban clearly view Muslims as deranged fanatics Solely bent on killing Americans in spectacular fashion even when such attacks objectively harm their own self-interest So the Taliban sponsoring such an attack like these terrorist attacks at Kabul Airport It'd be like a quarterback whose team is up by five points with only seconds remaining Declining to just kneel down instead frantically running the ball into his own end zone simply makes no sense You don't know who is behind the attacks But who benefits gives us the lay of the land so the MAGA whack jobs Who involved him by this attack will pursue impeachment which might actually get traction this time So I agree with his critique that trying to impeach Joe Biden over this is nuts Joe Biden is doing the right thing pulling us out of Afghanistan The move would put Kamala Harris in office But it would warn any presidents of taking action against Washington's endless military campaigns So after today's depraved attack killing at least 60 Joe Biden will face tremendous pressure Keep a large presence in Afghanistan. Maybe even renew the forever war of the zoo regime change So Joe Biden is facing the most difficult test of his life Already he was subject to the ire of most of the media and the entire military establishment for sticking to his guns and proceeding with the necessary withdrawal from Afghanistan So yeah, I think Biden is doing the right thing and Michael Tracy who's I think my favorite commentator In the the center center left realm says the overwhelming reason that Joe Biden's approval rating has dropped 10% in the past week It's the US media's garbage They can revert back to 2004 mode at any time and suddenly we're drawing from a war the supermajorities want over is a massive debilitating Scandal so yeah good on Joe Biden for not extending the August 31st Deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan So proud boys leader and Ricky terrier was sentenced for 155 days in jail for burning a black lives matter flag Well, wait, is the black lives matter is that is this flag somehow sacred was this blasphemy? And Richard says this is a matter of what Americans consider sacred conservatives Regarding the American flag a sacred for American liberals black lives matter has become their religious symbol So burning a black lives matter flag isn't about speech. It's an affront to God So 155 days in prison for burning a black lives matter flag Maybe we just need blasphemy laws in this country make them explicit So as for wearing masks, it seems just obvious to me night and day that wearing a mask is a good idea During an influenza pandemic now, does that mean wearing a mask solves all problems of transmission? Does that eliminate the transmission of the virus? No, nothing is is all or nothing But it seems to me that if you've got the flu and you're going out in public or you got a bad cold wearing a mask is a good thing to do and during a An influenza pandemic if you're gonna be around other people particularly inside. Yeah, I think wearing a mask is a good idea now Will it just mitigate transmission by 5% 10% 15% sure and I noticed that we got statistics out of Los Angeles Saying that well out of Israel vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of Symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease Wow, that sounds really bad for the vaccines, but there are no COVID deaths in either group So I don't think this is particularly significant. So yeah, vaccinated people are getting COVID, but they are really dying So they about 125th, all right, there's somewhere between 1% and 4% as likely To be hospitalized as as people who are not vaccinated So people who are getting hospitalized for COVID now about 95 to 99% of them are unvaccinated And also people are vaccinated much less likely to die much less likely To get hospitalized So yeah, it seems to me common sense that in an influenza situation Or just common common cold or common flu should wear a mask when you're around other people So yeah, I would expect I'm not an expert in this obviously I would expect that face mask would reduce the spread of the virus maybe only 10% So Richard Spencer says I hope Vance Hillbilly Hillbilly Elegy author memoir of a family and a culture in crisis GD Vance Which is says I hope he loses is running for the US Senate. He seems nice at the end of the day He's a smart me faker. He's not comfortable in any skin whether that be hillbilly or Yale law graduate If the GOP is a Trumpian party, then they must Renominate the real deal or Trump achieve anything of course not It is the only man willing and able to unleash the Freudian Ed of his base So the Trumpism of Donald Trump features outrageous Racist declarations that generate chaos but which contain little substance So the smart Trump is of a JD Vance features lame tactical critiques Which gently press racial hot buttons performing in a hometown football t-shirt. Well JD Vance does not want to admit tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, so To me JD Vance would be great for the US Senate. So I stand with JD Vance So Jacob Rossi tweets respect Joe Biden for showing real leadership and might amid the evacuation from Afghanistan There have been zero American casualties in the withdrawal until today What does the slanted coverage of Joe Biden's withdrawal say about the news media? So, yeah Yeah, corn pop was the first to underestimate Joe Biden's resolve. He wasn't the last everyone keeps underestimating ice cream man says Richard and It'd be interesting in California Larry Otis seems to have like a 40% chance of becoming the next governor of California So Larry Otis a libertarian conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager got him a regular radio gig on KBC starting about 1991 and Looks like there's about 40% 50% chance that Gavin Newsom will be recalled and if Gavin Newsom Current California governor is recalled then Larry Otto will likely take his place So this is Richard Spencer tweeting here's how I see the next few years Gavin Newsom gets recalled Leading to a Republican interregnum. GOP takes back the house in a tea party wave Trump launches presidential campaign in 2024 Trump gets demolished and permanently ended by Joe Biden Miracle of experience to tenure Trump era beginning in 2015 and ending in 2025 a Decade for the right will amount a little more than a stupid and futile gesture. Oh I didn't agree with that. Trump was able to significantly reduce immigration. He was able to significantly raise real wages for the least educated segment of the American population and He got tougher with China and Joe Biden to his credit is even tougher on China than Donald Trump was so interesting article in the Washington Post long long article a science in the shadows controls on gain of function experiments with supercharged pathogens have been undercut despite concern about lab leaks So a decade ago sound tests funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets To engineer a highly lethal flu virus Purpose of the research known as gain of function Just to better understand how viruses evolve and help devise medicines to combat the potential disease threats. So There's a solid chance that this COVID pandemic originated in a lab leak in Wuhan So this kind of research comes with a risk laboratory mishap that could unleash a devastating pandemic very much like what we are experiencing So this research in 2011 was conducted in the Netherlands at the University of Wisconsin sparked an international controversy that led to new safeguards with such experiments, but over the past four years National Institutes of Health leaders and other US officials have weakened key aspects of those controls So who did this who did the weakening quoting this long in-depth Washington Post investigation Anthony Fauci and NIH director Francis Collins They led the way to weaken these safeguards So this high risk gain of function research has Achieved a great deal of discussion and notoriety because such experiments in Wuhan China may well have accidentally triggered the coronavirus pandemic So we've had numerous lab leak accidents around the world leading to a release of pathogens and deaths So we have a Stanford University microbiologist David Roman says the risks from this research are real they're not intellectual constructs. They're not hypotheticals Eventually something that you make or information that you release will result in an accident of some kind Yeah, playing with nature can bite back. So the US has supported these gain of function experiments and In the United States National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci Director of the agency's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease have led the federal funding and They've led the way to weaken oversight and safeguards on gain of function research. So what is gain of function research? term refers to techniques used to enhance aspects of a dangerous pathogen It's usually done via a combination of gene editing and serial passage of the pathogen between animal heads look I think this is the bigger picture. We can no longer trust science incorporated because science incorporated is overwhelmingly funded by Entities with a very strong agenda. And so if you want to get funding for your scientific research for any scientific research You face huge incentives to deliver to your funders the results they want to see and So in the process, this is the problem with any goal like you have a goal I have a goal. We're tempted to make ethical shortcuts In achieving our goals and also goals narrow our perspective So science is not generally funded open-ended Science is overwhelmingly funded by people with a specific agenda And if you want to get funding you need to feed that agenda and tell the funders what they want to hear So yeah, you can call this regulatory capture, but medicine. All right We can't trust medicine incorporated in general because medicine incorporate incorporated protects doctors who repeatedly engage in bad behavior, right? It's really hard to get rid of Doctors, even if they doctors who've been successfully sued had five medical malpractice claims Successful claims lodged against them. Most of them face no discipline So medicine incorporated does not discipline its doctors sufficiently does not keep an eye on them doctors with huge, you know just glaring now feisans and Incompetence, you know killing people Right, they're still practicing frequently without any discipline. So we can't trust science incorporated can't trust medicine incorporated We can't trust the government We can't trust what the IRS says We can't trust declarations from from the military contrast the New York Times contrast me, right? We can't automatically distrust these entities either Alright, look my perspective is that I'm stuck in the middle here with you can't automatically trust or distrust the CDC Can't automatically trust or distrust the medical establishment. You can't automatically trust or distrust figures presented by any government agency or proclamations by the FBI or the US military or the CIA, right? We were told that the CIA had concluded that Russia Massively interfered with that 2016 election. What did that mean? It meant that a few hand-picked officials who are going to give the CIA leader what he wanted to hear They came together and they created a consensus statement that Russia massively interfered with that 2016 election, which was not true so when we're told the CIA says or the FBI says or There's been a legal decision like according to a legal decision OJ Simpson did not kill Nicole Brown and her boyfriend, right? We know that's bogus So we can't automatically believe science incorporated medicine incorporated CDC incorporated. I don't think we can automatically Disagree and automatically distrust those sources either we have to Treat each source of information Look at you know, what is the best of the available evidence that there's no easy way out here, right? I'm not for automatically trusting or distrusting Anthony Fauci I'm not for automatically trusting or distrusting the National Institutes of Health I'm not for automatically trusting or distrusting what the American Psychiatric Association says I think there are valid critiques of all our major Institutions and we should pay attention to the critiques and we should also give give the institutions a fair go Michael Schermer never questions official government narratives. That's nonsense. I think Michael Schermer has a very impressive track record So I'm not for automatically trusting Michael Schermer, but he has a pretty good track record So why is gain a function research? Yes, this is Jerusalem in the poster. So why is gain a function research? Controversial because these experiments increase the transmissibility or the virulence make make these certain strains of flu and Coronaviruses more dangerous more risky So if such a pathogen infects a scientist or escapes from a lab a Pandemic like what we've experienced could very well result So if gain a function research is so risky why do it? Well This research has a lot of uses we can tweak mouse genes to limit fat deposits to create mutations in pathogens to estimate future threats So it's not like Gain a function research only has dangers and no upsides Right there are upsides to a lot of risky research and there are downsides for a lot of risky research And I'm not sitting here proclaiming. We must never do risky research or we must always do risky research if science Incorporated says we need to do it. We must always do it Right science obviously can't govern itself. It has proved itself to be too irresponsible Meaning science incorporated is just small number of large funders dominate science incorporated and They fund research that generally speaking tells them what they want to hear So science has not shown that Is capable of governing itself any thoughts around Jeremy being indicted for over 30 counts of sexual assault the Accusations of sexual assault against Ron Jeremy generally seem credible to me. So some of them may be Some of them may be not credible, but generally speaking the rape accusations against Ron Jeremy have seemed credible and Colin Deltz ran down an interesting link here Unglobalism and nationalism Isn't right. It's not a serious intellectual movement It's Colin Deltz. I'll throw a link to that in the video description so yeah, the most of the the serious accusations like on their face serious accusations in the me too movement like you just hear the accusations you see the person making them You you hear about whether or not the person reported these accusations at the time I think it's fairly easy to get kind of a sense about the lethality of the Mishu me to accusations So I'm just doing this show talking to my phone. So I can't can't bring on any guesses. It's just an informal chat with my phone also Rape like almost everything else. It is socially conditioned, right? So what Ron Jeremy did much of what he did may be in certain Circumstances and certain time periods not have been considered rape or would not have been prosecuted but the me too movement has made us more sensitive to this problem of You know rampant predatory male sexuality, you know, overriding women's consent So men tend to be incredibly insistent With regard to their sexual needs if they think they have any chance So unless a woman like puts a man in his place right away men will just be incredibly insistent to get their sexual needs met and A lot of women just kind of get beaten down So strong women, you know, they're clear. It's like no way. Jose. This is not on But women who don't have that strength and that wisdom they often get worn down and bullied into doing all sorts of sexual things that They don't want to do like Philip Roth, right? You read that Blake Bailey biography of Philip Roth and I would not want Philip Roth around a woman that I cared about like he had a coolly predatory Sexual approach that fell seems to me way short of me, too So he was not going around raping people. He was never accused of rape Yeah, men men will will frequently be incredibly insistent for sex Even if even if they think they don't have a chance they just feel like, you know, I've got it I've got to give it a go or what's the downside here and so the downside for men insisting on You know having sex with a woman is going to depend on the culture, right? We are much more sensitive to questions of sexual assault now than we were eight years ago and Eight years ago. We were more sensitive to questions of sexual assault than we were 20 years ago or 30 years ago 40 years ago or 50 years ago So all sorts of behaviors Which 20 30 40 years ago would not have been prosecuted as rape and now going to get prosecuted as rape because times change circumstances change culture changes and Certain behaviors which were just laughed at 20 30 40 years ago now they get prosecuted So, yeah, fascinating long essay here in the Washington Post. It's it's the most exhaustive research into gain of function studies and how Leaders in the US science community such as Francis Colin and Anthony Fauci have steadily reduced safeguards against gain of function research So this is the most comprehensive in-depth reported Essay on this topic that I have seen yet topics as she says in the chat Richard Spencer had a we're gonna richly humiliate the moment on his most recent appearance on the kill Stream Richard got agitated by several callers in the show accusing Richard of being a Fed I think that's ridiculous. I don't think Richard's a Fed Spencer said that weak immigration to the West will purge the weak whites So the mass immigration to the West will purge the weak whites so So Colin Liddell made this this point that the the alt-right the distant right started out as a movement of words of the written word up until about 2014 so it attracted a much higher IQ element and So Richard kind of rose to prominence When the alt-right was was a higher IQ movement then starting in 2014 2015 It increasingly became a movement of the spoken word rather than the written word And so the average IQ of the people who was into it steadily dropped So most of the the pushback that the abuse that Richard gets. I think it's just you know low IQ behavior so eight years ago Francis Collins Anthony Fauci put in place high-level reviews in response to concerns about gain of function research By the administration president Barack Obama, so they were alarmed by what they saw as Insufficient scrutiny of the research with ferrets And so Collins and Fauci pledged to subject gain of function research to increase transparency in vetting so this they formed a Review group of federal officials Officials known informally as a ferrets committee to vet propose gain of function projects for safety and worthiness but eventually over time Collins and Fauci shaped policy changes that undercut the committee's authority and So in 2017 they made a change to remove the kitties power to committee's power to block their gain of function projects Recasting the panel is strictly an advisory body and They gave themselves great leeway to approve gain of function projects without referring them even to the Review committee. So yeah, you can call Anthony Fauci dr. Ferret Because the people doing the research were complaining that having to submit their research to review would slow the whole bureaucratic process of approval and funding and a slow scientific progress guys You're not against scientific progress. Are you? You're not looking to slow Scientific progress. Are you? So these gain of function experiments have continued Amid great secrecy and the health and human services Group which administers the review committee has kept us were confidential. So no agendas. No meeting minutes No records of these proceedings are made public the names of federal officials assigned to serve on the committee I kept secret So Anthony Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984 So he's a he's a doctor. He's a scientist and his Institute funds gain of function research that increases the transmissibility and the virulence of pathogens and Many fear that this funded research inadvertently caused our COVID pandemic Francis Collin. He's another physician. He's also a geneticist along with Anthony Fauci He claims that the benefits of gain of function research outweigh the risks because of its potential to help develop vaccines and therapeutics Now their major critic is Robert Cadillac. He's a assistant secretary of health and human services He's a physician former Air Force officer with decades of bio defense policy experience He says that US funder gain of function research has not been adequately vetted So Michael Jones is accused Jared Taylor of subverting white nationalism for Jewish interests and says that Jared D Reald David Dukes run for governor of Louisiana and the complaints that Jared Taylor has never invited Kevin McDonald to speak at American Renaissance conferences and Michael Jones claims that Jared Taylor inspired Richard Spencer to march on Charlottesville and destroy the outright movement. I Jared had given up on Richard Spencer after the Hellgate moment at the end of 2016 So I don't think it's fair to say that Jared inspired Richard to march on Charlottesville So officials at the National Institutes of Health. They don't want to talk about how many Gain the function projects they have funded since Controversy over the ferrets peaked in 2012. They do admit they confirmed grants for two projects in 2018 so when asked to Provide the number of projects that they fund the Collins of Fauci said well the answer would depend on how do you define gain of function? How is it defined in a particular given year? The Washington Post has identified 18 projects that won funding from 2012 to 2020 that include gain of function experiments So funding from the NIH for these 18 projects totaled about 50 million in the research Unforted at 13 institutions eight were approved after 2017 when the review committee's power was weakened Yes, Anthony Fauci did encourage the development of COVID vaccines. So good on you. Good on you Anthony Good work So from 2017 to no more to 2020 no more than three or four gain of function projects were forwarded to the review committee so essentially They were grading their own homework so what Fauci and Collins were doing with regard to gain of function research They were essentially grading their own homework So Dr. Cadillac Says high-risk research was not adequately vetted. We didn't have the scientific Oversight the review committee's capabilities were not strong enough to make sure that bad things did not happen So if you're going to ask society to take on higher than normal levels of risk, there should be more openness about this gain of function research so the NIH under Fauci and Collins have Significantly revised the definition of gain of function research. So that's why Fauci is always telling Rand Paul Oh, no, we weren't funding gain of research in a function research because they just changed the definition of gain of function So federal policy governing gain of function research is opaque and probably need strengthening you think after Covid pandemic where we've we've Had deaths of between four and you know, 15 million people that may well have started as a result of a lab leak Bye-bye