Good morning, serfs. This is sir Gene with your morning update in the afternoon. Well, it's been a busy day. Hasn't it quite a few stories that are popping up here. We certainly have AOC seas melt down and w what did I describe it as fear appropriation as one of the top stories. It's coming out in pretty much all the different media and podcasts and YouTube channels out there that are on the conservative side, that it is very obvious. AOC was never any danger. AOC did not have any protestors or really anybody that wasn't supposed to be in the building in her office building, which was not the capital other. People that were in the building, along with her other Congresswoman that were interviewed, said that everything was very normal and there was nothing going on. When AOC was seen, she seemed to be fairly calm. The only thing that maybe it was odd was that it seemed like she was trying to find a place to hide. Now finding a place to hide is certainly a good indicator fear, but you have to wonder whether the fear was self-induced or whether it was founded. So if AOC is watching CNN and CNN is fear-mongering about this storm of rioters, about to take over the Capitol, even though she was a third of a mile away in her office. She may very well have been triggered by that and been genuinely afraid. So I don't discount the fact that she was afraid, but what is absolutely obvious is now that we are three weeks from no more than three weeks, we're probably pushing it on the fourth week from that event. Now, all of the sudden she decides to talk about her fear and create this. The sort of political climate where she's contributing to the portrayal of people that were walking probably at one and a half miles an hour, standing between ropes, looking around and taking photos and selfies with their phones while holding up pro-Trump banners as being of course portrayed as a complete insurrection. And a takeover of the U S government. This is, this is literally civil war too, for the Democrats. I'm sure they'd like to think that they could win. So a war to simply by hiding the way AOC is portraying herself. The reality is, as we all know, there was no insurrection. There were some people that ended up trespassing on property. They were not. Allowed to be on. Most of them didn't do that. Anything wild trespassing that literally was the extent of the law breaking that they engaged in and a few pieces, well, predominantly wearing masks, but definitely dressed in black clothing so that they can not be identified. We're the ones that were doing damage. If there was any to the Capitol and there was some broken windows, there's some, I think door locks that were busted as well. There's still a lot of debates and we haven't gotten true answers yet on who those people were. It looked like there's a number of groups that were not at all associated with Trump, or certainly not supporters of Trump, like bugaboo boys that were part of that protest. There's a good indicators that people that have seen they'd been seen at and T for rallies were also part of that protest. And likely the ones that were doing the damage they have experience with damaging property. Most of the 55 year old men and women between, well, I should say between 50 and 70 that were at that protest, do not have any experience damaging property nor interest in damaging property. So anyway, all that aside now, AOC is seeing an opportunity to dump some more gasoline in the fire. To portray herself as a victim to talk about how clearly people wanted to kill her, including Ted Cruz apparently. And she barely escaped with her life. All of that is complete bullshit and what's good. Is today. Everybody seems to be picking up on the fact that this is another Jessie smell at situation. This is somebody that is clamoring for attention based on race and based on fear. And that has no business being in politics, especially the way that the country is in powder keg to begin with right now. So. What is going to happen? Well, unfortunately, probably nothing. AOC is a very popular member of Congress. She is populist in the liberal sense of the word, meaning a lot of the the, the anarchist side of the democratic party are huge supporters of her. So she's not likely to be reprimanded at all by the Democrat party. And since that is still a controlling party, nothing's going to happen in Congress to her. So while that's going on, of course, we've got other news popping up like Liz Cheney who has been extremely vocal anti-Trump and pro impeachment. She has a 10th percent popularity rating with her constituents right now, but somehow she she still has been rewarded with appointments in leadership positions to different committees. So what the hell, or maybe it's not really a surprise given what we know about Republicans that are currently in the Senate. They're all rhinos and it's at this point, the word rhino doesn't even mean anything because rhino simply is equal to the word Republican. They are one in the same. Right now, there are a few conservatives that stand out. But for the most part, the people within our next to their name in the Senate were what we used to refer to as rhinos. But at this point, like I said, Really it's, they're just Republicans. They're just Republicans guys like Ted Cruz. You know, those people I think should leave the Republican party for the upcoming new party that actually represents conservatives because they have shared values with conservatives, not with the liberal light version that called themselves Republicans. It, it is, it is absolutely a travesty at the fact that the after four years of Trump, not only did the Republican party not accomplish anything while they had a president to sign bills, but they have managed to get closer to the Democrat party in the stance. Now, there are a few more people on the house side than the Senate side that have more traditional conservative values. But man, the ones that are on the on the Senate side, it's pretty bad. I mean guys like Rand, Paul, who's really more of a libertarian than he is a Republican to begin with. You know, he's got he's, he's been standing still and the Republican party has been moving further, left away from him. So I think national politics are at pretty much the worst they've been. Certainly in my lifetime in the last 50 years there's there is a little bit better prognosis on the state politics. And I think we're going to see a huge rise in federalism. I think we already are the governor of Florida with the the promise of getting legislation put in place to find social media companies. Now we had the governor of was it Missouri? I believe the governor Missouri had is supporting measures in there. It looks like they've got the votes to pass that will make it unconstitutional, or that will prevent any local state law enforcement that would be state County and city. From engaging in enforcement of unconstitutional, federal gun laws. So anything anti-sex and amendment this is similar to what States like California and other West coast States have done relating to prohibiting their law enforcement from aiding, with any activities in returning illegal aliens, back to their countries. So that's how California is a sanctuary state. And it looks like now we're going to have a number of States, Texas absolutely is one of them Missouri. And it looked like the last time I glanced at a map, which I don't have in front of me. It looked like the majority of the the flyover States, the middle of the country have some sort of laws. I think Louisiana also had some strong laws coming down the pike. That are all in protection of the second amendment. Now, what does that actually mean? Well, again, I mean, it's great that that's happening. However, those of you that are old enough to remember places like Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas will remember that these massacres that were conducted during the Clinton administration on Americans. Were perpetrated by federal police, not by state police and I'm grouping into the category of federal police, the ATF and certainly DNR and the other agencies that have federal control their, their ability to enforce federal laws throughout all of the States is not impeded by any of these. Local state laws that will be in support of the second amendment. So I certainly expect to see more federal police being brought in more FBI, more ATF more Bureau of land management more DEA, more all of these organizations that comprise the federal policing sector. And utilized a lot more during this administration than they've ever been in the past, including during Clinton. And that's going to be the case because States are not going to be helping the federal government disarm its citizens, but it doesn't mean that the federal government still can't disarm its citizens. So that there's a there's a little bit of positive news here, but there's also plenty of negative. Th the only thing that'll prevent disarming of American citizens is fear from the politicians that if they go down that path, this will be their last term in office. And that is the only thing these people are afraid of. They're willing to sell their relatives to get reelected. There's willing to change their stance on literally any issue. If it means it gets them reelected the most important thing for these politicians. And I'm throwing in the Republicans in the Senate, in this as well, because they're just as bad. Is getting reelected. So what we need to do is focus on making sure that these people do not get reelected. And like I said, I'll be talking more about primary efforts. And let me just give you a little bit of a hint to that effect, picking a different candidates of another party rather than the one that you might belong to. Is also an effective strategy at sabotaging the elections of that party. Just think what would happen if all of a sudden in the primaries AOC wasn't the top candidate from the Democrat party? Well, how can that be? Well, that can absolutely happen if people that didn't normally vote for democratic candidate were to all of a sudden registers Democrats and participate in primaries. And put in candidates that have a lesser chance of winning on the Democrat side. Now this of course only works if only one side, meaning our side does this. If the Democrats try to do this as well at the same time, then it just flip-flops the votes, right. Everybody just picks sort of the wrong or the least effective candidate during the primaries. But that's one of the methods I'm going to be talking about. There's some others as well. I just want to reiterate the fact that while right now, the last couple of battles have been lost. The war is still going on. And that war in my mind is not to bring Donald Trump back into office that is done. It's not going to happen. I don't think he wants it to happen. He wants to have influence. He wants to be able to affect politics. I really don't think that he wants this. And even if he did want it, he's not the right guy for the job. And I know this is going to piss off some listeners, but Trump has proven that he does not deserve a second term by his actions at the end of his first term. And I'm not saying, Oh my God, he didn't pardon the Sange. Therefore that said, I'm flipping on Trump. No, Trump was a great president. He should have absolutely pardoned the son, but the fact that he couldn't commit to making tough decisions, not just after the election, but even in the months preceding the election. I think disqualifies him. We need somebody stronger, somebody that's more willing to push, frankly, somebody who's younger. We need somebody who is not coming from the boomer generation. We need somebody who's a gen X-er or possibly even a millennial. Certainly millennials are old enough at this point. I can't think of one off the top of my head that could fit the bill nicely for the for the conservatives. But that's a certainly impossibility. I think we need to stop trying to have grandparents managed our country great-grandparents for that matter. I think we need to have people that are more connected, more plugged in and aware of what they're capable of doing with technology. Obama, who was not a great president, did so much more during his terms in terms of marketing and in shifting politics towards his way of thinking, because he was more plugged into the possibilities that technology offers. Trump being banned off Twitter is a perfect example of not understanding technology. Trump should have been making fun of Twitter the way he was making fun of CNN and being on a platform that supported him and working with politicians, frankly, to put in laws in place to ensure freedom of speech. Even when large corporations can't be the ones that are trusted to support that none of these things happened because for Trump. Twitter was really no different than, I don't know, sending a letter or picking up a telephone and calling somebody. He never thought for a minute that at and T the phone company has the right to turn off his phone and not let him make phone calls. He never thought of that because it never occurred to people of that generation. That a private company like Twitter and like Facebook is so unregulated. And again, I'm not are getting for a bunch of massive regulation for tech companies. What I am arguing for is the enforcement of laws that already exist. And at the very least the constitution protect companies and not just for tech companies, obviously for all companies, the same reason. That a private company shouldn't be able to sensor what comes out of your mouth. They can ask you to leave, but they shouldn't be able to censor it. The same reason for that should apply across the board to the entire constitution. Why, why can a, a, a company not discriminate based on race? Oh, well that would be against the constitution. Wouldn't it? But somehow that constitutional amendment. Applies to all private companies as well as government, but the first and second amendments only apply to government. What a Lola bullshit. That is ridiculous. If we're going to say that a private company can selectively not enforced, but in fact be in violation of the first or second amendment. Then why would they also not be allowed to be in the violation of other amendments that makes no sense everything should be applied across the board, both to private industry and to the government All right. Well enough on that, let's talk about something, a little funnier a little less of a serious topic, at least I think it is. So, you know, the Mike Lindell guy, the MyPillow guy that was that basically has not been de platformed and his people are going after his business now for meeting with president Trump and actually daring to think. That there were election irregularities that actually changed the end result of the election. Oh boy. What a horrible thing to think. So apparently he's not going to have a rival in the bedding space from a March of our lives. Co-fund Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. March of our lives. Co-founder David hog. Now I've never heard of this guy, but maybe somebody has, I, I don't, I'm not even sure. March of our lives, which protests was that I'm assuming it was something that had a few folks gathering in DC that I didn't see because I don't watch CNN. But anyway, that person has announced he's launching a betting company that will take on the Mito guy as a liberal alternative. I think that's pretty damn funny. Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that. If you don't like the way that our particular company is doing business, it's an extremely American thing to compete with them and to create your own company that can do the same thing in a sense, it's sort of like the the joke answers that people have or the, that people get or either receive or give those answers. I would just, it depends on which side of the argument you're on for when. Oh, I don't know. Let's say the pipelines being shut down. Well, learn to code that's real easy. You've been deep platform. The off of off of Twitter build your own Twitter. What's the big deal. Just make your own company that does the same thing. So as sort of smart ass and sarcastic as those answers are, there is a grain of truth there. And I, and I think that is actually an American answer to the question of if you don't like something. Build a better version of it, build it back better. Right. There we go. There's another use of build back better. Don't like a company, build it back better and compete against that company that you don't like. So having Democrats sleeping on pillows that are made by somebody who's a Democrat. And the concern of sleeping on pillows that are made by somebody who has a conservative. I think that's pretty damn funny now, again, from what I've heard, I've never bought one of a Mike's pillows, but I hear they're not so good. So obviously I'm not sponsored by them. All right, let's see. What else is happening today? Oh, it looks like news just came out that Trump will not be testifying in the impeachment trial. That's interesting. So I think that is has both a good side and a bad side on the plus side. Trump not not being at the trial, not testifying prevents him from saying something stupid that could later be used against him. If he starts talking about more more of the. Hot button topics for Democrats they'll keep pushing on them. And unfortunately it could be a situation where if Trump talks, it gives a more fire, more fuel to the Democrats doing things like limiting our second amendment rights. This, he needs to talk at a fake trial to begin with. I don't know. I don't think so. Everything I've seen from lawyers who I respect people that. Are genuine constitutional lawyers and including ones that are on the other side of the aisle seems to say that you cannot convict somebody for impeachment who is not actually a sitting government official. Once somebody has retired, once somebody who has fulfilled their term in office, this is not the means for pursuing any legal action against that person. The proper means of legal action would be through the court system. So if they want to go against Trump through the courts, they certainly could. It is not up to the Senate or the house to be doing that through a non sitting president or judge or any other position that can be impeached. Once the judge has retired, you can no longer impeach that judge. So clearly this is not the position that. A lot of Democrats are taking. They seem to think that impeachment is just a way for the for Congress to be able to usurp the judicial system and carry out judicial activities on their own. Now, I don't remember the name of the the, the, the name of this practice I should say, because this, the video I watched this probably two, three weeks ago. But Robert Barnes was talking about the history and the practice going back to England, England, even in the pre U S legal days to where the, the legislature absolutely did have the power to act as a judge, jury and executioner on their own volition. And that was one of the things that was w was. Seen as over stepping the bounds, it gave too much power to a single organization and certainly in the U S version of British common law that we've inherited, we've tweaked. Some things changed our upper house through to be an elected house rather than like it is in in great Britain. Where the house of Lords is really a Tiddler house. You inherited that position by having a a title. And frankly as a, the Duke of Texas you would think that maybe I would be for that type of a, a upper house, but no, I'm, I'm, I'm fine with having both houses be based on democratic voting. Although the exact nature of that voting, I kind of like our current system. I don't know that we need to tweak it in any direction right now, the way that some Democrats want to go to a purely democratic, a majority vote style. So with Trump not appearing, I think it'll, it'll probably lower the ratings for CNN and other television channels. That's going to be one of the, the bigger The one of the, the bigger items that they were hoping for. Unfortunately, they're not going to get it. Let's see, what else going on? Oh so speaking of of Congress, it looks like Marjorie Taylor green has been stripped of her committee assignments because of her past. Posts on social media. So this story, I'm, I'm a little surprised by the outcome. I really didn't think that they would be able to go so far as to actually strip her of committee assignments. I know that there are a lot of people, including people on both sides of the Isles that are unhappy with the extent of her putting her foot in their mouth as it were. There are, there are plenty of things that you can find in her past social media, which she, even herself now backs away from. And of course, this is exactly the type of thing that Democrats are going to cling on to, and really focus on. So even if she was not doubling down on her past posts, even though she was backing away from them, It looks like the Democrats pushed so hard that she actually had been stripped her for many assignments, which is sort of ironic because here you've got somebody that is sort of on the, on the far conservative side of the aisle and a big supporter of Trump losing her committee assignments while at the same time in, in the Senate. You've got somebody who is technically a Republican, but Liz Cheney is liked by way more Democrats. I think she had 10% Republican supporting her and 37% Democrats support, still both on their 50%, but I think she needs to just switch parties and call herself a Democrat because that's clearly what she is. She's not going to be working with Republicans, but look at that. She she's actually gotten. Not only get to keep her appointments on committees, but she's actually gotten leadership positions on committee. So, and by the way, what is this thing that happens? And it happens again, both on the right side and the left side and probably more so on the right side. What is this thing with multi-generational politician bullshit? Like, did we not learn anything from Bush Jr. Coming in? We barely avoided having having Clinton's wife and up as president you know, w how are people so stupid that they're basically seeing posts in government as being a good thing, if they're hereditary or at least they're familial, this is ridiculous. There, there are, there are too many people that seem to think that it's to nominate a child of a person that was in government previously. That is retarded. That's how create dynasties. That's how you create Kings. And these are, these are people that go into politics. First-generation with no money and that becoming multi-millionaires. And then having their multimillionaire kids that grew up in the system becoming politicians to continue on with that. These are not public servants. These are not people that are doing the work of the people that voted for them. No, these are people that have gotten really good at getting stupid people to vote for them. And again, I say that on both sides of the house, plenty of stupid people who vote for the big are, and certainly plenty of them voting for the D. But I don't know. I mean, like how do, how do we change that? How would, how do you explain to somebody that, because somebody has the same name and even the worst, because somebody is related directly to a previous generation politician, somehow that is a positive trait. The Kennedy's obviously we're a big example of this. How many of them were involved in in federal government and state government in Massachusetts way too many. And certainly at this point, everything you read going back to Joe Kennedy says they, they really built that empire on mafia ties. It was all about you know, you, you rubbed my hand, I rubbed your hand kind of relationship. So, I don't know, man, probably the most depressing thing right now to me is the other stupid of a majority of people in this country, because they're not only picking the wrong politicians, they're supporting enthusiastically things that directly affect them negatively. And don't even get me started on masks. Don't get me started on the fact that you've got people essentially wanting to be muzzled and essentially walking around like it's Sharia law, except it's for both men and women. I I'm, I'm kinda starting to wonder if the only exceptions were going to have to masks are going to be famous people because they're too beautiful to be, to have to cover up with masks while everybody else who's horrible and ugly. And. Deformed and pathetic looking needs to wear a mask because that's certainly the direction that we're going. Anybody. Who's actually bothered reading research on the efficacy of masks to prevent vital transmission and this research, by the way, ideally, what you want to be reading is research that was performed and published and peer reviewed prior to 2019 because of 2019. Politics entered and big money entered. And now there's a huge financial gain to be made from creating studies that support the position that you want, which is, Oh, everybody should wear a mask. But if you read studies that were actually published when they were, when they were just looking in science at the efficacy of masks, they were just trying to figure out, well, how, how well do these work? Like we sort of assume they work. Like what type of material, what type of mask? Really is effective at prevent preventing different types of infection. So some maths are effective for bacterial infections. Some masks are certainly effective for for larger particles, like you know, things like if you don't want to be inhaling what's that stuff that used to be used all the time as insulation and causes cancer. As best dose. That's the word? I'm see. I'm not cutting this out. I'm leaving it on. Certainly some mass are going to be good enough for filtering as best those and preventing you from getting that contamination. But in terms of preventing viruses from passing through the only thing that actually works worth a shit is an N 95 mask, which is properly worn. And disposed of within four hours of use. So if you work in a hospital, you work someplace where you're routinely going to be in contact with people that could be transmitting viruses. You want to be wearing goggles. You want to be wearing an N 95 mask, and you want to be replacing that mask on a regular basis. And the best rule of thumb is never take the mask off and put it back on. If you ever take the N 95 off, throw it away. Now I do that with my disposable masks, which absolutely don't work. They're meant to purely be a fashion statement, because everybody seems to expect you to be wearing one. Otherwise you can't walk into a restaurant. You can't eat at a restaurant. Unless you put a mask on for the 25 feet from the parking lot to the entrance of the restaurant and another 10 feet to your table to get seated where now you're magically allowed to take off your mask for the next hour, while you're sitting there talking and eating, which is creating all kinds of saliva droplets that are floating around everybody, but yet as soon as you stand up, Oh, that mask better go on. So anyway, with an N 95 mask, that mask. Is only 95%, hence the number effective at preventing things that are the size of viruses. So particles that size from passing through the mask and that's done with multilayers and with static charges. And so there's a and by the way, I know Adam has talked a few times about the, the, the valve and the five mass, so that valve. Is only on some of those masks, not on all of them. And that valve is for situations where you're trying to prevent yourself from breathing in something that has a microscopic particles, but you're not concerned about what you're breathing out. So it's not really meant for preventing you from infecting somebody else. It's more like if you're in a situation where it doesn't even have to be a virus, it could be. You know I don't know some kind of radioactive dust particles or something, something that is really tiny, that is in the environment. Or frankly it doesn't even have to be tiny. It's just, you want a good clean seal, but what you're breathing out is inconsequential. You're not going to infect anybody. So for the majority of those types of needs, you can have a mask with a valve, but in a hospital setting you would never have one with the valve. You'd always have one that is. Fully ceiling on both coming and going. But again, it's like nobody wears masks properly if they weren't, nobody's actually wearing an N 95 mask, but people are wearing our fashion statements, but they refuse to call them that because that's really all they are. It it's, it's really no different than wearing the sort of super slinky high-heeled shoes that women occasionally wear. Where the amount of, of leather that is above the shoe is literally like a little thong that goes between your toes and back behind your heel. And yet that is still called a shoe, right? Because it goes on your foot. Well, think of that type of shoe, what would that be like? A, a, I don't even know what they're called. Yes, I'm definitely a guy. So, so like a high-heeled dress shoe, kind of a not even necessarily a pump, but just something that is just really barely held together on your foot, showing off your, your, your feet. And that's essentially what people are walking around with and calling masks. Whereas like a army boots would be an N 95 mask. They're both shoes, but one of them is a lot better at preventing your feet from getting getting anything on them. And certainly if something falls on your foot from getting your feet hurt, whereas the other one, even though it's still called a shoe is really just there as a fashion statement and not much else. And it's not even that comfortable to walk in. I hear. So anyway, well today's episode is mostly been rants. Which I, I hope you're you guys are okay with, but I, I really felt like after reading a lot of the news stories, like there's just so much stupidity out there and maybe the one silver lining with COVID is that a lot of people are taking their children out of public education. They're doing homeschooling. They're realizing that the indoctrination of children that. That is happening right now is way worse than what we went through 30, 40, 50 years ago. When we were that age, it's only been moving in the wrong direction and it now's the time to make a change it's to stop trusting strangers, to fill your kids' heads with garbage. Because if you keep doing that, what you end up with is what we have right now. A populace that wants to be muzzled, a populace that keeps electing politicians like they're movie stars or rock stars, rather than because they're actually have good ideas on their kept capable of executing on them. So keep your kids at home, teach them yourself do whatever, whatever you can to affect them positively. If you guys have any feedback, please do. Let me know. I appreciate you listening. Take care.