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May 16, 2025 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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Do RFK Jr Hearing Protestors Have A Point?
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Hey everybody, Jason Burmus here, and we are going to be talking quote-unquote Maha, making America healthy again, or are we making America H-E double hockey sticks fee again?
And I want your opinion on this, because I'm extremely torn.
We're going to highlight several things that I think we should be questioning, we should be concerned about.
But overall, I have at least seen the dialogue and the rhetoric move in the correct direction.
So what we're going to do here is we're going to go through a multitude of different stories, starting with the topic of mRNA.
We are not going to be using the V word.
We're not going to be diving deep into the COVID-1984 nightmare other than the fact that obviously it occurred.
Operation Warp Speed is a huge blemish on the first Trump administration.
I do believe that RFK Jr. is that mea culpa afterwards.
I think RFK Jr., also imperfect.
We're also not going to focus on the quote-unquote dyes and the things coming out of the food.
Although if you're in the comments section, because at the end of this, after we watch the executive order speech via Trump and RFK Jr., and then we watch the media piece, I am going to go to your questions and comments on this topic.
Because, look, the Surgeon General, for instance, I think there's a lot of questions there.
I think, again, there's a lot of lip service on the surface levels that sound nice, right?
But at the same time, are we really safeguarding not only the people right now, but a framework for the future?
And ultimately...
Here's the cat coming out of the bag of what I see happening.
If this administration can continue to do what they say they are doing, we will know within the first year whether or not drug prices are going to be cut, whether that's actually a good thing depending on the drugs that continue to be utilized by the medical establishment.
What the future of medicine is going to be ultimately, especially when we discuss things in the regards of AI.
You know, I was just doing a big thing on quote-unquote blockchain people, biometrics.
That's a part of the Internet of Bodies that is absolutely going to be pushing forward.
We're going to talk a little bit about cancer moonshot, etc.
When I say the cat's out of the bag, I think that people are ultimately going to be given more options.
But unfortunately, technology through the military-industrial complex is globally pushing forward.
And by it, globally pushing forward, it is going to engulf society in a framework where it's going to be extremely difficult if uneducated.
And even if educated, To navigate all of this in a proper manner.
And I hope that's not too convoluted.
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So before we get to this executive order, I do want to talk about Cancer Moonshot in particular.
Because as of May, And we're going to talk about mRNA and some of the states fighting back, and this is like the kind of rhetoric and the good stuff that I think is occurring, and we have to encourage, right?
And this executive order, I think, ultimately could be a good thing, but there are a lot of problems with it as well.
We'll get into those as well.
Indomitable cancer moonshot.
The vastly understudied uterine diseases is on the rise.
But Dr. Victoria Bay June and others are fighting to turn the tide.
And cancer has exploded.
All right?
And moonshot is going nowhere.
In fact, this is cancer.gov.
Okay?
It launched in 2016.
So, again, during the Trump administration.
And, you know, Trump...
Essentially not that savvy on the technology they're utilizing.
Reestablished in 2022.
Really touted by the Biden administration.
Now, I will say this about Moonshot.
NCI has now flagged Cancer Moonshot and some other things in this fraud crackdown in March.
Whether or not that's going to be a reality or come to any kind of fruition, I don't know.
I don't know, because, you know, this article here, where it's continuing, literally like a week and a half ago.
Or, I'm sorry, no, no, this is in 2023.
So, hey, you know, maybe right now, things could be pushing forward.
Like, we need to stop this stuff, because it's really eugenics and transhumanism.
So, unless there's a pushback federally on this, and the problem is, Like, it's great rhetoric when Bobby Kennedy Jr. comes out there and talks about DARPA and geoengineering and what's going on in the sky.
But he says his department's not involved and he can't do anything about it.
He's standing next to the President of the United States here where they're trying to take on, you know, one of those issues.
So we're going to get into the positives as well.
We're going to play this video, and then we're going to play the media piece.
We're going to get into some other articles, get your questions and comments in on ma-ha or no-ha.
Why doesn't somebody fight the drug price situation, meaning equalization?
There's a term.
It's called equalization.
Nobody wants to mention that term.
And I'm not knocking the drug companies.
I'm really more knocking the countries than the drug companies because...
They're forced to do things.
But the drug lobby is the strongest lobby in this country, they say.
The drug lobby.
It's between that and lawyers.
And they have a lot of power.
But starting today, the United States will no longer subsidize the health care of foreign countries, which is what we were doing.
We were subsidizing others' health care.
Countries where they paid a small fraction of what for the same drug.
That what we pay many, many times more for and will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big Pharma.
But again, it was really the countries that forced Big Pharma to do things that, frankly, I'm not sure they really felt comfortable doing.
But they've gotten away with it, these countries.
European Union has been brutal.
Brutal.
And the drug companies actually told me stories.
It was just brutal how they forced them.
And European Union suing all our Companies, Apple, Google, Meta.
They're suing all of our companies.
They have judges that are European Union-centric.
And they get rewarded $15 billion, $17 billion, $20 billion.
And they use that to run their operation.
It's not going to happen any longer, that I can tell you.
Let me just talk about that for a minute.
First of all, when we're talking about those tech companies, again, they're United States military-industrial complex run, although they are transnational, things like Google and Apple, obviously.
China is the model, and the lines have been blurred.
And that's just business to these people.
That's numero uno.
But yeah, they're talking about billions there.
The problem is that some of that is speech-associated and government access to the information-associated.
We already have all the access.
You understand?
So it's just like I covered with the Siri story.
They're paying pennies, literal pennies, to spy on you and your family, saying it was unintentional, admit no wrongdoing, over a decade-plus time.
And the best, if you have five devices, you're owed $100-y dues.
No one goes to jail.
No one gets in trouble.
So this is where, again, I would part ways with Trump and the way that he's framing it.
I'm not saying that those lawsuits for the EU aren't EU-centric and bad.
I am saying that we have no accountability here either.
And also, at the end of the day, When you get into the modern-day drug companies, where a lot of these drugs, especially the SSRI stuff, comes from, it comes from that MKUltra era.
It's born out of that era of universities and drug companies working with our intel companies or intel institutions.
So what's been happening is we've been subsidizing other countries.
Throughout the world, not just in Europe, throughout the world.
The European Union was the most difficult, from what I understand.
I mean, I'll tell you a story.
A friend of mine who's a businessman, very, very, very top guy.
Most of you would have heard of him.
A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat shot drug.
And he called me up, and he said, President, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president, so that's nice respect.
But he's a rough guy, smart guy.
Very successful, very rich.
I wouldn't even know how we would know this, because he's got comments.
President, could I ask you a question?
I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.
I said, it's not working.
He said, I just paid $88.
And in New York, I pay $1,300.
What the hell is going on?
He said, so I checked.
And it's the same box made in the same plant by the same company.
It's the identical pill that I buy in New York.
And here I'm paying $88 in London.
In New York, I'm paying $1,300.
Now, this is a great businessman, but he's not familiar with this crazy situation.
And look, that's where I sympathize.
That's not an exaggeration.
And I'm not, it's not like I'm saying, hey, you get out there and do the semi-glutides.
I do think that they have a place, all right?
Obviously, the overprescription of a lot of these things is also the problem.
I mean, at the end of the day, right, fentanyl has a place.
Opioids have a place.
The overprescription of them is overwhelming.
Like, that's where I'm worried.
Like, what I would really like to see is tried and true, proven drugs that are already not patented, all right, that have that generic label.
The government gives contracts to companies, new companies, hopefully, and tax breaks.
Maybe this is where you give the tax breaks.
Produce those at a mass level, okay, at a mass level, and then highly regulate the dangerous stuff, if not take it off the market.
And that would really force the institutions to at least utilize those drugs more.
It wouldn't be like a smorgasbord fest of pay-to-play profit on your, quote-unquote, health.
But he was stunned.
But it was just one of those stories.
And I brought it up with the drug companies, represented by somebody who's very, very smart.
Good person, too.
And we argued about it for about half hour.
And then finally he just said, because they can't justify it.
He just said, look, you got me.
You got me.
I can no longer just.
They've been justifying this crap for years.
They said, oh, it's research and development.
Well, I said, well, research and development, other countries should pay research and development, too.
It's for their benefit.
It was just one of those things.
And the other countries would set a price, and they'd meet the price, and they'd say, if you don't meet the price, you can't sell it in our country.
I said, well, then you walk away, and they'll call you back, and they'll sell it in the country.
But now they'll have to do that.
So for the first time in many years, we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs, and we will bring fairness to America.
Drug prices will come down by much more, really, if you think.
If you think of a drug that is sometimes ten times more expensive, it's much more than the 59 percent.
It depends on the way you want to analyze it, but in one way you could analyze it that way.
But between 59 and 80, and I guess even 90 percent.
Now, let me just stop it here.
Now, here's another example that I think is important.
When you have the left and their talking points, and we don't like to get into right-left politics, they should be championing this, right?
Bernie Sanders should be out there going, Hoorah, Trumpy!
AOC should be out there with a big old Donnie T sign.
They won't even acknowledge it.
They're going to make it about cronyism.
And don't get me wrong.
There's going to be plenty of cronyism.
But, you know, first of all, we live in a very, very, very sick country.
And I hope that's going to change.
A lot of hopium over here, like real hope, that that's going to change.
But insulin, you know, Trump slashed prices on insulin.
Biden got it.
No, no, no, no, no.
And people barely spoke about it.
When I worked so hard in the first term, and if I got prices down, I remember I was the only one to ever get prices down for a full year, but I'd get them down like 2%, and I thought it was like a big deal.
Well, we're getting them down 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, but actually more than that if you think about it mathematically.
And a farmer has to say, we're sorry, but...
We'll not be able to do this any longer to these countries that have been so tough.
They've been very tough.
Nasty.
This is an extraordinary day.
This is an issue that, you know, I grew up in the Democratic Party, and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people.
This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders' runs for presidency, that he was going to eliminate this discrepancy.
Between Europe and the United States.
As it turns out, none of them were doing it.
It's one of these promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they'll never have to do it.
And the reason they'll never have to do it is because they know that Congress is controlled in so many ways by the pharmaceutical industry.
Let me just stop it there.
After they cut out.
On Bobby Kennedy in a moment.
They are going to give.
First of all, we're going to have the pharma response, which is a different piece.
But this is the CNN feed.
So you're also going to get the Democratic response.
I think it's by Coons.
There's at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every congressman, every senator on Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court.
I some estimates three.
Pharmaceutical companies, the industry itself spends three times what the next largest lobbyist spends on lobbying.
So this was an issue that people talked about, but nobody wanted to do anything because it was radioactive.
They knew you couldn't get it by Congress.
We now have a president who is a man of his word, who has the courage.
President Trump was taking money from the pharmaceutical industry, too.
I think they gave you $100 million.
But he can't be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country.
And he is standing here for the American people.
I don't know what, you know, there's writers like Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich who are saying that President Trump is on this side of the oligarchs.
There has never been a president more willing.
To stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.
And I'm very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage.
I'll say, because I don't want to be crude, your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people.
I want to get your reaction to the President's announcement on cutting prescription drug prices, Senator.
Well, President Trump just said that he's the one that improved Obamacare, which is Actually, flat-out wrong.
He tried over and over to repeal Obamacare when he was president the first time, and House Republicans are moving ahead this week with their bill, which President Trump's asking for, that would cut millions of Americans off of health care.
In the last administration, Democrats worked hard to pass legislation that reduces prescription drug prices and caps the out-of-pocket costs for Americans.
President Biden and Democrats in the Senate made significant progress in capping and reducing drug prices in the last Congress.
If this executive order has a positive impact on health care and on health care costs, that would be a good thing.
But so far, the record of what happened in the first Trump administration and what Republicans are trying to move forward right now in Congress would do the opposite.
throw millions of Americans off of healthcare as they make deep conversations It's almost a robotic response, right?
But for me, The thing that was telling is that he tried to play the game that his team has already made really great progress on cutting costs.
And again, let me say this.
I'll believe it when I see it.
And I think it's about way more than just cutting costs.
Now, in a moment, we are going to go to the big pharma.
Big Pharma pushing back on Trump and his executive order.
I will say this.
I am worried about price-fixing elements and the government getting too involved.
But if you already are in a monopolistic, collusive environment, you need to do something.
And the bottom line is, we are in that environment.
However, so much of it rides on that military-industrial complex, that scientific elite.
That goes beyond just people outside of the Trump administration or his backers.
This is the transhumanist movement.
This is Peter Thiel and others.
So I want to hit these stories, and we're going to hit that Big Pharma story as well.
So, beyond Cancer Moonshot, okay, AI is moving forward, okay?
And I want to play this piece here first, as we have the first U.S. medical school to fully incorporate AI that is extremely deceptive, that is garbage in, garbage out, that in many ways, again, is a tool, but when it's involved with my healthcare, All right?
We are talking about so many ethical dilemmas, and we'll get into some of those in a moment, but let's play this.
Becoming a part of our daily lives, whether in the office or the classroom.
For tonight's In-Depth, CBS's Tom Hansen reports on one medical school that has become the first in the nation to incorporate AI fully into its doctor training program.
Medical students are well-versed in the rigorous demands required of their education, but new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGBT-EDU from OpenAI are designed to help.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first medical school in the nation to grant access to the platform to all of its MD and graduate students.
We're going through a blood vessel.
Ferris Goulamaly uses it to prep for surgeries and improve his bedside manner when explaining complex diagnoses to patients.
Do you think that using AI shortened down the time it would have taken you had you not had that tool?
It really helped at least reframe the explanation.
OpenAI has collaborated with universities and med schools like Mount Sinai to ensure robust safeguards are in place to protect student and patient privacy.
I think in medicine and health in particular, it's essential that students learn how to use AI and how to use it safely.
Leah Belsky is OpenAI's VP and General Manager of Education.
She equates the impact of AI in the 21st century workplace to that of email and internet access in the 1990s.
One of these transformative tools that will be integrated.
It helps them to learn faster.
It helps them to discover new areas of knowledge.
It helps them to explore more deeply.
And so what we're really focused is making sure that there is equitable access to AI.
Vivek Kampa relies on the tech as support in complex research projects.
It gives me a pseudo-clinician-styled mentor who I can ask questions to at any time of day, as well as a pseudo-software engineering collaborator with whom I can debug problems that I'm having.
For Associate Professor Benjamin Glicksburg, these AI tools can be a real time-saver.
Now, as an educator, our time are limited.
As much as I want to be available to students, unfortunately, It doesn't always line up.
So this is like a really nice facilitator.
Growing with it as opposed to fearing this thing and holding it in this scary sense of it's going to replace us I think is really instrumental.
It's changed everything.
It's changed how I think.
It's changed how I interact with students.
It's changed how I mentor and even try to innovate myself.
An innovation in medicine that helps both doctor and patient.
Tom Hanson, CBS News.
Again, all positive, all pushing it.
It's inevitable.
They're not worried about AI getting it wrong.
They're worried about equitable access.
Equitable access.
And like the young med student, they're worried about his bedside manner?
Hey, how about a proper diagnosis and a proper treatment?
Bueller?
Bueller?
I mean, we're in Bizarro Town.
GPT taking over?
Yeah, great idea.
Again, there are ways and means and tools, but you've got to dig deep.
I've already, we've done, we need to do like a two-hour marathon episode of the deception of AI.
Right?
Because look, they're...
There are many a use and tool.
And it's just like a hammer.
It really is.
Build a house, bash ahead.
But just like a hammer, all right, there become bigger and better hammers.
Trump's out there, for instance, talking about all these weapons systems that we have that have not been publicly disclosed.
Yeah, we've been talking about those for years here.
For years.
Like, there becomes a level where all of a sudden it's beyond not a level playing field.
So, AI is a big part of that.
We've got to move towards humanity, not away from it.
Let's get into these articles.
Then we're going to play the big pharma response to the executive action.
And we're going to go to some of your questions and comments regarding healthcare.
Is this for real?
What do we need to be concerned about?
What do we need to give them kudos for?
AI tool accurately sorts cancer patients by their likely outcomes.
You know, once again, when we're talking about a subject as vast and varied and obfuscated as cancer, As profitable, as cancer, as complex as cancer?
AI predicting your outcome?
Boy, oh boy.
Don't love it.
Because there are people out there that beat the odds.
And believe me, I'm not saying it's easy.
It ain't.
But boy, when you beat the odds, And you do it in a non-traditional manner, they really do come after you.
Isn't that weird?
Isn't that odd?
It's a little bizarre, right?
They don't go, whoa!
How did you beat the odds?
No, you're encouraging dangerous behavior by not going through the norms.
The AI says so.
So, again, talking about mRNA, it does seem like right now, this is March, That researchers that are trying to get grants via NIH are told to just scrap it.
Now, again, the Atlantic is out there decrying the administration, saying it's all cronyism from here, right?
And, you know, because these tools aren't going to be available, right?
Like, you know, they're slow walking the you-know-what approvals.
Oh, no.
How terrible.
I mean, these are the types of things that I am happy about that do seem on a surface level to be a good thing.
But if Cancer Moonshot and other things are progressing, that means this experimentation somehow, someway is going to continue somewhere.
Now, at the same time, again, we're talking about this.
It looks like these trials are being halted.
It's a couple months ago.
Positive thing.
Florida had unanimous support for, you know what, in foods.
Good, good.
That later passed.
Well, in some ways saying that there had to have labels on the foods.
You know, banning the edible stuff.
Which, again, is paradoxical, but steps in the right direction.
States are echoing to ban mandates.
Iowa.
Bans administering the mRNA stuff.
It advances out of subcommittee recently.
This is in March.
Positive stuff.
But at the same time, Moderna and their UK facility have approval for You Know What, Ski and Hutch.
So, let's play Big Pharma's response to Trump, and then we're going to get into your questions, your comments, your concerns.
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Here it is.
Here's the NBC piece.
Joining me now is NBC News health and medical reporter, Berkeley Lovelace Jr., who's been digging into this, and I read your piece on NBCNews.com that really helps to explain what's going on here.
So the president said in his remarks today that prescription drug prices will drop, quote, almost immediately.
How realistic is that idea?
Yeah, so he did say that White House, they...
Actually, walk that back a little bit.
They actually said we expect relief very soon and we expect the drug makers to come to the table very soon.
So not exactly immediate.
But there are questions on whether or not Trump will be able to get this done and whether he has the legal authority to do this.
Right now, you'll recall the Biden administration negotiated drug prices under Medicare.
But that was passed under Congress, not an executive order.
And so this policy from Trump is much broader.
So he's saying that it will not only go after Medicare, but also will go for drugs under Medicaid and private insurance as well.
He even mentioned the weight loss drugs.
I was in Pickett-Wagovie saying that they'll target those as well.
But there's still a lot of questions of whether or not he has the authority.
I'm curious about the reaction to this.
We know the president signed a less aggressive version of this executive order during his first term.
There was pushback from the drug medication industry at that time.
Is the pharmaceutical industry responding this time around?
How might they respond going forward?
Yeah, so as you know, they did block Trump's original version of that plan as well.
And so they are already pushing back now.
We're already getting responses.
AstraZeneca responded today to us.
Pharma, the drug industry trade group.
Also responded to us, they said that we should instead focus on insurance companies and middlemen rather than pharmaceutical companies, which is a very common line of argument from them.
No lawsuits yet, but we should expect some more lawsuits to come.
I want to play something for our viewers, something the president said earlier today.
Watch this.
The pharmaceutical companies make most of their money, most of their profits.
From America.
Basically, what we're doing is equalizing.
There's a new word that I came up with, which I think is probably the best word.
We're going to equalize.
We're all going to pay the same.
So, Berkeley, can you sort of help us fact check some of what we just heard here from the president, this idea that Americans are paying more than folks in other countries?
Or pharmaceutical companies are making more from Americans here.
What exactly are the differences sort of between what other wealthy nations are spending on medication versus the U.S.?
Yeah, so that's actually true.
So we do have the highest drug prices in the world.
We pay something like up to 10 times more than what other wealthy nations pay.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that drug companies in the U.S. have basically had free reign to charge whatever they want or whatever the market will bear.
Other countries, other wealthy countries, they often negotiate their drug prices.
And so I do find it interesting, though, that the Trump administration has not been supporting the Biden-Medicare drug pricing negotiations because they are able there to negotiate prices under Medicare, I think, today.
So again, like, there is no argument.
They don't have a real argument against it.
And even with the fact, give me a little fact check.
Well, no, it's actually true that we paid ten times more.
All right.
We're going to leave it there.
We're going to take your questions and comments.
Get them in.
We're going to ride this one pretty quick.
Let's see what we got.
Trash Surgeon General pick.
Well, if you're following me on X for more than posts on the Meth Raccoon.
I mean, that's a real thing, folks.
Do you want some Meth Raccoon?
I didn't think I was going to give everybody Meth Raccoon, but this is what you're missing out on X. Hello?
The raccoon has her meth pipe.
Has what?
Oh my god.
Her meth pipe.
He's playing with the meth pipe right now.
No, don't reach for it.
That's evidence now.
I don't want him to have that.
Well, that's why I'm going to do it.
Hey, buddy.
Huh?
It's okay.
I mean, that's not AI.
That's not satire.
We don't live in a simulation.
That's a meth raccoon.
But, if you want to talk about the Surgeon General, There's a great...
And actually, these are really cool.
I don't know what app she's using for this, but this is Destiny Resendez as a bartender talking about Casey Means for Surgeon General and why she is not encouraged by that pick.
And I think it is a great...
In fact, maybe it's three minutes long.
Let's play it.
It's worth the play.
Wait, you know what?
I would play it.
There's a little bit of dirty language in it.
And maybe I'm trying to cut that down on this format.
So we're not going to go to that.
But totally worth it.
It's not PG-13.
It's a hard R. But please go check it out.
Alright, let's see.
Slippin' Dude Stylin' with a new plane.
Talking about the guitar plane.
That's a whole other subject.
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Yes, I agree that warp speed is a huge blemish.
Jason, loved your last podcast.
Want to help get the word out we need better vehicles to do this.
It's got to be email chains and grassroots support.
Social media ain't doing it.
I say it all the time.
Through a multitude of platforms.
Through YouTube, Rumble, Rockfin, X, Band.Video, and Patriot.
We kick, scream, and scratch for the thousands of views we get.
Just the way it is.
Just the way it is.
It's a raw and honest interview.
Everybody should check on YouTube.
I don't know what we're talking about there.
Don't worry, Berman, Trump, and Bobby's Universal flu.
Hey, now.
They're dumping $500 million.
It's going to be different this time.
Let's look that up.
Let's see where that's at.
You know, because I think that I've talked about some of the funding.
Let's see.
Because that's a valid criticism, right?
Let's see what AI says.
Let's see.
The query for five likely refers to the funding under the Trump administration.
This is three days ago.
Gold standard or appalling?
$500 million.
On inactivated viruses, puzzles field.
I'm going to have to read into this.
Because, again, I don't want any more hate and lie shots.
I don't want that to be promoted.
That's for darn sure.
Pretty much every time Trump opens his mouth, you can expect some bullshits, according to the Nightwatch.
I know of people who died of turbos and we're not even getting into it.
Not even getting into that.
Because again, huge blemish.
Trump and Elon are hanging with Qatar and the EAU on multi-billion dollar business deals.
Yes, you know what?
Obviously not covering that today.
I've seen some of the speeches.
I mean, I'm almost indifferent.
I want to work with world leaders.
Saudi Arabia has at least kept us away from hot wars.
Obviously, they're rolling 9-11 with the funding and some of the citizenry is troublesome.
But really, in Jeddah, a lot of that was the Central Intelligence Agency.
And if you don't think there's a lot of cohesion there, well, come on.
Come on now, UAE.
Let's see.
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Do or not, maybe.
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The Dems use the word progress for try while doing nothing that actually happens.
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Hey everybody, Jason Burmis here and today we're going to talk about the RFK Jr. hearing but really we're going to talk about the beginning of the hearing because we could do a whole episode and we may actually do a whole episode on the hearing, its content.
The talk of fluoride and beyond.
There's a lot I like about what RFK Jr. is saying and hopefully doing.
You know, we have this whole broadcast on NBC just berating the new head of the FDA about daring to take fluoride off the market and maybe, maybe take it out of the water supply.
Oh me, oh my.
And there's a moment of that in this hearing as well.
However, That is not what we're going to be focusing on.
Instead, we're going to be talking about Code Pink and them coming in here and talking about Gaza and essentially this idea that they are not feeding and starving children in Gaza while cutting Medicaid here in the United States to pay for it.
That's my problem.
You know, originally I was going to retweet out the confrontation of RFK Jr. and Code Pink and Ben Cohen of Ben& Jerry's fame, the delicious ice cream brand.
Little overpriced, little overhyped.
There is some good stuff in there.
You know, his mantra about Medicaid, it rubbed me the wrong way because that's really what we're going to focus on.
It's not going to be a long video.
The whole thing with Gaza is a no-brainer to me.
I think that, number one, I can see why RFK Jr. is a target because his stance on Gaza has not been good.
And that, I think, is one of his biggest problems.
Talk now of Trump and Netanyahu having a falling out.
I don't know whether or not that's real.
I hope that Trump is trying to move in the direction of peace.
I realize we're a little over 100 days in here, but remember, he wanted to get these things done day one.
Obviously, they're not.
So when Code Pink steps in there and does this, I kind of applaud it.
For those that haven't been with me for 10, 15, 20 years, Maybe those who have been with me for five, you know that I'm politically homeless.
Maybe you don't know that I've marched with Code Pink in the past via the 9-11 truth movement.
You know, people like Cindy Sheehan, who I have great respect for, you know, has worked with Code Pink in the past.
I don't think they get everything right.
This issue I think they're right on.
However, associating it with Medicaid, that's where you lose me, and I think that you lose a lot of people.
So what we're going to do...
We're going to hit a couple stories.
We're going to show the confrontation.
RFK Jr., by the way, in the very beginning of it, visually shaken.
And you can see why.
Assassination attempts on Trump.
I'm sure he feels unease with what's happened to his father, his uncle.
But he moves super quick when the first woman begins to speak.
And the other thing that she says is that RFK Jr. kills people with hate.
I'm not seeing that.
You want to put a message out about the atrocities that are going on in the Middle East to de-escalate what is going on?
I'm all about it.
All about it.
I'm not necessarily sure Trump did that, obviously, when he retweeted that AI video of making a beachfront property with a big golden idol Trump with a musker nuts on vacation and him and Bibby on the beach.
Like, super bad move.
Super bad look.
Right?
I'm a First Amendment guy.
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I'm a freedom of speech guy.
Half of this, I think they get spot on.
The other half is what we're going to talk about.
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And again, the kickoff is RFK kills people with hate.
I've got to tell you, again, we're parting ways on that one.
But let's watch the rest of the video and talk about why I think the Medicaid issue is a totally separate one.
Let's do it.
I can't kill people!
I can't kill people!
Members of the audience are reminded disruptions will not be permitted while the committee conducts its business.
Capitol Police are asked to remove the individuals from the hearing room.
The officers killed.
Ben, why are you getting arrested?
Move down the hallway.
Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the U.S. Ben, what are you calling for the Congress and senators to do for Gaza?
They need to let food into Gaza.
They need to let food to starving kids.
Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the U.S. I don't think there's a correlation there.
That's my big...
I think the Medicaid program is a bad one overall.
Hate to tell everybody that.
And we're going to go over some numbers in a minute.
One of the first things, however, I did was I looked up this reference.
Are they kicking kids off of Medicaid?
Now, as a kid raised on Medicaid, I hated welfare medicine.
I hated welfare.
I still...
Hate welfare medicine.
A lot of grifters out there.
I do understand the need for it in some cases, especially for children.
But you moved into socialized medicine.
You move into an arena where you're not treated the way people with money are.
Okay?
I mean, there are tears to the grift because if Medicaid will pay for something for a certain class of people, doctors get on board.
Same thing with the insurance companies.
I'm hoping and praying, again, this administration is going to try to fix some of that, that these executive orders about drug prices are real, and that's going to move some of this away.
But again, if they were kicking kids off of Medicaid, I wanted to be intellectually honest about that.
So I looked it up, and I'm just going to read to you.
Apparently, this is what these new bills...
By the Republicans are suggesting via Medicaid.
Then we're going to go over the sheer numbers of Medicaid, by the way.
Okay?
So here it is in the very thing.
The panel voted along party lines 30 to 24 after a marathon meeting that lasted more than 26 hours with just two breaks in the House votes.
All right?
So, again, it's been passed so far.
We'll see where it goes.
But...
Here's where the new provisions are.
The GOP plan calls for states to impose work requirements on childless adults ages 19 to 64. Okay.
I'm all about that.
I am all about...
You don't have kids and you're not working?
You'd have to work to at least get...
Okay.
Is that a problem?
With certain exemptions.
Again.
Okay.
Good.
It puts a stop to a long-standing practice of states leaving taxes on health providers to pay for their Medicaid programs to boost their federal match.
Good.
Good.
It would penalize states.
That pay for Medicaid for those who entered the country without authorization.
Again, non-citizens on Medicaid.
I'm sorry.
Like, I don't want to encourage people to get free health care as bad as it is here.
When you see the numbers on Medicaid in a minute, I hope that it shocks people.
Alright?
I hope it shocks people.
So, none of that talked about...
Kids losing Medicaid.
And the military-industrial complex is going to march on.
And I'm just, again, I'm going to tell you, I hate the program.
I hate the program.
Now, am I against kids getting medical care?
No.
Of course not.
Of course not.
But I got to tell you, again, there are so many people that End up grifting the system, getting Medicaid that wouldn't really qualify, that have jobs on the side.
It's a problem with all these social programs.
And then the reality of it, all the money that gets put in, what kind of care are you really getting?
Remember, this is a medical system that at this very hearing, they're talking about finally banning prescription fluoride tablets.
Go watch what I had to say about that on the earlier broadcast.
Broadcast.
So now, what's the ballpark of how many Americans?
We have 340 million American citizens here.
Let me show you something.
Almost 80 million!
80 million are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, which is Children's Health Insurance Program.
Okay?
72.3 million in Medicaid and 7.2 million in CHIP.
That translates to roughly 40.6 million adults and 36.8 million children receiving health care through those programs.
That is more than the number of people that live in the United Kingdom, that live in France, the entire populations of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, and Poland.
And rivals Germany and Turkey.
Okay, just to put you into a comparison of European nations.
Is that a good idea?
I don't think so.
Call me kooky.
And again, I don't think that they're related.
I want peace, but do I want childless people not working getting that free healthcare?
They don't correlate.
Folks, short and sweet on this one.
You know the drill.
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I don't think these are right and left issues.
I understand they want to put them along party lines.
I'm not buying it.
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