Nov152022

Episode 633 – Really? That’s Racist Too?

Joe Biden is at the G20 in Bali, Indonesia and Xi Jinping made him pee his pants.

This China virus thing is never going to end.

And everything is racist.

 

So, How Did It Go?

Joe Biden was in Bali, Indonesia yesterday and had a three hour meeting with Xi Jinping. After that, he had a press conference. You can imagine that after an 18-hour flight and a three hour meeting, that speech was going to be a little iffy. And it was.

The introduction of the speech was Joe being unifying as usual. Calling Americans names and touting how he’s the big boy on the block because he didn’t lose the House and the Senate. Here he is:

That’s what he should be doing in a foreign country, saying that half of all Americans are bad people. That’s never come back to bite him in the ass before.

I also want to point out that if Republicans were voted in, Democracy would be dead. Vote for us or there is no Democracy. I would have loved to hear what he said if they had lost.

Here he is saying something without really saying anything:

OK, what does that mean? Where do you stand? What did you tell him and what did he tell you? There is nothing released in the official transcript. He doesn’t say anything in his speech.

Well, Xi said something to Biden and it wasn’t comforting.

Now, here he is taking questions from the press. Of course, the press has been pre-selected by “they” whoever that is.

Who’s running this show? Joe’s the President of the United States. He wants to spend another two hours answering questions, then he does it. More weakness. More signs that he’s not running things. He’s not in charge. What he says doesn’t matter.

Here he is just being Old Joe:

China’s quaking in their boots. This old fart can’t even read a notecard that is in front of him.

This was the big question. Is China going to invade Taiwan and what are we going to do about it:

So, according to Joe Biden, we are not in a cold war and Taiwan is not planning to invade. You know what the problem old Joe is having? China seems to say something different.

Xi told Biden, according to the Chinese transcript:

Xi “stressed that the Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests, the bedrock of the political foundation of China-US relations, and the first red line that must not be crossed in China-US relations.” 

So, who do you believe?

They never talked about:

  • Fentanyl.
  • Unfair trade practices.
  • Stealing of technical data.
  • Where the China virus came from.
  • China’s One Road Belt policy.
  • Of China’s attempt to use China’s currency as the reserve currency.

But they did talk about climate change. By the way, China is the highest producer of carbon emissions.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/biden-says-taiwan-invasion-by-china-not-imminent-after-xi-meeting/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/14/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-meeting-with-president-xi-jinping-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/

 

But I Thought It Was Over

Just when you thought this whole COVID thing was over, the Biden administration has decided to keep it going.

According to the Daily Caller:

The United States Department of Health and Human Services did not inform states or healthcare providers of any intent to lift the COVID public health emergency by its Friday deadline, extending the emergency into at least January.

In October, HHS extended the COVID public health emergency to January 11. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has promised to give 60 days notice before lifting the declaration to allow preparation for a return to normal operations.

A declaration of a public health emergency affects American’s access to health insurance. Up to 15 million people will be unenrolled from Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs if the declaration is lifted. A public health emergency also makes it easier to access vaccines against COVID-19.

They are expecting that this “emergency” is going to last until, at least, April. Mind you, in September, Biden said the pandemic was over. His staff quickly walked it back.

They never want this pandemic to end. They want to redistribute money and get the people dependent in the government. Klaus Schwab wrote about it in his book COVID 19 and the Great Reset, which Joe Biden is a big supporter of. They need this to continue on before they declare that the “climate crisis” is the great emergency and the government can lock us down again.

But there is one thing that is standing in the way: an Armed American people and the Constitution. That’s why Democrats are so hot on disarming the country. Think this is a conspiracy theory? Read Klaus Schwab’s book. It says it.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/12/biden-admin-to-extend-covid-public-health-emergency-into-january-2023/

 

Everything is Racist!

Though CNN has changed their entire prime time cast because their ratings are so bad, they still maintain the same old narrative. That is, everything is racist.

Niquel Taylor Ellis and Justin Gamble wrote and article for CNN called “Stacked Against You”: Critics Say the Lottery System is Preying on Poor Communities. That’s right, the lottery is racist.

Let’s go through it:

As lottery players across the nation accept that they didn’t win the historic $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot this week, experts are pointing to the flaws of a lottery system they say unfairly targets poor Black and brown communities.

News flash to CNN, white people play lotto too.

Lottery officials say the lone winning ticket holder of the largest lottery prize ever was sold in Altadena, California. The winner matched all six numbers – the odds of which were 1 in 292.2 million.

But despite the extremely low chances of anyone winning, state lotteries continue to market and sell tickets to low income communities at higher rates leading those Americans to believe it’s a quick way to build wealth, researchers say. These communities are disproportionately made up of Black and brown people. Critics say the consequence is that marginalized people will be driven into deeper debt by a system that is transferring wealth out of their communities.

He said that black and brown communities were more effected already. Remember, repeat enough times and people will believe. And marketed toward black and brown communities? Really? Don’t the people, no matter their race, have any responsibility for buying to many tickets? Are black and brown people too stupid to know they shouldn’t waste a pay check on Lotto tickets?

Lotteries are regressive, meaning lower-income groups spend more of their budgets on lottery games than higher-income groups.

Far more money is wagered every year on instant scratch-off games, which studies show attract more low-income gamblers, than huge jackpot drawings such as Powerball.

They’re gamblers now?

Les Bernal, national director for Stop Predatory Gambling, called it a form of “systemic racism” and “consumer financial fraud.”

Bernal said poor people are being scammed into believing they will someday gain wealth from a winning lottery ticket.

Of course it’s systemic racism. Everything is systemic racism.

By the way, not sure of your odds? Look on the back of the ticket. They are there.

“They’re hoping to pay their rent at the end of the month or pay an outstanding medical bill or put their kids through college or they just lost their job and they’re just trying to find a way to make ends meet,” Bernal said. “And here you have what is a government program encouraging citizens to lose their money on rigged games.”

“Rigged games”? Doesn’t somebody always win?

I also want to point out the author does not say anything about these people taking personal responsibility for their own actions. If they can’t afford to spend the $2 on a ticket, then don’t. Also, why are they poor? Shouldn’t these people try to improve themselves?

In reality, lottery players are continuously paying into a lottery system that, in most cases, gives them nothing in return, Bernal said. A portion of lottery revenue goes to participating states that legislators can decide how to allocate.

“Commercialized gambling like state lotteries, like the Powerball drawing, they represent a financial exchange that is mathematically stacked against you,” Bernal said.

A study by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism found that stores selling lottery tickets are disproportionately located in poor communities of every state. In most cases, the money these residents spend on lottery tickets does not come back to their communities but rather to colleges and wealthier school districts, the study found.

Bullshit. You can buy lottery tickets anywhere. Even rich neighborhoods.

Lottery ticket sales have jumped to $82 billion from $47 billion since 2005, according to the report, which notes that lotteries generate more revenue than corporate income taxes in 10 states.

The Howard Center pointed to a 1999 report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission that found that Black and low-income people as well as high school dropouts were the most frequent lottery players.

“Poor people are collateral damage to a cause of raising money for what the legislators feel is good purposes … public safety, local schools,” former Massachusetts inspector general Gregory W. Sullivan said, according to the Howard Center article. “State governments become dependent on the revenue and any moral considerations get pushed out of view and out of mind.”

Again, the people who waste their money on the lottery have no responsibility. They are victims.

Jonathan Cohen, author of “For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America,” said the lottery represents a “mechanism of the American dream” for many people. Cohen said when the economy and unemployment rates are suffering, many lottery players see the game as a chance to get ahead.

No, the American Dream has nothing to do with winning the lottery. The American Dream involves equal opportunity and hard work combined with making the right decisions means one can succeed.

“And for folks who, especially Black and brown Americans, maybe face discrimination in the traditional economy, well, the lottery doesn’t discriminate, anyone has just as terrible odds of winning,” Cohen said.

David Just, a professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University, had a similar take.

Just said during tough economic times, people are more likely to make risky spending decisions. For example, Just noted that during the Covid-19 pandemic there was an uptick in lottery playing. Just called it a “setback mentality that puts them in a risk-taking mode.” He said low-income people should instead be saving money and building wealth.

Again, good decisions will lead to the American Dream. It is not going to be found on an orange ticket. Risky spending decisions does not make for a good decision.

“It’s an investment,” Just said. “It may not be a good investment but… to people with limited resources, this may be the only way they have to sort of dream big and think that something, something great is gonna happen, that’s just gonna change everything.”

Spending money on a lottery ticket is not an investment. It’s gambling.

This is an example of the bigotry of low expectations.

https://nypost.com/web-stories/lottery-accused-of-systemic-racism-after-powerball-payout/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/us/lottery-jackpot-systemic-racism-reaj/index.html