Back to episode — Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24
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se you mentioned. So you didn't like some of his policies, and I get that. I would just note that if you're trying to figure out who's the bad guy in this situation, Cat Turd lied about me in public. Cat Turd went after my reputation with lies, or maybe just wrong. I can't tell if he was just stupid or wrong. But I blocked him a long time ago because he's not a good guy and he's not smart. He's en…
← Previous segment →ld you that there was somebody who got fired for criticizing Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and COVID, aren't you thinking to yourself, sounds like some basic white conservative here? Here's what we know about this Filipina American doctor. So first of all, Filipina. Second of all, she had a stellar record. She raised black children. Oh wait. What if somebody who raises black children criticizes Black Lives Matter and you're canceling her? What? That's pretty extreme. I mean, I don't know how much each of these things figured into it. But apparently she is credited, according to Jonathan Turley, with creating a program to reflect cultural differences in birthing practices to better serve her diverse patients. Now, you know I'm not the woke guy, but isn't that like a really good piece of work? Changing the birthing practices so they take into account any cultural differences. Now to me that's just good. That's all good, right? You know, I get the argument you don't want the country overrun with new cultures and stuff. But if you're dealing with real human beings and real medical situations in America, yes, their specific cultural situation should be accounted for.
And then apparently she argued that her colleagues turned it into a program for quote racially segregated care, which was not the idea. That's not the idea. I mean that's completely ruining the idea. And objected to certain orthodoxy over race essential views. So Dr. Tara Gustilo sounds like one of the best human beings I've ever heard of from top to bottom. And she won. Sometimes good people win.
Argentina. Their new president Milei announced something that confused me. So I spread some fake news that I quickly deleted after I found out. But somebody summarized the news in a way that was misleading and it fooled me. But it said Milei has announced that he's abolished over 90% of Argentina's taxes. Now I thought that that meant he got rid of 90% of Argentinian taxes. But apparently getting rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes, what it really means is sources of taxes. It's not 90% of the taxes. It's 90% of the sources of taxation. So apparently they got taxed for just about everything they did. He thinks he can get it down to six kinds of taxes, which would be good. But I'm going to go on record, just so I've said it, this Argentina miracle does not look real to me. It's pinging every one of my warning flags. Warning, warning, this story might be a little bit too hyperbolic because it looks a little too magically successful. The real world is way messier than this sounds. I mean, you know, if you come in and you make these major structural changes, I do believe that the kinds of changes he's making will set up Argentina for a very bright future. So I do believe it's all good. I don't believe that it's all good so fast. It's the so fast part that I'm like, really? On the other hand, so we'll argue both sides of this. If I were the person transforming the country and part of my suc
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cess depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more, I probably would exaggerate my success early and I'd tell everybody, ah, it's working, it's working like crazy, it's so fast, I'll do more of it. So on one hand I don't mind. I mean it seems a functional bit of marketing if you say you're doing a little bit better than you are. I just feel like if he can get everything good with…
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