nk we'd know about it by now? Because Kennedy would say, "All right, I looked at the science. It's very clear that there is no group that can be benefited by it more than they might be hurt." Wouldn't you know that by now?

And so I'm wondering cuz I'm coming from a point of ignorance, not from a point of if it sounds like I'm trying to win an argument here, that's not what's happening. I'm trying to understand how the things I'm observing fit together. How could it be that the number one strongest skeptic, I'll use that word, of vaccinations, who has now access to the most reliable complete evidence on the topic, he's not yet having been there for months and months, he's not there yet to say that the COVID vax is more bad than good. And my understanding which could be wrong is that the reason some people left the CDC is that Kennedy is leaning toward but doesn't have science to back it yet. Leaning toward that the COVID vax maybe wasn't good for anybody. When I say anybody there still could be some specific exceptions but generally speaking it wouldn't be good.

So I don't know if that's true, but the one thing that we can say with some confidence is that there is not really strong evidence that is always bad all the time, right? Are we all on the same page? Because Kennedy would be all over that. He would I think he would fight that to the death. If the science said nobody benefited under any condition, he would tell us that, right? So it has to be true that even though there might be some studies that suggest that that maybe they're not meeting the scientific standard that he's comfortable with, which is to me this is a tremendous credibility booster because the easiest thing for him to do would be to sort of agree with the public. All right, we're going to get rid of these. Well actually I don't know what percentage of the public agrees with that but certainly the Republicans would be more likely to say all right we like that and he still doesn't have the data to do it anyway. He might. So I'm not going to predict that it will never exist. It might but it doesn't exist yet. Apparently it doesn't exist.

Putin's doing that four-day visit in China, and they're trying to make it look like they're best buds now, China and Russia, and it's signaling that the tariffs won't work because, you know, they'll just do more business with China. To which I say, why is it that we can't tell as consumers of news, we really can't tell if the Russian economy is on the brink of collapse, which some people say, or is it invulnerable because they can always just do more business with China if they need to. So which is it? Is Russia on the verge of economic collapse or is it nowhere near it? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm going to say that my gut is that they're not that close to any kind of collapse. I'd be surprised actually because they just have too much energy. They're going to find some way to sell the energy no matter what.

All right, that ladies and gentlemen is my Labor Day show. I feel it was a lot better with the wig on, but I'll take it off for the end. I'm going to say a few words privately to the beloved subscribers at Locals. The rest of you have a good day off. I hope most of you have the day off. And we'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place. Locals, I'll be private with you in 30 seconds, which gives us just enough time.