od. You'd love to see it over 50% but in today's day and age 46% is pretty strong. So and I guess he got a bounce. He took a little dump over the summer after the 100 days was over but he's sort of bounced back.

And I guess John Zogby says that at that level of approval he is impeachment proof. So even if the Democrats took control of the House you would be impeachment proof. I think he was impeachment proof anyway but that helps.

Let's see. Speaking of polls, Rasmussen had a poll that said that 53% of likely voters under 40 want a socialist president in 2028. The Post Millennial is writing about this. Does that even sound real? How many of you are shaking your heads right now and saying did I hear that wrong? 53% of likely voters under 40 want a socialist president like right away.

Now I do this thing where I try to put myself in other people's shoes and just literally just see if I can imagine it just to try to see what would be behind that. Now your first impression is that what's behind it is that they're poorly educated about the risks and rewards right? That's your first impression. Well they must be poorly informed or poorly educated because there's no way that anybody would want a socialist president.

But keep in mind that there's a lot of news around the fact that young people don't believe that they can achieve the American dream. So I wind myself backwards in time. I go what if I were 20 years old and didn't believe there was any path for me to get a house someday or to be married with a family or something? What if I thought there was no real practical way that could ever happen for me? Would I be in favor of capitalism and I still have to work hard and I couldn't even find a job and I can't stay employed long enough to have health care and the robots are coming going to take my job?

So I got to say that if I subtract from my assumptions that the American dream, work hard and go to school and stay out of trouble gets you almost anything you want, if I take that out of my assumptions and you make me 20 years old, would I be leaning socialist? And maybe would socialist just mean something different to me? Because maybe all it would mean is free health care and free education and free transportation. Suppose that's all it meant. Well I mean that's a lot. But if I were young I could very easily see myself being persuaded into the same camp.

So if you think this is some kind of a fleeting thing that maybe is just going to be limited to New York City I don't think so. I think that unless something fundamentally changes where everybody can get what they want which is sort of the promise of the robot age but I'm a little bit skeptical that it will go that way very quickly. I don't know. It's going to be a whole lot of people who are going to try to vote other people's money into their pocket because they won't have access to making their own money. You know it won't even be their fault.

What would you do if your only choice was to vote somebody else's money into your pocket because you didn't have the option of just working hard and making your own money? What would you do? So something's got to change.

Trump was asked about the new thing in Florida where Florida dropped all mandates for vaccinations in schools. And I'm no medical expert so I have mixed feelings about it. So I'm more of a wait and see. Certainly we'll know maybe in two or three years, maybe much less. Won't we know pretty soon if Florida is killing a bunch of kids accidentally by creating a situation where they're less likely to get vaccinated? I mean so it's an experiment which I feel like is worthy because it seems to me there are enough people concerned about the risks of any health risks from the vaccinations themselves if they feel that the science has not been sufficient or that maybe the people who do the science can't be trusted.

It's a reasonable parental decision that some people will make to get vaccinated and some will make to not get vaccinated. But we'll at least know if it made a difference. We'll at least know. And the people who do get vaccinated, if the vaccinations work, well they don't have to worry about getting it right? So the only people who have to worry about it are the people who didn't get vaccinated. Maybe I'm oversimplifying it but I think that's true. So they would know what risk they're taking.

So I don't know. I like the freedom of it but until we know if it causes massive deaths or something which I doubt but we'll know pretty soon then I don't have to guess.

And according to Oregon Health and Science University there's new evidence. This will make you crazy. That childhood vaccinations can last for decades. So boosters are not necessary for some things. And I think that they mentioned tetanus and diphtheria booster shots. So apparently for years and years people have been getting these booster shots that the data does not support make any difference at all.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Science and guessing almost identical except that guessing is a little bit better. And that's not even a joke. If you flipped a coin you'd at least get 50%. But science I believe is less because there's so many ways it can get distorted beyond chance.

All right. There was a new Gates-backed study according to Modernity. John Fleet was writing about it. So Bill Gates backed the study. They found that the seasonal flu shots are linked to, oh just shoot me, are linked to 27% higher heart injury risk the Lancet reports. So seniors vaccinated for influenza experience more heart injuries not fewer.

So and how did they get the wrong answer? Well apparently it was a statistical trick with the data. No really. So the data had always showed that it was riskier for your heart but there was a little bit of gamesmanship with the statistics to make it go away. But it doesn't go away in the real world. It's just you can game it away with the statistics. And so they did.

And that's one of the reasons that anyway according to them. So that's suboptimal.

And now here according to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine after 40 years heart doctors say beta blockers may do more harm than good. Do you see the theme? By the way these are just these are stories today. What's the rest of the week look like? This just today. How many stories can there be just today that some gigantically major thing in healthcare was just wrong?

All right. So apparently the beta blockers it looks like maybe they had been good at some point but when matched with other modern stuff that generally comes at the same time they might not mesh good with that. So it has more to do with how they interact with other treatments but the bottom line is beta blockers may be a little more risky than you thought.

And then there's also a report I don't know how confirmed it is probably no more confirmed than anything else but there's allegations that Tylenol taken during pregnancy might be linked to autism. So there's that.

And then Bill Maher had his show last night. And on Saturday we're always talking about the clips that come out of that. I was going to say something mean but then I withdrew it. But then I might as well. I'll just say the mean thing at the end.

Okay. So Bill Maher has decided that RFK Jr. is nutty and that he's got to go. Now you've seen most of the Democrats complaining about RFK Jr. Can anybody give me an example of what he's done on the job? Because that's the part that matters. What has he done on the job that would classify as nutty? Can anybody give me one example? I mean even one is an example.

I believe the only one that Bill Maher mentioned was that he fired a massive bunch of people th