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Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast
for the week of September 28 2025,
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the podcast that sends out
an aroma of undefined love.
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This is your host, Shane Killian.
Let's ornate the News of the Bogus.
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And thanks to the House Judiciary Committee, we
now have confirmation, direct from Google itself,
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that at the behest of the Biden Administration,
YouTube censored information about COVID-19
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z`that ran contrary to information the
government wanted people to have.
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This resulted in many voices,
especially conservatives,
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being wrongfully banned from YouTube
without a single policy violation,
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other than the unspoken policy about not
saying things the government doesn't like.
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Google attorney Daniel Donovan said in
a letter to committee chair Jim Jordan:
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"Senior Biden Administration officials,
including White House officials,
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conducted repeated and
sustained outreach to Alphabet
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and pressed the Company regarding
certain user-generated content
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related to the COVID-19 pandemic
that did not violate its policies.
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While the Company continued to develop
and enforce its policies independently,
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Biden Administration officials continued to press the
Company to remove non-violative user-generated content.
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As online platforms, including Alphabet,
grappled with these decisions,
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the Administration's officials, including
President Biden, created a political atmosphere
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that sought to influence the actions of platforms
based on their concerns regarding misinformation.
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It is unacceptable and wrong when any
government, including the Biden Administration,
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attempts to dictate how the
Company moderates content,
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and the Company has consistently fought against
those efforts on First Amendment grounds."
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This comes on the heals of similar
revelations by Mark Zuckerberg
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about the level of pressure the federal government
put on Facebook to censor user content.
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YouTube is now saying that these creators
will be allowed back on to the platform,
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and they're also swearing off the
third party so-called "fact-checkers".
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According to Jordan, YouTube
began rolling back these policies
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after the Judiciary Committee began its
investigation into Biden Administration censorship.
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Jordan wrote: "This is another victory
in the fight against censorship.
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Even as Meta admitted the Biden-Harris censorship was wrong,
others in Big Tech were reluctant to go on the record.
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Now Google is acknowledging, for the first time, that it
too faced censorship pressure from the Biden White House
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and that pressure was
unacceptable and wrong."
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He also mentioned that YouTube is
trying out the Community Notes feature
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that was innovated on X and has
since been adopted by Meta.
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This is only part of
the problem, though.
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Donovan pointed out that this is very
much an issue in Europe, quote:
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"The Committee has taken important
investigative steps to highlight
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that onerous obligations under laws such as
the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act
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may stifle innovation and
restrict access to information.
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These laws place a disproportionate
regulatory burden on American companies,
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and the Company has long expressed its concern about
the risk that the DSA may pose to freedom of expression
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within and outside of the European Union, depending
on how certain provisions may be enforced.
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The DSA could be interpreted in
such a way as to require Alphabet
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and other providers of intermediary
services to remove lawful content,
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jeopardizing the companies' ability to
develop and enforce global policies
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that support rights to free expression
and access to information.
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The DSA may open avenues for
substantive regulation of lawful speech,
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including through risk mitigation, the use
of codes of conduct and crisis protocols,
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and the out-of-court dispute
settlement mechanism."
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Also, sadly, there's no indication that
YouTube is even acknowledging
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let alone correcting the problems
that smaller channels face,
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in not getting proper recommendations
or even shown to our subscribers.
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Still, baby steps, I guess.
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Presenting: the greatest
game this side of Yuggoth!
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You are H.P. Lovecraft's
cat, and your name is Ni***
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...Right. We can't say that on a podcast. Anyway,
that's the point: Your name is a joke to him.
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So now, you are out for revenge!
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Using the Necronomicon, you come
to the present day to buy a gun
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to go vanquish him once and for all.
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But the Necronomicon is devious, and it
summoned Lovecraft's monsters as well.
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Now, in a crumbling world, you
must fight for the revenge you seek.
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Fight monsters. Gain allies. Buy guns
and armor for yourself and your team.
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Defeat the bosses of each level.
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Then get your revenge
against Lovecraft himself.
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Play Lovecraft's Cat! The
link is at cat.bogosity.tv.
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Yeah, we're doing cat.bogosity.tv,
not...that other one.
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What, you want me to get kicked
off the Internet or something?
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Of course, it's important to know what's free speech
and what isn't. What this story is about, isn't.
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Two sisters, Kerri and Kaylee Rollo, decided
that their dislike of Charlie Kirk was so great
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that merely complaining about
him on TikTok wasn't enough.
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So, as filmed by a passerby, the sisters completely
vandalized his memorial in Bentonville, Arkansas,
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kicking over candles, ripping up
homemade signs and letters,
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and tearing up flags and flowers and
turning them into a pile of garbage.
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The elder sister, Kerri, then said, quote:
"He lived as he died, promoting violence,"
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apparently unaware
of the complete irony.
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Additionally, no one can seem to come
up with any video clip or anything else
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of him actually promoting
violence of any kind.
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Understand, people: Westboro Baptist Church,
at their worst, never did anything like this!
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They stuck to holding up their hateful, disgusting
signs while standing on public sidewalks,
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staying completely within
the bounds of free speech.
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So then, the Rollo sisters were
arrested and jailed. Go figure, huh?
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In addition, Kerri was fired from her job and Kaylee's
boyfriend dumped her and told her to move out.
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The ex-boyfriend's mother said, quote: "Kaylee
has lived in my home now for over a year,
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and I have never once cut her down or not
allowed her to have the beliefs that she has.
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However, I will not allow someone living in
my home to be OK or celebrate a murder.
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I will never allow someone to live in my home who
is OK with destroying a memorial for someone else."
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So now, they're out on
a bond of over $22,000.
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Benton County Justice of the Peace
Joseph Bollinger said, quote:
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"Everyone has a right to be able to
express their freedom of expression.
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But what the issue is, is when you trample on
someone's memorial, the human act of grieving,
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you're not just trampling on
their freedom of expression.
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You're trampling on the memory of a person.
You're trampling on our Benton County values."
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So now, of course, they're begging for money and
making themselves out to be heroes. They screeched:
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"After the recent events Charlie Kirk's death,
my sibling and I are being doxxed online
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and my sibling was
fired from their job.
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This is direct violation of their first
amendment rights and unconstitutional.
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This is unfortunate, but anything helps. Please
help my sibling while they look for another job
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and stand against the tyranny
that is creeping into the country.
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Update: My sibling and I were arrested for this protest.
We have been threatened, doxxed, harassed, and fired.
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Please consider donating for
legal counsel and court fees."
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Listen, stupid heads: You were not exercising your
First Amendment rights! You were committing vandalism!!!
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As of this podcast prep, they've raised
almost $23,000 of their $28,000 goal.
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Apparently, though, a lot of that
was people donating tiny amounts
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just so they could comment and tell them
how horrible they were. For example:
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"I hope this was a warning to both of you and to
others who might have otherwise done what you did."
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"You got what you deserved."
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"I guess it pays to do
something deplorable."
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"Only low life humans would do such a thing
to a another human, let alone a father."
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"Your actions are so pathetic."
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"What'd you expect? Duh..."
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Of course, that leaves all the comments from
people who are actually supporting these criminals,
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although some of them are so over-the-top
you have to wonder. For example:
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"Well done, thou good and faithful servant. You are
standing in truth and love, even in the face of darkness.
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God sees all—your courage,
your pain, and your purpose.
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May you be strengthened, protected, and richly rewarded
for the light you carry. Keep going. You are not alone."
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Yeah, that's true. I guess
whatever happens,
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they'll always have each
other. Cell mates for life!
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For years, we've been trying to get good
data on opioid overdoses, specifically,
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how many of them are prescription opioids alone, as opposed
to opioids combined with another drug such as alcohol,
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or illicit opioids manufactured
and sold on the black market.
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Australian non-profit The Penington Institute just gave
us some good data on what the figures are "down undah."
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Each year, they release their annual
overdose report, and each year,
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like the rest of the propaganda pushers,
they've demonized pain patients
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and twisted the facts to exaggerate
the dangers of prescription opioids.
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However, in their 2025 report, which covers
calendar year 2023, they had an interesting fact:
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Totaling the five year period
from 2019-2023 inclusively,
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they reported that the total number
of drug-induced deaths involving
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pharmaceutical opioids as the
sole drug type was, drum roll...
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163.
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Yes, 163.
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Basically, 33 people a year.
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In a country of over 27 million people.
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Come on! That's a rounding error!
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So, Australia is working hard to deny tens of
thousands of pain patients access to their medicine
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in order to save 33 people.
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In what universe does
that make sense???
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Now, let's see if we can get some
sort of basis for comparison here...
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Therapeutic Goods Administration,
basically Australia's version of the FDA,
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in 2023 placed restrictions on paracetamol,
aka acetaminophen, aka Tylenol,
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to 16 tablets per packets and two packets per person,
requiring a visit to pharmacies to get greater amounts,
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because 50 Australians died
every year from Tylenol.
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That includes intentional overdoses
among adolescents and young adults.
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So once again, people trying
to ease their pain were harmed
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because a completely different
group of people were overdosing.
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To a total of 50 people.
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Lemme figure this out...
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Officially, 26.7 million people in Australia in 2023.
So the percentage of people dying from Tylenol was...
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0.002%.
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Not 0.2%, 0.002%. I didn't get
my hundreds messed up there.
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So that would also make the people dying
from prescription opioids as: 0.0012%.
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Additional perspective: Over 4000
Aussies died from falls in 2023,
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well over 100 times the number
who died from prescription opioids!
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They're also 87 times as
likely to die from the flu,
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four times as likely to
die of alcohol poisoning,
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three times as likely to die
tripping over their own furniture,
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three times as likely to die
falling down a flight of steps,
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2.6 times as likely to die
falling out of their own bed,
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and exactly as likely to
die falling off a chair.
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Hell, you're 10 times as likely
to be killed in a parked car!
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What we still don't have: good statistics on how many people
commit suicide because their pain medicine was taken away!
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The bottom line is, the Australian data shows quite
clearly that prescription opioids are safer than Tylenol—
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and, in fact, safer than other things
like, owning furniture you can trip over.
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And that was the case long before the
2020 change in opioid scheduling.
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On the other hand, the policy change is
causing untold harm for pain patients,
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both acute and chronic. With no
medical basis for it whatsoever.
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And I personally have no doubt that it
would be a similar story in the US, Europe,
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or anywhere else if only someone
were to collect the statistics.
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This is an issue with all of the
so-called "alternatives" to opioids:
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they're expensive, usually more dangerous,
and worst of all, far less effective.
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But the crazy fact remains: Tylenol kills more people than
hydrocodone, and it's still available over the counter.
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People, there is no
prescription opioid crisis.
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Not in Australia, not
anywhere else. Never was.
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And yet, because of this
absolute pseudoscience,
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chronic pain patients are suffering, and
many are dying. Completely needlessly!
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There is no evidence whatsoever
that force-tapering saves lives.
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There is no evidence whatsoever
that a dose ceiling saves lives.
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And there is no evidence whatsoever that pain needs
to be managed by a specialist instead of a GP.
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Here we have the statistics from a group that
has traditionally been hostile to pain patients.
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They did very little to actually point this statistic
out; we need to do more to spread it around:
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0.0012%.
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Chronic pain kills far more people
than the opioids used to treat it.
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That's just a fact.
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And now it's time to ventilate this
week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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You remember John Bolton?
We remember John Bolton...
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We said at the start appointing him as
National Security Advisor was a bad idea.
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Hey, remember how Trump canned his ass, and subsequent
to that he got three historic Middle East peace treaties?
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He was one of those loudmouths the
press loved giving a microphone to
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when he claimed that it was somehow illegal for the
President to take his own documents home with him.
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Because the librarian
outranks him, I guess.
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We went over all of the issues with that, and why the
President is basically the only person who can do that,
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not a Senator or anyone else, regardless
of whether or not their name's Biden.
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Well, what have we said so many times? The ones who
are the loudest are the ones you should investigate!
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In an irony the likes of which we haven't seen since
Ted Haggard was caught soliciting a male prostitute,
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John Bolton was—you guessed it!—found to have taken a
trove of classified documents with him when he left office.
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And they were about incredibly
sensitive and important things as well,
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including the UN and countries
with weapons of mass destruction.
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Of course, don't expect anywhere near the
outrage the news media had against Trump
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who had his home raided and
tons of documents taken,
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basically none of which had
anything they could use against him.
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The FBI executed a search warrant at Bolton's office
in downtown Washington as well as his home in Bethesda.
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The search warrants specify three related felonies,
including violations of the Espionage Act,
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retaining classified information
without permission,
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and conspiracy to gather, transmit,
or lose national defense information.
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All this is even more concerning when you learn
that his AOL account was hacked by a foreign entity,
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an account that apparently contained
reams of classified information!
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Seriously, this guy should never have
been put in charge of a can opener!
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Edward Snowden wrote about this
problem of the "revolving door"
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where officials routinely walk out with
documents they then use in their careers
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at their law firms, or news outlets,
or whatever it is they end up doing.
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But when it happens with someone
who's been as vociferously critical
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of the mishandling of classified
documents by others?
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Oh, man, the irony is delicious!
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So all of that makes John Bolton
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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And now let's pulchritudinationificize
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
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So this is more like an ultimate
Cops Behaving Badly story.
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I mean, what do you think the
worst thing a cop can do is?
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Whatever else is on your list, verbally supporting
a terrorist group has to be towards the top!
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That's what Corporal Brian D. Edwards did
and thought he was keeping anonymous,
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until he shared a little
too much info online.
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As Mostly Peaceful Memes posted on X:
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"It seems Brian has declared
himself a member of Antifa.
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Apparently he feels the right should
face war tribunals, be thrown in prison,
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and be executed by guillotine. This is
who is entrusted with public safety?"
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They posted a
screenshot of him saying:
00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:54.330
"My name is Brian, I am 37
years old, I am in North Carolina,
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I am Antifa, and I will never
comply with a fascist regime."
00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:03.660
By the way, his screen
name was bdedwards87.
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So, he gave his name as Brian, so his
screen name tells you: Brian D. Edwards!
00:23:09.180 --> 00:23:12.903
And his pfp is his actual picture!
00:23:12.903 --> 00:23:20.460
And, 37 years old, so the 87 is his birth
year! Doesn't take much sleuthing after that.
00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:25.260
There are ways to be anonymous
online... and none of those are it!
00:23:25.260 --> 00:23:26.940
He also posted:
00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:31.150
"I maintain that the biggest mistake
the US government has ever made
00:23:31.151 --> 00:23:34.780
was letting the traitors from
the civil war off the hook
00:23:34.781 --> 00:23:39.020
and allowing them to come back
into our country without punishment.
00:23:39.020 --> 00:23:44.780
When this is over and the right wing is once again
defeated, we will not make that same mistake.
00:23:44.780 --> 00:23:48.180
There will be war crimes
trials and I can't wait to see
00:23:48.181 --> 00:23:52.660
every single one of them thrown
in prison for the rest of their lives.
00:23:52.661 --> 00:23:56.540
It may even be time to
bring back the guillotine."
00:23:56.540 --> 00:24:02.470
So, yeah, it didn't take long before the Orange County,
North Carolina Sheriff's department found out about it,
00:24:02.471 --> 00:24:04.140
and promptly fired him.
00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:07.213
Chief Deputy T. Sykes put
him on administrative leave
00:24:07.213 --> 00:24:11.820
while they opened an investigation after they
were made aware of the social media posts.
00:24:11.820 --> 00:24:15.580
That investigation confirmed violations
of both the Standards of Conduct
00:24:15.581 --> 00:24:20.220
and the Speech, Expression, and Social
Networking sections of the policy manual.
00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:24.180
Sheriff Charles Blackwood then
terminated Edwards, and said, quote:
00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:28.220
"We must maintain the public trust as
we go about our mission to protect,
00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:32.080
serve, and treat everyone
with dignity and respect."
00:24:32.080 --> 00:24:36.050
Nice to know something can
bring these pigs to justice.
00:24:36.051 --> 00:24:43.500
I mean, not raiding the wrong house and killing a child
or anything, but at least now we know it's possible...
00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:49.817
Seriously, it's just hard to know what advice to give.
Don't post crap like that under your real identity?
00:24:49.817 --> 00:24:56.940
Don't post crap like that at all??? Don't even feel that
way, really, because it makes you a piece of human filth?
00:24:56.940 --> 00:25:02.380
And if you are going to be a piece
of human filth, don't be a cop?
00:25:02.380 --> 00:25:04.918
There are just so many
levels of fail here
00:25:04.919 --> 00:25:11.450
that it just has to make Corporal Brian D.
Edwards this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:25:17.820 --> 00:25:22.540
Well, that wraps up this "I can see him
now, writhing on the floor in agony,
00:25:22.540 --> 00:25:27.900
like so many of his brothers and cousins and
uncles and aunts" edition of the Bogosity Podcast.
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here's a quote from Edward Snowden:
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"The primary result of
the classification system
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is not an increase in national security,
but a decrease in transparency.
00:25:53.371 --> 00:25:57.241
Without meaningful transparency,
there is no accountability,
00:25:57.242 --> 00:26:01.339
and without accountability,
there is no learning."
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