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