00:08:00.620American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre-COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years.
00:08:15.120Six in ten Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in ten have two or more chronic diseases.
00:08:22.000An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness.1.00
00:08:26.340In a vacuum, all of these statistics are roughly true.1.00
00:08:58.600So this is straightforwardly false. America does not have the highest cancer incidence in the world. And we've seen a decrease, a significant decrease in cancer incidence and cancer mortality over the last 30 years, according to the American Cancer Society. This is not true that like every single thing that he's talking about is getting worse.
00:09:17.140The thing that gets left out of the conversation about stuff like this is, like, actually how much treatment has progressed of all of these things, how much detection has progressed of all of these things.
00:09:27.800Yeah, if you look at the sort of league tables published by the World Cancer Research Fund, the country with the highest cancer incidence is not America, it's Australia. And that's mostly skin cancer. And part of that is because Australia is like close to the hole in the ozone layer and like is full of white people who are susceptible to skin cancer.
00:09:45.200but it's also because Australia has very sophisticated systems for detecting skin0.98
00:09:49.440cancer early and treating it. So the fact that Australia has high cancer incidence is in some
00:09:54.940ways actually good news. It means that they're catching it early. And if you look at the year,0.99
00:09:59.380he's citing 2021 data, but that's kind of a perfect illustration of this concept because
00:10:03.840in 2020, we had an almost 10% drop in cancer incidence, which is like totally unprecedented.
00:10:09.560Like you never get a fall on cancer that dramatic. But of course, it's not because cancer fell by 10%.
00:10:14.280It's because all the hospitals were closed because of the pandemic.
00:10:16.620And then, of course, cancer incidents skyrocketed in 2021 because people were getting screened again.
00:10:21.740This is the problem with the whole like muddy way that he's presenting this, that high cancer rates aren't necessarily bad news.
00:10:28.020And a drop in cancer incidents isn't good news.
00:10:31.500It could be less cancer, but it could also just be less cancer screening.
00:10:34.280Yeah, there's a real bizarre sort of arrogance to, well, two things.
00:10:39.440One, there's a real bizarre arrogance to assuming that because we don't have answers that are like definitive and sort of set in stone, that that means no one's trying.
00:25:46.880This is not like a clandestine secret thing.
00:25:49.580This is like a part of health care and studies about it are published in peer reviewed journals.
00:25:53.880The idea that we'd have like a whistleblower hotline about it is absurd.
00:25:56.620It's like whistleblowers about like knee replacements or something.
00:25:59.200It's like a normal part of health care.
00:26:00.820The concept of whistleblowing is like the idea that you would blow the whistle on internal operations of a company or institution that is systematically breaking the law.
00:28:53.480End Your Complicity, Free Palestine.0.92
00:28:55.540The core problem is the idea that we need some sort of exotic explanation for why young people would be offended at, like, entire cities being raised to the ground and, like, children starving.0.83
00:29:07.160Why doctors would not want hospitals to be bombed.
00:29:12.480I don't need an alternate explanation for this.
00:29:14.320Like, wow, why are people doing this, like, totally irresponsible thing?
00:29:18.040It's like, no, I think very straightforwardly people are offended by images of children starving.0.97
00:29:21.880the idea that we're like casting around for like what are their real motivations is fucking insane
00:29:25.940so anyway this article as far as i can tell is like the only place previous to this hhs press0.77
00:29:32.620release where this like anti-semitic incidents at commencement addresses like thing was put
00:29:38.440forward so like we don't know what the consequences on these schools will be but like this is like a
00:29:43.620this becoming a real thing that people with power are wielding yeah and when you line that up with
00:29:47.780trying to rescind the tax statuses of universities,
00:29:50.540trying to sort of pull grants and funding.
00:45:40.960Such high levels of transparency that would be really difficult for someone who has never
00:45:46.180held office before it also requires not firing thousands of people tens of thousands of people0.88
00:45:52.440from fucking hhs which is one of the other first things that he's done they've gone from 82 0000.85
00:45:56.840employees to 62 000 employees and just this morning i saw the nih put out another report0.98
00:46:01.960showing even more fucking cuts so again any serious effort to make americans healthier and0.97
00:46:07.580to like address chronic illness would not have mass fucking firings it would have a huge increase0.99
00:46:14.000in the capacity of the government to do stuff like this and then the people who stay get to0.95
00:46:18.080stick around for like staff meetings where he's thrown around the r word yeah i know and then0.99
00:46:22.700like jesus god he also in that speech said like the deep state is real and shit he's like a baby0.95
00:46:28.520off his rocker yeah he was like it's real and it's not just soros or whatever i was like oh god help0.95
00:46:34.740it's literally elon musk though we gotta do something about anti-semitism while i blame a
00:46:41.240He's a high-profile Jewish person for being the deep state.
00:46:45.100The last thing we're going to talk about is he has in late March until now effectively embarked upon the Maha Tour where he is like visiting different states.
00:46:55.740And in the HHS announcement, it says, Senator Kennedy will celebrate new state laws that ban ultra-processed foods and dyes in public schools, restrict snap purchases of candy and soda, and ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.0.98
00:47:18.040The thing again, removing dyes from school lunches. This is legislation that was just passed in West Virginia. It's sort of an empirical question how big of a deal this is. The idea that like there's a chemical additive that is like harming us is sort of plausible to me. But also that's like we need to actually look at research. I don't there's like also a fear mongering component of this.0.99
00:47:39.640the thing to know about the food dyes stuff is that when you ask people like what's the issue
00:47:44.000they will tell you it's hyperactivity in kids what they won't tell you is that the core question
00:47:48.720that most frequently gets researched is do food dyes exacerbate existing symptoms in kids who1.00
00:47:56.240already have adhd but because we're all playing one giant game of telephone about this shit0.98
00:48:03.080that has turned into it causes ADHD, right? So it's leaning really hard into like straight up0.98
00:48:11.900proud ableism. The really bad one is this stealth effort that is happening in numerous states now
00:48:19.360to ban soda and quote unquote candy from food stamps. Have you heard about this? This like
00:48:25.080nationwide effort to take soda off of food stamps? Yeah, it's just an attempt to make food stamps
00:48:31.260inaccessible to as many people as possible and to make them as confusing as possible and to make
00:48:35.920them as unappealing as possible. Right. It's sort of the hostile architecture approach to like
00:48:40.800public support programs. Right. Of course, it's also perfect for them because they can say like,
00:48:45.900oh, well, soda is very bad for you and we care about the health of Americans and we're just
00:48:48.980trying to improve the health of Americans. Right. But of course, what this amounts to
00:48:52.200is just a further restriction on food stamps. So 15 states have proposed bills to do this.
00:48:58.540And actually, when he was running for president, RFK Jr. published a editorial in the Wall Street Journal that said that he wants to exempt not only soda, but also, quote, processed foods from food stamps, which is, like, significantly worse because, like, soda, there's some issues with, like, how to define soda.0.96
00:49:15.640But, like, processed foods is just, like, no one knows what the fuck.
00:49:20.280Like, everybody has a completely different definition.
00:49:22.900And so exempting, quote, unquote, processed foods could be a small category or could be, like, a massive category.
00:49:28.540There is almost no food that you could argue is entirely unprocessed, right?
00:49:34.300There's also the question of, like, why is this happening all of a sudden, right?
00:49:38.320If 15 states are doing something at the same time, that means that there's a push from, like, an outside actor.
00:49:43.120So this entire wave is being pushed by a think tank called Foundation for Government Accountability, which is very open about the fact that it wants to basically gut every form of welfare.
00:49:55.020So Biden expanded food stamps quite significantly during the pandemic.
00:49:59.240This organization has published op-eds arguing to roll that back.
00:50:03.240The FDA also uses a specific basket of goods when they're calculating food stamp amounts.
00:50:09.420It's based on the prices of various foods.
00:50:12.420And there's different ways you can do that.