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Kaizen Asiedu: Did They Hide Biden’s Health? Nuclear Codes on the Line I DSH #1553
04 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Biden's not president right now. Biden is our president and he has prostate cancer and he's in cognitive decline and that was covered up sufficiently to the point where he got elected by the American people.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of Biden's health on his presidency?
And that would be the guy in control of the nuclear launch codes. That would be the guy deciding our foreign policy in the Middle East. That would be the guy negotiating Ukraine-Russia. That's insane. That's absolutely insane.
Okay, guys, special guest today. We got Kaizen coming off a fiery debate with Destiny. Thanks for coming on, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's going to be a fun one. What was the main purpose for debating Destiny?
I got invited by someone. His name is Nate, and he just wanted to host a debate. He had been looking to get into that after doing on-the-street reporting. And originally, he just told me it was going to be someone who was on the left. So I actually didn't even know who it was. And then he told me it was Destiny.
And I had to put some thought into that because I had never done a live political debate before. And Destiny is really smart and also incendiary. So I wanted to think, does it even make sense to get involved in that kind of dynamic with someone like him? I'm glad I did it. Did you feel like it was a productive debate? I do think it was productive. I think it was productive in the sense that
My philosophy on debate is that American civil discourse is completely broken down. So we actually don't need more ego battles where people are just yelling over one another and trying to prove why the other person is dumb. It has no validity to their worldview. What we actually need is more of a culture of actual curiosity and openness. mindedness.
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Chapter 3: What motivated Kaizen to debate Destiny?
So I went in with the philosophy of, hey, look, if you're a strong leftist or strong MAGA, you're probably not going to be convinced no matter what either of us say. But at least what I can do is model healthy conversation. And I think I did that.
Did you learn debate at Harvard or were you just self-taught with debating?
I was self-taught. I did some debate in high school, but it's been like 20 years since I've been
That's also a different kind of debate. I've seen those debates. Those are crazy. You're talking so fast.
Well, those are, yeah. So there's different types. There's Lincoln Douglas, there's policy debate. And in the type of debate that you normally see in these viral clips, they do this thing called spreading where they just talk extremely quickly to the point where you can't even. follow what they're saying, I think that's the dumbest thing in the world. Like, that's not the point of debate.
The point of debate is to actually have an engagement of ideas and discover mutually what the best ideas are.
Yeah.
So that's my general philosophy on discussion in general.
I feel that. Was there anything Destiny said that you actually agreed with?
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Chapter 4: How can we foster productive political debates?
the dignity and safety of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people. And my concern is that the Israeli government, at least in their public messaging, are not actually facilitating a long-term plan for peace. And Destiny largely agreed with that. I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but he said, I agree on a lot of that.
And he had some points that he disagreed with, but we didn't actually get into the thick of it.
That makes sense. Do you feel like the anti-Semitism term is being thrown around too much? You've probably been labeled that, I'd imagine, on social media, right? Not yet. Oh, you haven't.
Yeah. So I guess maybe I'm doing something right or maybe I haven't talked about it enough to track that yet. And yeah, you know, what I see is that whenever we engage in these collective labels about groups, we can conflate genuine criticisms of what members of the group are doing with hatred toward the entire group.
So, for example, we just went through this trend where for the last several years we had political correctness and then we had wokeism. And in wokeism, all these ideological tripwires were created. So if you question what Black people are doing or the health of the Black community or you talk about Black-on-Black crime, you get accused of being a racist and it's systemic racism. Right. Right.
Right. Right. Right. So, yes, we are applying this label over much. And when that happens, it actually means anti-Semites ceases to have meaning anymore. Because if you're calling everyone an anti-Semite, then no one is really an anti-Semite. It's just like this group of people that you would disagree with. And it shuts down the ability to have proper conversation.
Now, to be clear, there's genuine antisemitism and it's on the rise and it's too high and it needs to be addressed. But actually, the best way to deal with antisemitism is to listen to the people who are not antisemites.
Discern who's an anti-Semite versus someone who's just critical of what a foreign government is doing and making sure that you're addressing the former while not lumping them with the latter. Because if you start suppressing the latter group, the people who are just critical of Israeli government, you actually harbor more animosity.
Because now the people who are like, I'm not an anti-Semite, but you're calling me an anti-Semite and you're trying to censor me start to get radicalized. And then they start to have hostility toward all people. So it's a self-defeating mechanism.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Israel-Palestine discussion?
So my concern was, hey, look, first of all, if your government is deporting people from the country, which is, you know, that's a pretty extreme act, there should be very specific.
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Your rationale for why, even if you agree with a deportation, they should be making the justification to you. You should not have to justify it for yourself. When I realized I was justifying it for myself, I realized, no, this is not right. Extreme actions require extreme amounts of evidence to justify. So I critique the Trump administration for that.
And to be clear, I'm open fundamentally to the idea that people who are here on some sort of provisional visa status are held to a higher standard even than American citizens. I'm open to that idea. But if they violate that standard, they should be very clear about what the standard is and how specifically they violated it.
Because if we bring it to another case now that's actually much less strong, there was a woman named Ramisa Ozturk. There was a video that went viral of her. I think she was a student in Massachusetts. She was just walking home one day and literally a van pulls up a bunch of, I don't know if there was Immigrations and Customs Enforcement or DHS, but federal agents pile out of this van.
Some of them have masks on and they accost her in the middle of the street and throw her in the van and try to deport her. It's crazy. I didn't know that. I thought that was just a movie scene. I didn't know that actually happened. It actually happened. It was such a bad look. And in her case, I tried to look for some sort of justification for this.
And all I could find is that she had an article critical of her university investing in Israeli aligned causes. Wow. And that was it. That was the entire op ed. Like there was no evidence that I was able to find of her in protest. There was no evidence of her saying anything pro Hamas at all.
And regardless, I as an individual citizen should not have to go and do a bunch of research on X and using AI and reading all these articles. My government should just tell me what the rationale is. So ultimately, this is about principle.
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Chapter 6: How are anti-Semitism claims impacting political discourse?
There's a non-zero possibility that this was planned, that this is a legitimate cover-up. Now, let's evaluate. What's the benefit of releasing this news at this time? Well, think about it strategically. If you're responsible for the Democratic Party or Biden's legacy,
It's actually perfect timing to announce that he has prostate cancer because now it actually throws water on this fire that was building about his cognitive health. Because now you get to shut down conversation. Now you can say, oh, my God, this guy has cancer and you're politicizing it. And you're you're really going to attack this man who's in his final days.
No, we shouldn't talk about the cognitive decline. We should have respect. Show a little grace. And that's how leftist publications are reporting it. Yeah. If you actually look at it, I just looked at this. Leftist publications like Newsweek, you could consider it center or center of left, but more left aligned, or the Daily Cause, KOS, they're focusing on how Donald Trump Jr.
is calling this a cover-up. I saw that. Whereas publications on the right are focused on the fact that medical experts are saying there's no way that they didn't know about this prostate cancer while Biden was president. So all of this is whether it's intentional or unintentional manipulation of psychological bias.
Because if you're more Biden aligned, you're going to look at this as, wow, these Trump people, they have no shame. They're completely graceless. They're even going to attack a dying man. People on the right are going to say this is a cover up by the Democrats. We told you. I think all Americans should be able to acknowledge, yes, Biden having cancer is sad on a human level.
No, this does not mean we can't ask questions about whether this was covered up because Biden is not just a human. He is also our president. And if we were about to have a president who was in physical and mental decline leading the country from 2025 to 2029, that's a huge issue. And we need to look at this so we make sure it never happens again.
Yeah. And there's a good chance he had it during his last tenure, too, to be honest.
Who even knows at this point? And then the question is, who is running the country? That's the real question. Yeah. Who's been running the country? Because if it's not the president who's democratically elected by the president, it's someone else. Or no one's at the wheel. Everyone's just running around like headless chickens. And that's an equally deplorable state. Yeah.
I mean, it clearly wasn't him, though, if we're just being honest. I don't see how it could be him. I mean, this guy, I believe they scheduled the debates so that it was timed throughout the day so he wouldn't get sleepy. It's like, the guy... literally has to schedule debates around his bedtime. That's not the person who I want in the room with sharks like Putin.
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Chapter 7: What are the standards for deportation cases in the U.S.?
We'll see what happens when congressional approvals need to be procured to solidify some of those changes. But that's already way better than any government saving initiative ever. And we're not even one hundred seventy days in and they save one hundred seventy billion dollars.
even if you discount that by a factor of 50% and you say they've only saved $85 billion, that's still a lot and that's still the most successful government savings initiative of the 21st century. So look, ultimately... My heart goes out to the people who have been subjected to layoffs. That always sucks.
It sucks that we shut down programs like USAID that I do think have been politicized and have been doing stuff that we shouldn't be doing in foreign countries and have been used by the CIA to peddle soft power. And I also think that they've been helping people in a lot of these third world nations. And it sucks that, yeah, when you cut things, people who are reliant on those things suffer.
Yeah.
And at the same time, I think we're going through a fundamental reimagining of what the government's role should be abroad. I think we've prosecuted this agenda of America needs to intervene and save every third world country and send boots on the ground to spread democracy and all that stuff. We need to focus on America first.
We are not abundant enough to be just giving away resources to the rest of the world. We clearly have a tremendous amount of government waste, fraud, and abuse. And we need some help from a third party to get involved. And I think that's what Doge is. We've demonized billionaires in this country. And I don't think it's all without justification.
Those Occupy Wall Street people saw how a lot of these institutions were taking advantage of American taxpayers and then they got bailed out and that felt awful to people both on the right and the left. And then there's concerns about whether billionaires are playing by the rules and all that. So I understand the backdrop of why there's this suspicion against billionaires.
And at the same time, one thing you can't argue is that billionaires are the best at money. The best at the game of money. So ideally, when you have a money problem, you want someone who's good at the game of money helping you solve your money problem. So I'm glad that there's billionaires involved in the government.
And my expectation is that the democratically elected president, Donald Trump, is keeping those people in check, right? Because he's supposed to represent the will of the people. I get that he's a billionaire as well. But just like we talked earlier about how everyone who...
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