Hide passed custom posts by datepicker value

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$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
            // WP_Query arguments
            $args = array (
                'post_type'              => 'events',
                'pagination'             => true,
                'paged' => $paged,
                'meta_query' => array(
                    array(
                        'key' => 'event_date',
                        'value' => date('Ymd', strtotime('now')),
                        'type' => 'numeric',
                        'compare' => '>=',
                    )
                ),
                'meta_key' => 'event_date',
	            'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
	            'order' => 'ASC'
            );

            // The Query
            $query_events = new WP_Query( $args );