Speaker 1: All right.
Let's get to the Friday mailbag where you can write to me and sometimes it'll appear
on the show.
You can email info at David Pakman dot com, ideally with a substantive commentary, but
sometimes there is very little substance and that's okay.
I want to start today with an email from a right winger, I think, who thinks they're
on to me.
They think they know my trick.
Take a look at this message.
Andrew wrote to me and said, It's a nice trick.
Good afternoon, sir.
I notice that you only discuss the dumbest or the dumb Republicans on your show.
It's a nice trick.
It's the same trick, Tucker and Sean HANNITY and Don Lemon and many others use.
You will find no shortage of idiots on both sides of the aisle.
And what you do is shine a light on just those people.
Do you ever plan on having a conversation with anyone that you can't tip the outcome
in your favor?
If your arguments are so good, you should be able to talk to anyone, not just the pillow
guy and Jesse Lee Peterson or whatever his name is.
I read the comments your audience writes, and I must say that the most ignorant that
they the most ignorant and misinformed people in America.
And what's scary is that these people think they are the smart ones.
I don't even do this for a living.
And I can pick apart every single one of your arguments, or at least show where you are
being a hypocrite.
I honestly used to really like you.
I now I like to hear solid arguments from both sides.
But now I realize you are just a fraud.
I might as well call you HANNITY Junior.
It's the same playbook, bro.
You know, we've.
So, first of all, they never tell you who the smart conservatives are.
Tell me exactly who they are.
Because they go.
Well, Ben SHAPIRO.
I interviewed Ben SHAPIRO on the show.
It didn't go great for him.
It wasn't like terribly humiliating, but it didn't make a lot of sense.
And then he's refused all subsequent invitations.
I've had Michael Knowles on the show.
Some of these right wingers go, Knowles is the smart one.
To the extent that Jordan Peterson is a right winger, people say, well, but Peterson's been
on and he has an open invitation.
We tried to get him back on recently.
We had Andrew Sullivan on.
He's a right winger and I find him to be intelligent and I know those are the right smart right
wingers or they're they're not really right wingers or whatever.
We we interview all sorts of people.
All sorts of people.
This is a very boring criticism.
Let's go next to Earl now.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
I don't know if this email from Earl is satire.
Earl wrote in about raising the minimum wage and said, I am so disappointed to see encouragement
from your people to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
This could destroy capitalism as we know it, forcing millions of businesses and CEOs out
of work because people are too lazy to work and too stupid to budget.
I am not an economist like Thomas Sowell, but I can do simple math.
So let's start.
725 an hour is 290 a week.
That's $15,080 for the year.
Average health insurance is only 150 a week.
That's $600 a month.
Average apartment rent for a one bedroom is only 275 a week.
That's 1100 a month.
Average food costs for one person is only $51 a week.
Average transportation 65 a week.
Utility bills 35 a week.
So to survive, we don't need a $15 per hour minimum wage.
All the person has to do is work two full time jobs and drive Uber in their spare time.
I'm sure that's what Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell would do.
If this is satire, it's very well done.
If it's not, then it's kind of weird.
But I think because I can't tell, I'll do it as a presenter without comment.
John wrote in.
John says Hi David.
Huge fan of the show was excited to find for you to find another right winger to interview
this week with John T Smithy.
I think it was I think it was John Teague as a tool for your viewers to understand when
confronted with the new IRS hiring goals, that 87,000 number often thrown around is
misleading.
This is really important because right wingers are loving this talking point of why does
Joe Biden need 87,000 more IRS agents?
Well, John explains.
First of all, it's based on a proposal from May 2021 and not actually relevant to the
current plan.
Number two, the IRS expects 55,000 retirees in the next ten years.
These new agents would replace those folks.
Three The new hiring quota would be over ten years rather than immediately.
You know, that does change the big picture of that IRS hiring, doesn't it?
John writes, I'm a CPA who has had this discussion multiple times a week with clients.
And I've got to tell you, they look really dumb when I turn this around on them.
Well, John, I always appreciate more information and John does seem to know exactly what he's
talking about.
I'll keep that in mind when they pull the IRS talking points.
Glorious Taco wrote in saying, Shouldn't Abbott and DeSantis be arrested for those immigrant
busses?
David In the past couple of months, Abbott and DeSantis have been sending busloads of
illegal immigrants to various Northeast Democratic run cities, claiming that illegal immigration
needs to be dealt with now.
Shouldn't these two be arrested for knowingly transporting illegal aliens across state lines?
A federal crime?
And what money is being used to fund these trips?
If public funds, should that be another federal crime?
Yeah, we talked about this on Monday.
NPR has a really good article about the possible illegality of the de Santos migrant Martha's
Vineyard stunt.
I don't want to rehash everything I said.
You can check out that clip.
But G.T., you are spot on in identifying there are a bunch of possible crimes there.
A bunch of possible crimes.
Anthony wrote in about Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, and says, Hey, David, I'm not
sure if you addressed this before, but I've been listening to the Michael Cohen podcast,
and I noticed a couple of times that he referenced you as the guy that goes to Trump rallies
and talks to Trump supporters.
I don't think he has the right guy unless you've been out there in which I'm sorry I
even addressed this.
I thought maybe he was thinking of Jordan KLEPPER or some other mockery type journalist.
Yeah.
So Michael.
Michael Cohen's a great guy.
We're in touch and he's a supporter of the show.
We're going to have him back on soon.
I like Michael Cohen.
He sometimes refers to me as a comedian, which I'm glad to be called, although I'm about
to show you a voice and an email that says I'm not funny.
But to the extent that Michael Cohen finds me funny, I'm glad for him to call me a comedian.
Michael Cohen is also said the guy that goes to Trump rallies.
And when Michael Cohen interviewed legal analyst Asha RANGAPPA, Aisha also said, I'm the guy
that goes to the Trump rallies.
So we've sent people to Trump rallies.
We will also sometimes look at clips from Trump rallies.
I don't know where it all came from it.
Your guess is as good as mine, but I know exactly what you're talking about.
Huma here is someone who doesn't like my humor or says I'm not funny.
Like the show a lot, Dave, but find your humor a bit lacking.
Not a complaint at all.
But the dim sum word with Boebert cracked me up.
She's in my district as Peter's in Mesa County.
Trial date for Peters that was just set is six months from now.
No lack of loons around here very much appreciate your efforts, says Tom.
You know.
Does it make sense to say that my humor is lacking when it's not a comedy show?
I don't know.
I mean, it's sort of like if you said I didn't like what's a really like hard boiled TV show,
kind of dark.
I don't know.
There's this there's actually a really good German time travel show called Dark.
And it is a dark show.
It would be weird to say now the humor is lacking.
It's not a comedy series, so I just don't know about this.
My humor is lacking.
It's not really meant to be a comedy show, so I don't know.
Let me know what you think about what Tom has to say.
Mike in New York City also wrote in, Mike said, David, I always found it hilarious that
MAGA people think they're being clever by saying, Let's go, Brandon, and that they think
this bothers anyone on the left at all.
I think Democrats should co-op.
You mean co-opt should co-opt the phrase.
Let's go, Brandon.
They should start chanting and in support every time Biden does something good.
Yeah, that would be funny.
You know, a lot of times taking back the phrase is kind of silly.
In this case, I think it would be funny for the left to also start using Let's Go.
Brandon is a positive.
One of the cringe iest things is when these right wingers you can you see them and you
can.
They think they're so smart and clever and incisive when they go, let's go.
Brandon and some of them email me and they'll say, David, can you tell Brandon to pay attention
to his teleprompter or whatever, you know, that type of thing?
And they genuinely think they're being super clever.
It's cringe.
The entire let's go Brandon thing is one of the youngest out there.
And the funniest part of it is how clever they think they are.
They will never change.
At least that doesn't seem like it anytime soon.
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