Speaker 1: OK, it's time for the mailbag. We do receive about, I don't know, few hundred
emails a day, but each week I will highlight eight to 10 of them and go over them with
you. Sometimes there is interesting things, sometimes there's nice compliments. Sometimes
there's toxic attacks and pejoratives a little bit of everything. You can email info at David
Pakman dot com, but make sure you have something really substantive to say. One person who
did not have something substantive to say in any way is this person who actually sent
us a message via Facebook who said, You sir, at least they're being polite. You, sir, are
a vile and disgusting piece of s. Your views and opinions are treasonous, and you should
be locked in an effing loony bin alongside Biden and his whore vice president. This,
I guess, is. Well, this is a lot of different things, and I guess it's also misogynistic
among, I mean, we can't say what other, what else it is, but it is very unhinged. We get
hundreds of messages like this every day. And one of the really important things that
we should remember is, you know, when people email me and they say politely, David, don't
you think you should do more to bridge the gap between left and right? So that we can
kind of get people on our side and in our way of thinking, Yeah, I'm for that. When
someone disagrees about the degree to which business should be regulated or what the tax
rate should be, or how far we should go in mitigating climate change. Please, those are,
you know, perfectly reasonable disagreements, policy disagreements where we can have a conversation
and each person explains where they come from and we might be able to change people's minds
or have productive conversation at minimum. The person who sent this message, you can't
have that conversation with them. There's nothing I can do to bridge the gap with this
person other than to throw myself at their at their feet and say, I'm so wrong about
everything I believe, and you're so right. And I'm such as this as this person, as a
vile and disgusting piece of whatever. There's some of these people are so far gone. There
is no way to bridge the gap, and so we've got to go around them. They're not going to
be with us. They're not you. No matter what tone I adopt on this program, this person
is not going to have a productive conversation. OK? Next email from Jane about the outdoor
ski resort mask policy in Canada, Jane said. I don't think you criticize the lack of masks
at the indoor State of the Union address, or the fact that California lifted its indoor
mask mandate on February 16. But you did complain about the maskless snowboarder in Ontario.
Do you honestly think there's a qualified, nonpolitical scientist who thinks masks should
be mandatory outdoors at this stage for vaccinated folks? You claim to follow scientific advice,
but you choose to disregard it when it doesn't suit your narrative. Listen. What on earth
are you responding to, ma'am? I made clear when we looked at a video of a dad throwing
a tantrum and having to be grabbed by five security people on an outdoor ski lift. I
said in that he went there knowing that was the policy I have said almost since the beginning
of the pandemic, it started with, I don't know that we really need masks outside. And
then we had data and then I said, we definitely don't need masks outside unless people are
literally on top of each other and, you know, insane situations. I've said it from the beginning
and indeed the State of the Union. The rules were you don't have to wear a mask. So Jane,
this isn't about my opinion about when masks are and aren't necessary. I've already said
I don't think the masks outdoors are necessary because that's what the science has shown.
The dad humiliating himself and his family throwing a temper tantrum because he wouldn't
wear a mask. The problem is he's acting like a like a little kid, and he knew the rules.
If I don't want to wear a mask somewhere, like, let me give you an example. At gyms
for the entire pandemic, you had to wear a mask regardless of whether I thought it was
necessary. And I basically did, for the most part. I don't want to wear a mask while working
out. So you know what I did? I canceled my gym membership. I'm not interested in working
out and being on a treadmill with a mask on. But if I choose to go to the gym and I know
what the rule is, I'm going to abide by the rule. The guy on the ski lift knew what the
rule was, and he ignored it. That's the problem. It's not about my opinion about masking. The
Oracle wrote in and said Jonestown was not a mass suicide. Criticizing me, I welcome
it. This is at least the second time you talk about the mass suicide at Jonestown, it was
not a mass suicide. You can maybe call it a mass murder suicide, but many argue it just
be a mass murder. People were forced to drink the drink, and those who refused were shot,
calling it mass suicide. Sounds like everyone did it of their own free will. Yeah, this
is fair. I should call the Jonestown Massacre a murder suicide. There were a bunch of people
there who willingly took the flavor aid or Kool-Aid or whatever it was because they had
been brainwashed. They did take it willingly. Some did not, and some were shot. The children
were forcibly injected with it. I will do. I will do better. Oracle and I will refer
to what happened in Jonestown with Jim Jones in South America as a mass murder suicide.
I appreciate the correction, Walter wrote in said Biden will pardon Trump and nobody's
talking about it. I don't know about that. I don't think Trump's going to be charged
with anything, so for that reason, I don't expect Biden to pardon Trump, but I know that
at times past there has been this idea in the United States that we don't go after former
presidents criminally, and so we have seen pardons. But Joe Biden has given no indication
that that's what he would do now. Maybe Walter knows something I don't. Or maybe Walter speculating
or whatever the case may be, but I have no reason to believe that Joe Biden would would
pardon Donald Trump if he were charged. I don't think Trump's going to be charged with
anything, as I've said before. Hayley wrote in Could Putin have dementia? She asks. Hey,
David, longtime fan of your show and one of your latest videos, you talked about Putin
being possibly terminally ill and that being a reason that he's attacking Ukraine. Do you
think it's possible Putin has dementia? He seems to be overly suspicious of Ukraine and
the West, like he is paranoid of everyone. What are your thoughts on this? There is no
way. I mean, listen. Delusional paranoia is sometimes a symptom of dementia. Sometimes
they really are out to get you. Sometimes some combination of both. There's just no
way to know. And I understand when you see these pictures of Putin at a 50 foot long
table away from his own advisers, you think, well, either he's really afraid of germs or
he's sick and whatever, or he thinks one of them may try to kill him. And that's paranoia.
But I have to tell you, it doesn't seem completely unwarranted. I mean, it's conceivable. Maybe
somebody would try to kill him? I don't know. So I think Hayley, as much as I appreciate
the the hypothesis or the idea, I just don't think I don't think there's any way for us
to know right now. And it may be the type of thing that we could know in retrospect
at some point in the future. Scott wrote in about the alt left and says, I'm really glad
that you're being authentic and speaking your mind against all sides that are counter to
your ideas ideals. Keep up the great work, and I look forward to seeing your show continue
to grow. Yeah, you know, I've received a bunch of emails recently from saying, David, I really
appreciate the courage to call out other leftists that you have. First of all, I don't really
think that they're leftists, to be perfectly honest, like when I look at Tulsi Gabbard.
What is there that's I mean, she she's vaguely against wars, but like so is Trump supposedly,
you know, this is not a program where things are off limits or we have sacred cows or whatever.
I just call things what they are. And it just so happens that with the Russia Ukraine situation,
a lot of these so-called leftists are saying very strange things. And so I'll tell you
when I when I see that, Andrew wrote in about the word anomaly, David, I am a geologist
who works in an industry that deals in a lot in anomalies. I am going to lay down the law
and proclaim your original pronunciation is correct. The correct version begins sounding
like the word anonymous. If anyone who wishes to disagree with me, I challenge them to a
game of Mario Kart. Now, listen, I have to tell you, I'm getting a little sick of the
anomaly anomaly thing. Go to the Merriam-Webster dictionary type in the word A. M. A. L Y,
and you will see in the pronunciation section. Both pronunciations are fine. Anomaly like
a garden gnome anomaly. Anomaly. Both are fine, and quite frankly, I'm getting a little
sick of having to defend that. Fred wrote in about Russian COVID. David, I hear so much
about the Russian invasion, but one thing that's not mentioned what's going on with
COVID in Russia and is it or could it be an issue? Has Russia solved the pandemic and
needs something to fear? Or is the Ukraine invasion a distraction from COVID? No, I don't.
I mean, there's there's there's still COVID in Russia. There is no reason to believe that
we've got an accurate data from Russia from the beginning, and I don't think it's transparent.
What is happening with COVID in Russia? But Russia has not solved COVID, but it seems
completely reasonable that, like most of the world, not all of the world, but most of the
world, there has been a three month to month, I guess, decline in COVID cases and hospitalizations
and death. I would assume that's what's going on there. But I don't have any particular
reason to think that COVID is quote over in Russia, and I don't think the invasion of
Ukraine has anything to do with COVID. If you have a different perspective, certainly
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