Speaker 1: It is that time of the week time for the mailbag. Every day we get hundreds of emails
and we feature around 10 of them a week on the Friday show. If you have something to say,
you can email info at David Pakman. Dot com will occasionally feature a Twitter reply or
a Facebook post or whatever, really, but info at David Pakman dot com is the place to email.
Let's start with something ugly will build to the good messages, but we're going to start with
something ugly. This is someone named L.A. Mob Squad who wrote to me about the subject You
and your senile diaper wearing poultice will forever be to blame for the collapse of the
U.S. and our standing on the world stage. This is very weaponised. I'm warning you. L.A. Mob Squad
writes, I hope you realize these four years will be looked back at historically as a humiliating,
disastrous period in USA history directly caused by delusional loons like you who make up the
Democratic Party. Remember, I'm not a Democrat. I don't care about the Democratic Party. You can say
completely ridiculous and illogical B.S. all you want. But we both know we're way past the point
where you can deflect blame and pretend that the USA, the West's drastic decline fall on the
world stage of this magnitude is falling on the shoulder of anybody other than senile Joe Biden.
Wait. Gas prices are up everywhere, it's not just Joe Biden. Many countries are figuring out what to
do about Russia and Ukraine, not just Joe Biden. I don't even know what he's talking about going on
to say there's no way you or anybody else can make a case to the contrary while sounding even a tiny
bit reasonable. Nope, we're way past that. This U.S. collapse will forever be on your shoulders,
and it's effing hilarious in a super disappointing kind of way. You talk about Trump and then bring a
guy in and you make us look like an effing weak, crumbling, decrepit, senile old bastard suffering
from the severest case of brain rot. Good job, David. Y'all sure know how to pick em. Oh, and
don't think it's over. We're one year in wait till China takes Taiwan. Y'all just need to shut the f
up forever. You have so much nerve to even still be talking. You should never say another effing
word to us again with this joke of a first year that's historically bad. LOL never again. Sit the
f down and be quiet. You've f enough s up already. I can't wait until 2024. The red wave is going to
be breathtakingly glorious, and we both know it. Thanks for sucking, but shut the f up from now on,
please. Y'all have been humiliated. Take the loss and sit down. Thanks and then a bunch of clown
emojis. Very, very weaponise needs no response. But this is just a reminder. One of the things
I like to talk about is there are people with whom we can sit and talk and figure out political
differences. What is the role of the U.S. on the world stage? Diplomatically, militarily, whatever?
What should the top tax rate be? How should education be funded? There's people we can
disagree with but talk to. These are the types of people where I believe they are essentially
a lost cause. In all practical terms, they are a lost cause. Next e-mail is from Sophie.
Sophie says, Hey, David Biden has chosen his words very carefully regarding the role of the
U.S. military in Putin's war on Russia, and so has Jen Psaki. This has been the wording the U.S. will
not put military boots on the ground. Boots on the ground is used over and over and over. There are
many types of military action the U.S. is capable of outside of literal soldiers on the ground.
Yeah, this is a good point, and it's something we've talked about before.
I believe that it is not an accidental choice of words or a coincidental choice of words. They
are saying boots on the ground because probably everything else is on the table, quite frankly.
And you know, people email me about drones. I don't know that'd be a big step, but I think
that it is not an accident and they are. There's a reason they are talking about boots on the ground
as the line because they want to leave open the possibility of up to almost anything else
short of that, and we may soon see it. Chris writes in about William Barr's interviews.
And here's Chris's view, Bar, in his interview, is simply giving Trump cover to protect him from
criminal liability by opening the door for an insanity plea. Should the prosecution ever make
enough headway besides that, how could you describe such an obvious state of delusion
and then turn around and say he'd vote for such a person? I think the answer to that is Barr's just
a horrible person. That alone should send a red flag. As to his credibility, he betrays himself,
gangsters one and all. As with most of Trump's loyal supporters, he's most likely being extorted.
Yeah, I don't. I just don't know about that. I just I'm just not sure about that. We don't.
We don't have evidence of that. And it's not clear to me that that that's what's going on. So I would
be careful about making those assessments. It's conceivable Barr is trying to give Trump cover,
but you know, he's being blackmailed. Let's just be sure we know what what we're saying and that
there's evidence behind it. I'm just not sure about that. Mark wrote in with a correction. Sir,
you are mispronouncing nukes. Dear sir, I'm a big fan of your show, but I recently noticed you have
a penchant for mispronouncing nukes as nukes. Case in point, your recent video, titled Concerns Grow
that Putin will use nuclear weapons pronounced properly. It should rhyme with Duke's not rebukes.
Duke's not rebukes. Do you OK? I know you're a stickler for pronunciation, I want to make
you aware. Keep doing what doing what you're doing, except for nukes. Yeah.
Nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear nukes. Nukes. I hear the difference. Nukes sounds more natural to me, and
I'm going to take that liberty. Given that English is my second language, I think I'm sticking with
nukes. I've I've been this. People have written to me before and they've said, David, you use
a liquid you when you pronounce the word new. Some people say a new car new. I say a new car.
I think I'm going to stick with it, I like it. Matthew writing in about our sponsor, Nabi Ashour.
This is pretty clever. Hey, David, I had a question about your sponsor, Nebula.
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It is it is lower water use, but it powerfully comes out. You could bathe an elephant with it
if you needed to, if you could, if you could fit the elephant in your bathtub. You could say that,
but I get the Trump references. Thank you, Jake wrote in about the MMA fighter Bryce Mitchell,
who recently went on a delusional right wing rant with right wing conspiracies about Ukraine.
Jake wrote It's notable that guys like that MMA fighter have changed their thinking
so much since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Back then it was if we don't fight them over here,
we'll have to fight them. If we don't, sorry. Back then it was if we don't fight them over there,
we'll have to fight them over here. Now, under a Democratic president, they have no concern about
what's happening in other parts of the world, even though it's obviously atrocious and it
could bring war over here. That's Johnny, who I guess also goes by Jake. Yeah, this
it shouldn't surprise us that there is a stunning level of hypocrisy from a lot of these people
now. I agree with not sending not putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Joe Biden has said that
from the beginning, he should stick to it. I think it's the right thing, and I think he will stick to
that by the letter of what he said. But it shouldn't be ignored that when the right
wants to justify military incursions, as they did in Iraq in 2003 and have done elsewhere
and continued involvement in Afghanistan for as long as that went on nearly 20 years,
they often say it's not that we want to be there. But if we don't fight them, there will be fighting
them here. And many right wingers accept that, and they say that's good, that's common sense,
that's logic. You're absolutely right. In this particular case, they're not saying, they're
just saying now we shouldn't do it while, by the way, at the same time saying Biden is being weak.
They would criticize Biden if he quote started a war, as they love to say. And at the same time,
they say Biden is weak for not doing enough. The point is these are bad faith actors. You can't
please them. And so we should pay enough attention to know what they're saying. But I don't think we
need to take them very seriously. They're not good faith actors. Next email today is about YouTube's
about Artie's YouTube channel Artie being Russian state media propaganda.
Hi David, today I love this. The the the delightful naivete of this email. Hey,
David, today I found a Russian backed YouTube channel called Artie.
All of the videos are pro-Russia and anti-West. If you read the comments on the videos,
they are all pro-Russia as well. Many of the misleading videos on this channel are disgusting.
I just wanted to get your opinion on if you think YouTube should shut it down and join the other
hundreds of companies that have already pulled out of Russia. Yeah. So first of all, I I envy
someone who has not been suffering through knowing that art exists and the content that they produce
for the last decade. Now, as many of you know, I used to appear as a guest on our team when
invited, thinking I'll go wherever and give my views. But once it became clear to me that,
like barely anyone was watching this stuff in the U.S. and it's not even worth my time to appear,
nor do I want to be associated with it in any way. I just started turning down all of my all invites,
and I've probably turned down, I don't know, eight invitations there over the last few years.
I would love instead to just not even be aware that there was this propaganda thing
being disseminated in the U.S.. Now that being said, for the person emailing
YouTube demonetized the art channel and marked it as Russian state media and art America ceased
operations. So it's over for now, at least. And that's a good thing. That's a good thing.
Last email today is from Julia about the term strongman. Julius says, Hey, David,
please stop referring to Machiavellian Mad Men as strong men, it's a misleading connotation when
what they actually are is cowardly, psychopathic bullies who con and rely on their minions
to brutalize and oppress others for their own narcissistic gain. That term gives people away
to positive idea about them and allows the weak minded a rationale to follow them. Yeah, that's
probably true. I mean, sometimes I'll refer to a dictatorial authoritarians. I think the problem is
sometimes they're not literally dictators. So to just call them dictators isn't accurate,
which is why I often say authoritarian strongmen. But it would be good to have a different term,
maybe dictatorial authoritarians or wannabe dictators instead of strongmen. I'm open to that.
I'm open to that. But a good point, Julie. I appreciate you emailing in about that. If you
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