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We will start with William Sutherland, who suggested via a YouTube comment to my entire
audience.
People go watch Jimmy Dore, someone who talks truth, not this B.S.
And you know what?
If this comment resonates with you.
I am not going to try to convince you otherwise.
One of the things I'm actively not going to do on the program is try to convince people
about why or whether they should watch or listen to me or anybody else.
If to you if you go over to Jimmy Dawes channel and you say, you know, it looks to me like
Jimmy Dore is telling the truth and David Pakman is, quote, lying.
That's great.
Go watch Jimmy Dore.
Leave me alone.
I'm not going to be offended whatsoever.
Okay.
I would love for you to do that.
Marvin Hitler commented on YouTube, quote, To be atheist, you have to acknowledge there
is a God for you not to belive in.
Therefore you're wrong.
You're not an atheist.
This is painfully stupid.
If I don't believe in purple unicorns.
Does that mean that I there must be a purple unicorn out there somewhere for me not to
believe in it.
No, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
This is the type of nonsense that ends up becoming a meme and repeated and repeated
and repeated.
And if you take one second to think about it, you realize it doesn't make a shred of
sense whatsoever.
To be an atheist, you have to acknowledge there is a God.
No, you don't.
Doesn't really make any sense.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
A grimace posted to the subreddit about my book recommendation Waves of Ranker and says
David mentioned this book on a show last week.
I was able to hunt down a copy.
Holy cow.
Reading this book is eye opening.
It was published in 99.
And the stuff they talk about how the far right are indoctrinated is insane.
They still use the same techniques today.
I highly recommend that I would buy a used copy or find a means of getting a less expensive
digital copy.
This is fantastic.
This really you know how it's like you can you can get anything right now.
You can find any random book This book is genuinely tough to get.
I ended up getting a used hardcover copy.
Looks like an old school library book.
I think it might have been a library book at some point and I didn't.
I didn't remember.
The book is from 99.
I thought it was even older.
If you want to trace how right wing media got to where it is today and right wing indoctrination
got to where it is today.
You have to understand how it started.
And this book, Waves of Rancor, goes back to the way in which talk radio originally
ended up on AM radio.
The degree to which right wing religious broadcasters sucked up a bunch of the licenses for broadcasting
all the way through and into Fox News.
If you really want to understand how our media got to where it is today, such an important
book and I love that Grimace was able to find a copy also from the subreddit mat lately
says, Does anybody else reflexively say Troth Essential or Lauren Boebert?
I watched too many of his meaning my videos that the wrong pronunciations are permanently
stuck in my head.
Yeah, the same thing happens to me sometimes when when Trump goes at a speech and he says
they should really be investigating Biden and Hillary and even Obama.
Speaker 4: Obama.
Now.
Speaker 1: I will sometimes almost feel like Trump got it wrong by saying Obama instead
of Obama.
They are.
They're extraordinarily meme worthy little snippets.
And I apologize if now they're in people's heads in that way.
Okay.
Also from the subreddit, this is from a user named Cool Customer.
This gets me back to do people watch what?
I watch the videos before commenting?
Do people listen to what I say before commenting?
I recently did a segment about Bobby Kennedy Jr's candidacy saying This guy is an anti-vax
dude.
He's using pro-Putin talking points.
No one should vote for him.
And yes, I once had dinner with him and we have mutual friends.
Look at the posts that showed up on my subreddit.
David shouldn't whitewash Bobby Kennedy Jr.
I understand there's a personal progressive connection there, but in my opinion, David
shouldn't cover for his anti-vaccine history.
He didn't become anti-vaccine during the pandemic.
He's been anti-vax since 2005.
In fact, he runs one of the largest vaccine disinformation campaigns, Children's Health
Defense.
He's done an inordinate amount of damage to public health.
Okay.
So anyway, the point here is the did you even listen to what I had to say?
I didn't whitewash it.
In fact, what I said was, despite the fact that this is a little awkward because I've
met Bobby Kennedy Jr and we had dinner once and we have friends in common.
His candidacy is a disaster.
He's an unmitigated anti-vaxxer.
He's going on TV.
He went on Tucker before Tucker was fired and used pro-Putin talking points.
This is a disaster.
And by the way, Steve Bannon loves the idea of Bobby Kennedy running as a, quote, chaos
agent.
And it's all the nonsense.
I didn't whitewash anything.
In fact, I said, despite personal connections, I think that this campaign is an absolute
and total disaster.
So please criticize me for things I've said, not things I haven't said.
The Bobby Kennedy candidacy is a disaster, without a doubt.
Okay.
John commented on YouTube.
Just remember the same people who want to ban clothing they don't think is appropriate
are almost always the same people who wanted to ban masks during a worldwide deadly pandemic.
It's more about their personal feelings over those of anyone else.
Yeah, this goes to this idea that Ben SHAPIRO talked about the idea of banning people from
wearing clothes that don't align with the traditional clothes worn by their gender.
And it explained it makes absolutely no sense.
And then the Department of Agriculture, I believe it was in Texas, we talked about it
last week, is looking to put in a policy where you have to dress in accordance with the traditional
clothing of your gender.
It is, you know, the same people who talk about how great freedom is and liberty and
government not getting involved in people's lives are now saying, we're going to decide
what you wear.
They are the same.
To some degree, they are the same folks that were saying no masks, ban masks, whatever,
and then going to leave the masking to a personal choice, but not the clothing will decide what
clothing you can wear, but leave the masking to a personal choice.
These are serious people.
That's really, at the end of the day, the most important thing to understand.
These are not serious individuals who bring real thought to the table.
They reflexively will say whatever they think at that particular moment is useful to achieve
whatever immediate goal they have, even if it conflicts with whatever they said a week
ago.
A user sassy Nana, asks a really great question about these ideas of sending homeless people
to encampments outside cities for rehabilitation of different kinds.
Sassy Nana says, How do you rehabilitate a homeless single mother who works full time
at Subway but can't afford an apartment?
And of course, that is an absolutely accurate critique of this idea that Trump has about
we're going to get them seen by doctors and psychiatrists and we're going to get them
off drugs and all these different things.
Tons of homeless people.
Are working or very recently were working.
And either way, sending them outside of a city will either make them unable to continue
working or make it dramatically more difficult for them to get a job any time soon.
It's a disastrous idea.
The Homeless encampment idea has recent examples of how it's failed and more distant in history,
examples of how it's failed.
It's inhumane.
The conditions always become ridiculously humiliatingly bad, dangerously bad, and the
crowd tears whenever Trump brings it up.
So it is very, very scary stuff.
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