Speaker 1: Friday feed back last week because I was gone.
We have a lot to catch up on.
Let's get right into it.
Remember that you can email in to the show info at David Packman dot com if you so please.
But sometimes we will feature a Facebook message or comment or a YouTube comment or a Reddit
post or Tiktoks or whatever else it may be.
We are going to start today with some criticism.
It's not exactly the most substantive, but it does tell us a lot about the mindset, I
guess you would say, of some of the people who don't like me.
A woman wrote in, I'm not giving out her name just to protect her for whatever reason and
says, your messages are satanic.
Children are being indoctrinated to be gay or transgender.
Instead of letting them grow up and shown that God's Word is the only true way.
Interesting message, because, number one, I still you know, I know lots of LGBT people.
All of them when they explain their sort of story of how they came to know themselves
and know that they were trans or they were gay or whatever.
It never, ever, ever, ever, ever involves anybody planting the idea in their minds.
It never involves indoctrination.
It never involves any of that.
And by the way, there are religious people who are gay or trans.
I have a gay friend who is Catholic, for example, quite religious, actually, multiple now that
I think three.
I have three gay friends who are different degrees of religious and Catholic.
I have a couple of lesbian friends who are quite orthodox in terms of Judaism, not like
Hassidic, but they are relatively orthodox.
Anyway, the idea that religiosity and LGBT identification are also two separate things.
Very much wrong.
Very much wrong is, I think, the place where I would leave it.
OC Couple other messages Canada's spot posted on our YouTube channel.
We need Christianity in the schools, in the government, in the media, and yes, back into
the churches.
Well, listen, I have no problem with Christianity in the churches as long as no laws are being
broken.
Churches are the right spot for Christianity.
Christianity in the schools, if it's a private religious school, sure.
Keep Christianity out of charter schools that are publicly funded and absolutely keep Christianity
out of public schools.
Christianity in government?
No, we we have separation of church and state.
We should have zero zero religious involvement or influence on civil government.
You can, of course, be privately religious and be an elected official.
How would I ever do it would be against the Constitution for me to say only atheists and
agnostics in government?
Of course not.
But the influence of that religion on government as a functioning civil government should be
zero in the media.
I mean, sure, yeah, there's religious people and there's religious media sort of like have
added.
I'm not going to get get too involved with that.
A couple others.
The the some a faction of the right continues to obsess over the book bands acting like
we're the bad guys.
Seth Johnson says the fact that you want kids reading porn in school makes me think you
should be investigated.
Of course, I have never said that.
I don't know anyone on the left who wants porn in school.
What we want is the professionals, teachers, educators, librarians deciding what books
should be in school libraries, and subsequently deciding what books should be part of curricula
for different aged students rather than parents who don't have any idea.
Okay, last one.
Then we're going to get to some more substantive, substantive stuff.
I got this one on Facebook which says, You're a clown and a hack.
Now it's the wrong your and then says you're blind to what a constitutional republic is.
It's again, the wrong your.
But I'll give you the message.
In sum total, you're a clown and a hack.
You're blind to what a constitutional republic is, a talking head and a cheap suit for a
party that's gone, woke and satanic.
Are you blind bias or just not smart?
I'm not blind.
I am biased in the sense that this is an opinion show and I give my opinion and I will leave
smart out for others to decide.
But I do take issue with the fact that I am wearing a cheap suit.
I am not wearing any suit on the show.
You know, it reminded me of the old days of the David Paxman show.
It's interesting how things change.
You know, things change so slowly that you often don't notice it.
But when you go back and look years ago at the show, I would sometimes wear a suit where
it was sort of more in vogue and conferred some air of professionalism.
And it's sort of like it's like Peter Jennings or Wolf BLITZER.
You wear a suit as well to be taken seriously.
Now, I actually think if I wore a suit on the show or a tie, it would actually hurt.
Now, I think people would see it and go, why are you wearing that?
It doesn't make any sense that it's the wrong vibe.
It doesn't go with the show.
Anyway.
I'm not wearing any suits on the show, so you can't possibly say that it's a cheap suit.
All right.
Elizabeth Sahadi wrote in and said, being from New Jersey, I'm not a big fan of Chris
Christie, but if he became president, I wouldn't be afraid of what might happen to us and this
country.
Yeah, I agree with this.
And, you know, one of the things I don't like.
One of the areas of disagreement with my audience often is when I say, Hey, you know what, here's
a Republican.
With whom I disagree on policy, but where essentially what Elizabeth is saying, I wouldn't
be afraid for the country if they were president, and that's how I feel about Chris Christie.
Might he put in place tax policy I don't agree with?
Sure.
Yeah.
Might he move health care in a direction that I think is counterproductive or negative?
Yeah, sure.
But do I worry about the foundations of democracy and the destruction of our historical alliances
with allies around the world if Chris Christie is president?
No.
And sometimes when I say that people write in and they go, David, you're being too positive
about Christie or you're looking at him through rose colored glasses or whatever.
No, I think it's accurate to say it would be a policy disagreement the way I would have
had with John McCain if the late John McCain would have been president.
But it is not an existential threat to the United States.
June Mulvaney wrote in about Trump's so-called 24 hour plan to stop the Ukraine Russia war.
And Jun says if he knows how to stop the war, how come he is not telling the government
how to do it Now?
That would be patriotic, of course, June You know, sometimes the things that people like
Trump say are so obviously absurd that we look at it and say, Of course Trump doesn't
know how to stop the war in 24 hours other than by giving Russia everything at once.
But there is this subsequent layer.
If Trump really is the great patriot, if Trump really is concerned about all of the Ukrainians
that are dying, as am I right, I share that concern, of course.
If Trump really is concerned about that and you could stop it in 24 hours, why not tell
Joe Biden how to do it right now?
Why not say, I want to be a special envoy and I will negotiate an end to this because
it would be the patriotic and the humanistic thing to do.
People are dying and Trump could ended in 24 hours and he's going to wait until he's
president to do it.
Not particularly patriotic.
Anita McDougal writing in about Ron DeSantis, referring to him as the fascist and says the
fascist needs to explain how he will destroy leftism.
He said on a Fox interview a few weeks ago, If I become president, I will destroy leftism.
Anita says, Will he destroy the people who don't agree with him?
Does he plan to reeducate them?
What's the plan in detail?
Have these techniques been tried before?
How did that work out?
Anita is completely correct.
And by the way.
If a left wing candidate said, I will destroy conservatism if I become president, it would
be 24 seven.
This candidate would be a dictator on Fox News and on right wing media when DeSantis
says it.
Fox is happy.
They grin and they nod.
The point NEA is making is a really good one.
In history.
If you read history, 20th century history in particular, you will find that when there
is rapid change to the political makeup of a country, it usually is coming at the barrel
of a gun, at the end of a barrel of a gun, or through authoritarian dictators.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution is a great example of when there was rapid change in
a country the likes of which DeSantis is talking about destroy leftism.
Even though the left wing view is winning out on almost every issue in the United States.
The Cultural Revolution was very, very ugly.
And these folks who love to say, We're going to do this, we're going to do that, it's going
to be fast.
We're going to get rid of leftism.
They either don't know the history of how that change is achieved or they actually are
the very authoritarians that we worried they might be.
Very good point from Anita right in.
If you have anything to say, thoughts, questions, criticisms, requests of different kinds, whatever
it is all welcome.
But try to be polite.
Try to be polite.
We have a fantastic bonus show for you today.
Oh, the.
Speaker 2: Bonus show where you want to make money.
Yeah.
Everybody else that makes money to fund themselves is bad.
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We will be making money on the bonus show on Monday, July 3rd.
We will be off on the federal holiday Tuesday, July 4th, just as a heads up.
We'll see you on the bonus show and then back here on Monday.