Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this week's mailbag. You can email info at David
Pakman dot com to participate. Please don't abuse that email address. We'll just block it. We have
many people whose emails are filtered directly into the trash because they email us too much or
into a folder we keep in case law enforcement ever asks for emails from people. Yeah, it does happen.
It does happen. Maybe stories to tell someday about that? No. But in all seriousness, don't
abuse it, OK? Info at David Pakman dot com. Let's jump right into our first email first. The email
is from Alexander, who says, I'll just get to the point. You were a loser and always will be lost in
space. Sleepy Joe Biden and his administration opened the eyes of so many that voted for him
by all of his screw ups since taking office, and now realize what a stupid mistake it was
to have believed the lies of his campaign message. 2024 is just around the corner,
and once again, America will be great again. Under the leadership of President Donald Trump,
I disagree with the characterization of what Trump's leadership would be, but I don't for a
second take issue with the very real possibility that Donald Trump will be president again.
This country is dumb enough to do it again. They were dumb enough to do it once when it was obvious
it would be a disaster. And it was, and they are clearly eager to do it again. So it's going to
come down as it often does to turnout. There will be, no matter what Trump does between now and 2024
other than maybe die, and even then they might still put him on the ballot and vote for him,
no matter what Trump does between now and 2024. There will be tens of millions of people, just
like the guy who emailed me, who will gleefully vote for another four years of that insanity,
so we need to be prepared. I disagree. It'll be great. But the emailer is absolutely right.
You very well could see Trump again in 2024, and that's a very scary, scary thing. Here's another
very aggressive message. It's I'm going to read it as written OK. And yeah,
well, well, gay Jews, boy. Ever thought that the man you hate so much as the peacemaker in the
Middle East? Yea, Trump. No, you are so full of hate and beside that so stupid not to see what his
what this dementia Joe Biden is doing to the USA. Never a single word from you about the laptop full
of sex with underage girls. The money scam for the big man from the Ukraine flying the Air Force One,
the can the private deal made. The Biden family is the most big crime family ever in the White House.
Then he cannot speak one good word after the other one great disaster. So tell me, boy,
how on earth can you not speak? Sorry. How on earth can you put up with this and saying
nothing about it? Just get the news from more good Democrats friends. That wall mark closed 22
stores in the left wing California. Why? Because people can riot and lauding the stores
and would not get arrested. Yes, under Biden, this will harm the whole USA. But you keep silent
about this. Gas prices up. Food $2 down. Yes, gay boy, that's where you voted for.
But because you can know better will not talk about this, but hang out with
the Trump old story. Happy day boy. All the best. We know you need it, Fritz the with.
Yeah. Next, email, OK. Austin wrote to me about Republican hypocrisy on co-morbidities.
David, I saw your recent segment on Tucker reporting on Colin Powell's death.
I found it very interesting that for the duration of the pandemic, Republicans were constantly
talking about how COVID deaths are overstated and many people are dying from other causes.
For some reason, that all seemed to go right out the window when Colin Powell died.
Now it's certainly a COVID death, implying Powell wasn't already immune immunocompromised and had
apparently nothing to do with the other ailments he was suffering from. Of course, as you stated,
this just has everything to do with undermining the vaccine. Yeah, it is funny where before any
time anybody died of COVID, supposedly it was like, No, no, no, no, no. They didn't
really die of COVID. They were killed by doctors at hospitals. We covered that one.
They died from a car accident, but then they were just tested for COVID. And because they had it,
it counts as a COVID death. They were marked as a COVID death to the hospital could make more money,
et cetera. Now Colin Powell dies of Coke. Oh, look at that. It's absolutely covered. Yeah,
the skepticism. Again, this is because none of these are their values or their actual
underlying beliefs. It's just what can we say today to make the point we're already determined
to make. That's that's quite simply what it is, and it's a very good point. Nobody's saying,
Hey, you know what we've been saying for a year and a half when someone supposedly dies of COVID?
We should be skeptical with Colin Powell. Nobody's skeptical now. Yup. He died of COVID. No question
whatsoever. Biden's Christmas, Paul wrote to me, saying, David, sir, does it not seem odd
that the people most worried that Christmas will be ruined by supply chain issues are essentially
admitting not only that Christmas is not primarily a celebration of the birth of Christ,
but that it is also a custom built upon the giving of Chinese made goods.
I am not religious, but what happened to Christ is the reason for the season.
What happened to buy American right wing audiences can be convinced of the exact
opposite of what they espouse. Very bizarre stuff. Yeah, Paul, this is sort of like another example.
Of you've got their stated principles. And then you've got their actions when the principles no
longer correspond with the point they want to make. There's an attack on Christianity
and it's all about Jesus and religiosity. And we should buy American because we're Republicans. Oh,
we're having problems with Chinese supply chains. That's going to ruin Christmas. No mention of
Jesus. No mention of buy-American. Just it's Joe Biden's fault that we're not going to be able to
get our Chinese toys. Same analysis as before. You know, none of the I don't know that they believe
any of the things they say. They'll use them to make political points. If it's so convenient,
and that's about as far as it goes. Really good message about the Dennis Prager thing. We talked
last week about how Dennis Prager tested positive for COVID, and he's taking five medications, and
he said he wanted to test positive for it. Joe, from Virginia, wrote in and said, Hey David,
do people like Dennis Prager not see the irony in wanting to catch COVID in order to develop natural
immunity? They want to catch the virus in order to develop antibodies so that they're less likely to
catch it again in the future. It makes no sense. Why not just never catch it in the first place?
It's like if I told you I could hit you with a car today and in exchange your chance of being hit by
a car in the future will be reduced. Reasonable people would decline being hit with the car at
all. Getting vaccinated in this scenario, preggers logic, if it can even be called logic, makes it
seem like he'd take on the car. Yeah, this is something we've been talking about for a while.
We want to get COVID, get everybody sick, so that then you're protected in the future.
Right. But millions of people would die with the herd immunity approach. Why not just avoid
catching it if only there was something that could reduce our chance of catching it? And of course,
that's something is the vaccine that they just make no sense. There was a time, and maybe it
to some degree still applies, although I don't know enough about it before there was any, any,
you know, chicken pox vaccine. There would be the idea of you get your kids together so that they
pass chicken pox and you get get it out of the way. Because getting chicken pox as an adolescent
or an adult or shingles, it can be really, really, really bad.
So that's something that used to go on, like when my parents were kids, even when I was a kid.
It was already not being done that I'm aware of. But what Dennis Prager is saying, it's like I
want to get the virus to have a lower chance of getting it in the future. Well, why not just get
the vaccine and reduce your chance of getting it at all and try to avoid it? It seems more logical.
By the way, particularly when remember Vincent Racaniello, one of the top virologists in the U.S.
from Columbia University? We interviewed him and he said it would be expected. Generally speaking,
the trajectory over time would be that the the coronavirus, the COVID 19 SARS-CoV-2
gets less serious over time. So there's really not an advantage to getting it now. A very,
very strange stuff. But you know, none of what they're doing makes sense.
Riley wrote to me about a teacher wearing a star of David in protest of the vaccine, saying, Hey,
David, I thought this might catch your interest. A Brenda's middle school teacher in Red Bluff,
California, posted this video comparing the Holocaust to the vaccine mandate just to add
to the cringe. She cut out a star of David and asks followers to pin them on their shirts as
part of a protest. She took down the original post due to the outrage and reposted the same message,
this time with a blue star. Yeah, I saw the original video with the yellow star,
and then I saw a subsequent video where the same teacher then did a video with a blue star because
apparently the yellow star. A lot of people said you're trivializing the Holocaust again,
like so many of these anti-vaxxers have done. In fact, last week I told you about a report
that looked at COVID conspiracies, pushing people either overtly or sort of in a more
below the radar way towards anti-Semitism. Trivialization of the Holocaust, through
false equivalencies between concentration camps and vaccine requirements by employers and schools
were. That was listed as one of those things, and I did see the video. I'm not going to play it, but
you can certainly find it if you are interested. Liz wrote to me about a weird new Republican
conspiracy. Liz says, Hey David, I've been hearing an argument being made by some of my right wing
friends that I'm having trouble connecting with any factual reference point. Shocker. I know,
but I try to understand what frightens the right, and I can't figure out where this one came from.
They seem convinced lately that the government is monitoring any transactions over $600 in
our private bank accounts. Where is this talking point coming from? Is it true?
I have not heard anything about this, so I don't even know how to remotely deal with this as an
argument against supposed government overreach. So here is my suspicion about where that comes from.
There was one point at which the false rumor was being spread that the $600 stimulus from,
I believe, the Trump era, the $600 COVID stimulus was it 600 that it was going to be taxed as
income. So you get money from the government, then you pay taxes on it. Now, it wasn't true. If you
got $600 from the government, you were supposed to report it on your taxes and then in a separate
part, your ass. Did you get COVID stimulus? You put your ass and you put in the amount and you get
a credit. So it offsets its just reporting, right? It doesn't change your taxable income, I say.
On the one hand, here's $600 I received. On the other hand, here's a credit that's $600
is deductible. It zeroes out, OK? I wonder if the government is monitoring transactions. Over $600
is somehow related to the previous false rumor that the COVID stimulus money would be taxable.
I don't know, and this is a funny thing. Every day there's a new one of these, and sometimes
we know where it comes from. Sometimes we don't. Sometimes hilariously or tragically,
these come from just misunderstanding some other false conspiracy delusion.
So I don't know. But my suspicion is it has something to do with the false claim that
the COVID stimulus money was going to be taxed. Also lastly, today from the mailbag,
Andrew wrote to me about hypocrisy and says. David, just want to point out the hypocrisy here
for a party so consumed by statistics and how the one percent that die from COVID isn't a big deal.
Why are they so concerned? About 10000 Haitians coming to Texas, which is only about three point
five percent of Texas's 29 million well, and not only that, only a fraction of them would actually
stay in Texas, which is another issue. Yeah. Listen, Andrew, it's not. None of it's logical.
None of it's logical you can try to present. You can try to present empirical data to these
folks. It doesn't make a difference if they've decided it's an invasion of Haitian migrants,
as Trump said, who have AIDS? As other Republicans have said, who will, you know, suck the country
dry of resources or whatever? If they've convinced themselves of that, no data that you present is
going to change their minds. That's fundamentally what it comes down to. And at this point, it
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