Speaker 1: All right.
Let's get into Friday feedback where we hear from some of you, your messages across different
platforms.
You can email info at David Pakman dot com.
Feel free to leave a comment on YouTube.
It might be featured here or post something to the subreddit.
Really, whatever you prefer.
First one is from Wolfie.
Wolfie says Mr. Pacman.
Hello.
I've been watching your content.
Nearly five years since Trump's bizarre presidency.
But I do have a bizarre.
Yeah, I do have a question to ask you.
I'm okay with your opinion and I'd rather keep it between us.
Well, I don't do that.
It's all either on the air or not at all.
But we'll keep you anonymous.
What is your view on LGBTQ, same sex marriage and the whole things relating to it?
I am a gay male, but I think as an outcast it's totally getting kind of corporate.
Anyway, just wanted your opinion.
I mean, you can share it on YouTube, but I'd rather remain anonymous.
Good.
We are keeping you anonymous.
Wolfie.
Could be anybody.
My views on LGBTQ, same sex marriage, and all of it.
I have been a staunch and powerful ally for the LGBT community for as long as I've been
doing this show.
I've been an advocate for gay marriage for as long as I've been doing this show.
These these aren't even controversial or contentious issues for me.
And we have been following the evolution of the political and social narrative around
those issues for more than a decade and a half on the show.
And so there are probably hundreds of videos that I have done on the subject.
There are also, for newer viewers or listeners of the show, at least a couple dozen interviews
that I've done over the years with overt, rancid homophobes of different kinds and flavors
and sorts.
And more recently, as I'm sure people who have been following the political discourse
are aware, in the United States, the homophobes have shifted towards transphobia and focusing
on the trans community.
You know, there is a movement on the right which loves to say there is no more hyper
represented group in the United States than LGBT folks.
You've got a, you know, pride flag at the United Nations.
There's pride parades, there's everything, gay pride.
But this is a group that is so overrepresented relative to their size in the population.
You know, the counterpoint I would make to that is this is a group on whom there is so
much focus because for decades the right just can't leave folks alone.
And has activated.
First it was we need to defend marriage.
I remember when that was the whole thing.
Then all of a sudden there's gay marriage.
We've had it for years.
Everything's fine.
Nothing bad has happened.
Now the focus is on trans people.
So to those who say it's an overrepresented movement relative to its population.
The obsession seems to be coming from the right and from those who want to take rights
away.
All right, Wolf.
So I hope that that's I hope it's clear and I hope I'm kind of giving you a perspective
on my views.
Eleanor wrote in from California about MAGA preppers.
This is interesting.
Eleanor says, Hey, David, I fell down a right wing rabbit hole and noticed some alarming
things.
MAGA Twitter feeds are filled with ads for survival gear for the end days after they
defeat the left in the Civil War.
Their advertising pamphlets on how to protect yourself legally if you shoot someone, self-defense
laws, etc..
Fascinating and terrifying at the same time.
So this is this is an interesting thing.
Prepping.
Has a religious component for some.
Now, I want to be really clear.
Don't email me saying the preppers aren't only religious right people.
I know that there is non-religious right wing prepping and there is also left wing prepping.
I understand that I am a very casual prepper myself.
Very casual.
I have like a can of tuna under the desk taped in cases.
Having an emergency.
I can pull it out and just eat it.
I guess I need a can opener, but I'll deal with that later.
But there has been a history of religiously oriented prepping in the Mormon faith.
Prepping is a big thing, but also an evangelical Christian circles.
There has been shows like The Jim Baker Show and others.
Alex Jones products have had a prepping aspect to it that is maybe a little less overtly
religiously based, but but it's still there.
So that's not surprised at all.
What they've done recently is they've just shifted the reasoning.
Ten, 12 years ago, a lot of it was like the rapture.
You've got to be prepared for the apocalypse.
And when all of that happens, you're going to want to have this food storage.
Now, it has shifted a lot, too.
You know, there's this Marxist dystopia that we're heading towards where there will be
no food availability, or if we have another pandemic, the liberals will shut down the
food supply.
So you better have it.
So the language has changed around it, but there is actually MAGA prepping is just the
latest sort of outcropping or protuberance of what is a much larger right wing and often
religiously oriented prepping community.
And when they add in the gun elements to it, it is it is certainly scary stuff.
Graham wrote in and says, Hey, David, welcome back.
Hope you enjoyed a nice break.
Guess your your guest hosts did an excellent job as always.
And Graham goes on to say, I'm sure it hasn't escaped your attention, but I noticed the
following.
You're YouTube subscribers right before the right wing hate mob.
1.66 million.
Your YouTube subscribers after the right wing hate mob over 1.69 million.
Seems that went well for them.
Exactly.
As I said in the previous message, the whole thing created noise and it probably made a
bunch of new people go and check out your channel thinking to themselves.
Sky seems like a rare, sensible voice and end up subscribing.
I know it's been painful from the standpoint of advertisers, but I find it difficult not
to be amused by how poorly this worked out for the mob.
Yeah.
Listen, I've said to people the entire tweet scandal regarding my tweet about the Nashville
shooting and prayer and it getting all the way to Donald Trump jr posting about me and
candace owens and others.
Speaker 6: David Pakman does not have a soul.
He doesn't have a soul, right?
Speaker 1: It would have been uniquely good were it not for the fact that people started
harassing my dad and other people online.
Right.
And the death threats and all of it.
It would have been uniquely good.
Now that everybody's forgotten about it, a lot of the good is left.
We've got like 40,000 new subscribers on YouTube and we have like a thousand people signed
up for paid subscriptions on the website, all of that.
But yeah, Graham is right, which is to some degree this backfired on the right wing mob.
Let's look at our subreddit user redacted posted.
I find it funny how failed former President Trump is touting Florida as third worst in
the country for many things in his so-called statement stating how Florida is third worst
in COVID cases.
Third worst in COVID deaths, third worst in crimes.
Doesn't that strike anyone as No wonder, since Florida is the third most populous state in
the nation and no relevance whatsoever.
That Ron DeSantis bonus was governor.
Does he really think his followers are that dumb to take his claims without a grain of
salt?
Well, yeah.
His followers are accepting those claims without questioning them.
The reality about Florida is a very mediocre story.
Now, I know people will write to me, I'll say.
But David, you go to Florida all the time and you talk about how great it is.
I enjoy certain parts of Florida.
That is absolutely true.
I also am aware of the real COVID numbers in Florida per capita.
When you look at COVID numbers per capita in Florida, adjusted to the population in
Florida is very mediocre.
It's not nearly the worst death rate and it's not nearly the lowest death rate.
It's not nearly the worst case rate or that it's just a mediocre state overall in many
ways.
There are parts of Florida that are doing well and parts of Florida that are doing less
well.
But economically, as far as education goes, as far as all these things.
Florida's very mediocre.
And what's funny is Trump used to talk about how great Florida was when he wanted to talk
about how the the approach to the pandemic from right wing states was better.
Now he's saying Florida is terrible.
It's the same Florida.
It's just Trump's telling a different story about it from the YouTube channel.
YouTube user Douglas Duke Vote Clown says MAGA now stands for My Ass Got Arrested, which
is funny.
But then another user protest to a which I can only imagine means Second Amendment has
a blistering conspiracy theory about the Trump arrest.
This user says he was not arrested, didn't ride in a cop car, didn't get handcuffed.
Dems just made the biggest mistake because they got nothing on him.
It's already backfiring.
We'll see.
Well, yeah, we will see.
That is a wild conspiracy theory that there really was no arrest.
Of course there was.
There are real, fair questions as to what will happen in the polling thanks to the arrest,
it seems.
It's a little helpful for Trump in the Republican primary, but probably damaging in the general
election if Trump makes it that far.
But we will see.
But Trump didn't really get arrested is really something else.
One other note about the Trump arrest, and this is a really good point.
Spicy dragon posted quote, I guess New York City isn't so big and scary as to keep the
Republicans away.
True.
A bunch of these Republicans who always talk about how dangerous New York City is swarmed
into the city for Trump's arrest.
Ask how many of them were terrified or attacked while here.
Did any of them actually go and show crime?
I'm a lifelong New York City girl and have never been attacked, mugged or murdered yet
as far as I know, lol.
Yeah, I mean, listen, my experience in New York City is regularly one where I never even
see crime.
Obviously big cities have crime.
What is important, of course, is what are the crime rates?
How do the crime rates separate from or contrast with the narrative about democratically led
cities or the most dangerous?
We know that's not true.
We know about the red state murder problem.
We know about all of these things.
But it is interesting that there was not a single story.
All of these Trump supporters who came into New York City for the arrest.
Not a single story of even witnessing a crime.
Never, never mind even being the victim of such a crime.
And remember, the crime rate, including property crime and violent crime, is higher in Oklahoma
City than it is in New York City.
Those are the facts.
They're not very convenient for many on the right.
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