The David Pakman Show - 9/16/22: Election Deniers Crumbling, 2022 Midterms Imminent

Episode Date: September 16, 2022

-- On the Show: -- Democrats continue to improve their chances of holding onto the House and Senate based on new 2022 midterm projections -- Donald Trump goes on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and threatens "big problems" if he's indicted -- Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc tries to distance himself from statements he made about the 2020 election being stolen from Trump -- MyPillow CEO and Founder Mike Lindell appears to lose his mind after the FBI seizes his mobile phone -- Caller has a problem with self-sabotaging -- Caller wonders if the problems with capitalism can be solved or if a complete overhaul is necessary -- Eric from Cancun talks about his martial arts classes -- Caller wonders if Trump did anything good for the United States -- Caller is a military member who doesn't think the armed forces is "woke" as the right claims -- Caller asks David what his price would be to become a grifter -- Caller has an idea for a workaround to the Second Amendment -- Caller asks about getting more third-party representation -- David responds to viewer emails and messages -- On the Bonus Show: King Charles III off to a bad start, Blake Masters wants to fire "woke" generals, Senate delays same-sex marriage vote, and much more... 🧻 Reel Paper: Use code PAKMAN for 30% OFF + free shipping at https://reelpaper.com/pakman 💻 Get Private Internet Access for 82% OFF + 3 months free at https://privateinternetaccess.com/david -- Become a Supporter: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow -- Subscribe to the Pakman Live YouTube Channel: https://www.davidpakman.com/pakmanlive -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave us a message at The David Pakman Show Voicemail Line (219)-2DAVIDP

. All right. Let us waste no time because we have such an agenda here at the start of today's show. Updated numbers for Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate in what now are midterm elections that are just about six weeks away. Numbers continue to improve for Democrats in both the House and Senate, although Democrats are still not favored to win in the House. Let's look at the numbers in the 538 forecast for the Senate 2022. It is now a 71 percent chance that Democrats will win and only a 29 percent chance that Republicans will win. The most likely outcomes are Democrats

maintaining a 50 50 majority because Kamala Harris would be the tie breaking vote vote or Democrats having a 51 to 49 advantage. The way that these numbers have changed over the last several months is directly in the favor of Democrats. As you can see, if you're looking at the screen at the beginning of June, Democrats had about a 40 percent chance of holding the Senate that has climbed steadily to a new high of 71 percent. Now, things that happened, 29 percent of the sorry, things that are 29 percent likely to happen. Happen 29 out of every hundred times, so that doesn't mean that there is any guarantee here. But right now, the most mathematically likely scenario is Democrats

holding the Senate either 50 50 or 51 to 49. Now, over in the House, the numbers are not looking as good for Democrats, but the numbers are closing in on basically a two to one likelihood of Republicans taking the House, which is far worse for Republicans than it has been at any previous point during this election cycle. Twenty eight percent chance for Democrats. And again, if we look at how those numbers have shifted over time, you will see that what was at one point a 14 percent chance for Democrats at one point, a 12 percent chance for Democrats has now surged all the way up to a 28 percent chance.

Again, the most likely outcome is still that Republicans will take control of the House. But the likelihood of that has declined steadily for a period of June, July, August, three and a half months, three and a half months. As we've said before, if at this same rate, the numbers continue to improve for Democrats by Election Day, it would be close to 50 50. We don't know that that's going to happen, but that's the way the numbers look today. And the important thing is everyone must vote. Do not concede any seat. Fight for everything. Donald Trump completely face planted and humiliated

himself in a disastrous new interview from yesterday with right wing radio host Hugh Hewitt. Let's look at a couple moments here on a Hugh Hewitt's program. Donald Trump tried to claim that it's very common to send an alternate slate of electors to claim, oh, give our state's electoral votes to the guy who lost. The truth is, it's not common. But Trump says it as if he's telling the truth because he lies every second. They are attempting, I think, to indict people for plans to select alternative electors on one. Have you received a target letter, Mr. President? No, I haven't at all. And frankly, when you look at alternate slates that way, that's been done for decades and decades, many, many years. Now, that's a lie. What has been done for decades and decades is that. You have people

identified and the people are aware, OK, if Biden wins, you would be you would be a Biden elector. Other people are told if Trump wins, you would be a Trump elector. What is not done is that Biden wins. The Biden electors are notified. It's y'all because Biden won. And then Republicans start calling random people who were not going to be the Trump slate of electors to say, hey, what if we just show up anyway?

That it is not true that that is typical. Alternate slates are actually common. I wasn't involved with alternate slates, but I can tell you many people have been for many, many years doing alternate slates. In fact, your friend Tucker Carlson did a story on it last night. How have you standard way of, you know, working elections? Yeah, completely untrue. Completely untrue. Donald Trump asked during this interview about what if the DOJ indicts you? And again, Donald Trump alludes to violence. Take a listen to this. This is incredible.

You know, the old saying prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if they want to. I'm just asking if there is such a prosecutor and they indict you, would that deter you from running for president again? I don't think the people of the United States would stand for it. And as you know, if a thing like that happened, I would have no prohibition against running. You know that. I do. And that's what I want people to understand. That would not take you out of the arena. It would not. But I think if it happened, I think you'd have problems in this country, the likes of which perhaps we've never seen before. Whoa.

I don't think the people of the United States would stand for it. What kind of problems, Mr. President? I think they'd have big problems, big problems. I just don't think that stand for it. They will not. They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes. That is a threat. That is a threat from the former president to unleash his own supporters on the country.

That is what that is. One other clip that we're going to take a look at here. Do you feel like the Department of Justice is trying to indict you, Mr. President? Well, there is no reason that they can, other than if they're just sick and deranged, which is always possible because I did absolutely. You've seen the legal papers. Absolutely nothing wrong. And there's no reason that they can do that. And I'll tell you what, I would have said there's no way they can raid a house either

because, you know, it's Fourth Amendment stuff. And what they did is they everything was signed off on. Everything was legal. It was not an illegal search and seizure. Speaker 4 Terrible. And I don't think the people are going to stand for it. If you notice the poll numbers are the highest they've ever been. The people are not going to stand for this stuff. They've. Speaker 1 So then he goes back into that entire entire thing and lastly, asked about the classified documents. Trump claims he declassified

declassified everything he took to Mar-a-Lago, except his lawyers are not making that argument in court because it's an absurd argument. Speaker 1 Mr. Patel said he witnessed you giving verbal orders to declassify the papers that end up at Mar-a-Lago. Do you remember making those orders? Speaker 4 That's correct. And not only that, I think it was other people also were there. But I have the absolute right to declassify. Yeah. And of course, as we've said before, the classification status of these documents is not relevant

to all of the crimes Trump is being investigated for. You can't just look at a whole bunch of documents and say declassify. Even William Barr admitted that. But the big highlight here or low light is Trump threatening to unleash his followers on the country. That was a signal. You're not going to stand for it. You're going to go crazy in the streets if they indict me. Very dangerous stuff. Hey, this is really interesting. New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Baldock last month said the election was stolen by Joe Biden and Trump won. Yesterday on Fox News, Baldock was confronted

with his own comments and he denounced them. And he said, you know what? I did my research. Biden won. Take a look at this. Basically against Morse, the more establishment Republican candidate, because they were basically saying that you're so extreme that they think that you're more beatable. And one of the things that Maggie Hassan, the Senate incumbent, will say is that you are an election denier, that you deny that President Biden won the 2020 election. And there's this from August 14th when you had a debate. Watch here. I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Trump won the election. And damn it, I stand by my. Wow. Do you stand by that today?

No. So, you know, we we we, you know, live and learn. Right. And I've done a lot of research on this. And I've spent the past couple of weeks talking to granite staters all over the state from, you know, every party. And I have come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive on this, the election was not stolen. Was there fraud? Yes. Is that a concern of granite staters all over the state? Yes, there is. Is there a responsibility for public servants and elected positions to ensure that our citizens have

faith in their voting system? Yes. But elections have consequences. And unfortunately, President Biden is the legitimate president of this country and he is ruining it along with Maggie Hassan. So listen, is it good that Balduck is willing to say this? Well, yeah, it's good because some people on Fox News might hear it. Does this represent his real and true personal belief? I have no idea because the real interpretation of what Balduck is doing here is he realized that with New Hampshire voters insisting that the election was stolen and Trump actually

won isn't helping him. That's fundamentally what this is about. And so it's about political expediency. My guess is Balduck never believed that Trump actually won. I think he was saying it because he thought it would help him. And then when it became clear it wasn't helping him, he stopped saying it. But it's still nice for Fox News viewers to hear that. Couple more clips to play for you.

Two days ago, I told you that my pillow, Mike Lindell's phone was seized by the FBI. A phone is a type of machine. We're doing a class action lawsuit against all machines. Yesterday, we looked at the search warrant for pillow and all of the things that were on the search warrant. And then today, I just have a few clips for you of Mike pillow really off the rails now after this FBI seizure. Take a look at this. Here he is on Steve Bannon's show. I told the FBI guy, Steve, I told the FBI guys, I said that you guys are going to be on my six o'clock show on Frank's speech. And and they said this corrupt investigation, whatever you're trying to do. And they go,

Mike, we're just doing our jobs. I said, yeah. I said the corruption goes back to our government. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. I want all the FBI people out there. We got whistleblowers all over the place. That phrase is not going to save you. That's what the Waffen SS said. That's what the Gestapo said to save themselves after 1945. Oh, dear. They claim to be tough on crime, and yet they have no problem calling law enforcement Nazis. That's essentially what Bannon is saying. He's saying, oh, yeah, the FBI is saying the same thing that that Nazis were saying after World War Two. One other clip here about the cell phone. Well, anyway, then he says, here it comes. He goes, well, after about 25 minutes of talking, he goes, Mike, we have to take your cell phone.

By the way, this is from a different interview with Charlie Kirk. And I go, you're not getting my cell phone. I said, I'd rather be arrested. I said, arrest me. You're not getting my phone. I don't I don't use a computer. This is all of my this is my. By the way, what do you think happens to the phone if you get arrested? If you get arrested, they take all the stuff that's in your pockets. My businesses, my Lindell Recovery Network. This is my thousands of employees that I said they were like, we all rely on this. I said, what would you need my phone for? And you can't have my phone. He goes, well, we got a subpoena right here for your phone um signed by a judge and i'm going okay um um i'm gonna call can i call my attorney or one of

my attorneys he goes no then he goes he goes i said i can't call my attorney and you think i'm going to give you my phone if i don't give you my phone am i going to be arrested he said no but we are going to take the phone i said said, well, then I want to call my attorney. Finally, he says, you call your attorney. My attorney, one of my attorneys gets on and goes, Mike, just give him the phone. And I said, I would rather get arrested. I said, everybody relies on this. Yeah. Anyway, he doesn't seem to realize that they take your phone if you get arrested, too. And then lastly, Pillow says that at a Trump rally this weekend, he is going to address everything in some way. To be with the at the at the president, Lastly, Pillow says that at a Trump rally this weekend, he is going to, I don't know,

address everything in some way. I'm going to be with the president, our real president's rally in Ohio on Saturday. I'm going to speak there about this. Now we have a unique opportunity, everybody, to spread the word, get the word out. Maybe, maybe, Steve, that just once that the media would go, hey, Mike, why? Why did they do this to you? Could it be because I have all the evidence because I want to get rid of voting machines and electronic computers in our elections? That's what it is. We're doing a class action lawsuit against all machines anyway. So Pillow completely his brain broke as a result of this

seizure. And we'll see what is going on next week with it. Truly incredible stuff. Monday, 919. It is membership promo day. Last chance. Get on my newsletter at David Pakman dot com to get notified Monday of this beautiful membership special. to meet toilet paper demands contributing to deforestation, soil erosion, devastating loss of biodiversity. Our sponsor, Real Paper, makes sustainable toilet paper that is 100 percent made

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Let's hear from some people in the audience. We are going to take some calls via discord, which you can find at David Pakman dot com slash discord. Every day can be good or bad on the discord. We never know what to expect. Let's start today with Dave from New York City. Why not, Dave? Welcome to the program. Hi, Mr. Pakman, how are you? I'm doing well, thanks. Great. Thank you for taking my call. This is actually my first time calling in and I just wasn't even sure. But you said, please directly get to the question. I noticed that and this ties into my question. You seem to have a very good amount of sponsors on the show, including Blinkist and some others. I actually did try Fume and it's kind of working out for me. But I wanted to ask you if you have

any advice for people with a pattern of self-sabotage. And this has to do with the sponsors. Well, well, I would say because there's Blinkist and there's privacy and there are things that I feel would help me and they seem to be excellent products. You're you're a guy who sabotages yourself. Is that what you're saying? Yes, I have a pattern of self-sabotage, and I think that one of those things is recognizing the services that you've recommended and not being proactive enough about following up on them, even though I think that they would help me. And that ties into a general self-sabotage issue. And I was wondering if you have any advice for people who have chronic self-sabotage patterns. Well, I think the most important thing would be to get a therapist.

I mean, that's really that that would be the most important thing more than anything I could say. But so in what ways do you sabotage yourself, like in work and in relationships? Speaker 5 Not so much in relationships. I've I've I've always felt and I know that I'm a great partner when it comes to relationships. But in terms of work, yes, sometimes my current job, I have a certain level of freedom and I kind of show up where I want when I want. And sometimes that leads to me not showing up, even though I need the money. There are other issues where in terms of I do have a therapist and I do take medication, but I'm not always I'm not always wonderful about the consistency of doing so.

And I just logged onto YouTube and I saw that you had a video saying taking your calls in 15 minutes and I figured I would try. Yeah, well, listen, I appreciate the call. I want to be careful not to get out of my lane. I think you're doing exactly the right things by working with a therapist. And and that is exactly what I would keep doing. But I'm sure you're exploring this. But I think figuring out why the self-sabotage is happening would probably be extraordinarily useful as a first step in figuring out how to control it. Thank you. Do you have any book recommendations? Because it sounds it sounds like you're an avid reader. Yes. On my website, go to David Pakman dot com. Click on recommendations.

Hundreds of book recommendations there by category. OK, I'll look into that. All right. Dave from New York City, thank you so much for the call. Very much appreciate it. Let's go next to Meg from Seattle. Meg, welcome. Hi, David, thanks for taking my call. My pleasure. So you've probably heard the the phrase that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism.

I was wondering, do you agree with that theory? No, I mean, listen, in general, I don't agree with almost any of these overarching absolutes for such broad statements. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. I mean, listen, you can you can argue that that's the case and you can argue that, you know, there there are hardcore free marketeers who say the only ethical system is free market capitalism. I find it so unproductive to argue about such overarching broad statements like I'm more interested in figuring out how can we improve the economic system we have so that it works better for more people and raises up the standard

of living and gets more people health care and rewarding, well compensated jobs. I just don't know that we get there by arguing about whether there's any ethical consumption under capitalism. To me, it really seems like a distraction. Speaker 1 I think that's a good point. And I'm guessing you don't have time to go into, you know, what alternate, you know, what alternatives, you know, you would propose to capitalism. Like you said, you you're more interested in, you know, looking at what we can do to make things better. Yeah, no, I mean, listen, Meg, the the the general outlook I have is that social democracy in the style of many northern European countries is the direction I would like

to go. I'm OK with markets directing resources in many areas. I'm OK with there being, you know, a film and television live streaming private industry and decisions being made by private companies about what to produce and then selling it to Netflix or Hulu or what? Like, I'm OK with that. I think that that's OK. I don't need to socialize every industry, but also we need to be regulating industry significantly for the betterment of our planet. We need to be taxing the very rich in order to fund programs to make sure that no one drops below a certain standard of living.

We need to be taking certain industries out of the market, and that includes health care and others. I mean, that's my general view of how I would structure things to improve from where we are now. Absolutely. I mean, our economic system is just one piece, a very big piece, but of all the systems that aren't working that are pretty broken. Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah. So, like, I'm more interested in that than like, is there ethical consumption under capitalism? Call me crazy, Meg. Yeah. So like I'm more interested in that than like is their ethical consumption under capitalism. Call me crazy, Meg. Sure. Sure. Quick follow up. Yes. You know, I've also heard it say that, you know, that we're in like late stage capitalism. And I'll be honest, I haven't done a huge amount of research on that specifically. But do you agree? Do you think we're in late stage capitalism? I have absolutely no idea. Is that that's you know, there's this whole movement that makes that claim. I think we just have to wait and see. And we things are sort of unprecedented in that modern humanity is a tiny fingernail on the wingspan of how long humans have been on this planet and countries. The size and power of today's superpowers are also

basically unprecedented. And so we are in new territory. And I don't know, it could be that this is that we are going to continue improving on capitalism for the next thousand years. It could be that capitalism is 20 years from collapse. I have absolutely no idea. OK, well, thank you so much for taking my call, David. Thank you, Meg. Important questions, which I very much appreciate hearing from you. Let's go next to Lucas from Massachusetts. Lucas, welcome to the program. Lucas from Massachusetts, you are muting yourself, You have to unmute yourself for me to be able to

hear you. I've unmuted you, but you must unmute yourself. And last chance for Lucas from Massachusetts, you are on, but you must unmute yourself in order for me to hear you. All right. And no, Lucas, unfortunately, Lucas wanted to stay muted. Let's go to our friend who we have not heard from for so long. Eric from Cancun. Eric, welcome. Come on. So much. So much. So much. So much. A pleasure. gusto, un placer como siempre. very strong and very agile when I do the kicks and also the flips. Also because I needed to protect myself when it's dangerous. Nothing wrong with that. Okay.

And also that my shifu tells me that you need a balance between it's a way to learn how to be violent without being aggressive. My teacher tells me that we gotta control our impulses and that would be a healthy way to go against those impulses that we have between us, an inner monster that you need to control because if you restrain yourself too much then you become very weak and cowardly. But if you don't restrain that all, you become a jerk. Speaker 1 So the if I understand, Eric, what you're suggesting is martial arts is a good

outlet to know when and to what degree to use violence, but to be able to control it when it should be controlled. Is that right? Speaker 3 Yes, kind of. but to be able to control it when it should be controlled. Is that right? Yes, kind of, because we got to say that we have our inner demons, but also our inner angels. And it would be to know when to let them let them out and when to restrain them. Well, I think you're making some very good points. This is what you said. This is wisdom from your martial arts teacher. And also with myself, my teacher and his voice, as he is not going to train anyone who wants to use violence to do whatever they want. I like that. I like that. Listen, Eric,

how is Cancun these days? Is the is the tourism industry flourishing currently in Cancun? Kanda, I'm still managing my Airbnb. Here's going to be the part of politics and martial arts. There's a show in Mexico called Cobra Kai, which has the original cast of Karate Kid. And here's, in the first part, Johnny Lawrence, he's the origin, the guy who lost against the tournament, it's against Daniel LaRusso,

the one who got kicked in the face, he went to reopen Cobra Kai because he has three rules. Strike first, strike hard, and no mercy. I know they sound like rules of a bully, but in his context, strike first means to seize the moment, like when you want to grab the last box of Krispy Kremes from the store. Strike hard is to give your best effort, and no mercy is to not give up when you have the chance to win. Speaker 1 All right. Eric from Cancun, you have said it all. Thank you so much for the call, my friend.

Speaker 4 And but OK. Speaker 1 OK, thank you very much. There's Eric. I know Eric always has more material, but at some point we have to say that is it. Let's go next to Shelly from Indiana. Shelly, welcome to the program. What's on your mind today? Are you I'm doing well. So my question is about the Trump administration. Sure. A lot of times during and after you would hear Trump supporters say about all of his accomplishments. But when you would ask them, what are they? A common response is, well, I'm not going to tell you you need to do your own research.

Sometimes. I mean, sometimes they will, Shelley, generally say, well, look, he did the economy and he cut regulations and he dealt with all these great, look, he did the economy and he cut regulations and he dealt with all these great you know, he dealt with countries and he fixed the border. You know, they'll just say things that aren't true. That's another possibility. Well, and my my question was, were there any major accomplishments in the Trump administration that that you could actually point to?

Well, there's a couple of a couple of things. I mean, I think that the First Step Act and the criminal justice reform that he did. Contained some positive initiatives to some degree, you know, it's not a reason to elect the guy, but he did kind of stumble, I think, thanks to some of the people that were around him into a couple of modest improvements there. I think that Trump's tax plan lowering the threshold at which medical expenses become deductible was was a good thing. You know, the tax plan overall was a disaster. You know, I mean, it's like I can find a couple of little things here and there.

Hey, yeah, that was it. I just I I hear a lot from people that, oh, you know, people on the left, they don't they don't want to notice accomplishments when when there's a public in. Speaker 1 Yeah, no, listen, I mean, I'm glad to acknowledge accomplishments if that's really what they are. But a lot of times it's just they're not really accomplishments. You know, what do you think his biggest accomplishment was? Speaker 4 You don't know, but you don't know. Yeah, I mean, it's tough to think of them. All right, Shelley, things are OK in Indiana. They're not too insane. Speaker 2 You don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's tough to think of them. All right, Shelley.

Things are OK in Indiana. They're not too insane. Speaker 3 So it's going well. I live in that in the northern area. So we don't see many Trump flags over here. Speaker 1 Shelley, you're breaking up a little bit, but it sounded like you said not too many Trump flags where you are. I really appreciate the call.

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to go. Let's go next to Seth from San Diego. Seth, welcome. What's on your mind? Hey, David, I just wanted to ask what? You know, I see a lot of these conservative ads at a saying, let's get wokeness out of our military. And as someone who currently is serving the country, and this is my own personal opinion, I cannot stress that enough. Of course. This is my own personal opinion. It is not affiliating with any of the branches that I'm serving right now.

But when they're saying that, as a person who's in it, I'm like, I don't see any wokeness around here because everyone is so unfiltered. And the only thing I could think of is sexual harassment seminars or DBA, which means don't be an you know, you know, don't be an a-hole. Yep. Yep. I don't know that it's sounding like it's sounding pretty woke to me. No, you're of course completely right.

You're completely right. And honestly, I think the main wokeness allegations came from when Mark Milley was saying, hey, you know, in the military, we should know what's in the culture. And so if critical race theory is something that is being studied in the culture, we in the military should at least understand what it is. It doesn't mean anything beyond we should just understand what it is. And doesn't mean anything beyond we should just understand what it is. And that's when all of the allegations of woke general and woke military started. But as you're pointing out, it doesn't really have any connection to the reality of what's going on. Speaker 5 Exactly, because, again, like everyone kind of pokes fun at each other by like,

well, like a lot of the things they said, a lot of race, a lot of racial stuff was in out, but definitely some sexual harassment. And we definitely have sexual harassment seminars going all the way up to the ranks. And we do have extremism in the ranks, which is very popular, but that's not necessarily woke. It's just more like, hey, this is professional in the workplace. We have to be professional in the workplace, but off the clock, you can do whatever you want. And that's kind of the same thing as is the job. I'm reservist. So I work two jobs. And there's a girl that was working and she was very unprofessional, very inappropriate. And I had to say, hey, what you're saying is inappropriate. You can't be doing that in the workplace. I don't care what you do outside

in the workplace. It's working. And I'm sorry, but in the workplace. I don't care what you do outside in the workplace. It's working. And I'm sorry, but you have to give up a little bit of your rights when you work. I mean, now, right. I, yes. No, it's not about giving up rights. It's about your employer can use any legal means to determine whether they want you working there.

And so, like saying we don't allow black people to work here is not a legal means saying we believe that's kind of what I meant. We believe the off the clock social media statements to be a problem that actually is legal for employers to consider if they so choose. But that's sort of a different, different discussion. Let me ask you this. It is. OK, do you find that most of your fellow reservists are right wing or left wing or sort of split? I would say maybe around 60 percent right wing. OK, there's definitely hardcore Trumpers in it and that's not hiding it. Yeah, I would say around like the one I know of quite a bit of liberal Marines, but we kind of kind of whisper about

it. We're kind of a little kind of shut our mouths about it. You know, it's very it's it seems like it's very conservative, but there are other people that kind of stay out of it or they have their own opinions or they're not that political. Do you think that the left wingers, at least that, you know, in the military are a little more cautious about expressing their views because of a concern as to how it will be received. Yes, very much so. I'm probably one of the only people that can is expressing their views. And I have to kind of downplay it a little bit, but I'm not like scared about it.

I'm not afraid of expressing my opinions if someone asked me politely and I'm fine to have a discussion. Yeah. But yeah, there's a lot of right wingers, but I can at least work with them. You know, I can at least tolerate them and we're we'll die for each other. Literally. That's what you know, that's fine. I'm I'm in calm. So it's a little bit of difference. Yeah. But there's a lot of smart people. They say, oh, Trump supporters are stupid. Not entirely the case. Their ideas, yes. But as a people in general, they're just people.

They just have the they just have it switched. That's really mainly what it is. Speaker 1 All right. Seth from San Diego. Powerful declarations. Thank you. Speaker 3 Thank you so much, David. I appreciate this opportunity.

Speaker 1 All right. There goes Seth from San Diego. Let's check in next with. Oh, how about Elias from Texas? Elias, welcome. Speaker 2 Hey, David. Speaker 1 Hi. Yeah, your audio is already glitchy, but what's going on here?

Speaker 2 Me. Yes, I can. Speaker 3 Oh. Speaker 4 It is the start of Hispanic Heritage Month tomorrow. Will you teach your daughter any Hispanic traditions or teach her Spanish? How important is your Hispanic identity to you? Hold on. Hispanic Heritage Month starts in the middle of the month.

Yeah. That's weird. That doesn't really. Are you sure about that? Usually it starts on the first. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah. It's tomorrow. Speaker 1 That's weird that that doesn't really. Are you sure about that? Usually it starts on the first. Yeah. Let's see.

Yeah, it's more. Speaker 1 It's start that you're completely correct. That's bizarre. But you're completely right. Wow. Elias. OK. I exclusively speak Spanish to my daughter.

So the idea will be that she would with me and with my parents, she we only speak Spanish to her. Yes. Muy bien. Muy bien. Was that your only question? Do you know? I was saying, like, do you have any like traditions that you're also going to like teach her? Absolutely. Well, she is going to be well versed in the eating of Milanese, I can assure you, as well as, you know, empanadas and all of these different things. Yes, there's going to be all sorts of traditions. She's going to get the best of both worlds. She'll get the Argentinian traditions and the Jewish tradition. So, you know, latkes and the entire thing, pastrami, you know. That's amazing. So so how important is your

Hispanic identity to you? It must be pretty important since you're you're passing it down to your daughter. Absolutely. I don't want that to be lost. And, you know, to some degree, I mean, listen, five generations from now, if my descendants remain in the United States, I think it will probably be lost. Inevitably, it's very hard to keep it indefinitely. But for now, I'll do what I can.

Right. Yeah. All right. That is basically it. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. There is Elias from Texas. Always important to make every effort to pronounce people's names correctly. Let's go next to let's try Roy from South Jersey. Roy, what's going on? Roy from South Jersey, you are on the air. Can you hear me now? Yes, I can, sir. I have in my phone a list of topics that I'd like to discuss whenever I come on. But this is too pressing for just a regular list. Yeah, I went to I mean, I'm in Florida. Yep. And I went to a supermarket and I saw something. I saw a my pillow store in the supermarket. Now, wait a second. Are you that sounds more like something that would happen in Florida. But you said you're in Florida. Yeah, Florida. Yeah. Oh, wow. No. OK.

Well, that's interesting. So there's a my pillow store inside of another store. That's interesting. Speaker 4 I was very worried that they would do a class action lawsuit against me. But anyway, you know, I really like how you've challenged a lot of uh grifters over the years like dave rubin but uh everyone has a price so my question to you is um if say bill gates or elon musk or whoever said i will pay you however much yep name your price but i want you to go on the air on your show in a um tony the tiger uh costume and, I love kids menus. They're great. What would your price be? Oh, that I mean, that's not I thought you were going to say to like become a conservative on the air for the next decade or something like that. I mean, that sounds kind of

funny. I would I would do that for, you know, I don't know, make me an offer if that's interesting. A Tony the Tiger outfit and saying that they're great, that that I would I would do for a lot less. And then I would take 90 percent of the money and put it back into causes I agree with. All right, thank you. All right, Roy, I hope my answers were satisfactory. There is Roy from South Jersey. Let's go next to how about John from Sacramento?

John, welcome. Hey, David, can you hear me? Yes, I can. So I think every David Pakman fan's worst nightmare happened to me last time I called in. The mic didn't work. I was panicking, frantically trying to get the buttons to work. Nothing did. So I'm elated that it works now. I share in the elation with you. So I'm an absolute political layman, but I had this crazy idea. I wanted to run by you, just get your opinion, please. So I looked at the second amendment after you've all day, I got really depressed. I was like, man, this is what can we do? Yep. And I thought about the

first part and I thought and thought and thought and so i was outside of dmv and i was like that's it what if we had a department of militia regulation and that department said okay we get to decide who can be in the militia not i think uh level one you can be hunter so any bolt action rifle sure you're in the militia you can go get that at your store oh you want to move into level two well that's assault rifles Sure. You're in the militia. You can go get that at your store. Oh, you want to move into level two? Well, that's assault rifles. Yeah. 25 year old in the militia.

And then we just set that up because right now Biden's not fulfilling his constitutional obligation. He's got to have that regulated militia. So I don't know. What are your thoughts on something crazy like that? Listen, you're thinking too rationally. And here's the reality. And the Supreme Court

has found that the Second Amendment applies to an individual right to have a firearm. So the focus on the militias, it's not actually relevant, unfortunately. I mean, I think it's a great idea what you're saying. I think it should be applied just more generally to gun safety regulations. But no, if you if you did exactly what you're suggesting, the reaction would be to rightly say the Supreme Court already found that there is an individual right to a gun outside of any militia. We don't need to be regulated as militias. Do you think it would push another case to the Supreme Court if you tried to do that? And there would be. Well, I guess with this court, I just don't think it would happen to be told. I don't

want to bum you out, John, but I just don't think it would go anywhere. Well, but you're thinking of the right things, which are we need to take control of the situation. We just have to find a way to do it legally. All right, David, I appreciate you taking my call. All right. There is John with a very important question that we are going to continue looking into. Let's go next to Paul Garcia from Mexico. Welcome, Paul. Hi, David. Can you hear me? I can hear you fine. Oh, OK. Going going back to the Andrew Yang third party proposal. Yeah. You remember it? Of course. What would you like to see? What would impress you from a third party proposal. Yeah. You remember it? Of course. What would you like to see? What would

impress you from a third party? Well, I would like to see a third party that's to the left of the Democratic Party, but not made up of people who are cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs like the Green Party. That's what I would like to see. I would like to see an actual socially Democratic Party that's to the left of the Democratic Party? Speaker 4 Could they be like if the third party got power, you know, in the in the US? Speaker 1 Yes. Speaker 4 I don't know, the Senate or something in the future. Right.

Yep. Could they do like direct voting on on issues like, you know, because he talk about general consensus is and stuff like that. Right. Yeah. And so could they both pass like, do you want this or that and take about nationally? Well, that's not really a question about third parties. It's just a question of how our political system works.

I mean, are you saying if you had members of this imaginary third party in the Senate, is that what you're saying? Speaker 4 Yeah, I could. Could they be could they do that bigger reform or if they were in the Senate, they would get a vote? I mean, I think I might be misunderstanding your question, but wherever these third party candidates were elected, they would be able to vote and influence policy, whether it's the House or the Senate or if you had a governor or whatever the case may be. I apologize if I'm misunderstanding the question. No, I think you're getting it right. I think it would be like a constitutional change, I guess. My question.

Yeah, the constitutional change might be required to get the third parties elected the way things are going. But I have said I have clips about how third parties could could make inroads. But that's its own complicated reality as well. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Paul. What part of Mexico are you in? She was last time I was I was here. I told you it was kind of getting chilly and you were like, uh, how cold is it? And I was like, uh, I don't know, minus five or something. And you said like, well, that's barely getting cold.

But have you ever been in a dry, cold air, dry, cold air? I, I, I guess, I don't know. The sensation is completely different here in the cold. I know you're near New York, right? Yeah. So you get really cold winters. Yes. Feels like minus 10 here. I swear. Well, I believe it. I believe it. What's the elevation where you are? Do you know? It's around 2000 meters. 2000 meters. Oh, wow. And you're are you completely acclimated to it?

It feels fine. No headaches, nothing. I I'm from a small town. I live now in a city. Here is like one one thousand four hundred. My town is two two hundred two thousand two hundred. So it's it's it feels the change. You feel it when you go back and forth. I bet. I bet. All right, Paul. Well, thank you for the call. Thank you, too. All right. A beautiful phone call from our friendly neighbors to the south in Mexico, where I hope to return very, very soon, folks, that does it for calls today. My apologies. I throw myself at the mercy of those who I was unable to get to. But I can assure you, if I have anything to say

about it, and I believe I do, we will take calls again and I will speak to you next week. But we're just going to take a quick break and then the show continues. Don't forget that the best way to support The David Pakman Show David Pakman dot com and use the coupon code better. Twenty one for a huge discount. Join Pacman dot com. All right, let's get into our mailbag. It's the Friday mailbag. You can email info at David Pakman dot com. If you have a question, comment, concern, anything you want to demand a correction for.

Occasionally we will grab a comment from YouTube or sometimes Facebook or sometimes a tweet or whatever the case may be. Let's get right into it, as we often do, starting with some criticisms, which is fine. D.L. or Patrick, I don't know, wrote in and says Biden should be in jail. Family corrupt over 40 years. Where have you been? Maybe you haven't been around long enough. Please read all info on Biden's laptop. Both dad and son should be in prison for all their

dealings with China, Ukraine and other countries. They have made millions from money laundering. I know you know this with a question mark. This is the type of person where we just need. There's not enough time between now and the election to talk sense into someone like this. So my advice from a voting standpoint is we just have to find two new voters to cancel out this guy's vote. I mean, one, I guess, to cancel it out, but then a second one to actually make some progress. I don't see how someone who is in such a fantasy world that their one contact with me is to tell me how everything about my perspective is wrong because it lacks the stuff from the Biden laptop and Biden and Hunter should be in prison that

I don't think we have the time capacity to just argue and change these people's minds. If you think there's some way to fix these folks brains, let me know. But I think it's much simpler to register people to vote and to cancel out their votes. Next message is from Kara. Kara wrote it and said, you're a effing Nazi beta boy. Well, I'm Jewish, so I don't know what you mean by Nazi, but my family fled the Nazis. Kara goes on. There are hundreds of millions of Trump is who will make sure your voice is silenced on social media as ours have been. Who the F are you? Well, if you don't even know who I am, why is it important that hundreds and millions, hundreds of millions of Trump is silenced me if I'm so insignificant that Cara has not heard of me.

I don't know why anyone would need to waste any time silencing me. By the way, it's really interesting how the the delusions seem to spread virally. And what I mean by that is recently Trump pulled this idea that there's hundreds of millions of mega people at his last rally. Trump said something like, oh, there were the 75 million who voted for me, plus another 150 million, probably like so. So Trump believes that there's 225 million Trump ists in the United States. Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Number of adults in USA 2022. What are the number of adults? I actually can't find that. Anyway, the point is 225 million Maggots is like it's got to be close to every adult. I don't know what percentage of the population is under 18, but it's got to be

20 percent or more. Anyway, as usual, as is the case with these people, the numbers never add up. The numbers never add up. Thank you, Cara. I appreciate that. OK, Mike wrote in again asking about these spam messages that he's getting. Mike says, I've received this message a couple of times in response to comments made on Dave Pakman YouTube clips. Question is, scam or legit? I don't use WhatsApp, but I am curious. And it's one of these messages where the user has my picture as their profile picture and it says, write me. I know that this is a disappointment to some in the audience. Some people will write to me and say, David, I was so excited that you wanted to hear more from me about my view on,

you know, Hillary Clinton or whatever, that I tried writing you on WhatsApp like you told me. I am not asking anyone to text me or to WhatsApp me or anything. These are scammers. Report them to YouTube. We are doing everything we can to get this scourge, as Trump would like to say, off of YouTube. As far as I know, no one's been scammed so far, but eventually they will ask you for money. That's the scam. And at some point I'll do an expose a bigger picture on on the full scam. But no, I'm not what's happening. Anybody. I'm not texting anybody. I don't want you to text or what's at me. It is a scam. Do not fall for it. Jaden noticed an anomaly on our social blade page, which tracks our YouTube channel. Jaden said, David, sir, I was looking at the social blade for your YouTube channel and I noticed it as a graph of your subscriber increases.

I have tears in my eyes as I tell you that it appears that the machines have been dumping you subscribers of 10,000 every couple of weeks. There are huge gaps and irregularities that cannot be explained. Please, sir, we need pillow on the show so he can explain how the machines did this. Yeah. You know, a few people have written to me and they said, David, is there a scam going on with your subscribers?

Because you get none for days and then suddenly 10,000 in one day. Let me explain on YouTube. Once you get to a million subscribers, the algorithm shifts into tracking them in tens of thousands. So like when you look at our YouTube channel, it'll say one point four seven million subscribers and then it'll go to one point four eight. So it tracks them in ten thousand increments. When that is the case, Social Blade does the same thing. So in reality, we get like six hundred subscribers a day, but it only updates now every ten thousand. No scam going on. Check any channel above a million subscribers and you will see it's the same. Michael wrote it. Michael says, David, I sincerely want to thank you for the public service you do

in showing the liars and hypocrites on your show. I think it's very necessary, but I can't bear to watch some of the outrageous clips you show. So I mute the sound and just listen to your commentary to learn what nonsense was said. You must have a great deal of self-control to be able to listen to Trump and the MAGA's day in and day out. Well, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I've talked about this before. There is a desensitization that happens when you do what I do, where because outrageous things happen so often, they start to seem less outrageous. And that's why it's good, number one, to take time away from this stuff. And number two, to talk to people from different places. So when I talk to

family of mine from other countries or even when foreign callers call in or when I read articles about American politics from other countries, it's always good to have sort of your sensibilities reset because it's nuts here. This MAGA right wing authoritarian want to be fascist movement that is written about here by Michael. These people are genuinely dangerous and it's also not typical. It's really not typical. And it's good to get that perspective from other countries. Daniel wrote in about Mike Pillow and says, David, do you really think it's appropriate to have Mike Lindell on your show again? After his manic episode on Facebook,

it's clear Mike is unwell. Inviting him on again almost seems wrong, like we're making fun of someone who needs a doctor. Anyway, just a thought. Let me know what you think. Daniel from Indiana says don't have pillow on because he's he's mentally ill. I mean, I don't know that we know that. And honestly, probably like 20 percent of our guests are mentally ill by some definition. I don't know. I don't know what the standard should be. The tough one. But I'm willing to hear from people in the audience. Aaron wrote in and writes in about CNN's right turn. Aaron says, Hi, David, I'm a progressive, possibly a little to your left on some issues, but I have to say that I'm not scandalized by CNN's decision to drop the big lie moniker,

even though it's very clearly a big lie. Don't you agree that the term sounds quite editorialistic for a new segment? I'm not convinced that a commitment to more neutral language is in fact a turn to the right. No, listen on the CNN right turn. It's no one thing. It's not. Oh, we're dropping the big lie alone.

It's a combination of things, including statements made by the new CEO or president, whatever he calls himself. The big lie thing is one element changes to staffing. It's a lot of different things. Recent comments from anchors. I would never make the case that just based on not using the term big lie anymore, CNN is now Fox News. That wouldn't be accurate.

It's not what I believe. But go back to the segment I did on it. And it's a much bigger picture issue than that. Rodney wrote in about abortion and said, hello, should a registered or voting Republican be allowed to get an abortion in the United States? I get the point of this question. If you vote against abortion being legal. By voting for elected officials who will try to make it illegal, should you be allowed to get an abortion? It is so outside of any legal framework to deny abortions based on how people vote. That my opinion is. Here's here's my thought, Rodney. OK. And I really appreciate the message. I get why you're asking the question. It's a losing direction to go in saying, OK,

make abortions illegal for Republicans because they want it to be. We're almost as bad in saying deny a legal medical procedure to people. Right. And so, no, I don't think that that's a good idea at all. Gabriella wrote in about Democrats, quote, winning, and she makes a good point. Gabriella says, hello, sir. My dad used to tell me when I would ask who's winning during any sports game. Well, no one wins until the end. They're only ahead for now. I thought this might be relevant to your recent clip on Democrats leading across the country, albeit not by enough. They're ahead for now, but it's up to voters to help them win. 100 percent correct. And this is why every time we look at 2022 polling numbers,

Senate forecast, House forecast, I always say this is where we are right now. There are things not yet reflected in the polls. Everyone must vote. Everyone must vote. And I hope that you will. And we're starting to get down to the wire. If you have never voted before, at least Google voter registration deadline in your state and understand when can you register? Can you register same day? It's very important to know that. And I hope every single one of you votes. All right. Monday, 919. David Pakman show membership special. We're going to be blowing out memberships at rates never seen before at a huge discount. The theme is 919. That on the show.