Buck’s First Thoughts - Emails Expose Fauci As A Vain Phony

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the beginning of the pandemic. Was not really reflective of the conversation going on behind the scenes. A lot of what was going on here involved things like telling colleagues that retail masks don't really do very much, if anything. He was aware there was a possible lab leak. There was some talk of gain and function possibility in terms of the lab leak theory. So An here's an example.

You know, now, the truth starts to come out over a year into this pandemic of the guy who was elevated to be essentially in charge without any meaningful oversight without anybody being able to say, hold on a second, who is this little clown you know here? I am. I'm I'm just a humble doctor who happens to have almost stalin like authority overall of American society. And you know, maybe I have to be on the cover of in

Style magazine. Maybe I've got to have a book deal, which we now know He's got a book coming out as well, Expect the Unexpected. Isn't it such a clever title? I come up with all the best things, all the best titles. This is an email in February of twenty twenty that I think you should you should know about. This is this is real Freedom of Information Act request from Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Health, and it's to a woman named Silvia. And here's what he says, Sylvia. Quote.

Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection of people who are not infected, rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus which is small enough to pass through material. It might provide some slim benefit in keeping out droplet droplets. If someone coughs or sneezes on you, I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are

going to a very low risk location. I'm sorry. Does that Does that seem like what what we've been told all along here about this? Does that seem like what the storyline has been Ah, it's small enough. The virus is small enough to pass through the mask material. This is from doctor Anthony Fauci in February of twenty twenty. If you've said that at any point in the past year, a guy's the virus just goes through this mesh, it doesn't actually protect you to wear this mask. And ninety

five masks give some protection. And I've always said that, but cloth masks, bandanas, handkerchiefs a joke, absurd. That's with Fouci was saying. But you weren't allowed to say this before. In fact, Harvard epidemiologist Martin Coldorf I believe is his name, had his account on Twitter suspend it for saying that masks really don't do very much. You weren't allowed to say this. There are so many of these emails that I think are important for you to see. Here's one.

This comes from This is a tweet from Sarah Westwood at the DC Examiner. Peter Dazak, who is deeply involved both in Wuhan coronavirus research and in missing in the public about the likelihood of a lab league, thanked Fauci for helping dispel the myths around COVID origins and blamed Fox News for targeting his grants. It's it's amazing, isn't it? It says from Anthony Fauci to Peter Dazak Tony as the R zero one grant publicly targeted by Fox News

reporters at the presidential press briefing last night. I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators for standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID nineteen from a bat to human spillover, not a lab release. So, you know, thanks so much, Faucci. Those bad people at Fox News. This is what's going on behind the scenes. These are the actual conversations that are going on. These

are the things that are determining health policy. But here's my favorite of all these emails. I mean, certainly the mask thing, the science. You gotta listen to the science. Fauci says, you have to mask up. Here's one from Christian Anderson on Friday, February thirty first, twenty twenty, to doctor Anthony Fauci. He writes, Hi, Tony, Yes, I saw this earlier, and both Eddie and myself are quoted in it.

It's a great article. The problem is our phylogenetic analyzes aren't able to answer whether the sequences are unusual at individual residues, except if they are completely off on a philogenetic tree. The virus looks totally normal, and the close clustering with bats suggests that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome genome, so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that

some of the features potentially look engineered. Oh so this was in January of twenty twenty. Some aspects of the virus, according to a top researcher here, did look like they had been engineered. But how is it that we had a whole year of being told it was a conspiracy theory? How is it that we spend all of this time being led to believe that anybody who had questions about mask effectiveness. Remember, you weren't even allowed to say things like masks barely work if they work at all, which

is obviously true. Oh no, they work, Fauci says, they work. Okay, how many times did I ask you in this show how well do they work? If they can't tell you, then where is the science they're basing this on. If they're guessing if it's a good instinct, that's not the same as being able to prove it. That's not the same as scientific fact. That's where so much of this just falls apart. That's where it becomes so very clear that there was a lot of politics involved in these decisions.

This was not a straightforward situation. This was not just whatever the science said. That's that's what was relayed to the public. Enormously consequential and highly politicized decision making from

doctor Fauci. And another part of this that I think is so interesting is all the emails you see in which Fauci's talking about you know, this celebrity or that media outlet wants to do a profile on him, wants to do an interview with him, wants and we know this guy loved it because he's on TV every five minutes.

Vanity is a human constant. Unfortunately, scientists are no way immune to it, and in fact, many scientists, I think are more susceptible to it because they've gone through most, if not all, of their lives being nerds who don't get the appreciation they deserve, at least in their own minds. So the moment that they get a taste of fame, the moment they have power, you expect that, because they're scientists, they're going to wield that judiciously. Of course, not some will,

very few will. Most would be just like Fauci, someone who all of a sudden found himself going from really unremarkable bureaucrat to the most powerful and recognizable person in America with the possible exception of Donald Trump when he was president, and even that sometimes felt like Fauci. Fauci was able to override him. Fauci was critical in delivering the presidency to Joe Biden. So he is certainly a

hero to the left. But when you look at the email correspondence, would you have a better understanding of who this guy is? You can see that he was part of crafting a narrative. It was not all about facts, it was not all about science. And they hind a lot of this from their in their discussions in front of the public and in the pronouncements from on high. They got a lot wrong, and they hit a lot when it came to information that went against their so

called consensus. Fauci should be held to account for this, but you know it will end up happening. He will go off into the sunset, rich and famous and a hero to Democrats because they take care of their ideological warriors. And that's exactly what Fauci has been, a failure in the pandemic, a failure to keep American safe and to

speak difficult truths and to take unpopular but scientifically based positions. No, he did what the left Democrat mob, what the collectivists, what the quadruple maskers wanted him to do, at every step of the way. Good for Fauci, bad for America. And that's what you see in these emails. And yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face. This was an idea that it was first put forward

by Mike Pompeio, Secretary of State Donald Trump. And look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them, and there was because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about kung flu and the China virus. His notion that put forward that this may have or that he said flatly that this came from that lab, was widely dismissed. But actually there's some real reason. We don't know. By the way,

we still don't know. We absolutely don't know. But now serious people are saying, and he's a serious inquiry. Wow, serious people. Huh, serious people were saying all along, but he lets you in there. That's I don't know. ABC News is Jonathan Carl formerly a Fox News I believe he let you in on what the corporate media's secret is here, not really much of a secret. They were

opposed to this because Trump was for this. They were opposed to this because it was damaging to Donald Trump to have the whole media saying he lies, he's lying, he's wrong, it didn't come from a lab, So that was their motivation, the truth being accurate, and this is not a thing of minor consequence. Don't you think it's important to know isn't isn't the ultimate test and trace finding out where this outbreak began and how it happened? Isn't that more important than any other test and trace

we can really do? How can you prevent the next outbreak if you don't know where this one came from or what happened it? Ah? Yes, this does really matter, doesn't It's It's not just something that you can cast aside as scoring political points. But there's another part of this that I find so curious and people are catching

onto this. We're also told that there was a opposition to the lab league theory because of concerns of racism, that if the virus escape from a Chinese lab, there would be more racism against Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, whatever, that everybody in the AAPI community would be at greater risk. Journals really believe this. But to give you a sense of how superficial they're thinking is, journos believe this without

stopping to think. Hold on a second, why is it gonna create racist backlash if people think that this happened as a result of scientific experiments in a lab, but not if people believe as was the official narrative for almost a year that we had millions of people die and billions of people infected because some Chinese guys were drinking bat soup or eating pangol and kebabs. Why why would one result in racism but the other would not. I'm just that the thinking here doesn't seem to make

any sense, does it. I think it's much more It's much easier to wrap your head around an accident at a lab than it is for people to think, oh, well, if people in China want to just eat exotic pets in highly unsanitary conditions in these markets, you know that's fine, that's a cultural tradition or whatever. No, this never made sense,

this theory, or this this approach coach to it. But this is what they've This is what they've said, and there's serious argument out there right now that when we look further into this, we're going to find that there was human recklessness, not just human error, but human recklessness at the very heart of the COVID pandemic. Think about

what that will do. You want to talk about losing faith in institutions, I've already lost a lot of faith in the bureaucratic medical institutions out there, places like the CDC and the NIH. I've lost faith in anybody who's a blue check MD who's been out there cheerleading for lockdowns and masks all along because other people were saying so, and then the moment that there were BLM protests, it

all changed. Well, BLM protests are about saving lives, so we gotta have those, even though we're at the time they were saying human gatherings of any kind were completely unsafe.

Lives a day, that's what they told us. But what you've seen here as well is that there's a final recognition among anybody who is paying attention that there's a mass mental illness from COVID, that there is a pandemic PTSD, there's COVID nineteen derangement syndrome from people that have never been sick, and many of them are vaccinated, and they still go around acting like they should be absolutely terrified of this. And I see this here in New York City.

I see it every day. There are still countless people walking along the streets who are massed up outside. So if they're worried about the virus, I have to assume they're vaccinated. And if they're vaccinated and outside alone, walking in fresh air, and worried about this virus. They really should be worried about a piano falling off a rooftop because the movers made a mistake somewhere and crushing them

like a cartoon character. Because it's about that risky. I cannot guarantee you that if you walk down the streets of New York City, a brick won't fall off the facade and hit you in the head. I can't guarantee you that a a moving company isn't going to let a piano slip out the window and crush you. But I know that you shouldn't worry about that. I know that if you go through your life with that concern,

you're just really stealing from yourself. And it's even worse because these panicked lockdowners also want to steal from you. They want to steal your time, your peace of mind, your productivity. This all comes with a cost. Doctor Scott Atlas, formerly of the Trump COVID Task Force, had this to say, play as far as I know, there's no evidence that the vaccines don't cover the variance. I think even doctor Fauci said that, you know so I think there's a lot of issues here. We're not going to go for

a zero COVID world or a zero risk world. If we do, then you better live in your lock your doors and never come out again. I mean, that's just irrational. And in fact, the fear, the fear inciting fear in search of zero COVID risk is so harmful and it just indicates so many things wrong, including it totally undermines the trust in public health leadership. And this has really been devastating to that I'm not sure what's going to happen the next time we need experts. It's all true.

People should have tremendous skepticism about anyone who holds themselves up as a as a public health expert based on what we've seen. This is one of the legacies of Fauciism, those who come forward who say they know and they don't know. They say it's science, and it's really not. And then we find out what they call science as actually politics that has a substantial impact. That's a reminder to everyone you better beware when someone accumulates too much

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the most lethal threat to homeland today. Visis not white white supremacist terrorists. Terrorism. You gotta be on the lookout for it all the time. It's all over the place any moment. Now, Now, are there white supremacists? Yes? Are there white supremacist terrorists? Yes? Are they really a threat worthy of the kind of attention and focus that they get from the Biden administration, from the current federal government,

from this regime, No, they are not. Why do they focus so much on this because it creates a climate of of weaponized association of sorts. Right, you weaponize the fact that there are right wingers who are in some way connected through this tenuous, idealized logical thread to some of the extreme far right white nationalist types out there. Right,

they say, well, you're on the right. So this is basically saying, well, if you're a mainstream Democrat who's been voting Democrat for fifty years, and you know you're a union worker in Ohio who's Catholic and votes Democrat, you're the same as an Antifa lunatic who tries to burn down at federal courthouse or burned down at church. Right, the exact same thing. That's what they try to do.

They try to paint with this intentionally the broadest possible brush and sweep everybody in the right in this morally evil and from a security perspective, imminent threat of the white nationalist terrorists. This is also why you have such a focus on the January sixth insurrection. That's why they call it an insurrection when it was not that. There was no there was no serious threat or even serious plot to overthrow the United States government by force. This

is insane, all right. If one guy with a cart that says I am now the president of the United States, you know, walks it through Times Square and then tries to wrestle a police officer to the ground, that's not an insurrection, right, There are limits on the level of absurdity we will allow the other side to get away with in their description of things. It was a riot, something the left is not only comparable with and engages with on a regular basis, but often celebrates and justifies.

We say, no, the riot was bad, breaking the laws bad. They should not have done that. They should be punished. I don't think they should be held in solitary confinement for months on end. Under the trumped up, pardon the phrase, allegation that they were really a mortal threat the United States. It's government. I keep reading all these news headlines. They say, the lethal riot on January sixth, the deadly riot on January sixth. The only person who died from the riot

was a rioter. Nobody else died from the riot. But they keep repeating this. All right, having a heart attack two days later is not a riot induced violent death. That's not the same thing. But they keep saying it. Why because they need this. They have to create a story for themselves here of the righteous left wing of

the Democrats restoring decency and normalcy to America. Keep in mind, they're restoring decency by defining everybody who does not agree with their agenda as being evil and worthy of suppression, worthy of the force of the state being brought to bear against them. This is not a recipe for a healthy political climate. And that's putting it mildly. But this is what we are up against. Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. That's

what they say. Look at the way that the Democrat mindset, that Democrat left was always underplaying and defining away and trying to trying to minimize the threat of Islamic terrorism in America, which for years and years was the biggest, the biggest terrorist threat we face. It's obvious they used to put up these graphics. I remember I was at CNN once they did this, the number of people killed by white supremacist terrorists versus the number of people killed

by Islamic terrorists. And they would start after nine to eleven, so they wouldn't include nine to eleven. They would cut that out and say, see, look at the statistics. And then I would have to sit there and say, okay, we'll hold on a second. How many Muslim Americans are there in this country. Let's it's roughly it's roughly five to ten million, something like that. It's two or three

percent of the population. Maybe along those lines. How many white males are there in America it's a very large chunk of the population by comparison, or just how many white people or in America it's it's still a majority of the country. So now you're talking about over one hundred and fifty million people instead of a few million.

So when when one group I used to have to do this analysis I would argue with people at CNN because they would say, well, the threat for years, even when ISIS was doing mass casualty attacks, even when we were we were using a multi billion dollar anti terrorism security apparatus Post nine to eleven to deal almost exclusively with jee hottest terrorism perhaps a better way of describing,

a better term for it, gee hottest terrorism. And when you're talking about roughly one percent of the US population that was responsible for being a community from which the largest percentage of terrorism came from at that at that period in time, right ices, So when you look at the proportionality of this, comparing it to to you know, right wing white America, well you're you're comparing something that is all automatically a much a smaller percentage of the population,

a much smaller group of the population comprising a much larger percentage of the terrorist threat. That that was the debate during the War on Terror years that we'd have to go through. And now I look at this and I say, Okay, white supremacist terrorism, what really is what really is a threat? Are they so concerned with are they trying to stop someone from let's say the the the Charleston church shooter, that guy that that was a

white supremacist terrorist. That's that's exactly what we're talking about here. They're going to stop that. Is that the the focus the federal government or is it on the January sixth Commission and just running around and calling everybody white supremacist, anybody who supported Donald Trump, anybody who's a Republicid who had questions about the election, or who you know, pushed against fought against COVID lockdown's you know, last night I

saw on Tucker's show. This is just a side note, but I saw on Tucker's show you had the numbers, the statistics for vaccine hesitancy, and we have all the

major media networks. They're saying it's a it's a right wing male, white male phenomenon to not get vaccinated, when sure enough, the BYPOC community in this country comprises well, we're talking about Latinos and African Americans have the lowest vaccination rates still, but yeah, you go, you see on TV all you hear about is though, you know, the

white male Republicans who won't get vaccinated. It because these these are narratives, stories that are not true, that make people who believe certain things feel better about themselves and their beliefs. That's what democrats, that's what the left needs to hear. And so now it's all about, you know, white supremacy, and everyone's a white supremacist running around. This is what the left says. Remember, Joe Biden is supposed to be the great fighter against white supremacy all of

a sudden. Really he's a rich, old white guy who does whatever advances his interest. But I'm sure he's deeply concerned about communities of color. This is the whole This is the whole storyline. This is what they do, and we hear about this all the time. But they also talk about the existential threat of climate change. These people

are nuts. No normal well adjusted Americans walking around worried about the existential threat of climate change or worried about the threat of white supremacist terrorism or another insurrection against the government. But these are constants in the way the Democrat Party talks about life in America today. There's an obsession with race, and really with creating racial discord among

Democrats and exploiting it for their own purposes. Remember, if the black community did not vote over ninety percent Democrat, they wouldn't be able to win presidential election, so the stakes here are very high. They'll say whatever they have to say the Democrat apparatus, Joe Biden his administration. They'll say whatever they have to say for power, because that is the motivating principle. Everything else is just window dressing.

And the data shows young black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding given the chance as white entrepreneurs are. But they don't have lawyers, they don't have they don't have accountants, but they have great ideas. Does anyone doubt this whole nation be better off from the investments those people making. I promise you that's why I set up to National Small Business Administration that's much broader, because they're going to get those loans. They don't have lawyers, they

don't have accountants, Biden says of black entrepreneurs. That's not true. So I just why is it okay that Joe Biden can say something so demonstrably and obviously false on this issue and the media just goes along with it. It's just not accurate at all. I mean, it's obviously not accurate. There's no debate about this. There are plenty of black entrepreneurs who have access to and use lawyers and accountants, and very good ones at that. So what is Biden

really saying just blather, it's just pandering. It's pandering from an old, out of touch white guy. The Democrat Party is propping up like its weekend at Bernie's presidency. That's what's going on. But you won't ever hear that from the media. Why well, because they understand, they know what the game is here, they understand what's really going on.

In fact, if you're wondering, I Barack Obama came out and said it straight up recently that Joe Biden, mister moderate, amtrack Joe from Scranton, his purpose is to finish the job. As Obama says that the Obama administration started or got going for eight years, that this really is Joe Biden is the third term of Obama, just without Obama actually living in the White House. Here's the former president Obama

sanging himself play eleven. And I think that what we're seeing now as Joe Biden and the administration are essentially finishing the job. And I think it'll be an interesting test. Ninety percent of the folks who were there were there in my administration. They are continuing and building on the policies we talked about whether it's affordable, character our climate change agenda and Paris Piece Accords, and figuring out how do we improve the ladders to mobility through things like

community colleges. And if, as I think they will be, they're successful over the next four years, I think that will have an impact. A classic Obama ism too here. You know, if they're successful, that will have an impact. Oh my gosh, it's so brilliant. Look what you litto. If they win the game, they will probably be victorious. I mean, oh my gosh. Obama's a genius. It's amazing. I know this is what we always hear. But what he says about how many people this is just the

Obama administration without Obama. That's what you've got. That's what you've got here with this Democrat Democrat apparatus. That's why I refer to it as an apparatus. It's really not a job about Joe Biden. It's about the people who are around him. It's about those who are running these federal agencies and and pushing the agenda of this White House bed behind closed doors. Also on this point about

systemic racism. And remember, you know, the white supremacist terrorism is just the the worst manifestation of the systemic racism that we are to believe is has infected every aspect of American society. Is everywhere you get, every institution, every agency of government, there's there's systemic racism everywhere where? Where is it? How is it? What? How do we deal with it all? Don't don't ask any questions, just shut up and listen to the diversity and inclusion lecture that's

America today. Here's an Ebrahm Kendy. Want to find a racism expert. This guy is supposed to be one of the great experts on racism. It's made a whole career out of it. Here's what it sounds like when he tries to explain at a conference what racism is. Play three. You talked about the importance of defining racism. But unless I missed it, which is possible, I didn't hear your personal definition. Is there is there one that you would offer us, like, how do you define racism? Sure? So racism.

I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity, that are substantiated by racist ideas. Sure, a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas, And anti racism is pretty simple using the same terms. Anti racism is a collection of anti racist policies leading to racial anybody want

to take guests equity substantiated by anti racist ideas. Ah, so you understand that the definition is it's whatever he says it is, because all those other terms, well, what does that mean? What's a racist policy, what's racial equity, What's what's a you know, just racial outcome. It's all subject to not just interpretation, to the whims of the individuals, the high priests of the critical race theory religion, if you will, they get to determine what this really means

in practice. And that's the whole point. This is about power. What is what is a standard definition of racism, one that people can understand and and people could use to guide their own actions in their own lives. Racism is thinking about or treating people differently, good or bad, because of their race. It is immoral to make distinctions based upon skin color. It is immoral to have different legal or personal treatment of an individual because of their of

the pigment in their skin. It's immoral, it's wrong. That's a definition of racism that also can be meaningful to people in terms of how to guide their own actions and how to act in their lives. What Ibraham Kenny gave you is do what I say, or else you're a racist. Support the policies I want, or else you're a racist, and thus the whole game is given away. We're hosts of a three hour show, Meek and I about politics. But I mean, it's not good for this

country to be talking about politics twenty four hours. Say that's not who we are fighting about well, or even talking about politics, obsessing about politics. People looking at MSNBC or Fox twenty four hours a day or CNN twenty four hours a day. I feel like, you know, then to Ferris Bueller, what are you still doing it? Go out? Like do something? Get out? You know, I tell you sometimes even morning Joe has something worthwhile to say, and I will admit that to you. Now, no one's watching

anything twenty four hours a day. I know that's intentional exaggeration. I'm not quibbling with that, but I'm just saying, obviously that's the case. But I think that it is an important reminder here because we've gone through a period of time where we have been cut off from actual human contact, where we've been consuming I think, so much more information media than at any other time, and have more options

in the consumption of information media. You know, pick the pick who you're going to give your time to, and guard your time. One of the most important lessons we all and I think as we get older, is how how necessary it is to protect your time and not to I mean, I have some things that I always say to myself and I tell to those who are close to me. Don't let the unimportant affect the important. Right.

This is, you know, don't don't take a you know, a meeting with somebody who is going to make your boss think you're being disloyal for having that meeting just because you think you're going to be a nice guy by taking the meeting, right, you know, don't allow the

unimportant to affect the important. But also that that's the thing that I often say, I think, and it's true in relationships, you know, don't take a phone call from your ex wife if it or from your ex husband if your your current husband is going to say, well, well, why are you talking to that guy? You know, don't allow things like that to creep up in your life. It's very easy to do so. And not with that,

with with having good intentions too. Oh, I just needed to I didn't want someone to feel like I was being rude. I can't tell you how many times in my life I just I made a decision because I didn't want to be rude, and then I ended up being more rude in a sense, we're more problematic, created an issue out of that desire to be polite not

hurt someone's feelings. Okay, I'll you know, I'll hear them out, or i'll take this call, or i'll have this meeting or whatever it may be, and then I have a problem later, you know, Then all of a sudden, I got an issue because I'm trying to be a You can try to be a good guy or gal and end up making mistakes that are much bigger than you anticipate. So you've got to remember. And that's why I have

that rule, don't let the unimportant effect the important. And then another one is just learning, and this is I know I got off on a tangent there, but learning to protect your time The one thing you can never get back is your time. The one thing that you cherish more certainly as you get older, as you have a more of a perspective on it, is how valuable your time is to you. And it's possible right now

without even thinking about it. I think, more than in any period in human history, to just waste and waste and waste more time with all these these quick, fixed attention grabbers. They oh, you know, turn here's another flashing light, here's another thing to click on, here's another. Some of that is good, some of that is worthwhile. I work in news media. I think news and politics are important.

But it's all within it's all within a context, it's all within a framework of you gotta make sure that you turn off, don't you don't have a news channel in the background all day. I don't think that's a good idea. No matter what the news channel is, don't have it in the background all day. Maybe if you're at the office and you're in the workplace, that's one thing, But I mean when you're at home, get away from it.

Shut it down, Shut it down, think about your life, Think about who you are, what you're doing, your relationships, that matter to you. You know, we've now finally, I think as a nation, we're realizing, Okay, COVID's over. Basically, it's never really over, right. It's like saying, well, you know, even after the Great Influenza pandemic of nineteen eighteen, there were still flues. There's still people that died from a flu, but the pandemic was over. The COVID pandemic is in

this country over. There's still COVID and there's still people who will die from but it's it's not a pandemic anymore. And for some of us, we've been living pretty normal lives for a while. But for others, they're finally waking up to oh, now they have to make decisions and determinations about how they spend their time. Now there's actual human interaction that they're going to have to manage and deal with. And for some people, I think that's going

to be a challenge. That's going to be an issue. It's a lot easier to maintain relationships with people when they're just in the superficial realm of digital communication, when you have to give somebody your presence and your attention, physical presence and actual attention, not multitasking eight people in different text messages at once and sending out four emails

and all this that feels very different. So just remember that it is a precious thing when you This is why I always say to all of you that you spend your time with me, you listen to this show. I understand that there's there's quite literally tens of thousands of podcasts you could listen to the Deal with Politics, and those are the ones that people have heard of. I mean, there's over a million podcast total in the Apple Store, just to give you a sense of it.

But I know that if you're listening to me, you're you're making the choice not to listen to a lot of other shows. And so that's a precious thing because I don't I don't recommend spending four or eight or ten hours of your day in the news realm entity capacity, and I think that's become far too easy for us, And you can own almost create an escapism of despair through news, which is not healthy psychologically. A lot of people in America around the world created an escapism of

pandemic despair. Now, obviously they're not escaping the pandemic by doing this. No, the opposite. They immersed themselves emotionally and psychologically so deeply in it that they block out. You know, why haven't I talked to my brother in five years? You know why why haven't I visited you know, my elderly grandparents or parents in six months? Well during the pandemic. I know there are reasons for that, but you know what I'm saying in general, why why haven't I worked

harder at my job? Why haven't I lost those twenty pounds I've been trying to lose for the last ten years. You know, you can start to use the distraction of the world collapsing all around you through news, which is going to take a focus on the negative as a means of avoiding what really matters to you in your day to day life and what you can control. So yes, spend your time with me, Listen to this show, and

then you know, that's it. Maybe maybe one or two news shows if you want at night before you go to bed, and you know, a scan of a newspaper

headlines if you will, But that's it. Don't get dragged into this, because I do believe that there is a real mental health crisis in this country that's being made worse by social media that's being made that has been made much worse by the lockdowns, and then just by this Democrat machinery of constant hysteria out there about the insurrection and about all the white supremacist terrorists and the institutional racism and the killer cops and all the you know,

all these just completely exaggerated threats to America, to Americans in their day to day lives. Um, it's it's easy to start to feel down about it. And I know for a lot of you who got used to having there was a certain look. It was fun when Trump was president. He was putting out entertaining tweets and he was engaging, and it was like never a dull moment in America with the Trump presidency going on. Now there's

just something depressing about a Biden presidency. I mean a lot of things that are depressing about it, but we can all feel that, and in the media focus on the negative all the time, not about the Biden presidency. Of course, so we're depressed because Biden's the president, and then the media wants us to think they're all these other horrible things going on that we have to be so focused on that aren't caused by the Biden administration.

This is just my appeal to all of you. Take time to relax your mind and be with people who matter and do it every day. Relax your mind, however that is, get away from these things, get away from the fixation on left right, left right, and you know all the challenges of politics today, and then jump back into the fray with me rested, ready refreshed. You know,

it's it's about striking a balance here. So you know, I trash a lot of the nonsense that said on Morning Joe, and rightfully so, but I will tell you when it comes to establishing some kind of a balance in your life and keeping news in its proper place. News and information have a They have a piece of your day to day, but you control how much it is and you keep it there. You don't allow it to start creeping into you know, everything becomes political and

everything is just a constant information loop. Because that that addiction to the despair of news can become its own escape mechanism from the things that are important in your life. Right as at some level of escapism can be good, but you don't want to escape into a spare as a means of and this is what Democrats do with things like climate change. Oh, it's a catastrophic it's gonna

end the world. It's existential. I guess I don't have to think about the fact that I'm a huge phony who pretends to care about, you know, the Black Lives Matter or movement, and really I just wanted to put something on my Instagram page. But oh, I don't have time to think about that because the existential threat of climate change just keeps me up at night. You see

what I mean. I don't have time to think about how poorly I treat my coworkers are employees, because I'm too busy being worried about about, you know, fighting systemic racism and police departments across the country by putting a few hashtags on my Twitter account, right, Yeah, you see how that works. Central to the Democrat ethos