3/31/25: Third term insanity spreads, Elon is stepping down

The David Pakman Show

David Pakman

Politics, News

4.8 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show: -- David lays out his political views in response to audience questions as a sort of anti-authoritarian progressive manifesto -- NBC News' Kristin Welker reports that Donald Trump told her he's exploring the idea of a third term, despite legally being unable to serve again -- A deep dive into the ways Donald Trump could try to argue for a third term, and their legal shortcomings -- Donald Trump admits he has "no idea" what Signal is and appears completely confused -- Elon Musk announces he will be stepping down from DOGE soon, claiming to have accomplished everything -- Elon Musk holds a town hall that goes horribly wrong -- Tucker Carlson says he won't fly with vaccinated pilots and spouts outrageous conspiracy theories -- Donald Trump is asked "what is a woman?" and struggles to answer it -- Donald Trump unveils yet another outrageous economic idea, this time suggesting tariffs on everything country -- On the Bonus Show: White House weighs how to help farmers as trade war crushes them, Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America, Florida special election suggest trouble for Trump & Republican leaders, much more... 🌳 Fast Growing Trees: Get 15% OFF with code PAKMAN at https://fastgrowingtrees.com ⚠️ Ground News: Get 40% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman 🛌 Helix Sleep mattresses: Get 25% OFF sitewide at https://helixsleep.com/pakman 🧠 Try Brain.fm totally free for a month at https://brain.fm/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show.
0:08.0	Hope you had a good weekend.
0:10.0	I'm going to start with something a little different today.
0:12.0	You know, I've received a lot of emails lately, especially, I think, because with the book
0:18.0	out, there are people who are hearing about me from reading the book
0:22.0	and not the show and so I've been getting asked the question what exactly are your political
0:29.0	beliefs yes you're on the left but can you really lay it out where do you stand on different
0:34.1	issues and different principles and ideas and I think that this is an excellent opportunity to kind of lay it out and sort of like this
0:41.3	will be what I can refer people back to in a context where I've been critical before of those
0:47.3	who just want to talk about principles, principles, principles, ignoring difficult policy decisions.
0:52.3	I have a chapter in the book about avoiding these philosophical
0:55.8	black holes for two reasons. Number one, if I tell you my values are liberty, individual
1:02.6	autonomy, and egalitarianism. What does that really say in 2025 about what policy should be?
1:09.8	So one reason that I favor an approach of always talking
1:14.3	about our beliefs in the context of policy is that the beliefs alone don't actually tell you
1:20.2	what policy you should support or oppose. And secondly, we have right now in the American right
1:25.8	wing a movement that claims certain virtues and
1:30.9	principles, but then they abandon them immediately when those are politically inconvenient.
1:36.5	So for those reasons in the book I've said, don't get sucked into the black hole of exclusively
1:43.0	talking theoretically, abstractly about
1:46.3	principles.
1:47.3	So I'm going to talk a little bit about principles and policy and kind of lay out where
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