I think the world would be a lot better place if more people understood that political authority is inherently illegitimate.

You got to care about this. Transgender bathrooms. What's your opinion? We didn't care about it five minutes ago.

We're not cared about five minutes from now, but this is the most important thing happening in America right now.

It's impossible to convince a man of something if his salary depends on it not being true.

And when those leaders have personal consequences very quickly, they start changing them too.

Okay, so going back to the USSR and how they broke bad by basically lie, lie, lie, lie,

lying, lie, seeking security over freedom.

Did COVID feel like there were these parallels?

Did you see flickers of the things that made the USSR so terrifying in the way the people responded to COVID?

I tried to avoid making these comparisons at all costs because I remember vividly when Mike

Bloomberg was governor, excuse me, mayor of New York City, and he was banning like big

gulps at 7-11. And Mike Huckabee, who had been governor of Arizona at the time, Arkansas, excuse me, said,

oh, it's just like North Korea.

If the worst thing about North Korea is, if you think the problem with North Korea is they don't

get big gulps at their 7-Eleven, like really?

So I think that because we are in many ways still so free in the West, and when people make these kind of parallels, I think we've got to be very, very careful and cautious. What goes wrong if you draw the parallel? Because if you have to dial, because if you're in 2016, Trump is, as it was on the cover of the daily news, Antichrist, literally Hitler, the worst things ever happen to America, that implies you can't get worse.

So a historical example, which is not going to have people flipping out, is during World War I, the Great War, there was all this propaganda about Kaiser Wilhelm and the Germans, the Han, and they're doing all these war atrocities. I'm sure some of them were true. Some of them were true, but it's just like, oh God. So when Hitler comes along, and there's all this stuff about what the Germans are doing, the Nazis are doing, many people in the West, including reporters, were like, we heard this before. This is just bullshit. Like you guys are just repeating the same old song. But it was true this time. You know, the moral of the boy who cries wolf, spoiler, the wolf shows up. So if you're, if anyone is like, you know, Biden's, I, you hear this all the time with

conservative. Biden's a communist. Is he like a communist? Like he thinks the government

should control all industry. He's not a puppet of Wall Street. Like, what are you talking about?

So I think any kind of comparisons between even a largely free country and a total terror and dictatorship like the USSR was,

I want to be very, very cautious because that also feeds to the cynicism of people like,

how could I be happy in Nazi America? I'm like, really? You can't at all? Like, you can't listen to a

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