David Pakman

We can no longer agree on basic reality.

We can't agree on whether an election happened the way it happened or whether vaccines work, whether January 6th was a tourist visit or an insurrection.

And we've got malicious stockpiling weapons because they think the collapse is coming.

And maybe they're right.

Because we've got billionaires launching themselves into space for fun while children in Appalachia don't even have clean drinking water.

So the wealth gap rivals the Gilded Age, not a functioning society, an oligarchy with a democratic veneer.

Now, meanwhile, Republicans are focused on whether drag Queens read books, uh, to kids or whether M and M's are sufficiently arousing to Tucker Carlson.

He's not finding them attractive lately.

Democrats sometimes are busy.

So finding, uh, so, so busy finding common ground.

that they won't even really call out what's happening.

And a lot of people just don't want to say it.

Nobody wants to be the one to point out.

We may be going in the direction of a failed state, probably to a degree because they're worried that whoever pointed out it's going to be an, if you smelt it, dealt it situation.

If you're the one who points it out, you'll get blamed.

Now, I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad news.

I would love to tell you everything's fine.

America's great.

We're number one.

I know most people in my audience know that that's not the case.