JD Vance

Or a pangolin was involved.

And that's like, that was more believable than there's the Wuhan coronavirus lab.

And yeah, I remember when Tom Cotton was the first major American politician to talk about this.

Tom's like a good friend.

And he was immediately pilloried as this terrible racist.

And, you know,

It's just it's bizarre that we're not allowed to talk about things in the United States of America.

I will say I think it's gotten better.

This is one of my more optimistic views is, you know, when we're all locked in our houses in the summer of 2020, I think that did weird things psychologically to everybody.

Agree.

And I think that a lot of people rebelled against it.

And we're probably in a better position now in 2024.

Like Chamath would not have come out.

I love Chamath would not have come out for Donald Trump in 2020.

Right.

Right.

Now he's hosting fundraisers and giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to our campaign.

So I think the fact that you have so many old school liberals and old school leftists say we're done with this bullshit is actually a pretty good sign.

Yeah, there's still social consequences to it, but not nearly as high as they were four years ago.

This is industrial scale censorship is what it was.