Michael Malice

They really think that a dictator has a weird mustache and he's banging the table and he's like a crazy person.

And it's often not the case.

But they also think if something is bad,

Therefore, the alternative is going to be better.

So you had the Shah of Iran, and he was kind of authoritarian.

And no, he's not a good guy.

So in 1979, there were a lot of people like, this guy's horrible.

He's oppressing the Iranian people.

Let's get him the F out of there.

He's so bad.

that whatever comes after it has to be an improvement.

And it's like, no, that's, if you think, I mean, this drives me crazy when conservatives are like, you know, Joe Biden's the worst president we ever had.

Like, this is destroying America.

I'm like, you have no idea how bad things can get.

The fact that you are in a position to complain means we got a ways to go.

But here's the thing, right?

Because if the rest of the world starts doing too much, then they have a justification to crack down even more.

This protests are not legitimate.

This happened constantly in the Soviet Union.

These are foreign provocateurs.