y time we think we know something, it just turns out not to be the case. It's pretty consistent. So what do we know about India? Nothing, really, right? Yeah, it's a double variant, but I can't believe it's only in India. Severity seems low. Somebody says, well, I imagine that part of this is that their data was really bad before and maybe it's improving. Or maybe the numbers are just so big that even bad data can't hide it anymore. But we don't know exactly what's going on in India. And that's kind of like everything else where we don't know exactly what's going on with any country.

It's just baffling to me that we still can't sort out why anything is happening. Why is it going up? Why is it going down? Now we think it's because at least in this country, vaccinations. And that's a pretty good theory. I think that's probably true.

Singer Ted Nugent, who is a COVID denier, has COVID and says it's the sickest he's ever been in his life. But it looks like he'll survive, at least so far. So I don't think that'll change his opinion about how dangerous it was as long as he survives. But we'll see.

One of the reasons to not be a coronavirus skeptic, I feel like the universe owes it to you to give it to you if you're a skeptic. Like you've got a little extra danger, not in any rational scientific way, but does this seem like if you talk out about it, as soon as you become an advocate for something, you're gonna get that thing? It just feels like he's begging the universe to give it to him. Ted Nugent is quite a healthy weight, and so even though he's a certain age, I feel like he'll get through this fine. We hope so.

Nancy Pelosi went full racist yesterday. Here's what she said in public. She said, "Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice."

That sounds racist to me. And I had to think about it for a while to figure out why, because my first reaction is just there's something wrong with this, but it's hard to put my finger on it exactly. And here's what I think bothered me about it. It's overtly racist, isn't it? Because I can't imagine this being said about a white person. It feels like this is only something an old white lady would say about a black person.

And here's what's killing me. You've heard the phrase about the soft bigotry of low expectations. To imagine that George Floyd is a hero as opposed to just a victim is sort of promoting him beyond what feels right for a role model. And there's a fairly consistent thing that we see on the left is that their victims, they try to turn into heroes. And the victims sometimes are not your best role model.

For example, even Martin Luther King was ultimately a victim. I mean he was killed. And in his case, you know, there's more good than bad about emulating him. But there's a consistency to victims being martyred. And I'm not sure this is a good strategy.

If you look at the strategy on the right, you'll find that the people on the right idolize Thomas Sowell. People are very high on Candace Owens, Michael Jordan. What do those three people have in common? Three people that people on the right like a lot: Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, Michael Jordan. What do they have in common besides being black? One of the things they have in common is they refuse to be victims. And they're positive role models, meaning that they're just trying to make the world better. And you know, they're not victims.

And I just feel as if it is such a disadvantage to idolize victims. It's just not a good strategy. Now I've said this before. The victims are real and it's true and we can't forget them and you don't want to minimize them. But that's completely different from making them your role models.

It would have been far more constructive for the left, for themselves, the best thing that could have happened is to say that Chauvin was guilty according to the jury. So you know, we've taken care of that. The jury has dealt with it. He's guilty, guilty three times. But that doesn't give anybody else a pass.

And I feel like if yo