This is an emergency in which the most effective contribution you can make to your own well-being—and the well-being of others—is to stay home.

Biden appears unfit for office. Whether he's actually senile, I don't know. But he simply can't communicate the way the President needs to. You watch these speeches and interviews and press conferences, insofar as they even take place—every sentence is a death-defying feat. It's like watching your mom do parkour. You're just waiting for the worst thing that has ever happened every fucking second. And he is totally unfit to run again in 2024.

Anyone who has spent dozens of hours listening to Joe's podcast knows to a moral certainty that Joe is not racist. And there really is nothing more that needs to be said on that point. There is simply no workable definition of racism that includes Joe Rogan.

You just have to imagine: What does the economy look like when literally everyone you know has a story about a friend who went to a restaurant, or to the mall, or to a movie theater and wound up on a fucking ventilator?

No matter what happens in Ukraine, the Europeans are going to focus on national security and defense as a top priority for the foreseeable future. This will be a generational coming of age for anyone living in Europe in the way that 9/11 and the wall coming down has been for a lot of Americans ... This war in Ukraine will have that impact on the entirety of the European continent...

If you are an entirely responsible, sane, and well-trained person who understands almost to the level of a religious principle how important it is to store your guns safely, then it is true that the swimming pool in your yard is a greater risk to friends and family than the gun that is safely locked in your house.

There's probably not a single desirable organization in this country now—company, educational institution, nonprofit—where a black applicant, could be a student or could be an employee, would be at a disadvantage. Given equivalent qualifications, a black applicant would be positively advantaged in the top 10% of every organization...

Having someone gain access to a classroom, and the ability to kill people at point-blank range, that is not a context where the unique advantages of an AR-15 are the problem. It's very easy to believe that Uvalde or Sandy Hook would have been, essentially, the same catastrophe had the shooter been armed only with handguns.

You're far better off being vaccinated and eventually catching COVID as you will than catching it without having been vaccinated. Catching COVID is not a strategy for becoming immune to COVID; it's just catching COVID. And those who survive will have some natural immunity. The jury is no longer out on that score.

Several years ago, if you were a teenager and looked at a diet video on YouTube, several of the videos on the right hand side would be thinspo anorexia videos because those things were better at keeping people's attention. If you looked at the 9/11 videos, it would give you Alex Jones Infowars 9/11 conspiracy theories. YouTube recommended Alex Jones conspiracy theories 15 billion times in the right-hand sidebar, which is more than the combined traffic of The New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC, The Guardian, etc. combined.

It doesn't matter if you can live to a hundred; it doesn't matter if you can delay the onset of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease if you're too miserable to appreciate it or if you're constantly in some sort of tormented state. You might as well be dead.

The FDA, for example, it's set up to go and regulate Merck and Pfizer, not a million people doing personal genomics. The FAA is set up to go after Boeing and Airbus, not a million drone hobbyists. The SEC is set up to go and regulate Goldman and Morgan and the NASDAQ, not millions of crypto people trading at home.

I make no apologies for this opinion, which I can well defend, that Trump is the most dangerous cult leader on Earth at this moment and has been for several years, and he should be viewed as such and responded to in that way. He utterly desecrated the office of the presidency, and I think there's no respect due to him, personally, for having occupied that office.

If you hit the sweet spot on LSD or psilocybin or MDMA... If you hit any of those sweet spots... If you experience something like unconditional love on MDMA or you experience self-transcending unity with nature on psilocybin, it's like experiencing physical perfection of a sort that only the most highly-trained athlete would ever touch. You're just dropped into it, and then you lose it again when you come down, but you realize a state like that is possible.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality

For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us from miseries yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries

There is there is no prison like the one between your ears

Kamala Harris is probably worse ... She still manages to speak in word salad in an apparent effort to talk down to people ... Many of the things she says are completely mystifying. It's like someone trained an AI on woke Twitter and had it talk to itself for the equivalent of 1,000 years, and it went properly insane.

There's no good reason to talk to RFK about vaccines and vaccine safety and vaccine science, because he's not a scientist, and he's not a doctor; he's a lawyer and an activist.