It [COVID-19 vaccine distribution] is a wartime scenario. When war is happening, you don't go home at 5 PM, and wake up at 9 AM, and clock out for an hour for lunch ... We've created incredible disincentives in the system. In fact, [Andrew] Cuomo put out a million-dollar fine if you get your vaccine out of line. Think about the disincentive that creates. Now, people are more scared about giving the vaccine to the wrong person than they are incentivized to give the vaccine to the right person.

There's a series of court challenges we can talk about. I think that they're unlikely to prevail—very, very unlikely. I think Joe Biden will be the next president. We can kind of compare this to Bush v. Gore from 2000, and if you want to compare Trump's case to Gore's case, it's weaker in every respect.

This guy [Moncef] Slaoui, who's the head of the Trump administration's effort to produce the vaccine, he actually slowed down the Moderna human trials by about three weeks because they weren't including enough minorities in the trial, and that cost them three weeks. If it weren't for those three weeks, Moderna's vaccine would have happened before Pfizer's, and it would have come out about a week before the election.

Does anyone at this point doubt that the reaction to COVID was more damaging to the country than COVID itself—both economically and also in terms of the restrictions that were imposed?

I don't think you go to school to learn as much as you go to school to socialize; you learn as a byproduct. Everybody socializes; not everybody learns. It's an enormously important & formative experience for a child to be around 15 or 20 other kids and to deal with all the adversity that comes with normal life of a child.

The lockdowns that we pursued during COVID—now everybody, I think, has sort of admitted that they're wrong. There's a video going around of Bill Gates, basically saying they didn't work. So, even the people who were advocating for them at the time now admit they were just tragically wrong. They basically cratered our economy, didn't stop the virus. Where's the comeuppance for the people who promoted those policies?

There are a lot of very, very reasonable Republicans and a lot of very reasonable Democrats. The fringes of both parties are functionally mentally retarded.

I think COVID-19 is going to be a distant memory by next summer. I think we'll have one to two quarters of transition, but I think that once the vaccine's widely available, plus the treatment and testing for the people who slip through the cracks... I tend to think things are going to snap back very fast and COVID-19 will just be this bad memory.

These people on this sort of far-left fringe... They do not want to have a debate. I think their views are very unpopular in the country, and that's why. So, they would rather censor the debate. They want to have the right to declare that the other side has engaged in disinformation.

It's ridiculous to somehow now blame this inflation on Putin... I don't think anyone's buying it. But it's not because of something Putin's doing over in Eastern Europe; it's because the Fed and Congress, the Administration, pumped $10 trillion.

The transformational part of Bitcoin is this idea that we could have non-fiat money ... There is a huge risk of currency debasement when the government is in control—and particularly when you have the world's reserve currency. There's just such an enormous temptation to print money to finance your budget.

Once we've paid the cost [of COVID-19] from the public health perspective ... our immediate focus has to be on resuscitating the GDP of this country. Otherwise, the number of deaths and the the amount of pain that's caused by economic destruction will far outnumber the people that die from COVID-19.

We know that kids are less susceptible to any sort of health risk from the virus [COVID-19], and it looks like there are a lot of studies showing that the virus is less transmissible through kids, especially kids under the age of 14.

If you disagree with whatever the current orthodoxy is, you get labeled as being this far-right lunatic. Rogan's in that camp, too. Rogan is an independent, curious guy. But again, if you dare to have a thought that's unconventional or interview the wrong person, then you're branded this way.

I don't know if it was [Anthony] Fauci or someone that's closer to the operation [who] shared that they do think they can get 70% of Americans immunized [from COVID-19] by May [2021].

I worry that we're not going to be ready—that this precious time we're buying with quarantine isn't going to lead to a better plan in May because no one's really working on that plan; they're just working on the immediate response and making sure hospitals around the country have the ventilators & beds they need.

You have this very intolerant movement on the far left that keeps, basically, kicking people out. I don't know how they're going to win many elections with this philosophy they have, but they're absolutely red pilling huge numbers of people.

If you look at the Asian countries that have controlled the virus [SARS-CoV-2], every single person wears a mask when they go out in public.

I actually feel very bad for the people that stormed the Capitol. I feel like these are folks that are on the fringes who just need a vessel, and Trump is a vessel ... He instigated them, and runs away.

I think it's ironic that an administration that was constantly accused of white supremacy probably lost the election because they slowed down this [COVID-19] vaccine trial group [Moderna's] to include more minorities.

What Bitcoin offers is a different kind of currency where it's not backed by a government; it's backed by math; it's backed by encryption. You don't have to trust the government that there will only be 21 million bitcoin; it's in the code.

I think that it's very likely that the Donald Trump that runs for president in 2024 is Donald Trump Jr.