Commentary
Today I release a new documentary film called “2000 Mules.” The film releases in 300 theaters on May 2 and May 4, and there’s an in-home virtual premiere on Saturday, May 7. After that it will be available for digital download, but only on two uncancellable platforms: the Rumble-owned platform Locals, and the Salem Media platform SalemNow. I’ve made six documentaries, but in an age of censorship, you have to create a novel way of distributing them.
Here I want to talk about mules and donkeys. Strictly speaking, of course, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. A few months after I came to America as an exchange student from India, my host parent in Arizona took me to the Grand Canyon. “We can try to walk down,” they told me, “or we can ride a mule.” We chose to walk, but on the way down we saw mules carrying tourists and sure-footedly making their way down the treacherous pathways to the bottom of the canyon.
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