It's time for the morning reframe, and you love it. You love to get reframed. You need it so often, in fact, that it's become almost second nature to you. This morning's reframe comes from my new book, Reframe Your Brain, and it's about how to reframe your mind so that you don't have to be tortured by history.
00:03:17.120If you don't want it to bother you, it doesn't need to, because it doesn't exist.
00:03:22.780You create the history in your mind, and then you use it as a spear to poke yourself, or a way to torture yourself.
00:03:31.400And I'm not even talking about, like, the history of nations.
00:03:36.820I mean, you could go into a whole different conversation about whether you and I should care about what was happening in the Middle East 3,000 years ago.
00:03:47.880If the people who live there care, I mean, that's up to them.
00:03:53.460But you and I don't have to even pay attention to the fact that any history ever happened, because to us, it doesn't exist at the moment.
00:04:05.240Now, it's far more useful when you're using this reframe in your personal life.
00:04:11.000In your personal life, how many of you have done something that, like, gives you shame, which is a complete waste of time, feeling shame?
00:04:22.260One of the best ways to make shame go away, or any kind of whatever you would call your personal failure, is to just remind yourself that it doesn't exist.
00:04:34.660You couldn't find some history and put it in a little bag and give it to somebody, because there is none.
00:04:44.320So if you're being tortured by history, well, I just reframed it away.
00:04:49.700For some percentage of you, it won't be a big percentage, but for some percentage of you, a few of you, probably, are going to message me later and say,
00:04:58.420I can't believe it, but there's this thing that's been bothering me my whole life.
00:05:03.960You just made it away by, you just made it go away by telling me that history doesn't exist.
00:05:09.820And the moment I realized that that was absolutely true, there's nothing really to debate on that.
00:06:31.500Remember the, if you're following any of the drama on the right side of the news.
00:06:37.060Do you remember the, let's see, Ben Shapiro was on stage with Megyn Kelly and Ben claimed, that Candace Owens claimed, and this is the part that's not true, that Candace had suggested that Erica Kirk was somehow responsible for the, were involved in the death of her husband.
00:07:41.180I don't know what Ben saw or believes he saw, or maybe he just interpreted something differently than other people.
00:07:48.180But in case you want to know factually, there's no evidence that Candace did that.
00:07:56.300She has, I believe, and I think I'm accurate in saying this, but I want to be very careful.
00:08:01.980I don't want to mischaracterize anybody's opinion, which would be easy in this case.
00:08:05.840I believe Candace does have some questions about Turning Point USA, one or more persons who may have been doing things that sort of didn't add up, and that, you know, maybe that mattered.
00:08:21.800So, but that's a far cry from saying that either that person or persons or any other person was involved in, you know, planning and executing a tragic murder.
00:11:22.500But the thinking is, from the smart people,
00:11:26.080that Apple might have been the most clever player in the entire tech industry.
00:11:31.980And by clever, I mean, they never bought the hype.
00:11:36.840Everyone else has gone trillions of dollars of risk into something that looks like it doesn't work nearly as well as they told us it might.
00:11:46.060Apple looks like the only one who is seeing things clearly.
00:18:49.400So if you got what you wanted, you wouldn't want what you got, would you?
00:18:54.980So the reason that they say we want a fighter is because you can't really measure the output of the fighter.
00:19:04.280If I say I want a good health care plan where premiums do not cost more,
00:19:10.360then I would be able to measure whether I did that or not.
00:19:13.320At some point, you'd be able to measure it.
00:19:14.700But if I say I want a fighter, how do you measure that you got one?
00:19:20.720Would it be that person swore more than normal in public?
00:19:25.760That's part of what they think it must be because they're doing it.
00:19:28.840Would it be that you simply wouldn't vote for things such as a continuing resolution until people suffered because that would make it look like you're fighting?
00:19:41.700So when you look at the fighting, you have to think of that in terms of theatrics, because the fighting thing is not something that has a, it doesn't have a deliverable.
00:19:56.100So in order to claim that you fought, you've got to have video clips of you looking like a fighter.
00:20:03.960So if you're Jasmine Crockett, for example, she's doing the best that the other Democrats are doing because she's creating unlimited viral clips of someone who looks like a theatrical fighter girl.
00:21:01.560They actually want some health care, a budget that makes sense and doesn't break the bank.
00:21:07.700You know, like to protect that border, get the crime down.
00:21:12.040Yeah, you know, you know, it's another thing that I hate is when somebody chews up airtime like I just did, listing the things that you could have listed yourself.
00:22:02.480But I'll tell you what does look like professional work is you may have seen Hakeem Jays eat a little video in which he said that the entire Republican power structure is corrupt.
00:22:17.340And then he went through and he was asked about that and he said that the Republican Congress is corrupt, the president is corrupt, and that he said the Supreme Court is corrupt.
00:22:29.040But what he really meant was, when asked about it, is that Justice Thomas and Alito, in his opinion, crossed some kind of ethical boundary by, at least in one case, accepting a trip with one of his best friends.
00:22:47.440Like he went on one of his billionaire best friends' boat and the billionaire paid for the vacation, which is sort of just what your billionaire friend is going to do anyway.
00:22:58.720So, you know, you could argue whether that should or should not happen.
00:23:02.620But how do you tell a Supreme Court guy he can't hang out with his best friend?
00:23:12.100It was actually one of his best friends.
00:23:15.140So anyway, my point is that when corruption was chosen, that looks like professional work of a persuader.
00:23:26.200And what I mean by that is that when you see them pick things like dark, remember in the Hillary Clinton race, she goes, oh, everything Trump says is dark.
00:23:37.720Look, the reason that works so well for them is that you don't have to do much thinking.
00:23:43.760You can take everything that Trump says, just everything, go, well, that was a dark take, even if it isn't.
00:23:50.640It doesn't even matter if it's a dark take.
00:24:26.020Oh, the Supreme Court, we need to pack it.
00:24:29.100That's the reason we need to pack it with 13, because otherwise they'll be corrupt.
00:24:33.240And they'll be taking vacations with their friends and everything.
00:24:40.520I mean, there's a slippery slope situation.
00:24:43.120If you let Justice Thomas take a vacation with one of his best friends, and his best friend helps pay for it because he happens to be a billionaire.
00:24:51.760If you let that happen, where is it going to end up?
00:24:54.960Well, obviously, they're going to take two vacations per year.
00:26:45.460But now there's going to be a Department of Justice investigation into the failures of security.
00:26:53.780And the theory is that if you don't treat this one as just some random bad day that some protesters showed up and you wish they hadn't, but rather it looks like it might be part of the pattern.
00:27:07.180And the pattern is that when the left wants to censor the right, they simply don't give enough security where they know security is warranted.