00:02:12.960A small number of white people decided to invoke their constitutional rights.
00:02:15.980They went to court and they came away with tens of millions of dollars.
00:02:19.420And we should talk more about these stories, especially since they could inspire more victims
00:02:24.200of anti-white discrimination to take their case to court.
00:02:27.160And one of the most egregious examples involved Starbucks, which was run by CEO Howard Schultz at the time.
00:02:34.480Now, you may remember this sordid episode in American history when a couple of black guys walked into a Starbucks and sat down without placing an order.
00:02:43.240The store wouldn't let them loiter or use the bathroom without making a purchase, which makes sense since it's a private business and they don't want the property to become a crack house.
00:02:51.020But the two black guys decided that this was their Rosa Parks moment, and they refused to leave to the point that they were arrested for trespassing.
00:02:58.900In response, instead of demonstrating a semblance of integrity or courage in the face of a mob, Schultz shut down every Starbucks store for racial bias training, issued a payout to the black customers, attacked his own employees, and then, of course, groveled on CNN.
00:03:42.460The backlash was swift. It sparked many to talk of a Starbucks boycott.
00:03:47.580I've gone through the training myself, as has the entire leadership team of the company last week.
00:03:53.100And we did that so that we could experience it firsthand.
00:03:56.120It's interactive. It's been co-authored by Bryan Stevenson, Sherilyn Ifill, Heather McGee.
00:04:02.940And I think we wanted to try and really get professional people to help us understand and walk in the shoes of people of color and understand that racial bias does exist.
00:04:14.000You are Starbucks. Starbucks is you in many ways.
00:04:42.460hot. He was horrified. He was, he was, it was like a genocide that the emotional experience he had
00:04:49.000knowing that two black men were simply required to follow the same rules as every other customer
00:04:53.360in the store. Uh, the emotional experience was, it was the, like the experience he has
00:04:58.540witnessing a genocide. It's, it was that evil. So Howard Schultz went on national television
00:05:04.620and of course threw his employees under the bus, accepted the premise of CNN's question,
00:05:08.980which is that these black guys were only thrown out of the store because they were black
00:05:12.560even though there was precisely zero evidence of that and this store served black people
00:05:16.940all the time without any problem at all. It was only these particular black guys where it was an
00:05:21.380issue which should tell you that it was them not the store that was the problem. And what happened
00:05:26.900next is that amid all this hysteria Starbucks fired a white manager who had nothing to do with
00:05:31.920the incident whatsoever. They couldn't fire the black manager who actually oversaw operations in
00:05:36.140this particular store so starbucks told a white regional manager named shannon phillips to
00:05:41.920terminate a white manager at a nearby district who didn't do anything as a way of demonstrating
00:05:48.720that starbucks was serious about racial equity and when phillips refused they fired her instead
00:05:54.420so then she sued and she won more than 25 million dollars watch the next year starbucks was in hot
00:06:03.180water again, hit with a lawsuit from the regional manager who oversaw that store in approximately
00:06:09.280100 other locations. Shannon Phillips, who is white, claims she was fired after the incident
00:06:15.300because of her race. In the lawsuit, she says she was not involved in the arrests in any way
00:06:21.500and that Starbucks did not take any action against the black district manager who oversaw that store
00:06:27.720and had promoted the person who was responsible for making the call to police.
00:06:32.980On Monday, a federal jury in New Jersey sided with Phillips,
00:06:36.740awarding her $25.6 million in damages.
00:06:40.680What was ultimately determined by the jury was they kind of went after people
00:06:45.340that were not involved with that situation at all,
00:06:47.860making those decisions based on appearance and the race of the people that they disciplined
00:06:53.900who were associated with the Philadelphia store, but not with the events that occurred.
00:07:00.600Now, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better illustration of how self-described progressives
00:07:04.780like Howard Schultz operate. He makes a big show of major reform in the name of equity.
00:07:10.060He says that he'll make Starbucks lobbies and bathrooms open to everybody, whether they make
00:07:15.200a purchase or not. So he'll turn them into, you know, basically like refugee camps. And he goes
00:07:21.180on national television to berate his employees for being white supremacists. And then just a few
00:07:26.340years later, he's gone from the company. Starbucks has started opening offices in Tennessee for up to
00:07:31.3402,000 employees to escape the mayhem of Seattle. The bathroom policy returned because vagrants were
00:07:38.060treating Starbucks like a crack house. And Starbucks has to pay tens of millions of dollars
00:07:42.680because, in fact, there were no white supremacists working at Starbucks. But Starbucks did have an
00:07:49.700awful lot of executives who despise the white working class. But Starbucks isn't the only thing
00:07:55.680that Howard Schultz has left in ruins without any sense of shame or reflection or self-awareness.
00:08:01.680After decades of relentlessly promoting left-wing politics, which have destroyed his hometown of
00:08:07.060Seattle, Schultz has now fled to Florida just in time to avoid a massive new wealth tax that
00:08:13.040Washington State is implementing. Watch. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announced he and his family
00:08:20.220have moved to Florida just one day after the millionaire's tax passed the House. Schultz says
00:08:25.060the move is part of his retirement, but some Republicans argue this timing is no coincidence.
00:08:31.020It's called the capital flight. We spent 24 hours talking about why you shouldn't do things like
00:08:36.220pass income taxes when you don't need them. He is just an harbinger of things to come.
00:08:43.040now notice that schultz even as he's abandoning the city where he lived for decades still can't
00:08:48.980bring himself to condemn any aspect of the left-wing politics that have destroyed seattle
00:08:53.960he can't condemn the fact that leftists have turned downtown into a drug den he can't condemn
00:08:58.860the anti-white racism that just cost his company tens of millions of dollars can't even condemn
00:09:03.800the fact that leftists are attempting to confiscate 10 of all household income over one million dollars
00:09:09.020even though the Constitution of Washington State makes it illegal to tax income. Something like
00:09:14.56030,000 residents will be directly affected, although, of course, the actual effect is going
00:09:18.540to be much larger than that. When businesses close and rich people leave, the result is fewer jobs
00:09:25.580and less tax revenue. It's pretty simple. It's important to understand that Howard Schultz
00:09:29.840is not the exception. There's now an epidemic of rich leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled
00:09:36.120jurisdictions. These people supported Democrat policies and now they're in help to get those
00:09:42.000policies passed. In fact, now they're running away from the natural consequences of those policies.
00:09:47.820Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergi
00:09:54.240Brin moved from California, which is also planning a massive wealth tax to Florida in the past year.
00:10:00.580Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago, where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time, to Miami.
00:10:12.760Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, moved from California to Austin.
00:10:19.260Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, who spent half a billion dollars to help elect Democrats in 2020, just announced the purchase of a mansion in Miami.
00:10:26.740So he's apparently leaving California as well. Watch.
00:10:30.580Mark Zuckerberg could be the latest California billionaire to land in Florida.
00:10:36.500The Wall Street Journal reporting the Meta CEO bought a waterfront mansion in the Sunshine State and plans to move by April.
00:10:45.180Zuckerberg is among the latest of the ultra-wealthy fleeing California as state lawmakers threaten a massive wealth tax.
00:10:53.020and Florida real estate agents are telling the Journal they've been working nonstop showing
00:10:59.320properties to Californians since the new tax was proposed. And on and on it goes. We're witnessing
00:11:06.520a mass exodus of billionaires from states that have been destroyed by their politics.
00:11:11.140In every case, these billionaires either endorsed left-wing policies or they didn't object as those
00:11:17.300policies were taking hold. And now that things have gotten out of hand and major American cities
00:22:13.320The second issue is that there's a reason that most major corporations aren't paying much income tax.
00:22:18.300In many cases, they've lost a lot of money when they were starting up.
00:22:21.940So they're offsetting their current profits with their previous losses.
00:22:25.340And in other cases, they're issuing stock grants or investing in new factories, which they're allowed to write off because we want businesses to invest in infrastructure.
00:22:34.060It's much better for the American economy if companies like SpaceX or Tesla invest in their own growth instead of Bernie Sanders taking the money and redistributing it to some left-wing NGO.
00:22:45.380Because that's what he wants. That's the option he wants.
00:22:47.400He wants to take this money so he can give it to NGOs and nonprofits on the left.
00:22:53.600But what we want as Americans, we want rockets and robots, not more Somali daycares and leering centers.
00:23:01.200but um well i'm not really sure about the it depends on what the robots are doing certainly
00:23:07.440i want more rockets but even if you don't buy any of those arguments the fact remains that no tax
00:23:14.140no matter how big would actually be sustainable you know if bernie sanders rounded up every
00:23:19.640billionaire in the country and forced them to liquidate all of their assets and immediately
00:23:24.240surrender every dime to the u.s treasury the resulting money would fund the u.s federal
00:23:28.880government for roughly 10 months, 10 months, that's it. That's if you take all of their money,
00:23:35.820leave them all broke and poor and unhoused, as we say, you get 10 months out of that. That's it.
00:23:45.420In exchange for crashing the stock market and bankrupting every billionaire and destroying
00:23:51.380the economy and sending a clear signal that no one should ever build a new company in the United
00:23:55.680States ever again. In exchange for all that, we get 10 months of funding the government.
00:24:04.080What do you do after that? All the billionaires are broke. Who are you taxing then, Bernie?
00:24:09.900That's why, unless we want to end up like Cuba, where the lights haven't been working for the
00:24:13.840past two days, it's vitally important to emulate what the red states are doing. The red states,
00:24:20.300particularly Florida and Texas, are attracting tens of thousands of new residents precisely
00:24:24.340because their governments have rejected the ideology of the deadbeats that have seized power
00:24:31.080in New York, Washington State, and California. The problem is that most of these new residents
00:24:36.000aren't renouncing the socialist ideology that they're running away from. They're like a Mongol
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00:25:45.660If you looked at your credit card statement lately, well, it's actually unbelievable.
00:25:48.240You're working 40, 50 hours a week just to buy groceries and gas, things you use to be able to afford, and the banks are charging you over 20% interest for the privilege.
00:30:25.940There hasn't been one in like 100 years, more than 100 years, and there won't be one again, especially if you don't get voter ID passed.
00:30:33.680And the reality is that Democrats are going to do this anyway when they're in power.
00:30:37.600When Democrats get in there, they are going to do it.
00:30:42.680Maybe not if they win in the midterms because Trump will still be president and abolishing the filibuster won't do much because they won't be able to get anything passed because Trump could veto it.
00:30:50.540But the next time that the Dems have Congress and the White House, which might be in 2028, gloves are off, bets are off, and they're going to do it.
00:31:01.460They're going to pursue their agenda ruthlessly, which they always do, but even more now.
00:31:11.120And they're going to be doing this in every way, by the way.
00:31:18.920They're going to do all the things that the Republicans did not have the gumption to do themselves.
00:31:24.560Abolishing the filibuster will just be, that'll be child's play compared to everything else they're going to do.
00:31:31.900Because, you know, the other thing that's happened is we had the assassination of one of the most important conservative political figures in the world.
00:31:42.040And that was just one example of brutal left-wing militant violence.
00:31:47.460And that is what it was. Left wing militant violence. And in response to that, has there been any kind of major nationwide crackdown on left wing militants and extremists and those who are funding and facilitating and encouraging and promoting this violence?
00:32:09.600Has there been any kind of nationwide serious crackdown on it? No.
00:32:21.540Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left-wing militant, and he had left-wing militants running rampant in the streets of Minneapolis again.
00:32:31.320And in response, there has not been a concerted campaign to root these people out everywhere and their funders and their backers and the corrupt NGOs that are facilitating all this and throw them in prison.
00:32:50.920Well, guess what? When Democrats get in office, they're going to do that to us.
00:32:55.780The only difference is that we haven't committed any crimes. Doesn't matter to them.
00:33:26.840Democrats are going to be out for blood.
00:33:28.000They're going to be out for vengeance.
00:33:31.320And so we're going to see a nationwide crackdown of right-wing political figures, of conservative activists, almost all of whom will be innocent of any crime, but it's going to happen anyway.
00:33:46.900meanwhile in the case of the left you've got this actual conspiracy
00:33:56.120to commit the commit violence all over the country assassinations rioting
00:34:04.480and there has not been any serious major crackdown there just hasn't been i mentioned this the other
00:34:13.220day and someone said, well, they just arrested seven Antifa people in Texas or whatever. Okay,
00:34:16.980great. I mean, good. That's not good enough. See, this is the attitude we must have. We should
00:34:26.880have had all along. The bare minimum is not good enough. It's not good enough. You're not
00:34:37.980in power to do the bare minimum. Go pursue the agenda that you ran on aggressively.
00:34:49.600And that's why this, the SAVE Act, well, you got to pass through the House. So you held a vote in
00:34:54.980the Senate. You got them on the record. We tried. We tried. Not good enough at all.
00:35:03.520uh thune just kicked off the debate with a speech about why the bill should pass
00:35:10.680so here's uh some of that democrats are done playing
00:35:15.740as president today we are kicking off an extended debate on the save america act a package of
00:35:24.820common sense measures united around two themes protecting our elections and protecting our
00:35:31.680youth. You're going to hear me use the adjective common sense a lot in this debate, Mr. President,
00:35:37.760because if there's any word that is suitable to describe the measures we're considering,
00:35:42.160it's that. Mr. President, if there's anything essential to the integrity of elections,
00:35:47.340it's ensuring that those who are registered to vote are eligible to vote, and that those who
00:35:54.760show up to vote at polling places are those who they say they are. And how do you do that?
00:36:01.680Well, by requiring that Americans show proof of citizenship when they register to vote
00:36:06.160and that they show photo ID at polling places.
00:36:12.220That's what the Save America Act would do.
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00:40:20.080What we are doing is to create a central office solely focused on the well-being of queer New Yorkers so that their needs may be better met by every city agency across our administration.
00:40:33.360The queer community as well as intersecting communities and adjacent communities are under extreme attack in this country from all angles it seems from the highest levels of government to society in general and to even sometimes people that we consider friendly fire.
00:40:50.080unfortunately. And so now more than ever in this moment, it is so critical, I think,
00:40:56.160to have trans leadership because New York City is where the LGBTQ civil rights movement started.
00:41:04.360The so-called queer community is under attack, he says. In what way exactly? Well, he can't say.
00:41:11.920I mean, can anyone list even one way in which the quote unquote queer community is under attack?
00:41:16.900Well, of course they can't. But here's what I want to say about this. You know, you look at this, you listen to that guy talking, you hear this guy in a dress and it feels like a relic from an ancient world. It feels like the ancient, the ancient world of 2021.
00:41:31.720And that's because the left seems to have mostly moved on from, or at least tried to minimize, tried to marginalize its LGBT extremism. You don't hear about it as much anymore. You don't see them shoving drag queens in our faces like they used to. They aren't talking about trans rights nearly as much anymore, if at all. They're not parading cross-dressers around like they used to.
00:41:59.600I mean, it wasn't all that long ago when they had so-called drag kids, kids in drag showing up on like daytime talk shows, Good Morning America or whatever it was.
00:42:14.600That's how that's how that's how much they had mainstreamed this or tried to anyway.
00:45:13.240Yeah. I don't know. I've just found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past.
00:45:16.320It's just, it's a real problem. And it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
00:45:19.540So I've read, obviously, 400 and I think now 10 biophysics-based entrepreneurs.
00:45:23.400And that was one of the most surprising things. Like, what's the most surprising thing that
00:45:25.740you've learned from this? Like, oh, they have little or zero introspection. Like, Sam Walton
00:45:29.160didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up. He's like, I like building Walmart.
00:45:33.500I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts and just kept doing it over
00:45:36.080and over again. And you probably know if you go back before a hundred years ago, it never would
00:45:39.560have occurred to anybody to be introspective. Like it's the whole idea. I mean, just all of
00:45:43.300the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy and all the things that kind of result
00:45:46.160from that are, you know, kind of a manufacturer of the 1910s, 1920s. Say more about that. Great
00:45:50.280men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff at any prior point, right? It's all a new
00:45:55.440construct. It was, you know, first Western civilization had to kind of invent the concept
00:46:00.660of the individual, right, which was like a new concept, you know, several hundred years ago.
00:46:04.400And then, you know, for a long time, it was all right, the individual runs, right, and like does
00:46:07.960all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology,
00:46:12.080does all these things. And then, you know, kind of this kind of guilt-based whammy, you know,
00:46:15.560kind of showed up from Europe, a lot of it from Vienna, you know, 1910s, 1920s, Freud and all
00:46:21.340that entire movement and kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to
00:46:25.760basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs
00:46:29.920to self-criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell
00:46:35.360on the past. It never resonated with me. Okay, so this is clearly ridiculous at face value.
00:46:43.220He's claiming that the great men of history had zero introspection, and something like the opposite
00:46:48.580of that is the case. I mean, to begin with, all the great philosophers in the history of the human
00:46:54.800race existed during the time of zero introspection, according to Mark. So apparently Plato and
00:47:01.420Aristotle were not introspective or else they weren't great men of history. I don't know,
00:47:06.000which either way, either way, it's retarded. So you think about all the great philosophers,
00:47:13.240artists, writers? Was Tolstoy not introspective? Was Dostoevsky not introspective? What about
00:47:20.980Michelangelo? I don't know. Based on his body of work, I'd say that seems like someone who had a
00:47:27.680fair amount of introspection, a pretty rich inner life. What about St. Augustine? What about Thomas
00:47:34.620Aquinas? What about Shakespeare? And the list goes on and on. Now, you could say, well, those are all
00:47:40.000artists, theologians, philosophers, introspection was their profession. It was their craft in a
00:47:44.800sense. So what about the great men who were doers, who were rulers and warriors and inventors and
00:47:52.220leaders? Well, again, what you find if you look back in history is the opposite of what Mark
00:47:59.820Andreessen is claiming. And by the way, this is a guy who's like in the tech field, I think does
00:48:07.160some works with AI and that sort of thing, Silicon Valley. It's pretty haunting, actually,
00:48:16.480when you think about the fact that you've got these tech CEOs who are denying the existence
00:48:21.380of an inner self at all. That does not bode well for us. But anyway, historically, the great doers,
00:48:30.620the great leaders were men of deep introspection. Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the
00:48:36.540world and also one of the most introspective men to ever live. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
00:48:41.500Ben Franklin, Napoleon, Columbus, Andrew Carnegie. I mean, basically just random great men of history.
00:48:51.860You could just list them and all of them fit the bill because these guys wrote journals and they
00:48:56.520wrote diaries and they wrote letters. In many cases, they wrote memoirs, books. Some of them
00:49:03.760wrote poetry some of them were artists in their spare time they were well read they studied
00:49:10.020many of the great men of history in fact were romantics they were sentimental they were
00:49:15.600highly driven by feelings of love and devotion a sense of honor that's the thing that probably
00:49:22.380above all if you read history what you find what is the thing above all above all else that seems
00:49:28.500to have driven the great men of history honor, a sense of honor. But you can't pursue honor or
00:49:34.500live honorably without introspection. So it really is the opposite. The men of history had
00:49:39.660rich, vibrant interior lives. It's people today who are dead inside, who are unthinking,
00:49:47.620who have no introspection. I was just using the example the other day when I was talking
00:49:54.740about something else, I don't even remember what, about Civil War letters. You know, you read letters
00:50:00.480from soldiers in the Civil War writing home to their mothers and wives, and what you find is
00:50:05.380emotion, introspection, sentimentality, romanticism. Even as these guys were locked in a deadly
00:50:12.740struggle for their lives, dying by the hundreds and by the thousands in the most gruesome ways
00:50:16.800on the battlefield, still this is how they spoke and this is how they thought. So this is all wrong.
00:50:22.060however he is there's a there's a a way of thinking about what he's saying that could
00:50:28.820be kind of true but i don't think this is what he was trying to say because he is right that
00:50:34.140therapy did not exist until basically the 20th century all right maybe there were some rudimentary
00:50:40.860forms of it in 19th century but basically therapy as we know today talk therapy is a 20th century
00:50:46.680invention and certainly did not become common mainstream until the 20th century. So men were
00:50:54.340not sitting around prior to, you know, about 100 years ago, whining about their feelings to a
00:51:02.840therapist to whom they pay top dollar to listen to their complaints. That definitely wasn't
00:51:08.140happening. He's right about that. So there is a form of self-obsession today that didn't exist
00:51:15.320200 years ago, especially among the great men, but I wouldn't call it introspection.
00:51:21.980I would almost say, the way that I would put it is this, I was thinking about it.
00:51:26.680The great men of history had a rich interior life. They were contemplative, they were introspective,
00:51:31.260but they weren't full of self-pity, and they didn't focus much on how they feel
00:51:38.300or how they felt about themselves. See, that's the difference.
00:51:45.320I think if you look at what they wrote and what they did, it's clear that these were people who felt deeply, but it doesn't seem that they were too focused on how they felt about themselves.
00:51:57.680So today, introspection involves this obsession, not with the state of your soul or your inner life, but with how you feel about yourself.
00:52:08.740200 years ago there was an emphasis on knowing yourself today the emphasis is on feeling good
00:52:18.040about yourself so it's not what you know about yourself it's what you feel about yourself that
00:52:24.160is the switch that's the pivot that's the thing now that everybody is so focused on and when he's
00:52:29.100talking about introspection that's that's probably what he means which is not introspection at all
00:52:34.740because in fact feeling good about yourself all the time means in many cases in practice
00:52:41.440not knowing yourself so a lot of therapy and the way that our culture works in general
00:52:46.900is to encourage you to lie about yourself to yourself so that you can feel better about
00:52:52.780yourself or to put you on drugs so that you feel better while your inner self is obliterated
00:53:00.140So what we have today is the obliteration of the inner self, or certainly a great de-emphasis on self-knowledge, in favor of feeling good, feeling good about yourself.
00:53:17.500If you were to go to your great-grandfather, if he's still alive, or if you could go to him in a time machine, your great-grandfather, your great-great-grandfather, and say, you know, what do you know about yourself?
00:53:55.440And the question was, what do I know about myself? And what do I know about the world beyond myself? That's been the change, and it has been a pretty devastating one. Finally, we just passed a major holiday, I feel I should mention. I hope you had a chance to celebrate. Long COVID Awareness Day was observed on Sunday. If you didn't know, I'm assuming you did. How could you not?
00:56:30.360There's basically nothing that isn't a long COVID symptom. Long COVID is everything. It's everywhere. We all have long COVID. We all are long COVID. Long COVID is in all of us. We have all become long COVID. Long COVID is the friends we made along the way.
00:56:43.740And these are the kinds of diseases that people just love to have these days. People love these diseases. They love them. Liberals in particular. Liberals love these kinds of diseases. There's nothing that a liberal loves more than a disease like this. They literally cannot get enough of them. They just rack them up.
00:57:03.180they love diseases that can't be tested for, can't be diagnosed in any kind of objective way.
00:57:11.040And, and that any physical or psychological symptom proves that you have it. They love
00:57:17.200those kinds of diseases. They can't get those, they can't get enough of the kind of disease that
00:57:21.880the whole diagnostic process is you go to the doctor and say, uh, Hey, I think I have, I think
00:57:27.200I have this. And the doctor goes, okay, well then you do. Oh, I mean, basically if you think you
00:57:31.780have it, then you do because there's no, we can't test for it and anything at all is a symptom of
00:57:36.220it. And so if you think you have it, then you have it. It's one of the weirdest features of
00:57:41.220modern life. I mean, whole books could be written about it. Probably books have been written about
00:57:44.740it. But the fact that so many people in our society want to be sick, it's mind-blowing.
00:57:54.980We invent diseases like long COVID or a million others.