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ow who you are anymore. We have to figure out who we are. I was reading an article that a lot of relationships maybe stayed together during the pandemic but will probably be ripped apart as soon as your requirements for what you need to do and not do change. So I would expect massive divorce, massive mental illness, and probably violence that comes with it. And I've noted, by the way, that mental…

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fts we've ever had to have. And I've got to tell you, I'm already feeling it. Yesterday, for example, I was insanely bored. Like really, really bored. And I thought to myself, well, I'm bored, but realistically where I live I can kind of do most things, right? I can now go to a restaurant, don't even need my mask. I can ride a bike. I can even join my gym again. I'd need a mask in the gym, but I can join the gym again. I can go to the gym. So I can do almost anything. I can travel.

And I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all. So in other words, freedom caused a mental illness. And I think that that's actually normal. As soon as you get more freedom and you can't just follow your routine, you're going to flip out. Now, not all of you. Some of you will just be much happier and that's the end of the story. Everybody's different, right?

But it's a warning. If everything I know about the human mind and the way we think is true — and I'm pretty confident it is — there's going to be a massive mental health problem over the summer and probably lasting into the fall. But be ready for that. And when it happens to you, you'll expect it. Maybe you can handle it better.

Rasmussen has an interesting poll today about race relations, asking the question: are race relations better in the United States since the election of Joe Biden? And what do you think people said? Are race relations better or worse under Biden? What do you think?

Well, the answer is 28 percent said it's better, but more people, 39 percent, said it's worse. As you might imagine, more conservatives said it's worse than liberals. So people basically support their team. But so conservatives said it — only 12 percent said it's better — but liberals said 54 percent is better.

Then the follow-up question: has life for Black Americans gotten better or worse since Biden was elected? 22 percent said it's gotten better. 29 percent said it got worse.

So how do you explain that? Biden gets into office, presumably according to a lot of people on the left, replacing the worst person who ever lived, Donald Trump, a racist they say. So if you get rid of Trump and you bring in Biden, you know, Obama's ex-vice president, he's got a bunch of plans now for a whole bunch of racist policies — I'll talk about in a minute — but they're racist in a way that would help Black Americans. And yet they feel it's getting worse. What's going on?

It's the news, right? The news makes us think things are getting worse no matter what is actually happening, because the news needs you to think that race relations are getting worse. It's just the news. Do you think race relations are getting worse? Well, yes, because of the news. So the news has this ability to make things worse and then assign the blame to other people, which is the world we live in.

Speaking of messed up things, Twitter user Alan McLeod points out that th

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e Washington Post let somebody who's on the board of directors of a military drone company — they make military drones — writes an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying that to avoid wider war, Iran must be deterred with limited U.S. military strikes. Do you know how you do a limited U.S. military strike? What would make it limited? What kind of military assets would you likely employ if yo…

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