Virtue signaling histrionics (11-13-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] I will get to some of the stuff on FEMA. I will get to some of the stuff on Donald Trump's picks so far. But I want to start with a piece of WRAL, who by the way, WRAL's Twitter account seems to have gone dark. Very weird. Very weird. They're not posting anything. This is just the straight up WRAL Twitter account. They're not posting their stories. Haven't posted anything.

[00:00:58] since like, hmm, November 5th. November 5th. Why does that day stick out? Oh, that's right. It was election day. They haven't posted anything since Trump won. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Oh, also Don Lemon has announced that he is leaving Twitter, everybody. He is leaving Twitter. Yeah. No, don't go, Don.

[00:01:33] Don. Don Lemon used to work at CNN and you'll recall he was the one that said Nikki Haley was past her prime, thus breathing life into her more abundant campaign.

[00:01:47] He had to apologize for that and then CNN let him go. But don't worry, Don. Apparently a whole bunch of other people at CNN are going to be let go soon, too.

[00:01:53] So you'll be in good company. I'm not sure if the potato is on the chopping block, but it's possible.

[00:02:01] So this is a thing, apparently.

[00:02:05] You've got, oh, in the stack of stuff here. Hang on a second. I've got it.

[00:02:09] It's the Guardian.

[00:02:14] The Guardian. Yes, here it is. The Guardian.

[00:02:16] The Guardian is no longer posting on X.

[00:02:21] We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X, formerly Twitter.

[00:02:29] We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.

[00:02:41] Like, it's so hard.

[00:02:43] Like, it's so hard to put a link to send out a tweet on Twitter.

[00:02:47] Like, oh, this is just so much. We can't. We just can't do it.

[00:02:52] Give me a break.

[00:02:53] All of your platforms have a like literally a two click process to posting your story.

[00:03:02] The hardest part is getting the story posted to your website.

[00:03:06] After that, in the biz, we call it socialing out.

[00:03:10] You just social them out.

[00:03:12] You just click the little Facebook icon and it posts it to Facebook.

[00:03:16] You click the Twitter icon. It posts it to Twitter.

[00:03:18] All you got to do is link up your accounts and then it just just auto posts them.

[00:03:22] You can even set up an auto posting feature and you don't even have to do anything.

[00:03:27] But this is too much resources.

[00:03:30] This is too much for them to do.

[00:03:33] So the Guardian is like, we're out.

[00:03:34] We're going to go over to Gab.

[00:03:39] No, I'm kidding. They're not going to Gab.

[00:03:41] They're going to Parler.

[00:03:42] Nah, I'm just kidding. They're not going there either.

[00:03:45] What is the one that they're trying to make happen?

[00:03:48] I think it's called Fetch.

[00:03:49] They're trying to make Fetch happen.

[00:03:52] No, that's not it either.

[00:03:53] It's Blue Sky.

[00:03:56] It's the latest social media platform and it is completely overrun with basically only leftists,

[00:04:03] which is how they like it.

[00:04:04] Right. They they very much.

[00:04:06] And it creates this really awful dynamic, though.

[00:04:09] And I can't even say I feel bad for them because they're doing it to themselves.

[00:04:13] But the authoritarian censorship impulse is so great on the left that that you put them all into one tank together and they just start censoring each other.

[00:04:26] So they're policing fellow leftists over there to try to, you know, get their fill of censoring others.

[00:04:36] And so it becomes this race to the even further left.

[00:04:41] Right. Where it's like, oh, I've got certain, you know, pronouns that you have to abide in, you know, woe unto you or they them or whatever that that mispronouns me.

[00:04:52] And as soon as somebody messes up, it's like whack, whack.

[00:04:55] And they just start taking people out.

[00:04:57] And the, quote, moderators or whatever over at Blue Sky, they drop the band hammers on everybody all the time because, again, authoritarian impulses.

[00:05:07] So this is really what has got the got them upset is that they can't control literally every public space.

[00:05:17] That's what's happening.

[00:05:19] Right. They're they're mad.

[00:05:21] They're angry that they can't control what is said on Twitter anymore.

[00:05:25] And think about it.

[00:05:26] It's the only platform that you can do that.

[00:05:30] The only platform where you can actually get ideas debated and challenged.

[00:05:38] Yes, you get memes and you get trolls and all of that stuff, too.

[00:05:42] But you can police that stuff yourself with the blocking and the muting and the creation of lists and stuff.

[00:05:48] You can, you know, lock your own account, make it private so people can't see your tweets.

[00:05:53] There are all sorts of mechanisms that Twitter uses.

[00:05:55] But even that's not enough.

[00:05:58] See, because it's not enough for me to be able to go on post what I want to say.

[00:06:02] It's that I need to be able to go on and police what you say.

[00:06:07] I got to make sure nobody else sees what you say.

[00:06:10] And that's the highest principle for a lot of leftists, which is why Twitter has become so.

[00:06:20] Just outrageous for them.

[00:06:21] It's just unacceptable.

[00:06:23] The Guardian says this is something that they've been considering for a while,

[00:06:26] given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform,

[00:06:32] including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.

[00:06:45] And racism is defined as anything that they disagree with.

[00:06:49] The U.S. presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time,

[00:06:55] that X is a toxic media platform, and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.

[00:07:05] X users, right, because that never happens with other media companies, right?

[00:07:10] Is that what I'm to believe?

[00:07:12] Right, like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, right?

[00:07:20] All of them.

[00:07:21] Like, they don't shape the political discourse.

[00:07:23] Of course they do.

[00:07:25] Of course they do.

[00:07:26] And once again, this is what has got them really upset.

[00:07:31] That they believe that they should be the ones to influence what we talk about and what policies get enacted,

[00:07:40] and now they don't have that kind of influence.

[00:07:45] And if they don't have that kind of influence, then, like, this is existential for these people.

[00:07:50] Like, what am I doing here?

[00:07:51] What is even the point?

[00:07:53] I'm not influencing people.

[00:07:56] See, me, I'm doing this because I used to do this in class when I was in, like, elementary school.

[00:08:02] And I would get in trouble for it.

[00:08:03] So now I just said, you know what?

[00:08:05] I'm going to do this.

[00:08:06] And I'm going to get somebody else to pay me to do it.

[00:08:09] And I won't get expelled.

[00:08:11] Well, it's radio.

[00:08:12] Actually, you do get expelled pretty often.

[00:08:13] It's radio.

[00:08:14] Anyway, X users will still be able to share our articles, they say.

[00:08:18] Oh, well, wait a minute.

[00:08:21] So people can still tweet your articles.

[00:08:24] They say, and the nature of live news reporting means we will still occasionally embed content from Twitter within our article pages.

[00:08:32] So, in other words, they're still going to go and get the random people on Twitter that say bad things about, you know, Donald Trump.

[00:08:38] So we'll still stick those into our stories.

[00:08:41] Some people are saying Donald Trump is Hitler.

[00:08:44] And then they'll have some tweets, you know, in the, quote, news story that say Trump is Hitler.

[00:08:50] Our reporters will also be able to carry on using the site for news gathering purposes.

[00:08:57] Just as they use other social networks in which we do not officially engage.

[00:09:02] So what actually has changed here?

[00:09:05] I'm unclear, Guardian.

[00:09:07] Like, what has changed?

[00:09:09] Your reporters are still going to be on it.

[00:09:11] They're still going to use it.

[00:09:13] You're still going to post content to it when you need to.

[00:09:19] And people will still be able to share articles on it.

[00:09:22] So what exactly has changed?

[00:09:25] Not much.

[00:09:26] That's the answer.

[00:09:27] Not much.

[00:09:27] But they are better than you.

[00:09:30] See?

[00:09:31] They are very, very mad at you.

[00:09:34] They're disappointed in you.

[00:09:36] And that's the purpose of this.

[00:09:38] Just like with the Don Lemon announcement.

[00:09:40] I once believed it was a place for honest debate and discussion.

[00:09:45] Transparency.

[00:09:46] Really, Don Lemon?

[00:09:47] You thought that's what Twitter was about?

[00:09:50] It was about that for about two years.

[00:09:53] Back in 2009, 2010.

[00:09:57] And then you guys started locking it down,

[00:09:59] banning people for saying anything that you didn't like,

[00:10:02] anything you disagreed with.

[00:10:04] Twitter is actually the place now for honest debate and discussion.

[00:10:09] And that means people are going to say stuff that you don't like.

[00:10:12] That's what comes with the territory.

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[00:11:18] And I want to thank Chuck, longtime listener, Chuck White-Tunis.

[00:11:23] He was up from Florida and dropped off some old CDs of a couple of past shows.

[00:11:31] And it was good to see him.

[00:11:32] So he was hanging out in the studio.

[00:11:35] He calls it watching magic being made, but it's a very different opinion of what magic is, I think.

[00:11:44] It's very good to see him, though.

[00:11:46] So if you've been listening to this show for a long time, Chuck was, I would refer to him as,

[00:11:53] and he would refer to himself as my agent.

[00:11:56] And he never got me any gigs, and I never paid him.

[00:12:00] So it worked out very, very well for both of us, I think.

[00:12:05] Although I didn't get any gigs.

[00:12:07] Well, he didn't get me any gigs.

[00:12:09] But it was good to see him.

[00:12:13] The public has stopped listening to mass media.

[00:12:18] That's what I think the election showed us.

[00:12:23] And that's why people in the legacy media are so mad today.

[00:12:28] I called it last week, I called it a repudiation of legacy media.

[00:12:33] David Harsani over at the Washington Examiner.

[00:12:38] He was formerly of the Federalist.

[00:12:40] Now I think he is, let me see.

[00:12:42] I think he's, well, I don't have his title.

[00:12:45] I think he's now a senior writer for the Examiner.

[00:12:50] But he had a big write-up on this the other day, saying that the 2024 presidential contest, if it proved anything,

[00:12:59] it's that the mass media no longer drives the national conversation.

[00:13:03] They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters.

[00:13:07] And by the way, this is one of the problems I would point out with, like, shock jocks,

[00:13:17] or, you know, people, the edgelords, people that are constantly pushing the envelope and all of that,

[00:13:23] or envelope, depending on, you know, what part of the country you're from,

[00:13:27] that eventually you go too far because you have to.

[00:13:30] There's no, like, eventually the envelope falls off the table.

[00:13:34] I don't know why that is a saying, pushing the envelope.

[00:13:37] I don't know why that's a thing.

[00:13:39] Like, I always imagine it's like I'm pushing the envelope towards the edge of a table,

[00:13:43] so I'm pushing it farther and farther along the surface, then eventually it falls off.

[00:13:49] So, I mean, that's what I always thought the phrase meant.

[00:13:52] But I could be wrong on that.

[00:13:55] But with shock jocks in radio or television,

[00:13:59] you're constantly searching, you know, for the next shock.

[00:14:04] Shock.

[00:14:05] And eventually you will go too far, which is always kind of comical to me,

[00:14:09] where, you know, people hire, you know, stations will hire some shock jock

[00:14:13] to say crazy outlandish things and do, you know, weird promotional stunts.

[00:14:18] And then they're like, oh, yeah, we love it.

[00:14:19] Oh, you're crazy.

[00:14:20] Oh, that's awesome.

[00:14:21] Oh, you've gone too far.

[00:14:22] You're fired.

[00:14:23] Well, wait a minute.

[00:14:24] You brought them in there to do that.

[00:14:27] It's the same thing.

[00:14:29] People get fatigued.

[00:14:31] They get exhausted by the constant drumbeat of doom and catastrophe,

[00:14:36] that they eventually stop listening to you.

[00:14:41] They just tune you out,

[00:14:42] especially if they notice that the stuff you're predicting doesn't come true.

[00:14:49] He says they can no longer,

[00:14:53] the media can no longer prop up terrible candidates.

[00:14:57] And like him or not,

[00:14:59] President-elect Donald Trump's success with black and Hispanic and Jewish voters,

[00:15:03] if exit polls are even close to being correct,

[00:15:05] it proves that the entire fascist scare was a flop.

[00:15:09] It didn't work.

[00:15:10] And right now you've got a lot of people in media that are in the denial phase of their grief.

[00:15:18] They still think that, you know, they can influence the outcome.

[00:15:23] They still think that their voices matter.

[00:15:26] And to the degree that they did,

[00:15:28] I don't want to say they don't matter at all because they do.

[00:15:31] But they're in this denial phase.

[00:15:34] Don't they understand they're fascists?

[00:15:35] This is why you're getting all these posts from people.

[00:15:38] I can't believe our country is so fascist and racist and sexist.

[00:15:43] And like, hey, you know what?

[00:15:45] Maybe it's not.

[00:15:47] Maybe you're just wrong about them.

[00:15:48] Have you considered that possibility?

[00:15:50] When you don't understand the results, reassess the assumptions.

[00:15:54] Right?

[00:15:55] Go back to your premise.

[00:15:57] And if the premise is incorrect,

[00:15:59] maybe that's why you're getting different outcomes than you expect.

[00:16:02] One other thing, by the way, to keep in mind

[00:16:05] with all of the virtue signaling histrionics that we are witnessing now

[00:16:11] is blue bracelets.

[00:16:16] Yeah.

[00:16:17] Yeah.

[00:16:18] We were wondering if they still had all of the pink hats.

[00:16:21] I guess no.

[00:16:23] Look, you got to look for the new opportunity for merch sales.

[00:16:27] Right?

[00:16:28] New merchandise.

[00:16:29] Nice.

[00:16:29] And so you got to, yeah, because everybody already has the pink hat

[00:16:33] from eight years ago.

[00:16:35] So you don't want to do that again.

[00:16:37] You need to, you know, you need a refresh.

[00:16:40] And so it's people are, women are shaving their heads, wearing surgical masks,

[00:16:48] and donning blue friendship bracelets.

[00:16:53] One report calls it the first political symbol of the new Trump era.

[00:17:03] To say they wear this to signal that they did not vote for Donald Trump.

[00:17:08] I don't care who you voted for.

[00:17:12] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:13] Stop making the race for president your entire identity.

[00:17:19] They're just people.

[00:17:21] We are hiring employees to do stuff.

[00:17:25] That's it.

[00:17:26] It's transactional.

[00:17:28] Who you voted for for president is almost literally the least interesting thing about you.

[00:17:35] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:38] But this is what happens when you, you know, convince half of the population that the end is nigh.

[00:17:45] And we're all going to die.

[00:17:47] The earth is going to catch fire or freeze.

[00:17:50] I don't know what the latest iteration of the catastrophe is.

[00:17:54] But like Gaia earth is going to, is going to be dead.

[00:17:58] And we're all going to be dead.

[00:17:59] And everybody's going to be dead.

[00:18:01] Everything.

[00:18:01] Everywhere.

[00:18:04] Oh gosh.

[00:18:06] Like you tell people that enough times, like they, they start to wonder what is the point of any of it.

[00:18:11] You know, when you, when you present everything as an existential threat,

[00:18:15] people go crazy.

[00:18:17] And I think that's what we're seeing.

[00:18:19] There are a lot of people that have just gone a little bit, well, I shouldn't say crazy,

[00:18:23] because it's actually just a disorder.

[00:18:25] It's called histrionic personality disorder.

[00:18:28] If your main driving force is getting noticed or approved by others,

[00:18:34] and this negatively affects your life,

[00:18:37] you might be living with histrionic personality disorder or HPD.

[00:18:42] Right.

[00:18:44] The word histrionic means theatrical or dramatic.

[00:18:48] And it primarily involves a tendency to view situations emotionally and display overdramatic behaviors

[00:18:56] that aim to draw attention to yourself constantly.

[00:19:03] Social media makes this worse, by the way, because of course it does.

[00:19:10] Dean.

[00:19:11] Welcome to the show, Dean.

[00:19:12] Dean.

[00:19:13] Hi, Pete.

[00:19:14] Hey, how are you?

[00:19:14] What you, what you, good, very good.

[00:19:17] Good.

[00:19:17] You sound good as always.

[00:19:19] Well, thanks.

[00:19:19] You do as well.

[00:19:21] Yeah, thank you.

[00:19:22] You know, what you were just talking about there,

[00:19:25] you know, it's sort of like what human nature is,

[00:19:28] and the media has just given us another platform to really bring it out.

[00:19:33] It's like going to the bar and trying not to drink.

[00:19:38] It's just too easily accessible now.

[00:19:42] And because you were talking about fascism and I spent too much time in a bar,

[00:19:50] and I just don't know how people are saying that he, look at, here he is, he's elected,

[00:20:00] he's not a fascist, he's not a Hitler, he's not, you know, a Nazi.

[00:20:06] But nobody really knows.

[00:20:08] And the reason I wanted to say that is because I've been listening to all of the Rubios

[00:20:13] and all of the people that he's starting to put in, and they're all very egocentric,

[00:20:18] and they're all talking like they've been given unbridled total control over everything.

[00:20:25] And people seem to be buying into it.

[00:20:28] It's just that I think we should have cautious optimism.

[00:20:33] So, okay, first off, the people that are attracted to politics, that run for office and such,

[00:20:39] they generally have a higher, say, egocentrism score than your average person.

[00:20:47] Right?

[00:20:48] It takes a certain kind of person to stand up in front of hundreds or even thousands or millions of people

[00:20:55] and say, fire that guy and give me his job.

[00:20:58] Right?

[00:20:59] That takes a certain amount of ego.

[00:21:00] So that's why you're going to see that kind of overrepresented in that class, for starters.

[00:21:07] Secondly, I have not seen a Republican with a greater mandate than Trump has received in my lifetime.

[00:21:19] True.

[00:21:20] Right?

[00:21:20] I mean, he won the popular vote.

[00:21:23] He carried every swing state.

[00:21:25] Right?

[00:21:25] The Electoral College, the U.S. Senate went Republican.

[00:21:29] The House looks like it's going to finish off Republican as well.

[00:21:32] He's going to have the trifecta.

[00:21:34] And he was, people voted for him to put him back into office on this message of tearing down this deep state,

[00:21:45] if you want to call it that, like of dismantling this bureaucratic behemoth that the federal government has become.

[00:21:53] So that's why the people are talking about that, or talking like that.

[00:21:57] And by the way, the left does this when they win, too.

[00:22:00] They talk about growing the government.

[00:22:03] This is the first time, like if any of this actually happens, and I'm not optimistic that any of this kind of stuff will actually occur,

[00:22:11] or, but that's just my natural tendency, it's a ratchet.

[00:22:14] It's not a pendulum.

[00:22:15] Government doesn't really ever get smaller.

[00:22:17] Right?

[00:22:18] The spending doesn't go down.

[00:22:19] It only just keeps getting bigger and bigger, more and more intrusive, more and more expensive.

[00:22:25] And Republicans, when they take over, in my lifetime at least, at best, all they are able to do is slow it down.

[00:22:35] Or stop it.

[00:22:37] They never roll it back.

[00:22:40] Yeah, I see what you're saying.

[00:22:43] But I guess it, isn't it somewhat of a pendulum that the Republicans, you know, overwhelm the Democrats?

[00:22:50] You know, that it just got to be too much, too stifling?

[00:22:55] Well, I mean, I think people swung against the Democrats, but, I mean, that's a different, you're talking about a different category.

[00:23:04] I was saying that the pendulum, when I'm talking about the size and the growth of government, that's not a pendulum.

[00:23:09] It never swings back.

[00:23:10] It never goes back to being smaller.

[00:23:13] Once government takes over something, it never gives up that power.

[00:23:16] It never gives it back.

[00:23:17] So, that's a ratchet, not a pendulum.

[00:23:20] That's what I was talking about.

[00:23:21] I wasn't talking about election outcomes.

[00:23:24] Got it.

[00:23:25] Thank you.

[00:23:25] All right, man.

[00:23:26] Yeah, I appreciate the call.

[00:23:27] And as for this idea that Donald Trump's a fascist, we already saw Trump in office for four years.

[00:23:33] And I think that's part of the reason why people don't believe this line of attack, is because they lived through the first four years.

[00:23:42] And he wasn't.

[00:23:44] So, yeah, I mean, that argument doesn't persuade.

[00:23:49] Histrionic personality disorder.

[00:23:52] HPD.

[00:23:53] It's one of ten personality disorders.

[00:23:56] It falls into the cluster B classification together with borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder.

[00:24:07] Right?

[00:24:08] Like that's the sociopathy.

[00:24:12] You know, like our sheriff has.

[00:24:14] And narcissistic personality disorder.

[00:24:17] And you can have parts of all of these.

[00:24:22] Histrionic personality disorder.

[00:24:25] If somebody has it, they will have difficulty controlling their emotions.

[00:24:31] They will have a tendency to act dramatically and unpredictably.

[00:24:38] Think about, like, you know, turning on your cell phone and recording yourself and posting it to social media as you scream at the top of your lungs because of the outcome of an election.

[00:24:50] Something like that.

[00:24:54] Specifically, a persistent pattern.

[00:24:56] That's important.

[00:24:57] It's got to be a persistent pattern.

[00:24:58] So, it's not just like, you know, one time or something.

[00:25:01] Everybody kind of goes off the deep end, goes crazy every now and then.

[00:25:05] I shouldn't say that because people, I don't like when people use that term for this kind of stuff.

[00:25:10] And I understand.

[00:25:10] So, I try not to.

[00:25:11] But I just did.

[00:25:12] So, I apologize.

[00:25:13] But these disorders, you know, it's not something that you may do once or twice or every, you know, now and again, infrequently.

[00:25:21] This is a persistent pattern of extreme emotionality, constant attention-seeking behaviors.

[00:25:31] Right?

[00:25:32] So, it has to be unceasing.

[00:25:36] There might also be a tendency to present yourself in an overly dramatic way, even if you're not usually aware that you do this.

[00:25:43] You might also find it challenging to control your impulses and emotion, which could lead you to face friction in your relationships.

[00:25:51] Depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom disorder, which we used to call hypochondriasm.

[00:26:00] Everybody might have a few histrionic traits that appear in some situations, like you're at a party with friends, acting, modeling, radio hosting, that kind of stuff.

[00:26:13] The difference is that when somebody lives in a personality disorder, these traits become behaviors that persistently show up across most situations and also cause interpersonal problems and then distress.

[00:26:26] Some of the attention-seeking behaviors.

[00:26:33] Dressing dramatically or provocatively.

[00:26:35] Making up or exaggerating stories about you or things that have happened to you.

[00:26:41] Exaggerating or making up the symptoms of an illness.

[00:26:44] Showering people with compliments and love declarations, a.k.a. love bombs.

[00:26:51] Right?

[00:26:52] If you just meet them.

[00:26:55] Like you've just met a person and you just start showering them with compliments.

[00:27:00] Yeah.

[00:27:01] Getting into a minor accident that requires others to rescue you.

[00:27:04] Like that's kind of, yeah.

[00:27:06] Getting competitive with others in many situations or trying to trump whatever they're talking about.

[00:27:11] For example, the, oh yeah, that happened to me, but in this better way.

[00:27:15] We've all known people like that.

[00:27:17] Right?

[00:27:19] These aren't deliberate attempts to manipulate other people.

[00:27:22] Most of the time it's just unconscious behavioral patterns that are adopted over years because it works.

[00:27:30] It has worked for the person.

[00:27:33] And so they get that positive reinforcement.

[00:27:35] They get what they need out of a particular interaction and then they just keep behaving in that way.

[00:27:40] And a lot of people don't even realize they do it.

[00:27:43] I suspect that we have an epidemic of histrionic personality disorder.

[00:27:49] And I think social media is driving the train on this.

[00:27:54] It's making it worse.

[00:27:56] People engage in seductive behavior, superficial emotions that fluctuate rapidly, quick and intense.

[00:28:03] Right?

[00:28:04] And other people would perceive them as just being completely out of proportion for the situation at hand.

[00:28:11] Focusing on physical appearance too much.

[00:28:14] Vague and showy speech.

[00:28:17] Showy?

[00:28:18] Yeah.

[00:28:18] Showy speech.

[00:28:19] Showy speech.

[00:28:19] Dramatization.

[00:28:20] High suggestibility and easily influenced is one of the problems that you have with HPD.

[00:28:28] You become overly trusting of others and frequently swayed by their opinions.

[00:28:33] Does that sound like a large portion of the electorate?

[00:28:40] Considering people closer to you than they actually are is another one of these characteristics.

[00:28:46] And that ends this lesson on the couch.

[00:28:49] All right.

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