doesn't seem like there's anything good that could come out of that. But a party yeah party's a party.

Rasmussen is reporting that 75 percent of I think likely voters I always forget to ask which group they're looking at but I think 75 percent of people polled were supportive of voter ID laws as you might suspect. Yes 89 percent of them are Republicans but even 60 percent of Democrats and 77 percent of unidentified want voter ID laws.

Now at the same time there's 75 percent of the public want voter ID laws and even a solid majority of Democrats the Senate's working on this HR1 bill that if it passes would quote force states to allow anyone who to vote who simply signs a form saying they are who they claim they are. And I'm thinking to myself has there ever been a cleaner example of the government not being on your side?

Now I do approve of a government doing things that the public does not like right but the case to do that is when the government has more information or is smarter than the public. In those cases yeah I'm glad we have a republic so then the elected people make our smart decisions so dumb people like us don't have to. But in the case of voter ID laws I feel confident that every citizen understands the entire topic. There's nothing complicated about should you show your ID to vote. Like everybody gets that. There's no context missing. We all get that.

And if 75 percent of the public who gets that completely understands the topic and doesn't want it to happen and yet your government is doing it to you right in front of you they have left. Yeah they've left the station at this point. They're not even pretending to be on your side. Like usually they at least have an argument well you know we're definitely on your side it's good for my re-election but mostly it's good for you. Yeah it's coincidentally good for me as a politician. But in this case they're not even pretending. Not even pretending.

If I were president let me tell you how I would handle this. If I ever saw a topic that had 75 percent support I would support it assuming that the public understood the topic as easily as they do this. And even if I disagreed if I were in the 25 I would say oh I'm the president of the United States. 75 percent of the people understand this topic and want it this way. I'm going to support them hard. 75 percent. It's not even close right? A lot of our issues are sort of close to 50-50.

But this isn't close. When you get to 75 and both parties are dominantly in favor of it this is not a close call. And we just allow this. I mean this could just happen because we don't care about it right? So to the extent that the news doesn't make this a big issue it's just sort of a little highlight at one point we'll just let this go through. This is actually going to happen right in front of us. Well 75 percent of the public doesn't want it to happen. Amazing. And it's only good for the politicians the Democrats apparently.

So that is my show for the day. If you didn't see yesterday I did a special live stream on YouTube in which I was showing you the entire writing process of writing a joke for a comic strip. And I think that even if you're not interested in writing comic strips you would be very interested if you have any interest in writing just writing in general. I think you'd be interested in seeing the thought process from beginning to end. So go check that out. It's on YouTube.

And all right. Oh it looks like there's some reporting about the Atlanta massage parlor things and it says the alleged perp had a sexual addiction and so I guess those massage parlors probably were giving happy endings and so he was just a crazy guy with a sex addiction. It doesn't seem to be racial. So the fact that there was no evidence whatsoever that it was racially motivated turns out it was not racially motivated exactly like we assumed.

All right. And if you haven't seen my lesson on Locals the subscription platform my tour through the way to reframe your experience and get better results by reframing the way you think was very well received. Very well received. I'm working on a reframe now and I'm closing in on it but I don't have it yet. And the reframe is to fix the problem that so many people have which is you care about criticism and when if you think somebody's thinking poorly of you in any sense it really really affects you.

Now that is a I would call that a maybe a I'm not sure it's a flaw because it's built into all of us. It's more natural but there but you could find a hack to reduce it. So I'm working on a few ways to reframe how you think about yourself in the world to deal with the fact that you're being affected by criticism more than you want to be. And I'm getting close to that and I'll give a micro lesson on that when I have it.

All right that's all for now and I will talk to you later. Hack your imposter syndrome. You know the imposter syndrome is where you think you're bluffing because and everybody else is smart but you're just faking it. And I'll tell you how I dealt with that. The way to deal with your imposter syndrome is to know that everybody is faking it. And once I learned that everyone is faking it all the time and the people that you think are in control and they're confident and they really know what they're doing they don't. They're just better at faking or they may have convinced themselves or something. But once you realize everybody's faking pretty much everybody's faking all the time you don't have imposter syndrome. You have human being syndrome. You're just a human. We're all faking all the time. Some are just better at it.

All right. What happens when you believe your own BS? That's everybody. Everybody believes their own BS. That's why we live in subjective realities. You believe yours I believe mine.

What would we do to stop the inevitable trial riots? Well probably nothing. I feel as if the riots are just baked in because the people who do the riots don't really need a reason so they're going to be looking for a reason. So I don't think you could remove the reason because they're looking for it. They're going to find it no matter what you do. But you might be able to minimize it a little bit. You could take some off the top perhaps. If you took 20 percent of the energy out of it that could be a big difference.

And here's the way I think that could happen. If there's enough reporting about the George Floyd situation and there are enough experts who say yeah it was the fentanyl that got him and it can be demonstrated that the knee hold is unlikely to have been much of a difference maybe some of the energy can be taken out of it but I don't think so.

Zhu Bai Deng will rest up. I don't know what that's about. All right just looking at your comments and I think we're done here and I will talk to you tomorrow.