my opinion, because obviously a lot of you disagree, in my opinion the government needs to take control in military matters and maybe a big crisis like this. Did they do it well? That's a separate question. But I think it's your best bet. Now I'll accept that you disagree with me on that, but it's only good if the people can take it back. The people need to regain it, you know, grab it back. And of course the government, when it takes power, it doesn't like to give it up at all. We know that, right? But we have plenty of examples of, let's say, hurricanes where the government took power during the hurricane as an emergency. And as soon as they were done, they got out of there as soon as they could because they didn't want to be there grabbing any power. They just wanted to do the job and leave.

And what I see is, as this anti-vax coalition, which isn't organized in any sense but sort of an informally, you know, natural coalition without organization, I feel good about it. I feel good that there's a balance of power. The government took control. Most of you disagree, but I thought, well, it was our best bet, even if it is, it's not ideal, but it might have been our best bet. That's how you get the vaccines, etc. But I love the fact that the country is starting to push back. And I'm not even, you know, it doesn't even matter that I'm on the side of the pushback people or not. I like that they exist. It's a good reminder to the government who's in charge. So the more people who resist and the more actively they resist, I'm not saying I'm on their side or not on their side. They can make their own decisions. What I say is I like living in a country where it's happening. I like living in a country where the government can take control and then the people can say, you know, just about now is when you need to be giving it back. And they won't take no for an answer. That's not all bad, right? It's an uncomfortable place to be. We're not happy where we are. We'd like to be in a better place. I get all that. But I like that our system allows this constructive tension between government and the people. And so far I still see the people having the power. It might take a while. It's not going to be instant. But I think the people will get what they want. I believe the mandates will not stand. What do you think? Do you think the mandates will stand? I think they'll stand in some places, but I don't imagine that the people will let them stand for long and certainly not everywhere. Yeah, I think there'll be too much pushback eventually.

So I've got this question whether we have a supply chain problem or the simulation has been proven. When I go to the local grocery store where I live, the shelves are basically full, right? If you look down the row of shelves, it looks full with one exception. You'll see this long row of products and then there'll be this little hole in the shelf, no more than this big in a gigantic line. Everything's full but just this little bit. That little hole represents the product I came for. And I'm like, oh crap, the one thing I want is the only thing missing. So I go to the next aisle to look for the other thing I'm looking for and there's only one thing missing and it's the damn thing I want.

Now I noticed this first during the pandemic. Christina asked me for some like very specific things, a specific brand of soda which literally disappeared during the pandemic. It doesn't exist anymore. As soon as she started saying this is the only soda I want, it just disappeared. It was Dr. Pepper, no caffeine, and also diet. Just disappeared. I think that's what it was. And likewise she had a food product that was on a shelf with all the food products were there except that one. That one food just disappeared and never came back.

Now is that, am I supposed to believe that the one thing I look for is the thing that's missing? Here's the other possibility. So one is that's just a coincidence and it's confirmation bias and I don't notice the other things that are missing. You know, just normal psychological phenomenon. But it's also very consistent with us being in a s