asked. But you know people don't want to cause trouble. So I asked one of the staff members I knew well, can I do something about this for you? Could I talk to somebody? Because they would listen to the members of the gym before they would listen to the staff. Unfortunately.

And then you start seeing the pattern. And the pattern is truly troubling. And the pattern is that the freedoms are coming back in the exact order of your power in society. Rich white people got their power back first. And you know Magic Johnson I guess. So if you were an elite I guess it didn't matter so much your race. But if you were elite and rich you were already on a private plane. You already could be the governor and take your mask off. The rich got there first.

And I walk into my own health club and of course I'm already the elite because who can even afford to be a member of a gym really? It's not what percentage of the public can even afford that. It's not a lot. So I'm already in this elite situation. And then I look at the staff still wearing masks and it's just crushing. It's crushing. It just feels so freaking wrong.

And watching the kids go to school in their masks, the weakest part of society. We protected the worst. And we did that at the beginning too. The most vulnerable, we didn't protect them did we? Not as well as we should have in retrospect. But did we learn anything? Well I don't know. Maybe that's why we're being extra protective of the kids. Because the feeling that we failed early in the pandemic. Maybe. I don't know.

But this is a wake-up call isn't it? Why, remember earlier where I was saying that the only thing that matters in international relationships is power? That seems to be all that mattered when it came to freedom. It only mattered how much power you had. The kids don't have any power. If the kids had power they would be first. Am I right? If the kids had the power they would have been the first to unmask not the last. If the prisoners had the power they would be the first not the last. If the truckers had the power, if the retail workers had the power, if the service workers of America, if the server at your restaurant had the power they would have unmasked first. But they don't.

And if you think your work is done because your mask is off, well you suck basically. You suck. We got to get these people unmasked. All right? We gotta keep the pressure on because the great claw back isn't gonna happen on its own, right? We're gonna have to just claw to get back to where we were. And I had a terrible feeling yesterday that my own problems were solved. You know what I mean? Like okay I don't have to wear a mask anymore. I guess my own problem is solved. But wow that hurts when you see somebody else in a mask. It hurts. So that's where I'm at.

But in terms of the good things that came out of the pandemic, Joy Behar says she might continue to wear a mask in public at all times. And I say to myself, well I didn't see that coming. But that does seem like a little bit of a plus. I wouldn't discount that. We also got a lot of touchless purchases that I really enjoy. Retail is easier right? Retail is probably easier forever because we got better ways to pay for stuff. Touchless self-checkout. We grew delivery of everything. We just got hooked on everything being delivered. That's probably good in the long run.

All right. Rasmussen poll says if elections were held today in the sort of a generic midterm election type thing that 50 percent of voters would prefer a generic Republican and only 37 percent a generic Democrat. A 13 point difference. Now keep in mind that there are more Democrats than there are Republicans. So if 50 percent would already vote Republican just generically speaking the Democrats are just, they're dead. They're gone.

And you know this of course is what I'm going to call the squad effect. Has anybody given this a name yet? Probably somebody already came up with that name. Maybe I read it somewhere. But it feels like the squad effect doesn't it? Like the squad became the public face of the most progressive ideas and then they got their way at least in some stuff. It has shocked people. Everything from critical race theory to women's sports being affected by trans rights stuff. And suddenly there does seem to be a little bit of a pushback here.

But here's the weirdest thing. Apparently there's only one thing that can save moderate Democrats. There's only one thing. Do you know what it is? Only one thing can save the let's say traditional classic Democrats. I guess if you say it yet, Trump. Now maybe DeSantis too. But the point is the only thing that can get rid of the progressiv