I was feeling optimistic and then you turned me pessimistic again.

I was about to turn you optimistic again.

Okay fantastic.

I was feeling optimistic having read that stuff from 1800 and realizing, okay, we were

just as bad with our politics and our partisanship and, you know, confirmation bias and everything

back then as we are now and somewhere in between we got it right again.

But then, but then looking at the smash in the windows and everything, the various big cities

and how little is being done to stop it and how half the country is perfectly okay with

it.

I'm back to feeling negative again.

Well here's a little bit of optimism, but just a little.

There are what are zombie corporations that's coming up later this afternoon.

What?

Zombie corporations.

There are an increasing number of black intellectuals, writers, journalists, business leaders who

are coming out and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

These in lunatics don't speak for me.

I don't agree with these people.

Of course black lives matter, but black lives matter, the organization, they're crack pots,

they're Marxists.

This is not me talking, although I will say that if you'd like me to.

This is folks like in this case Jason Whitlock, who is one of the nation's great sports writers

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