You're going to cry about it? You're going to complain about it. You're going to much more to the point. You're going to give up.

Everybody, welcome to the virtue signal. I'm Bill Whittle with my friend Alfonso Rachel, and he's not just my colleague. He is my friend just before we started rolling today. I had a little chat with Zoe about some personal setbacks in things, and we often talk about this kind of thing both before and after the shows and sometimes without the shows.

I get a lot of great insight from Zoe.

And in this particular case, what we were talking about was this idea of, you know, this kind of hurt you get after a setback where, you know, you were counting on somebody

or you were, you know, expecting were counting on somebody or you were, you know,

expecting something that seemed not only reasonable but agreed to and then it just falls through

or whatever the case may be.

We see setbacks, obviously, on the political scene pretty much every day with things that

just are like, my God, honestly, I saw Senator Cruz to, or I saw a clip of Senator Cruz addressing the assistant director

of the FBI saying, do you in fact have 17 recordings of an informant saying that Joe Biden

took a $5 million bribe? And the assistant director of the the FBI said I'm not going to get into that

with you senator I thought that's interesting would be nice to throw some contempt of Congress

charges at this guy but why don't we do that well I guess it's because we don't have control of the

Senate in the House that's why or at least the Senate and and all of these sense of setbacks and all of these sense of, you know,

you get your pride wounded and then you get filled with, you know, it's kind of despair. But

Zoot used something that I thought was really interesting and that was, you know, that this is a result

of expectations. And expectations are the enemy of just about everything. And I realized something

deeper about that. And that's why I wanted to talk about this topic on the show, because I realized

that when you put your faith in other people, not even, not for them to do your job for you so much, but when you, when you are

planning on, on things that, you know, on help that you end up not getting, whatever the case

may be, and you feel this really stung and kind of, you know, hopeless kind of thing. And I realized

it's a form of abdication. And obviously we know the term

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