[laughter] i m kidding. maybe. happy thursday, everybody. it is a glorious thursday. so let s big question, why are the young liberals so depressed, especially when compared to their righty counterparts? you can see it for yourselves. do these people look like they are having a good day? maybe. if you define a good day as resting your genitals in a bowl of battery acid. don t knock it. what is behind this agony? are they liberals because they are depressed? or are they depressed because they are liberals? it is the old what came first, the responsively great chicken or the organic egg? they are not watching uplifting programs like this one. i m surprised colbert s credits don t end with how to tie a noose. [laughter] it is very depressing. sometimes i cry. to get to the bottom, you have to have a former lefty. covering a 2022 academic paper titled the politics of depression. which comes complete with a beautiful charge. you can trust anything the chart and its colors and numb
who are miserable. but adult progresses now valorize depression. as a sign of political commitment. to put that in english, adult liberals incentivize misery. the will see a few and the more you express it the better you do in these circles as matt points out, the left love s misery porn and part of their kink is luring young people. here is their mating call. the corporations challenge it! the student loan lizards challenge it! that is not right! that is not fair. greg: when liberals pushed the idea that social justice exists everywhere and everyone is out to get you, of course, you re going to be depressed. on the other hand, you might get your own show on msnbc. it is a self-fulfilling cycle that feeds itself around the clock like [indistinct]. teams watch on eggshells worried