Voters Think Trump and RFK Jr. Have Made America Sicker & Gen Z Wants Less Onscreen Sex
October 28, 2025
What I’m Discussing Today:
Kareem’s Daily Quote: Today I discuss an anti-quote, a common insult that makes whoever says this look more foolish than the person they think they’re zinging.
Damning Poll Shows Voters Think Trump and RFK Jr. Have Made America Sicker: Finally, Americans are agreeing with what medical experts have been saying for 10 months. And it’s only going to get worse.
Whooping Cough Cases Spike in Florida as Vaccination Rates Plunge: Thanks to the GOP’s cowardice, diseases once under control are spreading.
Gen Z Wants More Animation and Less Sex Onscreen: Pay attention to this, because it tells us what the future of TV and movies will look like.
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases: Trump wants to make a direct withdrawal of millions because he considers the U.S. Treasury his personal bank account. Since he and his loyalists make the final decision, who’s to stop him?
Kareem the Science Guy: Any alcohol use increases dementia risk, study finds: This is a public health warning. Do with it what you want.
Magical Moments in Sports: An amazing exhibition of parkour.
Dionne Warwick Sings “A House Is Not a Home”: Dionne Warwick will break your heart with the sad plea for forgiveness and rekindled love.
Kareem’s Daily (Anti) Quote
I’m living rent-free in your head.
Common phrase used by the foolish to insult themselves
This is what I call a “boomerang insult” because the person using it doesn’t realize that the moment they say it, smugly thinking they’ve just fired off a perfect barb that makes them look superior, they’ve just revealed themselves as a dimwit who actually insulted themselves. That they don’t realize it makes my point.
I hear this phrase a lot on TV reality shows and in the news among politicians attempting to prove how clever they are. It is meant to indicate that the person being insulted thinks more about the insulter than they think about them. The insulter often follows this up with, “You’re obsessed with me!”
Let’s break down why this is asinine:
This insult is usually a response to someone making a complaint. Sarah tells Tom that he’s rude for always being late to every function and that he’s selfish by not caring how that affects everyone else. Tom laughs and says, “I’m living rent-free in your head.” The problem is that Tom is committing a couple of logical fallacies here, but I’ll just focus on name-calling. Instead of addressing the validity of the complaints, he attacks the person making the complaint. It’s like Trump and his GOP cronies calling protesters terrorists: instead of addressing the protesters’ legitimate complaints, he labels them criminals.
Tom is so narcissistic that he thinks he’s the important part of this equation. In fact, Tom doesn’t matter—what’s important is what Tom represents: cruelty, injustice, lack of compassion. He’s only a symbol of these traits. When Tom uses this phrase as a retort, he’s merely confirming that the complaint is justified. That everyone who hears him nods and thinks, “Oh, Sarah was right.” Tom is too dumb to know that.
Everyone lives rent-free in everyone else’s head. Shakespeare lives rent-free in my head. So does Walter Mosley. So do the Lakers. So does hot chocolate with marshmallows. They’re called thoughts.
One could accuse me of being “obsessed” with Trump, Mike Johnson, Hegseth, and others who are dedicated to destroying democracy. But it’s not really the individuals that concern me but the damage they are doing to the country. I’m obsessed with people sitting silently in a lifeboat watching someone drilling a hole in the bottom and doing nothing about it.
Anyway, next time you hear someone use this phrase with a self-satisfied grin, just nod sympathetically and say, “You’ll be okay.”