Watch all of the original 1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration TikTok posts from Sept. 12-Sept. 18, 2025 on YouTube!
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On This Week’s Episode
This week on the show…
We start on Day 236 with a comment about the video from last week on Day 235. This commenter asks me why I am not a millionaire and I actually explain a little bit of my financial history prior to self-imposed poverty. I look back on the financial crash of 2008, clarify my feelings about rich people, and take the opportunity to mention the Pet Shop Boys song called “Opportunities”!
On Day 237, I contemplate being perceived like Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation when it comes to Community Guidelines violations on TikTok. Apparently some creators feel that the new rules are choking their political content. Not only do I not believe that I violate any Community Guidelines, I actually believe that I provide guidelines for the community. I am just simply suggesting that we ignore the Trump administration and how bad can that be?
On Day 238, I received a comment about the previous day’s video regarding my concern about those new Community Guidelines. This commenter seems to believe that I am not important enough to be worried about, which hurt my feelings and so I felt the need to respond with thinly veiled contempt in a way that felt totally satisfying and productive. Thank you to HockeyMomof3 for giving me the chance to put you in your place. It was fun.
On Day 239 I announce that the TikTok ban that we have been wondering about for nearly a year is now not going to happen, which seems as good a time as any to express my gratitude for every viewer and every listener and to reiterate that the point of this exercise is to spend less time learning about the lives of the people who do us no good and spend more time living with and learning from the ones we love. Stay tuned to find out what this has to do with Arnold circa 1974.
Day 240 is another opportunity for me to remind myself that the internet is not real life, as we come off a week of scary political violence followed by attempts to stifle free speech, it bears repeating that there are radicalized people among us who are not so rad. They are radicalized, but these people are few, and we are unlikely to ever actually encounter them. I am reminded of Jim Carrey in The Truman Show and how he at least got to live his delusional life in an ideal environment.
On Day 241, we discuss the Hamburglar, or more specifically, the word hamburger, which is now not allowed to be said in North Korea. Isn’t that nice? This leads to talking about why, as human beings, we allow other human beings to have control over what we think, what we say, and what we do. How is it possible that we tolerate this? I first got these ideas when I was in first grade, and I still have them now.
On Day 242, I discuss how I have never watched Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon or any late night host after David Letterman went off the air. This is, of course, related to the continued attempts by the Trump administration to choke free speech. For now, I suggest following my advice and checking out the Letterman clip from the 80s that I discussed on this day. There’s nothing that the leader of the Trump administration can do about the cooking oil content I reference.
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Hi. It’s Josh.
A few days before the inauguration, I was thinking about how I wanted to deal with the next four years.
I was exhausted by the news!
But I wasn’t interested in going completely uninformed. I wanted to use the “opportunity,” as I had decided to optimistically look at this timeline, to become more mindful and better train my mind to take in the “news,” and then let it fall away from my conciousness.
Efficiently and totally. The other aspect of this thought was to then take the personal time I was reclaiming through this process and apply it to more creative endeavors.
This series, for example!
1461 Days of Ignoring The Trump Administration began. “Day 1” went viral on TikTok, so now I am in until 2029, right?!
If you are also someone aspiring to become the best version of yourself, please feel free to join me on this journey, which is sure to get weird around “Day 332,” “Day 877,” and “
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