The 11% of people who missed the corruption memo #satire #shorts

3 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, TJ Walker riffs on a Gallup poll showing that 89% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread, highlighting the bipartisan consensus. He then turns his focus to the remaining 11% who remain skeptical, using exaggerated analogies—such as betting on the sun setting, interpreting dental X‑rays, and excusing a spouse’s infidelity—to mock their extreme open‑mindedness. Walker, speaking as a personal‑development coach, contrasts genuine optimism with the absurdity of denying evident corruption, likening it to putting a smiley‑face sticker over a smoke detector. The piece is a satirical critique of willful denial and the misuse of positive‑thinking rhetoric.

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Gallup has discovered something I thought was constitutionally impossible: Americans agree. 89% of Americans now believe corruption is widespread throughout our government. 91% of Democrats believe it, 90% of independents believe it, and 83% of Republicans believe it. Apparently, government corruption is now our most successful bipartisan program. But I don't want to focus on the 89%. They are boring. They read. I want to meet the other 11%. Who are these people? If you offered them 100-to-1 odds that the sun would set tonight, they'd say, hmm, I don't know, I like to keep an open mind. Their dentist points to 17 cavities and they say, that's one interpretation of the X-ray. You could catch their spouse in bed with the entire defensive line of the Miami Dolphins and they'd say, Let's not rush to judgment. Perhaps they're discussing zone coverage. Now, as a personal development coach, I admire optimism. I practice affirmations. I make vision boards. But refusing to see government corruption isn't positive thinking. It's putting a smiley face sticker over the smoke detector.