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COMEY: “But while our elderly makeup covered president is posting about whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he can’t stand her, what's she doing? Living her best life, producing great music, and, as she urged all of us to do during the podcast, not giving the jerks power over her mind. She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck with me. 'Think of your energy as if it’s expensive,' she said, 'as if it’s like a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it.' I really enjoy reading Arthur Brooks, who writes columns about happiness in The Atlantic. I don’t know if he’s a Swifty, but last week he wrote about research on the way that being rude or snarky actually hurts the rude person. As he wrote, 'When you become less polite, the alteration in your conduct can make you less happy, more depressed, and angrier about life. I know you get that even without the research. Just watch Fox News or hang around on X and you’ll see what he means. We can’t stop people from being jerks. What we can do is stop it from hurting us, from changing us. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut, 14 years ago this summer, she sang a song about this topic, asking 'Why you gotta be so mean?' And she spoke directly to the nasty people. 'I bet you got pushed around, somebody made you cold. But the cycle ends right now, because you can’t leave me down that road.' You’ll be glad I didn't sing that. That’s right. Because down that road is unhappiness. Nobody should have that power over us. Thank you, Taylor Swift. Keep the faith."