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spirits and make everything better. Maybe. We'll see. I don't know if you heard there was an election last night. I think Ben Shapiro summed it up best in a tweet as he was watching the results come in. He said, from red wave to red wedding. Now if you don't watch Game of Thrones that meant nothing to you. If you do watch Game of Thrones, pretty darn clever. The red wedding was a bloody massacre i…
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If you believe that facts are more important than feelings, how'd you do? How are the facts of how the country is doing? And if you believe the facts said, oh there's all this crime and inflation in the economy, if you thought the facts were going to tell you how the midterms would come out, how'd that go? Didn't work at all, did it? Completely non-predictive, right?
So what was predictive? Was there anything that people used to predict that was predictive? Well it turns out yes. Yes, it turns out that there was one frame for looking at this situation that was completely predictive. You're going to hate this. You're going to hate this. What demographic group caused the win for the Democrats? What demographic group caused the win? Not white women. Not white women. It's women. And it's not women, it's young women, right? So young women of all types who seem to be the dominant factor, right? Young women.
Have I ever told you what is the strongest form of persuasion? What's the fear? Yeah, there's nothing that persuades more than fear. Because fear you have to take care of first. It's like, oh well I don't need lunch if I'm going to be eaten by a lion. So first I'll run away from the lion and then I'll worry about lunch. Right now lunch is essential. I mean eating's essential but not as essential as surviving so you can eat. So fear is number one and there's nothing close.
Somebody said sex. I'll agree with you. Sex would be more persuasive than fear even. But it doesn't really enter into politics. But you're right. So that was actually a very insightful comment. Sex would actually be more persuasive than even fear. You see it yourself, right? People have sex even when it's risky. So yes, you're absolutely right. If sex had been part of the question, like sexual relations not gender, yeah it would have made a difference. But in politics it doesn't.
All right. So if fear is the most important persuasion factor, let me ask you this. What demographic group, based on science not bigotry, based on science not bigotry, what group is the most susceptible to fear? What group is easiest to scare? Yeah. And this is not a sexist comment. I had to go Google it because I didn't know and I just wondered if there was any difference. And you Google it and all of the top results say the same thing. Yeah, there's a big difference. The women's biology is such that they're easier to scare. They have more fear about things. Now that makes sense, doesn't it? You understand that. Like if I walk out in public, I've said this before and it's even a little bit irrational. I've never been afraid of a person. Isn't that weird? Now I've been afraid of, you know, a gun that the person had in their hands. Unfortunately I've looked down the barrel of a few guns. I've been afraid of that. But if it's just the person I'm not really afraid of somebody just because they're big, right? It's part of being male. Are there any men who are afraid of just being in public because there are men who are bigger or tougher looking? That never even enters my mind. Oh you are. You are. Now I'm not talking about going into a dangerous neighborhood. Of course you should be fearful of that. I'm talking about just you get on the bus and there's some big men on the bus. Would that scare you if you're not as big as them? If you're male that wouldn't scare me. I mean not even a little bit. But if you're a woman, do you have an actual risk? You do. Yeah, it's an actual risk. So it makes sense biologically. It's completely rational that those who are less able to inflict death on somebody would be more afraid of other people.
You know one of the benefits of being male is that we can kill anybody. Am I right? You could be bigger than me but I could definitely kill you, right? I might have to wait till you turn around. I might have to wait till you go to sleep but oh I could kill you. I could kill you, right? Every man could. Now women could kill you when you fall asleep too. It's just they're less likely to do it. By the way I saw a story in the news. It was a woman who found nude pictures on her boyfriend or husband, I think it was her husband, and found nude pictures of some young looking hot woman on his computer and she ended up stabbing him. She was so jealous she stabbed him and later she found out that the nude pictures on his computer were pictures of his wife when she was thinner. So that was probably awkward later in the evening when they sorted that all out. Talk about an awkward day. Wow. Anyway, so women can kill men too. It's just they need a reason. She didn't kill him though. She just stabbed him a few times.
So yes, it is scientifically true that young women who dominate the Democrat Party are easier to scare. Now, number one, since both sides are trying to scare their own side mostly, you're talking to your own team, right? So you've got one team dominated by older white men. Are older white men easier or harder to scare than the average person? Older, I'm not talking about elderly necessarily, I'm just older, mature, older. They're pretty hard to scare, right? Yeah, we're pretty hard to scare. I'm in that group. We're pretty hard to scare. Like actual scare. You know we'll be concerned about things like anybody
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would but it's kind of hard to scare us. And irrationally so. That is a built-in advantage. All right. Now I'm going to go one level further. Who is easier to scare, a man with high testosterone or low? And this is not bigotry. This is science. This is only what science will support. There's no speculation involved here. Yeah. Low T people are easier to scare. High T people are braver. Now they m…
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