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, not to his credit, when he was 15 years old was one of the white men, or boys I guess, who blocked the North Little Rock High School in Arkansas 65 years ago, blocked it to prevent integration of the school. So basically he was an overt racist and he was participating in an overtly racist act that was not just overtly racist. It was one of the most famous things that's happened in the United Sta…
← Previous segment →my view, and this is my actual view. So this is not like weird sophistry. This is my actual view. That a life well lived is where you start very imperfect and you try to improve and that you do the best you can to improve over the arc of your life. And I would say we all started from a low place. You've got a picture of my starting place. The only thing I would defend is where I went. I'm not going to defend where I started. And I'm not going to ask you to defend where you started either. I will ask you to defend how you're doing. How are you doing? Are you improving? Did you learn anything? Are you the same person you were when you were 15? I hope not. But I'm not going to hate you for who you were when you were 15. I'm not going to apologize for it. I'm not going to explain it. I'm just going to say that was a different person, same as you were a different person when you were 15. We don't need to explain that person. We are supposed to be better than that person now. Am I? Well, I'll let you decide. But that's the only thing I'll defend, is who I am now. And that's the only standard I'll hold you to. See, this helps too, just to make sure that you're not a hypocrite. That's the standard I'd hold you to. I'm not going to blame you for anything you did when you were 15.
So it's interesting. And I do think this, I think the Jerry Jones story is more positive than negative because it shows the evolution of thought. It shows the evolution of America. You can see it in one person. And I have no reason to believe that he thinks the same as he did back then.
All right, so I've said long ago that the Democrats were really the party of women. But I'm seeing more people coming around to this point of view because it's so obvious at this point. And I saw a tweet by Jason Andrews. He says the Democrat Party is America's ex-wife. The Democrat Party is America's ex-wife. Have you ever heard a more perfect summary?
Now here's what I believe. Have I ever told you that everything is about procreation? Of course I have. Everything you do, the clothes you choose to put on in the morning, how much you eat, whether you exercise, the job you took, where you live, all of your decisions are based on your procreation instinct, right? Everything from sex to success to just everything. You know, it's all about procreation. Now you don't think of it that way because you're going through your life saying, oh I'm just rearranging my garage. But somehow it all ties back to them.
It makes sense that if there were ever two parties, see if you can follow me on this, I may be going too far, right? Yeah. Here's my overall thought. If ever there's a situation with two parties, the most predictable thing that would happen is that one of them would become the woman party and one would become the man party. And that whenever you have a civilization with two main parties, that's the most likely thing that will happen because our most basic instinct is procreation and the male and female strategies for procreation are different. So that should cause that. Now that's exactly what we see in my opinion.
The men who were part of the Democrat Party, some of it is just inertia. You know, your parents were Democrats, you're Democrat. But I think a lot of it is men with different reproduction strategies. The men in the Democrat Party believe their best chance of reproduction is to make women happy, which suggests that they'll eventually all become Republicans. I've got a theory that there's a certain amount of marriage that turns anybody into a Republican. Just a theory. I don't know how many years of marriage it takes to turn you into a Republican, but it happens, probably within five.
What is the reproduction strategy of Republican men versus Democrat men? I do believe the Democrat male strategy is to make women happy and then they'll have a name. And the Republican strategy is what? Act like men. Their strategy is to act like men and then see if that works out for them. It turns out it does because when they act like men they attract a certain kind of woman who wants somebody who acts like a man, right? Doesn't want somebody who agrees with them all the time. That's not exactly reproduction material there.
So in my opinion everything is explained by that. Now as was also pointed out, teachers unions are like three-quarters female. The people who are doing DEI and people who work in human resources and basically most of the groups that are active and really make a difference in the country, they're female-run. And so it really has become a male party versus a female party. Abortion being the clearest distinction. If you didn't know what the issue was, let's say you're an alien and somebody said, well you don't even know what abortion is, but we'll just tell you this. There's one group that says we want it, one group that says we don't want that. Is the group that says they want it most likely the ones who are going to have it? Yes, it makes sense that women would want options.
If I were a man, if I were a man, allegedly I'm male, if I were a man who could have a baby I would want abortion to be legal. Not because I wanted to have one but because I want more rights, not fewer. Every time you said, Scott, would you like more rights or fewer rights? Well I don't even know what the subject is but how about more? How about more rights? I'll always take more rights. Now if you're saying to me but Scott you would be killing children, I'd say no, no I didn't say I would get an abortion. I didn't say that I would encourage you to get one. I would say that every time you ask me do you want to have more options or fewer options I generally default to more options. And I think people in general do. People in general want more options, not fewer.
So it makes sense to me that the woman party, the Democrats, would move toward giving themselves more options. And it makes sense that the male-dominated party, Republicans, would be less likely to do that because to them it just looks like murder, right? So you don't want to give somebody the option of murder from their point of view. But you can sort of predict everything that's going to happen based on the mom and dad, male and fema
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le procreation model. Now how much, how seriously should you take this? Here's how seriously. Remember I told you there are only two things you can know. The first thing you can know is that you exist because you're noodling with the question of who you are. So there's something that exists. You just don't know what that is. The second thing that you can know is that it's your impression that som…
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