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today, but I'm going to take it down to a more granular level. Granular level. Let's see if I can make this work. It's working. Everything's working. Oh, stop it. Take it down. There we go. That's better.

Well, The Federalist has an article saying that girls are way more conservative than they admit, and they have closeted conservative beliefs. Do you think that's true, that girls are more conservative than they admit? Gave some examples that even though 80% don't identify as conservative, 79% of women think that a stay-at-home mom is equal in success to a woman in a professional field. 74% like school choice. 71% oppose transgender surgeries. 68% plan to be married to have at least one child, blah blah blah blah, and don't like men competing in women's sports, as they say.

But here's my theory. I don't think any of those are conservative. None of those are conservative. Those are just sort of ordinary people issues, aren't they? I mean, to me it's just a preference whether you want to stay home or not. It doesn't really seem like it's some kind of conservative liberal thing. But you know what is definitely conservative or liberal? Abortion. And I didn't see it mentioned.

Here's what I think. I think that being a liberal just means being in favor of abortion. Nothing else. I think all the other stuff is common sense stuff that we pretend is some kind of political thing. I don't think the trans transitioning children — there's no way you can tell me that's a Democrat or Republican thing. That is purely an insanity versus a reasonable mind thing. Do you disagree? How in the world is that a political thing? It's not. But abortion is.

So to me the entire conversation of left versus right is just sort of abortion. There's not really anything else. And that would also explain why boys are less likely to conform and say that they're liberals or conform to liberal thought, because number one, they don't need to get abortions. So the number one reason to be a liberal doesn't apply, you know, unless they want to be allies and stuff, but it wouldn't apply as directly as it would for a woman.

But here's my other hypothesis. I believe that boys are rewarded for rebelling and girls are rewarded for conforming. So what I mean by that is the pure effect: if you're a girl, you don't want to be mocked for having a different opinion. If you're a boy, you don't want to be mocked for being a joiner. In other words, I think there's a premium for being rebellious if you're male. That other men recognize rebellion as a symbol of power and agency and freedom, and women might be a little more threatened by it. And I think there's probably perfectly good biological evolutionary reasons for all of that.

So I don't know if it's conservative beliefs that are closeted by the young women, or if the only thing that really matters is abortion. I think that's it.

All right, let's talk about all of our different government entities and see how they're doing. I'd like to start with a few states, if I may. We'll start with California. See how that's doing. According to Just the News, California is looking at a reparation bill on licensing. So there are a number of professions you

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need a license for, from manicurist to doctor. You need a license. And the idea is that the licensing requirements are racist because it's preventing Black people from getting these jobs. So I don't know if you've noticed, but my state is totally racist against me. Are you aware that California is the most racist state? Meaning that DEI is everything and reparations and equity are the thing. So b…

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