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to say oh he's not looking into this context or something but that's just dumb. Now he seems smart in general because when he does his comedy it's very clever and so it suggests a high intellect. But do you really think the billionaires stole the money? Does he not know that Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't have any money if he hadn't created Facebook and created tens of thousands of jobs and a tool that'…
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Speaking of masculinity I forgot to brag so I don't want to lose that option today. I told you the story about Clay Travis was at some event. He was on stage and he made the point that the Democrats have a problem with the male vote because they don't have masculine role models. Now your first thought is it's not about the masculine role models. It's about policy right? If men are moving to the Republicans it's because they like the policies. But it turns out that with young men they're not much less liberal than they ever were. That hasn't really changed. So policy-wise young men still like Democrat policies. You know they're probably more pro-abortion than the average etc. But they're still moving Republican. So the policies actually are not what's driving young men to start to lean right and heavily lean right. It's probably the role model. And I think Clay Travis is completely on point.
That when he asked, he actually said this, who is the most masculine Democrat right now in America? Mayor Pete. Mayor Pete. Now immediately the Democrat Karen who was on stage said oh is that an anti-gay thing? To which I say why would you even say that? What kind of anti-gay question is that? Because if Clay Travis doesn't mention the gay part at all it's not part of it. It's just that Mayor Pete doesn't jump out as a super masculine character. Now there are plenty of masculine gay guys right? I don't need to name names but it has nothing to do with gay. There are plenty of masculine gay guys. Tons. He just isn't one of them. So they couldn't leave their frame. Their little frame is you're a sexist you're a racist. They just can't get out of it. They're so locked in it's all they can see. So Clay did a good job of saying has nothing to do with that. I mean do you look at him and say he's masculine? I mean he had a better argument than that.
But the reason I bring this up is that I wanted to remind you and maybe get a fact check. Around 2016 I started saying there seems to be two parties forming and it's going to be the woman party and the man party. Now doesn't mean there won't be both in each but the dominant policies and approach would be very female in the Democrat party and very male in the Republican party. And the Republican party would be masculine men and people who like masculine men. And Democrats would be mostly women and people who are happy to follow the lead of women. And that's exactly where we are. I couldn't think of a masculine Democrat. The closest I can get is Governor Newsom. At the very least he's tall, slick hair, heterosexual, looks like he goes to the gym. I would call him masculine wouldn't you? Is that fair? I would call him masculine. So but I think he's too degraded as a candidate. I don't think he has a chance of rising up. He's going to have some skeletons. I don't think he can make the move. But yes I would like to claim credit for seeing this trend years in advance.
So the reason I point it out is because I make predictions. It's a big part of what I do. If I get them wrong you should remind me to say it publicly which I'll be happy to do. If I get it right I'll probably remember to tell you. And it's all part of trying to figure out who's good at predicting. If I got it wrong I think I'd tell you but I got that one right.
All right people keep asking me what would be the best way to persuade a liberal to become a conservative or a Democrat to become a Republican or an anti-Trumper to be a pro-Trumper. And people always ask me that question and I a
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lways feel I don't have a good answer. Because on one hand I think you know maybe if I spent a lot of time with somebody I might be able to move him a little bit but I've never had that experience. I've never experienced changing anybody's mind like while I'm talking to him. I don't think words work. Words don't really talk anybody out of anything most of the time especially in politics when you'r…
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