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on called Helen Andrews. And Helen Andrews was explaining that she's got a thesis that wokeness is really just a feminine pattern of behavior and that women like consensus, relationships, making everybody happy, and that she notices that whenever the number of women gets to a critical point in an organization, it flips to be woke.

She talks about law schools tipping majority female in 2016, the New York Times staff 55% female by 2018, and now managers are even 46% women. So the question is, is that a coincidence or a cause?

Well, here's what I think. I think women make it possible and introduce wokeness, but I think men also use it as a weapon. For example, I've often told you my stories of my corporate life where I wasn't allowed to be promoted because I was white and male. Do you think the women did that to me? No. The men weaponized the whole DEI thing and said, "Oh, I'm working as hard as I can to get more DEI, so I'm the good guy." But they weaponized it against people like me.

So if you were a white male and you were at the bottom of the totem pole, it was easy for the senior executives, who are also white males, to say, "There's nothing wrong with me. Look at all these women I'm hiring. Look at all these LGBTQ people I'm hiring." So women create wokeness and then men weaponize it.

If you look at the Democratic Party, you'll see that it became super woke at the same time it became essentially a woman's party. And then you notice t

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hat the people who weaponized it would be people like Biden and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and all that. Just in case you wondered, the Venezuelan narrative, as I'll call it, seems to be solidifying. Do you remember the first day or two of the Venezuelan event, I'll call it? People said, "Oh, it's about drugs." It's not about drugs. "It's about oil." It's not about oil. "It's about China."…

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