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ever been. I don't know. 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…
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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 might be braver to the point of stupidity. Let me be clear here. I'm not saying men are awesome and high testosterone men are the best of all. There's no quality judgment happening here. I'm not trying to put anybody down. I'm only talking pure science. And if you Google it, which I did, you'll find that the higher your testosterone the less fear you have. That's just sort of what that drug does to you, right? You put a little more testosterone in, you get a little braver. It's one to one.
Now let me ask you this. Does the Democrat Party have high T men or low T men on average? Yeah, I feel like it is sort of low T men who want to be popular with women and they believe that women told them the truth that if they act sensitive they'll like them better. Do you know I believed that for like 20 years. That women have gaslighted me for almost 20 years when in my younger life because I got raised in the feminist era. So the feminists said, you know, to be a good male and not a piece of shit you should be in touch with your feminine side and you should be flexible and more and more like a woman. I mean you don't have to be a woman but just be more in touch with your feminine side and that would make you a person that people are really going to like. So yeah, in my younger days I thought, you know, if I give women everything they want I'm in. Just give them everything they asked for. Yeah, and it won't be easy but I'm the kind of guy who's willing to do the extra work. I don't care that it's hard to get there. Oh you tell me if the path is hard but there's a good reward at the end. I'll still take that path because I'm the kind of guy who will crawl through broken glass to get what I want. Which is true basically. I'm unstoppable if I really want something. But I was gaslighted so badly that I thought the way to crawl through broken glass was to give women what they asked for. Oh my God was I stupid. Oh my God. Like it took me years to figure out that was all a lie and none of that was like how people work. Like it was just completely off model for just anything. Just reality did not conform to any of that, right?
Your libido has ruled your life. Well of course it has. Am I supposed to apologize for that? If your libido ruled your life it might not have worked out well but I wouldn't apologize for it. That is literally how you were evolved. You evolved so your libido would take over your brain. I don't apologize for that. It's neither good nor bad. It's just how I evolved, right? I didn't have anything to do with the choices my ancestors made. Not my fault. I just got here the way I got here.
All right. What is the most predictive element? I asked you what's the most persuasion element. What's the most predictive thing in all the world? The most predictive thing. It never fails. Seriously. Yeah. Money. Follow the money works even when it shouldn't. Now the "even when it shouldn't" is the part that I'm adding to the conversation. You've all heard follow the money, blah blah blah, right? Follow the money is just so obvious there's nothing to say about it. It's just so obvious. But what I'm adding, and I'm adding this aggressively, is that follow the money works even when there's no reason it should. Like every part of your instinct says not this time. This time is not going to be about the money because we have all these other big issues. There's the fate of the world. It's honor. It's integrity. It's the fate of the democracy. These are all so big. It's not about the money this time. And then it's always about the money, right?
My understanding is that the Democrats spent better on close races. Is that confirmed? Can anybody confirm that from the reporting today? I saw one of the pundits say that. The Democrat, it was a Republican who said it. A Republican said that the Democrats spent better in the close races. So now you've got two factors that predicted the Democrats would do well. Factor one, fear is the biggest persuasion thing. But here's the next thing. All right, here's the next quiz. Which is more persuasive? I will give you something you want or I will take from you something you value. Which one forms action more? I'll give you something you asked for or I'll take from you something you value. Not even close. Not even close. If you're going to take something you've got to fight. You got to fight on your hands if you're taken, right? You don't take. We're not a species that evolved to give up stuff. You know we like stuff but there's lots of stuff we like and we're also used to not getting what we like, right? We're very used to not getting everything we like. But man if I've got something and you try to take it away from me suddenly it's the most important thing in my life. You're not taking my stuff.
So what did the Republicans say they would do for the Democrat women? They said they'd take away your rights. That's how they heard it, right? Because abortion. Now I'm not speaking for or against abortion so we're not talking about the policy. I'm only talking about the persuasion. Now a lot of people said that abortion was not why they were voting. A lot of people said like two or three percent said that's why they voted. But two or three percent was the margin on all the tight races, wasn't it? Two to three percent said abortion was why they voted. You know they were kind of single issue voters. Two to three percent is all it takes. That's the whole game. I mean you could easily make a story that abortion is the only thing that mattered. At the same time the news is saying the opposite. Th
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ey're saying that only two to three percent said it mattered so it didn't matter. Isn't that upside down? If two to three percent actually voted because of it that's the whole race. So I don't know. I mean I think that one's still a little bit gray but you gotta at least wonder if that mattered. All right. What is something else that the Republicans were going to take away from the Democrats? Wha…
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