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news is talking about this so that high-profile celebrities like Oprah and Beyonce and all that doesn't seem to have changed the vote. According to I think The Center Square did some kind of survey. They found that twelve percent said celebrity endorsements made them less likely to vote for a candidate and nine percent said more likely. Now I think people are mostly lying in a poll like this. I th…

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Aragua according to authorities have already set up operations in sixteen states according to Homeland Security. They have to go first. That has to be really I would be happy if one hundred percent of our border enforcement was concentrated on this like all of it and I don't know how long it's going to take but I wouldn't concentrate on anything else not anything until you got all of these and that's going to take a while.

According to Autism Capital which is an account on X the difference in ideology between men and women is just huge now. The political difference and it's in a number of countries so it's not just an American phenomenon. It's the same in Germany and some other countries. So it used to be that male and female opinion sort of tracked together and now it just went in opposite directions.

Now I saw a few different hypotheses on why this was. Melissa Chen said on X that it's because of feminism and birth control pills. Now do birth control pills make you decide and act differently? I believe so so that might be some of it I don't know. Feminism does feminism make women do dumb things? Well it's a mixed bag. Some feminism is good some bad. Then Naval Ravikant had a separate idea. He said the state can substitute for what women want from men but it can't substitute for what men want from women and that captures some of it. Does it capture all of it? I don't know. So could be that these are both in it that there's something to both of those theories.

I'm going to add my own. What we see as this is the hypnotist frame. So the difference between male and female in politics is fear. Fear. Because I've told you that the biggest persuasive variable is fear. You think that hunger is your biggest driver? Well not if a lion is running at you. You got to get away from the lion even if you're really hungry right. So fear beats everything. If you can make somebody scared to death you can get them to do just about anything to get away from the fear.

So now imagine you've got the Democrat Party telling everybody that Hitler's coming and that you've got no bodily autonomy they're going to steal your democracy. What do men hear when they hear that he's Hitler he's a fascist he's going to steal your bodily autonomy? What do men say? Ah probably not. Some might say yes but it wouldn't feel like a direct risk to them so much. But women would say oh my God you know I'm going to lose birth control that's not going to happen. I'm going to lose my bodily autonomy

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that's not going to happen but you could be afraid of it. And they may be a little less. Here's a generalization I think this is a fair generalization. They're probably more men who pay attention to military stuff and can maybe interpret what's happening a little bit better because we just pay attention to it. It's sort of a male thing. So in the same way that I told you that the safest you've ev…

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