Based Camp - November 04, 2024


70%+ Single Women Are Voting for Kamala： Are Dems Manufacturing Single Women？


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

177.82487

Word Count

8,697

Sentence Count

673

Misogynist Sentences

105

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

The number of single women in the U.S. has increased 55% since 2000, and is on track to reach 43 million by 2023. Why do so many single women vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Over 70% of single women identify as Democrat compared to only 45% of married women.
00:00:06.140 The number of single women in the U.S. has increased 55% since 2000.
00:00:10.660 Whoa, whoa, hold on.
00:00:13.020 Okay.
00:00:13.860 Reaching 43 million in 2023.
00:00:16.240 That is, that is huge.
00:00:20.000 Women in society, historically, they would rely on a partner to help care for them and to help care for their kids.
00:00:27.420 Oh, and now it's the state.
00:00:28.660 Yeah, and when you disintermediate the family unit, you can use the state both to decrease the BATNA of a woman to not have a partner, while also acting as the caregiver.
00:00:38.940 Like, these women are sort of like nuns to the state.
00:00:41.280 They're basically married to the state.
00:00:43.860 Wow, yeah, that's a great way of putting it.
00:00:46.800 Nuns to the state, that is.
00:00:48.600 And I'd also note that this trend could explain, for example, why Black females overwhelmingly vote Democrat so much.
00:00:54.980 Because when you look at the number of single women, 47% of Black adults are single compared to 28% of not-white adults and 27% of Hispanic adults.
00:01:04.460 I wish we could see information on the extent to which single women are getting government services.
00:01:11.560 The number was larger than I thought.
00:01:13.700 90% of welfare recipients are single women.
00:01:16.460 Would you like to know more?
00:01:17.520 Hello, Simone.
00:01:18.640 I am excited to be here with you today.
00:01:21.980 Today, we are going to be talking about why single cat ladies are overwhelmingly voting for Kamala Harris.
00:01:29.680 But they're not all cat ladies, are they?
00:01:31.920 She'll become a crazy cat lady!
00:01:34.020 She only has one cat.
00:01:35.660 Give her time.
00:01:36.680 I think it is easy to underestimate, one, how heavily Kamala is leading with single women.
00:01:44.600 And two, how much Democrats have worked to increase the number of single women and how much that number has increased over the last few election cycles to give them better margins towards victory.
00:01:56.860 Wait, just with single women?
00:01:58.340 So even now, more single women than before are voting for Democrats?
00:02:02.500 No, no, no, no.
00:02:03.580 They have created new single women.
00:02:05.440 People are worried about them shipping in voters.
00:02:10.200 They are creating a demographic of voters by making a portion of women intolerable to date.
00:02:16.900 Smart.
00:02:18.220 It's very smart.
00:02:19.780 So we'll go over this whole thing.
00:02:21.180 Single women are actually the only major demographic where Kamala and Democrats are still actually winning, which is what's really interesting.
00:02:28.040 If you look at it.
00:02:28.860 Yeah, it's wild now.
00:02:30.220 So this whole turning immigrants into leftist voters conspiracy theory has nothing on the single women conspiracy theory.
00:02:37.600 No, no, no.
00:02:37.860 I mean, if you look at married men, if you look at unmarried men, if you look at single women, if you look at married women, the only category where Kamala wins is single women.
00:02:46.980 Wow.
00:02:48.780 So let's go into this.
00:02:51.600 Now, obviously, a lot of this was started with J.D. Vance's cat lady comment, which is why I joked on that to begin with.
00:02:59.400 Specifically, he said, a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives want to make the rest of the country miserable too.
00:03:07.860 And a lot of people took that really negatively because a lot of women framed that as personal attacks against themselves.
00:03:17.480 They call her the cat lady.
00:03:19.420 People say she's crazy just because she has a few dozen cats.
00:03:23.600 But can anyone who loves animals that much really be crazy?
00:03:26.800 Whereas I understand his sentiment here.
00:03:35.760 Obviously, what he means by this is if you don't have a personal stake in the future of the country, you are going to make decisions which don't consider the future of the country, which is something we've repeatedly seen about the exploding amount of debt, the way people are handling things like Social Security and obviously unsustainable manners.
00:03:53.500 Nothing about the way the government is run right now, and I'd say both parties are to blame for this to an extent, has the long-term future of the country in mind anymore.
00:04:03.540 Yes, the government is excessively short-termist.
00:04:06.200 But I thought it was also interesting how, like, Democrat mainstays reacted to J.D. Vance's comment.
00:04:13.440 Specifically, Taylor Swift attempted to flip the language on the head, signing off her endorsement of Kamala Harris with, quote-unquote, childless cat lady.
00:04:23.500 Besides a photo of Swift and her cat, her cat's name is Benjamin Button.
00:04:28.160 Megan Cain said in a social media post that the comment displayed an, quote, insensitivity and cruelty to women, and then, quote, would you say that that comment was in any way cruel to women, or?
00:04:40.580 No.
00:04:40.980 I mean, the cruelty is to women, and we'll do a whole other episode on this, who use cats to masturbate their parenting instinct.
00:04:48.780 When I say masturbate, I mean that in a very literal sense, in the same way that sex is designed to attempt to get us to procreate and rear the next generation.
00:04:57.980 Women also have these instincts that are designed to want babies, so that they want the next generation.
00:05:03.160 And they masturbate these instincts through, instead of childbirth, caring for small pets, which satiates them enough that they do not, I mean, satiates them temporarily.
00:05:14.540 We all know that's why they keep getting more, because that's the way this works, is you think that you have satiated this instinct, but you haven't.
00:05:24.280 So you get more and more and more until you've got 20 cats and you're sat in the water and fall asleep to the sound of your own screen.
00:05:28.680 I want to be a lawyer and a doctor, because a woman can do anything.
00:05:33.760 At 24, Eleanor had graduated from Harvard Medical and Yale Law.
00:05:38.560 I'm a little burnt out, so sometimes, don't shoot me, I have a glass of wine with Buster here.
00:05:45.800 He's a real comfort. I might even get a second cat.
00:05:53.060 Any thoughts before I go further, Simone?
00:05:54.820 It is insulting to insinuate that all childless women are miserable with their lives, because not all are.
00:06:03.180 I don't think Taylor Swift is miserable.
00:06:05.780 I'm guessing that Simone made this assumption, thinking that if she was as wealthy and famous and respected as Taylor Swift, that she would not be unhappy.
00:06:13.660 But if you actually look at Taylor Swift's songs first, many of them are pining after having a guy who loves and cares for her, which she doesn't.
00:06:21.080 And that's part of what her sadness comes from.
00:06:24.220 But also, you can look at her songs that specifically talk about it, like the song Antihero, which has the lines,
00:06:30.080 When My Depression Works a Graveyard Shift, talking about, well, being depressed.
00:06:34.500 And she, in the song Labyrinth, talks about how her breakups trigger depressive episodes.
00:06:40.960 And if you look at public statements in interviews like Miss Americana, the 2020 Netflix documentary, she alludes to fame making her fundamentally unhappy, which it doesn't need to.
00:06:52.840 I mean, Simone and I have gathered a great deal of fame.
00:06:55.320 Just today, another article in The Guardian came out about us, and I guess it's presumably attacking us, but they also published a slide deck we did on how to make new forms of government, which got me really excited.
00:07:06.580 And I guess you can choose how you react to the things around you, and single cat ladies choose to react to it in self-indulgent ways, like Taylor Swift does.
00:07:15.080 For example, I don't think some of our friends who are childless and cat owners are miserable.
00:07:20.080 But, in general, if I were childless and I owned cats, I wouldn't be hurt by this.
00:07:27.300 It's a joke.
00:07:28.720 Yeah.
00:07:29.460 Well, I mean, I think it also shows sort of a victim culture on the left of, like, you know, he made fun of childless cat ladies, therefore.
00:07:36.720 Although, you know.
00:07:37.860 They call parents breeders.
00:07:40.080 I mean, just whatever.
00:07:41.540 If you have a huge amount of cognitive, yeah, I've never taken offense to that, but, like, it's, like, it's an attempt to dehumanize your opponents, and I get that.
00:07:49.960 But, like, childless cat ladies is a bit different.
00:07:51.920 It's not, like, really dehumanization.
00:07:54.120 It's characterization along a stereotype.
00:07:56.340 Oh, it's not dehumanization because he talks about how they're miserable with their lives, which I think many of them would argue is important because mental health is a major interest, also, of many single cat ladies.
00:08:07.800 So, I think many of them would tell their therapists that they're miserable with their lives.
00:08:12.380 It's not an inaccurate characterization, even.
00:08:16.420 Yeah.
00:08:16.860 All right.
00:08:17.360 So, let's go over the stats.
00:08:19.360 Single women now make up 25% of the electorate.
00:08:22.840 In recent polls, Harris was leading among single women by nearly 40 points.
00:08:27.300 Over 70% of single women identify as Democrat or lean Democrat, compared to only 45% of married women.
00:08:35.760 To what extent do you think this is because they just identify with her, a fellow, biologically childless career woman?
00:08:44.320 This was, to large extent, true when Biden was running, so it's not.
00:08:47.940 Oh, okay.
00:08:49.120 It's gotten more extreme recently, but, no, Democrats have always disproportionately appealed to the single vote.
00:08:55.060 I really want to highlight this, because I think it's a critical thing to note.
00:08:59.560 45%, only 45% of married women support Democrats.
00:09:04.080 70% of single women do.
00:09:07.660 That's, yeah, that's something.
00:09:09.140 And you could say, well, maybe it's the Democrats don't get married, but actually, you typically see a change in women after they get married.
00:09:14.400 And this brings me to something that you brought up earlier that I thought was really powerful,
00:09:18.500 is that a lot of older people are like, oh, well, my daughter is young, and so she's still a Democrat, but when she gets older, she'll become a Republican.
00:09:26.560 And you were pointing out, no, she won't.
00:09:29.880 Like, that used to be the case, but your daughter isn't married.
00:09:33.680 And it's like, when did you become a Republican, you know, to the women who say this?
00:09:37.000 And it's like, well, after I got married, and it's like, yeah, well, your daughter isn't getting married and has no ability to get married right now,
00:09:44.620 given the way that she views the world and the way she views the opposite gender.
00:09:47.620 Well, and even just given the way that relationship markets work, there are so many single women we know who want to be married
00:09:54.200 and just can't be married because they're high-achieving women, and it's very, very difficult for them to find uncoupled,
00:10:01.760 non-completely weird and ruined in some way, single men who are higher-achieving than them.
00:10:09.620 Yeah, a hypothesis question, Simone.
00:10:11.740 Why do you believe that when women get married, they become more Republican?
00:10:17.480 I mean, you did.
00:10:18.120 To a great extent, you allowed me to understand that I was permitted to have non-hyper-progressive beliefs,
00:10:28.540 and I did basically grow up in a cultural cult where I just thought that there were certain things you weren't allowed to think or believe.
00:10:36.140 So basically, you're saying it's communalism.
00:10:39.260 It could be that, and I think there's also some element of when you become very close with your partner,
00:10:44.380 you start to identify with them and see the world through them.
00:10:47.000 And I think that seeing, especially in this modern environment, seeing the world through a man's eyes
00:10:51.840 can cause you to become pretty black-pilled to progressivism in general.
00:10:57.420 Yeah, well, I think that the movement, and I think this is probably the bigger thing,
00:11:02.180 is that typically when people are married, they begin to see themselves as a combined identity.
00:11:06.580 And also, many of these women, once they're married, have sons.
00:11:09.020 And I think when you see how genuinely cruel and sadistic the existing urban monoculture of Progressive Party is to men,
00:11:17.160 and how much it dehumanizes men, as we pointed out in our bears video, right?
00:11:21.980 Where, if you said this about any other group, when women were like,
00:11:24.680 oh my god, like, I'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a man,
00:11:28.520 and I then put into it, like, a black man.
00:11:31.560 I'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a random black man.
00:11:34.160 And you're like, oh my god, that is super racist.
00:11:36.340 Like, how could you, you know, black.
00:11:38.880 Man is scary.
00:11:40.120 Um, with a bear.
00:11:41.920 What I've heard about bears, they don't always attack you, right?
00:11:44.680 So maybe a bear.
00:11:46.460 Probably a bear.
00:11:48.180 100% a bear, which is, like, terrifying to say, but definitely a bear.
00:11:52.740 Some black men are very scary out there.
00:11:55.300 A bear.
00:11:55.700 Even some men are saying bear, although we could predict that this man's opinion will be whatever makes women approve of him.
00:12:02.760 If I were alone in the woods, would you rather me encounter a bear or a black man?
00:12:08.960 I feel more like bear.
00:12:11.380 I don't know, because I feel like I would know what the outcome would be with a bear.
00:12:14.840 But the things that you're saying, you're like, oh my god, this is an incredible level of prejudice
00:12:20.280 that if it was under any other guise, you would see it.
00:12:24.360 And I think that women, until they identify seriously with a man to some extent,
00:12:28.340 they don't see how anti-male and how bigoted the mainstream progressive forces are.
00:12:34.720 And I think that once they have a son or something like that, they wake up and they're like,
00:12:37.500 oh my god, like, all his real opportunities in life are taken away.
00:12:40.160 He's going to have trouble, you know, getting a job.
00:12:42.080 He's going to have trouble.
00:12:43.100 And it's just a lot easier to dehumanize men in general when you don't relate to them much at all in life.
00:12:49.360 No, I think you're absolutely right about this.
00:12:51.260 And I think it's also that when people get married, they form a combined identity to an extent.
00:12:56.820 And they stop, for example, for me, I don't identify as my own gender that much anymore.
00:13:01.000 And I think that this is actually really similar to, you know, if you go back to, let's say,
00:13:06.040 the 60s or 70s, where sometimes men would get married and then they'd be like,
00:13:11.500 now I see how harshly our society has been treating women.
00:13:14.900 And they become more interested in women's issues.
00:13:17.200 I think we're seeing the opposite now because I think anyone who is actually neutral on this
00:13:20.940 sees that overwhelmingly our society is anti-male at this point.
00:13:24.740 Yes.
00:13:26.100 So I'm going to go further with stats here.
00:13:28.400 The number of single women in the U.S. has increased 55% since 2000.
00:13:33.000 Whoa.
00:13:33.960 Whoa.
00:13:34.400 Hold on.
00:13:35.160 Okay.
00:13:36.040 Reaching 43 million in 2023.
00:13:37.480 That is, that is huge.
00:13:42.080 But I guess that's just another angle of all the dismal dating and sex stats we've seen.
00:13:48.220 Well, I mean, the 55% growth that they've, that they've, you know, grown by more than half
00:13:54.060 since 2000.
00:13:55.180 I don't think, I think something that we can forget is that in the same way the left might
00:14:00.260 be motivated for immigrants to come into specific districts to vote, they would be even more
00:14:05.840 motivated.
00:14:06.300 So to, to be clear among single women, they get a larger share of the vote than they do
00:14:12.640 among recent immigrants, like first generation immigrants, they do better off to break women
00:14:18.860 up.
00:14:19.100 And I will note single men also vote more democratically, which we'll get to in a second.
00:14:22.420 Well, you know what?
00:14:23.340 This makes a lot of sense to me too, because in general, when it comes to government handouts,
00:14:28.620 which typically come to be more supported or, or more widespread under democratic leadership,
00:14:36.960 women are the biggest beneficiaries by far.
00:14:41.180 Single women, especially.
00:14:42.880 They're the ones who get the most in terms of food stamps and payouts and services and
00:14:47.160 healthcare.
00:14:47.600 When you look at what social services are provided on a state or federal level.
00:14:53.320 So that also kind of makes sense because in terms of like even more than immigrants, it's
00:14:56.500 single women who get the most.
00:14:58.880 Well, one theory that I have heard banted about is that women in society, historically, they
00:15:05.620 would rely on a partner to help care for them and to help care for their kids.
00:15:09.680 Oh, and now it's the state.
00:15:11.660 Yeah.
00:15:11.860 And when you disintermediate the family unit, you can use the state both to make it lower
00:15:16.400 costs, like decrease the BATNA of a woman to not have a partner while also acting as
00:15:23.080 the caregiver.
00:15:23.900 Like these women are sort of like nuns to the state.
00:15:26.260 They're basically married to the state.
00:15:28.840 Wow.
00:15:29.760 Yeah.
00:15:30.140 That's a great way of putting it.
00:15:31.820 Nuns to the state.
00:15:33.060 That is.
00:15:33.620 And I, and I'd also note that this trend could explain, for example, why black females overwhelmingly
00:15:38.820 vote Democrats so much, because when you look at the number of single women, 47% of black
00:15:43.600 adults are single compared to 28% of not white adults and 27% of Hispanic adults.
00:15:49.360 And here I would know if you're talking about like, oh, you know, born out of wedlock and
00:15:53.240 everything like that, Hispanics have a higher marriage rate than whites.
00:15:56.720 If you're like, yeah, well, it's a more conservative culture, especially when it comes to things
00:16:01.820 like marriage and having kids.
00:16:03.400 I wouldn't just say more because they have stronger family units right now.
00:16:06.420 Sure.
00:16:07.060 Yeah.
00:16:07.340 That too.
00:16:07.680 So another fun thing you can see, I think part of this is progressivism has made women
00:16:16.900 undateable and unmarriable, like the modern iteration of it.
00:16:20.920 You know, if you watch that video about like the woman who is in the Star Wars show twerking
00:16:25.620 about how oppressed she is, like who, like who would want to marry that as we've talked
00:16:30.140 about in our video about black men and how hard it is for them to find partners.
00:16:33.200 This is a zombification of black culture video where they used to be an even more conservative
00:16:39.180 culture than white culture in terms of like family values where they had half the number
00:16:43.880 of children born out of wedlock as white culture.
00:16:45.600 And this was as recently as the sixties, but now obviously it's astronomically more.
00:16:50.420 But if we talk about like, where is this degradation coming from?
00:16:52.880 And we'll get some like, actually in this episode, some better understanding of how they corrupted
00:16:56.660 black culture, which I think is really interesting.
00:16:58.140 But the number of women in gender studies degrees has increased 300% since the 1990s.
00:17:05.320 Oh, who needs that?
00:17:07.620 Where is the demand for this?
00:17:09.700 Where is the gender studies degree?
00:17:11.940 Do they go to the gender studies factory to produce gender studies?
00:17:15.680 Well, here's the thing.
00:17:16.920 I imagine, no, they go work for these bureaucracies, which hire them to like be the thought police
00:17:22.260 at companies.
00:17:23.160 And that's literally what they're getting a degree in is thought policing.
00:17:26.080 Oh boy.
00:17:28.760 And a lot of companies, as we pointed out, the way companies end up going woke is they
00:17:32.660 are like, okay, we need to put a few token, whatever's in our company.
00:17:36.140 Let's put them somewhere where they don't need to actually do anything so they can't damage
00:17:39.120 stuff.
00:17:39.640 And then they put them in HR and then they end up filtering for everyone else.
00:17:44.060 And they end up corrupting the entire company super quickly.
00:17:46.980 And this has been a repeated phenomenon in companies.
00:17:49.300 And if you're going to clean up a company, you have to start with HR.
00:17:52.320 HR could be completely unwoked.
00:17:54.480 Anyone, anyone who's there other than on merit needs to be removed.
00:17:58.600 And this is measurable merit in terms of who they're hiring, the output those people are
00:18:02.280 showing, et cetera.
00:18:03.620 Now, in an analysis last year from Pew Research Center found that one quarter of all 40 year
00:18:09.600 olds in 2021 had never been married.
00:18:12.100 All right.
00:18:12.340 Single women.
00:18:13.120 So let's talk about single women of the demographic.
00:18:14.940 Single women are older, more educated, and more financially independent than they were
00:18:20.120 a generation earlier, and they are more motivated to vote.
00:18:23.180 In 2000, 48% of single women reported voting.
00:18:26.520 In 2020, that jumped to 61%.
00:18:29.060 According to the data firm Catalyst, single women now make up one quarter of the electorate.
00:18:34.320 Single men, on the other hand, make up only 19%.
00:18:36.900 So single men vote at dramatically lower rates than single women.
00:18:39.860 So not only are there more single women, but they're voting at a higher rate.
00:18:42.980 48% in 2000 to 61% in 2020.
00:18:47.460 Wow.
00:18:49.160 And here I'm going to put on the screen a graph here that shows this over time.
00:18:53.200 So you can see the proportion of eligible single women and single male voters who showed up.
00:18:59.420 Oh, so civic engagement for single women is going up.
00:19:03.320 Yes.
00:19:04.580 I wish we could see information on, I don't know how I would measure this, the extent to
00:19:11.440 which single women in the U.S. are also getting government services, like, or benefiting.
00:19:17.280 I'll look it up in post.
00:19:18.300 The number was larger than I thought.
00:19:20.460 90% of welfare recipients are single women.
00:19:23.120 That's an interesting thing.
00:19:24.120 And I'd also point out here that I think that this partially, when you think about these
00:19:27.620 women, is fundamentally being married to the state.
00:19:30.540 This one explains the increase in civil engagement, but it also explains the freak out when somebody
00:19:34.680 like Trump is elected.
00:19:37.160 Yes.
00:19:38.080 Yeah.
00:19:38.340 To them, now the thing that was, like, their source of, like, care and, like, their essentially
00:19:43.700 partner.
00:19:44.620 Has become hostile.
00:19:46.400 Yeah.
00:19:46.760 With something that they see as fundamentally hostile to them.
00:19:50.540 That's fascinating.
00:19:52.100 Now, here's a really interesting poll that I'll go over, but also put on the screen here.
00:19:57.640 When Harris took over the ticket, her support among single women swelled.
00:20:01.000 In June, before she became the Democratic nominee, less than half of single women in a YouGov poll
00:20:06.180 reported a favorable impression of her.
00:20:08.460 By September, this jumped to nearly two-thirds.
00:20:11.320 And her support is growing.
00:20:12.700 A recent Ipsos survey found Harris leading among single women voters by nearly 40 points.
00:20:17.600 So she went from less than half supporting her to 70% supporting her.
00:20:23.340 Gotta thank Charlie SDX for at least 30% of that shift, I would say.
00:20:28.420 Like, she was made cool.
00:20:32.420 The Brat Summer one?
00:20:34.000 Yeah.
00:20:36.020 Maybe.
00:20:37.420 I mean, single women are very vibes-based voters.
00:20:40.220 You know, they are not exactly...
00:20:44.080 Here is another interesting stat that was shown here.
00:20:47.720 Among married women, only...
00:20:49.960 So remember, less than half, 45% of single women supported Kamala when she...
00:20:53.700 Before she was on the ticket.
00:20:54.620 35% of married women had a favorable impression of her.
00:20:58.320 So very low.
00:20:59.620 And then at the peak of married women having a favorable opinion of her, that was August.
00:21:04.260 And it was still well below 40%.
00:21:05.800 Wow.
00:21:07.120 Okay, that's very interesting.
00:21:08.320 So suddenly, single women started really identifying with Kamala, and yet married women...
00:21:14.820 Well, and with married women, it's now since August into September, it's gone down again.
00:21:18.660 Wow.
00:21:19.060 So she only has, you know, hovering around maybe like 36%, 37% compared to what was around 34% before she was running.
00:21:27.860 So this whole Kamala remediation campaign to, like, remediate her public image, it seems to have been incredibly effective among single women, basically fizzled among married women.
00:21:38.640 Their impression of her now is not that different than their impression of her before she ran.
00:21:42.160 Which I find really fascinating.
00:21:47.180 Yes.
00:21:47.960 Wow.
00:21:48.400 There's definitely something there.
00:21:50.620 I need to think more about what that could be.
00:21:55.060 Because also, the funny thing is, Kamala is married.
00:21:58.520 Kamala has stepchildren.
00:22:00.500 It's not like she should be some single woman icon.
00:22:03.080 But definitely, the Brat Summer Association is more of an unhinged, messy, single woman mood.
00:22:16.060 And single women certainly appreciate more the sorts of government handouts and services that I think...
00:22:25.080 Well, I also think that they're more likely to vote with the crowd because they feel less protected than married women.
00:22:30.960 I think the communalist instinct in women might be louder when they feel that they don't have a caregiver.
00:22:37.580 Because in those instances, they're more...
00:22:39.480 Or there is not another very, very strong, attenuating influence in their lives that might temper their thoughts on things.
00:22:49.900 So when they see something in the news or media or someone they admire say something, there isn't some partner or friend next to them being like, I don't know, like poking holes in the arguments, essentially.
00:23:01.000 Yeah.
00:23:02.460 All right.
00:23:03.540 Well, here is another poll.
00:23:05.360 Single women overwhelmingly support Kamala Harris.
00:23:07.400 And this is showing Trump-Harris refused.
00:23:11.080 So when you have married women, it's 46 to 46 in this particular poll.
00:23:14.760 So exactly equal.
00:23:16.280 Married men, it's 55% Trump to 42% Kamala.
00:23:20.100 Never married women, it is 65% Harris, 28% Trump.
00:23:26.980 And in this particular poll, never married men actually support Harris more than Trump, 51% to 41%.
00:23:32.720 But I've seen the opposite in other polls.
00:23:34.700 So this is fascinating.
00:23:37.780 So Democrats hugely benefit from breaking up marriages.
00:23:42.020 Hugely.
00:23:45.540 Now, we're going to talk about some other interesting things here.
00:23:49.440 So in a Gallup 2020 survey, 21% of single women said they could not support a candidate who did not share their views on abortion.
00:23:57.100 This year, that jumped to 35%.
00:23:59.440 The General Social Survey has found that Americans across the board have become increasingly supportive of access to abortion in any circumstance.
00:24:06.280 But the shift among single women has been especially dramatic.
00:24:09.140 In its 2022 survey, two-thirds of single women said that abortion should be available for any reason.
00:24:15.540 A view held by less than half of single women a decade earlier.
00:24:19.420 So our country is becoming more pro-abortion.
00:24:22.920 And I think that this is one of those things where you have not seen this same insane rise in Europe.
00:24:28.840 And I think that a lot of this is downstream, as we've talked about in other episodes, of the view that life begins at conception, which, by the way, is not a biblical view.
00:24:36.860 The Bible very clearly says life begins before conception.
00:24:39.640 It's something that the Catholic Church made up about 200 years ago with Pope Pius IX and then was chosen by the Republican Party.
00:24:47.180 The Republican Party used to be actually the pro-choice party in the 70s.
00:24:50.540 The Republican National Convention, they were more pro-choice than anti-choice.
00:24:53.240 But they choose to accept it to try to bring Catholics over, and it didn't even work.
00:24:57.040 Catholics still vote overwhelmingly Democrats.
00:24:58.960 So I don't know why we keep it as a position.
00:25:01.700 It's not a Protestant position.
00:25:03.300 It's not a Christian position.
00:25:04.360 It's not a – it's one that the pope who did the great castration came up with.
00:25:09.100 You know, there being all the –
00:25:09.780 I don't know.
00:25:10.200 I get the impression that many American Protestants are anti-abortion now, mostly because the Republican Party went anti-abortion.
00:25:18.140 Yeah, I see that.
00:25:19.440 Like, they are unaware.
00:25:20.420 Like, they think it's a Christian thing or, like, an ancient Catholic thing, and it's, like, not.
00:25:25.040 Like, as we point out, St. Augustus didn't think this.
00:25:27.520 Thomas Aquinas didn't think this.
00:25:28.700 Like, no great Catholic thinker in history have thought this.
00:25:31.400 Yeah.
00:25:32.160 I definitely get that because we've met quite a few Protestants who are very suspicious of abortion, even hormonal birth control.
00:25:41.420 Before a nervous system has developed, which to me is just – but it's ended up destroying, I think, the Republicans' ability to earn ground share on this.
00:25:49.080 And things are moving further and further in the opposite direction, which is leading to more and more abortions, which is, like, you're functionally – like, do you want to, like, win?
00:25:57.520 Do you want to lower the amount of abortions?
00:25:59.300 Or are you okay with – so that you can masturbate to this aesthetic view towards abortion, continue losing?
00:26:04.960 Yeah, this purest view of life begins exactly at conception instead of a more moderated view of, hey, you know, it looks like – you're looking at killing a human regardless.
00:26:18.480 But we see it as killing a human when you decide not to have kids.
00:26:21.940 So, you know, where you start is arbitrary.
00:26:23.740 I think when it really matters that you're killing a human is when you start killing a human that will feel pain as you kill them, and then you need to look at it very differently.
00:26:33.680 And that's it.
00:26:34.160 If we start looking at it at 12 to 15 weeks as, hey, let's put severe controls on this, so many abortions could be managed very differently.
00:26:43.420 We could probably have far fewer abortions, as you point out.
00:26:46.100 Well, and you pointed this out with people calling you.
00:26:48.780 Like, Republicans will call you and be like, I want you to have a, you know, life being in the conception stance.
00:26:52.300 And you're like, well, my stance would dramatically – one, it's more likely to pass.
00:26:55.640 Two, it would lower the number of abortions when contrasted with my – the person I'm running against.
00:27:01.240 So they're like, no, if you won't take this stance, I'm voting for your opponent.
00:27:04.540 Yeah, meaning that they're voting for roughly your abortions.
00:27:07.980 Yeah, it's just – I think that demonstrates how illogical and virtue signaling –
00:27:15.820 Oh, yeah, no, it's about virtue signaling for them.
00:27:17.540 They don't actually care about the children, or they would do what would help.
00:27:19.800 Apparently not, yeah, because if you did, you would be very focused on anything that gets you marginally closer to your preferences.
00:27:27.780 And even if your preferences are absolutely zero abortions ever, you would still want to vote for me, even though I only care about controls after week 12.
00:27:35.340 Now, I also know – and this is important to note around all this, when people are like, well, you know, Trump and his abortion.
00:27:42.180 Trump has said that if elected, he would veto a national abortion ban.
00:27:46.560 Mm-hmm.
00:27:47.520 Veto. Not support. He would veto one.
00:27:51.400 So, to go further here with stats, for most of the past two decades, women felt largely content with their treatment in the U.S.
00:27:59.040 That all changed after Trump's election and the hashtag MeToo movement.
00:28:03.020 Less than half of women in 2021's Gallup survey said they felt satisfied about the way they were treated in American society.
00:28:09.160 The historic low.
00:28:10.340 Single women were the least satisfied.
00:28:13.040 And I will –
00:28:13.540 Isn't that so funny that after supposed corrections to, you know, maltreatment against women, women started feeling worse when –
00:28:21.500 before when supposedly this mistreatment was happening unrecognized and unpunished, that women were happier?
00:28:30.180 Well, I mean, this is something you see across the board.
00:28:32.580 As women get rights, they become less happy.
00:28:34.820 I'll put a graph here that shows that in the mid-1970s, women were significantly more happy than men.
00:28:41.540 And that women's happiness went down, went down, went down over time as they got more right through the 80s, into the 90s.
00:28:49.480 And then by the early 90s, women net were unhappy with their lives.
00:28:54.060 I think this is largely what Phyllis Schlafly was famous for arguing, basically saying,
00:28:59.280 why are you making us work?
00:29:01.400 We don't want to work.
00:29:02.240 We have – we have a good cure.
00:29:03.540 Well, and now these women are – well, keep in mind, even in the 70s, the majority of women worked, Simone,
00:29:10.340 or when this trend started.
00:29:12.040 I don't think that that's what this is in relation to.
00:29:14.680 I think it's in relation to a vested interest among Democrats for women to be unhappy and feel like they are victims.
00:29:22.400 And I think –
00:29:23.200 Same thing they did with Black culture.
00:29:25.360 Yes.
00:29:25.660 And so you actually see here, you know, by the 2000s and mid-90s, women were net less happy with their lives than men,
00:29:33.880 and that's been persistent since then.
00:29:35.420 And it went up again dramatically, or I guess you should say down again dramatically, whizzed Me Too,
00:29:39.900 and it stayed down since then, where women, especially single women, just feel very disempowered,
00:29:44.340 even if it is functionally not true.
00:29:46.580 Right.
00:29:47.940 And here I want to talk about more recent statistics.
00:29:50.460 So one statistic I found really interesting was the anxiety – what was it?
00:29:55.700 U.S.-based mental health days for female and male differential, 1993 to 2021.
00:30:01.840 And you can just see it shooting up specifically after 2019.
00:30:07.000 After 2019, women's mental health absolutely explodes.
00:30:12.000 Hmm.
00:30:13.800 What do you think happened in 2019?
00:30:16.240 I think that this is when wokeism really began to take over mainstream culture,
00:30:22.620 and many women began to identify with, like – this is when the wokes basically won.
00:30:29.340 I mean, and I think that the Black Lives Matter thing was, like, the victory lap.
00:30:32.700 I think there's something more subtle, too.
00:30:35.820 I think this is when you saw much more pervasive use of remote therapy services,
00:30:42.920 both through programs like BetterHelp, but also – which is private pay,
00:30:50.100 and through health care – sorry, health insurance providers.
00:30:54.580 So you don't administer our family's health insurance.
00:30:57.000 You don't see this.
00:30:57.900 But starting in 2019, our health insurance provider started offering free mental health counseling
00:31:06.180 as part of its benefit.
00:31:08.080 And it's not just our mental health – it's not just our health insurance provider,
00:31:11.420 which is UnitedHealthcare.
00:31:13.000 Aetna, which I also was on for a period in 2020, did the same, or 2021.
00:31:19.020 And I had never seen that before.
00:31:21.180 And it was interesting to see that just as part of your default coverage,
00:31:26.100 that you'd be getting mental health services.
00:31:28.280 So I think another issue is that more people than ever were getting therapy.
00:31:32.380 And as we've discussed in countless other episodes, therapists who manage to stay in business
00:31:39.160 to a great extent are those which seem to help people magnify their problems and not
00:31:44.260 resolve them because, of course, those are the ones that keep recurring business and don't
00:31:47.600 lose their clients.
00:31:49.100 And I think that may have something to do with it as well.
00:31:51.240 I think we might be onto something here.
00:31:52.760 I think that these could be incredibly toxic because they help spread it.
00:31:55.360 It's an industry shift.
00:31:56.940 It's about this availability of a product that is quite toxic.
00:32:02.260 Well, we've also talked about the idea of therapists being the missionaries of the urban
00:32:06.620 monoculture.
00:32:07.540 That's true.
00:32:08.020 Yeah.
00:32:08.220 They are vectors that spread it.
00:32:09.560 So they go hand in hand.
00:32:10.820 Yeah.
00:32:11.040 So if you're a Catholic and you send, you go to your priest, right?
00:32:15.500 Whereas if you are dealing with something as a far progressive or urban monoculture devotee,
00:32:21.260 you go to your therapist and you go, oh, you know, I have, I have had this sinful thought.
00:32:26.120 How do I, you know, repeat whatever.
00:32:28.240 How do I indulge further is basically not how do, how do I repent?
00:32:32.000 How do I indulge even more in this sinful thought without feeling bad about it?
00:32:35.660 That's really what you go to a, you know, so many of these, when I see people go to their
00:32:39.720 therapist, they're like, I've done this horrible thing.
00:32:42.780 Can you help me not feel bad about it?
00:32:44.940 Yeah.
00:32:45.140 Or, or can you help me build a narrative about it that helps me identify with it personally?
00:32:49.220 Like this was something that happened to me when I was a child, I was traumatized.
00:32:54.380 Now I'm going to live my entire life as this hero's journey narrative, attempting to overcome
00:32:58.880 this great slight done to me as a child by my parents.
00:33:02.200 I disagree.
00:33:03.060 I think that this is put on them by the therapist because what they're really going to do these
00:33:06.540 mental health sessions for is for somebody to tell them it's not their fault.
00:33:12.200 Oh, forgive me, dearie, please.
00:33:15.340 It wasn't my fault.
00:33:20.280 Not your fault.
00:33:22.140 Tell me, Marius, how was it not your fault?
00:33:26.800 No, but that's what I'm saying is it is put on them by the therapist, but the therapist
00:33:30.180 is helping them weave a narrative that turns their mental problem into their identity.
00:33:34.080 Yeah, that's what I mean.
00:33:34.620 But they don't go to a therapist saying this horrible thing happened to me in childhood.
00:33:38.680 No, no, no.
00:33:39.080 The therapist makes that up.
00:33:40.400 The therapist is like, let's now talk about your childhood.
00:33:42.620 They go to the therapist and say, here's this horrible thing I did to my friends, or
00:33:47.220 here's this horrible thing I did to my kids, or here's this horrible thing I did to whoever.
00:33:51.680 Why is it not my fault?
00:33:53.560 You know, that is the role that therapists have taken on.
00:33:57.360 Instead of help me repent, I've done this horrible thing, which is very compelling to
00:34:03.880 convert into because it removes a lot of personal responsibility.
00:34:07.840 I'd also note here that, you know, we would be remiss to not point out that the possibility
00:34:14.580 of electing the first female president is important to 60% of single women voters.
00:34:18.580 What's interesting is it's not that important to married women voters.
00:34:21.960 Yeah, well, that makes sense because, again, as we discussed earlier, married women aren't
00:34:25.980 necessarily just defining themselves as me, woman, anymore.
00:34:31.180 It's me, family, at that point, or at least me and my husband.
00:34:34.640 Have we had a female vice president yet, I feel?
00:34:38.640 Oh, yeah, Kamala.
00:34:40.340 Oh, yes.
00:34:42.580 I guess I just don't think of her as a woman.
00:34:44.980 Like, that's one of the weird things about it.
00:34:47.280 She doesn't, like, really give feminine energy.
00:34:50.520 She gives more, like, mindless, bureaucratic drone energy.
00:34:55.000 I feel that way about most politicians, so I don't know.
00:35:00.180 Well, I mean, I don't think so.
00:35:01.080 Hale and Worley came off as feminine.
00:35:05.320 Who else?
00:35:05.780 What are other female?
00:35:06.820 Yeah, there are plenty of female candidates who come off as feminine, so never mind.
00:35:10.760 Yeah, I mean, even Hillary, she came off as pitchy and conniving, but she came off as feminine
00:35:17.000 nonetheless.
00:35:19.080 Yeah, she had mom energy.
00:35:21.200 She had mom energy.
00:35:21.920 Yeah.
00:35:22.360 And I'd say AOC comes off as pretty feminine.
00:35:26.080 Yeah.
00:35:26.580 I'd say most of the other, but Kamala just doesn't have an ounce of femininity in terms of her
00:35:31.460 energy, and I think it's because she-
00:35:33.620 I don't know, but the laugh, the smiling, the evasive answers all feel very feminine to me.
00:35:40.000 I love your relying on negative stereotypes of women to build this caricature.
00:35:46.060 Well, smiling is not negative.
00:35:48.920 Smiling and laughing is not negative.
00:35:50.740 It's joy.
00:35:52.380 Okay.
00:35:52.800 It was the one thing that got Kamala a huge surge in polling was this whole, just the first
00:35:59.660 attempt at just vibes and no substance, which was all joy and laughter and happiness.
00:36:06.280 Those are great attributes for her, and it certainly helped her.
00:36:09.440 It's the one thing that has helped her.
00:36:11.740 Yeah, well, it reminds me of Kamala's laugh at the ad that we've done, remember when you
00:36:17.900 could buy food, and it's Kamala laughing.
00:36:20.800 By the way, Simone, I was actually really confused by the Scott Alexander promotion of Kamala because
00:36:27.660 it looked genuine when I read it, and yet he cited David Duke supporting her and Chris
00:36:36.260 Curtis Yarvin.
00:36:37.180 When Curtis Yarvin was clearly doing it as a joke, and David Duke was obviously doing
00:36:40.780 it so other people wouldn't support her, like, I wonder if he was signaling that he meant
00:36:46.520 it as a joke?
00:36:48.380 I don't think so.
00:36:48.660 Because David Duke, he must know, David Duke isn't actually supporting Kamala.
00:36:53.160 He's doing it to try to taint her reputation.
00:36:56.120 I don't know.
00:36:57.380 I really don't know.
00:36:59.100 I don't know.
00:36:59.660 I think it was an earnest endorsement of Kamala Harris.
00:37:06.980 That's what I read it as.
00:37:07.580 Okay, I will cite the people who he cited.
00:37:09.600 Hold on really quickly.
00:37:11.020 Yeah, and Nick Fuentes he cited.
00:37:12.820 Yeah, no, he cited.
00:37:14.760 I think Nick Fuentes, I don't know if Nick Fuentes is earnestly endorsing Kamala.
00:37:20.500 I really don't know.
00:37:21.360 But while that paragraph was a little bit confusing, and maybe a little bit of a flippant
00:37:28.100 joke, I do think the rest of his arguments were very earnest.
00:37:33.680 So he said Richard Spencer, David Duke, Nick Fuentes, and Curtis Yarvin.
00:37:39.100 Now, I know Curtis Yarvin, because I was just talking with him two days ago about this,
00:37:43.120 was joking.
00:37:44.100 Sorry, we just got back from Hereticon and had a lot of fun with...
00:37:47.520 Curtis is actually a really fun guy.
00:37:49.060 I consider him a friend.
00:37:50.560 By the way, he's looking pretty fit these days.
00:37:53.020 He's looking very good, yeah.
00:37:54.380 Did you notice, like, he used to be bigger, right?
00:37:56.940 Like, it's not just me?
00:37:59.060 I'm not really good at remembering or noticing these things, but he looked great at Hereticon.
00:38:04.900 Yeah.
00:38:05.440 Yeah, it looked great.
00:38:06.520 But so Curtis Yarvin...
00:38:07.660 His son is so cute.
00:38:08.360 I don't know Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer.
00:38:09.900 I actually beef with Nick Fuentes in some of the things I've written, so I strongly disagree
00:38:14.520 with...
00:38:15.240 Well, specifically, I very obviously, given my push towards pluralism, have a problem
00:38:19.760 with, what's it called?
00:38:21.400 Catholic integralism, which is Nick Fuentes' core political...
00:38:25.040 Well, and he's also anti-immigration, right?
00:38:26.800 And you're super pro...
00:38:28.640 I'm pro-skilled immigration.
00:38:31.240 Anti-unskilled immigration.
00:38:33.760 Richard Spencer, obviously, I don't know.
00:38:35.940 Come on, he must...
00:38:37.240 He can't say heterodox thinkers like Curtis Yarvin, Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, David
00:38:43.400 Duke.
00:38:44.120 Does he think that they really support her?
00:38:46.780 It could be.
00:38:47.980 You know, I don't get the impression, and I think he even read about this in his post,
00:38:52.200 that he's not very politically involved.
00:38:54.460 And he doesn't really like writing about this.
00:38:56.220 But he feels a need, a civic responsibility to make comments and to use his platform for
00:39:02.940 good.
00:39:03.780 And he genuinely doesn't think that Donald Trump is the best candidate for some valid
00:39:10.080 reasons.
00:39:10.640 He has some valid concerns, especially if you don't know a lot of the background.
00:39:16.060 Yeah.
00:39:16.220 There's additional...
00:39:16.980 No, no, no.
00:39:17.320 I don't know probably...
00:39:17.860 I think if he did know, he would be more in favor of Trump.
00:39:22.140 But given how skewed most information people have available about Trump is, I don't blame
00:39:28.240 him, especially if he's not interested in this stuff and he's not super tapped in.
00:39:31.960 And also, keep in mind, he lives in the heart of a very, very progressive area.
00:39:35.680 So, yeah, his availability to anything that isn't super biased is like...
00:39:40.560 Sorry, I'm not saying...
00:39:41.600 I don't have any problem with this.
00:39:43.220 This is...
00:39:43.660 I would expect him to support Kamala.
00:39:45.400 Like, that would be...
00:39:46.340 Like, what's he going to do, right?
00:39:47.500 Like, he basically got a gun to his head from all directions, given where he lives.
00:39:51.800 What are you finger painting?
00:39:53.840 Uh, a bear?
00:39:55.080 A bear?
00:39:56.520 A bear has nothing to do with accepting people of different races.
00:40:00.280 I didn't know what else to paint.
00:40:02.020 Start all you.
00:40:02.780 Go.
00:40:04.500 Faster.
00:40:06.440 Faster.
00:40:08.420 Faster.
00:40:09.460 Faster.
00:40:10.740 Faster.
00:40:11.280 Are you done?
00:40:11.940 What is it?
00:40:12.480 What have you done?
00:40:13.220 People of all colors and greens holding hands beneath a rainbow.
00:40:15.540 Good.
00:40:16.380 That wasn't so hard, was it?
00:40:19.200 Now do it again.
00:40:20.100 He doesn't, he doesn't exactly have a choice in the matter.
00:40:22.760 But...
00:40:22.960 I'm out of the Bay Area.
00:40:23.940 Yeah.
00:40:24.940 But the, the thing I found interesting was how he does it.
00:40:27.920 Like, I can't tell if he's trying to underhandedly signal, no, I don't actually support her,
00:40:33.260 but I'm going to make it.
00:40:33.920 No, no.
00:40:34.520 Because his arguments are too...
00:40:37.080 Logical.
00:40:37.580 ...ournest.
00:40:37.920 And even his counter-arguments, where he's like, here's one, like, my best steel man.
00:40:42.160 That's what I took, like, like, there was all the arguments and counter-arguments, and
00:40:44.780 then he's like, like, Curtis Yarvin, David Duke.
00:40:47.500 I know, I know, that, that, I'm just assuming that he is, doesn't read deeply on that.
00:40:52.940 Yeah.
00:40:53.880 That's, that's actually almost, like, endearingly cute, that, like, he, he sees this and he's
00:40:57.860 like, yeah, they all genuinely support her and aren't doing it to try to poison her
00:41:01.940 by attaching their known toxic reputations to her.
00:41:04.740 Anyway.
00:41:05.100 I found that really fun.
00:41:07.980 So, any final thoughts, Simone?
00:41:12.120 I, you have fundamentally shifted, once again, I just, I love you so much, I love our conversations.
00:41:17.720 You fundamentally shifted the way that I view married women in the United States.
00:41:22.220 They are like nuns, but married to the state.
00:41:27.320 And the state, like a partner would, provides them when they need it with food, with healthcare,
00:41:34.320 with safety, even with housing, with, with childcare support.
00:41:39.080 It, it basically does everything a husband would do, and it's stepping in to do more and
00:41:43.640 more of that while further isolating them from any form of community or relationship that
00:41:51.400 would give that to them.
00:41:52.540 And this is just so indicative of what the urban monoculture does, which is atomize humans,
00:41:59.280 disintermediate strong communities and strong social ties that people used to rely on for help
00:42:05.880 and replace that with government and private services that will do it instead.
00:42:11.300 And while, if you'd asked me before I learned more, if that's a problem, I'd be like, no,
00:42:17.880 no, it's better, whatever market competition, you know, this, this parses everything apart
00:42:22.660 from corrupted religions.
00:42:25.320 But now, I mean, I've, I've seen how childcare fails.
00:42:29.580 I've seen how these services are not enough and they're not producing flourishing humans.
00:42:35.580 And so it's, it's very sad and toxic what's happening.
00:42:39.620 Well, and I would say my core takeaway from this and, you know, previously I said, if Trump
00:42:44.400 comes into office, one thing I'd really like to help earn for the department or work on
00:42:47.640 for the department is helping clean up the size of government, you know, cut it down for
00:42:51.700 Republicans to win long-term.
00:42:53.700 One of the most efficacious efforts they could focus on, it would be akin to them, to the
00:42:58.460 unrestricted immigration that Democrats are focused on is getting people married.
00:43:05.000 Yeah.
00:43:05.560 It would be good for pronatalism.
00:43:07.020 It would be good for the state and it would increase their odds of winning.
00:43:09.980 Yeah.
00:43:10.300 So we need to do what Tokyo is doing with that dating app, but way better, way more effective.
00:43:14.400 Well, I mean, I think that they can get back to, oh my gosh, this is, so there's been all
00:43:18.860 these Bridgerton balls that are failed social media scams, scams, but people keep going to
00:43:24.080 them because they just want there to be the London, really people don't know what the London
00:43:28.460 season is, but they want the London season.
00:43:30.200 Again, they want W top balls.
00:43:31.660 They want to like find their man.
00:43:34.280 And there actually happened, I think in Utah for a while, the governor actually organized
00:43:38.960 big parties.
00:43:39.800 I think in the governor governor's mansion, bringing people together, sometimes singles.
00:43:44.380 But I think sometimes just old people do whatever, like all sorts of people.
00:43:47.760 But if just on a wide scale, we brought back debutante balls, you would like debut to the
00:43:53.360 president, you know, and then you, you bow and you get a dress and you do this whole thing
00:43:58.040 and you'd be on the dating market.
00:43:59.760 People would freaking love that.
00:44:01.460 The Instagram opportunities.
00:44:04.160 I actually think that you're right about that.
00:44:05.860 Like I hadn't considered this, but bringing back the concept of the debutante ball.
00:44:10.380 People love parties.
00:44:11.480 People want to dress up for stuff and people don't get to dress up for anything anymore.
00:44:14.800 That is an aristocracy again, but something that they can participate in.
00:44:18.280 Well, they just like, just having an opportunity to, to take photos or something and dress up
00:44:22.500 for something, ready for something.
00:44:23.620 In fact, there's even this weird gen alpha trend where they're like, oh my gosh, it's so
00:44:27.860 cute.
00:44:28.160 You get to put on little outfits and everything where they're like talking about how novel
00:44:31.420 and cute it is to go to an office because they just get to go and like dress up and
00:44:35.300 look pretty for something.
00:44:36.460 We need this.
00:44:37.860 Okay.
00:44:38.200 So there's my little dream.
00:44:40.020 You get to put on little outfits together, y'all.
00:44:41.820 I love this.
00:44:42.840 And imagine in a few generations, there might be a romanticization of the days when people
00:44:48.040 worked from offices.
00:44:49.820 Yeah.
00:44:50.160 And like power lunched and stuff.
00:44:51.720 Like, oh my gosh, how cute.
00:44:53.220 Like this is so cute.
00:44:54.000 Oh my gosh, how quaint and historic.
00:44:55.200 People can afford to eat at restaurants.
00:44:57.420 And yeah, I mean, it just, yeah.
00:44:58.920 But I feel like things like that are so underrated and they'd be so inexpensive to execute.
00:45:06.080 And yet it's wasted.
00:45:07.980 All these governor's mansions, the White House, all these event spaces are wasted and now used
00:45:13.200 for stupid sales force gatherings.
00:45:17.340 You know, it's just so sad that they're all just for corporate retreats now and marketing
00:45:21.920 events when they could be for bringing people together.
00:45:24.700 That's what these old spaces were originally meant for.
00:45:27.760 Ballrooms, when are ballrooms used for balls anymore, right?
00:45:32.440 I was thinking about this the other day when we were looking at hotel ballrooms in various
00:45:35.840 like spaces and walking around and I was like, there are no balls anymore.
00:45:40.060 Why are you calling it a ballroom?
00:45:41.360 Like call it an event space, give up, stop.
00:45:44.580 You're embarrassing yourself.
00:45:46.140 This is sad.
00:45:47.720 Well, at Hereticon, remember we were at like the nicest like club thing.
00:45:54.260 It was insane.
00:45:55.460 No, it was like a museum.
00:45:57.120 It was like a Bond film party.
00:45:59.360 No, it was like a Bond film.
00:46:00.180 There were ambient dancers.
00:46:01.900 Where they had like people on stilts and like skimpy outfits and everything.
00:46:06.120 Feathers like just waving their arms.
00:46:08.820 Yes.
00:46:09.940 Yes.
00:46:10.420 And I walked around and they had like, you know, like figures holding like glowing orbs
00:46:17.020 and stuff and like multiple areas where you could like look at other people dancing from
00:46:20.820 like upstairs and everything.
00:46:22.620 It was wild.
00:46:23.820 But I also said it was interesting how much I took in of this is I am so appreciative that
00:46:32.400 this is not my life, that I am not in this like daily Silicon Valley aristocracy, which
00:46:38.520 I was for a while.
00:46:39.980 And they do parties like this constantly.
00:46:42.060 Do you remember back in like Silicon Valley when we had to go to like all the BC parties
00:46:45.440 and stuff like that because we were like raising and it's like a thing.
00:46:49.500 It's a thing.
00:46:51.520 Yeah.
00:46:52.140 And I think that it's just important to like gut check.
00:46:56.780 And I feel so bad that so many people don't get the opportunity to do this.
00:47:00.260 How much you would actually be unhappy if you were living this like whatever lifestyle.
00:47:05.360 I think it could be fun if it were about finding a partner.
00:47:09.900 Because then it's only relationship with energy, romance, it's planning with your friends,
00:47:15.380 it's thinking about what your future could be.
00:47:17.520 Which is funny because at like, okay, so like at Hereticon, you and I, I think we're
00:47:21.480 friends, like good friends with all of the most eligible single girls.
00:47:24.840 And like we're trying to find them partners and like striking out.
00:47:30.580 Yeah.
00:47:32.300 Well, guys' expectations are unreasonable.
00:47:34.900 And that's one of the biggest issues.
00:47:36.900 And it's also really hard to find guys who are good enough for high achieving women.
00:47:41.260 But that's something we've beaten on until it's.
00:47:44.900 Or willing to settle.
00:47:45.740 High achieving guys just aren't willing to settle.
00:47:48.140 No, not at all.
00:47:49.320 Yeah.
00:47:49.740 So they're going to live alone forever.
00:47:53.060 I love you to death, Simone.
00:47:54.680 You are my absolute greatest.
00:47:56.020 I got to show you.
00:47:57.200 She has fallen asleep and it is really cute.
00:47:59.940 She's just out.
00:48:00.820 Oh, she was freaking out before.
00:48:03.120 Well, she always gets a little fussy before she falls asleep.
00:48:06.300 But then once she's out, she's out.
00:48:09.100 So I love you.
00:48:11.740 You're amazing.
00:48:12.400 I'm because you've got to let you see if you're tall enough.
00:48:20.120 Come over here.
00:48:21.900 Oh, yeah?
00:48:22.560 That's your speech?
00:48:23.800 Yes.
00:48:24.420 Come on.
00:48:25.000 Come on.
00:48:27.540 Come on.
00:48:28.700 Okay.
00:48:29.100 You want to measure me?
00:48:30.120 Am I tall enough?
00:48:34.080 Come closer to me.
00:48:36.240 You've got chocolate all over your face.
00:48:38.980 Am I tall enough?
00:48:40.400 Yes.
00:48:41.060 You're too tall.
00:48:42.360 I'm too tall.
00:48:43.420 Okay.
00:48:43.880 Yes, I'm too clear.
00:48:44.980 I'm too tall.
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