Christian Golian argues that beautiful women are shallow and vapid, and that the same is true for men, and also implies that non-supermodels who are merely beautiful are a better pick. The problem with actresses isn t that they're beautiful, it's that they are actresses. And maybe the good-looking guys in high school were treated like gods, and just turned into douchebags. The answer to shallowness isn't more beauty, actually. It's that women who spend their entire lives getting ready to get naked on a beach somewhere may not be people who are concerned with reading up on the latest economic developments in the Wall Street Journal. But according to Christian Golian, nobody should date beautiful people at all if they want a stable relationship. In other words, the supposed brains-beauty disconnect may not actually be a brains-Beauty disconnect at all, but rather a bikini model-dyslexia disconnect. And that's why beautiful people stay beautiful even after they get old and wrinkly, even if they get married and have a baby. because they can't be prettier than anyone you've ever dated so you can't have a good relationship with someone who isn't prettier. And if you're a douchebag like that, you'll still be beautiful to be in love even when your youth fades, even when you're old and you're wrinkly. . And when you get old, you won't be as beautiful as you used to be, right? or you can still be pretty, even after you get a little wrinkly even if you get older and get older . . And so why you should date someone who's not as pretty as you get more wrinkly . . . well-looking, but not as beautiful? Why you can t be pretty any more than you can be pretty and still be a little bit more beautiful than you at least she's going to be pretty? . And she's not going to get any prettier after you re old and get a good night out of your 20s. ? by Christian Golian Why I Won t Date Beautiful People Anymore? by Dan Rochkin by the New York Post writer Christian Gorgian by J.Golian Why I Willn t Date Hot Women Anymore by JANE Rochkind Why I Can't Date Hot People by Carly Spindle
00:00:00.000On Tuesday, some dude named Christian Golian wrote a column for the New York Post that became the internet outrage du jour.
00:00:05.000The column, titled, Why I Won't Date Hot Women Anymore, made the case that outrageously beautiful women are shallow and vapid, and that the same is true for men, and also implied that non-supermodels who are merely beautiful are a better pick.
00:00:16.000The column begins with the story of Dan Rochkind, a private equity douchebag.
00:00:19.000He says, quote, When it came to dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity, Dan Rochkind had no problem snagging the city's most beautiful women.
00:00:27.000I could have had anyone I wanted, says Rochkin, now 40 and an Upper West Sider with a muscular build and a full head of hair.
00:00:33.000By the way, dude's kind of weird looking.
00:00:34.000He says, I met some really nice people, but realistically, I went for the hottest girl you could find.
00:00:38.000He spent the better part of his 30s going on up to three dates a week courting 20-something blonde models, but eventually realized that dating the prettiest young things had its drawbacks.
00:00:46.000He found them flighty, selfish, and vapid.
00:00:48.000Beautiful women who get a fair amount of attention get full of themselves, he says.
00:00:51.000Eventually, I was dreading getting dinner with them because they couldn't carry a conversation.
00:00:55.000So, how did Rochkins, who clearly prioritized physical beauty over intelligence, kindness, and decency, solve this little problem?
00:01:27.000First off, Spindle is extremely good looking.
00:01:29.000Perhaps the problem here isn't level of beauty, but the fact that women who generally go into bikini modeling may not, on average, have the same intellectual aspirations as women who become doctors.
00:01:37.000In other words, the supposed brains-beauty disconnect may not actually be a brains-beauty disconnect at all, but rather a bikini model brains disconnect.
00:01:44.000People who spend their entire lives getting ready to get mostly naked on a beach somewhere may not be people who are concerned with reading up on the latest economic developments in the Wall Street Journal.
00:01:53.000But according to Golian, nobody should date beautiful people at all if they want a stable relationship.
00:02:11.000The researchers looked at the top 20 actresses on IMDb and found that they tend to have rocky marriages.
00:02:16.000In another, women were asked to judge the attractiveness of 238 men based on their high school yearbook photos from 30 years ago.
00:02:22.000The men who were judged to be the best-looking had higher rates of divorce.
00:03:33.000He says, there's something to be said about sowing your wild oats and getting them out of your system, says Rochkind, who will marry Carly in June at a Tuscan romantic ceremony at the Wulffer Estate Vineyard in the Hamptons, but he doesn't regret his past.
00:03:43.000You don't want to be the first to leave the party, but you don't want to leave the party too late either, he says.
00:03:49.000In other words, use beautiful but shallow women, then dump them by the side of the road later when you're getting older and ready to settle down.
00:03:54.000In both the looks and character department, Rochkind is obviously no catch.
00:04:04.000Alrighty, so, I don't know why people are talking to me from behind the camera, right, as the sounder happens, but there are some women in the office who are obviously interested in this topic, so we'll have to have that discussion after the show.
00:04:18.000Okay, so, before we get into the news of the day, and there is lots of news, Trump is flipping on a bunch of issues, and we'll talk about whether that is good or bad, and what exactly
00:04:32.000We'll also talk about the Sean Spicer thing because everybody's going nuts because Sean Spicer said something really dumb about the Holocaust yesterday.
00:04:38.000Let me just say very briefly, Barack Obama helped forward an actual Holocaust.
00:04:43.000In both Syria and then also in Iran, an anti-Jewish regime that wants to murder every Jew on the planet, and he helped give them nuclear weapons.
00:04:49.000The media were complicit in that, but they're really pissed because Sean Spicer said something really dumb about the Holocaust.
00:04:54.000But we'll talk about all that in just a minute.
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00:06:30.000And so the question that we have to ask is, is this Trump maturing in office?
00:06:34.000Is this reality slapping Trump in the face and saying, you know, a lot of your campaign rhetoric was really nonsensical, and now you're going to have to buckle down because the reality is that the Russians are a nefarious force in the world, and the reality is that North Korea is a dangerous place, and that not every problem is a simple problem that a businessman can solve just by wishing it so.
00:07:19.000It's my hope that NATO will take on an increased role in supporting our Iraqi partners in their battle against ISIS.
00:07:29.000Okay, and just to remind you, throughout the entire campaign, throughout the entire campaign, he said NATO was obsolete, that NATO basically was done.
00:07:36.000Here's what he had to say during the campaign.
00:07:53.000The only NATO action of the last 20 years was an invocation after 9-11 on behalf of the United States for NATO forces to go into Afghanistan.
00:08:02.000So, the idea that it was obsolete and it was not directed at terror is obviously not true.
00:08:06.000Good for Trump for at least acknowledging that.
00:08:10.000It does demonstrate that those of us who were criticizing Trump during the campaign for saying this sort of stupidity
00:08:14.000And saying that it encouraged Vladimir Putin's aggressiveness, that Trump is now beginning to recognize the truth of that, or at least he's going to flip on that.
00:08:24.000Yesterday, Trump said that China is not a currency manipulator.
00:08:28.000Okay, now China is not a currency manipulator.
00:08:30.000They stopped several years ago manipulating their currency.
00:08:32.000And as I've said many times, even if China inflates their currency, that doesn't actually do anything overall to the American economy.
00:08:38.000This is why the Weimar Republic didn't just inflate itself into prosperity.
00:08:42.000This is why Venezuela didn't inflate itself into prosperity.
00:08:44.000This is why Zimbabwe hasn't been able to inflate itself into prosperity.
00:08:47.000There's this weird idea in international trade that if we inflate our currency that somehow we're going to be benefiting ourselves because suddenly our products become cheaper on the international market, right?
00:08:57.000If we inflate our currency, then the British pound is worth more American dollars, and they can buy more American products, and therefore it helps our export industry.
00:09:05.000The problem is that you inflate our currency, you also make our savings worthless, and you make all the products that we want to buy more expensive.
00:09:12.000So you actually don't help your economy overall when you inflate your currency.
00:09:15.000This is why a strong dollar is generally weaker, is generally better than a weak dollar.
00:09:19.000So, Trump had said throughout the entire campaign that China was stealing our jobs by inflating currency.
00:09:25.000And now, yesterday, he came out and he said, well, not anymore.
00:09:28.000If you recall, his website actually said during the campaign, quote, we must stand up to China's blackmail and reject corporate America's manipulation of our politician.
00:09:37.000Treasury's designation of China as a currency manipulator will force China to the negotiating table and open the door to a fair and far better trading relationship and just
00:09:45.000A month ago, a couple months ago, he said,
00:10:03.000I think our dollar is getting too strong.
00:10:05.000And partially that's my fault because people have confidence in me.
00:10:09.000Okay, the reality is the dollar is strong right now because a lot of other countries are having economic trouble and America's a good investment.
00:10:50.000Okay, so it's not a big deal when Saddam threw a little gas, and here is Donald Trump on Bashar Assad yesterday with regard to Bashar Assad using gas on his own people.
00:10:59.000There can't be a worse site, and it shouldn't be allowed.
00:11:07.000So I felt we had to do something about it.
00:11:10.000I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing.
00:11:14.000Okay, so again, it's good that Trump is now recognizing the truth that it is bad for dictators to use gas on their own people, and the sort of casual way in which he was saying that it doesn't matter if you gas your own people was really silly to begin with, and people bought into that, and this is what I hate about sort of the way our politics are done, is that he campaigns on the basis of a bunch of silly things that he eventually reverses because, as president, he realizes that they're silly.
00:11:41.000A month ago, on Bill O'Reilly's program, he said about Vladimir Putin that Vladimir Putin isn't that bad, that Russia's not really that big a problem, the U.S.
00:13:44.000I'm not going to tell you right now what I'm going to do.
00:13:46.000Right, and he's kept saying that about foreign policy.
00:13:48.000And then yesterday, he was asked about what's he going to do in Syria, and then he just spills out his plan on what he's going to do in Syria.
00:14:04.000But if you add it all up, and if they take every little word, they'll say, oh, they're different.
00:14:09.000Just so you understand, we're not going into Syria.
00:14:11.000But when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the Obama administration, but they violated it.
00:14:24.000Okay, and so, again, the point here is not just to say that he flips on things, because a lot of politicians flip on things.
00:14:30.000The point here is to say that he seems to be flipping in a more practical direction on a lot of these things.
00:14:35.000Now, there are areas where he's flipping in a non-practical direction.
00:14:37.000So he's now said that he's in favor of the Export-Import Bank, which is just a corporatist nonsense thing.
00:14:42.000He's flipping on some of his tax policies, which I don't think is a good thing.
00:14:45.000But, when it comes to foreign policy, he's flipping into a much more realistic position with regard to Russia.
00:14:51.000He realizes now that Russia's a nefarious force in the world,
00:14:53.000He's flipping into a more realistic position on North Korea.
00:14:56.000People were laughing at this yesterday, but I actually didn't see what was so crazy about it.
00:14:59.000He was talking apparently with the president of China, Xi Jinping, and he apparently said that...
00:15:28.000The problem here is that he doesn't have any steady principles.
00:15:31.000So, normally what you'd want from a president is somebody who has a steady set of principles upon which he can rely, and then the information that he's given changes how he reacts based on those principles.
00:15:40.000The problem with Trump is he doesn't actually have a steady base of principles, and so we don't actually know what his principles are.
00:15:45.000So when he gets new information, it doesn't just shift his approach, it shifts his entire worldview.
00:15:51.000Five minutes ago, it was horrible to bomb a sovereign country if they were using gas on their own people.
00:15:56.000Now, it's imperative that we bomb a sovereign country if they use gas on their own people.
00:16:00.000Five minutes ago, it was terrible that NATO was sucking up oxygen.
00:16:04.000Now it's great that NATO's out there fighting the Russians.
00:16:06.000Five minutes ago, Vladimir Putin was a wonderful guy we were going to make a deal with, and now Vladimir Putin's a nefarious force in the world.
00:16:12.000It would have been better if we had had all those positions up front, because then a lot of people wouldn't feel cheated.
00:16:16.000And I want to talk about whether people who were Trump's biggest supporters ought to feel cheated in just a second.
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00:17:48.000The reason that it's important to have principles and not just flip your principles based on the events of the day is you never know.
00:17:57.000If you don't know what the basic principles are, if you don't have a generalized worldview, you don't know which piece of information is actually going to hit home.
00:18:03.000Is it the piece of information that putting American troops on the ground is going to be damaging to your popularity rating?
00:18:08.000Or is it the piece of information where you're watching TV and there are a bunch of dead Syrian kids on the TV?
00:18:14.000Now, if you have a worldview, we can basically predict, as a people, how you're going to react to a given piece of information.
00:18:20.000Because the information will either confirm your worldview or reject your worldview.
00:18:24.000But when you don't know what exactly Trump is basing his positions on, it makes things really difficult.
00:18:29.000And this is what's happening in the infight inside the administration between Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller on the one side, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on the other.
00:18:37.000Trump, as I've said before, is running this administration like it's a family business.
00:18:41.000He runs his family business like a family business.
00:18:43.000Now he's running the White House like a family business.
00:18:45.000Jared Kushner, who has all of the same qualifications as my three-year-old daughter to be in charge of China policy, is now in charge of China policy, Middle East policy, heroin policy.
00:18:55.000He doesn't have expertise on any of this, but he's loyal to Trump, and so Trump likes him.
00:18:59.000On the other hand, you've got Steve Bannon.
00:19:01.000Steve Bannon represents a nationalist-populist movement that thinks that big government is basically okay, but we have to protect our borders and we have to be more isolationist on foreign policy.
00:19:12.000That's sort of the nationalist-populist movement.
00:19:14.000There's more crossover, I think, between the nationalist-populist movement and conservative policy than there is between Ivanka and Jared and conservative policy, because both of them are career Democrats.
00:19:23.000And so what you've got right now is Steve Bannon, who is an admittedly bad guy who does not actually believe a lot of conservative things.
00:19:30.000And then you've got Jared and Ivanka on the other side, who don't believe any conservative things, but are nicer people.
00:19:37.000And so there are no good options for conservatives.
00:19:39.000You're sort of hoping that Trump bumbles his way into just delegating power to all of the people he's appointed.
00:19:54.000Trump needs to delegate all of that, not to Jared and Ivanka, but to the people that he has appointed to the positions who are actually qualified for those positions.
00:20:01.000Otherwise, the more Trump meddles, the more you just wonder what piece of information is going to flip his mind today.
00:20:07.000Because I don't think that what we're seeing is a full growth of Trump into the job.
00:20:11.000I think what we're seeing is that Trump is responding and reacting because that's what Trump does.
00:20:15.000I don't think he's changed his personality.
00:20:17.000I just think that he's reacting to events that now impact him in a way they didn't.
00:20:20.000It's easy to say when you're a candidate, okay, so somebody gasses a few children.
00:20:24.000It's different when everybody in the world is saying, you're the leader of the free world, what are you going to do?
00:21:18.000He's saying that he thinks that it was the deep state that helped plant this, and they're the ones who are attacking the United States and Trump.
00:21:48.000The president is only one of the performers on their theater.
00:21:51.000If he wants to be a leader, he cannot.
00:21:52.000Because as some say, he wanted to be a leader.
00:21:54.000Trump wanted to be a leader, but every president there, if he wants to be a real leader, later he's going to eat his word, swallow his pride, and make a 180 degree U-turn, otherwise he would pay the price politically.
00:22:02.000That's Assad parroting messages that are coming out of the Russian regime.
00:22:37.000Okay, so now you're going to have to go over to Daily Wire to check out the rest of the show.
00:22:40.000We're going to talk about the reactions from the right and why there are so many who are part of Trump's hardcore base who are very upset about Syria because they think that Trump had a worldview that he obviously doesn't.
00:22:51.000And so we'll talk about what that means for Trump and the future of his presidency.
00:22:53.000You have to go over to dailywire.com and check that out.
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