Charlie Kirk LOSES HIS MIND over Taylor Swift engagement

This is not really a show about pop culture. I couldn't care less about Taylor Swift getting engaged to Travis Kelsey, who is he, does he still even play football? I don't know, I guess it's maybe his brother who retired. Like, as you can tell, I couldn't care less about this crap. But Charlie Kirk's reaction to the engagement of Taylor Swift was very interesting to see, because Kirk expresses a sort of social conservatism rooted in the Bible and rooted in sort of 1950s ideology that you would think no one would give a damn about in 2025. But there is a growing movement, including online. Some of these people, because know, there are incels, men who are involuntarily celibate. They would like to be dating. They would like to be romantically entangled. They would like to be sexually active, but they are not desirable in many ways. OK, this is tough stuff, but we've got to call it for what it is. Some of these men, because they are unable to live the lifestyle they want that involves women giving them the time of day, they have found this sort of, you know, biblical values, no sex before marriage type stuff appealing because it makes them feel like they're not failing because they're losers. They're failing. They're not failing at all. They're choosing because it's the biblical thing. Now, I don't say this pejoratively in the sense of I've said the Democratic Party has failed young men and I've enumerated the ways and I've talked about what should be done. But the scary part is that what Kirk is selling has become so appealing to them. But maybe one of the reasons why Taylor Swift has been so just kind of annoyingly liberal over the last couple of years is that she's not yet married and she doesn't have children. I say this non-sarcastically. I say this as a husband and a father. Having children changes you. Getting married changes you. And I hope that America's biggest pop star marrying the pharmaceutical spokesperson ends up conservatizing them. Taylor Swift might de-radicalize herself. She might come back down to reality. I want them to have lots of children. It teaches you something about yourself. Deep down, I think Taylor Swift actually was raised as a conservative that has gotten kind of caught up in this metropolitan, liberal stuff and she doesn't quite have an attachment to the conservative backbone that she was raised in. But this might reattach her in the best possible way. And I'm not saying this sarcastically. I've seen this happen time and time again. When people start to get married and have children, it starts to change your politics. It starts to clarify your worldview. And for Taylor Swift, who obviously is very popular and incredibly supported, Taylor Swift might go from a cat lady to a JD Vance supporter. And I think we should celebrate that. I think that Taylor Swift having two or three children, she should have more children than she has houses. That is my challenge, Taylor Swift. And I'm not being sarcastic. I think that if she ends up having children, she'll stop this kind of liberal endorsing Joe Biden nonsense. And we want we want Taylor Swift on Team America. So this goes on now anecdotally and also at a statistical level. I was not able to find any evidence that when people get married or people have kids, they become more conservative and they vote more for Republicans. In fact, I think that there is a sort of self-selection bias here. If you already lean right and live in a certain part of the country, it's plausible that you get married and have kids. And all of a sudden you sort of recede into a more extreme version of like the security mom. We've got to get these immigrants out. And that's if you're already predisposed in that way. At the same time, on the other hand, speaking personally and for other people, I know when you get married and have kids, you start to think about what sort of a world do I want my kids to grow up in? If you have girls, you start thinking about do I want a world for these girls who will eventually be women? That looks the way people like Trump and Charlie Kirk want it to look where mostly older white men decide what they can do with their bodies and so on. No, you don't. And so a lot of people who already lean left go more in that direction when they find themselves in that scenario. So there's a bit of a self-selection bias here and an availability bias of what you see around you. But at the big picture level, I was not able to find any evidence of what Charlie Kirk says here, that people become more conservative, especially socially once they get married and have kids. But if that's if all you've got is a hammer, everything ends up looking like a nail. 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