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Amy Walter: Gen Z Gender Divide Goes Beyond Politics, Young Men Are Using Podcasts "As A Way To Build Community"

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024 1:33 AM

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I put the everything but the link in the 2nd post because it was screwing up the formatting and the text was bleeding off the side of the page.

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NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join William Brangham to discuss the latest political news, including President-elect Donald Trump's success with young men and the electoral gender divide.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM, PBS NEWSHOUR: I want to turn back to Laura's piece that she just did about this — quote, unquote — "manosphere" and just the incredibly effective way that Trump reached out to these young men online, the way he did it, and their incredible reception to the way Trump was making his pitch to them.

How do you see that dynamic?

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AMY WALTER, COOK POLITICAL REPORT: You know, I have been talking to a lot of folks who study this both before, during and then after this election.

And it is — this Gen Z gender divide is really quite fascinating, and it goes much beyond our politics. I mean, there definitely was a gender divide on Election Day, the kind of which we had never seen before in a place like Pennsylvania. Among the youngest cohort of voters, the gender gap was 62 points.

Just to put that in context, the overall gender gap was like 25 or 26 points in that state.

BRANGHAM: Incredible.

WALTER: What we see — what we're seeing right now is that more and more of these young men are using these sites, whether it's TikTok or the podcasts or YouTube as a way to build community. This is a generation of young men who feel very disconnected, who feel very lost, who feel left behind.

And these are the places that they go to find that community. What I noticed as well is, it's not just that Trump went to those places, but the organic way in which conversations that started off about sports or video games would also then lead into the host themselves talking about, oh, hey, did you see Trump go into McDonald's? Did you see Trump was at the fight?

(CROSSTALK)

BRANGHAM: The UFC fight.

WALTER: The UFC thing. And so he became part of it, even though — so we know this. The best candidates are able to meet voters where they are, and that's what he was able to do.

Well yeah... You've spent the last 4 or so decades invading all of the men's spaces from their jobs on down to a community level. There is no such thing as a men's community anything anymore. Outside of maybe seeing their dad play poker with his friends once a month if he's one of the lucky ones, their dad's probably never had any friends outside of "marriage friends" not long after he got married.

Gen X remembers their grandfathers in these men's spaces. Older Gen X remember their own fathers in these spaces. I've been to Knights of Columbus both in the mid-80's and in the late 2010's. Not even in the same ballpark of each other. When I went with my grandpa so he could show me off to his Knights of Columbus buddies, that scene stays in my mind like any given non-violent scene with the boys on the Sopranos. The last few times I went with my mom and step-dad it was like a baby shower by comparison.

Now those Gen Z boys, some of them just old enough to vote, are teenagers who on an instinctual level know that there should be men's spaces but don't see any. Not in their community, and certainly not on Hollywood created TV, movies and streaming services.

So of course they're going to rebel and go full-on hyper masculine and flock to things like the UFC and people who talk and act like they all do.

You should see these introductory videos they have for the defending champions and the challengers at the beginning of one of the paid events. Right before they have a few of the lesser events of the night leading up to the Title Card, they put together these awesome videos about the fighters.

I'll admit that I don't even know how much of these things are even true, or to what degree the stories are embellished. But they put a bit of effort into these productions and they're almost like a short film about the story of their lives that lead them to the fight they're going to have tonight.

I was pretty blown away by it, to be honest. They are inspiring. They've got empowering messages. The kids watching this are seeing somebody tell them that if they work hard and do right they too could one day be a champion.

Where else do you see that in 2024?

My answer would be absolutely nowhere else.

All they ever hear at school is if they're not the victim then they are the evil white man.

Nobody wants to hear that they're evil. Nobody wants to hear that they're a victim.

Especially not children and ESPECIALLY not boys.

And I'm sure that's universal and transcends any racial divide.

I'm glad to see the kids are rebelling.

The day we live in a society where the kids are all manufactured happy and just do and think whatever they're told is the day that human society lost to the collective.

I'd just never thought I'd see the day where it was Punk Rock to support the Not Democrat.

Four years ago, NFL players were taking the knee because they were worried they'd lose their job if they didn't. Now you've got black players doing the Trump Dance in the end zone and getting fined by the bosses.

Strange days.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:46 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

If you compare it to Empires they have probably crossed 'the Rubicon' we are probably long past 'Marcus Aurelius' we have probably fully Rome but maybe gone Greek collapse mode, and maybe all the tv shows, the Top Guns, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Taylor Swift, the pornos, the liberalization of booze and drugs, the soap operas, the UFC MMA is the bread and circus of the Empire

eventually they took 'Anonymous' found the original hackers, arrested or interrogated them and turning it into a mouth piece for FBI politics? it was gone, defeated by police but it suddenly all dead accounts reactived, they re-emerged during Level 5 Lockdowns to support George Floyd protests and the Burning and Looting of cities, a convicted felon made into a 'Saint' by mainstream news media and 'Anonymous', although I read allegedly its not fully controlled, a guy Jeremy Hammond was still an anarchist and not fully under their control, originally a peace activist, organizing a student walkout on the day of the Iraq invasion and starting a student newspaper to oppose the Iraq War.

Remember how close we came with all this tech censorship and social distance rules, I never thought I would see PirateNews style nonsense memes silly exaggerated news meme gossip about 'Flu-Jabs' come true.

the cities could be a death trap and Big Tech could turn on us again, even faster with this AI Drone stuff happening.
and remember the hypocrites, the elites having their Spas and facial massage and haircuts, the political elites of California pushing Level 3, 4 and Level 5 Biohazzard lockdowns, Niel Gaiman a Hollywierdo guy people fawned over now having his own 'MeToo' issues goes off to interviews in Canada then Lockdown gets worse travelled to New Zealand to relax and get inspire and travels from New Zealand to his holiday home on the Isle of Skye, breaking the lockdown rules...that he himself was pushing politically and screeching for Trump voters to be arrested!?

Maybe we came very close to BigTech the new Technocracy taking over, Gen Alpha is the next one some put Generation Alpha as those after the 2000s which would be as old as 24? other say born between 2010 and 2024, others will rank it 2013 to 2025 next year, which makes the oldest now 14? all of these had their Lockdowns, social distance...some might have psychological damage

Will Gen-Z seen through the smoke screen the smoke and mirrors trick of Left vs Right used to divide. You could say there was still choice in the USA, a lunatic like LaRouche was running and got interviewed and then Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign on tv and in a debate as an 'Independent' but later a whole Team A vs Team B stage show takes over. The modern Antifa thing is Germanic foreign, the Germans have a lot of psychological guilt after the Wars and its politics different to a lot of Western trends its born from Germany's 70s and 1980s, West Germany's abandoned buildings and squatter scene, instead of knocking down old buildings the government allowed people to take a derelict abandoned home if they would improve it and then 1990s the Wall comes down, the Marxists and Punk rockers. The Artists, Musicians move to cheaper places and get into fights with the 'Rightwing' Skinheads although doesn't the word 'socialism' come with the term Nazi-Socialism? The idea of Conservatism was more of a dirty word, during the NeoCon era. Little Bush starting endless wars then in other parts of the world England you had Thatcherism in alliance with Reagan as he gave Lebanon to the Iranians telling US Marines to run away. Thatcher closing the Welsh coal mines and tell them all to pack their bags and go to London to get a banking job. RINO NeoCons and Zionist warhawk faggots like Lindsey Graham who kiss the ass of Saudi ruined Conservatives, the damage still lasting.

While I have said we could be in a cultural decline for many, many decades I have said movies and 'music' are getting worse and worse but now Gen-Alpha can access movies and music from any part of the world. The West is losing the 'Soft Power' culture war... and with small indie US movies wrecking Hollywood and tv and film from South Korea winning, people making better toons and songs on their home computers we now see how crap a lot of pop 'Culture' has decayed.
you can watch people walk a city with 'Go-Pro' sure Japan they might be isolationist, maybe accuse them of being 'racist' doing their own thing, not multi-cultured enough, but then you see how safe the streets are, yes they do have some poverty, some homeless but its nothing like the rest 'The West' that opened its borders to the world, they have a subway, clean and without constant attacks and crimes, a major rapid transit system an envy of the world.

Generational I put a lot of Latin America, China, India inside its own 'Bubble' but 'TheWest' is its own thing its own cycles, maybe its not just British and the USA, maybe The West is huge and maybe Japan although isolated is also 'TheWest' as much as Hungary or Norway are TheWest.
As bad as the Fall of Kabul was, a political nightmare watching those images on tv but someone had to do it and I'm glad the idea of bringing 'democracy' to a jihadi Asscrackistan has come to an end, this islam crap and 'Democracy' will NEVER Coexist.

I don't know if Russia will ever be democratic, probably not for the next decades maybe even a hundred years. You can not claim 'The West' is perfect either as it becomes 'Less Democratic' but at least its not Russia. A lot of the Millennial Generation won't remember this either the era of people like Ariana Grande, Greta Thunberg, Logan Paul, Jake Paul, Seth Rogen, Prince Harry, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, MrBeast, Bella Thorne, Megan Rapinoe, Scarlett Johansson, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Lawrence, Amber Heard, Taylor Swift, but People of Generation-Z and Gen-Alpha if not obsessed with themselves their own drug issues, own riches or stuck deep inside their own trauma and issues they are now understanding what its like to be in a constant state of 'Cold War' with the Russians you could replace Putin with a Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev, Gorbachev and things would not be as crazy as they are now, TheWest and Russia have butted heads a long time, the British have been fighting the Russians in the 'Great Northern War' fighting over lands of Ukraine back in the 1700s before the USA was even born!!!
and the British fighting on and backing both sides.
then of course after the USA was born the British Empire was still fighting the Russias, the British East India Company vs the Russian Empire in the 1800s, both sides backing Mohammedans so that Christians Russians would not win or that Christian British would not win, they would burn the other Empire and give it to the camel-jacker islamic jihadis.

as people build their podcast community expanding from freedoms already out there, remember the books of real history and remember the current resistance the small real-life communities that resisted and kept their small store or coffee shop open, the freedoms of Minds, Bitchute, 4Chan, Gab, Odysee, Medium etc
Just think when you couldn't even say the word 'Trump' almost on 99% the net, the dared not question the vaccines or boosters or in some parts of the world locking everything down for over 2 years with these 'Social Distance' rules.
Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify all came together to ban 'Donald Trump' from having a voice, this is while the Taliban and Iranian terrorists would still have their social media accounts and while they pushed an 'Open Border' policy bringing unvaccinated people from all over the world, gangster zones, terrorist zones to flood cities.

As WaybackMachine dies with this Taylor Washington Compost crap, the BigTech or DeepState or "Big Brother" has often been conveyed as being synonymous with the abuse of government power and as the Left Marxits and Right Religion Loons return...the next Temple or Church comes for the next offensive person or as they raided and shot Bill Cooper or as they got idiots like Alex Jones and might kill InfoWars or use Lawfare against the next thing David Icke says remember that quote "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" from George Orwell

they did not keep the mob under control so maybe just maybe the people are 'the news' today

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