ChristiTutionalist Politics (S1EDecSpecial) "Dating in this WOKE day and age"

S1E24 SHOW NOTES  ( listen (Wed Dec 6 2023 and thereafter) at: http://buzzsprout.com/2210487 )...
ChristiTutionalist Politics (S1EDecSpecial) "Dating in this WOKE day and age"
Even if you're NOT Dating these days, you need hear this episode about Leftism Politics completely destroying Male/Female dynamics.
A "Change Research" Survey show the great divides in Men and Women, but more-so the dichotomy between Leftist Women and everyone else. Discussion about some of the results in the Survey and how they tie with topics discussed during many of these CTP episodes. Like "only 2 Genders" and saying "All Lives Matter" as well as more sub-topics/issues.

Episode related pieces...
- corresponding BeforeItsNews piece: https://beforeitsnews.com/republican/2023/12/leftist-indoctrination-making-a-major-impact-on-the-dating-scene-in-these-woke-times-2445165.html  
- https://RepublicanSingles.com   
- https://changeresearch.com/post/young-women-are-more-liberal-than-young-men/ 
- https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/25/survey-64percent-of-men-say-this-is-a-dating-red-flag-.html  
- https://newrepublic.com/post/175556/poll-men-women-red-flags-dating  
- chart via @USA_Polling and @PopulismUpdates on X: https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1701654305311449437  
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(S1E24 Audio: 33m 41s, Wed Dec 6 2023)

Chapters

• 0:00 Show intro
• 2:36 Segment 1 - Dating in these Woke times
• 30:31 https://tinyurl.com/BlackOutCoffees
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• 33:19 Show outro

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Welcome to "ChristiTutionalist Politics"  Over time the fancy high-production items will come, but for now, for starters, it is just you as a listener that I can barely begin to express how much appreciate from the bottom of my Heart you tuning in -- as I know you have alot of options as ListenNotes the podcast platform Reports there are about 168.9 MILLION available Podcast show episodes you could choose from and I appreciate YOU taking the time to listen to ME. As indeed it is just me on the podcast out side (at least for the initial episodes), all substance no muss no fuss, no fluff, no fancy or flahsy high-production intro or inserts - just straight to key discussion points. A show that looks at variety of topics, mostly Politics, through a Christian U. S. Constitutionalist lens (hence ChristiTutionalist Politics Show name). I am your Host Joseph M. Lenard (and last-name is spelled L-E-N-A-R-D, like most pronounce Leonard but without the "o"), an Author of a very "non-traditional" but Christian none-the-less "Christian book," co-host of SAVAGED UNFILTERED podcast, and for purposes of this Show most notably blogger for TheLibertyBeacon.com from which most of the content for this Show will be derived. These are NOT going to be long-drawn-out episodes, just the highlights and food-for-thought you can then delve deeper into via my online articles and reach your own conclusions. As Graham Norton would say: LET'S GET ON WITH THE SHOW!



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This is going to be one of those kind of odd and different recordings,
different topic than what people are used to from me.
Well, this mid-week, December special of
constitutional politics is indeed kind of now one of them.
Really odd. I think you could tell by the background,
if you're watching at @JLenardDetroit Rumble and YouTube,
[YouTube: youtube.com/@jlenarddetroit1082/videos      
Rumble: rumble.com/user/JLenardDetroit]
behind the scenes sneak peek video version of the episode.
You see, I'm not going to give the background away yet as to
those listening on audio only.
But if you're a regular listener or a regular reader
of my pieces on TheLibertyBeacon.com,
that drop every Saturday, just like this show,
drops every Saturday morning.
Normally, there's corresponding/correlating between the show and an article.
This is a mid-week drop special, December special.
So there won't be a corresponding TheLibertyBeacon.com piece on it.
I may throw something up at beforeitsnews.com.
The other place I still write, many of you may know,
I used to write for Red State. I used to write for Grassfire.
I used to write for Freedom Works when they had blog area.
I had my own website in the 80s. I'm a former IT guy.




So I've been writing online articles before the internet was even born.
Those things called dial-up bulletin boards that you had to know the phone
number and dial from computer to computer.
But that's off the beaten path and a bit off topic.
But I've been writing these pieces and doing these things.
But this one I want to talk to you about dating in the woke age.
Why? Because those of you that are regulars also know,
I'm co-host of the Savage family of shows.
Like today that I'm recording is actually Saturday.
Let me tell you the exact thing. Today is Saturday, December the second.
I'm recording this for a Wednesday mid-week drop.
I will be recording when I'm done with this recording.
Not recording. Going to a live stream.
X live stream of savaged underground that we do on Saturday's 11 o'clock.
Sometimes it's an hour earlier. Sometimes it's an hour later.
But Saturday is 11 o'clock. Savaged Underground.
11 o'clock X live stream.
Mondays and Wednesdays Savaged Unfiltered normally drops the normal parent show.
I'm a co-host and also of late we've been doing savage radio
on TheBlock105.com. Check those out.



But if you've heard those shows,
you often hear us joking with Cousin Sos, who is a personality on that show.
He's from Wisconsin. He's younger. He's dating.
We tease him all the time about his dating woes.
So why that and a ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast?
Well, dating in this woke age. It's a thing. It's a concern. It's an issue.
I just saw a Newsmax, a segment about dating a change research
polling, right? A survey rather than it be considered rather than
polling, even though it's polling, right? A change research survey
saying that and just shows clear liberal bias out there
and how liberals think they claim to be tolerant,
but they are not. And this survey, the study,
shows it and how we have to be careful in those we're looking to date.


I'm divorced. I'm single now, but I'm not seriously looking for a relationship.
I'm divorced. I'm 61 now. I'm older. I'm slower, as I like to say.
I'm too broke, as I say, to be anyone sugar day for sure.
And I'm not looking for a sugar mama, but I did.
If you see the background on YouTube or Rumble,
RepublicanSingles.com.

Yes, I joined so I can connect with some conservative women.
And we tease Cousin Sos about his dating exploits.
And Bob on the show said, you need to get off those sites you're on and somewhere
like a RepublicanSingles.com - where they're not all Christian there, but...
So yes, at least they're mostly conservative.
So they're a lot more in line with my/our beliefs than if you're going to go on a,
I don't know, DateALiberal.com if such a thing exists.



But the Change Research study showed 58% of those in the study of female
won't date a guy who claims there are only two genders.
Yeah, you heard me right.
58% of women, which really shows you if that number
is at all actually accurate and representative of
female. No such word, but I'm going to use it.
See me. Here in the United States of this day and age.
And on December 30th, I'm going to have a TLB (thelibertybeacon.com/?s=Joseph+M+Lenard)
and CTP show on can one general generalize about women voters.
So this will be kind of a sneak at that or
although this content won't be in there.
58% of women are so ultra left winged ideologues
and so propagandized, so indoctrinated in the there are a million genders.
A gender can be whatever you want it to be as opposed to
science and biology and there are XX and XY chromosomes
and all else are genetic mutations. But this notion of gender
ism as a delusion that you can be whatever you want.



I'm TV sexual because I love watching TV. What?
Unbelievable, but that's why I wanted to talk to you today
and why a site like a Republican Singles that count for anyone who's
Christian or conservative or at all on the right side of the
idol of even center right. I don't want to date a liberal these days.
And again, as I discussed in my book, ChristiTutionalist (TM) Politics, the book,
as Dennis Prager says, there's a difference between a classical liberal.
You can look like like a Brandon Straka. His last name looks like Stracha,
but it's pronounced Strak, Brandon Straka of the Walk Away from Democrats
Movement or a Candace Owens who is still, I consider, a black moderate,
but is now a Republican. She's still, in my opinion, a classical liberal,
but she's now moved center right. She's still left on some issues, so I wouldn't
call her conservative or especially not ultra conservative, but examples of
classical liberals who are open to seeing reality,
someone who can red pill, who will awaken from their woke stupor,

who get away from empty rhetoric and look at results, right?


ChristiTutionalist Politics,
you shall be known by your fruits,
what you do, your results, not your supposed good intentions,
even though the left things good intentions, their results of policy always
hurt the people they pretend to care about.
Like BiDUMBnomics, oh, it's all about the middle, you know, in the middle class,
but yet by inflation caused by BiDUMBnomics,
[hear BiDUMBnomics Shows part 1 and part 2]
hurt the poor in the middle class the most.



Back to the study, 60% of the
women in this survey say a man that says
All Lives Matter. Oh my god, are you serious?
Again, leftist ideologues propagated and brainwashed into this
Black Lives Matter movement versus 
Black Lives matter, White Lives matter,
Pink, Polka dotted people if there were such a thing, Lives would matter.
All Lives matter is inclusion. You know that thing the left always
pretends they're about? Inclusion, diversity, equity, inclusion, though we call it
die, D-I-E here in Michigan, my friend Ed Bonderenka over at WAAM Radio, calling that
diversity, inclusion, and equity because D-I-E, it's really cultural Marxism
and all about killing the American culture and our great melting pot.
We are the most diverse nation on the planet. We have a melting pot.
We don't deal in cultural appropriation. The different cultures come here
together and blend to form our own unique American culture, a blend of all
cultures. That is diversity.

That is inclusion.
But the left doesn't really care about that. That that isn't what they mean.
That is all bull to get to the equity part, which means
special rights like how my TerrorStrikes.info/quotes
page. You will see I mentioned Animal Farm
in my "Terror Strikes: Coming Soon to a City Near You" book.

If Orwell were alive today, I say he'd write a sequel to Animal Farm and the
line would be "Some Animals get more Equity,
i.e. Special Rights, Special Privileges than other Animals
rather than the Equal opportunity that this nation
promises and affords." It's up to you to do things for yourself,
not leave it to the government to steal for some to give to you so that
everybody has equity. In communism, historically it's shown,
and we've talked in this show about the Bradford colony and the Mayflower
Commie compact failure and Bradford's pivot to Private Property, Free Markets and Personal
Rights, Individual Freedoms, Personal Responsibility,
and the rest they say is history. Communism was tried here on US soil and
failed like everywhere else. Communism, Fascism, Socialism, all is equitable
POOR. You are all for unless if you're part of the ruling elite.


So to tie all this dating thing together with the ChristiTutionalist politics aspect,
you're equal in poorness unless you're a member of the ruling elite.
And a lot of these morons on the left don't understand as George Carlin says
"it's a big club but you're not in it." You're going to be one of the poor.
You're not going to be part of the ruling elite crowd
that's in charge whether it be Communist Fascist or Socialist. Again, this isn't
the 1930s. Germany, the Nazi Socies that later
became known as Fascists -  Nazi Socialists were fighting the
Marxist Moscow backed Communists for power in Germany and control in the 30's.


The Nazis won that battle and of course we have all that history
to show for it. It would have been not as bad but pretty darn bad
had the Moscow Communists won that battle too.
It would have been an expansion to what became the Soviet Empire
maybe without  the Holocaust because
Germany Communists and Moscow Communists would have then
hit (Blitzkreiged) into Poland and the Baltics (from both sides, like did 
happen with Poland as some forget Russia DID invade Poland same time
that Hitler and Germany did from the German side]
and all those Eastern European states


Whether the US and England and
France would have joined the war at that point over that.
You know this is a bit conjecture now is a whole other thing but I'm
kind of giving off topic but this all relates. Today Communism,
Fascism, Socialism there's no real difference. It's all the same thing.
It's just which banner the one with pink polka dots,
the one with purple polka dots or the one with red and green polka dots
on the flag, get to be the ruling elite in charge.
They're all the same to slight various minor differences in how they
accomplish keeping their boot on your throat.




Third stat, back to the dating in these woke times and why I joined
RepublicanSingles.com to check it out and
I'm meeting some great people there. Me again I'm not looking for serious to
marriage dating. I do want to meet some wonderful
conservative women to have an occasional outing with
and to be able to discuss these things with
because the world is going insane.





Hobbies 66% of the women studied say they
have an issue with a red flag if men have no hobbies.
Well it's a good to bad the ugly right I always tell you I've discussed the pros
and the cons so I just don't think some thought this through.
I kind of get that anyone who has no hobbies
at least definitely have at least one hobby of some sort
as I wrote at thelibertybeacon.com.
occasional distractions not only good but healthy. We did that as part of God
and guns plus sports episode a few weeks back.
[hear God and Guns + Sports (occasional distractions) show]
You need some distractions so I get someone who says they have absolutely
no hobbies can be an issue but at the same time and I'm
kind of jumping ahead to can we generalize about all women voters.
So pardon me here you know I'm not trying to paint with a broad brush
but from my own personal experience a woman will say
yeah it's great have your bow tonight out poker night out with the guys right
that's the hobby but how many times do we of course see
in the comedy shows over and over the guys get together
for the poker night and the women complain you're spending too much time
with the guys playing poker. Pardon the bad imitation
of a generalized screeching woman my apologies again I don't mean to paint
with a broad brush we all know some who are like that
so right fantasy football the guys are getting together
every week at the bar to go over their fantasy football picks
you're spending too much time with the guy we don't go out enough
so that is my point with that last part about the no hobbies thing
women want a man again sorry a generalization
but in general a Conservative or a ChristiTucianist want a traditional
man who indeed I would think would have some hobbies
but is indeed focusing on being a good provider
which is not to say women shouldn't be in the workplace
in this day and age households need both income
unless of one or the other whether it be the male or the female
I know someone uh I'm not going to mention I was going to
mention his name I won't mention his name but a good friend
his wife has a six figure salary he's a stay-at-home dad
no problem with that if one person of a couple of a
mayor in a marriage can stay home to help raise the child
rather than both parents having to work that's a good thing


But traditionally yes the matriarchy the patriarchy that the left rails about
traditionally right it's the man who has the higher provider salary
you know please don't get mad at me don't send me nasty grams
you know I'm indeed talking in broad generalities here that
I really don't like doing but society is still kind of sort of that way
uh but both parents often do need to work it's great if one or the other
parent can stay home to help raise the kids
if you have kids or both work in great jobs so you can put away money so that
when you have children someone can stay home
with the child but no hobbies I think is a problem
but at the same time a lot of times conservative women do
say they want a man who's focused right focused on the important things
being the breadwinner bringing home the bacon
focusing if you own a business or potentially at some point in the
future starting your own business which then takes
a whole lot of time you don't have time for hobbies potentially
when you're running and operating your own business
so there are no hobbies then I can see an issue with it and I
don't see an issue with it I hope I've made clear my point here
that it depends but a balance in the life is necessary
or will go out of our minds so yes men need time out with the guys
women need time out with the ladies to maintain our own sanity we need our own
a long time even sometimes for our own mental health and sanity
and for us to maybe just stupidly watch the boob-tube right
while she's out with the ladies I sit home and watch the boom too
distractions just to get out of my head and away from all these
serious topics that we're always talking about here so
if my friend Cousin Sos is watching I highly recommend he join republican
singles dot com start dating woman more compatible to him
for his own well-being and vice versa ladies again it says
RepublicanSingles.com it's really more a Conservative
thing Conservatives but Republicans in general so yes
there are some more Centrist Republicans there but again the
site like all dating sites aggregates what you are based on your
definitions versus what they are they're given definitions
what you and they say they are you are both looking for to give you
percentages of compatibility and then you go from there.


At any rate i can see i'm over 20 minutes in
this was supposed to be just a very brief midweek drop
a very kind of weird and off the wall topic
but as you see or here i hope you understand why i felt the need to try
and tie all this together we had



Thanksgiving hopefully you
didn't have any lunes at your table as i discuss in another episode
completely devoid of historical context
humankind has been warring against each other since
biblical times the Native Americans Colonized each other's land
before the Europeans came and Colonized this land
Saturday that dropped just before this
is about Ukraine elections the Zelinsky dammed if he holds them
dammed if he doesn't he's got an open war zone going on right now
how do you how does one conduct an election in an open war zone
but Colonization is an issue there 100 years of historical context
of Russians/Soviets Colonizing and
trying to put their boot on the throats of Ukrainians and control over
Ukraine's space so it's still happening today you left us lose
[hear latest CTP episode on Ukraine Elections]
and yet they're left a lot of them recognize
as do i i don't support the Zelinsky he's corrupt as Biden
as is Putin but i support the Ukrainian people
who have been oppressed by Russians for a hundred years
this is not a first time this is a umpteenth millionth time
of a Russian invasion and attempted oppression of Ukrainian people
so i support bread and bullets [NOT CASH] to support the Ukrainian people
not Zelinsky who has corrupt himself although
i deal with dammed if he does dammed if he doesn't hold elections
in an open war zone if he holds them he's disenfranchising
those in occupied territory if he doesn't hold them
in the free parts then they're going to claim always want to be
dictator he wants to cancel the Elections like
HAMAS did in GAZA more than a decade and a half ago after
getting elected but you don't hear the left complaining about
HAMAS canceling Elections for a decade and a half
but they'll complain Zelinsky may suspend Elections for a while in Ukraine
as always the good the bad the ugly the pros and cons from me
both sides of the issue gray areas another episode part one and part two
[hear those episodes: Grey Areas and Grey Areas (part 2)]


Things aren't always all black and white so that's how all these things tied
together Thanksgiving thankfully it was me and my
sister over at a friend of my sister's house
all pretty much like-minded people so we didn't have that craziness
but in this woke day and age oh my god i cannot imagine
putting up with tolerating dating someone from the ultra left side of the
aisle because they're always preaching tolerance
when they are the most intolerant people on the planet
with that I'm gonna stop rambling I'm kind of rambling on
I just had the few notes about the three points from the Change
Research survey that i wanted to touch on
and those opened up other rabbit-holes so we went a lot longer
thank you all take care god bless we are in December
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakah to myJewish friends
so yes if they say Happy Holidays at wherever the local Restaurant the Local Store
i don't get bent out of shape i agree with including Hanakah and Christmas
it's gift giving buying season time again for both those Holidays
so let's not get upset about the Happy Holiday phrase as opposed
to them saying Merry Christmas to you because
they don't get to and shouldn't really presume
whether you are a Christian or you're Jewish or you're Atheist or your
Muslim - Happy Holidays encompasses it at all
let's focus on the far more important issues


Take care god bless so i will close with Happy Holidays



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S1E24 SHOW NOTES  ( listen (Wed Dec 6 2023 and thereafter) at: http://buzzsprout.com/2210487 )...
ChristiTutionalist Politics (S1EDecSpecial) "Dating in this WOKE day and age"
A "Change Research" Survey show the great divides in Men and Women, but more-so the dichotomy between Leftist Women and everyone else. Discussion about some of the results in the Survey and how they tie with topics discussed during many of these CTP episodes. Like "only 2 Genders" and saying "All Lives Matter" as well as more sub-topics/issues.


Episode related pieces...
- RepublicanSingles.com   
- https://changeresearch.com/post/young-women-are-more-liberal-than-young-men/ 
- https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/25/survey-64percent-of-men-say-this-is-a-dating-red-flag-.html  
- https://newrepublic.com/post/175556/poll-men-women-red-flags-dating  
- chart via @USA_Polling and @PopulismUpdates on X: https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1701654305311449437  
- CTP Official Coffee: https://tinyurl.com/BlackOutCoffees  


"ChristiTutionalist Politics" podcast (CTP)   
- CTP: tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalist  
- CTP long-form description: tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalistPodcast 
- CTP: tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalistBook  
- TLB articles: thelibertybeacon.com/?s=Joseph+M+Lenard  
- SUBSCRIBE to CTP: tinyurl.com/SubscribeToCTP  
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- CTP Official Coffee: https://tinyurl.com/BlackOutCoffees  
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