Several months ago, a conservative dating app called The Right Stuff that was backed
by billionaire, conservative Peter Thiel, and of course, co-founded by a former Trump
Official by the name of John McKinney.
It launched in August, or excuse me, October, the right stuff.
We are gonna make sure that Republicans only date Republicans.
God forbid you go out there and have any kind of attraction to somebody that's not a member
of the same political party as you, that's just gonna lead to all sorts of problems.
So they launched their conservative dating app, and here we are two months later, an
oops.
It's a massive flop, a massive flop that by the way, everyone knew was going to be a massive
flop.
It started off in the month of October with 44,000 downloads from the Apple App Store.
It is currently not available for Android, so you're not gonna find it in the Google
Store, but 44,000 downloads in the Apple App Store.
But then from November 1st through December 20th, it only had 17,000 downloads.
So the Daily Beast went out to Washington, dc you know, uh, where this thing has launched,
talking to conservatives, talking to staffers on the Hill, four conservatives, are you on
the app?
The right stuff.
And the response was pretty much universal with conservative staffers out there, young
conservatives in the dating pool saying, no, everybody kind of thinks it's a joke.
Uh, one young conservative woman actually said, the only people on that app are actually
Mitch McConnell's staffers.
So they want nothing to do with it.
But what's even funnier is that about a month after it had launched, reports had already
come out of people complaining that there's no women on the site.
Apparently, , the vast majority of these downloads is just a bunch of conservative
dudes.
They, they, they can't find women.
So I, I imagine that's probably a pretty big roadblock when you have a dating app and you
can't find any women willing to join it.
Just a bunch of Republican men who want to control women and a bunch of women smart enough
to understand those aren't the kinds of guys that they want to be dating.
But back to the whole reason this thing is a flop.
It's not just because conservative women don't want to be on it.
I think that's a big part of it.
But the other part of it is people are not necessarily as hyperpartisan in their daily
lives as some of these conservative billionaires like to think, right?
Even me, like I do this every day.
I spend every day reading the news, being involved in politics.
I'm not partisan in my daily
Life.
I don't care if, if I have family members that are Republicans, I don't care if my wife
says something that might be a little right wing.
We don't sit there and argue about it.
She's allowed to have her beliefs.
I'm allowed to have mine.
So are my family members.
So are my friends.
My best friends in the world that I have known for 25 years are hardcore Fox News, watching
everyday conservatives, and we get along beautifully with n We've never had an argument.
So why do these conservatives think that?
Oh, no, no, no.
If we, if we put a liberal and a conservative together in a relationship, it's gonna be
constant fighting.
No, that's, that's not what happens.
Maybe get out of your little billionaire conservative bubble and go out there and look at the real
world and realize that you've gotten it all wrong.
Or don't continue investing your money in these stupid right wing only projects and
losing tons of money because you deserve that too.
But I guess when it comes down to it, yes, we all have our political preferences, but
not all of us let that rule every bit of our lives.
And that's probably a good thing.