Ladies, you are the Bull Conners of the Bathroom. So says Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, by her own standard, may or may not be a woman, depending on how she feels. She explained on Monday that the North Carolina law giving businesses the liberty to maintain sex-specific bathrooms across the state was a violation of federal law. So, Lynch says the law constitutes discrimination, now? Well, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal. Yes, that's correct. That's exactly what the civil rights creators thought when they wrote it: that men had to be protected from women who insisted that men were men, and who objected to seeing penises in ladies' restrooms. This is the argument put forward by the media who ask if there is any long history of transgender women raping actual women in bathrooms. The answer is, no, of course not. That s because we have laws that prevent men from entering women s bathrooms. By the way, you can t have separate bathrooms for purposes of the draft. There goes the feminist case entirely, that women don t actually even have to be women. They can be men with penises. And women are bigots. Bigots! Bigots, like Jim Crow bigots, if they say differently. Ben Shapiro on why the left is the only moral thing the left actually does want to do and why Donald Trump will be the only thing they will be openly embracing and embracing in a matter of just a few years. . The reason that Donald Trump is rising is because he s not even connected to reality at all. He s not only the facts, he sine he s a narcissist, but he s also a racist, sexist, bigot, racist, and bigot he s racist, bigots And he s bigoted, and he s just like a racist so he s lying up up to something that s not going to change anything, right? at least he s getting it all the time, and so he makes things up up, so everybody makes up their mind about it, so they don t make things up about it or they make it up in their heads like they do it, right, right they do things like he does it like that, right he s making it up their minds about it s not up to them? and they re not even making things up?
00:00:01.000Ladies, you are the Bull Conners of the bathroom.
00:00:05.000So says Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who, by her own standard, may or may not be a woman, depending on how she feels, like right now.
00:00:12.000She explained on Monday, the North Carolina law giving businesses the liberty to maintain sex-specific bathrooms across the state was, in fact, a violation of federal law.
00:00:21.000So Lynch says the law constitutes discrimination.
00:00:54.000We saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education, and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex marriage that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry.
00:01:08.000This is insulting, and it's stupid, but it's really insulting to actual women.
00:01:12.000So as I mentioned yesterday, on Saturday I watched my wife give birth.
00:01:17.000You have to be crazy, fully insane, out of your freaking gourd, to believe that Caitlyn Jenner and my wife belong to the same sex.
00:01:28.000Small children, like tiny children, like my two-year-old, understand this.
00:01:33.000The federal government doesn't, and the federal government wants you to relearn everything that you've known since you were two, because they're disgusting and terrible.
00:01:41.000The gender neutral bathrooms were on the docket.
00:01:44.000In the 1970s, the left began pushing something called the Equal Rights Amendment.
00:01:47.000The Equal Rights Amendment said that there shouldn't be any sort of discrimination between the sexes in any law at all.
00:01:54.000And the right said, well, if you get rid of gender neutrality, get rid of gender in legislation, then you have to require sex-neutral bathrooms, for example.
00:02:02.000Phyllis Schlafly, she said at the time that unisex bathrooms and eligibility of females for the draft would both be on the table.
00:02:08.000And feminists said, no, no, we'll never do that.
00:02:11.000Jane Mansbridge was a feminist at the time.
00:02:13.000She said, the unisex toilet issue fed the fervor of anti-equal rights amendment forces by giving them something absolutely outrageous to focus on.
00:02:20.000It could conjure up visions of rape by predatory males.
00:02:23.000So the feminists said, no, we'll never do any of this.
00:03:25.000They will be openly embracing and pushing as the only moral thing to do in a matter of just a few years.
00:03:31.000Second, anyone who stands in the way of the left's agenda will be labeled a bigot, even girls who prefer not to be unclad in closed quarters alone with delusional grown men.
00:03:52.000And I want to start today by talking about, we've been talking a lot about Trump.
00:03:56.000I want to talk not about Trump, although Trump will tie into this.
00:04:00.000The reason that Donald Trump is rising, one of the reasons that he's risen, is because so many people are so upset at the delusional nature of our politics.
00:04:43.000Here's Loretta Lynch talking about how North Carolina's law that says, and this is what the law says, the law says that if I'm a private business owner in North Carolina, there is no local authority that can force me to create unisex bathrooms or allow men into women's bathrooms.
00:04:59.000If I want to, I can have unisex bathrooms, but I'm not going to be forced by local legislators into building a unisex bathroom instead of two separate bathrooms for men and for women.
00:05:10.000And it says that people should be assigned to bathrooms based on their gender, right?
00:05:51.000You know, for Loretta Lynch, a black woman, to say that a white man can be a black woman is the height of silliness.
00:05:58.000But here she is saying that if you don't want, if I don't want a man walking into a bathroom with my wife, if my wife goes into a bathroom and then a man follows her in there,
00:06:08.000And I don't feel like that's appropriate.
00:06:10.000I should be able to go get a security guard and not be seen as somebody who's nasty or discriminatory.
00:06:14.000Here's Loretta Lynch saying that I am like a Jim Crow person and my wife, if she's uncomfortable knowing that in the stall next to her is some dude, unclad, if that makes her uncomfortable, Loretta Lynch says that basically this makes you a Jim Crow racist.
00:06:28.000More to the point, they created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals.
00:06:36.000The most private of functions in a place of safety and security.
00:06:41.000Okay, that would seem to me to describe the women who are in the bathroom.
00:06:55.000And most private of functions, that would actually have to be in a private place.
00:06:59.000And safety and security requires that women be in a place with women when they are performing this function.
00:07:05.000What's so hypocritical and delusional about all of this, aside from the idiotic notion, idiotic notion, that men magically become women by thinking it is so, which is just insane.
00:07:17.000Aside from that, what's amazing is that the same people who are saying that women should not be so offended by men walking into their bathrooms, they're saying that transgenders should be really offended if I call him a her or her a him.
00:07:30.000If I misgender, then I have to be prosecuted by the city of New York.
00:07:33.000But if I walk into a bathroom with women in it, no problem.
00:07:36.000And if the women are offended, it's their problem.
00:07:38.000So if I offend a transgender person by calling them the name of their birth sex,
00:07:43.000If a transgender woman makes someone feel uncomfortable by walking into a bathroom of the opposite birth sex, then the problem is the person who feels uncomfortable.
00:07:50.000You see the inconsistency here and the silliness here?
00:07:55.000...in North Carolina, that House Bill 2 violates federal civil rights laws.
00:08:00.000We asked that they certify by the end of the day today that they would not comply with or implement House Bill 2's restriction on restroom access.
00:08:09.000An extension was requested by North Carolina and was under active consideration.
00:08:15.000But instead of replying to our offer or providing a certification, this morning the state of North Carolina and its governor chose to respond by suing the Department of Justice.
00:08:26.000As a result of their decisions, we are now moving forward.
00:08:30.000Today, we are filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state of North Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, and the University of North Carolina.
00:08:42.000We are seeking a court order declaring HB 2's restroom restriction impermissibly discriminatory, as well as a statewide bar on its enforcement.
00:08:52.000Now, while the lawsuit currently seeks declaratory relief, I want to note that we retain the option of curtailing federal funding to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the University of North Carolina as this case proceeds.
00:09:16.000So the way that this works is that when the Civil Rights Act was written in 1965 and it said women and men, it said there were two sexes in the law itself.
00:09:23.000It says there are two sexes, women and men.
00:09:26.000Now they're redefining what it means to be a woman so that men fit into the category and then saying that the law originally would have prevented discrimination against men who think they are women if we don't treat them like women.
00:09:39.000You're just the same way that the left likes to pretend that the equal
00:09:43.000The equal rights under law provisions, the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the way they like to pretend that this is about gay people, when it eminently was not about gay people.
00:09:54.000Just because they, so what they do is they expand the definition and then they fit it within what they're looking to do.
00:10:00.000They did the same thing with the Civil Rights Act here.
00:10:02.000Women and men meant what women and men meant then, and still mean now, except in the crazy heads of liberals.
00:10:07.000But leftists are now redefining what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man.
00:10:10.000And that's what this whole thing is about in the end.
00:10:47.000Because you've said it's discrimination if I don't allow a woman to participate on a man's team or a man to participate on a woman's team.
00:10:52.000We're just getting rid of separate men's and women's teams.
00:10:55.000Title IX of the same Civil Rights Act she's talking about says,
00:10:58.000Do you have to spend the same amount of money or have the same amount of opportunities in sports available?
00:11:03.000It's destroyed college athletics by the way.
00:11:05.000Do you have to have the same amount of money available for women's sports as for men's sports or the same resources available for women's sports as for men's sports?
00:11:15.000Well, so now she's saying that Title VII, which says no discrimination between women and men, is in direct conflict with Title IX, which says you must have a separation between women and men in terms of what you're funding and what you're backing.
00:11:27.000So if a university came along and they said, look, you just said we can't discriminate between women and men.
00:11:32.000No men's team, no women's team, baseball team.
00:11:45.000When people say throw like a girl, by the way, people on the left, because they're crazy, they like to say things like, it's so sexist to say throws like a girl.
00:11:52.000You know why men say throws like a girl?
00:11:58.000It means that according to scientific study and survey, if you took 1,000 men off the street, 1,000 men off the street, and you took the average woman, and you took the average woman, she will throw slower than 997 of the average men.
00:12:24.000I don't think it's a real important life skill to be able to throw an object really hard.
00:12:27.000But, there are differences between men and women, but the left simultaneously wants to say there are, for Title IX purposes, and then there are not for Title VII purposes.
00:12:36.000So legally speaking, this is all idiotic.
00:13:20.000Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that back in 1975.
00:13:22.000Now, of course, she's on the Supreme Court, and presumably she would vote precisely the opposite.
00:13:27.000She would say that the law requires... She said that when they passed the law, right?
00:13:31.000She would now say the same law that she was writing about at the time now requires that we get rid of private restrooms for men and for women.
00:13:40.000Eugene Volokh says, Title IX bars sex discrimination in educational institutions.
00:13:45.000The Civil Rights Act bars discrimination in many other places.
00:13:47.000The Equal Protection Clause has, since 1975, been interpreted by the Supreme Court as pretty close to what the Equal Rights Amendment would have provided.
00:13:55.000So, the bottom line is that what she said back then is still true.
00:14:00.000What she said back then is still true, but they're going to pretend it isn't.
00:14:51.000So, Loretta Lynch, as we mentioned, she went ahead and she said that this bathroom law was just like Jim Crow.
00:14:57.000Okay, so I want to just make clear to people how not like Jim Crow this is.
00:15:00.000Okay, so here is, like a week ago, Caitlyn Jenner, right, who is Bruce Jenner, who's a six-foot-three dude, right, who got a boob job and some collagen implants and facial surgeries and mutilated himself in the saddest possible way.
00:15:13.000Right, he hasn't gone the full Monty, right?
00:15:15.000He hasn't gotten, he hasn't dropped the chestnuts yet, but he's, but because he still likes those.
00:15:18.000But here's Bruce Jenner, who is a man, who thinks he is a woman, and I feel terrible for him, walking into Trump Tower to pee.
00:15:26.000Okay, this is what it looks like when transgenders have to deal with which bathroom to go to.
00:16:29.000You know, when people are mentally ill, they do bizarre things, like say, I used to be a man, but now I'm a woman, and Caitlyn Jenner clearly, when this video, you should subscribe, folks, so you can see the video, because unless you see the video, you can't see this in all of its massive glory.
00:16:43.000You go to dailywire.com to subscribe, but...
00:16:46.000This is what Caitlyn Jenner looks like when Caitlyn Jenner has not been retouched by the folks over at the magazine, right?
00:16:51.000When Vanity Fair isn't retouching Caitlyn Jenner, this is what Caitlyn Jenner looks like, and Caitlyn Jenner looks like a man in drag.
00:17:00.000Okay, so that's Caitlyn Jenner at Trump Tower.
00:17:01.000That's not even the point that I'm making.
00:17:03.000Okay, so Loretta Lynch says this is just like the Jim Crow South.
00:17:06.000This is a clip from Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights era.
00:17:09.000Okay, this is what happened when Bull Connor decided that he was going to sick dogs and fire hoses on peaceful protesters.
00:17:15.000Does this look like Caitlyn Jenner at Trump Tower?
00:17:18.000In 1963, under orders by City Commissioner Eugene Bull Connor, Birmingham, Alabama City Police used fire hoses and police dogs against children and adults engaged in nonviolent protests against segregation.
00:17:32.000The demonstrations were part of Martin Luther King Jr.'
00:17:37.000Television news coverage of the attacks by police sparked mass nationwide protests.
00:17:43.000Okay, does that look like Caitlyn Jenner taking a pee?
00:17:45.000It doesn't look like Caitlyn Jenner taking a pee to me.
00:17:47.000It also doesn't look like the same thing.
00:17:49.000Because black people trying to eat in restaurants where white people are allowed to eat is not the same thing as a man whipping out his junk in a ladies restroom.
00:17:57.000But, nonetheless, the black community, because they've already gotten their civil rights era, they now have to... This is how the left works together.
00:18:04.000People always ask, why is it the left, which favors gay rights, for example, also favors the radical Muslims in the Middle East over Israel, for example?
00:18:12.000And the answer is because they've created a coalition of victims.
00:18:15.000So what happens is, if you claim victimhood at the hands of the status quo, and if you want to destroy the status quo, we won't pay attention to why you're claiming victimhood, or what victimized you.
00:18:25.000We will just say, oh, you have the same goal I do, tear down the status quo.
00:18:28.000The way we do that is we all are victims together.
00:18:30.000So here is the head of the NAACP saying that Loretta Lynch is right to compare the North Carolina bathroom law to Jim Crow racial segregation, not letting black kids into schools, transgenders facing the equivalent of white people bombing churches.
00:18:57.000If we think about Brown v. Board of Education, the court said that separation and segregation does something to the inside of a child.
00:19:06.000There are ways in which when we set people aside, when we separate them, when we segment them, when we treat them differently, we do something to their dignity.
00:19:15.000It is an assault on their dignity as well as an assault on their rights.
00:19:20.000And so, the Attorney General is doing what a tough, smart Attorney General is supposed to do, which is to enforce the law fairly.
00:19:38.000When somebody who's mentally ill walks into the bathroom, dressed as a woman,
00:19:43.000That might make women feel uncomfortable.
00:19:45.000It would make me feel uncomfortable, and I'm a dude, okay?
00:19:48.000So, and I'm, you know, physically capable of handling myself.
00:19:51.000My 5 foot 2, 105 pound soaking wet wife, if Caitlyn Jenner comes on hulking in there, I'm not gonna feel like she's a bigot if she feels slightly uncomfortable with that.
00:20:02.000But again, this idea is that the law has to protect feelings.
00:20:08.000MSNBC's Ari Melber, he says the same thing.
00:20:10.000He says, the Department of Justice is arguing it's discriminatory, it's discrimination, to say you don't have the right to identify as your chosen gender.
00:20:20.000What do they find it specifically in violation of when they wrote that letter saying you cannot enforce it?
00:20:25.000Well the issue with the bathrooms is essentially the DOJ is taking the position that by excluding people from bathrooms based on their, shall we say, born gender and not their chosen gender or their gender identity and all of these terms of course
00:20:40.000Uh, can be terms of art and difficult, but by gender identity they basically mean what people identify themselves as.
00:20:47.000And so the state going in and saying you don't have that right, this is a matter of civil rights, to identify as the gender you choose is itself discriminatory.
00:20:57.000And the other point procedurally, and I know procedure is less dramatic than some of what we just heard, but it's important is
00:21:03.000Attorney General Lynch also emphasized that the DOJ tried to give an off-ramp here, tried to give North Carolina an opportunity, and they felt that was completely rebuffed, and that's why they're taking North Carolina to court.
00:21:15.000Okay, so North Carolina has the right to run its own state, but what's amazing about this is, again, the idea that the federal law requires a right to identify as what you—and not just a right for you to identify that way, a right for all of us to respect how you identify yourself?
00:21:32.000I mean, the irony of all of this is, of course, the same people doing this were all over the Rachel Dolezal story, the white lady who pretended she was black.
00:21:38.000And she said, no, I identify as black.
00:22:12.000But, you know, again, this is delusional.
00:22:14.000So, point one, the delusions of the left extend to everything up to and including idiocies like this bathroom stuff.
00:22:20.000What's amazing about this, by the way, is that Donald Trump is willing to buy into this delusion, but we'll explain the Trump tie-in in a second.
00:22:26.000So, the left is saying, we're going to deny reality.
00:22:29.000With regard to the nature of the differences between men and women, and we're gonna cram that new reality down your throat.
00:22:36.000Then, they also say they want to deny reality on foreign policy.
00:22:39.000So, one of the things that the left has been pushing very hard is the Iran deal.
00:22:43.000And the Iran deal, it turns out, was, as we talked about yesterday, marketed.
00:22:47.000It was marketed by the Obama administration via all of its friends in the media.
00:22:51.000They just lied about what the Iran deal was.
00:22:52.000They created an alternative reality, a fictional reality, where Hassan Rouhani, the elected leader of Iran,
00:22:58.000Who was only elected because the mullah's hand chose him to run, right?
00:23:02.000They portrayed him as a moderate and they said, oh, he came into office as a moderate and we finally had an opportunity to deal.
00:24:00.000...step agreement on their nuclear program, but there are remaining concerns that we have, as you all are familiar with, whether it's their involvement in support of the regime in Syria or
00:24:12.000The Obama administration says we showed up because our economy is falling apart.
00:24:35.000Even Democrats are starting to say this administration is memory-holing things that they don't like.
00:24:39.000Brad Sherman, who's my congressperson, unfortunately, out here in California.
00:24:43.000Brad Sherman, he says that the FBI strong-armed people on the pages from the 9-11 report that were redacted.
00:24:51.000Here's Brad Sherman saying that the government just memory-holed things that they don't like.
00:24:55.000I didn't even know about this incident until I talked to Glenn on the floor, the senator's daughter.
00:25:05.000This didn't become a major story because Senator Graham is such a calm person.
00:25:13.000But they took a former senator, governor, grabbed him at an airport.
00:25:21.000Hustled him into a room with armed force to try to intimidate him into taking different positions on issues of public policy and important national policy.
00:25:34.000And the fact that he wasn't intimidated because he was calm doesn't show that they weren't trying to intimidate him.
00:25:40.000It just shows us that Senator Graham is a much calmer person than I am.
00:25:44.000So what he's saying, for people who are missing it, is that Senator Graham, Bob Graham, Democrat from Florida, he was pushing for the declassification of 28 pages of the 9-11 Commission Report.
00:25:53.000The Obama administration doesn't want to declassify that stuff.
00:26:08.000There's more of this, more delusional denial of reality.
00:26:13.000Sidney Blumenthal, who's a former aide to Hillary Clinton, he's a hatchet man for Hillary Clinton.
00:26:18.000Sidney Blumenthal is really one of the more egregious people on planet Earth, really a bad guy, and he's the one who's been sort of a foreign policy advisor for Hillary Clinton all throughout her time as Secretary of State, was sending her secret emails that were uncovered when all of her emails came out.
00:26:33.000He was asked whether he was interviewed by the FBI by Chris Matthews or M.A.C.
00:26:37.000And Sidney Blumenthal, he won't even answer whether he's been interviewed by the FBI.
00:26:43.000I want to ask you about the Clintons right now.
00:26:45.000And I guess the first question is, have you been interviewed by the FBI for this email investigation by the FBI?
00:27:55.000Well, my feeling about it is that let's wait and see at the end and see what happens to everybody involved in it and see what the resolution is.
00:28:05.000And then I would like to see the Department of Justice issue a very transparent report.
00:28:12.000So, again, the left is gaslighting us on foreign policy, too.
00:28:13.000And the latest element of gaslighting, the latest trolling element from the left, President Obama is set to visit Hiroshima, Japan, right?
00:28:19.000The place where he dropped the atomic bomb.
00:28:58.000He says the president will visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, a site at the center of the city dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing, where he will share his reflections on the significance of the site and the events that occurred there.
00:29:10.000He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II.
00:29:14.000Instead, he will offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future.
00:29:18.000And then he says about World War II, he says,
00:29:32.000And then he says that he was going to pursue the long-standing commitment to peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
00:29:48.000He's not visiting the Peace Park to talk about how great it was that we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, is he?
00:29:52.000He's not going there to mention the fact that we probably saved a million U.S.
00:29:55.000lives that would have been spent in invading the island of Japan if we had not dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
00:30:02.000Right, he's not gonna, he's not gonna do that.
00:30:04.000Otherwise he wouldn't be visiting, the whole point of visiting the park, this is like the German chancellor visiting Yad Avraham, a holocaust memorial, and then saying, oh well, I'm not here to talk about the holocaust or anything, I just think that human rights are good.
00:30:16.000Right, the fact is that there's no comparison there in the sense that we were morally right to drop the atomic bomb and the Holocaust is morally unjustifiable by any standard, but the idea is that the reason Obama is visiting is the same reason a German Chancellor would visit a Holocaust memorial.
00:30:30.000It's because Obama thinks the dropping of the atomic bomb was a bad thing.
00:30:33.000He thinks the dropping of the atomic bomb was a bad thing, but he's lying to us.
00:30:36.000So he's- Obama is now losing wars retroactively.
00:30:39.000So he's already lost us the- he's already lost us the Gulf Wars retroactively by pulling out all troops from Iraq.
00:30:44.000He's lost us the Korean War retroactively by handing all sorts of power to Kim Jong-un.
00:30:48.000He's losing the- he's lost the Cold War retroactively by allowing Vladimir Putin to do what he wants.
00:30:53.000And now he's gonna lose World War II retroactively by pretending that what we did in Japan was morally unjustifiable.
00:30:59.000So, here's what the result of all this is.
00:31:03.000If you deny reality for years on end about basic things like the differences between men and women, if you deny reality about foreign policy, and you suggest that everything America has ever done is bad, and you go and you pay homage to a site that is supposed to be a referendum on how nasty the United States was for dropping the atomic bomb, or if you cut things out of State Department briefings to gaslight us, what you end up with is tremendous frustration.
00:31:30.000You end up with tremendous frustration.
00:31:32.000And what you look for is somebody who tells it like it is.
00:31:35.000And you look for somebody who doesn't care what people think.
00:31:38.000And you look for somebody who's willing to say crazy things.
00:31:40.000And you put aside crazy, because we're now in the realm of crazy.
00:31:51.000You don't care if you're a guy who lies, so long as he's not telling you lies that are such obvious stupidities that it makes you sick to your stomach.
00:32:00.000When Trump tells lies, when he says things that are not true, it's always a grain of truth surrounded by a lie.
00:32:06.000So when he says that he wants to end all Muslim immigration to the United States, I think that's bad policy, but the underlying grain of truth is that Muslim immigration to the United States, mass Muslim immigration from countries we don't know, is a major problem for national security.
00:32:20.000So people can look at him and they can say, okay, well he might be crazy, but he's not your crazy.
00:32:24.000Right, he might be crazy, but you made us crazy.
00:32:25.000I mean, you're saying that Islam is not even a threat at all.
00:32:38.000That's a direct response to the left saying, it is bad to use nuclear weapons even when you must use nuclear weapons to save millions of lives.
00:32:47.000Right, when Donald Trump says things about women that are nasty,
00:32:51.000And people on the left proclaim that's bad.
00:32:53.000People who support Trump, they say, well, listen, you don't, you guys don't get to defend women.
00:32:57.000You're the ones who are saying that transgender men get to go into women's bathrooms.
00:33:01.000When you enter the realm of dishonesty, once honesty is no longer an element of American politics, you can't be surprised when the result is dishonesty on all sides.
00:33:40.000But, that does not mean all men are pigs.
00:33:42.000The reason that I don't say, and I don't believe, that all men are pigs is because what that leads women to is, okay, well, if all men lie to me, then I might as well pick the guy who tells me the prettiest lies.
00:33:51.000And the guys who tell you the prettiest lies are typically the ones you don't want to bring home to mother.
00:33:55.000Because they'll tell you all sorts of lies about how they're gonna drop their cocaine habit and how they're gonna leave their wives for their mistresses and all this stuff.
00:34:04.000The person who you want is the person who actually tells you the truth.
00:34:06.000We still should be in pursuit of truth, but the left has made the pursuit of truth secondary to their own narrative.
00:34:12.000If we all make the pursuit of truth secondary to our own narrative, which is what's happened with Trump,
00:34:16.000If we all do that, we end up in a world where no one is trustworthy, where everyone lies, and the only question is who wields the power to define reality for you?
00:34:25.000Now for me, I don't think a politician should define reality for me.
00:34:28.000I don't think a political movement should define reality for me.
00:34:33.000And if I sense evidence that something is not true, I'll change my opinion on it.
00:34:37.000But, again, what the left has done is they've driven us all mad.
00:34:39.000They've driven us all mad by saying that words have no meanings, basic things like male and female have no meanings, basic things like right and wrong, they have no meanings.
00:34:46.000And so the answer is, okay, well, if these things have no meanings, then I'll just pick the most vulgar, terrible person I can find who says things that I like to hear.
00:34:54.000And for a lot of people, that's Donald Trump, who tells them that he's going to bring their jobs back by magically punishing people, and who suggests that he's going to protect them through the power of his persona.
00:35:02.000He says the things that they want to hear.
00:35:04.000And he's big and he's strong and he says things like that.
00:35:07.000So, that's why I think all of this leads to a politics that is totally broken and the left has broken our politics.
00:35:12.000We at least used to be able to debate these things.
00:35:14.000Now, if I say men and I say women, I don't even know if the person I'm talking to knows what I'm saying anymore.
00:35:18.000It's like we're speaking different languages because we have different realities.
00:35:32.000The consolidation continues to pace behind Donald Trump on the Republican side of the aisle.
00:35:35.000People who I heretofore respected and thought were good at their jobs, Rick Perry for one, he's now saying we have to respect Donald Trump's win.
00:35:44.000Here's what the former governor of Texas had to say.
00:35:48.000We agree on a whole lot more than we disagree on.
00:35:50.000I mean, if you want to split hairs, if you want to get your panties in a wad over this issue or that one, that's fine.
00:35:56.000But the point is, Donald Trump is going to be our nominee.
00:36:49.000There's no authority that attaches to the Republican nomination.
00:36:51.000It's just your opportunity to run for the presidency.
00:36:54.000If you think that authority attaches to the Republican nomination...
00:36:57.000Ask yourself, from 2012 to 2016, what kind of authority did Mitt Romney wield?
00:37:02.000No authority attaches to the Republican nomination.
00:37:05.000But, you know, this is the new line, is that you have to back Trump because he won.
00:37:09.000And what's happening now is that there's a false narrative being constructed.
00:37:13.000And when we talk about false narratives in reality, a false narrative is being constructed.
00:37:17.000And that is that everyone opposes Trump for the same reason, and the same reason is that we're all establishment.
00:37:21.000Anybody who's watched this show or listened for more than five minutes knows I despise the establishment.
00:37:26.000I've spent this entire election cycle railing against the establishment and the fact that now so many establishment figures like Mitch McConnell, like John Boehner, are backing Donald Trump.
00:37:37.000Right, but there's a conflation that's happening now that suggests that I oppose Donald Trump for the same reason Jeb Bush opposes Donald Trump.
00:37:44.000And when Trump slams Jeb, by the way, for not supporting him, I even resonate to this, and I agree with Jeb that we ought not support Donald Trump.
00:37:52.000Here's Donald Trump slamming Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.
00:37:54.000If you look at the Republican primary votes, millions and millions of people came in that nobody expected, and they voted for me.
00:38:01.000So what are you going to tell them in that meeting?
00:38:03.000I'm going to say, look, this is what the people want.
00:38:05.000Jeb Bush just said he's not going to vote for you.
00:39:28.000I can't believe this would come about in Romney already.
00:39:31.000He said that he wasn't that much interested, but I think what the neocons will do to build crystals of the world, and you hear it already, they're going to go with Hillary.
00:39:40.000Hillary is a Wall Street person, and she's a neocon, and she wants to spend money in the military, so a lot of them will go there.
00:39:48.000They're not going to get Romney to run, so I think it will shift a lot of people over to Hillary, because I've always argued that Hillary could possibly have run as a Republican with some of her positions.
00:39:58.000Okay, so he's saying that people like me, people like Bill Kristol presumably, and I'm more conservative than Kristol is, and I'm not as much of an interventionist in foreign policy, the real reason we don't support Trump is because in the end we're going to go to Hillary.
00:40:10.000I've said repeatedly, I will never vote for Hillary.
00:40:14.000She is morally unpalatable on every level.
00:40:17.000I also will not vote for Trump for the same reason.
00:40:19.000Be careful when you're examining this race not to conflate a false reality presented by the Trumpkins with the real reality, which is that there are many different reasons not to support Donald Trump.
00:40:28.000I'm not on the side of the establishment when I don't support Donald Trump.
00:40:44.000So, people tend to say that I pick older movies for the movies that I like.
00:40:48.000Here's a- this is still an older movie now because it's amazing how fast time moves, but there was a time in my life where this was a new movie, um, The Truman Show.
00:42:31.000Okay, so it is a really, really good, and super clever, and it's about the nature of reality, so it kind of fits in with the theme of the show.
00:43:19.000The lamplighters have, of course, been aware of all this.
00:43:21.000Although traditionally set in Japan, the Mikado is not actually about Japan, and we feel there are many ways to perform the production respectfully while keeping all of the original humor and brilliance.
00:43:30.000Our original plan was to set this year's Mikado in the late 19th century Meiji period, the time when it was written, and a time of international cross-cultural exchange.
00:43:39.000We tried to reach out to various Japanese and Asian Bay Area organizations in the hopes of encouraging discussion and collaboration.
00:44:09.000So, they took a play that was written, not by Japanese people, about Japan, and they decided to reset it in Renaissance Italy, which makes no sense because the Mikado doesn't exist in Renaissance Italy, and they decided to do this because there were all these Asian groups that were ticked about it.
00:44:22.000Okay, the Mikado is not a piece of work that's designed to make fun of Japanese people any more than Rodgers and Hammerstein.
00:44:28.000They did a musical about Japanese Americans.
00:45:02.000The same people, the same exact people, celebrating Hamilton on Broadway for being an all-minority production of a bunch of things white people did.
00:45:15.000Those are the same people saying, if white people do a production about Japan, and they dress up as Japanese people, that's racist, it's cultural appropriation, and it's terrible.
00:45:24.000So in other words, the only culture it's okay to appropriate is white European culture.
00:45:29.000Or culture created by white Europeans.
00:45:31.000That's the only culture it's okay to appropriate.
00:45:33.000You can take that, and you can even take- Hamilton is no longer a white guy, now he's a mixed race... Puerto Rican guy, I think.
00:45:45.000Again, I don't really care that much about it except that I don't like the idea that the only way to teach people of different races about your culture is to make the people of your race a different race.
00:45:56.000The idea here is that if you set a play anywhere that is not your home, I can only write about Jewish people, Lindsay can only write about white people, Mathis can only write about people with hair like James Dean, that's all we can do, right?
00:46:07.000All we can do is we can just write about people who look like us or who act like us.
00:46:13.000You may as well forget culture, you may as well forget the conversation.
00:46:15.000Everything left us is designed to end conversation.
00:46:27.000Women and men, we can't explain the difference between them, so that goes away.
00:46:30.000There's no universality to any of that.
00:46:32.000All this creates is simultaneously the notion that all human beings are basically the same underneath, but we can't talk to each other, so what does it matter?
00:46:59.000So what is the government there to do?
00:47:00.000The government is there to make sure that we get along, right?
00:47:03.000This is where it all ties into the left.
00:47:04.000The government is there to make sure that this vast broiling pot of humanity where we're all the same underneath, but we can't communicate with each other?
00:47:11.000The only way we can communicate with each other is government because it's the only thing we all have in common.
00:47:16.000It's the only thing, as Barack Obama said in 2012, it's the only thing we all share is the government.
00:47:28.000And the government is there to cram down a common culture on all of us that we have to accept, a common language, a common reality that we have to accept based on what the government wants us to accept, and always reinforces that same idea that we can't get along with each other without the government, but underneath...
00:47:42.000We're all the same, so if we could just have a government that smushes us all together in one big sandwich, if basically government takes us all and puts us in a blender, then we can create a homogenous mix of people, and we'll all taste the same.
00:47:55.000It'll taste terrible, but we'll all taste the same, and the government has made us all the same.