The death toll from the fires in Los Angeles has risen to at least 10, and the destruction has been extensive, with at least 5 fires burning simultaneously across the city, destroying or damaging more than 10,000 structures. Meanwhile, a new fire broke out in the San Fernando Valley on Thursday afternoon, causing more than 200,000 people to evacuate their homes.
00:00:00.000Alrighty, folks, we have a ton to get to today on the show.
00:00:02.000We're going to bring you everything from the L.A. fires.
00:00:04.000We are also going to be talking about the Jimmy Carter Memorial, at which Donald Trump obviously dominated the proceedings, plus a review of the worst movie I have seen in, I don't know, five years.
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00:00:33.000All right, so the latest in Los Angeles, the death toll has now risen to 10. After three days of raging wildfires, according to the Wall Street Journal, at least five infernos were burning simultaneously around Los Angeles, engulfing entire neighborhoods, destroying more than 10,000 structures, upending daily life in a historic disaster.
00:00:50.000You're talking about tens of thousands of acres that have been burned.
00:00:53.000You're talking about thousands of structures that have been burned as well.
00:00:58.000That at least one of these fires was almost certainly arson.
00:01:01.000It would be shocking if many of these fires weren't arson, actually, because one of the problems when you have a big wildfire like this in California is that very often you end up with copycats who then want to see what happens if you light a fire in the middle of high winds.
00:01:15.000And so, obviously, you're talking about massive, massive damage.
00:01:19.000Economic losses from the blazes, according to the Wall Street Journal, have been estimated in the tens of billions.
00:01:24.000Tens of thousands of people have been displaced.
00:01:27.000200,000 people are without power across the wider Los Angeles area.
00:01:32.000Almost 400,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders, according to Robert Fenton Jr., regional administrator at FEMA. Pacific Palisades has essentially been burned to the ground.
00:01:43.000Fire has destroyed or damaged some 5,300 homes, businesses, and other buildings.
00:01:49.000The footage from above is absolutely shocking.
00:01:52.000Fox News' Jonathan Hunt was on the ground describing flattened LA neighborhoods that he says resemble bombed-out World War II cities.
00:01:59.000We're seeing a very different day to yesterday.
00:02:36.000There is nothing like a war zone other than a war zone, having been to a few of those.
00:02:40.000But when you look at the pictures and the aerial pictures that I know you've seen of some of the neighborhoods here, it does remind me of some of those pictures from World War II and English cities during the Blitz.
00:03:03.000It quickly grew to nearly 1,000 acres.
00:03:05.000New evacuation orders and warnings were issued.
00:03:08.000The wind conditions remained very problematic.
00:03:10.000One of the big issues here is that even after all of this is over, even after these fires have been contained, it's going to be hell to rebuild all of this stuff.
00:03:18.000Many of these homes were not fully insured because it turns out it's difficult to actually get fire insurance in California and in Los Angeles in particular, thanks to regulatory hurdles and thanks to cost of insurance.
00:03:30.000The rebuilding of these homes, particularly in places like Malibu, Pacific Palisades, that's going to get tangled up in red tape for years because this is how California does development.
00:03:39.000You're going to have years-long efforts to rebuild these homes that are tangled up in all the environmentalist bureaucracy that prevents you from building an additional bedroom in your home in Malibu.
00:03:50.000So all those people who vote Democrat and live in Malibu, they're about to find out the hard way what it means when you actually have to work through all of the bureaucracy.
00:03:59.000That has hampered the daily life of Californians for years.
00:04:04.000FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell says, we know it's going to take a long time to get the debris out.
00:04:07.000We know this recovery is going to be complicated, but it is doable.
00:04:10.000Karen Bass is suggesting that she's going to try to clear red tape to aggressively rebuild affected areas.
00:04:15.000But again, how much that's going to be followed as time goes on is anybody's guess.
00:04:21.000Some of the estimates right now suggest the LA wildfire.
00:04:24.000Would be the costliest in American history.
00:04:26.000One JP Morgan analyst has estimated total economic losses at close to $50 billion.
00:05:53.000This is being mirrored, obviously, by people who are native Californians, ranging from Mel Gibson, who lost one of his homes in California to the wildfires, to Joe Rogan, who, of course, used to operate out of California before he moved his offices to Austin, Texas.
00:06:10.000Here are Rogan and Mel Gibson going after Gavin Newsom, the grease-haired governor of California.
00:06:15.000We were just talking about the wildfire situation and how crazy it is that they spent $24 billion last year on the homeless.
00:07:22.000As the editors at the Free Press put it this morning, California loves to spend increasingly moving toward a model of governance where good money consistently chases after bad.
00:07:29.000Newsom has spent some $22 billion to combat homelessness since he took office, and yet there's been a 3% increase in homelessness in the past year.
00:07:37.000Newsom made California the first state to have its Medicaid program cover illegal immigrants.
00:07:41.000This blatant sop to progressive activists is now expected to cost Californians $6.5 billion a year.
00:07:47.000The city of Los Angeles allocated $1.3 billion to combat homelessness last year.
00:07:51.000Although the city comptroller found half the money has gone unspent.
00:07:55.000The LA Fire Department got a good deal less than that.
00:07:57.000$837 million, a budget that has since been cut by $17 million.
00:08:02.000And by the way, it's not just a matter of that.
00:08:08.000In what has to be one of the most insane clips I have ever seen, under any circumstances, there's a clip that was being passed around X yesterday, of the LA Fire Department Assistant Chief, a woman named...
00:08:21.000Christine Larson, who is a large LGBTQ plus woman, and she is answering the question as to what she would say to someone who says, you don't have the physical capacity to carry my husband out of a burning building.
00:09:43.000Her whole shtick there is you need to have sympathy for the people who are in the midst of a tragic situation like a fire, which is why you need people who look like you.
00:09:50.000A dumb argument, but at least an argument that lives somewhere in the general vicinity of rationality.
00:09:57.000But the same person who's saying empathy, empathy, is saying if there's a dude who's, say, in a wheelchair and couldn't get out.
00:10:05.000Well, it's his own fault he put himself there.
00:10:08.000The left-wing argument, which is, if it's my responsibility, it's your fault, it applies across the board.
00:10:15.000Carrying that man out of that building is her responsibility, but it's your fault.
00:10:20.000Well, perhaps you feel unprotected by, you know, law enforcement and the people who are supposed to protect you after listening to that LA Fire Department Assistant Chief.
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00:12:40.000If you do commit a crime, it's probably somebody else's fault.
00:12:44.000Because in the end, for the left, responsibility must be destroyed.
00:12:48.000Responsibility must be destroyed in the name of a better society.
00:12:52.000And if everything burns down, I suppose everything burns down.
00:12:56.000That woman, by the way, is the head, I believe, of the DEI department of the LA Fire Department, allegedly making somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000 a year in taxpayer money.
00:13:07.000But what's going wrong in LA, they asked.
00:14:09.000Who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild.
00:14:16.000And when they start running into the bureaucracy and the red tape, they're going to start going nuts and they're going to vote for Rick Caruso next time because they want to get...
00:15:31.000Let me just say, first and foremost, my number one focus, and I think the focus of all of us here with one voice, is that we have to protect lives, we have to save lives, and we have to save homes.
00:15:51.000When that is done, when we are safe, when lives have been saved and homes have been saved, we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable any body, department, individual, etc.
00:16:17.000Now, speaking of one of the big screw-ups of our generation, Gavin Newsom, remember, Gavin Newsom was widely touted as a possible replacement for Joe Biden before they shoveled Kamala Harris in there to lose to Donald Trump.
00:16:27.000Gavin Newsom was tripesing around Southern California, pretending to give a bleep about what was going on down there.
00:16:34.000You know, I guess that his reservation at the French Laundry was later in the evening.
00:16:39.000There he was, walking around, looking like a bad guy from a 1980s movie, which is his typical look, right?
00:18:43.000Gavin Newsom, what a wonderful, wonderful man.
00:18:45.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden did a presser yesterday, and it continued to go well for Joe Biden.
00:18:49.000You'll recall that at his presser the day before, he announced the birth of his great-grandchild, which is exactly what the suffering people of Southern California were looking to hear.
00:18:58.000Well, yesterday he assured everyone that he knows, that everyone in Southern California wants to know.
00:19:16.000We expect there may be a temporary break in the winds, but in some areas, the winds are likely to continue well into next week.
00:19:23.000And so we're going to continue to spend sending everything, literally every resource we can find that's appropriate to help the governor and the first responders.
00:19:35.000Well, I mean, I feel better, don't you?
00:19:37.000Then Joe Biden, being incompetent, told Kamala Harris to fire away.
00:19:42.000Yes, by the way, he did this twice during this presser.
00:19:46.000Madam Vice President, I know you're directly affected, so you fire away.
00:20:07.000Here's one Pacific Palisades homeowner saying, you know, L.A. made kind of a big mistake in electing Democrats for, I don't know, decades on end.
00:20:17.000Karen Bass does not serve the interests of L.A. residents.
00:20:21.000Some of the decisions are nonsensical, such as cutting 17.6 million dollars from L.A. Fire Department's budget, but instead prioritizing homelessness, where roughly half of the funds of 1.3 billion dollars was not even spent.
00:20:57.000He was just elected to replace George Gascon, who is the Soros-funded candidate, the guy who just wanted to let all the criminals out onto the streets.
00:21:07.000I want to also make clear to anyone who was thinking about taking advantage of it for their own personal illegal profit.
00:21:15.000That those looters, those scammers, those people who are going to prey on vulnerable people who are looking to rebuild their lives, that they will actually be arrested, they will be prosecuted, and we will seek maximum punishment against them.
00:21:31.000Those people who want to take advantage of this tragedy are despicable.
00:21:36.000And I wanted to say a fair warning out to them right now, so there's no misunderstanding about how they will be treated.
00:21:46.000Yes, maybe the hope for Democratic areas is that Democrats begin to wake up to the bad governance they have brought upon themselves.
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00:24:05.000Ron DeSantis yesterday was at a presser, and people were getting very angry at Donald Trump because Donald Trump had been saying mean things about Gavin Newsom.
00:24:12.000And Ron DeSantis was like, hold up a second.
00:24:14.000I did hurricane response for the last several years, and Kamala Harris was ripping on me.
00:24:20.000If this were a Republican who had botched this fire this badly, it would be endless news on a loop on CNN and MSNBC. Thank you.
00:24:32.000Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives any time these things happen?
00:24:40.000Now, you're not as interested in doing that because Newsom is a D. If Newsom was a Republican, you guys would have him nailed to the wall for what they're doing over there.
00:24:51.000We just assume in Florida, any time something happens, it's going to be politicized by the media.
00:24:59.000I mean, he pointed out during this presser to DeSantis, last time there was a Cat 5 hurricane, Kamala Harris suggested that I wouldn't return her phone calls because I was being a partisan.
00:25:13.000She'd never called at any other point during a natural disaster.
00:25:42.000Okay, speaking of President Trump yesterday, there was a memorial service for Jimmy Carter in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. There were some great ironies to this.
00:25:52.000One of them is that the Pete Hegseth tattoo, the one that has been so terribly, obviously brutal and terrible, the cross tattoo that is supposedly a Christian nationalist tattoo.
00:26:08.000It turns out that that's actually not that.
00:26:11.000That's actually just called the Jerusalem Cross, and it's a symbol that was literally used on the invitation for the Jimmy Carter Memorial and was also, you know, etched into the floor of the Washington Cathedral.
00:26:37.000From allowing Iran to fall to the Ayatollahs, to the taking of the hostages, the Iranian embassy, to the collapse of Afghanistan and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to record levels of inflation combined with unemployment.
00:26:51.000Jimmy Carter was bad about pretty much everything.
00:26:55.000I mean, truly an awful, awful president.
00:26:57.000And then as an ex-president, actively lobbying against Ronald Reagan, actively lobbying countries to oppose George H.W. Bush in defense of Kuwait, actively standing for Hamas for the North Korean regime.
00:27:44.000Nonetheless, the rewriting continued apace.
00:27:47.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the nation's five living presidents gathered to honor former President Jimmy Carter in a pomp-filled funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, a moment of solemn respite from the Capitol's political tensions in preparations for a new administration.
00:28:01.000So Joe Biden got up and spoke, and the man just does not own a mirror.
00:28:07.000Here he was explaining that Jimmy Carter reminds us that we have an obligation to stand up against abuse of power, says the president who pardoned his own son.
00:28:17.000Pardon his own son, not just for the crimes of which he had already been accused, but of all crimes.
00:28:22.000Here is Joe Biden, endlessly corrupt president of the United States, talking about abuse of power.
00:28:28.000You know, we have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor.
00:28:36.000And to stand up to what my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all, the abuse of power.
00:28:47.000Stuart Eisenstadt, Carter's domestic policy advisor, spoke of Carter's political leadership, which had been tarnished by events, including the crisis, in which Iran held more than 50 Americans hostage for the last quarter of his presidency.
00:28:56.000He said Carter restored integrity to government after the Watergate scandal.
00:29:03.000Actually, Gerald Ford did that, which is why Gerald Ford almost won, by the way, in 1976. And then Jimmy Carter got absolutely swamped in 1980. But the sort of fascinating part of this ceremony was the treatment of Donald Trump.
00:29:16.000So clearly, Donald Trump is not in the good graces of people like the Bush family.
00:29:20.000The Bush family doesn't like Donald Trump.
00:29:21.000That, of course, is not a giant shock.
00:29:23.000Donald Trump was pretty rough on Jeb, and he has effectively called George W. Bush a war criminal and all the rest of this.
00:29:28.000So they don't like each other very much.
00:29:30.000And George W. Bush has sort of a history of being cozy with the Obamas.
00:29:35.000He and Barack are famously sort of friendly, as are Laura and Michelle.
00:29:41.000And so there was a point at which George W. Bush did not greet the Trumps.
00:29:45.000But then gave a sort of belly tap to Obama.
00:31:00.000was he says something and it cracks obama up okay so um was that orange hitler the threat to the republic that we've all heard about See, this is the thing.
00:31:16.000This is the thing when you look at this.
00:31:17.000When I say that Trump's victory tour is continuing, it is a victory over the idea that Trumpism or MAGA or Donald Trump himself is some sort of Hitlerian authoritarian movement set to dominate the country and destroy all mechanisms of democracy.
00:31:32.000The thing that really was restored here was, in fact, a sense of normalcy in the last election cycle because...
00:31:38.000Democrats kept saying over and over and over, this isn't normal.
00:31:43.000It looks kind of like Donald Trump and Barack Obama joking around.
00:31:49.000And it kind of looks like not L.A. on fire.
00:31:52.000Like, you have to choose between Donald Trump making wild statements and things kind of going on as normal and you living your life and things getting handled.
00:32:00.000And also, everybody's saying very kind, progressive, and empathetic things.
00:32:04.000Except if your house is on fire, in which case it's your fault you're stuck there.
00:32:08.000Well, I think that I'll choose the first.
00:32:11.000Donald Trump saying mean things to Gavin Newsom and then the country running seems a lot more normal to me than, you know, entire cities on fire while the LA mayor says DEI things.
00:32:22.000The left's definition of normalcy is not, in fact, normal.
00:32:38.000That, I think, should be the big takeaway there.
00:32:41.000Aside from the fact that no one should ever again perform the song Imagine, the worst song in the history of the world.
00:32:46.000Truly an awful, egregious, immoral piece of trash.
00:32:51.000And honestly, as one ex-poster suggested, when Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed Imagine at this memorial service for Jimmy Carter, the luckiest person in the room was Jimmy Carter.
00:33:40.000Apparently, he is ready in close to 100 executive orders, according to one Republican senator.
00:33:45.000We'll get into the details of some of those executive orders and what we know at this point in just one moment.
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00:35:10.000And in some ways, this is not like a sequel, but this is a good accompaniment to that general idea, because this goes deep into the severity and the graphic brutality and the medieval nature of what transitioning actually is.
00:35:26.000In some ways, it is the result of if you can't answer what a woman is, you're going to start chopping off 12-year-olds' breasts.
00:35:32.000Then we get into the movie in great detail on the parents that lose their kids through divorce settlements and medical kidnapping.
00:36:30.000I've mentioned this before with regard to the re-election of Speaker Johnson, or with regard to the discussion over what should go into a continuing resolution versus what should not.
00:36:39.000I think all too often, people in my position, people in this sort of conservative or political commentariat, they conflate two things.
00:36:46.000One is the principle, and one is the pragmatic.
00:36:49.000And they just assume away the pragmatic.
00:36:51.000They say, we want 100% of the pie, and if you don't give us 100% of the pie, you're not doing your job.
00:37:00.000There are always pragmatic political considerations in a fractious democracy in which Republicans currently control the House by one or two seats and control the Senate by three.
00:37:10.000That means that the policymaking aspect of all this is never going to be quite what you've been promised because we don't rule by dictatorship here in the United States.
00:37:20.000And so I, for one, am not particularly disappointed to learn, for example, that Elon Musk has scaled back his ambitious pledge to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
00:37:29.000Well, because as I said months ago, that ain't going to happen.
00:37:32.000And the reason it was never going to happen is because if you wish to slice trillions of dollars from the federal budget, you need to look to the entitlement programs.
00:37:40.000The discretionary spending is not going to find you trillions of dollars to cut.
00:37:43.000It is the mandatory spending, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, that need restructuring.
00:39:36.000Really nasty habit of suggesting that a conversation with somebody on the right ought to be verboten, just out of the gate.
00:39:43.000This is true everywhere from my arena in the media, where if you're on the left and you are seen in public with a person on the right, this means you are very bad.
00:40:23.000Meanwhile, Democrats continue to squabble over a path forward.
00:40:27.000According to Politico, The Democratic Party's top two congressional leaders both agree the party lost big in the election over voters' economic fears and must now overhaul its pocketbook messaging to win again.
00:40:40.000But some other New York Democrats are not so sure.
00:40:42.000Interviews with nearly every New York House Democrat reveals variations on where they believe their party's push against Donald Trump should start, underscoring Jeffrey's challenge in leading a Big Ten caucus that ranges from socialists to blue dogs.
00:40:52.000Some House members are less humbled by their party's election drubbing than others.
00:41:21.000The good decision comes courtesy of a federal judge in Kentucky.
00:41:24.000We struck down President Biden's effort to expand protections for transgender students, according to the New York Times, and make other changes to the rules governing sex discrimination in schools.
00:41:33.000So you'll remember the Biden administration had idiotically attempted to expand Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to suggest that boys had to go into girls' bathrooms, even though Title IX is specifically designed to protect women.
00:41:47.000In a 15-page opinion, Chief Judge Danny Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky wrote the Education Department could not lawfully expand the definition of Title IX to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.
00:41:57.000He said the entire point of Title IX is to prevent discrimination based on sex.
00:42:01.000Throwing gender identity into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless.
00:42:14.000There was another decision that came down yesterday, and this one was not particularly good.
00:42:20.000This decision was about Judge Merchan and his sentence with regard to President Trump.
00:42:27.000So the Supreme Court was considering whether or not Merchan's capacity to deliver a sentence on the sitting president of the United States ought to be vacated.
00:42:36.000Well, they divided Supreme Court yesterday, greenlit Judge Merchan's determination to sentence President-elect Trump.
00:42:43.000On 34 business records falsification counts on which he was found guilty in May in that ridiculous prosecution brought by the Manhattan Progressive Democratic DA Alvin Bragg.
00:42:53.000Well, this morning, Judge Juan Marichan pronounced a sentence of unconditional discharge, which means that there will be no probation, there won't be any sort of home arrest or anything for Donald Trump.
00:43:03.000He called it the only lawful sentence because, of course, Donald Trump has been...
00:43:07.000And so he can't have any of this sort of stuff applied to him while he's the president.
00:43:11.000Merchant said, quote, Sir, I wish you Godspeed as you pursue your second term in office.
00:43:42.000If Donald Trump had not, in fact, been re-elected, if in fact Donald Trump had lost to Kamala Harris, Judge Juan Marichan would have hit him with the book.
00:43:48.000Judge Marichan would have put him under house arrest.
00:43:50.000He might have had him thrown into jail.
00:43:53.000Trump was running against the possibility of being arrested for a completely specious non-crime based on his payoffs to Stormy Daniels in 2015-2016.
00:44:07.000And the number of times they've tried to get Donald Trump, the number of crises that we as a country have narrowly avoided and narrowly averted, the hand of God is on Trump.
00:44:15.000When God reaches his hand down and turns Donald Trump's head, fractions of a degree, and a bullet hits him in the ear, I'm not sure what else to make of that.
00:44:25.000And my staff told me that it was mandatory that I watch what will probably win Best Picture this year.
00:44:32.000You know, I... I try to keep abreast of the various movies that are nominated for Best Picture, even though there hasn't been a solid Best Picture winner in the Oscars for years and years and years at this point.
00:44:44.000I'm trying to remember the last solid Best Picture winner.
00:45:30.000So, let me first explain the premise of this unbelievably stupid, insulting, and morally vacuous film.
00:45:37.000So, the premise of this film is that there is a gangland drug leader who is played by a person named Carla Sophia Gascon.
00:45:47.000Now, Carla Sophia Gascon is a trans woman, which is to say a man.
00:45:51.000In fact, Carla Sophia Gascon, in real life, identified as a male until the age of, I believe, 46 years old.
00:45:58.000And then at the age of 46 in 2018, decided that he was, in fact, a she.
00:46:04.000And decided to go through all of the various surgeries to make him look more like a her, I would say, rather unsuccessfully.
00:46:11.000In this particular story, Carla Sofia Gascon plays, at the beginning of the film, a Mexican drug lord, like a head of a deadly drug cartel, who decides that it's not just that he wants to disappear and to enjoy his wealth.
00:46:26.000He wants to disappear and become a woman.
00:46:31.000The lawyer he ropes into this scheme is played by Zoe Saldana, who is playing a person named Rita Mora Castro.
00:46:39.000That's the lawyer in this particular film.
00:46:41.000And she is going to be helping the newly named Emilia Perez become a woman.
00:46:47.000And now there are complications that ensue.
00:46:49.000So the basic plot of the film is reliant on one essential feeling about life.
00:46:56.000And if you don't buy into this feeling, the entire movie is actually quite evil.
00:46:59.000That feeling is, if you cut off your balls, this makes you a better person.
00:47:03.000That is the basic premise of the film.
00:47:04.000The basic premise of the film is, if you take a genocidally murderous drug lord, and this person wants to feel like a woman inside, and so gets a bunch of surgeries and hormone treatments, when that person emerges on the other side, that person is to be treated as a feminist saint.
00:48:55.000And so I'm going to be pretending to be my own cousin living in Mexico.
00:49:00.000I'm going to pay my ex-wife and the kids, the wife thinks he's dead at this point, to come live with me in Mexico.
00:49:09.000Complications ensue because it turns out that the wife has a lover.
00:49:13.000And not only that, so does Amelia Perez.
00:49:17.000He, now a she, falls in love with a woman.
00:49:22.000All of this comes as Zoe Saldana, his character, the lawyer, and Amelia Perez decide that not only is it time for Amelia Perez to return to Mexico as a woman, it is time for Amelia Perez to become an extraordinarily high-scale public figure whose job it is to uncover all of the bodies of people murdered by drug cartels.
00:49:43.000At no point, by the way, does this drug cartel leader actually apologize to anyone for having, you know, murdered humans.
00:49:50.000Instead, This person just traipses around explaining that it's very, very bad to kill people and bury their bodies in unnamed places and such.
00:50:00.000By the end of the film, the drug cartel leader and his ex-wife have died in a car crash and the children now belong to the lawyer.
00:50:50.000So, as we say, Zoe Saldana's character, who makes no sense, by the way, she's a lawyer who's supposed to be, I guess, a good, nice person, but she's introduced in the film defending a wife murderer and taking $2 million to help a drug cartel leader become a woman, but is supposed to be the moral center of the film, which makes no sense at all.
00:52:58.000She's a corrupt lawyer who takes millions of dollars from a drug cartel leader to cover up crimes and later turns around and uncovers the crimes while lecturing people in another number.
00:53:10.000And this is where Zoe Saldana really goes off in the film.
00:53:15.000She's dancing through a fundraiser because I say Amelia Perez has decided that now, having come back to Mexico, he she is going to be leading an effort to uncover the bodies of all those murdered by the drug cartels.
00:53:26.000So now the lawyer for a drug cartel leader is, Is running around the room yelling at all the politicians about how they're all corrupt while doing sexually suggestive things.
00:53:46.000And isn't the drug cartel leader kind of evil?
00:53:48.000I mean, on every level, a drug cartel leader murdered people, abandoned his wife and children to go get a bunch of surgeries, then lied to his wife and children by bringing them back into his life.
00:53:59.000To torture them, which we'll see in just a minute, emotionally.
00:54:03.000Here is Zoe Saldana in another awful number called El Mal.
00:55:04.000Again, this entire film is built around the premise that if you are transgender and you go through surgeries, this makes you a good person and excuses all of your past and future behavior.
00:55:14.000Because let's talk about that behavior.
00:55:15.000Now, Emilia Perez, who is a man who has transitioned into a fake woman, and who is lying to her own children, her own children, about identity.
00:55:26.000There's a number where Emilia Perez goes into the bedroom of one of her children, her, meaning his, and lies down next to this child that can't fall asleep.
00:55:35.000And the kid says, you smell like my father.
00:55:39.000Okay, well, yeah, because you effed up that kid's life beyond all recognition.
00:57:40.000But all of this culminates in a heroic vision of the future.
00:57:44.000So, as we know, this, um, the Emilia Perez's character falls in love with a woman, like an actual biological woman, played by Adriana Paz, and they have a whole love scene and everything.
00:57:57.000And at this point, you might be thinking to yourself, well, isn't that kind of...
00:58:00.000I mean, this obviously is a dude, meaning like a drug lord gang leader who has murdered people, maybe including this person's husband, and is currently having a sexual affair with the woman without explaining any of this.
00:58:27.000The end of the film is a parade with a statue looking like the Virgin Mary of this trans woman drug cartel leader who engaged in mass murder and was never prosecuted for it and betrayed his wife and children.
00:58:44.000And this person is a saint now because that's how the politics work here.
00:58:53.000Because I dedicate this poem to the beloved, so loved, for a fleeting instant, to the woman of my night.
00:59:41.000Understand, this whole musical turns on one fundamental moral supposition.
00:59:46.000If you are a person with gender dysphoria and you cut off your genitals or have hormone surgery, this means all sins, past, present, and future are wiped away.
01:01:56.000Changing society changes the soul, which changes society, which changes the soul, which is circular, but it doesn't matter because bad music.