The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1486 - The Embarrassing Hillary Clinton Musical Sums Up The Democrat Party

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00:00:37.680 Picture the most off-putting live performance you could possibly imagine.

00:00:42.960 The most grating genre on the most tedious topics woven into a narrative played by the most politically correct cast,

00:00:51.600 backed by the most odious people in the country.

00:00:54.760 Whatever you are imagining is still not as awful as Hillary Clinton's new Broadway musical,

00:01:03.460 SUFFS, a nearly three-hour musical about the suffragettes performed by an entirely female or gender non-binary cast.

00:01:14.480 President, hear our cry.

00:01:17.400 Mr. President, hear our cry.

00:01:19.860 Please, the women of the country.

00:01:21.760 Please, the women of the country.

00:01:25.300 We demand to be heard.

00:01:26.760 We demand to be heard.

00:01:28.140 We demand to be seen.

00:01:29.420 We demand equality.

00:01:32.680 And nothing in between.

00:01:34.960 We demand to be heard.

00:01:37.340 We demand to be known.

00:01:39.920 Need a man to be known. 0.70

00:01:41.320 Need a man, a voice of our eyes.

00:01:45.040 That's enough.

00:01:45.780 That's fine.

00:01:46.240 I think we got the picture.

00:01:47.700 We get what Suf's is about. 0.93

00:01:48.780 You will not be surprised to discover the musical is not doing very well.

00:01:54.160 Despite a concerted promotional effort by the establishment media, the show filled just 81% of its seats last week,

00:02:02.200 which was only a marginal improvement over the 78% capacity that it played to the week before.

00:02:07.560 To put those numbers in perspective, the new Broadway musical Lempicka decided to close down completely after playing to an 83% capacity house just last week.

00:02:20.480 And the 81% and 78% numbers for Suf's don't even tell the whole story because Broadway now employs a dynamic pricing system,

00:02:28.520 which will often slash prices of unpopular shows below the point of even breaking even just so that the performers don't have to play to an empty house.

00:02:37.320 So we have no idea if this musical has even made, you know, $5 in its run.

00:02:42.580 It is a perfect picture of the Democrat Party.

00:02:48.460 Tedious political lessons funded and told by unpopular performers to uninterested people that nevertheless will continue to run.

00:02:59.820 Because the showrunners aren't accountable to their audience.

00:03:03.360 They own the theater.

00:03:04.720 They got money to burn.

00:03:05.980 And they are going to push their message on you whether you want to hear it or not.

00:03:11.440 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:12.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:13.160 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:33.300 I have just received a great honor, or rather, I have been made aware of a great honor that I received about a month ago.

00:03:41.060 Judith Butler, perhaps the most prominent feminist and gender theorist in the world, has devoted a couple paragraphs of her new book to accusing me of being a fascist.

00:03:55.080 So I'm legitimately honored by this. 0.98

00:03:58.160 This woman, she is a pioneering lunatic. 1.00

00:04:01.740 And so we will examine the charge and her arguments for it and see if they withstand scrutiny. 0.83

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00:05:16.620 I want to turn very briefly from the crazy liberal show on Broadway in New York to the crazy liberal show going on in that courtroom in New York, the trial of Donald Trump.

00:05:28.340 Jonathan Turley, great legal scholar and analyst who kind of distills what's going on in these courtrooms and has for some years now for the general public.

00:05:41.220 His big takeaway from the Trump trial last week was that, or even in the first couple of days of this week, is that the judge has lost control of his courtroom.

00:05:54.100 You know, the statement of the judge that he's surprised there isn't a higher number of objections from the defense is baffling.

00:06:03.300 The defense objected to putting her on the stand.

00:06:06.060 They then objected to the scope of the questioning. 0.84

00:06:09.200 And now the judge sounds like Claude Rains saying, I'm shocked, shocked there's a porn star in my courtroom.

00:06:16.580 Well, you know, if you give a lot of scope to testimony, what did you expect?

00:06:24.300 And the problem with what the judge has done here is that this is an entirely unnecessary witness.

00:06:31.640 It is uncontested that there's an NDA.

00:06:34.680 Whether what happened in their relationship, if there was one, is immaterial to how those payments were denoted by the Trump campaign.

00:06:44.340 And it happened because the judge lost control of his courtroom.

00:06:49.820 Okay, I agree with everything that Turley just said until that last line there.

00:06:55.160 I agree with him. 0.99

00:06:56.900 This is a clown show. 0.95

00:06:59.500 I agree with him that whatever Stormy Daniels knows is actually immaterial to the charge. 0.95

00:07:05.540 Because don't forget, we talked about this on the show a little bit yesterday.

00:07:08.700 There is the supposed affair that took place between Stormy Daniels and Trump.

00:07:15.040 Then there is the NDA that took place, that she signed, the so-called hush money, according to the prosecutors.

00:07:23.800 And then there is the crime that Trump is being accused of.

00:07:28.520 The crime is not that Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels, whether he did or he didn't.

00:07:32.780 But no one is even alleging that's the crime.

00:07:34.920 The crime is not that Stormy Daniels signed an NDA and potentially received money for it.

00:07:41.380 That's also not.

00:07:42.120 The crime is that Trump made an in-kind contribution to his own campaign and tried to hide it.

00:07:48.580 And didn't report it accurately to the Federal Election Commission.

00:07:53.220 That's the crime.

00:07:54.220 So Stormy Daniels does not and cannot possibly know anything about the actual crime.

00:08:01.000 So her testimony is legally irrelevant.

00:08:03.840 It's just really saucy and sexy and spicy and meant to embarrass Donald Trump.

00:08:10.220 So I agree with Turley on all these points.

00:08:12.360 Until he gets that last one, he says the judge lost control of his classroom.

00:08:16.140 His classroom.

00:08:16.980 It feels like an elementary school classroom.

00:08:19.140 His courtroom.

00:08:20.660 No, he didn't.

00:08:22.800 The judge got exactly what he wanted.

00:08:26.480 The judge knew what he was signing up for when he brought the porn star in whose testimony was immaterial.

00:08:31.800 It's not that the judge lost control of his courtroom.

00:08:35.380 It's that the liberals are losing control of the narrative.

00:08:37.860 The narrative for the liberals was supposed to be Donald Trump is being charged with seven zillion felonies.

00:08:45.100 And he is on trial in four different criminal cases.

00:08:50.680 And we are going to get this guy in an orange jumpsuit and justice will be served.

00:08:55.760 And all of these trials are going to take place before November.

00:08:59.380 And now what?

00:09:00.080 Now what are we getting?

00:09:01.400 We're finding out that the big trial, the big federal trial where they've got him, the one that they feel most confident about,

00:09:08.520 that's going to be pushed until after the election.

00:09:13.400 That's the classified documents case where Biden's DOJ has been building their big federal case.

00:09:19.260 That's going to be pushed until after the election.

00:09:20.940 So that's not going to matter for 2024.

00:09:23.720 So now you got these three other cases.

00:09:25.240 They're starting with this New York case, this saucy, sexy case about really what it just comes down to is making an in-kind contribution to your own,

00:09:34.540 or making a direct contribution, I suppose, in a way, to your own campaign.

00:09:38.040 You're signing the check, though it's going to this other woman that will then indirectly help the campaign. 0.93

00:09:44.800 It's the weakest case.

00:09:48.620 It's not even the sort of case that New York should be trying because it's a federal crime.

00:09:52.320 So why is some New York attorney general trying it? 0.96

00:09:54.880 And even the liberal judge is admitting here, man, this is a clown show. 0.88

00:10:00.700 What are we doing? 0.85

00:10:01.360 What are you prosecutors doing?

00:10:03.320 It's not even just the liberal judge.

00:10:05.220 CNN is analyzing this day of testimony.

00:10:10.340 And even CNN admits that the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels was totally devastating.

00:10:18.000 This is a devastating cross-examination.

00:10:20.440 They have gotten Stormy Daniels to concede she hates Trump, that she has said that she would dance if he went to jail.

00:10:27.040 They have pointed to the fact that she has said she will never pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars that she owes him.

00:10:33.040 They've effectively undercut her credibility by getting her to talk about conversations she had that impeaching her with her own book.

00:10:40.380 I mean, this has been devastating for Stormy Daniels' credibility.

00:10:43.380 Totally, and so who cares about Stormy Daniels' credibility? 0.98

00:10:48.640 She's an attention whore to use a little double entendre there. 1.00

00:10:53.760 And she obviously just wants to get as much camera time as possible to rejuvenate whatever kind of career she's got so she can go sell some books and hopefully not have her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, steal all her money this time. 1.00

00:11:05.080 And so she can keep going on TV and she can keep being the face of opposition to Trump, Trump whom she says she hates.

00:11:11.960 Well, it's not good.

00:11:12.680 If you're trying to present yourself as some meek and mild lady who's been wronged by Donald Trump, I don't even know how she can semi-plausibly make that claim.

00:11:21.520 Then you don't want it to seem like you've got this major axe to grind.

00:11:26.480 You don't want to admit that you're never going to pay him the money that you owe him from a prior legal judgment against you.

00:11:34.000 And you don't want this whole thing to look like the circus that it is.

00:11:38.500 But that is exactly what we're getting.

00:11:40.860 And even CNN is admitting that.

00:11:43.700 The cross-examination here was devastating.

00:11:46.540 Her testimony is irrelevant.

00:11:48.760 She has no credibility.

00:11:50.080 Let's not forget, she already signed a document stating she was not given a hush money payment for this affair.

00:11:56.920 It didn't happen.

00:11:58.080 Not at all.

00:11:58.840 Then she totally flipped her story.

00:12:00.580 So and then she comes out and says, I'm not going to abide by the court's order for me to pay Trump.

00:12:04.860 And also, I hate his guts and I want to I'll dance if he goes to jail.

00:12:10.400 The testimony of Stormy Daniels could not have gone worse for the Democrats.

00:12:16.020 At a time when the very trial itself seemed to be collapsing in the public imagination.

00:12:23.960 Not a good start to the four criminal trials that are supposed to put Trump in prison.

00:12:31.280 Also, because if they started out with their strongest case and they got him, maybe they would have gotten him on the later ones.

00:12:36.940 If they start off with the with the weakest sauce, eventually people are just going to tune out.

00:12:42.260 Right.

00:12:42.440 If they haven't already, they're going to say, OK, oh, they're indicting Trump again.

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00:14:03.220 Speaking of strange crime stories, this is a real weird one, and it's been going all around the Internet, and so I have thoughts.

00:14:14.140 There's this Protestant pastor.

00:14:16.480 His name is John Paul Miller.

00:14:19.420 John Paul Miller, he has some congregation, and he was given his sermon, his exegesis, riffing on the Bible.

00:14:30.020 And then at the end of his sermon, he mentioned, oh, by the way, my wife killed herself last night.

00:14:36.360 You see, 300 years ago, your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents were listening to this tall, charming, humble pastor.

00:14:52.940 And he told them that if they'll give their life to Christ, that God won't just take care of them.

00:14:59.200 He'll take care of the ones that come after him.

00:15:01.020 I'm taking a little bit of a break, and I don't want to have to worry about the church.

00:15:03.680 My break may be a few days, a few weeks.

00:15:05.200 I don't know.

00:15:06.420 I got a call late last night.

00:15:08.060 My wife has passed away.

00:15:09.940 Yeah.

00:15:10.460 And it was self-induced, and it was up in North Carolina.

00:15:14.200 And we're going to have a funeral for her next Sunday here at 3 p.m.

00:15:17.940 And so it's all I can, yeah, I'm just kind of going on adrenaline right now.

00:15:23.460 So y'all pray for me and my kids and everybody.

00:15:26.540 And she wasn't, y'all knew that she wasn't well mentally and that she needed her medicine that was hard to get to her.

00:15:32.440 And so I'm sure there'll be more details to come.

00:15:35.180 But just keep our family in your prayers.

00:15:36.780 And I'm going to let Pastor Randall, my bishop, he can pray.

00:15:39.520 I'll get a microphone.

00:15:40.280 He'll pray out.

00:15:40.720 And if you have anything you want to share as well, I appreciate it.

00:15:46.280 So, yes, we should all pray for the repose of her soul and, but what?

00:15:51.360 Hold on, what?

00:15:52.040 Because obviously that was a very truncated clip.

00:15:54.300 This pastor had just gone on a pretty full sermon, and he's laughing, and he's joking, and he's saying, oh, you know, I'm tall and handsome and very humble too.

00:16:02.800 Also, my wife died last night.

00:16:05.140 She killed herself.

00:16:06.080 So, anyway, I'll see you next time.

00:16:09.000 That is, I know that people behave kind of strangely sometimes when they encounter death, but that's real strange.

00:16:19.180 That's not the way you would ever expect any husband to behave hours after his wife supposedly killed herself.

00:16:28.420 A lot of the friends here don't believe that the wife killed herself, in part because, and this is just anecdotal, at least.

00:16:38.820 I think it probably is backed up by broader data, but you don't often hear about women killing themselves with guns. 0.82

00:16:46.460 You hear about, I'm thinking of that old Dorothy Parker poem about all the different ways to kill yourself.

00:16:52.920 You hear about men killing themselves that way.

00:16:57.420 You don't really hear about women killing themselves that way. 1.00

00:16:59.700 It's a little bit strange and suspicious, and a lot of this woman's friends do not believe that she actually killed herself.

00:17:06.780 No, I'm not going to judge.

00:17:09.020 My gut feeling, I just, I don't agree.

00:17:12.860 The young lady was energetic.

00:17:16.320 She was making plans.

00:17:18.540 It just doesn't sound like someone committing suicide.

00:17:21.300 It sounds like someone that's getting ready to live life again, really starting her life over.

00:17:25.200 And just going off what we've seen, what I witnessed, you know, the character and how treatment and how we were treated and talked to, and I just don't believe it for a minute.

00:17:42.080 In an affidavit in the probate court, her, Micah's family just filed trying to, like, take control of this.

00:17:49.440 Her sister wrote, she told, she, if I, like, that Micah said to her, if I end up with a bullet in my head, it was not by me, it was JP.

00:17:59.620 That is, that is in court documents.

00:18:01.860 So, that's like she's almost speaking from the grave, Ashley.

00:18:04.820 It's, it's kind of chilling.

00:18:07.360 Yeah, that's more than kind of chilling.

00:18:09.200 That's very, very chilling.

00:18:10.360 She, it's not just the woman's own words you now hear from a number of people around her.

00:18:16.700 Yeah, I don't believe she was going to kill herself. 0.50

00:18:18.240 Apparently, this was a second marriage for these two, and this pastor had met this woman, the dead woman, when she was very young, and then they got married later on, and they were having a tough marriage, and maybe they were going to split up.

00:18:34.680 And she says, if I end up with a bullet in my head, know that it wasn't me, it was JP.

00:18:39.600 It was my husband.

00:18:40.740 So, this seems like proof positive, right?

00:18:43.200 The pastor's strange behavior, the testimony of the friends and family, and then this woman's own words that if exactly what happened happens, it was the husband, it wasn't her.

00:18:56.180 So, now all these people are saying it was a murder, except that, because we live in a surveillance society now, we actually have footage, and we have audio.

00:19:08.500 The woman apparently made a 911 call, 911 dispatch. 0.99

00:19:14.260 She was talking to her, saying, I'm going to kill myself, and here's how I'm going to do it.

00:19:19.100 And then, even if you think that could have been under duress, we have video footage of this woman going out, buying the gun, and going to the place where her body was found.

00:19:27.280 Robinson County 911, what's the address of your emergency?

00:19:31.560 Hi, are you able to trace the location of my phone?

00:19:36.040 You don't know where you're at?

00:19:38.500 And National Park.

00:19:40.100 Yeah, the Lumber River State Park.

00:19:44.080 Yeah, that's where I am.

00:19:44.920 So, you can see her on store footage, going out and buying a gun. 1.00

00:19:48.420 Um, I'm about to kill myself, and I just want my family to know where to find me.

00:20:02.240 So, this is awful.

00:20:03.620 And then the dispatcher is just kind of talking to her, okay, ma'am, well, this and that, you know, just kind of cold about the whole thing.

00:20:09.620 I don't know, maybe that's how they're trained.

00:20:10.960 You'd like to think that if you're on that side of the phone, you'd say, uh, don't do that, ma'am.

00:20:14.900 But, and maybe there's some 5D chess going on here, and actually, it was all a really grandiose and brilliant sort of setup.

00:20:25.620 But, if you've got the woman in her own words saying, I'm about to kill myself, here's where to find me.

00:20:31.500 Then you have footage of her leaving her house, going to a gun store.

00:20:35.400 I think she bought the gun a little bit earlier, but you've got the footage of her going, buying the gun, going out, driving, going to the place where her body was found.

00:20:42.900 I don't think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to say the most likely scenario is she did kill herself.

00:20:50.100 So, why do I even bring up this story?

00:20:52.680 It's weird.

00:20:53.720 It's going viral.

00:20:54.840 It's terribly sad.

00:20:56.620 It's very fascinating.

00:20:58.200 But I have a political reason for bringing up this story, which has nothing to do with murder or intrigue or this particular church or anything like that.

00:21:07.800 Any reasonable person, having heard all the lead up until the dispatch call and the videos, would have said, ain't no way that woman killed herself.

00:21:22.720 She was murdered by her husband or by a hitman or by this person or that person.

00:21:27.020 She even said it from beyond the grave.

00:21:28.120 And then what do we find out?

00:21:31.140 The audio, the video, I mean, you basically have everything other than a live camera while the woman actually committed the act.

00:21:38.700 Just seems like she killed herself.

00:21:40.340 Actually, the simplest answer was what happened.

00:21:43.580 And we're living in an age where we no longer accept the simplest answer.

00:21:47.660 And there's a good reason for that, the good reason being that our institutions that run our society have failed us and are unaccountable to us and have lied to us a number of times.

00:21:58.420 I think a lot of people were radicalized, especially during COVID when the authorities lied or just got things wrong, honestly, were honestly incompetent.

00:22:08.040 But a lot of times actually lied, too.

00:22:09.900 They were actually deceptive.

00:22:11.000 And so we don't believe that anymore.

00:22:12.460 And so we're much more inclined to engage in kind of conspiracy thinking.

00:22:18.620 And there are conspiracies.

00:22:20.860 Every business is a conspiracy.

00:22:23.680 Every political campaign is a conspiracy in a certain sense.

00:22:28.220 You've got a goal.

00:22:29.640 You're working through sometimes surreptitious means to achieve that goal.

00:22:32.720 But also sometimes the simplest answer is the true answer.

00:22:40.400 That can still happen.

00:22:43.380 And even when you are 100% positive, there's no way the simplest answer could possibly be the truth.

00:22:49.740 That guy, that pastor's guilty as sin.

00:22:52.220 The sister said so.

00:22:53.240 The friend said so.

00:22:54.320 The woman from beyond the grave said so.

00:22:56.120 They got him.

00:22:56.940 Book that guy.

00:22:57.660 Send him to jail.

00:22:58.400 We know.

00:22:58.860 And then your expectations are totally subverted.

00:23:02.780 And the simplest, plainest answer the whole time is the real one.

00:23:07.220 How many times do we fall into that mistake when there isn't a dispatch call and there isn't video footage?

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00:24:12.180 Okay.

00:24:12.560 Yeah.

00:24:12.880 What do you think my answer is?

00:24:14.920 I think you agree with me.

00:24:16.440 I think you'd say no.

00:24:17.460 I would say no.

00:24:18.220 You're absolutely right.

00:24:19.240 For two reasons.

00:24:20.020 One, because I launched my political career in large part on a blank book on just printing a bunch of blank pages and chopping down a lot of trees for all of our amusement with a book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats, Comprehensive Guide.

00:24:34.260 But two, as I defended myself at the time from the crazy environmentalists who were angry about that book, paper is an organic, renewable resource.

00:24:43.920 And we have to cultivate it and grow it and use it, or they're going to pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

00:24:50.340 It's actually good for the environment to print that email.

00:24:53.400 So these cards, all of them, are sure to spark a wild conversation and a lot of fun.

00:24:58.480 Get Yes or No the Game at dailywire.com slash shop.

00:25:01.500 Hurry before they sell out again.

00:25:04.260 I just have to take a pause from our run of show right now to point out my voice sounds very, very sexy today.

00:25:13.120 I sound, have you noticed this, Mr. Davies?

00:25:15.940 Have you, as the control room, I sound like Barry Weiss, not Barry Weiss.

00:25:20.620 She's the, Barry Weiss is the center left journalist.

00:25:26.360 I meant to say Barry White, the most famous soul musician of the last 30 years.

00:25:32.620 I think you're turning into Dennis Prager.

00:25:34.620 Maybe I'm turning.

00:25:35.520 I did see Dennis when I was in LA, my cigar buddy out there for the premiere of Mr. Burcham.

00:25:42.920 But I can't tell.

00:25:44.680 Initially, I thought this was because of allergies.

00:25:47.520 Now, I don't know.

00:25:48.340 Maybe I have bird flu.

00:25:49.540 I saw bird flu was at the top of Drudge yesterday.

00:25:51.960 Maybe I've got that.

00:25:52.580 But whatever it is, if I can just suppress the coughs, I think this sounds, maybe we should make this a permanent feature.

00:26:00.360 I think this sounds good, man.

00:26:01.840 I feel, I might not feel good, but I do.

00:26:05.280 I sound, I sound soulful and sexy, man.

00:26:09.100 I feel like a real man.

00:26:10.400 Now, speaking of men, there's some sad news with regard to men's behavior.

00:26:17.440 Men are opting out of work.

00:26:20.080 I teased this story a little bit yesterday.

00:26:23.500 Men are opting out of work.

00:26:24.980 According to Newsweek, it's not an issue of not being able to find a job.

00:26:28.940 Men have opted out altogether.

00:26:30.260 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 89% of working-age men have a job or are actively looking for work.

00:26:36.680 So it's not just a matter of the economy is not good.

00:26:38.880 It's hard to find a gig.

00:26:40.540 No.

00:26:41.920 There are 11% of working-age men not even looking for a job and don't have one.

00:26:47.040 But to compare that to past eras, 1950, 97% of working-age men were working or looking for work.

00:26:55.800 So in the early 50s, if you zero in on ages 25 to 54, 96% of working-age men between those ages were working full or part-time jobs.

00:27:10.700 That number has now moved to just 86%.

00:27:13.040 Why is that?

00:27:15.660 A few explanations that are typically offered by the scholars and the geniuses and the eggheads.

00:27:23.200 One is women's increasing education. 1.00

00:27:26.240 So, sure, back in the 50s, fewer women went to college. 1.00

00:27:29.400 Fewer women were qualified for a lot of jobs. 0.99

00:27:31.440 So men were a little bit more in demand.

00:27:33.280 Now, women make up the majority of college students and graduates. 1.00

00:27:37.880 So men are no longer complementary with women.

00:27:41.900 And there's no longer the public economy and the private economy, the home economy, all that.

00:27:45.680 No, no.

00:27:46.220 Now we're all competing in a labor market because of advanced industrial capitalism.

00:27:50.700 And as a result of that, men are just dispirited.

00:27:53.640 Okay, maybe that's part of it.

00:27:55.340 Women's increase. 1.00

00:27:56.420 It's not even women's increasing education because we're all a lot dumber than we were 70 years ago. 1.00

00:27:59.860 So it's just women's increasing participation in the formal educational structures. 1.00

00:28:05.140 Another one, kind of related, is a decline in relative wages, which is caused not just by women entering the workforce.

00:28:11.020 It's caused by a lot of other economic factors that have really taken off since the 1970s.

00:28:16.020 Costs of goods have increased dramatically since the 70s.

00:28:19.120 Wages have stagnated.

00:28:20.440 There was a little bit of real wage growth during the Trump era.

00:28:22.740 That was pretty much it for a long time.

00:28:27.160 And now we're back to no real wage growth.

00:28:29.360 So decline of relative wages, maybe that is discouraging men from getting into the workforce.

00:28:35.200 They're just dispirited.

00:28:36.060 They feel like they're not enjoying the fruits of their labor.

00:28:38.780 And so they're checking out.

00:28:40.580 Another one, and this is related to relative wages.

00:28:43.420 Over the time span of 1980 to 2019, non-college educated men's median weekly earnings not only stagnated, they actually declined after inflation.

00:28:54.940 So they went down by 17%.

00:28:56.760 If you don't have a college degree, you're a man.

00:28:59.160 Your weekly earnings declined 17% over that 40-year period.

00:29:05.660 College educated men saw their earnings rise by 20%.

00:29:08.820 So by almost exactly, actually by even a little bit more than the non-college educated men's wages decreased, the college educated men's wages increased.

00:29:18.180 So the Boston Fed, the Federal Reserve, suggested that one reason that men not only aren't getting jobs but aren't even looking for jobs anymore is a deteriorating social status.

00:29:31.840 Men just aren't what they once were.

00:29:33.820 They're not valued as they once were, and that we're not even just talking about social value or perceived value.

00:29:41.080 We're talking about value that is expressed in wages.

00:29:43.880 It's just declining.

00:29:46.380 Now, I have one other thought out of my head that might help to explain why men are no longer even looking for work, and it's one that contradicts a lot of the prevailing narrative.

00:29:57.760 The prevailing narrative is millennials, we have it really tough.

00:30:00.380 We graduated high school during the financial crisis, and it's just been a disaster ever since.

00:30:06.200 And we didn't get to enjoy the fruits of the post-war era, really.

00:30:11.440 We didn't get to totally enjoy the fruits of the post-Cold War era in the 1990s.

00:30:15.900 We were still kind of kids, and then 9-11 happened, then the financial crisis, and we've had a rough financial go of it.

00:30:23.180 Yeah, sure, that's all true.

00:30:24.140 Also, millennials are about to become super-duper rich because we're about to inherit all the money from the boomers, and the boomers are the richest generation ever.

00:30:30.960 And now we're about to become the richest generation ever because of that transfer of wealth.

00:30:35.660 So it might just be that people are getting a little bit of inheritance, and they're not having as many kids, so they don't have as many expenses.

00:30:40.760 And the men aren't inclined to work as much because they can just pay their way. 0.99

00:30:45.560 I don't see a lot of people starving in the streets.

00:30:47.360 I don't see an epidemic of emaciated millennials, right? 0.99

00:30:51.240 If anything, millennials are too fat. 1.00

00:30:54.260 So that might be an explanation, too.

00:30:56.400 But whatever the explanations are, and I'm sure there are a dozen others we could list, whatever the cause, this is very bad.

00:31:03.720 This is very, very bad.

00:31:04.940 Even if it's my suggestion that actually millennials are getting richer, it's because we're inheriting some money now, and it's because, I don't know,

00:31:12.800 because the welfare state is growing such that we get to stay on our parents' health insurance until we're 26, and we get this, and we get that, and we just don't need to work as much, is really, really bad.

00:31:23.660 We tend to view work as a punishment.

00:31:27.660 Even in a secular sense, we just say, oh, got to go out there, got to go earn my living, or I can't pay my rent.

00:31:33.380 I hate that I have to go work a job.

00:31:35.280 If I didn't have to work my job to get my wages or certainly to get my health insurance, why, I could be a poet.

00:31:41.340 You know me, I would be an artist.

00:31:43.640 I would be, oh, what a life I could live.

00:31:45.400 This was Nancy Pelosi's defense of Obamacare now over 10 years ago.

00:31:49.900 She said, we need to decouple health insurance from employment because then we can free up the creative potential of all these ne'er-do-wells who would really be great poets. 0.80

00:32:00.020 Oh, yes, we're going to have a new Lord Byron.

00:32:03.020 Think of all the writers, the novelists.

00:32:06.540 A new Manzoni is going, is just begging, waiting to write his great magnum opus.

00:32:12.420 It's just that he's got to work a job to have his health insurance.

00:32:15.760 That's what's keeping him from it.

00:32:16.640 That's not true.

00:32:17.400 Most people are terrible poets.

00:32:19.200 Statistically, 100% of people are terrible poets.

00:32:21.320 But even more to the point, the people who won't write a poem because they need to work a job to have their health insurance, they're never going to write a poem.

00:32:34.240 The real people who make it in business, in the arts, in politics, who succeed at anything are not the kind of people who are deterred by work, okay?

00:32:44.680 They're people who are fanatical about their work, who will work a lot, who are indefatigable.

00:32:50.640 Those are the kind of people because work is not a punishment.

00:32:54.520 We think of this even in a religious way.

00:32:56.700 You know, Adam and Eve sin, they disobey God in the Garden of Eden, and now the punishment is that you got to go out and by the sweat of your brow, you're going to earn your food.

00:33:03.360 And you're going to have to work.

00:33:04.800 That's a punishment.

00:33:05.920 No, it's not.

00:33:06.960 God doesn't just punish us.

00:33:09.140 Because God loves us, and God is love.

00:33:11.600 God is charity.

00:33:12.940 And God, in his providence, orders all of history, sees all of history, and orders all of history ultimately to his own ends.

00:33:20.200 So in a shallow way, work is a punishment for the fallen condition of the world, which was entered into, if you're Christian, you believe is entered into by the free choice of man to disobey God. 0.72

00:33:33.360 But at a deeper level, work is a remedy for the fallen nature of the world.

00:33:41.080 Because idle hands are the devil's playground.

00:33:43.520 Most people, if they have some free time, they're not going to write Ipromessi Sposi by Monzoni, right?

00:33:49.800 They're not going to write some great new work.

00:33:53.160 They're going to be the new Charles Dickens.

00:33:54.720 No, they're going to do drugs and play video games and look at porn and loaf around on the couch and watch TV.

00:34:01.220 That's what they're going to do. 0.96

00:34:02.580 They're going to get fat and lazy and depressed, and they're not going to do anything.

00:34:05.880 They're not going to contribute to society, and they're going to become anxious and suicidal.

00:34:10.760 That's what's going to really happen for most people if they don't work.

00:34:14.040 The work is a remedy.

00:34:16.800 You have to find work that, ideally, that you enjoy, at least work that you find gratifying in that you can kiss it up in service to your family and to your community and ultimately in service to God.

00:34:29.840 That's what you got to do.

00:34:31.280 Whatever the cause of men dropping out of society is bad.

00:34:35.700 And fix it, not only for the good of society, but also for their own good.

00:34:40.840 Speaking of punishments, this is a story I meant to get to last week, but it's relevant now as the state of Israel is preparing this final offense on Rafa in Gaza.

00:34:51.740 The International Criminal Court is threatening to indict the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:34:56.680 Here's Netanyahu's response.

00:34:57.760 The International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals.

00:35:10.080 This would be an outrage of historic proportions.

00:35:14.980 International bodies like the ICC arose in the wake of the Holocaust committed against the Jewish people.

00:35:21.260 They were set up to prevent such horrors, to prevent future genocides.

00:35:26.860 Yet now, the International Court is trying to put Israel in the dark.

00:35:33.600 It's trying to put us in the dark as we defend ourselves against genocidal terrorists and regimes, Iran of course, that openly works to destroy the one and only Jewish state. 0.91

00:35:46.340 Branding Israel's leaders and soldiers as war criminals will pour jet fuel on the fires of anti-Semitism,

00:35:52.020 those fires that are already raging on the campuses of America and across capitals around the world.

00:35:58.360 It will also be the first time that a democratic country fighting for its life according to the rules of war is itself accused of war crimes.

00:36:07.280 Okay, so Netanyahu, clear as day. 0.65

00:36:10.720 How dare you, ICC, accuses of war crimes.

00:36:14.280 This is an outrage.

00:36:15.500 What he's not saying here is what is actually relevant to this threat from the International Criminal Court.

00:36:22.540 Namely, Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

00:36:29.060 In order for a court to have power, in order for a court's actions to actually have teeth, people need to recognize the jurisdiction of that court.

00:36:39.080 Israel doesn't. 0.97

00:36:39.840 So it's a bad look, it's bad PR if the ICC goes after the Israeli officials up to and including potentially Netanyahu.

00:36:48.120 But it doesn't really matter because Israel doesn't recognize the ICC's jurisdiction.

00:36:54.820 Furthermore, much more relevant than that because Israel is just some tiny little country in the middle of the Middle East. 0.78

00:37:00.760 More important is the United States does not recognize the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction.

00:37:07.260 The United States does not recognize a lot when it comes to international bodies trying to meddle in our affairs.

00:37:16.620 John Bolton, I know he's sort of fallen out of favor among conservatives in recent years.

00:37:20.620 But John Bolton articulated this principle very, very well some decades ago before the United Nations.

00:37:27.340 The point that I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started.

00:37:33.200 Is there is no United Nations.

00:37:35.380 There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world,

00:37:44.740 and that's the United States, when it suits our interest, and when we can get others to go along.

00:37:51.300 The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.

00:37:54.560 If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.

00:37:58.340 This kind of mindless creation of the United Nations as something different than what it's in the United States' interest to do isn't going to sell here or anywhere else.

00:38:11.740 The United States makes the U.N. work when it wants it to work.

00:38:15.800 And that is exactly the way it should be because the only question, the only question for the United States is what's in our national interest.

00:38:23.020 And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.

00:38:27.560 Show me the lie.

00:38:28.860 Show me the lie in what John Bolton just said.

00:38:32.100 You might say, well, Michael, there is such a thing as international law, at least in principle.

00:38:38.280 Yeah, yeah, I guess in principle that's true.

00:38:40.940 There's the natural law, and then we get the civil law derived from the natural law.

00:38:44.280 It is just wrong to do certain things, and it's right to do other things, and that's not dependent on national interest.

00:38:51.620 But practically, this is what John Bolton's talking about.

00:38:53.700 He says, practically, there's no United Nations.

00:38:57.280 Practically, we could extend that here.

00:38:59.820 Practically, there's no international criminal court.

00:39:02.820 There is power.

00:39:04.820 There are potentially powers in the world.

00:39:09.460 And practically, there's really only one power in the world, even still today, and that's the United States.

00:39:14.260 So when the United States wants to make the UN work, when the United States wants to do something with the international community, if we can garner enough support, we'll do it.

00:39:22.680 But that's it.

00:39:23.580 And practically speaking, we're going to think of that from our own national interest.

00:39:28.160 We're going to weigh the pros and the cons.

00:39:31.840 We're going to be lobbied from all sides.

00:39:34.100 And then we're basically going to do what we want to do.

00:39:36.740 And so this creates a major political problem for Joe Biden because the UN is a joke.

00:39:44.160 The International Criminal Court is a joke.

00:39:46.320 Pretty much all of these bodies are a joke.

00:39:49.520 There is power.

00:39:50.840 America is the global hegemon.

00:39:52.560 And so part of the reason why there's a major divide, a schism on the American left right now is if Joe Biden wants the war in Gaza to end, it ends.

00:40:03.280 Because we fund the Israeli military and Biden's saber rattling a little bit, but not enough to actually make much of a difference.

00:40:14.700 If America wants Iran to defeat Israel, we can make that happen. 1.00

00:40:21.300 If America wants Israel to defeat Iran or at the very least defeat Hamas in Gaza, we can make that happen. 0.98

00:40:28.020 We're the global hegemon.

00:40:29.180 We can do it.

00:40:30.140 Which means that ultimately the buck stops with Joe Biden.

00:40:35.860 And you can't blame it on the UN and you can't blame it on the ICC and you can't blame it on any of these people.

00:40:41.600 Biden's got an answer for it.

00:40:42.540 And the Democrat Party right now wants opposite things.

00:40:47.620 The base wants to defeat Israel and the establishment class still broadly supports Israel. 0.57

00:40:54.760 And what's Biden going to do?

00:40:56.180 He's going to try to point figures everywhere else while the buck stops with him.

00:41:00.140 And now a message from our friend, Megyn Kelly.

00:41:03.260 Ladies and gentlemen, the anticipation is finally over.

00:41:07.720 The moment we have all been waiting for is almost upon us.

00:41:11.520 This Sunday, exclusively on Daily Wire Plus, my new show with Adam Carolla, Mr. Burcham, will make its grand premiere.

00:41:21.440 In this show, I have the pleasure of playing Burcham's wife, Wendy.

00:41:25.160 It feels pretty great doing something for the community, right?

00:41:27.780 Now let me give you a sneak peek into Wendy's character. 1.00

00:41:31.300 Wendy is a force to be reckoned with. 0.80

00:41:33.440 She's a top-tier real estate agent, a supermom, and a bit more left-leaning than I am.

00:41:38.800 But believe me, it's a necessary balance to Burcham's old-fashioned caveman approach.

00:41:44.680 Check out the trailer for our new series, Mr. Burcham.

00:41:49.180 Yes! Headshot!

00:41:52.060 Uh, Dad, my teammates can see your junk? 0.99

00:41:55.080 You're welcome, ladies. 0.97

00:41:56.240 First day of school means the bet is on.

00:42:03.000 First one of us to get inside. 1.00

00:42:04.520 You suck, Mr. Buttjump! 1.00

00:42:06.300 Ah, still got it. 1.00

00:42:08.760 Rule number one, no phones in the woodshop.

00:42:11.900 Pitch it out after class.

00:42:13.860 I found some really great school uniform options to avoid misgendering.

00:42:18.100 Ooh, what about their allergies?

00:42:20.280 Maybe those they's could be lactose intolerant. 1.00

00:42:23.020 No, we can't say intolerance.

00:42:25.100 We have a zero-tolerance policy for mentioning intolerance.

00:42:28.820 When I was a kid, men were men.

00:42:31.240 Now everyone's wrapped up in feelings.

00:42:34.520 Real men stuff feelings down with red meat, cigarettes, and violence. 0.99

00:42:39.460 My name is Mr. Wolf.

00:42:40.700 I solve problems.

00:42:41.660 You know what it takes? 0.65

00:42:42.960 Balls! 1.00

00:42:44.120 Eyeballs! 0.98

00:42:44.680 He's gonna say that.

00:42:45.740 We're too young. 0.98

00:42:46.720 Well, actually, I was gonna say you're too fat. 0.98

00:42:48.580 Ha, ha, ha! 1.00

00:42:49.280 Keep my wife's name out of your damn mouth. 1.00

00:42:56.000 You and the geriatric Girl Scouts will be passed out in an hour! 1.00

00:43:00.460 Pass Mommy the wine. 1.00

00:43:02.000 The bottle.

00:43:03.040 Don't make this a prison, all you.

00:43:04.460 Richard Burcham.

00:43:05.920 Burcham?

00:43:06.560 Burcham.

00:43:07.120 Mr. Burcham.

00:43:07.900 Hey, Burcham!

00:43:08.780 Burcham.

00:43:10.000 Burcham! 0.62

00:43:10.840 Burcham! 0.62

00:43:12.240 Watch Mr. Burcham, an all-new animated series from Daily Wire Plus. 0.99

00:43:16.960 Let the record show I'm a dick. 0.96

00:43:19.680 Premieres May 12th. 0.97

00:43:22.720 Watch the series premiere of Mr. Burcham for free, only on Daily Wire Plus.

00:43:28.840 Mark your calendars for this Sunday night, May 12th.

00:43:31.900 You're gonna love it.

00:43:33.020 The show's fabulous.

00:43:34.060 I was just out there with Megan and Adam and Roseanne and all sorts of other people who were in the cast at the premiere a couple of nights ago in L.A.

00:43:41.560 It was a lot of fun.

00:43:42.540 One of the few good reasons to go to L.A.

00:43:44.180 My favorite comment on, oh, I guess it was yesterday.

00:43:49.060 The days are all confused because I'm floating in this morass of allergies and sickness and my sexy voice and going between L.A. and Nashville.

00:43:57.680 But my favorite comment yesterday is from Hard-boiled Entertainment.

00:44:00.960 Says Kathy Hochul, governor of New York. 0.98

00:44:03.640 Black kids don't know what computers are. 1.00

00:44:05.700 MIT. 0.99

00:44:06.940 Well, in that case, great observation.

00:44:10.940 Great observation.

00:44:11.860 MIT has just banned diversity statements.

00:44:16.480 And one of the reasons why you might not demand that all of the applicants to come work at your school, you know, prove that they're the most racially and ethnically aggrieved and interesting is if at the same time your side is saying that black people don't know what computers are.

00:44:35.700 And that probably they're not going to do great at MIT if the Democrats are right about that.

00:44:39.660 But speaking of really exciting new releases, Judith Butler, who is probably the most prominent feminist and gender theorist in the world today, has devoted a couple of paragraphs of her new book to accusing me of being a fascist.

00:45:00.100 Judith Butler is the figure behind so much of the gobbledygook, you know, social construct, gender language that permeates all of society today. 1.00

00:45:16.160 Chris Ruffo, who Judith Butler also attacks in her new book, Chris Ruffo has an excellent piece on Judith Butler and all of the awful social developments for which she is responsible in City Journal.

00:45:29.160 I recommend that you go check that out.

00:45:30.980 But here I feel I should respond if I'm being called a fascist by the most prominent feminist and gender theorist.

00:45:36.980 I should probably have an opportunity to examine her charges and respond to them.

00:45:41.800 She writes, and this is only the freebie.

00:45:44.000 I only saw this because they published a little portion of her book for free.

00:45:48.120 I haven't actually read the thing, so who knows?

00:45:49.600 I might be in more of it.

00:45:50.900 But here's the relevant part.

00:45:52.660 We may think that anti-gender ideology movement is wrong, but why maintain that it is fascist as well?

00:46:00.120 As I insisted at the outset of this book, fascism names the passions, but authoritarianism, the emerging, if not accomplished, political reality.

00:46:08.400 On the Michael Knowles show online, which attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners, Knowles, a right-wing commentator and featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States, stated the following.

00:46:17.940 And then she has my line from CPAC, if transgenderism is false as it is, we shouldn't indulge it because it takes away people's rights. 1.00

00:46:25.820 And so for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who fall in prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level. 1.00

00:46:34.260 She goes on.

00:46:35.520 The language of eradication belongs to fascism, and today it is directed not only against trans people, but against all those who have been clustered under the signs of gender and critical race theory and wokeism.

00:46:48.720 The ready definitions for fascism tend to rely on the study of its 20th century form, so new vocabularies are required to understand new iterations of fascism that have emerged in the last decades.

00:46:58.560 Okay, hold on, put a pause there.

00:46:59.680 Do you see what she's doing?

00:47:01.440 She's saying, because Knowles doesn't think that a boy can really become a girl, and because Knowles also believes that we should live according to the truth rather than according to lies, right?

00:47:11.400 Major premise, minor premise, conclusion is transgenderism should be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level, because it's false, and falsehood doesn't help anybody. 0.94

00:47:25.000 So we should enshrine true things, not false things, in our public life.

00:47:29.940 She recognizes that most people are not going to think that's fascist.

00:47:34.980 Most people are going to think that's common sense and something that we all agreed to until about five minutes ago.

00:47:39.300 So she says, yeah, yeah, no, but you're just thinking of fascism in its 20th century form.

00:47:45.460 We need new vocabularies to understand the new iterations of fascism.

00:47:51.580 Yeah, Michael Knowles, he might not look like that mustachioed Austrian painter, or, you know, Mussolini, or any of the other people we call fascist.

00:48:02.220 But she says, contemporary authoritarians, they may not consider themselves fascists, but they rely on fascist technique and stoking fascist passions to stay in power.

00:48:11.740 The new authoritarians rail against social movements, including feminism, multiculturalism, and LGBTQIA plus rights and freedoms, against civil rights and the protection of the rights of migrants and refugees, all of which are cast as internal enemies threatening the nation, or as external ones about to break down the door and threaten the phantasmatic purity of the nation.

00:48:31.840 So you see, right in that very end part where she's talking about borders and migrants, she's saying, if you support national borders, you're a fascist.

00:48:40.900 If you think a country, citizens have a right to determine who comes into the country, yeah, you're a fascist too.

00:48:47.920 It's not just Knowles, it's also anyone who supports any kind of national border.

00:48:54.540 All of the contemporary authoritarians promise a liberation from a leftist superego that would affirm trans lives, woke culture, feminist, anti-racist struggles.

00:49:02.780 Okay, here's my question for Judith Butler.

00:49:05.120 She says that, you know, we got to stop being hung up on what fascism actually meant when there was a fascist movement.

00:49:13.180 And when you just think of it today as being opposed to feminism, multiculturalism, LGBTQIA rights and freedoms.

00:49:20.660 Was Bill Clinton a fascist?

00:49:22.920 Is Bill Clinton a fascist? 0.98

00:49:23.980 Bill Clinton certainly opposed gay marriage. 0.99

00:49:27.600 Bill Clinton opposed homosexuals serving openly in the military.

00:49:31.240 Bill Clinton opposed abortion, at least in principle, even though he supported legal abortion. 0.92

00:49:37.720 So according to Judith Butler's definition, Bill Clinton's a fascist, right?

00:49:42.980 What about Hillary Clinton for that matter? 1.00

00:49:45.240 Hillary ran for president saying that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman. 1.00

00:49:48.860 What about Barack Obama?

00:49:50.380 Barack Obama ran for president saying the same thing.

00:49:53.280 Joe Biden said the same thing on TV.

00:49:54.860 In fact, beyond marriage and beyond questions of feminism and this and that, where they all have at some point basically agreed with me.

00:50:05.520 On the issue of transgenderism, they all, everyone agreed with me until about 2015.

00:50:12.140 Until Obama started to enshrine protections for transgenderism in public life.

00:50:18.540 Before there was a bathroom bill in North Carolina saying dudes can use the women's bathroom. 1.00

00:50:23.820 Everybody agreed with me on that point.

00:50:25.480 There was essentially no one in the world who disagreed with the point that I was making at CPAC.

00:50:31.080 So according to Judith Butler, does that mean everyone was a fascist?

00:50:35.580 Except for her until, and maybe even including her. 0.95

00:50:37.920 When she was a young woman, I bet she also thought transgenderism was crazy.

00:50:42.220 As pretty much everyone has forever.

00:50:43.720 Everyone, this means that the definition of fascism has to change to whatever the liberals oppose now.

00:50:54.300 Not even what they opposed five minutes ago, or supported five minutes ago.

00:50:59.100 But now, it's just now, it's always changing.

00:51:02.180 And it's, for Judith Butler, it's just not being a progressive leftist.

00:51:06.560 Now, she leaves with a final point that's pretty good. 0.95

00:51:09.820 Because she's somewhat intelligent, albeit totally nuts. 1.00

00:51:14.060 She says, it makes no sense for gender-critical feminists, that is the TERFs, you know, the feminists who oppose transgenderism, to ally with reactionary powers in targeting trans, non-binary, and genderqueer people.

00:51:25.900 Despite our differences, we have to create a struggle across differences that keeps the source of oppression in focus, testing our theories about the others by listening, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:51:34.480 Okay.

00:51:35.280 On this part, I think she's sort of right.

00:51:36.800 It doesn't really ultimately make sense for the TERFs and the disillusioned leftists to side with the conservatives.

00:51:49.380 We have different starting points.

00:51:51.800 We have different premises.

00:51:53.740 But the very fact that the J.K. Rowling's of the world, the so-called TERFs, you know, the anti-trans feminists, the classical liberals who oppose this kind of crazy leftism, the fact that they're inclined to side with conservatives, say the left has gone too far.

00:52:08.500 At a deeper level, I think it does make sense for them to side with this.

00:52:12.940 They just need to side with this more.

00:52:14.720 They need to go further.

00:52:15.960 What those guys want to do is they want to have all the leftism and the feminism and the liberalism and all of it up until about 1997, and then they want it to stop.

00:52:24.320 That's not how ideas work.

00:52:25.460 Ideas build upon themselves, and they follow to their own logical conclusions.

00:52:28.320 So if these ideas, if these premises are leading you to really crazy conclusions, like a man can be a woman, like we should castrate children or something, you got to not just try to rewind the tape a little.

00:52:41.640 You got to check your premises.

00:52:42.740 And if your premises are wrong, then you got to take other premises, which means ultimately you probably need to leave that feminism and the liberalism and the leftism behind and side with the conservatives who have been proven right again and again.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 09, 2024

Ep. 1486 - The Embarrassing Hillary Clinton Musical Sums Up The Democrat Party

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