A new Broadway musical about the suffragettes opens in New York this weekend, and it s not doing very well. Is it because it s a Democratic Party play, or is it a play about the Democratic Party? Or is it about something else?
00:01:48.780You will not be surprised to discover the musical is not doing very well.
00:01:54.160Despite a concerted promotional effort by the establishment media, the show filled just 81% of its seats last week,
00:02:02.200which was only a marginal improvement over the 78% capacity that it played to the week before.
00:02:07.560To 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.
00:02:20.480And the 81% and 78% numbers for Suf's don't even tell the whole story because Broadway now employs a dynamic pricing system,
00:02:28.520which 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.
00:02:37.320So we have no idea if this musical has even made, you know, $5 in its run.
00:02:42.580It is a perfect picture of the Democrat Party.
00:02:48.460Tedious political lessons funded and told by unpopular performers to uninterested people that nevertheless will continue to run.
00:02:59.820Because the showrunners aren't accountable to their audience.
00:03:33.300I have just received a great honor, or rather, I have been made aware of a great honor that I received about a month ago.
00:03:41.060Judith 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.
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00:05:16.620I 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.
00:05:28.340Jonathan 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.
00:05:41.220His 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.
00:05:54.100You know, the statement of the judge that he's surprised there isn't a higher number of objections from the defense is baffling.
00:06:03.300The defense objected to putting her on the stand.
00:06:06.060They then objected to the scope of the questioning.
00:06:09.200And now the judge sounds like Claude Rains saying, I'm shocked, shocked there's a porn star in my courtroom.
00:06:16.580Well, you know, if you give a lot of scope to testimony, what did you expect?
00:06:24.300And the problem with what the judge has done here is that this is an entirely unnecessary witness.
00:06:31.640It is uncontested that there's an NDA.
00:06:34.680Whether what happened in their relationship, if there was one, is immaterial to how those payments were denoted by the Trump campaign.
00:06:44.340And it happened because the judge lost control of his courtroom.
00:06:49.820Okay, I agree with everything that Turley just said until that last line there.
00:09:01.400We're finding out that the big trial, the big federal trial where they've got him, the one that they feel most confident about,
00:09:08.520that's going to be pushed until after the election.
00:09:13.400That's the classified documents case where Biden's DOJ has been building their big federal case.
00:09:19.260That's going to be pushed until after the election.
00:09:20.940So that's not going to matter for 2024.
00:09:23.720So now you got these three other cases.
00:09:25.240They'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,
00:09:34.540or making a direct contribution, I suppose, in a way, to your own campaign.
00:09:38.040You're signing the check, though it's going to this other woman that will then indirectly help the campaign.
00:10:05.220CNN is analyzing this day of testimony.
00:10:10.340And even CNN admits that the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels was totally devastating.
00:10:18.000This is a devastating cross-examination.
00:10:20.440They have gotten Stormy Daniels to concede she hates Trump, that she has said that she would dance if he went to jail.
00:10:27.040They have pointed to the fact that she has said she will never pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars that she owes him.
00:10:33.040They've effectively undercut her credibility by getting her to talk about conversations she had that impeaching her with her own book.
00:10:40.380I mean, this has been devastating for Stormy Daniels' credibility.
00:10:43.380Totally, and so who cares about Stormy Daniels' credibility?
00:10:48.640She's an attention whore to use a little double entendre there.
00:10:53.760And 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.
00:11:05.080And so she can keep going on TV and she can keep being the face of opposition to Trump, Trump whom she says she hates.
00:11:12.680If 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.
00:11:21.520Then you don't want it to seem like you've got this major axe to grind.
00:11:26.480You 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.
00:11:34.000And you don't want this whole thing to look like the circus that it is.
00:11:38.500But that is exactly what we're getting.
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00:14:19.420John Paul Miller, he has some congregation, and he was given his sermon, his exegesis, riffing on the Bible.
00:14:30.020And then at the end of his sermon, he mentioned, oh, by the way, my wife killed herself last night.
00:14:36.360You 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.
00:14:52.940And he told them that if they'll give their life to Christ, that God won't just take care of them.
00:14:59.200He'll take care of the ones that come after him.
00:15:01.020I'm taking a little bit of a break, and I don't want to have to worry about the church.
00:15:03.680My break may be a few days, a few weeks.
00:15:52.040Because obviously that was a very truncated clip.
00:15:54.300This 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.
00:17:18.540It just doesn't sound like someone committing suicide.
00:17:21.300It sounds like someone that's getting ready to live life again, really starting her life over.
00:17:25.200And 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.
00:17:42.080In an affidavit in the probate court, her, Micah's family just filed trying to, like, take control of this.
00:17:49.440Her 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.
00:18:10.360She, it's not just the woman's own words you now hear from a number of people around her.
00:18:16.700Yeah, I don't believe she was going to kill herself.
00:18:18.240Apparently, 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.
00:18:34.680And she says, if I end up with a bullet in my head, know that it wasn't me, it was JP.
00:18:40.740So, this seems like proof positive, right?
00:18:43.200The 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.
00:18:56.180So, 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.
00:19:08.500The woman apparently made a 911 call, 911 dispatch.
00:19:14.260She was talking to her, saying, I'm going to kill myself, and here's how I'm going to do it.
00:19:19.100And 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.
00:19:27.280Robinson County 911, what's the address of your emergency?
00:19:31.560Hi, are you able to trace the location of my phone?
00:20:03.620And 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.
00:20:09.620I don't know, maybe that's how they're trained.
00:20:10.960You'd like to think that if you're on that side of the phone, you'd say, uh, don't do that, ma'am.
00:20:14.900But, and maybe there's some 5D chess going on here, and actually, it was all a really grandiose and brilliant sort of setup.
00:20:25.620But, if you've got the woman in her own words saying, I'm about to kill myself, here's where to find me.
00:20:31.500Then you have footage of her leaving her house, going to a gun store.
00:20:35.400I 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.
00:20:42.900I don't think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to say the most likely scenario is she did kill herself.
00:20:50.100So, why do I even bring up this story?
00:20:58.200But 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.
00:21:07.800Any 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.
00:21:22.720She was murdered by her husband or by a hitman or by this person or that person.
00:21:27.020She even said it from beyond the grave.
00:21:40.340Actually, the simplest answer was what happened.
00:21:43.580And we're living in an age where we no longer accept the simplest answer.
00:21:47.660And 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.
00:21:58.420I think a lot of people were radicalized, especially during COVID when the authorities lied or just got things wrong, honestly, were honestly incompetent.
00:22:08.040But a lot of times actually lied, too.
00:24:20.020One, 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.
00:24:34.260But two, as I defended myself at the time from the crazy environmentalists who were angry about that book, paper is an organic, renewable resource.
00:24:43.920And we have to cultivate it and grow it and use it, or they're going to pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
00:24:50.340It's actually good for the environment to print that email.
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00:28:40.580Another one, and this is related to relative wages.
00:28:43.420Over the time span of 1980 to 2019, non-college educated men's median weekly earnings not only stagnated, they actually declined after inflation.
00:28:56.760If you don't have a college degree, you're a man.
00:28:59.160Your weekly earnings declined 17% over that 40-year period.
00:29:05.660College educated men saw their earnings rise by 20%.
00:29:08.820So 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.
00:29:18.180So 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.
00:29:46.380Now, 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.
00:29:57.760The prevailing narrative is millennials, we have it really tough.
00:30:00.380We graduated high school during the financial crisis, and it's just been a disaster ever since.
00:30:06.200And we didn't get to enjoy the fruits of the post-war era, really.
00:30:11.440We didn't get to totally enjoy the fruits of the post-Cold War era in the 1990s.
00:30:15.900We were still kind of kids, and then 9-11 happened, then the financial crisis, and we've had a rough financial go of it.
00:30:24.140Also, 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.
00:30:30.960And now we're about to become the richest generation ever because of that transfer of wealth.
00:30:35.660So 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.
00:30:40.760And the men aren't inclined to work as much because they can just pay their way.
00:30:45.560I don't see a lot of people starving in the streets.
00:30:47.360I don't see an epidemic of emaciated millennials, right?
00:31:04.940Even 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,
00:31:12.800because 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.
00:31:43.640I would be, oh, what a life I could live.
00:31:45.400This was Nancy Pelosi's defense of Obamacare now over 10 years ago.
00:31:49.900She 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.
00:32:00.020Oh, yes, we're going to have a new Lord Byron.
00:32:03.020Think of all the writers, the novelists.
00:32:06.540A new Manzoni is going, is just begging, waiting to write his great magnum opus.
00:32:12.420It's just that he's got to work a job to have his health insurance.
00:32:19.200Statistically, 100% of people are terrible poets.
00:32:21.320But 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.
00:32:34.240The 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?
00:32:44.680They're people who are fanatical about their work, who will work a lot, who are indefatigable.
00:32:50.640Those are the kind of people because work is not a punishment.
00:32:54.520We think of this even in a religious way.
00:32:56.700You 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.
00:33:12.940And God, in his providence, orders all of history, sees all of history, and orders all of history ultimately to his own ends.
00:33:20.200So 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.
00:33:33.360But at a deeper level, work is a remedy for the fallen nature of the world.
00:33:41.080Because idle hands are the devil's playground.
00:33:43.520Most people, if they have some free time, they're not going to write Ipromessi Sposi by Monzoni, right?
00:33:49.800They're not going to write some great new work.
00:33:53.160They're going to be the new Charles Dickens.
00:33:54.720No, they're going to do drugs and play video games and look at porn and loaf around on the couch and watch TV.
00:34:16.800You 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.
00:34:31.280Whatever the cause of men dropping out of society is bad.
00:34:35.700And fix it, not only for the good of society, but also for their own good.
00:34:40.840Speaking 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.
00:34:51.740The International Criminal Court is threatening to indict the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:34:57.760The International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals.
00:35:10.080This would be an outrage of historic proportions.
00:35:14.980International bodies like the ICC arose in the wake of the Holocaust committed against the Jewish people.
00:35:21.260They were set up to prevent such horrors, to prevent future genocides.
00:35:26.860Yet now, the International Court is trying to put Israel in the dark.
00:35:33.600It'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.
00:35:46.340Branding Israel's leaders and soldiers as war criminals will pour jet fuel on the fires of anti-Semitism,
00:35:52.020those fires that are already raging on the campuses of America and across capitals around the world.
00:35:58.360It 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.
00:36:15.500What he's not saying here is what is actually relevant to this threat from the International Criminal Court.
00:36:22.540Namely, Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
00:36:29.060In 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.
00:37:35.380There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world,
00:37:44.740and that's the United States, when it suits our interest, and when we can get others to go along.
00:37:51.300The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.
00:37:54.560If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.
00:37:58.340This 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.
00:38:11.740The United States makes the U.N. work when it wants it to work.
00:38:15.800And 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.
00:38:23.020And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.
00:39:04.820There are potentially powers in the world.
00:39:09.460And practically, there's really only one power in the world, even still today, and that's the United States.
00:39:14.260So 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.
00:39:52.560And 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.
00:40:03.280Because we fund the Israeli military and Biden's saber rattling a little bit, but not enough to actually make much of a difference.
00:40:14.700If America wants Iran to defeat Israel, we can make that happen.
00:40:21.300If America wants Israel to defeat Iran or at the very least defeat Hamas in Gaza, we can make that happen.
00:43:34.060I 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.
00:43:42.540One of the few good reasons to go to L.A.
00:43:44.180My favorite comment on, oh, I guess it was yesterday.
00:43:49.060The 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.
00:43:57.680But my favorite comment yesterday is from Hard-boiled Entertainment.
00:44:00.960Says Kathy Hochul, governor of New York.
00:44:03.640Black kids don't know what computers are.
00:44:11.860MIT has just banned diversity statements.
00:44:16.480And 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.
00:44:35.700And that probably they're not going to do great at MIT if the Democrats are right about that.
00:44:39.660But 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.
00:45:00.100Judith Butler is the figure behind so much of the gobbledygook, you know, social construct, gender language that permeates all of society today.
00:45:16.160Chris 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.
00:45:29.160I recommend that you go check that out.
00:45:30.980But here I feel I should respond if I'm being called a fascist by the most prominent feminist and gender theorist.
00:45:36.980I should probably have an opportunity to examine her charges and respond to them.
00:45:41.800She writes, and this is only the freebie.
00:45:44.000I only saw this because they published a little portion of her book for free.
00:45:48.120I haven't actually read the thing, so who knows?
00:45:52.660We may think that anti-gender ideology movement is wrong, but why maintain that it is fascist as well?
00:46:00.120As I insisted at the outset of this book, fascism names the passions, but authoritarianism, the emerging, if not accomplished, political reality.
00:46:08.400On 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.
00:46:17.940And 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.
00:46:25.820And 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.
00:46:35.520The 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.
00:46:48.720The 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.
00:47:01.440She'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?
00:47:11.400Major 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.
00:47:25.000So we should enshrine true things, not false things, in our public life.
00:47:29.940She recognizes that most people are not going to think that's fascist.
00:47:34.980Most people are going to think that's common sense and something that we all agreed to until about five minutes ago.
00:47:39.300So she says, yeah, yeah, no, but you're just thinking of fascism in its 20th century form.
00:47:45.460We need new vocabularies to understand the new iterations of fascism.
00:47:51.580Yeah, Michael Knowles, he might not look like that mustachioed Austrian painter, or, you know, Mussolini, or any of the other people we call fascist.
00:48:02.220But she says, contemporary authoritarians, they may not consider themselves fascists, but they rely on fascist technique and stoking fascist passions to stay in power.
00:48:11.740The 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.
00:48:31.840So 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.
00:48:40.900If you think a country, citizens have a right to determine who comes into the country, yeah, you're a fascist too.
00:48:47.920It's not just Knowles, it's also anyone who supports any kind of national border.
00:48:54.540All of the contemporary authoritarians promise a liberation from a leftist superego that would affirm trans lives, woke culture, feminist, anti-racist struggles.
00:49:02.780Okay, here's my question for Judith Butler.
00:49:05.120She says that, you know, we got to stop being hung up on what fascism actually meant when there was a fascist movement.
00:49:13.180And when you just think of it today as being opposed to feminism, multiculturalism, LGBTQIA rights and freedoms.
00:51:14.060She 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.
00:51:25.900Despite 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.
00:51:53.740But 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.
00:52:08.500At a deeper level, I think it does make sense for them to side with this.
00:52:12.940They just need to side with this more.
00:52:15.960What 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.
00:52:25.460Ideas build upon themselves, and they follow to their own logical conclusions.
00:52:28.320So 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.
00:52:42.740And 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.