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The Transgender Tyrants Hijack Medicine | Ep. 1586

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	The American Medical Association seeks a crackdown on anyone who bucks the radical gender ideology orthodoxy.
	Brose dies at the box office despite a $30 million marketing campaign.
	And star Billy Eichner blames straight Americans.
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	Well, we now know that if you buck the radical gender orthodoxy, the radical gender ideology, they will come after you.
	We know this because school boards have been questioned by parents about transgender bathrooms, about the care for their own children at public schools.
	And the response has been from school boards to basically go to the DOJ and ask for a crackdown on parents.
	Well, now we have supposed medical organizations writing an open letter to Merrick Garland, the attorney general of the United States, calling for an actual legal crackdown on people who report on what is going on at hospitals that are essentially butchering children, because that's what it is.
	When you are performing gender mutilating surgery, sex mutilating surgery on children, what you are doing is butchering them.
	When you are injecting small kids with puberty blockers, pretending that has no long-term impact without any evidence to back that notion, you are butchering the kids.
	And the fact that you have so many of these hospitals that are now doing this, that are treating this as though this is standard of care.
	It's not medicine.
	It is ideology, pure and simple, because the data is not there.
	It is simply that easy.
	The data do not exist for this notion.
	The vast majority of kids who express some sort of gender confusion will desist from that over time.
	The vast majority at this point of gender confusion is being driven by societal mania.
	Promoting that sort of gender confusion is the highest form of parenting.
	And to immediately take a kid who expresses some sort of confusion about conformity to gender stereotypes and say, you must be a member of the opposite gender, we're going to socially transition you in school.
	And then we're going to inject you with a bunch of cross-sex hormones.
	And then we are going to prepare you for sterilization and mutilation further along down the line.
	And then we're actually going to, once you hit 15, 16, 17 years old, cut off healthy breast tissue.
	We are going to cut off penile tissue.
	We are going to create fake vaginas, or we're going to carve off arm flesh, and we are going to create fake phalluses to sew onto.
	This is barbarity.
	It's barbarity.
	It has nothing to do with medicine.
	But it is amazing how many of our institutions, institutions we all used to have faith in, have been completely overrun by the radical left and now the radical left in charge of these institutions is militarizing and weaponizing those institutions against anyone who would point out that what they are doing is quite terrible.
	So here is the letter from the American Medical Association as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
	And let me just tell you this.
	I know many, many doctors who are members of the AMA, and they do not have an alternative because the AMA is an organization that essentially provides accrediting services to hospitals.
	The AMA can essentially end your career if you refuse to go along with whatever diktats they are pushing.
	There's no rival organization that is anywhere near the size and scope of the AMA.
	And so I know doctors who are attempting to create alternatives to the AMA or to the AAP.
	But those alternatives don't exist right now.
	And so that monopoly means that these organizations, which again are run by a cadre of very political, very left-wing activists.
	Then simply market capture the medical community and then cram down a fake standard of care that has nothing to do with the betterment of children in the name of woke ideology.
	Here's what they say.
	Dear Attorney General Garland, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Children's Hospital Association, collectively representing more than 270,000 physicians and more than 220 children's hospitals across the country, We write to urge you to investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children's hospitals and physicians across the United States.
	Now, the key word there is provoking.
	Because if you are actually coordinating bombing threats on a hospital, that's criminal activity.
	You don't have to urge the DOJ to investigate that.
	That is a criminal activity, both state and federally.
	There are federal laws on the books that prevent you from committing these sorts of acts.
	And if we are talking about actually carrying out a bomb threat or a threat of personal violence, that, of course, has been illegal forever in the United States.
	I'm not allowed to threaten you with personal violence.
	That is the crime of assault.
	I'm not allowed to carry out a bomb threat.
	That is an actual crime of terrorism.
	The keyword there is provoking because what they mean by provoking is telling the truth about what we do at our hospitals and driving people to object.
	And then some fringe characters out there go and threaten violence.
	And so we're going to blame you for that.
	You reporting is what is creating the threat of violence.
	And so you have to be stopped by the DOJ from reporting that keyword provoking.
	Provoking.
	Again, unless you call for somebody to commit an act of violence, you are not responsible for the violence that is then committed.
	I've held this standard across the board.
	I've said this one million times.
	Barack Obama was not responsible for Dallas police officers being shot by a Black Lives Matter activist.
	Bernie Sanders was not responsible for Republican congresspeople being shot by a Bernie Sanders acolyte.
	Donald Trump was not responsible for people doing acts of violence in his name unless he actively called for the violence to be done.
	And this is also true of people who are just committing the crime of reporting on what children's hospitals are doing to healthy 16-year-old girls who are now having mastectomies.
	And they continue.
	Again, they're calling on the Attorney General of the United States to violate the First Amendment here.
	That is what this is.
	From Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children's hospitals, academic health systems, and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based healthcare.
	Evidence-based is a real mush word here because there is no evidence to suggest that the best treatment for a kid who expresses some level of gender nonconformity is to pretend they are a member of the opposite sex and then move them onto the path towards sterilization.
	These attacks have not only made it difficult and dangerous for institutions and practices to provide this care, they've also disrupted many other services to families seeking care.
	In one hospital, a new mother was prevented from being with her preterm infant because the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit was on lockdown due to a bomb threat.
	Children's hospitals across the nation have substantially increased security, in addition to working with local and federal law enforcement, both on their main hospital campuses as well as across their ambulatory delivery sites in order to ensure the safety of patients, families, and medical staff who work there.
	In addition, some providers have needed 24-7 security.
	Children's hospitals and their medical staffs continue to face increased threats via social media, including to their personal accounts, coupled with harassing emails, phone calls, and protesters at healthcare sites, there's elevated and justifiable fear among families, patients, and staff.
	Now, up until they get to that last sentence, you're thinking, okay, those are all criminal acts, right?
	If you call in a bomb threat to a neonatal intensive care unit and kids can't actually get the care that they need at the ICU, obviously it's a crime.
	But you're now lumping that together with protesters at healthcare sites.
	So if somebody shows up with a placard outside the transgender child care unit over at Vanderbilt University, then this is now equivalent to issuing a bomb threat?
	It's the equivalent to threatening to shoot a doctor?
	That is what the AMA, the AAP, and the Children's Hospital Association are essentially saying.
	And to make that perfectly clear, they get to the next paragraph, quote, these coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families. The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions. Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms.
	We now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.
	Okay, so that is an amazing, amazing statement.
	That paragraph is just incredible.
	I mean, we all know who they're talking about here, right?
	They're talking about Matt Walsh over at Daily Wire.
	They're talking about Libs of TikTok.
	They're talking about Chris Rufo.
	They're talking about me.
	They're talking about anyone who talks about these issues on the regular.
	Anybody who just plays audio of members of these children's hospitals talking about what they do to kids.
	If you just play the audio, this amounts to sharing false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals.
	Resulting in rapid escalation of threats.
	Again, notice how they're not actually drawing the line between I report on a thing and then the threats occur.
	They're not saying that I provoked the threats in the sense that I actually called up somebody and told them to make a threat or that I called myself to make the threat or that I told somebody that threats are a good thing.
	They're saying that by reporting on a topic, you have now created the threat.
	Which, by the way, ends virtually all journalism in the United States.
	It's hard to think of a story that does not result in some additional risk to the target of a story.
	I'd literally pick a political story, any of them.
	The most anodyne political story.
	Let's say, for example, how the media are going after Ron DeSantis in Florida right now over his handling of Hurricane Ian.
	Well, they keep lying.
	I mean, they keep saying that that Ron DeSantis is doing a terrible job based on no evidence.
	We'll get to that a little bit later on in the show.
	Is that heightening the risk to Ron DeSantis?
	If somebody took a potshot at Ron DeSantis on the basis of that information, would CNN be responsible?
	How exactly does that work?
	Now, what if we're actually telling the truth about what's happening?
	See, the thing is they're angry because the truth is being told about what is happening at these children's hospitals.
	About the fact that the AMA and the AAP are not protecting kids.
	They are damaging children by buying into a completely evidence-free and in fact anti-evidence-based care system.
	Driven by politically motivated organizations like WPATH, which is an activist organization.
	Or GLAAD, an activist organization.
	Or the Trevor Project, which puts out routinely bad data, skewed data.
	They take bad science and then they craft that into some sort of narrative promoted by medical associations.
	And if you report on this, then they say that the DOJ should crack down on you.
	They're openly saying that they are calling on big tech to crack down on anyone who descends from the prevailing nonsense they continue to purvey.
	Quote, our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms.
	What is this practice?
	Reporting, playing their own tapes for them.
	And don't you trust the AMA or the AAP on this sort of stuff?
	You can't even trust the fact-checkers on simple things like, did Kamala Harris say that Hurricane Aid would be passed off on the basis of equity?
	And literally she said that over the last 48 hours and every fact-checking organization then came out and said she was not saying that.
	So we are all being gaslit.
	And we now have the institutions that are supposed to be the most trusted institutions, you know, the institutions of medicine.
	If we were to talk about the single most trusted institution in the West, it would have to be the medical institutions, right?
	Because the simple fact is that over the course of the last couple of centuries, life expectancy has risen.
	Death rates have dropped and that means you've had this explosion in life expectancy and in population.
	And so these are the people we're supposed to trust with the health of our children.
	But then they say that if your kid comes in, your little girl comes in one day and she wants to wear a cowboy hat, maybe she's a boy and we should start calling her Bobby.
	And then we should start shooting her full of hormones.
	And if you disagree with this, they will blame you for anyone who threatens a children's hospital.
	Not only that, they're calling on the, again, it's a letter to the AG.
	It's a letter to Merrick Garland.
	Quote, we urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.
	They are calling for the prosecution of people like Libs with TikTok, or like Matt, or like me.
	This is fascistic stuff.
	I don't use that word lightly because fascism has an actual meaning.
	But when you call for the actual prosecution of your political opponents, specifically based on the fact that they are doing things like reporting the things that you say, that is like black letter fascism.
	They continue along these lines attacks against healthcare institutions that threaten violence, intimidation, and physical harm have left hospitals, staff, and their communities shaken.
	Families seeking care at these institutions as well as those providing their care fear for their personal safety in the wake of these attacks.
	On behalf of the patients and families we serve and the physicians we represent, we thank you for your attention to our request.
	And again, they use phrases like gender affirming care, which is just a propagandistic phrase.
	Gender affirming care is one of the most Orwellian phrases in human history.
	It is the opposite of the truth.
	They should call it sex denying care because gender is a made up concept in the first place.
	Gender is supposedly the idea that there are social standards that apply to males that don't apply to females and females that don't apply to males and they are all social constructs which is absolutely not true because gender is indeed connected to sex.
	There's a reason why men and women act differently and those are biologically ingrained.
	That does not mean that every stereotypical activity of a woman can't be participated in by a man or vice versa but it means that generally speaking there is a dichotomy between men and women that is biologically based And that is undeniable because it exists in the primate kingdom as well.
	It is not just relegated to humanity.
	But if you say this much, then this alone, I suppose, is provocative.
	This is scary stuff and it should be scary stuff because it is part of a broader agenda on behalf of the left to suggest that anybody who doesn't go along with this wicked agenda, it is wicked, that anybody who doesn't go along with this, Their kids should essentially be taken away from them.
	Because after all, they're abusing their kids.
	The best, the finest among us are people who are the parents who say that their kids are trans.
	Now, you wonder why the transgender phenomenon is occurring in specifically blue areas, and it is.
	If you look statistically, it is extraordinarily high rates of transgender identity in places like LA, New York, Chicago, like all the big left-wing centers.
	You're seeing a massive increase in gender non-conforming identities.
	You're not seeing it in rural Alabama.
	Now, the left says that's because of bigotry.
	If it weren't for bigotry, I guess all of us would be doing that.
	It would just be widespread across the earth.
	It had been bottled up, apparently, up until now, throughout civilization.
	But now, magically, we've reached an evolutionary bottleneck where suddenly, magically, huge swaths of children are now gender non-conforming.
	They're gender non-binary widgets who could be members of the opposite sex.
	Or, alternatively, what we have here is Munchausen syndrome by proxy for a lot of parents who are being told by the media and by medical associations that what makes you a good parent is being so deeply attuned to the needs of your child that before they can even speak, you can see that they're actually a member of a non-binary class.
	That they are actually a member of another sex.
	And the best thing that you can do is not voice the expectations of society on them.
	Instead, voice the expectations of a left-wing social agenda on them.
	Instead, pretend that gender is completely a social construct, but transgenderism is not a social construct in any way, shape, or form.
	This thing that's been invented over the course of the last 20 years.
	I'm not talking about gender dysphoria, which is an actual condition.
	I'm talking about the broad, widespread, societal creation of a phenomenon known as transgenderism, where a man without any sort of persistent gender dysphoria can simply declare he is a woman, and we immediately start using his pronouns and treating him as a woman.
	Pretending this, adherence to this, makes you the most sensitive, the most gracious, the most independent-minded parent ever, the most sympathetic parent.
	And then you wonder why parents are doing this to their kids.
	This is why.
	And here's the thing.
	If you don't, then the left will come after you.
	There's an amazing story from Luke Rosiak over at Daily Wire.
	This is precisely, I would assume, the kind of story that the left doesn't want reported.
	The story is about this big walkout at Virginia schools over Virginia's transgender policy.
	Now, lest you forget, the transgender policy in Virginia is that you cannot socially transition children at school without telling their parents.
	If Bobby comes to school and says, I want to be called Jane, it used to be in Virginia that everyone at school could start calling him Jane, treating him as a girl and never tell mom and dad.
	So the new governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, he came in, he changed that policy.
	He says, kids, parents have to be involved in the care of their children.
	So there's a big walkout.
	Maybe a thousand students, a couple thousand students, which, you know, is it across a dozen schools or a hundred schools, however many schools it was.
	It was 12,000 people walked out of class across presumably hundreds of schools.
	Those are numbers, but they're not unbelievable.
	In any case.
	Number's big enough to get media attention.
	So what is the- One of the groups behind the walkout is a Virginia pro-trans group with Democratic ties.
	And it's saying that it will help gender-confused students leave their families and re-home them with new queer-friendly guardians instead, according to eternal materials obtained by the Daily Wire.
	The Pride Liberation Project, which also says it can give money to students who run away and hide from their parents.
	garnered a glowing headline September 27th, when it organized 12,000 high schoolers to walk out of class to protest a draft policy saying schools should not hide a student's gender transition from parents.
	Though billed as an organic group of high schoolers, taking the lead in the materials was Aryan Rawal, a college student who worked for a Virginia Democratic state lawmaker.
	Materials from the group's internal message board show its plans go much further than a walkout, and resources for Outed Students Channel, created by Rawal, said the group would help children run away from their parents and arrange for them to be placed with new queer-friendly guardians.
	Okay.
	I mean, technically speaking, in any other context, we'd call that kidnapping.
	If you're an adult and you're encouraging a child to run away and house themselves with another adult, typically that would fall under the rubric of kidnapping, at least colloquially speaking.
	But it's okay.
	It's good because the parents are the bigots.
	If parents say to their kid, you know, honey, you may be confused.
	You may want to think this one through before you start the Gender non-conforming hormones?
	And start preparing to have your penis cut off?
	If a parent says that, we need to rehouse that kid immediately.
	We need to put them with a different set of queer-friendly parents.
	According to Raul, quote, we're creating this channel as a way for everyone to understand the mutual aid and support resources the PLP has available for outed and in-crisis students.
	For full transparency, this channel is catered to outed students who are facing familial rejection or need to leave their home for another reason.
	Well, that's a pretty broad carve out there.
	Need to leave their home for another reason?
	You mean like all the reasons?
	In the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a supportive, queer-friendly adult!
	I love this.
	They also cautioned, this person cautioned, quote, please note, this adult will likely be white.
	Because it's an upper class white phenomenon.
	All this stuff that's happening.
	You got, be careful, be careful.
	You might be housed with a, don't worry that you're being housed with a, with a group of adults who are specifically opening their home just to kids who are running away from their parents because they have been indoctrinated into this cult of gender identity.
	That's for, you know, that is bad news, but the real bad news, that's not really bad news, according to the bad news, they might be white.
	They might be white.
	You as a parent, you're thinking about this and you're thinking, wow, the thing about that, that person who's housing my child and trying to indoctrinate them into an insane ideology is that they're taking my literal child and putting them in their house and trying to indoctrinate them in a cultish, faddish ideology that will ruin their life.
	But for the left, the big issue is that this person might be white.
	That's the real problem.
	Quote, We may not be able to provide you that housing the same night, but we anticipate we can secure someone to take you in within one to two days.
	We'll work with other supportive adult organizations in the region to find you someone who can provide you a kind and affirming home.
	The group raises money using the Democratic platform, ActBlue.
	They also offer to pay for Ubers, Lyfts, and other passes if they need to leave immediately.
	Just how wonderful.
	By the way, it also promised to falsify documentation to hide a minor's activities from their parents.
	There is a section titled covers alibi that says, quote, if you attend an event or protest, we can work with you to craft a valid non-queer reason for you to have been there.
	Sometimes this may be a bit challenging, but we can use official sounding non-queer related email addresses, email addresses from prestigious universities and other resources.
	So we can help you cover up what exactly your parents don't know.
	Okay, if this is not a danger to children, I don't know what's a danger to children.
	But don't worry, these are the people who care about your kids, and anybody who points this out is the real danger at this point.
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	Again, all of this suggests the ascendancy of an intolerant, terrible left-wing culture That refuses the possibility of any dissent, right?
	If you're a parent and you descend from radical gender ideology, maybe your kids should run away from you.
	Or maybe, in the end, we should be like Canada.
	We should consider actually removing your kid from your home using child protective services.
	If you are a reporter on these issues and you just repeat their words, then presumably Big Tech should ban you and the Attorney General of the United States should investigate you.
	And what's more, if you fail to go to a movie promoted by members of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji, pound sign, hashtag symbol, carrot sign, tilde, little squiggly thing that goes over the Spanish letters, if you fail to go to a movie that is made By people who are ensconced in that agenda.
	In fact, the entire agenda of the movie is that.
	This means you're a bigot.
	We can tell you're a bigot.
	It's not just the... You didn't even say anything about the movie.
	You didn't even know the movie existed.
	You didn't care about the movie.
	You saw the trailer, you thought, oh, that kind of sucked.
	You didn't want to see it.
	Nope.
	You, my friend, are a bigot.
	And this is why it is apparently headline news that the movie Bros has now died at the box office.
	So Bros is supposed to be a groundbreaking film.
	And again, I've talked about this before, that there is there's something I call face tattoo phenomenon, which is where You know, you walk into the Starbucks.
	There's some dude with a face tattoo.
	And you're like, wow, that guy has a face tattoo.
	And you're like staring at it.
	It's all weird.
	It's like all over his face.
	And and he's like, what are you staring at, man?
	What are you staring at?
	Like your face tattoo.
	That's what.
	But so you do a thing to garner attention.
	People see it and they don't particularly love it.
	And then it's like, why are you even noticing that?
	It's because you're a bigot, aren't you?
	It's because you're mean, aren't you?
	Because you're bad, aren't you?
	Like, that's your thing.
	So this is what we are seeing now with Bros.
	So Bros completely imploded.
	There was huge press for this movie.
	Billy Eichner, who frankly I'd never heard of.
	I guess he was on Girls, which again is a show that I really didn't watch because I'm a straight man.
	Billy Eichner, he made a movie called Bros.
	It is supposed to be a groundbreaking rom-com.
	And it was a, I mean, we are talking a dud.
	This thing had a $22 million budget.
	It had a $30 million marketing budget.
	$30 million.
	Okay, so that is $52 million combined on this film just for the marketing and the production.
	And we're not talking about like overseas.
	We're talking about just domestically.
	$52 million.
	It's opening weekend.
	$5.4 million.
	I'm sorry, wrong.
	$4.8 million.
	Less than $5 million on 3,350 screens.
	$4.8 million on 3,350 screens.
	So I calculated this yesterday, but I'm just going to do it again for those who missed it.
	Okay?
	That means that per screen, per screen average, $1,432.
	1432.
	Okay, so let's assume an average ticket price.
	Let's go like $12.
	We'll go low.
	Average ticket price of $12.
	Okay, that means that each theater sold, not for one show, for the entire weekend.
	For the entire weekend, which presumably you're talking like at a minimum, you're talking Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
	You're talking a minimum of probably seven to eight shows of theater.
	119 tickets per theater.
	For seven to eight shows.
	Okay, so just to chart that out for you, let's assume that there were not even that many.
	Let's assume there were six shows a weekend, which is really low.
	That means there were 20 people in each theater. 20.
	Okay, that would be a high-end estimate of the number of people who showed up per theater to this movie.
	That is a massive dud.
	A huge dud.
	Okay, so the reason this is a big story is because, number one, Billy Eichner had made a big deal out of all this.
	Like, he went on national TV and he said to demonstrate that this is a tolerant, diverse country, you need to come see the movie.
	And then, he did an entire thread about how angry he was that people had not seen his movie.
	Right, he was really pissed that people didn't see his movie.
	So why don't we begin with why people didn't actually see Bros.
	Okay, so, first of all, I just want to play you a little bit of the trailer.
	And you tell me whether this is a movie that you wish to see if you are not a gay man.
	Right, which is like, I assume that many gay men saw this movie.
	That out of the 20 people in the theater, a significant portion of them were gay men.
	Because I cannot imagine a huge number of other people want it.
	I mean, I don't have to imagine it.
	I know the box office numbers.
	No one else saw this movie.
	So, here is a little bit of the trailer.
	Hey guys, it's Bobby Lieber coming to you from the future home of the LGBTQ Plus Museum.
	Everyone is really excited and totally getting along.
	This happens to be Bisexual Awareness Week and no one has acknowledged it!
	Lesbian History Month was in March!
	Nobody said a goddamn thing!
	Of course lesbians get a month and we get a week.
	So what's happening?
	Didn't you guys have an announcement?
	This is a little unexpected, but we are in a thruple situation.
	You're in a thruple?
	Um, does that seem like a thing that you'd like to see?
	Does that, like, I didn't even play you the whole trailer.
	I just played you like a little bit of it.
	Is that, is that something that you are desperate to see?
	Are you like rushing out to see that right now?
	So, um, I can give you a few reasons why people did not see this movie.
	One, what was the, I just want to know what the elevator pitch for this movie was.
	Seriously, what was the elevator pitch where they're like, people are going to be dying to see This romcom.
	I'm just going to read you a few details.
	I will fully admit I have not seen the movie.
	I have no intention of seeing the movie, just like apparently every other human being in the United States, with the exception of Billy Eichner's immediate friend circle.
	So I'm just going to read you a review from somebody who has seen the movie because Kyle Smith apparently was forced to see the movie for the Wall Street Journal because he gets paid to actually review these things.
	So here is what he writes about the film.
	He says, Mr. Eichner, who stars as Bobby, a New York podcaster who's starting what he calls the first LGBT plus history museum, has a lot of thoughts to get off his chest, most of them dyspeptic, about both gay life and perceptions of it.
	Near the start of the movie, Bobby says that the catchphrase love is love is a lie, that gay people were forced to deploy it in order to win equal treatment.
	In reality, he contends, gay sex and relationships differ greatly from heterosexual norms.
	Mr. Eichner then sets out to prove that thesis.
	But by the way, I think that he's actually correct about this, right?
	I think Dan Savage has said this.
	Pretending that gay relationships are like male-female straight monogamous relationships as a typical matter is not true.
	So him proving that, the problem is not, people don't generally want to watch that.
	It happens to be the case that the best way to sell a monogamous gay relationship is as the same as a male-female relationship in nearly all respects except one of the persons is of the same sex as the other person.
	But when you kind of turn over that rock, and it turns out that Billy Eichner's sex life is like gay orgies, and that's what everybody was fighting for, that people were like... Okay, so.
	And it turns out that's what the movie is.
	Quote.
	The culture of gay men, as Mr. Eichner and Mr. Stoller depict it, is one in which wild dance parties, drugs, and the availability of random internet hookups forestall emotional bonds.
	Bobby prides himself on never seeking any kind of lasting attachment to any of the men he sleeps with.
	So does the guy who catches his eye at a rave, the mild-mannered lawyer Aaron, a genial Luke McFarlane.
	As loud, pushy, and neurotic as Bobby is, Aaron is cool, confident, and poised.
	Someone dubs him the gay Tom Brady.
	The two men consider the pursuit of love to be taboo, and even see the word dating as off-putting, implying exclusivity.
	To clarify to each other that lust is all that is being indulged, the pair's first bedroom encounter involves two other men also!
	And the movie expends lots of imagination on similarly rivaled sex jokes.
	So, um, you're not just gonna watch two dudes in a rom-com, you're gonna watch a bunch of dudes nailing each other.
	That's- that was the pitch.
	That was the elevator pitch.
	Right here.
	Also, apparently this movie contains discussions about whether Abraham Lincoln was gay, No.
	Also, there are significant conversations, apparently, with a second grade teacher about why small children need to learn gay culture.
	Quote, because in his view, such instruction must begin as soon as possible lest gay people be marginalized.
	Why wouldn't anyone want to see this film?
	I can't imagine.
	It must be bigotry.
	There's no other reason.
	Also, by the way, what is the pitch of the film?
	What exactly are the stakes of the film?
	So typically speaking, when you are doing a rom-com, the stakes of the film are, are the people going to get together forever, right?
	Is it happily ever after?
	Do they get married or not?
	Do they get married and do they have kids?
	This is the unspoken stakes of every rom-com ever, is will the male and female fall in love and then form a family?
	Because it turns out all of society rests on the formation of male-female family units and pair bonding and the creation of children and raising of them.
	That's the stakes of rom-coms, which is why rom-coms typically feature young, Marriageable age and childbearing age people.
	There are a few rom-coms like really old people, but those are not the ones that most rom-coms are about, right?
	Most rom-coms are like Sandy Bullock at the age of 30 and Bill Pullman at the age of 32 and they're falling in love, right?
	That's what most rom-coms are.
	Why?
	Because all of human society rests on this.
	What are the stakes of this movie?
	Quote, the payoff joke is that they might possibly be ready to commit to three months of more or less exclusive dating.
	Wow, high stakes there for the romcom.
	Will they only bang each other?
	Will they bang each other plus other people?
	And for how long?
	So, I wonder, I mean, so again, elevator pitch was gay dudes having a lot of promiscuous sex, maybe they'll do it with not other gay dudes, but just with each other for like a few months.
	Also, just to note here, romcoms, straight men don't like them.
	Straight men have to be dragged to romcoms by their girlfriends or wives.
	There are zero straight men in the history of humanity who have ever been on like a Friday night.
	Man, there's a new Creed movie out.
	There's a new Predator movie out.
	Also, there is a brand new rom-com starring Cate Blanchett.
	What's the choice, guys?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	You know, Jennifer Lopez is out in Maiden, Manhattan, or theoretically, we could watch Terminator.
	Like what?
	There's never been a straight dude ever who's been like, oh, let's watch.
	OK, so you're starting off with if you're going to do a romcom, the chief audience you're seeking is women, right?
	Women are the ones you are seeking.
	It turns out that, you know, women really like watching about romcoms.
	You know what they like about romances?
	Women in them.
	It turns out that that I know that failing the Bechdel test is actually not a it's not a good strategy for bringing in audiences to the romcom, right?
	Romcom is a female centric category.
	And so, women want to see women typically fall in love with men.
	I know, this is like groundbreaking stuff right here, and we're not allowed to say it.
	We're supposed to pretend that like, women will just go to a lesbian drama.
	I'm sorry, as a general rule, no.
	Women want to see women fall in love with men in a romcom.
	That is what, since Pride and Prejudice, this has been the case.
	So the pitch was, what if we do a romcom, which dudes don't want to see, So, and also women won't want to see it because it's two dudes banging each other.
	That'll be the pitch.
	That's the elevator pitch.
	So, you know how that elevator pitch gets greenlit?
	Because it's so important, guys.
	It's so important.
	That's why it gets greenlit.
	Because it's so darn important.
	And then, when it fails, predictably, because the trailer looks bad, because the topic is not something that is wildly interesting to either straight men or women, generally, lesbian or straight, the and then it dies on the butt.
	The answer is because you're a bigot, because you're a bigot.
	So this is what Billy Eichner said.
	So by the way, the funniest thing about Billy Eichner calling everybody a bigot is that he actively alienated all possible audiences for his film.
	He actively alienated them.
	Here's some quotes from Billy Eichner.
	Okay, this is from June of 2022.
	Quote, get your fictional hateful Bible stories and your fake fictional religious bulls* out of our f*ing lives.
	F*** you.
	That is a direct quote from Billy Eichner.
	So, you feel like going to see his movie?
	It'll reflect your values, probably.
	Probably it's a way for him to, you know, mainstream his ideas of love.
	And then somebody else recently and a couple of days ago tweeted about how there were some booze in the theater for his for his crap trailer and he tweeted out amazing thank you for shouting back i'm hearing stories like this about the bros trailer in theaters so let me just say those people we didn't make bros for them we made it for smart people with good taste excited to be releasing it in the middle of a culture war uh you lost I mean, you shouldn't declare a culture war and then just get destroyed, which is exactly what happened.
	Because again, not because people are bigots, but because you have chosen to run directly into the teeth of pretty much All movie-going publics ever?
	And also into the teeth of what most people consider to be decent values.
	And forget about gay or straight.
	Most people consider decent values to be you fall in love with one person, then you form a life with them.
	Even for people who are pro same-sex marriage, that was the pitch.
	The pitch was never, we are going to form dyadic relationships that also have the possibility of open marriage.
	And maybe at some point we'll put it on a piece of paper.
	That was the entire pitch for same-sex marriage.
	Was it not?
	But Billy Egner overthrows that, and then he's like, why won't anybody watch my film?
	So, now he's mad.
	So he tweets out, quote, Last night, I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold-out theater playing Bros in L.A.
	So this was the only sold-out theater in all of America.
	The audience howled with laughter, start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out.
	It was truly magical.
	Really, I am very proud of this movie.
	If you have to say this about your own movie, it's not.
	Great.
	Rolling Stone already has bros on the list of best comedies of the 21st century.
	Wow.
	Rolling Stone.
	Oof.
	What's also true is that at one point, a theater chain called Universal and said they were pulling the trailer because of the gay content.
	Universal convinced them not to.
	America, fuck yeah, et cetera, et cetera.
	Right?
	Because America is filled with bigots, obviously.
	Now, I should note at this point that Brokeback Mountain grossed domestically $83 million when it came out in 2006.
	And it does have a graphic gay sex scene.
	Yeah, I should note that the birdcage grossed, I believe, $134 million domestic in 1996.
	Philadelphia grossed $70-some million, $77 million domestic in 1993.
	So for decades, people have been watching gay people being gay in movies.
	It's just they don't like your movie.
	Like, I'm sorry to break it to you, they don't like your movie.
	Quote.
	But he says, it's because you're a bigot, right?
	That's just the world we live in, unfortunately.
	Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A Cinema score, etc., straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn't show up for bros.
	And that's disappointing, but it is what it is.
	You know who you should blame?
	You should blame all of your liberal friends.
	They'll agree with you, but apparently they're all homophobes.
	That's who you should blame.
	You should blame all the people who patted you on the back, all the studio execs and their friends.
	That's who you should blame.
	He concludes, everyone who isn't a homophobic weirdo should go see Bros tonight.
	You will have a blast.
	And it is special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, especially for queer folks who don't get this opportunity often.
	I love this movie so much.
	Go Bros.
	Um, yeah, man.
	So, uh, I'm sorry that your movie failed.
	I'm not really sorry your movie failed, actually.
	I think that it is a sign of the health of the Republic that your garbage movie, which apparently promotes promiscuity punctuated by small periods of monogamy, did poorly.
	But it is just indicative of the intolerance of a value system that declares itself the most tolerant value system on the block.
	One final note on this topic, because this tweet just cannot be ignored.
	So Lena Dunham, who I've been reliably informed is still a human, and also did a show, which I've been told starred Billy Eichner in it, right?
	Is Billy Eichner in Girls Night?
	I believe that is the case.
	Okay, so Lena Dunham, she tweeted out with no apparent sense of irony, quote, When I go, I want my casket to be driven through the New York City Pride Parade with a plaque that reads, quote, She wasn't for everyone, but she was for us.
	Who can arrange?
	You want to know who Greenlit bros?
	People like Lena Dunham.
	This is an endless blooming onion of cringe.
	My goodness.
	Declaring herself a gay hero and saying that she wants her casket driven through a pride parade because she's just, she's declaring herself this way.
	Well, sadly for Billy Eichner, there weren't enough Lena Dunham's on planet Earth to make his film a success.
	And so we weep a final tear for a film that is bombing on the level of Ishtar.
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	Meanwhile, As the Russian government fails in Ukraine to consolidate any of its gains, they annexed all of these areas and now they can't even defend any of these areas.
	The risk of nuclear war is rising.
	We talked about this pretty substantially yesterday on the show.
	The risk continues to rise because Vladimir Putin is being boxed in.
	And at a certain point, there are only a few possibilities.
	One, Vladimir Putin goes, best case scenario, Vladimir Putin, he gets the message, he leaves Ukraine entirely, and then he just sort of sits around, everything's okay.
	Do you think that's going to happen?
	Or do you think he's going to do exactly what Stalin did when he was losing the Winter War in Finland in 1940 and dump hundreds of thousands of troops back in there in a mass offensive?
	Or, worst case scenario, do you think that he maybe fires off a tactical nuclear weapon?
	on the battlefield in Ukraine. That's a possibility too. By the way, it is worth noting here that even if Vladimir Putin were to leave Ukraine and his regime were to destabilize, the people who are likely to take over are not going to be democracy-minded liberal people. It's not going to be Navalny taking over Russia. The people who are all surrounding Putin are maybe harder core than even Putin is. We're talking about people like Shoigu, who's the current head of the military.
	We're talking about his spy chief over at the FSB.
	The people who are surrounding Putin are the most likely people to plant a knife between Putin's shoulder blades or defenestrate him by chucking him out a third story window like he does to most of his enemies.
	Those people are not anybody's best friends either.
	So there are not a lot of great outcomes here, all of which prompted Elon Musk to put out a tweet regarding what should happen next in Ukraine.
	So what he tweeted out was four suggestions under the heading Ukraine-Russia peace.
	Here are the suggestions.
	1.
	Redo elections of the annexed regions under UN supervision.
	Russia leaves if that is the will of the people.
	So first of all, he's assuming that Russia would do that.
	Very unlikely.
	Very, very unlikely.
	But, as long as you're being pie-in-the-sky, here's his proposal.
	2.
	Crimea formally becomes a part of Russia, as it has been since 1783, until Khrushchev made the mistake of calling it part of Ukraine.
	3.
	Water supply to Crimea assured, so you can't starve them out if you are Ukraine.
	And 4.
	Ukraine remains neutral, meaning it doesn't formally align with the West.
	It doesn't join NATO.
	It doesn't join the EU.
	Basically, all that's happening here is that Elon Musk is looking for an off-ramp.
	There's a poll, right?
	There's a poll with the answers yes or no.
	No was winning, pretty substantially, and Musk thinks that that is because of bot attacks.
	But, he says, quote, this is highly likely to be the outcome in the end, just a question of how many died before then.
	It's also worth noting that a possible, albeit unlikely, outcome from this conflict is nuclear war.
	And so, what he is saying here is not wildly out of the box.
	Henry Kissinger has said something very, very similar.
	A lot of I've said stuff that's similar about there needs to be some sort of off ramp here because if you're looking to avoid the worst case scenario, which would be the firing of a tactical nuclear weapon, which wouldn't necessitate as General David Petraeus suggested, like mass NATO bombing of Russian assets, which means direct war between NATO and Russia, which increases the likelihood of use of a tactical nuclear weapon.
	Afterward, right?
	Let's say that Russia uses a tactical nuke.
	And let's say that NATO then gets directly involved in the war.
	Do you think Russia is going to stop at the use of one tactical nuclear weapon?
	Like, what would they have gained from doing this?
	The answer is not much, right?
	This thing could spiral out of control.
	Now, it's possible it's all a big bluff.
	It's possible that Putin is just bluffing.
	It's also possible that the most likely scenario here is that the West acts like it cares about this topic.
	And then by this time next year, they've started to wind down the funding.
	Russia has started to reconsolidate some of its gains in Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea.
	And they end up claiming that territory anyway, just with a lot more dead people.
	Hey, there are a lot of options here that are on the table.
	But what Musk is suggesting here is not totally crazy.
	And it is worth noting here that Elon Musk also put Starlink over Ukraine to ensure that people in Ukraine actually have internet access in the middle of this at a cost of about $80 million to himself.
	As he tweeted, we gave Starlink to Ukraine and lost $80 million in doing so while putting SpaceX and myself at serious risk of Russian cyber attack.
	Okay, but you are not allowed to say this.
	To even suggest that maybe there needs to be a negotiated solution to this thing is a real problem.
	So, for example, you had the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany responding directly to Elon Musk by basically suggesting that he F off.
	This was his response.
	He tweeted out, F off is my very diplomatic reply to you, Elon Musk.
	Now, again, I don't blame the people of Ukraine for feeling that way.
	I don't.
	I mean, this is like the people of Finland 1939-1940 saying we are not going to do a negotiated settlement.
	But the question is whether there are a lot of other options in Ukraine.
	And, again, unless the West is willing to go all out here, which is a point that Neil Ferguson, the historian, has made, that the West is not just going to have to shore up Ukraine on a military level, they're going to have to shore them up on an economic level.
	They're going to have to make them a ward of the West for the foreseeable future, unless they're willing to really escalate this thing in terms of the weaponry being provided to Ukraine, and in terms of the economic aid being provided to Ukraine.
	Well, then the likelihood is that Russia freezes out Europe during the winter, gradually over time, interest in this thing wanes, and Russia reconsolidates a lot of ground.
	Being realistic about this thing does not mean that you're anti-Ukraine.
	I'm very much pro funding Ukraine to fight Russia.
	All I'm saying is that we have to be realistic about how far we're willing to go.
	The West has a very nasty habit of over committing verbally and then not actually fulfilling those commitments.
	Just ask the people of Afghanistan who right now are suffering from mass starvation and complete subjugation at the hands of the Taliban.
	Speaking of which, by the way, Joe Biden, right?
	He apparently just left a bunch of Afghan interpreters behind.
	This is what I keep saying.
	When we make commitments, very often the United States, if it is a short-term commitment with an actual end, we can keep that commitment.
	That's like the first Gulf War.
	If, however, it is a long-term commitment, the United States does not have the appetite for that sort of stuff.
	The United States does not have the appetite for long-term war.
	This is why, according to the LA Times, During the last 12 years, one Afghan interpreter worked as an interpreter for U.S.
	government contractors training Afghan National Police and Army forces to do his job.
	But this interpreter failed a counterintelligence screening after mixing up the Western and Afghan calendars when telling an agent the date of a work trip in Pakistan.
	As a result, this guy was fired and his application for a U.S.
	visa was denied in 2021, just a few months before the remaining U.S.
	troops left his country as the Taliban took power.
	The rapid and disorganized exit from Afghanistan a year ago left many people in danger under Taliban rule.
	Among them are interpreters like this one guy who apparently referred to themselves as blacklisted and said they were unjustly barred from getting visas promised to Afghans who helped the U.S.
	advocacy groups such as the International Refugee Assistance Project say thousands have been affected.
	The State Department declines to comment on all individual cases.
	But again, this just reminds you that we did actually leave hundreds of Americans behind in Afghanistan in our rush to get out.
	One of the things that the West must be very careful of is do not overpromise.
	If you're going to make a promise, deliver on the promise.
	And again, you can do that in the short term with an actual off-ramp.
	If there is no off-ramp ever, we can pretend that we're going to keep doing this forever.
	But the realistic history of the United States on foreign policy shows we will not.
	Ask the people of Kurdish areas of Iraq.
	Ask the people of Iraq themselves.
	Ask the people of Afghanistan.
	Ask the people of Hong Kong.
	All over the world, there are people who have allied themselves with the United States on the assumption that the United States would give open-ended guarantees of their security.
	And over and over and over, the United States public gets tired of that sort of stuff and withdraws.
	And so, before the same happens in Ukraine, it might be worthwhile trying to get to some form of settlement that actually looks not like nuclear war.
	Alrighty, we've reached the end of today's show.
	We'll be back here with much, much more after Yom Kippur.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.

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