The Matt Walsh Show - June 22, 2024


This Story Is So Insane You Won't Believe It's Real

Topics
no homophobic street signs
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Matt Walsh
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Walsh Maybe A Girl Hugo Soto-Martinez Nithya Rahman Grandma Putin
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8 minutes

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37

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We have a real crisis on the right, a serious problem that keeps me up at night. We talk about it all the time, casually, but I don t think we ve really stopped to consider the implications of this crisis. And the crisis is this: The left has transcended satire. We cannot make a parody out of them anymore. They ve descended so far and so fast into madness that there is simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of them. Inevitably, any satire of the left will be satire for maybe 3 days before it becomes reality. And that's in the best case scenario.

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00:00:00.000 We have a real crisis on the right, a serious problem that keeps me up at night.
00:00:04.500 We talk about it all the time casually, but I don't think we've really stopped to consider what it means.
00:00:08.500 We haven't thought about the implications of this crisis, and the crisis is this.
00:00:11.960 The left has transcended satire.
00:00:14.120 We cannot satirize these people anymore.
00:00:16.160 We cannot make a parody out of them.
00:00:18.040 They've descended so far and so fast into madness that there's simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of them.
00:00:25.700 Inevitably, any satire of the left will be satire for maybe like three days before it becomes reality.
00:00:29.760 And that's in the best case scenario.
00:00:30.980 But more often, satire of the left isn't even satire at all, even at the moment that it's created, because it's actually tamer than reality.
00:00:37.440 The right satirized version of a leftist is very often more normal, more sensible, more coherent than an actual leftist.
00:00:44.520 This is a problem.
00:00:45.220 It's a problem we face, and there may be a way around it, but we're going to have to start getting very innovative if we want to keep satire alive.
00:00:51.800 The old methods just don't cut it anymore.
00:00:53.460 We have to go farther.
00:00:54.500 We have to be more creative, more daring.
00:00:56.740 That's what it will take because of things like this.
00:00:58.800 So here's a very real news report out of Los Angeles.
00:01:01.780 This just happened last week.
00:01:03.380 Again, not a joke, not a skit.
00:01:05.000 Real thing happened in real life.
00:01:08.500 Watch.
00:01:13.200 L.A. City Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Rahman were on hand today to help remove the signs.
00:01:19.460 They say the no cruising and no U-turn signs were put up in the 1990s to prevent people in the gay community from meeting up with other gay people.
00:01:28.380 I was also surprised that these U-turn signs were still up.
00:01:34.380 And at first, you know, they seem a little, oh, okay, it's just a no U-turn sign.
00:01:38.420 But when you learn the history of it and you realize that these were used to profile gay people, it's so important that we have these removed.
00:01:45.600 So there you have it.
00:01:46.420 A crowd of people came together to remove no U-turn signs because no U-turn signs are homophobic.
00:01:51.900 That's where we are now.
00:01:52.620 No U-turn signs are bigoted against the gay community.
00:01:55.720 And topping it all off, the city council member who led this rally goes by the name, again, not making it up, goes by the name Maybe A Girl.
00:02:03.580 Maybe A Girl is leading the charge and finally sparking the long-needed conversation about the homophobic legacy of traffic enforcement. 1.00
00:02:10.580 But why are no U-turn signs homophobic?
00:02:13.140 And if we're looking for anti-gay implications in traffic signs, why start with U-turns?
00:02:17.220 Some people have speculated there might be some homophobia in, for instance, exit-only signs.
00:02:22.520 That's not a gay joke on my part, to be clear to the YouTube censors.
00:02:26.100 I would never engage in such things.
00:02:28.880 And in fact, I find it frankly objectionable. 0.83
00:02:31.440 I read those comments saying exit-only is a gay. 0.81
00:02:34.600 And I said, that's objectionable.
00:02:36.160 I object to it.
00:02:36.840 In fact, I said that out loud.
00:02:38.240 I'm only telling you what other people have said.
00:02:40.160 Maybe they have a point.
00:02:41.220 Like, why wouldn't you start with that?
00:02:42.160 But they haven't started with those signs.
00:02:43.280 Instead, it's the U-turn signs.
00:02:44.740 Why?
00:02:45.260 Well, council member Maybe A Girl explained in a very long video, which we will, you know, try to cut around and get to the point of.
00:02:52.860 Here's the history lesson.
00:02:53.840 Here it is.
00:02:54.440 No U-turn signs are homophobic in Silver Lake.
00:02:57.260 And folks were asking, how can a no U-turn sign be homophobic?
00:03:01.840 How is that anti-LGBTQIA?
00:03:04.160 Well, I'm here to give you a little history lesson about why July 27th, 1988, a story came out.
00:03:09.640 In 1997, let's fast forward a little bit. 0.63
00:03:11.660 Park Boulevard are fed up with gay men in particular. 0.98
00:03:14.640 Okay, never mind. 0.99
00:03:15.240 I actually don't care that much.
00:03:16.480 I had the same question everyone did.
00:03:17.840 Like, where is this even coming from?
00:03:19.320 And then this person posted, it's like a five-minute video.
00:03:22.520 You get two minutes in.
00:03:23.680 It's like, I don't care that much anymore.
00:03:25.440 Never mind.
00:03:25.940 It doesn't matter.
00:03:26.680 It really doesn't.
00:03:27.380 Maybe a girl apparently went to school and majored in the study of homophobic street signs. 1.00
00:03:32.100 We're getting an explanation that stretches back like 900 years.
00:03:34.780 I felt like I was watching a Putin interview, except with a lot more cross-dressing, of course. 1.00
00:03:37.920 This is one of the many problems with the LGBT left. 1.00
00:03:39.960 On top of the fact that they're wrong about everything, you know, everything,
00:03:42.920 and their fundamental worldview is hopelessly confused and incoherent.
00:03:46.040 On top of all that, they also spend their time learning the most useless possible information.
00:03:50.400 I guarantee that maybe a girl or any of the other people involved in this decision
00:03:55.280 could not pass a second-grade-level American history test,
00:03:58.700 and yet they could deliver a 10,000-word dissertation on the history of gay cruising in Los Angeles County.
00:04:03.840 Like, they couldn't tell you who wrote the Declaration of Independence,
00:04:05.700 but they can point to any random inanimate object and explain why it's actually a monument to homophobia.
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00:05:09.440 And in spite of their extensive knowledge of these utterly pointless subjects,
00:05:13.100 they're still wrong even about those subjects.
00:05:15.360 According to the explanation we just heard,
00:05:17.560 if you didn't fall asleep in the middle of it,
00:05:19.380 what you take from that is that they put the signs up in order to stop gay cruising in the 90s.
00:05:24.280 Gay cruising, as we saw in the newspaper clip that was briefly flashed on the screen, 0.95
00:05:28.020 means that gay men were going out and looking for other men to have sex with in public. 0.99
00:05:33.620 The news article mentioned two men caught having sex in a stairwell. 0.91
00:05:36.580 If the new U-turn signs were connected to the effort to stop this kind of public lewdness, 0.85
00:05:41.560 it must be because it was somehow effective in preventing gay men from cruising around on the street looking for sex. 0.86
00:05:47.620 So if these signs had anything to do with the gay community, quote unquote, 0.89
00:05:51.020 and that's a big if,
00:05:53.000 it's because they were behaving inappropriately in public
00:05:56.060 and the sign somehow helped to get that problem under control.
00:05:59.400 Again, I'm not exactly sure how the U-turn,
00:06:00.580 like, I don't know, you had a gay man that would drive me down the street
00:06:03.520 and then he saw on the other side of the street another gay man who thought, 1.00
00:06:06.460 oh, maybe I could have sex with that guy. 1.00
00:06:07.880 And then he just, then he just cuts a U-ey real quick. 1.00
00:06:10.440 Huh? He thinks you're gay. 0.99
00:06:12.680 Is that what was happening?
00:06:13.860 And that was why they had, I don't know.
00:06:15.220 There's only so much I want to know here.
00:06:16.780 I already know a lot more than I want to.
00:06:18.520 But this is how self-absorbed and oblivious these activists are.
00:06:22.240 If the no U-turn signs are connected to them in any way,
00:06:25.580 that should be a source of embarrassment. 0.63
00:06:27.680 Embarrassing! 0.70
00:06:28.040 It's only because they kept having sex in public
00:06:30.480 and other people in the community didn't want to be forced to witness it.
00:06:34.100 Rather reasonably, I would say.
00:06:36.240 So the true history of these signs, if that is the true history,
00:06:39.240 should be something that these people don't want discussed.
00:06:42.320 They should be ashamed of it.
00:06:43.380 They should be, they should just treat the signs like normal signs
00:06:45.940 and go on with their lives.
00:06:48.600 Instead, they go out of their way to remind everyone
00:06:50.500 that the county had to put up new traffic signs 0.97
00:06:52.980 to stop them from treating public roads like gay brothels. 0.98
00:06:56.740 Hey, looking for a good time, sweet cheek? 0.94
00:06:58.900 You know, conservatives have generally responded to this story by saying, 0.99
00:07:02.980 Well, that's ridiculous. 0.99
00:07:04.080 U-turn signs have nothing to do with gay people. 0.99
00:07:06.280 Which is an understandable reaction. 0.96
00:07:07.720 But the truth is something even more absurd.
00:07:10.220 Actually, these signs really might have something to do 0.81
00:07:12.520 with the behavior of some gay people in that community.
00:07:15.740 Behavior that is objectionable and that the city was right to crack down on.
00:07:19.360 But rather than LGBT activists having any shame
00:07:22.500 that they had to come up with new traffic rules
00:07:24.780 just to stop all the public sex that was happening, 0.59
00:07:28.160 instead the activists are calling attention to it themselves.
00:07:30.880 That's what happens when you have no capacity for shame.
00:07:34.140 And that is ultimately why these activists are today canceled.
00:07:38.360 Hey, man, check out that 6-4. 0.96
00:07:57.160 Yes, the f***ing fraud coming at your door. 0.97
00:08:00.140 You start to scream out loud. 0.99
00:08:01.560 Who's ain't back for more? 0.99
00:08:02.780 Yes, the f***ing fraud. 0.98
00:08:04.080 I told you before, prepare for my fight. 1.00
00:08:06.800 Aw, damn. 1.00
00:08:07.620 What up, Grandma? 1.00
00:08:09.160 Tell your dad it's a pain for me.
00:08:12.120 All right, then.
00:08:13.240 All right, players, stay up.
00:08:15.440 Here. 0.98
00:08:16.200 Yes, the f***ing fraud coming at your door. 0.99
00:08:18.460 You start to scream out loud. 0.99
00:08:19.820 Who's ain't back for more? 0.99
00:08:21.160 Yes, the f***ing fraud. 0.99
00:08:22.160 Oh, my God. 0.99