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Feb. 14, 2018 - Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes
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Live from New York, it's Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McGuinness.
This is Uzodinma Apechi from Nigeria.
I don't stop at nothing small.
Open say I get sense.
This song is called I Will Chop Your Dollar.
He is from Nigeria and he will chop your dollar.
He will make it disappear because he does Nigerian scams.
And that is such a big part of Nigerian culture that it is also in the pop music where the man has status in Nigeria because he will go chop your dollar by calling the white man and tricking him into giving him monies.
It's amazing that people fall for that.
I have over $2 million, but it is painted black.
I need to get the formula for the chemical that will take the black off the money you can have half.
Yeah, no problem.
High and inside.
Some Yankee becomes a drug kingpin.
I hate the Yankees, but I've done a lot of Coke over the years as a young man, so it's hard to criticize.
No, I'm just kidding.
Cooks and off.
He was on the Yankees for two months.
What?
He was on the Yankees for two months.
I don't consider him a Yankee dude.
Oh, look at the Yankee fan.
Get all set.
I'm telling you, Dave, the Mets are going to blaze this year.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's Yankees Mets in the World Series.
That'd be pretty great.
Death threat against Don Jr.
Someone sent his wife what might be anthrax.
And of course, the left loves to joke about it.
Oh, I wish Don Jr. opened it.
They want us dead.
They don't want to debate us.
They don't want us to lose.
They want us dead.
And it's ironic because I don't want them dead.
They think we're evil.
We just think they're wrong.
I just want to ridicule them.
And they're very easy.
Who was it who said, oh, Lord, let my enemies be ridiculous?
But they are.
So they're easy to ridicule, but I don't want to kill them.
I don't even want to kill Antifa.
I just want to throw a pie in their face and maybe punch them if they punch us.
But no, they really want us dead.
And they talk about genocide all the time, but that's because they're projecting.
They're Stalinists, and Stalin loves projection.
Anyway, I don't want to talk about that.
I want to devote this entire episode to Obama's portrait because I think it sums up everything that's wrong with America.
It was done by a man named Kihende Wiley.
This is actually a meme that I think Joe Biggs did where he put, what's her name's head?
Kathy Griffin's head.
Look at that.
That's a joke, but it's also real.
There's a real woman behind Kathy Griffin that Kehende Wiley really painted.
But we love him because he is from Africa.
Not really.
The sperm that made him is from Africa, but the Nigerian was not around.
He was back in Nigeria chopping your dollar.
Anyway, I want to do a very in-depth look at this painting because it says it all.
Let's start the show.
I'm fascinated by this.
I'm fascinated by this portrait.
The gall of the Charles de Gaulle of Barry Obama to make this the presidential portrait.
Now, when you first see this, you go, oh, he's doing a cool presidential portrait, Kende Wiley, who I'm from New York, in that I live in New York now.
And Kende Wiley is a god here.
He is a black man who is a gay man who is talented.
The end.
That's all you need to be a god among liberals here.
And they fallate him at every turn.
God, they love him so much.
Actually, I've got a funny video here.
I'm sort of doing this out of sequence, but check this out.
This is some artsy fartsy woman.
This woman, women in art, really sum up liberals.
New York women in art who work at Art Forum are perfect personifications, because they're not truly people, of what liberals are like.
So here she is with Cahinde.
She's standing, sorry, sitting next to a portrait of a woman who has cut a white woman's head off.
A black woman has cut a white woman's head off.
We'll talk to Joe Biggs about this shortly.
He very clearly called it a kill whitey gesture.
And what do whites do when they see themselves beheaded?
They go, that is stunning.
That's beautiful.
Can you imagine?
Everything reversed here.
A black male interview.
We're talking to a white woman.
The picture is of a white man decapitating a black man.
And can you imagine that black man going, this is absolutely stunning?
Doesn't fit in here, doesn't get in, doesn't make it through the cuts, does it?
Stopped at the border, stopped at the wall.
All right, listen to this.
Really fascinating in a number of your portraits of men is that they are actually the guise very often of female martyrs, which I found to be kind of brilliant.
And so when I see works like this, that first of all are stunning.
Stunning.
Well, yeah, it is kind of technically, literally stunning.
Are very visually and compositionally powerful.
How have you come now to be depicting women more and more?
And what can you tell us about works such as the one behind us, which is astounding?
The work behind this was actually a study.
And so they can't show it.
What I wanted to do was to begin a conversation about fashion.
And for this project, I actually started with Ricardo Tichi of Givenchi.
And what was it?
They did it for Given Chi.
Now, I don't want to call the guy a fraud because his paintings were good even before he started shipping them out to China.
But this whole thing is fraudulent, and it is indicative of the trouble with the far left, with radicals.
They want to wipe out traditionalism, and what do they replace it with?
Garbage.
And the crap they replace it with is a giant FU to the past.
You know what I mean?
Like every time there's a progression, is it a giant FU to the past?
Or does it incorporate the past?
I would even argue that the colonists who took over America after 400 years of war revered Indians.
That's why they named so many places after Indians.
That's why they are so, Americans today are so outraged about wounded knee.
That's why soldiers try to revoke the reddles that were awarded for wounded knee.
That's why we call it a Jeep Cherokee.
That's why we call teams the braves, because we revere the most worthy adversary we've ever had, which is the Indians.
Again, we beat the Nazis in a couple years, and it costs less money than Obama's website.
The Indians, generations perished trying to keep up with them.
But I've got so much to talk about here with this, because it tells so much about America, this painting.
Like, first of all, all right, this is a great time, a great chance to mock Barack Obama, right?
Let's see what the late night hosts do.
And remember, they have higher IQs than the rest of us.
So if you want to know what you would think of something if you were smart, then ask a late night host.
And Dave, you could start this at any time.
And his wife, Michelle, were honored at the Smithsonian today with the unveiling of their official portraits.
This is a tradition that goes back to George Washington in 1796.
It's a big deal, and the Obamas were there in person to be part of it.
Woo!
Can you just pause it?
That is what Obama's saying.
He is calling us bitches.
When you look at that painting compared to all the other presidential paintings, he's calling us a bitch.
He is saying, I'm not like you.
I'm different.
My people, I rocked it.
I'm not a president.
I'm not like other presidents.
All you dead white males are boring.
I rock.
And this will become particularly evident when we have 10 more paintings.
What a vile human being Barack Obama is.
You know, I'm reminded of when he met John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime.
And John Lott, he said, you're the gun guy, Barack Obama says.
And John Lott goes, well, I don't know if I'm the gun guy.
I'm the crime stats guy.
I don't think anyone should have guns.
Well, I think that's a little drastic.
Let's have lunch and discuss it.
And Obama goes, turns around and walks away without saying goodbye.
This is his fellow Chicago you professor.
That is Barack Obama in a nutshell.
It's about me and you're an idiot.
That's what this painting means.
I'm unique and you're a loser.
Okay, go ahead.
You're on your own, bitches.
I like it.
It's very modern.
This is the real portrait of Obama by the artist Cahindi Wiley.
It's not the traditional man posing in front of desk with American flag in the background.
It depicts the president in front of flowers that represent Chicago, Africa, and Hawaii.
Although I'm sure that's what they represent because the artist said is what they represent, but that background looks very...
Oh, that's weird.
This is weird watching this in New York because you realize no one's heard of Kahende Wiley, whereas here in New York.
Future President Zolti for his mug shop.
Speaking of the future and presidents, this portrait got me thinking today.
I wonder, you know, the president gets to pick the artist.
I wonder what Trump's official portrait is going to look like.
And I imagine it will look something like this.
Right?
All right, that's enough.
Isn't that bizarre?
So he's using this example of Obama ripe for ridicule.
They only do the background, which is dumb.
And they decide, let's make fun of Trump, a painting that doesn't exist.
And I promise you, Trump's presidential portrait will be normal and look very similar to all the others.
I promise you, I will punch myself in the face live on air as hard as I possibly can six times if his portrait isn't similar to all the previous portraits.
Barack Obama, what have you done?
And you know what Cande Wiley's all about?
He's all about this, I'm going to put black people in white history, which is seen as empowering.
I honestly don't get that.
Like Hamilton, like this picture, okay?
This is called Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps.
And what he does is he's gay, right?
So he's obsessed with black thugs.
They turn him on.
So he has these black thugs from Harlem and he puts them in Napoleon.
But that black thug didn't go over the Alps.
And by the way, you had a Chinese guy paint it.
So you've got, you're all about black empowerment and you're using Chinese people to paint blacks into white people's history.
It's Hamilton all over again.
It's like the movie Black Panther.
It's this sort of like, let's create a fantasy where I'm the founding father, Puerto Ricans are the founding fathers, and then we can be proud and patriotic.
Why?
Why do you need to have your race represented to be patriotic?
That's not what America's about.
America, ironically, is about forgetting about race and just going, George Washington isn't a white guy.
George Washington is an American guy.
I correspond with him because I'm an American guy.
I'm a Canadian immigrant from Scotland, and I feel more affiliation with George Washington than these black people who were born and raised here.
Why is that?
Because you're white.
No, because I'm patriotic.
And you are not.
Even his name, Kehende Wiley.
Look, he's got more allegiance to Africa when an African screwed him over by abandoning him as a child.
Isn't that bizarre?
Barack Obama is the same way.
Barack Obama's allegiance is to Islam, to Africa, to the rest of America.
That's what he loves.
And that, the third world abandoned him, left him on his own.
All right.
Oh yeah, that's what I wanted to talk about.
There's an interesting Huffington Post article written by a blind woman.
And when I say blind, I mean blind to logic and facts.
Everyone on the Left, especially around this painting, is totally blind.
Like that African thing, abandoning them, that doesn't occur to them.
And this woman, who wrote an article, it's called Kehinde Wiley on the World Stage: A Conversation with the Artist.
Now, what I find fascinating about this article is it features his paintings from when he started really getting serious, which was around 2004, 2005, up till now.
And when you look at his paintings, well, actually, you can look at any painting here.
And when you see 2005, you see a fairly good painting.
Like, go down.
Okay, stop.
That's 2011.
Stunning photorealism, right?
Half these backgrounds, by the way.
Like, the background for Obama was just Photoshopped.
He just found a picture of some floral prints and then just repeated it with a stamp in Photoshop.
In fact, I bet he didn't even do that.
I bet he had someone else do that.
But this is 2011 when he started sending photos to China.
He has a factory in Beijing.
He's got a sweatshop in Beijing.
Which, again, doesn't occur to liberals to point out.
I think it's because most artists do this now.
Like I used to hang out with the people who did Peter Haley's paintings.
Have you got him?
Dave, he's a little bit down the links there.
Peter Haley's a New York artist who does, I don't know what's it called when it's just circles and squares.
Is that cubism?
But just a bunch of circles and squares, very successful pop artists.
He used to do Index Magazine.
And I used to hang with the crew who did these paintings.
Fun little team, dated one of them actually.
And they would just sit in his big warehouse in New York and draw these circles and squares.
There'd be like 10 of those.
There'd be 15 of these.
A limited print.
In fact, one of the guys I know who would do them, he's sitting there painting his squares and he just gives one to his friend.
Because half the time they'd have Peter Haley, I shouldn't say half the time because he could sue me.
I was told that these interns who do these things for cheap wages would sometimes do his signature.
So he gives his buddy one here.
It's a $10,000 painting.
Thanks, man.
And then Peter asks for it back because he has a show in Tokyo or something.
So he goes, oh, isht.
What happened to that painting?
I need it back.
He goes, I sold it.
What?
What am I going to do?
I know.
He just makes a new one.
Zoop, zoop, zoop.
Paints it up, signs a name on the back.
Here you go, buddy.
Still wet.
So this is not uncommon in fine arts.
And I think it's wrong.
That's not your painting.
That's a reproduction.
By the way, I do this all the time.
I'll take a picture I like, find a high-res, and send it to China.
I've done it a dozen times.
In fact, Mark Epstein, when we had that show and he had George Washington with Make America Great Again hat on, that's what he did.
He just did it in Photoshop and sent it to China.
Why spend money on photorealism if you're not an art dealer?
So it's a scam I do all the time, but it's a scam Kehende Wiley is a legend for.
But anyway, go back to that HuffPost article.
You can see the difference.
So that's 2011.
Keep going down.
Okay, can you zoom in on that one?
That one is, what do we got here?
2008.
Look at that.
Now, I'm not gay, but that is breathtaking.
Go back.
Look at that.
Whatever Chinese slave in Beijing did that deserves the Nobel Peace Prize in painting black guys.
That is really, really good.
Now keep going down.
There we go.
Now, this is Kehende Wiley not outsourcing his paintings and doing them himself.
Zoom in on that.
Can you go closer?
It's a very good painting.
It doesn't take your breath away.
Like the black guy in it is pretty good.
Kind of weird eyes.
The horse is beautiful.
The muscle tone, I mean, the guy's been classically trained.
His mom's black, normal black.
His dad's the African black.
But he went to Russia for a little while.
He was taught professionally in San Francisco.
So he has, I would say, B plus, way above average photorealist skills, but not what we see in his real paintings.
Keep going down.
Yeah, that is the Chinese.
That is stunning.
That's not Kendee Wiley.
And I guarantee you, he stole that background from some classical print in the museum.
And no one minds.
This is the bigotry of low expectations.
He outsources all this work, and we all go, I don't care.
He's gay and black and seems African-y.
I love him.
He's my favorite.
I think he is the most well-paid artist of his generation.
I'm not going to say of all time.
Maybe Damian Hearst is, but this guy is making millions upon millions upon millions.
Okay, keep going down.
There's a...
I shouldn't say mediocre.
Just very talented days, but not breathtaking.
Oh, maybe that is Chinese, 2010.
I think it's around 2008 he started cheating.
Keep going down.
Keep going down.
It's the last one.
No, no, no, no.
Yeah, there it is.
So this shows you this rug, by the way, the rug that's not got the black guy on it, is from some, I can't remember, 17th century Jewish rug.
But go back on the picture there.
Zoom in on that.
So Kendee Wiley's contention seems to be blacks are an integral part of our classical European heritage.
And he's using a Jewish rug, having it painted by talented Chinese people, and then he just sticks a black thug in the middle who probably sells Coke.
So you're talking about eugenics, basically, and how blacks deserve to be in the foreground.
We deserve Hamilton.
We deserve that magic city and Black Panther.
But you're using all these other races, culture, and heritage to make it so.
So aren't you sort of proving the opposite?
This is, again, the bigotry of low expectations.
I don't like it.
So yeah, I'll just end before we talk to Joe Biggs.
I'll just end with what I think.
Oh, wait, I forgot the whole sperm thing, dude.
What am I talking about?
All right, before we end this, before we get to Joe Biggs, I just want to reiterate, do you have the presidential portraits?
Pam Geller put it out.
Dinesh D'Souza put it out.
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at presidential portraits, they don't have the past five because they're not public domain, they're private artists.
But Pamela Geller put them together with the past five.
And you see, even like George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, they all, Ronald Reagan, they all have their private artists do it, but they respect the heritage of the country.
I collect presidential plates, and they all look pretty similar.
I got to say, Barry's does look slightly different, but they all look very similar because there's some reverence to America there, some reverence to tradition.
Not Barack.
Look how different that looks with the others.
Okay.
There is another thing going on here that I'm not going to advocate because it is a little bit conspiratorial, conspiracy theory, and that is that there's sperm on his head.
Now, that vein, and he does have veins there, that vein, they're saying, looks like a sperm.
Now, some of the 4chan guys are cheating and over-enhancing it, and I can tell it's not the original painting.
They actually screwed up and they made Barry's hair look kind of spiky.
He looks like Fred Armison after putting gel in his hair.
And that, they've exaggerated the sperm.
But for the record, it isn't the craziest thing in the world to say that there's sperm there.
Kenday Wiley does put sperm in paintings.
A lot of his paintings will have very visible sperm on them.
I don't mean literal ejaculate.
Sorry to be so disgusting.
But do you have pictures of that, Dave?
He will put in little wiggly sperms.
And my theory is that he steals the pattern, puts that on, Photoshops on a picture, sends it to his factory in Beijing, gets it back, and he feels guilty.
He goes, I got to put something on this.
Now, I thought it'd be, you could do something with David Cho has been doing, where you just go and put a big splat of pink paint across the middle, across the face.
David Cho's portraits will have his own face covered with a pink line.
But I think he just goes, I don't.
Let me just add some white sperms.
It'll show male fertility.
Here he is.
This sperm detail is Napoleon leading the army over the Alps.
That was one we showed earlier that just has like a two-pack looking thug portrayed as Napoleon.
But in the details, you look, and he has drawn sperm there.
In fact, he has another one I think is just before this, and it's called sperm painting, where it's just a close-up of a bunch of sperms.
So sperms are, I would say, fairly common in Cahende Wiley's portraits.
The sperm on Obama's head is conceivable, though exaggerated.
And artists, presidential portraits have had little messages here.
Like, do you have that Bill Clinton one?
Dave?
So this is a portrait of Bill Clinton where the artist concedes, yeah, I drew a blue dress there.
He said, it was very hard for me to paint Bill Clinton because his lies are such a prominent part of who he is.
This is liberals, by the way.
You know the painters are liberal.
The painter probably loves Bill and thinks, you know, the Monica thing was slightly annoying, but part of who he is, part of the Bill experience.
And I still think he was the best person ever.
Actually, that's kind of how I feel, to be totally honest.
I appreciate Bill Clinton quite a bit.
I appreciate that he was small government.
I think he was, in many ways, more conservative than George W. Bush.
All I care about at the end of the day is spending and government overreach and open borders.
That was way more GW than Clinton.
So if I had to choose between GW and Clinton, I would way rather have Bill Clinton be president again.
Maybe not now that they're all dying of old age, but he was much better for the deficit than GW was.
But he did have sex with an intern, and we did discover this because of sperm on our dress.
And the artist who painted this has conceded that that shadow going down from those bushes is a dress.
So I bring that up to say that the concept of adding something sexual and even spermy is not foreign.
And Cahende Wiley is not foreign to putting sperm on his dress.
So this theory that Barack Obama has sperm on his head, isn't that crazy?
But that's not what I'm hanging this episode on.
I am hanging this episode on the reality that this painting symbolizes so much that is wrong with America.
Affirmative action, the bigotry of low expectations, a lack of reverence to American history, Barack Obama's megalomania, and the white fetishization of educated blacks.
All of it just smells of a lack of egalitarianism in this country.
And as an egalitarian, I don't like that.
But let's have more of a laugh at Joe Biggs with this bizarre painting.
Joe, are you there?
Roger that.
Joe Biggs here.
Hi, Joe Biggs of Rogue Right.
What do you think of that portrait?
Which one?
You got some lady from Baltimore who does social justice warrior paintings.
Like, what does that even mean?
I didn't even know that was like a painting style.
Yeah.
It's called social justice.
Like, what is that?
It's like medieval, I don't know, medieval feminist knitting or some shit.
Like, do they paint stuff like that?
I don't get it.
Well, yeah, that's the problem.
Do you have to put a woman's symbol in it?
How is it social?
And I looked at the Michelle, you're talking about the Michelle Obama portrait, I won with the kooky glasses, which is like a white liberal's favorite kind of black person.
I want a black person, but not too thuggish, but not too square.
So get me something quirky, like kooky frames and like one red pant leg.
Yeah, it looked like Michael Jackson about, you know, a few years into the bleaching process.
Yeah, That's the right idea.
Listen to NPR and also Wu-Tang.
That's what I want for my pet black.
But I'm talking now about the Obama, the male Obama, or I don't know, the more biologically male Obama amongst photoshopped leaves, sent to Beijing to be painted at his sweatshop, and then brought back here with potentially sperm on his face.
Oh, you must be looking at those chanboards or whatever.
Yeah, I don't have solid evidence.
He did paint sperm in a lot of his paintings, and one of Obama's veins does look curious, but I don't have hard evidence.
Well, I mean, the first thing I saw when I saw the picture is, A, he's sitting down, and he has like these vines, almost like kudzu or something, growing around him.
And I just thought it was very fitting because here is a president that literally sat down and watched America deteriorate as he just frolicked amongst the, you know, just doing nothing.
He became part of the picture.
It started to grow into him.
And it just reminded me of his presidency, just someone who sat there, did nothing, and the earth just started just like overcoming and taking him.
And eventually, I like the memes eventually just like he's gone.
Like you just see the vines start going around him and he just disappeared.
He's like, well, he's gone.
Basically, Trump was the vines, and he just erased my legacy.
Yeah, it is also symbolic when you look at it with all the other presidents and you think, this portrait is a f ⁇ you portrait to all the other guys.
Like, you could have got some old black guy who does beautiful stuff.
He could have been gay.
I'm sure there's plenty of talented black gay dudes who do photorealism.
But no, you had to get this gay rebel from New York who was going to make it look totally unlike all the other portraits.
And you know, the next portrait, Trump's portrait, despite what Kimmel says, is going to be normal.
And the next, whatever, 20 will be normal.
So he'll always stick out there as me, me, me, me, me.
And that's what so much of his presidency was, let's make this about me, and let's make it about a f ⁇ you to them.
Well, yeah, if you go back and you look at the State of the Union by Trump, he had mentioned America, I can't remember how many times, like 80 times.
You go back and look at Obama's last State of the Union, it was I, I, I, I, I, me, me, me the entire time.
He was so self-absorbed.
But let's talk, you know, let's talk about the real thing, the double standard.
You know, if you look at this guy who painted this picture, Kehinde Wiley, I don't even know how you say that name.
Kahinde.
Kehinde?
Yeah.
That's probably way better than mine, but I'm not sure.
Sorry to interrupt, but just like Barack Obama, he was the son of an African immigrant, African frolicker who came there, porked an American, then vanished and wasn't around for the kid.
And then the kid becomes all about, I am from Africa.
I am an African man.
Neither of them met their dad.
Well, Obama met him a couple times as a young man, but they didn't get to see their dad as an adult until they were in their 20s.
And they just become obsessed with the black African side, even though it was the American who raised you, you fucking ingrate.
Yeah, he's like, yeah, I discovered myself.
I decided to paint black men wearing fooboo shirts, decapitating white bitches.
And see, the funny thing is, this is the double standard.
It's like, you know, we go back and we look and we find this guy's previous history that he paints these pictures.
And you go, my God, you know, that's kind of weird.
You know, am I offended by that?
No, I could really give a shit less what you paint.
I don't care.
What I don't like is the double standard because I know after eight years, when President Trump has his presidential portrait painted, there's going to be a guy or a lady who paints that.
And the left is going to dissect that person.
And eventually, and my theory is this, they're going to find like this guy painted like some old Civil War picture and there was like a slave in the background and he had a neighbor who was friends with a guy who used to be in the KKK.
And that'll be the headlines on CNN for weeks.
You know, President Trump's presidential portrait artist once knew a guy who had a friend who dated a lady who had sex with a guy who was part of the KKK.
And he also painted a Civil War picture one time that depicted a slavery walking shackled in chains.
Right.
Well, remember Mitt Romney?
What did he call someone like a macaw or something?
Like a blackbird, and that was a big deal.
Or he had that disfigured kid who was bullied and they found a Facebook post of a Confederate flag that his mom did three years ago.
Can you conceive of Donald Trump hiring a guy who had a white woman with decapitated black heads just holding them?
It's unfathomable.
There'd be riots in the streets.
Yes, there would.
Literally.
But we have this bigotry of low expectations where they go, oh, the Negroes, we don't hold them to the same accountability.
We're the egalitarians.
We're the ones that see everyone as equal, and we hold them by the same standards.
The left doesn't do that.
The left goes, oh, cute little black person.
We're going to give you special treatment.
Yeah, you can paint me with vines growing all over me and make it look like any other presidential portrait ever.
Trump's going to be on like a M1 Abrams tank with bald eagles sitting on his hand with explosions going off and like a PBR in his right hand just charging through like, you know, let's just say like Somali or something like that, just running through buildings and blowing shit up.
Well, I would find that equally offensive.
You know why?
Why?
Because it should be a bud, the king of beers.
Well, I was just saying PBR because it's kind of corny and you always see like chugging VPR dudes.
Don't even joke about that, Biggs.
We're talking about the king of beers, our leader, our great monarch in the castle of Beardom.
I'm a Miller Light kind of guy.
Yeah, well, Miller Light is surpassed, but it's the most popular beer.
Anyway, we're getting off track here.
Well, but look at this, though.
But here, I want to talk about this one thing.
So everybody yesterday was saying about the paintings or whatever.
Oh, it's not race.
This is a cultural thing.
This is depicting this and that.
It has nothing to do with racism.
So I found an article.
A guy named Christopher Beam went to this dude, Kahindi Wheelie, to his art gallery and talked to him.
And it says, this is a quote from the article.
It says, but one already stands out, a tall, elegant black woman in a long blue dress.
The canvas is enormous, eight feet by 10 feet, calmly staring down the viewer.
In one hand, she holds a knife.
In another hand, a cleanly severed brunette female head.
And his exact words say, it's sort of a plain on kill whitey thing.
Yeah, you can't really get past it.
I mean, could you imagine if I painted the picture of a white person holding a black severed head?
It's like, well, it's kind of a, you know, I don't like black people.
It's kind of a play on.
I hope you guys like Trump's presidential portrait.
We'll see you guys later.
There wouldn't be a round of applause or anything.
And like, you know, they'd fade to black or whatever.
And we go on and talk about the squirrel that knows how to surf.
No, it would be talked about forever.
Well, the other weird thing, that's a New York Mag article.
And the other weird thing is they're in his Chinese sweatshop.
And they have all these Chinese people, God knows what they're making, $100 for painting.
He might be the wealthiest painter of his generation.
This guy is phenomenally successful.
Here in Brooklyn, he's a god here in New York, I should say.
Brooklyn Museum of Art has his portraits all over the place when you walk in.
He's royalty here.
And all his paintings, you can see them in early 2005.
They look like crap.
Not crap.
Sorry, they're very good.
But then as soon as he goes to China around 2010, all of a sudden they're breathtaking.
Like they're just incredible.
And that's because some poor Chinaman is sitting there with a micro brush getting each molecule perfect for $100.
Well, he sells it for, I don't even know how much, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It was some guy with a musket pointing it at his head.
Beat it, beat it, now.
Well, this has just been a fascinating example of, as you say, the double standard, but also this obsession with diversity and how half-assed affirmative action these diversity mongers are.
Like, they don't do any background.
They just go black, gay, talented, boom, he's in.
But they make his portraits in China.
Don't care.
But he has kill whitey things.
He draws sperms on paintings.
Don't care.
Let's move it through.
Move it through.
You know, Charles Johnson has a thing where when he sees that someone has a diversity initiative and they're going to put diversity first, he bets against them in the stock market.
And he always wins.
Because when you put diversity first, you're putting meritocracy second.
So it's like saying, from now on, we're only hiring moms.
Well, I know that company's not going to be doing as well.
You know?
Yeah.
You know, I'm curious, do the presidents and the first lady or whatever, do they pick the people who do the portraits?
Or is it just like a hat where there's just like names in it?
And they go, well, you're getting Amy Sherrold and you're getting the guy who was sperm on paintings and beheadings.
Well, clearly.
How does that happen?
They pick.
At the very least, they had three or four options and they went, I want to go with a guy with the African sounding name.
And they put Merit second and they got Merit last.
And then they got Amy Sherrold, who does social justice pictures, who makes Michelle Obama not even look like anything.
I mean, this is the funniest thing in the world.
It's like we've got all these talented painters.
Like they're looking at resumes and they've painted this and this chapel and this is beautiful.
And then there's one that goes nothing.
It's just like this blank piece of paper.
It says social justice portraits.
And Michelle's like, yeah, I'll take that one.
And you could tell she was disgusted too when they unveil it.
She's like, this is a crowded room, like hundreds of people in there.
And this is the left's, you know, love child.
They love the Obamas.
You know, the Obamas could take a dump in public and start going on a mass murder spree.
And they'd be like, and they'd start going crazy.
But here it is.
This painting gets unveiled.
And it's just like, yeah, they didn't look that thrilled.
Michelle sort of looked at hers and went, oh, she looks like a bitch.
Well, I think at the very least, both Barack and Michelle showed America that they are way more radical than we thought they were.
There's been some arguments back and forth about how left-wing they are.
No, these guys are like college, purple-haired, screaming, hysterical, Antifa radicals.
I've had so much fun making memes off of it, man.
I've done so many different ones, and I've enjoyed watching all the ones that people are doing.
I even cut out little Waldo figures and sort of hiding them in the bushes and then passing them off to my friends to try to find them.
There's so much fun stuff you can do with it right now.
I mean, it's memes for today.
It's a good way to deal with this.
Well, send us some of those.
Let's put them in post.
Yeah, some of them probably aren't too...
Oh, yeah, you depicted a phallus.
Yeah, we can't show that one.
That one's by far the favorite one.
Or there's one where he's like hiding in the bushes.
He's got binoculars and it's like I spy.
Right, right.
Well, that is the subtext I think they did accidentally.
Joe, thank you very much for coming on the show.
I like you more than a friend, and you've been a great backbone to mocking this painting, which is probably going to take up the whole episode.
That's a good thing.
I commend you in these.
I like you a lot.
I'm asking Joe Biggs to send us memes, but they're all over his Twitter feed.
Here we got Barry Met Kimmy.
That one I would give a six.
This is Barry on the Toilet.
That gets an eight because it includes, where's Waldo?
I see Waldo by the flusher there.
That's where your eye goes.
And then Barry in the bushes with his binoculars.
That's brilliant because we're now catching Barack Obama spying on people.
Let's go see some more of these memes.
What do you got?
Chris Christie.
That's a nine.
Keep going.
That's pretty good.
What do we give that?
6.2?
Pretty good.
Not laughing.
What's that one now?
Pepe Frogs?
Always good.
6.8.
What's this?
Sean Spicer?
Whatever.
That looks like a liberal one, actually.
I'm going to give that a 5.
The left can't mean, can they?
What's this one here?
Oh, I like that one.
That's Wrigley Field.
We should do that.
Sabo should do that.
Hey, Sabo, if you're watching, cut out Barack in the chair and start sticking him in bushes.
Although the left will probably think that's cool.
The Homer one, fantastic.
Open the show with that.
Beautiful.
That's an 8.8.
I'm a master at 1 to 10s, by the way.
And if you think I rate too high or too low, you're bad at it.
I'm actually a good gauge on how good you are at one to tens.
Is that it?
Yep.
Have you noticed there's a common thread with all these memes?
Barry looks like he's on my lawn.
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