Ep. 744 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brat Turns Her Back On The Flag
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an Olympic athlete turns her back on the flag as the national anthem is played. There is a catastrophic lack of gratitude in this country. It’s become a real epidemic. And this is just the latest symptom of it. Also Five Headlines including, peaceful protesters exercise their free speech rights by defacing a George Floyd statue, a self-proclaimed “intellectual” on MSNBC calls white conservatives “maggots” and then apologizes, sort of, and in our Daily Cancellation we’ll discuss the LGBT activists and media people who are very offended that the latest Pixar film about two young boys is not a gay romance.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, an Olympic athlete turns her back on the flag as the national anthem is played.
There's a catastrophic lack of gratitude in this country.
It's become a real epidemic, in my opinion, and this is just the latest symptom of it, so we'll talk about that.
Also, five headlines including, peaceful protesters exercise their free speech rights by defacing a George Floyd statue.
Also, a self-proclaimed intellectual on MSNBC calls white conservatives maggots.
And then apologizes, sort of.
And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the LGBT activists and people in the media who are very offended and upset that the latest Pixar film about two young boys is not a gay romance.
All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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So it's not often that I begin the show by quoting ancient Roman philosophers,
but today this quote comes immediately to mind.
Cicero, at least according to a Facebook meme that I saw once, said, "Gratitude is not only
the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues."
That's the more famous version of the quote anyway.
Actually, the full version is better.
He said, In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than the being and appearing grateful.
For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.
Now, the Facebook meme didn't tell me why he said this, but it's not difficult to imagine how one might defend that claim.
That gratitude is the parent of all virtues.
Many other virtues seem to be contained in gratitude.
In order to be truly grateful to someone or for something, you have to be humble.
You have to be prudent.
You must be kind.
Gratitude is the sister of generosity.
Generosity is in the giving.
Gratitude is in the receiving.
If one is present in the interaction but not the other, there's a risk that soon both will be lost.
If you've ever tried to be consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person, you know how this works.
Gratitude is certainly not something that a deeply selfish person can experience.
A selfish and entitled person won't be grateful for anything because they believe that everything they're given was already owed to them.
And whatever it is, it's not enough anyway.
They're never satisfied, let alone grateful.
And this is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our children.
After you take your child out for ice cream, or you go to the zoo, or you put dinner on the table, there's that common refrain.
I know I say it all the time.
What do you say?
And the child, prompted, shouts, Thank you!
Until, hopefully, he doesn't need to be prompted anymore.
Now, this isn't a simple matter of teaching good manners, though it is that also, of course.
But on a deeper level, you're instilling gratitude.
And it does have to be instilled, inculcated, taught.
It doesn't come on its own.
Children are naturally inclined to take things for granted, to think, well, you know, of course mommy and daddy gave me this, that's their job, they're mommy and daddy.
We have to teach them that much of what we do for them is above and beyond the mere fulfillment of a job.
We don't have to give them ice cream.
We do that because we love them.
And for that, they should be grateful.
And even the things that are fulfilling the job, making them dinner, for example, putting a roof over their heads, that should still be met with gratitude.
This is a lesson we teach them for their own sake, not for ours.
Grateful people are good people.
They're happy people.
They're well-adjusted people.
Grateful people have friends.
They get hired for jobs.
They enjoy life.
So it is then no surprise that in a country where so many people are miserable and angry and depressed all the time, there's also a catastrophic lack of gratitude.
Which brings us finally to a woman named Gwen Barry.
This past weekend was the U.S.
Olympic trials for track and field.
One of the track and field events is the hammer throw.
Now, unfortunately, and I just learned this today because I don't really watch the Olympics, they're not throwing hammers like the ones you find at a Home Depot, as fun as that would be.
I had imagined like a toolbox and they're just chucking hammers maybe at each other.
That'd be fun.
Instead, it's like the shot put, except with kind of a sling.
Gwen Berry is one of the athletes who competed in that event, and she managed to achieve third place behind a woman named Deanna Price in first place and Brooke Anderson in second.
Now, as it happens, Deanna Price had a record-breaking day of chucking the metal ball around.
I think she broke her own record, which she had set before.
But that achievement was overshadowed by third-place Berry, who, while standing on the podium, Turned her back on the flag and began visibly pouting as the national anthem was played.
Towards the end of the song, she covered her head with a black t-shirt that read, Activist Athlete.
This is all it takes to be an activist these days, of course.
All you need to do is stand around like a pouty, sullen child.
Which, at least she didn't burn anything.
I guess we could be grateful for that, speaking of gratitude.
Perhaps she's saving that for when the Olympics actually start.
Now, after her little stunt, Barry explained to reporters that she reacted that way to the anthem because she considered it a personal affront that it had been played at all.
This is the quote from her.
She said, quote, I feel like it was a setup.
I feel like they did that on purpose.
And I was pissed, to be honest.
I was thinking about what should I do.
Eventually, I just stayed there and I just swayed.
I put my shirt over my head.
It was real disrespectful.
I know they did that on purpose, but it'll be alright.
I see what's up.
Now, to be clear, she's not saying that her turning her back was disrespectful, which it was.
She's saying that they were disrespecting her by playing the anthem in the first place.
She felt personally disrespected by the Anthem.
This woman is not only an unpatriotic, whiny, disgusting brat, but she also believes the world revolves around her.
They play the Anthem every day during the trials, at around that time.
Yet if it plays on the day that she's competing, it must be some kind of personal attack against her.
But it's no surprise she has this attitude.
Grateful people tend to possess all the other virtues.
Ungrateful people, in contrast, tend to possess none at all.
She's ungrateful, so of course she's also self-centered and petty and everything else.
Now, of course, In a healthy country, an Olympic athlete who turns her back on her own flag would be kicked off the team and publicly shamed and reviled for being the disgraceful, embarrassing jackass that she is.
But we're not a healthy country.
So instead, she will be, and already has been, lionized as some sort of civil rights hero standing up against oppression.
What sort of oppression, though?
I mean, what exactly is she so angry about?
In what precise way Has this person been at all victimized?
What is she mad about?
What's the problem?
That's never made clear.
Out of all these people claiming to have some deep grievance against the United States, none of them can ever explain what it is.
They could talk about history.
They could talk about things that happened 200 years ago.
But they can't explain what's happened to them.
What did this country do to you, specifically, that's made you feel this way?
That's because their grievance doesn't stem from anything external.
It comes internally, from their own lack of gratitude.
This country has given Gwen Berry everything.
Now it even gives her an international forum to complain about it, to complain about her country.
But it's not enough.
Nothing is ever enough.
Her attitude, similar to the attitude of so many others, is not that she's grateful for all that she's been given, the freedom she's been afforded, the luxuries she enjoys, and yet she still recognizes the problems in our society and wishes to fix them.
That's one thing.
I mean, it's one thing if you say, I'm very grateful for this country, I love this country, but it's not a perfect country, obviously.
No country is perfect.
And so here are some problems we should fix.
That's a perfectly fine attitude.
Anyone should have that attitude.
Nobody is saying that in order to be patriotic, you have to think that your country is flawless.
I certainly don't.
No, but the problem for her is that she sees only darkness and horror.
That's all she sees.
She can't even bear to look at the flag.
Can't bother to stand for two minutes with her hand on her heart.
She won't even give that to her country.
She will give her country nothing in exchange for the everything that it has given to her.
Because although her life is good, and far better than it would be literally anywhere else on earth, which is why she chooses to stay here rather than move somewhere else, even so, it's not perfect.
And if she hasn't been given a perfect life, then she won't be grateful for a good but imperfect one.
This is a woman who, again, like so many others, was never taught gratitude as a child, we can assume.
And it's probably too late to teach it now, but even so, maybe we should try.
So, Gwen, what do you say?
What do you say to America?
You say, thank you.
And you do it with your hand over your heart, looking at the flag.
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All right, so yeah, so I am back from vacation.
Maybe you noticed.
Sort of.
I'm actually taking another few days around July 4th.
But if you complain about that, Then you're also un-American.
This is part of my patriotic duty.
Take a couple days around July 4th.
But it did go well, especially considering the drive ended up being 20 hours with four kids.
And I'm not usually a guy who relies on electronics with the kids in the car and all that, but 20 hours, I thought, OK, we have a DVD player in the car.
We'll put the DVD on.
Not the whole time, but of course, we get in the car, the DVD player is broken.
So in spite of that, it went well.
There was one dust up when we were at our vacation home on the lake, and my four-year-old son, often when we're staying outside of our house, he gets nightmares, I guess because he's feeling a little A little out of sorts, a little homesick.
So we got nightmares one night and he comes into our room and it's like three o'clock in the morning.
And so I just let him sleep in our room with us, which I knew was a mistake because then the next night he wants to do the same thing.
And I'm saying, no, you got to stay, you got to stay in your own room.
And he's worried about having nightmares again.
So I'm sitting there talking to him and trying to, you know, figure out a strategy to avoid nightmares.
And at first I tell him, well, if you start getting a nightmare, just remind yourself that you're in a dream.
And then you'll wake up, and then I realize that's a bad strategy, because sometimes you can do that where you realize you're dreaming, while you're dreaming, but you can't escape the dream, and then it becomes sort of an inception type of situation, which can be even more horrifying.
So then I said, okay, why don't we just plan a good dream to have?
And I said to him, think about, what would be the, if you could go anywhere in the world, or do anything, what would it be?
And he said he would want to go to a candy store.
And I said, well, this is a dream.
I mean, you could be in a forest where candy grows on the trees.
There could be candy falling from the sky.
You don't need to go to an actual store.
But he said, no, he wants to go to a candy store.
And I said, OK, how much money do you want to have in your dream in the candy?
You could have all the money.
He said he wants to have $100.
I said, you could have $50 billion in the candy store.
But all he wanted was $100.
And so I said, just plan to dream of the candy store with $100.
I will also dream about the candy store and I'll meet you there in our dream.
And then if any monsters show up, I'll fight them off and I'll protect you.
And that was the plan.
But then my wife goes in to talk to him and he recruits her to be involved in the dream too.
And then he's talking to his sister and his brother.
And now we're all coordinating this one dream we're going to have together.
It gets way too complicated.
And then I have the dream I'm at the candy store and no one else shows up.
They all went off somewhere else.
Because I get stood up, even in my dreams, I get stood up by my own children.
That's the moral of the story.
But other than that, it was a good vacation.
Now, we start here with a story that I guess this happened on Friday.
So this is a report from NBC New York.
It says, outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey.
As the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering the 46-year-old father of five was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison, a punishment that some didn't believe was harsh enough.
Yeah, 22 years in prison.
You probably heard that on Friday.
That's what Derek Chauvin was sentenced to.
Yeah, not harsh enough.
That's 22 years in prison.
Because someone else died of a drug overdose.
That's a pretty harsh sentence for a drug overdose that someone else had.
A guy on four times the lethal dose of fentanyl died of a drug overdose.
And you get sentenced to 22 years.
I would say it's pretty harsh, given the circumstances.
Anyway, back to this report.
It says, many, including tens of thousands in New York City, applauded the initial verdict, and frustration is growing as the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force searches for the vandals who defaced the new George Floyd sculpture on Flatbush Avenue.
The vandalism to the Flatbush statue, which was unveiled on Flatbush Avenue last weekend amid the city's Juneteenth celebration, was discovered Thursday morning They said that, what was the vandalism?
They said that much of the statue had been painted black.
The name of a group considered to be a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, always a reliable source on these things, was spray-painted on the statue's pedestal.
And then another tribute to Floyd was also vandalized, this in Newark.
The 700-pound bronze statue in Newark Which debuted earlier this month outside City Hall, had the face painted black, and then with the name of the same group on the front of it.
And they're investigating this, as the article says, as a hate crime.
Bill de Blasio tweeted on Friday, he said, Last night a far-right extremist group vandalized a statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn.
A racist, loathsome, despicable act of hate.
The City Cleanup Corps is repairing the statue right now, and a hate crime investigation is underway.
We will bring these cowards to justice.
First of all, I thought vandalizing statues was an acceptable form of peaceful protest.
I thought that there's no such thing as violence against property.
Isn't that what we heard for the whole last year?
This is them exercising their free speech rights.
This is the precedent that's been set.
If you don't like a statue, you can deface it.
You could tear it down.
I mean, they should be happy that the George Floyd statue was only defaced and not torn down, set on fire, and tossed into a river, as other statues have been.
But a couple of things to think about here.
First of all, calling this a hate crime and calling it racist, what is a hate crime against a statue?
Who is it a hate crime against?
Because typically in a hate crime, and I'm not a big fan of the hate crime designation, I don't think it should exist at all, but as I understand it, usually in a hate crime, there has to be a victim, right?
Someone is a victim in a hate crime.
So who's the victim here?
George Floyd?
Is George Floyd?
Well, he's dead, so he can't be the victim of a hate crime.
So who is it?
I guess.
I can only assume.
The statue can't be the victim.
It's only property.
And, by the way, I'm sure it was insured.
That's the other thing we learned.
As long as it has insurance, then you can tear it down, do whatever you want.
You can burn down a CVS, as long as it has insurance.
But you can't commit a hate crime against a statue.
You can't commit a hate crime against someone who's dead.
Then who is it against?
And I guess it's a hate crime against all black people?
Is that what we're supposed to understand?
So George Floyd is now a representative of the entire black race, is what we're being told.
In order for this to be a hate crime, you have to view it that way.
to be, you have to view it that way.
What talk about racist, talk about loathsome and despicable.
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Taking this guy and making him some sort of representative for a whole race?
This guy, George Floyd?
Who achieved precisely nothing of value in his entire life?
As far as we know, no one's ever told us if he did anything of value or significance.
We've never been told what it is.
The only thing of value and significance that he achieved was when he died.
And that was valuable and significant to the left because they could exploit it.
That's all they care about.
But as far as how he actually lived his life, he did nothing except victimize other people.
He was a danger and a threat to his community, a violent felon, a career criminal, a drug addict, Who died high on fentanyl after trying to pass off bad checks or a bad $20 bill.
And you're making him a representative.
I can tell you, that's not what I would want.
I wouldn't want to take some random criminal and make him a representative for all white people.
I wouldn't want that.
You know, the difference between, every time I talk about this, and why George Floyd doesn't deserve statues and monuments, in fact, I would say, and I know there are a lot of, there are many candidates for this title, so I'm a little bit hesitant in saying it, but there's an argument you can make that George Floyd is the most undeserving person to ever have a statue built in his honor.
Again, I know there are others you could point to who are In the running.
But he's certainly in the top five at least.
As someone who did nothing of significance at all.
And anytime I bring this up, I'm always told, well, what about this or that historical figure who was problematic and who did bad things?
Christopher Columbus.
Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.
And you start going through the litany, right?
Well, yeah, see, there's a difference here.
We know that nobody is perfect.
We know that great people who do great things very often have great flaws and are also capable of and sometimes will commit great evil.
We know that.
And if you are set on only celebrating people who are perfect, Then you've really narrowed down your list.
So that's something that we know, but the difference is that if we're talking about Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson or many of these other figures who have had their statues torn down, They achieved great things.
They are remembered by history for things that they actually did.
They changed the course of history through their actions while living.
And in a good way.
What about George Floyd?
What did he do?
Nothing.
He forced his way into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint in front of her child.
That's, as far as we're aware, with George Floyd's biography, that is the most significant thing he did with his life.
The most impactful thing he did with his life was that.
And I'm sure it made an enormous impact on the woman who was victimized and her child.
Of course, nobody cares about her.
Nobody wonders how she must feel walking down the street and having to see a statue built to the man.
Just imagine that.
Imagine walking down the street and seeing a literal monument to a man who not but a few years ago was forcing his way into your home and putting a gun to you.
But nobody cares about her.
Her voice is silent.
That's it.
That's the most significant thing.
And then he died.
And he died in a way that's exploitable for the left.
And that's all they care about.
And that's why they build a monument to him.
There's a big difference.
Most of the other people who've had statues torn down, even if they are guilty of some of the atrocities they're accused of, and oftentimes they're not guilty of all of the atrocities, but even if they're guilty of some of the bad things they're accused of, there is no question that they achieved great, that they did great things with their lives.
That the world is different today because of what they did with their life, and different in a good way.
All right.
So, yeah, George Floyd statues should all be torn down.
If we're tearing down statues.
If we're tearing down statues of violent oppressors.
Yeah, let's do that.
Let's start with George Floyd.
Tear down the George Floyd statues and throw them in the river.
He was a violent oppressor of women.
And a bad person.
All right, let's go number two here.
Michael Eric Dyson, speaking of bad people, is an academic, an intellectual, and a minister.
And we need to put air quotes around all of those descriptors, but that's how he describes himself.
And maybe you saw this last week.
He was on MSNBC and he attacked white conservatives, calling them, among other things, maggots.
And we have an update to this story, but first let's play that clip of him saying that.
Here it is.
And speaking about the maggots, I'm sorry, the MAGA, that is so corrosive in this political moment.
I resent, as an intellectual and as a black person in America, that we have taken the brunt of anti-intellectualism.
We have borne the brunt of being disloyal to this nation.
And we have stood by to see mediocre, mealy-mouthed Snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other.
And yet they call us snowflakes and they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth.
They are incapable of criticism.
They are incapable of tolerating difference.
They're scared of, oh my God, critical race theory is going to kill your mother.
And they don't even know they're not critical.
They have no race and they don't understand theory.
And yet they are allowed to wax eloquently about the means and limits of rationality in this country, and they couldn't save themselves if the world depended on it.
And I am tired of hearing mediocre white men.
Take to their pulpits to excoriate women and trans people and bisexuals and black folk and every other thing that ain't them.
It is time that we in America take back this country for certain and to seize the reins of authority so that rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy and love in the most radical sense possible would prevail.
Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy.
By the way, people who speak like this are stupid.
When they're speaking in a way where you could tell they're trying to impress you with their intelligence, that's a sign of stupidity.
Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy?
Nobody talks like that.
And putting aside the irony that he began by calling millions of people maggots, snowflakes, and then he ends with, we need more rhetorics of compassion.
We need more compassion from these damned maggots!
You know the problem with these filthy, disgusting, worthless, stupid maggots?
They don't have compassion.
They lack kindness.
Rhetorics of compassion.
And I know this isn't even the main point here, but I also, I took note of where he was talking about the mediocre, mealy-mouthed white men.
And once again, it goes without saying, but I always say it every time, that if this was a white guy on cable news complaining about the, quote, mediocre, mealy-mouthed black men, We can imagine what the reaction would be, but it's okay for him to do.
He's allowed to do that.
Nobody can explain why, but he can.
But he says, he's the mediocre white man who's excoriating bisexuals.
What?
Have you ever heard a bisexual be excoriated?
Who's doing that?
He also said that transgender people and women are being excoriated.
That's not happening either, but bisexual is such a specific I've never heard anyone get up on any pulpit and say, you know what's the problem in America today?
These damn bisexuals.
I've never heard anything like that, ever, from anyone.
But there he was, and with his version of what a rhetoric of compassion sounds like, And then he came back on MSNBC a couple days later and sort of apologized for some of that, but not really.
Let's listen.
I myself, the other day, let me apologize on this program.
I was trying to be cute and clever when I was talking about MAGA, therefore MAG-ATS, not MAGGOTS.
I didn't anticipate that, you know, brothers and sisters who are white would hear it as that.
So I deeply and profoundly apologize for that.
But I have been hit with an onslaught of death threats and being called the N-word out of white rage for a mistake I made, for which I'm willing to apologize certainly.
And what black people are often up against Is the fact that we have to be told that emotion will not judge, will not lead our offering of justice to you.
Emotion will not drive or a statement to be made to the American public will not drive what we do legally.
And yet so much emotion is directed at us.
So much hatred is directed at us.
So much white rage is directed at us.
Yeah, every part of that is total nonsense.
First of all, he says it was a mistake.
I didn't anticipate that anyone would take it that way.
What?
No, I called him maggots.
I didn't know that anyone would think that I was calling... All he did was call you a maggot.
I didn't think that you would think that I was calling you a maggot.
What did you mean to say?
Um, so he's not taking ownership at all.
There's, there's no real apology there at all.
But then, and then, uh, and then of course we always hear about the, I've got the onslaught of death threats.
You know what?
Show me the receipts, uh, Michael.
Cause I, I don't, or whatever your name is.
Yeah, Michael.
Show me the receipts on that.
I get tired of people always talking about... We always hear this.
Anytime someone's getting criticized, they say, I've been getting death threats for the last... Have you really?
Maybe you have, but show me the receipts on that.
I want to see the death threats.
Because I do get death threats.
And when I get them, I do show the receipts.
I'll show you what they look like.
It's relatively rare.
What's a lot more common that I get all the time are people wishing death on me, saying, go kill yourself and that kind of thing, which is a horrible thing to say to a person, but I don't call that a death threat.
So anytime someone claims that they're dealing with an onslaught of death threats.
And so you imagine like hundreds of people threatening to kill them.
Yeah, I got to say, I don't really believe it.
Could be.
Maybe it happened.
I don't know.
But in either case, when you, not that a death threat would be justified, but when you get up on national TV and you call millions of people maggots, you're going, you're going to get an angry response.
It doesn't matter who you're, what that, whatever group you're targeting with that comment, they're going to be angry.
And they're gonna let you know that they're angry.
And since it's the internet, they're gonna let you know in hyperbolic terms.
But now he's the victim.
All I did was call millions of people maggots.
I didn't anticipate all this anger.
And you know, this is the problem.
Anytime a black man speaks up in America, he has to deal with white rage.
Yeah, if a black man calls people maggots, he's gonna have to deal with rage.
Just like if a white man did it, he'd also have to deal with rage.
That tends to enrage people.
People tend to get upset about that.
Most people, when you call them a maggot, they're not gonna laugh about it.
Or say, well, you're entitled to your opinion.
You believe I'm a maggot?
I don't think I am, but we'll let bygones be bygones.
Now, on the internet, you can't even say what your favorite flavor of ice cream is without people taking it as a personal attack.
So if you call them maggots, how do you think anyone's going to respond?
But he gets close to the precipice of an apology and then turns right back around and says, never mind, you know what?
Actually, I'm the victim.
And it's okay.
He'll get away with it.
Even the non-apology that he gave was not even actually necessary because no one's going to hold him accountable and he can still appear on cable news and he's not going to lose any jobs or, you know, if he's, I don't know, if he works for a university or something, they're not going to get rid of him.
So there's no accountability there at all.
All right.
A couple other things I wanted to mention.
We got to do... Maybe we'll save this for tomorrow.
Because we also have the UFO report.
But you know what?
I was going to skip over it because I am... This is the moment, as you know, I've been waiting for this moment.
I bought the t-shirts.
I had the merchandise.
My whole life leading up to this moment.
And then the much-anticipated UFO report is released.
And basically it's...
It's not even worth going over because it's everything that we already knew.
So if there's any headline from the UFO report, it's that reading now from the Daily Wire.
It says, the Director of National Intelligence on Friday released a highly anticipated report outlining what the government knows so far about unidentified flying objects and the threat they pose, but it offered scant conclusions about such phenomena.
The DNI announced Friday afternoon that it has submitted a preliminary report to Congress on the progress that the U.S.
Navy's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has made in understanding unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs.
The intelligence report said, this is, I guess, is really the headline, the only headline.
The intelligence report said that U.S.
U.S. intelligence cannot explain 143 of the 144 cases of UFOs observed and reported by
military aircraft from 2004 to 2021.
The one incident that they could categorize with certainty was identified as a large deflating
balloon.
But I don't know how, isn't a large deflating balloon rather easy to identify?
Why was it in the report at all?
But the others remain unexplained.
So that's kind of it.
I was hoping that in the report, You know, they would confirm aliens are real and they're among us.
And they're standing right next to you.
That's what I was hoping the report would say.
Was that a delusional hope?
You know, was that the hope of a deluded and pretty stupid individual?
Yes.
But even so, I wait for months and this is what I get.
I guess this is kind of, I'm now experiencing the letdown that people feel, I guess, when a new Star Wars comes out.
I never quite understood that.
As a non-Star Wars fan, as someone who recognizes that all the Star Wars movies are bad anyway, I've never quite I've never felt or experienced the anger and disappointment and letdown that everyone feels every time a new Star Wars comes out.
And you have all this anticipation that it doesn't live up to the hype at all.
I feel that way about this.
Because this was supposed to be the real Star Wars.
And, uh, just didn't work.
Didn't happen.
All right, we're going to have one more here.
A report from the NBC affiliate in Orlando says President Joe Biden is celebrating Pride Month with a series of activities, a reflection of the growing stature of the LGBTQ community at the White House.
On Friday, Biden signed into law a measure designating the Pulse nightclub as a national memorial.
The shooting at Pulse in 2016 was the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in U.S.
history.
Biden made the announcement of the designation on the fifth remembrance of the deadly shooting.
The president emphasized that the country must do more to reduce gun violence, such as banning assault weapons and closing loopholes in regulations.
And then the One Pulse Foundation said in a statement, quote, today is a major milestone in fulfilling the mission of the National Pulse Memorial Museum.
It is so meaningful to everyone here, especially in families of the 49 survivors, first responders, and all the lives affected.
It's also a clear and lasting message to the LGBTQ plus community that what happened at Pulse matters and will never be forgotten for future generations, and that we will always outlove hate.
Outlove hate.
Now we should mention, because it matters, because it's the truth, that this connection that they're trying to make now and that Biden is sort of implying, and that we hear in the media between anti-gay hate and the Pulse nightclub shooting, that connection is not real.
The killer, there's, as far as we know, and has ever been determined, this shooting had nothing to do with anti-gay hate at all.
In fact, the killer was himself gay, according to people close to him anyway.
And he himself said that he was motivated by revenge for drone attacks in the Middle East.
And what we learned from investigators early on is that he had a couple of targets in mind.
One happened to be the gay nightclub, and then there was another bar nightclub in town that he was kind of deciding between the two.
And he decided on a whim that it was going to be the Pulse nightclub.
That doesn't make it any less horrific, obviously.
But this is what we get from the left and from Democrats.
They can't stick with the simple facts.
Just say that it was a horrible A travesty?
A massacre?
Any negative adjective, most of the negative adjectives that you could use would apply here.
Except it's not an anti-gay hate crime.
And that doesn't make it any better.
You get to a certain level, and this is one of the problems I have with the hate crime designation.
You get to a certain level where an act is so evil And so horrible that it can't possibly be worse.
So we get the hate crime designation and we're trying to parse, well, was this, was the person motivated by hate?
Were they motivated?
Why does it even matter?
Look at what they did.
In terms of condemning it, in terms of punishing the perpetrator, if they're still alive, What does it matter what motivated it?
It obviously can't be motivated by anything good.
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We'll put this up on the screen.
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It's like she got assaulted by all of the curtains in my grandmother's house at one time.
I don't know what, who?
I'm not someone who notices most of the time.
You've got to make a really outrageous fashion choice for me to notice how bad it is.
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I don't know, but all jokes aside, I mean, Jill Biden, I guess, is showing what equity and inclusion is all about by hiring a blind man to make her dress, so I guess we should at least be grateful for that.
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A couple of weeks ago, Pixar released its newest film, A Coming-of-Age Tale, about two young boys in Italy who spend a summer getting into mischief, going on adventures, discovering the true meaning of friendship, etc.
The twist is that both of the boys, Luca and Alberto, are actually sea monsters.
And when they venture onto dry land, they assume the appearance of human beings, but whenever they're in the water, they revert back to their true sea monster form.
This, apparently, is the plot.
Now, not to give away the ending, but eventually everybody on land learns that the boys are actually sea monsters, and things get a little hairy at first, but then they all learn to accept Luca and Alberto for who they are, while more importantly, Luca and Alberto learn to accept themselves.
And I don't need to see the movie to tell you it ends that way.
Almost every kid's movie since the dawn of time has been at some level a coming-of-age story, and there's almost always prominent themes of self-acceptance, of being yourself, and so on.
Pixar isn't doing anything new here.
Even the sea monster bit is clearly reminiscent of The Little Mermaid, a disturbing tale about a monstrous aquatic freak who crawls onto land and stalks a young prince, eventually ensnaring him in a romantic relationship on false pretenses.
The only thing that's arguably unique about Luca is that the film centers around male friendship.
There is no romance here.
Unlike in Little Mermaid.
Now, when I was growing up, those kinds of stories were a little more common.
The Sandlot is one example.
I was a big fan of that movie as a kid.
But these days, most movies feel the need to shoehorn in some kind of romance angle.
And of course, there always has to be at least as many female protagonists as male.
Luca slightly breaks from that mold, it seems, by telling a more simple, innocent, straightforward story of two young boys who become friends.
But nothing is allowed to be simple and innocent and straightforward anymore.
Not when there is so much indoctrinating to be done.
And so little time to do it.
And that's why many people on the LGBT left and in the media have spent the last several days insisting that Luca must in fact be a gay movie.
It's not a gay movie.
The boys are not gay, and there's no romance between them, which is good because the characters are prepubescent children.
We're not yet at the point where Pixar will release a movie about eight-year-old boys in love.
We may get there eventually, but for some on the left, that time can't come soon enough.
They're impatient.
And that's why if you go to Twitter and you search for Luca right now, You'll find many tweets like this from a guy named Eric Rosewood, or Rosswood, I think, self-professed LGBT activist and author of the book, The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads.
And he tweeted, quote, Just saw Luca, and I don't care what anyone else says.
It's the first gay animated film by Disney Pixar.
Feeling like you might have to hide a part of yourself, meeting someone you like for the first time, strangers calling you and your friends monsters, finding the good ones.
I cried.
Now, he's not alone in this assessment.
A headline from BuzzFeed says, I'm sorry, but Luca is totally a gay movie, and that's why I loved it so much.
ScreenRant announces why Luca is an LGBTQ story, despite what Pixar says.
The A.V.
Club has a lengthy missive explaining in strenuous detail why the gay interpretation of Luca is entirely valid.
And Vanity Fair takes a more sort of middle-of-the-road approach with its contribution to this discussion.
The headline, Is Luca Pixar's First Gay Movie?
Maybe.
We should note, meanwhile, that the director of the film, who may be considered an authority on what the movie is about, has addressed these claims and clarified that no, it's not a gay thing.
The boys are just friends.
Boys are allowed to be friends.
In fact, most boys have friends who are boys.
And there's nothing sexual about it.
This is quite normal and healthy.
What is not normal and healthy is to see all male friendship, even prepubescent, fictional, animated male friendship, through a sexual lens.
The Insider website has taken a different approach, accepting that Luca is not a gay story and castigating Pixar for lacking the courage to sexualize a relationship between two elementary-aged children.
The author, Jacob Sarkeesian.
He writes, quote, while the implications of queerness are there, particularly in the friendship between Luca and Alberto, it's disappointing that Disney's Pixar wasn't brave enough to fully commit to their first queer animated tale.
He continues, Luca is immediately taken by the free-spirited Alberto when he meets a fellow sea monster off the coast of Puerto Rosso.
They're casually physical with one another, sleeping side by side under a star-filled sky, wrapping their arms around each other's waist, and watching the sun set together.
In fact, they spend a lot of time embracing one another, teasing that their relationship could blossom into something more.
The comparisons to Call Me By Your Name, a film where two young men fall in love, are well-earned.
The Italian seaside setting, the hazy beauty of the summer scenery, and the tale of two boys experiencing love for the first time.
Now, Sarkeesian begrudgingly accepts that the nine-year-olds in the cartoon aren't sexually interested in each other.
It's just that he's disappointed, is all.
He says, this may seem refreshing to some to see a Disney movie explore friendship as opposed to a fairy tale love story, but it's a shame that this decision has come when a gay romance could have so easily and naturally been explored.
Making Luca and Alberto explicitly gay or queer wouldn't have felt contrived.
It would have been a meaningful confirmation of what is already a story rich in gay subtext.
Yes.
Why tell any other kind of story when you could have so easily told a gay one?
Why does Sylvester Stallone fight Carl Weathers in Rocky when they could have been gay lovers instead?
Why is Apollo 13 about an aborted lunar mission when it could have been a romance between two gay astronauts on Mars?
A kind of Brokeback Mountain in space type of thing.
And by the way, I hope you'll admire my restraint in refraining from making a Uranus joke right here.
I'm not doing that.
But why should any story be told if it's not a mechanism for sexual indoctrination?
Why should anything exist if it's not ideologically useful to progressives?
These are the questions that torment our friends on the left, and the questions are all the more disturbing when applied to a movie about eight- or nine-year-old boys.
It's bad enough for them to sexualize children as they do, but now they're offended when children are not sexualized.
The writer of that Insider article is experiencing something like moral indignation at the fact that a couple of prepubescent cartoon characters aren't depicted in an explicitly sexual embrace.
I'd really hate to see what sort of improvements, quote-unquote, this weirdo would make to those stories of male friendship that I grew up watching.
Don't let him anywhere near the sandlot, is all I can say.
Don't let him anywhere near an actual sandlot, either, if there are kids on it.
The implications here go beyond movies and cartoons.
The real point for these leftists, with their half-baked Freudian notions, is that all people are driven primarily by sexual impulses, and this includes children, to them.
In their dark, pedophilic vision of reality, innocent platonic friendships don't exist, can't exist.
They see two boys with their arms around each other and they think, well, why would anyone behave this way unless it's for sexual reasons?
No other kind of love, no other sort of bond can or should be formed.
And this kind of over-sexualization of everything makes it more difficult for boys, in reality, to form those platonic loving bonds with each other.
We hear so much about a lack of representation in film.
Well, male friendship is not represented very often or very well.
And so boys are not provided with examples of what those relationships look like.
And here we see part of the reason why.
Pixar can't even put out a movie about a couple of sea monsters becoming friends without leftists trying to drape a rainbow flag over the whole thing.
And for that reason, they are, of course, all of them together, very much cancelled.
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