Ep. 1592 - American Cities Are Making The Pride Flag Their OFFICIAL Flag!?
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flag as their official flags. Wokeness is not as dead as we might like to believe. Also, the attorney general says that the FBI is still going through Epstein material. What is taking so long? And the media mourns as an entire family of illegal immigrants face deportation. They committed no crime, except the crime of coming here illegally, which is more than enough reason to deport them. And Times Square has a new statue. It's a 12-foot-tall overweight black woman. Why does this statue exist? We’ll try to figure that out today.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flags as their official flags.
Wokeness is not as dead as we might like to believe.
Also, the Attorney General says the FBI is still going through Epstein material.
What is taking so long exactly?
And the media mourns as an entire family of illegal immigrants face deportation.
They committed no crime except the crime of coming here illegally, which is more than enough reason to deport them.
And Times Square has a new statue.
It's a 12-foot-tall, overweight black woman.
Why, exactly?
Well, we'll try to figure that out.
All of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You may have missed it, but a couple of years ago, history was made in the state of New Hampshire.
We're not talking about the invention of some miraculous drug or a breakthrough in rocket technology or anything like that.
We're talking about something much, much more significant.
A woman named Talisha St. Mark became the first black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal magistrate judge.
As one lawyer said during her swearing-in, quote, I don't think anyone in this room is surprised that you're making history.
The New Hampshire Bar Association wrote a lengthy article about how Talisha was breaking barriers.
And as you can see, the new judge was all smiles in the court.
There she is.
By all accounts, thanks to Talisha, great things were coming for the state of New Hampshire.
But a couple questions remained unanswered.
What exactly would Talisha accomplish once she got on the bench?
And what ways would she shock the world with her legal acumen?
But we don't have to guess about the answers to those questions anymore.
And that's because recently Judge Talisha issued the first major ruling of her career.
It's a ruling that's worth talking about because it underscores a much larger effort that's underway to undermine the identity of this country at a very fundamental level.
Specifically, Judge Talisha, in her infinite wisdom, determined that it was completely legal for Nashua City Hall to ban the Appeal to Heaven pine tree flag while at the same time flying the so-called pride flag outside of City Hall.
Never mind the fact that the pine tree flag was flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is a battle that many New Hampshire residents participated in.
Never mind the fact that it was...
It was used by ships commissioned by George Washington.
None of that matters, according to the city, because the pine tree flag, quote, Now, on the other hand, the pride flag, which is just a horizontal rainbow that some gay guy drew in San Francisco in the 70s, is apparently completely compatible with the policies of the city of Nashua.
And therefore, the judge ruled that the city can fly the gay pride flag while prohibiting people Now, to be clear, the city hall at Nashville has a citizens' flagpole, which normally flies flags that citizens want to be flown.
And over the years, those flags have commemorated everything from Greek Independence Day to International Francophone Day.
In fact, here's a picture of the Greek national flag flying outside Nashville's city hall.
You can see it there.
So it's usually a pretty open forum for people to fly the flags they want.
But it's not an open forum anymore.
In order to protect their ability to fly the pride flag, which is profoundly sacred to them, the city government has effectively shut down the ability of citizens to fly flags commemorating what they want to commemorate, including major battles of the American Revolution like Bunker Hill.
And path-breaking judges like Talisha St. Mark are signing off on it.
This is an extraordinary development, especially since it's taking place not far from the birthplace of the American Revolution, but...
It's not just happening in very liberal states like New Hampshire.
We're seeing similar efforts to canonize the pride flag in liberal cities that are located within conservative states, particularly in Utah and Idaho.
This is the big act of resistance that several liberal enclaves have decided on.
And we'll start with Boise, which is the capital of Idaho.
And recently the state passed a law requiring that only official government flags could fly at government buildings, which makes a lot of sense.
And in response, Boise just passed a resolution declaring that the pride flag is indeed an official flag of the city.
Yes, they have named the pride flag as an official flag of the capital city of Idaho.
Now, before we break this down and all the perverse implications, I have to admit that a random female protester at the Boise City Council said pretty much everything that needs to be said about this decision.
I don't know if she's interested in a political commentary career, but if not, she should be because...
She really sums up the situation pretty well.
Watch.
You think gay people are the only people who are entitled to anything?
The American flag covers everybody in the country.
Yep, pretty much.
In case you couldn't make it out, she calls all the pride flag supporters frickin' commies, which they are.
And then she explains that every single demographic group does not need to have its own flag, and that's...
Because we already have the American flag, which covers everybody, and says that all these people are incredibly narcissistic.
And she does all this in about 10 seconds, so it's really quite poetic.
It's also a much better argument than anything the pro-Pride flag people could come up with.
Here, for example, is the statement from someone named Colin Nash, who was apparently the president of the Boise City Council.
And here was his argument in support of making the Pride flag an official government flag in Boise.
Now, I'm not going to spoil anything, but this has to be one of the greatest rug pulls in the history of political speeches in any context.
Because this guy really leads you into believing that things are going a certain way.
And then right when you think you know where it's going, he completely subverts your expectations.
None of it really makes sense, but it's incredible to behold all the same.
And again, this is his argument in favor of making the pride flag.
An official flag of the city at City Hall.
And here's what he says.
Watch.
I'm going to take a chance, get a little personal, and hope I can trust you all.
About 15 years ago, I was recently married, and I had a secret.
In retrospect, the secret was very small and dumb.
But when you're young and 20, it felt very big and it felt very weighty.
And sometimes I would drive home.
I had a long commute along the highway.
And I would just wonder, what if another car just hit me?
And I wouldn't have to talk about this.
I wouldn't have to bring this up with my family.
And I wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of what I felt were a pretty big deal.
It was a really hard time in my life.
Eventually got out of it with great support from my lovely wife.
And I'm not gay.
Now, you can watch that clip 15 times, and even when you know that's coming, it's still a surprise.
There's all that build-up.
He's giving you the stock story about how he was contemplating hurting himself.
Back when he was young because he was in the closet.
That's what you think it's leading to based on the context.
We're talking about the pride flag.
And then he drops the hammer and informs you that he's not gay.
But if you watch the whole speech, he never tells you actually what his secret was.
You can listen to the whole speech.
He never says it.
So no one has any idea what he's talking about or how it's relevant to anything.
All we know is that the Boise City Council president has some kind of secret.
And it's a secret so bad that he thought about causing a fatal car accident.
But we don't know what it is.
Or how the hell any of that is related to the pride flag?
Now, as best I can tell, the idea is that some people are suicidal because they have secrets of some kind, and therefore the government of Boise needs to endorse the pride flag to make people with secrets feel better.
Even if your secret has nothing to do with being a closeted homosexual, still the pride flag will cheer you up, I guess.
And I'm not cherry-picking an argument here.
I didn't find some random activist ranting about this particular issue.
This is, as I said, the president of the Boise City Council delivering remarks that he prepared in advance in support of a proposal to officially endorse the pride flag as an official city flag.
And that's the best he could come up with.
The rest of the city council, which, by the way, voted to endorse the pride flag by a margin of 5 to 1, was pretty much the same way.
Some of them mention that gay people don't have enough rights, even though they didn't explain what they were talking about.
Even the lone dissenting voice was embarrassing.
The woman who voted against the pride flag just said that, well, essentially she was worried that the city would be sued if it endorsed the pride flag, so she had no backbone at all.
The bottom line is that no one on the Boise City Council delivered a rational explanation for why the city should fly this flag.
Because there is no rational explanation for it.
But in Boise, a lot of people support it.
A local news station interviewed a few random people on the street, and here's what they had to say.
When you're walking past Boise City Hall, you'll see three flagpoles flying five flags, one of those being a pride flag.
But a new law makes flying it illegal.
At the end of the day, it doesn't hurt me.
If the mayor decides that she wants to fly it, great.
The city of Boise simply tells Idaho News 6, quote, the city will continue to fly existing flags on city property.
They declined to expand on that statement in any way.
You're not taking the American flag down to fly it, right?
So, I don't know why it matters, you know?
I'm just like, just let people be who they are.
What would be the harm in it?
And it makes a positive statement about our community and its values.
I think it's very important to show representation for people in this city.
We have gay and LGBTQ plus members in our community who I think at this time need our support.
Live your life.
Let them live their life.
That's right.
There you go.
There you go.
Now you can see the reporter who presumably, like the president of city council, is definitely not gay.
Nodding along at the end of that footage, and this is the kind of dispassionate coverage you get on issues like this, but of course, nothing these people are saying makes any sense.
Live your life, let them live their life.
That's what he says, but that has nothing to do with shoving a partisan, radical ideology down the throats of everybody who doesn't agree with it, which in particular includes all real Christians in Boise.
The LGBTQI plus pride cult is effectively...
A secular religion, or at least a sect of a secular religion.
And giving these people, and only these people, the endorsement of the government is the exact opposite of live and let live.
It's an attack on both Christianity and the national identity of this country.
Live your life and let them live their life is precisely what you aren't doing when you make a homosexual flag into an official flag of the city.
And again, the reason this is worth talking about is that it's happening all over the place.
It's not just New Hampshire and Idaho.
It's also happening in Utah, of all places.
So take a look at this image.
There you see the mayor of Salt Lake, Erin Mendenhall, and she's unveiling a set of new flags that are officially sanctioned by the city, including an LGBTQ plus pride flag, the Juneteenth flag, and the transgender pride flag.
Just like in Boise, Salt Lake's government is introducing these flags in response to a state law that prohibits government buildings from flying flags that don't represent a city.
Or, you know, a county country.
So their solution is to declare that the Juneteenth flag and the trans flag and the LGBT flag do, in fact, represent the city of Salt Lake officially.
Because, you know, nothing says Mormon values like BLM holidays and child castration, apparently.
So these cities are doing the opposite of what they should be doing.
And I don't just mean that, you know, they shouldn't be recognizing the LGBT flag.
Obviously, they shouldn't do that.
I mean that the government shouldn't recognize the quote-unquote LGBT community at all.
LGBT people are not a nation, so it makes no sense for them to have a flag, much less one that flies on a government building.
They also aren't really a community.
The fact that a bunch of people share the same sexual proclivity does not make them a real community or a coherent group that the government should give any special recognition to at all.
Right?
As the woman said in the first video we played, Well, you're just an American.
You're already covered.
We don't need to give you special recognition because you're an American who also happens to have these sexual proclivities.
There should be no context where the government recognizes that.
It has nothing to do with public policy, or at least it shouldn't.
Now, it seems that the current administration realizes that.
Reading now from the postmillennial quote, the Trump administration has slashed more than $800 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for studies related to LGBT health.
Cut funding included research being done at Harvard University's medical school regarding the mental health of LGBTQ youth.
The funding was terminated by the NIH on March 12th.
The NIH informed Harvard that research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.
Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities.
It is the policy of NIH to not prioritize these research programs." Now, one of the reasons this matters is that at Harvard and many other universities, they blame Republican legislation for the mental health of LGBT youth.
And that's the goal of these studies.
They try to make the argument that, you know, if you ban child castration, you're going to cause mass suicides.
And the premise here is obviously ludicrous because we didn't have mass suicides back when transgenderism was not recognized as a thing at all.
And we didn't have it when it was recognized, but it was basically treated like a punchline.
I mean, there were no mass suicides in response to Mrs. Doubtfire, as far as I know.
So this is all fake research.
It's explicitly political and fraudulent, and now it's being shut down.
The Hill adds this, quote, Now, none of this is happening without a lot of complaining, as you might expect.
NBC News interviewed the CEO of a gay nonprofit in Los Angeles who issued this dire warning, quote, As if the county stops funding HIV prevention work, that new cases will skyrocket.
They also interviewed a scientist at Harvard who said, quote, Most of my colleagues are afraid to speak out.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
Fear keeps people silent, close quote.
So the message is that by eliminating a bunch of fake research into gender and homosexuality, a lot of people are going to die.
And specifically, the gay nonprofit guy in Los Angeles says that People are going to die of HIV because apparently we need to study HIV some more.
And if you disagree, you're basically Hitler.
What's being overlooked here, of course, is how exactly HIV is spread.
And if you think about that for two seconds, you'll realize that in reality, the impact that LGBT health issues have are either made up, in the case of claiming a lot of this stuff about mental health, or self-imposed.
They're very often the product of reckless and dangerous sexual behavior.
The AIDS crisis is the most obvious example.
Monkeypox is another one.
It's very easy to not get those diseases.
We don't need to study it anymore.
It's very easy to not get them.
Every rational adult knows how to avoid it.
If you're having random gay sex with strangers, you might get HIV and monkeypox.
If you aren't, you almost certainly will not get either of those diseases.
So really no need to spend another $100 million.
In cities where the pride flag is the equivalent of the American flag, you're not allowed to say any of this out loud.
They'll give you a lot of nasty looks in Boise and Salt Lake City if you besmirch the state religion.
But the more these activists try to force this nonsense on everybody, the more it's important to say what's actually happening.
So let's do that.
A country that recognizes multiple flags carved out among various narcissistic interest groups.
Cannot survive for very long.
Everyone knows that.
As the random lady said at the Boise City Council, only a dumb commie would disagree.
And the more these cities pass absurd laws like this, and the more Harvard researchers pretend that they need a few more billion dollars to study gay health issues, the more everyone can tell that the random lady in Boise is a lot smarter and a whole lot more honest than any of the activists and government officials who shouted her down.
The LGBT club is clearly scrambling in desperation at the moment.
All the Trump administration has to do now is continue what they're doing and take every step necessary to shut them down for good.
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All right, as I record this, the news has just broke that there's white smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel, which informs us that a new pope has been selected.
At this moment, we don't know who the new pope is, so I'm not going to speculate about that, so tune in tomorrow and I'll get my take on, as that news comes out, and I'll get my take on it tomorrow.
But there is, at least at this exact moment, we know that there is going to be an announcement today.
So we'll put that on hold for tomorrow, and we'll start with this.
Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday was asked about the Epstein files.
Here's what she said.
No, no, the FBI, yeah, the FBI, they're reviewing, there are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child.
And there are hundreds of victims, and no one victim will ever get released.
It's just the volume, and that's what they're going through right now.
The FBI is diligently going through that.
I haven't seen that statement, but I'll call him later and find out.
Okay, so if you didn't hear the question, it was about the claim that the actual Epstein files are missing or destroyed.
And that was the question.
It was like, is that why we haven't seen them?
And Bondi says, well, that's not true.
She says that they haven't been destroyed.
And the reason, she says, that we haven't seen any files is that the FBI is still going through them.
And there are lots of videos of child abuse that they have to sift through.
Now, that excuse makes sense if you just woke up from a coma yesterday.
But if you didn't, then you know that Epstein was arrested six years ago.
Are we supposed to believe that the FBI is still going through this material six years later?
Is it that much material that it takes six years to go through it?
We're supposed to believe that six years after the fact, they're still gathering the facts.
Six years after he was arrested, right?
Like, whatever, five years after he died.
And they're still gathering, they're still on a fact-finding mission.
I just don't buy it.
I just don't buy it.
Especially because, obviously, nobody expects or wants them to release videos of child abuse.
That's not, you know, when we talk about releasing the Epstein files, the actual Epstein files, not the files that were released in the binders.
You know, several weeks ago, which had no new information at all.
But when we talk about that, we're not saying, you know, these horrifying videos are made.
Clearly not.
All we want to know, all we want to know is who Epstein's associates were, which prominent and powerful people are documented to have engaged in the sexual abuse of minors, what are the names, And what is the documented evidence against them?
And if that evidence, as we expect it does, includes horrific videos, clearly you're not publicizing those, but we want to know that they exist.
And the next follow-up question is going to be, okay, so when are they getting arrested?
Why are they not arrested?
So that's all we want to know.
And it's just impossible to believe that six years later they still don't have answers to these questions.
It's absurd.
You know, it's just not credible.
So why are we getting the runaround?
That's certainly what it seems like.
It seems like this is a runaround.
Because I just don't...
I don't buy it.
The fact that we can't release anything, the claim that nothing can be released because they're still going through it...
I just don't buy it.
How can anyone believe that?
You're like insulting our intelligence.
It's been six years.
Obviously, you know everything that's in there.
So, it seems to me that there are two possible answers as to why we haven't seen the actual Epstein files, why nobody's been arrested, why there's been no, as far as we know, there's not even any plans to arrest anybody.
Like, there are two possible answers.
And neither of them are good.
One answer is that for some reason, some of the people in the administration are involved in covering this information up.
The other is that they don't actually have much more information than what's already been made public.
That's the other possibility.
Either this is being covered up.
Or you got nothing.
You don't have anything.
Now, if it's the second option, that would mean that these smoking guns were destroyed a long time ago, and so now they just don't have anything.
Which, remember, that was the question that was asked.
There have been claims to that effect.
Has this stuff been destroyed?
And so now there's just nothing.
Now, being someone who tends towards cynicism, I tend to believe it's...
I think there's a good chance that it's the second option.
The evidence that implicates rich and powerful people was destroyed a long time ago, and so they don't have it.
It's either that or, as I said...
They have it, but they're not telling us.
They're covering it up.
And then they're covering it up because why would they be doing that?
Well, I don't know.
One of the reasons would be, could be, that they have this blackmail material and they want to still be able to use it.
And once you publicize it, you can't use it as blackmail material.
I don't know.
We can only speculate.
We're left to speculate because we're not being given the whole story.
And the problem is that, you know, the answer that would let Pam Bondi off the hook, potentially, is that this stuff was destroyed a long time ago.
The cover-up already happened before we got here, because there was a whole other administration that was, you know, there in between.
And so this stuff was destroyed.
Now, so that...
If that happened, then it would let Pam Bondi off.
But the problem is that she's claiming that didn't happen.
And we were, you know, there was that whole episode several weeks ago when we were told that, yeah, we've got information.
It's really shocking.
Get ready.
We're going to release it.
And then we get it, and it's all the stuff we already knew.
So if the stuff was destroyed, then that's, you tell us that, like, right away.
That's what the Attorney General should tell us a day after getting into her position.
She'll come out and say, look, this stuff's been destroyed.
There's a lot missing.
So now that it becomes, we're going to find out who did that, and we're going to hold them accountable.
But, I don't know, this stringing us along and saying, yeah, we have it, but we're still going through it.
I just don't buy it.
I just don't buy it.
It pisses me off, frankly.
All right, the New York Post has what I guess is supposed to be a sad headline.
The headline is, Georgia college student faces deportation after running red light.
Police discover her entire family is living illegally in the U.S. for years.
Now, I'm going to read this.
There's one sentence in this article that I want you to really focus on.
And we'll read it, and we'll see if you pick up on it.
I'm sure you will.
But here's what it says.
A Georgia college student faces deportation after she ran a red light, and authorities discover her entire family has been illegally living in the U.S. for nearly 15 years.
Mexican national Ximena Arias Cristobal, 19, was pulled over by police in Dalton, Georgia, after she failed to adhere on a no turn on red sign.
Ximena Arias Cristobal was driving without a driver's license, but told officers she had an international driver's license.
She admitted she didn't have the foreign document when she was asked about it.
In 2010, Arias Crystal Ball was brought into the U.S. illegally by her parents when she was only four years old.
Because of her non-citizen status, Arias Crystal Ball was paying out-of-state tuition for school despite living in the area.
The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak to the teen's mom and the owner of the car, but neither of them spoke English, according to the report.
Arias Crystal Ball was arrested and charged with driving without a valid license and failure to obey.
Traffic control devices.
And now the whole family faces deportation.
Okay, so a whole family of illegal aliens.
She's driving without a license.
She's disobeying traffic laws.
Already there's enough reason to deport everybody.
And it's got nothing to do with the traffic laws.
You're here illegally.
That's all the reason we need.
That's the one single reason we need to deport you.
You're not supposed to be here.
And, by the way, the Post article has a bunch of pictures of this girl in her graduation gown.
I don't know why the media is so obsessed with graduation photos.
They always do this, of course.
Anytime there's a martyr that they want us to feel sorry for, they always beat us over the head with the graduation photos.
And it's always high school graduation, too.
Like, we're supposed to be impressed.
Okay, congratulations, you graduated high school.
You literally have no choice but to graduate high school.
You cannot fail high school.
They won't let you.
Trust me, I tried when I was a kid.
So you can't.
It's not an option.
And when you try to fail high school, they say, no, you can't.
You're not allowed to do that.
Okay, well, then I'm just not going to turn in any of my work for the entire year.
Okay, fine, but you're still going to graduate, whether you like it or not.
So, you know, it's not exactly a great achievement.
But it's also irrelevant.
So I guess we're supposed to, oh, she graduated high school.
Why would we want to deport her?
It's a non-sequitur.
But maybe you picked up on the one very salient sentence in all of this.
I'm sure you did.
It was this part again.
The officer who pulled her over attempted to speak to the teen's mom and the owner of the car, but neither of them spoke English.
Of course they didn't.
Now keep in mind, they've been here for 15 years.
Her family has been here for 15 years.
And they can't speak English.
Now, learning a new language, if you're fully immersed in it, if you're using the immersion technique, it should take about six months.
And it could take three months.
But it should be like three to six months.
And that's six months after living and being immersed in a language, you should be able to get by conversationally.
After another six months, for a year, you should be totally fluent.
You should be able to speak the language as well as any native speaker.
Fifteen years later?
I mean, there should be no difference in your grasp of the language and anyone else who was born there.
Fifteen years?
They've been here through like four different presidential terms.
They got to this country three years after the iPhone was invented.
So it's been a long time.
And yet they can't speak the language.
At all, apparently.
And this, of course, is very common.
It's not shocking.
It should be shocking.
But it's not, because immigrants come here, and they don't learn the language.
And that's not just annoying.
It is annoying.
It's extremely annoying.
I shouldn't have to encounter anyone in my own country who I can't communicate with.
Unless it's a tourist or like a baby.
Okay, those are the two kinds of people that I'm okay with not being able to communicate with.
If you're an adult who has full use of your vocal cords and your hearing, and you live here, you're a resident, supposedly, then I should be able to communicate with you.
So, it's annoying.
It's also incredibly disrespectful.
I mean, how dare you come to this country and not even pay us the basic respect of learning our language?
It's presumptuous.
It's lazy.
It's entitled.
It's selfish.
It's offensive.
And it's not a small thing.
Language is a basic element of human civilization.
Like, one of the most fundamental requirements of a country, of a nation, of a people, in order to be a country, nation, and people.
It's the most basic requirement.
And these people won't even fulfill that basic requirement.
And what that shows, of course, is that these immigrants come here without the slightest intention to actually assimilate into our country.
The problem isn't that these immigrants are lazy and selfish and refusing to learn our language.
Although that's true, too.
It's that it shouldn't be possible to live here for 15 years and not learn our language.
That should not be possible.
Even if you speak broken English, if you speak with an accent, if you're learning a new language, fine.
You should still know English, though.
Someone should be able to communicate to you.
With you in the language of that country.
And like I said, that should be, there shouldn't be an option.
It should just not be possible to live here for 15 years and not at least have that basic grasp of the language.
But many of these illegal immigrants don't speak the language at all because it is possible to not learn it.
Because they come here and they form their own little cells, their own little colonies in the middle of our country where they speak their own language.
They continue living in every way as though they were still in their motherland.
That's not assimilation.
Assimilation is fake.
It's a myth.
It's not happening.
It's not actually happening.
When you bring mass amounts of foreigners into your country, you get disorder and disarray and dilution and confusion.
You don't get assimilation.
That's, I mean, it's very clear.
You got people that come here, they're here for a decade and a half.
They're here for longer than any of my kids have been alive.
And don't speak the language.
So that's, don't tell me about, oh, melting pot.
It's a melt, what melt?
They haven't melted into anything.
That's not a melting pot.
It's not assimilation.
It's not anything.
And I just hate the gaslighting over this, and I don't use that word very often because it's overplayed, but this is gaslighting.
They bring in all these foreigners and then act like they don't understand why we have a problem with it.
They'll listen to someone like me complain, or someone like you, any rational American who has a problem with this, and they'll complain that the immigrants don't speak our language, and they'll act like they can't possibly understand why.
That's upsetting to us, so why speaking the same language is important.
And yet, with any other country on Earth, any non-white, non-Western country, they would fully acknowledge the problem.
And they'd complain about it themselves.
I mean, if, let's say, 30 million white, English-speaking Americans move to India.
Now, I think right now in India, there are thousands of Americans living there, definitely not millions.
So, you know, not enough for it to be, like, noticeable.
But let's say it was tens of millions of English-speaking white Americans just moved en masse to India.
And let's say they all moved there.
They kept speaking English.
They kept all of their white American customs.
And over time, as a result, India started to become Americanized.
India started to become more like America and less like India.
Let's say that all of these white Americans who move there en masse, illegally, let's add, not in accordance with the laws of India, but ignoring the laws, they just took it upon themselves.
And in not too short a time, what ends up happening is that India is pulled more They pull India towards themselves rather than them going and assimilating into India.
So let's say that happens.
Everybody would view it as a problem.
Like, no one would say that, oh yeah, that's fine.
That's fine.
Nobody would say that.
No one would say that.
And when India came along and said, okay, hey guys, we're not doing this.
You gotta go.
Now, you can't do that.
This is India.
This is our country.
You can't just move.
You can't move here by the tens of millions and try to turn our country into yours.
You can't.
We're not going to let you do that.
So if India rounded them all up and kicked them out, nobody would object.
Everybody would.
I wouldn't object.
I would say, yeah.
I mean, that's what you should do.
I would do the same thing if I was in your shoes.
And so it's only with our country that it's a problem.
Only in our country we expected to put up with this thing that no one else would tolerate.
No one would tolerate.
And only for us is an issue.
And so that's the gaslighting.
You know.
Because you know what?
People recognize that I'm just using India as an example.
People recognize that India is not just a geographic spot on the map.
People recognize that India is India because of Indians.
And they also recognize that, you know, if you were to...
If you've ever seen the show The Leftovers on HBO...
Which is a great show, by the way.
But in that show, the premise of the show is that one day, like, I forget what it is, but 5% of the world population just disappears.
With no explanation.
They're just gone.
Right?
Well, if there was a scenario like that, and tomorrow it was a leftover situation, but it only hit India.
And all the Indians in India just, like, disappeared?
And then a bunch of white Americans moved to India and took over?
Well, that's not India anymore.
Like, everyone would understand.
To call that India doesn't make any sense anymore.
The only similarity is that they're on the same ground.
But all the Indians are gone.
And these are a bunch of white Americans from Ohio and Minnesota that are living here now.
And so it's just not India.
It's not.
And again, everybody would understand that and no one would object to that point in the case of India or of China or Japan or South Korea or Saudi Arabia or Honduras or any other country.
It's only in this country where we're told that, well, you're just as much a valid citizen of this country as long as you just happen to be here.
The only thing that's required to be fully American is just to be here, to physically stand here.
You don't even have to go through any of the paperwork.
We're the only country that's expected to see things that way.
And it's gaslighting, and it's outrageous, and I'm sick of it.
All right.
New York Post has this...
We've got a little customer service controversy.
Those are always fun.
Wild viral footage has captured Frontier Airlines gate agents getting into a bust-up with a passenger.
A bust-up?
B-U-S-T, up.
I've heard of a dust-up, but not a bust-up.
Is that a real phrase?
Anyway, getting into a bus stop with a passenger who had sniped I'm never flying this airline again after being hit with an unexpected $25 fee just to check in.
A caught on camera saga erupted when the male passenger, a 45-year-old married father of three, was trying to check in for his frontier flight from Raleigh, North Carolina to Boston.
The passenger, who didn't want to be identified, told the Post that he had arrived at the airport with 50 minutes, 5-0, to spare, but wasn't able to check in on the electronic kiosk because, unbeknownst to him, He had missed the airline's 60-minute pre-departure window.
When he went to speak to a Frontier employee, he was told he needed to cough up a $25 fee to check in at the desk per the airline's policy.
And that's when he claims things turn sour.
And they got into a back and forth.
And that's where I think the video that this passenger took begins.
And let's watch a little bit of that.
And you think, oh, you're going to check me in.
I bet you we won't.
I paid for a ticket.
And you check in three hours later.
Hello.
I just said that I would pay the $25.
And you thought you were going to get on your flight.
I literally paid for a ticket.
I'm here 30 minutes.
I'm here 30 minutes before my flight.
And they're not letting me check in.
And you're not getting on your flight.
We don't control that.
You were about to let me check in.
You were about to let me check in.
And you decided that you ain't gonna let me check in.
Make me check you in.
You literally work for a company that I bought a plane ticket for.
I'm here 30 minutes before the flight.
Can you please leave, sir?
No.
Can you please leave my personal space?
I'm not in your personal space.
This is not your personal space.
This is not your personal space.
You work for a company.
This is not your personal space.
You don't have to worry about it.
You're literally not doing your job for a customer that has paid for a plane ticket to get home.
Normally, I'm not a huge fan of taking your phone out and recording these kinds of interactions.
You're having an annoying experience with customer service.
Why does it need to be made public?
Why do we need to bring the public into it?
But in a case like this, I also understand it because...
As a customer, you're frustrated and helpless.
And this is how customers feel when they're dealing with awful customer service from these big corporations.
And Frontier counts as a big corporation.
I mean, you might think that their corporate office is a tent made out of blankets with one phone that's actually a can connected to a string.
You might think that, but actually, it's a corporation.
And as far as I know, it has at least one real building.
When you're in that spot as a customer, you have no other recourse a lot of times.
Nobody in the company gives the slightest crap about you or the issue that you're having.
The customer service representatives actively despise you.
They hate you just for being there.
Nobody in the corporate office cares at all.
You're getting ripped off, and what are you supposed to do?
So this guy resorts to filming, and in this case, I get it.
And I increasingly understand when people, even though I still find it kind of annoying, but when people take the phone out, when they start complaining about customer service stuff on social media, it's the only way to get any kind of response.
It's the only way, because otherwise, nobody cares.
Otherwise, you can't get anyone at the company to care.
And in many cases, they've already taken your money.
You can't even get your money back.
And so people have to resort to this.
It's the only way to get any response.
And we've all been in these situations so many times.
At airlines, with any big corporation, we've all been in this spot.
Especially when you're on the phone, you're dealing with customer service on the phone because you have an issue with your cell phone bill or anything.
And you're just trying to get someone on the phone who cares even a little bit about solving your problem, and no one does.
So, if I were to blame this guy for anything, it's flying Frontier in the first place.
I mean, as a frequent flyer myself, I will just never fly Frontier.
I think I flew it once, like 11 or 12 years ago.
We were flying to some location that didn't have a lot of flights, and the Frontier flight was cheaper.
At least it seemed that way until you get hit with like 19 different additional fees.
So we took Frontier, and awful service, awful plane, awful everything.
It would be too generous to say that Frontier is the Greyhound bus of the skies.
That's too generous.
Frontier is like...
It's like the school bus of the skies.
It's not the magic school bus, okay?
This is not a whimsical, fun school bus.
This is a bus going to a middle school in Baltimore, except it's 30,000 feet in the sky.
And that is Frontier Airlines.
The accommodations, the service, the clientele, they're all just bus tier.
It is a bus tier experience.
God-awful.
And since then, I've had a few experiences where...
I had to go somewhere.
We looked at the flights.
The only flight that could get me there on time was like a Frontier, one of these budget airlines.
And when that happens, now I just say, well, okay, I guess I'm not going to that place.
I guess whatever that place is, I guess I'm just not going to it.
Because there is no place on earth worth enduring a budget airline for.
It doesn't exist.
So in this case, after this guy made a stink about it, he did get reimbursed.
Frontier put out a statement claiming that these women were contractors and they no longer work with the company.
No apology, by the way.
Frontier, even after all this.
So this is with getting the media involved and social media.
Even then, the best that this guy will get is Frontier saying, okay, here's your money back, and yeah, they didn't even work for us.
Not even like, well, we're sorry you had this experience.
Frontier's attitude is basically, yeah, well, what did you think was going to happen?
We're Frontier Airlines.
What did you think was going to happen?
Okay?
We're stuffing you into a metal shoebox.
That's basically the experience.
It's like a metal shoebox that's being thrown from one location to another.
Imagine just getting into a metal shoebox, getting stuffed into it, and then some big giant just throws you.
To a city 600 miles away.
That's the Frontier Airlines experience.
And so that was kind of...
I'd almost respect them if that was their...
I would respect them if they said, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it sounds like you got the Frontier experience.
Okay, the planes...
The tickets are 12 bucks.
What did you expect?
What did you expect?
Well, you think actual professionals are working for Frontier Airlines?
Who did you think's gonna...
No, we're getting the people who couldn't get a job at the DMV.
That's who we're getting at Frontier Airlines.
We're getting the people that the DMV didn't want.
And so that's who you're dealing with.
So I would respect them a lot more if they just said that.
And that should be their motto.
That should be the motto of these airlines.
It should just be, we don't care about you at all.
Shut up.
The tickets were cheap.
The tickets are cheap.
Shut up.
That should be the Frontier Airlines.
The tickets are cheap.
Shut up.
That should be the whole ad.
But it's not just Frontier.
Customer service is abysmal everywhere.
I went to Dunkin' Donuts.
I don't know why I do this to myself, but I went to Dunkin' Donuts, which is like the Frontier Airlines of fast food breakfast establishments.
And they gave me a breakfast sandwich that was ice cold in the middle.
And I am not one to complain, usually, about this kind of thing.
I'm very much a, you know, I'm very much a middle-aged man, a middle-aged man approach to these sort of customer service things.
And so usually if I order something and it's not exactly right, I'm like, all right, well, I guess I'm just eating this now.
You know, I'll go.
I mean, I've had times where I go to, you know, McDonald's.
Again, I go to McDonald's and they hand me a bag.
It's like, it's totally not what I ordered at all.
It's, you know, you order a Big Mac and you get the filet fish.
Right?
And I just go, okay, well, alright.
Well, I guess I could just have that.
I mean, fine.
It's still food.
Like, it's all food made from the same thing, probably.
This all comes from the same, I don't know, it comes from the same part of the rodent that they're getting it from, so who cares?
But anyway, in this, it's like, I can't eat it.
I can't.
It's cold in the middle.
I know it's frozen to begin with, so I can't say it's not cooked.
It's already pre-cooked frozen.
Can I at least get it heated?
Can you warm it up?
And so I went back to the guy, and I said, hey, the breakfast sandwich is cold.
And this is what he said.
He says, okay.
That's what he said.
Okay.
And so I said, Can I get another one?
Can I get one that's warm?
Can I get one that's not the temperature?
Can I get one that's not a popsicle?
I didn't want a breakfast popsicle.
I didn't want an egg-flavored breakfast popsicle.
Do I have to explain the rest of it?
I said, can you heat one up?
Can you put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes first?
And then he goes, Yeah, hold on.
And he takes it, and then he comes back and just hands it.
No apology.
Nothing.
Not even the slightest attempt.
I know he doesn't care.
I get it that you don't care.
I understand you're getting paid $13 an hour.
You don't care at all.
You just want me to leave.
I get it.
But your job is to pretend that you do care a little bit.
Because almost everything you're doing, I could do.
Or that's another option.
Just get the hell out of the way and I'll do it.
Okay, I can pour my own coffee.
I can put my thing in the microwave.
That's fine too.
But then why do you have a job?
Why are you even there?
The only thing that you can add to this is just by pretending a little bit that you care.
And they can't even do that.
And then that's why I always find it hilarious when I hear about raising the minimum wage.
We've got to raise the minimum wage.
We've got to raise the minimum wage for these customers.
Have you seen?
Raise the wage.
Have you seen customers?
Lower it, if anything.
I mean, I had that experience.
Like, really?
Raise the wage for that guy?
Really?
For what?
For openly despising his customers?
For hating a customer for wanting a hot breakfast sandwich?
And what do we get?
What is that worth?
$40 an hour?
Should we pay him the same?
What?
$200?
Let's pay the same rate as, like, an orthodontist.
How about that?
It's crazy.
It's insane.
Okay, and I think most people are just fed up with it.
People are fed up with everything.
People are fed up with the customer service.
You know, I used to think it was kind of a debate about what's worse, you know, because there are terrible customers, too, who are also a-holes, but I used to think there was kind of a debate.
What's worse, the customer service or the customers?
No, the customer service is way worse.
It's so bad.
It is so terribly bad.
And then that also creates customers who are jerks.
Like, you're getting me—and I know it might shock you to learn, but in customer—like I said, customer service situations, I'm very easy to get along with.
I tip well, easy to get along with.
I'm not looking for trouble.
I just want to get my food and go.
I'm not looking for any kind of—I'm very easygoing in those environments.
And you're getting me to the point.
Where I'm just sick of it.
Even I'm going to start yelling and asking for the manager.
So, when you can take someone like me and get me to that point, then that means that things are really bad.
The customer service is just really, really bad.
And it honestly is.
So, that's it.
That's the lesson there.
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Now it used to be that if you were in the mood to see some exotic contemporary sculptures that were created by an unimpressive foreign artist, you had to go to a museum.
And that was pretty much your only option.
You know, it was like going to a movie theater before Netflix or buying a book at Barnes& Noble before Amazon.
We had dedicated buildings for everything, including contemporary art, and if you didn't drive to a museum with an express intent of quietly observing a groundbreaking new sculpture, in all likelihood, you probably wouldn't see one at all.
But then, as we all know, museums fell out of favor, at least for this particular purpose.
We found a lot of theories as to why that happened, but in this case, the simplest explanation is probably the best.
People stopped going to museums to see contemporary art because contemporary art is really, really bad.
And normally, when people stop consuming content because it's bad, That forces some kind of change in the content.
The creators might go back to the drawing board and come up with something else as a way to entice audiences.
That's normally how these things go.
But in the field of contemporary art, which of course is my true passion in life, that's not what happened.
Instead, artists, and particularly sculptors, have come up with new ways to force people to look at their most unimpressive and pretentious creations.
Maybe no sculptor on the planet is more adept at this particular skill That a man you never heard of named Thomas Price.
Without any sense of shame, Thomas Price has compelled innocent bystanders to observe his garbage sculptures by placing these sculptures in their way in public places.
In fact, in some cases, he's placing these sculptures in the middle of walkways.
And on top of that, every single one of these sculptures depicts the same thing, which is a nameless, random black woman who looks very annoyed and unpleasant.
Yes, all over the world, sculptures of random black women are being thrust upon the public.
And it's all because of a British guy named Thomas Price, who's apparently very angry that people don't go to museums anymore.
This is actually something of an epidemic.
So we'll go through some of these black woman statues here.
This is a picture of one of them.
It's from New Orleans City Park.
And as you can see, the woman is positioned directly on top of the walking path.
And according to the official description of the sculpture, quote, Price's sculpture, titled Time Unfolding, 2023, is a nine-foot-tall statue of a woman looking down at her cell phone, seemingly paused in contemplation.
The work is part of a series depicting everyday fictional subjects at a monumental scale, combining traditional sculpting and digital technology to question how society projects ideas and expectations through public space.
Close quote.
Now, to me...
This looks like a customer service representative for Frontier Airlines refusing to take my complaint seriously, but I guess she's supposed to look contemplative.
And it wasn't just New Orleans that was treated to this extraordinary combination of sculpting and technology, whatever that means.
The good people of Florence were also treated to a blinged-out gold version of the sculpture.
Here's what that looks like.
Reportedly, this particular statue was vandalized a few times.
The authorities condemned the vandalism, which they described as racist.
At the same time, the authorities didn't explain why, in their understanding, Thomas Price is not also a racist.
And after all, he's the guy who's constantly making sculptures about random, unimpressive-looking black women looking at their phones.
And then he forces everyone to look at these sculptures.
Seems kind of like something that an obsessive-compulsive Klansman would do as a practical joke, if we're being honest.
Here's another one of his sculptures in London, for example.
And this is from Three Mills Park.
Again, it's nine feet tall.
And according to Price, quote, I want this sculpture to be an opportunity for people to connect emotionally with an image of someone they might not have noticed before.
And then by a way of explaining his obsession with black women looking at their phones, Price said, quote, White artists are putting themselves forward to create replacement sculptures of slave owners with no sense of irony.
That's a savior complex, and that exemplifies what is wrong when even the solution doesn't involve the black experience, close quote.
So what exactly is the black experience besides looking at your cell phone?
I mean, based on Thomas Price's body of work, that's a good question.
His answer, from what I can tell, is that the black experience also involves being overweight and looking extremely annoyed all the time.
That's all of his statues of the black experience.
That's what they all are.
And that would explain this statue, which he just put up in Rotterdam Central Station in the Netherlands.
As you can see, this one's a real winner.
Apparently it's supposed to be the same black woman from London, except she's added a few pounds to her waistline.
That's what happens when you're a statue.
You're standing around a lot, not burning a lot of calories.
So maybe you just gained some weight.
And her cell phone ran out of battery, so she doesn't have a cell phone.
So we have kind of a narrative unfolding here.
And if you follow these statues from place to place, you'll really see that story being told.
Contemporary art is truly full of surprises.
And so is Thomas Price, apparently.
Because as you may have seen in his latest act of mass artistic harassment, Price has managed to have...
One of his plus-size black woman sculptures installed in the middle of Times Square so that tens of thousands, if not millions of people, will be forced to look at it.
He's genuinely outdone himself, at least in terms of securing a captive audience for his sculptures of unkempt black women.
Watch.
A new statue in Times Square is told, as we're told, turning heads.
It's making people not only stop and stare, but also reflect a rare feat in the middle of one of the busiest places in the world.
Zinia Maldonado shows us why.
At 12 feet tall, in the middle of Times Square, stands a bronze sculpture of a young woman.
It's instantly stood out.
It's powerful.
It's so tall and big.
The sculpture, created by artist Thomas Price, was unveiled at Duffy Square last week.
And in just a matter of days, it has stopped hundreds in their tracks.
Who is she?
Well, technically, she's whoever you want her to be.
Me being a plus-size black woman, I was kind of looking at it, I was like, oh, I wonder what me as a small child would have thought looking at something like that.
Representation.
Tourists and New Yorkers we spoke with expressed different interpretations of what she represents to them.
It's a plus-sized woman.
I'm a plus-sized man.
I'm African-American.
It's the African-American woman statue.
So just seeing another piece for me to stop and just have a moment with was very powerful.
If you look at the eyes, it's looking straight at something.
It's focused.
It's purposeful.
I really love the woman who praises it.
She's trying to find some way to praise the statue because she doesn't want to seem racist.
And so she says, it's really tall.
If that's the best, that's a pretty good, I mean, if you make a statue, a 12-foot tall statue, and you show it to someone and say, what do you think of my statue?
And they go, oh man, it's so tall.
Then that's a pretty good sign that they don't actually like the statue.
Now, at the risk of offending all the plus-size black people who find this statue to be inspiring, I do have to offer some criticism here.
But before I do that, I'll offer a compliment to Thomas Price, and according to the Times Square website, this statue was inspired by Michelangelo's Statue of David, which we'll put up on the screen here just for a comparison.
Quoting from the Times Square website, in her depiction, one recognizes a shared humanity, yet the contra-posto pose of her body, and the ease of her stance is a subtle nod to Michelangelo's David.
Close quote.
Now, if that's the case, and I have no reason to doubt the Times Square website, then we can only thank God for the fact that Thomas Price did not emulate the whole nudity aspect of Michelangelo's David statue.
So, you know, that's something to be thankful for.
The bigger difference, though, aside from the fact that the statue of David is made with infinitely more skill and artistry, is that David memorializes and honors the biblical figure of David, who is both a real person and also...
One of the most iconic religious and literary figures in the history of the world.
By contrast, the black woman statue, and the others cropping up across the globe, memorializes nobody in particular.
Now, maybe it's supposed to be a celebration of blackness or something, but it doesn't even accomplish that because the woman is frumpy and overweight.
I mean, he could have made a sculpture of a black person who looks like Zeus or something, like impressive, strong, imposing.
Instead, he gave us a statue of Queen Latifah on her day off.
Now, public art, particularly statues and monuments, should do two things.
First, it should point our eyes and hearts towards something beautiful.
And secondly, it should celebrate some important figure in our history or our shared cultural mythology.
And as long as it does the first, which is point our eyes towards something beautiful, the second isn't always necessary, but these statues do neither.
And at the same time, the left is glorifying this garbage.
They're tearing down statues that actually do memorialize significant figures in our history.
New York took down the Teddy Roosevelt statue outside of a museum of natural history.
New Orleans and Virginia both got rid of their Robert E. Lee statues.
And now in Chicago, the mayor is suggesting that the city is about to hide two statues of Christopher Columbus, an infinitely more impressive man than any politician who's ever led the city of Chicago.
We do have to make sure that our presentation...
is depicting not just truth, but the best part of our existence, which is our collective humanity.
The Park District is planning to clear away the larger Grant Park statues' base and redesign the plaza as a gathering space that will accommodate temporary art.
Now, as the Chicago Tribune summarizes this plan, quote, the Grant Park and the Rego Park Columbus statutes have hung in political limbo since then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Remove them amid protests in 2020, but Mayor Brandon Johnson's newly appointed Park District CEO announced a deal last week to loan the smaller statue, which had been in Origo Park, for a planned Italian immigrant museum and clear away the larger Grant Park statue's base.
The Italian American Human Resources Foundation of Chicago blasted the agreement to get the statue back as cultural treason, saying, quote, The statue will be hidden away indoors out of public sight as part of an undefined museum-style exhibit.
a sad final disposition of a statue of the heroic navigator whose voyages led to the introduction of Western European civilization and culture to a new world, close quote.
I think cultural treason is one of the better ways of describing what's happening here.
They're not just removing the statues of heroes like Columbus, as deranged as that is already, to remove those statues.
They're also installing random, obese women as a replacement.
And they're doing it because they have no historical heroes of their own.
Everyone who was born prior to, say, 2005 is inherently problematic to the left.
And therefore, instead of monuments to great men like Columbus, people all over the world are being forced against their will to look at displays of generic mediocrity.
But as annoying and depressing as this might seem, you have to remember that the reason these statues are being inserted into every public space imaginable is that If people aren't forced to look at them, nobody would bother.
This art is worth precisely what people would pay to see it, which is zero dollars.
And that is why Thomas Price and his weird obsession with statues of bored-looking black women are today canceled.
