The Matt Walsh Show - This Story Is So Insane You Won't Believe It's Real

Episode Date: June 22, 2024

"No U-Turn" signs are apparently homophobic now. No, this is not satire.   Today's Sponsor:   BJU Press - Learn how BJU Press can help you prepare your kids for a future full of possibilities at http://www.HomeSchoolHelp.com/WALSH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have a real crisis on the right. A serious problem that keeps me up at night. We talk about it all the time casually, but I don't think we've really stopped to consider what it means. We haven't thought about the implications of this crisis, and the crisis is this. The left has transcended satire. We cannot satirize these people anymore.

We cannot make a parody out of them. They've descended so far and so fast into madness that there's simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of it. Inevitably, any satire of the left will be satire for maybe like three days before it becomes reality. And that's in the best case scenario, but more often satire of the left isn't even satire at all, even at the moment that it's created, because it's actually tamer than reality. The right's satirized version of a leftist is very often more normal, more sensible, more coherent than an actual leftist. This is a problem. It's a problem we face.

And there may be a way around it, but we're going to have to start getting very innovative if we want to keep satire alive. The old methods just don't cut it anymore. We have to go farther. We have to be more creative, more daring. That's what it will take because of things like this. So here's a very real news report out of Los Angeles. This just happened last week. Again, not a joke, not a skit.

Real thing happened in real life. Watch. L.A. City Council members Hugo Soto Martinez and Nithia Rahman were on hand today to help remove the signs. They say the no cruising and no U-turned signs were put up in the 1990s to prevent people in the gay community from meeting up with other gay people. I was also surprised that these U-Turned. signs were still up.

And at first, you know, they seem a little, oh, okay, it's just a no-you-turn sign. But when you learn the history of it, and you realize that these were used to profile gay people, it's so important that we have these removed. So there you have it. A crowd of people came together to remove no-you-turn signs because no-you-turn signs are homophobic. That's where we are now.

No-U-turn signs are bigoted against the gay community. In topic it all off, the city council member who led this rally, goes by the name, again, not making it up, goes by the name, maybe, Maybe a girl. Maybe a girl is leading the charge and finally sparking the long-needed conversation about the homophobic legacy of traffic enforcement. But why are no U-turned signs homophobic? And if we're looking for anti-gay implications and traffic signs, why start with U-turns?

Some people have speculated that there might be some homophobia in, for instance, exit-only signs. That's not a gay joke on my part, to be clear to the YouTube censors. I would never engage in such things. And in fact, I find it frankly objectionable. I read those comments saying exit only is a... And I said, that's objectionable. I object to it. In fact, I said that out loud.

I'm only telling you what other people have said. Maybe they have a point. Like, why wouldn't you start with that? But they haven't started with those signs. Instead, it's the U-turn signs. Why? Well, council member may be a girl explained in a very long video, which we will, you know, try to cut around and get to the point of,

here's the history lesson. Here it is. No U-turn signs are homophobic in Silver Lake. And folks were asking, How can a no-you-turn sign be homophobic? How is that anti-LGBQIA? Well, I'm here to give you a little history lesson about why July 27, 1988, a story came out. In 1997, let's fast forward a little bit.

Park Boulevard are fed up with gay men. Okay, never mind. I actually don't care that much. I had the same question everyone did. Like, was this even coming from? And then this person posted it's like a five-minute video. You get two minutes in. It's like I don't care that much anymore.

Never mind. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. maybe a girl apparently went to school and majored in the study of homophobic street signs. We're getting an explanation that stretches back like 900 years. I felt like I was watching a Putin interview, except with a lot more cross-dressing, of course. This is one of the many problems with the LGBT left. On top of the fact that they're wrong about everything, you know, everything and their fundamental

worldview is hopelessly confused and incoherent. On top of all that, they also spend their time learning the most useless possible information. I guarantee that maybe a girl or any of the other people involved in this decision could not pass a second grade-level American history test, and yet they could deliver a 10,000-word dissertation on the history of gay cruising in Los Angeles County. Like, they couldn't tell you who wrote the Declaration of Independence, but they can point to any random, inanimate object

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The news article mentioned two men caught having sex in a stairwell. If the new U-turn signs were connected to the effort to stop this kind of public lewdness, it must be because it was somehow effective in preventing gay men from cruising around on the street looking for sex. So if these signs had anything to do with the gay community, quote unquote, and that's a big if, it's because they were behaving inappropriately in public, and the signs somehow helped to get that problem under control. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how that you turn, like, I don't know, you had a gay man that would drive me down the street, and then he saw on the other side of the street another gay man who thought, oh, maybe I could have sex with that guy, and then he just cuts a Ui real quick.

He thinks you're gay. Is that what was happening? And that was why they had, I don't know. There's only so much I want to know here. I've already know a lot more than I want to. But this is how self-absorbed and oblivious these activists are. If the no-you-turned signs are connected to them in any way, that should be a source of embarrassment. It's only because they kept having sex in public and other people in the community didn't want to be forced to witness it.

Rather reasonably, I would say. So the true history of these signs, if that is the true history, should be something that these people don't want discussed. They should be ashamed of it. They should just treat the signs like normal signs. and go on with their lives. Instead, they go out of their way to remind everyone that the county had to put up new traffic signs to stop them from treating public roads like gay brothels. Hey, looking for a good time, sweet cheek.

Now, conservatives have generally responded to this story by saying, Well, that's ridiculous. U-torn signs have nothing to do with gay people. Which is an understandable reaction. But the truth is something even more absurd. Actually, these signs really might have something to do with the behavior of some gay people in that community. behavior that is objectionable and that the city was right to crack down on. But rather than LGBT activists having any shame that they had to come up with new traffic rules

just to stop all the public sex that was happening, instead the activists are calling attention to it themselves. That's what happens when you have no capacity for shame. And that is ultimately why these activists are today. Cancer. How many fights? And bust the cold war. Man, check out that's ex-4. Yes,

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Tell your dad is a pain with me. All right, then. All right, players, stay up. Peace. Yes, we're all coming at your door. You start to scream out laugh. Who change's back for more. Yes, the hour's four.

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