‘No Kings’ Protests | L.A Protests: Why fly the Mexican Flag?

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before the show ends. Now this weekend Saturday, they are going to be protests across the country, in all the major cities in all of the states, and it's called the No King's Day of Defiance, and it's in protests to well because of the large military parade taking place on Saturday celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth Anniversity of the United States, and interestingly enough, coincidentally, it's Donald Trump's

seventy ninth birthday. Paray is going to cost around forty five million dollars, which is kind of interesting when you're talking about cutting just as much money as you can from the budget, and so it's forty five million dollars, not including the damage to the streets all of these tanks are going to be causing. So there is the president up on the stand, the viewing stand, and passing in front of him are thousands of army troops, tanks,

armored personnel, carrier missiles. Does that remind you of something? Is interesting? Visual, isn't it? And the President is going to make a speech almost you think he almost make a speech in Korean, wouldn't you? I mean it is I mean that visual is it bothers a lot of people Although a lot of people are gonna be thrilled

with that. I mean, this is trump Ism at its best, and this is the way no matter what you say, no matter what part of the political coin you are on, you tell me refute the fact that this is a self aggrandizing guy who likes the attention, likes pointing fingers at himself. Me me, me, me, me, loves the panoply, just loves to be the center of attention, and just

loves being deified. And here, as leader of the free world, all of this massive military might goes past him as he salutes, and I'm assuming it'll go on for at least an hour, and they keep on adding military gear to it. There they've now added missiles, and they've added anti missile launchers service to air missiles, and these what vehicles, and it just goes on and on, and you know, a lot of protests and No Kings, of course, is specifically describing that the president as king and we don't

want him as a king. It's not a specific group either, it's sort of a ground you know, grassroots group of people. One hundred and eighty progressive groups are listed on the website as partners. Now. The No Kings protests were announced in early May because we knew this was going to happen. But as the event itself has grown larger and larger,

the number of protests have grown larger and larger. And I you know, I have visions of the troops training to goofstep and salute as they pass the president of the viewing stand. So did you see pictures of the viewing stand and the kind of security that's going on. I mean, it is insane. All over the country. There's one place where there will be no protests, Washington, d C. Why well, because no one can get anywhere near what is going on. And Trump has said that any demonstration

will be met with a lot of force. I don't believe that in the world of that world, demonstrations are considered a part and parcel of the way America should be. I think that world is you do not argue. That's the other part that I find really troubling. You do not argue with this administration. If you do, you're on the wrong end. If you were a judge and rules a rule against the Trump administration, you are an enemy and you are a target. If you are on the

enemy's list. There is an enemy's list out there. Richard Nixon got nailed for that one here not so much. I'm sure as hell going to watch this parade. This one I'm not going to miss. Can't wait to see what happens, So be prepared for the no Kings. And I think LA is going to be one of the big big ones. As a matter of fact, I want to move to LA because the protesting in general, the anti ice protesting that's going on all over the country,

LA is sort of ground zero for that. We've had the big million people marches, the Latinos marching and saying we are people, We're not illegal. I mean we're talking about by the hundreds of thousands. And why is that Mexican flag flying? Because I've always said that makes absolutely no sense. They are not helping themselves with these Mexican

flags at all. And I'll tell you why. And people somehow are defending that, and I'll explain the defense, and it makes absolutely no sense to me because I think it's counterintuitive to what they want. I'll explain.

a distinct difference between the two. But one of the things that we have seen is the demonstrators continuing with a long tradition that we've seen here in Los Angeles of the flying of the red, white, and green flag during these anti immigration sentiments. Now I have seen also, I don't know if you guys have, but the split flag that is split in diagonal and half of it is the American flag and the other half is the Mexican flag on the flag of Mexico. I've seen those

as well. But if you see the images of Los Angeles and these immigration protests, they oh.

I didn't see an American flag. They flew the Mexican flag. Now, the demand was to remain in this country, a path citizenship, not to be deported. Well, in those days, the deportation level with nothing like it is now. I mean nothing. I mean it is real fear. There is real deporting god going on. I am seeing as I drive along from the cars Mexican flags. I don't see American flags

at all. I see Mexican flags, and you wonder, how can anybody be dumb enough to to ask to live in this country, to be part of this country, to not be deported, and fly the Mexican flag. Why would you do that? Well, Politico did a bunch of interviews and asked people, I mean, you know, people that are in the no experts, people have been here a long time, people that talk about this sort of thing, teach this sort of thing, and it's just crazy. Here's some of

the answers. It's really about saying we're American, We're Mexican American, and we're not ashamed of being Mexican. Huh. Really, it's really about being American. Here's another one that kind of floored me. You guys like American food, or excuse me, you like Mexican food, you like Mexican dancing in the Mexican culture. You just don't like Mexicans. So therefore, we want to show you how proud we are of being Mexicans. Okay,

if that's the point, then don't talk about immigration. If you just want the people of the United States to say, Mexicans are great, we love them, all right, no problem. We love to visit, we love Mexican food, we love Mexican music. We just don't want Mexicans here, Well, we're going to argue how important it is for you to accept our culture and our food. That's not what this

is about. See. I think what these people are somehow spinning this and trying to come up with some crap ol a reason and not hitting it directly because because we're proud to be Mexican, give me a break. I mean you probably are. I mean, I don't have a problem with you being proud to be Mexican. I'm proud to be American completely, but I am if I want to go to Italy, for example, which I do when I retire, I want to live part time in Italy. I'm not going to take the American flag and talk

about how desperately I want to be in Italy. What but you think I'm nuts? I just don't get it. I And then the argument is why young people are doing this. It's the show to support for their parents. So many people are American citizens, second third generation, maybe they were first born in this country, very much US citizens by birth, but they want to know their parents who are illegal, that they're standing with them. So therefore that's why we're flying the Mexican flag. You're not doing

yourselves any favor whatsoever. You fly the Mexican flag at a rally where immigration is even brought up, even a little tiny bit, you're out of your mind. What you're going to do is offend people. What you're doing is guarantee that there is a whole swath of Americans that are saying, you know, you don't like it here, get the hell out. You fly a foreign flag, you fly the Mexican flag, and then argue under the Mexican flag that you should be Americans, but you don't fly the

stars and stripes. I mean, that's just dumb. That's just stupid. And as I see cars, you know, with the Mexican flag flying around, I go, come on, guys, I mean, if you want to make a point, fly the American flag and say this is where I want to go. Don't get it. I don't. And as I said, they're not doing themselves any favor. Now, this is a fun one. Lame is is I think the best musical ever Trump went to lay Miss I think it was last night. And what does that mean? What does lames mean to other?

Every everybody else? We sort of have an idea what lame is means to Trump. And you can read anything in the lay miss anything, and I'll explain, because this is a musical for all of us. It's Festivus. It's Festivus for all of us. We'll be back. It is a Thursday morning, June twelfth, a pan to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys who just died yesterday at the age of eighty two. Last night it was the President going to the opening of Lame Is at the Kennedy Center.

It's the first performance that is a musical since he certainly that Trump was involved with, since he declared himself or appointed himself as the chair, fired all the other directors and put in his own people, including Pam Bondi. Also Jake Vance is on the board now. And so last night was lay mis lay Mis means so much to so many people that you have the pundits looking at this because on both sides of the political aisle, as a matter of fact, all three sides. Some they

see something in the musical that's on their side. And the President said, I love the songs, I love the play, as he went to it, as he attended. And this is through July thirteenth, and it is fabulous. By the way, I love it. He organized this is a fundraiser, guest paying up the two million dollars. Now, most of the main cast boycotted the show. They wouldn't perform in the show. As a matter of fact, so many of the performers boycotted, they were able to scramble a local high school production

to actually do the performance. And some may hear dissonance between the values of the show and Trumps. Okay, that's sort of on the left. But when you look at this lame is Can does appeal to the minds of just about everybody. Why because the pro Trump people see Jean Valjean or Jean Valjean and Trump, both of them having been wrongly accused, because that's the premise of the musical, wrongly accused, never given the benefit of the doubt, constantly

hounded by the French police read democrats. The lyric the blood of the Martyrs will water the meadows of France. Okay, pretty close to the line about the tree of liberty needing blood. Thomas Jefferson in a nineteen eighty seven quote, the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. That has been a MAGA slogan for a very long time. The Maga movement is about angry people taking back power. Another

main premise making the world more fair for anyone. Then you have the prisoners in the musical singing look down, look down, You're here until you die. All right. Now you're talking about people of the left looking at ice picking up. For example, remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was picked up, sent to that prison in Venezuela without due process, just picking them up, and that's the prisoner singing, look down, look down, You're here until you die. Wow. And others

on the right. We'll talk about defendants in the January sixth attack on the Capitol singing the Star Spangled banner, looked down, look down, You're here until you die. When they were convicted wrongly, and if you remember, they sang the spangled banner in prison and Trump used it at a rally when he declared those defendants who were convicted all patriots, and it was a peaceful demonstration that were

just snailed. Then you have Fontine, right, the little lead that she's forced to give up her child or get sick. Some people think of Trump's big tax bill, the Congressional Budget Office estimates are going to shift resources with eight point six million people losing access to healthcare. The anthem that the students sing, Now, this is not about the French Revolution, which a lot of people think. It's an anti monarchist, anti king student uprising in Paris in eighteen

thirty two. And anthem do you hear the people sing? Well, that's been borrowed by protest groups and Belarus, Philippines, Turkey, South Korea. And I'm going to end with my absolute favorite quote so far of the administration in Donald Trump. Okay, and for those of you that are Maga followers, please please defend this if you will, Okay, because this one is now, this is just fun. There are no politics here.

This is pure entertainment. Stephen Chung, Whitehouse Communication Director, said, and I quote President Trump is a virtuoso, and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels. There is no one more qualified, more uniquely qualified to bring this country and it's rich history of the arts back to prominence. A virtue virtuoso. Oh, that's just delicious. No politics there, just absolute fun and hilarity. All right. Coming up the organ

donors who shouldn't have been organ donors. And I'm going to share this with you and a personal story, not my personal story, Neil's personal story being the recipient of an organ from an organ donor. I'll be back the story you don't want to miss Thursday morning, June twelfth. Some of the stories we are falling. An Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed right after takeoff in a northwestern city in India, just a minute after taking off.

No known survivors, I mean exploded in a fireball, and you wouldn't think there were survivors. Now, there's a story that came out of the New York Times, and I immediately thought of Neil. Four years ago, there was a Kentucky man that, as he was about to be removed from life support so his organs could be donated, cried, pulled his legs to his checks, shook his head and

they were still moving forward to remove his organs. Now, this is Kentucky, and of course federal investigation kicked in immediately. And this was I mean very rare, but hey, federal investigation founded officials at a nonprofit in charge of coordinating organ donations in Kentucky. This is the way it works in all fifty states ignored signs of growing alertness, and

not only in that patient, but in dozens of others. Now, that is one of the fears that there's a real issue, because especially in the issue of can organs be paid for? For example, if someone poor, can they sell their organs? And the fear that there's gonna be a lot of pressure to donate organs one be donation to sell organs. And so in this case, there was a lot of pressure anyway to move forward with the organ donation and

had no business doing it. Three hundred and fifty cases in Kentucky over the past four years, plans to remove organs were canceled. Ultimately in seventy three instances, the officials of this organ donation should have stopped sooner because the patients actually had improving levels of consciousness. They could prove the patient was improving. Now, most of those patients were in real trouble medically anyways, and they died. And this and the reason that this is happening, it's not because

of brain death. Once your brain debt. Your brain debt, that's you don't come back from that. But this is donation after circulatory death. Huh. And if family members agree to the donation, employees of this nonprofit call a procurement organization. They begin testing and then lining up surgeons and recipients. And it's a very very big deal and every state has at least one of these. And then the patient

is taken in the operating room. Hospital workers withdraw life support and just sit there and wait, and if the patient dies within an hour or two, the organs are considered viable, and if not, they are not. So this is where people had no business donating organs or were forced to donate organs. Now comes Neil Neil, recipient of a kidney where just before the surgery, the young lady before she was put under, started screaming, I've changed my mind.

She had sellers remorse, no, no, don't, I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it, and they went forward anyway, Neil.

being brain dead. It's a horrific story and the family to their credit immediately at her death or upon the termination that she was brain dead and was on life support, said to the hospital authorities that she wanted She was always in favor of organ donation and wanted to donate her organs, which ended up happening. There were some liver issues involved those organs weren't going, but the heart and the lungs and the pancreas and the bones and the

eyeballs which they use. And the family went to said to the hospital, we want to donate her organs. They said, wow, very few people just up and are in favor of this immediately. Usually it takes the hospital has to talk people family members into it, because there you have a person who is alive, who's on life support, and it's kind of hard to accept that this person is actually dead. And I thought it was really interesting that the hospital

was surprised. Also. We talked to Jim Keeney, and as you have the patient who is now dead, brain dead, going into an operating room to donate the organs, there is as the leurney goes past, everybody in the hospital lines up and it's basically a walk of honor, even though they're being rolled where the hospital staff appreciates that this family, that this person and the family are taking this horrific incident and are going to save people's lives

with it. I am a huge fan of organ donation and I have been an organ donor for well four years, decades and decades, and a lot of people are very upset that I haven't yet to donate an organ because they wanted it to happen much much sooner.