Players kneeled before the National Anthem to protest systemic racism on Major League Baseball s opening night, and Anthony Fauci throws out a first pitch and makes sure nobody catches it. Here's what I want: I want more politics in sports, and I'm tired of all of the apolitical mumbo jumbo where we all sort of get together and just have a good time and don't focus in on all the things that divide us. I need every single player to mouth platitudes about America and how much America sucks. And if they don't, I'm not gonna watch the game. I'm gonna suggest that they are just not socially conscious, and if anyone else says to me, "You know, I just want sports to be apolitical, I know they're lying." Because just by saying they're "being political," they're being political, don't you see? I want everything to be political. I want to know what Yohan Mankata thinks about the payroll tax, I need to know it before the game starts. And because he has two separate positions on the field, and because he's two separate policy platforms as well. And I need them to add exactly the tone and tenor that I like. That's the way life is going to get better in this United States. We cannot have any sort of common areas that are apolitical because if we do, then we refuse to acknowledge the evils that go along us, that go on around us. And particularly, I pledge to buy HVAC parts from CEOs who agree with me politically. I am only. I'll be served by baristas who agree I like me politically, right here in the restaurant where I'm served by CEOs who think I'm a little bit better than you. Get protected at Expressvpn! Ben Shapiro Show: Stop Putting Your Online Data at Risk: Get Protected at ExpressVpn on- Get Protected at ExpressVPN at Parcast: Parcast - The Parcast Protect Your Data at Protect Your Online Privacy: Get Safe, Not Safe, Protect Your Privacy, Get Protect, Not Just Safe, Get Safe Online: The Ben Shapiro's Show on the Parcast Show: The Real You'll Never Know Where I'll Find Me On The Realest Thing I Can Help Me Protect My Most Powerful Podcast: The Most Powerful People in the Most Powerful 3rd Party in the World? Subscribe To My Side Podcast: Subscribe To The Real World Podcast:
00:00:00.000Players kneel before the national anthem to protest systemic racism on Major League Baseball's opening night, the Washington Redskins become the Washington football team, and Anthony Fauci throws out a first pitch and makes sure that nobody catches anything.
00:01:09.000I'm tired of all of this apolitical mumbo jumbo where we all sort of get together and just have a good time and don't focus in on all the things that divide us.
00:01:16.000Now, I need everything to be divisive.
00:01:18.000I want every single thing to divide Americans.
00:02:19.000I am only, I pledge right here, right now, I am only going to buy HVAC parts from CEOs who agree with me politically.
00:02:27.000I am only going to be served by baristas who mouth the slogans that I like.
00:02:33.000If somebody doesn't shout at me, silence is violence, while handing me my chips and fish, I am simply not going to take it.
00:02:40.000I'm going to slam that right down on the table and walk out of the restaurant.
00:02:43.000That is the way life is going to get better in this United States.
00:02:46.000We cannot have any sort of common areas that are apolitical, because if we do, then we refuse to acknowledge the evils that go along, that go on around us.
00:02:54.000Every area of American life must be infused with the nastiness and polarization of American politics.
00:03:00.000And particularly, I want everybody to mouth the slogan that America sucks while simultaneously taking part in some of the most lucrative businesses that the world has to offer.
00:03:09.000That's what the people I want to hear from most are the people who are the most privileged in our society.
00:03:14.000I need to hear from people who earn millions and millions of dollars.
00:03:18.000I'm desperate to hear from people who earn millions of dollars about how they are victimized in American society and how American society innately victimizes people who are members of their group.
00:03:30.000And when I turn on baseball, I don't care so much about whether somebody can throw 100 miles an hour or can hit the curve.
00:03:36.000What I really care deeply about This is what Aaron Judge thinks about everything, everything ranging from America's China policy to how exactly we handle restructuring of Social Security.
00:04:02.000We can't just in the middle of a pandemic, you know, be distracted by sport, you know, like the war during World War Two when it was considered kind of important to have sports be there as a distraction for the American public because we were doing important things at the same time.
00:04:13.000No, they got it all wrong during World War II.
00:04:16.000We didn't need Major League Baseball to just exist so that we could all be distracted and look at the box scores.
00:04:22.000What we really needed is for Major League Baseball to be extraordinarily political in every possible way.
00:04:29.000We don't need sports as a distraction.
00:04:34.000It's all one giant Agglomeration of anger and rage.
00:04:39.000And that makes America better, I feel like.
00:04:41.000I feel like every time I have a conversation with someone I disagree with, we shouldn't be able to talk sports so that we can sort of distract ourselves and remind ourselves what we have in common as human beings.
00:04:49.000Instead, we should really just, you know, club each other over the head about politics.
00:04:55.000I felt so much better about America knowing that extraordinarily rich baseball players were kneeling to protest at America's systemic racism.
00:05:04.000I felt, I don't know about you, I felt great about it.
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00:06:20.000So again, I was very pumped about the opening of the baseball season.
00:06:24.000It wasn't weird enough that we have no fans in the stands, which by the way, is strange.
00:06:28.000Like, why can't we socially distance the fans?
00:06:53.000And then I got even more pumped because I realized not only was I going to get baseball, I was going to get social justice warrior messaging with my baseball, which is what I crave.
00:07:03.000We're already getting it with basketball and with football, as we'll get to in just a moment.
00:07:06.000But to get it with baseball, which is my personal favorite sport, I loved it every single second.
00:07:13.000So last night, the Yankees and the Nationals kick off the MLB season in an empty stadium.
00:07:19.000And they kick off the season by kneeling, not for the National Anthem, but before the National Anthem, while holding a very, very, very, very, very, very, very long black cloth, which has solved all of our problems, Mirka.
00:07:37.000The vaguest, most weasel word Weasel phrase used in American politics today, it means virtually nothing.
00:07:45.000As John McWhorter has said, as Glenn Lowry has said, the term systemic racism has very, very little meaning.
00:07:51.000It's deliberately designed, Glenn Lowry, the professor at Brown University, who happens to be black, he pointed out in my program yesterday, that the term systemic racism is basically just a way to silence debate.
00:08:02.000Because by saying systemic racism, you now suggest that anyone who disagrees with your take is in fact a racist.
00:08:07.000So, all the players, who by the way are disproportionately of color, I mean, the MLB is not disproportionately black, but it is disproportionately Hispanic and Latino.
00:08:16.000The MLB, you have all these people who are earning millions of dollars to hit and throw a baseball, kneeling for the systemic racism of the United States, which is always wonderful.
00:08:24.000They knelt for it, and they played a beautiful video from Morgan Freeman, a social justice catechism, right before the game.
00:08:31.000And frankly, I'm looking forward to the seventh inning kneel.
00:08:33.000I think that'll be the new aspect of Major League Baseball.
00:09:57.000Okay, empathy is actually kind of bad for politics.
00:09:58.000The reason that empathy is bad for politics is because it leads you to empathize with people that you are more likely to like, as opposed to people you don't like.
00:10:05.000Okay, so first of all, the pitch for empathy is actually, there have been several books that are written on this, social science books, talking about how empathy is not actually The best thing for politics.
00:10:17.000It actually almost deactivates the reasoning centers of your brain because when you're empathetic, you don't actually create good policy.
00:10:22.000This doesn't mean that feeling sympathy for people is a bad thing.
00:10:25.000It means that if empathy is what drives your policymaking, you're probably not acting in a rational fashion.
00:10:30.000But the real goal here is, of course, not to generate empathy.
00:10:33.000The real goal here is to suggest that if you disagree with the idea that America is systemically and institutionally racist, you are not an empathetic person and therefore you're a bad, cruel and callous person.
00:10:44.000The idea is that empathy is really about, it's really a moral statement about what kind of good person you are.
00:10:51.000And you can't watch baseball until you say it along with Morgan Freeman.
00:11:07.000I think that every player has a right to speak just like every other American.
00:11:09.000I think also their words should be taken with exactly the same amount of seriousness that their expertise on the subjects dictates.
00:11:16.000So, when it comes to actually hitting a curveball, the actual art of hitting a curveball, I'm not an expert on that.
00:11:21.000And when I sound off about it, you should take it with a grain of salt.
00:11:24.000I flamed out as a baseball player at age 12.
00:11:27.000But when I talk about, you know, systemic racism in the United States, its meaning, economic inequality, things that I've actually spent years studying, then probably you should take it a little bit differently than a baseball player who spends zero time studying it, but knows that they're supposed to kneel for the Morgan Freeman social justice invocation before a baseball game.
00:11:48.000We don't have to take everybody's opinion with the same amount of seriousness, but we are now being dictated to really by the corporation that is MLB.
00:11:57.000So some of the players are doing this kind of stuff and you take them with about as much seriousness as they deserve.
00:12:00.000What's actually happening right now is that the major corporations have decided, just like all major corporations across America, that if they virtue signal in incredibly vague fashion about things that social justice warriors want, then they can buy off the social justice warriors.
00:12:21.000It's the same reason you see so many corporations across the United States paying Rob and D'Angelo to educate their people on diversity.
00:12:28.000They don't actually care what Robin DiAngelo has to say.
00:12:30.000They're just trying to limit their liability.
00:12:31.000It's the exact same thing with regard to these major sporting events and teams and corporations.
00:12:37.000Their goal is to avoid public blowback.
00:12:39.000They don't want to be called out for not being empathetic enough.
00:12:42.000So if instead they quote-unquote lead the charge by saying incredibly vague things with no actual commitment to do a thing, With no actual prescription?
00:12:49.000Well, then they've fulfilled their pledge.
00:12:51.000They've been shamed into repeating and believing.
00:12:55.000And this is why you see the Boston Red Sox unveiled a giant Black Lives Matter logo at Fenway Park yesterday.
00:13:09.000Again, the basic idea that Black Lives Matter is utterly uncontroversial.
00:13:13.000The group Black Lives Matter is a neo-Marxist organization.
00:13:16.000The semantic overload that has been placed on the phrase Black Lives Matter is deliberate.
00:13:22.000When folks in the Black Lives Matter movement say they want to tear down the entire structural system of the United States, they are not lying about that.
00:13:29.000And then the idea is if you say, well, I don't agree with that, then you must not agree Black Lives Matter.
00:13:33.000It's all semantic overload game playing.
00:13:37.000Do you actually believe that the Red Sox believe the entire system has to be torn down in Ibram Kendi and how to be an anti-racist fashion?
00:14:11.000The system of the United States is built around the notion of equal rights.
00:14:15.000We're not talking about the history of the failure of application of that principle.
00:14:19.000We're talking about right now in 2020.
00:14:21.000America is not a systemically racist country.
00:14:24.000The presence of inequality does not mean that all disparity is discrimination.
00:14:29.000So I have problems with the basic premise that everybody's supposed to kneel for systemic racism, especially when the case that's being used, even the George Floyd case, that is not evidence of systemic racism.
00:15:14.000And Mookie Betts is kneeling for the Nation- He knelt for the National Anthem.
00:15:18.000He just, by the way, signed a contract with the Dodgers worth $365 million!
00:15:24.000Listen, you can be rich, and you can still spot flaws in the United States, but if what you're saying is that the system of the United States is deeply broken, while you are currently kneeling for the national anthem, getting no blowback, and picking up 365 million bucks to boot?
00:15:43.000Hey, by the way, MLB is doing more than this, right?
00:15:44.000There's the corporate... I talk about the corporate virtue signaling.
00:15:46.000We'll get to what MLB is doing corporately in a second.
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00:17:51.000And if Black Lives Matter reflects the organization, it's even more political than that.
00:17:55.000But I've not seen any political messaging on the mound before.
00:17:58.000But apparently we are at an unprecedented point in crisis for black Americans, which is just anti every piece of data ever existent in human history.
00:18:06.000We are not at a point of existential threat for black Americans.
00:18:22.000There are a grand total, last year, according to the Washington Post, of 15 black men shot unarmed by the police.
00:18:28.000The majority of those cases is where the person was attempting to steal a weapon off a cop or was attempting to use another object in order to harm a cop, like driving a car or something.
00:18:37.000And by the way, in all the other cases, the cops were under investigation.
00:18:41.000And so, the entire idea That law enforcement is hunting down black people is just not true.
00:18:46.000Okay, but apparently it's a point of existential crisis, which is why every major corporation now has to infuse the stuff that was supposed to be distractions from politics in real life, right?
00:18:56.000We have to infuse all of that with these deeply and apparently universally upheld apolitical messages that happen to be very, very political.
00:19:05.000Okay, Sports Illustrated reports, MLB will debut a Black Lives Matter stencil on mounds across the league in its opening week, according to the Washington Nationals.
00:19:14.000The stencil will first appear on Thursday.
00:19:16.000The Nationals, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and will utilize the platform and National Stage of Opening Day to express support for the fight against systemic racism and injustice.
00:19:26.000It's all about America's systemic racism and injustice.
00:19:28.000And if you don't believe this, well, you're going to watch baseball and you're going to see it anyway, just like you see it when you watch the NBA and it's on the sidelines.
00:19:34.000MLB will also allow players to sport a social justice message on their jersey for opening day, according to ESPN's Howard Bryant.
00:19:40.000United for Change and BLM are among the approved phrases to be written on jersey patches, per Bryant.
00:19:45.000I also look forward to Unborn Lives Matter.
00:20:14.000And I can also point out, I think it is bad for the country when every area of American life becomes overtly political and you are forced to take a position on deeply controversial issues.
00:20:24.000And you're supposed to actually not even take a position.
00:20:26.000You're supposed to acknowledge and repeat that America is a systemically racist country in order to watch a damned baseball game.
00:20:34.000And by the way, this is of course the going message of the NBA as well.
00:20:37.000They've put Black Lives Matter on the side of the court.
00:20:39.000So if you watch a basketball game, now you're going to be messaged too by people who suggest that America is systemically racist in a league that is 80% black and where the average salary is millions of dollars.
00:20:48.000Now again, none of this is to fail to recognize that problems still exist in the United States.
00:21:16.000He actually said it's not a movement because there has been no movement for black people in America.
00:21:20.000LeBron James, one of the richest black men on planet Earth, Who grew up in apparently pretty impoverished circumstances and has risen to become not only one of the most powerful voices in the country, but also one of the richest voices in the country.
00:21:33.000Apparently there's been no black movement.
00:21:34.000No movement for black Americans, according to LeBron James.
00:22:20.000Weird, because if there hasn't been a movement for black Americans, I have been reliably informed by the New York Times that slavery was at the root of the American experiment.
00:22:30.000I've been reliably informed by every historic source in human history that black Americans used to be held as slaves, and then black Americans were kept in abject poverty and segregation for a hundred years.
00:22:42.000And now I have an extraordinarily powerful black man on my TV who earns hundreds of millions of dollars like a year through advertisement and all sorts of other venues.
00:22:52.000And by the way, he's done a lot of great charitable work, by the way, LeBron James.
00:22:55.000And I hear from him there's been no movement for black Americans.
00:23:02.000I feel like I'm not being fed a line that is true here.
00:23:05.000But again, if you refuse to acknowledge that that line is truth, if you refuse to suggest that America is a systemically racist country today, if you refuse to acknowledge, then of course you are unwoke.
00:23:15.000And by the way, if you point out that you think that this very fraught battle, the best place to fight that might not be on the field itself.
00:23:23.000If you want to have these conversations off the field, go for it, enjoy.
00:23:26.000But when I turn it into a baseball game, I actually won a baseball game, Then you are apparently unwoke and problematic and also very political.
00:23:33.000It's just as political to say you want to watch sports without politics as it is to say that every single player in the NBA and the MLB and the NFL ought to mirror the sentiment that America is a systemically racist country.
00:23:46.000This sort of stuff is designed to divide Americans.
00:23:48.000They're taking away all... They, and by they, I mean the corporations, I mean the social justice warriors, I mean the sports media, I mean many of the players.
00:23:55.000They're attempting to divide the country by specifically taking apolitical areas of American life and making them incredibly political.
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00:25:39.000All right, so other social justice warrior nonsense from the world of sports.
00:25:49.000It wasn't just that the term Redskins was offensive.
00:25:52.000Now again, there are polls that have been done over the past 10 years that shows the Native Americans did not care about this issue.
00:25:57.000There was a poll done about 7 years ago that showed 9 out of 10 Native Americans not only didn't care, they actually kind of thought that the name was cool because you had a bunch of people who were actually rooting for a team named after Native Americans.
00:26:08.000But the Washington Redskins were pressured, because of George Floyd or something, into removing the name.
00:27:02.000They're still going to use burgundy and gold.
00:27:05.000But apparently the rebranding process takes 12 to 18 months.
00:27:08.000And according to Terry Bateman, the franchise's new executive vice president and chief marketing officer, he says, if you want to do it right, you got to take a deep breath, take a step back, go through the process.
00:27:28.000By the way, in other politics and sports, Anthony Fauci threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals-New York Yankees opening day game.
00:28:12.000Here he is, throwing up, and there it goes, right down the first baseline.
00:28:17.000And fake crowd noise cheering that on.
00:28:18.000So Anthony Fauci, by the way, the reason that, it is incredible how Anthony Fauci has, we do, it seems like we keep doing this over and over because of Trump.
00:28:26.000People buying votive candles of Robert Mueller.
00:28:30.000If Fauci won't perceive to be at odds with Trump, would there be anybody who's worshipping Fauci at this point?
00:28:34.000You don't see Deborah Birx throwing out the first pitch, do you?
00:28:37.000Anybody who's actually serving in the administration is not worthy of throwing out the first pitch.
00:28:41.000Only when Fauci opened a gap between himself and Trump was there this feeling that Fauci was now national hero number one, again, to the point where he's throwing out first pitches.
00:28:51.000The good news is that Fauci ensured, once again, that nobody could catch anything.
00:28:55.000By the way, I'm wondering, Fauci's being celebrated as a national hero.
00:29:00.000Like, I'm glad that he served the country in a lot of ways, right?
00:31:22.000Again, the country is just getting better.
00:31:24.000Can't you feel the wokeness healing the country?
00:31:26.000Can't you feel the wokeness oozing out of the pores of America, covering us all up in a great A great, wondrous coating of protective joy and just binding the country together.
00:31:40.000I feel like we're doing so much better now, don't you?
00:31:42.000Everything's just way better right now.
00:31:44.000The Sierra Club, by the way, is apologizing for John Muir, so that's exciting too.
00:31:47.000Like, every aspect of SJW nonsense now has to be humored.
00:31:51.000The executive director of the Sierra Club apologized on Wednesday for the substantial role the group played in perpetuating white supremacy.
00:31:57.000They condemned John Muir for friendships and views he had.
00:32:00.000We're canceling John Muir now, so that's exciting stuff.
00:32:03.000That is because John Muir was friends with eugenicists and was kind of a racist.
00:32:13.000Sierra Club is now apologizing for John Muir.
00:32:15.000I guess we're going to rename the high schools.
00:32:17.000For all the harms the Sierra Club has caused and continues to cause to black people, indigenous people, and other people of color, I am deeply sorry.
00:32:25.000The cultural revolution continues apace.
00:32:28.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the situation in America's major cities, because there are real world things happening right now, and none of them are good.
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00:33:52.000Look, I think the culture wars are serious because I think that that's where a lot of the heavy lifting is done.
00:33:56.000If we have now made it that every corporation in America must mirror hard left social justice nonsense about systemic racism and bigotry?
00:34:03.000Then that does shift exactly how we live.
00:34:06.000But it also has real world consequences because it turns out that if you suggest America is systemically racist and that the police are the leading arm of the systemic racism movement, it turns out that you are more likely to want to get rid of the police, which does have some pretty significant real world consequences.
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00:36:11.000So there are real world consequences as it turns out to a lot of the BLM messaging.
00:36:22.000If you believe America is systemically racist, if you believe the police are systemically racist, the first best move is to get the cops out of heavily minority areas.
00:36:30.000When this happens, then areas with high crime, which unfortunately are heavily minority across the United States, immediately become more violent.
00:36:39.000Last night, a teenager was shot and killed in Minneapolis near 38th and Chicago Avenue, which is basically where George Floyd was murdered.
00:36:46.000This boy's death is according to Mike Tobin, who is a Fox News International correspondent.
00:36:50.000The boy's death marked Minneapolis's 38th homicide, more than doubling last year's total of 17.
00:36:53.000So in order to fight police brutality, they removed all the cops and twice as many people have been killed in Minneapolis as were last year.
00:37:02.000So apparently the legacy of Black Lives Matter in Minneapolis is the riots that hollowed out a lot of the industrial and commercial centers.
00:37:12.000A perpetual feeling of crime on the horizon and an increased murder rate.
00:37:17.000Seems like life is getting better in Minneapolis as a result of all of this.
00:37:19.000You can see the progress happening in real time.
00:37:25.000According to Ryan Saavedra over at Daily Wire, the Trump administration is having to send an elite tactical team to Seattle to serve as backup for the law enforcement officials already there after the Democrat-controlled city has failed to stop violent riots in recent days.
00:37:36.000The New York Times reports, the special response team is being deployed similar to the tactical teams currently operating in Portland.
00:37:42.000Agents from the Special Response Team, operated under U.S.
00:37:45.000Customs and Border Protection, are typically deployed for intense law enforcement operations similar to the agency's BORTEC group that is operated in Portland.
00:37:52.000The agents will be backing up the Federal Protective Service, which said in a statement, the CBP team will be on standby in the area should they be required.
00:38:01.000Over the weekend, violent rioters injured at least a dozen Seattle police officers and caused significant damages to numerous businesses and attacked multiple police stations.
00:38:08.000So things have been going great in Seattle.
00:38:10.000When the mayor calls off the police, shockingly, crime rises.
00:38:15.000So things have been going great in Seattle.
00:38:18.000Things actually went so great in Chicago that the Chicago mayor Actually signed an agreement with President Trump to increase the federal footprint in Chicago.
00:38:27.000Remember when she was saying that it was basically the feds terrorizing Chicago?
00:38:31.000Well, Lori Lightfoot at the same time was negotiating an agreement with the feds to bring in more resources.
00:38:37.000Apparently, according to Daily Wire, President Donald Trump reportedly phoned Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday night to hash out details of a surge of 200 federal agents designed to help Chicago officials control a dramatic uptick in gun violence that has taken place in the city since the end of May.
00:38:51.000The Chicago Sun-Times reports the pair spoke about an agreement to send 200 federal agents, mostly from the FBI, ATF, U.S.
00:38:57.000Marshals, and DEA, to assist the Chicago PD in handling crime in a number of target neighborhoods racked by recent gang activity.
00:39:04.000Lightfoot fought federal assistance, but after a gang-related mass shooting outside of a funeral home left 15 mourners wounded Tuesday night, Lightfoot seemed somewhat more open to the idea of receiving federal assistance.
00:39:14.000So now, the Sun-Times says, Trump and Lightfoot are in agreement over the strategy of sending in agents to plug into existing operations.
00:39:20.000So in other words, it was all for show.
00:39:22.000Lori Lightfoot is perfectly happy to accept federal agents in her town.
00:39:25.000She just doesn't want to say that out loud because Trump.
00:39:28.000Which is demonstrative of the fact that everyone right, left, and center knows the only way to stop criminal activity is with law enforcement, but we're going to lie about it to pretend that America is systemically racist.
00:39:52.000You still can't visit grandma in the hospital, but we can have these mass protests in close proximity with a lot of people not wearing masks.
00:40:35.000So they removed the Christopher Columbus statue from the city park just, by the way, a few days after there were near riots there that injured a bunch of police officers.
00:40:43.000According to The Hill, crews came around 1 a.m.
00:40:45.000A few dozen people cheered when the statue came down a few hours later, not clear where the statue is going to be taken.
00:40:50.000Because Western civilization arriving in the Western Hemisphere was apparently a very bad thing.
00:40:56.000The move is a reversal from Lightfoot, who initially opposed taking down the statue on the grounds it would erase the history of the Italian explorer.
00:41:02.000She's rejected calls to rename Columbus Day holiday.
00:41:04.000That rejection will last approximately another 7.2 seconds.
00:41:21.000Meanwhile, in Portland, the situation continues to unravel.
00:41:24.000Continued rioting last night because it was a night ending in Y.
00:41:28.000Meanwhile, Portland mayor, Ted Wheeler, who's being called a fascist by the people he was allowing to riot and loot, went on CNN and said that the problem here is, of course, you wait for it, wait for it, wait.
00:42:08.000He's creating the chaos in democratically controlled cities so, ironically, he can point to the chaos and then say, look, those democratically controlled cities are in chaos and I, and only I, can stop the chaos.
00:42:23.000I think this is abhorrent and it's a clear political stunt.
00:43:20.000So, everything is going really well, but the important thing is that we have put up banners that say Black Lives Matter everywhere, and we have emboldened people who wish to defund the police, increasing violence.
00:43:38.000If you just want to watch a sporting event without being clubbed over the head with a brand of left-wing politics that castigates America as evil, what's wrong with you?
00:43:46.000It's by making it more violent, more polarized, more divided, by suggesting our fellow Americans are all racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and that the entire American system, which has built unprecedented wealth, prosperity, tolerance, and freedom, that that system needs to be torn down to the shreds.
00:44:04.000Meanwhile, COVID continues to surge across the country.
00:44:07.000Now, there's some misinformation that's being put out there about the COVID surge that is currently happening.
00:44:12.000I think that this misinformation, it's pretty stunning that it's coming from Dr. Deborah Birx, who's been pretty accurate about this stuff.
00:44:17.000So yesterday, Dr. Birx suggested the surge across the country is three New Yorks.
00:45:51.000Okay, by the way, I am amused and bemused by the media coverage suggesting that, of course, the bad guys here are Ron DeSantis in Florida, Greg Abbott in Texas, and Doug Ducey in Arizona, completely ignoring the fact that your coronavirus leader in the clubhouse right now among states is California, which is now engaged in a second lockdown, which is exciting stuff.
00:46:09.000Gavin Newsom somehow has escaped all of the blowback that all of the Republicans are getting.
00:46:48.000Spain admits coronavirus second wave may be underway as UK air bridge could be axed and France threatens to close the border.
00:46:56.000There was 971 new cases yesterday, 241 more than the previous day, a record since the end of the country's state of emergency.
00:47:02.000You can't just look at the raw numbers, by the way.
00:47:03.000The United States has many, many more tests than any other country on a raw level.
00:47:07.000So what you really have to look at is the directionality.
00:47:10.000The UK Sun revealed the surge could lead to the collapse of an air bridge between the UK and Spain, meaning British tourists could be forced to quarantine upon their return home.
00:47:18.000And Spain and France are closing their own borders to each other.
00:47:23.000Meanwhile, France is experiencing its own second wave.
00:47:26.000According to the UK Express, France is having a second wave and Emmanuel Macron is panicked as coronavirus outbreaks hit a dreaded milestone.
00:47:33.000On Wednesday, France's health ministry said a further 998 new confirmed COVID-19 cases had been recorded over the past 24 hours, heightening concerns about new flare-ups of the epidemic.
00:47:43.000Fears of a second wave have increased after the Directorate General of Health warned the circulation of the virus is increasing after France recorded 208 currently active coronavirus outbreaks on Tuesday.
00:47:54.000Also, by the way, Japan experiencing a second wave.
00:47:57.000According to France24.com, Japan saw a record 366 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the capital on Thursday.
00:48:05.000France24 correspondent Michael Penn says the national government seems to be prioritizing economic concerns by opening up the country, but Tokyo's governor is urging people to exercise caution and stay indoors.
00:48:14.000None of this is to say that any of these countries are wildly mishandling this thing.
00:48:18.000But when you see the same pattern everywhere, which is just giant spike and then it recedes and then you're seeing the second wave start to begin, you have to start to say nobody has a great handle on this thing.
00:48:27.000And Paul Krugman has an idiotic column at the New York Times saying, why can't we handle this the way Italy handled it?
00:48:31.000Italy has a higher death per million rate than the United States.
00:48:34.000I've seen the same thing said about countries like the UK.
00:48:36.000The one you're never allowed to mention, of course, is Sweden.
00:48:38.000Sweden has a higher death per million rate than the United States.
00:48:41.000But right now, they're experiencing virtually no death.
00:50:05.000He says that if you're a bar and you sell buffalo wings, buffalo wings are not sufficient for you to call yourself a food serving establishment.
00:50:17.000We now have an official New York government ruling on hot dogs according to the New York State Liquor Authority guidance.
00:50:23.000If you operate a restaurant or bar and you understand that you must serve sandwiches, soups, or other foods when a patron orders an alcoholic beverage, other foods are foods which are similar in quality and substance to sandwiches and soups.
00:50:33.000For example, salads, wings, or hot dogs would be of that quality and substance.
00:50:37.000However, a bag of chips, bowl of nuts, or candy alone To be a bar, you had to have food available.
00:50:42.000that is similar in quality and substance as a hot dog to a sandwich.
00:50:45.000So the question has been answered, but Andrew Cuomo says even that is not sufficient.
00:50:48.000Now he's making a distinction between wings and sandwiches.
00:50:51.000Here's Andrew Cuomo, great expert, explaining based on the science that buffalo wings are different than sandwiches in terms of nutritional content.
00:51:00.000To be a bar, you had to have food available, soups, sandwiches, et cetera.
00:51:07.000More than just hors d'oeuvres, chicken wings.
00:51:12.000You had to have some substantive food.
00:51:15.000The lowest level of substantive food were sandwiches.
00:51:19.000That was the lowest level, but it had to be more.
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