The Ben Shapiro Show - Major League Wokeness | Ep. 1059

00:00:00.000 Players 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.

00:00:12.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:26.000 Well, you know, I learned my lesson a few weeks ago.

00:00:29.000 I suggested that when I watch sports, I actually like to watch sports.

00:00:31.000 I know that sports are supposed to be a distraction from everyday life.

00:00:34.000 That's what the goal of sports is.

00:00:36.000 In fact, my friend Clay Travis, who hosts over at Outkick the coverage and over at Fox Sports, he pointed out on this show.

00:00:44.000 That the word sport comes from disport.

00:00:46.000 The word disport, which comes originally from Anglo-French, which used to mean divert or to amuse.

00:00:53.000 Literally, it meant in Old French to carry away the mind from serious matters.

00:00:57.000 That's what sport was.

00:00:58.000 Sport was a distraction.

00:00:59.000 No longer.

00:01:00.000 We have entered a new woke world.

00:01:03.000 And frankly, I'm really excited about it because here is what I want.

00:01:05.000 Here's what I want.

00:01:06.000 I want more politics in sports.

00:01:07.000 I've decided the time has come.

00:01:09.000 I'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.

00:01:16.000 Now, I need everything to be divisive.

00:01:18.000 I want every single thing to divide Americans.

00:01:20.000 I want to turn on a baseball game.

00:01:22.000 And the first thing I want to see is I want to see political platforms laid forth by every single player.

00:01:27.000 I need to know.

00:01:29.000 What Yohan Mankata, the second baseman for the Chicago White Sox, I need to know what he, second and third baseman, trades off positions.

00:01:36.000 And because he has two separate positions on the field, I need two separate policy platforms as well.

00:01:41.000 I need to know what Yohan Mankata thinks about the payroll tax.

00:01:44.000 I need to know it.

00:01:45.000 And if I don't know it before the game starts, I'm just not going to watch the game. 0.95

00:01:48.000 More than that, I need every single player to mouth platitudes about America and how much America sucks.

00:01:54.000 I need them to add exactly the tone and tenor that I like.

00:01:57.000 And if they don't, I'm not gonna engage.

00:01:59.000 I'm just not gonna watch.

00:02:00.000 I'm gonna be so angry.

00:02:01.000 I'm gonna suggest that they are just not socially conscious.

00:02:04.000 And if anyone else says to me, you know, I just want sports to be apolitical, I know they're lying.

00:02:08.000 I know they're lying.

00:02:09.000 Because just by saying they want sports to be apolitical, they're being political, don't you see?

00:02:14.000 Right, that isn't the national anthem political, isn't the flag, isn't everything political?

00:02:18.000 I want everything to be political.

00:02:19.000 I am only, I pledge right here, right now, I am only going to buy HVAC parts from CEOs who agree with me politically.

00:02:27.000 I am only going to be served by baristas who mouth the slogans that I like.

00:02:33.000 If somebody doesn't shout at me, silence is violence, while handing me my chips and fish, I am simply not going to take it.

00:02:40.000 I'm going to slam that right down on the table and walk out of the restaurant.

00:02:43.000 That is the way life is going to get better in this United States.

00:02:46.000 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, that go on around us.

00:02:54.000 Every area of American life must be infused with the nastiness and polarization of American politics.

00:03:00.000 And 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.

00:03:09.000 That's what the people I want to hear from most are the people who are the most privileged in our society.

00:03:14.000 I need to hear from people who earn millions and millions of dollars.

00:03:18.000 I want to.

00:03:18.000 I'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.

00:03:27.000 I definitely need to hear about that.

00:03:28.000 I want it.

00:03:29.000 You want it.

00:03:29.000 We all want it.

00:03:30.000 And 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.

00:03:36.000 What 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.

00:03:49.000 I need to know about it.

00:03:50.000 I do.

00:03:51.000 OK, and so I was super happy with Major League Baseball's opening day.

00:03:54.000 I mean, I was just pumped about this because they finally got the message.

00:03:57.000 We finally rammed home the message, guys.

00:03:59.000 Every single thing has to be political.

00:04:01.000 Every single thing.

00:04:02.000 We 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.

00:04:13.000 No, they got it all wrong during World War II.

00:04:16.000 We didn't need Major League Baseball to just exist so that we could all be distracted and look at the box scores.

00:04:22.000 What we really needed is for Major League Baseball to be extraordinarily political in every possible way.

00:04:29.000 We don't need sports as a distraction.

00:04:30.000 It's no longer just sports.

00:04:31.000 Sports is politics.

00:04:33.000 Politics is sports.

00:04:34.000 It's all one giant Agglomeration of anger and rage.

00:04:39.000 And that makes America better, I feel like.

00:04:41.000 I 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.

00:04:49.000 Instead, we should really just, you know, club each other over the head about politics.

00:04:53.000 It's made the world better.

00:04:54.000 That's how I felt on opening day.

00:04:55.000 I felt so much better about America knowing that extraordinarily rich baseball players were kneeling to protest at America's systemic racism.

00:05:04.000 I felt, I don't know about you, I felt great about it.

00:05:06.000 Great.

00:05:07.000 It was good stuff.

00:05:08.000 We'll get to this in just one second.

00:05:10.000 The wonders of watching a sport turns into basically just MSNBC.

00:05:14.000 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:06:20.000 So again, I was very pumped about the opening of the baseball season.

00:06:24.000 It wasn't weird enough that we have no fans in the stands, which by the way, is strange.

00:06:28.000 Like, why can't we socially distance the fans?

00:06:29.000 They have these giant stadiums.

00:06:31.000 Why exactly should we not be able to socially distance any of the fans?

00:06:34.000 But, apparently, we're not going to.

00:06:36.000 Instead, we're just going to have these weird, empty stadiums, which makes baseball seem like golf.

00:06:39.000 But, okay.

00:06:40.000 Okay, I'm just glad that we're getting back to sport.

00:06:42.000 I mean, listen, I'm an MLB TV subscriber.

00:06:45.000 I love baseball.

00:06:46.000 It is my sport.

00:06:47.000 My White Sox are going to be really interesting this shortened season.

00:06:49.000 They have a bunch of young, up-and-coming players.

00:06:52.000 I was pretty pumped.

00:06:53.000 And 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.

00:07:02.000 It's what everybody craves.

00:07:03.000 We're already getting it with basketball and with football, as we'll get to in just a moment.

00:07:06.000 But to get it with baseball, which is my personal favorite sport, I loved it every single second.

00:07:13.000 So last night, the Yankees and the Nationals kick off the MLB season in an empty stadium.

00:07:19.000 And 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.

00:07:32.000 Amazing.

00:07:33.000 They all knelt.

00:07:34.000 Now, why were they kneeling?

00:07:34.000 They were kneeling to protest systemic racism.

00:07:37.000 Systemic racism.

00:07:37.000 The vaguest, most weasel word Weasel phrase used in American politics today, it means virtually nothing.

00:07:45.000 As John McWhorter has said, as Glenn Lowry has said, the term systemic racism has very, very little meaning.

00:07:51.000 It'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.

00:08:02.000 Because by saying systemic racism, you now suggest that anyone who disagrees with your take is in fact a racist.

00:08:07.000 So, 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.

00:08:16.000 The 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.

00:08:24.000 They knelt for it, and they played a beautiful video from Morgan Freeman, a social justice catechism, right before the game.

00:08:31.000 And frankly, I'm looking forward to the seventh inning kneel.

00:08:33.000 I think that'll be the new aspect of Major League Baseball.

00:08:36.000 That's really exciting.

00:08:36.000 Instead of standing for the national anthem, I think we should kind of just sit for it, generally.

00:08:41.000 And also, mostly for the 7th inning stretch, we need... 7th inning stretch is not woke enough.

00:08:46.000 I'm sorry.

00:08:46.000 It's snacks of privilege.

00:08:48.000 You even have time to stretch?

00:08:49.000 How many people around America cannot stretch today because of income inequality?

00:08:54.000 How many people around America are forced not to stretch?

00:08:57.000 Stretching is for white people because yoga is a white people thing. 0.81

00:09:00.000 Okay, no more 7th inning stretch. 0.77

00:09:02.000 We need to stop the 7th inning stretch.

00:09:03.000 Instead, we need to play Donald Glover's This is America, and everybody needs to kneel.

00:09:09.000 It's the seventh inning kneel.

00:09:10.000 That's what we need from now on.

00:09:12.000 Okay, so Morgan Freeman led off the season with a bizarre, meaningless video about empathy.

00:09:18.000 Because, of course, the implication is that if you disagree with kneeling for America's systemic racism, you're not empathetic.

00:09:24.000 Right, that is the goal of this particular video.

00:09:29.000 Empathy must lead the charge.

00:09:34.000 This moment signifies our choice, our brotherhood, our unity.

00:09:40.000 Equality and unity cannot be until there is empathy.

00:09:45.000 Today and every day, we come together as brothers, as equals, all with the same goal, to level the playing field.

00:09:55.000 Okay, there's only one problem.

00:09:57.000 Okay, empathy is actually kind of bad for politics.

00:09:58.000 The 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.

00:10:05.000 Okay, 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.

00:10:17.000 It actually almost deactivates the reasoning centers of your brain because when you're empathetic, you don't actually create good policy.

00:10:22.000 This doesn't mean that feeling sympathy for people is a bad thing.

00:10:25.000 It means that if empathy is what drives your policymaking, you're probably not acting in a rational fashion.

00:10:30.000 But the real goal here is, of course, not to generate empathy.

00:10:33.000 The 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.

00:10:44.000 The idea is that empathy is really about, it's really a moral statement about what kind of good person you are.

00:10:51.000 And you can't watch baseball until you say it along with Morgan Freeman.

00:10:54.000 You can't.

00:10:54.000 You can't just watch a game and be distracted, which is the goal of sports.

00:10:58.000 Now listen, none of this is to say, obviously I'm being incredibly sarcastic.

00:11:02.000 None of this is to say that players don't have a right to speak.

00:11:06.000 They do.

00:11:07.000 I think that every player has a right to speak just like every other American.

00:11:09.000 I think also their words should be taken with exactly the same amount of seriousness that their expertise on the subjects dictates.

00:11:16.000 So, when it comes to actually hitting a curveball, the actual art of hitting a curveball, I'm not an expert on that.

00:11:21.000 And when I sound off about it, you should take it with a grain of salt.

00:11:24.000 I flamed out as a baseball player at age 12.

00:11:27.000 But 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.

00:11:48.000 We 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.

00:11:55.000 It's not really the players.

00:11:57.000 So some of the players are doing this kind of stuff and you take them with about as much seriousness as they deserve.

00:12:00.000 What'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.

00:12:12.000 That's really the goal.

00:12:14.000 The goal here is not about forwarding any particular good in the United States.

00:12:18.000 The goal is avoiding the blowback.

00:12:21.000 It's the same reason you see so many corporations across the United States paying Rob and D'Angelo to educate their people on diversity.

00:12:28.000 They don't actually care what Robin DiAngelo has to say.

00:12:30.000 They're just trying to limit their liability.

00:12:31.000 It's the exact same thing with regard to these major sporting events and teams and corporations.

00:12:37.000 Their goal is to avoid public blowback.

00:12:39.000 They don't want to be called out for not being empathetic enough.

00:12:42.000 So 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?

00:12:49.000 Well, then they've fulfilled their pledge.

00:12:51.000 They've been shamed into repeating and believing.

00:12:55.000 And this is why you see the Boston Red Sox unveiled a giant Black Lives Matter logo at Fenway Park yesterday.

00:13:02.000 I mean, enormous.

00:13:04.000 Right outside Fenway Park.

00:13:06.000 Really, just perfect.

00:13:08.000 Perfect.

00:13:09.000 Again, the basic idea that Black Lives Matter is utterly uncontroversial.

00:13:13.000 The group Black Lives Matter is a neo-Marxist organization.

00:13:16.000 The semantic overload that has been placed on the phrase Black Lives Matter is deliberate.

00:13:22.000 When 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. 0.98

00:13:29.000 And then the idea is if you say, well, I don't agree with that, then you must not agree Black Lives Matter.

00:13:33.000 It's all semantic overload game playing.

00:13:36.000 So the Red Sox are engaging in this.

00:13:37.000 Do 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?

00:13:43.000 Do you believe that?

00:13:44.000 I don't believe that.

00:13:46.000 This is just woke virtue signaling so that people will say, oh, look at the Red Sox, look how much they care.

00:13:50.000 It's about the empathy and the feelings.

00:13:53.000 And so at least, I will say this, at least the Yankees and the Nationals didn't kneel for the national anthem, right?

00:13:58.000 They knelt before. 0.99

00:13:59.000 So kneeling for systemic racism is stupid because America is not systemically racist. 1.00

00:14:03.000 It isn't. 0.99

00:14:03.000 America is one of the most tolerant countries on the planet. 0.99

00:14:06.000 Black Americans are the richest black people on planet Earth.

00:14:09.000 It is not particularly close.

00:14:11.000 The system of the United States is built around the notion of equal rights.

00:14:15.000 We're not talking about the history of the failure of application of that principle.

00:14:19.000 We're talking about right now in 2020.

00:14:21.000 America is not a systemically racist country.

00:14:24.000 The presence of inequality does not mean that all disparity is discrimination.

00:14:29.000 So 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.

00:14:38.000 I'm sorry.

00:14:39.000 There's not evidence that Derek Chauvin, who is apparently a very bad cop, was not just being a very bad cop. 0.97

00:14:45.000 He was actually being a vicious racist who was targeting black people. 0.67

00:14:48.000 The evidence is not even on that. 0.96

00:14:50.000 But even if he were, that would not implicate law enforcement across the country.

00:14:55.000 The 800,000 law enforcement officers across the country.

00:14:58.000 And that would not implicate the generalized system of American rights, duties, and institutions.

00:15:05.000 Okay, but at least the Yankees and Nationals didn't kneel for the National Anthem.

00:15:07.000 You can't say the same for Mookie Betts.

00:15:08.000 So, Mookie Betts is a terrific, terrific baseball player.

00:15:12.000 He plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

00:15:14.000 And Mookie Betts is kneeling for the Nation- He knelt for the National Anthem.

00:15:18.000 He just, by the way, signed a contract with the Dodgers worth $365 million!

00:15:24.000 Listen, 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?

00:15:39.000 Yeah, that's a hard push.

00:15:41.000 That's a hard push right there.

00:15:43.000 Hey, by the way, MLB is doing more than this, right?

00:15:44.000 There's the corporate... I talk about the corporate virtue signaling.

00:15:46.000 We'll get to what MLB is doing corporately in a second.

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00:17:04.000 Okay, so MLB has gone further than this.

00:17:09.000 So MLB has now issued a bunch of regulations on what is supposed to appear on the field.

00:17:16.000 According to Sports Illustrated, MLB will debut a Black Lives Matter stencil on mounds across the league, apparently.

00:17:23.000 I don't, like, I've been watching baseball all my life.

00:17:25.000 They've never put a political logo on the mound.

00:17:28.000 Okay, and the American flag's not a political logo.

00:17:29.000 I'm sorry.

00:17:30.000 Anybody who suggests that Black Lives Matter, which again, is a term that has been issued with semantic overload, right?

00:17:36.000 Does Black Lives Matter just mean that we care about black lives?

00:17:38.000 Because then it's not political and it also doesn't need to be said because it's 100% true and pretty much everybody agrees with it.

00:17:43.000 And if you don't, then you are like one in 330 million.

00:17:48.000 Does Black Lives Matter mean America is systemically racist?

00:17:49.000 Because that's highly political.

00:17:51.000 And if Black Lives Matter reflects the organization, it's even more political than that.

00:17:55.000 But I've not seen any political messaging on the mound before.

00:17:58.000 But 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. 0.98

00:18:06.000 We are not at a point of existential threat for black Americans.

00:18:08.000 It is just not true.

00:18:10.000 There is no existential threat to the 42 million black Americans, the vast majority of whom are middle class or up.

00:18:16.000 The idea that the police are systemically hunting down black people is a lie.

00:18:19.000 It is a blatant, overt lie.

00:18:22.000 There are a grand total, last year, according to the Washington Post, of 15 black men shot unarmed by the police.

00:18:28.000 The 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.

00:18:37.000 And by the way, in all the other cases, the cops were under investigation.

00:18:41.000 And so, the entire idea That law enforcement is hunting down black people is just not true.

00:18:46.000 Okay, 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?

00:18:56.000 We have to infuse all of that with these deeply and apparently universally upheld apolitical messages that happen to be very, very political.

00:19:05.000 Okay, 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.

00:19:14.000 The stencil will first appear on Thursday.

00:19:16.000 The 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.

00:19:25.000 So there it is, right?

00:19:26.000 It's all about America's systemic racism and injustice.

00:19:28.000 And 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.

00:19:34.000 MLB will also allow players to sport a social justice message on their jersey for opening day, according to ESPN's Howard Bryant.

00:19:40.000 United for Change and BLM are among the approved phrases to be written on jersey patches, per Bryant.

00:19:45.000 I also look forward to Unborn Lives Matter.

00:19:50.000 I think that one will be real good.

00:19:52.000 I think Free Hong Kong should appear as well.

00:19:55.000 Like really, let's just make this as political as humanly possible.

00:19:59.000 Or, alternatively, what's happening with these corporations is they feel like they're gonna make a quick buck.

00:20:03.000 Because capitalism always makes its buck.

00:20:06.000 Now, again, if I sound upset about this, I am.

00:20:08.000 I mean, I am upset about this.

00:20:11.000 You have every right to do it.

00:20:12.000 You're a corporation, you can do it.

00:20:13.000 I don't have to like it.

00:20:14.000 And 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.

00:20:24.000 And you're supposed to actually not even take a position. 0.99

00:20:26.000 You're supposed to acknowledge and repeat that America is a systemically racist country in order to watch a damned baseball game. 1.00

00:20:32.000 It's an absurdity. 1.00

00:20:33.000 It's an absurdity.

00:20:34.000 And by the way, this is of course the going message of the NBA as well.

00:20:37.000 They've put Black Lives Matter on the side of the court. 0.87

00:20:39.000 So 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.

00:20:48.000 Now again, none of this is to fail to recognize that problems still exist in the United States.

00:20:53.000 Of course they still exist.

00:20:54.000 Of course there are still racists.

00:20:55.000 Of course bad things happen to people on the basis of race sometimes.

00:20:59.000 The notion that America is systemically racist and that LeBron James is going to lead the charge?

00:21:03.000 LeBron James, I'm sorry, he's just not a good spokesperson for this stuff.

00:21:06.000 He isn't.

00:21:08.000 LeBron James yesterday, he put out a statement about, he said, Black Lives Matter isn't a movement.

00:21:12.000 It's a walk of life.

00:21:13.000 It's a walk of life.

00:21:14.000 And then he went further.

00:21:16.000 He actually said it's not a movement because there has been no movement for black people in America.

00:21:20.000 LeBron 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.

00:21:33.000 Apparently there's been no black movement.

00:21:34.000 No movement for black Americans, according to LeBron James.

00:21:37.000 Which, um, read a book.

00:21:39.000 Here's LeBron James.

00:21:41.000 A lot of people kind of use this analogy to talk about Black Lives Matter as a movement.

00:21:45.000 It's not a movement.

00:21:46.000 When you're black, it's not a movement. 1.00

00:21:48.000 It's a lifestyle. 0.64

00:21:50.000 We sit here and say it's a movement, and okay, how long is this movement going to last?

00:21:54.000 Don't stop the movement.

00:21:55.000 This is a walk of life. 0.69

00:21:56.000 When you wake up and you're black, that is what it is. 1.00

00:21:59.000 It shouldn't be a movement. 0.91

00:22:00.000 It should be a lifestyle.

00:22:01.000 This is who we are, and we understand that.

00:22:04.000 I don't like the word movement.

00:22:06.000 Because unfortunately, in America and society, there ain't been no damn movement for us.

00:22:12.000 There ain't been no movement.

00:22:13.000 There hasn't been a movement for black Americans?

00:22:16.000 There hasn't?

00:22:18.000 Really?

00:22:19.000 Really?

00:22:20.000 Weird, 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.

00:22:30.000 I'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.

00:22:42.000 And 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.

00:22:52.000 And by the way, he's done a lot of great charitable work, by the way, LeBron James.

00:22:55.000 And I hear from him there's been no movement for black Americans.

00:22:58.000 None.

00:22:59.000 Zero.

00:23:00.000 Curious, curious.

00:23:02.000 I feel like I'm not being fed a line that is true here.

00:23:05.000 But 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.

00:23:15.000 And 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.

00:23:23.000 If you want to have these conversations off the field, go for it, enjoy.

00:23:26.000 But 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.

00:23:33.000 It'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.

00:23:46.000 This sort of stuff is designed to divide Americans.

00:23:48.000 It is.

00:23:48.000 They'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.

00:23:55.000 They're attempting to divide the country by specifically taking apolitical areas of American life and making them incredibly political.

00:24:01.000 It makes the country worse.

00:24:02.000 There are plenty of ways to have these conversations.

00:24:04.000 We have them every single day in this country.

00:24:07.000 Every.

00:24:08.000 Single.

00:24:09.000 Day.

00:24:09.000 Or have you not noticed?

00:24:10.000 But apparently, unless everything becomes political, then the country is worse off.

00:24:14.000 Well, we'll see how that goes.

00:24:15.000 I have a feeling that is not the case.

00:24:17.000 In just a second.

00:24:19.000 We'll get to other social justice warrior stories from the world of sports.

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00:25:39.000 All right, so other social justice warrior nonsense from the world of sports.

00:25:43.000 The Washington Redskins have renamed.

00:25:44.000 They're now called the Washington Football Team.

00:25:47.000 I'm not kidding.

00:25:47.000 That's a real thing.

00:25:49.000 Redskins?

00:25:49.000 It wasn't just that the term Redskins was offensive.

00:25:52.000 Now again, there are polls that have been done over the past 10 years that shows the Native Americans did not care about this issue.

00:25:57.000 There 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.

00:26:08.000 But the Washington Redskins were pressured, because of George Floyd or something, into removing the name.

00:26:13.000 Okay, fine, I understand.

00:26:14.000 Like, you think that one's offensive.

00:26:15.000 But here's the problem.

00:26:16.000 There is no limiting principle to renaming anything that could possibly be found offensive.

00:26:21.000 So Washington could not find a new name.

00:26:23.000 This is not the Onion.

00:26:24.000 It's not the Babylon Bee.

00:26:26.000 The Washington team could not find a new name.

00:26:28.000 They've renamed themselves the Washington Football Team.

00:26:31.000 So I designed a logo for them that really emphasizes the team aspect of it.

00:26:37.000 And the logo looks a little something like this.

00:26:41.000 Looks like that right there.

00:26:42.000 You see like Washington football team.

00:26:44.000 Big T right there in the middle.

00:26:46.000 It looks like WTF, but actually it's WFT, right?

00:26:49.000 The T is just big in the middle.

00:26:51.000 What?

00:26:53.000 I think we've gone woking a little too much here, guys.

00:26:55.000 The Washington football team.

00:26:57.000 Exciting, exciting stuff.

00:26:59.000 Established in 1932.

00:27:00.000 They won't change their color scheme.

00:27:02.000 They're still going to use burgundy and gold.

00:27:05.000 But apparently the rebranding process takes 12 to 18 months.

00:27:08.000 And 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.

00:27:16.000 We want to do it right.

00:27:17.000 We just couldn't figure out what the hell to call the team.

00:27:19.000 So we're now the Washington football team.

00:27:22.000 Oh, we America getting better. 1.00

00:27:24.000 One stupid renaming at a time. 1.00

00:27:26.000 Well done. 1.00

00:27:27.000 Well done.

00:27:28.000 By the way, in other politics and sports, Anthony Fauci threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals-New York Yankees opening day game.

00:27:35.000 It didn't go great for him.

00:27:36.000 So let's just put this out there.

00:27:38.000 You know, Anthony Fauci's 80 years old.

00:27:40.000 I wouldn't expect him to fire in a fastball.

00:27:42.000 But there are a few kind of oddities about this.

00:27:45.000 One is he's wearing a Washington Nationals mask in the middle of a completely empty stadium, which you don't actually need to do.

00:27:50.000 And second of all, it's not a good first pitch.

00:27:52.000 I mean, let's just point that out.

00:27:53.000 Is that important?

00:27:54.000 Absolutely not.

00:27:55.000 It's not important.

00:27:57.000 That doesn't mean we can't make fun of it.

00:27:58.000 I mean, here he is, throwing a first pitch.

00:28:00.000 The only first pitch I've seen that really is as weak as this first pitch.

00:28:04.000 Barack Obama threw a real weak first pitch at the All-Star Game in, what, I think 2011?

00:28:07.000 This was not good here from Anthony Fauci.

00:28:09.000 He gets up there.

00:28:11.000 He really flattens the curve.

00:28:12.000 Here he is, throwing up, and there it goes, right down the first baseline.

00:28:17.000 And fake crowd noise cheering that on.

00:28:18.000 So 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.

00:28:26.000 People buying votive candles of Robert Mueller.

00:28:30.000 If Fauci won't perceive to be at odds with Trump, would there be anybody who's worshipping Fauci at this point?

00:28:34.000 Of course not.

00:28:34.000 You don't see Deborah Birx throwing out the first pitch, do you?

00:28:37.000 Anybody who's actually serving in the administration is not worthy of throwing out the first pitch.

00:28:41.000 Only 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.

00:28:51.000 The good news is that Fauci ensured, once again, that nobody could catch anything.

00:28:55.000 By the way, I'm wondering, Fauci's being celebrated as a national hero.

00:29:00.000 Like, I'm glad that he served the country in a lot of ways, right?

00:29:03.000 He helped solve HIV.

00:29:05.000 He's actually done an enormous number of very good things in his life.

00:29:08.000 But, I mean, the handling of the pandemic, if it's so bad for most Americans, Fauci was in the president's ear for months on end.

00:29:14.000 At some point, you know, you gotta say that it's not going that great.

00:29:17.000 Either it's going great or it ain't going that great.

00:29:18.000 By the way, that was the worst first pitch since 50 Cent threw one out at the Cubs game a few years back.

00:29:26.000 Lord, the Mets game, yeah, it did not go well.

00:29:28.000 Yeah, it was pretty similar.

00:29:30.000 I will say that he got a little more distance on his throw than Fauci, but 50 cents is probably in his 30s.

00:29:35.000 Fauci's in his 80s, so to be fair.

00:29:37.000 Now, not to shoeshine the president here, but the president does have a better throwing motion.

00:29:41.000 There was a video that came out yesterday in which he's throwing with Mariano Rivera.

00:29:44.000 So here we can compare a 70-year-old man throwing a baseball to Mariano Rivera with an 80-year-old man throwing a baseball at the...

00:29:52.000 National game.

00:29:53.000 He's got a pretty good motion.

00:29:54.000 I mean, I'll admit that.

00:29:55.000 The President of the United States has a fairly decent motion.

00:29:58.000 Right there. 0.67

00:29:59.000 All of this is silliness.

00:30:00.000 But baseball should be the great distraction.

00:30:01.000 It is no longer the great distraction.

00:30:03.000 We have to load up the social justice messaging.

00:30:05.000 Also, every element of American life should be turned into social justice messaging. 0.99

00:30:10.000 To the point where everything becomes entirely stupid. 0.98

00:30:12.000 There's a singer-songwriter I'd never heard of named Conan Gray. 0.89

00:30:15.000 Conan Gray apologized yesterday for his use of emojis.

00:30:19.000 His use of emojis.

00:30:21.000 He said, Many of you have brought to my attention my use of tan emojis.

00:30:24.000 I apologize to anybody who was hurt by my use of emojis that you believe are too dark for me to use.

00:30:29.000 I am mixed race.

00:30:30.000 I chose to use the emojis that I felt best represented.

00:30:33.000 My skin tone.

00:30:35.000 Most of you have never met me in real life and are unaware of how I look in person.

00:30:37.000 I am not pale.

00:30:38.000 I am not white.

00:30:39.000 I am mixed race.

00:30:39.000 I was only trying to find an emoji with a skin tone that felt most accurate to me and my background.

00:30:44.000 So, um, this guy's now apologizing for the use of emojis.

00:30:46.000 We've made the country better, gang.

00:30:48.000 Everything is moving in the right direction.

00:30:52.000 I feel excited.

00:30:52.000 Everything has to be political.

00:30:54.000 Emojis.

00:30:55.000 Sports.

00:30:57.000 Hollywood has to get even more political.

00:30:58.000 Michael B. Jordan, the major star of Creed, among other movies, he came out, he said that Hollywood has to defund the police.

00:31:05.000 That's exciting stuff.

00:31:07.000 He said Hollywood has to divest from the police and invest in black talent and careers.

00:31:12.000 And hire independent security firms.

00:31:13.000 Apparently very easy for Michael B. Jordan, who is being taken care of by studios in terms of his security.

00:31:20.000 Good times from Michael B. Jordan.

00:31:22.000 Again, the country is just getting better.

00:31:24.000 Can't you feel the wokeness healing the country?

00:31:26.000 Can'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.

00:31:40.000 I feel like we're doing so much better now, don't you?

00:31:42.000 Everything's just way better right now.

00:31:43.000 In every way.

00:31:44.000 The Sierra Club, by the way, is apologizing for John Muir, so that's exciting too.

00:31:47.000 Like, every aspect of SJW nonsense now has to be humored.

00:31:51.000 The executive director of the Sierra Club apologized on Wednesday for the substantial role the group played in perpetuating white supremacy.

00:31:57.000 They condemned John Muir for friendships and views he had.

00:32:00.000 We're canceling John Muir now, so that's exciting stuff.

00:32:03.000 That is because John Muir was friends with eugenicists and was kind of a racist.

00:32:08.000 But I just have a question.

00:32:09.000 Did they found the Sierra Club because he was a racist?

00:32:12.000 Nope.

00:32:12.000 But it doesn't matter.

00:32:13.000 Sierra Club is now apologizing for John Muir.

00:32:15.000 I guess we're going to rename the high schools.

00:32:17.000 For 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.

00:32:25.000 The cultural revolution continues apace.

00:32:28.000 Okay, 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. 0.94

00:32:36.000 While we're focused on stupid, the real world continues on apace. 0.68

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00:33:49.000 Everything actual serious related?

00:33:52.000 Look, I think the culture wars are serious because I think that that's where a lot of the heavy lifting is done.

00:33:56.000 If we have now made it that every corporation in America must mirror hard left social justice nonsense about systemic racism and bigotry?

00:34:03.000 Then that does shift exactly how we live.

00:34:06.000 But 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.

00:34:19.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:36:11.000 So there are real world consequences as it turns out to a lot of the BLM messaging. 0.76

00:36:22.000 If 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. 1.00

00:36:29.000 There's only one problem.

00:36:30.000 When this happens, then areas with high crime, which unfortunately are heavily minority across the United States, immediately become more violent.

00:36:37.000 And that is really not great.

00:36:39.000 Last night, a teenager was shot and killed in Minneapolis near 38th and Chicago Avenue, which is basically where George Floyd was murdered.

00:36:46.000 This boy's death is according to Mike Tobin, who is a Fox News International correspondent.

00:36:50.000 The boy's death marked Minneapolis's 38th homicide, more than doubling last year's total of 17.

00:36:53.000 So 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.

00:37:01.000 Well done, everybody.

00:37:02.000 So apparently the legacy of Black Lives Matter in Minneapolis is the riots that hollowed out a lot of the industrial and commercial centers. 0.55

00:37:12.000 A perpetual feeling of crime on the horizon and an increased murder rate.

00:37:17.000 Seems like life is getting better in Minneapolis as a result of all of this.

00:37:19.000 You can see the progress happening in real time.

00:37:21.000 It's pretty fantastic.

00:37:22.000 Also, progress happening in Seattle.

00:37:25.000 According 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.

00:37:36.000 The New York Times reports, the special response team is being deployed similar to the tactical teams currently operating in Portland.

00:37:42.000 Agents from the Special Response Team, operated under U.S.

00:37:45.000 Customs and Border Protection, are typically deployed for intense law enforcement operations similar to the agency's BORTEC group that is operated in Portland.

00:37:52.000 The 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.

00:38:01.000 Over the weekend, violent rioters injured at least a dozen Seattle police officers and caused significant damages to numerous businesses and attacked multiple police stations.

00:38:08.000 So things have been going great in Seattle.

00:38:10.000 When the mayor calls off the police, shockingly, crime rises.

00:38:14.000 Who would have thunk such a thing?

00:38:15.000 So things have been going great in Seattle.

00:38:18.000 Things actually went so great in Chicago that the Chicago mayor Actually signed an agreement with President Trump to increase the federal footprint in Chicago.

00:38:27.000 Remember when she was saying that it was basically the feds terrorizing Chicago?

00:38:31.000 Well, Lori Lightfoot at the same time was negotiating an agreement with the feds to bring in more resources. 1.00

00:38:35.000 Which is just perfect.

00:38:37.000 Apparently, 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.

00:38:51.000 The Chicago Sun-Times reports the pair spoke about an agreement to send 200 federal agents, mostly from the FBI, ATF, U.S.

00:38:57.000 Marshals, and DEA, to assist the Chicago PD in handling crime in a number of target neighborhoods racked by recent gang activity.

00:39:04.000 Lightfoot 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.

00:39:13.000 Shocker.

00:39:14.000 So now, the Sun-Times says, Trump and Lightfoot are in agreement over the strategy of sending in agents to plug into existing operations.

00:39:20.000 So in other words, it was all for show.

00:39:22.000 Lori Lightfoot is perfectly happy to accept federal agents in her town. 1.00

00:39:25.000 She just doesn't want to say that out loud because Trump.

00:39:28.000 Which 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.

00:39:37.000 That is the goal.

00:39:38.000 This resulted in Chicago protesters being very angry at the mayor last night.

00:39:42.000 They went out outside of the mayoral offices and protested in large numbers.

00:39:46.000 A lot of white people protesting there.

00:39:48.000 You see how many white people there are in this crowd?

00:39:49.000 A lot of white people.

00:39:51.000 Not all of them wearing masks.

00:39:52.000 You 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. 0.98

00:39:59.000 A lot of dancing going on.

00:40:00.000 It really is just a giant street party, guys.

00:40:03.000 People shouting in close proximity to one another, which is exactly how COVID gets passed.

00:40:08.000 Things are just going great out there.

00:40:09.000 The country's falling apart, but things are going fantastically.

00:40:11.000 You can see people dancing in the middle there.

00:40:13.000 Half of them not wearing masks.

00:40:14.000 Really good stuff.

00:40:15.000 In order to combat this, Lori Lightfoot has now announced that the city of Chicago is going to remove statues of Christopher Columbus.

00:40:23.000 So problem solved, guys.

00:40:24.000 Problem solved.

00:40:25.000 Christopher Columbus, who's been dead for like 550 years, That guy, he's gone.

00:40:30.000 He's down.

00:40:31.000 Problem solved.

00:40:32.000 Chicago is now non-violent.

00:40:35.000 So 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.

00:40:43.000 According to The Hill, crews came around 1 a.m.

00:40:45.000 A few dozen people cheered when the statue came down a few hours later, not clear where the statue is going to be taken.

00:40:50.000 Because Western civilization arriving in the Western Hemisphere was apparently a very bad thing. 0.61

00:40:54.000 It was apparently really, really bad.

00:40:56.000 The 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.

00:41:02.000 She's rejected calls to rename Columbus Day holiday.

00:41:04.000 That rejection will last approximately another 7.2 seconds.

00:41:08.000 America, getting better by the hour.

00:41:09.000 The unbelievable hypocrisy of, my town is completely out of control, let me call in the feds.

00:41:13.000 Also, let me cave to the rioters and looters and protesters at every available opportunity, is pretty incredible.

00:41:19.000 It's pretty strong stuff.

00:41:21.000 Meanwhile, in Portland, the situation continues to unravel.

00:41:24.000 Continued rioting last night because it was a night ending in Y.

00:41:28.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:41:37.000 The problem is the Orange guy.

00:41:39.000 Yeah, it's not the rioters and the looters who are taking over blocks of downtown Portland and trying to destroy federal property.

00:41:46.000 And engaging in mayhem? 0.98

00:41:48.000 The problem is Trump, and he's a meanie, and he's super mean, and he's orange, and he's bad, and he's mean. 0.99

00:41:52.000 And also bad and orange. 1.00

00:41:54.000 Here's Ted Wheeler with idiot Chris Cuomo. 0.99

00:41:57.000 The president is using these federal forces as his own personal militia, I believe, for the purpose of political grandstanding. 1.00

00:42:07.000 He's doing this.

00:42:08.000 He'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.

00:42:23.000 I think this is abhorrent and it's a clear political stunt.

00:42:28.000 Guys, he's creating the chaos.

00:42:30.000 Trump is creating it in all the Democratic cities.

00:42:32.000 It's crazy.

00:42:32.000 It's just sort of like until Trump was president, there was no chaos in any of these cities ever.

00:42:36.000 Chicago was just a wonderful utopian landscape until Trump became president.

00:42:42.000 And also Portland, which has not had a Republican mayor in forever, like I think literally ever.

00:42:47.000 Portland is, it was doing great.

00:42:50.000 And then Trump, you know, these riots, it's all about Trump.

00:42:52.000 It's all about Trump.

00:42:53.000 Ted Wheeler, the world's worst mayor.

00:42:54.000 There's heavy competition for that title right now.

00:42:56.000 Is it Lori Lightfoot?

00:42:57.000 Hmm.

00:42:57.000 It could also be Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta.

00:43:00.000 Could be Bill de Blasio in New York, who really is a garbage show. 0.98

00:43:02.000 It could be Mayor Garcetti here in my hometown of Los Angeles. 0.98

00:43:05.000 Could be Jenny Durkin in Seattle.

00:43:07.000 But Wheeler's really up there.

00:43:08.000 I mean, there are a lot of bad mayors.

00:43:09.000 They all have a D next to their names, oddly enough.

00:43:11.000 I can't explain quite why.

00:43:12.000 Yeah, sure, it's Trump's fault.

00:43:13.000 It's Trump's fault.

00:43:14.000 Your city's been burning for two months, and it's Trump's fault for sending in people to stop the burning.

00:43:19.000 Pretty incredible stuff here.

00:43:20.000 So, 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. 0.96

00:43:29.000 Problems solved.

00:43:30.000 America on the right track.

00:43:32.000 I'm feeling pretty optimistic at this point, aren't you?

00:43:34.000 And if you're not feeling optimistic, what's wrong with you?

00:43:36.000 What's wrong with you?

00:43:38.000 If 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?

00:43:44.000 Don't you understand?

00:43:45.000 This is how we make America better.

00:43:46.000 It'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.

00:43:59.000 I can feel the progress.

00:44:00.000 Can you?

00:44:00.000 Can you feel the progress?

00:44:01.000 I'm feeling it.

00:44:02.000 I think everybody else is too.

00:44:04.000 Meanwhile, COVID continues to surge across the country.

00:44:07.000 Now, there's some misinformation that's being put out there about the COVID surge that is currently happening.

00:44:12.000 I think that this misinformation, it's pretty stunning that it's coming from Dr. Deborah Birx, who's been pretty accurate about this stuff.

00:44:17.000 So yesterday, Dr. Birx suggested the surge across the country is three New Yorks.

00:44:22.000 No, it isn't.

00:44:23.000 It isn't.

00:44:24.000 Statistically speaking, it is not three New Yorks.

00:44:26.000 If it were three New Yorks, we would be seeing approximately 7,000 deaths a day.

00:44:29.000 Because when we were looking at New York, we were seeing up to 1,500 deaths a day and 2,900 deaths a day total.

00:44:37.000 3,000 deaths a day total across the entirety of the United States.

00:44:40.000 It's not three New Yorks.

00:44:42.000 The total death numbers yesterday were about 1,200.

00:44:43.000 Those are the total reported deaths.

00:44:45.000 It's one New York.

00:44:47.000 But it spread out over the other 310 million people, which is bad.

00:44:51.000 But if we could not exaggerate the case, that'd be really nice.

00:44:53.000 Here's Dr. Deborah Birx.

00:44:56.000 We're already starting to see some plateauing in these critically four states that have really suffered under the last four weeks.

00:45:04.000 So Texas, California, Arizona and Florida, those major metros and throughout their counties.

00:45:11.000 And I just want to make it clear to the American public, what we have right now are essentially three New Yorks.

00:45:18.000 Okay, so I'm all in favor of the social distancing and the mask wearing.

00:45:29.000 I have been all along.

00:45:30.000 I've been following exactly what the experts and supposed experts have been saying this whole way.

00:45:35.000 Okay, but we're not facing three New Yorks.

00:45:37.000 That's not accurate.

00:45:38.000 It's not.

00:45:38.000 We're not seeing the ICUs overwhelmed.

00:45:40.000 For all the talk and anecdotal talk about ICUs being overwhelmed in places like Houston, it has not happened.

00:45:45.000 In fact, cases are now receding.

00:45:46.000 Caseload is receding.

00:45:47.000 In places like Houston, it's receding in Arizona.

00:45:50.000 So that's just not accurate.

00:45:51.000 Okay, 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.

00:46:09.000 Gavin Newsom somehow has escaped all of the blowback that all of the Republicans are getting.

00:46:13.000 I can't believe it.

00:46:15.000 All three of the Republicans I just mentioned have seen their coronavirus handling numbers absolutely tank.

00:46:19.000 Gavin Newsom's still up at 58%.

00:46:20.000 Hey, it's real bad here in California.

00:46:22.000 I live in L.A.

00:46:23.000 County.

00:46:23.000 That's basically the epicenter of the United States in terms of coronavirus cases.

00:46:27.000 And yet the press are not focused in on L.A.

00:46:29.000 I can't imagine why.

00:46:31.000 Could it be because of the Democratic mayor and the Democratic governor and the entirely Democratic state?

00:46:36.000 It's incredible how Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and Doug Ducey are responsible for California and Trump too.

00:46:40.000 It's all Trump's fault.

00:46:41.000 It's also incredible how Trump somehow convinced everybody in Spain to act so irresponsibly they got a second wave.

00:46:47.000 This is from the UK Sun today.

00:46:48.000 Spain admits coronavirus second wave may be underway as UK air bridge could be axed and France threatens to close the border.

00:46:56.000 There was 971 new cases yesterday, 241 more than the previous day, a record since the end of the country's state of emergency.

00:47:02.000 You can't just look at the raw numbers, by the way.

00:47:03.000 The United States has many, many more tests than any other country on a raw level.

00:47:07.000 So what you really have to look at is the directionality.

00:47:10.000 The 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.

00:47:18.000 And Spain and France are closing their own borders to each other.

00:47:22.000 So that is exciting stuff.

00:47:23.000 Meanwhile, France is experiencing its own second wave.

00:47:26.000 According to the UK Express, France is having a second wave and Emmanuel Macron is panicked as coronavirus outbreaks hit a dreaded milestone.

00:47:33.000 On 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.

00:47:43.000 Fears 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.

00:47:54.000 Also, by the way, Japan experiencing a second wave.

00:47:57.000 According to France24.com, Japan saw a record 366 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the capital on Thursday.

00:48:05.000 France24 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.

00:48:14.000 None of this is to say that any of these countries are wildly mishandling this thing.

00:48:18.000 But 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. 0.92

00:48:27.000 And Paul Krugman has an idiotic column at the New York Times saying, why can't we handle this the way Italy handled it? 0.96

00:48:31.000 Italy has a higher death per million rate than the United States. 0.99

00:48:34.000 I've seen the same thing said about countries like the UK.

00:48:36.000 The one you're never allowed to mention, of course, is Sweden.

00:48:38.000 Sweden has a higher death per million rate than the United States.

00:48:41.000 But right now, they're experiencing virtually no death.

00:48:43.000 Like, none.

00:48:44.000 Even though they have a significant caseload.

00:48:46.000 Because it's already run through vulnerable areas of the population.

00:48:49.000 And this is the common theme.

00:48:51.000 Is that places like New York, it killed everybody.

00:48:53.000 So is there going to be a second wave as they reopen?

00:48:55.000 We don't know yet.

00:48:56.000 We're starting to see a second bit of an uptick in places like Massachusetts, by the way.

00:48:59.000 Right?

00:48:59.000 Which again, was supposedly one of the states that handled this beautifully.

00:49:02.000 But don't worry, Andrew Cuomo is on the scene to stop everything bad from happening.

00:49:06.000 Andrew Cuomo, the world's greatest governor, when he's not creating weird papier-mâché mountains that symbolize tens of thousands of dead, and when he's not putting out weird posters glorifying himself as the greatest governor in the world that says, New York is love and crap like that, Andrew Cuomo is deciding what bars can and cannot serve.

00:49:21.000 So remember, in New York, the bars are supposed to be closed, right?

00:49:24.000 You're not supposed to be in a bar drinking in proximity with other people because this is a chief vector of transmission.

00:49:29.000 The problem is that bars want to stay open in order to serve food. 0.99

00:49:32.000 So Andrew Cuomo got mad because what bars were doing is they were basically saying, this is stupid, right? 0.97

00:49:37.000 You're dictating to us what kind of food we can serve in order to serve alcohol. 0.90

00:49:40.000 So what bars were doing to basically make fun of him, they were issuing what they called Cuomo menus.

00:49:45.000 And the Cuomo menus included things like a bag of grapes.

00:49:48.000 It's like you have to eat this bag of grapes if you're going to drink alcohol.

00:49:51.000 Cuomo, by the way, acknowledges he cannot force people to eat the food.

00:49:53.000 You just have to order the food in order to get alcohol at the bars.

00:49:57.000 So Cuomo now has his comeback.

00:49:58.000 His comeback is he is going to shut down any establishment that doesn't sell sandwiches.

00:50:04.000 I'm not kidding about this.

00:50:05.000 He 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.

00:50:12.000 It has to be sandwiches.

00:50:14.000 Also, hot dogs do not constitute sandwiches.

00:50:17.000 Not kidding.

00:50:17.000 We now have an official New York government ruling on hot dogs according to the New York State Liquor Authority guidance.

00:50:23.000 If 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.

00:50:33.000 For example, salads, wings, or hot dogs would be of that quality and substance.

00:50:37.000 However, a bag of chips, bowl of nuts, or candy alone To be a bar, you had to have food available.

00:50:42.000 that is similar in quality and substance as a hot dog to a sandwich.

00:50:45.000 So the question has been answered, but Andrew Cuomo says even that is not sufficient.

00:50:48.000 Now he's making a distinction between wings and sandwiches.

00:50:51.000 Here's Andrew Cuomo, great expert, explaining based on the science that buffalo wings are different than sandwiches in terms of nutritional content.

00:51:00.000 To be a bar, you had to have food available, soups, sandwiches, et cetera.

00:51:07.000 More than just hors d'oeuvres, chicken wings.

00:51:12.000 You had to have some substantive food.

00:51:15.000 The lowest level of substantive food were sandwiches.

00:51:19.000 That was the lowest level, but it had to be more.

00:51:20.000 It couldn't just be wings. 0.90

00:51:23.000 What's incredible is that everybody calls Trump a fascist.

00:51:25.000 Last I checked, Trump wasn't issuing giant national regulations about whether you have to serve sandwiches or buffalo wings.

00:51:31.000 I mean, like, seriously.

00:51:33.000 What a horror show Cuomo is.

00:51:35.000 But don't worry, he's been great at this.

00:51:36.000 We know he's been great because he doesn't like Trump.

00:51:38.000 And anybody who doesn't like Trump, anyone who doesn't like Trump, is fantastic.

00:51:42.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

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00:51:54.000 Amazon had it at like the highest price book in the top 100.

00:51:57.000 And finally, they lowered the price, which was a little bit tardy.

00:52:00.000 But they did it, so you can get it now for like 18 bucks.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 24, 2020

Major League Wokeness | Ep. 1059

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