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00:00:00.000California shuts down again, Governor Andrew Cole makes a fool of himself over a weird poster, and virtue signaling on racial issues continues to matter more than saving lives.
00:00:25.000Okay, so we begin at this hour with your latest COVID-19 update.
00:00:29.000So the continued increase in caseload is indeed continuing.
00:00:34.000We are seeing an increased caseload in places like California, in places like Florida.
00:00:37.000We're seeing increased test positives.
00:00:39.000But there is a simple reality, which is that we are not seeing this thing spike the way that it did in New York.
00:00:44.000In New York, the curve looked extremely steep on one end, and then it came down extremely steeply on the other end of the curve.
00:00:49.000The reason for that is because it burned through the entire city.
00:00:52.000In fact, there are precincts in New York where some 50 to 60 percent of all the people in these particular precincts already have antibodies.
00:00:58.000So that is the reason why you have seen this thing come down so quickly.
00:01:01.000It's not because of masterful leadership in New York and crappy leadership elsewhere.
00:01:05.000It is decent leadership elsewhere in a variety of different parties, right?
00:01:09.000From Colorado to Georgia, and then the crappy leadership over in New York City.
00:01:13.000So what most of these states have done is indeed flatten the curve.
00:01:16.000In fact, there is a doctor from the University of Southern Florida, who was talking about this on CNN yesterday, talking about the issues over in Florida with regard to the increased caseload.
00:01:29.000And he pointed out that this is a different epidemic than hit New York.
00:01:32.000In fact, he pointed out that Florida's emergency department visits from COVID actually peaked last week, and the test positive rate actually peaked last week.
00:01:39.000So when you look at all of the headlines coming out of Florida, it's doom, disaster about to hit Florida.
00:01:44.000Listen, things are not gonna be great in Florida for a couple of weeks because death As always, is a lagging indicator.
00:01:49.000But the idea that they're going to see Florida-type numbers, that is so far unsupportable by the data.
00:01:54.000The only people who have seen New York-type numbers are the New Yorkers.
00:01:57.000And the reason they saw New York-type numbers is because Andrew Cuomo decided to do all the things wrong.
00:02:36.000And so I have to begin today with this insane poster that Andrew Cuomo put out.
00:02:40.000Now, imagine if President Trump put out a poster showing the curve for COVID in the United States, the number of COVID deaths in the United States, which has declined by some 30 to 40% in the United States over the period of time, actually more than that, about 60% since the height of COVID.
00:02:53.000Okay, imagine that Trump had put out a poster championing himself Championing his own performance during COVID-19.
00:03:22.000Poster art is something they did in the early 1900s, late 1800s, when they had to communicate their whole platform on one piece of paper.
00:03:28.000Over the past few years, I've done my own posters that capture that feeling.
00:03:32.000I did a new one for what we went through with COVID.
00:03:34.000And I think the general shape is familiar to you.
00:03:36.000We went up the mountain, we curved the mountain, we came down the other side, and these are little telltale signs that to me represent what was going on.
00:03:43.000Okay, first of all, if you take this mountain and you map it directly onto the charts of what we're supposed to avoid with our COVID treatments, it maps exactly.
00:03:52.000Like literally, you could take this curve and you could actually plant it.
00:03:55.000I remember there was the very famous bend the curve, lower the curve chart, the flatten the curve chart.
00:03:59.000And the flatten the curve chart looked like one big curve that spiked up real high and then came down really quickly, but it spiked above the line.
00:04:05.000And then there was the good curve chart.
00:04:07.000And the good curve chart grew kind of slowly and then it sort of peaked and then it sort of receded.
00:04:11.000Well, the problem is that Andrew Cuomo's mountain looks exactly, exactly like the bad curve.
00:04:48.000Okay, and then it shows on the left-hand side of the poster, it shows a plane and it says, Europeans, 3 million, January to March, COVID-19 on a plane, right?
00:05:13.000And it's being pulled over the mountain.
00:05:14.000It says, Up in the sky, by the way, is hanging a weird, emblazoned sun, as well as a moon, upon which is sitting President Trump, saying it's just the flu.
00:05:28.000And then there's an arrow pointing nearly straight up that says projection models, but they defeated the projection models.
00:05:34.000No, you didn't defeat the projection models.
00:05:36.000This is exactly what the models look like.
00:05:55.000And you can remember each and every day how New York was just a trash heap, where the sirens were going 24 hours a day and everybody was locked in their home.
00:06:02.000And you can celebrate along with Andrew Cuomo.
00:06:04.000All you have to do is drop a few bucks to the state of New York.
00:07:41.000I'm sorry, New Yorkers, you elected a nut, and you deserve it because you elected him, and he's got like an 80% approval rating in your unbelievably insane state.
00:08:02.000He's lecturing DeSantis, who's responsible for a number of deaths that is, I believe, one-ninth.
00:08:08.000The number of deaths that New York has seen on a case per million level, on a deaths per million level, New York is like something like eight to nine times as high as Florida.
00:08:17.000And you've got DeSantis being lectured by Andrew Cuomo.
00:08:20.000We got Andrew Cuomo lecturing people on how masks work?
00:08:24.000Dude, it wasn't the masks that quote-unquote saved New York.
00:09:00.000But the media's narrative about Cuomo is that he's doing an incredible job.
00:09:05.000It's astounding to me how open and obvious the media have become in their bias.
00:09:09.000To the point where they're openly lying at this point.
00:09:12.000They were lying before about Cuomo's performance, but now they're just clearly lying.
00:09:15.000Because we can all see the mountain right in front of us.
00:09:18.000He turned the mountain into a painting.
00:09:20.000He turned the mountain of death into a painting you can put on your wall.
00:09:24.000Honestly, it reminds me of nothing so much as the scene from Winnie the Pooh, where Winnie the Pooh gets his ass stuck in Rabbit's house, and Rabbit, deciding he can't do anything about the fact that Winnie the Pooh is now stuck there and wedged in and cannot get out, decides that he's going to make antlers out of Winnie the Pooh's ass.
00:10:36.000Because you won't get criticized if you lock everything down, all the things in the world.
00:10:40.000But you will get criticized if you try and bully your way through this thing and recognize that there are risks and rewards to shutting down.
00:10:46.000So if you're a governor, given the media coverage right now, the best thing you can do for your own political profile is to shut everything down.
00:10:52.000That's what Gavin Newsom is doing in California, my garbage state.
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00:12:07.000Okay, so Gavin Newsom has shut down the entire state of California again, again.
00:12:13.000And remember, Gavin Newsom has basically escaped scrutiny thus far, even though he had a spike at the exact same time as Florida and Texas.
00:12:19.000He's escaped scrutiny because he didn't actually open anything up.
00:12:31.000The only reason to lock things down at this point, seriously, is because you think that the healthcare system is going to be overwhelmed.
00:12:37.000I've seen no indicators that the state of California is on the verge of being overwhelmed.
00:12:42.000For some reason, the language of flatten the curve was shifted from, we're flattening the curve to avoid overwhelming the system to, we're trying to crush the curve so that nobody ever gets COVID again.
00:12:52.000And that is not a reality in our current situation.
00:12:54.000We have millions and millions, maybe up to 20 million Americans who have this thing.
00:13:00.000They say that for every positive test, there are probably 10 people who already have it who don't know about it, which would put us at like 23 million at this point.
00:13:07.000So if that's the case, there's community spread.
00:13:10.000Shutting this thing down for a prolonged period of time, all that's going to do is stop it in the moment.
00:13:15.000But the minute you open up again at all, there's going to be increased caseload.
00:13:18.000Now, again, the good news is that we're treating this thing a lot better.
00:13:20.000We have a bunch of different drugs that we have been using.
00:14:39.000It's 40 million people live in the state of California.
00:14:41.000So there are 150 deaths at the peak in California.
00:14:45.000And they may have already crossed the peak and moved back down the other side, right?
00:14:47.000We don't know yet, so we're still watching that.
00:14:50.000The idea that you're gonna shut down the entire state of California, which is exactly what Gavin Newsom is doing, I don't know how that looks like commonsensical policy, particularly because he's not just closing places that are like the highest risk, he's closing everything.
00:15:02.000I understand closing back down, for example, indoor dining at restaurants.
00:15:07.000Whenever I dine out, I've been dining outside, which I've been recommending for a long time, is that restaurants should be able to use city streets in order to allow people to eat outside.
00:15:19.000He's shutting down all gyms, all places of worship, all malls, all personal care services, all barber shops, all salons, and non-critical offices in counties on the state's monitoring list.
00:15:40.000We are now effectively, rather effective today, requiring all counties to close their indoor activities, their indoor operations, in the following sectors.
00:15:52.000Restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos and museums, card rooms, and the shuttering of all bars.
00:16:02.000This is in every county in the state of California.
00:16:22.000Everybody got COVID, apparently, from the protests.
00:16:24.000In fact, even Barbara Farrar, the L.A.
00:16:26.000County public health official, she said, oh yeah, by the way, it might have been the protests that sort of seeded this stuff again.
00:16:31.000California reported more than 320,000 cases of COVID-19 and 7,000 deaths total for a state of 39.5 million people.
00:16:38.000Again, remember, California has twice the population of the state of New York, and they have approximately One quarter the number of deaths, less than one quarter the number of deaths thus far.
00:17:04.000and San Diego have announced that they are going to keep the schools shut in the fall, which, again, there's very little data to support the idea that the schools must be shut down.
00:17:12.000We just don't know enough, is the answer, right?
00:17:16.000What we do know is that in Europe, most of the schools are already open and have been open for quite a while, and they have not seen a significant surge among the childhood population.
00:17:23.000There's some creative ways to deal with it, which we talked about yesterday.
00:17:26.000But the problem is all the political incentives right now are in favor of this binary, because the media have drawn this binary, right?
00:17:54.000If I want to take my kids somewhere, the only places I can take my kids are places that are outdoors, which I think is actually good.
00:17:59.000The idea that Florida is wide open, and therefore that Florida had it coming, or the idea that California had wide opened itself, it's not true.
00:18:08.000California never went back to status quo ante.
00:18:11.000California was shut down this entire time, which suggests that really what has changed here at all is the weather and personal activity a little bit.
00:18:19.000And by the way, the idea that government lockdowns changed any of this is not true either.
00:18:21.000You can actually look at the statistics and you can see how people changed their travel and association habits as the virus began to gain all sorts of coverage in the media.
00:18:30.000People actually stopped traveling before this stuff started to happen.
00:18:33.000But remember, for politicians, because people tend to look at politicians as godlike figures who can fix everything, As opposed to, like, idiots who can ruin everything, which is pretty much all they can do.
00:18:42.000Instead of that, people tend to look to their politicians as, well, if something bad happened, it's the politician's fault.
00:18:48.000Like, if you have an obvious thing you can point to, like shipping people with COVID back into nursing homes, that's a pretty obvious case of the politician fail.
00:18:54.000But if the question is, oh man, if these politicians only mandated masks, that would change everything.
00:19:23.000If you're not wearing a mask 24 hours a day, the stupidest example of which, there was a picture yesterday going around of our friend Ted Cruz, right?
00:19:31.000And Ted Cruz was on a plane and somebody took a picture of him and they said, Ted Cruz not wearing a mask on a plane.
00:19:37.000He's literally holding up a cup of coffee.
00:19:39.000There's a picture of him one minute before and like one minute after with the mask on.
00:19:43.000But because he took down his mask to drink a cup of coffee, people were all over him because the idea is that you're denying that masks work.
00:19:49.000By the way, I love how masks work has become an absolute point of faith in America now.
00:19:53.000I'm old enough to remember when that was actually kind of a controversial contention because the CDC said so.
00:19:58.000The CDC itself told us we weren't supposed to wear masks.
00:20:01.000They literally said cloth masks are not going to do anything.
00:20:05.000Now they're like, oh yeah, cloth masks are going to do everything.
00:20:07.000And if you don't actually participate in the mask wearing, it's because you're evil.
00:20:10.000Now listen, I've been saying for a long time on this show, you can go back and you can listen to it.
00:20:13.000I've been saying to it, I've been saying for months, that when you are out and about, you should be wearing a mask when you're in close contact with other people.
00:20:19.000At the very least, you're preventing some of the droplets that exit your mouth from being ejected into the air.
00:20:24.000I've been saying this for a long time, so I'm not an anti-mask guy, but to pretend that the evidence for masks is like 100% solid, that we know full well what all the masks are gonna do, or that, by the way, most of the people wearing masks know how to wear a mask is crazy.
00:20:35.000They literally have in medical school classes on how to, like, they have a course that you're supposed to take on how to properly fit a mask.
00:20:41.000And we're talking about, like, the best masks.
00:20:43.000The ones that get the surgical masks, where they have holes up here, right?
00:20:46.000I mean, unless you have it, like, properly fitted to your face, the air is coming up out of there anyway, so you're cutting down on some of the communication of the germs, but not all of the communication of the germs.
00:20:56.000That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear it, but the idea that, like, you are an actor of great evil.
00:21:01.000If you are out in public at any point, and you don't have the mask on your face, Is purely crazy.
00:21:06.000It has become sort of a virtue signaling thing, not just an element of good science.
00:21:13.000And this is why, again, every step along the way, I think I'm one of the few people who can say this on the right, every step along the way, when the experts changed their opinions, I also changed my opinion.
00:21:25.000Okay, every step along the way, when the experts said, don't wear a mask, I was like, okay, I guess we're not supposed to wear masks.
00:21:30.000Then the experts were like, wear a mask.
00:21:41.000But now, now that you've given us every message on every possible topic, I'm gonna have to let common sense take over.
00:21:47.000And what common sense tells me, along with the science, is that children are not in great danger from these things.
00:21:52.000This idea that you are endangering vast scores of children by opening schools is insane.
00:21:56.000Common sense tells me that most Americans are pretty willing to stay away from each other unless they're dumb 20-year-olds who want to go to bars.
00:22:03.000In which case, okay, so you shut down the bars because you don't want the virus transmitted at a high rate.
00:22:07.000But also, if 20-year-olds get it, they're probably not going to die because that's what the stats actually say.
00:22:13.000But don't tell me that science tells me you have to shut down entire cities again and that this is going to solve the problem in any serious way.
00:22:20.000I mean, this propagandistic effort to make a policy decision and then retcon it into, I'm just following the science, it's pretty wild.
00:22:27.000Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education under Barack Obama, he tried this routine yesterday.
00:22:30.000He said that anybody who advocates for opening the schools wants people to die, which is just crazy.
00:22:35.000Okay, over in Europe, they've had open schools for a very, very long time.
00:22:39.000And there's not a lot of evidence that those schools are centers of transmission.
00:22:43.000And there's also not a lot of evidence that kids are really getting hurt by this thing.
00:22:45.000In fact, you're more likely to die from the flu than you are to die from this if you are under the age of 20.
00:22:50.000Here's Arne Duncan, however, propagandizing.
00:22:53.000The real travesty here, Brian, is that there is no body count high enough for the president to actually pay attention to science.
00:23:06.000Nothing would compel him to listen to Dr. Fauci and others.
00:23:11.000We're actually fighting to try and save lives.
00:23:13.000And schools are not going to put teachers, principals, their children, or their children's families in a position of risk that's far too high.
00:23:21.000Okay, well some schools are going to do all of that because the data actually supports the idea that schools should open.
00:23:26.000The American Academy of Pediatrics says the schools should open.
00:23:29.000Dr. Robert Redfield at the CDC said the schools should reopen.
00:23:32.000But according to Arne Duncan, you're not following the science unless you listen to him.
00:23:35.000Okay, so this is all about, at this point, so much of this is about virtue signaling as opposed to actually following good common-sense policy-making advice.
00:23:43.000And people don't want to have the arguments, they just label other people You know, bad actors, malicious actors who don't care about human life.
00:23:50.000Okay, we're gonna get to more of this, especially on the issue of race, where the narrative has overwhelmed common sense in just one second.
00:23:55.000First, let's talk about something great that you can do for your parents.
00:23:58.000Okay, here's something great for your parents, also for yourself, and that is you can preserve your family memories.
00:25:15.000So on COVID, it's basically Democratic governors are geniuses and do all the right things, and lockdowns are the only solution, and you're a bad person if you ever, ever, ever take off the mask at any point whatsoever.
00:25:26.000Not that you reject the signs of masks.
00:25:29.000But if you are caught in an unconscious moment taking down the mask, you're very bad.
00:25:33.000Unless you're a Democrat marching with Black Lives Matter protesters, in which case you're very good, and no one will die, and everything is fine.
00:25:39.000So it seems that so much of this has to do with narrative and very little of it has to do with common sense at all.
00:25:45.000Lockdown, no lockdown, the bottom line is this thing is going to move its way through the population unless there is a vaccine, there are gonna be therapeutic treatments, and as long as the healthcare system is not overwhelmed, there's not all that much you can do about that.
00:26:24.000At least 34 people were injured in more than two dozen shootings in New York City over the weekend, continuing a rise in violence that began earlier this summer, according to police officials.
00:26:32.000This is the Wall Street Journal reporting.
00:26:34.000The boy was shot in the stomach when gunmen opened fire on Sunday night on a gathering in a park in Brooklyn.
00:26:39.000According to New York Police Department officials.
00:26:40.000The child, DeVell Gardner, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
00:26:45.000Three other people were also shot in the incident, which took place around 11.30 p.m.
00:26:49.000in the Bedford-Soyvescent section of the borough, according to the officials.
00:28:15.000That is the entire thing for Bill de Blasio.
00:28:17.000He does not give two hot dams about the fact that every single person who has been shot in the city of New York in the last month has been a person of color.
00:28:55.000And then he says, defunding is the right direction.
00:28:58.000Here he is, defunding the police, the right direction.
00:29:01.000We obviously took money out of the NYPD budget, put it into youth programs, put it into social services, put it into recreation centers for young people.
00:30:06.000All these politicians are so focused on the important things in life.
00:30:09.000We gotta have that painting on that street.
00:30:14.000The worst thing of all is going to be, I mean, the symbolism of New York City, really, is the Black Lives Matter painting on the street and a person getting shot on that street, right?
00:30:21.000I mean, if you had to create a political cartoon, that's what it would be.
00:30:23.000A person bleeding out on the street that says, Black Lives Matter, while Bill de Blasio stands there with a paintbrush.
00:30:51.000New York Town rejects Black Lives Matter painting.
00:30:54.000The debate over whether to allow the street art has exacerbated racial tensions in Catskill, where just over a fifth of the population is black.
00:31:01.000According to the New York Times, the street painting would stretch about three blocks, from Village Pizza 2 to the stoplight at the southern end of Main Street, spelling out Black Lives Matter on the pavement.
00:31:10.000The proposal didn't seem like too much of an ask.
00:31:12.000In the weeks since George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, the phrase has been painted on streets from Washington, D.C.
00:31:17.000to Charlotte, North Carolina, and on Thursday, even in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan.
00:31:20.000But village leaders in Catskill balked, offering several counter-proposals instead, including one that would have allowed the painting, but in the black area of town.
00:31:27.000I knew it was gonna be a no, said ShirleyCross31, a member of the Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition, which proposed the painting.
00:31:32.000I feel like it's a slap in the face for black people.
00:31:36.000Okay, alternatively, those paintings don't do bleep.
00:32:18.000Conference of Mayors published a letter in which they backed the idea of Democrats to create a reparations commission so the idea of slavery reparations to 41 million black Americans could be examined, according to Hank Berry in writing for the Daily Wire.
00:32:28.000The letter, signed on behalf of the mayors by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, The president of the organization was addressed to Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who had submitted bills in their respective houses to create a reparations committee.
00:34:01.000Now, all of this is disconnected from reality.
00:34:04.000If you think that most Americans care deeply about paintings on sidewalks, if you think that this solves any problems in the United States, you're out of your mind.
00:34:11.000If you think that most Americans are worried about a Slavery Reparations Commission, and I'm talking about, like, on the list of priorities for black Americans, do you think that Slavery Reparations Investigatory Commission is, like, in the top hundred?
00:34:26.000I would go no, but Again, it's all about the signaling, which is why you are, and it's all about the generalized message, which is that America is bad and responsible for all your problems.
00:34:34.000Inculcating and reinforcing that message is the key.
00:34:38.000Actually doing the hard work of making lives better?
00:34:46.000That's why, for example, you're seeing James Madison College at Michigan State University considering changing its name, according to John Brown, over at dailywire.com.
00:34:54.000Administrators of a residential college named after James Madison, you know, the guy who framed the Constitution, announced their willingness to expunge the founding father's name from their institution.
00:35:02.000In a letter addressed last week to alumni students and friends of the college, Interim Dean Linda Racciopi An assistant dean, Jeff Judge, expressed their desire to foster an environment where students can thrive as scholars and human beings.
00:35:14.000Adding, quote, as such, the college is taking steps to combat systemic racism and the perpetuation of whiteness and to probe how it can best support students of color, especially black students.
00:35:26.000They intend to combat racism and advance an anti-racist agenda within our college, such as revising curricula and course material, recruiting more students of color, providing counselors for students of color dealing with racial trauma, and dipping into an endowment to annually host a visiting scholar-in-residence who will teach and engage in research on LGBTQ issues.
00:35:43.000Also, they're considering renaming the James Madison College, which is really important.
00:36:08.000You know, America is less racist today than it was yesterday because you removed James Madison from the name of your residential dormitory.
00:36:17.000If you actually believe that, you're out of your mind.
00:36:19.000Nobody on the left is going to say, well, you know, because you painted Black Lives Matter on the street, that means that now you are exempt from everything further.
00:36:26.000There's this weird idea in the culture wars that if you surrender in the culture wars, that everybody leaves you alone after that, and it's nonsense.
00:36:32.000Do you think that the crusade to cleanse all of our public spaces of anything that could possibly be interpreted by white, woke liberals as offensive to minorities, which is really what's happening here, that this sort of stuff is going to, in the end, make America a more tolerant place?
00:37:08.000Okay, immediately upon this happening, there is now a Washington Post editor, Karen Atia, who by the way has suggested that white people are bad, right?
00:37:16.000That white women should be taken revenge upon.
00:37:19.000She's their global opinions editor, Karen Atia.
00:37:22.000And she did one week of reading about the Texas Rangers, like the group the Texas Rangers, and then she says the Texas Rangers should rename themselves.
00:37:30.000She said, to know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team's name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen.
00:37:37.000Attia, who grew up in Dallas, said she was raised on myths about Texas Rangers as brave and wholesome guardians of the Texas frontier.
00:37:42.000What we didn't realize at the time was that the Rangers were a cruel, racist force when it came to the non-whites who inhabited the beautiful, untamed Texas territory.
00:37:50.000The Texas Ranger Division is an agency within the Texas Department of Public Safety with lead criminal investigative responsibility.
00:37:55.000I mean, it's still a group that exists, obviously.
00:37:57.000Atiyah noted the first job of the Rangers, formed in 1835, was to clear the land of Indians for white settlers.
00:38:03.000And then she talks about the bad history of the Texas Rangers, citing a book about the Rangers by Doug Swanson.
00:38:09.000She pointed out that she did, I'm not kidding.
00:38:11.000She said, I read for a week about this and now I'm offended.
00:38:14.000So until now, no one was really offended because everybody was like, oh, you mean like the cops, the Texas Rangers?
00:38:19.000You mean like the group inside the Texas government, the Texas Rangers?
00:38:23.000Because I don't think anybody who roots for the Texas Rangers, like the Nolan Ryan Texas Rangers, is going, yeah, man, secret white supremacist signals.
00:38:30.000But now, you're retroactively outraged by a thing you didn't know about until five seconds ago, and that no one cared about until five seconds ago.
00:38:56.000No life has been made better by any of this.
00:38:59.000I challenge you to find me the life that has been made better by the controversy over the Washington Redskins name.
00:39:04.000I challenge you to find me the life that has been made better by a giant mural that says Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower, while people are being shot at twice the normal rate in New York City.
00:39:13.000Please, find me the person whose life was made materially better by this.
00:39:17.000Find me the person whose life was made materially better by the sort of idiotic training that companies are now forcing employees to go through, where you are told to examine your own whiteness and to look at all of your black colleagues with a sort of awkward level of disconnect, as Robin DiAngelo basically suggests in White Fragility.
00:39:35.000Is that gonna make the workplace more integrated or less integrated?
00:39:38.000When you look at your black coworker and you think to yourself, does that person fear me?
00:39:43.000The answer is, no, the person doesn't fear you, they're your coworker.
00:39:46.000But according to the left, they do fear you because of your inherent whiteness and because of the whiteness of the system.
00:39:51.000In order for you to be an ally, you actually have to be more at a remove from your black colleagues.
00:39:56.000In order for you to be an ally to the anti-racism movement, you have to see yourself as a malicious actor in a racial drama that predates your existence and you have never participated in.
00:40:07.000And if you don't do that, then you're not an ally.
00:40:11.000It's all about, and the signaling, in the end, is about Americans, broadly speaking, white Americans, broadly speaking, but mostly about America generally.
00:40:18.000The systems of America have to be torn out by the root.
00:40:21.000Now, again, the virtue signaling doesn't extend everywhere.
00:40:23.000So the NBA is a virtue signaling culture.
00:40:26.000The NBA's virtue signaling only extends to one particular area, right, in terms of race.
00:40:32.000The NBA will never extend its virtue signaling to, for example, challenging Chinese domination of Hong Kong.
00:40:38.000There's a story out of the Washington Free Beacon that we're gonna get to in a second, which demonstrates the complete hypocrisy of the social justice warrior NBA in just one second.
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00:43:38.000Now the nice thing about making all of American politics about the signaling as opposed to the actual policy is it means that if you signal the wrong way we can oust you before we even get to policy.
00:43:54.000See, if you can go after people based on their thought crime before you even have to have the debate about policy, it makes the debate about policy moot.
00:44:01.000You just get rid of all the people who are not super hot on the idea that giant virtue signaling paintings on the street that say black lives matter, thus implying that a huge percentage of Americans believe that black lives do not matter.
00:44:13.000If you can get people to quote unquote out themselves as racist for opposing random signal of the day, then that means you never have to have a policy discussion about the actual awkward stuff in American public life.
00:44:23.000Like, why are so many people shooting each other in New York City?
00:44:26.000Like, why are so many people shooting each other in Washington, D.C.?
00:44:28.000Why are there disproportionate poverty rates?
00:44:31.000And why are there disproportionate education rates?
00:44:33.000And what does that have to do with history, how much of that is history, and how much of that is current-day decision-making?
00:45:03.000So much of politics is about rallying around a particular slogan or message or flag.
00:45:11.000And if you make it so that everyone who refuses to rally around a particular slogan, message, or flag is cast out of the tent, you've just made your job a lot easier.
00:45:38.000You want to talk about the disconnect from our political media and the American public?
00:45:42.000There's a poll from Economist YouGov, and it asks, among different racial groups, how many people believe that the slogan, All Lives Matter, is bad?
00:45:51.000Because remember, this is the going wisdom on the left, is that if somebody says to you, Black Lives Matter, You are not allowed to say either all black lives matter, which apparently is bad, right?
00:46:01.000If I say all black lives matter, then I'm discussing the problems of murder in black communities, I'm discussing the problems of poverty and inequality and education and all of the, and single motherhood and all those, and he's saying we can't say that.
00:46:14.000Black lives matter doesn't mean all black lives matter, it just means the cops are bad.
00:46:46.000Because the Black Lives Matter message is an implicit rebuke of the United States, because the implicit rebuke is that out there somewhere, there are a bunch of people who deny that Black Lives Matter.
00:46:55.000And when you say all lives matter, what you're really saying is that most Americans agree that all lives matter.
00:48:02.000Are these Black people outside the Overton window, outside the tent?
00:48:05.000By the way, among Hispanic people, 58% have positive associations, the same number among whites.
00:48:11.000In fact, whites and Hispanics have very similar numbers, which gives the lie to the quote-unquote people of color all think the same way nonsense, right?
00:48:18.000Blacks and Hispanics actually think very differently about this.
00:48:21.000Whites and Hispanics think kind of the same.
00:48:23.000Hispanics, 58% say they have positive associations with All Lives Matter.
00:48:27.00016% say they have neutral associations with All Lives Matter.
00:48:30.000So 74% of Hispanics compared to 66% of blacks compared to 65%, sorry, 75% of whites say that they have positive associations with All Lives Matter.
00:48:43.000Now, you wouldn't know that from the media coverage, would you?
00:48:45.000You wouldn't know that, because according to the media coverage, this is a signal, right?
00:49:05.000So the NBA has been virtue signaling about all of these racial topics, obviously, particularly on the police.
00:49:12.000And they've decided they're going to allow people to wear social justice messages on the back of their jerseys.
00:49:16.000Now, the first person who puts on the back of their jersey, tariffs are bad public policy and foster political dysfunction along the way.
00:49:24.000On the back of their jersey, I will personally give $1,000.
00:49:27.000Any player who puts that on the back of their jersey, I will crowdfund half a million dollars for any player who puts Free Hong Kong on the back of their jersey.
00:49:41.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, in keeping with the league policy on political statements, the official online store of the NBA does not permit fans to order a custom jersey with the phrase Free Hong Kong printed on the back.
00:49:52.000Free Hong Kong is one of the many phrases banned under the NBA's New Jersey policy.
00:49:56.000So you can put up Black Lives Matter, but you can't do Free Hong Kong.
00:50:00.000If you type free Hong Kong into the text box, they say we are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered.
00:50:26.000You could do Trump has AIDS, Pence is gay, and Uyghurs lie.
00:50:30.000All of those you could put on the jerseys.
00:50:33.000As the Washington Free Beacon points out, a number of NBA players, including LeBron James, have rallied around ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, who was recently suspended after writing FU in response to a press release from Josh Hawley pointing out the warmth between the NBA and the government of China.
00:50:48.000So a lot of virtue signaling with no virtue over in the NBA.
00:50:54.000Okay, so we have two more hours of additional content a little bit later.
00:50:57.000You know, one thing that I've neglected to do for several weeks because of all of the news and the riots and everything else are things I like.
00:51:02.000So I want to recommend a book that is worthy of reading.
00:51:05.000It is a book by John McWhorter, who is a linguistics professor.
00:51:08.000It's a book from back in 2001 and has lost none of its punch.
00:51:11.000It's called Losing the Race, Self-Sabotage in Black America.
00:51:15.000And he talks about the real, many of the actual real problems inside the black community that don't involve painting giant slogans on street corners to make white woke people feel better about themselves.
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