The Charlie Kirk Show - October 07, 2020


Go Woke Go Broke, Go Sweden


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NBA Finals ratings crash again, and this time it s not because of LeBron James. It s because the National Basketball Association s deep links with China are hurting the league s TV ratings, and some people are saying it s because they re overly political.

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00:02:00.000 NBA Finals ratings crash again, reaching back-to-back historic lows.
00:02:05.000 It couldn't have happened to a better group of people.
00:02:08.000 I love sports.
00:02:09.000 I grew up playing sports at Wheeling High School, basketball, football.
00:02:14.000 My entire summers were AAU tournaments to summer seven-on-seven football.
00:02:21.000 I think that football is a huge part of the American culture.
00:02:25.000 I think sports are an important part of the American culture. 0.55
00:02:30.000 But as soon as the professional athletic industry started to care more about the Chinese Communist Party than the American people and embrace BLM Incorporated and plaster it all over their court, especially the National Basketball Association, I and millions of other people said we're done. 0.53
00:02:52.000 No more. 0.71
00:02:54.000 Go woke, go broke.
00:02:57.000 I'm reading here from Breitbart.com, the greatbreitbart.com.
00:03:01.000 Game one of the finals brought its lowest viewership since 1994, and game two was the lowest ever on record.
00:03:09.000 But wait, that was before game three, which beat out game two by becoming the least watched finals game in NBA history.
00:03:18.000 Game two earned a paltry 4.5 million viewers.
00:03:21.000 Hold on, 4.5 million viewers?
00:03:24.000 Can we get some numbers here?
00:03:26.000 I think Tucker Carlson has more viewers than the NBA Finals.
00:03:30.000 I think more people are watching Tucker Carlson every night than LeBron James.
00:03:34.000 Brings me such joy.
00:03:36.000 While game three submarined that number by peaking at 4.395 million.
00:03:41.000 Now, mind you, this is a nearly 70% decline from last year's finals numbers, which included a team from Canada.
00:03:48.000 Not only that, unlike this year's audience, last year's audience was not on lockdown and did not include the game's best player, LeBron James.
00:03:56.000 He might be the best current player, but he will never be better than Michael Jordan.
00:04:00.000 And Michael Jordan still loves his country, unlike LeBron James.
00:04:03.000 And Michael Jordan is also not a fool. 0.69
00:04:05.000 And the BLM agenda, Breitbart.com continues, NBA ratings, final ratings crash again.
00:04:12.000 And the BLM agenda stayed as a constant throughout the duration of the season, while LeBron James makes more than enough money to offset the ratings hit his league will take from the social justice activism that he advances. 0.56
00:04:29.000 You go woke, you go broke.
00:04:33.000 A September 2nd Harris poll found that 39% of respondents who identified as sports fans, myself included, felt that the league was too political.
00:04:43.000 Another 19% said they had turned off pro basketball because of the National Basketball Association's deep links with China.
00:04:52.000 The National Basketball Association is not alone in the ratings graveyard because some people are saying, oh, it's just the NBA.
00:04:59.000 It's because they're overly political.
00:05:01.000 It's also the bubble.
00:05:02.000 There's no fans.
00:05:03.000 It's not the same.
00:05:06.000 And that very well might be true.
00:05:09.000 But according to deadline.com, the week four Sunday Night Football game drew 11.7 million viewers and had a 3.5 rating among the 18 to 49 demographic from the early numbers.
00:05:22.000 This is a dip from an already abysmal week there with 15 million viewers.
00:05:27.000 And it's a massive difference compared to 2019 when week three of Sunday Night Football game between the Seahawks and the Cowboys drew an astounding 24 million viewers with a 13.7 rating.
00:05:37.000 The NFL season opener was down 16.1%, marking a 10-year low for the league.
00:05:44.000 Major League Baseball has seen its viewership decrease, hovering below 1.7 million viewers in most cases.
00:05:53.000 So LeBron James and the National Basketball Association have made a decision to become MSNBC with a bouncing ball to become a non-stop social justice protest in the bubble in Florida.
00:06:17.000 So while the National Basketball Association received 4.5 million viewers, Tucker Carlson and the week of September 25th, on that Monday, 4.7 million viewers, Tuesday, 4.7 million viewers, Wednesday, 4.8 million viewers, and Thursday, 4.7 million viewers.
00:06:44.000 More people want to watch Tucker Carlson talk about the news than LeBron James complain about how systemically racist and awful we are.
00:06:55.000 And I think that even liberals and people on the soft left, I think they're disengaging from the National Basketball Association because there's an inherent, not just hypocrisy, but there's an inherent tension in the entire narrative of the National Basketball Association.
00:07:11.000 The narrative is very simple.
00:07:12.000 We're an awful country.
00:07:15.000 Okay. 0.99
00:07:16.000 We're systemically racist.
00:07:19.000 Okay.
00:07:20.000 And then after the ninth time they say it and they take a knee during the national anthem, the question is then asked of LeBron or of Kevin Durant or any of the major players in the National Basketball Association. 0.63
00:07:36.000 Wait, if we're so systemically racist as a country and black people can't succeed, how did you make $600 million, LeBron? 0.94
00:07:48.000 So, the National Basketball Association is predominantly black men that are earning millions of dollars a year to then go complain about our country, that we're systemically racist, that we're awful. 0.96
00:08:03.000 And I don't believe that America is above criticism. 0.98
00:08:08.000 I don't.
00:08:09.000 But I also think that unwarranted, absolute criticism of the greatest country ever to exist from the history of the world that is rooted in gratitude, anger, and venom, bitterness, arrogance, and deceit, and not gratitude and appreciation for the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:08:32.000 So, what does this mean politically?
00:08:34.000 Well, it's not a good sign for Democrats.
00:08:35.000 It's not.
00:08:36.000 Americans are actually rejecting the over-political nature of athletics.
00:08:43.000 And by the way, the Stanley Cup also had a ratings collapse.
00:08:47.000 The Kentucky Derby had a Indy 500 ratings collapse.
00:08:52.000 I travel a lot for the work that we do at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
00:08:55.000 I give over 300 speeches a year, and we're trying to catch up now that we shut down the country for a couple months.
00:09:03.000 And as I was traveling, I saw someone who wanted to take a picture with me, and I said, Yeah, sure, that's fine.
00:09:10.000 And we took a picture, and he was wearing an NHL shirt.
00:09:14.000 And I said, Oh, you know, I think it was the Las Vegas, whatever the Las Vegas team is.
00:09:20.000 I'm not really a big hockey fan.
00:09:21.000 I know the Blackhawks, they've won a couple Stanley Cup finals.
00:09:24.000 Anyway, I asked, I said, So, what's going on with hockey?
00:09:27.000 They said, Oh, the Stanley Cup is on.
00:09:29.000 I had no idea the Stanley Cup was happening.
00:09:31.000 No idea whatsoever.
00:09:34.000 And one of our team members here on the Charlie Kirk show said it best: sports has always felt kind of part of the zeitgeist of our country, traditionally and usually.
00:09:42.000 And now it has felt outside of it.
00:09:46.000 Hockey is the least political of all the sports, but even baseball has now gone woke.
00:09:52.000 They're going to go broke.
00:09:54.000 So, sports will have one of two options, and basketball in particular: LeBron James and Kevin Durant and the National Basketball Association, they could do one, well, they could do three things, but the current status quo is one of those things.
00:10:09.000 They're probably not going to continue it because it's unsustainable.
00:10:12.000 So, they can do one of two things: they can retreat from the over-political nature of this basketball season, just get away from it and go back to how things should be in athletics, or they will double down and basically say, we do not care about American-based audience.
00:10:30.000 We are going to pander more to the Chinese Communist Party. 0.71
00:10:32.000 We are going to disregard the entire American sport market, and we don't care if we go woke and go broke because the Chinese Communist Party will bail us out. 0.51
00:10:45.000 Sports have collapsed in this country because of the left. 0.96
00:10:50.000 They destroy everything they touch.
00:10:52.000 New polls out of Florida, but something seems to be amiss.
00:10:56.000 One new poll has the president tied in Florida, 45, 45, 45%, 45%, Biden and Trump, USA Today Suffolk poll.
00:11:08.000 But another poll came out that showed Joe Biden up six points.
00:11:12.000 Again, some of these polls might be right, some might be wrong.
00:11:16.000 I think we have to take a little bit of humility when we approach these polls and not just dismiss all of them as being wrong, just most of them are wrong.
00:11:23.000 So, a University of North Florida's public opinion research lab, one of the top pollsters in Florida, they just actually admitted they made a massive mistake.
00:11:34.000 So, they said they're up six points.
00:11:37.000 But Sam on Twitter at Sunshine Saint ST8 Sam said there is no real world that exists where Trump is winning 47% of the Florida's Hispanic vote, but is losing to Biden statewide by six points.
00:11:54.000 And so the University of North Florida got called out on their error and replied, this is actually a typo.
00:11:59.000 Incorrect data was accidentally placed in the Hispanic column.
00:12:03.000 The data in the smaller crosstabs above in the press release, a Hispanic sample, oversample is correct.
00:12:09.000 The corrected report will be up on our website shortly.
00:12:11.000 We apologize for any confusion.
00:12:13.000 But as far as we know, the University of North Florida has not corrected their poll.
00:12:18.000 And look, the USC poll also has similar mistakes happening where they are oversampling Hispanics.
00:12:25.000 And as they are oversampling Hispanics, President Trump is winning record and historic levels of support in the Hispanic community.
00:12:35.000 And so there's a couple takeaways from this. 0.78
00:12:38.000 Why is the president doing incredibly well with Hispanics? 0.97
00:12:46.000 Two reasons. 1.00
00:12:48.000 Number one is BLM Incorporated. 0.98
00:12:51.000 Hispanic voters typically are first or second generation Americans. 0.87
00:12:57.000 They're from Cuba, they're from Central America, Mexico, South America, especially in Florida.
00:13:03.000 There's a lot of Cubans and South Americans, especially people that have fled socialism or some form of unstable government, some form of a government that's been corrupt, some form of government that has been uncertain.
00:13:20.000 And so Hispanic voters traditionally do not think kindly towards war on law enforcement, police, law and order, discord, or disunity on the streets.
00:13:33.000 And also there's a general ingratitude towards the BLM Incorporated movement.
00:13:38.000 BLM Incorporated, which should be labeled as a terrorist organization by our federal government, their entire movement is that this place is awful. 0.94
00:13:44.000 We have to burn it down to the ground. 0.94
00:13:45.000 That's basically the thesis statement of BLM Incorporated.
00:13:50.000 And Hispanic voters that traditionally are very thankful that they live in America, very happy that they live in this wonderful country full of opportunity, they look at BLM Incorporated and say, I don't think this place is as systemically racist as you might think.
00:14:04.000 We're actually seeing our life get better.
00:14:06.000 In fact, if you want to trade places and go back to Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, or South America, we'd be more than welcome to make that trade.
00:14:14.000 In fact, I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee this last weekend.
00:14:17.000 I met a wonderful woman who was from Colombia. 0.97
00:14:21.000 She was an orphan.
00:14:23.000 She was adopted.
00:14:24.000 And she said, people have no idea the suffering that can take place on this planet when government gets corrupt and doesn't look after the needs, wants, and interests of its citizens.
00:14:39.000 And she said, when she sees BLM Incorporated marching in the streets with their fist raised with anger and venom and outrage, almost seeking revenge, she has no patience for that whatsoever.
00:14:53.000 And she even told me that at times she struggles with Trump's tone and Trump's dialogue or the way that he goes about handling press conferences.
00:15:06.000 But she is going to vote for President Trump confidently and proudly because she is thankful that she lives in America.
00:15:15.000 So number one is the BLM incorporated issue, why President Trump is doing historically well with Hispanics.
00:15:21.000 Number two is the issue of life and the family. 0.57
00:15:24.000 President Trump is the most pro-life president in American history.
00:15:27.000 Hispanics are family-oriented people.
00:15:30.000 And Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have almost become disintegrationists when it comes to the nuclear family in America.
00:15:38.000 Hispanic voters actually revere law enforcement. 0.99
00:15:41.000 That's why you see so many Hispanic cops. 0.73
00:15:43.000 Hispanic voters want to live quiet and peaceable lives. 1.00
00:15:46.000 Hispanic voters are not okay with post-birth abortions.
00:15:50.000 They are not okay with the rampant amount of social leftism that has permeated the Democrat Party.
00:15:59.000 So the Democrats might think that Hispanics are single-issue voters, that they just want open borders and amnesty for everyone.
00:16:04.000 President Trump is demonstrating that they care about law and order, life, culture, and the family.
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00:17:25.000 Sweden.
00:17:27.000 I think we have discussed the Scandinavian state more in the last six months than the last six years of our country.
00:17:35.000 For the record, I love Sweden.
00:17:37.000 Great people, great culture.
00:17:39.000 But who would have thought that Sweden would have done a better job of protecting natural rights and individual liberty than America?
00:17:51.000 Now, the activist media did everything they possibly could to attack Sweden.
00:17:57.000 You remember along May and June and July, the activist media was going out of their way intentionally to say that Sweden was a total catastrophe.
00:18:11.000 So just looking at the New York Times coverage of Sweden tells a very important story.
00:18:20.000 June 22nd, 2020, a man by the name of Thomas Erdbrink.
00:18:28.000 We're going to read a couple pieces from him.
00:18:30.000 Thomas Erdbrink on June 22nd, 2020, Sweden tries out a new status, pariah state.
00:18:39.000 Sounds terrible.
00:18:41.000 He says, quote, while most countries went into lockdowns this spring, Sweden famously refused and now has suffered roughly twice as many infections and five times as many deaths as the other three nations combined.
00:18:54.000 Sounds really bad.
00:18:56.000 He goes on to talk about how Sweden is betraying their citizens, going back to the thesis statement that it is a pariah state.
00:19:03.000 This entire thing is a hit piece on a country.
00:19:06.000 Never thought I'd see it before, but it's a hit piece on a country and their handling of the virus. 0.55
00:19:10.000 Now, Sweden, God bless them, they really didn't care.
00:19:14.000 Unlike most people that get attacked by the activist media, they're like, vitrust the data.
00:19:19.000 It's like very simple, right?
00:19:21.000 Like they just look at the data and they make informed decisions.
00:19:25.000 Here's what it says.
00:19:26.000 Sweden is sort of a regional hegemon, and its critics say given to a certain arrogance and exceptionalism that can be grading.
00:19:34.000 Kind of a veiled take at anyone that believes in American exceptionalism.
00:19:39.000 It finishes by basically saying that this is an experiment in Darwinian viral contraction.
00:19:48.000 June 22nd, Thomas Erdbrink, Sweden tries out a new status, pariah state.
00:19:54.000 Remember that name, Thomas Erdbrink.
00:19:59.000 On July 7th, a different reporter by the name of Peter Goodman says Sweden has become the world's cautionary tale.
00:20:07.000 You see, the New York Times wasn't pleased with just Thomas Erdbrink's comparison of a pariah state.
00:20:14.000 Basically, it's the same article, copy-paste.
00:20:17.000 I mean, it's the exact same thing.
00:20:22.000 Sweden suffers a vastly higher death rate.
00:20:24.000 Sweden's central bank expects its economy to contract by 4.5%. 1.00
00:20:28.000 That would have been nice.
00:20:29.000 We were negative 30%.
00:20:31.000 There's a little bit of data here that kind of gives Sweden the benefit of the doubt a couple of weeks later, but basically, it's another hit piece, this time by Peter Goodman.
00:20:43.000 So the intellectual framework that a lot of people were making decisions from the entire summer is that Sweden is bad, end of discussion. 1.00
00:20:51.000 Shut up, idiot, if you dare disagree. 1.00
00:20:54.000 Science is awful. 1.00
00:20:55.000 We trust dogma. 0.99
00:20:56.000 Sweden is bad.
00:20:58.000 They're only doing this because they hate the least of these.
00:21:02.000 So Thomas Erdbrink might be a nice guy.
00:21:06.000 He decided to try out his pen again.
00:21:11.000 Thomas Erdbrink has a new story in the New York Times that would have probably slipped under your radar for obvious reasons because the activist media wouldn't have highlighted it.
00:21:22.000 But this is in the New York Times.
00:21:23.000 I mean, I got to give the Times credit for publishing this story.
00:21:26.000 So, June 22nd, 2020, Thomas Erdbrink, Sweden tries out new status, pariah state.
00:21:31.000 Now, September 29th, vilified early over lax virus strategy.
00:21:36.000 Sweden seems, Sweden seems to have scourge control. 0.75
00:21:38.000 Vilified by you, Thomas Erdbrink.
00:21:41.000 You're the guy that vilified them.
00:21:43.000 It should have been, I vilified Sweden by calling them a pariah state.
00:21:47.000 Thomas Erdbrink says, after having weathered high death rates when it resisted a lockdown this spring, Sweden now has one of Europe's lowest rates of daily new cases.
00:21:56.000 Whether this is an aberration remains to be seen.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, sure, Thomas Erdbrink goes on to talk about how Sweden has had very little economic crisis.
00:22:04.000 They're not seeing an increase in suicide, how they do not have increase of cases, how their death rates are unmoved, that they are not wearing masks, that they are out in public.
00:22:16.000 And as Heather McDonald talked about in her City Journal article, I will quote: There is no correlation globally between the degree of lockdowns and coronavirus death rates.
00:22:25.000 Countries such as Britain that impose strict lockdowns have massively higher death rates than most countries such as Japan.
00:22:32.000 Countries with extensive mask wearing show no better results than severals where people breathe freely.
00:22:37.000 So Thomas Erdbrink quietly, completely reversed course.
00:22:44.000 It says here, Sweden is well prepared for a potential resurgence.
00:22:48.000 Thomas Erdbrink quotes Dr. Hildebrand: quote, we change behavior.
00:22:53.000 I don't see anybody shaking hands, for example.
00:22:55.000 Life is back to normal, but of course, there could be a second wave.
00:23:00.000 Some experts believe that Sweden is now fully in control of the virus.
00:23:08.000 Quote, there are indications that the Swedes have gained an element of immunity to the disease, which together with everything else they are doing to prevent the infection from spreading is enough to keep the disease down, according to a scientist from Copenhagen, which is in Denmark.
00:23:24.000 He stressed that the country could have avoided the high death toll at the beginning, but that Sweden has regained control in mid-April when deaths decline steadily, and that they are ready for anything that might come their way.
00:23:40.000 So, the New York Times, I got to give Thomas Erdbrink credit with no self-admission or self-awareness whatsoever.
00:23:47.000 He takes one of the most dramatic 180s I've ever seen for a journalist in the New York Times.
00:23:52.000 But I will give the New York Times credit.
00:23:54.000 I mean this with no sarcasm.
00:23:55.000 The fact they publish this is very interesting.
00:23:59.000 I don't really know what to make of it.
00:24:00.000 It's very interesting.
00:24:03.000 So, Sweden, which is attacked by everybody, including Thomas Erdbrink, is now the model.
00:24:08.000 Daily new deaths in Sweden down dramatically since mid-July.
00:24:14.000 Coronavirus cases, 96,145, deaths, 5,883.
00:24:18.000 The per capita rate is far lower than nearby Denmark or the Netherlands.
00:24:22.000 In early September, 1.2% of tests in Sweden were positive, compared to about 7% in Northwest England, one of Britain's hardest hit areas.
00:24:33.000 The fact that Sweden did not lock down and now has fewer deaths per capita than the United States, which did experience economic lockdowns in most parts of the country, does not prove anything.
00:24:44.000 What it does prove is that lockdowns don't work.
00:24:50.000 We're quoting from a piece here.
00:24:54.000 CNN, late September, some countries are eyeing Sweden's light touch COVID response.
00:24:59.000 It's a gamble that could backfire.
00:25:03.000 People say we must trust the science.
00:25:06.000 What science was Sweden operating from?
00:25:12.000 Does epidemiology act differently?
00:25:18.000 Do viruses act differently in Stockholm than in Sacramento?
00:25:23.000 Do the laws of nature operate differently in Stockholm than Syracuse?
00:25:30.000 Or maybe the Swedes have more reverence and value for individual liberty and initiative than we do.
00:25:41.000 Maybe the Swedes actually want what's best for their country.
00:25:46.000 They saw no dramatic increases in suicide, alcoholism, social isolation, antidepressant medication.
00:25:54.000 They now have basically built herd immunity.
00:25:56.000 Their economy is fractionally down, but not severely down.
00:26:00.000 There's no depression at all whatsoever.
00:26:02.000 No 100,000 businesses that have gone bankrupt like we did in America.
00:26:06.000 And even the New York Times has reversed its course from calling it a pariah state to now having the virus under control, having the scourge controlled.
00:26:18.000 And even CNN has admitted that things are going well in Sweden.
00:26:24.000 Some people say that, oh, I don't know if there's anything to learn from Sweden.
00:26:27.000 How about this?
00:26:29.000 You trust the data and the science, which they accuse us of not trusting, by saying, do you know that the death rate or the survival rate for zero to 19-year-olds is 99.97% of only those that we know that are tested and then have it, and the infection rate is far beyond the testing rate?
00:26:51.000 So many people get infected that are asymptomatic.
00:26:53.000 So many people get infected that have a cold and never get actually tested.
00:26:57.000 Some people get tested.
00:26:58.000 Some people get infected and they never submit themselves into a hospital so they don't get logged into data.
00:27:04.000 So some of this data is already flawed as it is.
00:27:09.000 And so now Sweden, which gets categorized by many people, myself included at times as being a socialist country, has a much higher tolerance for risk than Western-centered countries that were founded on liberty and freedom.
00:27:26.000 And the question should be why.
00:27:29.000 Well, you go back to the early writings of why Sweden did what they did.
00:27:33.000 It's because they never were convinced that this disease was as deadly as the models suggested.
00:27:41.000 They were never convinced that lockdowns would actually help stop the spread.
00:27:46.000 It might help temporarily slow the spread, but it's only a prolonging mechanism.
00:27:50.000 And Sweden was never convinced that permanently shutting down an entire economy would be beneficial to a country, to a middle class.
00:28:04.000 And now you see the other Scandinavian countries, Finland, Norway, Sweden, I mean Finland, Norway, Denmark, excuse me, are suffering dramatically.
00:28:15.000 And the per capita rate is down.
00:28:17.000 If you look at the chart of Swedish deaths for the Chinese coronavirus, it's just absolutely plummeted, which, by the way, in every other neighboring country, Germany, France, not totally neighboring, but regionally, they will have a huge acceleration of Chinese coronavirus death rates.
00:28:34.000 Do you know we've lost more people to suicide than the Chinese coronavirus in the state of California, young people?
00:28:41.000 Lockdowns are not a victimless action.
00:28:46.000 And by the way, if you subtract the three lockdown states from the United States totals, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, which account for 31% of all the deaths, the United States numbers suddenly plummet to 399 per million, below Bolivia and slightly above Colombia.
00:29:04.000 New York City is thinking of shutting down again.
00:29:06.000 Andrew Cuomo, who's coming out with his new book to brag about how well he did on the virus, he calls it the European virus, not the Chinese coronavirus.
00:29:13.000 They're going to lock down again.
00:29:15.000 Where is the scientific data that proves that lockdowns work?
00:29:19.000 I will quote from Heather McDonald's, City Journal.
00:29:23.000 There is no correlation globally between the degree of lockdowns and coronavirus death rates.
00:29:27.000 Why are you doing something where there's no data?
00:29:30.000 What science are you following?
00:29:31.000 Show me the science, lockdown experts.
00:29:35.000 Aaron Ginn, friend of mine, statistician who's been on the Charlie Kirk show, said, quote, one in 10 has seriously considered suicide in the previous month, about twice as many who had thought of taking their lives in 2018.
00:29:45.000 Lockdowns are killing people. 1.00
00:29:47.000 The Swedes got it right. 0.99
00:29:48.000 Maybe it's time we start learning from our socialist friends in Europe.
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00:30:37.000 There were so many stories I wanted to get to today, but the time is always short.
00:30:42.000 One in particular, I want to talk about Andrew Cuomo, who, of course, walks maskless on the cities of New York.
00:30:49.000 And as we talked about, there is no correlation between countries that mandate masks and don't and the spread of the virus.
00:30:54.000 But Andrew Cuomo, of course, says he wants to find people.
00:30:57.000 Bill de Basio says he wants to find people if they don't wear masks.
00:31:00.000 But then Andrew Cuomo really wants to play into his tyrannical impulses.
00:31:05.000 So someone should probably whisper in Andrew Cuomo's ear, hey, closing the synagogues, not exactly a good statement to make, going after Jewish people.
00:31:17.000 Not exactly that wise.
00:31:20.000 His brother, Chris Cuomo, also went on a crazy rant using some undesirable language. 0.97
00:31:26.000 We don't need to play that tape, but the Cuomos have been very, let's just say, unhinged in the last 24 hours. 0.88
00:31:33.000 So Andrew Cuomo wants to shut down the synagogues in New York City, which is an affront to two parts of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause. 0.99
00:31:44.000 And explain to me, Andrew Cuomo.
00:31:46.000 Here's a question for Andrew Cuomo, who wants to shut down the synagogues in New York City.
00:31:51.000 Why are abortion factories open, but you want synagogues closed?
00:31:56.000 Why are weed stores open, but you want synagogues closed? 0.55
00:32:01.000 Why are you okay with BLM Incorporated marching in the streets of Albany, of Rochester, and New York City, right up against each other with no masks, no social distancing? 0.59
00:32:12.000 But you have a problem with Jewish people being able to go to synagogue.
00:32:16.000 Andrew Cuomo, what is it about the Jews that bother you so much? 0.82
00:32:19.000 Why do you single out Jewish people?
00:32:22.000 Do you have some sort of harboring resentment or prejudice that you'd like to tell us about?
00:32:28.000 Andrew Cuomo, why were you silent when BLM Incorporated defaced an entire city block in front of Trump Tower? 1.00
00:32:34.000 But Jewish people just want to worship God. 0.99
00:32:37.000 And that really bothers you on an elemental level where you say, if you're not willing to live within my rules, then I'm going to close the synagogues. 1.00
00:32:43.000 What gives you the constitutional right to be able to do that? 0.55
00:32:46.000 And by the way, where's Chuck Schumer?
00:32:49.000 Where's Chuck Schumer speaking out against this? 0.88
00:32:51.000 Who's supposed to be a spokesperson for the Jewish community in New York City?
00:32:56.000 And of course, Andrew Cuomo goes out of his way to attack Jews, attack Jews and Jewish people.
00:33:01.000 Nothing new. 0.97
00:33:03.000 The Democrat Party has become the party of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. 0.93
00:33:07.000 But Andrew Cuomo, you call the Chinese coronavirus the European virus because you're probably bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.85
00:33:14.000 You're probably a wholly owned subsidiary, and your political career is probably being, I don't want to say held hostage, but probably being decided by a group of Chinese Communist Party affiliates. 0.51
00:33:27.000 But what is it about the Jews that bother you so much? 0.74
00:33:29.000 Why do you want to close the synagogues? 0.88
00:33:31.000 And the answer is, of course, power grabbers and central planners, specifically on the left in the Democrat Party, they have a problem with Jews.
00:33:42.000 Just ask Elon Omar, who thinks that Israel should be wiped off the face of the planet. 0.61
00:33:46.000 Just ask Linda Sarseur from the River to the Sea, which is code for abolishing the state of Israel. 0.92
00:33:54.000 Andrew Cuomo, you should have to answer for your hatred of the Jewish people.
00:33:59.000 And yet, it is Joe Biden, the Democrat Party, that wrongly accuse President Trump and Republicans of somehow embracing and harboring anti-Semitism.
00:34:10.000 It's coming from one side.
00:34:12.000 And you see it right here from Governor Cuomo's office, who wants to go after people of faith for a reason that is yet undetermined.
00:34:21.000 But just so we're clear, Andrew Cuomo is perfectly okay with Planned Parenthood staying open.
00:34:27.000 Andrew Cuomo is okay with liquor stores staying open.
00:34:30.000 Andrew Cuomo is great with looting and rioting, stealing merchandise.
00:34:35.000 That's an essential and protected activity.
00:34:38.000 Why is Andrew Cuomo being more forceful towards Jews than towards criminal vigilantes that stole millions of dollars of merchandise and burned down businesses all across New York City?
00:34:49.000 Andrew Cuomo is using more fiery language towards Jewish people than towards criminals in the streets of New York.
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00:35:04.000 You knock on doors.
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00:35:08.000 The polls are tightening.
00:35:10.000 This election is going to be one on the margins.
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