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Oct. 7, 2020 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin

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California Crazy: No Reopening Till Equity Metrics Met & VP Debate | DIRECT MESSAGE | Rubin Report

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dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		All right, people. This is the live Rubin Report Direct Message.
		It is October 7th, and it's a big day!
		It's Vice Presidential Debate Day here in America.
		We're going to get to that and much more.
		I'm feeling good today, as you can see.
		I have a fresh haircut.
		There's nothing that sort of sets you right than a fresh haircut,
		especially in a place like California, where it's unclear if when you're getting a haircut
		that you're doing some sort of criminal act.
		I'm actually not sure.
		My girl now comes to my house and we take good care of her.
		We pay her a little something and we made her dinner and she cut my hair and she cut David's hair.
		She offered actually to cut the dog's whiskers.
		We didn't do that, but I'm feeling good.
		There's a lot going on in the world, and let's get to it.
		So, you know, when I started this thing, I always said to you guys, you know, we're gonna do mostly two or three stories.
		Two or three stories a day.
		We're actually gonna do three stories today, but I am gonna throw in a clip right up front from this lunatic nutbag, Bill de Blasio, who is the mayor of New York City, who has basically ruined New York City.
		The amount of people leaving New York City is absolutely insane.
		I have a friend Who lives in New York City, who's still in New York City.
		He's stuck there because he owns a business, at least for now, that's in New York City.
		But he's been telling me that his building, basically, which was always, because it was in a pretty decent area and decent prices for the apartment, it was always jam-packed and a waiting list to actually get an apartment in his building, an apartment for rent, that his building is at about 60% open vacancies right now.
		When you add that to the fact that my Sister, my actual sister, not Jennifer Rubin, my actual sister and her husband and two kids left New York City.
		I've mentioned to you guys before, I've had family members in New York City since we attracted at one point to the early 1900s, probably around 1908.
		At times there were about 60 family members in the different boroughs.
		There's one person left.
		I think a few weeks ago I said that there were zero people, but there is one distant cousin.
		left in New York City.
		Crime is way up.
		You may have seen the video of Rick Moranis getting assaulted on the Upper West Side.
		I used to live right there.
		If you didn't see this, so Rick Moranis is the actor from Ghostbusters.
		Remember Rick Moranis?
		And Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
		Anyway, he actually got out of acting for about 20 years, until a few weeks ago he was in a commercial.
		I mean, I used to see him on the Upper West all the time, and I think he had a son who was very ill.
		So usually if I see people that I like what they do, I usually say hi, but I sense that the guy really wanted a
		private life.
		But I used to see him wandering all around the Upper West, and he got just assaulted randomly by some guy, literally on one of the streets that I would see him on all the time, so I assume it's pretty close to where he lives.
		But violence is up, murder is up, you know, we're seeing the stores be attacked and everything else.
		So this de Blasio guy who wants to defund the police, and he's just sort of the worst Sort of like progressive, just everything will get worse under my watch, but it's never my fault type of politician.
		He put out this video on Twitter about masks and, well, just watch for yourself.
		I'm not making this an anti-mask thing.
		We've been through this before.
		When I go into stores, I follow whatever their policies are.
		I put on the mask.
		Yada, yada, yada.
		My guys, when they work here in my house, we don't wear masks.
		I have friends over.
		We don't wear masks.
		Everyone is allowed to make whatever decisions they want
		in their own life, at least for now.
		But this like fetishizing of it, this is what New Yorkers do.
		You know, before you, de Blasio, New Yorkers were known for having
		a pretty intense independence streak and just watching, ugh, just, ugh.
		I don't like Bill de Blasio, in case that's not clear.
		All right, let's get to the big three stories.
		So the stories, obviously, I'm gonna do some VP debate predictions and preview.
		We're gonna start with that, so I'll get to that momentarily.
		Then, here in California, Gavin Newsom, he's the Bill de Blasio of California, he has instituted California health equity.
		Metrics.
		Equity metrics.
		And every time you hear the word equity, bells should go off in your head because in essence we're going to start looking at race when it comes to COVID numbers.
		And then in essence, okay, we want the races to be equal as to who's getting COVID.
	So kind of like you might want more people with More white people with COVID so that it matches the amount of black people with COVID or Asian people with COVID or something.
	It's like this has nothing to do with race, but progressives inject race into everything, so why not into COVID?
	And then the third story I want to talk about is the NBA ratings drop, which are cataclysmic, absolutely disastrous for the league.
	And just a moment, about two minutes before we started this, I just saw a tweet from Outkick, that's Clay Travis' site, and they do great sports coverage, actual sports coverage.
	You're not gonna believe it.
	If you like sports, it's not like turning on ESPN where you're watching politics.
	They cover sports.
	Weird.
	And they had a story, they're running a story about how Adam Silber, who is the commissioner of the NBA, is saying that there will be less social justice on the court this season because the ratings, I'll get to more of the numbers when we hit the story, but the NBA Finals ratings are down, if I'm remembering it correctly, I will check in a moment, down 55%.
	From last year.
	That is unbelievable.
	And last year was down from the year before.
	Everyone's trapped at home right now.
	And there was an interesting exchange between Ted Cruz, who's a huge NBA fan.
	You may remember that from when I interviewed him a couple months back.
	And Mark Cuban, who of course owns the Dallas Mavericks.
	They had a really interesting exchange about the ratings drop on the Twitter machine.
	And we're going to throw up some of the tweets and we'll discuss what's going on there.
	All right, so let's talk about the VP debate first.
	Now, I think the most important thing is to realize, because again, the media, which makes everything absolutely hysterical, is going to try to pretend that if someone wins the debate tonight, whatever wins means, that that really nudges an election one way or another.
	Now just back out for a second and think back to Barack Obama, And Joe Biden, who is his vice president.
	Think back to Al Gore as the VP for Bill Clinton.
	Think back to Dick Cheney.
	For George W. Bush.
	Think back to Dan Quayle for George H.W.
unidentified		Bush.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I mean, just go back as far as you want.
		And generally speaking, vice presidents don't have a tremendous amount of influence.
		They don't have a tremendous amount that they're actually doing.
		I mean, look at Mike Pence.
		He hasn't really done that much.
		He's done some COVID stuff, but I think partly he's just there to steady the ship.
		I'll get to more of that in just a sec.
		But generally speaking, very, very, very few people actually make their decision related to the vice president.
		Now, I actually think that could be a little bit different this year because first off,
		you just have to look at the age of these two guys.
		Doesn't matter who you like.
		Joe Biden is 77 years old, 77 years old.
		And he obviously has some cognitive stuff, right?
		Like it was a miracle the way he pulled through on the debate.
		And even in the days since then, he's had a whole bunch of other strange gaffes that you don't see on mainstream media, but you see him on Twitter and elsewhere.
		So he's 77.
		And even if you're a huge Biden supporter, I suspect that you probably know that, right?
		So that's one thing.
		Now, Trump is 74 years old.
		Trump is obviously a bit overweight.
		Trump also just had COVID.
		Remember that now?
		Apparently he's feeling better than he felt in 20 years, and I'm sure they pumped him full of all the stuff, whatever the stuff is, and they haven't fully released all of that.
		But the simple fact is he's 74 years old.
		So you got a 74-year-old running against a 77-year-old.
		So in essence, Unlike other years past, I think there is a little more reason to look at the health, to think about the health of these two guys and then go, okay, so then who are the people behind them?
		In this case, former Indiana Governor Mike Pence and former Attorney General here in California Kamala Harris.
		So for Pence, I think it's sort of like this.
		Pence basically, all he has to do Pretty much is not fall out of his chair.
		And he's he's a pretty stiff guy, right?
		Like he's pretty controlled, composed.
		You're not going to break him.
		He's not going to he's not going to go over the top.
		He's not going to try to get you in a big way.
		All his job, I think, is in essence, is for whatever that slew of people
		that are like kinda in the Trump space, but they think, oh, he's a little erratic,
		you don't know what he's gonna do, he's slightly bananas, the tweeting, the whole thing.
		Pence is basically like the, he's the guy steadying the ship.
		He's just the guy that sits back there and you go, oh, there's something kinda decent there.
		You may not like all of his policies, so be it, but he's really just there for that.
		And I think the proof of that is that he's really made no noise in these couple years.
		There's not any stories about him doing anything crazy or doing anything behind Trump's back or wanting to usurp power or anything like that.
		He's just been there and been steadying.
		So his job, I think, is to just have an hour and a half where he doesn't let the thing get completely derailed.
		And I think he'll probably do that.
		I just think, There's not much excitement there.
		It is what it is.
		You gotta just, you know, look like you could do the job if you needed to do it.
		For Kamala Harris, it's a little bit different because I think there's a lot of reason to believe that she will have a far, far, far bigger role as a vice president than certainly than Mike Pence does, but then generally vice presidents would have, right?
		Like there's a lot of reason to think that Biden is not necessarily up to this, that the party installed her.
		And remember, The thing about the party picking her or Biden picking her or the Clinton machine or the Obama machine picking her, however she got picked by the DNC, it was a really odd move because Kamala Harris, when the first debate happened, the first Democratic debate, most people thought she won.
		A lot of people said she was going to be the nominee.
		And then quickly, as people got to know her more and more through a couple of debates and some public stuff, People realized that they didn't really like her.
		And when I say people, I'm talking about her own party.
		And then she was out quick.
		So remember, Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie and the rest of them, Andrew Yang even, Tulsi, they all stayed until Super Tuesday.
		And then they all dropped out on the same day.
		And there was obviously some shenanigans back, you know, backdoor shenanigans were in effect.
		They were saying, you're all going to back out right now and back Biden and that's the way the party's going and we'll take care of you on the back end, right?
		Like you'll get a job or something like that.
		Kamala didn't even make it that far.
		She was out already at that point.
		So that means that the base of the party, right?
		This has nothing to do with Republicans, conservatives, anyone else.
	The base of the party that's voting in the primaries, they did not like her.
	So you could argue, in essence, she's not left enough for the Bernie Elizabeth Warren crowd.
	And actually, she doesn't really like Biden either.
	I mean, she, in effect, called Biden racist.
	Everyone's racist, but she, in effect, called Biden racist in one of the debates.
	And there's a moment that I've quoted a couple of times that I think is so telling.
	It's a perfectly telling moment during one of the debates when she was still in it.
	And they ask Kamala about using an executive action on guns, meaning can the office of the presidency do something, create a law that would override the other branch of government, right?
	To create a law that would restrict one of our God-given rights, one of the things enshrined in the Bill of Rights, which is the Second Amendment.
	And Biden jumped in first and he said, well, it would have to be constitutional.
	And she, Kamala Harris, with that with that wicked laugh, she laughed in his face and she said, Joe, can't we just say, yes, we can.
	And it's like, all right, that's a pretty scary moment.
	So I think there is an authoritarian tendency by Kamala, and she's put a lot of people in jail in California for weed, even though she's admitted to smoking weed.
	I've never put anyone in jail for weed.
	I've smoked weed.
	I might have even smoked it a couple days ago, okay?
	It's legal here now, people.
	Come for me, would ya?
	But so in essence though, there's a lot of stuff that she has to kind of clean up because she's not totally in line with Joe, but enough I would say, but she's certainly not totally in line with the radical portion of the base that definitely would have wanted Bernie or Elizabeth Warren.
	And she's got to sort of arbitrage those things, right?
	She's got to figure out how to balance those things back and forth.
	And on top of it, she has to figure out a way to look presidential in case Biden just flames out.
	So I think she's under more pressure than Pence is.
	Pence just has to continue to make sure it looks like, you know, if something happened to Trump, COVID, whatever, if he couldn't do it anymore or whatever, that he would be okay.
	So I don't expect any major fireworks.
	It might get a little hostile.
	I guarantee you, no matter what happens, that the headlines tomorrow will be about Pence's toxic masculinity while talking to a woman and his racist attitude or the rest of it.
	So we know that's what the mainstream media focuses on where they frame everything, and you just gotta just break their framing, and if you break their framing, it's a lot easier to understand.
	But again, at the end of the day, not many people's votes will be moved by a VP debate, and what this all always comes down to, especially in these last couple weeks, is we got the hardcores on both sides, no doubt about it.
	What is that group in the middle?
	How big is it?
	It's not even middle, really.
	The undecided person right now who really isn't sure what they're going to do.
	Are they going to vote third party?
	Are they going to stay home?
	Are they going to begrudgingly vote one way or another way?
	That's the group.
	And I don't know that anyone has good numbers on how many of those people there are.
	I suspect there are a lot.
	And as I've been saying, I suspect most of those people will break towards Trump, but we shall see.
	All right, let's move on.
	Oh, by the way, I will be doing a live stream tonight, immediately after the debate, which will be 7.30 Pacific time.
	That's 10.30 Eastern time.
	I'll be doing solo debate wrap-up for about half hour 45 minutes and then I'm jumping on over with Glenn Beck on the blaze and I'm actually quite thrilled to tell you guys that when I did my debate wrap-up last week or was about 10 days ago now we got about 700,000 views on that thing and it's just me and I got my producer Michael here and Clyde the dog and
	And I'm just telling you what I think in real time and we got about 700,000 views and that was more than most of our sort of comparable, well certainly the YouTube channels, but even some of the big networks.
	So I don't know, I guess trying to say something in a halfway decent way and not trying to, you know, make you want to jump out your window is working for people.
	So I appreciate the support on that.
	Let's go to the second story because Gavin Newsom This guy's a real piece of work, right?
	Just an endless piece of work.
	We're watching the state just kind of crumble.
	Homelessness everywhere, drug use everywhere.
	He was the governor of, or sorry, he was the mayor of San Francisco, and we all know what happened to San Francisco.
	I mean, the last time I was in San Francisco, I saw several people doing drugs on the street.
	I've told you a million times, there's literally an app that will tell you where human feces is.
	You know you've done something wrong if you need a nap for that, right?
	He destroyed San Francisco, but what happens in California, you fail your way up.
	So he is the governor here now.
	And what they're trying to do is institute a California health equity metrics program related to COVID, because they've seen some disparities in ethnic background, in essence, color of skin.
	and who's being affected by COVID.
	Now, first off before I'm gonna read some of it to you, but before I do that, I wanna make it very, very clear.
	Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very clear that I in no way want any group of people
	to have more COVID than any other group of people.
	I would like our government, whether it's our federal government or our state government or our city government, to do the best they can to help everybody equally.
	And maybe there are certain places That through education or because they live on top of each other in giant high-rises or whatever it might be, that there are certain spots that might need more help or different help or all of those things.
	The question is, is the government suitable to deal with these things?
	And unfortunately in California, you know, we have a government that just takes a ton of money but doesn't do a lot with it.
	And this is one of the things that I can never understand.
	You have all of these people, I mean, everyone in California is like, wait a minute, our schools suck, our roads suck, there's homelessness everywhere.
	And they don't seem to equate that with, oh, we've had one party running this place forever.
	It seems in many cases they somehow associate that with Trump, who's only been president for three months and isn't running California.
	So it's a little bit of a disconnect, I think, in the reality on the ground and everything else.
	But to be very clear, I don't want Black people getting COVID.
	I don't want white people getting COVID.
unidentified		I don't want Asian people getting it, straight people, gay people, trans people, anything else.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		I want nobody to have COVID.
		But what happens is, and this is why social justice is so pernicious, we start looking at everything through the lens of racial equity.
		Not equality, that the outcomes should all be the same.
		And then that starts racializing everything.
		And you guys know that everything has been racialized.
		So there is a document that has been put out by our California authorities.
		I'm just gonna read a little bit of it.
		It is called, A Blueprint for a Safer Economy, Equity Focus.
		Equity Focus.
		Okay, and I'll just read two portions of it.
		It's a long document.
		It has been clearly documented that certain communities, low-income, Black, Latino, Pacific Islander, and essential workers, have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in terms of higher rates of infection, hospitalizations, and deaths These disparities create a public health imperative to address exposure in all communities, including those disproportionately impacted, as a measure to protect all communities.
		So that sort of doesn't sound that terrible, right?
		There's certain communities, and they lay them out black, Pacific Islander, et cetera, that seem to be having bigger spikes in COVID, and that then could affect all communities.
		That actually sounds kind of okay because we would wanna see, well, if we're seeing a certain area, like a physical area or a small community that has a certain outbreak, we would wanna look at that and say, okay, let's see what we can do to fix that.
		But it goes on and lays out an equity metric, not an equality metric, an equity metric.
		And this is for a county with a population of greater than 106,000.
unidentified		The county must...
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Ensure that the test positivity rates in its most disadvantaged neighborhoods, as defined by being in the lowest quartile of the Health Places Index Census tracks, do not significantly lag behind its overall county test positivity rate as described in detail below.
		Now this is where it gets a little bit weird because the implication there is, oh, let's say we have one group that has, you know, higher rates of COVID.
		And let's say we have this other group that doesn't, right?
		Well, why not just, if we just move resources out of this community that's doing okay and put it here, well, maybe that'll push this down, but maybe it'll push this up.
		And this is what I would say is sort of the second order of things that the progressives are not very good at looking at.
		Like, this sort of sounds right, that we should We should be going to certain areas and helping people in certain ways.
		Like, it kind of does sound right, but what they're really, in essence, saying is if only we could get it so that the exact amount of white people had the exact amount of COVID as the exact amount of black people.
		And that really doesn't make sense.
		You want nobody to have it, and you want policies that will ensure that nobody has it, and you want to give people proper information.
		And that really is why I wanted to do this story, because what this really does come down to is proper information.
		And as I talked about yesterday, you know, they put up this silly, silly, like just profoundly silly, one of these graphic charts that they put up there, which shows you that when you're going out to eat with your own family, you should chew, put the mask on, and then take the mask off and chew again.
		And it's like, these are crazy things, and why should we trust that the people in charge know what they're doing?
		I think that really is becoming the bigger problem.
		And this is not something that's specific to California alone.
		Let's not forget.
		that Nashville, Tennessee, the Daily Wire just moved over to Tennessee,
		they just moved to Nashville.
		There was a big scandal, although the mainstream media dropped it pretty quickly,
		where the mayor's office in effect was hiding the COVID numbers because they were so low
		that they didn't feel it would allow them to keep the lockdown happening.
		So, you know, so many of the things that I will talk about here,
		that I do talk about and will continue to talk about are not necessarily the policies themselves
		as if they are so important, but it's the way the media frames everything
		and what they cover and what they don't.
		And we've got to figure out a better way to get information to people.
		But equity, anytime you hear the word equity, not equality, I want equality for everyone.
		I want everyone to have equal access to things and equal laws and all of those things.
		But equity, meaning that the outcome should be exactly the same, is really, really dangerous.
		Because once you start doing that, right, if you had equal equity, In any job, you'd be saying, okay, that we're going to hire more of these people to help these people, but what you are doing is punishing these people unjustly.
		I have no desire to punish someone based on the color of their skin.
		I have no desire to punish someone based on their sexuality.
		I am as inclined to hire a straight white guy as I would a black lesbian.
		I don't care about those things, so it's can you do your job?
		And to prove that, we just hired a new director here at the Rubin Report who will be starting with us in about 10 days, and I'm not going to name all of this person's immutable characteristics, but I assure you they did not come up in our hiring process.
		We got about 500 emails, and not once did me or anyone on my team Or my business managers looking through them go, oh, well, what sexuality are they?
		What gender are they?
		What color are they?
		That in the old days would be called bigotry, but now we call it tolerance because we're a confused people and we need help.
		Speaking of confused people needing help, I want to do this third story on the NBA ratings.
		You guys have heard me talk about this a million times.
		I am a huge basketball fan.
		I love basketball.
		When I play basketball, it's like the one time really that I can shut my brain off and not think about all of this stuff.
		Basketball to me is like happiness and joy.
		I started watching the NBA around 88, 89.
		It was right at the end of the Great Lakers, Celtics stuff.
		The bad boy Pistons were getting good at the time.
		My peak years were the Jordan Bulls years and all that stuff.
		And as I've told you a million times, when I do cardio now, those are the games that I watch.
		I just finished watching all of the 92, the original Dream Team games.
		I love basketball, I love watching it, I love playing it, everything else.
		I did not watch a minute of the NBA this season because they've politicized everything.
		When you watch an NBA game it says Black Lives Matter on the court.
		Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization that has all sorts of bad stuff on their own website like taking down the nuclear family and that has nothing to do with do I think black people's lives matter which of course I do and I think white people's lives matter and I think Straight people's lives matter, and Christian lives matter, and the rest of it.
		It is a political organization and a political message that has been injected into the game.
		And then, of course, every time you turn on ESPN, they're doing politics.
		They're not doing sports.
		Although I will say, in one defense of the NBA, NBA on TNT, which is, you know, Ernie Johnson and Shaq and Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley, I actually have not watched any of that this season either, but I do see clips occasionally on Twitter.
		And Barkley is pretty fantastic when it comes to calling out all of this nonsense.
		And you know, Barkley, who's always been outspoken, and you may remember back in around 91, 92, there was this big thing.
		He did a commercial for, I think it was Nike, saying, I'm not a role model.
		People were very angry at him for that.
		And I think he is a role model now, whether he likes it or not, because the guy has an ability to fight the mob and say things that are true.
		And I saw this clip just a week or so ago where he was talking about how all these people saying defund the police, well, these are usually white liberals.
	Not to use identity politics, but these are usually white liberals who are saying, defund the police.
	And what does that do?
	It then harms, you know, black urban communities.
	Like, again, it's like, you don't think about the second order of things.
	It sounds kind of right.
	Next thing you know, you've got more crime and more drug use and more murder and everything else, which, by the way, is exactly what's happening in Minneapolis and New York City and Portland and Seattle and all of these places.
	Like, across the board, people, across the board.
	So anyway, the NBA ratings have dropped unbelievably fast this year.
	So the ratings right now are down 55% from last year.
unidentified		55%!
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's more than half.
		Obviously, I'm not a mathemagician, but that's more than half.
		Down 55%.
		And I saw another incredible statistic that they're down 70% since the last time LeBron was in the finals.
		So LeBron's on the Lakers now, and he is in the finals this year.
		He was in the finals a couple years ago with Cleveland, and it's down 70% since then.
		You cannot tell me That that doesn't have something to do with politics.
		People have just had it.
		People have just had it.
		Why do you watch these things?
		You watch them so that you can see great elite athletes do things that you can't do and you can escape the mundane life.
		You know, that's what sports is all about.
		You don't watch it so that the guy with the back of, you know, on the back of his jersey,
		social justice warrior 41, throws the Olleyoop pass to the patriarchy
		and he dunks on Wolkster nine.
		Like you don't do it for that.
		And for me, it's like, I'll watch old games and that's enough.
		And I'll shoot around with my friends and play horse.
		I think the idea that people that in many cases are making millions and millions and millions of dollars, I mean, LeBron, try to imagine the incredible amount of wealth that LeBron has, which by the way, I think he deserves.
		I think it's great that he can make that money in America and do whatever he wants to do with that money.
		And by the way, say whatever he wants to say, right?
		I'm not telling LeBron not to say it, but there are consequences, and I think they're seeing the consequences of it.
		So as I said at the beginning of this, right before we started, I saw something on OutKick, which again is Clay Travis's website, where they actually do sports.
		And he's got Jason Whitlock over there, who left Fox Sports News for it.
		And they just ran a story about how David Silver, who is the NBA commissioner, has basically said there's going to be less social justice on the court.
		So you just have to think about it this way.
		Now, he was all big on it, but now it's like he's looking at the numbers and going, I guess social justice doesn't matter as much?
		And that's how you know it's kind of nonsense.
		Because if it really mattered, Then he wouldn't care about the ratings.
		If this really was about systemic racism and evil spreading throughout society, he would do what is right and keep the messages there, but now it's actually destroying his product and the league that these incredible athletes and the guy before him, David Stern, built, and he's going, okay, okay, I'm looking at it, and we're gonna have to scale some of this back.
		Anyway, I mention all of this, because then I saw a really interesting interaction Between Senator Ted Cruz, who is a huge NBA fan, I had him on the show.
		He told me an incredible story if you didn't see our interview.
		He told me a fantastic story about how he was on a plane once and Hakeem Olajuwon, who is I think the best center in NBA history, came onto the plane.
		Anyway, Ted Cruz got into it on Twitter with Mark Cuban.
		obviously a Senator from Texas, Elijah Juan played with the Rockets, Houston.
		And all he had was his copy of "On Liberty"
		by John Stuart Mill.
		So Elijah Juan signed his copy of "On Liberty."
		I just think that's a fantastic story.
		Anyway, Ted Cruz got into it on Twitter with Mark Cuban.
		I'm gonna throw up a couple of tweets here and then I jumped in on it at the end.
		And it started with this tweet by Ted Cruz, which says, not surprising, personally speaking, this is the first time in years that I haven't watched a single NBA game in the finals.
		And as you can see, he linked to an article on Hannity.com that shows that the NBA finals was watched by less than 5 million people and that Game 3 was the least watched in recorded ratings history.
		Okay, so that's kind of interesting.
		So then Mark Cuban jumped in on it.
		Mark Cuban's the billionaire from Shark Tank, and he owns the Dallas Mavericks, which is an NBA team.
		And he said, a U.S.
		Senator with three NBA teams in his state, employing thousands of people, and he is rooting for their businesses to do poorly.
		This is who you are, Ted Cruz, every minute of your life.
		This is exactly who you are.
		Now, he wasn't rooting for it, he's saying why he doesn't want to watch it.
		He's not rooting for people to be fired, that's obvious, and Cuban's tweet is over the top.
		Cruz responded, I love the Houston Rockets and have rooted for them my entire life.
		I happily cheer for the Spurs and Mavericks against any non-Texas team.
		But Mark Cuban, the NBA is engaged in a concerted effort to one, insult their fans and two, turn every game into a left-wing political lecture.
		That's dumb.
		And then this is the one that I had to respond to, because Cuban really lost it here.
		He said, you are so full of shit.
		You haven't watched a game of the finals.
		How would you know what is being said or done?
		Since when is a desire to end racism an insult to anyone or political?
		And you don't think using hashtag get woke, go broke is a partisan insult?
		Again, this is who you are.
		Now, first off, just real quick, the go woke, go broke thing, Well, that's obvious.
	We know it's happening everywhere, right?
	ESPN's ratings are collapsing.
	All of these companies that allow wokeness to go in, their businesses crumble.
	So that's not partisan.
	That's just a fact.
	You let social justice in and it destroys your organization.
	The part that I had to respond to was that when Cuban said this is a desire to end racism, that that's what this is about.
	So I had to jump in on it and I tweeted to Mark, it's not a desire to end racism, it's a desire to mainstream it through infecting every part of public life.
	I also didn't watch one minute of the NBA this season and I've been a huge fan since 88, 89.
	I think this is part, the reason I wanted to do this is not to show you little Twitter drama, but it's to show you how we're all sort of telling ourselves our own story.
	So I'll not impugn Mark Cuban's motives here.
	I'm going to assume that he actually really believes that the Black Lives Matter movement And this whole thing is about ending racism.
	I'll go out there and say that he believes that.
	Maybe he doesn't and it's more nefarious, but I'll go with that.
	And what I was trying to say to him, and I didn't say it, I wasn't being a dick, I wasn't being mean, I was trying to show him actually it's not about that.
	But people are sick of everything being, you know, construed as racist and putting racism everywhere where it shouldn't be.
	He didn't respond and I suspect he's not going to change his opinion on this.
	But as you can see, this was another example of Ted Cruz was being purely professional there.
	There was nothing, he wasn't attacking anybody personally and everything else.
	Mark Cuban comes in with, "You're full of shit."
	And unfortunately, that does seem to be the asymmetry of the arguments these days,
	that one side does seem to wanna talk about ideas a little bit more, the other side kinda wants to insult.
	It's just how it is.
	All right, people, that is the direct message for today.
	Hope you feel a little saner, that you got a little something that maybe you can bring to the dinner table or to a conversation with a friend or a coworker that maybe will make things not feel as crazy.
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