1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the NBA stuff today too. I'm 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: glad that I actually didn't get to that yesterday because 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: there's a bunch that's happened since then. And I'll tell 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: you what This Chinese stuff, folks. Let me tell you 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: this Chinese stuff is a teachable moment for a lot 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: of reasons. You know, millennials today are big into socialism. 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: They think it's wonderful and great. Well, here it is 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: on display, not only socialism, but raw communism on display 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,279 Speaker 1: by the Chi coms. You cannot dissent. You have no 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: civil liberties, you have no opinion, you're not allowed. The 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: same NBA that told North Carolina to go to Hell 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: because they wouldn't have same sex bathrooms to accommodate transgenders 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: wants to cozy up and make friends with the Chi 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: coms because there's one point two billion people as a 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: market in China and how many people in North Carolina 16 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: does the NBA really care about. I mean, there's so 17 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: many teachable momentary We're gonna get to this as the 18 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: program unfolds. This is such a teachable moment. What is 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: happening here, and it's gotten so obfuscated. Let's start at 20 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: the beginning on this No, let's not. I want to 21 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: make an observation before starting at the beginning. The beginning 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: is the tweet that the general manager of Houston Rockets 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: sent out, which was totally harmless tweet showing support for 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: freedom loving people in Hong Kong pursuing freedom and democracy, 25 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: and for that he was show lacked by the chi coms. 26 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: The chi coms then threaten the NBA, and the NBA 27 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: originally buckled to it until they got the impression they 28 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: were doing this all wrong, and now they're trying to 29 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: have it both ways. But take a look at what's 30 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: happening here, and I want to draw an analogy for you. 31 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: We have the general manager to Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, 32 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: on Friday, sending out a tweet that in the normal 33 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: Evan flow, nobody should have ever noticed. It was just 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: supporting the freedom loving, democracy loving seekers in Hong Kong 35 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: who are being beaten up and threatened and imprisoned by 36 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: the China cooms. So he sends out this tweet and 37 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: all hell breaks loose. Half the NBA players come down 38 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: on this guy. How dare you criticize the Chinese? How 39 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: dare you the NBA executive bunch. Their initial reaction was 40 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: to come down on Daryl Morey, who is the general 41 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: manager of the Houston Rockets. How what happened the chi 42 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: coms blew up and why? Because the chi coms do 43 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: not permit dissent. The chi coms are I don't care 44 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: what anybody else thinks they are. They are first and 45 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: foremost command and control communists. There is no freedom in communism. 46 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: There is no dissent in communism. There is no individuality 47 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: or sovereignty in communism. You are nothing but a slave 48 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: in communism. And if you stray, you will pay a 49 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: price that may include costing you your life. So here 50 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: we have on the big scheme, in the big scheme 51 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: of things, a small and mild little tweet about of 52 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: Hong Kong, and it has been turned into a gigantic 53 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: and polarizing international issue. And you know who. It reminds 54 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: me of. It reminds me of the left in this country. 55 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: It reminds me of the way they're enforcing speech codes 56 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: with the threats of violence, the same level of intolerance 57 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: as the Chaikom government. Doesn't matter what university you go 58 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: to in New York City, you can't say things like 59 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: illegal alien or illegal immigrant without being chased down. Now, 60 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: what we have in Hong Kong are people fighting a 61 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: war against communism. And they've known this was coming since 62 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: when the Brits the Queens sent Prince Charles over there. 63 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: This gigantic ceremony turning control of Hong Kong back to 64 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: the mainland. Chi Cobs Hong Kong prior to that was 65 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: maybe one of the greatest examples of raw capitalism you 66 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: could find on the planet. I went to Hong Kong 67 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: in the late nineteen eighties and I came away stunned 68 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: that it works. It is massively populated, overpopulated based on 69 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: the square mileage, living space and so forth. It's two 70 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: different cities daytime and nighttime. Across the harbor in Kowloon, 71 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: when you're looking at Hong Kong, it's it's a it's 72 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: a different existence. But tourism by night, business by day, 73 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: whole cities completely changed once the sun goes down. I'm 74 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: not talking about from capitalism to communism, just about what 75 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 1: the what the purpose of life is. It's it's it. 76 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: Everybody got fed. Everybody eats whatever they wanted to eat. 77 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: There was plenty of food. There was nobody wanted for anything. 78 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: I mean, it was poverty. There's there's always that no 79 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: matter where you go on the planet. But it worked, 80 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: and it was based on complete economic freedom. When you 81 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: went into a store to buy at that time, you 82 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: want to buy an MP three player, every purchase was 83 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: a negotiation. Yeah, they had a sticker on it, but 84 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: every purchase was negotiating. You can negotiate these people down. 85 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: Everything was in Hong Kong dollars, and so the salespeople 86 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: were accustomed to talking to you to trench in Hong Kong, 87 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: to treaty. So you have to get your coaco. What's 88 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: two twenty Hong Kong. After a while you learn it, 89 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: but no matter what it is, you're negotiating with them. 90 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: Everything was a deal. And then the Brits announced are 91 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: going to turn it over, and I new and everybody 92 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: knew this day. It's only a matter of time. The 93 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: chi coms cannot let Hong Kong exist as it was. 94 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: It's in direct conflict with mainland China. They can't permit it. 95 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: There's no way the Chinese leaders are going to permit 96 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: Hong Kong to remain what it was. So the day 97 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: has come where they're not. The day has come where 98 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: Hong Kong is going to become subsumed, subsumed by the mainland. 99 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: The difference is the people on Hong Kong are not 100 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: like the people on the mainland. They're just not gonna say, 101 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: oh okay, coowar in the corners and fear and let 102 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: it happen. They're pushing back. They're pushing back against communism. 103 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: This is what ought to be happening in this country, 104 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: pushing back against liberalism, pushing back against some of the 105 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: crazy radical liberalism that's infecting every institution in this country. 106 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: The same kind of lack of tolerance, of descent, intolerance 107 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: of even speech, I mean, corruption of so many institutions 108 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: is occurring in this country because of the American left. 109 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: It all happens in the guise of political correctness, and 110 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: it's all based on the fact that minorities are oppressed, 111 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: and so we've got to let these changes happen because 112 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: otherwise minorities will we continue to be impressed. It's nothing 113 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: about any of that. It's an attack on capitalism, it's 114 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: an attack on freedom, it's an attack on individualism that's 115 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: being sponsored by international communists around the world who are 116 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: funding and paying for this stuff and issues like climate 117 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: change or vehicles whereby they make it happen says a 118 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: great lesson for people to see here, and another great 119 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: lesson look at how quickly the National Basketball Association instinctively 120 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: decided to come down on the side of the communist 121 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: Chinese government and not the general manager of the Houston Rockets, 122 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: who simply tweeted a little message of support for the 123 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: freedom fighters in Hong Kong. That's all it took to 124 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: create this massive controversy. Well, the NBA preseasons underways. A 125 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 1: bunch of teams over there playing exhibition games at Chi 126 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: Coms are threatening not to let the games go on. 127 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: Lebron j and get the Lebron James has been told 128 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: it's up to him to fix this. It's up to 129 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: Lebron James is somehow bridge this controversy. The Chinese love basketball. 130 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: You know why this is. They're short compared to NBA 131 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: players they admired, but they well that it is cool. 132 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: They'll all be able to dunk, what have you. I mean, 133 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: there's other reasons to its intriguing sport for some people, 134 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: but uh, the people of Hong Kong are fighting a 135 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: war against communism. There are some people in this country 136 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: think that we're fighting the same battle here, But our 137 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: battle is not so much with the government yet, but 138 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: with individual leftists that run and have taken over institutions. 139 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: But the chi cons have shown everybody what they really are. 140 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: They are dictatorial. They will shut down all dissent and 141 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: they will do it with violence if they have to, 142 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: And that is what they really are. Despite comments Biden 143 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: and Bloomberg, these guys out there saying there's not dictators. 144 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 1: Remember what Bloomberg said in the sound by we had 145 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: last week at the President of China has to serve 146 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: his constituents or he won't survive. Some of the most 147 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: outrageous ignorance I've ever heard. And Biden's out this Chinese 148 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: are not a problem. I've been there, I've made deals 149 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: with them and my son. Oh wait, well they're not 150 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: They're not a threat. They're not our enemy. Come on, man, 151 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: the Chinese are not our enemy. So now the NBA, 152 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: the Commissioner, Adam Silver, they're they're kind of backtrack now 153 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: and trying to show support for Adam Murray, general manager 154 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: to Houston Rockets while trying not to tick off the 155 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: chi COM's because and here come the usual complaints the 156 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: NBA buckle to money. They care more but money in 157 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: a big market than they do stable and human rights. Yeah. Well, 158 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: this is the same NBA that threatened North Carolina and 159 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: some other states with a boycott if they didn't open 160 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: up bathrooms to anybody who wanted to use them. So 161 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: the NBA had no trouble standing up to the government 162 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: of North Carolina. The NBA was perfectly fine issuing boycott threats. 163 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: Let the chi coom speak up, and it's bend over 164 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: in grabty ankles time until people got offended by that. 165 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: And now they're trying to have it both ways, but 166 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: they don't want to give up the chi coom market 167 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: one two billion people who have increasing buying power. Okay, 168 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: so let's see the chi coms brought off to Clinton's, 169 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: the China comes brought off the Bidens, chi Coms brought 170 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: off Bloomberg, and now they're in the process of buying 171 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: off the NBA and all of the woke leftists out there. 172 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: And you know why, because the lure of chi com 173 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: money is just too much for some people. Meanwhile, there's 174 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: one guy waging a war with the chi coms, trying 175 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: to straighten out this imbalance, and that's Donald J. Trump. 176 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: Once again, we have someone on the right side of 177 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: all of this. I just saw some guy on TV 178 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: say that we got to realize doing business with China 179 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: is an exchange program. If we're gonna export freedom like 180 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: supporting Hong Kong, that we got to be willing to 181 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: import some censorship. And then the guy on the end. 182 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: You are really filled with wisdom today, Sir