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Sports Illustrated reported that the NBA finals games 2 and 3 had the lowest recorded viewership in history.

Observer stated, “NBA Finals Ratings Tank to Historic Lows in Upended Pandemic Season.”

So it probably makes sense why NBA commissioner Adam Silver said this during an interview:

Rachel Nichols: The NBA has certainly been the most visible billion-dollar organization championing social justice and civil rights. As you noted in your press conference the other day, though, that has not been universally popular. How committed are you to being that going forward?

Adam Silver: We’re completely committed to standing for social justice and racial equality and that’s been the case going back decades. It’s part of the DNA of this league. How it gets manifested is something we’re gonna have to sit down with the players and discuss for next season. I would say, in terms of the messages you see on the court and our jerseys, this was an extraordinary moment in time when we began these discussions with the players and what we all lived through this summer. My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy, that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor.

And I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game.’

I guess it’s all fun and games until you look at historic low viewership and empty arenas and realized just how much money you lost.

So the NBA is going to try to unring the woke bell and save themselves from going broke.

I wonder how well that will work if the players will accept that or not?

Can the NBA recover its viewership or has the sport killed itself as a multibillion-dollar enterprise?

I don’t know, but all I can say is “fuck em.”

This LA Times report on the massive Trump sign on a hill near the 405 says that state authorities went on private property to take it down because they claimed the political speech was a "visual distraction" to drivers. What? https://t.co/9doDsRgUdy via @YouTube

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 7, 2020

A Trump sign is a visual distraction in the state that pretty much invented the highway billboard.  Bullshit.

Earlier today I wrote a post about Governor Cuomo explicitly targeting houses of worship for closure because of COVID.

These Democrat tyrants are going to use every safety argument they can to eradicate the First Amendment because they think they can get away with it.

Captured for posterity because it’s too beautiful to let get memory-holed.

It seems that one of disgraced California Congresswoman Katie Hill’s staffers still had the password for Hill’s Twitter account and decided to speak some truth to power.

Holy smokes.

Every word of that is 100% on point.  Hill sexually manipulated a staffer and subordinate while engaging in financial malfeasance to cover it up.  She resigned before an investigation could occur giving the appearance that she had far worse skeletons in her closet.

She then managed to take this and turn herself into a martyr, a victim of the patriarchy.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Had she been an elderly male Congressman, she would have to go live under a rock for the rest of her life.

Instead, she is still a Democrat influencer.

It’s time she was called out by someone from her own side, and to see it done like this is just *chef’s kiss*.

From the UK:

https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1313112496316837888

This is callus cruelty.  It serves no purpose to stop the spread of the virus.

The sons are going to comfort their mother as soon as they are away from the funeral home and visit her at her home or sit next to her in the car on the drive there.  But at that moment during the service, two sons comforting their mother is just too much love and human connection in this “new normal” where hope and joy spread the COVID miasma and the only prophylactic is living in isolated misery.

You cannot mourn your husband’s and father’s death together seems like the sort of punishment a family in North Korea or Stalinist Russia would have been told following the execution of a political dissident.  Not the sort of thing that would happen in country like the UK, or the US for that matter, but here we are.

From Governor Newsom of California:

Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend? Don't forget to keep your mask on in between bites.

Do your part to keep those around you healthy. #SlowtheSpreadhttps://t.co/snYe5v55Rw pic.twitter.com/Y4fcDO5Zke

— California Governor (@CAgovernor) October 3, 2020

Yes, you read that right.

California governor’s office tells diners to wear masks “in between bites”

The California governor’s office put out a tweet on Saturday advising that restaurant-goers keep their masks on while dining. “Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend?” the tweet reads. “Don’t forget to keep your mask on in between bites. Do your part to keep those around you healthy.”

In California, masks are required for anyone going outside their home, as well as workers in customer-facing businesses, offices, factories, and health care professionals, among others, according to the state’s COVID-19 guidance.

What the fuck sort of unscientific bullshit is this?

There is no way to rationalize this nonsensical horseshit.  None.

I’m not even sure the logistics of how this is supposed to work for a human being?

This has nothing to do with stopping the virus and everything do to with imposing inane restrictions designed to grind down a human being’s rational mind and emotional health.

The next stage after this is COVID complaint eating mask, otherwise known as feedbags.

Let’s zoom across the country to New York.

BREAKING: Cuomo invokes Torah to defend guidelines targeted at houses of worship: "In Jewish teaching, one of the most precious principles is saving a life — to save a life. The Torah speaks about how certain religious obligations can be excused if you are going to save a life." pic.twitter.com/Fj0LhUNJ0A

— The Hill (@thehill) October 6, 2020

This motherfucker actually quoted the Torah to justify his targeted crackdown on the Orthodox Jewish community.

The man actually says “the problem is houses of worship.”

I didn’t realize that the First Amendment was null-and-void when there is an outbreak of a virus that has a 99.9% survivability rate.

The problem is that religion gives people hope and a sense of peace, meaning, and community, and that’s not allowed in this society fracturing, soul-crushing, new normal.  We are expected to live isolated on an IV drip of fear porn, not turn to God and each other for compassion and comradery.

The virus will run its course.  A vaccine may mitigate that a little bit.  But the whole point of “flatten the curve” was to slow the spread of the virus in order to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed.  We did such a good job of that that hospitals had to lay people off.  Lockdowns, until there are no new cases, will be lockdowns in perpetuity.

These acts are not about saving lives, they are about tyrants exercising their powers because they can.

The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission. https://t.co/PopsRhmKvz

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 6, 2020

So if you’re not a fan of wearing a piece of cloth over your face that has an effectiveness of “just barely better than nothing” to combat a virus with a 99.9% survival rate, you get dragged to The Hague for trial for committing a crime against humanity?

Play nice amongst yourselves