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Andrew Sullivan exits New York Magazine and the editor sounds off.

And Andrew Cuomo slams AOC.

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Protect your data from prying eyes at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, you may have noticed. Things are kind of uncertain, right? Look like we're reopening the economy and then out here in California, Governor Newsom was like, we're going to stop that right now. No more of the reopening of the economy. It seems like there's COVID upticks here, but what exactly is going to happen next is a vaccine? Who the hell knows? Nobody knows anything. That is the theme of this year 2020. Nobody knows bleep, which is why you should probably be diversified at least a little bit into precious metals. The market has come a long way since COVID-19 hit. It is still down over 8% for the year. Gold is up 18% this year. Why? Well, because people diversified and also because people recognize that uncertainty is not really great for your bank account. Birch gold is the place to go if you are interested in diversifying into precious metals. Birch gold has an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau, hundreds of five-star reviews. They have the precious metal experts that will hold your hand, walk you through the transitioning of one of your eligible IRAs or 401ks into an IRA in gold or silver, if that's something you are interested in. It's still an election year. We're seeing a massive resurgence in COVID-19 unemployment is still extremely high. Lots of uncertainty out there. Diversifying into precious metals is the smart thing to do. Text Ben to 47-47. When you open an IRA in precious metals before July 31st, you get a signed copy of my book,

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Okay, so we'll give you the brief news update because there is a lot of news out there today before we even get to everything related to the complete meltdown over at the New York Times, the meltdown in mainstream media and the complete redefinition of the media itself, which is a pretty damned big story. We'll get to that in a second. But first, a couple of pieces of rather large-scale news. First, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to CNBC, was hospitalized Tuesday for a possible infection. She's been in and out of the hospital for at least two, three years at this point. She's now 87 years old. She received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after experiencing fever and chills. She underwent a procedure to clean a bioluck stent and will stay in the hospital for a few days.

According to her spokesperson, the justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravonous antibiotic treatment.

In January, she was cancer-free after undergoing treatment for what was likely pancreatic cancer last year.

The year before, she had treatment for cancer on her lungs.

So it's been a health mess for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Obviously, everybody praying for her health, although some of us would like to see her step down voluntarily from the Supreme Court because two things can be true at once. I want her to be healthy and also I think she's a terrible justice. But certainly the writers of 2020 have Trump season five. They've really decided to pull out all the stops here. If you can just imagine a Supreme Court vacancy, which, you know, God forbid it should happen through something bad happening to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but if she were to step down for any reason, for any reason, if there is a Supreme Court vacancy in this election year, oh my God, the hellish riots that will occur as a result of replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney-Barritt, for example, would just be insane. Meanwhile, we've been watching this COVID uptick and the re-lockdown of California. So Los Angeles is completely locked down again. Virtually all

businesses have been shuttered. You're still allowed to eat outdoors, but that's pretty much

it. All indoor businesses have been shut down, including hair salons, including restaurants,

including pretty much everything. All the things have been shut down across the state of California

and L.A. announced that they would not be reopening the schools in August. So basically,

you're going to be learning from home again, which is really a stop to the teachers union,

because the data on students and how healthy they are and how much COVID affects them, it is pretty non-conflicting when it comes to the health of the students. The real problem with opening schools is teachers and administrators, which is why the suggestion that I've made, and my friend John Podhoritz over at the Commentary Magazine podcast made it, and so I'm going to copy him I think it's a good idea we bring the kids back

and if you have older teachers who are incapable of being in the classroom for health reasons then you have them zoom in but the idea that all these kids are going to stay home and then they're going to be able to do zoom classes is just completely insane so LA has completely shut it down San Diego apparently shut it down as well Orange County on the other hand says that they are going to attempt to reopen. What is the status of coronavirus today? So I have good news and I have bad news. So which one you want first? Which one you want for? I'll give you the good news first because I think that you're getting enough of the bad news from the media. And frankly, I think the media are overplaying some of the bad news. They're implying that we are in exactly the same place we were back in April or March that we are about to see this New York type surge across the country that overwhelms the health care system. The data on that is extremely limited. It does not look at this point as though Florida is going to be overwhelmed. It does not look as though Texas is going to be overwhelmed. It doesn't look as though California is going to be overwhelmed. It looks instead as though there has been a surge in

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