The Fresno Grizzlies baseball team, a triple-A minor league affiliate of the Washington Nationals, which made a superfrightening and idiotic statement on politics this past Memorial Day weekend, is out a sponsor. The team showed a video between the two games of a doubleheader at Fresno’s Chukchansi Park. Fresno Bee reporter Carmen George tweeted on Monday that the video, which you can watch below, is the kind of jingoistic drivel that former President Ronald Reagan spewed throughout his eight years in office. In fact, the video includes parts of a speech Reagan gave about fighting against all of our enemies and never surrendering to evil because “we are Americans.”
It’s the kind of thing that people who spend too much time cleaning guns listen to before bedtime. After a couple of minutes of footage showing American soldiers achieving great things while fighting, Reagan’s speech moves to a finale, saying that we cannot bow to America’s threats, beginning with the line, “As with the enemies of freedom, those potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people.” It is at this point that the video shows an image of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, followed by one of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, followed by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, followed by footage of antifa protestors. In that order. Ocasio-Cortez shared this domestic threat and pointed out that the producers and exhibitors of the video are the people threatening violence against Americans and American ideals.