<p>Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy let loose on politicians closing small businesses in yet another fiery rant on Friday as he lamented what has become of the nation.</p>
<p>&#8220;New York City just closed indoor dining,&#8221; Portnoy said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1337453710822285316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1337453710822285316%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D172187action%3Dedit">video</a> posted to Twitter. &#8220;What do they think is going to happen? What do they think is going to happen to the thousands of restaurants, the bars?  They&#8217;re done! The bar and restaurant industry, small businesses, have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Portnoy noted that these many small businesses did everything within their creative power to play ball with the government by erecting spaces and creating a safe environment for their customers to come and enjoy themselves.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been as creative as possible.  They&#8217;ve got the outdoor dining,  The structures they&#8217;ve had to build on their own dime. You have the glass in between the mask,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have the 6 feet of separation, the fewer tables. They&#8217;ve been as creative as you can be to save their livelihoods, to save what they spent decades of blood, sweat, and tears building.  They&#8217;ve done whatever, they scratched and clawed.  And now, a few politicians in New York City is like, &#8216;You&#8217;re done! We&#8217;re  shutting it down!&#8217; No indoor dining.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you expect these people to survive? Are people going to go out to dinner in ice-cold temperatures? It&#8217;s insanity!&#8221; he declared, stressing that he is not questioning that the virus poses a real danger, particularly to at-risk individuals.</p>
<p>Portnoy then implored people who are most vulnerable to COVID-19 to stay home until the vaccine comes so that businesses can stay afloat.</p>
<p>&#8220;Listen, the vaccine is right around the corner, if your health is impaired, you&#8217;re afraid of it, you&#8217;re old, don&#8217;t go out. Stay inside for three months. The vaccine is coming, but let people decide,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe, in this country, what I consider the most basic right of them all, the right to earn a living, the right to earn a livelihood is now being stolen, it is being stolen by a few politicians who believe they are smarter than me and you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They believe they have the right to tell me and you how to live our lives. Something you could never imagine. Basic freedoms they are stealing it. And I&#8217;m not over saying it, they are stealing it, and they&#8217;re saying they&#8217;re protecting us. Let us protect ourselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Getting more pointed, Portnoy said that if he struggled for over a decade to create a successful business only to have politicians strip it from him so suddenly would be worse than death.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not protecting a family that you just destroyed. These people aren&#8217;t getting their livelihoods back. As I&#8217;ve said 1 million times,  if I started barstool, worked my d*** to the bone for a decade and I got right to the point of making it and you pull the plug without me having the chance, I would rather die,&#8221; he said.</p>
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