Feb. 26, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| the loudest voices on the american right are carrying putin's water As the assault began last night, Tuckums Carlson was spouting pro-Kremlin talking points, while Laura Ingraham ranted insults about Ukraine's president before giving the disgraced, twice-impeached former president a platform to fawn over the tyrant Putin. | ||
| And if you have any questions about the real reasons behind the right-wing love affair with Putin, look no further than Steve Bannon and noted mercenary Eric Prince. | ||
| Putin ain't woke. | ||
| He is anti-woke. | ||
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The Russians, people still know which bathroom to use. | |
| They know how many, how many genders are there in Russia? | ||
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Two. | |
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| That's all of a sudden, that's, that's, that's not, that's not, they don't have the flags, they don't have the pride flags outside on their, on their... They don't have boys swimming in girls' college swim meets. | ||
| How backward. | ||
| It's, it's embarrassing. | ||
| How savage. | ||
| How medieval. | ||
| How, how medieval. | ||
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This is why, this whole thing's a scam. | |
| Joining me now, Charlie Sykes, editor-at-large for The Bulwark, and Naveed Jamali, former FBI double agent and editor-at-large for Newsweek. | ||
| Naveed, I'll start with you. | ||
| I mean, I like it when they just are honest, right? | ||
| And just tell us, because that way we're not just saying it. | ||
| Look, Julia Ioffe said this last night on the show, that, you know, the reason that the American right, or this faction of the American right, loves Putin and loves Putin's Russia is that, in their mind, it's the white ethnostate, the white Christian ethnostate of their dreams. | ||
| Hard on Muslims, hard on LGBTQ people. | ||
| You know, no elections, no democracy, perfect, right? | ||
| They're saying it now. | ||
| I like that they're admitting it. | ||
| Well, I think it's happened because starting with the ascent of Trump, there has been, sadly, a total loss of spine and conscience among too many Republicans who At first saw no harm in echoing and parroting the kind of crazy stuff that Trump would say, totally against history, against common sense, as you know so well. | ||
| And now they're kind of caught in a bit of a downward spiral where they're afraid to stand against even the most outrageous comments. | ||
| There's also another element, which is These people are naive in such a dangerous way. | ||
| They somehow believe that because Putin presents himself as a strong leader on behalf of certain values that are, you know, anti-gay, that are anti, you know, freedom and democracy, that's so messy, that somehow, you know, that corresponds with the views of certain members and elements of the Republican Party. | ||
| You've got to be more mistaken. | ||
| You know, this man is not, you know, he takes no prisoners. | ||
| He kills them, he poisons them, he imprisons them, whatever. | ||
| And I think the naivete that we saw starting with Trump, but which has now been accelerated, is really hard to understand, Joe. | ||
| But nevertheless, we have to deal with it and we have to call it out. | ||
| And more people in the press and in politics need to be doing that. | ||
| And for those who are watching who don't quite follow that logic about a certain element of the far right and Vladimir Putin, Mika, the same thing has been happening with Hungary, where these certain element of the Trump right are bowing down to a guy who is celebrating the collapse of Western democracy, of liberal democracy in Orban. | ||
| Madam Secretary, your new piece for The Atlantic, you mention, the piece is entitled, A State of Emergency for Democracy. | ||
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And it really is. | |
| So here's a quick mash-up of videos featuring prominent right-wingers filleting Vladimir Putin. | ||
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Let's watch. | |
| Putin ain't woke. | ||
| He is anti-woke. | ||
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The Russians, people still know which bathroom to use. | |
| They know how many genders are there in Russia. | ||
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| Since the day that Donald Trump became president, Democrats in Washington have told you you have a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. | ||
| It's not a suggestion, it's a mandate. | ||
| Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. | ||
| Many Americans have obeyed this directive. | ||
| They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Maybe you're one of them. | ||
| And I said, this is genius. | ||
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Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine. | |
| Putin declares it as independent. | ||
| Oh, that's wonderful. | ||
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Also remember the t-shirts we saw at Trump rallies. | |
| I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat. | ||
| Has Putin ever called me a racist? | ||
| Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? | ||
| Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia? | ||
| Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years? | ||
| Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? | ||
| Is he making fentanyl? | ||
| Is he trying to snuff out Christianity? | ||
| Does he eat dogs? | ||
| These are fair questions, and the answer to all of them is no. | ||
| Vladimir Putin didn't do any of that. | ||
| So why does Permanent Washington hate him so much? | ||
| They don't have boys swimming in girls' college swim meets. | ||
| How backward. | ||
| How embarrassed. | ||
| How savage. | ||
| How medieval. | ||
| How medieval. | ||
| This is why this whole thing's a scam. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| It's Friday, 25 February, year of our Lord 2020. | ||
| You're in The War Room now with almost 150 million downloads, and the podcasts, of course, are live everywhere. | ||
| Real America's Voice, John Frederick, Radio Network, and in Mandarin and Japanese, thanks to G News and GTV, have a very special guest on today. | ||
| That cold open shows you the lack of sophistication and seriousness of the people that got everybody into this. | ||
| This would be the European Union, NATO, the American elites, and particularly the criminals of the Clinton Organization, the Biden Organization, have been stealing money out of Ukraine with both hands and led to the false, led the Ukraine elite The false belief they're going to be part of NATO or even part of the EU. | ||
| And now they're all talking big. | ||
| Oh, we're going to send this NATO over to here. | ||
| I'm going to do this and send this. | ||
| We got these weak sanctions. | ||
| While the brave Ukrainian people are standing up to the Russians, and a lot of folks are going to die, and a lot of folks are going to die needlessly because of the global elites and what they have done here. | ||
| Honored to have Dennis Prager on here today. | ||
| Dennis, I call you the American Socrates, so be like Socrates. | ||
| Tell me where we are in this moment. | ||
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It's a big question. | |
| We are witnessing evil, and let me say on behalf of Those on the right along with me, what he is doing is pure evil. | ||
| The attack on Ukraine is 100% unjustified, and for the third time, an act of evil. | ||
| So for those recording this at MSNBC, you are hearing this on Steve Bannon's show from his guest, and I suspect that most of us believe that this is pure evil. | ||
| I would like to add something, however. | ||
| That has become clearer and clearer to me. | ||
| I do not believe that Putin would have invaded Ukraine if he believed that he did not have a stranglehold on Germany's energy. | ||
| Germany, the richest and most important country on the continent. | ||
| The UK is not on the continent, it's in the continent, for the record. | ||
| And the reason that he believes that is because of the American and Western environmentalists, who are largely extremists and fanatics, who would really allow the world to be crushed economically for the sake of their fantasy that there was an existential threat. | ||
| That's their words, existential, meaning the existence of. | ||
| We will die. | ||
| The human race will die out, along with other biological species, because of global warming. | ||
| This is that they are not serious is easily proved that they all they want to do is destroy the economy of the Western world and reorient, reoriented from capitalism and from free enterprise. | ||
| It's easily proven they're against nuclear power. | ||
| If you truly believe that fossil fuel is the cause of an existential threat to humanity, You would be adamant about building nuclear power plants. | ||
| Yet the fools in Germany destroyed their... Angela Merkel closed down her nuclear power plants. | ||
| Just parenthetically, I have a motto. | ||
| I have many mottos about life. | ||
| One of them is, Germany is always wrong. | ||
| If you follow that, you are almost always going to have a correct analysis of world events. | ||
| So I want people to understand the damage and perhaps the rendering of this invasion possible because of Western environmentalist fanatics. | ||
| Dennis, what about today they had the foreign minister that said, if you don't do something better than these weak sanctions you've come up with, there's going to be blood on your hands. | ||
| Zelensky last night went on national TV before he took to the streets to defend Kiev himself and said, Biden, where are you? | ||
| Where are your troops? | ||
| Where's NATO? | ||
| What's the culpability of the EU, NATO, Biden, Clinton, the City of London, all these? | ||
| They gave the false impression To the Ukrainian people that they were going to be part of the European Union and they were going to be part of NATO and then when Putin called their bluff and let's assume let's say it's pure evil when he called their bluff there nowhere to be found. | ||
| You've got people handing out hand grenades in boxes. | ||
| So, I'll get to the NATO part in a moment. | ||
| right now you have people handing out weapons to people have never been trained to defend their city. What's the moral culpability of the elites of the West that led these people down the primrose path of what Dr. | ||
| Meischarmer at University of Chicago has said has happened here to the Ukrainian people, sir? So I'll get to the NATO part in a moment. I just want to reemphasize the culpability in two other arenas. The lack of of giving proper weapons. | ||
| I don't want American soldiers there. | ||
| Almost no American does, uh, but, uh, the West should have supplied them and should be supplying them with more weapons and better weapons. | ||
| Second is the, uh, the environmentalist factor, the energy factor, which emboldened emboldened Putin to believe he could get away with this because the West is not prepared. | ||
| For the energy poverty, as they call it in Germany, because so many people can't afford energy because of what the Greens have done in Germany. | ||
| So now with regard to NATO, I don't believe that Putin invaded because of the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. | ||
| The idea that Russia has fear from a NATO invasion It is the creation of a paranoid mind. | ||
| There is no way of dealing with a paranoid mind. | ||
| I was a graduate student at the Russian Institute at Columbia University many years ago. | ||
| I studied under Mika Brzezinski's father, Zbigniew Brzezinski. | ||
| I speak Russian and I spent time in the Soviet Union and East European countries. | ||
| So, this is not unfamiliar territory to me. | ||
| I remember hearing from my professors, Russia is paranoid about an invasion because of Hitler and because of Napoleon, and I totally understand that. | ||
| They certainly were traumas, to say the least. | ||
| However, Russia is one ninth of the world's surface. | ||
| For Russia to speak of, we are afraid of an invasion, Uh, from whom? | ||
| France? | ||
| Who? | ||
| Who is going to invade Estonia? | ||
| I mean, so this whole NATO thing, it has to be put into perspective. | ||
| Let's say I am not for Ukraine joining NATO. | ||
| I think it's unnecessary for Ukraine, unnecessary for the West, and unnecessary for Russia. | ||
| Having said that, The notion that that is the reason that Putin invaded, I don't buy for one ruble moment. | ||
| Dennis, hang on for one second. | ||
| Be back in a moment. | ||
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| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | |
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome back to The War Room. | ||
| We have a very special guest, Dennis Prager. | ||
| And, you know, talk about luck for us, Divine Providence, where we've been covering the war and everything in the back of the war and all the geopolitics and economics with all our guests in the convoy. | ||
| We have somebody who can bring it all together, which is Dennis Prager. | ||
| Who I say is the American Socrates and it was about this the new book remember I had Dennis on a while ago about the Rational Bible and Genesis and Exodus as he goes through and does this these Commentaries on the Bible. | ||
| He's got one called the Rational Passover Haggadah It's amazing and I learned a lot about Judaism in this book this book I would recommend to all non-jews and I'm gonna have Dennis Perkins say what Dennis first I gotta ask you and I was a little confused I couldn't understand. | ||
| I said, Dennis is such a modest guy. | ||
| Why does he have his picture on the front of the book? | ||
| Then I realized the book is backwards, like in the Jewish faith, I guess, in the Hebrew. | ||
| But this artwork, the artwork is unbelievable. | ||
| Who did the painting? | ||
| So I am very close friends with a great artist named Robert Florczak. | ||
| and F-L-O-R-C-Z-A-K, if people want to look him up, Florkzak, if you will. | ||
| So I commissioned Robert, and he did this largely as a favor. | ||
| He does a video for PragerU on modern art. | ||
| It is one of the most, I think it's tens of millions of views. | ||
| He devastates, he destroys what has happened in contemporary art. | ||
| Anyway, he's the artist. | ||
| Thank you for asking. | ||
| This book is just like my Rational Bible. | ||
| This is for Jews and non-Jews and atheists. | ||
| It deals with the biggest issues of life. | ||
| One big one in this, by the way, is this is the longest ritual in the world today, the Passover Seder. | ||
| It is about 3,000 years old. | ||
| There was nothing even close. | ||
| And I make the point, and I write many for discussion parts, essays, and I make the point that no nation and no religion can survive the death of ritual. | ||
| And we in America, we are at the precipice of disappearing as Americans. | ||
| Well, we're living as people, but not necessarily as Americans. | ||
| We no longer have the rituals of Memorial Day. | ||
| We don't have the rituals of kids saying the pledge in school. | ||
| We don't have the rituals of Lincoln's and Washington's birthday. | ||
| Thanksgiving has become Turkey Day or Genocide Day. | ||
| You choose it. | ||
| So all the rituals, July 4th, it's a barbecue. | ||
| It was gigantic in American history till the 50s, 60s. | ||
| And then it became a barbecue to have friends over for hot dogs and beer. | ||
| You cannot survive without ritual. | ||
| So, a lot of Christians have taken up the Passover Seder, which may very well have been the Last Supper of Jesus. | ||
| So, it's a tremendous connection between Jews and Christians. | ||
| But, thank you for endorsing this, because it's... I'm trying to make this stuff alive for people before we lose the Judeo-Christian bases of the West. | ||
| No, no, this is why the Rational Bible and your Genesis and Exodus, I tell people, get them, you'll have a very different, deeper understanding of these texts after you've read Prager's commentary. | ||
| Did you think at the time when you started this and commissioned the art, because this is basically Pharaoh's army getting ready to, this is the, obviously the Jews are going to cross, but Pharaoh's army is not far behind, right? | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| Did you think at the time that this book would come out? | ||
| April 15th is, I think, Passover this year. | ||
| The book's just coming out. | ||
| And we're going to have, by the way, some specials for Lent next week. | ||
| Some of the Sophia Institute folks are going to be here about their books for Lent. | ||
| Did you think that you'd be putting this book out where this could be the initiation of World War III, Dennis Prager? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| I'm still hopeful that we're not entering World War Three as such. | ||
| But I will tell you that I was just talking about this on my radio show. | ||
| I do a happiness hour every Friday after 25 years. | ||
| And no matter how bad the news is, I still have my happiness hour. | ||
| So I talk to people... Hold it, hold it. | ||
| We got Dennis Prager in the War Room, not known for happiness. | ||
| The War Room, not known for happiness. | ||
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Thank you for bringing the happiness out. | |
| Well, I don't think happiness is a virtue, not a feeling. | ||
| Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the founders knew what they were talking about. | ||
| Happiness is a very important moral achievement. | ||
| So I'm big on it. | ||
| So I wrote a book on happiness also 25 years ago, and in it I have Uh, little short chapters on many subjects. | ||
| One of them is a tragic view of life will make you a happier human being. | ||
| I, I so assume that bad is normative, that when I am surrounded by good, I am deliriously happy and I'm not being cute and I'm not even exaggerating. | ||
| One of the reasons I have been so happy virtually all of my life, certainly since I was a teenager, is that I know how bad things can get. | ||
| And America struck me as this almost utopian experiment. | ||
| This country is awesome for everybody. | ||
| Everybody. | ||
| How many kids at Harvard know that 3 million blacks moved to this country in the last 50 years? | ||
| 3 million, 2 million from Africa, 1 million from the Caribbean. | ||
| How many know that 360,000 blacks came as slaves? | ||
| Of course, a pure evil. | ||
| But I want context for people to understand how many more Africans have come to this country because they wanted to than came in those hell ships known as slave ships. | ||
| But they don't learn that. | ||
| Why did these people come? | ||
| If America is systemically racist, they're stupid. | ||
| The Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s. | ||
| Not one Jew moved to Germany in the 1930s because it was so anti-Semitic. | ||
| But blacks moved to America in massive numbers because it's so pro-black. | ||
| It's a blessing for a black person to live in this country. | ||
| So it's a blessing for a Jew, as I am, and I know that there's been anti-Semitism in America, but I taught Jewish history at the City University of New York, so I know a fair amount about this subject. | ||
| Outside of Israel itself, which hasn't existed before 1948 for 2,000 years, there's no country in the world that has been as good to Jews as America, or as good to anybody as America has. | ||
| So I am more dazzled by the rarity of goodness than the ubiquity of evil. | ||
| How then, what is it about our secular elites that they don't understand that? | ||
| How do we have, how do we have June of 2020 and what happened in the summer of 2020? | ||
| How have we had, since this Biden regime's taken over, this outright, just hatred of the, you talk about the rituals, the rituals, the symbols, the underlying meaning of the American way of life. | ||
| Why do our elites, the ones that benefit the most from the economic system, detest the country the most, sir? | ||
| The left hates America because America is the only living, massively successful refutation of everything the left believes. | ||
| The left loathes the Judeo-Christian value system. | ||
| America is the most religious of the industrialized democracies. | ||
| The left hates capitalism. | ||
| America is the most emphatic about free enterprise and capitalism. | ||
| If America is right and successful, then the left is wrong and a failure. | ||
| So it is a sort of battle for survival between the left and the United States of America. | ||
| A couple things you've written, because we're going to go to the convoys here after the break. | ||
| One was about Canada. | ||
| Canada is the Cuba of North America, what has happened in Canada. | ||
| Canada has always been a great ally of ours, very close to this country. | ||
| One of the reasons the convoys started is obviously the convoys up in Canada. | ||
| Walk us through your assessment of Canada now. | ||
| Canada is lost, in my opinion. | ||
| It was lost before Justin Trudeau. | ||
| Justin Trudeau is merely the latest expression. | ||
| Just look, all you need to know about Justin Trudeau, aside from the fact that he's Pierre Trudeau's son, all you need to know is that he was the only Western leader to thoroughly praise Fidel Castro when Castro died. | ||
| So this is a man who lives a very ancient Jewish phrase, one of the guiding phrases of my life. | ||
| Those who are cruel to the kind will be kind to the cruel. | ||
| So he was cruel to his truckers, but he was kind to Fidel Castro. | ||
| This man's moral compass like that of the left entirely anywhere. | ||
| And I distinguish between left and liberals. | ||
| Liberals vote for the left. | ||
| That is their great sin. | ||
| But they don't share the left's values generally. | ||
| But the left is a broken moral compass in every arena. | ||
| But even before Trudeau, Canada... Tell me what Canada stands for. | ||
| You know, remember Charles Krauthammer, the great, brilliant mind on Fox? | ||
| And the columnist at the Washington Post. | ||
| So I had him on my show a number of times and I asked him once, I said, you know, you're Canadian. | ||
| I don't, most people didn't know that. | ||
| He grew up in Montreal. | ||
| I said, so what's the biggest difference between the United States and Canada? | ||
| I had no idea what he would answer, but the quick mind that he was, he said, I'll tell you, Dennis, the motto of America is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| The motto of Canada is peace, order, and good government. | ||
| Which is going to inspire people? | ||
| That's my question, that's not Krauthammer. | ||
| Oh, I stand for peace, order and good government. | ||
| When I was a kid, starting my travels that took me to 130 countries, so I would travel around the world and the only people with a flag stitched onto their backpacks were Canadian kids. | ||
| So I would ask them, why do you want everybody to know you're Canadian? | ||
| And they all had the same answer. | ||
| So that people not think I'm an American. | ||
| The Canadian identity Wow. | ||
| Dennis, hang on for one second. | ||
| We've got Dennis Prager, the new book, The Rational Passover. | ||
| Particularly if you're not Jewish, I strongly recommend getting this. | ||
| It's amazingly insightful. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| We've got the convoys coming up. | ||
| Dennis Prager, all next. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| We're going to go to our own Michael Yan. | ||
| He's with the People's Convoy. | ||
| I think somewhere near Tucumcara, New Mexico. | ||
| Michael, give us an update, sir. | ||
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Yeah, that's where we're at, Steve. | |
| You know, yesterday the convoy was about 5 miles long. | ||
| Today it's about 10 miles long. | ||
| That's what they're saying. | ||
| I wasn't able to get my drone up. | ||
| It's a little too windy and my airplane couldn't come today. | ||
| So, this little town, while we were going down I-40, The whole convoy took a detour and went into this little town and the whole town came out to say hello. | ||
| We just stopped there for about less than an hour. | ||
| through the American way, they contacted the convoy leaders of the Peters convoy and we took a detour and went into this little town and the whole town came out to say hello. | ||
| We just stopped there for about less than an hour. There was a couple speeches up on the back of a semi-truck and just the whole town here was unbelievable. | ||
| But before that was Albuquerque, right? | ||
| And in Albuquerque, you know, it's deep blue state and, uh, deep blue city. | ||
| And yet thousands and thousands of people came out on the bridges and a lot of lining the roadways. | ||
| I've got you a lot of video. | ||
| I'll send later. | ||
| Uh, it was unbelievable. | ||
| And so this thing is growing, you know, it's grown each day. | ||
| The first day I had about 35, uh, semi trucks, maybe 35, uh, SUV, not SUVs, but RVs. | ||
| And, uh, And buses and a few hundred cars, and now it's about 10 miles long. | ||
| So I mean, how many is that? | ||
| So tomorrow I will be up on an airplane, if it works this time, and I'll get you some aerial shots. | ||
| But I want to say, Dennis, we're still American. | ||
| Jeff's still American. | ||
| We're with a whole bunch of Americans out here, man. | ||
| America ain't dead, not as long as we're still alive. | ||
| So now we're heading to our campsite, and The enthusiasm is very high, both from the people who keep coming up and pouring food through the windows of the truck and from the truckers themselves. | ||
| I mean, nobody expected it to be this energetic and this, you know, it's just growing so fast. | ||
| And we know that this is the most You know, there's not many people that live out here and yet huge numbers are already doing the convoy. | ||
| So what's it going to be like over in Memphis and over in Indianapolis, right? | ||
| That's where we think the rivers will meet, especially around Memphis and Indianapolis. | ||
| I want everybody to go to our site. | ||
| I want everybody to go into the chat rooms. | ||
| We're putting up how you get to the People's Convoy to actually track and you can meet them. | ||
| You can go to Overpass and greet them or to one of the towns or join up. | ||
| Like I said, I think it's doubled every day. | ||
| Michael, hang on for a second. | ||
| I want to go back to Dennis Prager. | ||
| Dennis, you just wrote an amazing piece about masks and elites. | ||
| This convoy is inspired by the truckers in Canada. | ||
| But at the core, it's about the mandates. | ||
| It's about the mask mandates and the vaccine mandates. | ||
| Walk us through your theory of the case about the mask and these mandates. | ||
| From very early on, I suspected that the issue was not medical. | ||
| The issue was not science. | ||
| The issue was power. | ||
| And now I know it for a fact. | ||
| The absurdity of masks, I pointed out, because I led a normal life the entire two years. | ||
| I hug people. | ||
| I spoke at rallies within two months, three months of the lockdown. | ||
| I went to my Shabbat dinner with 15 friends Friday nights from the second week on. | ||
| I haven't missed once. | ||
| I have led as thoroughly a normal life as possible. | ||
| Did not wear masks to my workplace. | ||
| I mean, I do wear it on the airplane because I don't want to get thrown off the airplane. | ||
| I don't wear it at airports, incidentally. | ||
| And you'll love this, Steve. | ||
| So I sort of live at airports. | ||
| And I don't, again, I don't wear a mask in the airport itself. | ||
| I do on the plane, as I said. | ||
| And on three occasions in three different cities, police walked over to me in the airport. | ||
| My I had a somewhat of an adrenaline rush thinking I don't know will I be arrested or or what and in every case they came over and said Dennis Prager just want you to know we love you. | ||
| Is that awesome? | ||
| Let me ask you, why was it today, when the President's coming out and making this historic announcement about the Supreme Court, you have Justice Jackson, Judge Jackson, and you have the Vice President of the United States, both masked up? | ||
| And when I think the CDC just announced that they're taking off at least part of the mask, why do they continue to have to virtue signal about these masks, and particularly a historic event today that'll be I don't know fully the answer. | ||
| You know, a guest on a show should always have an answer. | ||
| I admit to being somewhat puzzled. | ||
| Why do they feel compelled to do that? | ||
| It's an excellent question. | ||
| Why do that? | ||
| I don't know fully the answer. | ||
| You know, a guest on a show should always have an answer. | ||
| I admit to being somewhat puzzled. | ||
| When the President of the United States and his wife were outdoors and gave each other a kiss, both wearing masks, why was that not a picture in idiocy? | ||
| It's like it's a scene from a bad comedy. | ||
| To kiss your wife through a mask? | ||
| What are you saying? | ||
| You're saying either, I don't believe what I'm doing, but I need to virtue signal, or I really believe what I'm doing because I am an extremely scared person. | ||
| In the case of Joe Biden, I believe it is both, but especially scared. | ||
| I have played on my radio show The statement of Vice President Biden. | ||
| It is amazing I isolated it. | ||
| It is the only comment he made as Vice President for eight years that I have played all the time since he made it. | ||
| I think since the SARS epidemic. | ||
| I wouldn't go in any confined space at this time. | ||
| This man is truly emblematic of the left. | ||
| I believe that the most animating impulse of the left is these are scared people. | ||
| They are scared of life. | ||
| They are scared of death. | ||
| They are scared of marriage. | ||
| They are scared of having children. | ||
| They are scared of taking risks. | ||
| They are scared of failure. | ||
| They are scared of pain. | ||
| That is the genesis of the modern leftist in the United States. | ||
| They are scared human beings. | ||
| Nowhere more obvious than teachers. | ||
| In Sweden, which is amazing that I use Sweden as the model. | ||
| It's the last country in the world I thought I would ever use as a model. | ||
| The schools were open all two years. | ||
| The schools for kids under 16. | ||
| So basically through high school open. | ||
| No kid died. | ||
| No teacher died. | ||
| But in America, teachers unions threatened not to show up and didn't. | ||
| If the kids and if they opened up the school, let alone didn't wear a mask. | ||
| We have very scared people in leadership positions, and I need to tell you, this is devastating to a society. | ||
| You want your teachers, your parents, and your leaders to have courage, to be strong. | ||
| If these people quake in their boots for no good reason, it has a devastating impact on children. | ||
| Is the basis of their fear and being scared is their secularization? | ||
| Is that the reason? | ||
| Is it because they don't believe in a higher being? | ||
| They don't believe in an afterlife? | ||
| What is the genesis of that fear? | ||
| I often say that the message of my life has generally been, if I could summarize it in one sentence, the consequences of secularism. | ||
| People know the dangerous aspects of too much religion, so they speak about religious extremists, but they never think about the dangerous aspects of too much secularism. | ||
| There's no term secular extremist, but we are living in the age of secular extremism. | ||
| There is no doubt that that is a factor. | ||
| There's another one, though, They have been raised by parents whose primary aim was to protect their children from any possible danger. | ||
| No seesaws, no running around during recess, no diving boards. | ||
| No monkey bars. | ||
| None of this. | ||
| Lest there be a risk. | ||
| We don't want you to lose by too many points in soccer. | ||
| Lest it crush your self-esteem. | ||
| We will give you an award just for showing up. | ||
| Just a participation trophy. | ||
| You don't have to win to get a trophy. | ||
| That's too painful because you might lose. | ||
| So two generations have been raised to believe that pain is bad. | ||
| And it isn't. | ||
| I want to go then, by the way, the book it just came out with is about the the rational Passover. | ||
| You've got the rational Bible you've already done. | ||
| You've also got the book on Genesis and Exodus. | ||
| This is amazing to talk about, particularly for non for non-Jews to learn about Passover in the foundations of the Jewish religion. | ||
| You just wrote a tough piece, though, when you talk about the secularization. | ||
| On the other hand, you wrote a tough piece on COVID-19 and the failures of the great religions. | ||
| Can you walk us through that? | ||
| Because if if if If spirituality and religion is the basis of what is good in us going forward, and the be not afraid, what happened to the great religions during the COVID pandemic? | ||
| This is the saddest part for me, because I expect very little from the secular world. | ||
| But I did expect better from churches and synagogues, to be honest. | ||
| And the fact that so many priests, ministers, and rabbis Marched in lockstep with secular, irrational orders. | ||
| I don't mind secular, irrational orders. | ||
| I'm not a rabbi, but I have conducted High Holy Day services for 15 years. | ||
| The highest Holy Days of Judaism, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, 15 years, except for 2020 when there was no venue. | ||
| 400 people showed up. | ||
| Nobody was masked. | ||
| Every age group from 9 to 90. | ||
| And nobody got sick. | ||
| And everybody was thrilled. | ||
| And why didn't every synagogue where I live in LA, why didn't they all do this? | ||
| It's—and why didn't every church? | ||
| Now, a few evangelical churches did. | ||
| These are great pastors. | ||
| A handful of rabbis did and a handful of priests did. | ||
| But the overwhelming majority were as scared as their secular brothers and sisters. | ||
| They moved in lockstep. | ||
| They deprived their children of religious education for two years because they're scared and because they obeyed irrational authority. | ||
| If I can't expect better from religious leaders, Then we have no hope for this country if they fail if their wimps if they are sheep It's a it's a very very bad sign So, what are we then to do because you've laid out the case I mean it's the the churches and particularly being a catholic it was an absolute embarrassing | ||
| Well, let me just say, Steve, you will love my saying, I don't care what religion you're a member of as long as you're embarrassed by it. | ||
| So as soon as you said you're embarrassed as a Catholic, I'm embarrassed as a Jew. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| So what do we do if the leaders of the great religions absolutely showed they were afraid of a virus? | ||
| What are we then to do? | ||
| They weren't even, they were not just afraid of a virus. | ||
| They were afraid of the secular authorities. | ||
| And then they give justification. | ||
| Well, we're supposed to live by the laws. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Of course people should live by laws, but not if they're irrational and they're crushing. | ||
| The damage done by listening to these laws of lockdown, the damage on children, the highest suicide rate among young people in American history, the highest depression rate in American history. | ||
| The loss of two years of education that can't be regained, the loss of seeing faces of friends and adults for two years, and they rationalize this on the basis of science? | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Again, if the religious are sheep, then I don't know what to say. | ||
| The only thing we can do is fight. | ||
| Look, I started my own synagogue. | ||
| Literally, I've started my own synagogue with two of my friends, and we meet every single Saturday, and I teach the Torah there, and we just gave up on the vast majority of synagogues in our area. | ||
| People should start their own churches, start their own synagogues. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I've given up on organized religion in the United States and in the West. | ||
| So we will have to rebuild it from the bottom up. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| Use your agency. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Dennis Prager and the Convoys, all next in The War Room. | ||
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| Okay, we have two pieces of work that are with the convoy. | ||
| Two filmmakers, John Sparopoulos and Michael Young. | ||
| Let's go to John Sparopoulos. | ||
| John, you're out ahead, I think, of the convoy in the Vanguard. | ||
| Can you give us an update? | ||
| You're past Tucumcara, New Mexico? | ||
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| He saw lots of people, thousands of them on bridges in Albuquerque in New Mexico today. | ||
| The report I filed earlier today from yesterday was what I call the overpass brigades. | ||
| They're fast becoming the story here. | ||
| I've interviewed people on five different stops, overpasses. | ||
| One of them I've dubbed the Bannon Overpass. | ||
| They were all fans of the show, but they were there waiting for hours in the cold to do the cheering and the screaming and the support of the truckers. | ||
| Freedom is the word of the day for every one of them. | ||
| Dennis Prager was talking about the people living on the left living in fear. | ||
| These people are the bravest ones. | ||
| The ones standing on the bridges, the truckers behind the wheel, the people supporting them behind the wheel in the RVs and the pickup trucks. | ||
| But the people on the bridges, They can't go to Washington. | ||
| They're depending on the truckers to take that message. | ||
| And they're the ones that say, you know, we cannot live in fear. | ||
| We cannot live in fear. | ||
| We want our freedoms back. | ||
| To hell with these mask mandates. | ||
| And I think, as Michael Yan has said, and as I thought all along, this is going to get bigger and bigger. | ||
| It doubled after the first night. | ||
| And today, Michael reported, and I've heard Brian Bracey say, and my colleague Wendy Strock Mahoney, who's embedded with the convoy right now. | ||
| She's told me that the convoy runs about 10 or 15 miles, which is much longer than it was yesterday. | ||
| And so, this is going to, yeah, like Michael said, when this gets to Indianapolis and farther east, we could have massive shows of support. | ||
| I'm not surprised because, as we know, 70% of the country thinks the country's on the wrong track. | ||
| John, how do people get to you and Wendy? | ||
| How do they get to your live stream? | ||
| How do they get to your films? | ||
| We're putting them up non-stop. | ||
| I want people to have direct access to you, Sparopolis. | ||
| How do they get to you? | ||
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My website is www.letsrollamerica.us. | |
| We're posting there daily. | ||
| And all the links are there to our social media where we put up pictures and short videos and things like that. | ||
| And we're independent, so we depend on the give, send, go kindness of the Bannon Show and other people. | ||
| And so we're at givecengo.com slash letsrollamerica. | ||
| Givecengo.com slash letsrollamerica. | ||
| And thank you to your viewers who pumped up the site the other day after my appearance and your kind words about our reporting. | ||
| Listen, before you give any money, go look at my work. | ||
| It's first class, I'm an old time news guy. | ||
| And before you give any money, look at my work and then say, okay, this guy's worth supporting. | ||
| Sparapalus, you're one of a kind. | ||
| Thank you very much, brother. | ||
| You keep rolling. | ||
| John Sparopolous is going to be at the vanguard of the caravan, of the convoy. | ||
| Dennis Prager, this is a populist revolt against the powers that be. | ||
| What's your analysis of this, of the convoy? | ||
| By the way, am I coming through or am I frozen? | ||
| Is the video frozen? | ||
| You're perfect, you're perfect. | ||
| I'm good? | ||
| Okay, great. | ||
| It looks frozen here. | ||
| Okay, so A few observations about this. | ||
| The left claims to care about the little guy. | ||
| The whole facade of the left, it's just built on lies like, you know, Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. | ||
| It's all men give birth. | ||
| It's just a world of repeated lies, which the well-educated believe. | ||
| I am so much closer to truckers You know, I went to graduate school at an Ivy League university and all that stuff, but I'm so much closer to these guys. | ||
| I share their values. | ||
| I love their spirit. | ||
| Columbia, where I went, you can't get weaker people than the president and the deans and the heads of diversity and most of the professors. | ||
| It's like It's like a center of cowardice. | ||
| And so I don't want to be affiliated with that world. | ||
| I like the trucker world. | ||
| You know, the Canadian truckers, it's amazing what they started. | ||
| These guys, in a better world, they would get the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| This is a very big deal what they did in the tyranny known as Canada. | ||
| Dennis, how do people... Look, you've changed the course of this country with PragerU, your content, and that's why I call you the American Socrates. | ||
| We've got a minute or two here. | ||
| How do they get the book? | ||
| As importantly, how do people get to you? | ||
| How do they find your writings? | ||
| How do they get to your radio show? | ||
| How do they get to PragerU? | ||
| Because you are the American Socrates. | ||
| I'm very touched by coming from you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, very simple. | ||
| DennisPrager.com My radio show is syndicated, but there's an app for the Dennis Prager Show. | ||
| You can hear it if it's not on in your city. | ||
| And I do it three hours a day. | ||
| Of course, this PragerU, we put out a video every week. | ||
| We have over 5 billion, with a B, views. | ||
| Most of those who watch it are under 35 years of age. | ||
| I do a weekly fireside chat. | ||
| at PragerU.com with a million views or a million people watching each week, especially young people around the world. | ||
| It's called the Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager. | ||
| You could find that anywhere. | ||
| So, of course, my books, which are the biggest work of my life. | ||
| And the latest is to explain the oldest holiday in the world to people of every faith. | ||
| The Rational Passover Haggadah and my Bible commentary. | ||
| Two volumes are out. | ||
| It will be five volumes. | ||
| The third volume, Deuteronomy, is out at the end of the year. | ||
| It's all available at Amazon. | ||
| Thank you for asking. | ||
| I'm honored by how much you enjoy my work. | ||
| It means a lot to me. | ||
| No, you're very unique. | ||
| Okay, tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock, back here in the War Room, we're going to be covering the war, becoming global geopolitics, also capital markets, and we're going to be with the convoys. | ||
| We're going to have Rebecca Kohler is going to be our guest. | ||
| She's an expert on Putin, so we're going to get into all of it tomorrow morning. | ||
| Also, we'll be live with the truckers. | ||
| Dennis Prager, wonderful to have you on again. | ||
| The book's going to be a big hit. | ||
| Our audience can't get enough of it. | ||
| Look forward to having you back, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Dennis Prager. | ||
| The American Socrates. | ||
| See you tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock. |
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