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March 4, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
09:11
Dennis Reacts to Biden's Super Tuesday Results
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The Half-Life of Gratitude 00:09:11
Have I done a gratitude show on the Happiness Hour recently?
No.
It's worth doing again.
The people are not grateful for long.
It's one of the many flaws in human nature that we have to fight against.
That's the key here.
Somebody does you a big favor.
You are so grateful for a day.
I'd like to know, what is the half-life of gratitude?
All right, everybody.
So it's hard to imagine that Joe Biden will not get the nomination of the Democratic Party because I don't see, now that all the people slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders have coalesced around Joe Biden, The party wants him.
The New York Times wants him.
The Washington Post wants him.
CNN wants him.
It's inconceivable to me.
The question is, will the Bernie Sanders people be excited about a non-entity?
And the only answer is...
Does defeating Donald Trump override all other considerations?
Which I totally understand if it does, because for me, defeating the left overrides other considerations, which is why I came around to support Donald Trump, whom I opposed during the primaries.
Because of his demeanor, I acknowledge it.
I mean, I did.
I was outspoken.
Then he won the nomination, and as I said from the beginning, if he wins the nomination, I will support him.
Because the Democratic Party is a left-wing party and therefore destructive of all that I cherish.
The left destroys what most Americans cherish.
They just don't know it.
That's what's so sad.
That's why nice people vote left.
They don't know what destruction they're voting for.
The innocence of children is one of...
Dozens of categories of the chaos that is produced by the left.
But it's really quite something to show you the paucity of talent in the Democratic Party.
Forget the word talent.
The paucity of depth that Joe Biden is the guy they coalesce around.
He's nothing.
He's just nothing.
I'm not attacking him personally.
He may personally be a great friend, father, husband.
I fully acknowledge that.
But he's a nothing.
In terms of a leader, he's nothing.
You can't name anything he stands for or truly believes in.
He believes in winning elections.
He's a politician to go further in politics.
That's it.
It's like people who are in business.
They want to be the CEO. That's it.
They don't have a message.
They want to be the CEO. He wants to be president.
He's always wanted to be president.
That's it.
You know, those of us not animated in that direction don't understand.
It's impossible to empathize.
I've said that often.
We can sympathize, but we can't empathize.
I'm not saying that as a criticism of human nature.
It's just the way it is.
I cannot empathize with the desire to gain more and more power.
I can't empathize with it.
Or to be more and more famous.
Or to be...
I don't know what it is that animates people like Joe Biden.
I really don't.
He has nothing to say.
We know nothing that he stands for, and yet he just keeps running.
The running is an end in itself.
That is the point for most, but not all.
For most politicians, politics is an end, not a means.
By the way, there are people in my industry, in broadcasting, for whom broadcasting is an ends and not a means.
Although most people, left or right, who have talk shows, do see it as a means because they want to get their message out.
But there are many people in it who just want to succeed.
I meet young people who tell me they want to broadcast.
Oh, Dennis, I want to do what you do.
Which is great.
I think it's terrific.
But I always say, my first question is, well, what is it you want to do with it?
And they say, well, I just want to have a talk show.
Right?
So then I pursue it.
But to do what?
I want to talk about politics and current issues.
But if you don't have a message, You're not interesting.
What does it mean to talk about?
On the basis of what?
Anyway, for Joe Biden, politics is an end, not a means.
California 2020 primary results.
Bernie Sanders, 33.6%.
Joe Biden, 25%, 24-9.
But you realize that this is why Bernie Sanders doesn't have a chance.
Listen, Joe Biden, 25%.
Michael Bloomberg, 14%.
Pete Buttigieg, 6%.
So 6, that's 20, that's 45. I'm not quite sure what keeps Elizabeth Warren in the race.
Oh, she'll be out by the end of the day.
I mean, she lost her own state.
She came in, what, third?
Third in her own state.
It is an astonishing thing that she got at all far.
I mean, why would it not just...
All you people who go, oh, Trump's character, Trump's character.
Has he done anything comparable to purporting to be of an ethnic group he's not a member of?
And placing that in the forefront of your identity?
The first Native American professor of law.
Right?
Or female Native American.
I don't know which it was.
Or both.
Why isn't that disqualifying?
So, I mean, she is what she is.
Maybe she wants to go as far as possible to become the vice presidential nominee.
I don't know who would pick her, though.
I don't know why.
Biden does not need a black vice president.
He has the black vote.
The black vote saved him because they gave him South Carolina.
What's a big thing this year?
How the black vote goes.
Well, how the black vote goes in general.
But the most popular white Democrat among blacks is Biden, because he was Barack Obama's vice president.
Okay, so that's a very big help to the Democrats.
You know, he meets the only criterion for most Democrats is can they defeat Donald Trump.
By the way, that would be their only criterion, no matter who the Republican was.
You know, all Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, but what if Romney were president, who was not a Republican?
I don't know what he is.
But theoretically, he'd be Republican.
They would be the same thing.
Who could defeat Romney?
And I'm not saying this critically.
That's the way people operate.
They want to get the other party out of the White House.
We'll be back.
The Dennis Prager Show.
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