Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Reacts to Biden's Super Tuesday Results
Aired: 2020-03-04
Duration: 09:11


=== The Half-Life of Gratitude (09:11) ===

[00:00:00]  Have I done a gratitude show on the Happiness Hour recently?
[00:00:04]  No.
[00:00:05]  It's worth doing again.
[00:00:10]  The people are not grateful for long.
[00:00:15]  It's one of the many flaws in human nature that we have to fight against.
[00:00:21]  That's the key here.
[00:00:24]  Somebody does you a big favor.
[00:00:25]  You are so grateful for a day.
[00:00:32]  I'd like to know, what is the half-life of gratitude?
[00:00:36]  All right, everybody.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:01:00]  The New York Times wants him.
[00:01:03]  The Washington Post wants him.
[00:01:06]  CNN wants him.
[00:01:08]  It's inconceivable to me.
[00:01:10]  The question is, will the Bernie Sanders people be excited about a non-entity?
[00:01:18]  And the only answer is...
[00:01:22]  Does defeating Donald Trump override all other considerations?
[00:01:26]  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.
[00:01:39]  Because of his demeanor, I acknowledge it.
[00:01:43]  I mean, I did.
[00:01:43]  I was outspoken.
[00:01:45]  Then he won the nomination, and as I said from the beginning, if he wins the nomination, I will support him.
[00:01:51]  Because the Democratic Party is a left-wing party and therefore destructive of all that I cherish.
[00:02:01]  The left destroys what most Americans cherish.
[00:02:04]  They just don't know it.
[00:02:06]  That's what's so sad.
[00:02:08]  That's why nice people vote left.
[00:02:10]  They don't know what destruction they're voting for.
[00:02:17]  The innocence of children is one of...
[00:02:21]  Dozens of categories of the chaos that is produced by the left.
[00:02:31]  But it's really quite something to show you the paucity of talent in the Democratic Party.
[00:02:39]  Forget the word talent.
[00:02:40]  The paucity of depth that Joe Biden is the guy they coalesce around.
[00:02:47]  He's nothing.
[00:02:51]  He's just nothing.
[00:02:55]  I'm not attacking him personally.
[00:02:58]  He may personally be a great friend, father, husband.
[00:03:04]  I fully acknowledge that.
[00:03:06]  But he's a nothing.
[00:03:08]  In terms of a leader, he's nothing.
[00:03:13]  You can't name anything he stands for or truly believes in.
[00:03:18]  He believes in winning elections.
[00:03:20]  He's a politician to go further in politics.
[00:03:25]  That's it.
[00:03:27]  It's like people who are in business.
[00:03:30]  They want to be the CEO. That's it.
[00:03:34]  They don't have a message.
[00:03:37]  They want to be the CEO. He wants to be president.
[00:03:40]  He's always wanted to be president.
[00:03:46]  That's it.
[00:03:47]  You know, those of us not animated in that direction don't understand.
[00:03:51]  It's impossible to empathize.
[00:03:53]  I've said that often.
[00:03:55]  We can sympathize, but we can't empathize.
[00:03:58]  I'm not saying that as a criticism of human nature.
[00:04:01]  It's just the way it is.
[00:04:03]  I cannot empathize with the desire to gain more and more power.
[00:04:09]  I can't empathize with it.
[00:04:11]  Or to be more and more famous.
[00:04:13]  Or to be...
[00:04:15]  I don't know what it is that animates people like Joe Biden.
[00:04:19]  I really don't.
[00:04:20]  He has nothing to say.
[00:04:24]  We know nothing that he stands for, and yet he just keeps running.
[00:04:30]  The running is an end in itself.
[00:04:32]  That is the point for most, but not all.
[00:04:36]  For most politicians, politics is an end, not a means.
[00:04:42]  By the way, there are people in my industry, in broadcasting, for whom broadcasting is an ends and not a means.
[00:04:51]  Although most people, left or right, who have talk shows, do see it as a means because they want to get their message out.
[00:05:00]  But there are many people in it who just want to succeed.
[00:05:04]  I meet young people who tell me they want to broadcast.
[00:05:08]  Oh, Dennis, I want to do what you do.
[00:05:10]  Which is great.
[00:05:11]  I think it's terrific.
[00:05:13]  But I always say, my first question is, well, what is it you want to do with it?
[00:05:20]  And they say, well, I just want to have a talk show.
[00:05:26]  Right?
[00:05:27]  So then I pursue it.
[00:05:28]  But to do what?
[00:05:30]  I want to talk about politics and current issues.
[00:05:36]  But if you don't have a message, You're not interesting.
[00:05:41]  What does it mean to talk about?
[00:05:43]  On the basis of what?
[00:05:45]  Anyway, for Joe Biden, politics is an end, not a means.
[00:05:52]  California 2020 primary results.
[00:06:00]  Bernie Sanders, 33.6%.
[00:06:05]  Joe Biden, 25%, 24-9.
[00:06:09]  But you realize that this is why Bernie Sanders doesn't have a chance.
[00:06:16]  Listen, Joe Biden, 25%.
[00:06:19]  Michael Bloomberg, 14%.
[00:06:22]  Pete Buttigieg, 6%.
[00:06:24]  So 6, that's 20, that's 45. I'm not quite sure what keeps Elizabeth Warren in the race.
[00:06:50]  Oh, she'll be out by the end of the day.
[00:06:52]  I mean, she lost her own state.
[00:06:53]  She came in, what, third?
[00:06:55]  Third in her own state.
[00:06:58]  It is an astonishing thing that she got at all far.
[00:07:01]  I mean, why would it not just...
[00:07:04]  All you people who go, oh, Trump's character, Trump's character.
[00:07:08]  Has he done anything comparable to purporting to be of an ethnic group he's not a member of?
[00:07:16]  And placing that in the forefront of your identity?
[00:07:21]  The first Native American professor of law.
[00:07:26]  Right?
[00:07:27]  Or female Native American.
[00:07:29]  I don't know which it was.
[00:07:30]  Or both.
[00:07:33]  Why isn't that disqualifying?
[00:07:39]  So, I mean, she is what she is.
[00:07:43]  Maybe she wants to go as far as possible to become the vice presidential nominee.
[00:07:49]  I don't know who would pick her, though.
[00:07:51]  I don't know why.
[00:07:52]  Biden does not need a black vice president.
[00:07:56]  He has the black vote.
[00:07:58]  The black vote saved him because they gave him South Carolina.
[00:08:02]  What's a big thing this year?
[00:08:05]  How the black vote goes.
[00:08:06]  Well, how the black vote goes in general.
[00:08:08]  But the most popular white Democrat among blacks is Biden, because he was Barack Obama's vice president.
[00:08:20]  Okay, so that's a very big help to the Democrats.
[00:08:24]  You know, he meets the only criterion for most Democrats is can they defeat Donald Trump.
[00:08:40]  By the way, that would be their only criterion, no matter who the Republican was.
[00:08:46]  You know, all Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, but what if Romney were president, who was not a Republican?
[00:08:53]  I don't know what he is.
[00:08:55]  But theoretically, he'd be Republican.
[00:08:58]  They would be the same thing.
[00:09:00]  Who could defeat Romney?
[00:09:02]  And I'm not saying this critically.
[00:09:04]  That's the way people operate.
[00:09:06]  They want to get the other party out of the White House.
[00:09:09]  We'll be back.
[00:09:10]  The Dennis Prager Show.