Dennis Prager Show - CA's Newsom is Drunk with Power⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-02
Duration: 09:40


=== Public Servant Oxymoron (05:28) ===

[00:00:00]  So, listener, where is she?
[00:00:03]  Oh, in Illinois.
[00:00:04]  She's in Illinois.
[00:00:07]  Dear Dennis.
[00:00:08]  No, hello Dennis.
[00:00:10]  Annette DeGroote.
[00:00:13]  I go crazy every time I hear the term public servant.
[00:00:18]  Talk about an oxymoron.
[00:00:21]  That was brilliant.
[00:00:24]  It was just bloody brilliant.
[00:00:27]  Public servants.
[00:00:29]  People who work in the government, they're politicians, public servants.
[00:00:35]  When I think of that, the self-congratulatory nature of that.
[00:00:41]  Why aren't I a public servant?
[00:00:44]  I think I serve the public much more than certainly any Democrat, than a great number of people who work for the government, not all.
[00:00:55]  I live in Illinois and the public servants near me live in the biggest homes and drive the fanciest cars.
[00:01:03]  Yes, that's correct.
[00:01:06]  That was a great point.
[00:01:08]  Welcome, my friends.
[00:01:09]  Good to be with you.
[00:01:11]  I live in California, and those of you who will defy the tyrant, the little man who runs this state, will be doing...
[00:01:24]  A good deed.
[00:01:28]  The man is drunk with power and he's an idiot.
[00:01:31]  It's a bad combination.
[00:01:33]  Drunk with power and an idiot.
[00:01:37]  And I only do this, I have never said this before, because he's damaging so many people's lives.
[00:01:43]  See, it's not, you know, if he just comes out with his usual idiocies, I ignore Newsom.
[00:01:51]  I ignore Mayor Garcetti.
[00:01:53]  But when they ruin people's lives and they're stupid to boot, it's a very bad combination.
[00:01:58]  We have to play it again next week Where where he made the announcement and I analyzed it to show people I mean the the low Intellectual content the pablum the drivel that these people come out with The This is the opposite.
[00:02:21]  We live in the opposite of the 1930s, when a president could say the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
[00:02:30]  I heard on my own station earlier today that in California, three people aged 18 to 54 died yesterday, presumably from the virus.
[00:02:43]  Three people.
[00:02:45]  And zero under 18. Zero.
[00:02:49]  Make it with your hand.
[00:02:50]  Put your fingers on your thumb in a round way.
[00:02:54]  Zero.
[00:02:54]  It will go down as the great folly of history.
[00:03:04]  Thank you.
[00:03:07]  The amount of rot that has been uncovered because of the great work of Donald Trump.
[00:03:17]  Is, like with the general, who I have mentioned over the course of these years, a man devoted his life to 30-something years, an officer in the Marine Corps, a man of impeccable moral credentials, and they wanted to bring him down.
[00:03:46]  It's very bad.
[00:03:47]  Every institution has been ruined by the left.
[00:03:50]  The FBI's involvement here, the memos that have been found, I pray that these people are prosecuted.
[00:03:59]  I'm going to have Kimberly Strassel on next week.
[00:04:03]  I would call periodically, I would call Michael Ledeen, who co-wrote a book with Michael Flynn, so he knows him well.
[00:04:13]  How is he doing?
[00:04:14]  how is he doing I'll tell you I did not know the amount of rot in the in the elite institutions of the country the moral rot the low-lifes who are in there the self-serving conceited arrogant We know better, so therefore, we can do anything we want, and if you try to touch us, we will bring you down.
[00:04:43]  That is the reason, that is a reason, not the only, that is a reason for the preoccupation with Donald Trump on the left.
[00:04:50]  It's all a smokescreen.
[00:04:52]  While we ruin the country, you should focus on Donald Trump.
[00:04:58]  While we lie, we're going to talk about Donald Trump's lies.
[00:05:02]  Donald Trump today said more truth.
[00:05:05]  See, Donald Trump, whatever your tally of his lies, Donald Trump...
[00:05:11]  It tells more truth than any president of my lifetime since Ronald Reagan.

=== Dangerous Preoccupations (04:26) ===

[00:05:19]  The fact that China controls the World Health Organization, that he came out and said that, it's like bracing fresh air.
[00:05:31]  What China has done to the world, and it just goes unspoken, Imagine if an Israeli lab had unleashed this on the world.
[00:05:45]  The calls for isolating Israel and questioning its right to exist.
[00:05:52]  Can you imagine what the left would be doing?
[00:05:56]  But as usual, they protect communist regimes.
[00:05:59]  Cuba, Soviet Union, China.
[00:06:03]  I got a hate letter I want to read to you.
[00:06:10]  These fascinate me.
[00:06:16]  Let's see.
[00:06:17]  Here we go.
[00:06:18]  This is, I won't say his name because he's a fool.
[00:06:22]  He's at Cleveland.
[00:06:25]  Calm down, Dennis.
[00:06:26]  Such hysteria.
[00:06:27]  He's referring to my article about the rehearsal for a police state.
[00:06:32]  Like an unhinged schoolmarm.
[00:06:34]  We are in no danger of a police state.
[00:06:38]  Might I add, the issue is not whether we're in danger of a police state.
[00:06:42]  We're living in one.
[00:06:45]  The governor of California is sending highway patrolmen to block access to beaches.
[00:06:52]  We really have to start questioning the notion of state-owned properties.
[00:06:57]  I'm sorry.
[00:06:59]  We do.
[00:07:01]  Do you understand now the great communist, socialist, leftist lie, publicly owned lands?
[00:07:08]  I'm the public.
[00:07:09]  I own the land as much as I own a rock on Mars.
[00:07:18]  We are in no danger of a police state.
[00:07:21]  An incident here and there does not lead to the gulag you propose.
[00:07:26]  I never said a gulag or anything like it.
[00:07:30]  Nevertheless, what do you mean an incident here and there?
[00:07:34]  People on the left, at least he read me.
[00:07:37]  I mean, it's so rare.
[00:07:42]  An incident here and there.
[00:07:46]  Right?
[00:07:47]  Virtually every state is in lockdown.
[00:07:51]  And people have no say in it.
[00:07:55]  And...
[00:07:56]  All right, anyway.
[00:07:58]  It's an incident here.
[00:07:59]  Your column is designed to whip up support for this failed president whose chances of winning in November are declining daily.
[00:08:08]  So it shouldn't bother the man if the president's chances of winning decline daily.
[00:08:14]  You know what I would like to ask this man?
[00:08:18]  If they were another Republican president, would I not have said what I said?
[00:08:23]  What I wrote about this being a dress rehearsal for a police state is completely unrelated to Donald Trump.
[00:08:33]  100% unrelated.
[00:08:37]  If Donald Trump was still running Miss Universe contests and TV shows, I would have said the same thing.
[00:08:46]  See, people think you think like they do.
[00:08:50]  This is a very important rule in life.
[00:08:53]  This man is preoccupied with Donald Trump, so therefore I must be preoccupied with Donald Trump.
[00:09:00]  Right?
[00:09:02]  That's it.
[00:09:05]  I wrote him back that I'm going to read his letter on the air.
[00:09:10]  The 38% of his diehard supporters are far more likely to invoke a police state.
[00:09:17]  This is really, this is the beauty.
[00:09:20]  The make-believe world in which, that is why there's no hope for these people.
[00:09:25]  A police state.
[00:09:27]  We're going to invoke a police state.
[00:09:30]  When I come back, I will finish it again.
[00:09:33]  I will read you against whom?
[00:09:37]  Yes, indeed.
[00:09:38]  The rational and the irrational.