Dennis Prager Show - Would You Rather be in USA or Sweden?⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-04
Duration: 07:40


=== Millions Ceased to Think Rationally (05:47) ===

[00:00:00]  So I list all the things that are being done to suppress in an unprecedented way Americans' freedom.
[00:00:07]  And this anti-Trump person believes I only did that because I'm whipping up support for the failed President Donald Trump.
[00:00:17]  So in other words, we're really not having a lockdown that I should object to or point out.
[00:00:26]  So here, this is the best.
[00:00:29]  His diehard supporters are far more likely to invoke a police state against immigrants, feminists, gays, and other minorities who don't fit into their exalted view of America.
[00:00:40]  He has had three years to invoke a police state against immigrants, feminists, and gays.
[00:00:50]  You know, I'll tell you what is scary.
[00:00:53]  I told you, I'm more scared of these people than of the virus.
[00:00:56]  The virus will pass.
[00:00:59]  But I'm not sure that leftism will.
[00:01:04]  It perverts not only the soul and the conscience, it perverts the ability to think.
[00:01:12]  The president would create a police state against immigrants, gays, and feminists?
[00:01:19]  But why hasn't he done anything like that?
[00:01:23]  By the way, has he ever even mentioned gay marriage, the president?
[00:01:27]  I'll bet he doesn't even oppose it.
[00:01:29]  I think the president cares about gays as much as I care about the pretzel industry.
[00:01:35]  Telling you, a lot of you know what I'm talking about because you have a relative or a friend who has ceased the ability, truly ceased the ability to dialogue or to think in truly ceased the ability to dialogue or to think in any way rationally.
[00:01:58]  That's why those letters are important.
[00:02:00]  An 89-year-old, can I have the award he sent me?
[00:02:03]  An 89-year-old listener who fought in Korea is so annoyed with me.
[00:02:10]  He actually designed an award, which I printed out.
[00:02:14]  Ten dumbasses.
[00:02:17]  Dennis Prager.
[00:02:19]  For your reprehensible performance, you are hereby awarded the ten dumbasses.
[00:02:25]  This qualifies you for the ignominy of the citizens of the United States with this ignoble prize for your DA, back to that word, stupidity in a national pandemic.
[00:02:42]  It certifies your appalling lack of understanding of the rules of pandemic mitigation.
[00:02:50]  With a virus easily capable of infecting 20 or 50 or 100 million Americans, if not for orders of mass lockdown.
[00:03:00]  Okay.
[00:03:02]  That's a good one.
[00:03:03]  Is it an annual or a lifetime achievement?
[00:03:06]  That's a great question.
[00:03:08]  I'm putting this up in my house.
[00:03:10]  Here it is, if anybody's watching.
[00:03:13]  Of course I'm framing it.
[00:03:15]  This is the stuff that makes me tick.
[00:03:17]  I love this stuff.
[00:03:19]  So I thanked him for his service in Korea.
[00:03:23]  What else am I going to do?
[00:03:28]  So the...
[00:03:29]  What did he say?
[00:03:31]  Infect 100 million Americans.
[00:03:34]  Actually, if it infected 100 million Americans, it would probably save the country.
[00:03:41]  Because then you would have herd immunity.
[00:03:47]  This is mind-boggling.
[00:03:50]  The World Health Organization lauded Sweden as a model for battling the coronavirus.
[00:03:57]  This is astonishing.
[00:03:58]  Dr. Mike Ryan.
[00:03:59]  What?
[00:04:00]  Mike Ryan?
[00:04:01]  I know who he is.
[00:04:03]  I think he's Canadian.
[00:04:05]  He's Canadian or Australian.
[00:04:07]  Oh, the WHO's top.
[00:04:10]  I mean, this guy has been in like in the lead of hysteria.
[00:04:15]  Said Wednesday, there are lessons to be learned from the Scandinavian nation.
[00:04:20]  I think there is a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread.
[00:04:27]  Nothing can be further from the truth.
[00:04:30]  Instead of lockdowns, the country has put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long-term care facilities.
[00:04:40]  What it has done differently is it has very much relied on its relationship with its citizenry and the ability and willingness of its citizens to implement self-distancing and self-regulate.
[00:04:53]  That's not true, actually.
[00:04:55]  I mean, look at the pictures of people in Stockholm.
[00:04:57]  I mean, they're sitting without masks, congregated like in normal times.
[00:05:00]  But, I mean, just the fact that he didn't condemn Sweden.
[00:05:07]  You know, my good friend Hugh Hewitt disagrees with me on this, which is great, because we don't all agree on these matters.
[00:05:17]  Well, we being conservative, our conservative talk show hosts, or even those who work for the Salem Radio Network.
[00:05:23]  But I did ask him on Seb Gorka's show on Wednesday.
[00:05:28]  So if there's a second wave, would you rather be in the United States or Sweden?

=== Saying Screw You (02:08) ===

[00:05:33]  Because I know he's an honest man.
[00:05:35]  I knew I'd get an honest answer.
[00:05:37]  I didn't know what the answer would be.
[00:05:38]  But he said Sweden.
[00:05:40]  Wow.
[00:05:48]  1-8 Prager 776. Please get out of your house.
[00:05:53]  It's May 1st.
[00:05:57]  Newsom is a thug in power.
[00:06:01]  That's all he is.
[00:06:01]  He's a little man with a lot of power.
[00:06:04]  They're the most dangerous.
[00:06:08]  His pontificating and his condescension to the people of California, like, you know, some pope of the state.
[00:06:19]  It's just time to say, screw you.
[00:06:22]  I'm sorry.
[00:06:24]  I don't know how else to put it.
[00:06:28]  I don't like tyrants.
[00:06:30]  Okay?
[00:06:31]  He's a tyrant.
[00:06:32]  By the way, we must remove, unfortunately, because they have ruined it, we have to remove the power of executives to declare states of emergency like this.
[00:06:44]  I'm sorry.
[00:06:48]  The utter and total abuse of power on the part of Democrats and a handful of Republicans, mostly Democrats, is something that the nation must confront.
[00:07:03]  You know, I can't get out of my mind another fool at the New York Times, which is almost redundant, I'm sorry to say.
[00:07:14]  Egan.
[00:07:15]  What is his first name?
[00:07:16]  Timothy?
[00:07:17]  That Republicans are the party of death.
[00:07:19]  You know, you may say, why do you call these people names?
[00:07:22]  Do you know what we're called?
[00:07:23]  We're called murderers.
[00:07:27]  Republicans are the party of death, writes Timothy Egan, a New York Times columnist.
[00:07:34]  Well, I will read to you what the policies that Timothy Egan supports have done to the world.