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May 9, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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Americans Have Accepted Tyranny⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
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More Children Died Than Virus 00:04:59
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The few younger patients who died all had significant pre-existing conditions.
Very few children were even infected, and none died.
None.
So in other words, in Pennsylvania in the last few months, more children...
Did he say children?
What was the word that he used?
Yeah, children.
More children died in their bathtub than from the virus.
And you can't go to work in Pennsylvania.
This is a disease of the elderly, sick, and poor.
Yep.
Listen to this one from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
On the USS Theodore Roosevelt, 1,102 sailors were infected.
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
How many think died?
These are not children.
Do you know the answer?
Because if you don't know, I want you to guess.
1,102 sailors were infected.
How many needed to go to a hospital and how many died?
Sean, guess.
1,100 on a ship.
So they really got it, man.
They really got it.
100 went to the hospital, 2 died is Triple G's response.
Living martyr?
Same?
50 hospital and 2 died.
Answer?
7 hospital.
One died.
Wow!
We are living through hysteria, and most Americans are at peace with tyranny.
My dear friends, anybody says, what does MAGA mean?
Make America great again?
It means MAFA. Make America free again.
Look, if for 50 years, since World War II, it's more, it's 70 years, 75 years.
If for 75 years, liberty is not taught as a value, although I was, I have to say, I mean, were you taught give me liberty or give me death in school?
Were you Triple G? And you're 21. So, he's not 21, drugs.
Kidding.
But he's in his late 30s, right?
Is that what you are?
I don't know your age.
What is your age?
You're kidding me.
No, no, no, you are kidding me.
You can't joke on the show, remember?
You're going to be 45?
Did you know that?
Triple G's in his mid-40s?
You don't look a day over 43. It's astonishing.
Okay, well, so, alright, so how many kids today in college know the phrase, give me liberty or give me death?
How many know what the Liberty Bell is?
How many know the American Trinity?
Liberty, E Pluribus Unum, and God we trust.
Zero.
Almost zero.
So now, I'm sorry?
Not if they watch PragerU, which is what, that's right, they would know it.
There are a lot of wonderful things going on, but we're up there as one of the last best hopes for this country.
They learned climate change and gender identity.
That is exactly right.
I must say, this has taken me by surprise.
The acceptance of most Americans of tyranny.
Of course they'll say, oh, no, no, we want to save lives.
Of course.
Is there a tyranny that ever says we want to be a tyranny to take life?
Give us all the power we want over your life so that you die.
Of course, every tyranny does it in the name of some greater good.
Right?
Left?
Mostly left.
That's the thing that has startled me.
What is it?
Shelley?
What's her last name?
Luther.
Shelley Luther is a national hero for many Americans, but I wonder how many Americans...
People's Licenses at Stake 00:04:11
See, if I could find out something, that's something I would like to find out.
To how many Americans is Shelley Luther a hero?
Well, she's three for three in this particular industry of this...
The Dennis Prager program.
I don't know how much we are representative of the country.
It's a very interesting thing.
I'd like to get into this more.
Yesterday, I blasted this bureaucracy that has threatened salons in California.
To have their license taken away, it's not a matter of fined.
You will cease to be able to function.
So I got some letters from, believe it or not, people annoyed with me who own salons.
And I must admit, it doesn't happen often, but it happens.
I don't understand why I'm being attacked.
Then one email made it clear.
It's a good thing we have this bureaucracy in Sacramento, or I guess in any state.
Is there any state that does not license hair salons?
You doubt it, right.
So, I'd like to find out the history of this.
But I now realize what somebody explained to me.
People spend money going to school to learn how to engage in taking care of people's hair.
They spent a lot of money to get that license, therefore.
It's exactly like a taxi medallion in New York City.
People spent fortunes of money to have a taxi medallion to give them the right to drive a taxi.
You can't just drive a taxi in New York City.
Then came Uber.
And Uber undid all of their investment in their medallion.
People lost a lot of money, and my heart goes out to them.
Because you don't need to get any license to drive an Uber.
By the way, they want to control that too.
Despite the fact that the safety track record of Uber drivers is probably correspondent to regular drivers.
I think it was one of the great developments of freedom, Uber.
And of course, the left shot it down.
Wherever they could, let's put it that way.
So people who have spent money on getting their degree in cosmetology or whatever it might be, although that's cosmetics.
What is the degree in?
I forgot the word.
There is a term.
I don't think cosmetology is the word.
Maybe it is.
Anyway, those who spent money and time, and I support you.
I mean, I support you.
I support you emotionally.
I understand what is involved.
Somebody wrote to me, you know, there are a lot of dangerous things.
It is cosmetology school.
There are a lot of dangerous things in a salon.
So I was thinking, what?
Scissors?
Curlers?
And I'm not being cute.
I want to learn.
Do you believe that the state should control who can take care of your hair?
Please now understand the price it comes with.
He that giveth, taketh.
Dennis, 6'2".
By the way, you want good news?
I have good news.
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