Dennis Prager Show - Americans Have Accepted Tyranny⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-09
Duration: 08:55


=== More Children Died Than Virus (04:59) ===

[00:00:00]  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
[00:00:02]  The few younger patients who died all had significant pre-existing conditions.
[00:00:08]  Very few children were even infected, and none died.
[00:00:13]  None.
[00:00:15]  So in other words, in Pennsylvania in the last few months, more children...
[00:00:23]  Did he say children?
[00:00:25]  What was the word that he used?
[00:00:27]  Yeah, children.
[00:00:28]  More children died in their bathtub than from the virus.
[00:00:34]  And you can't go to work in Pennsylvania.
[00:00:41]  This is a disease of the elderly, sick, and poor.
[00:00:46]  Yep.
[00:00:48]  Listen to this one from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
[00:00:52]  On the USS Theodore Roosevelt, 1,102 sailors were infected.
[00:00:59]  That's a lot.
[00:01:01]  That's a lot.
[00:01:05]  How many think died?
[00:01:08]  These are not children.
[00:01:11]  Do you know the answer?
[00:01:12]  Because if you don't know, I want you to guess.
[00:01:15]  1,102 sailors were infected.
[00:01:20]  How many needed to go to a hospital and how many died?
[00:01:25]  Sean, guess.
[00:01:26]  1,100 on a ship.
[00:01:29]  So they really got it, man.
[00:01:31]  They really got it.
[00:01:34]  100 went to the hospital, 2 died is Triple G's response.
[00:01:40]  Living martyr?
[00:01:41]  Same?
[00:01:42]  50 hospital and 2 died.
[00:01:47]  Answer?
[00:01:48]  7 hospital.
[00:01:49]  One died.
[00:01:54]  Wow!
[00:01:55]  We are living through hysteria, and most Americans are at peace with tyranny.
[00:02:03]  My dear friends, anybody says, what does MAGA mean?
[00:02:08]  Make America great again?
[00:02:10]  It means MAFA. Make America free again.
[00:02:15]  Look, if for 50 years, since World War II, it's more, it's 70 years, 75 years.
[00:02:20]  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?
[00:02:32]  Were you Triple G? And you're 21. So, he's not 21, drugs.
[00:02:41]  Kidding.
[00:02:44]  But he's in his late 30s, right?
[00:02:46]  Is that what you are?
[00:02:47]  I don't know your age.
[00:02:48]  What is your age?
[00:02:50]  You're kidding me.
[00:02:52]  No, no, no, you are kidding me.
[00:02:54]  You can't joke on the show, remember?
[00:02:57]  You're going to be 45?
[00:03:00]  Did you know that?
[00:03:01]  Triple G's in his mid-40s?
[00:03:04]  You don't look a day over 43. It's astonishing.
[00:03:11]  Okay, well, so, alright, so how many kids today in college know the phrase, give me liberty or give me death?
[00:03:20]  How many know what the Liberty Bell is?
[00:03:24]  How many know the American Trinity?
[00:03:26]  Liberty, E Pluribus Unum, and God we trust.
[00:03:29]  Zero.
[00:03:30]  Almost zero.
[00:03:33]  So now, I'm sorry?
[00:03:35]  Not if they watch PragerU, which is what, that's right, they would know it.
[00:03:42]  There are a lot of wonderful things going on, but we're up there as one of the last best hopes for this country.
[00:03:49]  They learned climate change and gender identity.
[00:03:51]  That is exactly right.
[00:03:55]  I must say, this has taken me by surprise.
[00:03:59]  The acceptance of most Americans of tyranny.
[00:04:03]  Of course they'll say, oh, no, no, we want to save lives.
[00:04:07]  Of course.
[00:04:08]  Is there a tyranny that ever says we want to be a tyranny to take life?
[00:04:14]  Give us all the power we want over your life so that you die.
[00:04:19]  Of course, every tyranny does it in the name of some greater good.
[00:04:27]  Right?
[00:04:28]  Left?
[00:04:29]  Mostly left.
[00:04:34]  That's the thing that has startled me.
[00:04:40]  What is it?
[00:04:41]  Shelley?
[00:04:41]  What's her last name?
[00:04:43]  Luther.
[00:04:43]  Shelley Luther is a national hero for many Americans, but I wonder how many Americans...

=== People's Licenses at Stake (04:11) ===

[00:04:48]  See, if I could find out something, that's something I would like to find out.
[00:04:55]  To how many Americans is Shelley Luther a hero?
[00:05:01]  Well, she's three for three in this particular industry of this...
[00:05:08]  The Dennis Prager program.
[00:05:11]  I don't know how much we are representative of the country.
[00:05:18]  It's a very interesting thing.
[00:05:20]  I'd like to get into this more.
[00:05:23]  Yesterday, I blasted this bureaucracy that has threatened salons in California.
[00:05:31]  To have their license taken away, it's not a matter of fined.
[00:05:36]  You will cease to be able to function.
[00:05:39]  So I got some letters from, believe it or not, people annoyed with me who own salons.
[00:05:48]  And I must admit, it doesn't happen often, but it happens.
[00:05:52]  I don't understand why I'm being attacked.
[00:05:56]  Then one email made it clear.
[00:05:59]  It's a good thing we have this bureaucracy in Sacramento, or I guess in any state.
[00:06:05]  Is there any state that does not license hair salons?
[00:06:08]  You doubt it, right.
[00:06:10]  So, I'd like to find out the history of this.
[00:06:14]  But I now realize what somebody explained to me.
[00:06:19]  People spend money going to school to learn how to engage in taking care of people's hair.
[00:06:30]  They spent a lot of money to get that license, therefore.
[00:06:34]  It's exactly like a taxi medallion in New York City.
[00:06:39]  People spent fortunes of money to have a taxi medallion to give them the right to drive a taxi.
[00:06:47]  You can't just drive a taxi in New York City.
[00:06:51]  Then came Uber.
[00:06:54]  And Uber undid all of their investment in their medallion.
[00:06:59]  People lost a lot of money, and my heart goes out to them.
[00:07:04]  Because you don't need to get any license to drive an Uber.
[00:07:09]  By the way, they want to control that too.
[00:07:12]  Despite the fact that the safety track record of Uber drivers is probably correspondent to regular drivers.
[00:07:21]  I think it was one of the great developments of freedom, Uber.
[00:07:24]  And of course, the left shot it down.
[00:07:29]  Wherever they could, let's put it that way.
[00:07:33]  So people who have spent money on getting their degree in cosmetology or whatever it might be, although that's cosmetics.
[00:07:43]  What is the degree in?
[00:07:44]  I forgot the word.
[00:07:46]  There is a term.
[00:07:48]  I don't think cosmetology is the word.
[00:07:50]  Maybe it is.
[00:07:52]  Anyway, those who spent money and time, and I support you.
[00:07:57]  I mean, I support you.
[00:07:58]  I support you emotionally.
[00:08:01]  I understand what is involved.
[00:08:04]  Somebody wrote to me, you know, there are a lot of dangerous things.
[00:08:08]  It is cosmetology school.
[00:08:10]  There are a lot of dangerous things in a salon.
[00:08:14]  So I was thinking, what?
[00:08:17]  Scissors?
[00:08:19]  Curlers?
[00:08:21]  And I'm not being cute.
[00:08:24]  I want to learn.
[00:08:26]  Do you believe that the state should control who can take care of your hair?
[00:08:36]  Please now understand the price it comes with.
[00:08:41]  He that giveth, taketh.
[00:08:45]  Dennis, 6'2".
[00:08:52]  By the way, you want good news?
[00:08:54]  I have good news.