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July 8, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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Thank you.
What do they call the geyser at Yellowstone?
Old faithful.
That's correct.
I'm going to devote this hour to you.
I did this in the beginning of the lockdown with regards to marriages.
So now I'd like to ask you, because I have no idea what the answer is.
Nobody really does.
Forget really.
Nobody does.
How has this lockdown affected you?
Simple as that.
Not just relationship.
That's totally acceptable.
Your outlook on life, your finances?
Are you thinking of changing dramatically the way you do work?
Did you get lazy as a result of, you know, a third of a year off?
That's basically what you had.
I have no idea what the answer is.
1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776 If a magic wand were waved over Earth and the virus died, would you happily go back to work?
Would you take a family vacation?
Would you divorce?
I've heard cases where couples got closer, finally had all this time together.
I don't know.
Would you move?
Yeah.
Like to Spring Mountain in northern Missouri, population 412 on a busy day.
1-8 Prager 7-7-6 8-7-7-2 It's amazing how little this has been covered, and I read a great deal, of course, on what's happening.
So you will be a living pole, and we'll find out what indeed happened here in our country.
While you are calling, there is a story I need to bring to your attention which will strike all of you as awful and none of you as unbelievable.
It would have struck you as unbelievable a few years ago.
This is from the New York Post.
Boeing Communications boss Neil Golightly has resigned over a sexist article he wrote three decades ago opposing women's service in the military.
Did you hear this story?
Well, I even got the living martyr to emote.
30 years ago.
He was in the military, and like vast numbers of people, he didn't want women in the military, at least not in combat positions.
Golightly stepped down Thursday as Boeing's Senior Vice President of Communications following an employee complaint about the 1987 article.
An employee complained about a 1987 article.
It's very possible the employee wasn't born when this article was written.
Think the employee was a female?
That's a very good point.
But if they were born, it would be an adult at that point, and held a grudge all these years.
He called the article embarrassingly wrong and offensive.
This is what he wrote.
He was then a U.S. Navy lieutenant, and he wrote in the U.S. Naval Institute magazine in 1987. At issue is not whether women can fire M-60s, dogfight MiGs, or drive tanks.
Introducing women into combat would destroy the exclusively male intangibles, Of war.
And the feminine images of what men fight for.
Peace, home, and family.
Sounds really...
That's a hate-filled article, isn't it?
But let's say he was wrong.
It was 30 years ago.
The guy steps down at Boeing and how he feels he needs to apologize.
My article is a 29-year-old Cold War Navy pilot's misguided contribution to a debate that was live at the time.
The dialogue that followed its publication 33 years ago quickly opened my eyes, indelibly changed my mind, and shaped the principles of fairness, inclusion, respect, and diversity that have guided my professional life since.
So Boeing, like all companies now, We're cowards.
We're surrounded by cowardice.
University presidents, deans, professors, journalists, big business.
Wow.
What's left?
Wouldn't it be...
Wouldn't it be...
Acceptable to most Americans?
I mean, had Boeing said, he wrote this 33 years ago.
That ends the issue for Boeing.
Why wasn't that said?
Did he say, you know, women should lose the right to vote?
And by the way, let's say he said it 30 years ago, 33 years ago.
You're held, it's something new in life.
There is no statute of limitations on sin.
Sinful thoughts, not just deeds.
All right, let's see how this has affected you.
I can't tell you how curious I am.
Josh in Phoenix.
Hi, thank you for calling.
Hey Dennis, how are you?
I'm alright, thanks.
So I've been, I'm a contractor.
I've been working the entire time through the coronavirus and my contractors have a different mind about it as well.
But just in the last two weeks, I've just had a gap in between jobs and I have no idea how people are dealing with this.
I'm literally sitting in a Walmart parking lot right now trying to figure out what I'm gonna do productive today.
And this is new for you?
You've been busy the whole time?
Correct.
That's why it's really...
So why are you not busy now?
I'm just in between jobs.
So the economy...
Construction-wise here in Arizona has been going crazy.
Wait, what does that mean going crazy?
Just it's been busy.
There's no inventory for all the Californians living here and everyone else trying to find a home.
So we've been, you know, busy as we can building homes.
Right, so this interlude would have occurred without the virus.
Correct.
Yeah, but I don't have communication with other people.
I can't go to the store without putting a mask on.
I don't have people over.
And on the construction site, nothing's different.
I see.
But in your social life?
Correct.
I see.
All right, that makes sense.
I think that was worth it just to find out how many Californians are moving to Arizona.
But I'll tell you what drives me crazy, and I don't let a lot drive me crazy.
They are fleeing a state ruined by Democrats, and they will vote Democrat in Arizona.
That is the definition of a fool.
Or, if it's not the definition, that is the perfect exemplification of a fool.
We return.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
You need to wake up.
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
They can turn back voting rights.
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote?
I didn't call you a nigga.
Oh, okay, that's a big difference.
Uncle Tom.
And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out by embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedwins.
Boot liquor.
Black white supremacist.
Chucking and Jarvis.
House Negro.
Coon.
Uncle Tom.
Coon.
Coon.
I have a Kuhn award over there.
Kuhn of the Year Award.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
I believe the legacy and the ancestry of black Americans is being insulted every single day.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Racist.
Racism.
A thousand cuts of racism.
The liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something.
I grew up being told of my disadvantages, that this country is unfair to black people.
The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously to believe these things.
It's like a cancerous plague in the mind of black Americans.
We're brainwashed to think, is it because I'm black?
America's not ours, so we got shipped here.
No!
Our blood is on this soil.
We own this too.
There should be a pride that we have in the fact that this country was built by many great black men and women.
Are you trying to say that this country does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
So long as black people continue to have their psyche filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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When Bill Clinton, after twice vetoing almost identically worded bills, finally signed the Welfare Reform Act, One of the reasons he got elected is because he was going to be a different Democrat.
We're going to change welfare as we know it.
He said it during the 1992 campaign.
It didn't do anything.
And then Dick Morris said, when he's running for re-election, look, if you want to win this election, you have to do something to fulfill this campaign promise.
So Bill Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. 1996, 1994?
1996, I think it was.
And a bunch of liberals, his own party, they were furious.
Furious!
One of the children's advocates is a woman named Marian Wright-Elements.
She stopped speaking to Hillary.
They were good friends.
Members of the Congressional Caucus said that when this bill goes through, There are going to be people sleeping on the grates outside because they're going to be so poor.
What happened?
Welfare roles declined almost 50%, far steeper than the most optimistic projections were, without a corresponding increase in abortion.
It turned out a whole bunch of able-bodied people and able-minded people, when they found out they weren't going to get additional money, and when for the first time they were going to be caps on how long you could stay on welfare, they got off the couch and went in and got jobs.
Now, the very same people who were predicting death and destruction, what did they say?
Nothing.
Not a word.
Did any of them admit we were wrong?
That we were apparently creating perverse incentives by setting up the welfare state the way we were?
Did anybody suggest that we were wrong?
No.
You see, the left never says we're sorry.
Never says we're wrong.
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You know, that's one of the significant things in America is...
We look at past generations through today's filter and today's lens, and you really can't do that.
It's interesting to me that back in Genesis 9, when you see about Noah, and God chose Noah, and the Bible in Genesis 9, 6 says that Noah was a righteous man, and then it says, in his generation.
We know that Noah had trouble with drunkenness and other things as well, but when you compare him to where he was in his I want your attention brought to.
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The issue is, is there any other important question?
What are the chances of you?
Or someone you love dying from this?
Isn't that pretty much...
I mean, obviously there are people who get sick from it and are hurt, but it's a very small number.
So the real question is, what are the chances of my dying from this?
The chances are minuscule.
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All right.
How has this all affected you is the question?
Look at this.
Patty in Orange, California.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
Good to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, we decided, my husband and I, to sell our home during the pandemic.
Four offers within a week.
Two of them all cash buyers.
So we move forward with one of those.
We are leaving the state even though we have a lot of friends and family.
But I've gotten tired of the politics in Arizona and the California and the cost of living here.
Right.
So last week we went and we bought our home in Arizona.
Where in Arizona?
Where?
What's that?
Where in Arizona?
Peoria.
Where is that?
That is northwest of Phoenix.
Oh, so a suburb of Phoenix.
Correct, yeah.
Well, Peoria is a city.
How much was the house?
$315,000.
Yeah, you know what you can get in Orange County for $315,000.
I know.
A bungalow.
It's 1,800 square foot, 1,800 square foot, almost 6,000 square foot lot.
Wow.
And our property taxes are under $2,000 a year.
Now, I am curious.
All these people are calling in about people leaving California, but you got four offers for your California home immediately, two cash.
Yes.
How do you explain why?
Okay.
We live right down the street from Chapman University.
And so Chapman, with the whole COVID, has cut the amount of dorms that they will be able to provide for their students.
So the gentleman that bought our home bought it for his two children that will be going to Chapman University.
Oh, my God.
The guy bought a house for his kids to attend college.
I know.
He bought a house, and he bought some of our furniture.
This is why this hour is important.
Care of in the big picture stuff.
So, did you make...
Did you make...
Had you sold your house prior to COVID, would it have been the same price, less, or more?
It would have been a little bit less.
And that's the other thing.
We got $10,000 above the asking price in the offer.
We didn't even request that.
We got that in the offer.
And I think it would have been a little bit less because the same unit, it's a townhome, had sold about two months prior for what we had asked for.
And then again, we got $10,000 over that.
So I would say it would have been a little bit less, but not more.
And how has the downtime affected your marriage?
Oh, yeah, my husband's retired.
I've been working from home.
I have my office upstairs.
It's been great.
I mean, surprisingly, because this is the most we've spent together in our 40 years of marriage.
Because we usually, you know, are at work.
No, obviously.
This is fascinating.
Okay.
That's what I said in the beginning.
You know, there was a massive prediction of divorce.
It may have been accurate.
We don't know.
But a lot of people have called in to say things have gotten better.
So that's fascinating.
$350,000 for a house?
These people pocketed a chunk of change with their sale in California.
Okay.
Molly in Louisville, Kentucky.
How's the lockdown affected you?
Hi, Dennis.
Thank you for having me on your show.
Well, actually, the COVID really, I mean, yeah, my job shut down for a while.
And so I guess it wasn't so much that that really affected me as much as the fact that the organization that I work for is very, very left-leaning.
And, you know, off my employment there, I really never espoused my conservative views or anything.
But now they are aware of my conservatism and my wanting to vote for Trump.
And so I'm actually leaving my job because of that, because I'm concerned that they will fire me in saying that I am a microaggressor because it just happened before.
I am talking to a microaggressor.
Well, I don't know.
That's what I'm concerned that they would say just because of the fact that I support Trump.
Right.
Well, you haven't said, for example, that there's only one race, the human race.
You haven't said anything awful like that, have you?
No, I've tried to keep those opinions to myself.
Yeah, I mean, because that's radical.
I mean, that's KKK territory.
So, I'm just curious.
Isn't there, and this is truly curious, I'm not making an argument, isn't there a concept in the law of unlawful termination?
I'm just asking because if they did fire you and it was obvious because of your politics, they would not be suable?
Well, you know, you would think so, but unfortunately, you know, we've had somebody else that was terminated that...
Even though they were sympathizing with somebody, that individual said that there was no way that that person could know how their feelings were and they felt microaggressed, and they ended up getting rid of that individual.
Wow.
This is not the America that existed at any time prior to the present.
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There is talk, and I have it in my story today, about a possible and I have it in my story today, about a possible vacancy this
We've heard a lot about whether Justice Thomas will retire or not, but the name I keep hearing in my source world is Judge Amul Thapar, the federal judge in Kentucky, the former U.S. attorney in Kentucky, that he's seen as a favorite of Leader McConnell.
And that if there is a narrow window, someone like him, if Thomas retires, who's young, 51 years old, who's seen as confirmable, could be moved this summer.
And you think this is already a political and culture war in this country?
Just wait for a possible...
Oh, Robert, you should have called me.
I don't report Buzz much, but since you brought it up, the stronger rumor is that Justice Alito is going to quit.
Justice Thomas will never quit.
And that Justice Alito opens up the opportunity to put on Ray Kethledge again or David Strauss or Don Willett, that if indeed Justice Thomas were to retire, it would be on multiple.
That one's a done deal if it's Justice Thomas and multiple.
Alito, huh?
That's a great tip.
That is what my...
You know what happens at this time of the year is that people begin working the refs.
And I'm hardly a ref, but I got a column in the Washington Post.
And so they start working me about...
You know, this person would be great if Alito quit, and this person would be great if Thomas quit.
And everybody agrees with what you just said.
If Thomas were to quit, he would say, look, I'm 72. I've done my share.
But Robert, did you run into anyone who told you what he said?
He swore the oath that he wasn't going to leave his job until the last person who voted against his nomination had left the Senate.
Leahy's still there.
How old is Justice Alito?
I think he's 74. He might be 72. I'm not sure.
But he hates...
The buzz is his wife hates Washington, D.C. Well, I'm glad to be with you.
A lot of things going on.
What is your sense of what is happening right now and what this president will need to do to be re-elected?
This is the most consequential election since Abraham Lincoln in 1860. I think the difference between Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer as a team and Trump and McCarthy and McConnell is...
So wide that people can't imagine how different we'd be two years after you had Biden as president with Pelosi and Schumer basically dominating him.
But they would take us to somewhere between California and Seattle.
So I think what's happening is Trump challenged the entire national establishment, starting with his nomination.
When they first hated him, the first article about impeaching him is April of 2016, before he's even the nominee, followed up then by a whole series of other kinds of problems and an unending, relentless attack by what I would call the propaganda media.
And of course, they spent the last four years trying to destroy Trump every single day.
This election is going to decide whether we continue to go down that road or whether we end up deciding that we really do want to become a radically different country.
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A whole bunch of breaking news today.
The economy showing some really, really strong signs.
The economy added a record 4.8 million jobs last month.
A lot of African-American jobs coming back.
Hundreds of thousands.
I think the president said 800,000.
Economists and experts were...
Female hour, or a couple of them early on.
But this is a general, including your marriage, if you're married.
How has it affected you?
I just got an IM saying that someone we know in real estate is shocked at the amount of inventory being sold right now.
It just shows how difficult it is to predict things.
It's very hard to manage life in that sense.
Like, parents are tempted to manage their children's lives, and it's hard to do.
Who would have predicted this?
Or that, you know, with such a depression-like downturn in the economy, that real estate would hold its value, right?
I think the commercial real estate may be getting hit.
I think that people have to live in homes after all.
I have to live in something.
But you don't necessarily have to go to an office.
I wonder if that will be a huge...
It may not be.
Okay, let's go to a different take in San Marcos, California.
Lisa.
Hi, Lisa.
Good morning, Dennis.
Hi.
Sorry that I have to call you under these circumstances.
I'm sorry, Tim.
Yeah, just within the last 48 hours, my husband and I have decided to probably get a divorce.
And I don't think that...
I think that these last few months, whereas some people might have risen to the occasion, it was really hard on us and the whole family.
And I think it was something that was a long time coming prior to that, but I think that this just kind of really...
We've moved things along very quickly.
So it's been a very rough few months and certainly a rough few days.
I'm very sorry for you.
It's a terrible period in anybody's life of divorce.
How long have you been married?
Almost 19 years.
And when you say the family, there are children?
Yes, we have a range of ages.
We have a son who's just going off to Hawaii as a freshman in college, and we have a 14-year-old and a 9-year-old.
Have you told them?
No, not yet.
So I know before your kids know.
Yeah, it was just amazing looking at the...
At the subject matter, you know, when I got the PragerTopia email last night.
I don't know.
Will your kids be shocked?
Probably.
That's a good question.
Yeah, I think that they will be.
But, you know, we've been more just living as best friends for so long that I don't know, physically speaking, Practically speaking, if things will change a lot for a while, but they probably will be.
What were the last words?
I had something in my ear.
Oh, no, I think that even though I don't think a lot will change in the near future, because we've been living as twins, really, more than anything, but I still, so not much will change, but I still think, yes, I think that they will be surprised.
Right, that's the part I didn't quite get.
Right.
That's a very tough part for divorcing parents.
When was it last good?
Oh my.
We bought the house that we're in now a few years ago and transitioning to this new house in a different lifestyle, a positive one.
Being excited about the kids and their new schools and all that stuff.
That was a really good time.
But where there's a big age difference and just other stuff going on, that's not the primary reason, but it hasn't been good for a while.
And we've just managing, like I said...
Have you ever gone for marital therapy?
Quite a long time ago, we did.
15 years ago, early on.
And it was fine.
He's been going.
He hadn't told me he's going to a therapist.
It doesn't seem very interested in pursuing a couple's therapy.
And I'm saying this is new.
This is how we're approaching it right now.
I actually was thinking about contacting Allison Armstrong's website.
Well, that would probably be great.
I wish I could talk to you for a long time, and my heart goes out to you.
It's a very tough thing, and I have no judgment.
I wish he would go to marital therapy with you for one last try.
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Changing Columbus Day to Juneteenth is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
I mean, they're tearing down statues, changing names of schools, and military bases.
Where does it stop?
It's a reasonable question.
You're allowed to ask it, I think.
At least you used to be.
This used to be America, where we could have conversations.
We could have exchanges.
We could have disagreement and not expect to be dragged by the mob, attacked.
Saw some video last night.
Some woman had some dispute with neighbors over a stone patio being built in their yard.
They recorded her.
She happened to be white.
They happened to be black.
It got turned into a racial thing, and before you know it, she had hundreds of protesters in front of her door protesting her racism.
It seemed to me like she's a nosy neighbor that didn't think the other neighbors were allowed to build a stone patio where they built them, but immediately she was declared A racist.
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The New York Times, evidently, is now setting its sights on Mount Rushmore.
We knew this was coming.
I'm not kidding you.
If I announced to you breaking news, a discussion underway to tear down the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., you know you wouldn't be surprised, right?
You wouldn't be surprised.
Again, here was the exchange I had with a dear friend who doesn't agree with me on a lot of stuff or political stuff.
What's Christopher Columbus got to do with George Floyd's death?
Don't you know what a bad guy he was?
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It was heartwarming to see many of the planet's toughest and best athletes telling their children on social media how much they love them.
In short videos, fathers played games with their kids, bear hugged them, and told them jokes, all in a tribute to dads on Father's Day.
In a society that does little to encourage fathers, the NBA's efforts did not go unnoticed.
Families are the essential building block of society, and fathers are the essential building block of the family.
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It's not just about money, money, money.
It's about jobs, jobs, jobs as well.
And we're going to discuss the latest news with our new regular guest, Trish Reagan.
Let's play the video from just a few hours ago from the President of the United States.
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This is exactly what I expected a fascinating hour.
How has the...
Lockdown.
Notice I didn't ask how was the pandemic.
The pandemic isn't the issue.
The lockdown is the issue.
When you see headlines, hundreds of millions of people hungry or in the brink of starvation due to pandemic, it's dishonest.
It's due to lockdown.
You may say that was the perfect answer.
I'll talk about that in the third hour.
Next hour is the male-female hour.
Because the New York Times had an anti-Swedish policy news piece.
Well, it's an opinion piece disguised as a news piece.
But I told you one of my favorite things is to read comments.
So, they were comments from people living in Sweden.
You'll find it fascinating.
Alrighty, everybody.
Portland, Oregon, and Steve.
Hello, Steve.
Hello, Dennis.
Thank you for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I don't know how much you were briefed on my situation.
I'm a Portland police officer, though.
I appreciate you allowing me on the airwaves.
I appreciate your work.
Just if I may make a comment on my immediate reaction.
As a police officer in Portland, are you allowed to do your work?
Sorry, why are you asking me questions?
I'm sort of in control of this conversation.
I'm curious why you're sort of trying to take control of it and sort of run me off the air.
No, I'm not able to do my job.
I'm not.
Does that make you happy?
No.
Why are you angry?
I asked you such an honest and open way.
I don't understand.
I usually understand caller's anger.
I apologize.
I'm angry because I'm, you know, of the situation of what's happening and how we're being painted.
By the media.
And, you know, it's nice to have people like you who are out there singing our praises, and we do appreciate it.
But, you know, I've noticed that every now and then you'll even falter.
And every now and then you'll say, oh, there's bad apples in the forest.
Well, there are, but, I mean, there is no...
No, there aren't.
There aren't bad apples.
There are people who are driven to bad decisions by society.
There are no bad apples.
We stick together, Dennis, and you should stick together with us if you want to continue to have our support, sir.
Okay, if saying that there are bad policemen means I will lose all the good policemen's support, then I will have to lose your support.
That's right, Dennis!
And you're losing my support right now with your lip and your attitude!
Yeah, I know.
It's hard to believe that this is a genuine call.
So, there are no bad apples in the police world.
Of course, I devoted an hour to the police with an LAPD man.
Are there bad apples among teachers, surgeons, lawyers, talk show hosts?
Is there a profession that only has good people?
Okay, anyway, it's hard to believe it was a real call.
Okay, I'll leave it at that.
Denise in La Cañada, California.
Hi.
Hi, Dennis.
Thank you for taking my call.
I am just so disappointed because I just got an email that the trip that was supposed to happen in June got to, you know, it was postponed to September, and now that trip has been canceled.
And it was a special opportunity for me to be with my daughter.
And we were going to join you on that trip.
So, I'm just...
I'm at least as heartbroken and disappointed as you.
I love those cruises.
And, listen, obviously, we're scheduling one for 2021. Sure.
And I hope you'll be on it.
You bet.
Okay, well, bless you.
You bet I'm going to be on it.
Good, good.
Okay, thank you.
It's never happened.
We have never, ever, in 25 years of cruising, I have never postponed, let alone canceled.
No one haven't missed a year.
And for many years, there was two a year.
I would have gone on the ship without a moment's hesitation.
But the fact is, they're not even allowing Americans in Europe now.
I mean, it may have nothing to do with the cruise line.
This may be the only year since I was 20 years old that I have not gone abroad.
And I had so many scheduled.
I had two speeches in Hungary, a speech in England, the cruise.
And stuff that would have come up.
Every few years I go to Australia to speak.
Well, by the way, I'll answer a question, the question that I posed.
I'll tell you what the only upside that, well, actually there are two upsides to the lockdown.
It's overwhelmingly been...
A downside for me.
I mean, I'm not depressed over it.
I have a blessed life.
But I have been able to really forge ahead on my Bible commentary.
So that next year, the third of five volumes will come out a year late, but only a year late.
And given the amount of work, it's amazing that it's only a year behind.
And I will tell you, I really do believe it will change your life if you read it.
Read the reviews on Amazon, on the two volumes that are there.
It's called The Rational Bible.
Even if you're an atheist, it's irrelevant.
But it makes the greatest book ever written, the most influential book ever written.
Truly understandable.
It's called the rational Bible.
Anyway, I've been able to do that and we've been able to work on the remodel of our home since we're home.
All right, more to you in a moment.
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Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
You need to wake up.
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
They can turn back voting rights.
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote?
I didn't call you a.
Oh, okay.
That's a big difference.
Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedwins.
Boot liquor.
Black white supremacist.
Chuck and Java.
House Negro.
Coon.
Uncle Tom.
Coon.
I have a Kuhn award over there.
Kuhn of the year award.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
I believe the legacy and the ancestry of black Americans is being insulted every single day.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Racist.
Racism.
A thousand cuts of racism.
The liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something. - I grew up being told of my disadvantages, that this country is unfair to black people.
The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously to believe these things.
It's like a cancerous plague in the mind of black Americans.
We're brainwashed to think.
Or is it because I'm black?
America's not ours, so we got shipped here.
No, our blood is on this soil.
We own this too.
There should be a pride that we have in the fact that this country was built by many great black men and women.
Are you trying to say that this country does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
So long as black people continue to have their psyche filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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When Bill Clinton, after twice vetoing almost identically worded bills, finally signed the Welfare Reform Act, One of the reasons he got elected is because he was going to be a different Democrat.
We're going to change welfare as we know it.
He said it during the 1992 campaign.
It didn't do anything.
And then Dick Morris said, when he's running for re-election, look, if you want to win this election, you have to do something to fulfill this campaign promise.
So Bill Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. 1996?
1994?
1996, I think it was.
And a bunch of liberals, his own party, they were furious.
Furious!
One of the children's advocates is a woman named Marian Wright-Elements.
He stopped speaking to Hillary.
They were good friends.
Members of the Congressional Caucus?
Said that when this bill goes through, there are going to be people sleeping on the grates outside because they're going to be so poor.
What happened?
Welfare rolls declined almost 50%.
Far steeper than the most optimistic projections were.
Without a corresponding increase in abortion, it turned out a whole bunch of people...
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you Thank you.
How has this lockdown affected you?
Fascinating stories here that I have.
Don't hang up, folks, because at least I'd like to summarize if I don't get to you.
And Karen, Prescott, Arizona.
Hello.
Oh, my goodness.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
Oh, thank you very much.
Listen, I'm calling.
I was on my life cycle, and I heard...
That contractor from Prescott talking about how they're building for Californians here.
And you made the comment that you said, oh, gosh, that's a shame that Californians are going to come over and they're going to vote Democrat.
Well, I got to tell you something.
So in my neighborhood, we've been here three months.
We moved from Long Beach, California.
And so we walk and we meet our neighbors.
And I got to tell you, they are all SoCal.
They're conservative.
They couldn't take it anymore.
They had to get out.
In fact, my newest neighbor, I just know their first name, they moved from Laguna Hills, and he called themselves evacuees.
So what I wanted to tell you is that I am hopeful that the people that are moving here are of like mind, that they just can't take it anymore, and that I'm hoping Arizona will just get redder and redder.
I just hope it gets more conservative.
That's possible.
I'm very happy I took your call.
Thank you, Karen.
Imagine liking your neighbors.
Just randomly thinking, you know what?
The odds are that the people down the street actually think well of America.
It's now considered racist to think well of America.
Quite sick stuff.
Karen in Anderson, South Carolina.
Life has changed now.
No one can stop by.
Can't go to church.
Can't go to the grocery.
Hate it.
Yeah, it's a lot to hate, but your church should get together.
Should figure out a way, even if it has to be Zoom.
But you can't go this amount of time without having the church community gather.
Let's see.
James in Tucson, Arizona.
We are being inundated with Californians.
Wish I could have taken that one.
And then others that things are busy.
Especially if they're in real estate.
Fascinating, isn't it?
Male-female hour coming up.
I'm Dennis Prager trending now on the Larry Alder show You've been following this Trump-Russia-Taliban story?
Well, here's how it's supposed to go.
The president was briefed on some plot that the Russians had to pay Taliban to kill American soldiers.
As if you have to incentivize Taliban to kill American soldiers, but whatever.
The president was briefed and did nothing.
Oops, now it turns out the president wasn't briefed.
Oh, well, okay, maybe he wasn't briefed, but he should have been briefed.
Well, it turns out the intel was not corroborated.
Well, okay, well, are you saying that he only gets briefed on intel that's been corroborated?
Raise your hand if you're out there saying George W. Bush lied, people died.
He read his daily briefings.
He read the intel.
Turns out the intel...
Expected there to be a stockpile of WMD. Stockpile wasn't there.
So, therefore, the intel is infallible.
Therefore, every president who reads the presidential daily brief is going to make the right kind of foreign policy decision.
Obama read them.
Pull all the troops out of Iraq.
Against the advice of his entire major members of his national security team.
Against the Joint Chiefs.
Against the Secretary of Defense.
Against the Secretary of State.
Against the National Security Advisor?
Against our Ambassador to Iraq?
All said, Mr. President, please do not pull all the troops out.
It'll create a void into which bad guys will flow.
He did it anyway, but he read his presidential daily brief, didn't he?
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GIs were coming back from Vietnam and being shouted at called baby killers, being spattered at the airport.
But...
I need you to understand that my nation will forever be grateful to those young Americans because You stopped communism in South Asia.
My nation would have been the next one to fall, and the Vietnam War is a glorious memory for us.
That's a wake-up call, isn't it, Jim?
To look at the Vietnam War as glorious?
Well, yeah, from their perspective, and I think, look, no one is...
There was two historians who once had this debate between...
People that just lump history and then people that...
And the whole thing is there's two ways you can write history.
You can lump everything that proves your case and ignore everything else.
Or you can find the one thing that proves your case and ignore everything else.
And those are called lumpers and splitters.
But that's not history.
History is about the totality.
What the Antifa, what Black Lives Matter, what the hate, what the mob is, is they are lumpers and splitters.
They find the stuff they hate and they say, that is American history.
As taught by Howard Zim.
Yes.
And what they deny is that there was ever a good day or ever a glorious purpose to this country.
And I'm not saying America's perfect, but God created this nation, and as a result of that, as with all of God's good creations, it has made better days for the universe of man.
That's the truth.
They don't like that?
Fine.
They want to tear the statue down?
Fine.
Doesn't make it any less true.
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Joe Biden came out of the basement yesterday, sort of.
This is not really a press conference.
Cut number six where he admits he's got a list of people he's going to call.
Cut number six.
I'm happy to take questions if you have them.
He gave me a list of how to recognize.
Is Alex AP out there?
And then he slams Trump for his cognitive capabilities, believe it or not.
Cut number eight.
One of two things.
This president is, um...
He talks about cognitive capability.
He doesn't seem to be cognitively aware of what's going on.
He either reads and or gets briefed on important issues and he forgets it.
Or he doesn't think it's necessary that he need to know it.
But the fact is that at a minimum, at a minimum, the discrepancy allegedly between within the intelligence community as reported, some thought it was more certain and others thought it was less certain.
That should be resolved.
The president should have on day one said I want you to come before me in the situation room and lay out the differences.
The prospect of this guy as president.
I know you have an aesthetic, some of you have an aesthetic objection to Donald Trump that he's mean, that he picks fights, he personalizes everything, but honest to goodness, slow Joe Biden.
You're going to trust this country in the middle of an existential battle with the Chinese Communist Party that's going to extend for 100 years.
And we're going to start it with Joe Biden now.
You're going to reelect Donald Trump.
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The New York Times is reporting how Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan.
It features the faces of two U.S. presidents who were slaves.
That's an actual tweet from the New York Times.
Now, PragerU points out that the same New York Times, which has a storied history, its founding editor, Was a guy named Henry Jarvis Raymond.
In 1851, the New York Times founding editor published an editorial in which he supported a slave owner's legal right to recover his escaped slaves.
So Prager, you had an interesting question to the New York Times.
Will you guys also be canceling yourselves since you want everything canceled?
How far does this go?
Chris, you're first up on the Mike Gallagher show.
How are you, Chris?
Good.
I thought it was ironic that October 12th this year falls on a Monday.
And, of course, October 12th was the day that historically Christopher Columbus discussed
Thank you.
I have been trying to get to Dr. Fussbend for about 20 years now.
I'm sorry?
He's booked.
He's booked.
Oh.
Well, you know, the two of you give me very conflicting responses.
Living Martyr says he's booked, and Triple G says he doesn't exist.
Well, they're not necessarily mutually exclusive.
He might be booked and not exist.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we now return to Earth.
I'm Dennis Prager.
This is the Male-Female Hour.
Really, really, really, really, really honest talk about the male-female situation.
By the way, an update on last week's topic.
I mentioned to you my trainer, who's 30, and the lockdown had a big impact on her.
Totally dedicated to her career, which she does really well.
I know because I've trained with her for four years.
And now would like to be a full-time mom now that she has spent all this time with her baby.
Her baby boy.
So I come into the gym, and what is the first thing she shows me?
A video of him walking.
It changes you, marriage and parenthood.
It matures you.
It's almost inevitable.
That's why I've always said it's better to be married and divorced than never to have been married.
We had a whole hour on that.
It was a great hour because I remember convincing a woman.
It was a very powerful moment because obviously I can't remember most calls, but she was adamant that it's, you know...
Better not to have been married than to have been divorced.
So I asked her, I think she was 40 and single.
I said, so if you know only one thing about a man, let's say he's 50, 45, and that you're thinking of dating, because she wanted to get married, and you only knew one thing, this 45-year-old Had been married and divorced.
This 45-year-old had never been married.
Which would you date first?
Or if you could only date one, which would you date?
And then she realized she would date the one who had been divorced because she would be more certain that he was into commitment and had matured.
I love those moments on radio where someone is quite adamant.
I ask them a question.
And then, to their credit, they realize that their position might not have been accurate.
Anyway, that was just an update.
Today's topic is not related to the lockdown.
It's a transcendent, if you will, topic.
It transcends the lockdown because it has nothing to do with it.
So here's a question, and I love getting these answers because I learned so much.
When you decided to marry whomever you married, let's say, by the way, it doesn't necessarily have to be this marriage.
If it was a previous marriage, this would be just as relevant to question.
When you...
We're thinking of, or had already decided, and maybe those are separate questions, but either one.
Did relatives and or friends put up a yellow flag?
And were they right?
What do you say to that?
The whole question, by the way, this is one of the toughest in life.
How do you tell someone you're close to you don't think they should marry somebody?
And by the way, you may not be right.
That's the other thing.
It's tough enough to do it, but you can't be certain you were right.
That's a tough one.
1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776 Did any friends or relatives, people you trusted gingerly or non-gingerly argue against your marrying someone you ultimately married?
You don't have to be married to them now.
just the question is there I'm thinking of a case that I know by the way 1-8 Prager 776, 877-243-7776.
Oh, here's another, you know, here's a variation on that question.
Did somebody you trust persuade you not to marry someone, and over the course of the years, you think they were wrong?
It's the reverse.
Yes, exactly.
The question is, what effect did their opposition have on you?
And should you have listened?
If you listened, was it a blessing?
Or maybe the love of your life was let go?
And it's not that the people meant...
Ill.
Just that they may have been wrong.
It's a very tough thing to tell somebody not to marry someone.
You know a case?
You want to mention it on the air?
No, I don't want names either.
Of course not.
Could you give him the microphone, please?
Thank you.
a case of a very son of a very close friend was so clear
only to wasn't just me every you you you every you didn't turn out but it wasn't this was not a tough call Bye.
Thank you.
When it didn't turn out well, did he say to you or anyone you know, I should have listened to you?
No, I don't think so, because nobody wanted to do a kind of I told you so kind of thing.
No, no.
That's why I had him as the initiator of the comment.
I don't recall him saying...
I would.
I'll tell you that.
If somebody had said to me, don't marry so-and-so.
This person remarried and made a great choice a second time.
Did they have any children?
Yeah, which is always the, you know, you always wonder.
They have a wonderful son.
From the bad marriage?
Yeah.
So you're always thinking, well...
Then it was worth it, right?
Yes, of course, in my opinion.
I was just talking about that to my wife about a marriage we know.
That's why it's very hard to manage life.
A crappy marriage or even a marriage to a very unimpressive person could produce a fantastic child.
And a marriage to a fantastic person could produce a mediocre or worse.
Alright, good one.
It's very hard to predict these matters in life.
It's much easier to predict macro than micro, which is part of the question that I'm posing.
Was your prediction right?
Did you listen to them or not?
All right, I'll take your calls when we come back.
Also, here's another variation on the question.
Whom are we more likely to listen to, friends or parents, in trying to dissuade us from marrying somebody?
My suspicion is friends would be more likely to be persuasive.
We'll be back, male-female hour.
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The New York Times is reporting how Mount Rushmore Was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan.
It features the faces of two U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.
That's an actual tweet from the New York Times.
Now, PragerU points out that the same New York Times, which has a storied history, Its founding editor was a guy named Henry Jarvis Raymond.
In 1851, the New York Times founding editor published an editorial in which he supported a slave owner's legal right to recover his escaped slaves.
So Prager, you had an interesting question to the New York Times.
Will you guys also be canceling yourselves since you want everything canceled?
How far does this go?
Chris, you're first up on the Mike Gallagher Show.
How are you, Chris?
Good.
I thought it was ironic that October 12th this year falls on a Monday.
And, of course, October 12th was the day that, historically, Christopher Columbus discovered America, which is the original Christopher Columbus, the real reason why it's a holiday.
I honestly, I mean, really, Chris, you've got to help me here.
You've got to tell me what Christopher Columbus has to do with the racial dialogue that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
Please connect it for me.
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Yeah. .
The Democrats are trying to erase history.
There's a good reason for that, right?
Well, yeah, look, the Democrats are the party of racism.
The KKK was founded by the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party worked overtime to try to keep in place Jim Crow after they tried to keep in place slavery, after they tried to stop the progress of the civil rights movement, the actual civil rights movement from the 20th century.
The Democrat Party is...
History is littered with leaders.
So I know we talked about this last time.
The four speakers whose portraits that Nancy Pelosi was taking down, they were all Democrats.
All those Confederates.
All four speakers were Democrats.
The Democrat Party has a history of racism, of bigotry, of, again, creating the Ku Klux Klan.
It was created by Democrats, of pushing to try to keep in place Jim Crow before And fighting the Civil Rights Act.
And fighting it.
Right.
The Democrat Party is littered with bad history.
It's the Republican Party that was the champion of women's and civil rights.
And it's important to note that.
Look, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, right?
Like, Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, the Emancipation Proclamation, held the union together during the Civil War, was a Republican.
He was the first Republican.
And it's worth noting that the Democrats, I think that as they're doing all this chaos and trying to tear down statues and history and so on and so forth and rewrite history, they're trying to erase their own history.
And they don't want, I mean, God forbid the public found out that the Democrat Party caused the KKK.
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Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
You need to wake up.
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Male-female hour, did somebody try to talk you out of getting married?
Have you tried?
Does it work?
And was it good advice?
All of these things wrapped in one.
Alrighty.
Joshua in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Hi.
So about five years ago, I called my mother, and I told her that I was planning to propose to my girlfriend.
As the two had met, my mother had no problems with her, but she did have a nervous system disability that requires some management.
And she asked me, quite frankly, if I thought in 10 years of marriage, the next 10 years, if I could still help with...
Managing this.
And she said if I didn't think so, I had no business marrying the girl.
Well, that was intelligent.
And what happened?
I agree.
How long ago?
It was five years ago.
So you did marry?
We did.
We're two kids in, very happily married, and no regrets.
But I still thought it was a very sound piece of advice.
The problem is, it sounds like you're mature and your mother's mature.
I agree and I appreciate that.
That's a problem, that's a problem, you know.
Too much maturity in one family.
Alrighty, everybody.
Sharon in West Hills, California.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
How are you today?
I'm fine, thank you.
I'm honored to speak with you.
Good.
So I got married in 1981. I was 20 and my husband was 23 and he was in his second year of optometry school which is a four-year program and I dropped out of school of college to get married and Neither of our families wanted us to do that.
They might not have been opposed to marriage, per se, but they were opposed to the time frame.
But we did it anyway.
And?
And we're married for 39 years come September 2nd.
Or September 6th, sorry, September 6th.
Well, look, you probably knew, it's a fairly well-known adage, that optometrists make very good husbands.
He actually made...
Excellent husband and excellent father, and I knew it.
I met him at 14, and we lived in different states.
We met actually through a Jewish youth group seminar at Campus Kramer, and we didn't see each other for a very long time, and then my mom decided to move from Colorado to California, and we found each other again.
Wow, sheer coincidence.
So when I was 18, we started going together and we got married.
So you never had another serious boyfriend?
I actually did while I lived in Colorado.
I did, when I was 17, have a boyfriend that could have.
But I never forgot about the man that became my husband.
He had my heart from the time I first went through the bus window pulling into Camp House Kramer at 14. I love it.
Nice to hear good stories.
What do you think of my theory that optometrists make great husbands?
Based on the only example I know, this one, I'm batting a thousand.
We've done that, right?
If not, whether we did or not, I want to do it again one time on the Male Female Hour about high school sweethearts.
How does that work out?
I know, but it's fun.
Okay, you know what's fascinating?
Here, I want to give you an example, folks, of the...
I think in this regard, it's almost impossible to generalize, except about optometrists.
And so, line 7 says, they did warn me they were wrong.
Line 8, they did warn me they were right.
So, it's like, what is one supposed to know about these things?
Alright, let's go to Sharon.
Oh wait, was that Sharon that I just spoke to?
Yeah.
And, oh yes, about, oh I get it, that's right.
Sharon, that was a great call, thank you.
Penny in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hello, Penny.
Hi, Dennis.
It's such an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
So, I have a bad story and a good story, and I'll go quickly.
I met a man.
Ten months later, he proposed.
My father and my aunt said, no way.
Do not do it.
He's trouble.
And they said, no, no.
I love him.
And we went forward.
And we were married for eight years.
And it was a very difficult eight years.
And finally, divorce.
And they were right.
But, praise be to God, God brought me a new man who I dated for 12 years and very, very, very reluctantly stayed in the relationship, not because of him, but I was so afraid of getting married again.
And all of my friends and all of my families for the past 10 years have said, you have to marry him.
He's wonderful.
You have to.
You have to.
And we got married last year.
We just celebrated our first anniversary.
And I love him so much.
And I'm so grateful.
You know, if I'd have known you, I'd have punched you.
I would have deserved it.
Yes.
Twelve years.
I can't believe he hung around that long.
I know.
She knows.
In tears.
Twelve years.
This notion of you got divorced so you're afraid of marriage is like, you know my great parallel, you're in a car crash so you'll never drive again.
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I am really, really, really, really happy with your response to my movie.
Have you seen it yet?
I would say something like, if you see it and don't like it, I'll give you your money back, but I can't do that legally.
But I will tell you, you're not going to regret it.
1999. You're not going to regret it.
Listen to this one.
This is one I got from a Democrat.
Headline, a great wake-up call for Democrats like myself.
And here's what this person wrote.
Don't know whether it's male or female.
As a lifelong Democrat, this movie called attention to the failing of my party.
Wow.
I heard it said before that black Americans are disillusioned.
And fed up with being taken granted by the Democrats.
Only paid attention to during election cycle.
So I felt it was my responsibility to really take these voices seriously, and I felt it was my responsibility to see your film.
This hits to the core of it.
I cannot accept ignorance any longer and feel any Democrat who is unwilling to see this film is intentionally failing to practice what they preach, which is that all black lives matter.
A bitter pill to swallow, but absolutely necessary.
Become a well-rounded, informed citizen and watch this film.
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Were you warned against marrying the person?
You married or you warned against a person you wanted to marry or thought of marrying and didn't because of the warnings?
It's a 50-50 thing here on my board.
So it's a tough thing to know about the warning.
Take this for example.
Just the other day, you were asking me, have we heard from Hudson, Ohio?
And here she is, Dee.
Hello, Dee.
Hi, Dennis.
Hi.
I'll clarify, not much warned.
I was told that I probably wouldn't marry him because I had never dated anybody in high school or college, and no woman marries the first man she dates.
So that was part of the warning, and it was a different state that he was from than I was from.
So those were two cautions that were provided by my mom.
It's a first serious relationship and that he was from another state.
What state was he from?
No, he was from another state.
A religious state.
Oh, faith.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Did you have a religious faith?
Were you committed to one?
Yes.
What was it?
A Christian, I am a non-denominational Christian.
Right, which is so, usually people who say that are evangelical.
Oh yes, probably yes.
Right, what was he?
Catholic.
But not a participating, I guess.
He was more a sacramental Catholic.
Not necessarily a participating Catholic, as our family was a very devout family.
Did he ultimately become Protestant?
Yes, he did.
Okay, anyway, so you were warned on those two grounds, and you...
Yes.
So, were you angry at your mother for saying these things?
Oh, heavens no, I loved my mother.
No, not at all.
So, given that you loved her, did they make you think twice?
I think my parents were those very loving people who wanted the best for their children.
So, I think offering their perspective, they felt was important, but they also raised us to be pretty independent people.
So I think...
So she or they respectfully raised these issues?
Correct.
So when you finally decided to marry him, did they make full peace with it?
Oh, absolutely.
They loved my husband.
And even more, Dennis, I even asked my husband, we've been married almost 39 years, that will be in September.
And I asked him one time what was his...
Best day of his life, honestly, I don't remember what he said, but when he asked me what my best day was, I told him it was when I stood at the back of the church with my father, and I saw him waiting for me at the altar.
And that is, even three children later, two grandchildren later, that is still the best day of my life.
Get a second woman in a row to start tearing up.
I like it.
I think it's great.
Best day of my life was when Trump won.
Okay, so that was dedicated to all the left-wing monitors of my show.
That this is now going to go viral.
Woman says best day of her life was her wedding.
Prager says the day Trump won.
Because sense of humor is not a forte of the left.
All right.
Anyway, that was great.
That's true.
Here's another one.
Oh, let's do one here.
Let's...
Okay, Paul in Cleveland.
What's your take on all of this?
Hi, Dennis.
How are you doing?
Okay.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Actually, I actually have both situations.
I warned my now sister-in-law Well, I didn't warn her I kind of told her I wasn't going to be involved in her wedding But she was engaged to somebody else I told her I wasn't going to be involved in her wedding Because I didn't think she should marry the guy Were you right?
Yeah, I was She actually ended up breaking up up with him about two weeks later and started dating my brother and now they've been happily married for over 10 years wait how did you know your sister-in-law prior to her meeting your brother Thank you.
We actually went to church together.
Okay, fine.
So what's the other story?
The other story is that I actually got married and I think nobody's ever told me this but I believe quite a few people in my family and friends didn't think I should get married but they never said anything to me about it and I ended up getting married.
And we're all waiting.
We ended up getting a divorce.
Okay.
I'm sorry for laughing.
It's one of these dark laughter.
They should have said something.
The human condition.
What am I going to tell you?
That was a great call.
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In your opinion, did the demonstrations that were not only inevitable but probably necessary following the murder of George Floyd, did they contribute to the resurgence of the pandemic in a significant way?
I think as just a matter of intuition and common sense, I think you have to say yes.
You look at the explosion in young cases.
I know that there are some counterexamples.
In Minnesota, it wasn't from protests.
It was from bars being open.
But as a general sense, I think absolutely.
I think the larger damage from those protests in terms of the COVID part is the absolute discrediting of the epidemiological establishment to be taken seriously.
Because the second you say, these rules are really important and will save lives, so you shouldn't do the things that you really care about, But the things that we really care about, it's a free-for-all.
And so there's now just a large constituency on the left and right that will not listen to these people.
They sold their credibility for a little sort of woke profile in response to a truly horrific thing.
And you can't get that toothpaste back into the tube if you said, you know, going to church or your parents' funeral, that is a selfish thing that is going to get people killed.
Going out for day 11 of protests, that is an honorable and glorious thing and should be allowed to do it.
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Changing Columbus Day to Juneteenth is the craziest thing I've ever heard of.
And where does it stop?
I mean, they're tearing down statues, changing names of schools and military bases.
Where does it stop?
It's a reasonable question.
You're allowed to ask it, I think.
At least you used to be.
This used to be America, where we could have conversations.
We could have exchanges.
We could have disagreement and not expect to be dragged by the mob, attacked.
Saw some video last night.
Some woman had some dispute with neighbors over a stone patio being built in their yard.
They recorded her.
She happened to be white.
They happened to be black.
It got turned into a racial thing.
And before you know it, she had hundreds of protesters in front of her door protesting her racism.
Because she's a...
It seemed to me like she's a nosy neighbor that didn't think the other neighbors were allowed to build a stone patio where they built them, but immediately she was declared a racist.
Over at PragerU, my friend Dennis Prager has a pretty remarkable site, PragerU.
The New York Times, evidently, is now setting its sights on Mount Rushmore.
We knew this was coming.
I'm not.
Okay, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I feel bad that I laughed at the end, but it was a sympathetic laugh.
Anyway, you know, one of my mottos is between laughing and crying, I prefer to laugh.
The human condition is such.
A complex one.
Part of the amazement I have at the simpletons who govern so many of the what are called elite institutions of colleges and media and so on.
The simpleton-like approach to life.
Jefferson was bad because he had slaves.
That's all you need to know.
Life is so much more complex than that.
And these people think that they think in a deeper way than their opponents.
The subject of the male-female hour today is warning people against marrying somebody.
Were you warned?
Or did you warn, for that matter?
How did it turn out?
See, given the fact that so many calling in, say they were warned and thank God they didn't listen, or they were warned and it's too bad that they didn't listen, there's no generalizable rule.
People may love you and have your best interests in mind and warn you and be wrong.
It's a very, very tough call.
And you may be wrong.
I once spoke out against someone I knew well marrying, and in retrospect, I'm not sure I was right.
It's a toughie.
All right, everybody.
I love looking at these summaries here.
Okay, Michael in Midlothian, Texas.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
How you doing?
Well, thank you.
Very good.
What do you want to know from me?
Just my background, I was previously married and divorced, and then I went back to college and met my Wife now I was I lost my best friend in college over this and My parents were wanting me to slow down obviously and When we decided to get married we were married a week later So your best your bet you lost your best friend because
he warned you against doing that.
Oh, yeah Now, why did you lose him as a friend?
You were so angry at him, you just ended the relationship?
No, no.
I've reached out two or three times.
I know where he is, and I've tried to reconnect.
Wait a minute.
That's odd.
He broke off with me.
Because you didn't listen to him?
Yes.
I didn't deserve her.
You didn't what?
I didn't deserve her.
That was his words.
Wait, you weren't good enough for her?
Yes.
Well, let me just say, I'm happy you guys are not friends anymore.
I mean, what kind of friend is that?
You know, you think you know somebody.
Yeah, I have to say.
That's a switcheroo, isn't it?
You should definitely not marry her.
You're unworthy of such a wonderful person.
And then you don't listen to the guy.
Let's see.
He breaks the friendship.
Yes, exactly.
Wow.
That's a story for the ages, I have to say.
Although, you know, it's family lore.
It would be fun if my dad were still living for him to tell the story.
He was a great raconteur.
But apparently, not only did my mother's father, his future father-in-law, warn my mother against marrying my father, so did my father's best friend.
They stayed very close.
But he...
I think it was partially...
Yes, it wasn't a matter of he was unworthy.
It was that he perceived my father as quite moody and my mother as quite happy-go-lucky.
And there was a lot of truth to that, by the way.
That's why my father knew that his friend was right.
It's like when the coach said that when I made the basketball team in high school...
It was going to be a bad year for that team because they really scraped the bottom of the barrel since I made the team.
I knew the guy was right.
To put me on a basketball team is to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
I was aware of that.
He wasn't a nice guy for saying it publicly, but even in high school, I was more concerned about the truth than feeling good.
All right.
That was a good one.
Let's go to the east here, and Hank in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
How are you this afternoon?
Thank you.
Well.
When I met my wife, we were both working in a slaughterhouse in Philadelphia.
I was the house grader.
She was the federal grader.
And we eventually decided that we loved each other enough we wanted to get married.
Unfortunately, I lost my job when the slaughterhouse closed.
However, I did find another job back in the coal mines in Pennsylvania.
And my parents, my mother and my sister, did not like my wife because she was 10 years younger and Catholic.
We were Episcopal, which my wife refers to as JV Catholic anyway.
So it was difficult, but we will have been together 41 years.
Well, you know, I want to comment on marriages from slaughterhouses.
Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black!
You need to wake up!
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
They can turn back voting rights.
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote?
I didn't call you a nigger.
Oh, okay.
That's a big difference.
Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedwins.
Boot liquor.
Black white supremacist.
Chuckin and Jarvis.
House Negro.
Coon.
Uncle Tom.
Coon.
Coon.
I have a Kuhn award over there.
Kuhn of the Year Award.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent free thinkers.
I believe the legacy and the ancestry of black Americans is being insulted every single day.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Racist.
Racism.
A thousand cuts of racism.
The liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud emotional people.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something.
I grew up being told of my disadvantages, that this country is unfair to black people.
The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously to believe these things.
It's like a cancerous plague in the mind of black Americans.
We're brainwashed to think, is it because I'm black?
America's not ours, so we got shipped here.
No.
Our blood is on this soil.
We own this too.
There should be a pride that we have in the fact that this country was built by many great black men and women.
Are you trying to say that this country does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
So long as black people continue to have their psyche filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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When Bill Clinton, after twice vetoing almost identically worded bills, finally signed the Welfare Reform Act, One of the reasons he got elected is because he was going to be a different Democrat.
We're going to change welfare as we know it.
He said it during the 1992 campaign and didn't do anything.
And then Dick Morris said, when he's running for re-election, look, if you want to win this election, you have to do something to fulfill this campaign promise.
So Bill Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. 1996, 1994?
1996, I think it was.
And a bunch of liberals, his own party, they were furious.
Furious.
One of the children's advocates is a woman named Marian Wright-Element.
She stopped speaking to Hillary.
They were good friends.
Members of the Congressional...
Okay, everybody, Dennis Prager.
I knew I'd enjoy this hour, and I'd enjoyed it more than I expected, even.
So two very well-known rules seem to have been affirmed.
One is optometrists make good husbands, and the other is if you met your beloved in a slaughterhouse, it works out well, because it's a great place to meet.
It's the first pun I've cracked in 35 years of radio.
Great place to meet.
Okay, I couldn't resist.
But I was led to it by Triple G, who cracked about 11 puns during the break.
I can't tell the sausage one on air, however, just for the record.
However, the more enlightened among my listeners will somehow infer something.
This is precious.
This is precious.
I love that call, actually.
What are the chances?
How many marriages in America develop from a slaughterhouse meeting?
Can't say.
It's a lot.
That's why human stories...
You know my contention.
Every one of you, with the right writer...
Can write a riveting story of your life, even if your life, in your opinion, is boring.
It's not boring if it were told properly.
By the way, you know my theory on boring.
So I've always made omelets out of broken eggs, or lemonade out of lemons is the better way of putting it.
So when I was dating, and I first married at 32, So I dated for a while.
And if I had a boring date, do you know how I made it interesting?
I worked on the question in my mind, what makes this person boring?
And I came up with tremendous numbers of answers, by the way, which have helped shape my thinking.
Well, let's see.
Ulysses, Kansas, Pat.
My pastor warned us we married anyway and divorced after 10 years.
All right, there you go, you see?
On the other hand, Bud and Jolie at Illinois, they did warn me, and they were 1,000% wrong.
Good to hear, Bud.
Maureen in Dallas, my family warned my sister, we were so wrong.
It's truly 50-50.
It truly, it's amazing.
Howard in Cleveland, we warned our daughter, she didn't listen, we were right.
Vicki in Chicago.
I warned my son.
They were pregnant at the time.
They were young.
But we don't know what developed.
Sounds like she was right.
Ken in Fort Worth.
Priest warned me against marrying her.
He was right.
A bad seven years.
Alrighty, everybody.
This was a wonderful hour.
I thank you.
Now, I have a lot to talk to you about.
Stay tuned.
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You've been following this Trump-Russia-Taliban story?
Well, here's how it's supposed to go.
The president was briefed on some plot that the Russians had to pay Taliban to kill American soldiers.
As if you have to incentivize Taliban to kill American soldiers, but whatever.
The president was briefed and did nothing!
Oops, now it turns out the president wasn't briefed.
Oh, well, okay, maybe he wasn't briefed, but he should have been briefed.
Well, it turns out the intel was not corroborated.
Well, okay, well, are you saying that he only gets briefed on intel that's been corroborated?
Raise your hand if you're out there saying George W. Bush lied, people died.
He read his daily briefings.
He read the intel.
Turns out the intel...
Expected there to be a stockpile of WMD. Stockpile wasn't there.
So, therefore, the intel is infallible.
Therefore, every president who reads the presidential daily brief is going to make the right kind of foreign policy decision.
Obama read them.
Pull all the troops out of Iraq.
Against the advice of his entire major members of his national security team.
Against the Joint Chiefs.
Against the Secretary of Defense.
Against the Secretary of State.
Against the National Security Advisor?
Against our ambassador to Iraq?
All said, Mr. President, please do not pull all the troops out.
It'll create a void into which bad guys will flow.
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you I need you to understand that my nation will forever be grateful to those young Americans because you stopped communism in South Asia.
My nation would have been the next one.
To fall, and the Vietnam War is a glorious memory for us.
That's a wake-up call, isn't it, Jim?
To look at the Vietnam War as glorious?
Well, yeah, from their perspective, and I think, look, no one is...
There was two historians who once had this debate between...
People that just lump history and then people that...
And the whole thing is there's two ways you can write history.
You can lump everything that proves your case and ignore everything else.
Or you can find the one thing that proves your case and ignore everything else.
And those are called lumpers and splitters.
But that's not history.
History is about the totality.
What the Antifa, what Black Lives Matter, what the hate, what the mob is, is they are lumpers and splitters.
They find the stuff they hate and they say, that is American history.
As taught by Howard Zim.
Yes.
And what they deny is that there was ever a good day or ever a glorious purpose to this country.
And I'm not saying America's perfect, but God created this nation, and as a result of that, as with all of God's good creations, it has made better days for the universe of man.
That's the truth.
They don't like that?
Fine.
They want to tear the statue down?
Fine.
Doesn't make it any less true.
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Joe Biden came out of the basement yesterday, sort of.
This is not really a press conference.
Cut number six where he admits he's got a list of people he's going to call on.
Cut number six.
I'm happy to take questions if you have them.
He gave me a list of how to recognize.
Is Alex AP out there?
And then he slams Trump for his cognitive capabilities, believe it or not.
Cut number eight.
One of two things.
This president is, um...
He talks about cognitive capability.
He doesn't seem to be cognitively aware of what's going on.
He either reads and or gets briefed on important issues and he forgets it.
Or he doesn't think it's necessary that he need to know it.
But the fact is that at a minimum, at a minimum, the discrepancy allegedly between within the intelligence community as reported, some thought it was more certain and others thought it was less certain.
That should be resolved.
The president should have on day one.
Said, I want you to come before me in the situation room.
Lay out the differences.
The prospect of this guy as president.
I know you have an aesthetic.
Some of you have an aesthetic objection to Donald Trump.
That he's mean.
That he picks fights.
He personalizes everything.
But honest to goodness.
Slow Joe Biden.
You're going to trust this country in the middle of an existential battle with the Chinese Communist Party that's going to extend for 100 years.
And we're going to start it with Joe Biden.
Now, you're going to reelect Donald Trump.
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The New York Times is reporting how Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan.
It features the faces of two U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.
That's an actual tweet from the New York Times.
Now, PragerU points out that the same New York Times, which has a storied history, its founding editor, Was a guy named Henry Jarvis Raymond.
In 1851, the New York Times founding editor published an editorial in which he supported a slave owner's legal right to recover his escaped slaves.
So Prager, you had an interesting question to the New York Times.
Will you guys also be canceling yourselves since you want everything canceled?
How far does this go?
Chris, you're first up on the Mike Gallagher Show.
How are you, Chris?
Good.
I thought it was ironic that October 12th this year falls on a Monday.
And, of course, October 12th was the day that, historically, Christopher Columbus discovered America, which is the original Christopher Columbus, the real reason why it's a holiday.
I honestly, I mean, really, Chris, you've got to help me here.
You've got to tell me what Christopher Columbus has to do with the racial dialogue that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis.
Please connect it for me.
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Yeah.
Thank you.
The Democrats are trying to erase history.
There's a good reason for that, right?
Well, yeah, look, the Democrats are the party of racism.
The KKK was founded by the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party worked overtime to try to keep in place Jim Crow after they tried to keep in place slavery, after they tried to stop the progress of the civil rights movement, the actual civil rights movement from the 20th century.
The Democrat Party's history is littered with leaders, all the...
So I know we talked about this last time.
The four speakers whose portraits that Nancy Pelosi was taking down, they were all Democrats.
All those Confederates, all four speakers were Democrats.
The Democrat Party has a history of racism, of bigotry, of, again, creating the Ku Klux Klan.
of it was created by Democrats by someone who said the following I wish I had it here, but I don't know what I did with it.
Maybe I do.
One minute.
Where are the...
No, I don't know what I did with it.
Anyway.
It's a letter in the New York Times, and the man wrote, I did not vote for Donald Trump.
I wrote in the name of some candidate.
But now I will vote for him.
And I'm as opposed to him as ever, with all his flaws and his ego and his tweets.
But now, for the first time, I truly realize the left wants to destroy my country.
And he's the only thing standing between the destruction and the non-destruction.
So the question I have is how many people will realize that?
This preoccupation with Trump's flaws is so immature as to be disappointing.
You think that's the issue?
Trump's flaws are the dominant issue?
Millions of people want to change this country fundamentally?
Millions of people want to defund police departments?
Staggering increase in murder in cities because of that?
And you're preoccupied with Trump's tweet?
It necessitates, in my opinion, because I find it inexplicable in some people.
The left concentrates on Trump because they want to deflect from what they do.
Why non-leftists would be preoccupied with Trump is a riddle.
You're fighting a war for America's survival, and you're preoccupied with your general's flaws?
You would prefer a different general?
Fine.
But this is the one you have.
Get it?
on on earth in reality this is the one you have but I was just invited to appear on a on a popular Korean language program Obviously, I don't know Korean, but it's translated or subtitled while I speak.
Larry Elder had been on it, and the man had asked him, So, is it true Donald Trump was your 18th choice?
And Larry Elder goes, no, my 20th.
And there were only 18 candidates.
That's how I was.
I wrote columns against Donald Trump when there were the primaries.
But, thank God, I wrote at the very beginning, if he's nominated, I will support him.
He turned out...
Obviously far better than I could have imagined.
So listen to this.
This is a councilwoman in Seattle.
And where do I see her name?
Because it's not one that I've committed to memory.
Is it on IM? It's on the...
Oh, even better.
That's right.
Let's see here.
Kshama Sawant.
She's obviously from the accent from India.
She's a councilwoman in the Seattle City Council and makes it clear what she thinks of America.
It is an amazing thing to have your family immigrate here and for you to devote your life to destroying what you moved to.
That's a level of sickness.
Of the soul that really is noteworthy.
So here is this Seattle, but Seattle's really out of its mind.
I mean, you know, it's like a competition.
New York City, Seattle, L.A., San Francisco, Minneapolis.
It is, it's a competition for who produces the most fools.
It's a toughie.
It's a tough race.
Okay, this is a Seattle councilwoman.
Attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax.
Working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you.
And we will not stop there.
Because you see, we are fighting for far more than this tax.
We are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.
And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward, By lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it.
Because we are coming for you and your rotten system.
We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state.
We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity.
Genuine democracy and equality.
A socialist world.
Thank you.
I'm speechless, I admit it.
Thank you.
I have it transcribed here, so let me repeat.
We are coming for you and your rotten system.
The system has given more people more opportunity than any system in the history of Earth.
You know my least favorite trait, right?
Ingratitude.
This woman is a professional ingrate.
Every leftist is an ingrate.
We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, the police state.
If it's a police state, why could she say this?
And know that she'll be fine that night back home.
This doesn't work in police states.
In police states, when you say, I want to overthrow the state, they tend to give you a different place to sleep that night.
This is deeply oppressive.
Really.
People are sick.
Deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism.
Now guess what she will replace it with?
This is the left's Achilles heel, if you will.
Because they only destroy, they build nothing except power for themselves.
We will replace it with a world based instead on solidarity.
What does that mean?
Seriously, do you know what that means?
The world?
We will replace capitalism with solidarity.
Do you understand that?
Solidarity with whom?
People who agree with us.
The workers?
I don't even know if she means that.
Genuine democracy?
The only thing I can imagine there, but I don't think she means it, is the end of the Electoral College, but I don't think that that's what she has in mind.
Genuine democracy is...
Yeah.
Is majority rules?
No, no, no.
I know that that's what it literally means, but that's not what she means.
I don't know what she means by solidarity.
An equality.
A socialist world.
There you go.
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Yeah.
The Democrats are trying to erase history.
There's a good reason for that, right?
Well, yeah, look, the Democrats are the party of racism.
The KKK was founded by the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party worked overtime to try to keep in place Jim Crow after they tried to keep in place slavery, after they tried to stop the progress of the civil rights movement, the actual civil rights movement from the 20th century.
The Democrat Party is...
History is littered with leaders.
So, I know we talked about this last time.
The four speakers whose portraits that Nancy Pelosi was taking down, they were all Democrats.
All those Confederates.
All four speakers were Democrats.
The Democrat Party has a history of racism, of bigotry, of, again, creating the Ku Klux Klan.
It was created by Democrats, of pushing to try to keep in place Jim Crow.
And fighting the Civil Rights Act.
Fighting it.
Right.
The Democrat Party is littered with bad history.
It's the Republican Party that was the champion of women's and civil rights.
And it's important to note that.
Look, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, right?
Like Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, the Emancipation Proclamation, held the union together during the Civil War, was a Republican.
He was the first Republican.
And it's worth noting that the Democrats, I think that as they're doing all this chaos and trying to tear down statues in history and so on and so forth and rewrite history, they're trying to erase their own history.
And they don't want, I mean, God forbid the public found out that the Democrat Party caused the KKK.
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Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
You need to wake up.
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
They can turn back voting rights.
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote?
I didn't call you a nigger.
Oh, okay.
That's a big difference.
Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedwins.
Boot liquor.
Black white supremacist.
Chuckin and Jarvis.
House Negro.
Coon.
Uncle Tom.
Coon.
Coon.
I have a cool award over there.
Cool of the year award.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
I believe the legacy and the ancestry of black Americans is being insulted every single day.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Racist.
Racism.
A thousand cuts of racism.
The liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
I never felt that because I was black or I was poor or a woman that I couldn't do something.
*BOOM* I grew up being told of my disadvantages, that this country is unfair to black people.
The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously to believe these things.
It's like a cancerous plague in the mind of black Americans.
We're brainwashed to think.
Is it because I'm black?
America's not ours, so we got shipped here.
No, our blood is on this soil.
We own this too.
There should be a pride that we have in the fact that this country was built by many great black men and women.
Are you trying to say that this country does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
So long as black people continue to have their psyche filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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Are government schools giving children the education they need?
If you think the answer is yes, you haven't asked a parent with a child stuck in a bad school.
Cecilia Iglesias, President of the Parent Union, tells her personal story in this week's Prager University video.
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By the way, if you want one piece of optimism, and I never engage in that to make you feel good, as you know, and it's a big debate within me.
We debated the...
The producer and I, on many occasions, do I really let on my concerns?
Do I sugarcoat them so to give people more hope?
But I level with you.
So here's an interesting little piece of information, which I just learned yesterday when I... I recorded my fireside chat for this week.
PragerU has more views than ever before, and we already had a billion a year.
The last couple of months have been the biggest spike in views in the history of PragerU, and it's the largest conservative video site on Earth.
And I believe that, like that letter that I mentioned to you in the New York Times, and this is not knowable.
I make no prediction vis-a-vis the election.
None.
None whatsoever.
Nothing would surprise me.
A landslide for Biden would surprise me.
Well, a landslide for Trump might surprise me more.
A landslide, yeah.
But a victory would not surprise me.
So almost anything is possible.
But I think that an unknowable number of Americans fear the left, as they should, more than ever before.
When people start tearing down stores, Destroying police cars and no one is arrested.
And essentially the media is supportive.
Local governments then respond by saying, let's get rid of police or at least massively get rid of their funding.
Even though it's barely reported in the mainstream media, many people understand that murder has gone up.
One indication is that gun sales are through the roof.
A friend of mine, I forgot who this was, went to a shooting gallery?
What do you call it?
Gun range, yeah.
As I have, I just didn't know the name, the official title of such a place.
Anyway, it was packed.
And this is during a virus.
So, there's an awareness that the left is ruining the country.
The staggering lie of America is racist, and so anti-racism is the substitute for Christianity, Judaism, And the American value system, e pluribus unum liberty and God we trust.
Anti-racism.
It's exactly the same as the communists' use of anti-fascism.
Everything that the communists did is replicated by the left in America, not by liberals who are just too weak to oppose them.
It's a cowardice.
It dominates the human species.
It's not just liberals.
But everything.
The feminists use women.
The communists and the left use workers.
Democrats use blacks.
It's all a use of these groups for power.
I think more and more Americans are aware of this, just as more and more Americans are brainwashed.
The question is, which is a larger number?
I'm working on a piece for proofs that America is not a racist society.
I gave one in my column this week, all the race hoaxes.
Why would there be so many race hoaxes if America's racist?
Just provide examples.
Why do you need to have hoaxes?
Why did Jussie Smollett feel he had to buy or have his comrades buy a rope so he could appear that he had a noose around him?
You know, there were people like me, I wasn't alone, who from the very first day didn't believe it.
It was spectacularly freezing in Chicago at past midnight.
Guys are waiting to find a black guy to put a noose around him and yell MAGA?
Do you understand the absurdity of the story?
Okay.
I got so much there.
There really is.
This has been true since the beginning.
It's an abundance of articles to comment.
Listen to this.
New York Times had a piece knocking Sweden.
Oh, it didn't work.
I really, there's no issue.
I mean, there are obviously ongoing issues, but there is no news issue that I have mastered better than the COVID issue.
I have immersed myself in reading about this from the outset.
I don't claim, for example, expertise on the Russian collusion story.
I know a lot about it, but I don't claim expertise.
I do claim expertise on the COVID issue, not on the biology of viruses.
I have followed this very avidly.
As you well know, did not have a lockdown.
I mean, they didn't allow meetings of more than 50 people, but people went to cafes, markets, schools stayed open.
So the left hates them.
Just hates them, which is ironic.
Sweden was their hero.
But they hate Sweden for doing this.
And so the New York Times had a hit piece on Sweden.
In the disguise of a news article.
And it said, look, they had a much higher death rate than their Scandinavian neighbors, Denmark and Norway.
And Finland is not, it's geographically Scandinavian, but it's not considered Scandinavian.
Anyway, Denmark and Norway.
Of course, they didn't mention all the other...
They chose those, but they didn't choose Belgium or France or Spain, which it's much lower than.
But now I will read to you people living in Sweden responding to the New York Times piece.
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There is talk, Hugh, and I have it in my story today, about a possible vacancy this summer.
We've heard a lot about whether Justice Thomas will retire or not, but the name I keep hearing in my source world is Judge Amul Thapar, the federal judge in Kentucky, the former U.S. attorney in Kentucky, that he's seen as a favorite of Leader McConnell.
And that if there is a narrow window, someone like him, if Thomas retires, who's young, 51 years old, who's seen as confirmable, could be moved this summer.
And you think this is already a political and culture war in this country?
Just wait for a possible...
Oh, Robert, you should have called me.
I don't report Buzz much, but since you brought it up, the stronger rumor is that Justice Alito is going to quit.
Justice Thomas will never quit.
And that Justice Alito opens up the opportunity to put on Ray Kethledge again or David Strauss or Don Willett, that if indeed Justice Thomas were to retire, it would be on multiple.
That one's a done deal if it's Justice Thomas and multiple.
Alito, huh?
That's a great tip.
That is what my...
You know what happens at this time of the year is that people begin working the refs.
And I'm hardly a ref, but I got a column in the Washington Post.
And so they start working me about...
You know, this person would be great if Alito quit.
And this person would be great if Thomas quit.
And everybody agrees with what you just said.
If Thomas were to quit, he would say, look, I'm 72. I've done my share.
But Robert, did you run into anyone who told you what he said?
He swore the oath that he wasn't going to leave his job until the last person who voted against his nomination had left the Senate.
Leahy's still there.
How old is Justice Alito?
I think he's 74. He might be 72. I'm not sure.
But he hates...
The buzz is his wife hates Washington, D.C. I'm glad to be with you and a lot of things going on.
What is your sense of what is happening right now and what this president will need to do to be re-elected?
This is the most consequential election since Abraham Lincoln in 1860. I think the difference between Biden, Pelosi and Schumer as a team and Trump and McCarthy and McConnell is...
So wide that people can't imagine how different we'd be two years after you had Biden as president with Pelosi and Schumer basically dominating him.
But they would take us to somewhere between California and Seattle.
So I think what's happening is Trump challenged the entire national establishment starting with his nomination.
When they first hated him, the first article about impeaching him is April of 2016, before he's even the nominee, followed up then by a whole series of other kinds of problems and an unending, relentless attack by what I would call the propaganda media.
And, of course, they spent the last four years trying to destroy Trump every single day.
This election is going to decide whether we continue to go down that road or whether we end up deciding that we really do want to become a radically different country.
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Okay, so the New York Times had this piece about how many more people died in Sweden than in Denmark and Norway, which is true.
They had a per million rate.
It's a different population, but they had a per million rate, which was twice as high, if I got it right.
But it was considerably lower than Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, that they didn't mention.
For some reason, the only comparisons that are valid are to Scandinavian countries.
All right, so listen to some of the responses.
I love reading comments and articles.
I find them as interesting as I do the article.
So, listen to this.
Here's one.
I have three.
As an American living in Sweden, this article is unbelievable in how it has misconstrued life and the impact of the virus here.
There is no climate of fear here.
People are going about their lives, but not as normal.
Very large numbers are working from home.
People keep a distance from others.
We are especially careful around the elderly.
Travel outside of Stockholm is discouraged.
And for those over 70, the recommendations are even stronger.
Yet, we also kept certain parts of life normal.
Parts that the scientific consensus is increasingly admitting should have stayed the course, such as having our kids go to school.
We don't have near the levels of domestic abuse spikes or mental health issues.
And finally, if the author had done his homework and reported accurately, he would have told us that the numbers in Sweden, this is very important, have continued to drop with no corresponding spikes we see in other countries.
I'm incredibly disappointed by the New York Times here.
Well, okay, that was the only disappointing part of the man's letter.
If the New York Times disappoints you, you've been very naive for decades.
Next, I'm an American married to a Swedish citizen, and I arrived in Stockholm about a week ago after quarantining in Massachusetts for over four months.
I continue to be shocked by the clear bias demonstrated in articles like this.
No mention of the fact that despite a complete lack of lockdown, There have been no new COVID patients admitted to the ICU in Stockholm's largest hospital for over two weeks.
That's an incredible fact, if he's right.
As of today, there are no actively contagious COVID patients in that same hospital.
It was all over the news here.
This is a huge victory, and a key indicator that Sweden, quote, is well over the main hump of surging cases.
This article also completely ignores the social cost of lockdown.
No kidding.
They all do.
The U.S. is already seeing rising rates of violence, depression, and suicide.
Incidentally, at the very beginning, I opposed it, as you recall, and got a lot of, a lot of, I mean, incredible number of attacks and abuse.
And when I said, remember, I said it was probably the greatest mistake.
That people have made, not the greatest evil.
People on the left said, oh, there's a bigger mistake than the Holocaust.
The first time in my life I'd ever heard the Holocaust referred to as a mistake.
Mistake is not the same thing as evil.
Anyway, I wrote at the time, there are terrible consequences in modern history to economic collapse.
The violent protests that you saw are a direct result of, obviously, George Floyd, but even more so, the lockdown.
The economic downturn, the free time, the nothing to do, the anger.
All right, anyway, children have been out of school for months.
Talking about America.
And at what cost to their mental health?
What about all the diseases that have gone undetected and untreated thanks to clinics closing down?
The side effects are endless, and they can't be discounted.
Norway, Denmark, and Finland will all see surges once they ease their lockdowns, just as California was once lauded as a leader in the COVID fight, then crumbled upon reopening.
Sweden took a long-haul approach that they knew their people could sustain for months, if not years.
This is a marathon, not a sprint.
That's right, there's no spike in Sweden, interestingly.
Finally, another one.
If your assertion that Sweden's COVID-19 response policy is a disaster is true, then why have cases and deaths in Sweden dropped to virtually zero?
Without a lockdown.
What's your answer to that, New York Times?
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You know, that's one of the significant things in America is we look at past generations through today's filter and today's lens.
and you really can't do that.
It's interesting to me that back in Genesis 9, when you see about Noah, and God chose Noah, and the Bible in Genesis 9, 6 says that Noah was a righteous man, and then it says, in his generation.
We know that Noah had trouble with drunkenness and other things as well, but when you compare him to where he was in his day, he was so far ahead of everyone else.
And so what's happening is we're comparing our standards of today and trying to impose them back.
And let me explain why that matters.
We have 5,500 years of recorded history at the time of Wilberforce.
England is the first nation in the history of the world to abolish slavery, and we're talking 1833. People think abolition and equality has been the state of the world all the way through.
We're talking recently.
America, 1865, when we passed the 13th Amendment, 1865, we were the fourth nation in the world to abolish slavery.
So abolition is a relatively new thing in the world.
And by the way, there are 94 nations in the world today Where slavery is still legal.
So half the world still has legal slavery, and we're all concerned about America and how that we had racism in 1865. It took us that long to abolish slavery.
No, no.
We're one of the leading nations in the world in shooting for equality.
We were not late to the party.
We were early to the party, number four in the world.
And by the way, we were number one in the world in passing a law to abolish the slave trade.
That's 1807. In your opinion,
did the demonstrations that were not only inevitable but probably necessary following the murder of George Floyd, did they contribute to the resurgence of the pandemic in a significant way?
I think as just a matter of intuition and common sense, I think you have to say yes.
You look at the explosion in young cases.
I know that there are some counterexamples.
You know, in Minnesota, it wasn't from protests.
It was from bars being open.
But as a general sense, I think absolutely.
I think the larger damage from those protests in terms of the COVID part is the absolute discrediting of the epidemiological establishment to be taken seriously.
Because the second you say, these rules are really important, will save lives, so you shouldn't do the things that you really care about.
But the things that we really care about, it's a free-for-all.
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I'll tell you, there is something else that's a godsend.
That is Uncle Tom, the movie documentary that Larry Elder has made, which is remarkable.
It is really an antidote to all the...
Lies about America and racism.
Almost everybody in this documentary is black.
And it would be revelatory, revelatory for your kids to see this.
How would they answer all of these brilliant black minds?
Worth it for that alone.
UncleTom.com Is there a promo code or anything, Sean?
Like, justuncletom.com.
And it rhymes, by the way, so it makes it even easier to go to.
You're fired.
it.
Thank you.
Is it really?
There is a promo code?
That's what I asked.
Prager?
Oh, it is?
Oh, it's Prager.
Okay.
My friends, listen to this.
To watch almost everything that is considered important be taken over by cowards.
It's all cowardice.
People are mumbling lies.
They talk themselves into believing it's true.
Here's an example.
It's from the Wall Street Journal.
From the editorial board.
The greatest barrier to minority advancement in America is the K-12 education system.
So it was dismaying last week to read that KIPP Charter Schools has decided to abandon its motto, Work Hard, Be Nice.
How do you like that?
That's like, it's a bad motto.
KIPP adopted the motto when it was founded in 1994 as a way to motivate students and teachers to excel in an encouraging environment.
But no more.
In a tweet Wednesday, KIPP put it this way.
This was last Wednesday, I presume.
This is this Wednesday.
We are retiring, work hard, be nice, as KIPP's national slogan.
Why, you might ask.
Are you ready?
It diminishes the significant effort to dismantle systemic racism, places value on being compliant and submissive, supports the illusion of meritocracy, and does not align with our vision of students being free to create the future they want.
Do any of you understand any of that?
This was what drove dissidents in the Soviet Union crazy.
The official pablum.
Masses of words that meant nothing.
So you understand work hard be nice is being Dismantle.
Because it places value on being compliant and submissive?
Work hard, be nice?
Wall Street Journal reacts.
This is woke nonsense.
Today, the KIPP network educates 100,000 students in 242 college prep public charter schools.
More than 95% of its students are black or Latino.
KIPA succeeded when so many traditional public schools fail, precisely because it has high expectations for students.
So what is its new motto going to be?
Fight racism?
Black Lives Matter?
When you know you're in a sick, sick time when work hard, be nice is considered racist.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's what we're at, ladies and gentlemen.
All right, 1-8 Prager 776 is the number.
John in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
It's good to talk with you.
Thank you.
Listen, I've got a project as if you didn't have enough already to occupy your lockdown time.
And it might help Trump get re-elected.
I wanted to drop it as a suggestion.
One of the things I've observed as a listener to your program for several years now is that I'm convinced that people simply do not understand that the left is a malicious, malignant force.
Almost like metastasized cancer.
And I would like to see something similar to what Larry Elder did and Dinesh D'Souza did on his last film to condense that into an easily understandable DVD that could be widely circulated to people who don't understand the threat that the left poses.
I think it would be fantastic to do.
And I think that you could probably put it together with Salem and your fellow Salem host, and you could probably help get Trump re-elected.
Well, we can't make a film like that in a few months, but I would say that the combination of D'Souza, Elder, and Prager films that are out now would have that impact.
What is no safe spaces if not an exploration of what the left is doing to free speech?
It's got a lot of liberals in it.
Man, it's a great film to begin with.
Larry Elder shows what the left, the damage it has been doing to black life.
I agree with you that one specifically doing it would be great.
I have a five-minute video.
Everything the left touches, it ruins.
Give six examples in five minutes at PragerU.
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Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him.
Nobody.
Because he was black.
He was black.
You need to wake up!
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
They can turn back voting rights.
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote?
I didn't call you a nigger.
Oh, okay.
That's a big difference.
Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedwins.
Bootlicker.
Black white supremacist.
Chuck and Java.
House Negro.
Coon.
Uncle Tom.
Coon.
Coon.
I have a Kuhn award over there.
Kuhn of the Year Award.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
I believe the legacy and the ancestry of black Americans is being insulted every single day.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Racist.
Racism.
A thousand cuts of racism.
The liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
I never felt that because I was black or I was For a woman that I couldn't do something.
I grew up being told of my disadvantages, that this country is unfair to black people.
The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously to believe these things.
It's like a cancerous plague in the mind of black Americans.
We're brainwashed to think.
Is it because I'm black?
America's not ours, so we got shipped here.
No, our blood is on this soil.
We own this too.
There should be a pride that we have in the fact that this country was built by many great black men and women.
Are you trying to say that this country does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
So long as black people continue to have their psyche filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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That's when Bill Clinton, after twice vetoing almost identically worded bills, finally signed the Welfare Reform Act.
One of the reasons he got elected is because he was going to be a different Democrat.
We're going to change welfare as we know it.
He said it during the 1992 campaign.
It didn't do anything.
And then Dick Morris said, when he's running for re-election, look, if you want to win this election, you have to do something to fulfill this campaign promise.
So Bill Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. 1996?
1994?
1996, I think it was.
And a bunch of liberals, his own party, they were furious.
Furious!
One of the children's advocates is a woman named Marian Wright-Elements.
He stopped speaking to Hillary.
They were good friends.
Members of the Congressional Caucus.
Said that when this bill goes through, there are going to be people sleeping on the grates outside because they're going to be so poor.
What happened?
All right, everybody.
By the way, I just heard the same crank call from the first hour on another show.
This guy calls up, pretending to be a policeman, and then gets angry at the host.
And it's impersonating an officer of crime.
It's an interesting question.
I think I realize the purpose is to give police a bad name.
It's really not even directed against the host.
It's because the guy hates police.
So, anyway, this is par for the course for those people.
And...
Now let's take a challenge here from Michael in Adrian, Michigan.
Hi.
Hi.
Well, I was just commenting back, you were talking about Sweden versus the United States and the lockdown method and so on, and I disagree with America's method of lockdown as well, but Sweden hasn't got it all right either.
Sweden's death rate per capita is about 35% higher than ours.
Right, and it's about 35% lower than the number of European countries.
Yeah, depending on what you compare.
They vary.
Alright, so obviously depending on what you compare, it varies.
I agree.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's neighboring countries, Finland and Norway.
Let's say we would have had 40% more deaths in America than we had, or 35% more, and the country would not have devastated its economy.
And lock people down and stop education and so on.
So the question is, would it be worth it?
I think you could have both.
I think the lockdown was wrong in the way they handled it.
Rather than a complete lockdown, it should have been targeted.
Right.
Well, to a large extent, that's what Sweden did.
I mean, the elderly did stay at home.
Look, I'm only letting you go because we only have a minute.
The vast, well not the vast majority, but half the deaths in Sweden were in old age homes, were in senior citizen homes, nursing homes.
40% of the U.S. deaths, to the best of my knowledge, certainly in New York, were in nursing homes.
Doesn't make this any less of a tragedy.
In every individual case.
But it does not call for kids not to be at school.
Anyway, the ease with which Americans became afraid is the biggest source of fear to me, not the disease.
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