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And I rise above it, but so be it.
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Today I write five arguments against the proposition that America is a racist country.
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Thank God, but not enough.
To give you an example of what I mean by not enough, I just learned of the following.
The University of Connecticut, the student government leaders resign because they are white.
And as one of them said, democracy simply doesn't work.
It's the product of a college education and a high school education.
Democracy doesn't work because it elected whites to the leadership of government there.
So they're stepping, they're resigning because they're white.
Wow.
What if the Wright brothers had resigned because they were white?
Thank you.
Just out of curiosity, how far does one take this?
Should one not succeed?
my friends there is no parallel to this in the history of the world be the self suicide Well, that's redundant.
The suicide of a nation, the self-destruction of a nation, by those who have it best.
And that's most people.
Oprah Winfrey, one of the richest human beings on Earth, is going to finance movies and other media.
for the New York Times lie about America that it was founded in 1619.
NBA players will wear messages instead of their names.
Remember I told you everything the left touches it ruins?
The sports thing is very depressing.
It really...
It has deprived many of you.
I like sports, but some of you love sports.
It has deprived you of the ability to enjoy a game without some message in the back.
I wouldn't want a message I agreed with on the back of uniforms.
I just want the name.
I am passionate about supporting Hong Kong against the Chinese Communist takeover.
over.
Thank you.
But I wouldn't be for uniforms having support Hong Kong.
If players want to support Hong Kong after the game, that's great.
During the game, the only purpose is to play basketball.
It's a cheap shot that you have people's attention and then you use it.
You abuse it for your cause.
I just saw another police officer was shot to death in Seattle.
The Fox News headline as I walked in.
Are more innocent blacks killed by police or more innocent police killed by anybody?
I'm not even saying black.
The daughter of one of the officers just murdered, I forgot what city.
Was it?
I don't remember the city.
Sanchez, I believe, was the name.
She wrote a moving tribute, I think, on Facebook or Twitter, I think, to her dad.
Very touching, how much she loved him, was proud of him.
And ended with hashtag Blue Lives Matter.
She was attacked.
Remember, my friends, there is a great riddle here.
Do bad people join the left, or does the left make decent people bad?
And the answer is both.
There's no question leftism makes people meaner.
Ask the parents of leftist children.
Well, they'll tell you.
I couldn't let my dad see, or my mom see, their grandchildren.
They're Trump supporters.
It's not rare.
I mean, it's not an everyday occurrence.
I wish we had numbers, actually, for how often that happened.
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Well, that's what happens when you knock out the idea of colorblind as the ideal.
The ideal was that color doesn't matter.
Now the ideal is that color is everything.
For whatever reason, it occurred to me today.
One of the many responses to this white privilege argument is not to deny that there is some privilege or has been, I don't know if there is today, but there has been some privilege in being white.
But my friends, life is composed of privileges and not privileges.
I was thinking about it, I don't even know how it occurred to me.
I have height privilege.
Right?
It's just the way it is.
I don't have sports privilege, athletic privilege.
There are people who have athletic privilege.
If you wanted to play basketball, would you rather be a white without basketball talent or a black with basketball talent?
I mean, you could ask that about anything.
If you wanted to be an actor, would you rather be a black with acting talent or a white without acting talent?
Isn't it obvious that the acting talent would trump the color talent, if you will?
That's the way life is.
There's an enormous number of things that grant Privilege to a human being.
White is minuscule compared to the others.
If you want to sing, would you rather be a black with a great voice or a white with a lousy voice?
So you say, it's a completely fair question because it would mean then that, yes, okay, white has privilege, but voice trumps that.
voice privilege trumps white privilege.
God, the left are not only vile and destructive, they're not bright.
I mean, these arguments are so unintellectual.
White privilege, has that woman ever debated anyone?
Would she ever?
No, of course not.
Schools are going to start teaching white privilege on 1619. The brainwash against this country that will begin early...
If you have to ask your school, will you be teaching white privilege to the students?
How about this?
You're going to be devoting a semester to white privilege, or excuse me, what is it, white fragility.
Would you devote an hour and a half to Uncle Tom?
Do they even know?
That there are dissenting black voices in America?
Of course they don't know it.
Part of the brainwash is omission, not just commission.
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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?
And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedouin.
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.
Racist.
Racial.
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.
Racial.
Racial.
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 is pure racism.
That is acting like an acknowledgement of the value of black people is somehow belittling.
Painting Black Lives Matter acknowledges the value of black people.
When in fact what we're trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven't been given their respect.
By painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower, we are lifting up black people.
We're giving them jobs.
We're giving them education.
Giving them health care by painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower.
And it can't just be words, Wolf.
It has to be actions.
So we're...
We didn't just paint words.
We painted action.
...making resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs.
Youth programs.
You know.
Monopoly.
Finger painting and midnight basketball, you know, youth programs that will empower the community to have more youth programs.
We're acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down.
We are acknowledging it and we're going to come with plans to tear it down.
Tear it down.
Where exactly is it located?
Is it in Times Square?
Is the institutional racism in Midtown Manhattan?
Is it in Queens?
Is it in Long Island?
We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it.
But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge...
We need to take this transcendent moment, this moment of transcendent when George Floyd was killed by a cop.
We need to take this moment and move it into something transcendent.
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Okay, old Dennis Prager here.
Don't forget...
Read my article, Five Arguments Against America is Racist.
One of my favorite of the arguments, one of my favorites, is, I didn't even realize, I've always told you 2 million have come here in the last 50 years, I've always told you 2 million have come here in the last 50 years, Actually, it's in the last 20 years.
And another million blacks have come from the Caribbean.
Now, why would people move to a racist country?
Are Jews moving to Iran?
Are Muslims moving to China?
I mean, we live with the absurd, the absurd as now normal, because it's such a A good place where most people who work hard can truly aspire to the American dream, which is now, anyway, a fading notion, the American dream.
The left has made it the American nightmare, led by the New York Times and CNN. And yes, George Soros, another $100 million.
What is it?
I want to look at the figure.
Radical organizations.
He's as close to evil as you can get in the non-violent world.
I wrote this many years ago.
It is amazing to me that there are people who say if you attack George Soros, it's anti-Semitic.
But there is nothing to which the left would not stoop in making a case.
To attack George Soros?
The man was ethnically born a Jew.
He has nothing to do with being Jewish.
He's as far from, he's further from Judaism than the majority of evangelical Christians.
God, we live in a perverse world because of these people on the left.
AOC was asked why there's so much crime.
In New York.
Ready?
Do we think this has to do?
Do we have it, by the way?
Oh, we do.
Let's play this.
I guess it's always better to hear the person's voice.
You have it, Sean?
AOC here?
Why this crime in New York, this massive surge of death by murder?
The government has not been defunded.
Even with these budgetary changes that were proposed in city council, not even independent data, disproves what they're saying.
So why is this uptick in crime happening?
Well, let's think about it.
Do we think this has to do with the fact that there's record unemployment in the United States right now?
the fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession.
Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent.
And so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don't have money.
So you maybe have to, they're put in a position where they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night.
Maybe it's the fact that unemployment provisions have not been given to everyone.
Maybe it's because of the fact that some people still haven't gotten their stimulus checks yet.
That was a very good question, Mr. McConnell.
If there were a reward room, like there is a punishment room, we would send you there.
He asked me if we ship bread to Chicago, will that end the murder spree?
Yes, of course.
Why we didn't think of it?
I know why we didn't think of it.
Because we're not on the left.
See?
Why is there an uptick, a vast uptick in Chicago and New York and Baltimore and so on?
Why is there such a sharp uptick in murder?
Because people need to shoplift bread.
Now, why is she not laughed out of public life?
Because the New York Times and the LA Times and the Washington Post protect her.
Their task is not to report news.
Their task is to further left-wing agendas.
You realize how stupid what she said is?
It's nothing to do with police pulling back.
It has to do with lack of bread.
But when you saw the shoplifters, I didn't notice that much bread.
I noticed computers and other items.
In fact, anything that one could grab.
But loaves of bread, that takes up a lot of space.
I don't think that was worth it.
Well, I wanted you to hear it.
Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent, and so they go out and they need to feed their child.
They don't have money.
So you maybe have to...
They're put in a position where they feel like either they need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night.
The New York Post's fine, fine paper.
Shoplifting is not what is plaguing New York City right now, and she knows it.
Petty larcenies are down 7.8% for the year.
Murders are up 23%.
The number of shooting victims is up 70.4%.
That is close to double, folks.
These are not robberies by desperate people.
They're gang-related, drug-related, gun-related.
When a man is shot dead in a drive-by, clutching the hand of his six-year-old daughter in a crosswalk, it is not about going hungry.
On the July 4th weekend alone, ten were killed, almost every one an African-American male.
For this increase in bloodshed, AOC blames the New York City Police Department.
Keep in mind that this uptick in crime that's happening right now is with a $6 billion New York City Police Department budget.
We have shoved more and more and more money into the NYPD. It has not prevented this uptick in crime.
That's just not true.
The reason New York became such a safe city is in large part because of policing.
Police stop crime.
On the left, police increase crime.
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Thank you.
Our media today is fundamentally ignorant of anything that happened that they don't want to know about.
Well, I'm thinking, I'm not sure they're as much ignorant as they just simply don't care about facts and evidence.
I think we have a liberal elite that is post-truth.
Truth is irrelevant.
And that's one of the themes of the 21 biggest lies about Donald Trump and you.
If you don't restrict yourself to bourgeois conceits like having to prove things and applying facts and evidence to come to a conclusion and to accept the possibility of actually changing your position, you get certain advantages in the fight for power.
Now, I think they're short-term advantages, but it is definitely something that they have absolutely embraced.
Now, I've had two callers this morning.
One said Trump derangement syndrome has mutated into Trump derangement virus.
That it is now spreading with the speed of the coronavirus everywhere in the media.
And then I had Detective Tom, who I hope, I really hope you talk to Detective Tom.
He calls in from Oakland.
He's great.
He's great.
And today he's mad at me because I had on the two good New York Times reporters that I love, Michael Shearer and Peter Baker, and neither of them can defend the coverage of the Mount Rushmore speech.
And he said, I want to put a gun in my head.
Don't do that.
We need you on the streets, Detective Tom.
What do you put down?
How do you explain the Mount Rushmore coverage?
Britt Hume calling it the worst.
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Halle Berry was supposed to play A transgender male.
I don't even know what a transgender male is.
Is that a man trying to be a woman?
Anyway, she said, you know, to honor people who are transgender, she, who is not transgender, would not play that role.
And it made me think, like, how dare anyone ever play a role other than themselves?
Who do you think you are culturally appropriating someone's life when you have not walked in their shoes?
You have no right.
And even then, playing yourself, it's a little self-centered.
Who do you think you are?
Maybe you just need to sit down and shut up.
You ever think about that?
Anyway, that's where we are.
Alvin, do you have any thoughts on the wall?
Well, I was asked to play you in the story of your life.
How dare you?
I said, and then Eric's going to play me?
That doesn't make any sense.
How dare any of us.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, I was going to say, it reminds me of the map that Stephen Wright, the comedian, used to say that he had that was to scale.
That says one mile equals one mile.
It's kind of like that.
Albin, you had some thoughts about converted rice.
Well, I did, but before I get there, Lando Lake.
See, I still have an old package of Lando Lakes.
You see that?
That's a young Indian or Native American woman.
They have now removed her.
If you go in to buy Lando Lake...
Lake's mother, they've removed her.
But I don't think they should call it Land O'Lakes, because O'Lakes is cultural appropriation.
They're actually taking an Irish, like O'Lakes, Orlando Lakes!
You start to think of the Irish, right?
You've got to think about the Irish and the leprechauns, right.
But here's the one that I really have a problem with.
Uncle Ben's converted rice.
Oh!
Oh!
Okay, Mother, take it!
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Okay, everybody.
Next week, a piece from City Journal.
That was...
I hate to use the word because I don't want you to end up this way, but it was so depressing.
I can't honestly say there's another adjective.
And angering.
It opened my mind, and I didn't think there was much left for me to understand, but it opened my mind to something.
The author cited someone else.
I'm going to have the author on now.
He's in Seattle.
It's about what happened in Seattle, this course for white, given by the Seattle Office of Civil Rights.
And he cites this other writer as saying it's a cult.
That was the perfect term for the left.
It is a cult.
That's why any veering from the doctrine is destroyed.
That is why children are alienated from parents.
Exactly the characteristics of a cult.
The author of this very important piece is Christopher Ruffo, who is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Discovery Institute.
Two of the reasons to have hope for this country.
And Christopher, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
It's great to be with you.
Before anything else, what is it like to be in Seattle?
That's a great question.
I mean, it's a bit of an interesting period because on the surface, Seattle is totally shut down.
You have stores.
Downtown that are boarded up.
You have restaurants and shops that are empty.
Most people are staying indoors.
But under the surface, there is a tremendous political ferment.
And the activists of the progressive movement, of the socialist movement, and of the kind of Antifa paramilitary movement have realized that in this vacuum of normal activity, they can seize on all of their longstanding goals.
So we've seen a tremendous chaos and upheaval.
So it is a period where I think they're capitalizing on the quiet and the kind of stillness of the coronavirus shutdown in order to cause chaos in the streets.
Do you sense that there is among most residents a deep worry about their city?
I do.
I think that it's starting to dawn on them that I think for many years Seattle voters have been putting kind of hyper-progressive and even out-and-out kind of Marxist, socialist in office almost with a kind of tongue-in-cheek attitude, almost with a sense of irony that we like that they're saying all of this kind of rabble-rousing.
You know, sloganeering and fighting these abstract fights on these big issues.
But we know that at the end of the day, the responsible folks in Seattle will kind of tamp down any of the most extreme elements.
That's gone.
All of the barriers, all of the kind of safety mechanisms in Seattle's politics have been blown up and abandoned.
And the moderate faction that felt like it was in control, that it was the ultimate They've essentially gone into hiding, and I think a lot of people are scared right now.
The City Council in the next few days is going to be voting on cutting the police budget by 50%.
And I think a lot of those kind of old-time liberals who may support the rhetoric of this movement are actually starting to understand the reality of this movement.
And I think people are terrified not only of what's happening on the streets and in City Hall, but are also terrified to speak out because we've seen just tremendous intimidation, threats, and bullying of anyone who stands in their way.
You think it'll translate itself at the ballot box?
You know, I'm always an optimist, and I've been optimistic that that will happen for many years now, but what we've seen is that in moments of crisis, in moments of turmoil, in moments that there would be a reckoning, what happens is that the political class, that's kind of progressive activist infrastructure, always doubles down.
And in their calculation, if they...
All right, hold it there.
Remember the words in their calculation.
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With New York City in complete crisis, the mayor there wasted time and money with a stupid stunt to try to bait Donald Trump by painting a giant Black Lives Matter mural on the street on Fifth Avenue facing Trump Tower.
That's what he does to lead.
The mayor of Seattle is standing by helplessly watching as now a veto-proof majority of Seattle City Council agrees to defund the police by more than 50%.
Seven of the nine city council members are now supportive of the plan.
They want to cut the budget of $409 million to pay police officers to make sure that they have, you know, bulletproof vests, cars that work, you know, cruisers, uniforms.
They want to cut that budget by 50% in the 2021 budget as well as whatever is remaining in 2020. A 50% defunding of the police and the mayor and the Democrats there are...
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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.
me.
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?
You're a house nigga.
I didn't call you a nigga.
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.
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... ...the society has become a victim.
And one of the things that we've seen in the world is is that we have to control a black person.
And, and it's not a black person.
We have to control a black person.
We have to control a black person.
And we have to control a black person.
And, and we have to control a black person.
And we have to control a black person.
We have to control a black person.
And we have to control a black person.
We have to control a black person.
And we have to control a black person.
Hello everybody, Dennis Prager here.
Christopher Rufo is with two fantastic groups, Manhattan Institute and Discovery Institute.
You live in Seattle, is that correct?
That's correct.
So I asked you, will the realization that Seattle is being destroyed by the left have an impact on the fools who call themselves Democrats in your overwhelmingly Democratic city?
Yeah, I think there is a really interesting dynamic that holds true for Seattle and also holds true for all of the progressive large West Coast cities.
It's that I think the majority opinion, I mean, I think the majority of Seattle voters don't want to defund the police by 50%.
According to polling data, the majority of Seattle voters want to take a more zero-tolerance policy towards homelessness.
On the issues, Seattle voters are actually fairly moderate as far as municipal government.
But the problem is that the majority sentiment has no means of translating itself into political power.
And what's happened is that...
What happened to the concept of elections?
This is the thing, is that you have very well organized, very disciplined...
Kind of full-time activists that are representing all of the most extreme interests, whether it's the Marxist-Leninist political party socialist alternative that can deploy hundreds of activists to the streets, or it's the progressive kind of democratic socialist movement, or the kind of more extreme unions.
And what you see is the actual political infrastructure that represents the most progressive views and can really just use that Political power to win council elections that are divided up into very small.
I'm sorry.
I'm not following.
I don't care how many great activists they have.
If the majority of voters in Seattle vote these communists out of power, then they're voted out of power.
Do they not vote?
Do non-Marxists not vote in Seattle?
I'm sorry.
I don't follow.
Sure.
I'll try to explain the dynamics.
It's really a candidate-by-candidate election, and I'll give you an example that I think will illustrate it.
The most extreme council member, Shama Sawant, who has advocated for the overthrow of the United States and capitalism in favor of the revolution, the political old guard and the business community put in a tremendous amount of resources.
Into a candidate to try to defeat her, but she simply out-organized, out-hustled, and relied on the kind of activists to push a narrative, and she ended up winning.
So you don't have the bench, you don't have the candidates, you don't have the infrastructure to challenge these people who have run the city.
You're right.
You don't have any of that.
You either do or don't have the votes.
Infrastructure, schmintra-structure.
If you don't have the votes, you don't win.
So obviously, the average liberal doesn't give a damn if Marxists win.
Otherwise, they'd vote them out.
I don't understand why what I said is not accurate.
No, I would agree with that.
And I think that that's really the paradox.
And I think that up until now, the Marxist candidates have been almost kind of the token or kind of an ironic manifestation of Seattle's politics.
But I think you're starting to see that these Marxists are actually going to do what they've said they're going to do.
And I do hope that if all of the extreme policies get put into place, things will shift dramatically and there will be kind of a re-emergence of the center-left vote.
The center-left enables the far-left to win.
The center-left are cowards.
Okay.
All right.
Anyway, I'm yelling at you like you're responsible.
Forgive me.
I want to go back to your article.
Your article about the cult-like atmosphere.
You went to a civil rights commission in Seattle.
Did you actually go to the meeting?
No, I didn't.
I filed a Freedom of Information request to get the materials from the meeting.
Is there...
Did they...
You right here...
The trainers claim that individualism, perfectionism, intellectualization, and objectivity are all vestiges of internalized racial oppression.
Is that accurate?
That's accurate.
It comes from a chart that they say, these are manifestations of internalized racial oppression, and then they list those items and more.
So, I hope everybody listening understands that the word objectivity It means truth.
It's a synonym of truth.
Truth is a white supremacist notion, is that correct?
I mean, I don't believe that, but yeah, that is what they're claiming.
And I think it's really an attempt to demolish all of the certainties and all of the institutions of the current society that they can remake in a kind of new utopia.
Wow.
Objectivity, individualism.
What prompted you to file the Freedom of Information Act, and why is that the only way to get something that a public commission publishes?
Well, it's, you know, I had a tip from someone inside Seattle City government, forwarded me an email where the Office of Civil Rights was saying, We invite all white-only employees to attend this training on undoing their whiteness.
And once I saw that, I knew it was just the tip of the iceberg.
And I filed the request and received a trove of documents and materials.
They're still not telling me the names of the people who ran the training or the budget for the training.
Should be getting those in the next few weeks.
But I knew that something was going on beneath the surface.
You and your listeners to understand, this isn't an anomaly.
The City of Seattle has put thousands of employees through these trainings, and the vendors who conduct these trainings are really all over the country.
That's right.
I know, I know, I know.
Listen, I'm going to have you on again.
You're doing very important work, and I thank you for it.
Thanks for having me on.
We'll be back in a moment.
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So is that part of what you're saying that at its core our founding is inescapably biblical and Judeo-Christian and that the people who talk about the Enlightenment are overstating that case?
It wouldn't have happened without it.
And I do agree with you.
And it's a major portion of this book to demonstrate of the truth of what you've said.
One way in which I do that is comparing the French and the American revolutions because I think the critics of the American Revolution are saying well they're basically the same revolution and well of course we're seeing that in the streets of America today from the people who think that is true.
However, the French Revolution was premised On the idea of the perfectibility of man here, now, that if we can only put within the power of the state absolute control, man can be perfected.
The American founding was an explicit denial of that.
As you just mentioned, it was a Christian nation that had a profound sense of the imperfectibility of man due to original sin.
And that the only perfectibility available to man was through the grace of Jesus Christ and not through his own powers.
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All right, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Got a lot of important calls, I must say, here.
Yep.
Omaha, Nebraska, EK. Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
Listen, you talked a couple of days ago about a well-known Hollywood actress who was getting basically hate mail and about to be canceled because her husband is a Trump supporter.
No, her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend.
The reason that these people want to cancel someone like that is because they truly believe the lies about Trump, that he's a racist, a Nazi, anti-semi-sexist, and all of that.
They really, really believe the lies that are propagated by the mainstream media.
That's correct.
And I can understand if you truly believe that.
Let me ask you a question.
If this woman were dating a Republican conservative senator, you don't think they would have the same reaction?
you Absolutely, because they cast all conservatives as people to be hated and to be destroyed as opposed to be just disagreed with.
One other quick thing, Dennis, I mentioned to you, Screener, you have to have Angela Stanton on your show.
If you're not familiar with her, have The Living Martyr look her up.
She is running for a congressional seat in Georgia.
She is a conservative Republican who supports Trump and is against all of this left-wing nonsense that's going on.
She's very articulate, and she destroyed the people at the breakfast club when she was on it.
So please have her on.
Bless you, EK. Thank you kindly.
Yes, thank you for the call.
Jennifer in the Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
Hi.
Hi.
Yes, so I'm calling because I've been listening to everyone talk about, you know, diversity and how it's going to be introduced or, you know, like white privilege and being pushed into schools a little bit more.
In our school district recently, there's been a group that's formed and they're focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
And, you know, that sounds great.
My concern is just for our kids.
You know, what they're going to be teaching them going forward.
And I'm just keeping an eye on what's going on in all the Facebook groups and emails from the school board.
And the main reason I'm calling is just to see if you have any advice on fighting back when things come up that, you know, are getting pushed.
Right.
My view right now, my view is that the schools are hopeless and worthless.
Worse than worthless.
They actually damage children.
So you have to find, it's very simple.
Are you going to be teaching the white, what is it?
Not white privilege.
White fragility?
Will you be teaching Howard Zinn?
And will you be having the drag queen story hour?
If any of those three are true, don't go to the school.
There's an irony, right?
Because they claim to be strict materialists, where they don't seem to believe in a purpose, but at the same time, they operate in a way as though random evolution, they would say, blind Darwinian evolution, has led us to this.
to this moment and we have to seize it.
It's kind of a Promethean thing.
I mean there's a lot that comes into it.
Yeah, I think that's absolutely right and the biblical background is entirely appropriate because the scene as depicted in the beginning of Genesis is extremely sophisticated and in one way simple to understand it's a human rebellion against God but it is done in such a form as to leave behind a trace that's flowed down all through history that God is against human
beings.
Now Genesis paints a very different picture.
God creates human beings and dignifies them with his own image which is A very important thing.
In fact, Jordan Peterson, not long ago in his fascinating talks on Genesis, which are well worth watching, says, look, this statement, human beings made in the image of God, is the cornerstone of Western civilization.
And then he breaks off and he said, man, you ignore this at your peril.
It's hugely important.
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You want to talk about saying stuff that gets Biden in trouble?
Almost every time he speaks, he gets in trouble.
Either he can't complete a sentence or doesn't quite seem to know where he is or he reverses course.
After previously saying the police should get absolute funding, three weeks ago, he claimed he did not support defunding the police.
Well, now he's changed his mind.
Surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood.
It's like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?
Yes, absolutely.
Redirect the funding from the police.
Defund the police.
The police are the enemy of the people if they're in an armored Humvee.
Hey, Mr. Vice President, they're in an armored Humvee because rioters and crowds of violent people have been pelting them with rocks.
Projectiles, Molotov cocktails, and bullets.
Haven't you noticed?
Every time they let him out of the basement, he gets in trouble.
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Transcription by CastingWords Britt Hume had this to say to Brett Baer about the press coverage in the Mount Rushmore speech on Monday.
Well, the first thing is, Brett, President Trump never mentioned any dead Confederates.
His speech in its bulk was a ringing.
A full-throated defense of America's history and heroes.
And there were no Confederates mentioned.
It was all the forefathers of our country, Washington, Lincoln, and other great Americans.
And that was really the main bulk of it.
So what she said is flat-out false.
And those headlines you mentioned from those newspapers were unbelievably misleading.
And some of the other headlines that I saw were even worse than those.
In fact, as I followed this over the weekend...
I don't think I've ever seen such dishonest and biased coverage of any event.
This was a speech meant to be...
And I'll just add Holman Jenkins, who's a wonderful objective columnist at the Wall Street Journal, wrote this morning, So here we are.
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And it does so without...
Thought leadership worth the name with only intellectual and emotional chaos from some of our once credible news organizations.
I played the president's entire speech on Monday because I thought it was one of his best of his presidency along with Saudi Arabia, Poland, Normandy, and the last State of the Union.
I just played the whole thing.
I thought it was wonderful.
What has happened, Peter?
Where did this disconnect develop?
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As somebody who follows law and order for your profession, who understands the thin line that the boys and girls in blue have to walk every single day, Your response to these calls to defund police forces across America, Greg?
Well, we need law enforcement.
I mean, the line is used over and over, but it's well asked, who are you going to call?
When you're in trouble and the subject of destruction of your property or an assault, a battery, rape, murder, who do you call when you witness these things or you are the subject of them?
So, you know, it's silly, it's stupid, it's an overreaction.
I can understand a movement that wants greater, more equal justice in our law enforcement and our system of justice.
But again, the way to go about doing that is not through extortion and threats and occupying private property as well as public property.
To petition your government.
And, you know, this lawlessness has to end.
The anarchy that's taking place in New York City, across from City Hall, Bill de Blasio, the mayor, will do nothing about it because he's weak.
He's not bright.
He is...
Hello, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Another lockdown in California, and this is the middle of July.
Schools have announced that they're not going to be having classes.
Sweden had school, by the way, the entire time.
Kids went to school every single day since February, since March, April, June.
And they had...
I'll look this up for you.
Let me see how many deaths they had in Sweden yesterday.
Coronavirus deaths.
Country.
I have this down to a science.
I do this virtually every day.
I get it from a place.
Okay.
But it didn't come up.
It's very odd.
Yeah, worldometers came up first.
There we go.
So, let's see now.
Let's go for Sweden.
I'm very curious.
With no lockdown, let's go to the latest here.
So, let's see.
All right, Sweden had one death.
One person died of the coronavirus yesterday in Sweden.
Kids all went to school.
They will continue to go to school.
There was no lockdown.
Yes, they had more deaths per million than they did in Denmark and Norway.
But they had far less than Belgium and Spain and the UK and France.
So it depends how you look at it.
But human beings could function.
The price that is paid...
You know, Elvis Presley's grandson committed suicide, shot himself to death.
I don't suspect or expect that most of you would know this.
It's my job to follow the news.
That's a tragedy.
He was 20 years old, I believe.
His girlfriend purportedly, don't do it, don't do it.
It's a very, very sad story.
He had drug and alcohol issues.
Would he have done this if there were no lockdown?
If he could be at AA meetings?
If he could have a semi-normal life?
Don't know.
Only God knows.
Literally, only God knows.
We act as if these dummies who know science, not all, People who know science are dummies, but the same percentage of fools have PhDs as fools without PhDs.
This is a true idiocy.
Follow the science.
What does that mean, follow the science?
Science doesn't tell you a damn thing.
You take science and then you follow wisdom.
You don't follow science.
Science doesn't send you a this is what you should do report.
Science gives you data.
You use the data.
We have wimps with power in California and wherever you have a Democrat as a governor or a mayor. .
Oh, look at the spike in cases.
So what?
There's a spike in cases.
The question is death.
The question is, can hospitals handle the load?
Twice I've had a major physician in Houston on.
Which is called the New New York.
and he says we're handling it fine my heart breaks for all these people who Their lifelong business is crushed.
It means nothing to Newsom.
Nothing.
Follow the science.
Screw humans.
Follow the science.
People may die.
That is correct.
People may die.
That is absolutely correct.
When I think of the restaurants, okay, you can open.
And then they order all of this food, and then it just rots.
On and off.
On and off is actually, in many cases, worse.
My gym is closed, needless to say.
My workout place.
Do you think one person died as a result of all of the gyms in California?
As one death...
You know what?
They follow the protocol.
I work out.
I have...
My trainer has a mask on.
I have the visor over my face.
Like looking through a windshield.
And the place is three quarters empty anyway.
What are they talking about?
Close the gyms.
I'll bet you Newsom has a private gym where he works out.
I'll bet you.
It's just the whole thing's unbelievable.
You know, when they first said, oh, well, you know, there was Ezekiel Emanuel, remember, the science advisor to Biden?
Oh, no, you know, we have to have a lockdown until there's a vaccine or a cure.
This guy's a crackpot.
He is a crackpot.
But hey, with Democrats listening to the science, that's what's going to be.
U.S. will be crushed, which is fine with them because the worse things are, the better their chances in the election.
There's no doubt in my mind that is a factor.
It might be the determining factor in some of the cases.
It's certainly the determining factor in the rejection of hydroxychloroquine and zinc.
We do have a cure, in my opinion.
Okay, I'm going out on a limb?
Fine with me.
All the limbs I've gone out on, all in my 35 years, have turned out to be accurate.
I have a 1,000% batting average on going out on limbs.
Because I do follow the science.
The science on hydroxychloroquine zinc is pretty damn impressive if it's done in the first five days.
But Trump advocated it.
They don't follow the science.
They follow the hatred of Trump.
People are dying because of that.
And Dr. Zelenko on again about it.
Ah, and then these doctors call in.
He's a fraud.
I bet one doctor who might be listening right now, $1,000, that one of us will turn out right.
What city is in Cincinnati?
That's right.
Mind-boggling.
What is happening?
See, what is the story in the United States of America seeing here?
What is the deaths per million here?
By the way, you should also realize that when there is a spike in cases, it makes the mortality rate lower.
Get it?
There's actually, there's a massive reason for hope when there is a large number of cases.
Because that means that Fewer and fewer people will die from the illness because the percentage of people dying is minuscule.
Isn't that what matters?
Yes, some people are also hurt by it.
That is correct.
Some people are hurt in traffic accidents.
We don't stop car driving.
See, 45 people died in California's State of 40 million yesterday.
Let's check on California.
Why the state is closed down again.
Let's see.
Daily deaths.
Daily new deaths, California.
Let's see.
Yesterday, 45. The day before, 25. The day before, 74. 102, going backwards.
137, 150, 118, 17, 28, 62. It's going back to the beginning of July.
How many people will die?
How many lives will be ruined because of the lockdown?
Anybody ask Newsom that question?
Does anybody?
Well, the press doesn't ask challenging questions to Democrats, so it's useless.
It's a sycophantish, obsequious news conference with any Democrat.
Why are you wonderful?
Tell us how wonderful you are.
Tell us how terrible Trump is.
That's your press.
the sycophants of the press by the way I do indeed preach what I practice and practice what I preach I have been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc once a week.
I take zinc every day.
I take hydroxychloroquine once a week.
Just as a prophylactic measure.
Okay.
We have answers to these things.
The worst possible answer is the one that Newsom...
The little man with great power has enacted.
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As somebody who follows law and order for your profession, who understands the thin line that the boys and girls in blue have to walk every single day, your response to these calls to defund police forces across America, Greg?
Well, we need law enforcement.
I mean, the line is used over and over, but it's well asked, who are you going to call?
When you're in trouble and the subject of destruction of your property or an assault, a battery, rape, murder, who do you call when you witness these things or you are the subject of them?
So, you know, it's silly, it's stupid, it's an overreaction.
I can understand a movement that wants greater, more equal justice in our law enforcement and our system of justice.
But again, the way to go about doing that is not through extortion and threats and occupying private property as well as public property.
To petition your government.
And, you know, this lawlessness has to end.
the anarchy that's taking place in York City, across from City Hall.
Bill de Blasio, the mayor, will do nothing about it because he's weak.
He's not bright.
He is incompetent.
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You know, Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa to the Middle East and to South America than European slavers took out of Africa to North America or to the colonies.
You know that?
And don't get me started on the death rate.
It is estimated that around 10% or so of the slaves in the transatlantic slave trade died in transit.
It is estimated that as many as 90% of the slaves died in transit, going out of Africa, walking on foot across the Sahara Desert.
And by the way, the reason you don't see a whole lot of descendants of slaves in the Middle East is because, for the most part, they were eunuchs.
That's right.
They cut off their, you know what, in order to make sure they weren't going to reproduce and have sex with women there.
Whereas on the American side, they wanted them to reproduce because the more slaves, the more free labor they had.
D.C. is in Dallas, Texas, D.C. So I think it's important we talk about whether we were better off.
We have to start with the assumption that the slaves that were transported to America would have been slaves in Africa as well because they were already captured in captivity and sold in mass by African chieftains.
In fact, even Ghana recently apologized for their role in the slave trade.
When the individuals said we're better off or things like that, in that old movie, Mr. Elder, The Ten Commandments, an older guy said, man makes slaves.
God makes man.
So, whether the transporting of slaves is wrong, whether it's black, white, whatever gender, it's wrong.
It's evil.
It's probably the evilest thing that has ever existed, is to enslave human beings, no matter where it existed.
Right, and D.C., let's acknowledge it's existed from the time the human beings are on the face of the earth.
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Now listen to this, folks.
Guess how many have died in California where there's no economy functioning here.
People out of work, out of business, can't go to AA meetings.
So here you go.
7,096 people have died of the coronavirus.
To the extent that that is a reliable piece of data.
I have a feeling that it's overstated, but I'm giving you the data.
I think it's overstated because if somebody dies of something and also has COVID, they just say died of COVID. Okay?
That's the reason I believe it's overstated.
And hospitals have an interest in doing so because they get more money for a COVID patient.
But other than that, it's a reliable statistic.
But let's say it is.
7,096 have died in California.
So, guess what?
How many do you think died of the flu?
The last year we have it here, 2018. How many do you think died in California of the flu in 2018?
6,917.
Virtually the identical number.
Now, obviously, ours is going up.
I understand that.
But still, it's not exactly epidemic proportions, is it?
Why don't we close the state then?
7,000 Californians dying of the flu.
We can't go to work.
And by the way, a lot more of them were kids.
The flu does not discriminate against the elderly like the coronavirus does.
It's just despicable.
Yep, yep, indeed.
All right.
David, Sacramento, California.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
Thank you for everything you do.
I'm the salon owner that called you a while back, and you got pretty lit up, and it was pretty cool.
You know, 14 days to flatten the curve, we were closed for 74 days.
We've just now been closed again.
For quote-unquote three weeks.
And I told my wife, I said, it's not going to be three weeks.
Of course not.
It's going to go until probably November.
That's right.
And I said, you know, Dennis, I've always mocked, and this is just, I'm totally honest here, I've always mocked the conspiracy people, like the Agenda 21 and the stuff I thought, ah, that's just crazy stuff.
And I've actually been looking more into it.
And I don't know if people realize that it was the day that the impeachment vote failed.
It was a 24-hour period when this whole corona thing started up.
And you start looking at what's happening, and I just really want people to start thinking about the agenda behind the disruption, the destruction, and the hope for transformation the left is pursuing with this quote-unquote virus or bacteria or whatever it is.
Do you speak to fellow salon owners?
No, not really.
Not too much.
You know, everybody's trying to do their own thing.
I mean...
See, I'm curious.
What would happen if every hair salon, or 90% of the hair salons in Sacramento, said to Newsom, what should be said?
You're a destructive human being and a fool.
We're opening up.
You will have to arrest every salon owner in Sacramento.
What if...
So it's a combination...
Yeah.
It's a combination of a couple things.
So the first one is the threats.
We've been threatened with a $10,000 or $25,000 fine to reopen for one.
We're not sure which one it is right now.
Secondly, one of the problems that we're having is a lot of the customers, a lot of the gals' customers that are finally willing to come out of their houses after hiding for four months wearing their masks are angry that we would even consider defying that order.
Oh, you're right.
That is correct.
You are right, my friend.
That is correct.
I forgot.
If you open up and nobody shows up, what is it, the old thing?
If they declared war and nobody showed up or nobody fought.
That's right.
If a salon opens in the forest and no one heard the door open, that's correct.
The American people, the character of the American people, It's been effectively lowered by the left.
It's a scared population.
1969, 100,000 Americans died of the flu.
A, they named it what it was, the Hong Kong flu.
It wasn't called racist for naming the place of origin.
B, people went along their regular business.
That is proportionately more than have died of the coronavirus in America.
People understood death is part of life.
You do what you can.
You don't cease functioning in the face of nature.
So they probably got ultimately some herd immunity and went on with their lives.
That's right, he's right.
People were afraid to get a haircut.
I have no bright side on that one.
There's no lemonade out of that lemon.
Yes, indeed.
Okay.
Leslie in Granada Hills, California.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
Thanks for taking my call.
First time caller.
Thank you.
You said that you didn't think that you thought what's happening here in America is unprecedented.
Correct.
And I contend that I think it's happened again and again throughout history.
And I think that most civilizations, most empires...
Wait, wait, wait.
You mean history?
You mean world history or American history?
Yes.
Oh, I never...
Then you have me wrong.
I've never said it's unprecedented in world history.
It's unprecedented in American history.
We're undergoing a French Revolution and a Russian Revolution.
It's very precedented.
We have Communists taking over this country, a la the Russian Revolution, and we have the Jacobins taking it over in the French.
You're entirely right, but I've never said that.
I've said, in American history, this is unprecedented.
World history?
That's right.
It's scary.
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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?
You're a house nigga.
I didn't call you a nigga.
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.
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.
Racist.
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?
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Thank you.
That is pure racism.
That is acting like an acknowledgement of the value of black people is somehow belittling.
Painting Black Lives Matter acknowledges the value of black people.
When in fact what we're trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven't been given their respect.
By painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower, we are lifting up black people.
We're giving them jobs.
We're giving them education.
Giving them health care by painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower.
And it can't just be words, Wolf.
It has to be actions.
We didn't just paint words.
We painted action.
Making resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs.
Youth programs.
You know.
Monopoly.
Finger painting and midnight basketball, you know, youth programs that will empower the community to have more youth programs.
We're acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down.
We are acknowledging it and we're going to come with plans to tear it down.
Tear it down.
Where exactly is it located?
Is it in Times Square?
Is the institutional racism in Midtown Manhattan?
Is it in Queens?
Is it in Long Island?
We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it.
But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge...
We need to take this transcendent moment, this moment of transcendent when George Floyd was killed by a cop.
We need to take this moment and move it into something transcendent.
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Just in.
Barry Weiss, one of the few non-leftist writers at the New York Times, has just resigned.
I'm reading her letter about the deterioration of the New York Times.
It's a rag sheet.
It's Pravda.
That's what it is.
Pravda in English.
I read Pravda in Russian.
That's why I studied Russian, to be able to read Pravda, not Dostoevsky.
Red Dostoevsky in English, Red Providence in Russian.
I know how destructive the left is, but it is the naivete and cowardice of the liberal that drives me craziest.
Thank you.
As their lives will be destroyed just as readily as us conservatives.
But they still think Trump is the enemy of these fools.
The biggest fools are the never-Trumpers.
They're mind-boggling.
It's stunning.
You know, I never thought much of the human race, as you know.
I've always said I love humans and I have contempt for humanity.
It's so reinforced.
Sadly, none of this is good news.
But you have to be a particular fool at this time.
You might be a very nice fool, but a fool to think that Trump is a greater danger than the left.
You have to be a fool.
There is no other explanation.
There really isn't.
That's the way it is.
I heard this many years ago.
God must love fools.
He made so many of them.
What is it?
The famous psalm?
I know it in Hebrew.
Yes.
The fool does not understand this.
That's correct.
There's a lot of speaking about fools in the Bible.
Because they're more dangerous than the bad.
Because they help the bad.
That's why.
Okay, let's see here.
Sarasota, Florida.
Susan, hello.
Yes.
Hello.
Thank you so much for taking my call, and Uncle Tom is fantastic.
It is.
But I really need your help.
Yes, it is.
Everybody, it is well worth it.
The money, eye-opening, enlightening, all of that good stuff.
By the way, did you see No Safe Spaces?
Yes, I did.
Okay, good.
Thank you very much.
Yes, but I watched Uncle Tom twice.
Cool.
Because I wanted to make sure I got it, and I probably will watch it a third time.
That's right.
Anyway, I have a question about a conservative 20-year-old male who I raised a question a couple weeks ago when The women's sports track stars or somebody was having issues with transgender.
I'm going to get the terminology wrong.
Transgender females.
They're now women.
And they're now wanting to compete.
And they're winning.
With the women.
And they're winning.
And I said to him, do you think that's fair?
And his answer was yes.
Why do you think that's fair?
And he said, women have been doing this to men for a long time.
They're basically reaping what they sow.
No, he's not conservative.
He's stupid.
I'm sorry, even if he's related to you.
His argument is stupid.
Women who enter male sports, who compete against males, are not cheating.
The issue is cheating.
Nobody argues that, oh, well, women, oh, they have more strength, so no wonder they're entering male sports.
First of all, I have no idea, what is he talking about?
Are women competing with men in tennis?
Are they competing with men in soccer?
What is he talking about?
No, no.
No, no.
It was just in a general male-female.
No, no, no.
Wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no.
Listen.
Girls that want to be Boy Scouts, for instance.
What does that have to do with competition in sports?
I guess he's just looking at that as somebody creeping in and they're equally creeping in on the other.
Okay, so he's stupid.
You compare sports to sports, not sports to Boy Scouts.
And by the way, I'm completely opposed to it.
I 100% oppose girls as Boy Scouts.
Always did.
There's no longer Boy Scouts.
But he doesn't think clearly.
He probably goes to college.
There's no other explanation for why somebody would so mangle logic.
Well, if male bodies are competing against females in track, that's the same as girls going into the Boy Scouts.
Oh.
No, it's very sad.
It actually sads me.
If my nine-year-old grandchild made that point, I would be disappointed.
They have nothing to do with one another.
You're not cheating.
Is it not clear?
They're cheating.
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There's an irony, right?
Because they claim to be strict materialists where they don't seem to believe in a purpose but at the same time they operate in a way as though This random evolution, they would say, blind Darwinian evolution, has led us to this moment, and we have to seize it.
It's kind of a Promethean thing.
I mean, there's a lot that comes into it.
Yeah, I think that's absolutely right.
And the biblical background is entirely appropriate because the scene as depicted in the beginning of Genesis is extremely sophisticated.
In one way, simple to understand, it's a human rebellion against God, but it is done in such a form as to leave behind a trace that's flowed down all through history that God is against human beings.
Now Genesis paints a very different picture.
God creates human beings and dignifies them with his own image, which is A very important thing.
In fact, Jordan Peterson, not long ago in his fascinating talks on Genesis, which are well worth watching, says, look, this statement, human beings made in the image of God, is the cornerstone of Western civilization.
And then he breaks off and he said, man, you ignore this at your peril.
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Almost every time he speaks, he gets in trouble.
Either he can't complete a sentence, or doesn't quite seem to know where he is, or he reverses course.
After previously saying the police should get absolute funding, three weeks ago, he claimed he did not support defunding the police.
Well, now he's changed his mind.
Surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood.
It's like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
So, my generic point is that...
But can we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Redirect the funding from the police.
Defund the police.
The police are the enemy of the people if they're in an armored Humvee.
Hey, Mr. Vice President, they're in an armored Humvee because rioters and crowds of violent people have been pelting them with rocks.
Projectiles, Molotov cocktails, and bullets.
Haven't you noticed?
Every time they let him out of the basement, he gets in trouble.
What do you think Trump would do with Biden saying that the enemy of the people...
Sam in Los Angeles, thank you for calling.
Yes, sir.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, but don't use the speakerphone if you could.
Talk right into this.
Okay, I'm not using this speakerphone.
I just kind of made a shoddy connection.
But yeah, I was kind of going to call in.
Just to kind of set the record, I'm kind of politically agnostic.
So don't take this one way or the other.
I'm not advocating against Trump or for Trump.
I care a lot about Trump and with the politics.
I think it's carbonogenic thought.
So I hate tribal politics.
I can't stress that enough.
So I see a lot of people on the right downplaying the COVID outbreak, and I don't feel like I understand why.
It's one thing to say, yeah, this is the flu.
It's not a big deal.
It's going to, you know, 90-some percent of people recover just fine.
But, I mean, given the data that we have now at this stage of the game, how can anybody still make a good-faith argument and say that COVID is a political tool and it's not a public health crisis?
Because you would have to explain to me why Republican governors opened their states and Democratic governors did not.
Because there's politics, man.
It's all politics.
Wait, wait, wait.
So is it politics on only one side or on both sides?
So everything is politics.
That's the thing that sucks about the climate that we're in.
Everything is politics and it is on both sides.
So it's not to say that...
Okay, so fine.
So you just...
You answered your own...
No, I answered part of my question, okay?
So the actual question is, when you look at the rest of the world, so now we're like four months into this damn thing, we can see that Sweden, maybe they had one death.
I don't know.
I can't even find a death death for Sweden.
That seems to be hard to find.
If you go to every other country, the U.S. is by far the worst country.
Brazil is second.
India is third.
How the hell are those countries doing better than we are?
Granted, they have a smaller population, but I mean, we've known about this since January, and 130,000 people have died so far, and we're four months in.
Okay, so, okay, first, I'm going to find out right now, hold on, I'm going to find out if you are right about that the U.S. is doing the worst, except for Brazil, so hold on a minute.
- We have 3.43 million cases.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, I can't tell you how foolish what you just said is.
The number of cases doesn't mean we're doing worse.
The number of deaths per million is the only thing that counts.
Sir, it's the only thing that counts.
It's the only thing that counts.
Belgium, Andorra, if you don't allow me to speak, I will shut you down.
Is that clear?
Thank you.
Belgium, Andorra, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and France.
Have higher deaths per million than America.
So why do you say on national radio, America is the worst in the world?
Because we've been on lockdown for four months.
We have 130,000 people dead during the frickin' lockdown.
Open that up and that's gonna quadruple really fast.
Okay, you didn't answer my question.
You didn't answer my question.
You said something that isn't true.
I'm not accusing you of lying.
I'm accusing you of saying something so ill-informed that you should be embarrassed.
The United States is eighth on the list, not first.
Okay?
That's the fact.
Does that matter to you?
Everybody listening, Google it right now.
It showed up.
Okay, I just read you the list.
What is there to Google?
God, he must have a graduate degree.
There's no other explanation.
Okay, let's go to more calls here.
Stan in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hello, Stan.
Hello, Dennis.
Thank you for taking my call, and thank you for all the work you do.
I have a comment, and I would like your input on my comment.
In the last 56 years, since the 1964 It seems that blacks here in America have had more educational opportunities, housing benefits, and money available to them than any other blacks in the world.
And that if they had used all these benefits wisely and rightly, we should have at least two or perhaps Three generations of the most educated and successful blacks on earth.
Yes, that's correct.
I agree with that.
And because the issue is not the education question, the issue is overwhelmingly the social mores question, or the really values question.
There is no amount of money that could be pumped into a society that could undo the damage of 75% of its children not being raised with a married mother.
That's it.
And there's almost every case of those cases, not every case of the unmarried is the father absent, but the vast majority.
This is the calamity.
It's a calamity for any race.
But as soon as you say that, the left says it's racist because they don't argue, they label, and they intimidate, and they cancel.
So that's the issue.
This is not complex.
Black family cohesion was better in the 1930s, I believe it is.
It was actually stronger.
There were more kids, percentage-wise, black kids being raised with two parents than white kids.
Then the welfare state came.
Hey, you don't need a husband.
You can have the government.
And that's been said to Hispanic women and white women too.
The bigger the government, the fewer the husbands.
That's my newest phrase.
I will add that now to the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.
The bigger the government, the fewer the husbands.
Hmm.
That's telling.
Remember, everything the left touches, it destroys.
The United States is the next.
They don't deny it.
I didn't even get to the article.
It's just, it's incredible.
There's so much I have here.
Article in the New York Times.
By this woman, a professor at Ohio State.
Just basically calls for a communist country.
That's fine at the New York Times.
That's why Barry Weiss, one of the last non-leftists, has just resigned from the New York Times.
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You know, Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa to the Middle East and to South America than European slavers took out of Africa to North America or to the colonies.
You know that?
And don't get me started on the death rate.
It is estimated that around 10% or so of the slaves in the transatlantic slave trade died in transit.
It is estimated that as many as 90% of the slaves died in transit going out of Africa.
Walking on foot across the Sahara Desert.
And by the way, the reason you don't see a whole lot of descendants of slaves in the Middle East is because, for the most part, they were eunuchs.
That's right.
They cut off their, you know what, in order to make sure they weren't going to reproduce and have sex with women there.
Whereas on the American side, they wanted them to reproduce because the more slaves, the more free labor they had.
D.C. is in Dallas, Texas, D.C. So I think it's important we talk about whether we were better off.
We have to start with the assumption that the slaves that were transported to America would have been slaves in Africa as well, because they were already captured in captivity and sold en masse by African chieftains.
In fact, even Ghana recently apologized for their role in the slave trade.
When the individuals said we're better off or things like that, in that old movie, Mr. Elder, The Ten Commandments, an older guy said, man makes slaves.
God makes man.
So, whether the transporting of slaves is wrong, whether it's black, white, whatever gender, it's wrong.
It's evil.
It's probably the evilest thing that has ever existed is to enslave human beings, no matter where it existed.
Right, and DC, let's acknowledge it's existed from the time the human beings are on the face of the earth.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena the president's tax records, his financial records and tax returns, but blocked a similar request from congressional investigators and sent both decisions back to the lower court.
So as I'm reading through this and as I'm listening to and reading analysis, From the court watchers, it appears that what the court is saying is that a president is not immune from criminal prosecution, but in kicking it back to the lower courts, I guess Trump can continue to tie it up in the courts as a partisan investigation by Cy Vance and congressional Democrats continues to try to take him down.
So I guess it's a mixed bag, is the best I can come up with.
And here's the President's reaction on Twitter.
He tweeted moments ago.
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All right, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
There's a piece in the New York Times.
And I remind you, I have never called the left communist in 35 years of broadcasting.
David Horowitz has, and David Horowitz turned out to be right.
I was wrong.
My field of study, as you all know, or not all of you, most of you know, was communism.
At Columbia, at the School of International Affairs, under Zbigniew Brzezinski.
He was my instructor.
And I never thought that my knowledge of communism would be necessary in the United States, would be applicable.
Listen to this article in the New York Times by a professor, needless to say, at Ohio State Law School.
This is part of the article.
Taking money away from the police is not the sole demand.
Consider the push to cancel rent.
This is what they're for.
It asks the state to abolish tenants' obligations to pay their landlords each month.
But rent is the product of a private contract about private property, the foundation of our social, economic, and political order.
So when organizers make the demand to cancel rent, they are conjuring up a state.
Whose primary allegiance is to people's needs instead of profit.
The demand raises the possibility of a world where housing is an entitlement rather than a commodity.
There will be no private property.
This is communism.
I don't use the word as an epithet.
I use it as an accurate description.
And I opened up the show by noting that at the University of Connecticut, the two student leaders of the student government resigned because they're white.
My friends, at a certain point, you just throw up your hands and you say, well, they have won.
They haven't won the country yet.
I will have a fighter on next hour who is an example of why there's hope.
But I'm telling you, they won the battle for the mind in the schools.
That's why we got PragerU.
We continue.
Oh, we could.
We will continue.
In fact, I will continue right now.
How is that?
It's not as bad as talking into a microphone in the Senate hearing, and it isn't on, and then being told by a senator.
That senator is in the studio now, and we will not be putting on his microphone. and we will not be putting on his microphone.
That senator is in the studio now, and we will not be putting on his and we will not be putting on his microphone in the studio now.
You want to talk about saying stuff that gets Biden in trouble?
Almost every time he speaks he gets in trouble.
Either he can't complete a sentence or doesn't quite seem to know where he is, or he reverses course after previously saying the police should get absolute funding.
Three weeks ago he claimed he did not support defunding the police.
Well, now he's changed his mind.
Surplus military equipment for law enforcement.
They don't need that.
The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood.
It's like the military invading.
They don't know anybody.
They become the enemy.
They're supposed to be protecting these people.
So my generic point is that...
But can we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?
Yes, absolutely.
Redirect the funding from the police.
Defund the police.
The police are the enemy.
Of the people, if they're in an armored Humvee, hey, Mr. Vice President, they're in an armored Humvee because rioters and crowds of violent people have been pelting them with rocks, projectiles, Molotov cocktails, and bullets.
Haven't you noticed?
Every time they let him out of the basement, he gets in trouble.
What do you think Trump would do with Biden saying, That the enemy of the people can be the police on a debate stage.
What do you think President Trump would do to listening to Joe Biden talk about defunding the police, if that's the talking point that his handlers have given him by debate number one?
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Britt Hume had this to say to Brett Baer about the press coverage in the Mount Rushmore speech on Monday.
Well, the first thing is, Brett, President Trump never mentioned any dead Confederates.
His speech, in its bulk, was a ringing.
A full-throated defense of America's history and heroes.
And there were no Confederates mentioned.
It was all the forefathers of our country, Washington, Lincoln, and other great Americans.
And that was really the main bulk of it.
So what she said is flat-out false.
And those headlines you mentioned from those newspapers were unbelievably misleading.
And some of the other headlines that I saw were even worse than those.
In fact, as I followed this over the weekend, I don't think I've ever seen such dishonest and biased coverage of any event.
This was a speech meant to be...
And I'll just add Holman Jenkins, who's a wonderful objective columnist at the Wall Street Journal, wrote this morning, So here we are.
America faces the virus, the protests, the new and dangerous tension with China, and the most tumultuous election in recent memory.
And it does so without thought leadership worth the name, with only intellectual and emotional chaos from some of our once credible news organizations.
I played the president's entire speech on Monday because I thought it was one of his best of his presidency, along with Saudi Arabia, Poland, Normandy, and the last State of the Union.
I just played the whole thing.
I thought it was wonderful.
What has happened, Peter?
Where did this disconnect develop?
Well...
We had my colleague Mike Shearer on an hour ago, so I'm going to agree with whatever Mike said, because I don't want to get off on a disconnect between the two.
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As somebody who follows law and order, For your profession, who understands the thin line that the boys and girls in blue have to walk every single day.
Your response to these calls to defund police forces across America, Greg?
Well, we need law enforcement.
I mean, the line is used over and over, but it's well asked.
Who are you going to call when you're in trouble?
of destruction of your property or, you know, an assault, a battery, rape, murder.
You know, who do you call when you witness these things or you are the subject of them?
So, you know, it's silly.
It's stupid.
It's an overreaction.
I can understand a movement that wants greater We're equal justice in our law enforcement and our system of justice.
But again, the way to go about doing that is not through extortion and threats and occupying private property as well as public property, but to petition your government.
And, you know, this lawlessness has to end.
The anarchy that's taking place in New York City.
across from City Hall.
Bill de Blasio, the mayor, will do nothing about it because he's weak, he's not bright, he is incompetent.
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You know, Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa to the Middle East and to South America than European slavers took out of Africa to North America or to the colonies.
You know that?
And don't get me started on the death rate.
It is estimated that around 10% or so of the slaves in the transatlantic slave trade died in transit.
It is estimated that as many as 90% of the slaves died in transit going out of Africa.
Walking on foot across the Sahara Desert.
And by the way, the reason you don't see a whole lot of descendants of slaves in the Middle East is because, for the most part, they were eunuchs.
That's right.
They cut off their, you know what, in order to make sure they weren't going to reproduce and have sex with women there.
Whereas on the American side, they wanted them to reproduce because the more slaves, the more free labor they had.
D.C. is in Dallas, Texas, D.C. So I think it's important we talk about whether we were better off.
We have to start with the assumption that the slaves that were transported to America would have been slaves in Africa as well because they were already You
know, if there was ever a question of why I introduced the Ultimate Issues Hour many years ago, I think now it is clear because if you don't have clarity about the great issues, it's over.
And we don't have clarity about liberty.
We don't have clarity about God.
We don't have clarity about what America stands for.
We don't have clarity about racism.
It is all chaos, intellectual chaos.
It's one way of my telling you how important the Ultimate Issues Hour is.
I'll give you one more example.
This one is something I've said often.
A map has knowledge.
It tells you exactly where you are.
But a map cannot tell you where you need to go.
That's why people need Ultimate Issues, and they need an Ultimate Value System.
We are living the consequences of secularism, as I have often said.
I have two terrific guests in studio.
Very rarely are there guests on the Ultimate Issues Hour.
So when I have them, they're special.
And that's truly the case here.
One is Senator Ted Cruz, who needs no introduction.
You're in that level, sir.
No, no, that's true.
I wonder how many Americans need no introduction.
You think a hundred?
No, no, it's an interesting question, isn't it?
And have you noticed when people say that, they almost always provide an introduction back to them?
That is very funny.
That is a very funny line.
By the way, I somehow have to get back at Senator Cruz, who really gave it to me.
We'll play it now.
when I appeared before you at a Senate hearing on censorship of...
Microphone.
Microphone.
Okay.
You would think a radio host would know how to do that.
You would.
You know, Senator Cruz, I've got to tell you, he invites a guy to come to Washington, travel across the country, and then insults me.
And the killer is, I agreed with him.
But when I thought of it, you know, a good American thinks the government will turn his microphone on for him.
Well, and look, I recognize it's not fair because in the radio world you have a producer who handles the equipment and you're providing the deep insight.
But I will say the Senate is backwards enough that you are required to push the little red button in front of you.
That was a very funny moment.
I love when she goes, microphone.
Microphone.
And with Senator Cruz, Senator from Texas, and let me just say this.
This is not by way of, well, I guess it is, but it's not a biographical piece of data.
And sir, everybody listening knows I don't say things about anybody if I don't believe it.
You are truly the fighter in U.S. politics at this time.
For liberty, I mean, you're not the only, but I think you're the most prominent fighter at this time.
And I want to ask you why, because that's an ultimate issue.
The other person here I'm a big fan of as well, Michael Knowles.
Michael Knowles does not sleep.
This is my theory.
No, no, no, it's my theory.
He does not sleep, because of the number of things that he does, does not allow for sleep.
For example, I mean, you fill in what I'm missing.
You certainly do the book show.
What is it called again?
Yes, I do the book club at PragerU.
At PragerU, which you will be doing with Senator Cruz about Brave New World, you just told me.
I was your first guest with Man's Search for Meaning.
That's right.
You are with The Daily Wire.
That's right.
Where you have your own show as well.
I do.
You have, I'm reading here, this I didn't even know, you and the senator co-host a podcast called Verdict?
We do.
We started that podcast during impeachment.
Talk about sleeplessness.
This began, we'd been talking about doing it for about a year or so, and then during impeachment, the senator calls, fly out to D.C. The senator would be in the impeachment trial all day long, and then about midnight, maybe 1 o'clock, he'd come over straight from the Capitol to the studio.
We would stay up all night recording the show, giving people a bit of an inside look into impeachment, talking about the ultimate issues that undergird it, and then I would get to go sleep, and he would go basically straight back to work the next day and be in the impeachment trial.
So you both don't sleep.
That's right.
How often is Verdict podcasted?
So we do Verdict whenever we like.
It's about one episode a week, but we try to let the medium work for a conservative message.
So if there is something that we want to talk about, some news that has hit, something important in the Senate that maybe the mainstream media aren't talking about, we will just set one up.
We can get one going within a few hours, immediately upload it.
And I have to brag a little bit for the Senator here.
He jumped.
Look, I always had high expectations of the senator.
I admire him just as much as you do.
I did not expect that he would jump to become the number one podcaster in the country, which he did within the first two weeks of that show.
Well, look, I think it's the same reason that millions of people listen to your show, which is they're hungry to understand.
To understand truth, to understand facts, to understand what actually is happening.
And we live in such a polarized world, such a politicized world, that just about every outlet is a partisan spigot.
And as a consumer who actually wants to understand what's going on, it's hard to find anything resembling objective facts.
And so we launched it, as Michael said, on the first day of impeachment.
Every night we'd go from the trial and record it.
And it's about a half hour long, so you could download it.
It's this podcast you can subscribe to on your phone or you can watch it on YouTube.
And we would try to get into an impeachment.
We'd try to get into the facts.
Okay, you know, I mean, what's Ukraine?
What's Burisma?
Joe, Hunter Biden.
Who's Hunter Biden?
What does that have to do?
What are the legal issues?
What's the constitutional standard?
And we'd try...
You know, it was designed not, and it is designed not to be just a dry academic lecture, but actually, okay, here's what's really going on in the cloakroom.
Here are the Senate votes that are wobbly, that are on the fence.
Here are the questions.
Here's the strategy.
Here's what's going on.
And people began subscribing.
And then at the end of impeachment, I mean, the plan was to keep it going.
Every show's about a half hour, and we have, at different times, we have various guests.
We just had Bill Barr on for a half hour.
Now, Bill, the Attorney General, people are used to seeing Bill in a media interview with a hostile interview where he gives sort of short, controlled, soundbite answers.
You know, Bill and I have been friends for 25 years.
And so we just have a conversation where I'm not trying to play a gotcha game with him.
But it was interesting seeing the comments, so you'll appreciate it.
This is something you do every day, but it's gratifying to be a part of it.
The most frequent comment we get on the Verdict podcast is, I learned something.
And like with Barr, a lot of people were commenting, what I think they found most interesting is his personality.
Some people said, wow, I didn't know.
Bill was funny, and he's got a wickedly dry, sardonic sense of humor.
I believe that.
Probably keeps him normal.
Right.
I'm serious.
So I want to ask some big questions, and obviously, Michael, you know, you chime in at any time, obviously.
But, Senator, the thing that troubles me about the Republican Party is my sense, and...
I just want to tell you in advance, I tell every guest, it is perfectly fine to disagree with me.
Okay?
It's a non-issue.
Okay.
I don't think most of your colleagues understand the threat that the Democratic Party and the left pose to America.
Is that an unfair statement or a fair statement?
I think it's an entirely fair statement.
And this is, it's a frustrating time.
Because we're seeing a fundamental assault on our country.
We're seeing a fundamental assault on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We're seeing an assault on the principles that built this nation.
And I think an awful lot of folks, I'm certainly one of them, are infuriated that there are so few people stepping up to defend the nation, The attack that is coming.
So let's take one issue, and there are lots of issues, but let's take, for example, the tearing down of statues.
That has become one issue that arose out of the mob violence that we saw.
So it started off with a debate about Confederate statues, and I actually think Confederate statues, reasonable people can disagree.
I mean, the history of Civil War, some Confederates were...
Dishonorable people.
Others were not.
Like any other group of human beings, there is a variety.
You can have a reasonable discussion.
But, number one, if you disagree with a particular statute, there's a way to make that argument, which is to engage in the democratic process and say we ought to be honoring...
Hold it there.
This is really important.
Don't forget, we're at statutes.
Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles, 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 now?
And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
By embracing the white man.
Uncle Tom.
Bedouin.
Boot liquor.
Black white supremacist.
Chuckin and Jarvis.
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.
Racist.
Racist.
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 is pure racism.
That is acting like an acknowledgement of the value of black people is somehow belittling.
Painting Black Lives Matter acknowledges the value of black people.
When in fact what we're trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven't been given their respect.
By painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower, we are lifting up black people.
We're giving them jobs.
We're giving them education.
Giving them health care by painting Black Lives Matter in front of Trump Tower.
And it can't just be words, Wolf.
It has to be actions.
We didn't just paint words.
We painted action.
...making resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs.
Youth programs.
You know.
Monopoly.
Finger painting and midnight basketball, you know, youth programs that will empower the community to have more youth programs.
We're acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down.
We are acknowledging it and we're going to come with plans to tear it down.
Tear it down.
Where exactly is it located?
Is it in Times Square?
Is the institutional racism in Midtown Manhattan?
Is it in Queens?
Is it in Long Island?
We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it.
But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge...
We need to take this transcendent moment, this moment of transcendent when George Floyd was killed by a cop.
We need to take this moment and move it into something transcendent.
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I'm getting signals from...
You want me to steal third?
Is that it?
See, it's like a coach.
He's like...
This is the closest we're getting to baseball, actually, is hand signals from my engineer.
Dennis Prager here, Ultimate Issues Hour, with really one of the most important people in America today, Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas.
And I very rarely have politicians on the show.
I'm not anti-politician.
It's just not the nature of my show.
But he's a fighter.
And we don't have enough fighters.
And so is Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire, of PragerU, of his own podcast.
I mean, we reviewed that earlier.
So it's great to have you both.
So you were talking about the statues, for example.
Go ahead.
So it started as a debate about Confederate statues.
And there's a right way to debate what statues should be displayed, which is you make a case through the democratic process if you think something should change.
Well, that quickly disintegrated to mob violence, where the mob just goes and tears down what they don't like.
But it didn't end with Confederate statues.
It very quickly went to George Washington.
It very quickly went to Thomas Jefferson and to James Madison.
And Abraham Lincoln.
And Ulysses S. Grant, two outspoken confederates.
Yeah, right.
But the people tearing these down, and by the way, it reached the true theater of the absurd when they defaced a statue of Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist.
And at that point, the vandals, the mob, it's not that they're standing against slavery.
It's not that they're standing for racial equality.
They hate America.
They are tearing down...
The very institutions of our nation.
And you look and say, okay, who is articulating?
And part of the problem in the era of Trump is things are so tribalized and polarized that people feel like they can only be on one side or the other.
So you're either with the mob or you don't care about racial equality.
And neither one of those are reasonable positions.
I mean, slavery was...
The great sin, the original sin of America, we thought...
Forgive us.
Once a year they have a fire drill.
Why they scheduled it during the show...
It's something I will deal with later, but ignore it.
So, Dennis, I have to say, I do think the leftists are afraid of this show.
You know what?
They pulled the fire alarm during the show.
I have to tell you, with all the arson that's been going on lately, I hope you're right that it's a drill.
I mean, these days it's hard to know.
That's a very good point.
So go on, yes.
So, look, slavery was a grotesque, evil abomination.
And 600,000 Americans died in a bloody civil war to expunge it.
And the journey of civil rights, we had for most of our history legalized discrimination, separate but equal.
And if you look at the great civil rights, look at Frederick Douglass, look at Dr. Martin Luther King, whose bust I've had in my office for 25 years.
They advocated for a freer and more just nation, a nation that protected equality, but they didn't do so by tearing down our founding principles.
They did so by appealing to them, by saying, we're not living up to it.
Martin Luther King today would be regarded as retrograde.
They'll pull his statues down.
Yes, that's right.
He's not even quoted.
He is way, way too conservative for Black Lives Matter.
So for the last two years, I've participated in a bipartisan group of senators on the Senate floor who have read out loud Dr. King's letter from the Birmingham jail.
And by the way, I have to say, look, a lot of us, I had read it before.
I'd read it in school.
I'd read it on paper.
It is different reading it out loud.
It is different hearing it out loud.
It has a qualitatively different force.
And on the Senate floor, The words, and one of the points that I think is important to make is many people don't remember that Dr. King was Reverend King, that he was a pastor, and the people to whom that letter was addressed, most people forget, it is addressed to the clergy of America.
It is calling faith leaders that if you believe in what your faith teaches, then you should be fighting for justice, and you should be fighting for equality.
And too many faith leaders shy away from this fight.
And, you know, the Declaration of Independence made an extraordinary promise.
We hold these truths to be self-evidence that all men are created equal.
That was a radical, revolutionary...
A historical statement.
Now, did we live up to it?
Have we lived up to it at every day of our history?
No, but our nation...
We've lived up to it more than other nations.
That's all that matters.
And as Dr. King said, and I believe the arc of history bends towards justice.
So the aspirations that were embodied in the founding of this country, the principles we continue to journey towards, but the hard left wants to tear them all down.
Yes, well anyway, I've never bought that line about the arc of history.
The arc of history, where did the arc of history bend in 1930s Germany?
Where did the arc of history bend in the second decade of the 20th century in Russia?
To 80 years of evil, of 20 to 40 million people killed in the gulag.
The genocide in Ukraine.
I am not an optimist about the human condition.
So you invited me to disagree with you, so I will disagree with you there.
You said, where did the arc of history bend?
In 1939, Germany, it bent on the cliffs of Normandy.
It bent as the world united against the evil Hitler to defeat him.
After 50 million people were killed.
There is undoubtedly evil in the world.
Where did the evil, Solzhenitsyn's account of the gulag and the suffering is powerful, but where did the arc of history bend when Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate and said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
So, I believe truth prevails, but it's not.
Always short and linear and neat to get there.
But I'd rather be fighting for truth than fighting for lies.
So tell me another thing.
If you said, I'd rather not answer it, I would not push you.
When I think if I were a senator, and I know what the Democrats are doing to this country, it's not merely I differ with them.
They are ruining this country because it's the party of the left, not of liberals.
How are relations between you as humans?
It used to be, oh, you go out for a beer with a guy.
What is it like now?
They're fine.
They're better than you would think.
There are a number of Democrats with whom I get along quite well personally in the Senate.
Cory Booker is a perfectly nice man.
We've had dinner together.
Kirsten Gillibrand.
Kirsten Gillibrand and I have worked on a number of matters together.
We actually get along better than you would expect, but there's also a recognition that you kind of step into your gladiatorial roles and pound the heck out of each other.
Yeah, but that side is protecting some bad folks.
It is, and the Democratic Party has unleashed.
The craziest voices, the most extreme voices.
You know, a minute ago, you read from the New York Times and talked about communism.
And it is the Marxist, it is the anarchist.
Yes, so okay.
We'll be back with Senator Ted Cruz, Michael Knowles, I'm Dennis Prager.
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As somebody who follows law and order for your profession, who understands that the thin line that the boys and girls in blue have to walk every single day.
Your response to these calls to defund police forces across America, Greg?
Well, we need law enforcement.
The line is used over and over, but it's well asked.
Who are you going to call when you're in trouble and the subject of destruction of your property or an assault, a battery, rape, murder?
Who do you call when you witness these things or you are the subject of them?
You know, it's silly.
It's stupid.
It's an overreaction.
I can understand a movement that wants greater, more equal justice in our law enforcement and our system of justice.
But again, the way to go about doing that is not through extortion and threats, but an occupying...
Private property as well as public property, but to petition your government.
And, you know, this lawlessness has to end.
the anarchy that's taking place in New York City, across from City Hall.
Bill de Blasio, the mayor, will do nothing about it because he's weak.
He's not bright.
He is incompetent.
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You know, Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa to the Middle East and to South America than European slavers took out of Africa to North America or to the colonies.
You know that?
And don't get me started on the death rate.
It is estimated that around 10% or so of the slaves in the transatlantic slave trade died in transit.
It is estimated that as many as 90% of the slaves died in transit, going out of Africa, walking on foot across the Sahara Desert.
And by the way, the reason you don't see a whole lot of descendants of slaves in the Middle East is because, for the most part, they were eunuchs.
That's right.
They cut off their, you know what, in order to make sure they weren't going to reproduce and have sex with women there.
Whereas on the American side, they wanted them to reproduce because the more slaves, the more free labor they had.
D.C. is in Dallas, Texas, D.C. So I think it's important we talk about whether we were better off.
We have to start with the assumption that the slaves that were transported to America would have been slaves in Africa as well, because they were already captured in captivity and sold en masse by African chieftains.
In fact, even Ghana recently apologized for their role in the slave trade.
When the individuals said we're better off or things like that, in that old movie, Mr. Elder, The Ten Commandments, an older guy said, man makes slaves.
God makes man.
So, whether the transporting of slaves is wrong, whether it's black, white, whatever gender, it's wrong.
It's evil.
It's probably the evilest thing that has ever existed is to enslave human beings, no matter where it existed.
Right, and DC, let's acknowledge it's existed from the time the human beings are on the face of the earth.
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Ultimate issue is, where is America headed?
You can't get more ultimate than that.
Well, I guess you can.
I guess, where are we all headed?
That's the only more ultimate question, which I've dealt with a lot on this hour.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Third hour of Tuesday is Ultimate Issues Hour.
My guests are Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles, who is not a senator.
But Michael Knowles, on the other hand, is a best-selling author.
This is technically true.
I appreciate the mention.
That's a very good point.
If you write a book with no words, are you an author?
That is a philosophical question.
That is up there with if a tree falls in the forest and no one heard it.
So, Dennis, I actually suggested to Michael a sequel to his book.
Yeah.
Which is, so he published already one blank book with no words in it.
Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
And I suggested a sequel, The Intellectual Musings of Joe Biden.
That's right.
So it's sort of a volume two.
It would be a volume two.
I think it would be very important in this election year.
But now I might have to give co-author credit here.
I just don't know how the structure of this will work.
That is a very good point.
Can you co-author nothingness?
Is such a thing possible?
Well, can you author nothing?
I mean, that was the first question.
Well, clearly you can.
No, no, no.
He said author is not technically right.
Senator Cruz talking about Joe Biden, it seems to me that...
By the way, let me take a quick digression.
This is utterly random, but when you're talking about can you author nothing, it reminded me of my 12-year-old daughter, Caroline, who on questions, ultimate questions, on questions of life or death, She maintains that before you were born, you were dead.
Right.
And we've had an interesting...
And I've said, well, no, no, no.
We haven't been dead.
You're not alive.
And she said, no, there's only two.
There's alive and dead.
And if you're not alive, you're dead.
But it's an interesting argument.
That is.
It is like that.
Are you dead before you were born?
Can you be an author of a book with no words?
Yes.
I told you folks, it's the ultimate issues hour.
These are not the ones I had anticipated.
But, you know, there's a spontaneity in live radio that just works that way.
Is he or is he not lucky, Senator Biden, that he doesn't have to say anything for the entire campaign?
I think the Democrats have decided they want this to be a referendum on Trump.
And so Biden is famously hiding in his basement.
And that could prove a successful election strategy.
Trump, prior to this pandemic, the policy record of the Trump administration, the economic record, was extraordinary.
But we're in the midst of a global pandemic, a Great Depression, and race riots.
The Trump administration has implemented many good policies, many of which I've been deeply involved with the president in implementing.
I think it's fair to say he is not the most disciplined of communicators, and he has at times caused problems for himself.
I think the Democrats are gambling that a referendum on Trump, they will win.
I will say at the same time, so one concern I have on the right, I think a lot of people on the right have convinced themselves that Joe Biden has full-on dementia and is addled and playing with jacks in the corner.
And I think that is a significant overstatement.
Look, has Joe lost a step?
Plainly, but frankly, when he was 30 years old, he was...
I mean, he would put his foot in his mouth his entire life.
This is not a new thing.
And here's why this matters, because when we have debates in the fall, assuming we have debates, and I think there's a real chance the Democrats try to back out of them, because if they want it purely to be a referendum on Trump, they don't want anything that could change that.
But when they have debates, if the standard set for Joe Biden is can he string three sentences together?
Interesting point.
The expectations have been set so low.
Biden did fine in the Democratic debates.
He's not a terrific debater, but he did fine against Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.
I mean, he was perfectly competent.
And if people are expecting someone who can't even find the television remote control, and he stands up and just manages not to fall off the stage, the headline the next day will be, Biden scores crushing victory, which they'll write anyway.
But I do worry that conservatives are so undermining his mental acuity that it becomes a self-defeating effort.
That's a very interesting point.
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Well, the first thing is, Brett, President Trump never mentioned any dead Confederates.
His speech, in its bulk, was a ringing, a full-throated defense of America's history and heroes.
And there were no Confederates mentioned.
It was all the forefathers of our country, Washington, Lincoln, and other great Americans.
And that was really the main bulk of it.
So what she said is flat-out false.
And those headlines you mentioned from those newspapers were unbelievably misleading.
And some of the other headlines that I saw were even worse than those.
In fact, as I followed this over the weekend, I don't think I've ever seen such dishonest and biased coverage of any event.
This was a speech meant to be...
And I'll just add Holman Jenkins, who's a wonderful objective columnist at the Wall Street Journal, wrote this morning.
So here we are.
America faces the virus, the protests, the new and dangerous tension with China, and the most tumultuous election in recent memory.
And it does so without thought leadership worth the name, with only intellectual and emotional chaos from some of our once-credible news organizations.
I played the president's entire speech on Monday because I thought it was one of his best of his presidency, along with Saudi Arabia, Poland, Normandy, and the last State of the Union— I just played the whole thing.
I thought it was wonderful.
What has happened, Peter?
Where did this disconnect develop?
We had my colleague Mike Shearer on an hour ago, so I'm going to agree with whatever Mike said because I don't want to get off on a disconnect between the two.
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As somebody who follows law and order for your profession, who understands the thin line that the boys and girls in blue have to walk every single day, Your response to these calls to defund police forces across America, Greg?
Well, we need law enforcement.
I mean, the line is used over and over, but it's well asked, who are you going to call?
When you're in trouble and the subject of destruction of your property or an assault, a battery, rape, murder, who do you call when you witness these things or you are the subject of them?
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It's stupid.
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Okay, Dennis Prager, Ultimate Issues Hour.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Michael Knowles of California.
With Daily Wire and with PragerU, and they're going to be doing a book club together.
Just so you'll know, PragerU has a book club.
How often does it take place, Michael?
And we do all the great books that nobody is being taught in schools, although I guess nobody is being taught anything in schools anymore.
So maybe that's the silver lining.
Well, there is a silver lining, because they're going to teach them all now the 1619 lie about America's founding.
They're going to have drag queen reading hours for five-year-olds.
I don't know how you can send your kid to a regular school today.
It's a very big problem.
Senator, I want to bounce this off you.
You said correctly they want to make it a referendum on Donald Trump.
My response to that, and this predates Donald Trump by decades, I have always said, and it is...
It had no effect.
I admit it, none.
Because I spoke to the entire House, Republicans, on a number of occasions at their retreat.
I've had groups of Republican senators that I've been honored to talk to.
And I've gotten nowhere, but I will say it again.
And it's particularly appropriate now.
Every Republican must run against the Democrats and the left.
Not just his or her opponent.
This is never, almost never done, maybe never done.
Voters, please understand that when you vote Democrat, you get chaos.
You get an undermining of everything good in this country.
This, you are voting for the left.
Even if you are a liberal, you are voting for the left.
You are not voting for liberals.
So, in a nutshell, we have to make the referendum on the left.
While they make the referendum about one man, we are making about an ideology that is crushing the country.
Why don't Republicans do that?
Too many of them don't understand it.
They don't understand.
We're in the midst of the great debate, the great debate between socialism and free enterprise.
We are in the midst of also the great debate between tyranny and freedom.
Yes.
And look, a lot of people who run for office, who get elected to Congress, it becomes their identity.
There's something where you look in the mirror and you see the reflection back and you say, I'm a senator.
I'm really damn important.
There's an old joke that politics...
Is Hollywood for ugly people.
There's enormous truth to that.
And what happens is people desperately want to stay in elected office.
It becomes who they are.
And the terror of being out of elected office.
It is a horrifying void because they don't know who they are.
And what that means is they're deeply risk averse.
The way you get re-elected is you don't take on any issue that matters because there's risk.
And if there's risk you might get...
Voted out of office.
And look, I gotta admit, this job ain't that great unless you're fighting for something that matters.
And I feel intensely grateful that I get to fight.
You know, as with Esther, at such a time as this, at a time when it matters, when it matters for the country, I mean, to have the chance, it's the reason Michael and I do the Verdict podcast, because we want to engage on the fundamental issues, on free speech and why it matters, on religious liberty, on why it matters.
And the left has become their statists, their totalitarians.
They want to silence dissent.
Everything people are told about politics is wrong.
People are told, Democrats are the party of the poor.
Republicans are the party of the rich.
That's exactly opposite.
Today, the Democrats are the party of rich coastal elites who look down on America.
And Republicans, I believe, are and should be a blue-collar party, the party of working men and women, of Ohio steel workers, of truck drivers, of single moms waiting tables, of people like my dad as a teenage immigrant coming from Cuba and washing dishes.
That's who we should be.
We're also, Republicans, are and should be the party of diversity.
Free speech means you can disagree, but yet the left, whether it's the media, whether it's the New York Times, whether it's Big Tech...
They want to silence.
They want to punish.
They want to cancel.
They want to force into conformity anyone who dares disagree.
This is something, Senator, that we talk about on the show a lot, and it ties in exactly with what you're saying, Dennis, which is running against the left, the whole left, and a lot of Republicans go weak.
Why?
Because all along the way there are these little moments, little issues, where you think, I'll just give that up.
I'll forget about that.
And it reminds me of this line from the TV show The Crown, where the Queen's private secretary, he says, It's in the small things that the rot begins.
These small issues.
You tear down this one statue.
You rewrite this one piece of history.
That's the broken windows theory.
And look at the country around us now where literally the edifice of the country is falling to the ground.
See, in this regard, I mean, Senator, it was eerie to hear you because it's almost word for word what I believe.
There are two types of politicians.
Those who want to be politicians and those who want to do something.
The latter is a very small group.
I believe that Joe Biden wants to be president for the same reason he wanted to be a senator.
Because he wants to be a senator or wants to be president.
Ironically, I don't think that's true about Donald Trump.
I actually believe, it's not like his life was lacking.
Right?
He was a celebrity.
He really inherited hatred.
He was not hated.
He went to Hillary Clinton's daughter wedding.
Or did she come to his wedding?
She came to his wedding also.
You are in it to do something.
Do you think your religiosity...
Is a fundamental reason for that?
Or it's your nature?
I'm not looking for an answer.
I'm looking for an answer, but I'm looking for a specific answer.
Tell it to me when we come back.
I'm very, very curious.
Because I always ask people who do good what animates them, and it's not always easy.
It is not an easy answer.
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You know, Arab slavers took more blacks out of Africa to the Middle East and to South America than European slavers took out of Africa to North America or to the colonies.
You know that?
And don't get me started on the death rate.
It is estimated that around 10% or so of the slaves in the transatlantic slave trade died in transit.
It is estimated that as many as 90% of the slaves died in transit, going out of Africa, walking on foot across the Sahara Desert.
And by the way, the reason you don't see a whole lot of descendants of slaves in the Middle East is because, for the most part, they were eunuchs.
That's right.
They cut off their, you know what, in order to make sure they weren't going to reproduce and have sex with women there.
Whereas on the American side, they wanted them to reproduce because the more slaves, the more free labor they had.
D.C. is in Dallas, Texas, D.C. So I think it's important we talk about whether we were better off.
We have to start with the assumption that the slaves that were transported to America would have been slaves in Africa as well, because they were already captured in captivity and sold en masse by African chieftains.
In fact, even Ghana recently apologized for their role in the slave trade.
When the individuals said we're better off or things like that, in that old movie, Mr. Elder, The Ten Commandments, an older guy said, man makes slaves.
God makes man.
So, whether the transporting of slaves is wrong, whether it's black, white, whatever gender, it's wrong.
It's evil.
It's probably the evilest thing that has ever existed, is to enslave human beings, no matter where it existed.
Right, and DC, let's acknowledge it's existed from the time the human beings are on the face of the earth.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena the president's tax records, his financial records and tax returns, but blocked a similar request from congressional investigators but blocked a similar request from congressional investigators and sent both decisions back to the lower courts.
So as I'm reading through this, and as I'm listening to and reading analysis, From the court watchers, it appears that what the court is saying is that a president is not immune from criminal prosecution, but in kicking it back to the lower courts, I guess Trump can continue to tie it up in the courts as a partisan investigation by Cy Vance and congressional Democrats continues to try to take him down.
So I guess it's a mixed bag, is the best I can come up with.
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All right, I can, unfortunately, hours come to an end, but we're not quite at the end.
Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles, two wonderful people, are in my studio.
So I asked you, and it may not be answerable, you are not alone, but a fairly lonely fighter in the U.S. Capitol.
And so I asked, what...
And the final analysis animates you.
Is it religion?
Is it something else?
And you may not even know the answer, but give it a try.
My faith is a very important part of who I am.
But I also think in the world of politics, you have to be cautious about wearing your faith on your sleeve.
There's too much of a history of politicians being charlatans.
And my view, when any politician says, God told me to run, Is I look at them and go, okay, great, when God tells me to vote for you, we'll be on the same page.
Like, there's too much hypocrisy.
Right, okay.
So, in my life and my family, faith is very important, but in terms of public life, I've had two animating loves in my life, and it is the U.S. Constitution and the American Free Enterprise System.
And it started out, I would say they were twin influences.
When I was in high school, I got involved in a nonprofit called the Free Enterprise Institute, where we studied both, and I memorized the Constitution in a shortened mnemonic version and toured the state speaking about it.
And it became what I wanted to do in life.
And that was the beginning of the intellectual foundations.
But emotionally, and you know my father.
My father...
He was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba.
And he fought in the revolution and he fled Cuba.
He came to Texas, came to America.
And I grew up, so my father was tortured by Batista.
My aunt, my tia Sonia, was imprisoned and tortured by Castro.
And I grew up sitting at their feet listening to stories of being freedom fighters.
And that, you want to talk about an inspiration.
When I was 2, 3, 4, 5 years old, you asked me, what did I want to do?
It was fight to defend freedom.
And that has been really my...
You grew up to do what you wanted.
That was a great answer.
I'm glad I asked.
Well, I can only say to you, God bless you.
And you as well.
Thank you.
We need to fight because I love this country and I love liberty.
And they're endangered now for the first time.
Michael Knowles, the same to you, my friend.
Thank you, Dennis, and you as always.
I take so much of the way I think about the country I get from you.
Very tough.
Thank you.
And don't forget, the bigger the government, the fewer the husbands.
I'm going to take that line.
Yes, indeed.
Or perhaps the more.
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