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Feb. 18, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Saves one life is considered to have saved the entire world.
	Likewise, he who takes one life or destroys one life is considered to have destroyed the whole world.
	So the point I'm making is only that there are very few people who can affect far, far more people than a handful.
	And a handful of people Affected for better and a handful for worse.
	Bill Gates is in the latter category.
	Bill Gates is living proof that if you really think you're good, you don't need to monitor what you're doing.
	So, even I was surprised at the following.
	Washington Free Beacon reported it, but I wouldn't report it to you even...
	If it was just a Washington Free Beacon Report.
	What I'm about to tell you is so vile, is so destructive with regard to the two gates, that unless I saw the original document, I was not going to bring it to your attention.
	I'm batting close to a thousand in everything I've ever told you for accuracy because I have this high standard.
	So many things were so tempting to report to you, but I didn't quite see the verification, and I didn't.
	I read to you the other day the Oregon Department of Education, ODE, an ode to destroying children.
	The left can be accused of child abuse.
	That's worthy of its own article.
	In Oregon, they believe in math equity.
	Ready?
	Math equity.
	Meaning that they will teach, that they are starting to teach in Oregon that in math, the idea that there is one right answer is a form of white supremacy.
	Now, I can't think of a more racist concept than that one.
	That means that blacks don't believe that there's one right answer in math.
	Do you understand how anti-black that statement is?
	But I've told you all of my broadcast career, the left has utter content for blacks.
	Utter.
	It's so obvious that I marvel at the ability of blacks to be on the left.
	Let me align myself with people.
	Who think I'm inferior.
	It's an amazing reaction.
	So, if you believe that math has one right answer, that you're a white supremacist, at the website EquitableMath.org Is a pathway to equitable math instruction.
	Resources and guidance to support black Latinx.
	And this moronic notion, Latino is not acceptable.
	Latinx.
	When I first saw it, I thought it was a Latin Kleenex.
	And multilingual students to thrive in grades 6 to 8. Five strides on the path to math equity.
	Dismantling racism in mathematics instruction, fostering deep understanding, creating conditions to thrive, connecting critical intersections, sustaining equitable practices.
	Okay.
	Now, guess at the bottom what is written.
	We also wish to thank the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their generous financial support of this project.
	I'm sorry?
	Why, you know how much?
	Tens of millions of dollars?
	Yeah, no, I did not know how much.
	I don't care if it's 10 cents, in principle.
	So Bill Gates, fool that he is, And fools all do damage.
	In the Seder prayer book, there is a special prayer book for the Passover Seder.
	Many Christians are aware of the Seder, so I'm using the term.
	But it's the special meal, which you recount the exodus from Egypt.
	It's about 2,000 years old, this book.
	And it describes...
	The four typical sons people will have and how you should speak differently to each of them, which is a very wise thing.
	So there are four sons.
	It's a very famous thing in Jewish life.
	Four sons.
	The bad son.
	The son who does not know how to ask.
	The son who is too bashful to ask.
	I'm too shy to ask.
	What is it?
	I don't remember.
	Let me see.
	I'm trying.
	Because the problem is, when I do these things, I go from the Hebrew in my brain.
	But anyway, it's four.
	So, doesn't know how to ask.
	Oh, yes.
	It's the simple son and the wisest son.
	So, even as a kid, I wondered, why was there no good son?
	If there's a bad son, why is there no good son?
	There's only a wise son.
	The opposite of bad is wise.
	Because you can't be good without wisdom.
	That defines Bill Gates.
	He is supporting an effort to teach that there is no right answer in math.
	So next time you hear him on COVID or lockdown, Please know you're wasting your time.
	you're listening to a truly foolish person.
	Turning now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Liberal Justice Louis Brandeis said that states are laboratories of democracy.
	That we will be able to tell what states are succeeding and failing.
	Remember, what makes the American Republican system different, small r, not Republican Party, but a system based in a constitutional republic.
	Is that the states created the federal government.
	The federal government did not create the states.
	That distinction is so incredibly important.
	We're a coalition of states.
	We're a coalition of sovereign entities that voluntarily agreed to a national compact.
	That is why those of us that are conservatives don't like the heavy hand of the federal government.
	We say, why does the Department of Education exist?
	Why do you need a Department of Labor when you have a Georgia Department of Labor?
	The federal government should be there.
	For federal crimes, military, when needed, a social safety net, but really that should be left to the states, interstate commerce, protecting federal parts and lands, protecting our borders, managing immigration, international diplomacy, and I'm sure there's a couple other things I can name that would probably be the proper role of government, but that's about it.
	Most things should be left to the states for good reason.
	The founding fathers knew this.
	The founding fathers knew that as soon as you strengthen a centralized federal government, as soon as you put unchecked power into D.C., they're soon going to forget who they represent.
	You will live under bad laws inevitably if you lose a connection to the people who put you into office.
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	Thank you.
	Now my next guest is involved in the effort to recall the governor of California, an effort that at one time seemed pretty fanciful but no longer.
	You know it's getting serious when the governor's staff begins to call the effort a coup and suggests that it is being led in part by white nationalists.
	My guest is a vet of distribution sales and marketing, has served in senior exec roles at places like Corporate Express and Staples.
	He's now applying his expertise to state politics to create a team of volunteers and to treat some sort of hopeful movement.
	For conservatism in this state of California where there isn't a single Republican elected statewide.
	Please welcome coalition founding member of Recall Gavin 2020, Mike Netter.
	Mike, how are you?
	Larry, I'm doing great today, except Gavin Newsom is still my governor, which I hope to change pretty soon.
	You know, Mike, I've heard different things about how the recall effort is going.
	I heard you're just a smidge short of the signatures.
	I've heard you got the signatures.
	What's the truth?
	Let me explain.
	We need 12% of the people that voted for governor last time, which is technically 1,475,000 signatures.
	We're actually at that figure, but before the public gets too cocky, because they have to be verified signatures of reality, and we need 1.8 to 2 million of them.
	The good news is we have five weeks to go.
	And do you want to hear some more amazing news, Larry?
	Sure.
	This is not only the largest initiative in American history, this is 90% powered by volunteers, not by the big political machine.
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	What's with these Republicans?
	What's with these Republicans?
	So when Bill Gates tells you everyone should eat fake meat by 2030, that is actually what he says.
	Right.
	That's a healthy diet.
	I mean, the man's a fool.
	Supporting the foundation that says there is no one right answer in math, so that students of color will not flunk, shows Bill Gates' contempt for...
	Education, math, and blacks.
	I have in the studio with me Mike Netter.
	Mike Netter is a spokesperson for the Recall Gavin 2020 movement.
	The competition for worst governor in California history is intense.
	Let's be honest.
	However...
	There's a good chance he is because none of the governors prior to Gavin Newsom, the biggest state in the country, of course, destroyed more people's livelihoods, destroyed more kids' psychological health than Gavin Newsom for purely political reasons or just because he's a fool.
	So a lot of people, not just conservatives, I believe that the man needs to be removed from office.
	There is a recall ability in the state of California.
	And the spokesperson for the Recall Newsome, or really RecallGavin2020.com, that's the official website, which is also attached to DennisPrager.com, so you can click on it, is Mike Netter.
	Mike, welcome.
	You're the spokesperson for the Recall Gavin campaign.
	I am.
	I'm also one of the main proponents and one of the founding members.
	Are you surprised?
	And I don't ask questions that I think I know the answer to.
	Or if I do, I actually announce it.
	So tell me the truth.
	Are you surprised that you've passed 1.5 million signatures?
	The honest answer is yes and no.
	There's two reasons we passed this one.
	One is the amazing work of volunteers.
	The second reason, quite honestly, is Gavin himself.
	As you mentioned earlier, he seems to do something every day that accelerates the cycle of gathering signatures.
	And last night we announced we're actually just short of 1.7 million now.
	I heard, tell me if this is true, I didn't hear it from you, that you want to reach 2 million because they will throw out a lot of ballots.
	I don't know if throwing out is the correct word.
	There's a verification process.
	We run it through verification process one.
	And we're actually verifying, which is very high in the initiative business, at an 85% rate.
	Most initiatives have a 63% rate.
	So statistically, we do need to get to about $2 million to guarantee that we're going to get over the $1,475,000.
	So you need 25% more signatures than is required?
	15%.
	85% verification rate.
	Wait, but you need 1.5 and you need 2 million.
	I based it 25% on that.
	Is that wrong?
	No, no, no.
	1.8 would probably get us there, but to guarantee it...
	You're basing it on 1.8.
	We want to go way over the top.
	No, no, that's great.
	So I'm very curious about this as well.
	One would think that it is mostly...
	Republicans slash conservatives.
	What is your take?
	It's very fascinating.
	Gavin Newsom is actually doing something I didn't think was possible.
	That's uniting all factions of California.
	There, you wanted unity.
	Gavin Newsom, our man.
	It's amazing.
	He literally has ticked off factions of his own party.
	How?
	Well, a couple ways to look at it.
	We can go, there's a lot to cover and I don't have that long a segment, but let me give you an example.
	Just when he announced his reopen school plan about three weeks ago, you would think Gavin Newsom would have gone to the six superintendents of the top school districts and gotten their input before announcing the plan.
	Within 48 to 72 hours, they actually not only gave him an F on his reopening plan, and most of them are Democrats, but actually two districts sued him.
	So Gavin Newsom isn't getting input from anybody as he moves forward.
	Tell me the specifics on that.
	What did he plan what was rejected?
	What was rejected specifically was his reopening plan, the budget allocation for the plan, and his timeline, as typical with Gavin, wasn't very specific.
	Gavin's biggest problem with all these is he doesn't sit down and even talk to his own party.
	He doesn't really have a plan for anything.
	He's very good at making Political announcements?
	All right, hold it there.
	I'm very curious.
	I want you to stay on.
	The whole thing is fascinating, and I wonder if it could be done in other states, but I don't know if there's been as damaging a governor as he.
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	Music What's with these Republicans?
	I would just give a dollar and a donut to figure out what's in the mind of somebody like Senator Bill Cassidy.
	Here's cut five.
	This is the same guy who was last week, just the other day, on with Meet the Press and Chuck Todd.
	The president wasn't there.
	He wasn't allowed counsel.
	They didn't amass evidence.
	In five hours, they kind of judged, and boom, he's impeached.
	Now, I'm told that under the Watergate, under the Clinton impeachments, there were truckloads of information.
	Here, it was a video.
	There was no process.
	I mean, it's almost like, you know, if it happened in the Soviet Union, you would have called it a show trial.
	That's the guy.
	That was last week.
	That's the guy who yesterday voted with the Democrats to proceed with the trial because he didn't like Bruce Castor.
	And listen, Bruce Castor did a terrible job.
	President Trump was said to be very angry behind the scenes.
	Fox News quotes sources as saying Trump was furious and beyond angry over his defense team's showing on day one of his second impeachment trial.
	Despite his ultimate acquittal almost certain.
	The sources who spent time with President Trump said he was particularly incensed with the effort thus far by his attorney, Bruce Castor.
	Do you get the feeling that the reason he hasn't had a strong showing by his lawyers is because no attorney wants to touch this thing?
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	One of the things I wanted to go through is how the Democrats tampered with evidence.
	And I was going through it with our team.
	I said, you do know that Eric Swalwell...
	Who's a lover of Fang Fang, the Chinese Communist Party spy.
	He tampered with evidence.
	And David Shone, to his great credit, came out and proved that point.
	That Eric Swalwell, and this is why this is not a trial.
	This is a Hollywood Broadway production.
	That's all this is.
	In a real trial, you'd say, Your Honor, this evidence is tampered with.
	So you had Swalwell, the lover of Fang Fang, Who came out and said that Donald Trump called for the Calvary to come.
	Calvary.
	Now, anyone in the Christian world knows that there's a difference between Calvary and Calvary.
	I sometimes, unintentionally mispronounce one or the other, but I know the difference.
	Calvary, C-A-L, Calvary.
	One is where Christ...
	was crucified.
	The other is horse-mounted infant horse-mounted military.
	So Eric Swalwell reads Jennifer Lawrence's tweet who says, Mr. President, that now the dream is coming.
	My friends, you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show.
	Mike Netter is my guest.
	He is the spokesperson for the Recall Gavin campaign.
	Recall Gavin Newsom campaign in California.
	People need to fight or we lose our country.
	It's very simple.
	This is a good example.
	My theory about Gavin Newsom and his...
	The lockdowns of the state and then lifting them shortly after.
	Did he lift them right after the inauguration?
	When did he lift them, Mike?
	In three days of us getting 1.4 million signatures.
	Oh, that's what prompted it.
	Not the Biden inauguration.
	That is our impression.
	Right.
	No, that's fair.
	I see.
	Well, it's clearly political.
	I'm still puzzled that a person could do so much damage to middle class citizens of his state for zero legitimate reason.
	And when you think of DeSantis in Florida, why anyone in the middle class would vote Democrat is an act of...
	That is the product of brainwash.
	I almost want to say, forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.
	They really know not what they do.
	They vote for their own destruction when they vote Democrat.
	Well, I think part of the issue really is that...
	And again, I want to stress, we're technically not partisan.
	No, no, I'm saying this.
	I'm not putting any words in your mouth.
	That's very fair.
	The reality is that it takes an extremist like Gavin.
	And by extremist, I don't even mean political ideology, although that's obviously a big driving force.
	But he's economically and politically detached even from the people of California.
	In the 1.7 million signatures we've almost gathered so far, our guesstimate is about 300,000 to 400,000 Democrats have signed it.
	In the state of California, one of the biggest issues, of course, are the 6.5 million NPPs, the no-party preference, which is bigger than the Republican Party out here.
	A large chunk of them have signed it, right?
	They've kind of like, ah, I'm not getting information either way.
	Really a gift, and this sounds very strange, is Gavin himself.
	Because it's rare that a politician comes along that people can unite against.
	And you asked me earlier if I was surprised.
	Gavin surprises me every day with what comes out of his mouth, the policies that he issues.
	Does he have natural allies?
	He has natural political allies.
	Yes, right.
	Like you would think the teachers' unions.
	Well, you would think the teachers' unions, right?
	But he's been battling the teachers' unions over the reopening of schools.
	Okay, so explain that to me.
	He wants to reopen.
	They don't.
	They do.
	He doesn't.
	Tell me.
	I don't know exactly what the battle is.
	Well, exactly.
	You hit it on the head.
	No one exactly does, and I'm not trying to be facetious here, right?
	The problem with Gavin Newsom, where the COVID situation has accelerated his ineptness, is there is no plan.
	All people know is their kids are being held out of school.
	Teachers have a side that they want to talk about, and like every issue, you would think, seeing how the Democratic Assembly and Senate in California have a supermajority and all, you would think Gavin would get everybody around the table and get their input before doing press conferences. you would think Gavin would get everybody around the table That doesn't happen.
	Do you believe this is because of a, shall we say, exaggerated self-esteem?
	I would say if you've ever made an understatement, sir, that might be it.
	We have no real impact.
	I do indulge in understatements.
	It's very effective, actually.
	What do you believe is the single biggest driver of the recall?
	The single biggest driver of the recall is the people itself.
	I want to state this on your show if you don't mind because many people aren't aware.
	It's the largest initiative in American history.
	There's never been an initiative larger that needs any signatures.
	And I'm a volunteer as one of the heads of the recall, like Orrin Haley.
	We're volunteers.
	It's the largest volunteer drive in American history.
	It is the people of California across political, ethnic, and religious persuasion stepping up to say, I think we've had enough.
	And the biggest driver is actually not myself, not even Gavin.
	I'm facetious.
	This is a national show, so I'm wondering if there are other states, I think Marta might want to chime in here, are there other states that we could recommend do the same?
	There are 19 states in the United States of America that allow, there's 24 states that have a recall process.
	19 of them allow for recalls of their state officials, each with different rules.
	Are we the only state that's doing it?
	No, and this is very interesting, actually.
	Oregon, and for everybody out there, if you want to help everybody out across the country, help California from taking over, hear me out.
	Oregon tried it earlier this year.
	They fell short by 2,700 signatures.
	Colorado has tried it.
	It's important to everyone listening here.
	Wait, 2,700 signatures?
	Yes, but we have a methodology that we've put together, an infrastructure with lots, lots, not even a secret sauce because we tell it to everybody, but let's just say a sauce, that allows us to bring the power to the people so the people can participate without a big political machine.
	I wonder though, so Oregon is trying to, what happened to Colorado?
	Colorado fell a little bit short.
	However, they're trying to file, like we did, a court case for an extension because COVID has restricted, that's where...
	COVID has restricted.
	All right, Mike, we have very few seconds left.
	What should people do in California right now?
	Okay, today what I want you to do is come down.
	We have three sign-in locations.
	Drive through at 701 Brand Avenue at your studios, Drapery Works in Costa Mesa, Summit Funding in Marina Valley.
	Now, what I ask everybody out there to do...
	Okay, we'll find out.
	I'll have to keep going.
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	Congressman Lee Zeldin, welcome.
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	Where do you see this ending?
	In other words, I fear...
	That all of these ideologies are a snake swallowing its own tail.
	In other words, they basically destroy, destroy.
	They don't have the beginning of a clue what they would want to replace it with.
	Marxism, I really can't imagine what they're suggesting.
	What they're suggesting is a woke ideology of so-called anti-racism that is a profound misnomer that's really a profound race consciousness.
	You know, our institutions and our politics are downstream of culture, and they are destroying our culture one pillar at a time.
	And an extremely important element of culture throughout all human history is memory.
	It's knowing who you are as a people, what you're about, what your story is.
	And when Jesse Jackson 30 years ago...
	I had that ridiculous chant, you know, hey, hey, ho ho, Western Civ has to go.
	That was really the first battle cry in this fight to make us forget who we are.
	And it's not just forgetting, it's also lying about who we are.
	We see this...
	Particularly in the 1619 Project and its poisonous view of America that wants to make the American founding about slavery.
	When the American founding was an incredible advance in human civilization and enlightenment and liberty and created in the North a movement against slavery that eventually would eliminate slavery in the entire country in the Civil War.
	But they want to face all that and build a new vision of America.
	on the rubble that would be based on this left-wing ideology.
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	The impeachment trial will proceed.
	Dun, dun, dun.
	Big vote yesterday.
	That's one headline in USA Today.
	Huge font.
	Trial to proceed.
	Chilling video.
	Managers open by reviving riot.
	And then the vote was taken.
	56-44.
	Six Republicans joined with the Democrats in claiming that this show trial This snap impeachment is constitutional.
	Bill Cassidy, for some reason, out of the clear blue last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial.
	Doesn't mean anything.
	It's unconstitutional.
	But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
	But then that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short.
	From the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction, they've given away...
	Ah, the days when California was a free state.
	That's the Beach Boys.
	Is that right?
	Yep.
	So final moments here with Mike Meador, who is spokesperson, or spokesman, I'm happy with either, for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign.
	So, aside from physical places, because people all over California and the country are listening, people, obviously this only pertains to California residents.
	What website do they go to?
	Okay, what we need everyone around the country to do is this.
	Go to RecallGavin2020.com.
	If you're in California, please print, sign, and mail the petition.
	It's an 8 1⁄2 by 11. Outside California and want to help the state before we get to the rest of the country with some of these bad politicians, please donate.
	We're a grassroots movement by volunteers.
	Good.
	Bless you.
	And finally, let's say they can't undo the signatures.
	They can't dismiss enough to invalidate the recall's signatures.
	What happens next?
	Per the 1911 California Constitution, yes, California state has its own, they have 30 days to verify the signatures by April 17th, then they have to call a special election within 80 to 90 days after that.
	And that special election is an open election, not subject to our jungle primary.
	So anybody can run?
	Yes, sir.
	So it's a new election?
	Yes, sir.
	Has anybody announced?
	We officially endorse, and nobody?
	No, I'm not asking for an endorsement.
	And I'm sure that you've seen the couple that have announced so far, but I will leave it up to you to, I'd rather not say anything.
	That's fine, no problem.
	That's fascinating, because, look, the reason I'm so passionate about this is, if he is recalled and then defeated, Maybe it'll be a lesson to other would-be tyrants.
	You may not crush millions of people's lives for no good reason.
	That's the only reason I care.
	I couldn't care less if he was a Republican.
	In this instance, I have contempt for his politics, but that is not the reason.
	The damage he has done to this state and to the middle class...
	And to restaurants being closed.
	I gave a speech and visited my child and grandchildren in Florida, and I wrote my column that week.
	It's the first time since I moved here in 1976 I did not want to come back to California.
	That's how bad it is.
	The people of California are going to change that.
	It is no longer in California going to be about politics.
	It's going to be about the people.
	Please go to RecallGavin2020.com, print, sign, mail, donate, and participate if you can.
	Thank you for your volunteer work and your excellence.
	You're the perfect guest.
	You answer the question and then keep quiet.
	That is the perfect guest.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	or we return. We return.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm engaging in whataboutism.
	Here I am bringing up an example to show my point.
	I can't do that.
	It shows you hypocrisy.
	Selective outrage.
	Hillary Clinton can parade around for four years and call the election illegitimate and say it was stolen.
	And nobody says, hey, excuse me, you're giving energy to Donald Trump.
	Nobody said anything.
	You know why?
	Because they believed it was stolen.
	78% of Democrats believe that the Russians interfered, which everybody knows they did and acknowledged, but that they changed the outcome of the election.
	And Jay Johnson, the then head of the Homeland Security Department under Obama, testified there's no evidence whatsoever.
	We haven't reached any kind of conclusion that the outcome was changed.
	We know that no voting tallies were changed.
	They tried, but they failed.
	Yet 78% of Democrats, and they get their news from CNN, their feed from Facebook, New York Times, and 78% of Democrats have convinced themselves that but for whatever Russia did, Donald Trump would not be president, even though the intel community has never reached that conclusion.
	Am I not supposed to bring that up?
	It says something about your reason and your logic.
	I said that yesterday about the O.J. Simpson case.
	How do you respect a bunch of people who look at the same evidence of overwhelming guilt and say the man was an innocent man who was framed?
	How do you respect somebody like that?
	How do you respect their judgment, their mentality, their ability to reason?
	Same thing over here.
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	. you The 1918 virus iterated 12 times over the summer of 1918 and emerged deadlier.
	Do we know about these variants in any sort of way that alarms you, Andy, beyond the ordinary alarm that would arrive with any virus?
	My job is probably to be in a state of alarm and playing through bad scenarios and trying to plan for those scenarios.
	Even hoping many of them don't come to fruition.
	I think these variants are not good news.
	I think these variants suggest that there is enough multiplication of this virus out here that the virus is going to go through this evolutionary path more quickly than we had hoped to try to resist where it can.
	Now, the good news is that the major variant, the one coming out of England, UK, the one they call B.1.1.7, the vaccine, And human immunity seems to hold up very well against that.
	There are other mutations where there's been more than one mutation to the spike protein, as this happened in South Africa, this happened in Brazil, where the vaccine is still effective but less effective, and where there is some evidence that pre-existing immunity doesn't work and doesn't hold.
	So these are signs that we are going to be, like with the flu, facing...
	Something that will continue to change on us.
	Most of these changes are completely harmless and completely irrelevant.
	Most of these changes, and this virus has been evolving this whole time in front of our eyes, have had no real impact.
	But occasionally they do.
	And that just means our science needs to be better.
	We'll move on to what is the main event at the
	moment, which is the radicalism of the Biden agenda, pushing a lot of stuff out unilaterally and also pushing a massive stimulus system You know, we all can agree, I think we need some more COVID relief, but it's much, much...
	Bigger than that and has a massive national minimum wage increase that would hammer the job market at a time when we should be doing everything to support it.
	It is almost as if, and I hesitate to say it because it doesn't sound sane, but it's almost as if they are trying to destroy the economy.
	It's so bizarre.
	Would you give them enough credit to say that they're not trying to bring some kind of socialism or big government dependence?
	To us via these strange means?
	Because that's kind of what it looks like to me.
	Yeah, that is what they're trying to do.
	I mean, it's based on a misbegotten but sincere view of what the country should be in their minds and how the economy works.
	But if you get closer to where you are in the world and where I am at the moment, you know, a place like Alabama, the median wage is $15 an hour.
	That means, I'm not a statistics guy, but half of people make less than that.
	So what's going to happen to their jobs when you mandate that they all have to make $15 an hour?
	Well, they're either no longer going to have jobs, or their hours are going to be cut, or the employers are going to find a way to automate.
	So this just makes zero sense.
	I'm all in favor of a tight labor market.
	I think that was one of the beauties of the Trump economy when it was really cooking prior to the pandemic.
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	Transcription by CastingWords But who cares?
	33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home.
	They died.
	Who cares?
	They died.
	Remind you of anyone Benghazi Hillary What difference does it make?
	It makes a difference.
	From the New York Post, headline, Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out.
	Let's ask somebody who's definitely got an opinion.
	Coming from hosting his own show on Fox News, not quite.
	It was only a 25-minute segment, but it was fabulous.
	From Congressional District No.
	1 in New York, great friend of the show, Congressman Lee Zeldin.
	Welcome.
	It's good to be back with you, Seb.
	Congrats on that great hit.
	I have to ask you, I'm just going to be super cynical for a second.
	This is a guy who was given an Emmy as governor for his use of TV briefings in his handling of the coronavirus.
	Now we find out they hid the stats of the deaths from the Fed so they wouldn't get in trouble.
	Is Governor Cuomo ever going to face any consequences?
	An Emmy, and he wrote a self-congratulatory book on leadership of his response.
	And he started selling this ridiculous poster.
	I don't know if you remember this story, but if you haven't seen it, it was absurd.
	Several months ago, praising himself and the response.
	There's a concern I have every day I broadcast.
	On rare occasions, but I have mentioned this.
	And there's an inevitability to my concern.
	Not that my concern is inevitable, but what I'm concerned about is inevitable.
	Every one of us is bombarded with so much information on a daily basis, even on an hourly basis, that it is very easy to forget even very important things that you have heard.
	And there's no perfect answer to it.
	It's like reading a book.
	Something I've done all my life is underline important ideas or important facts in a book.
	Because who can remember every important thing in a book?
	That's why it's worth reading a good book again like you see a good movie again or hear good music again.
	So I came up with the phrase many years ago.
	Repetition is the mother of pedagogy, which only has one problem.
	Most people don't know what pedagogy means.
	Pedagogue is a teacher.
	Pedagogy is teaching or education.
	So, repetition is the mother of teaching.
	Last hour, this is what I'm specifically referring to.
	This is so important.
	That I want you to remember it.
	So I'm sort of trying to carve it in tablet.
	On a tablet.
	On stone, like God did with Moses in the Ten Commandments.
	So here it is.
	The movement in Oregon, the Department of Education, to abolish...
	Write answers in math so that everybody can get the same grade.
	It's called mathematical equity.
	I know it sounds unbelievable.
	We have the link.
	And it's easy for you to search in any event on the internet.
	But we have the link up at DennisPrager.com.
	And then lo and behold, at the bottom of their website, it says this was made possible in large measure.
	Due to a generous donation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	So that means Bill Gates is subsidizing the movement to abolish right answers in math.
	The tragedy of this man having so much money is only matched by the tragedy of many of these multi-billionaires having money.
	The amount that they have put into left-wing causes that destroy civilization.
	Like this.
	This destroys civilization.
	You understand that?
	There's no right math answer.
	The contempt for blacks and other people of color that is inherent to this.
	The contempt for truth.
	By the way, this is so in keeping with the left.
	Remember, there was no right answer in morality either.
	That's how I was raised in all of my education.
	Who is to say you're right?
	So moral relativism has now seeped into the sciences and math.
	We now have arithmetic relativism.
	You think two and two is four?
	Well, that's your take.
	I just saw somebody sent me, it was a sort of cartoon form, was it?
	No, it wasn't cartoon form.
	It was just, it was sort of a skit videoed of a kid who says 2 plus 2 equals 22. The teacher says he's wrong.
	And what happens to the teacher?
	Have you seen that skit on the internet?
	So...
	The teacher is fired by the district for imposing her view of math on a student.
	Oh, good.
	I have asked for that.
	I'll be on in one moment.
	So we've gone from moral relativism to mathematical relativism.
	When I say that the left destroys everything it touches, I didn't include math.
	It's one of the only things left.
	But remember, Bill Gates is funding the assault on math.
	Just remember that.
	All right.
	I asked a question.
	This is by way of introducing a guest that we just got.
	I did not know if we would get one on the subject.
	Most of us have great admiration for Texas, but the failure of Texas to keep its people warm in freezing temperatures has puzzled me, to be honest.
	So I actually asked my partner here, the producer of my show, can you explain what's happening in Texas?
	People are literally dying, freezing to death.
	So, we have Chuck McConnell, former Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration.
	He's now with the University of Houston.
	He's an energy expert.
	Mr. McConnell, thank you for taking the time.
	It's my pleasure.
	How do you know?
	You'll only know afterwards.
	Well, let's hope it's...
	That's right.
	Yeah, let's cross our fingers.
	Exactly.
	Okay, so...
	I have, I really, and I'm sure you will give me this, but I want to reassure everybody and you, in this, I am very open about agendas.
	I have no political agenda.
	Not Republican, not Democrat.
	I am a Republican, but I have no agenda.
	I don't understand how such a powerful, rich state can so fail its citizens.
	What's your explanation?
	Well, I don't want to get too wonky with you, Dennis, but I'll give it to you perhaps as plain-spoken as I can.
	We have a market structure in Texas that currently is deregulated, and it is based around advancing the concept that commodities and the commodity The pricing mechanism for electricity will give consumers the lowest cost in this deregulated market.
	What that does is it incentivizes everyone to sell into the market at whatever price they can, and by bidding in and winning that bid, you're able to sell your electricity.
	We've deployed a tremendous amount of wind and solar in Texas.
	We often talk about how we lead the nation in renewable energy deployment.
	And in fact, that system of the way our market is structured encourages then those that are deploying wind and solar, that have production tax credits and investment tax credits, to sell their power at whatever price they need.
	To move that power.
	And so it's preferentially sold into the market all the time.
	And those that don't have the advantage of production tax credits cannot.
	Those would be the fossil fuel plants, the nuclear fuel plants.
	And so they become then the marginal supply of electricity into the grid.
	Well, as we had our cold stock and the snow, The wind turbines didn't spin.
	The solar panels were covered with snow.
	And the 30,000 gigawatts of electricity capacity that the renewable system provides here for the state of Texas, and that's capacity, not delivery, but that capacity, which represents about one-third of our installed capacity, basically went to zero.
	And at that point, everybody's expectation is we're going to simply hit a button and the coal plants and the natural gas plants will immediately then be able to start up, supply energy into the system, and everything will be fine.
	Unfortunately, those facilities are not built to start on a dime and are very sensitive to weather.
	They are baseload capacity facilities that are meant to run 24-7.
	The market structure here does not provide an incentive for people to operate those facilities, to provide the baseload requirements necessary.
	It's a commodity market here, in terms of electricity.
	And unfortunately, electricity is not a commodity.
	It's really something for the public good.
	All right.
	Please hold it there.
	I have to take a break.
	And I will continue with Chuck McConnell in Texas.
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	The impeachment trial will proceed.
	Dun, dun, dun.
	Big vote yesterday.
	That's one headline in USA Today.
	Huge font.
	Trial to proceed.
	Chilling video.
	Managers open by reviving riot.
	And then the vote was taken.
	56-44.
	Six Republicans joined with the Democrats Show trial.
	This snap impeachment is constitutional.
	Bill Cassidy, for some reason, out of the clear blue last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial.
	Doesn't mean anything.
	It's unconstitutional.
	But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
	But then again, that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short from the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction.
	They've given away the ending.
	The vote yesterday sort of confirms that Trump will be acquitted, which will lead to the former president correctly claiming he's been vindicated.
	Certainly vindicated from an impeachment claim that he incited an insurrection.
	I don't know how many times, how many places you can play this.
	I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	So the Democrats claim that...
	Trump saying, go peacefully, let your voice be heard, or make your voice heard peacefully, incites a riot and an insurrection.
	Great.
	Good luck with that.
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	I was a Cuban-American, and the problem with the Cuban-Americans is that we are the only ethnic group that you can make fun of.
	and pay no consequence.
	The Cuban Americans in the United States could be make fun of, mocked, but no one will ever pay a price.
	Whether you are academia, whether you're the intelligentsia, whether you're in the news media, it doesn't matter.
	Why?
	Because we sided with the United States in the very big fight with the big Satan that was loved and adored for 60 years by the rest of the world.
	You know, I've never heard that before.
	I've often cited to my friends on the left.
	Armando Valladares, Against All Hope, as the Bible they've got to read to have even a glimpse.
	If they're an Anglo like me and they're Irish Catholic, they need to read that book.
	But I have never heard what you just said.
	I didn't realize that that is something you believe.
	I've heard it said that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice, which I believe.
	I'm a Catholic.
	But you just said with great passion and conviction that this goes on all the time about Cuban-Americans, and that's news to me, Congresswoman Salazar.
	Well, but think about it.
	Think about it.
	They can deride us.
	They can make fun of us.
	They can do anything to us.
	Anyone.
	The academia, even the news organizations.
	And there is no price to pay.
	Why?
	If you were to do that to any other ethnic group in the United States, you would have to, oh, I apologize.
	It's true.
	I'm so sorry.
	We made a mistake.
	It never happens with the Cuban Americans.
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	My guest, I didn't expect to have a guest on this, but as it happens, Chuck McConnell, former Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration, has a great Prager University video, Why Are Utilities So Expensive?
	So that's very worth, very...
	Contemporary in its relevance.
	So talking about Texas, I just sit, I'm saying this to you, of course, Chuck, and to everybody listening.
	It's a disgrace that in 2021, Americans are freezing to death anywhere in the country.
	But Texas prides itself on efficiency, on independence, and energy.
	So we're talking about that.
	So is it fair to say that, and if it's not fair to say, please say so.
	Don't spare me.
	But is it fair to say that to a large extent, the subsidizing of green energy is a major source of this problem?
	Yes, because it distorts the market.
	And when you distort the market, And you push out the baseload capacity of the gas, coal, and nuclear, then you run into situations where reliability issues be thought of as secondary.
	And they cannot be.
	Not when you're looking at electricity.
	It's not a commodity.
	It's for the public good.
	Yeah, it's water.
	It's a need in life.
	It's exactly right.
	What will be learned from this in Texas?
	I think there'll be a market restructuring here that will reward properly those facilities, natural gas-based facilities, coal-based facilities, to be able to run and be available into the grid.
	We have come very close to this same circumstance the past three summers.
	As the electricity demand has skyrocketed for air conditioning.
	But here's the interesting thing about that is, you can push a button on a natural gas plant and have it be up and running in one hour in the warm weather.
	When it's freezing cold, it can take days to start that natural gas plant up.
	And that's what we ran into here.
	We expected, or people had the naive belief, That these fossil-fueled plants could simply be started up to make up the difference for the frozen windmills and the covered solar panels.
	And that's naive.
	It's, again, treating the system as if it were a commodity supplier.
	Why would Republican governors subsidize green energy?
	Well, that's a tricky question, and I don't know whether or not it's a...
	We've had a tremendous amount of wind development and solar development.
	We've celebrated.
	We've had Republican governors talk about what a miracle it is.
	And, you know, look, there's nothing wrong with wind and solar, but it has to be part of an integrated system that is managed.
	Correctly so that reserve margins are maintained, stability is maintained as a first-order requirement, not an afterthought to a deregulated market.
	And that's kind of what we've got right now.
	So wind developers, solar developers, they don't do this unless they get the tax credits that are being provided.
	Texas did a great job of soliciting those investments in.
	And we're utilizing it, and it's not all bad, but in this case, we've had a blind spot in terms of the way the market is structured.
	If the government is subsidizing one form of energy, why do you call it deregulated?
	Well, that's a misnomer, actually.
	It's often spoken about as deregulated, but in fact, the scales are tipped.
	They're weighted, actually.
	It's quite regulated, it would seem to me, if the government is subsidizing one thing.
	And finally, I read that there are two or three nuclear plants in Texas.
	Is that accurate?
	There are several, yes.
	Some of them very, very new, actually, in terms of a nuclear fleet.
	And by the way, the coal fleet in Texas is the newest fleet in America, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.
	So what happened now that it wasn't efficient or effective?
	Well, again, it's back to that point.
	If you require those plants to sit in line waiting to be able to sell electricity and preferentially taking the wind and solar electrons into the system first, you've reduced baseload facilities to backup facilities.
	That's not what they're designed for.
	That's not how they perform most efficiently.
	All right, Chuck McConnell, I appreciate your contribution, your preview video.
	And finally, you're at the University of Houston.
	Which do you prefer, being Assistant Secretary of Energy or being a professor at a university?
	Well, look, I think our journey in life is everything that we've done, isn't it, Dennis?
	So I think just embracing it all and looking to the future to try to take advantage of all the exploration and all of the learnings along the journey.
	So I've enjoyed everything I do and hope to continue in that way.
	Yes.
	Well, I thank you again.
	I appreciate it.
	I'll tell you, one of the things that I have thought about, the lack of preparedness in Texas for this icy, frigid weather, is in part because people so believe it just won't happen.
	Why?
	Because things are just getting warmer.
	Why even think about cold?
	But they have an answer.
	That's why they changed the name from global warming to climate change.
	So even when it's freezing, it's part of global warming.
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	One of the things I wanted to go through is how the Democrats tampered with evidence.
	And I was going through it with our team.
	I said, you do know that Eric Swalwell, who's a lover of Fang Fang, the Chinese Communist Party spy, he tampered with evidence.
	And David Shone, to his great credit, came out and proved that point.
	That Eric Swalwell, and this is why this is not a trial, this is a Hollywood...
	Broadway production.
	That's all this is.
	In a real trial, you'd say, Your Honor, this evidence is tampered with.
	So you had Swalwell, the lover of Fang Fang, who came out and said that Donald Trump called for the Calvary to come.
	Calvary.
	Now, anyone in the Christian world knows that there's a difference between Calvary and Calvary.
	I sometimes...
	Without unintentionally mispronounce one or the other.
	But I know the difference.
	Calvary, C-A-L, cavalry.
	One is where Christ was crucified.
	The other is horse-mounted infantry.
	Horse-mounted military.
	So Eric Swalwell reads Jennifer Lawrence's tweet, who says, Mr. President, The Calvary is coming.
	So Eric Swalwell then comes out and says, well, on the House impeachment floor, you see here, President Trump, he was calling in for reinforcements.
	And the Calvary is coming.
	Now, to an untrained eye, you're like, well, there might be something, you know, maybe there might be.
	It's nothing.
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	Transcription by CastingWords Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm engaging in whataboutism.
	Here I am bringing up an example to show my point.
	I can't do that.
	It shows you hypocrisy.
	Selective outrage.
	Hillary Clinton can parade around for four years and call the election illegitimate and say it was stolen.
	And nobody says, hey, excuse me, you're giving energy to Donald Trump.
	Nobody said anything.
	You know why?
	Because they believed it was stolen.
	78% of Democrats believe that the Russians interfered, which everybody knows they did and acknowledged, but that they changed the outcome of the election.
	And Jay Johnson, the then head of the Homeland Security Department under Obama, testified there's no evidence whatsoever.
	We haven't reached any kind of conclusion that the outcome was changed.
	We know that no voting tallies were changed.
	They tried, but they failed.
	Yet 78% of Democrats, and they get their news from CNN, their feed from Facebook, New York Times, and 78% of Democrats have convinced themselves that but for whatever Russia did, Donald Trump would not be president, even though the intel community has never reached that conclusion.
	Am I not supposed to bring that up?
	It says something about your reason and your logic.
	I said that yesterday about the O.J. Simpson case.
	How do you respect a bunch of people who look at the same evidence of overwhelming guilt and say the man was an innocent man who was framed?
	How do you respect somebody like that?
	How do you respect their judgment, their mentality, their ability to reason?
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	city too long to lie I just tried to find something to find out All right, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Didn't take one call today.
	Been so busy.
	And taking guests.
	All right.
	Let's take some challenges.
	L.A., California.
	Michael, hello.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	I'm just calling because I really didn't understand why you just ignored some of the despicable things that Rush Limbaugh has said on air.
	Well, in my column that's coming out tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal, I mention his calling Sandra Flake a slut, so I don't ignore it.
	Well, that's pretty despicable, and he gets the freedom of metal?
	Yes, he deserved the metal of freedom, because if we only give...
	No way.
	No way.
	Tell me when you want me to respond, or I'll just allow you to talk.
	It's your call.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	If we only give metals, To people who have done nothing wrong, we will give no medals.
	You strike me as one who thinks we should take down statues of Washington because he owns slaves.
	Is that correct?
	No, I think you should take them down because he didn't want them to be erected.
	Say that again, I'm missing it.
	Washington, I'm talking about George Washington.
	Right, George Washington would be appalled at all of the statues that were I have no
	problem with...
	No, no, no.
	I already raised the issue.
	Let me just ask you.
	Okay.
	You said that because Rush Limbaugh has said some despicable things, like the one that I actually include in my article, therefore he does not deserve the Medal of Freedom.
	So I said you probably believe then that Washington does not deserve a statue because he had slaves.
	No, I didn't say that.
	I know.
	So I'm asking you, do you agree with that thinking?
	No, I don't agree with the thinking.
	I agree with this.
	This is what I'm saying.
	I'm saying that the despicable things that Rush Limbaugh said about Michael J. Fox was absolutely unforgivable.
	And let me answer the question about George Washington.
	If you want to say that I do not think that George Washington, his statue should be taken down because he owned slaves.
	I say that they should be taken down because...
	He never would have wanted them erected.
	Let me ask you something.
	Who would you like the statue to?
	Why do I need any statues?
	I don't need any statues.
	Okay, I think society does well with them.
	I like the Lincoln Memorial.
	I like the Washington Monument.
	Every society has something for the people it venerates.
	The reason that I thank you for your call, the reason that I asked Mark this question was that we have entered this thinking that in the balance of your life, if you've done a great deal of good but done some sinning, the sinning invalidates the good.
	I would say that Rush Limbaugh did more for freedom.
	Then the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, all put together.
	They have no reverence for freedom, and he does, and America stands for liberty.
	He apologized.
	I know about the Michael J. Fox issue as well.
	I haven't explored it as much as I did to Sandra Flake, but I used it in my article to be balanced.
	He apologized for it within three days.
	And I didn't include it because of the space limitations of the column, which is 750 words generally.
	Do you remember, what was his name?
	Matthew, the Catholic boy, high school boy, who the country, the mainstream media condemned, humiliated.
	Destroyed his reputation in that of his Catholic school in Kentucky.
	I don't remember Matthew's last name, but he was the...
	What they did to him was so much worse than what Rush Limbaugh did to Sandra Flake, who was 30 years old, could take care of herself.
	There was one show of one man, whereas this perfectly innocent young man...
	They wanted to ruin his life.
	They said his face looks like a face that should be punched.
	Remember that?
	That was mainstream thinking.
	And they talk about Russian Sandra Flake.
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	So we have an admission of Calpability.
	We have 14,000 dead in the homes.
	Where do New Yorkers go next, who lost a husband and a wife?
	What's the next step, Congressman?
	I would say a few things.
	One is, you have law enforcement, you have prosecutors at other levels of government that can take action.
	That's the first thing.
	Secondly...
	The New York Republican Congressional Delegations, and our numbers are increasing.
	Claudia Tenney was finally certified the winner of her race and was sworn in this past week.
	Eight of us today sent a letter to the Department of Justice with regards to this obstruction of justice case that's emerging, calling on the Department of Justice to investigate this charge.
	Now, you have a confirmation hearing that's coming up.
	Merrick Garland the nominee to be the next Attorney General.
	Inside of that confirmation hearing is a great opportunity for senators to maybe ask about this letter or put aside my letter that was sent with my colleagues today just asking about the Underlying issue.
	And you can't allow, with all these different confirmation hearings, the person who's answering your question to just not give you any answer on any of this.
	We need to get assurances that something like this is going to be pursued.
	Don't do it for me.
	Don't do it for a member of Congress.
	You're doing it for those thousands of families.
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	Liberal Justice Louis Brandeis said that states are laboratories of democracy.
	That we will be able to tell what states are succeeding.
	Remember, what makes the American Republican system different, small r, not Republican Party, but a system based in a constitutional republic, is that the states created the federal government.
	The federal government did not create the states.
	That distinction is so incredibly important.
	We're a coalition of states.
	We're a coalition of sovereign entities that voluntarily agreed to a national compact.
	That is why...
	Those of us that are conservatives don't like the heavy hand of the federal government.
	We say, why does the Department of Education exist?
	Why do you need a Department of Labor when you have a Georgia Department of Labor?
	The federal government should be there for federal crimes, military...
	Alright, I have two corrections here.
	The boy's name was Nicholas Sandman, not Matthew anything.
	Nicholas Sandman.
	And it was Sandra Fluck.
	Not flake.
	I knew it wasn't fluke.
	It's bizarre.
	Her name is spelled F-L-U-K-E. It should be fluke.
	That's how the word is pronounced.
	But that's wrong.
	So I knew it was wrong, and I thought it was flake.
	But it's fluk.
	Okay.
	But I'm only doing this because I'm a little obsessed with accuracy.
	And I mean, I think I'm over-obsessed, but...
	Anyway, over-obsessed is redundant.
	Obsessed is over.
	Shimon in Los Angeles, California.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Good to hear your voice.
	Good to hear yours.
	Dennis, all I can say is that you have been, and you still are the wisest man on radio.
	That's very sweet of you.
	Thank you.
	No doubt about it.
	Thank you.
	In the first hour, you said, what's divisive about conservatism?
	So, it's very simple what's divisive, I can say it isn't.
	It's when people emotionally say, what right do you have to tell me how to feel?
	Because liberalism is all about feeling, as you've stated many times.
	And it's very upsetting to them when you tell them, no, your head has to rule over your heart.
	That's divisive.
	I agree with you.
	You can't get more divisive than that.
	Don't be ruled by your emotions.
	Whoa!
	You should do penitence before Yom Kippur.
	Exactly.
	No, so this leads me into what I originally called about, and that is I have some unsolicited advice for you.
	And the moment that I heard about the recall for Gavin Newsom, and I signed the petition right away, of course, I said, you know, on the ballot, there's going to be names of the people you want to be governing.
	And I said to myself, who could be more perfect than Dennis Prager?
	You would be the perfect candidate for governor.
	Even though the state legislature would be against you completely.
	You'd be like the Donald Trump of California.
	You'd be an outsider.
	And again, like I just mentioned, a state that's ruled by emotion and liberalism needs wisdom at the top.
	It would be an incredible bully public for you.
	I think it's exactly what you're here for.
	And whatever amount of years you put into it, I think you might be able to tame the beast that's California with incredible wisdom.
	And that's my advice for you.
	Shimon, you're a dear soul.
	He's an impressive man.
	I know him for many years.
	I'm very touched.
	I want to read to you a text Larry Elder sent me after I forwarded him a text from one of the leading pastors in the country who said, look, you have access to Larry Elder, which I do, of course.
	We're very close.
	He said, please forward him This message that he should run for governor.
	So I forwarded it to Larry.
	Let me see.
	Here we go.
	So here we go.
	This was the original text.
	Hi, Dennis.
	This is from the pastor.
	We're in a meeting regarding the recall efforts of Gavin Newsom, which is most certainly going to happen.
	As of today, it means we need a candidate.
	I know we talked about Larry Elder before, and Larry Elder did express when he was at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, that it could be a possibility.
	Do you have any way of letting Elder know?
	That there are a lot of people in support of him running.
	These are not low-level influencers.
	These are top-level people and with means.
	We need to encourage Larry.
	My response?
	I will tell him.
	I forwarded your text.
	This is the response from Larry Elder to me.
	Dennis.
	I feel about that office the way Walter Cronkite felt when asked if he'd like to be a senator.
	He said, I'd love to serve, I'd hate to run.
	I have neither the temperament, the stomach, the passion, nor the will to run.
	And if elected, I would not have the desire to spend my last years on earth busting heads with those doofuses.
	Apart from that, dot dot dot.
	So I sent it to the pastor, and he writes back, thank you for the response, and I must say, I agree with him.
	That's after urging him to run.
	Shimon says I'd have a big bully pulpit if I were governor of California.
	I would have a big bully pulpit if I were president or vice president of the United States.
	But otherwise, this national radio show is a much bigger pulpit.
	PragerU, this, Columns, I have a huge, thank God, bully pulpit.
	Because all I want to do is influence people.
	I don't want to have any power over them.
	I am touched, though.
	It would be, I mean, the thought of me negotiating with teachers' unions.
	When I believe they are such destructive forces in America that they have harmed children more than any other single thing in the United States outside of direct child abuse.
	What am I going to say?
	It's great to see you guys.
	Great to meet with you.
	I can't do that, to be honest.
	It isn't great to meet with them.
	I have contempt for teachers' unions.
	Utter, total contempt.
	If they were worthless, I would meet with them.
	They are harmful.
	Utterly, 100% harmful.
	The degradation of the teaching profession in my lifetime to the state of cowardice and contempt for children that most teachers today express is breathtaking.
	To corrupt the word teacher, the most venerated word in my religious vocabulary.
	Do you know that teacher and Torah are the exact same word except for the one consonant?
	They come from the exact same verbal root.
	That is how venerating, venerated teachers are.
	Torah and Morah.
	How's that?
	And they've ruined, actually the left has ruined both.
	Back in a moment.
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	The impeachment trial will proceed, Donald.
	Dun, dun, dun.
	Big vote yesterday.
	That's one headline in USA Today.
	Huge font.
	Trial to proceed.
	Chilling video.
	Managers open by reviving riot.
	And then the vote was taken.
	56-44.
	Six Republicans joined with the Democrats in claiming that this show trial, this snap impeachment, is constitutional.
	Bill Cassidy.
	For some reason, out of the clear blue.
	Last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial.
	Doesn't mean anything.
	It's unconstitutional.
	But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
	But then again, that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short.
	From the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction, they've given away the ending.
	The vote yesterday sort of confirms that Trump will be acquitted, which will lead to the former president correctly claiming he's been vindicated.
	Certainly vindicated from an impeachment.
	You know, claim that he incited an insurrection.
	I don't know how many times, how many places you can play this.
	I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	So the Democrats claim that...
	Trump saying, go peacefully, let your voice be heard, or make your voice heard peacefully, incites a riot and an insurrection.
	Great.
	Good luck with that.
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	I was a Cuban-American, and the problem with the Cuban-Americans is that we are the only ethnic group that you can make fun of.
	and pay no consequence.
	The Cuban Americans in the United States could be make fun of, mocked, but no one will ever pay a price.
	Whether you are academia, whether you're the intelligentsia, whether you're in the news media, it doesn't matter.
	Why?
	Because we sided with the United States in the very big fight with the big Satan that was loved and adored for 60 years by the rest of the world.
	You know, I've never heard that before.
	I've often cited to my friends on the left, Armando Valladares Against All Hope, as the Bible they've got to read to have even a glimpse.
	If they're an Anglo like me and they're Irish Catholic, they need to read that book.
	But I have never heard what you just said.
	Okay, everybody.
	Wait.
	What is today?
	Like the classic greats from the popular music world of the last 75 years or so?
	I like it.
	That's fine with me.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	And Millie in L.A. I can't get to as many calls as I want right now.
	Obviously, I will get to more next hour.
	The challenge there is to my condemnation of Bill Gates.
	It's very fair that I'd be challenged on that because he has done some good in wiping out diseases in the third world.
	Truth is truth.
	In the long term, the undermining of Western civilization that is taking place and his support of it, one may differ with me on how serious a challenge it is to civilization to teach kids that there is no right answer in math.
	I believe that that destroys the notion of truth, and with that, It is inevitable that evil will result.
	All evil comes from lies.
	That is why the left is so dangerous, not only because it promulgates lies like the 1619 Project, Russian collusion, systemic racism, and the like, but because it suppresses the search for truth, which is what dissent is.
	The number of people killed by the left by suppressing knowledge about ivermectin.
	Another bunch of studies have come out with staggeringly positive results with regard to people with COVID taking ivermectin, not to mention hydroxychloroquine and zinc.
	So that was the reason for my attack on Bill Gates.
	So, on the one hand, you undermine the search for truth in the West, and on the other hand, you help eradicate polio in Africa.
	Okay?
	If there's no West, there will be no polio vaccines.
	Polio vaccines come from the West, the place that was founded on something called Biblical values.
	and the belief that there is truth.
	The 1918 virus iterated 12 times over the summer of 1918 and emerged deadlier.
	Do we know about these variants in any sort of way that alarms you, Andy, beyond the ordinary alarm that would arrive with any virus?
	My job is probably to be in a state of alarm and playing through bad scenarios and trying to plan for those scenarios, even hoping many of them don't come to fruition.
	I think these variants are not good news.
	These variants suggest...
	That there is enough multiplication of this virus out here that the virus is going to go through this evolutionary path more quickly than we had hoped to try to resist where it can.
	Now, the good news is that the major variant, the one coming out of England, the UK, the one they call B.1.1.7, the vaccine and human immunity seems to hold up very well against that.
	There are other mutations.
	Where there's been more than one mutation to the spike protein, as this happened in South Africa, this happened in Brazil, where the vaccine is still effective but less effective, and where there's some evidence that pre-existing immunity doesn't work and doesn't hold.
	So these are signs that we are going to be, like with the flu, facing something that will continue to change on us.
	Most of these changes are completely harmless and completely irrelevant.
	Most of these changes, and this virus has been evolving this whole time in front of our eyes, have had no real impact.
	But occasionally they do.
	And that just means our science needs to be better.
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	We'll move on to what is the main event at the moment, which is the radicalism of the Biden agenda, pushing a lot of stuff out unilaterally and also pushing a massive stimulus You know, we all can agree I think we need some more COVID relief, but it's much, much bigger than that and has a massive national minimum wage increase that would hammer the job market at a time when we should be doing everything to support it.
	It is almost as if, and I hesitate to say it because it doesn't sound sane, but it's almost as if they are trying to destroy the economy.
	It's so bizarre.
	Would you give them enough credit to say that they're not trying to bring some kind of socialism or big government dependence to us via these strange means?
	Because that's kind of what it looks like to me.
	Yeah, that is what they're trying to do.
	I mean, it's based on a misbegotten but sincere view of what the country should be in their minds and how the economy works.
	But if you get closer to where you are in the world than where I am at the moment, you know, a place like Alabama, the median wage is $15 an hour.
	That means, I'm not a statistics guy, but half of people make less than that.
	So what's going to happen to their jobs when you mandate that they all have to make $15 an hour?
	Well, they're either no longer going to have jobs, or their hours are going to be cut, or the employers are going to find a way to automate.
	So this just makes zero sense.
	I'm all in favor of a tight labor market.
	I think that was one of the beauties of the Trump economy when it was really cooking prior to the pandemic.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Borka.
	But who cares?
	33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home.
	They died.
	Who cares?
	They died.
	Remind you of anyone Benghazi Hillary What difference does it make?
	It makes a difference.
	From the New York Post, headline, Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out.
	Let's ask somebody who's definitely got an opinion.
	Coming from hosting his own show on Fox News, not quite.
	It was only a 25-minute segment, but it was fabulous.
	From Congressional District No.
	1 in New York, great friend of the show, Congressman Lee Zeldin.
	Welcome.
	It's good to be back with you, Seb.
	Congrats on that great hit.
	I have to ask you, I'm just going to be super cynical for a second.
	This is a guy who was given an Emmy as governor for his use of TV briefings in his handling of the coronavirus.
	Now we find out they hid the stats of the deaths from the Fed so they wouldn't get in trouble.
	Is Governor Cuomo ever going to face any consequences?
	An Emmy and hero.
	He wrote a self-congratulatory book on leadership of his response, and he started selling this ridiculous poster.
	I don't know if you remember this story, but if you haven't seen it, it was absurd.
	Several months ago, praising himself and the response.
	When he says, who cares, what you think about are the lives.
	impacted the families, the people who lost their mom or dad, grandmother or grandfather.
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	Mike, what is the number one reason you think people in the state want him recalled?
	Is it his handling of the COVID-19 crisis?
	Is it the way he's been ordering things like oil and gas leases and pushing a left-wing agenda?
	That can't be it because this is a left-wing state, so people must be ticked off about his handling of the COVID-19.
	And Mike, if that's the case...
	Then what happens when the vaccines kick in and what happens when Governor Newsom begins to back down as he's already begun to back down?
	California has 5 million Republicans and 9 million Democrats, but our biggest problem we have out here is there's 6.5 million NPPs, people that just aren't paying attention.
	They actually tend to be conservative, and the one thing that's uniting the state, believe it or not, on the right and the left is actually Gavin's self.
	The number one reason, if you were to boil into two buckets, is everything you said.
	But the reality is he's a bad leader making poor decisions.
	And COVID just amplified.
	We started this before COVID really hit the scene, if you will.
	This is just amplified the cycle.
	Okay, everybody, everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Montana Daily Gazette, a new study involving over 25,000 school-aged children shows that masks are harming schoolchildren physically, psychologically, and behaviorally.
	I briefly mentioned this.
	It is really important to share this with you.
	Revealing 24 distinct health issues associated with wearing masks.
	The health issues and impairments observed in this study were found to affect 68% of masked children who were forced to wear a face covering for an average of 4.5 hours a day.
	Some of the health issues found in the study include increased headaches, 53%, difficulty concentrating, 50%, drowsiness or fatigue, 37%, Malaise, 42%, and nearly a third of children experience more sleep issues than they had previously, and a quarter of children develop new fears.
	Only a quarter?
	You know why?
	I know why.
	I figured it out!
	They're so filled with fears already, like they will...
	Not survive adulthood because of global warming.
	That the list of fears, it just can't keep going.
	The assault on childhood by the left is one of its many despicable characteristics.
	This has been my whole lifetime.
	You know what's systemic?
	The left's systemic corruption of childhood.
	The robbing of children of innocence.
	You meet a homeschooled kid, or most kids from religious homes, versus a kid taught by a left-wing teacher, which is most teachers, and there will be, in the vast majority of cases, no comparison.
	The amount of jadedness in the kid raised by regular schools versus the kid.
	They're wide-open, cheerful.
	They hate that, though.
	They have contempt for the homeschooled kid who has just a cheery look at life, who calls adults Mr. or Ms. Right?
	There's contempt for that.
	Though these results are concerning, the study also found that 30% of children experience shortness of breath, 26% experience dizziness, and hundreds of the participants experiencing accelerated respiration, tightness in chest weakness, and short-term impairment of consciousness.
	The airlines insisting that if you're over two, you have to wear a mask.
	You know what it is?
	It's been true all my life.
	The most extreme elements of the left push policy.
	You think the average flight attendant thinks that a two-and-a-half-year-old should have to wear a mask for four hours?
	It is inconceivable to me that the average pilot, flight attendant, airline worker believes that that is necessary.
	They do it because they don't want to get fired.
	They do it, the airlines do it because they don't want to get fined or sued.
	That's what animates this stuff.
	And why do they even make that possible?
	The lawsuits, because the better safe than sorry.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, there's a new one.
	What does AOC stand for again?
	Not the woman.
	Abundance of caution.
	Yes.
	This is the new motto of the country.
	Drop, in God we trust, a pluribus unum, or liberty, and put in abundance of caution.
	See, there can't be too much caution.
	That's the theory of the fools.
	Tom Sowell made this point.
	Decades ago, in stage one thinking, the further left you go, the less the question is asked, what price is being paid?
	They don't ask that.
	There's no price paid for all this masking, right?
	Just let's do it.
	Even outdoors.
	Even where there's no congregating of people.
	Let's have everybody wear masks outdoors.
	I proudly do not wear a mask outdoors, and I'm awaiting somebody to come over and say, why aren't you wearing a mask?
	Because I have a prepared answer.
	Because I'm rational.
	And I look forward to saying it, but it hasn't happened yet.
	I got one dirty look.
	In all of these months, leaving my office building where I broadcast what was apparently a young woman, I would say in her 20s, very heavily covered face with mask.
	She actually walked around me as if I would kill her.
	Basically like that.
	I had a knife.
	It's interesting.
	Had I had a knife and a mask, I don't know if she would have reacted with greater fear, fright.
	And I decided to take a second look at this woman, and on her mask it said, Black Lives Matter.
	There you go.
	Now, why is it?
	Isn't it interesting?
	That a supporter of the movement Black Lives Matter is far more likely to be adamant about masks.
	Now, wouldn't you think that the two are not related?
	Could you think of two more disparate subjects than mask wearing for a virus and supporting the BLM movement?
	But they are related.
	Most positions in humans, not all, most are related.
	They come from the same human for the same reason.
	And it's a...
	I can't, by the way, even though I'm sure of that, I can't fully pinpoint it.
	Why would every one of you assume?
	Interesting question, isn't it?
	Maybe you'll have a response.
	Why would everyone, left or right, or just about everyone, assume that someone adamant about masks is far more likely to be a supporter of Black Lives Matter, not the concept, but the movement, than otherwise?
	Why do they go hand in hand?
	hand.
	I know they do, and I haven't pinpointed it.
	They're on the left and everybody assumes that the left wants to control you.
	on the right as soon as it happens.
	Everybody on the right.
	So you're answering then as someone on the right.
	That BLM wants to control you and the people advocating masks want to control you.
	I think that's a legitimate explanation.
	It may not be the only, but I think it is legitimate.
	BLM controls what you say.
	Mass control what you do.
	The acceptance, yes, the acceptance of rules.
	We all accept rules.
	I mean, that's obvious.
	But the welcoming of life-controlling rules, not just yield the right-of-way upon entering a highway.
	That those two would go together.
	I think you're right.
	The damage done to kids because of the lockdown.
	Look, I'll just say this, and I will say it forever.
	I said so in the beginning.
	I was such a lonely voice.
	I wasn't the only, but I was lonely.
	That was the greatest mistake in history.
	Not greatest evil, I made that clear, but greatest mistake.
	Said it last March.
	And, by the way, it's not anti-left alone.
	Sweden is left of center.
	I lauded it the whole time.
	Israel was run by a conservative or right-wing government.
	The U.S. was.
	India was.
	And I condemned.
	When India did a lockdown, one of the poorest places on Earth, I just went ballistic We'll be back So
	we have an admission of culpability.
	We have 14,000 dead in the homes.
	Where do New Yorkers go next, who lost their husband and wife?
	What's the next step, Congressman?
	I would say a few things.
	One is, you have law enforcement, you have prosecutors at other levels of government that can take action, that's the first thing.
	Secondly...
	The New York Republican congressional delegations, and our numbers are increasing.
	Claudia Tenney won her, was finally certified the winner of her race and was sworn in this past week.
	Eight of us today sent a letter to the Department of Justice with regards to the substruction of justice case that's emerging, calling on the Department of Justice to investigate this charge.
	Now, you have a confirmation hearing that's coming up.
	Merrick Garland, the nominee to be the next Attorney General.
	Inside of that confirmation hearing is a great opportunity for senators to maybe ask about this letter.
	Or put aside my letter that was sent with my colleagues today, just asking about the underlying issue.
	And you can't allow With all these different confirmation hearings, the person who's answering your question to just not give you any answer on any of this, we need to get assurances that something like this is going to be pursued.
	Don't do it for me.
	Don't do it for a member of Congress.
	You're doing it for those thousands of families.
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	. you Liberal Justice Louis Brandeis said that states are laboratories of democracy.
	That we will be able to tell what states are succeeding and failing.
	Remember, what makes the American Republican system difference, small r, not Republican Party, but a system based in a constitutional republic, is that the states created the federal government.
	The federal government did not create the states.
	That distinction is so incredibly important.
	We're a coalition of states.
	We're a coalition of sovereign entities that voluntarily agreed to a national compact.
	That is why...
	Those of us that are conservatives don't like the heavy hand of the federal government.
	We say, why does the Department of Education exist?
	Why do you need a Department of Labor when you have a Georgia Department of Labor?
	The federal government should be there for federal crimes, military, when needed, a social safety net, but really that should be left to the states, interstate commerce, protecting federal parks and lands, protecting our borders, managing immigration.
	International diplomacy.
	And I'm sure there's a couple other things I can name that would probably the proper role of government.
	But that's about it.
	Most things should be left to the states for good reason.
	The founding fathers knew this.
	The founding fathers knew that as soon as you strengthen a centralized federal government, as soon as you put...
	unchecked power in the D.C.
	Why don't I?
	Oh, I've got to do an ad.
	I'm going to forget.
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	I am Dennis Prager.
	My column or my piece on, op-ed piece on Rush Limbaugh will be in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal.
	You know, people isolate some...
	Awful things, and he did say some awful things, that he has said.
	This is a new world in which a comment ends your viability.
	Two comments, three comments.
	I did the math, so guess how many hours, either of you, neither of you saw my column.
	When I finished the column, you were about to get up.
	You know, between Alan Estrin and me, it is 24-7.
	There may be two hours a night, maybe, when we're both asleep.
	Oh, you're up.
	So among the three of us, you've got 24-7 service.
	So I'll ask both of you, how many hours do you think Rush Limbaugh broadcasted?
	Yeah, there's one answer, sure.
	I fell in.
	That was good.
	He got me.
	I didn't get any funds from Bill Gates.
	Had Bill Gates funded me, I would have said, you know, there is no one answer.
	So, ready?
	I did the math, and I assumed two weeks vacation each year.
	24,000 hours.
	24,000 hours.
	By the way, that's true for me, too.
	24,000 hours extemporaneously.
	Which is true for all of us.
	None of us read scripts at talk radio.
	24,000 hours.
	Now let me ask you a question, dear fellow mortals.
	How many people could speak 24,000 hours extemporaneously and not say something they regret?
	We all know the answer.
	Zero.
	But this is now an art.
	Ah, do you know in 2011, he said...
	By the way, in Russia's case, it was almost always just over-the-top nonsense.
	And he knew it.
	Anyway, I do deal with that in the column.
	on.
	You see, what is happening is, I defend, I end with his getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	And as I pointed out earlier in the show, he has done almost immeasurably more for freedom than the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, CNN, and the rest of the gang, who are squashing and supporting the squashing of freedom.
	So if he doesn't deserve the Medal of Freedom, who does?
	Seriously, who does?
	Remember, the Medal of Freedom.
	Not the Medal of, I don't know, unassailable speech.
	Medal of Freedom.
	Masks.
	I was talking to you about masks.
	How they have hurt kids.
	I just tell you, I gotta say, I so feel for kids today.
	When I grew up, they were heroes.
	Very important for boys especially to have heroes.
	It's important for girls too, but it's particularly important for boys.
	Ideally, dad is somewhat of a hero.
	Or maybe an uncle or a grandfather.
	But society needs heroes.
	But all leftists are fools, not all liberals.
	Liberals are almost all cowards, but they're not fools.
	And they're cowards because they're afraid to vote right.
	They're afraid to speak right.
	They're afraid to be hurt by the left.
	But the left will crush liberals like they have in every other society.
	Yesterday I did a Zoom call to the great credit of a Jewish leader in Los Angeles. - Bye.
	I don't know, did you even know this?
	I did a Zoom call yesterday with about 15 major players in Los Angeles, Jewry.
	Los Angeles' second largest Jewish population in the United States.
	So that would make the second largest Jewish population outside of Israel in any city.
	Overwhelmingly, the Jews of Los Angeles, like almost any other place in the U.S., are on the left.
	I'd say half liberal, half left.
	So a Jewish leader decided that he would invite 15 of these people, all of whom were liberal or left, to have a Zoom conference with me.
	Yeah, that sounds about right.
	15 to 1. Yeah, I won't say that, but I hear you.
	And I immediately accepted it.
	Any invitation to dialogue and or debate, it wasn't much of a debate, and I didn't expect it to be.
	It was very pleasant.
	I accept.
	In fact, I made a deal with him.
	I said, since he has access to Los Angeles rabbis, you make a deal with any non-Orthodox rabbi.
	If they let me speak at their congregation, I will let them speak on my radio show.
	So I'll take, you know, 300 and I'll give him millions.
	Or her.
	I didn't know what to do to induce them to invite me to speak to their congregations.
	The battle in religion, Christianity, and Judaism, The battle with the left is as great as it is anywhere else.
	So I will tell you when we come back one anecdote from the hour and 20-minute session.
	When I mentioned that if you just say men do not give birth, you are considered a hater.
	I want to share with you one of their reactions.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	Where do you see this ending?
	In other words, I fear that all of these ideologies are a snake swallowing its own tail.
	In other words, they basically destroy, destroy.
	They don't have the beginning of a clue what they would want to replace it with.
	Marxism, I really can't imagine what they're suggesting.
	What they're suggesting is a woke ideology of so-called anti-racism that is a profound misnomer that's really a profound race consciousness.
	And our institutions and our politics are downstream of culture, and they are destroying our culture.
	One pillar at a time.
	And an extremely important element of culture throughout all human history is memory.
	It's knowing who you are as a people, what you're about, what your story is.
	And when Jesse Jackson 30 years ago had that ridiculous chant, you know, hey, hey, ho-ho, Western Civ has to go, that was really the first battle cry in this fight to make us forget who we are.
	And it's not just forgetting, it's also lying about who we are.
	We see this...
	Particularly in the 1619 Project and its poisonous view of America that wants to make the American founding about slavery.
	When the American founding was an incredible advance in human civilization and enlightenment and liberty and created in the North a movement against slavery that eventually would eliminate slavery in the entire country in the Civil War.
	But they want to face all of that and build a new vision of America.
	on the rubble that would be based on this left-wing ideology.
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	The impeachment trial will proceed.
	Dun, dun, dun.
	Big vote yesterday.
	That's one headline in USA Today.
	Huge font.
	Trial to proceed.
	Chilling video.
	Managers open by reviving riot.
	And then the vote was taken.
	56-44.
	Six Republicans joined with the Democrats in claiming that this show trial This snap impeachment is constitutional.
	Bill Cassidy, for some reason, out of the clear blue last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial, doesn't mean anything, it's unconstitutional.
	But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
	But then again, that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short.
	From the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction, they've given away the ending.
	The vote yesterday sort of confirms that Trump will be acquitted, which will lead to the former president correctly claiming he's been vindicated.
	Certainly vindicated from an impeachment.
	You know, claim that he incited an insurrection.
	I don't know how many times, how many places you can play this.
	I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	So the Democrats claim that...
	Trump saying, go peacefully, let your voice be heard, or make your voice heard peacefully, incites a riot and an insurrection.
	Great.
	Good luck with that.
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	All right, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	To say that I enjoy speaking to Dinesh D'Souza is to understate the case.
	And so since I love Joy, I have him on.
	He's filmmaker, best-selling author, and now podcaster on the Salem Podcast Network.
	It can be found just about anywhere.
	How often do you do your podcast, Dinesh?
	So, Dennis, it's become a full-time occupation.
	I do it every day for an hour.
	Now, I don't do three hours like you do, but I do an hour a day.
	It's video and audio, and the audio podcast is on Apple and Spotify, and the video is on Google and Rumble and also on Salem Now, the Salem platform.
	Well, welcome to the full, as I have said, now 35 years, whether it's an hour or three, it's a jealous mistress.
	Well, this is true.
	You know, Debbie, when she actually suggested the podcast, and of course in the old days, you know, pre-COVID, I couldn't do this.
	I was on the road half the time, speaking all over the place.
	So COVID kind of put me in the bunker at home, and so one of the silver linings of this whole one-year shutdown has been that I've been able to start a podcast.
	I'm actually really having fun with it because...
	You know, I would say a lot of people who do podcasts do sort of a podcast where they do stream of consciousness.
	But I try to make mine very educational.
	I go into apologetics.
	I go into history.
	I do some philosophy.
	So it's a wide-ranging podcast, and it's really fun for me to do.
	It shows all my different interests, and it's a wonderful way to stay on top of the news.
	I must say, your podcast talking about educational on 14th century Moldavian architecture, I found that illuminating.
	Yeah!
	Well, you know, I try to bring, I call it the Ben Franklin sensibility.
	And the thing about Ben Franklin is he would see, like, the American Indians building a mound, and he would sit there and watch them for hours trying to figure out how they do it, what is the purpose of it, what is the, you know, so this kind of curiosity, which I think is the essence of liberal education, I'm trying to bring to the podcast.
	You do, and I just want to make clear to all of my listeners, I was joking.
	He did not do a podcast on 14th Century Moldavian.
	So I don't want to intimidate anybody.
	But to be honest, if you did, I would still watch it because you make everything interesting.
	So, by the way, I had a silver lining in productivity because I also have not been on the road almost at all.
	I'll be, you know, periodically, maybe once every two months, but nothing to speak of.
	And I was able, therefore, to finish my next volume of my Bible commentary, Deuteronomy, which turned out to be the toughest of all the books.
	And so it's a good thing if you could make something out of a bad situation.
	Absolutely.
	I've tried to do that.
	I mean, I tried to do that with my case with the Obama administration, which is to say, you know, I found myself parachuted into a sort of world that I would never otherwise have set foot in.
	And I looked around and said, you know what?
	Let me think of myself as being in Papua New Guinea.
	There are some very interesting human specimens walking around.
	Let me try to understand who these people are, how they function, how they think.
	And weirdly, at the end of it, I was able to link the kind of gang mentality, you might say, in confinement centers with the mentality of the Democratic Party.
	Some may call that a leap, but for me it was a logical inference.
	Yes.
	No, we're in many ways kindred spirits.
	I did this when I was single.
	I did this with regard to boring dates.
	Because I'm easily bored.
	So if I was on a date with someone who I found boring...
	I decided I would study boring people.
	And boring dates became unbelievably interesting.
	And there's no cuteness here.
	I wanted to understand, why would I find somebody boring?
	And I came up with great reasons, which I've applied to human life.
	So I agree with you.
	You make something constructive if you have no choice.
	Absolutely.
	I also think one of the things that we can learn from, Dennis, and this is true, by the way, in literature, but it's also true in life, we can learn a great deal from silence.
	You know, when Abraham Lincoln was elected in November of 1860, he didn't take office until March.
	In those days, you assumed office four months later.
	And this was sometimes called the Great Secession Winter.
	Lincoln made almost no public statements for four months.
	And it's very interesting to think why, because there was a huge debate raging in the country about secession.
	Lincoln said a few things, but by and large it was private notes and letters.
	This public silence of Lincoln, you could almost write a whole thesis on it.
	Why did the man say nothing?
	Trump is relatively silent right now.
	And everyone's like, well, Trump's been silenced on social media.
	But by and large, Trump has been quite reticent now for several weeks ago.
	Just a few short statements here and there.
	Recently, I think he made a few more statements a couple of days ago.
	But interpreting the silence can also be very illuminating.
	We'll hear about that in a moment.
	As always, a delight to speak to Dinesh D'Souza, who now does a daily podcast through the Salem Radio Network.
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	The 1918 virus iterated 12 times over the summer of 1918 and emerged deadlier.
	Do we know about these variants in any sort of way that alarms you, Andy, beyond the ordinary alarm that would arrive with any virus?
	My job is probably to be in a state of alarm and playing through bad scenarios and trying to plan for those scenarios, even hoping many of them don't come to fruition.
	I think these variants are not good news.
	I think these variants suggest...
	That there is enough multiplication of this virus out here that the virus is going to go through this evolutionary path more quickly than we had hoped to try to resist where it can.
	Now, the good news is that the major variant, the one coming out of England, UK, the one they call B.1.1.7, the vaccine and human immunity seems to hold up very well against that.
	There are other mutations.
	Where there's been more than one mutation to the spike protein, as this happened in South Africa, this happened in Brazil, where the vaccine is still effective but less effective, and where there is some evidence that pre-existing immunity doesn't work and doesn't hold.
	So these are signs that we are going to be, like with the flu, facing something that will continue to change on us.
	Most of these changes are completely harmless and completely irrelevant.
	Most of these changes, and this virus has been evolving this whole time in front of our eyes, have had no real impact.
	But occasionally they do.
	And that just means our science needs to be better.
	And that's what we're going to do.
	And we're going to do a lot of things that we're going to do.
	And we're going to do a lot of things that we're going to do.
	You know, we all can agree I think we need some more COVID relief, but it's much, much bigger than that and has a massive national minimum wage increase that would hammer the job market at a time when we should be doing everything to support it.
	It is almost as if, and I hesitate to say it because it doesn't sound sane, but it's almost as if they are trying to destroy the economy.
	It's so bizarre.
	Would you give them enough credit to say that they're not trying to bring some kind of socialism or big government dependence to us via these strange means?
	Because that's kind of what it looks like to me.
	Yeah, that is what they're trying to do.
	I mean, it's based...
	My friends, Dinesh D'Souza is with me by phone in any event.
	His new podcast is already in the top ten of all podcasts in the United States.
	It's called Pardon Me by Dinesh D'Souza.
	Congratulations, my friend.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	It's really fun.
	I'm really enjoying it.
	No, I have no doubt.
	It's something different.
	You know, I've written the books and made the movies, but this is just a new turn in the road, and I'm really having fun with it.
	Good.
	And people are having fun watching you and learning, as you pointed out, which is very important.
	I want to take just one moment, because I promised my listeners before you came on.
	And you'll enjoy this, and I'll be happy to hear your reaction.
	So yesterday I was invited by a prominent Los Angeles Jew to meet with 15 prominent Los Angeles Jews, all of whom are left of center, which is to be expected.
	And the fact that they would even meet with me on Zoom was, frankly, I give them credit.
	And so they kept calling me that I'm a lightning rod and so on, and I took that as a compliment, actually, even though it's ridiculous.
	I don't know what's lightning-roddish about me, but in any event, you will find this, and so will my audience, fascinating.
	So I mentioned that one man said, you know, we live in different realities.
	Your facts and my facts differ.
	I said, I couldn't agree with you more.
	And then I said, for example, my fact is men do not give birth.
	The left's fact is...
	Men do give birth or can give birth.
	So one guy goes, what are you talking about?
	And it reminded me of when I was on Bill Maher's show a year and a half ago, and I mentioned the same thing.
	And Bill Maher goes, what are you talking about?
	And I realized people on the left do not really know what the left stands for and advocates.
	Do you have any thoughts on that?
	Yeah, I think that's a really good point.
	The left has, it's always pushing the edge in terms of the latest form of victimology.
	So, for example, it used to be that men are victimizing women.
	And then it became that women themselves are victimizers because there are women who are also women of color who are being victimized by these women.
	And then it turns out that the women of color are victimizing women who are, say, gay or lesbian.
	And then the women of color who are lesbian are victimizing trans women who are basically sort of the frontier of this debate.
	So what you see here is a kind of...
	It's not really dominoes.
	It's a radicalization of the position that was mainstream yesterday.
	But, of course, the memo hasn't gotten out to everybody.
	So what really happened is these Democrats kind of riding in a ship without quite realizing where the captain is steering them.
	And they don't realize that perhaps in the end they too will become victims of the latest kind of turn in leftist ideology.
	We're seeing that a little bit with things like comedians.
	Comedians were actually okay when right-wingers were being censored and suddenly they realized, you know what?
	You can't make jokes about what you said to your wife at the dinner table yesterday.
	Wow!
	So suddenly your own profession, your own daily operations have been endangered because you went along with this ideology that then turned on you.
	That's all correct.
	As I told them, you folks are Mensheviks and you will be swallowed up by the Bolsheviks.
	That's exactly my way of phrasing what you just said.
	I also would note, and ask your reaction again, that There is very little laughter or joviality on the left.
	I mean, if you differ, please feel free to, but that's my observation.
	Well, you know, I think it's true, but it's not obvious what the reason for it is.
	In fact, it may seem that it should be the opposite, because I think, Dennis, you and I would probably agree that if we dig down to the core, the real difference between us and them...
	Is that we take, you may almost say, the low view of human nature.
	That's right.
	This, for example, is why we believe in checks and balances, division of power, limited government, and so on, because we believe that power can expand tyrannically.
	Now, they have this sort of high view of human nature, and you think it would make them very cheerful and jovial people.
	But I think the opposite is true, ironically.
	Precisely because we have the low view of human nature.
	Our expectations are more modest.
	They're more measured.
	When things turn out okay, we're pleasantly surprised.
	When things go badly, we sometimes expect that.
	Because, wow, human nature makes a lot of mistakes and sometimes takes the wrong road.
	So I think paradoxically, our realistic view of human nature makes us more appreciative of the benefits and joy of life.
	Third, caricature of human nature produces constant disappointment, frustration, and even rage that things don't turn out differently, don't turn out better than they actually do.
	I need to read to you, this is so eerie, it's going to take me a moment to call up, but I need to read to you the title of my column this week on Town Hall.
	Because it shows, this is so good for my listeners to hear.
	Sometimes I, and I'm sure you feel this too, people might think listening to you, and you have a very large support base.
	I don't like to say fan base, but fan base is fine.
	And they may think, this is Dinesh's view.
	Or in my case, this is Dennis's view.
	It just occurred to me Dinesh and Dennis are the same name.
	Isn't that interesting?
	But in just different languages.
	But in any event, it's not.
	Every word you just said, I have said.
	We have normative, realistic views like human nature.
	And that, I always have said, that's the second most important question.
	The first is, is there a creator?
	Is there a God?
	The second is, what do you think of human nature?
	So, you're so right on the happiness.
	Anyway, basically, I can't dig it up while talking to you, but my topic is, given human nature, America has been a remarkable achievement.
	And that's our view.
	We are not shocked by slavery.
	We are not shocked by bad things.
	We are shocked by good things.
	That's a Dinesh and Dennis view.
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	Where do you see this ending?
	In other words, I fear that all of these ideologies are a snake swallowing its own tail.
	In other words, they basically destroy, destroy.
	They don't have the beginning of a clue what they would want to replace it with.
	Marxism, I really can't imagine what they're suggesting.
	What they're suggesting is a woke ideology of so-called anti-racism that is a profound misnomer that's really a profound race consciousness.
	You know, our institutions and our politics are downstream of culture, and they are destroying our culture one pillar at a time.
	And an extremely important element of culture throughout all human history is memory.
	It's knowing who you are as a people, what you're about, what your story is.
	And when Jesse Jackson 30 years ago...
	We had that ridiculous chant, you know, hey, hey, ho-ho, Western Civ has to go.
	That was really the first battle cry in this fight to make us forget who we are.
	And it's not just forgetting, it's also lying about who we are.
	We see this particularly in the 1619 Project and its poisonous view of America that wants to make the American founding about slavery when the American founding was an incredible advance in human civilization and enlightenment and liberty and created in the North a movement against slavery that eventually would eliminate slavery in the entire country in the Civil War.
	But they want to face...
	all of that and build a new vision of America on the rubble that would be based on this left-wing ideology.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
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	Dun, dun, dun!
	Big vote yesterday.
	That's one headline in USA Today.
	Huge font.
	Trial to proceed.
	Chilling video.
	Managers open by reviving riot.
	And then the vote was taken.
	56-44.
	Six Republicans joined with the Democrats in claiming that this show trial This snap impeachment is constitutional.
	Bill Cassidy, for some reason, out of the clear blue last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial.
	Doesn't mean anything.
	It's unconstitutional.
	But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
	But then again, that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short.
	From the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction, they've given away the ending.
	The vote yesterday sort of confirms that Trump will be acquitted.
	This incredibly successful new podcast, which he's actually enjoying.
	So I'll just ask you a personal question in light of what you said.
	said, what are you going to do once travel resumes?
	Well, I'm actually going to limit, if I have to, my speaking.
	And what that probably means is I can only do it on weekends.
	I used to speak typically on a Tuesday or Wednesday, let's say, on a campus tennis, but now it's difficult because it wipes out two podcasts, and I try to keep these really current.
	So I guess I've made the decision to try to focus on putting out information that can ultimately reach a much wider audience.
	I mean, we're in an electronic era.
	Interestingly, a lot of podcasts, people listen to more than they view.
	In other words, they go more on the audio version on, say, Apple than, say, on YouTube.
	But with my podcast, it's the opposite.
	I've got most of my audience watching on YouTube and Rumble, and then a significant but smaller audience listening on Apple and Spotify.
	So I guess it's because I'm seen as a movie guy.
	People expect clips and things in the podcast.
	And my podcast is pretty visual, but I think it's fun to digest either on the audio or video.
	And do you have others who are videoing you?
	Yeah, I go to a local studio.
	I was doing sort of a weekly hit on Fox, and there happens to be a studio just 15 minutes from my house.
	So it's really great.
	I don't have to do this out of my house.
	Now, my wife, Debbie, is my producer, so she goes with me.
	And it's kind of a full-time project for both of us.
	But fortunately, we have very good camera equipment, so we're able to make the podcast look very good.
	Excellent.
	So how does one access it?
	What should they do?
	Well, you can just go on, if you have an Apple phone, just go on Apple, and you can subscribe to it, and you can subscribe on Spotify, or you just go on YouTube and hit the subscribe button, and you'll be notified whenever the podcasts go up.
	I'm also on the new video platform called Rumble, which I like a lot, so YouTube or Rumble is good for video, and Apple or Spotify are probably the most popular places for audio.
	And is there a link through Salem as well?
	Yeah, I believe it's on a lot of the Salem radio sites.
	And of course, it's on SalemNow.com.
	So it's on the Salem video platform where, you know, your movie, No Safe Spaces, is up there.
	The podcast is also up there.
	Well, my friend, good luck.
	I look forward to seeing you in person.
	Thank you.
	I look forward to it, Dennis.
	Thanks for having me on.
	Yes, it's a pleasure.
	Always a pleasure.
	Remember why that theory, I've said that much of my life.
	People who believe people are basically good.
	are less happy because they are far more likely to be disappointed in human beings.
	We who know human nature, largely because we take the biblical view of the world seriously and it's infinitely wiser than Harvard, we are very rarely disappointed by people.
	That's a very important little insight that Dinesh reminded me of.
	I will see you tomorrow.

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