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Feb. 24, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	And by the way, there is fresh Andrew Cuomo news.
	I'll get to that in just a second.
	But on the Ted Cruz front, he thought that the media's obsessive, fetishized attention...
	To his imbroglio is evidence of how much they're in withdrawal over Trump.
	They just miss him.
	Without him to kick around, every conservative is taking an even additionally outsized fire.
	And I think he's right about that.
	And then he also talked about, because this is what happened, you know how part of this story broke, is his wonderful wife Heidi, a lovely woman, sent a mass text out to some people, seeing if there was any interest in, you know, going down and hanging at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun.
	I didn't get a text.
	I might have gone.
	But somebody who did, somebody somewhere, leaked the texts to the media.
	What kind of bottom-feeding soul does that?
	And so Ted had a little bit of a lament on that.
	I'd say in hour number two, we will get into our conversation with Ted Cruz, because it was great, and we made a lot of news, and I want to offer that to you.
	What I offer you right now is the phone number, 1-8-Prager-776, 1-8-Prager-776.
	Because I have a number of questions for you.
	Whenever I'm here, I'm fresh off my own show, and there is nothing to help prep you for the Dennis Prager Show like doing your own program.
	So I've got questions for you.
	First of all, I have what I think is an explanation for the continuing wall-to-wall coverage of the Tiger Woods crash.
	Bless his heart.
	Let us pray for healing for Tiger.
	And I just hope there's no wheels-off side story.
	No pun intended.
	Wheels-off side story there that indicates there's more trouble in paradise there.
	I want him to be healthy.
	My favorite thing is him on a golf course because I love the history that might be made.
	And I want good things for everybody.
	I want good achievement, but also a good, clean, godly life.
	And I want that for him as well, and I hope that we haven't seen some evidence of an interruption in that.
	Hopefully it was just an accident.
	Accidents do indeed happen.
	And so that's my thought for that.
	I'll give you this in 60 seconds, because here's why.
	A famous person in a car crash is always going to be newsworthy.
	I mean, if somebody really famous nearly dies in a car crash, and boy, a huge love to the Genesis GV80. That's the SUV. I think they sold a few of those, because if you can take an impact like that and not die, that's some quality safety stuff going in there from the good people at Genesis, which is the luxury offshoot brand of Hyundai.
	So, anyway.
	So, it's natural that it's going to make the news, but I'm watching yesterday, and it's like wall-to-wall.
	It's like, what?
	And I'll tell you what it is.
	I think part of it is kind of a prurient, sensationalized interest.
	Because there's news value in somebody really famous being in a horrible car crash.
	That provides some wind in the news sales.
	But I think that it's almost like vultures circling over this.
	Like, we're just waiting.
	We're just waiting for some detail to come out.
	You know, nobody was chasing after him with a golf club in this particular accident.
	And I hope, and my wish, and I loved when Tiger came back and won the Masters.
	It's great.
	My favorite thing for him is to come back from sin and lead an upstanding godly life.
	Hope that's underway.
	I hope it was underway.
	I hope it continues to be.
	I hope this is not an aberration from that.
	But I think that a lot of it was just a lot of people rubbing their hands together almost with glee, wondering, ah, yeah, here we come!
	Like there was some other shoe to drop in this story that would be another personal disaster for Tiger.
	No one should want that to happen.
	If it turns out that it has, will that be additionally newsworthy?
	I guess it will.
	But anyway, I'm just going to let the game come to us, and that was...
	Huge, and I think that's part of my theory as to why it was.
	And if you've got any thoughts on that, 1-8-Prager-776.
	But I've got much more substantial fish to fry.
	Wanted to take a look at those hearings yesterday about the continuing reflections, looking backward at the January 6th riots.
	I know, I know, I know.
	We've got to do it.
	I get it.
	But the weaponizing of the riots to stigmatize all Trump voters is something we also need to talk about.
	Future of the GOP in general.
	It's a brand new year.
	I look forward to a big fat happening year here in 2021 of doing Dennis Prager shows and talking to you when I drop by about how we kind of think the whole future of the Republican Party is going and how we think this year in conservatism, etc., etc., because I've always got some...
	Ready to deploy thoughts about that.
	Again, 1-8 Prager 776 and at Mark Davis on Twitter, M-A-R-K Davis.
	Appreciate it every day.
	And many of you guys appreciate when I start out here in this first segment of the Prager Show doing what I do at the beginning of my own show every day.
	And that's before I have a little chat with you, we have a little chat with God.
	Lord watch over.
	Watch over this blessed nation.
	We thank you every day for creating it, your hand in creating this great country.
	Fill our hearts with the energy to protect the freedoms which come from you, which our American nation was founded to protect.
	Guide us to fight for our liberties within the law and by following your law.
	Let us navigate these troubling times with a positive spirit, treating each other as we would want to be treated.
	Fill us with the energy to be smart, Lord, these are times of trial and times of challenge.
	Lift us as we follow your word and work for a better America, where our Constitution is honored, where our elections are reliable, where our differences are hashed out with honesty and goodwill, and our freedoms of speech and worship are protected.
	As we face each day's problems, give us the clarity to look around and cherish our many blessings in our nation, our communities, and our families.
	If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything.
	And we ask these things in your holy name.
	Amen.
	All right, speaking of the COVID-related paragraph there, on my...
	I've also talked a lot this week about what I think I see coming, and we can make this part of our dialogue today as well.
	The virus seems to be getting better.
	It seems to be loosening its grip, and that's great.
	I pray that continues.
	When will our governments, national, state, and local, loosen their grips on us?
	Will that be even harder to escape?
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Grab a line, 1-8-Prager-776, and we will continue.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
	Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
	He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
	Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
	He possesses one of the secrets of success.
	For instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
	The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
	For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
	The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
	While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
	Unless, of course, they'd like to remain...
	in the minority.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Burke.
	We talk national security and foreign policy, and my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
	Oh, man.
	That's why I said the danger zone.
	This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
	You said you might get a little bit emotional.
	What's your nightmare?
	It's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
	You're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger.
	It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
	Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
	We'll talk about Iran later.
	You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
	Not the apocalypse.
	The anti-apocalypse.
	You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
	We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano, his recent Fox hit.
	So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
	Bad, right?
	So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
	Okay.
	So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
	Literally, the president has deactivated the ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible.
	For detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
	He's basically told them...
	They're still there, but they can't do their job.
	They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
	If you...
	Let's do a thing.
	I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
	I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal...
	alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest, the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women, you know, who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says, now I'm a girl.
	Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman, and he crushed the woman's skull?
	I mean, I'm not making this up.
	I couldn't even believe it when I read it.
	Do you know about this case?
	I did, yeah, and I believe the fighter's last name is Fox.
	I don't remember the first name, but yeah, it was an MMA fight and That's what you do And those who are doing that right now are noticing, hey, that does not look like Dennis Prager because it's not.
	Mark Davis with you from 660 AM. The answer here in big, hot happening, thawed out DFW. Appreciate you guys being here.
	1-8 Prager 776 for anything you want to address.
	From the January 6th hearings yesterday, looking back at the riots, which everybody wants to obsessively do, no one should minimize it.
	No one should downplay it.
	I know, I get it.
	And by the way, virtually no one is.
	But, nor should those horrible events of January 6th be weaponized and used to beat over the head every conservative and every Trump supporter, which is exactly what Democrats want to do.
	And by the way, that's exactly why there's still fencing around the Capitol.
	Why in the world is there still stupid fence around the Capitol?
	It is because there are people who want you to think.
	That at any given moment, the next wave of MAGA hat-wearing Trump demons is going to storm the Capitol.
	It could happen at any time.
	This is why these folks want the 9-11 style commission.
	I love that.
	The 9-11 style commission.
	Because they want you to think, this was as bad as 9-11.
	Now, come on.
	I know we're in a time where it's impossible to have nuanced thought.
	But is it possible for the human brain to grasp that the riots on January 6th were terrible?
	And I love the phrase that sometimes people say, we very nearly lost our democracy.
	Are you high?
	No, we didn't!
	It was horrible.
	It was awful.
	And all those videos they played at the impeachment hearings, I mean, it really brought home how scary that nonsense was.
	But the notion that democracy was against the ropes and we nearly lost the country.
	What a bunch of drama queens.
	So there's a line you can walk there between not wanting the January 6th insurgency to be downplayed, but also not wanting it to be weaponized as a club over the head of every conservative.
	Let me do one thing before I talk about any other topic.
	And before I talk with any other person at 1-8-Prager-776.
	This is the first time that I've spoken to you here on The Prager Show since the death of Rush Limbaugh.
	A show that I was so proud to serve as a fill-in host from 2008 till 2012. In fact, the running joke was that you had to be named Mark to fill in for Rush.
	It was me, Mark Stein, Mark Melling at the time.
	Stein is still doing it.
	Todd Herman is still doing it.
	And that appears to be the rule of the road for a little bit here after Rush's passing.
	I think they're going to have fill-in hosts doing a little bit of back and forth, but mostly playing long, nostalgic clips of Rush, which I'm okay with, and that's what they want the audience to be okay with.
	But the fact of the matter is, that's a show that forever has run exactly at the same time as this one.
	And on the day of Rush's passing, I guess it was on the Hannity show, Dennis was a guest.
	And he told a story that was emblematic of the grace and the kind of person that Rush Limbaugh was.
	Because we can be a really competitive, snotty breed of people, those of us who do radio shows.
	And Rush was the opposite of that.
	He wanted success for everybody.
	Even the people who were on opposite him, against whom he was directly competing.
	And Dennis talked about one day...
	Where Rush was reading a Dennis Prager column.
	And Dennis thought, what's going on?
	This never happens in radio.
	Where someone with a show lifts up and attracts attention to someone who's on exactly opposite him.
	It was the kind of person that Rush Limbaugh was.
	And so, as we get ready for a day of exercising this wonderful art form of radio under the umbrella of conservative talk radio, let us...
	Offer up, once again, some love and appreciation for the man who expanded this medium, energized this industry.
	I had been doing shows for six years when the Limbaugh show landed on the planet in 1988. I started out in Jacksonville in 1982. I was in Memphis at the time in 1988. I went, whoa, what's this?
	And it was of enormous value in energizing this industry.
	Of enormous value.
	We went from having a couple of hundred talk stations to having more than a thousand.
	And through just the sheer power of his personality.
	And here's the thing.
	The Limbaugh show was not big because Rush was conservative.
	Keep the car on the road.
	The Limbaugh show was not huge because Rush was conservative.
	I know thousands of conservatives.
	Some of them I wouldn't listen to for three minutes.
	I love them, but no.
	Rush made us listen for three hours and left us wanting more.
	Rush was a singular talent because he did this for a living.
	He was a radio guy.
	He understood and became a master of this art form.
	It was his conservative views translated with a particular gift.
	Dennis Prager has a particular gift.
	Larry Elder has a particular gift.
	My friend Mike Gallagher has a particular gift.
	All these guys are my colleagues and my friends now.
	Hugh Hewitt has a particular gift.
	Dr. Gork has been doing this for, what, 10 minutes?
	Boy, does he have a gift.
	No, he's been at it for quite a while now.
	And has taken to it like the proverbial talk radio fish to water.
	And we all have different gifts and different ways in which we do this.
	And the most important thing, truly, to do this for a living, to have this as an art form that you practice, your views are not your most important thing.
	We're all conservative.
	Yay us!
	Hooray!
	That's great.
	It's the ability to take those views, communicate them, make them palatable, make them entertaining, make them compelling.
	That's what does it.
	And Rush was forever a master at that.
	So, of course, I love Rush as a conservative hero.
	Of course, I respect him for his ideas.
	But I love him, and I will always love that legacy.
	Because Rush Limbaugh was, first and foremost, a radio guy.
	A radio guy.
	May God bless his memory, and Catherine, and the family, and the wonderful James Golden, a.k.a.
	Bo Snurdly, and Mike Mamone, and all those people who work in that environment.
	The show will continue.
	I have no magic inside intel as to who a successor might be or how they're going to do that.
	I don't even think they know yet.
	But whatever it is, know that while we all do kind of fight for certain slices of the pie, that those of us who are in conservative talk radio now, we feel like we're rowing a boat in the same direction.
	We know we have a country to save.
	We know we have a country to protect.
	I've described it as like being in a batting cage from hell, where we're just trying to...
	Just knocking bad idea after bad idea after bad idea out of that cage.
	Just trying to fend off the curveballs that are coming now that we have one party rule.
	A Democrat White House, a Democrat Senate, a Democrat House.
	This is our life for at least two years.
	Because that one party rule thing comes to an end in 2022 because we're going to win back the House.
	We're going to win back the House.
	And then in 2024, it'll obviously be my wish to win back the White House.
	The path forward to that is one of the things we're talking about.
	So glad I got that taken care of.
	RIP Rush.
	God bless you and the family.
	Love you forever.
	And when we come back, the new Andrew Cuomo scandal.
	And it ain't about COVID. Next.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Stick around.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Paint-Free Studio.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
	And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
	And Rush was someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
	He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
	He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
	I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous.
	Wanted to meet me, ask questions about Turning Point.
	I remember we had breakfast together.
	He only ate bacon for breakfast.
	I always remember that.
	He said that the grease made him smarter.
	So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
	And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
	I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event.
	And it was unbelievable.
	And we'll be posting clips from there.
	And what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
	It was really incredible.
	The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
	You know, when I was in the White House visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or...
	You know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
	They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
	It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
	Not always Russia was talking about the White House. - Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show. - Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen, and he is being accused is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen, and he is being accused Is it whataboutism, Paul?
	I'm asking.
	I'm really asking.
	I'm not fighting with you.
	I'm asking.
	Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB Hee Haw, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't...
	Am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
	No, you are 100% correct.
	You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
	But that's not my point.
	That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
	Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election even if he thought it was stolen?
	He went through proper channels.
	He can continue to fight for it.
	I agree with you.
	What I'm saying is It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
	So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
	Both sides are hypocritical.
	That's kind of my point.
	Right.
	Again, fair enough, Paul.
	My reaction is this.
	When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
	She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
	The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
	They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
	Yet, Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced, Where 78% believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Wednesday, 24th day of February 2021. Mark Davis filling in.
	From 660 AM, the answer, DFW. All right, so here's the deal on Cuomo.
	In a perfect world, I might take a look at this story and say I'm not even going to talk about it.
	Because it's another of these, you ready?
	One accuser saying one thing, but it's already all over national news, or it's going to be.
	Well, it'll be over some national news.
	The reason I'm going to offer it to you, Is because every single thing of this type that happens needs to be seen against the tapestry, against the backdrop of what would happen if this were a conservative.
	So we start with the starting block that Andrew Cuomo is in a bunch of trouble.
	There's a lot going on with regard to his handling of COVID and the nursing homes and this and that and thus and such.
	And so you've got all of that.
	And we've gone from a guy getting accolades for his book and winning an Emmy to all of a sudden calls for impeachment for him to resign and all stuff because of COVID mismanagement.
	Well, now we've got a Me Too story.
	A former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo is accusing the embattled New York governor of sexually harassing her, including unwanted kissing and touching, and says his top female staffers normalized the behavior.
	Lindsey Boylan is the former Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Advisor to the Governor, and she said Governor Cuomo constantly sought her out and had staffers arrange meetings with her where he made inappropriate comments.
	Let's play strip poker, Boylan said Cuomo remarked on a flight from an event in October 2017, according to an essay that she wrote on Medium, published today.
	In another encounter, December 2016, Ms. Boylan says Governor Cuomo arranged through a handler to meet her in his Albany office, to which she agreed, reluctantly.
	She said he gave her a tour of his office, smirked, showed off a cigar box he said was given to him by former President Bill Clinton while he served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Boylan said she interpreted that to be an innuendo, referencing the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, which had a cigar contingent to it that I will not describe.
	She was warned by other staffers when she joined Cuomo's administration to, quote, be careful around the governor.
	Ms. Boylan said his behavior was also normalized, particularly by Melissa DeRosa and other top women around him, that only now do I realize how insidious his abuse was.
	All right, let's pause.
	Let's pause.
	I'm going to do something for Governor Cuomo that God knows nobody would do.
	In the media culture, in the dominant media culture for a conservative, about whom these things were said.
	I want to be fair to him.
	I want to be fair to him.
	One of two things is true, and it's the two things that are always true when a charge like this arises.
	Either somebody is lying and trying to destroy a man's reputation, which is terrible, or it's true, meaning the behavior itself is terrible.
	Sitting here right now, I have no idea which one of those is the case, and neither do you.
	So, I think the responsible thing to do is let the facts come to us, let the story develop legs if it does or doesn't, let Governor Cuomo have a response to this if he chooses to, and this is what I would ask for for anybody.
	For any public figure, elected official, for anybody about whom such an accusation arises.
	Because we've gone through this interesting adventure, haven't we?
	Do all accusers deserve to be believed?
	No!
	Do all accusers deserve to be heard?
	Yes.
	Heard?
	Evaluated?
	Scrutinized?
	Their charges put under, you know, a harsh light and a microscope to see if they hold water, to see if they stand up.
	In some cases, we'll never know.
	We'll never totally know.
	You know, if Bill Clinton was a rapist, we'll never totally know about Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.
	We'll never totally know.
	It just comes down to whom we think is believable.
	And that may differ according to life experience and certainly according to politics.
	So there is the Andrew Cuomo Me Too story out in a, what's called a bombshell essay, I guess so, in something called Medium, medium.com.
	My story of working with Governor Cuomo from a woman named Lindsay Boylan.
	I know nothing about her.
	There's no way in the world I'm going to sit here and tell you I think she's lying.
	But there's also no way I'm going to sit here and tell you I know she's telling the truth.
	And which drives us crazy, because we always want to know.
	We always want to, like, I gotta know if this is accurate.
	I gotta know if this is true.
	I gotta know whether to emotionally invest in this.
	I have no idea.
	So just be comfortable with what you don't know.
	Know what you don't know.
	And we'll see what, if anything, develops in this story.
	Alright, a number of stories.
	Some of them COVID-related, some of them Tiger-related, and everything in between.
	Grab a line, 1-8-Prager-776.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis, and we'll go to your calls next.
	Stick tight.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	Nobody voted for that.
	If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
	He virtually said nothing about this.
	But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
	It wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
	He didn't get people to vote against him.
	It came up once in the third debate and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
	So they do not have a mandate.
	To do something that gives me say, oh, well, 50% are over here with Trump and 50% are over there with those guys.
	This isn't a 50-50 thing.
	Most Americans don't want their communities to be less safe.
	They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
	And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
	I don't know who said it, but a wise man said, you can have open borders and no welfare system.
	You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
	We're talking to Jim Carrafano of the Heritage Foundation.
	Follow him now.
	J.J. Carrafano.
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	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	music The Biden administration is rolling back religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far reaching.
	Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
	Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order.
	Telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
	And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
	In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
	And these were guys that at one season had been competing on the males team where they were mid-level athletes.
	A few weeks later switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium time and time again.
	And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition.
	All because these two biological males came to dominate.
	And that was again just two guys in Connecticut.
	Now imagine we start rolling this out across the country.
	All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it.
	Girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
	One of the girls describes how disheartening it is.
	You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
	You know the race is already lost.
	You know you don't have a chance.
	And that's exactly what the Biden administration's policy, as it's put into effect, is going to cause for women and for all athletes across the country.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show. - I want to get two things to you.
	Teachers unions and the Chinese running the Olympics.
	Michael Waltz, a congressman, was on the show this week, called for a boycott of the Olympics in 2022 in China.
	What do you think about how should GOP be dealing with teacher unions who will not reopen, and what ought we to do about the Olympics?
	I have a long history with the teachers unions.
	But, you know, everybody said follow the science until Randy Weingarten said don't follow the science.
	Now we don't follow the science.
	All the science tells us that opening schools is not only not dangerous, in fact, much less dangerous than any other type of community spread, but it also tells us, Hugh, that the impact it's having on our children not to be in school is devastating.
	The suicide increase in the Las Vegas area.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Wednesday, 24th of February, Mark Davis filling in.
	Glad you are here.
	Hey, speaking of Dennis, and I had the chance to invoke some of the fellow SRN hosts with whom I am now colleagues and friends, especially my longtime buddy Mike Gallagher.
	I can't imagine anything cooler than hanging out with Dennis and Mike Gallagher for anywhere.
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	All righty, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Let's go to Los Angeles.
	Hey, Brent.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Happy Wednesday.
	How are you?
	Hello, Mark.
	Hey.
	I love hearing you when Dennis is away.
	Thanks.
	But I was thinking, in addition to a fully comprehensive 9-11-style commission investigating the Congressional Democrats' January 6th Antifa riot at the Capitol...
	Whatever.
	Well, I want to hold a Nuremberg-style investigation into Dr. Fauci and Zuckerberg and Dorsey and ABC and CBS and NBC for their conspiracy to kill over 100,000 Americans, mostly senior citizens, by outlawing simple, cheap cures for the Democrats' mostly senior citizens, by outlawing simple, cheap cures for the Democrats' Communist okay.
	As I attempt mind reading to see if there's some satire happening here, I will offer something that's true no matter who's on the phone.
	And that is, if somebody has a gripe with Dr. Fauci, and there's plenty of reason to, there are some level-headed ways to go about that.
	If someone is concerned about what happened on January 6th, as everybody should be, there are some level-headed ways to go about that.
	The rank demonization of Dr. Fauci and a 9-11 commission about January 6th is neither of those.
	Well, I think that both of these do need to be investigated, but the wrong side is being looked at.
	Clearly, something at the Capitol was done, and it seems like it was organized.
	It was totally organized, which makes the incitement narrative...
	Completely failed.
	The notion that Trump spoke magical, demonic words that fired up the crowd to go riot at that moment, that's been a lie from the start.
	And these hearings have done nothing but show that this sliver of malcontents who envisioned this insurrection, they knew what they were going to do.
	They were all twisted off and ready to go in the days prior.
	But what you call my satire about the Nuremberg-style investigation into the flu situation, there is no reason we even need to have these vaccines.
	We have cures.
	We've had them for months.
	Okay, you know what?
	I'll play ball.
	You're semi-entertaining.
	What would the cure be?
	What exactly might it be?
	What are we missing, my man?
	Well, there's hydroxy, there's ivermectin.
	I love all those.
	Those are great, but those aren't cures, Brett.
	Words have meaning.
	Those are treatments.
	Those are things that if somebody comes down with it, you start gulping that to whatever extent your doctor says.
	Absolutely.
	So stay here on the planet with me, and I love you, and I'm glad you called.
	We're in San Jose.
	Philip, hey, Mark Davis, in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	How are you?
	Well, I'm doing pretty well today.
	Good.
	I want to talk to you about the COVID-19 vaccine.
	They sent me a notice to come down and get the shot, but I'm absolutely afraid of getting the shot.
	Why?
	Because I don't believe it's been tested.
	Is it because did Operation Warp Speed, well, it obviously has been tested, has it been tested enough?
	Do you feel that maybe the Operation Warp Speed was quick, that it was rushed onto the market, and maybe they just didn't vet this thing enough?
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	That is not an unreasonable concern.
	That is not an unreasonable concern at the starting blocks.
	I want to tell you, having become a bit of a student of Operation Warp Speed, from President Trump on down, every caution was taken to make sure that this was not something that they were doing under the gun.
	You know, President Trump or someone of his designation wasn't standing behind the people with white lab coats.
	Get that thing done!
	We've got to get this thing done in one-fifth of normal time.
	That did not happen.
	Here's something else that has not happened.
	We have millions of people who have had it.
	And there is no narrative of bad effects to any alarming degree.
	None!
	I mean, is there the occasional, you know, somebody gets, wow, they got really sick for a couple of days?
	Yes, as will happen with all kinds of vaccines.
	So I'm not going to tell you to do it if you're not comfortable.
	I'm really not.
	I'll never tell anybody what to do.
	And if somebody goes, eh, I'm a little squirrely about this, I might wait a little longer.
	Whatever you want to do, this is your choice.
	But if you're sitting here today on February 24th after the vaccine's been out for a good while with no alarming narrative of bad effects, I want you to free yourself from that.
	And, you know, just keep your eyes open and see what you want to do.
	Yeah, well, I want to give it some time because, you know, being 66, I've experienced quite a bit of life.
	Any other drug takes a lot longer.
	Well, here's the interesting thing, because you're right.
	We, and maybe the lesson of Operation Warp Speed, is that we have been overly cautious forever in a way that, and listen, I guess I'd rather be overly cautious than not cautious enough.
	I mean, I hear you there.
	Overprotective of our national health is, I understand.
	But maybe there are all kinds of vaccines and medicines over the years that we just didn't have to sit and twiddle our thumbs over for five years.
	Maybe we could have gotten these things out earlier.
	Maybe this vaccine is the way to do it right.
	And maybe it always has been.
	No, I believe that.
	I believe that.
	But I'm just...
	This whole thing about COVID, the way it's being used in marketing and everything else...
	It just scares me.
	I know.
	There's so much out there.
	So I'll tell you what.
	I'm not going to tell you what to do.
	Don't let anybody tell you what to do.
	If we go another month or so where we don't have some big spate of terrible bad effects, you do what you want to do.
	I hope you can get more comfortable with it if you want to.
	It is your choice.
	Mark Davis in for dentists.
	Just stick around.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
	And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
	And Rush was someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
	He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
	He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
	I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous.
	Wanted to meet me, ask questions about Turning Point.
	I remember we had breakfast together.
	He only ate bacon for breakfast.
	And I always remember that.
	He said that the grease made him smarter.
	So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
	And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
	I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event.
	And it was unbelievable.
	And we'll be posting clips from there.
	And what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people, and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
	It was really incredible.
	The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
	You know, when I was in the White House, visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or...
	Kayleigh McEnany.
	You know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
	They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
	It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
	Not always Russia was talking about the White House.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen.
	And he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
	Is it whataboutism, Paul?
	I'm asking.
	I'm really asking.
	I'm not fighting with you.
	I'm asking.
	Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB Hee Haw, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't say that, Is that about Hillary?
	Am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
	No, you're 100% correct.
	You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
	But that's not my point.
	That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
	Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election, even if he thought it was stolen?
	He went through proper channels.
	He can continue to fight for it.
	I was playing a lot of this around Texas last week.
	Some Beach Boys, some Buffett, anything that spoke to warmer weather as we were at four below in the northern confines of the Metroplex.
	It was crazy.
	Let me share a couple of other things with you as we wrap up the hour and head into our next.
	Telephone number, of course, is 1-8 Prager-776.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	Just moments ago, Gaggle, which I believe is the collective noun of House Republicans, was gathered, taking some questions from reporters.
	And to set this up, you do know something is going to happen on Saturday, right?
	You may be able to feel the earth move on Saturday as Donald Trump takes the stage at CPAC. Do you think there'll be love in that room?
	Do you think that these few stinking weeks of the Harris-Biden administration, of this regime, and just the thirst, the hunger to make this right in 2022 and 2024, either with him or somebody a lot like him, do you think that that's going to be huge as Trump speaks at CPAC? The answer is, yes, it will be.
	So a reporter asked Kevin McCarthy, Republican leader in the House, do you believe former President Trump should be speaking at CPAC? His reply?
	Yes, he should.
	Good answer.
	And standing right behind him, how about you, Congresswoman Cheney?
	Liz Cheney, that's up to CPAC. I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.
	What's with this woman?
	Her and the Adam Kinzigers, the Fred Uptons, the seven Republicans in the Senate who voted for impeachment, what kind of just mental disconnect do they have?
	And by the way, it's not about disagreeing with Trump or maybe even not liking the guy, whatever.
	But this level of hostility, this back of the hand to 75 million Americans, or in Wyoming, to virtually everybody that voted for her loves Trump.
	What is she doing here?
	And so I just popped that up on Twitter along with the video clip of that.
	And the accompanying words from me, guess what, Liz?
	It ain't up to you.
	It ain't up to you.
	And finally, as we take a look at famous people in trouble here in the first hour, I scarcely speak the words Bruce Springsteen anymore since he revealed his political bigotry in pulling out shows in North Carolina when North Carolina dared to have...
	Laws that reflected not just the scientific but the biblical definition of gender.
	Is that 15 seconds here, Sean?
	Because let me...
	Okay, oh good, good.
	I'll be real quick.
	He showed up with some fans at a park and did like a tequila shot with him and then hopped on a motorcycle and drove off.
	A very Springsteen thing to do, right?
	And then, I don't know if he got popped.
	I have no idea if it was a trap.
	So Springsteen got hit with a DUI. He had a blood alcohol level of.02.
	So they dropped that charge, but they did get him with a lesser charge of consuming alcohol on federal property, where alcohol is prohibited.
	And I think he'll pay a fine of like $500.
	That seems fair.
	All right, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Dennis, more to come.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Refact of Pain Free Studio.
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	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women, you know, who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says...
	Now I'm a girl.
	Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he crushed the woman's skull?
	I mean, I'm not making this up.
	I couldn't even believe it when I read it.
	Do you know about this case?
	I did, yeah.
	And I believe the fighter's last name is Fox.
	I don't remember the first name.
	But yeah, it was an MMA fight.
	And his opponent, I mean, just her, I think, some broken bones and some things like that.
	And this shows it's not even just a matter of fairness, of making sure women get to compete, but it's a matter of safety.
	Because you start taking this into sports like MMA, like soccer, like others, where you've got some physical contact going on.
	And we've had girls reach out to us to say, I have genuine concerns that...
	If I go out into the field and I get slammed into by a guy, is that going to be the end of my athletic career?
	And I think that shows there are so many reasons why we've had men's teams and women's teams.
	And we need to preserve those for equal opportunities, for safety, and just for making sure that our daughters and granddaughters don't find themselves sitting on the sidelines when they ought to be out there winning the gold medal and using their God-given talents to their fullest.
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	Trending now on The Mike Gallagher Show.
	California Democrat Linda Sanchez, the sponsor of the bill, said the impetus for introducing the legislation was due to the former president's encouraging of racism and hatred.
	H.R. 484. It's called the No Glory for Hate Act.
	It would prohibit the use of federal funds for the commemoration of certain former presidents, namely those who have faced impeachment proceedings from the House on two separate occasions.
	They're so goofy, they don't come out and say it's the Trump shouldn't be buried in Arlington bill.
	They say certain former presidents who have been impeached twice.
	The bill would also restrict the use of government funding to create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating a twice-impeached president.
	And it would bar the naming or redesignation of any federal building or land after presidents in question.
	Hmm, who would that be?
	Wonder who they're referring to.
	Wonder which president they mean.
	Illinois Republican Representative Mary Miller wrote on Twitter yesterday, Seems as though no matter where he is buried, he will be living forever in your minds.
	Nothing says unity like a bill targeting one person.
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	Thank you.
	Now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	you you There's a very interesting study out by two Johns Hopkins professors who say, you know what, let's not think that the problems with the blue collar Working-class people that they have with the Democratic Party is ended by the defeat of Donald Trump.
	In essence, they're saying this problem has been growing for a long period of time.
	Trump is the beneficiary, not the originator.
	And his disappearance from the scene, therefore, is not going to necessarily mean this problem goes away for the Democrats because these are value-driven voters.
	They think the Democratic Party is out of sync with them.
	And guess what?
	I think that's absolutely right.
	Blue-collar family in Ohio who's sitting there saying, you know, we go to mass.
	We stand for the pledge.
	We put our hand over our heart.
	We think cops are trying to do the best thing they can to protect us.
	And, you know, we believe in work.
	And now we've got a bunch of snotty-nosed elitists from academia and Hollywood looking down their nose at us from either coast.
	And we don't think that party that they embrace embraces us.
	Academia, Carl?
	Not just academia and media, and that's my last question.
	I have said to people the best media analyst is that analyst who is a partisan but who can accurately and objectively state with fair detail the position of the other side.
	Are any of those people left?
	Very few.
	I mean, I read the New York Times out of professional necessity, and I'm just astonished at how often...
	You get editorial comment in a, you know, not in one or two paragraphs, but in virtually every paragraph.
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	Trending now on The Mike Gallagher Show.
	This is this Democrat New York Assemblyman.
	If you're not following this story, this was Ron Kim.
	He's a Democrat now.
	Remember, he's an assemblyman in New York State detailing the threatening phone call he says he got from Governor Cuomo, all because Assemblyman Kim is asking for some accountability, some answers over these deaths and the cover-up.
	Here's what Assemblyman Kim said on MSNBC yesterday.
	And Governor Cuomo called me the next day at 8 p.m.
	while I was about to bathe my kids.
	I was with my wife.
	And for 10 minutes, he berated me.
	He yelled at me.
	He told me that, you know, my career will be over.
	He's been biting his tongue for months against me.
	And I had tonight, not tomorrow, tonight, to issue a new statement, essentially asking me to lie.
	And asking me, like, I just, I heard and I saw a crime the other day.
	And he's asking me that I did not see that crime.
	And that was the line that he, you know, a line that he crossed that can't be undone.
	And that's why I had no choice but to come out and speak up.
	You know, many people make a huge deal about bullying and triggering people and being offended.
	And that's why I was so happy to be here.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Wednesday, 24th day of February 2021. So glad to have you here.
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	That is the phone number.
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	Mark Davis Show on Parler.
	Is that thing back up and running?
	It should be.
	And of course, online shutdowns and online mutings and cancel culture is a lot of what fills the daily parade of things for conservatives to be concerned about, the things for all Americans to be concerned about.
	It involves our pathway out of the COVID nightmare.
	So get ready to take some calls and play some audio and do some things here with you on today's topical treadmill.
	I have found myself thinking, as I've watched a few days now, of COVID cases, hospitalizations, ICU numbers, deaths, all getting better, which I am so thrilled by, so pleased to hear.
	And I pray that that continues.
	But who's going to be the class of leaders at state level, at federal level, state level, local level, mayors, county officials, etc., who are going to let their boots off our necks?
	It's going to take some guts.
	It's going to take some visionary thinking for somebody to say it's some locale.
	And it ain't going to be next week.
	It ain't going to be next month.
	But it'll be at some point.
	Who's going to be?
	Who will be among the first officials to say, okay, people, I don't think you have to wear the masks anymore.
	And it'll probably be gradual.
	It'll be like, well, maybe we don't need to wear them on the public streets.
	And this authoritarianism?
	Authoritarian government and big medicine, they are all thoroughly enjoying, thoroughly enjoying the media beating a path to their door, the satellite trucks, or they're still satellite trucks?
	People just do it all on an iPhone now.
	The people beating a path to these oracles where the goalposts can move, their opinions can move, and all the while as their opinions change, like everybody changes underwear, maybe even more frequently, and yet they exhort us to, quote, follow the science.
	Follow the science.
	Here's a bulletin, kids.
	Science doesn't know about this.
	And by the way, I'm enormously pro-science.
	The great thing about science is, take a look at climate change.
	There is no science one can rely on to suggest that human productivity is making the planet's temperature increase.
	That's insane!
	It is a rape of, a perversion of the scientific method to say that science itself teaches this with some obvious, universally agreeable result.
	And by the way, that's okay.
	That's perfectly okay.
	Science never offers the guarantee that it will be able to instantly deliver answers on things for which there is not sufficient data.
	This whole COVID thing is still quite new.
	And it seems old as the hills to me, too.
	But I mean the notion that science should somehow know exactly what to do, exactly how to conduct ourselves.
	It doesn't.
	We're all learning.
	We're all learning on the fly.
	And that means that the best job of science for the Dr. Fauci's and everybody is just tell us what they know about epidemiology and shut up about opening our schools or not.
	Tell us what you know about the spread of the disease and tell us what you know about how it mutates or what's going on.
	And don't tell us about when or if we'll ever be able to go to church or a concert again.
	That is not your job.
	Science has gotten its britches pretty big of late.
	Some have.
	And the fact that there are scientists who say, there's the Johns Hopkins guy who said, we could be done with this in April.
	Or largely back to normal, you know, in the early spring.
	And I can also sit down some other science people, whose lab coats are just as white and gleaming, who will say, we'll be struggling with this for another couple of years.
	You know what that tells me?
	It tells me science doesn't know!
	And that's okay!
	So stop telling me to follow, I will listen, I will listen.
	To everybody.
	I'll listen to everybody along the spectrum of science.
	I'll listen to everybody along the spectrum of politics.
	See who makes sense to me, who doesn't.
	And that seems like a kind of a mentally healthy way to go about this.
	Alrighty.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	We are in Wisconsin.
	Stephen, hey.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Happy Wednesday.
	How are you doing?
	I'm good.
	I'm good.
	So, uh...
	If asbestos was a newly mined miracle mineral that was just discovered and the scientists said it was perfectly safe to breathe it in and use it in all these different products, would you be willing to breathe it in knowing what we know 40-50 years later?
	About what?
	Okay, what was the substance in question again?
	Asbestos?
	It only took about 40 years before we figured out that it was actually dangerous.
	If your point is that sometimes, heck, use cigarettes.
	You used to go to the doctor and the doctor would be smoking a cigarette.
	There are things that we thought were safe and subsequently learned that they were not.
	Yes, that does sometimes happen.
	And your point is?
	We're in new RNA science that they've never really tested any type of vaccine.
	Doesn't have some sort of concern that we should all be concerned about.
	That's not true.
	There obviously has been testing.
	This stuff has been tested.
	If it's not enough for you, okay, you've probably got some company on that.
	But the notion that it's just been rushed onto the market willy-nilly is just factually false.
	Okay.
	1-8 Prager 776. We are in Northridge, California.
	Russ, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Yeah, hi.
	Mark, I think you misunderstood what that caller was talking about.
	Maybe he threw you off with the Nuremberg trials.
	I think I got it, but go ahead.
	And that's a cure.
	It doesn't eliminate infections.
	Oh, no, I know.
	The gentleman's point, for those who missed that entertaining moment, was all this vaccine stuff, meh, pshaw, pshaw, we don't need that.
	We have all the cures we need, which is wacky.
	I don't know.
	You know, well, I'll tell you what, you know, what do I just said?
	Know what you don't know?
	Well, let me, if I'm still on, Africa and India have much lower rates of death than we do.
	Well, I know.
	And the only thing they have is hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
	They also don't have anything that even remotely resembles the interconnectivity of a vibrant Western society.
	That's a factor, too.
	But believe you me, I always want to be open-minded.
	I don't want to be so open-minded that my brain falls out.
	And by that I mean that if people who do this for a living...
	A lot of people who do this for a living, not cherry-picking a particular lab, a particular scientist, a particular voice, but the people who are tasked with the notion of finding some vaccine that can fight against this.
	And it goes through arduous testing, and the results are very promising.
	And then they bring that out to millions of people, and millions of people get it, get the vaccine, with no narrative of alarming bad effects happening.
	That's encouraging to me.
	Now, there's no way in the world that I'm going to sit here and badger somebody who says, you know, I'm just not quite comfortable yet, and I think I'm going to wait a little longer.
	Knock yourself out.
	Do whatever you want to do.
	Because it ultimately should always be your choice.
	However, if somebody is out with some bullhorn blathering out some alarm that's from orbit around Venus, that's going to be a problem.
	We're in Elk Grove, Illinois, Mickey.
	Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Good morning, sir.
	Thank you for having me.
	My pleasure.
	So I'm 65. I check all the boxes.
	Prostate cancer, last radiation treatment, 12-31-19, over 65, ex-smoker, history of pneumonia, asthma.
	Wow.
	Glad you're well.
	Thank you.
	I'm not overweight and I'm in good shape.
	Believe it or not.
	I gotcha.
	You better be.
	I'm being told by nurses that I know personally and professionally that I need to get vaccinated.
	Okay.
	But my problem is you're asking me to make a decision with no intelligent data to base that decision upon.
	So did, we got about 60 seconds.
	So was Operation Warp Speed too fast for you?
	And the millions who have taken it?
	Then what's the insufficient?
	Literally 30 seconds now.
	Why do you feel the information is insufficient?
	The number of deaths from COVID. Everybody died from COVID. The number of positive cases.
	Everybody had COVID because there's money involved.
	No, no, but that doesn't have anything to do with the effectiveness of the vaccine.
	That doesn't have anything to do with the effectiveness of the vaccine.
	I'm not saying, well, okay, and the effectiveness, the new mRNA technology.
	I gotta go.
	So don't conflate the two.
	If you don't want to take it for a while, don't take it.
	If you don't ever want to take it, don't take it.
	Your choice.
	Your choice.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
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	Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
	Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
	He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
	Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
	He possesses one of the secrets of success.
	For instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
	For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
	The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
	While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
	Unless, of course, they'd like to remain...
	in the minority.
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	We talk national security and foreign policy, and my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
	Oh, man.
	That's why I said the danger zone.
	This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
	You said you might get a little bit emotional.
	It's like, what's your nightmare?
	You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
	Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
	It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
	Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
	We'll talk about Iran later.
	You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
	Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
	You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
	We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
	So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
	Bad, right?
	So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
	So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
	Literally, the president has deactivated the ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
	He's basically told them...
	They're still there, but they can't do their job.
	They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
	If you...
	Let's do a thing.
	Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
	I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
	the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
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	And this.
	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says...
	Now I'm a girl.
	Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he...
	And that is something to look forward to.
	Thank you.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	I look forward to it every time I get to be here.
	Just a one-day thing.
	Dennis is back tomorrow here on Wednesday, 24th of Feb.
	Nice to have you here.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Mountain Hall, Arkansas.
	Jennifer.
	Hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	I'm doing great.
	I just heard you said that India and Africa have less COVID. Because they have a less interconnected society.
	Oh, there are a lot of things.
	The Western world, the European and American model of how to live life, is way different than the difference between the urban and the rural settings of India and a lot of Africa.
	And I'll tie this up in about 60 seconds.
	The average people who are out in the hinterlands of India ain't never going to Delhi, ain't never going to Calcutta.
	There are people who live in maybe your little small town who are going to Little Rock, going to Memphis, going to Nashville all the time.
	The degree to which, it's a very balkanized kind of society sometimes, where you can live out in the hinterlands and never even see the skyline of a big city.
	And the less interconnected your population is, the less opportunity there is for the disease to spread.
	Other things on the list of why India and Africa might be a little bit different.
	The low hygiene, the lack of clean drinking water, the unsanitary conditions, honestly, may have actually saved some lives.
	People living in low and low middle income countries.
	May have been able to stave off some severe forms of the infection because of exposure to various pathogens from childhood.
	They may have stronger immune systems.
	And there's a list of reasons why not every country is going to have the same rates or the same kind of numbers.
	Well, so let me ask you, do you think it's been a big waste of time for us to try to social distance and disinfect everything?
	Oh, no.
	No, no, no, no.
	Not at all.
	Well, we don't have that.
	What about the, like you mentioned, Newt Deli?
	There's millions of people that live there.
	Why are they ravaging between those people that don't wash their hands and don't social distance?
	I mean, there's not a really good explanation other than hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin that they are using that we have not been allowed to use.
	Well, that's a little glib and a little facile.
	There absolutely are.
	India itself had big spikes, and a lot of them were in Delhi and in Calcutta and in Bombay.
	So, no, it hasn't been a waste of time.
	What about their death toll, though?
	It's been much less than ours.
	Oh, I understand.
	I understand completely.
	Well, they've had cases, but they have been able to treat their cases with hydroxychloroquine and prevent death.
	No, and could that be a factor?
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely it could.
	And if we were all popping, you know, hydroxychloroquine like M&Ms, we'd probably have a better rate as well.
	But that doesn't automatically mean that the masks and the distancing have been a waste of time.
	That's a bit extreme.
	Well, how about the ban on hydroxychloroquine?
	Do you think that was a bad thing?
	You know why that happened?
	Because Trump liked it.
	You know why that happened.
	I definitely agree with that.
	And what about the people who demonized it?
	Will there be any consequences for the people who died because they weren't able to get it?
	Pharmacies would not fill the prescriptions.
	Generally speaking, I mean, I've talked a lot about this locally.
	The people who couldn't get it, I mean, why couldn't you get it?
	Your doctor didn't want to do it?
	You can find a doctor who'll do it.
	In a country, in a medical culture like America's, if there's the treatment you want, you're dogged enough in your determination, you'll be able to get it.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	We are in Prescott, Arizona.
	Carl, hey, Mark Davis, welcome.
	How are you?
	In for dentists, good to have you here.
	Thank you, Mark.
	Wonderful to have you.
	Thank you.
	The reason I called is on the guys were calling in about the vaccine concerns, which I shared.
	But I heard a local guy here, PhD, not an MD.
	But he said the reason these vaccines and Operation Warp Speed work so quickly is because we were developing them for 20 years.
	Because COVID is basically a SARS derivative.
	So if not for that, we wouldn't be where we are.
	And that's why they could move so quickly, because we have 20 years of work to fight this. - Yeah. - Although it was a novel pirate. - You bet.
	It does, and it makes me wonder in the past how many drugs have been slow to get to the market and how much foot-dragging there's been when maybe we could have done some other things more quickly, too.
	Carl, thanks.
	Listen, there's nothing we can do about that.
	I mean, there's always a long list of things.
	The list of things you can do something about and the list of things you can't do anything about.
	Don't obsess about that list.
	Water under the bridge is water under the bridge.
	If Operation Warp Speed shows us, I don't ever want to cut corners.
	I don't ever want to rush anything to the market.
	But maybe we have found just the right amount of caution, just the right amount of oversight.
	Maybe we've been overcautious and overly hesitant in the past.
	Just maybe.
	And of course, every medication, every vaccine is going to be different.
	It's going to have a different history.
	It's going to present a different level of concerns.
	Case by case, let's take them and be smart and safe.
	We are in the fine state capitol, the Sunshine State in Tallahassee, Florida.
	Joe, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, Mark, how you doing?
	Hi, good.
	Great tribute to Rush.
	He is just a gaping hole in talk radio.
	Thank you so much for that tribute.
	Yeah, man.
	No one can replace him.
	Nobody ever will, but a ton of us are all still here, and we will carry the mantle.
	That is correct.
	I just want to get your opinion, and if you've heard anything.
	I've heard a lot about, and I know everybody's talking about this vaccine, and I know I've read some different blogs and some different articles, and they're saying it's what they call a messenger RNA vaccine.
	And there is a doctor in Cleveland that has a video out.
	Her name is Tenpenny.
	Yes, I'm familiar with it.
	She is very, very hard set against this.
	And there is, and I even went to the HHS data page, which is, I would rather fill out my taxes than fill out the information.
	- Indeed. - And there have been, and not all severe, but there have been close to 40,000 or so issues with people that have gotten the vaccine in the past 30 days.
	Do you know how many millions of people have?
	We can find what we wish to find.
	We can look for what we wish to look for.
	In tens of millions of people who have had the vaccine, there is in no way an abnormal presentation of people having bad side effects.
	It's just not true.
	Now, could that change?
	Yes.
	If somebody says, you know what, that's fine, but I'm still going to hang loose for a little while, then by all means, hang loose for as long as you're comfortable.
	But false alarmism is no more responsible than false security.
	Boy, just everybody pay attention, eyes open.
	You know, individual doctors are lovely.
	I got nothing against the lady in Cleveland.
	But sometimes we find what we seek to find.
	All right, with that, I'm going to call an official end to vaccine talk.
	Because we've got 14 other things to dive into today.
	I had a wonderful conversation with Senator Ted Cruz earlier.
	I'm going to play you some of that.
	And he was talking about some of the Biden appointees and just the future of the GOP and a number of other things.
	So on the category of...
	Other things.
	If there's something you'd like to pluck from the topical tree, grab a hold of anything you like in 1-8-Prager-776.
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	Trending now on the Mike Gilliger Show.
	There's this Democrat New York Assemblyman.
	If you're not following this story, this was Ron Kim.
	He's a Democrat now.
	Remember, he's an assemblyman in New York State detailing the threatening phone call he says he got from Governor Cuomo, all because Assemblyman Kim— Is asking for some accountability, some answers over these deaths and the cover-up.
	Here's what Assemblyman Kim said on MSNBC yesterday.
	Governor Cuomo called me the next day at 8 p.m.
	While I was about to bathe my kids, I was with my wife, and for 10 minutes, he berated me, he yelled at me, he told me that...
	You know, my career will be over.
	He's been biting his tongue for months against me.
	And I had tonight, not tomorrow, tonight, to issue a new statement, essentially asking me to lie and asking me, like, I heard and I saw a crime the other day.
	And he's asking me that I did not see that crime.
	And that was the line that he, you know, a line that he crossed that can't be undone.
	And that's why I had no choice but to come out and speak up.
	You know, many people make a huge deal about bullying and triggering people and being offensive.
	Listen to the way this assemblyman explains what Cuomo's threatening phone call did to his wife.
	I mean, it was loud enough for my wife to hear, and I tried to shield her, but she was in shock.
	She didn't get any sleep that night, and we were terrified.
	And, you know, she left.
	He left a shocking moment for all of us in our family.
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	Now I want to talk about this high school football coach, Massachusetts.
	He's suing Dedham Public School District, fired for privately disagreeing with the school's social justice curriculum being taught to his children.
	Now, because they're doing online training, kids are at home, and this football coach is hearing what they're learning in world history.
	Kind of thought that they were going to learn something about, oh, I don't know, you know world history?
	Instead, one assignment asked 12- and 13-year-olds to identify risk factors and mitigation factors when walking down the street with a person of a different skin color.
	White students were told to be fearful when they saw a black student with, quote, aggressive body language or in the, quote, wrong neighborhood, close quote, and black students were told to be fearful of white people in general, especially the police.
	And he and his wife noticed that the 7th grade teacher had a cartoon character of herself with a Black Lives Matter t-shirt on.
	So he contacted the superintendent, concerned about the curriculum that had been changed without notifying the parents, that the coursework was not suitable for 7th grade students.
	The teacher was not teaching world history.
	So following the email, superintendent holds a meeting with the Flins, with the couple complaining.
	And next thing you know, he has been fired from his job as a coach.
	And I sent a letter.
	Quote, we are writing today.
	Sorry to inform you that you will not be reappointed as head coach.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bercat.
	Nobody voted for that.
	If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
	He virtually said nothing about this.
	But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
	It wasn't a secret, but he didn't say that.
	It's the Dennis Prager Show for this 24th day of February.
	Glad you're here.
	Happy Wednesday.
	I've got my chat with Ted Cruz.
	I can do that anytime.
	I've got it locked and loaded.
	Let's do some folks on the phone on a variety of issues.
	We're in Hackensack, New Jersey.
	Bill, hey, Mark Davis, welcome.
	How are you?
	Great to be in for Dennis.
	Nice to have you.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	I just want to make a comment.
	By the way, my governor, Democrat governor of my state has just mandated they teach lessons about transgenderism to elementary and kindergarten children.
	But my comment is related, which is King Biden, one of his recent executive orders, states that Males, biological males, should be allowed to participate in women's college and school sports.
	And if that's not enough, these biological males, who are obviously physically stronger, that's a factor of life, are entitled to use the ladies' or girls' bathrooms.
	Locker rooms and showers.
	Go ahead, Your Honor, go ahead.
	Thank you very much.
	One last thing.
	In this bill or executive order, if a child who's confused from teaching or for whatever reason wants to change their sex, parents do not have the right, according to Mr. Biden, to...
	That's probably just shy of happening, but I don't trust these people as far as I can throw them.
	It is child abuse to foist these puberty blockers into children.
	A couple of things.
	First, imagine you have an athletic daughter who is, let's say, a sprinter or a volleyball player or who knows what.
	Women's athletics are the coolest thing in the world.
	My producer, Rhonda Moreland here in DFW, has a daughter who is on the beach volleyball team at University of Louisiana Monroe.
	Go Warhawks!
	And she's great.
	Imagine her looking through the net at a confused dude.
	Imagine that.
	Imagine your daughter has an opportunity to break, let's say, an NCAA record at some middle distance running event or sprinting or whatever.
	And she lines up and in the lane to her right is somebody who outweighs her by 40 pounds and has male musculature because this competitor has male DNA because this competitor is in fact a male.
	Gender dysphoria is real and we need to deal with it empathetically and prayerfully but allowing people who are saddled with this disorder.
	To compete against girls is the death of women's sports.
	And where are the women's rights activists to speak out against this?
	Where in the world are they?
	Their silence is deafening.
	Now, for this to be an idea in Joe Biden's head is one thing.
	But then there's this Rachel Levine.
	Rachel Levine is in line to be number two at HHS, Assistant Secretary of Health.
	You might want to hear her.
	At Franklin and Marshall College in January of 2017 talking about when little boys think they are little girls.
	Pre-pubertal children, you know, they might present in different ways.
	They might present at school and the gender they identify were at birth, or they might present as the...
	Other gender.
	They might be more gender fluid.
	But you kind of let the child, kind of with counseling and with the family.
	With counseling and with the family.
	Now, I'll tell you something.
	Because if you've got a little boy who thinks he's a little girl or wants to be a little girl, absolutely counseling is in order.
	But not the type that Rachel thinks.
	The kind of counseling you need is deep, immediate, and ideally faith-based so that your child, so that your little boy can be saved, have his life saved.
	For gender normalcy.
	What Rachel Levine is talking about is a counselor to grease the wheels, to facilitate the conversion from male to female, or the other way around.
	And that is stone-cold child abuse.
	I want to determine how they present.
	At the young adolescent age, it is to give what are called a pubertal blocker, to give a medicine to block the progression of puberty so you don't go through the wrong puberty.
	So you don't go through the wrong puberty.
	Let those words wrap around your brain stem so you don't go through the wrong puberty.
	God help us and save us from these people.
	People like this run the country now.
	And I don't mean transgender people, which Rachel is.
	Her particular case, I pray for gender normalcy for Rachel.
	But these are the ideas that are running the country.
	It cannot stand.
	Mark Davison for Dennis, right back.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
	Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
	He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
	Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
	He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
	The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
	For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
	The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
	While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
	Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Burke.
	We talk national security and foreign policy, and my oh my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
	Oh, man.
	That's why I said the danger zone.
	This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
	You said you might get a little bit emotional.
	It's like, what's your nightmare?
	You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
	Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
	It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
	Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
	We'll talk about Iran later.
	You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
	Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
	You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
	We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
	So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
	Bad, right?
	So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
	So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
	Literally, the president has deactivated the ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
	He's basically told them...
	They're still there, but they can't do their job.
	They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
	If you...
	Let's do a thing.
	Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
	I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
	the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says...
	Now I'm a girl.
	Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he crushed the woman's skull?
	Yes, they do.
	Mark Davison for Dennis today.
	Today only.
	Dennis is back tomorrow.
	And as Dennis talks about elementary education, we just had a caller talk about the degree to which we're going to start telling five, six, seven, eight-year-olds about transgenderism, please.
	Even if there is not hardcore indoctrination going on in the first grade, which in most cases there's not, but you never know.
	I don't trust these people as far as I can throw them, as I've said.
	There's a term you're going to hear a lot, and that, of course, is universal pre-K. Universal pre-K. Sounds lovely.
	Think how great this is for single moms having a tough time.
	What do you do with the kids?
	Oh, universal pre-K. Hand them over to the local government school.
	The idea is to get you hooked like a trout on the crack pipe of government education.
	and to get your kids roped into that as soon as possible.
	All righty.
	1-8 Prager 776.
	Let's go to Brooklyn.
	Hey, Mark.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Yeah, hi.
	How are you?
	Hey, good.
	I just wanted to try to understand how somebody like this Levine thinks that it's okay to totally screw up with a kid's biology, to give them gender blockers, to mess with their hormones, and at the same time be part of a system that doesn't allow children until they're 18 or 21 years old to buy cigarettes or alcohol.
	What a spectacular point, Mark.
	Thank you.
	You can't drink a beer, can't fire up a Marlboro, but you can inject your kid with things designed to stop the God-created process of puberty.
	Oh, boy.
	So, I had a chat with Ted Cruz this morning, and I thought it was worth sharing.
	He's on the Judiciary Committee, and so he's been busy, among other things, looking at the Merrick Garland nomination.
	And I asked him, I said, when you're asking challenging questions of Merrick Garland, things like, should it be illegal to cross our borders illegally?
	Things like, you know, why is the January 6th Capitol riots, why is that terrorism?
	But Antifa's not.
	Is the goal of asking those questions to actually derail the nomination?
	Or, since you know the guy's probably going to be approved by the Senate, is it just to get our questions on the record so that we can make sure that everybody knows what kind of views we are elevating to the position of Attorney General?
	Yeah, it's a good question in terms of what you're trying to do at a hearing.
	And that's actually something before any hearing, a confirmation hearing, I'll sit down with my staff and ask them that question.
	What do we want to accomplish?
	What's the objective here?
	And it depends on a given nominee what the objective is.
	You're right with Merrick Garland.
	He is very likely going to be confirmed.
	All the Democrats are going to support him, and I think a number of Republicans will support him as well.
	Personally, I've got mixed sentiments.
	On Judge Garland's nomination.
	On the one side, he's been a judge for 24 years.
	He has had a reputation for integrity.
	He has had a reputation for not being overly partisan.
	And so when I think of some of the crazed left-wing partisans that Biden could have appointed as Attorney General, Garland on paper and by reputation appears to be significantly better than some of the extreme partisans.
	Some of the other nominees Biden has made for different cabinet positions.
	On the other hand, I will say at the hearing, he was astonishingly unwilling to answer anything with any specificity.
	So my objective in the hearing was to try to nail him down, to try to get him to commit to some specific outcomes that, if nothing else, we could hold him and the Department of Justice accountable for if he then breaks those commitments.
	And it was really quite striking that he refused to make them.
	So, for example, Special Counsel John Durham investigating Crossfire Hurricane, investigating the political targeting of the Donald Trump campaign.
	Repeatedly, I and others asked Judge Garland, would you commit not to fire Special Counsel John Durham?
	And by the way, the exact same question had been asked of Bill Barr.
	When he was nominated, would you commit not to fire Bob Mueller?
	And Bill Barr said he would not fire Mueller other than for good cause.
	And so I asked, Garland, will you make the same commitment, demonstrate the same integrity that Bill Barr did?
	And he refused to make that commitment.
	He just wouldn't commit at all.
	He said he didn't anticipate firing him, but he wouldn't make a promise.
	He did that over and over again, one of the more stunning ones.
	He was asked, will the Department of Justice continue to prosecute people who illegally cross into the country?
	He refused to answer that.
	He would make no commitment whatsoever.
	He was asked, were the repeated assaults on the federal courthouse in Portland, where multiple federal law enforcement officers were injured, some very badly, was that terrorism?
	To that, he actually didn't refuse to answer.
	Even more astonishingly, he said no.
	No, it wasn't terrorism because he had a novel theory.
	He said, well, those attacks happened at nighttime and the courthouse was not in operation, so it's not terrorism, which is just weird.
	I wasn't aware there was like a vampire theory of terrorism that if you do it at night, it doesn't count.
	So I don't know.
	I don't know if it may be, Mark.
	Give him the benefit of the doubt.
	He spent two decades as a judge.
	He hasn't been answering questions.
	He's been asking questions for two decades.
	And judges are notoriously unwilling to commit on issues that might come before.
	Attorney General is very different from a judicial position.
	So the best hope is he's not answering these questions just because of his temperament and approach, and he won't be a crazed left-wing activist.
	But I'll tell you what I'm concerned about.
	It is that the people appointed under him will be crazed left-wing activists, and I didn't see anything to indicate that he was going to be willing to rein them in or hold them back from really, really dangerous and problematic policy.
	Senator Ted Cruz with us earlier this morning, so let me pause, come back, let me take some calls in the next segment, and cruise into the third hour, because Senator Cruz talked a lot about the disappointing...
	U.S. Supreme Court of late, future of the Republican Party, and much, much more.
	So, little Ted, little me, little you, sounds like I'm filling in on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Glad to be here.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	More of your calls next.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	us be right back trending now on america first with sebastian burka nobody voted for that if they did biden would have campaigned on that he virtually said nothing about this but it wasn't a secret jim it wasn't well it wasn't a secret but he didn't say anything right he didn't give people to vote against him
	you know it came up once in the third debate and he got so hammered for it he never mentioned it again so they do not have a mandate to do something that not just 50 gives me sale well 50 percent are over here with trump and 50 percent are over there with those guys this isn't a 50 50 thing most americans don't don't Don't want their communities to be less safe.
	They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
	And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
	I don't know who said it, but a wise man said you can have open borders and no welfare system.
	You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
	We're talking to Jim Carafano of the Heritage Foundation.
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	The Biden administration is rolling back religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far reaching.
	Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
	Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order.
	Telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
	And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
	In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
	And these were guys that at one season had been competing on the males team where they were mid-level athletes.
	A few weeks later, switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium time and time again.
	And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition, all because these two biological males came to dominate.
	And that was, again, just two guys in Connecticut.
	Now, imagine we start rolling this out across the country.
	All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it.
	Girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
	One of the girls describes how disheartening it is.
	You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
	You know the race is already lost.
	You know you don't have a chance.
	And that's exactly what the Biden administration's policy is it's put into effect is going to cause for women and for all athletes across the country.
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	And if you do that right now, you're looking at me.
	Tomorrow you're looking at Dennis.
	Yesterday you were looking at Dennis.
	But we're together today.
	Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM, the answer in DFW. Glad to be here.
	More of Senator Cruz in the next hour, sort of interspersed with your calls, which we return to now.
	We're in Prescott, Arizona.
	Evan, hey!
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	I've been listening to the show and I've been watching you talking about transgender women in sports.
	And I want your opinion on transgender men because they actually also have a big shift on sports if you look at the statistics.
	You're talking about women who are choosing to live as men, even, or hormonally, and try to inject themselves into men's sports?
	No, I'm talking about men who are choosing to live as women and who are legally considered women.
	Oh, gotcha.
	Well, yeah, but that's obviously an abomination to the spirit of competition to allow someone with male biology, male musculature, male heart capacity to compete against women.
	It's absurd on its face.
	Well, no, but, like, you do know, like, if you take hormones for long enough, your body basically, like, at least musculature-wise It changes.
	No, it does not.
	That is factually false.
	It means you're not as ripped, as fast, as strong, perhaps, as a man who stayed on a male course, but there will always, always be an obvious advantage to having been born male and going through male puberty.
	It is an absurdity to allow this kind of phenomenon to poison women's sports.
	Well, yes, but...
	After a while, Yes, there is some difference, but it's not a significant difference.
	That's factually false.
	That is absolutely factually false.
	I don't know what kind of garbage you're reading, but that is factually false.
	Just stop it.
	Stop saying that.
	These are biological men.
	These are biological men.
	And you're trying to bring me this notion that after they sufficiently hormonally inject themselves, they became just like women.
	That's factually false.
	Period.
	Where are your studies on this?
	No, I'm sorry.
	It is factually false.
	It is self-evident.
	These are not women.
	You cannot become a woman.
	You should not compete as a woman.
	I don't know what agenda or whatever is coming at you.
	No, no, I'm sorry, my friend.
	I'm very sorry, my friend.
	I love you.
	I want good things for you.
	I don't know what your story is.
	Maybe you share a little bit of that at some point.
	But ask any woman who's competed against a man, wrestling, track, whatever.
	That's a dude over there.
	That's a dude over there.
	Nothing can change that to the extent that they become just like another female competitor.
	Don't make stuff up.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Stick around.
	Two hours down, one to go.
	Well, who knows what adventures lie ahead.
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	Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen.
	And he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
	What about this, Paul?
	I'm asking.
	I'm really asking.
	I'm not fighting with you.
	I'm asking.
	Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't say that about Hillary, am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
	No, you are 100% correct.
	You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
	But that's not my point.
	That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
	Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election, even if he thought it was stolen?
	He went through proper channels.
	He can continue to fight for it.
	I agree with you.
	What I'm saying is...
	It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
	So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
	Both sides are hypocritical.
	That's kind of my point.
	Right.
	Again, fair enough, Paul.
	My reaction is this.
	When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
	She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
	The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
	They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
	Yet, Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced, 78% of Democrats to the point where 78% believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
	Hillary was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
	He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
	Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
	He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
	The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
	For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
	The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
	While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
	Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
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	We talk national security and foreign policy, and my oh my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
	Oh, man.
	That's why I said the danger zone.
	This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
	You said you might get a little bit emotional.
	It's like, what's your nightmare?
	You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
	Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
	It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
	Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
	We'll talk about Iran later.
	You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
	Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
	You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
	We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
	So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
	Bad, right?
	So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
	So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
	Literally, the president has deactivated ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
	He's basically told them...
	They're still there, but they can't do their job.
	They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
	If you...
	Let's do a thing.
	Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
	I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
	the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
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	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women, you know, who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says...
	Now I'm a girl.
	Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he crushed the woman's skull?
	I mean, I'm not making this up.
	I couldn't even believe it when I read it.
	Do you know about this case?
	I did, yeah.
	And I believe the fighter's last name is Fox.
	I don't remember the first name.
	But yeah, it was an MMA fight.
	And his opponent, I mean, just her, I think, some broken bones and some things like that.
	And this shows it's not even just a matter of fairness, of making sure women get to the beat, but it's a matter of safety.
	Because you start taking this into sports like MMA, like soccer, like others, where you've got some physical contact going on.
	And we've had girls reach out to us to say, I have genuine concerns that...
	If I go out into the field and I get slammed into by a guy, is that going to be the end of my athletic career?
	And I think that shows there are so many reasons why we've had men's teams and women's teams.
	And we need to preserve those for equal opportunities, for safety, and just for making sure that our daughters and granddaughters don't find themselves sitting on the sidelines when they ought to be out there winning the gold medal and using their God-given talents to their fullest.
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	to warm the hearts of frozen Texans.
	Appreciate that.
	Mark Davis from previously frozen Dallas-Fort Worth.
	On 660 AM, The Answer, I have the Happy Morning Show, and even additionally, happier to get the buzz every once in a while to do the Dennis Prager Show.
	And Larry Elder and Hugh Hewitt and various other programs, always a joy.
	Appreciate you all being here.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	1-8-Prager-776.
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	Let me tell you what's been going on.
	I've been giving you little excerpts of my conversation this morning with Ted Cruz.
	The next thing we're going to talk about is this disappointing Supreme Court.
	Tooth and nail for Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, too.
	Gorsuch was right on this, and that is the Pennsylvania decision to take a look, in hindsight, at what in God's name happened in Pennsylvania, where the Constitution was just shellacked, sidelines, end runs, to have all kinds of election law fashioned on the fly, contrary to what the Constitution requires.
	And so I asked him about that.
	We'll get to that here in just a little bit.
	But first, let's get to folks who have been hanging on during the top of the hour break.
	1-8 Prager 776. And we are in Worminster, Pennsylvania.
	Dave, hi.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Very nice to have you.
	How are you?
	Oh, hi, Mark.
	How are you today?
	I am great.
	All right.
	Well, I was going to speak to a little bit what you were talking about before, but I'll switch topics for you so we can remain on this kind of beat.
	Yeah, I think it's super crazy that they're thinking of re-looking at the Supreme Court justices.
	I mean, it's even more, you're talking about things that are unconstitutional and weren't really done.
	A lot of the hacking or...
	How we say packing and how that's evolved over time was like hugely taboo with the Founding Fathers.
	They just thought the Supreme Court was gonna...
	Actually, they did.
	I don't know.
	Actually, Dave, I'm going to give you two bits of talk show etiquette.
	Number one, that's crazy.
	The Founding Fathers did not speak specifically about the number of people on the Supreme Court.
	Here's another bit of talk show etiquette.
	When you go through it, and we love the screening process, I love all people, I love all people, but when you tell somebody what you're going to do, stick with it, because that's just a good idea, because I actually had some specific interest.
	I think you mentioned to Jennifer some notion about counselors who are willing to facilitate The transgender move for pre-adolescence, so that's what you told her.
	Let's go with that Okay.
	Yeah, I just think it's super crazy how we already did this in the 80s and 90s with saying, like, homosexuality was going to be the end of our society.
	And you're seeing a lot of the same things happen with transgender people.
	So I'm just wondering if anyone's picking up on the hypocrisy of that, whether it's good to tell people how to live their lives.
	Well, let's spend a moment.
	Let's spend a moment.
	First of all, that's a very good distinction that you draw.
	As far as telling people how to live their lives, no.
	I think it becomes other people's business when maybe there are policies that come down that affect everybody.
	Let's do a minute on homosexuality and a minute on transgenderism.
	I don't care who's gay, how many people are, or I wish peace and happiness and fulfillment for everybody.
	But, in a country that is quite divided on the subject, if a school system mandates that we've got to have daddy's roommate or Heather has two mommies, that's a controversy that people deserve to be heard on, and what I would oppose is the foisting of one view at the expense of another.
	Now, on transgenderism, and I'll finish with that and then give you the talking stick back.
	On transgenderism, I wish nothing but happiness, fulfillment, prosperity for people who are enduring what has to be a very hard road.
	The mental dysfunction that is gender dysphoria.
	And if some adult man decides he wants to start living as a woman and try to resemble one, even hormonally, that is a liberty that that person has.
	One small thing, one big thing.
	The small thing is stuff like pronouns.
	Pronoun bullies bug me a little bit.
	The second thing is the notion of a right of a biological man to compete against my daughter in athletics.
	That is stone cold insane.
	And that begins to be a violation of her rights.
	Okay, ball's yours.
	What do you got?
	Yes, no, that was me blathering.
	Your turn.
	Yeah.
	Well, I would love to talk about what that lady was talking about before.
	When you do have puberty blockers, it has been proven by the American Medical Association that the musculature will start to go in that person's preferred gender.
	What boosters they're taking...
	Oh, no doubt.
	Again, that's true.
	That is true.
	If you take, compared to a man...
	Who does not jack with himself.
	Yes, the puberty blockers, the adverse effects of this, especially before puberty, no doubt about it.
	But then you get to the fact that that is child abuse.
	The notion of allowing a nine-year-old to change genders is stone-cold child abuse.
	If it's post-puberty...
	There's no such thing, Dave.
	There's no such thing.
	Dave, there's no such thing.
	Dave, there is no such thing.
	I'll try fifth time.
	There is no such thing as a child who is sure.
	No such thing.
	That's a lie.
	It's a damnable lie.
	They sure seem to be, like, sure that they want to eat pizza every night.
	Oh, and that's exactly the same thing.
	And Dave, and you know, and that's exactly the same thing.
	I just think that's like insulting to children.
	No, no, it's insulting to children.
	Do you have children, Dave?
	I do.
	I'm not going to lord it over you.
	Okay, God save her from these attitudes.
	Get smarter in a hurry.
	And I say that with all love.
	And by the way, it doesn't mean you need to become conservative or be like me or blah, blah, blah.
	But if you're about to bring a daughter into the world and you think it's okay that if she's seven and says, I want to be a boy, and you say, let's go with that, that's child abuse.
	And I have a feeling if she becomes athletically inclined, which is always good.
	And if she gets to be, you know, 15, 16, 17 in high school athletics, or maybe she's 18, 19, 20 college athletics, and there's a confused dude in the lane next to her that's about to beat the holy hell out of her in the 100 meters, you might think about this a little differently.
	But nothing but good health for you and your child and your family, and I'm glad you called.
	1-8 Prager 776. We're in Lexington, South Carolina.
	Anna, hi.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, how are you doing?
	I'm good.
	Well, I just want to rebuttal what your last guy had and the one from Arizona regarding if you are a transgender man or female to male or male to female that you change completely your bone structure, whatever.
	There was actually an international weightlifting championship and a New Zealand male to female transgender beat out everyone and said a new female Weight lifting, national, like, high, I guess high lifting standard or whatever you'd call it.
	I'll bet.
	A record weight.
	A record weight, I'm sure.
	Because this is a male person doing this.
	I know some strong women.
	I know a lot of strong women.
	And God bless all the incredibly athletic, competing women.
	What an offense to women's weightlifting.
	Women's weightlifting, women's track, women's tennis, women's everything is such a proud, wonderful, storied...
	Pursuit and to have it sullied and attacked by the inclusion of men, it's just an outrage, first and foremost, to the athletes involved.
	Anna, God bless.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate it very much.
	All right.
	Hey, we are in Greenville, South Carolina.
	William, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, Mark.
	Doing good.
	Hey.
	So, I'm, again, on the transgender train.
	Well, not...
	Quite, but I'm commenting on that.
	On the transgender train.
	Some curious stops on that line.
	Nice to have you.
	What's up?
	Well, that's not quite what I meant.
	I know.
	I understand.
	You've got about 60 seconds.
	Go for it.
	Go for it.
	So, starting off, preface in Genesis, God created heavens and the earth and everything in it, and he said it was good.
	Man and woman.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	Yep.
	So, to the choice to become transgender, That's a little harsh.
	I know exactly what you mean, and it is contrary to Scripture, because we are created male and female, and to decide to thwart that is heavy lifting.
	No pun intended.
	I think the attitude that we best approach people who are adults, first and foremost, is...
	I pray for them.
	I pray for gender normalcy for all of them.
	For all of them.
	I don't want to be harsh toward them.
	It's got to be hell to walk that path.
	But I want to gently, prayerfully, in a Christ-like fashion, guide them lovingly toward biblical truth and scientific truth.
	How about that?
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Be right back.
	I got this trigger show.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Thank you.
	Now, I want to talk about this high school football coach, Massachusetts.
	He's suing Dedham Public School District, fired for privately disagreeing with the school's social justice curriculum being taught to his children.
	Now, because they're doing online training, kids are at home.
	And this football coach is hearing what they're learning in world history.
	Kind of thought that they were going to learn something about, oh, I don't know, you know world history?
	Instead, one assignment asked 12- and 13-year-olds to identify risk factors and mitigation factors when walking down the street with a person of a different skin color.
	White students were told to be fearful when they saw a black student with, quote, aggressive body language or in the, quote, wrong neighborhood, close quote.
	And black students were told to be fearful of white people in general, especially the police.
	And he and his wife noticed that the 7th grade teacher had a cartoon character of herself with a Black Lives Matter t-shirt on.
	So he contacted the superintendent, concerned about the curriculum that had been changed without notifying the parents, that the coursework was not suitable for 7th grade students.
	The teacher was not teaching world history.
	So following the email, superintendent holds a meeting with the Flins, with the couple complaining.
	And next thing you know, he has been fired from his job as a coach.
	And sent a letter.
	Quote, we are writing today.
	Sorry to inform you that you will not be reappointed as head coach.
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	Yeah.
	Nobody voted for that.
	If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
	He virtually said nothing about this.
	But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
	It wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
	He didn't give people to vote against him.
	You know, it came up once in the third debate and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
	So they do not have a mandate.
	To do something that gives me to say, oh, well, 50% are over here with Trump and 50% are over there with those guys.
	This isn't a 50-50 thing.
	Most Americans don't want their communities to be less safe.
	They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
	And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
	I don't know who said it, but a wise man said, you can have open borders and no welfare system.
	You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
	We're talking to Jim Carafano of the Heritage Foundation.
	Follow him now, JJ Carafano.
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	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	The Biden administration is rolling back religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far reaching.
	Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
	Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order.
	Telling all the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
	And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
	All right.
	It is the Wednesday Dennis Prager Show.
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	Speaking of smart folks.
	Let's take a peek at our chat with Ted Cruz earlier.
	I'm playing you some excerpts from this.
	Because I asked him, because he's become quite the student of Supreme Court history of late, and I said, listen, you and I and every conservative fought hard for Brett Kavanaugh and for Amy Coney Barrett, and they'll have more good days than bad.
	I'm sure they will.
	But doggone it, man.
	And what's the deal with only Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch being on board for a review of the unconstitutional treachery in Pennsylvania?
	I don't have a good answer to it.
	I think it is very frustrating.
	I think the Supreme Court should have taken that Pennsylvania case.
	They should have taken it initially.
	To be honest, they should have taken it the first time they had it, which was before the election.
	That was the time to take the case.
	They didn't take it then.
	They didn't take the second iteration of it, which was after the election, before January 6th.
	You'll recall, in that instance, the plaintiff asked me to argue the case if the court took it.
	And I agreed I would argue the case.
	And I publicly called on the court then to take the case.
	I think the Supreme Court had a responsibility to consider those issues, given the very serious allegations of voter fraud in Pennsylvania and more broadly.
	I think it would be in the country's interest and the people's interest to have a greater degree of certainty that those claims are considered on the merits, considered pursuant to rule of law.
	And so I think it is an unfortunate decision the court has made now multiple times not to take the case.
	It made people start to think, and they started to call me and write to me, and they said...
	How in the world?
	You know, conservative court my foot, they said.
	If we can't rely on judges, whether it's John Roberts on Obamacare or the failure to take up Pennsylvania, how in the world can we count on these people to do something as plain as the nose on your face as overturning Roe v.
	Wade?
	And faith is at an ebb.
	Well, as you know, I just wrote a book a couple of months ago on exactly this topic.
	The book is called One Vote Away, How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History.
	And each chapter goes through a different constitutional right, a different fundamental protection of the Bill of Rights.
	So there's a chapter on free speech.
	There's a chapter on religious liberty.
	There's a chapter on the Second Amendment.
	And I take readers inside, behind the curtain.
	And tell war stories of litigating some of the biggest landmark cases before the court and what's really going on.
	And the final chapter goes through the history of Supreme Court nominations starting in the 1950s.
	And it walks through why Republicans have been so staggeringly bad at nominating Supreme Court justices.
	Democratic justices, Democrat presidents back nearly a thousand.
	Virtually every one of their nominees vote exactly as the Democrats want them to in almost every single case.
	Republicans don't even bat 500. We have a terrible record of success.
	And I walk through the history and I talk very specifically about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
	And actually, no, I don't talk about Amy Coney Barrett because the book came out right before she was nominated.
	So I talk about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
	But I also talk about, for both of those vacancies, President Trump talked very seriously with me about whether I would be willing to serve, and I told him no, that I did not want the position.
	So in the book, I talk about why that is.
	And so, you know, for anyone interested in understanding how we get it wrong, and I talk very directly about Roe v.
	Wade and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, and some of the Gorsuch has already had some really problematic rulings, and I air some very real concerns about Kavanaugh that I aired at the time.
	And so, for anyone interested, I'd encourage you to get the book One Vote Away.
	It's, I think, a fun and interesting and highly informative read.
	And it's proven prophetic, because you're talking about one vote away.
	Now, sometimes it seems like we're three votes away.
	I mean, because there have been some votes on which Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Barrett have all been wrong.
	I mean, like, dude, what did we fight for?
	Anyway, some of our chat with Ted Cruz.
	Back to some of your calls.
	I'll revisit our chat with Ted Cruz because I almost didn't want to ask him about Cancun Gate because I think that ship has sailed.
	He realizes that was bad optics.
	But there were a couple of things.
	He had some theories on why the media obsessed about that and on how in the world did someone leak his wife's texts.
	Yeah, the thing or two to say about that, too.
	So we'll get to that here in a coming segment.
	We're in San Antonio.
	Ty, hi.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, Mark.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	You know, I was actually having this conversation, my wife and I, with a gay friend of ours the other night.
	And for me, the conversation has never really been about is homosexuality or is...
	You know, transgenderism or bathroom, open bathroom policies, is it something that is good for our country, or is it productive, or does it move us forward as a society?
	It's always been about how much of it are we willing to tolerate based on the irresponsible nature that I believe lives inside of every human being.
	So it's kind of one of those things where I presented the argument The left has done a really good job at moving us away from the fact that many women have a biological responsibility to civilization to move us forward.
	We are here to procreate, okay?
	So if we were to wake up tomorrow, and let's just say 55% of our society had decided to be homosexual, okay?
	And let's just say 55% of the world, for that matter.
	That would instantaneously mean for our civilization that we were on our way to extinction.
	Yeah, wouldn't we?
	Because procreation is important.
	Super point, about 20 seconds left, let me scoot, and offer the following postscript.
	Whether it's homosexuality, transgenderism, there's a portion of it that's none of anybody's business, and there's a portion of it that's everybody's business.
	To the extent that something is someone leading a life that they have a right to live, I'm a big believer in live and let live.
	But whether it's certain policies affecting an entire school, or affecting women's sports with the introduction of males through transgender extremism, then it becomes Everybody's business.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Let's be right back.
	Training now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
	And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
	And Rush was someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
	He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
	He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
	I remember the first time I met Rush.
	He was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous, wanted to meet me, ask questions about Turning Point.
	I remember we had breakfast together.
	He only ate bacon for breakfast.
	And I always remember that.
	He said that the grease made him smarter.
	So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
	And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
	Where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
	I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event.
	And it was unbelievable.
	And we'll be posting clips from there.
	And what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
	It was really Incredible.
	The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
	You know, when I was in the White House visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or Kayleigh McEnany, you know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
	They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
	It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
	Not always Rush that was talking about the White House.
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	Thank you.
	Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen, and he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
	What about isn't Paul?
	I'm asking.
	I'm really asking.
	I'm not...
	I'm not fighting with you.
	I'm asking.
	Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB Hee Haw, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't say that about Hillary, am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
	No, you are 100% correct.
	You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
	But that's not my point.
	That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
	Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election, even if he thought it was stolen?
	He went through proper channels.
	He can continue to fight for it.
	I agree with you.
	What I'm saying is...
	It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
	So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
	Both sides are hypocritical.
	That's kind of my point.
	Right.
	Again, fair enough, Paul.
	My reaction is this.
	When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
	She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
	The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
	They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
	Yet, Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced, 78% of Democrats to the point where 78% believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
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	It is the Dennis Prager Show.
	home stretch of it, final half hour, here on this Wednesday, 24th day of February.
	Mark Davis filling in for Dennis, who will return tomorrow.
	Let us return to your calls, and then in our next segment, Ted Cruz talks a little bit about the aftermath, lessons learned from what we might affectionately call Cancun Gate, and some words about Republicanism, conservatism moving forward.
	Let's move forward into some more of your calls.
	We are in Michigan.
	Matthew, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Oh, good.
	I'm glad you're subbing in.
	You've got a good voice.
	Thank you.
	You're very good.
	I wanted to say that the left tries to destroy the family structure because they want to keep you separated to create dependency.
	So this is what they do.
	They try to separate man and woman as much as they can, making the man submissive, the woman dominant.
	They try to make genders.
	How many genders are there now?
	There are two.
	Well, we might be up to you.
	We're into the double digits, I'm thinking.
	Okay, so they got double digits.
	But on top of that, they want to put those double digits into the man and woman profile, meaning like the Olympics would have transgenders now competing with women.
	It would be so unfair.
	So if they have 26 genders, why wouldn't they have 26 categories?
	I know.
	That may be the slow conveyor belt that we're on, Matthew.
	Thanks.
	It's funny.
	There was a moment there as he was asking, how many genders are there now?
	And, of course, my immediate answer was two, but he meant how many are there considered to be by gender activists.
	There's a wonderful question.
	Try this on your friends.
	You ready?
	How many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg?
	How many legs does a dog have if you count the tail?
	As a leg.
	If you answer five, you are mistaken.
	The dog still has four legs.
	You counting the tail as a leg does not, in fact, increase the number of legs on the dog.
	Follow me?
	It's a little bit of a prank, but it does make the point.
	You can count the tail as a leg all day long, but it's not.
	It's not.
	So how many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg?
	The answer is four.
	Then it becomes incumbent on someone to ask, why in the world?
	Would you count the tail as a leg?
	Okay, that was time well spent.
	1-8 Prager 776 as we are right up the road in Aubrey, Texas.
	Kathy, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Good, how are you doing?
	I'm glad to have you.
	Thanks a lot.
	Thanks.
	I just wanted to make a comment to the gentleman that called a few calls ago and was mentioning when you said that it would be child abuse to allow a child to make the choice.
	to be male or female and to go forward with medical procedures.
	And he mentioned, well, a child seems pretty certain about pizza, so I just thought that he made the point.
	Right there that a child is certain that they think they want pizza.
	They're also certain.
	My six kids also all thought they were certain that they should eat their Halloween candy all within a 24-hour period.
	Oh, where were you?
	I could have used you.
	That's perfect.
	I just wanted to make that point that, yeah, children are wonderful.
	I love children.
	They are fantastic.
	But I do think that it's abuse.
	I think a parent should support their child if they want to let their child maybe wear different clothes.
	I don't know.
	That's up to them.
	They want to call them a different name.
	But I just think they are a child for that reason because they're not ready.
	Once they're an adult, sure.
	And then they can fault themselves if they want to change back in the future.
	If they say, dang it, why didn't...
	I just think that, again, a parent can support their child and say, okay, fine.
	That's what parenting is.
	Kathy, thank you enormously.
	That's what parenting is, is to be there when your children make decisions that are stupid and to save their lives seven times a day because what they want is often stupid and harmful.
	The call in question, I'm very grateful for the call.
	I love people, agree, disagree, whatever they want to do.
	But the gentleman said, well, if you have a nine-year-old boy who wants to be a girl, Who is sure he wants to be a girl?
	And I told the gentleman there is no such thing as a nine-year-old who is sure.
	And he replied about that.
	And he replied, well, they sure could be sure that they want pizza.
	And I said, that's certainly true.
	But that's not exactly apples and apples, is it?
	It's kind of pizza and genitalia, which are two very, very different things.
	Don't ever get those confused.
	And this magnificent lady at the wonderful point that the definition of a kid's life is knowing for certain that you want all kinds of things that are not good and not healthy.
	A kid can be certain he wants pizza every night, certain he doesn't want to go to school for a month, certain that he wants to jump off the roof.
	There are all kinds of things that kids can be so sure that they want.
	The definition of parenting is to make sure that they are guided toward choices that are responsible that adults would make.
	Now, by the time you're an adult, If you've still got that thing in your head where, hey, I'm a man, I think I want to be a woman, it slowly becomes not my business.
	But it's everybody's business to prevent society from encouraging children from such stuff or parents from facilitating it.
	Mark Davison for Dennis Prager.
	Prager will be right back.
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	Most people know this is madness.
	When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women who have quadriceps half the size of his.
	He's going to be a better sprinter.
	He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says, now I'm a girl.
	Look.
	I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
	This is very complicated stuff.
	But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
	Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he crushed the woman's skull?
	I mean, I'm not making this up.
	I couldn't even believe it when I read it.
	Do you know about this case?
	I did, yeah.
	And I believe the fighter's last name was Fox.
	I don't remember the first name.
	But yeah, it was an MMA fight.
	And his opponent, I mean, just her, I think, some broken bones and some things like that.
	And this shows it's not even just a matter of fairness, of making sure women get to compete, but it's a matter of safety.
	Because you start taking this into sports like MMA, like soccer, like others, where you've got some physical contact going on.
	And we've had girls reach out to us to say, I have genuine concerns that...
	If I go out into the field and I get slammed into by a guy, is that going to be the end of my athletic career?
	And I think that shows there are so many reasons why we've had men's teams and women's teams.
	And we need to preserve those for equal opportunities, for safety, and just for making sure that our daughters and granddaughters don't find themselves sitting on the sidelines when they ought to be out there winning the gold medal and using their God-given talents to their fullest.
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	California Democrat Linda Sanchez, the sponsor of the bill, said the impetus for introducing the legislation was due to the former president's encouraging of racism and hatred.
	H.R. 484. It's called the No Glory for Hate Act.
	It would prohibit the use of federal funds for the commemoration of certain former presidents, namely those who have faced impeachment proceedings from the House on two separate occasions.
	They're so goofy, they don't come out and say it's the Trump shouldn't be buried in Arlington bill.
	They say certain former presidents who have been impeached twice.
	The bill would also restrict the use of government funding to create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating a twice-impeached president.
	And it would bar the naming or redesignation of any federal building or land after presidents in question.
	Hmm, who would that be?
	Wonder who they're referring to.
	Wonder which president they mean.
	Illinois Republican Representative Mary Miller wrote on Twitter yesterday, Seems as though no matter where he is buried, he will be living forever in your minds.
	Nothing says unity like a bill targeting one person.
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	Transcription by CastingWords But there's a very interesting study out by two Johns Hopkins professors who say, you know what, let's not think that the problems with the blue collar working class people that they.
	All right.
	All right.
	We've enjoyed a combination of a lot of your thoughts, obviously a lot of mine.
	Mark Davis filling in for Dennis.
	Thank you, thank you.
	Dennis will be back tomorrow.
	And my chat mere hours ago with Ted Cruz on my local show.
	I figured if we're going to make some big news, might as well share it with the national audience.
	And when my producer, Rhonda, told me that we were going to, that Ted Cruz was going to be on the show, and we talked to Senator Cruz once a month.
	He's a wonderful guy.
	Always a wonderful interview.
	And I thought to myself, do I really want to bring up Cancun Gate?
	Do I want to beat him to death with the Cancun decision, the bad optics of that?
	Because he's apologized.
	He's done a mea culpa on that several times.
	But I said, look, it got kind of silly.
	And why don't you comment on that and the fact that somebody got a hold of Heidi's texts and leaked those.
	And he did, in fact, have an additional postscript about that.
	And then we talked about a couple other things, too.
	It was a mistake.
	It was obviously a mistake.
	And the biggest reason it was a mistake, frankly, is that it gave ammunition to the knuckleheads.
	It gave ammunition to the people who want to attack me, but also attack all conservatives and drive a political point.
	The media has been utterly obsessed.
	I think some of it is they are suffering from Trump withdrawal.
	I mean, their everyday attacking Donald Trump was like heroin to their system.
	Stepped off the scene.
	They don't know what else to do.
	And so it became this obsession.
	You know, on the substance of it, it's a little strange in that, you know, most of what a senator can do during a storm is on the phone and on the Internet and on Zoom.
	And for the last year, much of what I've been doing is remote working with COVID anyway.
	And so my perspective was I was going to continue working remotely and it would work better to do so in a place with power where all of that works.
	That being said, the natural response is optics.
	And you know what?
	That's a fair point that in a time of crisis, a leader needs to be there.
	And so it was a mistake.
	I was thinking as a dad and I was trying to take care of my family.
	And it was a mistake to do it, which is why I turned around and came back within less than 24 hours.
	That nonetheless gave ammunition to the numbskulls, and they'll continue their attacks for a long time.
	And sadly, it also included some, you know, attacks on Heidi, her texts.
	You know, how about a simple principle?
	Just leave families out of it.
	Leave our wife and kids out of it.
	And if you want to be...
	Nasty.
	I stepped into this.
	I'm the one that ran for office.
	I made the choice.
	If you want to attack me, that goes with the territory.
	But it'd be better if we just left families out of it.
	Last thing, Senator Ted Cruz, in the days, it's only days since Trump left office, you're right, that the Lord knows the media miss him.
	God knows I do, too, with every moment of bad ideas from the Biden administration.
	There are many stories about a GOP fractured into civil war, and I don't believe that.
	I think that the party is deeply united behind ideas like yours, ideas like Trump's, whether they do or don't want him to exactly come back in 2024, somebody exactly like him.
	You know, the appeal of people like you, Ron DeSantis, Kristi Noem, shows that this flavor of leadership, this bold, unapologetic conservatism, is still absolutely popular with the base.
	And yet, and not just your never-Trumpers, but I can't explain Liz Cheney.
	I don't get it.
	I can't explain or psychoanalyze the seven Republicans who voted to impeach.
	There is a sliver of Republican discontent.
	What's the issue there?
	Well, look, there are always tensions in a party, and particularly when you lose the last election, that those tensions are exacerbated.
	You know, I agree with what you just said, which is that the party is different.
	There's some in Washington that want to essentially erase the last four years, want to pretend that the age of Trump never happened.
	We are a different party than we were five years ago or ten years ago.
	We're a different party in a very important sense.
	I think the most important way we're a different party is I think today the Republican Party is a blue-collar party.
	We are the party of working men and women.
	We're the party of truck drivers and construction workers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands.
	And I think the Democratic Party today is the party of rich coastal elites.
	That is a massive shift in politics, and I think that's a good shift.
	I think the Republican Party should be the party of working men and women and the party of jobs.
	Now, are there elements in our party that are sort of rumbling towards a civil war?
	Yes.
	Are there some never-Trumpers who want to destroy everyone who supported Donald Trump?
	Unfortunately, yes.
	Are there some Trump supporters who want to destroy everyone who wasn't entirely loyal to Donald Trump?
	Unfortunately, yes.
	My view is I'm not a big fan of purges.
	I want us to win, and the way you win is you get to 50 plus 1. So I understand their tensions.
	When it comes to President Trump, I've worked very, very closely with him every day for four years.
	I was his strongest ally in the Senate, and we got enormous policy victories for the country.
	As a result, I didn't agree with everything he said or did.
	I didn't agree with everything that he tweeted.
	But, you know, that's all right.
	I don't agree with everything that my wife or mom or dad does either.
	And that's fine.
	I think we had an incredible record of success.
	And I think President Trump demonstrated backbone, demonstrated courage.
	The biggest thing I think Republican primary voters and Americans like about President Trump It is that he would stand up and fight.
	And we're so tired of politicians that are just jellyfish, that are scared to stand for anything.
	And so if the rest of the party can learn a lesson from Trump, it's grow a backbone.
	That would be a very good lesson.
	And so are there going to be growing pains?
	Are there going to be bumps?
	Yes.
	Are there going to be tensions?
	Yes.
	But I'll tell you...
	The Democrats, they have control of everything.
	They're going to overshoot.
	They're already going too far.
	Their policies are going to be a disaster.
	And the natural pendulum of politics is things will move back in the direction of sanity.
	I think 2022 is going to be a very good election.
	I think 2024 is going to be a very good election.
	All right, Senator Ted Cruz, a thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyable conversation.
	And it's been a thoroughly great conversation with all of you today.
	Let's pop out to our final segment.
	Bows to tire on various things and then we'll get out of your way and welcome Dennis back tomorrow.
	Mark Davis filling in.
	Stick around.
	I'll be right back with some closing comments.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
	Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
	He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
	Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
	He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
	The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
	For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
	The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
	While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
	Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	We talk national security and foreign policy.
	And my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
	Oh, man.
	That's why I said the danger zone.
	This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
	You said you might get a little bit emotional.
	It's like, what's your nightmare?
	You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
	Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
	It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
	Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
	We'll talk about Iran later.
	You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
	Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
	You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
	We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
	So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
	Bad, right?
	So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
	So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
	Literally, the president has deactivated ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
	He's basically told them...
	They're still there, but they can't do their job.
	They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
	If you...
	Let's do a thing.
	Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
	I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
	the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
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	Alrighty.
	What a time we have had.
	I'm so glad we had this time together just to have a laugh or sing a song.
	Are you old enough to recognize the Carol Burnett exit there?
	I'll tug on my ear for the video here and thank all y'all.
	Thank you, Sean and Christian and Jennifer for the screening and all of you for listening, for listening to Dennis Every Day, as I do, as all good Americans should.
	And when the bat phone rings and I get to come on in and do this, it is just always an unbridled joy.
	So to take a look at some of the stuff we've talked about today and tie a little bit of a bow around it.
	Matters large and small and, you know, political and secular.
	Let's pray for healing for Tiger Woods.
	It's a more fun America.
	When Tiger has his act together and he's on a golf course.
	And I'd like for both of those to happen.
	So my prayer extends to his physical healing.
	And also to hope that we don't hear that the crash was some byproduct of some behavioral issue.
	Of which there have been some.
	Because I'm a big fan of redemption when it comes to everybody.
	We are measured not by how we fall, but by how we pick ourselves up and continue.
	And so I hope that the news is good physically.
	And psychologically and spiritually for Tiger.
	And we'll see how that all goes.
	But just prayers for healing as he recovers from the crash.
	I don't know when the next time is that we'll come hang out.
	I got a couple of Larry Elder dates in...
	In April, I want to say.
	But they get interspersed from time to time, and sometimes they can be kind of sudden, like, hey, can you come do the show tomorrow?
	So whenever that might be, you are welcome to come hang out with me in the world of Twitter, at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis, or you may consume that humble little morning show that I mention every once in a while at 660amtheanswer.com.
	You can listen live from 7 to 10 Central Time.
	Do your own math.
	You know where you live.
	And again, in book form, if you want to grab a hold of some stuff that I've done, it is Upside Down, How the Left Turned Right Into Wrong, Truth Into Lies, and Good Into Bad.
	That's a lot of subtitle.
	Just do Mark Davis, Upside Down.
	Mark Davis, Upside Down, and you will find it on Amazon.
	And if you're going to go back a book, the first thing I did for Regnery was a thing called Lone Star America, How Texas Can Save the Country.
	And there's an energy chapter in there that kind of sprang to life during this past weird week in my home state.
	So Lone Star America, also there for you on Amazon.
	Here we are, right?
	Biden's president.
	What you gonna do, right?
	What you gonna do?
	And the answer is fight back.
	Fight hard.
	Fight smart.
	Fight with the spirit of a happy warrior.
	We are in no ways tired.
	Let us move forward and fight for the kind of country we want.
	Lord knows the left does it.
	Let's meet them on the battlefield in good spirit, with good will, and with all the energy necessary.
	I'm Mark Davis.
	God bless you.
	Appreciate you being here.
	And I'll see you next time right here on the Dennis Prager Show.
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	Dennis is back tomorrow.

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