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Feb. 26, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	I'm on?
	Hello, hello everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager, a good Friday to you.
	Hey, you know, on Mondays I always say, I hope you have a good weekend.
	I should say on Fridays, I hope you'll have a good weekend.
	Preemptive strike.
	Thank you, sir.
	The reason I'm laughing is somewhat at myself.
	I have this great question every day.
	With what subject do I open the show?
	So, this is grisly, but I just want to bring it to your attention as a symbol of the...
	Brilliant, brilliant statement in the Talmud of almost 2,000 years ago.
	Those who are kind to the cruel will be cruel to the kind.
	And I've adopted that in so much of my life.
	My theory, my column on communism this week was, those who don't fight evil, this is a variation on that Talmudic thought, those who don't fight evil make up evils to fight.
	That's a good way of putting it.
	You know that?
	Can I trouble you?
	That's a good one.
	Those who do not fight evil make up evils to fight.
	And I'll give you an example.
	The release of so many people who have done horrible things to human beings in the name of justice, in the name of compassion, in the name really of chaos.
	Sorosian Chaos, which is really redundant, because all he does is show chaos.
	He's a man who could truly be said to have made the world worse, having been in it.
	There are a number of people about whom that could be said.
	Most people, you can say, contributed something.
	Some people contributed nothing in either direction, and some people made the world worse.
	George Soros made the world worse.
	That's it.
	There's no doubt in my mind he will so be regarded, but not perhaps in your lifetime, since the left has commandeered historical writing.
	So the story is reflective of our thinking.
	This has nothing to do with Soros specifically or the prosecutors, district attorneys.
	This is, a repeat felon has confessed, Daily Mail, a repeat felon has confessed to killing his neighbor, cutting out her heart, I won't redo the rest, and then murdering his uncle and four-year-old girl.
	This happened in Oklahoma this month, actually just two weeks ago.
	Lawrence Paul Anderson, 42, allegedly stabbed the neighbor, Andrea Lynn Blankenship, to death in her home in Chikasha.
	He then went back to his house and stabbed three people, his uncle, aunt, and their granddaughter, the same day, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
	The triple murder sparked outrage after it emerged that Anderson had been released from prison early in January.
	See, this is a story that should have national attention.
	Not Jussie Smollett's story.
	Turned out to be a lie, as you know.
	He was sentenced to serve 20 years behind bars for gun and drug offenses in 2017 before Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to nine years at the recommendation of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
	I'm not done.
	Anderson has spent much of the past 15 years in prison.
	In 2006, he was sentenced to four years for attacking his girlfriend and pointing a gun at her.
	And for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
	He was released after serving less than two years.
	Hmm.
	You attack your girlfriend pulling a gun at her and it's less than two years.
	Alright?
	Not done.
	Anderson landed back in lockup in 2012 when he was sentenced to 15 years for selling crack cocaine near a Chikasha Elementary School.
	He was released after five years and four months with 20 years probation.
	Less than five months after that release, Anderson was arrested for confronting a woman with a handgun in a church parking lot.
	Police later found a vial of PCP in his underwear.
	So, just, you know, just let him out.
	And...
	I'm not saying that this is not a complex issue.
	If a person is only involved in drugs, although I want you to understand, drug dealers are involved in murder.
	Okay?
	That should be known.
	Do you know how many people die of drug overdoses?
	And there are people who are selling the things with which these people die, just for the record.
	But even putting that aside, The guy has twice pointed a gun at innocent women.
	And now he went out and he murdered the neighbor and three relatives.
	Yep.
	Alright.
	That goes under the file of how to get that off my chest.
	And it is off.
	So, you know, they've now passed this equality bill, the U.S. House of Representatives, which will guard the transgender.
	You are, for all laws, you are what you say you are.
	This is an invitation to chaos.
	And the only question I have on these matters, I have a lot of thoughts, but I have a question on this one.
	When will the average Democrat see his country ruined by his party and hold his nose and vote Republican?
	That's the only answer.
	They are destroying the country.
	This is a form of destruction.
	Why is it fair for biological men to race against biological women?
	Here's an example of the cruelty to decent people.
	And I'm not saying the transgender are cruel in light of my early telemetic statement.
	It has nothing to do with that.
	My heart goes out to the transgender.
	It can't be a happy life to be at odds with your biological sex.
	That's just the way it is.
	My heart goes out to these people.
	So that's a separate issue.
	My heart also goes out to people who, in salons, who, how do I say this on a family show, that remove body hair from the private parts of women, right?
	So, it's women who are doing that, obviously.
	And it's very, very common practice.
	And now, if a person comes in and says, I'm a woman, then you must remove the hair from the private parts that belong to a male.
	Right?
	Do you understand?
	I mean, just to give you one little ramification.
	99.9% of you don't work in that field, so the hell with those people.
	99% of you are not females racing against biological males, so the hell with those females.
	Oh, and it will have absolutely no effect on the cohesion of a unit.
	To have somebody with a male body say that she is female or vice versa.
	So that you, there are women's barracks, is that correct?
	So there will be in women's barracks a woman with male genitalia.
	And to even, to object to it and say, this is not what I signed up for, will make you a hater.
	Because of the simpletons of the left.
	So that is the law.
	We might as well abolish women's sports.
	There's no point in women's sports.
	The point in women's sports is the biological differences.
	The biological differences don't end because the psychological differences end.
	You know what's fascinating?
	I read study after study, activist after activist, activist.
	A disproportionate number of the people who were active in this arena are female.
	It's interesting.
	I can't figure it out.
	But it's so, it's hit me.
	I just look, oh, a study was written showing that there's no issue with the transgender in the Army.
	And, of course, the study was written by two women.
	We'll be back.
	We'll be back.
	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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	If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, then they no longer represent
	And we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important.
	Than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Okay.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, what has to be fixed.
	What do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite.
	That lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new dangerous Dangerous political actor, the AOCs of the world,
	the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
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	Brad Roffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Okay.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing.
	Because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
	As we roll down this unfamiliar road, not all this way, it's stringing us along.
	Just know we are not alone, because I'm going to make this place your own.
	All right, everybody, you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show.
	So, It is a great question.
	Some of you are actually opposing this on calls.
	1-8 Prager 776. Will the families of girls who do not get a sports scholarship, do not win races because biological males are running against them, calling themselves females, Will those families change their voting habits?
	I mean, on the assumption that they vote Democrat, and the Democrats are the ones who pass these laws, can you imagine anybody, anyone, listen to this, anyone, when was it the first civil rights bill, you cannot discriminate against the black, or based on race, that was 64 or 65?
	Either one, 64 or 65. Now, had you said to any one of them, yeah, but this is going to lead to a dozen other anti-discrimination laws, including you can't discriminate against a person based on what sex they identify as.
	Literally no one living in 1964 would have understood what you're saying.
	There's a very interesting question.
	If you'd have said to somebody in 1682, you know, one day people are going to think slavery is wrong, would the person have thought you're nuts?
	Of course not.
	If somebody said it in 1412, you wouldn't have been thought nuts.
	When things arise that no one had ever speculated, all the moral thinkers in the history of the world neglected to mention transgender rights.
	So you could say, look, we are just so much better than every moral philosopher who ever lived or were out of our minds.
	Right?
	Or you could say, no, there's no third alternative.
	That's probably why they don't read anybody from the past.
	People on the left think that they are so morally superior to Shakespeare and the Bible and Aquinas and every other moral thinker, Maimonides.
	Why bother with them?
	They never spoke up on transgender rights.
	Correct or not?
	Tell me why a leftist does not feel...
	Is there one person on the left who does not think he or she is morally superior to all humans who ever lived before him?
	Right or wrong?
	Let's be clear.
	Why didn't they come up with this?
	Transphobes.
	They were all transphobes.
	Right?
	There is no...
	Arrogance like left-wing arrogance.
	There are arrogant conservatives, but an arrogant conservative can never measure up to an arrogant leftist.
	Because they don't believe they are the greatest moral thinker in history, whereas every leftist does.
	Right?
	The arc of history.
	They're part of the arc of history.
	Maimonides wasn't.
	I can't think of a moral advance in my lifetime that no one thought of before.
	Okay.
	There were anti-racists very, very early on.
	The Bible is anti-racist.
	That's a long time ago.
	I prove it in my third volume of which is coming out.
	I would ask you to order it because this is very big stuff.
	The Rational Bible, third volume.
	It's out later this year.
	But this one is brand new.
	Brand new.
	No one ever thought of this.
	If you think you're a man, you are a man.
	Now, what my view is, if you think you're a man, dress like a man, take a man's name, look like a man, then I will address you as a man.
	That is human courtesy and decency.
	Okay, I want to make that clear.
	The University of British Columbia, I think it is.
	Is that right?
	Are you aware of this, the medical school there?
	It said, do not assume that if a patient has a penis, that it is a man.
	This is medical school.
	I told you the left is ruining everything, and that includes science.
	It's already attacked math in Oregon, as we covered last week.
	But this is truly new.
	But I truly don't understand.
	Since there's far more scientific basis to sex, Slash gender than there is to race.
	Why can't one identify as a member of another race?
	Why do you disqualify that?
	This is not a cute question.
	I'd like an answer.
	If I identify as black but my chromosomes say I'm white, so what?
	Your chromosomes say you're male and you can identify as a female.
	Why can't I? The argument, you don't look black, Dennis, is not sufficient.
	You may not look like a man and say you're a man.
	It's part of the left's deconstruction.
	It's called post-modernism.
	The deconstruction of reality.
	Once again, for those who monitor this show to distort it, I believe that if somebody...
	Acts like a man, has a man's name, looks like a man, dresses like a man.
	I don't care what they were born.
	I will treat them as a man.
	That's courtesy.
	But I will not deny that that is a woman who identifies as a man.
	I will not throw it in this person's face.
	That would be wrong, morally wrong.
	I treat you as you are, but the law is different from courtesy.
	The law is not based on courtesy.
	Anyway, it's not courteous to girls to have them race against biological boys.
	We have a great PragerU video on it.
	This girl who this happened to, 16-year-old girl from Connecticut.
	What is it called?
	I'll get it for you.
	It's really, really important.
	The cruelty of the people who want the girls to race is remarkable.
	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.
	Considering a career in politics?
	Consider Pepperdine's Graduate School of Public Policy.
	Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu To our vision,
	our objectives, then they no longer represent us.
	And we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, what has to be fixed.
	And what do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite.
	That lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, Dangerous political actor, the AOCs of the world,
	the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	On the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Brad Roffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing.
	Because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
	Yes, indeed. indeed.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Let me take some of your calls, as much as I want to go to more stories, because they allow me to hear reactions from everybody else, and some of you don't agree with me.
	So you should get on first.
	Gary in Milwaukee, hello.
	Hey, how you doing, Dennis?
	Okay.
	You know, I listen, and I just smile.
	So, let me try to be quiet.
	Let's speak as quick as I can about this.
	That's a tough issue because when you talk about voting based on one issue, let me say I'm a retired military guy, 20 years active duty as a warfighter.
	Now I'm a principal in an urban school district.
	So I listen to your radio show when I get a chance.
	And I think you paint with a broad brush doesn't help the Republicans' quest to bring in more voters of color.
	So, and when you talk about one issue, like, I'm against abortion, there are so many things that are conservative, you know, that have conservative beliefs.
	So, it's tough to talk about just voting based on one issue, but I was an all-state wrestler qualified for the Olympic trial, and I don't believe that men should compete against women.
	I think it's wrong.
	But there are some other, and I'm passionate about this, but I think there are some other things when you have a Republican Party where you have people...
	I can't stand next to somebody like that.
	I cannot do that.
	And then when you look at the mess that the last two Republican presidents have left this country in, when you took out Bush and you talk about Trump, it's hard, man.
	It's hard to come over to a party where you feel like there's just so many things that don't fit what you believe in.
	I don't know if that makes any sense.
	It doesn't.
	You're a good man, and what you said doesn't make sense.
	There are people who went with the Confederate flag, so you don't give a damn about abortion.
	You don't give a damn about girls racing against guys.
	No, I said I do care.
	No, no, no, you don't, because you don't vote that way.
	It doesn't matter what you care.
	It matters what you vote.
	So, there you go.
	See, that's what I'm talking about.
	There you go.
	You can't vote one issue.
	You do.
	You just said you did.
	There are Republicans who wave Confederate flags, so everything else is not as important.
	You are a one-issue man.
	And you will always vote Democrat, because there will always be some Republicans who wave Confederate flags.
	So it ends the issue.
	All right.
	I'll...
	I actually honor your silence.
	It means you're thinking, so I appreciate it.
	What am I going to say?
	I said what I have to say, so I thank you for your call.
	Ben in Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania.
	I remember Harvey.
	Great guy.
	It was the last name, actually.
	Everybody knew him by his last name.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	Also, his first name was Harvey, too.
	You didn't know that.
	That's possible in this part of the state.
	That's exactly right.
	We have a lot of Welsh people in this area.
	Very good.
	But you're speaking about the transgender thing with the boys racing against girls and so forth.
	And right here in our local high school, we have a young lady who wrestles in the boys wrestling programs.
	And she is quite good, and I have not heard the word transgendered used at all in her respect.
	But she has just become the first female in our district to qualify for regionals.
	She finished second at districts last week, and she will go to Williamsport tomorrow and compete in Northeast Regionals.
	Okay, I'm a little confused.
	Does she identify as a female?
	Yes.
	Are there female wrestling and male wrestling teams?
	There are not, as I know, any high school female wrestlers.
	Then there's nothing to be said.
	If she wins, she wins.
	Right.
	I think there is a tremendous difference when you have sports such as football.
	There is not a female football team.
	There are many, not many, but there have been quite a few females who have played on football teams.
	And I think it's just...
	It's just crossing over because they don't get the opportunity.
	That may well be.
	I can't imagine.
	Well, since brute strength is such a big part of American football as opposed to soccer, brute strength, I mean, even, you know, say, well, could a female be a punter?
	But the leg strength necessary to kick a ball 80 yards, You know, is a factor, too.
	But anyway, look, the only question is, do the guys wrestle with the same holds as they would use on the guy?
	I think that that's where this is going to come, because the most amazing thing about this is this little girl is only a freshman.
	Right.
	No, no, I've got to let you go, because I've got to take a break.
	But that's the question I would ask.
	I would like to see a video.
	I wouldn't.
	I don't know anything about wrestling.
	But I'd like to show it to...
	A coach.
	Are these guys doing what they should be doing?
	I'll tell you, I'm doing what I should be doing, and that is taking relief factor.
	I feel somewhat of a failure that I haven't gotten every one of you who has back pain, joint pain, neck pain, so on, to give it a try.
	I do, because...
	They have a very interesting attitude.
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	Unemployment is falling.
	You wouldn't know it by the news.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done.
	It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did.
	They can't give Trump credit for anything.
	So it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy.
	Trump was right.
	These experts are stunned.
	And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake-slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida.
	The numbers are about the same.
	In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age.
	Of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states, so really Florida did better.
	This does not fit the script.
	And now that we're tossing around numbers like $1.9 trillion like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork.
	So for all those reasons, the media has a vested interest in making things sound worse, in making the coronavirus news, good news, put on the back burner.
	So they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear, more trepidation for this $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus package.
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	.
	Folks, I'm talking to Kevin McGarry.
	He and my friend Neil Mammon have founded an organization called Every Black Life Matters.
	The website is everyblm.org There are some nasty things.
	Being pushed by the BLM movement.
	And you don't hear about that.
	Again, these, like, really ignorant, usually white corporations, they just want to throw money.
	It's like a shakedown.
	So we're taking part of their narrative, the Black part, and the matter part, and we're saying every single Black life matters to me.
	Does every single Black life matter to you?
	That's a different kind of a thing when you talk to a Black Lives Matter person who's, Black Lives Matter, bro!
	Black Lives Matter!
	And you say, look, every single Black Lives Matter to me.
	Does it matter to you?
	You know, like, they know it's a trick, right?
	And then I go on to explain from conceptual...
	You know, somebody's calling in with regard to the Bible, and that is going to be...
	I wonder if that will be prohibited in public schools.
	I mean, for all intents and purposes, it's prohibited now.
	I say not legally prohibited, but for all intents and purposes.
	Because it will be declared transphobic, for example.
	I'll give you an example.
	In my forthcoming, the third volume of my five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible, so I didn't go in order.
	I began with book two, then book one, now book five, Deuteronomy.
	It's got a law that a man cannot wear women's clothing.
	Right?
	Now, tell me, why will that be allowed?
	A book that says that, not to mention that it prohibits male homosexual intercourse.
	That it declares that God made only two sexes.
	I mean, it's endless.
	It's endless.
	Look, Shakespeare, everything will be banned because the left is so morally superior to everything that preceded it.
	That the Bible made Western civilization possible, the civilization that is the least racist, least homophobic, least you name it, that's irrelevant to the fools of the left, which is redundant, but I need to say it.
	Oh yes, my daily note.
	Liberalism has nothing in common with leftism.
	Unfortunately, liberals vote left.
	My dear caller from Milwaukee.
	Liberals will have destroyed the country because they have been brainwashed into believing their enemy is conservatism, not leftism.
	That's it.
	That's the reason, because if liberals didn't vote left, the left would never win an election.
	Where is...
	Okay, here we go.
	Chatsworth, California.
	Frank.
	Hello, Frank.
	Yeah, Dennis.
	You routinely say that the left is evil.
	I'm not on the left, but I have a couple of friends who are, and they're not wild-eyed Marxists.
	They're decent, hard-working family men.
	And believe me, they do not believe that men can give birth.
	They do not believe in what?
	I'm sorry.
	They don't believe that men can give birth, which you routinely say also.
	So how do you know they're left and not liberal?
	Leftists do believe men give birth.
	Because I'm a liberal.
	I'm a liberal, and their views are much more aligned to the left than mine.
	Their views are.
	All right, so you know what?
	This is a very valuable call to me.
	I'll tell you why.
	And then, of course, I'll let you continue speaking.
	I will have to write up a sort of checklist to determine whether one is a liberal or a leftist.
	So, for example, do your friends believe that America today is systemically racist?
	I would say yes, they do.
	Okay, so they believe the greatest lie since Jews use Christian blood for matzah.
	Okay, but do you believe that they're evil?
	No, I believe that.
	I've said a thousand times, good people help bad people do bad.
	Your friends, taking your word for it, I've said this a thousand times.
	No, not a thousand, it's exaggerating, a hundred times.
	You think I've said it a thousand times?
	Okay, he thinks I've said it a thousand times.
	There are hard-working, nice people, good fathers, good friends, good husbands, good wives, who do staggering amounts of evil.
	If only evil people did evil, the world would be heavenly.
	All right.
	I would think you'd be a little more concerned about groups like QAnon, which...
	I don't even know, sir.
	I want you to know...
	I wish I had a Bible here.
	I would put my hand on the Bible, tell you, I don't know what QAnon is.
	I have never heard it, seen it, or read it.
	This is as manufactured by the left as an enemy as everything else they manufacture.
	It's a gigantic lie that QAnon is determinative in conservative life.
	My producer has never seen it.
	I have never seen it.
	We read everything.
	Okay, can I finish?
	Can I speak?
	Well, you can and I can.
	Just that's the deal.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	They have 8,000 followers.
	That's quite a few.
	How many?
	How many?
	80,000.
	80,000 is quite a few.
	Elvis Presley is alive has more followers.
	Oh my god, it's painful.
	80,000.
	It means nothing.
	Nothing.
	There are 330 million people in America.
	God, it's the power of the media.
	The lies of the media are effective.
	And what does it mean if you're a follower?
	That's a good point.
	It means you agree with it?
	I'm a follower of half the left-wing thing.
	I have a subscription to the Washington Post, to the New York Times.
	QAnon.
	Oh, my God.
	They have 80,000 followers.
	How does anybody know?
	Even if he knows, so what does it mean, 80,000 followers?
	It plays no role in conservative life.
	No role.
	I'm one of the leading conservatives in the United States, and I don't know what it is.
	I only know of it because the left-wing media talks about it, and people like my dear caller therefore believe it.
	Anyway, why was that a response to my question, does his friend believe that America is systemically racist today?
	By the way, I did come up with a good line.
	If only evil people did evil, the world would be heavenly.
	I've got to put that out.
	The number of good people who do evil is staggering.
	That's why I wrote my column a few weeks ago.
	You should read it.
	It's called The Good German.
	The next week I wrote The Good American.
	My thinking on the issue of The Good German has radically changed.
	I realize how the average citizen can just shut up in the face of tyranny.
	The last year has made me realize that's true in America, too.
	The last year has made me realize that this is a very powerful thing.
	What have we been saying here?
	It's the only measure that matters.
	Conservatism has changed.
	I know populism is a dirty word on the left.
	It's used as a pejorative.
	But in 2016, we saw politics change.
	First, it was the UK with Brexit.
	Then various other nations around the world, as disparate as Australia, India, and Austria.
	But it came here, and a man who'd never run for public office before decided to.
	And he ran for the highest office in the land.
	And what was his message?
	Had nothing to do with the existing tropes of conservative politics.
	It was about America being great politics.
	Once more, a recognition that both sides of the political aisle had failed the American people.
	Irrespective of their skin color, what they did for a living, where they came from, whether they had an accent, whether they were part of some specific class, or whether they could be divided into the categories the left loves.
	To divide us into, no, simply had they been forgotten?
	Had their interests, their goals, their wishes been trampled upon?
	Had their jobs been exported to China?
	Had those that they had elected into office promised them one thing and then given them another or delivered?
	Absolutely nothing at all.
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	Tucker makes the argument, and we're going to play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, It's unlike anything that Americans are used to.
	Instead of living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it's the powerful versus the workers.
	Thank you.
	This revolution that we are living through, make no mistake, we are living through a revolution.
	It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely, it's there.
	But this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, has actually been engineered by people with a very specific agenda.
	Okay, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	I want to definitely repeat that thought often.
	If only evil people did evil, the world would be a good place.
	That's become clear to me.
	That's why I wrote my essay, my column, The Good German.
	The number of good Americans, and I mean it.
	Look, it's a country I love.
	But I've been sobered about my fellow Americans.
	I fully acknowledge it.
	The ease with which people can be brainwashed in a free country where there are alternative sources that give you much more truth.
	There's much more truth on talk radio than at the New York Times.
	It's not comparable.
	It's not comparable.
	And, of course, we're challenged, like you heard today.
	I take every call that challenges me.
	Anybody challenge the New York Times other than Brett Stephens?
	Nope.
	Watching people lose their civil liberties in this country in the name of health, putting all politics aside, the ease with which Americans have accepted that millions of their the ease with which Americans have accepted that millions of their federal citizens cannot make a living in the name of dubious Fauci is the scientist they picked.
	If they'd have picked any of the scientists that, for example, the Wall Street Journal publishes, we've had a different policy.
	They had a different scientist in Sweden, and they had a different policy.
	The number of Americans who have died of COVID who shouldn't have died, had they been given a treatment instead of waiting for them to be hospitalized?
	Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc.
	It's a mass homicide by sweet people known as doctors.
	Okay?
	Most doctors are nice people.
	It's a pretty big evil to have deprived the American people of a therapeutic.
	Pretty big.
	It's like gigantic evil.
	Okay?
	But they're good people.
	And I mean it.
	I'm not being sarcastic.
	The human condition is a complex one.
	Jerry, Frank, oh Frank I took, Jeff, Dan, Rob, David, Jim, Stan, please forgive me.
	We move on with the Dennis Prager Show.
	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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	If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to the world,
	To our vision, our objectives, then they no longer represent us and we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, what has to be fixed.
	And what do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite.
	That lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, Dangerous political actor, the AOCs of the world,
	the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Brad Roffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing.
	Because there's another consent decree.
	That was approved many, many years ago.
	And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982. In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters.
	From voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods.
	To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact.
	The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching.
	Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge, this is back in 2018, lifted the decree.
	said you're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia in the South.
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	Are the people in the Trump administration and President Trump himself who spearheaded Operation Warp Speed.
	Getting these vaccines as quickly as we've gotten them is stunning.
	And thankfully, that's something that the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, is willing to acknowledge.
	One of the few who is, apparently.
	This is what he said to Axios on HBO this week.
	I'd like to talk a little bit more of the Trump administration.
	Mask wearing aside, what did they get right?
	The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary.
	And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project.
	Those words were used sometimes to describe what needed to happen.
	In order to get all parts of the government together...
	In an unprecedented way to test up to six vaccines in rigorous trials and to do this at-risk manufacturing so that if any of those trials happen to work, you would already have doses ready to go into arms.
	That would not be the way things are traditionally done.
	The effort and the recruitment of Dr. Monsef Slaoui was an incredibly important step forward that the administration deserves credit for because that did motivate a lot of actions, a lot of coordination.
	The fact that we, in December...
	Had not one, but two vaccines that had gone through trials of at least 30,000 participants and had been judged safe and effective by a very rigorous and very public FDA process is just breathtaking.
	That that got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it's ever been done before.
	You know, of course, he dances around.
	He doesn't want to give credit.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy area.
	Yes, it is.
	Despite everything, my friends, we have a happy, happy hour.
	Every Friday we do.
	Yes, we do.
	Yes, we do.
	And the reason we do is because happiness is a moral issue.
	Here we go.
	It's the happy, happy, happy.
	My friends, the happy make the world better.
	That is reason alone to celebrate the Happiness Hour, which is now in its 22nd year.
	22 years.
	That's over 1,000 happiness hours.
	872 of which I sang the happiness theme.
	I'm Dennis Prager and I'm telling you that the happy make the world better.
	You have a moral obligation to act happy even if you don't feel it.
	You cannot impose your bad moods on others any more than you impose your bad breath on others.
	You wash away your bad body odor.
	You should wash away your bad mood.
	There are those who are incapable of doing so, just as there are people who even when they shower, they still have sad odors.
	They can't help it, just there are people who have physiological, chemical brain defects that cause them an inability to act non-depressed.
	My heart goes out to them.
	It does.
	I know a family plagued by a family of wonderful grown kids and one who has a brain issue, probably schizophrenic.
	You know, I'd like to talk to Dr. Marmer, maybe even just a call on the air, our in-house psychiatrist.
	One of the reasons I am told that...
	What is the mental illness that I just described?
	Schizophrenia, yeah.
	One of the reasons that schizophrenics, I kept thinking psychotics, I knew there wasn't a word, schizophrenics don't take their meds is the way it makes them feel.
	So is there massive research being done?
	Bill Gates should consider giving money there rather than to math is racist programs in Oregon.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Happiness hour subject.
	Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen?
	If you're driving, two hands on your steering wheel.
	Actually, it doesn't need a big build-up.
	It's a theme I haven't discussed in years, and I have more thoughts on it.
	If you think you're a victim, you can't be happy.
	There you go.
	I let the cat out of the bag.
	By the way, how do you explain that?
	What does it mean to let the cat out of the bag?
	Do either of you understand that?
	I mean, I know what it means to reveal something, right?
	But why is it letting a cat out of a bag?
	No, no, okay.
	I really need him.
	God, you don't know what goes on in my earphones.
	It asks the question, okay, it begs the question, why was the cat in the bag in the first place?
	No, it doesn't.
	It takes a McConnell-esque mind to come up with that response.
	All right.
	All right.
	Okay, fine.
	You sure you don't need the men's room?
	You can take a break.
	You'll be back by the break.
	So anyway, it's an interesting...
	I like analyzing these things, like let a cat out of a bag.
	What about a dog out of a bag?
	Who puts cats...
	All right, be that as it may.
	I told you what the bottom line is.
	If you think you're a victim, you can't be happy.
	Did you see the woman...
	What was it at Smith College?
	That black woman who claimed that when they asked her why she was in a certain room...
	Tucker Carlson played the video.
	This woman...
	At Smith College, what is it, $65,000 a year?
	And she sees herself as a victim.
	She went to a classy boarding school.
	She's at a $65,000 a year school.
	She probably has a room that is better looking and equipped than, you know, at some resort hotel.
	And somebody said, why are you in the room?
	It's recorded unbelievably cheerfully and nicely because nobody should have been in that room at the college at the time.
	And their lives have been ruined.
	These people's lives are ruined.
	The woman, I raise her...
	And I will talk about the issue next week, but I'm raising her in the context of the happiness hour because she burst out into tears.
	Because she was asked, why are you in this room?
	On camera, in tears, victim of racism.
	And she said that.
	I'm a victim of racism.
	It shows you how little racism there is.
	That's my proof.
	My proof that how little racism there was in America is that virtually every case of racism is either a hoax or trivial.
	This goes into the non-existent.
	This is the third category.
	He's not deliberately saying it.
	To be a hoax like Jussie Smollett.
	This woman can't be happy.
	There's no chance.
	She has no chance at happiness.
	And she will bring misery to her world and to her intimate world and to the larger society because of this profound...
	Unhappiness and anger.
	Victimhood produces horrible, it produces the worst thing of all, ingratitude.
	Right?
	You can't be a grateful victim.
	Is there such a thing as a grateful victim?
	No.
	And people have it no matter what.
	I mean, it's putting the racism issue aside.
	People think they're victims.
	I'll give you an example, because life consists of examples.
	How many of you, at some point in your professional life, were told by somebody that they would help you?
	Right?
	They were in a higher position in your field, and they, oh, I'm going to help you.
	And they didn't.
	Let me tell you how often that has happened to me.
	The batting average of those who said, They would help me rise is approximately 006. And in the very beginning, when the person didn't come through, I felt a drop victimized.
	And then over the course of life, I expected nothing.
	And by the way, the people who don't come through when they say, oh yeah, I'll help you.
	Are not bad people.
	They forget about you, or they really can't do it, or it takes too much time, and that's human.
	Okay?
	My book on happiness, it's funny, the longer the period of time between when I wrote it and when I'm speaking, the more I realize it's a really good book.
	I know it's funny to say.
	But I do.
	I realize that happiness is a serious problem is the name of the book.
	And there's a chapter on not having expectations.
	There's a perfect example.
	When you have high expectations and they're not fulfilled, not only will you become ungrateful or bitter, but you will think you're a victim of life, of somebody failing you, or so on.
	Don't have high expectations.
	You live a life of permanent gratitude.
	Victim.
	Oh God, it's the worst.
	I have to say, because I talk about myself so you'll hear the human, not just the talk show host.
	That is one thing I... I dreaded.
	I dreaded thinking of myself as a victim or being regarded by others as a victim.
	Even when I was.
	And everybody is a victim at some point.
	Everybody.
	That's the topic on the Happiness Hour this Friday.
	Do you know anybody in a perpetual state of victimhood?
	Were you?
	Are you?
	1-8 Prager 776. 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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	If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, then they no longer represent
	And we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise.
	That they are meant to keep to us.
	Just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken and what has to be fixed.
	And what do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite that lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in...
	Power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, dangerous political actor.
	The AOCs of the world.
	The Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven, not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Brad Roffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for reelection, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Thank you.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree that was approved many many years ago and so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982 Hello,
	y'all.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Happiness Hour each week.
	Friday, second hour.
	For much of the Happiness Hour of 2020, we dealt with how are you dealing with the lockdown?
	For months, some variation on that theme.
	And it was very important, and I spoke...
	And how do you deal with happiness when you see your country being ruined by very powerful groups in the media, in politics, academia, etc., Hollywood?
	So I want you to know that that is still a very important issue.
	The amount of depression...
	Measurable depression in America has increased.
	Suicide, drugs, alcohol.
	So I don't lose sight of that fact, but actually the victimhood thing can play into it because if you own a restaurant in California and you're Entire livelihood was destroyed by its governor for absolutely no good reason except that he could do so and that he found the
	right scientists to back up the destruction of your livelihood.
	You are a victim.
	My argument against victimhood feeling does not negate the fact that in the real world there really are victims.
	So it's important that that point be made.
	Thank you.
	You've had your business ruined because of someone like Gavin Newsom, directly responsible for ruining your livelihood.
	You are a victim of arrogance and incompetence.
	But my point remains, it doesn't help you to walk around thinking of yourself as a victim.
	My argument against feeling you're a victim even applies when you are a victim.
	What good does it do?
	And anyway, that's not all you are.
	You do still hopefully have your health.
	You still hopefully have your friends.
	In other words, you still, if you're religious, you still hopefully have your God and religion.
	You know, that's pretty big.
	You are a victim insofar as your livelihood, which is huge.
	Huge.
	But the totality of your life is not victimhood.
	So even if you have been a victim, it is not a good idea to think of yourself, to define yourself that way.
	One of the reasons that I have such antagonism, moral, and especially toward the left in the United States, is that it thrives on making people think they're victims.
	The best society that has ever been created for multiple races is described as the producer of victims.
	The United States of victims, unless you're white, Christian, heterosexual male, who has heteronormative and patriarchal inclinations.
	Oof.
	You realize, just a thought and we'll return to victimhood.
	When I think of the television show from the 60s, I think it was the 60s, that must be the most antithetical television show ever produced from the standpoint of someone on the left.
	What do you think I'm thinking of?
	The show that is most antithetical to woke-itude.
	Correct.
	Why don't we give a man at this place who gets the right answer?
	Respect.
	That was a good response.
	You're atoning for your earlier stuff.
	Father knows best.
	Oh my God.
	There's a scene in the Woody Allen movie, I don't remember which one, where a guy is tortured by putting French cheese, smothering his face in French, some smelly French cheese.
	You remember that?
	And having him listen to some music over and over.
	It's a very funny scene.
	Torture for a leftist is not waterboarding.
	That ends.
	Constant reruns.
	A father knows best.
	That would really do it.
	All right.
	Victimhood.
	The road to unhappiness.
	That is the subject.
	And that's why we go to Tacoma, Washington.
	And Rob.
	Hello, Rob.
	Hello, Dennis.
	This is nice to...
	I'm going to speak to you again.
	It's been 12 years since the last time.
	You know, I just want to say, it's amazing because just last week I said to the producer...
	Yeah, it was just like last week.
	No, no, no.
	I asked last week, when is Robin Tacoma going to call me again?
	Well, I just can't always get through.
	I keep trying, but that's what happens.
	Fair enough.
	Good to hear you.
	Well, I think victimhood grows in a person like a cancer, and yet you find cancer victims.
	That surmount being victims.
	So it's quite paradoxical in that way.
	I've seen it happen with family.
	Yes.
	So describe in a nutshell the family member.
	Completely possessed by the victimhood as her identity.
	And what is she a victim of?
	The other members of the family?
	I think it has to do with...
	Childhood molestation, and so as a result, it's been carrying on through counseling, everything else, but I call it her bad old friend.
	Not a good old friend, it's a bad old friend.
	That is a very intelligent point.
	Yeah, it's like there's got to be a reason, there's some reason behind this.
	She pickles it, she cultivates it.
	Cultivates it, exploits it, and...
	And constantly uses it as...
	Right.
	All right.
	I'm letting you go, so forgive me.
	Because I just got the 30-second notice.
	I want to summarize.
	This is a really important call.
	And this substantiates further what I said earlier.
	My opposition to feeling victimhood doesn't mean you're not really a victim.
	That woman is a perfect example.
	Thank you.
	Pressuring.
	Pressuring top aides to lie about nursing home deaths because he was afraid that Donald Trump was going to tweet about it and afraid that the Donald Trump DOJ was going to investigate him for various crimes, failing to report suppressing information.
	Jen Psaki, the press secretary, was asked whether or not Cuomo still represents the gold standard because at one point Joe Biden said the way Andrew Cuomo was handling the coronavirus All right, but Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic?
	Just a yes or no.
	Well, John, the president...
	The president—well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John.
	I think the president is focused on his goal, his objectives as president of the United States.
	He's going to continue to work with Governor Cuomo just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country.
	And I'm not here to give new labels or names from the president.
	I'm here to communicate with you about what our focuses are and what his objectives are as president.
	Can you imagine if this were a Republican governor who ordered COVID? Recovering elderly patients into nursing homes.
	A population acutely vulnerable to the virus.
	And then pressured top aides to lie about it.
	Pressured one politician, a fellow Democrat, and told that politician his career would be destroyed if he didn't alter the numbers.
	They crucify him.
	Absolutely crucify him.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	We'll be right back.
	Now, Senator, in the list of inexplicable decisions, there is the Packers' decision not to go for it on fourth down in the NFC Championship game this year, and there's your decision to go to Cancun.
	We'll never get to the bottom of what happened in Green Bay, but what happened with the Cancun truck?
	Oh, look, it was dumb as hell.
	My kids wanted to get out of there.
	We'd had two days with no power, and so Heidi and I said yes, and we took them to the beach.
	And in hindsight, that was obviously a mistake, and ever since then, the media seems to be utterly fixated with it.
	So how have the people of Texas responded to it?
	Well, look, the people of Texas are focused on coming out of these storms, which we have now, and now repairing and rebuilding.
	And you look at the storms we had last week.
	We had two winter storms, one after the other hit Texas.
	And the combination of that caused the electrical grid to go down, caused essentially them to have to force a blackout for about 4 million Texans and cut off power, many for several days.
	The idea that we couldn't keep our lights on, that we couldn't keep our power on is frustrating.
	It's infuriating.
	And I think where a lot of Texans are now is focused on making sure this doesn't happen again.
	You know, the number of Texans who had their pipes freeze and so had damage to their house, so they're in the process of repairing and rebuilding.
	But the broader question...
	of what happens structurally to cause the power to go out is an important debate and one I'm very active in preventing this from occurring in the future.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	To be continued...
	Excellent, excellent.
	You know, however, this is not a Spanish-speaking show, and we may be accused of cultural appropriation.
	The irony is, I think cultural appropriation honors that culture.
	You know, like today is the Jewish holiday of Purim.
	And if some non-Jewish show played some, I don't know, Hebrew music, wouldn't that be honoring it?
	Well, Condé Nast said that a non-Jew writing, Bon Appetit, actually had an article.
	I read it to you yesterday, or from it.
	By a woman who is a true crackpot, but writes for Bon Appetit.
	That a Gentile should not write about hamantaschen, the snack or treat that Jews have on this day.
	Truth is, I think most hamantashin need help from anybody.
	You agree with me, Mr. Marner?
	I Yes.
	Okay.
	The subject today is victimhood and how it's a horrible thing to perceive yourself as a victim, even if you are.
	That's very important.
	And by the way, I do not know anyone, and I mean this, anyone, In my entire circle of people that I know well who could not portray him or herself as a victim.
	Why do you think we call the living martyr the living martyr?
	By the way, he does not walk around thinking he's a victim.
	Just for the record.
	I want to make that clear.
	He's on a very high level of martyrdom.
	A martyr who thinks he's a victim is not on a high level.
	Who can't?
	I could portray my life, and I've been blessed.
	I could portray it as a series of, and quite accurately, as a series of victimized moments.
	So the last caller spoke about someone in his family who sort of cultivates.
	That was the word I used, and he ascribed to it.
	Her victimhood status, which emanated from her being molested as a child.
	There are not many evils like child molestation.
	Let me make that clear.
	It's almost in a category of itself, it's so horrible.
	And yet, you have to choose.
	You've got to choose in life.
	Do I let that determine the rest of my life?
	Do I want to give the molester that much power over me forever?
	Some people do.
	Some people can't.
	I don't know.
	I don't know the answer.
	The answer to some people or the response to some people can't stop seeing themselves as a victim if they were molested as a child rests on the question of is there free will?
	To which I don't have a perfect answer.
	The moment though you say you can't, you are saying you do not have free will.
	Is that right?
	That's a very big statement.
	I can't get over what was done to me when I was six.
	That you don't have free will if you truly want to get over it.
	His theory was that his relative didn't really want to get over it.
	It sort of gives you victimhood in general.
	Rightly or wrongly that you feel a victim gives you a shield against criticism or accountability for victimizing others.
	Right?
	Look what was done to me.
	I knew somebody like that and who indeed was molested as a child.
	And this person treated people who treated her beautifully, awfully.
	I remember like six years ago I said to Sean, "Where's the timer?" The timer wasn't on.
	And he hasn't gotten over it.
	He even just said in my ears, why do I keep bringing it up?
	up.
	There you go.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision.
	our objectives, then they no longer represent us and we can recall them or we can replace them.
	Peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most...
	Intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken and what has to be fixed.
	What do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite that lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, dangerous political actor.
	The AOCs of the world.
	The Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven, not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trailing now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
	And so the real...
	The frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982. In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters from voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed.
	Off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods.
	To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact.
	The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching.
	Instead, Vasquez and Obama-appointed judges back in 2018. Lifted the decree.
	said you're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia in the South.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today. .
	I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the Happiness Hour, second hour Friday each week.
	I remind you, by the way, you can hear all three hours of my show, anytime you want, without commercials, for a miserable, nothing, minuscule five bucks a month.
	Is that correct?
	Is it five bucks a month with a subscription?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's PragerTopia.com.
	Praagertopia.com That's Utopia with a Prager.
	I mentioned Let the Cat Out of the Bag.
	Almost the entire board was filled with calls with people explaining what Let the Cat Out of the Bag emanates from.
	So I have bad news for all of you.
	We don't have a clue.
	I did some research on this with the help of what's-his-name and the guy who's Triple G, known to you.
	I know people think it was let the cat-of-nine-tails out and then you whip the sailor.
	Okay, but they didn't keep whips in bags.
	Others say it was so...
	People were cheated by the butcher who would send home a cat instead of a pig.
	Which strikes me as so silly that the explanation was worth reading because I love on occasion to read the stupid.
	How many people could be faked?
	Guy sends home a cat instead of the pig you ordered.
	Oh, wow, was I tricked!
	How often can the guy get away with it in town?
	It's like, you know, I ordered a Lexus, and I got a Chevy, I don't know, what's the least expensive Chevy?
	And, you know, I opened the bag, and there it was.
	By the way, I think Chevrolet makes some great cars.
	I just want to make clear.
	The price difference.
	We don't know.
	The answer is, we don't know.
	But send me an email.
	If it's not the sailor and it's not the pig thing, so I need to, I mean, I'm open to listening to it.
	But what I've read, we don't have an explanation.
	So that's why I let the calls go.
	But I thank you for calling in.
	The subject is thinking you're a victim, even if you are a victim.
	And everyone is a victim.
	Do you understand that?
	And I'm not kidding.
	Everyone I know can portray real issues of victimhood.
	From illness that they've had, to upbringing that they had, to losing the person they loved because they rejected them.
	Everybody who's divorced is a victim, even if they were responsible.
	Divorce produces victims.
	Your parents divorced and it hurt you, you're a victim.
	A lot of people, their parents divorced.
	You want to spend the rest of your life angry at your parents or one parent?
	Okay, that's your choice.
	One of the great lessons that I have tried to impart on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Of which I am in charge is everything.
	It's a choice.
	Virtually everything, okay?
	I'll cover my bases.
	Now, how do you cover your bases?
	Where did that one come from?
	Do you know where that came from?
	That's not a baseball term, cover my bases.
	Oh, maybe it is.
	You got a player covering each base.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I got it, I got it, I got it.
	That's right.
	It's choices, my friends.
	And you can let life make your choices, or you can make your choices.
	And there you go.
	That's a choice, too.
	All right, everybody.
	Victimhood it is.
	And let's see.
	Who shall we go to?
	Hmm.
	Ooh.
	That's important.
	That's important.
	Let's take Jacksonville, Florida, and Dave.
	Hello, Dave.
	Well, good afternoon, Mr. Prager.
	Thank you.
	I did consider myself a victim, but I don't anymore.
	Years ago, I was molested by my father.
	And it used to bother me for quite a long time.
	And I used to try to hide the fact what happened to me.
	Because I felt like a victim, let's say, okay?
	And then one day, the other half of myself said, get over it.
	So I did.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	The other half of yourself said what?
	Me.
	You know, when you talk to yourself.
	I know that.
	I know.
	I understood that.
	I didn't understand what it said.
	Oh, get over it.
	Oh, get over it.
	Okay, I missed that.
	Get over it.
	That's right.
	Get over it.
	Yeah.
	So I did.
	What age were you when you got over it?
	I don't know, maybe in my 30s.
	I'm 69 now.
	Sorry, but maybe in my 30s.
	And I was angry for quite a long time.
	Do you know...
	Wait, wait.
	This is really important.
	Do you know why...
	The other half of you said that?
	Did you go to psychotherapy?
	Did you go to a pastor?
	Or was it purely you?
	Me.
	It was purely me.
	And was the reason you were sick of feeling a victim?
	Yeah, for a while.
	No, no, no, no.
	Just tell me.
	I don't want to put words in your mouth.
	Why did you make that decision?
	Because I was tired of...
	Okay, that's what I just asked.
	Exactly.
	Okay.
	Congratulations to you.
	And I mean it, obviously.
	But you see, this is back to that caller earlier.
	There are people who don't want to stop feeling that they are a victim.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	You know, of course, he dances around.
	He doesn't want to give credit.
	The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth.
	But he does acknowledge it was the administration.
	And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration.
	That wasn't the Biden administration.
	In fact, somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the...
	How many thousand deaths since he took office?
	I think it's 100,000 deaths since Biden has been president.
	And she didn't, oh, she couldn't believe that question.
	How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths?
	And yet, they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch.
	So I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging Something that the Biden administration refuses to do.
	And that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic, and it was just as Trump promised.
	Just what, remember President Trump said by Christmas?
	Remember?
	Of course you do.
	And yet, anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	No. No.
	Unemployment is falling.
	You wouldn't know it by the news.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because this good news is happening so quickly.
	After the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done.
	It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did.
	They can't give Trump credit for anything.
	So it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy.
	Trump was right.
	These experts are stunned.
	And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake-slammed our economy.
	Or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida.
	The numbers are about the same.
	In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states.
	So really, Florida did better.
	This does not fit the script.
	And now that we're tossing around numbers like 1.9 trillion like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork.
	It's the only one of the things you can't do that isn't fully accurate.
	You can't take...
	Oh, because it's so small.
	I thought because it was openings.
	That was good.
	This was written before that.
	The big boom in large parakeet cages.
	That's what came through my earphones.
	And that was a very good line.
	By the way, cover all your bases may not be baseball.
	It may be cover all your military bases.
	Did somebody call in on that?
	No, no, no.
	The lines are full.
	You wouldn't have seen that.
	Okay.
	Very nice.
	Oh, my God.
	Let me summarize.
	Do not hang up.
	Please do not hang up because then I can't get your thought.
	At least I get your thought if I don't get your voice.
	I think it's valuable.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	Ed in Parker, Colorado says, victims want to just stay victims and work hard at it.
	That was the theory of the first gentleman.
	I forgot what city.
	Tacoma.
	Tacoma, Washington.
	So they ought to meet the guy in Parker, Colorado.
	It would be nice.
	Kindred spirits.
	But this is one of the many, many things I've learned from callers that I just did not know.
	It had nothing to do with victimhood as such.
	It had to do with unhappiness.
	I was under the impression most of my life that everybody wants to be happy.
	That's not true.
	There are people who relish unhappiness.
	I can't relate to it.
	It's like telling me that people relish cold showers.
	I don't get that.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	Michelle in Naples, Florida was a victim of divorce, neglect, and rape.
	Okay, so that qualifies, and totally seriously, it qualifies Michelle as a victim.
	Even putting aside the divorce, but I think most people who divorce, they're victims of a trauma.
	It's a trauma divorce, especially if you have children.
	And not to mention neglect and rape.
	Rick, Asheville, North Carolina.
	How victimhood does not really exist.
	Well, I would have liked to have taken that because it does really exist.
	I mean, there are people who are truly victims.
	I mean, look at what happened in World War II to people.
	Of course.
	Anyway, I'm sure he has a deeper thought there.
	Kathy in Chippa Falls, Wisconsin.
	I'll be in Wisconsin next week, by the way, giving a talk.
	She is happy because she decided to be happy.
	That's my theory.
	It's all decisions.
	Paul, Patrick, and Justin, I don't even have time, unfortunately, to summarize your calls, but they are invaluable to me.
	And now I invite you to call on any subject under the sun and decide not to be a victim as well.
	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 world." 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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	our objectives, then they no longer represent us and we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, what has to be fixed.
	What do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite.
	That lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, Dangerous political actor, the AOCs of the world,
	the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Brad Roffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree.
	That was approved many, many years ago.
	And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982. In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters.
	From voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods.
	To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact.
	The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching.
	Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge, this is back in 2018, lifted the decree.
	said you're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia in the South.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	Are the people in the Trump administration and President Trump himself, who spearheaded Operation Warp Speed Getting these vaccines as quickly as we've gotten them is stunning.
	And thankfully, that's something that the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, is willing to acknowledge.
	One of the few who is, apparently.
	This is what he said to Axios on HBO this week.
	I'd like to talk a little bit more on the Trump administration.
	Mask-wearing aside, what did they get right?
	The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary.
	And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project.
	Those words were used sometimes to describe what needed to happen.
	In order to get all parts of the government together...
	In an unprecedented way to test up to six vaccines in rigorous trials and to do this at-risk manufacturing so that if any of those trials happen to work, you would already have doses ready to go into arms.
	That would not be the way things are traditionally done.
	The effort and the recruitment of Dr. Monsef Slaoui was an incredibly important step forward that the administration deserves credit for because that did motivate a lot of actions, a lot of coordination.
	The fact that we, in December...
	Had not one, but two vaccines that had gone through trials of at least 30,000 participants and had been judged safe and effective by a very rigorous and very public FDA process is just breathtaking.
	That that got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it's ever been done before.
	You know, of course, he dances around.
	He doesn't want to get...
	I thought you were going to do Let Dennis Be Dennis.
	Yes.
	Instead, I got hit in the head with a windmill.
	It's one of the two.
	Hey, everybody.
	This is the hour.
	You said to each other what was on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death, fountain pens, classical music, audio equipment, photography, equipment, and cigars.
	I got it all in.
	I didn't hit the post.
	It was right between the uprights.
	I covered all the bases.
	I let the cat out of the bag at the same time.
	Hey everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	I hope that is meaningful to you.
	I even hope it's positive.
	On the other hand, it may not be.
	In which case, it is a positive to you that you're listening.
	There you go.
	All right, everybody.
	Whatever's on your mind.
	1-8 Prager 776. And I'll take calls in a moment.
	But first, I keep reading about, oh, people get vaccinated and then we have to have a pass.
	Some way of people identifying that they got vaccinated and then they could go to public events or travel.
	I have a question.
	If you...
	Why do you care if anybody else on the plane or in the ballpark is vaccinated?
	I'd like an answer to that.
	Why do you care if anybody else on the airplane is vaccinated if you're vaccinated?
	Are you immune or are you not immune?
	If you get the vaccine, why the hell should you care about anybody else getting the vaccine?
	This is a first in history.
	You've got to get the vaccine.
	Now, unless you say, well, everybody else should get the vaccine so that nobody else gets the virus and I care about humanity.
	Okay, I buy that.
	But it should have nothing to do with whether or not you get on an airplane or go to a sporting or musical event.
	You are now immune.
	You are now immune.
	Otherwise, either you're immune or you're not immune.
	Do you know that in California, where I live, in the L.A. area, do you realize I still cannot dine?
	A year later, I still cannot dine inside a restaurant.
	Oh, God.
	It's so terrible.
	It's not terrible.
	You say, oh, look at what he's complaining about.
	He can't dine in a restaurant.
	It's not for me.
	It's for the massive assault on the livelihoods of waiters, waitresses, busboys, busgirls, owners, cooks.
	But these people are invisible to the political class, which continues to receive its same exact income, while vast numbers do not.
	All righty, everybody!
	Okay.
	Let me answer Jimmy in Phoenix.
	I have never heard of Helmut Heuvener.
	So, thank you for calling.
	Look, if I say whatever is on your mind, then if Helmut Huebner is on your mind, obviously I'm going to look him up during the break.
	I wonder what he did.
	It's an amazing thing, isn't it?
	The number of very well-known people who are unknown today.
	I have a fun time when I meet...
	I asked them if they ever heard of, and I named names that were household names to my generation.
	Charlton Heston.
	Who's Charlton Heston, huh?
	I mean, it's especially true for Hollywood actors.
	In fact, I did it yesterday.
	With a person who visited the studio, the daughter, 20-year-old daughter of a friend of mine who was visiting from Arizona.
	And it was fascinating for the father to hear names that she was not familiar with.
	It's a very important lesson to people.
	These things pass.
	The Beatles are still known.
	Frank Sinatra is still known in the entertainment fields.
	Music, at least.
	But beyond that, household names.
	I would be curious at how long Lady Gaga.
	Like the children of the people today who are intimately aware of Lady Gaga.
	Will they have heard?
	They will probably go, what?
	What'd you say?
	What'd you say, Mom?
	Lady Gaga?
	All right.
	And now, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to your calls here.
	And...
	Hmm...
	All right.
	Peter, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How you doing?
	It's quite a pleasure and honor to talk with you finally.
	Very kind.
	Thank you.
	So, I had COVID, and actually my whole family did, and I had it pretty bad.
	I was sitting at 89, oxygen, right on the verge of being in the hospital, still recovering four months later a little bit from it.
	You know, I just think it's crazy.
	Like, I've got to wear a mask, and I get comments.
	Like, my dad said to me the other day, I went back to see one of my clients, and he goes, oh, I hope you wore your mask.
	And I said, well, why?
	Why should it matter if I wear a mask?
	I can't give it to them.
	I can't get it from them.
	Why does it matter if I wear a mask?
	You know?
	So wait, wait, what was the answer?
	And he goes, Oh, well, just out of courtesy for them.
	Right.
	Well, no.
	Look, I totally agree with you, but there is something valid to the argument, because unless you have a sign on you, you know, like a C. Right.
	You know, the letter C. Get a Chicago Cubs hat.
	I feel like making up pins seriously to be like, hey, I'm part of the herd.
	Because like you said.
	Yeah, because there's others.
	I know of other people that have had it.
	Like, hey, we're part of the herd.
	We can't catch it.
	Well, that's right.
	It's not that you're part of the herd immunity.
	Herd immunity applies even to the people who didn't have COVID. Herd immunity means that the virus will disappear because enough people have it.
	And it just stops being transmitted.
	It's a very interesting question.
	Look, I don't wear one outdoors.
	If I'm the only person outdoors not wearing it, so be it.
	I will admit, except for one instance, I don't seem to get dirty looks.
	And I'm not sure exactly why, because the people wearing it outdoors...
	Well, it's an interesting question.
	The people wearing it outdoors, how many of them are wearing it because they don't want to be socially ostracized?
	And how many are wearing it out of fear that they might die from COVID or cause someone to die from COVID? Which do you think is the greater animator of outdoor mask wearing?
	Social ostracization, dirty looks, or fear of giving or receiving COVID-19?
	I don't know the answer.
	My suspicion is 50-50.
	It's just my suspicion.
	All righty, everybody.
	Let's go to Don in Birmingham, Alabama.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	So my wife got COVID. My son got COVID. I didn't socially distance from her, but I attended to her.
	I didn't wear a mask around her.
	My wife has pretty serious comorbidities as well.
	But the way I looked at it is I'd rather get this when I'm healthy than somewhere else later in life when I may be in less good physical condition.
	I am totally with you.
	I did the same.
	I did the same in my house, and I couldn't contract it no matter how close I got to the two people with COVID. You know, of course, he dances around.
	He doesn't want to give credit.
	The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth.
	But he does acknowledge it was the administration.
	And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration.
	That wasn't the Biden administration.
	In fact, somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the how many thousand deaths since he took office?
	I think it's 100,000 deaths since Biden has been president.
	And she couldn't believe that question.
	How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths?
	And yet, they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch.
	So I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging something that the Biden administration refuses to do.
	And that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic, and it was just as Trump promised.
	Just what, remember President Trump said by Christmas?
	Remember?
	Of course you do.
	And yet anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	I'll see you next time.
	Unemployment is falling.
	You wouldn't know it by the news.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration.
	It cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done.
	It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did.
	They can't give Trump credit for anything.
	So it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy.
	Trump was right.
	These experts are stunned.
	And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake-slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida.
	The numbers are about the same.
	In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states.
	So really, Florida did better.
	This does not fit the script.
	And now that we're tossing around numbers like 1.9 trillion, like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this.
	$1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork.
	So for all those reasons, the media has a vested interest in making things sound worse, in making the coronavirus news, good news, put on the back burner.
	So they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear, more trepidation for this $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus package.
	Biggest stimulus is to let people go back to work.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	Folks, I'm talking to Kevin McGarry.
	He and my friend Neil Mammon have founded an organization called Every Black Life Matters.
	The website is everyblm.org.
	There are some nasty things being pushed by the BLM movement.
	And you don't hear about that.
	Again, these like really ignorant, usually white corporations, they just want to throw money.
	It's like a shakedown.
	So we're taking part of their narrative, the black part.
	Sean knows that my favorite piece of jazz is Take 5.
	It's been arranged for everything except Gamelin.
	To the best of my knowledge, there might be a Gamelin version.
	We've got to check that out.
	So he likes this one.
	This is just guitar.
	It's one man.
	No, he's obviously very talented.
	Let me guess.
	Tommy Jones?
	How do you think, huh?
	How do you think of that?
	Okay, he told me he was Tommy Jones five minutes ago, just for the record.
	All right, thank you, Sean.
	I'm not as in love with it as you are, but it is certainly a very, very fine guitarist.
	Not it, he.
	And now, my friends, I return to you whatever is on your mind.
	And, hmm, there's so many good ones here.
	That's an issue.
	All right, let's see.
	And we take various things here.
	Art in Chicago, Illinois.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yes, I'm not even sure what it's about.
	That's the irony.
	Yeah, but you mentioned a couple of hours ago slavery that nobody cared about several hundred years ago, yet the Hebrews were enslaved by the Egyptians some 3,500 years ago.
	So the question or the point is, I'm not quite following, that I said that nobody cared, but 3,500 years ago people cared?
	No, no, so you misunderstood.
	Okay, now I understand.
	Okay.
	Unfortunately, I have to unravel this, but it might be worth it because it was an important point.
	The point I made was people did care.
	That no matter when you go back in history, there were people who thought slavery was wrong.
	Including 3,000 years ago.
	Correct.
	That was my point.
	However, we have something brand new today.
	A new moral idea that never was even hinted at by any moral philosopher who ever lived.
	Any religion that was ever...
	That ever developed.
	And that is that people are the sex they say they are, rather than the sex that they are biologically.
	This is, and are to be treated as such.
	Now, I think that you're to be treated as such, if that's what you appear, that's how you sound, you have that name, I think, courtesy.
	Demands that you be treated as you wish to be treated, provided you offer, at least in a public way, the trappings of being, the sex that you now identify as.
	Like this woman who was at the hearing.
	Something, Levine, I don't remember.
	Was it Rachel?
	I don't remember her first name.
	Yeah, Dr. Rachel Levine.
	So this doctor seems to be female, has a female name, dresses as a female, so of course I'm going to refer to her as a female.
	But when you have the other direction, and I will refer to you as a male, if you come across as a male, but I won't let you compete in athletics against females, that's also courtesy.
	And it's cheating.
	Do you understand?
	It's just plain 100% cheating for a biological male who identifies a female to compete against females.
	A cut of her?
	No, no, no.
	I do next week.
	Rand Paul is a profile encourager.
	Let me just say that.
	I do want to take calls on a whole host of issues.
	Anyway, I'm glad I took that call because it was...
	Which is totally understandable.
	It happens to everybody at some point.
	Misunderstood my point.
	Okay.
	Mike, in Arvada, Nevada.
	You're joking.
	There's an Arvada, Nevada?
	No, sir.
	It's Arvada, Colorado.
	Uh-oh.
	That's what I thought.
	I'm sorry, but Punishment Room is called for.
	So I just want to say to Suzette that we deeply appreciate you.
	And that punishment room experience hurt us more than it hurt you.
	But it was wrong.
	It says Nevada.
	That's what I thought.
	I mean, I know Nevada, Colorado.
	You're right outside of Denver.
	Okay, take it away, my friend.
	Yes, sir.
	I want to thank you for a number of things.
	But to be specific, I turned on your show several weeks back and heard you talking with Dr. Rosemond about raising a well-behaved child.
	And I've recently finished two of his books, that one and the one about potty training.
	My wife is now reading them, and I just wanted to tell you how unbelievably helpful that book was for us as a family and as a married couple.
	And when my wife is finished reading them, I think it's just going to make our marriage even stronger.
	And I'm excited for her to get done.
	Which book did he write with regard to marriage?
	He didn't.
	But the point I want to make is the book about raising well-behaved children has helped my wife and I. Yeah, oh, I see.
	Before, we weren't quite on the same.
	There were certain things we would butt heads on that now I think were more on the same page, and it's made everything a lot happier in our house.
	So I wanted to thank Dr. Rosemond, and I wanted to thank you for suggesting that I read that book.
	I love it.
	You know, we have a video at PragerU with John Rosemont.
	At least one.
	I don't know how many we have.
	You'll really enjoy that.
	He's very bright.
	He's one of the handful of wise people that I have known.
	He's the one who came up with the vitamin children most need is vitamin N. As in the word, no.
	That's another N word.
	That's what I think of it.
	Well, you're very welcome.
	I'm very happy to hear that.
	That's good.
	And if Arvada ever moves to Nevada, you let me know.
	Mona in Lansing, Michigan.
	Hello, Mona.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	First of all, my gut reaction to the punishment you needed out for the mistake really hurt.
	I don't know why that offended me.
	You're not the only one.
	I actually covered this.
	You are not the only listener who does not like the punishment rule.
	I would say 10%.
	Let me move on to why I called.
	I'm a hairdresser.
	I've been a hairdresser for 47 years.
	So I get to hear everything you can imagine.
	And when you were talking about sad people not choosing to be happy, I have had to tell.
	Too many clients that I'm not getting in that pit with you.
	You can come up here where I am, and we will talk, and I will listen, but to expect me to come down there with you in that unhappy, sad, groveling, feel sorry for me, it's not going to happen in this chair.
	Do you know how many professions serve as psychotherapists?
	I'll explain what I ask when we come back.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
	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's 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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	If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision,
	our objectives, then they no longer represent us and we can recall them or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us.
	Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition.
	He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, what has to be fixed.
	And what do we have on the other side?
	We have an elite.
	That lives solely for power, corruption and grift.
	To make themselves richer and to stay in power.
	Irrespective of the cost for those that put them there.
	Allied to that crusty old elite is a new, dangerous, Dangerous political actor, the AOCs of the world,
	the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.
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	Brad Roffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Thank you.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing.
	Because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
	And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982.
	In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee was seeking to discourage black voters from voting.
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	Thank you.
	Well, hi there all.
	Dennis Prager with you.
	By the way, got a cruise going from England to Iceland end of June.
	My cruises sell out.
	Even though people worry, well, they have...
	Look, if they don't have the cruise, you get your money back.
	So you might as well reserve the place.
	And I'm going to Israel with hundreds of you at the end of October.
	There's a banner for Stand With Us, Israel banner at my...
	Both are at my website.
	Both banners.
	Alright, this is the hour you raise whatever is ever on your mind.
	Whitehall, Ohio.
	Kevin, hello.
	Darren, I've been listening to you a long time.
	Love your show.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I refuse to be worried about complimenting women on their looks.
	And I do it all the time.
	And I've never, almost never had any negative consequences.
	Especially if they wear boots.
	I'd say the same thing whether they're 18 or they're 80. I'd say, cool boots.
	And they'd say like that.
	Well, cool boots is not the same as complimenting her.
	Yeah, I'd say, well, that's a nice outfit you've got on.
	It looks really good on you or something like that.
	You look really nice today.
	Listen, I'm totally in favor of it.
	There is a difference between cool boots and You really look nice in your outfit.
	That's now what we call skating on thin ice in the world today.
	Not to me.
	Good.
	No, I'm glad.
	I think that that's great.
	I have no issue with...
	Look, I don't wear a mask outdoors.
	I am the anti-herd mentality.
	In fact, if the New York Times or Yale advocate something, I assume it's wrong.
	It's not always.
	I just assume it is.
	And that's been a very good guide to leading a decent life and a non-herd-like life.
	I have a compliment that I give women, and I only give it, by the way, because I have to be honest with myself.
	Otherwise, I lose credibility in my own eyes, and I think I'm just developing into a charmer as opposed to a real guy, and I like being real.
	But if a woman looks really good, and then she, like at a speech meter, and she mentions she has a grandchild, I will say to her, only if I mean it, Well, I'm telling you something.
	Grandmothers do not look like they used to.
	Which, by the way, is so true in many cases now.
	The amount of years that many women really do look good is quite new in human history.
	When I was in the Soviet Union, women in their 30s looked well-advanced middle-aged.
	It was a very sad thing that I saw happening there.
	All right.
	It is now time to move on.
	And David, Sandy Hook, Colorado.
	Hello.
	Good morning, Dennis Frager.
	Thank you.
	Where do I start?
	By the way, the first thing I have to say to you is Kresenem Seipen.
	Oh, first thing you want to say is Kresenem Seipen?
	Why, are you Hungarian?
	Yes, I am.
	And the next thing I have to say, because I know you've heard this, one crazy makes a hundred.
	You know, every time I talk to Sebastian Gorka, in fact, I'll be on with him this afternoon, I ask him to repeat that.
	I want to memorize that phrase.
	One crazy man makes a hundred.
	That's it.
	And what we have down in the D.C. area, it's not just one crazy.
	That's right.
	There are hundreds of crazies down there now.
	That is so true.
	That is so true.
	Okay, so what's on your mind?
	Well, I have an issue as to, I've heard you and other conservatives say that Something different than leftism, and I don't agree with that.
	In the year of 2021, if you're left of center, you're a liberal.
	No, if you're left of center, you are a liberal.
	I agree, but you're not necessarily a leftist.
	So I will answer you when we come back.
	I'd just like to remind you and everyone else, I have a video on six differences between liberalism and leftism at PragerU.
	I also have a column on the same subject.
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	$19.95 for this three-week quick start doesn't work.
	That's what you've thrown out, plus shipping.
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	relieffactor.com 800-500-8384 Brad Roffensperger,
	the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for re-election, they signed what is called a consent decree.
	Now, this is very confusing.
	It can be very confusing.
	Because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago.
	And so the real...
	The frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982. In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage black voters from voting through targeted mailings, warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed.
	Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge, is back in 2018. Lifted the decree.
	He said, you're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia in the South.
	Are the people in the Trump administration and President Trump himself who spearheaded Operation Warp Speed.
	Getting these vaccines as quickly as we've gotten them is stunning.
	And thankfully, that's something that the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, is willing to acknowledge.
	One of the few who is, apparently.
	This is what he said to Axios on HBO this week.
	I'd like to talk a little bit more of the Trump administration.
	Mask wearing aside, what did they get right?
	The Operation Warp Speed.
	For which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary, and it was thought about as a Manhattan Project.
	Those words were used sometimes to describe what needed to happen.
	In order to get all parts of the government together...
	in an unprecedented way to test up to six vaccines in rigorous trials and to do this at-risk manufacturing, so that if any of those trials happen to work... ... so that if any of those trials happen to work... ... ... ... ...
	... ... ... ... ...
	Every so often, it's pretty rare.
	It's definitely countable on the fingers of one hand.
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	All right, everybody.
	What is on your mind here?
	So I love this, and I do love it.
	I'm not kidding.
	I love the variety of calls, and almost every week, not all, there will be a call like from Brett in Palos Verdes, California, excuse me, in Alvarado, Texas, asking why I don't believe in Jesus Christ, because I am very pro-Christian.
	I think Christianity's death is the death of America and the death of the West.
	So I just want everybody to put this in context.
	And I am thrilled that vast numbers of Americans, and I wish more did, do believe in Jesus Christ, because they are the backbone of the society.
	But in a nutshell, there are so many answers that I can give that might or might not be helpful.
	First, I believe you earn your way to heaven.
	So that's a basic theological difference that we have.
	And that, by the way, I don't care if there are theological differences.
	I judge religions by their results, not by their theology.
	I just want to make that clear, including my own.
	A religion is good if it produces good people.
	That is my basic belief, because God wants us to be good.
	Micah, what is it, 6-8, I think it is, summarizes just about everything.
	I believe that with the last prophet, Revelation ended, the last prophet of the Old Testament.
	I believe that blood is not necessary for atonement because there were grain sacrifices as well.
	There was a vast period of time between the destruction of the temple and the coming of Jesus in any event, and there was a way to atone.
	I see Christianity as bringing the world to what I think Jews are supposed to do, and that is bring the world to God and the Torah, and specifically the Ten Commandments.
	Most Jews do not have that sense of mission.
	It's probably the great Jewish tragedy.
	It's in a separate subject.
	Whether Orthodox or non-Orthodox, very few Jews believe that their task is to bring the world to the Ten Commandments and the Torah.
	But that is the purpose of chosenness.
	That's the whole purpose.
	Far more Christians have brought the world to the Torah than Jews have.
	I mean, Maimonides recognized that.
	So anyway, just in a nutshell, that's where I stand.
	As a community...
	It is committed Christians who are, including Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons.
	I'm not going to get into the internecine debate on Mormons and their theology vis-a-vis Christian theology.
	I will only say again, I judge people and religions by their fruit, not by their theology, and I include my own.
	If you produce better people than the secular world does, I love your religion.
	Okay?
	There you go.
	Thank you to Curtis in Alvarado, Texas.
	By the way, it's very hard to offend me.
	Because, first of all, I don't...
	The people who want to offend me I don't respect, and the people who don't want to offend me can't offend me.
	So I'm not offended if you ask me to explain why I don't believe in Christianity as my own religion.
	I believe in Christianity as a phenomenally good vehicle to produce good people.
	I'm not offended when people tell me, as frequently as they do, that they pray for me.
	And they do it often for two reasons.
	They pray for me that God should bless me, and they pray for me that I should come to Christ.
	Why would I be offended?
	It's only goodwill that they're praying for me.
	And I appreciate it, and I give them a hug.
	So there you go.
	I'm an ethical monotheist.
	I believe that God's primary demand is that we, what is it?
	We love justice, act mercifully, and walk humbly with our God.
	From Micah.
	All right, everybody.
	Frank in Chatsworth wants to know, how much damage does it do to America when 70% of Republicans think the election was stolen?
	If that's true, the fact that 70% of 75 million people believe that gives you an idea of how the Democratic Party and the institutions of the country have lost credibility.
	This is a crisis.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Unemployment is falling.
	You wouldn't know it by the news.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration.
	It cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done.
	It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did.
	They can't give Trump credit for anything.
	So it can't be that Trump was right.
	That we ought not shut down the economy.
	Trump was right.
	These experts are stunned.
	And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake-slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida.
	The numbers are about the same.
	In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states.
	So really, Florida did better.
	This does not fit the script.
	And now that we're tossing around numbers like $1.9 trillion like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork.
	So for all those reasons, the media has a vested interest in making things sound worse, in making the coronavirus...
	News, good news put on the back burner.
	So they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear, more trepidation for this $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus package.
	Biggest stimulus is to let people go back to work.
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	Folks, I'm talking to Kevin McGarry.
	He and my friend Neil Mammon have founded an organization called Every Black Life Matters.
	The website is everyblm.org.
	There are some nasty things being pushed by the BLM movement, and you don't hear about that.
	Again, these really ignorant...
	Usually white corporations, they just want to throw money.
	It's like a shakedown.
	So we're taking part of their narrative, the Black part, and the matter part, and we're saying every single Black life matters to me.
	Does every single Black life matter to you?
	So that's a different kind of a thing when you talk to a Black Lives Matter person who's, Black lives matter, bro!
	Black lives matter!
	And you say, look, every single black life matters to me.
	Does it matter to you?
	They know it's a trick, right?
	And then I go on to explain, from conception to the grave, every black life matters to us.
	Does that matter to you?
	Then they're caught in a conundrum.
	We're taking the momentum of their messaging.
	We're shifting it.
	A quick reminder that you can have...
	Unlimited text, unlimited talk on your phone for a mere $30 a month plus 6 gigabytes of data.
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	Oh!
	Okay, let me summarize calls.
	Don't hang up, because if you hang up, I don't see what you want to talk about.
	All right, let's see here.
	Brett, Palos Verdes, California.
	Why is there so much universal hatred toward Jews?
	I have a book on that subject you would love, because it also includes anti-Americanism, which is now a form of anti-Semitism.
	Very similar reasons, by the way.
	Including envy, commitment to a sense of chosenness, and both of those are big in the Jews' case.
	Jews brought in a God that makes moral demands on people, on every person on earth, wasn't appreciated, and the Jews impact.
	John Adams, second American president, 1809. I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.
	If I were an atheist and believing in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
	This does not deny that there are a lot of crappy Jews.
	There are a lot of crappy members of every group.
	But John Adams is right.
	Let's see.
	Michael says in Prescott that I just don't really know the music of Lady Gaga.
	I didn't attack Lady Gaga.
	I'm not saying he's saying I did.
	All I said was that this household name today of Lady Gaga will probably mean nothing to your children or grandchildren.
	Just like Bob Hope means nothing.
	The name means nothing to...
	People under 30 today, but was a central figure in the entertainment world of my generation, anyway.
	Let's see.
	Jeff in L.A. is very concerned where society is going now.
	That's why I do a program.
	I am very concerned as well.
	Ronald Reagan was right.
	You're always one generation away of losing freedom.
	That is correct.
	All right, my friends.
	Well, Todd can explain trillion in an easy way.
	You've got to get that call one day.
	And Bob in New York and Don in New Jersey, the most painful part of my radio show is not being able to take you.
	Many of you have been waiting for a while.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	It is an honor to be with you every day.

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