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April 26, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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That's it.
Okay.
We got another doctor.
You know, it's been fascinating the number of doctors have called to tell me how wrong I am.
So let me just say this in the name of clarity over agreement.
We disagree.
So either a lot of doctors have been misleading the country or I have.
Can't get clearer than that, right?
Okay, just let me say that.
I think doctors have been misleading the country on hydroxychloroquine and zinc, on ivermectin, and I think that there is massive blood on the hands of the doctors of this country who have aligned themselves with the anti-ivermectin, anti-hydroxychloroquine and zinc movement.
So either I'm right or I'm wrong, and I believe that we will know in the not-too-distant future.
Who was really, really, really, really wrong?
The medical establishment or Prager, and not just Prager alone.
There are a lot of doctors on my side, but most doctors are not.
So I'll take the doctor, having given him this introduction.
I assume he's a doctor, I believe, by callers in San Antonio.
Hello.
Hi, how you doing?
Okay.
Well, the thing that you're missing out on is that we are already in a socialized system.
And when you tell people that the vaccine is not needed, you know, there's a problem in that the vaccine does prevent the disease.
And I've seen people die with this virus, and I've seen the worst thing is to see people waiting to die with this disease.
And there is no proof anywhere that the vaccine kills.
I never said it kills.
I never said it doesn't work.
Why would you mandate that the people under 40 take it?
Because they can still spread it, and the vaccine is, you know, it's a messenger RNA vaccine, correct?
Right.
There's an enzyme in the body called ribonuclease.
It dissolves and hydrolyzes messenger RNA that doesn't belong.
So the vaccine is out of your body in six hours.
It's gone.
And unless you tell people the vaccine is in your body for only six hours, you're misleading them.
I just want to be clear.
I don't know in any way that I have misled.
I have not said not to take it.
I have said that it is wrong to mandate it on young people.
You think it is right to mandate that you have to take it if you're 22 years old?
You would say that to girls who have not yet pregnant?
You are certain that this will never affect pregnancies?
I have already heard of one autopsy case.
Did you know that the ACE2 receptor is heavily in the placenta and uterus?
So that if you have a pregnant woman...
And she gets the virus.
The virus will head for the poor baby.
You know?
And then when the baby dies, the mother...
Yes, I think they need it.
So you would obviously want your 20-year-old daughter to have the vaccine.
You bet, and they both had it.
Okay, look, I say one of us will end up being wrong.
It might be me.
I would not want my 20-year-old daughter to get it.
Is it fair to say that it is still in the testing stage, that the FDA has not yet approved it?
Is that a fact?
I do not sit around and read FDA materials.
Well, that's not an answer.
Okay, so since you don't, and I do, I will tell you, the FDA has not approved it.
This is the first time that we're mandating it.
Have we had an mRNA vaccine before this one?
No, it's the first.
That's right.
So doesn't that present challenges in and of itself?
Well...
Do you think that people who have already...
Wait, let me answer.
Okay.
You're not letting me answer.
You're right.
I think it's a blessing that Trump ran this through.
I think that science is going to change the treatment of diabetes.
It's going...
the prevention of type 1 diabetes.
It's going to change sickle cell anemia.
It's going to change thalassemia.
It's going to change muscular dystrophy.
We are on the cusp.
That may well be.
And I pray you're right.
Thank you for calling.
Thank you.
President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it, but the left is angry.
They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition.
It's called court packing, from when, in 1937, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it.
President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded.
And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea.
Any politically driven effort to change the court's structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principle.
Over time, a packed court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people.
I'm Carol Platt, Liebow.
I guess we're taking a break from knife fights and China in some way.
But it's not a good break.
What is going on with the Biden tax plan?
I gotta tell you, this is about the most moronic thing.
I have seen in my entire career.
I have never seen such an aggressive...
I mean, I think you've got to go back to, you know, the days of the Revolutionary War and the British tyranny over our 13 colonies to find anything as ludicrous and onerous as this tax plan, Seb.
My stomach turned when I saw it.
You know, we knew.
He was a socialist.
We knew he would try things like this.
But, you know, there's still a part of you.
It's like, okay, well, you know, he's got to really want the best thing for America, right?
And this is not the best thing for America.
This is disastrous for America.
So break it down for us.
What is it proposing and what will it actually result in?
Okay, so basically he's looking at anywhere from 39% and change to 40%.
3% on capital gains taxes.
So this means any money that you invest, if you have a business, for example, you're a small business owner, or suppose you invest in the stock market because you're saving up for your retirement, instead of it getting taxed at the current 20% level, it's going to be taxed at double that.
Now, the administration would say, oh, don't worry, it's only going to affect people that have more than a million dollars.
Well...
Look, there's a lot of small business owners that have been toiling away for 30 years that are getting ready to sell their business.
Their business is going to be valued at more than a million dollars.
So that's going to be a problem.
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You guys call it literally a war on small, small business.
Lay it out for us about what small business owners are up against and what Job Creators Network is doing about it.
Yeah, well, you just laid it out just great there, Mike.
I mean, when you think about the last year with the pandemic, if you are Amazon or Uber Eats or DoorDash, you've done fantastic.
But if you're a mom-and-pop restaurant, if you're a dry cleaner or pizza parlor, hairdresser, you've been really hurt.
And if you're still around, you've been really hurt.
hurt or maybe you're gone and you're thinking, how do I start over?
And as we come out of this pandemic and we're starting to see states open, some of them much slower than others, we're starting to see people get back to work and businesses.
Hello, my friend.
There was a time when I did interrupt the doctor.
And I agreed with him that I did, and so I let him continue.
But what I wanted to ask was very, very, very important.
I wanted to ask him two things.
One, should people who have antibodies, namely those who've already had COVID, should they get the vaccine?
Is it completely safe, in his view, that that be done?
And...
What is his position on hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and ivermectin?
I would love to have done that in his case.
I have no way to predict.
Because he praised President Trump for the vaccine, so I don't know.
Most opposition to hydroxychloroquine is political, not medical.
In fact, it's all political, not medical.
Let's say hydroxychloroquine and zinc and ivermectin were very effective, as I believe they are.
Only in the early stages, by the way.
Or as a prophylactic.
That's why I take both have for a year.
But let's say they are.
The good doctor, and he seems to be a good man, would he prefer that the country had fought?
The illness with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
In other words, with therapeutics.
Or await by not advocating therapeutics while hundreds of thousands died in order to await the vaccine.
And I don't know what his positions would have been on either question.
But hard to get back on.
A lot of people are calling.
That would be two questions that I would love to have answered.
In the meantime, I don't believe that there is a right for a college to tell your kid you can't come here unless you're vaccinated.
What happened to a person who's free to do what they want with their own body?
See, the ease with which Americans have accepted The deprivation of civil liberties, basic liberties like that, in the name of safety, that's going to lead to a vaccine passport.
I just read the EU will allow Americans in this summer into all the European Union countries if they're vaccinated.
So even having antibodies or even arriving at the airport and being tested and found negative, they will still not allow you in.
It's the vaccine or nothing.
I find that suspicious.
I don't even know what I'm suspecting.
How's that?
But I do find it, to be precise, suspect.
I am suspicious of it.
It is suspect.
Why this fanaticism with regard to it?
And if it works, why do you care whether I am or not?
If your population is vaccinated, why do you care if I, the unvaccinated, come in?
Never got an answer to that one.
Because if you're vaccinated, you can spread it to the ones who were not vaccinated.
But the people who were not vaccinated overwhelmingly are people who have decided not to be vaccinated.
So we take our risks.
Life is a system of risks taking.
Jeff in Los Angeles, Dennis Prager, hello.
Hi, Dennis.
Some really, really good news on two things.
One, I heard from two different people, I'm assuming it's true, that the UC system, in the fine, fine, tiny print, says that only if it's FDA approved is one required to have the vaccination.
It's quite misleading.
You might have somebody check on that, but I've heard that from two different people.
Yeah, thank you for telling me I don't believe it.
Not that I don't believe you.
I completely believe you.
By the way, it's an interesting thing to note, that with all the people who called to differ with me, I don't almost ever recall somebody that I felt called and told me a lie.
I disagreed with a lot of people.
So, anyway, I totally trust that people told him that.
It's a little odd to me that an article after article describing this ban does not mention a very salient fact, since that will not happen at least for another year.
That is FDA approval.
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NerveRenew.com You guys call it literally a war on small business.
Lay it out for us about what small business owners are up against and what Job Creators Network is doing about it.
Yeah, well, you just laid it out just great there, Mike.
I mean, when you think about the last year with the pandemic, if you are Amazon or Uber Eats or DoorDash, you've done fantastic.
But if you're a mom-and-pop restaurant, if you're a dry cleaner or pizza parlor, hairdresser...
You've been really hurt.
And if you're still around, you've been really hurt.
hurt or maybe you're gone and you're thinking, how do I start over?
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I've got a national interest story here.
150,000 troops.
I thought it was 60,000 to 80,000.
Russia now has on the Ukrainian border, and they have mobilized a bomber and fighter fleet there.
All signs point to another invasion of Ukraine beyond what Russia has already done.
What do you think of the situation?
Well, a couple days ago, in a hearing, I asked the commander of European command what he rated as the likelihood of Russian invasion.
And he said medium to low.
But I have to tell you, I disagree with that assessment based on the open source imagery and reporting that I'm seeing, some of which you reference.
This is the largest buildup since 2014, I believe.
And if the Russians decide to invade, their current posture would only give us hours notice at a max.
So questions we need to be asking the administration.
How frequently are we communicating with Ukrainians?
If you start to add all these things up, whether it's the way the CCP lectured us in Alaska about racial politics in America, added to the unconditional surrender in Afghanistan, added to the continued Chinese buildup and harassment of Taiwan, all of these things start to equate to a climate.
Of weakness, which our adversaries interpret as a climate of opportunity, a period of opportunity for them to make some incredible gains.
And so we have to reestablish some credible deterrence ASAP. And perhaps the biggest thing we can do in Ukraine specifically is to get the javelins in play.
As part of the sale of javelins, Ukraine had to store them in the Western regions.
We should move them to the front.
The Biden administration should be rushing to push through additional sales ASAP because this could quickly get out of hand.
Keep up. Keep up.
Keep up.
One of the commenters said, how can universities require students to give up their rights under HIPAA and to take a medication not approved by the FDA and consider it an experimental drug as a condition of enrollment?
They'll be in court soon.
I hope all of that is true.
But anyway, I'm only mentioning it because of the FDA call.
I'm obviously looking into it, but...
I'll tell you this.
If what the caller said is true, that in small print they say, well, this only applies after FDA approval, then they're truly trying to trick their students and faculty at the University of California.
So it's hard to believe that that is true.
It's hard to believe it's not true.
Mandating a non-FDA approved vaccine.
I'm not saying it's dangerous.
I have no idea.
I'm saying that all of this is unprecedented deprivation of liberty and no rational reason, especially with young people.
I've had all the vaccines.
My kids have had all the vaccines.
I never even talked about vaccines.
This is the only one I've ever talked about.
And not because I think it'll hurt you.
I don't know if it will.
I know what'll help you.
Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc.
And I'm more for therapeutics than for brand new types of vaccines.
And many of my doctor friends tell me how safe it is, and I hope they're right.
I absolutely do hope so.
You have no right to force me to take it.
That's all I'm saying.
Well, it's not all I'm saying, but it's one of the things I'm saying.
There's another study out.
Let me try to find this for you immediately.
And let's see here.
Here we go.
This is from...
SCMP.com.
I don't know what SCMP.com is.
I'll find out.
But sent to me by my producer who validates everything that he sends to me.
Singapore study suggests hydroxychloroquine and throat spray could protect against infection.
South China Morning Post.
That was pretty fast.
He's in the reward room.
He's not hearing a word I'm saying now.
Okay.
It's another test.
But they take down, Twitter takes down, Facebook takes down anything that advocates ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.
They call it misinformation.
When all it is, is...
Different information.
Misinformation is the euphemism of the left for anything they differ with.
That's all it is.
It's an Orwellian term.
It would be interesting to see how many parents are okay with sending their kid to the University of California with this mandate.
My suspicion is 99%.
Including conservatives.
What am I going to hold my kid back from University of California or Dartmouth or wherever it is?
Put parents in a terrible position.
The folks that believe that you should be free to do what you want with your own body, they don't believe it.
They say what they have to say at any given moment to push their agenda.
They don't believe anything that they say.
It's what's said for effect.
Yes, indeed.
Terry in Highland Village, Texas.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
The caller before, the doctor, there's no way a pregnant woman, very few pregnant women would get the shot not knowing that it's been tested on pregnant women.
I think that's very, that's crazy to me.
When you become a mother, there's just no way.
I just don't believe that.
I don't believe that a woman would get that not knowing what effect it would have on her baby.
Oh, I believe they would.
The doctor would say, oh, it's great.
It'll protect you and your baby because you don't want your baby to get COVID.
I think that's what the doctor said, in fact.
What the well-educated have been taught is you are not to think.
You are to listen to experts.
And that's what we have.
We have non-thinking listeners to experts.
And the more highly educated, the less they think.
I mean that literally, by the way.
I mean it literally.
Yep.
That pregnancy is something.
Let me just take a quick call here on another subject.
A judge in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Fred, hello.
Hello, Dennis.
How are you doing?
I'm very well, thank you.
I'm a non-tuition-paying student of Collector University, by the way.
Well, like everyone, we don't demand tuition.
I just want you to know that, if I may, I attend, I'm a Presbyterian, but I attend a Salvation Army Church in Royal Oak, Michigan, and it's Bible study on Thursday morning.
I have Genesis and Exodus.
And I started quoting from it, and then someone else says, yes, I have the same book, and went around the entire Bible study group, and you are having a tremendous impact on everyone, demonstrating not only the rational basis of the Bible, but also its contemporary relevance.
And I think that is so critical, but I thought you'd like to know that.
Yes, and I'd like to know you've understated the case.
My rational Bible is the escape hatch for society.
Thank you.
Thank you. you Courtney Ann Taylor slammed the Gwinnett County Board of Educators at a meeting April 15th.
She's fed up.
This is cut 11. This is the Georgia mom going off on the Board of Ed at Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Every month I come here and I hear the same thing.
Social emotional health.
If you truly mean that, you would end the mask requirement tonight.
Tonight.
This is not March 2020 anymore.
We have three vaccines.
Every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now.
And every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus.
They're not.
And that's a blessing.
But as the adults, what have we done with that blessing?
We've shoved it to the side and we've said, we don't care.
You're still going to wear a mask on your face every day, five and six year olds.
You still can't play together on the playground like normal children, seven and eight year olds.
We don't care.
We're still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry.
Shame on us.
My six year old looks at me every month before I come here and she says, are you going to tell them tonight?
Tell them I don't want to wear this anymore.
And I say, baby, it's not time to fight that battle yet.
I try to explain that there's so many things.
But it's April 15th, 2021, and it's time.
Take these masks off of my child.
Wow.
That's what freedom sounds like.
And I like it a lot.
Now, I wear my mask.
I got my vaccine.
My family has gotten vaccinated.
But we get to decide.
What we do as Americans, we get to make those choices, don't we?
You stood up to the radicals in Wisconsin, rather famously.
What do you think accounts For the inability of so many in the GOP to stand up at the moment when we need them to stand up.
It's amazing to me that doing what you said you're going to do is considered courageous.
To me, it's just what I was taught to do growing up, that, you know, you tell people what you're going to do and you go out and do it.
Unfortunately, in politics, that's fairly rare, particularly for conservatives, which is even more bizarre because what we find is that conservatives win and stay in office when they do the things that they say they're going to do.
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Hello, everybody.
Hey, listen to this New York Times piece on masks.
Incidentally, I have come up with a response, what you can do.
I'm asked that all the time.
Because people, half this country understands that the other half is wrecking the country.
Either they're doing it actively, that is the left, or they do it by supporting them, by voting for them, even if they're not on the left.
One of the things you can do is stop wearing masks outdoors.
It's a little thing, but it's huge.
You're not going to embrace the herd irrationality.
There was a piece about how ineffective masks are outdoors now.
They're finally acknowledging it.
New York Times, April 22. What is today?
April 26th.
Do we still need to keep wearing masks outdoors?
Science shows that the risk of viral transmission outside is very low.
How come I knew that a year ago and I'm not a doctor?
Really, it's an interesting question, isn't it?
So listen to this.
The end of the article.
Long article, New York Times.
Greg Gonsalves, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
Schools of public health do a lot of damage to this country, by the way.
Said he recently was with a group of parents, including many vaccinated physicians, who met in a New Haven park to celebrate a child's first birthday.
We're all just standing around.
Everybody was masked.
Huh.
Now why would vaccinated doctors wear masks outdoors?
Why would non-vaccinated doctors wear masks outdoors?
Well, for one thing, they're in New England.
Connecticut, Massachusetts in particular, produce fools.
So that's one reason.
Doctors are not one bit more impervious to idiocy than any other profession.
And for another, doctors tend to be hypochondriacs on behalf of others, which comes with the territory.
When you see so much illness, you just assume it's ubiquitous.
Standing around, vaccinated doctors, outdoors, Wearing masks.
That should tell you a lot.
You want to take their advice?
That's the question of the hour.
We return.
and I'm Dennis Praegner.
This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it.
But the left is angry.
They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition.
It's called court packing, from when, in 1937, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it.
President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded.
And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea.
Any politically driven effort to change the court's structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principle.
Over time, a packed court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people.
I'm Carol Platt, Liebhout.
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I guess we're taking a break from knife fights and China in some way, but it's not a good break.
What is going on with the Biden tax plan?
I gotta tell you, this is about the most moronic thing.
I have seen in my entire career, I have never seen such an aggressive, I mean, I think you've got to go back to, you know, the days of the Revolutionary War and the British tyranny over our 13 colonies to find anything as ludicrous and onerous as this tax plan, Seb.
My stomach turned when I saw it.
You know, we knew.
He was a socialist.
We knew he would try things like this.
But, you know, there's still a part of you.
It's like, okay, well, you know, he's got to really want the best thing for America, right?
And this is not the best thing for America.
This is disastrous for America.
So break it down for us.
What is it proposing and what will it actually result in?
Okay, so basically he's looking at anywhere from 39% and change to 40%.
on capital gains taxes.
So this means any money that you invest, if you have a business, for example, you're a small business owner, or suppose you invest in the stock market because you're saving up for your retirement, instead of it getting taxed at the current 20% level, it's going to be taxed at double that.
Now, the administration would say, oh, don't worry, it's only going to affect people that have more than a million dollars.
Well, look, there's a lot of small business owners that have been toiling away for 30 years that are getting ready to sell their business Their business is going to be valued at more than a million dollars.
So that's going to be a problem.
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You guys call it literally a war on small business.
Lay it out for us about what small business owners are up against and what Job Creators Network is doing about it.
Yeah, well, you laid it out just great there, Mike.
I mean, when you think about the last year with the pandemic, if you are Amazon or Uber Eats or DoorDash, you've done fantastic.
But if you're a mom-and-pop restaurant, if you're a dry cleaner or pizza parlor or hairdresser, you've been really hurt.
And if you're still around, you've been really hurt.
Or maybe you're gone and you're thinking, how do I start over?
And as we come out of this pandemic and we're starting to see states open, some of them much slower than others, we're starting to see people get back to work and businesses start to reopen.
And that's a good thing.
And now you can't open a newspaper or listen to the radio or turn on the TV without hearing some new policy.
That the Biden administration is putting out that is literally an assault on small businesses.
And that's why we're calling it, you know, these first 100 days has literally been a declaration of war on small businesses.
You know, if it isn't supporting a $15 an hour national minimum wage, it's higher taxes.
You know, small businesses are now staring at a 33 percent increase in taxes for those that are structured as a corporation.
That's a million small businesses.
And now we're looking at a piece of legislation which is just a complete payback to union bosses in the PRO Act, which has so many negatives, Mike, we actually are calling it the CON Act.
It's one thing after another.
It's death by a thousand cuts, rapid fire, whatever you want to call it.
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Joy Reid, who's really special.
She's defending.
She's more concerned about the white officer.
and doesn't actually care about the lives of the other girl.
Cut 99. I don't know the details of what happened beforehand, but I am...
Bothered that no one is asking what could have scared a 16 year old girl enough that she felt she had to grab a kitchen knife facing two adult women.
Right?
No one's asking what would have scared a kid who's in a foster situation so much that she felt that she needed to defend herself or pick up a knife.
No one's asking that about her.
They're just saying people with this sort of concern trolling, pretending they care so much about those other two women.
And Brittany pointed that on social media last night.
Do we really think these people are so concerned about those other two black women?
Well, Joy Reid, are you trying to say that there might be structural family problems in the black community?
I'm happy to have that robust discussion with you.
Are you actually trying to say that there might be dysfunction and that the police officer was invited into this situation?
But what if I told you that on the same day in the same state, a 13-year-old was killed by another 13-year-old with a knife?
That's right.
Knife attacks.
Are increasing dramatically in our country right now.
Maybe it's because LeBron James glamorizes it.
LeBron James acts as if knife fights are part of the historic fabric of the black community.
Jazz music and knife fights is what LeBron James would say.
That's what really makes the black community special.
It's ridiculous.
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Hey everybody, Dennis Prager Dennis Prager here.
I was speaking to...
My guest, about ten days ago, when the gremlins of the phone lines decided that he should be interrupted, the more suspicious and paranoid of us would claim that some people just didn't want him to be heard.
But I actually do believe it was the phone lines.
Patrick Moore.
He's a man of honesty and courage.
He's a co-founder of Greenpeace, perhaps the best known of the environmentalist organizations.
And he has a new book, Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.
He's also made four videos for PragerU.
Well, Patrick, I am almost prepared to promise you that you will not be interrupted by phone gremlins this time.
Dennis, I have a family, so I'm quite used to being interrupted.
Well, you know my theory.
I want you to know my theory on marriage and children.
The major purpose is to keep you humble.
Yes, friends are good for that, too.
That's interesting.
I have to think that one through.
Do my friends keep me humble?
Yeah, there is some truth to that.
But nothing quite like wife and children.
You can say that again.
By the way, where are you right now?
I'm locked in a hotel room in Calgary, Alberta, because I had the temerity to go to Phoenix to give a speech to the Young Presidents Organization.
I was there for two days, and I have to spend four days in a hotel room, and I'm not allowed out.
But tomorrow, I think I'm free.
Oh, you're Canadian.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, no, I can tell by the out.
The out.
Yes, but I... Wait, so do you live in Canada or the U.S.? I live on Vancouver Island, and I'm out and about much of the time.
Out and about is right.
I have a question.
Do you agree with me that Canada is actually veering more toward dictatorship than the United States?
I'd say it's a toss-up, but we have a child prime minister...
The first thing he did was gave $650 million to the media, and only the independents refused it.
Everyone else in the mainstream took his money as a, quote, bailout because they were going broke.
And he propped them up, and so you might say, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
When I had former Prime Minister Harper...
Stephen Harper, your former Prime Minister at the PragerU event, he said publicly to me in the dialogue that he thought the CBC was way worse than CNN. Yes, well, again, it's a toss-up.
We don't have any large independent media here like you do with Fox.
We have only some small independents who are struggling and are...
Being hassled by the police all the time.
I mean, it's a different situation here, but I try to ignore much of that and focus on my own subject, which is the subject of my book, Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, which is more on science than it is on politics.
I've pretty well given up on politics, but I'm still sticking to science as being something that people...
Can't understand, and it will change their view.
Give me an example of a fake, invisible catastrophe.
Well, the general theory, as you know in science, there's this holy grail called the unified field theory in which they hope someday that all the theories about gravity and light and heat and everything else in science can be condensed into a single formula.
It's probably never going to happen.
And I might not win a Nobel Prize for my discovery, but my discovery is called the unified theory of scare stories.
And this theory is very clear.
All the scare stories today and in the past have been based on things that are either invisible, like some kind of spirit, but today, like CO2 or radiation or the COVID, for example.
Which is a real deal, but it's still easy to make up scarier stories than they need to be because it's invisible.
And whatever is in GMOs that is supposed to be harmful, which actually doesn't exist, because it would have a name in a chemical formula if it did, and it doesn't have those attributes.
So, therefore, it's a completely fake scare story, whereas CO2 and radiation are actually real, but they can make up any story they want about it.
Because nobody can see it or see what it's actually doing.
And this goes also for things that are remote, like polar bears and coral reefs, where the average person is not able to truth or observe or verify the situation for themselves, and therefore must depend on the people in the media, the activists raising funds on these scare stories, the politicians who promise to save your grandchildren from a certain death.
And the scientists on serial government grants claiming that the science is settled on one hand and saying they need more money next year to study it further on the other, those people all have a huge financial and or political interest in the scare story, and they're not going to change their tune, even though they are all fake, invisible catastrophes and threats of doom.
And in 11 chapters on 11 subjects, In my book, I show that to be true.
I would like to tell you my reaction.
I've been biting my tongue.
I speak to a lot of people and most are very bright.
But there is a special type of brain that I particularly appreciate and that is the original brain.
What you just said is so intelligent and original that it is sort of mesmerizing.
The invisibility of the threats or the utter remoteness.
That's right.
Nobody meets polar bears or sees the coral reefs that are supposedly disappearing because of heated oceans.
We don't see the carbon emission.
It's fascinating.
So there's this...
We're supposed to embark on world-changing, I think world-crushing policies based on what you call these invisible catastrophic threats.
When did you realize this first?
I realized it in its entirety not that long ago after studying the environment for 50 years.
I did coin a term, the invisible poison, some time ago to talk about things like pesticide residues in food and other things that are said to be harmful to us even though we can't see them.
And I guess it was in relation largely to GMOs that I coined that term.
Because the truth is, whatever is in the GMO that's supposed to be the genetically modified foods that is supposed to be harmful can't even be seen with a 10 million times electron microscope.
That's because it doesn't exist.
If it did, it would have a name and a chemical formula.
Everything has a chemical formula.
The simplest of scientific minds should be able to see that immediately, but that, as you say, that's not necessarily how minds work.
You know, here's something to think about.
Every single doomsday story, end times apocalypse scenario, since the beginning of civilization, has been untrue.
Otherwise, we wouldn't be here.
In other words, doomsday stories are never true.
Oh, God, I love your mind.
I have a great riddle you will enjoy, then.
What do you call a religious person who says the end is coming, or the end is near?
The end is near, yes.
Hold on, let me just finish my riddle.
So what do you call a religious person who says the end is near?
A fanatic.
What do you call a secular person who says the end is near?
An environmentalist.
Perfect.
Yes, it's too bad because I've always considered myself an environmentalist, a sensible environmentalist, as opposed to a fanatical one.
But the word has been so badly abused.
I am at my wit's end at this point because John Kerry has said...
That even if we get to net zero, in other words, eliminating all fossil fuels from the face of the earth, and 80% of our energy is suddenly gone, even then, we must act to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
That's a quote.
Yes, it's like even if everybody's vaccinated, we'll still have to wear masks.
This original courageous man is Patrick Moore.
The book Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom at DennisPrager.com.
And I said a couple days ago, and I'll double down on it, that basically the argument that BLM was making is how dare you break up our knife fights.
How dare you get in the way of a very normal thing that happens in our communities?
And I made light of it then, and it's kind of become right into the mainstream of conservative commentary, thankfully.
I've actually been very happy.
I have to say, one thing that I've been happy about the last 24 hours, I watch a lot of other snippets of shows, I read a lot of things, is how unified the conservative commentary space has been on this Columbus shooting.
This would not have happened five years ago.
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Courtney Ann Taylor slammed the Gwinnett County Board of Educators at a meeting April 15th.
She's fed up.
This is cut 11. This is the Georgia mom going off on the Board of Ed at Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Every month I come here and I hear the same thing.
Social emotional health.
If you truly mean that, you would end the mask requirement tonight.
Tonight.
This is not March 2020 anymore.
We have three vaccines.
Every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now.
And every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus.
They're not.
And that's a blessing.
But as the adults, what have we done with that blessing?
We've shoved it to the side and we've said, we don't care.
You're still going to wear a mask on your face every day, five and six year olds.
You still can't play together on the playground like normal children, seven and eight year olds.
We don't care.
We're still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry.
Shame on us!
My six year old looks at me every month before I come here and she says, are you going to tell them tonight?
Tell them I don't want to wear this anymore.
And I say, baby, it's not time to fight that battle yet.
I try to explain that there's so many things.
But it's April 15th, 2021, and it's time.
Take these masks off of my child.
Wow.
That's what freedom sounds like.
And I like it a lot.
Now, I wear my mask.
I got my vaccine.
My family has gotten vaccinated.
But we get to decide.
What we do as Americans, we get to make those choices, don't we?
You stood up to the radicals in Wisconsin, rather famously.
What do you think accounts?
For the inability of so many in the GOP to stand up at the moment when we need them to stand up.
It's amazing to me that doing what you said you're going to do is considered courageous.
To me, it's just what I was taught to do growing up, that, you know, you tell people what you're going to do and you go out and do it.
Unfortunately, in politics, that's fairly rare, particularly for conservatives, which is even more bizarre because what we find is that conservatives win and stay in office when they do the things that they say they're going to do.
Liberals win when they run like conservatives.
But then they don't do what they say they're going to do.
And so I think there's many conservatives who feel The
book is Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.
Just published by Patrick Moore, who is a founder of Greenpeace.
Did what I say get broadcast before that?
Okay, fine.
So I interrupted myself.
See, that is divine retribution for all the times I've interrupted guests.
There you go.
See?
Don't think there's no reward and punishment.
Patrick Moore is a founder of Greenpeace.
He's made, by the way, four videos for PragerU.
They're worth memorizing.
They're that good.
What is your background academically?
I did a Bachelor of Science in biology and forestry.
I'm a life scientist, basically.
And then, before the word was even printed in the public media, I did a PhD in ecology in the late 60s.
And while I was doing that, I heard about a group that was beginning to meet in a church basement in Vancouver called the Don't Make a Wave Committee.
Greenpeace began in Vancouver, Canada, against U.S. hydrogen bomb testing in Alaska.
We sailed a boat across the Pacific, bringing media attention to the subject.
And President Nixon cancelled the remaining nuclear tests as a result.
This was the cusp of the Cold War when it began to go down and missiles began to be reduced.
We were right at that point.
And so that is how Greenpeace was born.
We went on against French atmospheric nuclear testing, saved the whales.
30,000 whales were being slaughtered every year in the oceans, mainly by the Russians and Japanese.
And then we went into toxic waste, and 15 years later, I found myself having been in the top committee of Greenpeace all those years, but my organization was changing in ways that I couldn't accept.
First, whereas we'd been quite humanitarian early on, saving civilization from nuclear war, They were now saying that humans were the enemies of the earth, the enemies of nature.
We are part of nature.
We're not the enemies of nature.
And the second thing was, the sharp end of the stick, was they proposed to ban chlorine worldwide, which is the most important element for public health and medicine.
And to make a long story short, I had to leave at that point and become what I have referred to as a sensible environmentalist, basing my positions on logic and science.
Rather than sensationalism, misinformation, and fear campaigns.
I'm curious.
I have my own theories, but I'm much more interested right now in yours.
You say they sort of took a turn.
Obviously, a left turn.
Why do you think they did that?
Because we bunch of environmental people who didn't have the kind of political acumen that the far left has.
We're unable to avoid being taken over by them once we had power and money.
And we have become a strong organization by the mid-80s with $100 million a year coming in.
And they saw that and they basically came in and took us over.
It was a pretty quick process, actually.
And a lot of things happened around that time.
And for me, it's taken me this long to work my way back out of What the hole I'd sort of got myself into by then and actually be listened to again.
I've been cancelled more times than most through these years because of my opinions on subjects like climate and knowing that the polar bears are healthy and knowing that the coral reefs are healthy and growing.
They say everything's dying, but everything does die.
Dennis, that's their trick.
All individuals die, but then more are born again to replace them.
So they get away with that because they show an old polar bear starving to death in National Geographic.
And as a matter of fact, starvation is the main cause of death with polar bears because they're a top predator and nothing eats them.
So they get old and their teeth fall out, and there's no nursing homes for old polar bears, so they die in the wild.
Like all animals of that nature do.
Just give me an idea for a cause.
Nursing homes for polar bears.
That's a fun one, isn't it?
So, back to then climate change.
They changed the name from global warming to climate change.
And the rationale was...
Even excessive cold is a factor, is a consequence of carbon emission.
Any take on that?
Well, they've changed it from climate change to extreme weather now.
Every weather event is...
For a while, they told us when we said, well, it was awfully cold last winter, they said, oh, that's just weather.
That's not climate change.
Climate change is the long term, and weather is just...
And so, we have to recognize where They're exaggerating versus where
they're completely fabricating.
And in terms of the climate, they are completely fabricating because temperature and CO2 are both lower now than they have been through nearly the entire history of life on Earth, which is over three billion years.
And so if you want to find out about that, you need to read my book, because I can't explain it all in 20 minutes.
But my book is only 200 pages long.
It's written for a general audience.
It's fine for grade 9 and up.
Anybody that has proficiency in English can understand it as well as you understand me talking now.
But it gives you a tremendous amount of insight into the fakery that has been foisted upon us by these people using invisible and remote stories.
As one of your bigger fans, may I suggest that when you get the chance to either have you or someone else make an audio of your book, by the way.
It's coming out, Dennis.
The audio book is just about to come.
Oh, good, good.
You tell me when it does, I will announce it.
But in the meantime, folks, it's on Kindle and paperback, Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.
You, sir, are a credit to Canada.
And for that matter, the human race.
Thank you, Dennis.
It's on Amazon.com.
It's been number one in environmental science, even though it's just out.
And I hope people will take advantage of this resort for themselves and their family and their friends.
Thank you, sir.
You're doing a service.
Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom.
This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it.
But the left is angry.
They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition.
It's called court packing, from when, in 1937, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it.
President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded.
And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea.
Any politically driven effort to change the court's structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principle.
Over time, a packed court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people.
I'm Carol Platt-Lebowl.
I guess we're taking a break from knife fights and China in some way.
But it's not a good break.
What is going on with the Biden tax plan?
I gotta tell you, this is about the most moronic thing.
I have seen in my entire career.
I have never seen such an aggressive...
I mean, I think you've got to go back to, you know, the days of the Revolutionary War and the British tyranny over our 13 colonies to find anything as ludicrous and onerous as this tax plan, Seb.
My stomach turned when I saw it.
You know, we knew he was a socialist.
We knew he would try things like this.
But, you know, there's still a part of you.
It's like, okay, well, you know, he's got to really want the best thing for America, right?
And this is not the best thing for America.
This is disastrous for America.
So break it down for us.
What is it proposing and what will it actually result in?
Okay, so basically he's looking at anywhere from 39% in change to 43% on capital gains taxes.
So this means any money that you invest, if you have a business, for example, you're a small business owner, or suppose you invest in the stock market because you're saving up for your retirement, instead of it getting taxed at the current 20% level, it's going to be taxed at double that.
Now, the administration would say, oh, don't worry, it's only going to...
Well, look, there's a lot of small business owners that have been toiling away for 30 years that are getting ready to sell their business.
Their business is going to be valued at more than a million dollars.
So that's going to be a problem.
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You guys call it literally a war on small business.
Lay it out for us about what small business owners are up against and what Job Creators Network is doing about it.
Yeah, well, you just laid it out just great there, Mike.
I mean, when you think about the last year with the pandemic, if you are Amazon or Uber Eats or DoorDash, you've done fantastic.
But if you're a mom-and-pop restaurant, if you're a dry cleaner or pizza parlor, hairdresser, you've been really hurt.
And if you're still around, you've been really hurt.
Or maybe you're gone and you're thinking, how do I start over?
And as we come out of this pandemic and we're starting to see states open, some of them much slower than others, we're starting to see people get back to work and businesses start to reopen.
And that's a good thing.
And now you can't open a newspaper or listen to the radio or.
Let's hear the words.
.
That's it, I divido.
Which is, I leave it all, in English.
Yes, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
Now, have you noted one of the many awful features of the left is a desire to let people who hurt other people go free?
It's one of the sicker aspects of leftism, but it is completely consistent and it is worldwide.
The left has never hated evil.
The left hates those who fight evil.
I saw that.
Communism, they didn't hate communism, they hated anti-communists.
In the United States, And in Europe, the left hates those who wish to punish violent criminals.
They don't hate the violent criminals.
They hate the people who want to punish them.
So we have all these stories in the United States of prosecutors, many funded by a truly evil man named George Soros.
Though it is worth noting that while he is obviously involved in getting awful human beings as district attorneys, it is the people who vote for them.
So that Soros is evil is a given.
But Soros is not the reason people vote for people who let evil people My favorite verse in the Bible is, those of you who love God hate evil.
One of the reasons the left hates the Bible, and especially people who believe in it, is precisely that.
It advocates that you hate evil.
It's an upside-down world.
So here's a story from France.
This is not at all just in America.
I don't know if you've heard about it, but the highest court in France, I have from Jerusalem Post and then Barry Weiss, the brave liberal who left the New York Times.
The highest court in France has ruled that the man who killed a Jewish woman in 2017 in an anti-Semitic frenzy cannot stand trial because he was in a state of acute mental delirium.
Brought on by his consumption of cannabis.
A man tortured a woman in her 60s, tortured her to death, threw her out a window, screaming Allahu Akbar, and he's not even going on trial because he was high on marijuana. and he's not even going on trial because he was
Kobiel Trare, who was admitted to the killing and is in a psychiatric institution, beat Sarah Halimi, 65, before throwing her out the window of her Paris apartment to cries of Allahu Akbar, and I before throwing her out the window of her Paris apartment to cries of Thank you.
Mr. Charest, who was 27 at the time, had been troubled by Ms. Halimi's mezuzah, which, quote, amplified the frantic outburst of hate, according to one psychiatric report.
That which the little container of a tiny part of the Torah scroll that is on the doorpost of many Jewish homes.
Barry Weiss writing on the same issue.
Sarah Halimi was a retired French physician and school teacher.
On April 4th, 2017, Halimi was in her Paris apartment where she lived alone.
In the middle of the night, a 27-year-old Muslim man of Malian origin named Kobili Traore, who lived in the building, broke into her apartment.
Traore tortured Ms. Halimi, who was in her 60s, beating her and kicking her.
According to neighbors who called the police after hearing Halimi's cries, Traore called her a shaitan.
Satan and a dirty Jew.
Ultimately, he threw Ms. Halimi's battered body out of her third-story apartment window, shouting Allahu Akbar.
Then Barry Weiss writes, So in December 2019, when I read that French prosecutors had decided to drop murder charges?
Against Traoré, a man with nearly two dozen prior convictions on the grounds that he had smoked pot?
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Thank you.
Here's Nancy Pelosi getting a question at her presser yesterday about District of Columbia statehood cut number 12. Statehood for the District of Columbia.
I proudly wear this 51 hat.
So it's an honor to join Democrats from both.
Okay, so she's wearing a mask that has the number 51 on it in D.C. Let me just...
The reason this annoys me so much is it's based on your not knowing what the Constitution says.
She ought to know what the Constitution says.
The 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens residing in the District of Columbia.
The amendment grants the district electors in the Electoral College as though it were a state, though the district can never have more electors than the least populous state.
The 23rd Amendment was proposed in 1960, and it was ratified in 1961. So the status of the District of Columbia is fixed in the Constitution.
That means for D.C. to achieve statehood, there has to be a constitutional amendment, not a statute.
This is Government 101. It's 8th grade civics.
And so when the Speaker of the House stands up and the House moves to pass, D.C. is a 51st state.
They are ignoring the Constitution which they have taken an oath to uphold and defend.
You cannot make D.C. a state unless you first, unless you first change the Constitution.
You cannot, as Senator Romney proposed, revert D.C. to Maryland without first changing the Constitution.
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*music* And I remember Ronald Reagan, 32 years ago, at the end of his eight successful years as President of the United States, gave a farewell address.
And in it...
He gave a warning I often quote.
He didn't just celebrate all the good that had happened, the changes in the economy, the improvements in the country, the increase in patriotism.
He gave a warning for parents going into the 90s, which was so prophetic about needing to reinstitutionalize that belief in America and the American idea.
The idea he's actually specifically said we need to do more to teach American history.
And to share in civic rituals.
I thought of him recently when the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, was talking about not even playing the national anthem anymore at the basketball games.
Thankfully, that got reversed.
but that i don't know about you but for me that things like that were the things that it honestly didn't even matter whether you were a democrat or republican or somewhere in between young or old hi everybody thank you
Dozens of crimes committed by this man in France, two dozen prior convictions, tortures a Jewish woman to death while screaming Allahu Akbar, and French prosecutors dropped the murder charges because he was on pot.
He was smoking pot.
It's part of the larger theme of the district attorneys like the one in Los Angeles County who will not prosecute most people who've hurt other people deliberately.
These people are not offended by cruelty.
There's something sick.
Leftism is a sickness.
Liberalism is not.
Liberalism is a weakness, but not a sickness.
But leftism is a sickness.
They're truly the opposite, as I said, of those of you who love God must hate evil.
There was another example a couple of weeks ago.
Remember the two girls?
Two black girls who hijacked, carjacked a Pakistani immigrant Uber driver.
Said, this is how I make a living hung onto the car.
They crashed the car, smashing him to death.
That's what the judge said.
No, not the judge, excuse me.
The acting police chief.
You know, obviously this is a tragic case, and as you know, charging the person as an adult who's a juvenile does not bring back the lost loved one in this case.
Hmm.
There you go.
The girl ran out of the car screaming, my iPhone is in the car, or my phone is in the car.
Girl's a monster.
But, you know, hey, if we prosecute her, are we going to bring back the dead?
I guess, why can't you say that about every case of murder?
Imagine if somebody said that with regard to George Floyd.
What's the point of prosecuting him?
Are we going to bring back the dead?
That's why I... One of the, I have embodied one of the, not embodied so much as assimilated, one of the great teachings of my childhood in yeshiva, Jewish religious school.
And it was all in Hebrew, at least all the religious subjects.
And those who are cruel to the kind will be kind to the cruel, and vice versa.
Those who are kind to the cruel will be cruel to the kind.
That is what is one of the truisms of life.
They are cruel to the kind, and they are kind to the cruel.
So the France example, the carjacking example, and the district attorney's examples.
Are illustrative of the point that I am making.
I've always felt that evil was the Achilles heel of the left.
Because you can't love good if you don't hate evil.
Not just you can't love God, you can't love good.
And they don't...
You attack the...
The Islamist theocrats, and you're Islamophobic.
You attack the communists.
You're a cold warrior.
There's a review in the New York Times book review a couple of weeks ago, which I just read yesterday, lambasting Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The black African Somali woman raised Muslim who had genital mutilation done to her and who has devoted her life to liberating women, especially under Islam, as she grew up.
But she's hated because she's liberating women under Islam.
If she were liberating women in America under white Christian males, ah, then she would be a great woman.
But she's liberating women who are actually hurt.
Though I admit, one of my arguments against the imposition of Sharia on people was the dehumanization of masks on women in Islam.
I think it's dehumanizing a mask.
Right now, masks are in.
They may be in forever, as I read to you earlier in the show.
There are some epidemiologists who think that we should wear them forever, or certainly for the foreseeable future.
Vaccine, no vaccine, you've got to wear them.
The dehumanizing element of the mask, whether in Islam or in the other religion, safetyism.
Is not perceived.
Alrighty, everybody.
Tim has been waiting a long time.
Two hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds.
Walnut Creek, California.
Hello.
Oh, hey, Dennis.
How you doing?
I'm surprised you didn't have some medical episode while waiting for me.
No, no, no.
It's a pleasure.
I'm here wiring a kitchen right now.
I'm a general contractor, and I have nine inside, so I do two kids at once.
You can.
That's true.
No, I mean, actually, it was something I touched on Friday, and then again this morning, about living in, I guess, for lack of a better term, integrated dorm rooms.
I'm a 62-year-old guy.
Went to college in the early 80s.
transferred to a state college here in California in between semesters.
I was very short.
I showed up, found out what dorm room I was in, and they gave me my keys.
It turned out I lived in a room with three other guys, and it was me and one of them.
I know what it is, and I want people to hear it.
Stay with me.
Stay with me.
President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it, but the left is angry.
They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition.
It's called court packing, from when, in 1937, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it.
President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded.
And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea.
Any politically driven effort to change the court's structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principle.
Over time, a packed court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people.
I'm Carol Platt Liebow.
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I guess we're taking a break from knife fights and China in some way, but it's not a good break.
What is going on with the Biden tax plan?
I gotta tell you, this is about the most moronic thing.
I have seen in my entire career.
I have never seen such an aggressive...
I mean, I think you've got to go back to, you know, the days of the Revolutionary War and the British tyranny over our 13 colonies to find anything as ludicrous and onerous as this tax plan, Seb.
My stomach turned when I saw it.
You know, we knew.
He was a socialist.
We knew he would try things like this.
But, you know, there's still a part of you.
It's like, OK, well, you know, he's got to really want the best thing for America.
Right.
And this is not the best thing for America.
This is disastrous.
So break it down for us.
What is this?
What is it proposing and what will it actually result in?
Okay, so basically he's looking at anywhere from 39% and change to 43% on capital gains taxes.
So this means any money that you invest, if you have a business, for example, you're a small business owner, or suppose you invest in the stock market because you're saving up for your retirement, instead of it getting taxed at the current 20% level, it's going to be taxed at double that.
Now, the administration would say, oh, don't worry, it's only going to...
Well, look, there's a lot of small business owners that have been toiling away for 30 years that are getting ready to sell their business.
Their business is gonna be valued at more than a million dollars, so that's gonna be a problem.
Keep up with what's trending subscribe on YouTube All right, let me go back to I'm Dennis Prager, and it's him in Walnut Creek.
So, went to college in the 80s.
You get your keys to your dorm room.
There were three other guys, and then I took a break.
Go ahead.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much.
I mean, I transferred in between semesters and took one other guy's spot and just got my key to my dorm room, and it was me and three other guys, two black guys from back east.
We had a guy in at the end of the semester who needed a place to move into.
And the four other black guys in the dorm room next to me said, hey, you need a room?
You got a room?
We were good with them, and I was in our house close to two years where I was the only white guy in the house.
Had a lot of fun.
You know, we were all from different backgrounds, and I guess my point being, it was a complete non-issue.
I was never asked who I preferred to live with.
I filled out a questionnaire.
They assigned me a room, and that was it.
And I kind of wish it was as easy as it is today as it was back then.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
The left has truly brought us backwards.
Julie Kelly, I believe it is.
Let's see.
Is it or is it Victor Davis Hanson?
Yeah, I think it's Victor Davis Hanson.
Indeed, it is startling how abruptly our frenzied elites have renounced assimilation, a word now banned by the Biden administration in matters related to immigration.
Integration is also passé.
Ironies abound.
And he talks about how...
An old white woman has to wait for blacks in the state of Washington, the African American Reach and Teach health ministry.
Black intellectuals now use the stereotypical language of the old Jim Crow segregationists.
Some vie in an apparent contest to see which woke trailblazer can be crowned the most overt racist, anti-racist.
So Ellie Mistal, Writing in The Nation lectures the country that, quote, white people haven't improved.
I've just been able to limit my exposure to them.
Really?
I'll tell you, these victimized black intellectuals, like Charles Blow tells his children, wrote it in his column in the New York Times, that Basically speaking, whites hate him.
If that's not a form of child abuse, then I don't understand the term child abuse.
Yeah, when you step out of this sanctuary of your house, know that the majority race loathes you.
It's also a lie.
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