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May 5, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	A reminder that the next hour is the male-female hour.
	Walking into my studio brought me a glimmer of hope in this dark period of world history, not only American history.
	I saw more unmasked outside people, people outside than previously.
	And in each case, I try to thank them.
	Because reason is rare.
	Anyway, I have an esteemed guest.
	Man, I've respected his work.
	His magnificent Neil Ferguson, renowned historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
	Brand new book out actually yesterday.
	And it is titled Doom, D-O-O-M, The Politics of Catastrophe.
	Neil Ferguson, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Great to be with you, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	Sweet of you to say.
	And, of course, thank you for your PragerU videos.
	They're just terrific.
	So this is very exciting.
	A book on the subject of the politics of catastrophe coming from you.
	I think it's what the doctor ordered.
	Oh, I take that back since my respect for doctors has declined.
	I take back that metaphor.
	All right, what is the thesis of your book?
	Well, the thesis of my book is that we have to keep disasters in perspective.
	We've certainly lived through a disaster.
	That is an appropriate word to use when talking about COVID-19.
	But it's by no means the biggest disaster in world history.
	In terms of the share of the world's population that have been killed, it's on a par with the 1957-58 influenza pandemic, which a surprisingly small number of people even remember.
	Compared with the World Wars, it's really a relatively modest disaster, closer to the Korean War than to The world was.
	And if you compare it to the really great disasters in history, like let's take the Black Death, which swept Eurasia in the 14th century, it's kind of a rounding error compared with that because, you know, we're talking about 0.04% of the world's population in this disaster compared with about a third of the world's population in the Black Death.
	We have to keep this in perspective, and I don't think we've done a good job of that, and that's why I wrote this book, to try to get us to be a little bit more realistic in assessing the threats that we face, because there will be other disasters, and they won't be exactly like this one.
	We therefore, I think, need to change our mindset and learn some lessons from the things that we got very wrong last year.
	Give me some examples.
	Well, last year, when it was obvious, and it was pretty obvious by the second week of January that something wicked was coming this way, we could have acted a lot more swiftly to limit the threat.
	The Taiwanese did that.
	The South Koreans did that.
	The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, completely failed to make testing available in the early phase of the pandemic, when it might have really been of use.
	There was no attempt by the big tech companies to take advantage of the vast amounts of data they have by creating a proper contact tracing app, which was something the Taiwanese and the South Koreans did.
	And as for isolating people who were infected, we made an absolutely pathetic effort at that.
	People were pouring in to US airports from China right through January, and flights were even leaving Wuhan itself until January the 23rd.
	So we failed to do what the epidemiologist Larry Brilliant famously argued you should do when a pandemic begins, which is early detection, early action.
	And we know that we failed because Taiwan succeeded.
	And let's face it, Taiwan never had the lockdown as a result.
	And if you want to know how many people died of COVID in Taiwan, which is right next to China, the answer is 11. So we could have done so much better.
	And then, Dennis, once we'd screwed up January, February, and the first half of March, we then proceeded to learn the wrong lesson from Asia.
	We decided we would copy the People's Republic of China and do drastic, across-the-board, social and economic lockdowns, which have the effect of cratering the economy.
	And causing all kinds of disruption, the consequences of which we'll be living with for many years.
	So I think we made a fundamental error there, too.
	It's an incredibly indiscriminate way of controlling the spread of the virus.
	I'm not saying we should have let it run wild, just to be clear for your listeners.
	It wasn't like we should do nothing.
	But we didn't need, I think, to do such a drastic thing as happened in California.
	I mean, I remember realizing they had lost their minds when they closed.
	The public parks and the beaches.
	And it was madness because you could see already at that point this disease did not really spread outdoors.
	That it was an indoor transmitted virus that was obvious from the science that was being published at that time.
	And yet the public health officials in California decided it would be smart to lock us in our own homes and then prevent us from getting outdoor exercise.
	So the craziness has been just a Well, they did say that going outside was fine if you were protesting against racism.
	Right.
	And one of the stranger episodes of 2020 was that in the midst of a pandemic, certainly one of the worst since the 1950s, we suddenly had vast nationwide protests.
	in hundreds of different locations against police violence.
	Now, the Latin expression non sequitur comes to mind.
	It seemed like a strange time to have that debate in the midst of a public health emergency, but we did.
	And then what was even more surreal was the people who had been previously opposed to any kind of gathering, even quite small.
	We're suddenly entirely fine with very large gatherings of people protesting against the police and, by the way, protesting on distinctly spurious grounds, given the relatively small number of incidents in which the police use lethal violence against unarmed black suspects.
	But we'll leave that aside.
	I think it's fair to say that...
	It made no sense to encourage or at least tolerate those protests, given the guidelines that had already been issued and which seemed to apply to everybody else except the Black Lives Matter protesters.
	I wrote in April of last year that this was the greatest mistake in world history.
	I made it clear I wasn't saying the greatest evil.
	Clearly there were greater evils.
	But I thought it was the greatest mistake.
	And I want you to comment on Sweden.
	Do you think Sweden was the one country in the West to have handled it more properly?
	I think it would be wrong to say that Sweden did a brilliant job, because a number of the mistakes that were made in other countries were made in Sweden too.
	For example, they didn't protect the elderly in care homes, and so they got a significant...
	Number of avoidable deaths there.
	However, they were right, I think, to say that you could control the disease with less drastic measures than lockdowns.
	That's to say what in Sweden happened was that public gatherings were limited, concerts and that kind of thing, and there was social distancing, but there wasn't a lockdown.
	So the economic...
	I don't think the poster child is Sweden, though, because ultimately I think the real success stories were countries that I mentioned already, Taiwan and South Korea, which dealt with this problem in a smart way.
	And I want to just address one issue that often comes up when one discusses this, you know, their use of technology, and particularly their use of contact tracing, so that they were quickly able to find out when infected.
	I heard again and again last year from the big tech companies as well that we couldn't do this in the United States because it would be a violation of our civil liberties.
	I thought that was wrong for two reasons.
	One, because in Taiwan they've been very careful to make sure.
	That the kind of data that they used was anonymized and couldn't be used for any other purpose.
	I mean, they have thought about this issue because they care a lot about their liberties in Taiwan.
	After all, they are threatened by the People's Republic of China on a daily basis.
	But also because being locked in your own home under house arrest, as people in California, New York, and many other states were, is hardly a triumph of civil liberty.
	And if the choice for me is between having some contact tracing that works...
	And being locked in my own home, I'll take the contact tracing.
	That's a very interesting point.
	Back in a moment with Neil Ferguson.
	Ferguson, the book is up at my website.
	Thank you.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	But I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem now.
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	And ain't nobody listening to that.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
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	. . . . . .
	Thank you.
	guest is Professor Neil Ferguson, major historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
	His new book is Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe.
	So there's a caller from Cleveland who is saying that it's somewhat unfair to compare the deaths of COVID to the deaths of other things that you mentioned in light of the fact that this was only one year and they were many years.
	Any comment?
	Well, you can calculate it on an annual basis, if you like.
	I mean, most of the big respiratory pandemics were really two-year affairs.
	That was true of 1918-19, of 57-58, and it'll be true of COVID, which will be remembered as the pandemic of 2020 to 21. And when you do that comparison, it kind of works out perfectly.
	Pretty clearly, 1918-19 was far, far worse.
	Covered a similar timeframe.
	Like our pandemic, it came in waves.
	But the total death numbers were far, far higher.
	I mean, if you look at the global mortality in 1918-19, it was nearly 40 million, which would translate into 160 million in our time, whereas we're currently looking at a death toll of over 3 million.
	And if you look at 57, 58, the global death toll was somewhere between 2 and 4 million if you scale to our population.
	So I think it's a much better point of comparison.
	But the problem was that a great many people last year, including someone with a very similar name to me, an epidemiologist called Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London.
	We're well aware.
	I felt bad for you.
	It was good that my parents gave me the Gaelic spelling, N-I-A-L-L, or I just got it even more hate mail than usual.
	But the other Neil Ferguson basically talked last March like we were facing 1980-19.
	He said 2 million Americans, 2.2 million Americans would die if we didn't lock down.
	And I think that was wrong.
	And I said it was wrong at the time.
	I said, I don't think it's that bad.
	I don't think the virus is that deadly.
	And I think this is overkill.
	It's interesting that the other day that same Neil Ferguson, N-E-I-L Ferguson, said in an interview that he was glad that the Chinese had done a drastic lockdown because that kind of gave Western countries permission to do the same.
	So we were kind of unwittingly copying what the Chinese Communist Party was doing.
	I think that was a huge blunder.
	We should have been copying Taiwan, which got this right.
	Taiwan was basically being ignored by the World Health Organization at that time.
	Taiwan, as far as they were concerned, didn't exist because they were so in hock to their friends in Beijing.
	So I do think the comparisons are valid.
	I think when we do the comparisons, we can see that we weren't facing a 1919 scenario.
	We were looking at something much closer to 57-58.
	And as older listeners will recall, in 57-58, there were no lockdowns, no school closures.
	Minimal increases in public spending and the economy barely felt the pandemic.
	So I will offer you some of my theories and I would like you to say what you think about them.
	As I always tell my guests, I'm completely comfortable with the guests disagreeing.
	I think that the closing of schools for as long as we have has been criminal.
	Your reaction?
	I agree.
	And incidentally, so does a great liberal Journalist Nicholas Kristof, who wrote this in his New York Times column not so long.
	We will see that a generation of kids in public schools have been deprived of a year of education with lasting consequences.
	And I think it was a shocking abdication of responsibility by the teachers' union not to prioritize school reopening.
	Private schools reopened.
	It was very possible to reopen a school.
	And they were the ones who didn't really need to because the kids had laptops and iPads and could do distance learning.
	So we know it was possible to reopen schools.
	And I think it was indeed criminal and will have terrible consequences, not least for inequality in America.
	Because our education system was doing a pretty poor job for poor kids already.
	But shutting them out of school for a year, oh, this is going to have very, very negative consequences.
	So on that we agree.
	Well, I'm glad, even though it's very painful, that subject is.
	When you say we'll have consequences, I fully agree.
	Unfortunately, we will not have just consequences, as in justice.
	The teachers' unions and the teachers will pay no price.
	That's right.
	And indeed, they will continue to enjoy disproportionate power in American politics, not least in California.
	I'm beginning to think, Dennis, that the...
	The American Teachers Union is kind of where the National Union of Mine Workers were in Britain in the 1970s, an over-mighty and malignant force that ultimately will have to be confronted, as Margaret Thatcher confronted the British trade unions.
	And until that happens, this country is going to have a kind of ball and chain around its leg, because how can we flourish as a nation if education is increasingly dysfunctional?
	If it's happening at all.
	And we haven't even spoken about the plague of wokeism.
	I mean, we didn't have just one plague in 2020 to 21. We had a plague of the mind as well, which is this lunatic ideology that masquerades under slogans like anti-racism, an ideology which is in fact deeply illiberal and hostile to American values.
	That plague has actually infected more people.
	Well, I didn't know you'd say that, but that's exactly what I have been saying.
	Back to the epidemic or pandemic.
	Overwhelmingly, I have followed this avidly and very seriously.
	Overwhelmingly, those who died of it were people who were within a year or two I know that sounds callous, but society has to make decisions based on who is being hurt.
	Children were not being hurt.
	That's right.
	- Right, 80% of people who died were people over the age of 65.
	And the further up you go the age ladder, the higher the mortality, the percentage of people who died of COVID in younger age groups was tiny. - Right, and yet we locked down young people.
	That's part of this criminality that we're both referring to.
	So, in that case, it's the teachers' unions and their disproportionate, malevolent influence.
	What about the medical profession?
	Did it distinguish itself?
	I'm beating up on doctors a moment ago, and I wouldn't want to do that.
	My dad was a doctor, and I know many doctors have been doing their utmost to do a good job in this incredibly difficult time, and it's been an exhausting time for people in hospitals, particularly at the peak back in the spring and then again over the Thanksgiving and holidays.
	I have much more of a bone to pick with public health.
	Yes, okay.
	Well, they're doctors.
	We'll be back in a moment.
	at Neil Ferguson's important book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe is up at DennisPrager.com.
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	We started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	But I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem now.
	Most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back.
	What if there was evidence that proves that this is all real?
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	I just want the church to get back to the gospel.
	Ooh, Superman works.
	I like Superman.
	The gospel.
	Right, right, right.
	And ain't nobody listening to that.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	But look, let's be honest.
	The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have changed so dramatically.
	I mean, when you talk about the choice between a Nixon and a Humphrey or a McGovern, I don't think...
	There's anything comparable today.
	The party has lurched so far left.
	I mean, Joe Biden is a husk.
	I don't know who is controlling the nation, but if Joe Biden 30 years ago were president, it would actually be a moderate Democrat.
	What we have now is so far left that I can't imagine that most Democrats who really understand what is going on would be for what's happening.
	Well, look, there was a vote the other day in the Senate, and the Republicans tried to add an amendment saying that any university that discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans will lose funding.
	Every single Democrat voted against that because it was seen as somehow anti-Black.
	I don't understand how being for Asian Americans is anti-Black, but every single American...
	A democrat voted against that and it lost by one by one vote.
	How can you vote against a law that says you can't discriminate against He's a phenomenon,
	Adam Carolla.
	One of the gifted people that I have known.
	It's rare to meet gifted people because gifts are rare.
	Many people with great insights, great character, all these things.
	But he has the gift of seeing things in a way that others don't as clearly see them.
	And presents his autopsy.
	In a funny way, really funny way.
	So it's a very popular video.
	So I want to thank Neil Ferguson, who has had to go.
	And I take from what he said, among other things, a reinforcement of my belief that the great criminality of 2020, the great, not criminality, It is criminality, but the great damage, that's the word, the damage of 2020-2021 is the woke damage.
	The left's damage.
	Whatever term we use, it's so funny.
	Politically incorrect, woke, they're all euphemisms for left.
	Notice that?
	Is there anything politically incorrect that's on the right?
	No.
	Anything woke on the right?
	No.
	Call it what it is.
	It is the left destruction because it destroys whatever it touches.
	Kids didn't go to school for years.
	That people will send their kids back and still have respect for the teachers' unions is really distressing.
	The University of California and California State University have announced that you cannot attend classes this coming semester if you haven't been vaccinated.
	I don't even know why that's legal.
	These are public universities.
	This is only the beginning of what will be demanded if this is allowed to hold.
	Doesn't it show that there's something...
	Fraudulent in at least the presentation of the effectiveness of the vaccine?
	If you're vaccinated, why do you give a damn if the next guy is vaccinated?
	The convoluted nonsense.
	I mean, the drivel.
	It's like men give birth.
	Oh, but you're not really fully immunized.
	Really?
	That's the first vaccine that I heard of that really doesn't fully immunize you.
	And how many people doesn't it fully immunize?
	What percentage of those who got the vaccine?
	1%, 3%, 5%?
	And of the 5% that it doesn't work with, what percent of those will die?
	So we're talking about an infinitesimally small number of people for which we are like sheep walking to the slaughter.
	The University of California cannot make that demand.
	Harvard can, because it's a private institution.
	But it gives you an idea of the idiocy that runs Harvard.
	Who the hell are you to tell me what medicine I take?
	I thought the left believed that you should be free to do what you want with your own body.
	Isn't that the whole argument about abortion?
	Don't interfere with a woman's control over her own body?
	What happened to that notion?
	The irony is, this is your body, the vaccine.
	The fetus is not your body.
	The whole thing is convoluted.
	You should be free to destroy another body, but you are not free to do what you want with your own body.
	that's a fact it's astonishing what people get away with Thank you.
	Will they demand a flu shot next year as well?
	Why not?
	People die of the flu.
	Not a few.
	And the people least needing a vaccine for COVID are young people.
	Okay.
	The percentage of young people dying from this is tiny, is almost negligible.
	So why are they doing this?
	Well, one answer is because they can.
	The other is because they are afraid.
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	started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	But I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem now.
	Most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back.
	What if there was evidence that proves that this is all real?
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	I just want the church to get back to the gospel.
	Oh, Superman works.
	I like Superman.
	The gospel.
	Right, right, right.
	Ain't nobody listening to that.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	But look, let's be honest.
	The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have changed so dramatically.
	I mean, when you talk about the choice between a Nixon and a Humphrey or a McGovern, There's anything comparable today.
	The party has lurched so far left.
	I mean, Joe Biden is a husk.
	I don't know who is controlling the nation, but if Joe Biden 30 years ago were president, it would actually be a moderate Democrat.
	What we have now is so far left that I can't imagine that most Democrats who really understand what is going on would be for what's happening.
	Well, look, there was a vote the other day in the Senate, and the Republicans tried to add an amendment saying that any university that discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans will lose funding.
	Every single Democrat voted against that because it was seen as somehow anti-Black.
	I don't understand how being for Asian Americans is anti-Black, but every single American...
	A Democrat voted against that and it lost by one by one vote.
	How can you vote against a law that says you can't discriminate against Asian Americans?
	We have such a long history of discriminating.
	Here's a great example of how much the New York Times lies.
	The New York Times is a lying organization.
	Its purpose is the same as Pravda was for the Communist Party.
	New York Times today.
	Tennessee lawmaker is criticized for remarks on three-fifths compromise.
	This is an astonishing story.
	So listen to the first paragraph.
	First paragraph.
	New York Times.
	The three-fifths compromise, an agreement reached during the negotiations in 1787 to create the United States Constitution, found that for the purposes of representation and taxation, only three-fifths of a state's enslaved people would be counted toward its total population.
	Here comes the lie.
	Pure, unadulterated lie.
	Like, snow is green.
	It is regarded as one of the most racist deals among the states during the country's founding.
	Why is it a lie?
	Because it was an anti-racist deal.
	That's why.
	Wow.
	I'm telling you, I'm stunned.
	The purity of the lie, usually when they lie, it's a drop more subtle.
	Like the two-year lie of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, for which, of course, they've never apologized.
	Anyway, I had an author on who just wrote a whole book of New York Times lies.
	Let me put it to you this way.
	Between the New York Times and Donald Trump, Donald Trump is a much greater truth-teller than the New York Times.
	All right?
	That's the state that we are in.
	Never Trumpers would, of course, differ.
	And Democrats would differ.
	Fully acknowledge that.
	I have a pretty good track record, however, over 35 years of broadcasting, of telling you the truth.
	So let me explain to you why it was anti-racist.
	The southern states wanted all of their black residents, I won't say citizens even, residents, namely slaves, to be considered.
	For purposes of representation, to this day, how many representatives does a state have in the House of Representatives is dependent upon the population of the state.
	So the higher the population, the more the representatives in the House of Representatives.
	So southern states wanted to count blacks, not because they like blacks.
	But because they wanted a greater number of representatives.
	Why did they want that?
	So that they could help spread slavery.
	So the North didn't want slaves counted at all.
	They wanted it to be zero, not even three-fifths of a person.
	So they compromised on three-fifths.
	so that, in fact, the southern states would not get full numbers in order to get more people in the House of Representatives and thereby spread slavery.
	That is it.
	We have, by the way, a wonderful video by a professor of political science, Professor Carol Swain, who was herself black, Why the Three-Fifths Compromise was anti-slavery.
	That is the title.
	It is up at PragerU.
	And the New York Times describes the three-fifths compromise as racist.
	First paragraph in this article where the Tennessee representative, the member of the Tennessee State House, exactly said, apparently, what I did.
	Every day I bring to you the lies of the left.
	Truth is not a left-wing value.
	This is a classic example.
	I wonder what Bret Stephens thinks of this piece.
	People say, I get this question a lot, so if you could have lunch with anybody, who would it be?
	And I always answer, my friends.
	My wife and my friends.
	I don't have anybody.
	I mean, basically, I'm in a very lucky position.
	I could have lunch with just about anybody.
	But it's not the way I think.
	I'd rather be with just the people I'm closest with.
	But I would like to have lunch with Brett Stephens, which I could, incidentally, because we are, in fact, friends.
	Except that I don't want to put him on the spot.
	He wrote another piece, the latest piece he wrote, and what was it on again?
	I read it.
	Here I am asking what was the subject of Bret Stephens.
	This is a columnist of the New York Times, the only real conservative at this time.
	Oh yes, leading the country to a permanent decline.
	How all these trillion dollar policies.
	Do you know that there were over 3,000 comments?
	That's one of the highest numbers of comments I've ever seen on any article anywhere.
	So he is the only person really saying the truths about society there.
	So if I said to him, Do you know how much the Times lies?
	What is he going to say to me?
	So, I wouldn't do that to him.
	You have to know how to talk in private.
	I mean, in public, this is the New York Times.
	But I wouldn't give him a hard time for writing for them.
	But it's hard to believe he's not suffering cognitive dissonance.
	Writing for a lying left-wing paper.
	He's not lying.
	He's writing, excuse me.
	He's writing for a lying left-wing paper.
	I thank God that he writes there, to be honest.
	I think he's doing the country a national service.
	Anyway, now you know what the three-fifths compromise was.
	It was anti-slavery.
	And the New York Times, in the first paragraph on the piece, on this news item, Calls it racist.
	one of the most racist deals among the states during the country's founding.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all.
	By doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Kamu Bell says, you know, it depends on how you define racism.
	Here's how he defines racism.
	I define that as a country that is built on racism.
	So yes, I believe America is a racist country because it literally is built on and runs on racism.
	America is built on racism and runs on racism.
	It's sort of the petrol of America, the fuel of America.
	So his definition of racism is America was built on racism and is run on racism, whatever the hell that means.
	And the definition given by this gentleman in the Washington Post, quote, it means that we have systems and institutions referring to systemic racism.
	It means we have systems and institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them, end of quote.
	So if every cop is devoid of racism, but the cops pull over more blacks than they do whites, that's systemic racism.
	Even if the cops aren't racist.
	Because the outcomes are different.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall.
	Why would a high-ranking American diplomat alert an Iranian government official about Israeli covert actions?
	In a leaked recording between Mohammad Javad Zarif and a political ally, the foreign minister revealed that John Kerry personally informed him that Israel was behind over 200 attacks on its military forces and proxies in Syria.
	Zarif professed astonishment at Kerry's tip-off.
	No doubt the Israelis are astonished at this as well, and all Americans should feel the same way.
	After years of unfounded accusations about Republican collusion with Russia, we now hear of a prominent member of two Democratic administrations sharing intelligence about our allies' covert operations with a regime that regularly holds Death to America rallies.
	The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
	I'm Ed Morrissey.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Mike Dilliger Show.
	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his...
	Well, my friends, I'm Dennis Prager.
	Sure.
	New York City schools cancel Columbus Day for Indigenous Day.
	And Juneteenth is now a holiday.
	Yep, New York Post.
	New York City schools have canceled the Columbus Day holiday, replacing it with an Indigenous People's Day, while also making Juneteenth a school holiday and getting rid of snow days altogether.
	What does that mean, getting rid of snow days?
	They've got an agreement with God that there'd not be snow?
	That's true, with the advent of global warming.
	That is a very fine point.
	City Department of Education called October 11th Indigenous Peoples Day.
	As my colleague, the producer of this show, pointed out in sending out this particular article, there'll be a generation that never heard of Columbus.
	There'll be a generation I've never heard of Jefferson.
	Let alone Adams.
	Unless they go to PragerU.
	Or a handful of other places.
	Wow.
	Flagging the beginning and end dates for the school year as well as winter and spring recesses, but not the big changes within a tweet.
	The move, which was announced, however, in a press release to Education Beat reporters, officially cancels for school kid recognition what remains a federal, state, and city holiday on the second Monday in October, although the indigenous people's holiday will give students and teachers the same day off.
	Well...
	And another first.
	The schools will be closed on June 20th, an observance of Juneteenth, which celebrates the day in 1865 that black slaves in Texas were informed of their freedom.
	Okay.
	That's what's happening.
	No more Columbus Day.
	You know what it means.
	You have to understand the issue is not Christopher Columbus, the individual.
	We celebrate Columbus Day because we celebrate the creation of Western civilization on this continent.
	The left doesn't.
	The left doesn't celebrate the creation of the West on the European continent.
	The West doesn't celebrate the creation of Western civilization.
	Beethoven's Third Symphony is not one of the greatest works ever written.
	There's always Indonesian gamelan music.
	Wrote the New York Times music critic years ago.
	I put him in my book.
	Still the best hope.
	We're battling for the West.
	It's not less than that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The lockdowns actually have the opposite of the intended purpose.
	So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
	And Ron DeSantis said yes.
	When there is no vision, the people perish.
	That's actually a proverb.
	And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.
	I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.
	Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.
	Ron DeSantis, I think our...
	Thank you.
	Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.
	This is why, and we were just talking about this last night, we are far surpassing all these economic projections.
	Because the reopening is happening quicker than people could possibly imagine.
	It's because of one man, and I'm not discounting the other states that opened alongside of it, but I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.
	Florida's a battleground state.
	Florida's a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
	There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
	Now, by the way, Governor Ducey, as we're here live on AM 960, The Answer in Arizona, and Governor Kemp in Georgia, they didn't deliver Georgia and Arizona for Trump.
	In fact, they didn't deliver one Republican Senate seat for Republicans.
	Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure, and he could have done the safe and easy thing.
	He said, Ron DeSantis said, we are reopening, and he got rewarded for that.
	Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, more than any other Republican in recent memory.
	Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership, not just milk toast, vanilla pandering.
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	Trending now on the Mike Dillinger Show.
	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere, somewhere there's an all-seeing apparatus that will do right is the wrong.
	But no one's saying just sit around and have faith and hope things work out.
	We have to be engaged.
	There's no question, Jacob.
	But there's no either or.
	You can't sit on the sidelines anymore, Jacob.
	You've got to be involved.
	And incidentally, I'm honored to have you listening to the show.
	And I appreciate very much your kind and supportive words.
	I don't mean just sit around and just hope good things happen.
	You gotta be sure that you're engaged in a voting registration process.
	You gotta campaign for politicians.
	You gotta volunteer at your local Republican headquarters.
	There's lots you can do.
	Jacob, I'm glad you called.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Larry Alder Show.
	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had, out of 50 officers, about three or four black.
	Now, New York City.
	It's 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority-minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD police force, this majority-minority, has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops, a bigger gap?
	With a racially diverse PD, but the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	Of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012, 200 of them switched to vote for Trump in 2016.
	Now, when did they become racist?
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show. .
	When President Biden said January 6th was the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is a crazy statement.
	It is an ahistorical crazy statement that ignores 9-11.
	What did you make of that?
	What is your old colleague Joe Biden up to?
	Oh, I tell you, Hugh, I'm still trying to process.
	What I heard last night and thinking about what was once the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party is truly now front and center.
	The Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC ideology, that's now in charge.
	It was breathtaking.
	Six trillion dollars, Hugh, in new spending proposals.
	These are just massive spending increases.
	Of course, the higher taxes, doubling cap gains rates, more gun control, free preschool and community college, the Green New Deal.
	Hugh, I thought to myself, this is making Barack Obama sound like Ronald Reagan when you think about comparisons.
	It just was absolutely stunning.
	But I'll give him credit.
	They're not trying to hide their socialist radical agenda anymore.
	They came right out in the open here and laid it all out for us.
	And we saw it clearly in what the president shared last night.
	Now, Senator, unless basic economics, whatever school you're in, whether you're the Chicago school or Keynesian or whatever, you can't print this much money.
	If they do what he wanted last night, we're going to have Argentinian-style inflation here.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com So,
	whenever I hear, oh, I'm not ready, I've always had an answer to, I'm not ready, or I'll get married when I'm ready, then you'll never get married.
	It's like the people who say, oh, I'll visit Israel when it's safe.
	Then you'll never visit.
	I'll take my mask off when it's safe.
	You'll never take your mask off.
	I'll get married when I'm ready.
	You'll never get married.
	Take your calls when we return.
	Male Female Hour.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Trailing now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	We started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which by the way is an attribute of the American system.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	But I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	Most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back.
	What if there was evidence that proves that this is all real?
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	I just want the church to get back to the gospel.
	Ooh, Superman works.
	I like Superman.
	The gospel.
	Right, right, right.
	And ain't nobody listening to that.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	But look, let's be honest.
	The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have changed so dramatically.
	I mean, when you talk about the choice between a Nixon and a Humphrey or a McGovern, I don't think there's anything comparable today.
	The party has lurched so far left.
	I mean, Joe Biden is a husk.
	I don't know who is controlling the nation.
	But if Joe Biden...
	30 years ago were president, it would actually be a moderate Democrat.
	What we have now is so far left that I can't imagine that most Democrats who really understand what is going on would be for what's happening.
	Well, look, there was a vote the other day in the Senate and the Republicans tried to add an amendment saying that any university that discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans We'll use, lose funding.
	Every single Democrat voted against that because it was seen as somehow anti-black.
	I don't understand how being for Asian Americans is anti-black, but every single American Democrat voted against that and it lost by one by one vote.
	How can you vote against a law that says you can't discriminate?
	Against Asian Americans.
	We have such a long history of discriminating against Asian Americans.
	There are now lawsuits involving Yale and Harvard and Princeton who are accused of discriminating in admission policy against Asians in order to raise the number of African Americans.
	They deny that there's a quota system, but if it ever, ever got below 13%, they'd be held to pay.
	If that's not a quota, I don't know what is.
	They call it a target.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	And I'm worried that you got too many Golden Staters going to Montana.
	Are you worried about they're going to vote the way they voted in California when they get to Montana?
	I do, but here's an interesting phenomenon, Hugh.
	What we are seeing...
	In some cases, refugees who are leaving tyranny and big government, they're tired of what's happening in California, in Washington, Oregon, even Colorado, and they're seeking more freedom, and they're coming to Montana.
	So the numbers we're looking at suggest the mix might actually be people who are fleeing and want to leave the ideology.
	Is that Mendelsohn?
	Yes.
	Nice.
	My kind of music.
	Hi, everybody.
	This is the Male Female Hour.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Every Wednesday, second hour.
	Do you wish you had married earlier?
	That is the question on the table.
	And I will go to thine calls.
	Alright, now let's see.
	Alright, well, Mimi, we can thank you for your call.
	East Bay, California.
	She married at 18. Still married after 44 years.
	Bless you, Mimi.
	I'll let that go because obviously if you married at 18, you do not regret having not married sooner.
	Alright, let's go to Michael in Rockwell, Texas.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	I really appreciate you letting me on, and I guess I'll start off by saying how much I appreciate you and Prager you, and I listen to you as much as I can, and I adore your videos, and my whole family watches you and listens to you whenever they can.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that a lot.
	Well, technically, I'm not even married yet.
	Again, I'm getting married this October.
	But I really wish that I had considered doing it much earlier.
	I mean, I met my wife something like seven years ago, maybe eight now.
	Tell everybody how old you are.
	I'm 33, almost.
	My birthday is this month.
	I'm 26. Go on.
	So you wish you're 33, practically 33, and you wish you had married earlier, and the reason.
	The reason is because I have lived basically my whole life through my teens and especially my 20s just doing stupid stuff and wasting a lot of my time and potential on just vices and everything else.
	And I know that if I had just buckled down and did what I knew was right, that I would be In a way better position than I am right now, which I'm not saying I'm in a terrible place.
	No, I hear you.
	What changed your mind to finally say, whoa, I'm wasting time?
	Oh, I want to say, I just started, my parents were, have always kind of been conservative, and of course growing up, I was a 90s kid, so I was pre-liberal, and Trump came along and kicked me in the butt, and I started listening to people like you and Larry Elder and other like-minded individuals, and it hurt, honestly.
	I mean, I literally did a 180 as far as how I was thinking about almost everything, and it is a very abrasive switch to do that so quickly, but I just...
	There's so much time wasted.
	My grandparents married when they were like 15, I think.
	Well, people grew up a lot earlier, which is what we should do.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I adore and have so much respect for my family.
	They got married, and they cranked out four kids.
	Their kids got married pretty early, too, and they cranked out their kids, and I grew up in this environment of love and nourishment and real, real family, not like families today.
	I take it that your wife-to-be agrees with you on these matters?
	She does.
	It took me a while to drag her to my side.
	Yeah.
	No, that's why I was wondering about that, because you had come to it sort of abruptly.
	Thank you.
	That was a very helpful call.
	Like, he's almost 33, and he thinks that way.
	I can only imagine how many 50-year-olds.
	Well, look at this.
	Speaking of 50-year-olds, Bill, Elgin, Illinois.
	Hi.
	Hi, Dennis.
	First of all, love your show.
	And, you know, you've been there since the passing of Rush to me.
	So I've kind of switched over to you, you know, so I want to thank you for being there.
	But yeah, I have regrets.
	I got married when I was 41, technically.
	But I'm now 53, and I just think I waited too long.
	And now, you know, we kind of talked about children.
	We tried when we first got married, but we kind of weaned off a trying.
	And now I think it's getting a little too late as far as where I am in my life as well.
	And now I get people at the last minute like, hey, are you going to have kids?
	Are you going to have kids?
	And I'm trying to basically let them know that I don't think that's going to happen.
	So, yeah, I do have big regrets.
	So my advice to anybody that would be in this situation would be to kind of get your act together early.
	But on the other hand...
	It took me a long time to find my wife.
	My wife is a very good woman, and it took me a long time to find those values that I needed to find.
	So, you know, that's the other side of the story.
	So she just didn't come along any sooner for me to, you know, make this decision.
	Right.
	On the other hand, had you been more open earlier, you might have found her or someone like her.
	No, absolutely.
	So I'm just curious, what was the...
	What was your attitude toward marriage in your 20s and 30s?
	You know, I didn't want it.
	I'm the youngest of so many children, and they're all baby factories, and they've got their lives.
	It's not something I really wanted, what they had.
	I didn't want to buckle down.
	I liked my life.
	I liked my friends.
	I liked my freedom.
	Do you still regard them as baby factories?
	No.
	Actually, I'm kind of jealous now.
	Okay.
	That was the question of the hour.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	They were baby factories.
	Do you still think they're baby factories?
	Not really.
	Yes.
	That proves he's changed.
	But you're taught that, basically.
	That's what you're taught in the moronic institutions known as schools in the United States, whether it's elementary, high school, or college.
	Yeah, people who have a lot of kids, they're baby factories.
	Oh, women used to go to college to get an MRS. That was the dismissal term in my time.
	Oh, I don't go to college to get an MRS. I go to get a BA or a PhD.
	Let me just say this, my dear friends.
	A quality MRS is infinitely more worthwhile and maturing and wisening than the average PhD.
	The vast majority of them.
	I'll take MRS over PhD any day.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had, out of 50 officers, about 3 or 4 black.
	Now, New York City is 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority-minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD police force, this majority-minority, has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops, a bigger gap with a racially diverse PD? But the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	Of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012, 200 of them switched to vote for Trump in 2016.
	Now, when did they become racist?
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	When President Biden said January 6th was the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is a crazy statement.
	It is an ahistorical crazy statement that ignores 9-11.
	What did you make of that?
	What is your old colleague Joe Biden up to?
	Oh, I tell you, Hugh, I'm still trying to process.
	What I heard last night and thinking about what was once the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party is truly now front and center.
	The Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC ideology, that's now in charge.
	It was breathtaking.
	Six trillion dollars, Hugh, in new spending proposals.
	These are just massive spending increases.
	Of course, the higher taxes, doubling cap gains rates, more gun control, free preschool and community college, the Green New Deal.
	Hugh, I thought to myself, this is making Barack Obama sound like Ronald Reagan when you think about comparisons.
	It just was absolutely stunning.
	But I'll give him credit.
	They're not trying to hide their socialist radical agenda anymore.
	They came right out in the open here and laid it all out for us, and we saw it clearly in what the president shared last night.
	Now, Senator, unless basic economics, whatever school you're in, whether you're the Chicago school or Keynesian or whatever, you can't print this much money.
	If they do what he wanted last night, we're going to have Argentinian-style inflation here.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show. .
	I think many people on the far left today think teaching civics is a way of...
	In enshrining colonialism and slavery and talking about...
	But you understand, this is what I'm talking about.
	The Upper West Side of Manhattan has taken over the culture.
	And, you know, I don't say that.
	I'm not speaking as an anti-Semite or as a hater of liberals.
	But I mean, there's a worldview.
	And it comes to you every Wednesday, the second hour.
	Of the program.
	Today's subject is, do you wish that you had married earlier?
	The pressure in society is enormous, especially on women, not to even think about marriage until they maybe meet somebody if it just happens.
	But the real essence of life is career.
	One, I don't know if I've mentioned this, I might have, but I think one of the results of all of these, the unprecedented number of single women in society, of never married women, that's even more important, is the disproportionate number of women at all these demonstrations or all these protests.
	The violent ones are usually males, but the screaming ones...
	The angry ones, and just the numbers.
	There was a demonstration I just saw, I don't remember what it was on behalf of, and it was, I only saw women.
	And it was not a women's issue.
	Every man, well, I mean, every man, historically, in the West, knew that a man needs a woman.
	And it was assumed that a woman needs a man, feminism arose, and said that women without men are like fish without bicycles, and you were held in some contempt if you thought you needed a man.
	The purpose of life is to need no one, let alone a man.
	And we are living with the...
	The consequences of that and the staggering number of unhappy people in our society.
	All right, everybody.
	Let's go to Lori in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Lori.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	So, I usually am at work, and once in a while I get to listen to you, but when I heard the question today, I thought, oh, I've got to call in.
	And I'm 58 years old, and I got married at 42, and it's my first marriage, and the reason that I, number one reason I wish I had married earlier is definitely because of children, but number two, because I have not had children, and number two, because I think it would have really helped my husband and I bond even more.
	We've been married 16 years now.
	We're happily married, but there are definitely struggles, and I feel like maybe the intimacy, relational part, not just physical, but the emotional part, would have been stronger had we married much younger.
	Well, you'll get a surprising answer from me, and I'm thrilled that I have children, so I want to make that clear.
	Just thank God I do.
	Having said that, it has not been my experience that people without children have less happy marriages.
	So I don't know if you would have bonded more.
	I guess good marriages may get closer with children.
	Average marriages, which is not a bad word, average, average marriages I don't think do.
	And sometimes children cause major rifts between a couple.
	So I wish you had children.
	I wish you married earlier.
	But I don't think you should think my marriage would be better.
	I think your life would be richer.
	But I'm not sure your marriage would be better.
	I agree with that, but I don't know that you understood what I meant.
	Number one, I wanted children.
	But number two...
	Even if we hadn't had children, even if we had married younger, I think, the reason I think that our marriage would have been, I guess stronger wasn't the correct word, but perhaps closer, would be we would have more grown together in our ideas, opinions, and opinions.
	Oh, you're right, but that's not a children issue.
	Exactly.
	Oh, okay, fine.
	Well, you had mentioned the children.
	Okay, thank you so much.
	Yes, I appreciate that.
	We'll take more calls in a moment.
	The question on the table is, do you wish you had married sooner?
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	What percentage of colleges, you think, would even entertain this question in a classroom?
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	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Mohler.
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	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Some of us that are conservatives had hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what, maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	What they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud.
	Because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	Where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those fact-checks were basically Critiques of nuance and context.
	They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front-page fact-checking, but they've disbanded their fact-checking division because who needs to fact-check Joe Biden?
	He's who they want to be put in place.
	But here's the thing that I think that we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country, and I'm just going to start doing this right after, you know, right after, I'd say, late May, early June.
	Which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
	I think we have the tape here of this group of teachers that showed up, not teachers, this group of parents in Vail, Arizona.
	They just showed up to a random school board meeting and took over the school board.
	They fired the school board and they said, we're in charge now.
	Keep up.
	Keep up.
	Is this Elvis? - Yes.
	No, no, it's not.
	It's not.
	It's a terrible error.
	He sings this, but this is not him.
	Oh, it is?
	Of course.
	What a stupid addition I had to my original statement.
	Oh.
	It's early Elvis.
	Okay, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager, a.k.a.
	Elvis Prager.
	How would my career have gone if it was Elvis Prager?
	I think it would be pretty much the same trajectory.
	I think about that a lot if I had X or Y name.
	Names matter.
	That's why a lot of Hollywood stars change their names to some type of...
	Basically, WASP name.
	I'm not saying they were wrong.
	You know, to join the Israeli diplomatic corps, the foreign office, you have to take a Hebrew name for your last name.
	So if your name is Rosenbaum, you will change it to some Hebrew name.
	It's not uncommon.
	People to do that in a society.
	I don't think it's a bad thing.
	People always talk about unity.
	Conservatives have wanted to unite the country around the English language, for example, for decades.
	Why don't we just declare English as a national language?
	No, no, no, no, no, multiculturalism, multiculturalism.
	Yeah, but you're uniting people if they all speak the same language.
	No, no, no, multiculturalism, multiculturalism.
	Okay.
	Back to the show.
	Do you regret not having married sooner?
	Suzanne in Dallas.
	Hello.
	Hi there.
	Hi.
	How are you?
	Well, the question is more, how are you?
	Well, as I told...
	Oh, you're Serena, and she's awesome, by the way.
	So, yeah, so I totally wish I had married young, because I'm still single.
	But at the time, I was in college, didn't know what I wanted to do, went on to grad school, went on to law school.
	So I never found that, you know, because I kept thinking, oh, someone's going to appear.
	The one person that I thought I would marry was in college.
	But then I was scared.
	He was 21, 22. And he was in the military, Air Force.
	And got transferred to, like, Illinois.
	So, yeah.
	And I think...
	And I've dated, gosh, forever.
	I can't seem to find that person.
	And I think...
	I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
	And I think when you're young, you have...
	It's just so much more...
	There's more passion, I think, when you're young.
	Because you don't know any better, I guess.
	If that makes sense.
	There's more passion with regard to men?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, I think both.
	Both sexes.
	I think when you're young, it's just easier.
	Alright, so in light of that, why didn't you marry younger?
	I was afraid.
	So I panicked.
	What were you afraid of?
	Marriage, just in general?
	Or afraid of that man, or afraid of marriage?
	Just afraid of marriage at that time, at that age.
	Right, tell me why.
	Why?
	What were you afraid of?
	Okay, because I didn't have a degree at that point yet.
	And he was going off to the Air Force, and I'm like, wow, I don't know.
	And my mother always said, now, if I hadn't have had this, I think this might have been your other show, too.
	My mom always said, look, you can always get married, but you can't.
	What if your husband leaves you?
	You've got to have something to fall back on.
	You have to have a degree.
	Right.
	That was a very common argument.
	Yeah.
	And so I did that.
	But I thought that I had, in my head at the time was, well, I've got to have a degree before, you know, to do something.
	Right.
	Before I could get married.
	So that's why I didn't.
	Well, she's right about having something to fall back on.
	She was wrong about you could always get married.
	Yeah, right.
	Exactly.
	How old are you now?
	53. Are you seeing somebody?
	I'm not currently, but I do date.
	I'm in the scene.
	I'm in the dating scene.
	And the funny thing is, I've had two ex-boyfriends contact me.
	One was the guy that I might have married back in college.
	Why is he divorced now?
	No, he's not.
	He's married still.
	And I'm like, wow, that's interesting.
	But I've talked to him on the phone, and I didn't realize he was married initially.
	And then another ex-boyfriend from 25 years ago or 23 years ago contacted me too.
	And I say we're younger because both of those, even though I've had multiple boyfriends over the years, those two were very impressionable.
	They made an impression on me.
	And there's that.
	And I say why.
	I guess passion is not the right word.
	But they still, there's still a connection there.
	Yes, no, I understand this.
	Call me up in a few years.
	I feel like I've entered your soap opera.
	So I made a comment in this, which was agreed to by Suzanne in Dallas.
	And I want to repeat it.
	The argument of you can always get married, but you need to get a career to have something to fall back on.
	Part two makes a great deal of sense, and part one makes no sense.
	You can always get married?
	Really?
	Well, theoretically, you can always get married.
	The question is, can you always get married to someone you want to get married to?
	That's a lot easier when you're young.
	It's just a fact of life.
	Back in a moment. Back in a moment.
	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had...
	Out of 50 officers, about 3 or 4 black.
	Now, New York City is 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority-minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD This majority-minority has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops.
	A bigger gap with a racially diverse PD. But the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	Of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012, 200 of them switched to vote for Trump in 2016.
	Now, when did they become racist?
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	When President Biden said January 6th was the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is a crazy statement.
	It is an ahistorical crazy statement that ignores 9-11.
	What did you make of that?
	What is your old colleague?
	Joe Biden up to.
	Oh, I tell you, I'm still trying to process what I heard last night and thinking about what was once the far left fringe of the Democrat Party is truly now front and center.
	You know, the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC ideology, that's now in charge.
	It was breathtaking.
	A trillion dollars, Hugh, in new spending proposals.
	These are just massive spending increases.
	Of course, the higher taxes, doubling cap gains rates, more gun control, free preschool and community college, the Green New Deal.
	Hugh, I thought to myself, this is making Barack Obama sound like Ronald Reagan when you think about comparisons.
	Stunning.
	But I'll give them credit.
	They're not trying to hide their socialist radical agenda anymore.
	They came right out in the open here and laid it all out for us.
	And we saw it clearly in what the president shared last night.
	Now, Senator, unless basic economics, whatever school you're in, whether you're the Chicago school or Keynesian or whatever, you can't print this much money.
	Did they do what he wanted last night?
	We're going to have Argentinian-style inflation here.
	Do you wish you had gotten married earlier?
	here.
	Al in South Carolina, no.
	Married at 32. Do not feel I was ready before that.
	Abby in Pittsburgh, no.
	Met husband four years earlier.
	I could not have recognized him as a good choice.
	Don't hang up anybody.
	I want to understand that call, Abby.
	Thank you for calling.
	Hi, Dennis.
	You married at 47?
	No, I married at 35. Met husband four years earlier.
	What does that mean?
	My brother decided to be a low-pressure matchmaker and invited me and my future husband to the same party.
	But he didn't tell us that he wanted us to meet.
	And so we were both at the same party, and he asked me, my brother asked me afterward, what did you think of them?
	And I said, who?
	So it didn't take.
	And then four and a half years later, also through my brother, we met in the lobby of a hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, and I took one look at him, and that was it.
	Wow.
	And we're married 15 years, and four children.
	All right, so wait, so you married again, what, 37?
	What was the age?
	35. 35. Uh-huh.
	Right, which in today's world, unfortunately, is not exactly late.
	True.
	But it's also not early.
	No, it felt very late to me.
	Right.
	Well, maybe you were right.
	Maybe it was late, but it worked out well.
	Yes, but because of kids, we were very lucky that we were able to have children.
	So, I mean, you should be in a different category.
	It says here, no, you should be in the yes category.
	I wish I did meet this wonderful guy earlier and had children earlier.
	But I did meet him earlier, but I couldn't tell that he was the right guy.
	Oh, all right.
	So you could say, I wish I could tell.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I enjoy this immensely.
	Rob in Connecticut, August.
	I wish I could talk to all of you.
	I think, all things considered, people wait too long.
	We continue.
	Thank you.
	All seeing apparatus that will do right is the wrong approach.
	But it's not no one saying just sit around and have faith and hope things work out.
	We have to be engaged.
	There's no question, Jacob.
	But there's no either or.
	You can't sit on the sidelines anymore, Jacob.
	You've got to be involved.
	And incidentally, I'm honored to have you listening to the show.
	And I appreciate very much your kind and supportive words.
	I don't mean just sit around and just hope good things happen.
	You've got to be sure that you're engaged.
	In a voting registration process, you've got to campaign for politicians, you've got to volunteer at your local Republican headquarters.
	There's lots you can do.
	Jacob, I'm glad you called.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Larry Alder Show.
	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had, out of 50 officers, about 3 or 4 black.
	Now, New York City is 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority-minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD police force, this majority-minority, has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops, a bigger gap with a racially diverse PD? But the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	Of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012, 200 of them switched to vote for Trump in 2016.
	Now, when did they become racist?
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show. music When President Biden said January 6th was the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is a crazy statement.
	It is an ahistorical crazy statement that ignores 9-11.
	What did you make of that?
	What is your old colleague Joe Biden up to?
	Oh, I tell you, Hugh, I'm still trying to process.
	What I heard last night and thinking about what was once the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party is truly now front and center.
	The Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC ideology, that's now in charge.
	It was breathtaking.
	Six trillion dollars, Hugh, in new spending proposals.
	These are just massive spending increases.
	Of course, the higher taxes, doubling cap gains rates, more gun control, free preschool and community college, the Green New Deal.
	Hugh, I thought to myself, this is making Barack Obama sound like Ronald Reagan when you think about comparisons.
	It just was absolutely stunning.
	But I'll give him credit.
	They're not trying to hide their socialist radical agenda anymore.
	They came right out in the open here and laid it all out for us, and we saw it clearly in what the president shared last night.
	Now, Senator, unless basic economics, whatever school you're in, whether you're the Chicago school or Keynesian or whatever, you can't print this much money.
	If they do what he wanted last night, we're going to have Argentinian-style inflation here.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show. .
	I think many people on the far left today think teaching civics is a way of enshrining colonialism and slavery.
	But you understand, this is what I'm talking about.
	The Upper West Side of Manhattan has taken over the culture.
	And, you know, I don't say that, I'm not speaking as an anti-Semite or as a hater of liberals, but I mean, there's a worldview.
	uh you know the red diaper babies that world view hi everybody welcome to the dennis prager show
	I was mentioning that Columbus Day has been cancelled for New York City schools, and instead they will have Indigenous Peoples Day.
	So it gives you an idea of how powerful the inroads of the left are in society.
	That the largest city in the country will no longer have Columbus Day to celebrate.
	As I said then, and need to repeat, The celebration is secondarily of Columbus.
	It is primarily of Western civilization taking root on this continent.
	However, the left does not like Western civilization.
	That's why the battle that we are engaged in in the United States is, to use the term the left uses all the time and incorrectly, existential.
	It is about the existence of the West.
	That's why I made such a big deal when the University of Pennsylvania English Department took down the mural of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language.
	Because he was dismissed not for his writing, but because he was white and European and male.
	So they have a non-white, non-European, lesbian female in his place.
	University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League college.
	That is what the English department of the University of Pennsylvania has done.
	It is a dismantling of civilization.
	You know, I get Google alerts on my name.
	I want to see what, obviously, is said about me and about PragerU on the internet.
	A lot of it is attacks.
	And it has zero impact on me.
	I find some of them gross.
	Some of them are.
	I find some of them just foolish.
	I find a handful interesting.
	But anyway, they're also good stuff.
	So, increasingly, this is the only reason I'm sharing this with you.
	Increasingly, I see that some letter to the editor or some column that some columnist writes, the last one was actually a letter to the Moscow News, and it cited me as saying that whatever the left touches, it ruins.
	And I felt good about that.
	If a guy in Moscow says, well, as Dennis Prager says, whatever the left touches, it ruins.
	That means...
	That idea, that truth, that truism is getting around.
	It also reinforces my belief that repetition is the mother of pedagogy.
	You can't learn by hearing something the first time.
	Let's put it this way.
	Very few people can.
	I do.
	When I hear a great idea, I embed it in my brain.
	As if I were searing it into flesh.
	And I thought everybody does that.
	This was something I had to learn over many years.
	That saying a great idea, an important thought, once, is not enough for 99% of humanity.
	And it's not a fault, it's just the way it is.
	That's why they tell you in ads, always have a phone number said three times.
	Not twice.
	On the third time, people remember the number.
	So, this needs to be stated over and over.
	Everything that the left touches, it ruins.
	There is no exception.
	There has not been an exception from Lenin to de Blasio.
	I'm not comparing de Blasio to Lenin.
	de Blasio was not sending the secret police to murder people.
	But in totalitarian terms, they're very similar.
	No Columbus Day.
	You know, there's no Washington's Day either.
	Washington and Lincoln were shattered in their birthdays, were shattered in the Nixon administration.
	President's Day.
	Is that a joke?
	President's Day.
	Yep.
	This is my day to honor Rutherford B. Hayes.
	By the way, I do that as a joke sometimes because I love horsing around with people.
	I will ask a waiter or waitress, just out of curiosity, do you know who Franklin Pierce is?
	I have never encountered a waiter or waitress who knew who Franklin Pierce was.
	I'm not sure that the average professor in college knows who Franklin Pierce was.
	A president of the United States.
	For some reason, Millard Fillmore is known, but that I think is because of the rarity of his name.
	I wanted to name one of my boys Millard, but I'm glad I didn't.
	David and Aaron seem to have been more...
	Acceptable in society than Millard.
	No Columbus Day.
	There you go.
	Indigenous people.
	Now, with all respect, and this truly is meant respectfully, what is being honored on Indigenous People Day?
	Are Indigenous people being honored?
	Now, if one wants to teach about the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of Europeans, whites, Our ancestors here, that's history.
	That should be taught.
	I was talking to Bill O'Reilly yesterday about his latest book on killing the mob.
	He wrote a book, Killing a Crazy Horse.
	I read it.
	And it's a very dark chapter in American history, The Treatment of the Indian.
	I fully acknowledge that.
	But I don't know exactly what there is to celebrate.
	I celebrate Columbus Day because I celebrate Western civilization, the first place in the history of the world to believe in universal human rights.
	We didn't get universal human rights from indigenous peoples.
	We didn't get women's rights from indigenous peoples.
	We didn't even get an alphabet from indigenous peoples.
	This is not a knock in any way, God forbid.
	But I think I'd like to just understand, what are you celebrating?
	I know what I'm celebrating on Martin Luther King Day.
	I know what I'm celebrating on July 4th.
	I know what I'm celebrating on Thanksgiving.
	I know what I'm celebrating on Christmas.
	What am I celebrating on Indigenous Peoples Day?
	You don't have an answer to that either.
	No, no, no.
	What does it mean to celebrate a people?
	You celebrate an achievement.
	Needless to say, if I were at a university and said what I just said, I would be fired.
	I would be picketed.
	I would be cursed.
	One of the last places in America that you can actually say Anything that the left differs with is talk radio and some of the programs on Fox.
	I'm talking about electronic media and, of course, podcasts, although they suppress them.
	Didn't you send me something about Facebook today?
	Oh, that it shut down former President Trump?
	It's keeping him shut down?
	Isn't that astonishing?
	The last president of the United States cannot have a Facebook account?
	And Facebook is allowed to continue like that in business?
	There is no threat to free speech from the government.
	The threat to free speech is from private enterprise.
	Lenin is quoted as having said that Western businesses We'll compete with one another to sell the communists the rope with which they will hang them.
	You are seeing that phrase every day.
	With Coca-Cola and Delta and Nike, etc., etc.
	So, October 12th will now be Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
	They'll be given off from school.
	To contemplate.
	No, to contemplate indigenous people.
	Well, all right.
	We will return.
	I have a lot more for you.
	There is a CIA. The CIA actually put out a recruitment ad, which is...
	Best example I can give right now of why something I used to admire, I do not admire any longer.
	The CIA, the FBI, the DIA, and the like.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	Here's Jacob.
	Hi, Jacob.
	How are you?
	Good, Mike.
	Thanks for taking the call.
	You bet.
	I'm very proud to be a listener.
	I'm a man of color, and I just want to let you know, man, that people in our community don't view you the way that it may be put out there.
	In fact, most people, if they listen, they will be more on our side.
	But I think that what the right needs to understand is you're not dealing with people right now on the left who are rational or who really care about fairness.
	They're taking a the ends justify the means approach.
	Not only that, we're not dealing with people who act in good faith.
	That's what's bad.
	I like disagreeing with people.
	I like hearing people with different points of view.
	I don't mind a debate, but you've got to come at it with good faith.
	You've got to come at it from a place of integrity and truth, Jacob.
	Well, I think what it is is that these modern-day Democrats, and it's cut from the Obama camp, learned from the 2000 election in which people like my father, who was a traditional Democrat, felt that the Democrats were weak.
	Well, the Republicans now, and for the most part leading with John Roberts, have taken the reverse approach as to where these modern day Democrats are saying, you know, we're going to do whatever to win.
	And there's still this hope of faith.
	In Michigan, for example, this has been a long term plan.
	This started in Michigan, for example, in 2018 when the ACLU filed a lawsuit to change voting rights at the constitutional level in the state of Michigan.
	So this was a plan that they implemented across several strategic states, probably right after 2016.
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	Streaming on Salem Now.
	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore this country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	Nobody.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Moeller.
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	Okay, everybody.
	Welcome back, or welcome to...
	The Dennis Prager Show.
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	All right.
	I welcome you back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Think about what it is to be a young person in America today.
	You go to a regular school, private or public, it's irrelevant.
	You learn that the United States was founded to encourage slavery, fought the Revolutionary War to preserve slavery, is systemically racist to this day.
	Cops routinely murder black people for no good reason except that they're black.
	That Columbus was a genocidal maniac, and so we shouldn't celebrate his birthday.
	And that, aside from your future being quite ugly as an American, you have nothing in common.
	You are inherently different from people of other races.
	That you are defined by your color.
	And your future is in question.
	You may not survive because of global warming.
	Fun to be a kid in America today, eh?
	When I think of my youth in America, I was proud to be American.
	Of course I knew about slavery.
	What on God's earth was a civil war fought about?
	Prohibition?
	So, of course I knew it.
	And I also knew that America was becoming the best place on Earth for a black human being to live, which is what I now believe.
	Can you name a better place for a black human being to live than the United States?
	I'll tell you this.
	Very many millions of black Africans think America is the best place to live.
	That's why they try to move here.
	By the way, they're one of the more successful immigrant groups, black Africans, who come to the United States.
	I think the Nigerians, for example, I think they earn more than whites do.
	And far more, far, far more, this was true already by 1980-something, far, far more blacks came from Africa to the United States as immigrants than came as slaves.
	Millions and millions have come as immigrants.
	300,000 came as slaves.
	300-something thousand.
	I think 340. How many kids in any school in the United States know what I just said?
	Answer is zero.
	Literally zero.
	Think it's relevant?
	I do.
	So I grew up thinking this was a wonderful place.
	I grew up watching Superman, whose motto was truth, justice, and the American way.
	And I never thought about the government.
	I never thought about these issues.
	I just thought about being a kid.
	When's the next stickball game?
	Those of you who didn't grow up in New York may not know what stickball is.
	There were a lot of games we played in New York that I don't think most people know, like stoopball.
	How's that?
	Know what stoopball is?
	Where'd you grow up, Arizona?
	Oh, California.
	You would never know stoop ball.
	You're too busy surfing.
	I didn't know what surfing was, so there you go.
	What the hell is surfing?
	Anyway, stoop ball is, you know, there are steps, very commonly, like I grew up in Brooklyn, steps leading up to your front door.
	So you would throw the ball at the steps, and that would be your hit.
	The guy standing in the street, if he caught it, you were out.
	One bounce, it was a single, and so on.
	So, anyway, that's what I thought about.
	Thought about girls.
	Girls thought about boys.
	What a sick upbringing.
	Terrible.
	Went to synagogue every week.
	Oh my God, can you imagine?
	What a deprived childhood.
	Thought America was a good place.
	Thought my future was bright.
	Not that there was an existential threat to my life from nature.
	One of the greatest hoaxes.
	Of course, it's not a hoax that the world is getting warmer.
	That's true.
	It's a hoax that the world's biological species are threatened.
	Talk about hoaxes.
	The latest racial hoax.
	You know that I could actually report to you a race hoax every single week?
	Here's the latest.
	Black Penn State professors report noose behind house ends up being part of neighbor's swing set.
	By the way, I don't even know if any of these are ever true.
	When was the last swastika?
	On a black kid's dorm room actually painted by a Nazi.
	I don't remember any such...
	I don't remember one.
	Or a noose put by a white racist.
	College fix, May 1st.
	Earlier this week, a pair of black Penn State University professors reported a noose in a tree behind their house.
	Now, I don't know if there's one noose report that turned out to be racist.
	As reported in the PSU student newspaper, that's Penn State University, the Daily Collegian, the professors said the incident was, quote, deeply distressing.
	There are a certain number of words.
	As soon as I hear it, I know it's a lefty talking.
	Intersectional, matrix, distressing.
	They're always distressed.
	Did you ever notice that?
	Leftists are in a permanently distressed state.
	It's hard to be a leftist.
	You're not a happy human.
	Deeply distressing to them and their family, the Center Daily Times notes the professors believe the noose, quote-unquote, was, quote, deliberately placed on the tree to harass them.
	Responding to the professor's call about possible harassment, Township Police Department collected the noose and began investigating around the neighborhood.
	PSU President Eric Barron sprung into action posting a statement, quote, expressing concern.
	That's another one.
	Concern.
	Like the Union of Concerned Scientists.
	Turns out it was part of a swing set.
	We'll be back.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Trending now on the Mike Dillager Show.
	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for...
	Unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving of them, but he does not care.
	He gives to them the benefit of the doubt.
	And his voice, that kind of grandfatherly, whispery voice, and the fact that it actually wasn't a big raucous crowd, let that intimacy really land.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really trying to bring the country together.
	It was a make America feel good night.
	Wait a second.
	Wasn't that- Is that the President of the United States talking?
	No, that's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
	It was intimate, grandfatherly, indeed Rooseveltian.
	So there's a good litmus test with that kind of commentary.
	Anybody who tells you that Tucker isn't fantastic and you shouldn't be watching Tucker Carlson, don't trust them because they ain't one of us.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on youtube and at rumble.com trending now on the hugh hewitt show and we haven't had inflation in so long you're not old enough to To buy a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985. But it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but if you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February, half of the inflationary pressures were energy-related.
	And so when you combine the massive spending...
	Plus, the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general.
	This used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long-term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple, a 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rates and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	When you look at your colleagues in the Senate dining room, and I've had lunch up there before, and I know you folks all get together and get along fine, and they're Bible studies, and everybody's a human being, and nobody wants to screw up.
	Honestly, do they not get that?
	Do they not understand what they're unleashing on this country?
	And it will destroy poor people.
	It's poor people and old people on fixed incomes especially who are crushed by inflation.
	It worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy and all of a sudden you cannot buy food.
	What Biden is doing and the left is absolutely an attack on the working class of this country.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Okay, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	I won't read you the...
	Was it Penn State University?
	The president's comments about racism have to be fought at his campus.
	The noose was a kid's rope that he had thrown away after using it for a swing set.
	Happens all the time.
	That's how I know how little racism there is in the United States, because 99% of the incidents...
	Of these things turn out either to be a hoax or a mistake.
	They're looking for racism.
	As I often note to people, Jews did not have to look for anti-Semitism in Germany.
	But you have to look for racism in America.
	Because there's so little.
	Except on the left, which is very racist.
	So, the CIA has put out It's actually unbelievable.
	If this does not breed contempt for the CIA on your part, there's something wrong with you.
	And I don't like insulting people, but there is.
	There's something wrong with you.
	If you think this shows you that we should have faith in the CIA, the CIA is actually not, at least at the top, is so corrupt that...
	It's not merely a matter of utter and total incompetence.
	It is a matter of, it might be an arm of the Democratic Party now, which is, this is police state type stuff.
	I never thought I would talk like this in my life.
	Never.
	America veering toward a police state?
	See what happened to Rudy Giuliani?
	You don't think that that's reminiscent of a police state?
	Whatever you think of Rudy Giuliani?
	Were the people still in prison from July 16th?
	Wasn't it July 16th?
	From June?
	What was it?
	June?
	What was the day of the riot at the Capitol?
	January 6th.
	January 6th, right.
	In solitary confinement in some cases.
	While they're releasing murderers and rapists by the scores in L.A. and other places with woke.
	District attorneys.
	So I want you to know the good news is that, at least on Twitter, there are more than 3 million views of this recruiting commercial by the CIA. I'm going to play it for you.
	Are you, it shows a woman walking through the halls of the CIA.
	Take it away, Sean.
	Well.
	When I was 17, I quoted Zora Neale Hurston's How It Feels to Be Colored Me in my college application essay.
	The line that spoke to me stated simply, I am not tragically colored.
	There is no sorrow dammed up in my soul nor lurking behind my eyes.
	I do not mind at all.
	At 17, I had no idea what life would bring, but Zora's sentiment articulated so beautifully how I felt as a daughter of immigrants then and now.
	Nothing about me was or is tragic.
	I am perfectly made.
	I can wax eloquent on complex legal issues in English while also belting Guayaquil de Mis Amores in Spanish.
	I can change a diaper with one hand and console a crying toddler with the other.
	Okay, let's hold up there for a second.
	So if I showed this to you, what would you think it was an ad for?
	Or a message for?
	Isn't that interesting?
	it's a very important question I I would just think basically it was a celebration of this woman's life and I don't know what else it would, or if it ended with, and that's why I went to college, and so should you.
	Yeah, you were a college recruiting, yeah, college recruiting.
	By the way, some of the language is so odd to me, and I'm not blaming this woman.
	I was made perfect.
	Who walks around thinking they were made perfect?
	I didn't think I was made perfect as a kid because my mother took me to the Husky section in the boys' clothing store.
	I knew I was imperfect from a very early age.
	Okay, that's what it is.
	It looks like a recruit.
	So, and you, who can do all this while being a person of color, a woman of course, a woman of color, you belong at Hofstra University.
	Okay, continue.
	I'm a woman of color.
	I am a mom.
	I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
	Okay, this one, that's a key point there.
	I'm a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with what?
	What was the word?
	General anxiety disorder.
	I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
	Okay, hold on.
	Hold it there.
	When do I do this?
	Okay, I've got to remember that.
	Cisgender millennial...
	With generalized anxiety disorder.
	And I do belong at Hofstra.
	Relieffactor.com.
	Please visit it and help yourself relieve yourself of pain.
	I only advertised this.
	I said no in the beginning.
	Then my wife told me she's been using it.
	And it 100% relieves her of her knee pain.
	She forgets to take it.
	The knee pain comes back.
	It's that good.
	Try it for three weeks.
	You'll know in three weeks if it works.
	$20.
	That's the whole try.
	relieffactor.com 800-500-8384 And we haven't
	had inflation in so long.
	You're not old enough to have bought a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985. But it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February.
	Half of the inflationary pressures here were energy-related.
	And so when you combine the massive spending plus the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general, this used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple, a 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rate and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	When you look at your colleagues in the Senate dining room, and I've had lunch up there before, and I know you folks all get together and get along fine in their Bible studies, and everybody's a human being and nobody wants to screw up.
	But honestly, do they not get that?
	Do they not understand what they're unleashing on this country?
	And it will destroy poor people.
	It's poor people and old people on fixed incomes especially who are crushed by inflation.
	It worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy, and all of a sudden you cannot buy food.
	Biden is doing and the left is absolutely an attack on the working class of this country.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Streaming on Salem now.
	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you guys.
	I did.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
	Stream on your phone.
	He's a special man, a special American.
	If this CIA recruitment ad does not depress you, there's only one explanation that I can think of.
	You want America to fail.
	If you want America to fail, the CIA is doing a good job at hastening the process of our failure.
	This ad is a farce.
	This is the type of person that they now are recruiting to the CIA. This woman is walking through the halls of the CIA. Talking about herself, and the latest statement with regard to herself is she's a cisgender,
	millennial, person of color, with generalized anxiety disorder.
	Now, if that is not the perfect candidate for the CIA, who is?
	The fact that cisgender has now become a CIA term of recruitment shows you how deep the roots of decay are as a result of the left's takeover of the colleges.
	A term nobody heard of five years ago.
	But at least she's cisgender.
	It means she identifies with her biological sex.
	That's pretty conservative of the CIA.
	Yeah, continue, please.
	Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	That's the part I didn't understand.
	and She's intersectional.
	Do you know what that means?
	Everybody's intersectional.
	No, no, no.
	Wait, wait.
	She's Latina.
	Well, I always, until this ad, I have always heard of intersectional as causes being intersectional, or studies.
	You've heard it with regard to describing people?
	Oh, that is.
	I failed at that locosity.
	Alright, fine.
	So are you intersectional?
	Yes.
	I don't know if I work with an intersectional man.
	I've been in his life for 30 years.
	I don't even know if he's intersectional.
	I'm very, very low.
	You're low on the intersectionality scale?
	So you're intersectional too.
	I'm intersectional too?
	Yeah.
	I know I'm cisgender.
	I do identify with my biological sex, but intersectional.
	Okay, so let's hear more.
	She's intersectional and...
	I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Of course it is.
	She just checked the boxes of cisgender, millennial, etc., and person of color and child of immigrant.
	She's not a box-checker?
	Who wrote this ad?
	She should have rejected it.
	Whoever she is.
	I don't care who she is.
	I'm not picking on her.
	I'm picking on the CIA. I'm not a box checker.
	The whole damn ad is box checking.
	Did you just do thumbs up, Sean?
	With regard to what?
	Oh, the point I just made.
	Wow.
	Whoa.
	I don't get that very often from you.
	It was the thumb, right?
	Okay.
	Continue, please.
	I am a walking declaration.
	A woman whose inflection does not rise at the end of her sentences, suggesting that a question has been asked.
	I did not sneak into CIA. My employment was not and is not the result of a fluke or slip through the cracks.
	I earned my way in, and I earned my way up the ranks of this organization.
	I am educated, qualified, and competent.
	And sometimes I struggle.
	I struggle feeling like I could do more, be more to my two sons.
	And I struggle leaving the office when I feel there's so much more to do.
	By the way, you'll notice the absence, I think, I don't remember the whole ad, but so far, I could do more.
	And you would think the logical conclusion to the sentence is, for my country.
	Isn't that why you're in the CIA? For my two sons.
	I think it's beautiful.
	But...
	What does that have to do with the CIA?
	What did Gutfeld say?
	That's Gutfeld's a riot.
	They replaced CIA with TMI. That is good.
	Continue, please.
	I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at 36, I refused to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.
	Oh, good.
	Well, at least they got an attack on the patriarchy.
	No woke ad is complete without an attack on the patriarchy.
	I don't know what the imposter is.
	Because I'm not acting.
	You explain to me intersectionality, which I still...
	I don't quite get why I'm intersectional, but I will explain to you this one.
	What is it that you're asking me again?
	Imposter.
	Oh, imposter.
	So she is not acting in a fake way that the patriarchy would want her to act.
	By the way, if you had to bet your savings, does she have a husband?
	Yeah.
	I would say no, too.
	Right.
	Go ahead, please.
	Oh.
	All right.
	We have a few seconds left.
	This is what the CIA has become.
	Just remember, whatever the left touches, it destroys.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	We started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	But I started to ask myself the question.
	I explored this last night and a little bit this morning.
	Why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Streaming on Salem Now Most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back.
	What if there was evidence that proves that this is all real?
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have changed so dramatically.
	I mean, when you talk about the choice between a Nixon and a Humphrey or a McGovern, I don't think...
	There's anything comparable today.
	The party has lurched so far left.
	I mean, Joe Biden is a husk.
	I don't know who is controlling the nation, but if Joe Biden 30 years ago were president, it would actually be a moderate Democrat.
	What we have now is so far left that I can't imagine that most Democrats who really understand what is going on would be for what's happening.
	Well, look, there was a vote the other day in the Senate and the Republicans tried to add an amendment saying that any university that discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans will lose funding.
	Every single Democrat voted against that because it was seen as somehow anti-black.
	I don't understand how being for Asian Americans is anti-black, but every single American A Democrat voted against that and it lost by one vote.
	How can you vote against a law that says you can't discriminate against Asian Americans?
	We have such a long history of discriminating against Asian Americans.
	There are now lawsuits involving Yale and Harvard and Princeton who are accused of discriminating in admission policy against Asians in order to raise the number of African Americans.
	They deny that there's a quota system.
	Yeah.
	I never said this once, what I'm about to say.
	Okay.
	Not because I have any reason not to.
	It was never germane to any topic that I ever discussed.
	And I do talk about my own life.
	But I actually applied to the CIA when I was in graduate school.
	I was at SIA. And it was a big recruitment place for the CIA. SIA was School of International Affairs at Columbia.
	They added School of International and Public Affairs.
	Do you know why they did that?
	Because SIA sounded too much like CIA. So don't think wokicity is brand new.
	It happened in my time.
	That's exactly why they added the word public.
	School of International Affairs had nothing to do with public affairs.
	Nothing.
	It was the School of International Affairs.
	Anyway, I applied.
	And I checked off the box.
	Cisgender male.
	The first thing they asked me.
	Are you a cisgender male?
	Continue with this horrible, horrible state of the CIA. Oh my God.
	One minute.
	Just out of curiosity, why would she allow this?
	She sounds like a narcissist.
	Who talks like that?
	I am proud of me, full stop.
	I am proud of me, full stop.
	I've never said that in my life.
	I don't even say it to me.
	I never use the term full stop.
	It's British.
	That was a joke.
	I was self-deprecating humor.
	And what was it?
	And she's perfect.
	What was the next one?
	Go on.
	What was it?
	Oh, yes.
	My brilliance.
	Wow.
	By the way, tomorrow's show is on my brilliance.
	I'm giving you a promo right now.
	Continue, please.
	...everything they knew and loved exposed me to opportunities they never had.
	Because of them, I stand here today a proud first-generation Latina and officer at CIA.
	I am unapologetically me.
	I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are.
	Know your worth.
	Command your space.
	That's the end?
	Is that the end?
	Command your space, Alan.
	I meant to tell you that.
	I finally have the opportunity.
	You have not been commanding your space recently.
	But you are cisgender.
	This is it.
	CIA ad.
	It's better to laugh than to weep, my friends.

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