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May 10, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	Hi, everybody.
	I hope you had a good weekend.
	If it's a sign of the times, I came to the studio today the way I used to go prior to the lockdown in March of last year.
	First day that I avoided the highway, the freeway as we call it.
	Takes three minutes longer, but you avoid the intensity of the freeway.
	Shows you how much more traffic there is.
	I never thought I would be happy to see traffic.
	Life offers you different perspectives, doesn't it?
	Thank God for traffic.
	Yesterday, I flew back from Cleveland.
	I spoke in Cleveland Saturday night.
	Not Cleveland, actually.
	Medina.
	And it was a wonderful event.
	The Republican Party there organized it.
	Great number of state senators, representatives, Supreme Court justices, congressmen.
	It was a wonderful, wonderful evening.
	By the way, I'm speaking in Hawaii, in Honolulu, this weekend.
	So all of you listeners there, we will be putting up the details at DennisPrager.com or if you have anybody in Honolulu, you might want to tell them.
	Yesterday on the flight, as I sit in the first class, I get to see everybody, if I'm so inclined, I get to see everybody who comes on the plane.
	Sometimes I'm busy doing work.
	Sometimes I'm on the phone.
	Sometimes I'm asleep.
	I find planes extremely sleep-inducing, especially as they take off.
	But sometimes I just watch everybody coming in, and I must admit, of all the alternatives, that's the one I prefer.
	It is a lesson in humanity.
	So a young woman came on with a T-shirt.
	Or, if not a T-shirt, what else would people wear words on?
	Not just a T-shirt.
	What would you call it?
	Anyway, some outer covering, obviously.
	And on it...
	Were the words, peace is power.
	Did you ever see that one?
	Peace is power.
	And I couldn't think of a more foolish phrase at the moment.
	There are equally foolish phrases.
	That woman, that young woman, and that t-shirt, Spoke volumes to me about the status of the mind in America today.
	Peace is power?
	Really?
	Neville Chamberlain said peace in our time.
	Was that power?
	Of course, she wouldn't know who Neville Chamberlain was.
	What we are living through, and we are in a dark age, I hereby proclaim this.
	There are still many rays of light, but we are in a dark age.
	And what it consists of in large measure is thoughtless phrases that make the person saying them feel good about themselves.
	That sums up the left.
	Thoughtless phrases that make them feel good about themselves.
	One of the many ways of defining the left is, it is a gigantic self-esteem movement.
	That's worth keeping, now that I think of it.
	They're the ones who invented the self-esteem movement.
	Here in California, John Vasconcelos, may he rest in peace.
	A liberal Democrat in the State Senate of California.
	I had him on my show.
	He developed the whole self-esteem movement which started like so much rot in California.
	Now you say, what?
	Rot?
	Self-esteem?
	Yes, if you don't earn it, it stinks.
	That's right.
	That's what started the participation trophy movement.
	Peace is power.
	It's a thoughtless comment.
	So she feels that she is a wonderful human being for making this announcement to the world.
	Peace is power.
	I will talk to you today about my strong opposition to America leaving Afghanistan.
	And I know, and I know going into it, that not all of you agree with me.
	But, that is what it is.
	I don't say what I say in order to be agreed with, although I hope I can change some minds, otherwise I would stop broadcasting and writing.
	Peace?
	When we leave Afghanistan, will there be peace?
	Actually, on occasion, war is power, isn't it?
	If you're fighting evil, War is power.
	Peace is a provocation to evil to go on doing evil.
	Did you know that?
	Peace is a very, very mixed bag.
	Would we love a peaceful world?
	I agree with Isaiah.
	Nation shall not lift sword against nation.
	By the way, if the United Nations were created today...
	Rather than in 1945, there would be no Isaiah Wall.
	A, he was a Jew.
	B, it's the Bible.
	C, it's Western.
	They never would have had a quote from the West's Bible.
	But they do.
	There's an Isaiah Wall.
	Nations shall not lift sword against nation, and they shall not learn war anymore.
	I almost never say it in the original.
	I'm just moved to, Do you know why I know it by heart, by the way?
	Because it's an extremely popular Hebrew song.
	Believe it or not, many verses from the Bible are just popular Hebrew songs.
	That one's a good one, actually.
	I'm not going to sing it to you.
	It's enough that I hum along the happiness jingle.
	I don't push my luck.
	Get my drift.
	What is a drift?
	Now you know what I could do endlessly.
	Freely associated.
	I am currently laughing at me, if that is alright with you.
	Peace is power!
	That's what we live in.
	The age of meaningless, pointless, amoral idiocies that are uttered every day.
	And the good stuff is condemned.
	Disney condemns any white who says, I don't see color.
	Or I believe in being colorblind.
	Or I judge people just on their character.
	Disney, which has become a cesspool, is a force for destruction in this society.
	I'm so sorry because, again, the left has poisoned something that should just be a joy.
	The purpose of Disney is to give people in this world of pain, to give them some joy, and they screwed it up because they screw everything up the left.
	Everything.
	There is no exception.
	What they touch, they ruin.
	Now it's Disneyland.
	Don't go.
	I'm sorry.
	Just don't go.
	They're ruining their movies.
	They're ruining Disneyland.
	They're ruining America.
	Disneyland is a force of utter darkness at this time in American history.
	To think about what Disney has sunk to.
	That would give you an idea of what has happened in America in the last decades.
	I will talk to you about Disney momentarily.
	Peace is power.
	Now, I was thinking, what if I got to talk to this young woman?
	You know, we all have fantasies.
	Mine are strange.
	I fantasize interviewing people who say stupid things.
	And especially interviewing people who drive slowly in the left lane.
	I want to interview them.
	I know you've got to admit that it's not your everyday fantasy.
	And I know that I would have made no progress.
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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.
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	I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
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	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 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, Yes?
	Alright.
	Okay, everybody.
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	Let's see here.
	I have a challenge, and they usually get on first, so I'll take it.
	Jay in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, how do you do?
	Yeah, I'm calling because I read the article about affluence plus secularism leads to boredom equals leftism.
	You know, I was reading on that, and I was hit on the part of where single men are a problem to society.
	Are you sure it's not poverty?
	Because how exactly is being single a big problem?
	And also, seeing how I actually went to school as well, I've seen a lot of conservative kids being what they are because they're bored.
	You know?
	How do you actually equate this?
	Well, there are two separate issues.
	Yes, single men are a problem.
	By the way, so are single women.
	But single men are the overwhelming majority of violent criminals.
	Okay, so let's see.
	And what about those who are married and commit crimes?
	Your question is a non sequitur.
	Either what I said is true or false.
	Your question is irrelevant.
	Of course there are married men who commit crimes.
	There are one-armed burglars.
	Most burglars have two arms.
	Oh, my God.
	No, now you're going on beat off.
	No, I'm not.
	Your question is irrelevant.
	Either it's true or not.
	Do you agree that single men overwhelmingly are violent criminals?
	If you don't, then we'll move on.
	I only want clarity.
	You say that I'm lying, and I say you're wrong.
	Answer me, or I have...
	No, either we...
	All I'm asking is that you acknowledge.
	Either say I'm wrong or right.
	Okay, you don't know.
	Fair enough, you don't know.
	I do.
	Next question.
	Okay, how exactly is being single a cause for criminality?
	Because women civilize men.
	Every mature man knows this.
	You're not one of them.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	What about gay guys?
	So are they unsivilizable?
	No, they're civilized.
	Their relationship, I know a lot of married gay men, their relationship is very similar to a heterosexual relationship, and they too are civilized by marriage.
	Even though I am opposed to same-sex marriage, I acknowledge that.
	Because you can't have the reality by yourself?
	Because what?
	I'm saying, your need...
	Virtually every man needs a partner.
	It is not good for man to be alone.
	I believe God said that.
	You think that's nonsense.
	Fair enough.
	So it's clear where we differ.
	You think men thrive without a partner.
	or I don't. - Yeah, okay.
	Tell me exactly how being single tries people to be more on an elicit. - Because you-- I'll tell you just sexually.
	Men are driven to sexual variety.
	By marrying, they are forced into monogamy.
	And that is uplifting to a man's character.
	You know this for a fact.
	I know it for a fact.
	And if you don't, you don't know yourself.
	How do you know this for a fact?
	Yes, I know it for a fact.
	How do you know this for a fact?
	Because I live life, and I have read, and I have studied, and I am a male.
	Alright, fine, so good.
	So we differ.
	You don't think men are instinctively non-monogamous?
	No, I believe it is a fact.
	Okay, what's our next difference?
	No, no, no.
	Okay, you think it's...
	Okay, again, we have clarity.
	You think it's an opinion that men are not monogamous by nature?
	I think it's a fact.
	What's our third disagreement?
	There's nothing to...
	My friend, there's nothing more to say about that.
	We know where we differ.
	It's your ultimate problem that people choose their own life regardless of your personal beliefs.
	No.
	No.
	Have I ever said I want a law that you have to get married?
	Yes.
	Promoting is not forcing.
	Until you change your verb, I will keep repeating.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I want to wish you a wonderful day.
	I do.
	Great.
	Look, I love clarity, and at that point, we've lost it.
	This is a very common thing, by the way.
	If you advocate Judeo-Christian, A religion, you are forcing it.
	As opposed to the left, which of course does not force their beliefs.
	This is the sick world in which we live.
	Yeah, those threatening evangelicals.
	Oh my God, they want to create a Christian theocracy.
	Whereas we want to create a leftist theocracy.
	And we're doing it.
	Make-believe world.
	Michael in Chicago.
	He likes the t-shirt.
	Glad you called.
	Hi.
	Thanks for having me on.
	This is my first time ever on the radio, actually.
	Wow.
	Are you nervous?
	Not that much.
	I salute you.
	I don't want to argue with you, but here's why I like the t-shirt.
	I like the t-shirt because...
	All of the resources that are poured into military institutions in the United States pours more into its military institutions than any other nation by a long shot with its 800 military bases around the world.
	We're using a lot of energy to create...
	Right, so here, I'll keep you on.
	My answer is those bases keep peace.
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	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.
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	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 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...
	Hello, my friends.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and I saw a t-shirt, a young woman wearing a t-shirt on the plane yesterday.
	And it said, peace is power.
	And I spent some time explaining why that symbolizes that empty, pointless, amoral phrase symbolizes the emptiness of our time, where rhetoric makes you feel good about yourself, but it actually means nothing.
	Peace is sometimes power, and peace is sometimes weakness.
	It means nothing.
	It literally means nothing.
	If you say peace is desirable, It's a great t-shirt.
	Or how about nation shall not lift sword against nation?
	Be great.
	Then call Isaiah.
	But peace is power?
	All right.
	Michael agrees with the t-shirt.
	Glad you called.
	So you were mentioning all the money America spends far more than any other on the military.
	And my quick reaction at the end was that's part of the reason there is peace in the world where there is peace.
	Uh-huh.
	Am I still on?
	You are.
	Okay, hi.
	Hi.
	Would you like me to respond to that?
	Of course.
	Why are you on?
	Okay.
	Well, I think that where there is peace is dependent upon basically a centrally planned mission or program It eliminates the possibility for many of having any peace whatsoever,
	and that the United States is on a crash course of destruction in many parts of the world.
	For me to say, where?
	Well, the United States has backed Saudi Arabia, which has been promoting, well, not only does it promote Fanatical religious views,
	much like the things that a lot of the education programming in the United States does, which creates enmity and has been at the root of all of the fighting, the infighting in Yemen and Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
	Who is Saudi Arabia?
	I'm not testing you, so don't feel defensive.
	It's really rhetorical, but if you know the answer, that would be great.
	Who is Saudi Arabia fighting in Yemen?
	Are they fighting Jeffersonian Democrats or other fundamentalist Muslims?
	Well, there's...
	If the people they're fighting win in Yemen, will Yemen be a better country?
	Well, I think, sure, I'll say yes.
	Okay, and I say no.
	Okay, fair enough.
	But even if you're right, have American troops kept peace in Europe, being in Germany?
	Have American troops kept peace on the Korean Peninsula, being in South Korea?
	No, they're not.
	They're not keeping peace.
	They are furthering the mission of the United States central banking system.
	That's why we're in South Korea?
	To further the central banking system?
	Well, we're in South Korea, because no one can get along with North Korea, because we're afraid of China, and we want to be able to threaten Russia, and we want to have a presence there.
	Right, so let's talk on a moral level, because that's what we began with.
	Morally speaking, Does the United States presence in South Korea advance a moral agenda or not?
	No, it does not advance a moral agenda.
	Okay, alright.
	Listen, I thank you.
	It's a good example of clarity over agreement.
	If I felt as this gentleman does, I would also like that t-shirt.
	Hitlerian butchers of North Korea would annihilate South Korea and freedom in the southern half of that peninsula if the United States had not been there.
	If the United States had not fought the Korean War and given up 37,000 of its best young men, the entire country would be the concentration camp that North Korea is.
	I admit, I think in moral terms.
	I ask, does it promote good or evil?
	In some cases, it's a mixed bag.
	I totally acknowledge that.
	America and Germany promoted good.
	America and Germany promotes good.
	And America and South Korea does.
	American armed forces, generally speaking.
	When people see American troops, they usually celebrate.
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	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, you know?
	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.
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	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.
	Nobody.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	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... ...the world's greatest, when there's a victim in this country.
	...the world's greatest, when there's a victim in this country.
	I know that there's a victim in this country.
	Thank you.
	Alright everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	I'm sitting here waiting for some bumper.
	Billboard, that's it.
	I always say bumper.
	billboard at my hotel in Cleveland this weekend.
	I asked that my room actually be made up when I left for the day.
	Paid the woman.
	Gave the woman.
	Some money.
	And I'm only mentioning it because I think if you go to a hotel, you should in fact ask that your room be cleaned so that we can employ these usually women who need the money terribly.
	And don't let the hotel give you this ecological drivel while we're saving on energy.
	They're saving on expenses for human beings.
	To have a job.
	That's what they're saving on.
	If you think you're saving the planet in any way by not having your room cleaned, you have definitely bought and drunk the Kool-Aid.
	She was so happy, this woman, as she should be.
	We're living in a make-believe world anyway.
	The mask issue is so obviously.
	I'm on a plane.
	You know, I made a discovery yesterday.
	I fly a great deal.
	In the last two weeks, I went L.A., Dallas, L.A., L.A., Cleveland, L.A. I'm going to L.A., Hawaii, L.A. this weekend.
	So I'm flying a lot.
	And I think the mask is a farce.
	Dr. Fauci is a farce.
	He has rendered public health, in half the American eyes, unreliable.
	I'm using the kindest word I can.
	I consider him a fool, a very glib fool, but a fool.
	Telling people they have to wear masks for the indefinite future or that once you're vaccinated, you should still wear a mask.
	Why that doesn't undermine any advertisement for the vaccine shows you that people believe what they want to believe.
	If the vaccine works, why do you give a damn if I wear a mask, let alone you?
	So I get this line, well, I still might infect somebody.
	Oh, really?
	That's a new vaccine, isn't it?
	Have you heard that before?
	And what are the chances of it happening?
	So anyway, I try to sit in the plane, and I go on the plane with the mask.
	I don't want to draw attention to myself.
	But, you know, once we take off, I try to lower it under my nose.
	Or eat the whole flight.
	So, this is a very interesting, not test, but what's the word?
	Study.
	Yes, I've made an interesting study.
	Are any airlines more draconian than others?
	Are the flight attendants on airline A more strict than the ones on airline B? I have found absolutely no...
	Generalization possible among airlines.
	It is completely individual.
	Yesterday, I won't say what airline because it's irrelevant.
	On a major airline, a very sweet guy was draconian.
	I mean, if my mask was under the nostril by a millimeter, he gently would urge me to put it on, which just meant I ordered another drink.
	Not alcohol, another...
	Club soda or coffee.
	And then you could be maskless.
	It shows you what a joke the whole mask thing is.
	You can't kill anybody while eating.
	You can only kill people while not eating.
	Or die yourself.
	I mean, it's an astonishing thing.
	If they meant what they said, they would say there's no eating on planes.
	Right?
	Let's be honest.
	But there would be a revolt, I hope.
	So it shows it's a fraud.
	The whole time you eat, you don't need a mask.
	Anytime you drink, you don't need a mask.
	You can only die if you're not eating.
	So anyway, I was in the front row of the plane.
	And so I'm right by the galley where the flight attendants prepare the food for first classes.
	No food for you who fly economy here.
	You're lucky you've got a seat to sit somewhat in an embryonic position for three hours.
	And they do other things in the galley.
	I watched this man.
	I would say that he was about 40. I watched this man.
	He actually sanitized the outside of the white bag that he takes around to collect your...
	Garbage.
	You know, the cups you used.
	They come around with a bag.
	So you could dump stuff in.
	I've never seen it.
	That's why I'm mentioning it.
	I had a feeling that this guy who was crazed about my mask, and we had no tension whatsoever.
	Whenever he mentioned it, I did what he asked.
	And then started eating or drinking again.
	But anyway, I just had a feeling.
	I didn't think he was doing it because the airline pressured him.
	I thought he did it because he believes it, and I was right.
	He sanitized the outside of the garbage bag.
	I'm not done.
	He wore gloves.
	I've never seen a flight attendant with gloves.
	This was a first for me.
	This man has been scared.
	Sweet man, I want to add that.
	Could not have been more attentive to me and the other passengers.
	I have nothing against the guy.
	He is scared out of his mind that he will die.
	That was my flight attendant.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
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	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 do.
	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.
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	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 is a battleground state.
	Florida is a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
	There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	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.
	It's that 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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	Here's the man of the Dennis Prager show.
	Oh, no.
	There are three people who don't know what's going to come out of my mouth at this place.
	Sean McConnell, Alan Estrin, and Dennis Prager.
	Just for the record.
	Oh, is that what he said?
	Okay.
	Got a lot of calls.
	Got a lot of thoughts about life here on my mind.
	America's airports are an interesting problem.
	I don't know.
	Do you think the Frankfurt Airport has a half-hour walk between gates?
	I don't know.
	That's not a great example.
	It's not a great example, because they might.
	Because you'd have to take a bus to another terminal.
	Anyway, I was just noting, yesterday I switched flights.
	I went from Cleveland to Denver to Burbank.
	And you get a notice, it will take you 26 minutes to get to gate A-68, or whatever it was.
	That's a long time.
	I think Dallas Airport, doesn't Dallas Airport have a train just running all over the place?
	No.
	Not true for Denver, no.
	The walk to the train, and then the walk from the train to your gate, that's what takes so long.
	The train is nothing.
	When people design airports, do they think a half-hour walk and train to catch your flight is okay?
	Is that what?
	I mean, maybe they do, and I shouldn't even mention it.
	Just a thought on life as it passes by.
	Yes, indeed.
	Uh-huh.
	Alright, so there are a lot of calls that I want to take here.
	Charles in Irvine notes, many evil men have been married and many great men have not married.
	It's a silly comment.
	So my comment that single men disproportionately commit violent crime, it's not an issue of whether it's silly.
	It's an issue of whether it's true.
	We no longer live in an age that believes that...
	That there's truth and falsehood.
	It's not a matter of...
	It's not silly.
	It's either wrong or right.
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	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of Institutional Radio?
	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?
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	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.
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	Yeah.
	I think many people on the far left today think teaching civics is a way of...
	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.
	You know, the red diaper babies.
	That worldview bizarrely has gained purchase in the culture so that everybody thinks it's normal when you think of America to think that, you know, Columbus was a genocidal maniac and on and on and on.
	In other words, if you look at the roots of these ideas, the seeds of these ideas, it's fundamentally anti-American.
	It's anti the views of the founders.
	It demonizes the founders.
	It's kind of a Howard Zinn But the answer to Howard Zinn and the answer to Noam Chomsky is to look at immigration figures.
	And liberals tell us that themselves.
	Everybody wants to come to America.
	And it's not only because of economic opportunities in this country, which, by the way, are tied into our legal system, but it's because we're a great, great country.
	Nobody wants to go to Cuba.
	Nobody wants to go to Russia.
	We are still the most popular country in terms of immigration in the world and will continue to be so.
	People vote with their feet and all the votes point in the direction of people wanting to come to America.
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	I am now going to talk to you about something.
	I think about a third of you differ with me.
	I'm not sure.
	It would be very interesting.
	So I'm going to let some calls go.
	It pains me because...
	As you know, I'd love to talk.
	I would be happy to just talk to people.
	So I will keep a couple of things, but...
	All right.
	Anyway, let me see.
	Bob in Tallahassee, the term woke.
	How do you define that word?
	Basically, it is now a synonym with left-wing positions.
	It's not a matter of definition.
	It is.
	If you...
	If you think America is systemically racist and you believe that there should be an all-black dormitory and an all-black graduation, you're woke.
	Woke means moral idiot.
	That is my definition.
	Pompous fool.
	That's what woke means.
	Intolerant is another aspect of being woke.
	Okay, so here's the subject.
	It's perfect that there is this horrible headline today's New York Times.
	Bombing outside Afghan school kills at least 50 with girls as targets.
	The attack, which came at the end of a particularly violent week, underlined growing concerns about the American troop withdrawal.
	I cannot overstate how opposed I am to taking American troops out of Afghanistan.
	I'm opposed on every possible level.
	I don't know a single valid argument for keeping American troops there.
	Approximately in the last five years, we have averaged losing 20 servicemen or women in a year.
	Every one of them is a precious loss.
	But in terms of the efficacy of what we are doing, keeping some semblance of peace, protecting vast numbers of people from torture, death, Basically, mental imprisonment, total loss of freedom, and massive rape of women, and boys, by the way.
	They have a particular attraction to young boys, not just women.
	Do we have a moral role to play in the world or not?
	So you'll say, well, who appointed us?
	Two groups appointed us, the Afghans and the Americans.
	That's enough for me.
	I assure you that in Germany, they don't have a debate on whether to protect Afghans, or in France, or in Belgium, or in any other country.
	It's not perplexing the Uruguayan parliament.
	Should we help protect the Afghans from the Taliban?
	It's not disturbing the Canadians, to the best of my knowledge.
	I am proud of the fact that it disturbs Americans.
	It's a bad, bad, bad idea to leave Afghanistan.
	The terminology used, these cliches crack me up.
	Well, there's no exit strategy.
	You can't go in if you don't have an exit strategy.
	There's only one exit strategy in war.
	You leave when you win.
	That's the only exit strategy I know of.
	Such a bizarre thing.
	We don't have an exit strategy.
	We can't stay there forever.
	Why not?
	Where is the rule that you can't stay there forever?
	We stayed in Germany forever since World War II, 1945. That's a long time ago.
	55 and 21. 76 years ago.
	The speed of that mathematical computation has me dazzled.
	But only me, I must admit.
	I don't think anybody else was.
	And how long are we in South Korea?
	Since, what, 1953?
	Also.
	47 and 21. That's 60, 68. 68 years.
	American troops should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
	If they actually gave the prize to those who deserve it, they would give it to the United States military.
	Greatest force of peace on earth.
	When I read this headline and I think that all that will happen, you remember, well, who remembers?
	History isn't taught any longer because the left has taken over education.
	What percentage of Harvard juniors do you think have, or I love, rising seniors?
	It's a new term.
	What percentage of Harvard rising seniors can identify Pol Pot?
	They're well aware of systemic racism.
	And needless to say, they all know George Floyd.
	And Breonna Taylor.
	But they can't identify Pol Pot.
	Yeah, that was the 1970s.
	It's prehistory.
	Pol Pot was a communist.
	Studied at the Sorbonne, by the way, in Paris.
	Nothing like a college education to make you a despicable human being.
	And went back to Cambodia, took over, slaughtered between a quarter and a third of his own people.
	It was auto-genocide.
	Do we have another example of auto-genocide?
	Well, yeah, Mao.
	Yeah, communists do that.
	It's interesting.
	Communists engage in auto-genocide.
	They slaughter their own in massive numbers.
	That's correct.
	Hitler defined the other as the other, and that was not the case.
	He didn't slaughter Aryans.
	But the Communists slaughter their own, and Pol Pot did that.
	That's what you're going to have in Afghanistan, killing fields.
	Massive slaughter.
	Our leaving Afghanistan tells people, if you align with the United States, screw you, baby.
	We're leaving you.
	So, you think people think, I don't know, do I want to align with China?
	Or the United States?
	Yeah.
	The American people don't have patience.
	That's what it will think.
	So I'm writing my column this week, and it is precisely on this.
	You know, I hate to ask this question, but how many people are Bothered by this headline.
	Bombing outside Afghan school kills at least 50 with girls as targets.
	It bothers me.
	Powerful explosions outside a high school in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday killed at least 50 people.
	And wounded scores more, many of them teenage girls leaving class in a gruesome attack that underscored fears about the nation's future after the impending American troop withdrawal.
	The blast and the targeting of girls as they left the Syed-ul-Shuhada High School.
	You reflect on the monstrosity of the evil of the people who do this?
	You know why they do it?
	but they don't think girls should get an education.
	Is there any parallel to this?
	I mean, obviously not all Muslims think this way.
	Nobody thinks that and nobody says that.
	But...
	There were no Christians who think this way.
	There were no Jews who think this way.
	There were no Buddhists who think this way.
	There were no Hindus who think this way.
	That if a girl goes to school, you murder her.
	How did this develop?
	This is a friendly, provocative, admittedly challenge to Muslim listeners.
	Why does this happen in your religion?
	Now, you could say it's perverting the religion.
	That's fair.
	But it's not...
	These perverts don't exist in other religions.
	We'll be back.
	We'll be back.
	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 in its capital.
	The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
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	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.
	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 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.
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	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 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. Folks,
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	It's very sad.
	In my earphones.
	Triple G asked me how to spell BJU. This is this, folks.
	I have challenges that you don't know about.
	Because you don't wear my earphones.
	You know the old saying?
	You never know a man until you've been in his shoes.
	For me, you never know a minute you've been with his earphones.
	Right?
	It's a change.
	We change the phrase.
	Actually, most of you could not wear my shoes.
	14EE is a large foot.
	When people step on my toe, I always say I'm sorry.
	They go, I stepped on your toe, why are you sorry?
	I go, if my foot weren't that big, you wouldn't have stepped on it.
	Sort of like a boat.
	But anyway, listen to this.
	It's very sad.
	My take on this is not what the New York Times would like.
	Article in the New York Times.
	Teens are in crisis.
	So are their parents.
	As hard as it is to be a teen today, it's draining being the parent of one.
	There's how the article begins.
	The pandemic turned Tiffany Lee's home into a battlefield.
	Wary of illness, Ms. Lee started taking precautions back in March 2020. She asked her 15-year-old son, Bowen Deal, known as Bo, to practice social distancing.
	I assume it's a single mom, right?
	Because he has a different last name than she does, so I guess he had the last name that she had when they were married, when she was married.
	To practice social distancing, she insisted he wear masks.
	But that didn't sit well with him because many people in their rural town didn't follow such rules.
	He would see all of his classmates having pool parties and going bowling, and he's angry at me because I won't let him go, she said, of Bo, a freshman in high school in Metter, Georgia, outside of Savannah.
	He thinks I'm the bad parent because Mom is standing between me and my friends.
	Frankly, I agree with Beau.
	I'm so sorry.
	The woman was irrational.
	How many 15-year-olds are dying of COVID? More are getting killed in car crashes.
	Do you let Beau drive?
	Walmart Drive, right?
	It's...
	The article is written, of course.
	Oh, we so understand.
	The mother's taking these precautions.
	In rural Georgia, how many 15-year-olds are dying because they went bowling with their friends?
	And by the way, I didn't read the whole thing.
	I don't think it mentions anyway that she's a single mother.
	I suspect she is a single mother, given the last name issue, and there's no talk about the father.
	And that's one of the reasons it's generally good to have a man in the house.
	Alright, there are men who are freaked out and women who are not, clearly.
	That's absolutely correct.
	But, usually, if there's a mother and father, at least one of them is going to say, you know, cool it.
	Let them go bowling.
	Okay?
	But, of course, she's adopted the view, the sickening, life-suppressing view.
	Abundance of caution.
	If she doesn't watch CNN, my name isn't Dennis Prager.
	Okay?
	Simple as that.
	She gets her news and outlook on life from CNN. No wonder she's scared out of her mind.
	That's it.
	There's no scientific basis for her to be scared for her 15-year-old.
	None.
	Zero.
	In fact, I want to move to this town in Georgia because all the kids were not wearing masks and going bowling last March.
	What a great place.
	That's where most people should live.
	What's the name of it?
	Metter.
	Long live Metter, Georgia.
	Well, I wrote a year ago, now more than a year ago, that lockdown was the greatest mistake in history, and I was right.
	Okay.
	One day, I believe one day, although I'm not sure because the left will keep writing the history and therefore there's little truth to be gathered, but one day I hope people come to understand how many hundreds of thousands of Americans died because the medical establishment did not advocate ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and vitamin D. They put all the eggs in the vaccine basket when they could have saved lives with therapeutics.
	It is a crime of unprecedented proportions in American medical history.
	Fauci and company are guilty of great numbers of deaths in this country, I believe, and I never engage in hyperbole.
	I may be wrong.
	But I deliberately do not engage in hyperbole.
	The medical establishment has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and there are epidemiologists from distinguished universities who say that, including on my show.
	Who was the epidemiologist from Yale, right?
	Said that they killed about 300,000 Americans.
	Did they say 200,000?
	Okay, fine.
	200,000 Americans.
	And this mother wouldn't let her kid go bowling with his friends?
	I don't blame him for being ticked off at her.
	Kid should have lived in my house.
	Yeah.
	He'd have gone bowling.
	By the way, I hope all this, oh, it's been such a terrible year for teens and so on.
	It'd be very interesting to find out, If teens involved in religious life had the same awful consequences from the lockdown, I don't know.
	Maybe they did, but I would like to know.
	I know my grandchildren go to a religious Jewish school in Florida, and they were going to school when the public school kids were not going to school.
	They were going every Saturday to some form of service.
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	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 God.
	I do.
	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.
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	- 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 have possibly imagined.
	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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	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere there's an all-seeing apparatus that will do right is the wrong approach.
	But it's not, 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 yes everybody welcome to the Dennis Prager show where we clarify life It's one of my many mottos of the program.
	If you are new to my show, welcome.
	We have a staff here of three.
	The Living Martyr is the producer.
	The Gentle Gentile Giant is the Director of Technology.
	What is your official title?
	We haven't heard that in a while.
	I will.
	The technical director, whatever the hell that means, is a triple G, the gentle Gentile giant.
	You know, it's amazing.
	Do you know that I have never, it just occurred to me, you'd think I would have realized this a little sooner in my life, I've never had a nickname.
	Isn't that odd?
	Everybody, my whole life, I've been called Dennis.
	Not Denny.
	Not...
	On occasion...
	No, profanity doesn't count.
	And on occasion, I was called Dennis the Menace, which I love, by the way.
	I actually adore being called Dennis the Menace.
	But I've never had a nickname.
	Huh.
	If you guys, you guys got to think about it.
	If you had a nickname for me, maybe I'm just not the nickname type.
	Could be.
	All right.
	Anyway, I'll tell you what I am now to a lot of people.
	It's very interesting to me.
	I mean, I'm stopped every day.
	There's no day that if I'm in public that I'm not stopped by people.
	And they're always sweet, by the way.
	And I always volunteer to take a selfie.
	I think it's a beautiful thing.
	People think, well, doesn't it bother you?
	It doesn't bother me in the least.
	I am grateful to God that my message is getting to a lot of people.
	But anyway, now overwhelmingly, even among adults, it's Mr. Prager.
	Isn't that interesting?
	When did that start?
	I would say it just gradually...
	It's a complete 45-degree incline.
	Very few people go, hey, Dennis, great to see you.
	Which would be perfectly fine with me, by the way.
	I'm not even advocating.
	It doesn't matter to me.
	I think it's good for kids.
	But I certainly, an adult, should feel totally free to say Dennis, but they don't.
	And it's just what...
	I used to, when I hear...
	When I hear Mr. Prager, do I think of my father?
	I did, and now I don't, actually.
	But a lot of people called them Mac, or Max.
	I think it was called both.
	Okay, anyway, two of your calls here.
	Yes, good.
	Mark in Stockton, California.
	Hello, Mark.
	How are you doing?
	Good.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You're not clear.
	Talking to the phone.
	Can you hear me now?
	Yes, perfectly.
	I don't understand why you don't understand the concept of the objective and the subjective opinion and facts.
	Let me give you an example.
	You say that Beethoven is like, and the German musicians are the greatest musicians, and you say that the Bible and Shakespeare are the greatest pieces of literature.
	That's an important, it's not a fact. - No, you're fading again.
	I got it.
	That's an opinion, not a fact, but you're fading.
	So would you like me to react?
	Yes, please.
	That's true.
	But opinion doesn't mean...
	There can't be fact in this matter.
	It's a fact that gravity causes apples to fall from trees.
	So nothing stated about life is objective in the same sense that the law of gravity is.
	But if we have lost the ability to make good judgments about things...
	We are impoverished.
	What would we teach young people?
	If we don't think Shakespeare and the Bible are the greatest literature, then what do we do?
	Do we just say to the teacher, you know, whatever you think is the best you offer, what if they think the best is Batman comics?
	And frankly, I suspect that more teachers today have read Batman comics than Shakespeare and the Bible.
	That's the end of society if everything is just dismissed as opinion.
	I have evidence for the Bible and Shakespeare's The Greatest Literature because they're the most translated writings on earth.
	Why would people in every single culture that has an alphabet have translated those two?
	They don't translate Batman comics.
	In Japan, the Tokyo Philharmonic.
	Plays Beethoven.
	Not rap.
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	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.
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	Let's go.
	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.
	You know, the red diaper babies.
	That worldview, bizarrely, has gained purchase in the culture so that everybody thinks it's normal when you think of America to think that, you know, Columbus was a genocidal maniac and on and on and on.
	In other words, if you look at the roots of these ideas, the seeds of these ideas, it's fundamentally anti-American.
	It's anti the views of the founders.
	It demonizes the founders.
	it's kind of a howard zinn you
	babylon b is hilarious Truly, they're brilliant writers.
	And they're having a real challenge because how do you satire men give birth?
	As soon as they come up with a satire, the left will actually adopt it seriously.
	There's little left.
	It's a great video.
	Somebody called up and said, well...
	What about Donald Trump?
	He wanted to get out of Afghanistan.
	I would have been just as opposed if Donald Trump took our troops out of Afghanistan.
	It's irrelevant to me whether it's Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
	That's why I said a number of you would disagree because I assume there are people listening who think that it's the right thing to do to leave Afghanistan.
	I wish I could have a...
	Ten minutes to talk to every American, make the case to stay there.
	On moral grounds, on American grounds, on international grounds, it is a catastrophe leaving.
	Catastrophe.
	We lose 20 servicemen or women a year.
	Every one is a tragedy, but it's still 20. The purpose of armed forces is not to ensure that every single member of the armed forces lives.
	That's not the purpose of the military.
	The purpose of the military is to wage war or keep the peace.
	All right.
	All right.
	Oh, by the way, did you hear...
	Was it a college or a high school?
	A college, right, that suspended and kept their money, that suspended three girls because they took their masks off campus?
	What college was that?
	University of Massachusetts.
	University of Massachusetts.
	Oh, of course, Massachusetts.
	Whenever people say to me, how could you live in California?
	I always think, well, it's not Massachusetts.
	Massachusetts is the stupidest state of the union.
	There's no doubt in my mind.
	Wasn't it the only state that voted for McGovern?
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	They gave us Ted Kennedy.
	And the two senators now.
	Elizabeth Warren.
	And Ed Markey.
	And they gave us our...
	Crackpot, the world is coming to an end, czar, who was Secretary of State and loved Iran.
	John Kerry, another Massachusetts gift.
	And that's right.
	And the odds are you have a Massachusetts driver's license, if you are.
	That was well done, Sean.
	It makes up for the last four hours.
	See, that is a perfect example of a compliment that is truly an insult.
	They have a term for that, right?
	Left-handed compliment?
	Oh, backhanded, yes, thank you, left-handed.
	I was just thinking, that's really an insult to lefties.
	By the way, it's amazing that there isn't a lefty, lefties are persecuted.
	I think there should be non-discrimination based on...
	Not in arm orientation.
	Arm orientation.
	That's a new one.
	What is your arm orientation?
	Lefty or righty?
	Three girls.
	Do you understand this, folks?
	University of Massachusetts, what, at Amherst, was it?
	It was, you know, one of the branches.
	And they were suspended and their tuition was kept.
	$16,000 for not wearing masks off campus.
	It's stupid to wear them on campus, but you have the right to tell me what I do off campus?
	See, had they smoked marijuana, nothing would have happened.
	By the way, I'm curious.
	I'm sure the drinking age in Massachusetts, what do you think it is, 21 or 18?
	Anyway, whatever it is, there must be kids who are at college who drink off campus.
	Are they suspended from the school or expelled?
	Not wearing a mask.
	If you don't see the division between left and right on this issue as so indicative, they're scared.
	People on the left walk around frightened.
	It's a crappy life to be a lefty.
	They're scared that they'll die from global warming.
	They're scared to have children.
	They're scared of getting COVID from a child.
	It's an amazing thing.
	These people, they don't know real danger.
	It's like the make-believe danger world of the New York Times.
	So next time you ask how I live in California, just remember, it's not Massachusetts.
	Okay, got a nurse calling in from a place I never heard of.
	Wow.
	Stallion Springs, California.
	Is that right?
	You live in Stallion Springs?
	Correct.
	Where is that?
	It's west of Tehachapi, California.
	Wait a minute.
	Did you say west of Tehachapi?
	Wait a minute, this is one of those great moments of the Dennis Prager Show.
	It's west of Tehapache.
	Nobody listening knows where Tehapache is.
	It's an Indian word.
	Why I wanted to call was, as a nurse since 1971, married 50 years, as of this month, I am very concerned about the restrictions that we still have here in California because it's insanity.
	We get vaccinated, and then we have to do this.
	And my biggest point is, carbon dioxide everybody has.
	It's expelled from the body for a reason.
	You put the mask on, and then you're breathing your carbon dioxide.
	Well, God bless you.
	We need more nurses like you.
	You're in a profession of lefties.
	back in a moment 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 God.
	I do.
	I was under 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, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	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 have possibly imagined.
	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.
	So that 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.
	Thank you.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	How did it get to 55 minutes after the hour?
	How did it get there?
	I blame you, Sean.
	Because you're in charge of time.
	Yes.
	Did you realize, by the way, that when the universe began, that's when time began?
	I'm not kidding.
	By the way, it's not philosophic.
	That's a scientific statement.
	Now, that is a great example of something none of us can understand.
	None of us.
	It is not possible to understand that time is finite.
	Not possible.
	Because what happened ten minutes before time started?
	Yes, time existed before humanity, but time did...
	But time did not exist prior to the universe, the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago.
	I think that's the estimate.
	Incidentally, folks, are you aware that it's now pretty much generally acknowledged that the universe had a beginning?
	Do you know what that implies?
	Uh-oh!
	Uh-oh, SpaghettiO!
	It implies that somebody began it.
	Because things don't begin themselves.
	Why is that not obvious?
	It's an astonishing thing that people don't want to...
	Science is now, for the first time in my life, I now believe that science provides the single greatest argument for God's existence.
	I used to think science was not here or there.
	Now I believe that science...
	Is the single greatest argument with...
	Oh, boy.
	Can't tell you how much that enhanced the Dennis Prager show.
	You know...
	Okay.
	That was a good find, actually.
	Yes, indeed.
	Okay.
	Eric in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	You can stay on that.
	Small business.
	Mask-wearing, promoting fear has become political push by the left.
	The thing you have to understand is they believe it.
	They really do believe kids will die if they go to school.
	What you have to recognize is, though, they don't follow the science.
	They follow what they want to follow.
	That's really important.
	I wish they followed the science.
	they would not say men menstruate.
	Thank you.
	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 a 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.
	But honestly, did 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 this country.
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	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 God.
	I do.
	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, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	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.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
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	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere there's an all-seeing apparatus that will do right is the wrong approach.
	But it's not, 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.
	Thank you.
	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, 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...
	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	A terrific thinker is on the line with me, and not just thinker, but activist.
	What I would call a public intellectual, and that is exactly what the term denotes, a public intellectual.
	He is, in fact, the op-ed editor, the opinion page editor of the New York Post, one of the most important opinion pages in the country.
	Now that I think of it, he doesn't have much competition.
	I'm sorry to say, but it is terrific as it happens.
	I've had him on in the past.
	His name is Sohrab, S-O-H-R-A-B, Ahmari, H-A-H-M-A-R-I. And in addition to the post, he's a columnist for First Things.
	I've had R.R. Reno on a number of times.
	I'm a subscriber and writer for First Things.
	It's nominally Catholic, but I would say that I agree with it 99.8% of the time, like many listeners to me.
	But Sohrab Amari has a very important book out, The Unbroken Thread, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.
	So first of all, welcome back to the show, Sohrab.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	Good to be back.
	My listeners will very much resonate, too.
	You're talking about Seneca, the Roman thinker.
	Seneca taught that fear of death is not only pointless, it prevents us from keeping the right perspective on our lives.
	I can't think of a more pertinent line about today where fear has rendered people incapable of living.
	Fear of death actually inhibits your ability to live.
	Your comments are welcome.
	Well, Dennis, I wrote that chapter, which is the last chapter of the book.
	Each chapter poses one unasked question and then explores it through the life of one great thinker.
	And I do it in a very storytelling style because I'm not a theologian, I'm not a philosopher, I'm a journalist and a storyteller, but I want to tell good stories about ideas, an accurate one.
	And obviously Seneca was...
	Of all the figures in Western history, no one gave more thought to death than the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca.
	And I was writing it right at the peak of the lockdowns last year.
	And it is very striking now to read how much of that wisdom applies, exactly as you said, where by irrationally magnifying...
	One potential source of death, the novel coronavirus, which is real enough, but magnifying it beyond all reason, we actually ignore other potential sources of death and threat to life, like, for example, joblessness or psychological well-being or the ability to interact with other human beings in a normal, humane, embodied way.
	So it's just one example of how this inheritance that we've Kicked aside, the Judeo-Christian and then the classical Greco-Roman tradition that together formed the foundation of the West can speak to us today, even if Seneca didn't know about the germ theory of disease or what have you.
	Yes.
	Your book is an ode to what I have lamented the death of all of my public life, and that is wisdom.
	The book is that important because it is about wisdom.
	It's very engaging.
	And it is exactly as he just described, about a given thinker on any given subject.
	There is no wisdom in our educational system.
	The secular world, and I'm only saying this for you to react to, the secular world has embraced knowledge and rejected wisdom.
	Is that an unfair characterization?
	No, it's a brilliant characterization.
	Knowledge, or let's say fact, is the one lodestar of modernity as such, of liberal modernity as such.
	And what's lost in our obsession with facts, not that facts aren't important, but facts are narrow, and facts are just collections of things that we observe about the world, either with our senses and with our scientific instruments, and are able to express them, generally speaking, in mathematical formulae.
	Now, those are very important, but at some point in the West, now we can debate where the deformation or the wrong path was taken, but at some point we came to equate all of truth or all of wisdom with these kinds of facts,
	which is the result of it in a practical way, is how our educational systems deformed young minds, where they just learned these kind of disconnected little trivia, you know, how much What magnesium does Uzbekistan produce?
	Which is maybe an important thing, or maybe not be, but it's not wisdom, as in, how do you live a good life?
	What's the source of a happy life?
	That question has true or false answers, too, and the answers to it don't take necessarily scientific form, and the reduction of all truths to these kinds of factoids has really impoverished us.
	Now, unfortunately, as you'll agree, maybe, We've even gotten rid of the factoids and replaced them with just pure kind of race, gender, sex ideology, which is kind of a second layer of degradation.
	That's right.
	They say follow the science, but they don't even follow the science.
	As I ended my last hour, I said, people who say follow the science also tell us that men menstruate.
	Right?
	Yes, yes.
	Even kind of scientific empiricism gives way to just kind of pure ideology.
	And we see so many men menstruate and so many other phenomena of this kind.
	And I argue that that's because science itself cannot give answers to the fundamental questions of life.
	That's right.
	Go on, please.
	Yeah.
	No, no, science is a very kind of legitimate thing in its own domain.
	So, absolutely.
	Well, if we follow science, then we should follow survival of the fittest.
	We shouldn't have hospitals for the truly sick.
	We should just let them die.
	That's what science recommends.
	Precisely.
	So there are these questions that we constantly face in life, little more of the dilemmas in our individual lives and as a society.
	Whose answers don't take scientific form.
	Now, all sorts, thank God, we do take care of the seriously ill, and we don't, you know, just throw away children with profound disabilities, although some ideologues would even do that.
	But the reason we don't do that is we still recognize there are certain questions about ultimate meaning whose answers can only be found in things like the Bible, in the Western tradition, in the great books.
	In great novels and poetry, and all of those things cannot be kind of cast aside without our society paying the price as it is now, with this kind of scientific managerial governance, which is also extremely ideological.
	That's exactly right.
	You wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, a very long piece on behalf of the Sabbath.
	I'm sure you wouldn't know this, but I have been pushing.
	Sabbath observance, all 35 years of my broadcast career.
	I regularly tell people it is the source of my sanity, that I leave the world one day a week, that I am with friends or family every single week, including the lockdown.
	I've been with about 16 people every Friday night for Shabbat dinner from the beginning of the lockdown, maskless and enjoying life, singing and talking.
	And I've had this as a result of having a Sabbath.
	And the loss of it is profound.
	You will find this of interest in light of your being Catholic and writing this piece.
	I have asked priests and ministers, that is Catholics and Protestants, all of my life, well, not nearly all of my life, I've asked them, as a Christian, are you bound to keep the Sabbath?
	Are you commanded to?
	And the answers have been literally 50-50.
	I have no way of predicting what they would say.
	They would say, well, it's the only one of the Ten Commandments that really doesn't apply any longer.
	It was specifically to the Jews, and it's not a universal commandment.
	What do you say to that?
	So, speaking as a Catholic, and again, not being...
	Theologian or an ordained priest.
	I will say that if I look at my Catechism of the Catholic Church and my little Roman Missal, where I carry when I go to Mass with me, the commandment to keep the Sabbath and go to church that day and try to avoid serval labor is still there.
	And so, therefore, when I go to confession...
	One of the questions I have to ask myself is, have I broken the commandment to keep the Sabbath and avoided servile labor unless absolutely necessary?
	That's the theory, but in practice, you're right, though.
	My serious Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jewish friends, their Sabbath, let's put it this way, is a lot more of a Sabbath compared to mine.
	Back in a moment, his book, The Unbroken Thread, is up at DennisPrager.com.
	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 in its capital.
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	Thank you.
	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.
	Was that the President of the United States talking?
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	That's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
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	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 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 here in 1981. My
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	My guest is a fighter.
	He's the op-ed editor of the New York Post.
	Sohrab Ahmari.
	And he has written this book about wisdom.
	Extremely accessible to people.
	It's one of the advantages when journalists write knowledgeable books.
	They're very readable.
	The Unbroken Thread.
	It's a great title.
	I'll tell you why.
	And I know Sohrab Ahmari will agree.
	By the way, am I pronouncing your name correctly?
	You're pronouncing it like a Persian word, which I'm Iranian.
	I've actually anglicized it, so I usually just say, but I appreciate the authenticity of your pronunciation.
	Do you speak Farsi?
	I do, although it's declining because I don't have to use the kind of elevated literary Persian, so I can speak with my mom kind of day to day, but reading a novel would be a challenge now.
	I feel the same.
	I would find it very much a challenge to read a Farsi novel.
	We have something else in common.
	Though ironically, having said that, I could read it.
	I wouldn't understand anything I read, but because I read Arabic, and I know the few Iranian letters that are different, I could read it, but I wouldn't know what I was reading.
	I do know one phrase...
	Much more than most people.
	Yes, well, most people didn't study Arabic.
	I acknowledge that.
	Did you...
	So, I just want you to know, this is completely absurd, but I love the absurd.
	I know one sentence in Farsi.
	Let's go study with the Ayatollah.
	Yeah.
	What do you think?
	Really good.
	Really, really good, but let's not.
	My theory is, if I'm kidnapped, that is much preferable to where is the men's room.
	That's right.
	Unless you're kidnapped by Sunni jihadists who don't like the Ayatollahs.
	Oh, that is a great point.
	But I was thinking, yeah, but how many Sunni Persians are there?
	No, no, that's true.
	That's true.
	Okay, so there we go.
	I feel bad for you.
	Come out to discuss your book and look at where I lead you.
	Oh, I'm having fun.
	Good.
	Well, so am I. You are a gift to this country, actually.
	So, your book is called The Unbroken Thread.
	All that we're seeing now is every thread being broken.
	That's the point, correct?
	Yeah, and in my case, a kind of personal one, because it's a book that I wrote for my son.
	His name is Max.
	When I started, he was two.
	He's now four years old.
	And the reason I wrote it is because I'm worried about what kind of a man our civilization would chisel out of him.
	And I felt I had to try to kind of lasso him and tie him to something better than just what his dad could offer.
	And that something is our broad Western inheritance.
	And so the thread in the title is really about my trying to tie my son back to the thread that leads to tradition and ensuring that it's unbroken, even though it's certainly in our day-to-day, it feels like we're just living very discombobulated, disordered lives too often.
	And every thread is broken.
	The thread to the founders.
	The thread to 1776 for an American.
	And not to mention Judeo-Christian threads.
	Which leads me to an observation.
	For all those who are Intellectually or theologically uncomfortable with the term Judeo-Christian values, you are listening to the embodiment of Judeo-Christian values.
	Of course, Sohrab Ahmari and I do not have identical theologies.
	Of course, he's Christian, in this case Catholic, I'm Jewish.
	Correct.
	But in values, they're essentially identical.
	That's what Judeo-Christian values means.
	So I thought it was worth noting that we...
	I've never had an issue with that term.
	I think there is...
	Both sides can sometimes object to it, but I think it captures a real shared ground, and it's valuable ground, and if we lose it, it will be much worse for it.
	The second one says God gave the Ten Commandments.
	One is engaged in Judeo-Christian values.
	You believe that as a Catholic.
	I believe that as a Jew.
	That's what matters.
	That's how I look at it.
	Agreed.
	There's an objective moral order.
	Yes.
	That's what brings us together.
	And it could be found ultimately in the Bible and centrally in the Ten Commandments.
	I don't know why that's not just...
	You know, yelled from the rooftops.
	That's what we Jews and Christians need to do, is yell this stuff from the rooftops.
	Agreed.
	Well, your book achieves that, the wisdom issue.
	How many kids do you have?
	I now have two.
	How old are they?
	So Max is four, that's the one that the book was for, and then I have a daughter named Sarah Sina, she's a year and a half.
	Well, they're lucky to have you as a dad, and I'm very touched because my father, my late father, was Max.
	And I don't understand why Max is now in and Dennis is dead.
	I don't get it.
	Dennis is dead?
	Is it?
	Totally.
	Absolutely.
	I am the only Dennis in your life.
	I am convinced of that.
	In fact, my Persian friends have called me Dariush.
	Dariush Pregerzadeh.
	No, it's true.
	Max is popular.
	Max is popular?
	God bless you.
	It's all I could say.
	The Unbroken Thread.
	Sohrab Ahmari and follow him at the New York Post.
	Thank you.
	The book is up at DennisPrager.com.
	These are the lights that I talk about in the darkness that we are enduring.
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	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere, somewhere there's a...
	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.
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	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.
	You know, 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.
	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 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.
	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.
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	I think many people on the far left today think teaching civics is a way of enshrining colonialism and slavery and talking about our families.
	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.
	You know, the red diaper babies.
	That worldview bizarrely has gained purchase in the culture so that everybody thinks it's normal when you think of America to think that, you know, Columbus was a genocidal maniac and on and on and on.
	In other words, if you look at the roots of these ideas, the seeds of these ideas, it's...
	All right, everybody.
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	Oh, God.
	There's so much on that.
	Yeah, I might as well.
	I'm torn.
	Now I'll tell you about Disneyland.
	Walt Disney Corporation.
	It's from City Journal.
	And the great writer, Christopher Rufo.
	It is impossible to overstate the damage Disney is doing to this country.
	I don't know why.
	I don't know why.
	You have a sort of, if not monopoly, you have a dominant vehicle to bring people joy.
	And you've decided to screw the country instead.
	To bring in anger rather than joy.
	Handing the Disney Corporation over to the Disney executives who run it today is like giving the Bible to anti-religious atheists.
	Not all atheists are anti-religious.
	Disney executives have elevated the ideology of critical race theory into a new corporate dogma, bombarded employees with trainings on systemic racism, white privilege, white fragility, and white saviors, and launched racially segregated affinity groups at the company's headquarters.
	I have obtained a trove of whistleblower documents related to Disney's, quote, diversity and inclusion program called Reimagine Tomorrow, which paints a disturbing picture of the company's embrace of racial politics.
	The core of Disney's racial program is a series of training modules on anti-racism.
	In one called Allyship for Race...
	Consciousness.
	The company tells employees that they must, quote, take ownership of educating themselves about structural anti-black racism, and they should not rely on their black colleagues to educate them because it is, quote, emotionally taxing.
	Do you hear this mumbo jumbo?
	By the way, every black with dignity should loathe Disney.
	You are not real to these people.
	The left does not see black human beings as real.
	You are simply useful pawns in their destruction of the country.
	Blacks are to the left what workers were to the communists.
	Used humans.
	And many let themselves be used because they fell for it.
	It's emotionally taxing for a black colleague to educate.
	You can't ask a black colleague, please tell me in what way you are systemically abused or discriminated against.
	I want to understand better because it's emotionally taxing.
	The United States, the document claims, has caught a long history of systemic racism and transphobia.
	Really?
	The country has a long history of transphobia.
	The fact that 99.99999% of Americans would not have understood the term five years ago is not relevant.
	And white employees in particular must, quote, work through their feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness.
	Hmm, I guess, what would I do if I were at Disney?
	I have neither guilt, shame, nor defensiveness in this matter.
	To understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed.
	All of this is meaningless.
	This is Maoist talk.
	That's all it is.
	It's the same as the Cultural Revolution in China in 1956. Was that the year of the Cultural Revolution?
	Was it 1956?
	Disney recommends that employees atone by challenging colorblind ideologies.
	You hear that?
	That's their words.
	Challenge colorblind ideologies.
	I told you there's nothing in common between liberalism and leftism.
	But liberals are cowards, and they are afraid of the left.
	And they've been brainwashed to think that we conservatives are their enemies.
	Colorblind is the essence of the liberal message on color.
	Be colorblind.
	So we have to atone by challenging colorblind ideologies and rhetoric such as all lives matter and I don't see color.
	I don't see color.
	Really?
	I don't see color?
	That is now considered By the left, as...
	That's considered racist.
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	Hi, Charlie.
	My name is Jacob, and I am subscribed.
	My question is, are we as Republicans radical in our ideals?
	Or rather, does the left see us as radicals?
	If they do, what can we do to convince leftists that what we want is best for legal Americans, in most cases, including them?
	Well, radical actually means to the root.
	To the original.
	If you actually go back to the original phrase of what radical means.
	But what are you really saying is radical, are we out of the mainstream?
	No, they are.
	What we are talking about is very...
	Acceptable public policy.
	How about this?
	You put your citizens first.
	Families are important.
	You put the citizen over the foreigner.
	Your trade deals should preserve and protect hardware development and middle-class work.
	Free markets are a great guide to be able to produce wealth and preserve what we have considered to be And a rather enjoyable lifestyle.
	Private property is important.
	At the same time, we're not going to bow down and accept a corporate oligarchy.
	These are very moderate ideas.
	If you want radical, I'll go show you some radical ideas.
	Those are not radical ideas.
	Are ideas built Western civilization?
	Of course they're not outside of the mainstream.
	And what they're doing, again, we have used this phrase so many times, and it's important because it just seems to be, there's about 15 things that we talk about here on this program that is just kind of buckets.
	So I just have to kind of sometimes draw from this bucket and draw from that bucket.
	This is the gaslighting bucket.
	We talk about that a lot in this program.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	It pains me because the further withdrawal from these mainstream things in society is you pay a price.
	Taking kids out of school, not buying Coca-Cola, not going to Disneyland.
	I feel terrible.
	This is unlike me.
	I used to brag that I ate Ben& Jerry's ice cream because...
	I only cared about the product, not the views.
	But when Disney becomes so destructive of society, there is literally only one answer.
	Boycott them.
	Do not use their product.
	Do not watch their movies.
	And especially do not visit Disney World and Disneyland, which is very painful because you want to take your kids there.
	So there are other amusement parks.
	What can I tell you?
	A childhood can be spent without having gone to Disneyland or Disney World.
	Disney stinks.
	It is hurting this country.
	Disney is a threat to this civilization.
	They are espousing evil.
	Do you understand how immoral what they say is?
	It's immoral.
	That you should not be colorblind is their position.
	That is immoral.
	Let us call it what it is.
	And another module, this is from Inside Disney Documents, called What Can I Do About Racism?
	Disney tells employees that they should reject equality.
	That's immoral.
	Get it?
	Another immoral doctrine.
	And focus on equal treatment and access to opportunities.
	Well, that's fine.
	That is equality.
	I don't know what the...
	And instead, this is the key.
	Strive for equity.
	With a focus on the equality of outcome.
	Equality of outcome is communism.
	Equality of opportunity is American.
	The challenge begins with information on systemic racism and asks participants to accept that they have, quote, all been raised in a society that elevates white culture over others.
	What is white culture?
	They never define it.
	Do you understand that?
	They never define it.
	What is white culture?
	Tell me, what is white culture?
	Is driving a Chevy white culture?
	Is...
	I don't know.
	What is white culture?
	They never define it.
	What is it?
	Is it having children after you're married?
	Is that white culture?
	Apparently it is, because that doctrine is considered racist now, to tell people to have children after they marry.
	Ask what happened to, what was the professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania?
	That woman who wrote that piece in the San Diego paper?
	The professor of law, we had her on at the University of Pennsylvania.
	She said, middle class values, they're the best for everybody.
	Get an education, get married, and have children after you marry.
	Like, is that white culture?
	Maybe it is, because remember acting white?
	I remember, this is decades ago.
	Newsweek had a front page cover article on acting white.
	Kids who did what I just said to you, studied hard.
	Black kids who studied hard were called acting white.
	I guess, is that white culture?
	to study hard?
	Participants then learn about their white privilege and are asked to fill out a white privilege checklist.
	With options including, I am white, I am heterosexual, I am a man, I still identify as the gender I was born in, I have never been raped, I don't rely on public transportation, and I have never been called a terrorist.
	Isn't that amazing?
	That's right, if you don't rely on public transportation, you've got white privilege.
	Well, I admit that.
	I gotta admit.
	I don't know why anybody who works hard cannot avoid public transportation.
	Okay?
	By and large, if you really work hard and you get married and do all these things, you will be able to afford private transportation called a car.
	You can lease a car now for $100 a month.
	Right?
	Aren't there cars leaseable at that?
	Take a look.
	No, no.
	Well, Sean's Bentley.
	What is it, a couple of thousand a month, your car, Sean?
	Depends on what you put down.
	Well, Sean doesn't even ask.
	He doesn't think about cost.
	That came in my earphones.
	Next, participants learn about white fragility and are asked to complete an exercise called How to Tell if You Have White Fragility.
	The program interprets beliefs such as...
	I am a good person.
	I can't be racist.
	And I was taught to treat everyone the same as evidence of the participants' internalized racism and white fragility.
	I was taught to treat everyone the same is now wrong, is now evil.
	This is Disney.
	To hell with the Disney company.
	Get it?
	You want to save America?
	Start with boycotting Disney.
	This is a particularly vile company.
	They're competing with Coca-Cola and with Delta.
	I mean, it's very united.
	I mean, it's a competition.
	The corporations are trying to outdo one another and crapping on America.
	In the same collection of resources, Disney also recommends that employees read a series of how-to guides, including 75 things white people can do for racial justice.
	Oh, I've got to get a copy of that.
	I love these numbers.
	And your kids are not too young to talk about race.
	That's right, of course.
	Indoctrinate them as early as possible into you're a piece of crap because you're white.
	The first article suggests that white employees should defund the police, participate in reparations, decolonize your bookshelf, and don't gentrify neighborhoods.
	Find and join a local white space and donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter chapter.
	If you think BLM is just basically an anti-American hate group, which I do believe it is, and Disney now wants all of its employees to donate to that, when you go to Disneyland or Disney World, you are funding BLM at this time, just so you'll know.
	The second article encourages parents to commit to raising race consciousness in children.
	That's what children need, race consciousness.
	Ah, is that healthy?
	And argues that even babies discriminate against members of other race.
	Nothing like a bigoted baby. - Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show. - And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying.
	I kind of prefer that phrase quite honestly better than competition.
	So I think that there's some, again, we're getting into semantics here.
	But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, that's actually not what's good for society.
	Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand.
	I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand.
	Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God.
	In fact, can you find that piece, Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion?
	It's very good.
	It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists.
	But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person.
	Do not make me live for you.
	And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement and her Her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, which I think is a terrific book.
	And again, I don't look for her for religious purpose.
	I'm a Bible-believing evangelical Christian.
	But I think that she had a phenomenal way of capturing the threat of totalitarianism and the need for individuals to stand with courage.
	The preference on reason and logic.
	Not as the only human value in my worldview.
	And it's a very significant piece of literature, and I encourage everyone to check it out.
	So in a lot of different ways, we need more John Goltz and Hank Reardens.
	And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that.
	that.
	But Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living just to beat others.
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	Speaking of appeasement, Secretary Blinken was on with my NBC colleague, Andrea Mitchell, yesterday talking about China.
	This is what the Secretary of State said, cut number nine.
	When it comes to China, we've been very clear that, you know, we're not trying to contain China or hold it back.
	But we are determined to uphold the...
	So-called rules-based international order that we've invested so much in over so many decades, and that has been good for us and good for the world, and I think even good for China.
	China.
	So when anyone takes actions that undermine that order, when they don't play by the rules, when they renege on commitments, whether it's in the commercial area, whether it's on human rights or anything that undermines that order, we're going to stand up and defend it.
	And what I've heard in companies, if everything's the same and everything if everything's the same and everything is the way that it should be,
	So what is the...
	What's the rest of the sentence, though?
	Right, go on.
	Then...
	No, it's not...
	Alright.
	I've got to read the lyrics.
	Alright, thank you.
	I want to thank our technical director.
	Oh, if everything's the same?
	So this is like...
	Is this a pro-conservatism song?
	Sounds like it.
	Alright, be that as it may.
	I want to thank our TD. I find technical director to be slightly pompous.
	Only...
	That was good.
	Only slightly.
	Alright, Keith in Los Angeles.
	This is the famous Keith of Los Angeles.
	How you doing, Dennis?
	Better than my country has been my standard answer for a year.
	I agree with you, sir.
	100%.
	I am black.
	I love America.
	I'm 57 years young.
	I was taught by my dad that working hard wins.
	Doing the right thing wins.
	It was never based on my race.
	And for Disney to do what they're doing, which I totally disagree, if Disney hire anyone, do they hire them because of the color of their skin?
	Yeah.
	Now they would.
	That's pretty strange.
	Well...
	You talk about Judeo-Christian standards.
	Should we not have those standards?
	Oh, they hate Judeo.
	They hate the term.
	They hate the existence of it.
	That's correct.
	You got it right.
	It even says in the article that they discourage conservative Christians for even speaking their minds.
	That's correct.
	That is exactly right.
	Are you Christian?
	Yes, I am, sir.
	It's the only hope.
	You are the hope as a group.
	I mean, they're individual Jews, individual atheists, individual everything, who do great.
	But as a group, the country will die if committed Christians do not fight.
	Yes.
	My wife and I met you several times.
	We also was at the Beverly Hills Rally, and we also met you at 790, the ship in San Pedro.
	So you came to the Beverly Thrills rally?
	Yes, I did, sir.
	We took a picture with you there.
	Did I hug you?
	Yes, you did.
	My wife and I took a picture with you there.
	Wait a minute.
	Did I hug you?
	Were you wearing a mask when I hugged you?
	No, sir.
	No, sir.
	We didn't do that.
	We don't do that.
	We're free people.
	We're free.
	There you go.
	I want you to know, Keith, I did not get sick after that hug.
	Nor did you.
	So let me ask you something, folks.
	Just speaking about black America, do you think we'd be a better country if most blacks felt like Keith or most blacks felt like Jesse Jackson?

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