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May 11, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	I have three newspapers with three headlines that I want to share with you.
	First is the New York Times.
	Top right-hand column, headline.
	Violence erupts between Israelis and Palestinians.
	This is the level of reporting from...
	Our major Pravda.
	Sorry, folks.
	The studio has a little column that fell on my knee.
	But I'm braving it.
	In any event, violence erupts between Israelis and Palestinians would be equivalent, factually and morally, to violence erupts in Pearl Harbor between Japanese and Americans.
	The question, who attacked whom, is not addressed in the headline.
	Note that.
	It erupts like a volcano.
	It just happens.
	It's like a child who spills grape juice on a new tablecloth.
	It spilled.
	I didn't spill it.
	It spilled.
	Or it fell.
	Violence erupts.
	That's the level of reporting that I expect from the New York Times, but I did want to bring it to your attention.
	Yes.
	On that point is the Los Angeles...
	400 rockets.
	400 rockets.
	Right, that's how it erupted.
	That is correct.
	400 rockets that are sent just to population centers to kill people.
	Not soldiers, just to kill men, women, and children.
	Anywhere the rocket can fall.
	And then the Times would have said, because Israel has an incredible system of stopping rockets, which I find almost unbelievable that it could do that, but it does, so therefore violence erupts.
	Had 500 Israelis been slaughtered, basically incinerated, Then the headline would have been, might have still been, violence erupts.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Or Israelis suffer losses in Gaza retaliation.
	And of course, where is the grieving family?
	I don't see that.
	That's because he didn't give it to me.
	Okay, here it is, the top headline.
	It's titled, Mid-East Escalation, just like the New York Times.
	And then it's a picture of a grieving father.
	Palestinians waited a hospital in the Gaza Strip on a day of violence that saw Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket fire after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in confrontations in Jerusalem.
	There we go.
	The use of people by corrupt regimes is the oldest story in history.
	That's what they do.
	Hamas uses its people.
	Fatah uses its people.
	Always in the name of the people.
	Hamas is as interested in building up Gaza as you are in building up, let me think, Sri Lanka.
	You're not against it, God forbid.
	But it's not something that you devote any time to.
	And you know what?
	Now that I have the LA Times, here's a piece of utter corruption.
	Newsom wants to give checks to most in-state.
	They can't find people to work because they're getting all of these checks.
	We're just so awash in money, thanks to the Biden administration's giving of hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Democratic governors and mayors.
	So that will go straight to people as an incentive not to work in the further corruption of society, done solely so that Newsom not be recalled.
	That's why this is being done.
	This is the great problem.
	And it is.
	It could be the fatal problem of democracy, paying people to vote for you.
	I never remember who first came up with it because nobody really knows.
	But something to the effect, when people realize, when politicians realize that they could buy votes, that pretty much ends the society.
	And that's what is being done here.
	That's why I am shocked when Republicans win.
	They don't buy votes.
	Vote for us.
	We will spend less.
	We will give you less.
	And still, half the country votes for the party that preserves the American ideal of you taking care of yourself and the government's role solely to protect liberty and protect your body in case of...
	Organized harm.
	That's it.
	That's the role of government that's spelled out in the Constitution.
	But that has been long since overcome by people who consider themselves and call themselves progressive.
	Progressive means have the government control more and more of people's lives and more and more people's lives.
	More and more people, and more and more a percentage of their life.
	And that's fine with people as long as they can get Netflix.
	Or even, ideally, get money to stay home and watch Netflix.
	Tom Cruise, one of the moral lights of our generation, gave back his...
	Which award was that again?
	I know, but what are the four initials again?
	The Foreign Press Association?
	Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
	HFPA. If anybody is known for treating people well in the industry, it is Tom Cruise.
	And for moral insight, it's all moral onanism, as I called it.
	A year ago.
	Watch me give myself pleasure in thinking well of myself.
	So let me understand something.
	The foreign press is bigoted.
	Some of the most left-wing folks in the entire culture in the Western world, these are all race bigots?
	And sexist.
	Oh, and sexist.
	So she joined in this, didn't she?
	Johansson?
	What's her name?
	Scarlett Johansson.
	Did she give back some award too?
	I wonder who started the idea that Hollywood and sports figures should speak out on complex moral issues of the day.
	Do you know who might have started that in either of them?
	This was not done in the past.
	In the past, you know, the greatest actors...
	Did anybody know Humphrey Bogart's politics?
	I'm asking an open question.
	I'm not asking a rhetorical question.
	Charlton Heston loved this country.
	I'm just picking names that mean nothing now.
	By the way, they really do.
	It's amazing.
	It's a humbling thing for every generation to realize that the household names of their generation mean nothing to the next generation.
	So if you missed out on fame, please note, it is very quickly disappearing a quality.
	Talking about quality.
	There are those who are more interested in quality of life than quantity of life.
	I am one of them.
	That is why I led a high-quality life from the very beginning last February.
	Gathering with friends unmasked, going to rallies unmasked, doing whatever I could, wherever I could.
	To lead as normal a life as possible under these ridiculous, ridiculous is so tepid a word, under these immoral draconian laws that have been imposed upon people, and I believe completely unconstitutionally, and yet left-wing judges find it fine when the government says you have to stay in your house.
	Because every generation has its gods.
	Ours is safety.
	And it's a new thing, by the way.
	It used to be be well, take care.
	It's now be safe.
	It's like you're invading Normandy Beach.
	Be safe.
	1-8 Prager 776. You guys missed it.
	The JFK Library gave a Courage in COVID award to Gretchen Whitmer.
	Oh, come on!
	Courage!
	Courage under COVID! Come on, that didn't happen.
	It happened.
	Is that real news?
	It's real.
	It's real.
	We live in the most hilarious times.
	Not Ron DeSantis.
	Not Greg Abbott.
	Not the governors of states that are actually flourishing and functioning.
	No, no.
	Gretchen Whitmer.
	Wasn't it her husband who said, hey, I get to put my boat in the dock because regulations?
	Don't you know whose husband I am?
	I'm the governor's husband.
	I'm the governor's husband.
	Could you imagine having to pull that?
	Could you imagine what a cuckold you are to say?
	Do you know, I'm not the governor.
	I'm the husband.
	Sounds like a second gentleman.
	Yeah, the second gentleman of Whitmerism.
	He's another second gentleman.
	We're living in the most hilarious times.
	Gotta laugh, though.
	I do think we should create some awards, though.
	For ourselves?
	Why not?
	Okay.
	I'll fund one.
	For you, you fund one for me.
	I'll fund one for you.
	And here's the best facial hair award.
	Okay, that'll be yours.
	Nice!
	Okay.
	How about for you, the best pocket square award?
	Wonderful.
	Should we do that?
	And for both of us, the most selective cigar smoker award.
	Okay, deal.
	Done.
	Love it.
	Love it.
	Hey, if no one else is going to award us...
	I'm not waiting for the JFK Library to give me one.
	No.
	Or YouTube.
	YouTube banned me.
	Ooh, I'm so scared.
	They don't like you very much.
	They don't like you.
	What are you afraid of?
	What are they afraid of?
	They're all scared.
	Same thing.
	What do you think the Democrats are afraid of in the Arizona audit?
	What do you think they're afraid of?
	Oh my gosh.
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	Thank you.
	you The Washington Post did a piece on Al Sharpton talking about how he's a spiritual go-to guy when there's a shooting of an unarmed black person and he comes there and he...
	Transfers from being a street preacher to a soother.
	Not one word about Tawana Brawley.
	Nothing about the Crown Heights riots where he stirred up a bunch of blacks to attack Jews.
	Nothing about him being $5 million light in taxes.
	Nothing about calling Jews diamond merchants.
	Nothing about any...
	Let me ask you something.
	One of the reasons the Washington Post does this is because the Washington Post, if you watch MSNB He-Haw, which you don't because I do, there are a number of their reporters who either have shows or are paid correspondents on MSNB He-Haw, right?
	So Sharpton has a show there.
	How do you justify allowing your reporters to go on MSNB He-Haw where Al Sharpton has a show unless Al Sharpton is an okay guy?
	So therefore we're not going to talk about how he...
	Falsely accused a white man of raping Tawana Brawley.
	Never apologized for it.
	We're not going to talk about his role in the 1991 Crown Heights riots that one Jewish leader in New York called the most serious pogrom in the history of America.
	We're not going to talk about what he did to foment a bunch of people being killed at Freddy's Fashion Mart.
	We're not going to talk about him being caught on a surveillance tape undercover FBI agent discussing doing a cocaine deal.
	Whom do you know who is a Republican kingmaker?
	Who's got a tape discussing doing a cocaine deal with an undercover FBI agent?
	I'm waiting.
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	The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Welcome back, I should say.
	I gave you an idea of the headlines of some of the major newspapers.
	They're not newspapers any longer.
	They are propaganda sheets.
	You said to me that there was an article that just had lie after lie.
	Which article is that?
	USA Today.
	USA Today.
	And which one?
	Oh, the honor student.
	I'm going to review that later.
	But the big headline actually is important for change in USA Today.
	Afghans who aided U.S. panic as troops depart.
	It is very hard for me to be ashamed of my country.
	Very, very hard and very painful, I might add.
	I have an emotional attachment to the United States of America.
	If we abandon the people who directly aided us in Afghanistan to be slaughtered, to be beheaded and tortured, what kind of country are we?
	Well, I don't have a good answer for you.
	All the moral talk that comes from Washington, it's all moral talk.
	Oh, let...
	Let hundreds of thousands, millions of people come in illegally.
	But to bring legally in the people who aided us at the risk of their lives and let them be beheaded when we leave, that's okay?
	The State Department finds that okay?
	The moral giants who are the president and vice president of this country find that okay?
	I don't think we should leave Afghanistan.
	I think it is wrong, immoral, un-American.
	It will only lead to greater evil on planet Earth.
	Relatively minimal cost, staying in Afghanistan, as my article today, my weekly column, my Tuesday column demonstrates.
	Why would anybody help the United States if America came into the...
	Why would you do that?
	We did it in Vietnam, too.
	And you know who authorized it?
	Joe Biden.
	I have the quote from him.
	By the way, I got that quote from The Atlantic.
	I couldn't believe it.
	The Atlantic ratio of decent articles to junk is about 1 to 100, but the 1 is good.
	And he said, Oh, no, I wouldn't take in one Vietnamese in 1975 on the floor of the Senate.
	And these people claim to be lovers of humanity.
	Same challenge to conservatives.
	Why aren't Republicans speaking up?
	Bring these people in.
	They aided us.
	How could we leave them to torture and death?
	How?
	I truly don't understand it.
	I don't use the term much I don't understand, because I usually do understand.
	Afghans who aided U.S. panic as troops depart.
	Stuck in backlog for special U.S. visas, many fear revenge.
	In 2019, Omid Mahmoudi was working as a linguist for a U.S. Army brigade in Kabul.
	When he overheard an Afghan soldier bad-mouthing the American forces, Mahmoudi alerted an army sergeant and the Afghan soldier was expelled from service.
	I have no doubt in my mind that Omid's actions that day saved an American soldier's life.
	His supervisor, Army Captain Jonathan Flancher, wrote in a letter supporting Mahmoudi's application for a U.S. visa.
	Mahmoudi is now among thousands of Afghans desperately seeking to leave their homeland as the Biden administration withdraws the last 2,500 American troops in the coming months.
	These Afghans fear that once U.S. forces are gone, the Taliban will sweep back into power and target them as traitors.
	You will see the dead bodies in every street, Mahmoudi said in a phone interview from Afghanistan, where he said he's already being tracked by the Taliban.
	They will slaughter us.
	Because of such dangers, Congress created a special visa program in 2006 for Afghans and Iraqis who worked alongside American troops in those two conflicts.
	But the program is backlogged and limited.
	It takes an average of nearly three years for Afghans' applications to be processed.
	It goes on.
	Thank you.
	I've always accepted the fact that the world is a messy place, alongside the fact that the United States is largely a force for good on this planet.
	Abandoning Afghanistan is not good.
	We've lost an average of 20 service people a year.
	Far more die in accidents in the armed forces than die in overseas conflict, any overseas at this time.
	You have to put these things in perspective.
	Unless you adopt the Cuomo attitude.
	If everything I do saves one life, I will sleep well at night.
	This is the new doctrine of the fool.
	What leader can lead when the overriding question of everything is will it save one life?
	That ends your possibility of being a leader.
	We do.
	We live in the age of no wisdom.
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	Nicholas in Basalt, Colorado.
	Hello.
	One minute.
	I'm having a problem gunning you.
	I'm having a big problem.
	Hey, look at that.
	The light is yellow.
	I never saw that in my life.
	I'm sorry, Nicholas.
	I have to reboot the usual problem.
	All right.
	Go ahead.
	Hi there, Nicholas.
	Oh, hey Dennis, can you hear me?
	Yes, I can.
	Hey Dennis, do you think the reason none of your wives ever wanted to make love to you is because of how you love them?
	Oh boy, well, that's an awesome, awesome moment.
	Okay, we're going to Bobby in Temecula, California.
	Hello.
	Oh, hey, is this me?
	That is.
	Hey Dennis, how come you always get divorced?
	Oh, well, today's...
	All right, we were having some technical problems.
	Grand Eaton, Rapids, Michigan, and Laura, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	What a pleasure to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	And I cannot believe the stupid questions that some people ask, but hopefully you might have some insight, I'm sure you do, that you can share with me.
	I am Jewish.
	I live in the Midwest.
	Alright, hold on.
	I want to take your question appropriately.
	So Michael Brown,
	George Floyd, you know, all of these, Trayvon Martin, all of these instances, are really, really come down to being power grabs.
	They all support this idea that racism is systemic.
	It isn't.
	There is not systemic racism in America.
	But you have the right to say, look how many Americans buy into this and believe this, even when the facts just stare them in.
	Michael Brown precipitated his own death.
	He attacked the policeman.
	He hit him in the face with his fists.
	He wrestled him in his car for the gun.
	Michael Brown was a 300-pound, 18-year-old teenager.
	So finally, he runs away, he runs back.
	Finally, in self-defense, the policeman fires his gun and shoots him.
	We watched a police officer save a young girl's life.
	We watched an officer.
	Literally prevent a human being from being stabbed by a raging, frankly disturbed, violent woman who was wildly trying to plunge a knife into people.
	And even when people saw the video, they condemned that officer, Shelby.
	Yeah.
	They think that's where their power is, in the white racism.
	And so again, a poetic truth.
	That he was a racist and the girl he killed was a victim.
	She was a perpetrator.
	She was about to commit murder.
	As you say, it's absurd.
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	Hi, Charlie.
	My question is about big corporations.
	Similar to our government, should we have some sort of check and balance for big corporations to keep them from becoming tyrannical?
	As well as what would those checks and balances be while still maintaining a free market capitalistic economy?
	Thanks for your insight, Amanda.
	Well, what we're dealing with right now in our country is rather unprecedented.
	Because the vast majority of the pressure that we are seeing from these companies are technology-based.
	And their model is not about building railroads.
	It's not about producing anything you could touch.
	Instead, it's about figuring out better ways to sell you.
	You see, the technology companies in our country, it's a completely different profit model than almost anything we've ever seen.
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	He's 90 years old.
	The oldest living Hall of Famer.
	And still scrapping around, still goes to every home game of the Giants when you can.
	He couldn't go because of COVID. Anyway, Nancy Pelosi tweets out, Happy 90th birthday to an All-American icon.
	Willie Mays, a trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being.
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	.
	Thank you.
	Yes, indeed, we do.
	Hi, everyone.
	Back to Michigan and Laura.
	Hi there.
	Hi.
	So I was stating that I'm Jewish, and I happen to work in an area where there's a large learning institution, and there are a fair number of Jewish people.
	All of which are extremely liberal.
	And my question to you is, with what's going on in Israel right now, I wonder if, in your opinion, do you think that this will change any of their perspectives and maybe question, maybe it was a mistake that they voted for Biden or...
	I don't know.
	It just puzzles me how so many Jews can be liberals.
	Right.
	Unfortunately, it doesn't puzzle me, but it does depress me.
	Jewish life is...
	American Jewish life, with rare exceptions, which exist outside of orthodoxy, is pathetic, morally and theologically pathetic.
	And I'm not an orthodox Jew.
	I'm just telling you what is true.
	And by the way, it's unfortunately mainstream Protestantism and mainstream Catholicism are pathetic as well.
	There was a, what was that, a bishop now in the Methodist Church, was it?
	Lutheran.
	Lutheran, the transgender?
	Which doesn't bother me nearly as much as this person does not allow for either he or she in reference to him or her, but only they.
	See, there are many aspects to the whole transgender issue.
	The biggest one to me is their denial of male and female.
	It's the heterosexuals, it's the cisgendered who are leading the crusade to demolish male and female as what they call binary terms.
	It's a spectrum.
	There isn't male and female, there's a spectrum.
	Is there a spectrum in the animal kingdom?
	We're animals, after all, to these people.
	How come only human beings have a spectrum of male and female?
	So now there is a Lutheran, was it Bishop?
	What was the, what is the title?
	I don't even know, I'm sorry?
	I don't know what to say, he or she.
	I looked at the person and could not identify whether the person was male or female.
	The name obviously wasn't a giveaway.
	And the person prefers the pronouns they, which of course all the newspapers duly use, they.
	They said, meaning the one person.
	So my only point is that the left has ruined Christianity and Judaism in large measure.
	As to specifically answering your question, I don't think anything could happen to Israel that would cause 95% Any but 5%, perhaps, of Jews in America to rethink their leftism.
	Nothing.
	I think nothing could happen anywhere.
	I mean, I could see people suppressing free speech on the left and Jews going okay with it.
	Gee, now that I think of it, it's already happened.
	When Jews leave the Torah, they make up new Torahs.
	That's what it is.
	It's true for Christians as well.
	So, the new Torah of Marx, the new Torah of environmentalism, feminism, socialism, Marxism, you name the ism, it substitutes secular religions.
	That is what has happened.
	I played for my audience a rabbi on Rosh Hashanah, the High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah, chanting not the prophet's words as part of the liturgy, but chanting the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the melody of the prophetic chant.
	Because for him, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a prophet.
	And who's Amos?
	Amos doesn't hold a candle.
	Next to Ruth Bader Ginsburg for that non-Orthodox rabbi.
	I don't remember if he was conservative or reformed.
	Today it's irrelevant.
	There is no distinction.
	Here to stay and when I'm sometimes asked When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?
	Okay, not bad, eh?
	There's a rabbi in New Jersey on Rosh Hashanah.
	He put it up.
	He must have been proud of it.
	I never said his name, because it's almost irrelevant.
	He's interchangeable with thousands of others of non-Orthodox rabbis.
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	Now, where do you think we are as a nation?
	Well, I think that we're at a real turning point as a country.
	And you can see it, I think, with the radical far-left agenda that Joe Biden is trying to push on the country And he wants to make this country unrecognizable, Eric, in terms of the things that I think are most important and I think Missourians think are most important, like, for instance, religious liberty, like freedom of speech.
	These are things that I think are very much in the balance and are under assault.
	I mean, look at what Biden did in his first hundred days in office.
	All the executive orders he signed.
	I mean, what did he do?
	He went after religious liberty.
	He went after women's sports.
	He canceled energy jobs.
	He's embarked on the hugest, biggest social welfare spending program since maybe in American history.
	I don't know.
	I mean, it's crazy, radical stuff.
	And Big Tech, which is the subject of my book, is right there with him.
	Well, the reason you're one of the heroes in my book is that you understand that the United States Senate has a role in fighting against this.
	And in fact, if you do not fight against this, all is lost because we're just at a point where even the people who voted for Joe Biden did not vote.
	For what he's been doing.
	And I don't know if you read about it, but the first 100 days, it was called Operation Hell on Earth.
	Just kidding.
	But it was like what he has unleashed in 100 days is so staggering that a lot of people, I debated people like David French.
	They said, oh, he's a centrist.
	And I thought, yes.
	Back when he was cogent and sentient, back in the 90s, he was a centrist.
	Who is pulling the puppet strings today?
	today.
	I have no idea.
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	I want to go to the movie.
	What killed Michael Brown?
	I know you're very proud of it.
	You've got to be very, very proud of Eli.
	This is a remarkable exploration into one of the greatest lies.
	that was ever perpetuated upon the American people, and that is that claims circulated that Michael Brown had been holding his hands up and yelling, don't shoot.
	Thank you.
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	There is an article out.
	I may devote the Ultimate Issues Hour to it.
	And the it being the...
	Depression rates among young Americans are the highest.
	The suicidal thought rates are the highest ever measured.
	And what is interesting is if people could figure out who isn't.
	Of course, I have my theories.
	I think that they have been, I don't think, take that back, I know, that they have been deprived of everything that makes most people happy.
	And that is religion and country.
	Basically, the only meaning in their lives is career.
	That's the meaning.
	The meaning, let's put it this way.
	In the middle class and higher, meaning in life comes from what college will you get into?
	That's your meaning until age 18. Then your meaning at age 18 is...
	What graduate school will you get into?
	Then your meaning at age 25, let's say, is how much money will I make having wasted, excuse me, spent so many years in the moral and intellectual wasteland known as a university?
	And then they don't get a job immediately that they think meets the criteria that they have established.
	Look, I have a degree from...
	I have two degrees or three degrees from.
	And then they look around, and eventually it turns out most careers don't provide all that much meaning.
	They provide some.
	It's not deniable.
	And they should.
	That's fine.
	In the meantime, they have not even given thought to getting married.
	Oh yes, I forgot to put that.
	Marriage, God, and country.
	Yes, that's right.
	Family.
	They have no family.
	This is the latest age of marriage in American history.
	The fewest children per marriage in American history.
	And then we see the depression rates.
	Gee, why might that be?
	If you were married or you were with your fiancé, let's say, during COVID, I'll bet you weren't nearly as depressed as people who had nobody.
	Right?
	What's wrong with getting married early if you find the right person?
	By the way, you only find the right person in most cases if you look for someone.
	If you don't buy a lottery ticket, you can't win the lottery.
	That's one of the great truisms of life.
	Anyway, I think I'm going to talk about that afterwards.
	Okay, let's go to Laguna Hills, California, and Mike.
	Hello, Mike.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Yeah, I just had two criticisms of your comment on the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan.
	So the first is, I mean, we've been there 20 years, and I don't think it's serious to assume that at any point in the near future, those people will be able to construct a safe democracy.
	Not necessarily the West, but anything that provides any level of safety that would allow us to leave.
	And the other criticism is, you know, when you take these refugees into the U.S., they have to be moved into some neighborhood.
	And personally speaking, I mean, my neighborhood has changed so dramatically in the last 10, 20 years.
	I mean, you walk around and...
	English is not the language that you hear spoken.
	What is the language your neighborhood hears?
	Spanish.
	Right.
	Go ahead.
	There's nothing, of course, intrinsically wrong with any other group.
	Well, we wouldn't have to bring the refugees into the United States if we stayed.
	You want it both ways.
	Abandon these people to death.
	And leave.
	And I don't necessarily want them as refugees, and I don't want to leave.
	But your position is, let them die.
	Well, so that to me is, well, I think that's silly too.
	Right, okay.
	Apparently, Europeans don't think it's that silly.
	And we have kept the peace there.
	And what about South Korea?
	Is that silly too?
	Well, South Korea is very different than Germany.
	Do you really think we need to be there to protect the states, to keep the peace in Europe?
	Well, you didn't answer me about South Korea.
	Is it silly to have stayed there 50 years?
	Yes, I do.
	I do think it's silly.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Listen, you know what my motto is.
	I prefer clarity to agreement, and I thank you for calling.
	Thank you.
	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.
	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 conversations with countries around the world is they're determined to do the same thing.
	What does that sound like to you, Senator Rubio?
	Look, I'm going to be fair, okay?
	I don't entirely think that what he said is completely...
	And let me just say this about Blinken, okay?
	I actually think he's a lot better than what we could have gotten, okay?
	And I think he's better than John Kerry was.
	That said, I mean, obviously he works for an administration whose direction is concerning, and we have to keep an eye on it.
	China's going to be a rich and powerful country.
	And if that's what he means by not containing them, he's absolutely right.
	China is going to be a rich and powerful country for the rest of our lifetime and beyond.
	That's not the issue.
	The issue is whether it's going to supplant the United States.
	The issue is whether it's going to become the world's dominant country.
	And the real issue, from a national security perspective, is whether a dangerous imbalance develops between the US and China, where they become more powerful and have more leverage over us.
	That's really the fundamental issue here.
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	but what made Scott's message so compelling was that it included his personal story, how he came to the policy views he has, the political perspective he holds, and why he chose a career in public service.
	Scott doesn't fit the narrative of what some think a typical Republican looks and sounds like.
	That's good, because the conservative movement has a lot more texture and diversity than the mainstream media, or the progressive left, would like you to believe.
	What Scott was able to do was to earnestly convey his story and views in a way that people could relate to.
	We could use a lot more of that in our politics to be sure.
	I'm Lonnie Chen.
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	So Michael Brown, George Floyd.
	We'll be right back.
	It is an interesting issue that leaving Afghanistan is not a right-left issue.
	It's one of the only ones that isn't.
	And I would have been as condemnatory of President Trump doing it as I am of President Biden doing it.
	It's not what America stands for.
	We help our friends.
	You argue we should never have gone in?
	That is irrelevant?
	It's like saying...
	Yes, you have cancer, but you never should have smoked cigarettes.
	So, you know what?
	I'm not going to treat you.
	I've been treating you for 20 years.
	It's time to go.
	Yes.
	It's probably the cigarette smoking that caused this younger person, this 50-year-old, to get lung cancer.
	So, therefore, what?
	Since you can't go back in history and change it, what do you do in the present?
	That's the only mature question in life.
	I can't undo the past, but I can shape the future.
	That's the way life is.
	So the argument we shouldn't have gone in is irrelevant.
	And I'm not sure we shouldn't have gone in.
	How many people have been saved?
	Not just Afghans, others as well.
	It emboldens the Islamic extremist.
	Right?
	What's going to happen to Pakistan if we leave?
	Pakistan already teeters on the brink of being a Taliban-like regime.
	There are a lot of people in Pakistan who admire the Taliban.
	And in the Middle East, there is only one rule.
	You admire winners.
	Read The Closed Circle by David Price Jones.
	Spent a lot of time in the Middle East.
	The God in the Middle East is not Allah.
	It is power.
	That's not the way they would phrase it any more than Americans who worship leftism would say that they do.
	The governing ideology is the fastest horse is the strongest horse is the one we ride.
	And America will have been declared an abandoner.
	And a loser in leaving.
	Is that correct?
	And what do we gain for it?
	We'll save 50 to 100 billion dollars a year compared to everything else we're spending?
	We'll save the lives of 20 soldiers?
	Why are we leaving?
	I don't like when America loses and I don't like when we cause people...
	To be tortured, raped, and die by doing so.
	One million boat people left Vietnam.
	A million.
	Because we left.
	Thank you.
	My question is about big corporations.
	Similar to our government, should we have some sort of check and balance for big corporations to keep them from becoming tyrannical?
	As well as what would those checks and balances be while still maintaining a free market capitalistic economy?
	Thanks for your insight, Amanda.
	Well, what we're dealing with right now in our country is rather unprecedented because the vast majority of the pressure that we are seeing from these companies are technology-based.
	And their model is not about building railroads.
	It's not about producing anything you could touch.
	Instead, it's about figuring out better ways to sell you.
	You see, the technology companies in our country, it's a completely different profit model than almost anything we've ever seen.
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	Today is the birthday of Willie Mays.
	He's 90 years old.
	The oldest living Hall of Famer.
	And still scrapping around, still goes to every home game of the Giants when you can.
	He couldn't go because of COVID. Anyway, Nancy Pelosi tweets out...
	Happy 90th birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays, a trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being.
	Willie Mays is a civic legend and national treasure.
	And she accompanies this with a picture of her and a picture of Willie McCovey.
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	And I think you're absolutely right, by the way, that folks who did vote for President Biden did not anticipate, most of them at least, Didn't anticipate this.
	I think they were lulled to sleep by the media narrative that he was a centrist.
	By the way, I dispute the idea that he was ever a centrist in his political career, ever.
	He's always been a liberal in whatever context he was in, whatever political context.
	And now he's gone to the far left of his own party and is allowing the progressives to do whatever it is they want to do.
	And boy, is this a radical agenda.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	And we're in a war.
	And I think a lot of Americans are aware of that.
	But a lot of people in leadership, certainly in government and even more certainly in the media, they are happy to see us just dramatically swerving leftward.
	And it's ugly to me when corporations, when you see corporations either not getting it or being such...
	Craven cowards that they're happy to go with whatever anybody tells them, whatever they're supposed to do, they'll say.
	So big tech, what can we do?
	Your book is called The Tyranny of Big Tech.
	It's monstrous.
	You know, I think the first thing and the most important thing we could do is break these companies up.
	They're monopolies.
	Let's call them what they are.
	They're monopoly companies.
	They try and kill competition and they are killing competition.
	They've got enormous control.
	Over speech, over commerce, over information, news, journalism.
	You know, you really can't find an analog in American history.
	You could go back 100 years to the robber barons, and I talk about this in the book, the railroad barons.
	And those companies were very big and very powerful, but the tech companies are even bigger and even more powerful.
	So I think we've got to do now what we did then.
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	music If you guys missed it, the JFK Library gave a Courage in COVID award to Gretchen Whitmer.
	Oh, come on!
	Courage!
	Courage under COVID! Come on, that didn't happen!
	It happened!
	Is that real news?
	It's real.
	It's real.
	We live in the most hilarious times.
	Not Ron DeSantis.
	Not Greg Abbott.
	Not the governors of states that are actually flourishing and functioning.
	No, no.
	Gretchen Whitmer.
	Wasn't it her husband who said, Hey, I get to put my boat in the dock because...
	Regulations?
	Don't you know whose husband I am?
	I'm the governor's husband.
	I'm the governor's husband.
	Could you imagine having to pull that?
	Could you imagine what a cuckold you are to say...
	Do you know...
	I'm not the governor.
	I'm the husband.
	Sounds like a second gentleman.
	Yeah, the second gentleman of Whitmerism.
	He's another second gentleman.
	We're living in the most hilarious times.
	Gotta laugh though.
	I do think we should create some awards though.
	For ourselves?
	Why not?
	Okay.
	I'll fund one for you.
	You fund one for me.
	I'll fund one for you.
	Alright.
	And here's the best facial hair award.
	Okay, that'll be yours.
	Nice!
	Okay.
	How about for you, the best pocket square award?
	Wonderful.
	Should we do that?
	And for both of us, the most selective cigar smoker award.
	Okay, deal.
	Done.
	Love it.
	Love it.
	Hey, if no one else is going to award us...
	I'm not waiting for the JFK Library to give me one.
	No.
	Or YouTube.
	YouTube banned me.
	Ooh, I'm so scared.
	They don't like you very much.
	They don't like you.
	What are you afraid of?
	What are they afraid of?
	They're all scared.
	Same thing.
	What do you think the Democrats are afraid of in the Arizona audit?
	What do you think they're afraid of?
	Oh, my gosh.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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	you you you The Washington Post did a piece on Al Sharpton talking about how he's a spiritual go-to guy when there's a shooting of an unarmed black person and he comes there and he...
	Transfers from being a street preacher to a soother...
	Not one word about Tawana Brawley.
	Nothing about the Crown Heights riots where he stirred up a bunch of blacks to attack Jews.
	Nothing about him being five million dollars light in taxes.
	Nothing about calling Jews diamond merchants.
	Nothing about any...
	Let me ask you something.
	One of the reasons the Washington Post does this is because the Washington Post, if you watch MSNB He-Ha, which you don't because I do, there are a number of their reporters who either have shows or are paid correspondents on MSNB He-Ha, right?
	So Sharpton has a show there.
	How do you justify allowing your reporters to go on MSNB Heehaw, where Al Sharpton has a show?
	Well, everybody, a good a good day to you.
	and Specifically, a good Tuesday.
	And I wanted to...
	I don't often do this, but I'm going to tell you what I'm going to talk about in the Ultimate Issues Hour next hour.
	It is the study...
	That CNBC has just reported 51% of young Americans say they feel depressed or hopeless.
	And I will talk about that.
	I've been saying this for quite a while.
	Everything wonderful and hopeful and life-filling has been crushed.
	Don't bother getting married.
	Don't bother having children.
	Don't bother going to church.
	Don't bother celebrating being an American.
	If you're white, you're a piece of crap.
	Your history is garbage, and your future is existential death.
	How's that, eh?
	It's the sick, perverted left that's redundant.
	Left is always sick and perverted.
	Not liberals, they're just weaklings.
	But the left is sick and perverted.
	The human condition is a difficult one, shall we say.
	America was a beacon of liberty.
	Notice I said was.
	Was a beacon of liberty until very recently for all of the world and all of its history.
	You know why?
	Because human beings don't ache to be free.
	Otherwise, the whole world would be free.
	People don't ache for freedom.
	People ache to be taken care of.
	The desire to remain a child is one of the most powerful desires in the human being.
	Take care of me.
	I don't want to grow up.
	Don't call me mister.
	That was a symbolic thing of it.
	Oh, no, not me.
	Don't trust anyone over 30. Don't honor age.
	Don't honor the past.
	But take care of me.
	And I will throw a tantrum if you don't take care of me.
	By the way, there is a taking care of that is wonderful.
	A husband taking care of a wife and a wife taking care of a husband is beautiful.
	But the state taking care of you?
	Is demeaning.
	Whether you feel demeaned or not, you are.
	In a healthier American Jewish life of two generations ago, it was considered, the Yiddish word is shanda, was considered a shanda, a shame to take welfare from the government.
	If you need help, your family and the community is there.
	You don't go to the government.
	I wish all Americans felt it's a shanda to take money from the government.
	What percentage of Americans who were employed are now employed by state, local, and national government?
	Is it possible, 18%?
	That's astonishing.
	One out of five Americans is employed by a government.
	By the government.
	As far as the left is concerned, it should be double that.
	By the way, you know who started this ball rolling?
	John F. Kennedy.
	He's the one who said that federal workers can unionize.
	Might well have been the worst decision in his short administration.
	People don't realize how these things metastasize.
	I was a kid, a young kid, when they passed the Civil Rights Bill and I was so passionately for it because it's so evil to discriminate against people on the basis of race.
	But Barry Goldwater turned out to be right.
	Today it's race, what is it tomorrow?
	And he understood because he loved liberty.
	Wasn't it, what was his book?
	I actually read it in high school.
	Something of a conservative.
	The mind of a conservative, something like that.
	Anyway, his clarion call was for liberty.
	Remember, every time a law is passed, there's less liberty.
	Sometimes there has to be.
	You have to stop at a red light.
	There's no liberty to go through a red light.
	Understood.
	But the left does not value liberty.
	It never did, ever.
	There is no exception to leftists wanting liberty.
	They suppress it everywhere.
	They're in power, from Lenin and Russia to your local university and the Democratic Party in America today.
	This is not important to them.
	So, it's...
	Fifteen percent.
	Fifteen percent it is?
	A little more than fifteen percent?
	Right.
	So they want the government to expand and expand and expand because they love power, not liberty.
	I'm going to have a Stanford epidemiologist on the show, hopefully.
	It'll work out.
	We've scheduled him.
	He asks why masks are still worn outdoors in general, and especially by the vaccinated.
	Oh, yes.
	Do you have the Dr. Fauci, Sean?
	Dr. Fauci saying we'll have to wear masks in flu seasons?
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	We have a fool.
	Man is a fool.
	See, he's an idiot savant.
	He knows science and has no other knowledge, no other wisdom.
	He's a nothing.
	And we take his advice.
	This is the confusion of knowledge with wisdom that has been now generations.
	So people don't question Dr. Fauci.
	Really?
	What about the price paid in a society that starts wearing masks on a regular basis?
	Frankly, I would not want to live in such a society.
	The face is everything.
	That's the way we know human beings.
	See, there's no loss.
	They don't ask, what's the price?
	This is the left mindset.
	It never asks, what's the price?
	If it sounds good, A, it may save a life.
	That's the thing.
	That's why I've said health uber alis.
	I've been saying this for years.
	Health above all.
	Gee, flu season, we should wear masks.
	People are used to it.
	That I do believe.
	I think people did get used to it.
	I am sad beyond words that people got used to it.
	I didn't.
	I never wear a mask outdoors from the very first day.
	I knew it was a gigantic fraud.
	It is.
	It's a gigantic scientific fraud.
	And the scientists who say it is are shut down by Facebook.
	So you don't get to hear them.
	The one that I will have on at the bottom of the hour, 30 minutes past the hour, is published by the Wall Street Journal.
	So there's not much they can do to shut it down.
	But you don't hear the dissenting scientists.
	The crowd that said dissent is patriotic when George W. Bush was president.
	That was the bumper sticker I most frequently saw in LA. Dissent is patriotic.
	They don't believe that for a second.
	Dissent is misinformation.
	That's what it is labeled and then shut down.
	God, when I see young people wearing masks, I could cry.
	What a life.
	How could that not contribute to the depression rates?
	Nobody could see me.
	I can't see anybody.
	Do you understand how terrible that is?
	If you don't, I guess I know who you voted for.
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	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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	Is this the moment that we've all been waiting for?
	The millions of listeners to this show, the people who watch us on Rumble, is this the moment where we have, let's put it thusly, the internal clarification?
	Of the relationship between MAGA and the Republican establishment.
	You've been there for years.
	Is this the moment?
	That's a very interesting way of putting it.
	And I've been thinking a lot about what's going on in a broader, larger context.
	And if you think about the names, right?
	You've got Liz Cheney, who's obviously the remnant of the Bush-Cheney era of the Republican Party.
	Big wars.
	Overextension.
	Spending.
	Spending.
	Trillions of dollars that should have gone to fighting against and pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party.
	Amnesty.
	Weakness.
	Weakness.
	Globalism, of course.
	Unfair trade deals.
	And that is now giving way to the MAGA heartbeat of the Republican Party.
	And I think that is what's happening.
	And even the way this went down the last couple of months, Liz Cheney had a vote.
	To oust her.
	She had the backing of Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, and Steve Scalise, the whip.
	And then she just doubled down.
	She completely misread where the Republican Party nationally, in the House, and definitely in Wyoming, which is supposed to be her home state, but really, she's the congressman from Washington, D.C., let's be honest.
	She misread the country.
	Because the country, and especially the Republican Party, which is now becoming synonymous with the MAGA movement, this is the President's party.
	This is the President's movement.
	President Trump's.
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	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.
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	And we have a troubled society, to say the least.
	I believe that I know why, and you know well what I believe.
	When you lose your moral moorings, you get problems.
	It is all I feel.
	I feel is all that matters.
	What is it, the t-shirt that I said yesterday, the woman on the plane?
	Peace is power.
	It's a perfect example of a non-thinking slogan.
	That means nothing.
	Peace is power.
	So therefore what?
	Do we not fight evil?
	Is it peace at any price?
	Hmm.
	How about morality is power?
	Ethics is power.
	That's good.
	The Ten Commandments is power.
	I like that one.
	Right.
	Robert, Long Beach, California.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	It's very nice to talk to you.
	Thank you for keeping Afghanistan in the public consciousness.
	Unfortunately, it's just, it's not been an issue.
	It wasn't even discussed.
	Presidential election, etc., etc.
	I have to say, though, I disagree with you on this point.
	That conflict has changed over time.
	And I was there over 10 years ago.
	I supported going in.
	I supported the mission at the time.
	Now I can't say the same, principally because nobody can define to me anymore what success in that conflict looks like.
	Strategically, I think we've really bungled that operation probably from the start.
	One could say maybe it was too ambitious trying to nation-build in a society like that where nationhood really is only a modern idea on a...
	Tribalist society, that they've never really had that prior, at least not for a long time in their history.
	But at this point, our continuing sacrifices, I just don't see what that's getting us geopolitically anymore.
	And it might be time to go ahead.
	Right, that's why I made the case geopolitically as well as morally.
	I can give you one quick geopolitical answer, that it emboldens Islamic terrorists to see the United States, the most powerful society in the world, kicked out by Taliban gangsters.
	I'll give you another one.
	Pakistan may teeter into the orbit of the Taliban if we leave.
	That's a biggie.
	Pakistan's a much bigger prize than Afghanistan.
	Agreed.
	Okay, so we do this at the price of $50 to $100 billion a year and about 20 of our precious servicemen and women.
	But indefinitely, that's a tenable position.
	I can't support that without a goal in the end.
	Yes, it's a goal to keep that stability to the extent that there is any stability and to protect vast numbers.
	Of Afghans.
	This week, the Taliban blew up a school because girls were in it.
	30 girls and teachers were slaughtered.
	And not to mention the ones wounded horribly.
	They don't exactly have a great hospital system.
	So I don't understand.
	Why is our price too great?
	And why doesn't it...
	Let me ask you, so you said you supported it 10 years ago when you were there.
	Why?
	Why did you support it 10 years ago?
	Because the goal of setting up a functioning Islamic Republic there was probably attainable at the time, or at least there was a good shot at being able to get that done.
	That changes over time.
	That may have been true in 2008, 2009, or 2010. It may not be true in 2014. The times change, and unfortunately, I don't think the Afghan people themselves, and there are exceptions, I've fought and bled alongside Afghans.
	Okay, so we're making generalities.
	But when I was there, we never had more than maybe 35%, 40% support of the people.
	It was usually about a third each way.
	A third pro-Taliban, a third pro-US, and a third in the middle who just wanted...
	Some form of stability.
	If that meant the Taliban, fine, they'll take it.
	If that meant American service members, they'll take it.
	So, at one time, victory was probably achievable, a reasonable outcome.
	And that just faded, principally because I don't think the Afghans themselves are prepared, despite the thousands of sacrifices they've made, they're not prepared to do it themselves.
	Where's my evidence for that?
	Well, we've been there 20 years.
	I don't think they're prepared.
	If you have one-third of the society willing to blow up any member of the other two-thirds anytime they can, I don't know how Americans would deal with that.
	In fact, now that I've seen how Americans acted like sheep with regard to masks outdoors, I actually have less faith that Americans would stand up to what the Afghans have to put up with.
	Humans are weak in every society, and I'm sorry to say including ours, obviously with great exceptions.
	I think we've achieved something huge, that a lot more people are not dying.
	Let me ask you this.
	What if we get a Cambodia-like killing field if we leave?
	Would you think we made a mistake leaving?
	Is there any level of death in Afghanistan that would have you think we shouldn't have left?
	It's a good question, and morally, of course, that horrifies me.
	And it would horrify you even more than me, because you know Afghans.
	Yes, it's a very violent society, such that the normal American on the street can't even conceive.
	That's correct.
	Of what we're talking about.
	Right, so the people, the one-third you said who want us to stay, they're heroic.
	To be anti-Taliban as an Afghan is an act of daily heroism.
	Agreed, but I don't think they have the political capital or the will to actually make a difference, unfortunately.
	At least when I was there, it didn't seem to be the case.
	And if I had to guess, and from people who've gone there subsequently, it's even less now.
	All I can say is thank you for your service and thank you for your call.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	I think one of the things we can do on censorship is let's get back to actually what 230 was supposed to do, which is there's supposed to be a requirement that you act in good faith when you enforce your terms of service, that you don't discriminate on the basis of political viewpoint, give people the power to go to a real oversight board.
	namely a court that is truly independent, and have their day in court if they've been wrongly deplatformed.
	So in your view, Senator Hawley, should Facebook simply eliminate the oversight board?
	It is kind of now a fig tree with no leaves.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They should eliminate it.
	I think it's a joke.
	And by the way, there is no, there's no aspers on anybody who serves on the board.
	I also know Michael McConnell.
	I work for Michael McConnell, Judge McConnell.
	I was going to bring that up.
	Respect for him.
	So, and I thought, you know, I mean, I don't want to.
	Comment too much on anything he said because I think he's in a very tough position here.
	I did notice that he seemed to be a voice crying in the wilderness yesterday when this news was rolled out.
	I thought that what you heard from McConnell was emphasizing that Facebook actually followed none of its own rules, followed none of its own procedures, and that what the board was telling was that you actually should come up with a real procedure and follow it.
	I mean, you should just make this step up as you go along.
	But he seems to be totally drowned out by everybody else.
	On that board who just said, oh, you know, basically, whatever.
	I mean, Facebook, just do as you like.
	You don't have to explain yourself.
	And I just come back to the fact, Hugh, this is classic monopoly behavior when you don't have to actually appeal to your consumers anymore.
	When you can tell 75 million Americans who voted for a conservative candidate for president and for Congress, et cetera, when you can tell those people, we don't really care what your views are.
	We can take you for granted.
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	This is a remarkable exploration into one of the greatest lies that was ever perpetuated upon the American people, and that is...
	That claims circulated that Michael Brown had been holding his hands up and yelling, don't shoot at the time of his death.
	Turns out, well, the narrative completely fell apart.
	And eventually, Obama's own Justice Department concluded that the police officer, Darren Wilson, shot Michael Brown in self-defense after Brown attacked him and reached for his gun.
	But ultimately, to this day, I guarantee you, there are...
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	Where do you think we are as a nation?
	Well, I think that we're at a real turning point as a country, and you can see it, I think, with the radical far-left agenda that Joe Biden is trying to push on the country.
	And he wants to make this country unrecognizable, Eric, in terms of the things that I think are most important and I think Missourians think are most important, like, for instance, religious liberty, like freedom of speech.
	These are things that I think are...
	Hi.
	Jesus Christ, drives me crazy.
	It's not good.
	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	It's an honor to have this man on.
	Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which I covered at length on this program when it came out.
	Dr. Bhattacharya, thank you for coming on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	It's a great honor to be on.
	It's very sweet of you to say.
	Well, first of all, the Great Barrington Declaration.
	Can you summarize what that was?
	Because I want people to know again.
	I covered it in great detail.
	But I cannot find it at this time on the Internet because it says website under construction.
	So we're moving the website to a different server, so that's just temporary.
	It'll be back on very shortly.
	The Great Barrington Declaration was a...
	A very simple policy proposal that I put out with two colleagues, one at Harvard and one at Oxford, arguing for a very different way of dealing with this epidemic.
	It's based on two scientific facts.
	One, that there's a very steep age gradient in the risk of bad outcomes from COVID. If you're older...
	There's a thousand-fold difference, higher risk of mortality, for instance, from COVID if you should get infected compared to someone who's younger.
	For children, for instance, last year in the United States, there were fewer children that died of COVID than died from the flu last year, even though the flu kind of disappeared in the second half of the year.
	So that's a first fact.
	So we know who's vulnerable.
	It's older people and people with certain chronic diseases.
	The second fact is that the lockdowns have been devastating, have created all kinds of both health harms and non-health harms.
	Let's just focus on the health harms.
	People skipping cancer screening, people skipping cancer treatments, heart attacks not treated.
	On children, the results have been absolutely catastrophic.
	My kids have missed a full year of school almost.
	For instance, I live in California.
	Great harm to come as the consequences of the lockdown play itself out.
	So you have two groups.
	You have a group who's absolutely devastated and harmed by lockdowns, but are not actually particularly affected by COVID at high rates.
	And then you have a vulnerable group.
	The Great Barrington Declaration just follows from that.
	Protect the vulnerable.
	That's the first idea of the Great Barrington Declaration.
	Focus on protection of the vulnerable.
	And the second idea is lift the lockdowns.
	Because the lockdowns are doing such great harm.
	We put that out in October, and what I was expecting was to hear public health officials and public health community engage in thinking about how to protect the vulnerable in more creative ways than we have.
	For the most part, they have thought that the lockdowns predict the vulnerable, as we've seen, has failed.
	But instead, a lot of the public health community, including people like Dr. Fauci, Intentionally, I think, misread the declaration as a call to just let the disease spread through the population with no regard to the vulnerable.
	That's water under the bridge.
	With the vaccine, actually, it's interesting.
	We followed the Great Barrington Declaration plan in some sense, at least the first half of it.
	We used the vaccine to protect the vulnerable, prioritizing the elderly, which is the right thing to do, because that's the group that's most at risk.
	So that's basically the idea.
	And in a sense, like now we're at the second phase of the Great Branton Plan, where in many places around the United States, the lockdowns are being lifted, have been lifted now for months.
	Not so much California, but almost everywhere else.
	Would you say that Sweden was the one country that did the right thing?
	I mean, at the beginning of the epidemic, they had made some mistakes, similar to what we made in New York.
	They didn't protect their nursing homes, especially in Stockholm, and so they had some excess death that they realized up front that that was the vulnerable group they wouldn't have had.
	But most of the rest of the epidemic, they have followed that plan.
	They have not panicked the population.
	They have not asked businesses to close.
	They have not closed schools at all.
	They had full in-person schools with no restrictions.
	More or less through most of the epidemic.
	I think high schools, they limited for a short period of time.
	So I think, I mean, Sweden comes pretty close.
	The other, in the United States, closer is Florida.
	It's followed something akin to the Great Parenting Plan after a short initial lockdown.
	The governor of Florida lifted many of the orders in May, and then almost all of the rest of the orders in September.
	I think some local municipalities have tried to keep mask mandates in place.
	We've pushed back against that as well.
	With fantastic results.
	Compared to, so Florida is one of the oldest states in the Union, which means that you would expect to have a high death rate from COVID. But in fact, they've had, among the ten most populous states, the lowest age-adjusted death rate from COVID. They've had lower mortality from COVID in the older population and in the younger population.
	And their excess death rates, For younger people, are lower than, for instance, in California.
	In California, we've locked down almost the entire epidemic, and yet our mortality rate in our older population is higher than in Florida.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Please hold it there, if you would.
	Dr. Bhattacharya of Stanford Medical School is my guest, a rare, courageous person in the medical community.
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	He couldn't go because of COVID.
	Anyway, Nancy Pelosi tweets out, happy 90th birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays, a trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being.
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	And I think you're absolutely right, by the way, that folks who did vote for President Biden did not anticipate, or most of them at least, didn't anticipate this.
	I think they were lulled to sleep by the media narrative that he was a centrist.
	By the way, I dispute the idea that he was ever a centrist in his political career, ever.
	He's always been a liberal in whatever context he was in, whatever political context.
	And now he's gone to the far left of his own party and is allowing the progressives to do whatever it is they want to do.
	And boy, is this a radical agenda.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	And we're in a war.
	And I think a lot of Americans are aware of that.
	But a lot of people in leadership, certainly in government and even more certainly in the media, they are happy to see us just dramatically swerving leftward.
	And it's ugly to me when corporations, when you see corporations either not getting it or being such...
	Craven cowards that they're happy to go with whatever anybody tells them, whatever they're supposed to do, they'll say.
	So big tech, what can we do?
	Your book is called The Tyranny of Big Tech.
	It's monstrous.
	You know, I think the first thing and the most important thing we could do is break these companies up.
	They're monopolies.
	Let's call them what they are.
	They're monopoly companies.
	They try and kill competition, and they are killing competition.
	They've got enormous control over speech, over commerce, over information, news, journalism.
	You know, you really can't find an analog in American history.
	You could go back 100 years to the robber barons, and I talk about this in the book, the railroad barons.
	And those companies were very big and very powerful, but the tech companies are even bigger and even more powerful.
	So I think we've got to do now what we did.
	I'm on the phone with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration.
	And it sounds odd, but the Great Barrington Declaration is indeed great.
	So I have a lot of philosophical questions to ask you in light of your belief that the lockdown was largely an error.
	Which, I have no reason to assume you know, but a year ago, more than a year ago, I said that it was the greatest mistake I know of.
	Not the greatest evil, it's a different category, but the greatest mistake that humans might have ever made on an organized level.
	And the question I pose to you is, given that, how do you explain the vast majority, I mean, it's difficult to address that question in any meaningful way without recognizing that there is actually a wide variety of opinion.
	I think a lot of the media coverage has focused on a relatively narrow set of doctors who are very vocal and not many of whom are very prominently placed.
	But in fact, I think a large fraction of doctors, even epidemiologists, are uncomfortable and have been uncomfortable with the lockdown approach.
	When we put the Great Pension Declaration out, tens of thousands of doctors, epidemiologists, scientists signed on, despite enormous pressure to not.
	I've had lots of people who've signed on write to me and tell me that they have had their jobs threatened because of their support for these ideas.
	So there's been an enormous amount of pressure, I think, within the medical community and in the scientific community at large to sort of argue for or to at least passively support or stay silent about the lockdowns, even despite any qualms that someone might have about within the medical community and in the scientific community at large Who is that pressure coming from?
	um Often internal.
	Right, so it's coming from other doctors.
	Yeah, from other doctors.
	But instead of having an open debate about the wisdom or lack of wisdom about the lockdowns, about what the right policies might be, what's happened is essentially a demonization of people who dissent.
	It's nothing like I've ever seen in my, you know, I've been working as a professor for 20-some years.
	And I've been training for longer than that.
	I've never seen an environment anywhere like this ever before on a scientific question, at least that I've put my attention to.
	Okay, so I'm sorry to push you, but how do you explain that?
	I mean, I think part of it is, you know, this was a new disease that nobody had any experience with.
	The early experience out of China, I think, played a big role in how many scientists viewed this.
	They looked at the evidence coming out of China that this was, A, a very deadly disease for a certain set of people, and, B, that a draconian lockdown apparently dissolved the epidemic within a short number of months.
	I think that played an outsized role in people's imagination about what sorts of policies at work, how deadly disease was, and a whole range of other things.
	They landed on a set of policies, they meaning like the NIAID, Dr. Fauci, and the whole range of Western governments landed on a range of policies that essentially copied that approach, and they decided that was the only approach.
	They had a misleading sort of Take on how deadly the disease actually is.
	So for instance, in the early days of the epidemic, I worked on a set of studies called seroprevalence studies.
	A seroprevalence study measures the level of antibodies in the population at large, providing evidence of how widespread the disease was.
	So for instance, I helped conduct a seroprevalence study in Santa Clara County and LA County in April of last year.
	And what we found was that there were almost 40 or 50 more infections than had been picked up by public health authorities at the time.
	For every person walking around with the disease that the public health authorities knew about, there were 40 or 50 others they hadn't picked up.
	And that meant the disease was something on the order of 40 or 50 times less deadly.
	So the World Health Organization put out a number saying that it was 3% case fatality rate.
	That was incredibly misleading.
	In fact, it's something on the order of 0.2%.
	Why did they do that?
	Well, I think part of it was they didn't know the infection fatality rate because they hadn't conducted a study.
	But that's also a curious question.
	The first instinct that I had when I saw that number was I wanted to know how widespread the disease actually was.
	In H1N1, I guess 12 years ago, the seroprevalence studies found that the disease was 100 times more prevalent.
	Right, but I'm asking you, why did WHO mislead the world?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I think there's been a couple of times where I just wonder what they were thinking.
	So that 3.4% number, they should have put in context.
	They should have said these are the cases that are the most deadly, but we don't know anything about how widespread it is.
	And they said they should have argued for studies to check immediately.
	So in light of what you said, in light of the Great Barrington Declaration, what should an intelligent layperson, I am an intelligent layperson, conclude other than I no longer believe the medical authorities of the United States or the world?
	I mean, I guess I wouldn't go quite so far.
	I mean, I think there's a lot of good people in the establishment.
	What I would say is that we have to change our institutions so that they're more open to debate.
	Our medical institutions, our scientific institutions need to repudiate this very strange...
	Let me try to address this philosophically.
	There are two kinds of norms I see that I deal with in my work.
	First, there's a norm in science.
	The norm in science is there has to be absolutely free debate.
	Ideas are evaluated based on their consistency with evidence.
	All right.
	Forgive me, doctor.
	I want you to finish that thought.
	We just have a few minutes.
	I need your time, and I need that answer.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I know you're very proud of it.
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	This is a remarkable exploration into one of the greatest lies that was ever perpetuated upon the American people, and that is that claims circulated that Michael Brown had been holding his hands up and yelling, don't shoot, at the time of his death.
	Well, the narrative completely fell apart.
	And eventually, Obama's own Justice Department concluded that the police officer, Darren Wilson, shot Michael Brown in self-defense after Brown attacked him and reached for his gun.
	But ultimately, to this day, I guarantee you, there are millions of Americans who don't know that that's what happened.
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	A professor of medicine at Stanford University and a courageous doctor.
	No profession has a majority of its members as courageous, so it's not anti-doctor to say most doctors are not courageous.
	He is and co-author of the very important Great Barrington, named after the city it was drafted, Declaration.
	Just to review, we just have three minutes, and I did want your answer, obviously.
	I asked you why an intelligent layperson, knowing all of what you've said or believing all of what you've said, should take medical authority seriously.
	You said that might be a little too extreme of you.
	I don't know why it is, but you were talking about two norms, so please continue.
	Sure.
	So there's two norms, right?
	One is scientific debate has to be open.
	When there's evidence that comes out, you decide who's right, who's wrong.
	It has to be absolutely open to new ideas and challenges.
	There cannot be any violation of that or you're not doing science.
	That's norm one.
	On the other hand, there's a public health norm where there has to be some unanimity of messaging.
	So when there's dissent in public health, well, I mean, that might undermine public health.
	It's dangerous to undermine public health.
	I mean, that's actually not an unreasonable norm, right?
	If you have a whole range of opinions about public health, what the right thing to do, it may undermine the ability of public health people to give out good information to help guide the public who's not paying attention reasonably to the scientific literature.
	The problem, I think, has been the substitute in a situation where there really was deep scientific uncertainty, we immediately jump to the public health norm of unanimity messaging.
	The moral basis of that Norm is that the science has been done to justify it, but it hadn't been done to justify it.
	And through the whole epidemic, we've seen this, that somehow it's dangerous to push back on public health messaging and ideas that actually don't have a solid scientific basis, where there's great deep uncertainty and huge amount of debate still left to be done.
	And it's been dangerous for science and incredibly damaging for public health.
	I think we need to address both.
	Both science and public health have been harmed by this epidemic, about the way that the policies have been moving forward in the epidemic, and I hope to be able to help address that in the coming year.
	Well, you are, and I salute you.
	It's an honor to speak to you.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	It's an honor to speak to you as well.
	Yes.
	The people who love science.
	Do not love lockdowns and masks.
	That's the science.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	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 in 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.
	It's 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.
	Speaker 1: 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 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.
	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 conversations with countries around the world is they're determined to do the same thing.
	What does that sound like to you, Senator Rubio?
	Look, I'm going to be fair, okay?
	I don't entirely think that what he said is completely...
	And let me just say this about Blinken, okay?
	I actually think he's a lot better than what we could have gotten, okay?
	And I think he's better than John Kerry was.
	That said, I mean, obviously he works for an administration whose direction is concerning, and we have to keep an eye on it.
	China's going to be a rich and powerful country.
	And if that's what he means by not containing them, he's absolutely right.
	China is going to be a rich and powerful country.
	For the rest of our lifetime and beyond.
	That's not the issue.
	The issue is whether it's going to supplant the United States.
	The issue is whether it's going to become the world's dominant country.
	And the real issue, from a national security perspective, is whether a dangerous imbalance develops between the U.S. and China, where they become more powerful and have more leverage over us.
	That's really the fundamental issue here.
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	This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
	Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina gave a powerful speech responding to President Biden's address to Congress.
	Scott's message was simple.
	Republicans want to work together with Biden to solve some of our country's most significant challenges.
	But so far, the reaction by Democrats has been to go it alone.
	The substance was good, but what made Scott's message so compelling was that it included his personal story.
	How he came to the policy views he has, the political perspective he holds, and why he chose a career in public service.
	Scott doesn't fit the narrative of what some think a typical Republican looks and sounds like.
	That's good, because the conservative movement has a lot more texture and diversity than the mainstream media or the progressive left would like you to believe.
	What Scott was able to do was to earnestly convey his story and views in a way that people could relate to.
	We could use a lot more of that in our politics to be sure.
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	So Michael Brown, George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, all of these instances are really, really come down to being power grabs.
	They all support this idea that racism is systemic.
	It isn't.
	There is not systemic racism in America, but you have the right to say, look how many Americans buy into this and believe this, even when the facts just stare them in.
	Michael Brown precipitated his own death.
	He attacked the policeman.
	He hit him in the face with his fists.
	He wrestled him in his car for the gun.
	Michael Brown was 300 pound 18 year old teenager.
	So finally he runs away, he runs back finally in self defense, the policeman fires his gun and shoots him. - We watched a police officer save a young girl's life.
	We watched an officer literally prevent a human being from being stabbed by a raging, frankly disturbed, violent woman who was wildly trying to plunge a knife into people.
	And even when people saw the video, they condemned that officer, Shelby.
	Yeah.
	They think that's where their power is, in the white racism.
	And so they, again, a poetic truth that he was a racist and the girl he killed was a victim.
	She was a perpetrator.
	She was about to commit murder, as you say.
	It's absurd.
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	You know, Wednesdays we wouldn't do the male-female hour.
	So we're pretty consistent.
	Tuesday, the third hour of the show, is devoted to the great issues of life.
	The non-clarity and non-wisdom on the great issues is the root of our...
	We are entering a dark age.
	I've never used these words.
	I've never used them before.
	Exactly what the dark ages are supposed to have been is what America and much of the West is entering.
	The age of irrationality.
	That's what characterized the dark ages.
	At least in the way people understand the dark ages.
	The irrational.
	The emotion dominate.
	The intellect is useless against that.
	So this Ultimate Issues Hour is very self-justifying.
	My topic today is a headline and an article from CNBC. And I will read parts of it to you.
	The headline is, 51% of young Americans say they feel down, depressed, or hopeless.
	Here's how advocates are trying to help.
	Incidentally, the here's how advocates are trying to help is as much a part of this Ultimate Issues Hour as the actual figure of depressed young people.
	Because it is part of the age of...
	Non-wisdom, the help that they want to give these young people.
	What they all need is more psychologists and more psychiatrists.
	That's the belief.
	Yep.
	Well, if you don't know why people are depressed, then you won't have any solution to how to alleviate that.
	Let me make clear, some people are depressed because of biological factors.
	I am not addressing that minority of people.
	That has always existed.
	From ancient times to the present, there has been a percentage of humans who have physiological, psychological damage.
	My heart goes out to these people.
	My heart equally goes out to the people in their lives, their spouses.
	Their parents, their children, their friends, their siblings.
	But nevertheless, that's not what I am addressing.
	In June 2020, the CDC released data that suggests one in four adults ages 18 to 24 have considered suicide.
	Now, I don't know how they arrive at these figures.
	I'm just using this as a jumping-off point for points that I wish to make about youth today and the ultimate issue that I want to address.
	But it's an interesting piece of data, is it not?
	Did you ever meditate on suicide between 18 and 24?
	No, I'm not kidding.
	See, on the one hand, yeah, I mean, who doesn't think about it?
	I'm surprised three-quarters never considered it for a second.
	Right, I mean, I had one incident of a real broken heart.
	Yeah, you had a broken heart, exactly.
	You know, your girlfriend breaks up with you, and you're devastated.
	Why should I go on?
	So I don't know if this is revealing.
	And the reason I'm challenging it is because I believe in intellectual honesty.
	In other words, it would buttress my theory better for me to believe, oh my God, this is really a big issue.
	Also, what does it even mean to consider suicide?
	Consider it for five minutes?
	Consider it for a month?
	Try it out?
	Okay.
	Anyway, according to the recently released Harvard Youth Poll, Of 2,513 Americans ages 18 to 29, 51% said that at least several days in the previous two weeks, they had felt down, depressed, or hopeless.
	Well, felt down is not a big deal.
	Depressed or hopeless is a big deal.
	So, is it...
	Again, it's a tough study for me to understand entirely what they're suggesting, but I believe that a great number of young people...
	I wouldn't bring this to you on the air.
	I wouldn't certainly devote an hour to it on the Ultimate Issues Hour if I didn't believe that a very high percentage of young people are lost.
	That I do believe.
	Young people reported a range of serious mental health systems.
	In the Harvard study, a startling 68% say they have little energy.
	Now, that's a significant number to me.
	Little energy?
	I don't think you could relate to that, and I know I couldn't ever relate to that.
	Yes, that's depression.
	You don't want to get out of bed.
	All right, that's a serious number.
	Two-thirds?
	If that's accurate, two-thirds of young people have little energy?
	The time in life when you have the most energy?
	Fifty-nine percent, they have trouble with sleep.
	That's also very important.
	Sixty percent of young people have trouble sleeping?
	These are more indicative, if these were accurate studies, obviously.
	52% find little pleasure in doing things.
	That's a big deal.
	That is a very big deal.
	More than half of young people find little pleasure in doing things.
	49% have a poor appetite or are overeating.
	So that's half.
	Again, half.
	48% have trouble concentrating.
	32% are moving so slowly or are fidgety to the point that others notice.
	28% have thoughts of self-harm.
	That I never had.
	I mean, other than, you know, that fleeting, oh, what if I died?
	A November 2020 survey overseen by the National Association of Student Personnel Administration.
	What is that?
	Did you ever hear of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators?
	What is a student personnel administrator anyway?
	Is it a make-do job to employ more people?
	Could be anything, okay.
	The survey of 3,500 full-time students currently enrolled in four-year degree programs found that 81% of college students are experiencing significant levels of anxiety.
	All right, again, if that's accurate, that's serious.
	The first ones I read to you, I questioned how serious.
	But this is serious.
	81% of college students are experiencing significant levels of anxiety.
	All these data, I do tend to believe them.
	I think there's a terrible crisis with young people.
	Most of you who have listened regularly know why I think that.
	This hour will enable me to develop it further.
	The CEO of this National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Kevin Kruger, tells CNBC Make It that while reported anxiety among young people and adolescents has steadily increased over the past decade, remote learning is a significant cause for the elevated levels of stress this year.
	It was a crime against young people to close the schools.
	I state again, I do not believe that most teachers give a damn about their students.
	If they did, they would have taught them in the classroom.
	Okay?
	Give a damn is not what's in your heart.
	Give a damn is what you do.
	They did nothing for students, most teachers, in the last year.
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	Hi, Charlie.
	My question is about big corporations.
	Similar to our government, should we have some sort of check and balance for big corporations to keep them from becoming tyrannical?
	As well as what would those checks and balances be while still maintaining a free market capitalistic economy?
	Thanks for your insight, Amanda.
	Well, what we're dealing with right now in our country is rather unprecedented because The vast majority of the pressure that we are seeing from these companies are technology-based.
	And their model is not about building railroads.
	It's not about producing anything you could touch.
	Instead, it's about figuring out better ways to sell you.
	You see, the technology companies in our country, it's a completely different profit model than almost anything we've ever seen.
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	And I think you're absolutely right, by the way, that folks who did vote for President Biden did not anticipate, or most of them at least, didn't anticipate this.
	I think they were lulled to sleep by the media narrative that he was a centrist.
	By the way, I dispute the idea that he was ever a centrist in his political career, ever.
	He's always been a liberal in whatever context he was in, whatever political context.
	And now he's gone to the far left of his own party and is allowing the progressives to do whatever it is they want to do.
	And boy, is this a radical agenda.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	And we're in a war.
	And I think a lot of Americans are aware of that.
	But a lot of people in leadership, certainly in government and even more certainly in the media, they are happy to see us just dramatically swerving leftward.
	And it's ugly to me when corporations, when you see corporations either not getting it or being such craven cowards that they're happy to go with whatever anybody tells them, whatever they're supposed to do, they'll say.
	So big tech, what can we do?
	Your book is called The Tyranny of Big Tech.
	It's monstrous.
	You know, I think the first thing and the most important thing we could do is break these companies up.
	They're monopolies.
	Let's call them what they are.
	They're monopoly companies.
	They try and kill competition, and they are killing competition.
	They've got enormous control over speech, over commerce, over information, news, journalism.
	You really can't find an analog in American history.
	You could go back 100 years to the robber barons, and I talk about this in the book, the railroad barons.
	And those companies were very big and very powerful, but the tech companies are even bigger and even more powerful.
	So I think we've got to do now what we did then.
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	everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	And before I go on, I do want to bring to your attention an extremely significant movement in this country, Job Creators Network.
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	This Ultimate Issues Hour is devoted to the data on depression, hopelessness, lethargy among vast numbers of young Americans, a first in American history.
	Finally, in this report, over the past year, there has also been a reported increase in substance abuse disorders among young people, attributed in part to mental health challenges.
	What does that mean?
	Attributed in part to mental health challenges.
	Then they quote this man, DeGruy.
	I don't remember what position.
	Oh, yes.
	I guess he works with students.
	Yes.
	He's pushing for the passage of two state bills that would increase funding for substance abuse disorder prevention and curbing the prescription of opioids to young people.
	I lived in the mountains when I was in my early 20s and was engaged to a man who was a semi-pro skier.
	And broke his back, got addicted to opioids, and used heroin for the first time, and overdosed and died, she says.
	This is an unfortunately very, very common story.
	Okay, so we'll have more mental health programs.
	I'm sure they'll be great, very helpful.
	I'm sarcastic.
	I don't think they'll be particularly helpful.
	Some might.
	Anything that works is good by me.
	Has anybody asked why hopelessness has not been induced by the dominant people in young people's lives?
	Parents?
	Schools?
	Media?
	Right?
	You have student debt you can't pay.
	For an idiotic education, mislabeled education, you wasted every penny.
	You're now $50,000 in debt.
	Anyway, you may not even survive because there's an existential threat of global warming.
	You have zero to be proud of as an American.
	The founders of this country were rotten slave owners.
	The country was founded in order to preserve slavery.
	And anyway, if you're white, you're a damn racist.
	But we will have Drag Queen Story Hour just to confuse you about sex and gender.
	So you can look forward to that.
	God Schmod.
	Bible Schmeibel.
	Any wonder that there are so many depressed young people in this country?
	When I look back, everything that kept me ebullient and joy-filled in life is dead for most kids today.
	Dead.
	All they have is get good grades so you can get into a good college.
	This is their meaning in life.
	This vapid, vacuous, nothing ideal of go to a prestigious college so that Yale can pervert your conscience.
	It's sick stuff, my friends.
	Parents are just as culpable as they go along with it.
	Half of them believe it.
	They're called Democrats.
	Country stinks.
	The future stinks.
	It's worth getting into debt for college.
	Right?
	No wonder.
	I'd like to see the...
	I would.
	I'd just like to see the data on kids who go to church or synagogue every week versus other kids.
	Kids who have a religious home versus other kids.
	The word religious isn't even mentioned in here.
	What they need is more psychiatrists.
	Not more religion.
	More therapists.
	Because therapy is a religion.
	Well, when you ask stupid questions, you get stupid answers.
	Okay.
	Jennifer in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Mr. Prager?
	Yes.
	So glad to speak with you.
	I am so angry, I don't know where to put my emotions.
	I'm on my way to pick up my three kids from Catholic school, and I'm just calling to affirm everything you're saying.
	Even with religious education, even with all that we do at home, these children are being told that they are living in a terrible country.
	That their values are empty if they don't buy what the media is selling them.
	It's a mess.
	And I see it in my own children, I see it in their friends.
	I'm curious, is the Catholic school they're attending actually Catholic?
	With a capital C? It is, but you know, it's not immune.
	That's right, it's a very good way of putting it.
	One of my sixth-graders teachers actually was speaking about the benefits of communism.
	No kidding.
	At a Catholic school.
	That's why I asked the question.
	Yeah.
	So quite frankly, what we do is we turn to places like PragerU.
	We subscribe to that.
	I show them your videos.
	We do the kids' videos.
	I'm taking classes on Hillsdale College online.
	We listen to Jordan Peterson.
	We listen to Bishop Barron.
	I am trying to fill them with as much goodness Goodness, truth, and beauty.
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	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	The millions of listeners to this show, the people who watch us on Rumble, is this the moment where we have, let's put it thusly, the internal clarification of the relationship between MAGA And the Republican establishment.
	You've been there for years.
	Is this the moment?
	That's a very interesting way of putting it.
	And I've been thinking a lot about what's going on in a broader, larger context.
	And if you think about the names, right?
	You've got Liz Cheney, who's obviously the remnant of the Bush-Cheney era of the Republican Party.
	Big wars.
	Overextension.
	Spending.
	Spending.
	Trillions of dollars that should have gone to fighting against and pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party.
	Amnesty.
	Weakness.
	Weakness.
	Globalism, of course.
	Unfair trade deals.
	And that is now giving way to the MAGA heartbeat of the Republican Party.
	And I think that is what's happening.
	And even the way this went down the last couple months, Liz Cheney had a vote.
	To oust her.
	She had the backing of Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, and Steve Scalise, the whip.
	And then she just doubled down.
	She completely misread where the Republican Party national...
	...and she's a great fan of the Republican Party.
	...and she's a great fan of the Republican Party.
	Boy, if you're lethargic between 18 and 24, it's a bad sign.
	No joy and stuff.
	I mean, this is like majority.
	Massive movement toward more drug use.
	Everything beautiful has been crushed by the left in their lives.
	Everything.
	Religion.
	And as the woman just called me, who's fighting even the trends in her Catholic school, which is better than a regular school, they don't have truth, beauty, and goodness.
	That's so great.
	I want to tell you all a story.
	Many years ago, a former Minnesota senator, Norm Coleman, a wonderful human being, invited me, or had a Christian school invite me to give the speech at their, I think it was their graduation.
	I'm sure it was, yeah.
	A prominent Christian school.
	And I think their motto was truth, beauty, and goodness.
	That's why I asked the woman to repeat the middle word.
	Truth, beauty, and goodness.
	I said, so I spoke, I gave the talk, and they video every graduation talk, and then they put it up on their website.
	They videoed me giving the talk on how there is an assault on truth, beauty, and goodness in our society.
	This school was already in the hands of a fair number of leftists.
	They would never invite me today.
	I mean, things have gotten much worse and they were bad then.
	They never put my video up or they put it up and immediately took it down.
	So there was no video record of a speech that I gave at a graduation ceremony.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Like it didn't happen.
	When I spoke about beauty, I spoke about...
	Much of contemporary art, abstract art, is having no beauty.
	And the field I really know, music, much of the modern music, classical music, is not beautiful at all.
	It can't be.
	It's atonal.
	I mean, the number of atonal pieces that are nice, you can count on one hand.
	So don't tell me about the Berg Violin Concerto.
	I'm well aware of it.
	The assault on beauty, Jackson Pollock paintings are not beautiful.
	They're meaningless.
	They're completely meaningless.
	And I'm picking the most popular, most expensive, I think, of the moderns.
	The architecture, if it's ugly, ah.
	You look at Washington, D.C. and the beautiful architecture.
	It inspires you.
	You look at a lot of the stuff built since, it's a cacophony of shapes.
	Truth?
	Forget it.
	There's no belief in truth.
	You tell what is effective.
	And goodness?
	Goodness has been redefined as having good positions.
	What we today call, we didn't have the word then, Was it woke?
	Woke is good.
	Right?
	If you say all whites are racist, then you're a good person.
	It's what the kids have today.
	Tell me, what do they have that's life-fulfilling, that's life-sustaining, that makes you want to get up the next day?
	Yep.
	Let's see.
	Ben in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Hi, Mr. Prager.
	It's a real pleasure to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	So, I wanted to make a comment about...
	I know oftentimes you say that youth is wasted on the young.
	Well, I quoted Bernard Shaw.
	Go ahead.
	I'm just saying I quoted...
	I have said that.
	You're right.
	I'm just saying that I always...
	All for the source of the quote, George Bernard Shaw.
	Go ahead.
	Correct.
	And I see that going on on my college campus day to day.
	I see kids that are scared to not die themselves, but they're scared to get other people sick.
	They're scared to leave their dorm room, leave their apartments, and just go live a fulfilling life.
	Alright, stay on with me.
	I want to talk to you more.
	And why you don't have that.
	I'm curious.
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	Training now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	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 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, but this is 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.
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	We talk about that a lot in this program.
	Yeah, this is a big hour.
	The lost souls of the young people.
	In many cases, parents are as responsible as the society.
	Spoiling their children, being their buddies, not their parents, not giving them God, not giving them parental authority, not giving them love of America.
	They gave them nothing.
	They gave them ballet lessons.
	Ballet lessons don't fill your life.
	They're a great thing.
	I'm in love with the arts.
	And a few people, yes, a few people, will find all their meaning in life in ballet.
	There are very few of them.
	Instead of giving them things that fill their conscience and fill their soul, there is no soul anyway, it's a material universe in most American homes, But that filled their soul.
	They gave them time-consuming lessons.
	So that their resume is all the more impressive to do the only important thing in life, and that is get into a quote-unquote good college, where they can then truly become alienated from everything.
	So we have a young man calling from Philadelphia.
	Ben, are you at college?
	Yes, I am.
	What college, if I may ask?
	Villanova University.
	And what do you see, you were telling me and my audience?
	So I see young people just like myself that are afraid to leave their dorm rooms, they're afraid to leave their apartments, because they don't want to get other people sick, they don't want to take risks, and they don't want to live life to its fullest, which is what you're meant to do when you're young.
	It is astonishing to me the amount of fear in your age group.
	When I see people your age wearing masks outdoors, walking alone, or even with friends, all I do is feel pity for them and for America.
	Why are you different?
	I would say I'm different because from a young age, and especially in the past four or five years, my parents have always instilled in me But the time to take risks in life is when you are young.
	Because that is when you can afford the most risk.
	I'm not tied down by a mortgage or a family.
	And it's not bad to be tied down by those things.
	Those are lovely things.
	But the time where I can go out and do the most and take the most risk is when I'm young.
	Well, you have great parents.
	That's fantastic.
	I'm curious, by the way, when was the last time you were on a date?
	The last time I was on a date was last week.
	And before that?
	Probably about a week before that.
	Are you typical or atypical in that regard?
	I would say I am more atypical in that regard.
	That's why I asked the question.
	My assumption is that a lot of college kids haven't gone on a date in a year.
	The funny thing that I hear from especially my girlfriend is that when I took her on her first date, she's like, I have never been on an actual date before.
	And I hear that from so many young women at my age that they've never been on a true date before.
	That's right.
	And it's astonishing to me.
	Well, just out of curiosity, is your home religious or secular?
	We're religious, Catholic.
	Well, there you go, folks.
	Shockeroo, eh?
	What would you folks have bet?
	I purposely omitted any reference to religion the entire dialogue.
	And then at the end, I just thought I might take a gamble.
	Gee, 50-50 chance, right?
	Secular homes very rarely produce that level of maturity.
	They can.
	A home that believes in Zeus could produce a mature child.
	But the odds are overwhelming that it's religion.
	And by religion, I mean organized religion, not spirituality, which means nothing.
	Sorry, it just means nothing.
	It's like I'm very musical.
	Do you read music?
	No, no, just very musical.
	Do you play an instrument?
	No, no, just very musical.
	No, it means you love music.
	But it doesn't mean you're musical.
	All right, anyway.
	Let's go.
	We have a professor calling in from New York City.
	Hello, Kevin.
	Hello, Dennis.
	It's such an honor to speak to you.
	Thank you so much.
	Well, to cover a bit of range of things, you know, at school we're not allowed to talk religion unless, of course, you're going to destroy it.
	And that's always part of it.
	But I still say God bless you when people sneeze.
	Well, for that alone, I hope you have tenure.
	I do.
	Okay, then you can say God bless you.
	That's why I say God bless you.
	Exactly.
	That was my point, yeah.
	But the other point, though, too, is about anxiety.
	International students especially have a credit allotment that they have to have to full-time, but being online, they haven't relinquished that.
	And the amount of studio courses that students have to take, they kept them at the full load.
	Which creates a lot of anxiety in the students.
	But they bring in psychologists to deal with the anxiety, but they don't want to get to the root of the problem, which is always the issue.
	Never get to the context.
	Never get to the root of it.
	And the root of the problem is?
	The root of the problem is?
	Well, the root of the problem is that we have to work with those students and set the right guidelines accordingly so we don't keep putting so much pressure on them.
	Not to not work hard.
	But to keep it in context that we're dealing with a very difficult situation online and we could give them the opportunity to expand in a couple of the assignments, but not all the assignments.
	It's very, very difficult.
	What areas do you teach?
	It's difficult for the teachers.
	Communications, advertising, design, and the other side of it as well, because it's now becoming more of an art.
	It's becoming much more philosophical.
	It's becoming much more academic, less creative.
	But they're keeping it more in the abstract, and students, especially the foreign students, are concerned over, what am I doing?
	I'm feeling lost.
	I'm feeling confused.
	Oh, that's okay.
	That's where we want you to be.
	Not my class, and my class is popular.
	Right.
	Thank you.
	That's a great point.
	I want to keep that.
	That's right.
	We want you to be confused.
	I don't know if foreign students are going to keep coming to American universities.
	Come to an American university.
	Learn to hate America.
	And yourself.
	Thank you.
	But so far, the reaction by Democrats has been to go it alone.
	The substance was good, but what made Scott's message so compelling was that it included his personal story, how he came to the policy views he has, the political perspective he holds, and why he chose a career in public service.
	Scott doesn't fit the narrative of what some think a typical Republican looks and sounds like.
	That's good.
	Because the conservative movement has a lot more texture and diversity than the mainstream media or the progressive left would like you to believe.
	What Scott was able to do was to earnestly convey his story and views in a way that people could relate to.
	We could use a lot more of that in our politics to be sure.
	I'm Lonnie Chen.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Mike Dillinger Show.
	So Michael Brown, George Floyd, you know, all of these, Trayvon Martin, all of these instances are really, really come down to being, to being power grabs, uh, They all support this idea that racism is systemic.
	It isn't.
	There is not systemic racism in America.
	But you have the right to say, look how many Americans buy into this and believe this, even when the facts just stare them at.
	Michael Brown precipitated his own death.
	He attacked the policeman.
	He hit him in the face with his fists.
	He wrestled him in his car for the gun.
	Michael Brown was a 300-pound, 18-year-old teenager.
	So, finally, he runs away, he runs back.
	Finally, in self-defense, the policeman fires his gun and shoots him.
	We watched a police officer save a young girl's life.
	We watched an officer literally prevent a human being from being stabbed by a raging, frankly disturbed, violent woman who was wildly trying to plunge a knife into people.
	And even when people saw the video, they condemned that officer, Shelby.
	Yeah.
	They think that's where their power is.
	In the white racism.
	So again, a poetic truth that he was a racist and the girl he killed was a victim.
	She was a perpetrator.
	She was about to commit murder, as you say.
	It's a...
	I have touched a nerve this hour.
	I'm looking at your calls, and I want you to know my first reaction, and you know I never patronize you.
	How many intelligent listeners I have.
	I don't often say that, because I hate their sounding cliché.
	People praise their audience and so on.
	But I'm looking at these, and there's a lot of depth to what you have to say.
	Ultimate Issues Hour has been about these reports about the staggering rates of depression among young Americans, 18 to 24. Please don't hang up.
	I want to read your comments.
	Paul in St. Paul, doom-scrolling, quote-unquote, incessant absorption of negative news and culture has made his daughter depressed.
	That's right.
	I'd like to address all these.
	I'm going to cover this again in the very near future.
	This thing needs almost a weekly hour.
	What's happening to your kids?
	Our kids.
	George in Tampa, Florida is an addiction expert.
	Teen suffering because the self is being deconstructed in Western culture.
	Another intelligent point.
	That's what the left does is deconstruct.
	Remember, they build nothing.
	They destroy everything.
	Fred in Dallas, Texas.
	Teens are facing electronic overwhelm, which leads to depression.
	I think there's a lot of truth to that, and I'd like to talk about that also at length.
	Gretchen in Houston.
	Daughter is heading to college.
	She and her friends all seem to be depressed.
	Social media is destructive.
	She and her friends all seem to be depressed.
	Well, the crime committed against them of locking them down this last year is a big factor.
	It was an immoral act done by crackpots followed by the left to ruin your children's lives this last year.
	But it was done all over the world.
	So I just want to make that clear.
	In this country, the left far more than the right supported it, but in Israel, there's a right-wing prime minister who locked down their children.
	Betsy in Chicago, substitute teacher, eight-year-old, wrote, he missed friends so much he hoped he never woke up.
	That's right.
	That I blame parents for, to a certain extent, who bought the Kool-Aid, drank it, not just bought it, drank it, in great quantities, that their children were in danger from other children.
	Russell in South Carolina, the crisis of lack of meaning.
	That's right.
	And Connor, I want to talk to you, 24-year-old.
	Thank you, everybody.

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