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May 12, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	We'll talk about Liz Cheney.
	We'll talk about Israel and the Middle East.
	We'll talk about a whole host of things.
	But first, something I have been looking forward to, and a person I've been looking forward to for a while, on a subject about which I fully acknowledge vast ignorance.
	Nevertheless, it is very important.
	I try not to be ignorant about important subjects.
	But this one is an exception, so I will learn along with you about Bitcoin.
	Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy.
	He is the founder of the Saylor Academy, about which we'll hear something, and a leading authority on Bitcoin.
	Michael Saylor, I deeply appreciate you coming on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hey, thanks for having me.
	Yes, sir.
	Well, I wasn't kidding.
	As much as I read about it, I don't understand it.
	So, start me from the beginning.
	Okay.
	What is Bitcoin?
	Well, I think if we started with gold, it's easy to understand Bitcoin.
	The idea of gold is, I buy a bar of gold, and I bury it somewhere, and I hold it for 100 years, and 100 years I've still got the gold.
	So we call that a bearer asset.
	So we've had the gold standard for 5,000 years.
	And typically, you know, when people had money and they wanted to save it and hold it for a long period of time, they would convert to gold.
	Now, the problem with gold is that gold miners keep creating more gold so that it inflates the supply.
	And the more gold that you create, the less valuable the gold is.
	And the second problem with gold is...
	I have to store it in a vault in Manhattan if I've got a lot of gold and then the bank has control of it.
	And it's not easy to move it.
	If I had a lot of gold and I wanted to carry it to an airport, I couldn't get it through a metal detector.
	And the other problem with gold is if I had a bunch of gold buried in my house and people knew I had it, they could just blow up the house and the gold would last.
	Gold is pretty indestructible.
	So I can shoot you in the head and take your gold.
	And that means that it makes you a target.
	The final problem with gold is that if you actually put a bunch of your wealth in gold, bankers and financiers will create gold derivatives.
	And they call it paper gold.
	And then they'll short sell it.
	You might sell for every one ounce of real gold.
	You might sell 100 ounces of fake gold.
	And that keeps the price down.
	If God came down from heaven above and wanted to fix gold, what would you do?
	Well, the first thing you would do is you would identify 21 million gold bars, and Bitcoin is that, 21 million coins.
	So the second thing you would do is you would make it illegal to mine any more gold, so there will never ever be any more mining of the gold coin.
	So Bitcoin is maxed at $21 million.
	There would never be any more than $21 million.
	The third thing you would do is you'd wave your magic wand and make it dematerialized, just virtual gold, because that way it doesn't, you know, a billion dollars of gold weighs like 30,000 pounds.
	Well, what if a billion dollars of gold weighed like nothing?
	So I'd make it virtual gold.
	And now I give it a protocol.
	That's the fourth thing you do.
	Give it a software protocol so you can program it on your mobile phone or put it on a computer.
	And if I have programmable gold on my computer, then I can move it at the speed of light anywhere on Earth.
	And I can create a computer program that will do a million transactions or a million operations in seconds on the gold.
	I can make it smart.
	So the idea behind Bitcoin is let's create a digital gold which is smarter, faster, stronger than ordinary gold.
	Let's make it live forever.
	The problem with gold is if I create 2% more gold every year, then you divide 2% into 72 and you realize the half-life of gold is 36 years.
	That is, if you store a bunch of money in gold, you'll lose half of it in 36 years.
	Over the course of 100 years, you're going to lose 90% of it.
	What if I didn't want to lose it ever?
	What if I wanted it to last forever, for a million years?
	Well, I can't keep doubling the amount of gold.
	So Bitcoin is, in essence, an immortal, stronger, faster, smarter form of gold.
	Now, that sounds like a really good idea.
	What's the problem with that?
	Well, it's a computer program, and what if the programmer changes the program?
	And so the real genius of Bitcoin is they created this computer program in cyberspace, but they didn't give it to a company or a CEO. They decentralized it, and they scattered it like a life form, like planting algae or something, and just letting it spread throughout everywhere else on Earth.
	So Bitcoin runs identically on tens of thousands of computers.
	Nobody controls them.
	Nobody can even figure out where they are.
	They're all talking to each other.
	And so there's no CEO to screw it up.
	There's no company to screw it up.
	There's no bank to seize it.
	There's no country.
	There's no mayor.
	There's no governor.
	There's no federal government that can change the rules on you.
	Once you release that into cyberspace, it's just like a living life form.
	So what is Bitcoin?
	Bitcoin is digital gold on an open, decentralized monetary network, which has very particular rules, but no rulers.
	Nobody can change it, and it's very egalitarian.
	Anybody on Earth, in any country, any time, they can plug into the Bitcoin network, and they're all treated fairly and equally, with nobody playing favorites.
	And nobody can take advantage of anybody else.
	So that's what Bitcoin is.
	It's a very fair, open, digital, monetary network.
	Okay, I have a lot of questions.
	That was wonderful, Lloyd.
	Thank you.
	If there is a terror attack, or the grid goes down, or there's a terrible earthquake where I live in California, and I need to barter or buy food, If I want to offer somebody who has food gold or Bitcoin, which would they take?
	Well, I think the gold bug sometimes will make that argument, I guess, that if every computer, if your mobile phone's shut down...
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Even if, forgive me, even if they weren't shut down.
	A guy has bread, and I say, what would you like?
	Turn on your computer or your phone and I'll give you Bitcoin or I'll give you gold.
	Well, I think Bitcoin's much better because Bitcoin can be distributed to 8 billion people on a $50 smartphone and you can buy $382 of Bitcoin for less than 1% commission and you can transfer it instantly and you can sell it for less than 1% commission.
	So it's completely liquid and egalitarian, and it goes to the four corners of the earth.
	And anybody, you know, a guy in Africa with an Android phone that costs $42 could somehow pay $18 to another person in Africa.
	Whereas if you think about gold, gold in a quantity less than a couple hundred thousand dollars, it trades with a markup of 40%.
	I mean, you have to pay a 40%, 50% commission, wait six weeks to order gold coins.
	And if you wanted to sell your gold coins back and monetize them, like, these guys will buy your gold at $60 a coin, and they'll sell it to you at $90 a coin, and there's four weeks delay.
	So the overhead, I mean, there's no way that the world is going back to gold coins or silver coins, because you can't cut them in half, and you can't ship them, and you can't give them to 5 billion people, and it costs 40% markup.
	So in theory, you like the idea of having a coin, but like, so how are you going to buy $8.72 worth of stuff with a one-ounce gold coin that costs you $2,100?
	What are you going to do?
	You know, practically speaking...
	Right.
	So for the layperson like me, at least with gold, and gold is not the issue, but obviously you've raised it, and it's fine.
	I have something that exists.
	I have something physical.
	I don't think people could wrap their heads around.
	I can't fully.
	I own nothing but something on my phone.
	Yeah.
	Let me take a different approach.
	Let's talk about if I wanted to give music to 5 billion people and my choice was Amazon Music or Spotify streaming for $9 a month or ship you a Steinway Grand Piano.
	Yeah, it's pretty obvious I can't ship a piano with a piano player.
	To five billion people.
	All right, I hear you.
	Please hold on.
	You're invaluable.
	Michael Saylor, thank you.
	Thank you.
	We'll be back.
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	Hi, Charlie.
	My name is Jacob and I am subscribed.
	My question is, are we as Republicans radical in our ideals or rather does the left see 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.
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	Hi, everybody.
	One of America's most prominent business people, Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, also founder of the Saylor Academy, which we'll learn about in a moment.
	We're talking about Bitcoin and having it explained.
	Who came up with this idea?
	Unless you want to continue your Steinway Spotify analogy.
	Let me just quickly resolve that.
	What we want to do is we want to give music to billions of people, so we dematerialize it, make it digital, we make it run on a mobile phone, and we put it on a streaming protocol.
	If you want to spread your ideas to people, right, you put them on the radio waves because everybody can't show up in person, right?
	The physicality of you giving a speech in person is going to be too expensive.
	If I wanted to give knowledge to billions of people, I can't do it with books or libraries.
	That's too expensive.
	So I upload them digitally to Google, and I make them available for free, and you just get an iPad, you download 100,000 different books for the cost of electricity.
	And so the challenge of Bitcoin is, how do I give property rights to billions of people?
	Property rights meaning, you know, somebody in Africa, Asia, South America, they work, they make $500, but how do they keep it for a decade?
	If they invest it in Nigerian currency or Zimbabwe dollars or the Bolivar or the peso, that currency is going to go to zero.
	So they can't do that.
	And if they try to buy land with it, not everybody can.
	You know, land's expensive to buy, and someone can take it from you.
	And they can't necessarily buy the exact amount of gold.
	And so how do you maintain your property rights?
	And gold is like the Steinway Grand Piano solution.
	It's a physical solution.
	It was the best idea we had for 5,000 years.
	And Bitcoin is the technical solution, dematerialized property that you can carry in the palm of your hand or put in your head.
	And the advantage of dematerialized property is you can have any amount of that property and nobody can take it away from you.
	If you want to give it to your grandson or granddaughter or you want to send it halfway around the world, you can do it.
	You can't mail your ranch in California halfway around the world.
	You can't move a building in Manhattan halfway around the world.
	You can't move bars of gold around the world.
	And so all the, you know, you can't move shares of stock.
	There's 8 billion people on the planet.
	Not many people can buy stock to save their life savings and preserve their wealth.
	So Bitcoin running on a cheap smartphone is the most egalitarian idea we've come up with to allow everybody on Earth an instrument of economic empowerment.
	So that's why it's important.
	I mean, if you were rich and affluent, you could have a library, a piano, or a bar of gold.
	But it's just not going to work for the middle class, and it's not going to work in the developing world.
	Our best hope is to dematerialize that virtual thing and put it on a digital network and deploy it to somebody's $50 Android phone.
	So, if I understand it, this is based upon people agreeing that Bitcoin matters.
	Agreement, it's nothing.
	Is that fair to say?
	Yeah, you could think of it as like a monetary union or a savings alone in cyberspace.
	And as people join it, right, they're joining a monetary network.
	And the more people that join the network, the more powerful it gets.
	But look, it's just like Facebook.
	It's Facebook for money.
	Except, you know, nobody ever joined Facebook with a billion friends.
	It's like, you know, Google, YouTube wouldn't work either if nobody actually clicked on YouTube, and WhatsApp wouldn't work if nobody actually used the network.
	So it is a monetary network, not a social network, and not a search network, and not a video network.
	But everybody needs a monetary network.
	So I think we'll have 250 million people on this network by the end of this year.
	And what you've got right now is, like, Three million a week joining.
	I mean, Coinbase is like, you know, Coinbase and Binance and PayPal and Square, the most popular mobile apps that people are downloading right now are so they can get on the cryptocurrency network.
	Is it taxable?
	Bitcoin's property.
	The way to think of it is it's tax-like property.
	If you buy it for $1,000 and it doubles in value, if you sell it, you'll owe capital gains tax.
	And if you transfer it, you'll owe capital gains tax, just like if you bought a house or stock or any other asset.
	So the right way to think of it is it's not currency.
	It's not a cryptocurrency because currency isn't taxable when you transfer it.
	It's a crypto asset.
	It's like digital gold, and it is taxable when you transfer it.
	So the right thing to do, of course, is don't ever transfer it and don't ever sell it.
	Buy it because it's going up in value over time.
	And if you ever need additional money, what you do is you finance it, like taking out a home equity loan.
	You're better off to use it as collateral and borrow against it because then you don't pay capital gains tax and you don't incur income tax.
	And you don't pay tax on the borrowings either.
	The most tax-efficient thing to do is construct a very high-quality portfolio of assets and hold them forever.
	Who came up with this idea?
	So, Bitcoin was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, and we don't actually know who Satoshi Nakamoto is.
	We think it's one or more computer scientists who are experts in cryptography.
	Coming out of the cyberpunk movement.
	Satoshi worked on the project for about two years and then just disappeared, never to be heard from again, and gave this as a gift to humanity.
	So it's thought of as the Immaculate Conception.
	It's a big advantage for the network.
	Because there is no founder and there is no founding company and all of the original coins mined by Satoshi have never moved the first million.
	They were just used to start the network and the network decentralized ever since.
	So it really is like money of the people.
	It's like the only computer program in the world that we have that literally has no No,
	I don't think so.
	It's called a cryptocurrency, so that confuses people a bit.
	But if you think about money, money has a couple of aspects.
	It's used as a medium of exchange.
	It's used as a store of value.
	It's used as a unit of account.
	And if the money of the world was not inflationary, if, for example, there was a fixed number of U.S. dollars and nobody printed any more of them, then you could use the currency as a store of value as well as a medium of exchange.
	That would be perfect money.
	But we've never really had that, not since the gold standard, and we got off the gold standard in 1914. So in an inflationary environment, money decomposes into a currency and into an assets component.
	The currency component is the U.S. dollar.
	The U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency.
	All right, all right.
	I don't know if you could stay on.
	I hope you can.
	I want to hear about your academy.
	I'm speaking with Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy.
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	Hi, Charlie.
	My name is Jacob and I am subscribed.
	My question is, are we as Republicans radical in our ideals?
	Or rather, does the left see us as radicals?
	If they do, what can we do to convince leftists that what we want is best for legal Americans, in most cases, including them?
	Well, radical actually means to the root, to the original.
	If you actually go back to the original phrase of what radical means.
	But what are you really saying is radical are.
	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.
	Our 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.
	Thank you.
	This is my first venture on the radio into Bitcoin.
	It's been very illuminating.
	I'm very grateful.
	Tell us about your Saylor Academy.
	Sure.
	Well, the idea behind Saylor Academy was most of these college courses, like calculus or physics, They've been around a long, long time, so why can't we just upload the video lectures along with the course materials and make them available for free for everybody on Earth?
	Because when I went to MIT, you know, it impoverished my family.
	You know, we pretty much burned through our life savings in the first four weeks while I was in college.
	And I thought...
	Why don't we just give people a computer science degree or a physics degree or a chemistry degree via online website method?
	So we created the Sailor Academy and we paid professors to create courses and we put textbooks in the open source domain or in the Creative Commons domain so they're free for everybody.
	And we just give it to the world.
	I think we've had about 850,000 students so far.
	We've had about 80,000 students every quarter, maybe 90,000.
	And, you know, it's a simple idea.
	It's just make education free for everybody forever.
	Oh, man.
	I would hug you.
	I don't know if you'd accept a hug, but I would hug you.
	I want to understand, in this regard, do you get a degree?
	Yeah, right now, we have cross-accreditation, so you get the degree from another college that accepts our credits.
	But in the next 12 to 24 months, we're going to convert from a sailor academy to a sailor university, and then we'll issue our own degree.
	It takes a little bit of effort.
	You have to go through a lot of regulatory filings.
	We have data.
	We added a librarian to our staff because librarians are required in order to be accredited as a university.
	Well, you'll definitely need a dean of diversity.
	All sorts of interesting requirements.
	The short of it is right now, you know, we give everybody the courses, the certifications, and the credits through a whole network of affiliated colleges and universities, and very shortly will be our own university.
	And you want to maintain this as free?
	Yeah, the whole idea, it's a non-profit charity, and I don't have any heirs, so when I die, all my assets pretty much go to this foundation that funds this.
	This online university.
	And the idea, the big idea is anybody ought to be able to get a computer science degree or a physics degree or history or whatever degree for not even a nickel, for zero.
	Just completely.
	We're not trying to run it for profit.
	No, no, I think it's awesome.
	Just for charity.
	Why, theoretically, would this not end physical universities?
	You know, I think that the world can't...
	What are we going to see?
	We're back to that Steinway grand piano example.
	Rich people and affluent people have pianos, and they have books in their library, and they have beautiful things, you know, sculptures, and they have gold jewelry, and they have the like.
	That doesn't go away when you invent Spotify and the iPad and Google, you know, and iBooks.
	What's going on is we're just expanding the pyramid to people in the world that just can't afford to spend $200,000 on their graduate degree.
	I think that people that can, that come from affluent families, are going to keep going to MIT and Harvard and Stanford and whatever.
	I mean, the university has three components, right?
	There's the country club component.
	I want to send my kids to a really beautiful campus where they're going to be able to do sports and meet other people, and there's nothing wrong with that.
	And then there's the education component.
	They're going to learn something.
	And you can learn something online via streaming video on a computer much better.
	You can't learn ballet or golf, maybe, or having physical things.
	But computer science, you can definitely learn online.
	A lot of people find out information about your academy.
	Saylor.org.
	S-A-Y-L-O-R.org.
	It's this right there.
	It's free.
	I hope we speak again.
	I think that this is incredibly important, what you're doing.
	Yeah, thanks.
	Yeah, we welcome everybody.
	Anybody can come.
	So, if anybody wants more information on Saylor Academy, go to Saylor.org.
	If you want information on Bitcoin, go to HOPE, H-O-P-E. Bitcoin is HOPE. We've dedicated that domain to information on Bitcoin.
	Excellent.
	Thank you again so much, Michael Saylor.
	He's a visionary.
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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.
	What 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.
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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.
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	I actually got a phone through them as it happens.
	You can get a phone if you want.
	You can keep your own phone if you want.
	You can keep your own number if you want.
	I don't understand why people wouldn't do it.
	$800 a year for that money.
	I mean, the number of...
	Cigars or the fine headphones you could buy for $800, just that alone convinces me of the efficacy of the product.
	$800, nothing to laugh at, but I like laughing.
	It's available at pound 250 on your phone, just dial or press pound 250 and then say Dennis Prager, you get half off the first month.
	Pound 250, pure talk.
	And say, Dennis Prager, hi, hi there.
	Two and a half million U.S. college students face vaccine mandate, immune or not.
	This is from Epoch Times.
	This is a truly scary thing, and it raises my contempt level for universities to a new high.
	That's why I wish Sailor Academy much luck.
	These institutions are destructive in every way, colleges.
	More than 180 college and university campuses across the U.S. are requiring more than 2.4 million students to produce proof of vaccination.
	To attend in-person classes this fall, regardless of whether the students have acquired immunity to the virus.
	The number of schools with a mandate is likely to grow by then, especially if the Food and Drug Administration grants full approval.
	That's correct.
	For any of the vaccines, this is very scary.
	People for whom the virus is close to zero danger.
	To take a vaccine that was developed in one year is novel.
	It's an RNA-based mRNA vaccine.
	It is clearly effective at this time.
	But, and this is no knock against it, it may be a miracle vaccine, but we don't know the long-term effects.
	So why should young people, of all people, why should young people be forced to take it?
	Nobody's given me an answer to that.
	Why should young people be forced to take the vaccine?
	They're taking a vaccine against something that is...
	Incredibly unlikely to hurt them.
	They might as well take a vaccine against traffic accidents.
	Only a handful of the four dozen schools contacted for this article offered direct responses for why infection-conferred immunity isn't being considered an exemption.
	The vast majority responded by referencing their immunization exemption rules, which don't address acquired immunity.
	When pressed for an answer, several schools said they couldn't offer more information, while others said they are still finalizing their policies.
	The few that responded pointed to guidance by the Centers for Disease Control, CDC, which advises people to still be vaccinated because, quote, After recovering from COVID-19.
	What does that mean?
	So how do they know how long you're protected by the vaccine?
	Of course, it doesn't make any sense.
	Why isn't it comparable?
	Since when does getting a virus not immunize you to further sickness from the virus?
	That's the whole point.
	point you have the antibodies.
	Having the virus should be equivalent to getting the vaccine.
	Anyway, the whole thing is absurd.
	If the vaccine works, why do you care if the other students have the vaccine?
	Correct?
	The whole thing is evil.
	It's just evil and stupid.
	Terrible combination.
	The scared run our universities, the scared teach your children.
	If this last year has not developed in you contempt for the teaching industry, it's not a profession, it's an industry.
	There are some wonderful teachers, but by and large, especially in metropolitan areas, they're a combination of leftist and coward.
	The cowardice came through.
	Oh, I'm not going to go in where a kid might be infected.
	Really?
	How many teachers have died because of student infection?
	In Sweden, zero.
	Where they opened, they had the schools open the whole time.
	People say to me all the time, so where would we move if we left America?
	My current advocacy is Sweden.
	Shows you how much the world has changed.
	Of course, I have no intention of leaving the United States.
	The reason, a big reason, the biggest probably, is I feel that those who died for its liberty deserve that I fight for it during my lifetime.
	I can't leave the place that the guys on Normandy Beach died for.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And all Americans should feel the same way.
	After years of unfounded accusations about Republican collusion with Russia, we now hear of a prominent member of two Democratic administrations sharing intelligence about our allies' covert operations with a regime that regularly holds Death to America rallies in its capital.
	The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
	I'm Ed Morrissey.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Harry Reid helped to derail the candidacy of Mitt Romney.
	Mitt Romney was ahead in the polls.
	Obama was talking about being a one-term president.
	You don't remember that, do you?
	Harry Reid stands on the floor of the Senate.
	And says, the word on the street is that this man has not paid taxes in 10 years.
	Let him prove it if he hasn't.
	And then later on, Harry Reid, after he comfortably retires, kicks back in an interview with CNN and says, yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew it wasn't true.
	What, do you feel bad about it?
	Well, no, he didn't win, did he?
	Harry Reid is still alive, far as I know, still active on social media, hasn't been shut down.
	Talk about the big lie!
	George W. Bush lied us into the Iraq war.
	Hillary Clinton claims that the election was stolen from her, called Donald Trump illegitimate, not been shut down.
	Harry Reid, not been shut down.
	Maxine Waters, racism gets worse every day, she says.
	Not been shut down.
	Write the letter to Castro asking him to keep a convicted murderer.
	Who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba.
	She's a former Black Panther.
	And Maxine Waters called her a freedom fighter, a civil rights worker, or something like that.
	Not been shut down.
	Al Sharpton.
	We talked about him yesterday.
	I forgot to mention, he referred to the first and only black mayor of New York as an N-word whore.
	I repeat, N-word whore.
	Al Sharpton.
	In good standing on social media.
	Kingmaker.
	How many Republican kingmakers?
	How many Republican people have been?
	How many Republican people have been?
	Thank you.
	Beach Boys.
	Thank you, gentlemen.
	Thank you.
	Are they still performing?
	Why did I ask that?
	I asked that, obviously, because I think they might be.
	So that was self-evident.
	I'm sorry?
	They've broken up.
	So different parts are.
	Thank you.
	So I'm not taking Bitcoin calls, but I thank you for calling them in.
	Some of you are taking issue with me.
	There's nothing to take issue with.
	I have no position.
	I welcome people taking issue with me.
	There's no issue to take with me with regard to Bitcoin, since I have no position on the matter.
	Okay, just wanted to make that clear.
	Colleges telling you you can't attend without having taken the vaccination gives you an idea of the low level of leadership at our colleges.
	First of all, it's not moral.
	I thought people should be free to do what they want with their own body.
	That was a lie.
	They never meant it.
	And it was a lie to begin with because it's never the woman's body.
	It's in the woman's body.
	So that's a double lie.
	They don't even believe what they say.
	They just say what they say.
	It's like they said dissent is patriotic when George W. Bush was president.
	But dissent today is to be squashed.
	So it's just a line.
	People can do what they want with their own body.
	They don't believe that at all.
	They control what you do with your own body more and more.
	Secondly, if I'm vaccinated, why the hell do I care if you're vaccinated?
	Thirdly, if I had the COVID, why is that not sufficient?
	Why do I still need a vaccine?
	And might it not be a danger to have a vaccine on top of...
	The immunity that already one has from having had COVID. These are questions.
	They're fair questions.
	I don't envy parents.
	I know parents who have a brilliant daughter who's going to enroll in one of the UC schools, but they don't believe that there's any reason for a young person to take the vaccine, which I completely agree with.
	Nobody's given me a good reason.
	If I had a good reason, I'd be fine.
	This is a very, very bad moment in American history.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I do.
	I was under constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	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.
	I've been thinking a lot about what's going on in a broader, larger context.
	And if you think about the names, 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, right?
	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.
	You know, Liz Cheney, and even the way this went down last couple months, right?
	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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	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	And I'm afraid that we have become so in love with this idea of kind of horse jockeying.
	I kind of prefer that phrase quite honestly better than competition.
	So I think that there's some, again, we're getting into semantics here.
	But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if your whole life is just trying to outdo another person, that's actually not what's good for society.
	Ayn Rand had a wonderful quote about this, and I get beat up all the time by Christians for quoting Ayn Rand.
	I just don't think you understand Ayn Rand.
	Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, but by the end of her life, there's a great piece written by Steve Mariotti who claims that Ayn Rand accepted that there was a God.
	In fact, can you find that piece, Steve Mariotti, Ayn Rand's Hidden Religion?
	It's very good.
	It's totally debated by Ayn Rand atheists.
	But Ayn Rand had a phenomenal quote that says, I will not make you live for another person.
	Do not make me live for you.
	And Ayn Rand had a very provocative statement 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 Galtz and Hank Reardon's.
	And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of that.
	that.
	But Ayn Rand had another quote, and I'm going to find it in a second, where Ayn argued that the most immoral thing you can do is to say that you're living just to beat others.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. . .
	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 U.S. and China, where they become more powerful and have more leverage over us.
	That's really the fundamental issue here.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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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.
	I'm Lon He Chen.
	This is the Male Female Hour on the Dennis Prager Show, the second hour every Wednesday.
	I think it's the most honest talk about men and women today's in the media.
	If there's equally or more honest, I'd like to know, and I would salute them.
	I'm not in competition.
	I'm merely stating that I do believe it's the most honest talk.
	Partially, or in large measure, not totally, but in large measure, because...
	I am an impartial observer and commentator on the male-female scene.
	I'm not a big fan of either sex.
	There are wonderful men, wonderful women, and awful men, and awful women.
	I even think that they are in similar proportions.
	What do you think of that?
	The only problem is...
	Well, not the only.
	One big problem is that they don't marry each other.
	A lot of wonderful people marry awful people.
	That's an issue.
	If the awful marry the awful, alright, there you go.
	It's like the happiness issue.
	Many happy people marry unhappy people.
	Some happy people marry happy people.
	But no unhappy person marries an unhappy person.
	Now, I got a question in my earphones from the technical director of my show.
	He directs technicalities.
	That's what he does.
	It's a beautiful position.
	And he asked me, do the awful know they're awful?
	That is one of the $64,000 questions of life.
	I don't know the answer.
	Some awful think they're God's gift to humanity.
	That's clear.
	In fact, according to Roy Baumeister, one of the leading criminologists in America, I've had him on the show, violent criminals in prison have the highest self-esteem of any group he's ever measured.
	Maybe you need high self-esteem to murder somebody.
	I'm worth infinitely more than you.
	To the male-female hour, today's subject is really...
	It doesn't fully meet the criteria of male-female hour subject, but it is about males and females, so it's legit.
	I've never...
	I don't think I ever explored this subject, which boggles my mind, because I've explored just about everything with you.
	Here it goes.
	If you divorced...
	And you waited until you divorced.
	Until, quote, the kids are out of the house, or the kids are grown up, or the kids are at college.
	Was your decision to wait a good one for you, for your ex, for your children?
	1-8 Prager-776-877-243-7776.
	It is extremely common for couples who know that they will divorce.
	They're already in separate bedrooms, for example, and they are only awaiting the kids turning 18, or a kid turning 18, usually not the kids unless they're twins, to...
	Actualize the divorce.
	Do you believe that that was a wise decision?
	I do not have a position except to say that unless the child is one, two, or three, or four perhaps, or maybe five even, there is beyond a certain age I'm not sure, and I pick my words carefully, I'm saying I'm not sure.
	I'm not sure it matters.
	It may well be a very wise decision to wait until they're 18 and off at college, but it may not be.
	I have not found that 18, 19, 20-year-olds handle it better than 10-year-olds.
	It's part of the reason I'm raising the question.
	It might be a wonderful idea, and I totally understand it, and I admire people who can wait that time while living with attention.
	Of inevitable divorce, etc.
	I don't know if there is even a fixed answer.
	I suspect if I asked 10 therapists, I would not get a unanimous answer.
	Do you think it is worth waiting till a certain age before you and your spouse divorce?
	That's the question on the table.
	877-243-7776.
	I was stunned, actually, at the effects of divorce, emotional effects on older kids.
	I thought that it was easier for older kids.
	But college age, and I might be older when they're 30, although I don't even know about that.
	By the way, this is not a talk against divorce.
	I've been divorced.
	It's a very painful thing.
	And I acknowledge it all.
	And I wish no kid had to go through a parent's divorce.
	But I live on Earth where human beings are confronted with very messy situations.
	And in fact, I do not believe that you are morally bound to stay together.
	Forever.
	If the kids are the determining issue, you should stay together forever.
	It's not easy for a 35-year-old when the parents, especially if they thought the parents were, you know, basically doing okay.
	It's not easy for a 35-year-old to handle their parents' divorce.
	So, one could argue, never do it.
	For the sake of the children, never divorce.
	But I don't believe that that is what morality demands.
	You have to enable, you have to try to make a fulfilled life for yourself.
	Your children are trying to make a fulfilled life for themselves.
	I know children, I know adult children in their 30s refused to speak to the parent who divorced.
	30s!
	I'm thinking of one man in particular, an incredibly sweet man, divorced when his kids were in their 30s.
	So that means that he was married for almost 40 years.
	Right?
	He didn't have the kids before he was married.
	And one daughter refused to talk to him for a few years, so angry that he divorced dear mom.
	Instead of, wow, you waited so long, thank you, dad, or thank you, mom.
	Either case.
	Instead, you did this to mom?
	I think that's narcissistic.
	You should have stayed together for the sake of the family.
	I think people should be allowed.
	To pursue some joy.
	I think the notion that people get divorced too easily, too fast, is one of the most facile judgments.
	Forget Hollywood.
	Okay?
	Forget Hollywood.
	Do you know anybody who didn't go through hell before divorcing?
	Trying marital therapy, trying all sorts of things.
	I don't.
	Anyway, the issue is waiting till the children get to a certain age.
	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.
	I'm Lonnie Chen.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Mike Dilliger Show.
	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 a 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.
	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 Okay,
	Tammy Wynette.
	This is a very special voice.
	It's about divorce, obviously.
	Okay, my friends, male-female hour every Wednesday, second hour.
	The subject is, if you waited to divorce until, quote, the kids are out of the house, so about age 18. Was that the right decision?
	Is there any, generally, obviously, everything is individual.
	By the way, everything is individual is something you need to understand about kids as well.
	Kids react very differently to parental divorce.
	Some have great shock absorbers and some do not.
	But all things considered, is it worth waiting?
	That's the question here.
	And let's go to the child of a divorce, Joshua in Fairfield, California.
	Hello.
	Hello, Joshua.
	Hello, Dennis.
	How are you today, sir?
	Okay, thank you.
	Absolutely.
	So, speaking as a child of a divorce, my dad was very biblical, extremely Christian, Baptist Christian.
	My mother, not so much.
	And that was, I think, the driving factor in their divorces.
	She didn't like having to live her life, you know, as the Bible and as God dictates.
	And so I think that really drove them apart as a 25-year marriage.
	And so they were going to...
	Wait until I was 18. My sister had already left.
	She was three years older than me.
	She was about to leave, I believe.
	But they ended up doing it when I was 16 because my mom just couldn't wait any longer.
	And it came to come to find out she actually left him for a guy who was like 30 years younger than him.
	Wait, she left?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	For a man who was 30 years younger than whom?
	Than my father.
	So how much younger than your mother was the man?
	About the same, yeah.
	It was close to 30 years.
	So she went for a man 30 years younger than her?
	Correct.
	That, I have to say, that's not a common story, okay?
	Yeah, it's actually much more weird than that, but out of respect for her privacy, That's fine.
	Anyway, we don't need those details.
	So what lesson do you draw with regard to divorce and the age of children?
	Any lesson?
	Yeah, so I would say that it was probably a good decision.
	Sorry about that.
	It was probably a good decision that they got divorced.
	For me as a child, it was a good decision because I was just tired of seeing the strife and the horrible strain I was putting on.
	Me and my sister, because it had been going on for several years of our life, you know, it kind of builds up to a crescendo and then it kind of tips over.
	But it really hit a number on my dad, I think, just because we were so young when they were going through all of it.
	And, you know, from a kid's perspective, you don't really understand a lot that's going on.
	You do understand that, you know, they're going to split up and everything, but you don't really get why.
	And usually parents don't tell the kids a whole lot about it.
	Which probably they shouldn't.
	Alright, listen, thank you.
	It's a big question for decent parents.
	And there may not be a given response.
	I used to think that the idea had merit.
	Waiting until the kids were 18 or so, got out of the house, quote-unquote.
	But seeing the difficulties that kids at college have with handling that, I'm not sure it's true.
	In other words, there may not be, I mean, there are.
	Believe me, there's no comparison between divorcing with a 3-year-old and divorcing with a 13-year-old or a 23-year-old.
	That's just a fact.
	I'm not talking against divorce.
	I am talking about the age of children if there is merit to taking that into determinative consideration.
	Alright, Beverly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Hi, how are you?
	Okay, thank you.
	I was just wanting to comment on divorce.
	I don't know what the best thing is because my husband, he changed it pretty quickly after we got married, and then I had two boys, little, and I was working part-time at the post office, and I wanted a divorce from the beginning because he was abusive emotionally and mentally.
	He didn't help me with anything.
	I had to do everything.
	I mean, he never did a thing around the house.
	He never took the garbage.
	I never did nothing.
	He would go out drinking after work and not call me.
	And all I asked him was, please just call and let me know.
	I don't care if you want to go out with your friend.
	Just let me know what you're doing.
	He never did.
	And I'd be worried.
	Where is he?
	Was he in a wreck?
	Waiting for him to come home and all.
	But then, anyway, it's about the kids.
	I would have had to go full-time at the post office if I got a divorce, and I liked being home with the kids when they were little.
	I didn't think anybody would love them as much as me, and I wanted to be the one there with them.
	You know, I thought I was a pretty good mother.
	I did everything, you know, quote, clean, did everything with the kids.
	I even substituted that at their school.
	They were in a Christian school for a while.
	But now, then I waited 19 years, and the one was going to college, and the other one, he was like 14. So then I just decided I had to, because I was getting sick.
	And, you know, the Bible, it's really hard to get a divorce, because the Bible even says the two become one.
	It doesn't say if you marry the right person, the two become one.
	You become one with your husband, whether you like him or not.
	And I liken divorce trying to cut your own arm off.
	Because you are one with that person.
	It's very hard.
	Right.
	Well, there's an argument, if you want to use that analogy, if your arm is gangrenous, you have to cut it off or you will die.
	Yeah, but can you yourself get a doctor to do it?
	That's right.
	Okay, fine.
	So you get a doctor to do it.
	That's right.
	Anyway, the issue here is not...
	I should do...
	I may have done it, but I should perhaps do an Ultimate Issues Hour on divorce.
	By the way, it says that a man shall leave his mother and father and cling unto his wife, and they shall be as one.
	There are two ways of reading the original Hebrew.
	One is a command, and the other is a fact.
	And my last caller sees it as a fact.
	You become like one.
	I've always understood it as you should try to become like one.
	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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	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	Thank you.
	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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	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	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 then.
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	The reason I did that was solely to see if the technical director of the show was listening.
	And the answer is, he was.
	He was, right.
	Now, it was very interesting to observe him because there was no reaction when I said it until he assimilated the fact that it was absurd.
	The topic today is, is it worth waiting until the kids are and then fill in the age until you divorce or not?
	That is the sensitive, difficult question.
	I don't have a perfect answer.
	Well, forget perfect.
	I don't have an answer.
	There are many arguments in both directions.
	Long ago, I did believe, wait until they go to college and then divorce.
	If you could wait.
	But seeing that some Kids college age get into a real funk when the parents divorce then.
	They just leave the house and then there's no house to go back to.
	Whereas if it happened a few years earlier, they would have assimilated the reality of the divorce into their lives and gone off to college with no more earthquakes.
	That's the argument for not waiting.
	The argument for waiting is they have a quote-unquote stable home until they leave the home.
	So I understand that.
	By the way, the question, but there's a further question on the stable home.
	Do they know it's a stable home?
	In other words, are kids shielded from parental discord?
	And the answer to that, from my experience, With so many couples is some are.
	Some are shocked their parents divorce.
	Some are shocked their parents don't divorce.
	Life, shall we say, is messy.
	All right.
	Let's go to Rod in Woodburn.
	Oregon.
	There's a happy state, Oregon.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Hello, Brother Dennis.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Thank you, Brother.
	Yes.
	My consensus is that it's much easier for parents to wait because if their kids are out of the house, they don't have to deal with child custody problems and visitation rights and so on.
	Harder for the children.
	When I was young, very young, my parents, it was a traumatic home, and I knew that it was not right, and I just lived with it.
	I idolized my father, even though I caught him in adultery as a very young boy.
	I idolized him, so I couldn't hate him.
	But when I was in my 18, 19, and 20, I began to hate, hate, hate.
	If they had divorced when I was young, it would have been harder for them, easier for me.
	Well, really, I do appreciate your call.
	See, I raise this question because it is a question.
	I have no inhibitions about giving people advice.
	Take it or leave it.
	But if I have thought on a subject, giving it my best shot, I give you advice.
	I don't have that here.
	But the very fact that I don't have means that I don't accept the generalized principle of wait till they leave the house.
	Hence the raising of the question.
	All right, I will take your calls when we get back.
	That's the issue on the table.
	I should deal with this more.
	There are so many divorced homes.
	I should deal with it more on some ideas about how to deal with it with children.
	I think we will.
	For those of you new to the Dennis Prager Show, we talk about everything in life.
	Even Bitcoin.
	As you might have heard in the first hour.
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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.
	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 Galtz and Hank Reardins.
	And that little snapshot of Atlas Shrugged does a phenomenal job of 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.
	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.
	I wish you could all see my list of calls with subjects.
	- This is an illuminating show for many of you.
	This is the male-female hour.
	It's illuminating for me too, but I've been somewhat pre-illuminated because I speak to so many people.
	Also, I've gone through it.
	Is there, beyond everybody, Everybody should acknowledge that there is no comparison between divorcing when a child is 2 and a child is 12 or 22. Okay, so that's a given.
	When a child is very young, they don't know what's happening.
	All they know is they're going to have two different homes, and sometimes it even sounds exciting.
	So that's the ideal.
	If you're going to divorce, to do that.
	But beyond a certain age, the question is, do you wait until they leave the house?
	That's the question here.
	Okay, Randy in Columbus, Ohio.
	Hi, Randy.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Very well, thank you.
	Thanks.
	Yeah, so sometimes I think when...
	Parents think that they're maybe doing the right thing by staying together.
	I mean, there's all sorts of reasons what comes up as to why they stay together, married.
	Sometimes the fact is that their behavior can have an effect on the children, though, when they are maybe not affectionate, not intimate, not, you know, sleeping in the same bed.
	The overall marriage itself is lacking in a lot of ways, which can represent or can have an effect on the children.
	And over time, the children can then take that or, you know, that's how they see relationships, for example.
	So, if I'm reading you correctly, you wish your parents had divorced sooner.
	Yeah, I do.
	My parents divorced when I was 17, and, you know, they didn't fight a lot, but they also didn't have a happy, loving relationship.
	There was nothing happening.
	Sure.
	Well, my husband, his parents divorced when they were two, but, you know, remarried and had loving relationships and got along.
	Right.
	And so the situation can backfire if they try to stay together.
	For maybe what they think are the right reasons.
	So you're, as the child of a divorce, you're voting for not waiting?
	Yeah, yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Bless you.
	Thank you.
	I'm glad you're married.
	I hope it's happy.
	It sounds like it is.
	And that was good.
	All right.
	And Fort Worth, Texas.
	Mark, hello.
	Good afternoon.
	Good afternoon.
	Well, I'm 61 years old, and we waited 32 years to get married.
	My kids were all grown.
	Wait, you waited 32 years to get divorced?
	Yes, waited 32 years to get divorced.
	I'm sorry.
	Our kids were all grown.
	Both of us grew up in Christian homes.
	We both attended the same church together most of our married life.
	We got along okay.
	We had, you know, problems with money and sex.
	That was our two biggest problems.
	Well, there's nothing left.
	Well, in-laws.
	Okay, in-laws.
	Yeah.
	You know what?
	If you have money and sex, it doesn't matter if your in-laws stink.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Okay.
	So anyway, we, about the last eight or nine years, That's when I kind of gave up, and we've been through counseling three or four times through the marriage, and most of it was related to sex.
	And the counselor said one last time that she met with me alone, and she said, Mark, if your wife is not willing to go through sex therapy, then it sounds to me like, you know, you only have one decision to make.
	Are you ready to, you know, to move forward?
	Because it sounds like that she...
	Not wanting to address some issues she may be having, and she said, I can't help her with these issues.
	So about that time, I just, I grew up in church.
	My wife grew up in church, Max's wife.
	I taught Sunday school for a long time.
	I was in the youth group actively.
	I saw what kids, what happened to kids when their parents got a divorce.
	Some were happy.
	Some were really not.
	And I encountered a lot of the males that I taught in Sunday school.
	You know, they miss that mom and dad thing, you know, because they probably might not see their dad if they're in high school.
	You know, they can make that decision.
	Well, that's another subject which drives me crazy.
	See, that's the biggest issue.
	Are your parents in your life...
	Anyway, I'll address that afterwards.
	Just tell me, what is your vote?
	Wait or not wait?
	overall i would encourage people to wait and just do all they can when it comes to a point where the spouse is doing things that are dangerous or are against the law abusive behavior that kind of stuff you know that it's probably time to to go on So, what age were your children when you divorced?
	My youngest one was, she'd gotten out of college, so she was probably about 23, 24. Right, so you're happy you didn't do it when she was 16?
	Yes, I'm very happy.
	Okay, alright, thank you.
	That's the question on the table.
	By the way, you should know, since it was raised, I've always, always, always had this attitude before I was ever married.
	Because I worked with young people a great deal.
	And I realized very early on that much more determinative than the divorce and its effect on children is what happens after the divorce.
	If the parents eat each other up, if a parent badmouths another parent, undermines their parental authority and even love, that is much worse than the actual divorce.
	Divorce is not as determinative as what happens after the divorce.
	That was my position before I was married.
	So my position today, we return.
	Trailing now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	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 It's 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.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Thank you.
	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.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	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 wanna 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 they're 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.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	But it is worth at least putting it on the table because a lot of people do.
	And sometimes it has a particularly dramatic effect on a college kid.
	Don't hang up because I'd like to summarize the votes here.
	Lou, Oyster Bay, New York.
	I didn't want the divorce, but would have waited for the son to be older.
	There's a vote for waiting, but of course he didn't want the divorce, so that makes it a little more complex.
	Michael, Irvine, California.
	I grew up with parents who should have divorced.
	Should have divorced is in caps.
	The screener rarely puts words in caps, so it means he was really adamant.
	He wishes they had been divorced.
	Terry, Venice, Florida.
	We got a divorce when the child was four.
	That's the best choice.
	That we all agree.
	It's one of the few things everybody agrees with.
	Under five is ideal.
	Susan, Brooklyn, New York.
	I got divorced when the kids were young.
	Best choice because of abuse.
	Well, for kids to see abuse, or for you to be abused.
	Parents have rights too, just for the record.
	The focus should be on children when you divorce.
	Because you're doing, this is my view, another one of my views.
	You're divorcing for your sake, and I respect that.
	But the moment you do, the preoccupation has to be with your child's welfare.
	You've done what you needed for you.
	Now you have to do what is needed for the child.
	And by the way, one danger is you'll spoil the child because you want to make up for the pain that they had.
	It's a very common thing to spoil a child after a divorce.
	At Carlsbad, California, Brian, my kids were minors.
	I waited for a while but couldn't wait longer.
	I understand.
	And then Sharon in Atlanta.
	I did not wait until the kids were grown and still waited too long.
	All right, Tony, also in Atlanta, Mark in Fort Worth.
	I appreciate it.
	I have so much to say on this subject.
	We need to revisit it because it affects so many people.
	Thank you for participating.
	We continue on The Dennis Prager Show.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	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 then.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Brinca.
	We'll be right back.
	You guys missed it.
	The JFK Library gave a Courage in COVID award to Gretchen Whitmer.
	Oh, come on!
	Courage?
	Come on, that didn't happen.
	It happened.
	Is that real news?
	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?
	Governor.
	I'm the governor.
	Could you imagine having to pull that?
	Could you imagine what a cuckold you are to say?
	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.
	Right?
	For both of us.
	The most selective cigar smoker.
	Okay, deal.
	Done.
	Okay.
	Some awards.
	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.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe today at rumble.com.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder show.
	Thank 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-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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	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Hello.
	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, I, that is no, this casts no aspers on anybody who serves on the board.
	I also know Michael McConnell.
	I work for Michael McConnell, Judge McConnell.
	And I have a quiet respect for him.
	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.
	But I did notice that he seemed to be a voice crying in the wilderness yesterday, during when this, when this news was rolled out.
	I thought that what you heard from McConnell My
	friends, I'm Dennis Prager.
	I assume you are all aware of what is going on in the Middle East.
	Not fully aware.
	I also suspect that, because after all, it is mainstream media.
	So I have one of the most renowned historians of the Middle East, and diplomat.
	The man is a Renaissance man.
	Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States.
	Is on with me right now, and he is the author of many major works, like The U.S. and the Middle East, which I read, among others, a great book, the seminal work on the history of the Six-Day War.
	His newest book is actually a novel, To All Who Call in Truth.
	It was just released yesterday.
	This is coincidental, because I don't normally have novels on the show, but he's a novel man.
	Michael Oren, welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Dennis, thank you for the warm welcome.
	Always good to be back with you.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	So, we're seeing a great deal of violence, obviously, around and in Israel.
	What I would like for myself and for my listeners is...
	An explanation as to how all of this started.
	It's complex.
	I hate when people say that, but this one actually is very complicated.
	Many different causes.
	Disarray and Israel's political parties can't form a government after four elections.
	Hamas senses weakness.
	There is the Ramadan holiday right now, as I'm talking to you.
	The moisons and the mosques are blasting for the holiday.
	Tension around the Temple Mount.
	The Jerusalem Day Parade, which marched to some of the Muslim areas.
	All of those factors, the biggest, biggest factor by far, the Palestinian elections.
	Or rather, the non-holding of Palestinian elections, as Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, enters the 16th year of his six-year term.
	And he keeps on delaying those elections because he knows he's going to loom.
	He's going to leave to Hamas.
	This time, Hamas wasn't going to put up with it.
	So the way you prove that you're a good Palestinian is not by attacking Mahmoud Abad, the way you prove you're a good Palestinian is by attacking Israel.
	Wow, that was perfect.
	That was concise and understandable.
	So let me give you a question, as we say in America, but you're familiar enough, from left field.
	Do you believe, and I'm not looking for an answer, I really am just curious, do you believe that if Donald Trump were still president, this would have happened?
	food.
	It could, but the reaction on the part of Israel might have been different.
	Why?
	Because whenever Israel goes to war with the terrorists, whether it's Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel needs three things in the United States.
	It needs ammo, because we pretty much run out of ammo after about a month or certain types of ammunition.
	The United States is supposed to give us that type of ammo back, resupply us.
	We need what I call the diplomatic and political Iron Dome.
	Who's going to cast a veto in the Security Council?
	Who's going to prevent the International Criminal Court from finding us guilty of war crimes?
	And then the third thing we need in the United States is the morning after diplomacy, who helps rebuild areas that have been shattered, who negotiates ceasefires.
	Now, I think with the previous administration, it could have been 100 percent certain that we would have gotten 100 percent.
	Of all three categories.
	With the current administration, that's yet to be seen.
	So did that play any role in Hamas' decisions or Israel's decisions?
	Well, I can't vouch for Hamas, but I think Hamas understands that there is a new America in town, America that's less involved, more pulling back from the region generally.
	And we've seen it in the reaction of the administration so far in this sort of...
	Calling on both sides to exercise restraint.
	Israel is facing rockets that are designed to massacre men, women, and children.
	And we're defending ourselves.
	So when you call on both sides to de-escalate and calm down, you know, that's putting us on a moral plane with Hamas.
	I think we're giving Hamas a prize, saying, you know, okay, keep shooting rockets at the Jews.
	We're going to treat you respectfully.
	And bad message.
	By the way, I'd like to note to my audience, Something that very few people in the media note.
	You said the Jews, and that is exactly how Hamas always refers to Israelis.
	I actually played, Michael, you'll find this, I think, very interesting.
	I played a translation done by some major U.S. network, I don't recall which, where the speaker, I know enough Arabic to know what The word Jew is in Arabic.
	The speaker said Jews and the translator said Israelis.
	I just, I find...
	Hamas refers to what is...
	Yeah, no, Hamas refers to you as Jews.
	Yes, right.
	So that's their battle.
	Their battle is with Jews, and I think it's significant, because when you mentioned it, you were simply echoing exactly how they speak.
	Exactly.
	Interesting enough, some of the people who have been killed by Hamas rockets have not been Jews, including an Indian foreign worker and two Arabs.
	Yes, two Israeli Arabs.
	So that leads to, for me, one of the key questions, and I'm afraid of your answer.
	I'm hoping against hope I don't get the answer I don't want.
	What are Israel's Arabs, not the Palestinians in the West Bank, what are Israel's Arabs saying?
	Well, it's difficult to generalize.
	There are riots that have gone on in some of our communities, which are both Arab and Jewish mixed communities.
	I live in one of them, Joppa, and there's a massive police presence on the street tonight in full riot gear, poised for upheavals by...
	The Arab residents of my city, who might live side by side and live, I think, in a great degree of coexistence.
	But that was true in a neighboring town of Lug, where there was actually a pogrom.
	Three synagogues were burnt in the state of Israel.
	Three synagogues were not in flames.
	In the city of Akko, a great restaurant.
	One of the best restaurants, Uri Buri, the owner of which he made his life work to work together with poor Arab kids and teach them how to cook.
	He actually brought them to the White House.
	They served the president once.
	The Arabs burnt the restaurant down.
	This is an immense tragedy, Dennis.
	An immense tragedy for Israel, but first of all, it is a tragedy for Israeli Arabs.
	They have made great leaps in recent years.
	Israeli Arabs are actually more self-socially upwardly mobile than Israeli Jews per capita.
	Israeli Christian Arabs are more affluent and better educated per capita than Israeli Jews.
	And in recent elections, the Israeli Arab parties proved that they can't even make an Israeli government without Arab participation.
	They've become part of the Israeli political game.
	All this was actually very good news in the state of Israel.
	And in one night, in one night, it has been set back years, maybe irreversibly.
	That's what I was afraid of.
	It's It's got to be for you.
	Living in an Arab-Israeli city, Arab-Jewish city, whatever one wants to refer to it.
	It has to be disconcerting.
	You think...
	It's depressing.
	Depressing.
	That's even better.
	Depressing more than disconcerting.
	Yes.
	It's sort of your thinking...
	So, it's hopeless.
	I... I, Michael Oren, not a naive man, former ambassador to the United States, historian, world traveler, writer, and I'm thinking this whole time, look, we seem to be getting along really pretty well, and their advances are enormous, and then, poof, they try to burn down my synagogue and my restaurant.
	You don't want to blame an entire population.
	For, you know, for the ravages of several hundred radicals.
	You know, I have a green grocer down the street.
	It's where I buy all my groceries, but it's from Mohammed.
	And Mohammed pulls me aside and says, don't let anybody fool you.
	You're the luckiest Arabs in the entire Middle East.
	No other Arab in the Middle East have what I have.
	They don't have my democracy.
	They don't have my security.
	They don't have my economy.
	Which is, you know, something...
	I got criticism of this place, but I love the state of Israel.
	Mohammed the Greengrocer.
	You know, I don't think he's going to be out there burning cars and burning synagogues.
	And I don't want to tarnish Mohammed the Greengrocer with the rapaciousness of these other people.
	But it is still very depressing.
	God, is that true?
	I have a few more questions.
	Michael Lauren, by just great coincidence, a novel of his just came out yesterday, To All Who Call in Truth.
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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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	Thank you.
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	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 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.
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	know, Dennis, you're probably the first person to actually get that reference.
	Including a lot of my very Orthodox Jewish friends.
	That's interesting.
	Do you say that prayer one more time?
	Yes.
	I don't get it.
	I'm so impressed.
	Oh, thank you.
	Look, if I impressed Michael Oren, that's a notch in my belt.
	Listen, this is really, I'm thinking about what you're saying.
	This is really, there's so many significant things.
	The part about the Israeli Arab is the one that is most painful to me, as it is to you.
	So let me ask some other questions about what is going on.
	What does Hamas believe it is gaining by raining the rockets on Israel and then having the retaliation?
	In other words, do they think, from what I inferred from you earlier, they are...
	Trying to get more votes from the Palestinians should there ever be an election.
	Do they think that they're gaining in any other way?
	Are they gaining with Iran?
	Are they gaining at the UN? What is in it for them?
	So much is in it.
	And almost everything you said and more, if you can believe it.
	Because they gain by shooting rockets at us, and they gain by us firing back at them.
	The first thing they gain is prestige and stature in the Palestinian street.
	Whether it's going to be election or whether Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are going to be overthrown by Hamas, as happened in the Gaza Strip in 2006, they're building up that power base.
	And Hamas won this round.
	They won the battle for the Temple Mount.
	They won the battle for Al-Aqsa Mas.
	They won the battle for Damascus Gate.
	And then they fired rockets at Jerusalem.
	So, to liberate Jerusalem, they fired rockets at Jerusalem.
	You know, weird universe.
	So they gain through all of that.
	Then they gain by having us shoot back at them.
	And they hide behind their own civilians.
	So we have to, unfortunately, have to hurt civilians in order to get at Hamas leaders, even though we try our best not to.
	And so, A, we get condemned in the Palestinian and the Arab street.
	Hamas gets more prestige.
	We get condemned in the U.N., we get condemned in The Hague, so we get delegitimized.
	And in a way, how much use is Iron Dome against this?
	I'm very proud.
	I helped bring Iron Dome to Israel when I was ambassador.
	But it's a double-edged sword, Dennis.
	You know why?
	Because on our side, we have relatively few casualties.
	On the Palestinian side, a lot of casualties because they don't have a single bombshell.
	They don't have a single air raid siren.
	And that creates disproportionality.
	And what you're already hearing from the Europeans is the D word.
	Disproportional, disproportionate.
	And that's going to end up being a condemnation.
	court case against us in the Hague.
	Just watch.
	So they gain in all these different ways.
	And we don't care how many people get killed on their side.
	We don't care how many houses get blown up.
	As long as their leaders are not touched.
	And that's what these are trying to do now.
	The only way we can deny victory to them is by killing their leaders.
	And it's difficult because their leaders are hiding under hospitals.
	But they did, I assume you're aware, because I just became aware of one of the Hamas top rocket people got killed.
	Are you familiar with what I'm saying?
	Yes, they've taken care of several of them because we're finding them.
	It's not easy.
	Again, they're hiding.
	They're hiding behind their own families.
	And we want to avoid inflicting civilian casualties to the greatest degree possible.
	We warn them in advance that we're going to attack.
	By the way, that costs us tactically.
	We lose the element of surprise.
	But we're willing to do that, willing to pay that price.
	But for us, we're threading a very narrow needle because we can't cockpit bomb them.
	I mean, the IDF could destroy Hatho Gaza in a minute, but we don't do that.
	So we have to be very surgical, very pinpoint, and going after these who did this.
	That's the only way we can deny Hamas the victory.
	What about the claims that the ultimate origins of this particular battle, war, whatever you want to say, are with regard to some housing issue in East Jerusalem?
	Again, you almost need an hour just talking to the housing issue.
	This relates to several houses in one neighborhood in Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah.
	These houses are on Jewish-owned property.
	And the Arabs who were living on this property illegally, without paying rent, turned down an Israeli court compromise that enabled them to remain on the property if they did pay rent.
	But they didn't.
	And what happened to tenants that don't pay rent?
	Well, guess what?
	They're going to have to leave.
	And so this is a small number of families.
	And there's just no way.
	You could maybe say, oh, this isn't fair.
	Maybe this doesn't look good.
	But then how do you justify?
	How can you possibly use that as a justification for firing hundreds and potentially thousands of rockets at an unarmed civilian population with the singular goal of murdering the maximum number?
	We're talking about something that is genocidal.
	And they have to fall completely, completely.
	A different category.
	I mean, I have my own opinion about Sheikh Jarrah, and it's a little controversial.
	So I've got to think if you're going to agree with me ever so again.
	And that is, you know, it's very rare in history when two people, the two countries go to war for one country to seek the absolute destruction and annihilation of the other.
	You know, World War II, the United States was a war against Japan and Germany, not to wipe Germany and Japan off the map, but to destroy their government.
	But the Palestinian Arabs...
	We went to war against the Jewish people in the land of Israel not once, but twice.
	Not to change our leadership.
	They went to war twice to annihilate us.
	Genocidal wars.
	And twice they were defeated.
	In wars that they started, they were defeated.
	And it seems to me that when you start two genocidal wars, there's got to be a price to be paid.
	And a few houses in a neighborhood in Jerusalem is not a particularly steep price to pay.
	Especially if they don't pay rent.
	It's almost absurd, the entire thing.
	Well, look, this is why I wrote a book on anti-Semitism a long time ago.
	The uniqueness is anti-Semitism is exterminationist.
	No other ethnic bigotry is exterminationist.
	That's a big deal.
	And that's what they want to do to Israel.
	You're really hard-pressed to find another war in history that were wars of total annihilation.
	Let me ask you one other thing that has nothing to do with this.
	I have no idea what you'll answer.
	I'm only asking out of respect for you.
	I have been on the side of the questioners of the lockdown all over the world.
	I have looked to Sweden as the only sane model.
	I thought Israel wildly overreacted.
	And when we come back, I just want to get your opinion.
	Period.
	Whatever you say, I will respect.
	Back in a moment, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
	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, 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 a 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 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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	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...
	Okay, everybody. everybody.
	Okay.
	Hi, everybody.
	It's a great video, by the way.
	Really great.
	And the point is depressing, actually.
	The left is sort of self-satire, so it's very hard to satire.
	My guest explaining the Middle East at this moment is Michael Oren, a major historian, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and his mother is still not proud of him.
	It's an amazing, amazing thing.
	My mother's turning 93. She's proud of me.
	She is proud of you?
	Okay, good.
	Actually, what I said was based on an old New Yorker cartoon.
	There's a monument of some guy on a horse.
	So-and-so, statesman, general, poet, and still...
	His mother was not proud of him.
	It was something to that effect.
	Published and perished nevertheless.
	I'm sorry?
	Published and perished nevertheless.
	Yes, that's right.
	Well, you have published and not perished in your case.
	I have not perished.
	And anyway, this is not why he's on today, but I'm happy to announce that he has a novel out to all who call in truth.
	And it was just released yesterday.
	I assume it's on Amazon.
	It's on Amazon, it's digital, it's audio, all of the above.
	Excellent.
	So, I don't expect you to agree with me, but I wanted to tell an Israeli that I am deeply respectful of.
	I thought that Israel panicked in its reaction to COVID, just as I thought virtually every country did.
	I have two questions.
	How you react to my reaction and how Israelis reacted to the lockdowns?
	In a very different way, Israel's a very different society.
	Our ability as a Jewish state to conform and absorb a certain level of mortality is probably lower than other states.
	We're highly sensitive to this.
	We're a family country.
	But our experience You know, in particular, our experience was that when we had lockdowns, the level of infections went down.
	When the lockdowns were breached or lifted, the infection levels went up.
	But what I will say is that the extent of our lockdowns was a direct function of the dysfunction of our hospital system.
	The areas of interest was the Israeli medical system, and particularly the hospitals.
	And I visited a great number of hospitals in Israel.
	Every single one of them was in the same condition, which was on the verge of collapse.
	And had those hospitals been prepared with more beds and better facilities, then we wouldn't have had to have the lockdown degree that we had.
	In other words, if we had invested in several thousand more beds, we could have saved this country countless billions of dollars.
	And almost bad on the suffering because we had nearly a million Israelis without work.
	We could have very much cut down on the lockdown and maybe not have made it so draconian.
	At the end of the day, this was the vaccination, which was the work of our prime minister who could pick up the phone 30 times to the head of Pfizer, but also our health care system, which was just our family health care system, our health care plans.
	We have three different health care plans here.
	Which, in the face of great scarcity, acted almost impeccable.
	But the health care system was not impeccable vis-a-vis the hospitals.
	It was not enough beds.
	It was what?
	Not enough beds.
	Yes.
	So, do you in any way attribute that to the fact that Israel is governed by socialized medicine?
	I think the fact that we have a very arcane and labyrinth in healthcare system.
	We have hospitals that belong to the British system.
	We have hospitals that come from the Ottoman system.
	We have hospitals that come out of the churches.
	It's amazing.
	It's a whole name of hospitals.
	So our socialized medicine works well.
	It's all this labyrinth and array of different hospitals that don't work well.
	Some of them are supported by the government.
	Some of them aren't.
	At the end of the day, there simply were not enough facilities to cope with the number of people who were catching COVID. And the government panicked.
	Because what they were feeling was that there were people lying in the halls, there were people lying in the streets.
	So when you panic, you shut down.
	You're locked down.
	And that didn't have a positive effect.
	It did.
	But it needn't have been so long and so draconian, as I said, if we had had proper facilities.
	Okay, if you can hold on, that would be great.
	I've got to take a break.
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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.
	I've been thinking a lot about what's going on in a broader, larger context.
	And if you think about the names, 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.
	Amnesty.
	Weakness.
	Weakness.
	Globalism.
	Of course, right?
	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.
	You know, Liz Cheney, and even the way this went down the last couple months, right?
	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.
	Keep up.
	All right, some final thoughts with Michael Oren.
	I'm deeply grateful for the time he's given me and you.
	He's a renowned historian.
	His works are really, really important works, like the U.S., the history of the U.S. and the Middle East.
	You will learn so much.
	I mean, this is stuff that I never even imagined, the American preoccupation and fascination with the Middle East.
	And his book on the Six-Day War and others, and he is the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Who was the president when you were ambassador?
	A gentleman named Barack Obama.
	You should write memoirs of your time as ambassador.
	He did.
	It's called Ally, My Journey Across the American-Israel Divide.
	Good.
	So you see, I had a brilliant suggestion.
	I'm sorry?
	No, no, go ahead.
	The law of inspiration declared war against that memoir.
	They didn't like it.
	Oh, wow.
	Well, I'm going to read it today.
	It's one of your few works I didn't read.
	Michael Oren also has a novel out, As of Yesterday, as it happens, To All Who Call in Truth.
	What's harder to write, fiction or non-fiction?
	They're both a delight.
	They're just different types of delight.
	That's right, I would imagine.
	So did Israelis generally just say, look, this is lousy, but we need to have these lockdowns?
	or was there a lot of murmuring against it?
	No, there was murmuring over the fact that it wasn't uniformly applied because the ultra-Orthodox communities in particular sort of balked against it.
	Their argument was that lockdowns for them were counterproductive because they were living, you know, eight to ten people per room So locking them down, you're actually locking people within an infectious environment.
	And then there were the people in Tel Aviv.
	And we had a very different reaction here to masks and lockdown.
	In the United States, masks are a political issue.
	If you're a war mask, you're a liberal, you don't look back, you're a conservative kind of thing.
	In this country, if you...
	Wore a mask, you're an old person.
	And if you didn't wear a mask, you were young and cool.
	It was a cool factor, not a political factor.
	So I'm living in Joplin, Southern Tel Aviv, near the beach, and young people weren't wearing masks.
	And on top of everyone else, everyone was protesting against them, and now they weren't wearing masks.
	So, you know, at the end of the day, even though we had lockdowns, and I think the lockdowns had a certain amount of efficacy.
	They're probably more frequently in the breach.
	Well, if I were in Israel, I would identify with the cool and young.
	I can't tell you that much.
	There's a beach waiting for you right now.
	So as I'm speaking to you, are there rockets falling on Israel?
	Yes, there are in the south, about 20 minutes where I'm talking to you.
	And I suspect they'll begin coming here, too, in southern Tel Aviv.
	This is about their rocket time.
	Having eliminated so many of their high-level officials today, I would be hard-fressed to believe that Hamas won't try to strike back and perhaps strike back massively and then immediately call for ceasefire so that they could end with a victory image.
	One final thing.
	How are they getting all these rockets?
	Well, most of the rockets are actually made in Iran.
	And they were smuggled from the Sudan across the desert.
	And one of the great benefits of our Abraham Accords with the Sudanese will be blocking the smuggling loop, or at least frustrating that smuggling loop.
	So these rockets still are part of their stockpile that's left they've obtained since before the Abraham Accords.
	But they've also learned Hamas has smuggled engineers out of Gaza into Damascus, where they are trained by the Revolutionary Guards of the Iranians in making homemade rockets.
	And they pack a lot.
	They really pack a lot.
	They take out a building.
	This question is purely theoretical.
	nevertheless I'll pose it to you in your opinion it's obviously an opinion but in your opinion if there were a secret ballot among the residents of Gaza Would you rather spend a lot of our money making rockets to kill the Jews, or would you prefer we build schools, apartment buildings, and hospitals?
	How do you think the vote would go?
	They vote for the former, not the latter.
	The promise is very popular.
	People would rather give up on the schools, even give up on the water.
	To kill Jews.
	And this has proven time and time again, including Palestinians.
	There's a famous documentary here about a Palestinian woman whose baby suffered a terrible heart disease, was brought to Israel and underwent revolutionary surgery to save this baby.
	And at the end, they asked her, you know, what do you hope your kid grows up to be someday?
	And her answer was very simple.
	A martyr.
	Right.
	Meaning, just for those who don't understand, meaning one who dies while killing Jews.
	One who blows himself up in a crowded market or in a pizza parlor.
	Now, it's the same message you have to give all the time to Americans, Americans of all different political stripes.
	This is not Indiana.
	This is not Orange County.
	This is a radically different area of the world.
	You mentioned that book about America and the Middle East.
	The smartest world was ever said was by an American Civil War general who visited here right after the war and said, anybody who judges the Middle East by American standards is going to be kidding himself.
	This place is as alien as Jupiter is.
	And he got it right.
	I think your answer on my theoretical question explains almost everything.
	Thank you.
	They rather kill Jews than live in peace.
	That's it.
	Well, I only wish you and, of course, all of Israel well.
	Thank you for your time, Michael Oren.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Dan.
	Thank you for your love and support for us, for the Israeli people of Israel.
	Thank you.
	That's very kind.
	That was a special interview.
	That's it, my friends.
	It's hard for you to imagine because we don't have anything analogous.
	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.
	I'm Lonnie Chen.
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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 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 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.
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	Hi, everybody.
	By the way, I want to remind all my listeners in Hawaii, particularly Honolulu, that I will be speaking there this weekend.
	The information is at whereisdennis at dennisprager.com.
	Expecting a nice big audience and a very important message to offer.
	So, I will see you in Honolulu this weekend.
	Again, the information is up at DennisPrager.com.
	Where's Dennis?
	I hope you took in the Michael Oran interview.
	Would people have rather send rockets to kill Jews or build hospitals?
	No.
	Schools and apartment buildings, and we said, kill Jews.
	This has always been the case.
	This is what I mentioned, and it is worth mentioning again.
	Jew hatred is unique of all the hatreds.
	There's been racial hatred and ethnic hatred and religious hatred.
	So this is in those categories.
	However, It is unique because the Jew hater wants the Jews exterminated.
	That's the difference.
	And that is true to this day.
	One of Hamas' famous statements is, we love death as much as the Jews love life.
	And that is true.
	Didn't get a definitive answer, but you're free to speculate on whether or not Hamas would be doing this if Donald Trump were president.
	My suspicion is that they would not be.
	I don't think it's a coincidence that within a few months of Joe Biden becoming president, after four years of relative silence, Hamas...
	Sends hundreds and hundreds of rockets to kill Israelis.
	And they succeeded in killing Israelis, including Israeli Arabs.
	And my sense is that they don't give a damn.
	The trick is to kill Jews.
	And they only use Jews, not Israelis.
	Worthy points of restating.
	And as he put it at the end, This is not Orange County or Indiana.
	God, is that an important lesson?
	And so, the world continues.

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