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May 27, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	And a good Thursday to everyone.
	And a good Thursday to everyone.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis Prager.
	My first order of business.
	Sean, I got that half-second echo in my head.
	Busted!
	Ah, the technological headaches.
	The technological headaches of hitting the bat signal so that I can come in and fill in for Dennis.
	Glad to be here today.
	Dennis is back on Monday.
	And it's always a joy to come hang out with the Prager audience.
	And you know the phone number, 1-8-Prager-776, 1-8-Prager-776.
	And you probably know me because I'm here with relative frequency.
	If not, I am the happily engaged, I'm not engaged, I'm long married, but I mean engaged in the morning show here at 660 a.m.
	The Answer in Dallas-Fort Worth, where we just had just a big shindig of a good time this morning with some of the top stories of the day.
	So let me offer them up to you.
	And then, as we are wont to do, let's take some reactions to some things going on in the news, some things going on in the world of politics, some things going on in the culture, and then maybe do some broad conceptual things as well.
	I like to take the sort of stuff that Dennis does with Ultimate Issues.
	I think that's worth doing.
	You can't just do, you know, hot breaking news every single day, although Lord knows there's plenty of it, but there's some things that are sort of matters of principle that maybe by the time we get deep into the second hour or the third, just some things I want to put my thumb on the pulse of here while I have the opportunity to say hi to the whole country.
	I hope that everybody is good.
	I hope that everybody's having a good week.
	You know, good being a relative term.
	I mean, you can have a great week even when things are crazy.
	And the wrong people are in charge.
	But I'll tell you what.
	Here's something I do at the beginning of every show.
	And the local folks love it.
	And I'm glad to do it on every network show that I fill in on.
	It kind of helps me focus.
	And for those for whom it's helpful, I hope you find this useful as well.
	And that's before I say a word to you or we say a word to each other.
	Let's have a word with the God who makes it all possible.
	Lord, guide us and protect us.
	As we face the challenges of each new day, we thank you every day for this blessed nation and for your hand in creating it.
	Fill our hearts with the energy to protect the freedoms which come from you, which our nation was founded to protect.
	Lord, be with us as we chart a course out of this COVID nightmare.
	Help us to be smart and safe as we reclaim our lives.
	Guide us to fight for our liberties within the law and by following your law.
	Let us navigate these troubling times with a positive spirit, treating others as we would like to be treated.
	Lord, these are times of trial and times of challenge.
	Lift us as we follow your word and work for a better America, where our Constitution is honored, where our elections are reliable, where our borders work, and where our differences are hashed out with honesty and goodwill, and our freedoms of speech and worship are protected.
	As we face each day's problems, give us the clarity to pause, look around, and cherish our many, many blessings in our nation, our communities, and our families.
	If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything.
	And we ask these things in your holy name.
	Amen.
	There.
	I feel better.
	I feel focused.
	You?
	All right.
	Glad to have you here.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	In no particular order according to size of news stories, because there's big stuff.
	We have another mass shooting, which, of course, is going to have people blaming the inanimate object.
	Out in San Jose, California, nine people taken down by a deeply tortured, disturbed soul.
	This is always the case.
	It's a people problem and not a gun problem.
	And the juxtaposition of this story with the testimony of this gun-grabbing radical who's going to run the ATF if we let him, David Chipman.
	Boy, how much questioning from Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, John Kennedy of Louisiana, three of my favorite senators, to show that this guy won't even define what an assault weapon is.
	Because it's just a term for useful idiots in order to stigmatize virtually every sporting rifle or any rifle used for self-protection.
	And if anybody says, why do you need an AR-15?
	You ever have somebody hit you with that?
	Why do you need an AR-15?
	That's not how we talk in a free country.
	In a free country, if you have the right to have something, I mean, for example, why do you need...
	A big honking Ford F-350 pickup.
	Well, guess what?
	I don't.
	But I want one.
	And if I want one, I can have one.
	And if you don't like it, you can mind your own business.
	That's how a free country works.
	That's how liberty works.
	We have a Second Amendment.
	Now, are there limits to every freedom we have?
	Is freedom of speech absolute?
	No.
	Fire in a crowded theater, slander, etc., etc., is the right to keep and bear arms.
	Absolute.
	Can you put, like, a howitzer, you know, a rocket, you know, an RPG on your shoulder in your front yard?
	It is certainly possible to proscribe those things without violating the basic right to keep and bear arms.
	But once you get to the most popular rifle in America that has a legitimate...
	Sporting use and a legitimate self-protective use.
	This is what gun-grabbing looks like.
	And they are coming for your guns.
	They are coming for your guns.
	And it's funny, there are things that people in my industry, that people in this talk show business, could have said 20 or 30 years ago.
	And I've been doing shows for 20 or 30 years, almost 40 in fact, I know.
	Hard though that may be to believe.
	There are things that used to be sort of hyperbolic, but are now true.
	If you're driving around listening to somebody, you know, doing shows in the late 80s or something, and somebody says, I tell you what, they're coming to get our guns!
	It's like, okay, there's some people who are probably going to restrict things a little more than we'd like, but they're not really coming to get our guns.
	Guess what?
	Today they are.
	Today the effort is underway.
	Yesterday's hyperbole, yesterday's exaggerations are today's astute observations.
	You know, late 1980s, just to pick the same time frame.
	Yeah, Mark, I tell you, those Democrats, they're socialists!
	Ah, come on, come on, come on.
	They may lean in that direction, but they're just kind of, you know, classical liberals and it's not really socialism.
	Yeah, today, it's true.
	I mean, not all of them, but today you've got Democrats.
	Parading around proudly with a sandwich board that says, I am a socialist.
	AOC, Bernie Sanders, etc., etc.
	And by the way, those that don't admit to it, or don't answer to that label, they largely are anyway, to the extent that they favor government control over so very, very many things.
	The Democrats of yesteryear are downright reasonable.
	Many of the Democrats of yesteryear would be center-right Republicans today.
	So anyway, so anyway.
	So there's big stories.
	The COVID conversion is fascinating.
	The Biden administration is now open.
	Look at them.
	Bless their hearts.
	They're now open to a discussion, to the consideration that maybe, just maybe, we need to examine further what was going on in that stinking lab.
	Oh, no kidding.
	Suddenly you're curious now.
	Because silly me, I think my memory is not fuzzy on this.
	Every conservative on social media was onto this more than a year ago.
	And I don't mean people who are, you know, prancing around saying, well, I know it was a Chinese bioweapon.
	Okay, relax on that a little bit, all right?
	Anything's possible.
	But I'm talking about simply those who dared to walk into the marketplace of ideas and say, you know, this is the evil Chinese.
	You know, this is a secretive lab.
	You know, they might have been involved in some research skullduggery that might not have been real kosher and might not have been, you know, carefully enough.
	They might not have been proper stewards over research that is this delicate and this dangerous.
	And to say that can get you blacklisted, get you kicked off social media.
	Today it would be probably identified as anti-Asian violence to say such a terrible thing.
	Well, now those people stand vindicated.
	Oh, and bless their hearts at Facebook.
	At Facebook, they say they will no longer banish you, no longer silence you, if you post something that expresses some level of curiosity about where the virus came from.
	Oh, thank you.
	Thank you so, so much.
	All right.
	We have this infernal January 6th commission.
	It is the devil's work.
	And I'm only half kidding.
	Joe Manchin, one of the most likable Democrats, there are some, has said there is no excuse for any Republican to vote against it.
	Oh, really?
	Well, Joe, you remain a nice guy, but actually there is no reason for any Republican to give it a molecule of attention, and so I will share that with you.
	But intermixed with all these big stories, there's just one little thing that I want to share.
	I don't really believe in karma.
	But if you are an Atlanta City Councilman, and you are running for mayor, and one of your things is to defund the police, that is the case with Antonio Brown.
	He was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in Northeast Atlanta around noon.
	Four kids jumped into his car, stole the car.
	Sorry that happened to him.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
	The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
	The case is Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization, the infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
	If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
	Lots of them.
	This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
	Wade.
	I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
	That comes down to this.
	Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
	Wade step-by-step, law-by-law, restriction-by-restriction, court precedent-by-court precedent.
	Make no mistake, this case is huge, and the precedent will be massive.
	The second issue is even more important.
	The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
	That's the biggest issue here.
	We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
	We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
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	Not one mistake.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	Let me say this.
	Curtis Lewa is a hero.
	The more you get to know him, he's an astonishing figure.
	And we see more and more of them.
	Mike Lindell is like this.
	Trump is like this.
	They come across as goofy, normal people.
	But they are brilliant.
	Curtis Sliwa knows more about how New York works and what to do and what not to do.
	He's a genius on that level, and he's been in this world for over 40 years.
	So I want to say, I hope people will give to his campaign.
	New York is a bellwether.
	If New York were to shift, and it would shift dramatically under Curtis Sliwa, nobody else comes close.
	I just want to say that.
	There are other candidates that anybody would be better than de Blasio.
	De Blasio is the nightmare you never thought could happen.
	He is not only a maniacal ideologue and a socialist and a nut, but he is also incompetent.
	So the issue is that anybody would be better.
	But Curtis Sliwa, I really mean this.
	I believe that he would be in the pantheon of the truly great mayors, a man who gives his life to the job.
	It's the opposite of the Peter Principle, where people just keep rising and rising to their Sounds
	like a plan.
	Dennis Prager's show for Thursday, May 27th, 2021. All right, let's dive into your calls.
	Let me expand on just a couple of things I gave you a nugget of in the beginning.
	Joe Manchin's tweet just now.
	There is no excuse for any Republican to vote against this commission since Democrats have agreed to everything they asked for.
	Mitch McConnell has made this his political decision, thinking it'll help his 2022 elections.
	They do not believe the truth will set you free, so they continue to live in fear.
	Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.
	With that regard to Joe's thoughts or Mitch McConnell's thoughts, here's the bottom line.
	January 6th was terrible.
	The insurrection part was terrible.
	The 800 people who stormed the Capitol, terrible.
	My dog knows this.
	Everyone knows this.
	Against the backdrop of...
	Hundreds of thousands who went there on principle and lawfully and proudly to contest the acceptance of electoral votes in the midst of a deeply troubled and tainted election.
	These few people...
	You know, made the whole day terrible.
	Thanks a lot, guys.
	Great big help.
	And there are so many prosecutions and so many investigations already happening.
	What in the world is it that we don't know?
	This January 6th commission is, first and foremost, needless.
	But just another needless commission, that's just a day ending in Y in Washington, right?
	It is malicious.
	It is weaponized.
	It is predatory.
	This commission exists for one reason and one reason only, and that is to destroy the Trump legacy.
	And to insult every one of his 75 million, at least, voters.
	This will be a dog and pony show of tortured length in which constant references will be made designed to conflate the few who misbehaved, and let's not take anything away from that or downplay that, and spread that stigma across the entirety of the Trump legacy and everyone who voted for him.
	That is the Democrat game here, and no Republican.
	No Republican should want any part of it.
	We are in Chicago.
	Hey, John.
	Mark Davis, welcome.
	Happy Thursday.
	Hello, sir.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	It's a pleasure to speak to you again.
	Thank you.
	We disagree about everything, but I always enjoy talking to you.
	Thank you.
	I am not at all surprised that you, like the rest of the Republicans, fear a congressional inquiry into the January 6th attack.
	It's not about fear.
	It's about recognizing gamesmanship for what it is.
	Well, you're cutting me off already, so I sense a little fear.
	But I just want to say, I think that since we had ten investigations into Benghazi by Congress, my personal belief is that when a mob of insurrectionists Drunk on the lie that the election was stolen, attacked Congress, hoping to overturn the democratic process.
	We ought to look into why that happened.
	Now, I know you disagree with that.
	No, no, no.
	Let me say this.
	Do you not know?
	Do you not know?
	You seem like a smart guy.
	Do you lack understanding on what happened that day?
	What don't you know?
	Well, sir, I know that without the lie that the election was stolen, it wouldn't have happened.
	Okay.
	You're entitled to that view.
	What else don't you know?
	I mean, I actually asked you, what don't you know?
	And there is no answer to that.
	You know everything.
	What deep hidden secret is there that's yet to be discovered?
	Okay, like what?
	No, sir, you're wrong.
	Like what?
	Tell me what you don't know.
	I don't know why it was so easy for all of those people to penetrate the United States Capitol.
	I don't know why it took so long.
	Fair point.
	That's a fair point.
	How in the world?
	Dude, we're on a time clock here.
	We're going to cover more ground if we move at a somewhat quicker pace.
	That's a good question.
	Now, do we need some massive, politically charged, weaponized grudge commission in order to answer that very good question?
	The answer is no, we don't.
	Well, I disagree with your characterization of the commission.
	It would, in fact, be equally 50-50 Democrats and Republicans.
	So the idea that it is somehow politically planted or weaponized is dishonest on your part.
	Here's why it's not.
	Here's why it's not.
	Because the equal number of Democrats and Republicans is a massive irrelevancy compared to what this thing would be viewed as.
	It would be breathlessly, hyperbolically covered by a media culture that would look to this stupid commission as an opportunity to bludgeon Trump, to blame him as if he incited the thing.
	Do you believe he incited that riot?
	I believe, sir, that without the claim that the election was stolen, that attack would never happen.
	Do you believe that Trump incited the riot?
	I think he caused it to happen with his life.
	That is incitement, and you've made my point.
	Perfectly for me, because that completely baseless belief would infect and infuse this entire dog and pony show.
	The very good question you asked, how in the world could this even happen, is a really good question.
	And that's something you could have investigations into.
	Heck, one episode of a TV show could probably ask enough questions about that.
	Go ahead.
	Well, sir, I wonder...
	Are you actually suggesting that without the claim the election was tainted, it would have happened anyway?
	Are you denying that after that claim it wouldn't have happened?
	Oh, not at all.
	What we had, we had a provably...
	So, sir, if I could finish my point, sir.
	Sir, if I can just finish my thought, I would really appreciate it.
	Then do it and stop talking about it.
	I know you're not comfortable.
	I know you're not comfortable with the point I'm trying to make, sir.
	John, if I were not comfortable with you, you would have been long gone.
	Stop the posturing and make your point.
	Go ahead.
	I guess I'm waiting for you to do the same.
	Then you can wait a little longer.
	1-8 Prager 776. 1-8 Prager 776. Good God, don't waste my time or the audience's time.
	In fact, maybe we can...
	In fact, in deference to a couple of decent points the gentleman made, there are absolute questions as to how the Capitol was that vulnerable.
	Absolutely.
	And in fact, a couple of...
	One of our own DFW area congressmen and one other lovely lady from Oklahoma have this idea in their head.
	That we need this January 6th Commission sort of to ask what Nancy Pelosi knew and what the Capitol Police said or didn't say.
	And look, those are thoroughly decent questions that deserve some level of attention.
	Not through the vehicle of this predatory, malicious political theater.
	That is the only thing that would come of it, of any consequence, is the bludgeoning of Trump and the bludgeoning of his voters.
	This January 6th commission must be stopped.
	It will die in the Senate, I believe, and thank God.
	Now, as for the gentleman, this may be satisfactory to him or not.
	I have no idea.
	Why did this happen?
	It wasn't because of any lie.
	It was because of some truth.
	Here's some truth.
	This election result is tainted forever.
	It is in doubt forever.
	Skepticism is appropriate forever.
	Because of laws changed on the fly, unconstitutionally, sacrificed on a phony altar of COVID caution.
	We will never know how many votes were counted that should not have been.
	I don't know it.
	It's not a provable number, and that's why state-by-state challenges before various state judges were never going to happen.
	But the challenge that came from my state, from Texas, from our Attorney General Ken Paxton, that said, look, the Constitution was bludgeoned.
	With these on-the-fly changes in election procedure, that caused valid concern.
	Some of those people, for some of them, protesting was not enough.
	They rioted, and that was bad.
	back in a moment streaming on Salem now As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore his country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody!
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	This is Albert Mogler for Townhall.com.
	The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
	The case is Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization, the infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
	If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
	Lots of them.
	This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
	Wade.
	I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
	That comes down to this.
	Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
	Wade step by step.
	Law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
	Make no mistake, this case is huge and the precedent will be massive.
	The second issue is even more important.
	The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, focuses on the life of the unborn child.
	That's the biggest issue here.
	We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
	We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Thanks to human ingenuity, long-term investments we've made in science and medicine, we were able to, in an unprecedented fashion, come up in an unprecedented fashion, come up with a vaccine that is on point.
	This is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
	You know, we're still involved in the Middle East.
	No, actually, the Abraham Accords occurred after you left, Mr. President, because you screwed up the Middle East badly.
	But then, thanks to human ingenuity and long-term investments we made in science, we, we were able to come up with a vaccine.
	The we there is truly expansive because the virus didn't exist when President Obama left office.
	President Trump gets all the credit.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
	It's because Donald Trump said it.
	And they offered no evidence to back it up.
	So we just assume that because Donald Trump has so low credibility, you can't blame us.
	He trashed his own credibility.
	So therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
	And another put in another view said the same thing.
	He said Trump's racist tropes Buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
	Now, think about what these people are telling you.
	What they're telling you is they don't do their job as reporters.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Breakers show for this Thursday, May 27th.
	Mark Davis filling in from the Big DFW. Hope all is well with you.
	Do you get the feeling that the nasty virus is loosening its grip on us?
	And with it, some of the authoritarian rules.
	Very cool.
	I'm enjoying that.
	I feel like we're on a good path, a little light at the end of the tunnel.
	But you know what?
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	All righty, we are in LA. Brent, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, welcome.
	How are you?
	Hello, Mark.
	Hey.
	Yeah, I wanted to thank you and to bless you for starting your show with an appeal to God and to heaven to promote and protect and illuminate America once again to our creed and our transcendent mission.
	But all I would request is the addition of the Pledge of Allegiance.
	And maybe some national anthem and maybe the Federalist Papers.
	No, I love all those things.
	I'm teasing affectionately.
	Yeah, I'll tell you, the story of the prayer is, it seems like five years ago now, but it was 14 months, I guess.
	I was on vacation during spring break.
	Imagine that, spring break, taking some time off.
	And it was one of those middle weeks of March last year.
	Remember that.
	And it was a staycation, so I wasn't deployed on some beach somewhere, some foreign capital.
	I was at the house getting some stuff done with my wife and my kids.
	It was great.
	Loved the staycation.
	And then my wife and I were out for dinner at a Dallas restaurant on Wednesday night, whatever date that was.
	And it's like the world fell apart around the building.
	Or COVID just, I made the tentacles metaphor.
	It wrapped around our necks.
	Our waiter comes up and says, Hey, man, Tom Hanks has it.
	So I beg your pardon?
	Tom Hanks has the COVID. I'm like, oh, bummer.
	I hope he's okay.
	And then, you know, the next trip back, I was like, the NBA just shut down its season.
	I'm sorry, its season?
	Not this week or this month, but they shut down the season?
	And it's at that point that I realized the world was just spinning wildly out of orbit around the restaurant in which we sat.
	Made a couple of phone calls and said, God bless the fill-in hosts.
	Something I would say at this setting.
	God bless the fill-in hosts, but I've got to get back.
	I will be back on the air doing my own show, ripping myself off the vacation treadmill and back into the seat tomorrow morning, Thursday morning.
	And I was there.
	And as I walked into the building, I thought, I'm going to be talking to an audience that is bewildered.
	Maybe has some fears.
	Lord knows, concerns.
	And listen, it could be COVID fears or economic fears.
	The shutdown of the world cost so many livelihoods and jobs and households and dreams and retirements and just so much damage all on this altar.
	Of bringing down deaths to the lowest number possible.
	I'm a big fan of bringing down the number of deaths, but wow, we'll debate probably forever the balance we struck on that.
	So I said, look, as we face not just a virus, but some shutdowns that are absolutely going to be seized onto by authoritarians, large and small, I said, you know, the show I do has always been done with a very mindful of God, and I talk about him a lot, and I talk with him a lot off the air.
	But I said, you know what?
	Let's talk to him on the air.
	And I began each day with a prayer.
	COVID's getting better now.
	The restrictions are being lifted now.
	The prayer's not going anywhere.
	But are you telling me that if COVID's totally gone and the restrictions are totally gone and maybe we get a Republican House and a Republican Senate and a Republican President in 2024, that prayer will no longer be a good idea?
	I assert that it will.
	So, life can get better.
	Life can get worse.
	I will pray at the beginning.
	Of every talk show I do.
	So thank you, sir.
	Appreciate it very, very much.
	All right, let's see here.
	If you want to follow me on Twitter, at Mark Davis, because we hop into a break here.
	You can shoot me stuff during the breaks, and I'll take a look at those.
	And we'll come back and hop back onto the phone with more of you.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	If you're listening, we thank you, however that might be.
	You can watch the proceedings at DennisPrager.com and go to that website for all things Dennis.
	Dennis Mark Davison for Dennis, back on the phones with you next on this wonderful birthday.
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	Those are the two biggest indicators of recovery in my view.
	Housing and employment.
	Yeah, unemployment's at least 4.6, 4.7, 4.7.
	You know, as far as housing, the thing that we hear all the time from people we know, from friends, just from talking around the state, is housing markets in most parts of Ohio are just really hot.
	I mean, they're crazy hot.
	You know, somebody wants to go buy a house.
	A young man that works for me tried to buy a house, and he said it's a bid.
	They're starting to bid on it, you know.
	He said, I bid $10,000 more than the asking price.
	He said they laughed at me.
	So, you know, that's one of the things certainly you see going on today.
	4.6%, that's the job shortage.
	When you ran for governor, what was the unemployment?
	Because we've been through a pandemic.
	I actually thought it would be about 7% to 8%.
	No, it's, you know, I don't know what it was, you know, on election day, but when we went into this pandemic, it was almost identical to what it is now.
	So, you know, that was about, so we're, in many respects, we're back, you know, back to normal.
	Have schools reopened to your satisfaction across the state?
	Yeah, you know, something we did, Hugh, that was different, I think, than some other states, it became apparent to me in December and January that some of our urban schools were simply not going to go back in person.
	And so we made them a deal.
	And we made a deal.
	We have 630-some school districts, and we said this to every school district.
	If you sign a piece of paper and tell us that you'll be back in by March 1, we will vaccinate anybody in your school.
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	So Laureen Powell Jobs or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name.
	She is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros.
	Pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
	And so I want to be very clear.
	She does not want to destroy America.
	She wants it to be hers.
	And it's not just her.
	There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs.
	That are pumping in billions of dollars.
	Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
	$400 million.
	Jeff Bezos, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
	Thank you, Laureen Powell Jobs.
	So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built.
	Through businesses of largely unearned wealth.
	Now, some could say that Jeff Bezos earned his wealth.
	I think that's probably somewhat true.
	Do I think that he gamed the U.S. Postal Service?
	Yes.
	Do I think that he misleads the type of company he is?
	He's just a server company that loses money intentionally to take over other small businesses.
	But I think there's something fundamentally different about making massive sums of money In this new technology era and the ways that people made money in the early 1900s, 1950s, and 1980s.
	You see, technology has led to fast, immediate wealth creation.
	Keep up with what you do.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show on this Thursday, 27th day of May.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Let's hop back to your calls.
	A little gun grabbing, little January 6th commission, little this, little that.
	All available for your comment at 1-8 Prager-776.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Sherman Oaks, California.
	Shane, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Good, Mark.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Something nobody ever seems to mention on radio or TV or that I've never heard of.
	This guy who killed the nine people in San Jose and then himself.
	Doesn't anybody think that his soul might meet up with those nine souls on the other side of life and they're gonna do what they feel is necessary to this guy somehow or another?
	Like one guy might be saying, I was about to attend my daughter's graduation and you just ruined it.
	Well, okay.
	Where to begin on this little short story?
	The likelihood of any concept of satisfying earthly vengeance that you and I might chat about over coffee is probably not likely in the glory of the afterlife, where all of the slings and arrows of this life become suddenly and completely irrelevant.
	It also suggests that the shooter and the nine victims are going to the same place.
	We're brutally killed, and I pray for them and for their fate in the life after this one.
	Suicide is a grave sin, and so we can put that file that away and see what we think about that.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	We are in Detroit.
	Dale, hey!
	Mark, hang on a second.
	Wrong thing.
	Here we go.
	Hey, Dale.
	Mark Davis, how are you?
	What's up?
	Hey, Mark.
	Howdy.
	I want you to know that through your shows and your book, Upside Down, you've changed my mind on several issues.
	Well, thank you.
	And I'm about ready to change yours and make you even lean more to the right.
	That's awesome.
	One of the things you said is you said, okay, maybe, I think you said, strap a howitzer on your shoulder and shoot.
	Let me quote myself correctly and then go wherever you want.
	The Second Amendment is what it is about self-protection, but it doesn't necessarily entitle you to have a tank in your front yard or have some rocket-propelled grenade on your shoulder.
	Go ahead.
	And I think it does, and I'm going to tell you every reason why.
	I think you can own everything up to a nuclear weapon if you want.
	And this is why.
	We all know the Second Amendment, and I'm not going to read it, but there's part of the Bill of Rights that many people don't know, and that's the preamble to the Bill of Rights, because it's not in the Constitution.
	The preamble was, when they originally introduced it, there was actually 12 amendments.
	The first two got dropped.
	Let me read the first sentence of the preamble, because that's the key to everything.
	It says, the conventions of a number of states...
	Having at the time of the adoption of the Constitution expressed a desire in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers that the further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
	Okay, but my brain is leaking out my ears, so you've got to bottom line it for me and tell me what the meaning of that is.
	In order to prevent the misconstruction and abuse of its powers, it being the federal government that's under the laws of the Constitution.
	In other words, All of these, the first ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, are there to prevent the government from abusing its powers, and you can't do that unless the people are armed to the same level as the government is.
	It's important to know that the Second Amendment is not about sporting, it's not about sport shootings, it's not about hunting, it is about defending against tyranny.
	I have no personal qualm with somebody wanting to own whatever size weaponry they wish, presuming they're law-abiding people with no mental health history.
	I guess the constitutional question is, is the right to bear arms abridged if we take our biggest, heaviest...
	I mean, listen, government has tanks.
	You're telling me that I should be able to have a tank?
	And this was brought up later on.
	This was actually brought up in the letter of Marquis at a reprisal during the War of 1812. They asked, can citizens own cannons, which were at the time the biggest weapons that the government had?
	And they said yes.
	You know, it's interesting.
	You offered this up as an opportunity to rethink.
	Do I care if a citizen has a tank?
	My answer would be, depends on the citizen.
	So I guess that's probably...
	Can the government say, we're going to tax you, we're going to require you training, we're going to do all that?
	They can do that, but they can't say you can't own it.
	Hmm.
	Here's the one thing, and this I believe was an Antonin Scalia point, so I certainly was going to pay attention to that.
	To keep and bear arms.
	To bear means to carry.
	And I think he carried through his glorious life as a constitutionalist the notion of something, in terms of weaponry, that you can carry.
	I'm probably going to go with that.
	1-8 Prager 776. We are in Chicago.
	Art, hey, Mark Davis, welcome.
	In for Dennis, nice to have you.
	Hi, Mr. Davis.
	I'm calling about the, you know, you had that guy giving you a hard time about January 6th earlier.
	Has this guy not seen the video of that guy?
	I think he's a congressman from Oregon who was opening a side door to let...
	These rioters in and then he walks around the building and goes back in another door.
	Or the video of the officers waiting.
	I couldn't possibly care less.
	I say that with all love.
	Who opened a door?
	Who opened a gate?
	There's so many squillions of feet of video of all this.
	And people go, oh, look at this.
	There's a bus that rolled up.
	Just stop it.
	Stop it.
	This is why we do not, in fact, need the January 6th Commission.
	We know what happened.
	It is burned.
	Into history.
	It is an unpleasant, horrible moment in the midst of what could have been a great day.
	I don't think it was going to prevail.
	I don't pretend for a moment.
	I remember the shows I was doing.
	Look at me.
	I'm doing a local morning show here in Dallas, Fort Worth.
	And as that day unfolded, I said, you know what?
	I don't know if we're going to prevail today.
	That all of a sudden they're going to stop the electoral count because we have suddenly raised such a magnificent constitutional argument against it that will be received by a majority of Congress and the whole election will go to the House of Representatives.
	I don't know if we're going to prevail.
	I don't think we are.
	But history will record that we fought to the last moment and did so honorably.
	And the fact that so much dishonorable behavior commanded the history of that day is just extremely, extremely unfortunate.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	be right back streaming on Salem now this is why we're fighting for the soul of America You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you guys.
	I do.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Let me ask you from your perspective here, and let's get a 35,000-foot view of the country right now.
	The border crisis, crime surging throughout many American cities, the economy.
	We see inflation is coming up.
	Are these failed Democrat Party policies going to be acknowledged by the American people?
	Are they teeing it up for us to have a big victory in the midterm and beyond?
	Well, I'm hearing from what I call the wedge group, the people that really don't pay much attention.
	People are starting to pay attention far earlier.
	Normally they wait until right before the general election in that wedge group.
	People are aware, they see inflation, that affects you.
	The cost of gas at the pump, that affects you.
	The cost of electricity, that affects you.
	Food, everything else, that is real.
	They may not feel the border crisis just yet, but if this keeps going, they'll feel that too.
	Crime, crime.
	People are feeling crime.
	Yeah, crime, the defund police.
	That's an 80-20 issue, probably 85-15 issue where people around the country are like, that is the nuttiest thing we've ever heard.
	Radicals in Congress, radicals want that.
	So I think they're teeing it up.
	We have to deliver.
	We have to make very clear what we're going to do.
	Whether it's on crime, immigration, inflation, jobs and economy, COVID, regulation, all of those things that we are good at, that people trust us at.
	We have to remind them of that.
	One of the big questions that Republicans are asking themselves is how does the party look with Donald Trump in the mix?
	President Trump is about to start these rallies again.
	Every day I hear from caller after caller saying, boy, we miss him.
	He was right possibly about the Wuhan lab.
	You know, I'm old enough to remember when he was questioning where the virus came from and they mocked him and they denigrated him.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	We'll see you next time.
	And believe you me, Hugh knows a thing or two about Nixon.
	They were running buddies for a while there, and he is a font of information on such things, so that is a good chapter of the PragerU.
	Every chapter of PragerU is great.
	All right, 1-8 Prager776, Mark Davis, in for Dennis.
	We are in Illinois.
	Lisa, hey, Mark Davis, welcome.
	In for Dennis, nice to have you.
	Hey, Mark, how are you today?
	I'm good.
	Listen, I... I love the Dennis Prager Show, and honestly, I love when you sub in for him.
	I was heading into the department store just at the time of your prayer, and I appreciated it so much.
	When I came out, I flipped it back on, and the gentleman had called in regarding the nine people that had died in Texas and were shot.
	You know, by the person who then took his own life.
	And you made a quick comment.
	I loved your answer, by the way, but you did make a comment about suicide being a grave sin and didn't elaborate after that.
	And I just wanted to maybe help you to look a little bit deeper in what you said.
	I know that you are a Christian.
	What depth did I not achieve?
	Suicide is sin.
	It shows disregard for the life that is a gift from God.
	I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I know the grand definite yes or no binary answer to is it even possible to go to heaven if the last thing you do is kill yourself.
	I know what redemption is.
	I know what salvation is.
	And they are based on contrition.
	They are based on repentance, which it is impossible to do if the last thing you did was commit the sin.
	Actually, God has such grace that in that very, very microsecond, only He knows if you have regret and if you have that repentance between the time you might pull the trigger or overdose on those drugs to the time that you take your last breath.
	So, like you said, it's not up to us to judge.
	I think that's fair.
	I think that's fair.
	With time very short, I think that's very fair.
	I guess the way this guy went probably blew his brains out.
	Not a lot of time for thinking about it like it is if you gobble a bunch of pills.
	Yes, some self-awareness and some genuine repentance are possible in some cases.
	Also, I would think God would smile, smile.
	God would welcome the notion of somebody who had led a sufficiently devout life.
	And no control over what he was doing.
	The definition of some mental illness is that you just don't know what you're doing and are thus to be held somewhat less responsible for it.
	Yes, no blanket answer exists.
	I think you're absolutely right about that.
	I will tell you this, in the thing of big mystery, if anybody's thinking about that dire action, just don't do it for a number of reasons.
	No quick exit is worth a questionable eternity.
	Back in a moment.
	All righty.
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	But you're telling me that the wealthiest societies have the most suicides.
	I can guess why that is.
	Why do you think it is?
	Well, they're not happy.
	The two strongest indicators of happiness are smiles and the lack of suicides.
	There's an organization, I think it's sponsored by the United Nations, called the Global Happiness Project, which awards some sort of...
	I applaud it to the five countries which are supposedly the happiest and warnings to the five countries that are unhappiest.
	And the last version of this designated five countries in sub-Saharan Africa as the least happy countries in the world.
	The five Scandinavian countries as the most happy countries in the world.
	I thought it was a joke.
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	. . you Oh, Bill Plasty says my daughter came home from a protest and says, Daddy, tell me about the times you've been pulled over by the police and mistreated.
	He goes, I've never had a bad...
	Really?
	What world are you living in?
	What does that even mean?
	I have a bunch of white friends who've complained about them being stopped by cops and how they've been treated.
	What is this?
	And Plaski?
	Look up Ferguson effect.
	Look up Minneapolis effect or George Floyd effect.
	They're all interchangeable.
	Cops pull back.
	Bad guys know it.
	Crime goes up.
	The people who get killed are the very black people that you wrote so lovingly about in your article where you said you're ashamed because you didn't get it.
	You're making it worse.
	Not better.
	It is rare for anybody to be killed by the police.
	Anybody.
	A population of 350 million people, 50 million interactions with police and civilians, 11 million arrests, 60,000 officers assaulted, 60 officers killed, and out of all that, 1,000 civilians are killed, 500 of them white, 250 of them are black, more unarmed whites killed than unarmed blacks.
	Washington State researchers over years have done this three times now.
	Simulations with cops.
	Three times more hesitant, three times more reluctant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than on a white suspect.
	Just the opposite of what the Black Lives Matter people think.
	And just being wrong about something is no big deal.
	being wrong about something with deadly consequences is.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bureka.
	But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people? .
	Well, it's a hatred with a long history.
	Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is perpetual.
	And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws.
	And we're not perfect.
	We're as human as anybody else.
	But we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent.
	And that means that we...
	Are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.
	I heard this.
	I heard exactly that same answer on another show.
	From a caller this morning, it's funny you used that justification, but Joel, Asians, Chinese, Japanese, they set themselves apart.
	They have their own cultural standards, their own traditions and laws.
	They don't face the kind of eons worth of hatred the Jewish people do.
	Is there some other explanation?
	Because it seems so...
	The other explanation is envy because Jews have been successful throughout the years.
	And again, there are poor Jews.
	There are Jews who have failed in various ways.
	There are Jews who are criminals who end up in jail like Bernie Madoff or Harvey Weinstein or whatever.
	I mean, Jews, again, are not a perfect people.
	But just read the book of Daniel in the Old Testament.
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	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore this country down.
	No one stood up to him.
	Nobody.
	My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
	And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
	I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
	I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
	Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
	When there's chaos, when there's pandemics, when there's riots, people think, where is God?
	God always manages to reemerge.
	This Constitution is intended for a moral and religious people.
	It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
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	Those are the two biggest indicators of recovery, in my view, housing and employment.
	Yeah, unemployment's, what Lisa, 4.6, 4.7, 4.7.
	You know, as far as housing, the thing that we hear all the time from people we know, from friends, just from talking around the state, is housing markets in most parts of Ohio are just really hot.
	I mean, they're crazy hot.
	You know, somebody wants to go buy a house.
	A young man that works for me tried to buy a house, and he said, it's a bid.
	They're starting to bid on it, you know.
	He said, I bid $10,000 more than the asking price.
	He said they laughed at me.
	So, you know, that's one of the things certainly you see going on today.
	4.6%, that's the job shortage.
	When you ran for governor, what was the unemployment?
	Because we've been through a pandemic.
	I actually thought it would be about 7% to 8%.
	No, it's, you know, I don't know what it was, you know, on election day, but when we.
	We'll be right back.
	Nothing like some clash to kick off an hour of the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hey everybody, Mark Davis in for Dennis today from 660 AM, the answer.
	Dallas-Fort Worth, nice steamy, warm Texas spring day.
	Almost had a Seattle kind of feel around here with like a week, week and a half of clouds and stuff.
	I gotta tell you, that seasonal affective disorder thing, that might actually be a thing.
	Because when we finally did see the big yellow ball in the sky again, it's just...
	I just felt very celebratory.
	Anyways, cause for celebration every time the phone rings and I get to do this show, and I appreciate it enormously.
	And if you are joining us in midstream, we've talked a little January 6th commission and the malicious scourge that that idea is.
	And what you're going to see this week is a lot of Democrats, even some of the good-hearted ones like Joe Manchin, saying, oh, there's no reason for any Republican to distance from this.
	There's no reason for any Republican to distance from this.
	I mean, after all, we got the same number of seats for Republicans that we do for Democrats.
	Okay, Joe, tell you what.
	You know the number of seats I'm interested in?
	The number of seats where news anchor butts will sit.
	Because if we can get an equal share of that, then maybe we can talk.
	Because this entire dog and pony show, this ridiculous, This slanderous political theater exists for one reason and one reason only.
	And that is to destroy the legacy of Donald Trump and to insult and disparage every single human being who voted for him.
	Because every single Trump voter will be conflated with those who rioted in the Capitol that day.
	Look at the insane things that people are saying.
	People with an actual brain stem are saying, It's like as bad as 9-11.
	Look, nobody should sweep this under the rug or sugarcoat it or soft-pedal it.
	But the notion of...
	What was the Biden quote himself?
	The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
	What?
	Four presidential assassinations intervening?
	Because obviously those were all after the Civil War.
	Lincoln.
	Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy.
	How about 9-11 itself?
	Pretty big attack on democracy.
	Pretty big attack.
	Oh no, 800 rioters was worse.
	So when you have people who are that unhinged offering this up for history, you don't hand those people an enormous chisel with which to etch.
	Their own version of events onto the history books or onto the national memory.
	You know what the coverage of this stupid commission would be, right?
	Interminable hour after hour and day after day of smearing millions of voters.
	For being a Trump voter, I will be turned into a rioter, and so will you.
	For being Trump, he will be turned into someone who incited the riots, which he provably did not do.
	So, and last thing before we go to calls on this, and we have another shooting in San Jose, California.
	I hate that.
	I hate it for its intrinsic tragedy.
	And, of course, it's another gift to the gun grabbers.
	And they are in full throat.
	We've talked a little bit about that as well.
	But here's the thing you've got to watch for.
	As the Senate weighs this stupid January 6th commission.
	Do not allow any elected official of yours who is a Republican to come at you with a little sliver of logic I've heard from a couple of people whom I otherwise admire.
	Saying, hey, this January 6th commission is going to be, it's an opportunity for us to get some answers to some questions.
	Like, what did Pelosi know?
	And why didn't the Capitol Police, you know, do more, etc.?
	How is this unanticipated?
	And maybe it was left vulnerable, you know, on purpose, blah, blah, blah.
	All of which we can look into.
	That's fine.
	A couple of good reporters could look into that.
	A couple of episodes of Tucker Carlson could look into that.
	The notion that finding the answers to those valid questions makes it a worthwhile enterprise to impanel this malicious, grotesque, ruinous January 6th commission is short-sightedness of a stunning scale.
	So don't let your well-meaning elected officials try to get away with that.
	Alright, 1-8-Prager-776.
	1-8-Prager-776.
	Glad you are here.
	Let's take care of some folks we didn't get to in the first hour.
	Let's prioritize those.
	We are in Minnesota.
	And Dan, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	It's a pleasure to have you.
	How are you this Thursday?
	Mark, it's a pleasure to hear you.
	Thank you.
	It's really a blessing.
	Praise God.
	I'm a believer like you.
	Thank you for that.
	Say, I guess I'm a little surprised, I'm a little confused too why Salem hosts don't really talk much about the election fraud being uncovered.
	Well, I mean, it's not full light in Maricopa County, but the train, the train, the righteousness train, I don't know what you want to call it, is moving across the country.
	Now we are able to have 147,000 ballots examined forensically in Fulton County, Georgia.
	Right.
	And that's going to happen in New Hampshire.
	Let me give you a window.
	I can't speak for everybody, but when you do this for a living, when we have been steeped in the story of the 2020 election, and we largely, I can't presume unanimity here, my version of events is that it is a tainted result.
	That it is an election fraught with doubt.
	Where skepticism as to the result is completely appropriate because of rules changed on the fly, on an altar of COVID urgency, and there's no way to retroactively do anything about it, but it absolutely deserves to be weighed in history so that we do not get screwed like this again.
	So, to finish the thing and hand it back to you, if you are in any way mystified...
	As to why we're not getting some daily update on Maricopa County, it's because generally speaking, most hosts are like most people in the following way.
	Tell me when you got something.
	At the point at which something happens to change the story, something happens that is a new development, then let me hear that.
	Until then, God bless you.
	Go for it.
	But the hourly updates.
	Probably not going to happen.
	That's not any disregard for that process.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	I guess Mike Lindell, who has spent at least $65 million of his own money to fight this evil election fraud, it's much deeper than that.
	It's actually a takeover by the CCP of China, which is hard for the average American to understand, and how they have bought off politicians, many of them.
	He has the absolute series on Frank's speech where you can see all of the proof.
	This isn't just ideas and evidence.
	This is proof.
	I love all of that.
	I love Mike, and I love all of that.
	And the way to absorb this continuing parade of evidence, this continuing parade of assertions, is to see which ones stand the light of scrutiny.
	Some may, some may not.
	Some have, some have not.
	And we plow forward with, I hope, what is a shared goal of examining how to make sure that the election cycle of 2022, where we're going to take back the House and may take back the Senate, and the presidential election of 2024, so we can be deployed, ready, armies of attorneys, armies of watchers, whatever we need to do, to make sure that we don't get a repeat.
	Of 2020. That energy is probably a lot more widespread than the desire to continue to fixate on the rearview mirror as far as what happened in 2020. In no way do we let that go.
	We need to understand it in order to make sure that it doesn't repeat.
	What's that old saying about those who don't understand history?
	The mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
	Let's not have that repeat.
	But believe you me, any and all...
	Are welcome with anything they bring to the table to help chronicle and create the history of this tainted, dubious 2020 result.
	Let me see here.
	Rather than give somebody a minute, let me share with you a couple of things.
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	Those are the two biggest indicators of recovery, in my view.
	Housing and employment.
	Yeah, unemployment's, what Lisa, 4.6, 4.7, 4.7.
	You know, as far as housing, the thing that we hear all the time from people we know, from friends, just from talking around the state, is housing markets in most parts of Ohio are just really hot.
	I mean, they're crazy hot.
	You know, somebody wants to go buy a house.
	A young man that works for me tried to buy a house, and he said, it's a bid.
	They're starting to bid on it, you know.
	He said, I bid $10,000 more than the asking price.
	He said they laughed at me.
	So, you know, that's one of the things certainly you see going on today.
	4.6%, that's the job shortage.
	When you ran for governor, what was the unemployment?
	Because we've been through a pandemic.
	I actually thought it would be about 7% to 8%.
	No, it's, you know, I don't know what it was, you know, on election day, but when we went into this pandemic, it was almost identical to what it is now.
	So, you know, that was about, so we're, in many respects, we're back to normal.
	Have schools reopened to your satisfaction across the state?
	Yeah, you know, something we did, Hugh, that was different, I think, than some other states, it became apparent to me in December and January that some of our urban schools were simply not going to go back in person.
	And so we made them a deal.
	And we made a deal.
	We have 630-some school districts, and we said this to every school district.
	If you sign a piece of paper and tell us that you'll be back in by March 1, we will vaccinate anybody in your school.
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	She is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros.
	Pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
	And so I want to be very clear.
	She does not want to destroy America.
	She wants it to be hers.
	And it's not just her.
	There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs.
	That are pumping in billions of dollars.
	Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million through the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
	$400 million.
	Jeff Bezos, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
	Thank you, Laureen Powell Jobs.
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	Warwick, Mark Davison for Dennis Prager on this Thursday, 27th of May.
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	We're in Prescott, Arizona.
	Neil, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Happy Thursday.
	How you doing there?
	So far so good, I hope.
	The whole idea behind the Second Amendment, like you said earlier, it ain't just for hunting.
	People forget that what kind of firearm we have is supposedly equal to what the government can do against us.
	The problems of what size and what shape and what color, how fast it can shoot, how far it will shoot.
	It's a sniper weapon.
	It's a secret hiding place gun.
	It's a semi-automatic.
	The whole idea is that they do not, on the left, especially want us to have anything.
	With the new transportation mode that we're going to have, somebody not driving, something flying, we won't be able to transport firearms because the government will inject another law.
	I think you've got your finger on the pulse of it.
	This is what gun grabbing looks like from its beginning vestiges.
	And we had this David Chipman, who's up to be ATF director.
	The reason he's unwilling to define what an assault weapon is is because it's ridiculously broad and would apply to all manner of guns used for sporting and self-protection.
	They are coming for our guns, gradually, incrementally.
	And we must stand up against them.
	We are in New York.
	Liz, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Hi, Mark.
	Well, I'm currently acting on my anger here, and I was just trying to look it up.
	I should have done it before I made the phone call.
	Mark, are you aware that a lot of the people that they rounded up from the January 6th demonstration?
	It was not a riot.
	That they're in federal prison.
	They're in federal prison and they're in isolation.
	I've heard some things about that, and all I would suggest is that anybody who is incarcerated for participation in that should be treated no worse, no better, no worse, than anyone who performs some similar crime.
	And to over-punish them because we're just particularly angry about them doesn't seem right.
	And so, I don't know, I think it's worth some attention as to how those cases are treated, and the wheels of justice should turn for those laws broken, and there should be consequences for that.
	But they should be the exact consequences that the law provides, and not with anything heaped on just because we seek to stigmatize it further.
	Mark, I believe that most of them are in there for trespassing.
	And Mark, all I can think of is that citizen from the United States, in fact, wasn't he a student?
	Was it Korea?
	Was it North Korea that he was captured in?
	Or was it China?
	He put down a poster, and they destroyed that man, and they brought him, they allowed him to come when he was three quarters dead.
	That's Otto Warmbier, yes.
	He was a prisoner of the evil Korean regime.
	They let him out just in time for him to die of the horrible punishment that he had received at the hands of the North Koreans.
	I'm going to give you some credit that you're not in any universe trying to compare that to what might be happening to the January 6th insurgents.
	I'm going to give you a little benefit of the doubt here.
	Don't mess it up.
	Mark, I don't want to think that way, but why are they in isolation?
	I have no idea.
	Well, first of all, I doubt that this is trespassing.
	This is mountains more than trespassing.
	But the charges against these people should be specific, they should be within the law, and any consequences that hit them should be within the scope of what the law provides, with nothing else heaped on by any zealous, punitive instinct for those who have a political axe to grind.
	1-8-Prager-776, we are in Dallas.
	Mike, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how you doing?
	Hi, Mark, thank you for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I was calling because I've heard this argument quite a few times against the proliferation of guns in our society.
	And I thought that it sounds logical, but it really isn't.
	The argument is that the Founding Fathers and the writers of the Constitution could not have envisioned the type of weapons that we have today.
	Correct?
	Almost certainly true.
	Right.
	Well, this is true.
	However, they could study the progress that has been made in their recent past.
	I could extrapolate from that.
	What's your overall point?
	Since the Founding Fathers never envisioned rocket-propelled grenade launchers, the fact is that they exist, and if they exist in government hands, then you should be able to have them in private hands.
	Exactly.
	They didn't envision travel to the moon, but even before travel to the moon, George Burns wrote...
	Mike, this is germane.
	It's funny because at the time of our nation's founding, the right to keep and bear arms, as Scalia said, bear as in to carry, which doesn't necessarily involve a thermonuclear device in your yard or anything like that, or a tank in the driveway.
	But, I don't know, does it?
	Because why does the Second Amendment exist?
	Why does it exist?
	It is not about hunting.
	It is not about sports shooting.
	It is about dissuading government tyranny.
	There is no backstop more effective against government tyranny than an armed populace.
	And we don't arm ourselves based on the expectation that it's going to happen tomorrow.
	But we arm ourselves so that this government today, the government tomorrow, The government of 10 years from now, the government of 100 years from now, doesn't even think about it.
	That's the definition of a deterrent.
	We're in Livermore, California.
	Ray, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how you doing?
	Hey, good.
	Thanks for being there, Mark.
	Love it when you're in for Dennis.
	I want to clarify what Jay Robinette said, and then I want to point to what I think is the motive.
	January 6th is the word since dot dot dot.
	What he really meant to say was, it's the word since Democrats tried to secede from the Union so they could keep their slaves.
	I think that's what he meant to say.
	You think so?
	Channeling Jay Robinette?
	Yes, yes.
	And the motive is the same as the Russian collusion hearings that dragged on, that fouled up the 2018 election.
	That's why they're doing this.
	They want this stink.
	To keep on through that next election cycle so they can hold their position.
	That's all it is.
	I think that's wise analysis, Ray.
	Thank you, and I appreciate it very much.
	Because stuff like this, gamesmanship like this, is all they have.
	Do you think they're winning converts on the way they're handling the border?
	Do you think they're proud of stewardship over a wonderful economy?
	It's all we've got is posturing and stigmatizing their opponents.
	And if you're conservative, that's you.
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	Let me ask you from your perspective here, and let's get a 35,000-foot view of the country right now, the border crisis, crime surging throughout many American cities, the economy, we see inflation is coming.
	Are these failed Democrat Party policies going to be acknowledged by the American people, and are they teeing it up for us to have a big victory in the midterm and beyond?
	Well, I'm hearing from what I call the wedge group, the people that really don't pay much attention.
	People are starting to pay attention far earlier.
	Normally they wait until right before the general election in that wedge group.
	People are aware, they see inflation, that affects you.
	The cost of gas at the pump, that affects you.
	The cost of electricity, that affects you.
	Food, everything else.
	That is real.
	They may not feel the border crisis just yet, but if this keeps going, they'll feel that too.
	Crime, crime.
	People are feeling crime.
	Yeah, crime, the defund police.
	That's an 80-20 issue, probably 85-15 issue where people around the country are like, that is the nuttiest thing we've ever heard.
	Radicals in Congress, radicals want that.
	So I think they're teeing it up.
	We have to deliver.
	We have to make very clear what we're going to do.
	Whether it's on crime, immigration, inflation, jobs and economy, COVID, regulation, all of those things that we are good at, that people trust us at.
	We have to remind them of that.
	One of the big questions that Republicans are asking themselves is how does the party look with Donald Trump in the mix?
	President Trump is about to start these rallies again.
	Every day I hear from caller after caller saying, boy, we miss him.
	He was right possibly about the Wuhan lab.
	You know, I'm old enough to remember when he was questioning where the virus came from and they mocked him and they denigrated him.
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	CNN. New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
	It's because Donald Trump said it.
	And Mike Pompeo said it.
	And they offered no evidence to back it up, so we just assumed that because Donald Trump had so low credibility, you can't blame us.
	He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
	And another put in another view said the same thing.
	He said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
	have now think about what these it is Dennis Prager show on this Thursday the 27th of May Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Glad to be here.
	Swirling through a delicious mix of a lot of topics.
	Some of them firearms related, gun rights and gun crime and various things in our focus.
	That infernal January 6th commission.
	Either before this hour is done or the beginning of next, there is a brave athlete, a wonderful, wonderful woman out of Connecticut.
	A young lady who was the fastest girl in Connecticut.
	And then they had boys competing against her.
	And so the transgender craze made that a horrifically unfair fight.
	Her name is Chelsea Mitchell, and I'm going to share her thoughts.
	By the way, she wrote an op-ed and submitted it to USA Today and referred to losing to males, referred to what it is like to compete against Males, because there are advantages to the male body.
	I finished the 55-meter dash in 2019 behind two male runners, and USA Today changed that word to transgender.
	It's not inaccurate.
	They offer themselves as transgender people, but the point is that they are male.
	The point is that boys were running against this girl.
	Girl sports must be protected from this egregious injustice, and that's why my state of Texas and maybe your state's involved in such efforts, and if it's not, it should be.
	All righty, more on that in a moment.
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	We are in Cortland, New York.
	Emma, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Oh, hi, Mark.
	I'm so glad to talk with you, and God bless you for being a voice on the radio.
	Much you have to go through to have a voice on the radio, an imposing voice especially.
	Well, thanks.
	Yeah, so the one thing that really isn't mentioned a whole lot in this mixture is that President Trump three times offered to send 10,000 reserve troops to protect the Capitol.
	And, you know, dear old Nancy Pelosi declined that help three times.
	So, how do we expect any commission, her commission, to be fair and honest?
	You know, is she going to really point her at herself?
	You're right.
	And that's why even even the well-meaning members of Congress who say we need to get to the bottom of this.
	So what did Pelosi know or not know what you know, what kind of interference was thrown up against the request that you properly say that Trump got with his acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller, about the notion of having National Guard troops protect the people who are there to lawfully, lawfully protest.
	The likelihood of getting good answers to that seems slim.
	The likelihood of day after day, week after week, month after month of the bludgeoning of Trump and anybody who supported him.
	That is a guarantee making the January 6th commission an exercise in utter, utter foolishness.
	We are in Beachwood, Ohio.
	Ohio.
	Jeff, hey, Mark Davis, in for Dennis, how are you doing?
	Good, Mark.
	Hold on a second.
	Can you hear me okay?
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I want to respectfully disagree with you.
	You had a caller earlier asking why the Democrats and why Fox and stations like that are not highlighting the Maricopa County and other things like that, all the things that were questions having to do with the last election.
	I see stories on it all the time.
	I mean, how do you know about it?
	Because it's in the news.
	Well, I don't see it much.
	What's lacking?
	I don't hear it often enough.
	The Democrats pound it.
	I want to hear it every single day.
	Maricopa County has found that there's this anomaly and this problem.
	That's kind of why God made the Internet, and there are a million news sources.
	The notion that this doesn't lead Tucker Carlson every night is because we've got about 5,300 other things that we've got to do.
	And an overall stance that says, I mean, for a big-time media operation, one given talk show, one given cable show, one given newscast, with all of this very noble backwards glancing at Maricopa and other counties, it is not irresponsible to say, if you find something, let me know.
	And until you do, God bless you.
	Go ahead.
	Can I say something?
	Please.
	The Democrats realize that the idea is to pound an idea every single day into people's minds so that it sticks.
	They're saying every day the big lie.
	The big lie was what happened to Russia, Russia, Russia, and the mule.
	That was the big lie.
	And in fact, on this election, the other big lie.
	Why do I not hear any Republicans saying that?
	The big lie and the threat to our peaceful transition of power was done in the previous election in 2016. I heard it every day.
	I heard it every day.
	I mean, who hasn't said that?
	Another big lie is that this election was clean.
	That's the big lie.
	It was clean, pristine, and deserves to be respected by everybody.
	Nope.
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	CNN. New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
	It's because Donald Trump said it.
	And Mike Pompeo said it.
	And they offered no evidence to back it up, so we just assumed that because Donald Trump had so low credibility, you can't blame us.
	He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
	And another put in another view said the same thing.
	He said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
	Now, think about what these people are telling you.
	What they're telling you is they don't do their job as reporters.
	If there is a suspicion, a rumor, a report that this came from a lab, rather than track it down, if it came from Donald Trump, we're not going to even look at it.
	Now, what are you saying?
	You're saying that you don't trust anything that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth.
	Let me tell you something, Maggie Haberman, and I know you listen to the show, all the smart lefties do.
	We don't trust anything coming out of your mouth.
	Now, how many times have you accused Donald Trump of not taking the coronavirus as seriously as he should have when he should have?
	Why do you suppose he felt that way?
	Apply the same logic you're applying to your skepticism about his story about the coronavirus coming from a lab?
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	Yeah.
	Israel's enemies hate, number one, women.
	They're misogynists.
	Number two, they hate homosexuals.
	They're utter homophobic.
	In fact, they like to kill homosexuals.
	And lastly, they hate atheists.
	They like to kill atheists.
	But the left is on their side.
	How does that work, Joel Pollack?
	Well, Israel also loves certain things that the left doesn't like.
	Israel loves family.
	Israel loves territory.
	Israel loves the right to self-defense, the right to bear arms.
	They don't have the equivalent of the Second Amendment, but you certainly see a lot of people who are armed in Israel.
	And the country has a very low murder rate.
	There's very little crime involved.
	I've been, let me, for those who've never been to Israel, I've been like, I don't know how many times, a dozen times.
	You've never been on holiday or on a business trip unless you've gone to a disco and you've seen somebody from the IDF with their slung M16 on their back on the dance floor.
	It's something else.
	I'll one-up you there.
	You haven't been to a beach until you've seen girls in bikinis with M16s on the sand in Tel Aviv.
	No, it's just a society that's comfortable with firearms.
	And these are things that Israel believes in and the left does not believe in.
	Israel believes also in assimilation.
	When people come to Israel, they are put through an intensive language training so that they can speak Hebrew, the main language in Israel, although English and Arabic are also official languages.
	People are taught Hebrew, and they're taught the cultural and religious traditions of the society so they can fit in.
	And there's a really comprehensive, intense effort to do that.
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	1-8 Prager 776 as we head back to your calls.
	Let's head up to the Poconos, shall we?
	Matt, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you doing?
	Hey, Mark.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Pleasure.
	The question I have for you is the way I see it, in my opinion, with our judiciary system, the way it is specifically our intel agencies not actually doing their the way it is specifically our intel agencies not actually doing their job, that scares the heck out
	I mean, you go back to when Trump was first inaugurated and became president, and everything that happened with Spike, and this man, I mean, what resulted from that?
	Obviously, we're still waiting for Durham to finish this report.
	I mean, there's so many other things that are going on that are either patient-hidden or not.
	People aren't getting charged.
	What stands out to the top of that list?
	What strikes you as the most egregious example of something that is just right in front of our faces and deserves some...
	Judicial attention, you know, prosecutorial, Department of Justice, the courts.
	What seems unaddressed to you?
	Well, Spy Jake in itself.
	I mean, that one, really.
	I mean, we have to listen to it for how long?
	Two and a half years?
	And you've got a lawyer who got, you know, a fake charge.
	So, I mean, what I'm saying is that now you're looking at all the other things trying to do with the Second Amendment, obviously, the First Amendment 30, you know, being attacked.
	But what won't they do?
	And who's to stand up for us?
	And now it's entering the military, you know?
	I think that there's a bit of human nature.
	Matt, thanks.
	There's a bit of human nature in this.
	For example, if I were to say, if I were to craft the following sentence, how in the world is Hillary Clinton still walking around a free woman?
	Okay?
	Just a sentence that I could combine right there.
	And I might get nods of agreement all over the place.
	The wheels of justice turn according to a few things.
	Some of them are good news.
	Some of them are frustrating.
	The good news is when the system works, people who deserve to be prosecuted for things are prosecuted for things.
	Then, here come the dents that are hammered into that.
	Otherwise inspiring part of the American justicism.
	Power and good attorneys and politics can come into play so that frequently people, they just walk.
	They're unscathed and unpunished for things they have done.
	Another part of human nature is looking forward versus looking backward.
	I spend my days forgetting that Hillary Clinton was ever born.
	Would it have been more satisfying and more just for her to be prosecuted for any one of a number of things?
	Yes.
	The court of public opinion delivered the harshest verdict that she was ever going to get in denying her the presidency.
	Because imagine, if you will, let's say some grand jury had hit her with some infraction for grotesquely mishandling top-secret information.
	What do you think?
	You think she was going to Rikers Island for 20 years?
	It would have been close to nothing.
	But I'll tell you, being denied the presidency, that's a sentence that never goes away.
	1-8 Prager 776, we're in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
	Bob, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	I'm good.
	I just want to ask you, with regard to January 6th, you know that Trump said...
	That night, that it was what he expected and that he thought it was justified.
	No, no, no, not specifically.
	He had a number of quotes that were like, hey, people were very upset.
	You had to expect that people would be upset.
	He did not justify or coddle or say you should have expected rioting in the hallways.
	Okay.
	Well, let me read you his words.
	This is what he tweeted at 610. He wrote, these are the things.
	That happened when a sacred landslide election victory is so viciously stripped away from great patriots who've been badly and unfairly treated.
	Go home with love.
	Remember this day forever.
	And I bet we will.
	And I bet we will.
	And the fact that we remember it so clearly is proof positive that we don't need this stupid January 6th commission, do we?
	Okay, but doesn't the fact that he says...
	These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is viciously stripped away.
	He expected it to happen, right?
	No, that's not evidence of expecting it.
	Listen, I don't want to cover every Trump tweet because some of those are not my favorite, but with that regard, it seems to kind of be a shrug that says, hey, when you have an election handled this badly, people are going to be upset.
	Which, by the way, is true.
	But no one, from the president to me to you, and you're not, should say that...
	That makes it okay to riot.
	And by the way, he did not say that.
	But he's saying that the people who did the attacking were the victims because they had the election stolen from them.
	We were all victims.
	We are all victims of a grotesquely miscounted election.
	But in this tweet, he's not talking about all of us.
	No, I understand that.
	His voters in particular.
	Trump voters in particular.
	No, he's talking about the attackers.
	He's talking about the attackers.
	The attempt to try to conflate the actual rioters with the thousands more who circled the Capitol to honorably and peacefully, as the President expressed, peacefully march down there.
	I'm sure you heard him say that as well.
	Go ahead.
	But I'm just telling you, he's calling the people who did this sort of thing.
	It's 6 o'clock at night after it's all over.
	And he says...
	This is the sort of thing that happens when patriots are mistreated.
	That's what he's saying.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	Do you see that?
	Do you interpret that as a free pass for the rioters?
	Because I don't.
	I think he's saying that rioters are patriots.
	Eh.
	Eh.
	I don't think so.
	Read the tweet, sir!
	I'm well aware of it.
	The attempt to get Trump to, the attempt to portray him as being supportive and even admiring of the rioters, I ain't buying.
	Does it bother you?
	Does it bother you that at the end of this tweet he says, Go home and remember this day forever.
	Not in the least, because I will.
	I will remember January 6th forever as a lost opportunity, where a vast majority of honorable people gathered to issue an objection that stands to this date and will stand forever on principle.
	The fact that 800 hooligans rioted takes nothing away from the honor of those who gathered lawfully.
	I will remember it forever.
	Mark Davis over Dennis Prager.
	Be right back.
	Be right back.
	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you guys.
	I do.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Let me ask you from your perspective here, and let's get a 35,000-foot view of the country right now.
	The border crisis, crime surging throughout many American cities, the economy.
	We see inflation is coming up.
	Are these failed Democrat Party policies going to be acknowledged by the American people?
	Are they teeing it up for us to have a big victory in the midterm and beyond?
	Well, I'm hearing from what I call the wedge group, the people that really don't pay much attention.
	People are starting to pay attention far earlier.
	Normally they wait until right before the general election in that wedge group.
	People are aware, they see inflation, that affects you.
	The cost of gas at the pump, that affects you.
	The cost of electricity, that affects you.
	Food, everything else.
	That is real.
	They may not feel the border crisis just yet, but if this keeps going, they'll feel that too.
	Crime, crime.
	People are feeling crime.
	Yeah, crime, the defund police.
	That's an 80-20 issue, probably 85-15 issue where people around the country are like, that is the nuttiest thing we've ever heard.
	Radicals in Congress, radicals want that.
	So I think they're teeing it up.
	We have to deliver.
	We have to make very clear what we're going to do.
	Whether it's on crime, immigration, inflation, jobs and economy, COVID, regulation, all of those things that we are good at, that people trust us at.
	We have to remind them of that.
	One of the big questions that Republicans are asking themselves is how does the party look with Donald Trump in the mix?
	President Trump is about to start these rallies again.
	Every day I hear from caller after caller saying, boy, we miss him.
	He was right possibly about the Wuhan lab.
	You know, I'm old enough to remember when he was questioning where the virus came from and they mocked him and they denigrated him.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	It's the covid restrictions theme from the Beatles.
	Got to admit, it's getting better as we claw to regain our liberties.
	Mark Davison for Dennis, glad you're here.
	Let's finish up this hour and plow forward with everybody into the next.
	1-8 Prager 776. We're in Louisville.
	Nick, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Hey, good afternoon, Mark.
	Just want to start out by letting you know sort of what my position is, just for the sake of clarity.
	I'd call myself left of center, and I don't necessarily personally believe that anything dubious took place in the election.
	That's just where I stand at the moment.
	However, I do have a question.
	For any conservative, or for any American, really, who does believe that, I'm wondering why that particular person would condemn what you've today, or who you've today referred to as hooligans.
	Who did enter the Capitol on January 6th?
	It seems to me that if you believe one of our fundamental American rights has been taken from us or disturbed it, perhaps something radical like that sort of action is...
	Oh, no.
	Okay.
	Well, let me clear that up for you, because from a conservative standpoint, even if we are convinced that the election was ill-counted and improperly found...
	That doesn't mean that we, you know, engage in what a BLM tactic might be, which is to say that suddenly rioting becomes okay.
	We believe in law and order.
	We believe in addressing things properly and without resorting to violence to get the result we seek.
	Understood, but I mean, I wouldn't say that should be the knee-jerk reaction, you know, any time that you believe something like that.
	But I think that you would almost have to permanently take the position that political violence is never warranted, and that seems strange to me.
	That's not true at all.
	See if this barometer makes sense to you.
	And I would apply this to anybody on any side.
	That you fight through the system, you fight within the law, until...
	An egregious injustice is before you that offers no such remedy.
	When every avenue is shut down, is it time for civil disobedience?
	Is it time to take to the streets?
	Then and only then, yeah.
	So you don't believe that that standard has been met in the case of the 2020 election?
	Perhaps I stunned him with my brilliance.
	I don't know.
	So, 1-8-Prager-776.
	Well, I'll tell you what, with 60 seconds rather than give somebody short shrift, This really is not hard.
	It was honorable and an act of principle to go to Washington and be there and encircle the Capitol in support of those whose sole point was that with an election this flawed, fraught with this much doubt, maybe these electoral votes shouldn't be so automatically accepted as if everything was hunky-dory.
	That is a principled and righteous and logical thing to say.
	For about 800 people, or however many, that wasn't enough.
	And they chose to go nuts and breach the building.
	That's very bad.
	I won't have their actions color or disparage the lawful statement made by the rest.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Be right back.
	All right.
	All righty.
	Right back.
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	Thank you. . .
	Thanks to human ingenuity, long-term investments we've made in science and medicine, we were able to, in an unprecedented fashion, come up with a vaccine that is on point.
	This is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
	You know, we're still involved in the Middle East.
	No, actually, the Abraham Accords occurred after you left, Mr. President, because you screwed up the Middle East badly.
	But then, thanks to human ingenuity and long-term investments we made in science, we, we were able to come up with a vaccine.
	The we there is truly expansive because the virus didn't exist when President Obama left office.
	And President Trump gets all the credit.
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	But you do you do talk about.
	Why it's important to understand things, and I and I really do value that because I do think it's important for us to be able to say the Nazis are wicked, but There are reasons people were taken in by them, and we should be aware of those things, just as we ought to be aware why people are being taken in by cultural Marxism and critical race theory.
	There are good reasons people are being led astray.
	Once again, I agree with everything you say.
	Keep going.
	Okay.
	Well, I just thought you might want to say more about that.
	Well, I'm a philosopher, and I love dialogue.
	I love Plato's Socratic dialogues, and it takes two to dialogue.
	And even if one was a fool, you could learn from a fool.
	Imagine if Plato had never put fools into his dialogue, if Socrates had done nothing but monologues instead of dialogues.
	He would not have been the greatest philosophical writer in the history of the world.
	A dialogue is better than a monologue simply because it's closer to ultimate reality, which is trialogue, the trinity.
	Well, here's a question for you.
	I am not a Roman Catholic, but I have deep respect for the Church and always have.
	What do you suppose people who don't pay close attention should make of the idea that there is a Pope today who seems to be in some ways less Catholic than I am?
	Well, he's a Jesuit after all.
	So the next time we might get a Catholic Pope.
	No, Francis is a holy man.
	I don't think he's very bright.
	I think he's practically very naive, especially in dealing with China.
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	New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
	It's because Donald Trump said it.
	And they offered no evidence to back it up, so we just assumed that because Donald Trump had so low credibility, you can't blame us.
	He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
	And another put in another view said the same thing.
	Said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
	Now, think about what these people are telling you.
	What they're telling you is, they don't do their job as reporters.
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	Immediately upon our arrival, a van, a transport van taking away a number of illegals who were apprehended here.
	Of course, to a guy like me who just hears about the border for the most part through the...
	The prism of the media.
	That's kind of a jarring thing to see, but for those who are living this here at Yuma, as I look across this little river and see Mexico, this is an everyday occurrence.
	This is happening all the time, huh?
	Non-stop, and yesterday was north of 500 people apprehended.
	That's not counting the unknowns and the known getaways.
	And since I've been down here today, maybe two, two and a half hours now.
	That's the second van I've seen taking people away.
	And, you know, that's a normal occurrence, as you say.
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	But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?
	Well, it's a hatred with a long history.
	Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is perpetual.
	And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws.
	And we're not perfect.
	We're as human as anybody else.
	else, but we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent.
	And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.
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	So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
	The Pelosi Commission.
	So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
	I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
	She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
	So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
	So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
	And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
	And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers. .
	It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Thursday, 27th of May, 2021.
	Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas, Fort Worth, where I host the Happy Morning Show.
	And very, very happy to be with you today at 1-8 Prager-776.
	I'm going to dive right back to calls.
	I have in my, here on deck, the op-ed written by this wonderful, heroic young lady, Chelsea Mitchell.
	And what she's going through in Connecticut because they are force-feeding boys onto the track next to her to compete against her.
	And this is the outrage that makes it clear that girls' sports must be protected.
	When we take a look at the priorities we have in a tough situation, and it's a tough situation to deal with confused young people who think they are the sex that they are not.
	And gender dysphoria is very serious and very real, and we should deal with it empathetically, and there should be deep counseling and deep prayer and deep help available for these people to achieve some level of gender normalcy.
	And the desire to accommodate them or to pander to them, when that outweighs what is fair and right for girls who are in girls' athletics, we've become screwed up in the head.
	That's just insane.
	So her op-ed is magnificent.
	USA Today edited it because where she made reference to competing against males, they used the transgender term, which is not inaccurate, but the starkness of this, the reason it's important, is that our daughters are being made to compete against biological boys.
	There cannot be any biological boys, by definition, In girls' sports.
	Period.
	Paragraph.
	And that is simply a fact of life, or it should be.
	And we are losing grip on so many self-evident truths.
	That's what keeps those of us in the talk show trade.
	We've done a lot of January 6th commission, a lot of gun violence and gun grabbing with the shooting in California, giving everybody the opportunity to immediately leap like clockwork to their usual blame the gun stance.
	And a number of other things in the news are also welcome, so grab a line.
	Follow me on Twitter, at Mark Davis, if that's your wish.
	And I much appreciate the opportunity to be with you.
	We are in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
	Hi, Ellen.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	Nice to have you.
	Hi.
	I'm from Spartanburg.
	So I hear.
	Well, I mean, you know, the January 6th Commission, I mean, it's never-ending against President Trump.
	Correct.
	Can I say that?
	You just did, and I was glad to allow it.
	Okay, right, I did, and I don't have a problem with that.
	Like, so many will.
	I mean, come on.
	I mean, I'm sorry I said that, because that reminds me of, come on, man.
	Anyway, I just, it's unbelievable.
	Okay, you've got a president who, just because he may hurt someone's feelings, okay?
	But he did so much for this country, attacked 24-7.
	During the campaign, the presidency, we've never, ever had that type of disrespect, ever, for a president in this history, ever.
	Well, I've been alive, but yes, I can read.
	No, no, no, you're historically correct.
	I mean, anybody...
	I mean, if we hop in the time tunnel and see what they were saying about Lincoln, you know, circa 1862, 3 and 4, that was pretty hot and bothered as well.
	But in the modern era, with the ability of, you know, 24-hour droning cable news and the cesspool of social media, hatreds are ramped up to a monumental level.
	And, you know, to be fair, it means that maybe Obama caught more grief.
	You know, than maybe Democrat presidents of 50 or 100 years prior, because the modern era is just more coarse.
	When you take an entire media culture that hates conservatives and thus absolutely despises the most bold conservative leadership we've had in the White House since Reagan, put it all together, and you'll have a wave of hate like nothing we have ever seen.
	We're in Pittsburgh.
	Denise, hey, Mark Davis, welcome.
	How are you?
	I'm fine.
	Good.
	I wanted to raise a point about January 6th.
	And here is my point.
	It was a staged event.
	They had gas masks under their chairs.
	And it was staged so that Ted Cruz would not be able to speak.
	And it was staged.
	Denise, I want good things for you.
	This is garbage.
	You are reading garbage.
	You are listening to garbage.
	No, I'm not.
	Let's talk about the gas masks.
	The gas masks were actually escape hoods that are in the House of Representatives chamber and in the Senate.
	Do you know why they are there?
	No.
	Okay, I do.
	I don't know what level of garbage article or garbage people Well,
	here's why I think it was theater.
	Cameras were in there and waiting and ready.
	Of course there are cameras in the Capitol complex.
	Duh!
	these cameras were not in the Capitol.
	They were in the waiting areas.
	Everybody has a camera.
	We are all, everybody has a camera on them.
	Denise, I say this really lovingly.
	Read better things.
	Broaden yourself.
	Unburden yourself from this conspiracy garbage.
	We are in...
	Let's go to Kingston, PA. Richie, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Oh, very good, sir.
	Thank you so much, Dennis, for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	Thank you.
	I just want to say, I mean, I don't go Republican.
	I don't go Democrat.
	I just listen to what I hear from politicians.
	And I was never, honestly, I was never into politics, but past four years or so, I've been into it.
	Not into it, but just listening to what everybody's saying.
	And that goes to both sides.
	But I believe truly I really believe, I think there should be a commission for January 6th.
	Tell me why.
	And I say that because we need to find out why, like, when these, like you said, hooligans broke into Capitol Hill, I mean, why is it that there was nobody, like...
	How did we have that kind of laxitude?
	I think that's a thoroughly valid question.
	Now, the January 6th Commission is the worst possible place to ask it because it is going to be nothing but Democrat gamesmanship designed to destroy the Trump legacy and insult and savage and slander everyone who voted for him.
	It is a horrible...
	Weaponized exercise that will achieve nothing.
	The questions you have are good ones.
	Those are good questions.
	The January 6th Commission is a political game.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Now, another thing.
	I don't want to take too long because I know you got all the costs.
	You're doing great.
	You're doing great.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Also, okay, before the election day, I mean, I heard Trump because I watched...
	Fox News.
	I watch CNN. I try to watch everything.
	I try to be fair.
	But when I heard him talk sometimes, even months before the election, I mean, he's already talking about, you know, being rigged and it's not right.
	But, I mean, I understand what he wants to say, but you also got to be careful with your words because there are a lot of people out there.
	I mean, all you need, honestly, I hate to say this with some common sense.
	I mean, I'm not saying...
	There's people out there that...
	But here's the thing.
	President Trump believed that it was common sense to say that the system was aligned against him.
	And that doesn't seem so nonsensical now.
	I don't know.
	Because if you think about it, I mean, I know Trump and his administration, they went to like 60 courts and judges.
	I'm not sure if the Supreme Court was involved or not.
	I'm not sure about that.
	They were asked and they declined.
	The Supreme Court...
	Any cowardly exercise, punted the opportunity to look at the best, the best way, the best way to challenge that.
	And that will forever be a blight on the Supreme Court.
	The state court's thing was never going to amount to anything.
	No judge was going to go, I automatically, mathematically decreed that Trump should have won Arizona.
	That was never going to happen.
	It was always an empty wish.
	Supreme Court could have addressed the constitutional issues, and they punted.
	They chickened out.
	Be right back.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	New York Times reporter named Maggie Haberman goes on and says, you know, let me tell you why we didn't take it all that seriously, this theory about the coronavirus leaking from a Wuhan lab.
	It's because Donald Trump said it.
	And they offered no evidence to back it up.
	So we just assumed that because Donald Trump had so low credibility, you can't blame us.
	He trashed his own credibility, so therefore, how are we supposed to respond to anything he says?
	And another pun in another view said the same thing.
	He said Trump's racist tropes buried the message that COVID could have come from a lab.
	Now, think about what these people are telling you.
	What they're telling you is, they don't do their job as reporters.
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	Music Immediately upon our arrival, a van, a transport van, taking away a number of illegals who were apprehended here.
	Of course, to a guy like me who just hears about the border for the most part through the prism of the media.
	That's kind of a jarring thing to see, but for those who are living this here at Yuma, as I look across this little river and see Mexico, this is an everyday occurrence.
	This is happening all the time, huh?
	Non-stop, and yesterday was north of 500 people apprehended.
	That's not counting the unknowns and the known getaways.
	And since I've been down here today, maybe two, two and a half hours now.
	That's the second van I've seen taking people away.
	And, you know, that's a normal occurrence, as you say.
	But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?
	Well, it's a hatred with a long history.
	Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is perpetual.
	And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws.
	And we're not perfect.
	We're as human as anybody else.
	But we do have a set of aspirations that is...
	And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.
	So I want to get through a very important piece of The Pelosi Commission.
	So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
	I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission.
	To look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it, she wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
	So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
	So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
	And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
	And I'm not supporting the smash.
	It is official, folks.
	Yes.
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	All righty.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	And we are in Atlanta.
	Hey, Chuck.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	How are you?
	Hi.
	Hey.
	I want to talk about the perspective that people have on Trump's tweet because I think it's wrong.
	And I think that he's really speaking of standards.
	Can you hear me?
	I had a cellular burp starter.
	And for those that don't know, the gentleman is referring to an earlier caller who said, you know, Trump was talking about it at 6 o'clock the night of January 6th.
	It was kind of like, hey, this is what happens when you steal an election from people.
	And it struck that caller, who is not a Trump fan, as being Trump, you know, praising the rioters, which I don't agree with at all.
	Go ahead.
	I don't think he was doing that.
	Go ahead.
	Well, he was referring to...
	The fact that the people were trapped, there were some sad players that were organized and led them into a trap.
	What was the trap?
	Pardon me?
	The trap being that they were into the building, number one.
	They were kind of, you know, we saw the video of the policeman and said, come on in, come on in.
	They were led into a situation where they could not get out of it.
	Stop it.
	We are conservatives.
	We believe in personal responsibility.
	There must be personal responsibility for the people who are all grown-ups, every single one of them.
	Nobody was trapped.
	Nobody was led.
	If anybody all of a sudden said, dude, I'm not breaking into the Capitol, that just ain't right, they would have not broken into the Capitol.
	Stop it.
	Okay, well, I'm not saying that they don't have to take personal responsibility because they do.
	That's exactly what you're saying.
	When you use ridiculous words like they were led and ridiculous words like trapped, that's exactly what you're doing.
	So stop it, and I love you.
	We're in Prescott, Arizona.
	Steve, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you doing?
	Hello, Mark.
	Hey.
	Actually, I'm in Prescott Valley, which is neighboring, but in any case, hello.
	So, with two callers ago, that young man who called up, I got the impression he was a nice kid, he was an intelligent fellow, but oh my god, so naive when it comes to politics.
	And I really would have liked it if you had steered him towards Prager University videos.
	I feel he could have.
	Hugely benefited.
	That is always good advice, and I hope he's around to hear those wise words.
	You know what?
	Anytime there's a moment of a disagreeing call, I say, you know, I'm going to respond to what you said in a minute, but first, go download some Prager University videos, PragerU videos, and you'll be better off by definition.
	I think you're right.
	Mark, can I say something?
	Sure.
	Complimentary, and it's a little humorous.
	I hope you'll like it.
	Well, I'll be the judge of that.
	Go ahead.
	No, it's clean.
	Don't worry.
	It's FCC clean.
	So, I love when you fill in for Dennis, because invariably, a caller will call up, and the first words out of their mouths are, Oh, hi, Mark.
	And I always chuckle, because one of the worst movies ever made is called The Room.
	And there's a line in that movie where the main character says, Oh, hi, Mark.
	No, The Room.
	Okay, well, there's information I didn't wake up with.
	Okay, The Room.
	Help me.
	And what would a 2003 independent drama...
	Golly, there's not anybody in this that I'm...
	Why are you familiar with it, and what is it?
	It's really a bad melodrama, and it's so bad, it's good.
	You just have to watch it once in a while.
	A melodramatic love triangle between an amiable banker, Johnny, his deceptive fiancée, Lisa, which is my wife's name, great, and his conflicted best friend, Mark.
	Here we go.
	Okay.
	Okay, now here's why this is important to me, because there is a film that goes only by room, okay, just room.
	And it's one of the most powerful, amazing movies I've ever seen.
	Brie Larson is this young woman who's been held captive for seven years, raising her five-year-old son to think that everything's normal so that he doesn't think he's a captive in anything, and how they get out of there and how they cope.
	So, The Room, big thumbs down.
	Room with Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, big thumbs up.
	Alrighty, man, thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	Oh, hi, Mark.
	Thank you.
	I'll take it.
	Alrighty, we...
	Oh, very good.
	Alright, we...
	You're kidding me.
	Was that it?
	God, that's producing.
	Golly, Moses.
	Oh, Lord, that's scary.
	All righty, we are in Dallas.
	Ron, Mark Davis, welcome.
	How are you?
	Great show.
	You're doing a great job.
	You're very kind.
	Thank you.
	It's always great to be here.
	Yeah, my conundrum is, where is the counterpart to Kamala Harris, who was bailing out all of the Black Lives Matter and setting up defense funds?
	And so where is our conservative counterpart doing the same thing for the people that went into the Capitol?
	Oh, Lord.
	That's an interesting question.
	I mean, why is it that the Black Lives Matter and KIPA people could rape, rob, buy it, loot, commit arson, assault, and the Democrats were bailing them out and setting up defense funds, and yet these poor people...
	Or seem to be locked up for life for a lot less.
	Maybe my first thought is an apples and apples problem.
	So, for example, do we think it's a good idea to go around trying to bail anybody out who makes bail, that's fine, who's up for bail.
	But as far as defense funds for BLM and Antifa rioters, do we like that or not like that?
	I'd say we probably don't.
	We'd say these are people who deserve the full brunt.
	I kind of feel the same way about people who chose to breach the Capitol.
	I'm not looking for defense funds for them either.
	If somebody wants to, it's a free country.
	I don't need a bunch of conservative activists trying to raise money to get Joe Schmo out of jail who saw fit to breach the Capitol.
	I don't want them over-punished by any stretch, but let the wheels of justice roll.
	Let them roll fairly, and let history record as it already, I believe, is what happened that day.
	All righty.
	And we don't need no stinking commission to do it.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
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	you .
	Immediately upon our arrival, a van, a transport van taking away a number of illegals who were apprehended here.
	Of course, to a guy like me who just hears about the border for the most part through the prism of the media, that's kind of a jarring thing to see.
	But for those who are living this here at Yuma, as I look across this little river and see Mexico, This is an everyday occurrence.
	This is happening all the time, huh?
	Non-stop.
	And yesterday was north of 500 people apprehended.
	That's not counting the unknowns and the known getaways.
	And since I've been down here today, maybe two, two and a half hours now, that's the second van I've seen taking people away.
	And, you know, that's a normal occurrence, as you say.
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	But why do so many people really hate the Jewish people?
	I'm not sure.
	Well, it's a hatred with a long history.
	Actually, if you read the Bible or...
	The Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is perpetual.
	And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws.
	And we're not perfect.
	We're as human as anybody else.
	But we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent.
	And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others.
	Whether linguistically, culturally, or religiously.
	So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
	The Pelosi Commission.
	So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
	I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
	She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
	So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
	So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
	And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
	And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers.
	You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time.
	I'm not minimizing that.
	At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt?
	And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashley Babbitt, who was unarmed?
	I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated.
	So for months now, Republicans have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi.
	When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment.
	And so, the...
	The commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th incident.
	But we all know how these things happen.
	And this would be a Mueller-style counsel.
	That would be a roaming prosecutor.
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	All righty.
	It's the Dennis Prager Show for Thursday, the 27th of May.
	Glad you are here.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Back to your calls.
	We are in Philadelphia.
	Jeff, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Good Thursday to you.
	How are you doing?
	Good, thanks.
	Essentially, the president asked security agencies to investigate the cause or the source of I
	need sentences in the English language free of jargon, free of numerals.
	What is the point you'd like to make?
	The point is, this thing was willful and deliberate by China as an act of bio-warfare.
	Well, anything's possible.
	What makes you, and I don't discount any possibility, what makes you think you know this on the 27th of May?
	The People's Republic of China received a copy of it at their embassy in Washington, D.C. Copy of what?
	On the 16th of April.
	A copy of what?
	And an intervener in the case of the Attorney General of Missouri.
	And I filed as an intervener.
	Well, and so it's a little...
	Imagine a person...
	Okay.
	Love ya.
	This would be the secret too big to keep, if indeed that winds up being true, and I remain open to that, and let's see how that goes.
	We're in Yuma, Arizona.
	Joe, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How you doing?
	Hey, Mark.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	So, two days ago, I was listening to Larry Elder.
	He was all excited because the DOJ is indicting the Black Lives Matter people.
	Well, here's my thinking.
	All that is, is bait for the Republicans to vote for the stupid 9-11 style commission.
	And hopefully they're not dumb enough to fall for that.
	Because we have not heard one word about Black Lives Matter being indicted on anything as far as the Capitol riots.
	I would wonder if that develops any legs, and I think you are corrected looking for any kind of posturing designed to make Republicans think well of this stupid commission.
	No Republican should.
	It is an exercise in malicious political theater.
	There is no argument, none, zero, for holding it.
	What do we not know?
	The things that we don't know?
	A couple of callers have given it.
	We've given us the best question, and that is, how did this even happen in the first place?
	You know, because that was one of the more shocking things as all this unfolded on January 6th.
	It's like, what?
	I mean, not that we need to ring the Capitol with tanks every time a few thousand folks come marching down there, even those who are, you know, pretty hopped up and pretty motivated and pretty upset.
	But the flip side of that coin is the building looked seriously unprepared.
	And is that a lesson learned, I guess?
	Are there questions to ask about why things...
	And you know what?
	Honestly, you know what the similarity between that and 9-11 is?
	And this may be the only one.
	An example of where we were kind of asleep at the switch and should have been more vigilant.
	I guess if you've got thousands of people coming to the Capitol, no matter who they might be, you maybe have the building heavied up a little more than we did.
	And as for 9-11, you know, when you've got an entire Muslim world filled with people that want to kill us...
	You know, at least to the more radical fringes.
	You shouldn't be surprised that a 9-11 happens.
	I don't know how to prevent a 9-11.
	You've heard the constant references to September 10th mentality.
	Who saw that coming?
	You know, who figured, oh, clearly they're going to fly planes into our buildings.
	We were blissfully unaware of what might happen.
	And so then 9-11 happens and we develop some vigilance and some war footing, at least for a while.
	You know, this thing happens at the Capitol?
	You know, never say never, but I have a feeling this is not likely to happen again.
	You know, that any gathering of any type that involves a march of thousands toward the Capitol is probably going to be met with some level of crowd control.
	At least I hope so.
	Alrighty, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Follow me on Twitter at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis.
	And when we come back, the brave op-ed by this magnificent young woman.
	Who says, I was the fastest girl in Connecticut.
	And then they put boys in the lanes next to me.
	Her story next and more of your calls before we're done.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	You bet.
	You bet.
	really hate the Jewish people.
	Well, it's a hatred with a long history.
	Actually, if you read the Bible or the Talmud, there is almost a sense of resignation that this kind of hatred is perpetual.
	And it has to do with the fact that Jewish people live by a different set of laws.
	And we're not perfect.
	We're as human as anybody else.
	But we do have a set of aspirations that is quite stringent.
	And that means that we are sometimes seen as a people who set themselves apart from others, whether linguistically, culturally or religiously.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe today at rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
	The Pelosi Commission.
	So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
	I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission.
	To look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it, she wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
	So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
	So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
	And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
	And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers.
	You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time.
	I'm not minimizing that.
	At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt?
	And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashley Babbitt, who was unarmed?
	I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated.
	So for months now, Republicans have been...
	Negotiating with Nancy Pelosi.
	When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment.
	And so, the commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th incident.
	But we all know how these things happen.
	This would be a Mueller style counsel.
	That would be a roaming prosecutor. - Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show. - But you're telling me that the wealthiest societies have the most suicides.
	I can guess why that is.
	Why do you think it is?
	Well, they're not happy.
	The two strongest indicators of happiness are smiles and the lack of suicides.
	There's an organization, I think it's sponsored by the United Nations, called the Global Happiness Project, which awards some sort of plaudit to the five countries which are supposedly the happiest and warnings to the five countries that are unhappiness.
	And the last version of this...
	Thank you.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding.
	New Prager clip.
	Ring the bell.
	It's another PragerU video.
	And that's always a good day when those arrive.
	All right.
	We've arrived at the part of the show where I told you I was going to share something, and I am.
	And I want you guys to know the definition of a hero.
	There are a lot of definitions of hero.
	There are those who put on the uniform of our military and our police and our fire and first responders.
	Others are those who take stances.
	And they fight for what is right when the tide of society is turning against them.
	Young Chelsea Mitchell, a high school athlete in Connecticut, wrote an op-ed that USA Today at least agreed to print.
	And it was about the rank unfairness of her, as an incredibly fast and athletic and talented girl, having to race against boys.
	And she referred to them as males, having to race against males.
	And USA Today changed it.
	They referred to them as transgender athletes rather than male athletes.
	So here, with the words that Chelsea Mitchell actually used, is her testimony, and I want you to be inspired by it.
	And our friends at ADF, the Alliance Defending Freedom, ADFlegal.org, when you hear this and it makes you think, what can I do?
	The answer is support ADF. That's what you can do because they're in the trenches every day.
	Chelsea Mitchell writes, It's February 2020. I'm crouched at the starting line of the high school girls 55 meter indoor race.
	This should be one of the best days of my life.
	I'm running in the state championship and I'm ranked the fastest high school female in the 55 meter dash in the state.
	I should be feeling confident.
	I should know that I have a strong shot at winning.
	Instead, all I can think about is how all my training Everything I've done to maximize my performance might not be enough, because there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage.
	A male body.
	I won that race, and I'm grateful, but time after time, I've lost.
	I've lost four Women's State Championship titles, two All-New England Awards, and numerous other spots on the podium.
	To male runners.
	I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019 behind two male runners.
	With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again.
	This is a devastating experience.
	It tells me that I'm not good enough, that my body's not good enough, and no matter how hard I work, I'm unlikely to succeed because I'm a woman.
	That experience is why three of my fellow athletes and I filed a lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, the CIAC, because girls and women should not be stripped of their right to fair competition.
	The CIAC allows biological males to compete in girls' and women's sports.
	As a result, two males began racing in girls' track in 2017. In the 17, 18, and 19 seasons alone, these males took 15 women's state track championship titles and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher-level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.
	That's because males have massive physical advantages.
	Their bodies are bigger and stronger than female bodies.
	It's obvious to every girl on the track.
	But Connecticut officials are determined to ignore the obvious.
	And unfortunately, a federal district court recently dismissed our case.
	The court's decision to do so tells women and girls that their feelings and opportunities don't matter, and they can't expect anyone to stand up for their dignity and their rights.
	This has happened to me over and over.
	Every time I walk up to the starting line, I try to tell myself, I can overcome these unfair odds.
	I can win, even though the race is stacked against me.
	But besides the psychological toll of experiencing unfair losses over and over, The CIAC's policy has more tangible harms for women.
	It robs girls of the chance to race in front of college scouts who show up for elite meets and to compete for the scholarships and opportunities that come with college recruitment.
	I'll never know how my own college recruitment was impacted by losing those four state championship titles to a male.
	When colleges looked at my record, they didn't see the fastest girl in Connecticut.
	They saw a second or third place runner.
	It's not just happening to me.
	My friend and fellow plaintiff, Selena Sewell, was bumped from qualifying for the state championship 55-meter final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship by a male runner in 2019. Meanwhile, Alana Smith, an incredibly talented female athlete, was the second-place female runner in the 200 meters at the New England regional championship, dropped to third behind a male competitor.
	It is discouraging.
	That the Federal District Court has decided that these experiences, these lost opportunities, simply don't matter.
	But I'm not beaten yet, and neither are my fellow female athletes.
	Through our ADF attorneys, my fellow athletes and I are appealing the Federal District Court's ruling.
	We're taking our case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where we will ask once again, For the court to recognize our right to fair competition.
	A right that Title IX has promised to girls and women for 50 years.
	And we're fighting not just for ourselves, but for all female athletes.
	So as we prepare for this next step in the case, I'm settling into my starting blocks again.
	But for a different kind of race.
	And this time, I am confident.
	That we can win.
	God bless Chelsea Mitchell.
	This is the definition of courage.
	This is heroism.
	And by the way, terms that I would ascribe every day to our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom, ADFlegal.org to support them.
	And you know what?
	One of the really galling ironies of this is, where's the support?
	From liberals for Chelsea Mitchell?
	Where's the support from women?
	Women's rights organizations who are supposedly about, oh, I don't know, women's rights!
	What more basic right is there than to try to achieve excellence?
	Within the magnificent realm of women's athletics, to have the definition of women's athletics twisted and perverted and discredited because we've decided, oh, we've got to let some dudes in there.
	And why?
	To be nice to them?
	Because we feel sorry for them?
	Because gender confusion is a really hard road to travel?
	Which I'm sure it is.
	I have every ounce of empathy for these tortured souls who are going through this.
	But that doesn't mean I'm going to screw up life for every girl athlete in America.
	God bless Chelsea Mitchell and the ADF. Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Be right back.
	Are you ready?
	Are you ready?
	But you're telling me that the wealthiest societies have the most suicides.
	I can guess why that is.
	Why do you think it is?
	Well, they're not happy.
	The two strongest indicators of happiness are smiles and the lack of suicides.
	There's an organization I think it's sponsored by the United Nations called the Global Happiness Project, which awards some sort of I applaud it to the five countries which are supposedly the happiest and warnings to the five countries that are unhappiest.
	And the last version of this designated five countries in sub-Saharan Africa as the least happy countries in the world.
	The five Scandinavian countries as the most happy countries in the world.
	I thought it was a joke.
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	. . you Oh, Bill Plasty says my daughter came home from a protest and says, Daddy, tell me about the times you've been pulled over by the police and mistreated.
	He goes, I've never had a bad...
	Really?
	What world are you living in?
	What does that even mean?
	I have a bunch of white friends who've complained about them being stopped by cops and how they've been treated.
	What is this?
	And Plaski?
	Look up Ferguson effect.
	Look up Minneapolis effect or George Floyd effect.
	They're all interchangeable.
	Cops pull back.
	Bad guys know it.
	Crime goes up.
	The people who get killed are the very black people that you wrote so lovingly about in your article where you said you're ashamed because you didn't get it.
	You're making it worse.
	Not better.
	It is rare for anybody to be killed by the police.
	Anybody.
	A population of 350 million people, 50 million interactions with the police and civilians, 11 million arrests, 60,000 officers assaulted, 60 officers killed, and out of all that, 1,000 civilians are killed, 500 of them white, 250 of them are black, more unarmed whites killed than unarmed blacks.
	Washington state researchers over years have done this three times now.
	Simulations with cops.
	Three times more hesitant, three times more reluctant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than on a white suspect.
	Just the opposite of what...
	...is the least significant part of the scandal.
	Hugh Hewitt explains in the new video from PragerU.
	See it at PragerU.com, where we teach what isn't taught.
	And Dennis is back on Monday.
	What a joy it has been to be with you here today.
	Follow me on Twitter at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K Davis, if you're so inclined.
	If it seems to you like a good idea to get a whole bunch of me in book form, like stuff I say about how to fight back against the left with goodwill and good humor, I direct you straight to my 2016 classic, Upside Down.
	Every word's still true.
	Upside Down, How the Left Turned Right Into Wrong, Truth Into Lies, Good Into Bad.
	That's a lot of subtitles.
	Just do Mark Davis, Upside Down on Amazon and enjoy.
	Lessons from today.
	It seems like there's kind of a short segment here at the end of each hour.
	So at the end of the third hour, maybe it's a useful exercise to just see sort of what have we learned and what I want to leave you with and what do you want to carry through the rest of the day.
	On the COVID origins, I think we're just on to something here.
	For Facebook to stop banning people for expressing doubt as to, you know, the Wuhan lab.
	For the Biden administration, its own self, to all of a sudden say, hey, we're suddenly open to some more inquiry into this.
	What sweet vindication this is for everybody who had those suspicions about a year ago and were so marginalized and punished for it.
	On the wake of another mass shooting, we find ourselves in a season where once again, it's time for everybody, according to character, to go jumping right to demonization of the gun.
	We do not have a gun problem.
	We have a people problem.
	A problem of America's soul.
	A problem with mental health.
	A problem with coping skills.
	All kinds of things that are people.
	Problems rather than inanimate object that's worthy of blame.
	On this ridiculous January 6th commission needs to be opposed.
	There should be no such thing.
	Mitt Romney has already said he's open to it.
	Shocker, Mitt Romney is a snake.
	No Republican should have anything to do with what would be nothing but a punitive, slanderous, malicious, weaponized ounce of political theater.
	Okay, last thing.
	I think it's on HBO Max right now.
	My wife's up for it.
	We're probably going to consume it like 10 minutes after I get home.
	The Friends reunion.
	And I gotta tell you, I was sort of dragged into an appreciation of Friends.
	My top sitcoms of all time are like Dick Van Dyke and MASH and Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and All the Family and Frasier and Taxi, stuff like that, classic stuff like that.
	But Friends was pretty awesome.
	It truly was.
	And so I guess we're gonna have Perry and Schwimmer and LeBlanc and...
	Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston all sitting around reminiscing.
	But for some weird reason, they got like BTS and Justin Bieber shoehorned into this thing.
	So, I don't know.
	We'll see how that goes.
	The Friends reunion on HBO Max.
	I'm Mark Davis for Sean and Christian and Leslie.
	Thank you.
	I much appreciate it.
	And thank you, Dennis.
	And I'll see you next time whenever the phone rings to come do the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm Mark Davis.

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