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June 1, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	Hello, everybody.
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I haven't been with you in a few days, owing to the Memorial Day weekend.
	And the day before that, I was in Dallas, then to Houston for the second part of my speaking to the Texas Homeschool Coalition.
	I can't think of people doing more important work in this country than people...
	Who are supporting and advocating homeschooling.
	There was a story out of Tennessee, I believe it was, out of a completely Republican district about how the schools have been taken over by the left.
	There is no place in the country immune to the intellectual and moral poison of the left in their children's lives.
	You're going to have to confront the issue if you decide, well, I'll just gamble with my child's innocence, my child's values, and send them to school, private or public.
	I respect that.
	I don't respect putting your head in the sand and denying the threat to everything you hold dear in your children by sending them to school at this time.
	I have no joy in that since education was instilled in me as one of the greatest values a human can pursue.
	This was Memorial Day weekend.
	Oh, let me first thank Mark Davis and Carl Jackson for sitting in for me.
	It gives me a massive relief to know that I have such competent people sitting in when I'm gone.
	It was Memorial Day weekend.
	When my kids were little, not every year, but on a number of years, I would take them to a military cemetery and put a flower or say a prayer or just stand there.
	My suspicion is that what was a very common thing in American life 100 years ago is very uncommon today.
	And I am about to read to you a piece of data that even my mind was blown.
	And I expect only...
	I expect the incredible.
	This is from the Daily Mail yesterday.
	More than 75 years after the conclusion of World War II, one-third of Americans are questioning the country's decision to send troops into battle.
	You know the first thing that I thought of when I read that?
	I asked Howard Zinn, the author of one of the great frauds of our time, a popular history of the United States, used, of course, in many schools, and of course, in many schools, and it's a forerunner of the America is despicable education that your children get.
	I asked him.
	It's actually on the Internet.
	You can hear it or read it.
	He has died of sins.
	So this was about, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, but he came on the show, one of the only leftists who ever agreed to come on the show, and I asked him, has America ever fought a moral war?
	And he said he didn't think so.
	I said, well, of course, what about World War II?
	And he said, I'm not sure about that.
	So I shouldn't have been surprised to read that about a third of Americans don't think we should have fought World War II.
	This is, by the way, an economist YouGov poll.
	This is not a conservative polling agency.
	Did you see this?
	Yeah, I don't believe it.
	You don't believe it?
	I do.
	See, this is the interesting...
	I'm raising it for a number of reasons.
	One is that we just had Memorial Day.
	And I have thoughts on that.
	My thoughts were, before I read this, I was going to raise the question, how many young people think that those who died fighting for this country died in vain?
	Why wouldn't you think they died in vain if the country is so awful, if the country is systemically racist, if it was founded in order to preserve slavery?
	So, of course, you would think they died in vain.
	So this is a really good moment to analyze a question, because it's a rare time that the living martyr and I differ.
	He doesn't believe the poll, and I do believe the poll.
	I will say this, on your behalf, even the left is theoretically anti-Nazi.
	So theoretically, fighting Nazis...
	Would appeal to leftists.
	I say theoretically because there's a second part to fighting against Nazis, and that is fighting for America.
	And the Japanese were not Nazis.
	They were the equivalent, as it happens, but I won't get into that now.
	People have no clue as to how evil the Japanese were in Asia.
	With their rape farms and their...
	Just like the Nazis, they had units that specialized in medical experiments on people without anesthetic, cutting people open.
	The support for the decision to send troops to fight the Nazis received more support than any other war at 68%, but again, that's two-thirds.
	However, one-third of Americans were still unsure if President Roosevelt made the right decision.
	Responses vary depending on age, gender, and race of the person being asked.
	While 60% of the people aged 18 to 29 said it wasn't a mistake to send troops, only 49% of people aged 30 to 44 agreed.
	So let's see.
	So is it the people 30 to 44 who were the most alienated?
	From the country?
	This is interesting.
	Republican voters were also more supportive with the deployment.
	77% said sending the troops had been the right choice.
	Just 63% of Democrats agreed.
	Only 62% of women thought it had been the right choice compared to 74% of men.
	So I have a question to the, my listeners.
	Do you believe this poll?
	Do you think that one-third of Americans do not agree?
	With the decision to send troops in World War II. 1-8-Prager-776-877-243-776 Again, before reading this, I was going to raise the question,
	given that it's been Memorial Day weekend, do you believe that Americans who believe this country is systemically racist, which is a large number of Americans, especially young ones, Think that those who died for the country wasted their lives.
	I would.
	If this country is founded in rot, why would anybody die to preserve it?
	You should ask your child, I don't mean your 8-year-old, I mean your 20-year-old, 30-year-old, 40-year-old child, Who is on the left?
	Do you think that those who died fighting for America died in vain?
	It would be very interesting.
	They might say, which war?
	Okay, that's fair.
	So then enumerate some of the wars.
	World War I, World War II, the Korean War, which, to my great chagrin, people don't even know existed.
	37,000 Americans died in that war.
	When I read about how good life is in South Korea, I tell you, in a world where ingratitude is the norm, South Koreans who do not love America stand out more than any other single group, except maybe Americans.
	That is the greatest example of ingrates on Earth.
	South Koreans every day look north, or can look north, and see what they would have suffered had America not made that sacrifice.
	I once asked an editor of Atlantic on the show, Whenever I can get a leftist to come on, I have them on, and I'm polite to them.
	And I asked him, who said America's wars other than World War II were unjust, I said, what about the Korean War?
	His answer?
	I just don't know much about it.
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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?
	Wow!
	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.
	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. $400 million.
	$400 million.
	I have sympathy for the person and I have sympathy for the talk show host.
	He obviously It meant nothing possibly undermining the meaning of the day by doing it.
	It's sort of like I feel with my Christian friends on Good Friday.
	Do I wish them a happy Good Friday?
	Obviously not.
	So what term do you use?
	I have tended to...
	A good weekend would have worked, obviously.
	It is funny to say Happy Memorial Day.
	I mean, there's no question about that.
	And I don't think that the listener was chastising the talk show host.
	But my preference, and I do it a lot with holidays, is have a meaningful term that I wish people...
	Well, just a thought, but back to our issue.
	The bigger issue, whether you believe this poll or not about...
	Americans' response to World War II is, what would your left-wing, America is systemically racist, brother-in-law, daughter, whomever, what would they say, how would they respond to the question, did those who die for this country die in vain?
	It would be interesting to find out.
	1-8 Prager 776. Bob in Illinois, you're right.
	I know that Memorial Day was originally for Civil War soldiers.
	That is correct.
	We call it Decoration Day.
	I agree.
	All right.
	Let's move on here.
	The amount of...
	Of things that one has to deal with in reading the news.
	Do you know when I earn my salary?
	Not when I do the show.
	It's when I read everything for the show.
	Because it's so dark.
	I try to do it with great music in the background.
	And smoking a cigar.
	I try to have as much sensual pleasure while reading these articles as possible as an antidote.
	There's more on the Wall Street Journal.
	It was not a particularly strong article, I have to say, but at least they criticized it.
	Diplomats abase America.
	BLM flag, the Black Lives Matter flag, a hate group.
	If you can't call BLM a hate group, it means you lie to yourself.
	It's as simple as that.
	There is no other possible explanation for not calling BLM a hate group.
	The cable from the State Department, which was leaked, authorized embassies to fly the BLM flag throughout 2021 at the discretion of each chief of mission.
	Embassies in Bosnia, Cambodia, Greece, Spain, and UK, and perhaps elsewhere, have done so.
	So I looked up every single one of the ambassadors of the countries that showed the BLM flag.
	I think I should post them and ask people to politely ask these people to apologize or resign.
	They're a disgrace to the United States.
	I'm going to look up.
	There is one piece of data that I wanted to get.
	I hope I can get the ambassadors of the United States.
	There we go.
	Perfect.
	Okay.
	So, the UK. I looked up UK. That's a pretty big embassy.
	The U.S. Embassy in the United Kingdom.
	It's the biggest.
	It's the biggest, right.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So, that's big.
	We don't have an ambassador yet.
	We have a charge d'affaires, a woman named Yael Lampert.
	And so I looked her up.
	And let's see, U.S. Embassy.
	Okay, here we go, Yael Lampert.
	American diplomat.
	And let me see if I can get...
	What I really was looking for here.
	Bummer.
	Well, anyway, she is our ambassador.
	One of them, I thought it was she, and one of them, in a bio of the person, it noted that the father of the ambassador or the charge d'affaires had been a board member of the ACLU. And I thought, well, that gives that parent a great deal of joy.
	Yes.
	They had all gone to prestigious universities.
	Imagine that, an ambassador of the United States putting out the flag.
	Again, the countries, our embassies did it.
	Bosnia, Cambodia, Greece, Spain, and UK. You wonder, did anybody at any of those embassies say that they were embarrassed by it?
	Can you even speak out against your ambassador if you are assigned to an embassy?
	I don't know.
	I simply don't know.
	It only shows the amount of corruption and poison that has reached every single American institution, of which I am aware.
	This is all new to me, by the way.
	I mean, I knew the State Department has always been a bit weird.
	They were adamant against Harry Truman.
	They were adamantly opposed to Harry Truman recognizing Israel when it was founded.
	He went completely against the State Department.
	The State Department was...
	Anyway, the State Department has vast numbers of what are called Arabists, People who specialize in the Arab world and have tremendous sympathy for it.
	There are, after all, 23 Arab countries.
	That's 23 embassies versus one embassy in Israel.
	That's a big difference.
	That's a lot of people specializing.
	And one thing I do know, and it makes sense, You tend to have sympathy for the people in whose country you're assigned.
	How could it be otherwise?
	You're often meeting the highest level of people, very sophisticated people.
	It's sort of like the ambassadors of the world have a great deal in common with one another, like the editors of the New York Times and Le Monde.
	Back in a moment, I'm Dennis Prager.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I do.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	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, 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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	Stay with me for a second here.
	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 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.
	If there is a suspicion, a rumor, a report that this came from a lab...
	Well, it turns out I was right.
	And I found it.
	The head of the U.S. Embassy in the U.K., Yael Lempert, put out the BLM flag.
	I looked up all of the ambassadors were chargé d'affaires, in the case of no ambassador, of the countries where we put out this hate symbol.
	I found this fascinating piece of data at Wikipedia.
	She is the daughter of ophthalmologist Philip Lempert and Leslie Lempert, who is on the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
	The mother.
	So I can only say that here is an example of parents having pride in their daughter.
	How come left-wing parents are more successful at raising left-wing children than conservative parents are in raising conservative children?
	Of course, I know the answer, but it's just an interesting question.
	And that is the society sustains the parents' leftism and has contempt for the parents' conservatism.
	Left-wing parents don't have to battle their elementary school, high school, college, post-college.
	Or media.
	Whereas conservative parents have to battle every institution in the country to sustain their good values.
	That is really something.
	The mother is on the board.
	And by the way, in the ACLU, the New York division of the ACLU is particularly left-wing.
	President Biden Spoke at Arlington National Cemetery.
	I have some clips and some comments.
	Let's begin with clip 19.
	Sorry for the delay.
	Can't say I know why, but...
	Just, we'll move on.
	Okay.
	Great.
	I'm told to hang on.
	A son.
	A daughter.
	A mother.
	A spouse.
	A brother.
	A sister.
	A friend.
	A neighbor.
	Okay, now.
	The last thing I ever, ever want to do, because it reflects poorly on me, is make some picayune observation.
	However, I debated, well not however, I therefore debated whether to make a point.
	Do you know what point I want to make?
	What do you think I want to say?
	Well, there's something missing.
	There is one very important and the most ubiquitous of all.
	No father.
	Now, I don't know if that's significant or not, but I think it is.
	If it's just a slip, it's Freudian.
	In other words, it's sort of...
	When we say a Freudian slip, in other words, it represents something.
	It's not just a mistake.
	It represents something.
	There's only one male mentioned.
	Let's see.
	There's the...
	No, it's not true.
	Brother and son.
	Okay, son.
	So there are two males mentioned.
	But it is...
	I found it interesting.
	It struck me immediately.
	Let's put it that way.
	I'm not looking for these things.
	So it's...
	Far more fathers are buried at Arlington than mothers.
	The ratio must be a thousand to one, I would imagine.
	No, a daughter and sister.
	Look, if he has a brother and son, then there's nothing I can say.
	Look, as it happens, again, it's far more males.
	That are buried.
	I don't think that's insignificant.
	But to miss out on fathers and say mothers when there were so few mothers buried at Arlington, I just thought it's worth mentioning.
	Biden 20, please.
	To all of you who are fighting with the fresh pain of loss, as hard as it is to believe, I promise you this.
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	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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	This is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
	You know, we're still involved in the Middle East.
	No, actually.
	We're continuing with President Biden's speech at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday. - Okay.
	And we go to 21, please.
	The soul of America is animated by the perennial battle between our worst instincts which we've seen of late and our better angels.
	Between me first, and we the people.
	Between greed and generosity, cruelty and kindness, captivity and freedom.
	So the interesting thing about that is, I agree with everything he said.
	And we have 180 degree difference on who fills the definitions of each of those characteristics.
	We have seen the worst of our instincts of late.
	A year of riots and lying.
	The lying media.
	The riots over a lie.
	There isn't systemic police brutality against blacks.
	It's a gigantic lie.
	It is pure lie.
	Does it ever happen?
	Everything happens.
	It's irrelevant.
	To the issue of whether or not there is systemic brutality.
	Even the killing of George Floyd probably had nothing to do with race.
	It wasn't even raised in his trial.
	Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, said so.
	He could find nothing with regard to racism in Derek Chauvin's past or during the act.
	And if you watch it, you watch how much they asked him and asked him and asked him to please enter the police car.
	Yes, it's correct.
	Cruelty and kindness?
	You bet.
	Captivity and freedom?
	Yep, that's correct.
	The gulf between left and right is unbridgeable, as I have said for many years.
	Nothing characterizes that more than this statement by the President.
	Of the United States, the head of the Democratic Party.
	22. Democracy itself is in peril.
	Here at home and around the world.
	That's true.
	What we do now, what we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen, will determine whether or not democracy will long endure.
	We all take it for granted.
	We think.
	We learn in school.
	Every generation has to fight for it.
	But look, it's the biggest question.
	Whether a system that prizes the individual, that bends towards liberty, that gives everybody a chance of prosperity, whether that system can and will.
	Prevail against powerful forces that wish it harm.
	Now, do you know, we're living in such an Orwellian state that if President Biden, if President Trump had said the exact same words, he would have been called a fascist.
	But he could have said the exact same words.
	So this is fascinating.
	He has declared that our system prizes the individual, bends towards liberty, and gives everybody a chance at prosperity?
	That, like, undermines the entire left-wing message.
	I'm sorry?
	Where's the equity in that?
	Where's the equity in that?
	Well, there's no equity.
	It undermines the whole message that there is no equity.
	It's like entering a parallel universe to hear this speech.
	23. Folks, you all know it.
	Democracy thrives when the infrastructure of democracy is strong.
	When people have the right to vote freely and fairly and conveniently.
	When a free and independent press pursues the truth.
	Founded on facts, not propaganda.
	Couldn't agree more on that either.
	There you go.
	Now, how is it possible that I, a conservative, agree with every word he said?
	Because we're both referring to completely different things, to opposite things.
	The independent press that pursues the truth is talk radio.
	It is all of the conservative sites on the Internet, from Daily Wire to Breitbart to American Greatness, Federalist.
	There are so many terrific ones that I always feel bad mentioning by name because I'm leaving out such great ones.
	That's where there is...
	Press that pursues the truth, not propaganda.
	The Mr. Liberal Abe Foxman, former head of the ADL Anti-Defamation League, announced that he's canceling his subscription to the New York Times because it's such a fraud on the Middle East.
	I happen not to like that man.
	He's one of the few public figures I dislike.
	I am announcing this to his credit, that he is, the AVL has become a farce, but he is the, I don't know, decades, decades long director of the Anti-Defamation League, now director emeritus.
	If this guy knows that the New York Times is a fraud, that's a good sign.
	But he's a liberal.
	He tolerates the left, like almost every liberal.
	But my hope, and it's the only hope for the country, is that liberals will awaken to what damage the left is doing to liberalism.
	Conservatism does no damage to liberalism.
	It protects liberalism.
	That's the great irony of our time.
	The only allies liberals have are us rightists.
	That they don't know it is only a testimony to the fact that most people believe what they want to believe.
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	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I did.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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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 down.
	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 till 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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	CC forgot all about the live...
	Okay, and the next segment, next excerpt from President Joe Biden's Arlington Seminary.
	Seminary, yeah.
	I have seminaries on my mind.
	Cemetery, Memorial Day.
	So we are up to 24. To state the obvious, our democracy is imperfect.
	It always has been.
	But Americans of all backgrounds, races, creeds, gender, identities, sexual orientations, have long spilled their blood to defend our democracy.
	The diversity of our country and of our armed services is and always has been an incredible strength.
	Okay.
	Now, Americans of all gender identities have long spilled their blood.
	Is that true?
	How many American soldiers were transgender men?
	I suspect that one could count it on one hand, if indeed it existed.
	It's not a knock on the transgender, it's a knock on the president being so woke.
	Americans of all sexual identities.
	But they didn't allow gays into the armed forces.
	Now, gays did get in anyway.
	They hid it, which is fine.
	But truth does matter.
	But he's woke.
	And the other is the famous line that our strength is our diversity.
	The left is using our diversity to end this country.
	Diversity is not a strength.
	Unity of values is a strength.
	That's why the motto of the country, which most young people never heard in their lives, is e pluribus unum, from many one.
	The founders wanted diverse groups to come in.
	If they united as one, we are all American, which is the way most immigrants, through the first half of the 20th century, Regarded immigration.
	I want to go to America and become an American.
	Yep.
	Let's go with the last one, 27.
	Daniel Webster.
	His cry, first uttered just across the Potomac in the Capitol, resonates even now.
	Daniel Webster.
	He stood on the floor and he said, Liberty and Union.
	Now and forever, one and inseparable, liberty and union.
	The man lives in a make-believe world.
	He represents the party that is against union and against liberty.
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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 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 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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	Thank 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?
	Mplasky?
	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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	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.
	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...
	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 that Jewish people do.
	Is there some other explanation?
	Utterly irrational.
	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.
	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.
	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, Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
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	I spoke about the embassies that displayed the Black Lives Matter flag.
	Gives you an idea how deep the rut is in the upper echelons of the American government.
	And I discovered that the head of the UK Embassy is the daughter of a woman who is on the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
	And I just thought, well...
	She did well.
	She raised a daughter in her image.
	This is who we have at our embassies in many cases.
	CIA, FBI, State Department.
	Now, of course, the Department of Justice is completely a tool of the Democratic Party.
	It doesn't even feign to be otherwise.
	Remember we were told Merrick Garland was this moral giant?
	He just turned out to be another lefty.
	The great issue in America is white supremacist terror.
	Anybody who uses the word insurrection for January 6th has bought the lie.
	January 6th.
	Is the Reichstag fire to the left.
	Like the Nazis used the Reichstag fire to suppress liberty, the left is using January 6th to suppress liberty.
	Do you know that there are people who entered the Capitol unarmed, doing nothing basically except being silly, and are in solitary confinement since then?
	Solitary confinement.
	I could cry as an American when I think of that.
	It's the first time I could say truly America has political prisoners.
	By the way, did you know, I didn't know this, I just read this last week, where was it in American Greatness?
	Was it Julie Kelly?
	There are hours of video of what happened January 6th, this corrupt, utterly corrupt, A Biden-Democratic Party-run government will not release?
	It's exactly what Soviets and Nazis would do.
	It's exactly what any totalitarian state would do.
	Is hide evidence.
	Because the truth is the enemy of all totalitarians.
	The New Testament is right.
	Truth will set you free.
	But they're not interested in having us set free.
	They're interested in unlimited power to squash their opposition.
	Why won't they release the video of that day?
	Why won't they release the name of the officer who completely, improperly, unethically killed a woman entering through a window unarmed?
	Did any, I don't know, this is an open question, did any of the quote-unquote insurrectionists attack, physically attack anybody in the Capitol?
	They keep saying five officers died, but none of them died at the hands of the rioters, or whatever you wish to call them.
	This is a scandal, but they won't release the video.
	It's a scandal.
	Okay, my friends.
	Oh, yes, I mentioned to you last week, right?
	I talked about Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, the $47,000 a year school that shows kids porn.
	Yeah, that's correct.
	And the parents are still sending their kids there.
	It's hard for me.
	I don't know if I could even read to you, and this is from the New York Post.
	I mean, this is not...
	I'm not reading to you from a raunchy place.
	Juniors at the 47,000-a-year Manhattan School showed up for a health and sexuality workshop.
	Most thought it was just going to be about condoms or birth control, a student told the New York Post.
	Instead, it was something called pornography literacy, an intersectional focus on mainstream porn.
	See, that's important.
	Because after all, they're learning so much math, and they're learning so much science, and they're learning so much history, and so much music and art, so there's time left over for an intersectional focus on mainstream porn.
	And by the way, the only focus one should have on porn is intersectional.
	It's a very important point.
	Taught by Justine Infante.
	How come it's women disproportionately involved in robbing kids of innocence?
	I always thought, it's always surprised me.
	I always thought of women as particularly sensitive to children's innocence.
	But women who go left, they sort of suppress female nature.
	She's the director of health and wellness at another elite prep school, Dalton.
	The often explicit slide presentation and lecture by Fonte to the 120 boys and girls included lessons on how porn takes care of three big male vulnerabilities.
	Have any idea what that means?
	Statistics on the orgasm gap showing straight women have far fewer orgasms with their partners than gay men or women.
	There's another reason to feel that you're a victim.
	The orgasm gap.
	The wage gap.
	Orgasm gap.
	Yeah.
	And photos of partially nude women summon bondage to analyze what is porn and what is art.
	After all, you are spending $47,000 a year at the school.
	And that's what you get.
	Oh, there's more from the New York Post on this.
	Another parent of a middle schooler at the pre-K 12th grade school, it's outrageous, said, it's outrageous that the school is introducing pornography into a mainstream classroom and starting to indoctrinate kids.
	The goal of this is to disrupt families.
	That's exactly right.
	The nuclear family is the enemy of the left.
	Spokesman for Dalton, that's another high-end, expensive prep school in New York, where parents have told the Post that Fonte teaches classes to first and second graders that include discussions of sexuality, possibly about masturbation, defended Fonte's work.
	The spokesman that Dalton did.
	First and second graders, my friends.
	But the parents, I no longer, in this case, I have no sympathy for the parents.
	But you continue to send your child there?
	I mean, it's now your fault.
	You're collaborating in the deprival of your child of a birthright that is for children to have innocence.
	I regard childhood as a sort of Garden of Eden.
	Not that there are no problems, but that you're allowed to be innocent.
	What's the first thing that Adam and Eve knew when they had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge?
	They knew they were naked.
	When I was five, I was at a summer camp, which is amazing when you think about it.
	My parents sent me away for eight weeks, which was fine with me, actually.
	But anyway, it was boys and girls in the same bunk.
	I didn't know the girls were naked.
	At five years of age, it means nothing.
	So why are we corrupting that?
	You have a lifetime not to be innocent.
	This is all part of an orthodoxy that has taken over schools across the country.
	A spokesman for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism told The Post.
	Millions of kids are being experimented on with a new curriculum that racializes and sexualizes young children.
	And parents and their kids there will be back.
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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.
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	I have a long history with Bill Maher.
	I used to be on the show regularly.
	Then he went to Friday night and I don't broadcast on my Sabbath.
	But when it's before sunset on Friday, I can do it.
	So I was on a show last October.
	Not last October.
	The October right before the lockdown.
	And I don't agree with him on most issues, nor he with me.
	But I remember that I, when he was fired, I think it was ABC, for making some ugly comment about American...
	Fighter pilots.
	I defended his free speech.
	Said he shouldn't be fired.
	Had him on the show, in fact.
	Anyway, I go a long way back with him.
	To his credit, he says things more often right now than ever before that are anti-left.
	So I give him a great deal of credit for the courage to do that.
	And nothing irks the left more than defending Israel.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Statement about the left.
	So here is Bill Maher.
	What night was this?
	On Friday night.
	He had Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, so nothing else needs to be said, as one of his guests.
	This was, after all, a war with...
	Gaza.
	Thank God Israel treats its Arab citizens better than Egypt, Syria, or Saudi Arabia treat their Arab citizens.
	I didn't see much of that in the press, so I was glad to see you say it.
	Can you put some bones on that?
	Why do you say they treat their citizens better, their Arab citizens?
	So, I mean, I also said a lot more.
	And clearly, within Israel, then Arab citizens obviously vote.
	They can serve in the Knesset.
	They can be judges.
	Some of the most robust organizations speaking up for Palestinians are organizations like Batalem, the Human Rights Organization.
	You know, that does not happen in Egypt, which obviously massacres Egyptians who support democracy.
	By the way, before, but I would also say, this is Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.
	Did what he just described sound to you like an apartheid state?
	Did blacks serve as judges, vote freely, have parties in their parliament, etc.?
	It's another gigantic lie of the left that Israel is an apartheid state.
	See the PragerU video by a black member of the South African parliament who did live under apartheid and went to Israel to check if it's an apartheid state.
	And his reaction was how evil it is to cheapen the word apartheid.
	He suffered through it.
	But it doesn't matter.
	They cheapen the word fascist on the left.
	There's nothing they don't.
	So I just thought, after all, all the enumerations about how well things are, how good things are for Arab citizens of Israel, just remember the lie of it being an apartheid state.
	We continue.
	But I would also say that I made that point for context.
	I think it's important to understand that Israel at home truly is robust.
	But I don't think that's a defense for Israel.
	Engaging in possible war crimes in Gaza or engaging...
	Well, Gaza fired 4,000 rockets into Israel.
	What would you say Israel should have done instead of what they did?
	Okay, for that alone, Bill Maher should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
	For that question alone, they said 4,000 rockets to kill as many Israelis as possible.
	What should Israel have done?
	I don't even remember Nicholas Kristof's answer, so let's hear.
	4,000 rockets into Israel.
	What would you say Israel should have done instead of what they did?
	How could you not...
	So, I mean, international lawyers are pretty clear that they have a right to defend themselves, they have a right to respond at military targets, but there was a sense that the response was probably a war crime because it did not sufficiently avoid civilian casualties.
	Okay, they purposely put the rockets in civilian places.
	Well, likewise, Israel's defense ministry is in a civilian area.
	Okay, this is a lie.
	This is a phony point by Nicholas Kristof.
	Of course its administration is in a civilian place.
	I visited it.
	It's in Tel Aviv.
	That's not where its military is.
	That's where the bureaucrats are.
	That's like saying that the Department of Defense is in a civilian area.
	Of course it is!
	But we don't have military bases in the middle of hospitals.
	We don't keep anti-aircraft batteries on schools.
	They do in Gaza.
	Kristoff is just basically non-committed to truth in this response.
	Oh, Israel does the same thing.
	Israel does not do the same thing.
	But he works for the New York Times.
	I don't expect better.
	Ministry is in a civilian area.
	I mean, both sides do this, partly because they're crowded countries.
	I do think that Hamas particularly does this, and I think that's a war crime in the part of Hamas.
	And clearly, Hamas is engaging in war crimes when it shells.
	War is a crime.
	I mean, it seems like a silly argument when people go to war.
	I mean, there are certain things that are beyond the pale.
	This seems like, I mean, it was a normal war.
	People die in war.
	It's a horrible thing.
	But, I mean, we have developed laws of war precisely to restrain the inhumanity of war.
	We don't allow chemical weapons.
	But I don't know how else you respond to when you are for it.
	I mean, what if Canada...
	Fired 4,000 rockets into America.
	Or Mexico, which is an even better analogy, because we actually did steal the land from Mexico.
	I would submit that Israel did not steal anybody's land.
	This is another thing I've heard in the last couple of weeks, words like occupiers and colonizers and apartheid, which I don't think people understand the history there.
	Alright, hold on.
	It's really to his credit, Bill Moore.
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	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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	Thanks to human ingenuity, long-term investments we've made in science and medicine, we were able to, in an unprecedented fashion, come 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...
	Once again, I agree with everything you say.
	Keep going.
	Keep going.
	This Bill Maher dialogue with Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times, is precious.
	I'm not sure.
	And I salute Bill Maher.
	I really do.
	But he has taken on the left frequently now.
	I hope to go back on the show this year, and if I have the chance, I will ask him, has he rethought the danger of the left?
	Given his realizations about the poison of wokeness.
	Anyway, on Israel, the guy has just been remarkable.
	He's dealing now with this notion that Israel has stolen land.
	I'll have his comments in a moment, but I just want to review this notion.
	Israel committed war crimes, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times says, by not targeting only military targets.
	But it's not possible to target military targets in Gaza without civilian deaths because they put them among civilians.
	Incidentally, How many days was this war?
	11?
	Something like 11 days.
	When one realizes how much Israel did, and that it was about 200 fatalities, do you realize how pinpoint their targeting was, in fact?
	New York Times, front page, these children.
	These dead children, pictures of dead children, front page New York Times, caused the former head of the ADL, who was a big believer in the New York Times, actually to cancel his subscription.
	New York Times is a left-wing...
	Well, the word I want to use, I won't use.
	It's a left-wing organ of the left.
	That's all it is.
	We continue with Bill Maher on the issue of the Israelis stole land and occupy it.
	The last couple of weeks, words like occupiers and colonizers and apartheid, which I don't think people understand the history there.
	The Jews have been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the earth, a thousand years before.
	I mean, Jerusalem was their capital.
	Okay, so if it's just about who got there first, it's not even close.
	There have been a continuous Jewish presence.
	Yes, the Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody, the Romans.
	took over at some point, and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans.
	It's impressive that he knows this.
	There was colonization going on there.
	Beginning in the 20th, 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country.
	There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country.
	How many people know that at Harvard?
	And yes, there was a...
	A problem there because there was two people who wanted to share the land, which is why the UN in 1947 said, okay, we're going to partition it.
	We have a map.
	I want to show people forget what the map looks like.
	This is what was on the table at the beginning.
	The green is the part that the Arab population would have gotten.
	It's a good part of the country.
	It's the good part, a lot of it.
	Look what Israel has, a little sliver by the coast and the desert in the south.
	That second map is what Israel has today.
	Yes, it is a lot more.
	But doesn't it behoove the people who rejected the half a loaf and then continue attacked?
	Hamas's charter says they just want to wipe out Israel.
	Their negotiating position is you all die.
	But, I mean, there's a difference between defending Hamas, which I agree...
	Commit some war crimes.
	And I would accept that, I think, too often in liberal circles there's been a tendency to ally the repression of Hamas, the homophobia of Hamas, the misogyny of Hamas.
	But that also does not excuse Israel ruling Palestinians in the West Bank, for example, without giving them any vote, taking water and giving it...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	They have a vote.
	The man isn't...
	He sounds like an idiot, if you know anything about the Middle East.
	They vote for Palestinian leaders.
	They don't have a vote in Israel.
	What is he talking about?
	What, damn it, is he talking about?
	Nicholas Kristof is a well-intentioned idiot.
	I'm adding well-intentioned because I read him and have for years.
	The man is guided by no wisdom, no knowledge, but a big heart.
	And you know where good intentions get you without wisdom?
	To hell.
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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.
	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 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.
	Playing for you and we're almost done with Bill Maher and his absolute, what is the word, desiccation?
	No, not necessarily.
	What does desiccation mean?
	It's where you, like, rip apart, no?
	Oh.
	What does desiccate mean?
	It's the first time in my career I've used the word I don't know, except for neftigen.
	No, not desicrate.
	D-E-S-S-I-C-A-T-E. What is the definition?
	To what?
	To drain of emotional or intellectual vitality.
	Oh, so he did desiccate him.
	He drained him of emotional and intellectual vitality.
	It was devastating.
	Okay, fine.
	That's correct.
	It was desiccating and devastating.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	We allow everybody who works on this show their moments of idiosyncrasy.
	That's fine.
	When Sean hears a new word, he wants to hear it three times from the computer.
	Why he does is a riddle to those of us who do not have a similar yearning.
	Okay.
	Continue, please, with Bill Maher.
	This is Nicholas Kristof.
	...damaging any possibility down the road, creating a two-state solution.
	How do we avoid a long war when somebody is showing, some of your neighbors showing?
	That's hard, but what we can do is try to create a two-state solution 10 years from now.
	And the way you do that is don't build about settlements right now with the West Side.
	Okay, so we have a video actually on the settlements issue.
	Alan Dershowitz, I think, right?
	My dear friends, before there was one settlement, the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims of the area negated Israel's right to exist.
	The settlements are as big a useful issue.
	Built on nothing as the insurrection of January 6th is.
	Oh, it's the insurrection.
	That's the great danger to America.
	White supremacist revolution.
	Right?
	That's the great danger to peace in the Middle East.
	Settlements.
	Five times the Palestinians were offered a state.
	Including in one case with Ehud Olmert.
	Or was it Ehud Barak?
	I don't remember which one.
	Where they would have Jerusalem as the capital of their state.
	And they turned it all down.
	You know why?
	Because they're much more interested in destroying Israel than in having a state.
	Israel left Gaza.
	So what did the Palestinians do?
	They created a terror state out of Gaza.
	If they would have been peaceful, Gaza would be blossoming today.
	They spend all their money on missiles.
	Rockets and tunnels.
	Not on hospitals, not on infrastructure, not on schools.
	I've come to an interesting conclusion in life.
	Many interesting conclusions.
	That's why I have a show and I write.
	I offer you my conclusions.
	People really don't understand people who are different from them.
	I don't mean different ethnically.
	I mean, different morally.
	Like, do you understand a child rapist?
	I don't.
	It makes no sense to me.
	It's like telling me somebody likes to sleep with kangaroos.
	I don't understand it.
	I admit it.
	I don't understand it.
	I don't understand people who like to shoot up other human beings because they're in an angry mood.
	It's very important to understand that you don't understand the Palestinian hatred of Israel and of Jews.
	You don't understand it because you don't have it.
	So, therefore, there must be something legitimate to what they say, even though you don't understand it.
	Left-wingers understand it because they're anti-Israel, but putting that aside, guys like Nicholas Kristof, You really think settlements are the reason there's no Palestinian state?
	God, are you naive?
	And Israel should pull out of the West Bank?
	And then what happens?
	Then Hamas has the West Bank, and Iran has the West Bank.
	What country would commit suicide?
	You're asking Israel to commit suicide.
	I was always for a two-state solution.
	Always.
	I gave up on it.
	Because I know what would happen now.
	You wouldn't have two states.
	You'd have Iran on the borders of Israel trying much more effectively to destroy it from the West Bank than from Gaza.
	That's all you would have, you fool.
	All right, let's finish this segment here.
	Your neighbor's showing what?
	What we can do is try to create a two-state solution 10 years from now, and the way you do that is you don't build up settlements right now in the West Bank, and you don't create this division where Palestinians, you don't seize their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.
	I would agree with that, and I think a lot of Israelis do too.
	Did they not?
	Not enough to...
	Well, because again, I mean, first of all, the two-state solution has been on the table a number of times.
	There could be an Arab capital in East Jerusalem now.
	He knows his stuff.
	If Yasser Arafat had accepted that in 2003, he did not.
	I mean, they have rejected this and went to war time and time again.
	And, you know, as far as Gaza goes, it's amazing to me that the progressives...
	Think that they're being progressive by taking that side of it, the Bella Hadid's of the world, these influencers.
	I just want to say, in February of this year, a Hamas court ruled that an unmarried woman cannot travel in Gaza without the permission of a male guardian.
	Really?
	That's where the progressives are.
	Bella Hadid and her friends would run screaming to Tel Aviv.
	If they had to live in Gaza for one day.
	You know what?
	We should keep that.
	That's a Hall of Fame comment from, of all people, Bill Maher.
	Bella Hadid and her friends would go running to Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day.
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	What makes the current ruling class in America different?
	My other very good friend, who also does a great job at Breitbart.com, has a new book out called Breaking the News.
	Alex Marlowe, he filled in for us last week.
	I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News.
	Alex Marlowe has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros.
	Saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire.
	I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined.
	I've got to give Alex credit.
	it.
	He said, Nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.
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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 plaudit 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 are the most happy countries in the world.
	I thought it was a joke because even an infant who can't talk knows that a smile is the first indication of happiness and Africans smile the most and Scandinavia is the least.
	The other indication is suicide.
	If you commit suicide, you're certainly not happy.
	And, of course, we speak of those smiling Scandinavians and those dour Africans all the time.
	Isn't that interesting?
	I mean, my guess, I have to throw this out and see if you would concur, would be that only wealthy countries have the luxury of thinking about their situation.
	They've got a lot of leisure time, and I've never pronounced it leisure before, forgive me, leisure time.
	I'm going to interrupt you here and disagree with you.
	I don't think that's true.
	You're not a snob, certainly, but that's a snobbish thing to say.
	Only the rich and educated are self-aware and thoughtful.
	I find primitives in many ways much more thoughtful.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	I find primitives in many ways.
	You should watch all the commencement addresses at PragerU given over the years. - Yeah.
	Really, you should have your senior high school or college watch these addresses.
	They're five minutes.
	They're about life.
	They're not about politics.
	At the PragerU.com.
	One of the great lines.
	If Bella Hadid and her friends lived one day in Gaza, they would go running to Tel Aviv.
	God is the left bankrupt.
	Okay, is that the end of the...
	This is Bill Maher.
	I mean, I've been to Gaza any number of times, and ordinary Gazans complain about Hamas all the time.
	I did not perceive Bella Hadid as defending Hamas.
	I saw her as speaking up for, you know, the 67 kids in Gaza who were killed.
	Well, she's from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, is I think what she chanted with people.
	That is a PLO slogan that means Israel from the river to the sea, is that there will be no more Israel.
	Yeah, what does Christoph say to that?
	Do you want to say something about this?
	Well, I was kind of glad to listen.
	Do I want to step on the way of mine?
	No, not really.
	Oh, yeah, that was the other guest who was not saying anything.
	Who's he?
	Yeah, James Carville.
	Go on.
	Just to buttress Mitch's point a little bit, is to understand that they were about to form a government that included the Arab Party.
	Correct.
	And once you're a part of the government, if you need three votes in the Knesset to get to 61, you have real power.
	No apartheid state ever did.
	And apartheid, we think of as South Africa, which is the white people in Britain and Holland.
	Who never had any claim to the land or any history there, came thousands of years later and just took it over.
	That's a little different.
	And then they kept it an apartheid state because they just wanted the power.
	The Israelis, they have made mistakes, but it's an apartheid state because they keep getting attacked.
	If they don't keep a tight lid on the shit, they get killed.
	That seems like something different.
	For the same reason that you admire Israeli democracy and that you admire the fact that Arabs within Israel have the vote, then shouldn't those Palestinians in the West Bank have a vote for the people who rule their lives?
	But again, Israeli Arabs do have the vote, and they're in the parliament, unlike in an apartheid.
	Yeah, the West Bank has a vote for the West Bank leaders.
	Bill Maher, I salute you.
	Bill Maher, I salute you. I salute you.
	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.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I do.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	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 till 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 in the 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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	Stay with me for a second here.
	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 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 punt, 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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	This is the Ultimate Issues Hour every Tuesday.
	The third hour of the show every Tuesday is devoted to the great issues of life.
	I don't think it needs any justification.
	I did feel it when I started this, I don't know, 20 years ago or whatever.
	What?
	A whole hour every single week on a talk show?
	Just about Ultimate Issues?
	Yeah, if you don't have the Ultimate Issues clear, nothing else becomes clear.
	So, it's been a very important hour, especially in the last year and a half.
	On occasion, I have a guest.
	This is one of those occasions.
	He's written an important book, Live Not By Lies, a manual for Christian dissidents.
	Obviously, if you're not Christian, it is equally relevant to you.
	Rod Dreher, D-R-E-H-E-R, is the well-known author.
	A major, I'm tempted to say religious thinker, but then you think he only writes about religion, but he uses religion, as I do, to write about everything.
	And he is a senior editor at the American Conservative.
	The book, Live Not by Lies.
	Roger Ayer, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Dennis, it's great to be with you.
	I'm talking to you from the backyard of the house in Budapest, Hungary.
	Why do you sound better than people talking to me from Glendale, California half the time?
	It's where I'm broadcasting from.
	You know, you're perfectly clear.
	That's great.
	By the way, I'm very curious about that.
	I will be speaking in Hungary in August.
	And, by the way, if you're still there, I would love to see you.
	But I'm curious, are they allowing...
	Anybody in, COVID-wise, vaccinated, non-vaccinated, and so on?
	Yeah, you can come in if you can prove you've been vaccinated and if you have a letter of welcome or invitation from some sponsoring agency.
	So things are pretty open here, but they're still not open for tourism.
	Once you get here, everything is pretty much opened up.
	Right, so if...
	I'm not vaccinated, so if I show that I'm negative, is that sufficient?
	Yeah, you've got to have a PCR test.
	Okay, I did that for Hawaii.
	That's fine.
	Right.
	Hungary was the country's worst hit in all the European Union, so they're really taking it seriously.
	They've got a really good government here that's being sensible about opening things up, but they still have to be pretty careful.
	Are people walking with masks in the streets?
	Not anymore.
	That was the case when I arrived here in the middle of May, but that's over with now.
	And you can sit out in restaurants on the terraces and enjoy the evening.
	And I tell you, it changed everything in this city when people could go to restaurants.
	Yeah, of course.
	I'm really having a great time here.
	Yeah, no, I've been there many times.
	I was there under communism, which is very relevant to your book, and we'll get to that in a moment.
	One final question on that, though.
	Are they eating inside restaurants?
	Yes, you can go inside restaurants, but only if you can prove that you've been vaccinated and have a Hungarian card.
	So, I don't have that.
	I have an American vaccination card, so they keep me on the outside.
	Wow.
	So many people prefer to be outside because the weather here is really cool right now.
	Right, but it won't be cool in August.
	You never know, man.
	They're having such a cool summer here.
	I come from South Louisiana, as you might know, and people here keep apologizing for how cool the weather is, and I tell them, please, don't.
	No, no.
	If you're from South Louisiana, everything is cool in the summer.
	That's clear.
	You dedicate your book, I always look at dedications, to Father Tomislav Kolakovich, 1906 to 1990. Who was he?
	He was a Croatian Jesuit priest who was doing anti-Nazi work in his home city of Zagreb in 1943 when he got a tip-off that the Gestapo was coming for him.
	So he escaped, went to his mother's homeland, Slovakia, and adopted her last name, Kolokovic.
	And he began teaching at a Catholic university in Bratislava.
	He told his students, the good news is the Germans are going to lose this war.
	The bad news is the Soviets are going to be running this country when it's over, and the first thing they're going to do is persecute the Church.
	So we have to be ready.
	So what Father Kolakovich did was organize small groups of dedicated young Catholics who would come together to talk about, very earnestly, what was happening in their society and what they should do about it as faithful Catholics and patriots.
	And they would also, Dennis, learn things like how to withstand an interrogation.
	His group spread all over the country within two years.
	The Catholic bishops chastised him.
	They told him, Father, you're scaring people, you're alarming people, it will never happen here.
	But he understood the Soviet mindset, so he kept doing his work.
	Sure enough, when the Iron Curtain fell over Czechoslovakia, the first thing the Communists did, they came after the Church.
	And because Father Kolakovich had prepared people, the Slovak underground church was one of the strongest in the entire Soviet bloc.
	So I dedicate the book to Father Kolakovich because I believe that we are in a Kolakovich moment now in the West, and Christians, Jews, everyone of good will who can see, can read the signs of the times, need to start organizing now for the resistance.
	So here's a question for you.
	How many Christians would agree with you?
	What percentage?
	Well, I have to say, Dennis, and it depresses me to say it, I think probably only a small number, about 10%, but let me tell you this.
	This book of mine, Live Not By Lies, where I lay all this out, it has been by far my best-selling book.
	I've sold about just shy of 120,000 copies.
	With zero press attention from the mainstream media, with the exception of Tucker Carlson.
	And that tells me that there are a lot of Christians who recognize that something bad is coming, and they want to get ready for it.
	And believe it or not, I've had people like secular left people like Brett Weinstein and his wife Heather Hine.
	They're both secular leftists.
	They read from my book on their radio show because...
	They've been right on the front lines battling wokeness.
	They recognize it as totalitarianism, as I do.
	And they say we have to be allies.
	Barry Weiss, secular, lesbian, Jewish.
	She said the same thing.
	She said, if you had told me two years ago that Roger and I were going to be on the same side of an issue, I wouldn't have believed it.
	But here we are.
	I know them both.
	It's a very important thing you said.
	I just want my listeners to know they could learn the whole Brett Weinstein story.
	In No Safe Spaces, the movie made with Adam Carolla and myself.
	And the largest single segment of the movie is the Brett Weinstein story.
	The professor of biology who would not leave the campus when all whites were told to leave for a day.
	His life had been spent on the liberal left, and he was cursed at.
	And his life was such danger, he could not show up at his campus, lest he be hurt or even killed.
	So he's the definition, and I admire the man tremendously.
	This is not to put him down, but there's an old, dark definition of a conservative, a liberal who was mugged.
	And that is what happened to him.
	And I give him great credit because of his courage.
	So, I agree with you.
	10% sounds like an operative figure of Christians who are awake to the threat of the left.
	Why are 90% not?
	Because it's too frightening for them, Dennis, to be honest.
	People want to believe that the threats they see out there from wokeness, from...
	You know, critical race theory from transgenderism and the rest is a passing fad, and that they don't have to do anything about it.
	Just sit tight and wait, and this too shall pass.
	But it's not going to happen.
	And I was warned when I went to Central Europe, Eastern Europe, to interview for this book people who had been dissidents under communism.
	They told me, you shouldn't expect that most of the Christians in our countries Alright, hold on.
	Remember where we're at here.
	They didn't want to raise their heads.
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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.
	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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	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.
	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.
	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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	music 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...
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	I mean...
	I'm going to continue with Rod Dreher in a moment.
	He's in Hungary.
	There are a number of terrific movies that have been coming out that I bring to your attention.
	This one is The Streets Were My Father.
	For many Americans, Father's Day is a day to celebrate.
	For many others, it's a day to get through.
	Because Father's Day hurts if you don't have a father.
	Fatherlessness drives many bad outcomes in America, as you well know.
	Eighty-five percent of youths in prison come from fatherless homes.
	So I urge you to consider, to order, not consider, order a powerful new film called The Streets Were My Father.
	Now the title makes sense.
	It features the journey of three inner-city Chicago men from fatherlessness to gangs and from life in prison to prison ministry programs that set them on the road to redemption and lives as productive members of society.
	To see it, the streaming version and DVDs go to SalemNow.com.
	Buy a copy or copies for anyone you know who doesn't have a father.
	I think you should do it for anyone you know.
	Who doesn't believe in the power of God to change lives.
	My producer and I were talking about this earlier.
	There is no other solution, and I would say it if I were an atheist.
	There is no other solution to these evils than God.
	And I would say it.
	I'm not saying it because I'm a believer.
	I'm a believer because I know it, so I don't put the cart before the horse.
	Rod Dreher is a major thinker and writer, senior editor of American Conservative, the book that he's just written.
	I am astoundedly happy for you at the sales of your book, given the mainstream media ignoring it, but it doesn't even matter.
	Mainstream media are irrelevant to many of our books.
	My last one.
	They really are, Dennis.
	Go on, go on.
	Can I tell you, I think you'll find us hopeful when you're at a party, a garden party in Budapest with a bunch of conservative writers and intellectuals.
	And I have to excuse myself to tell them I was going to do an interview with Dennis Prager.
	Eyes lit up all around the room.
	They said, we love him.
	We listen to him.
	And what they were telling you, Dennis, is that they listen to you because they know that what happens in America first will ultimately come here to Hungary.
	And they need to know how to be prepared for it.
	I found that really wonderful.
	I wanted to pass that on to you because the work that people like you, people like I do, confronting these things, they make a big difference overseas.
	Well, I'm very touched by your story.
	I look forward to being there.
	By the way, in light of that, are you going to be there when I'm there at the beginning of August?
	Second week of August.
	I might stay to see you.
	I'm planning to go to Italy after my fellowship ends on July 31st, but if I can stay and see you, I'll do it.
	We've never met.
	Well, between me and Italy, I would do Italy.
	Well, you know, I... I have met so many good people here who are fighting the good fight and who need the encouragement that we can give them.
	I spoke in Romania two years ago, and it's exactly what I felt.
	And by the way, I like your reaction.
	I said to them, and it was clear that they had not heard this often, if ever, Western Europe will not save the West.
	Eastern Europe will.
	I said that to them.
	You know, I went on Polish television today and said exactly the same thing.
	I'm serious.
	I've been over here for about six or seven weeks, and they've got lots of problems over here.
	But maybe because they have the cultural memory of communism, they understand what they're facing.
	And they're willing to make this last stand.
	But I was just talking to this young man here.
	He's a defense correspondent for a magazine.
	And he said, oh, you're from America.
	I gotta tell you how much it hurts me to see what's happened to America.
	America's destroying itself.
	We looked to America for help and for hope for so long, and now it's just unbelievable what's happening.
	And I told them, like, look, not all of us are down with this.
	We're mounting a resistance, and we need your help, too.
	And that's what I did with this book, Dennis.
	I wanted the testimonies of people who dealt with communism, who fought communism, and who successfully resisted it.
	To give us advice and to give us hope that we can resist successfully this scourge that has come upon us.
	That's right.
	That's what we have to do.
	On my fireside chat, a weekly podcast, a videocast that I have for PragerU, I had a pastor on last week who stayed open during the lockdowns in California.
	You have to pinch yourself to even say those words.
	Your church couldn't be opened.
	Nobody was being forced to go.
	But your church was not allowed to be open because of a virus?
	And my conclusion is very much, I think, in keeping with yours, and if it's not, please feel free to say so, but if people are not prepared, To resist draconian laws over a virus, they're certainly not going to be prepared to do it if there is a KGB or a Gestapo.
	No, they won't.
	And this is one of the big lessons that I try to tell in my book, that we have got to be prepared to suffer.
	This is the most important lesson I learned from interviewing dissidents, that this new totalitarianism that we're dealing with, it is based on comfort.
	They're not trying, like the KGB, to force us to conform by wielding terror and pain against us.
	Rather, they try to take away our pleasures and our access to consumer comforts and professional success and all that.
	If we are not prepared to suffer for the truth, including the truth of our faith, then we're not going to make it.
	It's as simple as that.
	The way that American religion, Christianity, Judaism, all religions, has been for the past 50 years.
	It's been about bourgeois comfort.
	And that's the sort of thing that is going to get us wiped out.
	If we can't learn how to suffer for our faith, as these dissidents did, then we're done for.
	I happen to agree with you.
	I have been begging people, whatever their religion or no religion, to come out of the closet.
	But what did you say earlier?
	People learned under communism, just as under fascism, to lay low.
	Let it pass.
	That's not the lesson.
	Certainly not the lesson a religious person should draw.
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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 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.
	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.
	Permanent.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	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.
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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.
	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.
	The commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th.
	The commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th.
	I'm sorry.
	The writer, author, thinker, Rod Dreher, D-R-E-H-E-R, best-selling author even prior to this book, senior editor of the American Conservative, Live Not by Lies, a manual for Christian dissidents.
	So the question arises, Why specifically Christian dissidents and not just a manual for dissidents?
	Well, I'm primarily known, I think, as a Christian writer.
	I was writing to my own people, but I've realized now that the book has become so popular among non-Christians who are also dissidents that I probably should have widened my scope.
	But the reason I focus on Christianity...
	Was because I wanted to talk to people who based their dissidence in God, in their faith in God.
	Because whether you were a believer or not, you had to believe in something transcendent.
	You had to believe that there was ultimate meaning in the universe, or the communists were going to crush you.
	And Václav Havel was a non-believer who did believe at least in universal values, and that gave him the power to resist torture and to keep up his dissidence.
	But most of these people I talked to, Dennis, were ordinary believers who believed that by standing in truth and being willing to suffer for the truth, that God was going to bless them in a particular way.
	I talked about this one man in the book, Dr. Sylvester Kirchmeri.
	He died in 1996, I think it was.
	But he was a young physician, a Catholic physician, who was thrown in prison for his faith and for working with the underground church.
	In 1952, during the Stalinist period in Czechoslovakia.
	And he said that when he went into prison, he had to make a resolution there at the beginning that he was never, ever going to feel sorry for himself, that he was going to consecrate all his sufferings to God and to see himself as God's probe and to learn what he could from his suffering there about himself and repenting himself of his own sins.
	And learning how to love and help others who are suffering.
	And that is something so, so powerful.
	This came out of his Christian faith.
	He suffered for 10 years in that prison, and as soon as he got out, he began to spread the good news in his country.
	And I think that, and I know, I don't think I know, because I've talked to these people, that their faith in God and the ultimate goodness of God, and that God would see their sacrifice and reward them for it, maybe not in this life, but at least in the next.
	That's what got them through.
	That's big.
	That's really big.
	I resonate to every word you've said.
	I've put it a number of times.
	You either fear God or fear Twitter.
	That's true.
	I remember talking to this one Polish professor who said that, describing our situation today, he said, mankind is like a kite flying high in the sky.
	As long as we're connected by a strong stream to the earth, we can soar very high.
	You cut the string, and we collapse and fall to the ground.
	That string is our faith in God and our confidence in God's ultimate love for us and ultimate judgment on us, and that all of our acts, our acts of cowardice, our acts of courage, will be judged.
	And this is a time right now.
	We often think about the times of the past when there was...
	The Nazi years, the communist years, where the line between good and evil was very clear.
	We live in a blurrier time now, but this is a time when saints are going to be made.
	There was this one Slovak priest who said that under communism it was easier in one sense, because the light of the Gospels shone through the darkness of communism very clearly, but now the light hits this wokeness and critical social justice, and it just strikes fog.
	That's calling on us to be more deserving and more thoughtful, but it still is a time when all of us are called to moral heroism.
	Yep, you're speaking to a kindred spirit here.
	You're a Catholic, correct?
	No, I'm Eastern Orthodox.
	I'm sorry?
	I'm Eastern Orthodox.
	Oh, you're Eastern Orthodox.
	How interesting.
	I did not know that.
	Yeah, I'm a convert.
	Yeah, I'm a convert, but I've written this book for all people.
	Right, for all Christians.
	Yeah, well, all Christians, and I would welcome Jewish readers, and I've even gotten some emails from Muslim readers who feel oppressed by this militant secularism, and who say they feel like they're a kindred spirit with me.
	Well, I welcome that.
	I didn't expect that, but I welcome it.
	No, no, there's every reason for you to have expected it.
	Look, I'm a Jew, and I'm delighted by your book.
	That's why I said dissidents.
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	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 is 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.
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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 you're doing.
	Rod Dreher, Live Not By Lies.
	Basically, how to prepare for the oncoming what he calls soft totalitarianism.
	I want to make clear to my listeners, and you might want, obviously Rod, you should feel free to react.
	I am asked more than any other single question or have been for the last couple of years at speeches.
	Am I an optimist or a pessimist?
	Or am I optimistic or pessimistic?
	And I think you'll find my response interesting.
	I find both pessimism and optimism useless.
	Pessimism leads to no action, and optimism leads to no action.
	If you're a pessimist, things are going to be lousy.
	Why bother?
	If you're an optimist, things will be great.
	Why bother?
	So both of them offer people excuses not to fight.
	And I never ask if I'm optimistic or pessimistic because the answer is of irrelevance to me.
	I ask, what do I have to do?
	That's the only relevant question.
	Any reactions?
	Yeah, that's extremely wise.
	My answer is slightly different from that.
	If by pessimism you mean do you think things are going to get worse before they get better, then I'm pessimistic.
	I'm hopeful.
	And Christian hope is different from optimism.
	Optimists think things are always going to get better.
	I think that's unrealistic.
	But as a Christian, I believe that even if things get worse, as long as we offer our suffering to God and we suffer for righteousness and for truth and suffer in love, then God will take our sacrifice and use it for the redemption of the world.
	That's the difference between optimism and hope.
	Optimism is very fragile.
	Hope is something very deep, and hope is something that I discovered in talking to these people, some of whom suffered torture in the gulag for their faith and for standing up for the truth.
	One thing I wanted to say, Dennis, before we end the show today is that a lot of people think that resistance is only political.
	And I don't think that even the most important resistance is political.
	We certainly need to be political to defend our liberties as long as we can.
	But the most important resistance, I believe, is cultural.
	I talked to a man here in Budapest who told me that he's strongly anti-communist, but he said in the 30 years since communism fell, Hungarians have lost more of their sense of who they are in terms of their faith and their national culture than they did under communism.
	This happened under capitalist democracy.
	If we're going to fight this fight, we're going to have to remind ourselves and our children Who we are.
	We're going to have to immerse them deeply in the Bible and in the history and the literature and the art of our civilization.
	I asked a woman in Prague, Camilla Benda.
	She was a mother of a large group of children.
	Her husband was sent to prison for fighting the communist government.
	I asked her what she did to prepare her family to resist.
	She said she read to them two hours every night, even when she was trying to raise them alone.
	I said, what did you read?
	She said, I read them myths.
	I read them literature.
	I read them the classics.
	And I read them Tolkien.
	Tolkien?
	Why Tolkien?
	I asked.
	And she said, because we knew that Mordor was real.
	And, man, that is, that's heavy stuff.
	And we have to do this for our children, too, to give them a sense that they are engaged in a great battle right now and that it involves them.
	It's not just something out there.
	It's not just something they can vote away.
	It involves all of our lives, our hearts, our minds, and our souls.
	My son, my older son, when he was about eight, or younger maybe, but anyway, about that age, and he was walking around the house with a broomstick, and he kept the shooting, and I didn't say anything, and then finally I just said, well, David, what are you shooting?
	He said, monsters?
	And he said, Daddy, are monsters real?
	And I remember the speed of my thought.
	And it was essentially this.
	Do I comfort him in the short period and say monsters are not real?
	Or do I tell him the truth?
	Monsters are real.
	And I told him the truth.
	Monsters are real.
	And interestingly, he then stopped shooting them.
	For whatever reason, it actually comforted him that he wasn't making this stuff up and living in a fake world.
	But in any event, monsters are real.
	That's the point you're making about that woman in the raising of her children and Mordor.
	Monsters are real.
	And the fact that we in the West, we Americans, find it so difficult to see as totalitarianism what's happening all around us, it's our fault.
	We're not seeing the monsters that are right in front of us.
	These immigrants who came to our country from the Soviet bloc, and in fact, I've been talking to some people who've come from China.
	Who say that this thing that's emerging in America, it is totalitarian.
	We have got to wake up while we can.
	These people are the canaries in the coal mine.
	And I would say to your listeners, if you know anybody who grew up under communism, sit them down and ask them about what they're seeing now.
	You'll be shocked by what you hear.
	That is exactly right.
	By the way, you'll find this of interest.
	I know Hungary pretty well.
	I'm not an expert, but I know it pretty well.
	I was there twice under communism, and three or four times since that.
	And something you said resonated, and I think I can explain it to a certain degree.
	It seems that the Hungarians were a little happier in the communist period because they developed under Janusz Kader what they called goulash communism.
	Of all the East European countries, the Hungarians had it best, for whatever reason.
	And then with the collapse of communism, they had so figured out how to deal with communism, then they didn't know how to deal with post-communism.
	And a certain depression seemed to have descended on the country.
	I'll get your reaction when we come back.
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	A Manual for Christian Dissidence, Rod Dreher.
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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.
	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 that 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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	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 matters.
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	Rod Dreher, a major Christian thinker, Live Not by Lies is his book.
	He sees clearly the darkness that America is descending into because of the left and wants us to get prepared for...
	This, what he calls soft totalitarianism, which we're already undergoing.
	I have said to my listeners, and I have said this before I ever broadcast, which was 35 years ago, because I studied the left.
	Amazingly, my field of study, I say amazingly because almost nobody studied it, was communist affairs in Colombia.
	That's why I learned Russian, why I spent so much time in communist countries.
	I never thought it would prepare me for America.
	Never.
	Never occurred to me.
	But I did say, therefore, from my earliest speaking, all leftism is totalitarian, not liberals, but leftists.
	There is no non-totalitarian left.
	Are you with me, Rod Dreher?
	Oh, I am, Dennis.
	I was thinking about what you had said earlier about What the Hungarians said to you about wanting to go back to communism, and I understand that because freedom is difficult.
	To be fully human is to be free.
	To be free is really hard.
	We know from the story in Exodus that when the Hebrews were delivered from slavery in Egypt, they got into the desert, and some of them wanted to go back to be slaves because it was easier.
	And I think, though, that we're seeing the version of that play out today.
	And what a Hungarian friend of mine told me, a young woman, she was my translator when I was here two years ago in Hungary doing interviews for Live Not By Lies.
	She told me that she's a young Catholic mom, married five years, one small child.
	She said, I can't talk to my friends about the struggles I have in my marriage or with my child, because as soon as I say I have struggles...
	They say, leave your husband, put your child in daycare, go back to work.
	You've got to live your best life.
	You've got to live your truth.
	She said, I tell them, I am living my truth.
	I'm happy being married.
	I'm happy having a child, but it's difficult.
	Life is hard.
	And I told her, it sounds like you're fighting for your right to be unhappy.
	She said, that's exactly it.
	Where did you get that?
	Well, it comes from Brave New World.
	All the sucks is Brave New World.
	This is how that totalitarianism controls people.
	That's right.
	Well said.
	All right, let's meet in Budapest, and my friends, the book is now self-recommending.
	What a terrific hour.
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