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	I'll see you next time.
	I'll see you next time.
	I'll see you next
	time. I'll see you next time.
	I have been warning you for quite some time that children should not be taking the coronavirus vaccine.
	Now the CDC has come out with a statement to that effect as well.
	I've been vindicated in every single position I have taken from the beginning of the pandemic that the lockdowns were draconian and the greatest mistake ever.
	I wrote to you last week about epidemiologists saying it was the greatest public health mistake made in history, the inefficacy of masks, the efficacy of ivermectin, but it makes The CDC and the FDA know money.
	It was mind-opening to me last week when I read that Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the FDA, is on the board of directors of Pfizer.
	The corruption in medicine is deep, profound, and homicidal.
	It is murderous.
	People should be taking ivermectin.
	Doctors who do not prescribe it, you should leave.
	As one person wrote to me, their doctor of 25 years would not prescribe to them ivermectin saying it was dangerous.
	Either the doctor is a political hack or an ignoramus.
	There's no third possibility.
	And I advised him to say thank you, goodbye.
	I'm sure the man...
	Did a great deal of good in many ways over the course of years.
	People who do bad things do not have a sign on them, Hi, I'm evil.
	This is one of the problems in life.
	Don't you look at pictures of mass murderers?
	Don't you stare at them?
	I do.
	We all do.
	Is there any indication that this person could be so evil?
	You think the eyes?
	I would happily show you Six random photos.
	One of them is a mass murderer.
	I'm now speaking to the technical director of the Dennis Prager Show, Arturo Gonzalez.
	And I'd be very curious if he would be able to identify which one is the murderer.
	I don't think I've had the...
	I really don't think I've had an experience of seeing a face at some...
	Public event, for example, I'm thinking, oh my god, this is a potential mass murderer.
	Anyway, I tell you that I've been right on these issues.
	You'll either believe me or not, and I take that risk.
	It has nothing to do with praising myself.
	I actually don't like when others do it, and I certainly couldn't stand if I did it.
	I do it so that You know, I'm a pretty credible observer of the scene of life.
	That's the reason.
	That's the reason I told you.
	You're asking if anyone's reached out to interview me.
	I am on something almost every day of the week, of the work week.
	On some podcast, some TV show, some radio show.
	I don't mention it on the air, and maybe I should.
	I was on Megyn Kelly.
	She had me on for over an hour recently.
	I don't feel that what I say is not getting out there.
	I just feel that people are so bombarded in the other direction that it's a drop in the ocean.
	The ocean is the mass media.
	The ocean is...
	The universities and the high schools, Loudoun County, Virginia, I really want to look into that, had a parental revolt against the evil people who run the education system there.
	And I don't use that word at all lightly.
	They're not misguided.
	They're evil.
	They want to hurt this country and your children with lies about it.
	And so parents in this liberal county, Loudoun County, Virginia, rebelled.
	You can watch it unless it's been taken down, which is always possible.
	And they called them the police to remove the people who were protesting.
	And the police came and did it.
	Yes?
	So you can burn down chunks of Portland and New York and San Francisco and Chicago.
	And not get arrested.
	But if you protest critical race theory in Loudoun County, you can be.
	So, the question always arises, what can you do?
	You can do what those parents in Loudoun County did.
	You fight back.
	And should you lose a friend because you want to protect your child's innocence, And don't want them referred to in a non-binary way, which is now the fad in public schools and private schools.
	If you lose a friend over that, then what has happened, this is worthy of a few moments.
	people fear totally understandably losing friends so I'd like to share with you an insight that I that I've come to in the course of the last year and a half a year of of a tsunami of insights You really don't know people until they're tested.
	However, not everyone is tested.
	So we are...
	Humans are friendly with people who would fail moral tests, but don't know it because the test has not been administered.
	By the way, you don't know if you'd passed the test.
	That's the point of a test.
	Some are more confident than others, perhaps.
	But this has been a year of the test.
	If you lose a friend because you say America has been...
	Well, I'll give you a great example.
	If you forward my column of this week, if America is systemically racist, why do millions of blacks come here from Africa?
	And why didn't Jews go to Germany in the 1930s?
	Right?
	Jews didn't go to Germany in the 1930s.
	Always remember this parallel because it was systemically anti-Semitic.
	And Jews were suffering much worse in Eastern Europe and Russia than blacks are in Africa.
	But they still wouldn't move to Germany because they knew how terribly Jews were treated.
	Blacks move here.
	From black countries, black societies, black towns, villages, cities, to a white-controlled, largely white-controlled America.
	Because they know how well they'll be treated.
	So if you post my column, just go to DennisPrager.com, it's all over the internet.
	But that might be the easiest.
	Just post it.
	Say, here's something worth reading.
	And you lose a friend over it.
	They de-friend you.
	You are removed from their Facebook page or they're no longer a Twitter follower.
	Then you have learned something very disappointing about this friend.
	But it is worth knowing.
	You can't keep quiet because you will lose friends.
	They're not friends.
	They're friends with a secret.
	And their secret is they're weak.
	They're sheep.
	And they have awful values.
	That's not necessarily micro-values.
	You have every reason to believe if you leave your children with them, they will not be molested.
	They will be treated fine.
	People are complex.
	That is absolutely correct.
	I have said for all of my life, nice people do an immense amount of damage to this world.
	All the nice people in Minnesota who vote for people who do not prosecute criminals, who are for defunding police, thereby increasing the amount of murder.
	We have a president who said it was guns.
	Guns.
	We have a jerk for a president.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	And how is the man responding to her who bears the title of president of the United States?
	What the hell do you do over there?
	First response, if you couldn't hear it.
	I know it's, you know, it's a live TV coverage that was recorded from a distant mic.
	And then he said what?
	You shouldn't be in this business?
	Biden, you shouldn't be in the White House.
	And then second of all, what did he say about geopolitics in Russia?
	I have no confidence in anything.
	Neither do we, as long as you're the president.
	So don't lecture us by telling us what you think Putin does or doesn't want, because this clip, clip four...
	Is patently untrue.
	Play cut.
	I think that the last thing he wants now is a Cold War.
	Based on the fact...
	I mean, let's just add some historic context.
	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment...
	From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
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	Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Let's test Charlie right here.
	I am guessing Clarence Thomas and Alito were the two.
	No?
	Clarence Thomas and Gorsuch.
	It had to be Clarence Thomas.
	No?
	What a surprise.
	How about...
	Amy Coney Barrett?
	No.
	Kavanaugh?
	No.
	Gorsuch?
	Hey!
	And Alito.
	Okay.
	Gorsuch and Alito.
	I got that brutally wrong.
	However, Clarence Thomas really went with a seven majority?
	That surprises me.
	I'm not sure what that...
	Well, I trust him.
	He's very wise.
	With that being said, I don't agree with this decision.
	Because...
	And here's the kicker.
	The New York Times said the private part out loud.
	Striking down the Affordable Care Act would have expanded the ranks of uninsured in the United States by about 21 million people, a nearly 70% increase according to the recent estimates from the Urban Institute.
	That has nothing to do with the constitutionality of the law.
	The potential cost of the law has nothing to do with whether or not the law that was passed is legal.
	Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the greatest Supreme Court justices in American history, said that he even made measures and decisions as a Supreme Court justice that he knew that the outcome would be something he would not be happy with.
	He knew the outcome would be something that he would not think is right, but he made the decision anyway because he was a strict originalist and textualist.
	So the U.S. Supreme Court in some ways looks like it's bended to popular will.
	The new challenge was largely successful in lower courts.
	A federal judge in Texas ruled that the entire law is invalid.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube.
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	We're talking about fighting, and here is One Way with Job Creators Network, The They are suing Major League Baseball.
	God bless these people who have moved the all-star game, crushing thousands of jobs.
	And the harm done to nearby communities includes 8,000 canceled hotel reservations, local county investments of $2 million to host local events, The countless dollars lost by local restaurant owners and retailers.
	And here's the craziest part of the story.
	Colorado, where it's moved to, has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia.
	And Colorado's black population is 9%, while Atlanta's is 51%.
	There are seven and a half times more African-American-owned businesses in Georgia than Colorado.
	And yet they're moving it.
	So these people are fighting.
	They're not asking you for money.
	They might.
	But that's not the point of this.
	This is just to join them.
	Support JCN. SupportJobsCreatorsNetwork.com SupportJCN.com Fights on behalf of small businesses all over the country.
	John in Los Angeles.
	Hello.
	We're having a problem.
	Oh, you're there.
	Okay.
	Dennis, I think your thinking is really simplistic as saying, calling liberals evil.
	I never called the liberal evil in my life.
	I called the left evil.
	I called the left naive.
	The liberals naive.
	The left is evil.
	Liberals are naive.
	Okay.
	Well, why do you think liberals and Republicans are evil?
	Why do I think what?
	Why do you think liberals see Republicans as evil?
	It's a little muffled.
	Did you hear that, Sean?
	Are you speaking into the phone?
	Why do you think liberals see Republicans as evil?
	Why do I think liberals think Republicans are evil?
	For the same reason that at Oxford they think that Israel is evil and Hamas is not.
	They have a broken moral compass.
	No, because they set up policies that have only helped out rich become richer, and that's all that...
	The super-rich in this country are almost all on the left.
	You mean wealthy?
	Yeah, that's what wealthy is.
	Wealthy, super-rich.
	The super-wealthy are almost all supporters of the left, from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos.
	To you name the person.
	I wish the wealthy were on our side.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Listen, I'm glad you called.
	So I've been telling you about the need to step out and the fear.
	This is an important question.
	I took the call because...
	I see somebody differing with me.
	I almost always try to go to that call.
	The issue that you have to grapple with is, like my friend who gave up his doctor, because the doctor thinks ivermectin is dangerous because the doctor thinks ivermectin is dangerous and the vaccine is not.
	The vaccine may not be dangerous, but we don't know.
	But we do know that ivermectin isn't dangerous.
	So his doctor turns out to be a sheep, a cowardly sheep, whose commitment to medical truth is nil.
	And it's a painful thing.
	You're a doctor for 25 years?
	This is the pain that a lot of people have gone through this last year, year and a half, or indeed since Donald Trump was elected.
	Is very real.
	The disappointment in people is very, very palpable.
	I feel for you.
	It has not happened in my life, but I totally feel for you.
	It's very unlikely that my closest friends are going to turn out to believe that America...
	The systemically racist, the greatest lie since the blood libel against the Jews, as I have written very often.
	The country is the last best hope of Earth, just as Abraham Lincoln put it.
	And the left is squashing humanity's last best hope.
	The people who love America's left are the Horrible human beings who run the Islamic Republic of Iran.
	The Chinese Communist Party.
	They love America's left.
	They're doing their work, shattering this country.
	So, it's a very painful thing to step out and find out what is real.
	However, there are so many benefits.
	You know, the young woman that I've been having on the show every week, Julie Hartman, this girl who's going to be a senior at Harvard, she went through this, she described it on the air, it was one of the most touching, powerful interviews of my career, describing what it was like after she came on my show and, as it were, came out of the closet as a conservative.
	She debated whether to do it.
	We postponed, in fact, we postponed her coming on the show by a segment that she called her mom for last-minute thoughts on the issue.
	Then said she had two weeks of hell.
	The attacks on her on Twitter and Facebook, etc.
	Most people never face attacks or public attacks at any rate.
	And when it first happens, it's severe.
	You're not prepared.
	There's no way to prepare.
	I'm inoculated.
	I'm vaccinated against public attacks.
	Apparently in Norway now, I'm actually complimented, in Norway they've singled out PragerU on the left in Norway as a vehicle for Norwegian, Norwegian young people.
	To become conservative.
	But they say it prepares them to become neo-Nazis.
	Is that sick?
	That's sick.
	Neo-Nazis.
	Spent my life fighting the Nazis.
	I'm a committed Jew.
	The Nazis would put me in a death camp in a nanosecond.
	This is how sick the left is.
	That people like me support neo-Nazis.
	They're sick.
	However, not sick psychologically.
	I don't know.
	They're sick morally.
	But if the Norwegian left is citing Norwegian youth as having been influenced by us, I'm very happy.
	You're not prepared for the onslaught.
	I'm devoting this time, this hour, to encouraging you to step out.
	And now, as young Julie testifies, she has never been happier nor breathed better than leaving that closet.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars, because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	As Galileans, we witnessed his first miracle.
	This is the most profound discovery in human history.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	Obama tore 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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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	Scripturally, God gives his people authority.
	That if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think that's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, well, We don't want to fight for America as though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America, and clearly that's not what we're seeing.
	So how do you explain that?
	Well, you know, CNN recently come to our church and said, are you a Christian nationalist?
	They love to throw that terminology around.
	I said, if you mean by that, that I love the nation and I follow Jesus Christ, then absolutely.
	But to them, those are two terms that are irreconcilable.
	They can't understand how can you love God and love the nation.
	My question is, how can you not love God and still not love the nation?
	Because he's a God of nations.
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
	The God of Israel.
	And I mean, the gospel, redemption is for all nations.
	And so I think if you're going to be a believer, you ought to...
	You ought to stand up.
	Because we do have a church issue.
	Judgment doesn't begin at the White House.
	Judgment begins at God's house.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not humbling ourselves and repenting, I believe we're watching this horrible tidal wave of a tyrannical government take over this nation.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	A retired Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney is on the line, Joseph Charney.
	In L.A., as in almost every big city where there is a D.A. on the left, you have the allowing of violent criminals to be released from prison you have the allowing of violent criminals to be released from prison or They don't even enter prison.
	There is a literal assault on civilization on the part of these D.A.s. Joseph Charney, again, is a former L.A. County Deputy District Attorney.
	He has written about this.
	Joseph Charney, I welcome you to my show as I greet you each Saturday at our synagogue. .
	Yes, I appreciate you inviting me.
	Thank you.
	Did you read my recent article?
	Yes, I did.
	In Medium?
	Yes, on the haunting of haunted Gascon.
	Is that the article we're referring to?
	That's one of them.
	You have two pieces up there, yes.
	D.A. George Gascon is haunted by his past while victims suffer.
	Is one of them.
	And county supervisors plan to release thousands of inmates from men's central jail.
	Here I am telling my guest what he wrote.
	That shows you how much he writes, which is to your credit.
	Anyway, yeah, go on.
	I just want to say that these two issues are related.
	We have a perfect storm of assaulting public safety.
	By the Board of Supervisors and, of course, by this elected DA. One doesn't want to put people in jail and the other group wants to release the people who are already in jail.
	And it's really problematic.
	And we have a DA who basically says that this revelation of his about his new ideas, his new ideology, started because he re-evaluated What he did as a police officer decades ago, he says that he realized that he was destroying communities.
	This is his words.
	And the police were oppressors.
	And he was part of that oppression.
	And that ideology has emerged from him and has been translated into basically policies that endanger the public.
	And I think what we should start with is talking about This ideology, everything is based on notions of systemic racism and mass incarceration.
	You hear those terms all the time.
	They're never defined.
	And we have to look at them because they're the basis of all of this that's coming out of this guy and a lot of our politicians.
	One, the notion of systemic racism.
	Where does it reside?
	Does it reside in his office and he should get rid of it?
	Does it reside on the bench?
	Then the judges should be taken off.
	The policemen are systemically racist?
	No.
	But what is the proof of that racism?
	Well, the disparity of inmates who are black.
	That's basically what it is.
	That's what they claim it is.
	The problem is disparity doesn't mean racism.
	We know that because the victims are also disproportionately black.
	And the question is, if they're victims, Victims are disproportionately black.
	Should we seek justice for them?
	Which goes to the issue of mass incarceration.
	What exactly does that mean?
	Do you know what that means, Dennis?
	It means that a lot of blacks shouldn't be in prison who are.
	That is what they're saying.
	Well, so that's part of the systemic racism.
	That's correct.
	Right, and mass incarceration, my first...
	Introduction to that was the rounding up of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.
	And they were put in camp.
	That's mass incarceration.
	Mass incarceration implies too much incarceration.
	And that's a very interesting thing to argue because we have thousands of victims of murder and rape and robbery in which we haven't found the perpetrators.
	Should we not find the perpetrators?
	Because if we do, it's going to increase mass incarceration.
	What is the point where there is no mass incarceration?
	Joseph, forgive me.
	Tell me what would happen if we put up...
	I am doing what the left wants.
	I am now reimagining public information.
	Let us say that we randomly took a thousand people in prison.
	Specifically, 1,000 black inmates, and then described why they were in, and then asked the black community to vote on whether they should be released.
	Get your reaction to that.
	Joseph Chani is a former deputy district attorney.
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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.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV. Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	Scripturally, God gives His people authority that if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think...
	That's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, like, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	As though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America.
	And clearly, that's not what we're seeing.
	So how do you explain that?
	Well, you know, CNN recently come to our church and said, are you a Christian nationalist?
	They love to throw that terminology around.
	I said, if you mean by that, that I love the nation and I follow Jesus Christ, then absolutely.
	But to them, those are two terms that are irreconcilable.
	They can't understand how can you love God and love the nation.
	My question is, how can you not love God and still not love the nation?
	Because he's a God of nations.
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
	The God of Israel.
	And I mean, the gospel, redemption is for all nations.
	And so I think if you're going to be a believer, you ought to...
	Judgment begins at God's house.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not humbling ourselves and repenting, I believe we're watching this horrible tidal wave of a tyrannical government take over this nation.
	We'll see you next time.
	Joseph Charney is a former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney.
	He's written two powerful pieces.
	They're up at DennisPrager.com about what is happening in L.A. County.
	It is, of course, similar in many other counties, many other cities, with left-wing district attorneys whose task in life is to allow bad people to hurt innocent people.
	That is what their lives are dedicated to.
	And they're defended by the Los Angeles Times in L.A. or the New York Times in New York, Chicago Tribune in Chicago.
	We have a rotten elite in this country.
	So, Joseph Charney, I asked you, what would happen if we took a random, for those who say there's mass incarceration, let's take a random sample of a thousand black inmates.
	In prison for violent offenses, or just in prison?
	Since that's the argument that they're in prison because they're black, not because they've done something wrong.
	And let's say we put them up, and I know neither of us can give a definitive answer, I'm imagining something.
	And just went to people of color, as it is now called, as BIPOC, and said, would you like to release this person?
	What do you think would happen?
	Well, they have done surveys on the black community.
	The black community is not represented by the voices, ideological voices of advocates who want to get rid of jails.
	This community that has been assaulted by crime wants more police protection.
	They've always wanted more police protection.
	And the irony is if we didn't give them police protection, then they would have a right to say that's racist, which it would be.
	We would only care about rich white communities.
	But that's not the way it should be, and it's not the way it is.
	The police have to go where the crime is, so to speak, and protect people.
	And this ideological notion that we are abusing people because of their color just is not substantiated by the fact when you go to the jail, they're not killed, I mean, maybe decades ago.
	We had people in jail for smoking marijuana.
	Well, you will not find those people in our jails anymore.
	What you find, we don't have room for them.
	They are not there.
	Things have changed.
	What you have is very violent individuals with long records who have preyed on the community.
	And this man, Gaston, has taken away the tools to protect the community.
	He's basically taken away enhancements, which...
	The voters have determined to be important to protect them, such as increased sentencing for gang involvement, use of guns, and various other kinds of, and priors, for example, where there are serious priors.
	He doesn't want to increase the punishment.
	It's basically substituting Gascon's notion of the way it should be for the people's law.
	Which has been, you know, basically given by the legislature.
	So it's a real problem here.
	He doesn't really care.
	And those of us who live in communities who are not suffering from this kind of crime should project what it would be like.
	I read another article about two young 23-year-old black young people who were murdered four years ago.
	They were pretty much the age of my own kids.
	And they were murdered by black gang members.
	Nobody's marching for these two.
	Nobody cares about them.
	You know, there are decent people who are being injured by Gaston's point of view.
	He has to be recalled because of it.
	So will he be recalled?
	Well, I think there's suddenly, there's been a tremendous outpouring of basically the feeling that I'm expressing.
	The signatures are being gathered.
	The victims are really upset.
	He doesn't even send a deputy DA to basically represent the family of a victim at a parole hearing, a family of someone, you know, basically to stop someone from being paroled, to represent the family.
	He's decided not to.
	He doesn't really care about the victims anymore.
	Right, that's established.
	So I don't understand, and when I say that, I mean it.
	It's not a statement of I disagree.
	I don't understand how he can not be recalled.
	How will people vote to keep him in office?
	Well, the only way that, I'm sorry, the only way that they will not recall him is if people don't understand what's going on here.
	For example, everyone could say, well, you know, We don't have murders in our community.
	Well, let me tell you, he's also stopped the prosecution of misdemeanors, which are, quote, quality of life crimes that people just disparagingly say, even though the whole criminal justice system is to protect our quality of life.
	So you don't arrest trespassers, drunks in public.
	You don't arrest people who steal from the front of your door.
	If it's left, then, you know, you can arrest them, but he doesn't prosecute petty crimes.
	This man, Gascon, Basically supported Prop 47, which has made it a petty theft to steal anything under $950.
	Well, to a minimum wage worker, $950 is not petty.
	Maybe to him he makes over $300,000, but not to a minimum wage worker.
	So the quality of our lives is being undermined.
	And we know now that there's a good possibility of him being recalled because 22 cities have basically said that we have no confidence in him.
	So I'm pretty optimistic that the word will get out.
	All right, one final question, Joseph Charney, as we come to the end of this segment.
	How have former L.A. County DAs and deputy DAs reacted?
	Well, clearly, Steve Cooley has made it very clear what his position is, and he is working with the recall effort.
	I know deputy DAs.
	They are demoralized by this man.
	Are they speaking out like you are?
	Well, I'm not in the office.
	Some of them are.
	Some of them are.
	And they are speaking out.
	Alright, let me just thank you for speaking out.
	Alright, you're an exceptional man.
	I know you personally, as I made clear at the beginning.
	That's not why you're on.
	I know a lot of people personally who are not on.
	He's a fighter, Joseph Charney.
	If Gascon is not recalled, it's a bad day in American history.
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	And how is the man responding to her who bears the title of President of the United States?
	What the hell do you do over there?
	First response, if you couldn't hear it.
	I know it's, you know, it's a live TV coverage that was recorded from a distant mic.
	And then he said, what?
	You shouldn't be in this business.
	Biden, you shouldn't be in the White House.
	And then second of all, what did he say about geopolitics in Russia?
	I have no confidence in anything.
	Neither do we, as long as you're the president.
	So don't lecture us by telling us what you think...
	Putin does or doesn't want, because this clip, clip four, is patently untrue.
	Play cut.
	I think that the last thing he wants now is a Cold War.
	Based on the fact, I mean, let's just add some historic context.
	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment?
	From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
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	Let's test Charlie right here.
	I am guessing Clarence Thomas and Alito were the two.
	No?
	Clarence Thomas and Gorsuch.
	It had to be Clarence Thomas.
	No?
	What a surprise.
	How about...
	Amy Coney Barrett?
	No.
	Kavanaugh?
	No.
	Gorsuch?
	Hey!
	And Alito.
	Okay.
	Gorsuch and Alito.
	I got that brutally wrong.
	However, Clarence Thomas really went with a seven majority?
	That surprises me.
	I'm not sure what that...
	Well, I trust him.
	He's very wise.
	With that being said, I don't agree with this decision.
	Because...
	And here's the kicker.
	The New York Times said the private part out loud.
	Striking down the Affordable Care Act would have expanded the ranks of uninsured in the United States by about 21 million people, a nearly 70% increase according to the recent estimates from the Urban Institute.
	that has nothing to do with the constitutionality.
	Music
	Okay, everybody. everybody.
	David in Chicago.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	In your first segment, you were talking about passing tests of character and that and being disappointed in people.
	And I have to tell you, I'm about your age.
	I'm 70. I've never been a leftist.
	I've been a liberal.
	I've never been a leftist.
	I've been, I suppose, a jury for Nelson Rockefeller and Bob Dole Republican.
	But I've lost a lot of friends agreeing with you and quoting you.
	But I've been disappointed with you very much in the last year, especially, last four years.
	Bearing false witnesses, as it were, both.
	In favor of and against some people, Donald Trump in particular.
	I know that the last time in my mind that you ever spoke the truth about Donald Trump, who's doing the campaign, I guess, in 2015 when you called him a buffoon.
	I don't think he's...
	I don't see how he could possibly pass any more tests that you would agree with.
	So I think you've been being...
	Either disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
	You poo-poo people hating him for his tweets and his demeanor, but the fact is that his demeanor and his tweets show the kind of cruelty that you often say the left is guilty of and the right never is.
	His attitudes towards us.
	People of all sorts with whom he disagrees are not just mean tweets, not just demeanor, but sociopathic.
	I'm old enough to remember the psychiatrist went after Barry Goldwater in the 64 campaign for being off his rocker.
	I never thought he was off his rocker.
	I didn't agree with him particularly at all.
	So what do you think of those psychiatrists?
	What do you think of those psychiatrists?
	You think they should have been allowed to remain practitioners of psychiatry?
	No, I certainly think that that was potentially unethical.
	Alright, exactly.
	Okay, I'll answer you in a nutshell.
	I'm not interested...
	In whether or not a president is personally a wonderful or not wonderful human being.
	I happen to think by the way to disappoint you further that the character of Donald Trump is superior to that of the current president.
	I'll explain.
	Thank you.
	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.
	The last caller.
	The last hour.
	That is the first hour of the show.
	Gentleman from Chicago.
	And disappointed in me for the last four or five years because of my support of Donald Trump.
	A man of such defective character that I must say something about me to have supported him.
	And I ended because I had only ten seconds by noting that I believe That the character of Donald Trump is superior to that of Joe Biden.
	I think Biden is a petty crook who stands for nothing other than attaining power.
	At least Donald Trump did not enrich himself at public expense and his family.
	I mean, there's no comparison.
	How did all these people in his family get to be millionaires when he was only a senator in the U.S., in the U.S. Senate?
	But even that doesn't bother me.
	It speaks about his character, but that is not what I assess.
	I don't assess leaders' characters.
	I assess leaders' achievements.
	Donald Trump was the greatest president in terms of achievement, arguably, since Abraham Lincoln.
	I assess what presidents do for America, not how they lead their personal lives.
	He's not my pastor, he's not my priest, he's not my rabbi, he's not my father, he's not my uncle.
	His task is to make America better and make the world better.
	He did with such a degree of success that it's breathtaking.
	A man confronted evil, unlike Joe Biden who confronts Americans who differ with him.
	White supremacists.
	Joe Biden fights Americans that don't vote his way.
	Donald Trump fought the Iranians.
	Fought the Chinese.
	Fought for America.
	All these people preoccupied with the character of the President.
	Amazing.
	I think it's a childish, truly childish naivete.
	You want a president you can look up to?
	Wow.
	That's great.
	That's just great.
	Did you have a father you could look up to?
	Then you're pretty damn lucky.
	You have a priest, rabbi, or minister you could look up to?
	You're even luckier.
	You had an uncle to look up to?
	I'm just talking about men.
	For men or for women.
	The preoccupation of people like my last caller with Donald Trump is so naive as to be indefensible.
	A man said he's 70 years old.
	In 70 years you have not learned that the character of a political leader is secondary to their achievements or hurt.
	Has anybody attacked Jimmy Carter's character?
	But the man is an idiot.
	The man is a moral idiot.
	He's a buffoon.
	Just what I called Donald Trump.
	That's correct.
	I was opposed to Donald Trump during the primaries.
	I could check my articles.
	The internet has a long memory.
	But I said at the time, if he's nominated, I will vote for him.
	I will support him.
	And then I was stunned at what a great president he turned out to be.
	There's a narcissism in your preoccupation with the character of a leader.
	Let God judge characters.
	I judge accomplishments and failures.
	Well, I will not move my last caller, but maybe it will move some of you.
	The Atlantic, which is largely trash, but I read a lot of trash because I keep up with what those I differ with say.
	I even have a print subscription to The Atlantic.
	So committed am I to reading what the left has to say.
	Periodically they have a non-left article.
	They'll have a liberal article.
	Here's one.
	America Without God by Shadi Hamid.
	I'm going to invite Shadi Hamid onto the show.
	It'll be very interesting to see if he comes.
	He's a contributing writer at The Atlantic, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
	And it's a thoughtful piece, except when he describes the right.
	Listen to this.
	It's fascinating.
	He is entirely right.
	First of all, he writes, and he's not from a Christian background.
	Without Christianity, Americans no longer have a common culture upon which to fall back.
	That pretty much says it all, my friends, and I'm a Jew telling you this.
	The shared experience of Americans.
	Thanks to the Christian majority, which was remarkably tolerant, remarkably respectful, with all its flaws of others.
	We don't have that because the left has destroyed it.
	How often have I said, when Christianity died in Europe, we got fascism, Nazism, and communism.
	What will we get in America when Christianity dies?
	You saw it last year, my friends.
	The mayhem, the rioting, the looting.
	People on NPR. Yep, NPR. A woman wrote a book in defense of looting.
	And they had a respectful interview with her for, I think, an hour.
	The left defends looting because they don't divide between right and wrong.
	They divide between white and black.
	Race, gender, and class, not good and evil, are the divisions that matter.
	To the left.
	If you can't see that, it's because you don't want to see it.
	Or you simply don't like the idea of thinking in moral terms.
	Which most people have not.
	It means that we're all judged.
	People don't like that.
	Looters are thugs.
	Get it?
	They're thugs.
	They're not protesting systemic racism.
	They're thugs.
	Okay?
	Simple as that.
	No leftist could say what I just said.
	Not one.
	The moment they say it, they leave the left.
	So this guy writes, the newly ascended American ideologies having to fill the vacuum where religion once was are divisive.
	They are meant to be divisive.
	On the left, the woke, which he puts in Quotation marks.
	Take religious notions such as original sin, atonement, ritual, and excommunication and repurpose them for secular ends.
	That's correct.
	Adherents of wokeism see themselves as challenging the long dominant narrative that emphasized the exceptionalism of the nation's founding.
	Whereas religion sees the promised land as being above, In God's kingdom, the utopian left sees it as being a head in the realization of a just society here on earth.
	After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, droves of mourners gathered outside the Supreme Court, some kneeling, some holding candles, as though they were at the Western Wall.
	Which is, of course, something I've said my entire life.
	The left is a secular substitution for Judeo-Christian religions.
	So that's the example on the left that this man gives in the Atlantic of division creating in America.
	So I was thinking, well, what is the example on the right?
	See, he's one of these writers.
	Look, he's in the Atlantic.
	Oh, they're both equally to blame for our problems, the left and the right.
	So why is the right equally as bad as the left?
	On the right, adherents of a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism still drape themselves in some of the trappings of organized religion.
	Really?
	Trump-centric ethno-nationalism.
	Well, let's see.
	I was a Trump supporter.
	Ethno-nationalism?
	Well, that rules me out being a Jew.
	I'm the wrong ethnicity.
	I'm not a WASP. So, who is he talking about?
	Trump-centric?
	How about America-centric?
	Some people are Trump-centric.
	The overwhelming majority of us are America-centric and thought he was a better vehicle than any Democrat to helping America, which in fact he was.
	The result is a movement that often looks like a tent revival stripped of Christian witness.
	I'll read more of what this man in the Atlantic...
	It's very interesting to see how a liberal...
	Who knows how bad the left is, paints the right.
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	It feels like every day this week, I've come into this studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden.
	Being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	To answer the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he has in the past essentially acknowledged that there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	But it's not much of a...
	I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was...
	I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
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	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say?
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	They actually, I...
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	Thank you.
	I told you for decades, a congressman named John Conyers, he died several years ago, black congressman from the Detroit area, would propose reparations.
	Every time Congress opened, he introduced a resolution for reparations and got virtually no support.
	People thought it was a joke.
	He did it every two years for the entirety of his career, and he served for decades.
	Barack Obama gets elected, 2008. And as I've mentioned, I'm old school.
	I used to get the LA Times and the New York Times thrown into my house every morning.
	I now get them online.
	I read them so you don't have to.
	And the next morning, I go out in my driveway, pick up the newspapers, And there are these front page colored pictures of these parents, black parents, hugging their kids.
	And they're all crying.
	Tears of joy.
	And both in the LA Times and the New York Times, A very friendly reminder about two
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	That's a very, very tough question asked by my technical director, Arturo, who wants to know, did I like Andrew or Todd more?
	Thank you.
	See, this is what I engage with, ladies and gentlemen.
	You're all tested.
	Life consists of tests.
	My test is my technical director, one of my tests, with what I get in my earphones.
	Who did I like more, Andrew or Todd?
	Do you believe that?
	Actually, it was a tie, but I did prefer Bill.
	Yeah, it's not mentioned.
	It's not mentioned.
	It's like Mr. Snuffleupagus.
	It's an invisible friend.
	They brought Bill with them.
	Okay, well, he enjoyed that.
	I'm reading to you from a piece in The Atlantic, which is actually a thoughtful piece, but it is so interesting to read what a liberal, as opposed to a leftist, says about the left, which was correct, how divisive it is.
	But it has to, of course, be balanced.
	The right is equally divisive.
	So I will repeat what he writes.
	On the right...
	Adherence of a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism.
	They make this up.
	The man has read the New York Times too often.
	This guy Shadi Hamid.
	What is he talking about?
	You believe that 80 million Americans or whatever the number was that voted for Donald Trump are into a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism?
	What the hell is that anyway?
	You think that the average Trump voter did not ache to have non-whites in their movement?
	I tell you, I ache to have this man on the show.
	It'll show he has character.
	Because almost every leftist ever invited never comes on.
	For good reason, from their perspective.
	Because they have no answers to very, very...
	Politely asked questions, like the one of my piece this week.
	If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks moved here in the last three decades?
	Four or five decades.
	Why?
	They have no answer.
	Okay, back.
	So this is his view of the right.
	Ethnocentric, excuse me, ethno-nationalist Trump-centered people.
	Who still drape themselves in some of the trappings of organized religion.
	What does that mean?
	That means some of them are Christian?
	God, Jews like me must drive them crazy.
	You know, a third of the Jews in the United States, it's little, but it's not tiny, voted for Donald Trump.
	I guess they didn't think it was an ethno-nationalist, Trump-centric movement.
	Donald Trump's boisterous rallies were more focused on blood and soil than on the Son of God.
	Whose political rallies since World War II was focused on the Son of God?
	This is what goes for thoughtful writing, and this guy is better than almost anyone at the Atlantic.
	The Atlantic is a rag sheet.
	But it's a sophisticated sounding rag sheet, so they're all impressed with one another.
	This is what they write.
	What kind of line is that?
	Blood and soil?
	Blood and soil is a Nazi...
	It's a Nazi...
	It comes from the Nazis, by the way.
	The German Nazis.
	What blood and soil is he talking about?
	And this is their best.
	This is the best the Atlantic has to give.
	He has actually some thoughtful lines in here.
	A Trump rally was more focused on blood and soil than on the Son of God.
	99% of the readers of this who read the Atlantic thought, wow, that is profound.
	Wow.
	God, I hadn't thought of it that way.
	Trump himself played both savior and martyr, and it is easy to marvel at the hold that a man so imperfect can have on his soldiers.
	So you marvel at it.
	Really?
	Well, I agree with soldiers, because we are fighting a war for the Western world.
	That is correct.
	I acknowledge.
	I am one of those soldiers.
	I agree.
	And we do not ask about the character qualifications of our generals.
	We ask whether we can win the war against those destroying Western civilization.
	That is correct.
	Would I like a man who was even better individually?
	Sure.
	Does it matter to me?
	Very, very minimally, even though character is the most important thing to me in general.
	That is the reason I raised my kids, telling them...
	Almost daily.
	I don't give a damn what college you get into.
	I don't even give a damn if you go to college.
	I only care about your character.
	That is how I raised my boys.
	So I'm pretty character-centered.
	But my boys are not my president.
	Get it?
	I'll give you a baseball analogy.
	How about that?
	A sports analogy.
	I gave medical analogies, in fact.
	Throughout the Trump era.
	You have two surgeons.
	One a man of impeccable character and one of dubious character.
	The one with dubious character is known to be the best surgeon for pancreatic cancer that we have.
	You have pancreatic cancer.
	Would you choose the one with the impeccable character or the one with the great record?
	And operating on pancreatic cancer.
	So those of you who delude yourselves into thinking character is the only criterion, you are deluded.
	You desire to be deluded like my last caller, a sweet man in Chicago who understandably lost a lot of his friends.
	They didn't realize how foolish their dear, dear friend was.
	Still preoccupied with Donald Trump's character rather than the fate of America.
	I care about America, not Trump.
	That's why I supported Trump.
	That is for your show, live from the Relief Factory.
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	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment from the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989?
	Was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the Eastern Seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about...
	Actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here in the nation's capital, when more than 80%, 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline?
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now, through force, through the use of military might, to the Russian Federation.
	Not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it by force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
	Oh, yes, they're just contractors.
	They're private citizens.
	They're, oh, I don't know, on holiday.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day.
	Around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	It feels like every day this week, I've come into the studio with some bleep.
	Hey, everybody.
	I'm reading to you from a piece in The Atlantic, which is left-wing stuff almost always.
	This is an article by a liberal, not a leftist.
	You can tell because he actually has some critique of the left.
	But what I find most interesting is his observations about the right and how he has identical views of the right and Trump supporters as any leftist does.
	The only difference is he also sees the left as profoundly flawed.
	And it's fascinating to read it.
	That, yes, we who supported Donald Trump were into blood-and-soil ethno-nationalism.
	It's amazing.
	He would certainly not be able to account for me and for the vast number of people that, relatively speaking for an individual that I know, Some of the finest, most open human beings.
	As I said for much of my life, if you are black and you feel a little unloved, just go to a Trump rally or go to any conservative or any Republican event.
	You will get more love than you will the rest of the year all put together.
	Blood and soil ethno-nationalists.
	All right, so I have read to you that part.
	There are some more here that is very important, though, actually, in this article.
	The man's name is Hamid.
	I assume he is, I'm not assuming, he is of Middle East extraction.
	Shadi Hamid, H-A-M-I-D. America without God, that is the name of the piece.
	So obviously anything like that I read, especially if it's in the Atlantic.
	And he observes correctly, though the United States wasn't founded as a Christian nation, Christianity was always intertwined with America's self-definition.
	Without it, Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike no longer have a common culture upon which to fall back.
	That's what Christmas served as.
	It's a Jew who wrote, in fact, Jews, I was thinking a Jew who wrote God Bless America, but Jews wrote half of the most popular Christmas songs.
	I mean, statistically, this is not, it's just a fact.
	And even though it was not their religious holiday, it was their national holiday.
	Christmas was a unifying thing for Americans until the left crapped on Christmas.
	And change Christmas party to holiday party.
	And Christmas vacation to holiday vacation.
	And Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays.
	And then, as usual, they deny they did it.
	Just like now, they deny that they ever called for the defunding of police.
	Every leftist lies or they wouldn't be a leftist.
	Liberals lie and tell truth.
	Conservatives lie and tell truth.
	But leftists all lie.
	They lie with the ease with which they speak.
	We make war on Christmas?
	How laughable.
	We call for the defunding of police?
	What, are you out of your minds?
	I read to you that last week.
	That's the new thing.
	We never said defund the police.
	Yeah, that's right.
	We changed everything with the word Christmas into holiday, but hey, there's no war on Christmas.
	And people believe it.
	For better and worse, the United States really is one of a kind.
	And he speaks about America, as I have often, as based on an idea.
	It's the point.
	It's not an ethnic country.
	It's an idea.
	You have the American idea, you are American.
	That's the way it is.
	We don't care about your ethnicity, believe it or not.
	So he gives an example.
	Listen to this.
	This is in support, whether he knew it or not, of us conservatives.
	An American who moves to Germany, lives there for years, and learns the language remains an American.
	If America is a civil religion, which it is, it would make sense that it stays with you unless you renounce it.
	As Jeff Gedman, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, described it to me, quote, You can eat strudel, speak fluent German, adapt to local culture, but many will still say of you, Er hat einen Deutschen Pass.
	He has a German passport.
	That's not the same as being German.
	No one starts calling you German.
	End of quote.
	But if a German moves to America, Doesn't even speak English fluently, but becomes an American?
	We think of the person as American.
	There is no other country where you were thought of as that country, not as a citizen, but as a fellow American.
	We are the last best hope.
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	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade, and Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars, because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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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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	- Scripturally, God gives his people authority.
	- Yeah. - That if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	Most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think that's not biblical, folks.
	We've got it.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but, you know, the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	this they all they almost seem naively to say like well this uh been a long time bumper We might retire it.
	It's been a while.
	You know what you should play for everybody?
	At some point today, Poetry in Motion.
	It's a great 50s song about a guy talking about his girlfriend.
	She is poetry in motion.
	I'm telling you the innocence of 50s music versus the twerking of today is one way of seeing the deterioration of a culture.
	Here it goes.
	Here it goes.
	Now, let me ask you all a question.
	Am I idiosyncratic in finding this exceptionally happy music?
	Right, it's not idiosyncratic.
	It's terrific.
	Nothing I would change.
	She doesn't need improvement.
	I love it.
	All right.
	Just thought I'd share that with you, a little gift.
	I'm going to go Classical music and 50s rock and roll, my two favorite genres.
	Not my only, there's some jazz like Take Five, which I consider Beethoven-esque in its greatness.
	Back to this fascinating piece in The Atlantic by a man named Shadi Hamid.
	Some of it thoughtful and some of it just the usual lines about the right.
	But about America, he has interesting notions.
	An American who moves to Germany, becomes fluent in German, etc., etc., etc., etc., is never really considered a German.
	It's true about any European country.
	But in America, if a German comes here, or for that matter, somebody from Japan or somebody from Dahomey in West Africa, they're American.
	We're unique.
	We really believe you're American.
	That's the point.
	This ethno-nationalism, blood-and-soil nonsense that this guy writes about.
	If he knew the truth about the right, he wouldn't be on the left.
	But it's okay.
	There is some important stuff here.
	No one starts calling you German.
	Many native-born Americans may live abroad for stretches, but few emigrate permanently.
	Immigrants to America tend to become American.
	Immigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American.
	And he has a very touching little anecdote here.
	The last time I came back to the United States after being abroad, the customs officer at Dulles Airport in Virginia, that's the Washington, D.C. big airport, glanced at my passport, looked at me and said, Welcome home.
	Now, the guy, presumably with the name Shadi Hamid, looks Middle Eastern.
	That's my assumption.
	For my customs officer, it went without saying that the United States was my home.
	That's correct.
	It went without saying.
	He wasn't white.
	I'm not saying the officer.
	I have no idea.
	It doesn't matter.
	Hamid wasn't.
	In the light of what we know, a novel by the British Bangladeshi author Zia Haider Rahman, The protagonist, an enigmatic and troubled British citizen named Zafar, is envious of the narrator who is American.
	Quote, If an immigration officer at Heathrow had ever said, Welcome home to me, Zafar says, I would have given my life for England, for my country, there and then.
	I could kill for an England like that.
	That's right.
	They don't say that.
	To a person returning with a British passport, welcome home.
	We do.
	He makes another, oh yeah, yes, okay, there's a picture of that, so Wadi Hamid, yeah, he does not look like a white man, correct.
	But we don't care.
	Because with the least racist, with a truly un-racist country in the world.
	American is an American is an American.
	The left is dividing us by race.
	The left is evil.
	Liberals can't countenance that fact.
	They still have to believe the right is.
	Because they don't want to leave their comfort zone.
	The left is destroying the last best hope of mankind.
	Okay?
	That's what they're doing.
	That's what they want to do.
	They think this country is a cesspool.
	They think the West is a cesspool.
	They're sick.
	They're morally sick.
	Welcome home, American.
	Not welcome home, Swede.
	Think of a black who has a Swedish passport.
	Think that at Stockholm airport, they go, welcome home.
	In fact, he writes here, notice we have the term un-American.
	There's no term un-Swedish.
	In fact, do you remember, I quoted this, the former Swedish Prime Minister said, Swedish values?
	What are Swedish values?
	We're values-based, not ethnocentric-based.
	So, that was some excerpts from that piece.
	And I proceed.
	To your calls here.
	Veer, if that's your name, V-I-R, Beckley, West Virginia.
	Hi.
	Hello there, thanks for taking my call.
	I appreciate it.
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah, I'm a little confused about what you said earlier referring to Trump's character, and I hope you'd be able to clarify it for me.
	Now, to preface this, I personally hate Biden because he is nothing more than a puppet with the DNC forced on the people.
	But you had mentioned that Biden has benefited from his years in politics, and I think everybody would agree that he's benefited greatly.
	But you had stated that Trump has never enriched himself from his position in government.
	Yes, that's correct.
	So stay on with me.
	I won't let you go Trending now on the Mike Delegger Show It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country.
	To the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	To answer the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he has in the past essentially acknowledged that there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	It's not much of a—I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was— I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	To answer the first question?
	I'm laughing too.
	They actually...
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	To bring you up to speed, I had said that Joe Biden has enriched his family, many becoming millionaires, solely because he was a U.S. senator.
	Obviously, it wasn't done through his salary.
	It was done through his connections, and it was done, in many cases, immorally, like his son.
	As I contrasted that to Donald Trump, who came into the presidency quite rich, having made his money in the private sector, not through being a politician.
	Veer, go ahead.
	Yes, sir.
	Right.
	So I summarized where we're at.
	Now you respond.
	Okay.
	What I was trying to get a clarification on, you stated that he hadn't...
	He enriched himself, but it's very clearly documented that for the four years of his administration, he directed the government to utilize his private enterprises and resorts for any fare that he could, and he is copious, or he's motorized for how much golf that he ended up spending over that four-year period of time.
	It's a couple million dollars, and it's not like what Joe Biden has earned over the years, but it was only a four-year period.
	Right.
	Okay, if that's your argument that there is any parallel between the two, I will leave it there.
	The entire Biden family became millionaires while he was a senator, but they did play golf at Trump courses while he was president.
	I'll plead guilty to that charge.
	I thank you for calling.
	And let me see here.
	Frimit, if that's your name, in Philadelphia.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	And last week, I think you made a statement about a black music professor who said that Beethoven was mediocre.
	Correct.
	Because he was white.
	No, no.
	He was...
	No, no.
	He was mediocre because he was mediocre.
	He celebrated because he's white.
	Oh, you said he was mediocre.
	Well, is that a fact or an opinion?
	Well, all of these things.
	I think Beethoven is great.
	That's an opinion.
	So, I think you somewhat misunderstood.
	The professor was saying that the only reason Beethoven is celebrated as great is that he was white.
	The fact is he was mediocre.
	That's what the professor is, a professor of music.
	This is now what is being taught to your children at college, high school, and elementary school.
	Shakespeare was not great.
	They only said he was great because he was white.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you guys.
	I do.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment?
	From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
	I'm talking about...
	Actions by the Soviet Union that led to empty gas stations and gas lines.
	Was there?
	Not once.
	And that was the real Cold War.
	But now, you, Joe Biden, you think, oh no, that lovely, lovely KGB colonel, he doesn't want a new Cold War.
	Then what happened a month ago, here, in the nation's capital, when more than 80% 80% of the gas stations had no gasoline.
	How's that for a real Cold War?
	How's the fact that there is a large part of the sovereign nation of Ukraine, called the Crimea, which belongs, belongs now, through force, through the use of military might, to the Russian Federation?
	Not because of some plebiscite, not because of some civil war, because Russia took it.
	By force.
	How is it that there are still Russian troops across Syria meddling?
	Oh, yes, they're just contractors.
	They're private citizens.
	They're, oh, I don't know, on holiday.
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	That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day.
	Around racial identity politics.
	BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	They actually...
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he is in the past essentially acknowledged that he was there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	But I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was, I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin?
	And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear...
	Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	Man, I'm about to interview.
	I like so much that it's hard for me not to say something in jest.
	And since it's hard for me, I will actually do so.
	I want you to know that Michael Knowles' book just came out literally two days ago, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
	An extremely important book about the left and the use of language and the suppression of language.
	And here is what I want you to know.
	He will sign your Kindle edition.
	Is that correct, Michael?
	I absolutely will, Dennis.
	Only for the listeners of the Dennis Bregler Show will I sign the Kindle edition.
	In fact, the Audible as well.
	This, you know, is my first book with words, Dennis.
	So if you bring me the audible of my previous blank book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, well-known in the John Cage fan community, I'm happy to sign that one as well.
	Is that true?
	The only other book is that national bestseller?
	You know, Dennis, not all of us can be like you and just...
	Churn out book after book.
	I mean, it's like you can write them constantly.
	This actually took quite a long time, I learned, to put actual words in a book, particularly in this case, a book about words.
	That's right.
	Just in case you don't know what he's talking about, his last book was blank.
	And what was the title again?
	The title was Reasons to Vote for Democrats, a Comprehensive Guy.
	And folks, it did very well.
	Michael Knowles, among his many other titles in life, is the host of the book club at PragerU.
	How many episodes are up there?
	We have been doing one a month now for, gosh, I guess it's about 15, 16 months at this point.
	You know, at first we were a little nervous about it around PragerU.
	As we said, you know, we think the audience wants this, but it can be a little bit dry talking about books.
	The education systems are falling apart.
	And we've just been so thrilled with the response.
	I think people out there really do want an education.
	They really do want knowledge to engage in the culture.
	And they're obviously just not getting that in the schools and the universities right now.
	And people should know, it has no political intent.
	It is just to explore the great books that have been written at some point.
	By the way, is that correct?
	You don't do living authors?
	I don't remember the criterion.
	Yes, we do not do living authors.
	We've made a few exceptions for writers who we really, really like, who are, you know, a little bit aged, but I think the rule is you've got to be at least 90. So we've been mostly very, very old authors.
	And as you said, it's not a left or a right thing.
	We're talking about the great works.
	I guess the only way you could say it's right-wing or conservative is by saying that we want to pull the real values out of this work, the real meaning of it, and we're not going to impose a leftist ideology on it.
	By the way, I should add, it's rather relevant that his primary work is with The Daily Wire, which, of course, I am tremendously supportive of, where you have your own show.
	And when is that on?
	So that show is every day, the Michael Ruhl show.
	and we have been really elated that so many people have preordered speech with, a lot in the PragerU community and the Beyond Wire community, because we have left New Salinas' failed state of California, Dennis.
	We want to drag you with us to come to Nashville, Tennessee.
	We're all very happy here.
	I'm just waiting for you to come to the land of freedom.
	It's very tempting, let me tell you.
	It's a whole big issue.
	It's people that keep me in California.
	I have such a large, as you know, community here.
	So, believe me, I get it.
	And the state is deteriorating by the day.
	The book is speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.
	And I think the best is to begin with, because it's a very deep book, although very accessible.
	Michael Knowles, contrary to his first book, does know how to write.
	And the thesis is what?
	The thesis is that the left has...
	Transformed our politics, transformed our whole society, in large part through the manipulation of language.
	Subtle semantic shifts that have transformed our understanding of ourselves and really our understanding of reality.
	The left believes, through the process of political correctness, which is also known as wokeness or cancel culture.
	It goes by lots of different names because they always change the words.
	But through that process, they have attempted to redefine reality.
	By redefining all the words.
	And unfortunately, conservatives have been fighting back against this for at least about 30 years now.
	The phenomenon itself goes back about 100 years.
	But conservatives have been aware of it and fighting back for at least 30 years.
	And unfortunately, no matter how hard we fight back, no matter which strategy we have employed, we have failed.
	And I think that is in large part because political correctness lays a trap for conservatives.
	The real subtle trick, and I fear that a lot of people have not noticed this, because there has not been a popular comprehensive history of political correctness, is that whether you give in to the new standards, and you go along with the new crazy, woke jargon,
	or when you, in a stout sort of way, say, I'm a free speech absolutist, if you refuse to go along with the new standards, but you perhaps give up standards altogether, either way, you advance PC's purpose, which is a A purely negative campaign to destroy the traditional standards of our society.
	Okay, so give a couple of examples.
	Okay, I'll give an example on the issue of, say, marriage, same-sex marriage.
	The marriage debate never really took place.
	We always talk about how we had a big debate over gay marriage.
	We never had a debate over same-sex marriage.
	Obviously, the Supreme Court invented This is your definition of marriage out of whole cloth.
	But even before then, you'll recall, way back in those days, six or seven years ago, the debate over gay marriage was one over who had the right to get married.
	That is the way the left framed it.
	You remember the little equal sign from the human rights campaign.
	You remember all the sort of propaganda that went along with it.
	But the real question of same-sex marriage was, Not a question of rights, who has the right to get married, but rather, what is marriage?
	Everywhere, for all of human history, marriage had been understood to involve sexual difference.
	Men and women, together.
	Then there was this new idea, posited not that long ago, that actually marriage has nothing to do with sexual difference.
	Two people, whether they're of the same sex or different sex, that is what marriage is.
	They never really made an argument for that, because I don't think there's much of an argument to it.
	Rather, they redefined the terms of the debate.
	And I think you're seeing that right now at a much more extreme level with the battle over the pronouns.
	Do we call Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner, she, or do we call him he?
	Well, if we call him she, we're saying that he is a woman.
	If we're calling him he, then we're denying the reality of transgenderism.
	You see it even beyond the sexual questions on immigration.
	An illegal alien is a foreigner who comes into our country outside of the legal process.
	An undocumented American is the new politically correct term, and it describes the same person but with a totally different premise.
	The premise of an undocumented American is that this is truly an American person, probably entitled to all the rights of Americans, who just by happenstance doesn't have the right paperwork.
	But of course, the problem with the immigration issue is not that some people don't have the right documents.
	It's that foreign nationals are entering our country outside of legal mechanisms and contrary to the law.
	But if you can redefine these words, you can actually win the debate before it even begins.
	You know, we talk a lot about censorship now, and that's a big problem in big tech, in corporations, even in parts of the government.
	But there's a subtler, more insidious pre-censorship that goes on when the left manipulates our language and takes whole subjects, whole ideas off of the table for today.
	What is also remarkable to me is the speed.
	So that, for example, black is now capitalized just about everywhere.
	Although I have told my syndicator they are never to capitalize the word black, and they've stopped.
	But it is virtually...
	Outside of the Wall Street Journal, to its credit, Universal.
	Yes.
	You see this happening very quickly.
	It's the way that Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt in A Sunless Arises.
	Someone says, how'd you go bankrupt?
	The character says, gradually, then suddenly.
	And I think that's what's happened with political correctness.
	Political correctness, to my mind, really begins in the 1920s, when people in the Western Marxist tradition, these were cultural thinkers like All right, hold that.
	I love finding out the origins.
	I need to remind you, this is Michael Knowles, and it's a major bestseller, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for Townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade, and Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars, because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
	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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	Scripturally, God gives His people authority that if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think...
	That's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, like, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	As though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America.
	And clearly...
	That's not what we're seeing.
	So how do you explain that?
	Well, you know, CNN recently come to our church and said, are you a Christian nationalist?
	They love to throw that terminology around.
	I said, if you mean by that, that I love the nation and I follow Jesus Christ, then absolutely.
	But to them, those are two terms that are irreconcilable.
	They can't understand how can you love God and love the nation.
	My question is, how can you not love God and still not love the nation?
	Because he's a God of nations.
	The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
	The God of Israel.
	And I mean, the gospel redemption is for...
	And so I think if you're going to be a believer, you ought to love the nation.
	You ought to stand up.
	Because we do have a church issue.
	Judgment doesn't begin at the White House.
	Judgment begins at God's house.
	And because God's house is not in order, because we're not humbling ourselves and repenting, I believe we're watching this horrible tidal wave of a tyrannical government take over this nation.
	music
	music Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here, Michael Knowles of Daily Wire and PragerU.
	Major book, doing very well, I'm happy to see.
	Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.
	I always look at the dedication page, and I was very touched to see two dentists with love.
	I did not expect that, Michael, I just want to say.
	Some editions say Alyssa, but...
	Dennis, the most special editions obviously include you.
	Yes, no, no, no.
	There's no question I understood that.
	I was moved.
	So, we're talking about the roots of this shaping of language, and it goes back to the 1920s, you're saying.
	Go on.
	Yes, it goes back to the 1920s.
	I suppose you could say it goes back even further.
	To Karl Marx, you know, it has become a little cliché to blame all the evils of the world on Karl Marx, but the man is responsible for a great number of them.
	And he did make a point once in a letter to Arnold Ruger.
	He called for the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
	And from this call to ruthlessly criticize every single edifice in this world, you get...
	And academic movements such as critical theory or critical race theory, which is very much in the news right now, you get calls for Marx's ideological heirs to engage in the culture.
	This one Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci, called for radicals to attain cultural hegemony.
	He told them to engage in a war of position, not just a war of maneuver where you advance and retreat, but a war of position.
	Whereby you infiltrate the dominant cultural institutions, and you take power over them, and you use them to subtly transform the culture.
	This was then expanded in the 1930s by theorists, including those at the Frankfurt School, to really, really engage in the culture, really debunk, deconstruct, tear down the society as it exists.
	This really gained steam in the 1960s when the New Left...
	Which was, in many ways, inspired by the Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse, rose up on the campuses.
	This was pushed to another extreme by the second wave feminists of the 1970s and it really burst into the public scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
	That was the first time people really, in a popular way, heard about political correctness.
	But it had been building for a very long time and I think it's very important to take these theorists I think they understand better the Judeo
	-Christian effects in society because they're so opposed to it.
	I think most Jews and Christians don't understand how valuable Judeo-Christian values are, whereas the leftists do.
	Yes, you know, in order to dismantle this wonderful edifice and civilization that we all cherish, the left really had to understand its enemy.
	They had to understand what it was grappling with.
	I think you're totally right, Dennis.
	I think so many of us...
	Take it for granted.
	We've been a little too weak.
	And, you know, even when we speak about free speech, we're speaking in abstractions.
	We're not really engaging with the practical tradition of free speech as it has actually existed in America and in the West.
	And that's really to our own peril.
	I'm reminded of the ex-communist Whitaker Chambers, one of the great conservatives of the 20th century, instrumental in the takedown of Alger Hiss.
	Communists who had infiltrated the State Department.
	Really important figure.
	And in his book Witness, he says that a lot of people believe that communism is the Jewish political ideology.
	But it's not.
	It's actually the second oldest ideology in the world.
	It doesn't go back to Karl Marx.
	It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve, ye shall be as gods.
	And you're seeing the echoes of that today.
	You're seeing the consequences of that today.
	With people who want to redefine not just society, not just our conventions and our institutions.
	Now they want to redefine human nature itself.
	You see this notably in the transgender movement.
	But you see it elsewhere, this demand to redefine reality.
	And unfortunately, they've taken a lot of momentum.
	Wow, I did not know Whitaker Chambers said that.
	That is actually in my Bible commentary.
	That's the battle.
	Wanting to be God.
	That's exactly right.
	That's why the notion of God commanded me to do something is to them like a cross to Dracula.
	The idea that there was a God who commanded me to do something?
	Go to hell.
	Of course, it's this call for a radical liberation.
	And you'll see this theme, you see it certainly throughout Marx's work, and you see it even today in the way that we talk about liberty or free speech.
	The irony of someone like Marx is that he calls for the liberation of the world, and what happens?
	Where his ideology is tried out, it ends up enslaving everybody.
	And I think it's the same thing here in the West.
	You know, today we have this very mistaken understanding of liberty.
	We believe that liberty and licentiousness are the same thing.
	Our founding fathers warned us about that confusion, but we seem to believe that.
	And so, in the modern liberal understanding of liberty...
	The heroin addict is the freest person in the world.
	You know, as long as he's got a couple bucks in his pocket and can get a bag of dope, he's as free as can be.
	Now, of course, we all know that the heroin addict is not free.
	He's actually a slave.
	The free man, someone who learns to make sense of his liberty, someone who perhaps has a liberal education, has trained in virtue, has suppressed so many of his basest desires.
	He's recognized the limits to our appetite will actually free us much more.
	I mean, this gets back to what The book is speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, Michael Knowles.
	So finally, why do you like Tennessee?
	I love, Dennis, the sweet air of freedom.
	I love the rolling hills.
	I love the people here.
	I just miss some of my friends from California, and so I'm trying to drag them back as I plead with you on the radio.
	That's fascinating.
	Thanksgiving.
	It is a difference, isn't it?
	It is a different way of life.
	I will say California has such natural beauty, and obviously, you know, but the place has gone to hell in a handbasket.
	I don't know how else to say it.
	And there was a moral argument we ended up making, too, which is, I felt bad about paying my tax dollars to that hideously corrupt government with those awful policies.
	I actually paid me to do it, not just to lose the money, but to know what that money was going toward.
	Well, I miss you.
	The book is Michael Knowles' Speechless.
	It's up at DennisPrager.com.
	Good luck in everything you do, Michael.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	See you soon, I hope.
	Yep.
	When we come back, I will tell you, by the way, apropos of that, the most recent bill going through Sacramento to destroy this state.
	The Dirk Show.
	Music That government did not come before man.
	Men create government.
	It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
	that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them, them shall seem most likely laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them,
	Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
	And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable.
	And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullors and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteenth?
	Why do they want this so badly?
	Why are they lobbying for it?
	Well, for a very simple reason.
	For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day.
	Around racial identity politics.
	BLM Inc.
	now has a federal holiday.
	You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need To talk about our racial past.
	Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
	Happy to.
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	It feels like every day this week I've come into the studio with some bleak news.
	Did you see President Biden completely shut down while being asked a question by a member of the media this week about Vladimir Putin And then his answer was completely incoherent.
	This is the 46th president of the United States.
	This is the man who's representing the country to the world.
	You have to hear this.
	Cut one.
	Here was President Biden being asked by a reporter, what do you say about Vladimir Putin?
	You've got to hear this.
	This is unbelievable.
	What do you say to Vladimir Putin?
	The answer to the first question?
	I'm laughing, too.
	They actually...
	Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that...
	We're not editing anything here.
	It's actual pause.
	The answer is, I believe he is in the past essentially acknowledged that he was there are certain things that he would do or did do.
	But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly.
	But it's not much of a...
	I don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have.
	The second question was, I'd verify first and then trust.
	Oh, my Lord.
	I mean, honestly, we didn't edit anything.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	We'll be right back.
	I will give you an example of another attempt to destroy whatever is left good in America, and in this case, California.
	This is actually from the LA Times.
	So I'm not even giving you, I'm giving you a left-wing source.
	California could bring radical change to single-family home neighborhoods.
	If you live in a single family home in California, it's likely everyone else in your neighborhood does too.
	That could change under a state measure that would require California cities and counties to permit duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes on much of the residential land now zoned for only single family houses.
	The proposal was recently added to Senate Bill 50. Legislation by Senator Scott Weiner of San Francisco.
	Shocking.
	Democrat of San Francisco, ruining whatever is good.
	That would also allow mid-rise apartment construction near mass transit, as well as small apartment complexes and townhomes in wealthy communities in large counties, including Los Angeles.
	That's fascinating.
	There you go.
	So if your neighbor sells his or her home in an area that is all single-family homes, a developer can come in, pay more than a family would, and develop four homes in that place.
	and they don't even have demands for parking, it's just, it will simply reduce the quality of life.
	There is something in the leftist that, and I don't understand it, I will admit it, it's, if you don't have the urge to destroy what is good, then you don't understand if you don't have the urge to destroy what is good, then you don't understand the urge And that applies to America in general, and specifically in these cases.
	Yes.
	That is the issue here.
	1-8 Prager, 776-877-243-776-ANDY in Los Angeles.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	It's good to talk to you, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	You mention a lot of times about evil.
	I get into possession.
	And the difference between the two is...
	Wait, I'm sorry.
	You said...
	I didn't hear possession?
	Okay, you mention evil a lot of times and what's going on.
	And you say what?
	I say it's more possession.
	You mean like diabolic possession?
	Yes.
	So evil, from my point of view, is the individual or the...
	Institution or something is what they're doing is highly inappropriate.
	I say it's possession in that it's thinking.
	It can jump to both sides.
	It's not human.
	It's outside the person.
	It's intelligence.
	You can tell it in a person that they have emotional highs.
	Well, let me react, and I thank you.
	I want to say something that may actually disappoint some people, but I have to live with that.
	Two years ago, I would have respectfully thanked the caller and moved on.
	In the course of the last year and a half, which has been the source of tremendous amount of revelations to me that I, most of which are, I have come to rethink a number of things.
	One of them is I have not accepted the, I have not believed in the existence of a devil, or a Satan for that matter, to the extent that they're co-equal.
	And I know Christians routinely do, and I totally respect that.
	It's not played a role, a substantial role.
	I'm well aware of Satan and Job, but nevertheless, religion is not only, it's primarily based in the Bible, but it's not only the Bible, even for Protestants and Sola Scriptura.
	But I have to say that I don't dismiss the possibility of dark forces.
	To explain certain things in the world.
	So anyway, just thought I'd share that with you.
	I'm sorry, Mr. Yes, indeed.
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	And how is the man responding to her who bears the title of President of the United States?
	What the hell do you do over there?
	First response, if you couldn't hear it.
	I know it's, you know, it's a live TV coverage that was recorded from a distant mic.
	And then he said what?
	You shouldn't be in this business?
	Biden, you shouldn't be in the White House.
	And then second of all, what did he say about geopolitics in Russia?
	I have no confidence in anything.
	Neither do we, as long as you're the president.
	So don't lecture us by telling us what you think Putin does or doesn't want, because this clip, clip four...
	Is patently untrue.
	Play cut.
	I think that the last thing he wants now is a Cold War.
	Based on the fact...
	I mean, let's just add some historic context.
	For the whole of the Cold War, was there ever a moment...
	From the Berlin blockade of 1948 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, was there one moment in that ideological standoff where 43% of the eastern seaboard's gas supply was shut down by Russians?
	Just once!
	I'm not talking about OPEC and Carter and price rising and gouging and a cartel activity out of the Middle East.
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	Let's test Charlie right here.
	I am guessing Clarence Thomas and Alito were the two.
	No?
	Clarence Thomas and Gorsuch.
	It had to be Clarence Thomas.
	No?
	What a surprise.
	How about...
	Amy Coney Barrett?
	No.
	Kavanaugh?
	No.
	Gorsuch?
	Hey!
	And Alito.
	Okay.
	Gorsuch and Alito.
	I got that brutally wrong.
	However, Clarence Thomas really went with a seven majority?
	That surprises me.
	I'm not sure what that...
	Well, I trust him.
	He's very wise.
	With that being said, I don't agree with this decision.
	Because...
	And here's the kicker.
	The New York Times said the private part out loud.
	striking down the Affordable Care Act would have expanded the ranks of uninsured in the United States by about 21 million people, a nearly 70% increase according to the recent estimates from the Urban Institute.
	Welcome to the United States of America.
	Hey everybody, I want to remind you that I am planning to be with you in Israel in October.
	There is a banner at my website, the trip that we are taking.
	Every other year we take this trip.
	Hundreds of you come and it is life-changing.
	You meet terrific people and God knows this is a time where you need to be with wonderful people.
	So there is a banner up at DennisPrager.com Stand with Israel.
	And I will be going.
	And I hope to see you there.
	Mike Gallagher will be joining me as usual.
	He's terrific.
	That was a major exhale.
	With regard to the world.
	What does animate people to want to destroy the good?
	I... I have been preoccupied with that question.
	I knew a Holocaust survivor named Leon Radzik.
	May he rest in peace.
	Met him in Savannah, Georgia many, many years ago when I was a young man and went to give a speech there to the Jewish community.
	He was a cantor there.
	We took to one another, and he had lost his entire family, so I was sort of family, adopted family as it were.
	And he was, I think he, though he would not have put it that way, I think he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
	How could you not, when virtually every single member of your family, siblings, parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, Grandparents were murdered.
	When one member of your family is murdered, it's a trauma.
	Can't imagine.
	It's not imaginable.
	And I lost the cassette, unfortunately.
	Really, it's a deep regret in my life.
	I interviewed him once, not on the air, just privately, about what he went through in a Nazi camp.
	I won't describe things that he saw.
	But I asked him, how did he explain the Nazi sadists who worked at the camps?
	And he gave me an answer that really not only shook me up, but actually provided some clarity.
	He said they were monsters in human form.
	I found that description very powerful.
	I think about it a lot when I think about people who torture other people for the kicks or for whatever reason.
	And others, obviously.
	Monsters in human form.
	In other words, they look human, but they're really monsters.
	So I've always tried to figure out, how do I explain people who do evil?
	And I'm not comparing the left to the Nazi guards and camps.
	But they do evil.
	They're destroying the West.
	They want to.
	They don't hide it.
	And everything that's good in it.
	Again, they're not people torturing people in camps.
	I think that the possibility of torturous camps exists if you tear down civilization, but that's a separate issue.
	And my explanation has been a deep, deep boredom of the soul.
	As I have told you on many occasions, the secular world produces substitute Religions, secular religions, because the hole that is left, the Grand Canyon-esque sized hole left with the death of Judeo-Christian religions, specifically Christianity in the West, the hole needs to be filled.
	Religion fills the deepest yearning in the human being for meaning.
	The death of Christianity does not negate the yearning.
	The yearning remains.
	Christianity doesn't fill it.
	Because it's been killed in the West.
	So, that's one of the reasons that explains how do you look at America, which has been so, compared to other countries, such a beacon of liberty and opportunity.
	For people of every single race, every single ethnicity, religious background.
	How do you want to destroy that?
	And I still don't have a fully rational response, or even fully non-rational.
	But it is a fair question.
	How do you look at Israel and Hamas and think Hamas is the good guys?
	There's something wrong with you.
	I mean, deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply wrong.
	And yet, that is the norm at our universities.
	I was just reading an article just today in Holland.
	Jewish parents are reporting that their kids are asking their parents to convert them to Catholicism.
	Because they experienced so much Jew hatred at school during the Hamas-Israel War.
	That's purely and totally a product of the left.
	And yet Jews vote for the left.
	It's really...
	The only thing comparable to the self-destruction involved in Jews voting left is blacks voting left.
	Another form of self-destruction.
	Yes, we will continue to vote for those who ruin our cities.
	The President of the United States is a Democrat, and thereby, definitionally, unfortunately, a fool, and sees the tremendous rise in murder, mostly of blacks, by blacks, and attributes it to guns.
	Are there more guns today than there were two years ago?
	Or there are fewer police.
	This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
	Sometime next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether to continue to find the right to abortion in the Constitution or give up on its deeply misguided half-century-long effort to do so.
	The court will have before it the case of Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization and the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.
	The court will also be deciding on whether or not to uphold a poor decision made at the intellectual low ebb of its post-war era.
	The court made law at Roe v.
	Wade.
	And Justice Blackmun's opinion was simply awful in its reasoning.
	In fact, I would argue the 1973 was the point of origin of the culture wars.
	Because in Roe, the court seized territory reserved for the state legislatures.
	Will the court let us have peace at the cost of admitting that its ambition to rule was the real spark for the fire's long burning?
	Wisdom and the express language of the Constitution counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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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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	Scripturally, God gives his people authority.
	That if you are operating in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit, you have authority.
	But most people think like, well, that's presumptuous.
	I don't have any authority.
	I'm just going to hide back here.
	And I think that's not biblical, folks.
	We're supposed to act.
	We're called the boldness, not belligerence.
	I don't have to be a jerk for Jesus, but the world says, oh, you're just arrogant.
	No, don't mistake arrogance for passion.
	I'm passionate about standing up and fighting for the Bible, and in this case, the Constitution, because we do have a republic to save.
	There's no doubt about that.
	There are a lot of people in the evangelical world that they don't understand this.
	They almost seem naively to say, like, well, we don't want to fight for America.
	As though that's a dirty thing.
	In other words, they act as though it's about building up the kingdom of America.
	And clearly, that's not what we're saying.
	So how do you explain that?
	Yes, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prigger here.
	basically.
	Bakersfield, California, and Ron.
	Before I go to Ron in Bakersfield, my wife and I stayed overnight in Bakersfield this past weekend, driving back from Utah to L.A. And I want to give a shout-out because I tell of good and bad experiences with private enterprise, and good is important to be heard.
	We stayed at the Holiday Inn there.
	On two grounds, I found it very impressive, the people there.
	First, the young guy who checked me in, 19 years old.
	I think his name was Trey.
	And I was very, very taken with him.
	And I left my tablet in the room.
	And it's the first time I'd ever left something in a hotel room where they called me and I didn't have to call at specific hours to get housekeeping who never answer the phone.
	And you almost never end up with the lost item.
	They called me that day and I got it two days later.
	Anyway, good memories from...
	Sorry, yeah, we're at KNZR. Yeah, exactly.
	Ron in Bakersfield, go ahead.
	Yeah, Dennis, or Dr. Breger, thank you for taking my call, and it's a pleasure to talk to you.
	I just, you know, I've got the utmost respect for you, and I just wanted to clarify when you were asked or talking about the devil and Satan, because I feel that we are living in a spiritual because I feel that we are living in a spiritual warfare, and there is a devil.
	And I just wanted you to clarify what you mean about you don't believe.
	Well, listen, you know, I thank you for calling, and I was saying, in fact, somewhat the opposite.
	I was saying that for the first time in my life, I entertain not so much the reality.
	I'm agnostic on the question of the devil.
	But it doesn't matter.
	What matters is I now deeply understand why people would believe in it.
	There does seem to be something diabolic in the desire to destroy what is good.
	This is not an issue, my friends.
	The left-right issue is not about different means to the same ends.
	It is about different ends.
	We don't have different ways of saving the West.
	One wants to destroy the West, and one wants to sustain it.
	That's what you must understand.
	How do you explain a desire to destroy the best that has been made?

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