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June 28, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Hello, everybody.
	Welcome to the Monday Show.
	I hope you had a good weekend.
	I always have a good weekend.
	I'm very lucky about that.
	Lucky about a lot of things.
	And so are you, by the way.
	It's a better way to go through life than thinking you're unlucky about a lot of things.
	That's why things like what happened in Florida happened to remind you about how lucky you are.
	151 unaccounted for, is that correct?
	Something like that?
	151 and 9 already known to be dead.
	So, one can hope, but the chances are very small that those people are still living.
	It was a particularly heartbreaking story out of Miami.
	Where friends and relatives of a young couple that were in the building and unaccounted for stood outside the building yelling, I guess friends of hers, yelling her name.
	So that should she be alive, they would hear people are there for her.
	That got me, I've got to say.
	So, it's tough to know what there is to be learned from these things.
	The desire to assume that we can know A and B, that somebody's at fault, and there may well be, but there are things that happen.
	So, that's a good reminder about how lucky...
	The chances are, you are.
	So, welcome to the show, where obviously we talk about everything in life.
	So, as there's no one dominant news story, I'd like to bring to you something from NBC, the Today Show website.
	I have no idea why I went to it.
	I have not been to the Today website in my life.
	I didn't know that today had a website.
	Have you seen this?
	Did you send this to me?
	Child-free adults are just as happy as parents, study finds.
	This is part of the movement in popular culture, if today represents popular, but actually not today, it was the study.
	Study finds.
	Study finds is the modern human being's equivalent to thus saith the Lord.
	Experts say, study finds, thus saith the Lord.
	In that order, one might add.
	Thus saith the Lord is way down under study show or study finds.
	Laura Lavoie knew all of her life she didn't want to have children.
	Now 46, she never felt that draw, she said, part of a growing U.S. population opting out of parenthood.
	A new study finds child-free people are as happy as parents are, with the authors surprised by just how many men and women indicated they didn't want to have kids.
	It's part of a larger trend of Americans having fewer children in general.
	The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low.
	Or record low last year.
	And there could be 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births in 2021, according to some estimates.
	For Lavoie, there were many reasons to choose to be child-free.
	The most important is that I just don't want to raise children.
	It's just not something that has ever appealed to me.
	I don't want to be responsible for another human being in that way.
	You know what I love about this whole thing, and I will continue, is this couple's lack of self-consciousness.
	They speak of narcissism as a beautiful thing.
	There's no attempt to put it in moral terms.
	It just, you know, that's just not the sort of thing for me.
	I don't want to be responsible for another human being in that way.
	Lavoie, a writer who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, told Today, But I also really like traveling.
	I like adventure.
	Never sitting in the same spot for very long and just kind of lifestyle things that don't really fit with having a child.
	Her husband feels the same way, she said.
	They've been together 26 years and both agreed they didn't want to have children.
	They've discussed it over the years, but knew the answer would always be the same, she noted.
	This triggered in me the subject of my weekly column this week.
	Do you know what this goes under?
	This goes under the heading of Be Safe.
	That's how I see it.
	The safe choice is not to have children.
	In fact, the safe choice is not to get married.
	The safe choice is to take few risks in life, live as much as possible for the moment, and that is what has become the dominant ethos of our time.
	Another example, please put it under the heading of consequences of secularism.
	Religious people have more kids.
	Everybody knows that.
	You don't even need a study for that.
	Every one of you knows that.
	You meet somebody with four or five children, let alone more, you have every reason to assume they are either a Mormon or LDS, as they prefer.
	An Orthodox Jew, a religious Catholic, or an evangelical Christian.
	Right?
	How many secular people do you know who have five or more children?
	The odds are zero.
	Certainly true for me.
	They exist, but they are so rare as to be unknown to the vast majority of us.
	So this is just another example of...
	The consequences of secularism.
	You know we are living in the age of the irrational.
	Never in American history has the irrational been so dominant as today.
	And that too is a consequence, ironically, for those who believe that secularism ushered in the age of reason of, in fact, of secularism.
	In other words, There's far more rational thinking among religious Americans than among irreligious Americans.
	I'm not talking about religious beliefs.
	Religious beliefs are not all fully in the realm of reason.
	That's true.
	That's why they're called faith.
	But when you apply it to society, there's no comparison that you will get far more rational responses to life More religious people than non-religious people.
	Why have children?
	Why is this couple wrong?
	They want to travel more.
	They want to dine out more.
	They don't want to have to take care of somebody all the time.
	Right?
	Why have a child?
	You have a secular answer?
	Well, there actually are a couple of secular answers.
	That would apply whether you're religious or secular.
	How about this to begin with?
	The purpose of life is not to avoid difficulty.
	The purpose of life is not to play it safe.
	The purpose of life is not to have as much fun at any given moment as possible, since fun and happiness are not the same thing.
	There are tremendous risks in having children, especially if you send them to an American school.
	They may end up an a-hole.
	That's just the way it is, unfortunately.
	There are actually more risks in having a child today than at any time in American history.
	Except the risks in the past were that they wouldn't live past childhood.
	That's true.
	Today, it's that they won't be a decent human being or think clearly because they went to school.
	It's a different risk today than in Abraham Lincoln's time.
	You want to grow up?
	That's the argument for marriage.
	I'd like to grow up.
	There is no human being that I know of, and probably that you don't know, who does not believe that they matured as a result of marriage, even if the marriage was awful.
	Same thing holds for having a child.
	Also, isn't it the arrogance of these people who write this study?
	How do you measure happiness?
	What do you do?
	You ask people who decided to have no children, are you happy?
	And you ask people who have children, are you happy?
	And then you make the comparison?
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	If you look at the record of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we've seen in just five short months, we've seen a border crisis.
	We've seen gas lines.
	We are seeing a burgeoning inflation crisis.
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	And the amazing thing is as bad as the domestic and economic policy is, I think there's a good argument that the foreign policy has been even worse, that in five months we have not seen a litany of foreign policy failures in such a short period of time since Jimmy Carter was president.
	And the reason for the foreign policy failures is the same reason Jimmy Carter had his foreign policy failures.
	The premises that Biden and Harris are operating under are exactly wrong.
	What they've managed to do in five months is alienate our friends and allies and appease and show weakness and offer to send money to our enemies.
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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 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.
	We'll be right back.
	Hi, everybody.
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I want to remind you that we are going to Israel, and the trip is scheduled for October.
	And grab these experiences while you can, because as you saw the last year and a half, one never knows what will take place.
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	This is what they're telling everybody.
	You want to be happy?
	Be at least as happy if you choose not to have children as if you do have children.
	By the way, the interesting thing, among many other things, about this article and the studies from today, the NBC website, is that's the criterion for making choices.
	Not is it good, not will you grow, not do you owe it to society.
	I know this sounds amazing, but one reason to have children and to get married is for the sake of society.
	I was single until I was 32, and I got married at 32 in part, in large measure actually, because I was raised in a tradition, in my case Judaism, which placed so much emphasis on getting married.
	You were not considered a complete person if you didn't.
	Now, if you couldn't, for whatever reason, there are reasons why a small percentage of people cannot get married, cannot find someone.
	Obviously, that is understood.
	But the vast majority of people...
	Would held that it was your responsibility to do so.
	And I bought that.
	That it was a better way of life to get married.
	I got divorced, and I'm still happy I got married.
	One has nothing to do with the other.
	It's like saying, I'm happy that I got a driver's license even though I was in a car crash.
	That's part of it.
	Oh, you know, well, you know, my parents got divorced.
	This is the safety issue.
	Everything is safe.
	This last year was eye-opening as to the religion of safetyism.
	Be safe.
	When did Americans say that to other Americans?
	Be safe.
	I'm not sure the astronauts who went to the moon were told, be safe.
	Be safe.
	As opposed to what?
	Be safe.
	This is a new thing.
	People just said, be safe.
	I'm proud to say I said to nobody once, be safe.
	I tell people, be well.
	I wish them health.
	But I don't wish them, be safe.
	It's a different America that says to people, be safe.
	Go into airports and people still have to wear masks.
	The whole thing is a bad joke.
	That's an example of the irrational dominant in our society and more religious people being rational on the issue than secular people.
	Yes, there is no sense of what do I owe others.
	We have raised, and I saw this in my generation.
	This is two generations old already.
	I equated the whole...
	Ethos with narcissism.
	Why would I get married and especially why would I have children?
	You can't eat out as often.
	You have to take care of another creature.
	Oh my God, think about it.
	Why would I want to do that?
	So the combination of play it safe and no desire to grow No, even the couple quoted here, they didn't talk about growing.
	They talked about not having to take care of somebody.
	They talked about having more adventures of travel.
	I don't know, somehow or other I got to 130 countries with children, and I don't mean having children.
	I didn't take my children to 130 countries, took them to some.
	Yeah.
	The data are remarkable.
	Over a quarter of adults, 27%, identified as child-free in the new study.
	Conducted by psychologists at Michigan State University and published last week in the journal PLOS1. The number dramatically exceeds previous estimates of 2% to 9%.
	Wow.
	27% as opposed to 2 to 9. More than a third of child-free people, 35%, were in a partnered relationship, suggesting couples who don't want children represent an important type of family, they added.
	The type of family.
	Isn't that an interesting question?
	Is that a type of family?
	Do me a favor, look up family.
	In the dictionary.
	Curious.
	Does it imply children?
	A group of one or more parents and their children living together.
	They'll change that.
	There's no question they're going to change that.
	By the way, if you want the most subversive book in the English language, do you know what I'm referring to?
	What do you think the most subversive book?
	An old dictionary.
	That is exactly right.
	Yeah, see the definition for husband or wife or man or woman for that matter.
	Family, that's right.
	This is an important type of family.
	The findings are based on a representative sample of 981 Michigan adults, but the researchers anticipate they see similar patterns in other parts of the U.S. Said lead author Jennifer Watley-Neal, an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University.
	Besides parental status, the participants were asked about their life satisfaction, political ideology, personality traits, and warmth toward child-free women and men.
	The study was careful to distinguish child-free people, those who voluntarily choose not to have children, from other types of non-parents, such as not-yet-parents, who plan to have children and childless people who would have liked to have kids, but couldn't because of infertility or other circumstances.
	That's excellent.
	Good, I'm glad they did that.
	It shows you how common that is now, choosing not to have children.
	It turned out child-free people were as satisfied with life as the others.
	There were no differences in personality traits between the various groups, but child-free adults were significantly more liberal than parents.
	Now why might that be?
	You know my theory, right?
	You'll always find the greatest thought four paragraphs from the end.
	This is about four to six paragraphs from the end.
	This is done by liberal professors.
	Child-free adults were significantly more liberal than parents were.
	In other words, people choosing not to have children were more likely on the left than on the right.
	Another innovation of the left.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show. - That Americans are recognizing that we cannot sit back We can't say we're comfortable in the four walls of our church.
	We have to be active participants in civil society.
	And this whole myth of separation of church and state, by the way, is something that Christians should absolutely not.
	Be lied to about and they should not perpetuate that myth.
	Thomas Jefferson only meant that the authorities that are established are different.
	They're separate.
	That doesn't mean, just like, you know, the family authority is very different from civil government authority.
	That's all that he meant by that.
	It doesn't mean that Christians can abdicate our role and responsibility to be moral arbiters of truth within the context of civil society.
	Because what our founders recognized is that the greatest system of government would be...
	Dedicated on the truth of the eternal immutable Word of God, which is that truth is self-evident, and that the mandate for the Constitution is that we can only have a government according to the truth of the Word of God, and that's why we are a Christian nation.
	And you write about this in your book.
	I don't remember the title.
	Tell my audience.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	In other words, you don't just say, hey, this is what the Word of God says, because there are people in America who say, I don't care what the Word of God says.
	I'm not a Christian.
	The Constitution and our laws and our system of government are, you say, inextricably intertwined with morality.
	There's no such thing as somehow separating church and state on that level.
	America being a Christian nation based solely on our founding documents and our Constitution itself.
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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.
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	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.
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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Ileana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really.
	Hi there, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	And we should put this piece up at DennisPrager.com.
	It is worth your seeing, the study from Michigan State University, how happy people who choose, again, choose, not people who life has made it not possible for them to have children, but people who choose not to have children.
	After all, they get to go out more and travel more.
	This is their words.
	They don't have to take care of another human being.
	I think a particularly excellent insight, I will let him get the credit, is Philip in Los Angeles.
	Hello, Philip.
	Hello, sir.
	How are you?
	Well.
	Good.
	It is a pleasure and an honor.
	Thank you.
	I was thinking about this as you were speaking, This really results of a generation making children the center of the universe.
	You got it.
	One minute, one minute.
	What do we send out to a great insight?
	You want a cigar?
	Absolutely.
	Oh, too bad.
	I thought you'd say no.
	I blew that one.
	Okay, go ahead.
	No, it's a brilliant insight.
	They were coddled and made the center of the universe, and now they don't want children.
	Yes.
	I'm 52, and I have to tell you, God rest his soul, my father didn't spend one day of his 82 years wondering whether I liked him or not.
	He wondered not whether I respected or loved him, but he never needed to be liked by me.
	And I think a big mistake a lot of parents have made is they want to be liked by their kids.
	So they make him a center of the universe, and here you go.
	Now they're adults, and they're still children in many ways.
	Wow, you're good.
	It makes sense you had such a father.
	That was the case of my father.
	I don't think he spent a minute of his life wondering, did I love him?
	Or working toward that end.
	How do I raise a mensch?
	That's all he cared about.
	How do I raise a decent adult?
	That's what animated him.
	That's why I'm not a fan of the unconditional love.
	It's all part of the same thing, by the way.
	I know a lot of you don't agree with me on it.
	That's fine.
	I have no problem with that.
	I don't seek to be loved either.
	Yes, even if you turn out to be a twit, I love you.
	I didn't get that message, to be honest.
	I didn't.
	And so, that's probably one of the reasons I didn't turn out to be a twit.
	And anyway, I find zero biblical basis for it, but I've covered that issue in print, and I've covered it on the air.
	Let me go into it now.
	I don't want a God who loves everybody no matter how bad they act.
	I don't even want to believe in such a God.
	That's how opposed I am to that doctrine, which has no biblical basis to begin with.
	By the way, I have proof that it has no biblical basis because Google has a fascinating chart where it charts the usage of terms and words over the course of the last 200 years in print.
	It's an incredible thing that they've done.
	One of the good things that Google has done doesn't undo all the bad, but nevertheless it is good.
	And if you look at the graph for the words unconditional love, you will find that prior to the mid-20th century, it wasn't used at all.
	They couldn't even find it.
	It's a new secular term that religious people adopted.
	And it is a good example of the secular influencing the religious far more than the religious influencing the secular.
	But certainly this has been the message of parents.
	Oh, yes, you could turn out to be despicable, but I love you.
	There you go.
	And the coddling of kids, and now this narcissistic generation.
	But the giveaway in this article, I forgot it until I read it to you now.
	And this is by liberal professors, Michigan State University.
	The child-free adults were, quote, significantly more liberal than parents.
	You know, so there are two reasons.
	The more liberal you are, the less likely you are going to leave your narcissism and have children.
	And the more you have children, the less narcissistic you are, and therefore conservative.
	That's what it is.
	So how do they answer it?
	Ah, I'll fight global warming.
	I won't have children, but I'll show how altruistic and wonderful I am by fighting racism and global warming.
	That's what that's all about.
	All right, everybody.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Jenna...
	And I apologize, but the conversation has become substantive.
	Let's just go back.
	What is the moral?
	That's the title of your book.
	It is really vital that people understand this.
	Can you make that case in short order?
	Yeah, so our Declaration of Independence gives us the worldview statement that our founders unanimously recognize that when governments are abridging and infringing upon our rights that are God-given, then we appeal to the highest source of moral law, which is God himself.
	He is the personification of truth.
	And they said unanimously in the Declaration that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
	They're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
	Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	They went on to say that governments are instituted among men only to protect and preserve those rights.
	And so they then gave the mandate to the Constitutional Convention.
	With Articles of Confederation, we're not working.
	The Constitutional Convention derived how can we best implement a system of government whose mandate is to protect and preserve our rights that are God-given.
	Because our rights do not They do not come from government.
	They come from God.
	It's the government's job to protect and preserve those rights.
	That's why we have the First Amendment.
	And all of our Bill of Rights is actually a Bill of Protections.
	Congress, in case you weren't clear that you have a limited role, these are the things and the rights that are God-given that governments most frequently infringe on.
	So, like, what we're doing right now, our First Amendment speaking together about truth, that's freedom of speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, those are not given by the government.
	obligated by the Constitution that our government protects those rights.
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	Fiance?
	No, I can't be your fiance.
	You're going to go.
	You're going to be my fiance, and you're going to be the most amazing, fascinating, most successful man ever.
	We're only going to be there for a few hours, eat dinner, and I promise we'll have the best breakup of all time.
	My baby, my princess. - Yes, oh!
	Booyah!
	I'll pee a little bit.
	The Wall Street Journal editorial.
	Politicians in Washington renege on their bipartisan promises all the time.
	But what are they to make of a deal in which one side admits it's pulling a bait-and-switch I wanted to stay as healthy and
	as young as I could, even though the years kept creeping up.
	You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show.
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	Anyway, can you name a more important question for society than whether its citizens decide to have children or not?
	If the society doesn't reproduce, is it not committing suicide?
	That's what I meant earlier.
	One of the reasons the price of silver is for the sake of society.
	That what I just said to you was so foreign sounding.
	I love silver because it's affordable.
	Where narcissism is the one degree.
	The report is free, but the information is priceless.
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	It's completely new.
	What I should have for the sake of society?
	You're damn right.
	It's also a reason to get married.
	It's better for society if people do that.
	If people take care of one another in a legal commitment, that is better than the state taking care of it.
	Okay, Argyle, Texas.
	Amy.
	Hello, Amy.
	Hi, Dennis.
	I was just trying to tell you, so my sister, I have one filed and another one on the way.
	And my other sister, she has said not to have this.
	And she says racism is not because people will tell you they're unhappy, but they all say they are happy, but they seem miserable and exhausted.
	She says that it was a, quote, disrespectful move by the U.S. Olympic trial organizers.
	I think her that it's hard to explain because it can be exhausting, but you can't understand the joy until... until you have your own kids.
	And you'll never know that.
	Right.
	Anyway, where is it written that one should never be exhausted?
	If somebody had a demanding job and they were exhausted from that, like a lawyer.
	Lawyers who work to get ahead are exhausted.
	No profession?
	They don't really like to work.
	I'm sorry?
	They don't really like to work.
	Who's they?
	I'm sorry.
	That's why I said I'm sorry.
	Who's they?
	My sister and her husband.
	Oh, exactly.
	You're right.
	They don't want anything that's exhausting.
	No, they travel.
	That's it.
	They travel.
	I'm not cultured at all.
	I'm conservative.
	She's very liberal.
	Right.
	And college-educated.
	I'm not college-educated.
	Right.
	And I'm uncultured.
	In their view.
	Got a little life over here.
	That's exactly right.
	Well, for whatever it's worth, you are my favorite of the two sisters.
	I know who I would rather be stuck on an island with between the two sisters.
	Yes.
	Oh, it's exhausting.
	Yes, that is correct.
	That is exhausting.
	Ask any doctor how exhausting it was to go through medical school and then residency and internship.
	What worthwhile isn't exhausting?
	Think writing a book is not exhausting?
	What worthwhile isn't exhausting?
	It's not exhausting being a major league baseball player?
	It's exhausting.
	But they have so little regard for parenthood that that's a worthless exhaustion.
	Playing shortstop is a worthwhile exhaustion.
	being a parent is not.
	Okay.
	Mike, Santa Rosa, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	Yes, sir.
	I'm a single male in my mid-40s, and you've already listed all of the kind of happiness that single people can have as far as going on vacation whenever they want, you know, eating, whatever.
	But children are an investment in the future, and when I get older, having no kids, I'm going to not have children to help take care of me.
	When I get older, I'm going to have to rely on the good graces of my other family members.
	You know, interrupt their lives and have them take care of me the way I take care of my dad now that he's older.
	And for those married couples that say they're happier without kids, well, you know, children hold the marriage together.
	And what if you end up not being married in the future?
	What if you get divorced?
	Then it's just going to be two single people without children.
	They'll be in the same situation that I'll be in.
	And in addition, I'd like to mention that...
	Seeing my friends with their children, I have to experience their happiness by proxy.
	So for sure, they have their hard times raising kids, but there's a lot of happiness in there too.
	Well, thank you for your honesty.
	That is correct.
	Everything you said is correct.
	Hence the biblical famous verse, those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
	The secular world has said, Do not sow in tears.
	Sow in joy.
	There you go.
	If you sow without tears, there ain't much to reap.
	That is indeed the way it goes.
	There are no guarantees.
	A lot of people with children, especially today more so than in the past, because they sent their kids to the parental alienation institution known as school.
	Why parents do that is It shows you that people don't think things through.
	If you have three children, the chances of all three going to school from kindergarten through college, let alone graduate school, and coming out with a love for you and admiration for you and what you stand for are very small.
	And yet, I guess people just assume it won't happen to them.
	But this is a phenomenon that we are experiencing.
	And it's another example of the consequences of the left destroying everything it touches.
	This one being the family.
	back in a moment trending now on the Mike Dilliger show . .
	So critical race theory actually is indoctrinating our children to tell them that if you are white, you are an oppressor.
	You are innately designed to be racist.
	And if you are black, you are oppressed.
	In other words, you will never have the opportunities that the white person has and the little boy or the little girl that's sitting beside you in your classroom is the reason why.
	This is why it's such a divisive and in itself it's completely racist.
	Well, it is.
	I mean, that's what I love about people who scream racism are often guilty of the racism themselves.
	I mean, this is the quintessential projection.
	How can you condemn children who've done nothing wrong?
	How do you make victims and oppressors out of kids in elementary school?
	Well, this is what fired me up.
	This is what got me initially so upset, is that...
	You know, I watch my son.
	I watch my 10-year-old son play football with little boys from every race, from every walk of life, every religion.
	And I watch them as they help each other up on the field when they get knocked down.
	I watch them give each other high fives.
	I watch them do chest bumps, right?
	They are not thinking, oh...
	You're black, so I can't touch you.
	Or, oh, you're less than me.
	Guess what?
	They've got blacks, whites, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews.
	They're all playing together, and they're all respecting each other, and they're all caring for each other.
	Why would you put such a divisive theory or ideology into a school system?
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	How much do you know about the country?
	What is the same?
	Thank you.
	Hi, everybody.
	Began the show today with a discussion of a piece on the Today website, NBC show Today, a study about how happy people who choose not to have children are.
	Yes, indeed.
	Oh, boy.
	You got a lot of very important calls here.
	It actually, I must say, it's good for me to see this.
	Jaren, is that your name in Louisville, Kentucky?
	Jaren?
	Yes, sir, that's it.
	J-E-R-R-I-N? That's me.
	All right, good to talk to you.
	You're my first Jaren in my life.
	Gladly.
	I appreciate you taking my card, man.
	I just wanted to talk about why I don't want to have any more kids.
	I mean, you know, maybe in the future, but I'm 23. I had one kid out of the way logging.
	We're doing good.
	It was a horrible experience.
	And he's five right now.
	But with everything that's going on right now in our schools and life, people just pretty much losing their minds with all the different genders and all this other stuff, I don't want my kids growing up to feel like they have to associate themselves I don't want my kids growing up to feel like they have to associate themselves with that just because Everything is pretty much going bad right now, man.
	I don't personally feel like I would want to bring another kid in this world like that.
	Well, let me just say to you, you are not alone.
	I'm only letting you go because we have very little time in the final segment of each hour.
	You represent a lot of people.
	I just, for whatever it's worth, I have heard from the beginning of my radio career over 35 years ago, people calling in, you know, with all these problems in this world, I just can't see bringing a child in.
	I'd like to know when it was okay to bring a child into the world.
	During the Depression?
	During...
	During...
	The dark eras in American life that existed during the dark eras in European life anywhere else?
	I mean, if the issue is only bring a child into a wonderful world or a problem-free world, then we'll never have children.
	One of the points of bringing in a child is to hopefully raise one that will make the world better.
	And that may mean leaving it at any given time for a community of healthier people.
	We'll be back.
	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 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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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contained the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first.
	And I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it.
	Or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	Otherwise...
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	thing and I mean dumb and Mitch McConnell is anything but dumb.
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	Instead, I think there was a massive story recently on whether or not Donald Trump had his pants on backwards or forwards or the cicada that fell on Joe Biden's neck.
	These were the major stories of the last couple of days.
	It's crazy.
	And I mean, we've gotten to a point where 79% of independents, this was midway through Trump's presidency, of independents, these are not Republicans, said that they believe that the press intentionally makes up fake stories and intentionally reports them.
	So the good news is people recognize it.
	Edelman Trust Barometer gauges the trust of different institutions.
	They found the media is at their lowest point of trust.
	So the American people are wise to this.
	They do see the headlines.
	They are smart.
	But when you get to a point where big media colludes with big tech, that's where it becomes highly problematic.
	There was a poll out recently that I think it was one in six Biden voters would have changed their vote had they heard about the Hunter Biden story.
	You talk about influencing an election.
	There's simply no doubt that Twitter and big media and big tech altogether influenced an election.
	And it was the most interfered with election in American history.
	And I mean, the fact you could suppress the New York Post story because we don't like what they have to say, even though it ended up being totally true.
	And then, oh, that was another lie, that this was somehow Russian intelligence.
	And by the way, not only that, last year we went through two impeachments.
	We went through one in Ukraine and the other one.
	It was ridiculous.
	And we had to go the whole phone call thing.
	Then a couple months later, we had to deal with the whole virus and the lab leak.
	And this...
	If the Democrats actually wanted to permanently sever the country, they're doing a great job.
	Yes, they are.
	But the point to Russian disinformation, this is where it becomes so laughable that anyone with a brain cell can see through the antics of the press.
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	So critical race theory actually is indoctrinating our children to tell them that if you are white, you are an oppressor.
	You're innately designed to be racist.
	And if you are black, you are oppressed.
	In other words, you will never have the opportunities that the white person has.
	And the little boy or the little girl that's sitting beside you in your classroom is the reason why.
	This is why it's such a divisive, and in itself, it's completely racist.
	Well, it is.
	I mean, that's what I love about people who scream racism are often guilty of the racism themselves.
	I mean, it's the quintessential projection.
	How can you condemn children who've done nothing wrong?
	How do you make victims and oppressors out of kids in elementary school?
	Well, this is what fired me up.
	This is what got me initially so upset is that, you know, I watch my son.
	I watch my 10-year-old son play football with little boys from every race, from every walk of life, every religion.
	And I watch them as they help each other up on the field when they get knocked down.
	I watch them give each other high fives.
	I watch them do chest bumps, right?
	They are not...
	Thinking, oh, you're Black, so I can't touch you.
	Or, oh, you're less than me.
	Guess what?
	but they've got blacks, whites, Hindus, Muslims, Christians.
	Hello, my friends.
	Yes.
	Hello, my friends.
	Alright, here we go.
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, the Monday edition.
	Hoping you had a good weekend.
	I think that this president has done tremendous damage to this country already.
	However, if he does something good, I am...
	Actually delighted to note it.
	I don't do it with regret, I do it with joy.
	Because I care about America more than I care about Democrats or Republicans.
	But he has been awful.
	Nevertheless, he is poised, I hope it happens, to do something very, very important.
	And that is bring out the 18,000, 19,000 translators and others who...
	Helped Americans in Afghanistan, out of Afghanistan.
	Every one of them would be murdered, their family murdered, their wives and daughters very possibly, and their sons raped.
	Taliban are into boy rape as well.
	The Taliban are a fascinating group.
	To think that people...
	Believe in a God who looks favorably upon torture, rape, and murder.
	It takes your breath away, doesn't it?
	To say that their God is not my God is to engage in massive understatement.
	I have done a number of shows in that regard.
	Now I get back to the Afghanistan issue and the president.
	On this issue of when people say they believe in God, what does it mean?
	And the answer is nothing.
	I know nothing about you, and I mean it literally.
	I don't speak in hyperbolic terms.
	I know nothing about you or your beliefs if you say you believe in God.
	Nothing.
	Do you believe that God gave the Ten Commandments, that God created the world, that even those two things, do you believe in those?
	If you don't believe God gave the Ten Commandments, then how do you know that God doesn't like what the Taliban does?
	Right?
	Why is your God any different from theirs?
	So, this has been a staggering failure of religious people in not communicating what it means to believe in God.
	I say it with love because they're my last hope, America's religious people, but nevertheless, part of the reason there are so many young people who don't identify with religion is the fault of the religious, who simply didn't know how to make the case for...
	Anyway, the President has, in fact, is planning to bring to Guam 18,000-19,000 Afghans.
	I have talked about this over and over.
	I don't think we should pull out of Afghanistan.
	I see zero benefit to the United States.
	This notion of we've been there X number of years, I find that to be as...
	Good an example of a non-sequitur as exists.
	We've been in Afghanistan X number of years, therefore we should leave?
	If somebody can make that explicit to me, I would appreciate it, what that means.
	To me, that is a perfect example of emotional over rational thinking.
	But we live in the age of the emotional, more than perhaps ever before.
	And that would be an example of it.
	Or my favorite line, you can't go into a place if you don't have an exit strategy.
	You like that term?
	Exit strategy.
	Yes, I have an exit strategy.
	There's only one exit strategy in war.
	You leave a winner.
	That's the only exit strategy there should be.
	And yet people say it as if it actually means something.
	So, let's see.
	Biden says U.S. will evacuate Afghans who helped Americans.
	Well, let's pray this happens, and I salute President Biden for doing this if he does it.
	Okay.
	Barry Weiss, the wonderful Barry Weiss.
	Female, in case you're not familiar with her.
	She quit the New York Times because she saw what was happening to this non-newspaper that had become a propaganda sheet for the left.
	And she started, wouldn't you say liberal?
	She was never left, right?
	She was always liberal.
	She has a wonderful website, Barry Weiss.
	Now, you might think, is she writing about America?
	Unfortunately, it would not be inapt.
	Is there a word inapt?
	Not apt.
	It would not be not apt, but that sounds wrong.
	No, it's about what is happening in Hong Kong.
	It's another heartbreaker for me.
	That was Margaret Thatcher's mistake.
	I said it at the time, and I love that woman.
	She should never have given Hong Kong away to the Chinese communists.
	They will never allow freedom because no leftist from Beijing to Columbia University allows dissent.
	There is no example of leftists allowing dissent.
	Liberals do.
	Conservatives do.
	Leftists do not.
	So it was only a matter of time.
	I knew this at the time.
	I said so at the time.
	But they had a hundred-year deal with China.
	However, there was a very easy way out.
	We made this with a different Chinese government.
	We didn't make it with the butchers of Beijing.
	The largest number of human beings ever murdered by its own government was China.
	And Margaret Thatcher gave Hong Kong back to that government.
	It doesn't get worse than Maoism.
	It doesn't get worse.
	There are equally evil doctrines and governments, but it doesn't get worse.
	So she's writing about what had happened.
	By my light, she writes, the most important news event of this past week was not the New York mayoral primary.
	It wasn't Bitcoin dropping below $30,000, and it certainly wasn't the new bipartisan infrastructure deal announced by President Biden.
	It was the forced closure of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong.
	You may not have heard of Apple Daily.
	I knew of it, but only vaguely.
	It is, or rather it was, Hong Kong's version of the New York Post combined with William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator.
	A tabloid, yes, but also a voice for freedom.
	Ever since it began publishing in 1995, Apple Daily has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party.
	Its commitment to democracy and freedom had everything to do with its founder, Jimmy Lay, L-A-I. It is not possible to do Lay's whole story justice.
	In a column, someone should make a blockbuster movie.
	But here is the CliffsNotes version.
	Lei fled mainland China.
	At 12 years old, as a stowaway on a fishing boat, he found a job in a Hong Kong sweatshop and eventually worked his way up in the garment trade.
	Along the way, he encountered fellow garment workers in New York who introduced him to free market theorists like Frederick Hayek, Karl Popper, and Milton Friedman.
	With whom he later developed a close relationship.
	This is a guy who didn't have any formal schooling past the age of maybe eight, Mark Simon, who has been Lay's right hands for the last two decades, told me.
	Those books started his real political awakening.
	So this kid did not go to school after the age of eight and understood life better than 99% of the graduates of Western universities.
	By the 1980s, Lay had built out I built out his retail empire in Hong Kong.
	His company called Giordano after a New York pizza spot became a wild success.
	But becoming rich wasn't what changed the course of Lei's life.
	The massacre at Tiananmen Square did.
	That's when he went from his economic and intellectual awakening to his political awakening, said Simon.
	I don't want to be too crude, but Lei said, I hated the bastards.
	I knew evil when I saw it, and they are evil.
	Yes, if you can't call Chinese communists evil, if you can't call any communists evil, you're a person of the left.
	The article is up at DennisPrager.com.
	More when we return.
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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.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first.
	And I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it.
	Or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	Otherwise...
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	thing and i mean dumb and mitch mcconnell is anything but dumb keep up with what's trending subscribe on youtube and at rumble.com trending now on the charlie kirk show instead i think there was a massive story recently on whether or not donald trump had his pants on backwards or forwards or the cicada that fell on Joe Biden's neck.
	These were the major stories of the last couple of days.
	It's crazy.
	And I mean, we've gotten to a point where 79% of independents, this was midway through Trump's presidency, of independents, these are not Republicans, said that they believe that the press intentionally makes up fake stories and intentionally reports them.
	So the good news is people recognize it.
	Edelman Trust Barometer gauges the trust of different institutions.
	They found the media is at their lowest point of trust.
	So the American people are watching.
	They do see the headlines.
	They are smart.
	But when you get to a point where big media colludes with big tech, that's where it becomes highly problematic.
	There was a poll out recently that I think it was one in six Biden voters would have changed their vote had they heard about the Hunter Biden story.
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	Mass in Irvine, California.
	Hello.
	Hello there, Mr. Prager.
	I thank you for taking my call.
	Second time calling the show.
	First time I called up before I was deployed to Afghanistan.
	I am a native of Afghanistan.
	I came to the U.S. at age 16 in 1979, January.
	I fell in love with America after September 11, and went on deployment from 2009 to 2012 when Obama did the big surge in Afghanistan, about 130,000 American and NATO troops.
	Served with special forces, navies.
	The Navy doesn't go there, but we did work on the...
	Navy's surveillance over Afghanistan.
	Combat missions after combat missions, work with all the local interpreters, interpreter who came from the U.S. with green card, and citizen to Afghanistan to work for the U.S. military.
	Here is my input on this.
	Eighty percent of those interpreters are the same ideology as the Taliban's.
	I had a buddy of mine who just retired from the military.
	We serve in Special Forces in Afghanistan.
	He wanted to bring one of the interpreters.
	He was declined maybe six times when I was there because we're lying.
	Couldn't get a visa.
	So here's my point.
	President Obama, actually President Biden, wants to pick 18,000?
	Are they all screened?
	I mean, I'm a native of Afghanistan.
	I hate to say this.
	I love this country, but I also know that culture.
	So I understand.
	So just know they're not coming here right now.
	They are going to Guam, where they will be screened.
	Eventually they're going to come here, but the ideology, we cannot change the ideology of...
	Why would they serve the U.S. forces?
	Because they're dying to get out of Afghanistan, not dying to come to the U.S. See, I died to come to the U.S., but most people that come to the U.S. will assimilate like me.
	But I have family members here in the U.S. been here actually for...
	More than 52 years.
	It's my father, my biological father, who neglected me.
	He still lives here.
	He doesn't like this country.
	So your suspicion is that most of these 18,000 interpreters have Taliban ideology but want to leave Afghanistan in any event?
	An excuse for them.
	This is an excuse for them.
	An excuse for them to what?
	To leave Afghanistan?
	To leave Afghanistan because they are making...
	So I'm curious, what percentage of Taliban do you believe would like to leave Afghanistan?
	If they had a choice, like the interpreter does, all of them will leave.
	So the Taliban rather live in a non-Muslim country as a tiny minority than control Afghanistan?
	Yes, because they will come here to convert others.
	They will take over drop by drop.
	They have a saying in the Islamic world, we just go there.
	And once we get majority, then they will keep changing things.
	Don't you see the squad in Congress?
	Do you think they told the truth when they got to the U.S.? Do you really believe that?
	And now our fellow American Democrats are on their side.
	So basically, I'm not arguing with you.
	I'm just trying to understand you.
	So you feel, as an Afghan...
	Right.
	As an American native of Afghanistan.
	Yes, that's right.
	That's fair.
	But in this case, the Afghan part is what is relevant.
	But I fully acknowledge you're 100% American.
	And thank God you are.
	But as far as you're concerned, these 18,000 are largely, 80% you use the term, Ilhan Omar's.
	Yes.
	They are Ilhan Omar.
	Exactly right.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I still think we have to help those who helped us.
	We have to be on record, even if it's for the 20%.
	I am not saying you're wrong.
	My sense is, and I certainly defer to his greater experience as an Afghan-American, but...
	My sense is that most Taliban, like most criminals, like most people who want power, would prefer power in Afghanistan to no power in America.
	I can't prove it.
	That is my suspicion.
	But obviously the caller made a...
	Some very important points.
	We will certainly find out.
	And I wanted to take that.
	I want to continue with what is happening in Hong Kong.
	All of this, whether it's the Taliban or it's the Chinese Communist government, it all goes under the heading of the human species, not...
	Capable or not desirous of confronting evil.
	As I have always said, evil is not dark.
	Evil is so bright people cannot look at it.
	The Europeans, in their usual obsequiousness to evil, whether it's Hamas or the Chinese Communist Party or the Soviets at the time, They just want to make nice to the Chinese communists.
	There is something in Barry Weiss's piece I just remembered.
	I want to read this to you.
	I'm not just thinking of movie stars like John Senna.
	Is that how his name is pronounced?
	C-E-N-A? Hmm?
	Sena, groveling about calling Taiwan a country.
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	Let's just go back.
	What is the moral basis of our Constitution?
	That's the title of your book.
	It is really vital that people understand this.
	Can you make that case in short order?
	Yeah, so our Declaration of Independence gives us the worldview statement that our founders unanimously recognized that when governments are abridging and infringing upon our rights that are God-given, then we appeal to the highest source of moral law, which is God himself.
	He is the personification of truth.
	And they said unanimously in the Declaration that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
	Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	They went on to say that governments are instituted among men only to protect and preserve those rights.
	And so they then gave the mandate to the Constitutional Convention.
	With Articles of Confederation, we're not working.
	The Constitutional Convention derived how can we best implement a system of government whose mandate is to protect and preserve our rights that are God-given.
	Because our rights do not come from government, they come from God.
	It's the government's job.
	to protect and preserve those rights.
	That's why we have the First Amendment.
	And all of our Bill of Rights is actually a Bill of Protections.
	Congress, in case you weren't clear that you have a limited role, these are the things and the rights that are God-given that governments most frequently infringe on.
	So, like, what we're doing right now, our First Amendment speaking together about truth, that's freedom of speech, freedom of association, free exercise of religion, those are not given by the government.
	It is obligated by the Constitution that our government protects those rights.
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	Wall Street Journal editorial.
	Politicians in Washington renege on their bipartisan promises all the time.
	But what are they to make of a deal in which one side admits it's pulling a bait-and-switch from the start?
	That was the astonishing news Thursday as President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal, even as they said the price of their support is getting the rest of their agenda, too.
	There's the picture if you're watching on our YouTube channel.
	Two hours later, he said he wouldn't sign the infrastructure bill unless the Senate also passes the other $3 trillion or more he has proposed in tax increases and multiple new entitlement programs.
	The Journal adds most politicians at least wait a decent interval to pull a double-cross.
	But with Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Biden, they're trying to prevent a revolt on the left.
	So they are now holding a bipartisan deal hostage to the left's demand.
	That is political black...
	All right, everybody.
	I'm going to get to my guest in just one minute.
	I just wanted to cite what Barry Weiss writes on this very depressing piece about Hong Kong.
	And she writes, What's happened in Beijing doesn't stay in Beijing.
	Here I'm not just thinking of movie stars like John Cena groveling about calling Taiwan a country or of NBA stars like LeBron James.
	Who claim the mantle of social justice, but go mute in the face of the world's greatest threat to human freedom, namely Beijing, or of powerful brands like Apple and Nike that market themselves as progressives, but rely on forced labor.
	This past weekend, as Apple Daily shuttered, that's the democracy paper shut down in Hong Kong by Beijing, The CEO of Nike said, Nike is a brand that is of China and for China.
	Yes.
	It's part of their adulation of Colin Kaepernick.
	Nike is just bad.
	Stephen Moore, I'll tell you how impressive Stephen Moore is.
	He's chairman, by the way, of the Task Force on Economic Revival for FreedomWorks.
	He also edits the great daily Unleash Prosperity newsletter.
	That's at the committee to UnleashProsperity.com.
	He was in the Trump administration.
	It's up at DennisPrager.com.
	You can get it free every day.
	So, the living martyr sent me the usual excellent pieces last night.
	Read them.
	And I spoke to him before the show today.
	He said, who wrote this piece on the infrastructure bill?
	There was no name attached.
	And I said, it was fantastic.
	It was Stephen Moore.
	So there you go, Stephen Moore.
	What do you say to all that praise?
	Well, very nice.
	You left out, you buried the lead, Dennis.
	The most important thing is I have a...
	A video on PragerU on the red states versus blue states, which is still getting a great audience.
	I think we did that nine months ago or something, and it's still, you know, got a lot of viewers.
	So thank you for the opportunity to do that.
	And yet this infrastructure bill is an abomination.
	Shame on, obviously, the Democrats just want to spend money.
	I don't understand how any Republican who calls themselves any kind of fiscal conservative would go along with this horrid bill.
	I couldn't agree with you more, but I have a question.
	On what grounds can Republicans stand when they spent a fortune in the Trump administration?
	Well, look, there's a bipartisan spending problem in Washington.
	There's no question about that, Dennis.
	But Republicans increased the debt by $1 trillion, and now the Democrats are trying to increase it by $6 trillion.
	I mean, $6 trillion of new spending is what Biden wants, $22 trillion of additional debt over the next decade.
	And so I'm not going to defend the Republicans' record on controlling spending, but it's as if the Democrats and the progressives have come in and they've taken what Republicans have done and X6.
	Okay, that's a fair answer.
	Okay, that's right.
	Look, there are gradations of sin.
	I'm a big believer in that.
	I actually coined the phrase a long time ago.
	I did not know that.
	Is this proposed or you think will happen, $6 trillion?
	So it's very easy to explain that number.
	So remember we have the $2 trillion absurd COVID relief bill that was completely unnecessary, the Blue State Bailout Bill.
	Remember that passed in March, and that was the $300.
	We got employment benefit extensions, which have paid people not to work.
	Which was crazy.
	And we still have 24 Democratic states that have not repealed that, by the way, even though we have 9.2 million open jobs in America.
	And, by the way, did you see the report in the Wall Street Journal today?
	You know, the thing about liberals is they don't think that incentives matter.
	So they don't think if you pay people more money to stay unemployed that people will stay unemployed.
	And, of course, incentives do matter.
	What the Wall Street Journal found was that the states that have suspended those extra $300 a week bonus unemployment benefits have gotten way more people back into the workforce than these blue states, like my home state of Illinois and California, where you are, and New York and New Jersey and Connecticut.
	They can't get people back working until those benefits expire.
	So that was one of the bills, that $2 trillion bill that we passed.
	Back in March.
	Now they've got the $2 trillion infrastructure bill that Biden wants, which is really, as you know, you've talked about this, it's really just a green energy bill, the Green New Deal.
	And then they want another $2 trillion, what Biden is calling a, I think he calls it human infrastructure.
	I've never heard that term before, but now child care and daycare subsidies, Head Start, are infrastructure as well.
	Yep, that equals three times two is six.
	Now, not in Oregon, because they don't believe in one correct answer in math.
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	So critical race theory actually is indoctrinating our children to tell them that if you are white, you are an oppressor.
	You are innately designed to be racist.
	And if you are black, you are oppressed.
	In other words, you will never have the opportunities that the white person has and the little boy or the little girl that's sitting beside you in your classroom is the reason why.
	This is why it's such a divisive and in itself it's completely racist.
	Well, it is.
	I mean, that's what I love about people who scream racism are often guilty of the racism themselves.
	I mean, this is the quintessential projection.
	How can you condemn children who've done nothing wrong?
	How do you make victims and oppressors out of kids in elementary school?
	Well, this is what fired me up.
	This is what got me initially so upset, is that...
	You know, I watch my son.
	I watch my 10-year-old son play football with little boys from every race, from every walk of life, every religion, and I watch them as they help each other up on the field when they get knocked down.
	I watch them give each other high fives.
	I watch them do chest bumps, right?
	They are not thinking, oh...
	You're black, so I can't touch you.
	Or, oh, you're less than me.
	Guess what?
	They've got blacks, whites, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews.
	They're all playing together, and they're all respecting each other, and they're all caring for each other.
	- Why would you put such a divisive theory or ideology into a school system?
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	- There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	We'll be right back.
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	Thank you.
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	By the way, Dennis...
	You know, I think we have an agreement with your team there at PragerU that we're going to do a new video called The Bankrupting of America.
	And we're going to start, I think, filming that sometime later this summer.
	And it is really an important one because this debt and the massive increase in government is now approaching half of our entire economy.
	It's so important that even before this...
	I would often, when going to college campuses, obviously prior to the lockdowns, I would actually open up many of my talks at colleges saying, I just want to thank you on behalf of my generation for taking on our debt.
	This has never occurred before in American history.
	You are truly the most generous generation to have ever been raised in American history.
	Because they don't know.
	They vote for the people who are ruining their future.
	I agree entirely with that, and it is true.
	I mean, when Biden talks about, oh, $6 trillion of debt, but then if you and I aren't going to pay for that, it wouldn't be long getting our graves by the time those bills come due.
	But it is all these young millennials who think it's just so wonderful to run up the national debt.
	In a way that I think is ruinous.
	And by the way, Dennis, have you ever heard of this new dingbat left wing theory?
	Because you're very good at exposing dingbat left wing theories every day on your show.
	Have you heard of modern monetary theory?
	No.
	This is an amazing one.
	It is growing in influence on college campuses all over the country, and within the Biden administration and the progressive movement.
	And modern monetary theory, I am not making this up, it is becoming a real popular, trendy economic theory around the country, is that we can just, because we have the global economic currency in the dollar, we can continue to borrow and borrow and borrow trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars.
	And essentially, they say there is no cost to America to do that, because we have low interest rates.
	And I'm saying, if you jump out of a window from the 96th floor, you know, for the first 94s, you're flying high, and you're having a great time until you crash.
	And this is what is guiding our economic policy.
	People in Washington, folks, I'm not making this up.
	Well, that's the New York Times.
	That is what the New York Times, that's Paul Krugman's belief.
	Man won a Nobel Prize in economics.
	And show me, somebody show me, when I do debates against some of these progressives, I say, show me anywhere in the history of the world where that's ever worked out.
	It didn't work out for Venezuela.
	It didn't work for Argentina.
	It didn't work for Mexico.
	I mean, we are on a path.
	Look, I believe in America.
	I think we will turn around the Titanic before we hit that iceberg.
	But we better start turning it around.
	You believe that because...
	Well, I'll let you fill in.
	You believe that because why?
	Because I think Americans will come to our...
	We are not genetically progressive socialists.
	We have freedom and free markets in our DNA. I really believe that.
	And I think Americans will awaken.
	I won't use the word woke.
	I think we will awaken to the tragedy that is going on in this country.
	Look, you know this country.
	This country is a center-right country.
	We're not a center-left country.
	Biden got him because a lot of people just didn't like Trump's behavior, although they liked his economic policies.
	And I think they have so outstretched.
	And I'll reach their mandate.
	I think there's going to be a huge snapback revolt against this.
	I really do.
	And by the way, can I bring up one quick thing before, because I know we're running out of time.
	The most outrageous thing in that infrastructure bill, Dennis, to me, is $40 billion.
	$40 billion, not million, billion, for expansion of the Internal Revenue Service to hire 75,000 new IRS tax newts.
	And that's passed, obviously.
	Well, I'd say it's in the bill.
	It's not passed.
	But, I mean, my God!
	Well, talking about passing it, so you note three Republicans, Collins and Romney and Cassidy.
	Yes.
	So I don't understand Cassidy.
	I can't explain it.
	I can't explain it.
	You also have Bob Portman, who's a good man.
	man I've always liked Rob Portman you know he signed off on this bill I think that when people really look and see how this money is being spent only only about 200 of the 100 1.2 trillion dollars has anything to do with roads and highways that's right So why did they sign off on it?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I just think this bill has to be killed.
	Biden is dancing a little jig.
	The agreement was that if we passed this bill, we wouldn't have to have a massive tax increase.
	But now he's sprinted.
	As soon as they had the handshake deal with the Republicans, he sprinted over to his good friend Bernie Sanders and said, oh, by the way, we're going to sign this bill, and then I'll sign the $3 trillion tax increase.
	There's nothing in this for conservatism, and it has to be stopped.
	We should be cutting spending by a trillion, not increasing spending by a trillion.
	How can we stop it if they have 50-plus vice president?
	Well, we're in a bit of a pickle, aren't we?
	You know, we have to hope that there's at least one sane Democrat, at least one fiscally sane Democrat who cares more about his country than he believes in the progressive movement to stop this from happening.
	Because the fact is, they do have those 50 votes.
	And hopefully a Senator Manchin or Senator Sinema or at least one Democrat in this Congress will vote against this.
	It's the reason we've got to have Americans really...
	Contact people.
	I mean, we've got to get angry here.
	All right, everybody.
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	I love this guy.
	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.
	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially, the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first.
	And I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it.
	Or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure, I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	Otherwise...
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	And I mean dumb and Mitch McConnell is anything but dumb.
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	Hi.
	Hi.
	The reason the left
	has no problem with more and more debt is that the debt means that the government controls more of life.
	Okay.
	The left is the antithesis, literally the antithesis, 180 degrees opposite to the founding values of this country, to the American trinity as I dubbed it many years ago, e pluribus unum, in God we trust, liberty, and small government, which is of course the source of liberty.
	People vote to be taken care of.
	They don't vote for liberty.
	It's an insight that I have repeatedly brought to you over the course of the last couple of years.
	The human being does not yearn for liberty.
	The human being yearns to be taken care of.
	In that sense, the left comports with human nature more than the right does.
	This idea that Oh, well, we'll spend another $2 trillion on human infrastructure.
	Why is the government in the pre-kindergarten business, in the daycare business to begin with?
	So what they do is they take more and more of people's money away, and then they dole out benefits to them.
	And then people are just so happy to get those benefits, especially if others have done the vast amount of paying for it, which is usually the case.
	It's corrupting in the extreme.
	It's corrupting of character, and it's corrupting of society.
	So of course they want more debt.
	More debt means more government control.
	The question that every one of you has, as I have is, in Stephen Moore's term, can we turn the ship before the Titanic, as he put it, before the iceberg, before hitting the iceberg?
	I don't know.
	I will only tell you what I tell every audience and what I've told you on a number of occasions.
	I do not ask myself ever.
	If I'm optimistic or pessimistic, I only ask, what do I have to do?
	How do I fight better?
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	The fact that Hillary's been saying this big lie, so-called big lie, for four years, and then when I brought it up on social media, Hillary conceded Trump didn't.
	What?
	Yes, he did.
	I read headlines from CNBC. Well, Hillary didn't follow a lawsuit.
	Yes, she did.
	I read an article from the Associated Press.
	Well, Hillary supporters aren't violent.
	Yes, they are!
	You remember election night?
	You don't?
	You remember inauguration night?
	You don't?
	Take your head out.
	Information is there.
	I've been talking about this for a long time.
	It astounds me that people have given Hillary a pass.
	Oh, Trump is undermining our integrity.
	Trump is undermining our republic.
	You can't challenge an election like this.
	You can't file a lawsuit like this because then people lose confidence in you.
	How many times does he have to say this?
	Over and over and over.
	Trump knows he's an illegitimate president.
	You can run the best campaign.
	You can even become the nominee.
	And you can have the election stolen from you.
	I know that he knows that this wasn't on the level.
	Why do you think the president is going to such great lengths to essentially prove that he beat you?
	Because he knows he didn't.
	He knows he's an illegitimate president.
	I do think that he knows that he's an illegitimate president.
	I want to reiterate, 67% of Democrats believe not just that the Russians interfered, but that the Russians changed vote tallies.
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	This is, you know, we can talk stories about the deep state, but when I realized the extent of it was when I met somebody in the White House who had the same rank as me, which is deputy assistant to the president.
	There's not a lot of us.
	There's like 42 in the whole of U.S. government.
	And I find out that this individual, you don't get...
	You're not conscripted to be a dap, okay?
	You volunteer to be a politically commissioned officer of the President of the United States.
	This guy, he volunteered to work in the Trump White House, utterly and completely detested his boss.
	And I mean the President.
	And the idea that you would volunteer for a position of honor, of trust at the highest level of U.S. government...
	But detest the person elected by 65 million Americans.
	That is one definition of the deep state, and that's why it's real.
	That's why you've got to see this movie, the plot against the present.
	You've got to read the book.
	This is how I got to know that the deep state is a real thing.
	So I'm not a member of the NSC, but because of the clearances and the job I had, I'd get all the invites to the NSC until McMaster pulled me off the list.
	Okay, first thing.
	The National Security Advisor removed me from this.
	Was it the same day he pulled Bannon out and all of that?
	Because he did that to everybody.
	It was actually before Steve, I think, got in trouble.
	You should be proud of that.
	Yes, I'll put that on my resume.
	You were actually the top of the list.
	As soon as McMaster came in, he's like, I've got to get rid of these five guys.
	I can tell you stories about McMaster.
	So I'd go to the NSC meetings.
	These are the highest level policy-making meetings in America.
	I mean, you can have the principals, but they rarely meet the cabinet members.
	the NSC beneath principles.
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	That Americans are recognizing that we cannot sit back.
	We can't say we're comfortable in the four walls of our church.
	We have to be active participants in civil society.
	And this whole myth of separation of church and state, by the way, is something that Christians should...
	Absolutely not be lied to about and they should not perpetuate that myth.
	Thomas Jefferson only meant that the authorities that are established are different.
	They're separate.
	That doesn't mean, just like, you know, the family authority is very different from civil government authority.
	That's all that he meant by that.
	It doesn't mean that Christians can abdicate our role and responsibility to be moral arbiters of truth within the context of civil society.
	Because what our founders recognized is that the greatest...
	The system of government would be predicated on the truth of the eternal, immutable Word of God, which is that truth is self-evident, and that the mandate for the Constitution is that we can only have a government according to the truth of the Word of God.
	And that's why we are a Christian nation.
	And you write about this in your book.
	I don't remember the title.
	Tell my audience.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
	In other words, you don't just say, hey, this is what the Word of God says, because there are people in America who say, I don't care what the Word of God says.
	I'm not a Christian.
	The Constitution and our laws and our system of government are, you say, inextricably intertwined with morality.
	There's no such thing as somehow separating church and state on that level.
	Right.
	And you can make the argument for America being a Christian nation based solely on our founding documents and our Constitution itself.
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	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, in the express language of the Constitution, counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Eliana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	two hours later the president and Nancy Pelosi okay everybody Dennis Prager here
	WHO, who, urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as Delta COVID variant spreads.
	Well, fully vaccinated people should wear masks.
	This is reason...
	One of the many reasons.
	I was going to give a number, but I don't know what number there are.
	It's a large number of reasons.
	I have no respect for the medical community.
	I have respect for individual medical people, doctors and others.
	But the corruption at the top level, CDC, NIH, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, American Medical Association, World Health Organization.
	They're worthless.
	They're worse than worthless.
	I wouldn't care if they're worthless.
	It wouldn't be worth attacking.
	You understand the farce that we have entered?
	This is that me, a non-scientist, understands this better.
	Fully vaccinated people should continue to wear masks.
	So what's the good of the vaccine?
	It's the first vaccine that that would be true.
	But the other part is the masks are useless to begin with.
	That's what people don't understand.
	Masks is a completely psychological issue.
	People feel better wearing them.
	That's it.
	They are rabbit's feet.
	I am stunned that they have not bought into this yet in the United States.
	Hmm.
	Delta variant.
	It'll never end.
	What comes after Delta?
	By the way, why is it a Delta variant?
	Was there a Gamma variant?
	Was there a Beta variant?
	Alpha is the one we're having, COVID-19.
	What about Beta Gamma, now Delta?
	What comes after Delta?
	I don't know.
	There's something after Delta?
	Delta Plus.
	Yes, that's one of the better seats on a Delta flight.
	The Delta Plus.
	You get a roomier seat.
	Delta Plus.
	Oh my God.
	Oh my God.
	There's a picture in the CNBC website where I have this article.
	WHO is fully vaccinated.
	People who continue to wear masks as Delta COVID variant spreads.
	Picture of two people sitting on a park bench in Central Park, April 10th, talking to each other with masks on.
	Outdoors, of course.
	Outdoors.
	Yes.
	So we hear it's more contagious.
	This is the bad thing, right?
	It's twice as contagious.
	So, remember, one of my magic terms is...
	One of the liberating intellectual and emotional words are, or one of would be is, but there are two words.
	So what?
	The ability to say so what in so many instances is critical.
	Yes, so?
	The Delta variant.
	Woo!
	You realize the only time you hear about the CDC, NIH, JMA, JAMA, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, WHO, is when they order you around so they are not relevant in their minds until they have power over your life.
	It's a big factor here.
	That animates these people.
	Alright.
	Next item.
	I feel like it was a setup.
	This is USA Today.
	The worst of the rag sheets.
	I feel like it was a setup.
	Gwendolyn Berry finishes third in Hammer.
	Feels blindsided by National Anthem.
	That's a news piece.
	Feels blindsided by the national anthem.
	There's a certain routine for the top three finishers in an event at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials after they secure their spots on Team USA. They're handed an American flag and a bouquet of flowers.
	They stand on the podium, they take some pictures, then they take a victory lap around Hayward Field.
	In Oregon, this is, to cheers from the crowd.
	Gwendolyn Berry knew what to expect Saturday evening after she placed third in the hammer throw.
	But she did not expect that as she stood on the podium before taking pictures, organizers would play the Star Spangled Banner.
	The nerve!
	The nerve of playing the Star Spangled Banner for those making the American Olympic team.
	I feel like it was a setup.
	I feel like they did that on purpose, Barry said.
	And I was pissed, to be honest.
	Wow.
	Poor Barry.
	I tell you, she's really got it rough.
	You know?
	Makes it to the U.S. Olympic team.
	31 years old.
	Poor thing.
	An oppressed black woman.
	Doubly oppressed, female and black.
	Barry 31 has previously protested while on the podium at an international sporting event and become a strong advocate of the athletes using their platforms to speak about issues that matter to them.
	Hmm.
	I'm sure USA Today would have as positive a view of athletes who spoke about pro-life.
	How come they don't do that, by the way?
	And I'm not saying they should, incidentally.
	I think that sports is sports, and it's a moral value to keep other things out of sports, so that people have a place to escape.
	You sent me something?
	And is it on this?
	Huh?
	White House backs.
	Oh, look at this from the Daily Mail.
	You'll like this, folks.
	This is one of those moments of clarity.
	White House backs hammer thrower Gwen Berry.
	Psaki says Biden respects her right to turn away from the flag.
	And being a patriot means to recognize when the U.S. hasn't lived up to our highest ideal.
	Is that quoting Biden?
	Being a patriot?
	I know that he respects her right to turn away.
	Do you notice the demagoguery here?
	Nobody has mastered demagoguery like the left.
	He respects her right to turn away from the flag.
	Guess what?
	I respect her right to turn away from the flag, too.
	I have utter contempt for her for doing so.
	But as to the right to do it, notice he didn't comment because he's a coward.
	Do you or do you not agree with what she did, Mr. President?
	Oh, I respect her right to do it.
	We didn't ask you if you respect her right to...
	Crap on the American flag.
	We asked if you respect her doing so.
	They're such phonies.
	He is the phony in chief.
	I mean, this guy.
	There was more real and honest and true in a day of Trump than in the half year of Biden.
	I know that sounds amazing to anybody on the left.
	Stunning.
	Beyond belief.
	Half this country knows what I said is true.
	Half of it doesn't think it's true.
	One of us is wrong.
	That is correct.
	I think that I knew what Donald Trump thinks far more clearly than I know what Joe Biden thinks.
	Because he doesn't think.
	He says what is convenient.
	He has no conviction that I know of other than Winning electoral office.
	He respects her right to turn away from the flag.
	We all do.
	Do you respect her doing so?
	But this was not...
	Who was going to ask this of Psaki?
	Who's going to ask it?
	CNN? NBC? ABC? CBS? NPR? Who's going to ask?
	Raised her hip, put her hands on her hip, and then raised a t-shirt which read, Athlete Activist, and covered her face with it.
	Yeah.
	We may and we may not survive these people.
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	No one's left inside for the pastor and his two daughters.
	If you run, I'll shoot your family.
	Nobody cares whether I live or die.
	It's bad.
	I'm not gonna stand around or be a part of it anymore.
	Give me the gun.
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	So critical race theory actually is indoctrinating our children to tell them that if you are white, you are an oppressor.
	You are innately designed to be racist.
	And if you are black, you are oppressed.
	In other words, you will never have the opportunities that the white person has, and the little boy or the little girl that's sitting beside you in your classroom is the reason why.
	This is why it's such a divisive, and in itself, it's completely racist.
	Well, it is.
	I mean, that's what I love about people who scream racism are often guilty of the racism themselves.
	I mean, this is the quintessential projection.
	How can you condemn children who've done nothing wrong?
	How do you make victims and oppressors out of kids in elementary school?
	Well, this is what fired me up.
	This is what got me initially so upset, is that...
	You know, I watch my son.
	I watch my 10-year-old son play football with little boys from every race, from every walk of life, every religion, and I watch them as they help each other up on the field when they get knocked down.
	I watch them give each other high fives.
	I watch them do chest bumps, right?
	They are not thinking, oh...
	You're black, so I can't touch you.
	Or, oh, you're less than me.
	Guess what?
	They've got blacks, whites, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews.
	They're all playing together, and they're all respecting each other, and they're all caring for each other.
	Why would you put such a divisive theory or ideology into a school system?
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	After an hour, I just raised my hand and there's me, the guy with the, you know, the accent saying, ladies, gentlemen, can I remind you what the president said yesterday about destroying the caliphate when he was in Warsaw?
	Can I remind you what the president said about Russia's threat to Europe?
	And it's like...
	Okay, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Read to you about this American-hating athlete and their narcissism.
	This is what it's about.
	I explained that the first hour.
	Yep.
	People want to watch sports just for sports.
	But not me.
	No, no.
	I'm going to use my position on the field.
	I don't care what they say off the field.
	On the field.
	To show the contempt I have for the national anthem, the flag, and the country.
	And then the president defends her right.
	He respects her right to turn away from the flag.
	Like anybody doesn't respect that right.
	It's amazing.
	This is a phony comment by this phony president.
	He respects her right to turn away from the flag.
	That's not the question.
	Do you respect her decision, not her right?
	But he doesn't want to alienate the left, and he's too afraid about what most Americans will think if he says, oh, it's a really good idea.
	Barry doubled down on her protest, tweeting and posting on Instagram that she was proud of what she'd done.
	She was put on probation in 2019 for raising a fist at the Pan Am Games in Lima.
	Poor thing.
	She gets to go all around the world and throw a hammer.
	I tell you, the left gives new meaning to the word oppressed.
	They have no idea what oppressed means.
	They truly don't.
	Athletes at the Tokyo Games next year will not face punishment for making any kind of political protest.
	Well, I now wish ill on the Tokyo Games.
	Now the Olympics have been poisoned by the left.
	Right?
	Not much left in the world that has not been poisoned yet by the left.
	Oh, yeah!
	Our military.
	I told you last week, what is it?
	Remember what I reported last week?
	The U.S. Air Force Academy, was it?
	That they had, as part of its official entertainment, a, what do you call it?
	Drag queen, right.
	That's really, that gives you hope.
	The toughest and most masculine of our young men are protecting us.
	A drag queen knight at the Air Force Academy.
	Great, great.
	You know, it makes me think about something.
	If you look at the airplanes of these incredibly brave people, the Air Force lost the highest percentage of its military.
	Service people, to the best of my knowledge, in the skies over Germany.
	These were incredibly gutsy, incredibly important human beings.
	And almost every one of the bombers and fighter planes had a painting of some pin-up on it.
	You know, some sexy girl in a swimsuit on the plane.
	We've seen that a lot, right?
	Needless to say, that would be completely unacceptable today.
	The left, because there is no wisdom on the left.
	None.
	None whatsoever.
	The moment you attain any wisdom, you leave the left.
	So they don't understand the question, what price is paid?
	That is a conservative question.
	Is there any price paid by stifling some pretty normal heterosexual?
	Tendencies in males and still getting the same fighting, gutsy guy in your military, precisely the type of guy you most want to defend your country?
	Is it possible that the greatest generation, as they were called, was the generation that did have pinups on their airplanes?
	Could they be related?
	Or was that just a...
	Patriarchal, sexist remnant of a previous age and has nothing to do at all with the type of man that we attracted to fight the enemy.
	Yep.
	You really got to see this, this arrogant human being.
	This poor thing.
	Oppressed woman.
	Anyway, if they allow political protest by the athletes on the field at Tokyo, you can count many of us out of watching.
	So you want to hear an example of the poisoning of the military.
	Here is the...
	Was it last week when he said this at Congress?
	Testifying at Congress?
	This is the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the leading military man in the United States, and testifying at Congress last week.
	But I do think it's important, actually.
	For those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand and I want to understand white rage and I'm white and I want to understand it.
	So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
	What caused that?
	I want to find that out.
	I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it.
	It's important that we understand that, because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and guardians, they come from the American people.
	So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.
	I've read Mao Zedong.
	I've read Karl Marx.
	I've read Lenin.
	That doesn't make me a communist.
	So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?
	And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing...
	The United States military, our general officers, our non-commissioned officers, are being, quote, woke, or something else, because we're studying some theories that are out there.
	That was started at Harvard Law School years ago, and it proposed that there were laws in the United States, anti-bellum laws, prior to the Civil War, that led to a power differential with African Americans that were three-quarters of a human being when this country was formed.
	And then we had a Civil War...
	He's an ignoramus.
	He doesn't understand the Three-Fifths Clause.
	I didn't hear this, Paul.
	So look it, I do want to know.
	And I respect your service, and you and I are both Green Berets.
	But I want to know.
	And it matters to our military and the discipline and cohesion of this military.
	And I thank you for the opportunity to make a comment on that.
	Oh my God, this is what's happening to our military.
	He literally does not know what the three-fifths clause was.
	The point of the three-fifths clause...
	Was to make the slave states weaker in Congress.
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	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, in the express language of the Constitution, counsels it to quit the field.
	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
	All right, now let's move to the so-called bipartisan deal.
	This is two parts, Ileana.
	Substantively, it's not a deal.
	Two hours later, the president and Nancy Pelosi said whatever they'd agreed to with the bipartisan group of senators wasn't going to pass absent another trillion-plus dollars in spending and tax hikes, which means there's no deal.
	But secondly...
	Mitch McConnell will not let that get through.
	No one should have reported that as a bipartisan deal.
	And I talked about this with John Allen.
	It's just absolute terrible reporting to call it a bipartisan breakthrough when two hours later the president reneges, agree or disagree.
	I think that's right, although it wasn't clear that I was surprised by Biden's move.
	I wasn't sure that he would land where Pelosi was, and I was surprised to see him say that.
	Having spoken to a handful of Republican senators about this, the Republican strategy was to back a more narrow infrastructure bill that contains the popular items and then sort of leave Democrats holding the bag on this really expensive bill.
	I think it's something they believe they could campaign against Democrats against in the midterm elections.
	And what happened was...
	Essentially the Democrats saying they're putting the goodie bag deal first and I think there are a lot of things that could happen.
	That first bill could go nowhere if Manchin and Sinema don't support it or that bill could pass and the quote-unquote bipartisan deal on infrastructure I think it's unlikely to pass after that.
	You know, the Republicans are the dumbest group of senators I've ever seen if they agree to this thing.
	thing and i mean dumb and mitch mcconnell is anything but dumb keep up with what's trending subscribe on youtube and at rumble.com trending now on the charlie kirk show instead i think there was a massive story recently on whether or not donald trump had his pants on backwards or forwards or the cicada that fell on Joe Biden's neck.
	These were the major stories of the last couple of days.
	It's crazy.
	And I mean, we've gotten to a point where 79% of independents, this was midway through Trump's presidency, of independents, these are not Republicans, said that they believe that the press intentionally makes up fake stories and intentionally reports them.
	So the good news is people recognize it.
	Edelman Trust Barometer gauges the trust of different institutions.
	They found the media is at their lowest point of trust.
	So the American people are watching.
	I think it was one in six Biden voters would have changed their vote had they heard about the Hunter Biden story.
	They talk about influencing election.
	and there's simply no...
	So we had Mark Milley, right?
	The head of the Joint Chiefs testifying.
	Well, wouldn't we want our military people to be educated in why there is white rage?
	Wow.
	I'm curious, this man who claims to have read Marx and Mao and, I don't know, who was the third?
	Was it Lennon?
	Yeah.
	Yeah?
	It's hard for me to believe the guy read Lennon.
	I think it's impressive if he did, but I, you know what, I would, I, if I were there, with all respects, could you just name one book by Lennon that you read?
	I happen to have read Lenin, because that was my field, but nobody reads Lenin.
	And there's no reason to read Lenin.
	And we need to teach our military about white rage.
	Right.
	Gee, until then, the military was ineffective.
	Just think about how much more effective they will be when we teach them What to be angry at whites about.
	That's what's missing from the military because of this nothing that is the joint chiefs.
	And he's an ignoramus.
	Oh, three-fifths of a human being.
	Anyone who says that, please know.
	You must know.
	Their ignorance of American history is so deep that they are unworthy of respect.
	Everybody has lacunae.
	Fancy word for gaps in their knowledge.
	No problem.
	But if you cite three-fifths as an example of the racism of the founders in making the slave in the South three-fifths of a vote, then you know that you're talking to a person who has an agenda and no knowledge.
	As you know, the number of people in Congress is determined by the population of your state.
	The southern states wanted to count slaves as a vote.
	That way, they could get more congresspeople in Congress and sway the Congress and national policy toward slavery.
	The North was anti-slavery, so they said, no, you can't count slaves as a whole person.
	Just three-fifths so that you don't get this great number of congressmen in order to further the cause of slavery.
	The three-fifths was anti-slavery, not anti-black.
	And the head of the Joint Chiefs cites it as anti-black.
	It's very worrisome.
	Very worrisome.
	But everything the left touches, it ruins.
	There is no exception.
	The military is the next.
	There's really almost nothing left.
	I want you to hear a terrific thing.
	Babylon B. Very, very funny sight.
	These guys are brilliant.
	We've had their head on.
	What is it, Seth?
	What's his...
	Dylan.
	Dylan, yeah.
	I'm on the show, did a preview video.
	So they put out a thing, seven troubling signs.
	It's a satirical sight, and they're funny every day, which is very hard.
	Seven troubling signs that your baby might be a white supremacist.
	Here we go.
	Oh, hi.
	If you were a young man had a few recently, I hate to say this, but you might have just brought a white supremacist and been told.
	It's over.
	It's important to always look for clues of racist tendencies in your newborn so that you can nip that in the bud.
	Here are five troubling signs that your baby might be a white supremacist.
	Sign number one, he's white, which automatically makes him a racist.
	If your newborn is white, then sorry, it's game over.
	Your baby will be irredeemably racist forever.
	Sad?
	Sign number two.
	Your baby has no hair, which is a common neo-Nazi hairstyle.
	Is your baby a skinhead?
	Having no hair is a colossal red flag.
	Here's a big one.
	Shows his white fragility by crying all the time.
	Crying is a sure sign of defensiveness and a fear of honest conversations around race.
	Not good.
	Four, your baby refuses to say black lives matter.
	Seriously, what is so hard about saying black lives matter?
	If instead he says things like goo-goo-ga-ga, this is even more troubling.
	The phrase goo-goo-ga-ga has ten letters in it.
	Do you know what else has ten letters in it?
	Heil Hitler.
	Hold on there, hold on.
	It's not always brilliant.
	The whole thing is brilliant.
	We should put it up at DennisPrager.com.
	Goo goo ga ga.
	That is so true.
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	Nobody cares whether I live or die.
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	So critical race theory actually is indoctrinating our children to tell them that if you are white, you are an oppressor.
	You are innately designed to be racist.
	And if you are black, you are oppressed.
	In other words, you will never have the opportunities that the white person has and the little boy or the little girl that's sitting beside you in your classroom is the reason why.
	This is why it's such a divisive and in itself it's completely racist.
	Well, it is.
	I mean, that's what I love about people who scream racism are often guilty of the racism themselves.
	I mean, this is the quintessential projection.
	How can you condemn children who've done nothing wrong?
	How do you make victims and oppressors out of kids in elementary school?
	Well, this is what fired me up.
	This is what got me initially so upset, is that...
	You know, I watch my son.
	I watch my 10-year-old son play football with little boys from every race, from every walk of life, every religion.
	And I watch them as they help each other up on the field when they get knocked down.
	I watch them give each other high fives.
	I watch them do chest bumps, right?
	They are not thinking, oh...
	You're black, so I can't touch you.
	Or, oh, you're less than me.
	Guess what?
	They've got blacks, whites, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews.
	They're all playing together, and they're all respecting each other, and they're all caring for each other.
	Why would you put such a divisive theory or ideology into a school system?
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians...
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	Yes, indeed.
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	Tom in Alvin, Texas points out, you disrespect the LGBT flag, you're through.
	That's true.
	That's the famous, and he is the famous Tom of Alvin, I must say.
	That's true.
	Even the Harvard heretic is familiar with him by now.
	Anybody affiliated with the show.
	I wonder when a kid today hears the term the greatest generation, I'm not even sure they hear it.
	It was coined by Tom Brokaw, right?
	That's what I thought, because he wrote a book about them.
	Anyway, I have tremendous admiration for the generation of World War II and the Depression.
	I don't know.
	I've always said I don't think it's the greatest.
	I think it's one of the greatest generations.
	There were many great generations in American history.
	I mean, the founding generation was awesome.
	Just to cite an example.
	Nevertheless, I wonder what...
	If a kid actually cared about history...
	But my vision of America's youth today is I wonder if they're interested in anything that preceded their birth, other than the fact that Jefferson had slaves.
	When you think about what they know about the past, it basically is a selected few anti-American or loathing of American facts for factoids.
	And that's about it.
	But if they...
	If they did think that World War II was a heroic struggle, and then they watched documentaries and saw the pinups on the airplanes, what would they think?
	So, if the type of guy that wanted a pinup on his plane could defeat Hitler better, I don't know if they could live with that cognitive dissonance, to be honest.
	That's the issue there.
	Glenn Lowry, professor of economics at Brown University.
	I didn't even know that, that he was.
	That's interesting.
	God, talk about a fish out of water.
	Black professor of economics who's conservative.
	Writes a very powerful piece, The Case for Black Patriotism.
	A case can be made that the correct narrative to adopt today is one of unabashed black patriotism, a forthright embrace of American nationalism by black people.
	Black Americans' birthright citizenship in what is arguably history's greatest republic is an inheritance of immense value.
	My answer for black Americans to Frederick Douglass' famous question, whose 4th of July, is ours.
	African slavery flourished at the time of the founding, true enough.
	And yet within a century of the founding, slavery was gone and people who had been chattel became citizens of the United States of America.
	Not equal citizens, not at first.
	That took another century.
	But African-descended Americans became, in the fullness of time, equal citizens of this republic.
	Our democracy, flawed as it most surely is, nevertheless became a beacon to billions of people throughout what came to be known as the free world.
	We fought fascism in the Pacific and in Europe, and thereby helped to save the world.
	We faced down under the threat of nuclear annihilation, the horror.
	That was the union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
	Moreover, we have witnessed here in America since the end of the Civil War the greatest transformation in the status of serfdom people, which is in effect what blacks became after emancipation, to be found anywhere in world history.
	This great and historic achievement surely would not have been possible without philosophical insights and moral commitments.
	Cultivated in the 17th and 18th centuries in the West.
	Ideas about the essential dignity of human persons.
	My wife asked an interesting question yesterday, which is her want.
	Was there any anti-slavery philosophy outside of the West?
	In the thousands of years of recorded human history, do we have...
	A civilization...
	I mean, the Bible.
	I believe the Bible's anti-slavery.
	I make that point in my rational Bible.
	But yeah, but that's a side issue.
	Anyway, that's the heritage of the West in large measure.
	That's where they got it from.
	So, outside of the West, there was no anti-slavery idea.
	Certainly not in Islam, which was the greatest user of black slaves.
	Ideas about the essential dignity of human persons and about what makes a government exercise of power over its people legitimate.
	But something new was created here in America at the end of the 18th century.
	Slavery was a holocaust out of which emerged something that actually advanced the morality and the dignity of humankind, namely, emancipation.
	The abolition of slavery and the incorporation of Africa-descended people into the body politic of the United States of America was an unprecedented achievement.
	In the last 75 years, a vast black middle class has developed.
	There are black billionaires.
	The influence of black people on the culture of America is stunning and has global resonance.
	Some 40 million strong black Americans are the richest and most powerful population of African descent on the planet.
	Sound familiar?
	The best place for most blacks on earth to be is the United States of America.
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	2-8 team out with him.
	Headed for the house.
	He's got a hostage.
	You believe in God, Chuck?
	Why does a kid die?
	Drug dealer, get off.
	He's God-free.
	The only answer to that is, there isn't a God.
	You have a choice.
	You can either let the darkness overtake you, or you can be a bearer of the light.
	So just think of it as calling for backup.
	Officer down, officer down.
	You're the one God's called to be a shepherd.
	you Keeper, do you know who I am?
	You are the author?
	I am.
	I don't know you.
	Keeper, it's your son.
	Hurry it up!
	Time is short.
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	They're not journalists.
	And they're really in the business of personal destruction.
	That's right.
	Look, there are definitely a set of reporters in the press corps, and I could probably count them on one hand, maybe two, who are good reporters.
	And I've had one of them came up and, you know, in a hushed tone said to me on the tarmac, I come from the old school of journalism and kind of recognize that it has changed for the worse.
	And then you have people and you're right to call them activists like Caitlin Collins, like Jim Acosta, who are activists.
	And I said that much from the podium.
	I said, Caitlin said to me, hey, Why didn't you call on me?
	And I yelled back, I don't call an activist.
	Because at a certain point, we've got to call out their activism, not engage in that kind of activism, because it's destructive when you are shouted down by a Playboy reporter in the back of the room at the end of each briefing.
	and where the other reporters keep up with what's trending subscribe on youtube and at rumble.com trending now on the mike gellagher show the image of seeing parents dragged out of a school board meeting being arrested by the police really really ugly and And I've seen a lot of ugly comments online.
	About the police officers, which I hate because I'm real pro-police and the police are sort of put in a really untenable situation.
	Can you give me your overview as a mom with kids that are in elementary, middle, and high school in Loudoun County, Virginia?
	Give me your big takeaway over what happened and what you see happening moving forward in Loudoun County, Virginia.
	This is really prevalent all across our country.
	What's happening is they're trying to silence us.
	Anyone that differs in opinion needs to be silenced in their opinion.
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	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	I...
	Thank you.
	I've been reading to you from Glenn Lowry, who's a black, I only mention it because it's relevant to the article he wrote in a city journal, The Case for Black Patriotism.
	He's a professor of economics at Brown University.
	I just want to repeat this last point and end it.
	Black Americans are the richest and most powerful population of African descent on the planet.
	There are 200 million Nigerians, and the gross national product of Nigeria is just about $1 trillion per year.
	America's gross national product is over $20 trillion a year, and we 40 million African Americans have claimed to roughly 10% of it.
	We have access to 10 times the income.
	Of a typical Nigerian.
	And it's certainly not Nigerians' fault because they come to the U.S. and they're a particularly successful immigrant group, Nigerians.
	At the heart of all leftism, whether the leftist is a white, a black, a Jew, is ingratitude, the ugliest.
	of the many ugly traits in the human species.
	I have a particular contempt for ingrates.
	Something particularly ugly about human beings who are not thankful for the blessings that they have.
	It is a blessing to be an American for the vast majority of people in this country.
	That's why so many people want to move here more than any other country in the world.
	They are not stupid.
	Well, that's what your children learn at college.
	You know what they get a BA in?
	Not just ignorance.
	Ingratitude.
	Get a master's in ingratitude and you get a PhD in ingratitude.
	And then you wonder why they're not happy.
	There is not one happy ingrate in the history of the world.
	I have a whole chapter on ingrates in my book on happiness, having nothing to do with politics.
	It is not possible to be ungrateful and be happy.
	And the only way to be happy is to be grateful.
	One of the many reasons leftists are less happy than conservatives.
	Because they're so ungrateful.
	Well, this is a great article by a happy black.
	And you know my riddle.
	What do you call a happy black?
	A conservative.

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