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Aug. 17, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	you.
	A rare, rare bout of something.
	I have no idea.
	Just know that over the course of 48 hours, I slept for 40. That's serious stuff.
	The body's ability to heal in a normal person, obviously normally healthy, is really a miracle.
	And I'm very grateful for it and great to be with you.
	I witnessed the events of Afghanistan with tremendous worry, anger, sadness.
	Every negative emotion, actually.
	Well, not every, not jealousy.
	There are negative emotions that I don't have.
	Lust is not in the group, I have to say.
	When you look at what happened...
	When I saw the Afghans falling from the planes, all I ask for people to do is think of that person as having every desire, every bit of love of life that every one of us has.
	I told you, I think I've mentioned this, The most searing memory of 9-11 is the people jumping out of the Trade Tower, the Twin Towers.
	What is in their mind that last moments, those last moments?
	Do you know what it takes for a person to hang on to an airplane?
	Do you realize, for an Afghan For an Afghan who is not evil, the Taliban are the same as the fire was to the people in the World Trade Center.
	Right?
	Isn't that an interesting analogy?
	What does it take to jump from an airplane?
	They didn't know necessarily they would, but what did they think?
	You're going to hang on at 20,000 feet?
	There's no oxygen to begin with, and you'll freeze to death.
	It's a death sentence.
	Why did people jump from the World Trade Center?
	Because they would otherwise have been devoured by fire.
	Why did people hang on to an airplane?
	Because they would have been devoured by the Taliban.
	Are you familiar, I'm looking at my producer, with the CNN reporter who said, well, they chanted death to America, but they seem like nice people, right?
	Not exactly?
	No, no, tell me exactly, because I don't want to in any way.
	I don't need the clip.
	I just need the words.
	It's very important to me because I have a lot to say about the whole issue of nice people.
	There aren't many people who are not nice.
	Anyway, I do want to get the exact quote because Ted Cruz tweeted that out.
	And Barry Weiss attacked Ted Cruz.
	And that's why I'm looking at you, because I didn't understand why she did.
	She's such a sensible person.
	So I'm wondering, am I missing something here?
	This notion of nice people?
	Niceness is a very good quality.
	There's no question about that.
	But nice people have ruined societies.
	Nice people vote Democrat.
	I mean, really nice people.
	And look at what that party has done wherever it is governed.
	It has ruined America.
	It continues to ruin America.
	To the consternation of a fair number of you, I have no idea what percentage, I came out against withdrawal from Afghanistan months ago.
	I wrote a column against it.
	I knew that many conservatives differed with me, for that matter.
	Donald Trump differed.
	I did not understand the argument whatsoever that, well, we've been there 20 years, so let's leave.
	If we have the clip, is that what you're signaling?
	All right, so let's play it then.
	All right, fine.
	No, no, it's not Joe Biden that we're looking for.
	American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
	Okay, we'll work this out.
	The argument that we have been there for 20 years is such an odd argument to me.
	So at what point...
	Is there a statute of limitations on preventing evil?
	On protecting America?
	Tell me what the statute is.
	Is it three years?
	Is it one year?
	I don't quite get the argument.
	If you're on dialysis for 20 years, I don't know if people are, but if you are, do you say 20 years is enough?
	Or do you prefer to live and continue with dialysis?
	Now we have the clip.
	I haven't heard the clip.
	I only read it.
	Go ahead.
	Chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	Okay, they're friendly.
	It seems utterly bizarre that they're friendly.
	This is the naivete of...
	Most people are naive about evil.
	This has been one of the themes of my entire broadcast career.
	The naivete about evil.
	That is the definition of a liberal.
	Naivete about evil.
	These are people who don't like evil.
	These are people who themselves are not evil.
	They're friendly.
	I don't know of a group that...
	Maybe Antifa's not friendly.
	But of all the evil groups, the vast majority have members who are friendly.
	These are people who take a knife and slice off the head of a conscious person because they have different beliefs than they do, or for whatever other reason, or because they sent their daughter to a school, or because the daughter did go to school and she should be beheaded.
	But they're friendly, and she thinks it's utterly bizarre.
	It's only utterly bizarre to the utterly naive.
	And naivete is a death sentence to a civilization.
	If you are not aware of evil, then evil will win.
	And that's the story here.
	Even President Biden...
	Oh, we need a diplomatic solution.
	A diplomatic solution with the Taliban?
	Are you kidding me?
	And by the way, I was just as opposed to President Trump's plan to leave Afghanistan.
	He tweeted out that, or issued his statement, that he never would have exited this way.
	That I do believe, as it happens.
	That he would have made sure that at the very least we got our vast amount of military hardware out.
	It is now in the hands of the Taliban.
	But the statement of the day, and it's the theme of my column today, Tuesday is my column day.
	It's at my website.
	It's at townhall.com.
	Is the statement by, was it Anthony Blinken?
	Is that right?
	The Secretary of State?
	Yeah.
	That statement, this is not Saigon.
	If you see the pictures of the helicopter lifting Americans off the top of the American embassy, you would not know if it was Saigon in 1975 or Kabul in 2021. These people lie with such grace that,
	again, I turn to my old, old question, do leftists know when they're lying?
	And I think that they have somehow figured out a way to lie without being fully aware of the fact.
	We live in a society of lies.
	I looked up CNN's list of the greatest lies of Donald Trump, because what the left did to deflect from its lying universe was to speak every single day of the lying president.
	But his lies are trivial, even if accurate.
	I'll tell you a few when we get back.
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	On top of the collapse of...
	Of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years.
	It will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years if we're just going to be a socialist?
	Backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam.
	Helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids and tax them, make them sell them.
	Take 45 to 55 percent of that and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're gonna mask your kids and they're gonna ignore your demands of critical race theory be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	Just listen.
	Go to townhall.com and click on the Town Hall TV button.
	Hello, lady.
	Hi, everybody.
	I do want to remind you.
	Actually, one second.
	Are we having the lady from...
	No, she's not right now.
	No, no, I know that.
	This hour?
	Yeah.
	Okay, so I'm going to continue with the show.
	I want you to hear the Secretary of State.
	Who's he interviewed by?
	Jake Tapper.
	Jake Tapper.
	Why isn't this Saigon?
	So listen to his answer.
	No, we're not.
	Remember, this is not Saigon.
	We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission, and that mission was to deal with the folks who attacked us on 9-11.
	Okay, fine.
	Do you understand the answer, ladies and gentlemen?
	The humiliating removal of Americans from the embassy and the thousands of people who are clamoring for freedom to fill airplanes, it is identical!
	To Saigon.
	Identical!
	He's lying.
	The man is straight-faced lying.
	His answer is a non sequitur.
	Why isn't this Saigon?
	It is Saigon.
	This is an amazing moment in American history.
	Your eyes have seen it, and he's telling you, don't believe your lying eyes.
	Believe your lying left-wing administration, because the left doesn't hold truth as a value.
	I swear to God, I believe that.
	Truth is not a left-wing value.
	It is a theme of my life.
	It's a liberal value.
	It's a conservative value.
	It is not a left-wing value.
	They say anything and they talk themselves into it.
	Men give birth.
	This is not Saigon.
	Get it?
	It's all part of a pattern.
	We live in a lying society.
	It is a society of lies.
	Anthony Fauci is up there.
	The man first told us masks don't work.
	Then he said masks work, but in a Freedom of Information Act, by the way, revealed by Slate, by Slate, which is on the left, he said masks don't work privately while lying to the country about masks.
	We live and swim.
	And drown in left-wing lies.
	And if you don't believe it, you are cancelled by the chief administrators of lying, the social media.
	No one has ensured lies prevail more than YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
	This is one of the most classic examples of a big lie right before you.
	You saw Saigon.
	And he's telling you, what, are you kidding?
	You think you saw Saigon?
	Oh, no, we went into Afghanistan with a different purpose.
	What does that have to do with anything?
	Actually, the purpose is...
	This is not Saigon.
	Yeah, this is not Saigon.
	Because I say it's not Saigon and I'm a leftist.
	So I believe it.
	And Joe Biden believes it because he's a leftist.
	And he lies with the best.
	The problem in this society is truth.
	That is the problem.
	Where there is a pursuit of truth, the left is dead.
	Where there is truth, there is no left.
	There's liberals and there's conservatives.
	But there is no left.
	Truth is the mortal enemy of the left.
	Yeah, what you saw, you don't even know when you see the photos, the videos, you don't even know if it is Saigon or if it is Kabul.
	Remember, this is not Saigon.
	It's not Saigon because I'm lying straight to your face and getting away with it.
	Did Jake Tapper say, what are you talking about?
	I don't know, I'm just asking.
	I didn't ask you why we went into Afghanistan, Secretary of State.
	I asked you why it's not Saigon.
	Of course you go into different countries for different reasons.
	Aren't we already in the midst of a Saigon moment?
	No, we're not.
	Remember, this is not Saigon.
	It's a laughable.
	Yes.
	Lifting Americans off the top of the American embassy, that's not Saigon.
	Poor people about to be slaughtered by evil.
	This is not Saigon!
	Because the evil in Saigon was communism, and the evil here is Islamic terror.
	There you go.
	That alone shows you it's not Saigon.
	How many people in Vietnam speak Pushtu?
	It's clearly not Saigon.
	There you go.
	There's your big difference.
	Any Vietnamese speakers in Kabul?
	There you go.
	It's not Saigon.
	They don't even speak the same language.
	Any I wonder if there is any push to Vietnamese and translator in the world I Wrote for UCLA magazine when they used to publish people who were not on the left Many many years ago, and I can't find it for some reason It is the only piece of writing of mine I can't find that lies at the root of evil.
	Not money, not lust, not the other things that we attribute evil to.
	They have their own issues.
	But the ultimate issue is lying.
	And we're drowning in lies.
	I'll bet you that the vast majority of people who say men menstruate, and who don't say women breastfeed, but say birthing persons chestfeed, which is now what is said in medical schools to my horror.
	I'll bet you they support the...
	I'll bet you they believe, Blinken, that it's not Saigon.
	It's all of a pattern.
	The battle is over truth.
	Not just values.
	The battle is over truth.
	That's why there's no...
	It's an unbridgeable gap.
	People are not open to truth.
	Lying organs like the New York Times that just, you know, filled with distortions.
	Filled.
	A woman writes in the L.A. Times that Larry Elder twists facts on black criminality.
	She lied.
	He's never twisted a fact about it.
	She even has a link.
	All it does is link to Larry Elder's facts.
	They're facts.
	She doesn't show why they've been twisted.
	And she's obviously so valued at the LA Times, they actually zoomed her in on Larry Elder's editorial board conference.
	Did you know that?
	This woman?
	1-8 Prager 776. Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country, just as a population, has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is the product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over.
	To Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad, during that time who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're honest, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes tend to be...
	You know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	Maybe you get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, this is basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, very few people go on vacation.
	In China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Here at Salem media group.
	We're delighted to welcome you back to your old habits and haunts.
	Nice to see you at our restaurants.
	We've been waiting a long time for you to return.
	Nice to see you at the salon, the post office, the flower shop.
	Nice to see you back in the office.
	Nice to see all those cars on the freeway again.
	Yay!
	Hello, Bedford Falls!
	For over a year, America has been fighting to get back to normal.
	This Salem radio station has been fighting right alongside you.
	Now we're back.
	You're back.
	It feels so good to be back.
	Welcome back to the...
	Is there an ID for her on IM?
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Hi.
	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Everything the left touches it ruins, as you know.
	The latest victim is the United States.
	The education system...
	The media is the most obvious example.
	There's a tie for the most obvious example.
	But there is another arena that is frightening.
	And I don't get easily frightened, as you know.
	And that is the amount of debt that this country is taking on, which it won't be able to pay.
	If the dollar...
	Does not remain the currency of choice in the world.
	What will happen in the United States with a worthless dollar is a nightmarish scene.
	The idea of spending three and a half trillion dollars.
	I don't think people understand the gravity of that.
	There's a group that does, and that is Job Creators Network, arguably.
	Well, not arguably.
	Let's say one of my three favorite groups in America, and I would include PragerU in that three.
	That's how much I admire Job Creators Network.
	Elaine Parker is the Chief Communications Officer.
	She's been on with me before.
	And I look forward to the day you can retire, but I don't see that happening in the very near future, frankly.
	Hey, Dennis.
	No, I think I have guaranteed employment, at least for the next four years, right?
	At least, at least.
	So, what is happening to the dollar?
	Well, I mean, Dennis, what we're seeing is just unprecedented spending.
	I mean, President Biden and Democrats, they've enacted a tax and spend agenda, and it's done a multitude of damage to our economy and to our country.
	Created the worst labor shortage we've seen in decades.
	It's increased inflation to the point where earnings are effectively negative.
	I mean, we saw inflation go up to 5.4%, and wages only increased by 4%.
	So we're calling that a Biden tax cut, because by my math, the cost of goods are going up faster than the wages are going up.
	So people are actually losing ground here.
	Because, you know, gas is up 50%.
	Groceries are up.
	The cost of energy is up.
	There's a long list of costs that are up.
	And small businesses are also taking it on the chin.
	And one of their biggest concerns is inflation.
	Well, small business has already taken it on the chin because the lockdowns have disproportionately affected them.
	Walmart and Amazon are doing just great.
	I don't want to leave you on with this question.
	It sounds like I am, but I really don't intend to.
	But is there contempt for small business on the left?
	You know, I think we've had this conversation in the past, Dennis, and the reality is...
	What we believe is that, you know, the left, Democrats, they don't like small businesses.
	And the reason why is because they can't control them.
	It's very easy to control a Walmart that's employing hundreds of thousands of people across the country, across the world.
	But you can't control, you know, independent small businesses and dry cleaners and pizza parlors and hairdressers.
	I mean, they're independent entrepreneurs.
	Who are coming up with new ideas all the time on how to improve their business, hire more people, and give back to their communities.
	And Democrats can't control that, and they don't like that.
	What would you like people to do?
	Because I want them to be involved with you.
	So we've launched a campaign called Bring Small Businesses Back, and that is to counter this war on small business.
	That the Biden administration has launched, and we are actually going on a national bus tour starting right after Labor Day.
	We'll be in about 20 different cities across the country, just to start with.
	We'll do more later, but we're starting out now, September and October.
	We'll be on the road.
	We'll be in different districts meeting with congressional representatives and small business owners in rally-type style stops.
	And meeting with small business owners and talking about the issues that are facing them and educating them on how they can fight back and how they can speak out by joining the Job Creators Network and by fighting back and letting us amplify their voice.
	So, I'm going to ask my producer, is there a link to JoinJCN at DennisPrager.com?
	So, go to JoinJCN.com.
	Is that correct?
	That is correct.
	JoinJCM.com.
	You folks are magnificent, and the battle is overwhelming.
	Thank you, Elaine Parker and JC and Job Creators Network.
	I will mention them frequently.
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	And that's why Florida and Hungary, in my opinion, are so similar, right?
	Is that Florida is the domestic example of a more orderly, common sense approach to the land of the insane, right?
	And they hate that.
	Like, we must crush Ron DeSantis.
	We must crush Viktor Orban, right?
	Right, and notice that the people calling for crushing other people are the ones calling you a fascist.
	So the very people who are like, oh no, it's totally normal to fire someone from his job because I disagree with him.
	It's totally normal to beat someone up for having a Trump hat on.
	You know, a political party that I don't support?
	Yeah, we should beat him up.
	It's totally cool to burn your cities on the basis of political ideology, BLM, over the last year and a half.
	No, it's totally fine.
	But if you disagree that you're the fascist, it's like at a certain point, you know, I think we're too literal.
	I know that I certainly am way too literal.
	Every night, you know, I'm writing...
	My scripts, and I'm like, I can't, but that's the opposite of the truth!
	And at a certain point, that's on me.
	Of course it's the opposite of the truth.
	It's a totalitarian worldview that inverts reality for its own power.
	Like, that's just what it is.
	And if I continue to be surprised by it, then I'm the moron.
	The question is, what do you do about it?
	And I'm not sure I know the answer.
	I mean, I'm not in charge of anything.
	I'm just a talk show host, so my job is just to, like, say it out loud.
	I think that's a helpful first step.
	But you can see where this is going.
	CNN just fired three employees for not getting the vaccine.
	Just fired them.
	No one said anything.
	That's totally normal.
	Take a man's livelihood away because he won't take a medicine that you want him to take, that he may not need, that he certainly doesn't want, and he can't work in this country.
	Do we want to live in that country?
	I don't, you know, I don't.
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	Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or, think of Black Friday.
	You know how...
	All the stores try to get you in the stores on Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	And they only have X amount before they're absolutely gone.
	gone and obviously their trick is to get you in the store so you can buy it.
	All right, everybody.
	Dennis Prager.
	There we go.
	Let's see here.
	I promised you that I would read to you a bit from CNN's list of the most notable lies of Donald Trump.
	Since I have spoken to you about the society of lies in which we live because of the left, the reason for charging Trump...
	As a liar for four years is the same as being preoccupied with the quote-unquote insurrection.
	It deflects from what the left does.
	That's the whole point.
	If we can get you to concentrate on the right, you will ignore the left.
	That is the oldest tactic of the left, and it always works.
	That's why Stalin called Trotsky a fascist.
	So here we go.
	CNN lists.
	The most notable lies.
	The most telling lie.
	This is the first one.
	It didn't rain on his inauguration.
	You hear that?
	You looked at me as if I'm making it up.
	Let's say, I don't even know what it refers to.
	I don't remember it, but it doesn't matter.
	So, that was the most telling lie.
	That it didn't rain at the inauguration, and apparently it did.
	I don't know what he said.
	I'm giving you all of the lies are of that significance.
	Then, of course, the most dangerous lie, the coronavirus was under control.
	Everybody.
	Quote-unquote lied in the beginning about the coronavirus, not to panic people.
	Nancy Pelosi said, hey, everybody come to Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
	There's nothing to worry about.
	People didn't know in the beginning about the virus.
	Okay?
	Wanting people not to panic is actually a wonderful thing.
	The panic has caused far more danger than all the calls of not to panic.
	Let's see, what else here?
	The most ridiculous subject of a lie, the Boy Scouts.
	The ugliest smear, Representative Ilhan Omar supports Al-Qaeda.
	Okay, anyway, I just want you to understand, that is CNN's list of the great lies, of the great liar.
	Does anything compare to America systemically racist?
	Anything compare to Blinken's, this is not Saigon, as you watch it, being Saigon?
	Or to men give birth?
	Or to renaming women birthing persons so as to include men?
	Biological men?
	That is the issue here.
	Jacob, Minneapolis.
	Dennis Prager in Los Angeles.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Thanks for having me on.
	It's great to talk with you.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, a lot of what you just said sort of wraps nicely into things that I've been experiencing.
	First, my family, we own a small business, so it kind of gets to your last segment.
	But my brother is a veteran who served overseas in several Middle East countries.
	A few years ago.
	He gave a lot for the country.
	Still struggles with some things today.
	So it's a sad day for that.
	I wanted to ask you a question.
	It's a confusing time.
	I'm a practicing Christian.
	Growing up, we were patriotic.
	We knew that America had something.
	We were founded on...
	You know, good and decent values, the principle of Judeo-Christian values that, if enacted properly, could be a source of consolation and help to people across the world.
	It just so happens that the same people who call, you know, people birthing persons and who, you know, they trust the science when it comes to, you know, COVID, but who are totally willing to disregard the science about the unborn person or who are unwilling to...
	You know, who look so blatantly and falsely at biology and tell us why it's that way.
	You know, they keep calling us a democracy, so then the most violent thing pops up, and, you know, we just embrace it, and we don't have any sort of standard against it.
	So it's so sad to see, like, what could be so good.
	good because you pass along so many good values across the world but instead we you know we share our filth and our smut with the rest of the world and then they look obviously badly at us and you know and then okay so then to kind of go from there I was wondering the question is do you see in this very kind of bitter time I worked for Donald Trump twice I thought I thought he was the best Ask the question.
	Do you see in these times?
	Yes.
	Do you see somebody who can combat this nonsense?
	Yes, yes.
	The answer is there are millions who can.
	It is Any non-leftist can combat all of this.
	That's why this notion of, oh, it's only Trump, or it's only DeSantis, or it's only Nikki Haley, or any of these other terrific people is ridiculous.
	Any non-leftist can crush the left.
	The left needs supporters.
	You don't support the left.
	You clean the society.
	That's why it is so important for Republicans to win.
	There are a handful of Republicans who have no idea what they stand for.
	Mitt Romney is an example.
	Or Lynn Cheney.
	But they're a tiny minority.
	That's why I never get fixated on one individual.
	There is no savior.
	The savior is non-leftist, ideally anti-leftist.
	I would take an anti-leftist liberal.
	That's the answer.
	We don't need one spectacular human being.
	We need anyone who understands the existential threat to everything that you treasure, that the left constitutes.
	That's all it takes.
	We'll be back.
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	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about, what, $1.7 trillion?
	So that's more than a quarter of the entire discretionary budget.
	I had a senior Trump administration official tell me last night.
	The only way out will be to devalue the currency.
	You get to do that once and you're no longer the reserve currency.
	It is debasing the currency.
	This is, I think, to show that they can do something big and beat the Republicans.
	I mean, I don't want to be uncharitable.
	And yeah, there's a lot of bad policies.
	You've talked about the death tax and you're right.
	They're eliminating work for all these welfare programs.
	So we're going to be treated to millions and millions of able-bodied people.
	Getting all these benefits and not working, because it doesn't make any sense for them to work.
	No, it's economically rational to stay home, especially when they extended the rent moratorium.
	They screwed small landlords everywhere in the United States, but they also increased the incentive not to go back to work.
	you don't have a rent bill to pay.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	Yeah. .
	Let's talk about something that's not superb, not superb, not superb.
	And that's Sasha, don't call me Mr. Windman and his flip-flops and his posing around with...
	Oh, hang on.
	I've got it here.
	It's Arnold.
	Screw your freedom.
	Schwarzenegger.
	This is radio, Kurt.
	You've got to do more than give me his face.
	Well, you want me to say FCC compliant, don't you?
	Yes, try.
	Please try to not say those seven naughty words.
	Well, look, I find it a massive embarrassment that a former governor of our biggest state in the union casually dismisses freedom the way this guy does.
	does it shows he has a basic misunderstanding of the concept We'll be right
	back.
	We'll be right back.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	That last point was a very important one, worthy of reinforcing.
	That's right, a WOR, worthy of reinforcing.
	Isn't that a radio station in New York?
	WOR. I think that was what it originally meant, worthy of reinforcing.
	I am asked all the time, so who do you want, Dennis?
	Totally legitimate question, by the way.
	I'm not in any way belittling it.
	But you need to understand the battle is not personalities.
	Americans are fixated on personalities.
	Like the American statement, I vote for the person, not the party.
	You've got to be kidding.
	I would vote for Romney over a Democrat.
	That's saying something, folks.
	Right?
	The first thing is, as the Hippocratic Oath, first do no harm.
	Voting for a Democrat does harm.
	I don't vote for personalities.
	That's why I supported, not originally, but once nominated, I supported Donald Trump.
	turned out to be a great president as it happens.
	G-R-E-A-T.
	G-R-E-A-T.
	A lot of personality deficiencies. - That's easy.
	They didn't particularly interest me since the country was the issue, not the personality.
	So when I'm asked who do I prefer, I prefer any Republican who will win.
	That is whom I prefer.
	There's a civil war in this country.
	There's an actual civil war.
	I've said this for decades.
	We have nothing in common left and right.
	Nothing.
	It's an amazing division.
	In the civil war, they had one thing not in common.
	It's a big thing.
	Slavery.
	It's big.
	Big enough to have had a horrible war.
	But beyond that...
	They agreed on most things.
	They didn't agree on race.
	The South remained racist.
	Very tragic and very bad.
	But otherwise, but not now, you can't say there's one thing and otherwise.
	We differ on everything important.
	Back in a moment. - Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show. - Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country just as a population has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes...
	Tend to be, you know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	I mean, they get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, Very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Not one mistake.
	It's good to be back.
	Welcome back to the real world. .
	On top of the collapse...
	Of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years.
	It will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years if we're just going to be a socialist?
	Backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam.
	Helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids and tax them, make them sell them.
	Take 45 to 55 percent of that and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Mohler.
	This is really crucially important.
	The last.
	The last.
	Alright, now you know I'm back.
	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager.
	It is almost impossible to overstate how terrible the withdrawal and the way it was handled is for America, for the world.
	It is really, it is almost nothing you could say would overstate how bad it was.
	Months ago I wrote that we should not withdraw.
	Just let me read to you the last years.
	Killed, let's see, U.S. fatalities, total fatalities, no matter what.
	I mean, if a soldier fell on a bayonet, unfortunately, tragically.
	Whatever the reason, total fatalities.
	2020. Nine.
	2021 thus far zero, by the way.
	2019, 22. 2018, 15. 2017, 17. 2016, 14. 2015, 22. Every one is a tragedy, but I suspect that the number killed in accidents is about that or more in the U.S. Armed Forces.
	There were years of much greater numbers between, let's see, 28 and 2012. That's true.
	The highest was 2010 at 496. But 9, 22, 15, 17, 14, 22. So we're not talking about, oh, this cost in blood.
	Let's have some perspective here.
	If you are not prepared to lose a soldier, you're not prepared to fight anything.
	There's a notion that prevails in sentimental thought in America.
	One is too many.
	What does that mean?
	It's the Governor Cuomo drivel from the beginning.
	If everything I have done saves one life.
	Yes.
	That's the notion in New Zealand.
	New Zealand is closed down again.
	New South Wales state in Australia is closed.
	I mean closed.
	Did you see the picture, by the way?
	Women arrested for talking outdoors?
	In a park?
	For talking?
	A big fine.
	Yes, you are not allowed to talk in the largest state of Australia.
	The Anglo-Saxon people have become the wimpiest, weakest, most willing to be herded and dictated to in the world.
	The U.S., the U.K., New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.
	I don't know why, but it is true.
	Fined for talking outdoors, even with a mask on.
	And we're told to follow the science.
	You know what the left follows?
	The love of power.
	Los Angeles County, where I live, voted to consider shutting down everything to the non-vaccinated.
	All indoor.
	They voted unanimously.
	But if you're vaccinated, what do you care if somebody else is not vaccinated?
	Doesn't it show the impotence of the vaccine?
	I can't think of a worse possible way to convince the unvaccinated to get vaccinated than telling them that even when you're vaccinated, you have to wear a mask and you can contract it from the unvaccinated.
	Oh, what a vaccine.
	But now they're saying, get a booster.
	Get a third shot.
	And not considering getting ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.
	That's dangerous.
	Two of the safest drugs of the last half century.
	That's dangerous.
	As dangerous as aspirin.
	But, as I pointed out in the first hour with Anthony Blinken's mind-boggling comment, this is not Saigon.
	You see with your eyes, dear friends.
	It is Saigon.
	There is no difference between Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021. America was humiliated and abandoned people who loved liberty to their deaths.
	They're deaths, often grisly deaths.
	Why would you fight alongside the United States, given Kabul in 2021 and Saigon in 1975?
	China is celebrating our departure.
	Russia is celebrating our departure.
	Pakistan is celebrating our departure.
	Iran is.
	And the left is.
	Because they have similar values.
	Anti-American.
	If you hate America, this was a great week for you.
	If you hate America, if you have no regard for liberty, this was a great week.
	If you love America or liberty...
	Do you know what I learned, though?
	It just shows you how deep the rot of the left is.
	Do you know that Kabul University had a gender studies department?
	Did you know that?
	Did you learn that this week?
	We exported this drivel to Afghanistan and expected the Afghans to respect us.
	Gender studies at Kabul University.
	Let's teach Afghans that men menstruate.
	Remember whatever the left touches, it ruins. - Thank you.
	It's a force of chaos in the human species.
	The humiliation of a great power is not an insignificant thing.
	It has nothing to do with ego.
	You know, it's not like, oh, the Baltimore Orioles were humiliated this year because they had two 12-game losing streaks.
	Did you know that?
	Or do you not follow baseball anymore?
	You'd be surprised how much I don't follow it.
	He said I would be surprised at how much he doesn't follow it.
	I need to say to you something.
	Knowing your knowledge and love of baseball, that is only sadness.
	It would be as if I lost my love of classical music.
	That is what the left has done to you.
	They've poisoned sports.
	But anyway, I read about it.
	I have no interest in watching.
	The humiliation of the United States is not the same as the humiliation of the Baltimore Orioles.
	That's my point.
	The humiliation of the United States has profoundly moral consequences.
	Bruce Boer...
	Tell me about Bruce Bauer.
	He's terrific.
	B-A-W-E-R. Is it Bauer or Bauer?
	I think it's Bauer.
	Bauer?
	Tell me, you know anything about him?
	I mean, I know we've had him on.
	Who does he?
	Is he with the think tank?
	Because he has such intelligent stuff.
	And the American Spectator re-empowering the women of Kabul.
	Most of the women of Kabul apparently hate the return of the old order.
	I don't want to hide behind a curtain-like cloth, Habiba University student told The Guardian.
	If I wear the burqa, it means that I have accepted the Taliban's government.
	I have given them the right to control me.
	Amul, a model and designer, feels that she'll have to obey the Taliban's strictures, but despises the idea.
	It's like my identity is about to be scrubbed out.
	Silly girls, writes Bauer.
	There's no reason to be glum, quite the contrary.
	Just ask Dame Carol and Spellman.
	A conservative politician in the UK who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, no less.
	In 2010, she told Sky News that the burqa, are you ready, folks?
	Confers dignity and is empowering.
	Yes.
	He has more feminist spokeswomen who are pro-burqa.
	That makes sense.
	Controlling people is the animating impulse of the left.
	back in a moment.
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	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain Free Studio.
	Tell us about how all that kind of came to be.
	As a father of four children, I'm very familiar with lying because kids lie.
	And when kids lie, they lie in a recognizable way.
	They tell you A version of the story that's, say, 15 or 20 degrees off the truth.
	Like, did you eat the Oreos?
	I just had one.
	No, you had six.
	Oh, I had two.
	Right?
	So that's how conventional people lie.
	Totalitarians lie in a very different way.
	They tell you the inverse of the truth, 180 degrees.
	You ate the cookies.
	and then they arrest you for eating the cookies.
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	Eric, I have campaign expenditure limitations Gavin Newsom does not.
	He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money.
	And shortly after it was obvious I was going to get into the race, the union, SEIU union gave him $5 million for the anti-recall side.
	And just a couple of days ago, the teachers union, the largest funder of his campaign, gave him an additional $1.8 million.
	It is estimated he's going to raise a minimum of $50 million, maybe as much as $75 million to defeat you.
	You were praising my courage.
	Let me just say something about that.
	I get that a lot, and I have to push back because I'm not storming the beaches of Normandy.
	Unlike my father, I was never a Marine.
	Unlike my older brother, I was never a member of the Navy.
	Like my little brother, I was never a member of the Army.
	I did not serve.
	And about all the things I've ever done in my life, that's probably the thing that I regret the most.
	That I didn't give back a few years to my country.
	So this is a small sacrifice.
	I'm losing a little bit of money, well, actually a lot of money compared to my net worth.
	And of course, nobody's lived a pure life and anything and everything I've ever done will be exposed and will be twisted.
	And I know that I'll be assuming that.
	But this is a small price to pay for a country that I love so much and for a state that I love so much.
	You know, that's why you are who you are.
	You have perspective.
	You're talking about your father.
	You've been on this program before talking about your father.
	And when you've lived that kind of a life and you see what real sacrifice looks like, it's natural for you to do things that other people say, well, that's brave or that's heroic.
	You just think, well, what are you talking about?
	This is basic stuff.
	I've been living in a country that allowed me to succeed and to say what I want.
	How can I not fight for that?
	And again, I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	Hello, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	I have some quite mind-boggling reports for you.
	First, a word about mortgage rates, which are extremely low.
	Many of you are considering a refi or a new purchase or a cash-out refi or a reverse mortgage.
	When I personally recommend people, I mean, I'm aware of them as honest and as capable.
	So I commend to you, Andrew and Todd, at Sierra Pacific Mortgage.
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	It was, let alone people going to work every day.
	I admire these guys.
	I finally met them.
	They're as nice as they are capable.
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	Before I give you more women who think that the burka is liberating, I'd like to bring to your attention something, which should be front-page news.
	But the lying media will not do so.
	Nevertheless, to its credit, The Guardian, which is on the left in Britain, reports a study, what is it, Brown University, is that correct?
	And Brown University is on the left.
	I want you to hear this, parents.
	Maybe this will convince you to take your children out of school.
	Children born during the pandemic have lower IQs, U.S. study finds.
	Well, this is not about just going to school.
	It's about masks.
	You're wearing masks.
	Not allowing your kids to play with other kids.
	Because you are imbecilically scared of their getting COVID. Irrationally scared.
	Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before.
	The first few years of a child's life are critical to their cognitive development, but with COVID-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools, and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they try to balance work and children.
	With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development, said lead study author Sean Diony, associate professor of pediatrics at Brown University.
	In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardized tests for children aged between three months and three years of age Hovered around 100. But for children born during the pandemic, that number tumbled to 78, according to the analysis.
	It is not subtle by any stretch, said Dione.
	You don't typically see things like that outside of a major cognitive disorder.
	The study included 672 children from the state of Rhode Island.
	Of these, 188 were born after July 2020, and 308 were born prior to January 2019. 176 were born between January 2019 and March 2020. The children included in study were born full term, had no developmental disabilities, and were mostly white.
	Those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fared worse in the tests the researchers found.
	The biggest reason behind the falling scores is likely the lack of stimulation and interaction at home.
	And so on.
	Okay?
	There are parents who forbade their children for a year from playing with other children.
	They mean well, and frankly, doesn't mean a damn to me.
	The amount of terrible things done by people with good intentions is almost equal to the amount of evil on earth.
	There's no excuse for a parent who forbade their children to play with other children.
	You hurt your child.
	Because you're a scaredy cat.
	Okay?
	It's as simple as that.
	Your irrational hypochondriac fears hurt your children.
	You damaged your children because you are a fool.
	Nice people.
	I know such people.
	Very nice, mean well, and all of it is irrelevant.
	In the face of irrational fear, people will hurt their loved ones.
	Get it?
	That is how bad irrational fear is.
	And the media and the AMA and CDC and NIH are all complicit in driving people out of their minds.
	Literally out of their minds because they hurt their children.
	I warned about it the whole time.
	So it's a little frustrating, I admit it, because I can't change the whole country's mind.
	I'd like to.
	But I can't.
	Even if I could talk to the whole country, there would still be so many people with irrational fears, people who believe the New York Times, that it wouldn't matter.
	Don't let children play with other children because of COVID. Have them wear masks to school.
	How do they learn verbal signals from human beings if they don't interact with them?
	Oh, masks.
	Oh, it's just an inconvenience.
	You're selfish for not wearing a mask.
	You're an idiot for wearing a mask.
	You're damaging children, okay?
	You're damaging society by wearing a mask.
	Let me reverse it.
	We are not selfish for not wearing masks.
	You are selfish for wearing a mask.
	Because it makes you feel good.
	There is no other reason for your wearing a mask.
	Get it?
	You want to feel good.
	You are selfish.
	We are not.
	You damage people with a damn mask.
	We don't.
	Okay?
	Is that clear?
	I think it's clear.
	Masks are despicably damaging things in this society.
	That's all they are.
	They're useless.
	They're medically useless.
	I read the New England Journal of Medicine report to you from early on that they're useless.
	Fauci said they're useless.
	Then he changed his mind, but in Freedom of Information Act, we learn privately he continued to say they're useless.
	Newsom locks down a state, but he personally doesn't wear a mask.
	Nor did Pelosi.
	They all know that it's useless.
	It's a selfish statement of, I am wonderful.
	That's all it is.
	It's pure, pure, undiluted selfishness.
	I am wonderful.
	I wear a mask.
	That's all it is.
	Is that clear?
	We will return.
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	This is a big issue.
	I'm not sure if I'm going to go to the end of the video.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes...
	Tend to be, you know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	Maybe they get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, Very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	PragerU is doing some spectacular work, as you well know.
	It's the largest non-left video institution on Earth.
	Over a billion views a year.
	And August is fundraising month, so we feature somebody connected in some way with PragerU once a day in August.
	August was chosen totally arbitrarily because my birthday's in August.
	It was already, obviously, August 2nd.
	And thank you all for your good wishes.
	They mean a lot to me, actually.
	So, in Ohio, we have Lori Hudson.
	And she is a PragerU prep mother and teacher, correct?
	So let's find out first what PrEP is.
	Lori Hudson, thank you for coming on my show.
	Thank you for having me.
	It's nice to hear you.
	Thank you so much.
	Where exactly in Ohio are you?
	I'm a high school English teacher in a rural public school district that's about an hour east of Columbus.
	You mean indigenous?
	Yes.
	Right.
	I don't understand how they retain the name.
	If they change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, why don't they change that?
	Well, we're still Columbus in Ohio, so yeah, we'll go with Columbus.
	I'm with you on that.
	So, you are both a mom and a teacher, correct?
	That is true, yes.
	So, all right, PREP is the PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents.
	You use it as both a mother and a teacher?
	Well, my kids, my own children, are...
	Out of college, so they're older.
	I'm actually a grandmother now.
	But I have lots of nieces and nephews, and I share the resources with them for their kids, and I share it as much as possible with friends just because they're just unaware and they don't know those resources are out there.
	But as far as in my classroom, yes, I have used some of the five-minute shorts and various other things with my kids in the classroom.
	Do you get any flack for doing so?
	Well, what I do is I ask administration, get that approval.
	I actually showed no safe spaces last year to my juniors.
	That's not a Prager resource, but just a side note.
	But I put it on my syllabus that I'll be sharing some Prager resources, and then I get the parents to sign the syllabus.
	And then when anything comes up...
	Then I send a reminder home.
	I put it on the agenda and that sort of thing.
	So far, I've not had any back slack.
	So I have to believe that the reason is you're in a traditional American area, being an hour outside of Columbus.
	Right.
	I am blessed to be in a conservative school district.
	We still say the Pledge of Allegiance.
	There's a variety of things I could share with you that we still do.
	So how much is a house there?
	A house?
	Hmm.
	I'm thinking of moving.
	About $150,000, maybe $100,000?
	Hmm.
	Sure, we'd welcome you.
	Yeah, I could buy quite a number.
	I could buy a block with my house.
	Right.
	I am curious, then, about your area in other ways, and we'll get back to prep.
	What is the story there on, for example, mask wearing?
	So we are going back to pre-COVID situations.
	So it's really the district is leaving it up to parents to decide.
	Last year we were hybrid.
	Students could decide if they wanted to be remote or in class.
	We did wear masks the entire year.
	And this year it's just up to the parents to decide what they want their children to do.
	We're not doing remote, to the best of my knowledge.
	It's all in class, face-to-face, but whether or not you want to wear a mask is up to the parents.
	So you live in an area which gives parents the right to choose how their child will mask or not.
	How radical.
	I mean, that is truly radical.
	I know it is.
	And what about outdoors?
	I'm not following you.
	Are people wearing masks outdoors in general?
	No, no, no.
	In the street, outside of a market.
	An occasional mask here and there in Walmart or whatnot, but not generally speaking.
	No, everyone is maskless.
	So life is pretty normal.
	Life is?
	Pretty normal.
	You know, there's a lot of discussion about the vaccine and just that sort of thing, but people want to live, so we want to get back to normal as quickly as possible.
	All right, we'll continue in a moment.
	PrEP is one of the great things for educating your kids.
	It's available at PragerU.
	We need your help.
	Everything is free.
	PragerU.com, 833-PRAGERU. Helping fighters is as important as fighting.
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	TryNerveRenew.com Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or think of Black Friday.
	You know how...
	All the stores try to get you in the stores during Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	And they only have X amount.
	Before they're absolutely gone.
	And obviously their trick is to get you in the store so you can buy other stuff if you're in California so you can shoplift other stuff.
	But in other places around the nation, it's so you can buy other stuff.
	So you walk into this store, you get into...
	Well, you don't walk in on Black Friday.
	You bum rush that store.
	Are you set in line?
	You have the money in your hands.
	You're ready to go.
	You've got all of this cash.
	You've been saving.
	And you're just ready to go.
	You're like, I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done today.
	You pull up.
	You see the line.
	And you're like, wow.
	Everybody else.
	The 200 people standing in line in front of me.
	The same amount of money or cash that I do, but there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't he send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	On useless, poorly thought out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic kale chase for 20 years.
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Remember, I said they're going to borrow and spend a lot of money.
	Now, you know, when the tax increases come up, this is going to be to borrow...
	...to Lori Hudson, a teacher who uses PragerU materials in her classroom.
	And the program is PREP, Prager University Resources for Educators and Parents.
	Many, many tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands.
	Do you know the number of people involved in PREP? Do I know?
	No, no, I was asking.
	I'm sorry, I was asking.
	I'm sorry, Lori.
	I wouldn't think you would know.
	Well, I do know a little bit about it.
	There are about 250 presenters of your five-minute videos, so that's...
	That's interesting a little bit.
	250 presenters of videos in the prep program.
	I'm not following them.
	Well, yeah, the five-minute videos, which are available both on PragerU.com and through the prep.
	What do you do?
	You show it in the class, and then you have them react?
	No, I just use it as supplemental information, and sometimes we would do maybe a Socratic seminar on some questions afterwards, things like that.
	So, for example, my junior English class, we read a couple of books that have been challenged in the past, and so we do an entire year-long unit on censorship, and the two books that we focus on are Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Grapes of Wrath.
	For example, I used Carol Swain's five-minute video after reading Uncle Tom's Cabin just to show how the black journey of success took place.
	She's just a voice of success, and so it's really interesting for the kids to see how she climbed her way out of poverty and made something of herself and ended up, you know, being a professor at Vanderbilt.
	Just a lot of different ways you can use them.
	And if you can't use them in your class, you can certainly use them to build background knowledge for yourself.
	So, yeah, I just want to strongly encourage people to check out the five-minute videos for sure.
	Well, you're an inspiration, I'll just tell you, to speak to you.
	By the way, just apropos of nothing, you shocked me when you said you were a grandmother.
	You sound very young, just for the record.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you.
	On the other hand, grandmothers don't often look like grandmothers either these days.
	That's great to be a grandmother.
	I do want to say, too, though, that the prep page on Facebook, the group, it is just so great just because it's very engaging.
	I mean, the difference between...
	PragerU.com, of course, and the prep page.
	It is interactive on Facebook, and you can post things, and you can ask questions, and you can meet people and inbox and share resources and all sorts of things.
	So it's not just for teachers and home educators.
	It's for students and everyone.
	So I would see it as being beneficial to virtually anyone.
	So, look, I did a...
	Yesterday I did a Zoom session with Prager Forest kids around the world, and one of the questions was, you know, what do we do not to despair?
	These are kids who are 21 years old asking this, unfortunately, and they're right to, and obviously older people of any age think, ask the same.
	My answer is, find kindred spirits, and you don't despair.
	So, is PrEP a way to find kindred spirits?
	Well, I would say that I wanted to note for sure with you that probably the most valuable thing to me with regards to PrEP is being with like-minded people.
	It does give me hope and promise for our future.
	We just have, there's a lot of encouragement, a lot of like-minded discussions, there's tips, there's tips on...
	Resources and tips on verbiage on how to approach people or talk about critical race theory or whatnot.
	And there are just a lot of people out there that are like us, and there's nothing worse than feeling lonely in the world.
	So I would just encourage those same kids to find, like you did, to find those kindred spirits and group up and have discussions and book discussions and everything so you don't feel alone anymore.
	You are one impressive woman.
	Well, thank you.
	As are you.
	So you give me hope, too, Mr. Prager.
	Good.
	God bless you.
	If that doesn't motivate somebody to do two things, one, donate to PragerU, because everything is free.
	We can only do it with funds.
	And join the program.
	So, just to meet kindred spirits, if nothing else.
	PragerU.com, 833-PRAGERU. Look, I don't bluff at all.
	I don't even know how to, to be honest.
	We all have to fight parts of our nature.
	Bluffing is not something I have to fight.
	Speaking to Laurie Hudson is good for my health.
	I mean that literally.
	And I believe speaking to me is good for her health.
	I don't have any problem in noting that.
	So I bless her, and again, the program is prep at prageru.com.
	I spoke yesterday to about, I'd say about 100 Prager Force kids from around America and other parts of the world.
	Prager Force is the high school and college-aged You don't have to be at high school or college.
	You have to be that age to join.
	That would inspire you.
	I think we should put the recording of the video up to see these kids, you know, just absolutely normal-looking kids, but who share values.
	If you took 100 leftist kids on a Zoom...
	And a hundred PragerU kids on a Zoom.
	You would note in a second the difference.
	The non-self-pity.
	The non-anger.
	There was no anger.
	We're not angry, the non-left.
	It's inspiring.
	But they do have to fight despair.
	And the way...
	It's to meet one another, and they do.
	If you have kids that age, they should consider joining Prager for us.
	Back in a moment.
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	Remember, I said they're going to borrow and spend a lot of money.
	Now, you know, when the tax increases come up, this is going to be to borrow and spend enormous amounts of money, force inflation up without addressing even the safety net needs.
	Forget about defense, which they're not spending any money on either, right?
	Right.
	It's chaos, a sort of left-wing-flavored chaos.
	And I think it's because they don't have the votes and they don't really have the plan to do anything else.
	Now, you know Joe Biden and you know Bernie Sanders.
	Is Joe Biden in charge of this?
	Or has Bernie Sanders just been deferred to?
	Yeah, I think this is sort of policy by default.
	What is it we can do that we can tell the activist base?
	They should like.
	I don't think at the end of the day they're going to be satisfied either.
	And then we'll do that.
	I kind of think that's what's happening.
	I say, I'm not trying to, because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	I mean, again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed in the social safety net.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
	That's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax used?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
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	Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country just as a population has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes tend to...
	music
	music Time to talk to you.
	Noel in Bayonne, New Jersey.
	Hello.
	Hello, Mr. Prager.
	How are you, sir?
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you for having me on.
	I genuinely appreciate that, Mr. Prager.
	So I kind of wanted to reach out today because just a moment ago, you guys, you and your guests touched up on a fascinating subject.
	And I kind of had a question because I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
	So, Mr. Prager, you mentioned...
	Kindred spirits and how to kind of connect with those people.
	So my question is, Mr. Prager, how can I connect with like-minded individuals and kindred spirits without putting myself into like an echo chamber or, you know, kind of going with confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance?
	So my question is, are they related and how can I avoid it, confirmation bias?
	But still find people who think like I do, or who feel like I feel.
	Can you help?
	I've never heard that question posed that way.
	By definition, kindred spirits will be, to a certain extent, an echo chamber.
	I fully acknowledge that.
	But there's a very easy way to avoid the echo chamber.
	Read the New York Times every day.
	That's what I do.
	I mostly read left-wing material.
	I would say 50% of what I read is left-wing material.
	I got you.
	That really is a good way for you to do it.
	And by the way, I think you should.
	I want to know what the left says every day.
	So I look at The Guardian, I look at Slate, I look at The New York Times, I look at The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times.
	CNN is just not worthy.
	Not that the others are particularly worthy, but it's on a lower intellectual level.
	And that's what I do.
	I don't want confirmation bias implies that I'm biased and I'm having my bias confirmed.
	But I don't believe I have a bias.
	There was a great moment in Philadelphia Airport about three years ago.
	A very rare for me, or for any guy to note, a very handsome young man comes over to me.
	He looks about 30 years old, as tall as I am, so 6'4".
	And with a very, very slight accent, he said, Oh, Mr. Prager, what an honor to meet you.
	I love your material.
	I go, where are you from?
	He goes, Southern Norway.
	I go, Southern Norway, wow.
	Conservatives in southern Norway?
	He goes, I don't know if I'm conservative.
	I just follow logic.
	And that's exactly the point.
	If you follow logic and truth, you're not on the left.
	Literally by definition.
	Training now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	music Because all it takes is one example of something that works.
	And that's why Florida and Hungary, in my opinion, are so similar, right?
	Is that Florida is the domestic example of a more orderly, common sense approach to the land of the insane, right?
	And they hate that.
	Like, we must crush Ron DeSantis.
	We must crush Victor Orban, right?
	Right, and notice that the people calling for crushing other people are the ones calling you a fascist.
	So the very people who are like, oh no, it's totally normal to fire someone from his job because I disagree with him.
	It's totally normal to beat someone up for having a Trump hat on.
	You know, a political party that I don't support?
	Yeah, we should beat him up.
	It's totally cool to burn your cities on the basis of political ideology, BLM, over the last year and a half.
	No, it's totally fine.
	But if you disagree that you're the fascist, it's like at a certain point...
	You know, I think we're too literal.
	I know that I certainly am way too literal.
	Every night, you know, I'm writing my scripts and I'm like, I can't, but it's the opposite of the truth.
	And at a certain point, that's on me.
	Of course, it's the opposite of the truth.
	It's a totalitarian worldview that inverts reality for its own power.
	Like, that's just what it is.
	And if I continue to be surprised by it, then I'm the moron.
	The question is, what do you do about it?
	And I'm not sure I know the answer.
	I mean, I'm not in charge of anything.
	I just did.
	I'm a talk show host, so my job is to say it out loud.
	I think that's a helpful first step.
	But you can see where this is going.
	CNN just fired three employees for not getting the vaccine.
	Just fired them.
	No one said anything.
	That's totally normal.
	Take a man's livelihood away because he won't take a medicine that you want him to take, that he may not need, that he certainly doesn't want, and he can't work in this country.
	Do we want to live in that country?
	I don't.
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	music Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money, Chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or, think of Black Friday.
	You know how all the stores try to get you in the stores on Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	And they only have...
	X amount before they're absolutely gone.
	And obviously their trick is to get you in the store so you can buy other stuff if you're in California, so you can shoplift other stuff.
	But in other places around the nation, it's so you can buy other stuff.
	So you walk into this store, you get into, or, well, you don't walk in on Black Friday.
	You bum rush that store.
	Are you set in line?
	You have the money.
	In your hands.
	You're ready to go.
	You've got all of this cash.
	You've been saving.
	And you're just ready to go.
	You're like, I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done today.
	You pull up.
	You see the line.
	And you're like, wow.
	Everybody else, the 200 people standing in line in front of me, have the same amount of money or cash that I do.
	But there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	on useless, poorly thought-out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic tail chase for 20 years.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe today at rumble.com.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt show.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Remember, I said they're going to borrow and spend a lot of money.
	Now, you know, when the tax increases come up, this is going to be to borrow an enormous amount of money, force inflation up without addressing even the safety net needs.
	Forget about defense, which they're not spending any money on either, right?
	Right.
	It's ushering in its chaos, a sort of left-wing-flavored chaos.
	And I think it's because they don't have the votes and they don't really have the plan to do anything else.
	Now, you know Joe Biden and you know Bernie Sanders.
	Is Joe Biden in charge of this?
	Or has Bernie Sanders just been deferred to?
	Yeah, I think this is sort of policy by default.
	What is it we can do?
	That we can tell the activist base they should like.
	I don't think at the end of the day they're going to be satisfied either.
	And then we'll do that.
	I kind of think that's what's happening.
	I say, I'm not trying to, because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	I mean, again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed in the social safety net system.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
	That's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com. .
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	If you're not clear on the ultimate issues, you won't be clear about life.
	It's as simple as that.
	And ultimate issues are not taught, discussed, thought about.
	Look, I debated whether to even risk having an Ultimate Issues Hour on a regular national radio show.
	Well, you're not talking about the news?
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	I'm going to play for you a CNN reporter yesterday in Kabul who said something that I would like to spend the hour on.
	Here goes.
	This is from CNN yesterday, reporter in Kabul.
	Death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	I have no intention, for a whole host of reasons, I have no intention of mocking her.
	Because it's actually not mockable.
	But it is worthy of a lot of attention.
	That she finds it bizarre.
	That people could be friendly and chant death to America.
	This is one of the biggest issues in life.
	The confusion of values with niceness.
	That was the whole issue with the hatred of Donald Trump.
	The confusion of niceness with values.
	He had phenomenal values for this country.
	And he wasn't nice.
	That's right.
	Nice is a wonderful thing to be.
	I'm pretty nice, to be honest.
	Everybody in my life is nice.
	But there are nice people with horrific values.
	There are people who are not particularly nice with terrific values.
	I don't know why that's complex.
	I just don't.
	I don't know why you assume...
	Nice people have good values.
	If nice people had good values, this country wouldn't be in terrible condition.
	Terrible condition.
	Existentially, potentially fatal condition.
	Minnesota is the great example.
	A lot of people are so nice in Minnesota, there is an appellation, a nickname.
	Minnesota nice.
	A phrase.
	I've been to Minnesota probably 25 times.
	And it's true.
	People in Minnesota are nice.
	And they elect people who ruin society.
	Ruin.
	You can be a nice fool.
	Fool has to do with ultimate issues.
	Nice has to do with daily conduct.
	They are not related.
	Now, my preference is for wise people who are nice.
	My second favorite is wise people who are not nice.
	Okay?
	I can handle that.
	Not every wise person, not every person with clear, good values is nice.
	Of course I know that.
	Donald Trump was a perfect example.
	But the obsession with nice...
	Oh, Joe Biden is nice.
	Joe Biden is completely destructive of this country.
	There has been no president who has damaged this country in eight years as much as he has in eight months.
	The man is a gigantic fool, but he's nice.
	And Americans are seduced by being nice.
	The macro and the micro.
	It's a separation that I have spoken about all of my career and which I have brought to your attention.
	And for many, it was a new idea.
	The separation of the macro and the micro in all of life.
	Macro values, micro values.
	It's not something that people think about.
	It's big.
	Macro behavior versus micro behavior.
	It's another example.
	Relieving yourself in private is fine.
	Relieving yourself in public is not fine.
	It's about as clear an example of the difference between macro behavior and micro behavior as I can possibly offer you.
	Correct?
	Sexual intercourse micro is fine.
	Sexual intercourse macro is not fine.
	San Francisco is leaning toward the abolition of the macro and the micro.
	They voted by one.
	This was really awesome.
	Just, what was it, two years ago, I'd say.
	The City Council of San Francisco, by a vote, I think, of seven to six, continued its ban on people walking around naked.
	Seven to six.
	And do you know why the people who voted to keep the ban voted to keep the ban?
	For health reasons, lest somebody naked sit on a city bench, for example, and spread some sort of illness or disease that they have, which is a joke because they could sit on a towel, but in any event, it's not the big issue because the clothed person is not going to pick up what the naked person left.
	Anyway, it means that within two years or so, San Francisco will vote.
	In favor of public nudity.
	Well, what's wrong with public nudity?
	Well, again, it doesn't understand the division between macro and micro, or the division between human and animal.
	Animals show their genitalia.
	Humans hide them.
	But we don't have a distinction in secular society between human and animal, so that's why we don't have a distinction with regard to public nudity.
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	The confusion of nice with good.
	Or better, the confusion of nice with wise is the subject.
	Play the woman again, Sean, please.
	Again, this is what animated today's Ultimate Issues Hour.
	They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	Now, please understand, the people chanting death to America slit fellow Afghans' throats.
	So, does this woman know that?
	And I'm not attacking this woman.
	This woman represents at least half of America.
	It is not...
	You see, the difference between her and me is it's not utterly bizarre.
	What group of evil people was not friendly on a micro level?
	You don't think they were friendly Nazis?
	You know how charming some of the Nazi diplomats were?
	That's why they were diplomats.
	You don't think they were friendly communists?
	What group does not have friendly people?
	I would argue Antifa.
	They don't even seem to be friendly.
	But it's a rare exception among evil groups.
	This is what happens when you don't have ultimate issues clear, that you can have such naivete.
	This was my big fear of America in its better days.
	Too many Americans are naive about evil.
	They confuse nice.
	That's why people hated, again, that was the perfect example with Donald Trump.
	Not nice.
	So what?
	So what?
	Really, literally, so what?
	You don't vote for a person because they're nice.
	It's absolutely irrelevant.
	You vote on what they'll do for your city, your state, your country, the world.
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country, just as a population, has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over.
	To Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad, during that time who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're honest, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes tend to be...
	You know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	Maybe you get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, very few people go on vacation.
	In China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Alright, 1-8 Prager 776. The topic is the difference between nice and good values.
	And the...
	Nice is a wonderful thing.
	I prefer nice people to not nice people.
	However, I prefer a not nice person with good values to a nice person with bad values.
	It's all based on an Our Lady reporting from CNN.
	Play her again, Sean, because this is priceless.
	This is the woman in the...
	They're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	Right.
	It's utterly bizarre to the naive.
	Most people are naive about evil.
	These people burn people alive.
	These people ban girls from schools.
	These people murder innocent people, bomb them, maim them.
	Torture them and regularly behead them.
	But they're friendly.
	I'm not shocked.
	Why wouldn't they be?
	Especially now, they just took over their country.
	They can behead anyone they want.
	And by the way, this woman, you should see a picture of her.
	She's wearing complete covering except for face.
	There you go.
	But these people are friendly.
	Women are nothing, but they're friendly.
	Now you know the idiocy of the hatred of Trump.
	He wasn't nice.
	Did he help the country in every single possible way?
	He certainly did, but he wasn't nice.
	Like I give a damn?
	He wasn't nice.
	Oh.
	So that's all the people who were employed, who were unemployed prior to his administration.
	Okay, Jack in Huntington Beach, California.
	Thank you for calling.
	Dennis, how condescending it is of you to say a thing like that.
	I don't care about Trump's niceness.
	I care that he called the Secretary of State of Georgia and tried to steal our election.
	That he wouldn't commit to the peaceful transition of power.
	The pillars of our democracy he attacked.
	You're the one naive about evil, Dennis.
	You.
	Prior to the last months of his administration, were you pro-Trump?
	You picked something that happened the last few months of his administration.
	It's kind of a big thing, Dennis.
	No, no, no.
	Please, wait a minute.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	If you don't answer me, I hang up.
	I will answer you.
	You must answer me.
	This is a typical thing of people who differ with me.
	They never answer my questions.
	The first three and a half years of Trump, did you support him?
	Some issues, yes.
	Some issues, no.
	Immigration, yes.
	Climate change, no.
	Right.
	Did you vote for him?
	No, I didn't vote for him.
	Right.
	So you voted for Hillary Clinton.
	Do you think that that was a good vote?
	I notice you're clearly avoiding my question.
	No, you didn't ask me a question.
	Okay, I don't think he was undermining the pillars of democracy.
	I think you have bought the line of the New York Times.
	How do you explain that phone call?
	How do you explain the phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia?
	How do you explain that?
	I don't have...
	Right.
	Why does that undermine...
	Has our democracy been undermined by him or by...
	Okay, listen.
	Okay, so good.
	If you believe he has undermined the American democracy, you should hate his guts.
	That is correct.
	We live in different universes, you and I. I admit it.
	This is clarity over agreement.
	He has bought the line that Donald Trump undermined American democracy.
	How exactly has it survived?
	Undermining American democracy is YouTube, Google, Twitter, and Facebook.
	There is less freedom in this country than in, I was just there, in the East European country.
	There is more freedom in Poland than in the United States of America because of the left.
	And this fine gentleman in Huntington Beach, California, is ticked off at Donald Trump.
	Okay?
	That is how sick I think the hatred of Trump has become.
	People overlook the true undermining of American democracy, which is rooted in the Statue of Liberty.
	There is less freedom in this country than at any time in its history.
	There is less freedom in this country than in Poland or Bulgaria or Albania.
	People can say things.
	They can't say men don't give birth and still keep their job.
	Let alone the herd mentality of COVID. Did Donald Trump move for health passports to enable you to enter a restaurant?
	Or fly in an airplane like in Canada?
	Or France?
	You didn't get a vaccine.
	You can't fly in our northern neighbor.
	That strikes me as a bit more worrisome than whatever phone call President Trump made to the Secretary of State of Georgia.
	The lack of perspective is scary to me.
	Scary.
	We are sitting in the middle of the crushing of American freedom, and I am supposed to still hate Donald Trump.
	That's the real threat to freedom?
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	And that's why Florida and Hungary, in my opinion, are so similar, right?
	Is that Florida is the domestic example of a more orderly, common sense approach to the land of the insane, right?
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	Like, we must crush Ron DeSantis.
	We must crush Victor Orban, right?
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	Just fired them.
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	That's totally normal.
	Take a man's livelihood away because he won't take a medicine that you want him to take, that he may not need, that he certainly doesn't want, and he can't work in this country.
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	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	And I welcome you back to the Ultimate Issues Hour, which is on a very, very important topic.
	The confusion of nice and friendly with wise and good.
	And it is based on this fantastic statement.
	Just terrific, so revealing.
	By the CNN reporter saying that she's watching Taliban chanting death to America, and yet they're so friendly it's bizarre.
	Those are her words.
	I played it twice.
	I don't need to play it.
	I may play it again next segment, but I don't need to play it again.
	Friendly people who behead people.
	Do you know what beheading is?
	You take a knife and you cut through a person's throat as they choke on their blood and they agonize in terror.
	These people do it routinely.
	If evil exists, Taliban exemplify evil.
	But they're friendly.
	It's bizarre.
	It's not bizarre.
	What despicable human group has not had friendly members?
	Name one.
	The only one I could think of is Antifa.
	They combine despicable behavior and despicable values.
	But that's just an exception that does nothing about the rule.
	And that was the key to the whole Trump phenomenon.
	He wasn't nice.
	How much good did he do for America?
	By the way, just to the last caller, it doesn't appear that there was accurate reporting on his call to the Secretary of State.
	It was retracted.
	A major retraction by the Washington Post and CNN. Washington Post correct story about call to Georgia election officials misquoted Trump's comments.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that that is the case will have zero effect on my last caller because he, like so many others, hates Trump's personality.
	And that's what it is.
	Joe Biden's a nice guy.
	Joe Biden is the most destructive president in American history.
	Everything he does hurts this country.
	He's the first president to basically say we have no border.
	Just among other things.
	Man will crush the dollar.
	You know what that leads to, the crushing of the dollar and the vast influx of people from different cultures who have not been citizenized and acculturated?
	It means much more violence.
	You know what brought the Nazis to power?
	Not anti-Semitism.
	I know that era really well.
	I taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College.
	What brought Hitler to power was not anti-Semitism.
	It was good old inflation.
	You paid for a loaf of bread in Germany with a wheelbarrow of Reichsmarks.
	That's what did it.
	This man, by the way, and Biden is interchangeable.
	Kamala Harris is no better.
	None of them.
	Chuck Schumer would do the same.
	They're interchangeable.
	Any Democrat would ruin this country.
	But they're nice.
	And they care for the poor and the downtrodden.
	And people buy this crap.
	But Trump, oh, Trump was a bully.
	So that's very sophisticated.
	Dennis, how could you spend your life talking about character?
	I don't know how much I get this.
	In the Atlantic, on more than one occasion, Dennis Prager devoted his life to character.
	What's happened to him?
	I didn't lose my mind.
	I still devote my life to character.
	But what a president does for a country is more important than his personal character.
	Anyway, I'm not God.
	I don't know the entirety of the man.
	He paid off a prostitute to keep quiet?
	Oh, okay, there you go.
	I don't think that compares, frankly, to enriching your family while you're a senator of the United States.
	The porn star, sorry, yes, porn star.
	I take it back.
	I mean it, I'm sorry.
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	Forget about defense, which they're not spending any money on either, right?
	Right.
	And then it's ushering in its chaos, a sort of left-wing-flavored chaos.
	And I think it's because they don't have the votes and they don't really have the plan to do anything else.
	Now, you know Joe Biden and you know Bernie Sanders.
	Is Joe Biden in charge of this?
	Or has Bernie Sanders just been deferred to?
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	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
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	Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country just as a population has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decision.
	Thank you.
	context of this Ultimate Issues Hour.
	where people confuse niceness with good values, based on the great statement.
	Play it again, Sean, just one more time.
	It's only three seconds, five seconds, so it's worth it.
	CNN reporter in Kabul.
	They seem friendly at the same time.
	It's utterly bizarre.
	Yeah, that's the key, the utterly bizarre.
	It's not utterly bizarre at all.
	Nice people ruin the world.
	They often vote for evil people.
	Are there evil people who aren't nice?
	Is Putin not nice?
	Is she not nice?
	I would argue that the Ayatollah is not nice.
	The man radiates obnoxiousness, I must admit.
	But, generally speaking, that's how evil leaders get elected, or get to power.
	They're very charming.
	As regards the president, so listen to this.
	Washington Post, the whole thing was a lie about President Trump calling the Secretary of State or the head of elections in Georgia to find votes.
	This is from the Washington Post.
	Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia Secretary of State released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's December phone call with the state's top elections investigator.
	The recording revealed that the Post misquoted...
	Misquoted.
	By the way, this will not change.
	My caller is mine.
	He'll find some other reason to hate Trump.
	Because of his superficial choice of leaders.
	Most people are superficial.
	And they're nice.
	The recording revealed that the Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call.
	Based on information provided by a source, Trump did not tell the investigator to, quote, find the fraud or say she would be a, quote, national hero if she did so.
	Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, asserting she would find dishonesty there.
	He also told her that she had the most important job in the country right now.
	A story about the recording can be found here.
	The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.
	The important thing is, this will have no effect on my caller, none.
	Because he fools himself into thinking that his hatred of Trump is due to that.
	His hatred of Trump is due to the fact that he finds Trump obnoxious.
	A totally superficial choice of a leader.
	Of the free world.
	His personality.
	Superficiality is the human norm, ladies and gentlemen, because you have to work to be deep.
	Who works to be deep?
	Do you know that one of the first...
	It's still up there at the Prager store, where all my recordings are.
	You join PragerTopia.
	You have access to all of them.
	I gave a course about 30 years ago, How to Be Better and Deeper.
	Isn't that interesting?
	An eight-part course.
	People attended it and paid to attend.
	How many people want to be deep?
	It's an interesting question, right?
	You have a nephew or a niece at college?
	Ask them, would you like to be deep?
	I'll bet you their answer is, what do you mean?
	Right?
	Be deep.
	What does be deep mean?
	Anybody who doesn't know what being deep means is not interested in being deep.
	Okay, here we go.
	Let's see here.
	Alright.
	David in Minneapolis.
	The place of nice people who do bad things.
	Hello.
	Hello, sir.
	How are you doing?
	I'm well.
	How are you?
	I am doing very well.
	It's kind of warm today here in Minnesota.
	You know, I think that the comments from the reporter just display a complete naivete.
	And I agree with you in that, you know, being nice doesn't depend on the other.
	You live in the state of naivete.
	That should be on your license plate.
	That is correct.
	I'm retired Navy, and I used the phrase quite often with some of my troops.
	It said, you know, my orders when I reported to the command said, report here for duty.
	And I said, but being nice is not part of the job description.
	You said that?
	Who said that?
	Yes.
	That's great.
	I did.
	That is cool.
	Right.
	You know, I mean, and the same thing goes for the president, you know?
	There's times to be nice, and there's times to not be nice.
	If you can't handle it, then you need to grow up.
	Or you need to have a different job, that's all.
	If you can only be nice, then being a leader is not your job.
	Well said, my friend.
	I wonder, isn't it interesting, was Patton nice?
	Does anybody give a damn?
	Were any of the great generals nice?
	I don't know the answer, but it would be an interesting question.
	Maybe nice is in some ways an impediment to the job that one needs to do.
	But he's so right, nice is not part of the description in fighting.
	It is now, I think, the feminization of...
	Of the country, including the military.
	The feminine part of the brain values nice above all.
	Nurturing and nice.
	They have a place in micro-life, a big place.
	But they're not the most important things in life.
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	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years.
	it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for, are we pulling it?
	Because I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam, helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55% of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert Moebler for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
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	So what unites us?
	Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, answers this question in the latest video from Prager University.
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	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is the final segment of the Ultimate Issues Hour.
	If...
	Maybe I feel this very often, but if I could have you give one Ultimate Issues Hour to friends, this is the one I would send.
	The staggering naivete.
	Remember, one of my constant battles of my life has been against naivete.
	It is a sin for an adult to be naive.
	You're expected to be naive when you're 10, but I was not naive at 10, and I'll tell you why.
	Two reasons.
	One is that I had a religious education, so I knew that human nature is not basically good.
	That is the end of naivete.
	The day you understand human nature is not basically good, you have been vaccinated, and you don't need a booster shot.
	You've been vaccinated against naivete.
	The other was that I don't remember what age, but maybe...
	I would say 10. I would say about 10. I was watching...
	The one program my family watched together on TV in the living room when I grew up was the 20th century.
	Walter Cronkite was the narrator.
	He really learned a lot.
	And one of them was on Hitler.
	And I remember saying to my parents, who was Hitler?
	They said he was a very bad man.
	He killed 6 million Jews.
	And it was a lightning bolt.
	Six million Jews were murdered.
	And knowing human evil from such a young age, along with the religious education, the will of man's heart is towards evil from his youth, Genesis.
	Secular kids are naive.
	Religious kids.
	If they take the Bible seriously, a lot of religious kids are religious by habit, not by conviction.
	But those who are by conviction, they're inoculated against naivete.
	Naivete is the golden road to evil.
	That reporter is the perfect example.
	I have nothing against her.
	In fact, I thank her for giving me...
	It's an incredibly important theme.
	She found it bizarre that Taliban could be friendly.
	I don't.

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