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Aug. 18, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Dennis Prager with you.
	Tuesday show.
	No, Wednesday show.
	Yes, indeed.
	By the way, I'm off to Chicago today.
	I will be doing a terrific evening with my colleagues at WIND. Tomorrow night, a cigar evening.
	I don't...
	I think...
	Really?
	I didn't know that.
	What portions of today's show have been pre-recorded?
	The music?
	The music has been pre-recorded?
	Okay.
	We have to make an announcement that the music is pre-recorded lest people think that the orchestra came into the studio?
	That dead singers have been resurrected?
	I have no doubt this was a lawyer's decision.
	There is no reason for that.
	But I just want you to know Dennis Prager is not pre-recorded.
	It is a misleading announcement.
	I object to it, even though it is company policy.
	I love my company.
	I don't love every policy.
	That's it.
	I'm allowed to keep my mind, even when I am an employee.
	It's a rare, beautiful trait that I am allowed.
	I will ask them what the reasoning is.
	Okay.
	Oh, Frank Sinatra.
	If we play Sinatra, it's pre-recorded because he's dead.
	Oh, people would have been, hey, is Frank Sinatra living?
	We can't have that.
	I mean, in a sense, he is living.
	The guy isn't immortal.
	My friends, I'm going to say something that I've never said.
	And it's so true that it is reason for weeping.
	I don't know.
	Americans, more Americans are afraid of their government than foreign nations.
	There you go.
	The American government strikes fear in no nations any longer.
	But it does strike fear in Tens of millions of Americans.
	That is the state of America in 2021. Afghanistan put the final touch on the impotence.
	The sexual phraseology is excellent.
	The impotence of the United States in the world, which is what the left wants.
	The left wants to control Americans and have no impact in the world, especially on evil.
	Good Americans are to be suppressed.
	Bad non-Americans are not.
	And so it is not even an opinion.
	This is a fact.
	More Americans fear the American government than foreign agents do, than foreign governments do.
	The breath of fresh air given to the worst human beings on Earth outside of North Korean government, Islamic terrorists given by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, is unprecedented.
	And he just marches along oblivious to it all because it doesn't matter to him.
	It doesn't matter.
	His concern for the United States is, in my opinion, close to nil.
	His concern for Joe Biden and being popular with the left of his party is total.
	Daily Mail had the perfect headline.
	The book stops with me, says Biden, but then proceeds to blame the Afghan fiasco on Trump.
	And on local Afghans who failed to fight the Taliban.
	The Taliban.
	That's really something.
	That's right.
	But if you aren't inoculated, vaccinated, the wrath of the government will come upon you as it is.
	Even more so in Australia.
	People are fined for talking to other people in dog parks.
	You are allowed to deprive people of the most basic right in the world, freedom, if it's in the name of health.
	There is nothing else.
	The god of health?
	As I pointed out, we have more false gods today than they did in the ancient Near East.
	They had a couple, you know, Baal and the like.
	But what we have...
	1-8 Prager 776. Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.
	All right.
	Begins his column.
	You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
	You chose dishonor, and you will have war.
	Winston Churchill's words to Neville Chamberlain following the Munich Agreement.
	Echo grimly across Washington this week, as the Biden administration reckons with the consequences of the worst handled foreign policy crisis since the Bay of Pigs.
	And the most devastating blow to American prestige since the fall of Saigon.
	American prestige is very important, not for ego reasons, but because American prestige is the guardian of liberty in the world.
	Joe Biden believed three things about Afghanistan.
	First, that he could stage a dignified and orderly withdrawal from America's longest war.
	By the way, you know we had, I believe, 2,500 soldiers there.
	Not one soldier died there, not one American military person this past year.
	What was the necessity of leaving?
	Everything that is happening was completely predictable.
	I predicted it.
	It's in print.
	And I'm not a prophet.
	I'm just not a leftist.
	Second, a Taliban win in Afghanistan would not seriously affect U.S. power and prestige worldwide.
	Third, that Americans were eager enough to put the Afghan war behind them, that voters wouldn't punish him even if the withdrawal went pear-shaped.
	He was utterly and unspinnably wrong about the first.
	One fears he was equally wrong about the second.
	We shall see about the third.
	That is how voters react.
	I think Democrats can do anything.
	They can defund police and people will vote for them as they watch people murdered in the middle of the day in New York City and Chicago and elsewhere.
	The brainwash is so powerful from elementary school on that people vote for their own non-safety.
	the most primal desire of the human from government, "protect me from evil," doesn't matter to people, most people who went to college. most people who went to college.
	China, Russia, and Iran surely interpret this shambolic performance as a sign of exploitable weakness and poor judgment.
	From the peaks of Pakistan to the sands of the Sahel, Fanatical jihadists discouraged by the failure of ISIS since a fresh and favorable turn of events, with the arrival of their greatest victory since 9-11.
	Recruitment will prosper and resources will flow, fed by the sophisticated weapons and tech we left in the field.
	Staggering amount of advanced weapons that the Biden government left the people, but they impeached.
	Donald Trump.
	Over what?
	I don't even remember.
	Because it was so profoundly inconsequential as to constitute a fraud.
	This man should be impeached.
	Trump helped the United States of America, whatever you think of him.
	This man is ruining it.
	Ruining it.
	And it is irrelevant if it's him.
	Kamala Harris would have ruined America.
	Chuck Schumer would have.
	Nancy Pelosi would have.
	It's irrelevant which Democrat is elected.
	That's why I rail against the moronic idea, oh, I vote for the person, not the party.
	Really?
	Name me a responsible Democrat in national office.
	I pray there is one.
	I can't think of any trending now on America first with Sebastian Parker let's talk about something that's not superb not superb not superb
	And that's, uh, Sasha, don't call me Mr. Vindman 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.
	It shows he has a basic misunderstanding of the concept.
	Maybe he needs to go back and reread his citizenship study materials because...
	Freedom is the most important thing.
	I find it remarkable that I have to repeat on Twitter, to the consternation of liberals, that why, yes, my rights are more important than your life and my life.
	Because hundreds of thousands of Americans have died for their rights.
	There are always people, Dr. Gorka, who are willing to allow you to live as a servant.
	They will allow you to continue to live.
	As long as you obey them and disenfranchise yourself and give up your rights.
	You will probably be able to live.
	Not always.
	Sometimes they'll just murder you because they want to.
	If you dip your toe into liberal Twitter, you'll see that that's one of their hot fantasies.
	But the fact is, rights are more important than your life.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	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?
	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 this job because I disagree with them.
	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 say it out loud.
	I think that's a helpful first step.
	But you can see where this is going.
	I mean, CNN just fired three employees for not getting the vaccine.
	Just fired them.
	And 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.
	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. - Keep up with what's trending.
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	- Thank you.
	- Thank you. - Thank you.
	- Hey, everybody.
	I want to remind you, I will be in Chicago tomorrow night for the Cigar Night.
	I believe that's sold out.
	I'll be with my fellow talk show host Dan Proft and Sean Thompson.
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	I'm being greeted by 11 bodyguards upon arrival.
	I'm kidding.
	But there was no way you would know I'm kidding, which is why the point was a valid one.
	So, I made a point at the opening of the show.
	I think I said I'm Dennis Prager, but if I didn't, I'm Dennis Prager.
	Very easy to remember.
	Two syllables, each name.
	Very symmetrical.
	More Americans fear the American government than foreign terrorists, than evil regimes.
	That's the state it is, which makes sense because of the moral chaos that the left always engenders.
	It's an amazing time we're living in.
	I don't like amazing times.
	I like nice, boring times because I have an interesting life.
	People with interesting lives do not want to live in interesting times.
	They make their lives interesting.
	People with boring lives want interesting times.
	It's a very important explanation for the riots of last year.
	That's what it was about, in large measure.
	It's a colossal catastrophe, I think.
	You cannot overstate how terrible the withdrawal from Afghanistan was.
	It was unnecessary.
	We had 2,500 people there.
	It was basically calm.
	Americans were not dying there.
	Americans will die as a result of the emboldening of terrorists around the world.
	Not to mention China and Russia and Iran.
	China and Russia will surely interpret this performance as a sign of exploitable weakness and poor judgment.
	That's correct.
	Recruitment.
	To ISIS and others will prosper and resources will flow.
	Fed by the sophisticated weapons and tech we left in the field.
	That's when I said the president should be impeached.
	It doesn't matter, by the way.
	I don't even have passion about it.
	He deserves to be impeached, but it is irrelevant who would succeed him.
	There's no Democrat who is better than Joe Biden.
	There's no such thing.
	The president may be finished with Afghanistan, but Afghanistan may not be finished with him.
	This is a major international relations expert writing in the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead.
	For more than 70 years, India, whose massive population and economy make it a linchpin of any American strategy in Asia, has seen the world through the lens of its competition with Pakistan.
	Is that clear to all of you?
	Every country has its own lens.
	The India-Pakistan conflict is the lens through which those two countries see the world.
	Emboldens Pakistan, India feels it suffers.
	Emboldens India, Pakistan feels it suffers.
	Now, as Islamabad, Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan, cements its ties with Beijing, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hands Pakistan a strategic victory and strengthens the most radical anti-Indian and anti-Western forces in its government.
	Few in New Delhi will perceive this catastrophe as a sign of Washington's competence or reliability.
	If a third-tier country like Pakistan can tie the US in knots, Indians will ask.
	What chance does Washington have against China?
	That's right.
	Think of the outside of the left in America.
	Who was happy about the American withdrawal?
	China, Russia, Iran, every terrorist organization in the world.
	Wow.
	But, hey, We were there 20 years.
	Time to go.
	I know some of you feel that way.
	I've never understood the logic.
	Ever.
	It is, to me, a non sequitur.
	Completely.
	I said it for years.
	I said it five months ago in a column.
	The issue was not how long we were there.
	The issue was what is the price for leaving?
	How long we were there is an interesting question of no significance.
	None.
	It's of emotional significance.
	It is not of American significance, world significance, moral significance.
	Perhaps the biggest winner in this dismal week was former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who wrote in his 2014 memoir, I didn't know this.
	Catch this one.
	Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in 2014, seven years ago, about then-Vice President Biden, he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.
	Yeah.
	Those lines may not have the Churchillian flair, but they are unlikely to be forgotten now.
	Joe Biden is always wrong.
	The left is always wrong.
	Joe Biden is not deep, and Joe Biden is part of the left.
	Why would he ever be right?
	Very, very bad stuff, oh, my friends. ...
	I debate whether to let you know how bad things are, lest I leave you in despair.
	I find despair to be a waste of time and somewhat selfish.
	Okay?
	The guys who stormed Normandy Beach didn't despair.
	They fought.
	I'm not asking you to storm Normandy Beach.
	I'm asking you to fight.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	1-8 Prager 776. 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 real world.
	Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	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 the 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 Moeller.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bercat.
	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance.
	And we...
	Very, very good sign.
	time.
	Larry Elder may well be the next governor of California.
	I'm tempted to say if God is good, but I can't put God on the spot.
	Nevertheless, I do think I know whom God would support.
	Larry Elder, I have so many questions for you.
	First of all, welcome to the show.
	By the way, on a very personal note, and I have no idea what you say, do you miss radio?
	I thought I was going to miss it more than I have missed it.
	I do miss it, but not nearly as much as I thought I would.
	I'm enjoying meeting people.
	I'm enjoying hearing their problems.
	Dennis, some of the stories that you hear on the campaign trail about how the state has regulated people to the point of almost madness.
	It's almost overwhelming, and I'm enjoying hearing this, and it sharpens my arguments.
	So all I can say is I'm having a better time on the campaign trail than I thought I would, and I miss radio less than I thought I would.
	How about that?
	Well, you know what it shows?
	I need to emphasize this for the listeners.
	It shows you how honest...
	I don't think Larry Elder is capable of not being honest.
	Because you would think he would say to a radio audience, oh, look, I'm doing this and I'm enjoying it, but of course, my first love, or I deeply miss radio.
	He is so honest, it's almost shocking in the world of lies in which we live.
	I had a feeling you're loving what you're doing.
	Again, more than I thought, and I must say that I anticipated some of the ridiculous attacks that had been coming at me, and so I was prepared for that.
	A lot of people get into politics, and they're overwhelmed by the nastiness of it.
	I knew it was going to be nasty.
	I knew when you said anything at all negative about the teachers' union, about public sector unions, they were going to come after you, and that's exactly what happened.
	The most recent allegation, Dennis, is this.
	Larry Elder thinks women are stupid.
	And they've referred to an article that I wrote back in 2000, and it was an article that was in commentary, and I was quoting a study by the Annenberg School about 25 issues, and it turns out men knew more than women did in 15 of the issues, and therefore Larry Elder thinks women are stupid.
	I even quoted a researcher from Pennsylvania, I think her name is Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
	If you look at her body of work, There's no way you could come away with the conclusion other than that she's a liberal.
	And she said one of the reasons that women knew less than men is because women get most of their news from local television.
	And I quoted her.
	Quote, local news watching makes you dumber, end of quote, said Jameson.
	So now all of a sudden that article has been interpreted that Larry Elder thinks women are stupid.
	It's almost comical, Dennis.
	They have no shame.
	They don't.
	I wrote it in my column yesterday.
	The ease with which people on the left lie is breathtaking.
	It is.
	Another one is Larry Elder says the ideal minimum wage should be 0.00.
	Dennis, anybody who's taken a course in economics knows on the first day that minimum wage laws hurt the very people, unskilled people, that the left claims they care about.
	And I wrote an article about the fact that at one time, Paul Krugman, who arguably is the most famous economist in America, he writes a column for the New York Times.
	He's an economist.
	And one time he wrote years ago that the minimum wage does more harm than good.
	He's since done a 180 on that, but Economics 101 has not done a 180. I also quoted Jonathan Gruber.
	He's the one who said the reason that we were able to pass Obamacare is because, quote, we took advantage of the stupidity of the American people, close quote.
	He's an economist at MIT. In 2011, he wrote about the damage done by the minimum wage.
	He also wrote about the damage done by a state-mandated Family Medical Leave Act.
	The New York Times, 1987, had an...
	Editorial, not op-ed piece, Dennis.
	Editorial, ideal minimum wage, 0.00.
	I quoted Milton Friedman, who said that the minimum wage is, quote, perhaps the most anti-Negro law in the statute books, close quote.
	I quoted Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, both of whom were friends of mine.
	Walter Williams is no longer with us.
	Both of them have written extensively about the damage done by the minimum wage.
	And if there's anything that economists agree on almost unanimously, it is the damage done by the minimum wage.
	They disagree about lots of other things.
	But not about that.
	And so that report is hair on fire when I made this argument.
	And by the way, it only came up because someone asked me.
	It's not one of my top agenda items, or crying out loud.
	It shows you they've never studied economics, and these are people that write about business and the economy.
	It's ridiculous.
	And I remember when Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor of Obama, bragged to the New York Times about how he was able to get the Iran deal pushed through.
	He said, you know, we pushed the narrative that there were Good Ayatollahs and bad Ayatollahs, when in fact all the Ayatollahs are bad, ha ha ha, he said in the New York Times.
	And the reason we were able to push this narrative is, quote, the average reporter covering foreign policy is 27 years old, and they literally know nothing, end of quote.
	He said that, I didn't.
	That's right.
	I'm continuing with Larry Elder, and you've got to help Larry Elder.
	There's a link at DennisPrager.com to his website.
	Electelder.com.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon, could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of...
	The military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology's getting better, they're getting more and more ships, but we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship they'd run aground, they copied it, they trained, and they beat the hell out of it.
	You can find Rome in ruins.
	Can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder show.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Thank you.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Bidenflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices.
	To their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Yes, it will.
	as of September.
	There is a recall out for one of the most damaging governors in the country.
	There is competition for that title.
	I know it's funny, but it's very sad.
	And if he is recalled, Larry Elder will presumably prevail among the candidates.
	Larry Elder is on the line with me.
	Larry, what happened with the Sacramento Bee?
	Well, I had a very contentious editorial interview with them.
	It was not just the Sacramento Bee, but also other newspapers as well.
	And we went at it.
	The same thing with the Los Angeles Times.
	Los Angeles Times has a writer named Gene Guerrero, who wrote a piece a few weeks ago, All But Calling Me a Black David Duke.
	When I had my interview with the editorial board of the LA Times, every single question was contentious, and I handled them pretty deftly.
	And then all of a sudden, she pops up.
	She was not on the list of people to question me, and I refused to allow her to ask me a question.
	And one of the members of the editorial board said, well, if you become governor, how is it you're going to deal with people who have different points of view?
	I said, I've been on an hour with you.
	Not a single one of you agree with anything I said.
	I'm not going to have a conversation with someone who's all but called me a black David Duke.
	I'm sorry.
	And so that's what happened with both the Sacramento Bee interview and the LA Times interview, both of which are on my social media.
	So you can watch and listen to the entire interview if you like.
	I intend to, actually.
	Jean Guerrero, you don't know this, but I cited her as the perfect example of a liar.
	And I don't use the term almost ever.
	The woman lies.
	With the ease with which you breathe.
	She wrote, Larry Elder twists facts.
	Those were her words.
	Right.
	And it's underlined, so you go to a URL, you go to a website, which I presumed substantiated her charge that you twist facts with regard to black percentages.
	Black male, specifically within criminal behavior.
	All you get to is your listing of the facts.
	Right.
	There is zero refutation.
	The woman lied about you.
	Larry Elder never twists facts, ladies and gentlemen.
	What drives the left crazy is he knows so many damn facts, they do not know what to do with him.
	Well, that's right.
	And she said that I enjoy pushing the notion of white supremacy because I cited some very disturbing and troubling facts about black criminality, which, by the way, stems from the breakdown of the family, which has been caused by the left.
	Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965. At the time, 25 percent of black kids were born outside of wedlock.
	Now that number is almost 70 percent.
	And Barack Obama said a kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.
	That's why we have these problems.
	It is a fact that a young black man is eight times more likely to be murdered than a young white man, and the murderer is more likely to be another young black man.
	It is a fact that the number one cause of preventable death for young white men is accidents, like car accidents or drownings.
	Whereas the number one cause of preventable death for young black men is homicide, almost always at the hand of another young black man.
	These are disturbing, but they are facts.
	Was this raised at the LA Times roundtable?
	Yes, I'm sure I brought those things up, and they don't care.
	I also, if somebody, their hair is on fire because of my opposition to additional gun control.
	And Dennis, whenever there's a conversation about this, I always ask, I don't think I did in either of these meetings, but I always ask, How many lives have been spared because of the ability of somebody to get a firearm and defend himself or herself?
	And then you get that blank stare because they don't care about that part of the equation.
	You know, guns have benefits.
	Guns have costs.
	One of the costs, of course, is that there will be some people who will use them criminally to kill people.
	But one researcher named Gary Kleck, he's a researcher at a university in Florida, says every year 1.25 million Americans use guns to defend themselves.
	And of that number, 40% believe, but for the gun, they would have been killed or they would have suffered bodily injury.
	Now, let's suppose that they've exaggerated.
	It's still way more people whose lives have been spared because of firearms than lives have been lost.
	But the left doesn't care about that.
	They certainly don't.
	How big an issue is the draconian lockdowns of Newsom?
	It's a huge issue, and I believe it is what spawned the recall in the first place.
	2.2 million people signed the petition.
	Nearly a quarter to a third of them were independents and Democrats who voted for him just two years earlier.
	And the metaphor for this is when Gavin Newsom was sitting at that French laundry restaurant.
	And by the way, Dennis, I never even heard of the French laundry restaurant until then.
	I thought it was somewhere where you took your tux to get it cleaned.
	But here he is sitting up there with the very medical personnel that drafted the mandate that they were violating by not wearing masks and by not engaging in social distancing.
	His own kid enjoyed in-person private school while he shut down in-person education for the kids in K-12 government schools here in California.
	And those kids were already behind before the pandemic.
	Seventy-five percent of black boys, Dennis, cannot read at state levels of proficiency in California, and those levels are not high.
	Half of third graders cannot, and they were denied a whole year of in-person education, and they were already behind near the bottom of the 50 states in areas like reading and math.
	The points are irrefutable.
	So what sustains him?
	Union money?
	Union money, the public sector money in general.
	The teachers are the largest funder of Gavin Newsom.
	And by the way, you and I are in Los Angeles.
	The largest affiliate of the California Teachers Union is United Teachers of Los Angeles.
	And they were adamant about not going back to in-school learning.
	And one of their demands for going back...
	I was single-payer.
	Another demand was defund the police.
	What that has to do with K-12 is beyond me.
	And there's been a study that looked at where public school teachers sent their own school-age kids, Dennis.
	They are way more likely to put their own school-age kids in private schools compared to households that do not have public school teachers.
	It's insulting.
	Insulting is right.
	Look, I'd love to talk as often as possible, but you have to go and enjoy yourself with the public.
	Larry, I'm telling you, you can cause the beginning of a counter-revolution in this country.
	You've got a lot on your shoulders.
	God bless you, my friend.
	Electelder.com.
	Thank you so much, Dennis.
	God bless you again.
	God bless you.
	Thank you.
	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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	.
	Thank you.
	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.
	Top.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	It's as simple as that.
	Which is what they do about every intelligent conservative.
	Because leftism is not rooted in the intellectual sphere.
	It is not rooted in truth.
	I know this sounds cliched.
	I hate that it does.
	That a woman like Jean Guerrero writes for the Los Angeles Times.
	Is only a reflection on the Los Angeles Times.
	Complete lack of commitment to truth.
	The woman lies for a living.
	That's it.
	If she wants to come on my show, she is more than welcome.
	I will treat her quite courteously.
	But they never debate.
	They smear.
	Larry Elder twist facts.
	Wouldn't you think that if somebody said...
	X or Y individual twisted facts, they would actually give an example of such?
	But of course they don't.
	Examples are the dirty trick of conservatives.
	We have examples.
	Everything I write, I write a generalization and then I give an example.
	They write generalizations and don't give examples.
	Such it is.
	Living in a crazy world.
	I'm telling you.
	New Zealand has plunged into a three-day lockdown and Auckland, the biggest city, for a whole week over one case of coronavirus.
	From the Daily Mail.
	New Zealand will enter a level four three-day lockdown.
	From 11.59 p.m.
	Tuesday, so that was last night, New Zealand time.
	You can only leave your home for exercise, groceries, or testing, and you have to wear a mask, of course.
	One Auckland man tested positive, and that's it.
	That's the reason.
	So, this will never end.
	You understand?
	They are prepared to crush life in the name of safety.
	It is a truly perverse attitude, but that's what they are willing to do.
	And apparently, half the population, maybe in New Zealand more than half, is willing to have life crushed in the name of safety.
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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.
	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 Moeller.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster.
	And frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities...
	That we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of the military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology's getting better, they're getting more and more ships, but we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay, the Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship they'd run aground, they copied it, they trained, and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Roman ruins.
	Can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Essentially that's inflation.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Biden-flation.
	Biden-flation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices to their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Aha!
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise significantly for the consumers.
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Guys, I want to tell you, and I don't say this lightly, but make sure you stash some cash at home.
	Make sure you stash a little more food at home than normal.
	We're not getting away from inflation.
	Not with this administration and the White House.
	It's just not going to happen.
	They are spending like crazy.
	They're spending our money.
	The CEO of Tyson Chicken said, and I quote, he said, we've seen unprecedented and accelerating inflation, and we're trying to catch up.
	We're trying to catch up with that.
	They can't even catch up with how fast inflation is occurring.
	That means...
	We're gonna pay for it.
	Thanks, Joe Biden.
	We'll see you next time.
	Thanks, Joe Biden. Joe Biden.
	Dennis Prager at Male Female Hour, and there is no pre-recorded material in this show.
	Just for the record, I have no idea why that's played, but it is sort of like the signs up at California gas stations, you may die of cancer filling your car.
	We are surrounded by legal idiocy.
	Legal idiocy is largely redundant, in fact.
	Most legalities are idiocies.
	So I just wanted to say that in the hope that that idiocy will be removed and all the signs.
	Do you know that as I enter my garage in California, I am warned I may die of fumes in the garage?
	Now you know why in New Zealand there is no movement allowed for the rest of the week.
	The board are in charge of our lives.
	Okay, everybody.
	I got that out of my system.
	It's the male-female hour every Wednesday and every season.
	In other words, summer, fall, winter, spring.
	Whichever order you like.
	It goes in a circle.
	I have Allison Armstrong on.
	Yeah, she gets it in.
	There you go, Allison.
	She is a renowned and truly renowned relationship expert.
	I think she's brilliant.
	And I've had her on more than almost anybody in my radio history.
	Allison, forgive me for the trivial, but how are you?
	I've been cracking up over here because I heard that recording and thought, okay, we've never done a show like this before where his part's pre-recorded and...
	It is impossible to overstate how moronic that announcement is.
	And if my employers hear me say this every hour, maybe they will take it down.
	I love my employers.
	Some lawyer told them to do this, and it is equivalent to you will die filling your gas.
	Filling your tank with gas.
	Okay, anyway, so I'm glad you were cracking up.
	Pre-boarding a plane.
	How do you pre-board a plane?
	How do you get on a plane before you get on a plane?
	I like that.
	You know, that kills me because...
	Oh, you know what?
	That's up there with the plane is completely full as opposed to what?
	Just full?
	What is the difference between full and completely full?
	Right, indeed.
	Yeah.
	So how am I? I'm...
	I'm really good.
	I'm on a roller coaster ride because my boyfriend, and I decided that sometime between now and probably the end of January, I'm going to move to his town.
	Wow.
	And so I've just, yeah.
	And I've just been going through all kinds of things.
	And where is that?
	So you're in rural Colorado, and where is he?
	He's in Steamboat Springs.
	Also Colorado.
	Also Colorado.
	Also the Western Slope.
	Oh, okay.
	It's not like he lives in midtown Manhattan.
	No.
	It's less than 15,000 people when the skiers aren't there.
	And your town is similar, no?
	I live outside of a town of 295 people.
	Okay.
	So you're moving to a metropolitan area.
	I hope you can...
	Does anybody wear...
	Go on.
	It's seven minutes instead of 22 miles to the grocery store.
	Oh, so it seems like a step up towards civilization.
	So anyway, if I may say, I have known, and you, my listeners, have known Allison.
	If you've been a regular listener, certainly to the male-female hour every Wednesday.
	The second hour is the male-female hour.
	So absolutely suddenly, Allison lost her husband a couple of years ago.
	And it broke my heart, not to mention Allison's heart.
	And it gives me great, great hope in life that you have found somebody because you deserve somebody.
	And I just wanted to say that for everybody's knowledge.
	I've sort of, I've gone through this with you in a certain sense.
	And to an even tertiary sense, so have the listeners.
	So, alright, so we're up to date on Allison's life.
	How are your seminars going?
	Oh, gosh, we haven't done a live one since...
	January of last year.
	The ones online have been awesome.
	I actually get to pay more attention to people because of being online all over the world.
	I get to interact with my students more than ever.
	I'm ecstatic.
	It's been great.
	I miss the hugs because I used to...
	Stay over late.
	We had a hug line.
	Because I don't like public acknowledgement.
	I like personal acknowledgement.
	So I wouldn't...
	I'd flee this stage when they tried to, you know, clap and do stuff.
	But I would just hug and hug and hug and hug.
	And that was really neat.
	So I miss those.
	And hopefully, well, you know, it's a moving target.
	We thought we were going to do something next spring, but now we don't know.
	And...
	But my work has just gone, like...
	So his name is Dan, and we met last October because of one of my students, and I told you about him.
	And the topic that I propose for today comes from what I have had to be incredibly rigorous about, you know, being suddenly single and dating and watching all the instincts that plague us in that world arise in myself and keep sorting out since truth is my second highest value.
	Single watch a playmate and tell the truth.
	And tell the truth and tell the truth and tell the truth.
	So a whole bunch of stuff about honesty and showing up and I, you know, you know me, I research life.
	And I just did a webinar called Own Your Ultimatums.
	And that came from something Dan said to me.
	That sounds like an ultimatum.
	And I thought, oh no!
	You're not supposed to have ultimatums, they're terrible!
	Horrible!
	And it went from there.
	Now we're here.
	We get to talk about being honest, especially about ultimatums.
	Well, why is being single such a challenge to honesty?
	Because we have very primitive instincts that, you know, still tell women that we need men to survive.
	And so...
	Our instincts tell us to only show you what we think you'll find attractive.
	So not what you'll actually find attractive, but what we think you'll find attractive.
	And most women don't know what's really attractive to men.
	That's why I published the book, Making Sense of Men, to distinguish the two different kinds of attraction.
	And they don't...
	Know that the kind of attraction that has men fall in love with you and care about you and want to mentor you, the second most attractive quality is authenticity.
	And men always talk about it when a woman has the courage to be direct, when a woman has the courage to be real, to show me who she really is, how much they value that.
	But women don't know that.
	How does that differ from men?
	Don't men just want to put the most positive?
	Face forward, even if it's not fully honest?
	Yes!
	We both have the instincts to lie and to present ourselves in what we think will be attractive.
	And so for men, instinctually, since they're used to being judged as, how well will you protect me?
	How well will you provide for me?
	When they're attracted, attracted to a woman, they try to impress her with their accomplishments and their resources and their status.
	And the whole time she's thinking, why is he so competitive?
	And why won't he listen to me?
	And how come he isn't asking me any questions about me?
	I guess he's not really interested in me.
	Not knowing that he's on full instinct, impress her, show her I can make her happy and take care of her and then she'll want me.
	Yeah, it's really messed up, Dennis, from both sides.
	So that's what you're addressing today.
	Honesty?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	How do we be honest?
	And it would be better if it got better when we commit, but it doesn't get better.
	Well, all right.
	As usual, provocative thoughts from Alison Armstrong.
	Her website is alisonarmstrong1s.com.
	It's up at dennisprager.com.
	We continue in a moment on the Male Female Hour. - Training now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	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...
	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.
	The AEM.
	Dennis Prager Show.
	Once a quarter, it's four times a year, obviously.
	I have Alison Armstrong on.
	I love her expression.
	She, what is it you said?
	Do you study life?
	There was a great...
	I don't know, but I use life.
	It's my laboratory.
	That's right, it is true.
	So, she has a fertile mind, and I appreciate it.
	She more or less sets the agenda for the hour when she's on.
	And today it is about honesty.
	So again, I always drill you after your opening comments.
	Yes.
	Because I need, you know me and clarity.
	I go crazy when something isn't clear.
	Okay, I know you do and I appreciate it.
	So...
	Being single again, completely suddenly, as I explained, happened to you.
	You came to realize the challenge to, I guess, both men and women, of being honest in the dating scene.
	So, what does honest mean?
	Do I... I mean, how much honesty do we want, certainly at the beginning?
	So, tell me a little about your life.
	Well...
	Let me tell you, I really had a crappy relationship with my mother.
	I mean, most people don't really want that.
	Yes, and I would definitely not go there.
	So what does honesty mean?
	Definitely not go there.
	Can I back into it?
	Sure.
	Okay.
	So let's just start with the premise that many, if not most, certainly not all, people want to have a...
	Fulfilling, passionate, loving, supportive relationship.
	Right, Nate?
	That sustains itself.
	That they stay in love, that they stay, you know, passionate about each other and intimate and all the goodies.
	Can we start there?
	Totally.
	Okay.
	So, me, studying everything, dissected, well, so what causes the demise?
	What has the passion disappear, the intimacy disappear, the support disappear?
	What kills all that, right?
	And one way you could say it is that you have people in relationships where there are things that are happening that they need it to stop happening.
	Because every time it does, they lose admiration for the other person, respect for the other person, affinity for the other person, don't like them anymore, and they may also be really ticked off and could have their feelings badly hurt.
	So there are behaviors and ways of being that if they could wave a magic wand, that would just stop happening.
	And then there are things that we need.
	To start happening.
	Ways that we need to be supported, paid attention to, appreciated, admired, affection.
	You know, there's things we need to stop happening and things we need to start happening.
	And the persistence of that is what will just grind away where people just can't stand to be around each other.
	And love isn't big enough to overcome it because those things actually diminish the experience of love.
	It makes the aperture to experience love for somebody tiny until you can even feel like I don't love them anymore, even though love is eternal.
	So if you go backwards from there, like assume that as human beings, there are ways of being that we need.
	Like maybe we need someone to, I need someone to be generous, right?
	I need someone to be clear.
	I need someone to be honest.
	I need someone to be spiritual.
	I have a list of 19 qualities that I need.
	Someone I'm going to spend any significant amount of time with, I need them to be.
	I really do need them.
	And people who aren't that way, eventually they'll drive me crazy, or immediately they'll drive me crazy, and I can't be friends with them, I can't work with them, even if they're a family member, I won't hang out with them.
	I actually need people to be that way.
	You know, one of the gifts from Greg disappearing two years ago is life is in fact short.
	And you have no idea how long you got here.
	And that amped up everything for me.
	I don't want to spend a moment with people who aren't going to have this moment if it was my last one.
	I'm glad I spent it this way.
	And so if you back up from there, the ways we need people to be.
	And then there's qualities of being that we need expressed in certain behaviors.
	Like, I'll just take generosity, right?
	I need someone to be generous, which generous comes from the word ample, right?
	So they're overflowing.
	They have more than enough.
	And I need that quality of generosity to be expressed in certain behaviors in life, in the way that they treat store clerks and wait people, right?
	In the way that they are with me and my...
	My own quirks, right?
	My just completely annoying sense of precision that can just drive people crazy, but it's how I do what I do, right?
	And so there's different generosities, generosity of time, of patience, of knowledge, of advice, of sense of humor that even if it was a stupid joke you left, right?
	So there are behaviors.
	That we need.
	And in some of them, when it comes down to it, the ways of being and the behaviors that we need would qualify in any of these terms.
	A non-starter is a term that men use.
	That's a non-starter.
	A deal breaker.
	Something I can't live with.
	Something I can't live without.
	Or something that I have to give this in a relationship, and it has to be well received, and what I have to get in return to happily keep giving this, overflowing in this way towards this person.
	I need that.
	So I need to give this, and I need to get that.
	Those are all ways that we can talk about deal breakers, which I was talking to Dan about one of those for me, that I would rather be alone.
	I'd rather...
	Seriously, rather be alone than be in a relationship without someone who didn't have these 19 qualities and express them in these 23 different ways.
	So I have 42 stand-alone deal-breakers.
	If you give me 41 of them, it would still be a deal-breaker without 42. That's how committed I am to them.
	That's how clear I am about it.
	That's how much I reviewed and harvested.
	What made my marriage to Greg for more than a quarter century amazing, and what had me still on a kiln sometimes.
	And like, distill that, right?
	That if I hadn't been in a commitment raising a family, what I would not, I literally wouldn't have put up with.
	Because, you know, we're not perfect, and I'm sure there's things you wouldn't have put up with either.
	So if you come, if you take these things and you acknowledge that they're real, we have things we really need.
	Well, we don't really need them 5, 10, 15, 20 years into a relationship.
	We really need them from the beginning.
	So what if we were honest about them in the beginning?
	Okay.
	We'll hold it there.
	We'll continue.
	Allison Armstrong, my guest.
	A lot of things 41. I wonder if I need 41 things.
	I'll make a list.
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	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show. 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.
	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, it's 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.
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	I've 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 truth.
	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...
	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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	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.
	And then it's ushering in 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 think I kind of think that's what I say.
	Here, Allison Armstrong, my guest, as she is four times a year.
	So let me summarize.
	It's what I always do with you, because you throw out a lot of ideas.
	So it's under the rubric of the importance of honesty, correct?
	That's the title of the hour?
	You could.
	Or the effect of honesty, or the cost of...
	Of not being honest.
	Alright, fair enough.
	So you want people to be honest about what it is they most need in a relationship?
	Is that a correct summary?
	Yeah, you could say what they can't live with and what they can't live without.
	So they need to express this to their would-be partner?
	Well, if you want the kind of relationship that I am committed to, which is what I described in the beginning, then yes.
	Or if you don't know it in the beginning as soon as you do know it.
	Or if it shows up ten years later because you've changed, watch and see does this new thing you need persist?
	And when you notice you keep getting upset for not getting it, it's persisting, then yeah, you've got to be honest about it.
	Sooner is better, and why sooner for people who are dating, Dennis, is because it's the opposite of our instincts.
	What we normally do, if you think of these things you really, really need, they're your final offer.
	They're your ultimatum, right?
	Without which will be the end of that form of that relationship.
	What we normally do, the manipulation that human beings normally do, because we're manipulative, Is we don't cough that information up until we think the other person is attached enough to us or what we can provide that they will just eat it.
	And this happens, by the way, not just in romantic relationships.
	Like, you know, when an employee feels like their employer knows he really needs me or she really needs me, now I can tell him what I really want.
	I want to be a vice president or I'm out of here, right?
	Parents and kids do it.
	Yeah, sure, of course we're going to support you in going to college, as long as you go to one of these colleges.
	Right after 18 years of talking about going to college, not telling them, but it will only be one of these.
	It happens everywhere.
	And the instincts really have us not present ultimatums until people can be most manipulated into taking on them.
	All right.
	So you have a list.
	And the problem is that anything, you know.
	Forgive me.
	You have a list of, did I get the number right?
	41 items?
	It's 42, yes.
	42. So, I have to say, if I were in the dating world, and on date number 3, I assume you don't give your list over on date number 1, but I don't know how soon you think.
	I would think it a bit weird if a woman gave me a list of 42 items that she could live She couldn't live with and couldn't live without.
	I think most people would react as I am.
	Five, even ten, 42 seems idiosyncratic.
	It seems like a lot.
	Well, okay, let me tell you two things, okay?
	One is, the first 19, I presented to Dan before I ever met him.
	Where you just talked on the phone and had this incredible resonance.
	It would really help it to the extent that you feel comfortable.
	Give us five.
	Five?
	Five of my B lists?
	Oh, golly.
	Let's see.
	There's definitely vitality, generosity, honesty, spirituality, health conscious.
	Is that five?
	Yeah, that's fine.
	Okay.
	So, and they're all sine qua non.
	They're all indispensable.
	Yes.
	Okay, fine.
	They are.
	I would rather be alone.
	Okay.
	And then there's the list of behaviors.
	Can I give you an example?
	Sure, great.
	The more the merrier.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So the very first one, and you and I shared this value.
	The very first one says, committed with determination to generating, being whole and free.
	Committed with being determined to being whole.
	Committed with determination to generating, being whole and free.
	All right, you'll have to explain that one to me.
	1-8 Prager 776. The whole issue is an interesting one.
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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.
	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.
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	All of them.
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	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 country.
	The country is in existential threat mode.
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	I'm Dennis Prager.
	It's the male-female hour.
	Alison Armstrong.
	And the issue which she has raised is honesty in dating.
	Letting people know what it is you most need.
	I admit that I would find it, I don't know if the word intimidating, I'm not easily intimidated, but I would find it a little over the top if the woman gave me, or an employee gave me, or as you said, or a friend gave me 41 items that are deal breakers.
	You're laughing because you acknowledge it sounds odd.
	Yes, it can seem intimidating.
	And if someone writes out what they need someone to be and the behaviors that they'd rather be alone than live without, it really ends up being a description of this is life with me.
	And if this life appeals to you, then you're the right person to do life with me.
	And so you want to do it really well, right?
	That it's painting a picture.
	And, you know, if someone is going to argue for their own limitations instead of being determined to be whole and free, if they're like, ew, well, then they should go away.
	They're going to make me miserable.
	And every one of these, when I would tell Dan about another one and another one and another one, in my head, and it started in the first half hour that we spoke, in my head I thought, if you're going to run, run now.
	And because I don't want to fall in love with you if you're not the right person for me.
	And if you're not the right person for me, then I'm not the right person for you.
	So let's be kind to one another and fly the flag.
	Represent ourselves truthfully so we don't get attached.
	We don't get entangled when we're people who can't give each other what we need.
	And that's what's been fascinating about the last...
	Ten months, because when we finally did meet and get to be together, you know, the voice in my head was like, can we keep him?
	Can we keep him?
	Oh, come on, come on.
	I want to keep him.
	I want to keep him.
	And I had to keep pulling myself out of that emotion and go, we have to see if it fits.
	If I can give him what he needs, I can keep him.
	If he can give me what I need, I can keep him.
	And so I've been all you can imagine, Dennis, just vigilant for the last 10 months.
	Dan will express something and I'm listening for what's important to him.
	And sometimes I'll say, do you need that?
	And sometimes he said, I don't know.
	Well, could you imagine living the rest of your life without that?
	And sometimes he said, oh yeah, easy.
	And sometimes he said, no.
	And sometimes he's been, I don't know.
	And I take all of those conversations really seriously.
	And so I've known for months, just by the way I listened to him, really what his deal-breakers are, and he didn't have to tell me.
	I just knew by how he lived his life that this is where he's going to have an ultimatum, this is where he's going to have an ultimatum, this is where he's going to have an ultimatum.
	And when I was talking to him about one of my ultimatums, which is a healthy diet and lifestyle consistently, and it was going in that direction, and then it turned and went the other way, and I was in tears because I thought this meant we weren't going to get to be together.
	He said, that sounds like an ultimatum.
	And that's when I had that reaction, like, oh, God, no, don't have an ultimatum.
	And it was awesome because I got to come back to him and say, yeah, can we have a grown-up conversation about that?
	Because you have them, too.
	And it was awesome, Dennis, because I got to tell him what I knew his ultimatums were.
	And I said, if I insisted you make me a higher priority than your children, would you still be with me?
	He said, no.
	And he loves me to pieces, right?
	But no, he wouldn't.
	And I knew that.
	And I protect it.
	He never has to defend to me his time with his children.
	Even if it's instead of me, I protect it like crazy.
	Because I know what it is to him, and I'm signed up for that.
	Well, what was your preference in that regard?
	Do you want to be number one, or his children be number one for him?
	I don't want to be his number one priority.
	I am too busy a human for someone to make me their number one priority.
	It'll never turn out.
	And I love the dad he is.
	He's an incredible dad.
	And because of that, I get to have these three amazing human beings in my life.
	It's such a gift.
	Because, you know, mine are launched.
	So, on the other side, he is not the number one priority in your life.
	What's interesting, he's, you know, I was given a message on my birthday last year that I've only done about 10% of what's needed for me in the world.
	And I thought I was going to wind down, you know, turn 60, wind down.
	No.
	No, I react to something much bigger.
	I need a lot of support.
	And he is incredibly supportive.
	And he doesn't try to be in front of my work.
	He doesn't.
	He never whines or complains or needles or wheedles or tries to get me to network.
	He just completely supports me in what I need to do.
	So just as you don't expect you to be the number one priority in his life, he does not expect you to make him the number one in your life.
	Am I getting that right?
	Number one priority, because I worked on that too, in my world, your number one priority gets everything it needs.
	And all your other priorities split what's left over.
	And if your number one priority needs everything, there's nothing left over.
	And if your number one priority is on track, right, and you have a lot of capacity left over, then second, third, and fourth, and fifth can get something really quality.
	And our schedules, which is how my priorities show up in life, my schedule's around my work, his schedule's around his kids, and then the next thing we do is we be together and we have adventures.
	Final segment coming up with Allison Armstrong.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show. .
	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 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 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.
	Got a message here about a couple in Texas.
	you Bob and Ruby Allen.
	League City, Texas.
	One of my most devoted listeners let me know.
	They celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary last Wednesday while I was in Eastern Europe.
	Happy anniversary.
	We ought to do a show of people 75 years married or more.
	Don't you agree?
	Wouldn't that be great?
	That's a milestone, man.
	75 years.
	Alison Armstrong is with me and it's my takeaway from your position, which...
	Some may interpret as somewhat extreme.
	I don't have a position.
	No, no, I'm honest, as you want me to be in any event.
	But of having a very clear-cut list of non-negotiables, as I think is a fair way of putting it, or deal-breakers, as you did.
	One advantage is, by writing it down, which I'm a big fan of writing, because I always say that's the mirror of the mind.
	You then know what matters to you.
	Yeah.
	So it's not just for potential partners in life, it's for you.
	Yes.
	So I think making such a list of what is important to you is a valuable exercise.
	Let's see here.
	Can I say something that happens when we do that?
	Sure.
	So this list of qualities we need someone to be, when people make this list, they can get scared.
	Like, oh my gosh, how am I ever going to find someone who is that way?
	Like, does this person even exist?
	But then the trick is to realize that our perception of these qualities is going to be limited.
	To how we express it or the people we've known express it.
	And so we can tend to be black-white, yes or no.
	Is he playful?
	Yes or no.
	Is he dentist?
	Yes or no.
	I'm looking at my list right now.
	Is he receptive?
	Yes or no.
	Is he intelligent?
	Yes or no.
	And we just decide black or white, but it's only what's familiar.
	And if you switch the question, so how is...
	This man, how's this woman?
	How's this woman intelligent?
	How's this woman playful?
	How's this woman thoughtful?
	How's this woman kind?
	How's this man, you know, patient and playful and receptive and just so in the blank.
	How is this man?
	And you go on a treasure hunt to find out how they express those qualities.
	God bless you.
	I wish we could continue.
	And Bob, Fernando, Nolan, Alan, Rhett, J.R., Daniel, forgive me.
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	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 me.
	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?
	I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
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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 this, you know, 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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	Yeah.
	Let's talk about something that's not superb, not superb, not superb.
	And that's, uh, Sasha, don't call me Mr. Vindman 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.
	It shows he has a basic misunderstanding of the concept.
	Maybe he needs to go back and reread his citizenship.
	Uh, study materials because freedom is the most important thing.
	I am always, I find it remarkable that I have to repeat on Twitter, uh, to, to the consternation of liberals that why, yes, my rights are more important than your life and my life.
	Because, uh, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died for their rights.
	There are always, there are always people, Dr. Gorka, who are willing to allow you to live as a servant.
	They will allow you to continue to live as long as you obey them and disenfranchise yourself and give up your rights.
	You will probably be able to live.
	Not always.
	Sometimes they'll just murder you because they want to.
	If you dip your toe into liberal Twitter, you'll see that that's one of their hot fantasies.
	But the fact is rights are more important than your life.
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	Because all it takes is one example of something that works and 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.
	That's just what it is.
	And if I continue to be surprised by it...
	Listening to live radio.
	So it's an interesting thing in life.
	Lawyers have an agenda, and the rest of life has an agenda.
	And I'm not knocking lawyers.
	Their agenda is, no matter what, protect your employer.
	My agenda is to produce the finest show possible, to have as many listeners as possible.
	They are conflicting agendas.
	This is a perfect example.
	Because if you think that there's pre-recorded material, you don't think it's a live show.
	It's an interesting thing in life, isn't it?
	See, we live in life as if there's no cost.
	Let's save a life.
	Lock down all of New Zealand because one person has COVID. It's actually happened.
	It's happening now.
	People accept this.
	This is a first.
	This is an attitudinal change in the human species.
	The only thing that matters is safety.
	There are no other concerns.
	That children will not play with children for a year and a half or more?
	We don't care.
	That children's IQs will be reduced because they do not have play with other children or see faces?
	We don't care.
	That children will not have school for a year and a half or more?
	We don't care.
	That people will not be able to visit dying parents?
	We don't care.
	Get it?
	We don't care.
	All we care about is protecting that line, that bottom line of cases from rising or deaths.
	But we don't even really care about the deaths.
	Because if we did, we would have people take the cheapest, most wonderful therapeutics called ivermectin and the like.
	That's right.
	We live in a gigantic idiocy, a life-crushing idiocy from New Zealand to New York.
	And now the next one.
	If you're not vaccinated, even if you've had COVID, which makes you far more healthfully in an antibody state than a vaccine, you must take the vaccine or you cannot enter any indoor space in New York City.
	I wonder what is happening.
	I gotta get reports from New York City.
	What is happening?
	What are people going to do?
	Why don't people revolt?
	I attended a rally last March.
	Last March.
	March of 2020. I attended a rally at the Los Angeles City Hall.
	A few hundred people showed up.
	That was it.
	What was it?
	The rest of Los Angeles was okay with losing their job?
	Was okay with their kid?
	Not having interaction with kids?
	Not having school?
	Why didn't more people show up at their rally?
	Were they afraid they would die?
	How come I didn't fear I would die?
	I love life.
	Maybe that's the reason.
	I think the more you love life, the less you fear death.
	I know it sounds counterintuitive, but I think it's true.
	Because the more you love life, the more you want to live life.
	And you cannot live life if all you do is fear death.
	Not safe.
	That's the goal of life.
	is to be in a safe mode.
	I really do chalk it up to the well-educated.
	Who are, almost by definition, fools, and to secularism.
	Secularism produces a stupid society.
	Religious Christians and Jews are the really only organized group that, and not all of them by any means, there are as many cowards among religious people as there are among secular, but their proportion is smaller.
	There are more courageous people among the religious than among the...
	Than among the secular.
	There are more wise people certainly among the religious than among the secular.
	But that hardly means that all religious people are wise.
	The fines that were listed by the Australian Prime Minister, if you...
	What was it?
	I told you.
	I mean, there's actually a picture of women being stopped by police from...
	Talking to one another.
	Outdoors.
	This really may not end.
	If the entire Western world is thrust into a depression, the well-educated will be okay with it.
	They may even want it.
	And they can truly refashion everything.
	But they would be okay with it.
	Look, Bill Gates isn't going to be in a depressed...
	Economic state.
	Right?
	Government workers will get their salaries no matter what happens.
	people who are not affected by it are the least troubled by it must be a it's must be a tough thing in a family when you have scared members and you have non-scared members Ask the scared members, at what number will you be okay?
	Is any amount of death acceptable?
	Do you understand the price paid for what we are doing?
	I'll tell you, between this and the horrific...
	I'll give you three horrific things that the left has done.
	The lockdowns.
	Afghanistan.
	I mean, what is happening in Afghanistan?
	The re-emboldening of the greatest evil force in the world today, Islamic terrorists, by the Biden administration and its left-wing supporters.
	These are two.
	And three is changing America from self-reliant on energy.
	To begging OPEC to produce more oil.
	All in eight months.
	See, my animosity is not towards Joe Biden because he's a nothing.
	Joe Biden does what the left wants him to do.
	So what difference would it make?
	What Democrat would be president?
	The fact that he is a nothing who is ruining the world will go down.
	On his record.
	But do you realize just the oil issue?
	We were exporting oil under Donald Trump and now we have to beg OPEC to produce oil so we can buy oil from people who don't like us?
	Who wish us ill?
	And that's okay because we're preventing environmental degradation because of the existential threat of environmentalism.
	They live on fear and hysteria, the left.
	As I have said for years, hysteria is to the left what oxygen is to biological life, and people buy it.
	You really think the world is going to come to an end?
	Human life is threatened in 10, 20 years?
	If you believe it, I guess you're okay with asking OPEC to give us oil, to sell us oil, I should add.
	It's all lies.
	It's all gigantic lies to redo the world in which we live.
	To give the powerful more power.
	I talk to young people a great deal.
	And I'm torn because I don't want to depress them.
	And on the other hand, I don't want to lie to them.
	I kind of promise them things are going to turn out well.
	I have no idea that they will.
	So I tend to level with them.
	But I do feel for them.
	What a happier youth I had.
	Yeah.
	There's no question.
	You went to school.
	You had friends.
	You played games.
	You said what was on your mind.
	If you were a boy, you knew you were a boy.
	If you were a girl, you knew you were a girl.
	You were more or less fixated on the other.
	Girls were boy crazy.
	Boys were girl crazy.
	It's actually a good thing.
	That's right.
	It's a good thing.
	It's part of the development of the human being to be a little crazed about the opposite sex.
	Certainly it beats being crazed about gender identity.
	That's the three things for which this president will be damned by history.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon, could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of...
	The military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on...
	We consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology is getting better.
	They're getting more and more ships.
	But we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship that had run aground.
	They copied it.
	They trained.
	and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Rome in ruins.
	Can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Bidenflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices to their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Aha.
	Aha.
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise significantly for the consumers.
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Guys, I want to tell you, and I don't say this lightly, but make sure you stash some cash at home.
	Make sure you stash a little more food at home than normal.
	We're not getting away from inflation, not with this administration and the White House.
	It's just not going to happen.
	They are spending like crazy.
	They're spending our money.
	The CEO of Tyson Chicken said, and I quote, He said, we've seen unprecedented and accelerating inflation, and we're trying to catch up.
	We're trying to catch up with that.
	They can't even catch up with how fast inflation is occurring.
	That means we're going to pay for it.
	Thanks, Joe Biden.
	Keep up.
	Thank you.
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	The killing of the American economy.
	The killing of American security and prestige.
	Biggest loss in Saigon, 75. I mean, the list of...
	Of things the Democrats have done to ruin this country, defunding police.
	What is amazing is you must understand none of this bothers the left.
	You see?
	It doesn't.
	They're not bothered by loss of American prestige or the takeover of Afghanistan by among the most evil people on the planet.
	They're not bothered by the fact that the United States is now energy dependent upon the Middle East.
	They're actually pleased because it furthers the agenda with regard to global warming prevention.
	They're not disturbed by more people being murdered.
	They're really not.
	I believe that with all my heart and soul.
	That the average left is not liberal.
	I think liberals are bothered by it, but they're so weak it's irrelevant.
	They're not bothered by it.
	In the name of their agenda, it doesn't matter what consequences there are.
	The crushing of business in this country, they don't care about Jerry's Restaurant.
	They care about Amazon and Walmart and Microsoft.
	That's what you must understand.
	It's hard to understand.
	For decent people to understand, this is very difficult.
	You're not bothered by the increase in random murders in this country?
	That's right.
	They're not.
	Why is any official who advocated defunding police still in office?
	Why?
	Things like that are why people support I don't say that Gavin Newsom was for defunding the police.
	Did he condemn defunding the police calls?
	I doubt it.
	Gavin Newsom doesn't exactly radiate masculinity.
	The onslaught on civilization is so all-pervasive, it's a multi-headed monster.
	And that's what we are living with.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You add COVID, get vaccinated.
	You're vaccinated, wear a mask.
	You're not vaccinated, you have no access to life.
	And that's okay.
	The division of America by race and by vaccination is perfectly legit on the left.
	Dividing the society is good.
	The more Americans loathe each other, the better.
	Divide and conquer.
	Yes.
	You're vaccinated, you are to loathe the unvaccinated.
	Even if the unvaccinated had COVID and has the antibodies.
	And if you got the vaccine to the two jabs, get a third one.
	True, we never had an mRNA vaccine before.
	It's not even been tested on animals, but big deal.
	We'll test it on you.
	There is an incredibly $1 dose way of preventing it in the vast majority of people, the it being COVID, called ivermectin, called hydroxychloroquine and zinc, but we will take down any doctor who advocates that.
	Because we at Twitter are not devoted to truth.
	We are devoted to the authorities.
	The collaboration of authorities and media has never existed in the United States until now.
	And it is total.
	Okay.
	Thought I'd be honest with you folks and give you the situation.
	I started reading to you yesterday about how feminists really think the burka is empowering of women.
	In a society that tells you there aren't two sexes, and that men therefore give birth, and that you can't use the word breastfeeding, you have to say chestfeeding, which is now used in medical schools, which have become woke rather than scientific.
	In such a world of upside-down language, the burqa is empowering.
	Yeah?
	Arabic educator Laura Abdul-Fattah told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last February that the hijab, it's from the American Spectator, is a, quote, symbol of empowerment for women.
	Lina Saleh, a women's rights activist and PhD candidate in political science at Carleton University, Told the CBC in an interview that it is empowering to describe burkas.
	Rejecting then-premier Stephen Harper's view that the garment is anti-women, Salah attributed Canadians' discomfort with burkas to sheer ignorance.
	Yes, covering human beings up entirely is empowering.
	Right?
	Light is dark.
	Dark is light.
	Light is heavy.
	Heavy is light.
	Latest booster for Islamic women's attire is Hilal Ibrahim.
	Her new line of hijabs for Nordstrom, another company helping the society, wrote Christian Allaire in Vogue the other day is, quote, making shopping modestly that much easier for Muslim women.
	Ibrahim hopes her hijabs will, quote, change the narrative around modest style as a whole.
	Let's put it this way.
	The hijab gives modesty a bad name.
	Love up your kids.
	They got a wild ride ahead in life.
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	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to Bidenflation.
	Biden...
	Inflation.
	Say it with me.
	Tyson increased their prices to their restaurant customers.
	And you're thinking like, okay, so what?
	I don't care if they increase it to their restaurant customers.
	That's for people that are going out.
	We're not going out to eat anymore.
	It's not going to affect us.
	Aha!
	Aha!
	Yes, it will.
	As of September 5th, the retail prices are going to rise significantly for the consumers.
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Can you say thank you, Biden?
	Guys, I want to tell you, and I don't say this lightly, but make sure you stash some cash at home.
	Make sure you stash a little more food at home than normal.
	We're not getting away from inflation.
	Not with this administration and the White House.
	It's just not going to happen.
	They are spending like crazy.
	They're spending our money.
	The CEO of Tyson Chicken said, and I quote, he said, we've seen unprecedented and accelerating inflation, and we're trying to catch up.
	We're trying to catch up with that.
	They can't even catch up with how fast inflation is occurring.
	That means we're going to pay for it.
	Thanks, Joe Biden.
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	So you were just in Hungary, according to the activist press.
	You were contributing to the downfall of Western civilization or whatever in a country of 10 million people that secures their borders 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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	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, S-E-I-U 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 me.
	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. - People, members of PragerForce members of PragerForce around the world, it gives you hope.
	It's a booster shot in an age where these booster shots are needed.
	PragerForce is the 15,000 strong, probably more members now, around the world of high school, college, graduate school age.
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	One such...
	A young person, Prager Force young professional, is Etienne Faucher, a freelance journalist in France, writes about conservative ideas.
	Etienne, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thanks for having me.
	It's a pleasure.
	Thank you.
	How did you get involved with PragerU?
	So I discovered PragerU while I was in the United States studying.
	I was seeing on the media a lot of leftist ideas and I was very surprised to discover that there was not any counter conservative idea.
	So I started looking on the Internet, and then I discovered PragerU, and I was so impressed by the content PragerU provided, the five-minute videos with amazing content, lots of arguments, and I loved it right away.
	And that's basically how I started to get involved with PragerU.
	What were you doing in the United States?
	So I've been studying under the American system for about five years.
	I was studying a business degree.
	Then I went to the United States in New York to complete this degree because studying under the American system was first in France.
	And then after completing the degree, I worked there.
	And you went to what university in the United States?
	Pace University.
	Pace University in New York.
	And where are you right now?
	Right now, I'm back in my city, Lyon.
	You're in Lyon.
	So, what is the story in France?
	Is it permitted for the non-vaccinated to go anywhere?
	Basically, yeah, we can go out of our homes, but there are not so many places where we can go to.
	Just right now, I was looking at the news, and it seems that some people cannot even do their grocery shopping.
	Yeah, that's going to happen here in my county of Los Angeles, I think, in a couple of weeks.
	So, are you vaccinated?
	Oh, no, I'm not vaccinated and I'm not planning on taking this vaccine.
	So, what are you doing in order to eat?
	So, basically, like right now, I have a lot of food in my fridge.
	So I'm good for now, and I guess I will maybe order online or find alternative ways to get food.
	But I'm planning on doing everything I can to get this vaccine.
	What is the popular vaccine in France?
	Which one?
	I must say, I haven't looked at the numbers, like which vaccine was working the most.
	I was looking at the side effects of the vaccines, but I know Pfizer and AstraZeneca are the two most popular ones.
	People are speaking more and more about the Chinese vaccine, but I don't know exactly what are the percentages exactly.
	Is the Russian available?
	No, I don't think the Russian is available.
	Interesting.
	Actually, it's very funny because A French lab was able to come out with a French vaccine but the government did not allow the French vaccine to be available in France and instead it is the UK that bought the French vaccine and that made it available on its own market.
	We're living in a very strange time.
	Yeah, we do.
	The British make the French vaccine available but you cannot get it in France.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's perfectly clear.
	So you're not allowed to fly or go on a train?
	No, we cannot take the train.
	We can take the common transportation, but no, we cannot take the train, and I don't think you can fly.
	Wow.
	Because the European Union is...
	You had very many demonstrations against this in France.
	I'd like you to tell me about that.
	I'm speaking to a member of Prager Force in France who's got a great temperament and courage.
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	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 Moeller.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster.
	And frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities of the That we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of the military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology's getting better, they're getting more and more ships, but we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no navy until they found a Carthaginian warship they'd run aground, they copied it, they trained, and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Roman ruins, can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	You'll love it.
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	How's that, eh?
	That was risky.
	Of course, I'm assuming you're married to your lover.
	Just for the record.
	Sean comes into the studio each day thinking, how many things will he say that I completely did not expect?
	Anyway, it's fantastic.
	Go to SalemNow.com and watch us tomorrow night in Chicago.
	Dennis Prager here with a member of Prager Force, who's French, is in France right now.
	And we're talking about the state of the non-vaccinated.
	Can't fly, can't go on trains, can't go in stores.
	So, it's Etienne Fauché is his name.
	So, Etienne, I know you can't exactly answer this.
	There's no way to know.
	If a vote were taken in France about these regulations, would it pass or not?
	It would not.
	There was several surveys conducted about how popular Macron is right now in France.
	The positive ratings were about 28%.
	So it means that you have 72% of French people who are unhappy with Macron.
	So it means that basically we are living under a dictatorship.
	Because if you have 72% of the French people who are unhappy about the way Macron is...
	Managing France right now with all of these insane measures, that means we are living under a dictatorship.
	Well, you are living, yes, correct, as I am in California.
	So, you have a parliamentary system.
	Why isn't his government falling?
	So he submitted the vaccine passport to the parliament.
	And that has been one of his arguments to say, hey, look, it has been accepted by your elected representatives.
	But the thing is, 60% of elected representatives were not present at the moment it was voted.
	So...
	So it's a joke, and I guess his government is still managing to keep going despite that.
	Why were 60% of the parliamentarians not there?
	Because this is something they tend to do.
	They are choosing the moment when there are going to be as few people as possible to get what they want to pass.
	Pass.
	Is the French media for this?
	Is Le Monde for this?
	Oh, yeah.
	You see, that's the problem.
	Just like in America, the media and the government are one.
	Exactly.
	This is very concerning because Thomas Jefferson was saying that to live in a democracy, you need to have a free press.
	So that people are able to educate themselves to make their own opinions.
	They're an educated opinion.
	But right now the media is not independent.
	The media is in bed with the government.
	So the situation is very problematic, yeah.
	The media and the government are one.
	Yes, it's all through the West, this problem.
	Do you ever think of leaving France?
	Yes, I'm thinking of leaving France.
	I'm waiting to see how things are going to turn out.
	I'm actually going to be looking for a new job soon while maintaining my independent journalist job as well.
	So yeah, I'm just going to look how things turn out and depending on that I'm going to have maybe to go abroad.
	Where are you thinking of?
	I have suggestions, but I'm curious what you're thinking.
	I was thinking maybe of Switzerland, because it is really close from here.
	I would have liked to go to the US, to Texas, for instance, because people are freer.
	I'm also considering Germany, depending on how the situation evolves.
	And yeah, these are basically the two destinations, Switzerland and Germany.
	Germany allows the unvaccinated to travel?
	It depends where, depending on the country you go to, from what I have understood, because it works by region.
	So contrary to France, where the state is taking decisions for the whole...
	Yeah, well, I was in Bavaria last week and you have to wear the special mask.
	You can't wear a regular cloth mask.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, it's a bit more freedom, but there is no place in Europe really where you have complete freedom right now.
	Oh, yeah.
	Western Europe.
	Yeah, but maybe why not?
	This is not my first destination of choice, but this is something where I think more and more people are going to have to go to because this is a place where today we have more freedom.
	That's right.
	There is more freedom in Poland than in France.
	There is more freedom in Poland than in the United States.
	Speaking to a young Frenchman, Etienne Fauché, a member of Prager Force.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	So you were just in Hungary, according to the activist press, you were contributing to the downfall of Western civilization or whatever in a country of 10 million people that secures their borders.
	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. - 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 me.
	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.
	Well, 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 live 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.
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	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	I think it's a very good thing to do.
	So we have very little time, unfortunately.
	You've been a terrific guest.
	How is the state of conservatism in France?
	The state of conservatism?
	It's a complex situation right now because the right does not have any real leader.
	The right is very divided.
	You have on one hand the Republican Party, but in Sarkozy, the Republican Party is a mess.
	And on the other, you have Marine Le Pen.
	But since Marine Le Pen has failed her debate against Macron in 2017, she's not perceived.
	As a fit leader to become the president of France.
	So there are a lot of conservatives here in France, but the big problem right now is we don't have one main conservative figure to embody.
	Perhaps it will be Eric Demour, who is a journalist and who might present...
	Let's hope for that.
	And finally, do you share PragerU videos with other young Frenchmen?
	Oh, yeah.
	I do share with them with English-speaking French people.
	I actually love PragerU so much that I wrote articles on PragerU, and I was able to publish the first article on PragerU in the French press.
	The name of the magazine is La Correc.
	It was last year.
	And at the end of this week, there is another article on PragerU that is going to come out in the Media Cosaire, which is another big media here in France.
	Please, please send it to us.
	This is so important to me personally that we have an impact on people around the world.
	I was just in Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia and met young people.
	Who are influenced by PragerU.
	I hope we meet one day.
	You're obviously a special person.
	Thank you, Denis.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much.
	Folks, I can't say that.
	Thank God there are other ways of helping save Western civilization.
	But in terms of changing minds in large numbers, I don't know what competes with PragerU.
	And the more money we raise, the more minds we change.
	It is literally that simple.
	August is fundraising month.
	PragerU.com, 833-PRAGER-U. To all of you who called in, Stephen, Craig, Bob, Matt, Larry, I am sorry not to be able to take your calls.
	Isn't it something that you can have...
	All these dictatorships in democracies?
	Unexpected.

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