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Aug. 19, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	There you go.
	Did he have songs about any city other than Chicago and New York?
	Here's a very famous New York show.
	Hey, by the way, I am here in Chicago because tonight I am having a cigar night here with folks.
	And if you would, and my fellow talk show host Dan Proft and Sean Thompson, it's a terrific evening that I do every year, you can submit questions for us to answer.
	And you can watch it live as it happens.
	It's at SalemNow.com.
	SalemNow.com, $14.99.
	You can watch it on any mobile device.
	So I just want you to know.
	SalemNow.com.
	It will be fun and informative and depressing.
	Yes.
	Fun and depressing.
	I don't sugarcoat.
	The danger to the world and to the United States that the left has created.
	Joe Biden is most destructive, absolutely purely destructive.
	Everything he has done has hurt the United States.
	He's done nothing good for this country, only bad.
	It's very hard to do only bad, but he has been able.
	Afghanistan was a completely unnecessary...
	Tragedy in American history, not to mention Afghan history, the Middle Eastern history.
	He has revived single-handedly, he has revived Islamic terror.
	The happiest people in the world, outside of the left in the United States, are terrorists.
	For good reason, I might add.
	Yes.
	So, anyway, SalemNail.com for tonight's event.
	I read something, I don't know where, the former president of St. John's College, that famous college where they studied the great books.
	I don't know if they've gone woke, so I just don't know.
	My belief is that they probably did, but there's a chance that they didn't.
	I don't know any college that has courageous leaders.
	So I don't know why St. John's would be unique, but maybe it is.
	Nevertheless, John Agresto, who's a retired president of St. John's, has a line at the end of a paragraph about human beings and freedom.
	And the line reads, Some men kiss their chains.
	What have I told you for much of my life?
	Freedom is a value, not an instinct.
	People yearn to be taken care of.
	They don't yearn to be free.
	So, this is his statement.
	Don't all people yearn for freedom?
	We have asked.
	And we assume the answer is yes, but the answer is no.
	Now, why would he know this?
	And why do I know this?
	And the vast majority of Americans don't know this.
	People don't yearn for freedom.
	Because he and I have studied the great books.
	We got wisdom.
	Yes, we got wisdom from great books.
	Where else do you get wisdom from?
	Your heart?
	Your heart is the seat of idiocy.
	Heart is great.
	It's just not the seed of wisdom.
	The answer is no.
	Some people, perhaps most people, prefer other goods.
	Indeed, some people would rather be holy than free, or safe than free, or be instructed in how they should lead their lives rather than be free.
	Many prefer the comfort of strong answers already given.
	Rather than the openness and hazards of freedom.
	There are those who would never dream of substituting their will for the imams, or pushing their desires over the customs and traditions of their families.
	Some men kiss their chains.
	Good stuff.
	That's correct.
	And by the way, he knocked people on all sides.
	He said some people rather be holy than free.
	The greatness of the American experiment, which is currently descending in its success, was that they said that holiness and freedom are related.
	God wants us to be free.
	Staggering revolution in the history of mankind.
	And it's dying because We attached, in this country, God and freedom.
	So if you don't have God, you won't have freedom.
	Secular conservatives are naive, as naive about religion as secular liberals.
	And if you don't have a yearning for freedom, which is built into human nature not to have that yearning, And no God?
	Then you have a celebration of non-freedom.
	Some men kiss their chains.
	There you go.
	That is exactly correct.
	There's a piece in the Telegraph today about Joe Biden.
	Let's see.
	Let's hope I can log in here.
	Ah, there we go.
	I can.
	A piece in the Telegraph.
	Alistair Heath.
	It's British.
	The U.S. is in retreat on all fronts, and its incompetent politicians are incapable of reversing the decline.
	It's not that they are incompetent.
	They are incompetent, but that is not the reason they won't reverse the decline.
	They seek its decline.
	You can't explain the possible influx of two million foreigners into this country through the southern border unless you understand that there is desire to fundamentally transform the United States, as Barack Obama put it.
	Barack Obama unleashed Joe Biden and a lot of the racial animosities, but he did it in a very, very sophisticated way.
	He speaks the language of NPR. That's the key.
	And Donald Trump spoke anti-NPR. Donald Trump spoke the opposite of NPR. They hated him for that.
	The West has lost control.
	There will be mass population movements, currency wars, and battles over natural resources.
	The American empire...
	At least believed in freedom and democracy.
	What replaces it won't even pretend to be liberal.
	And yet liberals vote Democrat.
	That's right.
	In the British Parliament, they condemned Joe Biden.
	It was fascinating.
	You should watch it.
	It's available on YouTube.
	The disgrace of the American leaving.
	And this is the guy who, and party, said, oh, Trump, he alienated our allies.
	Our sanctified NATO alliance was something he disregarded.
	On the contrary, he did not disregard it.
	He wanted to strengthen it.
	You say you'll pay X amount of your budget to armaments, you should.
	Trump was entirely right.
	He wanted it strengthened.
	There were NATO forces in Afghanistan, and yet Biden didn't say a word to them.
	He just did what he wanted to do.
	Where's the commitment to alliance then?
	You see, it doesn't matter what the left says.
	They say what they say for victory at the moment, not because it's true.
	Donald Trump was far more committed to NATO than the Democrats are.
	This was proof.
	Much more.
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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...
	It 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.
	Thank you.
	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.
	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.
	I'm sure.
	is fundraising month for PragerU, August.
	You want to help the fighters?
	That's as good as fighting.
	PragerU.com 800, what is it?
	PragerU.com 833 PragerU.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Either way.
	Oh, by the way, I, uh...
	I will be conducting, for those of you in the L.A. area, those of you who want to fly in, I will be conducting High Holy Day services.
	I've been doing this for about 20 years.
	It's a very, very moving thing.
	People of all backgrounds and faiths attend.
	So just send me an email at dennisprager.com and you'll get information.
	I won't be able to respond to you until Monday as I'm on the road.
	But do send it to DennisPrager.com.
	And we are going to Zoom it as well through SalemNow.com so that those of you who cannot attend or do not wish to attend because of fears of dying can do so, can still attend.
	And it is fears of dying, and I didn't say that...
	In a mocking way, there are people who fear that they will die.
	Some people have a right to have that fear.
	They have terrible immune systems.
	A great majority of people should not.
	Nevertheless, for whatever reason you cannot or don't want to attend, you will be able to see the service live streamed at SalemNow.com.
	But I am conducting services in the L.A. area.
	And it's a sanity keeper.
	It's also an attempt, not an attempt, it is a way for you to introduce religion on the most sophisticated level to your children and or grandchildren.
	They don't see sophisticated religion.
	It's a very rare thing in Jewish life specifically and in Jewish and Christian life generally.
	So here is a chance.
	There are examples of it, but they haven't seen it in many instances.
	Minnesota principals sign De-Centering Whiteness Pledge.
	A group of 162 principals and assistant principals at Minnesota schools has invoked the late civil rights icon, former Georgia Congressman John Lewis, to push their goal of de-centering whiteness in education.
	The good trouble principals describe themselves as, of course, a loose coalition of local principles bound together by a commitment to changing our nation's future by engaging in better, more equitable education practices.
	Equitable, by the way, notice, is the word, not equal.
	Equal means that you teach every child as best as you can.
	Equitable is you get the same results.
	You get equal results.
	They're not even related.
	John Lewis said, Do not get lost in a sea of despair.
	Be hopeful.
	Be optimistic.
	Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year.
	It is the struggle of a lifetime.
	Never be afraid of making some noise and get in trouble.
	Get in good trouble.
	Necessary trouble, the letter reads.
	The undersigned principles declare publicly today that we are making some noise and getting in good trouble.
	Really?
	It's not possible for a leftist to get in good trouble.
	There is nothing too left, too out of your mind for you to suffer.
	These people take the mantle of martyrdom for no reason.
	People who get into good trouble are conservatives, not leftists.
	The letter states that the principles intend to do that by de-centering whiteness and dismantling the practices that reinforce white academic superiority, which allegedly includes standardized testing and an Americanized version of a caste system in our schools.
	Maury Melander Freestleben, a member of the group, said its concrete goals Concrete goals include increasing varieties of student and school evaluations that go beyond the annual standardization testing process.
	In other words, they'll give you grades based on your race.
	And that's very helpful to blacks, isn't it?
	That's right.
	We'll grade you differently.
	Because we on the left think you're inferior.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I would put my hand on a Bible, which I regard as God's Word.
	In saying that I swear to God that I believe that the left is the center of racism in the United States.
	People on the left have utter contempt for blacks.
	Blacks are used to destroy America, but they are not helped.
	Anybody who thinks changing standards for blacks is good has contempt for blacks, not to mention for the subject.
	Critics of standardized testing have said it offers an advantage to wealthy white and Asian American families.
	Its detractors include New York progressive Representative Jamal Bowman, who described it as a pillar of systemic racism.
	I see.
	The principals group also accused parent-teacher associations and teachers unions of promoting white supremacy.
	I love it!
	Teachers unions!
	There's nothing left of teachers' unions.
	It's awesome.
	They eat their own.
	Great biblical phrase about a land that devours its own inhabitants.
	That's exactly what the left does.
	It devours its inhabitants.
	That's why Trotsky was murdered by Stalin.
	The trick on the left is to stay alive.
	You've got to somehow anticipate how far left the power will go and then avoid being a victim of it.
	It's not easy.
	Not easy.
	So PTAs, of course PTAs.
	Oh my God.
	Parent Teacher Association Center of Racism and Teachers Unions.
	I love it.
	We purposefully call out and lift up historically non-represented voices of color in our spaces to hold weight and power.
	Anyway, if you're a Minnesota parent-centric to a typical Minnesota school, you are probably hurting your child and may well hurt your child's relationship with you permanently.
	Melander Freestleven.
	Said such groups have played a role in attempts to preserve segregated schools and to remove contracted teachers of color without due process.
	De-centering that means understanding that history in order to identify any present indicators that may be operating in that same light, she told Fox News.
	Lifting up voices of color could include inviting an indigenous parent as a guest speaker to discuss Native American geographical names like Minnesota, Minnehaha, and Minnetonka, she said.
	That's right.
	By the way, I have nothing opposed to that.
	But will there be a school orchestra?
	Will the kids learn grammar?
	Will they all have to learn the same grammar?
	I is is not correct.
	I am is correct.
	And like, that's what I would have asked had she been on my show back in a moment.
	Here at Salem Media Group, we're delighted to welcome you back to your old habits and haunts.
	Nice to see you at our restaurants.
	We've been waiting a long time for you to return.
	Nice to see you at the salon, the post office, the flower shop.
	Nice to see you back in the office.
	Nice to see all those cars on the freeway again.
	Yay!
	Hello, Bedford Falls!
	For over a year, America has been fighting to get back to normal.
	This Salem radio station has been fighting right alongside you.
	Now, we're back.
	You're back.
	It feels so good to be back.
	Welcome back to the real world.
	The real world.
	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years, it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night, saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for, are we pulling it?
	Because I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam, helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55% of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert 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 Mueller.
	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...
	...and we'll see you next time.
	Hello, my friends.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	1-8 Prager 7-7-6.
	Mike in Temecula, Michigan.
	Hello.
	Is that right?
	Excuse me.
	My error.
	My error.
	Tecumseh.
	Terrible.
	I should go in the punishment.
	It's after Chief Tecumseh.
	Okay?
	One minute.
	I'm being punished.
	That's true.
	Had I been more professional, I would have gotten to come to write.
	Go ahead.
	It's all right.
	Hey, I'm just kind of upset with the president.
	I'm glad he's getting out of Afghanistan.
	Like, an insurrectionist leader tried to get us out.
	He said it wouldn't last two days.
	Trump said.
	But I don't think we lasted that long.
	But anyway, I'm upset because of the optics of that plane on the tarmac.
	Biden should have heads rolling for what happened out there.
	That should never have happened.
	The plane taking off, trying to take off with all those people hanging on it, they should have stopped that plane, got all the people off, only the people that were going to fly.
	You know, it's ridiculous.
	That should never have happened.
	Well, it should never have happened, but if any heads roll, it should be Joe Biden's.
	Joe Biden, I know you wanted us to leave.
	I didn't.
	We had 2,500 people there and some folks from NATO. We kept the peace.
	Now we have emboldened terror.
	There is not a single justification for leaving Afghanistan.
	I don't care if it's a conservative or a liberal who believes we should have left.
	They don't have a single argument that I have heard that is in any way rational.
	It's purely emotional.
	Oh, we've been there 20 years.
	Oh, that's a compelling argument.
	It's a compelling emotion.
	All right, everybody.
	I have the author of a major workout now.
	To his credit, it's not something you would have thought would have become a national bestseller, and I'm glad it is.
	His name is Vivek Ramaswamy.
	And he's a majorly successful entrepreneur.
	He's written for Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review.
	The book is Woke Incorporated, Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam.
	And given my contempt for big business, which I've always had since I studied communism in graduate school, big business never had morals, and it is not any different today.
	None of this is shocking, but it is devastating.
	So, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, Mr. Ramaswamy.
	Glad to be here.
	Can you hear me pretty well?
	I hear you pretty well.
	It's not, on a scale of 1 to 10, it's a 7. How's this?
	7 and a half.
	Okay.
	We'll live with it.
	We'll live with it.
	So, tell me why my thesis is not fully...
	Explanatory.
	I think it's overwhelmingly a function of cowardice that American Express craps on the United States, as does Nike and the others.
	Is there a reason as important as that one?
	There's an even more important reason, in my opinion, Dennis, now that I disagree with you.
	I would add to it that it is actually downright necessary.
	Because what these companies are doing is they are creating a smokescreen.
	To deflect accountability from their actual business practices.
	It works like a magic trick, like a con game.
	Magicians flash flashing lights, blow smoke, walk beautiful women on stage.
	Well, today what these businesses do is they flaunt these progressive social values to distract the public from the issues they'd rather not be talking about.
	You have Goldman Sachs issuing edicts from the mountaintops of Davos that it would not take a company public in the United States unless its board is sufficiently diverse.
	Right around the same time that they're actually participating in defrauding the Malaysian people to the tune of $5 billion.
	You have Coca-Cola issuing statements about a voting law in Georgia that make it sound more like a super PAC than a soft drink manufacturer, or teaching its employees how to be less white, deflecting accountability from the growing epidemic of diabetes and obesity, including in the black community they profess to care so much about.
	That's not at the core.
	That's at the core of their business.
	They'd rather not be talking about it.
	So I think it's one step worse than what you say.
	If you're American Express, they're under investigation by the DOJ right now over the last year as we speak for defrauding small businesses across this country.
	What better way to deflect accountability than to claim that capitalism is racist and to treat and to teach your employees accordingly?
	So I think that this is more intentional.
	I think it is a purposeful arranged marriage between the woke left and big business.
	It's not a marriage of love.
	It is more like mutual prostitution.
	And I think the net result is the birth of what I think is the illegitimate birth of their child, which is the woke industrial complex that actually is the real threat to everyday Americans today.
	And that's what I talk about a lot in the book.
	All right, we've got to continue.
	That is so intelligent.
	So how does that explain Nike?
	Because of their practices in China.
	It would be very interesting.
	The book is up at DennisPrager.com, Woke Incorporated.
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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, There's 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.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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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?
	We'll be right back.
	Very important book out, Woke Incorporated, Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam.
	Vivek Ramaswamy is the author.
	It is a national bestseller.
	He's a very successful entrepreneur, and he understands what's going on.
	So my first question was, other than cowardice, how would you explain it?
	I find his explanation, in addition to cowardice, effective.
	It's a smokescreen for all the bad stuff that they do.
	So I'd like to develop that theme, Vivek, and we'll begin with the example of Nike, which, if it didn't begin the current wave of anti-American hatred from corporate America, it certainly was one of the big starters of it.
	What animates Nike?
	Yeah, look, I think it is in large part the same theme with one additional nuance that I want to get to.
	The same theme is that they're using woke smoke to cover up their actual business practices.
	Because I'll tell you, Dennis, it is a lot easier to verbally criticize slavery 250 years ago than it is to reduce your reliance on slavery today.
	And I will tell you, they source their shoes from slave labor in Asia to sell $250 sneakers.
	To black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school all in the name of serving black communities and donating tens of millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization that professes to care about black lives while calling for the defamation of the nuclear family structure.
	And I think for Nike, that allows them to sell more sneakers.
	It allows them to build a better brand with the community to whom they are selling those shoes while deflecting accountability from actually relying on not slavery 250 years ago when the United States was born.
	But slavery today, in the year 2021, in the present, without being held to account for it.
	And there's two more dimensions to this on Nike, where they criticize the United States to no end, but they do not take a peep about true human rights atrocities in China, where you have over a million Uyghurs in concentration camps, subject to forced sterilization and communist indoctrination.
	And Nike CEO John Donahoe goes earlier this summer to China and says, we are a brand of China and for China.
	Those are his words, not mine.
	But I also think that, in some ways, consumers in the United States, in order to be, you know, what would Nike say?
	They're saying consumers demand this for us.
	So if we're to evaluate that argument, I think there's some truth to it, if I'm being honest.
	But I think that reveals a different issue, Dennis, which is the cultural vacuum at the center of our nation's soul, where I'm a millennial, and people my age and younger, we're hungry for a cause.
	We're hungry for purpose, and we're hungry for identity.
	And we live in a moment where Patriotism and faith and hard work, the kinds of things that used to fill that void, have disappeared.
	And we have instead turned to commercialism to fill that moral hunger.
	It's like the equivalent of satisfying our hunger with fast food.
	What we really need is a more rich, shared identity to fill that vacuum instead.
	And that's really the solution to all of this woke agenda that I talk about in the book.
	Well said.
	How are you regarded in the...
	You're in New York.
	In your world, how are you regarded?
	Well, I live in Ohio now.
	It's where I was born and raised, and it's where we moved back to raise a family a couple of years ago because I knew I didn't want to do that in New York.
	I'm something of a traitor to my class, right?
	I mean, I wasn't born into elite America, but I've lived in it for the last 15 years or so.
	I went to Harvard, went to Yale.
	I've worked in elite hedge funds at a pretty young age.
	It's a multi-billion dollar company that I led as CEO in the biotech world.
	And this is not what you're supposed to do.
	You're supposed to shut up and play along.
	You're supposed to go to fancy ski towns on a private jet to preach about the racially disparate impact of climate change or whatever it is you do in Davos on a given day.
	And, you know, I think that I'm viewed as a little bit of a defector from that class.
	That being said, though, I think a lot of people share my perspective.
	I was on a call last week with one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley who said that he was...
	I would have never guessed him saying this because he's a very prominent person.
	He said, I'm envious of you because I can't say what you're saying in public.
	And I thought that that was a real shame where, you know, I know everyday Americans are shackled from being able to speak for fear of losing their job, and that's bad enough.
	But even if people who occupy seats of power in our capitalist economy...
	Still feel threatened by the threat of being tarred with the label of being a racist, where there's no greater damnation in modern America than to be called a racist.
	And you're called a racist if you disagree with anything the woke movement has to say.
	That really shows how far our culture of fear has come in supplanting our culture of free speech in this country.
	And I thought the only way to address that, Dennis, was to start talking openly again.
	And frankly, I wasn't free to do that as a CEO of a prominent company myself.
	And so that's why in this January, I actually...
	Publicly.
	I stepped aside as CEO. I still remain chairman, but I said that there's a new CEO, and my voice is different from the voice of the company.
	But now I'm going to speak, and I'm going to speak in an unrestrained way.
	And that was part of my mission in writing this book.
	Why can't this man you spoke to speak out?
	Well, look, he's afraid of social castigation.
	Right, okay, wait, wait, wait, so forgive me, wait, but...
	So he is afraid and you're not.
	I think that's accurate.
	Okay, so my cowardice explanation...
	Well, you didn't deny it.
	You just said there was a bigger one.
	It's a part of the story.
	It's a part of the story.
	There is a culture of fear in this country.
	And it's almost like a law of physics in the social universe, Dennis, and it works like this.
	Fear spreads more quickly than courage.
	And I think that that is what's happening in America today.
	Courage can be infectious, but fear is even more infectious.
	And that's why I think it takes extraordinary demonstrations of courage to really revive that culture of being able to speak freely without fear of retribution.
	And I'll tell you, I have lived the full arc of the American dream, so I don't want to claim that I'm some sort of courageous hero.
	I don't have a job to lose because, thankfully, I've lived the full arc of the American dream.
	And I don't have to worry about putting food on the dinner table.
	And so, for me, it was a lot less heroic to do it than for a lot of other Americans who do take a risk of losing their job when they speak out, who do take a risk of their kids getting a bad grade in school or even getting kicked out of a private school if they speak out against what their kids are being taught in the classroom.
	And I really salute those brave Americans who are actually taking even bigger risks than I had to take.
	Yes, I had to step aside a CEO of my company, and it wasn't easy.
	But compared to the risks that a lot of other Americans are asked to take every day to fight this new ideology, I actually salute them far ahead of me.
	Writing a book was easy by comparison.
	Right.
	But the guy in San Francisco wouldn't even do that with his billion dollars.
	The book is Woke Incorporated, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the book is up at my website.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you. .
	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.
	You wait to cook this.
	Let's see.
	A successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, who has spoken out against the anti-American hatred that permeates corporate America.
	Thank you.
	And he has explained it and is explaining it well in this interview.
	The book is Woke Incorporated, Inside America's...
	Corporate America's social justice scam.
	So, when did you first speak out?
	Yeah, so, you know, the funny thing about building a company, Dennis, is I had to have my head down and focus on that.
	So I started the company in 2014 and didn't really do much speaking out because I was too focused on building the company.
	The company started on its own two feet by early 2020, and I wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in February of 2020 taking aim at this artificial...
	Stakeholder of capitalism, the idea that companies had to service progressive social causes in addition to making products.
	And that was going to be about it for me.
	It was a one-time shot.
	I really wanted to say my piece and then move on.
	Turned out that actually stirred some big waves in the business community.
	A book agent approached me, a relatively prominent one, and he said, you want to blow this out into a book?
	I think you need to do that.
	And then I ended up deciding to write a book about it.
	It ended up becoming so controversial that...
	Actually wading into, I would say, the thick of what is not only our war in corporate America, but I think that the war for the American soul, reviving our shared American ideals to dilute the woke agenda to irrelevance, not just in corporate America, but now I'm really focused on other spheres of American life as well, including nonprofits, including our schools, and including our politics.
	Great.
	We need you.
	What does a person do?
	With regard to American Express or Nike, do they boycott it?
	What do you think they should do?
	Look, I think in the short run, the answer could be choosing not to buy from these companies, but that's a pretty superficial solution, Dennis.
	I actually think the answer in the longer run starts with the next generation.
	Our generation is already stuck and mired in this way of thinking, but I think the right answer...
	is to revive a sense of shared American pride in the next generation that dilutes wokeism to irrelevance.
	I'm a little bit worried about seeing some of the methods of the left starting to infect the right.
	The victimhood culture in minority communities in the woke lexicon on the left is now starting to show up in weird ways in grievance culture on the right.
	Same thing with respect to cancel culture.
	I don't favor using that in reverse.
	I think the right answer is to educate the next generation.
	Put civic service and civic education into primary education.
	And I think the timeline we have to get this right is when the kids in first grade now, by the time they graduate from 12th grade, that's when we're going to have to fix this.
	Because if we don't, that's when we lose an entire generation.
	So that's where I'm focused, actually, is on school and on civic education.
	I deeply resonate to everything you've said.
	The book, Woke Incorporated, is up at dennisprager.com.
	Forgive me for saying that it is...
	Though not intended, nor by me, it explains the mission of PragerU as well as anything to help support us during fundraising month.
	Vivek Ravaswami, an American hero.
	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 Viktor Orban, right?
	Right, and notice that the people calling for crushing other people are the ones calling you a fascist.
	So the very people who are like, oh no, it's totally normal to fire someone from his job because I disagree with 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, like, say it out loud.
	I think that's a helpful first step.
	But you can see where this is going.
	CNN just fired three employees for not getting the vaccine.
	Just fired them.
	No one said anything.
	That's totally normal.
	Take a man's livelihood away because he won't take a medicine that you want him to take, that he may not need, that he certainly doesn't want, and he can't work in this country.
	Do we want to live in that country?
	I don't, you know, I don't.
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	Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or think of Black Friday.
	You know how...
	All the stores try to get you in the stores during Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	store and they only have X amount before they're absolutely gone.
	And obviously their trick is to get you in a store so you can buy other stuff if you're in California.
	So you can shoplift other stuff.
	But in other places around the nation, it's so you can buy other stuff.
	So you walk into this store, you get into or...
	Well, you don't walk in on Black Friday.
	You bum rush that store.
	Are you set in line?
	You have the money in your hands.
	You're ready to go.
	You've got all of this cash.
	You've been saving.
	And you're just ready to go.
	You're like, I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done today.
	You pull up.
	You see the line.
	And you're like, wow.
	Everybody else, the 200 people standing in line in front of me, The same amount of money or cash that I do, but there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	The institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, not of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	on useless, poorly thought-out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic kale chase for 20 years.
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	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...
	It's ushering in its chaos, a sort of left-wing-flavored chaos.
	And I think it's because they don't have the votes and they don't really have the plan to do anything else.
	Now, you know Joe Biden and you know Bernie Sanders.
	Is Joe Biden in charge of this?
	Or has Bernie Sanders just been deferred to?
	Yeah, I think this is sort of policy by default.
	What is it we can do?
	That we can tell the activist base they should like.
	I don't think at the end of the day they're going to be satisfied either.
	And then we'll do that.
	I kind of think that's what's happening.
	I'm not trying to...
	Because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	Again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed in the social safety net.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax that's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax use?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Yeah, indeed.
	The Pain-Free Studio travels with me.
	It's an amazing thing.
	Actually, it is true.
	Relief Factor does travel with me.
	Hi, everybody.
	Hello from Chicago.
	There's a new meaning to the word humid, but it's not a new meaning.
	It's if you've left the West Coast.
	West Coast of the United States is one of the only places in the world that does not have excessive humidity.
	Or a great deal of humidity.
	If California had normal weather, given what the left has done to California, the quality of life being so profoundly affected negatively, there would be a massive exodus.
	Weather keeps more people in California than anything else.
	A lot of luck.
	A lot of luck the left has in that regard.
	Okay.
	I welcome you to the show.
	I want to remind you, I'm here for Cigar Night, which I believe is sold out, but any of you anywhere in the world can watch it live-streamed with my colleagues here at the station, and Dan Proft and Sean Thompson.
	So it's a terrific evening.
	Just go to SalemNow.com.
	You can watch the event of your mobile device, computer, smart TV, anything else.
	And it's at SalemNow.com, $14.99, all fees included.
	And now I welcome you to the program.
	Now, if this call is for real, I want to take it.
	I say if it's for real because it's pretty dramatic if it's true.
	And I don't usually begin an hour with a call, but I will.
	Huma in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Can you hear me?
	Very clearly.
	Okay, Dennis.
	I can express I'm so honored and grateful to speak to you.
	You are my light in the darkness and you have changed my life completely.
	I wanted to tell you my story a little bit because I was born and raised as a Muslim.
	I was living in Pakistan.
	I was born there.
	And I moved to France when I was 11 years old with my family.
	And over there, I nearly turned as an atheist and socialist and, you know, France being France, I almost turned as a French.
	So what made me love America and being conservative and get to know you is when my husband, when I got married, my husband opened his own company in France and we found out how it was difficult because the government was taking out all our money.
	And then I started to...
	I've been interested in conservative media and I found out about you and you and you have also made me come closer to God because I've been reading all your books and my life has just changed.
	I wanted to thank you for doing all that you do and I wanted to share my story with you.
	And now I've been in the United States for a year and a half.
	Now I've moved here.
	I've made my dream come true.
	That's the reason that I do everything I do, is to touch people like you.
	I want to tell you something I say to anybody who says I've changed their life, that you are 50% responsible.
	There are people who hear everything I say or read everything I write, and there is no effect.
	So please take half the credit.
	Thank you.
	You know, it's not even a compliment.
	It's just a fact.
	There's something in you that wants to follow truth and reason and goodness, and that's all you need to do.
	Yes.
	I've always tried to follow, tried to be free, as free as I could, because living in a Muslim country in Pakistan is not easy to be free.
	It's not a value over there, and in France it's not a value.
	I always strive to...
	to be free and that's something that made me want to come to the US as well but it's sad to see what's all that's happening right now but I still think that it's the best hope we have.
	Well that's why I wrote the last best hope.
	Well you made my day and I'm always torn on Advocating that people read, for example, my books, The Rational Bible, because every author wants you to read their book, so why would this be any different?
	Right?
	Makes perfect sense.
	People are cynical a little bit.
	But it will change your life.
	That's right.
	And a life without God can be, certainly, it can be a...
	A moral life.
	There are moral atheists and agnostics and secularists.
	But ultimately, the roots of morality in the West are biblical.
	And when the roots are removed, the trees will wither.
	So they're called the Rational Bible.
	I hope we meet one day, Huma.
	Look at that.
	She should write her autobiography from Pakistan.
	To France, to South Carolina.
	France is sort of the opposite of Pakistan.
	France doesn't believe in freedom much.
	Although some do, there were more demonstrations in France against the lockdown than in the United States.
	They did, after all, publish the Charlie Hebdo.
	Charlie Hebdo did publish the Mohammed cartoons.
	No American media did.
	But in general, they have not valued freedom since the French Revolution.
	That's why they gave America the Statue of Liberty.
	They didn't keep it for themselves.
	I would like you to hear a truly moral idiot, Stephen Colbert.
	When the term moral idiot was devised, I don't know if he was born yet, but if the term had not been devised, his birth would have, or his adulthood, would have seen the need for the term.
	So listen to him a couple of nights ago.
	Ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.
	American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.
	He's right.
	We've had troops there for 20 years.
	They fought.
	They sacrificed.
	Their families sacrificed so that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in America planned in a foreign country.
	Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan?
	We've got our own on Capitol Hill.
	Then Biden pointed out...
	There you go.
	Why fight terrorists abroad when we have terrorists at home in our Capitol?
	Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan?
	We've got our own on Capitol Hill.
	It is an interesting question to me, to which I have no answer.
	Does he believe what he said?
	My general thinking is that they have convinced them that men give birth, that there was an insurrection on January 6th.
	I mean, the term has been used so often.
	It was jolting in the beginning because it was such a lie.
	It was such an overstated thing about basically a two-bit riot.
	People posing in Nancy Pelosi's chair.
	We're not talking about the attempt to overthrow the American government, which was done in the state of Washington, the state of Oregon.
	I mean, real deal.
	The actual usurpation of government authority by left-wing terrorists.
	That is a fact.
	Anyway, this is what late night comedy, which was once there to unite Americans and give them some joy at the end of a difficult day.
	That's what has happened to it.
	Stephen Colbert is a perfect example.
	Nothing is not politicized.
	Nothing.
	Literally nothing, right?
	And I want you to hear, to uplift you, when we come back I will put her on, a nurse.
	Where did she testify?
	The San Diego Board of Supervisors?
	If you're a healthcare worker in San Diego and you don't get vaccinated, you get fired.
	So a nurse, an articulate nurse, spoke out against that.
	People are not free to do what they want with their own bodies.
	This was a line used to defend abortion.
	It was never meant seriously.
	No left wing lines are meant seriously.
	They're meant tactically.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	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.
	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.
	They have for a year, one of the only advertisers of a product that was involved human interaction, one of the only advertisers of a product that was involved human interaction, not just That was with me from the beginning of the lockdown.
	By the way, did you expect a year and a half?
	Parts of this world still in lockdown?
	With an increasingly distrusted vaccine?
	We're up to a booster within a year here.
	Two shots, then a booster, then a mask.
	Then a ban on non-inoculated because you might infect the inoculated.
	It's quite an inoculation.
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	So, what is it?
	Apparently, San Diego has announced that if you work in the health industry and you're not vaccinated, you get fired.
	So, your life has been devoted to helping people.
	There is zero reason to believe you've infected anybody.
	And nevertheless, you will be fired in a worldwide hysteria affecting Western nations the most.
	With regard to vaccine, in Canada you can't fly or go on a train.
	Apparently a bus, I guess, too, if you're not vaccinated.
	Canada has contempt for freedom.
	This has been true now for decades.
	And it's true we're every year.
	Canada is not a free country.
	And that is why Jordan Peterson came to light, because he refused the mandate either at the University of Toronto or in Toronto, where he is, that he must use preferred pronouns.
	People have less and less freedom.
	New Zealand and Australia are a laughingstock in the world.
	You can't talk to a human being at a park.
	In the state of New South Wales, the most populated Australian state.
	I've been to Australia many times.
	Always been touched by the friendliness of the people.
	But I have to say that I don't hold Australia in the same regard that I did.
	Australia, our ally in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, always thought of them as the...
	Lovers of liberty, and they were.
	But the left took over Australia, just as it is in the United States.
	But it's even more strong.
	Do you have, Sean, do you have the New Zealand Prime Minister saying that if it isn't from the government, it isn't true?
	Did you happen to...
	Yeah, yeah, take a look at that one.
	In the meantime, let's talk about the...
	Let me play for you.
	The San Diego...
	Yeah, I know that.
	The San Diego nurse testifying at the San Diego City Council or wherever it was.
	Board of Supervisors.
	Hi, my name is Heather Cottle and I'm a registered nurse here in San Diego.
	I actually resigned from my job yesterday as a registered nurse because of the state mandate to be vaccinated.
	I was no problem working in the health care system over the last 18 months without a vaccine.
	But now, all of a sudden, I'm a threat to public health.
	Tell me where this makes sense.
	All of you sitting up here with your masks on, you know that those masks don't do anything.
	So that alone, this woman deserves a Nobel Prize.
	...universal precautions and we know how to implement them when we're dealing with patients who have a viral infection.
	I don't understand how you guys don't see the bigger picture here.
	What you're doing is you're creating a health care crisis.
	We already have a nursing shortage in America.
	So now in San Diego County, I know for a fact there are several hospitals that are operating on an all-bed crisis.
	You know why we're doing that?
	You know why?
	Because we have a health care shortage.
	Well, health care nursing shortage, excuse me.
	And you know that.
	These numbers are skewed.
	The testing is skewed.
	I don't understand.
	Nathan, you can't even look at anybody.
	I love this woman.
	Jim Desmond, I want to thank you personally because I have reached out to you over the last 18 months and you are the only supervisor to ever respond to any one of my emails.
	So thank you.
	Thank you.
	Well, the left and the health authorities, rather more Americans die because of fewer nurses than allow a nurse rather more Americans die because of fewer nurses than allow a nurse who is not vaccinated to Everything about every institution has now become sick.
	I trust nothing that is said by any authority.
	This is new in my life.
	I've been broadcasting 38 years.
	I have never, not only never said this, I have never even thought it.
	Medical authorities are corrupt.
	They are as corrupt as Nike.
	They are as corrupt as Major League Baseball.
	There is as much authority in the American Medical Association and in the San Diego Health Authorities, there's as much commitment to health and honesty as there is in Major League Baseball.
	That's right.
	They do know it does nothing.
	They do nothing.
	One of my make-believe rabbit's feet, known as a mask, was on the floor in my hotel room this morning.
	So, of course, I'm going to use it when I have to get on a plane.
	Yesterday, unfortunately, I had a Type A flight attendant.
	The woman, even when I fell asleep, she woke me up to tell me that it slipped under my nose.
	The potential of my killing people was very real.
	I took a flight just last week, 12 hours from Paris to L.A. Flight attendant didn't ask me once to have a mask.
	It's all dependent upon how uptight, afraid, uptight, afraid, one of the two, the flight attendant is.
	It really has nothing to do with the airline.
	It's a crapshoot.
	Whether you...
	Meet a Stepford flight attendant or a real human being.
	We're going to try to get this nurse on.
	There is hope in this country.
	But you have to fight.
	Or at least you have to help the fighters.
	That's where PragerU comes in.
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	On top of the collapse of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate, after already $4 trillion of spending over two years, it will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years?
	If we're just going to be a socialist, backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for, are we pulling it?
	Because I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam, helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids.
	And tax them, make them sell them, take 45 to 55% of that, and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert 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.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka 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.
	Bobby Jindal is the former governor of Louisiana, and he has become truly one of my favorite people in this country.
	When I read his pieces in the Wall Street Journal, and when I hear him speak, I feel I have a real kindred soul here.
	And he gives the latest PragerU video, and that is titled, What Unites Americans?
	That's pretty much all you need to know about America in that five minutes of that video.
	video.
	Let me play for you the beginning.
	Let me play for you the beginning.
	Let me play for you the beginning.
	Once you're an American, you're only American.
	Okay, well, I'd like to play all five minutes, but it gives you an idea.
	This is why it is so important for you to show these videos to your kids, grandchildren.
	They're pretty inspiring for adults as well, I might add.
	Bobby Jindal, you really are one of my favorite Americans.
	Welcome to the show.
	Well, Dennis, thank you so much for those kind words.
	It is so great to hear your voice and talk to you again.
	And let me thank you, and not only for having me on your show and doing such a great job at the radio show, but let me thank you for Prager University.
	You know, the reality is if this didn't exist, we'd have to create it today.
	And am I just saying that because I had such a great experience working with Alan and your entire team, they did a great job, but the reality is when you look at the content we're getting from our universities today, you look at the content we're getting from Hollywood, you look at the content we're getting from even big companies, it's increasingly uniform, it's increasingly liberal, it's increasingly one-sided.
	There are not many people putting out conservative ideas.
	There are certainly even fewer people doing it in an intelligent, creative way.
	I love the video format.
	I think that they're long enough to get your points across in a detailed way, but they're short enough to keep people's attention.
	There's not enough creative, conservative content out there, and I really want to commend you.
	The quality is great.
	And importantly...
	And I tell this to all your viewers and your listeners out there, you'll hear a perspective you would not otherwise hear from Hollywood or your kids' universities or kids' schools.
	So I encourage people to go to PragerU.com and listen to these videos, watch these videos.
	But I just want to get that out.
	And he didn't ask me to say that.
	Oh, I have no clue.
	That is true.
	And I would never ask anybody to say that.
	Thank you for doing so.
	When I reflect on your family...
	I have to admit, I sort of, well not sort of, I have to laugh.
	Coming from India to Louisiana, if you have to pick two opposites culturally, I can't think of anything more opposite.
	So it touches me that the son of Hindus became the governor of Louisiana.
	It's a remarkable story.
	Well, and Dennis, it's not only that, it's an impossible story for anywhere but America.
	And I just, you know, just think about this.
	It was over 50 years ago.
	My dad, he's one of nine kids.
	He was the only one that got past the fifth grade, literally raised in a house without running water, born in a house without electricity.
	And then he marries my mom.
	She's pregnant with me.
	They are finally beginning to break in the middle class.
	They've got decent jobs.
	They've graduated from college.
	And they leave that, and their families and their friends leave all of that behind to come halfway across the world.
	Not only did they come to Baton Rouge, but people forget there was no Internet back then.
	There were no cell phones.
	They couldn't Google Baton Rouge or Louisiana or America.
	Hadn't been on a plane.
	Hadn't even met somebody from Louisiana before they came here.
	And they left everybody behind really because in their bones, even though they hadn't been to America, they just knew this was a special place.
	They knew that this was a magical place that if you worked hard, you could create greater opportunities for your kids.
	You know, at that time, India was in a socialist economy.
	It was largely governed by who you knew.
	There was a lot of corruption.
	It was a lot of cronyism.
	They knew in America that you had to work hard, had to get an education, you had to sacrifice, you had to play by the rules, but there was freedom.
	And your kids could do amazing.
	There was no woman on what your kids could do if you were willing to follow those rules.
	That's the American dream that got them here.
	And I tell people, that's the same dream I want for my kids, the same dream I want for my grandchildren one day.
	And that's really what unifies all of us.
	It doesn't matter whether your parents came here 50 years ago or whether you were three generations ago.
	It doesn't matter what your last name was.
	It doesn't matter if you're from the South or the North, black or white, male or female.
	We all want that same American dream.
	And it's still true today.
	The left will tell you it doesn't exist.
	I know.
	So that's the question.
	What's happening today?
	I'm going to continue with Governor Bobby Jindal in a moment.
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	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 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 them 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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	Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money, Chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or, think of Black Friday.
	You know how all the stores try to get you in the stores during Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	you want to buy.
	Music
	Music Governor Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, has a phenomenal, inspiring, and truth-telling about the uniqueness of the United States.
	Nowhere on earth have people assimilated into a new identity as they have into America.
	It just doesn't happen elsewhere, because America is not an ethnicity.
	America is an idea.
	Governor Jindal, we have a real crisis.
	I mean, an unprecedented crisis of a threat to American freedom, to everything beautiful that you announced.
	That it didn't matter whether your parents were Hindu or Buddhist or Atheist or Jewish.
	They were American.
	And that, of course, is being assaulted in every institution of the country.
	Now your identity is everything.
	What gives you reason for optimism?
	Well, Dennis, first of all, you're exactly right.
	I want everybody to understand the gravity of this threat.
	The left wants to destroy this idea of an aspirational society.
	They want to destroy this idea that an individual can transcend the circumstances of their birth.
	For the left's perspective, we're all defined by our group identity.
	You can never transcend your race.
	You can never transcend your background, which is an awful, awful way of looking at the world.
	And now, look, I don't think it's inevitable that the left is going to lose.
	I think every generation in America has to choose for ourselves these ideas of freedom, these ideas of being in an aspirational society.
	The reason I'm still optimistic, however, is, look, I think the Founding Fathers got it right.
	Their trust in the brilliant experiment that is America was not a trust in government.
	It was not a trust in Washington, D.C., or even in our elected leaders.
	Rather, it was in the freedoms they were giving to the American people.
	You know, they created these founding documents that said, we're going to create a limited government to protect our God-given rights.
	The government didn't give us these rights.
	The government was there to protect these rights.
	So it's really up to us.
	The American people have been given these rights to protect those rights for our children.
	My optimism is not in our government.
	It's not in our military as great as our military is.
	It's not in our wealth as important and as wonderful as that is.
	It really is in the American people.
	It's in that foundation.
	We're built on these Judeo-Christian values.
	This embrace of individual dignity and freedom, that's what gives me hope and optimism.
	But again, it's not inevitable.
	All of us, including your listeners out there, we've got to embrace it.
	We've got to push back against critical race theory.
	We've got to push back against this obsession with race and gender and victimhood.
	Our parents did it before us, and we've got to do it for our children as well.
	Well, we're fighting, as you know, and so are you.
	I love your work.
	I thank you for it.
	Please, folks, watch this video up at PragerU.
	Send it to everyone you know.
	If that bothers them, if that video bothers them, it is a statement about them, not the video.
	Bobby Jindal, I look forward to seeing you again.
	Dennis, thank you, my friend, for all you're doing to advance freedom here in America.
	I hope so.
	Thank you, sir.
	Great stuff.
	By the way, Alan mentioned to me, I'm in Chicago.
	This is a message to the...
	Caller from Pakistan living in South Carolina, send me your email at DennisPrager.com.
	We might want to have you tell your story at PragerU.
	I think your story is a very powerful one.
	So if you're still listening, do get in touch with us, please.
	Okay, let's go here.
	I'm sorry?
	Oh yes, the New Zealand Prime Minister.
	I promised you we've cut it down to about 30 seconds.
	You can trust us as a source of that information.
	You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.
	COVID19.govt.nz Otherwise, dismiss anything else.
	We will continue to be your single source of truth.
	We will provide information frequently.
	We will share everything we can, everything you want, else you see, a grain of salt.
	And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
	There you go.
	Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
	God, that's got to go down as a line.
	How does she know that?
	How does she know that the only truth available is government-supplied truth?
	Is it possible that the government is in error?
	Is it possible that somebody is telling a lie?
	No.
	That is why we are living in an Orwellian time.
	I mean, the state knows all.
	If it doesn't come from the state, it isn't true.
	And that's why, and people believe that.
	The government said.
	I would say that the government says is at least as strong among secular people as The Bible says is among religious people.
	Yeah.
	That's what happens when you don't have religious faith.
	You have secular faith.
	At least you hear it from us.
	It is not the truth.
	That's right.
	Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
	It's quite...
	But you know, I just want you to know...
	You're not alone.
	That nurse in San Diego, we've got to have her on.
	She actually inspired me.
	That was awesome.
	David, West Virginia, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	You there?
	I am indeed.
	Long time listening to my son.
	I listen every time we get in the car and I'll drive.
	Thank you.
	See, I told your associate, I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
	And I've done so, I've been a fellow employee for coming up on 18 years.
	And because of the COVID regulation, they just put forth that all Title 38 employees must get vaccinated.
	And then they just changed that to all Title V and Title 38. So all VA employees.
	All right.
	Stay on with me.
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	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals, who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan. to double down and to send even more troops to Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood on useless, poorly thought out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic 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 kind of think that's what's happening.
	I say I'm not trying to, because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	Again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed.
	In the social safety net.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
	That's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
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	The Charlie Kirk Show.
	I was with David in West Virginia.
	He's been a government employee for 18 years.
	Continue, David.
	Yes, sir.
	So, the vaccine's been mandated for all VA employees.
	It's been in the news.
	I personally knew this was coming, so I ended up taking a virtual position, which is 100% work from home, and I'm basically almost on the East Coast.
	I work for a visitor VA network on the west coast.
	So my facility is nowhere geographically located to me.
	But it's been mandated that I take the vaccination as well.
	I have no reason to go into a facility.
	I'm not even close to my facility.
	And I talked to my supervisor about it and it came from above was what I was told that I still must get the vaccination even though I do not go to a facility.
	I do not work direct patient care.
	So it's still been mandated for me to take even.
	How absurd is that?
	This is one great example.
	It never did.
	It does not now have anything to do with health.
	It has to do with power.
	That's all it has to do with.
	You work at home thousands of miles from the group that you're working with, and you have to get a vaccine.
	Ask them if you moved to Greenland, if that would still prevail.
	I'm serious.
	Yeah, no, seriously.
	And it's absurd, because I have no reason to go in.
	My facility that I even report to directly is on the west coast, and I'm basically on the east coast.
	And the reason was, well, what if you need IT and you have to go to a local facility?
	Well, I can send it to you by mail.
	I can send you my laptop.
	Whatever can be done by mobile.
	To me, it's an appearance of they want to make sure they can get as many of us vaccinated as they can, just to say they can.
	That's right.
	That is exactly right.
	So what is going to happen?
	Are you going to be fired?
	If I don't take the vaccine?
	Well, they've given us two options.
	The options are this.
	You can put in a medical exemption.
	So if the CDC, if you're in one of the CDC groups that say you're medically exempt, Because of some certain medical condition or whatever, as long as you provide something from your doctor, you don't have to get the vaccination.
	Or if you have a religious exemption.
	So if you have a religious exemption that does not allow you to take vaccinations or whatever, you can provide that as well.
	And in turn, you must wear a mask all the time.
	So they give you an out.
	Oh, if they give you that out about wearing the mask, so you'll...
	Right.
	Anyway, for you, that's irrelevant.
	You don't have to wear a mask while you're at home 3,000 miles from your facility.
	Anyway, you do suffer from a condition.
	Liberty-loving.
	It is now a pathology in the United States.
	we continue this is Albert Mowler for townhall.com the
	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 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 they'd run aground, they copied it, they trained, and they beat the hell out of Carthaginians.
	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 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 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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	music 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 in anything.
	I have no idea to this day.
	I will look into it why that moronic announcement is even added to an intelligent program.
	However, we live in the age of lawyers, and the quality of a program, even to lawyers who work for a programming company, is secondary to some other concerns that I find opaque, to say the least.
	If there are no pre-recorded elements, why would I play that?
	I'm sorry to do this every hour, but I don't want you to be misled by a completely misleading announcement.
	Okay, my friends, Dennis Prager here on live radio, I might add.
	One of my favorite people in the world is on the line.
	She knows that that's true.
	Many others know that that is true.
	When she ran for mayor of Nashville, And this is during the time of theoretical disease.
	Anyway...
	That's how much I care about this woman.
	Carol Swain is a former professor of political science at Princeton and Vanderbilt.
	She's done a number of PragerU videos.
	Her new book, I am thrilled to see, is in the top 100 of all books being sold in the United States at this time on Amazon.
	Black Eye for America.
	How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House.
	Somebody put it in a very good way.
	Critical Race Theory for Dummies, you know, that old series explaining things clearly.
	So this is a very important book.
	Her website is bethepeoplenews.com Carol Swain, my dear Carol, welcome back to my show.
	I'm so excited, Dennis, and it's always wonderful to hear your voice, and thank you for what you do for the whole world, not just for America, but for the whole world.
	Well, that's very sweet of you, and it is.
	Thank you.
	It means a lot to me.
	So, given the number of books out there on critical race theory, what is it that you wanted to accomplish with your book?
	Well, I had so many parents, teachers, administrators, policymakers contacting me, asking for advice about what to do and trying to understand critical race theory.
	I felt that they needed a primer, and initially it was going to be critical race theory, a guide for the perplexed.
	And I started the project with Chris Shore as a research assistant.
	He's a young man that got his Ph.D. maybe a year ago from Georgetown.
	He's a Marine, Christian, unemployed with a family.
	And so I hired him as a research assistant.
	He's also brilliant.
	And this little primer that we started off working on became this book that was meant to be read by laypeople.
	And to equip them to fight against critical race theory.
	We have two chapters on strategies, effective strategies.
	We have a glossary because, as you know, they keep changing the terms of what they're doing.
	They try to confuse people.
	They lie.
	And so our book explains what it is or it came from, why it's un-American, why it runs counter to our Constitution and civil rights laws, and, you know, just...
	Who we are as a people, and who we are as a people is that we don't shame and bully people because of the color of their skin or some other immutable characteristic, yet the left does that to white children.
	Well, that's well said.
	And why that isn't called racism is a puzzle.
	I think one thing that needs to be stressed, and I'd like you to address this, is how critical race theory hurts blacks.
	Thanks.
	Well, it's such a racist theory pushed by progressive whites.
	And the progressives have never believed in equality.
	They were always the ones that were pushing for segregation.
	And how it's hurting blacks now is that it lowers the standards.
	It's abandoned.
	Any idea of equal opportunity, they want equity, and they believe that minorities are inferior.
	They could never compete on the merits, so you have to lower the standards.
	So consequently, math is considered racist.
	Teachers should not press minority students for right answers on math questions.
	It also encourages ebonics rather than standard English, and you may remember, Last year, I believe, the Smithsonian had an exhibit, and it said that it was whiteness to get to places on time, to plan for the future, to engage in hard work, to believe in, you know, Christianity.
	And there were other things that, for anyone who has been successful, like me, coming from poverty, had I not gotten to places on time, made an attempt to speak standard English, I believe that hard work would make a difference, I would still be in poverty in southwestern Virginia.
	Exactly.
	I said earlier in the show, because I believe it, that the only systemic racism in the United States is actually on the left.
	It is.
	It's against white people but it's also hurting minorities because what they are putting out there will not equip the next generation of blacks or Hispanics to be successful and it hurts every child in the classroom and critical race theory it's in all of our institutions I don't care whether it's a private school public school or Just all the institutions are impacted by it.
	And what I don't understand, Dennis, is how rational people, educated people, could go along with this when it's so clearly against our Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause, and just human decency.
	And I know you know a lot about human decency and everyone who listens to you.
	It goes against all of those things.
	Why aren't we standing up and fighting even harder against it?
	Well, that's the $64,000 question.
	So what do you recommend to a parent in a normal urban school?
	I can't speak for rural schools, which may not have been infected yet, but a school that's been infected by this.
	So they have three choices.
	Do nothing and pray for the best.
	Fight or take their child out of school and homeschool their child.
	Which of the three do you recommend?
	Well, the public schools have become so infected and dangerous because of the teachers' unions, and it does affect rural schools.
	It's everywhere.
	If they can do it, they need to homeschool that child.
	If they can't pull the child out of that environment, what they need to do is ban with other parents.
	The first thing they need is information about what critical race theory is.
	The second is that they need to...
	Realize that they have rights.
	If they are white, they're protected by civil rights laws, by the Equal Protection Clause, and they need to document the discrimination that is taking place in the workplace, in the classroom, and any harm to that child because of that child being bullied or shamed because of the color of their skin.
	And they need to band with other parents across partisan lines because this affects every American.
	And it is the civil rights issue of our times.
	Carol Swain is a former professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt.
	And her latest book, it just came out this month, is Black Eye for America, How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House.
	She has a website.
	Tell me about your website, Be The People News.
	I have a show that I do called Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain where I interview people.
	Things are posted there.
	There are blogs.
	There are interviews I do on other shows.
	And so there's a lot of information.
	And people can order the book from the website, and the order will come from a Christian conservative bookstore as opposed to Amazon where I am in the top 100. And have the number one book on democracy and the number one book on inclusive education methods.
	Excellent.
	BeThePeopleDos.com And the book again, folks, is Black Eye for America.
	Carol, you keep writing and I'll keep having you on and making PragerU videos with you.
	You're a blessing to this country.
	Thank you so much.
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	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 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 them 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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	Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money, Chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or, think of Black Friday.
	You know how all the stores try to get you in the stores on Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	And they only have...
	X amount before they're absolutely gone.
	And obviously their trick is to get you in the store so you can buy other stuff if you're in California, so you can shoplift other stuff.
	But in other places around the nation, it's so you can buy other stuff.
	So you walk into this store, you get into, or, well, you don't walk in on Black Friday.
	You bum rush that store.
	Are you set in line?
	You have the money.
	In your hands.
	You're ready to go.
	You've got all of this cash.
	You've been saving.
	And you're just ready to go.
	You're like, I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done today.
	You pull up.
	You see the line.
	And you're like, wow.
	Everybody else, the 200 people standing in line in front of me, have...
	I want to remind
	you, a year plus of lockdowns and mandates that crippled America's economy.
	me.
	Our political leaders are still crushing small businesses.
	And the big global competitors are thriving.
	Washington, D.C.'s response?
	More talk of mandates, unprecedented government spending and tax increases.
	Not to mention record inflation, soaring gas prices.
	One organization in America is fighting the war on small businesses, and that is the Job Creators Network.
	If you own a small business, join the growing army of JCN members now.
	Just join.
	And learn how to become an advocate.
	Tell your story.
	Hear other stories.
	I urge all small business owners and their supporters to go to JobCreatorsNetwork.now and become a member.
	That's JobCreatorsNetwork.com.
	I love those people.
	I love them, I love them, I love them.
	They're fighters.
	Good to fight for good stuff here.
	And now, Bob in where I am, Chicago.
	Hello, Bob.
	Hello, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Well.
	Yeah, I just wanted to say thanks for your being a voice of freedom.
	And I can't make the cigar event tonight, but I'm going to have a bourbon and a cigar in solidarity with you guys.
	That's right.
	So why don't you just watch us on the feed?
	Yeah, I'll do that.
	I'll do that.
	I just wanted to do that.
	Well, thank you.
	It means a lot to me.
	By the way, any of you who are obviously anywhere in the world can watch.
	I think the event is sold out this evening.
	Anyway, go to AM560, WIND, WIND, and check if there are any seats for tonight.
	You can go to SalemNow.com and for $14.99 you can watch the entire proceedings on any device.
	It'll be a lot of fun.
	This cigar evening that I have now is a sort of tradition here in Chicago.
	We used to do it in a tent.
	But I dripped so much sweat on my cigar, I couldn't smoke it.
	So I think we've moved it indoors.
	These are times that demand as much joy and camaraderie as possible.
	We're in the fight of our lives for this country and for liberty.
	The blow to worldwide liberty and to America that Joe Biden inflicted completely gratuitously.
	With the two-fold tragedy of the exodus, we had 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, not one fatality in a year.
	It wasn't worth it to keep the peace there and to keep terrorists at bay and to let them know that we're in charge and not they.
	Everything has reversed in a week.
	America suffered a completely gratuitous humiliation.
	At least in Vietnam, there were vast numbers of Americans being killed in a prolonged war.
	It's not true in Afghanistan.
	Well, you need to do what brings you some joy and kindred spirits.
	That's my antidote to it.
	The depression that the times in which we live can bring.
	This mandating of the vaccine, you know, my colleague Mike Gallagher, I was listening to him today, and he's very pro-vaccine, which is fine.
	And he's very anti-mandate.
	You can't tell Americans, you must take this medicine.
	And this notion of, well, after all, if they don't take it, they're infecting the people who did, then what the hell is the good of the vaccine?
	If you're being infected by non-vaccinated people and you're vaccinated, I can't think of a more condemnatory statement of the pointlessness of the vaccine than that one.
	All of you sitting up here with your masks on, you know that those masks don't do anything.
	We live in a make-believe world.
	Everything is make-believe.
	Men are women is make-believe.
	Men give birth.
	Really, that's the paradigm of the make-believe element in which we live.
	There are so many other examples, obviously.
	Sally, Pennsylvania, hello.
	Sally is making her way to the phone.
	I I'm here.
	Is this from Pennsylvania?
	That's correct.
	Okay, thank you, Dennis, for everything you do.
	You have opened my whole world.
	I quit watching news in the 1980s until I discovered you, and maybe that's why I'm not afraid.
	I am totally against mandates because I have been grieved in my heart that we're not a free country anymore.
	When I was a kid...
	We read one chapter of Psalms every morning and said the pledge.
	And when my teacher came to school weeping that she couldn't read the Bible anymore, it was heart-wrenching.
	I've seen our freedoms being slowly taken away, and if they want to wear masks and get a vaccine every ten minutes, if it makes them feel better, that's fine.
	But the one thing that never made sense, because I'm all about common sense, They predicted the NR1 was going to destroy the world, and it didn't.
	Then they said the mad cow disease was going to come over on a plane from England and kill the world.
	I don't know how the disease got a passport or knew which plane to fly, but it was just ridiculous.
	And then in six months, poof, it went away.
	It was like Jesus and Oral Roberts showed up and poof, it was gone.
	Well, what caused the mad cow disease was rapeseed that was put in the cow feed.
	So when they got rid of it, the cows quit dying.
	Now they just put it in our peanut butter.
	But anyway, I knew it wasn't as bad as they said, and if we use the excuse, my body, my choice, for murdering a baby inside its mother's womb, we should have my choice over getting the vaccine.
	I don't believe it's as bad as they say, because I've gone to two President Trump rallies, and we didn't wear anything, and we were hugging and shaking hands and taking pictures of each other.
	They just had a concert, I think Garth Brooks, but I'm not certain, in Omaha.
	I have a friend there.
	60,000 people unmasked inside.
	Why has he canceled the rest of his concerts?
	Really?
	I guess they forced him to.
	That's so interesting.
	Well, anyway, they had it just last week or so in Omaha.
	60,000 people.
	The hospital's filling with serious cases.
	Of near-fatal COVID. Not to mention, my friends, that the whole emphasis should have been the whole time, not on a vaccine, but on therapeutics.
	We'll be back!
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Remember, I said they're going to borrow and spend a lot of money.
	Now, you know, when the tax increases come up, this is going to be to borrow and spend enormous amounts of money, force inflation up without addressing even the safety net needs.
	Forget about defense, which they're not spending any money on either, right?
	Right.
	It's ushering in its chaos, a sort of left-wing-flavored chaos.
	And I think it's because they don't have the votes and they don't really have the plan to do anything else.
	Now, you know Joe Biden and you know Bernie Sanders.
	Is Joe Biden in charge of this?
	Or has Bernie Sanders just been deferred to?
	Yeah, I think this is sort of policy by default.
	What is it we can do?
	That we can tell the activist base they should like.
	I don't think at the end of the day they're going to be satisfied either.
	And then we'll do that.
	I kind of think that's what's happening.
	I'm not trying to...
	Because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	Again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed in the social safety net.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
	That's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
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	Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country, just as a population, has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Could you make that point?
	So profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is the product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back and you still love America.
	I've never met.
	Anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes tend to be, you know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	Maybe they get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promise?
	I'm out.
	I'm out.
	I'm out. . .
	Not based on Friday.
	This proves that this is not pre-recorded.
	In any event, April.
	Nope, that's wrong, too.
	Guest number three, August.
	Thank you.
	When you go into automatic, it's a danger.
	August is fundraising month for Prager University, and I have a guest each day for a few moments.
	Sometimes more than that, we had this French Prager Force.
	I was a student yesterday for a while.
	I was curious to know what's going on in France.
	And in this case, we don't have Prager 4 students.
	We have donors.
	A couple that lives outside of Seattle.
	Lucky them.
	Barbara and L.G. Gibson.
	And they have children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who use PragerU stuff.
	Barbara and L.G. Gibson, welcome to the show.
	Well, thank you, Dennis.
	This is great.
	Yes.
	May I ask how old you folks are to have 15 great-grandchildren?
	I'm over 80, and my wife is in her 70s.
	I'm 79. I'll be 80, but that's another story.
	She's a young one.
	That's hilarious.
	You were considerably, Barbara, more forthcoming than your husband.
	You think so?
	On the age issue?
	Yeah, there was no question about that.
	Anyway, so I think it would be just good to share your story so that you can encourage others with it.
	Well, Dennis, you know, we were raised in the 50s where we were free and we just love America and we were in the best time.
	And we heard your program through our daughter-in-law who told us about you and that it was something we needed to get involved with.
	And we have been enjoying every one of your fireside chats and all the different videos that you put out, and we just really became very happy that there's somebody putting out truth.
	And as for myself, you know, I think we're in such a dark time, and you bring out a light, and your prayer force, I am so proud of the fact.
	That you are reaching the young people with such enthusiasm and to see them be so active.
	Why would I not want to donate to Prager Forest?
	It's one of the greatest places to send money in such a time as this.
	Thank you.
	PragerU, which obviously one of its beneficiaries is Prager Forest.
	So how old are your children?
	You have three children.
	How old are they?
	Our oldest one just turned 60. Amazing.
	Yes, and we have two boys and a girl, and we have eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
	I'm going to put you on the spot.
	Can you name them?
	Of course.
	You don't have that much time.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	What about Mr. LG? You're going to go into overtime.
	Can you name them seriously?
	I'm not sure.
	I love my...
	I don't have great-grandchildren, but if I had 15, I would be hard-pressed.
	Oh, well, we know them all so far.
	Do you live near them?
	Do they live in the Seattle area?
	They all live in this area.
	We have one granddaughter that's in Dallas, Texas, but they're all in the Washington state other than her.
	Is it fair to say you have watched your state decline?
	Yeah.
	It's a nightmare.
	It's worse than a nightmare.
	That's right.
	That's what I would think you would think.
	To have grown up in the 50s in Seattle, or Seattle area, and now see it?
	Do you have an explanation?
	I mean, these are Seattle people voting in these America-hating people.
	Can you explain it?
	I'm not saying you can.
	I'm just curious.
	I have the same explanation that you do and they're deranged.
	They're sick.
	I just heard you speak on your program.
	They're sick.
	There's no other word for it.
	It's education.
	Do you have any in your extended family?
	Very few.
	Well, they're all pretty balanced with common sense.
	Yes, they are.
	We're very blessed.
	You certainly are.
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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% 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, We're
	donors to PragerU.
	It's fundraising month.
	Just another moment here.
	I want to get to some calls.
	1-8 Prager776, in particular, Heather, in L.A., so please hold on, Heather.
	So, Barbara and L.G. Gibson have a lot of grandkids, in fact, even more great-grandchildren, which is logical.
	But I was interested in getting your take, having grown up.
	In the Seattle area, I grew up on the other coast, but I have to say, you have witnessed a change that is more dramatic than, let's say, I witnessed growing up in New York.
	Seattle in 1950, Seattle in 2021, are not parts of the same civilization, let alone country.
	So I asked you how you might explain it.
	You just said, look, it's a derangement that you can't fully explain.
	And I think there's a lot of truth to that.
	So I'll end with, give an argument for donating to PragerU.
	To get out the truth as much as we possibly can support with the young people, with the books for the children.
	Time is very close to something very bad, I'm afraid.
	I hope I'm wrong.
	We need to speak while we can still speak, and I think that your message and the critical force that you have are dynamite.
	We need more people like you and all of these young people that are on your team.
	So, God bless, and I pray for a miracle, and you've been preparing for this for all of your life.
	So, you're the right man in the right spot.
	And so I know you guys don't get discouraged because you don't get discouraged.
	You're kind of like a Trump.
	The more they throw at you, the stronger you get.
	So thank you for everything you do.
	Well, people like you two give me a lot of strength.
	Thank you, my friends.
	I look forward to meeting you.
	I don't get discouraged because I don't have the right to.
	It's a form, it's understandable, but it's a form of selfishness.
	I'm not the issue.
	Something infinitely greater than me, freedom, the West, America, those are the issues.
	I don't have the right to get discouraged.
	That's how I look at it.
	I always use the analogy of the guy storming Normandy Beach.
	They get discouraged.
	I'm not facing machine guns.
	Nazi machine guns.
	I'm facing a cancel culture.
	It's not quite the same.
	I'm fighting Google and YouTube and Twitter and Facebook, the greatest opponents of truth and free speech in American history.
	The amazing thing is they're so...
	Again, deranged.
	They don't even know that.
	They think they're defending truth.
	You suppress dissent is how you defend truth.
	It shows how weak your belief in what you believe in.
	I don't think I have to...
	It never occurs to me to suppress people I differ with.
	The very fact that they know that they have to suppress dissent proves that in their gut they know they're lying.
	They know they have no intellectual basis for what they say.
	If masks worked, what the hell would they care if people came out with scientists, just scientists, who said, you have to be kidding.
	Everybody knows, everybody knows that the virus is way tinier than the holes in the mask.
	That the imagery...
	Of keeping out mosquitoes with a chain-link fence is a perfectly apt one.
	That's it.
	Surgeons don't wear masks, and we're talking N95 masks, because of viral particles.
	They do because of things that can fall from their mouth or whatever, while there's a human being who's open in front of them.
	There's no comparison.
	Heather, Los Angeles.
	Dennis Prager, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	This is quite an honor, actually.
	I am a Prager Youth donor.
	I'm a member of PrEP, and I just really appreciate you taking my call.
	Thank you.
	I'm calling today because I am 27, married, and my husband and I have, you know, we're ready to start a family, but as you said earlier, We feel like we're in the fight of our lives for our country and for American values,
	and it's kind of scary to think about bringing a child into this world only to have them suffer in what very well may become the opposite of America, essentially, with what's being pushed today in politics and CRT and all of that.
	So I was just wondering if you could speak a little bit of hope for Families like mine who want to start a family but are a little bit apprehensive about it in these times.
	There was really almost no time in history when a parent was not bringing a child into a troubled world.
	We're somewhat spoiled in the last hundred years or so in America, things being so inordinately good.
	Compared to the rest of the human race in the rest of history, that we came to think of it as normal.
	America was not normal.
	America was abnormal.
	Normal was World War II, World War I, Vietnam, communism.
	Evil is normal.
	And I would present to you a very powerful example.
	Jews who lost every single member of their family in the Holocaust then went and made families and had children.
	Think of that as a response.
	But if you'd like to respond, stay on.
	Back in a moment, everybody.
	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...
	It 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 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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	Okay, final segment of today's show.
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	You need it.
	You need these sorts of things.
	Uplifting stuff, kindred spirits, all of that is good.
	I hope my answer, I invited her to stay on, the 27-year-old young woman from L.A. about having children, bringing them into what could be a really dark America.
	I might add to my response, and I... I'm going to have to devote an hour to that while I have children now.
	That's the best thing you could possibly do for this country is to bring children with good values into the country.
	Life won't be easy for them because of leftist influence in the country.
	But if the only time to bring children into the world is when it will be easy for them, where it's guaranteed easy, which is almost never.
	And nobody would bring children into the world.
	While I do deeply believe that God wants us to enjoy life as much as possible, the purpose of life is not to have it easy.
	then truly nobody would have any children.
	Bringing children into the world and infusing them with goodness, the antithesis of leftism, which is rotten to the core, comes from some sick place in the comes from some sick place in the human spirit.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Not to appreciate this country and to lie about it, as the New York Times and LA Times and Washington Post and CNN and your schools do regularly, is sick.
	It's just sick.
	Not to appreciate what is good.
	To destroy the good comes from a very dark place in the soul.
	Plus, you have to be an idiot not to appreciate the uniqueness of something this good.
	But we have not lost by any means, my friends, and they know it.
	That's why they try to suppress us.
	Talk about inspiring things.
	I am conducting Jewish High Holiday services.
	People of every faith attend.
	If you'd like information on attending, it's in the L.A. area, in the Valley.
	Send me an email at dennisprager.com.
	I'll respond next Monday.
	I'm away this weekend.
	God bless you all.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	What do you mean?
	What are you talking about?

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