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	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	We'll see you then.
	I have no idea why that's absurd.
	It is the essence of absurdity.
	A bored lawyer decided to do it.
	That is my theory.
	All right, everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Good to be back.
	I was in Chicago for the cigar night.
	And then I went to Pennsylvania.
	Actually, not Philly, not Pittsburgh.
	Oh, my goodness.
	And so they're going to have that excuse of why they left people behind.
	Amish country is there.
	I was listening to my younger son and his fiancée.
	I want to share with you observations that run deep in me.
	I have always believed what I'm about to tell you.
	Publicly, the Taliban have said that there will be consequences if we stay beyond that date.
	So what Pete Hegseth and I were talking about last hour is that means you've got to start to get your people out around August 28th, because it's going to take you two or three days to get all those troops up off the ground and back in the air.
	So what is the Pentagon, what is the President's intent to tell us that they are in charge of what date we leave?
	Because we know that can't possibly be true.
	They'd be wrapping up the carpets now.
	I think what we have is an overabundance of smoke signals, saying one thing, doing another, saying one thing, meaning another.
	I think the ultimate intent there is to not signal to the Taliban that they're going to stay past the 31st, but they presume they will.
	And that's what I read out of it.
	We have been propagandized to believe that cities are the glory of civilization.
	They see us on the ground.
	They see it taking days for us to put even approaching 7,000 people.
	And they're, artistically, I'm proud of a court of press that sit there at the Pentagon and ask tough questions regardless of what outlet they are.
	And if they think they're smarter than those people, they probably think they're smarter than Taliban, and they're probably not really smarter than any of us.
	All the museums of New York City are not to be found in rural America.
	The great orchestras are located in bigger communities, generally speaking.
	With regard to the arts, the city's made a significant contribution.
	With regard to morality.
	They cannot give us an inventory of the equipment.
	They cannot give us a count of the number of people who have died at the airport in Kabul.
	Remember last week it was people hanging from planes.
	This week people getting trampled.
	And they can't give us a number?
	And then they can't give us the number of American stranded in Afghanistan.
	Or they can't give us the number of Al-Qaeda.
	Remember Joe Biden said it was zero, but in fact it's far more than zero.
	They don't have a number.
	But the one thing they can tell us is that our intelligence capacity...
	But if you cannot make a generalization, then you cannot see patterns in life.
	People are nicer in smaller areas than they are in big cities.
	The rudeness of folks in New York City.
	I do want to get to this in the, Miranda, I'm coming to you.
	I'm going to ask our team to play out the section where they were talking about that timeline, in fact, at the news conference.
	I think they would over the course of a lifetime.
	It took a long time, but I think it would happen.
	I have always believed this.
	Then let's go to the part where they were talking about the numbers, and they got into how are you deliberately trying to be vague.
	That is exactly the Bible view of the city.
	Those of you who have a Bible commentary, check the number.
	Can you do that and give it to us?
	Or if you're being deliberately vague, tell me why you're being deliberately vague.
	I think I'm just going to leave it at several thousand right now, Dave.
	Because I think the number is very fluid, and it literally changes nearly by the hour.
	The people gathered united to build a building.
	A tower that would reach the heavens in order to make a name for themselves.
	That's actually the way it's described.
	By the way, nothing's changed.
	Cities compete for the most idiotic title possible, tallest building in the world.
	I cannot think of the number of Americans that were evacuated.
	Now that is a number that they do know, obviously.
	My city, it's truly, I have to say, it's almost phallic.
	My city has a bigger building than your city.
	Oh, what a man.
	And that was a mixture of military aircraft, civilian charter flights, and also NATO allies.
	And yet, in the modern age, there is no diminution in the primitiveness of human beings.
	The overall messaging has been a complete disaster from day one.
	And at least from the Pentagon, they're giving regular updates.
	But every time the Bible mentions...
	of questions, but from the State Department, from Anselm Lincoln, from Jake Sullivan, you just get mixed messages, total disinformation, and from the President as well.
	And, you know, they're trying so desperately to spin the narrative, they've forgotten that they need to be straight with the American people.
	And, you know, from the start, and the President missed this opportunity yesterday, what the metric should have been, we are going to get out X thousand American citizens of ours that are there, and any other allies that we can, and not put a timeline date on it.
	Just say, we'll be out as soon as we've got out X thousand of our people.
	You will get less civil behavior in big cities.
	So I was thinking, and it's not only micro, it's macro.
	The crappiest values come from cities as a general rule.
	If you believe that the left is destroying the country, and unless you're a leftist, you know that's true, if it weren't for big cities, it would be no left.
	You realize that?
	I was thinking about it in Pennsylvania.
	If you go outside of Philly, outside of Philadelphia, you are in...
	You might as well be in Idaho, Wyoming, parts of Florida, etc., etc.
	There is an affirmation of tradition, of veneration of the country, people having God We Trust on their bumper stickers, as I saw.
	This is only 90 minutes outside of Philadelphia.
	Philadelphia ruins Pennsylvania.
	Los Angeles and San Francisco ruin California.
	And just go down your list.
	New York City ruins New York State.
	New York State.
	I said that.
	You said New York City twice.
	I did?
	Yeah, but it's okay.
	Oh, okay.
	No, it's not okay.
	So thank you.
	It's okay in the larger sense that I don't deserve.
	39 lashes.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	A slip of the tongue is not the same as reading the wrong thing.
	You should go into the punishment.
	But I'm not sending you there.
	No, no, no, come back.
	Think about the role of big cities in ruining this country.
	Voting-wise, idea-wise.
	So, I don't have a solution.
	I...
	There's a part of me that wishes all the big cities in the country, you know, the ten biggest cities, made their own country.
	And they would have enormous wealth, banking institutions, phenomenal museums.
	Great orchestras.
	I'm willing to forego all of those things to get rid of the sick ideas that come from cities.
	And to be with the nice people who don't live in the big cities.
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	How do you resonate to that?
	And it's interesting, isn't it, that it was already foreseen in Genesis?
	Thomas Jefferson had this view?
	That's right, now that you mention it.
	And so did who?
	George Washington?
	And James Madison?
	I'm in good company.
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	Imagine your state without its two biggest cities.
	Would it be a worse place or a better place?
	Yeah, that's a fair question.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	We return momentarily.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live.
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	Not one mistake.
	Nice to see you back in the office.
	Nice to see all those cars on the freeway again.
	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.
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	On top of the collapse of the...
	Of the commitment to free enterprise represented by the Democratic Party's full embrace of socialism and the passage of a full-on socialist budget by Bernie Sanders in the Senate after already $4 trillion of spending over two years.
	It will mean $8 trillion of printed money.
	I was feeling pretty low last night saying, my gosh, what have we done for 20 years?
	What have we been fighting for for 40 years if we're just going to be a socialist?
	Backwaters country that can't keep our commitments to people we fight for.
	I began my life with the fall of southern Vietnam.
	Helicopters on the embassy in Saigon.
	I went to college.
	I was a sophomore in college when that happened, 1975. And here we are.
	Kabul will look that way within 30 days.
	You just realize there's a 1994 out there somewhere.
	There's a 1980 out there somewhere.
	Indeed, I think we're going to wipe out the Democrats.
	This country does not want to be a socialist country.
	And the Democrats are socialists.
	All of them.
	They all voted for it.
	Now it's going to go to the House.
	It's a pure transfer of wealth.
	It's taking the money you earn.
	They're going to tax at death everything you've got.
	They're going to not raise the basis.
	Your houses, your farms, your businesses are going to take them away from your kids and tax them, make them sell them.
	Take 45 to 55 percent of that and put it into their plans to pay their buddies off in the teachers' unions.
	And they're going to mask your kids, and they're going to ignore your demands of critical race theory, be booted out.
	And you know what?
	Time to rise and fight again.
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	This is Albert Moebler for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
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	Hi.
	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and I'm reflecting on my weekend in Berks County, Pennsylvania, which is about 90 minutes north of Philadelphia. which is about 90 minutes north of Philadelphia.
	Philadelphia.
	You might as well be entering another civilization when you leave Philadelphia or New York City or L.A. or San Francisco.
	Or Chicago.
	Big cities are ruining our country.
	It's as simple as that.
	Their values.
	And, of course, their voting.
	There are two countries.
	Many ways of dividing it.
	Obviously, blue and red is the most obvious.
	But urban and non-urban would be...
	As valid as any.
	It's an interesting question, though, why that happens.
	Why do cities produce awful values?
	Where did London stay?
	Marx was a complete urban guy, London.
	Hitler was a complete urban guy, Vienna.
	Lenin, well, he went from urban center to urban center.
	I don't know of a major evil individual, I'm not talking about some crackpot mass murderer, but who started movements of evil outside of major urban centers.
	I think part of the issue is that there's anonymity.
	Anonymity is not good for human behavior.
	Outside of urban centers, people know one another more.
	And I've often posed this question, though not in a long time.
	Do people act better when they wear a badge, Hi, I'm, and then their name is on the badge?
	Or when they're anonymous?
	It's a rhetorical question.
	Everybody knows the answer.
	People act better when they're known.
	And the anonymity of the big city enables people to act their worst.
	It's one of my answers.
	Why does it come up with awful values that I'm not sure of?
	But if you think about your state and you remove its two biggest cities, you will have nicer people.
	You will have fewer convulsions.
	You will have less crime.
	It's just better outside of that city.
	Alright, let's see here.
	1-8 Prager 776. Belinda in Hudson, Wisconsin.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	I'm on.
	Hi.
	Oh, this is Belinda, yes.
	I grew up on a farm.
	My father was a lifelong farmer.
	And when I got a job, you know, hiring, HR was always sending me resumes from kids from great colleges.
	Not that they weren't, you know, great applicants, they were.
	But I soon realized that I really didn't care where they went to college.
	I cared where they went to high school.
	And I found that those applicants that were raised in small farming communities in central Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, you'll be the greatest.
	Applicants and people to hire.
	They had work ethic.
	You know, you come from a farm, it's a life or death situation.
	You have to be responsible or something dies.
	Your crops, your livestock, there's no backup plan.
	You know, it requires you to be conscious of what you're doing.
	And I think there's an overabundance of convenience in cities.
	And it kind of breeds a narcissism where it's only about you.
	Your point about the high school is one I never thought of.
	It's a very interesting idea.
	I have to mull it over.
	And the work ethic, I think, that's almost a given.
	Good call.
	call.
	I appreciate it.
	The urbanite has contempt for the ruralite because the urbanite thinks that the rural guy, rural woman, is a simpleton.
	it.
	See, if you actually live a life surrounded by family, friends, love of country, Sunday church going, have a bake sale, You're a simpleton, man.
	To the urbanite, you are a simpleton.
	Sophisticates, crap on God, religion, country.
	And that's the way it works.
	That's sophisticated.
	And that's what they believe.
	It's another way of understanding the unbridgeable rift in this country at this time.
	Truly unbridgeable.
	There is a mutual contempt that has not existed prior, at least since the Civil War.
	And I'm not even sure that they had such mutual contempt.
	One side had contempt for slavery and one side defended it.
	But beyond that, I don't believe that there was the contempt for one another that we have today.
	They think we're simpletons, and we think they're nihilists.
	How's that?
	I'm going to discuss with you in the course of the show the way Larry Elder has been described in the Los Angeles Times.
	It'll be a perfect example.
	The LA Times is a rag sheet, and it's unworthy of being read.
	It is that awful.
	They will say anything to destroy those with whom they differ.
	Anything.
	And I will prove it to you.
	So The Guardian did the same thing, by the way.
	The Guardian is a notch above the LA Times, but it's a competition.
	And Larry Elder is now the focus of these people.
	Interesting, Larry did grow up in the city, but he doesn't have its values.
	I grew up in the city and don't have its values either.
	I was so comfortable in Berks County that I decided to open the show today with a discussion of this rift.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	We return in a moment.
	This is Albert Moegler for townhall.com.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason, at any time, or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong to try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Moeller.
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	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are peerless.
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even Julius Caesar, not Napoleon could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster.
	And frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities...
	That we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially when you look at the Navy.
	For nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of the military triumphs.
	In the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology 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.
	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.
	Yes, indeed, my friends.
	Welcome back.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	It hit me more strongly than ever, and I've always contended this, that the cities are the bane of civilization, morally, intellectually, and in every other way.
	I fully acknowledge the works of art that exist there.
	At one time, magnificent architecture.
	I'd appreciate it all.
	But the net result of big cities is negative.
	And as I said, just imagine your state without its biggest two cities.
	Would it be a kinder place to live?
	Would it be a meaner place to live?
	Would it be a more peaceful place to live?
	Is there anything good, or let's put it that way, is there anything bad that would happen if the two largest cities in your state seceded?
	That's a pretty direct way of putting it.
	Yeah, I'm telling you, the people of Illinois would really miss Chicago.
	Folks in Buffalo and Syracuse, not to mention all the area in between.
	Ah, New York City, what would we do without it?
	I mean, financially, that probably does help in some ways.
	Most people would forego the financial help in order to get rid of the values that come from there.
	When people move from New York City to Florida, do they generally bring Greater kindness and love of country, not to mention to be really quaint love of God.
	The very notions are considered the province of the superficial, to speak of love of country or love of God.
	How is the flag regarded in New York City versus, I don't know, just pick some...
	Place in central New York State.
	And that is the way it is.
	Gentlemen, this is just a technical word.
	I have no ability to stay on AP. Okay, let's see here.
	Peggy in, of all places, Chicago.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Dennis, I feel very sorry for this country.
	I really do.
	Because the Taliban, of course, captured our weapons caches.
	And that means they have more weapons, modern weapons, than the whole country of Australia.
	And that's not very good news.
	But it's also not very good news that this whole country, if you look at it, It's being destroyed.
	That's right.
	We have fires in California.
	We have flash flooding.
	Well, we've had fires and flash flooding.
	Believe me, if those were the issues, I would be optimistic.
	The country is being destroyed because everything that is precious in the country is being ruined.
	Well, the values...
	Yeah, so anyway, all right, listen, I'm sorry I'm letting you go, but I got your point.
	This is a new world in which we are living.
	We're living in the product of the urban culture.
	It is victorious.
	That is what we have.
	And I'm not...
	As I said earlier, I think the anonymity of the big city...
	I think...
	That is another thing that happens from big cities.
	Because I do believe, generally speaking, there's less intimacy, there's less community.
	So you fill up that void with theories.
	They come up with theories in big cities.
	And they're usually terrible theories.
	That's why I gave you the examples of Vienna and Berlin and London.
	I don't think Marx would have come up with his theories if he lived...
	Give me some rural place in England.
	You're an Anglophile.
	Exeter.
	Right.
	He spent his life at the Exeter Library.
	I think he would have come up with different ideas.
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	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.
	The same amount of money or cash that I do, but there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	On useless, poorly thought-out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic kale chase.
	For now.
	The tragedy of the urban centers historically and in America and in the West today, the number of destructive ideas coming from urban centers is enormous.
	They almost have a monopoly on idiocy.
	People become ruder, more selfish, certainly less patriotic, less religious.
	I can't think of a positive effect that the big city has on people.
	There are some very wonderful people who live in big cities.
	I'm not out of my mind.
	That's not my point.
	My point is that it generally produces worse human beings and horrible ideas.
	If you think that people raising children...
	In the nuclear family, father-mother children, father-mother married to one another, regularly attend church, have their kids go to Sunday school, have their kids join something analogous to what was once the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
	If you think that that is a wonderful way of life, The urban center is not for you.
	If you have contempt for it, then New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, these are your ideal places.
	Michael in Orlando, Florida, hello.
	Hi Dennis, shalom.
	I agree with you 100%.
	I grew up all over the United States.
	I grew up in Seattle.
	Now I'm ashamed to say that I did.
	Although at the time it wasn't tainted by all the nonsense it is now.
	It was a great place to grow up.
	I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	The day we moved into our house, three cornetos took out our neighborhood.
	The next day my dad said, go out and help people.
	Don't take any money from them unless they say please.
	Then I moved to Fort Lauderdale and talked about culture shock.
	Fort Lauderdale's part of a megalopolis.
	It starts in Homestead and goes up to Vero Beach, but it hadn't quite done that yet.
	But when you're in high school, you get along with everybody, but then everybody reverts to their own clique or culture, and everybody hates everybody.
	All right.
	I gotcha.
	I met somebody this weekend who grew up in Seattle.
	I don't know, was it at the Chicago event?
	And spoke of how utterly different it was, you know, a generation or two ago in Seattle, which I totally believe.
	Would anybody, outside of a leftist, would any liberal argue that Seattle is a finer place today than 50 years ago?
	I doubt it.
	You almost have to be an Antifa supporter to think Seattle is a finer place to raise a family.
	In fact, I'll bet there are fewer families, percentage-wise, in Seattle than ever in its history.
	It's another factor of the big city.
	It's the place for singles.
	Singles flock to big cities.
	And often stay there.
	Now, if you think that single people produce as wonderful a society as married people, then again, the city is a great place.
	It's not a knock-on.
	Well, it is a knock on singles, but it's a knock on people who are committed to singlehood rather than singles generally.
	What's the percentage of people committed to singlehood in New York City versus Schenectady, New York?
	Okay, it's a rhetorical question.
	It's quite a remarkable thing to see the difference here.
	George, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Hello, I was just in your state this weekend.
	Yes, Dennis.
	Hi, this is George.
	That's part of the reason I called.
	I was enjoying your topic about getting outside of the city.
	And we kind of experienced the same thing, my wife and I. We have a place in Western Maryland, Garrett County.
	And when we get there, when we start approaching it, we say, are we in lake mode yet?
	And it's just a different world.
	People still have their Trump signs up.
	I asked the radio stations on Sunday morning or two to church.
	I asked this guy where I could find a boat dock or could I dock at his place.
	He not only told me about his dock, but all of his competitors and why I might even want to get one of their docks instead of his.
	And it's just kind of refreshing that when I say Maryland, it's nothing.
	Yeah, Maryland is a very dramatic example.
	You're absolutely right.
	But they're all dramatic examples.
	Outside of Baltimore, Maryland is another world.
	Just as outside of Philly, Pennsylvania is another world.
	And all the other cities that I mentioned are truly another world.
	They have nothing in common.
	They don't value the same things.
	They treat people differently.
	They look at the West.
	And America differently.
	They have nothing in common.
	And what America outside of the big cities feel is, or Americans feel, is that their state is weighed down and indeed ruined by the culture of the big city, as is the society.
	Madison, Jefferson, and Washington were not fans of cities.
	I learned that just now.
	I only knew Jefferson.
	I didn't know the other two.
	I knew the Bible.
	It's a great story.
	Tower of Babel and the city attached to it.
	This is ancient stuff.
	Big cities generally don't produce finer human beings, let alone fine ideas.
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	I have campaign expenditure limitations.
	Gavin Newsom does not.
	He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money.
	And shortly after it was obvious I was going to get into the race, the union, SEIU union, gave him $5 million for the anti-recall side.
	And just a couple of days ago, the teachers union, the largest funder of his campaign, gave him an additional $1.8 million.
	It is estimated he's going to raise a minimum of $50 million, maybe as much as $75 million.
	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 we've ever done will be exposed and will be twisted.
	And I know that I'll be assuming that, but this is a small price to pay for a country that I love so much and for a state that I love so much.
	You know, that's why you are who you are.
	You have perspective.
	You're talking about your father.
	You've been on this program before talking about your father.
	And when you've lived that kind of a life and you see what real sacrifice looks like, it's natural for you to do things that other people say, well, that's brave or that's heroic.
	You just think, well, what are you talking about?
	This is basic stuff.
	I've been living in a country that allowed me to succeed and to say what I want.
	How can I not fight for that?
	And again, I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
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	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about what?
	$1.7 trillion?
	So that's more than a quarter of the entire discretionary budget.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Ethan in Brooklyn, New York.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Good.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Yeah, I really like what you said kind of about anonymity in big cities, and I never really thought of it like this.
	I just wanted to kind of offer maybe a different point of view.
	You know, I'm 28. I live in Brooklyn.
	I always lived in big cities.
	But I have a lot of family around the U.S. that live in smaller cities.
	And I am gay.
	And I always felt that, you know, in a big city, I actually had just freedom.
	And this anonymity allowed me to just really be myself.
	Whereas when I was in smaller places, it felt much more, you know, constrained and judged.
	And that big cities actually provided this sort of, like, It's freedom and escape.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
	That's why I took your call.
	I think it's important to hear another take on this.
	Everything you say makes sense.
	I will say, though, something that's interesting is as a 28-year-old gay Jewish, you know, living around a lot of very liberal people with somewhat conservative views at times and also liberal, I... I'm more accepted as being gay in New York than I am for many of my more conservative ideas.
	Well, you're an honest guy.
	I thank you for calling.
	I hope everybody caught what he said.
	The real anger toward him comes from liberals in New York for his conservative ideas rather than from relatives and friends.
	In smaller cities because he's gay.
	I was told this 25 years ago on the radio.
	A guy called me 25 years ago.
	He said, I just want you to know I'm a gay guy in Hollywood.
	And I'm also a conservative.
	He said, it is much easier to come out of the closet as gay than as a conservative.
	That was 25 years ago.
	Look, there are prices paid.
	I can't deny that a gay man is going to have an easier time in a big city than in a little city.
	I think today it's probably less true than it was, but it's probably true.
	However, the quote, non-judgmental nature of the big city...
	Obviously comes with tremendous prices.
	That's a point worth noting.
	People in big cities say men give birth.
	People in small cities don't.
	So, when all is weighed in the balance, the cities are destructive.
	We continue on the Dennis Prager Show.
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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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	music Now, when it comes to inflation, I want you to think of this.
	This is an easy way for you to understand or to remember what inflation is if this is a topic that's somewhat new to you.
	It's when too many dollars, so you have tons of money, Chasing too few goods.
	There's not enough stuff to buy, in other words.
	Or, think of Black Friday.
	You know how all the stores try to get you in the stores on Christmas season, Thanksgiving, Christmas season, Black Friday.
	You want to buy all this stuff.
	And they always advertise this one laptop or this one television set that's going to be sitting right smack in the middle of the department store.
	And they only have...
	X amount before they're absolutely gone.
	And obviously their trick is to get you in the store so you can buy other stuff if you're in California, so you can shoplift other stuff.
	But in other places around the nation, it's so you can buy other stuff.
	So you walk into this store, you get into, or, well, you don't walk in on Black Friday.
	You bum rush that store.
	Are you set in line?
	You have the money.
	In your hands.
	You're ready to go.
	You've got all of this cash.
	You've been saving.
	And you're just ready to go.
	You're like, I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done today.
	You pull up.
	You see the line.
	And you're like, wow.
	Everybody else, the 200 people standing in line in front of me, have the same amount of money or cash that I do.
	But there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	on useless, poorly thought-out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
	But then what happened, Dr. Gorka?
	a complete strategic tail chase for 20 years.
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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.
	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?
	$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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	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	I welcome you to the show.
	I spoke last hour about the effect of being in Berks County, Pennsylvania on me this past weekend outside an hour and a half north of Philadelphia and how big cities ruin civilization even though they have a tremendous amount of the art of the civilization in them.
	But putting the latter aside, the effects of Philadelphia on Pennsylvania, of New York City on New York State, of Los Angeles and San Francisco on California, of Seattle on Washington, of Chicago on Illinois and the like, are completely and totally deleterious.
	The states are being ruined by the biggest cities in them.
	That was my subject last hour.
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	PragerTopia.com Word on Afghanistan.
	I have a I have a particular, what shall I say, particularly depressed reaction to what is happening in Afghanistan since I never wanted to leave.
	Many of you did.
	I think you were mistaken.
	The argument that we were there 20 years struck me as completely a non sequitur.
	Was there a specific number at which time you leave, no matter what the consequences?
	But people, including sometimes on our side, think emotionally.
	That was a completely emotional statement.
	We've been there 20 years.
	It's completely irrelevant to whether or not you leave, how long you've been there.
	We had 2,500 men and women there.
	That was it.
	We had not lost a single soldier this entire year.
	Casualties were minimal.
	And now look at what has happened to America, what is happening to the Afghan people, the resurrection of the terror groups of the Islamic world, which saw a bunch of no air force, to say the least, terrorists take over Afghanistan in a matter of days.
	This country has no leader because he is a nothing.
	He has always been a nothing.
	In terms of character, he doesn't hold a candle to Donald Trump.
	Okay?
	But I don't care, frankly.
	I don't care.
	The fact that he's a crook doesn't even bother me.
	It's the fact that he stands for nothing that is beneficial to the country that bothers me.
	If the left says jump, he jumps.
	If the left says lie down, he lies down.
	He is in nothing, and the Democratic Party is run by its left.
	That's it.
	That's the state we're in.
	He doesn't give a damn what has happened to the United States or NATO. Neither does the left.
	Oh, Trump, he's really hurting NATO. Trump built NATO. Built up NATO. He didn't build it preceded him.
	The damage to the world.
	World leaders, I mean, it's amazing.
	Even world leaders have condemned the American precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	People who couldn't stand Donald Trump.
	Believe me, there's a lot of yearning for Donald Trump right now among world leaders who would never say such a thing because you can't say such a thing.
	That's the state of Afghanistan and the effect of leaving.
	Kamala Harris said she was the last person in the room.
	She bragged about being the decisive voice, and then she couldn't be found.
	Joe Biden was on vacation at Camp David.
	Googled.
	Or Zoomed his conferences.
	Did you see that picture of him alone in the Camp David room?
	It's pathetic.
	Everybody knows this is true.
	We have no president.
	But it is irrelevant.
	That's what I've been trying to educate people about.
	The individual is not relevant.
	It's what they stand for that's relevant.
	Democrats are interchangeable.
	The fact that an incompetent is president doesn't make any difference.
	So let's say there was a competent.
	Let's say Adam Schiff were president.
	You think anything would be different?
	One of the consummate liars of American history.
	What would be different?
	We should not have left. - The lesson to people for the foreseeable future is don't rely on the United States.
	That's the lesson.
	I think the statement of the week was of...
	What's Blinken's first name?
	Anthony Blinken.
	This is not Saigon 1975. If you look at the pictures, you couldn't tell the difference.
	It is exactly a replay.
	And by the way, that was done by the Democrats too.
	The Democratic Party is a cesspool.
	They engineered that too.
	They betrayed the South Vietnamese.
	There was a peace conference.
	They were promised aid from America should North Vietnam invade.
	And the Democrats said, let's leave.
	And at the time he said, what was it?
	Joe Biden said, I don't care what happens there.
	And he doesn't care what happens in Afghanistan.
	He cares about his son's laptop.
	If you want a smoking gun with regard to how the media are dishonest, The coverage of Larry Elder's candidacy is perfect.
	It's just perfect.
	Let me read to you from The Guardian.
	The Guardian's English.
	And The Guardian, on occasion, has an important piece.
	I look at The Guardian.
	I look at everything.
	I don't agree with it.
	But when push comes to shove, it's just another left-wing mouthpiece.
	And the Larry Elder issue, which is interesting in and of itself that Larry Elder is being covered by The Guardian in England, is actually a very big deal.
	I was in Chicago for my station, WIND, W-I-N-D, a wonderful event the last Thursday night.
	And when Larry Elder's name was mentioned, I mean, everybody cheered.
	It was wild cheering in Chicago.
	I have a particular interest in this because I care about the direction of my state, which is being ruined by the left.
	But I also am very close to Larry Elder.
	I brought him to radio.
	We have had a very close friendship for...
	I guess about almost 30 years.
	Larry Elder is one of the most courageous people I've ever known.
	Courage is the key to anything good in life.
	Listen to the way the Guardian covers him.
	Elder opposes the minimum wage and gun control.
	Okay.
	That's fair.
	He has said he doesn't believe that a gender wage gap exists.
	They're listing all the terrible things about Larry Elder.
	So one, he's against the minimum wage.
	So was the New York Times in the 1970s when it editorialized the perfect minimum wage, zero dollars and zero cents.
	That was when there were liberals at the New York Times, not leftists.
	Gun control.
	What does it mean to oppose gun control?
	Nobody opposes gun control.
	He opposes the draconian ideas of the left with regard to gun control.
	It's a lie to say he opposes gun control.
	I don't know a human being who opposes gun control.
	There are plenty of gun controls in existence.
	He said he doesn't believe that a gender wage gap exists.
	It doesn't exist.
	See the PragerU video on the gender wage gap.
	It's a left-wing lie.
	That for identical work in an identical firm, a woman will be paid 23% less.
	It's just a lie.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it, because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes...
	Tend to be, you know, there are a lot of unwise decisions.
	Maybe they get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, Very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	music
	music Indeed, everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	Reading to you from The Guardian about Larry Elder, who was going to be on the show a little later, by the way.
	Okay, Elder opposes the minimum wage in gun control.
	Okay.
	The first one is correct.
	And by the way, I was wrong.
	It was the New York Times in the 1980s that said the correct minimum wage is $0.00.
	Not that long ago.
	The left has taken over the Times and everything else.
	Minimum wage serves to, well, I've talked about the deleterious effects, not to mention just the closing down of restaurants that can't afford it.
	See, when you make a minimum wage, let's say a statewide minimum wage, Outside of urban areas where there is a lower standard of living, they just can't afford it.
	The restaurant will close.
	Many restaurants close at urban areas as well.
	Anyway, he said he doesn't believe that a gender wage gap exists.
	That's correct.
	A gender wage gap does not exist.
	It exists, but not for the same work.
	To say that men earn more than women means nothing.
	You have to compare apples and apples.
	Is it the same work at the same firm, the same hours, the same productivity?
	It's not true.
	They do not.
	By the way, if they did, what did they say, 23%?
	What is the claim?
	70 what?
	77%.
	So it's 23% less.
	Who would hire a man if you could save 25% hiring a woman?
	Are employers stupid?
	Has called the climate crisis a crock.
	Yes, the crisis is a crock.
	Notice, at least they're precise, the crisis is a crock.
	It is the greatest mass hysteria outside of masks.
	And lockdowns, like in Australia right now.
	You can't talk to people outdoors.
	It is pure hysteria, the existential threat to mankind of global warming.
	It is hysteria.
	Does it exist, global warming?
	Yes.
	He has never denied that.
	He has suggested that fatherless families drive up crime rates in black communities.
	Whoa, what a radical notion.
	So the Guardian does not believe that fatherless children anywhere Are more likely to commit crimes?
	There isn't a shred of data to support The Guardian's idiocy, idiocy, that Larry Elder is wrong about fatherless kids.
	But this is what the readers of The Guardian believe.
	Oh, fatherlessness doesn't matter.
	That's what they believe.
	They live in a make-believe world, people on the left.
	This is a perfect example.
	This says nothing about Larry Elder.
	It says everything about The Guardian.
	In three decades on air, Elder has made a name disseminating controversy.
	Yeah, by saying that fatherless kids are more likely to commit crime.
	That is disseminating controversy.
	Get it?
	That's controversial.
	In response to his inveighing against affirmative action, denials of systemic racism, and claims that black leaders exaggerate discrimination, that's right, I remember this well, what Larry went through at both our former stations, ABC and LA. A group of LA residents in the 1990s organized a two-and-a-half-year boycott of the radio show sponsors.
	Didn't work.
	But boy, did they go crazy.
	A black man on L.A. radio saying affirmative action hurts blacks?
	That there's no systemic racism and black leaders exaggerate discrimination?
	He's been on the radio for 27 years down in L.A. talking man bites dog politics.
	That are ironic and contradictory, said James Lance Taylor, a moron, excuse me, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco.
	Yeah, Larry Elder talks.
	Hey, I'll tell you what, Professor Taylor.
	I will raise a substantial amount of money for you to debate Larry Elder.
	What do you say?
	You willing to do that?
	You should absolutely wipe the floor with the guy.
	You're a political scientist at the University of San Francisco.
	Right?
	And what is he?
	Just a talk show host.
	So if I raise $10,000, could we get you to debate Larry Elder, Professor Taylor?
	And in some ways the only reason why he's able to say much of what he says is because he's black.
	He uses his race as a weapon.
	Boy, they don't do that on the left, do they?
	They don't never use race as a weapon on the left.
	By the way, I say everything that Larry Elder says, and I'm white.
	What are you going to do about that?
	I'm against affirmative action.
	I don't believe America.
	I think America's systemic racism is the greatest national libel since the blood libel of the Jews in the Middle Ages.
	Maybe Larry Elder doesn't say it because he's black, but he says it because it's true.
	But is it true is not a left-wing question.
	Who says it is a left-wing question.
	Earlier this year, Elder blamed Barack Obama for the deaths of George Floyd and other black men, writing that the former president should have encouraged citizens to better comply with the police to avoid being shot.
	I would like to read the entire context.
	But Barack Obama exacerbated racial tension in this country.
	There's no question about it.
	During the coronavirus crisis, he has given a platform to COVID-19 conspiracy theorists.
	What's a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist?
	Why don't they at least explain it?
	Including a self-identified physician.
	What does that mean, self-identify?
	Either you're a physician or you're not.
	Is this a new thing?
	I identify as female and physician.
	A self-identified physician?
	Who promoted the false claim that coronavirus vaccines were being pushed in minority communities as population control.
	Elder has said he has been vaccinated but has vowed to repeal California's mask and vaccine requirements if he wins the governorship.
	For that alone, he should win.
	We'll be back momentarily.
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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.
	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.
	The same amount of money or cash that I do, but there's only 32 of those televisions.
	Essentially, that's inflation.
	I got to get your response to those neocons, neoliberals who are now trying to convince us, the Brookings institutions, the AEIs, to double down and to send even more troops to Afghanistan.
	Well, look, Mitt Romney got out there.
	That's fine.
	Why don't you send one of his 72 sons, none of whom served in the military?
	I am sick of them squandering not only our treasure, but our blood.
	On useless, poorly thought out military campaigns.
	I was all for going in Afghanistan and wreaking unholy vengeance on the people who murdered Americans.
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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 its...
	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.
	I get it.
	No, you know.
	I get it.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here. - Sure.
	We'll get back to the Larry Elder phenomenon and the coverage of him.
	But first I want to talk to George Friedman.
	I've talked to him often.
	He's the founder and president of Geopolitical Futures, an independent intelligence service.
	Few people know the world as well as he does.
	It is also up the connection to his...
	Geopolitical Futures is up at DennisPrager.com.
	George Friedman, hi.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	I'm well, thank you.
	I wanted to talk to you about Hungary.
	Are you from Hungary?
	I was born in Hungary.
	I've been back there many times.
	I was a professor in Hungary a couple of years ago.
	Yeah.
	And you speak Hungarian?
	Native language.
	Do you know the joke that they told me?
	What language is spoken in heaven?
	And the answer is Hungarian, because it takes an eternity to learn it.
	My wife came there swearing that she was going to learn it in six months.
	I don't think she learned a word.
	You can't learn that language.
	You can't learn that language.
	I would try.
	I love languages, but I told that joke.
	So that my listeners understand it's really in its own world.
	It's not a European language.
	Exactly.
	It's not an anything language.
	It's related theoretically to Finnish, but obviously Finns and Hungarians can't speak to each other, so it's only academically relevant.
	Right.
	All right.
	So anyway, good.
	So you know Hungary.
	So this was my fifth trip to Hungary.
	I went twice under communism, twice after, and now I went to give some talks.
	Tucker Carlson spoke on Saturday, and I spoke on Friday two weeks ago.
	It was a wonderful conference, young conservatives from around Europe.
	So, what's your take on Viktor Orban?
	Well, I've met him several times.
	And, you know, he's a tough politician.
	He's an advocate for Hungary.
	He makes no apologies about it.
	He's been demeaned by the other Europeans.
	But, you know, he's been accused of not being a liberal Democrat.
	Well, he's a Democrat.
	He's elected.
	He's popular.
	And he'll probably be re-elected.
	And he's committed to maintaining Hungarian culture.
	He's not going to let go on immigration.
	They charged him with shutting down newspapers and stuff.
	He did shut down a newspaper for taxes, but for God's sakes, you can't shut down the news.
	Everybody's on the internet.
	If you go to a cafe in Budapest, you can't eat without being argued with by strangers.
	So, the biggest question to me is the accusation Why didn't Tucker Carlson,
	and sometimes my name was thrown in, why didn't they serve the same purpose?
	Useful idiots for a right-wing authoritarian.
	Well, you know, I may be an idiot, but I've been to a lot of communist countries in my time.
	And nobody ever really condemned me for that.
	They thought that was a useful relationship with another culture.
	The right-wing in Europe is, part of it, is very dirty, very anti-Semitic, very dangerous.
	Viktor Orban isn't part of that.
	He is part of an entity that says, look, I'm in the EU, but I want to remain hungry.
	We're different.
	You talk about language.
	But there is such a hatred of him, based on things that aren't true, that it's extraordinary.
	He has been made the poster child for the rise of fascism, which is the last thing he is.
	So when they call him an authoritarian, they're lying?
	I have no idea what that means.
	I mean, look, he was elected.
	He's going to have another election.
	People can vote him out.
	There's vastly free discussion everywhere.
	There's a free press.
	Some newspapers got shut down over tax issues.
	But websites are all over the place.
	You know, the idea that he is an authoritarian...
	It comes from the fact that he's making decisions for Hungary they don't like.
	So what you do then is you demean him.
	I mean, not that he is not a forceful guy, not that he won't push the envelope of his authority as far as possible, but he isn't much different from Frau Merkel in that European leaders push the envelope.
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	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%.
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
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	Trump administration official, tell me last night, the only way out will be to devalue the currency.
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	Well, it will.
	It is debasing the currency.
	This is, I think, to show that they can do something big and beat the Republicans.
	I mean, I don't want to be uncharitable.
	And yeah, there's a lot of bad policies.
	You've talked about the debt tax, and you're right.
	They're eliminating work for all these welfare programs.
	We're going to be treated to millions and millions of able-bodied people getting all these benefits and not working because it doesn't make any sense for them to work.
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	Please try to not say those seven naughty words.
	Well, look, I find it a massive embarrassment that a former governor of our biggest state in the union casually dismisses freedom the way this guy does.
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	And I was shaken by my trip to Hungary a few weeks ago when I spoke.
	Same conference that Tucker Carlson spoke.
	So, these people who are saying that going there and speaking is the same as serving as a useful idiot for a communist dictator, it strikes me as vicious nonsense, George, because...
	First of all, I've been to Hungary under communism, and I've been to Hungary under Viktor Orban.
	There's no comparison.
	Not at all.
	And, in fact, it's anti-democratic when they say that.
	Viktor Orban was elected over and over again on his platform.
	He's come out for election again, and he may lose.
	I mean, there's some serious question about whether he'll win again.
	If he does, he steps down.
	That's not authoritarianism.
	That has no similarity to communism.
	The fact is that the Hungarian people want support what he has to say.
	I've got problems with him.
	I want him to be closer in relations with Poland and Romania and join the American bloc.
	But that's his decision as the head of the government.
	So when they compare him to a communist dictatorship, it is condemning him in spite of the fact...
	That he was legally elected.
	The foundation of liberal democracy is national self-determination through an election.
	That's why he's there.
	What about, you mentioned the closing of newspapers on tax reasons.
	Are there no opposition newspapers?
	Well, everybody, as you've noticed, we have something called the Internet.
	I'm on the Internet.
	And the basic news is now flowing on the Internet.
	So you don't need presses.
	And as in every country, newspapers have declined in importance.
	So they're making out what was a technical thing that he didn't decide.
	The tax people decided.
	And the newspapers can't survive there.
	So it's the Internet.
	And the Hungarian public has full access, not only Hungary's Internet, but the world.
	So the claim that he's trying to control the news, good luck, and he can't, and he isn't.
	It's just that those newspapers economically couldn't make it, and some didn't pay their taxes.
	What can I say?
	What about the charge that he packed the courts?
	Well, let me see.
	Shall we take a look in the United States of the Supreme Court?
	Who gets what?
	How many are Democrats?
	How many are Republicans?
	He didn't pack the courts.
	He did, however, change the side of the courts, which is precisely what the Democratic Party in the United States wants to do.
	Right, but hasn't done it yet, and if they did it, we would scream that it was anti-democratic.
	Absolutely, and people can scream that.
	But, you know, what he did was move around the structure of the court.
	You can oppose it, and you can vote him out of office.
	And the new party that comes in can reverse what he did.
	So long as you have a free election and the new prime minister takes office and he has the same powers as Orban had, you have liberal democracy.
	Okay, so the 64,000 foreign question is...
	I felt...
	It's hard for me to say because it's so painful.
	I felt freer in Budapest than in California.
	Is that out of my mind?
	Well, you're in California.
	I'm in Texas.
	I feel good in either place.
	The basic thing is, the people who criticize him have never walked on a street, on Auschwitz, and sit in the cafes and listen to the free talk.
	There is no sense of fear.
	There is no sense that they can't say that Viktor Orban is an idiot.
	There is no...
	I had an apartment across the street of the parliament.
	Political groups are demonstrating constantly against the government.
	So what I say here is that I was perfectly comfortable and hungry as an American, but more to the point, the attacks on him, and there are a lot of legitimate attacks to make for a politician, they're lies.
	And I want to put it that way.
	They are creating an image that simply isn't true about him.
	You can disagree with him, and you can dislike him.
	And you can vote against him.
	But you can't claim that he's an authoritarian or a dictator or anything like that.
	It's just not true.
	I asked a Hungarian to show me exactly what you're talking about.
	Examples of anti-Orban Hungarian internet sources.
	And they just kept showing me, for example, this was really revelatory.
	They showed me a picture of That was a purely anti-Semitic depiction of Orban, who is accused of being anti-Semitic.
	I'd love you to comment when we come back.
	My friends, this is really, really important.
	Whether you give a hoot about Hungary or not is not the question.
	There is a man defying the European Union who did not allow all these Middle Easterners in, and they hate him for it, and they lie about him.
	Thank you.
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	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.
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	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here with George Friedman, who is one of the greatest experts in world affairs I know of.
	Founder and president of Geopolitical Futures.
	And being Hungarian, born and raised, he's the perfect person in general.
	I'm here specifically to talk about Hungary, where I spent some time a couple of weeks ago giving some talks.
	So, to review, I asked some Hungarians I was with to show me anti-Orban press on the internet, and they just showed me one after another.
	You didn't need to know Hungarian, which I do not know, in order to see how anti-Orban it is.
	One of them depicted him as basically Jew-controlled, showing him in Paius, the Jewish side-locks of the ultra-Orthodox.
	What's the story with anti-Semitism in Hungary?
	Well, there is an anti-Semitic party called Jobbik.
	It has formed an alliance with the left-wing party, amazingly.
	And they're running against Orban.
	Now, Hungary is an Eastern European country.
	There is an anti-Semitic element.
	The point is they hate Orban.
	So their claim is that he is anti-Semitic.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	The World Jewish Congress met in Budapest under him.
	He's not a lover of them.
	I mean, he's a lover of his country.
	But he is very friendly, was very friendly with Israel.
	And there's a right-wing party running against him, and the left is supporting the right-wing party.
	Yeah, it was a left-wing magazine that had this picture.
	Well, they hate...
	It is a personal, visceral hatred of him.
	So it's analogous to the hatred of Trump here?
	Yeah.
	I think it's very much like that.
	And it has very little to do with ideology.
	And if it takes anti-Semitism to take him out of office, they'll do it.
	And if it takes the accusation of anti-Semitism to take him out of office, they'll do it.
	Or if French take the daylight out of it, they can't take him out of office.
	He keeps winning.
	In Budapest, there's a lot of opposition to big town.
	In the countryside, where 80% of the people are, overwhelmingly popular.
	That's exactly what I talked about my whole first hour, cities versus non-cities.
	George Friedman, somebody who wants to get your material, goes to geopoliticalfutures.com?
	Yes, and there's a lot of free stuff to see.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Or, as you will be happy to hear, kiss an MC pen.
	It's always good to be with you.
	Thank you.
	I told him thank you very much in Hungarian.
	It's one of six words I know.
	A lot of lying about Viktor Orban.
	Shocking, isn't it?
	who would think that the left would be committed to truth, but not on this planet.
	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.
	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 say, I'm not trying to, because I don't see any other logic behind it.
	I mean, again, there are basic needs that need to be addressed in the social safety net.
	There's a whole lot of things that need to be done.
	And then I look at the tax increases.
	You're right about the death tax.
	That's going to slam.
	I chaired the Small Business Committee for four years.
	All it does is make small businesses and farms impossible to pass on the next generation.
	And houses.
	How much money we raised from the death tax?
	$20 billion a year.
	Wow.
	It's just not worth the candle to destroy the American dream for so many people.
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	Tucker, you mentioned early here that the country, just as a population, has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point.
	So profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is a product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met.
	Anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're on, you know, every one of them will tell you exactly the same thing, which is, you know, the military is a tough environment as much as, you know, we support it, we love it because it's just too big.
	And so the decisions that any big organization makes tend to 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, this is basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Discussing how the press is dealing with Larry Elder.
	I've been reading to you from The Guardian in England.
	I mean, this is an international event.
	It may turn out that people will get rid of Gavin Newsom.
	A true nothing.
	You know, when Gavin Newsom gathered in the middle of the worst part of the lockdown with his friends maskless at a restaurant, an exceedingly expensive one, perhaps the most expensive one in California, called French Laundry, the issue is not the hypocrisy.
	Of course it's hypocritical.
	Nancy Pelosi, in the middle of the lockdown she was for, was videoed entering maskless into a hair salon.
	Getting her hair done in the middle of the lockdown.
	So you can't get your hair done.
	You hairdressers can go out of business for all I care because Nancy Pelosi cares about the middle class as much as I care about badminton.
	So that's not the issue.
	The issue is they don't believe what they say.
	The issue isn't that they're hypocrites.
	That's the least of their offense.
	He sat maskless with a bunch of friends because he knew masks are a farce.
	It is one of the gigantic lies of our time that masks matter.
	Science provides zero evidence that masks help.
	It's a gigantic fraud.
	Fauci knows it.
	Fauci said it, not just publicly.
	Slate, of all places, reported that the Freedom of Information Act revealed he kept saying masks are useless while he quote-unquote changed his mind from his original statement that masks are useless.
	Do you understand that the virus is so much smaller than the holes in the mask?
	Is that not obvious to you that that's the issue?
	Surgeons wear special masks and they wear them during surgery, lest the blood pop up into them and infect them, lest something drop from them into an open body.
	That's it.
	Not because of virus.
	Putting masks on children is so deleterious.
	According to a study I read to you from, let me see if I have it right in front of me.
	Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, U.S. study says.
	This study was from Brown University, by the way.
	One of the most left-wing, of all the left-wing universities.
	What we have done to children for no good reason, for only stupid reasons, is beyond belief.
	And then the medical community comes out and tells us that in the middle of the pandemic, ah, but protesting against racial injustice, that's a health benefit, so you don't have to be masked then.
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	masks.
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	They don't want their children to get it.
	They don't want their daughters to get it, especially because it might.
	I don't say it will.
	It might affect some of their pregnancies later.
	You can't enter a store?
	You can't enter any building with other people?
	And if you are vaccinated, you still have to wear a mask?
	And you've got to get a booster shot?
	When all along there were therapeutics?
	Cheap, one dollar a dose, therapeutics like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and zinc, and now others as well.
	That the medical community, you did not even try that?
	That there are doctors who give you the gigantic idiocy that, hey, you know, there might be bad side effects to ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, 50 years being used safely by tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world?
	And your doctor has the audacity to say that might have a side effect, but the vaccine not?
	There's a doctor you should drop.
	I'm reading to you from the Guardian piece about how they describe Larry Elder.
	If the recall is successful, Newsom, a largely popular governor who won office by capturing a greater share of the vote than any other Democrat in state history, Would be replaced by a fringe candidate whose extreme views don't even capture most of the state's Republican base.
	It would be a complete shock to California politics, Professor Taylor said.
	He has repeatedly claimed that black people are more prone to crime and violence than other demographic groups.
	They all say this.
	This is what they all say.
	Elder, how could you vote for this guy?
	He repeatedly claimed that black people are more prone to crime and violence than other demographic groups.
	Typical of the Guardian and every source on the left, they never ask, is it true?
	They ask, is it racially sensitive?
	They ask, is it woke?
	But they never ask, is it true?
	Yes or no.
	If Larry Elder is lying, he should not be running for dog catcher.
	If he is telling the truth, the Guardian should go out of business.
	There should be draconian consequences to one of them.
	Either Larry Elder is a consummate anti-black liar, or the Guardian is a consummate left-wing liar.
	And the LA Times.
	They all say he fudges this and lies about disproportionate black involvement in violent crime.
	But they never ever say it isn't true.
	They imply it's not true.
	Because they don't give a damn about truth at the LA Times.
	And I swear to God I believe that.
	Truth is not an LA Times or New York Times or Guardian value.
	Wokeness is.
	Making the case that America is a cesspool, that's what they are in business to do.
	Not tell you the truth.
	The whole 1619 project was a lie.
	Larry Elder has the courage to state there is a serious problem.
	Of course blacks are disproportionately involved in violent crime.
	That's a fact as the earth is round is a fact.
	And if it isn't, I should not be broadcasting.
	Okay?
	Let's get it clear.
	Either I'm lying to you, or the Times is lying to you, the Guardian is lying to you, the Washington Post is lying to you, and CNN is lying to you.
	One of us is lying.
	Is that clear?
	Elder and I, or all of the media?
	Well, the answer is all the media lie.
	They lie with the ease with which you read their lies.
	Okay?
	Larry Elder is a smoking gun of the cesspool that the media are.
	He has repeatedly claimed that black people are more prone to crime and violence than other demographic groups.
	Is it true, Guardian, or not true, Guardian?
	The radio hosts right-wing views and his repeated deliberate bending of truth and statistics to support his views on crime and policing.
	But they never give an example ever, ever of his bending.
	What is it?
	Bending the truth.
	Give an example.
	They never do.
	because he doesn't.
	Every day, almost every day, I show you how lying is part of the lefty.
	It is part of its fabric.
	At some point, it's got to have an impact.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about, what, $1.7 trillion?
	So that's more than a quarter of the entire discretionary budget.
	I had a senior Trump administration official tell me last night.
	The only way out will be to devalue the currency.
	You get to do that once and you're no longer the reserve currency.
	It is debasing the currency.
	This is, I think, to show that they can do something big and beat the Republicans.
	I mean, I don't want to be uncharitable.
	And yeah, there's a lot of bad policies.
	You've talked about the death tax and you're right.
	They're eliminating work for all these welfare programs.
	So we're going to be treated to millions and millions of able-bodied people.
	Getting all these benefits and not working because it doesn't make any sense for them to work.
	No, it's economically rational to stay home, especially when they extended the rent moratorium.
	They screwed small landlords everywhere in the United States, but they also increased the incentive not to go back to work.
	you don't have a rent bill to pay.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Borka.
	Yeah.
	Let's talk about something that's not superb, not superb, not superb.
	And that's, uh, Sasha, don't call me Mr. Vindman and his flip-flops and his posing around with, oh, hang on, I've got it here.
	It's Arnold.
	Screw your freedom.
	Schwarzenegger.
	This is radio, Kurt.
	You've got to do more than give me a face.
	Well, you want me to say FCC compliant, don't you?
	You can try.
	Yes, try.
	Please try to not say those seven naughty words.
	Well, look, I find it a massive embarrassment that a former governor of our biggest state in the union casually dismisses freedom.
	The way this guy does.
	It shows he has a basic misunderstanding of the concept.
	Maybe he needs to go back and reread his citizenship study materials, because freedom is the most important thing.
	I find it remarkable that I have to repeat on Twitter, to the consternation of liberals, that why, yes, my rights are more important than your life and my life.
	Because hundreds of thousands of Americans have died for their rights.
	There are always people, Dr. Gorka, who are willing to allow you to live as a servant.
	They will allow you to continue to live as long as you obey them and disenfranchise yourself and give up your rights.
	You will probably be able to live.
	Not always.
	Sometimes they'll just murder you because they want to.
	If you dip your toe into liberal Twitter, you'll see that that's one of their hot fantasies.
	The fact is... ...members
	and friends as you want... ...or when this craziness ends, you can have a lunch or cigar with Dennis in person.
	Call 833-PragerU, 833-772-4378, or go to prageru.com.
	A reminder, the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up.
	Roshani, I'm Kipper, and I will, for about the 15th year out of 16, in COVID year.
	I will be conducting major services People of all backgrounds attend.
	If you'd like to attend and have something truly meaningful, a truly meaningful and rationally meaningful experience, just send me an email.
	And I will give you information about attending.
	It'll be in the valley in the L.A. area.
	Those of you anywhere else on Earth, it will be carried live by Zoom.
	Well, not by Zoom, but live on SalemNow.com.
	So, I just want you to know about that.
	It's PragerU Fundraising Month August.
	And I have a different guest each day that is part of PragerU, usually a member of PragerForce, one of the college-age, high school-age young people.
	I have a mom on, a PragerU kid's mom, Jody Esponda.
	She's in Southern California, a mother of four.
	They're homeschooled.
	And PragerU is a critical part of their education.
	Is that all correct, Jodi?
	That is absolutely correct, Dennis.
	Well, thank you for coming on the show.
	My pleasure.
	Thank you for having me.
	How old are your kids?
	My kids are 18, 15, 12, and 7. And do you have a husband?
	I do.
	An amazing husband.
	His name is Rick.
	Would Rick have been able to rattle off their ages as quickly as you did?
	I'm pretty sure he would, although he might have hesitated just a little bit.
	I have two kids, and I have to figure it out by the year of their birth.
	I do a lot of subtraction when I'm asked the ages of my kids.
	So, first of all...
	On the homeschooling, which I passionately, passionately advocate, how intimidating is it to start?
	I think it can be incredibly intimidating, unfortunately, because I think a lot of people are of the mindset that they have to have some degree in elementary or secondary education, which is totally not true.
	I actually do.
	I have a California teaching credential.
	Tons of my friends homeschool probably better than I do not having had a formal education in it.
	So unfortunately, yeah, it is very intimidating, but I get the opportunity to talk to a lot of potential homeschooling parents and really put their minds at ease that they can do it.
	So the intimidation is self-induced, not real.
	I think so.
	I do think there is some external intimidation by, you know, family members, friends, educators telling them that, you know, they're in over their heads or, you know, what are their qualifications.
	But I really think that being a loving, caring, interested parent is all the qualifications we need.
	Did your kids generally meet with other kids or was it just them?
	Well, unfortunately, over this weird last year and a half, putting COVID aside.
	Yes.
	No, absolutely.
	We meet with people regularly.
	I have lots of friends who homeschool.
	There are tons of resources now for homeschooling families, lots of in-person classes, organizations that can help you with the paperwork and the planning and just everything.
	So what is a parent who knows?
	The horrible risks of sending their kid to a regular school, private or public, what would their first step be in putting their toes into the homeschooling lake?
	Oh, gosh.
	Thankfully, in Southern California, and I really think in the rest of the country, there are so many resources.
	I think, first of all, reaching out to anyone in their communities who's already homeschooling and pick their brains about it.
	Oh yeah, that would be a hope, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's good.
	So how did PragerU help your kids?
	Oh my goodness.
	Well, we've been watching the PragerU videos for years.
	And whenever I come across a section in our curriculum that just really doesn't do something justice, I think, well, there's got to be a PragerU video about that.
	So we've watched tons of those in that regard.
	Then I learned about PragerU Prep, PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents, when Jill Simonian was on your fireside chat.
	And I decided right away I needed to be part of that.
	And so I joined that.
	And probably the most valuable part of that is the private discussion forum that we're allowed to be part of when we're prep members.
	And I've just been amazed with the responses from other people about how they're standing up to their leftist agendas and their schools and their governments and just the incredible encouragement and support and help from the other members.
	I want to just tell my listeners, we are creating a beautiful counterculture at Prager U.
	And PrEP is an example of that.
	the resources for educators and parents.
	So it does my heart good to hear you, because now you are getting what I Believe is instrumental to a happy life.
	You're apparently finding kindred spirits.
	Yes, yes.
	Thankfully, my husband and I have a lot of kindred spirits.
	And really, PrEP, I think, not I think, for sure, has helped my kids to see that even though we feel like a minority in Los Angeles County and their conservative beliefs, there really are, you know, tens of millions in our country alone who think like we do.
	And so I think it's really encouraging my kids in that way as well.
	So what do you do exactly?
	So the kids watch a PragerU video.
	Do they then have to write their reactions to it, a synopsis, discuss it?
	What do you do afterwards?
	Sometimes they do.
	And on PrEP, there are study guides that go along with the PragerU five-minute videos.
	There are a lot of other book lists and essay prompts and things.
	We do it a variety of ways.
	Sometimes I write about it.
	Sometimes we just talk about it.
	Sometimes we find other resources that might have other viewpoints and discuss about the differences and why there are differences between them.
	It really depends on the kid and their age.
	Well, you are a joy.
	Have we ever met?
	We have, actually.
	You wouldn't remember it, but my husband and I will never forget.
	We went to go see your Christians United for Israel event in...
	2009, and we actually met you in line at Chipotle at the Washington Billis Airport.
	No kidding!
	Really.
	You were so kind and so interested in us.
	You asked us all kinds of questions, and you called your wife over and introduced us to her.
	It was really a wonderful thing that, like I said, we'll never forget.
	Well, I hope I meet you a third time.
	Oh, thank you.
	God bless you and your family.
	Please help PragerU.
	It's all free, folks.
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	PragerU.com, 833-PragerU.
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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.
	This is really crucially important.
	The lessons of the last 20 years is that we are...
	Our military, when it comes to the application of military force at the tactical or even operational level, has no match in the world, especially Operation Anaconda.
	The October 2001 operation, when we went in there with just a couple of hundred CIA paramilitaries and guys from Delta and from Bragg, and we leveraged 21,000 members of the Northern Alliance, and we took down the Taliban government, that was textbook.
	Nobody, not even...
	Julius Caesar, not Napoleon, could do it better.
	But since then, at the strategic level, Kurt, it's been a disaster.
	It's been an utter disaster, and frankly, I'm worried about the tactical level.
	I'm worried that whether or not we still maintain the tactical capabilities that we need for high-intensity combat operations against peer-level competitors like the Chinese.
	Especially, and I write about this in my Monday Town Hall column, Dr. Gorka, especially...
	When you look at the Navy, for nearly 70 years, it has glided on the legacy of the military triumphs in the Pacific Theater over the Japanese.
	And we relied on, we consoled ourselves, saying, well, you know, the Chinese technology is getting better, they're getting more and more ships, but we have a naval tradition.
	You know what?
	So did the Carthaginians.
	Okay?
	The Romans had no Navy until they found A Carthaginian warship that run aground, they copied it, they trained, and they beat the hell out of Carthage.
	You can find Roman ruins.
	Can't find any Carthaginian ruins.
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	Essentially, that's inflation.
	Too many dollars chasing too few goods.
	This from Reuters.
	Tyson Foods Incorporated cannot increase prices for chicken and prepare foods fast enough to keep pace with rising costs for raw materials like grain due to 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!
	Ha!
	Music playing.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Can I go to the line there?
	We're all good?
	We'll find out in a moment.
	Not yet.
	Alright, any moment now.
	We're going to...
	Nope, not working.
	We're trying to get Governor Elder on.
	Sounds good to me.
	I've been reading to you how Larry Elder has been covered.
	The dishonesty, which is endemic to the left, they make these charges and there's no backing of it.
	They just make charges.
	Larry manipulates facts.
	They don't show a single fact that he's manipulated.
	They charge him with making claims, which happen to be true, but they charge him as if the claims, Are not true?
	And that's what I've been reading to you.
	See, here's another one.
	That was from The Guardian.
	This is from the Los Angeles Times.
	I'm black.
	Larry Elder is a clear and present danger.
	Did you know that there was actually a piece about him as the black The black face of white supremacy.
	This was in the Los Angeles Times.
	The black face of white supremacy, which not only tells you all you need to know about the Los Angeles Times, but it tells you all you need to know about the charge of white supremacy.
	What does it mean a black is the face of white supremacy?
	We never get a definition in any event of white supremacy.
	White supremacy is teaching that the nuclear family is ideal.
	White supremacy is teaching that you should be able to answer math questions objectively.
	Okay, so Larry won't be able to be on today.
	We'll have him on tomorrow.
	It's not an issue.
	It's a meaningless term.
	We're living in a make-believe universe.
	I'm trying to make that clear every day with all the abilities that I have at my command.
	So this woman, this Erica D. Smith, who wrote about his...
	I believe she's the one who wrote about his being the black face of white supremacy.
	In her piece, she quotes Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter in L.A. Now, Black Lives Matter is a hate group.
	It is nothing more than a hate group.
	And obviously, an ability to have at least one of its leaders get very rich.
	He is a danger, a clear and present danger.
	Yes, he's a clear and present danger to Black Lives Matter, to the LA Times, to the left.
	Perhaps out of spite or perhaps out of an insatiable need for attention, Elder opposes every single public policy idea that's supported by black people to help black people.
	This has been true for decades, but it's particularly problematic given the racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd.
	We have been having a series of real uncomfortable discussions about systemic racism in institutions across the state Yeah,
	that's right.
	That's correct.
	They got that right.
	He doesn't believe that.
	I don't believe it either.
	It's a tremendous lie.
	Yeah.
	So he opposes public policy ideas that are supported by most blacks.
	That is true.
	So therefore what?
	So does that make the ideas good ideas?
	Is that how we measure whether an idea is good?
	We take a vote on it?
	We take a vote on laws.
	I agree with that.
	We take a vote on politicians.
	I agree with that.
	But is that how we assess whether something is a good idea or not?
	Most whites in the South supported Jim Crow laws.
	Did that make Jim Crow laws a good thing?
	The fact that a majority of any racial group or of any group believes something doesn't mean it's right.
	It just means that a majority might be right or a majority might be wrong.
	Really?
	Has the welfare state been a boon to black life?
	The black family was stronger than the white family in the 1930s.
	What happened?
	What happened?
	The answer begins with D, Democrats.
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	you mentioned early here that the country, just as a population, has nearly tripled since you started in journalism.
	Can you talk about that?
	Because you make that point so profoundly earlier that, hey, this country has nearly tripled in size, yet we have like a fraction of the freedom.
	How did that happen?
	Well, one is the product of the other.
	I mean, big systems don't work very well.
	Ask anybody who served in the U.S. Army.
	You know, every veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, for example, you go over to Vietnam, you fight a ridiculous war, you see people die, you come back, and you still love America.
	I've never met anyone who served in the military, including my own dad during that time, who doesn't love America, truly love America.
	But if they're 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 you get the biggest things right, but the details are hard to pull off.
	You can't retain your fine motor skills at scale.
	You just can't.
	I mean, this is a well-known, it's basically a physics principle.
	Many business books have been written about this.
	So the bigger your country gets, the harder it is to manage, the harder cohesion is to pull off, the more likely you are to destroy the natural environment, for one thing.
	I mean, there's a reason that, you know, Very few people go on vacation in China.
	They go on vacation in Switzerland or Barbados or small places.
	Small is better.
	You know, I feel no threat whatsoever from my local retailer.
	I see Amazon as a real threat to my freedom.
	And the difference is not simply because, you know, Jeff Bezos is a worse person than Mr. Kim behind the counter down the street, though he definitely is.
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	Hey!
	Yes, indeed.
	Good to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
	By the way, my first hour was a biggie.
	Devoted an hour to my reactions to being in Berks County, Pennsylvania this past weekend.
	And how much I loved it.
	And how different it is from the Philadelphia area.
	The whole issue of the destructive nature of big cities.
	You take Seattle out of Washington, San Francisco and L.A. out of California, Philadelphia out of Pennsylvania, New York City out of New York State, Chicago out of Illinois, you've got a much better place to live.
	Bad ideas come from big cities.
	Nothing to do with race, nothing to do with ethnicity.
	Big cities produce bad stuff.
	Well, indeed.
	I need.
	So, I've been reading to you the way the press covers Larry Elder here.
	Los Angeles, California.
	Taylor, hello.
	Dennis?
	That's me.
	That is I, actually.
	Thank you.
	I'm coming out as a conservative for the first time.
	My name's Taylor.
	Yeah.
	I am a stand-up comedian and a painter out here in Los Angeles.
	And it's getting rough out here as far as the crowd.
	Go ahead.
	What color are you?
	I am white.
	I'm a white 38-year-old man.
	You've got everything going against you.
	I have nothing.
	I have performed all my life, but I'm about to move out of L.A. just because I'm trying to find a crowd.
	With painting, I can show up to work whenever I want, but with comedy, there has to be a crowd there.
	And I can't take it in here anymore.
	The crowds are dumb.
	I used to work at the most famous comedy club on the planet.
	But then they started mandating vaccines, and yeah, I'm out of there.
	Where are you going to move?
	I'm thinking Texas.
	Makes sense.
	Are you married?
	About to be.
	Good.
	That's a good move.
	And by the way, Dennis, thank you for everything that you do.
	That's very sweet of you.
	You're welcome.
	Good luck to you.
	I'd like to hear from you in six months and see how it's going.
	It may be impossible to stay in California for some of us.
	What has happened in the Western world, and indeed in much of the world, certainly in the West and certainly in America, and worse even in Australia and New Zealand, is that people have and worse even in Australia and New Zealand, is that people have accepted a complete loss of liberty in the name Thank you.
	That's it.
	If you just say safety, people say, you can lock me down.
	You can prohibit me from working.
	You can prohibit me from visiting my dying parent.
	People accepted the prohibition of being with a dying parent.
	This has been rarely covered, but it is one of the great moral scandals of my life that the medical profession was so callous to human suffering.
	I'm not surprised.
	I don't expect one whit more of wisdom or decency from doctors than I do from plumbers or architects or chiropractors or anything else.
	But the acceptance by people of it...
	I would have smashed down the doors of the hotel.
	I would have been arrested.
	I know that.
	But at least I'd want my dying relative to know that I was arrested trying to visit them.
	It was sheer cruelty.
	And people accepted it.
	Most people in Australia are not violating the law that they can't go anywhere, anywhere.
	They're allowed out for a few minutes of exercise, like a prisoner in solitary confinement.
	What did they find?
	One case in New South Wales?
	Was that it?
	That's a whole state, New South Wales.
	Sydney is in it.
	There you go.
	Big city.
	I expect stupidity to come from it.
	Hard for me to believe that the people are quite as decent in Sydney as in Darwin.
	Just to cite another example.
	Been to Darwin.
	Tough city to be nice in.
	It's so hot.
	In the name of safety, people have been willing to forego the most elementary rights of life.
	And then...
	Including speech.
	They're okay with Twitter shutting down doctors.
	Doctors who speak about the benefits of therapeutics.
	Had we tried ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, vitamin D the whole time?
	I personally believe that at least 100,000 Americans who died wouldn't have died.
	That the medical profession preferred ventilators?
	To ivermectin will be one day regarded as a scandal, but we're not there yet.
	You need a free press, which Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube do not support.
	Did you hear me?
	They don't support a free press.
	I mean, there are still some survivors.
	Obviously, I'm broadcasting.
	I acknowledge that.
	But to the extent possible, they shut you down.
	All you need to say is safety.
	And virtually every country says fine.
	Sweden was the one exception.
	Yeah, I'll keep my kids from other kids for a year.
	I'll put my two-year-old in a mask because you said it's safety.
	Back in a moment.
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	Eric, I have campaign expenditure limitations.
	Gavin Newsom does not.
	He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money.
	And shortly after it was obvious I was going to get into the race, the union, SEIU union, gave him $5 million for the anti-recall side.
	And just a couple of days ago, the teachers union, the largest funder of his campaign, gave him an additional $1.8 million.
	It is estimated he's going to raise a minimum of $50 million, maybe as much as $75 million to defeat me.
	You were praising my courage.
	Let me just say something about that.
	I get that a lot, and I have to push back because I'm not storming the beaches of Normandy.
	Unlike my father, I was never a Marine.
	Unlike my older brother, I was never a member of the Navy.
	Like my little brother, I was never a member of the Army.
	I did not serve.
	And about all the things I've ever done in my life, that's probably the thing that I regret the most.
	That I didn't give back a few years to my country.
	So this is a small sacrifice.
	I'm losing a little bit of money, well actually a lot of money compared to my net worth.
	And of course nobody's lived a pure life and anything and everything I've ever done will be exposed and will be twisted.
	And I know that I'll be assuming that.
	But this is a small price to pay for a country that I love so much and for a state that I love so much.
	You know, that's why you are who you are.
	You have perspective.
	You're talking about your father.
	You've been on this program before talking about your father.
	And when you've lived that kind of a life and you see what real sacrifice looks like, it's natural for you to do things that other people say, well, that's brave or that's heroic.
	You just think, well, what are you talking about?
	This is basic stuff.
	I've been living in a country that allowed me to succeed and to say what I want.
	How can I not fight for that?
	And again, I think sometimes things have to get very bad before people finally wake up.
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	I think it's a very crafty strategy.
	It's the reverse of the Reagan strategy.
	Expand the entitlement culture to the point that it bankrupts the United States and we have to withdraw from the world.
	But, I mean, look, the interest on the federal debt last year was about, I think, about $380 billion, with treasuries at 2%, right?
	So what happens when the Fed jacks up interest rates, as they will, in order to fight inflation?
	So if it goes to 4%, it's going to cost us another $400 billion to service the debt.
	The entire discretionary budget is about, what, $1.7 trillion?
	So that's more than a quarter of the entire discretionary.
	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, reflecting on life.
	I told you I was in Pennsylvania this weekend after the cigar night in Chicago.
	And thanks to all the guys at Wynn, it was a very successful evening, as they all are.
	So I spent a fair amount of time talking to a group of young men.
	I had some of them on my show about five years ago.
	No, three, maybe, I don't know, between three and five years ago, broadcasting from Philadelphia, from my Philadelphia station.
	And they're all ex-addicts, usually alcohol, some drugs.
	The wisdom of these guys, all of them under 30, the wisdom was breathtaking.
	Their understanding of life, thanks to the AA and the big book.
	I knew nothing about AA and learned a great deal on the radio show since so many of you have been or are in AA. I hope still are.
	I don't care how many years you're sober.
	I still hope you're attending meetings.
	People who have a loved one who's in AA. And I said many years ago, based on your calls, I believe there's more wisdom in AA than at Harvard.
	And I don't say things to be cute.
	I say things because I believe them to be true.
	I am certain now I don't believe that to be true.
	And one of them, I asked them all, and I'm going to have them on the show again if I broadcast from Philly.
	So, when do you turn your life around?
	I mean, when does an addict decide, I want to turn my life around?
	And he had a brilliant answer.
	He said something to the effect, when you stop blaming others.
	It took my breath away.
	That was the key to sobriety.
	When you stop blaming others for your problems.
	And I said, wow.
	That can be applied to this nation.
	What is the message of the left to every non-white?
	To every female, blame others for your problems.
	And we'll never have national sobriety until we stop.
	I'm Dennis Prager.

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