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	But it doesn't.
	Just for the record, I am live the entire time.
	And I try to catch that just as you hear it, lest you think you're going to get a pre-recorded show.
	It's a useless message, and this is my daily announcement of its uselessness.
	Okay, welcome to the show.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	I have good news.
	What do you think of that?
	I told it to the living martyr.
	Who, like Oscar the Grouch, does not thrive on good news.
	By the way, Oscar the Grouch was my favorite Sesame Street character.
	Do you know that when I was in graduate school, I watched Sesame Street before going to school every day?
	I can tell you all the characters, even Mr. Snuffleupagus, whom only Big Bird knew.
	Alright?
	Just for the record, folks, I know that...
	It comes somewhat as a surprise.
	I thought the program was hilarious.
	In the best sense, not in a mocking way.
	At any rate, here it is.
	It's from the Daily Mail.
	Number of children being homeschooled doubles to 5 million since beginning of the pandemic, with 11% of families now teaching at home.
	That is really, really good news.
	The only excuse you can have for sending your child to a regular private or public school in most of this country is that your family would enter poverty or quasi-poverty if you did so.
	There is one other, to be honest, there is one other excuse.
	You want your child to learn that America is essentially a rotten country.
	You want your child to learn that there's no such thing as a boy or a girl.
	Okay, then there's every good reason for you to send your child to school.
	You don't want your child to learn a damn thing other than left-wing propaganda.
	Then...
	You have very reason to send your children to a regular school in this country.
	The number of U.S. children being homeschooled has doubled since the start of the pandemic, from roughly 2.5 to 5 million, representing 11% of households nationwide now homeschooling their children.
	The reasons are varied, researchers say, but overall the shift represents a loss of faith in America's public school system.
	By the way, I don't know why they say that.
	It's also private school system.
	It's an odd thing.
	People, obviously, if people had faith in private schools, they'd send them to private schools.
	The elite private schools are at least as bad as the public schools.
	At least as bad.
	They're taught by anti-American, anti-truth teachers.
	Led by anti-truth.
	Did I tell you?
	Yes, I did.
	I told you yesterday.
	Things that the head of the teachers' union in Los Angeles, Cecily Maillard Cruz, and this is from Los Angeles Magazine.
	What was the precious quote that we got from her from this very, very long article?
	I mean, the woman is essentially...
	She would not use the term.
	She would be indistinguishable from what was known in the old days as a communist.
	The stuff that she advocates teaching.
	The woman hates this country.
	The union hates this country.
	They're ruining your children.
	And people do it.
	Oh, that's right.
	This is really something.
	Oh, God.
	Our kids didn't lose anything.
	It's okay that our babies may not have learned all their times tables.
	They learned resilience.
	They learned survival.
	They learned critical thinking skills.
	They know the difference between a riot and a protest.
	They know the words insurrection and coup.
	So that's what they want.
	They don't care if your child knows a times table.
	Times table, that's...
	That's white supremacy, to insist on mathematical basic math knowledge.
	But to know the difference between a riot and a protest, and to know the words insurrection and coup, that's what we want your children to know.
	And you keep sending your children there.
	Now, I love clarity and honesty.
	So if you say, I love that my children are being...
	Referred to as students and not as boys and girls.
	I love the fact that they are asked what their preferred pronoun is.
	I love the fact that they are taught sex at a very early age.
	I love the fact that they have a drag queen study hour at the library or at the school.
	I love the fact that they are taught that America was founded in order to create more slaves and preserve slavery.
	Now, if you say that, then I have no argument with you.
	But if you don't love it, then I'm sorry.
	I really am sorry.
	It's not easy to transfer over to homeschooling or to find a decent school which believes in truth.
	It's not easy.
	However, the price paid for sending your child to a regular school, private or public, may very well end up in the alienation of your child from his or her country, his or her family, and not to mention from God and religion, which may not matter to most of you.
	Well, not most of you, most Americans.
	Overall, the shift represents a loss of faith in America's public school system amid the challenges presented during the coronavirus pandemic.
	Black families represent the largest group moving to homeschooling.
	That's fascinating, isn't that?
	I didn't know that, did you?
	16% of households now teaching at home.
	That is a great move.
	You really do have an option, black families.
	There it is for you.
	This compares to 12% of Hispanic families now homeschooling, up from 6.2% before the pandemic, and 9.7% of white families, up from 5.7% last year.
	Around 8.8% of Asian families are homeschooling, up from 4.9% in spring 2020. Well, this is a big deal.
	Comes as an unprecedented number of parents have been able to see how their children are being educated up close and remote learning.
	Mid-remote learning.
	Oh, isn't that awesome?
	You never know when there's a silver lining in a dark time, do you?
	Parents have tuned in to see the twisted.
	Notion of education that has taken over our schools.
	Many are finding they want more individualized learning options.
	Alex Spurrier, one of the authors of the Bellwether study, told Axios.
	Now this is amazing.
	For families of color, motivations include protecting their children from racism in public schools, as well as lower expectations placed on them, which can have a negative impact on performance.
	No kidding.
	Well, that is the racism that they experience in public schools.
	There is massive racism in public schools.
	And it is by the white leftist, the greatest source of racism in America, for whom, within whom there is deep contempt for the black American.
	You cannot live.
	By the same standards as all others, so we will drop standards.
	For other parents, they are dissatisfied with how race issues were being taught in public schools and the social justice protests and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes over the past year.
	The disproportionate number of the anti-Asian hate crimes were committed by blacks, but nobody wants to write that, because truth is not.
	A media endeavor.
	Goal.
	As an African American, I didn't like the way the school was addressing some of the cultural things going on.
	A mother of three in Richmond said, made the switch to homeschooling.
	Well, whatever your reasons, take them out.
	That's the way it works.
	So there is good news.
	Now, I looked at the chart here.
	Homeschooling rates by household.
	Of households by state.
	So, let's see here.
	September 30th to October 12th, 2020. Alright.
	What state do you think has the highest percentage?
	I didn't guess it.
	Alaska.
	The second, if I read this correctly, is Oklahoma.
	But they're all up there.
	Back in a moment.
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	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9/11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people.
	Then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback.
	On the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans, who've served in Afghanistan and in uniform in other parts of the world, were very forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there is a recognition by the administration that we can't Get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants out, and yet a few hours later...
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before, Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States.
	should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
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	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House.
	where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia...
	Perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden administration...
	We'll be able to fix the borders, perhaps even once to fix the borders.
	I don't even believe they want to fix the borders, frankly.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it that the vast majority of us wanted to get out of there.
	No one wants our soldiers to go to war in perpetuity.
	But I don't believe in handing our soldiers a loss.
	I don't believe in doing that.
	And I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Spurning critics Biden calls exit notable success.
	And they called Donald Trump a liar.
	Can you imagine if there was anything comparable done during the Trump era?
	The media are so dishonest.
	They're propaganda wings of the New York Times.
	Of the...
	Democratic Party, that's all they are.
	Like Pravda was to the Communist Party, what the New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times are to the Democratic Party.
	That's it.
	The analogy is, there are no analogies that are perfect.
	It's close to perfect.
	A success.
	You leave a country and you leave all your weapons, tens of billions of dollars in weaponry.
	You leave them among the worst human beings on the planet?
	That's a success?
	As you leave, more American servicemen and women are killed in any one day than in seven years?
	That's a success?
	What's a failure?
	My only question is, does this crook Joe Biden, a true crook, The most crooked man to be in the presidency in my lifetime.
	Is this man, and I've never said that about any president, Democrat or Republican, just for the record.
	Does this man believe that?
	Does he believe that it was his success?
	What do you think?
	I think he does too.
	Yeah.
	Can you tell me a lie that Donald Trump...
	Stated in four years.
	That is comparable in its seriousness to this one.
	That is as antithetical to truth as this one.
	I can't.
	But he gets a pass.
	This will not even be an issue in a week.
	Not an issue.
	What do the generals think?
	What does the military think?
	We have given over all of these armaments to people who want us dead.
	To people who want half their fellow countrymen dead.
	To people who burn people alive, as a matter of course, who rape boys.
	You know about that?
	There's a big feature in Afghanistan.
	It tore the hearts out of a lot of our servicemen to watch even allies keep a boy.
	Yes, yes.
	Yes.
	Biden calls exit notable success.
	Why wasn't the other airfield bombed?
	Why wasn't the weaponry either destroyed or taken out?
	Why?
	At any of his press conferences, did anyone outside of Fox News ask these questions?
	It's not a rhetorical question.
	I'm asking the question.
	Are you familiar with anyone from NBC, ABC, CBS? Why do they even have these multiple sources?
	They just need one.
	They didn't waste their money on multiple sources in the Soviet Union.
	And by the way, regarding the Soviet Union, I noted that there were more rights in the Soviet Union, with the exception of private free speech, than there are in Australia today.
	Australia has more laws violating one's freedom than the Soviet Union did.
	Because you're allowed to do that.
	You're allowed to violate all laws.
	Did you see the, in the name of freedom, in the name of safety?
	See the man who was arrested, who was handcuffed?
	He was alone, alone with his little girl daughter in a park.
	And he was not wearing a mask.
	in the park, and he was handcuffed in front of his daughter.
	Most Australians...
	Where was I reading this yesterday?
	They're okay with it.
	Is it in the City Journal?
	Okay.
	As I've said, freedom is a value, not an instinct.
	The Australians are proving the point.
	For those of us who value freedom, it's a bit incomprehensible.
	But that is what it is.
	My next fireside chat will be with this remarkable woman I had on the radio from North Korea.
	She says it's fascinating.
	I'll be with her this evening as well.
	She says that the North Korean does not understand, literally does not understand, not a matter of has not experienced, does not understand thinking for oneself.
	It is alien.
	I can't think of an analogy, but it is alien to the North Korean, let alone the concept of freedom.
	What does freedom mean?
	Literally, it's an interesting thing.
	If it were an instinct, people wouldn't need to have it defined, would they?
	So unless you are taught that freedom is important, not only do you not yearn for it, you don't even know what it is.
	Now, you don't have to be taught other instincts.
	You don't have to be taught what does it mean to eat.
	Right?
	Nobody has to teach you what it means to eat.
	Nobody has to teach you, once you're an adult at any rate, what sex is about.
	These are built-in instincts.
	Freedom is not a built-in instinct.
	I was looking at photos of Kim Jong-un, who, by the way, has lost a lot of weight.
	Did you notice that?
	About 40 pounds, they estimate.
	They banned thinking about his obesity.
	Did you know that?
	It was banned in North Korea.
	And North Koreans believe that he is able to know what you think.
	So that is not a little thing to ban thought in North Korea.
	But what I did was, I studied the photos of the ecstatic crowd that was just recently photographed.
	Cheering and applauding Kim Jong-un.
	And I just stared at their faces.
	This was genuine ecstasy.
	The women were in tears.
	They were sort of hysterical, like when little girls or young girls saw the Beatles.
	We'll be back.
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	the conditions-based withdrawal, and what we have witnessed, the disaster we've witnessed in the last three weeks.
	Maybe the greatest, most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country.
	Almost—first of all, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	We knocked out ISIS. When I took in—when I took over, ISIS was all over the Middle East.
	We knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
	I notice now they call it ISIS-K, so you'll explain that.
	But we knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
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	This is the left, and we've heard this so many times, that the word is fluid for the Constitution.
	Oh, it's fluid.
	It changes in meaning.
	So there's no real specific definition.
	Well, that's not true.
	The hallmark of our Constitution is not just separation of powers, but limited specific powers.
	And so on the federal level, the Biden administration and the executive branch and even Congress are limited to the specific enumerated powers that are given in the United States Constitution.
	Ninth and Tenth Amendment reserve all powers that are not enumerated to the states and to the people.
	So that doesn't mean then that the states are just unlimited in their authority either.
	And so the federal government has absolutely no authority to tell the states what to do with respect to vaccine mandates, with respect to any of these things that infringe upon our liberty and freedom.
	We're no longer in a state of emergency.
	The state legislatures can absolutely meet and they can.
	We can determine whether or not to implement some of these things if they're even constitutional.
	And there's a lot of reasons that they're not.
	But that is a specifically legislative designation.
	So for these executive branch officials to say, hey, we're exercising our emergency authorization, we're going to force every individual to show a vaccine passport before they can take advantage and exercise their rights with respect to going into restaurants, gyms, hotels.
	I mean, all of these things.
	That is a violation of the separation of powers.
	Our government is not tyrannical.
	They can't just decide what's best for you and me in the interest of, quote unquote, public safety.
	But this is where Eric, the left wants to go. the left wants to go.
	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in US history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	As the kids would say, OMG. Yeah, we have an extensive vetting process.
	Sure we do.
	I've been to the border, lady.
	No, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	But again, back to Kamala Harris.
	There she is trying to escape this mess by hiding out in Singapore.
	But there are reporters there, too.
	To that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
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	Hello, my friends.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	And too bad Anonymous gave up about books that were being assigned in Anonymous' school.
	If you're still there, I would be interested.
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	Tommy in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	Hello.
	Hello, Tommy?
	Is Tommy there?
	Okay.
	Too bad.
	Maybe we'll catch you again.
	Tommy lost a son in Afghanistan.
	I was interested in speaking to him.
	It is what it is.
	We'll try it a little later.
	Scott in Santa Barbara, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Yeah, nice to talk to you.
	Hey, I wanted to talk about the equipment and the military items that were left behind.
	To be fair, they were left with the Afghani military.
	And when they abandoned the place, they left them behind.
	Oh, okay.
	So what does that mean to be fair?
	Well, it wasn't like the military left them there, and then they abandoned and left them there.
	They left them with supposedly an army, an army to defend themselves.
	Right, so there was no contingency plan for should the Afghan army collapse?
	What do we do with tens of billions of dollars of sophisticated American arms?
	It's a bad plan for sure, and it doesn't look like there was a contingency plan, but they would have done some sort of scorched earth with the...
	No, you don't do a scorched earth while the Afghan army is still fighting, but you Exactly.
	But while, well, exactly, you can go in both directions.
	Everything about this was terrible, including, and I am in a minority of Americans, I oppose leaving Afghanistan from the outset.
	I literally have not heard a single good argument.
	Every single argument, including from some very prominent conservatives, is emotional.
	We've been there 20 years.
	It's not an argument.
	I'm sorry.
	It is truly not an argument.
	It is what I taught my kids this term at an early age, a non sequitur.
	It has nothing to do with the question of whether you remain.
	The only question you ask in life is not how long have you been doing it, is, is it worth being there today?
	Not how long have I been there?
	Is it worth being there today?
	And of course it was.
	At extremely small price, thank God, in blood.
	We were keeping relative stability, relative stability to an unstable place.
	And the American presidents insulting and humiliating of the Afghan army that lost, what, 70,000 people?
	70,000.
	How many did we lose, all told?
	4,000 in 20 years?
	70,000.
	And he has the temerity to speak of them disparagingly?
	By the way, can you imagine Donald Trump as the caskets of American service men and women were being transferred, looking at his watch virtually during every transfer of a casket?
	Can you imagine what a big deal that would be?
	The uproar in this country at the contemptible president that we have?
	We're in trouble, folks.
	We are in trouble.
	The media is worthless.
	It's much worse than worthless.
	I wish the media were worthless.
	We could live with a worthless media.
	They're damaging.
	They have no commitment to truth.
	They have a commitment to the left and the party that represents the left, the Democratic Party.
	That is all they are.
	They are nothing more than that.
	The Los Angeles Times prints a piece saying that Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy and that paper keeps that woman employed by the name of Guerrero.
	This woman is despicable.
	She is a thug in print.
	She is a liar.
	She is a hater.
	She's a fool, and the LA Times keeps printing her.
	Larry Elder is the face of white supremacy?
	There is nothing a leftist can say that will get them fired.
	It is not possible to go too far left.
	It is not possible.
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	think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9-11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people, then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken.
	Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback on the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans, who've served in Afghanistan in a uniform in other parts of the world, were very...
	Forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there was a recognition by the administration that we can't get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants, out.
	And yet a few hours later...
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before, Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive...
	PR win for the United States should be fired because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
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	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia...
	Perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	So but these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
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	Imagine that.
	Think about it, my friends.
	Think about the Los Angeles Times printing a piece that says that Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy.
	And tell me why that paper deserves to be read.
	I am canceling my subscription.
	I can't believe I haven't canceled my subscription.
	It's junk.
	The LA Times has turned into junk.
	Not every reporter at the LA Times is a fraud, however, or an anti-American hater.
	However, they say nothing about the anti-American haters.
	So the LA Times consists of anti-American haters and people who don't speak up.
	Why is there not one individual in the entire Los Angeles Times edifice that has said, that is, frankly, going over the top?
	Right?
	Remember when William Buckley took on the John Birch Society?
	There's no self-criticism on the left.
	Because you can't be too left.
	It's not possible.
	You know, it's printed, people hear it, and then they don't react.
	We're inured to left-wing hatred.
	There is literally nothing they could say that we would say, oh, that's really, that's over the top.
	If men give birth as normative, then Larry Elder being the black face of white supremacy.
	That's normative, too.
	That's where we are at the state of the American media.
	Did the New York Times condemn it?
	Of course not.
	I mean, the thought is, do you think there's anybody at the New York Times who think that's over the top?
	Anyway, they published Charles M. Blow, who's the equivalent.
	To this woman, Guerrero.
	What's her first name?
	Jean.
	Jean Guerrero?
	Guerrero or Guerrera?
	I think it's Guerrero.
	Jean Guerrero.
	They got Charles Blow.
	They got Jean Guerrero.
	There you go.
	Let's see if we have this dad in Ann Arbor, Michigan now.
	Tommy, hello?
	Hey, Dennis.
	It's an honor to talk to you.
	I apologize for installing hardwood floors.
	I've got a flooring business here, and I didn't think I'd be on the show.
	It's an honor to be on the show.
	Well, that's very sweet of you.
	What does your having a flooring business have to do with your not being on the show?
	Oh, I was working, and I thought, oh, I won't be on the show, so I was nailing in some boards, and the next thing you know, I hear my phone, and I hear...
	I hear you on there saying, Tommy from Ann Arbor, and I was like, holy moly, I can't believe I'm on the show.
	Now, don't say what you really said to yourself, but was it holy moly?
	Not at all.
	I didn't think so.
	Nobody says to themselves, holy moly.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Well, first, I've got to say, we can't call it the media anymore.
	We have to call it state-run news, because that's what it is.
	Fair enough.
	News run by the state.
	Now we'll go back to the Afghanistan situation, which is something that touches me to the core.
	My stepson, Daniel, I have two stepsons that were in the military, and my daughter's boyfriend of many years is in the Michigan National Guard.
	He's on the Terror Task Force.
	Without getting too much into detail, he fights terrorism from a computer and drones.
	My middle stepson, Darren, was in the Marine Corps.
	He was in the Battle of Fallujah and spent three years there.
	And Daniel was in Iraq at the same time as Darren.
	He did three tours.
	He was in Mosul.
	His fourth tour was in Afghanistan.
	And that was in like 2009, I believe, 2010. He got hit with a roadside bomb and survived.
	He had a brain bleed on the left side of his brain.
	And he's a big kid.
	Your atypical sergeant went to U of M Flint.
	Well, tell me the bottom line.
	He died of a brain aneurysm in 14. Oh, okay.
	And he was a big weight lifting, and they say that's kind of what did it.
	But, you know, you lose, and Darren committed suicide in 11. Oh, my God.
	Yep.
	Families that he had saved.
	When we left with no plan, when Obama left with no plan, he hit it hard.
	And this kid told me everything, Dennis.
	Oh, my God.
	Sometimes it's hard to do the show.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Borka.
	Talk to our millions of listeners across the country about your plans for Afghanistan, the conditions-based withdrawal, and what we have witnessed, the disaster we've witnessed in the last three weeks.
	Maybe the greatest, most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country.
	The difference was almost...
	Almost—first of all, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	We knocked out ISIS. When I took in—when I took over, ISIS was all over the Middle East.
	We knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
	I notice now they call it ISIS-K, so you'll explain that.
	But we knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
	We took out al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. How is it possible that Joe Biden let this happen?
	Was this intentional?
	Did he want our enemies to have it?
	It's hard to believe that incompetence could possibly let this happen.
	Jake Sullivan, the highly unimpressive A person who's never done anything useful in his life says, we don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
	And obviously we don't have a sense that we're going to be ready to handily hand it over to us at the airport.
	The Taliban now has the 26th largest air force in the world with zero pilots.
	600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, 200 total aircraft, and $85 billion in total weapons.
	110 helicopters, 60 transportation cargo airplanes, 20 light attack airplanes, and 18 intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance airplanes.
	The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than Australia.
	And this is all on our government.
	This is all on Joe Biden, who now wants praise, who says this was a perfect withdrawal.
	Are you kidding me?
	Cut 59. Jen Psaki says that the Afghanistan effort is a success.
	It's on track to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out, it is bringing our Afghan partners out, it is bringing allies out.
	So no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	anything but a success.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Anonymous in Santa Clarita, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, how are you, Dennis?
	I'm well, thank you.
	You spoke earlier about homeschooling, and this has a lot to do with homeschooling, I hope, for Santa Clarita Valley.
	I just got word this morning that the Santa Clarita Valley School District, which is for the junior and high schools in the area, are going to do a presentation.
	school the presentation is a book called Bridges to Heal Us it's by Aaron Jones and it basically states that we cannot change racism on our own that this book will actually teach them how to do racism how to take care of racism the second book is called stories for healing which will actually tell students that anyone who voted for Trump is a racist
	this is a great reason to do homeschooling and a great reason for parents what is the name of that What is the name of the second book?
	The second book is called...
	I'm driving.
	Stories for Healing.
	By?
	That one is by...
	Hold on, I'm driving.
	Well, I don't want you to get to...
	No, I don't have it in front of me.
	I have to stop.
	All right.
	When you get...
	Tell Sean when you...
	Sean has no access to the phone?
	I'm learning this after 20 years here?
	I don't see how that's possible, because he puts me on with them after they call.
	All right, anyway, I'm going to look into that.
	That's quite remarkable.
	John in Chicago, hello.
	Hello, sir.
	I wanted to ask you about your position regarding Afghanistan.
	As you know, Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president in 2016, pledging to withdraw all our forces from Afghanistan, which inescapably means letting the Taliban take over.
	And he simultaneously pledged to ban all Muslims from entering the United States of America.
	You see, you don't do yourself any favor.
	Everybody listening knows you're lying.
	So why do you say it?
	You're not going to get away with it.
	Because you have friends who agree with you?
	He banned all Muslims from the United States?
	What are you talking about?
	No, he said he wanted to.
	No, he didn't say that.
	He said he wanted to.
	He didn't say that.
	He was talking about a handful of countries that were at war at that time.
	As regards his position on Afghanistan, I differed with it then, I differ with it now.
	There's nobody on earth I agree with all the time.
	No one.
	Only me.
	I agree with me all the time.
	You agree with you all the time.
	If I were to only support people I agree with all the time, I would support no one.
	However, thank God my parents knocked narcissism out of me, and I understand that flawed people run for office.
	In the meantime, the man was a great president.
	Thank you.
	You know, General McMaster and Secretary Esper are blaming you for the Doha agreement.
	They're saying that you empowered them.
	What do you make of these criticisms from General McMaster, who was your second national security advisor and Secretary Esper?
	Yeah, these are two guys.
	You know, I had great people in my administration, but those two were stiffs.
	McMaster was not a smart guy.
	All he liked doing was talking to the press, and I rarely listened to him, and then ultimately fired him.
	And Jesper, I called him Jesper because all he did was say yes.
	Jesper was like a little boy.
	All he did was say yes.
	No matter what you asked him, he was a lightweight.
	And honestly, should not have been in that position.
	We were rushed because there was a difficulty with a good man who was in there prior to him.
	He had some...
	Family difficulty.
	And I gave Jesper a try and put him in there for a short period of time.
	He didn't have what it takes.
	The men and women, the people within the military, did not respect him.
	And McMaster, all he did was like to write things and write books and complain.
	And he wasn't a smart person.
	Just so you understand, they're complaining about the agreement that I just talked about with you, which had strong conditions.
	And when the reason, as an example, I wanted to be out as soon as possible, but we had to get out strong with all our equipment and no death.
	The reason nobody was killed in the last 18 months was because of what we did.
	Beyond the agreement was because of the relationship I developed with the leaders, and in particular with Abdul.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	. - - This is the left, and we've heard this so many times, that the word is fluid for the Constitution.
	Oh, it's fluid.
	It changes in meaning.
	So there's no real specific definition.
	Well, that's not true.
	The hallmark of our Constitution is not just separation of powers, but limited specific powers.
	And so on the federal level, the Biden administration and the executive branch and even Congress are limited to the specific enumerated powers that are given in the United States Constitution.
	Ninth and Tenth Amendment reserve all powers that are not enumerated to the states and to the people.
	So that doesn't mean then that the states are just unlimited in their authority either.
	And so the federal government has absolutely no authority to tell the states what to do with respect to vaccine mandates, with respect to, you know, any of these things that infringe upon our liberty and freedom.
	We're no longer in a state of emergency.
	The state legislatures can absolutely meet and they can.
	We can determine whether or not to implement some of these things if they're even constitutional.
	And there's a lot of reasons that they're not.
	But that is a specifically legislative designation.
	So for these executive branch officials to say, hey, we're exercising our emergency authorization.
	We're going to force every individual to show a vaccine passport before they can take advantage and exercise their rights with respect to going into restaurants, gyms, hotels.
	I mean, all of these things.
	That is a violation of the separation of powers.
	Our government is not tyrannical.
	They can't just decide what's best for you and me in the interest of quote-unquote public safety.
	But this is where, Eric, the left wants to go.
	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	As the kids would say, OMG. Yeah, we have an extensive vetting process.
	Sure we do.
	I've been to the border, lady.
	No, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	But again, back to Kamala Harris.
	There she is trying to escape this mess by hiding out in Singapore.
	But there are reporters there, too.
	To that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Afghanistan continues to be a mess and Americans are stranded in Afghanistan and our government is uncertain what to do.
	We have some exclusive frontline updates from Afghanistan to share with you, including how private contractors and private citizens are stepping up and doing the job that our government refuses to do.
	And also, we're going to go into great detail all of the weapons that we have left behind in Afghanistan.
	And it's not just bullets and guns.
	It is some of the most sophisticated, top-level weaponry.
	We're going to get into all of that and the cost associated with it.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Dennis Prager Show.
	In terms of dedication to helping America, there's no comparison between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump really, really, really wanted to help America.
	Joe Biden does not.
	That's Biden, and that's Afghanistan, and that's the conservatives.
	Now Biden, which we would not have if we had a Republican president.
	Yes, every one of you businesses in America, you must not allow people who are not vaccinated, even if they've had COVID, and are probably in a better medical position not to transmit or get the disease.
	Everybody has to get a vaccination.
	We've been lying to you, we on the left, since Roe v.
	Wade.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Devoted to the most honest talk I know of in the media about men and women, I have no agenda other than two.
	I have two agendas.
	Men and women understand each other better and get along better.
	I'm not a man fan and I'm not a woman fan.
	I'm a good person fan.
	And there is an equal number of crummy men and women, equal number of wonderful men.
	That's my preamble.
	So I have an interesting exercise for you today, and I will give you my take at the very outset and have you react or give your take.
	If you were to ask one question, you could only ask one question of a couple considering marriage.
	One question about their relationship that would you feel help them determine and you determine the prospects of their relationship, what would that question be?
	So, I have thought about this a lot, and here is my answer.
	Sean, may I have a drumroll?
	We have not called on our drummer since the beginning of the lockdown.
	In fact, he may have COVID, for all we know.
	But we'll find out in a moment.
	No.
	That's it.
	He's not happy.
	No.
	I'm not happy with him.
	So there you go.
	It's mutual.
	What would that question be?
	So I, as I said, have given this a lot of thought.
	And here is my one question.
	I don't claim that it is perfect.
	I claim that it is the best.
	And I also claim that you won't guess it.
	And I will tell you why I have excluded other things.
	This is not the only thing that's important, but again, remember my overriding question is, if you could ask a couple one question, or even one of the two of the couple, what would it be?
	To help you and them ascertain the prospects of their marriage.
	And here it is.
	Do you enjoy each other?
	Not are you in love?
	I Not, do you share values?
	And I'll tell you why.
	Because that was my temptation.
	Do you share values was my temptation.
	The reason that that's not my one question, if I'm allowed only one question, is speaking for me, I can't speak for everybody.
	Speaking for me, I cannot enjoy someone with whom I don't share values.
	I know that others can.
	I don't know how.
	It means that your values, and this is not meant to be insulting, it just means your values are not that important to you.
	But I can't imagine anyone with whom I don't share basic values, doesn't mean we have to agree on everything, but where we don't share basic values, how am I going to enjoy them?
	I have to hide a big part of me in order to relate to that person.
	Where's the joy?
	Where's the joy in enjoy?
	Do you enjoy each other is a really good question.
	And over the long haul of a lifetime, in the hope that you will have a marriage for a lifetime, that's really what determines a lot.
	And of course, it includes so many things.
	It includes the intellectual.
	It includes, for example, it's hard to enjoy a very moody person.
	So there's a lot.
	Obviously, it includes the physical.
	That's an all-encompassing word.
	And I would refine it in this way.
	What percentage of the time do you not enjoy the person?
	And if that's extensive, the chances of your having a good marriage are reduced considerably.
	So, that's what I would ask.
	Do you enjoy that individual?
	Do you enjoy each other?
	Because it's so all-encompassing.
	So I have made the case for my question.
	I put the one in sort of second place, the share values.
	There are people who share values that don't enjoy each other.
	That's the reason that I didn't put in share values as number one.
	There are people who share values that don't enjoy each other.
	I can't, I'm sure some can, but I can't imagine enjoying somebody with whom I don't share values.
	Because it means that I'm hiding who I am, and I can't enjoy somebody whom I have to hide myself from.
	So, based on your own experience, married and or divorced, What's the question that you would pose if you could only pose one question to somebody thinking of getting married?
	That's what I do, in fact.
	I ask, do you enjoy her?
	Do you enjoy him?
	Do you enjoy each other?
	That goes very far in keeping people together.
	Just enjoying one another.
	Enjoying each other's company.
	1-8-Prager-776-877-243-7776 You're given one question.
	For whatever reason, I remember a rabbi telling me many, many years ago, he's a very prominent rabbi in Los Angeles, passed away a number of years ago.
	We were at a wedding together, and...
	I love asking people questions much more than I love talking.
	So I remember asking him, with all the couples that you meet, do you ever have a sense this marriage is not going to work out?
	And he said, oh boy, it happens a lot.
	And I said, can you give me an example?
	He said, yeah, just recently I had a young couple in my study and I asked, I think I asked her, what do you love about him?
	And she said, he's a great dancer.
	And he said, I decided that I couldn't go on as the person marrying them.
	I try to marry people that I think have a really good chance of having a lasting marriage.
	And I didn't think...
	That he's a good dancer was going to be a solid foundation for a good marriage.
	Of course, if you would ask my wife, you know, what most attracted you to Dennis, that is ironically what she would have said.
	He's a great dancer.
	Isn't that right, Alan?
	Unquestionable.
	Unquestionable.
	That was his reaction.
	For the handful of you who took that seriously, for the record, that is not true.
	I am not a great dancer.
	I'm a lousy dancer.
	But we really do enjoy each other, and that's big.
	So, what's your question, and how do you react to my question?
	And I've told you why, even as...
	Big as values are to me, that was not the number one question.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	As the kids would say, OMG. Yeah, we have an extensive vetting process.
	Sure we do.
	I've been to the border, lady.
	No, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	But again, back to Kamala Harris.
	There she is trying to escape this mess by hiding out in Singapore.
	But there are reporters there, too.
	To that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Afghanistan continues to be a mess and Americans are stranded in Afghanistan and our government is uncertain what to do.
	We have some exclusive frontline updates from Afghanistan to share with you.
	Including how private contractors and private citizens are stepping up and doing the job that our government refuses to do.
	And also, we're going to go into great detail all of the weapons that we have left behind in Afghanistan.
	And it's not just bullets and guns.
	It is some of the most sophisticated, top-level weaponry.
	We're going to get into all of that and the cost associated.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Dennis Prager Show.
	In terms of dedication to helping America, there's no comparison between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump really, really, really wants to help America.
	Joe Biden does not.
	That's Biden, and that's Afghanistan, and that's the conservatives.
	Now Biden, which we would not have if we had a Republican president.
	Yes, every one of you businesses in America, you must not allow people who are not vaccinated, even if they've had COVID, and are probably in a better medical position not to transmit or get the disease.
	Everybody has to get a vaccination.
	We've been lying to you, we on the left, since Roe v.
	Wade.
	The government should not interfere with our bodies.
	It has been a total lie on the part of the left.
	It was a bull-ass excuse to defend abortion at any time of pregnancy.
	Nothing they say they mean.
	What is said by the left is said in order to further their agenda, whatever the agenda might be.
	They do not believe people are in control of their bodies.
	But in the name of safety, you can force people to do that.
	Canada, you can't even fly if you didn't get inoculated.
	Canada's not a free country.
	Canada does not have free speech.
	Each candidate does not have free ability to.
	music
	Hi everybody, the Male Female Hour, the Male Female Hour, second hour every Wednesday.
	The subject today is if you could ask one question of a prospective couple, individually or together, and that would be the one question you'd and that would be the one question you'd be allowed to ask to try to ascertain how likely they are to have a good marriage.
	And for them to ask, what's the one question, if you could be allowed only one question, that you would have them ask themselves?
	So mine is, do you enjoy one another?
	Now you might say, shouldn't it be, do you share values?
	Well, again, I want to explain, I can't enjoy somebody I don't share values with.
	And number two...
	There are a lot of people who share values who don't enjoy each other.
	So that's the reason that that would not be my one question.
	Okay, let's see here.
	Dan in St. Paul, Minnesota.
	Hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Well, it was an interesting question, I thought.
	And I've been married for 22 years this month, and both me and my wife are Christian, and the equally yoked part of the Bible seems to stand out to me because we're very similar in the very important things,
	but we're very different in just kind of our personalities and our habits and attributes and those kind of things.
	What does equally yoked mean to the non-Christian?
	And what does it mean to the Christian?
	I think it means having a common vision or goal, like you're going in the same direction.
	You're both pulling equally.
	If one pulls more than the other, you know, there's an imbalance.
	So you're yoked together.
	You're both going the same direction and both, you know, kind of...
	Okay, so is it possible to be equally yoked and not enjoy each other?
	I suppose you could, but then you would lose that romanticism that...
	Right, so, okay, then, you would lose it.
	Of course you would lose it.
	So, that's why I'm not sure that that would be the best first question.
	Certainly not to the non-Christian who wouldn't even know what you're asking.
	My question is universal.
	My question would be good for Christians, would be good for Jews, be good for Buddhists and atheists.
	Yeah, I think it takes a little explanation or interpretation, because the secular person would be like Slominoxin, you know, or something like that.
	I don't know, they might not give it whatsoever.
	I got your point.
	All right, anyway, I appreciate your answer, but again, mine was a universal, my question is a universal one.
	It's not restricted to any one-faith community, and by the way, I believe that...
	Part of enjoying one another, as I said, is sharing values, and it may well be sharing religious vision as well.
	So that's why it's a very good question, I think.
	All right, let's go.
	Now, this is very interesting.
	I can't explain the following.
	We have one line open, but of the seven lines, we have eight lines.
	Well, they're all taken now.
	So, of the seven lines where I see a name, well, I don't know if Pat is male or female, but almost everybody's male, which is very interesting.
	I always find it interesting when men call in on the male-female hour.
	People would tend to think it would be a theme where more women would call in.
	All right, in any event, all right.
	Anyway, Dan, thank you for your call.
	I appreciate it.
	I'm opening up a line, obviously.
	And let's see.
	Pam in Oak Ridge, Oregon.
	Hello, Pam.
	Hi, Dennis.
	How are you?
	Okay, thank you.
	Good.
	We actually met one night at the Magic Castle.
	My husband was performing there, and you were standing in line to go see the show, and we actually met you, and you were very gracious.
	Well, it's very sweet.
	I'm glad you had a pleasant memory of meeting me.
	I love them.
	I love magicians.
	I think that they're the greatest of entertainers.
	Well, I'm blessed to be married to one, so 28 years, in fact.
	The question that you were asking about, and I've, with friends who have been in relationships and they're really not sure whether to take that next step.
	My question, it's a two-fold question, has always been, how important is this relationship to you, and what are you willing to do to make it work?
	Well, let's begin with number one.
	Who, thinking of marrying, is not going to say it's important to me?
	I'm not sure you learn anything from that question.
	I guess from my perspective, if people are struggling or they've had bad experiences before or they've come from a broken home or something like that, there's that trust factor.
	And with all of the distractions we have, that's been the thing.
	It's like, you know, is the relationship important to you?
	Yet, like you said, nine times out of ten, they will say, well, of course it's really, you know, what are you willing to do to make it work?
	So what would you do to make it work?
	I'm not sure.
	I love your questions because I know what you mean, but I don't know that they'll tell you much because what answer would you like to the second question?
	I want them to think about it.
	It's a thinking thing, you know.
	What can I bring to it?
	Right, so let's say they think about it.
	Give me an intelligent thought that they would bring to the table in answering.
	Question number two.
	What is keeping you from making that next step?
	Oh, well, that's a separate question entirely.
	That's a good question.
	It is.
	That might be better.
	Anyway, let me let you go, and I thank you for that.
	You have to ask a question that provokes A person to think, and to the extent that they might even rethink the relationship.
	Wow, do we enjoy each other?
	A lot of people don't.
	A lot of people marry for a whole host of reasons, and I don't think they give a lot of thought to that question, because it seems almost superficial.
	But it isn't superficial at all.
	In the final analysis, it's the defining element of most relationships including same-sex friendships.
	If you don't enjoy a friend, would you stay friendly with that person?
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9/11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people.
	Then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken.
	Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback on the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans who've served in Afghanistan in a uniform and other parts of the world were very Forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there was a recognition by the administration that we can't get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants out.
	And yet a few hours later.
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before,
	Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States should be fired, because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters and the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia...
	Perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden administration...
	We'll be able to fix the borders, perhaps even wants to fix the borders.
	I don't even believe they want to fix the borders, frankly.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it that the vast majority of us wanted to get out of there.
	No one wants our soldiers to go to war in perpetuity.
	But I don't believe in handing our soldiers a loss.
	I don't believe in doing that.
	I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe.
	We'll see you next time.
	Bye, everybody.
	Nobody seems to echo my own view, which is fine.
	I'm just noting that for your interest.
	What question...
	This is the subject of the male-female hour, which is the hour you're listening to.
	What one question would you have a couple ask of themselves and of each other in order to help determine the prospects of a good marriage?
	Mine is, do you enjoy each other?
	Because it encompasses so much.
	And because it is possible to share religion, it is possible to share values, it is possible to share both being good and kind people and not enjoy each other.
	Whereas, I don't know how you can enjoy each other if the person's not a good person, or if the person doesn't share your values.
	There might be some superficial element of joy, like...
	That rabbi I quoted earlier who said, the prospective bride said he's a great dancer.
	That's why she loved him.
	She enjoyed that, but that wasn't a deep response.
	Anyway, it's a tough one because I'm only allowing one question.
	All right, let's see.
	Atlanta, Georgia.
	Marty, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Are you hearing me okay?
	I am.
	Hey, well, listen, here's my one question.
	Is, are either of your parents divorced?
	Or basically it would be the same question as, are either of your parents still married?
	Or do you come from a married home?
	Or are you coming from a home where there's divorce?
	That would be my one question.
	And I'll tell you the reason why I asked that question.
	I am a pastor here in Atlanta.
	So I do, you know, a bit of marriage counseling quite a bit.
	And over the last, let's say, about 25 years of marriage counseling, I would say, and this is a little bit scientific because it's literally 100% for me, Dennis, is that those that have gone through difficulty in marriage and have come from married families have hung in there and made work.
	Those that have come from divorced families or parents have been divorced, they seem to give up quicker and give up on the marriage quicker.
	Well, that's a very interesting...
	Wait, so...
	Let me understand.
	Have you been with couples who divorced whose parents did not divorce?
	Well, yes.
	I've been with couples...
	Yeah, I do marriage counseling, so I counsel couples whose parents are still married.
	And whose parents are divorced.
	No, no, no.
	Not whose parents.
	And they have divorced.
	Do you mean the couples have divorced?
	Yes.
	Whose parents have not divorced.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So what you're saying to me is that's much less frequent than people divorcing who come from divorced parents.
	Yeah.
	I think if you come from divorced parents...
	Right.
	You're less likely to fight.
	You're more likely to give up sooner.
	All right.
	It's a very interesting...
	Okay.
	So, okay.
	I hear you.
	I have no comment because I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I do marital counseling, so to speak, on the male-female hour, but certainly not to the extent that you do.
	And that's a very interesting thought.
	I have to mull it over.
	But I don't know how that would affect...
	Let me ask you this.
	I assume you're still on with me.
	Yes.
	Okay, good.
	So, remember, my question was, what is the one question you would ask a prospective marrying couple?
	So your one question is, are either of your parents divorced?
	Yes.
	Are either of your parents divorced?
	So wait, and what would you then counsel?
	That the one who came from the non-divorced home break up?
	Well, if you come from a divorced home, then I know where to take the marriage counseling because they don't have a template.
	No, no, no.
	This is premarital.
	I'm asking, what would you ask a couple considering getting married?
	I want to know the upshot of what you have said.
	You see, the upshot to my question is, I'm saying, do you enjoy each other?
	If they say, well, it's a good question, I have to think about it, or sometimes...
	I would counsel against marrying.
	Would you counsel against marrying someone from a divorced home?
	That's the question.
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	I think this is a crisis that we haven't faced since 9/11.
	I think it's worse than 9-11 because we ran towards the danger and tried to save people.
	Then now we're abandoning them.
	Is the president going to stick with this?
	It seems like the president is doubling down.
	And what is shocking to me, we had a brief with Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley, etc.
	And there was very strong bipartisan pushback.
	On the August 31st deadline.
	In fact, some of the strongest statements pushing back on that came from my Democratic colleagues, particularly those who are veterans who've served in Afghanistan and in uniform and other parts of the world were very forceful in telling the administration to their face that this is a disaster.
	And I think there was a recognition by the administration that we can't Get all of our people, let alone the thousands of SIV applicants out, and yet a few hours later...
	The President of the United States went on TV and doubled down on the August 31st deadline, which is completely arbitrary, or let me rather say is solely intended to get us out before September 11th, 2021. And as we've discussed before,
	Hugh, whoever in the White House decided it would be a good idea to try and get everyone out by September 11th, 2021, and thinking that that would be some positive PR win for the United States should be fired, because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban. because that's a huge, huge propaganda win for the Taliban.
	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters and the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia...
	Perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave.
	Male-female hour, second hour on Wednesdays. second hour on Wednesdays.
	What?
	One question, if you were allowed one, to ask prospective marrying couple, what would it be?
	Mine is, do you enjoy each other?
	What percentage of the time do you enjoy each other?
	That's another way of putting the same question.
	So I want to go back to the pastor, if he's still there.
	No, he's not still there.
	So he...
	See, the pastor who does a lot of counseling said that he has found that couples from divorced homes are more likely to divorce when the marriage hits a rocky period than couples from homes that have not had divorce.
	I can't react to it because I have no way of knowing whether that is...
	I certainly believe him, that that's his experience, but I don't know if it's factually accurate.
	But it doesn't matter.
	Even if it is, it doesn't answer my question.
	So, if he were still on, I would say, if you had one question to ask people, would you ask, is either of you from a divorced home?
	See, I wouldn't ask that question.
	It wouldn't tell me.
	Not nearly as much as do you enjoy each other.
	Okay, so that's why this is a very, very thought-provoking hour.
	That's my question.
	Colorado Springs, Pat, hello.
	Hello, Dennis?
	Yes.
	I am a male.
	That's clear.
	Good.
	Glad to hear that.
	It's good to talk to you again, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	My question, we'd have to look to the Greek to get a complete answer.
	But my question would simply be, do you love each other?
	When we look to the Greek, we get a lot better definition of what that word means than we do with the English.
	And what is the definition we get?
	Sorbet?
	Empathy?
	Or a bond?
	Do you have a friend, bond, ergos, romantic love?
	Probably the most important one is agape, unconditional God love.
	Because we're commanded in the Bible to love our lives like Christ loved the church.
	Look what Christ had to put up to with the church.
	Right.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You've asked a lot of questions, so tell me the one question you would pose.
	Do you love each other according to the definition of love in the Greek language?
	Right.
	I know the New Testament is in Greek, but you're bringing in two separate issues: the Greek definition of love and Christ loving the church like you should love your spouse.
	So, again, you have a couple in front of you.
	You can ask them one question.
	What will you say?
	Do you love each other according to the Greek definition?
	Yes.
	And the Greek definition is...
	Unconditional love?
	What is the Greek definition as you understand it?
	Okay, so who in the world, thinking of marrying, would say, I don't empathize with my prospective spouse?
	I don't know if the question gets you anywhere.
	Well, I think it gets you in lots of directions, Dennis.
	So I'm cheating.
	I recognize that.
	But I still think that's a question to ask.
	Okay.
	Well, if it works, more power to you.
	Since I don't know how it would provoke serious thought about the state of their relationship.
	And it might.
	It might.
	I don't claim there's a right answer to my question.
	I claim I have an answer to my question.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	And let's go to Lynn in Bakersfield, California.
	Hello, Lynn.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	How are you?
	Excellent.
	So my question is, do you trust each other?
	As in, could you trust your mate to lay their life on the line for you?
	I mean, that's not the only trust, but that's where I'm going.
	Totally trust.
	It would be an interesting experiment to actually pose that question to a young couple thinking of marrying.
	Would any serious couple say, I don't trust the person I'm thinking of marrying?
	Possibly not, but it would be thought-provoking.
	What prompts you to...
	There must be something in your past that prompts you to raise that question.
	Yes, there is.
	And what is it?
	Being in a relationship where I thought I was in love but knew I couldn't trust the person and realized thankfully I couldn't trust that person prior to making a commitment.
	And what exactly could you not trust about him?
	Mostly faithfulness.
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	How is it possible that Joe Biden let this happen?
	Was this intentional?
	Did he want our enemies to have it?
	It's hard to believe that incompetence could possibly let this happen.
	Jake Sullivan, the highly unimpressive person who's never done anything useful in his life, says, we don't have a complete picture, obviously.
	Of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
	And obviously we don't have a sense that we're going to be ready to handily hand it over to us at the airport.
	The Taliban now has the 26th largest air force in the world with zero pilots.
	600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, 200 total aircraft, and $85 billion in total weapons.
	110 helicopters, 60 transportation cargo airplanes, 20 light attack airplanes, and 18 intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance airplanes.
	The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than Australia.
	And this is all on our government.
	This is all on Joe Biden, who now wants praise, who says this was a perfect withdrawal.
	Are you kidding me?
	Cut 59. Jen Psaki says that the Afghanistan effort is a success.
	It's on track to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	This is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	Anything but a success.
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	And as far as I'm concerned, if I may, as a former insider, the key question is going to be personnel.
	We need to build the bench that helps staff you and doesn't subvert you.
	What are your plans?
	What would the second term look like?
	And who's going to build that bench for you, sir?
	Well, first of all, for you listeners, you did a fantastic job.
	You were terrific.
	I deal with you a lot.
	And I dealt with you after you went out and made a fortune.
	I hope you're making a fortune anyway, but I think you are based on your ratings.
	But I dealt with you a lot, and that's why I do your show, and I don't do a lot of other shows.
	I do people that I respect and people that have been fair, and you've been, really, I congratulate you.
	But you were very important, and the great job that you did, you have a knowledge.
	I heard the word strategist.
	Mentioned in the opening that you were a strategist.
	And that's really what Biden needs.
	He needs somebody to help him because.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Don't hang up because I want to read your responses.
	At least I can get all of them.
	None of you have my response to my question, which is fine.
	You have a couple in front of you.
	It's a young couple thinking of marrying.
	What one question would you ask?
	So the last one, mine is, do you enjoy each other?
	And the last...
	One was, do you trust the person?
	I asked the woman who called, what prompted you?
	I knew something in her past prompted it, and sure enough, she broke up a prospective marriage because she didn't trust him, and what didn't she trust?
	that he be faithful.
	So that's a given, obviously.
	If you don't think somebody will be faithful, you don't marry them.
	But since I don't believe you could enjoy somebody you don't trust, again, I think my do you enjoy them is fairly, really broad and compassing.
	Is there anybody you enjoy you don't trust?
	Forget prospective spouse.
	Friend.
	Do you have friends you enjoy but you don't trust?
	I don't.
	I can't imagine enjoying somebody I don't trust.
	Being preoccupied with, will this person betray me, pretty much precludes enjoying that person.
	That's why I defend my question.
	Okay, let's see.
	Kurt, Mission Viejo, do I make you laugh?
	Do we laugh together?
	Well, that's not far from mine.
	It's a good part.
	But I think there are guys who are not all that funny, who have great marriages.
	Women love a sense of humor in a man, more than vice versa, by the way, generally speaking.
	Men want to be funny and want women who find them funny.
	But anyway, it's a good thing.
	I don't know if it's the one question I would ask.
	Michelle, Philadelphia, are you a positive or a negative person?
	It's an interesting question.
	How many people would say I'm a negative person?
	How many negative people would say they're negative?
	Sean, would you say you're a negative person?
	Positively.
	That was good.
	He is positively negative.
	That's correct.
	What is your relationship like with your future in-laws?
	That's from Peter in Detroit, Illinois.
	Detroit, Illinois.
	Is there a Detroit, Illinois?
	Anyway, that's a good one for another male-female hour.
	Is it possible that Joe Biden let this happen?
	Was this intentional?
	Did he want our enemies to have it?
	It's hard to believe that incompetence could possibly let this happen.
	Jake Sullivan, the highly unimpressive person who's never done anything useful in his life, says, we don't have a complete picture, obviously.
	Of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
	And obviously we don't have a sense that we're going to be ready to handily hand it over to us at the airport.
	The Taliban now has the 26th largest air force in the world with zero pilots.
	600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles.
	200 total aircraft and $85 billion in total weapons.
	110 helicopters, 60 transportation cargo airplanes, 20 light attack airplanes and 18 intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance airplanes.
	The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than Australia.
	And this is all on our government.
	This is all on Joe Biden, who now wants praise, who says this was a perfect withdrawal.
	Are you kidding me?
	Cut 59. Jen Psaki says that the Afghanistan effort is a success.
	It's on track to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	I'd say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	And that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	Anything but a success.
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	And as far as I'm concerned, if I may, as a former insider, the key question is going to be personnel.
	We need to build the bench that helps staff you and doesn't subvert you.
	What are your plans?
	What would the second term look like?
	And who's going to build that bench for you, sir?
	Well, first of all, for you listeners, you did a fantastic job.
	You were terrific.
	I deal with you a lot.
	And I dealt with you after you went out and made a fortune.
	I hope you're making a fortune anyway, but I think you are based on your ratings.
	But I dealt with you a lot, and that's why I do your show, and I don't do a lot of other shows.
	I do people that I respect and people that have been fair, and you've been, really, I congratulate you.
	But you were very important, and the great job that you did, you have a knowledge.
	I heard the word strategist mentioned in the opening, that you were a strategist, and that's really what Biden needs.
	He needs somebody to help him, because...
	Our country is embarrassed.
	Our country has never been embarrassed like they are right now.
	In the speech in Alabama where we had a massive crowd, they say 68,000 people showed up in the rain.
	It was rain and thunder.
	And we put up, I put up, I had the idea the morning of, this was Saturday, the morning of, put up the General Patton.
	The opening monologue that he does in the movie Patton, which I don't know if it got the Academy Award or very close, and I think George E. Scott did get the Academy Award.
	But we put up the opening monologue, and I said, that is not a woke general, but it's a general that knows how to win.
	And we have guys that are more interested in things that have nothing to do with our military.
	It's really what's going on now.
	Crazy.
	With our whole country, with our whole country, what you're doing now to our country is absolutely frightening.
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	Mr. President, the lying legacy media is supporting the Biden administration narrative that this is your plan.
	and this is what you would have done.
	It is clear you've just communicated you had a conditions-based withdrawal plan you would have kept, Bagram.
	What would you be doing right now if you were the commander-in-chief?
	If one U.S. citizen were hurt in Afghanistan, what would your response be and how would you use our special forces?
	Well, we're in a much worse position right now than we were.
	When I had it, it was absolutely, we had it so locked down, we would have been able to leave so easily.
	And so, I mean, it would have just been a beautiful process.
	And then the only question was probably you bombed the bases, because why should we give those bases to others?
	So we would bomb the hell out of the bases, the various bases other than Bagram, which we would have kept.
	But if you think about it, How can it be worse?
	So now it's a much more difficult position because they have thousands of hostages, American hostages.
	You know, Jimmy Carter had a small number of hostages.
	Now they have thousands of American hostages, so it's much different.
	I would absolutely have a plan, but I don't want to say what the plan is because I think it would be inappropriate.
	But the idea that you would be taking orders from the Taliban like Joe Biden is?
	Ridiculous, because I dealt with Abdul and everybody else, and we were totally in charge.
	And they would have never come in.
	They wouldn't have even tried to come into Kabul, even though Ghani, I always said he's a crook, 100% crooked, a bad leader, but a crooked guy.
	And he had the United States Senate wrapped around his finger.
	That was his only strength.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe today at rumble.com trending now on america first with sebastian talk to our millions of listeners across the country about your plans for afghanistan the conditions-based withdrawal and what we have witnessed the disaster we've witnessed in the last three weeks maybe the greatest most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country
	The difference was...
	Almost—first of all, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	We knocked out ISIS. When I took in—when I took over, ISIS was all over the Middle East.
	We knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
	I notice now they call it ISIS-K, so you'll explain that.
	But we knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
	We took out al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Keep up with what's trending.
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	everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	There are no portions of anything I say that's pre-recorded at this hour.
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	If I were to write a piece, and I won't, and I'll tell you why I won't.
	This is the sad thing.
	What I've learned in the last year and a half, It would be so dark that it would depress everyone who read it.
	So I won't write it.
	This is the only time in my life that I'm engaging in self-censorship.
	So much bad has happened in the last year and a half.
	Now, I have touched upon all of them individually.
	But collectively, the...
	The deterioration of everything that we trusted was so rapid, or seemingly so rapid, as to take one's breath away.
	So I'll just focus on science.
	I know an individual who's a very, very, very prominent doctor, went to the most prestigious medical schools, did his residency in the most prestigious hospitals.
	He's a major figure in his field.
	Let me put it to you that way.
	My producer knows him as well.
	And he is at one of the biggest hospitals in one of the biggest cities in the country.
	And he was told that he could no longer prescribe ivermectin while working at the hospital.
	He has never been told in his career that he could not prescribe a medicine, a drug.
	One of the safest drugs, by the way, known to humanity.
	The corruption of the sciences has been extensive.
	Remember how many people in the medical world said at the height of the lockdown, When they would otherwise be adamant that you cannot gather in crowds, but it's okay to gather in crowds if you protest racism?
	This came from thousands of people who treat you.
	If I knew anyone in medicine who signed that petition, needless to say, I would not allow anyone I love to be treated by any of those people.
	They are corrupt.
	They have a contempt for science.
	So that is one of so many.
	The American Medical Association just recently announced that its position is that people should not...
	that not people.
	Society should no longer, government should no longer...
	List the sex of a newborn infant.
	Did you make that up?
	Is that my beeping?
	Really?
	Can I get angry at my own computer?
	Let's be silly, because it has no will of its own.
	I mean, I reported that to you.
	The American Medical Association does not believe that a child is born male or female.
	The corruption of the sciences has been staggering.
	The opposition to therapeutics and the all-in for vaccines has been corrupt, and I believe killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, maybe millions around the world.
	States in India that used ivermectin had a much lower rate of death from COVID than states in India.
	I don't even understand.
	This is what bothers me the most.
	I understand when somebody like, was it Scott Gottlieb?
	Is that the fellow?
	Yeah.
	Who is now on the board of Pfizer.
	He was the head of the FDA. I mean, the whole thing's corrupt.
	So I understand corruption.
	He wants to make a lot of money.
	His loyalty to Pfizer is greater than his loyalty to science.
	I get that.
	I don't expect much from human beings.
	Honest, kind, good, moral, courageous human beings are the minority.
	So I can live with that.
	But I'm very puzzled when I can't explain utterly destructive policies.
	I cannot explain The medical profession's opposition to therapeutics.
	That it hasn't gone crazy recommending people take hydroxychloroquine, zinc, vitamin D, quercetin, and ivermectin.
	It's astonishing that they would rather put them on a ventilator, which is so often a death sentence, is reason enough for you not to trust the medical profession.
	That doesn't mean your doctor is a coward and an ineffective doctor.
	You may have a wonderful doctor.
	There are exceptions.
	But right now, the honorable medical professional is the exception.
	So the Federalist has two pieces today.
	The left's hysteria about kids and COVID is much worse than QAnon.
	Correct.
	Continuing to keep kids locked into masks and out of normal life is a mass hysteria.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Based on conspiracy theories far worse than QAnon.
	It is no basis in science, data, or reality.
	It is entirely a psychotic power play that sane people must refuse to allow to control our lives because it's hurting kids and destroying our nation's future.
	It's now more than a year after the world learned that COVID thankfully poses lower risks to children than does the annual flu.
	Did you all hear that?
	Lower risks to children than the annual flu.
	In 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control, quote, fewer kids died of COVID-19 than of heart disease.
	Malignant neoplasms.
	How's that?
	Malignant neoplasms.
	More kids in 2020 died of malignant neoplasms?
	I never even heard of the term.
	I'm not a scientist, which is obvious.
	But I will say, if more kids died of something I never heard of than of COVID, that is suggestive.
	Suicide.
	More kids committed suicide in America last year than died of COVID. I might add, probably a certain percentage, not insignificant percentage of the suicides, were suicides because of the lockdown.
	And homicide, not to mention birth defects which killed hundreds of times more.
	We have never shut children off in pods, muffled their faces and those of everyone they see.
	Limited them to small groups or stuffed them into substandard virtual quote-unquote learning for the flu, suicide, or heart disease because that would be ridiculous.
	It would hold their futures hostage to fear porn.
	Yet doing exactly that is what top U.S. experts and politicians demand.
	You realize that?
	We have never done this to children in American history.
	And we did it this past year.
	And by the way, we look like an open society compared to Australia.
	I never exaggerate, ever.
	I took a vow to myself when I began broadcasting not to exaggerate because you lose your credibility over time.
	Exaggerating is effective in the beginning but not over the long run.
	So when I tell you that the average Soviet citizen had more rights than the average Australian does today, I am either wrong or right, but I'm not exaggerating.
	Tell me what an Australian can do today, today, as I'm speaking to you, that a Soviet citizen could not do.
	Could a Soviet citizen go in the park and talk to a stranger?
	Yep.
	Could a Soviet citizen leave their house for more than two hours a day?
	Yep.
	Could a Soviet citizen walk their dog without a mask?
	Yep.
	Could a Soviet citizen send their kid to school?
	Yep.
	So what less freedom did a Soviet citizen have to criticize their government?
	But you know what?
	Australians are such sheep.
	Pun intended.
	That right is irrelevant because they don't exercise it.
	It's very sad to me because I actually love visiting Australia.
	Another country ruined by the left.
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	- General McMaster and Secretary Esper are blaming you for the Doha agreement.
	They're saying that you empowered them.
	What do you make of these criticisms from General McMaster, who was your second national security advisor, and Secretary Esper?
	Yeah.
	These are two guys.
	You know, I had great people in my administration, but those two were stiffs.
	McMaster was not a smart guy.
	All he liked doing was talking to the press, and I rarely listened to him, and then ultimately fired him.
	And Jesper, I called him Jesper because all he did was say yes.
	Jesper was like a little boy.
	All he did was say yes.
	No matter what you asked him, he was a lightweight and honestly should not have been in that position.
	We were rushed because there was a difficulty with a good man who was in there prior to him.
	He had some...
	Family difficulty.
	And I gave Jesper a try and put him in there for a short period of time.
	He didn't have what it takes.
	The men and women, the people within the military, did not respect him.
	And McMaster, all he did was like to write things and write books and complain.
	And he wasn't a smart person.
	Just so you understand, they're complaining about the agreement that I just talked about with you, which had strong conditions.
	And when the reason, as an example, I wanted to be out as soon as possible, but we had to get out strong with all our equipment and no death.
	The reason nobody was killed in the last 18 months was because of what we did.
	Beyond the agreement was because of the relationship I developed with the leaders, and in particular with Abdul.
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	This is the left.
	And we've heard this so many times that the word is fluid for the Constitution.
	Oh, it's fluid.
	It changes in meaning.
	So there's no real specific definition.
	Well, that's not true.
	The hallmark of our Constitution is not just separation of powers, but limited specific powers.
	And so on the federal level, the Biden administration and the executive branch and even Congress are limited to the specific enumerated powers that are given in the United States Constitution.
	Ninth and Tenth Amendment reserve all powers that are not enumerated to the states and to the people.
	So that doesn't mean then that the states are just unlimited in their authority either.
	And so the federal government has absolutely no authority to tell the states what to do with respect to vaccine mandates, with respect to any of these things that infringe upon our liberty and freedom.
	We're no longer in a state of emergency.
	The state legislatures can absolutely meet and they can.
	We can determine whether or not to implement some of these things if they're even constitutional.
	And there's a lot of reasons that they're not.
	But that is a specifically legislative designation.
	So for these executive branch officials to say, hey, we're exercising our emergency authorization, we're going to force every individual to show a vaccine passport before they can take advantage and exercise their rights with respect to going into restaurants, gyms, hotels.
	I mean, all of these things.
	That is a violation of the separation of powers.
	Our government is not tyrannical.
	They can't just decide what's best for you and me in the interest of quote-unquote public safety.
	But this is where, Eric, the left wants to go.
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	All right, y'all. y'all.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	I Two pieces in the Federalist, a great website.
	There are so many great websites.
	I want you to know, if I may just veer off, which is my tendency, I veer off, but the beauty is I always come back to my original point.
	But to veer for a moment to the back row, there is hope, my friends.
	First, A, you have no right to despair.
	Things are bad in this country.
	Bad in the Western world.
	Unprecedentedly bad.
	The destruction of everything that is good is taking place.
	However, there are a lot of us who know this.
	The biggest challenge is the fear of people who want to protect America, protect liberty, and protect the West.
	The fear that keeps them from coming out of the closet.
	When gays celebrate, what was that famous event in New York City?
	Stonewall.
	They're right.
	They celebrate when they stopped fearing coming out of the closet.
	From the perspective of the gay individual, that is indeed the moment that everything changed.
	When conservatives decide to come out of the closet, everything will change.
	At least half this country believes in liberty.
	The left is not.
	The left never has.
	Freedom is not a left-wing value.
	Equity is.
	Not even equality.
	Equity.
	Equity has little to do with equality.
	Equity is result, not opportunity.
	Not equality before the law.
	But anyway, you have no right to despair.
	You have a right to worry, you have a right to even get down periodically, but not to despair.
	Because despair leads to inaction, and that's a sin.
	You have one life, you might as well fight.
	Right?
	You're going to die anyway.
	It's not even a dark thought.
	It's actually, it's uplifting.
	So what do you want to do?
	Die having lived safely?
	I avoided all pain?
	Is that what you want on your tombstone?
	So back to the crisis of medicine, which has been completely corrupted by the left, as everything else has.
	These articles are really quite remarkable.
	So, the author is writing about, we've never done to children what we did this past year, and for no good reason, since so many more have died of so many other things than COVID. Former Food and Drug Administrator Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the man who is compromised, I mean, folks, what does it suggest to you if somebody is the head of the FDA and then is on the board of directors of Pfizer?
	Even just, remember the word optics?
	Even the optics, don't they look bad?
	Doesn't it look like the FDA is compromised by money from Big Pharma?
	Former FDA Administrator Dr. Scott Gottlieb went on TV this past weekend to insanely recommend masking children and injecting them with experimental COVID treatments, even though the flu poses a higher risk to them and flu shots have never been a requirement for attending school.
	What she is calling experimental COVID treatments, I assume she means the vaccination.
	I don't know what specific, I assume that's what it is.
	Children are almost never endangered from COVID-19, nor do they spread it.
	Mass have not been proven to provide any protective effect in schools.
	Even leftist outlets like New York Magazine and the New York Times are admitting this now, while the Biden administration and other Democrats, such as Governor Gavin Newsom, continue to falsify scientific discoveries.
	Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and most notably requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit.
	This is New York Magazine last week.
	I read it to you then.
	In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective, quote unquote.
	Numerous studies indicate masking children is counterproductive based on their near-zero transmission and fatality rates versus the social and developmental harms of covering everyone's faces indefinitely.
	Meanwhile, European countries have had kids back in school for the entire previous school year and are jettisoning masks and quarantines because that's what real-world data supports.
	Then there's a report, front page news in Berlin.
	Public health officials will no longer order contact tracing and quarantines for students who might have been exposed to COVID in school.
	Florida provided a great real-world observational study over the course of the school year last year.
	40 districts had masks required policies and 27 had without mask required policies.
	The result?
	No statistical difference in school cases per enrolled students in person.
	The U.S. panic about COVID and kids, something unique unfolding here unlike anywhere else in the world, is a mass hysteria.
	Well, it is in Australia and New Zealand.
	I'm sorry, but the Democratic Party is the party of delusional mass hysteria right now.
	That's what it is.
	It's QAnon-level alternative reality.
	Another article in The Federalist.
	It's about another doctor named Scott, but a good guy, Dr. Scott Atlas, a former professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, now a senior fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution.
	Is science itself one of the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic?
	I asked Dr. Scott Atlas.
	Science has not just been a victim, he told me, but actively participated in the self-destruction of its credibility.
	To prove his point, Atlas referred to the now infamous letter published in Lancet.
	Lancet, by the way, is the world's most prestigious science journal.
	Which denounced the lab leak theory, remember that?
	The one that had started in a lab, not with a bat, as a conspiracy that created fear, rumor, and prejudice.
	Facebook fact-checkers, quote-unquote, almost every fact-checker, by the way, folks, is a professional liar, used the letter to censor discussion of the lab leak theory for more than a year.
	It then serviced in the Daily Mail that Peter Daszak, president of Echo Health Alliance, orchestrated a group of scientists to write the letter.
	We'll be back.
	1-8 Prager 776. Talk to our millions of listeners across the country about
	your plans for Afghanistan, the conditions-based withdrawal, and what we have witnessed, the disaster we've witnessed in the last three weeks.
	Maybe the greatest, most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country.
	The difference was almost, first of all, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	We knocked out ISIS. When I took over, ISIS was all over the Middle East.
	We knocked out 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
	I notice now they call it ISIS-K, so you'll explain that.
	But we knocked out 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
	We took out al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Afghanistan continues to be a mess and Americans are stranded in Afghanistan and our government is uncertain what to do.
	We have some exclusive frontline updates from Afghanistan to share with you.
	Including how private contractors and private citizens are stepping up and doing the job that our government refuses to do.
	And also, we're going to go into great detail all of the weapons that we have left behind in Afghanistan.
	And it's not just bullets and guns.
	It is some of the most sophisticated, top-level weaponry.
	We're going to get into all of that and the cost associated.
	Keep up with what.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt show.
	Jen Psaki, the pressure is getting to her question by Peter Doocy, a famous clip already cut number 11.
	But does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen?
	By pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded.
	Does he have a sense of that?
	First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded.
	They are not.
	We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
	We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans.
	Jake Tapper thinks they're stranded on CNN cut number four.
	Look, I understand.
	That people are working long hours in the White House, the National Security Council, State Department, Pentagon, and over in Kabul to get Americans out of that country.
	And I understand the White House wanting to reassure the nation that all Americans will ultimately be evacuated, but there are no doubt Americans...
	Who feel stranded in Afghanistan right now?
	Of course there are.
	It's absurd for the White House, and it tells you something about Joe Biden.
	Britt Hume was on with our friend Guy Benson on his radio show yesterday, said this is cut number one.
	But anybody who ever heard him speak for any length of time could tell that this guy, this was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
	And, you know, he could talk forever and was famous for it.
	But you never had the sense that he was terribly smart.
	And on top of that, now he's manifestly senile.
	And between those two things, this is a man with very, very severe limitations, who is well too old, in my opinion, to be the President of the United States.
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	And from the United States, we'll see you next time.
	Okay, everybody.
	Charlotte in...
	That's a new town for me.
	Is that Chibolo, Texas?
	You sound like a GPS. It's Chibolo.
	Why do I sound like a GPS? Because they always say Chibolo.
	Oh, the GPS. Yes, I understand.
	Okay.
	I've never been told I sound like a GPS. That is very funny.
	You know what?
	I wonder if you could program voices.
	You know, have Dennis Prager turn left in two miles.
	That would be great.
	I enjoy your voice very much.
	Thank you.
	Sean notes that I would never have anyone turn left.
	That was very witty.
	And I want you to know that Charlotte in Cibolo appreciated it too.
	All right, Charlotte.
	You have a correction and you are right.
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	The difference between Australia and Russia is a major difference in personal freedom.
	And that is that in Russia, we're not allowed to openly express our...
	Well, not Russia today.
	You mean the Soviet Union?
	Soviet Union?
	Yeah.
	No, Russia.
	No, Russia today, you could practice Christianity.
	No, you can't.
	Not all of them.
	Well, what can't you practice?
	What religion can you not practice today in Russia?
	You cannot openly be one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
	Okay.
	Jehovah's Witnesses have issues in Germany.
	I'm not defending it, but it's not fair to say that Russia doesn't allow people to practice Christianity.
	It's fair to say they don't.
	Well, they're Christians.
	You're entirely right.
	I agree with you.
	But it is specific to one group.
	And I did not know that, I believe you, and it wouldn't be the only country as far as I know.
	It's a very, it's wrong, it's just wrong, whatever one thinks of any given religious group.
	But I thought you were correcting me on a broader state.
	I was saying that the average Soviet citizen had more rights than an Australian today.
	And literally today.
	But you are right.
	You are free in Australia to practice Christianity.
	You are not in the Soviet Union.
	However, even that is really circumscribed.
	You certainly cannot go to church today.
	You will be arrested if you have services.
	Also in Canada, there's a real attack on Christian expression.
	And quite a number of churches have been burned, and nobody seems to care or report it.
	I'm talking Canada.
	People watch liberty disappear, and this is their reaction.
	People have one of two reactions.
	One is, well, it doesn't really affect me.
	Or two, it's for a good cause.
	And that combination allows countries to lose their liberties.
	That was it.
	That was the famous statement of Pastor Niemöller.
	First they came for the communists, and I wasn't a communist, so I didn't speak up.
	Then they came for the labor unions, and I wasn't in a labor union, and I didn't speak up.
	Then they came for the Jews, and I wasn't a Jew, and they didn't speak up.
	And then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak up.
	And that's the way it works.
	When they remove the liberties, it's like kids.
	They believe it is okay to suppress hate speech.
	And they think they're for free speech, not understanding.
	That the whole definition of free speech is that it encompasses speech that you hate.
	Nobody is against or for suppressing love speech.
	The whole point is that you are allowed to have hate speech.
	So people watch liberty dissipate and do nothing.
	I would say that most of my listeners, many of whom have great respect for me, I'm well aware of that, thought over the course of years that I was idiosyncratic in my anger over the laws on secondhand smoke.
	That you can't smoke in Burbank, California.
	You can't have a cigar in a cigar lounge.
	The number of people who care about cigar smoking is minuscule, but they always begin with something unpopular.
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	I want you to understand that we're dealing with wokesters in the White House, where the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Our American soldiers have no fault of their own.
	No fault of their own.
	Our leadership is...
	We just have bad leadership.
	It's as simple as that.
	And our leadership is trying to build wokesters while the rest of the world is trying to build warriors.
	Because places like China, places like Russia, perhaps now even Afghanistan, obviously they don't have the resources to do so.
	But these other places want to be number one, China specifically.
	So while they're looking to build their militaries and to strengthen their militaries, we're looking to brainwash ours.
	And it's a sad commentary, but I want you to understand what we're dealing with.
	with.
	If we can't count on the Biden-Harris administration to conduct even a safe and orderly troop withdrawal or leave just a small residual amount of troops behind to keep the country stabilized, what else can we not count on from the Biden administration?
	Look at our open borders.
	Do you really believe that the Biden administration will be able to fix the borders, perhaps even wants to fix the borders?
	I don't even believe they want to fix the borders, frankly.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it.
	The vast majority of us wanted to get out of there.
	No one wants our soldiers to go to war in perpetuity.
	But I don't believe in handing our soldiers a loss.
	I don't believe in doing that.
	And I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
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	And as far as I'm concerned, if I may, as a former insider, the key question is going to be personnel.
	We need to build the bench that helps staff you and doesn't subvert you.
	What are your plans?
	What would the second term look like?
	And who's going to build that bench for you, sir?
	Well, first of all, for you listeners, you did a fantastic job.
	You were terrific.
	I deal with you a lot.
	And I dealt with you after you went out and made a fortune.
	I hope you're making a fortune anyway, but I think you are based on your ratings.
	But I dealt with you a lot, and that's why I do your show, and I don't do a lot of other shows.
	I do people that I respect and people that have been fair, and you've been, really, I congratulate you.
	But you were very important, and the great job that you did.
	You have a knowledge.
	I heard the word.
	All right, everybody. everybody.
	Dennis Prager here. - Sure.
	That issue I keep raising, which is a very new one, who has more rights, or who has had more rights, an Australian today or a Soviet citizen when the Soviet Union existed?
	The fact that the question is legitimate gives you an idea of this theme that I'm developing two themes this hour.
	The corruption of the sciences, specifically medicine, and the acceptance by people of the suppression of liberty as it goes drip-drip.
	And I mentioned something that means nothing to 99% of Americans.
	If I tell 99% of Americans that There are cities in which you are forbidden to smoke a cigar in a cigar lounge.
	They would regard that as about as insignificant a prohibition as they could imagine.
	And I knew that this was the beginning of a downhill spiral.
	If you could tell people, adults, that they cannot smoke in a cigar store, where won't you?
	Suppress their liberty.
	I turned out to be right.
	I made a big deal of it not because I'm a cigar smoker, but because I'm a liberty lover.
	I resonate to give me liberty or give me death.
	I don't know why it's worth living a life if you don't have liberty.
	You're an animal.
	That's all you are.
	You're herded.
	Anyway, I can't.
	That's my nature.
	People have different natures.
	Most Australians are quite at peace with no liberty because, after all, somebody died in New South Wales.
	I mean, that's what it's come to.
	Somebody died.
	So you know what they're doing in Paris?
	Have you read this living murder?
	The speed limit is now, I think, 19 miles per hour in Paris.
	Have you seen that?
	And that is...
	To do the following.
	Discourage people from driving cars in Paris.
	Rather, they should walk, ride a bicycle, or take public transportation.
	And, of course, the ultimate suppressor of liberty, global warming.
	Because if you go slower and there are fewer cars, we will save the planet.
	Only the well-educated believe drivel.
	It's an amazing thing.
	And the other argument was it will save thousands of lives a year if the speed limit is reduced to 19, 20 miles per hour.
	I've said that.
	That's been my example.
	If the argument is what saves a life, I've used this so often, we should never raise the speed limit.
	When you go from 55 to 65, you know thousands of people will die as a result of raising the speed limit.
	You cannot make social policy based on one question, will anybody die?
	You would ban crossing streets.
	People die crossing streets.
	Pretty much everything would be banned.
	We've already banned diving boards, right?
	How many people got paralyzed or killed because of diving boards?
	Monkey bars, seesaws, they're all regularly banned.
	Somebody got hurt.
	That's the criterion.
	Liberty is always second to something else, and the usual something else is safety.
	So we're watching it go away in the Western world.
	So I was reading to you about Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford, previously of Stanford.
	And about what happened with the Lancet magazine, saying that it was a conspiracy thinking to say that the COVID began in a lab.
	Dr. Scott Atlas also faulted leaving scientific publications such as Nature and Lancet for playing, quote, This false narrative.
	In June, journalist Ian Burrell cited one source who estimated the publisher of Nature had sponsorship agreements worth millions of dollars with Chinese institutions.
	That's corrupt.
	Politicians and pundits also lost people's trust by advocating regulations that were not based on fact.
	The phrase, follow the science, should never be uttered again by people who do not know actual data.
	They must stop, Dr. Atlas said.
	They have no credibility whatsoever when they get up and say, follow the science.
	It's clear many of them don't know the science, don't understand the science, and are not using the science to make the recommendations.
	That's correct.
	Atlas also noted the increase of other deaths like tuberculosis caused by the world's Focus on COVID-19.
	I remind you that in March of 2020, I tweeted that this was the greatest mistake in world history, the worldwide lockdown.
	I was routinely mocked.
	I was right.
	The World Health Organization warned in 2020 of up to an additional 400,000 deaths from tuberculosis.
	You hear that?
	Does anybody care?
	Nobody cares because they didn't die of COVID. Another 400,000 deaths of tuberculosis because of the diversion of resources to COVID-19.
	Mortality data showing that anywhere from a third or half of the deaths during the pandemic were not due to COVID-19.
	They were extra deaths.
	Due to the lockdowns.
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	Talk to our millions of listeners across the country about your plans for Afghanistan, the conditions-based withdrawal, and what we have witnessed, the disaster we've witnessed in the last three weeks.
	Maybe the greatest, most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country.
	The difference was almost...
	First of all, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	We knocked out ISIS. When I took in...
	When I took over, ISIS was all over the Middle East.
	We knocked out 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
	I notice now they call it ISIS-K, so you'll explain that.
	But we knocked out 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
	We took out al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. How is it possible that Joe Biden let this happen?
	Was this intentional?
	Did he want our enemies to have it?
	It's hard to believe that incompetence could possibly let this happen.
	Jake Sullivan, the highly unimpressive person who's never done anything useful in his life, says we don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
	And obviously we don't have a sense that we're going to be ready to hand it over to us at the airport.
	The Taliban now has the 26th largest air force in the world with zero pilots.
	600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles, 200 total aircraft, and $85 billion in total weapons.
	110 helicopters, 60 transportation cargo airplanes, 20 light attack airplanes, and 18 intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance airplanes.
	The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than Australia.
	And this is all on our government.
	This is all on Joe Biden, who now wants praise, who says, this was a perfect withdrawal.
	Are you kidding me?
	Cut 59. Jen Psaki says that the Afghanistan effort is a success.
	It's on track to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	Say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	So and that is bringing American citizens out.
	It is bringing our Afghan partners out.
	It is bringing allies out.
	So, no, I would not say that is anything but a success.
	Anything but a success.
	Music by Ben Thede
	Music by Ben Thede A doctor in San Antonio.
	Robert, hello.
	Yes, sir.
	Can you hear me?
	I do.
	Okay.
	I've heard you say so many interesting things.
	I have something to say about TV. But first, you mentioned that people watch their liberties be destroyed.
	No, it's worse than that.
	It's doctors that are watching it.
	It's lawyers that are watching it.
	Where are the lawyers speaking up against the censorship that is going on?
	Where are the doctors who are mentioning about the PCR test, which CT levels above 30?
	They're probably close to 90% false positive.
	That's right.
	Where are the virologists?
	I mean, we've got how many medical schools full of virology departments, of immunology departments?
	They say nothing.
	Okay, on the TB. On the retired Navy, in the middle of the 90s, we had the Haitian boat people, and when President Bush had the Coast Guard start picking them up, at one point we had 12,000 Haitians at Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay.
	And I'll tell you what my job was.
	I had three tentloops, 10-man tentloops, full of Haitians with TB. And what we would do is treat them with every drug we knew.
	For two weeks, when they showed three morning specimens free of red bugs, we sent them to Florida.
	But 12,000, there was no way we could even examine that many.
	But these people had TB. A lot of them had AIDS. We put the people with AIDS in a separate camp.
	So what is the point that you're making?
	I'm missing the point.
	My point is, okay, we've got catch and release on the border.
	How many of these people have TB and AIDS? Oh, okay.
	All right, so that was a separate subject.
	Okay, thank you, doctor, and I appreciate it.
	Tom in Venice, California.
	Hello.
	Hey, this is Tom.
	Yeah, you know, for those shy Republican or conservatives to get out of the closet, The best thing you could do, I joined this rally.
	This was last weekend in Santa Monica.
	It was a freedom, anti-vax, pro-Trump rally.
	And the energy was there.
	I want to go to the next rally, and the next one, and the next one.
	People just need to join a rally that they believe in.
	I think you're right, but I think there's an even larger one subject.
	People will get out of the closet when they know that there are kindred spirits awaiting them outside the closet.
	And you know what?
	That's the only way you will find kindred spirits, by leaving the closet.
	I'm Dennis Prager.

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