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	for this particular show are all live, just for the record.
	I have to undo the damage of that announcement every hour of my show.
	But my task is to tell you the truth, and that is it.
	Hello, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Are you ready?
	I have...
	Even my producer has no idea that I'm going to ask this question.
	It will strike some of you as over the top.
	It is not...
	For me, over the top, I have always thought in moral terms.
	That is the way my mind works.
	That is why the motto of my life is taken from Viktor Frankl.
	There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
	I divide the world between people who do good and people who do bad, not between any races or religions.
	Or ethnicities or nationalities, the great division is the moral division.
	Okay, so that's just a preamble.
	So I walk around society like every one of you does.
	But I wonder about things that almost none of you wonder about.
	It's not a compliment to myself, it's just a fact.
	Here's one.
	I was...
	I was deeply affected as a child, child meaning from about the age of 10 or 11, by the Holocaust.
	Even though I lost no relatives, my parents were born in America, one grandparent was born in America, the other grandparents came to America in the beginning of the 20th century.
	And so we were not directly affected, but it affected me.
	And there are other people that can say this, non-Jew as well as Jew, that reading about the industrialized murder of virtually every man, woman, and child, baby, that was a Jew in Europe, occupied by the Nazis, which was most of Europe, was murdered.
	Essentially unparalleled.
	So this had an effect on me.
	So I devoted a lot of my life to studying it and to studying in particular the non-Jews who hid Jews.
	Because I think I understand being afraid.
	People afraid to do anything.
	That might get them in trouble with the Nazi regime, wherever the Nazi regime or Nazi supporting regime might have been.
	Germany, the most obvious, but Poland.
	If you were a Pole and you hit a Jew, you were killed.
	Maybe members of your family as well by the Nazis.
	So who would do that?
	Studying goodness is more important than studying evil.
	Goodness is an aberration more than evil is.
	And if you want to produce good people, you need to study the ingredients of goodness, right?
	Well, I think about that periodically, and what I'm about to say is not really a statement, it's a question.
	As I said, I was going to ask a question.
	So, if, God forbid, a Nazi-like regime were to take over power in America, I'm not predicting it at all, I'm just saying if it were to happen, who would likely rescue, in this case a Jew, let's say the Nazi-type regime was directed to another group, who would be the most likely?
	To hide a Jew.
	So I have asked this question at meetings of CUFI, Christians United for Israel.
	And I remember the first time I said, I've spoken to their conventions many, many times.
	Thousands and thousands of people, usually in Washington, D.C. Convention Center, about 5,000, mostly Christians.
	This wonderful organization called CUFI, Christians United for Israel.
	And I said to them, I have asked this question, and I believe that you would hide me.
	The first time I said that, the uproarious applause and cheering and yelling, I have chills recounting the story to you.
	Because I touched a real nerve, and it was a very powerful response.
	Now, the fact is, no one really knows how they would behave under dire circumstances.
	It's very hard.
	When you're truly tested, only then do you really know.
	Nevertheless, what I said to them, I believed.
	Most of them, which is a remarkable compliment, obviously, but I think most of them would hide a Jew under such circumstances.
	So now I'm tying it in to America today outside of a group like Christians United for Israel.
	And the question is really not about Jews.
	The question is about people, Americans in general.
	So I think about it, and when I see that people have, like in Canada, snitched on neighbors who got together during the COVID lockdown in parts of Canada.
	So I'm thinking that's not a good sign.
	So I just want to offer you a thought.
	Among those who might hide a persecuted group in a violent, evil era, I think I'm more likely to find such people.
	Among those who are not listening to the government today on COVID, I may be 100% wrong.
	I'm not asserting this.
	I'm saying I think.
	People who practice civil disobedience for a higher cause, even though you may not agree with their cause, are sort of practicing the art Of being an outsider.
	And to have hidden a Jew in Poland or France or Germany, Hungary, Italy, you would have had to have asserted you're an outsider.
	I read a book many, many, many years ago about rescuers of Jews in the Holocaust.
	And it gave a number of characteristics that it found to be sort of a generalization.
	Do you know what one of them was?
	It's the only one I remember, and obviously it really made an impact on me.
	People who were considered eccentric, that's the word that they used, prior to World War II, were more likely to...
	Hide a Jew during the war.
	The person who marched to the beat of his own drummer was more likely to be a moral hero.
	So, just a thought for you.
	I don't think anybody has raised this issue in private, let alone on radio.
	It's not an inconsequential question.
	When I see people wearing masks outdoors, I'm troubled.
	I'm troubled on many levels because the irrational is scary to me.
	I am far more scared of Americans turning irrational than COVID. Everybody has fears.
	I fear mass delusion, mass irrationality, unquestioning obedience to authority more than I fear COVID. Maybe that'll help some of you explain to others or understand yourselves why this is, to some of us, a big issue.
	Unquestioning listening to authority.
	When doctors listen to corrupt authorities on not prescribing ivermectin, those doctors scare me.
	We'll be back.
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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 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.
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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 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 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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	We'll be right back.
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	And reflecting on the unquestioning obedience to rationality which scares the living daylights out of me.
	I am so much more afraid of that than I am of COVID. I am more afraid of the Democratic Party than I am of COVID because they are totalitarians at heart.
	They will tell you what to do.
	As I have said so often, all of their mantras are phony.
	All.
	Right?
	Do what she wants with her body, right?
	The pro-abortion mantra.
	They don't mean it.
	These are the exact same people who want you fired, even if you are a medical worker, for not getting a new vaccination that, by definition, has not had sufficient time to be tested.
	Right?
	All of a sudden, bodily autonomy is nonsense.
	It's only true for abortion.
	But the irony is, abortion is not her body.
	Abortion is somebody else's body.
	That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
	You may say that the body is worthless, which all those who are pro-choice do, but you can't deny that it's a body.
	It has no worth.
	It's an amazing thing, isn't it?
	There's no complexity on the left.
	If you want the baby, it's a human being.
	If you don't want the baby, it's a piece of trash.
	Isn't that astonishing?
	Is there anything else whose entire worth is dependent upon somebody else?
	If I value you, you are the most precious thing on earth, a human being.
	If I don't want you...
	You are the least precious thing.
	You are less precious than a dog.
	I could get arrested for killing a dog wantonly.
	Right?
	The unquestioning obedience to authority and the use of authority will have passports for people to be able to do what the authorities want you to do.
	You think?
	Is there one person listening who thinks it will stop with the vaccination for COVID? Once these things start, it's like the income tax.
	It started at 1%.
	Today it's 50%.
	I'm in the 50% bracket because of California and federal taxes.
	People want it higher.
	When it was passed at 1%, they had to actually pass an amendment to the Constitution.
	It was not deemed constitutional for the government to take your money away from you by force.
	They passed the amendment.
	They were assured it will be only on a handful of people and only 1%.
	We were assured that civil rights legislation would only pertain to race.
	Now it pertains to everything.
	Passing legislation and controlling others is what gives the leftist meaning.
	If you don't relate to that, as I don't, I have no desire to have power over anybody else.
	So it's very hard for me to empathize with the leftist, for whom power over other people is everything.
	Everything.
	You will do what we say.
	You will drive what we want.
	You will live where we want.
	That's the ideal.
	You will have your thermostat where we want.
	The proof that the entire green issue is about power over people and about reforming the economy is that they're not for nuclear power.
	With nuclear power, everybody comes aboard that is a non-fossil fuel Source of energy that is safe and clean and works 24-7 unlike green energy.
	But they're not for it.
	It's a phony issue.
	But the Unquestioning Authority, there's an article in, of all places, Atlantic, by a guy who was a...
	Criticized me, maybe even attacked me, I don't know what the verb would be, who writes for The Atlantic.
	And it was fascinating how his attacks on me were based on the fact that I supported Donald Trump while he was president.
	I didn't support him when he was running.
	I supported him when he was running after the nomination.
	But pre-nomination, I didn't support him.
	I was wrong, as it turns out.
	He was a great president.
	And he couldn't understand how a man like me who talks about character and morality could support President Trump.
	It's a lacuna in his thinking, but that's the way nobody's perfect.
	Anyway, he has a piece in today's Atlantic.
	Australia traded away too much liberty.
	I love when people on the left get frightened by the left.
	Gee, how did that happen?
	Wow.
	You mean my side really are totalitarians, like people like Dennis Prager have been saying all their lives?
	You mean my side stinks?
	My side doesn't give a damn about liberty?
	That's shocking.
	Just shocking.
	People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation.
	Did you know that?
	I told you, it doesn't stop with vaccines.
	You are so naive if you believe that.
	It doesn't stop with passports just for this.
	There will be more rules controlling the American than was imaginable by Orwell.
	COVID is the vehicle to authoritarianism.
	COVID.
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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 they're doing now to our country is absolutely frightening.
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	The Arizona Supreme Court said Tuesday that contractors hired by the state Senate to conduct the audit would not need to release the records from their review by next week.
	This is only a temporary delay, is what we're being told.
	A left-wing watchdog group, American Oversight, took its record request to the court and emerged victorious when the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm leading the audit, was subject to state public records law because it was performing a core government function.
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	People in South Australia will be forced to download an app.
	This is from an anti-Trump, anti-Dennis writer, Conor Friesdorf.
	By the way, Conor, you're welcome to come on the show.
	Was he ever on the show?
	Yes, I believe he was.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, if he was a long time ago.
	Conor Friesdorf.
	People in South Australia, he's surprised.
	That's what I love when liberals slash leftists are shocked at how despicable the left is.
	Gee, how did that happen?
	How did Australians pee on liberty?
	Because the left pees on liberty.
	Truth is not a left-wing value, and liberty is not a left-wing value.
	That's as true as the Earth's revolution around the sun.
	People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation.
	Get it?
	So you will have to take a picture of yourself, and it will send the authorities where you are.
	The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be.
	Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person.
	We don't tell them how often or when.
	On a random basis, they have to reply within 15 minutes.
	Premier Stephen Marshall explained.
	Marshall has a picture of Stalin up in his office.
	I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.
	That's Orwellian.
	Yes, you and the state of South Australia should be proud that you have learned to squelch liberty and give government authority more than any other state in Australia.
	We salute you.
	Other states also curtail their citizens' liberty in the name of safety.
	The state of Victoria announced a curfew and suspended its parliament for key parts of the pandemic.
	They suspended their parliament.
	People are crackpots.
	And frightening.
	Really, really, really, really frightening.
	To put this in context, a scholar named John Lee observed in an article for the Brookings Institution, to put this in context, federal and state parliaments were in session, stayed in session, during both world wars and the stayed in session, during both world wars and the Spanish flu, and curfews have never been imposed.
	Well, 50 years of left-wing indoctrination in Australia as well have worked.
	People are sheep.
	Pure sheep.
	Unquestioning lemmings.
	It's really something.
	The ease with which the left has destroyed the character of the West is breathtaking.
	Parliament sat through World War I, World War II, no curfews during World War I, World War II, or the Spanish flu.
	Never had curfews in Australia.
	By the way, when will they end?
	Because as soon as they end, more people are going to get sick.
	All they're doing is prolonging the period until sickness resumes.
	This is endless.
	It literally is endless.
	Of course, if you keep everybody in their house forever, it won't spread.
	Wow, that is genius.
	In fact, if you shot every Australian, no one would die of COVID. Think about that.
	In responding to a question about whether he had gone too far with respect to imposing a curfew, avoiding the question of why a curfew was needed when no other Australian state had one, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews replied, it's not about human rights, it's about human life.
	Did you see that?
	That's awesome stuff.
	There you go.
	So human rights, human rights, schmoomin' rights.
	New Zealand, the same.
	Canada, getting there.
	I have a speech in Canada next month.
	I can't go.
	You know that, right?
	It's not really clear yet.
	Not really clear yet.
	It's clear on the Internet.
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	Maybe the greatest, most embarrassing disaster we've ever witnessed in our country.
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	It was the exact opposite.
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	We knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.
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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...
	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'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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	The most frightening thing happening is not COVID.
	The most frightening thing is the acquiescence of vast numbers of people in ostensibly free countries to government totalitarianism.
	What I'm reading to you about Australia should heap contempt on Australia.
	and should frighten you because half of America thinks Australia is right.
	So this is a guy, an anti-Trumper critic of Dennis Prager in The Atlantic, who is more of a liberal who is more of a liberal than a leftist, Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And who's somewhat stunned at how despicable the left is.
	The naivete of liberals is only matched by the evil of the left.
	They live in a make-believe world just shocked, just shocked at what the left does as soon as it gets power.
	Because it never occurred to them that conservatives might be right.
	That's the only given in a liberal's brain.
	It is not possible for conservatives to be right.
	Therefore, it's a shock when the left ruins society.
	If a country indefinitely forbids its own citizens from leaving its borders, you realize that that's another thing in Australia.
	You can't leave Australia.
	A dear friend of mine, his daughter married an Australian.
	He has not been able to see her in a year and a half.
	Or her husband.
	Just a given.
	Put strict rules on intra-state travel.
	That means within your state.
	Prohibit citizens from leaving home without an excuse from an official government list.
	Mandates masks even when people are outdoors and socially distanced?
	Deploys the military to enforce those rules?
	Bans protests?
	And arrests and fines dissenters?
	Is that country still a liberal democracy?
	That's in yesterday's or today's Atlantic.
	Of course it's not a liberal democracy.
	In the name of safety, you can do anything.
	And most people will say, great.
	You're doing great, authorities.
	As I have said, for as long as you've listened to me, freedom is not what the article is up on DennisPrager.com.
	Freedom is not an instinct.
	It's a value.
	People do not yearn to be free.
	They yearn to be taken care of.
	That's why liberty is of value.
	Country of liberty, sweet land of liberty.
	Those songs take on meaning now, don't they?
	See, Americans were aware until post-World War II. Americans were aware of the fact that liberty is special.
	That you have to preserve it and you have to fight for it and you have to want it.
	Sweet land of liberty of thee I sing.
	Statue of liberty.
	Liberty in God we trust.
	E pluribus unum.
	Liberty.
	Freedom.
	Let freedom ring.
	Right?
	Not anymore.
	Most young people, having been raised in America's crappy schools, believe that free speech is only available if it's not hate speech.
	They don't even realize when they say that that they don't believe in free speech.
	If you don't believe in free speech for hate speech, you don't believe in free speech.
	You only believe in speech that you essentially agree with.
	All other speech you can label hate speech.
	And suppress it.
	You're not even allowed in Australia to dissent.
	Did you read that?
	Did you hear what I read?
	You didn't read that.
	Did you hear what I read?
	You can't have a protest in Australia.
	You couldn't leave the Soviet Union, couldn't protest in the Soviet Union.
	They knew where you were in the Soviet Union.
	So how does it differ from the Soviet Union?
	This is a very fair question.
	How does Australia or New Zealand today, and Canada getting there, differ from the Soviet Union?
	Question people ought to ponder.
	I'm here.
	And where is our health care provider?
	Camarillo, California.
	Dora, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	My name is Dora.
	How are you today?
	I'm well, thank you.
	Well, I'm on the front lines.
	I'm a front line health care provider.
	I've been working all year, and now I'm on the front lines of this whole debate.
	I did want the public to know a couple things, and I think this will apply to them as this rolls forward.
	I applied for a religious exemption.
	I'm actually a Roman Catholic.
	You might find that interesting.
	But anybody who applies for a medical exemption will not be given it unless you had two anaphylactic reactions to these actual...
	All the doctors are being told they're not allowed to do it.
	So that's not an option.
	And a religious exemption is up to the person who reads it in if they decide you have a deep religious conviction.
	So we're basically being pushed into this.
	I will not get the vaccination.
	I've been seriously concerned about it.
	I work with neurological patients.
	Everything I've read, what I'm seeing around me in terms of vaccine injuries.
	What I've seen on the VAERS report is very concerning to me.
	I'm very concerned putting this on our bodies over and over again will cause great harm to our societies.
	So that's what I have to say.
	Well, you're allowed to tell me, but even though you're working in health, they'll fire you.
	They rather have far fewer nurses and health care providers for the obsession with the vaccine.
	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 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 "public safety." But this is where, Eric, the left wants to go.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	music Thank you.
	Yeah, Dennis, for 50 years, the right wing has been pretty much in control of a policy here in the U.S. And in that time, I would like to know, what has the right ever done for the sake of liberty?
	Because, you know...
	All right, let me answer you.
	First of all, the premise is absurd.
	The amount of time that the Republicans have controlled Congress is much less than the amount of time Democrats have.
	It's been a very, very small period of time.
	But aside from that, yes, there's one thing that the right does for liberty.
	Not well.
	It does it rather poorly, but it does it somewhat, and that is keep the government smaller.
	The bigger the government, the less the liberty.
	That's why the country was founded on the ideal of a small government.
	Any failure on the right, I acknowledge.
	There are a lot of wimps in the Republican Party, too.
	However, what is certain is certain.
	What is certain is that everywhere on earth the left gains power, there is less freedom for human beings.
	There is no exception.
	There never has been.
	In the name of safety and in the name of saving the world against the existential threat of global warming, we are losing more and more freedom.
	After all, was it the premier of Victoria?
	What did he say?
	The issue is not about human rights, it's about human life.
	That's it.
	That's the way it works.
	That's the motto of the left.
	But they're very selective on human life.
	I don't care if you're an atheist.
	You do not need any religious conviction to be troubled by abortion for no reason other than, I don't want the baby.
	That there is no conflict.
	You have a heartbeat and you're considered trash.
	That does not trouble a single person on the left.
	It's an astonishing thing.
	There is an existential battle taking place, my friends.
	It's not about global warming.
	It's about global leftism.
	Happiness Hour coming up.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Bercat.
	Mr. President, the lying legacy media is supporting the Biden administration narrative that this is your plan.
	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.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	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.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent on the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based.
	And one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate from their territory.
	And, of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN. pointed that at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	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.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Burke.
	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. 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 them in there for a short period of time.
	It's the Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy Air- And it's live.
	It's the happy, happy...
	Hey, my friends, I'm Dennis Prager, and the happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse, the moral obligation to act happy even if you don't feel it, you cannot impose your bad moods on others.
	Those are the original lyrics to this song.
	Join me.
	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
	Hey, everybody.
	The Happiness Hour has been broadcast to you every single Friday that I have been on, which is nearly every Friday since the year 1999. In other words, since the 20th century, the century which began without airplanes, without cars, that is how long this show has been on.
	Since the century that had no cars or airplanes.
	And, incredibly, kids grew up without...
	Smartphones.
	Do you realize that?
	How did they do it?
	How did they manage?
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is the Happiness Hour.
	Happiness is a moral project.
	And it is a moral obligation.
	I, yesterday...
	I recorded a fireside chat.
	Every week it comes out.
	It was fireside chat number, I think, 203. That's a lot, you know?
	203 weeks in a row.
	I actually have a fire.
	A real fire.
	Not a make-believe fire.
	I have a real fire.
	I have a real fireside.
	I have a real chat and a real English bulldog who, it is hilarious, I wish you could see this, when the crew comes in to start setting up with the tripods and lights, he goes into his bed.
	He's not there before they come.
	He sees them, he gets into position.
	He goes to his mark.
	That's goes to his mark.
	That's the terminology in Hollywood.
	Yeah, he goes to his mark.
	Bulldogs are great.
	I agree with you.
	And my bulldog is probably the most famous bulldog in the world.
	Otto.
	We have Otto Tales, which is best-selling, right?
	One of the biggest-selling books in America for kids.
	And we have autographs.
	I made that one up.
	I'm proud of that because I crack about one pun every three years.
	Autographs.
	That was funny.
	Auto socks, correct?
	Yeah, for sure.
	They're very nice looking socks.
	Do you know that my wife will periodically look at him and go, I love you.
	And I'm thinking, is that a male-female difference?
	Like, it is inconceivable that I would turn to Otto and go, Otto, I love you.
	You would?
	In that way, Sean, you are more of a kindred spirit to my wife than I am.
	What about you, Al?
	Oh, God, am I asking the wrong person?
	Oh, was that stupid?
	It was so stupid that I started the question.
	That I almost deserve the punishment room.
	Shall we put it this way?
	The living martyr has a non-emotional attachment to the animal world.
	But having said that, you don't want any animal mistreated, that I know.
	And I remember you reacted as powerfully as I did on safaris.
	That's a very powerful experience, a safari.
	So yesterday, we recorded the fireside chat coming out next week, next Thursday.
	And very rarely, I have a guest.
	It's almost always Otto and I, and that's it.
	But we bring in some special people.
	Every so often for a dialogue.
	Dialogue is the best term.
	It's more than an interview.
	It's a dialogue.
	And yesterday it was with Yan Min Park.
	Or Park.
	Yan Min Park is obviously a Korean.
	Park and Kim are the most famous.
	The most widely used family names in Korea.
	And Lee.
	Those three.
	So Yan Min is a 20...
	I think 27?
	I think that's her age.
	27-year-old.
	Beautiful woman.
	One of the most exceptional human beings I have ever met.
	And let me tell you something.
	I've really met some terrific people.
	The greatest perk of my work...
	On radio and at PragerU is the quality of humans I get to meet.
	I wrote the forward to Jordan Peterson's biography.
	And I wrote what a unique human being I consider Jordan Peterson.
	It's an honor to know him and be a friend of his.
	So I've met really wonderful people.
	She is up there.
	She is among...
	The greatest humans I have ever met.
	Why do I raise her on the happiness hour?
	To review very briefly her life, and then you will understand why.
	She grew up in North Korea, and her biggest preoccupation was not starving to death.
	Vast numbers of North Koreans starve to death.
	There's one fat North Korean, Kim Jong-un.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Because the guy lives a hedonist's life.
	Imports the most expensive scotch, whiskey, caviar.
	I learned from her that the leadership Send people around to bring the most attractive young women and girls to service them in Pyongyang.
	This is a Nazi-type regime.
	Anyway, she was preoccupied with not starving.
	She lived on a border so close to China that she saw the lights of a Chinese city.
	She never saw a map in her life.
	She didn't know other countries, but she knew that that other place had food.
	So she and her sister, and eventually her mother, plan to escape, which is extremely hard, and if you're caught, you're tortured to death.
	Now it's impossible to leave North Korea.
	Then it was possible if, under rare circumstances, they bribed guards, and anyway, they got out.
	What happens to women when they get into China, what happens to men is the Chinese government, one of the most frightening governments on earth, generally sends them back to North Korea, knowing they will be tortured to death.
	I don't know how many people know that.
	The collaboration of the Chinese government with the North Korean Nazis.
	Communists.
	Same thing.
	But the women are not sent back.
	They're generally trafficked as sex slaves.
	And she was.
	She was at the age of 13.
	She was a sex slave to Chinese men.
	And eventually, I don't remember the details, she was able to cross the Chinese border into Mongolia and there she was picked up I think by Christian missionaries and brought to South Korea.
	So her life was one horror after the other.
	She radiates happiness.
	Now you know I'm telling you this.
	On the Happiness Hour.
	She radiates happiness.
	She laughs easily.
	She has a cheerful personality.
	She is staggeringly grateful to be in America.
	And I asked her near the end of the interview, how, having gone through this, your father...
	Basically tortured to death.
	You, trafficked as a sex slave, how are you happy?
	And she said, what's my choice?
	I choose to be happy.
	Those were her words.
	1-8 Prager 776 Trending now on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	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.
	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.
	Thank you.
	Jen Psaki, the pressure is getting to her, questioned by Peter Doocy, a famous clip already, cut number 11.
	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.
	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 this is happy music
	Smile on the whole world smiles with you.
	The message is, was this from the 40s?
	And who's singing it?
	Louis Prima, but not the original one?
	It was originally sung by Frederick the Great in Germany.
	It's not well known.
	I wish I knew how to say smile and the whole world smiles with you in German.
	But I don't know how.
	Dennis Prager here, The Happiness Hour.
	The story I told you was so dramatic.
	She's awe-inspiring.
	She was a sex slave as a teenager in China.
	Father tortured.
	Sister...
	Rendered PTSD. And this young woman, now 27, just radiates happiness.
	At the end of the hour long, I'm sure it was at least an hour, and I always cut off dialogues when I don't think there's more to be said, so every minute of that hour is riveting.
	Fireside chat next week.
	And I asked her, why are you happy?
	How can you be happy?
	And she said, what is the choice?
	And then she said, I've chosen to be happy.
	As if she were on the happiness hour.
	That's my theme today.
	You have to choose to be happy.
	The theme could even be enlarged.
	If you regard life as almost everything is a choice, you will have such a better life.
	Exactly.
	Smile and the whole world smiles with you.
	See, I understood it, but I couldn't say it.
	That was good.
	Sean is, I don't know, he, uh...
	Fergus, is it Fergus?
	Yeah, Fergus treated him well yesterday.
	Fergus is Sean's bulldog.
	Not too bright, but very, very lovable.
	Which one could say as a general statement about bulldogs.
	Anyway, I don't understand this notion of wanting a smart dog.
	What does that even mean?
	You know what it means?
	It means your dog is probably less happy.
	That's what I think it means.
	It is not a blessing to have a smart dog.
	I know a lot of you will disagree and don't even call in because it's not important.
	It's okay if we disagree on that issue.
	Choice.
	Everything or almost everything is a choice.
	I hold that for religion.
	You choose to believe in God.
	You choose to lead a religious life.
	People have gotten the message that everything happens to them.
	They are not the actor.
	They are the acted upon.
	That is what has happened in America.
	I don't know why.
	That is why the whole victim mentality has caught on.
	You choose to regard yourself as a victim.
	Get it?
	It's a choice.
	And the corrosive, corrupting, poisonous left wants you to be a victim.
	Unless you are a white, Christian, heterosexual male.
	In which case, you're a piece of crap.
	If you regard everything in life as ultimately a choice, you will lead a happier, better, You choose to be kind.
	You choose to be less moody.
	You choose to be happy.
	You choose to be religious.
	You choose to read a book.
	You choose to do something productive with your time.
	You choose what you are scared about.
	That's when your mind is in control of everything.
	That's the only route to happiness.
	It is through the mind, not through the heart.
	I make that point in my book on happiness.
	Happiness is a serious problem.
	I write in the foreword or introduction.
	That's what it is, in the introduction.
	This book is meant to appeal to your mind.
	I come to God through my mind.
	I come to happiness through my mind.
	I come to virtually everything through my mind.
	That's the gift of the mind.
	1-8 Prager 776 Have you ever thought of choosing to be happy?
	Do you know people who have or who have not?
	You know people who choose to be unhappy?
	I'll bet you do.
	Do you know that the whole notion of choice is the essential message of a good life?
	If a woman who was a sex slave in China for years from the age of 13 can choose to be happy, why can't you?
	Do you have anything as traumatic as that in your background?
	Women are reduced to almost depression at slights that are so insignificant compared to what this woman went through.
	And in America, these are traumatizing.
	Remember the vast demonstrations of women because they got a tape?
	Of Donald Trump saying years before he ever ran for office that when you're famous you could do X, Y, or Z to women and they're okay with it.
	And oh my God, it was as if they had been attacked, been stabbed.
	The reaction was trauma.
	You're taught, if you're black, you are taught to be unhappy. .
	If somebody says they're colorblind, you're supposed to think they're racist.
	Is that sick or is that sick?
	Colorblind is the opposite of racist.
	I remember choosing to be happy.
	I was a teenager.
	I was on a subway car in New York City.
	I'll never forget it.
	I remember it so vividly.
	I was coming back one night to Brooklyn, where my parents lived, and I lived in their house, of course.
	And I always thought about these big subjects, and I was about 16, 17, sitting in the subway car, and the thought dawned on me, it's easy to be unhappy.
	So I chose not to back in a moment.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	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 they're doing now to our country is absolutely frightening.
	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.
	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 law-- Dennis Prager here.
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	Well, I try to make every happiness hour the most important, but this is up there.
	Choosing to be happy.
	Lincoln, of course, said that.
	I reckon people are as happy as they choose to be.
	I think that those are the words.
	We don't use I reckon anymore, but we should.
	I like that.
	I reckon.
	It's like, much obliged.
	I love saying that instead of thank you.
	I like cowboy talk.
	I have no idea why, but I do.
	That is the subject, choosing to be happy.
	And I just would like to note, and I did already, You choose just about everything.
	When you realize that, you are in command of your life and you will be happier.
	I chose to take religion seriously.
	God did not appear to me.
	I had no theophany or epiphany walking along some boulevard in Los Angeles.
	Never happened.
	That's correct.
	I made an intellectual choice.
	That was a better way to live.
	It is a better way to live.
	But people don't think that way.
	Happiness comes to you.
	Faith comes to you.
	By the way, talking about faith, here's a choice you should make.
	If you're in the L.A. area, I will be conducting for the 15th year in a row, except for last year, because of COVID, high holiday services people of all backgrounds attend.
	And it's truly meaningful.
	It's beautiful and meaningful.
	If you want information, send me an email at DennisPrager.com.
	If you would like to watch it as it happens, or watch it later, it'll be recorded for you if you sign up.
	It's at SalemNow.com to watch the service as it happens.
	Live, send me an email.
	Stream.
	Go to SalemNow.com and sign up.
	Anyway, it'd be just interesting for you to see me in a religious context.
	It could be, you'd find it, if nothing else, just interesting.
	But I think you'd find it moving and illuminating if you've never seen a Jewish service at SalemNow.com.
	That's why I won't be on next week for two days, for Tuesday and Wednesday.
	They...
	I'll be celebrating the Jewish New Year, which is a time for reflection rather than jubilation, interestingly.
	New Year's in the secular world is a time to revel, drink, make merry.
	I'm not opposed to it.
	I'm just telling you it's different.
	This is the time to take stock about your life, and I'm doing that with you on the Happiness Hour.
	What triggered it was this woman that I have come to adore.
	She is so remarkable.
	North Korean woman escaped to China that was sold as a sex slave at 13. Doesn't hate men.
	Hates the men who did what they did to her.
	She's involved, in fact, with a wonderful man who was with her when I dialogued with her yesterday for the fireside chat next week.
	Wonderful guy.
	I pointed out he's actually an Iranian.
	He's an Iranian surgeon.
	So I pointed out to everybody in the room, including the crew from PragerU doing the filming, in this room, I looked at them and I said, in this room right now is a Korean, an Iranian, a Jew, a black, a WASP, and we don't give a damn.
	That's America.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent on the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I know.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions-based, and one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al-Qaeda to operate from their territory.
	And, of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that out at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed al-Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
	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 America First with Sebastian Burke.
	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.
	We'll be right back.
	The day you realize that most of life is choices, you will have a great life. - Yes.
	Not always easy, but when you realize that you can choose the life you lead, and in this case choose to be happy, it's breathtakingly powerful.
	You are then in the driver's seat of your life.
	All right.
	Let's see your calls here.
	Tim in Beckley, West Virginia.
	Hello, Tim.
	Hey, Dennis.
	It is an honor to get to talk to you, my friend.
	Thank you so much.
	I have a theory.
	I'm a pastor.
	I also do a sexual job as well.
	I have a theory, though.
	If you read all of Scripture, all of Scripture is every time that you give a rule from the Lord, something that tells you that you should follow this and follow that, everything is completely in opposition to our instinct.
	And our carnal, animalistic instinct always tells us to do things exactly opposite than what God would tell us to do.
	And so God has laid out all of these commandments, all these things for us to follow, because he's saying if you make this choice, you're going to live a happy, good life.
	You're going to have a much easier time.
	And I think that's why the left is so miserable, because they want to follow their animalistic instincts.
	They want to follow these things of the feel-good doctrine that is the left.
	I want to do this because it's what I want to do, as opposed to making the good choices, what separates us.
	From the animal.
	It separates us from that carnal instinct that we have.
	And I believe that's why we have choices, because God has given us choices so that we can live a happy life.
	Animals can't make a choice, but we can as human beings.
	So that's what I feel, that God has given us choices for that reason.
	You have more wisdom than the entire Harvard faculty.
	That's my reaction to you.
	You hit it so exactly on, that is why the Bible warns us repeatedly not to follow our heart.
	Exactly, yes.
	And that's the problem, is that everybody wants to just do what makes me feel good, good for right now.
	So they're not making choices, to use the theme that you and I are developing.
	They're not making choices.
	Their id, their primal instinct is making choices, not their mind.
	He's exactly right.
	That's the choice.
	That's why, you know, why is there such hatred of religion?
	A lot of people in this country, and in the West, but especially talk about this country, are not religious.
	But many of them hate religion.
	And that is because religion says to them, it knows better than they do how they should lead their life.
	And that bugs them.
	It's basically a question, the religious-anti-religious divide is basically a question of who's God?
	You or God?
	That's what happened in the Garden of Eden.
	Eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and you will be like God.
	That's what people want to do.
	Be gods.
	All right.
	Choosing to be happy.
	Columbus, Ohio.
	Oh, JR, one second.
	Check.
	JR, I might not be able to take you because I think you were on recently.
	When were you last on, JR? Oh, gosh.
	Well, I called yesterday, but I wasn't on.
	It was...
	Alright, if you weren't on yesterday, go right ahead.
	Because I have to keep lines open for a lot of people.
	Okay.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, I'll try and keep it short and sweet.
	So I have some military friends.
	One told me a story around a campfire.
	They don't talk about this stuff.
	He was a PSW for a certain amount of time.
	And they did horrible stuff to him.
	But he said the entire time...
	It wasn't the physical, but what he realized is he couldn't fall apart mentally, so he chose to think about happy thoughts, happy things, good things at home, a baseball game, anything.
	And he said if it wasn't for that, he would have shut down.
	And to this day, he is one of the strongest, nicest, happiest men I know.
	Period.
	I love it.
	Well, that's it.
	It's a perfect follow-up to my story about this woman, the North Korean that I had a dialogue with yesterday.
	Sex slave at 13 in China.
	And she's one of the happiest human beings I've ever met.
	There are two reasons.
	She chose to be happy, and she's so grateful.
	That she got out of all of that.
	Gratitude is the mother of happiness, and she oozes gratitude.
	She's come to national attention because she just got a degree at Columbia University, and she has basically said that for years at Columbia, She heard the same things about America regularly that she heard in North Korea, about how terrible it is.
	Isn't that something?
	Go to American University, and you hear America described the same way it's described in North Korea.
	All right.
	Donna in Piston, Georgia.
	Donna of Piston, the famous Donna of Piston, I might add.
	Hello?
	Hi, Dennis.
	This is Piston, actually.
	Oh, no, wait a minute.
	Wait, T-I-F-T-O-N? Yeah, way, way down in South Georgia, almost in Florida.
	Well, hold on with me.
	me I don't want to interrupt you but we do have to unfortunately I really like our screener that that hurt me more than her.
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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 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.
	Subscribe today at Rumble.com.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	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 US history.
	I'd say that this is now on track, Peter, to be the largest airlift in U.S. history.
	So.
	Choose to be happy is the theme.
	It's a choice.
	Spoke yesterday for an hour with a North Korean former sex slave as a young teenager in China.
	She chose to be happy.
	Donna in Tifton, Georgia.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	It's good to talk to you.
	I'm sorry I missed yesterday's show.
	It sounds terrific.
	Oh, no, no.
	You will be able to see it.
	Let me explain.
	I recorded it yesterday for my fireside chat, which is at PragerU.
	Oh, good.
	I'll look for it.
	That's next Thursday.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Oh, terrific.
	Great.
	I love this topic, the happiness hour and choosing happiness, and I wanted to just share a strategy that I developed.
	Back in 2008, I was diagnosed with a series of tick-borne illnesses.
	Lyme disease being one of them.
	And I was really sick for a long, long time.
	But I also have a real positive attitude most of the time.
	I try to choose to be happy, choose to look at the bright side.
	I even made up a blog once called The Bright Side because I got tired of all the down-in-the-mouth sides of Lyme disease.
	But there was something that...
	There were two things that bothered me that I kept hearing, and in our society, we're kind of indoctrinated into this belief that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything, right?
	And that was deeply disturbing to me because I did not have my health at that moment.
	I was struggling every single day, and the treatment was hard, and the illness was hard, and I refused to believe that I didn't have anything just because I didn't have my health.
	That is great.
	I had so many things.
	And the other thing that was part of the indoctrination was the saying that there but for the grace of God go I because I feel like grace is for everyone and that expression just also felt more...
	I've never used it.
	I know what people mean.
	They should say...
	I don't like the saying because it means that God didn't have grace for the next guy.
	But in any event, you're terrific.
	People need to overcome these cliches.
	Oh, it's too bad.
	I couldn't take Alan, Joey, Michael, Julie, Ed, Rita, and Patricia.
	I'm sorry.
	You have great calls, all.
	The more you see...
	Things in life as a choice, the happier and better your life will be.
	Happiness is one of them.
	And now call in on any subject under the sun.
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	We'll be right back.
	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.
	Our 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.
	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 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.
	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.
	safety.
	But this is where, Eric, the left wants to go.
	Mr. President, the lying legacy media is supporting the Biden administration narrative that this is your plan.
	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 the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	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.
	And now it's also put us in the practical position on the ground of being entirely dependent on the largesse of the Taliban to get our people out.
	And I guarantee you, we're going to leave thousands of people behind.
	And that's unacceptable for the United States of America.
	Congressman Gallagher, I'd like to point to two lies.
	The first lie is that we were obliged to leave by May 1. The Taliban broke the agreement at least as early as March when they attacked Forward Operating Base Chapman and wounded seven Americans.
	So they violated the agreement.
	We're already beyond the May 1 deadline.
	There is no agreement and there is no need to go.
	Secondly, there's a terrorist threat.
	Every American who's been in Afghanistan, including you, has been under a terrorist threat whenever they have been there.
	We've got 6,000 of our finest Marines and the 101st Airborne.
	I know.
	I don't want any of them hurt either.
	But what do you make of those two arguments that we've already extended the deadline and we're under a terrorist threat?
	Well, of course, the Doha agreement was conditions based.
	And one of the conditions was that the Taliban not allow al Qaeda to operate.
	From their territory.
	And of course, they did.
	I believe even the UN pointed that at one point.
	And if you don't think that's true, then there's evidence in the form of the fact that we've killed Al Qaeda operatives on Afghanistan soil.
	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 America First.
	Yep.
	My employers certainly do.
	Okay.
	Hi there, everybody.
	You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show.
	The third hour on Friday is whatever's on your mind.
	1-8 Prager 776. But first, revel in the music you're about to hear.
	There is a small percentage of humanity that does not respond to music.
	Isn't that interesting?
	It's hard for those of us who do to imagine that.
	I feel for them because they're missing out.
	On the other hand, I don't respond to poetry.
	So, you know, I'm poorer for that fact.
	I recognize it.
	This show is, or this hour is, open to whatever's on your mind.
	Do not be offended if I don't take your call or if I drop it, because there could be a dozen reasons why I just won't take the topic.
	Maybe I just spoke about it a great deal.
	Maybe I know nothing about it.
	Sometimes people call in and ask me some detail of history, which I don't know.
	And I know history, but I don't know everything.
	You can just Google it.
	Or maybe I prefer other subjects.
	So don't be offended, please, if I let your call go.
	That's all I'm saying.
	And finally, I particularly welcome calls on audio equipment photography.
	Cigars.
	What else, Sean?
	Fountain pens.
	There is a fifth.
	What's the fifth?
	Not Bulldogs.
	Alright.
	1-8 Prager 776. Let's take a look here.
	And let's see here.
	Stella of Los Angeles.
	Hello, Stella.
	Hi, how are you, sir?
	Thank you for taking the call.
	Thank you.
	I'd just like to know when you were referencing in your last segment and you had stated that you were in a room and it was the United States of America now with a Korean, Hispanic, Iranian, and a Jew.
	I never understood why people say I'm in a black.
	I don't understand for years, and I've been out here 400 years.
	How come somebody says I'm a Jew and they don't say their religion is their Jewish, not their nationality?
	So there's Iranian Jews, there's Russian Jews.
	So I never understood that.
	That's a very good question.
	That's why I took it.
	A lot of people don't understand it, including a lot of Jews.
	Jews are both a religion and a nation.
	The original is nation.
	In the Bible, it is the nation of Israel.
	Israel is a nation.
	There are two words for nation, am and goi, and the Jews are described as both.
	Am Yisrael, the nation of Israel.
	The proof is you can be, and it's a very important proof, you can be an atheist Jew.
	You can't be an atheist Christian.
	Because Christianity is not a nation, Christianity is a religion.
	Okay, so if you're a Russian Jew, you would still say, I'm a Jew and you're not Russian.
	No, no, no, no, you're both.
	You're both.
	You could be a member of two nations.
	Right, that's what I'm saying.
	In the room, they don't say I'm Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, monk.
	Right, because they're not considered ethnicities.
	That's correct.
	That's true.
	Unless you're asking what the people's religions are, people wouldn't say, oh, look, in the room we have a this or that.
	By the way, the truth is, if there was a diversity of religions in the room, as there was of ethnicities, I would have said it.
	I would have said, look at this, we have a Catholic, we have a Protestant, we have a Jew, we have a Hindu, we have a Muslim, we have an atheist, and look at that.
	We're getting along great.
	So I could see saying that, but it didn't apply to this particular situation.
	It was nationality origins that I was referring to.
	Right, and that's where the confusion is.
	Yes, you're welcome.
	That is where the confusion is.
	That's exactly right.
	But the Jews are both.
	In fact, to make it even both simpler and more complex, Any human being can become a Jew.
	So it's not really an ethnicity.
	There are black Jews and there are brown Jews.
	Half the Jews in Israel are from Arab countries.
	They're not white.
	They're not European.
	There are a lot of Jews in Israel from Ethiopia.
	They're black.
	So Jew is not an ethnicity, really, but it is a people.
	And the point of there being an atheist Jew was a proof.
	You can even be a Jew who has nothing whatsoever to do with Jews and nothing whatsoever to have Jewish identity and even work against the Jews like George Soros.
	And you're still a Jew.
	Just as an American who works against America is still an American.
	Okie dokie.
	Let's see here.
	Minneapolis.
	Kevin, hello.
	Thank you for taking my call, Dennis.
	I like listening to you because you are a thinker and a teacher.
	Thank you.
	I want to be.
	Here's my dilemma.
	My son is in the Guard military up here in Minneapolis.
	Now has the choice of going in and being forced to take this COVID experimental shot.
	Either that or he can stay at home.
	What does it mean, stay at home?
	Will he be discharged?
	He won't go in during the weekend drill.
	And will he be discharged as a result?
	Probably.
	Yeah, so that's really the issue.
	So either get vaccinated or discharged.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think I'd rather get discharged.
	It's up to him, but the changes this thing makes to your DNA, I heard it makes you sterile.
	Well, it doesn't make people sterile.
	If it made people sterile, then nobody who was vaccinated has children.
	A lot of people who were vaccinated have children.
	I have issues with the vaccine, but we have to be responsible in what our concerns are.
	There is no reason in the world why a healthy young person should get it.
	It is a form of child abuse to give children a vaccine they do not need and against something they do not die from.
	That's immoral.
	That's what bothers me about it, especially with somebody your age.
	And what it's going to do to the military, which is what I think you called about, is a very good number of wonderful young people will just leave our military, which is already suffering from...
	People not wanting to enroll in a woke institution.
	Yeah, I agree.
	All right, I'm glad.
	I know you agree.
	That's why you called.
	All right, let's see here.
	Joey in Bakersfield, California.
	Hi there, Joey.
	Hello.
	Good morning.
	Hi.
	Earlier in the week, you had lots of people calling in about why they knew people who weren't religious, but you didn't have any call in about...
	Who actually wasn't, so I thought I'd try.
	Great, I'm glad you did.
	So, I mean, basically it comes to two things.
	One, specifically with the Judeo-Christian religion, I find lots of things about it not good.
	And in general, I think faith is bad.
	And today, particularly, most of our arguments, and they don't really count as conversations or debates even, they're arguments because People misdefine words or have different definitions of words that they're discussing.
	So by faith, I mean the belief in something without or in spite of evidence.
	Okay, so you think people who believe in God do so despite the lack of evidence?
	Is that your charge?
	Despite evidence.
	Yeah.
	Remember, that is a common thing that they proclaim.
	I don't need evidence to believe it.
	I just know it.
	Well, what you said, and I say this completely respectfully, and I'm happy you called, there's no truth to what you just said.
	The evidence for God, in my opinion, and the opinion of very many bright people, is overwhelming.
	There is no proof of God, but evidence is awesome.
	If you found a computer on Jupiter, would you assume that it evolved on its own, or would you assume that an intelligence made it?
	Since we are infinitely more sophisticated than any computer, why wouldn't we be the product of a higher intelligence just as a computer on Jupiter would be?
	Okay, and a very common argument, and again, not easily done in one integral of sentences, But it's, again, easily countered.
	First of all, again, there is a massive difference between a computer man-made object and biology.
	Biology, we can show how he goes from simpler forms to more advanced forms without requiring intelligent intervention.
	Is there any evidence to go from non-biological to biological?
	I'll keep you on.
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	We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
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	DP here, talking to a man who's not religious, doesn't believe in God, and says there's no evidence for it.
	I pointed out that there's overwhelming evidence.
	There's no proof.
	There's overwhelming evidence.
	And you said that we could go from primitive organisms to Shakespeare completely randomly through nature.
	Fine.
	How did we get to biology?
	All right, drop randomly.
	I don't agree with you, but I don't want to argue on the word randomly.
	But I do want to argue on this.
	What is your explanation to getting to biology from non-biology?
	Right.
	And, of course, the simplest thing in this is this is another lack of definitions.
	Life has hundreds of definitions.
	None of them are good.
	None of them are definitive, so to speak.
	But basically you have chemical, atomic processes that become more complex, more patterned, and at some point, or actually at several points, we start to define that as life.
	But there is no dividing line between a complex chemical process and biological process.
	It's a very broad...
	I have to admit that this is a new one.
	I never heard that we don't have a definition for biological life.
	You're a first to offer that.
	The reason you're saying it is you have no explanation how we went from rocks to life.
	You have none.
	Every scientist, you don't.
	You're making something up.
	Okay.
	So it's your word against mine.
	How did we go from rocks to life?
	Do rocks reproduce themselves?
	No, from certain chemicals.
	Again, life did not come from rocks.
	So could you do it in a lab?
	Can you reproduce that process in a lab from rocks to life?
	Again, you're making an untrue statement.
	No biologist says that we went from rocks.
	That is not the theory of biology.
	It is completely fair.
	What did we go to life from, if not rocks?
	Again, water and chemical processes in the water.
	So can you reproduce it in a lab?
	We can reproduce a version of it.
	Again, the exact process that produced us.
	We don't know what that was.
	Life.
	Nobody has reproduced going through life from non-life in a lab.
	It hasn't happened.
	My theory, I thank you for your call, and I'm very happy you called, and I welcome dissenting calls.
	They're the ones I take first.
	My subject last hour was virtually everything in life is a choice.
	Since it was the happiness hour, I spoke about choosing to be happy, but I mentioned on a number of occasions choosing to believe.
	My caller chose to be an atheist.
	It's a choice.
	I chose to live as if there is a God.
	For intellectual, moral, emotional, for every possible reason.
	That's it.
	That is what I believe.
	I don't know why he made that choice, but I do know why I made mine.
	Thank you again.
	All right, and let's go to Rebecca in Reno, Nevada.
	Hello, Rebecca.
	Hello, thank you for taking my call.
	It's a privilege to talk with you.
	Thank you.
	I wanted to let you know that the Daughters of the American Revolution have gone woke.
	Give me an example.
	Well, they are the D.A.R. President General, and I'm a member of the D.A.R., is having no straw September cause this month.
	AND I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE BIT.
	And we are supposed to be about patriotism and historical preservation and education.
	And several members and myself were respectfully disagreeing.
	We didn't think that D.A.R. should be supporting the no straws climate change cause.
	And the President General's page was deleting us, blocking our comments.
	Wait, wait.
	So the issue of wokeness is about straws, dreamers?
	Drinking straws?
	So DAR came out against plastic straws?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	That's the cause of the monster.
	Is there another example of wokeness?
	Well, they have been very supportive of wearing masks.
	And a lot of members, including myself early on, were making a lot of masks for people to wear during the pandemic.
	Right.
	So they're all about...
	Right.
	So why did you make masks if you're opposed to them?
	Well, early on.
	Oh, early on.
	Okay, you found...
	Okay.
	Well, they're upsetting examples.
	I don't know if I would quite get indict the AR as going woke.
	Those positions are the beginning, but not necessarily dispositive in terms of...
	I will say, though, that passionate opposition to plastic straws...
	Generally, in my mind, connotes someone who is looking for a cause.
	There is so much evil on Earth, including the greatest threat to America in the history of the country since the Civil War.
	And to spend any serious amount of time on plastic straws is a colossal waste of time.
	This country's liberty is being threatened.
	Its character, its soul, is being existentially threatened for the first time.
	Free speech is being suppressed by all the social media.
	I mean really suppressed.
	President of the United States, the last president, doesn't have a Twitter account.
	And people are preoccupied with plastic straws?
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	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.
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	This is the left and we've heard this so many times that the word is fluid.
	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.
	our 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 hi everybody I'm I'm here for Jim Betrell.
	How are you doing, Jim?
	Great, Dennis.
	Thanks for doing my head.
	Jim?
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	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...
	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager of the Hour.
	You said the agenda, whatever's on your mind.
	I forgot classical music in addition to fountain pens, audio equipment, photography equipment, and cigars.
	Tom and Alvin, one of my favorite people in Alvin.
	Called in, and he wants to know, was I influenced by Phil Donahue?
	And the answer is, no.
	I think I saw Phil Donahue three times in my entire life.
	So, it's an interesting question.
	I don't know why he would think I would be.
	The hair?
	He had a lot of white hair?
	Is that right?
	No kidding.
	All right.
	Okadoo, Nancy in Atlanta.
	Hello, Nancy.
	Uh-oh.
	Hello, Nancy.
	Hello.
	Ah, good.
	Hello there.
	How are you?
	Very well.
	Thank you.
	I'm so glad you took my call.
	Thank you.
	I tried to get in yesterday and could not, but perhaps it's better this way.
	I am an old lady now, but I have homeschooled all three of my sons.
	They are now in their mid to late 20s.
	All three are either college graduates or currently in college.
	Two of my sons are special needs.
	One of them is blind.
	Hello?
	Yeah, I hear you.
	I'm riveted.
	Oh, good.
	I heard a beep.
	I was afraid I'd lost you.
	That's quite all right.
	One of them is blind and has a touch of autism.
	The other has a different learning disability.
	And I have a background in education.
	However, I found that to actually be more of a hindrance than a help to homeschooling.
	Because they teach you...
	I got my education and my degree in the late 70s, early 80s.
	classroom teachers to think in a certain lockstep way.
	And if anything, it's even more that way now for the most recent graduates from education programs.
	And it was hard for me to divorce myself from, oh, but we have to do it this way, to the freedom of realizing, no, I tailor the education to my sons, to what they need, to their learning style.
	And I just wanted to share two things with your listeners yesterday.
	I heard people calling saying, I'm afraid my kids won't get into college.
	Please do not be afraid of that.
	Colleges love homeschoolers.
	They are competing to get homeschoolers, including the Ivy Lakes, Harvard, and Yale.
	And for one good example of that, your listeners might like to get the book by David and Nikki Colfax, C-O-L-F-A-X, called Homeschooling for Excellence.
	They homeschooled their sons.
	I'm not sure when this book was published.
	Back in the 80s also, I think.
	But the point is, two of them went to Harvard, one to Yale.
	They were all accepted without any difficulty.
	Two became medical doctors, one a lawyer.
	One of their sons served under the Obama administration as part of their health and medical team.
	They certainly were not hampered by being homeschooled.
	So they will appreciate that book, Homeschooling for Excellence.
	I'd like also to name some organizations they can go to and get the data and get the research that shows homeschooling does work and how it works.
	May I mention those on the air?
	Yeah, please.
	All right.
	One is Homeschool Legal Defense Association, HSLDA. Their website is HSLDA.org.
	And they not only defend homeschoolers if well-meaning but very misinformed family members and neighbors turn them in thinking that they're doing some disservice to their child, but they also provide a great deal of educational support, research support, suggestions, lots of things.
	All right, I'm going to leave it at that only because of time.
	Everything you've said is important.
	Homeschooling has doubled.
	I reported that yesterday in the last year.
	Doubled in the United States.
	It needs to quadruple next year.
	Schools are ruining most children.
	If your child isn't ruined by school, it is because he's already ruined by you.
	So that's the choice.
	I'm just being honest.
	If your child thinks this country is systemically racist, If your child thinks the Revolutionary War was thought to protect slavery, if your child thinks that there's no such thing as male and female, it's completely subjective categories, and they didn't get it from school, then they got it from you?
	Okay, so there you go.
	If they believe that men give birth...
	If they get a big kick out of drag queen story hour at the age of five, then obviously, in most cases, they were prepared for it by the home.
	What's our story, Mr. Triple G? Homeschooling is such a terrific idea.
	When I meet homeschoolers, it's so obvious.
	They're well-behaved.
	The greatest single thing about them is their intellectual curiosity, single things, and their non-jadedness.
	They're still kids, mature kids, but they're still kids.
	They haven't had their innocence knocked out of them, as in school.
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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.
	I believe that if we send our soldiers to war, we need to send them to war to win.
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	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 serve.
	We'll see you next time.
	And we'll be on with you next week.
	Labor Day, we have a very special program that is pre-recorded, and therefore that message is appropriate.
	I'm going to have programs that I have done interviews about Afghanistan that are over 10 years old.
	Yes, George Friedman, Sebastian Younger, it's riveting.
	Then...
	Tuesday and Wednesday, the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah.
	I will be conducting services for the 15th year in a row.
	Not in a row.
	15 out of 16. COVID was not possible.
	You want to attend?
	People of every background do.
	Send me a note to dennisprager.com and I'll tell you how.
	It's in the valley in the L.A. area.
	It can obviously come in from anywhere in the country.
	Or watch it streamed for the first time.
	We've never streamed my service.
	4K cameras recorded while it's happening so you can stop and go back anytime you want, whatever time zone you're on.
	And that's at SalemNow.com to stream my high holiday services.
	It's very meaningful stuff.
	It's also a nice gift.
	Alright, so that explains next week, but we're now still in this week.
	Ryan in Columbus, Ohio.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Hi.
	Found your show a couple years ago, and I've been a big fan ever since.
	That's very sweet of you to say.
	Thank you.
	I called an original Wednesday about your topic on growing up, I guess, non-religious, but I've been wanting to call in for a while.
	I think a while back you had a question, or you had mentioned that you'd never run into anybody from a big family that was not religious.
	I'm the oldest of six kids, and we grew up not religious.
	Well, you're...
	You're an outlier, and I salute your parents.
	I think it's wonderful.
	Just out of curiosity, would you recommend Big Families?
	We all like it a lot now.
	It was definitely...
	It definitely had some tough times growing up when everybody was kids, but now that everybody's adult, it's great.
	I won't have six kids.
	I don't know that any of my siblings will either, but that's what my parents wanted to do.
	Well, thank you for calling, and I would love to speak to your parents, what prompted them, and if they grew up in a religious home.
	But it is very rare.
	If I meet anybody with more than four kids, I assume they're religious, and most of the time I'm right.
	Anyway, it's also interesting that he's happier...
	With five siblings as an adult than he was as a kid.
	Okay, let's see.
	Solon, Ohio.
	Mark, hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Just a little background.
	My wife and I had COVID back in November.
	And through a telemed doc, we were able to get...
	Hydroxychloroquine was pretty mild.
	In May we were going to a family function so before we did that we requested an antibody test and the doctor ordered it for us and we showed positive for the antibodies so everything's great.
	A couple weeks ago I was going to be having a physical so I was getting my blood test and in order to I figured as long as I'm getting my blood test, I'll get an antibody test, so I asked the doctor to prescribe that also to order it, and he could not.
	He could not do it.
	Not would not, but could not.
	Why?
	It's not on their system.
	I had my physical yesterday, and he showed me the screen.
	It's not even on their screen.
	They cannot order COVID antibody tests.
	Does your doctor have a theory as to why?
	I asked him, why not?
	He said, well, you know, a lot of what we have on here is mandated by the government.
	Well, I don't know why either.
	There might be an innocent reason, but it might not be innocent.
	The non-innocent reason, I can't think of an innocent reason, but there might be one.
	But the non-innocent reason is, They don't want to advertise the fact that people who have had COVID have a greater resilience against COVID than people who've had the vaccination and did not have COVID. It is much better to have had COVID And obviously
	not gotten terribly sick and hospitalized, but who got COVID and somewhat sick, a little sick, than to have the vaccine.
	And I don't think, I think that there are forces in this country like the CDC that don't want people to know that.
	All right, everybody.
	Burbank, California.
	Karen.
	Hello, Karen.
	Hi there.
	Hi there.
	What an honor.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I was prompted to call based on your comments at the opening of your show where you were wondering what it is that animates people to want to save other people.
	At the risk of death.
	Exactly.
	And I was just waiting for you to mention Corrie Ten Boom and her family, her precious family in Holland.
	Who, with the Dutch underground, their family saved an estimated 800 Jewish people.
	And I have a darling Christian missionary, Korean, here in my home.
	I said, do you know who Corrie Ten Boom is?
	She said no.
	And Corrie Ten Boom is like one of my great heroes.
	She has a movie about her life called The Hiding Place.
	Yes, it's very well known.
	Yes, thank you.
	Well, it's beautiful.
	Listen, I've got to take a break, but I'm glad I got to take your call.
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	General McMaster 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.
	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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	And Americans are stranded in Afghanistan.
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	We have some exclusive frontline updates from Afghanistan to share with you.
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	All right.
	All right, everybody.
	More questions here, indeed.
	Let's go to Rudy in Houston.
	Hello, Rudy.
	Yes, hi.
	Good afternoon.
	Thank you.
	Good afternoon.
	Well, actually.
	Yeah, so back in 2014, you wrote an op-ed in the National Review, titled, Poverty Doesn't Cause Crime.
	And so my question is, Is that something that you still believe in with regards to what the left and what the students and universities are being taught?
	Is that something that you still believe in?
	Completely.
	If poverty caused crime, talking about American poverty, not starvation poverty.
	The question is, do you believe that universities today Still teach that poverty causes crime.
	Yes, I do believe that.
	Yes, I do believe that.
	Okay, well, no, well, I mean, I'm in my master's school, right?
	Now, question, question.
	When, in your op-ed, you didn't quote anybody, you didn't reference anybody, you know, these people who said that poverty causes crime.
	I'm going to give you the benefit of doubt and that you read it.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Are you denying...
	Let me talk, because you talk till now.
	Do you deny that the left-wing position since Karl Marx to Columbia University today is not that poverty causes crime?
	If not poverty, what causes crime?
	Okay, well, here's the thing.
	No, no, here's the thing.
	What causes crime in the left view?
	If you don't answer me, I'll move on.
	What causes crime?
	I'm going to answer the question.
	Good.
	You need to let me answer the question.
	Because you were trying not to.
	Okay, you have to distinguish between two methods of coming to a certain opinion, right?
	You mentioned Karl Marx.
	Karl Marx is more of a philosophical, right?
	All right, I'm sorry.
	You're wasting my time.
	I feel bad because I took you because you disagree with me.
	I like that, but you're wasting my time.
	There's very little left.
	Okay.
	I asked a simple question.
	If poverty isn't the cause of crime, according to the left, what is?
	And then I'm getting a discourse about the approaches of Marx and others.
	Everything the left thinks and does is wrong.
	They're always wrong.
	Liberals are right and wrong.
	Conservatives are right and wrong.
	Left is always wrong.
	They don't blame people.
	They blame capitalism.
	They blame unemployment.
	They don't blame a lack of fathers.
	A lack of fathers is infinitely more important than any other single thing in producing decent, good people.
	And they won't admit it.
	Okay, everybody, a wonderful weekend.

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