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Drove last night from South Carolina to North Carolina, from Charleston to Charlotte.
It's understandable to me why a lot of people are moving to South Carolina.
People are nice, but it's not Minnesota nice, where they vote for not nice people.
It's nice and wise.
If you're nice and not wise, you do a lot of damage.
Major theme in my life is understanding about the difference between nice and wise.
It's better to be nice than not nice.
There's no question about that.
But if you don't have wisdom, you'll do a lot of damage, which is what is being done in this country.
I mean, I have a list here of topics for today, which is just incredible, what is going on.
There is a man that I truly have contempt for.
It takes a lot for me to have the level of contempt I have for the San Antonio Spurs coach, Popovich.
He's one of the few people I consider to be bad.
It's painful to me that this man is popular in San Antonio.
Painful.
He hates this country.
He hates the Western world.
He's filled with hate.
He compares Columbus Day to celebrating Hitler.
That's the latest.
As my dear producer puts it, the man makes millions of dollars and hates everything about the civilization that allowed that to happen.
He should give his money back.
I mean, if he's consistent, if this country is despicable, how could he take its money?
Yep, it's like celebrating Hitler.
Celebrating Columbus is like celebrating Hitler.
You can get away with that because the amount of ignorance in our world and in our country is so spectacular.
The man is a vile human being.
I don't know what...
It motivates him, and I don't really care.
But I do feel that I owe it to this country and to decency to tell you what kind of human being this Popovich is.
So here's another story for you about the world in which we live today.
Los Angeles, to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from downtown park, then was declared a saint, if I'm not mistaken.
The park named after the Catholic priest from Spain who established California's mission system and sought to baptize Native Americans will be called La Plaza Park until a new name is officially adopted.
It's really quite something.
So what is the statement of Los Angeles?
That it was a bad thing that Native Americans were converted to Catholicism?
I mean, let us be very clear here.
Am I watching?
Is that Garcetti?
Oh, it's painful.
It's painful to see this man who's a nothing.
We're governed by nothings.
He's an example of that.
And so that's the question I'd like people to be asked.
Is it a net loss to society if a person who is Native American and has Native American tribal beliefs, if that person converts to Christianity, is that a moral step up or is it a moral step down?
This is not an anti-anybody.
It is a values question.
It's not anti-Indigenous Americans.
Of course not.
In fact, the odds are that he cared for them so much he wanted them to become Catholic, become Christian.
The issue is not antipathy.
The question is a value system.
If you compare what Catholicism created, and Christianity in general, Versus what indigenous cultures created, do you think it's a tie?
Do you think it's a moral tie?
Now, you can't ask these questions because truth is not a value any longer in our media or academic world.
People attack people who raised the question I did, but if you care about people, you have to ask that question, because the only important question is, what will elevate people?
What will make people better?
What will make civilizations better?
Those are moral questions.
They're the important moral questions.
It's not anti-anyhuman.
It is pro the belief that there are better and more elevated ways of living.
I'm not Catholic.
I'm not even Christian.
I'm Jewish.
There's no question in my mind that what the Christianity has created, and it did a lot of bad things too, because human beings can ruin everything, but it created a world of women's rights, of human rights, of international human rights, of a gigantic democratic republic in the United States and elsewhere.
These are enormous achievements.
They haven't been made basically anywhere else.
Other than Judeo-Christian culture, what produced these things?
The Japanese have a flourishing democracy because it was imposed on them by the United States of America after World War II, imposed by a Christian civilization.
It's not anti-Japanese to say that.
The Japanese would agree with that.
Same with Korea, with South Korea.
These are the fruit of what are called Judeo-Christian civilization.
Condemning this priest for converting indigenous Americans, indigenous peoples, is to state that there is no moral benefit.
To becoming a Christian versus a person who believes in indigenous beliefs.
Now, I suspect that a lot of kids who go to college would actually say, that's right, there is nothing better whatsoever.
On the contrary, it was evil to convert these people.
Why was it evil to convert these people?
As so many people were to Islam at the threat of death?
No, they weren't.
People preached the gospel to these people and hoped that they would choose this way of life.
Los Angeles plans to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from a downtown park across the street from Union Station.
This is from NBC News.
In LA, as part of the Los Angeles work to reckon with mistakes and wrongdoings in the city's history, officials made the announcement.
I don't understand what that means.
What does that mean?
They don't explain.
Officials made the announcement on Monday, Indigenous People's Day in the city of Los Angeles.
The park will be called La Plaza Park until a new name is officially adopted.
Sarah was a Catholic priest from Spain who established California's mission system and sought to baptize Native Americans.
His sainthood in 2015 was protected by Native Americans, citing that indigenous people were brutalized, beaten, and forced into labor for the missions.
Los Angeles is a city of belonging that takes responsibility for the mistakes we've made in the past.
A city of belonging.
Ah, I love that.
I live in a city of belonging.
Am I lucky or what?
Our indigenous brothers and sisters deserve justice, and today we take a step toward delivering both greater cultural sensitivity and spaces for Angelenos to gather and perform their traditional ceremonies.
A statue of Father Sarah was toppled At the park during protests in June 2020. You know, it's fascinating.
There are so many Catholics as compared to people of indigenous culture in Los Angeles.
And the man is a saint of the Catholic Church and nothing will happen because too many spokesmen in the Catholic Church are afraid.
They're just afraid of speaking out.
As I say often in religious life, people are more afraid of CNN than they are of God.
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Music Because there is a Washington Post story out that Trump is running a wink and a nod campaign, David Drucker.
Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink and a nod on official candidacy.
What do you make of the headline?
Well, it's some good reporting, but Trump has been running a wink and a nod candidacy since the day he left the White House.
Pretty clear to me when I interviewed him for the book in May that he was interested in running again.
He asked me, why do people think I'm not running?
I said, who says you're not running?
Let's just talk about other people that may run if you don't, which I finally got him to agree to do.
How long did that take?
You know, about three and a half hours.
Yeah, I mean, you gotta...
I got him there.
So, I was told yesterday by a confidant of the former president that he is going to run and that if he changes his mind because of health, but he looks in great shape, if he does run, he's going to destroy anyone who runs against him.
I mean, just take them out at the knees and turn on them.
And if he doesn't run, he'll be supportive of them, hoping to freeze them for a while.
Consistent with your understanding?
Yeah, well, look, first of all, we know that any time he's in a campaign, he tries to take people out at the knees.
Again, nothing new.
I think the thing to understand about President Trump, former President Trump, is that he loves being in the arena.
He loves holding his big rallies.
He hasn't tired of politics.
He didn't want to retire from politics.
And unlike presidents in the past who have lost, he's simply not going to do so.
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What the left tries to do is they just use emotion.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly, it's this constant divisiveness.
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing?
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries?
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car?
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be, but you have to understand something.
And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light, but you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, They have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative, it's because it's extremely rare.
but the left makes you too mad to realize this.
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There is a picture of the President of the United States and his wife and granddaughter...
I think he attended a family wedding just in the past few days.
Yes, and it is an amazing...
Actually, it's a video and a photo.
You could choose either one.
And he's the only one wearing a mask.
I have always believed that Joe Biden is a weakling, is a coward, and I've only learned in the last few years that he's a major crook.
I would say that compared to Joe Biden, our previous president, Donald Trump, is on a much higher moral plane.
Yeah, that was when he was vice president.
No, it's really something to see that even his wife isn't wearing a mask.
She took it off upon exiting the helicopter, the presidential helicopter, and he kept it on.
What message is he trying to communicate to the American people?
All of you who were vaccinated should be wearing it outdoors?
The man is a bad man.
The man is a weakling.
Weaklings are very bad by definition.
Southwest CEO says he never wanted a COVID vaccine mandate, but Biden forced his hand.
This is from CNBC. I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of mandate.
I'm not in favor of that.
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC, On Tuesday.
However, Kelly said, the Dallas-based carrier is complying with federal rules put in place by the Biden administration.
So I want to understand.
So that is what you could do?
The President of the United States can unilaterally announce that all airlines should fire thousands and thousands of competent, respectful employees?
And they do it?
It's an amazing thing.
What, do we elect a dictator?
We elect a dictator every four years?
Who the hell is he to make this rule?
Really, who the hell is he?
Why isn't this a congressional issue?
I mean, can a president say, you know, nobody can board a plane if they have the flu?
I mean, is there any limit?
To what can be said?
By a president?
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC on Tuesday he believes businesses should not impose COVID vaccine mandates on their employees.
He said his company is doing so to comply with federal rules put in place by the Biden administration.
I just don't get it.
How does the Biden administration tell an airline to fire its people?
How does that happen?
Has this ever happened, by the way?
Has it ever?
I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of mandate.
I'm not in favor of that.
Never have been, Kelly said in an interview on Squawk on the Street.
But the executive order from President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors, which covers all the major airlines, have to have a vaccine mandate in place by December 8th.
So we're working through that.
God, can you imagine?
What if the airline said, this is not constitutional, and we are more loyal to our employees than to the hypochondriac in chief, than to dictatorships?
Can you imagine?
I mean, that's all we need.
We need resistance.
They named opposition to Donald Trump resistance, the resistance.
That's what we need today.
Southwest said last week that its 56,000 employees needed to be vaccinated against COVID by December 8th in order to keep working at the airline under the federal mandate.
I'm just curious, so till December 8th, will a lot of people be dying?
I mean, if this thing is a matter of life and death, why wasn't it imposed months ago?
Why isn't it imposed tomorrow?
The whole thing's so mind-blowing.
Why isn't it imposed tomorrow?
Yep, that's what we have here.
The airlines.
That is what happened apparently with Southwest.
The delays, the cancellations of a thousand flights or whatever it was.
So the lie went out that it was about weather in Florida, but weather in Florida is the same for all airlines.
Southwest is not the only airline that flies to Florida.
So why didn't it happen elsewhere?
It's apparently because a lot of pilots decided to protest.
God bless these pilots.
I don't care whether you're vaccinated or not, you need to protest on behalf of Liberty.
The government forcing people to take a medicine is a first, truly a first.
Everybody cites the 1905 Jacobson $5 fine if you didn't get a smallpox vaccine.
So on that basis, we can have all of what we're doing today from the 1905 decision.
I'll talk about that more another time.
There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today about how science has been perverted by the left, which I've been warning you for quite some time.
They have ruined everything.
Medieval thinkers pretending to infallibility often claim to have received a direct revelation from God.
Since the 19th century, secular thinkers have invoked science.
Exactly.
As Anthony Fauci said in June, A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.
That's the way they think.
That's exactly right.
You'll find this of interest.
I didn't know this.
So he talks to this professor at Northwestern University, who I'm sure will be condemned at Northwestern as another woke university.
Early last year, we were treated to the delightful spectacle of Montana's Glacier National Park.
Folks, get ready.
This is awesome.
I didn't know about this.
Early last year, we were treated to the delightful spectacle of Montana's Glacier National Park, removing signs that said its glaciers would be gone by 2020. Is that awesome?
It's all been perverted.
The left has destroyed faith and science.
You just need to know this and you need to fight back.
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If you're not vaccinated, you should be in one of those little ice huts out in the middle of a lake at Lake Winnetonka in the middle of Minnesota in the freezing cold.
You should sit out there for all of the winter.
Just sit in that little booth.
That's how you should spend Christmas.
You know what this crap does?
It's going to start making people hesitant about going forward at all.
This is getting to a point where...
The opposite effect is occurring.
I mean, Fauci is making this up as he goes.
He says something stupid on Sunday.
By Monday, he's trying to spin.
He's backpedaling.
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The last three years of the Bush administration, I was the assistant US trade rep for the Bush administration for public affairs, meaning I was just the spokesperson.
And forever we would hear why we couldn't do things.
We couldn't renegotiate NAFTA because, well, it was signed and sealed and we couldn't do this.
And I get it.
But that was the mentality.
Frankly, that's the mentality that permeates government.
And I get it.
And so I was always like, OK, I get it.
This is stupid, but we do have a signed deal.
And you got a guy like Trump that comes in and you tell him, well, you know, there's this signed deal and he says, so what?
It was one of the most refreshing things about it.
And it was just, the thing that was so weird is, if you think about it, why aren't more, because...
I don't think you should tear up everything for the sake of it.
No, but just ask the questions.
Right.
Ask the questions.
Why do we just keep doing things the way that we always have?
Why don't we challenge the system?
Can it do better?
Can we do better for the American people?
Can we be more efficient and a better steward of their tax dollars?
Can we deliver a better product?
Do we still need to do what we're doing anymore?
Right?
I mean, think about this.
Trump's view was...
You haven't modernized an agreement.
When NAFTA was signed, there was no internet.
So we're dealing with problems that didn't exist then that, frankly, when you signed the deal, you couldn't have even thought of.
So why not modernize it?
On behalf of America, that's what we're supposed to be doing.
And at the end of the day, it all worked out.
And if you are in the car industry… You're getting a better deal now as an American worker in that industry.
If you're a dairy farmer, you're getting a better deal.
If you work in the technology field, your IP is more protected.
But it was a way of thinking that had never come in before because previously you would have had some guy that would have been like, okay, here's 18 PowerPoints and this is the process.
And Trump was like, no, if it's not working, screw it.
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This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
His dreams cut short forever.
We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
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everybody, Dennis Prager here.
So there is a case in Virginia.
At a Virginia high school, a teacher has been fired for not using preferred pronouns with regard to a student who was female and now claims to be male.
And taking up the case of this teacher, as a French teacher, is ADF. The Alliance Defending Freedom, which we are working to support vigorously at this program.
I did not know, but I'm very delighted.
I also have Tyson Langhofer, who is the Senior Counsel and Director for the Center of Academic Freedom at the Alliance Defending Freedom.
And we have the teacher, Peter Vlaming.
Now, by the way, Peter Vlaming, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
Are you now, it says here, south of France.
Is that where you're located?
Yes, thank you for having me.
Yes, we moved.
We moved to my wife's region.
My wife is French, and we moved this summer to the south of France, to a small city called Mont-Tenimau on the Rhone River.
How interesting.
Oh, so now I understand why you're a French teacher.
Yeah, I studied in the transfer format.
So did you move partially as a result of having been fired?
Yes, as a result of having been fired.
Teaching in public schools in America, it couldn't go forward.
No one wanted to touch this.
Yeah, it's not the clearest connection.
So, Sean, why don't we recall, and I'll talk to Tyson in the meantime.
So, Peter, we're going to let you go and call you back.
All right, so...
No problem.
No, unfortunately, the...
Okay.
Somebody got rid of Tyson instead of Peter, so...
Let me see.
This is probably the best reception.
I'll wait for you to call back.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, all right.
Yes, we're going to call you back.
Yeah, that was a big boo-boo.
Okay.
So I'm waiting to get back on with Tyson Langhofer.
This is another example of what is going on.
I have a lot of questions, though, about this issue.
So Tyson, hi.
Hi, welcome back.
Hey, thanks, Dennis.
Yeah, so let me understand.
This high school who transitioned to being a boy.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
Now, so if I saw, this is to me a very important issue on the whole transgender issue.
So if I saw this person now, would I assume that it was a boy or a girl?
I don't know the answer to that question, Dennis, but in the context, this student had been in Peter's class for the previous two years, and he had had great relations with her, and then the parents informed Peter that she would be transitioning to, you know, be a male and have a male name and male pronouns, and so obviously for him particularly, that was an issue that he was aware had treated her as, obviously, as a female in the previous two years.
So it's a little bit unique situation from that standpoint.
Right.
So the reason I ask that question is, I think, the issue to me is, what do you look like?
How do you dress?
What is your name?
That's the issue.
And I think it is for you, too.
I mean, we don't ask anybody we meet, what sex were you born?
The issue arises when there's a conflating of sexes or an abolition of sexual difference.
That, to me, is the issue.
Anyway, he called this person by the new masculine name, correct?
That's correct.
And actually, Dennis, he facilitated that.
And told all of the previous students, because this was a French 3 class, and he told all the students, why don't you choose a new French name so that she wouldn't feel singled out as being the only one with the new masculine name?
And so he was attempting to make an as easy transition as possible.
He just didn't want to be forced to speak something that he thought was untrue.
Meaning that in referring to this person, having to refer to the person as he, As opposed to she.
That's correct.
Right.
So, okay, we have Peter back.
So let me ask Peter this question.
Peter, if I met this in...
Oh, it got broken up again.
Got a lot of background.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, yeah, but there's a lot of background noise.
So hold on there.
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All right.
Alright, so, Dennis Prager here.
I have a teacher who was fired by his school.
He had taught French there.
How many years did you teach French there, Peter?
Seven years.
Seven years.
He's speaking, by the way, from the south of France, where he has moved.
He is sort of...
Is it fair to say you've sort of given up on America?
No.
No, not at all.
That's why I'm continuing in this case.
Right.
Although, I mean, I'm not saying it as a critique of you.
I sort of would sympathize if you said yes, given how you've been treated and the fact that you've moved to another country.
So that's what prompted my question.
Anyway, I do have a question.
So again, folks, the ADF has taken his case.
He was fired.
He wouldn't refer to a person that he knew was a girl student of his for two years, who then said that she was a male, and he would not refer to her as he, although he did refer to her, him, whichever you prefer, as by the new name, a new male name.
So my question that I asked when you were off the line, If I saw this student now, would I assume I'm talking to a girl or a boy?
I haven't seen this student since 2018, the end of 2018, when things went down at West Point High School.
At that time, you would definitely say that she was a girl.
She's a charming student, a charming young lady.
So when you said she, anybody not knowing the situation would have assumed it was a she?
Totally.
Okay, I think that that's extremely significant.
And it's left out of the various stories here.
So, basically you were saying, look, I'm prepared to call you by your new name, but...
For all intents and purposes, you are a she as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
Only as far as you're concerned, you're not.
Is that a fair summary?
Actually, I didn't discuss my position.
I didn't say to her, hey, we're integral beings.
I don't share your belief that you're a boy.
I accommodated her as far as I could using her new name and avoiding feminine pronouns to be provocative.
But I explained to my administration that that's what I was doing.
I said, hey, I'm not going to adopt transgender ideology, but I can work this way.
I'll respect her position by using her new name.
I can do that in good conscience.
But I cannot in good conscience refer to her as he, because she's not.
I believe that we're integral beings, but I'm not going to adopt this new...
Ideology on who we are as humans, you know, what makes us a man and a woman.
And that's when the administration ratcheted things up.
They said, okay, well, not only will you use the new name, if we think that you're substituting the new name, the masculine name, for a pronoun, when you could use a pronoun, we're going to fire you.
And that's the definition of the thought police.
Oh, that's amazing.
I did not know that.
So even if you're using the person's new name, that was not sufficient when you could have used a masculine pronoun.
Exactly, because even just Dennis in regular conversation, I don't say, Hi, Dennis, how is he doing?
I say, Hi, Dennis, how are you doing?
And if I refer to you in someone else's presence, because you never use a third person pronoun to talk directly to someone when you're talking about someone, often when they're not even present.
So it's more polite to use their name if they're present.
Yes, that's right.
That's right.
On the level of being polite.
So it's all about totalitarianism.
It's all about taking away the argument, taking away the language, so that you've already given up the ground.
Did any teachers support you?
Let's put it this way.
There is a huge spirit of intimidation.
And though I knew of many teachers who supported me on the inside, they were not willing to come out on the outside for fear of retribution.
Tyson, what is your case before the courts?
Well, essentially, Dennis, where, you know, I'm arguing that the school violated Peter's both free speech rights and free exercise religion rights under the Virginia Constitution because they're essentially forcing him to speak things that he believes are untrue and that also violate his deeply held religious beliefs.
And, you know, it was unnecessary.
The government cannot compel people to speak things they disagree with, especially when...
You know, in this situation, there is an accommodation.
And, you know, Peter demonstrated that he's able to teach students of all different backgrounds and accommodate them.
And there's no reason to force him and others like him to speak and, you know, to agree with this new ideology.
So it's a violation of their fundamental rights to speech and free exercise religion.
So what court is it now is the case before?
So we're in the process of asking the Virginia Supreme Court to take the case because the district court dismissed all of the claims.
Held that Peter had failed to state a claim, even though we allege that the school terminated him because he wouldn't speak a message that they wanted him to speak that was outside of the curricular context.
We're not talking about curriculum here.
We're talking about interpersonal communication with third parties.
They were trying to dictate what he could say about what it means to be a man and a woman with third parties.
And that cannot be countenanced under our Constitution.
Right.
I totally get that.
Well, Peter, good luck to both of you.
And let me just reiterate how much we are committed to Alliance Defending Freedom.
They do all of these cases for free because people can't afford the lawyers.
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What the lab tries to do is they just use a motion.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly, it's this...
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing?
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries.
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car.
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or...
Whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be.
But you have to understand something.
And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light.
But you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, they have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative, it's because it's extremely rare.
but the left makes you too mad to realize this.
There is this question of, is America becoming a safer country or a more dangerous country?
So Merrick Garland did not issue a memo condemning the fact that murders are up 30% since last year.
30% murders are up.
So murders are up 30% in the last year.
And Merrick Garland instead issues a directive.
saying that we're not going to go try to find the spike in violent crime like the abolishing police force BLM incorporated how these ideas of CRT are actually resulting in more people being dead.
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Okay, everybody.
Dennis Prager here and Peter in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hi.
Peter in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hi.
What happened?
Hi.
Sorry.
Dennis, are you there?
I am.
Yep.
Yep.
Yeah, so I was fairly offended by your last segment as a parent of an eight-year-old transgender child, and had I had a chance to speak to your guest, I would have asked him.
And I'm not addressing the legal issues here, and I know you had him on as a legal case, but I'm going to talk about it as a moral issue and an ethical issue.
If my child had been Peter's student and had been aware that Peter had taken this stance of refusal of addressing him by his pronouns, I'll bet you anything my child would have come home and cried.
And I want to know if the teacher was going to go home and cry if he were quote-unquote forced to use the pronouns that his student was asking.
My child would be 42% more likely to succeed in killing himself if he grew up in an environment that was hostile and knew him.
In the way that this particular stance, potentially not all the actions, but this particular stance of this teacher demonstrated to this student.
I want to know, I would have asked Peter if he would have been 42% more likely to kill himself if he had been quote-unquote forced in his job to refer to this student using his pronouns.
I want to know what is so hard about this.
Quote, it's not true.
According to who?
Who's, you know, who's the arbiter of truth here?
The student?
The person who's proclaiming the truth about himself?
Or Peter, who is not the student?
I would also be interested in exactly what the closely held religious belief is that undergirds a teacher who rests in their position That they can make the lives of their students more painful and more hostile.
So, I let you speak, obviously, and I took your call deliberately, obviously, as well.
I'm curious, you say you're 8-year-old.
We have spoken before, Dennis, and I have told you that my child feels closer to God as a boy than he did as a girl.
I told you that.
Do you remember that call?
I said to my child, what does it feel like when you're a boy?
What is your experience as a boy?
He was probably not...
He was...
But somewhere between...
All right.
Okay.
You know, I wish we had more time.
We've got to take a break.
There are competing elements here that serious people have to confront.
The societal issues and the individual issues.
And there are those who think that society is suffering.
When the American Medical Association says that no birth certificate should have a sex on it.
There were many, many issues involved.
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The last three years of the Bush administration, I was the assistant U.S. trade rep for the Bush administration for public affairs, meaning I was just the spokesperson.
person.
And forever we would hear why we couldn't do things.
We couldn't renegotiate NAFTA because, well, it was signed and sealed and we couldn't do this.
And I get it.
But that was the mentality.
Frankly, that's the mentality that permeates government.
And I get it.
And so I was always like, OK, I get it.
This is stupid, but we do have a signed deal.
And you got a guy like Trump that comes in, and you tell him that, well, you know, there's this signed deal, and he says, so what?
It was one of the most refreshing things about it.
And it was just, the thing that was so weird is, if you think about it, why aren't more, because...
I don't think you should tear up everything for the sake of it.
No, but just ask the questions.
Right.
Ask the questions.
Why do we just keep doing things the way that we always have?
Why don't we challenge the system?
Can it do better?
Can we do better for the American people?
Can we be more efficient and a better steward of their tax dollars?
Can we deliver a better product?
Do we still need to do what we're doing anymore?
Right?
I mean, think about this.
Trump's view was...
You haven't modernized an agreement.
When NAFTA was signed, there was no internet.
So we're dealing with problems that didn't exist then that, frankly, when you signed the deal, you couldn't have even thought of.
So why not modernize it?
On behalf of America, that's what we're supposed to be doing.
And at the end of the day, it all worked out.
And if you are in the car industry...
You're getting a better deal now as an American worker in that industry.
If you're a dairy farmer, you're getting a better deal.
If you work in the technology field, your IP is more protected.
But it was a way of thinking that had never come in before.
Because previously, you would have had some guy that would have been like, okay, here's 18 PowerPoints and this is the process.
And Trump was like, no, that's not, if it's not working, screw it.
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According to the National School Board Association and your federal government.
BLM, they are not domestic terrorists.
Not even close.
The cartel, no memo issued about the cartel.
How about gangbangers in inner cities?
Nope.
No, instead, this is the emphasis and the focus.
Of the people who have the guns.
Playcut54.
In March, my child had to watch a TED talk in English class, not on anything related to English, but rather oppression and acknowledging privilege.
Any parent with a pulse knows that this is wrong.
Why has public school become so mired in extremist politics and a permissive culture that seems to celebrate the latest popular fads like gender fluidity?
And we oppose your efforts to impose critical race theory, an overtly racist doctrine that teaches our children to judge and categorize others based solely on the color of their skin.
Your government believes that mother is a domestic terrorist.
Thank you.
And I have many people asking us, emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Well, Charlie, what can be done about this?
I do have to say that I think Republicans have handled this better than I've seen most issues.
Not great.
I think a 5 out of 10. The FBI is completely and totally out of control.
The Department of Justice does whatever they want to do.
The National School Board Association of America is a major donor to the Democrat Party.
We have been calling for school board involvement for years.
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Obviously, you won't necessarily know the answer to this question per se, but what is the deal with Republicans?
Because I'm sitting here thinking, what can be done?
I mean, these people are essentially, in my mind, political prisoners.
Excuse me.
And I don't understand why Republicans, when they have an opportunity to call out injustice and to get on the offense, it's just...
This is just weird to me.
I don't understand if Republicans, the leadership, if they're intimidated, if they don't want to go up against a black man, or if they're scared of being branded racist, I don't understand this.
Besides the fact that, okay, they don't necessarily like Trump, we're all realizing that.
But for the sake of the integrity of our Justice Department, you would think that more Republicans would stand up.
Gave Lisa Monaco, the deputy AG who's in charge, an Obama loyalist, a Russian collusion perp, an anti-Trumpist who was on CNN for four years.
They gave her almost a unanimous confirmation, Carl.
48 Republican senators voted to put Lisa Monaco, a well-known Obama loyalist, Unbelievable.
Yeah, so, I mean, they're cowards.
They're complicit.
You go down the list, I don't know.
But the real battle next year, Carl, is going to be in the Republican Party, not the Democrats.
We need the clean house almost entirely.
These are not the people who can lead us against the fight.
You know, Seb, the one thing that was fascinating that I always the one thing that was fascinating that I always tell people is that for three years, the last three years of the Bush administration, I was the assistant U.S.
trade rep for the Bush administration for public affairs, meaning I was just the spokesperson.
And forever we would hear why we couldn't do things.
We couldn't renegotiate NAFTA because, well, it was signed and sealed and we couldn't do this.
And I get it.
But that was the mentality.
Frankly, that's the mentality that permeates government.
And I get it.
And so I was always like, okay, I get it.
This is stupid, but we do have a signed deal.
And you get a guy like Trump that comes in and you tell him, well, you know, there's this signed deal.
And he says, so what?
It was one of the most refreshing things about it.
And it was just, the thing that was so weird is if you think about it, why aren't more people?
I don't think you should tear up everything for the sake of it.
No, but just ask the questions.
Right.
Ask the questions.
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Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
Coming to you from Charlotte, North Carolina.
on.
Traveled from South Carolina.
Three and a half hour trip.
Charleston, South Carolina to here.
We did it by a car.
It was a great trip.
The living martyr was in the car and my son.
One of my two sons and a close friend and co-worker of his.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun.
Four guys having a great time and even getting reports on the Red Sox Tampa Bay series.
All of us in the car rooting for Tampa Bay, for the record.
And It just shows you how much rooting affects results.
Southwest CEO, I reported this last hour.
It must be repeated constantly.
Southwest CEO says he never wanted a COVID vaccine mandate, but Biden forced his hand.
I don't understand how Biden can force his hand.
I don't understand that.
President of the United States can tell a company, fire your workers if they don't do X or Y. Truly, I don't understand.
Maybe it is possible, but I don't get it.
And that he has come out and said he is personally so opposed to this.
And they had the audacity, Democrats and the media, which is the same thing, to say that Donald Trump was an authoritarian, a dictator, fascist.
Everything they call Biden, everything they call Trump is exactly what Biden and all the Democrats are.
That is exactly it.
That is the oldest trick in the book of the left.
You call your opponents what you are.
These are dictators.
These are tyrants.
These are quasi-fascists.
The audacity, the utter audacity to tell companies, fire your workers if they don't meet what we want.
Again, I don't get it.
I don't get it, how it is possible.
I have to do a lot of research on that.
We're going to have guests on it.
I'll tell my producer right now.
I would like somebody to explain this to me.
How one man can tell the companies all over this country, you have no choice but to fire your workers.
I don't get it.
This is not the America that I know.
Or that at least half of the country knows.
That it is done in the name of safety?
So what?
So what?
And by the way, if it's really safety, why didn't they do this before?
Why is the mandate now for December?
Why isn't it for tomorrow?
How many people will die without this mandate?
Are unvaccinated workers at Southwest killing people?
Do we have the shred of data of that?
No, of course we don't.
Talking about science is a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the left has corrupted science in this country.
And my favorite part of the story, I'll repeat as well.
Early last year, we were treated to the delightful spectacle of Montana's Glacier National Park, removing signs.
That said its glaciers would be gone by 2020. Isn't that something?
All of these predictions, none of these predictions have come true.
These are predictions that are now over 30 years old.
Starting at least in 1990. Oh, we have 12 years and then it's too late.
Then the world is going to boil.
Existential threat to life.
When researchers fear losing a grant or being subject to personal attack if they question the predominant belief, that belief no longer rests on scientific grounds.
True or false, it is superstition in scientific clothing.
Science has been replaced with what the Soviets called partisan science.
To doubt a scientist is not to doubt science.
That's right.
How often have I said to you, the left doesn't believe in science, they believe in scientists.
Quite the contrary, personal authority is precisely what science dispenses with as much as possible.
Dr. Fauci's assertion of authority creates skepticism about all his assertions, legitimately because the distinction between science and a particular scientist is essential.
To be sure, non-scientists often have to trust scientists to inform them what the science has discovered.
But that is all the more reason that scientists bear the responsibility of not letting political or other non-scientific criteria affect their explication.
It is now regarded as an open question whether the COVID virus escaped a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
But when the virus first appeared, dozens of scientists published a statement in The Lancet.
Lancet is one of the two most prestigious medical journals in the world, or science journals.
When the virus first appeared, get this, dozens of scientists published a statement in The Lancet expressing, quote, solidarity, unquote, with Chinese colleagues.
Quote, The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumors and misinformation around its origins.
Get that?
Misinformation about its origins, if you said it originated in a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
That was called misinformation by scientists in The Lancet.
We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
In other words, came from animals.
How could epidemiology discern that ideas were not only ill-founded, but conspiratorial?
Now that new evidence has come to light, have these conspiracy-denouncing scientists acknowledged they overstepped?
What do you think the answer is, my friends?
He gives a one-word answer, either yes or no.
Again, now that new evidence has come to light, have these conspiracy-denouncing scientists acknowledged they overstepped?
I think overstepped is an understatement.
Lied is a better term.
Answer?
No.
In another statement to The Lancet in July, they assert...
We reaffirm our expression of solidarity with those in China who confronted the outbreak then.
Then the writer, a professor at Northwestern, goes on to write, Solidarity is a social, not scientific category, and a judgment as to whether scientists in an authoritarian regime have been pressured is also not a scientific one.
Anyone who has studied Marxist-Leninist regimes knows that it is possible that the solidarity is not with the scientists, but with the authorities supervising them.
That's right.
It's a very important piece.
We're going to put it up at DennisPrager.com.
When reasonable people cease to trust science in one case, How will one persuade them in another?
By the end of the Soviet Union, almost no untrusted government statements about natural disasters or man-made catastrophes like Chernobyl.
How will we handle the next crisis about which scientific understanding has something to contribute when scientists are known to base statements on policy preferences?
This is part of the cost of the Lancet scientists' accusation.
And of Dr. Fauci's lack of candor.
The greater danger to the public's trust in science comes not from the uneducated, but from politicians and journalists who claim to speak in the name of science.
Still more that comes from scientists themselves, either because of what they say publicly in the name of science, or their failure to correct others' misrepresentations of it.
Yep, another arena of life destroyed by the left.
You know, every one of you has someone in your life, at least one person in your life, who votes Democrat.
The odds are they're a really wonderful person.
So at some point though, even wonderful people have to confront That they are doing terrible damage to this wonderful country.
Terrible, maybe fatal damage.
And if they don't at least confront it, how wonderful are they?
back in a moment streaming on Salem now we understand that a plane has crashed The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history.
The United States killed.
Osama bin Laden.
There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 US dollar bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs.
Nobody's gonna survive that.
There's nobody in that.
This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
Most of them are US Navy SEALs.
We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
The military threw them away.
More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
Everybody out, we have a fallen angel.
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The Democratic Party somehow has convinced black people that they're the good guys.
Never mind the skanky history of the Democratic Party.
That was a party of slavery.
There is a whole big cottage industry for racism.
If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.
The mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd.
A bunch of white thugs, frankly, burning down the city's traditional black and Asian businesses.
They're racist, racist, racist.
Everything's racist.
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I grew up Pope, which is even worse than being...
Our lunch consisted of whatever my mother could scrape together from the dinner the night before.
We would have sandwiches with no meat.
My American dream entailed working hard and making $20,000 a year.
But I surpassed that goal and became a corporate CEO. Put in an economic growth plan called 999. We'll all be able to say, free at last!
Free at last!
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Small business owners are hurting, while their big global competitors thrive.
What's Washington's response?
More talk of mandates, government spending, and tax increases on small businesses.
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Job Creators Network is taking their message on the road in October.
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They're my kind of people.
They fight.
And a fight we have.
That is clear.
What's happening in Times Square, Manhattan?
Peace in City Journal.
It was only a matter of time before a visitor was murdered in Times Square.
That victim was Maria Ambrosio, a 58-year-old New Jersey cancer nurse who came to New York City on Friday to have lunch with a friend.
Afterward, she and her friend were walking through the heart of New York when an alleged mugger Twenty-six-year-old Germaine Foster, running on foot after having just robbed one woman in her apartment and another woman on the street, slammed into Ambrosio at high speed, knocking her unconscious.
She died on Saturday.
She's gone, her brother told the New York Post.
Ambrosio's death wasn't a freak accident.
It was a predictable and preventable homicide.
Times Square has been a mess for months.
Last week, an illegally armed man accidentally shot himself while publicly urinating.
That's an interesting question.
Can you publicly urinate in Times Square and nothing happened to you?
I don't know the answer.
I'm curious.
I know you can do that in, I presume you can do that in San Francisco, wherever people called progressives, one of the stupidest terms for utterly regressive human beings imaginable.
Is it not clear to anyone with any depth that public urinating Is a way of bringing down civilization?
Is that not obvious?
Does it take some deep thought to realize that?
Does it take a religious person to realize that?
The same day a woman with a long record of similar violent unprovoked assaults against other women Shoved the stranger, another woman, into the side of a train attempting to kill her.
I saw the picture.
She just got up and pushed the woman onto an oncoming subway train.
Incredibly, she missed.
In the sense that she hit the side of the train, not the front of the train.
In June 4, muggers attacked yet another woman stealing her phone.
The same month, a 16-year-old boy allegedly shot a Marine whom he didn't know in the back.
In May, an illegal vendor with a violent history shot and wounded two women and a girl.
Last November, a homeless man stabbed another man to death nearby.
I live just north of Times Square, the writer here.
The writer is Nicole Galinas.
I live just north of Times Square and I avoid it.
That's correct.
I don't blame her.
Statistics also show that the risk of becoming a serious crime victim is much higher than it was two years ago.
Crime in the Midtown South Precinct has soared in the past two years.
Robberies have tripled since 2019. That's the reported robberies, folks.
You know, a lot of people don't report it.
So reported robberies have tripled in two years.
Assaults have more than doubled.
Just like on the subways, crime has risen as foot traffic remains low.
Daily walkers through Times Square number about 218,000, 42% lower than in September 2019. It's almost half the amount of people walking in Times Square.
Everyone moving through Times Square today then is at greater per capita risk of violent injury.
Mayor Bill de Blasio can't decide whether this is a crisis.
On one hand, he deems business leaders unproductive, quote-unquote, for being concerned about random shootings, stabbings, and assaults.
On the other hand, he has deployed more police to the area.
The police have helped some.
The NYPD, along with the federal government, arrested eight men in August for running an open-air crack market.
But this takedown took months of work and consumed scarce federal resources.
Yep.
So, this is what's happening.
Last week, Queen's State Senator Jessica Ramos said, apropos of the latest subway pusher, that arrests are not working.
Wrong.
What's not working is letting people out of jail and prison, at least without strict mental health treatment and addiction plans.
To make an arrest that sticks, people must wait until small crime escalates and someone is severely injured.
This strategy requires a lot of good luck.
Good luck wasn't available for Ambrosio last week.
So that's the story.
Defund police.
Let them out with no bail.
Right?
This is what's called progressive.
And the little guy pays the price.
They're the ones who get hurt with all of this stuff.
Matt in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
From what I understand, I heard on the Glenn Beck program today that Southwest has a contract with the U.S. government.
Therefore, any contractor working for the United States government has to be vaccinated.
Right.
Who said that?
I thought Joe Biden.
I don't know.
I thought that was Joe the dictator's mandate.
No, no.
So is there a limit to the authority that a president has with anyone who holds a government contract?
I mean, I'm asking.
I don't know the answer.
What if he said, you cannot go out without a jacket if it reaches 32 degrees?
Because we can't afford the health care costs of people getting colds or sick or whatever, or the flu.
Is that allowable?
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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
There's one Jewish state.
The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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We understand that a plane has crashed.
The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Biggest and most costly manhunt in US history.
United States killed.
Osama bin Laden.
There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 US dollar bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs.
Nobody's gonna survive that.
There's nobody in that.
This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
Most of them are US Navy SEALs.
We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
The military threw them away.
- More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
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The Democratic Party somehow has convinced black people that they're the good guys.
Never mind the skanky history of the Democratic Party.
That was a party of slavery.
There is a whole big cottage industry for racism.
If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.
The mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd.
A bunch of white thugs, frankly, burning down the city's traditional black and Asian business.
They're racist, racist, racist.
Everything's racist.
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We'll see you next time.
I don't know how better to introduce the author of a book that's out today, actually.
I'm always delighted when I have an author on the day the book is published.
Naomi Riley has been on this program before.
She's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
And the book that is out today is No Way to Treat a Child, How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives.
So, I'm just curious, did you have to take antidepressants when you did the research?
I have to say, I would have to take a break from the research sometimes.
It is pretty difficult stuff to read and to understand just how broken the system is and how badly we're mistreating some of the most vulnerable children in this country.
So, walk me through the process.
How does one become a foster child?
So there are about 3 million calls that come into our system every year in this country reporting cases of abuse and neglect.
About 800,000 of those we find when we investigate that something has really gone wrong.
Only a small minority of those cases do we actually end up removing a child from their biological parents or whoever their caregiver is.
But even with that small minority, there are currently about 440,000 kids who are in our foster care system.
And what has to happen in order for them to be removed to foster care is that we have to deem that it's unsafe for them to stay in their home.
In addition to an agency worker from a child welfare agency investigating, that removal has to be signed off on by a family court judge.
And then we decide, you know, how long that child needs to stay out of that home depending on whether the parent is willing or able to care for that child in a safe way again.
Okay, so I am curious.
I don't know if you have an answer to this, but...
It just hit me.
A hundred years ago, how did our society deal with children in dysfunctional homes?
Well, in some ways, similar to the way it does now, in the sense that the first line of defense is, of course, family members would step in long before the state got involved.
You know, if you were in a situation where you couldn't take care of your children, maybe your brother or sister would take care of them, or a grandmother or grandfather would step in to take care of them before the state even ever got involved.
And that still happens in many cases today.
For kids who really had absolutely no caretakers, you know, 100 years ago, they would have been sent to an orphanage of some sort, some kind of congregate care facility.
Right, okay, so I suspected that, although I wasn't sure.
So I'm curious.
It was a leading question.
Well, I didn't know if it was a leading question because I didn't really, I wasn't sure.
I had a feeling it was orphanage.
So the leading part is this one.
What's better, the foster care system or the orphanage?
Thank you.
Well, it's a hard question to answer in some ways.
I mean, I think that the best case scenario for any child is that they be in a home environment with a family, whether that's their biological family, an extended family member, or a non-relative family who has volunteered to open their home to vulnerable children.
But there are kids who are currently today kind of unable to live in those kinds of settings.
Because they have severe behavioral problems, severe mental health problems, some of those have been brought on by the way that they were taken care of by their parents or not taken care of, and some of them were brought on by the fact that we kind of re-traumatized them by taking them in and out of those homes all the time and putting them in, you know, sometimes dozens of different placements, kind of preventing them from forming a secure attachment to a particular person or particular family.
And so there is a place, I think, in our system today for congregate care or group home, you know, for helping kids to readjust to what family life should and could be.
I don't think, you know, we should, you know, reinstitute mass orphanages, but I do think we need to understand that the situation we have for some of these kids now is really quite abusive and problematic.
The system really revolves around adults' needs and desires, not children, and so we continue to put children And re-put children into unsafe situations because we feel bad for their adult caretakers.
We think of the adults as victims in the system, not children.
Okay, so I'm going to take a break, and then I want to walk you through the thesis of your book, why we have a big problem.
What is the big problem?
Is it the foster parents?
Is it the family courts?
What is it?
Anyway, this very important book is out today.
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No way to treat a child how the foster care system, family courts, and racial activists are wrecking young lives.
Ruining would have been just as fine.
Wrecking is true.
So, is the biggest culprit the...
The racial activists, or all three are equal culprits?
Oh, I think they're all three equal culprits.
Certainly the racial ideology that is gripping this country is making things much worse for children.
You now have a movement out there called the Abolish Foster Care Movement that has come up in parallel with the Defund the Police Movement.
These are people who think we don't need child protection at all.
And they think that the real victims here are the parents.
They say that our foster care system is structurally racist.
We should stop having mandated reporters like teachers and doctors call in signs of abuse or neglect in children.
They think we should end drug testing of infants, you know, to find out if they've been born substance exposed.
They even think that we should stop having police intervene in domestic violence cases because that's how we often find out when children are at high risk in a situation.
And they point to the disparate racial numbers in the foster care system.
They say there are too many black kids in the foster care system, so we should just eliminate it.
Now, if you want to understand the true reason why there are so many black children in the foster care system, you have to look at the numbers of children who are being maltreated, who are being abused and neglected every year.
Black children are twice as likely in this country to suffer from maltreatment, and they are three times as likely to die from maltreatment.
Those are numbers that are not just about your racial perspective.
Those are numbers about children's lives.
And if you think black lives matter, you should think black children's lives matter, and you should be willing to do what the system has to in order to protect them from bad actors.
That is actually a good question.
A good motto for people to adopt, black children's lives matter.
I wonder how that would go over.
So, is the primary problem or the disproportionate problem with black children?
Black children, Native American children also suffer maltreatment at a much higher percentage than is their representation in the population.
Are we good?
Can you hear me?
Now I do.
Yeah, I lost you.
Okay, go ahead.
So Native American, black, go on.
Yeah, Native American, black children are both represented in the child welfare system at a much higher rate than their percentage in the population.
It's interesting that Hispanic children are not.
They are represented at about, actually, their rate in the population.
And one reason for this is they are much more likely to live in two-parent households and in two-parent married households.
If you are living with a single mother and a non-relative male, as a disproportionate number of black children in this country are, you are at much higher risk for abuse.
You are 11 times more likely to suffer from child abuse as living in a two-parent married family.
Makes perfect sense.
What about the issue, and this is very vague to me, but I do recall, I think, hearing about this, how many people have been foster parents, bonded healthfully with the child, and want to adopt the child and are prevented from doing so.
Is that an issue?
That is absolutely an issue.
We have...
A bias in our system towards family preservation and family reunification, which makes sense, obviously, for most families in the sense that children belong with their families.
But these are people who have so badly mistreated them and are unwilling or unable to care for them.
In many cases, it has a lot to do with drug addiction, frankly.
Our substance abuse crisis is driving our child welfare crisis in this country.
But we have this idea that no matter what, no matter if a child has...
Bonded with foster parents for years, two years, three years, four years.
If a parent suddenly cleans up their act, we should send that child back, no matter how attached, securely attached they are to the foster family.
And we know so much about the damage neurologically that that can do to a child to rip them away from the family that they have known, the adults they have come to depend on, and just say, oh, the thing that matters most is that these are the people who you share blood with.
Or that these are the people whose skin color matches yours.
That is another part of the racial ideology that is driving where we place children.
I will say, in answer to my opening question to you, I would have gone on antidepressants.
You are better than me.
Yeah, I mean, I have to say, you know, the one bright spot in this story for me was visiting with a lot of churches and faith-based organizations that were taking on this work.
And really have revolutionized foster care and adoption in recent years.
They have just done such amazing work recruiting, training, and supporting foster families.
And they are committed to making sure that children have these safe, stable, loving homes that they need.
You know, if only we weren't trying to drive these faith-based institutions out of the foster care and adoption space.
You know, when you said earlier that, you know, they place Great emphasis on blood and skin color.
So I can't tell you the contempt I have for that.
One of my two sons is adopted, adopted at birth.
And my line all of my life has been, I am infinitely more interested in passing on my values than my seed.
I don't give a damn about blood.
I think it's primitive even for people to...
I think that's pretty representative of the American people generally.
I think that most Americans think what's important is that you have a family to care for you, not that your skin color matches.
Absolutely.
Right.
But you would be attacked.
If you said that publicly, some people would say that's white supremacist talk.
That beautiful idea that you and I just enunciated.
Anyway, listen.
You have a white savior complex.
Yes.
Well, God bless you.
You do great work, and I don't say that to a lot of people.
So keep it up, and folks, get the book.
It's up at DennisPrager.com.
No Way to Treat a Child.
Boy, is that ever true.
Boy, is that ever true. is that ever true.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly, it's this...
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing?
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries.
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car.
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or...
Whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be.
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And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light.
But you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, they have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative.
It's because it's extremely rare.
But the left makes you too mad to realize this.
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Hi.
Jack in Bakersfield, California.
Hello.
Jack in Bakersfield, come in.
Oh, hello.
How are you doing?
Good, thank you.
Anyway, what I was going to say is, the foster care system is broken in that people get in there, some of them get in there just for money, others...
are actually out there to help people.
But even when we were going to classes, I brought up having a black child in my house.
They only put him there overnight because they needed it now.
But when I brought it up, they took him out.
They wouldn't let us keep him at all.
Another black foster care mother was in there.
She says, white people should never have black people in there because they're too soft.
They spoil them.
That was coming from a black foster care person.
So there's a whole different attitude about how to raise children in the Democrats.
And I don't understand people getting up and saying, I'm black rather than I'm human, or I'm white rather than I'm human.
Well, you believe in colorblind, which is the only moral view available on race.
Non-colorblind is pure racism, and the black and the white left are today's racists.
If people do not understand that, it is because they have been brainwashed or they have evil intentions.
There is no beneficent interpretation.
For people who believe that colorblind is not the noble ideal, the only noble ideal.
It is better to ruin black children's lives than to have them raised in a loving white home.
That is the view.
By the way, this has been the view of the National Association of Black Social Workers.
I reported this on the radio, I think, in the 90s.
This is not new.
It's about as pure a form of racism as exists.
But that's the elite.
That's how the elite think in our country.
And people are intimidated into believing immoral drivel.
So we have this book out from Naomi Riley, by Naomi Riley.
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Because there is a Washington Post story out that Trump is running a wink and a nod campaign, Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink and a nod, unofficial candidacy.
What do you make of the headline?
It's some good reporting, but Trump has been running a wink and a nod candidacy since the day he left the White House.
And it was pretty clear to me when I interviewed him for the book in May that he was interested in running again.
He asked me, why do people think I'm not running?
I said, who says you're not running?
Let's just talk about other people that may run if you don't, which I finally got him to agree to do.
How long did that take?
Three and a half hours.
Yeah, I mean, you gotta...
I got him there.
So, I was told yesterday by a confidant of the former president that he is going to run, and that if he changes his mind because of health, but he looks in great shape, if he does run, he's going to destroy anyone who runs against him.
I mean, just take them out at the knees and turn on them.
And if he doesn't run, he'll be supportive of them, hoping to freeze them for a while.
Consistent with your understanding?
Yeah, well, look, first of all, we know that anytime he's in a campaign, he tries to take people out at the knees.
Again, nothing new.
I think the thing to understand about President Trump, former President Trump, is that he loves being in the arena.
He loves holding his big rallies.
He hasn't tired of politics.
He didn't want to retire from politics.
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What the left tries to do is they just use emotion.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly, it's this constant divisiveness.
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing?
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries?
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car?
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be, but you have to understand something.
And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light, but you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, They have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative.
It's because it's extremely rare.
But the left makes you too mad to realize this.
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You know, Dr. Fauci is, what's the good word, the way to say it?
He's a creature of the media.
And I think he kind of thrives on setting off these mini-controversies and then, in this case, trying to clarify himself afterwards.
But he just, you know, he'll do an interview with anybody and he says all sorts of stuff.
Well, he did an interview with me last week in which he said he'll never resign.
See?
He'll do an interview with anybody.
There you go.
Anybody.
But he's been here many, many times.
And I always try and give him tough questions.
But I went through the many CDC, FDA failures.
And they are failures.
His noble lie about the mass, the J&J pause, the failure to do ivermectin research in a timely fashion, the failure to do research on mass on children under the age of five in a timely fashion.
Have you lost confidence in him, Byron?
Absolutely.
I mean, here's the thing.
When I want to know something, like, okay, what is the extent of breakthrough infections?
What percentage of deaths are people who are double vaccinated or fully vaccinated?
What percentage of hospitalizations?
A lot of this information is rather difficult to find, in part because Fauci has not been a reliable source of the best information.
And I think a lot of the debate that goes on, the uninformed debate that goes on, and I try not to be part of that, is as a result of the government not being a credible source of the best information.
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Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.
Why are you cracking up?
You made me nervous.
I made you nervous.
It's not often that I make Sean nervous, ladies and gentlemen.
He's a pretty cool, cool cucumber.
Anyway, as the Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday, and it is about the ultimate issues of life.
They are very important.
They're incredibly important.
People are too preoccupied with the micro and not the macro.
And as a result, the micro suffer because people don't have a firm body of wisdom.
Ultimate Issues Hour could be called the Wisdom Hour, but I couldn't call it the Wisdom Hour because it would sound too pompous.
Oh, here's Dennis Prager with his Wisdom Hour.
It doesn't sound right.
So I call it the Ultimate Issues Hour.
But it's all about wisdom.
Whether you think I'm wise or not is not the point.
It is about wisdom.
And I have an interesting subject today.
And the question is, it's a question.
What did you learn, if anything, In the last year and a half about life.
Through the lockdown, the lockdowns, and the school shutting down, and the cancel culture.
I mean, everything that is happening.
So the question is, What, if anything, have you learned in the past year?
So I will give you some examples that I have learned, or things that have not necessarily learned, but have been, if you will, reaffirmed in my life, in no order of importance.
Here's one.
I have mentioned this not on the Ultimate Issues Hour, but in passing on other hours of the show.
I have learned, to my surprise, by the way, that people can be brainwashed by the media in a free society.
I had assumed most of my life that the media can brainwash people only in a totalitarian state.
And it turns out not to be true.
People are just as brainwashable in a free society.
That is how powerful the media are.
And of course, when the media are compounded with school, all delivering the identical messages, The brainwash is quite profound.
So that's one.
I'll develop that more later.
Another one is the power of fear.
This actually did become apparent to me only in the last year or two.
How many people are motivated by fear?
I had never quite realized this.
As much as I have in the last year and a half.
Fear is an incredibly powerful motivator of behavior.
And it is irrelevant if the fear is rational or irrational.
It's completely irrelevant.
Fear is a creator of behavior, whether or not the fear is legitimate.
So that's the second thing that has become quite clear.
Third, I knew this, but now I know it far more deeply.
Courage is very rare.
And there are very few courageous people.
If courage were common, the world would be good.
Courage is the necessity of goodness in our world.
Fourth, and the thing I've said the most is, and now it's become even more clear, liberty is a value, not an instinct, not a yearning.
People do not yearn to be free.
That's baloney.
People yearn to be taken care of.
All of this has become clearer than ever or clear for the first time to me in the last year and a half to two years.
So my question to you is, does this resonate with what you have learned about life?
If anything, maybe you didn't.
But those are my four.
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This has been a very sobering time in world life, not just American life.
And those are the four that came to my mind as I was jotting down some notes prior to this hour.
I'll develop them further, but first I'll go to some of your calls.
Kyle in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
How's it going?
Okay, thank you.
I know that you don't answer that question.
No, no, no.
I do answer it.
Yeah.
Well, I just want to say that I'm a little nervous.
I've always listened to you throughout college.
You're like a grandfather I've never met.
Thank you.
Yeah, you played a huge part of my life as far as growing up mentally-wise.
Going to your question, I want to make it short and sweet.
Going to your question, I noticed that you stated people being brainwashed and people are easily brainwashed.
I noticed that...
For what I've seen, and I'm in sales, I do management, I see that people just really want to be told what to do.
They don't want to have the decision for themselves at all.
So when it comes to fear, they'll listen to whoever it is that comes off a little bit more aggressive in terms of what they should do.
They don't think twice, and they just commit and execute.
So tell me, I think that that's a very intelligent point.
Why did you learn that in sales?
So the way that you can kind of communicate with people, the way that you display things, and if people are essentially, they have an issue at mind and something that is a problem to them, saying things in a certain way, it really, it can essentially...
Change people's perspective on things.
And I think that with the media, that's essentially their role.
So their tone and the tone of voice and how you say things, it's imperative in how the message is delivered.
Right, but if I understood you correctly, you said that you realized from sales how people like to be told what to do.
Did I hear you correctly?
Right, so I didn't quite follow your response.
How did sales convince you that people want to be told what to do?
Essentially, just telling people, saying, hey, you know, I think you should do this because of this problem.
And by saying that in a tone of voice...
I see, in an authoritative voice, it works.
Okay, that's very interesting.
I agree with you.
See, it's so foreign to me, I don't want to be told what to do except by God.
So I don't want to be told what to do by irrational fools, which is what it usually amounts to, by power-hungry irrational fools.
And, in fact, to me, it is a moral duty not to listen to such people.
I march to the beat of my own drummer, but I am, by definition, I'm a minority in that way.
Obviously, I'm not alone in that.
There are plenty of others like me, but we're a minority.
So what have you learned or what have you seen reconfirmed in your major life beliefs in the last year and a half or two years in the United States?
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If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.
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Curious what you have learned or have reconfirmed in the course of this past year.
I offered you some of the things that I have.
And let's get to you here.
All right.
By the way, so the last one I agree with.
People like to be told what to do.
I'm going to add that to my own list.
Hold on.
I think that's a good one.
I might do a column on this.
If I can only find where I kept the notes here.
It's hard to keep abreast of every single thing.
There we go.
Now I notice.
Alright, people like to be told what to do.
God, what a painful realization.
Alright, Clarissa in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
So, I have profound hearing loss.
I've been blessed with two cochlear implants in the past two years.
But I tend to isolate.
You can isolate when you have hearing loss.
You kind of become comfortable isolating away from social settings because it can be hard sometimes.
So, that's something I'm always fighting with, with my disability.
But I try to get myself out of my comfort zone and I join groups.
Like, I'm a part of a church group.
I go to church.
I go to my workout classes.
But when the pandemic hit and they shut all that down, it became very hard for me again.
And mentally, just fighting that isolation and my becoming okay with my disability was really difficult.
Wow.
A lot of people in my community feel that way.
And with the masks, we live free.
That's right.
Well, also, I mean, the hard of hearing or completely deaf who look to lips, their life has been rendered impossible in communications because of masks.
Yeah, it's awful.
Right, and people don't give a damn.
They don't give a damn about you.
Right, that's how it feels.
It is mass cruelty.
What I have seen in the medical profession is only usable with the word cruelty.
Not letting people visit dying relatives, not giving transplants to people who are not vaccinated.
It is beyond belief, the cruelty of the medical profession.
This shook me up, I have to say.
We think of them as kindly, and a lot of them turn out to be scum.
So my heart breaks for you.
The whole lockdown was a farce.
It probably killed more than it saved, and certainly the disaster for people like you.
So what is your story right now?
And by the way, if the cochlear implants work to a certain extent, Why are you isolated?
They're fabulous.
My life has opened up again since I got them.
I love them, but then masks were thrown on everyone's face like six months into my first cochlear implant, so that just made it difficult again, but I feel very grateful that I have both of them now.
Well, I'm delighted to talk to you.
Thank you for calling me.
Thanks, Dennis.
You're welcome.
Good woman.
The meanness that has transpired in the medical profession, that came out, that I have to say, that was a shock.
The University of Colorado Health System will not allow a person about to die for not getting a kidney transplant.
She has a donor.
But because the donor is not vaccinated, they will not, or she's not vaccinated, the recipient, or both are not, they will not allow it to happen and they will kill her.
These are scum.
The University of Colorado Health System are composed of lowlifes, of heartless bastards.
I don't know what else to say.
I do actually know what else to say, but I can't say it because of FCC rules.
I know.
He wants me to say it, then I'll dump it.
That's funny.
Okay, let's see here.
What did you learn in the last year or year and a half, two years?
Or what has been reconfirmed for you?
Okay, let's go to Klaus in Burbank, California.
Hello.
It's Clowns.
I think this is like the fourth time I've called, and you've always been like, oh, let me make sure I pronounce it correctly.
It's very sweet.
Thank you.
That is funny.
So, I guess for me, the biggest thing I learned is how few people I interact with.
Southern California has a romantic relationship with America, as I do, by forgoing freedoms, by forgoing common sense, and not wanting to preserve what we have as Americans.
I grew up in a pretty patriotic family.
I'm a family.
I was involved in Boy Scouts.
I'm an Eagle Scout.
I did community projects.
I've gone to Pearl Harbor and other memorial sites.
And I've never taken for granted the freedoms I have.
But now that I thought, oh, maybe more people around me have those same views.
And this past year and a half has shown me that not necessarily.
And it's quite sombering.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That's a good point.
I'm going to add that to my list.
How many Americans have contempt for this country?
Yeah, that's a good one.
You folks are good.
How many Americans have contempt for this country?
Isn't it interesting, though?
Think of all these people who are trying to get into the country.
They don't have contempt for this country.
How do you explain that?
How do these people explain that?
I guess they didn't go to an American university back in Haiti or in Africa or Mexico or Guatemala, wherever they're coming from.
Remember I had Yanmin Park on, a woman who defected from North Korea?
He said she learned more anti-American hatred at Columbia University where she just did her degree than she did in North Korea.
She's right.
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Because there is a Washington Post story out that Trump is running a wink and a nod campaign, Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink and a nod on official candidacy.
What do you make of the headline?
Well, it's some good reporting, but, you know, Trump has been running a wink and a nod candidacy since the day he left the White House.
Pretty clear to me when I interviewed him for the book in May that he was interested in running again.
He asked me, why do people think I'm not running?
I said, who says you're not running?
Let's just talk about other people that may run if you don't, which I finally got him to agree to do.
How long did that take?
You know, about three and a half hours.
Yeah, I mean, you got to...
I got him there.
So, I was told yesterday by a confidant of the former president that he is going to run and that if he changes his mind because of health, but that he looks in great shape, if he does run, he's going to destroy anyone who runs against him.
I mean, just take them out at the knees and turn on them.
And if he doesn't run, he'll be supportive of them, hoping to freeze them for a while.
Consistent with your understanding?
Yeah, well, look, first of all, we know that any time he's in a campaign, he tries to take people out at the knees.
Again, nothing new.
I think the thing to understand about President Trump, former President Trump, is that he loves being in the arena.
He loves holding his big rallies.
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He didn't want to retire from politics.
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What the left tries to do is they just use emotion.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly, it's this constant divisiveness.
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing?
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries?
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car?
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be, but you have to understand something.
And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light, but you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, They have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative.
It's because it's extremely rare.
But the left makes you too mad to realize this.
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What have you learned or been reconfirmed in basic beliefs about life in the last two years?
Okay, that's the question here.
And let's get...
I'm going to review the list based on your calls and what I believe.
John in the Bronx.
Hello.
Bronx, New York.
Hey Dennis, what's going on?
What's going on?
A lot.
A lot, yeah, a whole lot.
Well, listen, I guess to be brief to it, what did I learn or what was reconfirmed over the last year?
Two things.
One, it's time to stop playing along with any double standards that are put on us based on the establishment, left-leaning, you know, whether it's the corporate world or the Democratic Party, because they switch it on a dime, boldly, and they don't feel any shame about it.
So there's no need to even point it out.
Just don't play along.
That's the first thing.
And the second thing is, we're a lot closer to fascism than anyone would have ever have liked to admit.
You know, obviously there's that corporatist system that makes up fascism, where it's a combination of, you know, corporate power mixed with the state.
And we've always recognized that the state was encroaching here in the country.
But now you can see that...
Corporate America has gotten on board with the program, and they're squeezing us from both angles.
So I hope we as conservatives can recognize that, you know, corporate America is something, obviously, that we embrace, and private property and private business is something that we embrace, but there is a way that it can be manipulated to be used against us and create a more...
Yeah, or they manipulate themselves.
They do it to themselves, because cowards run our corporations.
I can't think of a CEO who is not a coward.
I'm sure there are, but I don't know of any, of major corporations I'm talking about.
The best, the closest to a non-coward is the CEO of Southwest, who announced that he is completely opposed to firing people who are not vaccinated at Southwest, but he has no choice because of the government mandate.
I mean, given how little business he does with the government in percentage of Southwest income, I think he should just forego it.
It would be one of the great moments in American history.
He would be a profile in courage.
Mr. Biden, you can take your money.
I'm not firing my employees.
It is amazing how few CEOs are dedicated to their employees, isn't it, when you think about it?
Yep.
Government power is much more important than my employees able to put food on their tables.
It's really quite something.
Okay, David in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
Yes.
You said a couple of things, but I'm going to give you three because they're very brief.
One...
A young man told me this, or brought this to me, which really surprised me.
He said, David, if you ever wondered what you'd be doing if you found yourself in Germany circa 1930s, well, you're probably doing it now.
That really hit me between the eyes.
Just the apathy in the U.S. is appalling, especially in the Church.
Number two, my observance is that COVID is the chum that has brought so much evil to the surface of society, mainly bringing out the The desire for wielding power, especially in the political realm, and especially more appalling is those in society that are willing to acquiesce to it.
And three, to me it's become apparent that the left believes they have reached critical mass, that they have control of societal influence, especially in politics, media, and education, and they've reached the point where they think they can be openly combative and coercive regarding their long-term approach.
I agree with everything you said.
Unfortunately.
That's correct.
Alright, Linda in Seneca, South Carolina.
Hello.
Well, Dennis, you just made me believe in miracles again.
I can't call the number and it went busy many, many times.
Thank you.
No, I'm just calling because I truly feel that I am a daughter of God.
And I love that I can mention that word on your show.
And I'm here waiting in a scooter line for three great-grandchildren.
And I worry about their futures.
But I'm a conservative.
I believe in the commandments of God.
And I'm trying to teach them and try to set a good example for them.
I know that the Constitution of the United States of America Well, you are the strength of this country.
Of course, people in graduate school would find you laughable, but they're not laughable, right?
Men give birth is not laughable.
But I'm a daughter of God.
That is laughable.
All right, Sean, what are we at here?
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We all had something in common.
A lot of us were miserable.
We had no fathers in our lives.
This is how I began the life of crime.
I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
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I was under a constant attack.
You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
This is the wrong black guy.
He has to be destroyed.
So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
I don't have no respect.
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Human trafficking, God.
That journey is extremely dangerous.
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Dennis Prager here.
This is the Ultimate Issues Hour, and I have an interesting question What did you learn or have reconfirmed?
What great issues, great insight, important insight, over the last two years.
So I have a long list.
The power of fear, the ability to be brainwashed in a free society, the rarity of courage.
Liberty is not an instinct, but a value.
People like to be told what to do.
How many Americans have contempt for their country?
And I've added one here, that the state is my enemy.
That's how I now feel.
I believe that the government and its institutions are my enemy.
I've never said this in my life.
I can't believe I'm saying it.
The corruption, the moral corruption, Of our security agencies, for example.
I was raised to basically adulate the FBI, the CIA. I even applied to the CIA when I was in graduate school in international affairs.
There's a fact that I don't know if I've mentioned on many occasions, or any occasions, on the radio.
And now I believe they're corrupt.
They're as corrupt as they are in any third world country, except they have a lot more power to do harm.
And as regards the federal government, when it is run by Democrats, it is indeed my enemy.
It wants to hurt me and wants to hurt my country.
That is what I believe.
No, it's what I know.
If I believed it, it'd be irrelevant.
relevant.
I know it.
These are very, very dark realizations.
You should not despair.
Despair means that they win.
If you despair, they win.
Okay?
That should stop you from despairing.
Now, I admit you're walking a tightrope in the realizations, all these dark realizations, and not despairing, but you can't.
The heroes of history are the people who didn't despair when the odds were working against them.
That's the whole point.
Otherwise, you fall into the same category as the non-courageous.
You can't let this happen.
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Candice, Beverly Thrills, California.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
It's me again.
Great to hear from you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say, do not ever give up.
My son's teacher, he's five years old, she sent out an email saying, non-vaccinated parents are not allowed to volunteer.
I immediately sent a group chat in the class, and it was crickets.
Even the unvaccinated ones private messaged me.
And people were scared that they would treat their children differently in the classroom.
And I reached out to the principal and to the superintendent.
The superintendent replied back saying, it's not up to him.
He can't do anything.
And a week later, I received an email from the teacher saying, it's not up to her to decide who can volunteer.
Whoever wants to volunteer can do it.
Just get a COVID test.
So I'm trying to figure out, so was it a victory for you?
Yes, it was a victory for me.
I'm now able to volunteer in my kid's classroom and I'm unvaccinated.
Right, but you have to get a COVID test.
Yes.
So how often do you have to get one?
Just within seven days of when you're going to volunteer, which makes no sense, but nothing of this makes sense.
Well, God bless you for not giving up and for fighting.
See, it's all the people who agree with you who won't come out of the closet.
That's why I was talking about the courage issue.
And I understand why people are afraid, and I have sympathy for it.
But I always have sympathy for people who are afraid to take an unpopular position.
Obviously.
But it doesn't deny the point I'm making about courage.
Jay in Los Angeles, hello.
Well, actually, it's more of a confirmation that people just love to be hypocritical and stupid when it comes to the facts of history and science.
So what are you thinking of specifically?
Oh, you know, to talk about fascism, you know, the establishment, you know, people don't know what fascism really means.
Well, I know what fascism means, and I think we're approaching it.
Well, let's see nationalism.
Say it again.
Extreme nationalism.
Okay, I'm missing the word.
Okay, fascism is not extreme.
I said who's peddling extreme nationalism.
Okay, who's peddling extreme nationalism?
It's a very much a big key component, along with militarism, you know, racism, xenophobia, jingoism.
And you think the country suffers from that?
Well, there's a good segment of it.
I'm not the one calling for civil war.
Weren't you the one who was saying how we should split up the country between blue states and left states or blue cities?
Yes, I was, because we have nothing in common.
So that's not America hating?
No, it's left hating.
It's America loving.
The only way to save this country is to dissociate with you on the left.
You are wrecking my country, so I don't want to have anything to do with you.
You know exactly where I fall in.
Because I like to hang out in Brooklyn.
That makes me a leftist.
How would I know you like to hang out in Brooklyn?
You called from Los Angeles.
Well, you're saying, you know, you on the left.
What does that mean?
What does it mean?
As opposed to liberal?
I give the examples all the time.
So I'll ask you some of my famous questions.
Do you think that it's a good thing to have a black dormitory at Columbia University?
No, I don't believe in segregation.
So you might be a liberal, you might not be a leftist.
No, no, no, no.
I don't recall that as being a leftist trait.
What do you mean you don't recall?
Do you know the number of universities?
How many universities have black dormitories?
A hundred?
I don't know, because guess what?
There's thousands of universities.
Right, so the hundred who have it, would you say that they're engaging in evil?
They're stupid.
They're stupid.
They're just stupid.
Okay, listen, I'm glad you're called.
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What the lab tries to do is they just use a motion.
They try to make you so mad that you stop thinking.
And you end up, you wind up just literally foregoing your liberties, your civil liberties, because you're mad at somebody.
And the left just reels you in.
Oh, this person is racist.
Oh, this person is homophobic.
Oh, this person is xenophobic.
And all this kind of stuff.
It's constantly it's this constant divisiveness.
It's this constant state of anger just to keep you mad.
And then you're so busy being mad.
You're so busy hating your neighbor that you're not thinking, oh, wait a minute.
Inflation is skyrocketing.
You mean I won't be able to afford groceries?
I'm already struggling, but I won't be able to afford groceries.
I won't be able to afford to put gas in my car.
See, the big issues they want you to stop thinking about.
They just want you to hate Republicans.
They want you to hate black conservatives.
They want you to hate white conservatives.
Meanwhile, they're hating on you.
It's amazing to me how the left gets away with this stuff.
And it's amazing to me how so many people continuously fall for it.
You notice every election cycle, the left will blow up, the media will blow up a story about a black man or...
Whatever.
Maybe it's an issue with cops or whatever it may be.
But you have to understand something.
And I'm not saying these stories like George Floyd and all this kind of stuff shouldn't be brought to light.
But you have to understand the reason why they're brought to light isn't because they happen all the time.
Because police have millions of stops and deal with, you know, they have millions of confrontations with criminals and none every single year.
So when something like a George Floyd incident makes it onto the news, it's not because it's normative, it's because it's extremely rare.
But the left makes you too mad to realize this.
There is this question of, is America becoming a safer country or a more dangerous country?
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Okay, everybody, everybody, final segment of the Ultimate Issues Hour.
or What have you learned over the last two years that you didn't know before or reconfirmed big things, big lessons of life?
Where is the, here we go, Northvale, New Jersey, and Dean, hello.
Yeah, hi, Dennis.
One thing that was reconfirmed with me, and I heard you say it a lot of times, but...
If we don't have our Judeo-Christian value system, whether you're religious or you're not, or you even believe in a God or not, if you don't have that strong value system in this country, this is what happens to us.
I think it's a direct result.
I never thought I'd be saying that after all my years.
Because you're not a religious person, correct?
That's correct.
I'm not.
You see, you are...
More important to this country, a non-believer who understands the importance of Judeo-Christian values, you are far more important to this country than religious people who don't understand, than Christians and Jews who don't understand the importance of Judeo-Christian values to this country.
That's the irony.
I'm a strong advocate of it now, Dennis.
Yes, and this year and a half did it.
He's my ideal.
You see, I don't ask people if they believe in God because the answer doesn't tell me anything.
I've discussed that on an Ultimate Issues Hour, and I think I've written about it as well.
I know I did in my Bible commentary.
I don't know anything about you if I know you believe in God.
I know nothing.
I don't know what your God is, and I don't know what you believe.
But if you tell me that you...
You are an atheist, but you understand that without Judeo-Christian values, the West is dead.
You're my man, or my woman.
That's the point.
That's why I have spent very little time trying to convince people that God exists.
I have spent almost all my time trying to convince people how important God's existence is.
And that's what has been...
Missed by a lot of religious Jews and Christians.
Making the case for the significance of God and the Bible.
Yep, a lot of tough lessons learned in this last year.
The biggest one is we have to fight.
That's probably the biggest lesson in terms of importance.
We've got to fight.
All right, my friends, take care.
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