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Again, I'm Mark Davis here in DFW at 660 AM, The Answer.
I'm the happy morning host here, which means I just finished my own rollicking morning show.
And as will often happen, I've had stuff happen on this morning's program that kind of informs every time that I come in and fill in for Dennis, which is always a total joy.
So first, a little bit of the contact information.
You know about that.
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We're going to do some migrant relocation talk today.
Oh boy, are we?
Because I come to you from the state of Texas.
Where we have a governor who had kind of an idea that says, hey, why don't we?
Here's how it kind of went.
It started out a few weeks, a few months ago.
As Governor Abbott says, I'm going to take some busloads of migrants and send them to Muriel Bowser's front doorstep there in D.C., to Eric Adams in New York.
That went well.
And then to Lori Lightfoot's neighborhood in Chicago, where she promptly schlepped them over into conservative suburbs with Republican mayors.
Cry more.
Cry more.
And then Ron DeSantis, I guess day before yesterday, came up with the idea in Florida that says, let's have areas right there on screen in the Salem News Channel.
Watch the entire proceedings here on the Salem News Channel.
Let's take some migrants and let's send them to Martha's Vineyard.
And then I can imagine Governor Abbott, there at the governor's mansion in Austin, saying, hold my beer.
I am now going to send a couple of busloads to Observatory Circle in Washington to Kamala Harris' house.
Now, this is an important distinction.
I have often said, like you remember when they were protesting at Brett Kavanaugh's house, when they were protesting at Amy Coney Barrett's house, Supreme Court justices, etc.
And whether it's a national issue or a local issue, I am the guy who's always said in terms of protest, stay away from people's homes.
Go to their offices, their workplaces, stay away from people's private homes.
Aha!
Therein lies the meaningful adjective.
Because observatory circle is not a private home.
That's the house we give to the vice president.
It's where Pence lived.
It's where Cheney lived.
It's where Biden lived for a while.
And now he's, of course, at the White House.
That's where the president lives.
That's not a private residence.
So protests at the White House, of course, are fine.
Protests at the vice president's residence are fine.
But let's flip the script a little bit.
If somebody wanted to go to AOC's home, Nancy Pelosi's home, Chuck Schumer's home, I'd say, nah, because I always believe leave people alone in their house.
Private homes.
But Kamala's house, not a private home.
And of course, they also have plenty of gates.
Plenty of gates.
There on the screen at Salem News Channel, you see this wonderful sign that they have hung there at Martha's Vineyard that talks about, we welcome all people, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA, PDQ, you know, etc.
Everybody.
And there's a reference to being a sanctuary community.
Well, they were in a welcoming mood, as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said last night with Laura Ingram, they were in a welcoming mood.
Did they mean that sanctuary city sentiment?
Did they mean it?
They meant it till the buses rolled up.
That changed everything.
So we're going to talk a little bit about that today.
We are 53 days away, 53 days away from the election, from version number 12 of the most important election of our lives.
We always say that.
Usually, sometimes we've been overstating it somewhat.
Not this time.
Not this time.
In fact, let's take a little walk through this.
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It'll be fantastic.
So, 2016, we had before us, we were staring down the barrel of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Only Donald Trump could prevent it.
Thank God he did.
Thank God.
He did.
This was a recurring mantra for me during my local show here in Dallas-Fort Worth, and any time I would fill in for anybody here in the Salem Media Group, thank God he won, thank God he won.
The notion of a second term arises in 2020. That didn't happen, and of course there's another whole slew of talk shows we can do on that, and probably have and probably will.
Here's why 2020 was enormously important.
We didn't get what we wanted.
We didn't get the result we wanted, for various reasons.
And so see what happens?
The country's going to hell.
Everything is just on the hot rails into the lake of fire because Biden is president.
This is the worst presidency of my lifetime, and it's not even close.
Obama looks positively harmless.
And Clinton looks positively Churchillian compared to these people.
Not just inflation.
Not just borders.
Not just energy policy.
The culture.
We're going to talk a little bit about the culture today.
Because on this morning's show, I told a little story about college.
Do you know who Kaya Rychik is?
She is the courageous woman.
Who does Libs of TikTok, one of the best Twitter accounts you can possibly follow.
Libs of TikTok is basically her finding things that these crazy people actually do and proudly proclaim.
Hi, I'm a green-haired teacher and I'm going to teach your son to be a daughter.
I mean, it's true.
I'm not making this up.
And she's just a genius.
So you can watch her Twitter feed and say, wow, those people in Spokane or wow, those people in Schenectady or wow, those people in whatever town the clip comes from, they're crazy.
They really ought to do something about that, either local school board or boycott the local colleges, whatever, whatever.
I had this come directly home to me with the friend of a family, a wonderful young lady who's a friend of my son's, and all she wants to do in life is all she wants to do is be a teacher.
She wants to be a teacher, and she's going to be a good one, too.
She is a smart young lady.
She is a young woman of strong faith, sharp as a tack.
She just has the entire skill set.
And she is going to the University of North Texas in Denton, which is a great school in a great community.
That's UNT, Mean Green, gotta love it.
Except for this, I mean, is it a liberal enclave?
Yeah.
Even here in DFW, we have schools that, That deceptively, I hope that doesn't seem harsh, but I could go with fraudulently.
Let's just say, curiously, have religious names in their abbreviations.
SMU in Dallas.
The M stands for Methodist.
TCU in Fort Worth.
The C stands for Christian.
Well, good luck with that.
Because both of these schools, and go Mustangs and go Horned Frogs, they're great.
I love those communities, and their alumni are all over the place.
All kinds of love for all kinds of people, but doggone it, man.
What a minefield.
What a minefield of wokeism, woof.
It's everywhere.
It is everywhere.
So in this particular story, this young lady wound up getting some texts, a video of stuff they're making these kids watch.
And there's this young lady who actually operates, her enterprise is called, it is called Woke Kindergarten.
I've got to hand it to the left.
They tell you what they are going to do.
They often will flat out tell you what they are trying to do.
The question is, what are we going to do?
Are we going to lie down and get steamrolled by this?
Or are we going to fight back?
And what does fighting back look like?
What does fighting back look like?
Boycotting these schools?
Vote with your feet?
Vote with your money?
Find schools where this doesn't happen?
I mean, that's probably a good thing, but I'll tell you where the conversation went this morning.
The idea arose that if you do have a kid of strong faith, strong intellect, if you put the armor of God or the armor of some level of objectivity around him or her, that maybe you send him right into that cauldron to prep him for the world that lies beyond.
Because every single one of these woke universities are a microcosm of the world that may lie after graduation for them.
So we'll talk a little bit about that as well.
Oh, I got more.
I've always got more.
So what let's do is let's take our first break, come back, start taking some calls.
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The first thing I brought up, and maybe the first thing tactically, but believe you me, I can keep several plates spinning at once.
So whatever you want to tackle, be my guest.
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This flotilla of bus brigades, plane brigades, whatever other, The way you know it is the shrieks and cries and conniption fits from the left.
There's an old saying, I think it stems from World War II bomber pilots, and that is, if you're taking on heavy flack, that's how you know you're over the target.
And never truer than in the whining and crying and hand-wringing and pearl-clutching.
From the left, from the president himself, from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who wrote a letter to his buddy Merrick Garland.
This is genius.
He writes to Merrick Garland and says, Governor GQ in California wants a full-blown investigation as to how in the world Governors Abbott and DeSantis could even do this.
Gasp, gasp.
He says, like you, I am, here's the word he uses, horrified.
Horrified.
The language people have used in reaction to this, an outrage, it's cruel.
I think a couple of people have called it human trafficking.
These people, man, these people.
And when all we're really doing is relocating some folks who shouldn't be here anyway from one part of America to another part of America.
Oh, the humanity.
In doing so, what we're doing is we're taking the border crisis and bringing it right to these sanctuary city environments, these sanctuary states, these sanctuary enclaves, these sanctuary communities.
And we're showing them in real time, in face-to-face experiences, what the costs are of that kind of foolishness.
And it is sublime.
It is perfect.
It is Christmas every day.
So let's hop some calls on this, various other things.
We're going to do some woke culture talk.
And you know what we'll do?
Since her funeral is Monday, I've had some pretty fascinating conversations with people on and off the air about what we're witnessing across the pond right now.
What is it?
The late afternoon, early evening in London.
How long do you have to stand in line to walk into Westminster Hall?
And tons of people are doing it.
I think there are three ways to react to this Queen Elizabeth story and the number of days of coverage since her passing.
One is to be pretty deeply moved by it.
And I've got to tell you, that's me.
I have enjoyed is the wrong word.
It's been meaningful to me to see a country unite, to see a country honor its traditions, to see a country value its founding, to see a country honor a sense of obligation and duty and pay a lot of credit to a woman who displayed so much of all of those things at a time when honor, obligation, duty, patriotism, country are being spat on all over America and the rest of the modern world.
That has been of value to me.
Sort of reach out and touch your heart.
Or you can be sort of indifferent to it, like, eh, whatever, Elizabeth.
The other one, and I get a little bit of this, are people just outright hostile.
Like, hey, we fought a war to get away from that nonsense.
And that is undeniably true.
We don't have royalty.
That's kind of the point.
But they do, and it means something to them, and it has been of value to them.
And I'm glad we don't do it.
But there's some...
Anyway, we'll probably do a little...
Elizabeth Roundtable as we work our way through the rest of the show as well.
So, 1-8 Prager-776.
1-8 Prager-776.
Great to have you here.
As we hop toward your calls, let us start in Florida.
Odie, hi.
Mark Davison for Dennis.
How are you doing?
Good, Mark.
Yeah, I'd like us to refer to these migrants as criminals, and the biggest threat to us taking the Senate is Mitch McConnell.
What's your main couple of gripes about Mitch?
I mean, well, let me give you yours and I'll give you mine.
Well, mine with him is he's not supporting the agenda that we, the American people, wanted started in 16. He's not supporting these America First candidates such as Masters in Arizona, the individual in New Hampshire, Vegas.
We have a great opportunity here.
Yes.
We have a great opportunity here to start fighting and taking our country back, but I think he values his minority status more than the country.
That is, I appreciate you.
Consider the charge.
And all of y'all may remember Mitch McConnell just a few short, a couple weeks ago, was he at a speaking gig in his native Kentucky.
And there in the Bluegrass State, he stood in front of a crowd of folks and said, Republicans are likely to take the House back.
The Senate, eh, maybe, maybe not.
And then he, the sentence that went around the world, candidate, he said the Senate, those races are statewide, which is, duh, obviously true.
And then he said, candidate quality can be an issue.
Candidate quality.
Hmm.
Who might he be talking about?
Is it that maybe Herschel Walker does not have the smooth diction of William F. Buckley?
Is it that, I mean, if you take a look at Dr. Oz, I favored one of his rivals, but Dr. Oz won, so guess what?
I'm team Dr. Oz.
You know why?
Because we've got to keep Fetterman out of the Senate.
Good Lord, what even is that?
You know, the time for all these internecine squabbles among Republicans is over.
But we've got to elect as many Republicans as possible.
And it just doesn't particularly seem like that's Mitch's vibe sometimes.
And what the gentleman just said is something that a lot of people believe or that they toy with a little bit.
And that's the notion that Mitch would rather stay as the Senate minority leader.
With a reliable cadre of people who will kiss his ring than win the majority on the fuel and firepower of people like Herschel Walker, of people like Blake Masters, of sort of Trumpified, in the mold of Trump.
And they're not all like Trump.
They're not Trump clones.
What they are are the kinds of unapologetic, bold conservatives that might make Mitch McConnell a little nervous.
So I'd like not to think that about Mitch, but I need evidence to the contrary.
All righty, Mark Davison for Dennis and more of your calls are next.
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It is the Dennis Prager Show for this Friday, the 16th day of September, March.
Mark Davison for Dennis, about to hop back to more of your calls as we evaluate the week in the news, stuff that has happened, and oh, how should we phrase it?
Just large, broad, conceptual things that are on our mind.
The woke poisons of our universities, the prospects for the election that is 53 days from now.
Here's one thing I kind of played with a little bit earlier this week on the local show here in DFW. Is Joe Biden a car guy?
He was in Detroit, very union-heavy, friendly Detroit, as the rail strike was getting averted.
I guess it's good that we dodged that bullet.
And he tweeted a big thing of him standing by some gleaming, very sporty, wonderful car that happened to be electric, which is great.
Electric cars are cool.
No gas.
Gotta love that.
I just don't want to be forced at gunpoint to buy one or have governments shelling out ridiculous amounts of money to bribe people into buying them.
You want a Tesla?
Get a Tesla.
You want a Hummer EV? Get a Hummer EV. You want a Nissan Leaf?
Get a Nissan Leaf.
It's your money, your car, whatever.
However, Joe Biden does not feel that way.
The Democrats do not feel that way.
They want to shoehorn you into electric cars.
He had this tweet earlier that said, I envision the full electrification of the American road trip.
Really?
That's nice.
If the American road trip is not longer than 300 miles.
And then later he said, as a car guy, I'm a car guy.
And once again, he's just glomming all over the electric gloriousness of this one particular vehicle.
And again, nothing against electric cars.
But I'm a car guy?
From this president?
No, sir.
Your car guy card, your car guy credentials are revoked the moment you try to slaughter the internal combustion engine.
Because if you really were a car guy, car guys, car gals, you know what they do?
They love cars.
Electric or gas-powered.
Big or small.
Fast and slow.
New and old.
There's just something about the automobile that captivates them.
So, no.
Joe Biden is not a car guy.
Alrighty.
1-8 Prager 776. 1-8 Prager 776. We're on the phones in Chicago.
Brad, hey.
Mark Davis in for Dennis.
How are you doing, Brad?
Welcome.
I'm doing great.
How are you, Mr. Davis?
Good, thank you.
Good.
Okay, I'm calling because Illinois has passed a new law called the Safety Act, which is anything but safe for the Cook County citizens, and I am actually running for sheriff of Cook County.
And the Safety Act says that the state...
Can no longer interact with any government law enforcement agency that has anything to do with immigration.
It essentially codifies their sanctuary status, which, as far as I know, violates the Constitution of the United States and, of course, further endangers the citizens of Cook County.
This just follows in the direct narrative of law and order taken right off its moorings.
I think this is one of the things that we ought to be running on at every level, is borders and safety, and of course the economy, obviously, and of course energy.
It's such a target-rich environment, but you, especially as a sheriff's candidate, and good luck to you, are exactly the right kind of person to step forward and say that we used to have some relative security.
That the people we elect had our actual safety and security at heart.
And now woke concerns and racial pandering and activism have taken the place of public safety.
Yes, they put in the law that you can't, the police can no longer remove a trespasser.
So if someone camps out on your yard or moves into your shed, the police can write them a ticket but cannot remove them from your property.
So now how do you get rid of them?
You've asked the precise, precise question.
Now, there was an election that I'm going to name that hinged on a lot of this in which a fairly unpopular politician won huge by focusing on exactly this.
And I'll tell you about what that election looked like and how it went when we return.
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It's fascinating.
It's like another whole show going on.
I love it.
And I deeply appreciate your input.
If you're just joining us, we've talked a little bit.
About the migrant relocation strategy of our governor here in Texas, Greg Abbott, and Governor DeSantis in Florida, and a little bit of the way this drama has played out.
It started out some weeks ago with Governor Abbott deciding we're going to load up some buses and send people to liberal cities.
Hey, Muriel Bowser, how'd you like some of these folks right there in Washington?
Hey, Eric Adams, boom!
How about some of them right there in New York, New York?
Start spreading the news.
Here come some buses.
And then, Lori Lightfoot in Chicago.
And then, I guess a few days ago, Governor DeSantis in Florida said, okay, let's turn the buses into planes and let's send them to another liberal enclave.
Not a big seething city with a Democrat mayor, but a tony seaside location like...
Martha's Vineyard.
And so there they were.
What was it, 50 of them?
And it was as if a meteor were hurtling toward the earth.
To see these people?
To see these officials?
And then, as the DeSantis planes turned Martha's Vineyard into a cauldron of panic, Governor Abbott said, hold my beer, I'm sending a couple more busloads this time to Kamala Harris' house.
It just gets better every day.
And by that I mean the point is made, the political imagery is brilliant, and we're talking a little bit about whether you like it or don't like it or whether you think it's smart or not so smart.
I think it's total genius.
I will give you a shade of nuance here.
There were folks here in Texas, and granted, some of them were folks who had been, were Republicans, who had not been on board with Abbott, but had better be now.
Because we've got to make sure that he sends Beto O'Rourke packing with a decisive defeat on November 8th.
There were a couple of folks, Alan West, you definitely know.
He ran against Greg Abbott in the Republican primary.
And a longtime friend of mine, another longtime friend of mine, Don Huffines, former state senator, member of a wonderful, magnificent, impactful...
Family in our community, in business, in politics, and everything in between.
And so both of them were kind of running against Abbott from the right on a couple of issues, and immigration was one of them.
And Don Huffines had some billboards, you know, stop giving illegal immigrants our money, and it seemed like Huffines would say something, and then Abbott would emulate it, which had to be the most flattering thing in the world, but also makes it hard for you to primary a guy when he's adopting, like, your entire agenda.
So, bottom line was, some of the folks who were maybe not Abbott fans were saying, and some of them may still be saying, isn't this giving the immigrants exactly what they want?
I mean, we didn't, and somebody tried to make this point to me yesterday.
Yeah, you conservatives, you were all up in high dudgeon when Biden was loading up planes of people and shipping them all over the country.
Now your governors are doing it, and you think it's great, because to own the libs.
My suggestion was that if anybody can't see the difference, anybody can't discern the distinction between those two, maybe they should not be analyzing things for a living or maybe even as a hobby.
And schlepped people to all time zones of America.
That absolutely was.
So that they could embed and disappear and vanish and suddenly surface later when a future Democrat administration, a Democrat Congress can legalize and normalize and naturalize all of these folks and then enjoy decade upon decade of grateful Democrat voting in return.
That's what those...
Plane loads were for.
These plane loads are decidedly different.
These are designed to take a whole bunch of, well, actually a tiny sliver of immigrants.
If you want to take a look at the numbers here, look at who went to Martha's Vineyard, look at everybody that's gone to, I think Eric Adams in New York said, we've gotten 7,000 migrants.
7,000 migrants.
Ooh.
You know what that's called?
One month at the Texas border.
And a slow month at that.
So spare me the tears and the hand-wringing and the violin music from New York City.
And I love New York.
I love D.C. I grew up in the suburbs of D.C. I love Chicago.
These are great cities, horribly run by people with very, very bad ideas.
And one of the worst ideas you can have is this sanctuary city nonsense.
So we've talked a lot about that and what makes good sense politically.
What the moral implications of all of this are, because there are a whole lot of folks who suddenly, suddenly are putting on these mantles of biblical scholarship, saying, hey, hey, Mark, hey, conservatives, hey, Abbott, hey, DeSantis, surely Jesus would disapprove of what you're doing.
There's no evidence of that.
There's no scriptural indication that points toward open borders.
None.
None whatsoever.
And I did take the opportunity, and I'll do it now if it works on the radio, and that is to say if anybody's in the mood to work through some Jesus logic, if you think that Jesus would not be a fan of what conservatives are doing with regard if you think that Jesus would not be a fan of what conservatives are doing with regard to our advocacy of these migrant relocations, you You want to talk about what Jesus seems to like and dislike?
You want to talk about what is and is not in Scripture?
Great, let's do that.
On one condition, then let's do abortion.
Can we do that?
If you suddenly care so much about what Christ would teach, about what Jesus would want, about what makes God happy, let's talk about the violent evisceration of the miracle of life in the womb.
You want to talk about Jesus?
Let's talk about Jesus.
Obviously, if you want to talk about anything, a place to do it, 1-8 Prager-776, 1-8 Prager-776.
Let us hop to your calls, and we are in Los Angeles.
And Brent, that is you.
Let's hop to Brent and say hi.
Brent, Mark Davison for Dennis.
How are you doing?
Great.
Hello, Mark.
Great talking to you again.
Hi.
I'm with Joe's demons.
I mean, Democrats.
Jesus wants us to provide immediate sanctuary to all Democrat dreamers at the multi-billion dollar Ivy League campuses of Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Columbia.
In California, the leftist lovers at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara will also want to welcome them, especially their woke aborting women who so adore children.
And other excellent locations are Silicon Valley, the Soros Estate, the Gates Estate, the Zuckerberg Estate, and of course all the estates of Hollywood, NFL, NBA, millionaire, billionaires.
Yeah, surely they will all be welcoming.
Surely these are places where that whole sanctuary spirit exists.
Surely these are places that will gladly and willfully welcome all these folks, because that's what they say that we should all do virtually every day.
We're in Orlando.
A.G., Mark Davis, welcome.
How are you doing?
Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
Hey, Mark, how are we doing?
Hi, A.G. Good, thank you.
Great.
I just wanted to let you know that you're correct in numbers 3217. God gave the children of Israel the cities and told them to set up and fortify the cities to set up borders to keep other people out.
Yep.
As well as David, before he became king, he was riding around with his band of soldiers and stopping people from crossing the border to bringing in problems.
Yeah.
Thank you.
There is nothing whatsoever scriptural about the notion.
It is the height of moral idiocy.
That leads people to say that kindness, that Christian kindness extends to open borders any more than your personal kindness must necessitate that you leave the door of your house unlocked so that anybody can just stroll on into your house.
Of course you're not going to do that.
Well, you heartless son of a gun.
You should let anybody into your house who wants to come into your house.
That's insanity.
And yet there are people who want our country to be run that way.
In fact, let's back it up and take a look at the 30,000-foot level because so many people try to do this.
They conflate government beneficence.
They conflate and confuse what the late, great Walter Williams used to call the benevolence industries from welfare to food stamps to all kinds of things.
There are things we do to establish a safety net for people.
I totally understand that.
The notion that kindness, that Christian kindness is defined by what government does.
It never is.
The Christian concept of kindness, of charity, is about people to people donating and outreach, human to human.
In no way is it defined by what government does.
Here's what we're going to do.
Quick break.
Then back with more of your calls.
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Well, that seems to be on a lot of minds at the moment.
And that's some of what we're talking about today on the Dennis Prager Show.
But only some.
We've got a nice, fat, topical cornucopia going.
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I probably got rid of my landline.
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I never answered it.
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Finally pulled it.
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I asked on the show.
I guess I'd run out of topics that day.
I don't know.
But anything could be a topic.
I said, should I keep the thing?
I know just...
Murphy's Law, the minute I got rid of it, I'd regret it.
There'd be some reason I wish I had the stupid landline.
And I remember the only calls I got were if there was some alien electromagnetic pulse or something like that that took out all the cell towers, I'd be the only house that could contact the world because I had a landline.
That struck me as a bad movie script, so I chose to save $38 a month.
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Welcome.
Hello.
Hey, Doug.
How are you?
Hey, great.
I love you, Mark.
You, Prager, I love listening to the back and forth with you and Mike Gallagher in the mornings that wakes me up.
You guys are great.
Okay, so first of all...
I think that the whole open borders nonsense is ridiculous.
I don't know how we allow this as a country.
Obviously, these Democrats do not care.
They do not care about anyone but themselves, enriching themselves.
And I'd like to say that includes some Republicans, some rhinos.
It seems like they cannot get it together.
Why are we fighting ourselves?
We'll never get control if we continue to fight ourselves.
Mark.
Well, that's a great question.
Here's part of my brevity.
I'm going to try to get some folks here.
Why are we fighting ourselves?
As Republicans, we have often looked over at the Democrat Party and said, man, we disagree with everything they stand for, but we envy them their unity, their lockstep harmony, don't we?
And it seems that part of being a Republican, not part of being a conservative, is there a rift in the Republican Party.
In a way, sure.
Because there are people who are conservative and people who are not.
There are people who are totally on board for Trump so much that they want him to run again, some who are really appreciative of Trump but might want to move toward DeSantis, and others, you know, not just all full rhino Lincoln Project weasels or anything like that, but just folks who are just not that conservative but choose to identify themselves as Republicans.
All of those layers of Republicanism exist, and a lot of them are defined by how conservative are you.
How conservative are you?
Primary after primary is revealing that voters, even in New Hampshire, did you catch that sort of the MAGA-approved candidate did well in supposedly more moderate or libertarian-leaning New Hampshire?
Look at what Carrie Lake is doing in Arizona.
I think she's completely going to win.
There are states, I mean, especially up in New England, I don't think you're ever going to get, you're not going to get a Ted Cruz, Rand Paul-style Republican senator in Maine.
You know, Susan Collins makes me nuts every once in a while.
I'm glad she's there.
I'd rather have her there with the R by her name than anybody with a D by his or her name.
And this is what Mitch McConnell needs to understand.
This is what really hacked off a lot of people, is there was Mitch in that...
Infamous Kentucky speaking engagement talking about how we have a candidate quality problem.
No, we don't.
We might have a leadership quality problem.
Because here's the sentence that needs to come out of Mitch's mouth.
Maybe Herschel Walker is not a silver-tongued orator.
Maybe Dr. Oz is not the most galvanizing figure in Pennsylvania history.
I don't care.
They are our people now.
They are our only hope to get Republican control back in the Senate, which you would think Mitch McConnell, of all people, would have some enthusiasm for.
And so here's the sentence.
Any of our people, any of our people is better than any of theirs.
Any of our Republicans is better than any Democrat.
And that takes into account all the various shades, all the various levels, all of the various...
Flavors of being a Republican these days, you're going to find not every Republican primary winner is going to be a down-the-line, crank-it-up-to-11 conservative.
That's what the primaries are for, to determine just what kind of candidate you want.
Once the primaries are over, if you want to regain control of the Senate, you fall in, you unify behind the Republican who won.
This is not hard.
This is not hard.
Let's grab some more of your calls.
1-8 Prager-776.
We are in San Antonio.
Jerry, hi.
Mark Davis in for Dennis.
How are you doing?
I'm doing quite well.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Yeah, I've got a complaint with what DeSantis did and what my governor is doing.
I wish they would have waited until 14 to 21 days before the election.
The electorate's got such a short memory, and there's so much in the media that can, like a cat, Let's cover up this stuff.
Understand.
It'll be old, old, old news by the time we get together.
Unless, here's the thing.
I totally understand the strategy point you're making.
Let's hit them with this with three weeks to go rather than with eight weeks to go.
A couple of things to consider.
Number one, do you think they're done?
I think these things are going to continue for every one of these 53 days.
It's like spin the big wheel.
Find a liberal city.
Detroit.
Seattle.
Choose your method of transportation.
Planes or buses.
This time it's planes.
And then choose the destination.
And the other thing is, if it had hit the middle of October, it would have had value.
You've got a great point there.
But doing it now gives us the opportunity to enjoy the delicious Hyperbolic overreaction.
To watch the left panic at the prospect of being shown the cost of open borders.
I don't know.
I think this timing might work out pretty well.
I agree with that.
I'm hoping they have something else up their sleeve.
I believe they do.
This is like a law of physics.
If a politician or elected official does something and they think it's working, they're going to keep doing it.
I'm going to keep taking your calls.
Mark Davison for Dennis.
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That's where we are for visual purposes.
Thanks for listening, however you may be doing that.
And thanks for calling.
I know how you're doing that.
That would be 1-8 Prager-776.
1-8 Prager-776.
Mark Davis in for Dennis, who is back with you on Monday.
We are wrapping up the week, looking at the big stories of the week, looking at the migrant relocations and the delicious reactions to that, looking at the prospects for the elections that are 53 days away, looking at other things.
It'll probably be next hour before I start to talk a little bit.
About the whole Queen Elizabeth thing, because her funeral is Monday, and believe you me, from now all the way through the weekend, it's going to be nothing but mile after mile after mile of people standing in line to pay their respects.
Why is that?
Count me among the people who are really glad that we don't do royalty.
We did fight a war to get away from that, and George III, and I don't seek to emulate it in any way.
I've never been particularly fascinated by the royals, but I'll tell you, The Crown on Netflix is one of the finest things you'll ever see on TV. For the history of it, if nothing else.
And there's something about this whole pageant of respect and deference to her that has actually touched my heart in a lot of ways.
I'll tell you about it probably next hour, because we've got a lot of calls.
Let's take a bunch of them right now.
We are in Cleveland.
Sarah, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
How are you doing this Friday?
Oh, thank God.
How are you?
Hi, good.
So I just had a comment, and you're not the only one that said it, but I happened to call in.
And that is, God created the world, and Jesus did not.
And, you know, this is a Judeo-Christian, I believe, and so I just want to say, you know, I don't feel like that's the right thing to say.
Then what's not the right thing to say?
You know, Jesus this and Jesus that.
No, God created the world.
Jesus did not create the world.
Right.
Has anybody said Jesus created the world?
No, we were just speaking of Him, but, you know, we're not the majority, but yet you guys came...
I'm trying not to be insulting, but you guys came out of our religion.
And I just find it insulting when people...
This is an interesting moment in which someone calls the Dennis Prager Show and suggests that there's not enough love being shown to the Jews.
No, I love you.
Let me...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
The reason that we got a little Jesus-centric is because it is the people who hate...
Greg Abbott and Ron, sorry, I tickled myself.
It is the people who hate Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis who have been attempting to throw a lot of Jesus, like to weaponize Jesus.
It's essentially an attack right into the heart of evangelical Christians, you might go, or whatever, or any Bible-believing person, whichever testament you please, that there's something unchristian.
Pardon that term.
About what Abbott and DeSantis are doing.
So that is why in response to that, I spent a good number of sentences talking about how there is nothing in what Jesus ever said or what God himself ever said that says that we have to have open borders.
Nothing whatsoever from either source.
We're in San Diego.
Mike, Mark Davis, welcome.
How are you doing?
Nice to have you on the Dennis Prager Show.
Hi.
Talking about open borders.
In Leviticus, chapter 19, verse 34, God said to the nation of Israel, the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.
Now, my response to that as a Christian, as a Bible believer, my response to that would be, if an American citizen entered the United States illegally, should that American citizen be prosecuted for breaking the law?
How does an American citizen enter the United States illegally?
If they went down to Mexico, if they're wanted in the United States, but for some reason they want to come back...
They're citizens.
They're citizens.
By your own example, citizens obviously get to come back.
So help me out.
Right, but if they're a criminal, so they have to enter the United States illegally, but they are a citizen.
If that American citizen entered the United States illegally, should he be prosecuted?
Well, there's a little bit of a...
Because Leviticus said, treat the foreigner as your native-born.
My point is, anybody...
Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
It took a little sideways trip to get there, but I get it.
Now I get it.
It is biblical to welcome foreigners, but not under the pretext of people who are breaking the law.
Ha!
Just in time.
Mark Davison for Dennis.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
Mark Davis in for Dennis.
Great to have you here.
Two hours down and one to go.
What will we do?
Some of that's up to me.
A whole lot of it is up to you.
So let me give you the phone number.
1-8 Prager-776.
1-8 Prager-776.
Tell you what I'm going right back to on the phone.
Sort of our unfinished business.
And then some of what I'd like to explore.
Because Dennis is back on Monday.
It's my last crack at you until I call me and ask me to do this again, which I'm always happy to do.
And I have had a certain fascination with the last few days with regard to the passing of Queen Elizabeth in exploring sort of the three sectors of reaction in there.
Those who have been deeply moved by her legacy and her passing.
Those who are kind of ambivalent about it and think that...
Maybe too much is being made of it.
To others who are just outright hostile to it.
Like queenophobes.
I have no idea.
But anyway, so we may ask, which are you?
And I'll share a couple of thoughts.
And I'll tell you, probably the third time I've said this here on the show, I'm really glad we don't have royalty.
We have people who think they're kings, but they're not.
I'm glad that we fought a war to get away from that nonsense.
But having done so and established our republic, which still manages to survive by a threat, they've had this for eons and eons, and it has served them well in a lot of ways.
And they're characteristics that serve people well, that serve nations well, and that serve countries well.
A commitment to duty, a sense of patriotism, a sense of service, a sense of tradition.
And here are words I haven't spoken yet, so I guess I'm glad I saved this for the last hour.
There's something about the Elizabeth legacy over 70 years.
Obviously, it takes us through a whole lot of colonialism in there, and colonialism has its share of historic controversies.
There's simply no doubting the civilizing and scientific and cultural and legal.
I mean, where do we get property rights?
Where do we get all manner?
There's so much of it.
Without England, there is no America.
We're not sitting here if there's never any such thing as the history of England.
I mean, there were other countries, you know, Spain, the Dutch, all kinds of folks came over to what was then the so-called New World, but it was kind of an English thing.
They were kind of the alpha country.
And we obviously were colonists, and we fought to gain our independence, and we won, and that's awesome.
But prior to the birth of this nation, the existence of that nation brought things to this world that would not have otherwise happened.
And since the birth of this nation, through the 18th, 19th, 20th century, 21st century up to now, There's something about the derision that's being heaped onto Western culture right now that makes the focus on Britain, makes the focus on Elizabeth, something that I deeply, deeply appreciate.
I actually wrote a column about this in Newsweek.
I may share a part of a little later on.
But first thing I want to share is time with you on the phone.
Let's do 1-8-Prager-776.
1-8-Prager-776.
And we are in New York.
Aaron, Mark Davis, welcome.
Nice to have you on the Dennis Prager Show.
Hi, it's very nice to be here.
Hi.
Yeah, so I wanted to talk about what the New York Times published on the anniversary of 9-11.
They published a story about the ultra-orthodox Jewish community education system and slandering from all sides the education system.
I'm an ultra-orthodox Jew myself, and I would like to do a little bit of debunking myself.
A lot of those same people claim to talk about the joblessness in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community.
There virtually is no such thing as joblessness in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community.
Everybody I know who wants a job gets a job.
There is virtually no violent crime.
I would say if there is any violent crime, there are more violent criminals in the New York Times than there is in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community, if I had to bet.
Let's look at the record.
It's education the New York Times is so worried about.
Let's look at what the New York Times has.
Let's look at their own record.
Well, they tried to cover up the Holocaust.
They put it at the end of the pages.
They denied the mass starvation of Ukrainians in the 1920s, 30s from the Stalinist regime with Walter Durante.
And they never gave back the Pulitzer Prize saying that it would be Stalinist.
We could take an hour going through the New York Times, but I think the focus that you bring is a proper one, and you know, and I think that's your suggestion, is that the thing...
That repels the New York Times about Orthodox Judaism or about anybody who is particularly devout is it speaks to a devotion to God rather than a devotion to government.
And the altar where the New York Times worships, they want people to worship at the altar of a benevolent government and to hold up and elevate.
Earthly things rather than divine things on issues, for example, like gun control, where religious people know that we have a problem with America's soul, where we have a people problem, not a gun problem.
Those are solutions that the New York Times and all of leftist culture are not interested in.
It is a revulsion to virtually any type of religious solution.
That's 100% correct.
Those same secularists, I think it was in 1962, correct me if I'm wrong, they pushed out God of the public schools.
Yeah, we used to have a prayer, and it didn't refer to any specific God, just God in general.
Sometimes it did.
It depends on where you were.
You go to Alabama in 1959, the kids are praying to Jesus.
Trust me.
Trust me on this.
I've done...
A hundred shows on that.
I think, as you can tell, I'm a deeply, personally devout person.
At no point, at no point have I ever needed or have I ever wanted public schools to proselytize.
What I do want public schools to do is leave my kids alone so that they can have whatever faith that they like.
Religious neutrality, to me, Doesn't mean religious hostility.
The public schools should not care what faith your kids are.
But the public schools should not suppress your kids from their free exercise.
Now, if some of the kids' free exercise impinges on some other kid's fear, obviously we're not going to have a whole lot of sidewalk preaching going on in the gym class.
But if a kid has a Bible on him.
Or if somebody says grace before lunch.
Or if they do the rallies around the flagpole before school.
That's magnificent stuff.
Magnificent stuff.
And obviously if people of other faiths want to do things, they can too.
We have allowed public education to drift from religious neutrality where the schools say, hey, you're American, this is taxpayer-paid stuff.
You guys be whatever faith you wish.
We've gone to the sidelining of, the stigmatization of, the criminalization of, in some cases, Bible-believing kids, and that's a big problem.
Alright, 1-8 Prager-776, 1-8 Prager-776.
We're in San Antonio.
Dan, Mark Davis, welcome.
How are you?
Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
Hi, Mark.
I wanted to talk to you about something you...
You said about Donald Trump in the last hour.
You said that you were okay with him lying about certain things.
Is that correct? - No, no, careful, careful, careful, careful, careful, careful, careful.
I said Trump made some stuff up in August.
Inauguration crowds, a couple of factoids here and there, a couple of things here and there.
Well, for God's sake, if you'll sit tight for 30 seconds, I'll tell you.
First of all, everybody does it.
Everybody does it.
So if you take the things, if that's where you're going, then that's actually pretty helpful.
I will take every factoid that Trump fudged and tell you that it doesn't matter next to him being right and factual and accurate about borders, taxes, culture, the Constitution, climate, etc.
You called yourself a deeply personally devout person.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You got that right, buddy.
The Bible said to not bear false witness.
So I want to know why you think it's okay for Trump to bear false witness.
Listen, I can't explain this to you at your house every day.
Some things matter, some things don't when you're a leader.
Hope that helps.
Be right back.
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Appreciate you being here.
1-8-Prager-776.
1-8-Prager-776.
To our last gentleman, love the call.
Appreciate it.
Time ran short.
Because you know, you're getting to know me, I think.
That's the kind of call I would have taken a little more time with because it's just that much fun.
The premise being, hey, you conservatives who value truth.
You know, what about, you know, the stuff Trump said that he made up?
Which I, like, acknowledged, like, last hour.
Inauguration crowds, factoid here and there, usually about his own numbers or, you know, something from his past or present or something, whatever, whatever.
And the gentleman's point was...
Hey, you conservatives or hey, you Christians, how in the world can you countenance?
How in the world can you tolerate the occasional misstatement from Trump if truth means so much to you?
So, for this gentleman and anybody else, ideally, let everything you say be truth.
Not all truth needs to be spoken, but let everything you say be truth.
That is the human ideal.
Right?
In politics, this will, they say never say never, I'm going to say never.
This will never happen.
So what you're left with is evaluating as a leader, as the quality of a leader, as someone in whom you're going to trust to, you know, run your country, what kinds of fabrications you're going to tolerate.
Is it something about inauguration crowds?
Is it something about, you know, just whatever that Trump might have made up along the way?
And by the way, all of these people who are looking for us to bail on or condemn Trump for some prevarication of that type, presuming that these are all coming from the left, and they are.
You want to talk about lies?
You want to make a list of lies?
You know, how about the border is under control?
Now that's something that matters.
Because, to the gentleman's point, I said, let me give you some things that Trump believed and Trump said that he was always truthful about.
They are called the things that matter.
He spoke truth about the border.
He spoke truth about the Constitution.
He spoke truth about the Supreme Court.
He spoke truth about taxes.
He spoke truth about his desire and promise to put America first on the world stage.
He spoke truth about presenting a strong face to the world.
Those are called the things that matter.
If you want to make a list of things that politicians say that are not true, if you go to Biden, good Lord, inflation is under control.
Our borders.
Are secure.
My political opponents pose a threat to democracy.
These are enormous character flaws, enormous lies and slanders about millions of Americans.
Those are things that actually, actually matter.
That would be the dichotomy that I would draw.
You may differ.
Give us a shot.
1-8-Prager-776.
1-8-Prager-776.
We're in Los Angeles.
Hey, Cole, Mark Davis in for Dennis Prager.
How are you doing this Friday?
Hi, Mark.
I'm doing fine.
How are you doing today?
Super.
Thank you.
Great.
All right.
So basically, I'm looking very strongly at the situation with Donald Trump.
I voted for him two times.
I really like Donald Trump.
Yeah, he's got his rough edges, etc., etc.
One of the serious issues right now is that there are so many irrational people in our electorate, and they just can't think clearly, and they're impassioned against Trump.
We just don't have time for another big problem in the White House.
And I just, therefore, I think that DeSantis is a stronger candidate, a more viable candidate overall.
I think he's very sharp.
I think they're both very sharp.
I think DeSantis has more finesse than Donald Trump does in dealing with edgy questions or whatever.
But the main, we have to win over the independence.
And there isn't time for another, that's just another weird, or not, pardon me, it's a bad word.
No, I get it.
The drama, the just all.
I hear from a lot of people who say exactly what you're saying.
I also hear from a lot of people who say, God bless DeSantis, but nope, needs to be Trump and nobody else.
So the question is, and maybe we'll find this out in the primaries, do we really want this?
Maybe we'll get it.
Trump versus DeSantis, we'll find out.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, not at all, but tell me if the following paragraph resonates with you.
Thank God for Trump.
Glad he won at least once.
Wish he would have won twice.
But moving forward, if we can get Trump's agenda in a more disciplined package and avoid an election where every Democrat will rise out of the grave, perhaps literally to vote against him and crawl on broken glass and walk through fire, maybe we're better off with DeSantis.
Is that generally your view?
Yes, it is.
That's right on, actually.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
I always like to paraphrase people as best I can.
Let me just...
Well written.
Well, no.
I did it on the fly.
It's crazy.
I don't have a lot of skills, but this is one of them.
No, God bless you.
You're very kind, and thank you.
So here's the question.
I know a lot of you driving around, walking around the house, are thinking, totally agree with that guy.
Others are going, eh.
And in fact, a lot of the logic goes like this.
That if the left is so exercised and so triggered by Trump, then that's exactly what we're going to give them.
We're going to give it to them and make them like it.
I appreciate that.
There is something, I've got to tell you, if you could tell me, if I could step into the future and watch Trump beat Kamala Harris or whoever the...
Democrat Party coughs up in 2024 and take the oath of office again to the enduring chagrin of just the right people?
Oh, Lord, that might be one of my favorite American moments ever.
Problem is, don't know if that happens.
I'm not telling you it doesn't.
That's why, and it's funny, I think I'm getting just the right amount of calls over my talk show career lately where people think, if I'm getting calls from people who say I love Trump, Way too much.
And then the next calls are from people who say that I'm too willing to bail on him.
I think I must be striking exactly the right balance.
Because here's the truth in what I think should be a pretty short paragraph.
Thank God for Trump.
He's the best.
He's the most important presidency of my lifetime.
But Mark, what about Reagan?
Reagan was the best human being ever to be president during my lifetime.
I guess you could call it my favorite president, perhaps.
Trump is my favorite presidency, if you get my drift.
And maybe that's a distinction without a difference.
Because while Reagan rescued us from Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump rescued us from Hillary flippin' Clinton.
Those stakes were astronomically higher.
And right now the fight is so sharp and the need for fighting back is so precise that we better have somebody with exactly his nerve, exactly his spine, the ability to beat down the left and force...
A path forward with strong, unapologetic conservatism.
Whether it's Trump or somebody else who can do it, and DeSantis looks like he can, that is what we need.
So I'm open.
Let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens.
See what happens in the next segment.
Mark Davis in for Dennis.
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Let's dive back onto your calls.
Stuff from the week gone by in news, things on your head, on your head, things on your mind and in your head and your heart.
Choose whatever preposition you like.
And the phone number again is 1-8-Prager-776.
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All right, let's see what's up next.
Let's roll to Cleveland.
And Dan, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
How are you doing?
Happy Friday.
Well, thank you.
I was wondering if our country is inching towards one-party rule.
I mean, seriously, raiding the opposition candidate?
This is the thing that happened in horrible dictatorships.
You know, they say it's about Trump.
It's about the dominant party.
Well, I mean, the whole notion of...
Here's the control we have.
It's called 53 days from now.
53 days from now, we'll see if the Democrats are going to be scolded for what they have done.
And not just in terms of dirty trick tactics, like the Mar-a-Lago raid, but in terms of horrible policies.
We'll find out.
I mean, if...
There have been times when Republicans have enjoyed the presidency and...
Big congressional majorities.
There have been times when the Democrats have enjoyed the presidency and big congressional majorities.
Know what the common thread is?
It's called people who voted for them.
Now, obviously, I know, start another entire talk show on election integrity, which is vital, by the way.
And I'll tell you another thing that's vital is if you want to do something about that, then make sure you vote and take 10 of your friends, if not 20. If it ain't close, they can't cheat.
Have we done an appreciable job of improving?
It's a good thing the show's about done and the week is about done because my ability to talk is apparently on the way out.
So the timing is excellent.
Have we done a good job of improving election security in my state of Texas, over in Georgia, and some various other places?
I believe we have.
And I think one of the reasons I know that we have is because the left has been on fire with rage about that.
Voter suppression.
Voter suppression is a damnable lie.
I mean, you need all kinds of ID to get on a stinking plane.
Proving you're you before you vote is a basic of a responsible democracy.
It's all we're trying to do.
And I think things are vastly improved from 2020 to 2022 and will be in 2024. Will it be perfect?
Nope.
Will cheating still be possible?
Probably.
And that means that our best defense is to show up in such numbers.
That even if fudging, if Democrat cheating is worth a percentage point or two, and that's real fat, whatever it's worth, then we've got to win by five so that it doesn't matter.
So that it doesn't matter.
I mean, election integrity always matters, but I mean so that their skullduggery, their sinister cheating tactics don't matter.
They become mathematically irrelevant.
Alright, 1-8 Prager 7-7-6.
We are next in...
Riverside, California.
Kirk.
Hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
How you doing?
Hey, Mark.
It's Kirk out here at the United States of California.
Thank you.
Calling in, but hey, lookit, you're hitting the nail right on the head.
And here's kind of my deal with the whole thing.
I love what Trump did when he came in.
Kind of, you know, let's just, in a gentle sense, say, flip the burn to everybody else and just did what he said.
and I'm 52 years old and I've never experienced a president that really did a lot of what he said he was going to do on the campaign trail.
And really, all the odds against him with everything going on, man is just, once again, a CEO, right?
But let's fast forward to what happened.
So DeSantis comes along.
DeSantis comes along.
I really enjoy him.
I think he's doing the right thing.
Even the whole Margaret Vineyard thing, the way he does things, he's a lot more polished and I do believe he has those conservative values.
And if we're fighting for the conservative values, because when I saw DeSantis at first, I'm like, oh, I think this guy should be our man.
This should be our huckleberry.
But when they raided Mar-a-Lago, then I got pretty upset.
I won't say the nice word, but I got pretty upset about that.
And then I went back to the fight.
Like, no, no, let's get Trump in there.
I'm going to vote Trump just a...
You know what?
Everybody else off.
You know what I mean?
Understand.
And that was a bump that he enjoyed, and I think he enjoyed having that moment.
No doubt about it.
And I felt it, too.
It made me think, now it's even sweeter if Trump can come back and make these people, make his tormentors miserable.
Stuff like that can't matter, though.
Here's what must matter.
Who has the better chance of winning?
Who has the better chance of winning?
I love Trump.
I grow more fond of DeSantis by the day.
We'll see how this works out.
I'm open to anything.
Who has the better chance of winning?
because that's what matters.
Most in 24.
Mark Davison for Dennis, right back.
The great Chuck Brown.
I feel like...
Soul Searchers.
There's a reason this is on the Salem Media Group, Salem News Channel, Radio Network, confab of stations.
I brought it here from my local show.
I was filling in for Larry one day and said, hey, how about some good quality D.C. area dance stuff from the late 70s, the late, great Chuck Brown.
Busting loose.
Well, thanks for busting loose with some of your time.
And speaking of time spent, what an absolute joy it is to work here with Sean and have Suzette doing the calls, and from the video end, Alex and JJ and Rick, and the force of nature that is Alan Estrin, who always calls up and says, Hey, Mark, can you do this date?
And I always will do whatever I can to say yes.
And there's something I've sometimes done at the beginning.
I do it at the beginning of my own show.
And I sometimes do it when I come in and fill in for Dennis, and nobody is minded so very, very much.
And I figured, well, I'll just hop right into topics.
And that is to gather for a moment of actual prayer.
For those who are inclined to do so, you may.
And anybody else, just listen along to the sincere wishes, hopefully, of others.
As we wrap up today, Lord, guide us and protect us as we face the challenges of each new day.
We thank you every day for this blessed nation and for your hand in creating it.
Fill our hearts with the energy to protect the freedoms which come from you, which our nation was founded to protect.
Let us navigate these troubling times with a positive spirit, treating others as we would like to be treated.
Lord, these are times of trial and challenge.
So lift us as we follow your word and work for a better America, where our Constitution is honored, our schools are safe, our elections are reliable, our borders work, where we protect the unborn, and where we fight for the meaning and the intent of the two genders you created, and where we fight for the meaning and the intent of the two genders you created, and where our differences are hashed out with honesty and goodwill, and our freedoms
As we face each day's problems, Lord, give us the clarity to look around and cherish our many, many blessings in our nation, our various communities, and our families.
If we follow you, Lord, we know we can get through anything.
And we ask these things in your holy name.
Amen.
The history of that is in March 2020, remember that, I was yanked off of actual vacation, so it must have been a big story.
It was.
It was COVID. And I came back to do a Thursday show in the middle of March 2020, and I said, I'm going to be talking to listeners who don't know what lies ahead in the future, who don't know what their jobs are going to exist, the effect on their communities, don't know if they're going to live or die because of the evil COVID. I said, so what's the best thing I can do?
Not everybody's going to do it.
We don't run a theocracy around here.
But I said the first thing that occurs to me to do is talk to God.
So I did.
And I figured I'd do it publicly.
And I've done it every day since.
On the air and off.
So look, whatever your beliefs and whatever your pursuits and whatever you're up to, thanks for joining us on The Dennis Prager Show.
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