Dennis Prager Show - Arm Up
Aired: 2023-03-14
Duration: 05:23


=== Grown-Ups Want to Be Kids (05:23) ===

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[00:00:13]  Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Dennis Prager Show.
[00:00:19]  I have a big smile on my face.
[00:00:22]  A smile you can see, by the way, if you watch the show, at the Salem News Channel.
[00:00:31]  A big smile, and you'll immediately understand why I have a big smile.
[00:00:35]  It is what we call a wry smile.
[00:00:39]  What is a wry smile?
[00:00:41]  People can read a wry smile.
[00:00:43]  It is interesting.
[00:00:44]  Isn't it interesting?
[00:00:46]  I mean, almost centimeters or millimeters of a lip can tell you the difference.
[00:00:54]  That's why masking was so bad for children.
[00:00:58]  Because they're not reading faces at a very, very important time in life.
[00:01:03]  But who cares about children among the elite in this country?
[00:01:08]  Here it is.
[00:01:10]  Fox News.
[00:01:12]  Israel to expedite gun licenses after deadly shooting near Jerusalem synagogue.
[00:01:21]  Did you happen to see that?
[00:01:22]  No.
[00:01:23]  I knew you'd like it, though.
[00:01:26]  Israel is poised to speed up gun applications in response to a shooting in East Jerusalem over the weekend that left seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, dead.
[00:01:41]  The measure was among several that Israel's Security Cabinet announced Saturday evening.
[00:01:45]  Firearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons.
[00:01:56]  Unquote.
[00:01:58]  Facebook page of the Prime Minister.
[00:02:01]  Ready?
[00:02:03]  National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told reporters over the weekend, quote, when civilians have guns, they can defend themselves.
[00:02:16]  Radical notion, no?
[00:02:18]  When civilians have guns, they can defend themselves.
[00:02:23]  Who'd have thought of that?
[00:02:28]  Yes, the things that the left come up with.
[00:02:31]  We don't want you to be able to defend yourselves.
[00:02:33]  We don't want anybody armed in a school, because after all, if it's a gun-free zone at a school, who's going to attack it?
[00:02:46]  There is no issue upon which the left thinks clearly.
[00:02:49]  None.
[00:02:49]  Zero.
[00:02:50]  These are convoluted minds.
[00:02:53]  Sick in many, many instances, especially in the treatment of children.
[00:02:58]  Another interesting aspect of this is the difference between most American Jews and most Israeli Jews.
[00:03:07]  American Jews live...
[00:03:11]  Ah, I had her on.
[00:03:13]  She was a remarkable woman.
[00:03:20]  Yes, I had Carol Markowitz on when I was in Florida two weeks ago.
[00:03:28]  And she had a fascinating theory on American Jews.
[00:03:34]  She's herself a Jew, as I am.
[00:03:36]  And she had a fascinating theory that American Jews have had it so good in America that they became naive.
[00:03:49]  And when you're naive as an adult, you're an idiot.
[00:03:54]  It is inexcusable to be naive as an adult.
[00:03:57]  It means you want to remain a child, and that is an extremely unimpressive character flaw.
[00:04:03]  Now, all character flaws are unimpressive, so you might say, that's redundant, Dennis.
[00:04:10]  And Dennis does not want to be redundant.
[00:04:12]  However, I wish to emphasize its unimpressivity to be naive as an adult.
[00:04:20]  It means you want to remain a child.
[00:04:24]  And a very important goal in life is to grow up.
[00:04:29]  And that's what maturity is about.
[00:04:33]  When I was a kid, I wanted to be a grown-up.
[00:04:37]  Today, grown-ups want to be kids.
[00:04:40]  That's a nice inversion worthy of keeping.
[00:04:45]  That's a biggie.
[00:04:49]  Yeah.
[00:04:51]  They're naive.
[00:04:54]  Oh, the whole left in America is naive because they've had it so good.
[00:04:59]  America's systemically racist.
[00:05:00]  Oh, really?
[00:05:01]  So in what country where there is a mixture of races is there less racism?
[00:05:07]  Can you name one?
[00:05:08]  Of course you can't.
[00:05:10]  And why is it that so many millions of non-white people wish to live in America?
[00:05:16]  They didn't get the message from the American left that this country hates them?
[00:05:21]  I guess they didn't get the message.