Nov. 13, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
05:13
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| As I come to you today, there is a situation happening in our personal lives following the election that may be in a state of flux, at least I hope it is. | |
| Did you have something happen in your life right after the election, like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, as the rest of the week wound down? | |
| Did you... | |
| I'll just put it out. | |
| Did anybody cut off a family tie to you? | |
| Anybody tell you you're no longer welcome at Thanksgiving? | |
| Anybody tell you I ain't coming for Thanksgiving? | |
| Anybody tell you to, you know, go blank yourself? | |
| And by the way, and they had been tolerant of you the week before. | |
| This was like on a dime. | |
| I guess maybe because they thought they were going to win? | |
| Listen, I've seen sore losers before. | |
| We've all seen Trump derangement syndrome. | |
| Please, we've been living with that for as long as we've been living with him. | |
| But there was something about this election and the body blow that this was to a lot of people that it just, it ate their heart. | |
| Family ties, friendships were dashed against the rocks on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday going into the weekend. | |
| Some of them may still be, you know, Irretrievable. | |
| I hope not. | |
| I pray not. | |
| I think a lot of this was young people, mostly young people, but anybody who's just got their face buried in TikTok 18 hours a day, that's where you get all your news. | |
| You know, it's funny. | |
| I've said that Biden, Kamala Harris, Obama, all these people, they didn't believe it when they said Trump was Hitler. | |
| They didn't believe it. | |
| It was a cynical lie that they told because they thought it would help their side win. | |
| You know who did believe it? | |
| A bunch of idiot 22-year-olds. | |
| That's who. | |
| A bunch of morons with their face buried in the glow of TikTok who don't get any news anywhere else, don't talk to anybody outside their bubble. | |
| They really do think Hitler's back. | |
| And if my dad voted for Hitler, I don't think I can go see my dad at Thanksgiving. | |
| And there have been liberal psychiatrists, which may be an oxymoron. | |
| There have been liberal people with psychiatric shingles outside their office saying it's okay. | |
| Saying, hey, you know, for your mental health, everything's always mental health. | |
| Mental health is very important. | |
| But the weaponization of mental health as a contrivance to help somebody make a point they just kind of want to make, there's the new pandemic. | |
| Anyway, though, they say, you know, for your mental health. | |
| If you just can't go to Thanksgiving, if your family voted against you, voted against you? | |
| They didn't vote against you. | |
| I didn't vote against any. | |
| I have friends. | |
| I have family. | |
| To keep the car on the road, I have friends and I have family who are not as conservative as I am. | |
| You know what? | |
| At no point, even if I'd have lost. | |
| Even if I were bracing for a Kamala regime, I wasn't going to call them and tell them to, you know, go take a long walk off a short pier. | |
| I'm done with you forever. | |
| Who would do that? | |
| And the answer is tons of people did that because they don't have the maturity to withstand an election loss. | |
| Listen, it's been eight years since a Republican won, right? | |
| For a lot of people, this was their first election. | |
| You know what my first election was? | |
| Jimmy Carter beating Gerald Ford. | |
| I tried to stop the Carter presidency when I was 18. I just didn't have enough company. | |
| And you know what I did the following morning? | |
| Was I rioting? | |
| Was I destroying relationships? | |
| I know that was very much another time. | |
| A long, long ago time. | |
| But in this stupid, internet-soaked, online TikTok-poisoned age... | |
| Our resiliency has been shot. | |
| Our hearts have been swallowed. | |
| Our brains have been swallowed as a country in so many ways. | |
| So, you know, if somebody is 18, 20, 22, and they're living that crazy kind of life, and they really do think that it's 1930s Germany, well, I can see how that might put a little frost on the old relationship around the holidays. | |
| So, two things. | |
| Be the bigger person. | |
| Be the grown-up. | |
| Now, if it's just a random semi-friend at work and they're giving you all kinds of grief, be done. | |
| Ain't nobody got time for that. | |
| But if it's a serious, important friend or family member, do a little bit of outreach. | |
| Give them some time. | |
| And here's the end of my spiel about this. | |
| Coming into and out of the weekend, I'm hearing some intel that some people are getting over it. | |
| Some apologies are happening. | |
| Like, wow, I was really emotional. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Kind of let it get the best of me. | |
| And things are in the process of healing. | |
| I certainly, certainly hope so. |
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