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Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager, and it is Friday already. I should sort of add the word already to any day of the week. My theory is, I've exposed you to on many occasions, that the unit of time that goes fastest in life is the week. Okay, got that, uh, got that off my chest and we can continue. Well, I'm not going to begin with Minnesota or George Floyd or COVID, but another story that I think you should be aware of. Wall Street Journal: The battle over an Alzheimer's treatment. Millions and millions of Americans, tens of millions probably, when you think of those who were affected by those who are affected. There is little in life that is sadder than witnessing a vibrant human being become something else. What was the Nancy Reagan phrase for Ronald Reagan, one of the most vibrant human beings in modern American history, extremely witty man? The long— was the long goodbye? I think that that was the phrase she used. As you probably know, there's not much I fear, but on the short list would be Alzheimer's. Now, there's no record of that in my genetic history, but there's no guarantee. Anyway, I care about it for others. Now, not just for myself. I mentioned my own fear of it just to communicate how much I loathe that particular disease because, I'll tell you one of the reasons, I am such a believer in human dignity. It's a very keen part of my outlook on life. And dementia and Alzheimer's specifically rob you of that. So there might be a treatment. The Wall Street Journal editorial: Biogen's promising drug is caught in the FDA's political and bureaucratic limbo. That is the subtitle. The FDA has long been plagued by a culture of bureaucratic overcaution. I'm reading to you. Biogen's Alzheimer's drug aducanumab— aducanumab— why do they give them these names? I'm good at names and this is bad. Aducanumab. Backwards, that's bamunakuda. Frankly, I find bamunakuda easier to say than Adonakumab. I'm back to the show. You mean an extended analysis of that is not warranted at this time? That's correct, for you and me only. Oh, that's bad. Biogen's Alzheimer's drug adunacamab is now ensnared in this fight. Adunacamab, a monoclonal antibody drug, is the first disease-modifying medicine to show efficacy. It works by targeting specific molecules in the amyloid to clear plaque. A late-stage trial showed a high-dose treatment removed 71% of the plaque buildup after 18 months. Yes, that is a wow. And also had a significant impact on disease progression. After 78 weeks of treatment, patients received a high dose— patients receiving a high dose were 84% less of a burden to caregivers than were the controls. That's huge. They showed a 91% smaller decline in the ability to prepare a meal and 39% smaller reduction in capacity to discuss current events. In short, patients treated with high doses of Biogen's drug were much more independent and capable. Yet because of the long history of failed Alzheimer's medicines, skeptics say Biogen's promising result is a false positive. Okay, they cite a second concurrent late-stage trial by Biogen that indicated adunakumab didn't have a statistically significant benefit on symptoms. But in a post-hoc review, Biogen found the likely reason for the discordant results. The two trials had nearly identical designs, but patients in one received the high dose longer. And the benefits increased with time. Now, you don't have to be a scientist to understand that the two tests are not the same. One group gets it longer than the other, and the benefits accrue over time. That would seem to me to be, as the lawyers say, dispositive. We continue. Biogen worked with FDA scientists to analyze the discrepancies between the two trials. The FDA noted in June 2019 that the evidence from the positive trial could be, quote, considered exceptionally persuasive. Get that? FDA, February 2019, exceptionally persuasive tests. All right. Biogen applied in July for drug approval. Physicians and groups that work with Alzheimer's patients have urged the agency to approve the drug. Well, yet an outside panel of scientists that the FDA convened in November to advise it, none of whom specialize in treating Alzheimer's patients, lambasted Biogen for massaging the data. They said the positive results from the one trial could be a fluke and urged the FDA to require Biogen to conduct another, which could take— are you ready— 5 more years to complete. It would be one of the most interesting tests for me personally to find out if this panel that doesn't want Biogen released and wants to wait 5 years for more tests has a completely negative view of hydroxychloroquine and zinc and ivermectin. Just Positing an interesting possibility. FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, who is now a contender to be FDA Commissioner, is under political pressure. And this is not me, this is the Wall Street Journal. She is under political pressure from the to reject Biogen's drug. The word that I skipped is either left or right. What do you think? The contender to be FDA commissioner is under political pressure from the left or the right to reject Biogen's drug. The answer, of course, is the left. Whatever the left touches, it ruins. So if you just know that, you would have known immediately from which direction this cruel idea— if— is there anyone listening who, if afflicted with Alzheimer's, or who has a loved one would not try this drug? Doing so could set back Alzheimer's drug development by years and discourage investment against an affliction that causes terrible hardship. That's right, cause terrible hardship. That's all the left does.

This is Carol Platt-Liebauer for TownHall.com. President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it. But the left is angry. They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition. It's called court packing, from when in 1937 Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it. President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded. And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea. Any politically driven effort to change the court structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principle. Over time, a PAC court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people. I'm Carol Platt Liebowitz.

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I say this, I am looking at it very seriously, beyond seriously, from a legal standpoint. I don't want to really talk about it yet.

Beyond seriously. I'm looking at it beyond seriously. That was the 45th president of the United States being asked about will he run for the White House again. For 2024. Put the mics on, gentlemen, and get the headphones on. I'm going to survey the massive team here. It's going to take at least 3 hours to get all the answers in. This is America First on the Salem Radio Network. What does that mean to you?

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Wasn't just Derek Chauvin. And I also don't want this moment to be framed as this system working, working, because it's not working.

Now, the most depressing part of that, for those of you on radio or podcast, you can't tell, is that mountain of gibberish that she just spouted for 30 seconds. Couldn't really make sense of it. There were just like this line of comments one after the other of people being like, preach, OMFG, you're amazing, you go girl. I can't really make sense of anything she just said except for the fact that she is displeased.

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The Derek Chauvin trial was for many, many people, uh, uh, fraught with rage and sadness and resentment, frustration, apprehension. What's going to happen as the verdict is reached? And yesterday, I think everybody was sort of stunned. I was watching the, the pundits react with, uh, amazement that the jury returned a verdict so quickly. And of course, all the analysts, all the smart kids on TV said that's not good for Derek Chauvin. And as it turned out, it was not good for Derek Chauvin. Guilty, guilty, guilty.

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Hey Dennis, thanks for taking my call.

Yes sir.

I worked for the FDA and I worked on Alzheimer's files, and you can tell by the data that the Wall Street Journal is giving you that this drug's effectivity was ambiguous. And the reason you can tell is because they're using endpoints which aren't scientific. The ability to make a sandwich is not a scientific endpoint, okay? It can't be just— it can't be objectified. It's a subjective endpoint. If they had a drug that worked, they would give you objective endpoints. They would give you change in IQ. They would give you a number of neurologic batteries that are accepted in the field as demonstrating improvement in dementia. The companies can take the data and they can show any result they want if they manipulate it enough. And I think without knowing this file and without knowing this drug, I think that's what's been done. Furthermore, the FDA has approved drugs for Alzheimer's disease and they didn't work. Namenda is the one that comes to mind. So I, I think your criticism of the FDA here is completely unjustified if you know anything about the field. People are dead.

I don't know anything about the field. I fully acknowledge it. I know what I read in a source that has been far more right than wrong in my entire adult life, the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

They need to present data that's objective.

Why is it not objective that 76% more people or 76% less caretaking was necessary?

That's subjective. That's subjective.

Okay, you know what, if you—

okay, whether it's drugs—

wait, so wait, wait, wait, why would be— give me an objective piece of data.

Neurologic, neurologic battery of IQ that they can show that the—

so ability to take care of yourself is not objective?

No, because it's placebo affected. It's not a scientific point. Okay, well, okay.

All I can say is—

Okay, good. Okay, hey, you know what? Listen, I'm really glad you called. I deeply respect you doing so. I think 95% of the people listening, and that is the 5% that does not work in the field, which gives you an idea of why I don't listen to scientists for wisdom, only for science, is what the hell do I care if it's a placebo or, or not? If people with Alzheimer's are functioning better and their caretakers are working less and it's only because they thought they took the magic pill, let's produce the magic pill. Let me take a random sample. Hey, there's a gentleman now drinking some coffee behind two barriers of glass to protect himself from COVID Sir, did what I say make sense to you? Okay, the answer was yes. We— this was real, and I say this only with respect. He was respectful, and it means the world to me that he took the time to call. But we do think differently, and that's why I do not listen to scientists for wisdom. In other words, for policy. Now, Fred himself sounds like a wonderful human being, is probably a wonderful member of his community, and probably a dad and a husband. But I have no desire to take his advice. If the placebo worked, what the hell do I care? The only bottom line is, are people suffering less? Not neurological damage. See, the end, the end, the end is different for moronic, moronic people like the editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal. Moronic people like, like Triple G and myself. All we care is, is the person better? We don't, we don't read neurological data charts. Okay? That was important. It was like the— it was also Cleveland. Isn't that ironic? It was a fire commissioner in Cleveland many years ago who brought home so clearly to me that I don't want to listen to experts for advice, only for expertise. When he said, you know, Every, every high, every school door should be closed at all times in case there is a fire. It is so much safer. I said, yeah, but the kids swelter in the summer with the doors closed. It doesn't matter. When there's a fire, it'll be so much safer. To which the question is, when was the last school fire? 1907? And you remember it. Well, you were a kid. Don't exaggerate. Oh, you remember the phone call? Oh yeah, yeah. No, I never make stuff up. That was a decisive moment in my outlook on life. Experts are treasured. The Freds of the world, that commissioner, these people are invaluable. But their advice on these matters is not necessarily coherent. Max in Renton, Washington. Hello.

Oh, hi Dennis. That was a surprise to get through so quick. Anyway, I'll get right to it. Recently passed away from Alzheimer's, and, you know, what you had to say really resonated with me in that dealing with someone with Alzheimer's or dementia, severe dementia, is exhausting, and any relief at all would be a blessing for both the person with the disease and the caregivers. So the idea that, that you have to have some type of objective standard for something, right?

Okay, there you go, another dummy layman. Back in a moment.

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The Derek Chauvin trial was for many, many people, uh, uh, fraught with rage and sadness and resentment, frustration, apprehension. What's going to happen as the verdict is reached? And yesterday, I think everybody was sort of stunned. I was watching the, the pundits react with, uh, amazement that the jury returned a verdict so quickly. And of course, all the analysts, all the smart kids on TV said, that's not good for Derek Chauvin. And as it turned out, it was not good for Derek Chauvin. Guilty, guilty, guilty. And it sort of feels like America collectively let out a sigh of relief. Heard that metaphor a lot too. You heard that description. And we all know why people were relieved. First of all, millions of Americans legitimately believed that justice was served. But the other reason for the sigh of relief is a little more insidious. A little more nefarious, darker, a little scary. And that is the fact that Americans instinctively knew that if the verdict turned out any other way except guilty, guilty, guilty, multiple cities would burn.

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That confirms what we all sort of suspect. America's not in a good place right now. We're just not. I mean, here's a headline you won't see anywhere: Chauvin found guilty, the system worked. No, no, no, no, the progressives don't like that. AOC doesn't approve of that. AOC doesn't approve of that at all. In fact, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems very disappointed that Derek Chauvin got the maximum amount of guilt that he could have possibly received at yesterday's trial.

This verdict is not justice. Frankly, I don't even think we call it full accountability because there are multiple officers that were there. It wasn't just Derek Chauvin and I also don't want this moment to be framed as this system working, working, because it's not working. And that's what creates a lot of complexity in this moment.

That's a lot of complexity in that, young lady. A lot of complexity in this moment. Justice was not served. In fact, there wasn't even any accountability. And if that wasn't a goofy enough take for you, how about Nancy Pelosi? Nancy Pelosi actually looked up into the heavens and thanked George Floyd for dying.

Thank you, George Floyd.

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That's right, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. I thought you wouldn't— oh, look at that. Well, I'm going to summarize your calls because I only have this hour. The next hour is happiness hour. Yes, got a lot of intelligent calls here. This is worthy. I may, I may return to it next week because I feel under pressure to speak about a few subjects this first hour on Friday. Okay. Uh, let me just summarize here. Van Nuys David says placebo is not a good answer. Okay, that would have— maybe you should call me the third hour because that's, you know, open line. Kirk in Minnesota, there are many studies Alzheimer's disease and caregiving has a lot to do with it. All true. Bill in Delaware, there is no evidence that masks work, yet we do it. That's a great response in my opinion. I would sooner take, uh, ademalamedikatabataboo than, uh, than wear a mask. No question about that. By the way, can you imagine mask wearing for people who do have dementia? That must be a form of torture. They don't know what's going on and they're told that they can't breathe. It's like with the 2-year-olds on airplanes. There is a cruelty to the health fascists. And I've never used the term before today, by the way. But when I used to say Health Über Alles, I suggested that. I said that for 20 years. Health, using the German phrase, taking it from Deutschland Über Alles, Germany Above All. Health Above All, Safety Above All. Okay, now in the sick, perverse world of the left, a policeman saving probably a girl's life against a knife-wielding attacker is attacked because he's white. A black girl is about to stab, probably to death, a black girl, and a white officer shoots the black girl who's about to murder a black girl, and he's attacked, including by one of the great morons of our society, LeBron James. He is a moron. He is a profoundly arrogant moron, but that often— they often go hand in hand. He knows nothing about life beyond basketball. Nothing. He's an idiot. And he puts up a picture of the officer. You're next. Now, then deleted it. Yes, he deleted it because he's a coward. He doesn't really mean what he did because he doesn't want to alienate fans. Why did he take it down? Really, why did he take it down? Did he stop believing? No, no, no, he didn't stop. He never said I was wrong. He said those who attacked it are haters, are racists, which goes over well with the New York Times, which is on the moral level of LeBron James. This is true, but we've entered the world that the Babylon Bee, which is hilarious, you should read them. The Babylon Bee head has said it's almost impossible to satirize life anymore because the left will do it the next day. Yes, he took down the tweet because it's being used to create more hate. He didn't create more hate, get it? In the sick world of the left, that is believed. Tucker Carlson played black spokesman after black spokesman, not to mention white leftist spokesman, saying things like, "Well, if it was your daughter that the policeman shot, how would you feel?" Now, doesn't it strike you, my dear listener, that the appropriate question is, "If it was your daughter who was being attacked?" with a knife-wielding person, how would you feel? Isn't that more important? MSNBC is morally sick. CNN is morally sick. We're living in a, in a pathologic— moral pathology is our crisis. 1-800-DENNIS-PRAGER-776. Whoa, that was a hit of the mic, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize because I'm about to tell you about something for which I get thanks. Relief Factor. A lot of people have backache, neck ache, ankle ache, joint ache somewhere other than the ankle. This thing is mind-boggling. Now listen to this. I've never heard this with a sponsor. They'll— they tell you the product won't work if it doesn't work in 3 weeks. I like that, eh? Say you cancel your order. How much is 3 weeks? Special price, 20 buckaroos, or $20, whichever you prefer. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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But even as Americans, writes the New York Times, continue to process it 'New cases of people killed by the police have mounted.' Interesting verb. 'Since the trial began on March 29th, more than 3 people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement,' the Times found. End of quote. Okay, this whole narrative of police systemic racism is false. Democrats pursue it because they want 13% of the Black population, of the population of America that's Blacks, to be angry about this issue and therefore pull the lever for us because Republicans, after all, are racist. They're the ones who are doing this, but we really care. And liberals love to do it, and liberals buy into it because they're also sympathetic. According to the Washington Post, another left-wing source, the police have averaged in recent years 1,000 people killed per year, sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less, or roughly 3 a day. So New York Times, this is not a whole lot different. And to the extent that they're up a little bit, you have any idea That maybe, just maybe, it's because of the Minneapolis effect, the Ferguson effect, the Jacob Blake effect, to say nothing of the COVID shutdowns that are driving people crazy. In other words, there's no evidence that the cops are doing anything any differently.

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And you're being manipulated, and it's not just a manipulation that's harmless. Causes cops to pull back. Bad guys know it. Crime goes up. The people that the left claims they care about are the ones who are hurt. And young black men, having been taught the cops are out to kill you, the cops are out to violate your civil rights, when they're pulled over, why should they be cooperative? Why should they say yes sir and no sir? Obama just told me the police engaged in systemic racism. Eric Holder just told me the police engaged in systemic racism. Maxine Waters just told me, and nobody's pushing back. Nobody's calling it fraudulent. Nobody's saying it's false, so it must be true. The other thing that's going on right now with the Derek Chauvin trial is something that Tom Wolfe, the novelist, wrote about in 1990 in his great novel. I don't normally read novels. It was called The Bonfire of the Vanities, and the whole theme of the book is that prosecutors, media, the left love, love, love newspaper coverage of the great white defendant. Whites, he writes, are used to being beaten up Guilty whites enjoy it, blacks love it, and Derek Chauvin, for the— as far as the media are concerned, fit the bill. Which is why you find HLN bumping in and out of commercials with a graphic with a fist tearing a flag in half graphic. America's very soul is on trial. Not even America's soul, America's very soul is on trial.

Really?

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Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd yesterday when Ron DeSantis, the governor, signed an anti-riot bill.

He said this: This is what we enjoy in Florida. This is the Florida we know and love. This is what our governor, our speaker, our president— this is what all these law enforcement officers and administrators and sheriffs and police chiefs and their officers do every day. They guarantee an environment where you can come here and have fun. Heck, you can even have more fun. Here's another picture. This is the Florida we know and love. We're a special place, and there are a million—

I never said anything about Joe Biden when he was vice president except, and quite frankly, we like this man cannot ever be a leader. He's afraid. He's the opposite of Roosevelt. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. He's wearing a mask on a Zoom call, and he's vaccinated. America's divided into two groups: those who are embarrassed by this and those who are proud of it. Which group are you in? That's an awesome picture. I want to thank the person who tweeted that and the person who supplied me with the tweet, a woman named Susan, serves in many capacities. What do you think of that, eh? Are you in the embarrassed by your president group or proud of your president? Wears a mask outdoors and is vaccinated, then claims to follow the science. Follow the science is one of the left's great lies. They don't follow the science, they follow the scientists they agree with. I have so much on climate change now that you have no idea how many scientists who believe there's climate change now say that all of these projections are hysteria. That's the issue the whole time. I never said the world is not getting warmer. I said the projections are hysteria. They're in order to reshape the world and the economy, which is what Joe Biden is doing with, with his plan now. Going to have to, uh, get rid of your gas stove within 10 years according to, uh, the Biden plan. This is all make-believe, but it's not make-believe. It's all transformative of society. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, said that a lot of our highways are racist. I said it just as my engineer took a sip from a bottle of something, and the contents of that bottle has now left his mouth. I know. Do you realize this is the amazing thing? When I said that, there is not one person listening who thinks I made it up. But had I said it a few years ago even, you would have said, "Come on, you're mocking these people, Dennis. Give me a break. The highway system is racist." Yes. Now here's the key. Now, why would he say that? 'Cause it went through various neighborhoods, including black neighborhoods, and divided black from white neighborhoods. And I, I, I, it was, whatever the reason. And as, as many articles pointed out, they went through German and Italian and Jewish neighborhoods too. This is the 1950s great highway system in the country. So it's racist. So why did he, why does he do that? Because the left doesn't want us to drive. They literally, do you know that the LA Times, I didn't know this, last summer the LA Times had an opinion piece saying rip up the highways, the freeways of Los Angeles, they're racist. Literally get rid of them. There's a piece in the LA Times, which is to journalism what, uh, oh God, I need an analogy, what I am to basketball. There you go. That's a perfect analogy. That's it. The LA Times is to journalism what Dennis Prager is to basketball. I did not shoot at the wrong basket. I ran to the wrong basket. It's bad enough what I did in Madison Square Garden. Do not exaggerate it. I did not shoot to the wrong basket. In fact, I didn't touch the ball. In the 56 seconds the coach had me play. Isn't that something? Hey, that'll do it if we just rip up the highways. Everything is an agenda. It's all an agenda. They hate the fact that we enjoy life. Get it? You don't wear a mask, you're enjoying life too much. You're not in lockdown, you're enjoying life too much. You're driving in your car whenever you want, wherever you want, you're enjoying life too much. You have an indoor fireplace. You're enjoying life too much. They hate the happy. Because if you're happy, you don't make revolution. Get it? That too has an agenda. Happy people don't make revolutions. We'll be back.

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I was there front row in the Ellipse listening to my old boss, President Trump, on January 6th. Video cut to play. Cut.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

That's what he said, to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. This is what Maxine Waters, who has a track record of doing this, as Congresswoman Greene just said, after curfew, not even in her— another constituency of her state, in another state, said yesterday. Video cut. One, play. Cut.

Oh no, not manslaughter. No, no, no, this is guilty for murder. I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree.

What happens if we do not get what he just pulled?

What should the people do? What should protesters on the street do?

I didn't hear you.

What happens?

What should protesters do?

Well, we got to stay on the street, uh, and we've got to get more active. We've got to —get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

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Oh, this is personal for me on every level because the whole reason why I ran for Congress is for people over politicians. This government is out of control and they think it's the other way around. These politicians here in the swamp, they think that all of this is here to serve them and that's how they operate. Keep up with what's trending.

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You hear a lot of people talk about end of days and whether we are preparing for the rapture. You know, they can be easily forgiven because of all that is happening in our life. This country alone don't look to the world, but to this country alone. We are, we are watching the American heritage turned upside down. We're watching illegal immigrants given money by a government that denies it to those who are hardworking Americans with families to support. We are looking at a president who wouldn't answer a question, as I said, about packing the Supreme Court, but today he's creating a commission and doing full everything in his power to move toward another 4 justices that will dilute the court.

It's just one thing after another, and one rational thing that he's done, which The idea was prosperity would persuade China to align its interests with the world's free nations, but that's not what happened. Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley explains why in a new video from Prager University. See it at prageru.com, where we teach what isn't taught. I am currently earphone challenged here. Well, it got caught in the extension. We'll have to work this out, my friends. I am watching a band practice. Is this in England? Because it says BBC. Where is it taking place? It's in the US, but the BBC did it. And it is about a band practicing and they're each in their own little tent. People believe that that's important. How many kids have died? You know more kids die from the flu than have from COVID COVID is very selective, overwhelmingly, about whom it kills. Anyway, everything that was done by the authorities in the world was wrong. It was all— the lockdowns were wrong. Not using therapeutics was wrong. Masks were a farce. Half the country believes what I said to be true. The other half says that I I'm a science denier. No, I'm a scientist skeptic. I have science on my side on that issue. Joseph Ladapo, or Ladapo, I had on the show, associate professor at UCLA School of Medicine. Okay, associate professor of medicine. COVID mania is what he calls it— has a low mortality rate among most people, and especially the young, estimated at 0.01% for people under 40. 0.01%. And therefore never posed a serious threat to social and economic institutions. Compassion and realism need not be enemies, but COVID mania crowded out reasoned and wise policymaking. Americans groaned when leaders first called for 2 weeks to slow the spread in March 2020. Months later, many of these same Americans hardly blinked when leaders declared that lockdowns should continue indefinitely. For months, COVID has been elevated above all of the problems in society. Over time, new rules were written and new norms accepted. Liberty has played a special role in American history, fueling advances from independence to emancipation emancipation to the fight for equal rights for women and racial minorities. Incidentally, this professor is Black. Everything has been turned upside down, and the well-educated are the ones who have led it and believed it.

This is Carol Platt-Liebow for Townhall.com. President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it, but the left is angry. They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition. It's called court packing from when in 1937, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it. President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded. And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea. Any politically driven effort to change the court structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics, rather than by legal principle. Over time, a PAC court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people. I'm Carol Platt Liebowitz.

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I say this, I am looking at it very seriously. Beyond seriously. From a legal standpoint, I don't want to really talk about it yet.

Beyond seriously. I'm looking at it beyond seriously. That was the 45th president of the United States being asked about will he run for the White House again for 2024. Put the mics on, gentlemen, and get the headphones on. I'm going to survey the massive team here. It's going to take at least 3 hours to get all the answers in. This is America First on the Salem Radio Network. What does that mean to you?

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Please 3 times more hesitant, more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than a white suspect. Uh, New York Times even had an article in July of 2016. I urge you to Google it and read it, about a professor named Roland Fryer. He didn't write the article, but it was about his research. He just knew that if he did his research, he's going to find the police were killing Blacks just because they're Black. That is to say, when the police feel threatened in a situation where they'd be threatened by a white suspect, they're more likely to kill the Black suspect than the white suspect under similar circumstances. And he found just the opposite. He was shocked. Now, when you read the article, it does say he did say that he found the police were 18 to 20 times more likely to use non-deadly force against a Black suspect. He didn't talk about why. My suspicion is because they didn't want to take it to DEFCON 1, so therefore they were using more non-lethal force so they wouldn't have to get to the point where they had to use deadly force. Capisce? And I urge you to get an article from The Washington Post, April 27, 2016. I remember the date because it's my birthday. April 27, 2016, long article about research going back over decades showing cops more hesitant, more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than a white suspect. In particular, they talk about 3 professors from Washington State that have done this experiment over the years on 3 separate occasions, and on each occasion they found the same result. The cops were 3 times more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than on a white suspect. So everything that you're hearing from Joe Biden to Obama to Maxine Waters to Beto O'Rourke to the whole slew of them is a lie.

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Wasn't just Derek Chauvin. And I also don't want this moment to be framed as this system working, working because it's not working.

Now, The most depressing part of that, for those of you on radio or podcast, you can't tell, is that mountain of gibberish that she just spouted for 30 seconds. Couldn't really make sense of it. There was just like this line of comments one after the other of people being like, preach, OMG, you're amazing, you go girl. I can't really make sense of anything she just said except for the fact that She is displeased.

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The Derek Chauvin trial was for many, many people fraught with rage and sadness and resentment, frustration, apprehension. What's going to happen as the verdict is reached? And yesterday, I think everybody was sort of stunned. I was watching the, the pundits react with, uh, amazement that the jury returned a verdict so quickly. And of course, all the analysts, all the smart kids on TV said that's not good for Derek Chauvin. And as it turned out, it was not good for Derek Chauvin. Guilty, guilty, guilty. And it sort of feels like America collectively let out a sigh of relief.

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Well, I think most, most of the nation knows what Maxine Waters has done. I mean, people are outraged, shocked, furious at how a sitting member of Congress can go to another state, a state she doesn't even live in, go past curfew out into this dangerous area where Antifa, BLM, domestic terrorists have been rioting causing violence, mayhem, attacking police officers, just like they have all year long. Maxine Waters goes there and tells them to stay in the streets.

It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, it is. Hey everybody! The happy make the world better. The unhappy make it worse. That's the case every time. Unhappiness is a big problem. That's why we have the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Those are the original lyrics, incidentally. Thank you. Thank you. The happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse. That's correct. The Happiness Hour, even in the midst of a very, very troubled country, all gratuitously troubled. This country should be one largely happy place. Happiness Hour has been the second hour on Friday since 1999, which is only one century from the 19th century. Give you an idea of how long this program has been broadcast. That is the Happiness Hour. I have a subject that I have often noted in other hours but never once, to the best of my knowledge, covered as the subject of a Happiness Hour. Generally speaking, as I often note, I try to avoid politics in the Happiness Hour because the subject is happiness, and I'd like it to transcend the political. But the political is part of life, unfortunately, way too big part of life. So I have a question for you, and I know you know what I think, but I'm not asking for confirmation of what I think. I'm asking for your own experience in this matter. Have you found— so you've got to call in quickly because this is one of those special hours, Happiness Hour, Ultimate Issues Hour, Male/Female Hour, where I'm asking a question rather than offering a thesis, and I will respond to your calls with my own thinking rather than open up with it. And that question is, do you find among relatives and friends, or if you will, friends and relatives, Any correlation between political views and their happiness? 1-800-PREGGER, 776-877-243-7776. Let me ask Triple G. Triple G, in your life, a spontaneous response is called for here. Have you found a correlation between political views and happiness? You find among people you know that long-term happiness resides for the most part on the right side of the aisle. And certainly toward the center and not on the far left. Okay, so there we have a considered response from a very, very unhappy individual who is on the right. That's an interesting point. By the way, he's not on the left, folks. He's not unhappy. That was a joke. Today. Yes, that's correct. Now, by the way, I'm not talking about those who have, for example, chronic depression. I'm not talking about the physiologically unhappy induced, which can run all across the political spectrum, obviously. So, but talking about those who just have an air of misery about them, who are— well, look, I shouldn't beat around the bush. I agree with my engineer, and I'll tell you why. What have I said since the first show is the root of happiness. Gratitude. Nobody in his right mind can deny that conservatives are more grateful than people on the left, because conservatives thank God they're living in America, and those on the left think that they are cursed. Living in this cesspool of racism and hatred and bigotry and intolerance and systemic— you fill in the rest of it. How can you be happy if you believe that? I believe I live in the last best hope on earth versus I live in a moral cesspool. Who is more likely to be happy? It's not— to me, it isn't an issue. But what I have said is broad-based, philosophic, macro thinking. I'm asking you for micro-based. I gave a macro-based thought. That's not what I'm asking you to give me. I want you to think of the people you know best. Friends and relatives, is there a correlation? There may not be. My theory may be true for many, but maybe it's not as generalizable as I think it is. All right, so this is the way I'm asking it. Jane in Dallas, Texas, hello. Hi, how are you? I'm well, thank you.

Great. Yeah. So my comment is that, you know, I have not met somebody that's on the left, so to speak, that is happy. They're angry or living in fear, still not leaving their homes. If you don't have your mask up, they kind of shy away from you, which is really sad. On the other hand, conservatives are getting together with their families. I'm grateful. I'm happy. I kind of see now that we're at now in our country how good we had it when President Trump was our president. But I think if we can turn this around, we're going to be kissing the ground and grateful that, you know, we have a wonderful country. But yes, so basically I think conservatives are grateful. They're happy. They're not violent. They're getting together with their families. They're loving each other.

And people on the left. All right. So tell me. All right. Are you giving me a general rule, which I happen to agree with, or are you speaking about specific friends or relatives?

Yes, I have some friends. I wouldn't say they're angry, probably because of my friend, but they are real shut off from, from even, even learning about the truth. Or, and I think mostly they're fearful. Like, I have a very young couple, a friend, and they're just still not leaving their house. What's been— what's a year now? And are they—

are they on the left politically?

Oh yes. Oh yes. But you know, they didn't really dig into the left. Like, they just kind of listen to CNN and buy it. Like, for example, I had a conversation with one, the, the lady, um, and, uh, we were talking about Hillary back in the day, and I said, are you saying you're for abortion up to 9 months? And she goes, She's not for that. I said, oh yes, she is. And then when she realized that, I said, so you still, you think that's right? She goes, well, no, I don't. And it made me realize how she just bought whatever she heard. Well, the one thing I did respect about her, she didn't get up and leave my dinner table. You know, we would just talk.

Yes, but that's a good story. All right, thank you again. I want you to reflect not on the society and not on the philosophy. I'll handle that. I want to know your friends and relatives. Has this been a— in any way consistent? I, I would love to ask an NPR audience this question. I would like to know what their answer to the question is. Do you think that there is a Correlation between individual happiness and political views. Mike, the people on the left think we're less happy than conservatives. See, when we celebrate life and leave the house without a mask, which is celebrating life more than wearing a mask, that's undeniable. Nobody thinks wearing a mask is fun, is enjoyable, okay. But they don't think we're happier, they think we're more selfish because we're killing people. So that, I wanna consider that further when we return. You're listening to the Happiness Hour, second hour, Friday on the Dennis Prager Show. Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor pain-free studio.

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I say this, I am looking at it very seriously, beyond seriously, from a legal standpoint. I don't want to really talk about it yet.

Beyond seriously. I'm looking at it beyond seriously. That was the 45th president of the United States being asked about will he run for the White House again. For 2024. Put the mics on, gentlemen, and get the headphones on. I'm going to survey the massive team here. It's going to take at least 3 hours to get all the answers in. This is America First on the Salem Radio Network. What does that mean to you?

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Police 3 times more hesitant, more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than a white suspect. Uh, New York Times even had an article in July of 2016. I urge you to Google it and read it about a professor named Roland Fryer. He didn't write the article, but it was about his research. He just knew that if he did his research, he's going to find the police were killing Blacks just because they're Black. That is to say, when the police feel threatened in a situation where they'd be threatened by a white suspect, they're more likely to kill the black suspect than the white suspect under similar circumstances. And he found just the opposite. He was shocked. Now, when you read the article, it does say he did say that he found the police were 18 to 20 times more likely to use non-deadly force against a black suspect. He didn't talk about why. My suspicion is because they didn't want to take it to DEFCON 1, so therefore they were using more non-lethal force so they wouldn't have to get to the point where they had to use deadly force. Capisce? And I urge you to get an article from The Washington Post, April 27, 2016. I remember the date because it's my birthday. April 27, 2016. Long article about research going back over decades showing cops more hesitant, more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than a white suspect. In particular, they talk about 3 professors from Washington State that have done this experiment over the years on 3 separate occasions, and on each occasion they found the same result. The cops were 3 times more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than on a white suspect. So everything that you're hearing from Joe Biden to Obama to Maxine Waters to Beto O'Rourke to the whole slew of them is a lie.

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Wasn't just Derek Chauvin. And I also don't want this moment to be framed as this system working, working, because it's not working.

Now, the most depressing part of that, for those of you on radio or podcast, you can't tell, is that mountain of gibberish that she just spouted for 30 seconds. Couldn't really make sense of it. There were just like this line of comments, one after the other, of people being like, preach, OMFG, you're amazing, you go girl. I can't really make sense of anything she just said except for the fact that she is displeased.

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Hi, Dennis. Hi. Yeah, I have a— I have an identical twin brother. I'm 60 years old. He's obviously 60 as well. Um, we grew up obviously in the same household, same background, same Everything. He went left, I went right. Uh, I consider my views mainstream. He's radical, I think, and he's miserable, and I think his family is too. They're, uh, they're all on the left. He's the— him and his family are the only ones in our main family, or from our original family, that hold those views.

This is fascinating, you know. They, they're the exact group that people test, identical twins, because of the genetic similarity and, and the environmental similarity. And yet, look at what— can you explain why he went left and you went right? I can't.

I was actually going to ask you. I don't, I don't know why he, he went to, uh— I didn't go to college.

Oh, he went to a trade school. Oh, trade school. That doesn't— that doesn't—

he went to a trade school, which I wouldn't have thought.

Yeah, they don't— I don't think they indoctrinate quite as much.

He married his high school sweetheart and she was a liberal. Uh, I was liberal at the time. I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980.

I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. So there you go. 1980 was my first Republican vote.

Well, Ronald Reagan had my attention, and that's why 1982 I was fully sold out.

So I'm thinking that the girlfriend might have had a big impact.

I think so, although she's not as politically outspoken today as he is. She just holds I think she got him involved in the Sierra Club.

Uh-huh. Does he— does he wear a mask outdoors?

Oh yeah. Do you?

No.

Fascinating. Does he have children?

Yeah, he has two daughters, and they're, they're both on the left. One is, uh, she got married and declared herself uh, several years after being married as being bisexual. And, um, well, that's a bonus for the husband.

That was just— yeah, that was just a dark joke for all those listening. That was dark humor. Thank you. Go on.

Yeah, we've made the same joke on our side. I don't understand it. His other daughter is, uh, She's liberal. I don't know. She's not really outspoken. She's not extremely political, but she believes that Republicans are racist, so I guess that—

So she thinks her uncle, the identical twin of her father, is a racist? Yeah, yeah.

And I'm sure they all do.

We don't talk about it. We don't— Oh, that's good.

We don't argue much. We live 1,700 miles apart, so we don't see each other that often, but we— My brother and I stay in touch. We just don't talk politics.

No, I'm very happy to hear that. I'm very much for family staying together, not dividing. Don't talk about it. There's a lot to talk about in life. I've got relatives whom I adore who are liberal. I only have one who's really left, and he's very unhappy. So the question is which precedes which if our generalization is accurate. That's why I would love to do this on NPR. So I think one of the reasons that the left has always loathed the non-left is the happiness issue. See, like Marx said, the religious Oh, clearly the religious are happier than the non-religious. That's because religion is an opiate. So he's the father of the left, recognized that the religious were more happy than atheists like him. But not but, and his reason was religion is an is a drug. So if you could take drugs that alter your consciousness, you will be a happier human being. But he doesn't have that drug and he's miserable. Okay, that was, that was fascinating. Alrighty, in Joliet, Illinois, Craig, hello.

Hello, Dennis Prager, first-time caller. Hi. And I love your show and I listen to you every day faithfully. Thank you. I have a relative who I always have looked up to who's older than I am, um, who was always very conservative and around 10 years ago turned to the left. And it's just baffled me because I don't I don't know why. And he's married to, I think, liberal, and children are liberal. And but I don't bring it up because it's just— it brings up bad things. So, um, but really bothers me. And then the very end, he used to be very happy and joking around, and not, not so much anymore.

That's fascinating. Fascinating. Yeah, that I didn't expect to get a call of, of watching somebody evolve politically and evolve in terms of happiness. If that's true, that is remarkable. Gail, Calgary, Canada. Hello.

Hello. Hi, Gail. It's a pleasure. I've spoken with you more than once. I respect your opinion and I'm tortured. And I'm flawed, and I listen to you speak about not having political differences influence relationships, and I'm a flawed human being because they do mine.

And well, no, forgive me, I just want to clarify. I don't want it to— I don't want it to affect families. I don't have—

it does affect my family. Okay, go on. But because of me. I don't know how to afford not to. I go to my parents and visit, and my mom and dad have the news on constantly, and they're listening to all of these lies. And, and I say, why do you have this on? It's not even true. And, and they're praising and worshiping the TV and all this.

All right, I want to ask you a few questions.

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I was there front row in the Ellipse listening to my old boss, President Trump, on January 6th. Video cut to play.

Cut. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

That's what he said, to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. This is what Max Rep. Maxine Waters, who has a track record of doing this, as Congresswoman Greene just said, after curfew, not even in another constituency of her state, in another state, said yesterday— video, cut one, play, cut.

Oh no, not manslaughter. No, no, no. This is guilty for murder. I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree murder.

Congressman, what happens if we do not get get what you just told?

What should the people do?

What should protesters on the street do? I didn't hear you.

What happens? What should protesters do?

Well, we got to stay on the street, uh, and we've got to get more active. We've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they, they know that we need justice.

This has got to be personal for you because you're being accused, and for months, of the worst things. They're throwing you off your committee assignments. Trying to get you kicked out of Congress, when you hear women, congresswomen, say more violence, more confrontational, what does it mean for your supporters and for patriots, Congresswoman?

Oh, I— this is personal for me on every level because the whole reason why I ran for Congress is for people over politicians. This government is out of control, and they think it's the other way around. These politicians here in the swamp, they think that all of this is, is here to serve them, and that's how they operate.

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You hear a lot of people talk about end of days and whether We are preparing for the rapture. You know, they can be easily forgiven because of all that is happening in our life. This country alone— don't look to the world, but to this country alone— we are, we are watching the American heritage turned upside down. We're watching illegal immigrants given money by a government that denies it to those who are hardworking Americans with families to support. We are looking at a president who wouldn't answer a question, as I said, about packing the Supreme Court, but today he's creating a commission and doing full everything in his power to move toward another 4 justices that will dilute the court. It's just one thing after another. And one rational thing that he's done, which is to bring— announce he's bringing home our troops from Afghanistan. That is what President Trump wanted to do years ago and was stymied at every turn by the military-industrial complex.

Yeah, we're not going to mention the neocons and Lindsey Graham because that would be inappropriate.

Yeah. Have you been in touch at all?

And you don't have to say if you— but I'm wondering if you've been in touch with the president at all.

Him a number of times here. I guess most recently a week, a week or so ago. And he, by the way, sounds great. He sounds rested, and, uh, and he's obviously taking on issues every day.

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You know, That's a good question. I mean, that's a good question. I don't know. I, I don't know. All right, so maybe— all right, that's a flaw in me. That what? That's a flaw in me.

Yes, exactly. Yes, I, I think I— well, not in you, it's a flaw in your behavior. I don't know if it's okay. It's not a character. Correct. So, so it's not worth it. It's not worth it. You're not gonna change them. They're the only parents you have. So go in and go, oh my God, my favorite station.

Make a joke. All right. Okay. That, that being said, okay, I appreciate that. And you're speaking about family. Um, and respectfully, um, and I'm having this issue in Canada.

Canada is worse than the U.S. Oh my God.

And I, I think I'm just in the people I'm associated— I don't understand it. Like, and I'm losing my mind.

I know. Well, I, I'm, I'm losing my mind over Canada too. I mean, just reading the story about that guy named Hoagland I forgot which province he's in, who, I mean, it's beyond belief. His daughter says she is a boy, and if he ever refers to her, I think I got the genders right, if he ever refers to her as her or him as her, he will go to prison. He might go to prison anyway. I read it's an extensive story. British Columbia, yeah, there you go. You know, that's of course how Jordan Peterson came to world attention. Jordan Peterson's Canadian, he's at the University of Toronto, and he simply objected to having the province of Ontario make a law telling him how he has to refer to people, the pronoun he has to use, that it would be a law. And that's what sent him into international recognition. As a side note, there's a dialogue between Jordan Peterson and me on the internet when he, right before his illness, He's had a nightmarish time since then. My heart goes out to him. He and I had a dialogue at a PragerU event in, in LA. It's a very powerful video, easily found until they take it down. Alrighty everybody, that's the question here. And we will take more calls. It's a very important question, and here's another part to it. If I'm right that the further left you go, the less happy you are, does the unhappiness precede the leftism, or does the leftism induce the unhappiness? The unhappiness.

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Joe Manchin, Senator Joe, did a tele-town hall yesterday about West Virginians and why they vote Republican. Listen to Cut 18.

People asked me one time, they said, what happened to West Virginia? How come West Virginia has changed from a Democrat state to Republican state? How did that happen in the quickest amount of time that we've ever seen? I said, I can tell you how West Virginia feels. We feel like the returning Vietnam veteran. We've done every dirty job you've asked us to do. We never questioned. We did it and performed well. And now all of a sudden we're not good enough, we're not clean enough, we're not green enough, we're not smart enough. You want to know why they quit voting for Democrats?

That's the reason. That's exactly— the entire country knows that a handful of elite Democrats think they're morons.

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The Derek Chauvin trial was, for many, many people, uh, uh, fraught with rage and sadness and resentment, frustration, apprehension. What's going to happen as the verdict is reached? And yesterday, I think everybody was sort of stunned. I was watching the, the pundits react with, uh, amazement that the jury returned a verdict. So quickly. And of course, all the analysts, all the smart kids on TV said, that's not good for Derek Chauvin. And as it turned out, it was not good for Derek Chauvin. Guilty, guilty, guilty. And it sort of feels like America collectively let out a sigh of relief. Heard that metaphor a lot too. You heard that description. And we all know why people were relieved. First of all, millions of Americans legitimately believed that justice was served. But the other reason for the sigh of relief is a little more insidious, a little more nefarious, darker, a little scary. And that is the fact that Americans instinctively knew that if the verdict turned out any other way except guilty, guilty, guilty, multiple cities would burn.

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That confirms what we all sort of suspect. America's not in a good place right now. We're just not. I mean, here's a headline you won't see anywhere: Chauvin found guilty. The system worked. No, no, no, no. The progressives don't like that. AOC doesn't approve of that. AOC doesn't approve of that at all. In fact, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems very disappointed that Derek Chauvin got the maximum amount of guilt that he could have possibly received at yesterday's trial.

This verdict is not justice, frankly. I don't even think we call it full accountability because there are multiple officers that were there. It wasn't just Derek Chauvin, and I'm not speaking.

All I do is want to listen. I can't. I'll tell you how much I enjoy this. You know, I conduct orchestras. I'm so seriously into classical music. But on getting the chills level, some of these songs from the '50s compete with a Beethoven symphony, not in complexity and profundity and depth, but just in raw emotional reaction. I got— it's so interesting, it's the happiness hour. I think— I wonder— it would seem that it's obvious that there would be a relationship between— what is it, endorphins? Is that sort of the happy hormone? The release of endorphins and one's happiness level. If that is true, then one would want to maximize endorphin-secreting moments. Music is a pretty consistent one for me. The question on the table this Happiness Hour is, have you found, and I'm only talking not general, I'll talk general, I want you to talk micro, specific, relatives and friends, Have you found a correlation between their happiness level and their politics, right or left? All righty. In Tryon, North Carolina, Sylvia.

Hi. Hi, Dennis. Thank you for taking my call. Yep. And I kind of have to change my answer because my husband and I were discussing the question and I misinterpreted answer. But, um, I think that both my liberal friends and my conservative friends are pretty happy generally. Um, what I misunderstood was I thought you were talking about because Biden is president and when Trump was president, all my liberal friends were— I can't say the word— but very angry And all my conservative friends were, you know, pretty happy. So now that this—

Do you have any liberal friends? Do you have any leftist friends or relatives?

Not really. That's what it sounds like.

Not to the extreme. Yes.

Okay. That makes sense. Look, I divide tremendously between liberal and left. I don't think there are any happy leftists. I think there are happy liberals. Anyway, look, I want to be clear. I live in the real world. What is happening in the US has affected my happiness level. I am essentially, as you probably well know, a happy human being. And when I don't think about the trajectory of my beloved country, in my usual happy state. But I can't believe that my country is being damaged severely, maybe permanently, maybe irreparably, and still go on as if nothing happened. I acknowledge that. All right, everybody. Yes, indeed. Where is this? Where's Staten Island? There they go. Staten Island, New York City. Kathy, hello.

Hi Dennis, it's so nice to speak with you. Thank you. My niece went to college in Boston and came home a very, very angry person. Her two brothers went to college as well, locally in New Jersey, and they are very happy, well-adjusted people. And she is now going for her master's.

And bad news, everything you're telling me is bad news.

I know. And, and, you know, Dennis, my heart goes out to my sister because the whole— my niece wound up back home because of the COVID hysteria, and the whole house revolves around her moods, her schedule, her, her whole life. And she holds my sister and my— I could cry— and my brother-in-law captive. And I send her links and I send her things When you talk about you can't be, you know, you didn't break her so you can't fix her, and I, because I've been through it. My son came home, they're the same age, my niece and my son. He was indoctrinated, but with, through much, lots of talking, lots of hugging, lots of love. And I have to tell you, a lot of your wisdom that you've passed on to me, uh, just by listening to you, he has come around and he's turned back into his happy self. But I feel terrible for my sister. Yes, so do I. She's a very angry and unhappy girl.

That's right, that's what it sounds like. I feel like I know her niece. I really do. I'm sure if I asked her niece, and you should ask your niece, I'm sure if I asked her the question I ask every young woman I meet, in other words, from 20 to 30 basically, If you could have one guarantee in life, doesn't mean you can't have the other, but only one is guaranteed, a great marriage or a great career, which would you choose? And I have a feeling, let me see if Kathy is still there. Hey Kathy, if you asked that of your niece, what would she answer?

She would say career, but Dennis, I'm not allowed to speak to her about anything. My sister doesn't They don't want me to pass on any wisdom.

Oh really? Oh, I didn't know your sister's on the left too.

My sister isn't. She isn't.

Her husband isn't. Wait, so they're afraid that their daughter's aunt might say something that their daughter differs with?

Yes, and that would set her off and she has literal meltdowns, Dennis Prager. Oh, well, this is not good.

The parents are enabling. They're enablers, just as if the daughter were hooked on drugs or alcohol or gambling. Don't say anything that might disturb her. You ever have that if you have a conservative child? Imagine telling your brother, your sister, don't send my son anything liberal. It's almost inconceivable. That's an instructive little story.

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The other thing I want to ask you about is Brent Griffiths in his Business Insider newsletter this morning finally came up with a number of aid for in the Biden stimulus package. The giveaway to New York City is $5.6 billion. How is that going to play in the Arizona Georgia, New Hampshire Senate elections where Democrats are on their back foot?

It's not going to play well, especially when New York City is doing things like giving large amounts to people who are undocumented, illegal immigrants, and just using, using this aid money in ways that are not permitted by Oh, you know, done by the federal government.

You can't work for ICE or CPB anymore. There's a memo out. You cannot use the term illegal immigrant. Now, I've always preferred undocumented since it is more comprehensive as to what we're talking about, but they have outlawed the use of illegal alien. So you're kind of outlawed, Byron.

At a congressional appearance by Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of Homeland Security, He was asked repeatedly, now, is it illegal to cross the border other than at a port of entry? And he had to keep saying, yes, yes, it is. It actually is. It is. So I don't see anything wrong with that phrase, even though undocumented has taken hold. Now, you're the lawyer here. I believe in all the statutes, the references to aliens and illegal aliens.

Yes, it is. But you're not woke, Byron. I don't know if we're going to have to send you to woke awareness camp. Is there a summer camp for journalists to wake you up? Because you're not woke.

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I was there front row in the ellipse listening to my old boss, President Trump, on January 6th.

Video cut to play cut. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully Show returns. Well, he's really playing happy music for me today. Okay, let me take as many calls as I can. Clearwater, Florida. Alex, hello. Florida, the center of America's Renaissance. Hello. Hi, Dennis.

Tremendous pleasure and honor to speak with you. Thank you. Well, my best friend is a happy leftist. And his younger brother's an unhappy one, and I wanted to express this nuance to you. My best friend, the happy leftist, doesn't— benefits from all of the conservative Western world, uh, capitalism, democracy, all the above, and is unaffected by leftist policy because he's so wealthy. So he gets the benefits of benefiting from our society while also getting the benefits of sounding virtuous and compassionate and progressive at cocktail parties. His younger brother, on the other hand, has made poor decisions throughout his life that has put him in a situation where he doesn't have marketable skills that allow him to live the life that he was accustomed to under his parents. So instead of looking in the mirror and maybe embracing conservative values, taking on responsibility, more responsibility, like Jordan Peterson would say, and changing his life, life for something better. He chooses to want to put it on the system and also benefit from sounding virtuous and inclusive and well-rounded.

These are— how are these people related to you? They're not related to me.

The one that's happy is my best friend, that we've managed to be able to keep a friendship. Yeah, that's remarkable.

That is remarkable. It's a credit to both of you, by the way. I mean, I'm How happy you were. Let me summarize some of your calls here. Let's see, Chuck in Kentucky, brother lives on the West Coast and was amazed by the freedom he saw in Ohio. That's right. That's how I felt when I went to Florida last year. And Bob in Texas is on the right, very happy his friend's on the left. Are grumpy. Well, I don't know how you're not grumpy because you believe you live in such a cesspool called America. And let's see, people who don't follow politics— this is Ann in California, LA area— are more happy. Yeah, that's true. I agree with that. Ignorance is bliss until, of course, the consequences of what you're ignoring hit you, then you, then you don't know what hit you. Eric in Texas, his relatives on the left are atheists and are terrified. Isn't that interesting? Retired police officer in Minnesota, Tim, doesn't speak to his leftist friends anymore. Well, You're a police officer in Minnesota. That's a hated group by the left. All right, everybody, call in now on whatever is on your mind.

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But even as Americans, writes the New York Times, continue to process it, new cases of people killed by the police have mounted. Interesting verb. Since the trial began on March 29th, more than 3 people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement, the Times found, end of quote. Okay, this whole narrative of police systemic racism is false. Democrats pursue it because they want 13% of the Black population, of the population of America that's Blacks, to be angry about this issue and therefore pull the lever for us because Republicans, after all, are racist. They're the ones who are doing this. But we really care. And liberals love to do it, and liberals buy into it because they're also sympathetic. According to the Washington Post, another left-wing source, the police have averaged in recent years 1,000 people killed per year, sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less, or roughly 3 a day. So New York Times This is not a whole lot different. And to the extent that they're up a little bit, you have any idea that maybe, just maybe, it's because of the Minneapolis effect, the Ferguson effect, the Jacob Blake effect, to say nothing of the COVID shutdowns that are driving people crazy? In other words, there's no evidence that the cops are doing anything any differently.

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Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd yesterday when Ron DeSantis, the governor, signed an anti-riot bill.

He said this: This is what we enjoy in Florida. This is the Florida we know and love. This is what our governor, our speaker, our president— this is what all these law enforcement officers and administrators and sheriffs and police chiefs and their officers do every day. They guarantee an environment where you can come here and have fun. Heck, you can even have more fun. Here's another picture. This is the Florida we know and love. We're a special place, and there are millions and millions of people who like to come here. And quite frankly, we like to have them here. We only want to share one thing as you move in hundreds a day: welcome to Florida, but don't register to vote and vote the stupid way you did up north. You'll get what they got. There's a reason that this place is fun. There's a reason why we have a 49-year low crime rate.

Now, Ron DeSantis, speaking about the state, was on with Tucker last night.

I think the lockdowns, you know, provided an impetus to be able— because people need an outlet to do things. And so I think some of these states like Minnesota, California, I think the fact that they were locked down and had the opportunity to go out and do stuff. I think that that added fuel to the fire of what was going on. So I think the fact that we took a hard line on that, people understood Florida is a law and order state, but also that we were open, I think has been a huge factor in people moving to Florida.

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Nancy Pelosi, I think, embodied this best. Do we have that clip of Nancy Pelosi? Yes. So before I play that clip, Nancy Pelosi was talking about George Floyd. And I want you to think about this deeply as she says this. She says, thank you, George Floyd, for dying. Only a religious person would be thanking somebody for dying if they believed that sacrifice was a martyr for a certain purpose. I kid you not, this is what Nancy Pelosi said. Play tape.

So again, thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice, for being there to call out to your mom how How heartbreaking was that call out for your mom? I can't breathe.

But because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous.

So she said that he sacrificed himself, which is a very bizarre way to put it, as if he wanted to die. That is basically the definition of sacrifice, that it's the willing or obedient gesture to inhibit yourself, your freedom, your liberty, your life for a different purpose. Now, maybe Nancy Pelosi misspoke, but this was something that was repeated by many different people, like George Floyd's girlfriend thanked him for dying saying that he gave his life.

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And you're being manipulated. And it's not just a manipulation that's harmless. Causes cops to pull back. Bad guys know it. Crime goes up. The people that the left claims they care about are the ones who were hurt. And young black men, having been taught the cops are out to kill you, the cops are out to violate your civil rights, when they're pulled over, why should they be cooperative? Why should they say yes sir and no sir? Obama just told me the police engaged in systemic racism. Eric Holder just told me the police engaged in systemic racism. Maxine Waters just told me, and nobody's pushing back. Nobody's calling it fraudulent. Nobody's saying it's false, so it must be true. The other thing that's going on right now with the Derek Chauvin trial is something that Tom Wolfe, the novelist Wins the faceoff.

He gets it to Robitaille.

Robitaille gets it to Dennis Prager.

Here's Prager to center ice with Gretzky. 2-on-1 break. Gretzky back to Prager.

He stumbles and falls. All right, you know, nevertheless, let's be honest. How many people get to play with such players, huh? So I fell. So, give me a break. What happened to the music?

Long story?

Not a good sign. Hi everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, the third hour, Friday, whatever's on your mind, especially cigars, audio equipment, photography equipment, and fountain pens, and classical music. There are 5 subjects that I am particularly desirous of talking about. However, it comes with a price since the vast majority of you are not interested in those subjects. It is an issue. Okay, got that out of my system. We can continue now and take your calls. All right, everybody, and Brent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hello, Brent of Pittsburgh.

Hey Dennis, pleasure speaking to you. Thank you. Um, I grew up in, uh, Long Island as a kid, uh, North Shore of Nassau County. And, um, you could probably say I'm a product of, uh, you know, kids during the Ronald Reagan era. Um, most of my friends growing up— I grew up in a Jewish part of town, believe it or not, are more conservative. Um, but the rest of my extended family, besides, you know, my wife and my children, they're all, um, they're all liberals, every one of them. Probably more left than liberal. Um, I guess, um, I guess I'm the black sheep of the family. But, uh, even at family gatherings, I have to keep my mouth closed, um, if they talk about politics. Even my own mother, I can't have any discussion with politics with.

God, my friend, I would like to give you a hug, a mask-free hug.

Yeah, exactly.

Wait, I'm just curious, do you have any friends that share your values?

Majority of my friends do. It's my family. Cousins. They're very, they're very liberal. Right, right.

So wait, let me dwell on the friends for a moment. Do the friends ever come over, or do you and your wife ever have dinner with them?

Yeah, sure.

So there are times that she's in the minority?

Oh no, my wife's actually— she's a conservative, so are my two sons.

Oh, I thought you said otherwise. Oh, you know what? I don't want— no, I take back my hug. You're in fine shape, man. No, I'm not kidding. Big deal. So the rest of your family, who cares? Your wife and kids are on your side. That's the best. Yes.

Yes.

Well, you know, if you had to do a trade in baseball terms, one kid is worth 6 cousins.

Yes. Of course. Okay. Hundreds of thousands.

Exactly. And uncles, even parents.

It boggles my mind, you know.

No, do me a favor. You've got to get my column from last month. I have 32 questions to ask liberals to decide whether they're liberal or left. And it's not provocative, it's totally open, and it would be a great way to have a non-confrontational discussion with them. I ask you all to do that. Send that out. And even say, I'll tell you why, I said, I'm trying to determine, are you liberal or left? They'll say, what do you mean? I'll say, here's what I mean, just take a look, here are 32 differences between them? 32. Okay, there you go. Yes, that's right, Baskin-Robbins, was that 32 flavors? So didn't they— I wonder what ice cream maker has the most flavors, Ben Jerry's? I mean, they make political ones like the anti-fascist vanilla. I'm not kidding. These are crackpots. But the ice cream is good. It's a pretty big problem. This is what we call cognitive dissonance. All righty, everybody. Scott, Corbin, Kentucky.

Hello. Hello, sir. Long time listener. Well, not long time, but I've been listening to you and man, I love what you've got to say. Thank you.

So if you're not long time, how did you discover me? My boys— say it again—

told me about the radio station of, uh, you, um, the other ones. Good, good. That's great. Yeah, I listen to you guys all day long until it turns over to country, and then I switch to rock and roll. That's a good combo. That's it.

I'm with you. All right.

Yeah, you One of the subjects is music.

Yeah, that's right. Well, no, no, no, no, no, you gotta call in on what you call— talk to me about what you called in on.

Oh, well, I called in about was, uh, uh, my brother. He lives out on the West Coast. Whether or not he's left-wing or not, um, I found when he would come back here in 2020 that, you know, he was so amazed because he comes back and he's got his mask on. He's like, you guys can go into restaurants and sit down and eat. I said, yep. You know, was that amazing? Yes, I am. He was amazed at that.

I know that. I experienced it. I talked about it on the air. I wrote about it in a column, The Sovietization of California. I went to, I went to Florida last year, and I felt like I did when I went to Vienna during my travels in Eastern Europe when they were communist countries. And literally, I remember thinking when I went into Austria, because I would go down from Poland to Bulgaria, and then the next year I'd go Bulgaria to Poland, south, north. But I'd always stop in Vienna, which protrudes into Eastern Europe, just to have a breather. Because it's suffocating communist country. California is getting suffocating. Oregon is doomed. And that's what I— I can't believe I said this at the time, that going back to California, which was so exciting when I moved here, What could be more exciting than going to California? And now it's depressing to go to California, anywhere the West Coast. Okay, let's go to Richfield, Ohio, and Derek. Hello, Derek.

Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for taking my call, Dennis Prager. Yeah, so I just wanted to hear, you know, what you have to say about nuclear energy. You know, usually you only hear the bad things about it. I just kind of wanted to hear what you had to say about that.

Nuclear energy is the proof that the climate hysterics don't believe what they're saying. If they believed the world was doomed, they would be the biggest advocates of nuclear power. There's a perfect perfect answer to carbon emissions. Nuclear power. Safe, clean, powerful. Some countries like France, about half their energy comes from it. So it's a phony, it's a phony cause. The purpose is to disrupt the economy, not to fix the environment. They should be the biggest advocates of nuclear your power. Okay, is that clear?

Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, I know, makes a lot of sense. Um, you just hear the fear-mongering. They try to compare as if every nuclear program is going to be a Chernobyl, and that—

well, by the way, even if you use Chernobyl, it's— Chernobyl, ironically, which was produced by the evil people of the Soviet Union who didn't give a damn about human life, and had no safeguards comparable to anything in the West, even that spectacular disaster caused very few deaths. You think the world is going to end in 12 years and you don't build a nuclear reactor? You're a phony. Total 100% intellectual fraud. And by the way, there are environmentalists who say that too. But this president doesn't say that. He doesn't believe a thing he says. He says whatever he is told by the left to say. All right, Claude, Los Altos, California. Hello. Hey, Mr.

Prager, I'm going to plagiarize something and say I appreciate your program more than I can say. So I've been doing a lot of extra exercise, and your podcast has kept me going. This month is an hour of exercise every day, and last month was 130 miles, and I couldn't do it without your wisdom in the podcast.

Well, I'm happy to say that I am losing weight along with you. That it is— I want to thank you for taking me with you. We'll be back in a moment.

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The other thing I want to ask you about is Brent Griffiths in his Business Insider newsletter this morning finally came up with a number of aid for in the Biden stimulus package. The giveaway to New York City is $5.6 billion. How is that going to play in the Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire Senate elections where Democrats are on their back foot?

It's not going to play well, especially when New York City is doing things like giving large amounts to people who are undocumented, illegal immigrants, and just using, using this aid money in ways that are not permitted by Oh, is it not done by the federal government?

You can't work for ICE or CPB anymore. There's a memo out, you cannot use the term illegal immigrant. Now, I've always preferred undocumented since it is more comprehensive as to what we're talking about, but they have outlawed the use of illegal alien.

So you're kind of outlawed, Byron. At a congressional appearance by Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of Homeland Security, Uh, he was asked repeatedly, now, is it illegal to cross the border, uh, other than at a port of entry? And he had to keep saying, yes, yes, it is. It actually is. It is. So I don't see anything wrong, uh, with that phrase, even though undocumented has taken a hold. Now, you're the lawyer here. I believe in all the statutes, uh, the references to, uh, aliens and illegal aliens.

Yes, it is. But you're not woke, Byron. I don't know if we're gonna have to send you to woke awareness camp. Is there a summer camp for journalists to wake you up? Because you're not woke.

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I was there front row in the ellipse listening to my old boss, President Trump, on January 6th. Video cut to play cut.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

That's what he said, to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. This is what Maxine Waters, who has a track record of doing this, as Congresswoman Greene just said, after curfew, not even in her— another constituency of her state in another state said yesterday. Video cut. One, play. Cut. Oh no, not manslaughter.

No, no, no. This is guilty for murder. I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree.

What happens if we do not get what he just told?

What should the people do? What should protesters on the street do?

I didn't hear you.

What happens? What should protesters do?

Well, we got to stay on the street, uh, and we've got to get We've got to get more active. We've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

This has got to be personal for you, because you're being accused, and for months, of the worst things. They're throwing you off your committee assignments, trying to get you kicked out of Congress. When you hear women, congresswomen, say more violence, more confrontational, What does it mean for your supporters and for patriots, Congresswoman?

Oh, this is personal for me on every level because the whole reason why I ran for Congress is for people over politicians. This government is out of control and they think it's the other way around. These politicians here in the swamp, they think that all of this is here to serve them and that's how they operate.

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Yes, sir, question for you. Condolences on the loss of your parents because we don't speak week often, and, and so there's a timing that I'm not aware of. But did your father ever get to see your FDR Prager University video? And did you ever change his mind on FDR? And if you didn't, did you ever— did Prager University videos change, uh, the opinions of any of your other family members? And I guess I'll take my answer off the air. It's a very interesting question.

Okay, let's see. Or my— no, my parents were not really around. My mother certainly wasn't, and I don't think my father got to see PragerU, except maybe in its infancy. So he wouldn't have seen it. As regards the The other members of my extended family, thank God 100 times that my wife and children are conservative and think clearly on these matters. I have wonderful people in my extended family. I really do. Some very gems. People are gems. But they're very much products of their environment, which is not a knock in any way, New York Jewish liberals. Only one is a leftist and I don't send them my stuff. I purposely don't. They want to find it, they know where to look. They know, obviously they all know about PragerU and my columns and my radio show. But I never ever ever even even talk about it. So I have no idea. I have, I've had different rules, as it were, with regard to, to family, extended or immediate. I just, you know, you get one family basically, try to, try to work things out. It's a fair, it's a fair question. Okay. And let's see. Wow, Rick in Minneapolis. Hello.

Hello. Hi. Hi. Hello. Yes. Hey, hey, Dennis. Oh, long time listener, um, first time caller. I appreciate your knowledge and wisdom. Um, I've lived in Minneapolis since 1999. Moved here with a job and had since taken the buyout in '06 and stayed because of the opportunities and just the art, the professional sports, all the things that you would want out of a city. Beautiful architecture, great people, hardworking, and I'm actually packing up as we speak because it's gotten to the point where you just can't— it's just, I can't stay anymore. And, um, where are you moving?

I'm moving to Arkansas, Bella Vista, Arkansas.

And, um, I, I'm a mechanic and, and I, uh, have been doing it for 5 years. I went online and got a job down there. Was called the same day on Saturday to come down.

Um, are you married? My—

but no, sir, I'm single, and I don't— and I actually don't have any family here, nothing to keep me here. But what kept me here was that this was just a great city. It was, it really was. That's correct. I took advantage of, you know, the Twins games and the—

well, only Imagine what your city would be like if the verdict had not gone the way the left wants it to.

I don't even want to think about it.

It would burn. I mean, the city would be largely burning. I don't blame you for leaving. To live in a place where at any moment there could be such an eruption of violence, of mass violence, it's just, it's a depressing thing. I think people should leave Minneapolis. Let the left— I think the left should be allowed to live with themselves, where when someone goes to stab somebody, if a black girl goes to stab a black girl to death, no cop shoots. That's the left's view. What's the CNN, MSNBC, and intellectual and media view? So they should be allowed to live in a place with defunded police, where a Black stabbing a Black is no issue, it's just a teenage catfight. And we will live in a place where if you go to stab somebody You will be shot. White, black, irrelevant, you will be shot. We do not allow people to stab other human beings. So I would in fact welcome left-wing— let the left own Portland. Well, they own pretty much Oregon. Oregon Education Department has declared that there isn't only one right answer to math questions, math problems. Now, why would anybody stay in Oregon who has a child to be educated there? Do you really, even if you're a liberal, want your child to be taught in math that there isn't one right answer? It's the beauty of math, the only place in the world that there— outside, I believe, of certain moral questions, it's the only place where there is one right answer. Let them own Oregon.

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Joe Manchin, Senator Joe, did a tele-town hall yesterday about West Virginians and why they vote Republican. Listen to this, cut 18.

People asked me one time, they said, what happened to West Virginia? How come West Virginia has changed from a Democrat state to Republican state? How did that happen in the quickest amount of time that we've ever seen? I said, I can tell you how West Virginia feels. We feel like the returning Vietnam veteran. We've done every dirty job you've asked us to do. We never questioned. We did it and performed well. And now all of a sudden we're not good enough. We're not clean enough. We're not green enough. We're not smart enough. You want to know why they quit voting for Democrats? That's the reason. That's exactly—

the entire country knows that a handful of elite Democrats think they're morons.

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The Derek Chauvin trial was for many, many people, uh, fraught with rage and sadness and resentment, frustration, apprehension. What's going to happen as the verdict is reached? And yesterday, I think everybody was sort of stunned. I was watching the, the pundits react with, uh, amazement that the jury returned a verdict so quickly. And of course, all the analysts, all the smart kids on TV said That's not good for Derek Chauvin. And as it turned out, it was not good for Derek Chauvin. Guilty, guilty, guilty. And it sort of feels like America collectively let out a sigh of relief. Heard that metaphor a lot too. You heard that description. And we all know why people were relieved. First of all, Millions of Americans legitimately believe that justice was served. But the other reason for the sigh of relief is a little more insidious, a little more nefarious, darker, a little scary. And that is the fact that Americans instinctively knew that if the verdict turned out any other way except guilty, guilty, guilty, multiple cities would burn.

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That confirms what we all sort of suspect. America's not in a good place right now. We're just not. I mean, here's a headline you won't see anywhere: Chauvin found guilty. The system worked. No, no, no, no, no. The progressives don't like that. AOC doesn't approve of that. AOC doesn't approve of that at all. In fact, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems very disappointed that Derek Chauvin got the maximum amount of guilt that he could have possibly received at yesterday's trial.

This verdict is not justice. Frankly, I don't even think we call it full accountability because there are multiple officers that were there.

Wasn't just And as it happens, I have the aforementioned Nikki Haley on the line. Now, I have a dilemma here, which she will not expect me to open up my dialogue with her. But first, of course, welcome to my show, Nikki Haley.

Oh, it's great to be with you, Dennis. Thank you for having me.

And thank you for your PragerU video, which is magnificent. And of course, your service at the UN and as governor of South Carolina. So here's my dilemma, and I mean this very— I was thinking about it and I have no answer What do I call you? Do I call you Governor? Do I call you Ambassador? Do I call you Ms. Haley? What? I'm not kidding. What do I call you?

You call me Nikki. Thank you. See, this is what—

this killed me. I knew you would say that. And I—

and I don't have it in me. Yes, you do.

I have faith in you. You— that's the— that's where I'm most comfortable. Those were moments in time. It's Nikki. Really?

You're most comfortable with that? Yes. That's fascinating. Well, in any event, thank you for everything you're doing, and thank you for that video and your thoughts on these issues. So let me be— let me begin with what preoccupies me. I acknowledge— I'm very transparent— I acknowledge what I truly what I feel with my listeners. I am very worried about the country. Are you?

I am worried about the country, but I also don't think that we should whine about it or complain about it. I think we have to do something about it. I mean, I think from a foreign policy perspective, I mean, you know, it's not good when you've got the Chinese delegation humiliating the American delegation in Alaska. It's not good when Putin is challenging Biden to a debate. It's not good when you see Kim starting to test ballistic missiles in North Korea. And it's certainly not good when you have Biden trying to fall over himself to do sales with Iran, but yet he's boycotting Georgia. I mean, you know, and then I look and they're wanting to raise tax rates above— higher than China. We're trying to get countries out of China. That's giving the green light to go to China. You look at the The fact that they're trying to double the capital gains tax. I mean, the idea that you would hurt job creators, but more than that, people need to understand it's not just those families making over $400,000. The cost of all products will go up and we'll feel that. It's the idea that education is so out of whack that we're, you know, that kids are being taught to where the money is coming from as opposed to being taught the basics so they can thrive and succeed. It's a tough time. It's a reminder that elections have consequences. But you know what? Sometimes you've got to go through the burn to know where up is. And we certainly know where up is. And I think we have to fight for it.

Well, I agree with every word you said. And I'm not going to belabor the point, but just what you did say is, is not just a matter of we have to act, which is my my whole life. That's why I have a show. It's why I do PragerU. But on a human level, I have never seen the United States, for example, I never even imagined I would live in an America that suppressed free speech. This was the one constant that liberals and conservatives agreed on. Is that, is that a fair concern?

Well, I think what we're seeing with big tech is really pretty abysmal. I mean, I think for me it was stark when they eliminated President Trump's Twitter handle. I mean, you know, yes, sit there and eliminate President Trump and not eliminate the Ayatollah is shocking to me. But now to go and see them go and defend LeBron for calling out a police officer that was doing his job. I mean, the whole reason that protections were given to Big Tech were so that they never— or people using their free speech. The idea now that they are deciding what free speech is good or bad, I mean, Congress needs to do something about that. We can't be okay with that. If we are okay, what makes us any different than China?

Well, increasingly it will become possibly, which I am also amazed I'm saying, a legitimate question. The— if you had to present 2, 3 issues to the American people as the ones that most concern you, what would they be?

Well, I think first and foremost, you know, the foreign policy, the idea that China is our number one threat, the idea that Biden seems so over his head. And that, you know, countries don't see us as anything more than who's the president at the time and that we don't have a long-term vision of 20 and 30 years out is concerning from a foreign policy perspective. I'm very worried about our, you know, financial situation. The idea that for the first time since World War II, our debt is higher than our economy is not good. It's a national security threat for us. China and Russia are jumping up and down because they want to see a weak dollar. They want to make sure that they do something to prevent the U.S. from continuing to be the reserve currency. Very concerned about education. When you have things like critical race theory and you've got K through 12 that's been shut down and you have kids who haven't been able to go to school, and then we're just supposed to pick up and act like nothing's happened. And when you are taking the side of the unions overtaking the sides of the kids, that's a problem. And more than that, when you look at the Department of Education and the fact that they go and send down mandates to states, and states go and teach to where the money is coming from instead of teaching to those kids, there's a real problem. And so, you know, I look at this for a much more visionary 20 to 30 years out, that if we can't educate children properly and make sure they have.

All right, hold on there if you would. Nikki Haley is my guest.

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I was there front row in the Ellipse listening to my old boss, President Trump, on January 6th. Video cut to play. Cut.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

That's what he said, to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. This is what Max Rep. Maxine Waters, who has a track record of doing this, as Congresswoman Greene just said, after curfew, not even in another constituency of her state, in another state, said yesterday— video cut, one play, cut.

Oh no, not manslaughter. No, no, no. This is guilty for murder. I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree.

Congressman, what happens if we do not get get what he just pulled?

What should the people do? What should protesters on the street do?

I didn't hear you. What happens?

What should protesters do?

Well, we got to stay on the street, and we've got to get more active. We've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

This has got to be personal for you because you're being accused, and for months, of the worst things. They're throwing you off your committee assignments. Trying to get you kicked out of Congress, when you hear women, congresswomen, say more violence, more confrontational, what does it mean for your supporters and for patriots, Congresswoman?

Oh, I— this is personal for me on every level because the whole reason why I ran for Congress is for people over politicians. This government is out of control and they think it's the other way around. These politicians here in the swamp, they think that all of this is, is here to serve them, and that's how they operate.

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You hear a lot of people talk about end of days and whether We are preparing for the rapture, you know, they can be easily forgiven because of all that is happening in our life. This country alone, don't look to the world, but to this country alone, we are watching the American heritage turned upside down. We're watching illegal immigrants given money by a government that denies it to those who are hardworking Americans with families to support. We are looking at a president who wouldn't answer a question, as I said, about packing This show is now available on live video streaming on Town Hall TV as well as our website.

If you want to watch the show, not just listen, go to townhall.com and enter the Town Hall TV. I'd like to remind you that if you suffer from knee pain, any other joint pain, leg pain, or back pain, neck pain, anything but nerve pain, the chances are that Relief Factor will relieve that pain. Go to relieffactor.com or call 1-800-500-8384. They have a very interesting proposition. They believe that you give it 3 weeks and you will know whether it works. They actually claim that if it doesn't work in 3 weeks, it probably won't work. How's that for a rare honest approach. So try it for 3 weeks for $20 at relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384. One of the jewels in the country is Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and the, uh, former ambassador to the United Nations. You described some of the great problems confronting us. So I have another tough question for you. Tough in that it goes to the root of issues that people don't like to deal with. What do you think animates the Democrats, given how many destructive things you just enumerated?

Well, I think there's a couple of things. I think Nancy Pelosi knows that she's not going to be speaker after '22 elections. I think she sees the writing on the wall, and so she's trying to get through as much as she can. I think that Biden, for everyone who thought that he was moderate, has found out that he's just going to go with wherever the party is going, and the party is getting further and further to the left. And I think that we're seeing extreme liberalism from anything on, you know, defunding the police to turning going around and doubling the regulations that we saw under Obama now being proposed under Biden for, for climate. So, I mean, I think it's gone to a serious extreme. I think that the Democrats— all of this is going to backfire. And I think the Republicans have to be ready with policy solutions when the time comes and be ready to move on that in 2022.

That's an interesting proposition. Of course it'll backfire. Backfire, because as I tell my listeners every day, everything the left touches, it destroys. However, the timeframe is the issue. Do you see a backfiring in the imminent future?

Well, I think, look, if they get rid of the filibuster, I think all hell breaks loose, and hopefully, you know, the Republicans fight back. I think right now, who would have ever thought that our hopes are now on Mansion and Sinema to hold the line. And that shows that, you know, won elections have consequences. And boy, are we feeling the burn of that. But having said that, I think that this is not going to be easy. It's not going to be fun. But I think that that's the importance of having good quality people run in 2022, making sure that we're focused on policies and not soundbites, and making sure that we understand that we've We've got to start expanding our tent. We need to be speaking out to Hispanics. We need to be talking to the Jewish community. We need to be talking to the Asian community. We need to reach out to African Americans. We've got to grow our tent, because when we do, when we talk about the issues and we have those conversations with them, so many of Americans are feeling exactly what we're feeling. They know that something's wrong with education. They know that the prices of goods are going know that you can't keep running up the debt and that our kids and grandkids won't forgive us for it. They just want to know what the alternative is. We have to give them a good alternative that's based on policy.

I agree. That's the hope. So why did we lose Georgia?

Interestingly enough, I was campaigning in Georgia and You know, was campaigning for Kelly Loeffler before the general election, campaigned for her and David Perdue during the runoff. You know, the only thing I can tell you is we saw that, you know, the 4 of the 5 areas where President Trump got the highest vote, for some reason those areas didn't turn out in the runoff. They didn't show up. And I'm not giving up on Georgia. I don't think Georgia has have gone blue. I don't think Warnock represents them. I think that we have a chance of getting that seat back. But I think that, you know, they wanted to hear about how they were going to be different. And I think they were caught up with, you know, everything that was being said about the elections. And I think it hurt us. And I think that what we have to do is make sure that we go back and remind the people of Georgia that didn't vote, this is what happens when you don't vote and, and make sure that we let them know how their life's going to be different when they put a Republican senator in there.

I broadcast every day. I'm heard in Georgia. I broadcast every day for months. If you don't vote, if you're a Republican and you don't vote, you will be directly responsible for terrible effect on this country. The amount that people are governed by emotions rather than reason, including many on the conservative side, is very distressing. And obviously that has taken a big role in the response, I think, to COVID. So I'm not going to ask you the obvious. I know it's, you know, about running for president. I know you said that if Donald Trump does. I, I know we would be in good hands if you were one of the candidates. That's all that matters to me. And in the meantime, that, that we win the, the Senate back in the next election, which I know you will be working on.

Yeah, and I don't think I have to make that decision yet.

That's right. I really— right, go ahead.

I'm sorry. Well, what I do think is really important is that is that, look, I was at the United Nations. I saw how the countries took me behind closed doors and talked about how they admired our freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to be and do anything we want. So the power of the vote matters and we have to make sure we, we vote. And I think how we handle ourselves going into 2022 matters. And anyone talking about 2024, it's a bit foolish to talk about that now, because if we don't win 2022, it's going to be hard to see the light for 2024. So, you know, this is where I hope that your listeners will really get out there, look at who's running in their state, whether it's House, whether it's Senate, whether it's governor, and realize that what's happening now is not America. And we deserve better. We are better. But we have to fight for her. We have to defend her. And we have to go back to what we know works. And I think that we can do that. And I think everybody has to keep the faith. I think 2022 is going to be a great year. I think we're going to be able to really turn some tides and change things. But we should never forget what this moment feels like, because this is what happens when we give up.

Well, God bless you. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. We will continue on The Dennis Prager Show. That was Nikki Haley.

This is Carol Platt-Liebow for TownHall.com. President Biden has formally established a commission to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, both appointed by a Democratic president, have opposed it. But the left is angry. They don't like the Supreme Court's rulings, so they want to change its composition. It's called court packing. From when in 1937 Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt tried and failed to do it. President Biden must have forgotten he once called the idea of expanding the Supreme Court a terrible, terrible mistake and boneheaded. And make no mistake, it is a terrible idea. Any politically driven effort to change the court structure will only reinforce the perception that our judicial branch is guided by politics rather than by legal principles. Over time, a PAC court would surely erode confidence in the rule of law, which is indispensable to governing a free people.

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Police 3 times more hesitant, more reluctant to pull the trigger on a Black suspect than a white suspect. Uh, New York Times even had an article in July of 2016. I urge you to Google it and read it, about a professor named Roland Fryer. He didn't write the article, but it was about his research. He just knew that if he did his research, he's going to find the police were killing Blacks just because they're Black. That is to say, when the police feel threatened in a situation where they'd be threatened by a white suspect, they're more likely to kill the Black suspect than the white suspect under a similar circumstances. And he found just the opposite. He was shocked. Now, when you read the article, it does say he did say that he found the police were 18 to 20 times more likely to use non-deadly force against a Black suspect. He didn't talk about why. My suspicion is because they didn't want to take it to DEFCON 1, so therefore they were using more non-lethal force so they wouldn't have to get to the point where they had to use deadly force. Capisce?

And so I am told this was an original, somewhat different version of the very popular one that we played earlier with the French singer. This is Shel Aznavour. Yes. All right, thank you, Sean. I'm Dennis Prager. The final segment of the final hour of the show of this week. I think, uh, she's, uh, She's a strong woman. She said something very important, and that is, if Congress doesn't address the social media and online censorship, how are we any different from China? That's a pretty big deal for the former ambassador to the UN to state. So I'm curious, who's— who'd rather have represent the United States, the current ambassador who craps on America. By the way, Iran is now the head of the Human Rights for Women Council at the UN. It is impossible to parody the United Nations. It parodies itself. The only ambassador in the history of the UN to crap on their own country. Is our ambassador now. But nobody has done this to this country, demeans it more than this president does. The killing of, of George Floyd ripped the mask off the systemic racism of this piece of crap country that he governs. Very sick, very sick man. Morally sick. He's a nothing. This is truly a nothing governing this country. Man went into politics to get into politics. A lot of politicians are like that. They believe in virtually nothing. They're in politics for politics. And he made a fortune in it because he's corrupt. And this is, uh, the great alternative to the, to the monster Donald Trump, who did so much good in office that it's— that if you don't think— if you think about it dispassionately, that is the only possible way to look at what he did. Nikki Haley, ambassador to the UN, versus this woman. Not quite a comparison. Derek, JR, Dick, Troy, Jonathan, Frank, Charles, every one of you is worthy of having dialogue on the air, and yet such is life, isn't it? It's— the show is too short, life is too short, and that's the hand we're dealt. How we react is the only real freedom we have. Have a wonderful weekend. I'm Dennis Prager.