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cannot deny widespread cheating. That's the most honest way of looking at this. Hugh Hewitt, who is about as, uh, as civil and unbomb-throwing a conservative as anyone— that's why, you know, they actually have had him on. MSNBC had him on, right? And the man is a bona fide conservative.

It's one of the few times that the left has a bona fide conservative on.

And he wrote the book. He wrote a book, If It Isn't Close, They Can't Cheat. And he wasn't talking about Republicans, he was talking about Democrats.

100 days. Oh my God, that— it's so painful to me, the enormity of the lie.

But he will never be asked, do you understand?

No one from The New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times— not one of that herd.

They're all interchangeable shallow people.

All.

Not one will say, so after 100 days, uh, we won't have to wear masks any longer?

What would he answer? Well, we'll see. I'm just asking for 100, but we'll see then. That's what it'll be. It's like You know, will a temporary— in California, they voted for a temporary tax raise of 13%, remember? Temporary. There's no such thing as temporary on the left. It doesn't exist. It's one of the few curse words to a leftist. Temporary. Okay, let's get some challenges here. Okay, Beth, San Diego. Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

I usually agree with everything you say, and I'm just wondering why— I don't like the mask, but why have the masks worked in Taiwan?

There's a theory on Taiwan and Korea is that these people had a tremendous number of antibodies, or a tremendous number of people had antibodies from prior viruses. That particularly affected Asians. And it is not the mask wearing per se. There have been, the Danes did it. The only study that I know of that scientists did was done recently in Denmark, of course unreported by any left-wing source that I know of.

I can't say that none reported it.

And shown to be largely useless. I am not against it indoors. If I, I have not ever objected to walking into a restaurant or walking into a store or a grocery store, anything with a mask on. They asked me to do this coming into the building where I'm broadcasting from right now, Beth, and as soon as I reach the door, I put on a mask, and as soon as I am past the guy, I take it off. But, uh, and by the way, this happened today. So a woman with a mask entered the elevator, and I said to her, would you like me to put on my mask? I, I, I have a very decent attitude, but I have contempt for people who walk outside with masks. I have contempt. They are frightened and irrational, and no, only evil comes from fear and irrationality.

I agree with that.

Well, bless your soul.

You know, I always comment on this. Somebody, you know, I finally disagree with you, Dennis. I make my point, and God bless her. These are people who care about reason and truth. So let's go to Long Beach, California. And David, hello.

You know, Dennis, I disagree with a lot of what you say, so I'm different than Beth, right? First of all, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a public health expert, so I don't try to evaluate all the literature out there. But when I see somebody wearing a mask, I believe they're compassionate and they care about my health. Since 60% of people that carry COVID are asymptomatic, and since 30% of people that are running around outside have preexisting conditions and are more susceptible, So your hatred of people that wear masks—

I don't hate. I don't have any hatred for them.

I have contempt for their decision.

I'm sorry, you're right. Contempt strikes me as a little bit irrational.

Wait, wait, wait. It's either rational or irrational. The fact that they have compassion for their fellow man— wait, you gotta let me talk or I'll put you on hold. I let you talk, okay? You cannot have a monologue. Neither can I.

Okay.

All right. So I just want to understand, what is the relationship between a rational decision and having compassion? They are completely unrelated.

You're right, rational.

Then why did you raise the issue of compassion when we're talking about the issue of rationality?

Because you said when you pass a person wearing a mask outside, you feel contempt.

Yes, I don't— because I have contempt for the irrationality of it.

I don't think it's irrational. I think it's compassionate because they care about their fellow man.

Okay, you're contrasting.

Okay, all right.

My point is not being heard.

Let me make my point.

You can be compassionate and irrational. So telling me that the people are compassionate doesn't answer my charge of irrationality. Compassion is a feeling and rationality is rationality. I don't know why this is not clear.

This is always painful to me when a point is so clear and then not clear.

You can have compassion and do a spectacularly foolish thing, like enable a drug addict because you're compassionate to him.

This is Lon Heachen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same time Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee-Chen.

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Washington Post in its history has never endorsed a Republican president. New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced, the country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity. He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate. Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reade, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden. Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump. The Hunter Biden scandal— 45% of voters unaware. 9.4% say they would have switched their vote. That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist. 25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this. 4.1% say they would have changed their vote. Again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to Newsbusters.

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Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened. It shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal, uh, process that my entire family has gone through, and that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So It really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the type of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with.

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There is a, there is a, the beginnings of a rebellion against the, God, I have to restrain myself.

I'm not kidding.

Every word that came to mind was an expletive. It is impossible for me to overstate my contempt. Indeed, it's bordering on hatred for Garcetti and Barbara Ferrera, the social worker who runs the— and master in education— who Santa Cruz, Brandeis— I mean, her entire life is a left-wing cause, which includes ruining your life, because everything the left touches, it ruins.

It is—

the damage done to California may be irreparable. I know I'm talking pre-COVID, what the left has done to California. San Francisco is a feces center. Yeah, if you want to study fecal matter, you must definitely consider San Francisco. Two guys that I know who have devoted— lived their lives there, they're leaving.

They're leaving San Francisco.

Where are they headed? To Florida? They're already there?

David and Michelle? They're there. There has to be an element of masochism or you have to be very, very wealthy and not be in an area where the feces and urine and needles predominate.

And it's going to get worse now. What is the latest? What is this now? That if the poor commit a crime, what is this thing here? This is Seattle.

Yeah, same thing with what they've done there. So here in, uh, this is from the City Journal, one of the most important, uh, periodicals in America today.

The new untouchables. Seattle policymakers want to provide the city's underclass with blanket immunity for misdemeanor crime. Yeah, this is it. Like my whole life, I knew I wasn't on the left when I heard as a kid in either high school or college, poverty causes crime. And I remember exactly what I did. I measured it against the reality that I knew. My grandparents on my father's side were very, very poor. Really poor. The thought that they would commit a crime because they were poor struck me as laughable, or if you will, risible. Is it risible or risible?

I think it's risible.

Look it up, Sean, you'll love it. Sean loves new words that come here. R-I-S-I-B-L-E.

I think it's risible. It means laughable. Riz, it was Riz. There you go.

Go with your first instinct.

Thank you. Thank you. He does it 3 times.

It's sort of a Trinitarian instinct, which is a beautiful thing.

Catholic, exactly. No, that makes perfect sense.

Poverty causes crime. Yep, I'm poor, so I will loot television set. Oh, very nice. I, by the way, if poverty causes crime, affluence causes no crime, right? Affluence causes honesty. It's another reason that everything the left believes is a combination of either evil or or just stupid. Poverty causes crime is evil and stupid. Because if poverty causes crime, affluence causes honesty. Does anybody believe that? Is there one per— even a leftist? Is there anybody who believes that? That as people get wealthier, they become more honest? Hasn't been my experience. Or yours. You're decent or indecent, not poor or rich, not black or white, not male or female. You're decent or indecent. There are decent poor and indecent poor. There are decent rich and indecent rich. Today's Judeo-Christian message from Dennis Prager. Now, this is not exactly a Judeo-Christian message.

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If the Democrats accomplish unified government, they will then push and provide amnesty and voting rights for illegals all across the country. Again, all about strengthening their voter base. Power grab. They will also add tens of millions to various relief rolls across the country, not to mention the aggressive push to bring in cheap labor into America, something that even some Republicans are saying they want to do. We'll get to that later on in the program. And so now we are experiencing a two-front war. We are now fighting in the courts and the state legislatures, and we are now fighting in Georgia. Both are important, because if we lose in the courts and if we lose in the state legislatures, then all of a sudden we are going to look around the landscape. We're going to say, I wish we would have took Georgia a little bit more seriously. I wish we would have prevented Warnock and Ossoff from becoming United States senators. I wrote this in my Newsweek piece, and I'm sure that plenty of members of the activist media are going to take exception to this, but we need to turn the United States Senate into a legislative kill squad, a graveyard where the Democrats' dystopian and ruinous socialist ideas go to die. We should be unafraid talking about this because their ideas are actually widely unpopular with the American people. They might be popular with groups of people that don't own property. They might be popular with ruling class members or people that live in centralized urban environments.

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How can you not take this seriously and understand that if Biden were inaugurated under this cloud right now with 70 million-plus people believing he's a real fraud, not just they don't like him, they didn't vote for him, but that he's a fraud, that you wouldn't speak up? This is, again, I'm just mystified.

I don't get this.

Well, and part of it is that people believe the kind of hypnosis from the main propaganda channels where they say, well, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. First of all, there you have an objective and a subjective statement. So this is a very important point that we need to— you've heard this many times, right? It's almost an incantation that they say on television every day. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. They say it almost as a prayer ritual. On CNN, and they have to every day. And so what you have there is that no, meaning there's none, zero, that's objective, and then widespread. That's a really important thing though. How do you define widespread? This is really important. For example, 1% wouldn't be widespread. That's not widespread. 1% is the margin in many of these states. So all of a sudden, if we just have 1% voter fraud, Eric, 1%, Donald Trump is president. And based on all the evidence we have, we have way more evidence to show there's even more than 1%.

But look, but even that narrative, in other words, to talk about that, isn't the real issue, Charlie, that we're talking about conspiracy? There were people, leaders, powerful people who made a decision before the election that this is what we're going to do. That's really what we need to go after, isn't it? Who were the people conspiring to overturn the will of the American people?

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You ignore the rage, the anger, the frustration that Americans are feeling right now, you do it at your own peril. You shouldn't do it. You should not belittle or demean the people who are furious at the outcome, not because they believe that Trump legitimately lost. John Daniel Davidson wrote an article about this at The Federalist, talking about the surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters are completely bonkers, have lost touch with reality. After 4 years, he says, of marinating in falsehoods and disinformation, a term that really just means information I don't like, Trump's backers are all turned around, they tell us. They believe much that isn't so. David Brooks of the New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom he says are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don't live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. People in this precarious state, he writes, are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. Over at The New Yorker, the editor there, David Remnick, ponders the grave costs of Trump's assault on the press and the truth.

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This is Lon Heachen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same time Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee Chang.

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Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.

Washington Post in its history has never endorsed a Republican president. New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced, the country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity. He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate. Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reade, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden. Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump. The Hunter Biden scandal— 45% of voters unaware. 9.4% say they would have switched their vote. That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist— 25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this. 4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to Newsbusters.

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Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened. It shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal, uh, process that my entire family has gone through. And that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So It really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the, uh, the type of, uh, of words that the president used, and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened. Very, very powerful. It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who who decides to step into the political environment and challenge those that would otherwise want to change our way of life. Mine was really not a— really an issue that revolved around a criminal act. It revolved around really political persecution. And, uh, that was clear from the beginning. It was clear to me. It'll be a story that I will tell, uh, soon and someday, uh, and it's an amazing story.

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As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time. And I think they not only discussed the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is, how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power? And they explicitly discuss withholding from the incoming Trump administration information about Russia. And I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power, was to remove people who would have been in the best position to thwart it, which would have been Flynn as National Security Council and Sessions as Attorney General. So I think that was actually a very important piece of information because It showed people that something I think I've been saying all along, which is that there are a lot of things that are in the nature of abuse of power that are not necessarily criminal offenses. And that information from the attorney general showed that they were not looking at least at that transaction as a crime.

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Why I am actually coming to Georgia. We're doing a rally tonight. We're doing a door-knocking blitz tomorrow morning. We are activating all of our student activists at Students for Trump and Turning Point Action. Our 501(c)(4) political vehicle. And the reason that we are here, just the same reason why President Trump tweeted out that he will be here on Saturday, is that the Georgia runoff election is not about playing offense. You see, President Donald Trump is one of the best offensive political players in American history. He was always setting the tone with his agenda. Let's get a vote on the wall. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, 200 other federal judges, tax cuts, embassy to Jerusalem, renegotiating trade deals, NAFTA, withdrawing us from TPP.

By the way, folks, in a few—

in about a week, I'll be able to say to you, ask me anything about eels. It is very funny when people, people ask, so what are you reading now?

You know, I'm always inside in a book, usually listening. And they, you know, they totally understandably expect some history book or current events book. And I actually, it's a book on eels. It's an amazing creature. So I just thought I'd share that.

It's very important to diversify.

I do believe in diversity of interests, of ideas at a university that claims to be open to ideas. See, if the universities were honest and said, you know what, look, we're here to promote a progressive agenda, I would say nothing.

It's the gigantic lie that we're here to open minds that is so immoral. Christian seminaries are there to make committed Christians. Universities are there to make committed leftists. So if they say we are progressive or left-wing or liberal, whatever term they wish to use, seminary, end of issue. Nobody attacks Christian seminaries for wanting to make Christians, right?

So that's the terrible part of the university, the dishonesty with regard to what they're trying to do.

Kieran in Huntsville, Alabama, hi.

Hi Dennis, thanks for taking my call. Yes sir. I just wanted to say that, um, when I was a younger— you had an earlier caller who talked about, um, poverty causing people to do bad things. And I'm— I'd say 20, 30 years ago when I was a younger man, I would have been very susceptible to that line of thinking, um, because, you know, you want to be compassionate towards the poor person who's less fortunate than you, but Uh, listening to your show, I want to thank you. I think you help elucidate these points that, that can really lead you into a stupid way of thinking.

That's right, that's right. Thank you, you made my day. I appreciate that. It is a stupid way of thinking. That's exactly right.

And it's, it does the worst thing.

It's, it's, it enables The left enables bad conduct, self-destructive conduct.

If you make moral demands, ethical demands, family demands, commitment demands, don't waste your time demands universally, why do they only apply to rich kids?

Work hard and make a family.

Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.

You ignore the rage, the anger, the frustration that Americans are feeling right now. You do it at your own peril. You shouldn't do it. You should not belittle or demean the people who are furious at the outcome, not because they believe that Trump legitimately lost. John Daniel Davidson wrote an article about this at The Federalist, talking about the surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters are completely bonkers, have lost touch with reality. After 4 years, he says, of marinating in falsehoods and disinformation, a term that really just means information I don't like, Trump's backers are all turned around. They tell us they believe much that isn't so. David Brooks of the New York Times. Explains that these poor saps, most of whom he says are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don't live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. People in this precarious state, he writes, are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. Over at The New Yorker, The editor there, David Remnick, ponders the grave costs of Trump's assault on the press and the truth.

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This is Lonnie Chen of the Hoover Institution for Townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee Chang.

The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.

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Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.

Washington Post in its history has never endorsed the Republican president. New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced balanced. The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent. If the media reflected that diversity, he estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate. Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to The allegation made by Tara Reade, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden. Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona. Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump. The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware. 9.4% say they would have switched their vote. That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist, 25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this. 4.1% say they would have changed their vote. Again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump according to Newsbusters.

Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube today. Trending now on America First with Sebastian Burke.

Talk to us about this unique pardon which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out It should never have happened. It shouldn't happen like this. But I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal process that my entire family has gone through. And that includes my extended family, because, as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the type of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened. Very, very powerful. It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge those that would otherwise want to change our way of life. Mine was really not a— really an issue that was revolved around a criminal act. It revolved around really political persecution. And that was clear from the beginning. It was clear to me. It'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday. And it's an amazing story.

Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube today. Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.

As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice.

They're in a lock, a lock. Down, down, which I ignore to be happy.

The original lyrics, amazing.

They were like prophetic. That's right, I ignore the lockdown, have from the beginning. That's why I can do a happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, I can, my friends. Every Friday since 1999, which, when you think of it, was just 30 years after 1969.

The reason for the silence is I sometimes like to read my engineer's face.

That's it. And I read him perfectly as he thought, what? That was what went through his mind.

The word—

what? Since 1999, we've been doing this because the happy make the world better. Boy, have you ever been more convinced? I don't throw out lines. I may be wrong, but I don't throw them out easily.

This is a lifetime of thought that has gone into these lines.

Like, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. That's a lifetime of thought. Everything the left touches, it damages, ruins.

It's a lifetime of thought.

And the happy make the world better.

That's again the product of a lifetime of thought.

Moral obligation to others not to be in bad moods.

These things have caught on with a lot of people.

Yes, you have a choice.

Most people have a choice on whether to be happy or not.

If Abraham Lincoln could choose, you know, we always say Lincoln said, uh, what is it? What do we say? Lincoln said, um, people should choose happiness. I don't remember. What do we, what do we quote Lincoln as saying? Because Sorry, you're as happy as you choose to be. Thank you. It's actually, did you ever see the actual? That's almost right. But I, Lincoln on happiness.

Let me see what comes up here.

I, it's a, it's actually, here it is.

Perfect. I got it ready.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. It's such a folksy way of putting it.

I love it.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. One of the great lessons of life, and one that I, I bring to you often, but I don't think often enough: everything is a choice.

That's the amazing thing.

You can choose whether to be scared You can choose whether to marry.

You can choose whether to have children.

Now, obviously, there are times in life where you can't surmount a physical barrier.

I get that. I live in the same world as you do.

I'm aware of that. But you have to give generalizable rules or life has no wisdom to give you. Generalizations are wisdom. If they're wrong, they're not wisdom. Choose. You make a choice. Choose to be happy. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

And he led a very difficult life.

He lost two sons, correct?

I mean, he had a particular, almost love affair, as it were, in the best sense of the word. With one of his sons, but I think he lost two.

His wife was manic-depressive.

That was not what they said in those days, 'cause it's not a term that they would have used in the 19th century. And his country, you think things are awful now, and they are, but think about the Civil War.

600,000, 700,000 dead. You realize how many were horribly wounded and maimed and blinded and brain damaged?

How would you like— I mean, it's a silly way of putting it— imagine having a limb amputated with no anesthetic. What men suffered All because of slavery. One of the true lies of our time is that slavery was the basis of American economic affluence. Slavery was the basis of poverty. The South was much poorer than the North precisely because it relied on slavery. Slavery was impoverishing, not enriching. It enriched a couple of people, but not, not the— not America.

Anyway, back to the Happiness Hour. So we have a topic today that will hit home for many of you: childhood and happiness. And there are many ways I could phrase the topic, but I will keep it within the element of choice ultimately.

Does an unhappy childhood inevitably mean an unhappy adulthood?

That's—

and by the way, I have raised this issue, but not in a while, and I haven't heard others raise this issue. It doesn't mean it hasn't.

Does a happy childhood ensure a happy adulthood?

There's a very interesting question. I, I don't believe a happy childhood ensures a happy adulthood, and I don't believe an unhappy childhood ensures an unhappy adulthood.

All right.

That's, that's what I have seen in life. But the bigger point, or at least as big a point, is back to most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. If you had an unhappy childhood, you choose whether to allow it to make you miserable the rest of your life. That's the happiness point on the Happiness Hour.

One of the horrible messages of the well-educated, who are almost always fools—

not always, but almost.

Let's put it this way: most fools are well-educated, most well-educated are fools.

That's, that's just the way it works.

And the message has been given that life does to you. Like last hour, the poverty causes crime. You didn't choose to be a criminal.

Oh no, it's your socioeconomic circumstances that have you rob and even murder and on occasion rape.

No, no, no, no, you didn't choose it. At what level of income do you choose to be rotten?

It's what I'd like to ask people.

If you make $40,000 a year or more and you are a rotten human being, did you make that choice? Or is it only at $100,000 a year? And if happiness is a choice, what isn't? Now you can't choose to undo certain physical things. If you are a woman who can't give birth—

notice that I do restrict birthgiving to women—

if you are a woman who cannot give birth for physiological reasons, then you can't choose to have a baby. You can choose to adopt, so you can have a baby, but not biologically.

Last night I conducted a youth orchestra.

These kids were so—

it was just the string sections. A lot of the winds are afraid to show up because they've been told, you know, past COVID, as if a 16-year-old— these were high school kids by and large. And one of the violinists was a black girl. Who was particularly charming and particularly ebullient and particularly vivacious, not to mention a good violinist, as they all were. So she asked, though, you know, she's a big fan of PragerU, she wanted to get a selfie with me, and I did with, I think, almost all of the members of the orchestra.

And so I asked her, so where are you from?

And she told me the name of a city in Southern California.

And I said, where are your parents from? And she said, well, I'm adopted. And she said it as matter-of-factly as I would say to you, you know, I'm in the mood for lunch. And I said to her, oh, I just want you to know, I haven't—

one of my sons is adopted, and I don't think blood matters at all. Back in a moment.

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How can you not take this seriously and understand that if Biden were inaugurated under this cloud right now with 70 million-plus people believing he's a real fraud, not just they don't like him, they didn't vote for him, but that he's a fraud, that you wouldn't speak up? This is, again, I'm just mystified. I don't get this.

Well, and part of it is that people believe the kind of hypnosis from the main propaganda channels where they say, well, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. First of all, there you have an objective and a subjective statement. So this is a very important point that we need to— you've heard this many times, right? It's almost an incantation that they say on television every day. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. They say it almost as a prayer ritual on CNN. They have to every day. And so what you have there is it— no, meaning there's none, zero. That's objective. And then widespread. That's a really important thing though. How do you define widespread? This is really important. For example, 1% wouldn't be widespread. That's not widespread. 1% is the margin in many of these states. So all of a sudden, if we just have 1% voter fraud, Eric, 1%, Donald Trump is president. And based on all the evidence we have, we have way more evidence. To show there's even more than 1%.

But look, but even that narrative, in other words, to talk about that, isn't the real issue, Charlie, that we're talking about conspiracy? There were people, leaders, powerful people who made a decision before the election that this is what we're going to do. That's really what we need to go after, isn't it? Who were the people conspiring to overturn the will of the American people?

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You ignore the rage, the anger, the frustration that Americans are feeling right now, you do it at your own peril. You shouldn't do it. You should not belittle or demean the people who are furious at the outcome, not because they believe that Trump legitimately lost. John Daniel Davidson wrote an article about this at The Federalist, talking about the surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters are completely bonkers, have lost touch with reality. After 4 years, he says, of marinating in falsehoods and disinformation, a term that really just means information I don't like, Trump's backers are all turned around, they tell us. They believe much that isn't so. David Brooks of the New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom he says are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don't live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. People in this precarious state, he writes, are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. Over at The New Yorker, the editor there, David Remnick, ponders the grave costs of Trump's assault on the press and the truth.

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This is Lonnie Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and I think the Happiness Hour—

by the way, let me give you the number.

I didn't give you the number.

1-800-PRAGER-776. It is about happy and unhappy childhoods and happy adulthoods. Are they almost always related? Unhappy childhood equals unhappy adulthood.

Happy childhood equals happy adulthood. Second, if you had an unhappy childhood, you have to make the choice to make yourself a happy adult.

The issue of choosing is probably the most important verb outside of the word earn. I should make a list of verbs I love. Dennis Prager, this is your show. Verbs I love. Would you do me a show and start it, would you? Earn is number one. And what did I just, what was the one I'm just talking about now?

Choose.

Choose, yeah, choose.

No, well, got to is a noun, but the choose. Liberty is a choice, as we're learning now. Not everybody chooses it.

Most people do not, actually. That's why there are so few free countries. There were none before America. Choose to be happy. Choose not to allow something to determine for you. Choose to be the captain of your life. So that's the, the issue. 1-800-PRAGER-776. While that's happening, I want to ask you, in this season, people are generally more generous. And I am extremely careful about what I ask you to donate to. This one really won me over. Angel Tree. It's at the, uh, with the Prison Fellowship. It is at my website, the banner. Please donate. You want to do good? This is about as directly good a thing as you can do, or as any organization could do. Children who have a parent or parents in prison get a Christmas gift from them with a note from them, hopefully, and they get a Bible. You have a better idea on what to do so that the kid does not follow the parent's footsteps? I don't. And the connection through the gift. Please click on the banner at DennisPrager.com, or you can call 888-206-2801. The O is the way we say zero in America.

By the way, if you give—

my phone number has an area code with a zero.

So I don't say, oh, I almost always— and they never ask you, what did you say? Zero is much clearer.

So it's just, you know, it's helpful if you're on the phone and you say zero.

Now, Most of you don't think that was a very important piece of advice. I am completely aware of that, but Living Martyr disagrees and thinks it was. Look, I didn't give it as a joke. I think it is important.

That's right.

Life is improved incrementally.

The left wants to do it through overthrowing the institutions of the society, but that's not how you make a better life. The Bible got rid of slavery by incrementally humanizing it. Like the biblical law, you cannot return an escaped slave. Did you know that that's a biblical law? You cannot return a saved slave. Do you know it's a biblical— escaped slave, sorry. Do you know that it's a biblical law that you cannot kidnap people and sell them into slavery? So if I may say, it's another reason for you to read the Rational Bible. My third volume of that is coming out in June. Anyway, please help at the banner for the sending these gifts to the children with parents. Angel Tree.

All right, y'all, let's go to the famous Terry of Sarasota. Hello.

Hello, Dr. Prager. Thank you for taking my call, sir.

Thank you for the doctor.

Happy holidays.

Thank you.

Yeah, man, I'm, I'm, uh, probably a living personification of the ability of choosing whether you're happy or not. My childhood was not one of those that I would qualify as happy. I was adopted. Was raised in a home where the parents didn't say too much to each other, nor to me. I can't remember when either of them actually even suggested to me that they loved me. But I kind of got through that and didn't realize all those things till I got a little bit older. And then I was married for 28 years, divorced, lost a daughter. And I have my faith, Dennis, and my faith is what has supported me. And it has also turned me into the type of person who recognizes that gratitude turns what you have into what is enough. And I just— I'm comfortable with that. My glass is 3/4 full.

You're a very special—

you know, you—

that was a great line you gave. I never heard that. Gratitude turns turns what you have into enough. Did you make that up?

No, sir. A lady in my office— I work for the county down here in Sarasota— and a lady in my office had that in one of her emails, and I thought it was so profound.

And it, um, that is profound. Gratitude turns what you have into enough.

Wow. Yes.

That's beautiful. So let me ask you a question. Do you have any other children?

Yes, sir, I have two wonderful children. I've got a daughter who's a nurse in St. Petersburg, and I've got a son who resides in Sarasota and is a professional with some car dealerships there. Um, and they're, they're not in any trouble. They're not drug addicts.

Um, how did—

why did your daughter die?

Are you, are you free to say?

Um, well, You know, my daughter, um, was very young, very immature at birth. My wife at the time was a very petite lady, and her doctor had advised her back-to-back cesarean was a poor choice. So me realizing that, who am I to tell a woman how to birth a child, I felt like, okay, I'm going to support you. And, um, I did. And because of Under certain circumstances, Casey lost a lot of oxygen and caused problems. And I saw the degradation of my wife's heart at the time, blaming herself. And I was so frustrated with trying to lift her up and explain to her that, you know, this big blue marble isn't going to stop because we took a shot like that. We need to press on and lift each other and let's try again. And we did. And that's where Carson came from.

Okay, all right.

You're a special guy. I hope to meet you.

It's one of my favorite parts of the country, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Petersburg. Okay, I really love talking to people.

This is Lon Heachen of the Hoover Institution for TownHall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same time Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee-Chang.

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Washington Post in its history has never endorsed a Republican president. The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced, the country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity, he estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate. Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reade, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden. Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump. The Hunter Biden scandal— 45% of voters unaware. 9.4% say they would have switched their vote. That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist— 25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this. 4.1% say they would have changed their vote. Again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to Newsbusters.

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Talk to us about this unique pardon which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened, it shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal, uh, process that my entire family has gone through, and that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the, the type of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used.

And Promo code is Prager for MyPillow, which I sleep on every night. Their towels are great. The guy makes a great product. It's as simple as that. If I told you I am interested in almost everything— look, I'm reading a book on eels. You know, I was talking to the Living Martyr about eels during the break. Yes, believe it or not. The thing, when I'm— if I can get the author on, there's no question I'm having him on the show. The, uh, The guy's a Swede. The book is translated from the Swedish, but I assume he'll speak English. And if not, then Sean will just interpret.

That's all. It's not an issue.

What exactly about eels was I talking about? That they appear under microscope. You can see fins and scales.

Well, the fins are, I think, barely visible to the naked eye, but I think you need tools to see the scales.

It's a very—

anyway, I'll have more to say about eels as time goes on and as we lose numbers of listeners.

See, that's the risk that one takes. I am interested in everything, but I am aware of the fact that not everybody else shares that quirk. However, I will tell you this, and I have done happiness hours on this.

The more you love, the happier you will be.

And I'm not talking about people. That's obvious. The more things, the more interests, the more items, subjects. It's rich. Alright, so how did the eels, alright, so very quickly, and then I gotta go to this topic, it's a great topic, 'cause people are calling in affirming all these unhappy childhood and happy adulthoods, and the opposite. See, that's, a lot of people know you can have an unhappy childhood but turn things around. But I would love to know, and I don't have the answer, I truly don't. I don't even have a theory, which I have about everything. I don't know what the percentage of people with happy childhoods become happy adults. Did you have a happy childhood? I think, yeah, I think you did.

Mine was less happy and became very happy in high school, and then it stayed.

I was unhappy, I remember though, I was unhappy.

No, I'm kidding.

Anyway, the eels thing came about very simply. I was reading the New York Times recommended books of 2020.

I, of course, ignored their advice on politics because I read leftist stuff all I want. I don't need the Times to recommend them.

But I am interested in the non-political. And one of them was— I figured if they think that one of the best books of the year is about eels, Then by golly, I'm giving it a try. I knew nothing about them. Now, okay everybody, happy childhood or unhappy childhood, the happiness point is by and large you choose. Don't let an unhappy childhood Don't dwell on it. I know somebody who is an adult, he's in his middle age, and he had an unhappy childhood, and he just, he has never gotten past it. It has shaped him. He has not shaped life.

It's very sad, very sad to see.

All right, y'all, the famous Melissa of Dallas. Hello, Melissa.

Hi Dennis, I wanted to talk about exhausting the limits of playing the victim. I had a very dysfunctional childhood, and in my young adulthood I was just jealous, judgmental, angry, bitter, and I always tried to use that to seek attention from other people and have them feel sorry for me. And I changed my life around. I started just giving to everyone, being kind to everyone. And ultimately I realized that, you know, I'm making that choice in that—

what, what, what happened that prompted that choice?

Um, I think I just, I realize that it's not working.

Wow, wow. See, now why did she make that choice all of a sudden? It doesn't work for anybody.

Trending now on America First with Sebastian Birke.

Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened, it shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such surreal process that my entire family has gone through. And that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate The type of words that the president used, and certainly the White House statement that they came out with, used in the language to describe what happened, very, very powerful. It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge the those that would otherwise want to change our way of life. Mine was really not a, really an issue that revolved around a criminal act. It revolved around really political persecution. And that was clear from the beginning. It was clear to me. It'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday, and it's an amazing story.

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As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office, where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time. And I think they not only discussed the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is, how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power? And they explicitly discuss withholding from the incoming Trump administration information about Russia. And I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power was to remove people who would have been in the best position to thwart it, which would have been Flynn as National Security Council and Sessions as Attorney General. So I think that was actually a very important piece of information because it showed people that something I think I've been saying all along, which is that there are a lot of things that are in the nature of abuse of power that are not necessarily criminal offenses, and that information from the Attorney General showed that they were not looking at least at that transaction as a crime.

And you want to be happy? Come with me on a cruise from London to Iceland in June. They all sell out, and every year people say, oh, you know, oh, oh, I'd love to go. I'm sorry, there's, there's a limited number of spaces on a ship. So there's a banner at DennisPrager.com, is that correct, sir?

And you need it, boy. I'll tell you, I need it, I admit it.

Welcome to the Happiness Hour. Subject is happy childhood. Does it usually mean happy adulthood? Does unhappy childhood usually mean unhappy adulthood?

My argument is you make a choice in either case. Though I would love a survey if one could be done. How predictive is a happy childhood? We all know that an unhappy childhood is not predictive. During the break, Triple G, the gentle Gentile Giant, He resonated to the woman's call about feeling the victim. I have a chapter on people who think they're victims.

It's guaranteed unhappiness. It's guaranteed anger. There's almost nothing as bad as walking around thinking you're a victim. There's very few things that are guaranteed to lead to misery and and in many cases evil.

The self-definition of victim cultivated by half of our society as a virtue to see yourself as a victim. But it's a guarantor. So this woman, the last caller, just decided one day, I can't live like that. That's it. It's all, that's the theme of this Happiness Hour. It's all decisions.

All right. Stefan in Dallas.

Hello.

Hi there, Dennis.

Hi.

Um, so yeah, so, um, my wife, um, she, she had a very unhappy childhood. She grew up very poor, uh, had an abusive father, two brothers who, Ended up homeless and drug addicts. CPS was constantly called in her home. And yeah, it was a really rough childhood. But one interesting thing, and for me as well, I had quite the opposite. I had very loving parents, grew up upper middle class. Pretty much anything I was interested in, my parents would invest in. But when I met her, one of the things that drew me to her was her happiness and how she, in her positivity and and how she treated other people. And at that time in my life, I was struggling with my happiness in my 20s quite a bit. So we had quite the reverse. And since I—

You really, so wait, so where do you both stand now on the happiness level?

I would say we're both very happy people. We have two boys a year apart now. That are, uh, one's just 3 months old.

All right, so now you know the trick to making them happy adults. Have a dysfunctional home. Follow, follow your wife's. Well, that's, that's my point.

I will repeat your point in a moment.

Anyway, thank you for your call.

That's really funny.

Make a happy adult. Make them miserable when they're young.

But Triple G, who's really on today, I have no idea why, but he is.

And when he's on, there's a lot of sharp stuff. So he wants to know, if you don't struggle at any point, is that the question correct?

Did I get it correctly? That you have to struggle with happiness to be happy.

Well, that would be the argument for why— well, he did. He had a happy childhood and then struggled.

Now he's happy.

Look, all things being equal, I'd rather my children have a happy childhood than an unhappy childhood, obviously. But there's a certain amount of selfishness in that. You want to walk into a home where everybody's happy. It's much more pleasurable than walking on eggshells with your children or your spouse. So obviously, but the— this I can tell you, if your primary aim is having your children happy, you will make them miserable and they will not be good people.

Your aim has to be that they be good people. And that means that you have to say—

John Rosemond's favorite— no, no, my favorite thing of John Rosemond: you must give your child the most important vitamin, vitamin N.

Vitamin N is the word no.

I told my kids when they say, I want, I'd say, "You are permitted to want anything you would like to want." Which was my very sweet way and philosophic way of saying, "No." By the way, that's one of the great lessons of life. Most of the things you want are probably not going to be good for you. It's just the way it is. Constant wants, right? What is it? Now, obviously you want food to live, but that's not the same thing as you want an ice cream sundae at the Cheesecake Factory, which feeds 3. So want is a very, very complex— we ought to do that about what wants will make you happy. Happy and what wants won't. All right, let's see here. How we doing? All right, all right. Here's a guy with consistency in— is it Adel, Georgia, or Adele?

Uh, Adele, like the middle of Philadelphia.

Oh, cute. Okay, what's on your mind, Mike?

Uh, well, first-time caller. Dennis, I love listening to you. You are definitely one of the wisest people on the planet, and I appreciate your wisdom.

I heard that there was a guy in Mozambique who's got me beat. I just— just for the record, stay with me.

I want to hear what you have to say.

I have no idea where I rank, but I can tell you I always wanted to have wisdom.

Always.

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You ignore the rage, the anger, the frustration that Americans are feeling right now, you do it at your own peril. You shouldn't do it. You should not belittle or demean the people who are furious at the outcome, not because they believe that Trump legitimately lost. John Daniel Davidson wrote an article about this at The Federalist, talking about the surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters are completely bonkers, have lost touch with reality. After 4 years, he says, of marinating in falsehoods and disinformation, a term that really just means information I don't like, Trump's backers are all turned around, they tell us. They believe much that isn't so. David Brooks of the New York Times. Explains that these poor saps, most of whom he says are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don't live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune and unhappiness. People in this precarious state, he writes, are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. Over at The New Yorker, the editor there, David Remnick, ponders the grave costs of Trump's assault on the press and the truth.

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This is Lonnie Chen of the Hoover Institution for TownHall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee Chang.

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Washington Post in its history has never endorsed a Republican president. New York Times has not endorsed one since 1950.

It's not—

all right.

Hello. Okay. All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here. Got more of the, uh, the song than normal.

All right, and I want to go back to, uh, Adele, Georgia, and Mike.

Go ahead.

Happiness hour here.

Yeah, Dennis, um, I, I had the happy childhood and a happy adulthood, and, um, uh, my, my parents helped guide me to recognize the proper opportunity opportunities and make the right choices for my life. And, and that's where my happiness has come from. Um, and it led me to make the choice to accept Christ as my Savior and know that I have a hope for a future and, uh, and a God that provides for me and has opened up doors that, um, I wouldn't have hopped through or walked through throughout my life and, and has provided provided me with, uh, the happiness.

Are you married?

Yes, sir.

And is your wife happy?

Yes.

So you are happily married? So you're a happy married to a happy?

Correct.

You are both lucky. Usually the happy marry the unhappy, just for the record. And here's another observation: the unhappy never marry the unhappy.

The unhappy may be unhappy, but they're not stupid. They never marry one of their own.

All right, sound. That was, uh, so the question, folks, is how determinative is your childhood? And it is clear that it is not. If you choose, that's the point. By the way, people choose to be unhappy. Jim in Sacramento says his father's tough response to his being unhappy made him happy. That is, that's great. That is exactly right.

Well, here's not a common one. Thomas in Georgia, his father murdered his mother, but he's a happy man.

Jennifer, Terry, Mike, Mark, Thomas, Jim, Gina and Russ, I wish I could have taken your calls. I have a lot to tell you, but right now, call in on any subject under the sun.

This is Lon Heachen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same time Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes. The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow. It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to. At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion. California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings. I'm Lon Hee-Chang.

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Washington Post in its history has never endorsed a Republican president. The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that if the media were truly fair and balanced, the country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity. He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate. Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reade, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden. Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump. The Hunter Biden scandal— 45% of voters unaware, 9.4% say they would have switched their vote. That Kamala Harris has a more left left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist. 25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this. 4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to Newsbusters.

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Talk to us about this unique pardon which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened, it shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal process that my entire family has gone through. And that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the, the type of, of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened. Very, very powerful. It should not have ever happened. To me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge those that would otherwise want to change our way of life. Mine was really not a— really an issue that revolved around a criminal act that revolved around really political persecution. And that was clear from the beginning. It was clear to me. It'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday. And it's an amazing story.

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as important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time. And I think they not only discuss the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is, how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power? And they explicitly discuss withholding from the incoming Trump administration information about Russia. And I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power, was to remove people who would have been in the best position to thwart it, which would have been Flynn as National Security Council and Sessions as Attorney General. So I think that was actually a very important piece of information because It showed people that something I think I've been saying all along, which is that there are a lot of things that are in the nature of abuse of power that are not necessarily criminal offenses. And that information from the attorney general showed that they were not looking at least at that transaction as a crime.

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Why I am actually coming to Georgia. We're doing a rally tonight. We're doing a door-knocking blitz.

Wow, Charles Krauthammer talking to me. We had him at a PragerU function right before he got ill.

Yes, I was going to go to a Washington Nationals game. He was a baseball fanatic. You know, fan comes from the word fanatic. And I reflect on the fact that I always said, and I really wanted to go to a baseball game with Charles Krauthammer, for whom I had such great respect. And as the human being does, you just think, all right, so, you know, I'll get to Washington and we'll do it.

But I got to Washington and it was always busy.

And then he died.

It's a lesson in life that I need as much as anyone.

You should do it now because you don't know when you won't be able to do it. I think about that when I think of my trip to Israel with listeners. Do it another time. Or my favorite one was— I've been hearing this for all of my radio career. Well, I'd love to go to Israel, just gonna wait till it's safe.

It's been safe my entire radio career.

Anyway, I did not mean to open up with notifying you that I'm taking the trip next October with, with you again to Israel. But it's a perfect segue when I think of not having gone to the baseball game with Charles Krauthammer, that you grab these opportunities while you're healthy, while you're alive, while the trips exist, etc. Anyway, there's a banner for the Stand with Israel tour. And you can cancel till May with no penalty, by the way, so you don't have to worry about that.

All right, everybody, DP here, Dennis Prager here, and this is the hour you, uh, you can raise anything you want. Does— I don't necessarily take every single call. If I drop you, don't—

please don't be insulted, and don't be— I mean, if you're angry with me, I can live with it, but I don't deserve your anger for that. Could be a whole host of reasons.

I may have covered it, may not be interested in it, I may not know anything about it, may not be of universal interest, except I recognize fountain pens, photography equipment, classical music, audio equipment, and cigars Ah, they go to the head of the line. All right, Lake Forest, California. Omar, hello.

Hi Dennis, uh, I was just calling, I, I just wanted to ask you a question. I heard you say earlier, um, you said that, um, you were against, I guess, Muslim women veiling, and I I just wanted to first ask to make a clarification. Are you against just simply the covering of the face or even the covering of the hair? And if you are against the covering of the hair, how do you feel about like Hasidic women who cover their hair?

It's a fair question, but of course, I think you would, expect me to say that common sense has to rule. Covering the hair is incomparable to covering the face. There are people with no hair, but there are no people with no face. It's just not comparable. Whether you cover your— people, until John F. Kennedy, all men in America wore hats. They covered their hair. What do I care if you cover your hair? And by the way, many Hasidic women wear wigs, so you don't even know that their hair is covered. But so it's just not comparable. I condemn the veil, and I condemn the useless use of the mask, whether it's in the name of religion or the name of a secular religion called safety, I condemn it. Obviously there are times in a hospital setting and other settings where a mask is, like a surgical mask, is fully appropriate.

Outdoors, it is a rabbit's foot. Have I answered you?

Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, I think that's fair. I just, you know, I think it's interesting the age we live in. Actually, I saw something kind of funny the other day of somebody wearing a mask that said— I guess it was a joke mask. It said, Saeed Qutb was right. I'm sure you're familiar with who Saeed Qutb was.

Yes, I am. Why would they even cite him?

Because we've been— that's what we've been reduced to as a society.

Oh, I see, because that's what he wanted. Yeah, Qutb. Q-U-T-B. He came to the United States in the 1950s and he started, I think, the Muslim Brotherhood. He rejected— he was a Muslim who deeply was hostile to American life with all its dancing and relative immodesty compared to the Muslim world.

And, and so that's what, that's what that was about.

Good call, Omar. Thank you, appreciate it very much. All right, let's go to Molly in Woodland Hills, California. Hello, Molly.

Hi Dennis, how are you?

I'm well, thank you.

Oh good.

Uh, yeah, I listen to you all the time and you're my favorite and I love you very much and thank you for everything you do.

Thank you.

Uh, welcome. The reason I'm calling is I want to ask you why you're not following the, um, election fraud. Why aren't you putting the hearings on live on your show and going over them like you do with other important things? Why aren't you bringing the people that were witnesses to come and speak on your show? It's the most important thing right now and very concerning, you know.

And actually, I did have—

I did play on the show when Rudy Giuliani Giuliani spoke. I have played on occasion. My show, very rarely do I interrupt it, even when President Trump would speak. It's not good or bad. It's just everybody runs a different type of show. And that's part of the beauty of listening to talk radio for many hours. We all have a different approach. I, for example, have very few politicians on. And I am fascinated by my colleagues who do have politicians on. I'm not anti-politician at all. Some of them do the most important work. But it's just the nature of my show. With regard to the— I believe that there was fraud. Was there enough fraud to change the election? I believe that's possible, but I don't know it to be, I don't know it for certainty. So I don't, you know, but what I do believe, and that's why I took your call, it's a very important, these are, you can ask me why I choose to speak about or not speak about things. I'm very, very open, or as one caller put it a few weeks ago, about a few months ago, and it really touched me because it's true. I said, "You are Mr.

Transparent." Then my son got up at a recent fundraiser in, I think it was in, yeah, in Michigan, for PragerU, and he said, "You know, it's not easy to be raised by a transparent." Very funny line. It's indelible now in me. Anyway, so I, I aspire to transparency, and you should feel free to ask, and why I make a decision to or not to cover something more or less.

My position is that Democrats would in fact cheat to win the election. The only thing that stops them is being stopped, but not conscience. Their conscience says that to prevent a fascist, neo-Nazi, racist, white supremacist from being reelected, of course you can cheat.

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How can you not take this seriously and understand that if Biden were inaugurated under this cloud right now with 70 million plus people believing he's a real fraud, not just they don't like him, they didn't vote for him, but that he's a fraud, that you wouldn't speak up. This is, again, I'm just mystified. I don't get this.

Well, and part of it is that people believe the kind of hypnosis from the main propaganda channels where they say, well, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. First of all, there you have an objective and a subjective statement. So this is a very important point that we need to— you've heard this many times, right? It's almost an incantation that they say on television every day. There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. They say it almost as a prayer ritual on CNN. They have to every day. And so what you have there is it— no, meaning there's none, zero. That's an objective. And then widespread, that's a really important thing though. How do you define widespread? This is really important. For example, 1% wouldn't be widespread. That's not widespread. 1% is the margin in many of these states. So all of a sudden, if we just have 1% voter fraud, Eric, 1%, Donald Trump is president. And based on all the evidence we have, we have way more evidence to show there's even more than 1%.

But look, but even that narrative, in other words, to talk about that, isn't the real issue, Charlie, that we're talking about conspiracy? There were people, leaders, powerful people Who made a decision before the election that this is what we're going to do? That's really what we need to go after, isn't it? Who were the people conspiring to overturn the will of the American people?

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You ignore the rage, the anger, the frustration that Americans are feeling right now, you do it at your own peril. You shouldn't do it. You should not belittle or demean the people who are furious at the outcome, not because they believe that Trump legitimately lost. John Daniel Davidson wrote an article about this at The Federalist, talking about the surge of columns and posts asserting that Republicans and Trump supporters are completely bonkers, have lost touch with reality. After 4 years, he says, of marinating in falsehoods and disinformation, a term that really just means information I don't like. Trump's backers are all turned around, they tell us. They believe much that isn't so. David Brooks of the New York Times explains that these poor saps, most of whom he says are uneducated, uncredentialed people who don't live in prosperous cities, have retreated to conspiracy theories to explain their misfortune. And unhappiness. People in this precarious state, he writes, are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. Over at The New Yorker, the editor there, David Remnick, ponders the grave costs of Trump's assault on the press and the truth.

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This is Lon Hitchens of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19. The request would have been better received if at the same time Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools My Christmas appeal wouldn't hurt to throw Hanukkah in as well, is the Angel Tree campaign at my website.

And they send a gift to a kid whose parent is in prison, hopefully with a note from the parent so that the gift seems to come from the parent, and they throw in a Bible. You have a better idea what to do with kids, the parent in prison? So please contribute.

Banner is at my website, DennisPrager.com. This is the hour you raise what is on thine mind. All right, everybody, let's go to Dale in Detroit.

Hello, Dale.

Hello, is this Mr.

Prager with a P as in palmist?

Yeah, that's very funny. That was funny. He said palmist and nobody, and nobody raised an eyebrow. Yeah, I mean, not to know, you know, they laughed at President Trump for saying 2 Corinthians. Yeah, so, you know, 2 Corinthians 1 and into a bar, you know, there's a lot of funny jokes. You didn't say 2 Corinthians, but that's not nearly as bad as promised as opposed to some, right? That, that's bad news.

Yeah, I've got a zero versus O story for you.

All right, you're talking, you were talking about that last hour. My, my mother had the phone number ended in 3003.

She loved the because it was easy when she told people that, correct? It was easy to remember, right? Well, a restaurant opened up, a Coney Island restaurant, and they got the number 3663, which is F-O-O-D. My mother would get 30 calls a day asking for that restaurant because they advertised it as F-O-O-D is the last part of their— food is the last part of their number.

And people would dial up 3-0-0-3. That's right, there you go. See that? People think they got a lucky break, then get— forgive the language— screwed. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Karen, San Bernardino, California.

Karen?

Hello, Mr. Prager.

Hi there.

Good morning, Mr. Prager. Thank you so much for taking my call.

Thank you for calling me.

Um, Mr. Prager, quick question.

Yep.

Um, thank God I have 3 beautiful kids, all under the age of 3, and I would potentially maybe like another kid, but my husband is very against it. He says we're not living on a farm, and he's just not into the idea. And I wanted to know your thoughts on that.

Well, you're both— there's nobody right or wrong on this one. You already have 3 kids. I, I could only— the, the best argument I could give on your behalf is I don't know anybody, and I'm sure your husband doesn't, who has 4 or more kids who wish they had fewer. So that the prospect, it's sort of like, it's not a great analogy, but the prospect of my 3 times a week workout is worse than the workout.

Okay.

Gotcha.

So I, but I want, I want to just say, you know, Look, he was there with you in having 3, and look, you would have to be asked a similar question. Is there any number where you would say no more?

Yeah, 4, definitely 4.

So compromise at 3 and a half.

You know, I owe my marriage to you because I was actually I'm actually the one who introduced you at NESTOC with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Oh, is that you?

That's me.

I remember you. You're very pretty.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Yeah.

And it was your relationship advice to get me to even have these three, so I guess I owe them to you.

Yeah. Well, you gotta name one Dennis.

I was thinking about Donald for the last one, That's adorable.

I'm very happy for you. I do recall you for the, among other reasons, you're obviously an excellent MC, but I do acknowledge that the pretty factor remained in my mind. You know what is amazing? That it takes some degree of courage today to publicly say to a woman, oh yeah, I remember you. I thought you were pretty, or are pretty. Oh, it's worse than courage, he says. It's asking for trouble. Do you know how sick that is? Do you know truly— no, no, no, you're not sick. Well, you are, but that's a separate issue. But it's sick that that's an issue. Do you know what the left has created among many, many other terrible things? The unreal. You have to be unreal. What I said to her was real. Men remember that. Women remember that. Women are as interested in women's looks as men are.

I don't know about more.

It's not possible.

More. Uh-huh.

That's good. We're more affected. They're more interested. They're affected too.

Promised words.

Is that awesome? The Lord is my silent death. Yes, in Psalms there's a silent death. Now if Donald Trump had said that, the mockery would have been The Palmist.

The Palmist.

With the palmist who wrote—

Yes, that's correct.

They palm me. He's a palm reader.

The Palm Reader.

All right, Karen, that was awesome.

I'm very happy for you.

I love that I have touched couples' lives, that people get married.

A lot of times people come over and speak to say, you know, we're married. A man will say especially, you know, listening to you, I decided to get married.

I like that.

It means a lot to me.

Larry in El Cajon, California. Hello, Larry.

Good morning, Dennis. How are you today?

Today, fine.

But I understand about your country. We're on the same page on that.

You're the man.

My question is, have you ever studied or read anything about Edgar Cayce? And are you a person who believes in reincarnation?

I don't know about the gentleman, but I have read about reincarnation. I am very interested in it. I have a traditional Jewish position that one of the 13 principles of the Jewish faith is that we will one day be reincarnated, but I do not believe in it in the sense that most people think of it, and your question suggests that we come back after death as it as another person.

Same soul, another person.

I, I don't, I don't have a strong position against it.

I just don't happen to believe it.

We shall return.

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Why did they have to take you down, Mike Flynn?

Yeah, that's, that's, uh, we don't have enough time in your show to talk about the whole heck. We don't have probably have enough time in this week. Here's what I would just say to synthesize it. My, my whole life in the military and for those that have, you know, that worked around me and know me, I, you know, I'm one of these guys that comes into an organization and looks at processes, looks at procedures, looks at the leadership, looks at how we train people and really tries to improve and make things, you know, It's not just make things more efficient, but it's also trying to solve the problems for the people in the field. And I was one that came into Washington, D.C. I didn't get to Washington, D.C.

until I was a 2-star.

I never served. I served in the, you know, as a field soldier, served, you know, in infantry divisions and airborne divisions and special operations and, you know, in other tactical and strategic strategic commands too, and served in the intelligence community all the way up to the director of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as I served as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for partner engagement with, under James Clapper for a year. So I say all that because what I learned is that the, the efficiency, the effectiveness, The ability of the intelligence community does not function well inside of Washington, D.C. Where it functions best is in the field, and that's where our best people are. What we find is everybody stares at their navel in Washington, D.C., and it's what we call— you, you're very familiar with this— is the circular reporting.

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Hugh, when, when you're committing fraud, you're kind of covering your tracks.

When you're— when there are irregularities, you still have people defending the system. It's, it's not an easy fight.

So Kurt, what I think the president on Maria Bartiromo yesterday was trying to tell his supporters, I'm not going to win any lawsuits. I am going to run for president in 2024. And by the way, we need to win Georgia. I think that's what he was saying yesterday. If I, and I speak Trump pretty well, he's saying it's hard to get to the Supreme Court. There is presently no lawsuit that has not been dismissed that would alter any result in any state. That's a factual statement. Do you agree with it?

I think that you are correctly assessing the president's position.

The president's a practical guy.

He's a smart guy. Look, he's a guy who builds tall buildings, and, you know, fantasy doesn't enter into it when it comes to engineering. The building either stands or it falls, and sometimes you don't like the answer. I do think he'll run in 2024. That's just what my gut says. I think there are a lot of Republicans who are going to grumble a little about having to stand back in line an extra 4 to 8 years. But that's just the way the cookie crumbles. This is a very competitive guy. This is a guy who arguably chose to run for president when Barack Obama insulted him at the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner. He wants to win. He wants to Grover Cleveland this.

All over the place, and, uh, I would not put it past him.

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Boy, is that ever true. Hello everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is the hour you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind, and I will Continue with your calls. And Brent in LA.

Hello, Brent of LA.

Good Shabbos, Dennis Prager.

Thank you.

Yes, I wanted to thank you so much for distinguishing between Orthodox married women who voluntarily choose to cover their hair for modesty versus the malevolent Islamo-Marxist masks that are being coerced upon all of humanity.

Well, you mean the— well, I don't know what Islamo-Marxist is, but you mean the—

the masks for the—

the safety religion. Yes. Yeah.

Okay.

That's right. Thank you. You're welcome. I should say, because you were thanking me. There you go.

Uh, look, uh, I try, as you know, I try to reach clarity because I prefer it to agreement. There are people who won't agree with me and I won't agree with them, but at least there should be clarity. So at the very outset, if a person who is a pro-mask outdoors, specifically pro-outdoor mask person. If you, or for that matter, masks indoors, but do you acknowledge the dehumanization that is taking place on an unprecedented level in America because of masks? If you don't, we have nothing to talk about because you're lying to yourself, or you are so obtuse to the human condition as unworthy of dialogue. Now you may say for the sake of safety it is worth dehumanizing the population for a year or more.

It'll be more. Dr. Fauci came out with a statement for which he should have been fired. Even after a vaccine, people should wear masks.

But these people are idiot savants. Almost all the people who make science policy are idiot savants.

They know science and they have no wisdom.

So I am completely uninterested in their advice. But we have completely mistaken knowledge for wisdom and we are suffering. That's why experts, quote unquote, are usually wrong and they're usually fools because they think that their knowledge gives them wisdom. It doesn't. Masks are awful. Now you may say, if you do not acknowledge how awful and dehumanizing they are, then we, as I said, we have nothing to talk about. But if you say, well, but isn't it worth saving tens of thousands of lives? Yes. If that's what you can show me it does, then of course, yes. Between the dehumanization of the population and saving tens of thousands of lives, but It would have to be a very large number of lives that would be saved, because I'm not prepared to dehumanize society to save one life. Cuomo is. He said it in the very beginning. If everything I am doing, if destroying all of the businesses that I have destroyed saves one life, I will sleep well at night. Okay, I don't, I don't hold that view, especially not about this, wherein the, the median age The, the median age of death for, for people with COVID is 77, and there is— the number of people under 50 is minuscule who die of this, and they have some compromised immune system if they do. In other words, the great majority of people who die of COVID in any society in in the West or in the world would probably have died within the year from something else.

Yeah, here we go.

Greenwood, South Carolina. John, hello.

Dennis, thank you for climbing back into the arena with me yet again. I really appreciate your bravery. Listen, Quick aside comment to Karen: you probably should have told her to turn the light off after having put on her most enticing lingerie and whisper into her husband's ear, "So why don't we move to a farm?" Do you remember that?

That'll work. That would work very good.

Yes.

Anyway, listen, I'm not really wanting to go round and round again on this one because we covered some of the same ground in previous conversations, and I thank you for taking my call again. You're most most gracious in doing that, and I'm not the least bit surprised that you did. You said something, though, that I think that actually endangers lives, and that's one of the reasons that I'm challenging your position.

All right, so hold on, and I want to hear what I said that endangers lives. Obviously, I took your call.

In the meantime, I will tell you what almost saves lives, because there are two types of life, in my view. There's, you know, the biological fact of life, and then there is the quality of life.

Quality of life is critical, and constant pain truly compromises quality of life. Therefore, if you have chronic muscular or joint pain, I have something that helps the great majority of people who use it. Nothing helps everybody.

But you will know in 3 weeks if it works.

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Talk to us about this unique pardon which the president called a pardon of innocence. As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened, it shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened. Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.

Well, I, I, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal, uh, process that my entire family family has gone through, and that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters. I have 9. My wife's one of 7. So we have an extent— an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us. So I— it really hasn't sunk in yet, um, for me personally. I will tell you that I really do appreciate the, uh, the type of, uh, of words that the president used, and certainly the White House statement that they came out with, used in the language to describe what happened, very, very powerful. It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge those that would otherwise want to change our way of life. Mine, mine was really not a, a really a, an issue that was revolved around a criminal act. It revolved around really political persecution. And that was clear from the beginning. It was clear to me. It'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday. And it's an amazing story.

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As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time. And I think they not only discussed the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power, and they explicitly discuss withholding from the incoming Trump administration information about Russia. And I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power was to remove people who would have been in the—

All right, everybody, let's, uh, let's hear John in South Carolina. What did I say with regard to masks that was dangerous?

Well, the, the thing that I'd like to challenge— well, you, you basically said that there were cowards talisman, and that they were, they were like a lucky rabbit's foot, that you'd be doing better. This was a couple of weeks ago that you said this, that, that you'd be doing better to have a lucky rabbit's foot and then use a mask as a talisman.

No, I didn't say you'd be better off because I don't believe rabbit's feet work.

Well, that was the whole joke. I mean, that was what you were saying was because you didn't believe that masks work either. But let's—

for clarity, I don't know, that's not fair. I even said today surgical masks in hospitals clearly work. I don't want my surgeon to be maskless.

However, outdoors— Well, that was the last thing that we debated. Here's the challenge that I have for you, and it's basically what I would like to encourage you to do is to get either an N95 mask or a surgical mask, and not one of the ones with the vent on it, but a solid mask. N95 surgical mask, put it on, light a candle in front of you, and try as hard as you can to blow that candle out. You simply won't be able to do it. Now Bill Nye actually came up with this, and this is probably one of the wisest things that Bill Nye has ever done. I'm no great fan of Bill Nye, but he did this demonstration online, and he shows that you simply can't blow the candle out with an N95 mask. 95 or a true surgical mask.

Okay, I don't know if you could blow it out with any of these cloth masks.

Well, certainly you could because they're all highly porous. That's right.

So you would acknowledge that they're— all right, so then 99% of what people are wearing are, are then rabbit's feet.

I, I agree with that, and I agree with you strong, and I agree with you strongly about the outside thing too.

All right, good, so we agree. Okay, listen, only because I've had you a lot.

I'm going to let you go.

I thank you. Yes, that's the point. We agree the vast majority of cases that— I'm not an extremist on this. Of course there were times. Why are you blowing your— oh, you're trying to blow your hand through your cloth mask?

Did some go through?

Yes. Well, what is it, Dr. Simone Gold? What did she say? Was it like batting mosquitoes with a tennis racket or something like that?

Anyway, there's another, uh, another metaphor that is used.

Dallas in Phoenix. Hi.

Hi, Dennis, how you doing? Okay, good. Hey, first-time caller, really appreciate you taking my call.

Thank you for calling.

Yes, um, you hear this phrase all the time up heard it for years, God bless America. And what bothers me about that is, what— why would God feel obligated to answer that request when America isn't really blessing God?

I have no— I have no answer. I can only say that I much prefer that politicians and major speeches with God bless America than not do so.

Right, that's nice, and I appreciate that.

Okay, so that's it. That's my answer. I want God sincerely invoked. There is no doubt in my mind, I make this case regularly, the battle in this country is overwhelmingly a religious battle. It is a secular versus religious battle, even though there are secular conservatives and there are religious leftists.

I understand that, but that does not negate the fact that it's a secular-religious battle, just like the French Revolution. French Revolution hated religion. The left hates religion. The left has always hated religion. The fact that you know a leftist, not a liberal, there are liberals who love religion. If you know a leftist who goes to church, well, there are actually. They're called pastors, priests, and rabbis. Rabbis go to synagogues, obviously, not churches. Leftism has ruined Christianity where it has affected it. Look at the Pope. And Judaism. I played for you.

Do you have it? Do you still have the rabbi who on Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah was chanting Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

Gotcha.

There was a Reform rabbi in New Jersey.

I never said his name because first of all, he's probably interchangeable with a vast number of Reform rabbis, but secondly, I don't like to humiliate people.

People.

But he actually used the holiest day, or one of the two holiest days of the Jewish calendar, to instead of chanting the prophets, he stood at the head of the congregation and chanted Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I'm sure the audience of the congregation I should say was deeply moved.

All right, James in Phoenix, Arizona. Hello, James in Phoenix.

Yes.

Hello, I used to consider you my rabbi.

I'm sorry, I've been demoted.

As I told your call screener, truth is not a Donald Trump value. You. And I would think— I would like to suggest to you, Trumpism has made you a worse person. Joe Biden is still our president. He will be inaugurated on January 20th. The election was not stolen. And you parroting his conspiracy theories and the people— you've clowned yourself just like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and a whole horde of fellow Republicans that used to have respect for. You need to repent and atone for literally polluting the airwaves with Mark Eisler especially. He is a pathological liar, a conspiracy moon that you used— you allowed to use your airwaves to pollute the public airwaves for 3 hours. Are you ever going to do that again? And please do not, Mr. Prager. I use—

let me ask ask you a question.

Who is in greater danger to the country, the left or Trump?

You just switched the subject. That has nothing—

I didn't switch the subject because the alternative to Trump is the left.

No.

Okay, if you deny that, we have nothing to talk about. I answer you, or at least listen to you. You won't answer me. So let me explain what your former rabbi Dennis Prager believes. The left is destroying the United States. Trump was the only obstacle to their destroying the U.S. That you hate Trump more than you hate the left tells me why you demoted me. I am honored to have been demoted by you.

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It's funny, I have a call here from Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dennis Prager here.

Dennis is wrong in not denouncing the election as fraud.

I just got a call, which you heard.

That I need to repent for having questioned the election, which is fine. It's not— I'm not even joking at this. Just, it's—

every public role in life has the rule you cannot seek to please people.

You can only seek to tell the truth in as hopefully a persuasive and not offensive way as possible, but that's it.

You cannot raise children if you seek to be liked. Have I noticed—

he's asking, have I noticed in my lifetime the truth seems to be less important? There's no question about it. There's no question. The New York Times was always on the left, but it was not a lying newspaper like it is now because they don't believe the truth is as important as the progressive agenda. That's it.

That's one of the reasons for the preoccupation with the president as a liar.

To deflect from the world of lies that permeates the left.

Oh Lord, and I say when there are 9 people are shocked, but there'd been 9 men and nobody's ever raised a question.

About that.

So he's using the, the cantillation, as it's called, the musical melody of the reading of the prophets to have read on Rosh Hashanah, one of the two high holy days of Judaism, this rabbi, Reform rabbi in New Jersey, to read Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When I say that, that people have substituted the New York Times editorial page for the Bible, I am not being cute. That is exactly what has happened.

We—

and if that continues, we won't survive as a nation. One is wise and one is moronic. It's just—

it's really truly as simple as that. Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord. Boy, I learned that at Columbia University.

It was the epiphany of my life. Why so many bright professors were teaching nonsense.

Godless, Bible-less equals wisdomless.

That's the way it is.

Name me a secular institution with wisdom.

You have all weekend to think up one. I'm Dennis Prager. Be well.