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Hey everybody, and welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, which is A Monday, and I hope you had a good weekend. When I, uh, when I'm with college kids, which I am a lot, they tell me that they now have to get a third vaccine. I don't know why it's called the booster and not a vaccine, but in any event, they should— none of them should be called vaccines because they're not vaccines. I mean, if you're intellectually honest You care about science. You don't call it a vaccine. There are many things you might want to call it, but it is not a vaccine. That is clear. It does not, it does not protect you from getting the virus, which is what all vaccines in the history of vaccines were meant to do. If you got a smallpox vaccine, you didn't get smallpox. The number of people who apparently I don't have this as, uh, as an irrefutable fact yet. I— so I say apparently the number of people getting COVID who have been vaccinated, or Omicron in particular, is proportionate to those who are not vaccinated getting it. This is all within a year of getting the vaccine, in many cases within 6 months. There's an acknowledgment that the vaccine does not last very long. So what do they answer? Oh, it's not meant to prevent you from getting the disease, it's to prevent it from becoming serious. So that is what we call an ex post facto rationale. They never said that in the beginning, never. So don't call it a vaccine, say a minimizer shot. I could accept that, a minimizer shot. I don't think there was a more important story last week or over the nearing the weekend than the utter and total ignorance, frightening ignorance shown by Supreme Court justices with regard to the virus. But it was, it was illuminating to give you an idea of the warped bubble in which people on the left live, and that includes liberals. Liberals don't access conservative ideas. In other words, they don't access any ideas with which they differ, no matter how intelligent, no matter how science-based. That's why I'm grateful. I know this is— it almost sounds funny, but I'm grateful to the left-wing hate sites that put up my videos to show how foolish I am. Because it enables their left-wing followers to actually hear an idea they would never hear otherwise. Please put up my videos more often. It is a service to truth. So to Mayur, I want to watch my words because I have nothing against the woman on a personal level, but came across as an ignoramus. Truly an arrogant ignoramus, which characterizes too many people on the left. They're arrogant and they don't know what they're talking about. Listen to this. Sonia Sotomayor's, from the Epoch Times, ludicrous claim before the Supreme Court, before her Supreme Court peers during oral arguments that 100,000 children were, quote, in serious condition quote, from COVID-19, when 3,000 would have been far more accurate, is more than just an embarrassment to the justice. How could such an ill-informed person be a justice of our highest court? What else doesn't she know, or perhaps more exactly, doesn't want to know? This is written by Roger Simon. It is, it, it is just a piece of truth. Her full quotation makes it sound still worse. Quote: We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition many on ventilators. Before I go on, now I'm not even interested in saying she lied because lying is a very difficult thing to prove. Do you have to know what you say is not true for it to be a lie? This is— I've asked this question many times, so I don't know the moral or even linguistic answer to that question. Do you have to know to say it is a lie? Should you— if you should have known, is it a lie? However, whatever term you wish to use, there was nothing true about what she said. She spoke awful, awful untruths. Things that have no relationship to truth. She sounded like an idiot. So how did that happen? How does a justice of the United States Supreme Court say something that has no truth whatsoever to it, and which thereby— and which forms her opinion on the bench? How is that— how does that happen? Because everything she knows about COVID she got from left-wing media. Everything. And it's mostly lies. Where did she pick this up? Did she make it up? Well, if she made it up, then it's a lie. But if she's just spouting the crap that she hears on CNN, the lies at the New York Times and Washington Post for the last years, Like ivermectin is just a horse dewormer. Whole giant article in the New York Times about that. None of those are true. We are currently going through a bump in cases of the vastly weaker Omicron variant, which many have compared to a cold, and in the vast majority of instances can be treated at home with therapeutics. Even extreme vaccine enthusiast CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted that hospitalizations for other age groups were 15-fold greater than the pediatric, and those weren't much. Sotomayor wasn't alone on the court with her somewhat— what— with what some might euphemistically call mischaracterization. Justice Stephen Breyer claimed 750 million new cases of coronavirus had been reported in our country when the entire population is well less than half that. Now, it's interesting— I say interesting because I don't know what to make of it— nobody would correct him, even a fellow justice. Stephen There are only 350 million people in the country, so we, we can't have 750 million cases. Now everybody makes slips of the tongue, and I never dwell on that, whether right or left, but it is odd that nobody felt the right to say anything about it. Because now that I think of it, what would they have said? Let's say one of his pals, okay, on the left, uh, let's say Justice Kagan. Uh, Steve, only 350 million Americans. It would have taken a while and it would have looked embarrassing. So I don't know what's more embarrassing, letting this stand or correcting him. The problem is what I have called "want to believe." Sotomayor and Breyer are so convinced of liberal/conservative ideology that they are unable even to see the arguments of the other side, sometimes to the extent that they do not even know they are there, that they exist. How often have I said— this is one of the basic premises of my life— We know everything they say, they know nothing we say. We do not live in a bubble. It's almost impossible for a non-liberal, non-leftist to live in a bubble. We would never watch television, we would never go to school, we would never go to the movies. We would have to live in complete isolation. They do. They do. Because when they go to the movies and when they read a paper, when they watch news and when they go to school, they only hear the left. And they actually assume that what they are told is true. There is no one as gullible as a liberal or a leftist. This is one of the cases where I don't draw a distinction between liberal and left. I almost always do. But in terms of gullibility, being prepared to believe what is not true, there's no difference between a liberal and a leftist. It is an astonishing thing that a Justice of the United States would say what she said from the Supreme Court bench. 1-800-PRAGER-776. We continue.

This is Carol Platt-Liebow for Townhall.com. China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing. This should concern all of us. That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms. Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgent. That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration. Fulgent even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure. I'll bet. What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgent. The question is why.

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If he was disappointed and could explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people. In cut number 9, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet. He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around. Cut number 9.

You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times. You invited him to your home in Delaware. He came to the White House a week ago. Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no. How does that happen? How are you not able to close the deal?

Well, look, let's talk about what we have done. We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever. I haven't given up on this. I haven't given up on it.

But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit. Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?

Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done. As much as we can possibly get done. I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done, particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.

Well, isn't that part of the problem, that the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill? Isn't that the problem, Mr. President? We do know what's in there. That's why we do not support it. That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%. The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it. Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.

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All right, everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. I would like to know— this is something I don't know. Interesting. Uh, I have to check this out. I'm backdated a few days on my New York Times reading. I'd like to know if the New York Times and Washington Post covered the fact that Sotomayor made up data about COVID Crazy data. Not just missed by a little, just made up lies. And I'm not saying she's lying because it's a philosophical question. Are you lying if you if you believe what you say. I tend to think it's still a lie. Most people who lie believe their lies, certainly when it's ideological. And remember, this is— Sotomayor's statement is proof, another one of the thousands, of one of my basic understandings of life, and should be yours. That whereas truth is a liberal value and truth is a conservative value, truth is not a left-wing value. So she didn't ask herself, is it true? She assumed that reading it in the New York Times made it true. They, they believe that. But I'm not even sure she got this from the New York Times. Is the New York Times really reported that there are over 100,000 children severely ill of, of COVID Virtually no child gets severely ill from COVID There is a serious question, and I don't know the answer to this. Are more children— I'm talking about young children, let's say. What does she mean by children? I assume under 15, let's say. Have more children died of COVID or died of or been hurt by the vaccination? I don't know the answer. I don't claim to know the answer.

I think—

I think— I don't know if it's answerable because they don't report honestly on adverse effects of the vaccine. But I'd like to know if the average Democrat in this country thinks that Justice Sotomayor told the truth? I think that's the most important question of the recent past, because if they do, you have an understanding of why we have this divide. The divide is not only over values, it is over reality. And by the way, they acknowledge that. They will say we live in different realities. That is correct. One of the few times I agree with a left-wing writer. We do live in different realities. This was an insight, a glimpse into the left's reality, what Justice Sotomayor said. And I also believe that to this moment she doesn't know she lied. Who is going to tell her? Her family? Her friends? Clarence Thomas? Who's going to tell her, you know, you really, you really told something that has no truth to it? You are basing your verdict on a lie, which also shows you, in order to justify lockdowns and mandates, you must wildly distort what the virus has done. To, to have a mandate that children get it, that parents line up to vaccinate their children with a non-vaccine, with a vaccine that could hurt their child. In the vast majority of cases, the child does not, is not hurt, at least not now. We have no idea what the long-term effects of this vaccine are. How can we have an idea? It's not been tested for a long time. Can we agree on that? We do not have a clue as to the long-term effects of this. The problem, writes Roger Simon, is what I have called want to believe. Sotomayor and Breyer are so convinced of their ideology that they are unable even to see the arguments of the other side. Sometimes to the extent that they do not even know they are there, that they exist. Have either of these people, Supreme Court justices who must have known for months that they are going to have to rule on matters concerning COVID, read any of the books on the subject by Alex Berenson, Dr. Scott Atlas, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself obviously a liberal? Obviously because he's Robert Kennedy's— Robert F. Kennedy's son. Have they viewed any of the detailed videos made by Doctors Peter McCullough and Robert Malone, some available right here at the Epoch Times, warning of the significant dangers of vaccinating children with barely tested mRNA? Have they even read the Great Barrington Declaration? Do they know who signed it or what their backgrounds were? Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford, among others. Do they even know what it is? In all probability, the answer to most, possibly all of these questions is no. It is for almost every liberal or progressive I know. The answer is no. They are bathed in what are deemed the proper morally narcissistic views by the New York Times and CNN and accept them like automatons. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. That's why this, uh, what happened is so important, so incredibly important. So Berenson is also a liberal. I wonder if that's it. I'll have him on and ask him that. If he's still a liberal. I would like to know if Alex Berenson, whose book I read, Pandemia, I would like to know if he is a Democrat, if he is still a Democrat. That would be interesting to know. 1-800-DENNIS-PRAGER-776. 877-243-7776. It's a, uh, fascinating, the whole thing, and it's very depressing. Glendora, California. Mike, hello.

Hi, talk to you. Two, two quick things. Um, sorry, the second one is about donating through Amazon to PragerU. That's my second thing. But the first one is I asked Hugh, Hugh had the exact same question today, how someone could be so far off and egregious. And my suggestion is to have to call Hugh because he had a, he had a great answer for it. And, and that is, you know, the, the justices delegate some of these things to them. And I think they got in the case of Sotomayor, I think she, she got a hyper-partisan clerk who, you know, is doing exactly what you said, not, you know, not up on any facts, but hey, they want to present the work, right?

So here's the question I would ask you and of course my friend Hugh, and he is my friend. Has the clerk— is the clerk aware that they gave misinformation to the justice? And is the clerk fired? Back in a moment.

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You have Attorney Binger pick up an AR-15.

Oh my God, yeah.

And just decide with the— you have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.

What is he pointing at?

Is he threatening the jury?

Pretty much. He was pointing his gun at the gallery and I looked at my attorney. That's your gun, right? That's my rifle. Yeah, that is yours, right? That we're having destroyed right now. We don't want anything to do with that.

Oh, wow.

So I looked at Corey and I said, Corey, that's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded, treat a gun like it's loaded.

Yeah.

And he points it at the jury.

Exactly.

I think at that point I said, all right, they're freaking out.

I mean, they got nothing left.

So there's this video that the FBI had in their archives 14 months. It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it HD. You know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because— and this was always key that, that, you know, people who are looking at this never got is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level, right? Because it's handheld. So, and of course Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't, and he's beating himself up over that. But, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment. That this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing. You can actually see the anger and just, just, you know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you. That I don't think you show that face to anybody, that they would think that this guy, let alone threatened to kill them twice that night. Right, right. That he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.

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America, if anybody wants it. But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering 500 million pills 2 months ago before COVID hit here.

But we're nearly 2 years into this pandemic. You're a year into the presidency. Empty shelves and no test kits in some places 3 days before Christmas when it's so important. Is that good enough?

No, nothing's been good enough.

But look, we are—

when last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer vaccinated people, vaccinated emergency rooms were filled.

Well, Mr. President, yes. I would have to agree with you on that. For once, there's something you and I agree on. Nothing has been good enough.

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for townhall.com. China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing. This should concern all of us. That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms. Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgent. That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration. FullGen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure. I'll bet. What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with FullGen. The question is why.

Well, I just learned that Jake Tapper at CNN called out the justice, and I'm going to play it for you so you will understand that my overriding commitment, even more than to my positions on any matter, is to the truth. I am crazed by the pursuit of truth. There is nothing more important. Lies are the root of evil, not money, not anything else. Lies are the root of evil. That's why what the— what Twitter and Facebook and YouTube are doing by labeling everything they differ with misinformation, by intentionally lying and forcing lies down the public's eyes and ears, is evil. It's really evil. So I want you to know CNN's Jake Tapper did call out Justice Sotomayor. Here, here it is. Here, Joan, I heard some assertions made by the Supreme Court justices today that were simply false. One example, Justice Sotomayor said, quote, we have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in, in serious condition and many on ventilators. That, that's just not true. There are fewer than 5,000 minors hospitalized with COVID right now. Seen there on the right, we're showing the figures, not 100,000. And that includes minors who were admitted because of COVID and ones who tested positive but had been hospitalized for other reasons. What do you make of this?

Well, there were a lot of facts and figures thrown out from justices across the spectrum that some of them certainly raised questions from, from people who really know their stuff on this issue. And I do have to say, Justice Sotomayor, she's She's not so much speaking to her colleagues. She's not so much trying to persuade them. She's speaking beyond the walls of the court. Usually it's Justices Breyer and Kagan who try to be more persuasive to their fellow colleagues with the arguments they're making and the questions they're asking.

This response is classic left. Okay, Jake Tapper is an outlier on the left. I give him massive credit. She just should have said, yeah, that, that's really remarkable. She really— if, if not, you would know what, what was his word? He didn't say lie. What did he say?

False.

Though that is really distressing that a Supreme Court justice would exaggerate by a factor of 20 the number of children in hospitals for COVID. And as Tapper pointed out, even, even among the 5,000 Many have COVID, but they're in for something else. God, the gobbledygook. I don't know who this woman is. It's a— it— okay, I'm supposed to remember how to pronounce that after you spell that? Biskupic? Fine. Who cares? She's interchangeable with other leftists. They're interchangeable.

Questions that they're asking, but even neither of them actually were able to get much traction in the case involving the $84 million.

She's not responding. This is not a response to Jake Tapper's point. She told a whopping falsehood. A Supreme Court justice from the bench told the country something that has no relationship to truth. And this woman that he spoke to, who is not Jake Tapper, who is just another leftist, Doesn't, doesn't say, yeah, boy, you're right. That's all she should say.

Workers, the OSHA case.

All right. It doesn't matter. Okay.

At one point, Justice Kagan came right out and said, everyone knows that vaccinations work. Everyone knows that that's what saves lives. But her colleagues on the right wing were coming at it from a very different direction. And as you probably know, Justice Sotomayor actually wasn't in the room. She was— because she has diabetes, she was, uh, uh, listening to the arguments and asking questions from her chambers.

Yeah, I mean, facts are important, especially in the U.S. Supreme Court. Holy crow, Jake Tapper! Uh, I would, I would give you a box of cigars, not, not one cigar. I mean, facts are important though. Yeah, that's right. Jake Tapper thinks being at CNN, love to know. I mean, I'd be very curious. I wonder if anybody at the New York Times called around. I will, I will check on that during the break. This is a, this is truly a test case. By the way, the definition of lie, I was just sent it. Definition of lie is an intentionally false statement. So you can repeat lies. I guess that's what she repeated, a lie. Is that, is that fair to say? ReliefFactor.com, 800-583-84. Took it last night, in fact, after my workouts. My muscles are really sore. Things like magic. And you may have, uh, probably do, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain. My wife is the reason I advertised this. I never advertised a painkiller. I didn't believe in them, over-the-counter ones. She had been taking it for her knee and then And that's, that set it off. Try for, for, uh, 30— what is it, 3 weeks? 3-week quick start. You'll know in 3 weeks if it works. $19.95. ReliefFactor.com. 800-500-8384.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.

There's one Jewish state.

The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.

In spite of all the years of conflict, There's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.

Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you about don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border.

That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

To help you guys.

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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It's not an exhaustive search yet, but I did Google New York Times Sotomayor COVID. Did the New York Times report the again, I don't know what the word to use is, um, the completely false statement of Justice Sotomayor of 100,000 children hospitalized with COVID So I put in New York Times Sotomayor COVID, and I got today, it's January 10th, New York Times. Guess what the headline I got was— is— will be? COVID updates: number of hospitalized young children who've tested positive is jumping, CDC says. How's that, huh? And I did a search in the article for Sotomayor. And this is what I got. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with diabetes and had been only the only member of the court to wear a mask since the justices returned to the courtroom, participated remotely from her chambers on Friday. Seven of the justices wore masks on the bench for the first time. The exception was Justice Gorsuch, who sits next to Justice Sotomayor. That's fascinating.

Wow.

All of the justices are fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot, a court spokesman said. And they're still wearing masks. It's painful. The elites of our country are the antithesis of elite. You realize the truth of William F. Buckley's famous statement. You got it there, Sean. See who can come up with it first, me or you, about wanting to be— preferring to be governed by the first 1,000 names in the Boston phone book than by 2,000. Wait, now, very, very good, Sean. You, you, sir, you deserve a Tootsie Roll. Yes, I'm gonna find one. Hey, by the way, talking about chocolate candies, are you familiar with Chunky? We should do a segment Not today, but when nothing's happening, which is rare. Um, no, no, not on Chunky. On candies that were popular when I was a kid and are not now, like, uh, um, Good Plenty. But we won't do that now because it would, it would, it would create in my producer a medical reaction. He might be hospitalized if I did that. Yeah, that's exactly right. Anyway, what year did he say that? The reason I ask it is to show you how long-standing the corruption of our intellectual class is. And of course, if you point that out, you're called anti-intellectual. Just like if you point out the non-vaccination parts of the vaccination and that they don't work as a general rule— I have no doubt that they have worked for some people. I've said that. I've been asked and I've said that they have, they have worked in for some people in reducing the symptoms of of the disease. They clearly have not had an overall huge impact because more people died in the years— the year of the vaccine than died in the year of no vaccine. But you're called an anti-vaxxer if you say the Earth is getting warmer, but we should not be following the green hysteria and destroying the economic bases of our society with regard to energy, you're called climate denier. The left has always done this. They label their— they label dissent, but they don't answer the challenges. So anyway, I found you what they say in the New York Times. About this. I'll look for more. All right, let's see here. Uh, Betsy, Cleveland, Ohio. Hello, Dennis.

If you will listen to the 2-hour interview, uh, that was conducted with Dr. Robert Malone by Michael Savage, and/or the interview conducted with Dr. Robert Malone by Joe Rogan, You will hear him give the background of Jake Tapper. He expressly defines when and by whom he was bought. It was Pfizer. When exactly it occurred and how he basically owes his show.

Oh, so Dr. Malone specifically addressed Jake Tapper.

But specifically, which is—

wow, okay, all right, you're right, I have to hear that. I agree with you. There's so much I have to hear that it's somewhat endless, but that, that is correct. I heard my wife told me, who is— I believe knows more about COVID than 99% of doctors. I don't mean how cells replicate or something like that, but more about COVID Anyway, she told me that Alex Berenson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually had a dialogue, which is fascinating because Berenson in his book politely dismisses Robert F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom I had on the show with the publication of his book on Dr. Fauci, has gone from being regarded as a kook to being regarded as a very serious, very courageous man. That's very big. In a sense, the left has lost. They've lost half this country that believed them on these matters just 2 years ago.

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If he was, uh, disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people. In cut number 9, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet. He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around. Cut number 9.

You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times. You invited him to your home in Delaware. He came to the White House a week ago. Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no.

Deal.

How does that happen? How are you not able to close the deal?

Well, look, let's talk about what we have done. We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever. I haven't given up on this. I haven't given up on it.

But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit. Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?

Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done, as much as we can possibly get done, I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done, particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.

Well, isn't that part of the problem, that the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill? Isn't that the problem, Mr. President? We do know what's in there. That's why we do not support it. That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%. The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it. Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a serious indictment of Jake Tapper after all my praise of him for saying that. But my expectations of CNN are so minimal that even one anchor saying one true thing, I have to bring it to your attention. Okay, Santa Monica, California. Joe, hello.

Hello, I'm calling about, um, untruths, and it looks like PragerU posted an untruth on the Facebook post post this weekend.

And what was that? I don't know all the PragerU posts. What was it?

Yeah, the one that they have is how much, uh, trash goes into, um, the ocean, and it lists that China makes 8.1 tons of trash going into the ocean. And that's actually wrong. It's actually at the high end maybe 3.5 million metric tons. And what happened is I looked up the article it says it takes it from, which is the Wall Street Journal, and if you read the text, it actually says that you, you guys copied the information from a graph, but you didn't actually read every line on the graph.

And all right, you know what, I'm— believe it or not, I'm happy you brought it to my attention, and I promise to you I will look into it. That's very important. There's nothing I can say except that, that if we're wrong, we're taking it down and we will put up the right number. Everybody at PragerU knows that that's the first commitment. We must tell the truth. Let me tell you why. Aside from I have a religious love of truth, I have a moral love of truth, isn't there's another reason? There's a selfish reason. This is true for every one of you as it is for me and any public figure. If you lose your credibility, it's over. It's a very important thing to remember. That's one of the reasons it's so important not to lie. The most valuable thing we have really is our credibility. So that— I, I went immediately to the call. There's a full board of calls here, but I picked the one that said that we, we said something that isn't true. I need to know that. It's worth it for everybody. The kids need to be— kids need to be raised with that belief. More important than your income, more important than anything in your life, is your credibility. That's why it's very good not to start with a lie, because there are no lies that can be told without having to give a whole set of lies to protect the first one. What Sotomayor did is terrible. It's just terrible. It's terrible for the country, but it does illuminate a great deal. They, they don't know what they're talking about. Back in a moment.

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The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed. Can you explain that to people?

Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew the poll data was clear. What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges, and expand broadband. That was the popular part. And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group, and the president ended up agreeing with that, to deal with the part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach. And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach. Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up. I don't expect him to. But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.

It does to me as well. And congratulations Congratulations on that. It's, uh, it was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say. I want to turn to senators. They have different career paths. Some are looking down the street at 1600, and some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday. John Thune's actually been in both positions. I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring. How do you say, say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakota, Leader McConnell?

Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator. He's done a great job as whip, which is our number 2 position in the Senate. It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for townhall.com. China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing. This should concern all of us. That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms. Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, The Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgent. That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration. Fulgent even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure. I'll bet. What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgent. The question is why.

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If he was disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people. In cut number 9, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet. He seemed optimistic that there was still hope. That he could bring Joe Manchin around. Cut number 9.

You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times. You invited him to your home in Delaware. He came to the White House a week ago. Then he's on Sunday morning cable and says, I'm a no. How does that happen? How are you not able to close the deal?

Well, look, let's talk about what we have done. We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever. I haven't given up on this. I haven't given up on it.

But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit. Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?

Well, look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done, as much as we can possibly get done. I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done done, particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.

Well, isn't that part of the problem, that the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill? Isn't that the problem, Mr. President? We do know what's in there. That's why we do not support it. That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%. The American people know what's in that spending plan. And they simply don't want it. Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.

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If you're Antony Blinken, if you're Tony Blinken and you're like a frustrated pop musician who wound up somehow as Secretary of State and you've never achieved anything in your life, the one thing that you can do, the one way you can exert power, how?

Killing people.

You're the Secretary of State. You can force a war. No, I'm saying this is how they think. Okay.

So it's like a big coping mechanism or it's like these—

look, one of the basic desires, as you noted, is to exert power over your environment. Hey world, I was here. My life meant something. So in order to signal that, you wave your arms, you exert power over something like, I can drink this Pellegrino. I am not an animal. I am a man. So the higher up you go, the greater the desire is. And that's why they're there in the first place, to exert power. People go into journalism to exert power. The more overriding your desire is, and I would say most of the time it's because you're compensating for this deep emptiness within. You have a barren personal life. You're not actually deriving fulfillment at home.

Your kids don't love you.

Your wife has contempt for you. So you go to work and you're like, well, damn, you know, like, what can I add?

Invade Iran.

I'm not joking. I'm not joking. I'm not taking my whole life around these people.

Like, I—

you look around, you're like, oh, wow, that person has a really sad personal life. Oh, so does that one. Oh, there's Mitch McConnell. That's the saddest of all. And or whatever, you know, all these people. And then it approaches like 90%. Of our political leaders have these sad, barren personal lives. You're like, what are the odds of that? Maybe they're compensating for what they don't have by exerting power over other people. Oh, now I'm very much a subgenius, so it took me decades to figure this out, but once I did, it explained pretty much everything.

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Hello everybody, Dennis Prager here. Hope you had a good weekend. I really do say it every Monday. I'm blessed, I have good weekends. 99.9% of the time. I'm not— I can't say 100% of the time because it's hard for me to imagine I never had— well, forget never. Doesn't matter. I have good weekends. Okay. So in the first hour, I dealt with what Justice Sonia Sotomayor said from the Supreme Court hearing on the mandates. Whether the government has the constitutional right. And so the argument of the left is it's so horrific— this is unbelievably important, please commit this to memory— it's so unbelievably horrific that— and this is the left's argument— that the question, is it constitutional, to order people to lose their livelihoods if they're not vaccinated is immaterial. The Constitution is not important, is not as important as the suffering and death caused by COVID. That's their argument. That's their only argument. They know it's not constitutional. However, given the horrors of the mass death caused by this disease, we don't need to be bound by constitutional inhibitions. That's their argument. So what do they do? And that's why this is so important, and they always do it. In my book about the left and about America, Still the Best Hope, which, if I could beg you to read one of my books, that's the one I beg you to read aside from from my Bible commentary. That explains everything, in my opinion. My book, Still the Best Hope. That's what turned this young woman at Harvard into a conservative. That book. It's a credit to her that she's open to reading and thinking, but it's how powerful the book is. I know it sounds like an ad. What am I going to do? What am I not going to mention it to you? In the book, I list the modus operandi of the left: hysteria. What you saw on the Supreme Court was Sotomayor engaging in hysteria. What did she say? Here it is verbatim. We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity and people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators. Even Jake Tapper at CNN said that's not true. There are 5,000, and many of them have nothing to do They're not there because of COVID They're there with COVID because of something else. So it was a distortion of 20 times, because if you're on the left, you must believe your hysteria in order— or promoted at least— to enable you to then take the actions that you want to take to control people's lives. That's what it is. Let us, let us lie that there is an existential threat to biological life because of global warming. That is a gigantic lie. It's as big, bigger lie— well, there's no such thing. It's as big a lie as the Sotomayor 100,000 children in hospitals for COVID. Why do they do this? They do this to give them the green light to control your life. If humanity is threatened, then we can crush the economy of the Western world. We can move away from fossil fuel or even natural gas or even nuclear power, which is the cleanest power there is. Because we want to crush the economy of the West and redistribute the wealth of the world and whatever else chaotic ends that the left has in mind. This, this Sotomayor statement is really up there with one of the clearest moments the left was outed By the Sotomayor statement. I believe in things that are not true, and therefore I can do anything, like crush the Constitution. That's the way they look at everything. It is so horrible, you must give us the power to crush your life. As we will with global warming. We must be shut up, we who differ. We must be called every word possible to dismiss us. Their favorite is climate denier. Bjorn Lomborg writes a weekly column on this issue at the Wall Street Journal, done PragerU videos, been on this show multiple times. He doesn't deny the world is getting warmer. However, did you ever hear this, the phrase, the remedy is worse, the cure is worse than the disease? That's what's happening. The Greens are fanatics. It's amazing how few religious fanatics I have encountered in public life in America, but how many secular fanatics I have. I would say that the left almost has a monopoly on fanaticism.

Almost.

Name me a— name me an— who is the right-wing equivalent of the hysteria that I have given to you? What is the right-wing equivalent of hysteria? Can you name one? I can't. I've spent most of my life debunking hysterias. Not engaging in them. And if anything, the left loathes me for minimizing their hysterias. That's really in some way what you could say my life's work is. Listen to this though. So Sotomayor tells this whopping falsehood, really disgraceful, and everybody on the right knows it. Does anybody on the left— Jake Tapper, I played because I, I, if there's ever any hope for the left, I want you to know about it. And did the New York Times report her whopping lie? No, not, not that I can see. In fact, again, I told you last, I told you the last hour that I checked Sotomayor, New York Times, COVID. So all that came up was there are more children, CDC says more children are being hospitalized, as if to defend Sotomayor, never once calling out. So listen to this, what did come up. So here's, so virtually everything that came up, virtually is in fact everything with regard to Sotomayor's statement is from the right wing. Everything. You will learn so much more truth if you follow conservative websites. It is not comparable. And here's a beauty: New York Times skips Sotomayor's whopper about 100,000 kids. Newsbusters. And, uh, And another one, Patriot Daily Press. Even Walensky corrected it. CDC chief corrects Sotomayor's pediatric COVID hospitalization claim. New York Post. CDC chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday was forced to correct U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sonia Sotomayor's dramatically inflated— oh, I like that, that's a good one. Dramatically inflated. I won't say lie. That's a good one. We got to remember that. A DI, a DIC, dramatically inflated claim. I want to thank the New York Post. You've given me a term. Sean, put it down. DIC. Oh, but then I really— it's— can I say— can I pronounce it on the air? Is it one of the 7 forbidden words? I'm sort of in trouble here. Because I'd want to say, you know, that's a dick. Dramatically inflated claim. That's— what do you think I mean? In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Walensky was pressed to confirm there are actually fewer than 3,500 kids with the virus in hospitals. Yeah, Walensky replied. Yeah, this is priceless. This is what you call a smoking gun to the left. And to the left-wing media like the New York Times.

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Biggest and most costly manhunt in US history.

United States killed Osama bin Laden. There are reports surfacing that Al Qaeda has placed a $50,000 US bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs. Nobody's going to survive that.

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This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.

Most of them are U.S. Navy SEALs. We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs. The military threw them away. More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board. Anybody out there? We have a fallen angel.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.

There's one Jewish state.

The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel. Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.

Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?

Don't have no respect.

The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.

Human trafficking. That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help I was under constant attack.

You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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All right, hello. All right, everybody. So just, just in the last few hours, the New York Times, at the very end of a, a third article under COVID news, has the following. Dr. Walensky also clarified confusion over the number of children hospitalized with COVID On Friday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor mistakenly said that 100,000 children with COVID had been admitted to hospitals nationwide. The real number is closer to 3,500, Dr. Walensky said. That's it. There you go. So now the New York Times say, oh, we, we mentioned How many New York Times readers are going to read the end paragraph of the third article under COVID news? And that's it. But, and of course, there's no headline about it. There's no story about it. There's one line about what Dr. Walensky said about what Justice Sotomayor said. Okay, it is what it is, isn't it? No, is it not? Okay, I have a lot to talk to you about. I have a great guest coming up next segment. I have, uh, I've told you one of the terrible realizations of the last 2 years has been the corruption in the medical profession. I have a sort of, not a sort of, I have a saying that I came up with. When doctors became healthcare providers, Americans got sick. That's what they are. They're just, they've reduced themselves to healthcare providers. I would say half this country has less respect for the medical profession than it ever did in their lives. I am one of them. The herd-like, unquestioning, automatonish behavior of doctors with regard to therapeutics has killed an untold number of Americans. I repeat, killed hundreds of thousands according to Dr. Risch at, uh, where is he again, at Yale, the epidemiologist. He believes that doctors, the medical profession, by denying people therapeutics has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. I can't— I don't even— the only argument against it is the therapeutics don't work. But they do work. Doctors are— most doctors are sheep. By the way, the question is, are most everybody sheep? I think more doctors are sheep than lawyers. Let's put it that way. I think you have more independent critical thinking among lawyers than among doctors. They're taught not to think. They're taught to unquestioningly accept directives. And they do. This is very painful for me. I used to say that I like— I liked when I would go to a hospital and, and the expensive cars were predominated in the doctor's section of the parking lot. I want doctors to make a lot of money, I always said. What, what profession would you rather make a lot of money? I've been— I don't even call my own doctors, unless I know them personally, I don't call them by their first name unless they ask me to. I call them doctor. So here's more bad news. White Coats for Black Lives. White coats is people in the healthcare profession, right? A radical socialist organization of doctors and medical students is succeeding in its mission to racialize the practice of medicine, believing that, quote, the dominant medical practice in the United States has been built on the dehumanization and exploitation of Black people. Really? The dominant medical practice in the United States has been built on the dehumanization and exploitation of Black people? Of course, Black, like in the New York Times, capitalized. With at least 75 chapters at medical schools across the country, WC4BL, White Coats for Black Lives, seeks to radically redefine the practice of medicine in the United States states, as it advocated, quote, prioritizing, unquote, Black patients over other patients, and, quote, unlearning toxic medical knowledge and relearning medical care that centers the needs of Black people and communities. Did you know that doctors have been taught toxic medical knowledge? That shows you how deep the infiltration in medicine and medical schools of leftism is. And remember, whatever the left touches, it ruins. Medicine is its next victim. That means you're its next victim because you use medicine. The organization believes, quote, whiteness is an invented political tool created through violence in the service of establishing domination. Whiteness has been historically used as a violent means for stealing lives. Racism, capitalism, and white supremacy are interdependent systems which lead to the particular dehumanization, exploitation, and murder of Black people. Yeah, wow. Capitalism. Get that? Capitalism. Yes, dehumanizes, exploits, and murders Black people. 75 chapters in medical schools around the country. And it's— the article at Breitbart has pictures of these doctors standing and demonstrating for WC4BL, White Coats for Black Lives, which also promotes what appear to be significant medical falsehoods. For example, they seek to deconstruct the falsehood that weight equates to health, including ending the use of BMI. It's a falsehood that weight equates to health, even though What is it? Obesity. It's been the single most direct factor in deaths in COVID, to the best of my knowledge. So according to the left, we should not say to anyone, including Blacks, that obesity might be unhealthy. The group which advocates for, quote, dismantling dominant exploitative systems in the United States, which are largely reliant on anti-Black racism, colonialism, And now, ready for this? There's a new one: cis-hetero patriarchy. For the record, I am a cis-hetero patriarch. Back in a moment.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.

There's one Jewish state.

The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

300,000 Palestinians.

Yes, it is. How do I sound?

In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.

Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?

I don't have no respect.

The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border.

That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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Right, so this has changed in the culture. We now have entire stadiums screaming blank Joe Biden. Right. I actually think that in some measure, this is a sign of health in the country. I don't think you're wrong. In fact, my last column, I talk about a, in essence, what the American people are saying. We're not going to let this abuse continue, even if it's nothing more than using our freedom of speech to say something that's very vulgar and attached attach it to him. We're not taking it anymore.

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Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. David Banson has written a book that I took home. That's how much I value it. And I actually also bought it. I get copies from publishers, so if I buy it in addition on Kindle or on Audible, means I'm very serious about the book. And that is the case here. The book, There's No Free Lunch. And what is the subtitle? Let's see, 250 Economic Truths. So it's a fun thing to read because he cites some great thinkers and then offers a paragraph of his own elucidating the insight. So David Benson is on video with me at Salem News Channel. The app or the salemnewschannel.com so you can see him, and as a bonus, you can see me. David Benson, congratulations.

Well, thank you so much, Dennis. It's wonderful to be with you.

That's very sweet of you to say. When did you get this idea?

I think that it hit pretty hard in 2020 that a lot of the socialistic messages that were being promoted on the Democratic primary stage, which previously would have been considered radical and extreme, were not being considered radical and extreme. And so the mainstreaming of leftist economic ideology— forget the politics— economic worldview that was, in my mind as a student of the 20th century, I considered to be utterly radical was now being mainstreamed, and I didn't think that the economic cogency was there from the right, that too many of us have a good intuition for free enterprise. It just makes sense to us, but maybe what we need now for the next stage of the battle is a little review of the principles, a review of the foundations, bring back the first things that defend the free society. That's why I wrote the book, Dennis.

So here are the topics, folks. I can't even read them all to you. That's the beauty, because there are so many. That's human flourishing, human action, covetousness and class envy, the knowledge problem, value and price discovery, self-interest, government spending and debt, free trade, crony capitalism, minimum wage, creative destruction. That's just a small number. Every page or every few pages has a new topic and then some major quotes by major thinkers about it. Where did you dig up the quotes? That's a lot of work.

It was a lot of work, and every single one of them I dug up myself. And in one of my first interviews, someone said, where did you find the research assistant to help you find these? And I immediately said, oh my gosh, why the hell didn't I hire a research assistant?

Right, exactly.

So no, it was a lot of work. Well, you know, I'm very familiar throughout my adult life as a financial guy. I've been studying Sowell and Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt. I was not the coolest high school kid in the world, so I was reading a lot of these guys in high school. But I went to the masters, and there are, as you see in the book, Adam Smith from the 18th century, David Ricardo from the 19th century, and And then there's still living contemporaries like Art Laffer and Thomas Sowell that are quoted. So we tried to stretch out over about 300 years of classical economics and then apply that and give my own commentary on each section.

This is a question I'm sure you have not been asked, so I'm just going to get it. I know a spontaneous response. If I were to ask 500 New York Times reporters, identify Tom Sowell, how many could?

Maybe one, maybe one, and it wouldn't be positive, but maybe one of them read a review of Sowell that a critic wrote of his, and so they may be be familiar. The better question would be, who is Henry Hazlitt? Because he actually worked for their newspaper for decades, and I don't think New York Times reporters today would even know one of their own great free market thinkers from 50, 60 years ago. That's how bad it's gotten.

Right.

The reason— it's a perfectly legitimate addition to my question. I use Tom Sowell because every conservative knows Tom Sowell and no liberal does. We— the Sotomayor comment, the idiocy of 100,000 kids in hospitals, many on ventilators, that she said at the Supreme Court hearing last week. I've used that as an example of how they don't know anything that we know. And Tom Sowell, until Sotomayor, was my example. Yeah, so we'll be back in a moment. The David Banson book is up at DennisPrager.com. It is about as quick an introduction to economics as I know of. It's a pretty high recommendation. The book is up at DennisPrager.com. It's a lot of fun. Nerve Renew— talking about fun— you will have a lot more fun in life if you get rid of tingling and numbness in your feet or hands. I've had it in my feet much of my my life. About 10 years ago, I, I figured out that I could wear inserts made to order with the mold of my feet, and they were very helpful in reducing the tingling and numbness. Of course, as soon as I take off the shoes, it would resume. Then I read about Nerve Renew, figured what the hell, I'll give it a try. And guess what? I'm glad I continued, because after about 9 months, I threw away the inserts. I've never worn them since. If you have such tingling, numbness, give it a 2-week try for free and a 1-year money-back guarantee. Try NerveRenew.com.

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The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting bills back better killed. Can you explain that to people?

Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew the poll data was clear. What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges, and expand broadband. That was the popular part. And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group, and the president ended up agreeing with that. To deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach. And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach. Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up. I don't expect him to. But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.

It does to as well, and congratulations on that. It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say. I want to turn to senators. They have different career paths. Some are looking down the street at 1600, and some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leaders someday. John Thune's actually been in both positions. I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring. How do you say, say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakota, Leader McConnell?

Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator. He's done a great job as, uh, whip, which is our number 2 position in the Senate. Uh, it would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.

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It was a terrific book, really terrific. I, I have the hardcover. I bought the Kindle, one of the rare times I didn't get the Audible because I want to have it in front of me and available. So on about how many topics, David, did you, did you write on here? Do we have David Manson up, folks? I'm not getting a response here. Always a source of frustration. Did we lose our guest? He thought he was done. Oh, how sad. That's all right. It doesn't matter because I'm going to read to you some examples under private property. So listen to this. So you must understand, you see, my field of study was the left. I studied what was called Communist Affairs at Columbia. They loathe private property. Loathe it. Because the more private property, the more people have liberty and are not controlled by the state. The endgame of leftism, there are two: chaos and power. Those are the two endgames. Men give birth is chaos, and give us more power, that's the state. So here are some examples. If history could teach us anything— this is from Ludwig von Mises— if history could teach us anything, It would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. So David, David Banson, you thought I was leaving you. I think that's adorable, I gotta say. It's very humble on your part. You are worthy of more time.

Well, I appreciate that. It was an authentic instinct.

I totally get it. I'm a big fan of authentic instincts. I am reading some quotes. That's what the book is: subject, quote, subject, quote. It's extremely digestible. And David, you and I are kindred spirits as I read this book. And the private property is the basis of everything. And you, which is very rare, you actually on occasion even invoke God as a God-given right. So here's the proof on, uh, on the property. The very fact that in the Ten Commandments is a commandment, do not steal, means that private property is regarded as a biblical value. Not just biblical, it is one of the 10 great values of civilization. There are two commandments about this, and that's the only thing about which there are two commandments. I've written an extensive commentary on Exodus and Deuteronomy, both of which have the Ten Commandments. The other one is, do not covet not only, you know, your neighbor's wife, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's donkey, but it says, and everything that belongs to your neighbor. Private property is, is central to the Judeo-Christian value system.

And, and the beauty of the way you're wording it is that it is not merely being talked about in a legal construct or even an economic one. A value— private property is a value, right? So the Eighth Commandment prohibiting the theft of private property is almost sort of a precursor to, I think, the magnum opus of the Decalogue in the 10th Commandment when he said, "Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's," including their status, their lot in life, their positioning, and yes, their material possessions. Covetousness is ultimately at the heart of all bad economics.

At the heart of leftism.

It is the desire to have something someone else has because someone else has it, right? And ignoring the creation mandate of Genesis 1 that tells us to cultivate creation.

You know, in that regard, I think you, you would know almost everything that you need to know about a person's outlook on life if you just ask them this: does it bother you that there are people who make more money than you. I have to say, I didn't even know that sentiment existed until I studied it at college. And I grew up totally non-rich. I mean, I wasn't impoverished. I always say middle of the middle class, which I could prove because my father owned an Oldsmobile, which is in the middle of the GM hierarchy of Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet. So we were— we had an Oldsmobile. We couldn't afford a Buick. But it never occurred to anyone— my father, who philosophized constantly, never said he resented the neighbor who— literally, our neighbor had a Cadillac, a new one every year. It never occurred to us. Private property Is the essence of liberty. Just for that alone, you should get his book. I'm talking about you, by the way. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you provide the sources?

Well, that's a great question. I do think that would have been a lot more laborious, and so maybe it was to reduce my own labor intensity. But, um, also I, um, didn't want, uh, all the work to be done for people. I want people to now go and use Google or their own search engine of choice to find a bit more material, to explore deeper. And I wrote in the conclusion of the book, if we've whetted your appetite here with these principles, now it's time to go deeper. But I wanted this to kind of focus on the basics. And so— and plus, it was not found in simple places that would be easily footnotable. Some of these are from lectures, some of them are from published books, some are from obscure articles. And so it was such a diverse set of sources that I like the way we did it better.

Fair enough. Anyway, I— it's obvious to my listeners how much I recommend it. So, David Banson, it's a pleasure to meet you. And thank you for your book.

Well, Dennis, thanks so much for having me on. And I think this time really is goodbye.

That's right.

And thank you. For focusing on the private property element. That's something I love, the idea of people understanding.

That's right. Bless you. That's it, folks. Uh, not it. That's it, meaning that's it. Private property, that's it. We continue, but private property, that's it.

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The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

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That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

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This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

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I was talking to you prior to David Banson and his book, There Are No Free Lunches, is up— There's No Free Lunch is up at DennisPrager.com. White Coats for Black Lives, the left-wing Radical left-wing socialist organization of doctors and medical students, 75 chapters at medical schools across the country. So listen to more of what they stand for. Black people in the U.S. have higher rates of hypertension not due to inherent vulnerability or personal behavior, but because of systemic oppression. The professionalization of the medical field field has been part of the violence used to oust women and femme healers, particularly Black women. So there shouldn't be a professionalization of the medical field? The power and prestige given to medical doctors in the U.S. today is not a direct result of scientific advancement or service to the larger community. This is, this is suicide. These are doctors who are, who are engaged in homicide and suicide. They're killing themselves and they're killing their profession. Really? The power and prestige given to medical doctors is not a direct result of scientific advancement? Wow. Rather but the intentional and often violent consolidation of power. Columbia University, which, which is in competition with Yale and the University of Pennsylvania for scraping the bottom of the barrel morally and intellectually, their, the Vigellos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Medical American Medical School Anti-Racism Task Force cites White Coats for Black Lives as a major contributor in their, quote, action plan for anti-racism in medical education. The Association of American Medical Colleges cites WC4BL White Coats for Black Lives as inspiration for, quote, creating action to eliminate racism in medical education guide. Really, there's racism in medical education? How exactly? You, you never quite hear the details on this. You always hear the accusation. Everything the left touches, it ruins. Next, medicine. We return.

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You have Attorney Binger pick up an AR-15.

Oh my God. Yeah.

And just decide with the thing you have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.

What is he pointing at?

Is he threatening the jury?

Pretty much.

He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney. This is your gun, right? That's my rifle. Yeah, that is yours, right? That we're having destroyed right now. We don't want anything to do with that. So I looked at Cory, and I said, Cory, that's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded, treat a gun like it's loaded.

And he points it at the jury.

Exactly.

I think at that point I said, all right, they're freaking out. I mean, they got nothing left.

So there's this video that the FBI had in their archives 14 months. It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it HD. You know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because— and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level, right? Because it's handheld. So, and of course Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't, and he's beating himself up over that. But you know, it happens in the heat of the moment that this thing is above looking down, sees the whole thing. You can actually see the anger and just, just, you know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you that I don't think you show that face to anybody. That they would think that this guy, let alone threatened to kill them twice that night, right, right, that he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.

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This is Carol Platt-Liebow for townhall.com. China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing. This should concern all of us. That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms. Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgen. That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration. Fulgent even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure. I'll bet. What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgent. The question is why.

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America, if anybody wants But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering half a billion pills 2 months ago before COVID hit here.

But we're nearly 2 years into this pandemic. You're a year into the presidency. Empty shelves and no test kits in some places 3 days before Christmas when it's so important. Is that good enough?

No, nothing's been good enough. But look, we are When last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer vaccinated people, vaccinated emergency rooms were filled.

Well, uh, Mr. President, yes, I would have to agree with you on that. For once, there's something you and I agree on. Nothing has been good enough.

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The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed. Can you explain that to people?

Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew the poll data was clear what was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges, and expand broadband. That was the popular part. And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group, and the president ended up agreeing with that, to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach. And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach. Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up. I don't expect him to. But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.

It does to me as well. And congratulations on that. It's, uh, it was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to to say. I want to turn to senators. They have different career paths. Some are looking down the street at 1600 and some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday. John Thune's actually been in both positions. I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring. How do you say say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakota, Leader McConnell?

Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator. He's done a great job. As, uh, whip, which is our number 2 position in the Senate. Uh, it would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, hour number 3 of my 3-hour show. Oh, there goes the theme. Bye-bye theme. And it's gone. Well done, Sean. You got the orchestra to really mute by the end. So I, I was reading to you about this radical organization in 75 medical schools called White Coats for Black Lives, who claim, for example, that the power and prestige given to medical doctors in the US today is not a direct result of scientific achievement or service to the larger community. Rather, it's the result of, quote, intentional and often violent consolidation of power. Yes, you doctors, you only have prestige because you violently took power. They cite this group at Columbia University's medical school, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. So I decided to look up Columbia's medical school. Like everything else at Columbia, this is corrupted. Columbia is one of the leaders in woke suppression and suppression of dissent. So they have just appointed a new head of the Columbia Medical School, Katrina Armstrong. So I read about it, and I just want to read you one line, because if you want to know whether you could take a a media outlet or an institution seriously, here is an instant giveaway: if they say Latinx or Latinx, L-A-T-I-N-X. Latinos have been actually assessed on their views on this. There's opinion polls. Most of them have no use for the term and never use it. I don't know how many Latinos even ever say Latinx.

Right?

By the way, do we do it with Mexicano? Mexicánix? Sounds like a mechanic's. Mexicanics? Anything that ends in O, I guess. Ohioics. The citizens of Ohio are Ohioics. So here it is from Columbia University's description of the new head of Columbia University Medical School. Her work is focused on cancer risk and prevention in in Black and Latinx patients, examined racial inequities in genetic testing and neonatal care, and analyzed the roles that segregation, discrimination, and distrust play in the health of marginalized populations. That's the new head of Columbia Medical School. Her most recent investigations have looked at disparities in rural areas and include partnerships with Lakota tribal communities and organizations in western South Dakota. Okay, there you go. Latinks. Columbia. Columbia is fraudulent on one overwhelming thing. Obviously, they condemn Columbus Day, but they keep the name Columbia, named after— guess whom? Columbus. That's why it's not spelled C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A. That's a country. This is named after Columbus. C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A. We're in trouble. We are definitely in trouble. Medicine: White Coats for Black Lives. Ask your doctor. It's painful to do this. Ask your doctor if he thinks that the prestige of the medical profession is due to intentional and often violent consolidation of power. He'll probably go, what? Or she'll go, what? But if they're much younger, if you got a young doctor, they'll go, that's right. There's a 50-50 chance they'll go, that's right. CNN has a piece, The Pope is Wrong: Choosing to Have Few or No Children Is the Opposite of Selfish, by Alistair Curry. Pope Francis's comments this week that couples opting for pets instead of children were acting selfishly has reinvigorated an important and timely debate about the future of our species. The pontiff's comments, however, are wholly wrong. By the way, it takes a lot for me to defend this Pope, but when he's right, he's right. So he— this Alistair Curry then quotes the Pope, quote: Today we see a form of selfishness. We see that people do not want to have children, or just one, or no more and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they just have one, but they have two dogs, two cats. Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children. The Pope told an audience at the Vatican Wednesday. This denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes, diminishes us. It takes away our humanity, he added. So this guy writes here, the, the Pope's suggestion that That failing to have children is selfish is far from the truth. Especially for those of us living in countries with a large environmental footprint, the choice to have a small family or no human family at all is one that helps everyone. Yes, particularly children. Whose future depends on a more sustainable planet. Additionally, a person's value— okay, I'll go to that in a moment. So here he is. I have great applause for all these left-wing crackpots, and it is— these are crackpots. Don't have children because the world is not going to be sustainable because of global warming. That you have to be a crackpot crackpot to believe that. But I don't want crackpots to have children. So it is a wonderful thing that this guy at CNN advocates people not have children who believe in global warming will destroy the world. I mean, to have fewer crackpots is a blessing. So I, I, I shouldn't even take issue with the guy. I should have every young leftist read this. Don't have children. Don't perpetuate leftism. On the other hand, I pity these young people hearing adults whom they intrinsically trust. Despite the idiocy of my generation's statement, never trust anyone over 30, kids instinctively trust adults. They assume they know what they're talking about. So that's number one. It's not selfish, it's altruistic not to have children. And, and they believe that. And by the way, if that is the belief— having children is a, is a curse on the earth because it's more people to pollute the world— okay, it makes sense. Additionally, this CNN writer writes, a person's value, moral standing, and character is not defined by parenthood. That is correct. The Pope didn't say it did. He simply said that opting for cats or dogs over children is selfish. Well, what do you think it is? You, you listening, is it noble? It's much easier not to have children. Of course that's true. Was this guy denying that 2 and 2 is 4? Well, that is racist. 2 and 2 is 4. Ask the Oregon Education Department. Oh, see, showing love for animals is surely something that enhances and demonstrates our humanity. Really? Whoa, that's not true. And I've got dogs and a cat and two giant tortoises, but that's not true, and I'll tell you why.

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We understand that a plane has crashed.

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Biggest and most costly manhunt in US history.

United States killed Osama bin Laden. There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has has placed a $50,000 US bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs. Nobody's going to survive that.

There's nobody in that.

This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.

Most of them are US Navy SEALs.

We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs. The military threw them away. More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board. Everybody out there, we have a fallen angel.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.

There's one Jewish state.

The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say the I believe that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.

Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?

Don't have no respect.

The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. Human trafficking.

That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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Yes, sir. Uh, let me preface what I'm about to say by saying I'm a faithful listener. I value your opinion. You're a man of credibility. I believe you are a truth seeker, and you're infinitely more intelligent than I am. But earlier in the show, you made a couple statements. One, you that, uh, money is not the root of all evil, and that's correct, it's not. He went on to say that, um, that lies are the root of all evil. That's incorrect. And because the word of God says, and, and the word of God is truth, uh, 1 Timothy 6:10, it says the love of money is the root of all evil. And most people misquote that.

I heard that my whole life, right? They always drop the love of evil. You're right, they always drop the love of. They always drop the love of. Yes, right.

Yes, sir.

Right. So thank you. I even— all right, go on.

I just want to say, I just want to clear that up because you've got a ton of listeners.

Yes. No, no, it's very fair and I thank you. That's why I take your call whenever I see any correction or disagreement, as you all know, I go first. So I even said I don't believe that love of money is the root of all— and so you'll say, yeah, but it says it in the Bible, specifically the New Testament, I understand that. The love of money, I believe that if you'd have asked the biblical writer, hey, let me ask you a question. What do you think causes more evil, lies or love of money? I strongly suspect he'd say, you know what, they're probably tied for first. I totally respect that biblical statement. Remember though, the same New Testament says that the truth shall set you free. Not— not— doesn't say not loving money will set you free. It says the truth will set you free. So I think, as the author of a Bible commentary— I'm on to my 4th volume— I can tell you that we have to give We have to take the Bible extremely seriously, and that means applying its own values.

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America, if anybody wants it. But, um, the answer is yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering 500 million pills 2 months ago before COVID hit here.

But we're nearly 2 years into this pandemic. You're a year into the presidency. Empty shelves and no test kits gets in some places 3 days before Christmas when it's so important. Is that good enough?

No, nothing's been good enough.

But look, we are—

when last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer vaccinated people, vaccinated emergency rooms were filled.

Well, Mr. President, yes, I would have to agree with you on that. For once, there's something you and I agree on— nothing has been good enough.

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The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed. Can you explain that to people?

Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew the poll data was clear. What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges, and expand broadband. That was the popular part. And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together about bipartisan group. The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach. And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach. Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up. I don't expect him to. But the worst BBB, it appears to me, is dead.

It does to me as well, and congratulations on that. It's, uh, it was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say. I want to turn to, uh, to senators. They have different career paths. Uh, some are looking down the street at 1600, and some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday. John Thune's actually been in both positions. I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.

Retiring.

How do you say say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?

Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator. He's done a great job as, uh, whip, which is our number 2 position in the Senate. Uh, it would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.

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So I just got word that Justice Gorsuch never said that the flu kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, which was widely disseminated on the left, but they did not disseminate virtually at all Sonia Sotomayor's horrible distortion of reality. '100,000 kids in hospitals.' '3,500 are.' And they're not even all because of COVID They're there for whatever reason and have COVID. Turns out he never said that. He said— he didn't say 'hundreds of thousands have died of flu.' He said 'hundreds of thousands die of flu.' Big difference between hundreds of thousands and hundreds, comma, thousands. The Supreme Court has updated it based on listening again. The transcriber got it wrong. Be interesting to see if that's reported in all the places that misreported, not intentionally, but misreported originally what Gorsuch said. He made a— it seems to me he made a pretty powerful point. He said, the flu kills, I believe, hundreds, thousands of people every year. OSHA's never purported to regulate on that basis. Yeah, that's right. Why didn't we have that? Or polio. Why wasn't that mandated? You don't take a polio vaccine, you don't— you lose your job. We're living in an evil thing that I predicted 2 years ago, April 2020. Read it. You could see all 1,000 of my columns over the last 20 years. April 2020. I wrote dress rehearsal for a police state right after the lockdowns began. I realized what was happening in Europe, what is happening. And then I said that on Newsmax— this went viral— because I had the audacity to say, you know, as terrible as gays were treated in the beginning of the AIDS crisis, the bigger pariahs today are the unvaccinated. So of course the, uh, the usual guys on the left erupted because you can never have non-left-wing victims. It doesn't exist. They, they must have a monopoly on all suffering. That's their view, because truth is not a left-wing value. But there's no comparison. Of course, this is the unvaccinated. You can't enter any public domain in Europe— not a restaurant, not a cafe, not a bar, not a movie theater, not a school, nothing. You have to stay home. You can't gather with other people. You can't fly. You can't travel. This is what is happening in virtually every European country. It's happening increasingly in Canada, our embarrassing, freedom-crushing neighbor to the north. That they, that they elected this guy Trudeau enough for another term when the whole issue was freedom in Canada. There's nothing you can't get people to do if you, if you don't, if, if you don't frighten them enough, or if you— excuse me, if you frighten them enough. There's nothing. I am convinced of it. Frighten people enough and they will do anything. They will wreck their own lives, let alone others' lives, if you get them scared enough. And the left knows this. Tell me, what do we on the right scare people about in large numbers? Tell me. The only thing I scare people about is the left, because everywhere the left has taken power, it has crushed human beings. There is no exception to it, and they certainly— everywhere that they have taken power, they have destroyed dissent. That's my fear. I don't fear COVID. I don't fear global warming. I fear the left. Okay, that's the, uh, it's a very, uh, very interesting A very interesting question. I've said this decades ago: list what people fear and you immediately know where they stand on virtually any issue. ReliefFactor.com, or call them at 800-583-84. By the way, it's worth visiting their website to read how it has affected people. These are legitimate accurate transcripts, or not even transcripts, they're actually what people wrote in. It's a magnificent product. I take it for whatever pain you might have other than nerve pain. I doesn't— I don't know what works on nerve pain, but any muscle pain, joint pain, takes 3 weeks to know if it works. That's their claim. If it doesn't work in 3 weeks, probably won't work. Cancel your order. Try for 3 weeks for $19.95 at relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384.

This is Carol Platt-Liebauer for Townhall.com. China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing. This should concern all of us. That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms. Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Fulgent. That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration. Fulgent even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure. I'll bet. What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgen. The question is why.

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America, if anybody wants it. But, um, the answer is yeah, I wish I had thought about or ordering half a billion pills 2 months ago before COVID hit here.

But we're nearly 2 years into this pandemic. You're a year into the presidency. Empty shelves and no test kits in some places 3 days before Christmas when it's so important. Is that good enough?

No, nothing's been good enough.

But look, we are—

when last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significant typically fewer vaccinated people. Vaccinated emergency rooms were filled.

Well, uh, Mr. President, yes, I would have to agree with you on that. For once, there's something you and I agree on. Nothing has been good enough.

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Hi everybody. What was that? What were those last words before "I'm already gone"? Bye-bye, I'm already gone. This guy leaving his lover. What is the story here? No, I'm not kidding. Is that— is that the lyrics? What are they about? You don't know what they mean, so why'd you play it? I mean, I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just curious. No answer. I hear nothing in my earphones. I think you should look it up. Yes, I do. I want to know why he said bye-bye. Listen to this headline at ABC News. Ready? Today, 2 hours ago. COVID live updates: US hospitalizations reach record high. Okay, if you go down to the 1, 2, 3, 4th paragraph, guess what you read? It's not clear how many of these patients were admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and how many people tested positive for the virus and after they were admitted for other reasons. Okay, just thought I'd share that with you. By the way, that's also true about the number of deaths that are attributed to COVID. We don't know how many— we really don't. I don't even know if it'll ever be known how many died of COVID and how many died with COVID Not the same thing, correct? Not, not even comparable. By the way, as many on the right have noted— people on the left who love truth would note it, but they don't generally love truth— Omicron might turn out to be a blessing. We might finally get the herd immunity we've needed the whole time. At very little cost, since so few people die of Omicron. By the way, the article notes that it's particularly unfortunate, the number of people in hospitals, given the staff shortages. So what is the answer of the left to staff shortages in hospitals? Fire more staff. Isn't that brilliant? I mean, I gotta tell you, that is really thinking what's good for people. So for 2 years, these people have not been vaccinated. Have they been killing people? Why will you fire nurses and doctors who refuse to be vaccinated? What have they done in the last 2 years? Have they been a source of death? Of course not. So what is this about? By the way, that's a very tough question to answer. What is this about in Europe and the United States? It is a combination of paranoia and love of control. And the more it goes on, the more we set precedents. I can't think of a more important Supreme Court decision in the last half century than the one that is before the Supreme Court now. If a damn federal agency can tell people that they must lose their jobs because they didn't do something OSHA wants, this is the precedent for doing it anytime they want. So you'll say, well, 800,000 Americans died of COVID Of it, which is not true. We don't know how many, as I pointed out. With COVID or of COVID is not the same thing. But let us say 200,000. Can OSHA then tell employers, fire everyone who doesn't get a vaccination? 100,000? 50,000?

What?

Once you open the gates to anything, the, the barn door open, the animals will rush out. It's just the way it works in life. Everything bad needs a precedent. Okay, let's see here. Uh, okay. Paul in Phoenix, Arizona. Hello, Dennis.

Thanks for taking my call. My question very simply is, is there a correlation between the number of entitlements our government gives to people, if you will, and the easier it is to instill fear in them if you threaten to take it away.

And how do you see the connection?

In Canada, they have national healthcare as a case in point, and if you take that away or risk them losing a job which helps them pay for those benefits, it's easier to turn the wrench and manipulate the person or the the, uh, the peoples.

Well, that's very true, but it's not even— yes, it's a legitimate fear. The more the government controls of my life, the more I can lose it. That's a— that's right, that's a legitimate fear. So I might add that I have another fear, but it's the same as fearing the left. Since I don't trust human nature, I don't want people with a lot of power. The founders, the giants that they were, understood the flawed human nature. They understood you don't give people a lot of power. You give them as little power as possible. The only country in the history of the world to be founded on limited government. That is why America is the outlier in the Western world with regard to the freedoms under COVID. Britain keeps oscillating. We are not a free country. We are the least free we have been in our history, but we are freer than Western European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There are no free lunches is so important. You think you get stuff from the government for free? The more you get for free, the more they control you.

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There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.

There's one Jewish state.

The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.

They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.

As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to of the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.

300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.

In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.

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The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.

Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?

Don't have no respect.

The old wall is randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.

That journey is extremely dangerous.

The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.

A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported illegally twice.

This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.

We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.

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Judge Thomas, do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.

So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?

I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.

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Yep, indeed. Hello everybody. By the way, Myra in Beverly Hills, how do we know vaccines work at all? That's her call. I looked at it and I looked at it and I looked at it and I thought, that's a good question. You mean these vaccines, obviously. Uh, take a challenge here from Dave in Detroit. Thank you for calling, Dave.

Hello?

Hello?

Yeah, hey, um, you asked, uh, what conservatives have scared people about, right? And, um, I had a whole list of things for you. Communism during the Cold War, we scared them about. Um, radical Islamic terrorism after 9/11. I remember a couple years ago, several years ago, when the suggestion was first made to let transgenders into women's bathrooms, we said that, um, that they— that that would result in sexual— sexual predators would take advantage of that. So there's a whole list of things that we've—

All right, so let me ask you a question. Was communism unworthy of being scared of?

No, it was absolutely worthy. That's the whole point I'm making.

Oh no. Okay, then, then you know what? I realized I was not clear. I should have said, I should have said that the, the left makes you scared of things unworthy of being scared of. And right, and I didn't. So thank you for— that's a very helpful thing because everybody with a— who thinks at all clearly knows communism was extremely scary. Communism slaughtered about 80 million people. And deprived billions of freedom. Islamic terror— just, just look at what happened in the Middle East wherever they took over. The beheadings and the torture and the mass rapes. So yes, so, so that's, uh, that's true. I'm proud of the things that the right is scared of. Okay, good. I appreciate that. Yeah, bye-bye, I'm gone. What is it about? It's about getting things done in this life before it's too late. You're kidding me. When, when was it written? Yeah, when? Yeah, I'm very curious because that, that's, that's That's a good one. I, I think that's a good message. All right, fair enough. Yes, my friends, that's why it's worthy. It's worthy to make a list what Democrats are scared of and what Republicans are scared of and see which is worthy. Oh, by the way, the transgender bathroom is not the big issue, but how about two other things? Confusing children children, telling them they'll choose their gender and women's sports. See you tomorrow.