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Really? Did they tell the truth about the president that day, January 6th, saying go peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol? Of course not. They dropped that line from their, from their film. Did they tell you the truth that Democratic governors and mayors watched their cities burn down by leftists a good part of the year 2020? And they have the audacity to speak about commitment to truth. These are the people who support the suppression of voices that could save your lives. Doctors who advocate, for example, ivermectin, which doesn't bring in any money to the pharmaceutical companies and those who make money through them. And he has the audacity. There's a sick soul speaking now named Raskin. That's all I could say. I don't— I don't almost ever call people names, but when you invert the truth and believe what you're saying, there's something sick in your soul. And this is what the country is supposed to be paying attention to. Do you realize that It is now more than 4 years that hysteria has governed a country that should simply be at peace with itself. So much was going well thanks to, yes, thanks to, yes, Donald Trump. You can loathe the man all you like. The question is not whether you loathe Donald Trump. It is of no interest to me. It is an act of narcissism to say, "Oh, I know he did a lot of good, but I can't stand him." I don't care what you can stand, and you don't care what I can stand. We should all care about what does good for America. If more Americans have the dignity of work than ever before, that's good, even if you don't like the man who made that possible. Why is that not elementary morality? Why? It's these, the Never Trumpers, erstwhile Republicans who just can't stand the man. You think I care who you can stand or not? Why should anyone care about your feelings about a person? Since when does that trump the good that the person you loathe has done? It's beyond belief. I don't know what their endgame is here. It might be to further create a police state for the first time in American history, that we have an Al-Qaeda-type enemy in our midst, the white supremacist terrorist. Really, we do? Is that not a lie, Democratic Party, that we have this enemy, this gigantic overthrow America group called white supremacists? And this Jamie Raskin has the audacity to tell us that democracy stands on truth. That's what his father told him. I can't blame his father for how his son turned out, but he did get the message clearly. I would like to know how he was raised politically. Was he, was he raised anti-American? To think that America is just a vile racist pigsty, which is what the Democratic Party's general view of America is. Don't know. Be very curious. People say often, so Dennis, if you could pick anybody to have lunch with or dinner or a cigar, and I don't really have an answer because I I prefer to have that with people I know, my friends. Right now, my answer, however, would be Jamie Raskin's father. If I could have dinner— he'd have to be resurrected, but nevertheless— if I could have dinner with anybody, it would be Jamie Raskin's father. And I'd like to know, are you proud of your son? Is that how you raise it? I would— I would— it would be only questions. There would be no vitriol, no attacks, nothing. This is what he's devoting his life to, a lie. They don't even show— this is amazing. They, they put up— and we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. That means, that means, uh, you have to go in and invade the Capitol? Was that really— even though he tells them to go peacefully, which they never cite? Do you know how many— do you know that Nancy Pelosi— where did I see this, on Fox News? I saw it on the internet, and it's verified. It's a Nancy Pelosi tweet. She tweeted out her support what was it, 2011? She tweeted out her support for the people who took over the Wisconsin State Capitol for months, not for hours, for months. You know why she's not called on it? Because the press is in with the Democratic Party. Pravda supported the Communist Party and all it stood for. The New York Times supports the Democratic Party and all it stands for. Your newspaper is likely an organ of the Democratic Party. Tell me where they differ. Can you name one area where they differ? Hmm, it's a trick question, is it not? My God, that is so ironic. I came up with that and then I see it on my computer. Bless my— bless my dear producer. Flashback: Nancy Pelosi praised unionists storming Wisconsin State Capitol. That's right. Now here was her tweet. What's the date on it? 2011. I was right. February 17th. Wow, look at that. We have the anniversary of her support of the takeover in a week. I stand with the students and workers of #WI Wisconsin. Impressive show of democracy in action. #SolidarityWI. She tweeted out again March 9th, tonight, hashtag WI GOP showed their true aim, undermining workers' rights, because they insisted on their leaving a month later. I continue to stand in solidarity with hashtag W.I. Union. That's pretty powerful, is it not? So it's okay if you take over a place and you're a leftist and you take over the Capitol for months, but if you do it for 2, 3 hours, then you're an insurrectionist. And this guy Raskin, who, who was a a rebuke to the belief that democracy produces good leaders. But nobody, nobody actually contends that that's a general rule. Churchill was right: democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. Wonder what, what would he say to the Pelosi tweet? Answer: no one in the press will ask him. That's the beauty of having the press as part of your party. You don't get asked such questions. Why was it okay for leftists to take over the Wisconsin State Capitol for months and be supported by Nancy Pelosi, but, but right-wingers taking over the U.S. Capitol for hours, that's an insurrection, even though it was condemned by every leading Republican within an hour or two. The moral state of America circa 2021. 1-8-Prager-776.

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We've got to open up our schools. We've got to let our kids get an education again. Lori Lightfoot furious, it seems, with the Chicago Teachers Union. So listen to Trey Gowdy's monologue last night on Fox News recounting a story and tying it together with his wife, who apparently is an educator, and what's happening in cities like Chicago right now.

I want you to keep this dichotomy in your mind. The image of a young boy walking to school for hours, getting in the car with a stranger because he understood the power of education to change his life. And now contrast that with the image of those dancing teachers in Chicago. That child knew the power of education and being in school. I wish the teachers in Chicago knew as much as he did.

That's powerful, and he's right. He's right. 800-655-MIKE, let's get your reaction. Here's the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot begging the Chicago teachers, please go back to work.

And as the expression goes, the proof is in the pudding. CPS had 3 weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools. That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring. And also remember, the CPS staff and principals have been in our schools throughout this pandemic feeding our kids, getting them ready for the return of students, and continuing the hard work every single day.

And what are the Chicago teachers doing? They're making dancing videos. They're by themselves on Zoom dancing.

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This is Albert Mohler for townhall.com. The American experiment is founded upon a presupposition, a prior commitment to an ordered liberty, an established order. That means policies. It means a covenant. In our case, it means a Constitution. As of right now, the U.S. Constitution is the longest surviving written Constitution in human history. It's a remarkable document. All of that came to the fore in violent events that interrupted the joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. At the end of the day, our constitutional order proved itself once again resilient. But that doesn't take away any of the tragedy and the horror of what took place. It was an enormous stress test on ordered liberty, a stress test brought on by the President of the United States.

We will never We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's death involved.

It's an opportunity for the right, the left, conservatives, liberals, all Americans to repudiate political violence and reaffirm once again our commitment to ordered liberty. It's the American way. I'm Albert Mohler.

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I think the Lincoln Project is specifically a smear campaign to break down what we might call Trumpism, what we, I think, could be better called MAGA, Make America Great Again. If you want to, I know it's your show, so if you want to call it America First, I suppose that's fine too. MAGA, I think, is probably most appropriate though, which is this kind of not national nationalistic but nationistic idea that people should be able to have nations that are sovereign, not subject to supranational entities. It's not like, "Rah, rah, rah, USA, USA," although if people want to feel that way about their country, more power to them. But that's not the point. Poland should be able to be Poland. France should be able to be France. The UK should be able to be the UK, and so on. And it's a broader philosophy in that regard.

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Hi everybody, 1-800-PRAGER-776. Here is a story that you will find as interesting as I do. From the Daily Mail: Out-of-control woke leftism from the United States is a threat to France because it, quote unquote, attacks the nation's heritage and identity, French politicians and intellectuals say. Prominent intellectuals and academics in France— France— have voiced concern that out-of-control leftism— this is not from a left-wing source, say the least— and cancel culture from the United States is threatening French identity. They are arguing that American ideas on race, gender, post-colonialism, especially those coming from U.S. universities, are undermining French society and are an attack on French heritage. Well, I would presume the American left would regard France as a white supremacist society, just like the United States. Think about its colonialism in Africa and elsewhere, non-white people. The collection of intellectuals arguing that France is being contaminated by the leftism of America Again, the source is the Daily Mail. Was buoyed on last year after French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to side with them. In a speech in October on the, quote, fight against separatism, unquote, Macron warned against leaving the intellectual debate to others as he cautioned of the certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States. The left poisons everything it touches, and that includes other countries, obviously. His education minister, Jean-Michel Bianquet— oh, Blanquet, excuse me— also warned in October that there is, quote, a battle to wage against intellectual matrix. From American universities. The debate came to a head this week after the new director of the Paris Opera, Alexander Neef, released a 66-page report on diversity at the Paris Opera in which he vowed to diversify staff and to ban blackface. It came after 5 black members of the ballet company circulated an open letter among the Paris Opera's 1,800 employees last summer calling for greater diversity. Neff was targeted for the decision by far-right leader Marine Le Pen and by French newspaper Le Monde, which said he, quote, soaked up American culture for 10 years while he worked in Toronto. That's interesting that Le Monde even attacked the head of the French Opera. Le Monde is at the very least liberal. It has the prestige in France that the New York Times undeservedly has in the United States. This month also saw the publication of a book by social scientists Stéphane Beaud and Gérard Noiriel in which they claimed that race is a bulldozer. That destroys other subjects. They added to the New York Times that they did not believe race should not be studied as an academic subject in France, as the secular government does not recognize it. It follows tension over protests against police violence last summer in France, sparked as they were in the U.S. by the death in police custody of George Floyd. By the way, You can tell whether a writer cares about truth or not in the way they describe the death of George Floyd. If they say murdered, they are abusing the term journalist. They don't know at all that he was murdered. They don't even know that he was killed by the officer, and they certainly don't know that his death, if he was killed, was caused by racism. So they correctly put it, death in police— the death in police custody of George Floyd. Well, this is a very interesting article that they feel that the poison is coming from the American West. Historian Pierre-André Taguieff argued that the American-style Black question was a totally artificial importation to France. He said it was all driven— ready? Are you ready? I have a smile that a French intellectual would say this. It was all driven by hatred of the West as a white civilization. That's correct. It's hatred of the West. That's correct. Hey hey ho ho, Western Civ has got to go. Jesse Jackson, 30 years ago or so, marching at Stanford with other leftists. Straight white male, that's the culprit to condemn and the enemy to eliminate. This is from a French professor in France. It's, uh, I have said now for some time that it's a phenomenon. It's the English-speaking countries that are sickest. I don't know the reason. I don't. I, I hate not knowing the reason. That's my big passion, is to understand why. Why, why Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States have more suppression of free speech than other Western countries? Why is that? People could be jailed. People were imprisoned for being on the, on the Capitol lawn. People have their house invaded by armed FBI agents for being at the Capitol? Did this happen to any of the Antifa or BLM rioters? Any? I, I have a call here. It says, there is no reason to fight, it's over, what are you fighting for? I'm going to take that call. I will tell you in advance my answer: Normandy. Normandy Beach. I am going to opt out of fighting for America and liberty after seeing these guys' graves at Normandy Beach? What am I— what are you gonna do, sit home and stream Netflix? What are you going to do if you don't fight? What a disappointing answer. Okay, things are tough, won't fight. When do you fight? When things are good? I already told the man the answer, so he now has 3 minutes, 4 minutes to prepare. I'm Dennis Prager.

This is Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. The Biden administration announced in their first week that the U.S. is rejoining the World Health Organization. But the WHO is a flawed group, one that has performed poorly while the world has struggled with COVID-19. Early on, the group was far too deferential to China, even parroting Beijing's early claim that the virus could not be transmitted between humans. Since then, an independent panel concluded that the WHO dithered in its response, waiting too long to declare an international emergency. All the while, the WHO has continued to block Taiwan's participation because of political objections from the Chinese government, despite the fact that the world has much to learn from Taiwan's exceptional response to the virus. Before rejoining the WHO, we should have demanded some accountability and reform from the group for the $400 million in taxpayer dollars we send to it each year. It looks like we'll keep on writing blank checks to the WHO, which they are more than happy to keep cashing. I'm Lon Heaton.

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This is now a playbook. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. This is not something where they just are going to disassemble this. This is how they're going to do it from this point forward. So what are the big takeaways? Number one, the left is just now realizing how much power they really have over us. I think they're still learning how to use that power. Number 2, the left is willing at almost all costs to sacrifice truth for power. Number 3, persuasion means very little when the other side is actually concerned of how the election is going to be conducted. You know, we joked around throughout the last couple of the first couple of weeks after early November after the election, we said it doesn't matter how people vote, it matters who counts the votes. Remember we joked about that? Well, they say here in Podhorzer's presentations, winning the vote was only the first step to winning the election. After that came winning the count. Winning the count. Can you believe it? Not just what people think, but actually how the votes are counted. Winning the certification, winning the Electoral College, and winning the transition. This is now going to be how they will handle every single election from this point forward.

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You notice the figure $1.9 trillion just kind of rolls off the tongue. Now keep in mind, this is the administration that said they wanted to unify the country. There had to be healing. There's going to be bipartisanship. And you know, it was all horse and did the same thing that the Obama administration did. The Obama administration came in, remember all their healthcare plans, and the Republicans, uh, Ryan wanted to meet him halfway and had all sorts of ideas, and Obama says, dude, dude, uh, we won the election, you lost. So, uh, we ran on Obamacare and we're going to do Obamacare, so just sit down and, uh, and watch how we work. Same thing here. Not a single Republican buying in on $1.9 trillion. $1.9 trillion used to sound like a lot of money, but you know who said something about it being excessive and likely to ignite inflation like we've never seen before? Larry Summers.

You remember Larry Summers, the former Hi all, I'm Dennis Prager, and it's very rare that I answer a call before I take it, but I did in this case. Hello, James in Burbank, California.

Hey Dennis, well, I— maybe I was— came on too strong with that, but I'll try to be as concise as I can. And you bring up the Normandy thing all the time, which I understand, and I served my country. I was in the infantry. I love my country more than anything. But what do you— are you going to spend the next 4 years yelling about what Biden, the Democrats do, it's over. How are you going to come back from more than two genders? How are you going to come back from those kinds of behaviors that now there's gay marriage, now there's 25 different genders? By you fighting, what do you think is going to happen? You think it's going to go back to just male and female only, that just transgender people can't race against women? You think you're going to fight and come back from that? You can't fight that. It's, it's just like that, the Japanese soldier in World War II that lived in the Philippines for 30 years. He wouldn't give up. What if the South— they always say the South will rise again after the Civil War. It was over. The South lost. People didn't like it. What about the Germans or the Italians in World War II that wanted them to win? Don't give up. Don't give up. Keep fighting. It's over. They lost. Now you have to make the best of the situation that we're in now, which isn't going to be the America that we had before. So Fighting for what was the quote unquote norm 5, 10 years ago, that's over. So to fight for that, it's like a waste of your time. And I think you should maybe move on from some of the politics that you talk about and make it more about, you know, the male-female hour, more what we can do for each other as opposed to the big picture. Because also with the media how it is, no one's going to be held accountable for anything with this impeachment thing. I mean, fight for what, Dennis? Just to feel good? That's not— And you always say it's better to do good than feel good, and by you just talking about fighting and fighting for this just makes you feel good. It doesn't, in the long run, will do good in the big picture. I hope I articulated that correctly.

You did. All right, so the screener got you right. You began by saying you came on too strong perhaps, but no, you didn't. All right, that's— so it's over? I don't quite follow that, that it's over. 75, 74 million people voted against the left. Many didn't vote just for Trump. Many voted because they understand the existential threat the left poses to liberty in America. And I'm going to abandon those people? All right, we lost. I don't follow that. There is a new generation to influence. Should I close up PragerU? We have a billion views a year. 65% of them are under 35. Okay, we lost. Take care, kids. We have no obligation to tell you why they died at Normandy Beach. We have no obligation to tell you about Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death or what the Liberty Bell means. Or what E Pluribus Unum means, or In God We Trust. Now we lost this election, so kids, just, you know, just treat each other nicely and allow a police state to take place. And one day when you realize it is a police state, you will ask, gee, why did that generation of adults not fight? Oh, because they gave up. Biden won. Eventually, on the transgender issue, eventually so many female athletes will lose to biological men that there will be an eruption. That's a very weak link in the chain of left-wing totalitarianism because it's cheating for a biological man to race against the biological woman. It's cheating. It has nothing to do with what you consider yourself. No one is mocking you for it. No one is depriving you of the right to so self-identify. But you cannot cheat. By the way, that is an excellent way of establishing with a relative or friend whether or not they, they are hopeless. Ask them if they think it is fair for a biological male who identifies as a female to compete in sports against biological females. If they say anything but, "No, it is not fair," then it is worthless speaking to them. Talk about the weather, talk about the Super Bowl, talk about anything you want. They are hopeless. Their entire moral compass has broken down because they are cowards and sheep. That have allowed the media and the left to tell them how to think backwards. It is not fair. It is cheating. I called a company because I had such a personally productive relationship with their product. I used it for about a year. And I threw away the inserts in my shoes, which have been very helpful in preventing the tingling and pins and needles and so on that go with neuromas, which are in both of my feet for a quarter of a century. And amazingly, I threw them away. I'm not wearing them now. Regular shoes, no inserts. And I attribute it in large measure if not entirely, to Nerve Renew. You have a 1-year money-back guarantee. NerveRenew.com. For your tingling.

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I don't, I don't know what he can do to your state, but he sure did devastate South Dakota.

Here's the broader issue. If you saw John Kerry, if you saw Gina McCarthy yesterday or last week, they are so cavalier and condescending about these jobs. Oh, we— they need to make better choices. Some jobs need to be sacrificed. Here's the big issue, Hugh, and it's a big political issue. Every time in the last decade that the national Democrats have had a choice between the men and women who build things in America, a lot of my constituents, energy, resource development, pipelines, and the choice between them and the far-left radical coastal environmental groups and interests, They always go with the radical groups. Now, here to me is something that— and I quote these union leaders, trade unions in particular, in my letter to President Biden. But here's the argument I've been making for 6 years with my colleagues, and I think it's more important than ever. These are men and women that we should embrace. You know, I won election in 2014 by a little under 3 points. I had no union support. My reelect just happened. I won by 13 points. And the vast number of the building trades in Alaska endorsed me. They will get behind Republicans who believe in strong jobs, working families. And I think that's a huge part of the future of our party. And the Democrats just disregard them and talk to them in a condescending way. We should embrace these great men and women who build things in our country. And now's the time to do it.

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Seemingly misrepresenting where she was and what she was doing during the Capitol tragedy. For what reason, I'm not exactly sure.

I don't know, so deeply rattled. I'm still processing the end of my life when I come out. And I come out and this man is a Capitol Police officer. There was no partner, was not yelling, you know, Capitol Police, etc., etc. But then what? But then it didn't feel Right. Because he was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.

So this was a Capitol Police officer that was trying to help her, and she immediately said that he was looking at me with a lot of anger.

Hey everybody, I want to remind you that taking hundreds of you, we're booking solid as I anticipated. People want to live again. And they want to be with kindred spirits. They want to be with me. They want to be in Israel. So it's a lot of attractions to this. By the way, you don't only get me, you get Mike Gallagher. And it's the trip in October to Israel. And you can find the information at my website, DennisPrager.com, with the banner Stand with Israel. Ah, yes. What's, uh, what's going on? This guy Raskin is, uh— I told you I would, I would so— since he invoked his late father, I would so love to be able to speak to his late father. Your son is a liar for a cause because he believes the cause is more important than truth. A lot of people do. And it's very tempting to believe that you can lie for your cause. It can afflict people at all ends of the spectrum, but it's particularly true on the left because truth is not a left-wing value. My column is carried in many newspapers, and so I have a Google alert on my name. There was a long letter attacking me. Where is Johnson City? Do you guys know where is Johnson City? Look it up. Anyway, there was that newspaper and a guy just wrote how I— Tennessee, thank you— how Prager— actually said Mr. Prager, which was very sweet— Mr. Prager denies that Trump said that they were fine Nazis. It's a good example of a lie that people have believed for, oh, I don't know, 3 and a half years. We have a video which you should see at PragerU about the Charlottesville lie. It's what it's called, the Charlottesville lie. That's an example of the left doesn't care about truth, but we're bathing in it. Anyway, let's see here. There is a solution, incidentally, to the cheating that the LGBTQ movement and the Democratic Party advocate. It's called cheating. Don't forget that word. A biological man competes with a biological woman, it's cheating. It is irrelevant to the sport. It's not irrelevant to life, but it's irrelevant to the sport that this person considers herself, I'll even say herself, a female.

Fine.

Your name is now, uh, Madison or Charlene. I will call you Madison or Charlene. You dress like a woman, look like a woman. That— I honor that. That's not an issue. You may not compete against biological women. That's cheating. If you don't know it's cheating, your moral compass is broken, along with the rest of the left and the Democratic Party. Here is the answer to that problem. No female should compete in any sport in which there is a biological male allowed to compete as a female against you. Just don't show up. You will be called a hater because that's all the left knows how to do. They do not know how to argue. They cannot argue. There is no moral or intellectual basis to any left-wing position. There are to liberal positions, but there are not to left-wing positions. They are morality-free and they are intellectually vapid. So they call names. They are specialists in that. You're a hater, you're a bigot, you're a transphobe. Transphobe, is that awesome? You didn't know you were a transphobe. Now you know. Was the term in existence 5 years ago? They make up a term, and because the left-wing media, which is redundant— they're virtually all left-wing— repeat it enough and your kids get it in school, it becomes normative. Like white fragility. Oh, isn't that amazing? Is there— is there black fragility? Is there Hispanic fragility? Only whites have fragility. Why is that not racist? Because the left says it. That's the only reason it's not racist. So if it happens in your girl's high school, she doesn't compete and she asks the others not to, to make a stand— guess what— for fairness and for women. That's a pretty powerful combo. All right, my friends. All right, Dale in Detroit, hello.

Whoa, hello. Um, I have a response to that gentleman you just talked to about, uh, that it's over.

Uh-huh.

And, uh, we should just move on. Um, on August 2nd, 1934, Hitler became Führer. Should they have just said it was over at that point? Should the world or Germany said— and when we did for a while, just placate him, and look what happened.

Well, not only that, why wasn't it over when he conquered Poland?

Exactly.

Could have been. You could— we could have said it. Sorry, go on.

I was just going to say, I'm not trying to compare anyone to Hitler. Everyone, you know, you say that, but not to say that some of the ideas that are being pushed right now are just as evil as some of the ideas, I believe, as some of the ideas.

Right. Well, there are two aspects to Nazism. There is Nazism as a totalitarian movement, and there's Nazism as an exterminate the Jew movement. There's no parallel to the exterminate the Jew part. There are massive parallels to the totalitarian part. Using the January 6th events like the Nazis used the Reichstag, the parallel is nearly perfect.

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How can they do what they do to the Republicans and Republicans cannot do anything to them? They have been cited Many times, I'm going to take Trump out tonight. I'm going to take him out, beat the hell out of him. Why? It doesn't make any sense. They can prosecute them, but they can't be prosecuted. You know what I'm saying?

Of course I know what you're saying. We've been talking about it all week. Got Chuck Schumer outside the Supreme Court all but threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. You've got, uh, Maxine Waters saying gather around Trump cabinet members, let them know they're not welcome anywhere anymore. Yeah, we've played that whole montage of Democrats talking about fight, fight, fight. Eric Swalwell had a relationship with a Chinese spy. He hasn't lost his committee positions on the Intel Committee. Ilhan Omar hasn't lost her committee assignments. Jews have brainwashed the world. Jewish lawmakers have dual loyalties. Hasn't lost any committee assignments. Chuck Schumer's 1974 racist scheme to get rid of Black people out of an area in Flatbush— what's that, you didn't know about it? I've done a video about it. Go on YouTube. I've written about it. A guy named Jay Homnick, who was there when this racist scheme was hatched, has written about it. American Spectator articles called Race to the Top. Google it. I've interviewed him a couple times on my program. Google that. Nobody seems to care.

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Joe Biden crushed the American energy sector and lost a lot of jobs, and you sent a letter. What was the letter about?

So I sent a letter with 26 senators, over one quarter of the U.S. Senate, saying to our new president, hey, this is not good for the nation, it's not good for working families. It's not just crushing jobs when we're in a recession, But it's taken away one of America's greatest strengths. We've become an energy-independent nation. As you know, that helps our economy, that helps manufacturing. It really helps foreign policy and national security. And here's the one thing that I want to talk to the president about. We want to talk— there's a great group of senators, as you saw in my letter. 2005 to 2017, guess which country reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any other country in the world by far, it was America. So we can create jobs, millions of jobs, grow the economy, grow the energy sector, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. The impeachment keeps going on. I, I wonder, is there any Democrat in the US Senate saying to himself, hmm, kids have not been to school for a year, economy is being crushed, and we're talking about a takeover for a few hours of the US Capitol? And impeaching a president who doesn't exist as a president? That's what we're doing. I said that the Democrats use the July— January 6th events as the Nazis use the Reichstag. It's— the parallel is as close to perfect as you can get, uh, with the understanding that no parallels are precise. Nazis come to, uh, power. Hitler made chancellor, '33, 1933. A month later, the parliament is burned down, or much of it is. You can still see it if you go to Berlin. And the Nazis then used that to start depriving their opponents of all civil liberties. That's what the Democrats and the left are doing. They're depriving in the name of fighting white supremacists, supremacists who are supposedly the people who invaded the Capitol, exactly like the Reichstag. They're using January 6th to now unleash the government against its— against opponents. Because anyone who voted for Trump is a white supremacist. White supremacists are as dangerous as Al-Qaeda. Domestic terror is our greatest enemy, just like the Nazis spoke about the Communists and, and everybody else who opposed them, not just Communists opposed them. So that's why the parallel is, is as close to perfect as historical parallels can get. The tragedy, as I wrote a few weeks ago in my column, is how many Americans accept the suppression of liberty by the left with some degree of equanimity. Indeed, how many Americans support it? How many Democrats really do support and believe the lie that there is this gigantic white supremacist terror movement that has to be suppressed. What's the name of the movement? Communists had a name. Nazis had a name. What's the name of the movement? QAnon? I never saw QAnon in my life. I don't deny it exists. I just want you to know I'm pretty immersed in conservatism. Never saw it in my life. We continue.

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We've got to open up our schools. We've got to let our kids get an education again. Lori Lightfoot furious, it seems, with the Chicago Teachers Union. So listen to Trey Gowdy's monologue last night on Fox News recounting a story and tying it together with his wife, who apparently is an educator, and what's happening in cities like Chicago right now.

I want you to keep this dichotomy in your mind. The image of a young boy walking to school for hours, getting in the car with a stranger because he understood the power of education to change his life. And now contrast that with the image of those dancing teachers in Chicago. That child knew the power of education and being in school. I wish the teachers in Chicago knew as much as he did.

That's powerful, and he's right. He's right. 800-655-MIKE, let's get your reaction. Here's the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot begging the Chicago teachers, please go back to work.

And as the expression goes, the proof is in the pudding. CPS had 3 weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools. That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring. And also remember, the CPS staff and principals have been in our schools throughout this pandemic, feeding our kids, getting them ready for The return of students and continuing the hard work every single day.

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This is Albert Mohler for townhall.com. The American experiment is founded upon a presupposition. A prior commitment to an ordered liberty, an established order. That means policies, it means a covenant. In our case, it means a Constitution. As of right now, the U.S. Constitution is the longest surviving written constitution in human history. It's a remarkable document. All of that came to the fore in the violent events that interrupted the joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. At the end of the day, our constitutional order proved itself once again resilient, but that doesn't take away any of the tragedy and the horror of what took place. It was an enormous stress test on ordered liberty, a stress test brought on by the President of the United States.

We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.

It's an opportunity for the right, the left, conservatives, liberals, all Americans to repudiate political violence and reaffirm once again our commitment to ordered liberty. It's the American way. I'm Albert Mohler.

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I think the Lincoln Project is specifically a smear campaign to break down what we might call Trumpism, what we— I think could be better called MAGA, Make America Great Again. If you want to— I know it's your show, so if you want to call it America First, I suppose that's okay too.

MAGA's fine.

MAGA, I think, is probably most appropriate though, which is this kind of not nationalistic but nationistic idea that people should be able to have nations that are sovereign, not subject to supranational entities. It's not like rah rah rah USA USA, although if people want to feel that way about their country, more power to them. But that's not the point. Poland should be able to be Poland. France should be able to be France. The UK should be able to be the UK, and so on. And that it's a, it's a broader philosophy in that regard, and that we should in fact pursue our own national interests as each individual nation, which is really what MAGA, when applied to the MAGA, is that applied to the American context. And so these guys are smear artists who are attempting to destroy and discredit that because they are making money And their people are making money hand over fist from the same foreign wars and the same garbage that people turned to Trump to get away from. And I say that being— I was horrified in 2016 by Trump. I was utterly against him. I had Trump Derangement Syndrome like everybody else, or half of everybody else, I guess. And now it's like much more clear to me what was actually going on and what's going on now.

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I didn't know when he was playing for the Mets that Gary Carter was a Christian, and I always feel like the media is so secular that they don't know. They just kind of shy away from this.

And Gary Carter was a phenomenal person. We admired him, but we didn't understand him because his ability to play baseball was great. But also at the same time, he was so happy. His joy was so real. And we all wanted that. But everybody thought he was, you know, they thought he was fake, but he wasn't fake. Gary Carter was a Christian from the age of 20 all the way into his whole entire career and his life being out of the big leagues. So he lived a completely different life. Yeah, he was very successful, Hall of Fame, but at the same time, he lived a life for the Lord and he was a prime example. Him and Mookie Wilson, two guys on our team that were prime examples of what a godly man looked like, what a man looks like without a uniform on. And I think that represents more than anything than having a uniform on and maybe struggling and going through some hard times, you know, from a professional standpoint. But from a spiritual standpoint, they didn't have to go through that process in their life when they were playing. And I wish I could have experienced that. I had to experience so many downfalls and pitfalls, you know, through my career. And I was multi-talented. I could play, but I couldn't live. But today, you know, I look at God and I thank God for His grace, the grace that I didn't deserve. You know, that's 2 Corinthians 12:19. He says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." And in my weakness, His grace was sufficient for me, and it allowed me to be the man I am today in Christ.

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I don't, I don't know what he can do to your state, but he sure did devastate South Dakota.

Here's the broader issue.

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. The charade takes place, taking place again. The constant calling of the— this is, this is what they're doing at the impeachment of a president who is not president. They are claiming that what happened was an insurrection. It's a gigantic lie. Okay, all right. First, I guess, unarmed insurrection where people take selfies at the desks of people they oppose politically. It's the selfie insurrection. All right, so that's the first lie. It's based on that. If it wasn't an insurrection, then there's nothing to really talk about. The second is that the president incited the insurrection, even though they can produce— the only thing they could produce is, he says, you got to fight for what you believe. As everybody knows, that incites riots. The Democrats never say fight for what we stand for. And it just continues along those lines. Third, they equate believing that The election was illegitimate with treason and, and being an insurrectionist and so on. I don't care what you believe. I don't care what my side believes or your side believes. I care the way people act. How many Democrats believe that the election was not, uh, was not stolen from Hillary Clinton. The whole point of the Russian collusion lie was to prove that it was an illegitimate election. Putin won, remember? Putin, not Trump. Telling all Americans over and over and over police are racist does not lead to fatal riots. The burning down of businesses and police cars, that that does not lead to that. This is a cover-up for the violence of the left. That's the way it should be regarded. I wish we had the male-female hour today. I apologize to you. I apologize to me. I apologize to males and females listening. I cannot control the events outside. I can only control how I react. And this is a time of crisis wherein my normal programming is deferred. I would love to have had a male-female hour today. I debated it to the last minute, actually. The vote was won to have Regular programming, 60/40. 40% of me wishes that I— well, 100% of me wishes I had done it, but 40% of me is not sure that I made the right decision. 60% is. Those of you listening in Dallas, are you aware of this? This is from CBS News. I just learned of this last night. Mark Cuban has Mavericks become— that's the basketball team— first NBA team to cease playing national anthem before games. Why was this not reported sooner? I have to find out about this. If you're in Dallas, let me know if you knew about this and why all hell didn't break loose to somehow get him out of the Dallas Mavericks organization. This is a very bad thing. This is worse than Colin Kaepernick. Dallas Mavericks became the first NBA team and perhaps the first team in all of North American professional sports to cease playing the national anthem before games this season. Dallas has hosted 12 regular season games so far during the 2020-2021 season, along with a season— a single preseason game, and the team didn't play the anthem before any of the contests. So when, when did that begin? Why is the news only coming out now? I guess there are no fans that are aware of this. A source close to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says the decision to not play the national anthem before games isn't because the franchise lacks love for the United States, but rather because many in the organization feel that the anthem, quote, doesn't represent them. What about the anthem is there not to be represented? Land of the free and home of the brave. Is that— is that not— who doesn't that represent? Well, it doesn't represent the left. I guess that's true. Now that I think of it, it really— it doesn't represent a good chunk of this country. Many in the organization feel that the anthem, quote, doesn't represent them, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. I don't know what that is. Instead, the Mavericks reportedly want to explore other ways of representing people from all communities while also also honoring the U.S. at games. Well, the breaking up of America into quote-unquote communities. It was my decision and I made it in November, Cuban said of the move while declining further comment. There was no internal announcement about Dallas's decision, according to the Athletics Tim Kato. Instead, team employees found out that the anthem wasn't being played when they realized it for themselves. That's a gutsy move on the part of Cuban. Doesn't take any questions and doesn't tell anybody he's going to do it, and people just realize it over time. The NBA's other 29 teams have found ways to play the anthem without necessarily having a singer in the building, largely by using recordings, but the league itself has permitted the choice not to play it at all. Another reason to avoid the NBA. Under the unique circumstances of the season, teams are permitted to run their pregame operations as they see fit, a league spokesman told The Athletic. Interestingly enough, This actually isn't the first time in Mavericks franchise history that the team has opted against playing the national anthem. This is from a writer in the New York Times. For the club's first 16 years of existence, when it was owned by Donald Carter, God Bless America was sung instead before home games at the old Reunion Arena. The Mavericks began playing the national anthem after the The team was purchased by Ross Perot in 1996. Cuban bought the Mavericks in January 2000. League rules state that players must stand for the national anthem, but those rules have not been strictly enforced in recent years. Players on every team in the Orlando bubble knelt for the anthem when the season resumed last summer. Mark Cuban supported the decision and the league as a whole to use the Disney bubble to promote the social justice messaging such protests inspired. The Mavs have not offered comment on their long-term plans, but for the time being, the anthem will continue to be— not to be played at home games in Dallas. So you can add Mark Cuban to the roster of those bit by bit undoing America. That's all, that's the only way. Who doesn't it represent? Who does the national anthem not represent? That's what I'd like to know. Well, they don't believe the nation is a nation. That there is no— for the left and destructive forces like Cuban, by the way, he's invited onto the show. They never come on. Leftists don't debate. And I am as civil a debater as exists. My next fireside chat, I very rarely do this, maybe once in 50 fireside chats I have a guest, but I'm going to have a prominent atheist on, and he knows how civil I will be. Mark Cuban wouldn't come on. He wouldn't debate. So there has to be a way to make his franchise lose as much money as possible, and that would mean never watching a Mavericks game on TV and not going to games. To ask you to give up your season tickets is, I realize, asking a lot, so I'm not even saying that, but you should consider it.

This is Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. The Biden administration announced in their first week that the U.S. is rejoining the World Health Organization. But the WHO is a flawed group, one that has performed poorly while the world has struggled with COVID-19. Early on, the group was far too deferential to China, even parroting Beijing's early claims that the virus could not be transmitted between humans. Since then, an independent panel concluded that the WHO dithered in its response, waiting too long to declare an international emergency. All the while, the WHO has continued to block Taiwan's participation because of political objections from the Chinese government, despite the fact that the world has much to learn from Taiwan's exceptional response to the virus. Before rejoining the WHO, we should have demanded some accountability and refused form from the group for the $400 million in taxpayer dollars we send to it each year. It looks like we'll keep on writing blank checks to the WHO, which they are more than happy to keep cashing. I'm Lon Heaton.

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This is now a playbook. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. This is not something where they just are going to disassemble this. This is how they're going to do it from this point forward. So what are the big takeaways? Number one, the left is just now realizing how much power they really have over us. I think they're still learning how to use that power. Number 2, the left is willing at almost all costs to sacrifice truth for power. Number 3, persuasion means very little when the other side is actually concerned of how the election is going to be conducted. You know, we joked around throughout the last couple, the first couple of weeks after early November after the election. We said it doesn't matter how people vote, it matters who counts the votes. Remember we joked about that? Well, they say here in Podhorzer's presentations, winning the vote was only the first step to winning the election. After that came winning the count. Winning the count. Can you believe it? Not just what people think, but actually how the votes are counted. Winning the certification, winning the Electoral College, and winning the transition. This is now going to be how they will handle every single election from this point forward.

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You notice the figure $1.9 trillion just kind of rolls off the tongue. Now keep in mind, this is the administration that said they wanted to unify the country. There had to be healing. There's going to be bipartisanship. And you know, it was all horse bleep. And did the same thing that the Obama administration did. The Obama administration came in, remember all their healthcare plans, and the Republicans, uh, Ryan wanted to meet him halfway and had all sorts of ideas. And Obama says, dude, dude, uh, we won the election, you lost. So, uh, we ran on Obamacare and we're going to do Obamacare, so just sit down and, uh, and watch how we work. Same thing here. Not a single Republican buying in on $1.9 trillion. $1.9 trillion used to sound like a lot of money, but you know who said something about it being excessive and likely to ignite inflation like we've never seen before? Larry Summers. You remember Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under President— let me think, let me think, I can't remember— I remember now, Barack Obama. OPEC peace could ignite inflationary pressures, quote, of a kind.

Hello, my friends, Dennis Prager here, and there's no male-female hour today because of the events that we are enduring, and they continue to show on the screen, the Democrats, the riot, or whatever you wish to call it— it wasn't an insurrection— and constant tweets from the president that he doesn't believe the election results were accurate. Just out of curiosity, despite the fact that the president, President Trump that is, did not believe that he actually lost the election fairly? Was he— did he engineer a coup? Did it take soldiers to remove him from office? What exactly did he do bad that was a result of his belief? Is he not allowed to believe? You can call it deluded, but is he not allowed to have a delusion? How— I don't care what people believe. I care what people do. The Democrats are crushing liberty in America. That's more important to me than whether or not Donald Trump believes he lost. So while they crush liberty, they're using this in order to crush more liberty. You get it? They say it. This proves white supremacists, Christian nationalists, are trying to take over this country. They are as dangerous as Al Qaeda. And the FBI, which I once venerated, is now part of the swamp. There really is a swamp. I didn't even know there was a swamp, to be honest. I had a naive child's belief that essentially honorable people ran the CIA and the FBI. They have been utterly corrupted by the left because whatever the left touches, it ruins. John Brennan was a communist, is a communist, will be a communist. Very serious stuff going on, really serious, in collusion— there really is collusion with the wealthiest businessmen in America who subsidize the left. Lenin is attributed— it is attributed to Lenin, the famous statement that Western businesses will compete with one another to sell us the rope with which we will hang them. I have always looked for the actual source. It was attributed to Lenin. We don't know if Lenin actually said it, but it is true. Western businesses compete with one another to hang capitalism. There is no correlation between wealth and wisdom? None. You know what wealth and wisdom have in common? I want you to think for a moment. Sean, what do wealth and wisdom have in common? That is correct. That is my speedy mind in that booth. They both start with W. That's right. And that's it. Then one goes to an I and one goes to an E, and they're separated forever. Gates, Bezos, and I don't think Dorsey— Dorsey's not that in that wealth category, is he? What is— what's gone through $50 billion? Twitter? Yes.

Wow.

Dorsey. Oh my God, as a man to inspire your children, that's really, uh, that's very, very scary that Twitter is that successful. It's a fight, my friends. That's right, it's a fight. When, when— remember, they blamed The Democrats lying about what Republicans do is very old. They blamed Republicans for the shooting of the Arizona congresswoman. Remember that? And where a shooter killed a judge, I believe, and shot a number of people and wounded an Arizona congresswoman. Yeah, that's right, Giffords. Yes, give me the whole name. I don't remember it. And the— they blamed Gabby Giffords. They, they blamed Republicans for it, though the guy who did it did not do it for political reasons. He had nothing to to do with Republicans. Because Sarah Palin had said that we have to target certain districts and put a bullseye on them, so this proves she was calling for the murder of Democratic members of Congress. That's what they said. Paul Krugman, who writes a particularly stupid column each week, particularly stupid. If it takes him an hour to write his weekly column, I would be shocked. It's just about how vile Republicans are, with very little basis. But in any event, he wrote the day it happened, the day it happened, that Republicans were behind it. I actually cite him in my book, Still the Best Hope. A young woman at Harvard contacted me to tell me that that book changed her life. I feel self-conscious in saying that you really should read it, and so should your children. It explains the left and America in one book better than anywhere else I have seen, and there are many fine books. Still the Best Hope by Dennis Prager. So this is what you're seeing now. It's all based on nothing. Oh, Eric Swalwell is speaking. That takes chutzpah on the part of the Democrats, I have to say. The man who slept with a Chinese spy. Oh, to say there is no shame. I don't care. I have never indicted public figures for infidelity. I consider it most of the time a very sad human weakness. And I, I do not dwell on it. So the issue of my dwelling on it is that she was a Chinese spy. That's, that's the issue, and that matters. And that's the only reason she slept with him. That was her task: get information from public officials by using your body.

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You notice the figure 1.9 trillion just kind of rolls off the tongue. Now keep in mind, this is the administration that said they wanted to unify the country, there had to be healing, there's going to be bipartisanship, and you know it was all horse bleep. And did the same thing that the Obama administration did. The Obama administration came in, remember all their healthcare plans, and the Republicans, uh, Ryan wanted to meet him halfway and had all sorts of ideas, and Obama says, dude, dude, dude, uh, we won the election, you lost, so, uh, we ran on Obamacare and we're going to do Obamacare. So just sit down and, uh, and watch how we work. Same thing here. Not a single Republican buying in. $1.9 trillion. $1.9 trillion used to sound like a lot of money, but you know who said something about it being excessive and likely to ignite inflation like we've never seen before? Larry Summers. You remember Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under President— let me think, let me think, I can't remember. I remember now, Barack Obama. Op-ed piece could ignite inflationary pressures, quote, of a kind we have not seen in a generation, end of quote. See, young people don't remember inflation. 13.5% during the recession that Ronald Reagan dealt with. 13.5%. Prices increasing 13.5% every year. You guys don't know from that. Again, this is Larry Summers. This is the Treasury Secretary under Obama.

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We've got to open up our schools. We've got to let our kids get an education again. Lori Lightfoot furious, it seems, with the Chicago Teachers Union. So listen to Trey Gowdy's monologue last night on Fox News recounting a story and tying it together with his wife, who apparently is an educator, and what's happening in cities like Chicago right now.

I want you to keep this dichotomy in your mind. The image of a young boy walking to school for hours, getting in the car with a stranger because he understood the power of education to change his life. And now contrast that with the image of those dancing teachers in Chicago. That child knew the power of education and being in school I wish the teachers in Chicago knew as much as he did.

That's powerful, and he's right. He's right. 800-655-MIKE, let's get your reaction. Here's the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot begging the Chicago teachers, please go back to work.

And as the expression goes, the proof is in the pudding. CPS had 3 weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools. That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring. And also remember, the CPS staff and principals have been in our schools throughout this pandemic, feeding our kids, getting them ready for the return of students and continuing the hard work every single day.

And what are the Chicago teachers doing? They're making dancing videos. They're by themselves on Zoom dancing.

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This is Albert Mohler for townhall.com. The American experiment is founded upon a precept Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.

The, the kabuki theater is continuing. This is a living example of the truth of the statement that if a lie is stated enough, people start to believe it. There was no insurrection, ladies and gentlemen. It's a gigantic lie. Comes very naturally to the left. And that's what it's about. I don't know exactly, I really don't. When I say I don't understand, it doesn't mean I disagree. It means I don't understand. I don't understand what exactly is in it for them. Them. But a lot of what goes on on the left is catharsis. We feel good. And what I called moral onanism. Look it up. I can't say the usual word. I can say it. I'm allowed legally, but there are kids listening. The left is moral onanism. It's making oneself feel good but producing nothing. What is the gain here on this nonsense? Insurrection, a second impeachment, president who's not even president. All right, Mike in Cleveland, Ohio. Hello.

Hi, Mr. Prager. Thank you for taking my call. I really enjoy the show. I love listening to you. I just had a quick question about, you know, the national anthem with the Dallas Mavericks. I was just kind of wondering if you find it a bit hypocritical on your part to, you know, want to punish Mark Cuban and the team monetarily for expressing their freedom of choice. With, you know, about playing the national anthem. Do you think it's kind of a parallel between millionaire NBA players not respecting the country that affords them that?

So let me try to follow your question before I respond. Is it hypocritical of me to try to hurt Mark Cuban's ownership of the Dallas Mavericks for being the first team in North American history not to play the national anthem. Let me ask you, is that correct? You feel that that is for some reason hypocritical?

You modified it a bit there at the end. I mean, it's still— it's a tradition, and you know, I understand it's tradition.

Wait, I didn't modify anything. What did I modify? I said that earlier. I read from CBS, he's the first team in North American history.

Right, right, right. I didn't hear you say that before.

Yes. So now that I've said that, does that change your questioning?

Um, no, no.

Okay, so it's okay. So it's not worth pointing out. Uh, I— what would you like me to do given how despicable I find his behavior?

Well, do you find it despicable because he's changing tradition?

Because he is undoing one of the most patriotic public things that we still have left in America, the playing of the national anthem before sporting events.

And I can appreciate that. At the same time, it's still just a game. It's still—

No, no, no, the national anthem is not a game. The game is a game.

No, no, no.

So the fact that it's—

That's what I was referring to.

All right, but it's irrelevant.

No, it's not irrelevant because in those other games— Yes, it is.

Where else is it played? Where else is the national anthem played regularly except before games?

I don't know. I mean, I don't hear it very often.

You don't know because it doesn't happen. So don't say it's just a game. That's irrelevant to my point.

The fact that we play it, play the national anthem before games, before sporting events, doesn't change the fact that it's just a game.

But the fact that it's just a game doesn't change how bad the decision is. Just a game is irrelevant to my point.

Okay, so do you not think the tradition can change or can evolve?

As a general rule, some traditions can.

Generation and generation?

Yes, it can. That's right. I think my opinion is that this tradition is worth keeping, that it is exceedingly important, and that it is loathsome what Mark Cuban has done. And anybody who supports the Dallas Mavericks while he is the owner is hurting the United States. You can't support Mark Cuban and America at the same time. That he has made He has drawn the line in the sand. And if he does not pay a steep price, other teams will do this. And an exceedingly important national tradition will have died. It's one of the last vestiges of patriotism in this country. What was that, my dear Sean? 1-800-DENNIS-PRAGER-776. Is the number. Relief Factor's number is 800-583-84. 800-583-84. Relief Factor. It's in my pocket because I take it. Now, the workouts are getting harder and harder because there's an element of cruelty in every trainer. As much as I adore her, there's no question Because they move the goalposts as soon as you achieve something. Anyway, I take it because my muscles are sore afterwards. But if you have a chronic pain, you should certainly try it out. And you'll know in 3 weeks if it works, so they have a 3-week price of $19.95. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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This is now a playbook, the secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. This is not something where they just are going to disassemble this. This is how they're going to do it from this point forward. So what are the big takeaways? Number one, the left is just now realizing how much power they really have over us. I think they're still learning how to use that power. Number two, The left is willing at almost all costs to sacrifice truth for power. Number 3, persuasion means very little when the other side is actually concerned of how the election is going to be conducted. You know, we joked around throughout the last couple of the first couple of weeks after early November after the election. We said it doesn't matter how people vote, it matters who counts the votes. Remember we joked about that? Well, they say here, in Podhorzer's presentations, winning the vote was only the first step to winning the election. After that came winning the count. Winning the count. Can you believe it? Not just what people think, but actually how the votes are counted. Winning the certification, winning the Electoral College, and winning the transition. This is now going to be how they will handle every single election from this point forward.

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You notice the figure $1.9 trillion just kind of rolls off the tongue. Now keep in mind, this is the administration that said they wanted to unify the country, there had to be healing, there's going to be bipartisanship, and you know it was all horse poop. And did the same thing that the Obama administration did. The Obama administration came in, remember all their healthcare plans, and the Republicans, uh, Ryan wanted to meet him halfway and had all sorts of ideas. And Obama says, dude, dude, dude, uh, we won the election, you lost. So, uh, we ran on Obamacare and we're going to do Obamacare, so just sit down and, uh, and watch how we work. Same thing here. Not a single Republican buying in on $1.9 trillion. $1.9 trillion used to sound like a lot of money, but you know who said something about it being excessive and likely to ignite inflation like we've never seen before. Larry Summers— you remember Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under President— let me think, let me think, I can't remember— I remember now, Barack Obama.

Op-ed piece could ignite inflationary pressures, quote, of a kind we have not You know, whenever I meet a Republican congressman or senator, privately, I always ask them, how do you do it? How do you have lunch, banter, share the elevator with people you believe are destroying the country? And, you know, I get mixed answers. I would find it very hard. One of the many reasons I think I couldn't be a politician. As you know, I have said so often, I have great desire to influence people. I have no desire to have power over people, which is why I am conservative. I am Republican. We want to be left alone and we want to leave you alone. We believe in the sanctity of the individual. Individualism is a beautiful idea, not an ugly idea. Collectivism is an ugly idea. It's ironic that the individualists have more communities. What community does the leftist have? The Democratic Party? What community? I mean, churches are the most obvious example of Conservatives have more than others. Synagogues, conservatives. What religion? No, I have a Sabbath dinner every Friday night. And I have it with friends, Jews and non-Jews. But I have it every Friday night. I have a community of people who believe in individualism. Sounds ironic to a leftist. A community of individualists?

Woof!

Yeah, because we believe everyone is created in God's image and has infinite sanctity. So don't bunch us into your collectivist dreams. Every leftist is a collectivist. Their dream is that we all be in apartments. The house that they mock, right, with the white picket fence, two dogs, two-car garage, that's individualist. But if we can all get on the same bus and go from our apartments to the same office, that's an ideal. Yes. Okay, everybody. And Derek in Richfield, Ohio. Hello.

Hey, good afternoon, Mr. Prager. Thank you for taking my call. So what I want to ask you is, uh, if so, if what happened January 6th was basically a Reichstag-type event How far do you think the left will go? Well, do you think it could eventually— they could get to the point they use— they simply use that as their justification to literally criminalize, arrest conservatives, anyone who supported the president? Um, I mean, given that if they control the media, the news, and the social media, they could almost do things— is that things can be done with, with little without the public, let alone the world, even knowing?

Well, the world will know, but it will always be told about it in moral terms. They've already begun the process of creating somewhat of a police state by saying that the— that right-wingers are white supremacists and and equivalent to al-Qaeda and must be suppressed, that the biggest battle confronting the United States is white supremacist groups and white supremacy in general. These, these are the enormous lies that they tell to suppress us. Twitter, which is essentially an anti-American subversive organization that has no regard for free speech. It's an astonishing thing to say. I don't know how people live with themselves when they are— when they do so much harm to something so good, but they do. The ability of people to sleep well after doing damage to other humans is apparently infinite. Otherwise, Jack Dorsey would be an insomniac. Take down any references to ivermectin to save lives. It— very few people have the, even the opportunity to do as much harm as the head of Twitter or YouTube or any of the others, and they, and they use it. And of course it's justified. Everyone who does evil has justified it. There is no exception in history. It is— the only people who do evil and do not justify it are individual criminals who do it because they have a sadistic impulse, and even they, according to criminologists, even they justify their rape and torture and murder as, "Oh, she had it coming," or, "I'm oppressed." NPR had an hour on the book in defense of looting. God, if you don't know the danger that left poses, your ability to deny evil is greater than the norm. I said this yesterday. Ernest Becker wrote the famous book The Denial of Death. The denial of evil is actually more rampant in the human species. People do not wish to confront evil. It's too scary. My older son, when he was about 4, went around the house shooting monsters with, with brooms. The broom would be sort of a machine gun. And then he asked me one day, Daddy, are monsters real? I remember vividly how difficult it was for me to answer the question, and I said yes. We'll be back.

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This is Albert Mohler for TownHall.com. The American experiment is founded upon a presupposition, a prior commitment to an ordered liberty, an established order. That means policies. It means a covenant. In our case, it means a Constitution. As of right now, the U.S. Constitution is the longest-surviving written constitution in human history. It's a remarkable document. All of that came to the fore in violent events that interrupted the joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. At the end of the day, our constitutional order proved itself once again resilient. But that doesn't take away any of the tragedy and the horror of what took place. It was an enormous stress test on ordered liberty, a stress test brought on by the president of the United States.

We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.

It's an opportunity for the right, the left, conservatives, liberals, all Americans to repudiate political violence and reaffirm once again our commitment to ordered liberty. It's the American way. I'm Albert Mohler.

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I think the Lincoln Project is specifically a smear campaign to break down what we might call Trumpism, what I think could be better called MAGA, Make America Great Again. If you want to, I know it's your show, so if you want to call it America First, I suppose that's fine too. MAGA, I think, is probably most appropriate though. Which is this kind of not nationalistic but nationistic idea that people should be able to have nations that are sovereign, not subject to supranational entities. It's not like, "Rah, rah, rah, USA, USA," although if people want to feel that way about their country, more power to them. But that's not the point. Poland should be able to be Poland, France should be able to be France, the UK should be able to be the UK, and so on. And it's a broader philosophy in that regard, and that we should in fact pursue our own national interests as each individual nation, which is really what MAGA, when applied to the MAGA, is that applied to the American context.

Yeah.

And so these guys are smear artists who are attempting to destroy and discredit that because they are making money and their people are making money hand over fist from the same foreign wars and the same garbage that people turn to Trump to get away from. And I say that being, I was horrified in 2016 2016 by Trump. I was utterly against him. I had Trump Derangement Syndrome like everybody else, or half of everybody else, I guess. And now it's like much more clear to me what was actually going on and what's going on now.

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I didn't know when he was playing for the Mets that Gary Carter was a Christian. And I always feel like the media is so secular that they don't know. They just kind of shy away from this.

And Gary Carter was a phenomenal person. We admired him, but we didn't understand him because his ability to play baseball was great. But also at the same time, he was so happy. His joy was so real.

Hi everyone, I'm Dennis Prager. There's a recess. We didn't do the male-female hour today. I feel like I owe you one, but I've been monitoring the farce, the cheapening of the term impeachment as they have cheapened the term racist. Nothing means what it meant before. It's the Orwellian world of the left, wherever they are. I read to you last hour that in France they are actually attacking American leftists, including Macron, for exporting this, these, these divisive ideas to to France. America is now an exporter of anti-freedom ideas. The great exporter of liberty is now the exporter of anti-liberty. France should ask for the Statue of Liberty back. That would be good. That would be really effective. No, no, not at all. Fries are not from Belgium. I will say French fries now with honor. The non-English-speaking countries in the West must understand Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, UK have, uh, have disdain for Western civilization. Yep, it's unbelievable, unbelievable, but it is true. Well, I spoke in Romania 2 and a half years ago. I told them, you know, you in Eastern Europe, you might carry the torch of liberty, which was carried by more by Western Europe in the past. You in Poland, you, you in Romania, etc. Certainly we're not carrying it in the United States. Yale has contempt for liberty. That is an interesting question. I should suggest this to France. With the left in charge in the United States, not just in the presidency and Congress, But at the universities and the media and their suppression of liberty for the first time in American history, maybe they should actually ask for the Statue of Liberty back. I would be for it. We have not earned the Statue of Liberty at this time in American history. Amazing that the French understand this, to their credit. Think about what we're exporting and what we once exported— liberty. And under the left, we export anti-liberty.

Wow.

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I didn't know when he was playing for the Mets that Gary Carter was a Christian, and I always feel like the media is so secular that they don't know. They just kind of shy away from this.

And Gary Carter was a phenomenal person. We admired him, but we didn't understand him because his ability to play baseball was great. But also, at the same time, he was so happy. His joy was so real. And we all wanted that. But everybody thought he was, you know, they thought he was fake, but he wasn't fake. Gary Carter was a Christian from the age of 20 all the way into his whole entire career and his life being out of the big leagues. So he lived a completely different life. Yeah, he was very successful, Hall of Fame, but at the same time, he lived the life for the Lord. And he He was a prime example, him and Mookie Wilson, two guys on our team that were prime examples of what a godly man looked like, what a man looks like without a uniform on. And I think that represents more than anything than having a uniform on and maybe struggling and going through some hard times, you know, from a professional standpoint. But from a spiritual standpoint, they didn't have to go through that process in their life when they were playing. And I wish I could have experienced that. I had to experience so many downfalls and pitfalls, you know, through my career. And I was multi-talented. I could play, but I couldn't live. But today, you know, I look at God and I thank God for His grace, the grace that I didn't deserve. You know, that's 2 Corinthians 12:19. He says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." And in my weakness, His grace was sufficient for me, and it allowed me to be the man I am today in Christ.

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I don't, I don't know what he can do to your state, but he sure did devastate South Dakota.

Here's the broader issue. If you saw John Kerry, if you saw Gina McCarthy yesterday or last week, They are so cavalier and condescending about these jobs. Oh, we— they need to make better choices. Some jobs need to be sacrificed. Here's the big issue, Hugh, and it's a big political issue. Every time in the last decade that the national Democrats have had a choice between the men and women who build things in America, a lot of my constituents, energy, resource development, pipelines, And the choice between them and the far-left radical coastal environmental groups and interests, they always go with the radical groups. Now, here to me is something that— and I quote these union leaders, trade unions in particular, in my letter to President Biden. But here's the argument I've been making for 6 years with my colleagues, and I think it's more important than ever. These are men and women that we should embrace. You know, I won election in 2014 by a little under 3 points. I had no union support. My reelect just happened. I won by 13 support, and the vast number of the building trades in Alaska endorsed me. They will get behind Republicans who believe in strong jobs, working families, and I think that's a huge part of the future of our party. and the Democrats just disregard them and talk to them in a condescending way. We should embrace these great men and women who build things in our country, and now's the time to do it.

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Seemingly misrepresenting where she was and what she was doing during the Capitol tragedy. For what reason, I'm not exactly sure.

I don't know. So deeply rattled. I'm still processing the end of my life when I come out and I come out and this man is a Capitol Police police officer. There was no partner, was not yelling, you know, Capitol Police, etc., etc. But then what? But then it didn't feel right because he was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger and hostility.

So this was a Capitol Police officer that was trying to help her. And she immediately said that he was looking at me with a lot of anger and hostility. Let's go to cut 36, where the story gets even more complicated. Cut 36.

I talked to my legislative director after the fact, and he said, no, I didn't know if he was there to help us or hurt us either. And, and G was actually like, this man came with so much hostility that, that G was sizing him up and didn't know if he was going to have to fight him. So like, you know, like so many other communities in this country, like just that presence doesn't necessarily give you a clear signal if you're safe or not.

I want, I want to reinforce what she just said there. That's a Capitol Hill police officer. That was there to help you, AOC, and you had to size him up.

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And there's another headline I saw over at Politico that caught my eye. No conservatives shouldn't quit on the GOP. There was a lot of party drama last night involving the freshman congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming. It appears the Republicans have stood by both of them. They're not stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of being on any committees, and they're not stripping Liz Cheney of her leadership. Rich Lowry writes a pretty compelling piece, and he's not a Trump fan at all. But understand, the fortunes of our political parties, he writes, ebb and flow, and their iterations change over time, but they are robust, deeply embedded institutions of our public life that endure even after electoral disasters and self-sabotaging wrong turns. I mean, there are declarations now that the Republican Party is doomed. A former chair of the Washington State GOP wrote in an op-ed in the Seattle Times, let's form a new Republican Party. There's a CNN headline, should Republicans disband the GOP? The former Republican Representative Mickey Edwards wrote an article after January 6th saying he's quitting the party because it has become the opposite of what it was. Rich Lowry observes, this all seems a mite premature about a party that represents, oh, roughly half the country and is on the cusp of a majority in the House, tied 50-50 in the Senate, and in control of the governorships in 27 states and both the governorship and state legislature in 22 of those.

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How can they do what they do to the Republicans and Republicans cannot do anything to them? They have been cited many times of, uh, I'm gonna take Trump out tonight. Uh, I'm gonna take him out, beat the hell out of it. Why? It doesn't make any sense. So they can prosecute them, but they can't be prosecuted. You know what I'm saying?

Of course I know what you're saying. We've been talking about it, uh, all week. It's got, uh, Chuck Schumer outside the Supreme Court all but threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. You've got, uh, Maxine Waters saying gather around Trump cabinet members, let them know they're not welcome anywhere anymore. Yeah, we've played that whole montage of Democrats talking about fight, fight, fight. Eric Swalwell had a relationship with a Chinese spy.

Not all rich, but of especially the rich on the left, is truly unbounded. The self-righteousness and the self-esteem, that's it, that's the self-esteem. I know better, so I will end what has been a tradition in America for, I don't know, 100 years, more than 100 years. I love that the games begin with the national anthem. I love it. Many years ago, I was with— I don't remember his name, but he was the former Israel ambassador to the U.S. and/or the UN. We were both speakers at a conference, I believe in Arizona. And the day that we were together, he was— it was his first day of retirement from that position. So he felt completely free to speak, and I interviewed him. And I said, what did you— what most impressed you about America? And he had a number of things, but the thing that I remember was He said, we can learn from you patriotism. Because he said, he spoke about the, how impressive he found that people stood and sang or listened to the national anthem before every sporting event. And he said, we could use that in Israel. Which I found interesting because people tend to think of Israelis as patriotic, but that's not here or there. I'm only mentioning to you that it struck him as a particularly wonderful practice in the United States. So here's Mark Cuban: "It doesn't," this is the joke, "it doesn't represent us." See, my response to someone who says the national anthem doesn't represent me, my response is, oh, Not let's change the national anthem and drop it. My response is get with it. It does represent you. If you wish to opt out of feeling American, it's a free country as long as you folks don't run it. That's my response. Not let's drop the national anthem. Why don't you drop your alienation? Oh, new way of thinking, but it makes sense to me. You have every right to feel what you want, but let me just— let me throw in the hopper another possibility that you in fact do identify with the flag and the national anthem. We would like you to. Those of us who sing it with pride. We want you to join in. Nobody is excluding you except you. That's what you say. Not all you feel alienated from the flag and the national anthem. By the way, Mark Cuban, what if they feel alienated from the flag? Will you stop having the flag at Dallas Mavericks games? Believe me, there are a lot of people who don't think the flag represents them. The left, almost unanimously, the left in the United States says the flag represents white supremacy. Well, I have the flag. Yes, 1-800-PRAGER-776. So what are you folks in Dallas going to do about it? And did you know in Dallas that this was happening? That's what I am curious about. Jim in Chicago, hello.

Hello.

Hello.

Hey there, Dennis.

Hi.

First time caller, short time listener, but so far so good. Your, your logic is on point.

Do me a favor, one second, one second. Can you speak more directly into a phone?

Yeah, can you hear me now?

Uh, not much better, but better.

Sorry, one second. Let me see if I can fix it now.

Now, now, that was good. That was good.

All right. Yeah, you can hear me?

Yep.

Cool. Uh, like I said, uh, short time listener, but so far I fell in love with your logic and your, your intellectualism and the fact that you don't stray from it. And, uh, my main comment was that the left itself is an anti-intellectualist, pro-ignorance movement that kind of preys on the fact that people have the ultimate ignorance of not knowing themselves as well as history.

That's entirely accurate. The, the, the— and one evidence, piece of evidence that they don't know themselves is that unlike all previous generations generations, which taught that we have to fight our nature. They deny that we have to fight our nature. They think it's basically good. So that, that's, that's proof that they don't know themselves. That's why, that's why they blame America for their problems. America is at fault, not human nature.

I think the biggest pitfall that they fall into when they don't know themselves is, like you were saying earlier, they, they see themselves as collectives. They like to bunch up in groups. They see themselves as the large picture rather than the puzzle pieces that are necessary to make it up.

That's right. That's exactly right. You're right. It's a pleasure to have you in my world. More and more young people are listening to the show, watching PragerU videos like the fireside chat and the videos. There is a hunger among many to hear something other than, oh, you're a white male, you're a piece of crap. This is the intellectual— do you understand the low intellectual level? Forget moral level of the left. You're black, you're oppressed. Uh, look, I learned this in the '70s, in the 1970s at Columbia. I learned blacks cannot be racist. This is not new. That astonishing? This is— it's, it's an evil that is unavailable to one race. Wow. Can a mixed-race Black be racist? Can a one-quarter Black be racist? You understand the absurdity of it? Do you know how many students— I'll bet you half of your kids believe a Black cannot be a racist. Example number 80226 of the lies that are spread and that is kept. Will in Huntsville, Alabama. Hello, Dennis Prager.

Hello, Dennis. I like the symbol of the national anthem at sporting events where two groups of Americans come with opposite goals to defeat the other team. So they're opposed in the activity of the game, but we all started with saying what we have in common, and that is our American national anthem and citizenship. And for that, I think it's a big and important symbol.

I agree with you, my friend. Symbols are a big deal. No symbols, ultimately no ideal, no patriotism. Symbols are the vehicle to transmit the value.

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What else should people who are just waking up to the threat of whatever you want to call it wokeism, critical theory. What else should they read? And then on top of that, James, if you really want to do something about it beyond— I don't know how we're going to begin to break up the, the mafia that is the, the schools of education— what can general listeners and viewers do in your opinion?

Okay, so I mean, I don't mean to shill for myself, it's not usually my style, But I created the website New Discourses to try to make something that people can read. It's not to say that there's nothing out there. There are other books. Mike Gonzalez's book, The Plot to Change America, is not bad. I've read that. Rod Dreher's book, Live Not by Lies, I think is important, especially to the second part of your question. I'm going to mention Solzhenitsyn here in a second as it is for what the average person can do. But I do encourage people to go read New Discourses. I think I've published close to half a million words in the last year, most of which I wrote myself, to try to get information out about this. So you can see, I know it's a little bit heady, it's a little bit scholarly. You're right about Breitbart. Breitbart read these guys and is extremely good at breaking it down in a way that's more digestible than— I'm a little scholarly past that. You may want to read— is it Martin Gurry? Gurry is certainly the last name. G-U-R-R-I. Revolt of the Public, for example, to see the role that the internet plays, these social networks play in what's happening now. It's a different kind of tack. It's not going to explain to you the nature of this side of the problem. It's going to explain to you the nature of the information world that we're trapped in. I do encourage everybody though to go read some Herbert Marcuse, especially repressive tolerance for themselves directly.

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Lived it. Look, let's, let's be honest, Daryl. You suffered. You've really suffered. You went through it. But you're living proof God did this in your life. We're not summed up by our baseball statistics, at least not in God's economy.

No, we're not. And I'm grateful. You know, I'm grateful that I suffered because it made me greater in the end. Because God looks at the end. He doesn't look at the beginning. I think people look at the beginning and God has a long-term plan for our life, which is, which is far greater than any baseball achievement or any success I've ever had in life, to be in the end part of my life and running the race for real and having victory, being victorious through Christ Jesus and knowing that I'm victorious and not looking back. I think too many of us get consumed with what was the beginning of who we were. Had I got consumed with that, had I not known that I had a mother that was praying for me, that I had a wife that was praying for me, and that God had a plan for me, I would have never been able to get to this place I'm at today. I'm more victorious than any home run I ever hit, and I've hit some big ones in my days of playing ball. But in life, you know, to be able to be in God's plan— I'm not qualified to preach the gospel, but the Great One that lives inside of me is qualified to preach the gospel. And that I do understand, just like I understood the ability that I had to play the game. With. I understood the talent, and I can go out there and perform. I had the great confidence. And see, I have the great confidence in the Holy Spirit as I go and do what I do now, as I go speak life, as I write a book. I didn't want to write another book, but for some reason God wanted me to write another book, and here it is.

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Good?

Yeah, he said I should tweet it. That was good. I liked it myself. That's what it is. Emptiness equals major causes squared. That's the social psychological explanation of E equals MC squared. The empty. They need causes and they love control, to control people. Yeah, look at that. NBA will force Dallas Mavericks to play the national anthem before games. Whoa, interesting. Well, that— the NBA has announced that it is once again enforcing its longstanding rule requiring teams to play the national anthem before games. The Mavericks host the visiting Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night. That's tonight in Dallas. This is an example of where you in Dallas can fight. I can't fight like you can. Oh, another impressive Democratic speaker. Ted Lieu. There we go. They're all giving— they're now showing charts of President Trump's statements. Sit back and watch me fight. This is— yep, that's in— that's— that proves that the man has caused an insurrection. There was no insurrection, so the whole thing's built on a lie. God, what a time we're living in. I'm sorry, the Dallas people, you— it's up to you to fight. That's right. Now, I mean, ultimately it's hard for me to tell you to give up your season tickets because I'm not paying that price. It's a big price to you. You probably wouldn't be able to get them again, or you'd be on a waitlist. So that's a toughie, but the least you could do is not show up. I don't know how many people are showing up anyway to, to Dallas Maverick games right now, but at least make your— make it known. Start a movement like we, we have in California to rid the state of Gavin Newsom. Maybe you could start a petition of rid the ownership Get rid of Mark Cuban. A lot of people who love this country in Texas, including Dallas. I know we love the country. This notion it doesn't represent everybody. Does God bless America represent everybody? Of course not. What about all the people who are atheists? Or people who think it's chauvinistic? Wait, God shouldn't bless Belgium?

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I don't, I don't know what he can do to your state, but he sure did devastate South Dakota.

Here's the broader issue. If you saw John Kerry, if you saw Gina McCarthy yesterday or last week, they are so cavalier and condescending about these jobs. Oh, we— they need to make better choices. Some jobs need to be sacrificed. Here's the big issue, Hugh, and it's a big political issue. Every time in the last decade that the national Democrats have had a choice between the men and women who build things in America, a lot of my constituents, energy, resource development, pipelines, and the choice between them and the far-left radical coastal environmental groups and interests, they always go with the radical groups. Now, here to me is something that— and I quote these union leaders, trade unions in particular, in my letter to President Biden. But here's the argument I've been making for 6 years with my colleagues, and I think it's more important than ever. These are men and women that we should embrace. You know, I won election in 2014 by a little under 3 points. I had no union support. My reelect just happened. I won by 13. Support in the vast number of the building trades in Alaska endorsed me. They will get behind Republicans who believe in strong jobs, working families, and I think that's a huge part of the future of our party. And the Democrats just disregard them and talk to them in a condescending way. We should embrace these great men and women who build things in our country, and now's the time to do it.

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Seemingly misrepresenting where she was and what she was doing during the Capitol tragedy. For what reason, I'm not exactly sure.

I don't know. So deeply rattled. I'm still processing the edge of my life when I come out. And I come out, and this man is a Capitol Police officer. There was no partner, was not yelling, you know, Capitol Police, etc., etc.

But then what?

But then it didn't feel right, um, because he was looking at me with a tremendous amount of anger. And hostility.

So this was a Capitol Police officer that was trying to help her, and she immediately said that he was looking at me with a lot of anger and hostility. Let's go to cut 36, where the story gets even more complicated. Cut 36.

I talked to my legislative director after the fact, and he said no. I didn't know if he was there to help us or hurt us either. And, and G was actually like, this man came with so much hostility that, that G was sizing him up and didn't know if he was going to have to fight him. So like, you know, like so many other communities in this country, like just that presence doesn't necessarily give you a clear signal if you're safe or not.

I want— I want to reinforce what she just said there. That's a Capitol Hill police officer that was there to help you, AOC, and you had to size him up.

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And there's another headline I saw over at Politico that caught my eye. No conservatives shouldn't quit.

Hi everybody, see, at the radio station I see my calls on a program on my computer. It has 8 lines right now. 6 of them are from Dallas. Good. It's a good sign. When there's a regional issue, I want to hear from that region. Mark Cuban will not play and has not played the national anthem before for games. He says it doesn't represent people from all communities. God, is he an arrogant fool. Oh God, Mark Cuban, I, I will donate money to your favorite charity, $1,000 out of my pocket, if you come on my show. It's— I could really offer to donate $50,000. It wouldn't matter. The arrogance of the people on the left is such that they don't deign to debate because they know they'll lose. That is the only reason. We would go. I hereby announce any left-wing show, I will happily be your guest. Oh boy, it doesn't represent all communities. Oh really? What community doesn't the national anthem represent? The Black community? Are you saying that? Well, if it's true, that's a tragedy, and I still wouldn't drop the national anthem. I would ask Blacks to feel more American. I think it's an insult to blacks to say this, but if it's true, I don't care what community you are. The whole point of making a national anthem is to have e pluribus unum, from many one. Okay, Terry in Dallas, hello.

Hello, Dennis. I enjoy, you know, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem. And my age, we used to say it in school, and I felt a lot of pride in our country. And I come from a military family, and not to play it, it seems disrespectful to Americans before us that fought and died for freedom.

Yeah, that's correct. That's right. Those silly people were touched by the national anthem.

Yeah, yeah, it wasn't one of those silly people.

Exactly like you. By the way, did you know about this prior to my show?

No, I did not, and I'm glad you—

Yeah, well, it's interesting. I obviously, I didn't know about it. It was— I, I read it in the Daily Mail, and now I saw it at CBS News, and And he did it completely without announcements. He's a coward. But they all are. It's so insulting. It's so insulting to the communities he thinks he's protecting. I mean, why doesn't he even say— I'd like to know. Here's a question for Mr. Cuban. What communities did you have in mind? In mind when you said the national anthem doesn't represent people from all communities? What communities did you have in mind? I'll tell you what community it doesn't represent. Left-wingers, right? Left-wing whites, left-wing blacks, left-wing Asians, left-wing Pacific Islanders, left-wing Native Americans. Left-wing Hispanics, the national anthem doesn't represent you. That's true. That's what you should say. It doesn't represent leftists. It doesn't represent those who have contempt for the flag and think it represents white supremacy. That's what he should say, because that's the truth. All right, let's see. Nancy in Dallas. Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hi, you're on.

Hello?

You're on the air.

Hello?

Yes.

Hey, hi Dennis. Hi, happy new year. But our country isn't doing very well. I've been using your saying that you, you say to people during this election, our country's still not doing well, right?

Better than my country. That's my answer to how are you, right?

Okay, so go on.

Well, we do not attend a Dallas Maverick game anymore as much because of Mr. Mark Cuban, his reaction to our President Trump. So we just don't go to games and we don't spend our money on him. That's the way to hurt him, is their pocket. And we inform all our other friends that are Republicans, they don't go either. So you know what, he's a buffoon. And when he's on Shark Shark Tank, and if he's on there, I don't watch it. When he's not there, I watch it because I like to see how people are creating business and helping our economy.

Oh, I didn't know he was on Shark Tank. Yeah, I guess he's somewhat of a celebrity, which of course is usually, not always, the same as self-deifying. Relief Factor is at 800-583-8455. For how many of you are left? How many of you have I not convinced to try it if you have joint or muscle pain? Clearly there must be many, and I feel somewhat of a failure because I use it and everybody that I know who uses it, it works. And they have a great idea since they'll— you'll know in 3 weeks if it works. Take as directed. You have a 3-week price of $19.95. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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How can they do what they do to the Republicans and Republicans cannot do anything to them? They have been cited many times of, uh, I'm going to take Trump out tonight, uh, I'm going to take him out, beat the hell out of it. Why? It doesn't make any sense. You know, they can prosecute them but they can't be prosecuted. You know what I'm saying?

Of course I know what you're saying. We've been talking about it, uh, all week. It's got, uh, Chuck Schumer outside the Supreme Court all but threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. You've got, uh, Maxine Waters saying gather around Trump cabinet members, let them know they're not welcome anywhere anymore. Yeah, we've played that whole montage of Democrats talking about fight, fight, fight. Eric Swalwell had a relationship with a Chinese spy. He hasn't lost his committee positions on the Intel Committee. Ilhan Omar hasn't lost her committee assignments. Jews have brainwashed the world. Jewish lawmakers have dual loyalties. Hasn't lost any committee assignments. Chuck Schumer's 1974 racist scheme to get rid of Black people out of an area in Flatbush What's that, you didn't know about it? I've done a video about it. Go on YouTube. I've written about it. A guy named Jay Homnick, who was there when this racist scheme was hatched, has written about it. American Spectator articles called Race to the Top. Google it. I've interviewed him a couple times on my program. Google that. Nobody seems to care.

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Joe Biden crushed the American energy sector and lost a lot of jobs, and you sent a letter. What was the letter about?

So I sent a letter with 26 senators, over one-quarter of the U.S. Senate, saying to our new president, hey, this is not good for the nation, it's not good for working families. It's not just crushing jobs when we're in a recession, but it's taken away one of America's greatest strengths. We've become an energy-independent nation, as you know. That helps our economy. That helps manufacturing. It really helps foreign policy and national security. And here's the one thing that I want to talk to the President about, we want to talk— there's a great group of senators, as you saw in my letter. 2005 to 2017, guess which country reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any other country in the world by far? It was America. So we can create jobs. Millions of jobs, grow the economy, grow the energy sector, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On the charge of inciting an insurrection that never occurred. Pretty amazing. No president is not president, and no insurrection occurred, and they're wasting the country's time. But there's a way for you to get back at them. Don't watch it. That's it. Just don't watch it. I'm Dennis Prager. We're talking to a lot of people in Dallas. And that is not having the national anthem played. It's really painful to see these fools in positions of prestige. It really is. But it's— that's the human condition. It's always been that way. Let's see here. Tim in Dallas, hello.

Mr. Prager, how are you? Thanks for having me on.

Yes, sir.

Well, I just wanted to say I appreciate it, enjoyed, uh, your caller goes back maybe 20, 30 minutes when he, uh, brought up hypocrisy in, you know, where the national anthem is actually played, uh, like before ball games, and he had no response to that.

Right, right. And is that why you called, to comment on that call?

And then, yeah, and then my question, or something you're gonna get your thoughts on, if Mark Cuban's decision-making and thought process on eliminating the national anthem being played prior to NBA games, would that carry over? Or how— imagine the impact if it carried over to the Olympic Games, which I think are in July and August.

So what role is he playing in the Olympic Games that are scheduled, I think, for Dallas?

I'm not sure that he's playing any role, but I just question his own thought process and decision-making, right? Because imagine if that was applicable to the Olympic Games, right?

Uh, oh yeah, then we wouldn't— you're right. But what he would argue then, that it's not played in the beginning, it's only played a few win, and other national anthems are played too. But what if— how do we know what national anthem represents, in his farcical words, all communities? The way leftists play with tradition, with things that people venerate, the contempt they have for the regular guy is so deep That's what this is, in large measure, what it's about. Those of us who treasure the national anthem are jokes in their eyes. We're jokes. We're backwards. We're not woke. We're not progressive. They're progressive. It's beautiful to give kids no national anthem before the game. Why should kids see the veneration of America? Symbolically by standing for the flag and having the national anthem played. We wouldn't want that. It's better to give kids nothing, just as they are being given now. The only thing they're given is anti-Americanism. That's why there's reason to worry about the future, and the way to solve that is to get your kids out of school and homeschool them or put them in a school that teaches rather than indoctrinates. That's it. That's the only answer with schools. They're lost. They're lost to people who are destructive to the society. It's astonishing, but it is true. Judith Dallas, hello.

Hello, Dennis. So glad to be on your program. I just have to share this with you. Um, I live in Dallas and of course go to Fort Worth to a lot— for a lot of things entertainment-wise, mostly. And, uh, we went to the Fort Worth Cattle Show, and there's always a rodeo every night. They do this for 2 weeks in Fort Worth for the cattle show, and I was absolutely flabbergasted at that show. They bring the horses out, they're going around the ring arena, and they have the flags, all the flags, and they are playing the national anthem. As they do, all the cowboys get up, they have cowboy hats, and they put those cowboy hats over their heart. And I'm telling you, it will bring you to tears.

It would go to that.

That's right. I believe you. And my suspicion is that people like Mark Cuban do not go to the rodeo. That's for losers. Patriotism's for losers. The national anthem is for losers. The Pledge of Allegiance is for losers. God is for losers. Religion is for losers. Guns are for losers. That's their view. So what do winners do? I'm not sure exactly. I know they stay woke, but I guess that's, that's all they do. Well, it's quite, quite something. Ransom in Columbus, Ohio.

Hello.

How are you, Mr. Prager? I appreciate you so much being so calm and so direct with your wisdom. I have an idea that I think you might agree with. Is that Mr. Cuban's from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is right next to Ohio. I used to live in Dallas. I worked for the airlines for a year down there. I'm very familiar with him. He's gotten a big head since he's become a billionaire. I think what all of us conservatives need to do, and with your permission, is we should boycott every business, every Shark Tank show, anything he's got his fingers to. We need to boycott that and remind Mr. Cuban. It was the United States of America that made him a billionaire. If he doesn't like this country, he can certainly leave and give up his ownership of the Mavericks and give it to somebody who would appreciate American people supporting his product line. I wanted to see what you thought about it.

I couldn't agree more. I, look, I, I very rarely call for, for this. I don't believe in it as a rule, but there's a level of destruction. I thought it was Nike with Kaepernick as their hero. And I feel that here, I mean, not to play the national anthem, the first professional team in North American history, not to play the national anthem, that's a big deal. So you're somewhat of an a-hole for doing that. Wonder what he would say to the guys who died at Normandy.

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Lived it. Look, let's, let's be honest, uh, Darryl, you suffered. You've really suffered. You went through it, but you're living proof God did this in your life. We're not summed up by our baseball statistics, at least not in God's economy.

No, we're not. And, and, and I'm grateful, you know, I'm grateful that I suffered because it made me greater in the end. Because God looks at the end, he doesn't look at the beginning. I think people look at the beginning, and God has a long-term plan for our life, which is, which is far greater than any baseball achievement or any success I've ever had in life, uh, to be in the end part of my life and running the race for real and having Victory, being victorious through Christ Jesus and knowing that I'm victorious and not looking back. I think too many of us get consumed with what was the beginning of who we were. Had I got consumed with that, had I not known that I had a mother that was praying for me, that I had a wife that was praying for me, and that God had a plan for me, I would have never been able to get to this place I'm at today. I'm more victorious than than any home run I ever hit. And I've hit some big ones in my days of playing ball. But in life, you know, to be able to be in God's plan— I'm not qualified to preach the gospel, but the Great One that lives inside of me is qualified to preach the gospel. And that I do understand, just like I understood the ability that I had to play the game with. I understood the talent, and I can go out there and perform. I had the great confidence. And see, I have the great confidence in the Holy Spirit as I go and do what I do now, as I go speak life as I write a book. I didn't want to write another book, but for some reason God wanted me to write another book, and here it is.

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Just remember, the impeachment that is going on is of a president who's not president and of an insurrection that never occurred. Other than that, it's really important. Degradation of of this democracy by the left continues on a daily basis. That's correct. That's indeed right. Lisa in Dallas, Cuban son goes to the same school as her son. Ironic that the school has an honor code. Well, I don't see his son necessarily violating that. But the damage the father is doing is remarkable. Anyway, there's a lot of that going on. The head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, what's the guy's name, Sean? Greg Popovich, yeah. He's at least as arrogant as Cuban. It's so interesting. I mean, the contempt that they have for their conservative fans. We won't play the national anthem, first time in the history of sports that we know of in North America. So that's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. The head coach of the San Antonio Spurs spoke of his hatred of Donald Trump knowing that half the fan base supported the president. Because there, you know why? There are no consequences to left-wing hate. That's the reason. And the reason for that is the media either doesn't report it, which is true basically for Popovich's Truly disgusting outbursts and Cuban's action, which was hidden. A lot of you in Dallas are learning this from me in LA because I just learned it. They pay no price. Can you imagine if a head coach in the NBA had spouted out against Barack Obama? The person would barely have time to pack his bags. There are no consequences to the left because they're protected by the media. The media are the way in which people learn what reality is. That's pretty powerful. Nicole in Dallas says that she knows where Mark Cuban lives and they could protest him I, as much as I loathe the man, I am against going to the homes of people. The left does that. They created this thing where we go to the homes and sort of terrorize the families. But hey, they're progressive. Okay, my friends, I'm Dennis Prager, and I will see you tomorrow.