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Believe it. Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. Welcome to The Dennis Prager Show. Amazingly, it is March 1st. So for whatever it is worth, and it may not be worth much, but nevertheless, Whenever January 1st comes, my brain is already attuned to it being March. I feel vindicated every year because of the speed with which March comes upon us, with January and February speeding by. And such is life. I welcome you to the program. I watched Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, And it's hard not to fall in love with her. And I don't mean only, I don't mean only in a human way. I mean in a political way even primarily. There's a lot of attractive women in politics who do nothing for me. In fact, sometimes I find them unappealing. But what makes her so lovable is the real— the realness of the way in which she speaks. I don't know why many politicians feel that they have to speak differently when they are in public than when they are in private. There are talk show hosts who do that too. They enter a talk show host mode of speech. I'm now sitting in the dark, gentlemen, for whatever it is worth. And sexually, there's a certain beauty to it. They may be even fine talk show hosts, but they enter, and now they will speak like this, as opposed to speaking like this. And I am a lover, I love the real. That's what she exuded. Do you have the lines that I sent you, Sean? There were two lines that I isolated. I listened to all 27 minutes of her speech. But there were two lines I really did want you to hear.

The economy—

there was such a prolonged ovation for that. See, if she's right, then the entire world of the left is corrupt and dangerous and destructive, because they were for crushing the economy. By the way, right-wing leaders did this in other countries too. I'm talking about the United States, but intellectual honesty demands I tell you my disappointment in Netanyahu in Israel is profound. Modi in India, supposed to be a conservative leader, shut his country down, sent God knows how many millions into abject poverty in an already poor country. They all had an answer from, if not the very beginning, certainly for the last half year with ivermectin, which is probably even more powerful than hydroxychloroquine and zinc. Although both are extremely effective. Do you realize that had scientists actually followed the science and had people not worshiped at the, at the altar of Dr. Fauci, you realize the number of lives we would have saved and the number of livelihoods we would have saved?

Administrators, parents, and the students themselves were of one mind. To make things work for our children. And the best way to do that was in the classroom. Now, in South Dakota, I provided all of the information that we had to our people, and then I trusted them to make the best decisions for themselves, for their families, and in turn, their communities. We never focused on the case numbers. Instead, we kept our eye on hospital capacity. Now, Dr. Fauci, he told me that on my worst day I'd have 10,000 patients in the hospital. On our worst day, we had a little over 600.

Now, I wonder if you'll see that reported in the New York Times.

I don't know if you agree with me, but Dr. Fauci is wrong a lot.

Too bad I didn't keep the applause in. The passion with which people said it. And of course, the reason I isolated her was the president was up to his usual excellence. He acted like he hadn't lost, not in the sense that he was adamant about not losing, but in the sense that His energy and his love of the crowd was the same as if he was still in office or running for office. He is the Energizer Buddy writ large. He did something very impressive. He was adamant about there not being another political party. And called it fake news that it was even considered. He gave the perfect reason why. Yeah, of course he gave the perfect— the only reason why means the Democrats win. You want to hand the left a victory? Make a third party. That's what he said. That's right, that's what he said. Do you have thoughts beyond what I just said? That was the key in your opinion as well? I want to give Dr. Estrin the mic here.

Yeah, it was a—

it was like a campaign speech, but there wasn't a campaign. He was very strong.

He went for his typical 90 minutes.

Had the prepared speech and then did his usual riffs and went through almost everything.

He went— anything you thought he was going to talk about, he talked about.

He was his usual fearless, blunt, funny, truthful self. That's right. Thank you. It was important to have the CPAC conference. I think it gave people a real shot in the arm. That to know that they're not alone. We're not alone. You're not alone. I know it, obviously, but, you know, being in public, you know you're not alone because you get so much feedback and you're aware of so many things and you relate with so many people. And Governor DeSantis is another impressive individual. I think that the ideal is to have new, uh, new blood. Not necessarily young blood. I don't care about age. I care about new. In this case, I don't normally care about new, but the president That is, the president— President Trump accomplished more than any president of my lifetime. Why is that not important to Republicans who hate his guts? I'll tell you why. Because there is a profound narcissism, uh, in, uh in the hatred of Trump by Republicans. What they're saying is, my own revulsion at Donald Trump's behavior is more important than the welfare of the country. That is how I read it. There are people I like. Narcissist is not the worst thing you could be. And you might not be narcissistic in other arenas. The human being is complex. But it is not possible to understand the threat of the left and to have been a never-Trumper. It is not possible. It is the classic square peg into a round hole. It cannot, it does just not go in. We either change the hole or the peg. The preoccupation with his demeanor, which was often awful— not often, excuse me, which was occasionally awful. Uh, does that really— is that more important than people having the dignity of a job? Are you kidding?

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Pressuring top aides to lie about nursing home deaths because he was afraid that Donald Trump was going to tweet about it and afraid that the Donald Trump DOJ was going to investigate him for various crimes, failing to report, suppressing information. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, was asked whether or not Cuomo still represents the gold standard, because at one point Joe Biden said the way Andrew Cuomo was handling the coronavirus reflected the gold standard.

All right, but Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic? Just a yes or no.

Well, John, the president— the president— well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John. I think the president is focused on his goal, his objectives as president of the United States. He's going to continue to work with Governor Cuomo, just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country. And I'm not here to give new labels or names from the president. I'm here to communicate with you about what our focuses are and what his objectives are as president.

Can you imagine if this were a Republican governor who ordered COVID-recovering elderly patients into nursing homes, a population acutely vulnerable to the virus, and then pressured top aides to lie about it, pressured one politician, a Democrat, fellow Democrat, and told that politician his career would be destroyed if he didn't alter the numbers. They crucify him. Absolutely crucify him.

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Now, Senator, in the list of inexplicable decisions, there is the Packers' decision not to go for it on 4th down in the NFC Championship game this year. And there's your decision to go to Cancun. We'll never get to the bottom of what happened in Green Bay. But what happened with the Cancun trip?

Oh, look, it was dumb as hell. My kids wanted to get out of there. We had 2 days with no power. And so Heidi and I said yes, and we took them to the beach. And In hindsight, that was obviously a mistake, and ever since then, the media seems to be utterly fixated with it.

So how have the people of Texas responded to it?

Well, look, the people of Texas are focused on coming out of these storms, which we have now, and now repairing and rebuilding. And you look at the storms we had last week, we had two winter storms, one after the other, hit Texas. And the combination of that caused the electrical grid to go down, caused essentially them to have to force a blackout for about 4 million Texans and cut off power, many for several days. The idea that we couldn't keep our lights on, that we couldn't keep our power on, is frustrating, it's infuriating. And I think where a lot of Texans are now is focused on making sure this doesn't happen again. You know, the number of Texans who had their pipes freeze and so had damage to their house, so they're in the process of of repairing and rebuilding, but the broader question of what happened structurally to cause the power to go out is, is an important debate and one I'm very active in preventing this from occurring in the future.

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It is Donald Trump's party. What have we been saying here? It's the only measure that matters.

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. I want to remind you that March and August are fundraising months for PragerU, Prager University. And at this point, I don't have to tell you how powerful, in the best sense of the word, in doing good and changing minds it is. And every— ultimately, every incremental dollar, incremental dollar goes to more people being touched by it. Though we have real problems with Facebook now and others. They're not making it easy, so that means we need even more help. And you, my listeners, the listeners to this show, made PragerU possible. You were the first people I asked for support, and you were the first people to give it. So please know, just go to prageru.com or to dennisprager.com, and there's a banner there. We don't know the denouement of the issue with regard to Mr. Potato Head. Hasbro announced that they're dropping Mr. Potato Head. None of us is sure why. Whom does that offend? I want you to think about that for a moment. Whom does that offend? The only people I can imagine being offended by Mr. Potato Head are those who deny that there are any misters. In other words, males. That there are no males at all. But Mr. Potato Head should not be Mr. Potato Head, but should have no gender or sex, which is the appropriate term. I want to explain something to you about the left so you will understand the world in which we live. America achieved such a wonderful status of freedom, opportunity, et cetera. That the left was confronted with an existential threat. America was an existential threat to the left. If America succeeds as a Judeo-Christian capitalist heteronormative country, In other words, nuclear family, without in any way speaking ill or hurting a gay person. That's not the same thing. I'll explain that later. If America succeeds, the left fails. This is a binary moment. Either the left succeeds or America succeeds. They cannot both succeed. So what you do is, since there is so little to truly complain about, the left for all of my life has invented issues. Mr. Potato Head, not allowing biological males who identify as females to race against females Heterosexual AIDS, these were things that were largely invented. If you care about science, which the left could not care less about, if you do, then you knew, thanks to Michael Fomento's myth of heterosexual AIDS, that AIDS was overwhelmingly in America, not in Africa, but in America, it was overwhelmingly A, gay men, not gay women. They were the last group likely to get it, so there was nothing homophobic about this. It's just science. The group least likely to contract AIDS were lesbians, but the groups most likely were gay men and intravenous drug users and their partners. But the left made up the story that it's an equal opportunity killer, which was a lie. It was not. What they do is they invent stuff like the race— America is racist. America is so little racist that they make up things called microaggressions. Microaggressions are statements that are perfectly innocuous and sometimes even noble, but which they have now declared to be racist. There is always a hysteria, something I've pointed out all the time. The reason that there's always a hysteria is there is no other way for the left to ruin America. By constantly telling you in a controlled press and controlled schools and controlled colleges and controlled Hollywood, by constantly telling you that there is some spectacular threat looming, they can get you to believe that America needs to be transformed, not merely improved. And that's, that's the state it is. What was wrong with Mr. Potato Head? What was wrong with Aunt Jemima? What was wrong with the Cleveland Indians? But they're made into big deals. Is America one iota better because there's no Aunt Jemima product any longer, or Uncle Ben's rice, or the Cleveland Indians? Are Indians better off not being celebrated? Don't teams name themselves after those they celebrate? Some activist group wants— what is it— Chrysler to drop the Cherokee label on one of the longest— what is wrong about that? Virtually every American who hears the name Cherokee with regard to a mobile device thinks it must be strong, correct? What else do you think of? Do you name a car after— I mean, is there a car named the Pacifist? Drive the 2021 Pacifist. Or even peace lover, and we should all be peace lovers. So, hey, hey, whatcha getting, eh? I'm gonna test drive the peace lover. Ooh, sounds exciting. You know, it's really remarkable when you think about it, think about it. A lot of whites were killed by Comanches. And they still name things after it. You would think from the white man's perspective, you wouldn't want to name anything after the Comanche. Cherokee, sorry, the Cherokee. Thank you. That's right. We'll be back.

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Tucker makes the argument, and we're going to play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, is unlike anything that Americans are used to. Instead of living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it's the powerful versus the workers. This revolution that we are living through— make no mistake, we are living through a revolution. It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely It's there, but this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, has actually been engineered by people with a very specific agenda. This is not an organic revolution. This is not something that is authentic. Instead, it's as if this was built in a laboratory. As if this was designed by an architect to try and accomplish a goal. What is that goal? Why are so few people talking about it? Let's listen to what Tucker Carlson had to say last evening. Play tape. Now, the first and most obvious question we might have asked at the time, and no one ever asked this, but it's clear. Why was a 46-year-old man reduced to passing badly counterfeited $20 bills in a convenience store in the middle of the day? George Floyd was unemployed. Why was he unemployed? How many other people like George Floyd are unemployed and why? Now, that would have been an interesting conversation. It might have been a fruitful conversation for all of us, but we didn't have it and we didn't have it by design.

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You know, of course he dances around. He doesn't want to give credit. The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth, but he does acknowledge it was the administration. And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration. That wasn't the Biden administration. In fact, somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the How many thousand deaths since he took office? Have there been— I think it's 100,000 deaths since Biden has been president. And she didn't— oh, she couldn't believe that question. How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths? And yet they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch. So I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging something that the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic, and it was just as Trump promised. Just what— remember President Trump said by Christmas? Remember? Of course you do. And yet anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.

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Now, unemployment is falling. You wouldn't know it by the news. I'll tell you why. Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done. It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did.

This show is now available on live video streaming on Town Hall TV as well as our website. If you want to watch the show, not just listen, go to All right, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager reading a column in the Los Angeles Times. I was thinking it's a defense of dropping Mr. Potato Head. Dennis Prager by one of its, all of who, all of its columnists are left-wing. And I was thinking, reading this column, which has the brainwashed idiocy in it, okay, they repeat lines. Let's see, okay, when as soon as I see the word spectrum, I know the person has not actually thought. So why is that happening? Okay, here we go. Yeah. Talking about the people like Ben Shapiro and others, they are incapable of grasping the scientific truth. It's now scientific truth on the left. Scientific truth. That gender is fluid, exists on a spectrum, and is not necessarily a function of genitalia. It's not only a function of genitalia, it's a function of chromosomes. What do you say to that? That's a convenient— that's an inconvenient truth for a woman like Robin on UpCarryin'. Do you see how the left destroys science? They're destroying math. Do you know that the Gates Foundation— for this alone, Bill Gates's name will go down as a mockery. He will be mocked by history. A million dollars from his foundation to groups that are teaching that math does not have a right answer, because the assumption that math has a right answer is white supremacist. You know, I couldn't make this stuff up. I literally could not make this stuff up. Who would think this up? And Gates, Bill Gates, gave $1 million to this program to ruin mathematics. Would Microsoft have hired people who didn't believe that there was a right answer in math? Just out of curiosity. God, what— you see, all of this is make-believe. It's a make-believe world. Because if there aren't crises and battles, crises to be engaged in, battles to be fought, these people have no meaning in their lives. It's a soulless world, the world of the left. And literally, it is soulless. There was a piece in the New York Times. It was incredible. I— it was in the New York Times last week. I had not seen it for some reason. Sometimes I miss a piece. So the Living Martyr saw it. And how ironic, because at my synagogue on Zoom, where I speak every week, and have for 25 years, mostly in person, now in Zoom. I would go in person, but it's hard to find a place that will allow it in California. I spoke about the, the adamant nature of the Bible's distinction between human and animal. And sure enough, last week a professor of philosophy wrote a piece that we are no different at all from animals. In fact, we are essentially squirrels. In fact, he ends it by saying the squirrels are better than us. They can jump onto trees better. That was an important point, yes. It's a soulless world and it needs to fill its emptiness with meaning. So the left finds meaning in these battles. Potato head. Sex doesn't exist. Gender is fluid. Gender is fluid. How come? Why is this a brand new scientific idea? Why didn't science know gender is fluid? You didn't, you didn't need, you didn't need, uh, modern test labs, right? Why didn't science, if this is scientific truth, why didn't science know this 1,000 years ago or 100 years ago or 50 years ago? Gender is fluid? Your identification with it might be fluid, but it isn't fluid any more than Math answers are fluid, but that's the whole point. Everything is fluid on the left except for fluids, because it's a subjective thing whether a fluid is a fluid. Where are we, gentlemen? I am happy to tell you that this is March, and we inaugurate another month with Relief Factor. I was, believe it or not, I was thinking about Relief Factor this morning. A, I take it every day, but that's not the reason I was thinking about it. I was thinking there were two, I have two thoughts on how much advertising they're doing. One, it shows you how successful it is, but B, they still believe correctly that there are so many people who haven't taken it. So try it for 3 weeks. That's it, 3 weeks. And you'll know in 3 weeks if it works. For $19.99, relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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are the people in the Trump administration and President Trump himself, who spearheaded Operation Warp Speed. Getting these vaccines as quickly as we've gotten them is stunning. And thankfully, that's something that the head of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, is willing to acknowledge, one of the few who is, apparently. This is what he said to Axios on HBO this week.

Let's talk a little bit more of the Trump administration.

Mask wearing aside, what did they get right?

The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to Secretary Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project. Those words were used sometimes to describe what needed to happen in order to get all parts of the government together together in an unprecedented way to test up to 6 vaccines in rigorous trials and to do this at-risk manufacturing so that if any of those trials happened to work, you would already have doses ready to go into arms. That would not be the way things are traditionally done. That effort and the recruitment of Dr. Moncef Slaoui was an incredibly important step forward.

That the administration deserves credit for because that did motivate a lot of actions, a lot of coordination.

The fact that we in December had not one but two vaccines that had gone through trials of at least 30,000 participants and had been judged safe and effective by a very rigorous and very public FDA process is just breathtaking that that got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this this virus is at least 5 years faster than it's ever been done before.

You know, of course, he dances around. He doesn't want to give credit. The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth, but he does, he does acknowledge it was the administration.

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Pressuring top aides to lie about nursing home deaths because he was afraid that Donald Trump was going to tweet about it and afraid that the Donald Trump DOJ was going to investigate him for various crimes, failing to report, suppressing information. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, was asked whether or not Cuomo still represents the gold standard because at one point Joe Biden said the way Andrew Cuomo was handling the coronavirus reflected the gold standard.

All right, but, Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard? Hi everybody. Uh, let me take a call. We've got a lot obviously to talk to you about. Lee in Chicago, hello.

Hello.

Hello.

Yeah, I, um, I mean, these sorts of reports have been going on for years, you know, about the Braves and the Redskins and all that. I'm Armenian and nobody even knows who we are and we're being written out of the history books. I would love it if, if there was a sports team or car or something named after us. But like I said, nobody even knows who we are anymore.

My friend, I want to tell you something. You are the first call of March, and it will be hard to surpass it. People have 31 days to surpass your call, and they may not. I'm not kidding you. I think it is truly profound what you just said. So you will get a big kick out of this if you haven't heard me say this. This is an ongoing battle of mine, that it is respectful, not disrespectful, to Native Americans or American Indians to have the teams named after them or specific Indian nations. So a guy called me once and said, well, why would you think if a team were named Jews? I'm a Jew. And so I said, sir, Jews have been looking for fans for 3,000 years. So you are my cup of tea. You're so right. Imagine a team, you know, the Baltimore Armenians.

Oh, wow.

Cool.

It would be more appropriate the Los Angeles Armenians.

Yes, it would. I know. I know that. I live in Yerevan West. I actually do live in Yerevan West Glendale.

Yeah, your, your screener was telling me, you know, like I'm a veteran and we had, you know, attack helicopters. You know, you had the Apache and Comanche and Black Hawk and, um, the Kiowa is a, uh, a small helicopter. So, you know, I, I don't see any negative connotations there.

Um, no, it's positive. It's positive.

It's respect, and you know that they're tough and they persevere.

That's right.

And you know, but you made a new point for me. That's why I'm so thrilled with your call. This keeps them in people's consciousness. That, that's why you would like a team named the Armenians, because you want to re-enter the, in the national or international consciousness. That was a great call. So therefore, I want— Lee, I want to tell you something. Are you ready? Oh yeah, go ahead.

I don't speak it. I'm sorry, my grandparents.

Oh, that's hilarious. I speak—

you're in America, you're going to speak English.

Yes, you're right. You know, he's right. God bless you. That That is another difference between many of the millions and millions of immigrants of the past. My neighbors, who, whenever I introduce them to friends, my next-door neighbors, I say, "These people make 'love your neighbor as yourself' easy." That is my way of introducing my wonderful neighbors, both of whom He and she, their parents, they are Arab Americans. They came, the parents came from Syria and Lebanon, if I'm not mistaken. But they don't speak Arabic because that generation of people who came to America wanted their children to become American. They didn't want them to speak with an accent. Now, by the way, I'm a big fan of of people speaking a number of languages, so I have no issue with parents speaking to their children in the parents' native language, provided that the child gets an English language immersion, which usually they do. But he doesn't speak Armenianly because his parents believed, hey, I want my kid to be an American. I don't want anything to jeopardize the Americanization of my child. The left loathes, loathes that attitude. Very sad. Anyway, I said to him in my, I'm sure, not perfect way, thank you in Armenian. We are broadcasting from Glendale, California. California, which has more Armenians, I believe, than any city in the world except the capital of Armenia. I think that's true. All right, I love that. I will remember that call. I wish there were a team named after the Armenians. So tell me, would Native Americans have done better if there was no Apache helicopter and, and no, uh, nothing named after— what is the car again? The Cherokee, right? Grand Cherokee. Or the Indians, or the Seminoles. Are the Seminoles being allowed to keep their name? The Florida— what is it, Florida State or University of Florida? I don't I don't know, the University of Florida I think is Gators. So this is a, an actually, it's actually bad for Indians. They were deeply commemorated, remembered, and placed into the American consciousness thanks to all of these names. But the left hurts every group that it tries to defend, that it— no, it doesn't try to defend, mea culpa— that it claims to defend. Feminists have not spoken out against biological men racing against them. Scientific fact that gender is fluid. Scientific fact. It's a brand new fact. No scientist in history knew this prior to Robin Apcarian's Los Angeles Times. But it's a scientific fact. The perversion of science is only one of the many mortal sins of the left. But there won't be one article in the LA Times, not one, with a contrary point of view.

This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves. Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. He's celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior. The conservative Robert Cecil. Beware of that young man, Palmerston said. He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side. The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition. For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties. The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves. While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other. Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority. I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, then they no longer represent us, and we can recall them or we can replace them. Peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us. Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition. He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, and what has to be fixed. What do we have on the other side? We have an elite that lives solely for power, corruption, and grift to make themselves richer and to stay in power, irrespective of the cost for those that put them there. Allied to that crusty old elite is a new dangerous, dangerous political actor. The AOCs of the world, the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power.

It's a very powerful sign if I still have a phone call in my brain, because I focus on every call so intensely that I can't remember a previous call vividly. Obviously, there are so many of them. It's like my surgeon and one of my back surgeries, by the way, all of which were successful. I work out, I am not in pain. It's— I'm very lucky, very lucky. A lot of people have back surgeries and nothing goes right. But anyway, it was a 7-hour surgery. I was really in danger of having my left arm paralyzed. And he said to me, Afterwards, right after I got up, I awakened from my 7 hours of anesthesia, said, you know, I gotta tell you, it was so difficult by the 7th hour that I was actually perspiring and I was, about to give up, but I persevered. And the next time I saw him, about, or the 2 times later anyway, anyway, about 6 months later, I mentioned that to him and he had no recollection of telling me that. And there's a good reason, because he, when you see a lot of people in your work, you can't remember every instance. I remember 'cause that was my instance. You remember your call to me better than I remember your call to me precisely for that reason. It's not an issue of not important, it's just an issue of reality. I didn't feel unimportant 'cause he didn't remember what he said to me. I was delirious that the guy did such a good job. So I'm only saying that in light of the call from the Armenian that I remember it. You realize how utterly self-destructive it is on the part of any of these Indian activist groups, which are like all activist groups, just subheads of the left. The Indian activist groups give as much damn about Indians as the black activist groups care about blacks. That's, uh, it's a facade. It is wonderful for Indians to be commemorated by name. Wonderful. Just ask an Armenian. Would you like a team named the Armenians? Good one, my friend.

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You know, of course, he dances around. He doesn't want to give credit. The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth, but he does, he does acknowledge it was the administration. And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration. That wasn't the Biden administration. In fact, Somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the— how many thousand deaths since he took office? Have there been— I think it's 100,000 deaths since Biden has been president. And she didn't— oh, she couldn't believe that question. How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths? And yet they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch. So I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging something that the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic, and it was just as Trump promised. Just what— remember President Trump said by Christmas? Remember? Of course you do. And yet anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.

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Unemployment is falling. You wouldn't know it by the news. I'll tell you why. Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done. It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did. They can't give Trump a minute— Trump credit for anything. So it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy. Trump was right. These experts are stunned. And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida. The numbers are about the same. In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states. So really, Florida did better. This does not fit the script. And now that we're tossing around numbers like $1.9 trillion like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork. So for all those reasons, The media has a vested interest in making things sound worse and making the coronavirus news, good news, put on the back burner. So they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear, more trepidation for this $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus package. Biggest stimulus is to let people go back to work.

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He and my friend Neil Mammon have found an organization called Every Black Life Matters. The website is everyblm.org. There are some nasty things being pushed by the BLM movement.

And you don't hear about that.

Again, these like really ignorant, usually white corporations, they just want to throw money. It's like a shakedown. So we're taking part of their narrative, the Black part and the matter part, and we're saying every single Black life matters to me.

Does every single Black life matter to you? So that's a different kind of a thing when you talk to a Black Lives Matter person who's, "Black lives matter, bro.

Black lives matter." And you say, "Look, every single Black life matters to me.

Does it matter to you?" You know, like, they know it's a trick, right? And then I go on to explain, "From conception to the grave, every Black life matters to us. Does that matter to you?" then they're caught in a conundrum.

We're taking the momentum of their messaging, we're shifting it, we're reframing the narrative to something that they cannot accept because fundamentally what we're exposing is that they are a political movement.

It's not principled, it's not a justice movement by any stretch, it's a political movement. And so what we have to expose is that this is a leftist, progressive, Marxist political movement that is not at all concerned about Black life, because if they were, they'd be in line with us.

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This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com. Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves. Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. He's celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil. "Beware of that young man," Palmerston said. "He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side." The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition. For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties. The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves. While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other. Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority. I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. I watched some of the CPAC. It was very, very impressive. I've spoken there many times this year, which is fine with me. I'm just mentioning that I'm very familiar with the people and with the event. But overwhelmingly this year it was people in politics, which is fine with me. I have no issue with that. Especially when they're of the caliber of Governor Noem, Governor DeSantis, Donald Trump. And I'm not slighting anybody else, but those are the first names that come to mind. I have to say that, and I believe that Donald Trump was the most effective president for doing good in this country in my lifetime, but I would like to see a new candidate because I want victory. I never lose sight of the fact that the left is a cancerous force in Western civilization. It acknowledges it. It doesn't call itself cancerous, but it acknowledges that it loathes Western civilization. So it's either a cancer or a cure, whichever it is, it wishes to destroy Western civilization. Well, that's a pretty important thing, no? Anyway, they all spoke beautifully. Heard the defense of not locking down the state. It was the government that locked— the government that caused the issues, not the COVID What I said this a year ago, a year ago, said it was the greatest mistake. And look at what's happening. Look at the havoc. I've read to you so often the damage done to children, the damage done to families, the damage done to incomes, the damage done to livelihoods, the damage done to addicts. The damage done to people psychologically. But it doesn't matter because Dr. Fauci said that you have to live in a lockdown state, right? None of it matters. And intellectual honesty demands that I note that the same attitude prevailed in a non-left-wing government, Israel. The ability of people to believe that they should give up their incomes, their livelihoods, and their freedoms in the name of safety. Whoa. I don't think there has ever been, outside of a fascist or communist regime, there has never been such a deprivation of liberty in modern history, right? Can you think of any? No, of course not. There's nothing close. All, all because of the word science. Science, that's what it is. Science. Of course, science doesn't tell us much. Scientists tell us much. And I don't think that scientists are any wiser than anybody else, as I often tell you, and therefore I'm not going to repeat that at this time. You want to play Christine Ohm? Just— I get the great joy, it's just a few seconds.

COVID didn't crush the economy. Government crushed the economy. Administrators, parents, and the students themselves were of one mind to make things work for our children, and the best way to do that was in the classroom. Now, in South South Dakota, I provided all of the information that we had to our people, and then I trusted them to make the best decisions for themselves, for their families, and in turn their community.

Wait, let me just stop there. Do you understand how un-left-wing that is? I let people determine what is best for themselves. That is the antithesis of the left. We will tell you what is best for you. There is no arrogance like left-wing arrogance. There is no arrogance— there is no right-wing arrogance that is comparable, right? There are right-wingers who are arrogant. I'm not talking about individuals, but the, the essence of right-wing is let people do their thing, get out of their way. Allow people to even make bad decisions. That's how you grow up. Go on, please.

We never focused on the case numbers. Instead, we kept our eye on hospital capacity. Now, Dr. Fauci, he told me that on my worst day, I'd have 10,000 patients in the hospital. On our worst day, we had a little over 600.

Okay, stop there for a second. Unless she's lying, he turns out to be a fool, doesn't he? But they pay no price. 25 years ago, I wrote, being left means never having to say you're sorry. It's just beautiful. He pays no price. The man could say gravity was suspended in New Jersey and he pays no price. If he really told her this and that was the outcome, the man was off by a factor of 12, 13. But doesn't matter. Who's going to report it? When you have the media on your side, you can do no wrong. Continue, please.

I don't, I don't know if you agree with me, But Dr. Fauci is wrong a lot.

God, was that worth everything? You know what the left loves also? They love style. When you think about it, they love style. Barack Obama had style. John F. Kennedy had style. That's what they love. Fauci has it. The best example was John F. Kennedy Jr., who— no, no knock on him, he achieved nothing that I'm aware of in, in his occupational life. Yet he was, he was mourned, aside from the tragedy of every young death, which is worth mourning. But he was mourned like he was a loss to America. But he was handsome, and he was glib and eloquent and had style. That's, that's what they're enamored, enamored of. Okay, my friends, this— are you ready for— I believe this is the The Potato Head story. Every day is another unbelievable story from the left. This is from Yahoo News. White author won't translate Amanda Gorman's works after criticism it was inappropriate. Did you happen to see this? You sent it to me, then I'll bet you saw it. If this is not the quintessence of racism, then I don't— I literally do not know what the word means. A Dutch poet will not translate— you remember Amanda Gorman, the young Black woman who was the poet at the Biden inauguration? A Dutch poet will not translate Amanda Gorman's work after criticism that it would be inappropriate for a white person to do so. Isn't English English? No, no, no, no. I'll tell you what we're missing. Do you have to get a Dutch black? I assume it's going to be translated into Dutch. I know, but they're translating— the words are in English. So you're translating the words that are in English to Dutch?

Yeah.

So what difference is here? No, no, what do you mean? You see, you really— you don't have a woke mind. Marika Lucas-Rijnerveld announced on Wednesday that they would be— what does it mean, they? Is this per— is this a non-gendered individual— would be translating the works on Twitter which Gorman had retweeted. All right, I will continue this when we return. I will take calls. You are listening to The Dennis Prager Show.

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It is Donald Trump's party. What have we been saying here? It's the only measure that matters. Conservatism has changed. I know populism is a dirty word on the left. It's used as a pejorative, but in 2016 we saw politics change. First it was the UK with Brexit, then various other nations around the world as disparate as Australia, India, and Austria. But it came here, and a man who'd never run for public office before decided to, and he ran for the highest office in the land. And what was his message had nothing to do with the existing tropes of conservative politics. It was about America being great once more, a recognition that both sides of the political aisle had failed the American people. Irrespective of their skin color, what they did for a living, where they came from, whether they had an accent, where they were part of some specific class, or whether they could be divided into the categories the left loves to divide us into. No, simply, had they been forgotten? Had their interests, their goals Their wishes been trampled upon? Had their jobs been exported to China? Had those that they had elected into office promised them one thing and then given them another, or delivered absolutely nothing at all?

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Tucker makes the argument, and we're going to play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, is unlike anything that Americans are used to. Instead of Living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. It's the powerful versus the workers. This revolution that we are living through— make no mistake, we are living through a revolution. It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely, it's there. But this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, has actually been engineered by people with a very specific agenda. This is not an organic revolution. This is not something that is authentic. Instead, it's as if this was built in a laboratory, as if this was designed by an architect to try and accomplish a goal. What is that goal? Why are so few people talking about it? Let's listen to what Tucker Carlson had to say last evening. Play tape. Now, the first and most obvious question we might have asked at the time, and no one ever asked this, but it's clear. Why was a 46-year-old man reduced to passing badly counterfeited $20 bills in a convenience store in the middle of the day? George Floyd was unemployed. Why was he unemployed? How many other people like George Floyd are unemployed and why?

Now, that would have been an interesting conversation.

It might have been a fruitful conversation for all of us, but we didn't have it and we didn't have it by design.

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Hello, Dennis.

Hi.

Hi. Thanks for taking my call.

I'm looking at a history book of Jeep that I got for a present several years ago. I'm looking at a picture of the two top American Motors executives, and they're wearing great big headdresses that were given to them by the Cherokee Nation, and they're posing in a picture with the leaders and members of the Cherokee Nation, year 1974, the year that they released the Cherokee, with the influence, blessing, and the admiration and full-hearted, well-welcomed effort of the Cherokee Nation. And I'm thinking about how the left, they are canceling our culture, our history, whether it be Lincoln and Washington and others by force. But here they're taking it to a new level where they're getting cultures to cancel themselves in ignorance, that they don't even know their own history, and that this has done something. Um, this is— they're canceling their own platforms, whether it be Aunt Jemima syrup, or maybe the Potato Head will become the syrup container. I'm not sure. I mean, it's all confusing anymore, but it's, it's, it's, it blows my mind.

It's an interesting thing that the Cherokee Nation gave its blessing to the Cherokee Key Auto in 1974. So the question is, what has happened since then? And the answer is that the left has poisoned the dialogue about Indian names. It is as simple as that. I want to get back to this. Thank you, appreciate it. So Yahoo News: a Dutch poet will not translate Amanda Gorman's work after criticism that it would be inappropriate for a white person to do so. Marika Lucas-Rijnveld announced on Wednesday that they— I don't know why it says they— would be translating the works on Twitter, which Gorman had retweeted. However, Rijnveld, the youngest author ever to win the International Booker Prize for the novel The Discomfort of Evening, decided to step down from the role on Friday. Raineveld said in a Twitter statement, I'm shocked by the uproar around my involvement in the dissemination of Amanda Gorman's message, and I understand people who feel hurt by the choice. Wait, if he understands, or she understands— I don't know if it's a he or she. Marika sounds female. But in any event, I don't under— I don't understand. Then why is this Marika shocked? I'm shocked, but I understand. Among those that criticized the decision was Dutch cultural activist and journalist Janice Dule. In an opinion piece for the newspaper De Volkskrant, she said, not to take anything away from Menevelt's qualities, but why not choose a writer who is just like Gorman, spoken word artist, young female, and unapologetically black. So only blacks can translate blacks, and they're not racist?

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If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision our objectives, then they no longer represent us, and we can recall them, or we can replace them peacefully, or otherwise, if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us. Donald Trump understood that at a visceral level, at a level of intuition. He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, and what has to be fixed. What do we have on the other side? We have an elite that lives solely for power, corruption, and grift, to make themselves richer and to stay in power, irrespective of the cost for those that put them there, allied to To that crusty old elite is a new dangerous, dangerous political actor. The AOCs of the world, the Rashida Tlaibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven, not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.

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Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for reelection. They just, they signed what is called a consent decree. Now, this is very confusing. It can be very confusing because there's another consent decree that was approved many, many years ago. And so the real frustrating part of all of this is that there was a consent decree that was put forward in 1982. In 1982, I'm reading from Politico, the Democrat National Committee filed a lawsuit charging the Republican National Committee with seeking to discourage Black voters from voting through targeted mailings warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods. To extend the decree, the Democrat National Committee needed to show that the Republican National Committee violated the terms of the pact. The Democrats pointed to a series of incidents from the 2016 election in which they alleged people who claimed or appeared to be working for the RNC were engaged in poll watching. Instead, Vasquez, an Obama-appointed judge— this is back in 2018— lifted the decree, said you're free now, RNC, to do election integrity efforts anywhere you want, especially in Georgia, in the South.

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All right, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. March and August are fundraising months for PragerU, perhaps the most effective voice in changing minds to appreciate Judeo-Christian and American values around the world with a billion views a year. We have something called Prager Force. One of the highlights, if not the highlight for me anyway, of March and August is talking to members of Prager Force, the high school, college group now, what is it, 13,000, I think it is, around the world. And I get to meet these wonderful young people. Verena, or Verena Youssef, is a Prager Force member in Australia at the University of— at the Monash University in Melbourne. Hello, Verena. Hello, hello, how are you? Where did we meet?

Um, I don't think we've ever physically met, but that's definitely something, um, on my wish list. But I did have the honor of asking you a question on the Dennis Prager Show. Um, I asked you a question about the conflation of Nazism and conservatism, um, and I was quite honored to ask you such a question since you are a Jewish man, and I have the exact same honor of receiving such a wonderful response from you. So if that qualifies as a meeting, I'm pretty happy.

Well, was that the fireside chat?

Yes, yes, yes.

Okay, so you see, because I did— so I did meet you via the video. Anyway, it is great. It is a pleasure to be with you. Tell me what the story is in a nutshell in Australia. I have a very sad belief that the English-speaking countries have become the most what's now called woke. I don't know if that term is used in Australia, is it?

No, it definitely is. Yeah, there are a lot of snowflakes in Australia.

So, uh, the United States, Canada, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are the, are the most radicalized of the Western world's countries. Do you have a theory at all? I don't, I don't have a theory. Just for the— I wonder if you might.

Um, well, I think that the theory is once upon a time all these countries held very strong Judeo-Christian values because a lot of people were practicing Christians. But now, when you look at the census results, there is a decline in practicing Christians in Australia. So the prominent Christian denomination in Australia is Catholicism, and unfortunately there are a lot of Catholics, baptized Catholics, that are not necessarily practicing, especially amongst my generation. So I think subsequent to that, there is a lack of practice, a lack of passion for Christian, Judeo-Christian values. And there's also a lack of purpose because if you deprive someone of religion, you deprive someone of a sense of purpose, a sense of meaning of life. You also, you're quite lost. You're not guided by values or proverbs or commandments. So you seek your self-worth through the secular faith, through radical secularism. And I think that's a problem right now in the West, to become less religious. More secular, which has pretty much planted the seed for radical ideologies like socialism as well.

That's an excellent analysis. My only hesitation is Germans have secularized, French have secularized, Spaniards have secularized, the Irish have, but our countries have flipped out. You're in Melbourne, right? So you had a particularly severe lockdown, is that correct?

Yeah, we like to refer to our premier as Dictator Dan because he's had one of the most— many, actually, we've had a number of lockdowns, many draconian lockdowns. We've had the strictest lockdown in the entire country. We're kind of, we're out of it at the moment, but there are some restrictions. But you've had the worst lockdown and had the worst results as well.

Were there voices in Australia or in Melbourne specifically, like in the United States— and there haven't been enough voices in the United States, believe me— who have said that this is not right? This is— we would use the word unconstitutional. Constitutional, but I don't know if that would be applicable in Australia. But it's just not right. You can't deprive me of the right to visit relatives or go to work.

Yeah, so unfortunately this lockdown is actually legal. So I am a law student, and part of my public law and statutory interpretation unit, I had to write a 2,000-word essay pretty much covering the lockdown and the legislation that actioned the lockdown. So this lockdown is extremely legal, which is the sad part.

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Pressuring top aides to lie about nursing home deaths because he was afraid that Donald Trump was going to tweet about it and afraid that the Donald Trump DOJ was going to investigate him for various crimes, failing to report, suppressing information. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, was asked whether or not Cuomo still represents the gold standard, because at one point Joe Biden said the way Andrew Cuomo was handling the coronavirus reflected the gold standard.

All right, but Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic? Just a yes or no.

Well, John, the president— the president— well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John. I think the president is focused on his goal, his objectives as president of the United States. He's going to continue to work with Governor Cuomo just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country. And I'm not here to give new labels or names from the president. I'm here to communicate with you about what our focuses are and what his objectives are as president.

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Now, Senator, in the list of inexplicable decisions, there is the Packers' decision not to go for it on fourth down in the NFC Championship game that this year. And there's your decision to go to Cancun. We'll never get to the bottom of what happened in Green Bay. But what happened with the Cancun trip?

Oh, look, it was dumb as hell. My, my kids wanted to get out of there. We had 2 days with no power. And so Heidi and I said yes, and we took them to the beach. And in hindsight, that was obviously a mistake. And ever since then, the media seems to be utterly fixated So how have the people of Texas responded to it? Well, look, the people of Texas are focused on coming out of these storms, which we have now, and then, and now repairing and rebuilding. And, and you look at the storms we had last week, uh, we had two winter storms, one after the other, hit Texas, and the combination of that caused the Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.

Fundraising month for PragerU is March and August, and I speak most days to a member of Prager Force, so you will get hope and joy, and I mean it, inspiration these young people, 13,000 around the world. I open up March with Verena Yusuf, and she is at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She's 20 years old, Prager Force member there. So you wrote a paper on the legality of the lockdown orders in Australia?

Yep, that's right. It was part of our public law year.

So is that the reason for the lack of opposition, or is it like here, people are simply afraid of the virus?

I think it's a combination of things. I think firstly, initially it was a feeling of misinformation. People were uneducated, they were getting the wrong idea about the lockdown. So there were a lot of so-called, what the media labeled as Karens, who were walking into stores not wearing their masks and speaking about their human rights are being violated, but they were mentioning international treaties, which are not binding on Australian law. They haven't been ratified in our legislation. So they came, they took the center stage, the spotlight was on them, but they took the wrong idea and they presented the wrong argument. So that was one perspective. Another one was people were just pretty much too scared. As an Australian, I do definitely envy the patriotism of other Americans because we don't have that same level of care and patriotism in our country, and I'm not too sure as to why that's the case. But then once people saw what happened after the first lockdown, and once people realized that the second wave of COVID was a direct result of the failed hotel quarantine program funded and organized by the state government under the leadership of Premier Daniel Andrews. That's when people took a step back and started to question these things. But again, they just didn't have the legal knowledge to understand how this lockdown was even passed or actioned and how to go about expressing their dissent, because at the moment the government has so much power thanks to legislation that have been passed and continue to be renewed.

All right, quick question here: how did you discover PragerU?

So that question, I was wondering about it the other day. I don't remember how it came up. I think it must have come up on my YouTube recommendations, but my first video of PragerU was one one of the Will Witt called Style Videos. And once I watched the first one, I pretty much binge-watched the rest of the Prager videos all night.

You really have? 450?

Not all, not— it's not an absolute, but I watched a large chunk, probably from midnight till 5 in the morning. I just kept watching all these videos. I was so happy to find a think tank and content that reflected my values in such a cool and modern way.

And then you joined Prager Force?

Yeah, I joined Prager Force a couple of months ago. I was sick, bored at home, and I found out about the— because I was stuck in another lockdown, of course. And I found out about the Prager Force program, um, through Instagram, and I jumped on the opportunity.

Well, you will meet a lot of wonderful people through Prager Force. It'll give you, uh, a sense of, of having— of not being alone. Do you, by being conservative in Australia, do you feel lonely?

I do feel lonely at university for sure. So I'm currently studying a double degree of arts and law, but last— in my first year of university, I just studied arts because I was trying transferring to York because I didn't have the initial grades for it. And I was doing units like human rights, sociology, international relations, all these units that I thought I would really thoroughly enjoy, but it turned out they were extremely left-leaning. So much so that my human rights tutor was somehow impressed with my work because I only used to just reflect his values in my essays. And he compared me as a compliment to AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. And that was a compliment from his end. And at that point, I just didn't know what to do with this compliment. I tried to take it on the chin and move on. But that was just a taste of the way my tutors and lecturers think or thought back then.

That is one of the most dramatic examples. A compliment to a student, you are, you remind me of AOC. And Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Well, you, you obviously hid your values. That's very—

I definitely did. Yes.

So are you— wait, so does that mean are you in the closet at Monash?

Um, I wouldn't say I was definitely in the closet first year, and because I had to— I was still not very strong in my political values. I was too tired figure things out. But last year, I didn't have a chance to be opinionated because my entire year was online, and that didn't really give an opportunity for me to speak out. Every time I felt like someone was saying something radical, I would just ask them questions in front of my entire Zoom class, and they would pretty much just buckle and get shy and not answer my questions. I've always addressed— I've always spoken up through questions instead of attacking the person person directly.

Do you post PragerU videos?

I do, yes, on my Instagram, but I don't have many. I have another separate political Instagram that no one at Monash probably knows about. I don't even have many friends at university because I tend to not associate too much with the university culture.

Well, listen, it's a, it's a joy to meet you again. This time, we're getting closer to meeting in person.

I can't wait till the borders open.

Yes. Well, thank you so much. Look, we're making inroads. This is an example. Please help us. 833-PRAGER-U. We have a Western civilization to save, and certainly an America to save, or just go to the banner at DennisPrager.com or PragerU.com. They are tax-deductible donations. And you know my view: the good are divided into 3 groups: those who fight, those who help the fighters, and those who do nothing. Helping the fighters is as good as fighting. The fighters can't fight without help. Yeah, right now the only group in the closet in, in, uh, Western life are conservatives.

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You know, of course, he dances around. He doesn't want to give credit. The word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth, but he does acknowledge it was the administration. And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration. That wasn't the Biden administration. In fact, Somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the— how many thousand deaths since he took office? Have there been— I think it's 100,000 deaths since Biden has been president. And she didn't— oh, she couldn't believe that question. How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths? And yet they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch. So I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging something that the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic, and it was just as Trump promised. Just what— remember President Trump said by Christmas? Remember? Course you do. And yet anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.

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Now unemployment is falling. You wouldn't know it by the news. I'll tell you why. Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done. It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did. They can't give Trump a minute— Trump credit for anything. So it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy. Trump was right. These experts are stunned. And it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida. The numbers are about the same. In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states. So really, Florida did better. This does not fit the script. And now that we're tossing around numbers like $1.9 trillion like nickels, the media do not want the news to be so good that there would be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork. So for all those reasons, The media has a vested interest in making things sound worse, in making the coronavirus news, good news, put on the back burner so they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear.

I did more research on this Dutch poet will not translate Amanda Gorman's poetry. Amanda Gorman is the young woman poet who recited her poetry at the Biden inauguration because this Translator, and I was right, I picked up on it. Every reference to this Marika Lucas-Reneveld uses they, not he or she. So this preferred pronoun of this woke poet is they, and everybody falls into line in speaking of the person as they. Yahoo News, the The Guardian, etc. But nevertheless, despite the fact of Raynevelt's wokeness, the opposition to him or her, and I don't say that with disrespect, I'm saying him or her or they, translating the work is based on the fact that this person is white. So what if they— I don't understand. I assume it was to translate it into Dutch. Doesn't need to be translated into English. So as I said earlier, does that mean that only a black can translate a black? Can a black Can a Senegalese translator translate Shakespeare? Can a black translate a white? The left is the purest form of racism outside of the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. The purest form of racism. That race determines character and abilities. That's what they hold. And yet liberals vote for the left. I said something last week, I think it was Friday, if only the evil did evil, the world would be heavenly. I'm going to say that every day I remember to. Decent people end up doing more evil in this world than intrinsically evil people. There aren't that many intrinsically evil people. It's the decent that give them power who cause most of the evil on Earth. Liberals voting left unfortunately are doing that right now.

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Pressuring top aides to lie about nursing home deaths because he was afraid that Donald Trump was going to tweet about it and afraid that the Donald Trump DOJ was going to investigate him for various crimes, failing to report, suppressing information. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, was asked whether or not Cuomo still represents the Gold State standard, because at one point Joe Biden said the way Andrew Cuomo was handling the coronavirus reflected the gold standard.

All right, but Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic? Just a yes or no.

Well, John, the president— the president— well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John. I think the president is focused on his goal, his objectives as president of the United States. He's going to continue to work with Governor Cuomo just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country. And I'm not here to give new labels or names from the president. I'm here to communicate with you about what our focuses are and what his objectives are as president.

Can you imagine if this were a Republican governor who ordered COVID recovering elderly patients into nursing homes, a population acutely vulnerable to the virus, and then pressured top aides to lie about it, pressured one politician, a Democrat, fellow Democrat, and told that politician his career would be destroyed if he didn't alter the numbers. They crucify him, absolutely crucify him.

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Now, Senator, in the list of inexplicable decisions, there is the Packers' decision not to go for it on fourth down in the NFC Championship game this this year. And there's your decision to go to Cancun. We'll never get to the bottom of what happened in Green Bay. But what happened with the Cancun trip?

Oh, look, it was dumb as hell. My, my kids wanted to get out of there. We had 2 days with no power. And so Heidi and I said yes, and we took them to the beach. And in hindsight, that was obviously a mistake. And ever since then, the media seems to be utterly fixated So how have the people of Texas responded to it? Well, look, the people of Texas are focused on coming out of these storms, which we have now, and then, and now repairing and rebuilding. And you look at the storms we had last week, we had two winter storms, one after the other, hit Texas. And the combination of that caused the electrical grid to go down, caused essentially them to have to forced a blackout for about 4 million Texans and cut off power, many for several days. The idea that we couldn't keep our lights on, that we couldn't keep our power on, is frustrating, it's infuriating. And I think where a lot of Texans are now is focused on making sure this doesn't happen again. You know, the number of Texans who had their pipes freeze and so had damage to their house, so they're in the process of repairing and rebuilding, but the broader question of what happened structurally to cause the power to go out is, is an important debate and one I'm very active in preventing this from occurring in the future.

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It is Donald Trump's party. What have we been saying here? It's the only measure that matters. Conservatism has changed. I know populism is a dirty word on the left. It's used as a pejorative. But in 2016, we saw politics change. First, it was the UK with Brexit. Than various other nations around the world, as disparate as Australia, India, and Austria. But he came here, and a man who'd never run for public office before decided to, and he ran for the highest office in the land. And what was his message? Had nothing to do with the existing tropes of conservative politics. It was about America being great once more. A recognition that both sides of the political aisle had failed the American people, irrespective of their skin color, what they did for a living, where they came from, whether they had an accent, where they were part of some specific class, or whether they could be divided into the categories the left loves to divide us into. No, simply, had they been forgotten? Had their interests, their goals, their wishes been trampled upon? Had their jobs been exported to China? Had those that they had elected into office, promised them one thing and then given them another, or delivered absolutely nothing at all.

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Tucker makes the argument, and we're going to play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, is unlike anything that Americans are used to. Instead of living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it's the powerful versus the workers. This revolution that we are living through— make no mistake, we are living through a revolution. It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely, it's there. But this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, has actually been engineered by people with a very specific my mind, hence my repeating it, that a major Dutch poet, author—

well, not poet, yeah, Dutch poet, yeah— will not be allowed to translate the Black American young woman Amanda Gorman's poetry into Dutch because he he's white. Excuse me, he or she. It goes— this person goes as they, so I don't know if it's a he or she, though the name Marika, I believe, is female. Anyway, that's a side point. The point here is this is what the left now believes. Only blacks can translate blacks. If that is not the purest form of racism, I can't think of a purer form. Can a black translate a white? Look, last week I reported to you from Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, right? Publishers of Bon Appétit. Some Jewish fascist wrote that it was wrong for a non-Jew to comment on how to make hamantaschen better. Hamantaschen is the Purim pastry that is eaten on the holiday of Purim, which just was last Friday, as it happens, by coincidence. It is essentially flavorless dough with a yummy center. But it— so I would say that as a Jew, I would say that anybody who has a recommendation on making hamantaschen tastier should be given some Jewish award. This is, this is what we are now entering, and half of America's College-age students and now high school students believe that that is humane and decent and good, as opposed to pure undiluted racism. Only Jews can write about Jewish recipes. Only blacks can translate blacks. Cultural appropriation. I think cultural appropriation is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Anyway, who hasn't culturally appropriated? The only people who have not culturally appropriated are people who've come into contact with no other cultures. So in other words, truly the most isolated provincial people in the world are the purest according to the left. And yet, as I pointed out at the end of last hour, liberals vote left. Yep, indeed. Time for me to make this announcement again: if only the evil did evil, the world would be good. That's right. The evil succeed because many, many vast numbers of decent people help them. That is the case of the liberals voting Democrat. That's, that's what it is. I know very decent liberals, truly wonderful human beings, and they enable the left. That's it. That's what— that's all there is to know. CPAC was this weekend. The president was his usual powerful self, made a powerful pitch against the Biden administration's law. Now, law— is it law yet? Has Congress passed it about, uh, about not discriminating on behalf of females to compete against females in sports? It passed the House. It'll be interesting if it passes the Senate. Will every single Democrat vote That's what it has to have. Well, feel for those of you who have daughters in high school sports. Kristi Noem was great. DeSantis was great. We have a lot of great people. Spoke earlier about my being perfectly okay with any wonderful candidate. My, um, my allegiance is to defeating the left. If Donald Trump couldn't defeat the left, by golly, I'll be there with him again. If Kristi Noem can, I'll be with her. If Ron DeSantis can, I'll be with him. That's what you should all hold. If, if we don't defeat the left, America is defeated. I don't know why that should strike any Republican as controversial. Wow, only blacks can translate blacks. A new one, eh? I may save this for, uh, the Ultimate Issues Hour. Humans or animals? Let's Over it. That'll be a good one for tomorrow. Here's a piece from the Jerusalem Post. And as Israel tropical disease expert says he has new proof that a drug used to fight parasites in third world countries could help reduce the length of infection for people who contract coronavirus. Professor Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, last week completed a clinical trial of the US Food and Drug Administration-approved drug ivermectin. Oh, ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic agent that has also been shown to fight viruses. Now you ready? All of— all those of you who have helped kill Americans by denying the efficacy of ivermectin— and again, nice people involved in non-intentional homicide— those of you who have opposed hydroxychloroquine and zinc, there weren't double-blind studies. The double-blind placebo-controlled study included 100 people with mild moderate cases of the disease who were not hospitalized for the virus. It tested whether ivermectin could shorten the viral shedding period, allowing them to test negative for coronavirus and leave isolation in only a few days. Schwartz said the drug was shown to help, quote-unquote, cure people of the virus within just 6 days. Moreover, the chances of testing negative for coronavirus were 3 times higher for the group who received ivermectin than the placebo. If your doctor would not have given you ivermectin, change your doctor. Could be the sweetest person, someone you've had a bond with your whole life, but the person is, is a herd thinker, not someone you want as your doctor. Keep the person as a friend. Get any doctor that refused to give you ivermectin in a non-hospitalized environment is followed sheep, not science. Okay, just this effect, just a fact. Get rid of that doctor. Keep him as a friend, keep her as a friend. These are all again nice people who do damage. Nice people do more damage than evil people. Evil people do one-to-one damage. This monster last week who murdered 3 people in a family after being released from prison and then ate the organs of one of them, I mean, that's obviously an evil monster. The harm they do is awful, but it is not on a giant scale. Giant scale can only be done with decent people helping along. So I wrote my two columns, The Good German and The Good American, a couple of weeks ago. From a public health point of view, the majority of patients with corona are mild cases, and 90% of these people are isolated out of the hospital. Schwartz said, if you have any kind of drug that can shorten the duration of the infectiousness of these patients, that would be dramatic as they will not infect others. Nevertheless, what did the NIH say in a statement last Thursday? There was insufficient data for the COVID-19 treatment guidelines panel to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Wow, the corruption in the sciences is profound. This has been all new to me. I didn't realize how corrupt the FBI, the CIA, the NIH— I didn't realize this, and I feel foolish for not realizing it. But I do now.

This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves. Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War. He's celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil. Beware of that young man, Palmerston said. He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side. The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition. For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties. The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves. While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other. Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority. I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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If we empower them by giving them a measure of our sovereignty, if they fail to be faithful to our vision, our objectives, then they no longer represent us. And we can recall them, or we can replace them peacefully or otherwise if they decide that the power is more important than the promise that they are meant to keep to us. Donald Trump understood that. At a visceral level, at a level of intuition. He is the most intuitive individual I have ever met in terms of understanding somebody else and just understanding what is right, what needs to be done, what is broken, or what has to be fixed. And what do we have on the other side? We have an elite that lives solely for power, corruption, and grift, to make themselves richer and to stay in power, irrespective of the cost for those that put them there. Allied to that crusty old elite is a new dangerous, dangerous political actor. The AOCs of the world, the Rashida Talibs, the Ilhan Omars, who are powered, who are driven not simply because they want power, but because they are resentful of the other.

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Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, alongside the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who's now up for reelection. They just, they signed what is called A consent decree. Now, this is very confusing.

It can be very confusing because there's to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19. However, The NIH has said that for other things, quote, ivermectin has been widely used and is generally well tolerated.

God.

Well, it's a bad day when a talk show host knows more about how to treat COVID than most doctors and the NIH. I claim that I am such a person. Person. And it is with no pride that I say it. It is with embarrassment for my country and shame for the medical profession. Slovakia becomes the first EU nation to formally approve ivermectin for both prophylaxis and treatment COVID-19 patients. The Slovak Republic's Minister of Health has formally registered registered ivermectin as an approved prophylaxis and treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. In breaking news, the authorization occurred yesterday— that's, that's a couple of weeks ago— as doctors received the news that they could proceed with formally authorized prescriptions both in hospitals and and outpatients. The mortality rate in nursing homes in Germany is about 25% to 30%. After treating about 100 residents with ivermectin, the rate in one case series apparently went down to— what do you think the number is? No. From 25 to 30% to 5%. So all of you who have supported the doctors and Fauci and the others not recommending ivermectin, you have participated in death. But you're a nice person, so you live with yourself, and that's fine. I, I don't want you not to be able to live with yourself. I want you to do, uh, penitence. God, it's disgusting. The number of lives shattered because of death and because of livelihoods ruined because we wouldn't use ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and zinc. There's nothing— there's not been in modern times, there's not been as irresponsible a choice made by authorities as that. There is no, uh, nothing comparable in the medical world. How about this one? You hear about all these people saying, oh well, if you get the vaccination, you could still transmit the virus. There's a new one, Jerusalem Post. Coronavirus— can a vaccinated person still spread COVID? Several Israeli research teams are getting very promising results that the answer is no. This is from 2 days ago. After nearly 2 months, Israeli data is beginning to confirm what Pfizer already knew: their coronavirus vaccine stops symptomatic and severe COVID-19. There is growing evidence that people who get vaccinated do not spread the virus very much, if at all. So I have a question: why are people gonna— why is Fauci telling people to wear masks even after vaccination. Abundance of caution. AOC. That's what it stands for. AOC. Abundance of caution. Earlier this week, a SARS-CoV-2 immunity and reinfection evaluation report by Public Health England was pre-printed, pre-printed online by the peer-reviewed Lancet medical journal that evaluated staff working in publicly funded hospitals in the UK. The study measured the impact of a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine over an 8-week period and found, quote, strong evidence that vaccinating working-age adults will substantially reduce asymptomatic and symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and therefore reduce transmission of infection in the population. Wearing a mask. I got a question for you folks. How's this? If the vaccine is effective, and it apparently is, why do you care if other people wear masks? Somebody's got to explain that to me. Yeah, I got the vaccination, but you better wear a mask. Or even more bizarre, I'll wear a mask. That's why this nonsense of it will need passports in order to travel— if you're worried about contracting the illness, get vaccinated and that ends the issue. What do you care if I'm vaccinated or not? We're going to still have to sit in airplanes and breathe in our own carbon dioxide for 5 hours? I can't tell you, I've traveled 130 countries, every single state, basically every week for much of my life. And I have— I not only have no problem with travel, it is, it is a joy, but I, I rue going to Wisconsin this week, sitting on a plane and wearing a mask, knowing Knowing what a fraud I'm participating in. Total fraud. Because while you eat, you don't have to do it. As it should be. But the ultimate fraud is, if you got a vaccine, why do you care if I wear a mask? That will be very interesting to hear an answer to.

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You know, of course, he dances around. He doesn't want to give credit. The, the word Trump doesn't come out of his mouth, but he does, he does acknowledge it was the administration. And Americans can understand it was due to President Trump's administration. That wasn't the Biden administration. In fact, somebody even asked Jen Psaki yesterday about the— how many thousand deaths since he took, took office have there been? I think it's 100,000 deaths. Since Biden has been president? And she didn't— oh, she couldn't believe that question. How dare you blame us for 100,000 deaths? And yet they have no problem blaming Trump for the deaths on his watch. So I, I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit grateful to Dr. Francis Collins for acknowledging something that the Biden administration refuses to do. And that is Operation Warp Speed is stunning, is breathtaking, is epic. And it was just as Trump promised. Just what— remember President Trump said by Christmas? Remember? Of course you do. And yet anybody who defends him, who supports him, you better look out.

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Unemployment is falling. You wouldn't know it by the news. I'll tell you why. Because this good news is happening so quickly after the new administration, it cannot be attributed to anything the new administration has done. It therefore must be a consequence of what the old administration did. They can't give Trump credit for anything, so it can't be that Trump was right, that we ought not shut down the economy. Trump was right. These experts are stunned, and it turns out it doesn't matter what the state did, whether there was a draconian shutdown like California, which brake slammed our economy, or whether the state more or less kept open like Florida. The numbers are about the same. In fact, they're better in Florida when you consider the average age of a Floridian is older than the average age of other states. So really, Florida did better. This does not fit the script. And now that we're tossing around numbers like $1.9 trillion like nickels, The media do not want the news to be so good that there will be energy not to pass this $1.9 trillion bill that's full of pork. So for all those reasons, the media has a vested interest in making things sound worse, in making the coronavirus, uh, news, good news put on the back burner, so they gin up more energy, more anxiety, more fear, more trepidation for this $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus package. Biggest stimulus is to let people go back to work.

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Folks, I'm talking to Kevin McGarry. He and my friend Neil Mammon I have found an organization called Every Black Life Matters.

The website is everyblm.org.

There are some nasty things being pushed by the BLM movement, and you don't hear about that.

Again, these like really ignorant, usually On the line, Dinesh D'Souza himself. Dinesh, congratulations on a great video. This is a very new thing, I think. I mean, I'm a student of the left my whole life. I was not fully prepared to have a Marxism based on sexuality, sexual identity, sexual preference, and race. Marxism was always based on class. When did the change take place and why?

Well, this is a fascinating story. As you say, Marx cared only about the economic or class division between, you may call it, the rich and between the poor, or more precisely between the working class and the capitalist class. And Marx thought that worldwide that was the only distinction that mattered. But interestingly, Marx had made all these predictions, including the prediction that there would be a working-class revolt in the developed countries, in Germany, in France, in England, and so on. And when that didn't happen, the Marxists began to scratch their heads, to figure out why. Now, they could have just concluded, you know, Marx was wrong, let's throw out all this Marxism stuff and start again. But they decided no. They said, basically, here's the problem. And the Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci was kind of the pioneer of this thinking. He said, look, the problem is that the working class goes to church. The problem is that the working class goes to school. So they absorb— Gramsci Grahamsci argued, bourgeois culture, the culture that is the culture of the family, of faith, of religion, of patriotism. So Grahamsci said we have to fight them there. We need to take over the universities. We need to take over the institutions of culture. We need to promote Marxist culture, and that will dissolve the sympathies of the working class for the bourgeois class. So this is how this all got started. Gramsci laid out the doctrine in the 1920s, and then the left in America adopted it wholesale in the 1960s. So we've now seen a 50-year project of leftist infiltration of the institutions of culture, one that has given them, I would say, a virtual monopoly, certainly over the institutions of high culture.

So in a nutshell, if a nutshell is possible here, or if any answer is really possible, what do you think the end of the left is?

Well, I think that their end is social control. It is tyranny. It is the joys of tyranny. I mean, if we think of what dictators have aspired to, aspired to since ancient times. It's the idea of having your foot or your thumb on everybody else's neck, because then not only can you lift their pocketbook and keep the proceeds for yourself, but you can direct their lives in all kinds of ways. So the Napoleonic ambition— now, I think the difference is that in the ancient world, tyranny was somewhat limited because the reach of these kings was limited. They relied on the nobles to pay them all kinds of fees and so on to raise an army. But today, with modern technology, if you can create an alliance between government and the captains of industry, you can establish a regime of control that, you know, old Napoleon would never dream of.

So you said you, you coined a phrase— maybe it's not coined for you, but it was coined for me. The Joys of Tyranny. And that's very, I think that that's very insightful. There is a gap between them and us that is unbridgeable. You and I and every conservative I know has no joy in joy in controlling others. So where does this come from? I mean, I'm asking huge questions only because I so respect your mind. I don't, I don't even know if answers are fully available. Maybe it's built into certain people's natures. Where do you think it comes from? I have zero desire. I have a lot of bad desire. I have a sinful nature like others, but I have to admit one of those sins is not a desire to control anybody.

Well, I slightly disagree, and I don't disagree about you, but I mean, I disagree that, that there are two kinds of people in the world: the potential tyrants and the lovers of freedom. Let me put it a slightly different way. If somebody were to come to me and say, "Hey, Dinesh, you agree that good books improve people and bad books harm people, don't you?" I would say, "Yes, I do agree." And then if they were to say, "Let's imagine a society where you, Dinesh, have complete control over every book that people read. You get to decide what they read, and all the bad books, in your opinion, will be destroyed forever and burned." Would that be an attractive proposition for you? I would have to confess, immensely so. In other words, I would think that we could rid society of all kinds of evils if I was completely in charge and I established the curriculum for the whole world. Now I realize this is all just a thought experiment here, but I guess what I'm trying to say, I think the desire, the tyrannical impulse is there in human nature.

Fascinating. This is truly fascinating. An important discussion. See his video, it is up at prageru.com.

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It is Donald Trump's party. What have we been saying here? It's the only measure that matters. Conservativism has changed. I know populism is a dirty word on the left. It's used as a pejorative. But in 2016, we saw politics change. First it was the UK with Brexit, then various other nations around the world, as disparate as Australia, India, and Austria. But it came here, and a man who'd never run for public office before decided to, and he ran for the highest office in the land. And what was his message? Had nothing to do with the existing tropes of conservative politics. It was about America being great once more. A recognition that both sides of the political aisle had failed the American people, irrespective of their skin color, what they did for a living, where they came from, whether they had an accent, where they were part of some specific class, or whether they could be divided into the categories the left loves to divide us into. No, simply, had they been forgotten? Had their interests, their goals, their wishes been trampled upon? Had their jobs been exported to China? Had those that they had elected into office, promised them one thing and then given them another, or delivered absolutely nothing at all?

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Tucker makes the argument, and we're gonna play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, is unlike anything that Americans are used to. Instead of living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it's the powerful versus the workers. This revolution that we are living through— make no mistake, we are living through a revolution. It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely, it's there. But this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, has actually been engineered by people with a very specific agenda. This is not an organic revolution.

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here with Dinesh D'Souza, one of the handful of those who doesn't need an introduction. Production. And his latest video is up at PragerU. It's a very important one about the new socialism. It's not the socialism or the new Marxism. It is not the Marxism of class, but the Marxism of race and culture, etc. Also, you should know that Dinesh has a very, very successful podcast now. And how do people access that, Dinesh?

Dennis, it's available on audio at Apple and Spotify and Google, and on video on YouTube and Rumble. So it's available either to listen to or to watch on video, and it's, it's got a lot of followers on both platforms.

And as well as that, at the Salem Podcast Network.

Yes, absolutely.

It's on salemnow.com also, right, which is a growing presence in in the, uh, in the world of the internet. So one of my joys is talking to somebody I respect and not knowing if I differ or agree on a certain subject. So I asked you, uh, whether or not there is this unbridgeable gap between those who want to control us, because I asked you— I'm reviewing this for my listener's sake— so I, I asked Dinesh, what is the ultimate endgame of the left? And he said the joy of control. And I believe that, I believe that is true. I have an additional, not contrary, of additional view. I believe that they're animated by a love of chaos. Chaos leads to control, but I think that there is a deep element of chaos. If you have to say men give birth, that's more chaos than even control, though it's related to both. Okay. So I said, I don't see in me the desire to control. I have, I could see in me the desire to rob a bank. Okay. I don't, it's immoral, it's illegal, it's, et cetera. I can understand robbing a bank. I don't understand the desire to control people like Gavin Newsom controls the people of California. I can't relate to it. But you said, but in fact, it may be more universal than I, Dennis, think. And if one has the opportunity to truly, let's say, ban ideas that are perceived as injurious, a lot of people would want to do so. So I give you an interesting counterexample. I— it made a big impact on me as a very young person. As a kid, there was a march in Skokie, Illinois by Nazis. Not neo-Nazis, real deal American Nazis, swastikas and all. And they chose Skokie because they were sadists. That's where a lot of Holocaust survivors lived. So these people had to relive the horror of seeing Nazis march down their streets. Virtually every Jewish organization, every liberal organization defended the Nazis' right. I would defend the Nazis' right to march in a Jewish neighborhood in the United States. So even if I had the power to suppress the march I wouldn't use it. So tell me why that does not somewhat answer your, your challenge to me.

I would say that in a strange way it corroborates what I've been saying in this way. It's not really a counterexample. Here's all I would point out, and that is that, I mean, I agree with your position with regard to Skokie, but I would say that that is a hard-won position. By which I mean, that's not the natural way to feel. If you're— and I don't have to tell you this, but I mean, if you're a Jewish family, let's say with Holocaust survivors in your ancestry or your parents and so on, you see these Nazis marching, your initial natural understandable impulse is to round those guys up and stop them from doing that. Not only are they exercising a right to free speech, they're doing it with deliberate provocative motive. So you'd be like, what possible good can be achieved by that? And your impulse is to stop it. Now, you have to be sufficiently tutored in the principles of liberty to suppress that natural impulse and say, even though I feel that way, and I'm right to feel that way, I'm going to hold back because I believe in the principle of free speech. If they start with the Nazis, next they'll be getting the socialists, and next they'll be getting everyone else. And so you have to deploy this battery of arguments for why you should abstain from doing what is natural to do. And that's what I was getting at. The impulse to tyranny, to control, is natural. It's not even entirely wrong, but liberalism, or classical liberalism, teaches us to suppress it in appropriate instances.

So that, fair enough. It's an excellent Excellent answer. So therefore, that would mean that in Dennis and Dinesh, the love of liberty has been so deeply assimilated into our beings, that's the reason for the gulf between us and the left.

Yes, although if tempted, you know, we are I would say you and I are in the, I would say loosely, in the virtue business, which is to say we believe not just in the free society, but the virtuous society. So if somebody were able to say to us, hey, Dinesh and Dennis can get together and essentially regulate the sexual mores of the whole society so we have wholesome families, very little divorce, very little of all the stuff we see going on today, we would be tempted to say, yeah, you know, this might be a good way to go. Our society has lost its moorings, and if you and I were in charge, we can help to restore them. So virtue is always a temptation to override liberty. And here's my point: for the left, they have developed this artificial sense of virtue and indignation so that they too, their tyrannical impulses are always driven by some claim to higher virtue. It's not that they don't see the value of liberty, but they're willing to override it in the name of some greater good.

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Lance in Los Angeles, hi.

Hi Dennis, great to talk to you. I want to express that you are really a shining light in my life. I'm my father's life, being in California, I really feel like a, um, I don't know, like I don't belong sometimes because of the thought, the feelings of the community around me. I was during the election time, I was, you know, seeing a lot of Biden-Harris signs and no Trump signs. I felt like I couldn't, uh, you know, they could say anything they wanted.

That's right. That is the rule in California.

Yeah, so I just want to thank you for that. I actually had to drive 20 miles out of our way from West Los Angeles where we live to, I think, um, was the eastern end of LA, to see your No Safe, uh, Spaces. So that's who I wanted your comments. And also why I was, um, I want to keep it— I hear my dad's, um, voice saying, you know, stay focused, but While I was waiting to talk to you, I thought I was standing over where our Christmas tree is, and I thought it'd be great for your merchandise, for your store, to have a little figurine, maybe for the holidays, maybe to put up anytime on the dashboard in your car when you want to feel warmth of you, um, Otto, and your fireside chats.

Nice idea.

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Thank you. All right, you're going to run out of time. Go ahead.

Okay, so I want And this may be too big of a subject right now in the short time, but your feelings, thoughts on the Great Reset and how to stop this?

That's exactly what the left wants is a Great Reset. I warned about this when Barack Obama was running for president first term. We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of of America? What is fundamentally transforming if not a great reset? That's what they want to do. They, they're quite open about it. The World Economic Forum, Davos, that's what they want is a world reset where these, uh, Bill Gates gave $1 million to a program that denies to promote the idea that there is no one right answer in math. Can't get much more of a great reset than that. You're resetting truth. These people want to control the world. I never said these things before. It's hard to relate to something that you don't relate to. I don't want to control anybody. I get no joy from it. So that was that great discussion with Dinesh D'Souza. I leave you with my newest insight: if only the evil did evil, it would be a good world. I'm Dennis Prager. I will see you tomorrow.