The Dennis Prager Show LIVE
In this hour‑long live broadcast, host Dennis Prager tackles a wide array of political and cultural topics. He opens by dissecting the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, questioning whether cheating occurred, whether it was decisive, and whether the focus on cheating is the only legitimate inquiry. Prager cites a Federalist article alleging massive interference by tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg, who allegedly spent $419 million to influence the election, and criticizes media bias, the Democratic Party’s handling of the January 6 riot, and the role of attorneys like Marc Elias in expanding mail‑in voting. The discussion shifts to race, with Prager asserting that the left is the greatest racist force in America, decrying “race grievance industry,” and debating whether racism exists today. He engages callers on personal experiences of discrimination, immigration, and cultural music preferences, often challenging their perspectives. A substantial portion of the show is devoted to Prager’s “Happiness Hour,” where he argues that happiness is a matter of behavior and choice, not innate nature, and that individuals can overcome an unhappy disposition through moral choices, hard work, and community. He intersperses the dialogue with promotional spots for MyPillow, Relief Factor, and other sponsors, as well as references to other shows and guests. Throughout, Prager’s tone is conversational, persuasive, and at times confrontational, blending personal anecdotes (e.g., missing his father, his upbringing) with broader political commentary.
Chapters
Dennis Prager Show. There are two aspects to the question of the legitimacy of the last presidential election. One is, was there cheating? And cheat— well, there are three questions. Was there cheating? Did the cheating enable Joe Biden to win? That is to say, without cheating, he would not have won. And third, is cheating the only question that honorable people can ask? So I have been agnostic on the cheating. Not that I don't believe that cheating occurred, that— but I don't know that it was decisive. I have felt— I have said that, felt that. I don't like— I don't like felt. It doesn't matter what I feel unless I decided— I decide to emote. And so I, I am agnostic. I have been from the beginning. I do not claim that Mr. Biden is not the president. On the other hand, I am not certain that there was a fair election. So I, I don't know. Had there been some form of ability, some way to actually look into this, honorably, it would have made a lot of us, I think the majority of Republicans, the majority of the people who voted for Donald Trump, much more at ease about the last election. However, the third question is the dispositive one for me. What else was done in order to have a Democratic candidate win. It's irrelevant if it's Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, or anybody else. In light of that, I read to you from the wonderful Molly Hemingway at The Federalist. J6— that's January 6th— hysteria is how media and other Democrats are avoiding accountability for their rigging of the 2020 election. Rigging doesn't mean that cheating was done in the count. Rigging is rigging. Follow: Tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg, one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, spent $419 million, nearly as much as the federal government itself, to interfere in the government's management— the government's management— of the election in key states. Powerful tech oligarchs and corrupt propaganda press conspired to keep indisputably important news stories, such as allegations of corruption regarding the Biden family business, hidden from voters in the weeks prior to voting. Information operations were routinely manufactured about President Trump in the closing months of the campaign, including the false claim that Russians paid bounties for dead American soldiers and Trump didn't care, and that Trump had called dead American soldiers losers. Both were disputed by dozens of on-the-record sources. In other words, The staggering amount of interference by the wealthiest Americans, specifically Mark Zuckerberg, in tipping the scales of the election toward the Democrats. The lies that the media engaged in to defame President Trump. The lies of omission that the media engaged in to defend Joe Biden. They're pretty important. Effective conservative voices were censored by the social media, the arms of the Democratic Party. And all this was done after the establishment spent years running an unprecedented resistance, quote unquote, that falsely claimed that Trump was a traitor who had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. With the exception of a single Time magazine article admitting there was a conspiracy by a well-funded cabal of powerful people who worked to change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information to create a revolution in how people vote, corporate media have largely kept silence about or downplayed how the establishment secured its victory for their man Joe Biden. The media and other Democrats have used the January 6th riot at the Capitol as a way to ignore legitimate concerns about what they did to the election system and as a way to continue the assault on election security. As part of the political operation, they have used a propaganda technique of redefining efforts to secure the integrity of elections attacks on democracy. Don't you hear that all the time, right? They're trying to suppress the vote and attack democracy by trying to keep elections simply honest. The 2020 campaign to destroy election security by flooding the system with tens of millions of mail-in ballots was run by Marc Elias, a braggadocious Democrat attorney and former general counsel for Hillary Clinton. Who also ran the Russia collusion hoax that seriously damaged the country. In fact, one of his partners in this scheme was recently indicted by Prosecutor John Durham for lying about his role in the hoax. Elias and his, quote, "well-funded cabal of powerful people," unquote, are hoping to make permanent or even expand the weakening of election security. The propaganda press have also downplayed Zuckerberg's staggering $419 million of expenditure, or falsely presented it as nonpartisan help to voters. Independent researchers have shown that the funding dollars overwhelmingly poured into Democrat counties. No right-wing billionaire— my last paragraph— no right-wing billionaire could have gotten away with even thinking about such an operation. But had he, the media would be all over it. A few hundred thousand dollars in Russian Facebook ads for both Clinton and Trump generated years of hysterical media coverage from the corrupt press. Yet Zuckerberg funding the private takeover of elections to secure Democrat victories has barely been mentioned, much less obsessed over by most corporate media. That's the issue. There's no more Election Day. There's election month, election two weeks. Tens of millions of ballots are sent to people who didn't request them. This is all phony. This is all a way of rigging elections. This is not a way of having more honorable elections. It's a way of having more Democrats elected. So if you're ever asked, do you believe that there was an honest victory for Joe Biden, you can say, in the counting, there may well have been, even though I do believe that there was cheating, but it may not have been dispositive. I don't know. You can say that. But you can also say it was rigged, and it is continuing to be rigged. The whole lie about suppressing the vote, asking people to show an ID— can you tell me why the Democrats are opposed to an ID there, but everywhere else in society, everywhere, you need to show an ID? It's not even just contempt for blacks that it's too complex to show an ID. That's what they say. There's no other possible inference to be drawn. The Democrats consider blacks— well, they have contempt for blacks. The left has always been racist, and it continues to be the single greatest racist force in America. The contempt for black people on the left is profound. They can't even add properly, so we'll change the laws of mathematics. I mean, if that isn't contemptuous, then the word should be struck from the vocabulary of the English language. Blacks will find it too difficult to show an ID. Watch Ami Horowitz's film in Manhattan interviewing blacks on the street. Most of whom I presume vote Democrat. Do you find it difficult to show an ID or to get an ID? They all laughed at him. What are you talking about? They even told him where the DMV office was near where he was interviewing them. What, what was wrong with Election Day? Really, what was wrong? People were inconvenienced one day in 2 years, or one day in 4 years, to be inconvenienced to vote, to exercise that precious right? That's the reason people might be inconvenienced? Make more polling places. Staggering throwing around of trillions of dollars. I think we could build more polling places. We shall return. Man, I miss my father, and I want him to be here with me, but he's not. We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives. This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
Right. So this has changed in the culture. We now have entire stadiums screaming blank Joe Biden. Right. I actually think that in some measure, this is a sign of health in the country.
I don't think you're wrong. In fact, my last column, I talk about a in essence, what the American people are feeling in terms of how they're being treated by the current administration.
Now, excuse me, by the way, I'm not saying I approve of it, right?
It makes me uncomfortable.
But at the same time, talking about—
it seems we're observing—
it seems like a strange sign of health that we feel free enough to say that.
Well, and I don't even know that we necessarily feel free. What I would say is that the American people feel like kind of a battered spouse at this point.
Okay.
You wrote an article and that the administration is so abusive to how they're treating people.
Yeah.
That this reaction that you're seeing, and it started out in two college football stadiums. It's now been in dozens to hundreds.
It's the new wave.
NFL teams had it going on this week. Talladega or NASCAR or whatever they ran had people chanting it. There is, there is something so inherently abusive about how people are being treated. By the government, they are, and particularly in a society that wouldn't consider itself particularly Christocentric. And it is— I am actually thankful, to your point, to see a degree of we're not going to let this abuse continue, even if it's nothing more than using our freedom of speech to say something that's very vulgar and attach it to him. We're not taking it anymore.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe today at Rumble.com.
Judge Thomas, do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
I do.
I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.
So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Man, I miss my father, and I want him to be here with me, but he's not. We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives. This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong. Talk and 6 gigabytes of data. Sounds too good. Plus the latest phones, whether Android or iPhone, at a great price. So it sounded too good to me, and I actually signed up, and it's terrific. It's pure talk. Get the same service as T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, except at a much cheaper price. What do you do? Very simple. On your phone, on your current phone, you don't have to get a new phone, you don't have to get a new number, it's your call. You do #250, press #250, and say the magic words Dennis Prager. And there you go. I think it's great to save a bundle of money and get the same product. Pound 250, say Dennis Prager. Pure talk. I'm Dennis Prager, actually, the guy whose name you say when you press pound 250. I have more, but when I see a line that differs with me It's like a magnetic attraction. So we go to Inglewood, California, and Art. Hello to you, Art.
Uh, Dennis?
Yes?
I am, uh, put off and, uh, also, uh, find it to be inaccurate that you would, uh, be, uh, say that there are no racism in America today.
I never said it in my life. I'll give you $1,000.
The least racist country in the world.
Isn't that different from there's no racism?
I retract that.
Okay, no problem.
But there certainly is a great deal of racism in America today.
I don't believe that.
Really?
Yep.
Go, go, come with me in any neighborhood you like in this country and ask somebody, go door to door and ask them if they have ever experienced racism in their lives.
Ever? That's like asking me, did I ever—
No, young people.
No, no, I understand. Yes, young people, fine. Ever is a big word. You keep changing it from there, it's racist country, to did you ever experience racism?
Have you experienced racism in the last year? How's that, Dennis?
Yeah, that would be good. And then I would like to ask them how. Whenever I have asked the blacks who've called my show So tell me the last racist experience. It turns out that it may not have been racist, and it turns out that they don't remember. What was your last racist experience?
I went into a store. Uh, let me give you a better one, Dennis. I went into a, uh, uh, it was in Santa Monica, California, and, uh, it was nighttime. A cab came along to pick me up. As soon as I opened the door, they saw I was black. The cab just dashed, man. Just Gone.
Hmm. So why do you think that is? Because he thinks blacks are inferior? Because he doesn't like black money? Why do you think he did that, if he did that?
Because I'm black.
Right. And why did— right, you're not answering.
Some sort of threat.
That's right. Is, is that, is that a foolish thought? Would he take— what, let me ask you a question. Would he have driven away if you were a woman, a black woman?
I have no idea.
What do you think? What do you think? I believe that you'll tell me the truth. What do you think?
Well, what do you think, Dennis Prager?
I think he would not have driven away. A lot of people are scared of black men. It's a tragedy, but if you read any news reports, you will find that if there's a school shooting, it's probably a white. If it's a random shooting in the street, it's probably a black.
Do you believe, do you believe, Dennis, that we are all born equal?
Of course, we're all children of God in his image, right?
What is the reason behind this discrimination?
Well, what you mean about why a cabbie would drive away with a black male? Because people are rationally or irrationally afraid of a lot of single black males, and it depends how you were dressed. Were you dressed— how were you dressed?
I had a suit and tie.
Yeah, it's bizarre that he did it, I must admit.
Can I ask you one last question, Dennis?
Of course.
Yeah, have you experienced anti-Semitism in your life?
No. I don't believe that. Huh? You don't believe it? Okay, there's nothing I can say then. I, you know, so why did you ask me? You're not going to believe my answer. I have, this is, I can tell you a cute story, but it's very illustrative. My grandfather came from Eastern Europe where he experienced daily Jew hatred. It's a much more effective word than antisemitism. And so he came to America and he assumed America was like Eastern Europe, Russia, Poland, and so on. So I remember when he would drive a car and if a guy would cut him off, he would mumble, "Antisemit." And I remember thinking, I was like 8, 10 years old, how the hell does Papa, That's how I knew him. Well, I don't think I used hell. How does Papa know that that guy's an anti-Semite? How would that guy know even that my grandfather was a Jew? He didn't cut him off because my grandfather was a Jew. He cut him off because he was a rude, selfish driver. If you want to see hatred, bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism in America, you will find it. Sexism, the whole nine yards. I have not walked through life looking for it. I had a friend from Canada, rural Canada, visited me in New York City where I lived until I was 25. We went to a camera store when such things used to exist. And as we left, he goes, "Boy, I really Jewed him down." I remember thinking, that's an ugly phrase, but my friend's not an anti-Semite. Whereas another Jew would have said, oh, that guy was an anti-Semite. I'm not saying every Jew would say that at all, but another Jew might, by caller, might. I didn't think he was anti-Semitic even though he used an anti-Semitic term. If you say I was gypped by the dealer, Are you anti-Gypsy? Not necessarily. There was a phrase when I was a kid, 'Oh, you're an Indian giver.' If you take back what you gave somebody, does that make you anti-Indian? 'Go Dutch.' Does that make you anti-the Netherlands? So, my friends, my caller, Lives a sad life walking around thinking whites have it in for him. Well, they don't. Here's the kicker. Not only have I never experienced anti-Semitism, I never met a white racist. You would think among whites I would hear a fair amount of anti-black bigotry. How come I don't? Or as This wonderful young woman who I had sit in for me, Julie Hartman, who has looked through my mail on a number of occasions, she noted, God, how come there isn't a single email to you in the thousands and thousands that expresses racism? Not one. Back in a moment. What? Switch.
Streaming on Salem Now.
Fiancé?
No, I can't be your fiancé.
You're gonna go, you're gonna be my fiancé, and you're gonna be the most amazing, fascinating, most successful man ever. We're only gonna be there for a few hours, eat dinner, and I promise we'll have the best breakup of all time.
My baby, my princess.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Trending now on The Dennis Prager Show.
When I started teaching, I was only 25. I was only 7 years— I was only 7 years older than my students. That's not a great span of time for between a man and a young woman. And Um, it is a daily distraction.
That's right, it is. I thank you for your honesty. That is exactly right. And it is not his fault. He's built that way. It's no more his fault than food is a distraction to the hungry. Okay, there is no difference between the two. So I'll tell you an interesting story, really interesting. Many years ago, and I can't find this on the internet, maybe one of you can, and that would be of great help to me.
A—
and I only remember that he was from a university in Indiana, but I don't remember which university. What'd you say, Sean? So He, a professor, did a study and found that one of the two groups— I don't remember the second— of men most likely to divorce were high school teachers and I think college teachers. In other words, men around a great number of young women divorced at a greater rate than any other men. And I had that— I had that professor on with that study. So if you could find that, I could read it to you.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube today.
And half of them just use it to further their political and anti-American agenda. Most people who think this place is racist know nothing about the rest of the world. Nothing. That's why I say it's the least racist country that has multiracial populations. But there are very few countries with multiracial populations. I read to you— I mentioned this in passing— there was an article, I forgot where, about how much more happy families Fins are than Americans. And then I read— I may have— I either read to me or read to you and me how much easier it is for a society that is monochromatic, all one nationality or race or ethnicity, that trust goes down And this is a sad fact, just does. That's why blacks like to live with blacks, and Armenians with Armenians, and Jews with Jews, and you name the group. I happen not to like that. I have two neighbors in the cul-de-sac that I live. One is, one is of Arab descent. Their parents came here from Lebanon. And Syria, and the other is Korean. So my cul-de-sac is Korean, Arab, and Jew, and I love it. That's my ideal. I believe in the melting pot. I have no issue keeping my own identity in addition to my American identity. I'm a very involved religious Jew. But I love having my non-Jewish neighbors and friends for my Shabbat dinner. It was so common in my life that when my older son was about 8 years old, he came to me one Friday afternoon and he said, "Dad, are any Jews coming over for Shabbat?" I take the American ideal seriously. And it is a beautiful one. People of all races getting together is a very, very— getting along together is a very big challenge. They haven't passed that challenge in Finland. Pretty much everybody's a white Finn. Same language, same everything. You want low crime rates? Look at the crime rates in North Dakota. They're basically the same as Denmark. Denmark has more races— excuse me, North Dakota has probably more minority races than Denmark does. This country is attempting something very, very difficult. The line of the left, diversity is our strength, what does that even mean? Diversity for the vast majority of human history has not been a strength. Diversity is a strength only if you all identify as one nation, as American. So what the left does is it takes the diversity and tells people, you are black, you are Hispanic, you are Latinx, my favorite. Anyone who uses latinx is an idiot, is a moron. That is a giveaway. That is my biggest— if that is even a bigger giveaway than men give birth. Latinx. L-A-T-I-N-X. Most Latinos think it's a farce because it is. Latinx. God. Oh my God. The fact that they have to do this shows how little racism there is, that they have to make up this stuff. And yet this is the lies that your children swim in at school from, from kindergarten on. Let's learn how awful this wonderful world of the United States of America is. That's what your kids are taught. They swim in the lie of 1619. The country was founded in 1619. Slavery made it rich. By the way, most teachers who teach slavery made America rich believe it, because most teachers are ignoramuses. Not all, most. I truly believe they're ignoramuses. To say that slavery made America rich means you are so ignorant of what slavery was that you don't know what you're talking about. If slavery made countries rich, Brazil would be the richest country in the world. ReliefFactor.com. If you go to ReliefFactor.com, you in fact will read the testimonials, and they're true, by the way. I do believe that. I know the people who run Relief Factor, and they're true for so many people. It's like a miracle. So if you have joint or muscle pain, I— well, I can't say I beg you, you're not doing me a favor, but I beg you for you to try it. You'll know in 3 weeks if it works. That's not my claim, that's the company's claim. Relief Factor says it'll work in 3 weeks, and if it doesn't, cancel your order. And 3 weeks costs $19.95 plus shipping. That's at relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384.
Streaming on Salem Now.
Tesla was a genius. His most amazing discoveries thought to be written in a lost journal. Now, in the right hands, it could revolutionize the 21st century.
You can stop an earthquake. Doesn't that mean you could start one too?
That's why that notebook should never fall into the wrong hands. Shall we stop this thing? Save the universe!
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I was under constant attack. You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. This is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed. So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court? I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
This is a story of how a million children were placed with local foster families. Parents from all walks of life share their stories of overcoming the one-child policy by taking in orphans. At a time where there's so much negativity and cynicism, here's proof that a single leap A leap of faith can change the world.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Trending now on America First with Sebastian Gorka.
How buoyed are you that Americans are finally waking up, JD?
Look, I'm very excited about what I'm seeing, you know, certainly in Virginia but also in Ohio. It feels like there's a real grassroots movement brewing on the conservative movement right now. And it's, you know, just like in times past, it's not just the politicos, it's not just the establishment folks. Sometimes not even people who are that political, but they're just very fired up about what their kids are teaching. You know, their kids are coming home crying, upset because they're being told that they're a, you know, a bad person depending on the color of their skin. And they're just fed up about it.
And I Hi everybody, Miss Salem News Channel indeed. Well, all the calls are about the racism. Some I'll take, and I can't take them all, obviously, but here's one that intrigues me, at least one. Jose in Prescott, Arizona. Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
Hi.
I wish for you, uh, two times the happiness and joy, Dennis.
Thank you so much.
Uh, the story I was telling your, uh, screen, uh, guys, uh, I was in trade school in Phoenix working at a rental company, uh, car rental, and they sent me, they sent me and another guy to go get a car. And on the way there, I was driving, so I put some Mexican music, and the guy turned it off, and a couple times back and forth, and finally said, man, I wish I could— you could just go back to your own country. I would buy you a one-way ticket. And I told him, you know, I thought he was joking around. I told him, can you make it on December 3rd? That's when, uh, that's when I want to go to Mexico. What? You can go to Mexico? Why don't you just go back? Like, I want to be here, right?
So I don't agree with the guy at all. I happen to love Mexican music in any event, so I would have actually probably sort of hummed along to it. But nevertheless, that is obviously, it's wrong. I mean, it's just morally wrong. I mean, to tell a guy like, you're listening to Mexican music. Everybody who comes here, everyone in the history of this country, especially first and second generation, are you first generation Mexican American or second?
Well, my dad brought us when I was 13.
Okay, alright, so you're really second generation. So, or actually first generation. So every single, not every, virtually every immigrant from any other culture wants to hear their music, wants to speak their language. It is completely normal and completely fine. It is a non-issue. I am with drivers from Pakistan who were listening to music from Pakistan. Is that wrong?
You probably enjoy it too.
Yes, actually you're right. I happen to love— I'm weird in this way. I love world music. I love from all over. But anyway, that's my— but it's not racist. It's a form of—
Intolerance.
Yes, that's intolerance, fear, overwrought nationalism. I think that nationalism can be good and can be bad. It depends how it's used. But it is not, it's not racism. Because had you been playing Armenian music, and Armenians look white, and I say Armenian because I live in a city, I don't live in the city, I broadcast from the city of more Armenians than anywhere in the world outside of Armenia. So if they're playing Armenian music, maybe the guy would have had the same response. I'm not defending it, but I wouldn't call it racist. So anyway, I'm glad you called because that's not— that's a legitimate question to raise. Do you know I think half of Latinos in this country marry whites? I think that's the statistic. It's not evidence of a racist country. If you asked a guy, a 20-year-old white guy from anywhere in the country, Idaho to New York City, hey, I got a great girl, she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's this, she's that, and she's from Guatemala. You go, ah, forget it. I doubt it. Or her parents are from Guatemala.
It's—
again, people, people need to— yeah, I'll give you an example. There's a, there's a restaurant where I live, Los Gringos Locos, the crazy white guys. Now, can you imagine if we had a restaurant, the crazy Mexicans, people would go, oh, racist, racist, you got to change that name. We can't joke anymore. What do I care if I'm eating in a restaurant that thinks I'm crazy? That's a joke. They don't find my money crazy. But there's no humor on the left. Unhappy people don't laugh a lot, and every leftist is unhappy. Some liberals are happy, some conservatives are happy, and every leftist is unhappy. What they do is they project their bitterness onto society. Oh, very important. Hey, I got something for you. I can't resist, it's too precious. A Swedish college student recently decided to take a class on critical race theory. It's unfortunately American poison has gotten all around the world, as a joke. So he handed in a hoax paper. Arvid Haag signed up for Critical Whiteness Perspectives on Nordic Culture. Can you imagine that? God, that's a great course. At Stockholm University. Okay. Haag thought he'd get something fun out of the harmless and absurd class. Those are his words. But he soon realized many of his peers took the American-born ideology seriously. An essay titled "Black and White Drinks," described, quote, as an account of what had happened from the early 20th century in the struggle between coffee and milk. This guy's bright. Here's what he wrote: The question one can ask is whether it is really a reconciliation between milk and coffee that has been implemented. or whether adding milk to the coffee is a way to take away from the coffee its unique properties and instead impose the black drink white properties. Milk in the coffee can with critical glasses be seen as a drink-based colonization. The hot and strong coffee cools and is rounded off in taste with the help of the milk which thereby controls and domesticates the coffee. He got a B on his paper.
That's right.
There is nothing that you can write that is too absurd for any university in the Western world. Nothing.
Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
If you're Antony Blinken, if you're Tony Blinken and you're like a frustrated pop musician who wound up somehow as Secretary of State and you've never achieved anything in your life, the one thing that you can do, the one way you can exert power— how?
Killing people.
You're the Secretary of State. You can force a war. No, I'm saying this is how they think. Okay, so it's like a big coping mechanism, or it's like these— look, one of the basic desires, as you noted, is to exert power over your environment. Hey, world, I was here. My life meant something. So in order to signal that, You know, you wave your arms, you exert power over something like, I can drink this Pellegrino like I am a man.
I am not an animal.
I am a man. So the higher up you go, the greater the desire is. And that's why they're there in the first place, to exert power. People go into journalism to exert power. The more overriding your desire is, and I would say most of the time it's because you're compensating for this deep emptiness within. You have a barren personal life. You're not actually deriving fulfillment at home. Your kids don't love you. Your wife has contempt for you. So you go to work and you're like, well, damn, you know, like, what can I add?
Invade Iran.
I'm not joking. I'm not joking.
I'm not taking it as a joke.
My whole life around these people, like, I— you look around, you're like, oh, wow, that person has a really sad personal life. Oh, so does that one. Oh, there's Mitch McConnell. That's the saddest of all. And or whatever, you know, all these people. And then it approaches like 90% of our political leaders have these sad, barren personal lives. You're like, what are the odds of that? Maybe they're compensating for what they don't have by exerting power over other people. Oh, now I'm very much a subgenius, so it took me decades to figure this out, but once I did, it explained pretty much everything.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
Man, I miss my father, and I want him to be here with me.
But he's not.
We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no fathers in our lives. This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Yes, this is in my honor because I said I love Mexican music.
I do.
You know why? It's happy. I love happy music. Is there an accordion in this? I don't know. Well, I would blend in. Hi everybody, final segment of this hour here. And I gotta hand it to that Swedish student. He got a B on a paper at Stockholm University saying that putting cream in your coffee is a form of white colonization of an indigenous black population. Got a B. Why didn't he get an A? Maybe he didn't go far enough. Maybe he didn't advocate the end of putting cream in black coffee. It's a form of subservient, or I should say, ruling behavior. Here's a paper for you if you've got a kid in college. I wonder if they'd get a B or an A that the Wright brothers were really the White brothers and changed it to Wright just because they wanted the generations not yet born to accept them. I'll bet you somebody can get away with that. College is a farce. It is truly a farce. I wish it were only a farce, however, because then it wouldn't be as damaging. Let's get a quick one in here. Okay, Jeff in Atlanta, hello.
Yeah, Dennis, let me say, uh, your audience is apparently doesn't require much logically from its host because your sweeping generalizations and anecdotal stories presented as evidence of the things you say don't really hold up. I would just say one point for you to say that the United States did not become rich as a result of slavery is just— it's laughable. It's so absurd that you shouldn't even be able to say it publicly.
Answer my— answer my charge that Brazil should be the richest country since it had 10 times the number of slaves. Answer the charge or we don't continue talking. Answer that argument.
This is, this is the logical fallacy that, that you use to try to—
Why is it a fallacy? Why is it a fallacy?
Because, because we're talking about the United States. It has nothing to do with Brazil.
Okay. Okay. All right. Look, I'm letting you go, not because we differ. I take calls that differ immediately. Slavery is the constant. Country X has 10 times more slaves than Country Y. Country Y got rich from slavery, but the country with 10 times more slaves stayed poor. And I'm the one with logical fallacy. That's a sad call. That's all I can say. Happiness Hour showing up now.
Streaming on Salem Now.
Oh, a big shot!
You're out of your mind if you think this family can pick you up every time you fall. Every time I take one step forward, seems like I fall. We're doing right?
Came in this morning.
He wants to fight you.
This is your opportunity to get back on your feet. This is my time, won't quit.
I'm just—
you got to know who it is you're fighting for. That's the fight, Bo. I can't believe I'm saying it, that Bo Lawson can go 10 years without a competitive fight, and here he is going toe-to-toe with the world champion. No one expected this out of him.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Don't you get tired of commercials screaming at you to buy gold now with inflated promises on future values? In an unregulated industry, you need honest, real experts to give you solid advice to protect your wealth and top picks on the best coins and bullion based on real-time data and historical trends. For example, as environmental policy becomes a hot topic, one precious metal that's been significantly undervalued for years is potentially set to surge. Nick Grovich, owner of AMFED Coin and Bullion, has long recommended this precious metal. Up to 600,000 ounces of this rare metal will be needed by 2030 to produce green hydrogen. Nick is doubling down on this pick, and you should too. Call Nick at AmFed Coin and Bullion to find out more. I've been friends with Nick for years, and he's my go-to guy when it comes to coins and bullion. I trust him. He is a good and very knowledgeable man. Call Nick at 800-221-7694. 800-221-7694. AmericanFederal.com. AmericanFederal.com. Not one mistake.
Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
Good, good. Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I'm a green card holder, have been for 20 years.
Thank you.
From where? From South Africa.
Excellent. Thank you.
When I came into this country, I had to have blood tests to see that I didn't have syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV. I had to show all kinds of vaccinations. I had to show means to be able to support myself, etc., etc. So my point being is that the law is not being upheld as we understand it. And so I don't understand how they are circumnavigating the law again. I mean, obviously allowing these people into the country in the first place without proper vetting, etc., is one of the ways. But I mean, the laws are down, are written for legal immigration. There are methods and ways of doing it. They say the system is broken, but it's not broken. It functions.
Greg, I am deeply in your debt. Stay where you are because I've got a couple of questions for you. But just, just an addendum to your magnificent remarks: this, the system is not broken. We totally have a system that is set up to work. If the laws that are on the books will only be enforced. But that's a huge if, and they are being intentionally ignored. So 20 years you've been here, right? And, and, um, as someone who's actually followed the law, share with me a couple of minutes of your experience on whether it was too easy, too hard, or, or just right.
Um, I think it was just right.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
The Democratic Party somehow has convinced Black people that they're the good guys, never mind the skanky history of the Democratic Party. That was a party of slavery.
He said, listen, I gotta give these niggas enough, not too much, but enough that I have them voting Democrat for the next 200 years. The race grievance industry would have you believe that Blacks get up and think about nothing else except race. If I tell you this is racist, yeah, I'm gonna get you emotional.
There is a whole big cottage industry for racism. If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.
The mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd, a bunch of white thugs frankly burning down the city's traditional Black and Asian businesses. They're racist, racist, racist. Racist, racist, racist.
Everything's racist.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
Fiancé?
No, I can't be your fiancé.
You're going to go. You're going to be my fiancé, and you're going to be the most amazing, fascinating, most successful man ever. We're only going to be there for a few hours, eat dinner, and I promise we'll have the best breakup of all time.
My baby My princess! Oh God, I'll pee a little bit.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Trending now on the Dennis Prager Show.
When I started teaching, I was only 25. I was only 7 years— I was only 7 years older than the by students. Uh, that's, that's not a great span of time, uh, for between a man and a young woman. And, uh, um, it is a daily distraction.
That's right, it is. I thank you for your honesty. That is exactly right. And it is not his fault. He's built that way. It's no more his fault than food is a distraction to the hungry. Okay, there was no difference between the two. So I'll tell you an interesting story, really interesting. Many Yes, it is, everybody. Yes, it is. It is. It is, it is the happy hour. The happy, happy, happy hour. Hey friends, the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse. You have a moral obligation to act happy even if you don't feel you may not subject others to your bad moods any more than your bad body odor. Wash away your mood like you wash away your body odor. That's how I look at it. We owe it to others. If you live on an island like Tom Hanks did in— what was the name of that film? Castaway. Do you know that I think of Castaway more than almost any film that I've ever seen? Is that idiosyncratic, or does it stay in other people's minds? Anyway, if you're on an island alone after a crash in the Pacific, And you're the one survivor. It doesn't really matter. You don't owe it to the sea crabs or the sand crabs to be happy. Wilson. Wilson, he lost his volleyball. That was painful the way we all thought about that. So I look at Sean somewhat like Hanks looked at Wilson. It's my beloved volleyball. Yeah, Sean! Sean! All right, everybody, it's the Happiness Hour. It's going on without exception every Friday unless I'm not here. It— there's never been, no matter what bad stuff happened during the week, the week of 9/11, the week of— well, the weeks, the months of COVID we've done the Happiness Hour. I have an interesting subject for you today, and that is, can you overcome a crappy nature? Good one. Yeah, yeah. I mean, let's be honest, any one of you who is a parent, and even if you're not a parent, just thinking about yourself, there's no question that some people have a happier nature than others. Okay. Now take me. I have a morose nature, but I conquer it every day. I'm joking. It's an interesting question to analyze yourself. Do you have— because we're born with natures, okay? There's no way around it. We're born with it. But they're not necessarily decisive because things can happen to change our nature. Or we can change, not our nature, but we can change our temperament. So here's the, here's the question: if you're not born with a happy nature, can you in fact become happy? All right, now be an interesting question is, does the living martyr have a happy nature? What's the vote here? So this is— all right, that's Sean's theory, that he does but he doesn't portray it. That I, I think there's truth to that. I think there's truth to that, right? Right, okay, fair enough. So, but that is the question for you, for your raising of your children. Is nature determinative is one way of looking at it. But I want specifically to address you who is listening, or you who are listening, it's more precise grammar. I want to address you. If you don't have a happy nature Have you been able to have a happy life? Happy nature or non-happy, unhappy nature does not mean unhappy life unless you let it. If it— let me just make this really, really clear. If nature were determinative Every book on happiness would be useless. Every Happiness Hour I do would be a waste of precious radio time. My whole conviction is unhappy nature need not be decisive. That's why Lincoln was right, something to the effect, I reckon people are as happy as they decide to to be. It's very close to that, though I don't think they're the exact words, but that's what he said. And if Lincoln, who had a very, very hard life, I think I would say in modern terms his wife was probably bipolar, and he lost his beloved sons, I mean, that guy, and he lost his beloved country for a while. It's the slaughter of Americans of one another in numbers that were unbelievable. And he's the one who said people are as happy as they decide to be. If Lincoln could decide to be happy, the odds are you can too. My view is, what's your choice? Really, what is your choice? That's how I look at it. What's my choice? To be unhappy? I want to tell you, I am not a frightened person, as you all know. To the extent that you have been listening to anyone at length, you know that I am not an easily frightened person. I am frightened of unhappiness. I don't want to be unhappy. I admit it. In my, my journey through this life, I, I don't want to be unhappy. That means I don't want to avoid pain. Oh, there's a big difference between pain and unhappiness. People think pain makes you unhappy. It's your choice. And obviously there's a level of pain, especially physical pain. There's emotional pain too, of course. But people with chronic physical pain go out of their minds. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. That's the actual quote from Lincoln. So basically what I said. I mean, there are levels of pain that are not surmountable. I acknowledge that. The general trend— I have not, and I don't think anybody should try to live a life free of pain. You should try to lead a life that is happy. I'm reading a very long book on the Enlightenment, and the guy won me over in the opening chapter. Said the, the purpose of the Enlightenment is rarely noted. And it was human happiness. People think the purpose was to elevate reason above superstition. That was an element of it, but its ultimate purpose was happiness. I love the founders of this country. I adore them. They were giants. They were truly giants. There's an argument for divine intervention of bringing so many great men together at one time. As to form this country. And they wrote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence. That's a terrific aim in life. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness is a noble pursuit. So my opening question for today's Happiness Hour is, can you overcome an unhappy nature? Again, if I didn't think you could, this whole exercise would be a waste of time. Life consists— a good life consists of overcoming your nature. Every faithful man is overcoming his variety-oriented sexual nature. Every, every woman who walks around cheerful is overcoming the hormonal aspects of her nature. Conquering your nature, that's, that's, that's life's task. Because the superficial, the empty, the foolish run our entire educational system from kindergarten through graduate school. This is never taught to students, so they are never given the tools to lead a good life, let alone a happy life, or a happy life, let alone a good life. This is the most important thing you can teach a young person: overcome your nature. What schools teach that outside of religious ones? Take your calls. Happiness Hour. I'm Dennis Prager. This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. You have the right to remain silent.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
The public would be outraged if they knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you? Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. Human trafficking. That journey is extremely dangerous.
The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.
We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. The only way we separate the good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them. There's no free speech for fascists. Your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and social media will be saved to shame you. Creating an atmosphere of fear and repression, and it's gonna bust.
You cannot think differently.
It makes it difficult for you to learn from other people. You have the right to remain silent.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
The public would be outraged if they knew the truth. Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you? Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. That journey is extremely dangerous.
The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever. We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.
Look for Salem now in the App Store.
Or go to SalemNow.com.
The only time you can come to Christ— You ever thought of going to seminary?
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
DennisPrager.com or call 800-761-6302. Yes, I use their products. They're magnificent. Forgetting the fact that the guy has been dropped from so many woke stores and there's a reason to get his products— the products in and of themselves, it's not enough to support somebody's business. Because of ideological reasons. The product has to be terrific. All the, uh, all the MyPillow products are. Promo code is PRAGER at mypillow.com. Get deep discounts. Dennis Prager here, happiness hour. Everybody's born with a nature. I mean, so many things. I mean, how could you— I don't know how anybody denies it. I don't know if anybody even does deny it. I saw kids in my class in elementary school who understood algebra. I didn't. As soon as I see a letter mixed with numbers, I'm dead. It doesn't belong there. What do you mean 2x 3y Sean's mother? It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm sorry, Sean, I really am, but it was a compliment to your mother. I just want you to know that. You're lucky I'm happy. He had a good response. He's fast. You're lucky I'm happy. That was a good one. So that's the fact of life. We're born with natures, okay? By the way, you know what's really upsetting? This I never said, I don't think. Because it— I admit it runs against my deepest desire about what to believe, but I, I'm more committed to the truth than I am to my agendas. I think that some people are born kinder than others. We don't start out morally equal. As soon as I say that, you say, you mean you didn't realize this your whole life? I think, and I hate to admit this, to a certain extent I was in denial because I want to believe that there is complete moral free will in life, that you choose to be kind, you choose to be honest, you choose to be good. And you do. That's all accurate. But there's no denying that people have different natures in that regard. I read a book many years ago, and I, I can't believe I still— Gary Kinder wrote it. I'll never forget because I read it mostly on airplanes. I don't know why I read it. Oh, I do know why. My My book agent at the time recommended that I read it, and he, because he handled that book and said it was great, and it was. It was about a murderer. I don't tend to read crime books, but it was about a murderer, and he did something particularly terrible to one of his victims. I don't want to say it on the radio. Because you don't need to put this imagery into your mind. And the mother of the murderer said he was a bad seed. I'll never forget that. Said, I have other children, they're not like him. He was born bad. It's very tough for a parent to say. But I believed her. And it raises— the reason I didn't want to believe her or this notion is because I really want to believe in moral free will. And I do. Not everybody with a tendency to murder murders. Not everybody with a tendency to rob robs. Not everybody with a tendency— just you name it— does it. We have the ability, uh, in the great majority of cases, to control it. I don't know if a schizophrenic could control their behavior. I acknowledge that. So yes, back to the happiness subject. You're born with— some people are born with a happy disposition. Incidentally, it goes in both directions. There are people born with happy dispositions who end up unhappy adults. There are people born with unhappy dispositions and end up happy adults. It does go in both directions. I know somebody with a happy predisposition who ended up a relatively unhappy adult. All right, that's the question. Have you been able to overcome an unhappy nature? Okay, let's see, where should we go? South Carolina, California, Florida, New York, Colorado, Illinois, or Florida, Florida. Okay, let's, uh, Andrew in Chicago.
Hello, how's it going, Dennis?
I am fine, thank you.
Yeah, so I think by nature I'm definitely naturally negative. I come from a family of negative people, and I think, uh, there is some type of choice that you can make where you can surround yourself with positive, happy people, and over time it will slowly modify your your personality to be a more outgoing and happy individual.
That's a great call. That is a truly great call. You gave a specific piece of advice, and I don't think it is one that I have given. I have said that about morality, but not about happiness. Surround yourself with good people. But I did— I never I don't recall saying surround yourself with happy people. Good one. Yeah, it's, it's not easy to stay unhappy if you're around happy people. You do look like the, uh, the nail that sticks out. Good one, Andrew. I thank you. We should have a cigar one day. Now you'll say, yeah, but you don't smoke cigars, to which I will answer, so what? Okay, let's see. Mm, here's a challenge. Matt in Littleton, Colorado. Hello.
Hello, Dennis. Nice to talk to you again.
Thank you.
So I, I do believe that we can become happier, but the individual with a naturally happy disposition, uh, I'm not, I'm not sure can be overtaken by an individual that has to fight their nature on a, on a consistent, regular basis. At least I haven't seen that.
Wait, I'm not following fully. You're saying that if you have an unhappy nature, it's— you really can't overcome it?
I, I believe that you can, and I think you can live a happy life. And I'm being a religious individual, I think our moral choices certainly have a lot to do with that.
Wait, so what is it? What is the point that you wanted to make? I'm still not clear. You're agreeing with me, you can overcome your nature.
You can overcome your nature, but I haven't seen an unhappy person who fights their nature become as bubbly.
So that's the point you want to make. Okay, that's an interesting challenge. You're right, there is a limitation. I'll, I'll explain that. Dennis Prager Show. The Pilgrims. They were poor. They were outcasts. They were enemies of the state for their refusal to submit to the Church of England. The Mayflower was a cargo ship, but the most precious cargo that was carried across the Atlantic were the ideas in the hearts of the Pilgrims that were drawn from the Bible. Not only did they start self-rule, they started free trade, capitalism, land ownership, all in 10 years.
With 51 people.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show: history-making tax and spend, um, disaster.
I mean, there's no other way to describe it. And this is why people were so angry at the Republicans in the Senate and the House who have supported Biden's scheme. Did you hear Trump was giving a speech Monday night? The Republican Congressional Committee had a dinner and he blasted the 13 Republicans in the House. I think Nicole Malliotakis was in the room. She had to be squirming because I'm sure President Trump held back, as he does.
He was—
I'm sure he was very gentile and, you know, very discreet.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com. Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
Well, first I would ask, you know, what, what city is Ron living in? Because when you look at Los Angeles and San Francisco These are the states which offer the most, you know, healthy financial incentives for homeless to relocate to our cities. You know, I'm in Los Angeles, which is very robust. So, just so you know, anyone who's making under $16,000 a year can get food stamps in California, any city. And that value is about $240 a month. And then, you know, additionally, there's SSI, SSDI. DI. And so we're finding that homeless can get anywhere from, you know, $900 to $1,400 a month. Now in San Francisco, what they did was they had COVID supplemental income and employment. This was during the COVID pandemic. So if you are in San Francisco, you could get in addition to all of that, anywhere between $600 and $2,400 a month. Uh, that ran out the end of September. That was through COVID. But you really see that, you know, the bare minimum for many of these homeless who go through, you know, SSI, SSDI, the, you know, disability insurance can be anywhere from $900 to $1,400 a month, and vets can get a little bit more. But what you see here too is that, you know, maybe one doesn't want to take that. Maybe he doesn't want to go the route of a disability. And, you know, maybe he has reasons for not wanting to take government welfare. But it sounds like what Ron is really incentivized to be here is because California offers the best and most comprehensive free healthcare to both the homeless and to illegal immigrants. And that's a real driver. Whether or not you're collecting disability insurance, what a lot of people come here for is the lucrative healthcare.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at Rumble.com. Trending now on America First with Sebastian Burke.
So why— testimony, Your Honor.
Pardon me?
That was before the testimony. Don't get brazen with me.
You knew very well, you know very well that an attorney can't go into these types of areas when the judge has already ruled without asking asking outside the presence of the jury to do so.
So they won't go flat. Wash and dry them as many times as you want. Made in the USA and the official sponsor of the Happiness Hour. Go to mypillow.com and use the promo code Prager for deep discounts. mypillow.com or call 800-761-6302. Promo code That's right, you could be happy if you, you've a mind to. Hey, when was the last time people used the term 'if you've a mind to'? I think that that either— I think it's a southern phrase. 'I got a mind to,' right? But I don't think it's— I don't know if it's even said in the South at this time. Happiness Hour, every Friday, second hour. So the topic is, if you're born with an— if you're not born with a happy nature, can you attain happiness? Everything I believe rides on the answer being yes, because otherwise this is all a waste of time. I'm a behaviorist. The answer to how you do that is by behaving. And that's why I have a happiness hour and I have a book on happiness. Happiness is a serious problem. If you read the reviews on Amazon, and of course you wouldn't be privy to all the people who've come to me in the street or at a restaurant after a speech to say that the book changed their lives. It proves that you can adopt ideas and behaviors and become happier. So the last caller— see how I put it— the last caller said, but there are limits, Dennis. You still can't become bubbly, right? That's probably true. And I'll give you an analogy. If you're not born with With special musical ability, you will never be a concert pianist. All right, I always think in musical analogies because it's a big part of my life. But you can become a very proficient pianist or violinist or whatever the instrument might be. That is correct. You have to be born with a gift to be great. You have to be born with a bubbly personality to become bubbly. The Living Martyr is not bubbly, but he's a happy person. I'm bubbly. That's my nature. I acknowledge it is also something I have worked on. I like it. I like Being in a room and making others happy. I liked it when I was in high school. It was in high school that I decided not to allow myself to get into bad moods. I mean, obviously, to a certain extent, everybody will have that. I remember when it happened. I used to go from Brooklyn to Manhattan Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday each week. I'd go to bookstores, I'd go to concerts. I really used the culture of New York City, but I was very happy to leave eventually because New York City comes with a problem. It's called New Yorkers. I know many of you in New York are listening. I didn't mean to insult you, but you probably agree with me. Anyway, I decided I remember even the position I was sitting in the subway car, with my arms to the sides of me on the back of the seat, the long seat that they have. And I said, you know what, being unhappy is the easy way out. And that I changed my own life with my own thought. My father was a tough, tough father, and he would always yell at me. I don't mean raise his voice, but yell at me, "You're taking the easy way out." It was excessive in my father's case. When I first got eyeglasses, he— and he saw that I wore them all the time— he said, "You're taking the easy way out. The doctor said only for reading and television. Taking the easy way out, wearing eyeglasses so I could see all the time. It's somewhat of a joke when I think of it. But anyway, he made an impact on me. Don't take the easy way out. Unhappiness can be the easy way out. I'm not talking about people who suffered trauma and a whole host of Things, though, even they, I believe, need to be told you have a choice. Talking to the great majority of people who are not in a PTSD situation. All right, I'm gonna take your calls. 1-800-PRAGER-776-877-243. Triple 7-6. Happiness Hour.
Streaming on Salem Now.
I grew up hope, which is even worse than being poor. Our lunch consisted of whatever, whatever my mother could scrape together from the dinner the night before. We would have sandwiches with no meat. My American dream entailed working hard and making $20,000 a year, but I surpassed that goal and became a corporate CEO. Put in an economic growth plan called 999. We'll all be able to say free at last, free at last.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not. We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no No fathers in our lives. This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Going to seminary?
Billy Graham.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
You are out of your mind if you think this family can pick you up. Every time you fall. Boy, Dylan Wright came in this morning. He wants to fight you. This is your opportunity to get back on your feet. You got to know who it is you're fighting for. That's the fight I can't believe I'm saying it, that Bo Lawson can go 10 years without a competitive fight, and here he is going toe-to-toe with the world champion. No one expected this out of him.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
They won't go flat. Wash and dry them as many times as you want. Made in the USA and the official sponsor of the Happiness Hour. Go to mypillow.com and use the promo code PRAGER for deep discounts. mypillow.com or call 800-761-6302, promo code PRAGER. Happiness Hour every Friday, second hour of my 3-hour show. If you don't get to hear all 3 hours, I I promise that each hour is designed to affect your life deeply, your thinking. There's Prager Utopia. You can hear all 3 hours without commercials. Thousands of people do. It's extremely inexpensive. I think it's $5 a month. PragerUtopia.com is also a way to have access to every show. All the happiness hours, all the male, female, and all the ultimate issues included. All right, pragertopia.com, a reminder. And there's a Dennis Prager app, it's accessible, so if your local station doesn't carry it, you can just hear it on your phone. And I think you should know that. All right, everybody. The question on the table on this Happiness Hour is, if you're not born with a happy nature, can you still attain happiness? If I didn't think so, I would not have a Happiness Hour, obviously. Greenville, South Carolina, and Craig. Hello, Craig.
Hi, Dennis. First thing, Dennis, I want to thank you so much. Um, you and I've spoken before. Communicated before. I'm the one that sent you that If Just for Today, and that, that I sent you was something that I owe you, um, for putting together. Um, you know, I'm in my upper years of my life now, and for most of my years there was not that happiness. And, uh, it was through a 12-step program that first brought me to a much closer relationship with God. And then in specific, your 20-year teaching of what you did of the Five Books of the Torah I went through, that I cannot thank you enough how that has altered and changed my life. And in a way that it is imperative for me to share it with others. I sponsor quite a few people. Um, this is something that I feel is now my journey, and I just want to say thank you. And, and I do agree that even though one goes through some very rough things in life, um, one can change how their outlook is because that's what God gave us the freedom of. Freedom of choice.
Well, that's beautiful. Well, I'll tell you, I admit it, combination of AA and my, uh, my biblical teachings is a really good, uh, good combo. I'd like to remind you folks in that regard, read the 4,000 reviews on Amazon. You will see how much it touches life, their lives. My work on the Bible The Rational Bible, 2 volumes are out, 3rd volume is out later this year. But earlier in March is another volume, but not biblical, The Rational Passover Haggadah. Even if you are not a Jew, even if you've never had a Passover Seder, it is about the most powerful subjects of life, and it will explain freedom and liberty and God and suffering It deals with it all. It's called The Rational Passover Haggadah. You could pre-order it at Amazon. Working on this stuff brings me happiness. It's very hard, incredibly hard work. By the way, hard work really does bring happiness if you've achieved something with your work. That's why one of the most important lines in my book on happiness is the difference between fun and happiness. Fun is what you experience during an act. Happiness is what you experience after an act. And that's why a lot of people are not happy. Because they don't engage in the acts that will bring them happiness because they're not fun. It's not fun writing a book. It's not fun giving charity, but you're happy the moment you did. Not fun often raising children, but there is happiness available. Not always. A lot of people have difficult children. There are no guarantees in life. What did they say? Except taxes and death. Okay, let's see here. Let's go, uh, Angie in Hobart, Indiana. Hi. Hello, Angie.
Hi.
Hello. I was, um, just calling because I wanted to say that I am actually kind of I'm more of a happier person. Um, a lot of times a lot of people tell me, oh, did you take— I wish I could get a little bit of a pill of what you have and just take that every day because of the way I am. But, um, I just feel that as far as happiness, you have to kind of manifest it. You gotta, you know, not— you just be happy, just enjoy life. And you, you know, when something bad happens, you don't have control over it. There's no point in dwelling on it because you can't change stuff. So whenever something bad does happen, just accept it. You know, you're upset one day, whatever, the next day you're fine. You can't deal with it, you can't change it, there's nothing else you can do, and you just move on.
And you just—
are you married?
No, I'm not. I have a boyfriend.
Were you ever married?
Um, yeah, I was. 8-year relationship.
See, even that answer you give laughing, that's a testament to your personality. You want to get remarried?
Uh, yes, I am actually probably planning on it soon.
But, um, well, one of the re—
one of the reasons I asked— I asked in general, I'm always curious— but one of the reasons I asked was, is your boyfriend whom you hope to marry, is he as happy as you?
No, I knew it.
Exactly. Okay, folks, the Prager rule is vindicated again. The moody marry the non-moody. The moody may be unhappy But they're not stupid. They never marry one of their own.
Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
If he was, uh, disappointed and to explain why he was not able to sell a member of his own party, Joe Manchin, on the idea of Build Back Better, why this was not important for the American people. In cut number 9, Biden says, hey, it's not over yet. He seemed optimistic that there was still hope that he could bring Joe Manchin around. Cut number 9. You've met with Senator Joe Manchin a number of times. You invited him to your home in Delaware. He came to the White House a week ago.
Then he's on Sunday Morning Cable and says, I'm a no.
How does that happen?
How are you not able to close the deal?
Well, look, let's talk about what we have done. We have passed more major legislation than anybody in their first year ever, ever, ever, ever. I haven't given up on this. I haven't given up on it.
But Senator Manchin's main sticking point, it would appear, is the child tax credit. Are you willing to take that out if it means bringing him on board?
Well, look, Look, I want to get as much as I can possibly get done, as much as we can possibly get done. I still think we'll be able to get a significant amount of what we need to get done, done, particularly as the American people figure out what is in this legislation.
Well, isn't that part of the problem, that the American people kind of know what's in this 2,000-page spending bill? Isn't that the problem, Mr. President? We do know what's in there.
In there.
That's why we do not support it. That's why your approval rating hit an all-time low this week, around 41%. The American people know what's in that spending plan, and they simply don't want it. Joe Manchin knows that the people of West Virginia can't afford what you're trying to sell.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
You ever thought of going to seminary?
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
They won't go flat. Wash and dry them as many times as you want. Made in the USA and the official sponsor of the Happiness Hour. Go to mypillow.com and use the promo code PRAGER for deep discounts. mypillow.com or call 800-767-7635. Okay, final segment of today's Happiness Hour. Big question. If you're not born with a happy nature, can you be happy? And of course the answer is yes. I haven't been adamant about the answer because I wanted to take your calls and I wanted to make the question as clear as possible. You are not a prisoner of your nature. An animal is a prisoner of its nature. You can't talk an animal out of something. I guess you could train an animal. I mean, its nature is to poop anywhere, that if it's a dog, let's say, and you can train the dog, but the dog, I guess, well, there's a— you know what? There's an example of a dog even not acting on its nature. So I guess one could say if a dog can do it, presumably a human can do it. Okay, let's see. Uh, Tahiri in Van Nuys, California. Is that your name, Tahiri?
Yes.
What? Hi Dennis, I'm sorry.
Hi Dennis, hi Dennis, this is Tahira from Van Nuys. Happy New Year!
Thank you.
I like your bumper music, I've been dancing in my kitchen this morning.
Well, you're a happy dudette.
Yes, I am, and I just wanted to let you know that if you and I and your wife got together, we would make joyful and bubbly surroundings. I am a very happy person. I'm a very joyful person. And I find that happiness is often short-lived and dependent upon our circumstances, but the true joy can't be suppressed. It continues even when daily happenings don't justify it.
Right. Well, let me tell you, I've read over and over that people who undergo a trauma— let's say people who are in a car accident and end up in a wheelchair, permanently in a wheelchair— that there is a period of time of adjustment, but most people return to the level of happiness they had prior to their trauma. It's not true for all trauma, but that's a big one. Anyway, call in now on any subject under the sun.
Streaming on Salem Now.
This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. You are not to be heard. This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States. The only way we separate good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them. There's no free speech for fascists.
Your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Social media will be saved to shame.
Creating an atmosphere of fear and repression, and it's gonna bust.
You cannot think differently.
It makes it difficult for you to learn from other people. You have the right to remain silent.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
Don't have no respect. The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border. That journey is extremely dangerous.
The 7-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
This little urn contains the ashes of my son, his dreams cut short forever.
We're so worried about about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
We'll see one young lady identify as transgender, and the next thing you know, 6 or 7 young ladies in that same school are now identifying as transgender.
Children taught at age 5 they can create their gender identity, and it's being celebrated.
Schools are lining up to push the transgender agenda on kids and cut parents out of the equation.
Every cell of their body that has a nucleus is male or female.
We've now seen parents losing custody of their children if they don't go along with this.
We've all been created XY or XX, so that means there's only two genders. And so really, the battle is against the Creator.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
You called your son and you personally promised him you would be here.
Lucas, I don't know how to help you. Your daddy loves you, you gotta know it, pal. Prayer is a powerful thing, Ethan. It really does work if you believe. What reason does he have to care about some guy who's supposed to be his dad but He's never around. I can't do it. I can't. I'm not ready for this, man.
I'm done with you.
We all deserve a second chance, right?
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
This is a story of how a million children were placed with local foster families through an unlikely alliance between the Chinese government and a British footballer. Parents from all walks of life share their stories of overcoming the one-child policy by taking in orphans. With unprecedented access across the country, this is a unique insight into the lives of the '90s orphans now driving the 21st century's fastest-growing economy. This story needs to be told across the world. At a time where there's so much negativity and cynicism, here's proof that a single leap of faith can change the world.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
You called your son.
You personally promised him you would be here.
Lucas, I don't know how to help you. Your daddy loves you, you got to know it, pal. Prayer is a powerful thing, Ethan. It really does work if you believe.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not. We all had something in common. A lot of us were miserable. We had no no fathers in our lives. This is how I began the life of crime. I desired to have a father who, who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now.
You called your son. You personally promised him you would be here.
Lucas, I don't know how to help you. Your daddy loves you, you gotta know it, pal. Prayer is a powerful thing, Ethan. It really does work if you believe. What reason does he have to care about some guy who's supposed to be his dad but he's never around?
I can't do it.
I can't. I'm not ready for this, man.
I'm done with you.
Hell, we all deserve a second chance, right? Arthur suppressed Dennis. Talking about natures during the Happiness Hour. Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the hour you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind. About you, about me, about life, about death. And needless to say, classical music, audio equipment, photography equipment, cigars, and fountain pens. And I was telling my wife the other day— oh yeah, we should listen to that, there's a good part. Yeah, it's great, great theme. Did you choose this, Sean? Did you choose this theme? You did? And, uh, have I thanked you for it? Wow, in all these years I've never thanked you for this theme. Why should I begin today? Exactly. Okay, y'all, whatever's on your mind, 1-800-PREGGER, 776-877-243-7776. I was telling you that I was telling my wife something. Oh, and then I got off the show. And it eluded me. It will return. All right, let me take your calls here. And here's a question. I have no idea what it means. That's why I'm taking it. Houston, Texas, and Stephen. Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Oh, I'm on the phone with Dennis.
You are? You are?
Uh, yes, sir. Uh, I know your time is valuable, so I just wanted to say two words on, uh, what I believe is happening here, at least a big, uh, error of, uh, society. Placebo racism.
Yeah, I heard the term, but I have no idea what does it mean.
Uh, the placebo effect of a pill, uh, manipulating perception to— and then we act out that belief into the world. And right now people are projecting their own boundaries of perception of racism, which it's— even if it doesn't exist in that form at all, also placebo mask wearing. It's, uh, it has to do with creating something from nothing and believing it to have value.
And right, but it's an odd use of the term placebo because people who are They don't know that it's a placebo, so it's not a— as I understand your explanation, it is people doing things that don't mean anything in reality.
Yes, exactly right. They see it where it doesn't exist.
Okay, that's not placebo. I'm not blaming you, uh, just at all, but if that's The term, if that's what placebo racism means, it seems to me to be a misuse of the word placebo. That's all. What I have come to realize, and so many of you have as well, about half the country knows that masks are a farce. They're not— I take it back. They're not a farce. Well, they are, but they're much more— they're much worse than a farce. That's the point that I want to make. The damage done to children not seeing faces for 2 years, damage done to the whole society. So you think if you are wearing a mask in order to make others feel good, you are actually hurting others. So you can live in denial, which many people do. The ability to lie to oneself is, uh, is almost as easy for many as breathing. But you are lying to yourself. You are hurting society wearing a mask outdoors. I don't wear them indoors either, but let's be clear about outdoors. I wish you would all join me in not wearing masks at airports. I'm not talking about airplanes. I wear one on an airplane because I don't want to be thrown off. Of course, when I eat, I could take it off because you cannot get COVID from me when I'm eating, only when I'm not eating. At the airport, you have rows of people eating at, at the outdoor eating areas— not outdoor, but the outside of the restaurant eating areas. That's fine. Nobody's gonna get sick. But the, the biggest proof of the idiocy of the lie of the mask, the gigantic lie that it is, is that when you walk into a restaurant in LA County, you are supposed to wear a mask. There is a sign: you must, to enter, you must wear a mask. As you go to your table, that is about a 10-second walk. You must wear your mask for those 10 seconds, and then you take it off for an hour while you eat your meal.
Get it?
And I'm supposed to believe that masks are valuable. Okay, this is, uh, It's a very, very troubling aspect of the so-called age of reason. I would love to know— I really, really, really, really, really would— what the vote would be on the efficacy of masks among secular people and among religious people. I don't— I'm not making a prediction, but I would love to know what that would be. If a serious poll could be taken of regular churchgoers, regular synagogue goers, and their beliefs with regard to the efficacy of masks versus people who never go or go once a year, better even never go to church or synagogue, I'd be very curious. There may not be a difference, in which case it shows that for most people religion is worthless. Because it doesn't induce a more rational way of looking at life. But I'm— so I don't know the answer. The disappointment that I have had with my fellow American, with the Western world, with the medical profession, and even with a lot of religious people has been profound in the last 2 years. I can survive it. I do what I can do to undo the damage, but I cannot deny that my disappointment in half my fellow Americans is profound, and that includes many religious ones. The synagogues that have shut down for no good reason and follow the New York Times as their god and Bible, or CNN or NPR, is sickening. Likewise, the churches. However, to their credit, the ones that have defied this have overwhelmingly been churches. To their great credit, most churches have been sheep. Most synagogues have been sheep. Most rabbis, most priests, most ministers have been sheep. Sheep is the normal human condition. Okay, that's the, uh, that's the case in the human species. Go along to get along. People don't question authority. I can't believe that we've gone from bumper stickers, question authority, to obey authority no matter how irrational. I don't wear a mask at an airport to make a statement that I, unlike the rest of you, will defy irrational authority. Isn't there a time where it is morally obligatory for people to say no to the irrational? Does it scare you that half the people wearing a mask know it's bullcrap? And do it anyway? Why isn't that scary? Scares me. At what point are you, my fellow American, prepared to say, I will not listen to Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden? Is there any point? Can they say anything? Get a fifth shot inside of 18 months. Get 5 shots, you sucker. 'Cause I said so. Fauci said so. That's enough for most Americans. That's astonishing. Scary as hell. That's what it is. The obedient to the irrational. Why doesn't that scare you? What is the record of the 20th century of mass obedience to irrational orders. Has it been morally productive? Yes, scary. It's very— that's the word that scares me. COVID doesn't scare me. Obedience to irrational authority really scares me. The greatest evils in the 20th century, the evil century par excellence. Were in fact done by people listening to irrational orders. Yep, I was under orders to do so. Have you— do you hear those words at Nuremberg?
Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
Are you at all thinking about some relief on any of your mandates? Listen, there's mandate fatigue everywhere, including with yours truly. So let there be no doubt about that. At the moment, no.
This guy is a scumbag. He is awful. Contrast that with Governor DeSantis, America's greatest governor, most courageous and just, just announced his reelection campaign to become governor of Florida again. A well-deserved campaign of a man who has been overly courageous with now the lowest COVID rates in the country. Can you get if it's COVID rate, death rates, or virus rates? It's whatever it is. It's the lowest in the country, pursuing alternative treatments like monoclonal antibodies. One of the first major states to reopen, phenomenal economic figures. No mask mandates for children. And in the school districts that are doing that, DeSantis is clamping down. He banned critical race theory. And DeSantis has done this in a logical and reasonable way, in a way. And I'm inspired by his leadership versus the weak Vichy French Republicans across the country that continually pander to Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson Johnson. Ron DeSantis has been terrific. But Ron DeSantis understands the promise of the Constitution, unlike Murphy and most Republicans in the country. Where Ron DeSantis says, a year and a half ago, we started with 15 days to slow the spread. Now it's get jabbed or lose your job. You see, what Ron DeSantis recognizes is that the sovereign is the people, not him. It's not we the Ron DeSantis or we the Governor of Florida. No, it's the people's rights that come first.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com. Trending now on the Dennis Prager Show.
But as I said, had they not acquitted him in this vile prosecution from a vile prosecutor, It would have ended, to a very large extent, the whole notion of self-defense in the United States of America. The service this jury performed cannot be overstated. Absolutely cannot be overstated. Yes, you can shoot people who are out to shoot you. This is about as elementary a moral ideal as exists in the human race. And that's what this young man did.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com. Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
One more time, President Biden. Conversations around those kitchen tables that are both profound as they are ordinary. How do I cross a bridge in a snowstorm? What happened? No, I didn't think about it. You know, you're in a situation. What happens if the bridge collapses and there's a fire on the other side? It's going to take 10 miles longer to get to the fire.
People can die.
I mean, this is real.
This is real stuff.
Now, I originally suggested hashtag snowstorm fire bridge collapse. Here I was, I worked all day on the president's remarks, I found this bit of gold alerting the country to the impending massive cycle of snowstorms, fires, and bridge collapses. That's right, we teach what should be taught. This issue is so big to me. Obedience to irrational orders. It's what gave us Gulag and Auschwitz. Obedience to irrational orders. I'm not claiming that wearing a mask where it's completely useless is the same as Auschwitz or Gulag. Of course not. You have to be an idiot to say that. What I'm saying is that the road to evil is paved by obedience to irrational authority. That's why I find it so scary, and I don't engage in it. Okie dokie, let's go to your calls. Uh, Lucy, I could tell you now, is it— it isn't in a violation of HIPAA laws to ask for a vaccination status. I would think so, but they don't care about any of the laws. That doesn't happen. Okay, let's see here. Okay. All right, Pittsburgh, Robin. Hello.
Yes, hi, Dennis.
Hi.
I was hoping to get some some real-world data and make it easy for the layman to understand. As I told the call screener, I spent a lot of time in the Trump White House Situation Room. I'm an engineer. And a lot of people misunderstand about the masks. You're absolutely right. The cloth masks are basically the same as a Kleenex, right? If I put a Kleenex over my nose, I won't hit the person next to me, hopefully. But the medical masks have what's called melt-blown fabric. So they have like an electrostatic charge, like your air purifiers that you put to collect smaller particles. So that's why none of the doctors— we would have saw every doctor and nurse die in 2020 if the N95s didn't work. So they can actually bring particles smaller than the pore size of the mask. I've had to explain this to doctors.
Do you know anybody who has ever worn an N95 mask for 8 hours?
Oh yeah.
Who, who does?
Yeah. Well, doctors, doctors, doctors do it. The doctors I know personally, personally, I know doctors, pharmacists, and a nurse. A lot of my friends are in that field. My nieces—
well, I am very— you know what, listen, what you say has merit. I can only say that when surgeons can remove their mask, they rip it off the second the surgery is over. The— I am very close to an ER nurse. I'm gonna see her tonight. I'm gonna ask her if she wears an N95 N95 mask at work. Frankly, I would quit my position. Maybe it's just a statement of selfishness, but to ask anybody to wear an N95 mask for 8 hours is, is simply unfair. The surgeons wear it, by the way, not to protect them from a virus. They do it so that with an open body in front of them, they don't want anything from them or anything from the body to come up to their face, or anything from their face to go into the body. It's, it's to prevent infection, not to prevent virus. Anyway, we both agree if you're not wearing an N95, it's useless. In my opinion, the whole thing is, is a joke, bad joke, because we will be judged as having lived in the age of irrational destruction. The medical profession has disgraced itself by not advocating therapeutics. The medical profession is on record as saying, if you get COVID, get some rest, take a couple of aspirin, maybe a couple of vitamins. Maybe. I'm not even sure all doctors say that. If you get real sick, come to the hospital where we'll, uh, probably that do more harm than good if we put you on a ventilator. But they won't prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine and zinc because of the lying that has pervaded the profession, because of corruption and dishonesty. Folks, I've staked my reputation on this. So one of us is misleading The public, the medical profession that says don't take ivermectin because it's dangerous, which is— that is a bona fide lie, okay? It's one of the 100 essential drugs on Earth according to the World Health Organization. Tens or hundreds of millions of people have taken it for a half century. Likewise, hydroxychloroquine, incredibly, incredibly safe drugs. That the New York Times dismisses it as a horse— what is the word again? Horse dewormer, right? Dewormer. Like, like that's its principal use. Is a disgrace. But we can all agree that the, the mask people are wearing. That is, that's a rabbit's foot. It's a pacifier, like babies have pacifiers. Okay, let's see here. Thank you, Robin, for calling, clearing up a line there. And let's go to Gardner in Los Angeles. Hello.
Uh, yes, sir. I have an observation I'd like to make, please. Uh, there's a lot of talk on the news, etc., about the invasion of Congress on January 6th, 2021. My guess is that the invaders were trying to tell the world that government is the problem, and now they just want to go on about their business. The Republicans don't want to discuss it any further. And I forgot who said it, but years ago someone said government is a problem, government is a problem. And on January 6th, um, the invaders had to go to Congress and then invade them and tell them. So that was their way of saying, uh, change your way of living.
Okay, I don't think that was their message, and it was not an effective way of making it. In any event, the message was that the, uh, that the election— their message was that the election was dishonest. Not that government doesn't work. I mean, obviously government doesn't work if it can't have an honest election. Nevertheless, government is a bigger problem than it is a solution. That's what changed me into a Republican, that one line by Ronald Reagan. I was a Democrat until then. One line did it. That's why we know we can change minds in 5 minutes with a PragerU video. I was changed in 2 seconds. Every genocide was created by big governments.
Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Last night, the New York Times ran a headline, Social Spending Infrastructure Advances in House. And I thought to myself, when did socialism go from big government to social spending infrastructure. Social spending infrastructure doesn't mean anything. It's never been a term of art. It doesn't have any meaning. It's a cover term for a vast hose of money on everything. This isn't going to get through the Senate, is it?
Oh no, I don't think this is going to get through the Senate. And the infrastructure bill got through, but that's going to be about it on these big spending spending programs. And Pelosi and her crew want $4 trillion in spending. And of course, I get it, Pelosi wants to pass this thing so that she can be an ambassador and head to Rome. What they're trying to do is cast one vote, and in that one vote, they want to take control of your kids, control of education, control of your health care, federalizing elections, changing immigration policy, then more provisions of the Green New Deal and a socialist economy.
Are you telling me that Speaker Pelosi— we're gonna, we're gonna visit her on the Pope? Is that what you're telling me?
We're hearing that that is the goal. I don't talk to her, but what we're hearing is that she is looking forward to becoming an ambassador.
Now, look, Francis and I don't agree on much, but he is— that we cannot do that to the Pope.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com. Trending now on the Dennis Prager Show.
But as I said, had they not acquitted him in this vile prosecution from a vile prosecutor, it would have ended to a very large extent the whole notion of self-defense in the United States of America. The service this jury performed cannot be overstated. Dennis Prager show absolutely cannot be overstated. Yes, you can shoot people who are out to shoot you. This is about as elementary a moral ideal as exists in the human race, and that's what this young man did. All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here. Sean and I are having a big fight. I don't know if I can continue the show. Well, I can. I'll overcome it. All right, c'est assez maintenant avec Les chansons en français. Isn't it fascinating how different, even if you don't understand the language, putting that completely aside, languages have such different sounds. I'm fascinated by languages. That's built in. I was talking about human nature. That is, for whatever reason, built in. I love languages. I love grammar. One of the— I think one in 100 people love grammar, loves grammar. All right, let's go on, my friends. What is on thine mind? This is an unimportant question, but I'll take it anyway. Minneapolis, Ron.
Hello. Hello, Dennis. Happy Friday, my friend.
It is a happy Friday.
Yes, yes. Before I get to my question—
no, no, go to your question.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, you, you had stated that your gym had closed down. Now you're working out at home, right? What does your— yeah, what does your workout consist of? And based on your answer, I may have a suggestion, a recommendation to change your workout.
All right, well, I have a trainer who comes to the house because if I were left to my own devices, I would do almost nothing. But I figure if I force myself— a lot of life is forcing yourself to do what's right. So I do it 3 times a week, and I can't say it's my 3 favorite hours of the week. Most of it is in pain except for the 1-minute rest periods that I get after, after the cycle. What does it consist of? How's this one? Uh, let's see, a weight, a dumbbell in each hand up at my shoulder, and doing, uh, 10 squats or 30 squats, 10 at a time, with the dumbbells as added weight. Or kneeling down to the ground with my knee with one leg, or a plank. All right, does that give you an answer?
Yes, sir, you are good. But here's the thing, you're missing one component in your workout 3 times a week. You need to mix in a little aerobics, and I would suggest invest into a high-end, high-end rowing machine. The rowing machine—
that's what I have. That's the one machine I bought.
I love it.
Um, yes, you're absolutely right. And I go on it, and I have— it builds the heart rate faster than any other machine that I am aware of. But maybe that's not true. Anyway, they say it A rower utilizes 87% of your muscles, which I find hilarious. Not 86 and not 88, 87. So contrary to my appearance, I am in good shape and in very good health. All right, let's go to David in Santiago, Chile. Oh, how do you like that? David in Santiago, hello. Uh-oh. David in Chile, are you there? I think it's my first call from Chile. Saying buenos días is not going to do it. That's a terrible suggestion. Suggestion. And not only that, it was racist. Okay? I could give you 10 reasons why it was a terrible suggestion. David, I'll put you on hold. Maybe you're doing something else. In fact, I hope he is, providing it's pleasurable. Henry in Cleveland, Ohio. Hello.
Yes, good afternoon.
Yes, sir.
Uh, Dennis, uh, what do you find more surprising to you, uh, the COVID compliance or the quote-unquote shadow government?
It's an excellent question. They've both been shocks. I don't know which is a bigger shock. I, I I feel silly, but I'm a big, big believer in being transparent to you, my listeners, flaws included. I've always thought it was a sin for an adult to be naive. I was naive. I went— when I read about government institutions, I trusted them. I'll have more to say about that, more to say about that in a moment. In the meantime, I have a lot to say about Relief Factor, one of the most incredible inventions of my lifetime. How's that? Anything that relieves physical pain is a great invention. Doesn't relieve nerve pain, I want to be precise, but it does muscular pain, joint pain. In fact, if it doesn't work within 3 weeks, it probably won't work. That's the statement of the manufacturer of Relief Factor. So there's a 3-week test price, tryout, quick start they call it, $19.95. ReliefFactor.com, 800-583-84.
Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
Can't you live wherever you want to live if you can afford to live there? And what business is it of your neighborhood neighbors to cast dispersion because they don't like your race? What is that? Unless you intend to commit crime or degrade the neighborhood in some sort of way. And there's no evidence that these white people who are looking at her library box intended to do that. Again, as I said before, if somebody Black was looking at a neighborhood that was predominantly some other race and those people began to make all sorts of negative comments just because you're Black, they'd be yelling and screaming. They'd be running off to the NAACP. They'd call Dawn Lamont. What does she want? It's not the '50s anymore, for crying out loud. I, I, I don't get it. I really don't. Anyway, Jason, thank you very much for the call. Now, getting back to, uh, COVID, here is The mayor of New York.
So today we're going to be announcing some additional measures to keep New Yorkers safe. And I'm going to remind everyone, job number one of any mayor, keep people safe. This is the biggest crisis not only of our time, of the history of New York City.
Job number one, keep people safe, says a man who has made all sorts of comfort to the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and this notion of systemic racism. To the point where the police in New York are demoralized. People are quitting, moving to other jurisdictions because of this notion that they're engaging in systemic racism and because of the COVID vaccine mandates. But he just now says with a straight face that the number one objective is to keep people safe regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Keep up with what's trending. Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com. Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
The whole thing is up in flames. I don't even want to spend a lot of— waste a lot of time on the degenerate who burned it down. It was a guy from Brooklyn, I think 49 years old. They miraculously got him, and I just cannot shake What a metaphor that is. You know, millions and millions of people watch Fox News. Fox News celebrates American exceptionalism, greatness. The very, very patriotic channel. There's no way around that. They love the country.
They have—
they proudly air plenty of conservative views.
Now go to DennisPrager.com, search for and listen to my views on just about anything. That's right, I now have my very own search engine. You can even share these clips with your friends. Visit my website at DennisPrager.com. So I was saying, in answer to the last question, from Henry in Cleveland, that I was naive. I've had, uh, I guess I had a sort of romantic view of American institutions. Thought the American Medical Association was was primarily devoted to medicine. I thought the CIA cared about America. I thought the FBI was led by honorable people.
I did.
I didn't think— I knew universities were morally corrupt, intellectually bankrupt. But I did think that there were others that had not been poisoned. The rule, my friends— there are two rules. One, everything the left touches, it ruins. There's no exception. There has never been an exception. And I distinguish between left and liberal, to the consternation of many conservatives who see no difference. But we have to be intellectually honest. Liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common. That liberals vote left is a statement of their foolishness, not a statement of liberalism being leftism. But I did think that there was honor. So the other rule is— one is the left ruins everything it touches, and the other is Power corrupts. There's almost no exception to that either. That is the reason the founders of this country, the giants— they are giants compared to the midgets of the left. They are truly— that's why they hate them. Midgets hate giants. And I'm not talking about small people, I'm talking about the moral midgets, intellectual midgets. They hate giants because they expose their inadequacy. They understood that limited government is the only way to preserve a decent and free society. People who seek power are almost always morally bankrupt. Any ideology that wants to consolidate power, whether it's Brussels or the Democratic Party of the United States, is morally bankrupt. Why people would give so much power to a few people shows you how ignorant people are of what makes society tick. Why would you trust people with immense power? But it's all backwards. Defund the police but not defund the government, right? Policemen are corrupt, but government officials controlling trillions of dollars and an army and an FBI, they're honorable. Merrick Garland has turned out to be a thug. I admit, that even surprised me. He seemed so sweet when Barack Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court. We were told he's a moderate, thoughtful man. He's a thug. He has hurt this country terribly by politicizing the Department of Justice to the extent that he has. I fell into that trap too. I admit it. David, we're trying Santiago Chile one more time. Are you there, David? Okay, he's not there. Okay, so I'll let him go. No está aquí, es verdad. All right, let's see.
Okay.
Uh, let's see, Lori in Denver. Hello.
Hi, Dennis. Hi. I just have to say I adore you and I'm so thankful for what you do for us.
And it pains me to call to let you know that I disagree with you.
Doesn't pain me, so we're okay.
Well, you have recently and often said that evil is such a bright light that you cannot stare at it.
That's right.
And it just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up because I think you're very wrong. I think that God is the brightest light that we cannot stare at.
Which is why we can't always understand him.
I mean, Genesis 1:3, God said, let there be light, and there was light, and God saw that light was good. Psalms, blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. Job 8.
Okay, okay, all right, I, I truly, I do have your point, but you're You're using light in a different way. When I say that— when I say we can't— people— when I say that evil is so bright people can't stare at it, I'm using light as a metaphor, not as a re— not as the reality of light's existence. We can stare into darkness. We can't stare into very bright light. You can't stare at the sun. You can stare at the night sky. Sky. Is that correct? Correct. So likewise, people can't stare at evil. They deny it. I saw this with communism, and I now see it with leftism.
Can I respond to that?
Of course. That's why you're still on.
Well, I believe that we stare at evil all day, every day. No, Because it lurks in the shadows of the darkness. We don't even— most of us don't even know it's there.
Well, then, all right. So you can't stare at something you don't know is there. You're not consciously looking. Look, the truth is, I don't think we differ. I think you're using a literalness that I'm not using. Drop the words light, drop the words dark. People do not stare at evil. They ignore it. They— what they do is— that's what the left does. As I wrote during the statue destruction, the left destroys statues, the right fights evil. Perfect example.
Streaming on Salem Now.
We understand that a plane has crashed into the people who knocked these Buildings down.
We'll hear all of us soon.
Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history.
United States killed Osama bin Laden. There are reports surfacing that Al Qaeda has placed a $50,000 bounty on the heads of any U.S. Navy SEALs. Nobody's going to survive that. There's nobody in that.
This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan. Afghanistan in a single incident.
Most of them are U.S. Navy SEALs.
We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
The military threw them away.
More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board. Anybody out there, we have a fallen angel.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
Streaming on Salem Now. There's about 57 Muslim states in in the world, there's one Jewish state.
The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land. To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to Salem The Democratic Party somehow has convinced Black people that they're the good guys, never mind the skanky history of the Democratic Party. That was a party of slavery. There is a whole big cottage industry for racism. If racism went away, a lot of people would be unemployed.
The mob during the Minneapolis riots following the death of George Floyd, a bunch of white thugs frankly burning down the city's traditional Black and Asian businesses. Racist, racist, racist. Everything's racist.
Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to salemnow.com.
In the 20th century, totalitarianism took the form of secret police violently silencing anyone who spoke out against the government. Now it has a different but equally dangerous face. Rod Dreher, author of Lived Up by Lies, explains in a new video at PragerU.com, where we teach Well, you know, it's amazing the rapidity with which weeks go by. This is the final segment of my broadcast week. I always have a certain nostalgia— I don't know if that's the proper word, maybe it is— bittersweet, because I'm looking forward to the weekend. On the other hand, I really love this. I have to work with difficult people, but— Sean, why did you think I had you in mind? I don't know. I told you. Oh, that was good. You know what his response was? He can totally relate. I gotta say, Sean, you're swift. Who's your fan behind you? What, you got a fan club behind you now? Zach, do you like Sean? All right. You see? Okay. You didn't even see what he said. Uh, where are we here? There is a line there. Oh yes. Cleveland and Tom. Hello.
Hello, Dennis. Just wonderful to talk to you. Quick question about relationship.
Yep.
Um, you often ask women what's more important, their career or finding a man. And I'm about to to propose to a woman and I want to make sure that her business doesn't come before me. Is that too much for me to ask?
No.
And what should the answer be? I believe it should be I should come first.
So I agree. I think you should come first too.
Okay.
Yep. It's, it's, uh, I think a woman who so respects her man that he is the number one priority in her life is a lucky woman, and just as he is a lucky man. So let me know what happens. I will be very curious. You know, that's a great subject for, uh, for a male-female hour. I know it sounds patriarchal and sexist and all of those words that feminism has used to ruin women's lives. The damage feminism has done to women is incalculable. Incalculable. They traded in happiness, bonding, love for a damn career. I was gonna say g-damn, but you're not supposed to. What a trade. And I have no issue with women having careers. I'm surrounded by terrific career women. Surrounded. Indispensable. I met Margaret Thatcher. The great giant Prime Minister of Britain. She put her husband first. Have a wonderful weekend.
More from Dennis
Life, Legacy, and a Dangerous Mission in the Soviet Union | Sunday Fireside Chat
