The Dennis Prager Show LIVE
In this live broadcast, host Dennis Prager engages with historian Victor Davis Hanson and other commentators to critique contemporary American politics and culture. The program weaves together a series of monologues, guest interviews, and caller interactions covering a wide range of topics: the alleged media hoaxes involving Black individuals, the narrative that the Democratic Party has co-opted Black voters, criticism of Bloomberg and other mainstream outlets for alleged false reporting, and the claim that left‑wing elites fabricate racial incidents to promote a "woke" agenda. The hosts discuss immigration policy, arguing that post‑1960s changes eroded the traditional "melting‑pot" assimilation model, leading to a "salad‑bowl" of unassimilated immigrants and a loss of civic cohesion. They examine the fiscal crisis surrounding the debt ceiling, blaming Democratic spending for inflation and a ballooning national debt, while asserting that Republicans must oppose any debt‑hike attached to a budget. The segment also reviews the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing it as a catastrophic failure and accusing senior military leaders of prioritizing a "woke" social agenda over combat effectiveness. The conversation turns to the military’s internal culture, recruitment challenges, and the alleged politicization of the officer corps, with particular focus on General Mark Milley’s alleged self‑interest. The hosts promote Victor Davis Hanson’s new book, The Dying Citizen, which argues that progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization are destroying the idea of America, and they propose solutions such as homeschooling, charter schools, and a return to civic education. Throughout, Prager intersperses promotional spots for sponsors and the Salem Now app. The overall narrative frames the left as dishonest, racially motivated, and culturally destructive, while positioning conservative values, traditional American identity, and limited government as the antidotes.
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Dennis Prager on this Tuesday. Tomorrow— I will be in Minnesota for the, the great Minnesota anniversary of my, one of my favorite stations in America, the Twin Cities Salem station. So anyway, I'm here in LA today, and it's a very interesting question, which I'm surprised that Vegas doesn't have betting odds on this. Will there be a ban on travel for the non-vaccinated? The interesting thing is that I suspect that most vaccinated people will have— would be in favor of it. Is it— you think I'm right? Do you think if most vaccinated people had a vote They would ban from travel. You can't go anywhere on train, bus, or I wonder, would they hold that true for the subway, which is you're far more packed together than anywhere? Would they say that on the subway in New York as well? There is a real anger that is being fostered by people who thrive on hatred of some, some Amer— there has to be a group of Americans to hate for the left, otherwise life is not filled. So it's not fulfilling, right? If you voted for Trump, you're hated. So that's half the country. And hated, I, I mean hated. I, I, I can say on, on us, on the Bible, that I don't hate people who voted for Joe Biden. I think that they were foolish, naive, and destructive, but I don't hate them. There are a lot of nice people who made a very destructive decision. Nice people often do harm. So, but they hate people who voted for Trump, and the vaccinated, many of them hate people who were not vaccinated. And The amazing thing is that if you are vaccinated, I mean, this is said so often, why do you care? You're protected. We're told the lie, but let's— but they, but they're told, they say it, 99 or 95% of those in hospitals for COVID now are the non-vaccinated. Well then, if that's the case, why do you care if you're vaccinated? Why do you care if somebody else isn't? If they want to drop dead, let them drop dead. It's almost as if you're acknowledging, if you have hatred for the non-vaccinated, that the vaccine is not nearly as effective as you think it is, or you believe it is, or you want to believe it is. But I think the bigger issue is than health, than being scared, and a lot of people were scared, which is very, very bad. I think the bigger issue is you had the audacity to defy the medical authorities. The country that is built on the beauty of difference of opinion has truly squashed it. Okay, got that out of my system. So there's an issue that I don't know if you're following, but I have been following, and I'm laughing because I just had the sheet here, and this is the bane of my profession of talk show host. You prepare and you prepare, and then where did you put the sheet that you prepared? And in any event, I know it by heart. There is a massive attack, massive, to the extent of a Senate hearing. Against Facebook, which owns Instagram. It's amazing how much big tech owns, you know, Google owns YouTube, Facebook owns Instagram, it's quite frightening actually. And Instagram has apparently, I don't use Instagram personally, I don't know why, but I've not found it to be a loss in my life. But I know about this and there are a lot of pictures put up by girls and I mean, you know, I don't know what age they are. They're young obviously. I don't mean 12. Maybe, you know, teens and 20s and they're sexy pictures and it apparently has a real negative effect on the self-image of many teenage girls. That's, that is this, that is the story. And because it does have this negative impact on the self-image of so many teenage girls, there are actually Senate hearings on, on this issue, on how there should not be, there simply should not be. Here we go. Amazing. These, these Instagram images. So here, Facebook knows Instagram is toxic. This is Wall Street Journal. Remember, the Wall Street Journal news pages are liberal and the editorial pages are conservative. The editorial pages and the news pages of the Wall Street Journal have nothing in common. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show. PragerU in its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental health issue that Facebook plays down in public. About a year ago, teenager Anastasia Vlasova started seeing a therapist. She had developed an eating disorder and had a clear idea of what led to it— her time on Instagram. She joined the platform at 13 and eventually was spending 3 hours a day entranced by the seemingly perfect lives and bodies of the fitness influencers who posted on the app. When I went on Instagram, all I saw were images of chiseled bodies, perfect abs, and women doing 100 burpees— that's a push-up and jump up, if that's the way to put it, or jumping jack— in 10 minutes. That's amazing, actually. How many people can do that, huh? I mean, you, you, you run every day. Yeah, you couldn't do it. You're in great shape. Maybe Sean could do it, but yeah. Yes, exactly. So I'm just out of curiosity, how, how many— what percentage of people on, on Instagram are doing 100 burpees in 10 minutes? I, I don't think many. I don't know, but I don't think so. So she's now 18, this, this girl. 32% of teen girls, researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted on Facebook's internal message board reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, 32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse. Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram, one presentation showed. The research that we've seen, CEO Mark Zuckerberg— oh, it doesn't matter. Okay, so he has another— it's irrelevant to comment. All right, so I raised this on a previous occasion, but now I would like to get your feedback. So I, I have— I've thought about this, and I mentioned it was actually the topic of my of my next fireside chat. First of all, there are so many first of alls, I don't know which first of all to begin. How about this? Maybe parents should monitor whether their teenage daughter is on the phone watching stuff for 3 hours, 3 hours, and ask them what they're watching. So that's, that's, that's one possibility. A second is, what is the lesson to be learned by a girl who sees what she thinks are better bodies than hers? So what is the lesson? I feel, I feel terrible about myself. I have a very bad body self-image. Okay. So what is the lesson that a parent who loves this girl should derive from that fact? So here is a suggestion. That will happen to you, my darling daughter, all of life. All of life consists of people seeing people whom they think have something better than they do. In your case, it's a body. But as people get older, it is almost infinite where people will observe people whom they know or think have something better. There are people who will have better incomes. Will you have a bad self-image to the point even perhaps of self-destructive behavior? People will have better marriages. What will you do about that? End your marriage? There are people who have better children. What will you do about that? There are people who have better homes. What will you do about that? Maybe this is a preparation for life. My darling daughter This is what life consists of. People will always be there who have something better. 1-800-PRAGER-776.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal. Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours?
Hours?
Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just, just curious. As the Taliban is ready to take back Afghanistan, these are interviews he gave this stinking year, this year, as the Taliban is rising, as China is building its military, as Iran is threatening us, as Russia is being ever more militaristic, you're sitting down for hours with an avowed rabid Democrat quote-unquote journalist to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you, by the Constitution, are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading The Long War Journal by our friend Bill Roggio, where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books like Cynical Theories, reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government. Well, you were right, and it took 11 days for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. Have you seen some of the images coming out of Afghanistan, by the way? They're real pleasant. Bodies being hung from overpasses, people being executed in the street, an Afghan soldier led out into the street and just shot dead. The Taliban walking around with these giant whips and they're hitting women over the backs. Here's Secretary Austin also contradicting Biden and exposing Joe Biden for the bald-faced lie, the, the bald-faced lie he told the American people.
It's a simple question, Secretary Austin. He said no senior military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence behind. Is that true or not? Did these officers and General Miller's recommendations get to the president personally?
Their input was, was received by the president and considered by the president for sure. In terms of what they specifically recommended, Senator, they just, as they just said, they're not going to provide what they recommended in confidence.
What a, what a crapstorm. What a crap show. Senator Josh Hawley put it best. Thank goodness for people like Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and Dan Sullivan. The Republicans were, were certainly, um, on fire yesterday in holding these failed commanders to have some sort of at least a public accountability.
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Do you care about the small businesses in America? Well, I do. It's the strength of our country economically and in many ways morally. Big business is ruining this country. I can't think of a big business that is decent, that hasn't collapsed into cowardice and anti-American vitriol. So if you care about small business, just join JCN, the Job Creators Network. These are the defenders of small businesses in this country. Not asking you for money, they're asking you to join them. Period. Know what they're doing. Know that they are, by the way, going on a bus tour across the country this October, which is now. Bring Small Business Back Bus Tour may be coming to your town. So go to JCN, the Job Creators Network, jcnbusstour.com, jcnbusstour.com, or just jcn.com. I love these people. And please do it. This is— you can't do nothing now. People ask, what can I do? You can't change the country single-handedly. So you have to join with groups that are changing the country. JCN, Job Creators Network, is one of them. So it's really something, this, that there's a Senate hearing That there were too many beautiful girls posing on Instagram? This is worthy of a Senate hearing? Because other girls, it exacerbates their self-image? Toxic? That's the word. That, by the way, this proved to me the Wall Street Journal news pages are just as left-wing as the New York Times. You don't think it's that bad? Okay, fine. Okay, good. I'm glad to say. I'm happy that you caught me. Not as bad, but, but, but it's getting worse. Okay, fair enough. Toxic. Isn't that great? That's toxic. Sexy women pictures are toxic. So instead, instead of living with the inherent challenges of life— you're, you're a male, there are more successful males than you, and there will always be You're a woman. There will be more beautiful women than you, and there will always be. If you allow that to crush your life, that is your problem. That is not the U.S. Senate's problem. Maybe don't put pictures up of women with baby strollers. You know how many women want babies and then they see these pictures and feel awful? I'm not— and this is not— this actually I'm saying with great sympathy. So why isn't that toxic? And many of them can do less about having a baby than a lot of girls can do about their bodies. Not everybody can have a perfect body. But there is no arena in life where there aren't people who are better than you or me. It doesn't exist. My entire career, I was on the same time as Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh had way more stations than I did. It didn't bother me one day of my life. It wasn't toxic. I did my best and I had my own very large audience, and that is the way it goes. I mean, I'm giving you that example because it's a very valid example. There was somebody doing better than me in some arena. In my arena, for that matter. The infantilizing of already infantilized young people is staggering. Staggering. The feminist movement lie, among its many enormous lies, was we make strong women. Never have women been weaker, ever, in American history than the post-feminist, post-feminism America. It has made women weaker. This is a perfect example. Oh, my poor thing, you have a bad get a bad self-image of your body. First of all, parents should tell their daughters they're beautiful, period.
Okay?
That's just, it's a given. But a lot of parents won't tell their daughters they're beautiful. They'll tell them they're smart because they don't want to emphasize in any way their beauty. Then when they see beautiful girls and they feel terrible and the parents didn't even tell them how, that they're beautiful, they get very angry at Instagram, which I can't stand, but I'm not angry at it for this. Tell me an arena where there isn't somebody doing better than you. You can't name one. Well, maybe that's not true. If you have a spectacular marriage, you may not be able to name a better marriage. Okay, but vast numbers of people do think that others— there are some others who have a better marriage, or a better husband, or a better wife, or better kids, or better parents, or a better house, better car, better vacations, better vacation house. This is all part of the sick, sick weakening of the spirit leftism that pervades our country. These were Democratic senators. I don't know if you know, did any Republicans take part in this particular hearing? Do you know? I don't know, I'd be very curious. What is Instagram supposed to do, ban pictures of girls in swimsuits? What is Instagram supposed to do? That's the next phase, by the way. Well, if it's toxic, let's ban it. Well, it's This is a— by the way, here's a— I do believe this is a liberal, a left-right divide, liberal-conservative divide. I do. I think most conservatives who have daughters will either be stricter on how many hours their daughter can be on Instagram or say, look, I'm sorry that you feel this, this poor self-image. I think you're beautiful. But let me just explain to you, that is the way life works. So the earlier you deal with the fact that you will always meet people or see people or imagine people having something better, the number of times is infinite in life. But there is no wisdom any longer. And of course, the anti-wisdom movement is the left. So this wisdom that I just imparted is not imparted to young people. You're a victim, poor thing, because there are pictures up of girls who you think are prettier than you. Wow, poor you. 1-8-Prager-776. Tampa, Florida, and Jerry. Hello, Jerry. It's what? Gary? Oh man, that's a rare boo-boo. I'm sorry, I gotta put the screener in the punishment room. I'm so sorry. Just want to say it hurts me more than the screener when that happens, just for the record. I don't do the actual punishing, but the very sound effects are painful. All right, we'll be back in a moment. You are listening to The Dennis Prager Show, and we'll go to Gary in Tampa.
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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, um, uh, 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.
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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. Asshole! Beat a little bit.
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The message is very simple: Democrats broke it, they bought it, they have to fix it. Is that— can the Republicans stay on message?
I hope so. It's going to require a lot of discipline, but we have to do that. I mean, we have offered numerous bipartisan outreaches to the speaker and her team. You know, we should have done this whole process through regular order, gone committee by committee, passed 12 separate appropriations bills. But the fact is, as I said, before, the squad is driving the train and everything is being sacrificed to the altar of the Bernie Sanders socialist spending spree. I mean, I think Pelosi, I mean, this is her, her last hurrah and she wants to go out with a bang and she wants to cement her legacy. And so she's going to try and jam through as much as possible. And I think there's a lot of Democrats right now who are quite frankly afraid of all of the energy coming from the far left. And let's hope that some Democrats in the Senate, particularly Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, stand their ground. But Republicans need to be disciplined. This is no time for us to be complicit in their games. We need to stand up for the American people, and particularly in light of all the other crises and manifest failures we're seeing from the Biden administration, whether it's the complete absence of security on the southern border. We have a— we have an out-of-control crisis on the southern border, whether it's the ongoing failures of U.S. foreign policy. Owing to our surrender in Afghanistan and all of the lies, quite frankly, that the president told at the UN General Assembly yesterday. We need to be disciplined right now because the Democrats from the White House and certainly Democrats in Congress are simply not operating in a way that has the best interests of the American people in mind.
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Going to Gary in Tampa, Florida. Hi, Gary. One minute. Okay. Hi, Gary. Great.
Dennis Prager, uh, over music any day, and that's pretty much what I listen to all the time. But, uh, I appreciate everything you do, so thank you for saying all that. Yeah, well, it's true. So, um, hopefully more people realize it and tune in. So anyway, I'm, uh, 50 years old, and I don't know, my problem is, uh, I'm finding out people tell me all the time all my life I'm good looking or whatever, um, but 10 years I haven't even had a date. And I, my thing is shyness. I think a lot of maybe these women too, um, you know, go out there and try to, and, you know, uh, you know, not, you know, say something that they normally wouldn't say, approach somebody they normally wouldn't, and, uh, see what happens. Because I think they'd be, you know, pleasantly surprised. Um, so you— why, why—
I don't— wait, I don't understand why you haven't had a date in 10 years. First of all, are you, are you divorced?
No, I've never been married. So I've had 2 relationships in my whole life when I was younger, people all before I was, uh, well, 35, before that. And then, um, uh, it's just been working and, and I don't know, I, I meet women all the time and, uh, I say hi, but it's just odd that I, I feel like I have to know them before I can ask them out, like know something about them. I I just, I don't go, you know, based on looks, you know. And that's the thing, I think, I think it's a problem with a lot of people that just is unspoken, that they don't know what to— we're not taught that in school. We're not taught, you know, how to approach.
If you want to know, if you want to know a woman before you go out on a first date, then you should be on the internet. You could correspond via email or Zoom or whatever. Get to know her.
That's how I met the last two. That's how I met the two that before. But, uh, it changed. I'd say it changed though. I was— heck, I was AOL guy of the month when AOL was free. They had the free ads. They picked me and I was—
all right, all right, don't talk about the past. Why aren't you doing it now?
Because it's not the same on the internet. It's like some of these sites they go to, there's women that are up there that are for months, and they're fake. They're put up there on purpose.
All right, but you find out that they're not fake by corresponding for a while. Look, uh, you should be married. I'm a big fan of the greatest book ever written, the Bible, and the first thing God says about the human being is, 'Not good for man to be alone.' I subscribe to that. All right. Anyway, thank you for listening and calling. The subject, my friends, is not that. The— we got— we went astray a bit on that call because he called to say that he, like every man, has issues with other men being, let's say, more successful. I'm talking about this. I find this Just another example of the horrible job people do in the raising of children, the society and parents. My daughter has a bad self-image about her body because of Instagram photos of girls with great bodies. So let's get rid of the Instagram pictures instead of let's Let's deal with the issue of the human condition, that you will always think others have something better. And the reason is there always will be. No, you're a victim, my dear daughter. You're a victim of pictures on the internet. It's really something. Okay, let's see here. Aaron in Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon. Well, I think of Portland, Oregon and I think, God, is that a toxic city. Talk about toxicity. Anyway, go ahead.
Hi. Hi, Dennis Prager. Portland is a tough place to live these days, especially for people that are conservative. Having said that, my wife and I have a 13-year-old daughter, and we just simply made the decision to keep her off of Instagram until she's a little older. She's a freshman in high school, and part of the reason we've done that is we do think that Instagram can foster negative perceptions of body image and other things. So I guess I'm not quite as upset that the, that the Senate is discussing it. I actually think more parents need attention drawn to this and that they should focus a little bit more attention on it in terms of how their kids are accessing media. And Instagram, in my, in my view, can be problematic in that regard.
I couldn't agree with you more. I said that. That was my first thing because the article begins with a girl who spent 3 hours a day on it. Well, where are the parents? Where are the parents? But the reason I don't want Senate hearings is What they're— they— it means they'll move, or they may well move, to banning it, which I assume you would not be for because you called yourself conservative.
It's a fair point. It's a fair point. They may move that direction. I do think there are some social implications for the use of social media that are new to the country, new to our society.
But right, but it's not new that girls think other girls look better than them.
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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.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward, for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal, Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours?
Hours?
Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just, just curious. Is the Taliban ready to take back Afghanistan? These are interviews he gave this stinking year. This year. Is the Taliban rising? Is China building its military? Is Iran threatening us? Is Russia being ever more militaristic? You're sitting down for hours with an avowed rabid Democrat quote-unquote journalist to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you by the Constitution are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading the Long War Journal. By our friend Bill Roggio, where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books like Cynical Theories, reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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What we have is a—
for since World War II, life has been for most Americans so good that they sort of invent issues to obsess over. The oppression of women. Oh my God. Any woman who thinks she's oppressed in the United States is a spoiled brat. Oppressed. Girls come up to the microphone at speeches that I give at the universities and tell me they're oppressed. They told the wrong guy. They're oppressed. Parents are spending $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a year. They're in this luxurious dorm room. They're not working. They're being coddled in every possible way and they're oppressed. They're the majority of students at their college because boys are fading away from college. That's a theme we need to deal with. That's a very big deal. I'm not saying it's even bad. Colleges are such wastelands, maybe men will be better. There might be a silver lining to it. The feminization of the universities in any event makes it a place guys don't want to go You want to learn that you're an a-hole because you're a male? Go to college, get a degree in self-laceration. All right, where is the— here we go. Marie, Torrance, California. Hi, Marie.
Hey, Dennis. Yeah, I wanted to say I was a teenager in the 1980s and we did not have all of this online stuff. What we had was Cosmo, Vogue, Teen magazines. We were doing grapefruit diets and cabbage soup diets. I was chunky in junior high and high school, and as soon as I started seeing boys that were busy staring at the skinnier girls— they were wearing makeup— that's what then I needed to do. It got me working out and whatever. But this never ends. We know men are attracted to attractive women and <LYRICS>And it gives you more self-confidence.</LYRICS> And we also do it because we're also trying to make, frankly, other women jealous as well, that they think we're more attractive. But of this, if there's a higher suicide rate now, then it has to do with the fathers are not around, the mothers are busy obsessed with themselves, they're not raising responsible kids, they're shoving their kids into daycare right away. My advice for fathers: give your daughters flowers, give them Valentine's Day presents, open doors for them. They need to teach their daughters expectations of how men should be treating them.
Where'd you get all your wisdom?
Um, partially from listening to you, um, having conservative parents, um, but yeah, I mean Yes.
Are you married?
Again, I have a long, long, long, long-term boyfriend. I didn't do a great job in picking guys and stuff, but we've been together a long time.
Well, let me say this. If there were a nuclear war, I'd want you in my bunker.
And likewise. Thank you.
Likewise. What a great answer. Terrific. Is she terrific, Marie? She was chunky. So this is a great— that's everything she said is true. Everything. I know this is going to sound corny, and I'll live with it. Truth is like a beautiful waterfall. That's my imagery. I mean, doesn't it seem beautiful to stand under a waterfall that isn't too strong on a beautiful day? The water is warm but not hot. It's just— it like washes over you in a wonderful feeling. That was my reaction to Marie's call. So she was chunky and saw all these women in the pictures, which preceded Instagram. Nobody had phones, smartphones. It didn't exist. Nobody even imagined it. And the same exact thing took place. So she had a choice. I'm paraphrasing Marie. She could, she could lapse into self-pity or she could work on her body. She decided the latter. Okay, not even if you work on your body, not every girl will be as beautiful as some models or some actresses. That is exactly correct. Okay, and no matter how much a guy works, he will not be as wealthy and successful as guys who make more than he does. Does that preclude a happy life? Wow. And she's so right about the fathers. Girls' self-image is so dependent upon a father, but a lot of fathers are gone because to begin with, a lot of women are not married to the man who impregnated her, or gone for some other reason. And a lot of fathers are not doing their job in the way they raise girls.
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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, et cetera, et cetera. 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 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 an addendum to your magnificent remarks. 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.
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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.
Everything's racist. It's the devil!
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I'm going to summarize some of your calls better than avoiding all of them. Please stay on, otherwise I can't read what you want to say. You have control over what I see, believe it or not. You hang up, you're gone. So please don't hang up. This has been so important, and I don't know anybody else who's covering this issue the way I am. This is not a brag, this is a lament. I believe near it— to the extent that anybody is covering it in the media, it is overwhelmingly, oh my God, is this toxic? Oh my God, the self-image of girls, the body self-image. Have to do something about these Instagram images. You have to do something about raising girls to be strong. And dads need to tell their daughters that they're beautiful. But so many are afraid to because, oh wow, she's, you know, you don't want to emphasize physical looks. You want to emphasize brains and academic achievement and athletic achievement. And, and then the same people who say that lament the body self-image. Well, if you don't give, you don't help give the girl a good self-image, there's going to be a lot of bad self-image on the issue. But the biggest lesson is this is the way life works. There will always be, for everyone, somebody who has something better than they do. Always, always. There will be a better athlete. There will be a smarter person. There will be a richer person. There will be a person with better kids. There will be a person with a better wife, better husband. In almost every case in life, that is the way it works. It's called growing up. Sandy in Deansboro, New York: Young people like all of us need to start a gratitude journal rather than focus on what we don't have. That is right, Sandy, a gratitude journal. I love the idea, and some parents do that with their kids. Sharon, Chicago, was born in a family of 9, never felt envy or jealousy. Anxiety in life, perhaps due to having many siblings. Interesting. Jennifer, Malvern, Pennsylvania, has a preteen daughter. Put her in a private school that limits social media. Good. That's, that's good. Stanley in LA: Instagram does not cause anxiety but exacerbates existing anxiety. That's right. I'm giving ideas on how to deal with it.
It.
That's correct. All right. And, uh, in Washington, Will. Tampa, Michelle. And LA, Hayam. I'm sorry that, uh, that I, I didn't get to get even your summaries. I hope this has made an impact if you have a daughter. We continue.
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That not one Republican would support the budget that's coming over with a debt hike attached. They will not support a debt hike relief standing alone. Is that your position?
Absolutely.
They have the White House, Democrats have the White House, the House, and the Senate. They don't want any of our involvement with all their radical spending, which we shouldn't be. And so if they want to raise the debt ceiling, they want to do it on their own. You know why? They've been very clear. They don't want to do this on their own because they know it's toxic. They say, well, so we want you to be part of our— what we're doing here. You know, their budget in this deal, the $3.5 trillion, which is really $5.5 trillion will take our debt to $45 trillion. Now let's look at what's happening in families right now with inflation.
It's hurting our poorest families.
It's hurting our families on fixed income. And the Democrats are causing all this with their spending and they don't want to be responsible for it. They are responsible for what's going on.
And so not— do you think you'll keep, for example, you've got to get Senator Murkowski reelected and I hope you do. I think she's a good solid vote on 99% of the stuff that we vote on. Will she and any other Republican think about bolting and voting for— because it will hurt them. It will really hurt them if they vote for any Democrat.
I'm going to vote for it. We, you know, we have a clean continuing resolution that McConnell and Richard Shelby put together that will deal with it. We're not going to do the debt ceiling. That's the Democrats' responsibility. We'll keep the government open. We will help with the Afghan refugees and we'll also help with the disaster relief for Louisiana. So ours is clean. All right. And but the Democrats don't want to do it. I don't know if we'll even get a vote on it. So the Democrats might shut down government. I don't think they will, but they could decide to shut down government.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward, for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal, Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours?
Hours?
Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just curious. Is the Taliban ready to take back Afghanistan? These are interviews he gave this stinking year. This year. Is the Taliban rising? Is China building its military? Is Iran threatening us? Is Russia being ever more militaristic? You're sitting down for hours with an avowed, rabid Democrat, quote-unquote journalist, to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you, by the Constitution, are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading The Long War Journal by our friend Bill Roggio. Where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books like Cynical Theories, reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government. Well, you were right, and it took 11 days for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. Have you seen some of the images coming out of Afghanistan, by the way? They're real pleasant. Bodies being hung from overpasses, people being executed in the street, an Afghan soldier led out into the street and just shot dead. The Taliban walking around with these giant whips and they're hitting women over the backs. Here's Secretary Austin also contradicting Biden and exposing Joe Biden for the bald-faced lie, the, the bald-faced lie he told the American people.
People.
It's a simple question, Secretary Austin. He said no senior military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence behind. Is that true or not? Did these officer and General Miller's recommendations get to the president personally?
Their input was, uh, was received by the president and considered by the president, uh, for sure. Uh, in terms of what they specifically recommended, Senator, they just, as they just said, uh, it they're not going to provide what they recommended in confidence.
What a, what a crapstorm. What a crap show. Senator Josh Hawley put it best. Thank goodness for people like Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and Dan Sullivan. The Republicans were certainly on fire yesterday in holding these failed commanders to have some sort of at least a public accountability.
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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 dealing Wright 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'll 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.
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Hi everybody, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. Really glad to be with you. On behalf of my colleagues Jim and Ray, it's a, it's a joy. It's truly a joy to be with you. Vancouver Sun: Judge rejects British Columbia mom's bid to stop teen from getting double mastectomy. Everybody knows what a mastectomy is, right? Removal of breast, surgical removal of a breast. Double is both breasts. A judge rejected a bid by a BC mother— BC is British Columbia— to stop her 18-year-old son— he really— biological daughter who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria from getting a double mastectomy surgery. In her ruling on the case, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown noted that the evidence of the boy's now a boy. I'm just clarifying because you get confused. Boys generally don't have breasts. Surgeon and the other healthcare providers in his care indicated that he was sufficiently mature to consent to the medical treatment and that the treatment was in his best interests. Well, so here's a question for for all of you, and one we should ponder. What if, what if the individual was 16? I'd like to know from the judge and these healthcare providers, at what age would you not allow a biological girl with healthy breasts to have them surgically removed? And that's my, that's my only question. Is 18— can a— in British Columbia, can an 18-year-old legally drink? I don't know the answer, but I— it's very possible that the answer is no. So then what we would have is an interesting phenomenon that in, in the province of British Columbia An 18-year-old cannot drink alcohol but can have her breasts removed permanently. This is where Abigail Shrier's book comes in. The phenomenon of all these teenage girls who assert that they are boys. This is brand new, which shows you how powerful society is. One of the lessons of the, of the last 2 years— I mean, it's a lesson of all of life, but of the last 2 years certainly, and the last few years in particular— is how powerful society is in influencing human beings. We have never had this in American history. We have never had this, to the best of my knowledge, in world history. The number of teenage girls saying that they are boys to the extent that they would have their breasts surgically removed. It was an exceedingly rare phenomenon. And when it happened, it almost always passed. This is completely— in, in 90— I think I would say 99% of the cases, this has been induced by society. I don't say it's not a genuine feeling. I'm only saying it's been induced by society. There are, there are other underlying problems in these girls' cases, and they feel that the solution is to become a boy. A boy with a uterus, a boy with a cervix, a boy with presumably a vagina, unless that is undone as well in a way that I, I can't fully imagine, but maybe so. It's a very, uh, it's a very sad phenomenon. My heart breaks for the parents. My heart breaks for the girl. By the way, I just want to make clear, if I meet somebody, I don't ask them, what sex were you born? Okay, I never asked that. If you look like a man, dress like a man, and have a male name, I think of you as a man. Okay, I just want to make that clear. If you dress like a woman, look like a woman, talk like a woman, and have a woman's name, then I address you as a woman. That is not my issue. My issue is they— this, this so-called non-binary they— I, I had that. I object to. The denial— see, transgenders don't deny that there are two sexes. An interesting— it's a very interesting point that is worthy of emphasizing. They admit they're either a boy or a girl, either a man or a woman. My battle is with the people who claim there isn't a binary choice in the human species. There's a binary choice in every species on Earth except the human. Maybe there's some, you know, very primitive fish somewhere in the bottom of the ocean that also has ambiguous sexual identity, but with anything higher than that, it's always male or female. So I want to make that clear. Because the left obfuscates all these issues, blends them into one, so you become a transphobe. Who's a transphobe? What kind of nonsense is that? Do you know anybody who, if they meet somebody, someone has a beard and is named Mark and is wearing male clothing, are you gonna say, hey Mark, I'm just curious, Were you born female? Would you do that? Nobody does that, right? You don't even think twice. My issue is with quote-unquote cisgender males who dress as females. The people that I object to, the ideology I object to, is the blurring of the male-female distinction. Transgender don't blur the female-male distinction. They do if they want to compete with females, biological males. You know that the— did you see that the New Zealand weightlifter was named Sports Woman of the Year by some sports organization? A biological male weightlifter. Who of course made the New Zealand team because New Zealand is truly one of the stupidest countries in the world. Truly, truly, they have gone out of their minds. And both on COVID and on, on, on this issue. You know, I'll tell you why, by the way. They have it so good in New Zealand. There's no threat. Nobody's threatening New Zealand. Okay, it's not on the radar of any country, you know, we gotta take over New Zealand. So they don't have an external threat. They're affluent and they're secular. And that's a very lethal combination. Affluent and secular equals bored. Boredom equals made-up causes. So New Zealand sends— so the biological women couldn't make— some biological woman was kicked off the New Zealand Olympic weightlifting team, female weightlifting team, because a biological man kicked her off. And that person was named Sportswoman of the Year by some sports organization. That's correct. I think everybody listening knows what's wrong with that. It's not fair to biological women. That's what's wrong with it. They're the media because they're lying media. They're frauds. They—
there's—
they're, they're America's Pravda. They don't report to you the number of people who regret later in life that they engaged in hormone treatments and surgery and then want to, want to revert to their biological sex. They don't report that. There's a whole, there's a whole large group of such people, but you, you have to search it out on the internet. I had, uh, well, I think one of the heads of that group on the show Dennis Prager. As it happens, he's an opinion writer for USA Today. Know who I'm talking about? And he has written about this. He himself became transgender and then reverted to his original male biological status. Had he not been already an opinion writer for the for USA Today, it never would have been published. 1-800-PRAGER-776. We return in a moment. I'm Dennis Prager.
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There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a $50,000 US bounty on the heads of any US Navy SEALs.
Nobody's gonna survive that.
There's nobody in that.
This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
Most of them are U.S. Navy SEALs.
We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
The military threw them away.
More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
Anybody out there, we have a fallen angel.
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Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
We all had something in common.
And 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.
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Hey, they have a commentary on that, Doug Sittel, S-I-T-T-E-L, on Google YouTube uploads, a picture of a hand over a glass.
Okay, all right, I don't know what that was about. Okay, let's go to, um, Julius in Los Angeles. Hello.
Yeah, uh, at 18 you should pretty much be allowed to do anything that you so wish, you know. And yeah, that would include drinking, you know. And why should it matter if this girl decides to get a mastectomy? Kind of arrogant to— to—
why should it matter? Wait, you're not—
are you— why should it matter to you? Matter to you? What, what concern is it to you or anyone else other than that a girl with healthy breasts has them surgically removed at 18? What does it matter to you?
Because I, I, I have this bizarre belief in caring for the stranger.
Uh, she's caring for herself, right?
So I'm saying, what about at 16? That was the question I posed.
No, you said at 18.
I know I said that. I said earlier I would ask the judge in Vancouver, what, at what about 16?
You can't.
Well, in this country.
No, no.
You know, you're not answering goodbye. All I asked was. If you don't answer it, I say goodbye. This is the oldest trick in the book. I've done this for 38 years. I ask a direct question and I don't get a direct answer. Do you think a 16 year old should be allowed to have a mastectomy for healthy breasts? Yes or no? Okay, there we go. Do you know why this is— it's very important for you to hear these people. This is how the left operates. So what can I tell you? I take calls that dissent first, but they're so unused to being challenged that they end up cursing me. Like it bothers me. Oh my God. You know what I always wonder about? It's like when I get cursing letters in the email. Do you know that I periodically respond, just out of curiosity— I never, of course, curse back— out of curiosity, are you a father? I wonder if this guy who just called is a father. I'll bet he isn't. I don't know if he's married. I would bet not, but I'm not sure. But I'm pretty sure he's not a father, because how many parents would want their kids to hear them like this? Would I want my child to hear me use expletives at a person I differed with? On the radio, no less, or in print. Okay, anyway, just some thoughts on that, on that issue. Let's see, Miami Beach and Dennis. Oh, that's rare. Hello, Dennis.
Hi, Dennis, talking to Dr. Prager.
I'm sorry, you weren't connected, so start again, please.
I beg your pardon, I don't— I'm not sure if I refer to you as Dr. Prager, Mr. Prager, Dennis.
Uh, I, I have an honorary doctorate, but I don't use it, so Mr. or Dennis.
Well, you have the wisdom of a physician, as I would hope and expect. But anyway, during the, um, trans, uh, thing that's happening, what's most troubling, I think, is the parents who are being conditioned, it seems, in the media to allow this and even applauding, uh, parents who— I see these articles. One recently was just gnawing at me. It kept coming up about, um, why I, I allowed my, uh, son to trans to a female at 4 years old, and he's never been happier.
You know, at 4 years old? Well, I believe it.
I believe it.
That's Right, yes. Well, that's correct. We have lost our moral and even scientific moorings in this country and in the West generally, but especially here. 38 years I've been broadcasting, and even before that I was speaking to audiences. The biggest theme of everything, the consequences of secularism. That's it. This is all the consequences of secularism. The end of a Judeo-Christian foundation is the beginning of chaos. We— this is what we're living in, the age of chaos. There are no boys and no girls. Is chaos. American Medical Association saying that birth certificates should not have sex listed, that's chaos. The Garden of Eden, the serpent says to Eve, eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, or good and evil, and you will be like God. And that's what people want, to be like God. What does like God mean? To determine good and evil. But they're a pretty lousy substitute. The secular substitutes for God are out of their minds. It is moral chaos. Okay. Get a fan. What is this new thing about Christmas and Halloween now? Christmas and Thanksgiving. Dr. Fauci. Yes, you got to kind of circulate the air in there because if you're unvaccinated, you should avoid traveling for the holidays and wear a mask if you attend any indoor Thanksgiving or Halloween parties, the CDC says in its new COVID-19 guidelines. The sad part is people follow this. If the CDC said it was raining, I would— I'm not sure I would take an umbrella. We'll be back.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward, for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal. Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours?
Hours?
Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just, just curious. As the Taliban is ready to take back Afghanistan, these are interviews he gave this stinking year. This year. Is the Taliban is rising, is China is building its military, is Iran is threatening us, is Russia is being ever more militaristic, you're sitting down for hours with an avowed rabid Democrat quote-unquote journalist to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you by the Constitution are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading The Long War Journal by our friend Bill Roggio, where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books Cynical theories, reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government. Well, you were right, and it took 11 days for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. Have you seen some of the images coming out of Afghanistan, by the way? They're real pleasant— bodies being hung from overpasses, people being executed in the streets. An Afghan soldier led out into the street and just shot dead. The Taliban walking around with these giant whips and they're hitting women over the backs. Here's Secretary Austin also contradicting Biden and exposing Joe Biden for the bald-faced lie, the bald-faced lie he told the American people.
It's a simple question, Secretary Austin. He said no senior military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence behind. Is that true or not? Did these officers and General Miller's recommendations get to the president personally?
Their input was received by the president and considered by the president for sure. In terms of what they specifically recommended, Senator, they just, as they just said, they're not going to provide what they recommended in confidence.
What a, what a crapstorm. What a crap show. Senator Josh Hawley put it best. Thank goodness for people like Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and Dan Sullivan. The Republicans were certainly, um, on fire yesterday in holding these failed commanders to have some sort of at least a public accountability.
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Reading to you about CDC guidelines, which I haven't followed once. CDC is, uh, so irresponsible as to, uh, as to be unworthy, in my opinion, of even continuing. Its entire leadership should be replaced by honest people on the scientist. Do you know that the CDC, to the best of my knowledge, has not recommended a single therapeutic in the entire time of this virus? Is that correct? Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? No. Anyway, remdesivir is, is gone with the dodo. They're not using Doesn't appear now. It is an amazing thing that every— everything, everything they have recommended. What is it? Lockdown. Don't associate with others. Wear masks everywhere and get it. Get a vaccination even if you've had COVID. Do you understand the destructive nature of everything they have recommended? Suspend it, close schools. It's a destructive organization. Destructive. 2 years now into the— virtually 2 years into it. And what is it? Everyone, whether you're vaccinated or not, should consider skipping indoor holiday events. If you're vaccinated, why should you skip Do they believe in the vaccine or not? In favor of outdoor or virtual gatherings. Another virtual gathering. The price paid by people for 2 years of no Christmas— it's not a big— that's a pretty steep price. Attending gatherings to celebrate events and holidays increases your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19. Yes, by how much? Does it increase your risk of dying? Does it increase your risk of permanent injury from getting COVID? What's the difference if you get COVID if it, if it doesn't affect you in any bad way? What's the difference? It's a good thing. They get the antibodies naturally. That's what we should have been working on to begin with, with all the healthy Americans, especially young Americans. Americans. Simply lock them down. Harvard Business School, I reported the other day, is locked down now. Right? Anybody hospitalized at Harvard Business School? Well, it is Harvard, so you can't expect much in terms of courage or intelligence. No, not just Harvard, any of them. Them. The safest way to celebrate is virtually. That's true. The safest way to celebrate is by, by internet. That is, by the way, that's always true. We should have all of life as virtual now, according— basically according to the CDC. When will this stop? Why not have flu season virtual? The best, the safest way to celebrate is virtually. Oh wait, I'm sorry, there's more and more. With people who live with you or outside and at least 6 feet apart from others. There, okay, I wanted to give the whole quote. Outside, 6 feet apart. Wow, better safe than sorry. Hmm, that's the motto of the country. I feel for you who follow these guidelines. I've had every holiday from the beginning. There is not a week from the beginning of the lockdown that I have listened to a single CDC guideline. I have gathered with friends every Shabbat, every Sabbath, so generally Friday nights, about 15 of us. And about 6 of us, uh, on Saturday afternoon. I, I haven't missed a beat. I conducted High Holy Day services. I won't say where. People who knew knew. About 400 people came. Almost none were masked, singing their hearts out, sitting together as exactly as I did 2 years ago, and 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and 7, until 15 years ago. Did you hear of a COVID breakout from my services? You were there. What about you? You get sick? Hmm. Should have been a COVID breakout. I mean, it was, it was exactly— we violated every guideline of the CDC. Many, many older people were there as well. Should have been dying like flies, hospitalized. Folks, you have a choice. You can live life or you can be scared. You can't be both, okay? Make your choice. You could live life or you could listen to Fauci, the fool, the corrupt fool. Reliefactor.com, 800-583-84. That is one of the greatest products in the history of my show. I mean it sincerely. I should tell you how I carry it around with me. I travel with it. It's many years now that I've been advertising. You know why? Because it's so successful. If you hear an ad frequently, it means people are buying the product. People buy the product because it works. I don't know why you wouldn't try it for 3 weeks. You have joint pain or muscle pain, it's spectacular. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.
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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 an addendum to your magnificent remarks. 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 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 just right.
I think it was just right.
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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'll 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. Everything's racist.
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Oh yes, indeed. Hello, my friends. Dennis Prager here. Ah, let's see, uh, David in Irvine, California. Sounds like a kindred spirit according to what I'm reading here. Hello.
Hello, Dennis. Um, can you hear me okay?
I can.
Good. Um, I, as I was telling, yeah, your, the person who answers your phone, I think I would rather get sick and die than live by these incredibly inane rules that they keep foisting on us.
How old are you?
I'm 73 years old. I don't have that much time left. Left, and I'm not going to sacrifice it to the god of safety.
Well, that's why I said you're a kindred spirit. The purpose of life is not to lead a long life. The purpose is to lead a full life. And that's your choice, my friends. Now, I'm not for taking undue risks. I don't think you should hitchhike through Iraq as an American. Probably shouldn't hitchhike through Iraq as anything. There are silly risks, but I've led a full life in the past year and a half.
Full.
Whatever was possible to do. There were no lectures for a year, first year since I was 21 that I didn't have lectures. I had a few on Zoom, but otherwise I have his attitude. By the way, with that attitude that you live a full life and the purpose of life is not just to live long, you think this man is a Democrat or a Republican? What odds would I have to give you? 1,000 to 1 that he's a Republican? You know, I have a riddle. You know, I've said it many times, but it just keeps getting reinforced. What do you call a happy Black American? A Republican. The— or conservative. Either one. There was, at my Denver talk last week, there was a couple, white male, black female. This woman was so cheerful and happy. And I look at Amala Epunobi, the young magnificent woman who does, who's what we call a PragerU personality. She does a podcast with Will Witt every day. She radiates happiness, a joie de vivre. And she was so angry, you know, her story is so remarkable. And if she influences a lot of people, as she should, is why we have her on PragerU. She grew up with a single mom, a white woman, black father. And white, white left-wing woman. She was so left-wing that she has a BLM tattoo on her arm, a Black Lives Matter tattoo, clenched fist. And she describes how angry she was when she was on the left. Her life was angry. You should see her now. She's just happy. Anyway, very many, very many times in life, the unhappy resent the happy. It's part of the reason the left hates the right. Every leftist is unhappy and angry. We're not. We're unhappy that you don't leave us alone and that you're ruining the greatest country ever made. But we're not unhappy like you are. There are happy and unhappy liberals, happy and unhappy conservatives, but there are no happy leftists. One of the truths of life. You know, I can't keep up with the number of race hoaxes in this country. I literally can't. But listen to this from the lying media. It's from Bloomberg. It's just pure lie. Bloomberg Today. Is this today?
Yeah.
Bubba Wallace became a NASCAR Cup Series winner— NASCAR Cup Series winner for the first time yesterday at Talladega and made history by being the first black driver to win at the top level since Wendell Scott in 1963. His victory came at the same track where a noose was found in his garage— his garage stall last year. Bloomberg is lying. There was no noose. It was a rope. It wasn't a noose. They lie with the ease with which you breathe. Another one of my regular comments about the left, because please understand Which is hard for you to understand if you believe that truth is important. Truth is not a left-wing value. It is— equity might be, fighting racism might be, although they're the biggest racists in the country by far. They're the ones who support black dormitories, which is purely a racist idea, changing standards for blacks because they have contempt for black ability. But anyway, you should just know about this. They— Bloomberg just lied. Anyway, here are the two more hoaxes for you. I think I reported one, but it's hard to keep up. Daily Mail, October 3rd: Black woman has been charged with posing as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and posting notes through neighbors' doors threatening to kill their children. Tresha Lucas, 30, has been charged with 8 counts of making terroristic threats, according to the Douglasville, Georgia Police Department. Investigators allege that Lucas wrote letters describing herself as a 6-foot-tall white male with a long red beard who did not live in the neighborhood. In March, residents of the Brookmont subdivision of Manning Drive in Douglasville, some 23 miles west of Atlanta, began receiving threatening racist letters in the mail. I received one 2 days ago and I was alarmed at what I read, one resident told CBS News. The letter is using the N-word, talking about the KKK, all sent by a black woman.
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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.
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Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. I 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.
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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.
They're racist.
Racist.
Racist. Everything's racist.
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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 You have the right to remain silent.
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Jim in St. Paul, Minnesota has a great point. The vaccinated are spending their lives still in fear, so I get it. Great one. I hope I see you tomorrow night at— when I come to the Twin Cities. Check the— check the website of the station if you— I don't know if it's sold out or not. Charlie Kirk and I will be the speakers. I adore Charlie, so it'll be a wonderful evening. But that's a great point. They get vaccinated and they still live in fear. God, is that a great point. So I'm reading to you about another hoax. They're constant. My assumption when I hear about a swastika or the N-word and all this stuff painted somewhere, letters like this, is that it's a black black person who did it to tell the world how bad America is. As I've pointed out 100 times, and I'll do it another 100, if America were as racist as the left says it is, they wouldn't need any hoaxes. They need hoaxes because it's so rare. Yep. So here's a 30-year-old woman. She's just been arrested sending all these racist letters in the guise of a Ku Klux Klan white. The letter uses the N-word, talks about the KKK hanging people, killing kids, killing whole families, and setting houses on fire. Black woman. Next one, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, also the last week. School district officials on Tuesday said a black student admitted writing racist graffiti in multiple bathrooms at Parkway Central High School last week. A Parkway School District spokeswoman said officials don't know why the student committed the acts of vandalism or used the racist slurs. These people lie with the ease with which you breathe. This spokeswoman is a liar. Of course she knows why the person did it—so as to foment anti-white hatred, you lying spokeswoman. Why else would a black put out racist anti-black slurs if not to increase anti-white hatred among the non-whites of the country? Oh my God, that is as angering to me as the— what, what the black did, this black, what is it, student? Yeah, black student. Just remember, folks, If America were all that racist, you wouldn't need hoaxes. I'm Dennis Prager.
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Yesterday that not one Republican would support the budget that's coming over with a debt hike attached. They will not support a debt hike relief standing alone. Is that your position? Absolutely.
They have the— Democrats have the White House, the House, and the Senate. They don't want any of our involvement with all their radical spending, which we shouldn't be. And so if they want to raise the debt ceiling, they want to do it on their own. You know why? They've been very clear. They don't want to do this debt ceiling on their own because they know it's toxic.
They say, well, so we want you to be part of our, uh, what we're doing here.
You know, their budget in this deal, the 3.5, which is really $5.5 trillion, will take our debt to $45 trillion. Now let's look at what's happening in families right now with inflation. It's hurting our poorest families. It's hurting our families on fixed income. And the Democrats are causing all this with their spending, and they don't want to be responsible for it. They are responsible for what's going on.
And so not— do you think you'll keep, for example, you've got to get Senator Murkowski reelected. And I hope you do. I think she's a good, solid vote on 99% of the stuff that we vote on. Will she and any other Republican think about bolting and voting for— because it will hurt them. It will really hurt them if they vote for any Democrat.
I don't think any of them are going to vote for it. We, you know, we have a clean continuing resolution that McConnell and Richard Shelby put together. That will deal with it. We're not going to do the debt ceiling. That's the Democrats' responsibility.
We'll keep the government open.
We will help with the Afghan refugees, and we'll also help with the disaster relief for Louisiana. So ours is clean. All right. And but the Democrats don't want to do it. I don't know if we'll even get a vote on it. So the Democrats might shut down government. I don't think they will, but they could decide to shut down government.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward, for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal, Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours? Hours? Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just, just curious. Is the Taliban ready to take back Afghanistan? These are interviews he gave this stinking year. This year. Is the Taliban rising? Is China is building its military, as Iran is threatening us, as Russia is being ever more militaristic, you're sitting down for hours with an avowed rabid Democrat quote-unquote journalist to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you by the Constitution are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading the Long War Journal by our friend Bill Roggio, where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books like Cynical Theories Reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government. Well, you were right, and it took 11 days for the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. Have you seen some of the images coming out of Afghanistan, by the way? They're real pleasant— bodies being hung from overpasses, people being executed in the street. An Afghan soldier led out into the street and just shot dead. The Taliban walking around with these giant whips and they're hitting women over the backs. Here's Secretary Austin also contradicting Biden and exposing Joe Biden for the bald-faced lie, the, the bald-faced lie he told the American people. It's a simple question, Secretary Austin.
He said no senior military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence behind. Is that true or not? Did these officers and General Miller's recommendations get to the president personally?
Their input was received by the president and considered by the president for sure. In terms of what they specifically recommended, Senator, they just, as they just said, they're not going to provide what they recommended in confidence.
What a, what a crapstorm. What a crap show. Senator Josh Hawley put it best. Thank goodness for people like Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and Dan Sullivan. The Republicans were certainly, um, on fire yesterday in holding these failed commanders to have some sort of at least a public accountability.
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Life of a subject. We've been doing this for about 15 years every Tuesday. The third hour of the program. It's actually the lack of clarity on great issues that is at the core of our problems. People do not study the great issues any longer. Young people think— oh, and by young I mean under 100— and people think that they are reinventing wisdom, and so they don't bother learning wisdom. Wisdom, which is what The Great Issues is about. So we have The Ultimate Issues Hour every Tuesday. On select few occasions, I have a guest, and the guest in this case is Victor Davis Hanson, who does not need an introduction to most of you, but in any event, I will. Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. And I will say that there are very few people in public life— I have in my own life, but in public life— with whom I agree as much as I do Victor Davis Hanson. We're kindred spirits. There's a brand new book out, The Dying Citizen. Happy title. But it's very true. The Dying Citizen. So listen to the subtitle, it's really good. How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. So those are the, uh, that's the trio of the apocalypse. Is that right, Victor?
Thank you for having me, Dennis. Uh, yeah, I don't think they I could put all 6 culprits in there, it would be too long, but I talked about open borders as well. No country can exist long, especially a consensual society that doesn't have a private and sacred space. And then I talked about evolutionary, these are elites who want to change the Constitution and evolve us into something other than what the founders envisioned. And then of course, common top 3, because this huge federal government and people who exercise judicial, executive, and legislative power all within their own purview, the administrative state, deep state, permanent government, whatever you call it, they're all 6 of those. 3 are sort of organic from the bottom, this idea that we're gonna just— the middle class is being strangled and we don't have a border anymore, we don't have an idea idea of America as a distinct place for our traditions to be protected and to thrive, and this idea of tribalism, that we're all going to identify by our superficial appearance, and that's where our loyalties will lie, rather than the common idea that we forfeit our primary identity to the idea of Americanism. But the others are kind of beneath, you know, globalism, evolving the Constitution, our laws, and administration. That's coming from the top, not from a natural, organic, age-old process.
So I agree on all of this, and we'll discuss each of them. By the way, it does seem ironic, even though it's not, but it does seem ironic that globalization— that the same people advocating for globalization advocate for tribalism. You would think they're mutually exclusive. You would think that.
You would think that just as they said all the nations of the world will give up their sovereignty for a global identity, so they would say in America all its particular tribes— exactly. But they don't. And I think the answer is that the tribalists in each of these individual states feel that they're going to Xerox their tribal mentalities onto this new world government. And I'm almost quoting exactly what Klaus Schwab, the Davos founder and author of COVID and the Great Reset, he wrote. I mean, one of the things he says that this new world government will have is diversity, inclusion, and equity, you know.
This Klaus Schwab is quite a character, I'll tell you. He— it's, it's scary. Yeah, it's scary to observe him. So let me ask you, uh, because I, I am— oh, I've always been preoccupied with the question of why. And so, or in this case, it'll be more like where. Where did this come from? If this is not organically American. All of these things are anti-American. Where, where did they start? It was at 19th century, late 19th century Germany. Where do you see the origins?
Well, I think there's 3 culprits here. One is that in Western civilization, I mean, there's a Greek word, cosmopolitan, a citizen of the cosmos, not of your city-state. And And that was Socrates, and that transmogrified into Alexander the Great and the Brotherhood of Man, goes all the way with a long tradition to Fabian socialism, Lyndon Wilkie, you know, one world. So there was always this idea of utopianism that our system in the West is so successful, we're gonna implant it everywhere. It was in Dickens' England where the British Empire had that idea. So that's old as far as globalism. A lot of these ideas about, you know, evolving to a— human nature can be malleable and improved. So I get that. And then I understand that innately we always war with our natural inclinations, which are to identify with superficial appearances or to want to, you know, kowtow to big government or to the wealthy, a two-class system, a medieval system is much more common, so I understand that, but the question is, I think what you're asking is, in America that was founded to prevent these pathologies, what happened? And I think the answer is that in this, there's a couple of things. The immigration system broke down in the '60s, so the salad bowl, replaced the melting pot. And we, the host, did not ask anything, not legality, not English, not assimilation, integration from the immigrant. And it was almost a corrective of our own sense of guilt and pathologies for I don't know how many perceived sins. But we brought in, we have now 50 million people in the United States that weren't born here. 27% of the population of California is not born in the United States. And there are various statuses—illegal, legal, resident citizen—but they haven't been assimilated. And so we've got a large part of the country that's not on the same page. That's part of the legacy of the '60s. The other idea was that the '60s said we have a superior system of socialism and equity and equality of result. Our mores, as far as family and sexual, sexual, all the things you've talked about, Dennis, so well. But we're on the outside and we're throwing rocks at the Pentagon or Exxon. But what's happened over the last 30 or 40 years, I think we on the conservative side took our eye off the ball and they captured those institutions and they created— partly it was from academia that we've all off as, you know, parlor talk or lounge talk, but the corporate boardroom and Wall Street and professional sports and Hollywood and television and media and social media and K-12, higher education, they're all woke now. And they don't need 51% of the population because they exercise such influence in communications and fashion, the culture. They put enormous pressure on the people to say to them, you're crazy if you think you're a traditional American or the Constitution's still valid. Look at what LeBron says, look what Jamie Dimon says, look what Mark Zuckerberg's doing, look at everywhere around you and you're the person, odd person out. But they're not, we're still 51% of the population. For the first time, this is a top-down revolution. The woke people are Phyllis Kohler, the Marxist buying her fourth home, or it's Kimby charging $20,000 an hour on Zoom, or it's Oprah from her $90 million estate in Montecito talking to Meghan Markle at her $15 million. So these are very powerful people who have convinced us that class doesn't matter, it's only race, race, race, race, race. And it's, it's very scary because that will destroy what had been the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history. India can't do it and Brazil can't do it very well. And other than that, the Ottomans and the Soviets and the late Romans did it, but they used a level of coercion to force people to adopt adopt an ism or an ology that would be contradictory to our liberal values.
Right. Well, let me remind everybody, I'm speaking to Victor Davis Hanson. His book just out now, The Dying Citizen. The book is up at DennisPrager.com and is obviously highly recommended.
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I grew up hope, which is even worse than being poor.
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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.
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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.
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It came out today, Dennis Prager. Yes.
Well, that's a big deal. It's like, it's like, You don't have to agree with me, but isn't it— we wouldn't know exactly because we're male, but I feel that when a book comes out, it's sort of like giving birth.
Yeah, in a way it is. You never know what's going to come out. I mean, it should look like its parents, but, but, and you don't know how it will be received by other people sometimes.
I know that sounds Triple segment, but you said we substituted salad— well, I don't remember— something salad for salad bowl. Salad bowl. That's it. For melting pot. Yes. When I grew up, that was— it was drummed into us. America is a melting pot. We come from every background, every ethnicity, every race, but we become American. And that stopped. I— do you think, do you think 5% of America's young people even know what melting pot means?
No, no, I don't think they know. I think they're told that the old— to the degree that everybody talks about their identity or cultural appropriation, they have all these terms, but they're not learning much finishing college, and they don't realize that the American system was— we never asked people not to eat Mexican food or not to wear African fashions or not to listen to calypso. These were music— these were all the adornments that enriched American culture on the periphery. But we said to them, in exchange for keeping your cultural landmarks that will enrich us, your host, you're going to have to become like our host. You're going to have to accept the Constitution and American civic traditions and learn our language and the customs of our country. And that's kind of a brutal bargain, but we didn't ask you to come. You asked to come here. So that was the onus was on the immigrant, and we the host would, you know, sometimes quite brutally in assimilation and integration, intermarriage. We said, we will make you an American, but it's your choice to come legally, and we will do our part. But what happened was a breakdown on both sides, where we the host sent the message that we have historical sins in this country that you must be aware of, and it's not such a good place. And then we confused the immigrant and thought, well, if it's not such a good place, it must be I must get in on this, and that's what the popular thing to do is. So the foot that I, the moment I set a foot in this country, I become a victim. So it reaches a level of absurdity. We have people from some of the most oppressive and racial and impoverished places in the world, say Oaxaca State in Mexico, and they've been subject to terrible exploitation and racism from the government of Mexico City. And they come in across the border, and immediately they're told that they've suffered a historic pattern of discrimination, or— and they're eligible for reparatory affirmative action, etc., etc. And they have claims against the majority, to the point, Dennis, where immigrants who should be happy to be here and follow laws swarm a U.S. senator as relieving herself in the bathroom. That's right. And they start making accusations against her. And we're supposed to say, well, wait a minute, ask your parents or you to come if you're not legally here. And what right do you, a resident, perhaps an illegal resident?
I wish Senator Sinema had looked at her. I watched all the videos, the same, the same disgusting young woman harassing on an airplane. And poor Senator Sinema. If I were Senator Sinema, I know me, I know exactly what I would have done. Said, you are the lowest form of human. You are an ingrate. There is nothing uglier than an ingrate. That's what you— you should be singing the U.S. national anthem for what we did for you. That's the issue.
I think you're absolutely right. And, you know, we talk about illegal immigration in isolation, but as I tried to put it, point out in the book, it works. It's like a ripple throughout society. We've got Dr. Fauci lecturing everybody who's had COVID who didn't get a vaccination, uh, even though they have immunity. I'm talking about not the people who refuse to be vaxxed, but the people who've had it and have that. And yet we have 2 million people scheduled to come across the border in the fiscal year. And he's absolutely silent about it. That's right. He can't even— he can't even utter the word.
Well, it's like the silence of the unmasked demonstrators. The medical profession said that's fine because it's all 1,200 of them.
I remember that well. That's right. It's, it's, it's— so we're— what we're doing is we're creating not just exemptions for illegal aliens, but we're elevating them in some sense. We're not asking them to follow the Right.
So I want to know the original sin here. Is the original sin Ted Kennedy? Is the original sin the inability of the World War II generation to pass on American values? What's the original sin? I think it's two things.
It was the affluence and the leisure created by the 6%, just enormous affluence that was created, 6% a year GDP in the '50s and '60s, and we created the most, uh, leisured and affluent society. And it created certain expectations about human nature that create a guy like Ted Kennedy and create his, his idea that we're so wealthy, we're so powerful, we're so liberal, we're so wonderful, that we're going to extend this and feel so good about ourselves and start deliberately having a policy where we don't apply the old rules of assimilation, integration, or border enforcement.
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Yesterday that not one Republican would support the budget that's coming over with a debt hike attached. They will not support a debt hike relief standing alone.
On. Is that your position? Absolutely.
They have the White House. Democrats have the White House, the House, and the Senate. They don't want any of our involvement with all their radical spending, which we shouldn't be. And so if they want to raise the debt ceiling, they want to do it on their own. You know why? They've been very clear. They don't want to do this debt ceiling on their own because they know it's toxic. They say, well, so we want you to be part of our— what we're doing here. You know, their budget in this deal, the $3.5 trillion, which is really $5.5 trillion will take our debt to $45 trillion. Now let's look at what's happening in families right now with inflation. It's hurting our poorest families. It's hurting our families on fixed income. And the Democrats are causing all this with their spending and they don't want to be responsible for it. They are responsible for what's going on.
And so not— do you think you'll keep, for example, you've got to get Senator Murkowski reelected and I hope you do. I think she's a good solid vote on 99% of the stuff that we vote on. Will she and any other Republican think about bolting and voting for— because it will hurt them. It will really hurt them if they vote for any Democrat.
I'm going to vote for it. We, you know, we have a clean continuing resolution that McConnell and Richard Shelby put together that will deal with it. We're not going to do the debt ceiling. That's the Democrats' responsibility. We'll keep the government open. We will help with the Afghan refugees and we'll also help with the disaster relief for Louisiana. So ours is clean, all right? And but the Democrats don't want to do it. I don't know if we'll even get a vote on it. So the Democrats might shut down government. I don't think they will, but they could decide to shut down government.
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Mark Milley admitted yesterday that for that pathetic pseudo-journalist Bob Woodward, for his new blockbuster dishing book of scandal, Mark Milley gave him hours of interviews. Hours? Hours? Sorry, uh, how busy should the chairman of the Joint Chiefs be? Just curious. Is the Taliban ready to take back Afghanistan? These are interviews he gave this stinking year. This year. Is the Taliban rising? Is China building its military? Is Iran threatening us? Is Russia being ever more militaristic? You're sitting down for hours with an avowed, rabid Democrat, quote-unquote journalist, to give inside scoops on how you stood up to President Trump by undermining the chain of command that you, by the Constitution, are not a part of? What the hell are you doing? Maybe those hours could have been spent, oh, I don't know, reading The Long War Journal by our friend Bill Roggio. Where he predicted in March that the Taliban would be in control and Kabul would fall. Maybe you would better spend your time reading books like Cynical Theories, reading the works of Chris Rufo about what critical race theory really is and why it's racism and bigotry. But oh no, you had to be a politician.
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Victor Davis Hanson, one of the deepest thinkers in the country. Book is out today, so it's an honor to have him on. It's perfect. They scheduled it at Basic Books for the Ultimate Issues Hour. The narcissist in me just spoke out. The Dying Citizen is the book. Book, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. And by the way, one might add, America is an idea. It is not an ethnicity. So if the idea is destroyed, America is destroyed. Is that a fair conclusion?
Yeah, I think it is. I think it is. It's really, if you think about it, Dennis, even our liberal allies or the EU or Japan or South Korea, that if you and I, Victor and Dennis Prager, want to say, I feel unkinded towards South Korea or Germany, I'd love to go over there and be a full German citizen or a Japanese, South Korean, or even a Japanese citizen, and I was African American, I was not of the majority population, it would be very difficult for us to excel politically in, say, Japan or South Korea. If you didn't look like the majority of the population. So this idea of a multiracial democracy or constitutional republic is rare even among humane places. It's a very fragile, brilliant concept, but it needs constant nourishment and renewal. And if we don't have any notion of civic renewal or investment in it, it's gonna die. It's a very rare idea that we don't have to look alike. That's right. You have total equality of opportunity. It just doesn't exist anywhere else.
A third-generation Turk, that's the most common immigrant before Merkel brought in a million. A third-generation Turk in Germany, fluent in German, knows no Turkish, is still called Turkish. A first-generation Turkish-American who knows little English is called American.
Yeah, I think that sums it up pretty well. And we're talking about a parliamentary democracy, and much less something in communist China or Cuba or some ungodly place like that. So I think that's a lot of our problems, is that this uneducated new cohort that went through K-12 and, you know, went into the university, we just assumed that no one How could someone be so insane either not to teach civic education or to teach that America was entirely culpable or it was flawed from the beginning? We were just so surreal that we were asleep at the wheel. And so now we're shocked that the BLM march or the Antifa or this transgender movement or accosting a senator on a plane or in a bathroom stall. The Speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national— we all say to ourselves, where did this come from? And I guess where we were worried about free market economics or Republican traditional issues, they appropriated the culture and the educational system and the corporate boardroom and Wall Street and social media. They were much more adept than we were They have a lidless eye, they never blink, they're just constantly, you know, this equality of result, equity movement is just, it's obsessive. And we were sort of live and let live, and that's what happens in these revolutions. All of a sudden, the Jacobins appear out of nowhere, or the Bolsheviks, and you think, where did they come from? How are they so crazy? And they're very hard to stop.
So let me get to some possible solutions. So let me bounce off things that I recommend to my listeners and to my readers. One is, in most cases, take your kid out of school and homeschool them, or find one of the handful of schools that actually educates. What do you think of that?
Yeah, I think I agree with you, and I I think we're starting to see places like Hillsdale College, not just, if you can't go to a charter school or a parochial traditional school, and you're gonna homeschool and you have the means that both parents don't have to work, there are programs or protocols that you can get from traditional colleges that will help you do that in a way that wasn't true 20 years ago. So I think there's a lot of colleges now who say the problem is at K-12. And I know that I kind of fought the battle in academia, but it was far more important K-12 because it's too late by the time the student comes. They're too acculturated.
So you're a fan of homeschooling? I am.
Charter schools, parochial schools, absolutely. Yeah.
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The book is out today. I'm delighted that I have him on today. The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. You're a military historian, so I'm very curious to get your take on the state of the American military.
Well, I think we've got a very I would say we have a crisis, Dennis, because I think our top echelon is entirely out of sync with officers, let's say, to be arbitrary, below the rank of colonel. In other words, the premium billet now is a Washington Post in the Pentagon or an attaché, and that cursus honorum, that route to promotion, involves things other than military efficacy. Not so many shells on the target of your brigade if you're an artillery commander, or how many missed carrier landings will hurt you if you're a Navy commander, but what was the percentage of this race or this gender, et cetera, et cetera. And I think what happened to them, they feel that both while in the Pentagon, that the conservatives are always there, they take their support for granted. They're always gonna be for strong defense, to advance military budgets. But whereas in the past the left was antagonistic to the military, now the left loves them because they feel the chain of command without the sturm und drang of the legislative process and back and forth, or they can greenlight transgenderism in the military, pregnant women in aircraft, women in combat units, gay marriage, all of that social agenda can be a model for the country by getting it into them. And then the military officers react accordingly. And then of course, when they go out, I'm talking about our last two Secretary of Defense, as they go in from a military defense contractor board and they go out and we've got all of these four stars, the McChrystal group, the Northrop people, the Lockheed group, and they get, whereas before an Elizabeth Warren that could speak to them. They don't now because they sense that these— this military echelon is advancing at warp speed, if I could use that term, a social agenda that they like. And they're going to, in exchange in this bargain, not hector them on their sort of grifting, on going— you know, they know the labyrinth of Pentagon procurement, and then they sell that knowledge to a Northrop or a Lockheed or Raytheon. And then the result of it is we get this weird General Milley lecturing us about white rage and white supremacy and quoting Kendi while Afghanistan falls apart. So either it's an excuse, it's a way of covering their incompetence, or it is incompetence that they're spending so much time on this social welfare stuff. Agenda and wokeness that they can't do their job.
What's happening in recruitment? I don't know if you know the answer, but I have two questions. One, well, are they meeting?
Worried about it like you are? Yes.
So here, forgive me, here are my two worries: numbers and what will the ratio be, male-female?
Well, those are good units because because let's just put off the table race and gender for a moment and just ask ourselves, what particular group is dying inordinately in Afghanistan and Iraq on the front lines the last 20 years? And that happens to be white males from the middle class. About 75% of the fatalities on average in those two wars came from that group. And what is the group group that General Milley and Chief of Naval Operations Gilday and Secretary of Defense Austin are saying are suspect for insurrectionary activity and they need to be hounded out. It's that group. And so when, when Secretary Austin says, I want a proportionally represented military and I'm going to make sure that the military looks like the United States, you want to say to him, So what does that entail? Do you mean the dead are going to look like the United States? Because they really don't right now. The dead are overwhelmingly white males from the middle and rural classes. And yet those are the very— that's the source of recruitment that you have relied on to fight your wars in combat units. So you're alienating or disparaging or caricaturing a group for cheap political game? And is that group going to continue to volunteer to go over to godforsaken places like Afghanistan? And by the way, we're not talking about quotas. We don't believe that you identify people by race, but these people do, Dennis. They do. And yet if they're going to do that, they're going to be hoisted by their own petard because it's suicidal. They're alienating the very rubric in their way of thinking, and they do classify people by gender and race.
So what's in it for Mark Milley to be woke?
To, uh, what's in it for him? Yes. Well, how did it— by— I'm not trying to disparage him, Dennis, but he's not an impressive character, and yet he's the iconic leader of the U.S. military. And yet he leaks to confidence— he leaks confidential conversations from muckraking journalists on the left. He violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice by comparing his commander-in-chief to Hitler. He calls up a Chinese counterpart in the PLA, or he interrupts the chain of command contrary to the law of the advisory purview of the Joint Chiefs. So he's done everything wrong. How did he get there? And what does he want when he leaves? I think what he knows is that the fact that he's positioned himself as somebody who made fun of Trump about the photo op, even though The Secretary General, the Inspector General of the Interior Department said there was nothing wrong, there was no tear gas. But he's positioned himself as an antagonist to Trump. He knows the corporate boardroom is left-wing. He knows the media will rally around him, as they have. And I think when he retires, he's going to follow the last few chief staff of the Army or chairman of Naval Operations or 4-star Air Force general and even Secretary of Defense. They're gonna— he's gonna go right to Raytheon or Northrop or Lockheed or General Dynamics, and he's going to be very wealthy. But he knows if he were to criticize woke or to be praised for winning Afghanistan at the expense of not being woke, he wouldn't. Well, that's— I think that's— that can be the that reductionist— Yeah, no, it makes sense.
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We do, and we get a billion views a year. More than that, actually, now. Dennis Prager here, final segment. By the way, to the caller in Sarasota, Florida, Greg, please call on Friday when I take the third hour, any subject. Love to take your, your challenge. But I'm devoting this hour to Victor Davis Hanson, whose book is out today, The Dying Citizen. Subtitle tells you a lot: Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization: How They're Destroying the Idea of America. So I sort of put you on the spot only because I'm so curious to know your answer. What is your position on the integrity of the last presidential election?
Well, I think the, the real problem— I know that everybody got on Election Day was there were all these contentions, but I think in March and April, when in these key states, the purview of the state legislatures that had very strict laws on things like you had to have both parts of your name, first and last, you had to have it postmarked by a particular date, you had to have an address In some cases, you had to show on— those were systematically and deliberately overturned, either by judicial fiat or by bureaucratic initiatives. Many of it funded the efforts by certain foundations, many in Silicon Valley. And then the sheer quantity, you had 102 million absentee or early voting, so Election Day became kind of an artifact. Only, you know, the minority, only 40— less than 40% voted on Election Day. Whenever you have that radical change, you're going to have discrepancies. And the discrepancy, Dennis, was that we have a normal rejection rate on absentee and early voting of about 4.5 to 5%, either they don't have both names or what. That went down to 0.4 at a magnitude of 10. So you're talking about maybe anywhere from 7 to 10 million ballots that would have been cast out under the normal scrutiny and authentication that we use for early voting. But I guess under the COVID of COVID we didn't even realize that we completely redefine in a very short time how we vote. That's right.
Yeah, it's going to be permanent in California. It's already been made permanent. It will. There's no more elections Election Day. Well, anyway, listen, I wish you only success because we need you very much. The book is The Dying Citizen.
It's a pleasure, Victor. Thank you for having me, Dennis Prager.
Yes, indeed. We, we still can fight. We must fight. And we, I should say, we can still win. Just want you to know that. We can't win if you don't fight. Thank you, everybody.
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