Fireside Chat Ep. 144 — Expect Chaos If You Defund the Police

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The difference between police and no police is the difference between order and chaos. This week is PragerU’s #backtheblue campaign and Dennis asks: What does defunding the police actually mean? What is the likely result? Sadly, we don't have to wonder. Ride-Along mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JnF-OO6W7M 0:00 Welcome To The Weekly Fireside Chat 1:00 PragerU’s Back The Blue Campaign 1:15 The Foolishness Of “Defund The Police” 3:10 Are There Bad Police? 4:59 Defund Police Equals Increase In Evil 7:29 No Fear Of The Police And Authority 9:12 The Loss Of Fear Of Our Teachers 11:15 Authority Is Not Authoritarian 12:50 Dennis Went On A Police Ride-Along 13:35 Moral Violence Vs. Immoral Violence 15:59 Every Society Needs Police 16:31 How Do We Bridge The Political Divide? 19:44 Advice For Law Enforcement 21:08 Some Thoughts On Melania Trump 22:02 How Do You Know Murder Is Wrong? 25:44 Relationship Advice By Dennis 29:14 Liars Go To Hell? 32:07 Dennis’s Book, Still The Best Hope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Dennis Prager and this is the Fireside Chat.
0:04.7	I just thought I'd go into an answer mode for a moment, you know, because the passion hit me.
0:12.5	That's Otto, as you probably know, is Otto, is his eye open?
0:16.1	Is he doing well?
0:17.1	Does he want a little rub to open the show world up?
0:19.8	Can I be a little rub?
0:20.8	Hey, dude, he's doing man.
0:22.3	How are you doing man?
0:23.7	That's my boy.
0:26.7	Alrighty everybody, this is my weekly chat with you and I like the word chat.
0:33.7	It's not real.
0:35.7	Do people use chat in regular talk?
0:38.7	Let's have a chat.
0:39.7	I don't think so.
0:40.7	It's my weekly sharing of what I have on my mind.
0:45.7	Then I take your questions.
0:47.7	And it's very spontaneous.
0:50.7	There were no notes.
0:52.7	Sometimes I'll make a few notes to remind me of a point I want to make, but it's quite spontaneous.
1:00.7	I want to begin this week with the police.
1:05.7	There is a campaign we have at Prager U, back of the blue, blue being the police of course.
1:12.7	I want to talk to you about it because the amount of non-clarity about police
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