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Now broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.
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Mark Levin.
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Thank you.
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Hello America, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.
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What is it that we celebrate and acknowledge on July 4th, 250 years ago?
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Well, we had delegates sent from the colonies to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
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On July 4th, they issued a declaration, a declaration stating why they were prepared to go to war for their independence from the British Empire, the most powerful military force on the planet.
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The men who would sign this document were signing a death warrant.
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The British were actually very brutal, very brutal.
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And if they caught any of them, they would have hanged them.
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It also meant their families were on the line, their farms and businesses were on the line.
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Very, very brave men, I should say.
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And even so, only about 40% of the population supported them.
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About 30% did not, and about 30% were neutral.
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But what was it about July 4th that was so special?
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The Declaration of Independence. Okay, big deal, right?
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Now the big deal is this.
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Never before, never before, had a document contained the kind of philosophy that about individualism, about humanity, about representative government.
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Never before in all of human history was a country, people, willing to go to war over these beliefs.
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These beliefs came from the Judeo-Christian values and principles.
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They came from the Enlightenment.
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We know this just by reading it. We also know because the main author of the first draft of the Declaration said so.
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Thomas Jefferson.
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Now these men didn't agree on all matters.
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Some were agrarian, some were more city-like and so forth, but they agreed on the principles.
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On the principles.
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What makes this especially remarkable and rare.
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They're prepared to go to war.
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Not for power.
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They were prepared to go to war.
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For liberty.
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And not just their own liberty.
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But for the liberty of all the inhabitants of America.
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What did they say?
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They weren't bashful about what they believed.
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They talked about unalienable rights. What does that mean?
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That these are rights that are not subject to government, not subject to being removed or destroyed because they're God-given unalienable rights as a matter of birth.
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This was a new idea.
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This was a grand idea.
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It's an idea that came from John Locke, among others.
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And what else? What else was it about this Declaration of Independence?
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It was an acknowledgement that the civil society preexisted before any government.
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This civil society with this social contract.
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Where individual citizens freely come together.
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To form a society.
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To protect each other.
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To do commerce with each other.
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We've never seen anything like this before.
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Ever. Ever.
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They talked about natural rights and natural law. What in the world is that?
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Natural rights and natural law.
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This underscores their point.
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That the rights you have don't come from man.
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They come from nature. They come from God.
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Natural law is the law of the civil society.
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Again, predates any government.
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They talked about these truisms, these essential truths.
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What's an essential truth?
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It's something that's true no matter where you live, no matter who you are.
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For instance, the golden rule, do to others as you would have them do unto you.
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That's not limited to national boundaries or any government.
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What about the Ten Commandments, starting with thou shalt not murder?
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That's a universal truth, is it not?
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So they come together.
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Truth be told, the Revolutionary War had already actually begun in Boston and New York and other parts of the colonies.
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And they came together from South Carolina and Georgia, Massachusetts and New York and Pennsylvania and Virginia They came together.
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In a very short order they wrote this or agreed to this Declaration of Independence. There were five drafts in all.
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Five drafts in all.
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We're celebrating on July 4th not just a document.
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We're celebrating the reason, the purpose for this country.
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The Constitution is a governing document.
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It's the most magnificent governing document ever drafted by human beings.
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But the Declaration serves as the principal basis for everything.
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It's concise and yet it's expansive in its application.
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The declaration is rejected by Barack Obama. He used to leave out the part about the creator.
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He was mentioned several times in the document.
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It is rejected by Mondami, who's going to do grave damage to our celebration because he plans to give a speech.
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I went back when I wrote one of my books, ladies and gentlemen, And I looked at the speech that Woodrow Wilson gave on a July 4th, 1914.
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Woodrow Wilson was an early American Marxist.
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He'd been a professor. He'd been president of Princeton. He was a radical ideologue.
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Progeny of Marx.
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That's why I wrote American Marxism, so you would understand all that.
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And he gave a speech on the the steps outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on that July 4th, essentially eviscerating the document.
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Don't pay attention to the first part of the Declaration, he essentially said.
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Pay attention to the second half of the document.
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You see, the first half of the document lays out the purpose for the revolution and the purpose for the nation.
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The second half has a list of grievances against the king.
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Woodrow Wilson said, look, back then, in 1776, these colonists, these Americans, they had their own issues and they espoused them and the key is that they raised all these concerns with the king.
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And he said, look, we're new, 1914. We have our own issues, we have our own problems, our own society.
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We have a right, just as they did, to assert what we believe the country's about.
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We're not required to parrot and mimic what they said in 1776 on July 4th, and he says it again in front of Independence Hall, 1914.
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And so they go to the list of grievances, and I suspect Mondami and the others will do it, because they don't believe in the first part of the declaration.
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If you're a Marxist and an Islamist, you can't.
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Because your ideology is not about the founding of America.
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It's not about the Declaration and the principles that undergird it.
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But you're more than happy to regurgitate the list of the problems that they presented to the king because that's what it's all about, you see.
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Not these...
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fundamental principles, no, no, fundamental beliefs and values, no, we're rejecting those.
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It's about all the problems you want to raise with society and government. That's the focus.
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Not long thereafter, another president, Coolidge, a great, great president, he gave a speech and almost at the exact same spot as Woodrow Wilson in front of Independence Hall about the Declaration of Independence.
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And he basically condemned Wilson and condemned what Wilson said.
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And Coolidge said, these are not old ideas.
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These are not ideas just for one generation of Americans.
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These are universal.
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These are... Ideas that should exist in perpetuity.
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They go back to Aristotle.
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They go back to Locke.
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They're not to be dismissed... For some kind of a new ideology...
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This is our founding belief system, the Declaration of Independence.
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So Coolidge basically used the opportunity to straighten out Wilson.
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When Barack Obama spoke, he did the same thing Wilson did.
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Because, you know, they all, with their little cheat sheets, they see what the prior Marxists have said.
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The Declaration of Independence is the most concise, substantive, ingenious statement of who we are as a people.
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The problem for the Marxists, for the Islamists, for the fascists, is that in order to embrace the Declaration of Independence, you must condemn them.
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This is why I've written in two books and have stated here over and over again, and others have regurgitated what I've said a long time ago.
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That these ideologies that came out of Marx, that came out of the American Marxists, that come out of these Islamists, are utterly incompatible with Americanism.
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That's why their candidates now openly trash our country and seek to destroy it.
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More when I return.
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The majority of Democrats say they would vote for a democratic socialist and they view socialism favorably.
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If we don't, If we don't do something about these colleges and universities, we're never going to recover from this.
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Also, we're importing people who believe these foreign ideologies.
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And this is what the Democrat Party wants.
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Once again, the last book I wrote is called On Power. They're about power. They're not about the Declaration, the Constitution, capitalism. Just keep something in mind.
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You and I don't believe in a powerful central government.
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That's why I reject some of the things J.D. says and some of these others say.
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These so-called nationalist populists.
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No.
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No. There are guardrails in our system. Guardrails.
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And those guardrails are crucial for whomever wants to do whatever.
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And the point is this.
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If you're a communist, an economic socialist, and an Islamist, you don't want these guardrails.
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You want power, you want it centralized, and yet you camouflage it with all kinds of talk about democracy.
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I'll pursue this more when we return.
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You know, ladies and gentlemen, there are a lot of hucksters out there, podcasters, among others.
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They go on and on about, you know, if your favorite tax cuts and you do this, you know, basically if you adopt the Reagan agenda, you're going to get creamed. You're going to lose.
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There are others, like the Veep, who says, you know, basically the days of Milton Friedman are over. He's more a Hamiltonian.
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Now, to a lot of people, they don't know what he's talking about because they're not familiar with those men in terms of policy. Let me explain something.
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One of the great admirers of Milton Friedman was Ronald Reagan.
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And Reagan sought to adhere as much as he could, as much as any president can, to many of the ideas and beliefs of Milton Friedman.
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Milton Friedman was a laissez-faire economist, and Reagan's position was that's the basis from where we start.
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I also want to remind you that school choice was Milton Friedman's invention. That was his idea. I spoke to him many decades ago about it, and Landmark Legal Foundation litigated on behalf of school choice.
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It was his idea in the 1950s.
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He had great ideas across the board.
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or many of the entitlement programs and so forth.
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I will also remind you that the economy during Reagan's eight years had massive growth, massive expansion.
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The economy in the United States grew 25% during the Reagan years.
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We've never seen anything like it before.
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Never.
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It was massive.
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And I'll remind you also that Reagan won two of the biggest landslides in Republican electoral history.
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His election and his re-election.
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The popular vote and the electoral college vote.
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And the second time around, he won every single state except Minnesota.
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Which he lost by 3,000 votes to Mondale, who he was running against.
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So just a flip of 1,500 votes, he would have won every single state.
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I want you to think about that.
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So when you have people downplaying Milton Friedman or downplaying Ronald Reagan, I don't really think they know what the hell they're talking about.
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They're embracing these Pat Buchanan ideologies and big government ideologies and centralized government ideologies. Now Alexander Hamilton was a great man.
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You'll hear about Alexander Hamilton and how he created basically the financial basis for the national government, which needed a lot of help after the Articles of Confederation and after the Revolutionary War.
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But Hamilton wasn't just about that.
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His archenemies were James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Now why would that be?
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Because Hamilton took a very, very liberal view of the Constitution.
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When it came to the first national bank during Washington's administration, Washington asked his Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton, what he thought about it. He asked his Secretary of State, Jefferson, what he thought about it.
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He asked Madison what he thought about it.
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Hamilton was all in.
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Jefferson and Madison said, wait a minute.
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There's no constitutional authority for a national central bank, a government-run bank. The states can have all the banks they want. The private sector can have all the banks they want.
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Washington sided with Hamilton.
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Madison, the father of the Constitution, says, where does this authority come from?
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Hamilton said...
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the implied powers of the Constitution.
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Implied powers?
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Jefferson said there are no implied powers. Implied power means you can do whatever you want.
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There's the text of the Constitution, the meaning of the words, the context of the adoption of the Constitution, but there's no implied powers.
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We fought like hell in Philadelphia for five months.
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There's nothing about implied powers.
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After the Washington administration, the National Bank was eliminated, but it came up again.
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It came up again on the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who opposed the National Bank, who opposed it.
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What I'm getting at here is this.
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There's a reason why Alexander Hamilton is considered the greatest of the founding fathers by the left.
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There's a reason why there's a play called Hamilton and not a play called Madison and not a play called George Mason and so forth.
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Now it's very interesting as I write in my book on power You may recall Hamilton and Madison and John Jay to a lesser extent. He'd be the first Chief Justice, but nonetheless.
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You might be surprised because they advocated strongly for the Constitution and the limiting power because the states were not going to ratify the Constitution if they heard about these implied powers, among other things.
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But then Hamilton moved.
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And so if we ever do get J.D. here, I would like to have this discussion.
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Because ladies and gentlemen, here's the deal.
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You know, the Marxists believe the world begins today.
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American history doesn't matter.
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Declaration, Constitution, they don't really matter.
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Just like Woodrow Wilson said.
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We've got problems today, we've got issues today, and we get to decide how we're going to resolve these without the limitations placed on us 200-some years ago.
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We have our own society, our own representatives.
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And so they seek to cut us from the moorings of the nation.
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So we'd be just another failed country doing stupid things.
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But that's not why we're great.
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We're not great because government bureaucrats and politicians have great ideas.
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We're great because their power is limited.
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Because you have great ideas. Maybe you have stupid ideas.
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But the idea is, you'll do as you wish.
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Other people will do as they wish.
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But the Marxists, the American Marxists, they believe the world begins today.
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Because that's what Marx tells them.
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all this past history is poison all it does is drag us down poisons our thought processes the world begins today we take in new information and we apply it unbound from historical perspectives or acts because they hold us back as human beings We need a completely clean slate.
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You know, Edmund Burke talked about the import of experience.
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One generation to the next to the next. Teaching each generation along the way, learning from each generation along the way.
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Marx says, that's bogus.
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That's bogus.
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Keep in mind, he also says religion needs to go.
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The nuclear family need to go. Why?
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Because we have great new ideas.
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We can't be anchored down by these old ideas and these old associations and these old social arrangements.
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Religion, he said, is mysticism.
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The family structure exists for the family, not for the greater good of society.
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This is who this so-called democratic socialist movement is all about.
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And so I would encourage us to explain to some of our brothers and sisters who are Republicans and otherwise, you're dabbling in a toxic water.
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When you say, oh yeah, well, we want to use government for the interests of the people.
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Of course government is supposed to be for the interests of the people, but in the context of its limitations. You know, it's not like there isn't government activity. We have localities, we have counties, we have states, we have the federal government. We've got bureaucrats all over the place.
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But government's got to deliver for the people. Deliver what?
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And where's the line between the nationalists, populists, and the socialists. Where's the line?
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There is no line.
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It's knee-jerk or shoot from the hip.
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The greatest period of growth we've had in this country in modern times, whatever anybody says is up to them and you can look it up, was the eight years of the Reagan administration.
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It was massive.
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It touched every corner of our country, every corner of our society.
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We'd never seen anything like it before.
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Because his tax cuts were massive. They were across the board. They were for big corporations, little companies, individuals.
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The inheritance tax, so-called, went down to zero.
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Zero.
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Capital investment, when Reagan got in, you could deduct it over a period of even decades. He eliminated that. You could deduct it over a period of one year, maybe two.
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freedom it's called freedom and it actually works and I just fear that going into battle with the communists and the Islamists and these phony democratic socialists we don't know our own history we don't know how to make the case for our own country and too many of our people look starry-eyed dumbfounded in the face of affordability Fairness.
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Billionaires.
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They don't know how to respond.
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And so they embrace 10, 20, 30, 40% of it.
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Rather than push back.
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I'll be right back.
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I just decided today was a good day to get into some of these things, given July 4th is right upon us. This is July 2nd.
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We will not be here tomorrow.
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So this is the last time I'm talking to you before July 4th.
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And this is a very exciting period to me, 250 years.
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But it's also a very grave situation that we're in right now.
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Some people blow this off, they say you're overreacting, and say, no, you're not.
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We're facing threats and enemies we've never faced like this before, certainly not in an organized fashion.
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The Democrat Party is led by weasels and quizlings and weaklings, and so that party is doomed.
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And you listen to these candidates. Some of them are 29 years old. They're failed lawyers. They've accomplished nothing. AOC accomplished nothing.
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Got this guy in Maine who accomplished nothing. He's a horrid human being.
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Got this guy in New Jersey.
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Literally was working with a blind sheik. Stunning. Shocking.
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You've got individuals who support Hamas and other terror groups running for office and winning the Democrat primaries.
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Now, there's not a lot we Republicans can do about Democrat primaries.
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But we have to make sure when it comes to the general elections, we do everything humanly possible to stop these people.
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But we will lose our country.
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They've tried everything.
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Open borders. That's why this birthright citizenship decision. Listen, ignore the buffoons, some of whom claim to be conservative. What's the big deal? We'll pass legislation. It doesn't work that way.
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This is a singularly disastrous decision.
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Disastrous because the court majority was cowardly.
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They knew what jurisdiction meant back then. We know what it means today.
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Nobody contemplated illegal aliens having children in this country who would be citizens. Nobody.
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I don't care if they write a hundred pages or a thousand pages to try and make the case. There is no case to be made.
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We're up against these Islamists. We're up against these communists. They don't play by the rules. They use our system to destroy our system.
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I fear that apart from a handful of individuals...
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We don't know how to fight back.
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And so we dismiss it. You know, country goes through cycles and phases. No, excuse me.
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Don't acquiesce to this. More when I return.
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He's here. He's here.
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Now broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.
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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.
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To kind of continue where we left off, you've heard of people saying, I'm a nationalist, I'm a populist, right?
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What does that mean? I put America first. No, that's not what it means. If you put America first, you're a patriot.
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You believe in Americanism. What is nationalism, populism?
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First of all, we're a republic, right? We're not a democracy.
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And that's a good thing.
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Because we don't want people voting on our property rights, do we?
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We don't want people voting on whether we can keep our income, do we?
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No. Remember our declaration we talked about in the first hour?
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We have rights that belong to us, given to us by God.
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People don't get to vote and take them away or alter them and so forth and so on.
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So I don't know what populism actually means.
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It was a word that was used in the late 1800s by socialists.
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Populists. Now what's a nationalist?
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Again, there's some confusion there. It's not about Americanism, America first, a nationalist. We have a federal system, right?
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We have states, states' rights, local rights.
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You and I don't want an all-powerful central government, do we?
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Well, if we do, that's not the Constitution, is it?
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And how does that differ from what the Marxists and these so-called democratic socialists are pushing?
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No, we are constitutional conservatives.
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So people who spin you, who push this stuff, are really quite ignorant.
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We're not nationalists, we're not populists.
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We're constitutionalists.
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Now Theodore Roosevelt, very interesting.
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The president was at the library yesterday. I thought it was beautiful. I thought his speech was one of the greatest he's ever given, quite frankly. It was hilarious.
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He was very charismatic. He was very substantive and so forth.
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Roosevelt was heroic.
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Bigger than life.
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He was.
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But he was no conservative.
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Roosevelt pushed what he called a new nationalism.
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And he wrote about it in the New Republic. And I wrote about him writing about it in one of my books.
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And I went back and I got a copy of that article, the original, and I read it.
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Roosevelt believed in a very active government. First as governor of New York, which is why they wanted to get him the hell out of there, and then as president of the United States.
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His new nationalism was a progressive, quote-unquote, political platform.
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And he introduced it in a speech in Kansas in 1910. And he later wrote about it, and it was published.
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And it became the foundation for his 1912 campaign. We ran third parties.
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in the Bull Moose Party, but the official name of that party was the Progressive Party.
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And he argued vehemently for a much stronger federal government.
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He argued for human welfare over property rights, whatever that meant.
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He argued for strong regulation of labor, strong regulation of industry.
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As I said, significant federal authority.
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He wanted significantly higher taxes on wealth.
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In other words, much of the left-wing agenda that we talk about today wasn't all that different from Woodrow Wilson's agenda.
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Now this may shock some of you, I understand.
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He called it the new nationalism.
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I get it.
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But that's what he promoted.
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So when people talk about Theodore Roosevelt's one of my favorite presidents, and I get that, I really do.
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you do need to understand that he was really the first so-called progressive president.
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And he ran on the progressive party, Bull Moose Party, third party.
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And as a result of that, the sitting president, who had been his vice president, Howard Taft, lost.
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Roosevelt lost.
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And Woodrow Wilson came in. A disaster. A disaster.
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See, my view is we've had enough powerful centralized government.
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It's enough already.
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And one day it'll be handed over to the Marxist Islamists. It'll be there for the taking.
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One of the strengths of our system as was envisioned and originally set up was you don't have all this centralized power except where you're supposed to have it.
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And the power belongs in the states, so it's much more difficult for, say, the Marxists and the Islamists to walk in and have an entire infrastructure ready to go.
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And the Democrats keep pushing that, don't they? National health care, national this, national that, national housing, national that. Yeah, exactly.
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This is a totalitarian mindset.
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So when people push this nationalism, populism, new nationalism, they have an obligation, as far as I'm concerned, to explain to us, beyond the generalizations and the slogans, what exactly do they mean and what are its limits and how do we draw those limits, especially when people come to power who mean us no good.
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Remember what we've talked about before.
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on power.
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Remember what Montesquieu said in the spirit of the laws. What did he say?
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Power must check power.
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When you look at your constitution, that's what it's all about.
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Separation of powers, powers divided between this new federal government and the state governments, and then, of course, the power of the individual, the sovereign, each of you.
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The more you centralize government, I don't care if you make it a populist centralization, a nationalist centralization, whatever you want to call it.
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The more you are destroying the entire purpose of this country, the declaration. The more you are destroying the constitutional limits on power.
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Let's take it one step further.
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Why do we believe that?
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that the centralization of power, that nationalism and so forth and so on is a good thing.
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Why have critical decisions made by fewer and fewer of our fellow citizens?
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What is it that these fellow citizens of ours have that makes them smarter, more wise, more more prudential.
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What is it that they have that's so special? Nothing.
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Nothing.
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Why do we keep giving more and more power to Washington, more and more power to, in the case of New York, mayors, governors? What is the point?
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Because we don't want to make decisions for ourselves anymore?
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because they're going to make these righteous, incredible decisions?
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They're politicians. Why are they going to do that?
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So this is a problem.
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We're talking about a 29-year-old that just won a house race in Colorado, who barely got out of law school, was such a bad lawyer...
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She had to leave the corporation she was working for. A complete failure. She runs for Congress. She gets elected on the Democrat side, which means she's going to win. It's Denver.
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And you go down the list.
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Why is it that she and a handful of others are more capable of making decisions about your life, your medical care, your housing, everything, when she's a complete and utter failure?
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What is it about her, or anybody else for that matter, that gives them this kind of authority? Now, let's go back to Hamilton.
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When we have somebody who says, I prefer Hamilton to Friedman, these kinds of individuals that I'm talking about, this representative, soon to be representative in Colorado, she would agree with Hamilton about implied powers.
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about necessary and proper powers to execute and institute laws.
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And so what are the limits? There are no limits.
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There are no limits.
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Nationalism, populism, which to me is socialist-like, it's not capitalism and it's certainly not republicanism, small r republicanism, It's not constitutionalism.
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Everybody thinks they're smarter than Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, the founding fathers.
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They all think they're smarter. Why are they smarter?
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They're not smarter.
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Because they managed to get elected to office? They're smarter? Why?
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No. It means they managed to get elected to office.
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That's all. You know, the opinion of most politicians in this country is very low, and yet we are willing to confer on them choices about our health care, choices about our educational system, choices about on and on and on. Why?
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Why is that? What we are celebrating on July 4th is our independence.
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from a monarchy, a dictatorship, for what? For our liberty.
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For our unalienable rights.
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For our individual sovereignty.
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We're not celebrating nationalism and populism.
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We're celebrating Americanism.
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I'll be right back.
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In the period of about 1910, 1911 or so, Theodore Roosevelt was America's preeminent progressive political leader, a dynamo.
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And...
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And this new nationalism he talked about, we always give new labels to these things. They sound very cool.
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I'm a nationalist populist.
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Until you go back and research what it is.
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It's the language of the socialists.
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When you say more Hamiltonian than Milton Friedman, it's very interesting because Hamilton, as I've pointed out to you now, was really, let me put it this way, Jefferson and Madison were repulsed by Hamilton as time went on before he died from the duel.
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And they felt that he double-crossed the states because he supported the Constitution and then he supported an interpretation of the Constitution that many of the most left-wing justices would support.
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I'm not putting him down, I'm explaining history.
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Hamilton's perspective, by the way, won the day early on.
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And this is typically the case. You know, those of us who fight for limited government, individual freedom, economic freedom, and so forth, we're always on defense.
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We're always on defense because...
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Most people don't understand liberty because they've never experienced the opposite.
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And so they figure it'll always be here, even if they vote for a socialist or a communist or whatever it is.
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And it's not the case.
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Reagan explained it, others explained it, it's one generation away from being eliminated.
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That's why when you go online and you see people that calm down, everything's fine. Nobody's hyper. But people who see clearly understand what's at stake. And it's not a time to quote-unquote calm down.
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It's a time to engage.
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Engage.
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That's the whole point.
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The other side is engaged in destroying our society.
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And that's the truth.
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Let's see here.
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Between the 23rd of August and the 11th of September this year, 1910, Mr. Roosevelt made a journey of nearly 5,500 miles.
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In the course of that journey, he gave addresses in 14 states. The audiences which gathered at the meetings which had been arranged in advance numbered certainly a third of a million.
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Then it goes on.
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If an unprejudiced, thoughtful American who had left this country in 1895 and spent 15 years in a remote region away from all news of the world had returned in the summer of 1910, he would, within a few days of his arrival, have been impressed.
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the change that had taken place in a public opinion, and even in the public point of view. Again, this is from 1910.
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When he left, public opinion was hard. That is when Roosevelt did. Rather sordid, decidedly materialistic.
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Very placent.
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I want to remind you, it's my recollection that Marx died in the 1850s, give or take.
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So this was about a half a century after Marx died. Roosevelt was well aware of who Marx was, as was Wilson, as were all these so-called progressives, or I call them, as you know, American Marxists.
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And let's see if I can get deeper into this with you.
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So this idea This idea of centralized government, centralized economic decisions, it's not a new idea, it's just a bad idea. You know this thing about the Constitution.
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It was Woodrow Wilson who wrote and said, the Constitution is like the human body.
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All the organs have to work together.
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Governments like a human body. All the organs have to work together.
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This so-called separation of power, separation of human organs will kill us.
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The human body, whether the individual or the society, can't function with separation of power this way.
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Of course, he was wrong. I'll be right back.
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Now, during that little break, I was refreshing myself on the speech in 1910, the new nationalism that Roosevelt gave and was later written as an article.
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It is very radical. It is very left-wing, and you need to understand that this idea of socialism is not new.
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It's been tried and tried and tried again throughout Europe before here.
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This idea of communism is not new.
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It's quite old, actually.
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And they act like it's new when it's not. But I find it interesting in particular that the least accomplished among us are the most vociferous for these ideologies.
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Look at Bernie Sanders. He's never done anything.
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Look at AOC. She's never done anything.
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Look at Mondami. He's never done anything.
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but they give these speeches about society and economics and justice and equality.
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You know, you have people applying these ideologies to our lives, to the real world.
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That's not the way it's supposed to work. I always try to explain Americanism, capitalism are not ideologies.
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Now, they're philosophies, but what's an ideology?
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An ideology is a fanatical belief in something that you will pursue no matter what.
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The conservative belief system or the Declaration or the Constitution, it creates an environment for you to make decisions.
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To make individual decisions, right?
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That's not an ideology.
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Make whatever decisions you want. Good decisions, bad decisions, left-wing decisions, right-wing decisions, it doesn't matter.
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But an ideology compels a certain type of approach.
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And the institution of that approach.
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And the all of society instituting that approach.
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that's completely different now I don't know how many more people have to die to demonstrate that communism is a defective beyond defective ideology that Marx's discussion about the human the human functioning and so forth is utterly defective that he does not understand human beings I don't know how many more people have to die to prove this point or suffer or imprison these police states.
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It's a defective ideology.
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It utterly misreads human nature.
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And yet, what you see in these communist dictatorships is they try and force the ideology on the people, even though it doesn't work.
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What's the biggest problem?
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With communism.
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The biggest problem is it's anti-human being.
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You have an independent free will.
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Not under communism.
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You've got a brain. The ability to reason and think things through. Well under communism you're not allowed to do that.
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You march in line.
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Toward a goal that's created for you.
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And so what happens?
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Freedom is under attack relentlessly. The freedom of the think is under attack relentlessly. They're involved in brainwashing and indoctrination constantly. That's why you see in our top universities, there's no academic freedom.
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None. There's ideology.
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Ideology.
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There's no debate.
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no engagement, unless you put your physical safety on the line.
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There can't be.
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Because in order to have paradise, in order to have these parasitical programs and be equal and everything, you can't have a challenge. You can't have different points of view. No. Everybody has to row in the same direction, march in the same direction, and on and on and on.
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And we know that's the case because look around the world. That's what it is.
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Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Communist China.
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Same applies to Islam and Islamists.
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In order to accomplish and get to the promised land, you can't have detractors who distract.
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You can't have any of that.
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Now when I read this Roosevelt New Nationalism, and when I hear about nationalists, populists, these are dangerous thought processes.
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The people who say don't even know what it means beyond certain slogans and generalities.
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But they are attacking the Declaration, they are attacking the Constitution, they are attacking the American experiment.
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This is why you see what people call the overlap between the woke right and the Islamist Marxists.
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Because in the case of the nationalist populists, they've abandoned what makes America great for some kind of socialism light and central government and all the rest of it.
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And in the case of the Islamists and Marxists, they've never embraced any of it anyway.
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And so they want an activist central government.
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Now for the Marxist Islamists, but particularly the Marxists, they cover what they're doing, they camouflage it with passion and emotion. You notice they're always yelling at the top of their lungs.
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They're always saying the same slogans. They're always talking about equality and get the billionaires and the occupiers and the this and the that and so forth.
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And so if you don't know much, you're there, yeah, yeah, that's right. You need a fair system, yeah, fair, that's right. What does it even mean?
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With the Roch Reich, R-E-I-C-H, these neo-fascists is what they are, they're attacking our economic system as much as the as the Marxists do.
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They're attacking our culture as much as the Marxists do.
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It does remind me of the 1930s in Germany, where the fascists and the communists are constantly fighting with each other, and yet they have large areas of agreement.
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But for you and me, the problem is we have no agreement with these people.
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And they'll take us down.
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Because the Democrat Party is weak. It's led by very, very weak individuals.
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I think we've done a better job than most to push this woke rag out. And I must say, 14 months ago, I was it. There was nobody else doing this. Nobody. Nobody.
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But now I'm very pleased to say there's many people who have awakened to this and have now grown a pair to fight it.
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Sometimes you just have to show the way. The same with language. Language is critical.
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We've talked about this.
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A couple of years ago, nobody used Marxist and Communist on Fox or on talk radio or generally. It's always progressive or socialist.
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So I came up with my book, American Marxism, and I said, that's enough already. These are Marxists.
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Stop allowing them to use a different nomenclature in order to softball their ideology. Now we call them what they are, Marxists and communists.
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I've been telling you now for two years about power. Power is the central motivating force in much of humanity, but in the wrong hands it is the only motivating force.
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And we wrote, and I talked about negative power, positive power. Remember all that?
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And the consequences of both good and bad.
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Well, now I see on TV and radio, people are saying they're out for power. It's very good. I'm glad people are plagiarizing my thoughts and making these statements. It's very good. But then what?
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Then what?
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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I'll be right back.
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It's kind of amazing, isn't it, when you think about it?
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The same room, the Pennsylvania Assembly Room in downtown Philadelphia, what it is today, was where the Second Continental Congress met to debate, then draft, then adopt the Declaration of Independence, is exactly the same location where they spend five months, many years later, debating and adopting the Constitution of the United States.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Same place.
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Same place.
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History is fascinating.
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And to those of us who love our country, who believe in our system, who want to defend it, promote it, it's essential.
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And once you know more and more of our history, it's not only so compelling and intriguing, but it causes you to be even a bigger defender of it.
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It truly does.
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Then when you see people coming here, Mandami from Uganda, this woman now in Colorado from Ethiopia, this guy in New Jersey from wherever the hell he is, and on and on and on, and you see the way they talk about our country, their abuses of power, they're condemning our history.
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We need to stand up to this.
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What the hell do these people think they are?
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You come into our country.
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You manage to use our electoral system.
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You work your way through the Democrat primaries.
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And you trash our country. You trash our history.
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All the men and women who've died to secure this nation.
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A relative handful of punks come in here from the third world? Or punks who are homegrown who are brainwashed in colleges and universities?
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What have they contributed to this society?
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Can you name anything?
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They haven't contributed anything.
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They're mobsters.
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Who push mobster ideologies? That's what communism and socialism and Islamism are. They're mobster ideologies.
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Okay, Rich, did you send me the call link? Because I can't find it. Yeah, it didn't show up, unfortunately. Give me a caller.
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Go ahead.
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I didn't hear you.
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I didn't hear you.
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Sirius XM Gary in Virginia, how are you?
72:35
Mark, you're a great, great, great, great patriot, and I'm very, very happy and pleased to speak to you. I've listened to you for, I don't know, 20 years.
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And I just can't imagine how you prepare for all this. It's amazing. And I'm a member of the tribe, you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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And I have thought about this, and you have an ear with the president, at least some ear with the president. I probably never will, even though I've been to Mar-a-Lago a few times.
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And I've been thinking about this a lot because...
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I guess Michael A. has his own radio station now, and he's talking about how Trump did this and Trump did that, and he got all this money, and he's worth $6 billion. Well, that's true, and I can do math. You know, 10% of that $600 million. I've heard the number $100 million bantered around for how much was spent to get all these Democrats elected in New York and in California. And my thought process is, If Trump is who he really says he is and he can really influence all of these elections, he's got enough self-worth.
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He can do it on his own and combat Soros all the way.
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We're going to have to go this because of the music. I kind of came out of left field, so I'm not really up on that. We'll be right back.
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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.
75:26
Breitbart poll majority of Democrats say they would vote for a democratic socialist view socialism favorably We're importing communists Islamists and socialists in our country and we're raising them through our school systems It's a recent economist YouGov survey revealed Across the board of plurality respondents, 45% said they would not vote for such a candidate, followed by 29% who said they would, 26% who remain unsure.
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Predictably, the vast majority of Republicans, 85%, said they would not vote for a Democratic Socialist, but most Democrats, 62%, said they would.
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Further, only 11% of Democrats said they would not, and over a quarter, 27%, said they are not sure.
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In plurality of independents, 40% said they would not vote for a democratic socialist. 24% said they would.
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So overwhelmingly, Republicans say no.
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Significantly, independents say no. Overwhelmingly, Democrats say yes.
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An even greater majority, 73% of self-described liberals, said they would support a democratic socialist. And most 2024 voters of former Vice President Kamala Harris, 64% said they would as well. Only 5% of Trump voters said the same.
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The survey also revealed that more Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism. 34% choosing socialism, 22% choosing capitalism.
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58% of Democrats view socialism in general favorably.
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Believe this crap.
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The rise of socialism in the Democrat Party has been well documented making waves after New York City's elected a socialist mayor, a communist mayor.
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But it's still alarming that a majority of people are voting for socialists, obviously.
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It's ignorance. It's alarming.
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You see the disaster in these countries like China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and so forth. It doesn't seem to matter because they don't experience it. They don't care. They always have their lattes. They always have their weekends.
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They don't view it as any big deal. Sure, I want socialists. Yeah, I want more, and I want fair, and I want this, and I want that.
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Sick. And really, what do they give to the country? We've had...
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Generations before, they went into the draft, or maybe they became Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, or whatever it was. You don't see that in any large scale anymore, do you?
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Peter Schweitzer, who's a fantastic good friend, more than a million U.S. citizens are being raised in China due to birth tourism.
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Thank you, John Roberts.
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By the way, Amy Comey Barrett, there's a big piece in the National Review defending her.
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And there and elsewhere they'd say, look at all the great decisions she has had from a constitutionalist perspective.
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Can anybody tell me her judicial philosophy?
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That's the problem.
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People will try and Try and give her judicial philosophy. I don't see one.
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I don't see one with John Roberts. Now, I see that they're not radicals, right? They're not leftists. They're not the three mouthketeer Democrat women.
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But that doesn't give us a definition. It tells us what they're not, not what they are. What is Amy Comey Barrett's judicial philosophy? She's not an originalist of the sort of a Scalia or Thomas or an Alito, even a Gorsuch.
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And therein lies the problem.
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And so when it comes to some of these big cases, she is unpredictable.
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Not because she's quote-unquote independent, because it's very, very difficult to determine what her moorings are.
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That's the truth. According to Schweitzer, author of The Invisible Coup, the depth of birth tourism is unclear, noting that the Chinese government boasts of more than one million Chinese who view U.S. citizenship as a product of birthright citizenship.
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No, according to the Chinese government, said Schweitzer, they believe that every year on average since 2013, roughly 100,000 Chinese babies have been born in the United States.
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That is a government estimate from China.
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Research firms in China put that number sometimes even higher.
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Problem is our federal government doesn't know. We don't track this.
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They don't put on the birthright certificate the nationality of the parents.
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So that's the inherent problem. We don't know the scope of it. The scope of it is massive, obviously.
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Massive.
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Now why do you think China's doing that? To destroy our country. To create spies, to get people elected. You can't stop them if they're citizens. They could actually get elected to be President of the United States.
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What a disaster what the court did to us. And don't understate it.
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Don't pretend it's no big deal. Don't pretend there's legislative fixes. There aren't.
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It's a big damn deal.
81:15
There's other things that caught my attention today. This was big.
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Bloodier than Stalingrad, writes CNN. The number of casualties in Russia's war on Ukraine reaches 2 million.
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Russia's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
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has now cost that country some 450,000 lives, according to a new study that estimates the war's total casualty numbers to have surpassed 2 million.
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The research by the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates Russia has suffered 1.4 million casualties, including killed, wounded and missing soldiers, a stunning number that amounts to roughly 1% of the country's population.
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The losses are not spread evenly across Russia with poor areas and ethnic minorities suffering significantly higher casualty rates.
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Stories of male populations of small remote villages being virtually wiped out are becoming more common in Russia opposition media.
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According to the study, Russia is currently unable to recruit new troops at the same rate as they're losing them.
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The rates are astounding, says Seth Jones, a Riley McCabe, and the authors of the study. They said Russian fatalities in Ukraine are more than four times greater than all U.S. fatalities in all wars combined since World War II, and more than nine times greater than all Soviet and Russian fatalities in all wars combined since World War II.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine is estimated to endure between 525,000 and 625,000 casualties, including 125,000 to 150,000 fatalities.
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Neither Russia nor Ukraine release official casualty data, but the latest CSIS figures are broadly in line with Western estimates.
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In terms of casualties, the war is becoming much more costly for Russia than it is for Ukraine.
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Now, the study, the pair said that the casualty rate has likely risen to nearly eight to one in the first half of this year, meaning that for every Ukrainian soldier killed, wounded, or missing, there are eight Russian casualties.
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For much of the war, the rate stood at between two to three Russian casualties to one Ukrainian loss.
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Jones and McCabe said that the recent increase is down to Kiev's advances in its drone program, especially its ability to greatly extend the kill zone.
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that is, the area around the front lines that is so saturated with drones that it makes it almost impossible for Russian troops to enter.
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Ukraine's defense in-depth strategy has been effective in killing and wounding Russian soldiers as well as limiting Russian maneuver, they said.
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However, they said there are other reasons why Russia is suffering so much, including Russia's attrition strategy, its failure to effectively conduct combined arms and joint warfare, its poor tactics and training, corruption and low morale.
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Whatever the reasons, the data paints a horrendous picture.
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With two million total casualties, the war in Ukraine has now likely surpassed the Battle of Stalingrad, widely considered to be the bloodiest conflict in history.
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Wow. I'll be right back.
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Mark Levin.
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Just going over a few things that have grabbed my attention. I don't really follow a lot of basketball, men's or women's.
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I used to follow it a lot when I was young.
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I just don't anymore, and they seem like so many overpaid prima donnas. I'm just being honest.
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But I keep reading articles about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA.
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the fouls that are committed against her, including being punched in the throat.
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And these aren't normal basketball fouls. I mean, they are very, very physical fouls, like you're intending to really hurt somebody and you're targeting them.
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And it seems to me that it happens frequently, or at least frequently enough.
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And here we have another story.
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Caitlin Clark is a WNBA All-Star Game starter, earning the third All-Star nod of her career.
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But it's no thanks to her peers, Clark was involved in one of the biggest voting discrepancies of the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game.
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While fans of the media voted Clark second and third on their respective ballots among guards, Clark earned just the 11th most votes from her fellow players.
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In order to select the WNBA All-Star Game starters, fans accounted for 50% of the vote, while current players in a media panel accounted for 25%.
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Along with Clark, fellow Fever stars Aaliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell were named.
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But of WNBA All-Star starters, Boston had one of the other biggest discrepancies among voting groups. Boston was number one with the fans, number five with the media, just eighth on her fellow players' ballots.
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And it goes on.
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So if it was left to the players, pretty much, she might not have gotten on there, but for the public.
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Now she's a superstar, and Keep that in mind.
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She's a superstar.
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So what accounts for this?
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I'll tell you what accounts for this.
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I've thought about it, and I'm not one to immediately say racism, but it's racism.
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The kinds of fouls against this woman that seem to be too frequent, this sort of thing.
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Now, she may not be the only one who's treated like this in various categories, but to me, she's the only one who's treated in the various categories this way.
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I don't know.
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And they'll go to do something about it.
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They'll go to do something about it. She's white, obviously, and if she wasn't white and this was happening in a white... predominantly white league, to say a black player, I'd want something done about that. You'd want something done about it. Others would want something done about it. Well, why not here?
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Because what else explains this? Seriously, what else explains it?
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So the league needs to get to the bottom of this, and they need to deal with it.
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And I'd love if some sports broadcasters, some probably do talk about it, I don't know enough, but...
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More of them should talk about it, so we all hear about it.
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And you bring on some shaming and some pressure to cut it out.
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Just cut it out. I know it's a tough sport. That's not my point.
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My point is it seems to happen a lot to her. All right.
88:58
Let's take a few calls here. Peter, Gainesville, Florida, the great WSKY. How are you, Peter?
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I am quite well, thanks. How about yourself?
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Very well, thank you. Well, not really, but well enough. How are you?
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Oh, not bad. Being sad and lazy. So I thought I'd call about the three laws of socialism as written by von Mises.
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Yes, von Mises, go ahead.
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Yes, law number one, logic is absolutely forbidden. And the best example of that is Bernie Sanders. He brags about being stupid.
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Law number two, socialism has never worked because I wasn't running it.
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And law number three, socialism won't work until the entire planet is socialist.
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It's all true.
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But I just don't feel like there's a concerted...
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organized, laser focused effort to push back against these people. I just don't.
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And it's going to take, you know, it's going to take broadcasters, but it's also going to take leading politicians, whether in the Democrat Party and certainly in the Republican Party.
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To explain things, they should be giving speeches on July 4th. They should be explaining the connection between the Declaration and the Constitution and the Constitution and private property rights.
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They should explain why affordability and prosperity and equality are gained through market capitalism and that sort of thing. But they don't.
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They just don't.
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All right, Peter, have a wonderful fourth, brother. Tom, Greenwood, Indiana, the great WFDM. How are you, Tom?
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Mr. Levitt, thank you for taking my call. I appreciate it. Of course. Scary times that we're in.
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I keep telling everybody we're in a revolutionary war, but without the muzzleloaders and the cannons. And people are looking at me like you're crazy. And I'm like, do you see what's going on here? Do you see it?
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And what scares me, you're right.
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Oh, well, thank you. Um, I mean, I just think about that and I think about history and I'm like, wait a minute, you know, we don't have the guns and the cannons, but this is the way that, and you've been talking about this for, I've, I've been listening to you in probably 20, 25 years. So I remember way back when, when you were talking about this and I was like, I don't know if it's ever going to get there and it's gotten there and it's scary. And What scares me is earlier today, I saw a post on Facebook and I posted, it says, we're sick of being told to accept every culture, but our own.
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And it opened up a can of worms.
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And this one woman responded back, well, we're on stolen land. And I'm like, wait a minute, how do I, how do I come back at this? So I did some research and it was a case years ago. where the government settled for billions, I think it was like $35 billion or something to some tribe. How do you respond to something like that? Or do you just like kind of let that comment go? Because I'm like, you know, I want to have some more information.
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This is what the Marxists argue.
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That we are all on stolen land.
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That the white Europeans came in here and stole it.
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from the Native Americans and stole it from Latinos and stole it from whomever?
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And the answer is this.
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Everybody is on land that was not originally land that belonged to their ethnicity.
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Honestly, except for the Jews in the Middle East. But let's put that aside.
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So who was first in Northern America? Who was first?
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Actually, it wasn't even the Native Americans.
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And so it's an argument.
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And then I would say, in your case, ma'am, if you're on stolen land, then why don't you get off of it?
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Get off the stolen land and give your home or your business or whomever it is to whom you think it belongs to.
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Marxists and socialists don't fix it.
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We'll be right back.
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The new American revolution starts here. The Mark Levin Show. Call in at 877-381-3811.
93:44
I'm going to play a montage for you, America, of Democrat candidates running for office using the same exact rhetoric about AIPAC that white supremacists are using.
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Now, AIPAC is nothing more than an American political action committee, of which there are thousands.
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It's called the American Israel Political Action Committee.
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And they're trying to promote Americanism and support for Israel and vice versa. That's all it is.
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It's actually one of the smaller PACs when you compare it to some of the really big ones in the top ten and so forth.
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But tell me if you can tell who's who. Now, it's harder on radio. You can't see the faces. But again, Democrat candidates and white supremacists. Cut one. Go.
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Now is the time of monsters.
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These monsters take many forms today.
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That Zionist monster that is draining the lifeblood out of the American people.
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Move millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal, to preserve their power so that they can turn us against one another.
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They want the American right and left to fight each other. They want to press the division.
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It is a divide and conquer type of strategy.
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This is a part of the two weeks divide and conquer strategy. No American should die for Israel. Yeah!
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We don't want to die for Israel. Americans don't want to die for Israel. The corrupt special interests like AIPAC taking and sucking money out of our communities. So much money has been sucked out of our economy. If you look at just the aid that we gave to Israel.
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Far-right organizations like AIPAC that are funding Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Both Republicans and Democrats are controlled by the Zionists.
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If you can't name the demon, you can't kill it. You gotta name
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Name the Jew at minimum and name their crimes. Vanquish the vampire that is APAC once and for all.
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They are vampires. They suck our blood. APAC is toxic.
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APAC is a parasite. Say no to the drug of APAC. AIPAC is a virus. Anyone who hopes to leave this party must condemn and reject AIPAC money.
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Whoever runs that is against AIPAC, that's the only person I'm interested in going with. You should never vote for a candidate if they take money from AIPAC. Don't vote for any politician who receives one dime from AIPAC. They are traitors to this country if they take money from AIPAC.
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You dual national traitors. You have no loyalty to the United States. Their allegiance is to Israel, not to the United States of America.
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Tribal loyalty to a foreign state.
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Allegiance to a foreign country.
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Pledge of allegiance to a foreign country. We really need to ask ourselves whether or not it is in our best interest to allow the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu to dictate to us what our foreign policy would be. The people who run the American foreign policy are the Zionist Jewish extremists.
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Our police system, right, takes training from the Israeli military.
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American police being trained by Israelis.
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Psycho, savage, evil, devil, pedophile, Epstein, f***ing, disgusting, rapist savages. The satanic Talmudic pedophilic cabal that's really running the Trump White House.
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There you go.
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I've never seen anything like this, ever. It's across the political spectrum.
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Across the political spectrum.
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This Malat Kiros, this Colorado First Congressional District Marxist candidate who just won, 29 years old, a failed lawyer, has absolutely no success, nothing.
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Listen to her. Cut to go.
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We will not wait to take the fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy. We will not wait to abolish ICE and pass Medicare for all. We will not wait to put an end to the politics of the past, to get big money out of our politics and to reject corporate PACs and AIPAC. And no, we will not wait to end the genocide in Palestine.
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I want you all to Seriously, look at each other. Half of the people here are strangers to you all. Just months ago, you didn't know them.
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But now you have comrades. That is a movement.
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Sick and getting sicker.
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Sick and getting sicker.
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Mm-hmm.
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Gustavo Gordelia, New York City Democratic Socialist of America co-chair on MSNOW today.
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See, they're promoting these commies.
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It's just unbelievable. Cut five. Go.
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I'll say that we really prioritized the congressional races this cycle because we knew that our performance in these races would become the measure of our power, and it would influence how the political establishment orients toward us. After we won the mayoral race, we saw in New York State Figures like Kathy Hochul, who were really, you know, had been aligned with the establishment. They started to adopt some of our platform. We were able to reach a major step toward universal child care, I think, as a result of that election.
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And it's not surprising to me that now that we have so many more electoral victories under our belt, that people are trying to learn from that, I hope. But I think it's still too early to say, you know, there were huge mistakes made, I think, in the 2024 presidential race.
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You know, not even allowing a Palestinian to speak at the DNC convention is something that people will not soon forget.
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Hmm.
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How about allow Hamas to speak at the convention? That would be more fitting, don't you think? Same guy, cut six, go.
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Do you think it's too early for me to ask if the path to the presidency for a Democrat is going to run through DSA?
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I think that we will be trying to influence the next presidential primary.
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And it's still too soon to say how. To say who? Yeah, to say who.
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You know, I think that many in the organization would be very thrilled if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ended up running. But ultimately, that's her decision. And we'll be in conversation.
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Then there's Nitha Rahman, socialist L.A. mayoral candidate on CNN yesterday.
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Cut seven, go. Why are you a democratic socialist?
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You know, I'm a member of the DSA. I'm also a member of the Democratic Party.
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And I really got into this work to make sure that we are serving the people of Los Angeles. And I don't think there's particularly a Democratic Socialist way or a Democratic Party way of fixing a streetlight or fixing a pothole or making sure that we're delivering for the residents of the city.
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Then there's Mondami at a press conference yesterday. Cut eight. Go.
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And we raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, instead of taking more from those with the least. Throughout this process, I have been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist, Friedrich Hayek. If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists. If these past months have shown us anything, it is that socialists not only understand economics, just as well as the capitalists who came before, but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles.
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What does that even mean?
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What does that mean, Rich?
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It means nothing.
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This guy's a fluffernutter.
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What does that mean? I don't know. Just like I don't know what he means.
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I don't know what he means.
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Roe Conman, in a video message yesterday, now this guy Roe Conman, he and his wife were worth about $350 million.
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She spent a lot of time working the stock market.
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She inherited a great deal of money from her father, who was an auto parts, I believe, magnate in Ohio.
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And Roe Kahn-Mankana has benefited from that enormously. And he's been talking about, you know, the rich and the...
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I don't know. The Gilded Years and so forth and so on. It's just sickening.
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All these punks are sickening.
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Again, they're second generation, perhaps, or third generation, or first generation.
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Cut nine, go.
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Yesterday was a big night for progressives. Colorado shows a new generation of progressives like Milan are building a new and bold Democratic Party. It's time for the old guard to step aside.
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Let me let me tell you about this guy. Rich, open your microphone a second.
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This guy contacted us and claimed he was a moderate. Remember that?
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I do.
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And he wanted to come on. He said, I'm a different kind of Democrat. I'm more moderate. We may not always agree, but we may agree on some things. Remember all that, Rich? I do.
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Now look at him. He's a complete whore.
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That is true. What's that? That is true. It is true. He's a complete whore, this guy.
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It's disgusting. He's disgusting.
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I'm not even going to play any more of him.
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They're all disgusting, actually. We'll be right back.
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Mark Levin.
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Here's Tucker Carlson. Remember him? I told you he was an a-hole. Praising Islam.
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Praising Islam.
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Hat to Bunkbar TV. Cut. 13. Go.
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I'm not going to take another lecture in my country about Islam this, Islam that.
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You're lying. Whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here.
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By the way, how is he a fervent Christian? What does he do?
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People throw these words around. I'm just curious. He's a fervent Christian how? Does he seem like a fervent Christian to you folks?
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I'm just wondering. He gets to question my faith. I'm questioning his.
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Where is he a fervent Christian? How? How?
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By praising Sharia law and Islam? I don't understand. Go ahead.
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...in the Middle East.
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing. I like it here. A lot. ...mockery of Islam.
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And no president should mock Islam. He's like, you know what Islam means?
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Submission. I don't think I'm against that.
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Anyone who submits to God? Like, I'm just for that. The Christian worldview, and by the way, also the Muslim worldview, is a universal worldview. Anybody can come to this faith. And many times I said on television, the problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. Like, they all want to kill us. They're all crazy. They're all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century. And...
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I believe that. I was hysterical. I believed that. No, that's not true. Nothing about that is true.
105:43
DPUSA did a poll and they asked the audience what they considered to be the greatest threat to America. And they did put radical Islam at number one. I'm wondering where you think those sentiments are coming from.
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It's from the Israeli government.
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You know, I don't know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who's been killed by
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how many americans have been killed by shia terrorism in my lifetime which is 56 years i can't think of any islamic jihad whatever that is islamic jihad sharia law Well, you should know, Seth, that the real danger is Sharia law. Sharia law. And you can tell when you go to a place like Abu Dhabi or Riyadh, like, oh, man, I hope we don't ever wind up with a society like this with a rape rate of zero where you leave your keys.
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Oh, bullcrap, you moron.
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Brutalization of women, indentured servants. Listen to this jackass. Go ahead.
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Worry about it being stolen. And, you know, if people want to get wasted, they do it at home.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah. Boy, I hope we don't wind up with that. I have more in common with the sincerely religious Pakistani cab driver. Pakistanis are all super nice to me and the whites are all kind of craven and sad. I just like reverent people and anyone who bows down before God and admits I'm not God five times a day. But that person is not by definition my enemy.
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Boy, this guy is incredible, isn't he?
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He doesn't know a damn thing or he's a liar.
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And I guarantee he hasn't read any, any of the scholarship. By that I mean the Islamists.
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And what they have said, I've told you, I have it right on my desk. Ayatollah Khomeini's Mein Kampf, the Islamic government.
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You don't get that out of here. I don't know what it bothers me. I don't know what it bothers me. Look at the treatment of women.
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Look what's going on in Gaza right now.
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Look what's going on in Iran right now.
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The slaughter, the hanging, the rape, the torture.
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We'll continue to deal with him because he is a definite bleeding hemorrhoid on the body politic. Ladies and gentlemen, have a wonderful July 4th weekend.
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I'm honored that you're here. I am blessed that you're here. We're all blessed by this great country. And together, you and I, we are going to defend it against this enemy.
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God bless each and every one of you.
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I'll see you soon. Have a good night.
