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Okay, I have to tell you. I was just looking on eBay where I go for all kinds of things I love and there it was. That hologram trading card. One of the rarest, the last one I needed for my set. Shiny like this. Designer handbag of my dreams. One of a kind B.ay had E it. And now everyone's asking, ooh, where'd you get your windshield wipers? EBay has all the parts that fit my car. No more annoying. Just beautiful . Millions of fines, each with a story, eBay, things people love. Hey folks, Mark Levin here. Before we dive into today's episode, I want to talk about my go to gold and silver company. Monetary gold is over twenty five years helping Americans understand physical gold and silver with an education first, no pressure approach and support for IRA eligible options. Monetary Gold has a complimentary guide. It's free to help you understand precious metals. Call them right now eight seven seven now gold or visit marklovesgold. com and request the free guide. Make sure to ask for details. That's eight seven seven now gold or visit marklovesgold. com form.ance Per may vary. You should always consult your financial and tax consultant. Now let's get to the show. He's here . He's here . Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle .ep D ine the fouls of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondiscript building, we've once again made contact with our leader at a park . Love then What's up America? I am Rich Valdes, Valdesque with an ass at Rich Valdes on all of the social media at Richfaldes. com if you're looking for me over there filling in for the great one Mark Lin teonvight if you want to join us on our evening conversation. Give me a call eight seven seven three eight one thirty eight eleven eight seven seven three eight one three eight one as some of you guys know me as Mr. Callscreen I was mister Callscreen on the show for many years. And after that, I went on to do some more radio and I've got a podcast called This Is America with Rich Valdes. Make sure you check that out and subscribe to that. And I'm going to be keeping you company for the next three hours. Why? Because when you get a call from the great one, Mark Lebanon and he says, Hey, I'm going to begin Israel. And I need you to fill in for me because there's a lot of stuff to talk about. And I say, You know what? Yes, sir, yes, sir. I am here, ready, willing and able, reporting for duty. So I am here. Now check this out. There's a lot of things I want to get into, but I'm going to start with a little bit of gloating, right? Why? Well because I warned you . I warned you about I don't know, six years ago, seven years ago maybe, maybe yeah, probably closer to seven . And we knew about this fifteen years ago. What am I talking about? I'm talking about what's going on with all the craziness, the all out craziness in New York City , fifteen years since occupy Wall Street and the radical all out crazy left wing of the Democrat party's stronger than ever sadly in New York City. Now President Trump's done an amazing job. And but for the efforts of President Trump and the MAGA movement , we some of us might not even be here to have this conversation tonight . But in those fifteen years, they've gone from occupy ing a small park in New York City Zukadi park . Occupying Congress now, right? Occupying newsrooms. They're occupying classrooms. They are hellbent on occupying the White House and we're fighting that tooth and nail . And in New York, they're occupying City Hall. Gracie Mansion . Yeah To that I say IV and right. I'll give you the Yiddish translation Mark Levin would say Ove . Now, what does this do for all of us as Americans? Well, it threatens the livelihood of free thinkers like you and me , right? You gotta give props to those that have stood up and fought this like El Trumpeto Denalis Magnus, the forty fifth and forty seventh president of these United States. The great one Mark Livin, so many others that are out there beating the drum on a daily basis fighting for this country for what's good and holy . But that doesn't mean we don't take an L every now and again , right? So yeah, Nixon five, we won. New York won something . But sadly , all of Mamdani's candidates and that's Zora Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, all of his candidates they took they took home that W last night . So I want to get into that. I'm going to take my time with it. We're going to have some fun tonight. We're going to talk about a lot of things. Not all politics, but a whole lot of it because that's kind of what we do. We're going to talk about current events. We're going to talk about the culture, maybe a dash of comedy, a little dash of sofrito as I like to say . But I want to talk about this because it was a couple of years ago on this program that I mentioned that the left hasn't fired a single shot literally . Since then , they have , right? They've fired shots at a number of people. Some of them hit their target, some of them didn't, lamentably . Things sometimes get worse before they get better . And right now we've got activists, right? Activists that embrace Soviet principles, the principles that gave rise to communist countries, to socialist governments . And these are the same ideas that succeed in teaching those principles to your students, right? In their classrooms . It's what they give and they offer the readers of their journalism . It's what they offer their constituents through various levels of government, right? Because they've tried to take over every level . The choice is clear to me, right? We must choose liberty Libertad It's inevitable that we do it because that's what the survival of this nation's all about choosing liberty. This great nation continues when we make that choice. Now it's true that it took them a hundred years to get to this place. So what do we do? Well, obviously we have to replace them . To resist, in my opinion, is to sacrifice greater than they do. But so many of these Americans on the left are willing to forego even having children because they've bought into the Marxist utopian fallacy about the environment and not bringing children into this world or they're such staunch adherents of abortion they don't want to see more children in the world . So I have a question for you can you beat a political and ideological adversary without sacrificing more than they do. I don't know if there's a right or wrong to that, but it's something I want you to ponder . Because we have to ask ourselves, are we willing to risk the comfort and security of our employment in order to publicly take them on? That seems to be the biggest place. If you challenge the left, they'll come after your livelihood, right? Your reputation and your livelihood. They'll say you're some sort of violator of children. They'll say you're into all sorts of crazy things . They, you know, everything they did to Trump, right? That's the playbook. They did everything they did to him. You did this, that didn't work. All right, then you did this. Oh, that didn't work either. Well, then now you did this . That's what they do . And they're not embarrassed to do these things. In fact, in some areas, they're winning. I heard this report, I think it was last night , CNN , might have been this morning. I see so much and consume so many videos and my head spins. Harry Enton, the data analyst from CNN , he was talking about the popularity, and we'll get into that. I'll play the clip for you maybe when we come back from the break , but man , the fact that the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America, the idea of free stuff is more popular than you're establishment Democrats . So this is the issue we have, right? And such was the case in New York City last night with Darielisa Abila Chevalier . She's a New Yorker of Dominican descent I believe. She was mayor Zoran, I was going to call him Moron. And that was by accident . Zoron Mandani's candidate who defeated the established incumbent for the Congressional seat in New York thirteen , Adriano Espayat. And the only reason I talk about this because I was beating him up a couple of months ago, right? There was a whole bunch of people blowing up my phone on DM's and things like that, telling me about all the involvement that Mr spayat allegedly had or they were accusing him of alleging that he was involved in moving around all this USA ID money and moving it out of the country, saying it was for New York thirteen. I don't know if that's accurate or inaccurate. I'm just telling you the experience that I had . And what I find remarkable is we keep falling into this place where it's a rock and a hard place, the lesser of two evils . And I've got to tell you , these are false equivalencies. They may be a reality in the moment, but we are building a future for ourselves where we're going to continue being faced with, well there's no chance a Republican can get elected. So you've got Stalin or you can have , I don't know, Walter Mondale. And that's not even the case anymore, right? These aren't the options. When you're talking about somebody who's being accused of griff , somebody who has not opposed the radical left left and somebody who openly embraces the radical left , how much of a difference is there ? So I think the people of New York City and many of them, you know, who came out to vote in this huge turnout. I think it was something like sixty three percent turnout . These people are transplants . They're dedicated to this cause. These are people that are coming from other areas, people that are from Seattle , from Oregon, from those crazy lefty places. And they're saying, Hey, New York is another crazy lefty place. Let's make it our new crazy lefty place . Why? Because they don't have kids . Why? Because their job is to be an activist. Meanwhile, conservatives, we say things like, Oh, well, you know, I just want to mind my business, get my foot in the door of a big company, do x, y, and z , and live my life. I got to tell you that comfort, that luxury is over. The only way you get to pursue that is if you move to, I don't know let's say somewhere really nice in Florida But if you want to stay in New York , this is a burning building. You've got two options in a burning building . Run for the exit or start throwing water on this thing . And that's where we are , because we're in bad shape, at least in New York, and we've known that, right? Listen, and I'll say it again, that moment of gloating, right? I tried to warn you about AOC all out crazy, and we're going to get to hurt a little bit . And I remember talking about this a long time ago asking you saying, Hey , do you want to see an inauguration day where as far as the eye can see all we have are politicians like AOC all out crazy , Bolshevik, Bernard Sanders, Bernie Sanders, healthcare is a right. Remember him ? Who else? Liz Warren? And now he got this new one Graham Platner I mean, the list goes on, I'm just being generous here cherry picking a few . This is all because the Fabian of Socialism argued that the socialist takeover would come through institutions not by revolution , like the Marxist adherents argued . And this is sadly true in America today. They were right. In fact, so many of them built protections for themselves in so many institutions like unions, right? Labor unions. And I'm not taking shots at labor unions per se . I'm just saying that some of them wittingly, some of them unwittingly have played this game . And then people for a pension or a paycheck, they say, Oh, look, I'm staying out of this. I can't get involved. I understand. People are going to look out for N amurunuo most times , but we've reached a place where there isn't any space left for us to look out for ourselves. We now have to look out for the next generation because we're already screwed , right? It's near impossible to try and raise a kid in New York City . So what do we do? Where do we go? We're going to continue. We're going to continue to get into this conversation because there's only one way to put out this fire and, I know it's easier said than done, but we have to replace them. We've got to raise, recruit, and become the teachers, the professors, the journalists, the radio hosts. You fill in the blank, the mayors You've got to replace your schoolboard This is it . The time has come , right? Reagan said it best . If not now, when and if not you, who? Anyway, amigos, my name is Rich Valdes, Valdes, with an S at Rich Valdes on all of the social media. Feel free to give me a follow there. I'm filling in for the great one Mark Levin, and we're coming right back. Mark Levin If you missed out on gold in twenty twenty, if you missed the rally in twenty twenty five, it's not too late. Right now gold is sitting about twenty percent off its all time high earlier this year, so you could buy it at a discount. The fundamentals that drove gold over five thousand dollars an ounce, they're still strong. It's a limited commodity. You can't just print more of it. Gold often remains your hedge in times of inflation war and political uncertainty. So get diversified and add gold with monetary gold. For twenty six years, monetary gold has helped Americans own gold and silver in a tax sheltered retirement account like an IRA or a four hundred one k. Five stars on the Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs. Visit mark lovesgold. com or call seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation . That's eight seven seven six six nine six five three plus get a free guide to owning gold at Marklevesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may very consult your tax and financial profession . All right, amigos, welcome back. Rich Valdes filling in for the great one that's at Rich Valdes on all of the social media. And we're talking about the crazy that's going on and listen, there's plenty of crazy to go around, right? I've got a lot to talk about. President Trump is scheduled to speak in a little bit. We're going to get into what he's talking about. We're also going to be talking about , I don't know, some of the big topics in the country, like Iran , some speculation on Cuba . Lots. I got a lot of things up my sleeve over here. But I want to spend some time on this Democrat Socialists of America because I don't want anybody to be misled. I don't want anybody to think that this is some sort of fluke that somehow, oh my gosh, how do they keep winning?? How do No they, no, no , they've already done the winning . Now, it's kind of like when you go to the doctor and they're like, You've got stage two cancer , right? This isn't you didn't get cancer yesterday . This thing has been metastasizing for a long time . Now we can see it . And that's what's going on . And I hate to be that guy that, you know, breaks I usually break my arm padd myingself on the back , right? Today I'm going to break my arm, giving myself lashes because I didn't work hard enough because I didn't do enough because I believe this is one of those things we've got a we've got to leave it all on the field here, right? You have to. It's the only way this works. Some years ago , somebody very close to me told me that he went to drop off his kid at school and he found out that the teacher, the principal, and some of the administrators , as well as the district superintendent were all Lavinites, constitutional conservatives . And he found out because they'd all mentioned Mark Levin's book at the time, American Marxism. That was here in New York, and that wasn't that long ago . Guess what? Here we are, and now people are embracing this idea. I heard Elon Musk, Elon, if you're listening, hold on, let's see Is this thing on Elon Musk, who I think is a patriot who 's, you know, someone that loves his country's benefited greatly from his country . I heard Elon Musk the other day saying I think it was at a Saudi Arabia business forum that too long, this was, you know, his reaction to a statement they made, a question they posed to him that the United States would be so much I'm going to say in the positive when it comes to whether it's tariff income or the deals we're making for rare earth minerals , whatever and what have you , that we would be so cash rich that we would be in a position to handle the inevitable , which is that robots and AI are going to replace a whole lot of everything. And I didn't want to get into this right now, but I already did I jumped the gun. So what happens then? And when he says, what happens is that we're going to pay what's that called? UBI, universal basic income to Americans . Now, I've heard other people speculate about this saying that it's not going to be two or three thousand dollars a month. It's going to be something to the tune of a six figure salary because there will be that much money available and I'm thinking, good, I'm going to need that because do you know how much it cost to buy a pound of beef lately? And I say all this in jest, but seriously, if Musk is saying that we're headed towards a socialist model . And the president is saying that we're going to use a sovereign wealth fund and we're making all of these moves. If that is the writing, I don't know if I'm right or wrong on this, but if that's the writing that's on the wall, then it makes all the sense in the world why people keep voting for the likes of AOC and Darielisa Avila Chevalier , the new AOC from Washington Heights makes all the sense in the world because people , many people, not you, maybe not me, but a lot of people like to be lazy. And they don't want to work. And if you tell them, hey, we'll give you eight grand a month, ten grand a month, fifteen grand a month, whatever the number is to stay home . Well, guess what? A lot of people like that. Now likely it's not going to be young people that get this money. It's going to be people fifty five plus because they're the ones that didn't embrace AI, that didn't embrace whatever and what have you . So I don't know, we're going to talk about that. I see we got calls. We got calls from California from Washington from Brooklyn, New York, shout out to Brooklyn. I was born in Brooklyn, by the way. Brooklyn Jewish hospital. Now it's called Interfaith Medical Center if it's still there. But we're going to get to your calls when we come back. We're also going to hear some clips from Dada Lisa Avila. Chevalier, the new AOC Washington Heights we pl'reus going then to switch gears and talk about a lot of other interesting things that are going on in the news tonight, but I would be remiss if I didn't talk about those things. Anyway, the great one Mark Levin is in Israel. He is doing fine and dandy and he'll be back before you know it. Keep it locked right here. I'm Rich Valdez, in for the great one . If you missed out on gold in twenty twenty, if you missed the rally in twenty twenty five, it's not too late . Right now gold is sitting about twenty percent off its all time high earlier this year, so you could buy it at a discount. The fundamentals that drove gold over five thousand dollars an ounce, they're still strong. It's a limited commodity. You can't just print more of it. Gold often remains your hedge in times of inflation war and political uncertainty. So get diversified and add gold with monetary gold. 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You know, the phone number eight, seven, seven, three eight one three eight one, eight, seven, seven, three eight one, thirty eight, eleven . And check this out. You know, recently, there was a whole lot of things going on. I'm not going to take up the whole show telling you about all the fun things I've been talking about on my show, but whenever I can make a shameless plug, I will. And recently there was some drama with Zoran Mamdani where he kind of backtracked because of these similar political issue with the outgoing Congresswoman Nidia Velasquez . Now she supported him and, you know, I guess in it with the expectation of, hey, look, I supported you for mayor, so I'm leaving Congress . Maybe you could just do me a solid and not run a candidate against the person I want to put in. She wanted to put in the borough president who had been her belie, d Iistrveict, director, chief of staff . And of course, he says , Oh hey no , I'm doing what I do, right? So I'm nine. He decides, no, no, no, I'm running my candidate. And we're going to take your guy out. And his candidate did prevail big time I think down in Manhattan and in Brooklyn as well. So anyway, the point of that story was I made a video about it and I got good traction on Instagram at Rich Valdes, by the way, if you want to check it out . And what ends up happening here is that you've got all these comments, the overarching com ment was That's what you get. That's what you get for voting for Zuram Mandani. And while there's a whole lot of truth in that, right? A whole lot of truth , there's also a reality . And the reality is that Zuramdani won with fifty point seven six percent of the vote , right? Not like seventy percent or eighty percent or anything like that. Now I'm not saying that the people don't want him. He won fair and square . However , you can't blame everybody and these people that say you get the government, you deserve, I don't necessarily agree with that. I never voted for Joe Biden and I had to suffer through four years of the auto pan and Joe El Baboso Biden and all of that craziness as well as his sidekick Kay Malaeris . So I'm not interested in that argument. I know a lot of people like it because they like to sock it to you when you're down , but I don't think it's fair because it genuinely just doesn't seem right, right? It doesn't seem right that you've got fifty one percent. Yes, the majority win s. Got it. But that doesn't mean everybody . But it does mean we all will suffer, right? Or we will all suffer. Anyway, I just wanted to put that out there because I'm sure there's a lot of people that are going to want to call and fight with me on this particular topic . So that being said, let's take a couple of calls, shall we? We shall. Let us go here. Let's see. We've got Vancouver, Washington, Los Alamitos, California , Brooklyn, New York, and Santa Clara, California, man, we are covering every part of the country tonight . And let us see where we go. Let's start in Brooklyn, New York. Somebody who's licking their wounds just like me, let's go to Viviana. Line three, go right . God bless you, Rich . I am so excited that you're doing the hosting for Mark Levin Thank you. before , I'm a proud Latina who is a constitutional conservative and I love our country just as much as Mark who's listening to this program . And I'm seeing a spiritual war being taken in front of our eyes . The New York City residents and the people who love Americ a are being faced with an in your face usurpers that want to take over . Yeah, you know, I think first of all, I remember you, Miviana. I do. I think you ran for the State Assembly some years ago and I heard you on the Kevin McCullough show. Shout out to my man KMC. But you bring up a really good point and you're right. A lot of people have fallen victim to this because people like to have their ears tickled. And this is true whether, it's spiritual warfare, real warfare, right? We see this guy foreign minister Aragi, right? He's always on with Margaret Brennan and the rest of the leftis saying these things that you know get so many of the American haters very happy. They start salivating. And you're right, people like to have their ears tickled . However , the bottom line is your ears aren't going to tickle as much once you run out of other people's money. And that's the part that they don't realize or they realize and they don't care, right? I'm pretty sure Fidel Castro realized that. I'm sure Xi Jinping realized that. I'm sure all of them realize it. But the bottom line is that they don't care because they're in it for themselves. They're closet capitalist these guys . And I would call them some other things, but I might get in trouble. Viviana, thank you for the call. I appreciate you. And I want to you open ed up a good idea here, a good topic with falling into things. I think a lot of people voted for this woman, Dadialisa Noseke, whatever her last name is Avila Chevalier , without really knowing who she is . Right? I think a lot of people, maybe not you guys, because you're probably the most sophisticated, most adept audience in talk radio . But outside of you guys, I think most people would be like, I don't even know who this lady is. I don't know what she stands for. So we have a clip of her arguing that let me see . Deportation is one of the most cruel forms of punishment. Listen to this. Time and time again, what I've what I've realized is just how deeply unjust the very concept of deportation is, right ? The idea that one the idea that we should deport anybody is just inherently cruel. But then the notion on top of that we have a criminal system, an imperfect system, one that we can criticize , right? But one that exists and y,et we subject people to an additional system of punishment on the basis of where they were born, right? Because people go through the criminal system, then they are. Many of them go about their lives, try to rebuild their lives and then are picked up again, redetained in an iced detention center, which is often also just a prison and then deported, which is one of the most cruel forms of punishment when you think about the fact that you're ripping somebody from everything they know with nothing but the clothes that they have on their back and putting them in a country that they are entirely unfamiliar with. Now I laugh because A, it's illogical, right ? To me . But B , if I were some sort of expert in listening to people , I would say that I think she really believed every word she said . ripped from this and ripped from that. Now listen, my parents were born in Puerto Rico. I was born in Brooklyn, New York. Every now and again because I'm a conservative, you got a couple of bigoted lefties that'll say things like wait till they deport you. And I say, please do . I love Puerto Rico. I mean, it's great this time of year. It's great every time of year. And I would go live there in a heartbeat matter of fact, it's on my list of things to do. I want to go to Miami, I want to go to Puerto Rico and I live kind of like they're there and here. But point I'm making is listen, I had a friend growing up . He got into doing some things. He came here when he was like eighteen months old from Nicaragua , had great parents. They worked really, really hard. They gave him everything . He chose to live a life that he saw on television and wanted to emulate. He got caught up with the wrong people, enjoyed the fast life and fast money before you knew it. He was doing four years for selling drugs . And guess what? The day he got out and this is way before Trump. I mean twenty years ago , the day he got out of serving his four years in county or state or wherever it was , INS or whatever they're known as now , ICE totally totally were there to say, hey, sir, you're coming with us. You had a green card , you committed a felony , and now you're being deported . And that's how it went because he'd never become a citizen . Nobody argued for him that that was cruel, sent to a country that he 'd never known . Nobody argued, and I'm not trying to argue for him either. He wasn't trying to argue for him either. The only argument he ever made was, Hey, look, once I paid my debt, can I come back ? And I think he had to wait ten years before he could come back to the United States . The people that I know who've been through this process, and I've got three friends who went through that, one who got deported to Nicaragua, one who got deported to Colombia, and one who got deported to Chile . All three of them acknowledge that what they did was wrong. All three of them say I did the crime, I had to do the time . Not a single one of them . Sounds like this woman here saying that this is the most cruel type of unusual punishment. Yet, this is the woman that now took out Adriano Espayad . Who again , would I say? He took it too easy. He took it too easy . He took his people for granted, didn't realize that there is a pernicious , a metastasizing growth inside of places like New York, places like Seattle, places like what's the one in the one in Oregon, mister Producer, the big city that I'm forgetting. I'm drawing a blank. How can I draw a blank on that? Anyway, Portland, there we go . And you take these big cities like that and it's inevitable , especially when they get so crazy with occupied zones, this that and the third. And it's like, oh my gosh, what do you do? That's the first thing you do. You flush out conservatives who are trying to raise a family and go to church. They're like, I'm out of here. This place sucks. So that's what happens. Anyway, Mr. Producer, how much time do I have here? Okay , so all right, that's what we're going to do. We are going to pause right here, come back and do a speed around on these calls because we got calls from Jersey from Texas from California and a bunch of other places eight seven seven three eight one thirty eight eleven. I'm Rich Valdez filling in for the great one. Mart Love N ew If you missed out on gold in twenty twenty, if you missed the rally in twenty twenty five, it's not too late. Right now gold is sitting about twenty percent off. It's all time high earlier this year, so you could buy it at a discount. The fundamentals that drove gold over five thousand dollars an ounce, they're still strong. It's a limited commodity. You can't just print more of it. Gold often remains your hedge in times of inflation war and political uncertainty. So get diversified and add gold with monetary gold. For twenty six years, monetary gold has helped Americans own gold and silver in a tax sheltered retirement account like an IRA or a four hundred one K. Five stars of the Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs. Visit marklovesgold dot com or call seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation. That's eight seven seven six nine four six, five, three, . Plus, get a free guide to owning gold at Marklevsgold. com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may very consult your tax and financial professional. All right, to the phones we go on my show, I like to call it open phone America. All right, let's do it. We're doing Etha. Etha is calling us from Vancouver , Washington, Etha. Welcome. You're on the Mark Livin show with Rich Valdes . Yeah, hi, Rich. So listen, the bottom line is this is that my dad was born and raised in Baybridge, Brooklyn, and all my cousins live back there . And you know , I'm so glad that my dad is no longer with us because he would be so sick with this Zoron Buff Donny and how communism communism's taking over his his New York Yeah, you know, everything that they ran away from, right? Everything that your dad and your and your ancestors I',m sure , fled and fought for in America to overcome. And here it is being ushered in by a bunch of people are saying, yeah, we love that idea. We love the idea of collectivism. We hate America. I mean, it is it is sad , but we're playing catch up here on a very and we're very late in the game. I don't believe we lose , but this is going to take some time to write this wrong. You know, we've got to turn the Titanic around here and it's not an easy task. Etha, my heart goes out to you. I'm grateful for your call. I appreciate it. Shout out to Vancouver, Washington, and let us continue. I think this is my friend, the professor, Cheryl Los Alamedos, California. Go right ahead. Hi, Rich. Oh my gosh, I just I'm heartbroken. I feel the same as the lady before me because my mom is a Holocaust survivor. She's almost ninety nine and dad lessons. So many of us thank you. So many of our fathers and grandfathers who fought in World War two . And to see what's happening . And it's not just in New York, but here in California, we are the first state in the history of the United States in our two hundred fifty years . We are being sued for anti Semitism. And really this mark,s the first time that an entire statewide system has been sued over pervasive anti Semitism. You've got Gavin Newsom saying Israel's an apartheid state. You've got the Mandami crew over there in New York and to all the people who are in the middle of the country, I just want to say this is coming to a state near you. This is because of our education system or I should say our indoctrination system this is because of the media that sides with these people and all the just the anti Israel anti Nikonya and stuff You know, Cheryl , you're right. And what's so sad about this is that hating Jews has become in vogue . And you know, I guess I had been inoculated by this growing up in Brooklyn amongst the Jews , but it is out of control. I mean, no matter where you go, somebody will come up with a reason to say why they don't like the Jews and why this is Netanyahu's war and why Netanyahu's evil. And this that and the third . I mean, and again , you can have those opinions, right? I'm a very open minded guy, but it's difficult for me to understand how you can sit here and hate Netanyahu and say that he is the devil incarnate when there's literally an Ayatollah , right who's doing all of the things that the Ayatollah did until Trump took him out and I'm grateful for that. So listen, I understand where you're coming from and to know that they're in the driver's seat in so many elected positions in New York and elsewhere is just absolutely horrendous. So shame on Gavin Newsom, kudos to you for sticking to your guns and of course my best to your mom. God bless her for being a Holocaust survivor and for being ninety nine and for just being awesome. Cheryl, thank you for your call. I appreciate you. God bless you. And let us continue. My neck of the woods, let's go right here . David, Freehold, New Jersey. You're on with Rich Valdez on the Mark Levin Show. Thank you for taking my call. Happye Ipendndence A Dmerayic a, happy two hundred and fifty. I wanted to say that for what you said absolutely, for what you said before at the beginning of the broadcast of this hour , you can either move or you can throw water on the fire and this is going especially out to the Republican party leadership who is probably too lazy and spoiled rotten to actually listen to talk radio. So they probably sent it overseas like NAFTA that you cannot be warned about. And that is for the American people , for veterans, God bless you, welcome home. I'm non combat Navy, myself, for all veterans , let your family and friends and coworkers and everybody listening , get ahold of Congress and tell them pass the SAVE Act. What President Trump did today trying to stop against this communist onslaught in New York City and elsewhere . Oh , we don't have the votes, but don't forget to vote for us in November. That's not going to resonate. And I'm voting regardless, Rich. I'm voting and I'll be doubling my vote le, butgally , I might add, but that's a long story. But everybody, let your Congressmen and women and congress critters and joins. David, you absolutely have to, right? And I appreciate that because and I'm glad you made that admonition to America because you're right, it's so right. President Trump has been spot on with this stuff here and him saying, look, this is how this is going to go down. We've got to get this passed and him blowing up with Cassidy and all these people, you know , thank God that we still have a president that is old school and has some principles, right? Where he says like, look, we could fight politically , but certain things are America first, not because he's America first or I'm America first because America is America first . We've got to be able to do the right thing for our country . And when you've got, whether it's Senator Cassidy or others that want to have sour grapes over a lost election or a past political battle and say we're going to let the Save Act hang in the ballots. No, we're not going to use the talking filibuster. Scaryes Tim my br,other ary. Sc times. Robert, Robert, California, Texas, everybody. We're coming right back, keep it locked right here. I am Rich Valdes filling in for the great one, Mark Levin. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by PureTalk. PureTalk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to pureTalk. com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening and thank you so much for this sponsorship, pure talk. He's here . He's here . Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle deep in the vowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader at a punch . Loved end What's up America? The left within the Democrat Party are trying to reimagine a new America , their version of America , and it's a really bad idea. Anyway, welcome back, Clamilia. I am Rich Valdes, Valdes with an ass, your liberty loving Latino Amigo. That is a nickname given to me by the Great One Mark Levin. I'm filling in for the Great One Mark Levin this evening. He is in Israel. He's alive and well. He's kicking. He's doing what Mark Levin does. And he'll be back with you very soon . Excuse me , but I wanted to like Jay Z said, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Richard Valdes. I'm the host of a show called This Is America. Before that, I was mister Call Screener on the Mark Levin show. Hosted a show on the world famous WABC radio in New York C ity before that as well, or at the same time actually. And now I have a show on Roku TV on Angus Spaniol, believe it or not, of all things on Roku's Festiva TV channel. So you can check me out in all of those places. And we're talking about the left. And I'm going to get into the Iranian stuff, right? All of that crazy and what's going on. But speaker Mike Johnson today , he made a comment that I thought was really interesting , and I think our fantastic executive producer, Rich Sementa, hasn't lined up. Go for it. And these kind of people have been popping up. You've been hearing me say for weeks. There are many mum dannies popping up all around the country. It is a dangerous thing. This is not a j oke. We are in a fight right now to save the Republic . And every American needs to take this seriously. You need to wake up. This upcoming midterm election is not the midterm elections of years ago. It's going to decide the direction of the country. Are we going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic on our two hundred fiftieth anniversary? Are we going to make a new choice and go down some road towards a communist utopia? That's the choice right now. We've been saying for months, it's a contrast election. We've been saying it's a contrast between common sense and crazy common sense and crazy, good versus evil , right? That's where we are. That speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference this morning , are we going down a communist utopian road ? And of course, we're going to get to your calls, your thoughts, your comments, your opinions, eight, seven, seven, three, eight, one, three, eight, one, one, eight, seven, seven, three, eight, one, thirty eight, eleven, if you want to disagree if you're on the leftty side, always moving those guys to the front of the line . But I want to stay on this and I rarely in a three hour show am I going to talk about the same thing for three hours. Right now we're at an hour and one segment . And I'm sticking with this because I feel like this is where we need the most fire lit under our seats , right? Mike Johnson, the speaker Mike Johnson, I think he nailed it right there, right? President Trump is fighting some very, very big, big battles for us in this war , ideological war . And he's doing a lot of heavy lifting . And this is one of those things where we can't it's not a spectator sport . This is all hands on deck. We've got to get involved and you know, years ago I used to say that and I would calls. People would call me and say, Oh, but rich, I'm retired. I can't, oh but rich, I've got small kids. Oh, but rich this. And I would come up with a way that they could help. Now I'm taking it a step further. Not saying everybody's got to run for office. I'm saying everybody's got to do something and a lot less passive than you used to be. So before if it was write a check, no, don't write the check. All right, write the check and get your hands dirty. That's what I'm saying. Time to do more. If you can. If you can't, don't, listen, I understand that too , right? Some people are not meant to win. Some people are willing to give it all away. I've seen it time and again . I've experienced these things in my own life, right? Where I've seen people say, you know what, I give up. I give up . And they just bow out. They're like, look, if my kid wants to dye her hair blue, if my if my whatever wants to do this, if my neighbor wants to do that, let go, let God, you know, whatever. And they just bury themselves in a drink, in a book, in a cigar, whatever it is, and they just check out . If that's you, then that's you . But I know so many of you are not that person . I know so many of you have a fire in your belly for this country and for the nostalgia of yesteryear. I think people like the idea of how they grew up, of how things were better . And now we're at this crux , right? This crossroads where we're dealing with people that have grown up with phones in their hands with touchscreens, and I'm not belittling these people. I'm just making a statement of fact, an observation that there are people genuinely don't like America and what America stands for . There are people that think that the government should be in charge of stuff . And that is a scary proposition, my friends. It really is to me. Right. So I want you to stick with me for the next two hours. Get comfortable, put your feet up, crank up the volume. This is the best next two hours in talks radio talks in talk radio you're going to hear, not because I'm here , but really because of you, right? Mark's audience . You guys are terrific, and we're going to get to your calls in a little bit . But when it comes to these ideas, right? Good versus evil, good ideas versus bad ideas. I say , look, love your neighbor, love your fellow man , but don't love bad ideas. We can and should always discriminate against bad ideas . Learning how to separate the two might be a little bit of a task for some people, but it's a task that I say is worth taking on . Our civil society truly depends on our ability to sit at a restaurant , to go to a doctor, to a bank, without worrying about getting cancelled because of our beliefs or getting tackled because we're wearing a certain hat . Now, I think it's appropriate for us to choose where we conduct our business. That's for sure . And that's as much within our rights as it is to push back on these bad ideas . And one of those bad ideas is I'm going to say adult men that are dressed as women performing as drag queens, drag shows with sexual innuendos in front of minor children , that became normalized and celebrated in the last several years . Thank God , President Trump in the forum of government pushed back on that . Other pro family organizations push back, churches push back. Activists like you all over the country push ed back . Super important . And I think we're now back at a place where most people , most and by most, I mean six out of ten, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. But I would say most people disagree . And they say or they would agree, right? They disagree with drag shows for kids and they agree with me and with you. And I think that's a good thing. Now, I'm not basing this on anything other than anecdotal evidence. But it's super important that we focus on these things because there's the big number, right? The nationwide survey and a thousand likely voters from everywhere in America . And then there's the more localized stuff . And some people are willing to throw New York, California, Chicago by the wayside , while others are saying, look, let's fight for them. And that's an age old battle that's been going on since Hailey Barber ran the RNC . So I've seen that happen a million times . And I think it's important for us to you need those people, right? You need the people that say let's have the rally in the South Bronx at Cratona Park . Let's do it in the face of the consultant that's telling them '.s a That lot of money for security , that's a lot of money for whatever. It's going to be a waste of time. It's a lot of resources. You could be somewhere else where you know you could shore up the votes. But what did El Trumpeto Denaldis Magnus, the forty fifth, the forty seventh president of these United States say he said, We're doing the rally. I'm just paraphrasing right and making this up as I go along. I don't know what he said, but I know he was there because I was there and I saw him there We need those people that see the bigger picture that are willing to take the risk , that have the balls to put them on the line to say, let's go. And we also need to pay attention to how people move. It's not lost on me that when I was a little kid , there was this big development in Brooklyn called , I think it was called Trump Village, right? I think it was built by Fred Trump . And then as a little kid in the eighties , Fred's son , Vadonald , became this huge mogul. He was everywhere . He was, when you use the word pimp, it's probably the wrong word, but he was pimp . And he was, you know, I mean that in the nicest sense of the use, right? In the most colloquial street, urban terminology . And he was just a really cool guy. He was a rock star . And I remember watching Trump become this ubiquitous name in New York and then in Atlantic City and all over the place, right? I mean the brand was huge and in hip hop videos and everything else . And then I don't know, some years ago , Trump left New York . And he made Marlago his principal residence . And I thought, man, Trump leaving New York . You know, I mean, there's a bunch of buildings that say Trump on them in New York . And it was an interesting thought for me to think, wow , I get it. Florida's beautiful . But why? Why would you make, you know, that big of a movie you don't need to , you're running for president. You could live in the White House . I get it now. There's a lot of reasons to it, but one of the main ones is New York is falling by the wayside. Now Trump didn't give up. He tries to get involved. He tried to stop Mamdani. I may not have agreed with his tactics and how he tried to stop Mamdani, but whatever the case is , we end up in this place where we have to ask ourselves do we cut bait or not? And I have to say or not is the answer. You can't cut bait on New York. Why? Because yeah, it's losing its luster as the economic capital of the planet and all these things? Sure . And maybe we're going to see it go through some change under Mandani and sure as heck. I've seen it go through some changes. Some of you might recognize me from radio or from television and like Newsmax. And I was doing a newsmax thing the other day and I was walking to the on location studio and there was a cart o selling hot dogs or if it was selling halal , but I know the guy was sitting on a milk crate and he was blasting this sounded like I guess like the call to prayer but like in a song . And when I say blasting, I mean not like on a radio while he was working that other people could hear. I mean blasting on a huge speaker and I thought to myself, is that necessary? You know, I listen toed Christian music now and again in my car and whatnot . I might even play it loud in my car with my windows open and my sunroof open , but it's never like I didn't get an extra speaker attached to a car battery to amplify it. That's what he was doing . And it just did not look like the Manhattan that I knew growing up . So do we cut bait I say, absolutely not, we can't because this is this, I'm going to say custard's last stand, right? New York, places like that. We've got to make a change in these places. We've got to hold on and then gain . Otherwise, we all fall by the wayside, right? Anyway, your calls and I have a clip from Harry Enton, who's going to explain, he's the CNN data analyst . He's going to explain why Democrat socialism has become more palatable, more popular than traditional Democrats. Don't go anywhere. I'm Rich Valdez filling in for the great one. 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So get unlimited talk , unlimited text , unlimited high speed data just thirty ninety nine cents a month folks and be proud to partner with a wireless company that shares your values and was founded by a veteran himself. And that's pure talk. Go to pure talk dot com slash Levin that's pure talk dot com slash LEV IN to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, PureTalk. Again, that's pure talk dot com slash Levin . All right All right, radio fedia. It's Rich Valdes filling in for the great one, Mark Levin. Make sure you give me a follow on the social media at Rich Valdes. That's Valdes with an S at the end Rich Valdes. com if you want to learn more about me and what I'm doing. But I want to get into this conversation a little bit deeper. We've been talking about expansion of the radical left, democratic socialism, Zaran Mamdani, just smile and nod, put your hand over your heart and tell people how much you love collectivism. And it seems to be working for him. Now some people think they're immune. This stuff is just happening in blue cities and blue states and ble thisw and blue that, but I would say hang on to your hats folks because I don't think it is. Now let us turn to Harry Enton. Now even a broken clock is right twice a day. Harry Enton is the chief data analyst at CNN , and CNN is, you know, fake news for the most part. But Harry Enton seems to , you know, to quote JZ again, men and women lie, numbers don't. He seems to always have a way with explaining the numbers. Listen to this . Well, among Democrats themselves, the Democratic Socialists of America have a higher net favoring than the Democratic Party does at least those who members' ofm Congress. I mean, just take a look here. Dem Socialists of America, plus seventeen points, Democrats in Congress, plus four points. No wonder that Dem Socialists are getting nominated across the political map in different primaries because simply put, they're more popular than the Democrats currently in charge. Okay, I was just thinking back to when I was sitting here in Zoro Mamdani was sitting there when he was running and I asked him about capitalism. Yes. And he had no problem saying that he had real issues with it. Okay ? He wasn't afraid to say it. By the way, he ended up winning. It didn't hurt him. How do Democrats today view socialism compared to capitalism? There's a reason why it didn't hurt him, and that is simply because this is one of the biggest political changes I've seen during my lifetime. Match up socialism capitalism among Democrats. You go back sixteen years ago, twenty ten, capitalism and socialism right there, favorable rating fifty one percent, fifty percent. Look at it now. Socialism clearly in the lead among Democrats. sixty six percent of them view socialism favorably. Just forty two percent view capitalism favorably. No wonder mom Donnie had no problem blasking it. It's just fascinating because when you look at races coming up in New York, you've got a big one up in the Bronx and you've got Zora Mandani endorsing a Democratic Socialist. Haim Jeffrey knot going with the more traditional incumbent. So there are two big races involving Democratic Socialists coming up in New York that Mom Donnies endors tell us something we don't know. I'll tell you something you don't know and that is that the Democratic Socialists are likely to win one of those races, the one down in Brooklyn going to beat the Bronx the Brooklyn Borough president. You take a look there look at, that , an eighty one percent chance to win in Brooklyn. And in Northern Manhattan at this point, of a fifty two percent to knock off an incumbent, Espalad. Unbelievable . Unbelievable is right . Now, Espalat also, known as Espagat. This guy is Dominican. He's in a very largely Dominican district . And yet here they came, the DSA the AOC of Washington Heights came and stole this from him in a primary. Now, if you remember , AOC did the same thing to Crowley, Pelosi's number three guy. And back then people were like, God, there's no way. She's a bartender. There's no way she's gonna do anything. That was eight years ago, my friends . She's on many occasions been the number one fundraiser in Congress only to be beat out every now and again by Ilhan Omar and a handful of oth ers . This is not stuff I'm making up. This is the real deal . And this is the I guess the double edged sword of you know, I say AOC and her policies are all out crazy . And I poke fun at her all the time because she's been dodging me since day one. When she was running she wouldn't come on my show. When she won, she wouldn't come on my show. I was a local radio host in New York City at the time . And guess what? She'd been running ever since. This is what they like to do. They run away because they know that they can fool people , throw the rocks, and run away. Well, I want to know what you guys think about that . Are the socialists taking over? Do you buy what they're selling? eight seven seven three eight one three eight one it's Rich Valdes in for the Great . America doesn't stand for two hundred fifty and years as a beacon of hope without the brave men and women willing to put their lives on the line to defend it. And to honor those patriots, pure Talk and its customers will raise two hundred fifty thousand dollars for America's Warrior partnership by the end of July. Now this is an unbelievable foundation. It stands on the front line of helping to prevent veteran suicide by covering the basics housing, access to VA benefits, transportation, counseling, the tangible things that give veterans a hand up . 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And this country is not going to have communists. That is El Trompito today on Capitol Hill before his luncheon shouting match with Senate Republicans. He says that the Democrats are pushing communists and we're not going to have it. I want to know what you think. Let's go to the phones. I like to call it open phone America . And we've got plenty of people on the line here eight seven seven three eight one three eight one Let's see where do we go? We go to Robert in Odessa, Texas, line five, go right ahead. You're on with Rich Faldes on the Mark Living Show. Yeah, good me, Rich, thank you very much for taking . Thank you very much for taking my call . I think history has shown that communism as well as Sharia Law is totally incompatible with our founding documents, our history and culture , for example, under Stalinism, Leminism , pulpitism, Maoism , one hundred million people were starved to death, tortured or killed . And so my question is , why don't why doesn't the administration have a daily press conference and education program to educate the people about the evils of these beliefs . And then my second comment is which is a little more controversial , why doesn't President Trump invoke the nineteen fifty four Communist Control Act and do whatever is legally possible to have these people removed from office who are promoting this doctrine, which is and so on and so forth forth and because it was declared back in nineteen fifty four of the Communist Party was outlawed. Right. Well, I'll answer them one by one. So the first part is, I think in large part, what you're talking about, this public education campaign against communism. I believe that's our job. I wake up every day trying to make sure I earn my keep in doing that job. And I think that is all of our job. It's incredibly important that we all do that. And I think part of the problem is that we think other people should do it. It should be the government, it should be the president. It should be the political action committees. And my belief is you need to become the political action committee. You need to start small , and in fifteen years you'll have, you know, a billion dollar pack or whatever, right? That's my belief that we have to become, like Gandhi said, the change we want to see in the world. Number two , Communist Control Act of nineteen fifty four . It's a paper tiger at this point. Back in the sixties , there was a lot of repealing of the mechanisms to make it punitive because they were saying that it's my choice to become a communist. And if I want to be a communist and I want to put the Communist Party USA on a ballot, guess what you're doing if you don't let me do it? You're violating my First Amendment rights . So because of that, it's almost an unenforceable law . Maybe the great one Mark Levin has something different to shed on that, but in the sixties and again during the Clinton administration, they've taken pretty much all of the enforcement mechanism out of that. If there's something there, hopefully Todd Blanche will find it and he'll be using it left and right. Robert in Odessa, Texas, thank you for the call. I appreciate your brother. Let us continue. I want to go to the middle of the country, Cleveland, Ohio. Let's check in with Sally Sally, you're on with Rich Valdez, Mark Lavinscho . Thank you, Rich I just want to comment about the spreading of the union between the Socialists and a lot of the Muslim blocks and the fact that once they get a foothold in even like a small town or little mayors or whatever , they will use a primary and they'll get their candidate . And what happens is the Muslim turnout is ranged at ninety seven percent And so even though an establishment person might normally have won , they're able to win out and it's it's growing all over the country . I mean, S whatally you,'re describing is they're winning . They're winning at politics. They are selling their message to more people. They are showing up in bigger numbers. They have bigger families, they're creating more voters. They're the fastest growing religion in America . I can't be mad at them for any of those things. I'm going to make a few points. Number one, I grew up in Brooklyn, New York with a lot of Jewish people, but there were also a lot of Muslims, a lot of Haitians, a lot of people of many different faiths and many backgrounds . And guess what ? Never had a problem with anybody. I don't remember having I don't believe we today we have a Muslim problem. I know a lot of people push back on this , but I don't. We've been around Muslims our whole life. At least I have . It's now that we have a new brand of fundamentalists that even Muslims in the UAE, for example , are now saying you can't go to school. They're not paying any student aid for their students to be educated abroad in the UK because they feel that they will be radicalized by the fundamentalist Muslim s in the UK. And those are Muslims saying that, right? So there is a problem within radicalization of Islam . And I think that is a problem, right? And those are the ones that are trying to overtake things and not believe in a democratically elected society and whatnot and do what they do. And many of them espouse Marxism . And that is a big problem . So I get what you're saying, but it's back to what I'm saying. It's we have to do better , right? For everybody that's like, well, I chose not to have kids. Well, then I'm blaming you. I'm blaming everybody listening and didn't have kids because you know what ? The people out there that are having lots and lots of kids have lots and lots of voters and now they're at ninety seven percent turnout when they show up . I mean, look at how quickly little Mogadishu, right? Right. The Somalian community was able to take over an entire city in Indianapolis and then and then in many ways, an entire state , just by existing, just by being there and pushing their agenda . That's what I'm telling us to do. Just exist, just be there, and let's push our agenda. Sally, thank you for your call. I appreciate you. Let us continue. Where do we go now ? Let's go to Robert, Roberts in Santa Clara, California. Robert, you're on with Rich Valdez. Go right ahead, Mark Levinshu. Hey Roche. How you doing? I've got good things. Simple majority of victories. And you can't get the whole cabinet become socialist or communist or whatever. But we have analyzable rights. And it's where we need to take these things to the Supreme Court. You can't be lukewarm about this because we're getting disenfranchised in fear. Well, let's talk about that. Which right in particular is being disenfranchised? Let's start there . Well, if you lose the uni, like what the about forty nine percent of the people in New York who don't want this? They're going to get hyranized by what these evocations of these radical appraisal assessments. You got a few bum toilets, we can see your building. Even Newsom wants to do he's for the fifty percent debt tax, which is getting rid of the stepped up in basis. He's going full blown combined it's only when grandma dies that the domino falls. And the socialists, they don't want they want to tax you. They want to get a taking , which is eminent domain would protect you. You need a two thirds majority and it's a big deal if the train wants to go through your town. We are a civil we have a different dialectic here. It's based off Christianity, thou sh not staletal, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods, okay? They want to communists don't like that because they want it now tomorrow. They don't want to even have a five year plan. They want to okay, Mandani said bad stuff like we're going to have a supermarket where no one's abused and you're gonna have these pensioners. Well, what does John Crestimatis and Ruben Luna advert do to his people? He doesn't treat them bad and all those bodega owners. I mean, you can police Amica made claims on the rogue bodega owners like labor going on or something going on like that. But we don't need to compete with them because we're just two democratic projects away from basically expropriating what middle class equity in their homes or taxing the wealth y's paint collect ion that they got to go get a bank loan so put them in debt to write a check. This is insanity. You can't listen, I don't disagree with you. I agree with you. I just think in large part what's happening is we're making esoteric arguments and these people are shooting us with live ammunition and we have to actually , you know, I'm not saying shoot back, right? But I'm saying we have to engage in the way that they are. So right now this is a political battle royale where they're out there gaining people. Rides are Amandani is a rapper. He's out there. He's in every parade with all out crazy AOC with Bernard Santas . Healthcare is a right. He's out there doing what he's got to do . And where are our rock stars? Are we producing new rock stars? Populist rock stars, right? Because that's what he is. He's a populist, but he's skewing Marxist left . Trump is a populist that skews conservative right . So we need more of that, right? We need we need more Marco Rubios and more of what's happening in our movement in more places. And we're just not seeing that level of communicator out there making the case to push back. Now we saw it in LA and I give Spencer Pratt all the credit in the world for doing exactly that, right? Using his gravitas as an actor . He took it was a real yeoman's task that he did. And we need a thousand more like him in order to start competing with the likes of Graham Plattner and Daddy Alisa and Noce and these other people. But Robert, I hear you loud and clear and I appreciate your brother, than youk for your call.. Mr Producer, am I permitted to keep going? Sandra, Guttenberg, New Jersey. By the way, when I moved from Brooklyn, New York to New Jersey, I moved to Gutenberg, New Jersey. Sarger go righta ahead, you're on where Richard Valdes . That's so funny, Rich. I don't know. You probably don't remember me, but I remember you. I went to North Dale, New Jersey to meet Mark Luvin with his book on power. And you were there and we had a nice conversation and I said, Oh, this guy is great, you know, and I even took your card and I have you on my phone. You're very personable, very smart , and it's so nice to talk to you. Thank you. I do remember you now that you've reminded me, I remember your voice. Sounds like you're from Brooklyn. Oh well, I guess I am originally from Brooklyn, then I moved to Philadelphia, then Boston and then we entered thank God, you didn't get that Philly accent . But you know, you know , but you know why I'm calling Rich because I was hoping maybe you can express this to Mark. You know, I'm really concerned about the Jewish people and what's happening. Every time I turn on the radio, all I hear is everybody hates the Jewish people . Hate, hate, hate. Now, look, you know, a lot of people may not like the Jewish people, but a lot of people don't know any better. Then they hear all this rhetoric and they can be influenced to think the wrong way. So I'm concerned that it's a little overkill. It's important that we hear what happens in the coffee shop. You need to know all these things that are happening, but it's like, I feel it's like TO O much overkill talking about the Jewish people in Israel. It's like overkill. That's my well, you know, if it didn't happen as often as it does, Sandra , there would be no need to discuss it. But like you mentioned, Dan Goldman in the coffee shop and all these other incidents, it's a popular thing. Just imagine that. Think of a time when a business would go on social media, something that's so proable and say we weren't even here for the refund. We're going to give you the refund. We don't want your money, we don't like your kind. Go drink your genocide juice elsewhere. I mean, that's just insane to me. It's bad business , but that's where we are. We'll talk about that a little bit more on the other side. Sandra, thanks for the call. Jim and Craig, stick with me. We're coming right back. It's Rich Vardaldez in for the great one. 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He's on the run, right? He's on the run. He's moving scared because the AOC all out crazy wing of the party is out to get him . I want to know what you guys think about this before I move on to some other topics like Iran, Cuba, and a potential cure for a very detrimental disease. Listen, the upcoming hour of this show is I've saved the best for last So if you listen to any hour of the show, you want to listen to the next hour because I've saved something in my back pocket and I can't wait to get into it. But right now I want to hear what you think about this . Let's go to line Line three, Portland, Oregon, Jim, go right ahead. Oh , are you can you hear me? Yes, sir. , Jim, make your point. I want to It's kind of a whimsical thought it's actually on reparations. And I think the best case that can be made for it is if we do reparations for Lyndon Johnson's great society programs, which really was a major blow to the the good demographic statistics in the African American family at it caused things to go downhill . I'm being whimsical but maybe the issue ought to be forced. I got a feeling the Democratic socialist s would not vote for something like that. But all this omniscience that they pretend to have, there's some big gaps in it and they get it wrong sometimes . Yeah, well I don't know. You know, right now it seems like they're getting obviously they get everything wrong, but when it comes to winning elections and winning people over, especially unwitting people that are already in alignment with them when it comes to the twelve years of public education maybe coupled with three or four more years post secondary college education. They already hate America when they come to the table when the Zorons of the world and the AOCs of the world make these little videos and get to them at a different level on social media and meet them where they are. And then voila. It's a lifestyle brand hating America, hating America's allies, it's kind of what they do . Where reparations fits in? I don't know, and I don't think it does . But Jim in Portland, thank you for your call, my brother. Let us continue . Let's see. Where do I go here? Robert, Yankas, New York, go for it. Hi, good evening. The Mandamis, the Socialist Communists , don't sell the steak. They sell the sizzle. The steak is rotten. They just sell the sizzle, and that is a sales technice. There's somebody that referred to Mandami as a kingmaker today, and that's giving him way too much credit. Maybe it was put lipstick on a whole bunch of pigs and that's all he did . Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, you're right. And I don't want to downplay it, but I do agree. Kingmaker, I wouldn't say so, but do I think that he can achieve that status? Can he be the next Bernie Sanders? Can he be the next face of progressive socialist, whatever wing of the party? Yeah, I think he's it. He's he's pretty much the iTid in town and you know , we've got to start asking ourselves questions like are we being effective in our communication ? Because he's definitely stepped into the next century. We have to make sure we've done the same. Robert and Yanakers New Yor,k, thank you for the call . And let's see, one more Craig . Oh , Craig, shoot. All right, Craig, you got to give me ten seconds because the music's gonna play . All right. Yeah, just put Craig back on hold because he didn't do it quick enough. All right, Abigos , big , big , big developments in a medical study that just came out , a very, very serious illness has I think been cured . We're going to get into that and a bunch of other things on the other side. 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After that, I went on to I've been doing radio for eight years now and I hosted a nationally syndicated show and in Janu ary I just signed a deal to be globally syndicated on Roku TV through the Festiva Network and we're doing TV now, which is really exciting. I host the podcast as well . This is America with Rich Valdes. Feel free to subscribe to that and get at me online at Rich Valdes . And that's Valdes with an ess, by the way, on all of the social media. Now some of you guys may know my voice from here, like I said, filling in for the great one many times. Some of you may know me from Newsbacks where I do some commentary pretty much every week . And others are just meeting me for the first time. So I encourage you to go to richvaldes com dot and subscribe to the show, join the Familia . And this idea of celebrating America for two hundred and fifty years , right? And committing, like I said, to leaving a better country to those that come after us . We've got to either commit to it or not. We're either going to be guided by love or by fear. You choose . Sometimes fear manifests as anger , and that's why I think so many people get hot under the collar about so many issues. I get it. They're afraid. They're afraid of seeing the country that they love become a different place for the people that they love and potential grandchildren down the road, right? I know that's what it is for me. This is already a different experience, right? Most of my worry is placed on my I have two daughters, twenty one and twenty five years old . And I can tell you that I spend a considerable amount of time more than I should , you know, thinking about their well being and their safety . I probably should trust God a little more, but I do. I worry, I'm a dad . And I want them to live in a country the same country I grew up in, the same country where I was able to open up a barber shop when I was still in high school I started this business out of my dad's bathroom in an apartment. And I built up a clientele, went to school for cosmet ology and had a business by the time I was seventeen, sixteen and a half, really . All of that happened because of America . Not I'd never lived in another country, but I can guarantee you that most sixteen year olds aren't opening businesses there. And I went on to open other businesses and serve in government and get into the media and nationally syndicated radio and the number one radio market in America , New York City . I've been able to do so many great things. And I did all that, you know, by the time I was thirty nine . And I'm not, you know, like Mark would say , no brag, just facts. But I'm saying that really to give kudos. I'm bragging for America. I'm bragging for the opportunities that are here . Because the goal is and the goal always was to win the battle in the free marketplace of ideas . Yeah, in the free mark et, but we have to sell these ideas. People have to understand the beauty and the grit and the benefit of America . But Americans on the left have put their thumbs on the scale, right? The AOC is the Mamdani's the Bernie Sanders of the world . And all I want you to do is remember that George Washington he didn't panic. I'm sure he was scared, but he didn't panic . He was decisive and he was committed. He was a statesman . So we have to be committed to beating those ideas that we dislike in the marketplace of ideas. You know, Lincoln was also committed . He was clear in his admonition in his address Lysian address, right? His inauguration as well . He made it very clear it's critical for America to be strong, to hold ourselves together because if we're ever brought down , we would be undone from within . Think about that for a second . And I say all that to say , I recently had a conversation, right? I have an interest in a jewelry business, Matthias Jewelers in River Edge, New Jersey . And I was at the showroom , and we had a number of guests and a small mixer that we hosted . And I was having a conversation with somebody who was a television talent on one of the cable networks on a reality television show very successful. Also had a side business as a social media influencer with more than a million followers and just a really charming person . But in this conversation , this young person, younger than me, and I'm forty eight now . So she tells me , Oh , I can't stand this country . Now, of course, I'm triggered at this point, but I realized she's just speaking from her experience , right? What has she been exposed to not a whole lot, right? Did she study the effects of Maoism, Stalinism? Does she know what these things do? I don't know anything about her. So I say, well, why do you say that? And she's like, Oh, I'm just I'm so over it, I'm tired of it, you know , because the media that she consumes because she's younger , isn't the boob tube that you and I grew up watching where we still had books and other things , right or even , you know, talk radio , right? In her age group , it's TikTok and Instagram and these streaming music apps. And then that's it, YouTube . So I realized, you know, let's let me engage here. So we started talking about it. And I said, well, talk to me about that. Well, why don't you like it? You seem to be doing really well in America . And her response was, I could do really well anywhere , right ? My business is electronic. I can do it from anywhere and she's like, I've been looking at places, you know, I like things in LA , but they're three or four million dollars. That same apartment in better weather, let's say in Colombia would be four, five, six hundred thousand dollars . And I said, Oh, for sure. I said, But you realize that you could not build this business that you have in Colombia. You can only run it from there, right? You're not able to become and I'm sure there's a lot of people in Columbia look at Carol G, right? She's a big Columbian superstar. But my point is this girl made her business here . And she said, well, yeah, I guess, you know, she wasn't being obstinate in any way. She was, you know, open to the conversation we were having . But it made me think, man , that is really, really tough , right? It's tough that so many people , you know, even a sweet girl like her , that they're just programmed to automatically not like America because if they're scrolling through social media at some point the last summer or two , they likely saw images of small children being slaughtered, blaming it on the Jews in America and Israel for their war , blaming, you know, just every societal ill has been blamed on America or the billionaires, it's the billionaires . What that is is people appealing to the goodness in each of us , right? And the people that are doing the appealing are the radical left . This is how Castro did it . This is how every last Leftie does it . So I thought to myself as part of this conversation, I said, Hey, keep it cool, keep it cool. I don't want to get too carried away here . And I said, Well, look, all I could tell you is, you know, for me, I had some success as a young man with a barber shop , then other businesses and then different careers. And you know, I'm a kid that grew up in Brooklyn to parents that came from Puerto Rico and we did not have, you know, any pot to piss in , but I've been I've survived And she was like, yeah, amen, that's cool. And I continued saying, just keep in mind, you know, and I looked around. I said, you know, we're in a jewelry store. People don't make enough money in this country to buy jewelry . Number one, right We have so much going on that we can do that. Not that you can't buy jewelry in other countries, but there are a bunch of countries where people don't make enough money to buy jewelry. Number two, I pointed out air conditioning. Last night checked. That was something we invented here in America. I pointed to the lights. I said, Wow, the light bulb. Yep, that's another thing we invented here , that telephone, yep, telephones , America . And I just went down the line of things that we've, you know, the airplane, the light bulb, electricity, the refrigerator, right? And most recently this phenomenon known as only fans where a bunch of people are making a lot of money, mainly women doing Lord knows what ? And she was like, yeah , I guess. And I didn't want to push too hard, you know, we're doing business here and I wasn't here to preach. She just said something. And I wanted to as gently as I could give her my perspective, not push back, but give her my perspective . And it's in that same mindset that I think about a year ago , sickle cell anemia was cured in New York with gene therapy. Yesterday in Louisiana their first patient , first patient in Louisiana was cured yesterday, twenty three years old. The guy from New York twenty one years old These guys now have a new lease on life . And I thought to myself , not bad for the country that everybody hates , right? The airplane, which is today the private jet. And all these luxury items that we enjoy , they come from America . And I can't help but be thankful to be part of that legacy. You know, I wasn't there for it, but I'm here now . And it makes me wonder how much of these conversations, how many of these conversations am I going to have or are you going to have in order to get to a place where people go, yeah, you know, I may not like some things about America , but man, it's the best place out there. And boy, have we contributed to this world, to this society? Anyway, I want to get your thoughts on that. You know, the phone number eight seven seven three, eight one three eight one eight seven seven thirty eight eleven. And let me know what you think. Plus, if you have a thought, an opinion , story to share on sickle cell anemia being cured, we're going to be getting into that straight ahead as well. Plus some talk on Iran, the MOU, some people like it, some people don't . All of that's coming up straight ahead. I'm Rich Valdes, Valdes with an S filling in for the great one. Smart ove in . Summer always changes how I get dressed. And when pieces that feel lighter and are more breathable, things that are easy but still put together . That's why I keep coming back to Quintz. They focus on high quality essentials that look and feel amazing. Think breathable linen and soft organic cotton. It's that rare balance where everything feels elevated but still effortless. 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We've got a year with the Knicks win where El Trumpetos and Aldous Magnus, the forty fifth and forty seventh president of these United States has replaced the reflecting pool in Washington, right? I mean, this seems to be the biggest topic that they can ask when the press poll gets near him . We've got the World Cup seventy eight Super Bowls. How do I know that? I just interviewed the White House Task Force Chair Andrew Giuliani on my show a couple of days ago and he was telling me about all of these amazing developments that the United States has put into securing these events with aerial protection through drones. I mean, just fascinating stuff that didn't exist not five years ago as far as I know. And all of these wonderful things freedom two hundred fifty, America two hundred and fifty, the big UFC thing that I did not get a ticket to. I've got a bone to pick with El Trumpito. But all of that said , this is This is a beautiful time of year to celebrate this. And the fact that the first patient with sickle cell anemia in Louisiana was cured just yesterday through this gene therapy , to me was just remarkable and I'd be remiss if I didn't share it with you. Listen to this . Motional Day as a twenty three year old New Orleans man rings in a new future at Manning Family Children's Hospital . twenty three year old Daniel Cresty became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy. That means the disease is no longer active in his system. Cresty says that his dream of becoming a pilot was almost taken away from him because of this blood disorder. He says it was tough to your journey under this procedure and he wants to pay that forward with his own nonprofit to help other people going through sickle cell treatment . This entire journey was the hardest thing I've done in my life. And the reason why I worked so hard with our organization's privileged pilots is because I don't want anybody else to have to experience the loneliness and the uncertainty and the hopelessness that I felt a couple of years ago, someone's ability to access treatment and potentially cure should not be defined by their zip code. People in Louisiana deserve the same opportunity as people anywhere else in this country The people living with sickle cell disease are here . They're our neighbors , our friends, our families . Doctors say therapy uses a patient's very own stem cells that have been edited in a lab so they no longer produce the defective cells that cause the disease. We're told around three thousand people in Louisiana have sickle cell disease. That is the highest rate per capita in this country . How's that for America two hundred fifty, right? I mean just the things that we see in this country, the leaps and bounds, the ingenuity , the advanced innovation, and that's my new name by the way for AI. It's Advanced Innovation. I spent a lot of time fearing AI, takeover of the humanoid robots and all that. And I've got to say there's a lot of good to it, there's a lot of bad to it, there's a lot of whatever you want to make of it. But one thing I can guarantee you is that it's not going anywhere and we need to learn how to embrace that stuff and that's something I've been doing professionally using some of that voice cloning stuff to take my show into Spanish language and expand into places like Colombia where we just saw a right wing victory . You know, I'm not taking credit for that, but I will say I charted in the top one hundred recently in Colombia and I can't help but think that that may have , you know, be a symptom of a greater issue like people moving towards the right all over South America . And isn't that a good thing? Can we get some of that over here, please? Anyway, I want to get to your calls . I see a call from Georgia from Pennsylvan ia, a couple of others. Let me give you the phone number again eight seven seven three eight one thirty eight eleven . Let me see. Where do we go? Let's go to Craig. Craig's in Danville, Pennsylvania. Craig, quickly, go for it . Yeah, hey , that's just so inspiring to hear that that story. You hear me there? Yeah, go for it. . Yeah, America is the greatest nation in the world. And I just wanted to kind of throw out there that it didn't just happen though. You know, it took a lot of men and women to make it happen and it's going to take a lot of men and women to keep it great . And I just want ed to call out there to the crowd, I guess that, you know, you got to get involved . Yeah, absolutely. Getting involved is key, no job too big or too small . It's America. Put up or shut up. All right, amigos, we're coming right back to your calls and more a little bit on Iran . And I got a few things up my sleeve. It's Valdes in for the Great Life They can clone the others , but there's only one . Mark Levin and you can call him at eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one Alright Familia, welcome back. It's Rich Valdez. We're going to get through some of your calls, a little bit of Iran . Plus, we've got President Trump expected to speak at the Great American State Fair . And as we get closer to that, we'll bring you that live if it happens during this broadcast. Also quick point of personal privilege, a friend of mine recently put out a social media post, one that many of us dread reading and even worse writing . And he asked for prayer . He said, I'm seeking your prayers because I found out that my daughter , a young woman, was killed in a car accident. His name is Jesse Holgen. He's the founder of the Lexit movement. Lexit stands for Latinos exiting the Democrat Party . And he's a former gangbanger that was shot and put in a wheelchair. He's a quadriplegic and he's dedicated himself to defend ing his faith , advancing the cause of America and Maga . So salute to my boy, Jesse Holgen, please lift him up in prayer. Anyway , something I wanted to get into here on that morbid note, which I was going to leave for the end, but I didn't want to run out of time just in case the president does join us live , which was Marco Rubio. Secretary Rubio he made a couple of statements just yesterday talking about the MOU. Now you've heard lots about the MOU saying that it's missing the mark, we're giving the house away. Understood. Here's what Secretary Rubio had to say fourteen, go right . Yeah, MOUR. Are you trying to ease concerns to allies here in the region? That most certainly will come up in these conversations . And there are items outside the MOU that are certainly going to be covered, but that's one that will have to be covered, it'll be discussed. I think a careful reading of the MOU will see that when you talk about, for example, a complete end hostiles in the entire region , well, that's not possible. You can't have the end of hostilities and conflicts in the region , as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq and are participating in terrorism like Hamas did and like Hebalah did. So I do think it's covered by the MOU it is an issue that will be gotten to at the appropriate time in these negotiations . Now I want to take a moment to say I not only appreciate that Marco Rubio is our Secretary of State, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful for it. I tipped my hat to the Secretary because this is , I mean, the amount of work this president, this Secretary of State, this administration has done is remarkable And it's not lost on me that they're doing it in the face of a hostile media . They're doing it in the face of a Democrat party that's at war with itself to try and destroy everything , right? Both the country, each other, and the Republicans . And yet they're still firing on every cylinder. Major legislation like the, Big Beautiful Bill getting passed, more to come, right? Hopefully the Save Act will be the next thing on the table . I understand that the MOU lacks much to be desired from the perspective of many , right? I do, I truly do. I also understand the position that these guys are in where Iran is more than happy, more than happy to sit back and say, just so is Cuba, by the way , to say, alright , well, if we do nothing and we just keep saying, All right, we'll agree to some peace. Yeah , alright, yeah, well yeah, go ahead, show me what you got. Show me put something together, put something on the table. We'll talk . If they just keep playing this game and then you know , go throw a bomb. Oh, I didn't know who threw that bomb. Hold on. Let me find out. Hey, you guys throw bombs back there? Oh, that was some rogue actor. Forgive me, I'm so sorry, my friend, so sorry. And they keep playing this game. They know that the clock is ticking in the United States . They don't need to wait till Trump is out of office. They just need to wait till the midterms . Why? Because they're going to be all in on making sure that they do everything they can to ensure that their positions are represented in the Democrat Party in every primary in every election, in every everything . And it worst case scenario for them, they have to wait until Trump is out . And then it's back to business as usual. And I think Trump knows that. That's why he's actively trying to put together an actual deal that will truly neuter them , so that they can't just turn around and say, All right, well we played nice, blah, blah blah blah . This is in my opinion, an incredibly complex negotiation , one that I don't envy being , you know, involved in, I don't envy being a part of that. I don't want to be a part of that. It's something that you've got to give a lot of credit and respect to the people involved . Witcoff, Kushner, all of them, right? Kushner. This guy, he's a businessman, right? He's a real estate guy. He opens up a business. He makes some friends with and connections at a job he has with his father in law, when his father in law is president . He opens a firm, gets investment from the Saudi. It's not like he doesn't have other businesses, right? But he gets new business now in the Middle East . And because he is doing well with this business and has a large investment , every day he's the topic of, all this is unfair, all this is this, and all this is that. And he doesn't even get paid for this job . Now, I can understand some of these arguments against these things, but at the end of the day, you have to realize people are allowed to succeed. This is America . People are allowed to do what they do . And if there is a single violation of ethics or a single violation of law , somebody raise your hand, give me a call, eight, seven, seven, three eight one three eight one . I haven't seen one to date . But yet all of these things, this is the cloud of BS that everybody involved in this has to deal with on a daily basis to try and get somewhere while you're dealing with people that are likely lying in your face. Sorry my friend sorry my friend No, no more bombs no more bomb Yes, yes bomb, no bomb yes bomb no bomb come on you've got to give them credit. So anyway, I want to get your thoughts on this and everything else that's going on. Let me see, where do I go here? Let's go to Diane . Diane is in E Pasenternnsylvania go right ahead. Hi, thank you very much, Rich. The problem is that at eighty years old, I have all kinds of opinions on everything everything , but you know what? The only thing I really value now is why things are the way they are . And I believe that America an idea . And it's the way we practice those ideas, the way we understand those ideas that make all the difference . There are people that look at a cookbook and they see a recipe. They want to make beef boun c, and they look at the recipe and they screw it up because they don't understand what it's telling them. And I think listen, I think I get what you're saying. And I agree. There's an opportunity for all here, and some appreciate it and some don't. Some see what's before them and some don't. And I agree that this is likely why you see people like I use Marco Rubio because he was just there. Somebody born in this country to parents that were born elsewhere under communism and how he fights for America . Why? Because he's seen and heard through the firsthand account of his parents how bad things are. And I've also seen those things . And that is to me the differentiating factor, right? Without immigrants coming to this country and giving the immigrant experience and kind of sharing how difficult it was and why they love America the way they do, I likely would not have the appreciation that I have for this country . And I think what we've lost to your point, the people that may want to cook, right? The beef bounet, or whatever it is they want to make and not realizing what they have in front of them, the ingredients of American exceptionism that they have to make their to make their dish is that they haven't seen a bad day the way others have . And that is, you know, like the saying goes, it's those good times that produce soft people . And sadly , those soft people are the ones that are voting for the Democrat Socialists of America . So hopefully we'll move beyond that in the future without having to go through hard times. Diane in Easton Pennsylvania, thank you for your call. I appreciate your wisdom. God speed to you, Amigos. It's Rich Valdez filling in for the great one coming right back. Mark Love and Alright, radio for me. It's Rich Valdes, Valdes with an S at Rich Valdes on all of the social med ia. Please give me a follow there. If you're having a good time, I'm having a good time. I'm filling it for the great one Mark Livin tonight. And our time together is almost coming to an end, so make sure you follow me or subscribe to my show at Richvaldes. com. Mark will be back. He's in Israel at the JNS summit , and I'm glad he invited me to do this. It's always a pleasure being with you guys. But before I go, I wanted to get into a couple of things and get to the last couple of callers that have been faithfully hanging on Representative Rokana, right ? Rokana is a Bernie bro, right? He's one of these progressives that he hates Democrats and hates Republicans . And this is why that brand is growing because so many Americans agree with that statement. But Rokana is is celebrating Bradlander's win saying that it's fundamentally about Gaza. Listen to this . I'm glad that Bradlander won . I had done some support for him . And look, this is fundamentally about Gaza. Anyone who says that Mandani was just about affordability doesn't understand that election. It was partly about Gaza. Young people saw on their phones for two years the genocide that took place. And for many people, it's a test of character. Are you going to deny that genocide or are you going to say what took place and are going to stand for human rights? That was the central difference in this race between Dan Goldman and Bradlander and Bradlander won. And in my view, this is going to be a central Dubai heading into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight. That's Rokana yesterday. Now check this out. What's interesting about this is that the Vietnam War, in my opinion, the televised Vietnam War created many anti war liberal progressive types that are out there today , the Jane Vondas of the world . In many ways, this october seventh did the same thing , right? While people like me were outraged at what they saw at that music festival, people were also equally outraged at the response plus the propaganda. Let's not kid ourselves. They weren't always getting the real story. I'd say more often than not, they were seeing a fake story, right? Whether it was AI or not. Sometimes they were incidents that happened in other countries just being mislabeled or miscaptioned, you know, look at this kid being abused by whatever. And the bottom line, the effect of this was, I saw this happen ing in real time . I saw people everywhere I went begging me on social media. How can you support Israel? Do you see what they're doing to children? Don't you have children , right? Because the propaganda was working and it was appealing to the goodness of people, people, even the bad people, even leftis , they have some goodness about them. And when you appeal to that, it creates a revolution. I have to say, I don't like to agree with Congressman Rokana, but he's right . A big part of Mandani's win was from the Kafia wearing people that live in the five boroughs that feel like they're part of something greater than themselves now because they're fighting institutionalized genocide. They're fighting the big bad wolf, the evil Bib Netanyahu because they sedi thepp pro pagandistic kool aid . And I don't want to draw anything, right? I'm not going to say that Israel is a saint and that the other people are Satan incarnate or vice versa. It's a war . Things happen. Things get sloppy, it's ugly, people die. I get it. I've seen videos I don't like from both sides . And I'm not saying that it's equal, right? I think in large part , the IDF has comported themselves like true warfighters, like gentlemen, like upright people . Say that again Okay, got it. Got the word that we have the president making his way to the podium. So we're going to take a little bit of President Trump coming to the podium and then we're going to take your calls before I bid you a due. The eternal truth that we are endowed by our creator with the right s to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . We all made , and you know that free and equal by the hand of Almighty God Those timeless American principles did not just win a revolution, but they built us into the greatest strongest and most exceptional nation the world has ever known there has never been anything like the United States of America and together we are making it bigger and better and stronger and far more exceptional than ever before Amen to that. And you know, I wanted to bring up another point just to dip out of that for a second because the president brings up an excellent point, which is we've been through so much hardship. We've been through so many struggles as Americans. And I'm talking about not me. I'm talking about, you know, the John Wayne era, the greatest generation, those who have come before us that fought to make us to make us the country that we are . And today socialists just doesn't realize that. They don't know it. They don't remember, they don't care . And I think that's part of the problem. I want to get to a couple of calls here before they kicked me off the air before they, bang open the studio door and kick me out of here. So let's go to Lovetzville, Virginia. Quickly, Dee. Go right ahead . Yeah, hi, I really wanted to go into what you were saying because I think the big problem that we have, I'm a boomer , and I've noticed that the generations after that haven't had to have any struggle whatsoever. I mean, my generation they had to even go into the service . And now what's required of these young people, nothing. Right. No, you're right. Now we get to decide what gender we want to be. Right? If we want to be a gestating parent or a non gestating parent. I think you're right, Dee soft times are making soft people. Let's go to Peter, Albany, New York, Peter, go right ahead. Hi, Rich. First, I want to say you're ex cellent. I don't have enough time to listen to you all the time, but you've always been spot on. And Mark also . So earlier I was driving, I heard you talk about Washington and Lincoln. I mean, right now we have about three hundred forty four million people in this country and we don't know who's here. They haven't been through the experience that my parents have been through or your parents or your friends or your relatives. We don't know what their loyalties are. We don't know where they're coming from. They haven't been screened. Some are being elected. I read today that maybe Mike Johnson might have a right to refuse to seat certain people if they win the congressional seats because they've been anti American and violent, et cetera. And they've advocated violence. Anyway, that's a different argument. But I just want to mention along with what that lady said , a lot of these people come in here and they get free medical, free subsidies, free college, free everything . And in the nineteen hundreds and eighteen hundreds, those people were poor. In Washington's time, the population was what sent. Yeah, you're right. We didn't have the money to do the free medical, the free, the free transsexual surgery. Peter, you're right. I'm tired on time, but one hundred percent right . Thanks for the compliment. And keep listening, right? You're on WGDJ that's Paul Vandenberg country. It's a great station over there. And I appreciate you and them and everybody that tuned in tonight . And you know, ultimately , I believe we win, right? We win because you look at all the things that President Trump's talking about right now at the State Fair, he's talking about wins. And it's win after win after win. And let's not get it twisted. Sometimes we have a little bit of a setback like we're seeing in New York, but no question, we're going to win America. This is where I say astala proxima. Take care, good night and God bless you, America. I'm Rich Valdez in for the Great One . Spotify, it's Jay Shetty. 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