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Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nond descript building, we've once again made contact with our leader at Mg Lo love them Here our number. eight seven, seven, three, eight one, three eight, one, one, eight, seven, seven Th eight one. Th eight one one It's hard to know where to begin some days I'm watching something that's very important More and more TV hosts, radio hosts podcasters are talking about this fusion of Marxism and Islamism and how this is a a cancer on society. The president' talking about the communists And what's interesting is we've been talking about this a very long time you and I. Now this book I wrote American Marxism came out, I'm trying to remember. I think it was during COVID. It came out twenty twenty one. It's not that long ago. What, five years ago Sold one point three million copies, which means many of you bought it and read it And yet most of the people talking to us today on TV and radio and podcasts have not They act like there was no warning ever given Even talk about things that are straight out of the book that everything the Democrats do is about power. Where have you heard that before Power, they want power My God, we spent months and months on that and an entire book on that In fact, I think I called it on power And that book came out. Just a couple of years ago Charly last year or mid last year If you read American Marxism and on power, You will know everything that's going on You will understand everything that's going on, more so than the people who are talking to you about it today No, I've spent a lot of time on the internet over the last. I guess it's been six months, right, mister Bduce, or would you say? That's going to slow down. I don't think there's as much benefit in that. but I wanted to explore it I don't find that there's a whole lot of Profundity Substance There's a lot of bickering A Let of child play There is sun Good information there with some good people But it's the exception, not the rule I'm not putting anybody down. I'm just explaining it And so You only have so much time in the day, and I'm spending twenty hours a day on these things wororking harder than I ever have and I want to But it has to be time well spent It has to be time well spent And I think my best time spent is right here on radio on my TV show and in my books. But it troubles me immensely that individuals who are talking about current events are not that Well school And I don't mean by teachers. I mean by themselves They don't spend a lot of time reallyally digging in on the subject. And so now we're talking about the red green, green Red Alliance. I don't like that because it confuses people. Why don't we be blunt about it The Marxist Islamist Alliance And they talk about the woke Reich. It's the woke REICH. I coin that phrase. People say they did it. We know what we do here because it is a quasi, if not full blown neo fascist movement that was gaining a foothold in the Republican Party I took it on. You were with me every step of the way Ab fourteen months ago That whole element now has been exposed Now they want to create a third party or a opppposition partarty to the Cervative Republicans And so their goal now is to defeat us and to elect radical Marxist Islamist Democrats Because these alliances are about power That's what they're about And if they can't find power in one place, they'll look in another place. Now. I think it's important that we actually dig into this. You know, a good friend of mine, Jeffrey Lord. It's been a friend of mine a very long time. from Pennsylvania as well When American Marxism came out He wrote about it. Almost a year ago to the day, july eighth, twenty twenty one, exxcuse me, twenty twenty one, not a year ago, five years ago to the day He says, as usual, Mark Levin pulls no punches His very first chapter in his new book American Marxism, it's here opens with a seriously precise description of the challenge America faces. The Ven writes the counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force can no longer be dismissed or ignored for its devouring our society and culture swelling around our everyday lives and ubiquitous in our politics schools, media and entertainment Once a mostly unrelatable Fingch and subterranean movement it is here and it is everywhere The counter revolution movement of which he speaks is Marxism He says it's Marx Communist manifesto, recall that famously divided the world into oppressor and oppressed Leavin astutely notes that the use of this formula in today's America by the left means that either you are part of the righteous revolution for liberation and transformation or you are not This explains, but only in part the cowardice of corporatists, I wrote Professional athletes, broadcasters, artists, actors, writers, journalists who in the face of such tmal under the pressure, seek to avoid the mob's notice through various forms of appeasement and capitulation and in some cases, participate in their own transfiguration and even disembowment Lord writes no more pcient description could be made of an event that occurred before American Marxisms released. its official published dat is next week And he goes into what happened in Atlanta. Coca Cola, Delta Airlines and all that He says this was a vivid example of Levin's description of corporations buckling under the pressure to avoid the mo's notice Discussing the role of the mob, Mark Zero in a Marxist anarchist ideology of Antif and Black Lives Matter In fact, well after Black Lives Matters popularity had surged in twenty twenty, a twenty fifteen video surfed They revealed the BLM co founder Patrice Colliers describing herself and her fellow BLM organizers as, quote trarained Marxist, unquote. Truth counts. Mass movements, Mark also notes. relies significantly on indoctrination and brainwashing, which is exactly the case with BLM and Antifa. now we can add. the so called Democratic Socialist movement American Marxism and its entire chapter devoted to Hate America Inc And in it, Mark explains the long history of those who have openly pushed the Marxist agenda at America's colleges and universities L Ven writes that progressive intellectuals of the late eighteen hundreds were hostile toward capitalism and constitutional Republican systems that establish barriers against tyrannies of various kinds including that which is born from the mob or centralized autocracy. And of course, That would become known as progressivism On the eve of American Marxism publication publication, America had past the through the traditional July fourth holiday Mark's description of the results generated by Hate America Inc was on vivid display The headline on july sixth, New York Post was nothing, if not confirmation of Mark's point, it read Red, white and woke july fourth weekend became Lberal Bash Fest of America The New York Post reported liberal politicians and commentators took special joy in celebrating july fourth by announcing America Statute of Liberty was not a symbol of freedom but a symbol of hypocrisy. The flag was polarizing. The National anthem doesn't speak for everyone or anyone Among the remarks by these Hate America Marxes was this jewel of a tweet from Democrat Cgressman Coreory Bush of Missouri she said, when they say that The fourourth of July is about American freedom. Remember this, the freedom they're referring to is for white people This land is stolen land and black people still aren't free And then it goes on. American Marxism also lasers in on critical race theory, correctly calling it what so many outraged parents The land and throughout the land have seen Is it has taught to their school aged children. Mark writes in short, CRT is an insidious and racist Marxist ideology. spreading throughout our culture and society He cites George Lenu. Research professor of public pololicy and political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore He writes The two best selling proponents of CRT Robin D'A Angelo and Abraham X Kendy CRT begins with the presumption that race is the primary way to identify and analyze people. and consequently posits a racial hierarchy that supposedly exists with whites on top, blacks on bottom Individual behavior is insignificant Because everyone in America functions within the Society of systemic racism structural racism, institutional racism Not only is this correct, writes Lord, but in fact, the Angelo and Kendy and CRT itself are nothing more than recycled George Wallisisms Wallace For those who came in late was the nineteen sixties era Democrat governor. Obama who proudly proclaimed he supported segregation today tomorrow and forever In other words, Wallace As was CRT proponents believe that race is the primary way to identify. and it goes on And the important part of American Marxism is I was laying out in this book the revolution and the transformation that was taking place Much of it right before our eyes, but much of it under the radar In our classrooms, I pointed out the Marxist books that were being used to teach history, that were being teached to use political science and how American Marxism Was an Americanized form, a customized, a tailored form of Marxism applicable to the United States? where they were using race not just Well and anti capitalism but race and ethnicity. You can see it now. the so called Palestinian cars These are key to who they are and what they are. And that's why there's a marriage between the Islamists and the Marxists in the United States And I watched our friend Will Caine just do an interview on Fox of the leader The democratic socialists of America And he was asked flat out Are you a communist He said, look, we're not like like in Russia and so forth. and so he said,, you know, Soviet Union he said, no, no, no, the Soviet Union's dead and so forth and so on But the follow up was That was a head fake He's an American Marxist, an American communist that again, they are customizing And Make and tering. The Marx ideology for the American culture and the American society This is what's been going on For more than twenty years But it really came to a height five years ago course is in full display right now The reason why october seventh and the slaughter of Jews On october seventh, twenty twenty three. For many people seem like, wow, automatically and unbelievably Revolutionary movements came to the fore is it because they were You know, doing so out of nowhere planned They're systemic Palestinian cause On october eighth, even before the Israelis responded, they were talking about genocide in Gaza. They were ready to go funded again by foreign governments as well Tar among others Iran funded in our country byy billions and billions flowing into our schools There's a reason why Qatar is the number one fnder of terrorism and terror front groups and an ideology in America And communist China is number two becausecause they have the same objective. American Marxis. Now, what does that have to do with on power? Stick with me. We'll be right back. M Then 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 It 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 to one K. fiveive stars on the Better Business Bureau and consumer affairs. Visit marklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation That's eight seven seven six six nine four six five three. Plus, get a free guide to owning gold at marklubs goold d. com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may very consult your tax and financial professional. No no, a lot of you may not read. mayaybe you want to listen to an audio version. I don't even know if they're available. I checked Amazon. These books are all heavily discounted because Amazon is about moving as many products as they can. I amm not pushing this to make money. It's not about making money I'm not going to make a lot of money off this. It's about you being the spokesman, the activist, the person at the dinner table, the breakfast table, at church or synagogue or wherever you are exxplaining things to people exxplaining things to people now it's a very short segment now and I want to extend this obviously well beyond the bottom of the hour, but now the book on power which is the last book I wrote. which came out about this time last year. About eleven months ago, give her a take I want to get into this with you too, because Those of you who are really, really smart and been with me a long time, you understand each one of these books really is a chapter a chapter, a chapter, a chapter in a series of books These ten books These ten books startarting with the Supreme Court book Men in black all the way up to on power. I suspect most of this will be viewed as wow, this is good stuff when I'm dead and gone, and that's fine, but I'm worried about the here and now and what's going on in our country. So stick with me. It's all very important. We'll be right back. 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. fiveive stars of the Better Business Bureau and consonsumer affairs. Visit marklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation eight seven seven six six nine four six five three. Plus, get a free guide to owning gold at marklves goold d. com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may veryary consult your tax and financial professional. Nobody says it better than Mark Levin. I'll know with what Mark Levin said ' nobody could say it better. Coall in now. eightight eight, seven, seven, three, eight one, three, eight, one one. All right What about this power issue You know, when I write a book, as you know, I spend four, five, six months explaining it TV on radio person to a number of people because I think it's very important. Whenn power begins, many have written about and debated the issue of power, including the ancients and modern philosophers, scholars, and statesmen alike Stick with me, this is important Why? Because power determines your social arrangements, quality of life, and more to the point of this book. whether you are free or enslaved or some degree of either in sure it determines your personal faate The the fate of your community and the fate of a nation There are infinite ways to view power innumerable contexts and circumstances in which to apply it There's truly no simple, concise, all purpose definition for what is meant by power. Clearly, however, it's more than a mere word spend time thinking, talking, or writing about it It' not a mere abstraction, a useless amorphism or an elitist And so terrorism Power is a term meant to describe some kind of force or energy that surrounds us all the time is both ubiquitous in your life. into the life of an entire society and is consequential in every way O is a core reality, a characteristic of human existence. Yet without more to go on such as context and circumstance it can be ambiguous and elusive in all human pursuits, including personal pursuits and life events Power matters A macro level power shapes economies, politics and governments Moreover, there are many variations, implied powers, necessary powers, assume powers, granted powers, defined powers and on and on For most people These are unstated and often unnoticed or obscure kinds of power But they exist and they matter Ieed power is inextricably linked to liberty Though it's not to be confused with Liberty itself Power determines if there's too much liberty like anarchy, or too little, like tyranny Dpending on how power is exercised, who exercises And if it is bound by human rights The American Revolution is an important and obvious example of power properly pursued and exercise the point of which to promote individual and societal liberty includluding by means of representative limited divided government That is ordered liberty Conversely, autocrats of every stripe in all ages have exploited liberty to empower themselves at the expense of the liberty of others. In fact One's use of liberty this way to expand one's own power to diminish, if not denw the liberty of others is in a real sense of paradox It is a cancer that apparently metastasizes over time within democracies. Of course, there are democracies that have lasted several centuries, but in the end, all succumbed to the steady increase in the centralization of power and you decline an individual on societal liberty Sadly, this appears to be the nature of things right now too To be clear, then, even the most widely conceived nation states mindful of man's abuses of power and established with the intent of curbing and restraining that power. seem to fail in the end Gonner, Athens, Rome, and numerous lesser societies Democracies struggle against the centralization of power almost from the moment they're established And keepeep in mind the first book, American Marxism I go into incredible comprehensive detail about what is happening in our culture in our society in our educational system in school boards to parenting in our our culture And what is Marxism?, what is it? It's obviously a defective form of a philosophy and ideology, but it is tyranny dressed up as Humane Fairness In a word It's emotional When you listen to the Marxist speak, it's all about emotion. You deserve this and you should get that, but let's go on with power becausecause they're related in a big damn way History is replete with examples of tyrants grabbing power in the name of liberty. Prime example exists in Marxist regimes Liberation through revolution, class warfare with the masses, the so called oppressed I said the revolt against the powerful few, the so called oppressors the promise of liberty through community and collectivism results in hellish genocidal police states ruling over the people in their name But without their consent And with an iron fist Again, this is not only a phenomenon of tyrannies. As I noted in my first book, I mean, Liberty and Tyranny, not my first book, but an early book, Liberty and Tyranny. In her own country, President Abraham Lincoln observed that slave owners and abolitionists All claim to stand for liberty. Like liberty in the context of power, democracy is another word that is used by the power of Hungary to deceive and disarm, you know, like the democratic socialists of America Democracy. That's right. Democracy is often alluded to by those who reject it is they reject universal individual liberty and where democracies exist would destroy them In his book, Politics in the English Language, George L Orwell writes about the perversion of political words used in a consciously dishonest way I'm quoting him That is the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows us here to think he means something quite different It's almost universally felt, writes Orwell that when we call a country democratic, we are praising it consequently The defenders of every kind of regime claim that it's a democracy and fear that they They might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to anyone meeting Now me, the word democracy like the word liberty is frequently used as a rhetorical weapon to deceive the true intentions and conceal the real nature of the abusers Again, these behaviors and tactics are not exclusive to tyrants and autocracies. It's a real and growing threat in Western societies as they increasingly centralize power in the name of unlimited egalitarian and so called Reous causes Environmental justice, economic justice, social justice, equity, reparations, nationalized health carere, the existential threat of climate change and so forth which require and in fact demand the centralization of power to supposedly ameliorate the perceived claimed And in some cases, manufactured societal maladies The final resolutions of which are not only impossible but are not necessarily intended to be solvable The agitations, demands, and related propaganda are sledgehammers. with which to pummel the limited and divided institutional barriers to centralized power in democratic governments. It's exactly what's going on right now So when you read American Marxism, you will understand the forces behind that. Some of them are ethnic, someome of them are race related, someome of them are economic related. Some of them are sex and gender related. Some of them are all of them. and the use pursuit Let us narrow the focus. I start with the observation, which I believe is historically indisputable, yet potentially controversial which you can infer from what I've already written that over the millenniia, mankind has generally suffered more from the abuse of power and the concomitant diminution of liberty than from its humane and righteous application important exceptions, of course, in the individual's everyday life and society generally but narrowing the focus even further in the long history of mankind And even in modern times The most pervasive form of governance under which most human beings live and have lived is authoritarian Today, one need look only at the membership of the United Nations to prove the point Some seventy percent of the world's population currently lives under brutal autocratic regimes This raises an unpleasant question Is this the natural state of mankind At least in the communal sense evenven if individuals themselves wish for and seek liberty. I term this negative power. So I'm creating a new philosophical framework here term this negative power And I discuss that more fully in a later chapter called Negative power Thats said in a democratic negative power typ in a democracy, negative power typically takes the form of a steadily increasing centralization of authority that starts slowly, but eventually spreads more quickly to cover all corners of the nation moving closer toward a quasi autocratic model It occurs primarily in three general ways position by the few, for example, the judiciary Peaceful vote of the many, where the people willingly vote for their own demise? or the slow institutionalization of and acquiescence to. As Thomas Hobbs characterized it a Leviathan, that is a dominating and domineering army of nonreresentative bureaucrats Of course, there are degrees to which centralization develops and occurs. some more aggressive ominous than others. This is happening right now That's why I'm taking the time to go through this 's happenpping right in front of your eyes centralization in moderation, which is intended to secure a liberty that does not exist or undergird existing liberty that is threatened or diminished by factionalism Mar Ro O anarchy is of a different character than power secured for power's sake or with a tyrannical mindset or purpose And again, looking at our own history in the early days of our Republic The Articles of Confederation banded because the national government lacked the power to do much And it's explained by the National Archives just a few years after the Revolutionary War Madison, Hamilton and Washington feared their young country was on the brink of financial collapse America's first Constitution, the Articles of Confederation gave the Confederate Congress ow to make rules and request funds from the states, but it had no power to enforce. I' going go on It's not the point right now. I just was explaining the point of neegative power Obviously, human beings are imperfect. This is not much of a revelation yet it seems downplayed or ignored by too many in democracies who acquiesced to or even Cheer for govermental centralization when wrapped in promises of larger welfare state, ethnic racial, economic empowerment are godlike fixes to natural disasters and climate events But the idea that the centralization of power, which necessarily concentrates authority in the hands of fewer imperfect individuals, whose bace of knowledge is naturally narrow. It's a receipt for societal improvement, progress, stability and wellbeing. It's not only counterintuitive but contrary to everyday human experience of mankind's history Indeed, what makes the individuals more perfect as decision makers? moreore moraless people We're more informed, wise or prudential than anyone else Nothing Autocrats are not known to possess such qualities or demonstrate them when exercising power Most excel at acquiring power, but not much else. De those who achieve such a station exhibit a greater affinity for the darker side of human behavior including corruption and dishonesty, immorality and hubris Anger Vainglory, egom maniacal, and so forth and so on Although a rare good or perceived benefit may come from this wielding of power such as the claim that the Italian fascist Benito Muszolini made the traange went on time. byy the way, it's a myth It's a it's farcical and awfully deadly delusion. Is this interesting to you, mister Reduser Keep going, I will Moreover Where' iss the evidence that concentrated power in the hands of administrative state with a bureaucrats Yeah, Ac. consist of specially trained experts and societal organizers Wh know what is best for the people and know how best to achieve those ends, supposedly. Where has this ever existed anywhere? Certainly not in America as will be discussed later Contrarily from Aristotle and Cicero to Joh Locke and Monesue and numerous others, philosophers and scholars have argued for the wisdom of diversified, dispersed, mixed power within governments. That is. where power checks and balances power which provides a greater likelihood of enlightened leadership and administration greater respect and appreciation for the civil society and non governmental parts of society, and more protection of individual sovereignty and free will, in essence positive power positive power structure attempts to contain and control the dark side of the human character ience and emphasizes the capacity phrase civilized in just society I'm just going to read a little bit more But you can see, I spent a lot of time. diging into this issue, and there's very few footnotes in this book or end nototes, I guess they call them Be these are my own thoughts E excuse me They're my own thoughts Think about this We better take a break actually And I don't want to get back to this because There's just a few more paragraphs I'm going to read to, and then we will sum up becausecause a lot of people are anxious right now, including me worried about what's happening to the country. You see the enemy within, you see the Supreme Court ruling yesterday You're very, very concerned about these elections. You see what's happening to the Democrat Party, what are Republicans going to do? What if the Democrats take over There's a lot of tumult going on. It's all intentional We are in fact under attack by the enemy within. More the reason to understand what I'm trying to portray. We'll be right back. much 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 It 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 to one K. fiveive stars on the Better Business Bureau and consumer affairs. Visit marklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold for a one on one consultation eight seven seven six six nine four six five three. pllus, get a free guide to owning gold at marklovesgold dot com or call eight seven seven now gold. Performance may very consult your tax and financial professional There's a whole lot more stick with me. to I want to put a bow on this point about power as it relates to Marxism and then get into this Islamism aspect I hope I'm not going too far too fast, but this is the way it works. We'll be right back 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 d. com to find the plan that's right for you Thank you again for listening and thank you so much for this sponsorship, P talk. He's here Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker. someomewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader at a time. Lved end Hell America, Markle Lin here. Our number eight, seven seven, three eight one, three eight, one, one, eight, seven seven, three eight one eight one one, I wanted to get through a little bit more, highlight a few things. On this on power issue. I hope you're enjoying it Oh. Look, I'm here. you're out there. I can't be certain But I think it's certainly important to give it a shot, right The firstirst thing I have to do, mister Pue is I found out where I left off here. It's not essential But one of the things I found I start to talk about here is this issue of virtue because you can hear The left The left wants you to believe that what they're for is virtuous Here we are That's very dangerous. Montescu One of the great enlightenment philosophers who certainly influenced our constitutional period, separation of powers was most widely read and cited philosopher during America's constitutional period. He's referred to directly in the federalist papers multiple times It is really quite Inredible book, The Spirit of the Laws Montes Huegh explained that democracy in aristocracy are not free states by their nature political libertyies found only in moderate governments But it is not always in moderate states It is present, only when power is not abused But it has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it He continues until he finds limits Ready Who would have thought it? he writes Even virtue has need of limits So the one cannot abuse power powerower must be checked. Let me repeat that So one does not abuse power Power must check power. by the arrangement of things Power must check power by the arrangement of things. That one sentence explains your cononstitution. Wh it's not a democracy That's why it's not an Autocracy, it is a representative Constitutional Republic He said a cononstitution could be such that no one will be constrained to do the things the law does not oblige him to do or be kept from doing the things the law permits him to do Now hundreds of years later British Christian theologian and scholar Brilliant man, author, C.S. Lewis. underscored Montteescu's point about the abuse of power disguised as virtue Lewis famously wrote the following of all Trannies Tirny exercise for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive It may be better to live under the robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy bodies The robber barrenons. Their cruelty may sometimes sleep their cubidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good willill. Termine us without end they do it Do it so with the approval of their own conscience They may be more likely to go to heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a hell on eararth They're very Kindness stings with intolerable insult cured quote unquote against one's will cured of states which we may not regard as as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason. or those who never will. be classed with infants, immbeciiles in domestic animals. Does that not defined the CS Lewis not defined Mandami and all these other Kami pinkos And Montesquue further warned that shouldhould the distinct nature of these Various branches of government dissolve. onene into the other, you will not haveave anything but tyranny any longer? So much in life orbits around this word, this idea, this belief of power Most of the discussion to the extent it exists at all in an honestter coherent fashion. is the form of generality, sloganeering, demagoguy and the like. used by politicians, media, ideologues and academicians to manipulate confound and deceive. Which case power is used to control thought and discussion and language? What I'm seeking to provoke is a better comprehension of what is meant by power. itss impact on the individual and mankind generally to stimulate a broader examination and dialogue about its applications I hope you read the book. Again, I'm not out here ping books These are so far discounted. It's pennies on the dollar But if you take the time To read American Marxism and on power Doesn't matter which order you read them in. American Marxism is the second longest book I've ever written. Orn Power is the shortest book I've ever written And y both both are power packs I think with knowledge and I hope wisdom You will have a comprehension of what is swirling around you right now in this country like you've never had before likeike you've never had before. far beyond surface level far beyond surface level. And when I get into something else that's a little heavy have been Wanting to do this for a while, it's been on my desk If you saw my house, we don't even have enough bookshelves and I you know, we go into home goods and buy some of these bookshelves things I mean, I got books stacked everywhere. And before I got married and I had a wife that set me straight, she does. She's something else. Very lucky. used to spread my books out on the dinner table. R rememember that, Mr. prodroucer up on the floor and so that's how I do my research Now I have basically two offices one on what I call the basement, she calls the den and then one on the first floor And I go between them when I'm writing a book because there's books in both places just stacked up I gather more information, but I gather mostly from original writings I'm not really interested in other sorts of things. That's why I have the Ayatolla Khamini's Mind Komf right here on the desk Islamic government And I'll read some of this to you one day soon. But I wanted to tell you why historically. Persian people And the Jewish people have a bond of sorts I want to tell you why. And you don't have to be Persian or Jewish or anything I think to find this interesting because this is ancient history fromr five fifty nine to five twenty nine BC It's a long time ago. And in the most influential figures of ancient history from the national geographic, it was actually quite Lite a wonderful magazine. this particular one. Like many ancient rulers Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great. Cyrus the Great and he was Uh, the Emperor from five ninety to five twenty nine. So a fairly long period of time, almost forty years He's also known as Cyrus II. He was born of royalty the death of his father Cyrus ruled the Aamenian dynasty and expanded his ancestral realm into a mighty empire He triumphed not just through conquest, but also by showing singular tolerance and mercy to those he defeated This was a very, very unique warrior Brilliant military strategist, Cyrus vanquished King of the Metes. then integrated all the Iranian tribes whose skill at fighting on horseback gave his army great mobility H triumph over Lydia Asia mininor You're the Ageian sea filled his treasury with that country's tremendous wealth. after conquering those lands and the land surrounding Mesopotamia Cyrus closed in on Babylon disgrruntled over imposed forced labor and the demotion of their city's patron deity. Marduke. Babylonians turned against their king and saw no reason to oppose Cyrus. Cyrus was known to spare those who yielded to him In fifteen thirty nine BC, they open their gates. To the Persians who entered the city in peace amidst joy and jubilation, according to an inscription. Touting Cyrus' triumph But levrellent nature of Cyrus' reign took many forms. He placated the formally powerful Medis by involving them in government He adopted habits of dress and ornamentation from the Eleites across his conquered lands, he returned images of gods that had been seized in battle and hoarded in Babylon And in Babylon itself, he publicly worsihiped the cities revered Duke Cyrus's most renowned act of mercy Ready for this was to free the captive Jews. b when Nebuchadnezar had forced into exile in Babylon, Cyrus allowed them to return to their promised land They's Jusle if the Babylonians destroyed the first temple and forced them out The Jews praiseed the Persian emperor in S sccripture as a savior whom God gave power over other kingdoms so that he would restore them to Jerusalem and allow them to rebuild their temple Cyrus the Great Died around five twenty nine BC. while campaigning against defiant nomadic tribes around the Caspian Sea The one measure of his greatness wasas the steam in which it was held in later years by the Greeks. Despite the bitter wars, they waged against the Persian successors Within one hundred and fifty years after Cyrus's death. The Greek author Xenophon Memoriales the ruler in his work. He said he honored his subjects and cared for them as if they were his own children He wrote, and they, on their part revered Cyrus as a father Those words served as an inspiration for at least one of America's founding fathers Thomas Jefferson Oh, not one, but two copies. of this book equally high brazise for Cyrus's legacy is found in modern times at the United Nations headquarters and so forth But he not only helped the Jews and freedom. turnurn to their homeland, the Holy land but he assisted them in the early days of beginning the building of the second temple Cyrus the Great was truly a great emperor a Persian emperor. and This is one of the reasons that there is this bond and there's connection And you can see it Persians all over the world and particularly those are stuck in the concentration camp Thanks to the Iranian Nazi Islamist regime They talk about Netanyahu. The great Jew That's what they call them Netanyahu the greatreat Jew And Netanyahu has an affinity for these people too And now you know more than I bet you ever knew before, Mrter prodroducer. Isn't that amazing I'll be right back. M America doesn't stand for two hundred and fifty 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 wararrior partartnership 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. When you switch your cell phone service to PureTalk this month, youll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior partartnership. PureTalk will match that donation tntill the total donation hits two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So get unlimited talkks Unlimited text. Unlimited high speed data, just three thousand fourars 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 pureTalk dot com slash Lein. That's pureTalk dot com slash LEvLN to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, PureTalk Again, that's pureTalk dot com slash Lvin. Islam is the On of the major face that combine faith with governance in Sharia law You won't find that In the tow R, you won't find it in the Bible generally. The New Testament Many have noticed that. Many When you're familiar with Alexis D Toqufile, his two books, really two volumes, One book on democracy in America points out how Islam is wholly unfit for the American system or most democratic systems because it's Obviously, the imposition of a fundamentalist religious ideology. or into a political system Now in his book I won't read a whole lot to you because we're giing you a lot so far today, and we'll do this another day Islamic government, which has been called the Ayatollah's Mind compf. He was a big Aherent of Hitler and Lenin and Mao Excuse me, and markarks And in this he explains in terms of Islam, Sharia and politics N for executive agencies, methods of great profit need for continued implementation of laws Tuth of Islamic laws in finance it's in defense Blood money, penalties for blood money They had to form a government and Hadith Distinction from other political systems that the rulers must be immersed in Islamic law talks about what jurisprudence is about, subjective law, nascent rules. Sublime goals, qualities of a ruler The rule of jurisprprudence It's very intimate, very, very exacting. It's also blood curdling when I'll get into this another day goes on in exquisite detail purging Religious centers, that is those or non conformists reforming those who who claim holiness, but don't really embrace it eliminating traces of intellectual and moral colonialist aggression. This is where his brutality really kicks in Long range resistance And much, much more extraordinary detail The difference between Christianity in this form of Islam and Judaism and this is that our laws and our beliefs Do not provide Comprehensive and detailed governing principle America doesn't stand for two hundred and fifty 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 wararrior partartnership 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. When you switch your cell phone service to PureTalk this month, youll have an opportunity to round up to support America's warrior partartnership. PureTalk will match that donation till the total donation hits two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So get unlimited talk Unlimited text. Unlimited high speed data, just three thousand four doars 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 pureTalk dot com slash Lvin. That's pureTalk dot com slash LvIN to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, PureTalk Again, that's pureTalk dot com slash Lvin. This is where Hollywood Lberals come for rehab. The Mark Leavin showh is back at eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. All right Let's keep going, shall we Birthright citizenship. You know more about that than anybody on the face of the eararth Let's hear what the Speaker of the House had to say about this, Mike Johnson He's a good man, by the way, he's also a constitutional lawyer who was a lawyer a litigator in the conservative legal community for many years Cut one go I do think that this has been grossly abused in recent years, okay? And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case. and we're very sympathetic to that because it is a serious problem. We have you know it's become a tourism birthing tourism they call it, you know a trend where people just come and you just come onto the soil and have your child and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else. It's been abused. It's one of those things that was intended to serve a noble and important purpose and has been thwarted and and overused and abused. And so I'm sure that we'll continue to look at that. I'm sure the conclusion from this opinion is going to be that you got have youve got to amend the Constitution to fix that. As we all know, it's a big challenge to amend the Constitution. It's only happened twenty seven times in our whole nation's history. And the reason is because you got to have two thirds of the both chambers of Congress and three fourths of the states to ratify, it's usually you at least many years long process and very complicated. We'll see. I'm sure there's going to be lots of discussion about that. I will say I'm very disappointed in that outcome. I think it subjects the country to serious challenges going forward and we'll have to deal with it as a Congress. be difficult to deal with. I can say that right now. They constitutionalize this. You hear people making stupid comments. Let's amend the Constitution. Okay As long as you have Democrats in the House and Senate, you're not going to get two thirds votes of the House or the Senate, plus the rin of Republicans to do anything As for a statute, the statute can't change the core fact now. This has been constitutionalized. Statutes don't change the Constitution as you well know. So we'll see what What can be done on the periphery on the fringe, but the heart of it is the heart of it Han Piker is a low life. He's a Jew hater. He is a terror supporter. is He supported these Islamist Marxist movements. He was born in the United States. He is a birthwright. baby or was Turkey, where he was radicalized and then brought back to the United States and u He's just a little example of what's going to happen and is happening to our country with this nonsense And here he is on this issue as well. Cut five go. This is such an insane And fundamentally un American comies. I really get sick and tired of Islamist comis tellell us what is un American Don't you They hate America They hate our cononstitution. This is what I always talk about. Yet now they're going to wave around the fourteenth Amendment, the ruling by Roberts and his ellk on the court Wave it around as some great victory when in fact, their whole goal is to burn down The entire constitutional construct of the country goo ahead I cannot begin to explain this to you, okay. Ellis I shut up. I don't want to hear your stupid voice You make me sick to my stomach Mhm I don't know, by now you probably saw this hearing Michael Lwler I like Mike Lawler a lot. You don't have to agree with him on everything, but I agree with him on a lot. He's just a good guy. He's in a Marginally, Blue Democrat district We have to carry districts like his in New York and other places or we can't win U, But he's a smart guy. He's a principple guy. He's a fighter And there he is. they're on this committee They have The Gorn family, the Gorman family there, among others And you have this low life Jayapa This is our fourth hearing on the subject of these of these families and what took place or We could be focused on other things like, you know, health carere and food. And there's the poor woman sitting there and you probably saw this on Fox and elsewhere. They lost their beautiful daughter She was shot. in the head She literally ran for forty feet while this animal chased her and executed her And she's saying, what could she have said in the forty feet? callalling out to her mommy, calling out to her daddy, calling out for help, knowing that she was going to be gunned down. Can you imagine? Ladies and gentlemen, can you imagine this happening to your family? Can you imagine going through this nightmare every damn second of every day Without your baby anymore The inhumanity of the Democrats. They don't want to talk about it. It's the fourth time. We're not going to talk about this And by the way, one of the things that's never been said about this birthright crack. And these open borders The inhumanity that that has involved in all these years. with hundreds of thousands of missing Children and women sold into sex slavery. Cut seven, go, Mike Lawler So while some of my colleagues may not want to hear the truth, The same outrage you feel about Renee Good and Alex Prered sh about Sharon Gorman and Lop right here So this is Jayiaaal trying to shut them down. She's the head of the comi. wing of the Democrat, but they call themselves progressive. That's comy. herear progressive it's comy And then Raskin Wh's? whose father was a big time Stalinist and started the Institute for Policy Studies. Go ahead Google it I'm Google. These are two big time comies, two big time comies. goo ahead very angel family in this country I do feel that outrage. You do not do because if you did, you support you the outrage about Alexid yourself. You should you should be ashamed. You don't belong this community. You should get the hell out of disgrace. You don't understand thege committ race. You don't understand the consecation mis of mister of disace supporting the whole. one word about get rid of wor about Alex I did I wrote a whole New York Times op et about it. You should be absolutely el yourself. M sanctuary policies that resulted in their go. The committee will be in order. mister Chairman, I just want to say we will shut up Shut up you Jckas Y victims family members testifying on sanctuary policies he's whining about This is the fourth hearing. Go ahead on that one. cutach, please go. Unfortunately, this hearing is is the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities. The fourth time. And there's many other things that we could be doing other than this I would have loved to have had some hearings on the unconstitutionality of the president's executive order on eliminating birthright citizenship This is something that the Supreme Court just ruled today in a six three majority. So why would you need a hearing, genenius Go ahead.. And yet this understand Understand Jessica Gorman, the mom of Sheridan Gorman, who was executed by this animal. is sitting there with her husband and her other daughter, her younger daughter as are other individuals whose children were murdered. due to sanctuary city policies. in blue cities and states And she's listening to this woman complain. is our fourth hearing. goo ahead that causeed so much fear and trauma across the country. We could have been discussing that Well, here's the response from Jessica Gorman, this poor mother is going through Unimaginable hell had nine go And in what world does the child who spent her life making sure no one was lonely die terrified and alone on a pier in Chicago? In what world does the girl who saw everyone become invisible to the people in power responsible for protecting her? This cannot be explained away, and it cannot be buried beneath the list of unrelated issues that you all paraded before us Thanks for telling me without telling me that, you know, you're here, but you don't want to be. This is theth this is the fourth time you had Angel families. Thanks for telling me you don't care. This cannot be buried under your slogans, your statistics or excuses, and this just can't stand You feel the agony and you share it, don't you You tear up just listening to this poor mother This family's been destroyed All over the country this takes place all over the country And the Democrats are nominating and electing in their primaries Communists Islamist with ties to Hamas indndividuals who are talking about destroying the state of Israel, Individuals are talking about nine eleven is a good thing Our country The Democrat Party is nominating these people. They're going to be serving in your United States. Congress. We have got to inform ourselves. That's why I spent an hour and a half at the beginning of this program. We've got to be the beacons here We've got to help Talk to our family and friends and acquaintances We don't push back it's over. This is our country. We can't rely on other people to do all of our are talking and battling on these things We have to do it Now you and I right here We help strengthen and give birth to the Tea Party movement. You and I right here Help get Bur to with Mark Meler in the folks The Convention of States movevement You and I right here. After the the early primers in twenty sixteen, we all pulled together when we got behind our president now, Donald Trump And we fought for him We fought against the lawfare they were using and the impeachments they were using to try and destroy them And you and I and certainly he and others We were involved in his ree election We're going to have to defend him again because they're coming after him and we'll do what we have to do you and I are uniquely positioned Not the internet, not the podcasters. They can pat themselves on their ass all they want Right here, Cervative talk radio You and I are the ones who are positioned to do something about this By God, we will I'll be right back America doesn't stand for two hundred and fifty 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 Tk and its customers will raise two hundred fifty thousand dollars for America's wararrior partartnership 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. When you switch your cell phone service to PureTalk this month, youll have an opportunity to round up to support America's warrior partartnership. PureTalk will match that donation till the total donation hits two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So get unlimited talk Unlimited text. Unlimited high speed data, just threety fourllars 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 pureTalk dot com slash Lein. that's pureTalk dot com slash LEVIN to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, Pure Talk Again, that's pureTalk dot com slash Lvin. Let me come back. We have a montage for you from to Studio on X. Democratic Socialists of America. stop using that phrase. We will use it to identify them but then we will use the Correct nomenclature. The Marxist Islamists who seek to destroy our. Have you noticed how young the people are who they're electing? Not in all cases, but the vast majority. twenty nine years old An immigrant from Africa Or you got an immigrant from from somewhere in the Middle East. Or you got an immigrant from China Crazy, isn't it I wonder why it's happening. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's not by happenstance It's not a coincidence It's plot. It's a strategy. It's playing out right before your eyes. And you know what Jaquim Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer are doing about it They're embracing it. They're cowards, they hope they can survive. They'll be gobbled up too From America's revolutionary War to Israel's fight for survival in nineteen forty eight, both nations have faced moments that tested their courage, yet freedom endured. Through generations of challenge and triumph, America and Israel have stood as beacons of courage, democracy and faith. bound by shared values and a common belief in freedom. The United States and Israel continue to stand together As allies, as friends and as partners in the cause of peace and security. As America celebrates its two hundred fiftieth anniversary, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews honors the enduring friendship between the United States and Israel. Two nations united by faith, liberty, and hope. You can show your solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people by requesting your free US Israel flag pin fromr the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. We're proudly to show your unwavering support for both countries. Sign up to receive a free USA Israel flagpin when you go online to Levinf thefellship. org. That's L EVN for thefellowship d. org 's here Now broadcasting them from the underground command puzzle in the vs of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader Mark. Lved N Hello America, Mark Leivin here, our number eight seven seven, three eight one, three, eight one, one, eight, seven, seven, three eight one, three eight one, one Here's a montage from Stu Stu stududio on X, Democrat Socialists of America, in other words, Marxist Islamist top leader David Jenkins This is David Jenkins ten go I mean, our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism. My name is David Jenkins. I'm a lifelong New Yorker, and today I am again calling on the city cououncil to disband the NYPD's brutal, unnecessary strategic response group and directly divert its funding to any any of the public services fellow New Yorkers have called for today. I'm planning to run for the NPC at Cvention under the Banner of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. We're a diverse body of liibertarian socialists, liibertarian Marxists, anarchists, left communists and other schools of f within the sort of left wing socialist movement I joined DSA in twenty twenty and found a home in the Racial Justice Working Group and the Dund NYPD campaign before getting heavily involved in tenate organizing, Red rabbits, and eventually helping start the Flapbush branch in Brooklyn and serving on the first orrganizing commommittee as campaign coordinator As an anti fascist and an abolitionist, and to my knowledge, the only DSA member at a counter prrotest on january sixth, twenty twenty one in Washington, DC So I understand and have lived the stakes of impending fascism And after years of healing and reflecting on that experience, the thing that I have brought back to my DSA organizing is the necessity for us to fire on all cylinders and to do everything all the time all at once and actually work together. And we're not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us for these testimonies because that's where this is going Remember that when you vote. Between theZuran campaign and our base building work in building trust in relationships and real socialism in our neighborhoods and communities, okay? So my coherent vision for what I would want to coordinate is through socialism is the people, not better branding. and the anti Zionist resolution, which will help unleash amazing outline of potential organizing plans and the immediate steps of the Hundred Days campaign, All these things work together Gee, we never heard stuff like this before, have we N Never heard stuff like this before, have we And who is this guy? What's he done? Nothing And we've been organizing and we're organizing and yes, and we're organizing this group and that group and we this and that. And just imagine if the guy to work for a living It's easy to organize an attack and so forth and so on. The fllatbush branch in Brooklyn and the part of the Red Rabbits and the racial justice Wking group and they defund the NYPD campaign. Oh, I've been involved in I got a hell of a resume These are crack pots, They're scumbags. Andere's a montage on Fox News Monday, New Yorkers voting for socialism Cut eleven G New York City had a bunch of primaries last week. We saw a bunch of socialist candidates win. didid you happen to vote in those primaries? I did. Do you feel comfortable sharing who you voted for? I vote for Brad Lander. I voted pretty much down the line for those socialist candidates. If you had the opportunity, would you vote for a socialist? A hundred percent. Why? Because it's better for the people. No one even knows what socialism means. okay, No no one knows what capitalism means. They're just like all buzzwords. We're talking about like real issues on the ground here. That's what Zoron is all about. Where is one place where socialism has worked? I wouldn't know, but I'd like to see. That really isn't my concern. You know, Cuba has done pretty well despite like all of the sanctions. Would you wantan to go live in Cuba? If America would stop interfering with Cuba. What is one thing you would like to see happen tomorrow to make us more socialist? Everybody has health care, everyverybody has free education. I love the United States. I'm a true patriot. I'm staying here. I'm sticking with it, and I'm going to fight the fascists who are currently in charge of the federal government But don't we have free education already In other words Many of us pay for us and others, but K through twelve. And there's also a colleges and universities that will subsidize people, but that's not even the point They went free education. Free health care free rent free public transportation And that gets you what exactly, Mr and Mrs. America. Nothing we're dealing with causes that are the causes of mental midgets These people even sound stupid, don't they No level of maturity or experience or knowledge. They're not informed about anything Crazy Crazy Th then we have Premelia Jayapal. All these people who are first are second generation imports And yet we used to have first or second generation migrants who really wanted to be Americans. Apparently that's not the case. They want to come to America to destroy it. We don't even talk about assimilation anymore So a country's doomed that doesn't assimilate its migrants and We're not only not assimilating our migrants, we're bringing in migrants who want to destroy our country. Now, that's not going to last too long, is it And I want to thank the Supreme Court not for that great contribution yesterday, which we spent a lot of time on, so I won't repeat myself Here's this Pmilia Jayiaal Cut tw go. I just first want to ask you to respond to what President Trump said. His quote was they use the word social Democrat because it sounds so nice, but it's really communism you're talking about I mean, he is ridiculous, but the No he's not ridiculous. He's absolutely accurate You are a communist. They don't know whether to admit it, embrace it publicly or not But they eventually get there, don't they? Go ahead is because he knows socialism is really popular. So Socialism is popular. with people who have never really tried it. But people who live under it hate it. Go ahead turn this into communism when he knows that the ideas that social Democrats are running on, that progressives are running on, universal health carevers will say you can only win in the bluest to blue areas You can only Win in the bluest to blue areas, you're not going to be able to win in general elections in state center. marginal for Democrats. That's not going to happen, I don't believe Susan Collins has moved ahead of this guy Platner. We'll see if that holds. I hope so. Mister Berdu, so we gott to get Mike Rogers back on here We want to help him out. We also got to bring Watley in here from North Carolina. someome of these Some of these other states see what we can do to help them out D There's not widespread support for this in the country. Maybe in the Democrat Party, maybe in a faction of the Democrat Party, but certainly not in the country. But the problem is There doesn't have to be widespread support, as I've mentioned many, many times these Marxist and fascist revolutions H have never been majority revolutions Never. When you look at, for example Cuba basically it was Castro and about sixty gerillas Guurerella fighters in the New York Times When you look at Lenon, Lenon was brutal during the revolution and after About thirty, thirty five percent of the population. That's it Same with Mao Same amount Even the best of the revolution' Rs had maximum forty percent support of the public. So it's not the majority that's revolting I'm just pointing this out because I think it's important Go ahead, mister Paddus. Health care, making sure that people get paid higher wages. Those are We don't make sure anything happens You know makeakes sure those things happen People who run small businesses and large businesses, people who invest in capital peoplee who work every day T ten, twelve hours a day with their hands They're the ones who create the jobs and the opportunities and everything else. not slezeballs like you You create nothing I'll be right back. M L in Just like youd do if your online store converted thirty six percent more shoppers. You could take thirty six percent more vacation, another pina Corado? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. with thirty six percent more square feet. Fantastic. Hire thirty six percent more help. You're hired and you're hired. 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I look at the term heroes for those that didn't come home, I was a warrior and I got to serve with you know at the time, fifty other amazing warriors find ourselves in Afghanistan in zero nine or at a place called comombat Outpost Kating that if you look up def sensible positions, it's kind of the opposite definition of that And on october third, two thousand nine it Starting about zero six in the morning, we got hit by a Taliban force of about three hundred fighters. Right off the bat, things just went bad to worse. know Right away, we lose Kevin Thompson up at the Morder pit. Then we lose Joshua Kirk and we lose Suz. And all of this is happening within the first ten, fifteen minutes of contact. And you know that day was one of those days where I don't remember much about being scared for myself or any of that. It was I had a couple of simple rules taken guys overseas. That was my third combat deployment. and I always told them like, we're all going over, but we're all not coming back As I was talking about that, I meant aive, but I just couldn't imagine returning back home and seeing a goold star family member and telling them I couldn't bring their loved one back because the tactic at the time if the Taliban could get the body of an American soldier, that was a huge thing. And at one point we were isolated and cut off from about eight guys. So the mission for us that point was not just to survive, but to make sure that when we survived this ordeal that we brought everybody home. So I was able to with the help of five amazing men, asked for a group of volunteers, went out, leted a counter attack, recaptured our ammo supply point shut the front gate that had been breached, pushed the enemy out of the outpost and eventually recovered the seven fallen guys that day and unfortunately, one that was very seriously injured was Stehan Mace. who I passed away of from his injuriesater later that evening after that fifteen hour firefight. I'm really sorry. I'm sure you reated that over and over and over again But I think they'd all be proud of you Clint what you're doing right now and what you've been doing And you clearly deserve the medal And really get you receive it for yourself and for all these other heroes. but You deserved it very, very much. You know Pure Talk is one of our great, great sponsors for a very long period of time. I'm a big fan. It was founded by a vet. They're very veteran oriented, Americanism and patriotism oriented onene of the great you know mobile phone service companies And the founder I say is like David against three Golias. He just decided he would start this company them on people can actually get an affordable Fair monthly rate for their service. and Patriotism extends into America's Warrior partartnership. Please explain. Y relationship to all this and what pure talkal is doing I guess I'll start with talking a little bit about America Warrior Partnership. I've been blessed with been with this organization for almost a decade now and it was kind of founded on the mission of just empowering veterans and empowering communities. to improve and save lives. as we like to say, we're not a suicide prevention program. I don't I think you can see what The VA is done throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at suicide prevention. What we look at is Lowering suicide is going to be the outcome of doing great work and is again, going back to provide hopefulness to those veterans by empowering them letting them take ownership, plugging them back in with their local communities, the local veteran service organizations that know I always say the best way to solve problems is at the lowest level. L they know exactly what they need. And every veteran is unique in whatever they're facing the vast majority of veterans are doing incredibly well. And I think we kind of highlight too much of the who is me kind of mentality that we think every veteran is broken, but that's truly not the case. There are veterans out there that do need that help And that's where AWP steps in is by, like I said, empowering those communities, directing them to resources that are out there. We advocate for those veterans when they hit the stumbling blocks. We educate them. We love to collaborate with other, know they said, there's no one perfect way to do something, but there are great nonprofits out there that specialize in it and not one's going to be able to do everything, but if you're collaborating and connecting with all of them, you can figure out kind of that one view one approach for what veterans are facing. And then that's where as you talked about, peer talk comes in Vveeran values right there. The leadership of the company is veteran based. They understand what it means that when you tell someone you're going to do something, you do it, you use it by your actions, not your words, you show it. And so they've been stepping up time and time again. And right now with the America's two hundred fiftieth coming up, They're targeting to raise two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for America's Warrior partartnership. Again, a great company that sits there and provides. reasonable, affordable phones one hundred percent US based customer service, not farming it out overseas to really put their money where their mouth is, to show that They they're a company of doers and not takers. And they're going to match up to a quarter of a million dollars as you point out, when customers sort of up their bill a little bit, say it's a thirty eight dollars and they say, all right, I'm going to throw in fifty cents. thirty eight dollars and fifty cents. Part Pk says, all right, I'll match that fifty cents If youre throw in ten dollars, they'll match the ten dollars all the way up to a quarter of a million dollars And u I just want to talk a little bit more about where this goes, the disproportionate number of vets are homeless versus the rest of the population. And you also raised an important point which is look Let's get stereotyped too often and too much You know, they're mentally ill, they're this, theyre that. That's not the case. They have a population within the population who are suffering from various maladies, just like the general population. but There's more suffering in certain cases as a result of of what they've been through and that's what you're trying to address. So There's a disproportionate amount of homeless homelessness among vets, there' not Rich are we there I think we might have got disconnected for just. Here we go. We got you back. We got you now, Clint I wasm just saying there's a disproportionate amount of home homelessness among vets, isn't there? That's what I've re you know, we've seen the increase of homelessness and the veteran population versus the kind of average American, the suicide rate obviously is is higher among the veteran community early deaths by disease, you know, there's a lot of contributing factors as we take the approach though, it's We got to know that there's almost sixteen million veterans out there in the US right now and I think the VA is connected with maybe nine million of them We need to know all of them because each and everyone is different, eachach and everyone is unique. And what we've noticed through America Waror Partnership and the incredible program that they partnered up at PerTalk with theeeds. org. No know, it's that early intervention That makes the world a difference. We've had veterans that have came in that have missed a car payment because of that. Now they're losing a job and because they're losing their job, they're losing their house. To be able to step in early to help them with the car payment. Don't hang up, hold on. We gotta take a hardart break. Don't leave us. We'll be right back with Clint Romashen This episode is brought to you by San Pelegrino Cao A gift from Italy to your home. San Pellegrino cho is a flavored sparkling water made with real fruit juice, finished with a pinch of Sicilian salt for a perfectly balanced taste So which flavor will you choose? Pach Lime, blood orange, cherry, or maybe the all newew limoncello Crafted in Italy with zero grams of added sugar, San Pellegrino Chao Buy it now But then, the thunder on the right. callall in now eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Clint Romoet is a medal of honor recipient Abassador for Pure Talk and America's wararrior partartnership. I wanted to dig a little bit further into this with you. Um, The mental health issues They seem to be the toughest to tackle lth and Since you're working this really every day, what do you see a lot of it goes to from what I've seen, there's so many contributing factors to it. Part of it, I think, does go to for the last You know decade plus, we really kind of harped on we've made veterans feel just absolutely broken where there's no hopefulness going forward. And we've got to change that narrative and that's partially on the veterans the seventy plus percent that are doing very well to get out there and share their stories. Look, know I got out of the Army in twenty eleven I didn't know what I was doing. My transition was scary just like everybody else's. I hadn't received the medal yet and I came work in oilfields in North Dakota. because my thought process was, you know I think we owe our veterans so much, but on a personal level, I don't think I should be given anything other than the opportunity to prove myself. And I think if we can embrace that We can't keep living in the past. Our military service and what we've been through will always be a part of us. But if we're not looking forward to tomorrow, what can we do as I like to say to improve our foxhold. And I think a lot of veterans in that mental health aspect hit those walls, they're looking for something, they reach out for something, and sometimes the VA can be a battle of attrition. Sometimes it's know you're disconnected from the guys you were with or guys and gals you served with onemployment. So I can tell you to this day, still at Raz's feet and like. I've lived that close to that guy and would' built such a big bond, and then all of a sudden you find yourself when you transition out hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from those guys that you live with day in and day out for so long. But it's reestablishing that that's one chapter of your life. and we as veterans need to embrace that we have done something that we'll never forget, but that can't be for forever who we are, nor should we feel entitled to just be given any and everything, we have to still go earn it and prove it to ourselves. Very beautifully put. Well, I want to thank you for your service. I want to thank you for what you're doing for others, what you did for others and what they did with you when you were in battle. And u Clint Romochet, and God bless you very, very much, my friend. Thanks for all you're doing thank you very much for having me, Mark. and to your listeners out there, any of the veterans that you guys need anything, you're always going to have a battle buddy to have your back. You never did anything alone while you're in the service and you're never going to do anything alone after the service. So use a reach out. You're very special Thanks a lot, Clint Romachet, and he's The recipient of the Medal of Honor is the Ambassador for Pure Talk and America's Warrior Partnership. God bless you, my friend Let's take some calls. We are loaded. Charlie. Sunnyvale, California, the great KSFO, Charlie, what street are you on Sunnyvae? We spent a little while on Sunnyvale Eagle dririve near my homestead and S Siruk Avenue, Ciruck Snyvill. His sts donoughuts still around there I a couple of years ago, I thought, yeah, I think so. Well before I get over there and I recommend it strongly that I've never had better donoughnut than it stands still At my age, it's to give them my best. Well, if you go over there, maybe they'll give you a free doughut. I don't know Go right ahead. I sure will All right. Here's my idea. I hope you will support I Birthright citizen. President. B the way, by the way, Waxwing Avenue is where we were for a little while. Little Waxwing Avenue. Go ahead. Rite off Thell is it called Lawrenceville or Lawrence whatever it is. Anyway go ahead. Lwrence Eresway, ye. Yeah. President Trump is making bilateral trade agreements with every country around the world. Why not include a provision dealing with jurisdiction of children born in the United States? For example, An agreement with Mexico would say for the purpose of determining Citizenship We both agree, Mexico and US, that Mexico will have exclusive legal jurisdiction in determining the citizenship of that child and vice versa, if US parents have a child in Mexico, we both agree as a bilaterical international agreement that the US will have exclusive if I'm the parent, I like the idea. it's very, very thoughtful, but if I'm the parent, what do I say Excuse me What's the Constitution say, according to the Supreme Court Well, international agreements. No, no, no, no no. They don't they don't trrump the Constitution If I'm the parent of an individual right now Under the fourteenth Amendment Even if I'm the illegal this iss how absurd it is. The illegal alien parent. Say excuse me, I had my child in America. They're an American citizen. so says the Supreme Court of the United States. But we have an agreement with Mexico. okay, It's null and void in her case because she says no No, but we're making an agreement that jurisdiction is no longer in the United States. We do this on other legal matters. We know, but we don't have a Supreme Court ruling like this, okay What I'm trying to tell you is They took the fourteenth Amendment They said that that baby is an American citizen Cry it. You understand what I'm saying?. So there's no statutory way out of this There's no international agreement a way out of this. There's no way out of this Okay, here'skay, G't give one a counter. I'm doing my best, but you don't want to, you don't want to accept it. but go ahead Okay. the only reason why, I mean, it is custom, the reason why foreign diplomats have immunity. Not everybody at the embassy has the same immunity is because of international agreements. There's nothing in the fourteenth Amendment that says Diplats Isn't that weird It's very weird. And yet the court has made that exception. Now why did they make that exception because of internet because they wanted to In fact, this is one of the arguments I made. How can we have any exceptions to the way they're doing this? Well we can and we will You're exactly right. Thank you for taking my call. Charlie, I'm sorry. Don't be mad at me I'm furious about the whole damn thing, be honest with you A, you take care. Tlie's a smart dude there. Let's go to JD. Las Vegas, Nevada, great affiliate KD WN. JD. I thought you're busy hawking your book all over Fox or something. What are you doing Yeah, I got to monitor my Gppel ganger. Mark, first, before I say anything, Your interview with Clint, God bless you, God bless him. and I've been neglectful and I'm going to go to Pure talk.. I want to thank Clint for everything that he has done. He is truly a great American. And was he incredible there in the interview? J Just incredible This shows how good our military is, how smart and how how they do things correctly all the time. reg in regard to this birthright Robert's crap, I cannot believe. I'm eighty one years old, Mark. I've followed politics s nineteen fifty six Eisenhower's reelection. It's a love of mine I don't understand since the Cold War after the Second Worar War, no FBI director, no CIA director, no president, senator or congressman, have realized the inherent danger of having, as Sweitzer in his book said, one point four mil four Chinese birthright citizens in nineteen ninety seven, probably a million Mexicans, who knows if only ten or fifteen Muslim terrorists are in this country through that, that they did not see the danger. And you know, I've been saying this Locally to my friends and talk radio locally, these people can come back to the United States after eighteen years of indoctrination of communism. They can go to Harvard, Yale, they can go to they can run for Congress. they can run for the Senate. they can serve in the FBI, they can serve in the CIA They can serve in Department of Homeland Security They are American citizens And this is one of the things that Alito slammed He said that the majority of the Roberts is creating a dire national security issue for this country and he was one hundred percent correct. one hundred percent correct Don't get mad at me. I've got a hard break, great call, Las Vegas. Thank you, brother. We'll be right back. M Lin This is going to be an extremely busy month I have to watch one hundred and four soccer games, follow the pre game, the post game, yell useless opinions at the TV It's a lot So I knew that when it comes to screening for colon cancer, the choice was clear. The Ca Guard plus test. It can be used at home and can only take fifteen minutes, so I can do it during halftime and not miss any action If you are forty five or older and at average risk, ask your healthcare provider about screening for colon cancer with the Cgard test. You can also request a prescription at colgard dot com d Let's keep rolling, shall we? Yes, we can. Ed. Corona, California, Sirus XM satellite How are you Ed? I'm doing great, Mark. Thank you for taking my call here. I got a couple of quick things. I want to get to Fetterman. But before I get to that, as These so called moderate Democrats, I can't believe that they're hiding under rocks Pretty soon these marses, they have to know that these marses know where they're at. they're going flither under that rock and they're going to take them out. And I can't believe that they don't see that whichich brings me to Fetterman I wish he was well spoken and I wish he talked with a little bit more fire in his belly to bring some of these guys out from under the. Just remember he's got a handicap as a result of a horrible stroke that almost took his life He may go independent. He may run as an independent Um I think he's doing all he can. I really do. I think the quQuizlings are people like Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania and some of these others They are pathetic Absolutely pathetic. All right, what else E' bothfid. Well, that's that was my point. It just, you know, we're going to need the I agree with you, the Republicans and the conservatives. We're going to do our part But boy, we are going to need some help from some of these Democrats. Let me also tell you this, the Republican primary, I think you're going to see a pretty significant competition there Of course, JD wants to be president. I don't know if Marco does or not, quite frankly be nice if he did, but we want a robust primary, I do. You never know Ted Cruz looks like he might be interested. Maybe Ron DeSantis is interested. Maybe Junkin's interested I don't doubt that Haley might want to jump in. I'm not saying I oppose or support all these people. I'm just saying that that'll be healthy. because this whole nationalism populism crap. I have Absolutely no support for this I like good old constitutional conservatism And I think the vast majority of MAGa which is tea party Uh I think they agree So we'll see There's only one Donald Trump. There's only going to be one Donald Trump. And he's quite a remarkable individual All right, Ed, thank you my friend Len Mineral wheels, Texas, Sirus XM satellite. G right ahead please Thank you, Sir, for taking my call. It's an honor to speak to you likewise. And Thank you, sir. You know I I got out of the military forty four years ago. And I believe one of the questions and when you go to buy a firearm is are you ever or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? And I'm pretty sure that disqualifies you from both of the you know, the prior comments. shouldhouldn't it Is that still a question? I don't remember. We have a ton of firearms. It's been a while since I bought one It used to be a question if you wanted to work in the civil service in the government Who the hell knows? probablyrob now you're required to have spent some time in there. Thank you, my brother for your service. We salute our Armed Forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel light, our truckers The men and women in Israel, the men and women in Ukraine, you' kicking some ass The men and women in Persia willll see you tomorrow, America Glift