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Now, broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike Love, and. Well, American Mark Levin, our number is eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Radio Free America. Can't do much on the Internet anymore, can we, Mr. Producer?

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Can't do much on The Washington Post in The New York Times, can we, Mr. Producer? NBC, ABC, CBS, no. Not much. This. And once a week on Fox, that's about it. And our friends on Blaze TV on digital. The Democrat Party in the left controls virtually all. Forms of communication. Big media, big tech. Really quite remarkable, one party rule is becoming the. The norm. A couple of friends of mine who work in the administration.

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Said that the Washington, D.C. area looks like an absolute Third World military encampment. There's military everywhere, there's military at intersections. You have to show your ID to get in and get out. I also wrote a piece that the National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol and this is in the blaze were cleared to use lethal force. So there's no more concern about appearances and optics and whether or not the military can use loaded weapons. That those days are over.

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And as I've said before, capital needs to be protected. There's no question about that. My my rub was with the fact that the White House and other federal institutions, they came under attack, these very same leftists in Congress and in the media.

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Didn't seem to have any kind of an urgency, symmetric Mattis and Kelly and others said you better not bring in any military. When the president was thinking of using the Insurrection Act. And of course, his administration has had to sign off on the use of the National Guard. There's going to be 25000 military unarmed National Guard troops for security, noting that they were serving at the Capitol in a support role that has changed. On Tuesday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy authorized the thousands of troops providing security in the area around the capital to use lethal force, reports The New York Times.

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On January 12, twenty twenty one National Guardsmen were given authorization to be armed in support of the U.S. Capitol Police to protect the U.S. Capitol and individual members of Congress and their staff. Guardsmen are trained in the use of lethal and less than lethal force de-escalation techniques, as well as the use of protective equipment. This is standard for civil disturbance response missions, the statement continued. The move was requested by federal authorities and authorized by the secretary of Army. McCarthy made his decision after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that the Pentagon take a more muscular posture after a mob.

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Egged on by the president says The New York Times breached the Capitol. Now this is what is really disgusting to me. The mob egged on by the president, this is now the narrative for the rest of the time. For the rest of the time. And some of the media even circling back like the Post in The New York Times saying, you know, people are not making excuses for the president. All this preplanned stuff that was going on.

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Well, these aren't excuses for anybody. They are facts. They are facts and some of us do not wish to participate. In deception. I do not wish to participate in deception. And it's interesting, Nancy Pelosi was available for questions today. Mitch McConnell, I suppose. And to the best of my knowledge, I have to admit, I haven't monitored all of it, but I've looked to the best of my knowledge, neither have been asked what they knew and when they knew what, if anything.

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Even though the former head of the Capitol Police said he told the sergeant of arms of the House who reports to Pelosi and the sergeant arms to the Senate, reports to McConnell that we needed more National Guard. And I I just want to know what those two politicians said or knew. But that's apparently too complicated. And even asking the question is a problem, apparently, but I'll ask whatever questions I wish. The end of the 19th century. Saw the rise of a movement.

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Fairly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation's founding, the so-called progressive movement. Now, they call themselves progressives, but they're statists. Now, progressivism was imported from Europe. And we result in a radical break from America's heritage fact. It's best described as an elitist driven counterrevolution to the American Revolution.

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Which the sovereignty of the individual natural law, natural rights and the civil society built on a foundation of thousands of years of enlightened thinking and human experience, will be drastically altered and even abandoned for an ideological agenda broadly characterized as historic progress.

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I'm telling you something that virtually no members on Capitol Hill who are Republican even comprehend. And certainly the mouthpieces in the media, whether they comprehend it or not, don't give a damn. This idea of progressivism and the inevitability of historical progress and the perfectibility of man and his self realization through the national community are the collective. Is an ideology that was imported from Germany. From Hegel, from Marx, from Engels. But also Ruso, I suppose. While it's intellectual and political advocates close its core and populist terminology.

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Despite the existence of democratic institutions and cyclical voting.

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Progressivism emphasis on material egalitarianism, and you hear it every day, and social engineering and its insistence on concentrated, centralized administrative rule lead inescapably to varying degrees of autocratic governance.

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And you see that now. Moreover, for progressives, there are no absolute or permanent truths, only passing a distant, distant historical events. This is from rediscovering Americanism. That's even values are said to be relative to time and circumstances like the 16 19 project, of course. There's no eternal moral order that is that what that what was true and good in 1776 and before is not necessarily true and good today.

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So the very purpose of America's founding is debased and you hear that and you see that over and over and over again.

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When I was doing research. For this book, Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism, I came across a fascinating letter. One that doesn't get much attention. It was a letter to John Adams from Thomas Jefferson. And it was dated December 10, 1819. It's a fascinating letter. While reflecting on the reasons for the demise of the Roman Empire. It described the basic elements of liberty and good government with an emphasis on virtuous people. The letter. To Adams from Jefferson said, I've been amusing myself latterly.

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With reading the voluminous letters of Cicero, Cicero was a prominent senator in Rome who Caesar eventually had executed. Brilliant man. They certainly breed the present effusions of an exalted patriot. While the parasites Caesars left an odious contrast. When the enthusiasm, however kindled by Caesar's pen and principal, subsides into cool reflection. I asked myself. What was the government, with the virtues of Cicero, were so zealous to restore and the ambition of Caesar to subvert? So Jefferson's asking himself.

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Cicero, so brilliant, gave his life. Basically challenging the establishment. Cesar. And if Cesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plentitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens in a good government? So he sang. Cesar was an all powerful dictator. He was an emperor. There was an upper. Could he have actually led his citizens in a good government if that was his mindset?

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Jefferson says, I do not say to restore it because they never had it. From the rape of the Sabines to the ravages of the Caesars, if their people indeed had been like ours, enlightened, peaceable and really free, the answer would be obvious restore independence to all your foreign conquests.

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Relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consulted as a nation entitled to self-government and do its will.

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That's steeped in corrupt advice and venality, as the whole nation was, and nobody had done more than Caesar to corrupt it. What could even Cicero, Kaito, Brutus have done, the great three thinkers, scholars, activists. Really for representative Republicanism. He says, what could they have done had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country? In other words, even if they were in control, what could they have done with this country?

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They had no ideas of government themselves. But other degenerate Senate. Nor the people of liberty, but of the factitious opposition of their tribunes. In other words, he's saying so corrupt was the society. So corrupt was their government. What could these three wise men even do if they had the power to do it? They had their Trojans and others. Who had the will to make them happy in the. I did not see their way clearly to do it.

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No government can continue good, but under the control of the people and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. The Reformation then was to be taken up from infancy. Their minds were to be informed by education, what is right, what is wrong to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vise by the dread of punishments proportioned indeed, but irreversibly in all cases, to follow truth as to the only safe guide.

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And if. So in other words, even if you teach them good from evil. Good ethics, good morals. What then? He gets this point. In other words, were the Roman people. Really capable. Love embracing and digesting such things. These are the inculcation necessary to render the people as a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two, at least, within which period would have succeeded many Niros who could have quashed the whole process.

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So he's saying the people. We're without VirTra. The greatest scholars, the greatest activists, the greatest minds couldn't fix that. Not in time. Regardless of what kind of government they had. I confess that I can neither see what Cicero, Kato and Brutus united and uncontrolled. Could have devised to lead their people into good government. Nor how this enigma can be solved, nor how further shown that anybody to go back with our principles and opinions to the times of Cicero and Brutus and tell us by what process these great and virtuous men could have led so unenlightened and vitiated of people into freedom and good government.

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In other words, the people were irredeemably lost. No matter what anybody could do, he said, that's the difference between Rome and America. I'll be right back. Much love in. I know you love freedom. How do I know that? Because you listen to my show and my show and everything I do is all about preserving freedom and the form of government that secures it for us. It's the same with Hillsdale College, one of the very best truly liberal arts colleges in the nation.

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I'm told by Mr. Producer you've had a few drop outs on the technology here. We seem to have a lot of problems on this program when it comes to technical quality. I can't tell you why we had a little problem with this on yesterday's show, but apparently are.

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Crack folks who are supposed to address this didn't do anything effective. But they need to do something effective now. And I want to apologize to you because it's very unprofessional. I have no explanation for. After the bottom of the hour, I'm going to read your piece in The Washington Post by a fellow by the name of Aaron Blake. We've pointed out Aaron Blake before.

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I want to show you how there's an attempt, a very vile, grotesque attempt by the likes of Aaron Blake.

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And he's not alone to write the history of the events in the last week, despite new information that's coming out. We call this propaganda in The Washington Post and The New York Times and the rest of them. They really are not journalists. These people, these are not really journals of news. They are absolutely propaganda papers. And I'll prove it to you when we return. I know you love freedom. How do I know that? Because you listen to my show and my show and everything I do is all about preserving freedom and the form of government that secures it for us.

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Visit Lhevinne for Hillsdale Dotcom. That's Levien for Hillsdale Dotcom. Lhevinne for Hillsdale Dotcom. Mark Levin, tough as hell. That's why I like Mark Levin and I'm not sure a lot of people like him. He's tough as hell, but I like him.

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I love a call now eight seven seven thirty eight one three eight one one Politico Feds back away from claim the capital riders were looking to capture and assassinate officials, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwen told reporters today. This is from Politico that prosecutors don't have concrete proof of such an effort.

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The lead prosecutor overseeing the investigation into the capital riot backed away Friday from his suggestion in a court filing.

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The participants in the takeover of Congress last week were seeking to take officials prisoner, potentially even execute them, images of intruders with zip tie, handcuffs and video of protesters chanting Hang Mike Pence have led many lawmakers and other observers to conclude that some in the crowd were intentionally capturing and possibly killing prisoners. However, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Schmidt told reporters Friday the prosecutors don't have concrete proof of such an effort. Right now, we don't have any direct evidence of kill captured team, Sherwen said.

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Sherwin's contention undercut the flat assertions made by federal prosecutors in Arizona, who described in a court filing Thursday what they called strong evidence that Capitol rioters intended to, quote, capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government, unquote. The D.C. prosecutor suggested those claims were the product of miscommunication or lack of coordination or what has become a sprawling investigation. Seeking to question and arrest suspects have returned to their home states after traveling to Washington for the pro Trump protests that turned violent.

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There are other prosecutors. They may be a disconnect that may be adding information that's not directly to excuse me, related to what we have said Sherwin.

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And it goes on. We need the facts. We don't get the facts. And in the case of too many news outlets, we're getting propaganda, not the facts. And the other day I pointed out that we need a commission like we had on 9/11 to get to the bottom of all of this. But here's a piece five hours ago by Aaron Blake in the wall in The Washington Post. The worst defenses of Trump on the Capitol riot.

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You know, so we're not talking about Biden. And his radical plans that he has for America. But he goes on this guy in the weeks plus since the storming of the Capitol. Actually, that's not where it starts. Here's his first paragraph on January six, misinformation promoted by President Trump and his allies fomented a violent attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. And since then, similar misinformation has been used to try and explain it all away. This guy is a radical propagandist.

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As her gaining more and more facts, what he should be doing is adjusting his propaganda, but instead he doubles, triples, quadruples down. I mean, if this were the case, wouldn't the Russia collusion stuff that went on year after year after year be the basis for for writing and and all the rest that took place?

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No ties are made to the Democrat Party or anything of the sort, he says in the week plus since the storming of the Capitol, narratives have quickly emerged, excusing Trump and his supporters of culpability.

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Well, maybe Trump and his supporters, other than the people who rushed the Capitol building, don't have culpability.

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Often they lack any real substantiation, other times they've quickly been contradicted, yet still others present strawman and knocking down an argument that's not actually being made. This guy sounds like a commentator on CNN, but let's run through some of them, he says. It was antifa or other provocateurs. Now, surprise that the vast majority of commentators I know conservatives never said it was antifa or other provocateurs. What I've said is I want to know who these people are.

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Now, why does that assume it's antifa other provocateurs? I wouldn't know who these people are, what their backgrounds are. I want to make sure that they are punished. Under our justice system. This was the initial narrative promoted by Trump and his allies, despite there being no real evidence to back it up. How could that be promoted by Trump, Mr. Producer, when Mr. Trump was banned from the Internet for all intents and purposes?

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The idea was simple, this wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and some ne'er do wells were just trying to make Trump look bad. Who said that? And by the way, they did find a couple, at least one BLM guy there had identified members of Antifa in the crowd, but the article turned out to be wrong and was corrected. Representative Paul Gosar baselessly speculated the same day as the attack that it was a false flag event. Axios even reported this week that Trump has been pushing this narrative behind closed doors with his Twitter band perhaps being all that's preventing him from directly sharing it with the world.

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Pushing it behind closed doors with his Twitter ban, preventing him from sharing it with the world. It's amazing how much Aaron Blake knows without investigating anything. I just read you a story in Politico that corrected a story, I think that was in The Washington Post and elsewhere about the attempt to kidnap, catch and murder members of Congress. It's not true, according to the acting U.S. attorney in Washington.

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So what was that all about, Mr. Blake? In other words, folks, this situation is enough of a powder keg that we don't need hotheads and propagandists like Blake and others to keep pouring fuel on the fire, but they can't help it. This is who they are. They can't help it. Advocates, it goes on to this theory, have since begun to seize upon the arrest of one man involved in the scenes, John Sullivan. Sullivan doesn't fit the mold of a Trump supporter.

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In fact, he's a self-described racial justice activist. He's actually a member of Black Lives Matter. Trump's personal lawyer. Giuliani late Thursday use the arrest to again point the finger at alleged R.A.F. involvement and talked about it on his podcast. Donald Trump Jr. liked a tweet highlighting Sullivan's role. Well, what does that have to do? They didn't like a tweet he retweeted.

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And is it that important information? What is it that Aaron Blake wants? Should that information not be provided, should it not be retweeted? Is it possible that there were some non Trump supporting provocateur provocateurs in the crowd that stormed the Capitol? Listen to this, of course, was a big crowd. But just don't point them out, that's all. There's no evidence that they actually led the charge. As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said during the impeachment debate this week, you see this is what happens when you're poorly educated.

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I don't mean that he didn't go to a great school, but he takes opinion, takes a little cherry pick facts, makes it, but pushes his narrative. It doesn't matter here.

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He's quoting McCarthy, who doesn't know any more than anybody else on his floor speech.

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To counter information about this guy who has a left wing background. Nobody's saying that that demonstrates that they were all left wingers, certainly not me, but it's a piece of information people want to know. Yet the narrative persists and has landed with force, with a poll this week showing 74 percent of Republicans believe Antifa was indeed involved or was actively involved. Was 84 involved? Also, during the impeachment debate this week, Representative Brian Massa, now they're going to attack mass because Jake Tapper did.

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Highlighted a variation of the above theory, the idea that whoever these people were, whomever these people were, they weren't acting on Trump's behalf or more directly at his request. As Philip Bump wrote afterward, Philip Bump, that's another reporter for The Post. We've dealt with a fist bump. The one nobody had indeed been brought to answer that question in the House's proceedings, there are examples of those who participated, citing Trump's invitation. One man, Jacob Tansley, also known as Kuhnen Shaman, told investigators he was there, according to court documents, at the request of the president that all patriots come to D.C. on January six, 20, 21.

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What does that have to do with anything? Politicians are always gathering at rallies and gathering people at rallies. What does that have to do with anything? So this guy heard it. And he showed up, so what? Now, what Blake doesn't do a show is that the president said now charge the building violence. Everybody's looked at this, everybody's gone over his language, whether it's Charlie or Dershowitz or whether it's Shapiro of the who used to prosecute cases like this or me or whatever.

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So they have to infer and project that's what this entire articles about. He's insisting Trump did this. The preplanning by some shows Trump didn't incite, another prevalent argument is that the increasing evidence that preplanning by some involved in the attempted insurrection suggests Trump didn't actually incite them. This is in many ways a straw man argument whether Trump bears any responsibility for his comments at the rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol. That's hardly the only thing he did, which has been saying, let's stop there.

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Notice he doesn't go into the timeline that The New York Times in his own newspaper actually provided directly and indirectly. They cannot make the connection between the speech. And incitement for violence, they cannot make it. There's simply no evidence. Well, look at the video genius at work. The video shows the violence at the Capitol Building. We have people call this program. And so they weren't even aware what was going on in the Capitol building. How does the president incite an attack that was preplanned and already underway before his speech was concluded?

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Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, asked rhetorically Wednesday, by the way, this guy Perry is really top notch.

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Top notch. Representative Lee Zeldin added, We know this was preplanned and it started while the president was speaking. Why is that?

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So people like Aaron Blake and his ilk, and they're not just in the media, they look at this powder keg that they've helped created in the aggregate.

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And they keep putting fuses in it. Through their lies, I'm going to explain to you next hour what a propagandist is. And that we're surrounded by the. National Guard, 25 to 27000 of them in Washington, D.C., armed. I'm being told that they are free to use their weapons. We need to protect our capital. We need to protect the inauguration. Four years ago, the inauguration was under attack. I didn't see 25000 to 27000 National Guard.

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I didn't see armed National Guard protecting the courthouse in Portland that was under attack for 100 days. That's Article three, a part of our Constitution. I didn't see the armed National Guard surrounding the White House and protecting the president and the Secret Service who came under attack from Black Lives Matter and Antifa and others.

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Armed. To protect the Article two part of our Constitution. I didn't see governors and mayors bringing in the National Guard to protect innocent people, their homes, their businesses, Minneapolis and Portland and Seattle and Philadelphia. In New York. In other places. I heard retired generals saying you better not bring troops into the streets. He'll only make matters worse. And threatening the president of the United States who never did. You never did. I saw a woman running for vice president, the United States, Kamala Harris, who was making donations.

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To an organization that was providing bail as fast as it possibly could to allow rioters out of jail. I saw her on a comedy show that's not even funny. Basically celebrating the events. I saw Joe Biden sitting on his mouth for the vast majority of the summer until the polls started to turn, and then he he issued a very tepid. Comment about the violence. I saw the same people calling our law enforcement in Portland, federal law enforcement, storm troopers, Nazis.

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Aaron Blake doesn't write about any of this because he's a clown. If you truly believe in the Constitution, then defend it in our newspapers. If you truly believe in the Bill of Rights than defend it in our newspapers, defend it on our televisions, defend it on radio. Otherwise, you're just another miscreant and malcontent and part of the mob. That's all you are.

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And nothing more. And nothing less.

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I'll be right back. From the Westwood One podcast network. He's here, he's here. Now we're broadcasting from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Over at Just the News, a great John Solomon site. Senator Lindsey Graham releases CROSSFIRE Hurricane Oversight transcripts, slams, corrupt FBI investigation, Senate Judiciary Committee released a batch of transcripts.

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I'm going to get the propaganda as a reason. I'm doing it in the order that I'm doing it. Related to this, in a release announcing the transcripts dump, Graham said that CROSSFIRE hurricane, a 2016 17 FBI investigation.

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The allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia was one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and Department of Justice, he said the leadership of the FBI, James Comey and Andrew McCabe was either grossly incompetent or they knowingly allowed tremendous misdeeds. There was a blind eye toward any explanation other than the Trump campaign was colluding with foreign powers at every turn, the FBI and DOJ. Let's see Rand stop signs that were in abundance regarding exculpatory information.

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The transcripts, some of which involve unnamed federal officials, appeared to be offline due to technical issues. All right, who cares? CROSSFIRE hurricane was eventually subsumed into the Mueller's special counsel investigation that counsel found no evidence establishing collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

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Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acknowledged last summer that by August of 2017, there was no evidence linking the Trump campaign to the Russian government, even though the special counsel's investigation into that conspiracy theory continued for yet another year and a half past that point.

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And now we have the next collusion and conspiracy theory pushed by individuals like Aaron Blake and the same people who lied to us about Russia collusion. That Donald Trump incited an insurrection against his own country, specifically the Capitol building. Now, that's what they want you to believe, despite the facts that are coming out. The endless propaganda by our media. The president incited an attack on the Capitol building that was planned before he ever spoke. And I'm trying to find out who knew what, when and how.

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And Schmoes at the Post and The New York Times and CNN and MSNBC just keep piling on, they have no interest in getting any information, commitment to community journalism and social activism with the integration of opinion and news making, objective truth increasingly difficult to discern.

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Is the public actually receiving predominantly news or propaganda or pseudo information? One of the keys to answering this question points to Edward Bernays Béarnaise, one of his publishers tells us, pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he called engineering consent. George Creel enlisted him into Woodrow Wilson's propaganda operation a hundred years ago or more, Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and according to Christopher Dailey, was a pioneer in theorizing about human thoughts and emotions.

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Bernays volunteered for the Committee of Public Information, which Woodrow Wilson set up as a propaganda operation, and he threw himself into the work. His outlook, a mixture of idealism about the cause of spreading democracy and cynicism about the methods involved was typical of many at that agency. He's considered in some quarters the founder of the contemporary public relations profession, he believed in the power of propaganda and the manipulation and brainwashing of the masses, quote unquote. They're the minority that is mastermind's or at least has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities.

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It's been found possible to mold the minds of the masses, that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. This is him béarnaise. In the present structure society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacturing, charity, education, agriculture must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. Now, first and foremost, this means using the media or the media, exercising its own ideologically driven will as a propaganda enterprise.

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Bernays wrote, The extent to which propaganda shapes the progress of affairs about us may surprise even well-informed persons. Nevertheless, it is only necessary to look under the surface of the newspaper for a hint as to propagandise authority over public opinion, Page one of The New York Times on the day these paragraphs are written, contains eight important news stories. So he explains. Takes an example, The New York Times shows how they manipulate the headlines and in fact, they promote propaganda.

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By what they include and by what they exclude. And for Brenna's, propaganda was not troubling, but in fact inevitable and useful, he didn't think the public was capable of enlightened thinking or decisions in a republic, much like Aaron Blake, in my opinion. Or Jeremy, what is that guy's name at The New York Times, I can't remember his last name ever, Jeremy Peters or Philip Bump or the whole bunch of them.

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Therefore, they need to be led by those who supposedly are, at least by those who self-serving, claim to be enlightened.

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He explained, quote, These examples are not given to The New York Times to create the impression that there's anything sinister about propaganda, they're set down, rather, to illustrate how conscious direction is given to events. Yes, you have to understand, Trump incited an insurrection against America, an insurrection against the Capitol building, and anybody who thinks otherwise is a dupe is spinning. It's a white supremacist is inciting him or herself. Propaganda of the worst sort. And Bernays argued that modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the influence, the relations of the public to an enterprise idea.

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Our group, this practice of creating circumstances and creating pictures in the minds of millions of persons, he writes, is very common. Virtually no important undertaking is now carried out without it. To Bernays, there is a new propaganda which, quote, takes account not merely of the individual nor even of the mass mine alone, but also an especially of the anatomy of society with its interlocking group formations and loyalties. It sees the individual not only as a cell in the social organism, but as a saw organized into the social unit, touch a nerve at a sensitive spot and you get an automatic response from certain specific members of the organism.

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And I say there's a despotic odor to Britney's elevation of propaganda's, a righteous yet routine undertaking exercise for virtuous purposes by a supposedly intellectually astute and superior minority, a.k.a. the American media.

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The masses must be shepherded and managed for their own good and the betterment of society. The new propaganda, as Bernays explains, having regard to the constitution of society as a whole, not infrequently serves to focus and realize the desires of the masses. He said, clearly it is the intelligent minorities and he's not talking about racial minorities, which need to make use of propaganda continuously and systematically. In other words, the political left as an example. In the act of proselytizing minorities in whom selfish interest and public interest coincide, like the progress and development of America only through the activities of the intelligent few, can the public at large become aware of and act upon new ideas.

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So there you have it. And this is exactly the belief system of the left. And their media, exactly the belief system. And they are constantly trying to manipulate us. They are constantly trying to. Adjust just events and modify events through opinion, through censorship. Or emphasizing certain things. That's what Aaron Blake did, and that's why I read you his piece. It's a compelling example of propaganda, and he's not alone. In fact, there's multitudes of these people who now work for the media.

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They're doing grave damage to this country. You know, who became a big fan of bernholz is writing on propaganda, Mr. Producer. Adolf Hitler. His main book on propaganda. Was. Turned into German. So Hitler could read it. And read it after. And unfortunately, that book. Has had an enormous impact on our own society. Not that these fools read it. They don't need to read it, they can write their own. Because they have become many of them, if not most of them, propagandists.

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16 19 project. Covering up. What took place with Hunter Biden not asking Joe Biden questions after he gives a speech? Meanwhile, Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion. It's incredible or certain kind of violence is acceptable of the kinds of violence or not. That the police are lousy, except, of course, when the police do what they wish. That you can't have armed troops in a city protecting the White House, but you should have them in a city protecting the Capitol building.

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You and I understand what's taking place here, which is why you're so frustrated. No consistency of morality, no consistency of argument. No defense of our constitutional system. Just this constant attack, attack, attack, and by analyzing this, seeing this, truly believing it and feeling it, you see Mark's rhetoric is very insightful. That's what they'll say. I'm not inciting a damn thing. They are. I'm just calling a fact a fact, I'll be right back.

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Much love.

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You've heard of this Lincoln project, of course, and they run very vile ads on the certain of the individuals associated with that project make an enormous amount of money.

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They don't come under attack from the left because the left thinks they're really terrific. But there's some really grotesque individuals who are tied to this organization, apparently not the least of whom is a fellow by the name of Weaver.

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I'm just basing this on stories that are out there. This is from The Daily Caller, Marleau, Saffy. The Lincoln Project appeared to have scrubbed association with its co-founder, John Weaver, on its site after allegations that Weaver sent unwanted, uncomfortable and sexually aggressive message to nearly a dozen young men.

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Now, Weaver, of course, was a close adviser to a number of rhinos, including McCain search of the Lincoln projects.

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Our team page where Weaver was listed leads to a page that doesn't exist. An archive of the page shows that it existed as of January 11 and listed Weaver two days prior. Journalist Ryan Gordievsky said in a tweet the young men had sent him screenshots of predatory messages, allegedly from Weaver, a political consultant who formerly worked for the John McCain presidential campaign and not on a former Ohio governor, John Kasich presidential campaign.

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And I won't read you what some of these say, you can go to The Daily Caller yourself, Gordievsky wrote, the journalist in the American Conservative Money that a man whose identity he kept anonymous claimed that he was in communication with several young man who Weaver solicited for a job and then allegedly propositioned them for sex as part of the offer, quote unquote. In messages Gorodetsky said he reviewed, one man allegedly met with Weaver and had consensual sex with Weaver, allegedly never followed up with a job offer.

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A college student reportedly claimed that Weaver began messaging him on Twitter with potential internship offers. After persistent messages. The student told her dusky that Weaver called him after midnight on another occasion asked a student about his height weight build, making the student uncomfortable. When the student responded, he was about average Bill Weaver alleged allegedly respond, oh, my boy, I'm sure certain parts of your well above average.

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Gutowski also appeared on Laura Ingrams Fox News show January 13 to detail the allegations. My boy was a common name Weaver allegedly gave to more than 12 young men, forensic News reported on January 13. Reporter Scott Steadman showed messages Weaver allegedly sent him, also referring to him as my boy and sent Steadman unwanted and personal messages, calling a smart, clever, handsome, hot.

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You have it all, quote, unquote. Forensic news reviewed messages for more than a dozen sources aged 19 to 26, many of which chose to remain anonymous, alleging Weaver sent them uncomfortable and sometimes sexually explicit messages. While some of the men engaged, we were sexually forensic news reports that in many cases we were dangled as political connections and access to a high profile job opportunities and an attempt to receive sexual favors, quote unquote. One man identified as Josh P.

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told Forensic News that we were very strongly suggested that any job opportunities he offered would be in exchange for sexual favors. Weaver allegedly said he could get him a job with Macron's people in France and offered to take him to the Rothschild wineries.

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Now that young men have spoken out about the exchanges with Weaver have alleged any criminal wrongdoing, but they have repeatedly accused him of grooming them. And it goes on. Obviously, I have no firsthand knowledge of this, Mr. Weaver would like to come on the program and respond to this and it's in multiple places now in the media than he should. We'd be happy to put them on the air. To reply to this. Democrats pressure to expel Madison Cawthorn, no, Madison Cawthorn, as you know, is the youngest member of Congress who got elected at the age of 25.

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Mark Meadows on Old State, he's paralyzed from the waist down. He's a very courageous and patriotic young man. And now Democrats want Pelosi to expel him while Pelosi doesn't get to expel anybody. The House has to. And if anybody should be expelled, it's her. Her for calling our law enforcement storm troopers, and that's just the beginning. Democratic leaders from North Carolina's westernmost district are calling for the expulsion of freshman Representative Madison Cawthorn, a Republican, alleging his, quote, seditious behavior, unquote, helped incite the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week.

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So any Republican or any citizen now who has raised questions about this election. In 2020 is now seditious and has incited an insurrection now in 2016 when the Democrats. Refused to accept a peaceful transition of power and spent every minute thereafter hounding the president of the United States trying to figure out ways to remove him from office.

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That's OK. But anybody who raises legitimate concerns about the election, they need to be expelled. They need to be fired. They need to change. They need to do whatever. But the Constitution doesn't change. And I'll continue to defend it, unlike those who are on the left and in the media, the propagandists. Expel Madison Cawthorn. We have some kind of a. A French revolution going on in this country, ladies and gentlemen. I'll be right back.

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One man after the liberal media bias, Mark Levin, called him now seven seven three eight one three eight one one.

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Let me ask you a question. They say Donald Trump incited. This attack on Capitol Hill and we've talked about it for several days. How do we know Nancy Pelosi's conduct and comments didn't cause these nut jobs to attack the Capitol building? How do we know Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler and Maxine Waters and their conduct and their comments? Didn't fire up and gaslight these. These fanatics. Why is it assumed that it was Donald Trump's speech when we can look at a timeline?

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We know that they were preparing their attack before this event and they attacked before he completed his speech based on the timeline that we're able to discern from The New York Times.

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So how do we know it wasn't a reaction to what they've been doing? How do we know it wasn't a reaction to the Russia collusion stuff? How do we know it wasn't a reaction to the first impeachment? How do we know it wasn't a reaction to the name calling against Trump supporters?

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I mean. I can write a piece like Aaron Blake and come to a completely different conclusion, a completely different conclusion. Why do you think some of us are saying you've got to? Confront and put down violence no matter where it is, and Blake isn't saying that. Nancy Pelosi isn't saying that. I'm saying that you're saying that. But how do we know that this. Violence in these violent people. That these. These criminals. How do we know that they weren't?

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Incited as a result of what? Some of these Democrats were saying or what some of the media are saying, and this is why say over and over again. That the media need to tamp down CNN the things that they say. Nobody's writing an article, Paul Farhi at The Washington Post would never write an article about what CNN is doing and. How they're inciting, are they going to change their rhetoric or are they going to change how they cover riots?

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Are they going to change how they cover the election? Not a word.

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There's no there's no circumspection. About all this Russia collusion nonsense. But how do we know? Now, this isn't a diversion on my part, I'm communicating with you that people are listening to this program, their statements, their rhetoric, their propaganda against this president, against Republicans, against the people who voted for him and so forth and so on.

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How do we know that?

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Isn't what triggered the violence? Rather than the president saying that the election was stolen. Even to raise that question. Will be to face attack. Because it's not what the media mob. And the political mob have in mind. Let's not. BLM bail fund promoted by Kamala Harris refuses to share records of criminal sprung from jail.

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At zero hedge, he fund established to bail out Black Lives Matter protesters, which helped free at least six men accused of domestic violence in two months, is refusing to disclose exactly who they've helped spring from jail.

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The Minnesota Freedom Fund, or PMF, which was endorsed by Vice President elect Kamala Harris, has raised over 35 million dollars, has bailed out an unknown number of accused thugs, rioters and other criminals, and finding information exactly who they bailed out has been an arduous task.

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Here's what we do know about the Harris Indorse bail recipients in August. The fund posted 15000 dollar bail for the release of Sean McClinton, a convicted sex offender facing rape charges. According to prosecutors, McClinton raped the woman just weeks after his July release was back in custody. Facing prosecution over alleged rape, kidnapping, strangulation and other charges. September, The Daily Caller pored through court records and found that the man had helped free several men suspected of heinous crimes.

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Including accused child molester Timothy Wayne Colombus, who faced up to 30 years in prison on allegations that he sexually assaulted an eight year old girl.

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31 year old Dexter Boone was arrested on May two after allegedly breaking into his son's mother's apartment and strangled her in front of her minor children. According to do just the news, the IMF has refused to provide information on the man who helped bail out.

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In short, the next vice president of the United States actively promoted murky bail fund organization, and why can't we get this information?

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Now, what's happening all over the country here? One day will be condemned. We all condemn what took place at the Capitol. What I'm talking about. Are the corporatists. The administrators of various colleges and universities. The Democrat Party. The media. All targeting individuals by name. Listing individuals. Trying to destroy them. Lying about their character. Trying to make sure they don't get jobs, trying to make sure they get fired from jobs. Trying to cancel their book deals.

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Using big, big media and big tech. To squelch any kind of opposition. To the narrative. To the narrative is while they censor. And protect as the Praetorian Guard, the incoming administration. You can see attacks on academic freedom, you can see attacks on free speech, you can see attacks on freedom of association. There was a Washington Post story last week, I believe it was. That essentially accused me. And we're looking at this very carefully.

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And my, quote unquote, misinformation, whatever that means. Of causing an individual. Today, he had a heart attack at this event because apparently he had followed me on one of the sites, I had millions of people following me in social media. I have no control over anybody. The millions of people who follow me, you are non-violent people, fact, more cerebral than the average journalist.

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That's for sure. And in one or two sentences, they tried to ascribe to me some kind of responsibility for his death. He had a heart attack. And in the same exact sentence, misinformation, and I paraphrase, put out by Mark Levin, comma, proud boys and others. Mark Levin and proud Boice. I have nothing to do, a proud boys. Have I ever said anything about the proud boys, supported the proud boys of courage, this proudly celebrated the proud boys, Mr.

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Producer. Well, nothing to do with the proud boys. I explained the other day the threats I've had on my life and my safety have come from clansman neo-Nazis and white supremacists. I used to be a favorite on the front of store, I think it was called storefront a Stormfront Stormfront. Which was the neo-Nazi Web site. These people are frightening. They hate me. Not just because I'm a Jew, but I believe in America, I believe in our constitutional system, they do not.

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Richard Spencer. What are the leaders of one of these groups endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States? Biden. But these groups are a grave threat to the country, they're a grave threat to me and my family. Because I don't believe in a violent overthrow of the United States government. I believe in a peaceful institution of our constitutional system. It's very much like the hardcore left. The real Marxists, they have no tolerance. The Maoists.

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The Stalinists. They have no tolerance for half measures. And so what about the. Many of the men who helped him overthrow the government in China. Who are communist revolutionaries? He had them executed. He didn't want any competition and they just weren't good enough for him. Josef Stalin did exactly the same thing, Castro did much of the same thing. Why, because, among other things, they're power hungry, sick, sick people, genocidal maniacs, but besides that.

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They're. Followers of Marks. Mark says there can be no half measures that can't be a half communist, you're either all in or you're not in. And he felt that the people who were half communists and weren't all in, they were the worst of the worst, and they needed to be eliminated because they were traitors to the revolutionary cause. You must destroy that which exists, you saw that with Black Lives Matter and 94, for these are Marxist organizations, you must reject the history that came before you saw that with the attack on the monuments and the attack on the founding.

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You see it with The New York Times in the 16 19 project, which is utterly shocking.

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You must create a societal revulsion. Against that which exists, the status quo. And you must use violence. Because the bourgeoisie won't go away quietly, they will fight, they will dig in. It's a completely poisonous and irrational ideology. And yet, progressivism is the bastard child of Marxism. And the Democrat Party has embraced it now full bore. Full bore mansions, no matter how you look at this guy mansion. He's politically schizophrenic. And a coward.

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Then you look at somebody like me, Lisa Murkowski, she's very dumb, she doesn't even understand what's swirling around her, swirling around her.

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She thinks we should go forward with the trial because he should never run for office again. Well, that's very fascistic of her. Does she not understand the Constitution that she swore to uphold? You can't bring a trial against a private citizen. Regardless of what you want, Lisa, she's thinking of leaving the Republican Party, already left the Republican Party. She uses the Republican Party.

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That's what she does. And she inherited her seat from her father. May I say so, I think I will say so. A lightweight who should be defeated next time around. We'll do everything we can to defeat her. We tried once before. Then you listen to Ben Sasse. Every senator and congressman has every right to be very angry about what occurred. Every citizen has a right to be very angry about what occurred in that Capitol building.

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Every right. Ben Sasse has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the day he was elected to the United States Senate. I've never heard Ben Sasse concerned about what the FBI did, the intelligence groups did. But the Clinton campaign in the Obama administration did to this president when he was running, when he was president elect and thereafter. Has anybody heard him take any lead on that?

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No, of course not. Nothing, zero. When we come back, I want to read to you the comments of a sitting United States senator from the state of Oklahoma. James Lankford. Well, Mark, why do we care? You'll see, I'll be right back. Much love in.

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But we may have the same language for the next hour, maybe not, but I want to say something about Martha McCullom, who's been filling the 7:00 p.m. Eastern slot on Fox, and she'll be moving to 3:00 p.m. because I think they want to muscle up that 3:00 p.m. time slot.

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That doesn't get a big number. I find her to be one of the. Last of the true journalists. And you can see she tries to walk the straight and narrow. She really does. And I'm very impressed with her, and if every journalist were like Martha MacCallum, this would be a better country. I don't know her personally. I think I've met her once or twice and she's been on the show once or twice over the course of, what, 15, 20 years.

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But I find her to be quite fair. She's not obnoxious like some people are. And I think she conducts herself as a true professional, and I certainly think she tries to. Be a true professional. When you read reporters in The Washington Post, in The New York Times, you watch them on CNN or MSNBC, you see the way they treated the president of the United States versus how they treat Biden.

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You see a very perverse. Approach to what used to be a profession and now as a joke. But I don't feel that way with Martha MacCallum. She's a real standout, she's a standout on Fox and she's a standout on cable, and she's a stand up period. So those of you who are interested in getting into journalism, you should watch how she does her job. And you'll be able to watch at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, as I say, is sure that FOX is very interested in strengthening that slot.

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It's not a put down of anyone else. It's just that I think she's quite capable of that. So I wanted to point that out. James Lankford apologizes to black constituents for his questioning the Electoral College results. Senator James Lankford Lankford apologized for questioning the Electoral College vote and planning to object to certifying Arizona's Electoral College.

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When I announced my support for an electoral commission to spend 10 days auditing the results of the 2020 presidential election, it's never my intention to disenfranchise any voter or state was my intention to resolve any outstanding questions before the inauguration.

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So Lankford sees that now in his rearview mirror as, I guess, attacking his black constituents.

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It's getting weirder and weirder out there. Ladies and gentlemen, some of this just does not have an explanation. I'll be right back. From the Westwood One podcast network. Ladies and gentlemen, this final hour of the podcast is sponsored exclusively by Aimé, the Association of Mature American Citizens, now over two million conservative members, Strong EMAC believes in and stands up for the values that we care about faith, family and freedom. Thank you for listening and please support Amen.

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He's here now broadcasting from the underground command post here, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark. Oh, America, my name is Mark Levin, our number is eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Can somebody please show me one example? Just one where the Democrats want unity, Mr.

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Producer, can you show me any.

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This is from Axios, a left wing site. By Alana Treene Democrats are in a dilemma of their own, making another one, incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to wrap up President Trump's impeachment trial as fast as possible. Two sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios the party wanted to hold the president accountable for helping to incite last week's capital attack.

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But the actual mechanism for doing so a Senate trial. So Borke tool that will inhibit President elect Joe Biden from launching his effort to heal the country and its economy. All right. So let's stop there. Everything's about the Democrat Party, have you noticed? This was an unconstitutional impeachment of an innocent man, just like the first one. But in this case. Even even the communist Chinese. Go through the motions of pretending to give somebody due process. Well, our communists, I mean, our Democrats didn't even do that.

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And I'm one of the few people once again who actually read their 76 page document, only 50 pages of which laid out the supposed case for impeachment, there wasn't a single piece of evidence whatsoever.

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Supporting the impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection against the United States government. Think about that. Think about that language.

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Think about that language. Now, I want to make a suggestion and as usual, I'll put a marker down and we'll let the backbencher's and the others regurgitate it. And it's this. When and if the Republicans take back the House of Representatives, whether it's in twenty two or twenty twenty four, whatever the hell it is. And I hope you're listening. Leader MacCarthy. When that happens. Listen to me, I'm going to make it as the first idea, the first proposal, the others will pick up on it.

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I wonder what John Tardily has to say. But anyway. And it's this. The House of Representatives should vote to repeal the impeachment of the president of the United States. Is that constitutional mark? Constitution doesn't say they can't do it. That's more constitutional than chasing a president as a citizen down tomorrow, Lago, and to hold a trial. I mean, that is just so. Fascistic, it's unbelievable. Anybody who understands our history and what happened in Philadelphia and what these men were thinking knows, that's absolutely absurd.

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But what I'm saying is that the House of Representative, ladies and gentlemen, listen to me, because we're going to want your members to do it. Those of you Republican members. They had to reverse this impeachment. They are to repeal it. And they are to condemn it. As a violation of separation of powers, as a violation of the impeachment clause and a violation of the the basic understanding of our constitutional republic and what took place in Philadelphia.

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So, again, for the third time, to underscore the point, the impeachment should be repealed. Got that? Paul got that. Jeremy got that, Aaron. These are the so-called reporters out there. Axios goes on, The general view among Senate Democrats and Biden officials is that it's in both parties interests not to have a drawn out trial. So don't have a drawn out trial, just bring in the guillotine like the French reveller, bring in the guillotine and be over with it.

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And while we're doing that, the Trump do it to his wife, bring the kids and get it over with. Because as the great leader and statesman, Mitch McConnell said. As Mitch McConnell said. We need to erase Trump and his supporters from the party, eradicate them. Yeah, that big Mitch McConnell following out there, that's that's some juggernaut there, Mitch Mitch, which. You know what, Mitch rhymes with, Mr. Producer. Ich. What were you thinking?

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Democrats will soon control the White House, Senate and House, it's amazing, 50 50 in the Senate. And 10 or 11 seat majority in the House, that's it. It's the tiniest majorities, but they don't care enough to change the world. Want to get back to legislating and focus on Biden's plans, like the massive covid-19 rescue package, saying the need to rescue package, 15 dollar minimum wage, that'll put some small businesses out of business, that will result in people who make more than that getting tips now, making less because they'll be on the 15 dollar clock.

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And will make sure that less people are hired. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the Biden plan, by the way. Can anybody tell me any private sector job Joe Biden ever held?

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He never held any. Not one he'd ever worked for a minimum wage, I worked for a minimum wage, he's never worked in the private sector at all.

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Giving speeches doesn't count between running. Four officers. But he knows how the economy works. He's your typical big left wing Democrat, massive spending, massive programs, redistribution of wealth, big government, lots of regulations, same damn thing over and over again. But he cares. Even if both sides miraculously agree to doing away with trial documents on witnesses, listen to this. This is a this is a new site. Since some argue every member of Congress was a witness to the Capitol siege, each side's outliers can consume ours by opening arguments, questions, debating closing arguments.

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So axios another left wing side. Don't waste your time on a trial. Just hang the guy. Hang the guy, we're going to get on with Joe Biden's business. Why don't we have a trial that it? And find out what Nancy Pelosi knew and what McConnell knew, according to the. Chief of the Capitol Police, he spoke to the sergeant of arms, both houses of Congress. But they want unity, ladies and gentlemen. After they crash your free speech rights, after they're done calling you white supremacists and voting for the same guy, neo-Nazis voted for it.

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Why would a neo-Nazi vote for Donald Trump? Considering he's the greatest president. In America that Israel has ever worked with. Since he has Jewish grandchildren. And his daughter is an Orthodox Jew. Why would the neo-Nazis take such a liking to him? They haven't they're opportunists. Like all of these fringe groups. They're opportunists, neo-Nazis do not support our Constitution, Klansmen do not support our Constitution. Marxist Black Lives Matter and Antifa, they do not support our Constitution.

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We are constitutionalists. We do. But look at this. They want a speedy trial, which means no trial, I'm telling you. If we ever have a sober moment in our history. People are going to look back on this. And the disgrace will not be Donald Trump, it will not be you. It'll be the people who are doing this and these reporters who are writing these phony news stories and opinion pieces. They are enshrining their own legacy.

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Stephen Moore is a good man.

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He's worked at a number of outstanding think tanks because he's a thinker and he's an economist and he assisted the president of the United States with his fantastic tax cut plan that created all kinds of wealth and growth and prosperity.

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And I always looked at what Joe Biden is proposing and he's deeply concerned. Stephen Moore, how are you, sir? Hey, Mark, it's good to be with you. By the way, I think every American should be deeply concerned about what Joe Biden will tell us, tell us what he's proposed and what it's going to do.

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Well, it's a fiscal atrocity, this is one point nine trillion, I didn't say billion, I said trillion with a T.

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This is a plan, by the way, we just passed three or four weeks ago, Mark, a 900 billion dollar, you know, so you're telling me in basically a month or two months time, we're talking about almost three trillion dollars.

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Exactly. And we had already passed roughly two and a half trillion dollars prior to that.

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And no offense, Steve, what is the unemployment rate today? Do you know, six point seven percent. We've had six point seven percent before, haven't we?

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Oh, my goodness. It was six point seven percent throughout the entire Obama presidency and we didn't spend three trillion dollars, did we? Sorry, I'm just saying I'm not one of these people that thinks we need to keep spending money like this because you have less than seven percent unemployment. We're going to jack up another two trillion dollars, which is going to have almost no effect. But I'll let you explain it. And then what? This is right out of the box.

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So here's the thing, Mark, I mean, governments don't even buy into their promise, OK, don't buy that. If Milton Friedman were alive today, what he would tell you is government spending destroys jobs. It doesn't increase jobs. Government spending is bad for the economy. I don't even know where this lunatic idea came from in the last 10 or 15 years, that somehow you're going to save the economy by running it into three trillion dollars of debt.

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I mean, it is it is a nutty idea, in my opinion. And the idea that we can let me just tell you some of the things that are in this bill, because it it is this is well, first of all, let's step back and remember, during the campaign, Joe Biden said, I'm not I'm not a liberal left wing Bernie Sanders Democrat. I'm a moderate. I'm a centrist as well. But, Bernie, this is a Bernie Sanders bill.

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This has every idea that Bernie Sanders has been talking about for the last 20 years. It has the fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage it has required of paid leave that employers have to pay. It has a 400 million supplemental unemployment benefit. On top of all the benefits, it has the 350 billion dollar blue state bailout for Cuomo and for the here in Illinois and Newsom in California, the big bad governors who shut down the economy, that has massive numbers of social programs that have nothing to do with with the corporate crisis.

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There is 20 billion dollars for urban mass transit systems. I could go on and on, but this is just a wish list of liberal programs.

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And this is all they ever do and this is all they ever do. Massive spending, redistribution of wealth, tax increases.

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Well, well, that's exactly right and incidentally, Mark, to put a fine, fine point on it, just so people it, we have a massive food stamps program that is so massive. It's unbelievable.

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Well, the food stamps get expanded in this bill, too. And basically what we're doing is rewarding people for not working. Casey Mulligan, who's one of the top economists, labor economists in the world at University of Chicago, he and I have done an analysis of this bill. We just looked at what the major elements of the bill and we estimate that this bill will actually reduce unemployment by five million because two thirds under this bill, I'm not making this up.

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Under this bill, two thirds of unemployed workers will actually get paid less money. If they go back on the job, then if they stay unemployed. I mean, how crazy is that?

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Well, if you know this and this, other economists knows this and everybody else can figure this out, why are they doing this? Because they're trying to.

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It's something you talk about every every night out there trying to create an entitlement dependency class. And this bill will do that. Everyone becomes more and more dependent on government, which is just if we're going to find the way the economy is going to be in great shape in a couple of months once we get this vaccine out. And if the if we could simply, you know, what the best stimulus right now would be for the economy. Why doesn't why doesn't de Blasio open up New York City?

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Why doesn't Cuomo open up the whole state of New York? Why doesn't Newsom open up California? Why doesn't Pritzker open up Illinois? Right now? I'm sitting in Florida. This state is open for business. It's totally open for business. It feels like we're back to normal here, except people are wearing masks. You go to New York, everything's shut down. Now, it's absolutely awful. You're quite right. There's so many contradictions in this kind of spending night.

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Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage, they're going to impose that on every most almost every business. If you're struggling a little business, particularly in these blue states, how the hell are you going to pay a 15 dollar minimum wage? More are going to go out of business. They're going to fire more people. Isn't that right? Yeah, can you think of a worse time, Mark, than now to raise the minimum wage? A lot of those minimum wage jobs are people who work in shops and run work in stores and work in restaurants and bars.

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Guess what? Those businesses are barely keeping their head above water right now. Now you're going to clobber them with fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. You're going to put a lot of those businesses right back into bankruptcy. Incidentally, I don't know if you ever worked in a job where you were a tipped worker, but I bet, you know, many, many of the people listening to the show have done that sometime in their life. We have a lower minimum wage for people who are tipped workers like waiters because they make most of their jobs through tips.

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This bill requires fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage for even those workers, which does mean you're not gonna have waiters anymore. This is, you know, how many private sector jobs has Joe Biden had? None. How many private sector jobs has Bernie Sanders her? None. Right. So the people making these decisions, they're all political decisions. They're going to screw up the economy even worse than it's been. And it's just incredible to me and I'm concerned that we're reaching the point with these constant trillion dollar so-called stimulus or relief bills, Stephen, that we are getting to an annual guaranteed salary here, aren't we?

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Well, that's well, that's exactly where they're going with that. That that is exactly their end game here is to basically have what's called universal baseline basic income, which is a socialist concept. The American people rejected it. They don't want to socialize their economy, but this will move us well along the way. Incidentally, just to give you a sense of the craziness of what's going on in Washington today, when I first arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1984 when Reagan was president, we had a one trillion dollar national debt and we thought that was horrible, horrible.

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One trillion dollar national debt after Biden is through in his first year, we were over 30 trillion dollar national debt. We have gone from one trillion to 30 trillion dollars. And you can you hold on after the break? Yes. Yes. All right. We'll be back with our top economist, Stephen Moore, in just a minute. AMEC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, is one of the fastest growing organizations in America now, over two million conservative members strong, and I'm one of them, a man who believes in and stands up for the values that we constitutional conservatives care about more than talk.

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What should Biden or Washington be doing that would assist the growth of the economy and employment and opportunity and so forth?

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Well, that's a great question, because Donald Trump is really has teed this thing up. I mean, this economy is ready to explode. We've had the fastest recovery from a recession. I bet people are going to be surprised to hear this because the media never tells the story. If you take if you take California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois out of the pictures, which are liberal Far Gwon states, the economy of the US is in pretty decent shape given what we've been through.

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You add those four states back in and it looks like a disaster. It's all a result of these blue state governors who have paralyzed their businesses and destroyed millions of jobs, and then they blame Trump for it. But right now, I mean, look, the economy grew by nine percent in the fourth quarter. Nine percent, usually two or three or four percent is a good number. You get that vaccine out there, which, by the way, one of the greatest programs in American history was Operation Warp Speed.

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And it wasn't a government program. I know you've talked about this. It was not a government program, but Donald Trump got the government out of the way. That's how we got the vaccine. We got around all of the rules. So let's let's get the vaccine out there. The one good thing Biden has and he has one good element of his plan, which is to distribute 100 million vaccines over the next three months. He's exactly right. If we do that, you don't have to spend another penny because the economy will explode.

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It'll be interesting to see how they do that, because apparently they're stockpiling this stuff by wittingly or unwittingly in some of these states because of their bureaucratic and political decision making.

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Of course.

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I mean, I even inquired have inquired into Virginia just to see, OK, I'm not trying to get in front of the line.

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Where do I line up? Oh, you got to fill out this thing and fill out that thing. They should be grabbing people off the street and putting it right in their arms. It is it is incredibly inefficient program, it's because we're letting the government run it, if you let the you know, the companies run it, I think we could get those vaccines out there much faster. I mean, New York has only vaccinated. They have, you know, huge, as you said, stockpiles.

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And only 20 percent of the people who have, you know, only 20 percent of the vaccines have even been distributed yet. I mean, that's ridiculous.

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It's very, very troubling to me because you have this operation warp speed. And and Joe Biden has announced that the man in charge of it who's done such an incredible job is now going to be removed. Why?

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Because he worked for Donald Trump. The guy is an expert in many respects, and he's going to bring back an old, you know, Obama appointee.

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Well, I guarantee you that within two or three months time, Biden will be calling this the Biden vaccine, and this was one of Donald Trump's greatest triumphs, this this vaccine, which, by the way, I think people should know the normal process. It takes four to five to six years to get a vaccine on the market because Trump relied on the private sector and private industry and that government. We got out in 10 months, which is a miracle.

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And that will end up saving this this man that the left despise well, because of his actions saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States and tens of millions of people around the world. Now, I agree completely.

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And he'll get no, you know, history. I'll give him credit. The soberness history. But I think today. No way. May I ask you another question?

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During the break, I looked through other elements of a planks of this bill, and I only got through a few of them. And I just want to go ahead in a couple of others. OK, so there is 100. Here's one that just really rubs me the wrong way. 130 billion, not 130 million, 130 billion dollars for the schools. Well, wait a minute. The schools have been shut down for the last year and we're giving them money.

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I mean, well, you know, why write a very.

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We know why, right, because he owes the teachers unions and he's going to take care of the teachers unions, of course, you know my county, Steve, a Loudoun County, they gave the teachers a salary increase.

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And I'm saying no disrespect, but for what? And then I hear, well, they might strike not here, but elsewhere.

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And I said, well, how would we know? Right, exactly. No, I mean, this is one man, one of the most sinister things about this this last year when I call it national case of child abuse, that we have shut down our schools for now. My my 12 and 13 year olds haven't been in school for a year. I mean, think of what that does to the social and economic and educational development liberals. They always talk about how much they care about kids, but this is real damage.

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So 130 billion dollars for the schools. There's 25 billion dollars for the New York and other inner city subway systems that have been running empty for the last 10 months. Do you know in the New York City subway system has been running on full and virtually full capacity for now for the last nine months? Nobody's riding it. What private company would do that?

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I'll tell you what, again, out in my county here, when the schools when the kids weren't going to schools, the buses kept running. You see, because what matters the most is employment for Democrats that work for the government. That's the bottom line. There's really two economies in many ways. Steve, I'd like your take on this. Every time the government is supposedly shut down for three and a half minutes, the sky's going to fall. You shut down the private sector for nine months.

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It's righteous. And so people who are in government, not all, but most, they still get their pay, their pension, their medical care. People in the private sector, they don't get any of that.

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You know, the three hundred and fifty billion dollars that I mentioned in the blue state bailout money. What does that money for? It's for government employees who's looking after the private sector employees. They lost more jobs than the government workers did. And of course, those workers are all I'll say it again there in New York, there in California, there in Illinois there and Michigan states and New Jersey states with with Democratic governors that, by the way, this is only enabling them to keep their government, their economy shut down.

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So let's talk about how much Joe Biden and Sanders really care about the little guy so you can have little guys without college degrees. Two thirds of the people who work in these red states, subsidizing the blue states, subsidizing procuracy subsidies, they're going to have to get get rid of the debt for people who've gone to college. So, again, two thirds of the people in this country haven't gone to college are now going to effectively subsidize those who go to college and went to college.

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They're going to reverse the deductibility. The president took away the deductibility over a certain amount of of taxes and local property taxes, state and local. Right. That really helps the blue state helps everybody with the blue states mostly. So there's a lot in here, is there not, that is intended to help the left, the wealthy left in the blue states against the little guy?

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I did. That's the story of America today. I mean, the blue states of America today. I mean, if liberalism works so well, why is it that the blue states in America have unemployment rates that are two to two and a half percentage points on average higher than in the red states? Did you see Alexandrea Arctic Sea of Cortez the other day said we have our program is going to liberate red states, red states, Alexandria. The people are moving from the blue states to the red states.

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They don't need we don't need liberating.

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Mm hmm. All right. My friend will have a good weekend keeping a voice of rationality out there. We appreciate it.

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Thanks, Mark. Have a great weekend. OK, I missed a call screener.

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Friend of mine texts me and he says my dad has been calling in for the last two nights and he's sitting on the phone for hours.

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Would you find out which one of these callers as Chris's dad? And then we will invite him on the program, because Chris is a very good guy. He's been the vet to my dogs and I don't want to upset Chris, you know.

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So let me know when you find Chris's dad there, who is it? OK, we can do it fairly quickly, for instance, stick to the males, because that's how that works.

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You find him yet? Well, you guys are slow. Come on quickly, because I don't want to go to a break yet. I guess I have to go to a break. We'll be right back. Much love in. AMEC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, is one of the fastest growing organizations in America now, over two million conservative members strong, and I'm one of them EMAC believes in and stands up for the values that we constitutional conservatives care about more than talk.

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I don't do this show. For callers, I do the show for the broader audience. I would think people understand that after 20 years, otherwise, I'll just sit here and take calls all day, I take calls when I can or when I think they can contribute to the program.

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But there's been a lot going on that I need to discuss.

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And so I'm just pointing this out because apparently friends and neighbors don't get it. And if you feel you're on hold too long, don't call in, I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just, you know, manage your own situation. But this isn't a show where we take caller after caller after caller after caller after caller, this is a show where I come heavily prepared, probably more than most. Ready to get into various subjects have spent hours and hours going into it, and I can't just turn the show over to callers because somebody decides they want to call in, doesn't mean callers are bad.

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We have some excellent callers and so forth and so on.

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But that's the nature of this show. And so people are desperate to call and be heard.

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There are other shows where you can do a lot of that, right, Mr. Peterson?

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But I can barely get through what I've prepared. What I prepared, it's not called a call show, it's called conservative talk, not a call in show. So everybody does their show a little differently.

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That's how I do my show. It's OK. I understand. It's perfectly fine.

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There's all kinds of talk show hosts out there, but I've got a lot of material here that I'm working on and trying to get across in.

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The public is trying to hear what I have to say and when I can take calls. I absolutely do.

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I don't tell people how to do their jobs, it's amazing. I don't pretend to be a doctor and nurse, veterinarian, truck driver, electrician. It's amazing when you're a public figure. People figure, you know, you really ought to do this now. Really ought to do what I am doing, I think the great WKYC James Gainesville, Florida, go. Yes, James, go. Yes, yes, this is another reason I don't take a lot of calls or slows things down.

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James, you're on the air. Go right ahead, sir, about what's up.

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Yeah, we were. My wife and I went to D.C., the fifth and the sixth. We met a lot of wonderful people who like a giant church gathering almost. They were so polite and everything. But what we did see at the Capitol after we left a speech early because there were so many people in the wind, was so bad that we couldn't hear most of it anyway. So I guess we didn't get the briefing that we needed to do some uprising in the capital.

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All right.

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So you attended. You attended. You met a lot of nice people, people who were peaceful. You weren't charged in the Capitol building and anything like that, and now what do you what do you like being painted with a broad brush? So they like being accused of being a white supremacist. No, no, no, I absolutely don't, and I don't think the hundreds of thousands of others there were were anything like that.

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No, I know most of the people writing about you and trashing you don't know you and weren't at that event. But they're pushing propaganda. They're pushing a narrative. And that's what's so disgusting about this kind of propaganda right now.

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And it's happening all across our society and culture. Thank you for your call, my friend. Much appreciate.

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