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As I watch, an individual has to be like 28 years old, telling us about the president and Pence and Washington and the future of the nation, somebody with about 14 minutes of experience.

It reminds me as I do research. About a brilliant man by the name of Richard M. Weaver, who almost none of you ever heard of. Everybody's heard of Marx. And so. But they're great thinkers. Who would reject Marx? He wrote a book, Ideas Have Consequences. And the efforts by our good friend Roger Kimball and among other things, he writes this before I jump in with both feet. The more firmly an utterance is stereotyped, the more likely it is to win credit.

It is assumed that engines as expensive and as powerful as the modern printing press will naturally be placed in the hands of men of knowledge.

Faith in the printed word has raised journalists to the rank of oracles.

It could there be better descriptions of them than these lines from the authorities, they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing. They will be tiresome having the reputation of knowledge without the reality.

If the realization of truth is the product of a meeting of minds, we may be skeptical of the physical ability of the mechanism to propagate it as long as the propagation is limited to the printing and distribution of stories which give one unvarying answer, quote unquote. And this circumstance brings up at once the question of the intention of the rulers of the press. There's much to indicate that modern publication wishes to minimize discussion. Despite many artful pretensions to the contrary, it does not want an exchange of views, say perhaps on academic matters.

Instead, it encourages men to read in the hope that they will absorb.

For one thing, there's the technique of display with its implied evaluations. This does more of the average man's thinking for him than he suspects. For another, there is the stereotyping of whole phrases. There are carefully chosen not to stimulate reflection, but to evoke stock responses, approbation and disapprobation. Headlines and advertising team with them, we seem to approach a point at which failure to make the stock response is regarded as faintly treasonable, like refusal to salute the flag.

This was written in 1948. Especially the journals of mass circulation exploit the automatic response so journalism becomes a monstrous discourse, a Protagoras which charms by hypnotising and thwarts that participation without which one is not a thinking man. If our newspaper reader were trained to look for assumptions, if you were conscience of the rhetoric and lively reporting, we might not fear this product of the printer's art. But that would be to grant that he is educated as the modern world is organize.

The ordinary readers seems to lose means of private judgment. The decay of conversation has about destroyed the practice of Dilek. Consequently, the habit of credulity grows. There's yet another circumstance which raises grave doubts about the contribution of journalism to the public, we'll. Newspapers, and by this we mean today, cable and so forth, social media are under strong pressure to destroy, to distort in the interest of holding attention. I think we might well afford to overlook the pressure of advertisers upon news and editorial policy, this source of distortion has been fully described as perhaps sufficiently discounted.

But there is at work far more insidious urge to exaggerate and the color beyond necessity. It is an inescapable fact that newspapers thrive on friction and conflict. One is only to survey the headlines of some popular journal often presented symbolically and red to note that kind of thing, which is considered news behind the big story, there nearly always lies a battle of some sort. Conflict, after all, is the essence of drama.

And it is a truism that newspapers deliberately start and prolong quarrels by allegation, by artful quotation, by the accentuation of unimportant differences. They create antagonisms where none was felt to exist before, and this is profitable practically for the opportunity to dramatize a fight as an opportunity for news. Journalism, on the whole, is glad to see a start and sorry to see it end in the more sensational publications, the spirit of passion and violence manifested in a certain recklessness of diction with vivid verbs and and adjectives creeps into the very language.

By the attention it gives their misdeeds, it makes criminals heroic and politicians larger than life. And he goes on. I think he perfectly describes what we're dealing with in the American media. It's actually even worse. There is no self policing anymore. And in fact, they work hand in hand. With the most diabolical of political parties, the Democrat Party. Now, I want to say a few things about what's happening in this country. We have individuals who pose as legal scholars and constitutional scholars who are no such thing.

They burp up a book here and there and an essay here and there, you can read from your books as I do. You can read from your account, but you don't cite yourself as a scholar. Let others cite you if you are a scholar. We see in the. Aggregation of publications like The Wall Street Journal, National Review and others, how bizarre they have become and this has become. We won author of their National Review who who makes a truly incoherent argument not just for impeachment, but for conviction of the president, the United States.

The media pretend there's a dispute over the issue of whether you can try a president after the president has become a private citizen. There's no dispute at all, you can cherry pick whatever knucklehead law professor you wish. You can find nothing. Nothing in Madison's notes or the Constitution that reaches post public office. In fact, the contrary. They say one individual has created what's. The equivalent of a crime, they can be sued afterwards through the criminal justice system, but impeachment?

Is purely an act. Of the Constitution created by the Constitution based on the British approach to impeachment, almost identical, but not exact. And it is for the purpose of removing somebody from office number one and once removed from office, forbidding them from holding office again. It's a two step process. So once somebody is a private citizen. It's irrational and in fact, unconstitutional, continue to pursue them. Outside of the criminal or civil justice systems. It is an act of politics.

We say that impeachment is a political process, but the political process doesn't reach outside public office into private life.

If it does, then we need to go back and look at some of these retired president's. And see if they can be impeached. And punish. If we can put the scarlet letter on their foreheads. You see, they do this in some societies, you know. Once somebody has left office, they chase him down to the ends of the earth. Stalin was good at that. He chased down Trotsky and Trotsky wound up on a meat hanger rehook.

Others have done that. When they take office, they go after the the prior administration, the prior president, the prior party, and they tried to destroy it.

And what we get from this are police states. Fascistic or Marxist doesn't much matter. The end result is the same. In America, we don't do this so they can point to a senator as some bizarre act in our history, but in America we don't do this. We don't keep chasing down presidents who are no longer in office or vice presidents who are no longer in office. We leave that to Third World banana republics. And so that's what the Democrat Party in the never Trump has in their mouthpieces have become.

Third World banana mouthpieces. Now, as to the president of the United States, the president of the United States didn't incite anything, and you know how I know, because they can't even get their argument straight. The people who say he incited an insurrection against the government, how did he do it? Well, the way he whipped up the crowd, how else did he do it? Well, he he rejected the election results. How else did he do it?

And they have 15 different answers for how he did it.

And then they had the impeachment process, which consisted of two hours of debate, one hour for each party, no hearing, no investigation, no witnesses, no nothing.

Because you see, ladies and gentlemen, the fact that the president incited an insurrection against his own government is so crystal clear by every clear thinking, objective human being on the planet that we don't have to make the case.

Another. Soviet style justice apparatus. But you know what, it's not even that because even Stalin at least went through the motions. Mao went through the motions if they didn't take people behind the building and deal with them. And now we're going to have a trial, you see. We're going to wait till after Joe Biden is president of the United States and the next day, we're told. There's going to be a trial. A private citizen, Trump.

What is the point of the trial? We're going to prove, you see? That he led an insurrection. I'm going to prove anything that's not what a Senate trial will do. It won't prove anything. You have no record, you have nothing. You have a 76 page report, 26 pages of which are an appendix. I read the other 50 pages. They're a joke. You have nothing. You have no standards. We've never done this before.

Well, he deserves to be convicted and followed to the private sector and Mar a Lago and wherever else we can chase him down a really. Most of the people speaking this way and talking this way are columnists. Our television hosts. Our guest commentators. Are Democrats. Whom the Constitution is irrelevant anyway. It's amusing in a sick kind of way to hear people who reject the Constitution. Embrace the 16 19 project. Trash our founders, trash our founding document, trash our governing document.

And then they wave it around like they're the ones defending it. It would have been nice if Mr. Raschein and the other Democrats on Capitol Hill. Had been vociferous in defending the White House and the president when that facility and that man were under attack by violent rioters.

Now, that was excused, in fact, that was righteous in any response to that. Was to be condemned. Same with the Portland courthouse, same with police precincts. Apparently, we've now figured out where the media and the Democrats draw their line. We have 25000 National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C.. With loaded weapons. Our nation's capital is now an armed camp. That doesn't even count law enforcement from all over the country. Law enforcement from all over the country.

Joe Biden only at the end of this summer decided to meekly and passively condemn the rioting and the violence that took place in this country. Same with his party. Same with the speaker of the House who called them storm troopers on more than one occasion, James Clyburn, who called them storm troopers on more than one occasion. I believe in putting down rioters, putting down violence, protecting our public officials, protecting our public buildings. But to hear the hear the left today in the media out.

Beating their chests is really quite beyond the pale. And now the repression, which I've always warned you about, without our Constitution, without our bill of Rights, the repression. Is spreading. And 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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You know, you think about this, Bill Clinton pardoned a number of domestic terrorists, foreign terrorists, Barack Obama pardoned the head of the FLN terrorists and he wouldn't show any remorse whatsoever.

Eres and. And Dawn, who were close friends with Obama, you see who they associated with, right? Never hurt their careers. Utterly unaffected. There's no intelligence of any kind, according to the secretary of defense, that any National Guardsman wants to do any injury to anybody on Capitol Hill, let alone Joe Biden. He said that several hours ago. And yet the FBI is determining if any of the 25000 guardsmen who are. Presently, occupying Washington, D.C. are a potential threat.

I don't know what is happening to our country, and then, of course, there's an attack on free speech, every aspect of free speech, the technology, which is the the the undergirding free speech in this country through social media and so forth. I want to discuss that, too. We have already. But I want to emphasize certain aspects of it 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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Let me explain one other point on this impeachment trial issue. The framers never, ever set up a system intended to apply outside the governmental structure. These are the same people who would later circle back and pass the Bill of Rights. Well, the offenses that occurred, Mark, were when he was a public official, but they're not offenses that apply to a private official unless they are criminal in nature.

And we know that the elements of insurrection are not and cannot be met in a criminal prosecution.

That is why they want to reach into the private sector and go after Donald Trump under the very vague notion of a Senate trial for impeachment based on a preposterous impeachment claim with a preposterous document to back it up with no semblance of any kind of justice whatsoever.

We call this what would happen in the Senate, a kangaroo court. The framers were anything but supporters of a kangaroo court. So when I read McCarthy and Potoroos and all these other people. It's really embarrassing. How little they comprehend what's taken place here. These men. That is our framer's. Would never have supported the political constitutional impeachment process. Being used in the private sector against a private citizen at that point. Look at it this way, public officials who at least theoretically violate their oath of office and so forth, if they resign the resign and they're gone, if they committed a crime, they can be pursued after they leave public office.

But Trump didn't commit a crime.

Panera even says he didn't commit a crime, that's not the test, okay? It's not the test. And so impeachment in the Senate excuse me, trial in the Senate is intended not just lower the standards, but to have no standards at all. To reach a private citizen who was president. So Donald Trump is not being treated as a second class citizen, he's being treated. Like no citizen I can ever think of, quite frankly. And this is gravely concerning in his case and it's gravely concerning for future cases.

But here's the other problem we have as constitutional conservatives and most of us Republicans. The Republican Party in situations like this is worse than useless. It's contributory, that is it's part of the problem. They don't have a sense of the big picture. They live for the here and now, they do not represent much of their base. In fact, they despise most of their base and they do not comprehend what they're up against. Neither do their surrogates and their mouthpieces in the fledgling conservative media.

They don't get it. And while we're dealing with that, what's about to happen? Joe Biden Cornetta reports that bragging about it now has a slew of executive orders ready to go. A massive legislative agenda to do what? What I said over the years, they want to turn the nation into California and there's a piece in the L.A. Times today they want to turn the nation into California.

What does that mean? Massive redistribution of wealth. An election and electoral system that only elects Democrats nationwide, as they do statewide. All kinds of. Social engineering programs and so forth, and so people are fleeing California. Fleeing California, and that's their model. California is their model. This is a very, very low period in our history, and it will always be viewed that way, assuming we. We survive in the long haul. And I want to turn to the media in this country, open with the media, I want to turn to the media.

We have newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times. That despise half this country. That work actively to undermine certain politicians. That work actively to undermine our constitutional structure. New York Times is 16, 19, project is perfect. What else do they do? They're worse than yellow journalism. They are Linskey ITZ. So whether it's me or the conservative hosts or people do not believe in violence who are not right wingers, quote unquote. They seek to personally destroy you.

Because they disagree with your message. They want to silence you. So they have a fascistic totalitarian mindset, a group think. There's no diversity of thought at The Washington Post or the New York Times, period. Period. And so what do they want to do? Do you notice how little opposition you're getting from big media to a big tech is doing? How little you hear about civil liberties? How little you hear about free speech, I'm not talking about the First Amendment, I'm not about free speech.

How little you hear about monopolies and antitrust and the Federal Trade Commission here, almost none of it. On the pages of the. Big media or big media broadcasts? Why? Because they've made the big leap forward. And the big leap forward for them is they've thrown in with the centralized, iron fisted state. Not a Republican administration. Don't get me wrong, the permanent centralized, iron fisted state, which they want to see expanded now.

Why would they want to do that? Well, look at what's going on today, they're utterly unaffected by the war on free speech. Nobody's even talking about Target in The Washington Post or The New York Times or CNN or MSNBC or NBC, ABC, CBS, they're not even threatened.

They have no problem at all. It's the parlor's and the rumbles. And Fox and conservative talk radio, and pretty much that's it. In other words, whatever little opposition there is. To that ideology on the left has to be destroyed. Now, why is that? Because the truth is they are neo Marxists, they are statists. They are whatever you want to call them. They do not believe. In the debate of ideas they rejected. So the Wolinsky you, that is personal attack.

And they try and smother you. And crush you or have your employer fire you. So it's not so much a press as it is a corporate mindset, these are major corporations with an ideological mindset. The push, a political and governing agenda. Nobody seriously believes The Washington Post is reporting news, nobody seriously believes The New York Times is reporting news or Jake Tapper and and the bannered dummies over there are actually news reporters. And same with the lightweights at MSNBC.

Nobody really believes that has anything to do with news.

So they've already sold out. So what do they have to do? They have to destroy the little pockets. Little pockets of opposition because the real resistance. Has always been us. It's you and me what exactly? What exactly are the neo Marxist status so far? What are they resisting the resisting those of us who get elected? Those of us who speak out?

Those of us who who reject this this effort to change our lives and change our country and change our constitution.

You and I basically want to be left alone. We want to live under the under the status quo. That's intolerable to these people. It's unacceptable. And so they wish to destroy any opposition, one of the things about Marxism, neo Marxism and all the rest of it. There must be conformity. Can anybody tell me the difference between The New York Times and The Washington Post? Can anybody tell me the difference between MSNBC and CNN? CBS and ABC, ABC and NBC know there is no difference.

They all say the same thing. I don't know how many monologues we played over the decades, they say exactly the same thing.

It's group think. And they demand conformity and they demand it from you. And so when they see riots, fires, death in one part of society, if it advances in ideological or racial or whatever narrative that they want. They downplay it, they ignore it, they even celebrate it. If they see it somewhere else, it's not at the White House, but it's at the Capitol Building. That's an insurrection. You and I, we denounce it all, and because we denounce at all, we're denounced.

Don't you see the differences? One is a fight against injustice, the other is a bunch of white supremacists. I don't know somebody with a Molotov cocktail throwing it at a federal building, that that's seems to me their politics is of no consequence to me. Person needs to be taken off the streets for a very, very long time. My love and. 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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Now, Mark was just talking about censorship, tech censorship. And this is something that I don't think we can really stomach. Americans are sick and tired of being censored and silenced every time we have an opposing viewpoint. It used to be we had an opposing viewpoint on television and they had to create a network, FOX.

Now, any time you start to grow a little bit like parler, you get out there and you have an opinion people are trying to get at you, silence. You sense sensory. This to me, this idea, it's based on hate, the idea that we should drive our politics based on hate is truly a Bolshevik concept. So I'm here to incite patriotism, radical patriotism. Because when you look at what the people have to say and when I talk about the people, I'm talking about Congress, the media, you know, birds of a feather, honestly, they're.

Indistinguishable at times, but Phil Mudd was on CNN yesterday talking about Twitter censoring President Trump and how that means fewer Americans are going to be radicalized now, not radicalized as radical patriots like I just alluded to, but radicalized. Like ISIS was, check this out. Now, as we get that cued up, this is truly the height of rhetoric, right? This is the height of people going off the deep end. So eight so one of these things where you have a differing opinion.

Now, all of a sudden, we're like ISIS because we're conservatives, because we believe in liberty, because we believe in limited government, you've got to be kidding me. Anyway, I'm getting the message that the cut is ready. Check this out.

So what do we know specifically about these right wing extremists? We know a few things. No one I mentioned earlier expressed the willingness to do. Violence is a second key element. The thing that I think about most is propaganda. It is very hard to persuade someone to join a movement that potentially is going to get them in jail. We now have this movement, president, all 50 states, the ability to turn someone's mind off. I think what you were talking about about 15 minutes ago about the decline after President Trump declared the decline in extremist content is really critical.

That means people's brains aren't being turned on. So I think that propaganda piece that I use that word advisedly, people talk about political sort of debate in this country. This is propaganda at the same time that ISIS used in the decline of that. It's really important. There's somebody who is not going to be recruited today because there's less propaganda out there. So the key word for me, what stood out was people's brains aren't turned on, so he's literally insinuating that he wants people to not think, join the group, think and be a part of the hegemony to that.

I say, hell no.

Who wants to be a part of something that they don't want to be a part of? As Americans, as patriots, we know what we believe, we know what we love. This is a country that we know that we believe in and we want to preserve and protect and offer to the future.

And that's what's at stake.

And everybody's like, you know, how do we move forward? What are we going to do? How are we going to move forward? What is the future going to look like? And to that, I say we've been through many tumultuous times in American history. And I'm going to go out in the deep end not having a crystal ball, but I'm going to say I think we're going to go into some other difficult times in the future. But the one thing that we can't do is give in, the one thing we can't do is give up our pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Because that's the minute that that were done. We've got to go forward. So, yeah, they're going to continue to try and censor us and we're going to continue to do things like patriots like John meIt's, Dan Bongino and others gotten together and created Parler and Rumball and other alternatives. Because that's what the free market allows us to do. That's what our liberty allows us to do. So keep it like right there. There's more to come. I've got the cheat sheet here.

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So Democrats and their pals in the media are at it again and. They're really pushing the envelope. It's no longer about the debate between, hey, you know, we're on the left and you're on the right, and we think this and you think that now it's what we think, what you think is very bad and you should be the platformed. Now, that's been going on for a while, but now it's they're trying to enter this into the public discourse, as a matter of fact, as if this is it.

This is just factual. If you're with Trump, if you're a conservative, you know, when you are bad news.

And that couldn't be further from the truth. So I do want to get your thoughts on that. Give us a call on that. But I want you to hear this audio, because to me, this audio speaks volumes. It it goes back to.

What the media has been doing, how this Alex Stamos that Mark talked about earlier, and I think this is somewhat remarkable, you know, that somebody who was a Facebook security chief.

Goes on CNN and talks about how to treat Republicans in Congress again like the last guy like ISIS. So, I mean, this is literally a comparison to insurgent terrorists taking over a country or a region of a country in the name of a jihad. I mean, it's this goes beyond inflammatory, this is just outright lunacy, in my opinion, they're propagandizing through the media about you and me, and we can't even fight back because they'll kick you off Twitter.

They'll dump thousands of our followers. I got several thousand Twitter followers that just disappeared. I don't know if they were just jumping ship because they don't want to be on Twitter anymore or. If they were just knocked off of Twitter, if Twitter's playing games and they've done that before, where they just steal your followers and you've got to work to get them back, whatever the case is, I want you to listen to this. Cut nine, cut nine is Alex Stamos or estamos former Facebook security chief.

And he was on CNN yesterday making those remarks that I just mentioned. Check this up.

There needs to be an intentional work by the social media companies collaborating together to work on violent extremism in the same way they worked on ISIS. I was when I started at Facebook in twenty fifteen. The number one challenge from a content perspective was the abuse of social media by the Islamic State. And there was a collaboration between the tech companies and between the tech companies and law enforcement to make it impossible for them to use the Internet to recruit and radicalize young, mostly young Muslim men at the time around the world.

Now we're talking about domestic audience in the United States. And the challenge is going to be partially that ISIS did not have a domestic constituency in the United States Congress. But there is over half of the Republicans in Congress voted to overturn the election and there will be a continual political pressure on the companies to not take it seriously. Now, this is pretty deep stuff, because, again, now he's legitimately this isn't just inflammatory rhetoric like, oh, these guys are a bunch of terrorists.

He's not just, you know, speaking out of his rear end. He's legitimately trying to make the case that what's happening or what happened back in the ISIS insurgents.

Is what's happening now with Republicans, and we're using the same techniques and utilizing Facebook to do it. And I've got to tell you. Somebody should check this dude, whether it's in the form of public debate, whether it's in the form of somebody calling him out, whether it's his employer, whether it's CNN policing their own, but it seems like nothing's happening.

This is why we have the problem we have this is why we have to become more involved and there's more of what he said and we're going to get to that. But I want to talk about this more of why we need to get more involved. And this is a question I think it's the age old question. Those of us in the talk radio world, we know we follow the news. We look at what's going on. We get lots of tips, we hear things, and then we share them with you, the public.

And then everybody's up in arms, oh, my gosh, what do we do? This is it, like Bob Grant, you say it's sick and getting sicker. Well, I think what we need to do is take action. We need to get involved. And I don't mean anything crazy. I don't mean anything violent. But I do mean just look at their playbook, how did the Democrats do what they did?

How is it that there's zero Republicans at Facebook? How is it that there's zero Republicans in so many different layers of government or even in our own government where the president is a Republican fighting hard for America?

But you've got Congress that's overwhelmingly left leaning. Even those that are in the Republican Party are left leaning at times.

It's because they're in the game. My dad, God rest his soul, he always used to tell me in his thick Puerto Rican accent, you got to be in it to win it. And of course, he was talking about the lottery because he liked to play numbers. But my point is you do got to be in it to win it. The days of saying, oh, you know what, I just want to raise my kids. I just want to do me.

I just want to do my own thing. I don't you know, like Reagan said, get off my back and out of my pocket those days, for now, I think they're gone. We can't sit there and say, hey, I'm just going to drive my truck and feed my family. I'm just going to, you know, do whatever business I have, whether it's running a laundromat or running a restaurant. Running a daycare center, whatever type of business you have going to work.

It's not really an option anymore. We have to do more. We have to be poll workers. We have to be poll watchers. We have to go and make phone calls and phone bankers. We have to get involved in local campaigns. We have to volunteer to be precinct captains. It has to be done. We have to start a podcast, a video podcast, make a daily stream of your Instagram or whatever.

You need to reach more people. You need to know more things. You need to equip yourself to get into this battle of information. Because there's lots of disinformation and misinformation out there, and honestly, there's those that have a microphone and a platform and they're doing what they do, they do their best every single day.

Kudos to everybody in this business. But this goes beyond listening to talk radio. It goes beyond checking your own Facebook feed or, you know, going at it with the trolls. This is actually we have to take it back from the inside the same way they do.

You ever notice how every university doesn't have a huge amount of conservatives on their faculty? You ever notice how most levels of government. Local government, state government, federal government don't have a huge amount of conservatives that make up the bureaucracy. You ever wonder how most classrooms don't have a huge amount of conservatives that represent the teachers or the faculty in the classrooms and public schools, so whether it's a newsroom.

Whether it's a classroom, whether it's a courtroom. Town hall, state House, White House, the halls of Congress, we need to get involved. I'm looking at all these new freshmen legislators that came in at the federal level, new congresspeople, congressmen and women, such a diverse. Swath of people and I look at that and I go, thank God it's working, people are seeing that, you know what? I have to stop doing what I'm doing over here and start doing this because my country needs me to do this right now.

And this is one of those fights where not a single shots been fired. And again, of course, I understand, you know, the events of late and how things go, but for the most part, the Democrats in the radical left, they haven't taken anything by force. Nobody put a gun in my face to take away my Twitter. And I still have Twitter, but I'm just saying to take away they know what they're doing. They figured out how to make the rules, so they figured out how to break the rules.

And that's what they do.

And they do it time and again. And it's always the same M.O.. But Alex Stamos from Facebook, former security chief.

He later on in that same interview on CNN, he calls for a Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and others to basically say, look, these people have a right to free speech.

Well, I'm going to let you let him, you know, hear what he had to say and then I'll comment on it. But it really to me is it's this flippant attitude of I know better than you that the left just loves to hold on to. I want you to listen to this content. Check this out.

We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger data, larger audience than daytime CNN. And they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views. And so it's up to the Facebook and YouTube in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for this information. And then we'll have to figure out the way and Newsmax problem that these companies have freedom of speech.

But I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces, I think is where we're going to have to go here. So there you have it right from the horse's mouth. We really have to look at do they really need to give them a place to. Broadcast their hate speech, so to believe in God and family and country and the founding of this country is now hate speech.

I reject that to guys like this guy Stamos. I say, that's stupid. And for anybody to embrace an idea that goes contrary to me being able to have my opinion and you being able to have yours because I don't get it twisted, this is how it's going to be right now. They're in control. They're the boss. OK, understood.

Or at least that's going to happen. That's, you know, with their majority in Congress and whatnot. But eventually. Those that oppose them will have power and seek to use that same power, whether we call them Republicans or otherwise. And when they seek to use that same power to silence them, they're going to figure out we should have never, ever have crossed this line because they've crossed this line in the sand. And it's not a good thing, so.

In some. Whether it's stammers, whether it's Pelosi, whether it's at Jack or anybody else out there that's trying to censor speech. Not a good idea. Now, listen, we're not talking about, you know, the crazies that you know. Want to promote all the radical crazy stuff that's not political, that's dangerous, you know, things, violence, children, threats to personal safety, things like that, of course, that stuff has to be censored.

But when you're talking about political speech, when you're talking about saying something like, I support a president and a movement. Focused on making America great again. This is a problem and it's something, honestly, that we have to work very, very hard to continue to protect. Because clearly those in Congress. Are playing a dangerous game, flirting with these ideas of censorship and in some cases full blown censorship. And I don't think that's something that we can legitimately continue to pursue.

Because it's going to blow up in everybody's face, but anyway, keep it locked right there. I'm Rick Valdés, sitting in for the great one. Mark Levin.

Mark Levin. All right, America, welcome back, I am Rich Valdez Valdez with. Some of you guys know me as a little concerned about the law.

If you're a listener in New York City, I am the host of This is America on ABC Radio in New York. And I am sitting in for the great one. He's having some technical difficulties with his microphone. So I get to jump on the microphone and speak with you America. Our telephone number, one 877 three eight one three eight one one.

So we're talking about censorship, and I don't mean government censorship where the government is using the law to shut down speech. No, I'm talking about. Political discrimination. Which is an unprotected class, by the way, so, you know, you can be all sorts of things, you can be a man, a woman, transgender. Just any gender, right, or non gender, I guess. You can be any race and people cannot discriminate against you based on that, but.

How dare you be a conservative, how dare you be a Republican? Now I can tell you I've for those of you who know me, you know a little bit of my story for those who don't.

I spent some time in state government and it's a swamp everywhere you go. In New Jersey. And while I was there, I can tell you that even with a Republican governor, there are swamp creatures that are out to get you just because they know that you're outnumbered. They know that the governor can only appoint like 20 percent. Of the staff that he brings in. That means 80 percent of the swamp, the bureaucracy, as Mark likes to call the Leviathan.

They're built in their baked right into the formula. And guess what, they're not Republicans, at least not in New Jersey, they're not. So what happens? Yeah, they can make life life difficult for you, make things tough for you. You know, if you don't play ball with them or if you try to bring too much of your private sector practices into the swamp.

They don't like that. They don't like doing things quickly. They don't like doing things ahead of a timeline. But this political discrimination is what we're seeing over and over and over again, and we see it in the in the sense of tech tyranny and censorship. But it goes beyond there are people that just for attending President Trump's speech. Were iced out of their jobs. Pushed out of different things, people, you know, those that raided the capital, yeah, granted they're going to get locked up and now it's on them for doing that.

But what about people that just want to hear their president speak that went to participate in the First Amendment in their nation's capital? Well, those people there are also under fire, and that's the political discrimination that I want to talk about. This political discrimination to me is it's the loophole that they've always needed. They know that if they try to get you for anything else, you know, look at me. A lot of people get at me and they like to say, oh, you're a sellout.

How could you be an American of Puerto Rican heritage and be a Republican or be a conservative? You know, that local. Are you crazy? And I say, no, hell no. It's not that I'm crazy that I bother to read things and have a better sense of things than you do.

That's where it comes in, it's it's based on all these other things, and then we're going to treat you differently because you think differently and not because you think differently, because you're ISIS. You think differently because you're a conservative. This to me. Is is the issue when you have guys like Senator Joe Manchin coming out and saying that, yeah, he supports the platforming, Trump and and Senator Whorley and Parler, why not? Because he really feels.

That this is the right thing to do, because all of a sudden, because how dare President Trump have a rally, how dare he speak to constituents?

So I want you guys to hear what Joe Manchin had to say in a minute. But first, that's the question I have for you guys. I want to know your thoughts on political discrimination. Should we? Put up with and be happy with the idea that one of the big tech companies in America is saying to President Trump, Nah, sorry, man, you can't tweet. And I know this is this is old news, but to me, it still stings.

I pull off the Band-Aid. This wound still hurts because last I checked, this is America. This isn't somewhere where you can just do these things. Free speech is still free speech.

And I get it. That's a whole different argument for another day. But he's still the president, and we should have a right to hear from our president on different platforms. My thoughts hit me up eight seven seven three eight one thirty eight eleven.

Which Valdés. Nobody does it better than Mark Levin. I'll go with what Mark Levin said, because nobody could say it. Better call in now.

Eight, eight, seven seven three eight one three eight one one. All right, America, welcome back. Rich Valdez Valdez with an S and that's Rich Valdez on all social media, sitting in for the great one. And we're talking about what the current state of affairs is with the media now. It's always fun for me to connect with the callers on the Mark Levin Show because, you know, being missed a call screener, you know, when I'm on that side of the glass, I get to hang up on you because we have so many calls coming in and we got to keep the show moving.

But when I'm on the side of the glass, we can actually stop and have a conversation on topics like this where we have this radical left leaning leftist. Component of the Democrat Party that's really comprising more and more of it each day, it's no longer the fringe, it's the majority and it's a shame. But we have that and they have their tentacles everywhere.

It's not just the media being the the arm, the, you know, the the communications arm of the Democrat Party.

But these are all like brothers and sisters in their comrades, if you will, and they figure out, you know, I'm going to work in social work, am I going to work in media, am I going to work in government? And they're taking over from the inside out. And that's why when people say, what can I do? I just say, look at them, look at what they've done. They prepare their whole life for this.

This is what they're they're constantly preparing for now, we were talking about all of this to do, and everybody's making that Cringely face because we can't believe what's happening.

And my response is we've got to get more involved, but I want to go to some of the callers because there's a lot of people out there that have a few things that they want to say. So let's go to Rick in Costa Mesa, California. Rick, you're on with Rick Valdez.

Hi. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, you do good work. And I've loved Marcal. Evidence shows for years, freedom of the press and men in black everything. It's all great. He's a brilliant man. What I think is the most important thing right now is people have to understand because people are really being misinformed, mis guided and definitely indoctrinated, even rightly so. And suddenly so about socialism. I think it's very important for people like Marco Rubio and Sebastian Gorka and all these people that have actually lived in communist or socialist societies to talk as much as possible about how, you know, their freedom doesn't really exist in those cultures or those societies.

Yeah, I think you bring up a great point, and I appreciate your thoughts and your call.

It is important for all of us to, I think, learn from one another, but more so this is something and again, this is me going on a tangent.

But I truly believe if you're a nurse and you've had 30 years of experience as a nurse, I think it's incumbent upon you to teach the next generation of nurses, whether it's formally or informally, whether it's through mentorship or, you know, going and getting a Ph.D. so you can teach at the university level. And I really do believe that.

I think it's so important, so important so that your craft doesn't die. You want your craft to continue because part of what you're doing is influencing the world with it.

Let's say, again, as a nurse, you're influencing the world with patient care. And the moment you know the. Bedside manner that nurses from back in the days used to have dissipates and it's not there anymore, and now we have a new. Way of doing things, a new way of dealing with patients that may be more abrupt, may not be as personal and one to one. Well, this is what happens and it happens everywhere. That's why I'm grateful to the great one, Mark Levin, for, you know, the nuggets of wisdom that he shares with me about talk radio and many others that have taught me this craft.

But I bring that up to say, you're right, if you're from a communist country and you know what it's like to have. To wonder if you could even grab a chicken from outside, quick story, and I think I may have told you this, but worth repeating. When my brothers were little, they went to go visit family in Puerto Rico and they saw grandma grab a chicken when I Riina right from outside. One hand snapped the neck, put it right into a.

A pot of boiling water to remove the feathers. I was telling that to a friend of mine who's from Cuba. And he turned around and told me, he said, and this is if anybody knows him, you'll know the voice. Here's my quick impression from Richard. In Cuba, you cannot touch the chicken because the chicken belongs to Fidel.

And that's my buddy, Professor Rolando Illume. And he's right. And anybody that comes from Cuba will tell you the chicken is in yours. Even if it's running around your backyard, it belongs to the government.

So you stay hungry because if they find out, the police will be up in your house. That is crazy. But that's right. It's incumbent upon him.

And the one of the ways that we do these things is through the media, whether it's through our Facebook page, whether it's through talk radio, whether through television programs, podcast, whatever you do. You have to tell your story, reach people, and the only way that happens is if we're able to speak with them and if our ability to speak with people or at least reach those people is limited because of political discrimination or what I'm going to call corporate censorship.

We've got a problem on our hands, and that's what we're talking about, but I want to go to the next call. Let's go to Dave in Temple, Texas. Dave, what's up? You're on Widrich Valdés, Mark Levin Show. Is you're doing a great job, I'm driving home from training a precinct chair to be black, walking here in Bell County, and that is the way we get around censorship of all the media. The only way to really see it, you just said it a few seconds ago, the way to reach people is face to face.

And we go door to door to every house in Bell County where the idea, first of all, is identifying if they're patriots or not. And if there are patriots, we ask them to help do what we're doing. Go go door to door on their street. That's the solution to our problem. And we've got to go to the guys that are coming up after our country. Georgia just saw the results of being outvoted by the Democrats. They lost to Republican senators.

So can we talk about that and I'll let you talk for a minute.

Yeah. Thank you. So kind of I appreciate it. Well, what I what I liked about what you first said is, yeah, you're right. This is the way to do it. You got to go door to door when you're campaigning and it's a nonstop thing. This is why you need a machine. This is why Democrats succeed, because we're too busy saying, look, I'm busy, I'm raising my kids, I'm doing this, I got all this to do.

This is why I have you right. This is why I listen to Mark Levin, because I expect him to stay up all night and read this stuff and know the Constitution inside and out so I can rely on him, listen to his show for three hours every night and get what I need to know. And I'm going to say keep doing that. But step your game up, read more of his books. We have to get more involved.

And, you know, listening to this program and I have since its inception, it's one of those things. Were you here, Mark Levin, talk about the pamphleteers and how we need to be Thomas Paine's? And when I hear that, I think that's never been more true than now. Literally, words printed on a page may be the thing again. Because we can't do it through Facebook, we can't do it through Twitter, hopefully soon we'll be doing it again on Parler because they're back up and running.

Big shout out to Dan Bongino and John Madden and the whole crew there. But if that's what it takes, that's what it'll be, a quick story. I used to work with a Christian college and I had a colleague of mine who mentioned that he'd been to China and I said, oh, really?

What was it like? And he said it was pretty cool, but it was a little bit risky. And I said, Why? He's like, well. He said, you know, I repented, but we went there as missionaries, but we smuggled in some Bibles and I was like, Oh, really? You're not allowed to bring him? He said, nope, not allowed. And what happens is there's an underground church movement in China. And they actually rip apart the Bible because they can't have one in their possession because they get in trouble, so.

Thousand page Bible, they split it up, a thousand people get a page and they meet up at church and they swap the pages and that's how they read through the Bible. And I heard that and I said, wow. How spoiled am I that I have talk radio, how spoiled am I that I have social media? How spoiled am I that I can open up my smartphone and pretty much find out anything I want to? So, yeah, this can get worse, but thank God it's not worse.

We're not. Underground constitutionalists, we are loud and proud constitutionalists were allowed to be patriots and by God, we're going to be patriots, so keep it locked right there. I want to hear more from you, everybody across America.

I am Rich Valdés, sitting in for the great man Globin. You have to diversify how we communicate, how we get around all of the stuff that's out there stopping us from spreading a patriotic conservative message. Everybody, welcome back. I am Rich Valdez Valdez with an essay on all the social media. And some of you guys know me as missed your call screener right here from the Mark Levin Show.

Our telephone number, 877 three eight one 38 11.

Not before I was talking about Joe Manchin. And we're going to get back to him if we have some time. But someone that takes the cake.

Is Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat from Tennessee. Now, you guys may remember him, he kind of looks like the crypt keeper. If you're old enough to remember The Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt, but he was eating that Kentucky Fried or whatever type of fried chicken out of a bucket.

About maybe last year, the year before, anyway, that's him, so Rep. Steve Cohen, he's now bashing the military, saying the National Guard, 90 percent male and only 25 percent of them voted for Biden. And that raises the concern of an insider threat. Now, I think this is like my mother would say, this is Borya, this is stupidity, it's silliness. Why? Because since when in the near quarter century, no, not a quarter century, 250 years, right.

So two and a half centuries. Of our existence or close to it? Have we ever questioned the military for being partisan? No, I remember the election of 1860, 1864, fraudulent ballots. Lincoln I remember. Got it. But as of late, that's not really a thing, we don't sit there and say, hey, call the army and then when the army gets to go, hold up, chill.

Wait a second.

I think those guys might be jumpers. This might be this might we might be in a trap. These guys are out of their minds. They don't know what they want. We hate wars. We hate wars. Put up a wall. Now they've got this huge fence around Washington, D.C.. And that's what's going on, but yes, Steve Cohen, the crypt keeper, the chicken eaten crypt keeper. Had this to say, check this out, you know, I was think the guard is 90 some odd percent, I believe male.

Only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden. He got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative. And I see that on my social media. We know it there probably not more than 25 percent of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden, the other 75 percent are in the class. That would be the large class of folks who might want to do something. And there were military people and police who took an oath to defend the Constitution and it protected the who didn't do it in the insurrection to a desperate army.

But the betting at the last minute, I mean, that's hard to have voted for. Trump does not make you an insider. I mean, that's far different from being a threat of violence inside, whether the National Guard or law enforcement. I'm curious, is there is there any thing you've seen to substantiate just how broad this insider threat may be if if it exists today? Absolutely not, Jim. But, you know, you draw a first and first circle, people who work for Trump and not everybody as far as people who would be within the zone of folks who may be suspect that this group is large.

OK, so even fake news, MSNBC, Jim Sciutto, even he's saying, bro, this is fake or than fake news. Do you have any proof of this? And then he admits, nah, nah, we really don't have proof. But I'm saying, no, they didn't vote for Biden. And I don't know. And listen, just because people didn't vote for Joe Biden, Mr. I got her legs himself.

That doesn't mean anything. Or does it does that mean is that how it works now, so, oh, you know, I get pulled over by the police. Excuse me, are you a Trumper, sir? No, I'm not. I can't let you pull me over because you're not a Trumper.

This is absurdity squared. I can't believe it. But that's what he said. And not only that, he's desecrating the the name the reputation of the National Guard, the United States military.

Which, in my opinion, should be held sacrosanct, we shouldn't question that stuff, and I'm not saying bury your head in the sand, but I think most of the guys in it, my brother Bobby, served in the United States Marine Corps and most of the people that I've met that have served this country in uniform that way and have taken that oath, myself included, having taken that oath as a government person.

Take the oath seriously and perhaps that's what they fear. That these people have taken this oath seriously and they don't take them seriously and maybe that's why they're nervous, I don't know what say you 877 three 138 one 877 three eight one three eight one one. Let's go to Maria in Los Angeles. Maria, what's up? You're on the Mark Levin Show. Rich Valdez.

Hello, Rick. I can hardly hear you. You are so smooth and so amazing. Oh, my gosh. What a message is. Just sent us. Anyway, for far too long, I think conservatives have lacked the courage, the organization and the communication from a solid infrastructure place. And how did we let the message get out there that American values are a hate speech? Why has this become that trend? President Trump, he has shown us how to have courage.

I mean, I know friends that wouldn't dare admit that they support Trump, that, OK, the pandemic is here. A hide in your house never come out again. We as conservatives, we need to get that infrastructure out there. Parla is one. You're right.

Parla is one of the main things we've got to be out there front and center for. Keep it locked right there. Rich Valdés in for the great one, Mark Levin. 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.

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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. I love that. Welcome back, America. I am Rich Valdez, Valdez women, as you guys know me, has received a call screener. I'm the host of this is American ABC Radio here in New York City and part of the great men's team. And he's having technical difficulties with his microphone set up.

So I have jumped in to cover him real quick.

And thank you for putting up with me.

Our telephone number is seven seven three eight one three eight one one. Today is Martin Luther King Day.

And, you know, part of my own history, I helped start a charter school about a decade ago.

Called the beloved Community Charter School and big shout out to everybody, Bret Schundler and everybody that's involved in, you know, the day to day the founding and be the day to day operations of the school.

Excellent board, excellent parents and scholars.

But I bring that up because it was the mission and the vision of Dr. King and his speech on the beloved community. And there were a number of a number of speeches on the beloved community. And today, as we look at what's going on in America today.

We don't always see a beloved community, if we were to look at CNN or MSNBC or listen to people like Katie Couric or whoever, you wouldn't see the beloved community in order to see the beloved community, it's got to come from you.

You've got to really believe in your fellow man.

You've really got to believe in your community and your country.

And in the last hour, we heard from the chicken eating crypt keeper, Steve Cohen. And how he was trashing the troops. And I think that's disgraceful. And in this hour, we're going to hear a little bit more, but we talked about censorship. We talked about. How it's not government censorship, but it's really political discrimination. And this. Is is to me, the crux of it, this is how a company, a company, B, Twitter, Facebook, whoever, this is, how they're doing, what they do.

Now, part of my history, I worked in government and for a little while I wrote a column when John Solomon was at The Washington Times as the executive editor. And I moved on in the media game to work with Project Veritas, serving as their national field director, director of special operations, and I was the guy that got the guys to go out there and get the footage. So I always have a warm spot in my heart.

For new videos and new audio that drops from Project Veritas. Big shout out to James O'Keefe, or, as I like to call them, on his own mannerism.

And I want you to hear what James O'Keefe and the team came up with. I'm looking at this here. Cut 15 during the. Is that right, Mr. Producer? 16. So this is the legal policy and trust people at Twitter saying they they think they've seen that.

In fact, Trump's tweets are inciting violence and having real world harm.

I want you to listen to this specific integrity policy in particular has a range of options from Lieblein to removal and in some instances to suspension. You got most of the time looks like, yes, some of the things we're seeing and I think I tried to address them, but whether we believe those tweets are grounds for having real world, I we seeing that they are. I think the question is which ones are. We've also seen that Trump hasn't attempted on coming back from the timeout to de-escalate the situation, which I think has been helpful and important for some, if not all of the people who are following him.

And so we do think that that is a risk and that's why we're continuing our evaluation of how these tweets are being received and interpreted.

So that's Vijaya. I hope I'm saying that right. Vijaya Ghadi, Vijay, Y.A. Gaddi Vijaya Ghadi. And she's having a conversation with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, and they're discussing, you know, what you just heard and talk about how they really do believe these things.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post put out that timeline that Mark referenced last week.

And it just to me, it really begs the question, how is it that they can blatantly just ignore facts, but they do, and it's because they're not ignoring them.

They're purposefully omitting them. And that's how we get into the same thing with Steve Cohen, good old Steve Cohen who said that? The troops, obviously, if they're not Biden supporters and they're not women, then they've got to be jumpers and that could be in and of itself a threat.

And even the fake news anchor was like, bro, it's real. You have anything indicating that might be real.

And they obviously, you know, he said, no, no, but, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Let me grab another piece of chicken.

So I want to know your thoughts on that stuff. And I want to hit the phones. One 877 three eight one 2011 eight seven seven three eight one three eight one one. I want to go to Jake in Las Vegas. You're a veteran. Thank you for your service, sir.

Hey, Rich, how are you doing tonight? Wonderful, brother. Thank you. Yes, I appreciate you taking my call when you pull into Mark and you said 23 year veteran is one of the greatest honors of my life, of serving this country. And to hear these, I'll say these officials, not elected officials, because they really don't. They are elected, but they don't represent any constituency really. They don't care about us folks. To hear them make those types of comments is truly disgusting.

And I feel what they're doing is now these guardsmen and women who are going to be there in D.C. who don't want to be there. You know, now anyone who's radical or crazy on the street, they hear his insightful words as hateful words and they're going to like take it upon themselves to approach these people who don't want to be there and who are just hoping to get home without having someone scream in their face. And he's inciting confrontations with them.

And it's just gross to see that these elected officials continue to get away with this type of behavior and that the people somehow continue to vote. These I mean, they're clowns and they're unintelligent humans and officers. It's just gross and it's disheartening and it's it's despicable. Yeah.

You know, D.C. has truly become a circus in many ways. So having clowns in office is probably par for the course. But thank you again for your service. You're a patriot. I appreciate that.

Let's go to Bill in D.C.. Bill, what's on your mind?

Hello. Hey, Bill, what's up, your arm with America? Hi, psychological screener. I'm one of these old guys. I was a cold warrior at the tail end and I was in there at the time, clandestine unit in Berlin. And we used to live this stuff on a daily basis. And that's the sad part, is these people are well indoctrinated but not well educated. And this playbook has happened time after time with the same predictable results.

So when were you in Berlin, Bill?

Three, so they're going to grab everything they can, and historically that's when things get really bad.

Bill, when we there. I was there, I was in Germany for all of the 80s, I was there until just before the wall came down and then just after the wall came down.

All right. Now, what type of censorship did you see while you were there? Excuse me, again, what type of censorship did you see while you were there? Sex censorship from the east, of course, a lot of it is first, you know, kind of sarcasm and denial and then destroying the individuals who are complaining about it. And then the thing that you're already seeing right now that's really scary is all these people have been programmed. They need to be deprogrammed.

Yes, Germans went so far as to put people in mental hospitals and pump them full of psychotropic drugs to fix the problem.

Insanity, absolute insanity. And the worst part is Bill. And again, I thank you for your service and for your thoughts and your call. The worst part of all this is that people are still calling for the opposition to be deprogrammed. Katie Couric went on HBO Real Time with Bill Maher just on Friday. Saying, how are we going to deprogram these people who've signed up for the cult of Trump? Hat tip to news busters. Check this out.

It is so shocking, not only are they not conceding, Bill, but there's thoughts that there might have been some collusion among members of Congress. Some are refusing to go through Magnum magnetometers or whatever you call them to to check for weapons. They're not wearing masks during the siege. I mean, it's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how a wall so many of these members of Congress have gotten. But I also think some of them are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24/7 on the Internet by their constituents and bought into this big lie.

And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?

There you have it. Katie Couric, Katie Couric, who actually met in my Project Veritas days, she was actually very charming, a leftist nonetheless, but charming and complimented me on my wonderfully coiffed hair. But Katie Couric says that we have to be deprogrammed and we just heard caller Bill from the D.C. area call in and say that he saw that when he was part of a clandestine unit as part of, you know, the United States government.

In in the 80s. Listen, I'm no mathematician, but I can tell you the 80s was a long time ago, I was born in 78. That means for a complete lifetime, we've been dealing with the same stuff. Over and over, same stuff each and every time. At what point, right? I'm asking you, at what point do we wake up? Do we say, you know what, we have to realize this is out of control.

We can't allow this to happen anymore.

We're not going to allow you to sit here and say that my thoughts are something that has to be deprogrammed, something that should not be allowed to exist. They shouldn't have free speech because why is Katie Couric said so or because the chicken eating crypt keeper Steve Cohen said so?

Forget about it. That's crazy. Anyway, keep it locked right there. I want to hear more from you and we're going to get into a little bit more. Plus, we might have a little surprise in a little bit. So I am Rich Valdés 877 381 38 11 877 three eight one three eight one one. Rich Valdés with us filling in for the great one, Mark Levin.

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We've been talking about censorship and I'm looking at this article poll. Should the right embraced conservatism or populism to win for future elections? And this is a piece from Daniel Horowitz, the editor from Conservative Review. And rather than me steal any thunder here because I didn't write this. He did. Let's bring Daniel Horowitz onto the line. Daniel, welcome.

Hey, great to be with you tonight. So let's talk about censorship. I'm looking at the piece that you wrote, and there's a lot there's a lot in here, so let's unpack it. Sure.

I think the biggest thing people need to understand is we live in a time where things are moving so quickly, we can't just say, you know what, they're at level four of tyranny. They're not going to get to level ten. And, you know, for a while, if ever, if they are doing what they've been doing on covid for an entire year, life, liberty and property at stake. And then now rhetorically, they're talking about criminalizing freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in particular.

And then the governmental actions being taken are casting a pretty wide net against the Capitol Hill. Protesters, writers, not just those that were overtly violent, but anyone that was kind of in the capital. The FBI is putting up signs. I know someone in Michigan who got a visit from the FBI because someone said they felt he was an extremist. You look at some state governors and attorneys general saying that they're looking into who attended it, just attended the event.

We're not talking about someone who attacked the police necessarily. This is very scary. And my concern is that we're rapidly, rapidly moving beyond just the tech censorship to downright criminalization at the hands of the government of our free speech, because remember, the only ones who have a greater monopoly than big tech is big government. They have a monopoly on violence. They have a monopoly on law enforcement, on on the law. And that is very scary. And again, this goes back to covid when you could say there is a fear, there's a concern, we're scared for our lives.

So therefore, the Bill of Rights no longer applies. That's really what we learned last year with very little opposition. It really is not much of a jump from where they are to simply say, look, right wing terrorism lurks at every corner. And therefore, you know, this is not covered by the First Amendment, not just that your platform, but you're going to have the FBI knocking on your door.

Daniel Horowitz from Conservative Review. I think it's really well put and we've been talking about that all night. And I think you're right, this criminalization of free speech, of someone going to a rally to hear their president speak in their capital can't be something that's criminalized yet. We're seeing that happen in effect in so many ways. And one of the bad actors, at least I'm going to call him a bad actor, is Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Bring us up to speed on what he's up to and how he fits into this.

It's truly hard to imagine a worse dystopian vision than what Keith Ellison is pushing. This is a man who is letting out criminals left and right in Minnesota. I mean, you're in St. Paul, Ramsey County. It's almost impossible to get locked up to remain there without bail, no matter what you do. But at the same time, he is actually threatening business owners who open during covid with labor farm labor.

I'm not kidding you. It was a request they requested of a county judge in Ramsey County of Larita MacFarquhar, a single mom business owner who was simply trying to earn a living life, liberty and property.

And at the same time, he's announcing we are going to look at who from Minnesota attended the rally. Now, that's a bright red line. You and I are certainly Mark. We're all law and order guys. Anyone who attacked police, vandalized, we act. We would lock them up longer than the left would. But when you're talking about casting a net on anyone who just attended and would have never known violence would occur, I mean, if you would apply that standard to BLM, you couldn't build enough persons.

There would be several million people in prisons who are just merely on the street while other people were engaging in violence or vandalism, looting, arson. And remember, those people return night after night after night knowing that violence had occurred. This was a one time event and has not been repeated. So this is very scary.

So Daniel Horowitz from The Blaze, really good piece. I encourage you guys to take a look at it. We're looking at the militarization of DC in the name of protection, right? Are we're talking about law and order, I guess, in 90 seconds. Daniel, bring us up to speed on what's going on with this incredible amount of firepower that's in the nation's capital.

You know, a man being elected chief executive with almost no civilians in attendance and just 30000 masked military personnel. That kind of looks and smells a lot like a military junta. That really doesn't look very well. Remember?

Remember just last year, Nancy Pelosi said she was seriously concerned about Trump using the military to put down out of. Control volatile riots that occurred night after night and now they're using this when there's no violence in sight. And what's shocking is, remember, we spent two years deflecting the lies of the left when they said it violated Posse Comitatus for Trump to merely merely repel an invasion at our border, the cartels and the drug traffickers. He could not put the military there according to them.

And now suddenly you could parade them around D.C., possibly indefinitely, because remember, from covid, what starts out as an emergency doesn't end very quickly.

Yeah. Daniel Horowitz, let everybody know quickly where they can find you and this piece.

Sure. The Blaze Dotcom and see our podcast at The Blaze.

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Welcome back, America. I am Rich Valdés, your liberty loving Latino amigo, also known as Mister Call Screener, received here at the Mark Levin Show. And the great one is off tonight because of technical difficulties at the bunker related to his microphone.

So you get to be with me. Our telephone number is one eight seven seven three eight one thirty eight 11. Richard, as I am in for the great one and I'm here to incite patriotism, that is what I think we all need to be doing.

But lamentably, there are the evil forces that are at work on the left saying, you know what?

We need to stifle your speech. We need to minimize, eliminate or control your speech. And that's been the common theme, and I think, you know what, there's a reason why that's the First Amendment, because we all know these rights that we have, they come from God. They don't come from the government. Our Constitution is simply that list that says, hey, this is what they can't do to you. As a free people. We need to know what's happening, and I think it's incredibly Eye-Opening when James O'Keefe from Project Veritas and his team come across this audio of.

Not only Jack from Twitter, but his legal team and his communications team. Discussing why don't we skip a couple of steps, forget due process, let's just go straight to the permanent ban because remember, the initial ban on Trump was only 12 hours.

I want you to listen to this carefully, check this out. Last question, which I would going to explain to you, but what is this? Have we read the letter from employees demanding Trump to be suspended? What's our point of view on? There are certainly good ideas expressed in the letter to the Retro and not publicly mentioned about what we learned about our policies around our actions. One question or tequila was just around the first strike and that and the 12 hour suspension.

And if we consider just the severity of the president's tweets and why we didn't maybe jump a couple of steps ahead versus just sticking to the kind of first strike in the 12 hours or so, the severity of the tweet.

Now, mind you, this was and Mr. Bruce, if I'm wrong, correct me, but I remember this being a video that Trump put out President Trump, where he said go home and go home in peace.

And they said, oh, no, no, no, that's that's no good. You can't be saying go home and go home in peace and forgive my my grammar there.

This is what the first thing was, 12 hour suspension, so now you have the communications people telling Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, No, no, no, hold on. And of course, Vijaya Godi. And Julie Steele, head of internal communications at Twitter. Saying, you know, we probably should have foregone this, you know, internal due process, you know, why didn't we you know, and I got the transcript right here, and I think it's fascinating.

You know, he talks about whatever they go back and then she says one question in particular was just around, you know, the first strike and the 12 hour suspension on President Trump.

And if we consider the severity of President Trump's tweets, why didn't we maybe jump a couple of steps ahead versus just sticking to the kind of first strike in the 12 hours?

That was her question.

Why? Why didn't we why do we write them up when we could have, you know, called out the firing squad?

Now, of course, I'm being hyperbolic. This is talk radio.

But in effect, they they wanted to destroy his online presence. And I can't say it's destroyed.

I think he would bounce back probably with more followers if they were to give him his account back. But it's clear. How they think. Not only is this. Somewhat authoritarian in their thought process, but it's very, very fascistic, right? Do what I say, like the liner, do what I say or I'll hurt you, do what I say or we will the platform you.

This has nothing to do with protecting the community and community guidelines.

And you've had world leaders that said, you know what? No, no, no, this is not good. So I want to know your thoughts on that and everything else that we've talked about tonight, because to me, this is indicative of a larger problem.

We saw it with impeachment, the same authoritarian, fascistic behavior. Oh, we don't like what you did. We're going to impeach you.

But you can't admit when you have a hearing on it. No, we're going to do it right now and we're even going to make up rules on how we can prevent you from running again to disqualify you. To do this, to do that, we're going to remove you from office ex post facto, you've got to be kidding, but they're not kidding because they figured it out. Who are you going to complain to? It's an echo chamber. It's a one way street.

We'll just keep telling the same story, and if you don't like it, don't listen. The difference is. I can do that on talk radio, right? I'm not the government of the people, for the people, by the people, but I want to know what you guys think.

Let's go to the phones, 877 three, eight, 138, 11. And let's go to Don in New York.

What's up, Don? You're on what? Rich Valdés, Mark Levin Show. Hey, Rick, welcome. I enjoy listening to you in New York when you're on the air and you do a great job, I think. And I just want to add, if you remember a couple of months ago, Senator Schumer made a very, very incendiary speech in front of the Supreme Court, practically threatening them. And if you play that side by side with the remarks that President Trump made at the rally, tell me who should be impeached.

Right. Right. And I do remember that he was very, very, very adamant. And I remember we were at a different studio, Mr. Producer and I, when that happened. I remember it like yesterday.

And he definitely sounded very, very, I'm going to say violent or at least, you know, he was trying to incite some sort of violence, talking about actually physically hurting people and then said, no, no, he had to backtrack and say, no, no, no, no, no.

Now, not only did the president not call for that, he was explicit in what he was talking about. And you're right, it's a clear double standard done. They just they can't get out of their own way. This is wrong.

This is wrong. This is wrong. But you're doing it well. It's only wrong when you do it.

And that's how they do it. And I think people are sick and tired of that. They don't care anymore about the falsehoods that are being peddled by people like. Chuck Schumer, people like our incoming former Vice President Biden, right, Joe Elbows, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, these people just lie out of their teeth. Fake teeth at that, right?

You hear them every time they're talking. And they don't care, they do it with impunity because they don't care about you, they don't care about me, they don't care about this country, they care about maintaining the swamp. Keeping the cash flow coming, that's all that matters to them. Don, thank you so much for your call. I appreciate it. Big shout out to everybody listening in New York. And let's check in with Nelson Nelson from Indiana.

What's on your mind, Nelson?

Hi there. I just wanted to add that my Twitter account and Facebook account that DILE are suspended for asking for an investigation on the whole thing. I did not mention anything about mail fraud or anything. I just mentioned that we need to get the brand were meant to save the integrity of the election, our Constitution.

Now, let me ask you, Nelson, were you also at the rally on January 6th? Did you hear the president's remarks in D.C.?

I'm sorry? Were you in D.C.? So. No, I am in Indiana. No, I know that, and it sounds like you're having a tough time hearing me. Thanks for your call.

But my my thought process is if you were at the rally and you know, they're coming at you and deleting you, you know, this is one more way of doing what they do. And it seems that we just heard from Daniel Horowitz that the FBI is visiting people. And I've got somebody on the line here calling from the Bronx, New York, that says he was at the rally. So I'll cue what's going on. I want to know, did the FBI come knocking on your door?

Oh, yes. Can you hear me? Of course, the whole world hears you. OK, happy and healthy New Year. Mr. Bell, thank you. First time I got to the station, I was at the rally. It was very peaceful. It was about the gathering was about a mile away from the Capitol. What I want to say is I did hear the talking Giuliani, but when the president was talking, I was just leaving and I had to leave.

My wife was sick in New York and I'm coming from New York. But I wanted to say that they put people in harm's way that came there and calmness for all of us. A mob is something that I think we could sue on, especially the people that guys played on in Stamford over. A woman got killed.

Yeah, lots of bad things happen. OK, let me ask you, did you get a visit from the FBI? Did I get a beating from the FBI? Mm hmm. Hello. Yeah, did you? No, I didn't. That's the core middle of the day, and they're supposed to someone is supposed to call me from another talk show to tell the other charges, but I want to just say that was wrong. We should be able to sue them, too.

Yeah, I think just if I could share with you, I really think that people should be able to go to Washington, D.C. It is the capital of our country. This is about free speech. This is about doing what's right. This is about doing what you want to do, because we have liberty and we should be allowed to go and listen to the president speak and to hear what he had to say and to participate, because that's what we do in America.

And it's insane that people are being chastised for that part. The trashing of the capital all day long, 100 percent wrong. Anyway, keep it locked right there, because all this talk about tech censorship and stifling of speech, we've got two of the big dogs in conservative social media, Chris Pavlovsky and John Mattes, from Parler and from Rumball that sat down with the great one, Mark Levin last night on Life, Liberty and Levin.

And we've got some highlights from that. So I want to play those for you before we check out. Keep it locked right there.

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All right. Erica, welcome back. Rich Valdez Valdez with an essay on all the social media platforms. If you want to follow me, feel free to. And we were talking about tech censorship, tech tyranny. And I mentioned two of the heavyweights in this game on the conservative side, John Mattes and Chris Pavlovsky, both respectively from Parler and from Rumball, sat down with the great one last night, Mark Levin on Life, Liberty and Levin to discuss what.

What the what they're going through, what what's happening and to give us an update, so the first clip I want to play for you is about what's really at stake for a company like Parler, because they own technology, they own this platform, and Amazon is preventing them from getting there.

So I want you to hear what John Mattes had to say. John meIt's excuse me.

Where does this matter now? You've sued Amazon, as I understand it. What is the status? Well, we are trying to get a we're trying to get our services back up and running so at least we can access our code repositories. At least we can access our development and testing environment. You know, this is an indication to me that seems really strange if if they believe that the that the social media itself was a problem, you know, why do they shut off everything else, too, so that, you know, development, environment, they shut off, you know, our ability to work and our ability to even access our own code and work on that.

So, you know what they did. This is important. This is important. You're saying that your own proprietary code, other information, contact information, data, information, you can't even access what actually belongs to you and your company, that they're preventing you from getting the information that is yours. They gave us a very small window to download it all while we were, you know, experiencing a lot of growth. And so we tried to download what we could, but now we don't have any more access.

And what we also need is to be able to spin up our servers so that we can get some information which requires our servers to be running to get. And so, yes, they're preventing us from doing that at the moment.

Now, we also heard from Chris Pavlovsky from Rumball, a video platform. And I want you to hear what he had to say.

Check this out. So Google now has the power and the reason, I guess, they acquired YouTube to promote YouTube and crush its competitors. And is that what it's doing and how is it doing? So we filed a lawsuit this week on Monday, and our complaint alleges that Google is self preference on YouTube and their search results. And Google is also installing the YouTube app on mobile devices, which makes it next to impossible for companies like us to compete.

And in our complaint, we allege that and we've chronicled evidence in our complaint that alleges that up to nine point three billion visitors were redirected to YouTube instead of Rumball, which results in us losing over one hundred million, uploads 100 million videos that creators could have brought to rumble and over two billion dollars in damages. But the thing that's really upsetting and it makes me really sad is that, you know, I was that guy that built the websites out of my parents basement.

It's not just Rumball that's been injured here. It's every consumer that's getting injured here. It's every creator on Rumball that's getting injured. And it's every business and person that gets injured here because it's rigged. It's of my opinion that the search engine is completely rigged and no one even knows about it. We we talk lots about having free speech in the last year. But when you really look at it, another First Amendment violation is that it's being censored.

You don't even and you don't even know it. It's the engine. The search engine is being rigged in a way where you don't even know if there's rigging against cute cats and dogs, which is our complaint. They can be rigging it against anything from politics to the local bakery to anybody who wants to be in that search engine and wants to list their business or wants to compete. They don't have a chance in this market if it's being if it's being rigged the way we allege.

So what do we do? We have to stand for something, because if we stand for nothing will fall for anything. That's Hamilton. And the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that we do nothing. So we have to do something. We've got to get out there and fight, whether it's starting a tech platform or becoming the next pamphleteer. I'm Valdés in for the great one. God bless you. From the Westwood One podcast network.