8/10/26 - WNBA's Transgender Athlete Debate: The Only Color That Matters Is Green

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Mark Levin here, our number 877381-381-3811. 877-381-3811. It's an honor to be here with you, of course, and I appreciate very much. We're going to get into a number of things. You know, first I want to talk about the WNBA. Mr. Produce can tell you, I just decided to do that because I was actually going to start with something else. But it's on my mind. It's on my mind because it just shows you how ridiculous the left is in these corporations. WMBA is a corporation, and it's an athletic corporation. In 100 years from now, they'll be looking back on this, assuming we are even around, that is, as a nation. about how stupid we are. Maybe they'll write about it in a thousand years if the world still exists. We're actually debating what a woman is, what a man is. We understand what it means, people transgendering. We also understand it's a very small fraction of a percentage. And it's really broken down into a number of issues, and that is, you're talking about babies and children. who should be left alone because they go through different phases. You have tomboyes, you have guys that like to play with dolls, and then as they get older, they move into one category or another. But you don't make decisions that have an impact on an individual's life for the rest of their life when they're eight years old. You don't do that. And I don't want to hear about the experts. This is a very... imprecise so-called science psychiatry psychology they can be helpful at times but they're imprecise you know uh bill buckley once said i'd rather be ruled by the first thousand names i think it was in the boston telephone book than the professors at harvard something to that effect but you understand what he meant

People have common sense. People have real world experiences. If you spend your whole life in academia or even in the sciences, you don't. It's that simple. It's why these ideologues, these ideologues, many of whom are wealthy, many of whom have really done nothing with their lives except spew their ideology. That's why they don't know how to run anything. Don't have to feed themselves. They don't have to fix anything. But my point to you is there's a lot of issues here when it comes to the trans issue. And I don't even talk about this that much. If you're an adult and you make that determination, I mean, that's one thing. But children's a whole other thing. Now what about the Women's National Basketball Association? Do they understand what W stands for? Women? I mean, do we have to keep going through this? We had this preposterous issue come up when Jackson wanted to be a justice, and she said she'll leave it to the biologists. Really, you'll leave it to the biologists? She's married to a man. She must know what a man is and a woman is in terms of genitalia. But it's political correctness gone amok. This isn't a put-down of trans people. This isn't an attack against people's civil liberties. Women have fought like hell for half a century to have what we call equality in sports. Now, what do we mean by equality in sports? We don't mean... that men and women are the same, or all women are the same for that matter. What we mean is they have an opportunity, girls have an opportunity, as they get older, women have an opportunity, to flourish in athletics. And that's a good thing. So if you're going to set up a woman's national basketball association, biological women, women with vaginas. Well, I guess they could change that, can't they, Mr. Producer? I'm saying biological women originally with vaginas. That is who qualifies. Now, if people want to have a trans leg or something like that, and I don't say that tongue in cheek, I don't say that to make a job, I mean it. That's fine by me. Or you want to have clubs, you know, basketball club, baby. That's fine by me. But you shouldn't be able to destroy an entire league or destroy the opportunity that girls and women have by claiming that this is a civil rights issue. It's not a civil rights issue. It's not a civil rights issue. You got to make a decision. You're ready? I'll make it very easy. You got to make a decision. Whether a relative handful of individuals can change a league completely, actually destroy its purpose, or whether the vast majority, overwhelming majority of the individuals in that league should be able to compete with each other on a level playing field. It's that simple.

So what do you do with the minority that would destroy the league, the Women's National Basketball Association? And notice the problem only rests in the girls of the women's leagues because you're talking about biological males. I mean, if you're talking about men's basketball, men's baseball, men's football, very simple. It's very simple. Because of... A woman's actual biology, if she transitions to a boy or to a man, certainly by the time she transitions to a man, she can't compete with the men. But men who transition, quote, unquote, to women can not only compete with the woman, but as we've seen in multiple examples, in college boards and elsewhere, they can actually hurt the women physically. So that's not acceptable to me. Girls and women should be able to prosper in the sports they're in. And if somebody is truly a girl or a woman, then they can compete for it. If they're a boy or a man, then they can't. There's just certain things that are the way that they are. And changing them doesn't make it better. That's not necessarily progress or civil liberties. So what the two former pro basketball athletes are doing, I think is not only brilliant, it's necessary. Now the WMBA hierarchy is trying to figure out what to do. Why? Because they've backed themselves into a corner through their... through their phony righteousness, phony civil rights, absolute idiocy. Absolute idiocy. Because they know that allowing in men, men, biological men, into their league, will destroy their league. We'll destroy their league. We'll destroy their league. Now what do we do? That's one issue in the WMBA. The other is when this basketball player Cunningham, I can't remember her first name. Do you know off the top of your head, Rana? Sophie. Sophie Cunningham. Beautiful young lady who's a superb basketball player and she's white. And she gets the hell beaten out of her virtually every game. Her teeth knocked out the other night, a straight arm that could have really hurt her. Her coach is a loathsome idiot who first wears the t-shirt about transgenderism. This is her coach to counter her player. Then she's asked about this injury, or I should say this physical attack. for which the other player was thrown out, and she comes to the defense of the other player. Now, the other player's black. She goes immediately on social media and accuses Sophie Cunningham, or I should say the people who are outraged by this, as being racist. Let me tell you something about the WMBA. It's racist, all right.

We have two great white basketball players on the same team. On that Indiana team, I think it's called the fever. Whatever. I don't really follow women's basketball. Ooh, I'm sorry. Did I offend somebody? I barely follow men's basketball. I'm sitting around waiting for football to be perfectly honest with you. That's the way I am, Ron. I like football. You too. Anyway, racist? Caitlin Clark's been clobbered. And she brought a lot of audience to that league. And you know what's funny? Money is green. White or black, it doesn't matter. Money is green. It's a business. It's a business. They all want more money, don't they? All the athletes want more money, don't they? Well, then treat it like a business. But I find a level of racism in the WNBA, and I'm just being blunt. I'm not one of these knee-jerk racist here, racist there, racist everywhere, against these two white players. And I don't watch it closely enough to know if it's others as well. But it bothers me that not enough people are speaking out about it. You don't see it in men's basketball. You don't see this kind of thing in men's basketball, which is obviously overwhelmingly black. Look, if they're the best athletes, I don't care what color you are. I don't care about any of that stuff. People want to see the very best. That's what you want to see, the best of the best. That's what I want to see. Same with football, whether it's UFC, whatever it is. Soccer. I don't watch a lot of soccer, but a lot of people do. I want to see the best. Under those uniforms, I want to see the Americans win. I root for Americans, red-blooded America. I don't care what color. I root for my home team where I grew up. I don't care what color. In fact, I want the best players possible. If they're all black, they're all black. That's fine by me. If they're two-thirds black, that's fine by me. If they're one-third black, fine by me. I don't really care. You know who my favorite basketball player was growing up? I'll give my age away. Will Chamberlain. I loved Will Chamberlain. Loved them. My favorite boxer of all time? Muhammad Ali. That's right, Muhammad Ali. My favorite music? Motown. Motown, Detroit. It's my favorite music. It's the way it goes. It's the way it is. What I'm trying to say here is this. What you see in the WNBA you do not see in the men's NBA. You do not see all this racial stuff going on. So I'm less inclined to ever watch the WNBA than I am even the NBA. I'll be right back.

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Places, like I won't mention because I don't want to get myself into a controversy, but they come from countries that are not great. They come from, let's say, as an example, Somalia, they come in and then they tell us how to, how our constitution, how our declaration of independence, how it works. It doesn't work that way. And they're not smart. They have no aptitude. They have nothing going, and they're telling us how to run our country. And I just don't think it's going to happen. I think that they start off. Now, I may be wrong, you know, they start off with a big disadvantage. People don't want to have radical lunatics involved in running our country. And that's what we have. We have people that are saying things that are so great. Now they're denying it. Or they say, well, I've changed my mind. They want to defund our police. They want to terminate our military. No military. We don't want any military in our country. We don't want our police to be paid anymore. They want our police down to, like, almost nothing. Can you think of another president who would speak like that? I cannot. Right, exactly. I could not be prouder of our president. Really? I can't think of another president who would have both the guts and the common sense to call out the communist and the jihadists. I've been waiting for this moment. But he does more than that, doesn't he? He tells you they come from these hellholes. He tells you that how dare they come into our country and tell us what the declaration means and the Constitution means. Sounds familiar. It should. I couldn't be prouder of him. And laying into them, hammering them. It was absolutely fantastic. In fact, Mr. Producer, I liked it so much. I want to hear it again. I'm not kidding. Let's play this again. This is the president in the Oval Office this afternoon. Go. Well, the one thing is we have jihadists being elected all over the place. We have this, whether it's communism, jihadism. A lot of a friend of mine called up. He said, you know, really, you should use the word jihadist because that's what's happening. And I'm not sure that anybody, if you take a look at what happens. Other countries, I think that's not going to be necessarily the way we want to live. But when you look at the radicalism and the craziness of the candidates and the stupidity of what they're suggesting, let's get rid of the Supreme Court, let's get rid of the presidency, let's get rid of the Senate. Sometimes I'd like to get rid of the Senate too, but I don't say it, and it wouldn't do it. But, you know, they want to get rid of the Senate. They want to get rid of, ideally, the House, but they're thinking about maybe keeping the House. Isn't that nice? These are people that have been not successful. They're people that have been, in many cases, bad years. They come from other failed countries, and they come here and they tell us how to run our country. They come from...

Places, like I won't mention because I don't want to get myself into a controversy, but they come from countries that are not great. They come from, let's say, as an example, Somalia, they come in and then they tell us how to, how our constitution, how our declaration of independence, how it works. It doesn't work that way. And they're not smart. They have no aptitude. They have nothing going, and they're telling us how to run our country. And I just don't think it's going to happen. I think that they start off. Now, I may be wrong, you know, they start off with a big disadvantage. People don't want to have radical lunatics involved in running our country. And that's what we have. We have people that are saying things that are so great. Now they're denying it. Or they say, well, I've changed my mind. They want to defund our police. They want to terminate our military. No military. We don't want any military in our country. We don't want our police to be paid anymore. They want our police down to, like almost nothing. Hmm. Really beautiful. Really so accurate. And I don't know of another president who would speak this way. I really don't. Now, let's see here. We have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, first of all, she's frozen her eggs. Did you read that, Mr. Reducer? She put out a video. Can I say something to you, folks? Seriously. If a woman is going to freeze her eggs, does she have to announce it? Does she have to discuss it in detail on a video? I mean, I find this so crazy. I find it all so crazy, to be perfectly honest with you. Some things should keep private. Do what you want, but do you have to announce that? She's 36 or 37, so she wants to have... A baby or babies later in life. Later in life. Okay. Why is that any of my business? You know, sometimes I don't want to know. Sometimes I just don't give a damn. I just don't. Anyway, here she is about Francesca Hong. Now, Francesca Hong is the Democrat who's going to run for governor of... Wisconsin. Wisconsin is not a dark blue state. It really is a marginal state. It can go red, it can go purple, and it does both. This woman's a nut. She's a radical, but she sounds like she's like a third grader. And I'm convinced Each and Bernie the Red Stalinist Bernie Sanders do not think she can win. And so they haven't endorsed her. You know, very busy, they said, well, there's only so many candidates we can endorse. That's BS. They're not endorsing her because they don't think she'll win, and they want to demonstrate how powerful they are, you know, by keeping their losses to a minimum. Let's go to cut six, Mr. producer, go. I think that a lot of these races... even right now, they'll have a tendency to be nationalized. But these races ultimately are local and all politics are local. My understanding is that... Wait a minute. We heard that before. All politics are local? Wow. Seems to me there was a Speaker of House from Boston who once said that. Big fat guy with white hair. You remember him, Mr. Producer?

Go ahead. Is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate? Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that. Right, she's moved away from it. And I have a local city councilman that. Wait a minute. I tweeted that. I tweeted that about Thanksgiving. Well, you know, I've changed my mind as they dig up dirt on this woman because she's a real headcase. Now, these aren't really, really old tweets. I mean, she was on with her buddy Hasan Piker, and he did his test, You hate America, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She passed 100% with Asan Puker. Now, it's, well, you know, that was then and this is now. No, no. That was then and then is now. Go ahead. saying woke one was crazy. And I think that what's important is that we have to assess what... Was it? I mean, did the movement go too far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. Well, you know, I think that... During this time, and especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the overtime window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns. And I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. You know, she's a concoction too. She beat this. Irish guy who'd been in Congress 20 years was part of leadership under Nancy Pelosi. He wasn't paying attention. It was a low turnout primary in New York City, one of the boroughs. And she beat him. And then the press got all excited, promoted her, you know, basically put her on their shoulders and marched her around, celebrating her. Oh, look at this. She's 29, 30 years old. They used to call her Sandy. She grew up in Westchester. But, no, no, not Sandy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx. Yeah, well, she grew up in Westchester. Her name was Sandy. Hey, what he, misogynist? Yes. Anyway, there we are. Going on and on, because... What about Abdul El-Sayed? Abdul El-Sayed! Abdul El-Sayed! What about him? Cut five, go. What does Abdel Saeed's victory in Michigan say about the future of the Democratic Party? I think that we are in a time of renewal. Renewal, renewal, throwbacks, Islamist throwbacks, communist throwbacks, but it's a renewal. It's a renewal. It's a purging. It's a purification. Out with the old and with the new. But it's not new. No, no. You don't understand. Go ahead. And it's tremendously exciting. We're so excited. The way they treat women? Oh, my God. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Does she cover her hair? No. Does she cover her face? No. Does she cover her shoulders? No. She goes on a video. She lifts up the bottom of her shirt. She shows you her tummy. Excuse me, cholera. And she goes on about... I'm freezing my angst. Excuse me? I'm freezing my angst. I want to put off... Child birth till later, I'm freezing my eggs. It's a time of renewal where we embrace the 7th century barbarians and primitives and their treatment of women. Oh yes. And Marxism. They killed 100 million people. That right now enslaves people, wherever it's thrive, like communist China. It's a time of renewal. We're renewing here. Says Sandy from Westchester. A time of renewal. We got new energy? Oh, it's just unbelievable here. Crackpot. I'll be right back. Mud. Love in.

With Donald Trump back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Dick Durbin has a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal, strong security. But Senator Dick Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity, and your financial future. Dick Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate... which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Dick Durbin's failed policies before. His last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs than fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators stop Dick Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn more at guardyourcar.com. That's guardyourcar.com. Paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. This, DSA, Marxists, communists, jihadists, Islamists, just don't call them socialist, please. Just don't call them progressives and liberals, please. They think that the House of Representatives should choose the president. They think the Senate should just go away. Poof. Unlimited immigration, no borders. Oh, that won't hurt. Our enemies are salivating, aren't they? Oh, yes. That'll be fantastic. Medicare for all. Now, you know, what's interesting is last weekend, first of all, I start my things on radio typically. I went into you the cost of doing this in Medicare. Last weekend on Fox, I did it. Now everybody's talking about the cost. Trillions. And not only that, all of you who've contributed to Medicare. Poof, your money doesn't matter either because now everybody's on Medicare, including people haven't paid a plug nickel and illegal aliens. So the system will collapse. You'll have long lines and more people will die. It's that simple. Much more will we return. I'll be right back. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. Pure Talk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to puretalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening, and thank you so much for this sponsorship, Pure Talk. He's here. He's here. Now, broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-discreet building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Lavene.

America, Mark Levin, here. Our number, 877, 381, 381, 381, 381, 381, no big deal, a little technical difficulty, but we're all set, ready to roll here. Bernie Sanders is no fan of this Democrat in Wisconsin who wants to be governor because he's figured out she can't win either. She can't win either. He's... He's not talking, well, we have a limited number of cases we can get involved in. No, he can endorse whomever he wants, but he's not endorsing her. Just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Here's what he had to say when he was, by the way, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's on Meet the Depressed, Bernie Sares on DeFace the Nation. You see what I mean? If you're literally a normal politician, you can't get on these programs. You can't get on these programs. And that's how these people become well-known and popular. And then they go to the polls. People vote for the people whose names they're most familiar with or they heard of, you know, before. And so normal politicians, normal, can't get on these programs. And then they bring in Chris Van Hollen and Chris Murphy. You understand what I'm saying. So they bring in these whack jobs. And here he is. Bernie Sanders is from Vermont. He's a fraud, a phony, and a fool. He's literally done nothing. Zero. He's been an agitator his entire life. And so this is a chicken and egg issue, you see. They say, well, these people, they have a lot of momentum here. Well, one of the reasons they have a lot of momentum here is because of the media. They highlight them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a media concoction. Bernie Sanders is an old Stalinist. They'll never go under his background. We'll never tell you about him and what he really is. In any event, here he is on DeFace the Nation. Cut seven, go. I know that you haven't gotten involved in many governors' races with the exception of Maine, but Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin is expected to win. her Democratic primary. There's been some attention to some of her social media posts recently, but she has this platform of free child care, state-run grocery stores, more health care subsidies. She wants to raise income taxes on millionaires. Some of this does seem to align with your platform. So I'm wondering, you know, why don't you support her? Is some of what she supports too extreme for you? No, raising taxes on the rich, making sure that everybody in Wisconsin or America has health care as a right sounds quite reasonable to me. I just look, we have a limited number of races. Okay, let's stop there a second. The top 50% of taxpayers contribute 97% of all the federal income taxes. The bottom 50% pay 3% rationally, logically. Okay? You need to understand this. You need to understand this. Let's be specific. From the Tax Foundation. The Tax Foundation. In 2023, taxpayers filed 153.1 million tax returns. Reported earning nearly $152 trillion in justly gross income.

and pay $2.1 trillion in individual income taxes. There's other taxes that flow money into the Fed, too, obviously. The top 1% of taxpayers pay 26.3% average rate, 26.3. So they're paying about a little less than 30% of their income, seven times higher than the 3.7% rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers. that is seven times higher the tax rate. The top 1% income share fell for the second consecutive year from 22.4% to 20.6%. Federal income taxes paid, excuse me, the top 50% of all taxpayers paid nearly 97% of all federal income taxes. Let me see here now. Just bear with me. I'm looking. Do they have that share of total income taxes? Okay. The top 1% paid 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 5% paid 60% of all income taxes. All right. Top 10% paid... Over 70% of all federal income taxes, top 10%, top 25%, this is the data, paid over 86% of all the federal income taxes. And then the top 50% paid 97% of all federal income taxes, and the bottom 50% paid 3%. So again, The top 1%, the wealthiest, paid nearly 40% of all income taxes. The top 5% paid nearly 60% of all income taxes. The top 10% paid over 70% of all income taxes. The top 25% paid over 86%. And the top 50% around 97%, the bottom 50%, around 3%. Okay? The top 1% of taxpayers, and that would be an average income, adjusted gross income, I should say, in other words, the net of $675,000 and above. So that includes non-millionaires, millionaires, billionaires. Okay? I'm just pointing this out so people understand what's going on here. High income taxpayers, they write. I'm reading from their report, the Tax Foundation, which is an independent foundation. Pay the majority of federal income taxes, well, that's for sure. In all the top 1% of taxpayers, 1.5 million tax returns account of nearly as much income tax is paid as the bottom 95%. The top 1.5%... Excuse me. The top 1.5 million... Top 1.5 million. Paid nearly as much as the other 145 million taxpayers. Okay?

So they, we're going to tax the billionaires and the millionaires and we got to do this and we got to do that. This is why it's always a ruse. They're after you. Now, people in New York City are starting to figure this out with the property taxes and so forth. I don't know what that is. Okay. You know, let me, let me diverge slightly here. So you go to bed one night, right? You're minding your own business. Next thing you know, Apple has... downloaded new software on your iPhone. You have to deal with that, Mr. Producer? And so what used to be isn't, you can't find what you used to find. Now the damn thing's talking to me. You just heard that little speaking, didn't you, Ron? That was my iPhone. My iPhone is on silent, and it's talking to me. Shut up, iPhone. Anyway, that's where we are. So this class warfare stuff, now you understand, when you look at the progressive income tax, when they sold the income tax with the 16th Amendment, the argument was only the very, very richest top 1% of Americans would pay an income tax. So obviously, the amendment passed heavily. Because the vast majority of the people weren't, the very, very richest, were they? They weren't in the top 1%. But now, look, at how many of you have to pay a federal income tax? Now, many of you are not in the bottom 50%. And you're paying a federal income tax, or you live in a state that has a state income tax in many instances, if not most. So these things are never really intended for the richest of the rich. They're intended for everybody. Now, why is that? Because you could literally seize all the money that every millionaire and above billionaire, trillionaire has, and maybe run the government for one year, tops. Maybe a year and a half, and then it's gone. I often argue with you and make the point, whatever happened to that tobacco money. That was an enormous amount of money that went to the States. Nobody even talks about it anymore. Nobody. Where is it? Now, why would you take the greatest country in the face of the earth and put a tax system in that would tax... millionaires and billionaires at 90%. You know what happens when you do that? You lose your millionaires and billionaires. They go overseas. They put their money overseas. Or they just stop. That's enough. And so all the industry, all the capital investment, all the brain power is completely lost. It's lost. Nobody wants to work for 10 cents on the dollar. Do you? Well, nobody else wants to do either. Ten cents on the dollar? No, I don't think so. No. Crazy. But Bernie Sanders is an idiotic. It doesn't matter. As I said the other day, it doesn't matter how well people are doing. It doesn't matter how poorly they're doing. Doesn't matter if the economy's chugging along, not chugging along. His ideology doesn't change. It's the same ideology. And it is a failed ideology. It's one that cannot work.

It's one that never has worked. Now, Abdul El-Sayed on Meet the Depressed, so he's on Meet the Depressed. They're all the radicals. The Marxists and the Islamists are on Meet the Depressed and defaced the nation and so forth. He wants you to know he differs with Bernie Sanders on capitalism, even though Bernie Sanders has campaigned for him and endorsed him, as has Hasan Piker, because he's a liar. Now they're lying. They need votes. They're lying. Cut eight. Let's listen to this. Go. You have said, and I want to talk about your political identity now, you have said you're not a Democratic socialist. You were backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who of course proudly says he is a Democratic socialist. You've even attended events hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America. Where do you differ from Bernie Sanders? Is there one policy issue where you can point out a difference? Capitalism, you know, I'm a scientist and I believe in good, thoughtful, evidence-based solutions to problems. You know, when it comes to the question of capitalism, allocating capital based on supply and demand, at the level at which it's supposed to work, where you have free entry and exit into markets, you know, I support that idea. I understand right now, though, that we don't live under capitalism. We live under corporatism. You have huge corporations that have used their power in effect to try and buy politicians. Okay. So that those politicians will turn around. The vast majority of people are employed by small businesses in this country. And you do have some large, very large corporations because you need a large pool of capital to do certain things like build, Tesla's, Starlink's. You need significant capital. AI. the buildings and the amount of computer data and all the rest of it. You can't just do that with a corner grocery store or a small business and so forth. So that's what happens. That's okay. Because the biggest concentration of money, in fact, the biggest concentration of money and power is not in any company or group of companies. It's in the federal government. It's in the federal government. And he doesn't believe in capitalism. He doesn't. He is a Marxist Islamist. That's exactly what he is. And now he's a bald-faced liar. I'll be right back.

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And then Hasan Piker. We all know what they are. We all know what they're from. This guy, Abdul El-Sayed, his family's from Egypt. This guy, Puker, his family's from Turkey. Nobody's attacking Egyptians and Turks and so forth. We're attacking them specifically. Are we supposed to ignore what they say? Yes, according to PBS. But we're not going to. We're not going to be intimidated. Not. We have to save this country. Go ahead. Threat none of these candidates are communists. Are those the strongest messages? Excuse me. None of these candidates are communists? Who is this woman? Now what, whatever the hell? Who is she? None of these candidates are communists? He's hanging out with Puker, who tells us that Mao is the greatest person ever walked to face the earth. Of course, they're Marxist Islamists. We know exactly what they are. Go ahead. Republicans have right now? No, I should say these people are too left-wing for you. You know, the Democrats are doing the same thing they did in 2020. They're angry of Trump. I understand that. They're angry at their own leaders for not standing up to Trump in the way they think you should be stood up to. And so they're swinging left. 2020 was moderately left. Remember the Democratic primary debate, presidential debate, almost all the candidates said, I believe, in open borders. That was political suicide. This is political suicide times 10. Because if you look, for example, there are 16 Democrats who have won in Trump districts. All right, never mind. See, this is how the left media thinks to these things. The radicals in the media thinks of these things. We're the problem. This is attacking Muslims. No, it's not. It's attacking Islamists. And none of them are communists. She just declares. But they are. We'll be right back. In a recent industry survey, Pure Talk, my favorite wireless company, was the only wireless company to receive five stars in every category, including coverage, support, value, and data. You deserve five-star wireless service, folks, and now Pure Talk has an invitation just for you. Switch to Pure Talk for just $15 a month for just $15 a month for just $15 a month for your first three months. No contract needed. an insanely low offer to switch to a top-rated company, Pure Talk. You know how you get five stars for support? A dedicated U.S. customer service team. You know how you get five stars for value? You save the average family of four. Over $1,000 a year versus big wireless. There's a better wireless choice out there. And just 15 bucks a month for your first three months on any plan. Now, that's a great time to choose Pure Talk.com. Simply go to PureTalk.com slash Levine. That's PureTalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N to claim this offer now. Grab it. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levine. PureTalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N. Start saving today.

Mark Levin, the most popular conservative author in America. Call in to the Mark Levin show now. At 877381-381. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I'm a big fan of CENTCOM Chief Admiral Cooper. I'm not a big fan of what the president calls General Kane Raisin King. Raising Kane has been the guy that's been talking about off-ramps that our military is done. There's not anything else we can do. That's not the case with Cooper. Cooper is raring to go, and he's drawn up plans to attack the Iranian regime further, even if it's a short attack, but it means hitting truly important targets. Oil facilities. Like Carg Island and individuals. Kane has been very hesitant, as had many of the doves and isolationists surrounding the president. But something very rare happened today. Cooper, Centcom Chief Cooper, met with the chief of the IDF, and he said, to a group of the top soldiers there, we've achieved the unimaginable together. Our joint achievement is historic. This is Admiral Brad Cooper, told the IDF commanders on Monday. You are a nation of warriors, and the people sitting here are the leaders of those warriors, he told the officers. I am proud to serve shoulder to shoulder with you. And Cooper also delivered a direct message about the future of U.S.-Israel military relationship. He said, we have a high and enduring commitment to you. Cooper said that many countries speak about allies fighting, quote, shoulder to shoulder. But that in the case of the U.S. and Israel, the phrase described an operational reality. An operational reality.

So the man who has been involved with the Israeli fighting men directly and the man who has led those forces speaks proudly the relationship between the Israeli military and our military, which for some reason that I cannot understand, our civilian leaders are loath to do. Except for Pete Hegseth. He did a nice job. Pete Hegseth, I think. But I thought you would find that interesting. I find it very satisfactory. I really do. And good for him. Good for Admiral Brad Cooper, who's been fantastic through all this. Through all this. There's a wonderful piece in the Washington Examiner. It's called in defense of APAC. In defense of APAC. What does it mean? Next week, APAC is set to spend at least $3.8 million against me, Abdul El-Sayed complained during his successful Democratic Senate primary campaign in Michigan. Why, he said, because Haley Stevens is more committed to the future of a foreign country than keeping your tax dollars here to provide schools and health care for you and your kids. They say welcome to the falsehoods and radical biases of the Democrat Party of 2026, which has made Israel the defining issue in primary after primary, for whom the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is an organization of Americans, exercising their constitutional right to petition our government, is depicted as a boogeyman responsible for everything wrong with America and more. Opposition to APEC is rapidly and absurdly becoming a Democrat Party litmus test. with candidates competing to prove who is most hostile to the organization and to the enormously valuable U.S. Israel Alliance and supports. El-S.Aid has the formula down pat. Schools underfunded, he says, blame Israel. And by extension, it's American Jewish supporters. Healthcare to expense of blame Israel. It's American Jewish supporters. Housing and affordable blame APEC. And it's Jewish supporters. Quote, we should be using our tax dollars here to invest in health care and education right here, Abdul El-Sayed says, rather than sending money to Israel. This is not merely dishonest, but it's also dangerous. The federal government spent roughly $7 trillion last year. Under the normal U.S. Israel Security Agreement, Israel receives $3.3.3 billion in military financing, another $500 million for joint missile defense programs annually. $3.8 billion altogether are roughly 5.100s of 1% of federal spending. And this country for that gets an indispensable international ally. The United States dispersed more than 10 billion in foreign assistance to Ukraine in fiscal 2024, yet somehow Israel, getting one third of that while working as a staunch ally in the war that America is actually fighting is somehow to blame for low funding of domestic programs in Michigan.

The supposed low funding, by the way, is also a falsehood. So Abdul El-Sayed is begging the question with his lies. Nor does the left's professed concern about, quote-unquote, foreign influence withstand scrutiny, foreign governments and their affiliates, including China, Turkey, wealthy Gulf states like Qatar. Spend heavily to influence American institutions through registered lobbyists, universities, think tanks, businesses, other organizations. Yet none of that attracts anything close to the obsessive leftist focus on APEC. This is especially strange for APEC is not foreign. Much though Abdul El-Sayed and his ilk would like you to think so. APEC is an American organization engaging in American politics composed of American citizens funded exclusively by American citizens without direction from the Israeli government. Its purpose is straightforwardly to persuade the American government of their strong alliance with Israel serves our interests. That is no more sinister than organized labor supporting politicians. Who favor unions? Or environmental groups supporting politicians who favor environmental regulations? Americans do not surrender their First Amendment rights because the foreign policy positions they advocate involve another country attacking APAC as though it were some sinister and malignant foreigner is itself an expression of the oldest bigotry of Jew hatred. And there are excellent reasons America should support Israel. It's the only established democracy, a technologically advanced ally surrounded by hostile regimes and terrorist organizations. American and Israeli intel, their agencies cooperate against common enemies. Our militaries cooperate on cybersecurity, counterterrorism, drones, missile defense. And as you know, in a war. The U.S. and Israel jointly developed and financed missile defenses, including the Iron Dome. The U.S. Army subsequently purchased two Iron Dome batteries, specifically to defend American forces against rockets, cruise missiles, and other threats. Now, the Democrat Party is free to debate whether that alliance remains worthwhile. It's free to oppose military assistance to Israel. It's even free to criticize Apex political spending. But something much uglier is happening when Democrats portray an American organization disproportionately supported by American Jews as a foreign cabal buying politicians and stealing money from American children. They're painting a character-church, anti-Semitic picture to horrify you. The Democratic Socialists of America's growing influence over democratic primaries is pushing a major party toward a dangerous form of politics. It is treating ordinary political participation by pro-Israel Americans as uniquely corrupt or illegitimate. History provides ample warnings about where politics goes when Jews are cast as the hidden explanation for wars, corruption, economic hardship, and failing institutions. Democrats should get off that path immediately. No good can come from following Abdul El-Sayed's, but

But look at the Islamophobia, says PBS. By following Abdul El-Sayed's lead and turning American Jews exercising their constitutional rights into the villains responsible for America's problems. That's 100% right. And it's getting worse and worse out there. Worse and worse out there. I'll be right back. In a recent industry survey, Pure Talk, my favorite wireless company, was the only wireless company to receive five stars in every category, including coverage, support, value, and data. You deserve five-star wireless service, folks, and now Pure Talk has an invitation just for you. Switch to Pure Talk for just $15 a month for just $15 a month for just $15 a month for your first three months. No contract needed. an insanely low offer to switch to a top-rated company, Pure Talk. You know how you get five stars for support? A dedicated U.S. customer service team. You know how you get five stars for value? You save the average family of four. Over $1,000 a year versus big wireless. There's a better wireless choice out there. And just $15 a month for your first three months on any plan. Now, that's a great time to choose Pure Talk. Simply go to puretalk.com slash Levine. PureTalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N to claim this offer now. Grab it. Again, that's puretalk.com slash Levine. PureTalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N. Start saving today. Guess what? This will really upset some of the Democrats. No, all the Democrats, except for John Fetterman. And it'll upset the isolationist woke right neo-fascists. Uh-oh, ready for this, Mr. Producer? Benjamin Netanyahu surges bid for Prime Minister, Lakud overtakes Yashara head of election. That's the second party. Now, it's a messy election system there. It's like the Italian system. It makes no sense. So you have about 5,612 political parties. I overstated it, but it's a pain in the you know what. But it's showing that Benjamin Netanyahu and Lakouad has a bigger percentage of support than Eisencott. That's the number two guy and his party, 41% to 34%. Now, this is a turnaround. The poll found the number of seats held by Lakou, that's Benjamin Netanyahu's party, had increased by one compared to last week when the two parties were polling as tied. And the party polls are 24 seats compared to 23 seats for this Eisencott's party. Now, again, you've got to cobble together a majority, 61. There's 120 seats in the Knesset. It is a parliamentary system, much like Europe, but you need 61, 61 members in the Knesset. They don't have to be Leku. They could be other conservative parties. center-right parties, and so forth. And they're always relatively close. Now, the media in Israel, apart from a couple of newspapers, really one, and Channel 14, in somewhat Channel 24, other than that, it's hard left. And they're constantly promoting Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents.

Or if the president makes a negative comment toward Benjamin Netanyahu or one of the envoys does or the vice president does, the left-wing media in Israel played up big, big, big time. And so it's very unhelpful because if this other guy does become prime minister, one of these lesser lights become prime minister, in my view, it'll be far more difficult, far more difficult to work with them. You might say, why is that? Because Benjamin Netanyahu wants to work with the United States. No way, he's not going to surrender his independence for the sovereignty of his country, like on the matter involving right now, Hamas and Gaza. He's going to fight for his people as we fight for ourselves here. But he tries to work with us as he worked with us in the Iran War, as he's worked with us in other activities too. And he's very tough, and he knows how to take on the enemy. And he's built these very close ties to Greece, to India, now to Colombia. They have a great new conservative president, great new conservative president, some of the other Latin American countries. A couple of the European countries he has great relationships with. So he's building their... Foreign Policy Alliance is in anticipation that the Democrats may win the presidency here one day. And the country of India and Israel are working incredibly, closely together, spending enormous sums of money on their military infrastructure. And now the Israelis have assisted, and the Indians have, you know, they really have the biggest population in the world, even bigger than China's now. they're using their industry to develop their weapons more with the help of the Israelis. And now they are able to sell the Israelis some of the ammunition and other components for their military that they help the Indians develop in the first place. So they have a very strong relationship that they're building. And the reason that Israel is having to do this is because of the Democrat Party. because of some of the Republican isolationists, the woke right, neo-fascists. And so they have to diversify, as we said. A lot more when we return. The power hour, hour three is next. I shall return.

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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Power Hour 3. We'll take calls at the bottom of the hour. Our number 877381-3811. 877-381-3811. I'm glad Mr. Producer pulled this one. A Christian migrant. He was Muslim. And he was... There he is from Iran. And he goes before the McKinney, Texas City Council, and warns them about this Islamic Center that they are voting on whether or not to prove them building it there or not. And by the way, the vote was 7 to 04. McKinney, Texas. But I thought you'd want to hear just two minutes of what he had to say. Cut 16, Mr. Producer, go. Hello, my name is Eddie Esau. I'm a Sharia law survivor from Iran. I'm here to tell you, this is a dangerous ideology you're allowing in their country. Every country that is Islamic now, it used to be a Christian country. I mean, we were soft Christians and we allowed these people to come in, bring their Sharia law into their countries and slowly kill us off left and right. Let me make it very clear to you. Christianity is a personal relationship with God where it says... But render on to Caesar's, what is Caesar's, render on to God what is God. Islam is Sharia Allah, Dean Wadawa, religion and states, which is not even compatible with the American thing. And when these people will use Takea to lie to you, to manipulate you, because whenever Islam is little, they will lie to you and tell you they come in peace. This is level one. Level two is what's happening in UK right now. Where you have two-tier policing, where you have like the blasphemy laws, Islamophobia, racism, all this nonsense that they can't talk about. First of all, Islam is not a race. So anytime you criticize Islam, they will use the race card. But every country has this disgusting ideology inside their country. Including my own country, Iran, Russia. Islamophobia is another made-up bullshit because they don't want you to criticize their death cult. That's why they will put that. That's why they push it in UK. In every country they go to, M103 is in Canada right now. They deliberately try to silence it. And the worst people that are trapped in it is Muslims themselves because they can't leave that dead cult. Because they're told, if you question that... disgusting book, you're called a kufar, and they get killed over it, just like my friends were, apostates in prison or dead right now in Iran. I'm telling you, this is a bad idea, and you're going to regret not listening to people like us who lived under Sharia law. Thank you, Eddie. Every word of that is important. Every word. Every word. Every word.

And yet we can't seem to get through to these local councilmen, to these zoning boards, but we must keep at it. We must keep at it. In Iran, let me just say this. The concerns that I've shared with you and you've shared with me seem to be manifesting. Whatever happens from this point forward. It does not appear that we are focused on destroying this regime. That doesn't mean we won't have an intensive military attack again at some point, because I don't see any way out of this other than that. But the goal is not going to be the elimination of the regime. The people are going to have to eliminate the regime. I hope we arm them. I hope somebody arms them. But I get very down about this. Because I know they're executing people, and we don't even know how many people they're slaughtering right now. But the regime is weak. The United States military has done a hell of a job early on with the Israelis, now by ourselves. The country is very poor, but the regime is not. And one of the people that really has this figured out is a man that served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs. At one point, it's a four-star retired general, Army General. Absolutely is combat hardened, and that's Jack Keane. It was a commander, and I don't know all the details, but saw lots of action in Vietnam. He's well into his 80s, and yet he fights. And he pushes... He pushes back against the propaganda. Here he is today on Fox, cut 18, go. Well, I think when you take a look at the evidence, we've been at it four months now. We went to a ceasefire on April the 7th, largely because the Iranians shut down the Straits of a Moose, and they were willing to negotiate about that very subject. And then we imposed a naval blockade on April of 13th. And obviously we were trying to put economic pressure on them as well. So we've been at this for four months over the Straits of Amoos. and apply an economic pressure. And now we're in a diplomatic phase with them with two issues on the table, straight civil moves opening up and also the nuclear enterprise. And that's being kicked down the road for negotiations. I think at times we underestimate where the Iranians really are in terms of where the head is. And we have a tendency to look at them. in terms of what is the impact of the blockade doing to their economy? How much money are they losing every single day, every single month? Where is their currency in terms of its value? What's their inflation rate? These are all norms that we look at ourselves, and we look at them and say, my, this is absolutely devastating to them. At some point, you know, they're going to fold their hand.

But you got to understand where this regime is really coming from, the people who are running it. They have an ideology that they're holding to. They absolutely believe right now that they have the upper hand. I know there's people that don't want to admit that, but that's where the Iranians are. I'm not saying that's where they are. I don't believe it myself. But it's irrelevant. They believe it. They believe the Straits for Moos is a strategic asset, and they are not going to bargain that away. Even if they gave in to the concessions we want them to make over the straits, we already have evidence that they won't comply with it because two presidents signed the deal, and days later, the Iranians didn't comply with it. So where they are, they will not give up the straits of the moose unless we take it back by force. No amount of economic pressure on them, I think, will bend them to do that. And the other thing is this, and one underscores something it was touching on. The Iranian people are suffering from this economic squeeze that we have on Iran. The leadership. In the inner circle, the regime is unaffected. Utterly unaffected. Do they act like they're affected? Do they look like they're hungry? Do they sound like they're hungry? No. They're absolutely unaffected. So they're going to hold on with everything they have and they believe Allah's telling them to do it. What about the Iranian Republican Guard Corps? Well, they're the first ones who will be fed. as opposed to the regular army, the police, and the people. Because that's their form of their SS, the Nazi SS, to hold on. That's what they're all about. And so that's why it's important. I hope you heard my opening statement last night, Sunday on Fox. I hope many people heard what Jack Keene just said on my show and also on Fox. And part of the problem is apart from Fox, maybe there are a few other instances, but mostly the public's not hearing any of this, which is why I think it's so important that I'm able to speak to you on this radio program all over the country, all over the world, actually, because we are streamed all over the world, and we have our podcast, which is of the radio show, which has also heard all over the world. Because people just tap in online and listen to it. We'll be right back. Mark Levin.

Though the headlines may change, the threats facing Israel remain. While much of the world has moved on to the next story, Israeli families continue living with the reality of terrorism, uncertainty, and recovery. Communities remain on alert. Parents still think twice before sending their children to school. Families continue rebuilding their lives, knowing the next siren can come without warning. As Christians and Jews, we are called to stand with God's children in times of need. That's why the international fellowship of Christians and Jews remains on the... ground in the Holy Land each and every day, providing life-saving aid, food for struggling families, emergency assistance, bomb shelters, and critical support for those impacted by war. Even after the cameras leave and the headlines fade, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews remains committed to Israel's most vulnerable. Please join the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in praying for the people of Israel, for protection, for strength, and for lasting peace. Together, we can remember... mind God's people, they are not alone. Stand with Israel in prayer today by visiting Levine for thefellowship.org. That's L-E-V-I-N for the fellowship.org. Please check it out, folks. You know, let's grab a few calls while we're here. Then we'll get back to some of the... some of the news, but I want to hear what some of you have to say. Ken and Spatzylvania, Virginia, I know exactly where that is. There was also a battle there, folks, you know, the great WMAL. Go. Hey, Mark, how are you doing? All right, how are you? I'll just see your show every day coming home just about, and I really enjoy it. Thank you. I can appreciate that you had a DISA on there in Texas because he does talk about the one key thing that goes along with what I'm talking about, and that's political jihad. And I think that, you know, Saeed, Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani, they're all just sort of riding in on that slow-rolled communism that the United States is experiencing right now. It's like a trojan horse. They're using it to get into politics. to get control of the system, just like the DISA talks about. You're 100% right. And this is what they call political Islam. And yet most of Islam is that, isn't it? When you go through the Sharia law, and I'm going through enough of it. I mean, even Jefferson talks about this, and Adams talks about this, and Alexis de Tocqueville writes about this, and you can just see it. Churchill talked about it, and people need to understand that Islam, apart from Christianity and Judaism, Islam is a governing political ideology. That's what it is. And so, whereas Christianity is not, you have some values, beliefs, principles that kind of direct your thinking and direct your approach and so forth. But it's not telling you how to run a country. It's not telling you it doesn't have hundreds and hundreds of laws that you need to comply with.

in order to run a country and so forth. Same with Judaism. Then there's this other point I will mention. I'll let you go on, Ken, which is when we talked about the other day, the Jonathan Sacks, the great Orthodox Jewish scholar and a rabbi in Britain, he was a bigger than life figure, really. He pointed out, I hadn't thought about this. He said, The three Abrahamic faiths, the oldest being Judaism, the second oldest Christianity, and then Islam, he said the two oldest do not require you to be part of their faith to pray to God. God will listen to you, whether you're Christian or Jewish or if you don't know what you are. That's not the case with Islam. that the only way you can communicate with God is through that faith, period, which is one of the reasons why all the other faiths have to be destroyed. Go ahead, Ken. Yeah, you're exactly right. The Islamic faith is a totalitarian religion in every country that's been said before that they go into political jihad. That's exactly what they do. They are looking for total domination. And they do it in a way that sort of catches people by surprise. And sometimes it's too late before they get a chance to correct. Yeah, but you know what? Today we shouldn't be because we see Europe's collapsing. We know what's going on in Africa and the Middle East. And then we see in our own streets. We see Times Square. We see what goes on in Dearborn, Michigan. We see what goes on in Patterson, New Jersey. We see what's going on in locations throughout our country, the marching, the saluting, the sloganeering. And I don't mean in a good way, I mean in a bad way. And they're doing this all very publicly to make a show of force. And they're being urged on by imams. in so many of these mosques. And we're finding now that mosques are being funded by Iraq, by Qatar, by Saudi Arabia. And so when you see a $20 million massive mosque just pop up in Dearborn, Michigan, you should know that there's foreign countries. I believe it was Iraq that was involved in that. And foreign countries shouldn't be free to do these sort of things, including exporting their people and building these, what I call these fortresses, these segregated Sharia law fortresses in our country because they do not assimilate. And they're not going to assimilate. What kind of a country commits suicide through immigration like this? Seriously. Ours apparently. All right, Ken. Great call. I appreciate you, buddy. Take care. Let's go to Bill Morgantown on X-M. That is, Sirius, XM satellite. How are you? Just fine. Many-time listener, first-time call. Thank you, sir. And the reason I did was, for the general, all that was on there, I'm not sure if he was Marine or whatnot. Army. Army. Okay, Army. Well.

I'm sure living where you do, you probably heard of Chesty Poor. Oh, yeah. Marine, everything else. His son was a classmate of mine at William Mary, and I wanted to salute at one weekend because he never met the gentleman in life. Great guy. But he made a statement to me, and this was when Vietnam was first getting cranked up. This was in 65, 66. He said, we don't need to get involved in a ground war in Asia. And he cited the case, we never have prevailed. In Korea we didn't, Vietnam we didn't, and Iraq we didn't, Afghanistan we didn't. And he brought up an interesting point about if these people don't have any more value for life, particularly their own citizens, that's a tough, you know. I think what he's trying to say is it's awfully hard to beat somebody that has no fear of death. Yeah, but here's the problem. If we're going to say that, and I'm not saying we should send ground forces in the Middle East right now. In fact, I've already against it. But if we're going to keep telling the enemy, no ground forces in Asia, no ground forces in the Middle East, no ground. Well, we might as well just close down the Army and the Marines. You can't tell an enemy. that we don't put ground forces here, there, everywhere. If we choose not, they don't, right, but let's keep our mouth shut about. Okay, I agree with that. I mean, like I said, I really do. But again, though... And keep in mind what Reagan did. He didn't send any ground force. He used domestic ground forces. He funded oppositions. He funded oppositions in those countries, and we're not even doing that in Iran. Well, I know that's what I'm kind of curious about with this, because it seems like that from a time and place thing, that a situation that we have in Iran... relatively speaking, as Vietnam, so I know what that was like. It seems like that we're not even in the same situation we were within when things were going well. And I certainly hope we can prevail in this, but I don't know if the traditional, in our military has done a great job. But is that the thing that's going to take to do something with Iran? I thought it was a no-brainer. It's getting kind of late in the day for it. But I thought it was a no-brainer. You have a population that's very, very large and very largely opposed to this administration. That is their administration. And they've shown that they're willing to fight. But they can only fight so hard with their bare hands and their knuckles. So I'm kind of disappointed. I'm very disappointed. Maybe we've done some of it. We don't know about it, but I doubt it. all right and thank you for your service bill god bless you we'll be right back

Though the headlines may change, the threats facing Israel remain. While much of the world has moved on to the next story, Israeli families continue living with the reality of terrorism, uncertainty, and recovery. Communities remain on alert. Parents still think twice before sending their children to school. Families continue rebuilding their lives, knowing the next siren can come without warning. As Christians and Jews, we are called to stand with God's children in times of need. That's why the international fellowship of Christians and Jews remains on the... ground in the Holy Land each and every day, providing life-saving aid, food for struggling families, emergency assistance, bomb shelters, and critical support for those impacted by war. Even after the cameras leave and the headlines fade, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews remains committed to Israel's most vulnerable. Please join the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in praying for the people of Israel, for protection, for strength, and for lasting peace. Together, we can remain... mind God's people, they are not alone. Stand with Israel in prayer today by visiting Levine for the Fellowship.org. That's L-E-V-I-N for the Fellowship.org. Please check it out, folks. Is that a copy of the Constitution you've got? I'm just happy to see. Mark Levin. Call him now at 877-381-3811. Zohran Mamdani last week. Democratic socialism is going back to where the party used to be, he says. This is an ignoramus. He comes out of Uganda. They come to the United States, but he's in ignoramus, and he knows nothing about our country, nothing. Cut three, go. Seeing a lot of examples of what it can look like to have that focus on the working person. People who understand that affordability isn't just something you say. It's something you have to deliver. And that in doing this, we're not running away from the Democratic Party. We're going back to what the party used to be. You think about FDR and LaGuardia. You think about the New Deal. That's what the Democratic Party once was. That's what it could be again. Oh, right. It never was. Never was. Never was. New Deal. Anybody ever hear the Great Society? It's even bigger than the New Deal. Anybody ever hear that? We went over the tax rates. Didn't we mass of redistribution? They act like the world ended with big government when FDR was there. And how well did that work out? They took a bad recession, turned it into the Depression, and went on for 10 years. At the height, 25% of Americans were unemployed. Oh, remember that great FDR. And they're all using that propaganda. I addressed it last week and I'm addressing it again. FDR. I like Ronald Reagan. Remember Ronald Reagan? Slash tax rates. Slashed regulations. Remember all that? Slash the capital gains tax? Zero death tax. Eliminated the death tax. Our economy grew. So fast, so big. Nobody ever saw anything like it. I understand what we talk about today. I'm telling you, our economy grew by the time Reagan left almost 30%. 30%. Can you imagine that, Ron? 30%. When Reagan came in, the Carter inflation rate was over 12%.

We talk about now, oh my God, it's 2.6%. What are we going to do? That was unimaginable back then. So for two years, Reagan and the Fed had to squeeze inflation out of the system. Because the Democrats always create inflation like Carter did and, you know, Biden did and so forth and so on. To squeeze it out of the system. So really, if you think about it, it was a five and a half, six year period in which our economy grew by almost 30%. And I love it. I love it when the woke right tell us, no, no, no, we got to focus on different issues now. We need government intervention. We need government activity. They sound like neo-socialists. Forget the neo. They sound like socialist light. They do. Big centralized government. They act as if we don't have a constitution. They act like they like FDR. What about Reagan? And not only that, Reagan won two massive landslides more than any Republican in the history of the Republican Party, both electorally and the popular vote. Bigger than FDRs. That's my recollection. Every state administered when he was running against Mondiol, he lost it by 3,000 votes, which means if 1,500 votes have gone his way, he would have won every single state in the union. He got almost 60% of the vote. He had a third party candidate running. John Anderson, a congressman from Illinois. And he still won a massive landslide. And forget about Reagan. Forget about him. We, the woke right. They sound like Marxists, too. Like forget about everything that came. I love it now. National conservatism. Hello? National conservative. No, federalism. Now, national conservatism. Ted Cruz is a liberal, and Mark Levin are a liberal. We have national conservatism. What the hell is that? Well, you're hearing it. From J.D., you're hearing it. From the so-called American conservative magazine, which has nothing to do with conservatives or Americanism. It's an un-American. anti-conservative magazine such as it is for the seven people who read it oh yeah oh yeah those old principles principles are principles and if they're old and they're still around that means they're very good

Those of you who go to church, those are old principles, you know. Those of you who go to temple, those are old principles. Oh, yes, I know. The Enlightenment. Yeah. No, no, new stuff. That's what's good. We need to invent a new conservatism. Well, it sounds like socialism and liberalism. No, no. You don't understand. You're a boomer. What? No, I understand completely. Let's go to Larry, John Roberts, Illinois, the great WRPW. Larry, how are you, sir? Very well, and Mark, I want to thank you for being one of the few people gutsy enough to come out and tell what's really going on. I really love the way they've taken this communist Muslim bunch that we've got up in Michigan now, and now they're calling them progressive. Yeah. So I do have a little question for you. Yes, sir. Was Venezuela a progressive country? Because... I remember people from Venezuela, they would leave that utopia and they would come to the most racist backwards nation. Oh, wait, that was us. And they came here. And it makes me wonder why in the world, not one journalist has asked, why do people leave Cuba? Why do they leave China? Why do they leave all these wonderful places? Why do they leave these majority Muslim countries and come here? Yes. Because they want to conquer us. To come to a septic tank like the United States. It's amazing to me. They want to conquer us. That's exactly right. And then when they finally do conquer us, the ones that don't agree with them will be thrown off of rooftops. Larry, you're not so off the mark here. I want people to understand who have children and grandchildren that they need to understand. The violence, the violence that is inbred in this Islamist ideology. You look around the world, you look what's going on in Spain, where these Islamists came in from Morocco, how they're beating women, how they're breaking into stores, people are being raped. I mean, you've got to understand this is, look how they treat their own women, their own people. This is a primitive barbaric ideology. That's what it is. And they seek to govern over us. So when you have in McKinney, Texas and places like that, and not just there all over the country, these moronic buffoons who sit behind these tables in their white shirts and ties and in their summer dresses, and they are voting to allow. these fortresses, these Sharia fortresses to be built in their communities. They are voting to destroy the communities, the state, and the country. And that's exactly what's going on. When these judges and their black robes in their courtrooms, they step in, and they twist the Constitution into a pretzel, into a paper clip, and they're in there, and they're acting like,

It's no big deal what they're doing to try and obstruct this administration from doing what it needs to do. They don't realize, do they? Or maybe they do and they don't care that their court means nothing to the Islamists. It's Sharia courts that matter. And so we're living in like a double world here, two different worlds. And we are creating it. If you're not going to have people come here and assimilate into our culture, into our country, into our system, but instead are sworn to destroy it, and I don't know how many clips I have played. Dozens, we might be well over 100 by now, of imams and so-called scholars and professors and activists, and what they're preaching, to destroy, to decapitate, to eliminate violence with people who don't embrace their ideology. People who don't embrace their violence. And this is going on, and we only see the tip of the iceberg. This is a nation that's going to destroy itself, just as England has destroyed itself, and France has destroyed itself, and every European country in between. Look at Spain, for God's sakes. And Spain spent 800 years fighting the Islamists, finally forced them out of Spain, and now they're back. And now they're back. Thank you for your call, Larry, and I'm going to tell the truth come hell or high water. I'll be right back. Mark Levin.

Though the headlines may change, the threats facing Israel remain. While much of the world has moved on to the next story, Israeli families continue living with the reality of terrorism, uncertainty, and recovery. Communities remain on alert. Parents still think twice before sending their children to school. Families continue rebuilding their lives, knowing the next siren can come without warning. As Christians and Jews, we are called to stand with God's children in times of need. That's why the international fellowship of Christians and Jews remains on the... ground in the Holy Land each and every day, providing life-saving aid, food for struggling families, emergency assistance, bomb shelters, and critical support for those impacted by war. Even after the cameras leave and the headlines fade, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews remains committed to Israel's most vulnerable. Please join the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in praying for the people of Israel, for protection, for strength, and for lasting peace. Together, we can remember... mind God's people, they are not alone. Stand with Israel in prayer today by visiting Levine for the Fellowship.org. That's L-E-V-I-N for the Fellowship.org. Please check it out, folks. Let's go to Nick, Cincinnati, Ohio, the great WKRC. Nick, go right ahead, please. Hey, the only reason I'm calling is because I can't seem to get anybody to understand the return on investment that bin Laden actually made. It's the easiest way to calculate why a businessman named Trump would turn around and be very concerned about the idea of the Iranians actually being that close to a nuclear weapon. Everybody turns around and forget that when that all happened, we had no air travel. The NFL was turned off for three or four days. Every airplane in the sky was grounded, flat out grounded. You're talking about 9-11? Newfoundland? Yeah. Yeah. The people in Newfoundland, you have a three-bedroom house. They'd have 24 people living in their house. Every airplane across the country was landed and put down in places that there weren't supposed to be a parking spot. That was one minor little cause that was never identified. The city of New York was given by the federal government, which means... Kansas people, Ohio people, everybody paid the federal government to restore those towers. And that doesn't even cover the long-term health costs just for a simple conventional attack. One nuclear attack, even if it's crap, a small little bitty one like a Hiroshima concept, would be way more expensive. Now, The generals, like Kane and everybody, I heard one comment that actually made the most sense. He said, Peace doesn't get negotiated. First, it gets managed. Then it gets negotiated.

And Trump is the ultimate definition of why the job of POTUS is on the job training only. There ain't nobody that walks into that job and really and truly knows how to do it. So this is the ultimate situation where he's using what skills he has, and he's relying on the fact that he knows the cost of not doing this is greater than the cost and aggravation and political cost of doing it. And it sucks. And it really does suck. Like you said, he's got this problem with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, apparently, over the Kurds. and getting those weapons in and are properly, you know. Hey, listen, a great call. I let you go on a long time because you're making a lot of sense to me, but I got a roll. It's a hard break. It's the end of the show. We, first of all, thank you. We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel, ICE, our truckers, the men and women in Ukraine, the men and women in Iran, the men and women in Israel, and you, the American people, red-blooded yanks. I'll see you tomorrow, and God bless. Take care.

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