4/17/26 - Trump Says Iran Deal is Close — But Here's the Catch

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Thank you. Also the great one. Mark Levin. It's a new impression I'm working on. He's been sharing my videos. See, appreciates a comedian and doesn't give in to that woke, Reich, neo-fascist, right-wing Nazi capos. These people are obsessed with genitalia for some reason. Woke-right Nazi infiltrators in the conservative movement. I want to destroy this country. They want to destroy the Constitution. These people are imposters. They're parasites. Latching on to the success of Donald Trump, this great president, my president, and I stand by the president. They're smearing the president. They're trying to weaken the base in the coalition, a beautiful coalition that this president has built. They don't want us to fight the far left? They are the far left. That's right, I said it. Pretty good, don't you think, Rich? It's a great comedian, Avi Kozak. I'm a huge fan of his. I don't know him. I don't know him, but he really is spectacular. And I like to post it when I find his stuff, I like to post it. Just, just fantastic. It'll be on Sean Hannity tonight, really in the first segment, close to 9 p.m. Eastern, if you'd like to watch it. We have two tremendous shows this weekend. 8 p.m. Eastern, Life, Liberty, and Levin. I hope you will set your DVR if you're not sure you'll be home for Saturday and Sunday. There's a lot going on, and even today. The president has been posting on true social. The enemy's been putting out some stuff. Our ally, the Prime Minister of Israel, has been putting out some stuff. Basically, the president feels they're very close to a deal. He has said that we're winning on all issues. The enemy's foreign minister... throughout some points there where he says, no, we want some reparations, we want this and that. I don't believe him, but nonetheless, I believe that's what they want. There's also leakers that go to Axios, which is a rotten left-wing operation. I would not pay attention to leakers, anonymous sources, and stuff like that. They're not relevant, and they're so wrong so often. And, of course, the Prime Minister of Israel has put out some points. The president says that the strait of Hormuz is open forever, and that the enemy is helping us find the mines, and that the enemy will not support or fund terrorism anymore through surrogates and some other points. Something that has me very concerned is when the president put out a statement, basically saying that Israel could not...

bomb in Libya anymore. Just to make something clear, there was a ceasefire there. It was signed in 2024. The Lebanese government, the Lebanese army, were supposed to enforce it. They were supposed to disarm Hezbollah. They don't have the ability to do that. They're not strong enough, nor do they have the desire to do it. They've shot 6,700 rockets and missiles into Israel. over the last few months. So Israel went back in and they said enough is enough. They essentially have them surrounded and they were called off by our government to get a peace deal, a ceasefire and then a peace deal between the Israeli government and the Lebanese government. Now what's the problem with that? Israel's not at war with the Lebanese government. Israel's not at war with the Lebanese army. Israel's not at war with the Lebanese people. Israel is fighting a defensive military action to protect its towns and cities from Hezbollah. What's Hezbollah? Hezbollah is a terror organization that has killed God knows how many Americans, including civilians and military. And it is an offshoot, a wing of Iran. And Iran has been desperately seeking to protect it. So I was a little surprised and taken back by that posting. And then there was an update to that posting I just noticed because the agreement with Israel was that they could take defensive measures. In other words, you don't have to wait to get hit. And the administration put out a clarification just a little while ago and said, no, if it's a defensive measure, they are free to do it, of course. But if Israel's not going to disarm Hezbollah, if the Lebanese government and their army doesn't have the will or away, then I guess we are. And I don't know how we're going to do it. How are we going to do that, Mr. Medusa? It's not going to happen. So I just wanted to bring that up. That was a concern to me. Also, let's be honest with each other, can we? I mean, straightforward. The president's going to get a hell of a deal. The enemy is now worried about the president. But the enemy is the enemy. They see things beyond election cycles. They see things beyond a four-year period. They see the world beyond Donald Trump's presidency. And here's what they know. Until Donald Trump, not a single American president did anything effective, to stop them.

Post Donald Trump, if a Democrats elected, they're not going to do anything effective to stop them. They'll give them money. And most Republicans would do the same, not all, but most. The more isolationist-related Republicans will, and we know who they are. So my concern is perhaps they'll behave when Donald Trump is president. Perhaps. I mean, they're called terrorists for a reason, right? They have violated everything they've signed for a reason, right? Their mentality is not the same as the West. An agreement is just a means by which to get an end. But they're going to play longer ball than an election cycle in the United States. And they're not going to sit still. They're just not. They may wait two and a half, three years, but they're not going to sit still. And so my view is we've got the military there. We've choked them off economically. A little bit of patience, a little more time, maybe two, three, four weeks. And it would resolve itself. And there's another big issue. What is that, America? A big, big issue. What about the Iranian people? What about the Iranian people? Now, what's happening, we're getting some reports to this effect, is that the president of Iran, who's not part of the... You know, the Republican Guard, as they call themselves. He's not a good guy. Please don't mistake what I'm saying. But I'm just saying he's not part of that. He's getting in arguments with that. And there seems to be some arguments brewing between the regular army and the IRCG, this Republican Guard. The Republican Guard exists like the SS for Hitler. It's big. It's a militia. It's there to protect the regime. It's a security force. It can be a military force. But it was set up by the first Khomeini to enforce support for the regime or to eliminate any opposition whatsoever. And they're the ones going around slotering people, by the way. They and militia, they're bringing in from, say, Iraq and so forth. There seem to be some... from fraying of issues between them too. So we have our hands around the throat of their military, such as it is. We have our hands around the throat of their economy. So just don't let go for a while. Just don't let go for a while. Now I know now the Arab states are saying, let's get a peace deal. I know the Europeans say, let's get a peace deal. I know the communist Chinese want their oil out of Iran. So all the pressure, NATO, the Arabs, the communist Chinese, the Democrats, our media, wimpy Republicans, all the pressure is to capitulate. Except for Israel, the Israeli people want to finish this off. They're tired of running into bomb shelters every few hours. They're tired of bringing their children up this way.

And nobody's lost more people in this war than the Israelis. Except Hamas, of course, maybe the Iranians. So it's not as if they're not fighting their own wars. Of course they are. And here's the bottom line. The people of Israel want victory. And what's happening is the left in Israel. And the left of center parties, pretending to be right of center parties, as I've explained before, they're attacking Benjamin Netanyahu for being our lap dog, for being Trump's lap dog, for not doing what needs to be done to finish this war. And they don't mean a peace agreement. They mean finish it. There's the irony. You've got people like Third Reich, admitted felon, bloated banon. on his podcast, the whore room, going on and on about Israel today. See that? Trump put them in his place. But they clarified the administration that Israel, in fact, can use military force for defensive action and preventative action if they see Hezbollah organizing and so forth. That was the ceasefire deal. And so that clarification must really upset. The neo-fascists among us, the woke right. The president also put out another statement, maybe two, as I recall, Mr. producer, laying in to Tucker Carlson, Kelly, Jay Jones, and Owens, just blistering them. Blistering them. They deserve every bit of it. We'll be right back.

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Is Hakeem Jeffries on the payroll of the Islam and Nazi regime in Tehran? No, I say that tongue in cheek. No, he's a volunteer. He's doing it for free, giving aid and comfort to the enemy with his every breath. Cut one, go. Donald Trump's reckless war of choice, which we had an opportunity. to stop through our war powers resolution, but unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of House Republicans have chosen to stick with Donald Trump, as they always do, and support this reckless and costly war of choice. Why is it reckless? Why is it reckless? Iran's military is essentially defeated. I mean, you can't do anything. Its nuclear ambition has been crushed. Don't mean it won't try again, but this is exactly my point. If the Democrats, God forbid, take the White House and the Iranian regime reconstitutes itself or regenerates and goes right back at it with the help of the communist Chinese and the inbred in North Korea, do you think that Democrat's going to do anything to stop them? Oh, no, they'll do something else. They'll fund them the way Biden did. They'll lift sanctions. They'll give them billions. Or maybe they'll do what Obama did, sign an agreement that ensures they get nuclear weapons. That's my fear. That's my fear. And this guy proves it. He underscores it. He's a moron. Go ahead.

Since Donald Trump has gotten America in a war, which has now cost the lives of more than 12 different brave servicemen. Oh, wow. He was really concerned about that when Biden surrendered in Afghanistan in the most horrific way, humiliating way, and 13 brave men and women, men and women, extraordinary individuals, died. Died. Because of that. Go ahead. Injured hundreds seriously and cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars at the same time. The Democrats don't care about money. I mean, Elon Musk prove that with them. Chris Rufo's proving it with them. They just spend and spend and spend. And then when it comes to something like national security or defeating a... a would-be nuclear regime of suicide bombers, all of a sudden they're worried about the purse strings. They don't care otherwise. Nah, they give money to illegal aliens, give it to illegal aliens for having breast enhancement or transgender with their genitalia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut two, go. With respect to this war, there was no intelligence to suggest that Iran presented an imminent threat. Okay, Hakeem Jeffries is a liar because even the Biden regime said there was. And when you're dealing with hypersonic missiles, supersonic technology, what does imminent even mean? What does it even mean? Now, this word imminent, has a legal meaning. It also has a meaning given to it by the Defense Department. But it's not a condition preceding to doing what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump believes that Iran is a threat. He believes that he needs to take preventative action. His envoys come back and they tell him, hey, these guys said that they can make 11 nuclear bombs in 10 days. He's supposed to ignore that? Keep that on mind, America. That's where Hakeem Jeffries is coming down. Even when the enemy says we can build nuclear bombs in two weeks, his view is that's not imminent. We're going to take a short break soon, and I want to talk about the vote that took place in the United States Senate, 59 to 40. I want to talk about the 40 Democrats. Who voted against not giving Israel, selling to Israel, things like, well, things like, I'll explain in a moment, specialized bulldozers to clear out minefields. Seven individuals born Jewish voted against. against allowing Israel to purchase those from us. I'll be right back. Now, if a family made $52,000 a year and spent over $73,000 and was already more than a million dollars in debt, what would you call that? I call that insolvent. Well, that's exactly what the U.S. Treasury admitted the other day in its own official report. So what happens next?

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In fact, a handful of Democrats did, including Chuck Schumer. So this guy, Ro Khanna, this punk, this sleazeball, who went the Temple University law school as I did, I believe. Then he moves out west. He holds his seat in and around Silicon Valley. And he ran as another moderate. All frauds, phonies, all of them. He's not going to vote for defensive weapons like with the Iron Dome to sell anything to Israel. Not these bulldozers, nothing. Now he is, of course, flipped, switch sides. All of them have, almost all of them have. In the course of two or four years. Because the party's gone nuts. It's the party of Hasan Piker. It's the party of Hasan Piker. That's what it is. That's what it is. It's the party of the Islamo-Nazi regime in Tehran. It's the party of Hamas. It's the party of Hezbollah and the Houthis. In a sick way, that sounds like a ban, doesn't it, Mr. Producer? Hezbollah and the Houthis? I don't know. Whatever. Not funny. That's what they did. I mean, I've got Adam... Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington State, a complete loser, named after a great economist who wrote a great deal. Really, on and around when our nation was founded. Yeah? You've got the John Fetterman on CNN today. Here's John Fetterman. John Fetterman's worth all the attention we give them. Cut five, go. Who in your party do you believe is cheering for Iran? I'm saying it's like if you are, you are making it seem that we, you know, America is not the force of good in the world. criticizing America, criticizing Israel. You know, you have Iran what they've done, you know, the kinds of outrage, you know, with Iranians massacring tens and tens of thousands of Iranians just recently for that. Now, if you're going to continue to vote against our military, if you're proud to vote against defensive kinds of systems like Iron Dome for Israel, And you can continue to vote down something that you know is going to fail. You know, that actually must absolutely excite Iran to see, you know, the way that many people, you know, in the Democratic Party, you know, doesn't back the attempts to try to break and destroy the Iranian regime to acquire a nuclear bomb. It's a very courageous man. He knows he's putting his neck on the line politically. He knows it. And I have to say, I'm going to give a lot of support to this man. I am. I'm going to give a lot of support to this man. Does he agree with us on everything? Of course not. But he's very brave, and he's right on. And he and I have had a couple of private discussions. He's contacted me. He's a person. He's actually incredibly nice. He's an incredibly nice man.

He just is. Cut six, go. But considering the way that you have talked about your party in this interview, I have to ask you this. You see this? This fool from CNN is just trying to stir the pot. She wants him to trash all the members of his party, so he can't even sit in in their caucuses anymore. That's what she's up there. She's trying to teach him a lesson. But he resists it. Go ahead. are you you're committed to being a democrat despite everything you've just laid out well of course yeah i am i absolutely a committed a democrat absolutely you know like you know i vote the 91 92 percent democratic line but i am the only democrat now that's proud to consistently stand with is israel and i'm going to do that and that's i have been very damaging it within my standing as a democrat but What's necessary, I'll be the last man standing with Israel. I'm really proud of this man. Really? How he's come back from his medical issues, and there he is. Now, compare this to Adam Smith, the representative from Washington State. Cut four, go. I agree with John Bolton, your previous guest. The president is desperate to get out of this. He got into it not knowing where he was going. He's not getting the concessions out of Iran that he wants. Does that desperation... See, Trump can do no good. For these guys, they want him to take quote-unquote an exit ramp. They want them to get out. If he had bombed the hell out of them and brought them to their knees, they wouldn't like that either. Their party subsidized their nuclear program. Their party paved the way for them to get nuclear weapons. And here's Donald Trump. He's having to deal with what he inherited. A boat full of crap from these guys. And all they can do, if he moves in this direction, they attack him. If he moves in that direction, you've got to be flexible. You've got to be flexible in how you're dealing with these people and so forth and so on. My view is finish it. Finish them off. But look, I'm not the president. I didn't run for president. He's the president. And he's made pretty damn good decisions up to now, don't you think? So this backbencher, this clown, they just look for trouble. Go ahead. Still, he can or does it lead him to escalate? It's really hard to say. And certainly, he's not telling us the truth repeatedly. He is telling us the truth. He wants a deal. And he wants an ironclad deal. And it just is a matter of whether you think this enemy, whether a deal can be enforced. He believes, depending on where he comes down, that it can be. Now, what do I mean depending on where it comes down? That's the nature of negotiations. You know, some of us believe, I believe, give it three, four, five more weeks, and they'll collapse. They'll certainly be much weaker. But he knows things that we don't know. And I trust the man to make the best judgment he can. I don't trust these guys. These lightweights, these losers. They're giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Every damn day they go on TV. All right. We'll be right back.

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I don't think I owe you anything, do I, Richard? Does your wife call you rich or Richard? When she's mad, what does she call you? I mean, Richard, right? Tom Barack is our ambassador to Turkey, and that's exactly right. He's a turkey. He's a disaster. Absolute disaster, this guy. He's got a big mouth. He pops off. And he keeps endorsing and defending. These authoritarian regimes, whether they're monarchies or dictatorships. And he's constantly trashing, of course, Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu. But he's a skinhead. Literally, he's got a skinhead. You know, he's bald, like me. I don't mean a Nazi. I mean, a moron. He really is poison. And here he is at the... Antalaya Democracy Forum yesterday. Hat-tip open source intel. Cut three, go. I mean, you can take the Gulf. And by the way, the Gulf countries are so good. And these beneficial monarchies worked. If you looked at the region, and again, I'll be criticized for saying this because it's anti-democratic. The only thing that's worked, the only thing are these powerful leadership regimes. Either benevolent monarchies, a kind of a monarchical republic. Everything else, this Arab Spring just faded away and evaporate. Countries that have put on this cloak of democracy that we've gone after for human rights have failed. So prosperity at the end, Israel aligning its interests with the Gulf, with these strong civilizations. I mean, Syria is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. You're not aligning with civilizations. You just said you're aligning with strong men, dictators. Now, this guy, just so you understand America, he's a lap dog for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. And he's our guy. And so Turkey's a perfect example that had a... Wonderful democracy, prided to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a national socialist Islamist, get it? And he's destroyed that democracy that was created by Ataturk. He created a secular democracy. And Recep Tayyip Erdogan came in and destroyed it. Lebanon was a functioning democracy. It was a majority Christian country. They had an elected Christian president who was assassinated by Hezbollah at the direction of Iran. And now it's a majority Muslim country, about 35, 37% of the population being Christian. Now, some countries can handle democracy, and some can't. There's no question about that. But Turkey can. Lebanon could, and probably some of the others. But that's not the point, is it? So Israel, you see, has to... figure out how it can align its interests with dictators now it's already been doing that and trying to do that of course but why are you celebrating this i'm going to get in trouble for saying this he never gets in trouble it's a big mouth he never gets in trouble but he does Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bidding and you'll notice he brought up syria he does serious bidding under their new president who about three seconds ago was a terrorist

And he complained bitterly. When Benjamin Netanyahu sent the IDF in there to protect the Christians, he said it was provocative. They were bombing Syria. And Benjamin Netanyahu said, bombing Syria, we're trying to protect the Christians, the Jews, and other minorities there. If we don't do it, who's going to do it? That's this guy, Tom Barack. I'm going to get in trouble if I say this. No, you won't. No, you won't. Another guy tight with guitar, tight with turkey. It's amazing how some of these guys love these dictatorships. Is it not rich? They get along with them because they can sit when one guy who snaps his fingers and something gets done. Unlike our system, you can snap your fingers all you want. People will start dancing. They think you want music. You don't get a lot done. Certainly not that fast. But nobody pays attention to this guy, but he is a wrecking ball. Nobody here pays attention to him, but he's a wrecking ball, in my view, overseas. I'm not a fan, not in the least. I don't believe in giving aiding comfort to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, or some of these other knuckleheads. Well, congratulations, New Jersey. You have a new Congress. Marxist Islamist. You know that Mikie Sherrill, she won her Mikey Mickey. Who cares? She's the governor now. Another loser. Another disaster. And guess her replaced her. A complete nut job. And now, Elia, Mejia. She's the winner in a heavy Democrat district. And I understand America that there's a lot of Jewish people in this district. And she hates Israel. And she cottons up immediately to the Hamas wing of the Democrat Party. Don't ask me to explain this. Don't ask me to explain this. It's disgusting. 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 Levin. Hello, America, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-381. Welcome to the program. By the way, you'll notice last Saturday and now forevermore, at least when I'm in one studio versus another, I have on my lapel, people ask me all the time. When I'm in Virginia, I wear one jacket. When I'm in Florida, I wear another, so I don't have to bring them back and forth.

And so the blazer I have, they're obviously navy blue, on my right is a, on the blazer, is a pin. It's a very rare pin that John Wayne would give to particularly stupendous employees. And it's 18-carat gold with a little bit of diamond work around it. So I grab that at an auction, and I wear that on my right lapel. And you will see a new American flag on my left lapel. It's the biggest damn one I could find. And you'll see red, white, and blue, of course. Now the red, white, and blue, the red, white, and blue, the red are little rubies, the blue little sapphires, and the white little diamonds. And so the weather flag is made. Flag is made. It's called Invisible or Mysteria jewelry. It was famous under Van Cleef and Arpels. And I don't know that I've ever told you this, America, but I have a hobby. I have a couple hobbies, but I do have a particular hobby. Gems. Gem stones. They don't be that valuable. In fact, they can be rudimentary. But I find it fascinating. Faceted, not minerals, faceted gemstones. And I've been collecting them for like 30 years. Now, 25, 30 years. And then I trade them for others and so forth. So I'll get really exotic ones, Grand Dieterites, things of that sort. And I've had some of the best in the world, and I've traded them for other things. There are two types of gins in particular that are really, really cool. And I started collecting them when they weren't even well-known or that valuable. Brazilian Alexandrite, you can Google these things, which are beautiful, fantastic, and very rare. And paribas, particularly Brazilians. Very, very expensive now, for sure. But I've got a zillion of them, just basic stones, for instance, that I like to look at and research. Sometimes I get lab certificates about them. And so when this flag was available, I got as quickly as I could. And so you'll see it. If you haven't seen it yet, you'll see it on Saturday and Sunday show on Life Liberty and Levine because it's on my left, my left lapel. That's where the hand goes over the heart. And it's really cool. I've been waiting for it for a while. It's really cool. I think you're going to see it's, I think you're going to agree. It's really cool, too. Mr. Producer, have you seen it yet? Isn't it awesome? I'm like almost a rapper. You know, I can put my hat on backwards, wear my sweatshirt, do all kinds of stuff. Here's the other thing is I do the Liberty's Voice podcast. I hope you're loving it. I hope you're watching it. It's on Rumble. It's on YouTube. It's absolutely free. Now, normally what I'll do is I wear a sweatshirt and khakis or sweatshirt and sweatpants. That's what I do.

So when I do my Fox show, or now when I do Liberty's voice, you know, I have to clean it up. So I'll wear a nice dress shirt. But I refuse to wear tie unless I have to. Like if I'm interviewing the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Israel, something like that. I'll wear a tie. How to respect. But I basically started this trend on Fox where I don't wear a tie. And more and more people have done that, too, over the years. Because ties are the dumbest thing ever. It's like women wearing nylons, you know? That's kind of stupid, too, don't you think, Rich? Now, guys wearing nylons, that's a whole other thing that I don't even want to think about. But it's like, now the women can't be that comfortable in those damn things, can they? And they're always ripping, I notice. I got to get into that business. That's a big deal. But I don't like wearing ties. Now, if it's a special occasion, I have to, I'll wear it and so forth. My wife loves it when I'm all dressed up and wear a tie. She says, you're so handsome, she's a sweetie pie. But my normal day, you know, and when it gets hot out and so I wear shorts and a t-shirt. That's it. Short pants and a t-shirt. And sneakers. Always sneakers. But I love this flag. It's just so cool. So when you're watching tomorrow night or Sunday night or both, I hope, check it out on the left there. I don't make a big fuss out on TV, but man, I'd love to. It is big, and it's fairly valuable. I really love it. All right. Now you know more than you need to know. So this woman wins this special election in New Jersey. I didn't lose my place. A lot of people don't like New Jersey. I like New Jersey a lot. No, I don't like the politicians. No, I can't stand the taxes. That's not what I'm talking about. They've got the best restaurants over there. I mean, and the best delicatessants in particular, they're just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I really like it a lot. And they have some of the best bagels around. They do. I did a little test with a buddy of ours, and my wife's cousin, Danny, brings bagels in from New York. He says these are the best. Okay. And I go down, I guess it's Route 17, and I go to this bagel place. It's the third one down. There's so many of them. And I think Koreans run this thing, or somebody does like that. I don't remember. And they are great. You know, I'm from Philly. We have great bagels there. You know, delis. And I said, these are the best bagels I've ever had, ever. I don't know what they're doing. I don't want to know what they're doing. So, we have a bagel off. You know what a bagel off is, Mr. Bee? You have one bagel and another bagel, and you tried it. And, of course, I won. I didn't win anything, but, you know, he... Unbelievable. I'm not telling you where it is because I don't want everybody going there. Plus, I don't remember the name anyway. Anyway, New Jersey, this woman, A-N-A-L, anal-A-L-A-L-A-L-A-L-L-A. I like it, Rich. Anal-A-L-L-L-Lah.

And our last name is Mijia, M-E-G-J-I-A. Now, I don't want to offend people because we have some fantastic migrants in this country. They come up to me. They're conservatives. They come in my book signing. A lot of conservatives, obviously, out of Iran, a lot of conservatives out of Nigeria and so forth and so on. But I also find the most radical left-wing cooks. Not all, not all, but too many. have names I can't pronounce. You understand what I'm saying? Names I can't pronounce. And she's one of them. She won this race. And, uh... Here's what she had to say. Cut seven, go. And now you throw in a war that's creating economic and political instability. Folks are fired up and they're disgusted by a president, frankly, who has the audacity, the, I mean, think about it. We have a president who will tweet genocidal intent. Ah, shut up, you idiot. Shut up. You jerk. She is a Marxist Islamist. I'm proud of it. Proud of it. Look what we're sending to Congress, for God's sakes. Marxist and Islamists, the hell's going on in my country. I'll be right back.

You know, folks, I've been working with Pure Talk for six years now. Boy, time flies. I wanted to work with a wireless company that shares my values. Pure Talk is a veteran-led company, so helping veterans is their North Star. Now, they've donated over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership, a fantastic organization that is on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. And Pure Talks creating American jobs with a U.S. only workforce. Sure to be a lot cheaper to send jobs overseas like other companies do, but they're committed to delivering the best experience possible for their customers here in the United States. And yes, I love Pure Talk service. They give you the same tower, same network, same 5G coverage, is one of the big guys, but for a fraction of the price. And I choose to do business with a company that shares my values, your value, helping support veterans every single day in creating American jobs. How about you? Go to puretalk.com slash Levim to switch to pure talk. That's puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N. To switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Can't find my damn glasses. They're in the house. It's crazy. Rich reminds me last time I left them on the garbage can in the garage. It's crazy. I've checked everywhere. Looked through the kitchen, every bathroom. I don't even know why I did that. Look in the weirdest places. Sometimes I'm actually wearing them looking for them. No, no, I haven't gotten there yet. Don't worry. But it's just very weird. My wife's good at finding glasses, so maybe she'll find my... So I'm wearing my old ones. Which means I can't see great, but I can still see better with them. Obviously, then without them. Let's see here. Why won't Jon Ossoff condemn Hasan Piker? Now, who's John Asaf? Outside of Georgia, nobody knows who he is. He's a senator from Georgia. He's a radical left-wing trust-run baby, and the guy keeps winning. Either we're putting up bad candidates or something's gone in Georgia. Oh, yeah. A couple of weeks ago, writes PJ Media, Chris Queen. I wrote about how disgusting anti-Semite Hasan Piker gave his predictions for the 2020-year presidential race. The hipster dweeb is high on Senator John Asaf, Jewish, by the way. Did I mention that? I don't see why, because trust me, Asaf hasn't done anything for Georgians. Much less the country as a whole, and he sure as heck doesn't have any personality or charisma. A lot of money, though. He didn't earn it. There are plenty of reasons to work hard to get Asaf out of office, but knowing that he rates high in Hasan Piker's mind just makes it more urgent to send him packing. Oh, yeah. Some of these people are so horrid. They're so horrid. And there's Hasan Piker. who's a Jew hater, America hater, a 9-11 Celebrator, and he backs this guy. And that should be the kiss of death, right? But it's not. But it's not. It's crazy. I mean, Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders shouldn't be elected dog catcher. He's our horrendous human being, if he's even that, horrendous.

From Vermont. Now, we love Vermont here. The conservatives of Vermont. We certainly don't like all the Marxists in Vermont. I mean, Vermont is basically a county. No offense. It's basically a county in most states. What do they have in Vermont? Do you even know, Mr. Reducer? They have maple syrup. I guess skiing, snow. No offense, but what the hell is in Vermont? If you're in Vermont, we know we're in Burlington and so forth, give us a call. I don't know. And I'm not making, what is in Vermont? And obviously, you have a bunch of tree huggers. You got a bunch of reds up there. But what is in Vermont? I think of Vermont. I think of, you know, some guy in a cabin, making a hole in the ice, catching a fish. And he goes back to the cabin. That sort of thing. Isn't that what you think of Mr. producer? Maybe it's romantic. Not romantic that way. Romantic that way. Romanticized. Writing a poem maybe or two. Roses are red. You know, writing a poem?

I don't know. I'm sure there's quaint towns. I've always wanted to, like, go to some of the general stores and the diners and so forth. But I'd be surrounded by liberals. Couldn't eat my breakfast. I'd be surrounded by liberals. And by the way, I'm one of those people who can spot a liberal from 100 miles away. I've only been wrong a handful of times. You ever sit at the airport? Your plane's delayed. You got nothing to do. You want to act like you're looking at something. And you watch the people go by. Do you ever do that, Rich? People watching, exactly. But I'm liberal watching. That's right. And usually I can tell by the hair, the clothing, what kind of animal they have with them, if any animal. And, I mean, I don't go up and say, are you a liberal? But if they come up to me, I know they're not. I can do that for hours, by the way. As long as I have like a sandwich and a Diet Coke, I can do that for hours. Look at this guy walking. Now, here's the problem with that, though. I was very wrong once. Two wonderful friends of ours. Two great friends of ours. One passed away, and we miss him desperately. Teddy. Married to a wonderful lady, a doctor. He was a... top-notch cardiologist, and she's a great pediatrician, Linda. And my wife knew them before. I did well before. And he was as solid as a rock. Mr. Conservant, as is she. And they are fantastic human beings. We love them very much. But if you're just sitting there at the airport watching them walk by, you go, okay, that's a liberal, that's a liberal. You would just guess that, right? And you'd be dead wrong. They were very hip. They are very hip. He had his own band. He played the guitar. Bob Dylan fan, all that. So you go, okay, we got a hip here. But no. Solid is a rock, hilarious, wonderful. We miss him horribly. As is his wife. As are their kids. If Haley's listening. They're like family. So I was wrong about that one, but I'm mostly right. Jonathan Turley's doing great work, by the way. Great work. He's a good, he's become a good friend. He's a fantastic lawyer and author. I'm just a huge fan. I may have to carry this subject over the bottom of the hour because it's important. And he writes, quote, eff it, just do it, unquote, Carvo. This guy, James Carvel. I don't know. If I saw him on the street, I'd cross the street as quickly as I could. That's, that's, he looks like, he looks like, he just looks the part. You know what I mean, Mr. producer? So, oh, good, this guy escaped from a mental institution. Woof. The stench. Look at his eyes bugging out of his head. Look at the, look at the teeth falling out of his face. This guy's just, hey, over there. Oh, sorry. Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans of what? To add states and pack the Supreme Court in order to retain power forever. We've talked about this, haven't we? Because this is the plan, among other things.

They're talking about it openly. And as Turley points out, Carvel's been one of the most vocal. And we turn to the subject this week, laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority. Because these people are totalitarians. I've told you before, to understand the Democrats, you just think about power. They're obsessed with power. They will do anything for power. The country can go to hell. The institutions can go to hell. I want to pursue this with you when we return. It's important. I'll be right back. You know, folks, I've been working with Pure Talk for six years now. Boy, time flies. I wanted to work with a wireless company that shares my values. Pure Talk is a veteran-led company, so helping veterans is their North Star. Now, they've donated over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership, a fantastic organization that is on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. And Pure Talks creating American jobs with a U.S. only workforce. Sure to be a lot cheaper to send jobs overseas like other companies do, but they're committed to delivering the best experience possible for their customers here in the United States. And yes, I love Pure Talk service. They give you the same tower, same network, same 5G coverage, is one of the big guys, but for a fraction of the price. And I choose to do business with a company that shares my values, your value, helping support veterans every single day in creating American jobs. How about you? Go to puretalk.com slash Levim to switch to pure talk. That's puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N to switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Mark LaFinn, radios hell-raising intellectual. Call now 877-381-3811. Let's go to this piece by our friend Jonathan Turley. Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system, so they never lose power again. Yep. Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal. and return to the subject this week and laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority. I've been warning people about this. On his podcast with Al Hunt, another loser. Carville explained, quote, if the Democrats win the presidency in both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico and D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. Eff it. Eat our dust.

The guy has a very severe brain injury, but nonetheless. Notably this week, New Jersey just elected a radical new member. Anelilia Magia, who ran on packing the court and other radical agenda items. These people are not hiding it. It's just not a change of policy. They want to destroy our republic folks. They want to destroy a republic for their power, for their benefit. While some of us have written about the expansion of the court, these politicians and pundits are pushing for the packing, not just gradually expanding it, of the court. But Carville, curiously on national podcasts, seriously suggested the Democrats should keep the plan quiet. Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it, he said in broken English and with his usual illiteracy. Call it the Nike School of Constitutional Law. The need of the left to pack the Supreme Court is obvious. Many of the proposals coming from the left are clearly unconstitutional. You'll need a partisan majority to make the political changes that these figures hope will give the Democrats a lock on power for years and years to come. Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Claremont. laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans, quote, will never win another election, unquote. Look at these bastards. It's just unbelievable. They don't want to play fair. They just want to destroy. But he warned that the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described, quote unquote. Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to allow these changes to occur. Likewise, Carville previously explained how this process of packed the court power plan would work. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. A Democrat's going to be elected in 2028. You know that. I know that. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. They're going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from 9 to 13. That's going to happen, people. Where's Mary Madeline and his wife? I haven't seen her in years. Have you folks? Good lady. She could smack them quiet. The push for court packing and war chests on the left remains unchanged despite conservatives on the court ruling against the administration on major cases. Carville and others cannot claim that the concerted justices are robotically voting with the administration, but it doesn't matter. They want a court that will consistently uphold the changes being planned by democratic strategists. And I think this in a big way is what has intimidated these justices on things like birthright citizenship. I really do. I think this is part of the problem. Well, we'll see if it's a problem. It hasn't happened yet. The fact that these changes would come after their 250th anniversary of the most successful democratic system in history is a crushing irony, writes Turley. But it's notable that the Democrats want Congress and the courts to push through these changes, not the public. You see, the public remains opposed to court packing and making D.C. a state. That's why Carville wants candidates to keep quiet, quiet on the plane and run like Virginia's Abigail Scamberger, a fake moderate. Then as in Virginia, they can move to fundamentally change districts and rules to guarantee their hold on power. I mean, she is so wicked. She is so wicked. The mentality is summed up by N.A. President Becky Pringle.

I hate Pringles. Do you like Pringles, Mr. Producer? You do? Well, there you go. The question is whether rage politics can convince a people to destroy the very democratic system that has brought centuries of stability and prosperity. Yeah, don't underestimate half the nation, or at least enough of the nation, that would go for this farce. Absolutely 100%. No, they would. And they're for it. They don't care. If you don't teach history, if you don't teach the declaration and the Constitution, if you don't teach who the founders really were and the framers really were, if you don't teach the philosophy that undergird both, then people have nothing to hang on to. And if you don't teach them in a way that celebrates them, you know, instead of trashing them, again, people have nothing to hold on to. The moorings are gone, and this is the plan. This is very much the plan. Disaster. Let's see here. Here's another one. Who is Representative Takano? Representative Takano? Democrat of California? At a hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today, we've got to move fast. I got a lot and we're running out of time. Listen to this jerk. Cut nine, go. Do you share their concerns about his mental health? I want to call your attention to the last line of that. Mr. Secretary, my question was, do you share their concerns about his mental health? I want to call your attention. I'm going to tell you why I'm not being responsive. Apparently not reclaiming my time, Mr. Secretary. Mr. Secretary, reclaiming my time. Mr. Chairman, direct the witness. It's my time, Mr. Secretary. You're not being responsive, and apparently you don't share their concerns. We are a nation at war, Mr. Secretary. We need a commander-in-chief. Don't you despise these bastards? I mean, seriously, go ahead. His mental faculties and is emotionally stable. Oh, it doesn't have his mental faculties and he's not emotionally stable. Yeah, right. He's running circles around these morons, isn't he? On policy, on politics, on all kinds of substance. Running circles around these fools. That's why they want to change the system. because of Trump, not because he's dangerous, because he's effective. They've never seen anything like him. None of us have. He's a whirling dervish. He's incredible. They want to change the system. So we can all be left-wing, Kuuk, Marxist Islamists. Yeah, yeah, change the system. I told you, they want to use liberty to destroy liberty. They want to use the Constitution to destroy the Constitution. That's who they are. That's what they are. They're not patriots. They don't have a deep belief and love for this country. They simply don't, or they wouldn't do what they do. But that's what they do. I'll be right back.

You know, folks, I've been working with Pure Talk for six years now. Boy, time flies. I wanted to work with a wireless company that shares my values. Pure Talk is a veteran-led company, so helping veterans is their North Star. Now, they've donated over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership, a fantastic organization that is on the front lines of helping to prevent veteran suicide. and Pure Talks creating American jobs with a U.S. only workforce. Sure to be a lot cheaper to send jobs overseas like other companies do, but they're committed to delivering the best experience possible for their customers here in the United States. And yes, I love Pure Talk service. They give you the same tower, same network, same 5G coverage, is one of the big guys, but for a fraction of the price. And I choose to do business with a company that shares my values, your value, helping support veterans every single day in creating American jobs. How about you? Go to puretalk.com slash Levim to switch to pure talk. That's puretalk.com slash L-E-V-I-N to switch to my wireless company, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. So this guy, Takano, what the hell is he even yelling about? Trump's mental fitness? And then he doesn't let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answer. Let's try this again. Cut 10, go. Do you share their concerns about his mental health? I want to call your attention to the last line of that. Mr. Secretary, my question was, do you share their concerns about his mental health? No, no, cut 10 now. So over a trillion dollars comes out over the next 10 years. Report after report says 15 million, 15 million people could lose their health insurance. How is that a cut? Okay, let's talk about that. That is only a cut in Washington. Have you met with, again, have you met with any of the 1.4 million people who have lost their health insurance just this last year? from dropping off of Obamacare. Have you sat down and talked to those folks about the fact they won't have their health insurance again? They're almost all illegal immigrants. Oh, well, you know what? It sounds like you haven't met with folks like Porsche and my district. Hey, hey, hey, this guy's good, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. He's good. He takes these guys on. He doesn't take two steps back. Never. Because they're such fraud. He's talking about Medicaid that was used to provide free health care to illegal aliens, millions of them. And it's a great response. Have you ever met any of them? Have you met any of them? Says this guy, Greg Caesar of Texas, dummy crap. And of course, he says, well, they're almost all illegal aliens. Have you met one, Annie? Amen with any? Then we have Yvette Clark Democrat New York. This is a real crackpot. Go.

And from Brooklyn, New York, we have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants. And, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the end being closed, no room in the end. I'm saying, you know, I need more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes. And those members could clearly fit here. All right. I don't know what she's drinking, but here's the thing. feel herself didn't she why does she want more foreigners in the country illegal aliens for redistricting purposes isn't that what she just said rich i'm telling you now this guy carvel is a head case but he's telling you the truth about this as i've been explaining turley has here they're going to add four democrat senators if they can by turning Puerto Rico into state and district of Colombian estate. These people don't have any interest in working with anybody. They just want to ramp things through. They're very fascistic in their mentality. And they're going to open the borders again and bring in as many people as they can because they want to overwhelm the system and have more congressional seats for the Democrats.

This next election, this is about them really taking control of the country, not just the midterns, but 2028. And they want the trifecta. They want the House, the Senate, and the presidency. That's what they want. That's the plan. It's not a secret. That's the plan. They do not want to deport illegal aliens because that's part of the plan. You know what else they're going to do? That's not being talked about. Massive amnesty. They brought their people here under Biden. They're trying to protect them by destroying ice. And then they're going to give them massive amnesty. You mark my word. And it's not, look at Mark. He got it right. It's a disaster. The only way that they can take control is to destroy our institutions. Citizenship? The Supreme Court or judicial system? And the Senate, Congress, they have to destroy our institutions so they can have one-party rule in Washington, D.C. This is how they got one-party rule in California, one-party rule in New York, in some of these other places, and it's almost impossible to overturn it unless you have a little bit of luck. A little bit of luck. Steve Hilton's a great candidate and what's going on there is incredible. We'll see what happens. But the luck is Eric Swalwell and things of that sort. Because otherwise the system is built for the Democrat Party by the Democrat Party. It is not a normal small D democratic institution. And they want power at all costs. And they're getting more radicalized with the Islamists. and the Marxists in their ranks. And you can see some of these formally rational or relatively rational Democrats, they've lost their minds. They've decided being a moderate, being left of center, ain't going to cut it. Not if I want the nomination, so you have this crackpot who just won this seat in New Jersey. Crackpot just won this seat in New Jersey. And New Jersey is having an increasing presence of Islamists.

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I've sold millions of books. I've never had any organization, any pack, anything, not my own money, buy a whole bunch of books. Two-thirds of his books. 97,400 books. He's a loser. Nobody wants to read what he has to say. We know he didn't even write it. Didn't he say he's dyslectic? He doesn't even read it. He doesn't write it, doesn't read it, he's running around pushing it. He wants to make a few extra bucks, you know. He gets ready to run for president of the United States. He's done such a damn good job in California. People can't get the hell out of there fast enough. That's, of course, you're an illegal alien, and you want to have sex change operations. Then you can get that for free in California. Go west, young man. I mean, woman, go west. Oh, yes. What a nut. And back to Scamberger. That's right. Abigail Spanberger, Scamberger. She's a scam artist. Scam artist. Democrats turn on Scamberger over plummeting popularity amid redistricting battle. This is the Washington Examiner. Virginia Democrats are turning on Scamberger. As another poll shows her plummeting popularity is here to stay. Democratic representatives and political action committees are now beginning to distance themselves from the newly elected governor during a redistricting battle. And again, if you're in Virginia and you don't vote and you don't vote, no, you're going to get what you deserve, which is a zillion Democrats in Congress and one Republican. You're going to disenfranchise yourselves because that's the name of the game here. That's what they're up to. And so this redistricting battle that could swing the purple state's house delegation from six to five Democrat majority to 10 to 1 blue stronghold. This is what they do around the country. This is what they want to do nationally. They don't believe in our system. They're disgusting. The latest number from State Navigate. shows Skamburger's approval rating split down in the middle. 47% of respondents approving of her short tenure, 47% saying thumbs down. This comes on the heels of a Washington compost, Sharschool poll, taken at the end of March showing 47% approval, 46% unpopular. Just two months in office, by the way. Yeah. This possibly makes Skamburger the third most dislike governor. Hold on the damn advertising. In the nation, when compared to a morning consult poll from February, which only gives Governor Kim Reynolds and Mike Dunleavy, Republican of Iowa, Republican of Arkansas, respectively, taking first and second spots. There's much more hardcore disapprovers than the hardcore approvers, too. The state navigation poll team wrote, 41% of likely voters strongly disapprove of her. 31% strongly approved. Just five months earlier, Skamburger beat Lieutenant Governor Winsome or else she ran such a horrendous campaign. Such a horrendous campaign. She beat her by 15 points. That's not typical in Virginia.

57% of the vote. The state navigate poll is indeed confirmation Skamburger has lost favorability along the lines of the Washington Post piece, says political scientist Larry Sabato. A drop of that margin is stunning. It should be greatly disturbing to the governor and the governor's staff if it's repeated in other surveys, he said. Now it's a trend and these numbers are having consequences. Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is calling Skamburger's credibility into question. Lucas was considered one of the original proponents of redistricting of it, a video of her shouting, 10, 10 effing, went viral earlier this year. Yeah, power is really, goes to their head and out of their mouth. Interesting poll, my numbers are doing just fine. She wrote in response to a post about state navigate poll because nobody knows who the hell you are and what the hell you did. If they knew, you'd be in the toilet with the rest of them. People don't like their system screwed around with. It's frightening, though. Virginia used to be a red, red, red state. Georgia was a red, red, red state. It's problematic. There's only so many states, you know. There's only so many places you can run. Yeah, that's not good. But these phonies. These phonies, it's unbelievable. Let's see here. Bear with me. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Now we got this judge, Richard Leon. I told you I knew this guy. We used to call him Dick Leon, and that's the truth. He was a staffer for the Senate Judiciary Committee. I forget who he worked for. It may have been Strom Thurman, but I don't recall off the top of my head. Next thing I knew he was a federal district judge. Really young guy in his low 30s. Put on the court, I think, by Bush, one of the Bushes. At the Bushes. Remember that line, Mr. Redood? Nobody understood what Jesse Jackson was saying. Stay out the bushes. Oh, okay. Anyway, uh... CNBC, judge blocks above-ground construction of Trump's White House ballroom administration appeals. Now, this is the second time they've appealed. They won't on appeal the first time. Now it's another aspect of it. This guy, Leon, blocked the Trump administration from doing construction work above ground. And, of course, the way CNBC puts it on the controversial proposed White House ballroom. What's controversial that Trump's doing it? He's allowing the administration to continue below ground construction. Now look how stupid this is. They're building a big ballroom and below the ballroom is a very heavy, secured, fortified room for the president and his staff to conduct foreign policy, national security if necessary. So what does this jerk say? Okay, you can build that part, but not the part above it.

The National Trust for Hysterical Preservation is suing the Trump administration to block 400 million ballroom from being built. You know where all that money's coming from? Donors. Donors. Trump administration quickly appealed the order to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again. So it's just crazy, these federal judges, and I don't care who appointed them. You can't even get a ballroom built. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers? You could take 36% more vacation. Another pinacolada? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at Shopify.com slash listen and get a $1.com.

What's a pleasure to have back, our friend Buck Sexton, his great book manufacturing delusion. You know, Buck, I was thinking about you, coming back here. And overall, what is the purpose of all this sort of manipulation of language and phrases and sloganeering? And who does it most of the time? Well, Mark, first off, thank you so much for having me back on. And I've got to say, I knew because of your history of incredibly successful books that you had an audience of readers and thinkers. But, wow, my publisher reached out to me after I came on. He said, what did you do? I said, well, I went on, I went on Mark's Living Radio. So. Thank you to your audience for responding so, so supportively by going out and buying a copy of manufacturing delusion because it really, as you know, you write books, I've written this book, and you put your heart and soul into it, and so when people actually respond that way, it's really meaningful. Well, first of all, Buck, it's a great book, and you do a great job explaining it. That helps a lot. Go right ahead. Thank you. Yeah, well, you know, last time we were wrong, we talked a bit about the breakdown process, right? So we talked menticide. brainwashing thought reform in china have lovian conditioning all things to understand so that's how they they if you will break down the system but then to create a society of the robotized if you will to create people who are programmed, you have to do what I refer to in the book as identity construction. And this is something that is incredibly powerful for whether it's jihadist cults, you know, the wackos running Iran or Hamas, also in cults, and also for left-wing factions in this country. And increasingly, from the very top of the Democrat Party, on down and and what it's meant to do is once people have been stripped of their rationality their critical faculties their individual identity their willingness to that if you will their immunity their inborn immunity to lies then with this identity construction phase mostly through propaganda right and propagandizing which we can talk about in some detail i know that's something you're familiar with you've written about that many times too But then it's to create essentially a mass of people who operate as one entity based on whatever the designer, the manufacturer, if you will, of that belief system wants. And so it's really just a mass mobilization tool. You break people down, then you fill them with this nonsense. You create a new identity for them. And then that identity is impervious to facts because you've removed the fact-checking mechanism, if you will. That is so important because I feel Republicans and sometimes conservatives, we're fighting with facts, you know, we're fighting with information, evidence, and we cannot penetrate this that way, can we?

No, and this is unfortunately where I have to get to the part of the book where people will say to me, you know, I have this leftist. I have this person in my life, a neighbor, a family member, a co-worker. Do you think I could, if I give them this book, will they start to understand? I say, no, unfortunately, it's a little bit like giving a cult member a manual on cults, right? Because they will inherently reject this. because they've become so associated with that identity. And people, you know, when you can replace someone's core beliefs, when you can replace someone's ability to think for themselves and stand apart from a group and a group that has been constructed or manufactured as in the manufactured delusion, there's an inherent desire to keep living. in that lie or to live by that lie to borrow from Solzhenitsyn and this is true in totalitarian societies at massive scale but it's also true in this country for people who believe climate change is an existential threat or people who believe uh that you know men can become women and all these issues where the democrats have embraced I mean, truly have embraced delusion. And this is why it's so hard to get people to move away from that because now it's like you're you're not attacking an idea, you're attacking them. And that's a critical part of identity construction. It's, it's, I, it's not marked that I'm somebody, you know, again, speaking from the leftist perspective, it's not I support trans rights. It's, I'm a good person. And therefore, of course, I think that. Kids should have gender transition surgery, and this should be funded by the state. In fact, we should have gender transition surgery, as Kamala Harris said, for illegals to come over the border, and we should pay for it. It's because of who they view themselves as a, you know, at their value level instead of the ideas themselves. And this is why we're always in this fight with the right and the left in this country, although the right gets a little cuckoo these days, too, in some instances. But we're in this fight. between reason and fact and emotion and impulse and crowd mentality. And it's an incredibly powerful tool the left uses of the manufactured delusion, but it's really hard to break people out of it. It's like breaking them out of occult identity. The Democrats seem to speak most of the time with one voice. And I don't think they necessarily plan it this way. Do they hear each other, or is this just almost instinctive these days? You know, I think I wanted to get into this. And in the book, I was sort of pushed away a little bit by my editor from getting too deep down the psychiatric route. I started to think about how this really does feel that. For example, I wanted to say by any COVID for a lot of people, COVID for a lot of people. Oh, we're coming in and out. We're coming in and out. I missed the last five seconds. Turn your head with your phone. That helps sometimes. Seriously. There we go. Sorry. So there we go. So COVID.

I think is very clearly a situation where people developed a mass anxiety disorder. I mean, a truly diagnosable mental illness. And this is why you saw the people driving around in double masks by themselves in cars and just doing insane and stupid stuff. Stuff that you could tell was that there was a mental component of unwellness. And I think that when you look at the left and the Democrats in this country right now, I think they're particularly susceptible to the manufactured delusion because of things that run very deep, because of a desire to be a part of the crowd, because of the replacement of God with the state, because of, honestly... Really, I view, I mean, Mark, we could have a whole conversation about communism. But communism is not really about economics at its core. It's about a religion for malcontents, in my view. It's a religion of the, you know, it's a religion of people that are angry at life and angry at those who have done well. Well, I think there's a lot of that among Democrats. And even the very successful Democrats, you know, the Tom Stiers, if you will, the billionaires who prattle on about climate change, they do so out of a sense of guilt. right they do so to one hold themselves up as now virtuous but also many of the most successful leftists financially at least still view themselves as deeply flawed people who have to latch onto ideas to make themselves bigger and taller and feel better about uh... who they are and so that's why i think the left is so susceptible to this it's a combination of factors but i do view their mass delusion as deeply ingrained You're listening to Buck Sexton. Stay with us, my friend. The book is Manufacturing Delusion, How the Left Uses, Brainwashing, Indctrination, and Propaganda Against You. It's a killer book. I encourage you to go on Amazon.com. Grab a copy right now for the weekend or any major bookstore. Great book. Manufacturing Delusion. We'll be right back. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Up front payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for $12-1 plan required, $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. Mark the 10, the thunder on the right. Call him now. 877381-3811. We're back with Buck Sexton, his... Hit book, Manufacturing Delusion. You can get it on Amazon.com right now, any major bookstore. It's a killer book, folks. You really ought to grab a copy. Buck, let's go to that chapter on propaganda. What is propaganda?

Well, it's interesting because I try to get into some of the, just the history of it. And initially, propaganda comes from an effort by the Catholic Church to propagate the true faith. So it didn't have this negative connotation that we think of now. And really propaganda in the 20th century developed this... negative connotation largely from what we saw in wartime and what was broadcast over radio and what was broadcast later on, of course, television, but, you know, the press, mass media, posters. And what we see is that there are some crates of this, some things, you know, one thing I think for people like you and me who constantly talk about what Donald Trump... calls the fake news media, which I love. And I always have to remind people, too, you know, he turned around on them. You remember, they initially were saying, oh, all these Trump supporters back in 2016, they believe the fake news on Facebook that Donald Trump is saying, or they believe, and he turned it against them in a remarkable act of really a political jiu-jitsu. But propaganda has some characteristics that I get into. in specifics. And one of the ways to describe it is just the fire hose of falsehood, and that comes from Iran study that was done of how they do this, particularly in wartime. Yes, in the World War I, World War II, but all, and of course, Goebbels and the Nazis were unfortunately quite expert at the most insidious kinds of propaganda. But it takes it to the present day and looks at it. It says it has to be a few things. high volume and multi-channel, right? So aggressive and from everywhere, that's one thing. When the message has come, you had said before, why is it that these leftists? Isn't it interesting how they all sort of say many of the same things at the same time? Well, that's actually, and people have brought these brilliant clips, right? And that's indicative of a propaganda effort alone, rapid, continuous, and repetitive. That is, of course, something we see all the time. If you see it on MSN, I'm sorry, MSLST, Mark, as you see it on MS now, right? If you see it on MS now at 10 AM, they're intentionally going to say the same kind of words about the same things throughout the entire day. So it's rapid, continuous, repetitive, intentionally lacks a commitment to objective reality, right? So the point is they're just saying it to make people believe it because they don't care. and that it also lacks commitment to consistency. So what they've said before doesn't matter. Claims that have been made in the past are irrelevant. What is the need of today for the political entity, for those who are manufacturing delusion? So basically in shorthand, it's all over the place. It's coming at you constantly. It doesn't care if it's true, and it doesn't care what it said yesterday. That is propaganda. And as we all sit here, of course, Mark, that's... the uh the fake news media that's the the leftists and their corporate media hackery to a t so to wrap this up an unfair question what do you do about this how do you fight this so i truly every chapter is brilliant but but they but you address it in in such an incredible way the way you break it down to each form of this

Thank you, Morgan. First of why, I really do appreciate it, and it means a lot coming from you as a guy who has probably sold more books as a conservative than anybody else in the 21st century. It's just public records. So, you know, thank you. I greatly appreciate the kind words about the book. So it really is meaningful. And I would say the... The first step of this, I generally find, you know, the weakest part of a lot of, you know, books that come from people on the right is the final chapter where they just say, you know, well, just, you know, keep your faith in America and call your congressman or something really quick. Look, there's no quick fix to this. I mean, the shorthand, well, the first thing is you have to understand what they're doing. Because once you see, and that's why I broke this down into the chapters, people have to read this book, and I've had people come up and say this, they're like, wow. itemized subjects i totally get this now now i understand these purple-haired weirdos with nose rings showing up to tackle ice officers in minneapolis They're living in a city, but they're atomized subjects, and they've been subject to propaganda, and they've been subject to Mentaica, and they can put these pieces together. So understanding the pieces of how this happens around you and how they try to do this to you. They're trying to do this to all of us in different ways with the messaging, with the manufactured delusions that are out there. So that is the biggest piece of this. That's why most of the book is, understand what the enemy is doing. And then how to defeat the enemy, well, once you know the tactics, then you can get. get into counter insurgency, counter messaging, countering this revolutionary leftist mindset. And the biggest part of it is from Solzhenitsyn, the great 20th century Soviet dissident, lived not by lies. Always identify. There is never a time when someone in the media is lying to you or lying about something when it is actually for your good, right? Or, you know, it's actually intentioned in a way that isn't meant to manipulate and isn't meant to take people. So I would say, look, by the words, the same thing when I worked at the NYPD for a while in the Intel Division. I work with the detective. And I tell some of these stories in the book because I started out as a CIA analyst and then I got sent to the intelligence division of the NYPD. And I just wanted this one old detective and he just said, you know what I do, buddy? I look for the lie. And then I work from there. And that's so true. And all, you know, it's true if you're sitting down with somebody to figure out, you know, is this guy the one who shot someone or, you know, is this the guy that robbed the bank? It's also true, though, when you're dealing with a massive political effort to undermine your sense of self and what is true, are they lying to you about something? Why are they lying to you? You know, why are they saying that they didn't say, you know this about climate change or this about BLM or why is it that the people around you that are marching as an entity as one you know as essentially a mob in motion why are they all saying things why are their slogans

lies you know why are they saying gender assigned at birth when that itself is alive because we don't you know people can know what the baby is months before and god assigns gender not not a doctor uh... so that that is what i would say look for the lie and and promise yourself to live not by lies and this book in some level is uh... is an effort to help people detect the lies that are used to lead you astray, to take you down the wrong political pathways, and to undermine the most important core beliefs and truths of our society that you and I and your audience share. Folks, you're really going to love this book. And you can share with other people, too, manufacturing delusion, how the left uses of brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you. You've asked about this forever, and now you're going to see why. Like my question, why do they keep talking like each other? Well, there's a reason for that. And the other thing I like what you said is it's not a simple answer. And when you read the book, you understand there's not a simple answer, but you also understand that you need to push back against it, and there's certain conditions in which you can do that. It's a great book. You can get it on Amazon.com. You can get it in any major bookstore. It's manufacturing delusion. Buck Sexton, you're a good guy. I don't know that if you live anywhere near me. I don't think you do. But you're the kind of guy. I like to have lunch. You tell me if you want to grab a bite mark, I'm in Florida anytime. I'll fly up to you too. I don't know where the bunker is, but you tell me. But thank you so much for having me on. God bless you. Have a wonderful weekend. You too. Take care of yourself. You too. What a good guy. Smart as hell, too. I like good guys that are smart as hell. I really do. and I do what I can. I don't need to promote Buck. He's big as he is, but to promote what he says and what he's doing and so forth, that's a good thing too, and I like doing it. All right, Mr. Producer, where am I? What am I doing? I think I ripped it up. So I think we're going to come right back. We'll be right back. Mark Lubbin.

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