April 7th, 2023

On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, we vote to elect politicians who make our streets more dangerous – take our property from us, and we shake our heads. The hypocrisy of the left continues to be out of control. From the Tennessee House which is currently getting a lot of attention from the major media after the expulsion of 2 State Representatives. The media is trying to create a racial issue, they want Americans in a constant state of hate and anger. Also, Democratic executive orders are rampant – pushing for more electric cars, trying to get rid of high-end gas stoves, lightbulbs, toilet paper and now AM radio. Pushing changes and the silencing of the conservative media through vehicle manufacturers. This is all about control. This is all driven from the degrowth movement, whose ultimate goal is to destroy capitalism. Our ruling class is constantly imposing their will in a way that doesn’t make sense at all. Later, the Democrats continue to push their agenda in public schools. They are pushing gender identity, not gender biology in sports. The Biden administration has destroyed Title IX, which was supposed to ensure that women have a fair opportunity to participate in sports. 50 years of progress in women’s sports is now gone.

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Rough transcript of Hour 1

Hour 1 Segment 1

You know, it’s amazing the amount of attention the major media are giving to the expulsion of two individuals, almost three in the House of the Assembly of Tennessee. And they tell you precious little of what these individuals did. They were on the floor of the House and they basically shut down the operations and they led a protest. Now, why is this drawing the attention in the media? Because the media want to make this into a racial issue as they want to make everything into a racial issue. What if this had happened in another legislature and they decided to expel some members also for effectively shutting down the operations of the the legislature? Nobody would care. Nobody would care now when Pelosi was the speaker. Can you imagine if you had Marjorie Taylor GREENE and Matt Gaetz and a couple others on the floor of the House leading a protest? What would happen? What would the national media say about that when Chuck Todd and Andrea mitchell and all the rest say about that? Well, here they’re saying it’s absolutely racist. Because the individuals who were expelled were black. And there was one white woman and she denied having raised her voice and yelling during the during the protests on the floor of the House. And she was almost expelled by one vote short of being expelled. And so I see what’s taking place with the black power fist in the air. These are two young guys. Kamala Harris is going there. I think to myself. This is an administration in Washington, D.C., that has taken the wrong side when it comes to the litigation against Harvard by Asian Americans who are being discriminated against. This is an administration that has been absolutely silent about the massive amount of hate crimes. An anti Semitism going on against Jewish people. This is a ministration that picks and chooses its outrage. Now, apparently the way it works is these two individuals in the Tennessee House will be fairly quickly reinstated through whatever processes they have in the state. I haven’t taken the time to study them. But it’s kind of tough to run. A state legislature. Kind of tough. When your own members are basically making it impossible for that legislature to debate. And I see a country view when it comes to January six. Even when there was violence on January six, the vast majority of the people were not violent. You have people who are being charged criminally losing their liberty, losing their jobs. Some committing suicide. Because they were trespassing. Or parading on government property. And you don’t hear much defense of those people. And indeed, the. United States Department of Justice is applying more resources in those cases than in any other cases in the history of the department. And they. They celebrate it. So the only reason Kamala Harris and the rest are getting involved in it is because they’re racialized in this. But understand, it wasn’t just the members. These members brought a whole bunch of other people in to the chamber, making it again impossible. For activity to take place. And you cannot have that going on, can you? Can you? No, I don’t think so. That doesn’t mean you throw the book at people who were there innocently. You haven’t heard me say we should criminalize it and all these people should be prosecuted and go to prison. I don’t agree with that either. But it is amazing how the media conduct themselves in this country, which is really quite off. They want us all at each other’s throats. We shouldn’t be at each other’s throats. They want us all divided by physical features, which of course, we shouldn’t be. They want us all in a constant state of hate and jealousy and anger. Because they get better ratings that way. And of course, they’re ideologically driven in the media. Now, the Biden administration. It’s completely out of control. They’ve sort of turned back to certain types of gas stoves that they want to get rid of the high end stuff, in other words, the kind of stuff restaurants use. The Biden administration. Has circled back they want to eliminate. The kind of light bulbs that you use to. You’re used to purchasing. And so they’re going to do that. So come August, you’ll have to buy these LED light bulbs. You won’t be able to buy these incandescent light bulbs. So the federal government is going to ban light bulbs again. And there’s even more than that. The Biden administration is moving toward, quote unquote, cracking down on gas cars. From Fox News. The Biden administration is weighing an aggressive proposal to implement the tightest ever of federal regulations governing tailpipe emissions in an effort to boost electric vehicles. Now, what does that mean? They’re going to make the emissions scientifically impossible. The emissions level scientifically impossible to comply with. And that’s how they plan to ban ban nationwide. Automobiles run on gasoline. The EPA is expected to announce the new standards, which will impact cars manufactured starting in 2027. Next week, during a ceremony in Detroit, Bloomberg reported, citing officials briefed on the proposal. In a statement, the EPA confirmed the standards are designed to incentivize consumers to purchase electric vehicles so they want to force you to buy electric vehicles against your will. The electrical grid is not ready to handle all this. It’s going to be an enormous inconvenience to you and they don’t care. It’s all done by executive order. All done by executive order. The proposal expected next week, is set to be introduced as the Biden administration continues its aggressive push for more Americans to switch to electric vehicles and to electrify home appliances in an effort to combat global warming. This whole thing is a massive ruse. It’s going to destroy our economy and it’s going to do more than that. It’s going to do more than that. Chase Bank CEO. Says Biden’s EV push could imperil national security and benefit China. There’s no question about it. We’re dealing with very stupid people who are driven by ideology. From Jess The news, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a top Democrat Party donor. And among the U.S. most powerful business leaders, is raising concerns about the Biden administration’s electric vehicle push, saying such an agenda poses a national security risk says China and its economic muscle dominate batteries. Rare earths, minerals, semiconductors or EVs could eventually imperil national security. By disrupting our access to these products and materials. We cannot see these important resources and capabilities to another country. And while the administration and others in the US have acknowledged the country needs to quickly become less dependent on China’s electric vehicle, batteries and semiconductors, America is still far away from independence on these. On the on the manufacturing of these matters of these items and materials. But they don’t care because we are driven by a religion, a new religion here. That’s why. For years. I’ve told you about the Degrowth movement. For years I’ve written about the Degrowth movement. Banning progress, banning prosperity. That’s what’s taking place here. Banning private property rights by executive order. By the Environmental Protection Agency. So-called environmental movement. As I wrote in American Marxism, my latest iteration of this. The movement of the seventies has devolved into another avenue to attack American constitutional Republicanism and, of course, capitalism. From clean air and clean water to global cooling, warming, climate change, the goal of many of the leading intellectuals behind this effort. Has been the introduction of Marxist thinking and objectives through the guise of environmentalism as the Green New Deal, which promotes economic regression, radical egalitarianism and autocratic rule. Nobody voted for this. Nobody voted for anybody who would do this. But the movement has expanded well beyond that to include virtually every programmatic and agenda driven goal of the American Marxist. But it has been embraced a one degree or another by the Democrat Party, among others. The environmental movement has developed numerous areas of overlap with other marks eccentric ideologies. Some of the movement’s masterminds insist that Marxism doesn’t go far enough in establishing their de-growth utopianism degrowth. You know, Marx didn’t talk about degrowth. And yet now we have a degrowth utopianism as they imagined life and a perpetual state of nature where productivity growth, material acquisition are toxic to human spirit. And in the end, it all involves a form of repression and autocracy. And at the core of this mind numbing, amalgamated, Marxist centric or Marxist like crusade is the degrowth movement. Mankind consumes and produces too much, and the blame resides with capitalism in America. Again, there are a variety of movements within movements targeting one or another approach. But there are basic tenets. And the rest say what is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement, there’s a whole movement, a degrowth movement. You have these leading degrowth as they write that degrowth was launched in the beginning of the 21st century as a project of voluntary societal shrinking of production and consumption. Aimed at social and ecological sustainability. It quickly became a slogan against economic growth and developed into a social movement. Unlike sustainable development, which is a concept based on false consensus, they don’t want sustainable development. They want degrowth. Degrowth does not aspire to be adopted as a common goal by the United Nations, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation Development or the European Commission. The idea of socially sustainable degrowth or simply degrowth, was born as a proposal for radical change. The contemporary context of neoliberal capitalism appears as a post-political condition, meaning a political formation that forecloses the political and prevents the politicisation of particular demands. Degrowth is an attempt to politicize the debate. A much needed socio ecological transformation. I’ll explain all this affirming dissidents with the current world representations and search for alternative ones. So Degrowth challenges the idea of green growth or a green economy and the associated belief in economic growth as a desirable path and political agendas. Degrowth is not just an economic concept. It is a frame constituted by a large array concerns and strategies and actions. And so degrowth has now become a confluence point where streams of critical ideas and political action converge. So the goal is to reserve is to reverse economic process progress, reverse the industrial revolution, reverse capitalism, medical advancements, technological advancements. That is exactly what’s taking place right now. America, it’s the degrowth movement. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 2

Now the ultimate goal of this degrowth movement and you’re seeing it is to destroy capitalism. At the same time, they’re issuing regulations to destroy what you and I know is the modern automobile. At the very same time, they are centralizing government decision making in expanding the central government. They also want to create what Lenin called and we discussed the other day, democratic centralism and Lenin talked about the way you change a society is by imposing rules and changing legislation that people must comply with. So Biden is doing it by executive orders. He cannot get this stuff passed through your representatives in the House of Representatives. He does not care that you made decisions during the last election to slow down what he’s doing. He doesn’t care in the least as he has his Corvette Stingray parked in his garage. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 3

This is supposed to be a very limited federal government and apparently you only have the right to choose when it comes to killing babies. I keep talking about the tyranny that we’re in. We’re living in right now. Any government that has the power to outlaw incandescent light bulbs and apparently the Department of Energy has now warned, has now warned. All retailers that they are not to be using incandescent light bulbs and they’re not to be selling them. It’s time to get rid of them. Any government that has that power has all kinds of power. According to the Biden administration, the ban will reportedly save those an American an estimated $3 billion a year, plus reduce the carbon dioxide emissions over the course of the next 30 years. How ridiculous is that? That’s going to drive up your costs, just like electric vehicles are going to drive up your costs. Your electricity bill is going to go through the roof when everything’s on electricity. You’re going to see brownouts and blackouts. They’re going to take the the failed model of California and impose it on the rest of the nation. You’ll be able to go to Florida and Tennessee and Texas, but you won’t be able to escape these things anymore. You won’t be able to escape them anymore. It’s appalling, absolutely appalling. You have these agencies sitting around EPA, Energy Department. So we’re trying to figure out what to ban. Because they’re driven by ideology. And once you have control over the climate, quote unquote, you have control over the air and the water and everything else. You have control over everything. That’s why I am telling you, I’m putting a marker down right now that one day you’re going to be told how big the your home can be, what kind of home you can live in, depending on the number of family members you have. You’re going to be told not just. That you have to drive electric vehicles, but how many vehicles you can own and how much you can drive each day or each week or each month, it’s going to be rationed. They’re going to ration it. Furthermore, in terms of homes, they’re going to drive you into more and more dense areas. Because the HUD department is taking over zoning for your communities. How many of you live in single family homes? Those are going to be outlawed. It’s just a matter of time. If you can outlaw a vehicle. If you can outlaw a combustion engine, if you can outlaw an incandescent light bulb. What makes you think they can’t outlaw single family homes? That’s where they’re going. And they’re doing it through the back through the back door. Through the administrative state, through regulations, through executive orders, because you’ll never vote for this stuff. You’ll never vote for it, but it doesn’t matter whether you vote for it or not. They already have control over your HVAC systems, making them less and less efficient and more and more expensive. They have control over your dishwasher, your washing machine, your dryers. The federal government that. Virtually everything you use in your home and you use to construct your home. The federal government is regulating and controlling. It’s regulating and controlling the patterns that might be on your backyard claiming their navigable waters. So therefore they have the power to regulate them. That is to regulate how you use your own property. But they’re not ponds. They can be puddles. It doesn’t matter. The definition is very broad and ambiguous. The goal, again, is to do what? Is to eliminate to the extent they can, private property rights. You’ll notice Biden and the Democrats not only never talk about private property rights, they never take steps to protect private property rights. They always talk about what you owe the government that you don’t pay your fair share. This is part and parcel of the whole thing, whether it’s electric vehicles. I mean, we are going to be subsidizing the communist Chinese who seek to defeat us economically, geopolitically, militarily. 80 85% of all the material that that we need for these batteries is controlled by the communist Chinese. By the Communist Chinese. So every one of these moves that they make creates a precedent, empowers the central government. And in Paris, the police state. You shall remove those light bulbs from your retest and you shall not sell them anymore. You shall not manufacture them. Wow. All in the name of clean air and clean water and has nothing to do with clean air and clean water. And that circle of liberty is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking some more. And what are people going to do this weekend and next? Where they’re going to go out and they’re going to horde light bulbs like it’s East Germany of old. Washington Post had a piece out the other day that. Americans use more toilet paper than anybody else. I’m thinking, who sits around and thinks of this stuff. And so they talk about using birthdays, Mr. Producer. Now, I’m not going to get into all the specifics about that and so forth. But toilet paper, light bulbs, automobiles, the reason they go after the automobile the most and the most aggressively and first. Because the automobile. Is essential to liberty. The automobile is about mobility. The automobile is about you being able to go where you want, when you want. It’s freedom. That’s what the automobile is all about. It’s about freedom. It’s absolutely crucial. So the control of the automobile is about the control of your freedom. Poor people can’t afford electric vehicles, working people can’t afford electric vehicle. And the inconvenience is enormous. You don’t just fill up your car like you do a gasoline. When he’d take 5 minutes and you leave, get a plug in it and it has to charge and there’s not going to be enough electricity. There’s not going to be enough electricity during the the coldest months of the year and during the hottest months of the year. Hottest months of the year. Look at California. Everything’s going to be on the electrical grid, but the electrical grid can’t handle this. But they don’t care. If you live in a big city. How do you plan to charge your vehicle if you live in a in an apartment complex or a condo complex or a place where there’s a lot of townhomes or row homes? How do you plan to to charge your vehicle? Every home is going to have a major charger. It’s not like plugging in a radio. And by the way, let’s talk about radios for a minute. Ford is the latest manufacturer that says the future production of cars will not include the AM platform. Mr. Produce. You saw that, right? BMW has said it. Others have said it. Because it interferes with something or other. They finally figured out how to attack conservative talk radio. Mr. Producer, let me be the first one to say. Right at the manufacture level. Rather than going after us through the FCC, rather than going after us through legislation, rather than going after us through boycotting advertisers and all the rest. Just don’t make AM stations available in automobiles anymore. Because not all, but most. Conservative talk shows are on the AM ban. That doesn’t mean you won’t have alternatives. Of course there are many alternatives, but that’s not my point. This idea that all of a sudden you’re going to remove the AM ban from cars. That’s aimed at people like me to prevent people like you from just turning on your radio as you drive in your. Your own local area or general area and listen to the station. That’s what that’s all about. Oh, no, no, Mark, you can’t prove that. I don’t have to prove. Have anything. I’ve been around long enough. I figure things out. We’re way ahead of the curve here. That’s exactly what they’ve done. That’s exactly what they’re doing. So Ban could have banned cars. Ban the AM. Radio band. Ban gas stoves. Ban light bulbs. Drive up the cost of fuel purposely. Also drive up the cost of electricity. They get everybody on electricity, then they control the source of energy. There’s no diversity of energy. There’s one source of energy. Then they control the energy. Then they control how you live, what kind of appliances you’re going to have when you can use the appliances. You know, they got these devices on the side of your home. They can determine how much electricity you’re going to use. You can only use electricity on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. She’s mean. They’ve got it all figured out. And then in the name of the climate and so forth, this is how you’re going to have to live. This is where you’re going to have to live. In fact, we insist that you now take public transportation. You get a special ticket, you’re on the train, you’re on the B train, you’re on the C train. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it’s going to be. Damon, I tell you, I know what I’m talking about, and it’s really pathetic. I’ll be right back.

Hour 1 Segment 4

The vast majority of Americans. Washington Post will exclusively use toilet paper. For many, the birthday remains a fusty porcelain base and vaguely associated with the French. But the technology has evolved. Multi-billion dollar incumbents like Toto, as well as newcomers, have stormed the U.S. market for days. That promise to work with almost any toilet are now within reach of every American. The world’s northern forests. That’s great news for them. The pines, birches and aspens that fringed the northern. Hampshire are a primary source of Virgin pulled to make toilet paper, particularly older, mature trees but longer fibers that manufacturers when he created ultra soft texture. The lumber industry. They’re the ones that planted all these trees and they have a process for this. They have a process where they they use in, you know, acreage. Over the course of decades. And they grow certain trees, certain types of trees at certain times. And it’s all figured out by their scientists, by their arborists, by all their experts. And no one buys more toilet paper than Americans. The typical person in the United States uses about 24 rolls of toilet paper per year. That’s all. That’s roughly three times more than Europeans. Well, no wonder they stink. And among the highest per capita consumption of any country. See, America, you’re consuming too much food, too much energy, too much toilet paper. You’re too prosperous. There’s too much economic growth. You know, it used to be that capitalism didn’t create enough economic growth. That’s what the left used to argue. It just couldn’t it couldn’t meet the requirements of all the people. Now it’s we create too much economic growth. You understand America, too much. And so we got to get rid of toilet paper and we have to use these bidets. But don’t they use water, Mr. Producer? Aren’t there places in the country where they don’t have enough rain, where they have droughts and don’t have enough water? Like California. Not now, of course, where there’s a lot of rain. But you know what I mean, folks? So now everybody is going to use water. We’re making machines, the EPA says, to use less water. But now we should use more water. Our ruling class is about as dumb and incompetent and incapable as it gets constantly imposing their will. But imposing it in a way that doesn’t make any sense. Flushing away forests is the way the guy at the Washington Post writes it. Should you join the new converts to paydays? Take the plunge, he says. The environment Savings and performance. Yes. So it’s only a matter of time until this is supposed upon you that all new homes will have to have per day. All old homes will have to be retrofitted. You’ll have your government produced fax systems. Your government produce dishwashers, your government produce washers and dryers, your government produced electric grills, your government produce per day. Your government produced automobiles. Wow. I’ll be right back.