On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, Sen. Manchin and Sen. Sinema were harassed by activists over the weekend, which President Biden called part of the process. Democrats have a history of using Alinsky-styled radical tactics for decades. Then, Democrats are looking for a foot in the door to massively expand the welfare state. It’s a flat-out lie that the debt ceiling needs to be raised to pay last year’s budget. The Democrats want to proactively raise the debt ceiling with an unlimited debt limit for future spending going forward. The debt service is what they claim won’t be paid, but it clearly will not be impacted. Afterward, Dr. Marc Siegel, author of COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, joins the show and says that Dr. Fauci should stick to research and not delve into economics or patient care where he has no expertise. Hospitals at the border are overloaded with migrants that are infected with the virus, contrary to Fauci’s comments.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
Man, oh, man. Shavitz lot to get to be first I do before I do, Casey DeSantis, the first lady of Florida who is a friend of our family. Has been diagnosed with breast cancer and as Rhonda scientists, the governor and her husband stated, I’m saddened to report that Florida’s esteemed first lady and my beloved wife. Has been diagnosed with breast cancer as the mother of three young children cases, the centerpiece of her family, and has made an impact on the lives of countless Floridians through her initiatives as first lady and as she faces the most difficult test of her life, she will have not only my unwavering support, but the support of our entire family, as well as the prayers and well wishes from Floridians across our state. He said Casey is a true fighter, she will never, never, never give up. I only know what’s in the public square and even beyond the borders of Florida, the rest of us are praying for her as well and hope the very best for her. Now. The Democrats have sent their militia out again. They’ve all these hard core Marxist organizations, Black Lives Matter, not so much a. Fanti that pretty much operates on its own, but. You have groups of illegal aliens, other groups. Who protest, who go to the homes of Supreme Court justices who are now. Trying to intimidate two United States senators, two Democrats, Sinema and Manchin, in particular, Sinema. Cinema was harassed. Bullet shoots going into a public restroom at the Arizona State University, the ladies room. The other day, actually yesterday, and apparently she just flew in from Arizona to Reagan National. And they met her there and were harassing her there as well. And this group is called Lucha El U.S.A.. And as pointed out by power line, Scott Johnson. The Lutcher thugs who stalk Senator Cinema in the ladies room at Arizona State yesterday were not out to win friends and influence people in the style Dale Carnegie in lieu of decency. In an argument, they apply time tested tactics. At the opening chapter, Chapter four of Radical. In chief Barack Obama, The Untold Story of American Socialism. Our buddy Stanley Kurtz relates a well sourced story illustrating the precedent. For Luchas, stalking of Sinema. Here’s what he wrote. I wrote in October 1984. In the midst of his ultimately unsuccessful re-election battle against Democratic challenger Paul Simon, Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy was cornered and forced to hide in a ladies restroom by about 100 protesters from a group called UNO, United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago. By trapping Senator Percy in the women’s bathroom, UNO of Chicago successfully disrupted his live appearance on a black radio station, punishing him for his refusal to appear at an UNO forum, which Percy believed rightly have been stacked against him through UNO ‘s collaboration with Paul Simon, the candidate since UNO ‘s largely Mexican membership included a substantial group of illegal aliens, there’s every likelihood that a large number of illegal aliens were among that were among that crowd running Harbor Alinsky tactics on a U.S. senator. In those days, Who knows organizers used to gather at the bar after confrontations like this to laugh about how they’d humiliated one or another public official. There must have been heavy toasting that night when they cornered Percy. And the chapter thereafter details Obama’s hidden ties to UNO, in addition to the inferences of the stalking of center, we can also infer, as Stanley Kurtz put it to Scott Johnson in a message, that the left is now well and truly in the grip of the very same Alinsky style radicals to whom Obama obliged to disguise his connection years ago. And so now they are threatening cinema, they are harassing her just like they did the other day with Cavnar. Just as the Democrats in the Senate and in the House have been threatening the Supreme Court now for months and months about packing the court if the court doesn’t deliver the kinds of opinions they want. This is the sort of behavior you see in Marxist and fascist societies. This is exactly that kind of behavior, peaceful protest, no problem. Peaceful protests, no problem, but we saw throughout last summer, actually even a longer bit ago, how these thugs, whether it was Black Lives Matter or others, would chase down Senator Cruz or Sarah Huckabee and and others to confront them in their personal lives, at their personal homes. We saw them do it. That Tucker Carlson at his home in Washington, D.C., as well. And this is what they do. And you would think that there would be an outcry. You would think the pattern here is quite obvious, that you’d hear from Lynne Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, but not not at all. Apparently, this isn’t a threat to our republic. This isn’t a threat to our constitutional system. And I’m sure AOC and Sanders and others will speak out loudly against this. But the president of the United States today, Joe Biden, was asked about this by Peter Doocy. And here is in part what he said, cut eight, Mr. Producer eight go. Mr. President, you’re talking about how you have 40 Democratic votes right now. The other two have been pressured over the weekend by activists. Joe Manchin had people I’m to show up to his vote Playdom senators in a lifetime of caving to a restroom. Do you think that those tactics are crossing a line? I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody from the the only people. It doesn’t happen to people who have Secret Service standing around. So that’s part of the process. Does that sound like he’s condemned it, ladies and gentlemen? One more time, caudate, go, Mr. President, you’re talking about how you have 40 Democratic votes right now. The other two have been pressured over the weekend by activist Joe Manchin, had people on to show up to his boat, play the Senator Clinton a lifetime of chasing to a restroom. Do you think that those tactics are crossing a line? I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody from the only people. It doesn’t have to do with people who have Secret Service standing around. So that’s part of the process. It’s part of the process to chase down senators in the restroom, particularly female senators, apparently in the women’s real ladies room. By organizations now, you know damn well that’s not true, you know damn well if the the high heel shoe are on the other foot, that’s not the response you would get. You would be hearing about Trump not speaking out firmly enough that Trump is encouraging this sort of stuff, these thug tactics. These are these right wingers. They don’t even call these people left wingers when they’re, in fact, Marxists, that these are their tactics. I want to make a suggestion, let’s try something. There’s a lot of things that cinema supports and I reject. But let’s call her office and tell her to stand firm on this budget, that she will have the support of millions if she stands firm on this budget. Now, I know this is an unusual request. But we have to counter the the Marxist militia that’s out there. I’m not saying vote for her when election time comes up, I strongly opposed her. But she needs to hear. From tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of you. Telling her that on this one, she’s doing the right thing. And to stand firm in that she will have support in this regard. From all of you out there. So I want to encourage you to do that. We’ll find the information on how to contact her office during one of the breaks, but it’s very, very important. Now, I also explained on Life, Liberty and Levin last night, as I’ve explained behind this microphone. How the budget system works and how Biden is lying, that Democrats are lying and much of the media lying, as you can imagine. Nothing there that’s new in order to scare you. We’re going to get into some of this when I return. And we’re going to get into it by listening to Joe Biden and how. And how incomprehensible and what a thorough liar the man is. We’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
I post on that Mark Levin show Geter and Mark Levin show Parler, and we’ve now posted the contact information for Senator Sinema’s office. But I’ll give you the phone number. It’s 202 224 45 21 202 224, 45 21. This is intended to be positive and very civil and to let the people in her office know that you support her on the spending issue. And that she needs to stand firm to not allow these Marxist thugs to intimidate her. And, you know, as you sit back and look at this. The Marxist thugs dressed up as Black Lives matter what they did to our country last summer, the violence, the looting. The the arson, the killing and maiming. The war on the cops. You look at how they they hunt down members of Congress and conduct themselves this way, and all we hear about is January 6th. There was actually a federal judge in Washington, D.C., a federal district judge who raised the issue. Of the disparate treatment between. Many of the people who’ve been brought into court on the January six issue, as opposed to what took place all summer. And that got almost no attention. That could almost no attention. So the people who tried to blow up the Capitol building on multiple occasions, these were Marxists. Almost all of them were pardoned. Those have lived by Democrat presidents have gone through this. In really significant way, both on television and radio, so I won’t do it again. But that’s the truth. And so it’s two two two two four, four or five to one, let Senator Cinema know. That on this issue, on spending. You have her back, you support her and that she really needs to stand firm. We know it’s uncomfortable what’s going on. And here’s Joe Biden at a press conference today, how he lies about the debt, not being able to pay the debt. And just a quick, very fast refresher, actually. Two senators call me today. And thanked me for my monologue on life, liberty and love in how I cleared up this whole issue of the debt. And into how the nation will not avoid paying its debt. That is, unless the president, the United States chooses to do that, which would be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. Just remember, we bring in the government brings in rather 320 billion dollars, give or take, every month. The debt service every month is 44 billion dollars. So you can do the math. Forty four billion dollars is the debt service. 320 billion dollars is the growth that the federal government brings in from all sources. So there’s more than enough. 85 percent or so left. To pay. For Social Security, which is to be paid Medicare, which is to be paid federal pensions and other veterans which are to be paid. And there’s other issues in there, too, that ought to be paying the rest, they have to debate over. And what the Democrats have said is we don’t want to put a figure in their. We want to go into December 2022 with no cap on spending whatsoever, so the Republicans said No one. There’s no reason to default on the debt, just pay it, pay the debt service. And number two, we’re not giving you carte blanche. Now, those are the facts, you won’t read them in The New York Times of The Washington Post, you won’t hear them on the Constipated News Network and you won’t hear them on Melasti, nor will you hear any of it on NBC, ABC or CBS. So Joe Biden lies to you because he thinks you’re as stupid as the Democrat Party base. So what they keep saying is you got to raise the debt ceiling to pay for things from the past. That is a lie. That is a lie. You’re paying the debt service on the debt from the past, you’re not raising the debt ceiling to incur debt in the past. Why would you incur debt in the past, Mr. Producer? Does that make any sense to anybody? Hell, no. So you’re not raising the debt ceiling to pay debt in the past and you have enough money to pay the debt service. So what are they talking about? Why are they lying? They want you to believe they want you to believe that unless they get what they want, the nation will default. That’s a lie at the same time, they’re saying this costs America zero, so whether it’s five point five trillion or five trillion or three and a half trillion or whatever, the two point one trillion, it costs you zero. So all these free programs, redistribution of wealth, massive expansion of the welfare state, enshrining massive new programs cost you nothing. In the private sector, they all wind up at Sing Sing. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
Look, I understand it’s a lot more exciting to play all the f Joe Biden chants that occurred throughout the college football games this weekend. In fact, I can tell you where to go to find them on almost every conservative Web site. And that’s OK, but that’s not what I do and budget things can be very boring. I’m trying to make sure it’s not boring, but this will affect your life if they succeed and what they’re trying to do. You will not recognize your country, and I’ve been warning you now backbenchers are regurgitating this, particularly on television. That what they plan to do is to reduce the amount of money. Yet continue to vote for these programs. Whether they lop off a few years or however they do it, they just want a foot in the door. To move their agenda, to massively expand the welfare state. And this is in front of our eyes right now, so to spend time on if Joe Biden is fine, don’t get me wrong, but that’s not really. It’s not going to do anything. And so we’re going to move along here, Joe Biden at his press conference today lies about this entire issue. Cut sex go will come as no surprise. You’d like to talk about what we need today to raise the debt limit, why the Republicans in Congress are what they’re doing today is so reckless and dangerous, in my view, for raising the debt limit comes down to paying what we already owe. What has already been acquired is not anything new that is huge, flat out lie, No. One. They already raised the debt ceiling to pay for the debt that they previously incurred. Last year. The year before and the year before that. In other words, they can’t spend the money without having borrowed the money, so you have a significant income in taxes to the federal government, but it’s never big enough because they spend so much. So they have to pass these debt ceiling increases. So it’s just a matter of logic. They’re not trying to raise the debt ceiling to pay for what has already been spent. They raised the debt ceiling proactively. To pay for what they want to spend. And now they want to raise the debt ceiling again proactively to pay for what they want to spend. Can I prove it to you? In many ways, but here’s the big one. They want to raise the debt ceiling, as I said earlier, to December 2022 before the midterm elections without a number on how much they want to raise. That has nothing to do with past spending, that has everything to do with future spending because they’re duking it out on how much to spend. So the debt ceiling increase is tied to spending on government programs going forward from October one. That’s their weird fiscal year forward, October one to September 30. So when he says it’s not anything new, it’s what has already been acquired, paying what we already know, he’s a liar. On the debt service, that’s 44 billion dollars a month. They bring in 320 billion dollars a month. And whether the government’s closed or whatever the situation, the money keeps coming in, when the government closes, you don’t get a notice that says you don’t have to pay taxes right now because the government’s closed, you know, so the money keeps pouring in. And so there’s enough money, more than enough money to handle the full faith and credit of the United States. All right, go ahead. It starts with the simple truth the United States is a nation that pays its bills and always has from its inception, we have never defaulted, but we pay for. So it keeps us a great nation. Now we’re paying for a massive welfare state. Go ahead. Social Security benefits for seniors, salaries for brave service members and benefits for veterans and other financial obligations. Now, what’s interesting is even when the government shuts down or the debt ceiling is not increased, Social Security benefits for seniors continue to be paid. Medicare continues to be paid because they’ve created this fiction that these are separate, separate trust funds. I say it’s a fiction because they’ve drained all the money out of them already. But as a matter of law, Social Security benefits continue to be paid and you continue to pay into them, those of you who are on payroll tax and deduction. And the military continues to get paid, as do the vets continue. This is a matter of law. But they will talk about Social Security and our brave service members because they want to panic you, they want to panic you, it’s no reason to panic. Go ahead. Are people and for our nation, we’re able to meet these obligations based on the revenue we receive from taxes and based on our ability to borrow what when needed. And in that case, we’re able to borrow because we always pay our debt. We always pay what we owe. We’ve never failed. That’s America. That’s who we are. That’s what’s called for. It’s called full faith and credit of the United States. It’s rock solid. No, it’s not rock solid. Because their data is completely out of control. Our financial situation is grim. It’s grim. In terms of paying the debt service, we do that every month, but at some point the debt is going to overwhelm the economic system. Destroy the currency. Dragged down the private sector. And then we will not be able to meet the full faith and credit of the United States. Go ahead. It’s the best in the world, but here’s the deal, there’s a cap on what we can borrow. Call the debt limit and only Congress can raise or lower that debt limit. So let me be really clear. This is really important to know. Raising the debt limit is about paying off our old debts. He’s a liar. He’s a liar. We already raise the debt limit to pay for the monies that were spent in the prior year. This is about going forward. This is about going forward, it’s not about the full faith and credit of the United States, it’s not about paying the debt service. The debt service will be paid no matter what, unless the president steps in and the treasury secretary step in and stop it. This is about paying for government programs going forward from October one forward. So when they pass a spending bill and they pass a budget, they have to show that it can be paid for, not in the past. But in the future. So this is not about paying off old debt in order to raise the debt ceiling, I don’t know how else to explain this, but I have a very small platform compared to the president of the United States. So I have to repeat it because it’s important that you repeat it. Go ahead. There’s nothing to do with any new spending being considered. There’s nothing to do with my plan for infrastructure or building back better. Zero zero. This is this is really appalling. It’s unconscionable. This man is evil. And so he has said and you’ve heard him say three or four times now has nothing to do with his plan and spending going forward and so forth. And so let me ask a question. How do we pay for his plan? If we don’t borrow now. How do we pay for his plane if we don’t burn out? How do you pay for a house? They wait till you buy the house, then you buy it and you wait a year to borrow money. Is that what happens is you buy a car and you wait a year to get a loan on the car? Of course not. These are. Effectively simultaneous acts. You want to buy a car with a loan, you borrow the money to buy the car. It’s the same thing with the government. Makes no sense to do it the other way around because it doesn’t work that way. So they’re comingling paying the debt service with raising the debt limit, because this way they can talk about the collapse of America’s financial system. An economic system, unless you give them what they want so they can spend trillions and trillions more than we have, but they really would have to do after Social Security, other priorities are paid for is figure out how to prioritize the rest of the federal budget. Agriculture, Energy Department, blah, blah, blah, and the rest of it, and they never, ever want to do that. How do they go ahead, both of which, I might add, are paid for. So if we’re going to make good on what’s already been approved by Congress. So so he says. Going forward. The most explosive and massive spending in human history is already paid for. Now, we know it’s not already paid for, but if we play along, that means you don’t need to raise the debt ceiling going forward because he says it’s already paid for. It’s a lie. So this is incredibly devious. He wants you to believe that raising the debt ceiling is because of past spending and that going forward, this massive new spending is paid for. So you’re not raising the debt ceiling to spend for the massive new spending, you’re raising the debt ceiling to pay for the past, it’s so evil and devious how he’s lying to the American people, how his staff lied to the American people, how the media and the Democrat Party lied to the American people. They’re all repeating the same thing. They regurgitate the same thing going forward. They cost nothing. It costs nothing. To give all these benefits that AOC and the other Marxists want. They give all these benefits that that Bernie, the Red and all the other Marxists might cause absolutely nothing. What’s the problem? We have to raise the debt ceiling to pay for the past, you don’t raise the debt ceiling to pay for the past, you raise the debt ceiling to pay for the here and now in the future. Go ahead, is Congresses and previous presidents and parties, we have to pay for it. Social Security benefits, the American people are promised. Why do we now, just as a point. Why would you have to raise the debt ceiling to pay for Social Security if Social Security is a pay as you go program? Folks, you’ve already paid into Social Security. Have you not, those of you who receive it, those of you who hope to receive it and those of you who are young, you have a payroll deduction that is specifically aimed for the Social Security trust funds, of which there are two. As I recollect, why would you need to raise the debt ceiling to pay Social Security unless these very same politicians stole all the money out of the trust funds? Why would you need to raise the debt ceiling to pay for Medicare since you pay for it in your paychecks every single paycheck? Unless they stole the money out of the trust funds. Why would you need to raise the general debt limit to pay for entitlement programs that are sold to you with your own account, with your own payments and all the rest, unless they stole the money out of these programs, which is exactly what they’ve done. But you still don’t need to raise the debt limit in that respect because. It has nothing to do with Social Security, Medicare, since they are priority programs that are paid with the money that’s left after you pay the debt service. Go ahead, servicemen and women benefits for veterans benefits for veterans are among the priority, so he’s specifically naming programs that are untouched. Go ahead, raise the debt limit. We’re going to meet those obligations. That’s a lie. That is a lie, this man is despicable. Absolutely despicable. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
The New York Times, in particular, man by the name of Michael Schmidt, used to write for a conservative platform and Maggie Haberman is a fraud. Did a piece on the lawyer behind the memo on how Trump could stay in office. I just want to touch on that briefly next hour. I’m in the second paragraph, Mr. Producer. I’m spoken of as a far right commentator. By newspaper that supported Stalin, Hitler and Castro. So we got to make sure that Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, well, that they receive the attention that they deserve. All right. Let us begin one more. Here is Joe Biden saying the Republicans are going to destroy America, cut seven go. Democrats will meet our responsibility and obligation to this country. We’re not expecting Republicans to do their part. They made it clear from the beginning. We tried asking to no avail. We just asking them not to use procedural tricks. Ladies and gentlemen, what he’s asked the Republicans to do is to give the Democrats a blank check. A blank check to borrow as much money as they wish as they negotiate among themselves and the Democrat Party on the amount of money they wish to spend because it doesn’t pay for itself. This is why Biden is freaking out. This is why the Democrats are lying through their teeth, all seven of them. And they do this all the time. They are svengalis. They are utterly dishonest when it comes to these sorts of things, as they are most things, they are Pangea’s. And so the Republicans are saying, look, we’re not going to just raise the debt ceiling to nothing, to whatever you want to get through the midterm elections, we’re not going to be the the the people who take out the loans for your spending because it’s all about going forward. And that’s why the Republicans rightly to their credit. Are saying no, and besides, you have the 50/50 in the Senate. And you have a a majority as slim as it is in the House, you want to do these things, go do them. You don’t ask for our input when it comes to spending. Now, you want us to assist you in borrowing going forward. Go ahead. Because from doing the job that they won’t do, meteor’s hand is headed to crash into our economy. Democrats are willing to do all the work stopping. Republicans just have to let us do our job. You see? You see how regimes, fascistic regimes, Marxist regimes. Autocratic regimes operate. They operate the way Joe Biden operates. It’s not a big lie, it’s multiple big lies. The perpetrator becomes the victim. Just let the Democrats we want to do our jobs, that’s all. We want to raise the limit as far as we can spend as much as we can. We want to lie our way through it. That’s the best Biden I can do without doing this. Nobody remembers. I’ll be right back.