On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, the new debate in the media is whether there should be a second debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. All Trump talks about in his rallies and the debates are the issues, but all Kamala does is avoid talking about the issues whether it’s to the media or the American voters who still do not know what she stands for. Ronald Reagan was hated by the same people who hate Trump today, including the Bushes, Cheneys, RINO Republicans, and the media. It is time for us to be selfish and vote for the person who will return our country and the world to normalcy, and that person is Donald Trump. Also, Israel is in a very difficult position in the Middle East surrounded by terrorist groups and countries that want to destroy them, and they are all aided by the Biden/Harris administration. Harris is the biggest hater of Israel to ever run for president because she is an Islamist. Later, WREC radio host Ben Ferguson fills in for Mark. Trump has a new economic plan that is an addition to his plans to not tax tips or social security, and that is to not tax overtime. Harris wants you to be poorer so you need to rely on the government for everything to survive. Trump is the biggest threat to the Democrat party because under his presidency we had the lowest unemployment for a number of groups who are usually overwhelming supporters of the Democrat party.
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Rough Transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. So I guess now we’ll have five days a week, maybe ten days of Washington, the Washington media, the Washington grifters, the operators, the pollsters, the guests on network and cable TV debating over whether there should be another debate. Mr. Producer. Now, ladies and gentlemen. Does it matter if there’s another debate? I don’t care that the Democrats say they want another debate or not. Now what you want at this point, the campaign to get serious. Donald Trump keeps talking about the issues. The issues. The issues. The issues. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to get anywhere near the issue. The media don’t want to get anywhere near the issues unless they’re distorting Donald Trump’s positions. And so you have all these commentators, the same damn people all the time. You have all these failed politicians like Chris Christie and other bloated blowhards. Who throw in their comments. Liz Cheney Who cares? In the real world, in America’s streets. At home at night when people are looking over their bills or breakfast when somebody is going off to work or. People are trying to figure out how to make ends meet. Do you think they give a damn if there’s another debate? Kamala Harris had her shot and I know she’s running around. She’s giddy because she didn’t fall on her face. She even surprised herself. But giddy about what? People who claim to be undecided voters are still undecided. They don’t know what she stands for. Because it’s a two track effort. On the behalf of that campaign, which is she’s a marxist Islamist. But she doesn’t want to reveal her position on the issues. Because either she shows herself to be a flip flopper and she’s not really a flip flopper. She’s a liar. Or she has to be pressed on her position. She doesn’t want any of that. So they figure, look, she’s winning anyway, but she’s not. It’s a dead heat. That’s what it is. And look what they’ve done to Donald Trump. For it to be a dead heat. The lead up to this election. They’ve tried to throw him in prison, They tried the bankrupt and they’ve tried to smear his name. They’ve tried to. For some to spend enormous sums of money of his campaign funds, of legal fees. Look what they’ve done. They swapped out Biden. For Harris, the most undemocratic move in American history. Harris slipped into the nomination process without even having an open convention. They did it virtually. Now she wants to slip into the office of the presidency. Now she claims I want another debate. He’s running to give a damn what you want. But we, you and I, we know what she is. That’s why it’s important for us to spread the word. But I want to talk about. Some of these reprobates in the Republican Party who basically have left the party and endorse Harrison. I want you to think about that a second. You have Republicans who have sought your vote. We’ve sought your support in the past endorsing Kamala Harris. As the gravest danger this nation has ever faced. People who don’t care what’s going on on the border, the slavery, the rape, the murder. They don’t care about the fentanyl coming into this country. Otherwise, why would they endorse here? They don’t care about the wars going on. And the fact that Kamala Harris is an anti-Semite. Islamist is going to withhold even more weapons from Israel. They don’t care. They don’t care about the waiter, the waitress. And they. The other folks out there who are really struggling. The middle class. People will work with their hands. They don’t care what a four years of a Harris presidency would do to the country. So they want to contribute to the centralisation of power. They want to contribute to the monopolization of our political party system. I further empowering the Democrat Party. There’s a very good piece in a site called Issues Insights that come. Liz Cheney, who recently endorsed Kamala Harris, a person Cheney described as a radical liberal just four years ago. Well, she flip flops to now says there’s absolutely no chance that Ronald Reagan would support Donald Trump. I campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 76 and 80. I worked for eight years in his administration. I wasn’t his closest friend, that’s for sure. But I worked with him and I knew him and the people who worked with him and knew him. I don’t pretend to speak for Ronald Reagan, but she sure as hell can’t. She’s a Bushie. And I might add, you’ll notice the Bush people, the Romney people. The McCain people, although not all, by the way, but a lot. They’re the ones who are undermining Trump and in some cases, endorsing, endorsing Harris. A few Reaganites here and there, but the Reaganites all and all support Trump. Attorney General Edwin Meese, along with Attorney General Mukasey, filed a brief in support of Trump and against the independent counsel, the very existence of the independent counsel. Most of the Reaganites I know are supporting Trump and actively doing so. And so they point out there she has it exactly backwards. That is Liz Cheney. It’s people like Liz Cheney and the cabal of other Never Trumpers who never would have supported Reagan when he ran in 1980. This is very interesting because I said this in preparation for my show coming up Saturday night on Fox, which will be a brand new show. Donald Trump doesn’t stand for any of the things that Ronald Reagan did, Cheney said. It’s another place where I would urge my Republican colleagues to really look at Donald Trump’s policies, to really look at the danger that he presents, Cheney said in an interview on ABC News This Week. Notice can’t get enough of her on the media. She and. And the Cape. Majorca. Chris Christie. Cheney’s claim that Reagan didn’t support Trumpian policies is demonstrably false. And I agree with that. His first term, Trump enacted pro-growth tax cuts, started eliminating regulations, build up the nation’s military after years of neglect by Democrats. He appointed conservatives to the Supreme Court. He championed the working class and Reagan’s first term. He did likewise. Reagan called the Heritage Foundation 1980 Mandate for leadership a massive guide to conservative policy, making the Bible the Bible for guiding his administration and handed it out to every Cabinet official. Trump enacted two thirds of the recommendations contained in the Heritage 2016 mandate. Trump enact enacted protectionist tariffs. Well, so did Reagan. In fact, Reagan imposed 100% tariff on certain Japanese electronics in 1987 and forced that country to accept restraints on auto exports. He put limits on steel imports, raised tariffs on Canadian lumber and so on. What’s more, Trump signed free trade deals with friendly countries and had several in the works at the end of his term, which Biden abandoned. And Reagan was hated by all the same people who hate Trump. The media, Democrats, Establishment Republicans. And I want to remind you, it took Reagan three shots to become the nominee of the Republican Party. He was blocked by these very same Bush-Cheney type milquetoast rhino Republicans. He was blocked. They said he couldn’t win. He won two of the greatest landslides in American history, but he had to fight his way through the Republican establishment and ruling class. He was described as a dangerous right wing radical, a friend to tyrants, a heartless budget cutter. They said he was woefully unprepared to be president and played fast and loose with the facts. And when he was running against Jimmy Carter, Reagan was hardly all sunshine and roses as he’s often depicted. During that campaign, Reagan denounced mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our will and our purpose. Even have a left despises Reagan, calling him a hyper nationalist whose worldview grew out of the paranoia jingoism, a post-war America that led him to support fascists in Central America and see moderate liberals like JFK as dangerous radicals, quote unquote. Witness to the reaction of the to the Reagan movie, elitist movie critics, the sort of people Never Trumpers want to rub elbows with uniformly panned Reagan. Just 20% of its critics like the movie according to Rotten Tomatoes. Because how dare anyone make a movie that treats Reagan with respect. But moviegoers loved it. 98% gave it a thumbs up. There’s also the fact that the vast numbers have Never Trumpers who all claim to oppose Trump because he was abandoning Reaganism. Have since outed themselves as not just establishment Republicans, but straight out liberals. They supported Biden, turned a blind eye to his disastrous presidency and now backing radical liberal Harris. These people are not conservatives. They’ve never been conservatives. There’s no question that Reagan was more charming. The Trump she writes or they write had a better wit and a more pleasant demeanor. Unlike Trump and every Never Trumper as well, Reagan didn’t attack fellow Republicans, and he was much better at winning the crowd. Trump’s approval rating is almost never a top 50%. Nevertheless, we have no doubt. It had they been around in 1980, the Never Trumpers of today would have denounced Reagan in 1980 for the same reasons they are denouncing Trump. And what I’ve urged Republicans to re-elect Jimmy Carter. I believe this 100%. 100% because Reagan was opposed by the Republican establishment. They fought him in California. They fought him for the presidential nomination. They all got behind Ford. Bush ran against him in 1980 to try and derail him and almost did. But Reagan won on top. And even after he left office, Bush 41, kinder and gentler, raised taxes. He reversed course on the Reagan agenda and he destroyed his presidency. As a matter of fact, he was a one term president. He got elected because of Reagan’s coattails in the first place. All that said, the same Republican establishment, the same Republican ruling class plus. The Democrat establishment and the Democrat ruling class plus. The Democrat Party, billionaire oligarchs and some of the Republican billionaire oligarchs. Not many, but some. They’ve all coalesced, they’re all colluding, and they have been from day one to destroy Donald Trump by hook or by crook. I lawfare, my impeachment, my personal smears, my bankruptcy. And even now. And even now. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
You know, ladies and gentlemen, I’m not a big tariff fan. As you know, I never have been. But it’s a little more complicated than people suggest. Number one, McKinley used tariffs. He was one of the great presidents of the end of the 18th century, 1800s, early 1900s, before he was assassinated. There was tremendous economic growth. Coolidge used tariffs. Reagan used tariffs. Of course Trump uses tariffs. The three most conservative presidents in the last hundred years would be Coolidge, Reagan and Trump. That’s right. Trump. And I’ll get to that in a little bit. But the fact of the matter is I view trade a little differently than. The most protectionists, populists, free marketeers and so forth. I believe in free markets when it comes to free countries. I believe in free trade when it comes to countries that believe in free trade. I do not believe in free trade with Communist China. Fascistic Russia. The Islamist Nazi regime in Iran. In other words, I don’t think it’s just an ideological knee jerk event that we should practice with every country. We shouldn’t arm the enemy to destroy it. I believe an import excuse me, export controls to these countries, very severe export controls, because, number one, I believe in national security. We shouldn’t use our wits. We shouldn’t use our labor mental and physical to arm the enemy. And so radical libertarians disagree with me. I don’t much care. I’m just making the point that I have no problem with tariffs against China, tariffs against countries that really are building up their military to destroy us. But it choke us off economically. We’re not supposed to be blind about these things here. When it comes to other countries, I believe we should have free trade. Now, one of these other countries have spent years screwing us. That is putting high tariffs on our products while we have no tariffs on there. Well, I agree with Reagan. You can negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, use diplomacy in diplomacy. But at some point you’ve got to put an end to it. And that’s why he put 100% tariff on. Car imports from Japan. Because they would not accept American vehicles. Okay. You know, whether it’s a political war, an economic war, a real war. You can’t surrender. And so the base ideology that is the base philosophy is, yes, free market capitalism, that’s me. But then you look at certain situations, why God gave us a brain. And you reason through those situations. China? No. China is the enemy. No, I have no problem with tariffs on China. Not at all. Okay. Canada. Canada. Screwing us on milk products. I’ve got no problem there. We’ve tried, tried, tried over and over again. So Trump put his foot down. And we also do things on our side. We subsidize all kinds of industries. We subsidize the mushroom industry, we subsidize dairy industries, we subsidize all kinds of things. I’m not getting into this issue. I’m just making the point. But if you’re a real so-called free trader, you would oppose all of that, too, which gives us a benefit over a lot of foreign countries. I’m not big on subsidies. Period. Period. I don’t like it. But nonetheless, these things get a little bit more complicated than people think. Donald Trump as far is and was far more conservative than George H.W. Bush, far more conservative than George W Bush. Far more, far more conservative than Richard Nixon, Far more conservative than Romney and McCain. The late Bob Dole, who was a very, very good man, he was far more conservative than Dwight Eisenhower. Not talking about war and peace. I’m talking about a non-war president, far more conservative than virtually any other Republican president.
Segment 3
You know, I really wish I guess I’m a bit of a Pollyanna, but I know it won’t happen that the media would spend more time focused on the issues of the candidates rather than on debate debates and polls. I just do the polls right now. Tell us nothing. It’s tied. The power rankings it talk about two states have slipped from lean Republican to now even Mike because they moved one and a half percent. I mean, half of it doesn’t make any sense. New York Times says undecided voters are still undecided after the debate. But Harris numbers moved ever so slightly. Okay, so what does all that mean? Nothing. Nothing. This is an election about leadership. It’s an election about substance. It’s an election about we, the people, what we want. In Washington and New York and L.A. and their media. This is all they can talk about. It’s all they can talk about. So anyone will talk about It’s pathetic. It’s almost like they fill time. And so while others will spend mind numbing time debating the debates whether there should be debates, not debates, we just had a debate and Kamala Harris did not reveal herself. She didn’t reveal her. So. We should have another debate so they can run around and say, Oh, she won another debate. Who cares? Now, let me tell you a little secret. You talk about these things. I’m not hyperbolic. I tell you the truth. I use my noggin. I use my knowledge of history and so forth. There’s much at stake in this election. Including how you get to raise your children and grandchildren. That’s correct. Including what kind of home you’re free to purchase because they don’t want to build any more single family homes, including what kind of automobile you’ll be able to drive. They do not want you driving. A vehicle that uses gasoline and oil anymore. This will change your lives in an exceedingly negative way. They’re going to put millions of people out of work as they industrialize this country. De-growth this country. Any labor union boss in the private sector who is endorsing the Democrats is endorsing the suicide of the jobs of the people. They represent all blue collar workers. They will destroy trucking. Because it’s impossible for trucking to be efficient with massive batteries that take up a third to 40% of the vehicle’s capacity. It just doesn’t make sense and it won’t work. You can expect shortages, and that includes shortages of food because central decision making, central planning, reengineering society fails every time and it will fail bigly in the United States of America. You think you have it tough now You’re going to have a much worse. You’re going to have significant inflation. Those pensions you have, whether they’re Social Security or whether they’re private pensions or both, they’ll be meaningless. Meaningless. Medicare will go broke. It cannot possibly keep up with the expenses that are created by government run health care, which includes everybody and also includes illegal aliens. Medicare is an insurance program. It’s not intended to be a welfare program for every Tom Dick and an Amelio who comes over the border. But there you have it. The voting system will be a joke. Repair Potemkin voting system. They control all avenues of government. They will make sure that illegal aliens become citizens, that they get to vote, that they have chain migration, and that the nation is fundamentally altered from within. Without any chance. Elections are not elections of fixing it. The bureaucracy will get twice the size with twice the muscle. The IRS will be used as a domestic muscle operation to threaten every small business, to threaten every citizen if they don’t comport and comply with what the government tells them to do. Terms of free speech already got a little taste of it under Harris Biden. Your speech is going to be monitored. They will determine whether it’s misinformation or disinformation. Your social media posts will be monitored, tracked. Data will be kept on your public comments and your public thoughts. It’s already started. That’s what’s going to happen. This is totalitarianism. There are different levels of totalitarianism, but it is nonetheless totalitarianism. It isn’t what the nation was founded upon. We’re supposed to be a free people with free will. Read your declaration, read your Constitution. The central government was supposed to have a very minor role. This is why I don’t give a damn any more about these debates over debates or the polls or anything else. Everything is on the line. How you raise your children and grandchildren. Where you can travel, how far you can travel. What you can use to travel, where you can live, what kind of home you can have. I mean, everything is on the table and most of this will be done without legislation because legislation you see is a little too messy, actually have to get votes will be done through the federal massive bureaucracy. The leviathan, as one great writer put it, the administrative state is most intellectuals put it. But the tyranny of a massive bureaucracy that will issue regulations as if they’re laws that will have the power of laws that will have penalties, fines and jail time, strict liability, and you will have no say whatsoever. It won’t matter if you vote. It won’t matter if you protest. It won’t matter if you lobby your member of Congress. None of it will matter. Things are changing very, very fast in this country. And for the worst. Very fast. You’re going to see with the election of the Democrats the growth of anti-Semitism in the streets, Democrats, Jewish Democrats who vote Democrat. You’re voting for your own, your own suicide. There’s simply no question about it. The universities and the colleges will continue to be breeding grounds of Marxism and Islamism. So far under the Democrats, they’ve done nothing to cut off the funding from Iran, Qatar, Hamas and other enemy terrorist states and organizations, and they have no intention of doing it. It will get worse. The open borders will continue to import. People who hate America will continue to import people into this country who will not follow our laws. But are criminals coming out of the prisons of third world nations? You see what’s happened simply in the last three and a half years. We’ve never seen anything like it. And what will happen in the next four years will be appalling. And so they want us to focus on debates about debates. They want us to focus on polling, the power numbers or whatever it is. Ladies and gentlemen. If you allow the media to pull you around by the nose to focus on everything and nothing that matters. We will lose. And we will lose our liberty. And we will lose our lifestyles. And I’m not kidding. She talks about a wealth tax. I Wealth-x do you think a wealth tax is just for the wealthy? Is that how it works in Venezuela? Is that how it works in Cuba? Is that how it works in North Korea? Of course not. You want to control a country. You control the people. The people in our country. The middle class. If you have a wealth tax for a billionaire, you can have a wealth tax for a cop, for a firefighter, for an electrician. Nothing will stop it. Once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no end. A wealth tax on your home pay up or you lose your home. A wealth tax on your bank account where they give us 30%. Are you lose your bank account. Pay attention, America. I know what I’m talking about. I don’t care. I don’t care what these these Chihuahuas nipping at my heels have to say about me on their stupid ass websites. I don’t care if people want talk radio to be more about jokesters and tap dancing and all the rest of it. No, this is a crucial time in American history right now. Right here. This place. This place. This is Radio Free America right here. Everything’s on the line. Everything. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, it’s hard to believe in the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Which is for two world wars, which has fought the most horrendous civil war that any nation has ever fought. That has the smartest people on the planet, the most diverse population on the planet. That has raised mankind to levels unimagined. That there are enough people in this country that fall for this hoax of Kamala Harris. At a time like this when the war clouds are gathering above our country. At a time like this when Venezuela gangs are taking over apartment complexes. When our little girls are being mutilated and raped and beaten and murdered. It’s hard to believe. Then when we have a Democrat Party that wants to tell us how to raise our children. The vice presidential nominee in the Democrat Party who believes the state has the final say on whether your child loses their genitalia or not. Think about this. A party that has destroyed women’s sports. A party that’s destroying our currency, that’s destroying the economic base of the country with endless spending. Any nominee for that party. Who is the biggest buffoon? I don’t care. She can memorize her lines. Any lawyer can memorize their lines. Any lawyer knows how to. Who cares? And yet the most radical ever. She hopes to slip into the Oval Office. They’ve raised more money. And any two candidates have an American history. Why is that? Where is this money coming from? It’s coming from the oligarchs. They know they can control her. They’re not about liberty and representative government and conservatism and free markets. They’re about power. Time to understand. We’re not talking about capitalists here. We’re talking about oligarchs. Oligarchs. Why was it that among the first things Harris and Biden did is they expanded the IRS? To frighten you. And when the time comes, they have every intention of doing that. As the federal workforce gets bigger and bigger and richer and richer. There’s too much at stake. There’s always too much at stake, as far as I’m concerned. Well, there’s a big fight going on in Congress right now, ladies and gentlemen. That’s right. The speaker of the House is a good man, Mike Johnson. And the Republicans in the House, as well as the Republicans in the Senate. They want to add a little rider to a continuing resolution. That would say that. You’re required to demonstrate that you’re an actual American, a citizen, if you want to vote. That seem radical to you, America? You know, 50 years ago, that was not an issue. 25 years ago, it wasn’t an issue. Apparently, it’s an issue today because why undermine the open borders policies of the Democrats and all the effort they’ve put into flooding our country with illegal aliens so they can vote? You can’t prove that, Mark. I’m proving it right now. They will not agree to a federal law that requires every voter to show that they’re an American citizen or to have a driver’s I.D. that is based on them showing the state that they were an American citizen, a birth certificate or a passport or something of that nature. The Democrats are fighting it. They’re opposed to a voter ID. The only reason you oppose a voter ID is because you’re a crook. Is because you don’t believe in fair elections. But look at all the propaganda. The propaganda is, Can you prove it? Can you prove it? Why do I have subpoena power? Well, then why are you saying it? Because it’s a matter of logic. When you have an open border like this with tens of millions of illegal aliens coming in from all over the world, you’re going to get terrorists, you’re going to get criminal gangs, you’re going to get murderers and rapists and fentanyl. And that’s what you got. And when you have an open border like this, where tens of millions of illegal aliens coming in and more and more blue states, hello, Democrat, state, Democrats, cities, Democrat towns are not worried about voter I.D. then obviously they’re counting on illegal aliens to vote. We’re not stupid here. We can read the tea leaves, especially when they’re slapping you in the face. I’ll be right back.