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Listening to the Best of Mark Levin. I've encouraged you to take a look at my book American Marxism from four years ago. To get a feel for what's taking place today is actually quite prescient. But it's not hard to be prescient when you're looking at Marxism or fascism or those things because the world has experienced them. The question is here we've not experienced them. And in chapter two I talk about breeding mops. Now, even though I'm writing about American Marxism, as you'll see, it would apply to any kind of ism that is totalitarian in nature. This is chapter two, Breeding Mobs. Many of you have the book Mass movements tend to devour the individual in two ways. Now I want you to be thinking of Monda, Mernie Sanders, you know, AOC Marxism, Islamism. I also want you to be thinking of the fascists and neo fascists who I've been exposing as thoroughly as possible. I want you to be thinking about Fuentes and Bannon, Alex Jones and Tucker and their supporters who give them who give them a free ride, the Megyn Kelly's of the world and those people. Mass movements attempt to devour the individual in two ways, consume his identity and uniqueness, thereby making him indistinguishable from the masses, but also assigning him a group identity based on race, age, income, etc. To draw class distinctions. This way the demagogues and propagandists can speak to the well being of the people as a whole while dividing them against themselves, thereby stampeding them in one direction or another as necessary to collapse the existing society or rule over the new one. And who among us is attracted to such mass movements? Again, I noted in my prior book, a receptive audience is found among the societies disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility for their own real or perceived conditions, but instead blame their surroundings, the system and others. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticisms of the existing society to which their connection is tentative are non existent. Improving the malcontent slot becomes linked to the utopian cause. Moreover, disparaging and diminishing the successful and accomplished becomes an essential tactic. No one should be better than anyone else, regardless of the merits or value of his contribution. And by exploiting human frailties, frustrations, jealousies and inequities, a sense of meaning and Self worth is created in the malcontents otherwise unhappy and directionless life. As you can see, this applies to the Marxists and the fascists. Furthermore, in mass movements the individual is inconsequential as a person, useful only as an insignificant part of an amalgamation of insignificant parts. Is a worker part of a mass, nothing more, nothing less. His existence is soulless. Absolute obedience is the highest virtue. After all, only an army of drones is capable of building a rainbow to paradise. Almost a century ago, French philosopher and essayist Julian Benda observed that mass movements form frequently around individuals who share the same political hatred. Got that? The same political hate hatred, he wrote, thanks to the progress of communication and still more to the group spirit. It's clear that the holders of the same political hatred now form a compact, impassioned mass, every individual of which feels himself in touch with the infinite numbers of others, whereas a century ago such people were comparatively out of touch with each other and hated in a scattered way. I've been talking about the podcasting and the Internet, ladies and gentlemen, and the dangers it poses. There's simply no question about that, he said. Be asserted that these coherences will tend to develop still further, for the will to group is one of the most profound characteristics of the modern world, wrote this a hundred years ago, which even in the most unexpected domains, for instance, the domain of thought is more and more becoming the world of leagues, of unions and of groups. It is necessary to say that the passion of the individual is strengthened by the feeling itself. In proximity to these thousands of similar passions, the individual bestows a mystic personality on the association of which he feels himself a member, and gives it a religious adoration which is simply the deification of his own passion and no small stimulants to its intensity. That's genius, don't you think? Mr. Producer Benda also concluded that such movements, because that's what's going on today right now. Ben also concluded that such movements are often cult like he wrote. The coherence just described might be called a surface coherence, but there is added to it a coherence of essence. For the very reason that the holders of the same political passion form a more compact, impassioned group, they also form a more homogeneous, impassioned group, which the individual ways of feeling disappear. The zeal of each member more and more takes on the color of the others. And so you see this Jew hatred, you see this Christian hatred, you see this, this American hatred, and it builds on it, and builds on it, it builds on itself. Absolute brilliance. But let's go on. I wrote nearly a decade ago that these mass movements, that is, I wrote, that are intolerant of diversity, uniqueness, debate for their purpose requires a singular focus. There can be no competing voices or causes slowing or obstructing society's long righteous march. They rely on deceit, propaganda, dependence, intimidation and force. And I go on in that regard. Let me continue. I'm not going to read the whole chapter, but I think it's very, very important. If you have the book, just dust it off. Seventy years ago, Eric Hoffer wrote an iconic book, the True Believer, and I even mentioned him in My First Liberty and Tyranny. On the Nature of Mass Movements. Hoffer explained that mass movements are built of deeply flawed individuals with deeply flawed ideas. He noted that quote, a mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self renunciation. People who see their lives as irredeemably spoiled cannot find a worthwhile purpose in self advancement. They look on self interest as something tainted and evil, something unclean and unlucky. Anything undertaken under the auspices of the self seems to them foredoomed. Nothing that has its roots and reasons in the self can be good and noble. Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well adjusted, happy, successful individuals, among others. Indeed, I write later, there is a kind of psychotic pleasure and excitement in wrecking the present day society, including, if not especially, one as free, humane, tolerant and virtuous as ours. Let's see what surprises one when listening to the frustrated as they decry the present and all it works, writes Hoffer, is the enormous joy they derive from doing so. Such delight cannot come from the mere venting of a grievance. By expatiating upon the incurable baseness and vileness of the times, the frustrated soften their feeling of failure and isolation. Thus, by deprecating the present, they acquire a vague sense of equality. The cause itself becomes the reason for one's existence. As Hoffer pointed out, the means a mass movement uses to make the present unpalatable strike a responsive chord in the frustrated. The self mastery needed in overcoming their appetites gives them an illusion of strength. They feel that in the mastering themselves they have mastered the world. One gains the impression that the frustrated derive as much satisfaction, if not more, from the means a mass movement uses as from the end it advocates. My God, is that true? Thus Hoffer is describing a fanatic and fanaticism. He says the fanatic's passionate attachment is the essence of his blind devotion and religiosity. And he sees in it the source of all virtue and strength. Though his single minded dedication is a holding on for dear life, he easily sees himself as the supporter and defender of the holy cause to which he clings. These would be Fuentes and the Gropers and the people who subscribe to Carlson and Bannon. These would be the Marxists, the Islamists, the people who vote for Mondami and Hisok. Hoffer explains it this. The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense. Let me repeat that. The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense. Again, this is in chapter two in American Marxism. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude and righteousness of his holy cause. His passionate attachment is more vital than the quality of the cause to which he is attached. He continues to live without an ardent desire. Dedicated dedication is to be adrift and abandoned. He sees intolerance, a sign of weakness, frivolity and ignorance. He hungers for the deep assurance which comes with total surrender, with a whole hearted clinging to a creed and a cause. Sorry, I have to read with a magnifying glass. What matters is not the content. Hold on. Is not the contents of the cause, but the total dedication and communion with the congregation. The fanatic comes from all walks of life and all backgrounds. You can look at George Soros, you can look at others like Benda. Hoffer sees the fanatic and the mass movement as centered on an intense, if not obsessive, hatred. He says passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus, people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives, try to find a new content, not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause, but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. Indeed, I write, the dangerousness of this hatred, when tied to a cause, can have calamitous societal and human consequences. It leads to scapegoating, Balkanization, violence, and, in its more aggressive form, ethnic cleansing. I write more broadly and simultaneously. This hatred seeks to malign, debase, debauch and ultimately topple the status quo and the civil society. I'd say this is on mark, don't you, Mr. Producer? In the end, if such mass movements succeed, the result is totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt, who I cite in several of my books, but I'm pointing it out here in American Marxism, genius, writer, philosopher. She suffered through the Holocaust. And she writes, the attraction of evil and crime for the mob mentality is nothing new. It has always been true that the mob will greet deeds of violence with the admiring remark. It may be mean, but it's very clever. The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents. In point of fact, I write, mass movements are the necessary precursors to building revolutions and overthrowing governments in the immediate instance, our own republic by various and competing tactical approaches. But as described earlier, there is a commonality and essential methodology to this counter revolution and societal transformation. And that is the voice and the view of a collective. And I go on in excruciating detail throughout the book, especially this chapter. In this chapter, not by accident, I titled Breeding mobs and we are breeding mobs. We are breeding Marxists, Marxist Islamists, and we are breeding fascists. Mark the Vincent when you think about businesses that are selling through the roof like aloe or skims, sure you think about a great product, a cool brand and brilliant marketing. But an often overlooked secret is actually the businesses behind the business making, selling and for shoppers, buying. Simple. For millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. With shop pay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts are going abandoned and way more sales happening. 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This is the best of Mark Levin. We're going to be celebrating 250, 50 years since the beginning of the revolution. Actually the signing of the Declaration of independence. More accurately 1776, July. I don't even say July 4th, because they actually voted on it and approved it on July 2. Are you aware that, Mr. Medusa, because you listen to the show. Okay, but they, they did sign, or most of them did sign because it took time to, to. To make copies of it back then, obviously. And I revere these things. I revere our history. I revere the founders and the framers. These people do not. They don't know a damn thing about them. I revere our documents early on. And so when people attack them, whether it's the fascistic right or the Marxist left, you and I, constitutional conservatives, we have to defend them. We have to defend them. We're not into a cult of personality. Well, this guy used to be like that doesn't matter. We believe in our country. We're patriots. And so we can't. We can't believe in a cult of personality where people are literally destroying our entire belief system. And then telling us Putin's a good guy and Qatar is pretty cool, and the head of Iran telling us that Bonhoeffer is something wrong with him on Churchill, in other words, trashing the greatest generation, trashing our men and women in military or veterans, telling us Mandami is pretty cool and that Hamas is not a terrorist group, it's a political organization. And if you're Christian, you believe in the Holy Land. What did he say? He detests you more than anybody. That's evil. That's sick. And then he has his surrogates who pile on and, and make excuses for him and, you know. F you. F you, Megyn Kelly. Very ladylike. F you. Maybe I'll give her a cigar. And I don't know, something not right there either, quite frankly, but I don't want to wash my hands again. I already washed my hands. President of the United States said something today, and I was proud of him. You know, I'm proud of him, period. I spoke to him the other day for quite a long period of time in the morning about a number of things. I can't share it. You know, these discussions are confidential. And nothing, nothing crazy. Just it is what it is. And he put his foot down. You know, the Democrats were blackmailing the country, you and me, Mr. And Mrs. America, for $1.5 trillion to fund illegal alien health care, to fully fund, like before, public broadcasting and npr, a whole bunch of left wing groups to fund and all the rest of it. And the President. No, no, no, you don't, you don't get to undo what we just did in May. And it takes time for these tax cuts to resonate throughout the economy. Under Reagan, it took about 14 months with these massive tax cuts, and then it was off to the races. And so you got to figure after the first quarter, maybe in the second quarter of next year, you're going to see this stuff really kick in. It just takes time. The economy is very big. And so the president, last night when he signed this bill, he made something very clear to the extortionists the Marxists, the Islamists, AKA the Democrats. Cut one, go.

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We've seen how good government can be and how bad government can be if people don't know what they're doing. For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States in an attempt to extort American tax taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions. They wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would have really hurt our healthcare businesses and our recipients at levels never seen before. Today we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that's what it was. They tried to extort the Democrats tried to extort our country. In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked Democrats to send us all along many days ago. This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took us on. Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for at least clean continuation of funding. There's never been a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation. It's just a continuation, not a big deal. It's a continuation. And we'll talk later. Yet the extremists in the other party insisted on creating the longest government shutdown in American history. And they did it purely for political reasons.

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Mm. 100% right. 100% right. Cut. Three. Three. Go.

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I want to also thank the eight Senate Democrats who finally did the right thing in voting to end this craziness, this madness. But unfortunately, the vast majority of Congressional Democrats were happy for millions of Americans to suffer. They really did suffer too. And the Democrats admitted, they said, well, no, we finally have a point. Even though people have to suffer, we finally have a point. And that didn't work out too well for them, but they really went out and they could appease the fringe benefits of their far left base. But that didn't work out because now their far left base is angrier than ever before. We actually elected a mayor of New York City who happens to be a Communist. When was that going to happen? Remember I said all the time during my campaign, we will never be a socialist country. And that's right. We turn out to have a communist in New York City. And if you look at his views, those are the views of a communist, not a socialist. So this is no way to run a country. I hope we can all agree that the government should never be shut down again. Again. End the Filibuster. Terminate the filibuster. It'll never happen again.

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Yeah, unbelievable. President has a great idea. It's the basis of ideas that have floated around a long time. I want you to hear what he said, and then I want to. I want to build on it. Cut four, go.

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But it all includes fixing the health care system that Democrats broke with the disaster known as Obamacare. Obamacare was a disaster from day one. It's done nothing but go up. And if you remember President Barack Hussein Obama, when he came up with this crazy idea, he said, everything is going to be great. Rates are going to go down, payments are going to go down, everything's going to go down. It went the exact opposite with the biggest increase of any of healthcare in any country. It's a disaster. And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be paid, but for. For the money, this massive amount of money to be paid directly to the people of our country so that they can buy their own health care, which will be far better and far less expensive than the disaster known as Obamacare. And I've had, I think, great support. I've even had Democrat support. So we want the money that would be going to the insurance company, which is hundreds of billions of dollars. You know, their stock prices have gone up by a thousand percent, in many cases 1000% over a short period of time because our country stupidly pays them so much money with this Obamacare scandal. So I want the money to go directly to you, the people, and you go out and you'll buy your own health insurance and you'll negotiate.

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Here's the thing, folks. I don't trash our pharmaceutical companies, our insurance companies and so forth and so on. We have the best health care system in the world thanks to hundreds of thousands of Americans who work for these companies. And they work hard. They try to do the right thing under the rules that are set by Congress or the states. But that doesn't mean we can't make decisions, good decisions, that are wiser than we have been. And I'm a big believer in these health saving accounts or whatever you want to call them, where people have more money in their own pocket, but that requires the people then to use that money to choose a health care program, a premium, and to pay for it. And so if they get the money and they don't pay for it, and all we're going to do is put them on Medicaid, that's a problem. So people are floating ideas. I want to see the fine print. I believe with the core idea here very much. And I'll tell you what, you're going to see a fascinating opening statement monologue on Saturday night's Life, Liberty and Live in. It's going to be fascinating. I'm just telling you because I take on this issue of affordability, I look at the various states and cities and I lay certain information out that I think as a result of my doing it on my TV show on Fox, that now the Republicans will know better how to make the case for affordability. Not massive government, not Marxism, not fascism, but for good old fashioned conservatism. I think you're going to love it. I really do. Mark Levin, we're giving you nothing but the best. The best of Mark Levin. Yes, I'd be right here. Here's where I'd be at. You don't sentences and prepositions, but people do it all the time. Where are you at? You don't need to say where are you at? You've already said where are you? Right, Mr. Producer, where you be? It's another one that kind of drives me a little crazy to be perfectly honest with you folks. Oh, yeah. All right, so now I told you about Qatar. They, they own London, they own our colleges and universities and they buy up, you know, special interest law firms and so forth and so on. But this group, care I've been warning you about to cair, our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, one of the great sites Chuck Ross. Mandami's rise was not random. Said anti Semitic activist Linda Sarsour boasted of mobilizing a CARE tight pact to support the socialists. That would be Marxist mayoral campaign. The Council on American Islamic Relations teased a major expansion of its lobbying and political operations. Ready for this in the wake of October 7, while its masters Hamas slaughtered Israelis and that would include Americans too, 20 of whom were murdered. Okay. To give Muslims, quote, a voice in the halls of Congress and on the campaign trails. Nearly two years later, the pro Hamas group's allies and officials say their efforts helped elect New York City mayor to be Zorhan Mandami, with plans to, quote, make even more history in next year's midterm elections. I told you about the lieutenant governor elect in Virginia. One step away from governor. She's an Islamist, just like Mandami. At CARE events this summer, anti Semitic activist Lara Sansour bragged that she got cair's political Armed CARE action and CARE endorsed Super PAC Unity and Justice Fund to back Mandami's campaign. It's part of an aggressive four way into campaign politics for Kerry, purportedly apolitical charity known for launching legal fights against so called anti Muslim discrimination. Now, while CARE itself can't endorse political candidates or spend in elections its political armed, Care Action can. Then there's the Unity and Justice Fund. The super PAC is not legally associated with care, but its treasurer, Basseem El Khalat, doubles as the head of CARE Action. They're all incestuous, as you would expect. The two groups also share office space in Washington, D.C. together, the entities create what Sunsour called a new level of sophistication in Kerr's political efforts. It was long in the making. Ne Wad Awad. You know this guy is an Ahad a hole rather. And I have mentioned Niwad Awad Ahol many times on this program. He's the CARE executive director who said he was happy to see Hamas's October 7th terror attack. I wouldn't be surprised if he's the next interview on Kitarlson's program. Maybe on Megyn Kelly's I got to make a name for her. I will. I'll figure it out. First touted, quote, a major breakthrough in the way we do business and the way we speak to our politicians nationwide, said Awad the A hole shortly after the attack during a Dec. 10, 2023 interview. CARE Action registered in D.C. 12 days later, according to local business filings. On January 2024, Awad the a hole was sharing the good news, quote unquote. The good news we're expanding our C4 lobbying and PACs so that we can give you a voice not only in the halls of Congress but also on the campaign trails. Yay. Yay. Democrat parties desperate to have their support. The C4 was a reference to CARE Action, which is registered as a 501c4 nonprofit. Awad the a hole talks of PACs. That was less clear. Care Action does have its own pac. That suggests CARE Action and its leader Elijah are instead leaning on Unity and Justice Fund, an entity that is not obviously affiliated with care. You know they set up all these groups, front groups, secondary groups. Those operations have been successful as of late. According to during the August event, he and Sarsour attributed the election of Senator Angela also Brooks and Representative Derek Tran. Hello Derek Tran. Hello to the mobilization efforts of CARE Action in the Muslim community. Pledged to replicate that success on a larger scale next year. You'll see in the midterm elections. Said we'll make even more history. Man oh man, we're going to be up against it. I take nothing for granted America, the article goes on about all these slip and fall Islamists and they're billionaire backers. The billionaires. We don't want the billionaires except our billionaires. The Sorosers and the gates, the buffets. There are billionaires. Excuse me. Cholera. Yes, yes. I'm sick of that old man, to be perfectly honest with Bernie Sanders. Sick of that, that Stalinist. I really am so. Oh, I meant to get to this yesterday, trying to pull together all this stuff. The FBI arrested Newscombs. That would be Gavin Newscomb's. California governor, ex chief of staff. Do you see this? America on 23 count indictment. And I'm, I'm waiting for Newscomb to say something, you know, goes to Brazil. Where's Donald Trump? He's in Washington running the country, you moron. Why aren't you in Sacramento running your state? Well, he is. He's running it into the ground, but you get the point. He's another weirdo, not just physically with the long pencil neck. What is with the pencil necks in California? Schiff. Newscombe. What is that, Mr. Producer? Then he combs his hair back. It looks like he's. He's putting applesauce in his hair. I don't know what that is. Oh, it's show. 1953. Nonetheless, 23 count indictment against his ex chief of staff and you don't hear crap about it. Bank and wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of justice and more. Wow. Wow. Western Journal, Wonderful site. Brian Che, a woman who was once one of California Governor Gavin Newsom's most trusted lieutenants has found herself in the crosshairs of the FBI and she's not looking very great. Yesterday, the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of California dropped a bombshell news release stating Dana Williamson, Newscomb's chief of staff from 2022 to 2024, had been indicted on a litany of charges. The 53 year old Williamson has been charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to commit bank wire fraud. Bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruct justice, subscribing to false tax returns, making false statements. That's just the start. In total, the indictment included 23 counts. Williamson was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday. According to the Sacramento Bee. First broke the news of the indictment. She pleaded innocent to all counts, was released on half a million dollars bond. Where's Newscomb? We haven't heard from him and he never shuts his big mouth. This is a critical step on an ongoing political corruption Investigation that began more than three years ago. U.S. attorney Eric Grant said in the news release. As it always has, the U.S. attorney's office will continue to work tirelessly with our law enforcement partners to protect the people of California from political corruption. Now, the charges are the result of three years investigation. What they say is there was disguising personal luxuries as business expenses, especially to claim improper tax deductions or to willfully file fraudulent tax returns in a serious criminal offense with severe consequences. U.S. attorney's office alleged Williamson between 2022 and 2024 when she was working for Governor Newsom. Don't worry. I'm the greatest governor. I will watch every penny. You're but your chief of staff right under your nose. Well, how was I supposed to know? Conspired with others to move funds from a dormant political campaign to an associate. Williamson apparently was helping funnel these funds for the associate's personal use. And it was a notable amount. Williamson is accused of having make approximately 225,000 available to this associate. And the release by the government says collectively they funneled the money through various business entities and disguised it as pay for what was in reality a no show job. No show job. I mean Biden was in a no show job for four years. Williamson is also involved in a number of other shocking allegations. According to the release. And this was hand picked person by Governor Newscomb. He knows what to do. Just because the Palisades burned to the ground, just because there's no water, just because there's illegal immigrants on every corner. Just because that speed train they were building was a black hole for billions and billions of dollars. Just because they have the highest taxes, just because they have the highest gasoline prices. Just because. Just because doesn't mean it's his fault. Sheena. Business Associated created false backdated contracts after being handed a subpoena in 2024 regarding Paycheck Protection program loans made to Williamson's business. You know, she might want to get an advisor. There's a guy out there who, you know, he confessed to committing fraud against people on a charity. Taking money from, among others, little old ladies. He said he was going to build a wall, but never did. And that would be, of course bloated Bannon. Obviously he didn't do all these things, but he did something. So he's giving advice to Epstein. Got all those texts telling Epstein how to deal with the public and the press. All those videos that bloated Banner won't release. Maybe you can help this woman. Whereas yet when FBI agents first confronted her about these myriad validations. She made false statements. I wonder why. Newscom, for his part, seemed ready to wash his hands of all this since Williamson was no longer on his team. But we're still learning details of the allegations. The governor expects all public servants to uphold the highest standards. How about you, Newscom? You hired her? Apparently, she was doing this while she was your Chief of staff, if I'm reading the years correctly. No, no, no, no, you don't understand. No, I don't understand.