2/16/26 - Criminalizing Criticism: The Implications of Virginia's Islamophobia Legislation

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And if I have my way, you'll listen to radio, you'll watch the YouTube or Rumble channel, and then, of course, on the weekends, you'll watch our Fox show. And so that's the goal. That's the purpose. Let's see here, okay? It's time to take a break. By the way, just write it down, at Liberty's Voice on YouTube, subscribe, at Mark Levin's Show on Rumble, Just follow. We'll be right back. Mark Levin. Well, AOC Sandy from Westchester has demonstrated that beyond Marxist Islamist slogans, beyond hate America statements. She doesn't know what the hell to say. She's a nitwhip. Should we use troops in Taiwan to defend it against China? Troops. Is that how we would defend Taiwan, by the way? No. Use air and sea power, missiles and that sort of thing, but how would you diplomatically respond to that? You would diplomatically respond to it and say, we have a commitment to Taiwan, and we'll do whatever we have to do, and whatever we can to protect it. Well, what does that mean? It means what I said. She's not even smart enough to say that. And she doesn't know where Venezuela is, which is kind of surprising, given that it was run by a communist for so long. You would think she knows where Venezuela is. She's a moron. and the media had created a phony out of her. The media had been promoting her because this is what our media do. This is what our media do. So I hardly know where to begin, but we got to begin somewhere, right? So let's begin. Let's see here. Man, oh, Manischewitz here. And of course, she's talking about Israel and our aid enabled Israel to commit genocide. in God. Look, she's an anti-Semitic pig. That's what she is. That's what she is. We'll get to that. Here's cut 14, Mr. Producer. Go. Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is such a you know, I think that this is a this is of course a very long-standing policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point. And we want to make sure... Hold on, we get to that point. She asked you about China invading. We're not invading. Go ahead. We are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid... We're doing economic research on this? And all of our global movement to this point? Mm-hmm. I bet you would have gotten an A on a term paper as Sandy and Westchester in 12th grade for this. Go ahead. Such confrontation and for that question to even arise. Oh, thank you. So stellar. oh god forbid and uh let's see we've got her on venezueler mr producer i believe that's number 22 22 22 go you know we look at what happened in venezuela for example it is not a uh And it is not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader. He canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader. That doesn't mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator. The nation is not below the equator, which means it's above the equator or on the equator, but it's above the equator. just because they're in Maduro, Maduro, she kicks in with the accent, but just because it's below the equator. Okay. And it doesn't mean, you know, that we can commit acts of war. Folks, Venezuela, the reason the president moved on Venezuela wasn't just because it was ruled by a dictator. He moved on Venezuela because Venezuela was giving really bases almost to China and Russia and Iran. And they were also using it for intelligence gathering against us. And they were also using it to, in the case of China, to prop up the regime with Venezuelan oil. So it was a national security problem. It was an intelligence problem. It was an economic problem. And then on top of all that, Venezuela was, as Bernie Sanders calls it, was working closely with communist China to move deadly drugs into our country, namely fentanyl, which are acts of war. Now, she doesn't address any of that because she's an idiot or an ideologue or an idiot ideologue. Now, what about Israel? Now, she's doing this. You understand this is an international stage. You got Nuskam who's a buffoon. He's there trashing us, trashing us, comparing them to the Nazis. I'm so sick of this. We will do everything we can to defeat him because that guy is desperate to be president. We will have to fight him tooth and nail. We will not allow him to turn this country into California. We cannot to take the greatest state, and it was, and make it the worst state from a financial and cultural now and safety. and all the rest of it, perspective. Let's take this one. Cut 12, go. Personally, I think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, particularly leaky laws. And I think that, personally, that the idea of completely unconditional aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense. I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza. and I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that don't... Oh, really? Thousands of women and children dead? It amazes me how the murderous Islamists, how they treat women, how they treat children, the rape, the mayhem, the abuse, all over the world, all over the Middle East, all over Gaza, and now in our own country, in Europe. and she focuses on Israel killing women and children how sick is this it's really sick because she's a Marxist Islamist ideologue she's evil and the group she deals with Democratic Socialists of America who created her are backed by the enemy Mark Levin on the front line of liberty call in now 877-381-3811 Well, John Fetterman was on Fox News Saturday and he was kind of appalled by AOC as most regular Americans would be. And he said this in response to AOC trashing Israel, of course, because that's all she knows, you know. Cut 13, go. Why is she so eager to criticize and find a way to criticize Israel? But I don't really recall them saying anything as Iran was executing thousands and thousands of their protesters for that. Now, there was never any genocide in Gaza. Absolutely. And there shouldn't ever be any conditions for aid for Israel because they were in an existential war. That's part of the problem with the very anti-Israel part of my party. So call that what it is. Why wouldn't you can't just stand? And why would you align yourself for raging anti-Semitic and very pro-Hamas people like Hassan Piker? And now, why can't you just call it what it is? You know, there's a rot in my party standing with pro-Hamas people like that, whether it's even in the New York Times. They're fascinated with him. So, I mean, where we are and call this is and stand with Israel, that's our special ally. And there was never a genocide. And when there is a genocide where you're executing tens of thousands of people in Iran, why not? And call that out, too. Amen. Amen. Amen. You know, it's amazing. even Hamas I'm sure not intentionally said that 80% of those who the Israelis killed were part of their terrorist militia gang 80% and everybody's been citing that all over the place on talk radio, on TV, on the internet so she didn't miss it she just blows it up so she and Mandami and Talib and Omar and Bernie Sanders and that whole crowd. Well, basically, 90% of elected Democrats are saying things about Israel and genocide that Hamas isn't even saying now. I want you to think about that. And there was no reason for AOC to even bring up Israel and Gaza, but she did. Because she only knows certain slogans and certain trigger phrases. That's it. She's a moron. and he's right and I spent some time with our buddy Josh Hammer on Sunday going over why aren't the Democrats criticizing Iran why aren't they challenging Iran why are they on the sidelines just shooting spitballs at the president in case he takes military action you don't see any outrage there you don't see any outrage by their billionaires who are funding their activists you see nothing in the streets from the Islamists or the Marxists at the universities or colleges you see absolutely nothing because they don't have a problem with it. That's the truth. They don't have a problem with Maduro killing and locking up people or Cuba killing and locking up people. They don't even criticize communist China, which has two and a half, three million Uyghurs effectively in concentration camps that has been murdering the Tibetans and now Christians. You hear nothing from these people. In fact, as Fox News Digital pointed out, and Chairman Jason Smith pointed out in his hearings and so forth, the Democratic Socialists of America organization that is behind Bernie Sanders, that is behind Mondami, that is behind AOC and that whole crowd, which is slowly but surely and not so slowly anymore devouring the Democrat Party leadership and politicians, is linked to communist China and communist Cuba and communist Venezuela. they're getting their talking points from them. They're getting zillions of dollars from billionaires in Europe and, of course, Soros in the United States to push this agenda to break up and break down the United States of America. It's stunning what's taking place in this country. It's horrendous. And she's part of it. So even the questions, look, she's never going to come on this show. Let's be honest. The questions are even kind of, I'm sure the questioner said, should the United States use troops to defend Taiwan? I thought, she probably thought it was a simple question. A simple question. Let's hear somebody who does know what the hell he's talking about. Benjamin Netanyahu. Let's do this. Let us go to one second here. Let's start with Katten, Mr. Producer, Katten Netanyahu at the Jerusalem summit yesterday commenting on some of this. Go. The United States just issued a Security Council memorandum, and it described its vision of regional alliances and anchor countries. And it called Israel, you know, the model ally. The model ally. An ally that obviously believes in democratic principles, but is willing to fight for itself. We don't ask for American boots on the ground. We develop our own arms industry. By the way, that's something I discussed too with President Trump. With deep appreciation for American support given over the years by both parties, both sides of the aisle, for Israel's military assistance. But they are very committed now, like a laser, building their own military industry to support their activities. As a matter of fact, they're now cutting deals with India, with Germany, and supplying them. They have these big contracts now to help supply them with advanced military weaponry and technology. And it's never said enough, and it ought to be. The Israelis take the jets that they purchase from us with our support, and they add cutting-edge technology to them. They improve the jets, the F-35 as an example. They just got a contract from manufacturers here in the United States for the upgrade in the technological cutting-edge advantages that they bring to these machines. And they're getting like the F-35, then they're upgrading it, adding the technology and selling that information or giving it back to the United States. Same with these missile defense systems. I know the president has said he's tired of the Israelis taking credit, the Israelis built it. Because the Democrats in our Congress kept blocking Reagan, shutting down the government. Reagan shut it down too because he insisted he wanted money for the Strategic Defense Initiative. The Democrats in their media called it Star Wars, kept blocking them. Well, the Israelis signed a memorandum understanding to go ahead and develop the technologies for this, and they built the Iron Dome. And remember, this is a nation of 9 million people. maybe 8 million but maybe 9 that's it that's it and by the way their GDP I think is bigger than every single Arab country I believe that's true even though there's hundreds and hundreds of millions of them so that Netanyahu point there now what about what about these negotiations with Iran And ladies and gentlemen I made my view clear I made it clear Saturday night. I made it clear Sunday night for the entire program and my monologue. I've made it clear here scores of times. And I suspect very strongly there won't be any diplomatic agreement or negotiated agreement. we're going to act and take them out. I don't think we have any choice and I suspect and I believe the president knows that. Let's go to cut eight. Go. I will not hide from you that I express my skepticism of any deal with Iran because frankly Iran is reliable on one thing. They lie. And they cheat. But I said that And if a deal is to be reached, it should have several components that we believe are important not only for the security of Israel, but for the security of the world, the United States, the region, the world. The first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran. The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability, not stopping the enrichment process, but dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure that allows you to enrich in the first place. And the third is to deal also with the questions of ballistic missiles. There's an empty CER limitation of 300 kilometers, and Iran is supposed to adhere to it. Of course it doesn't. As the Rising Line operation by itself manifested, everybody knows that. And the fourth is stop the, dismantle the axis of terror that Iran has built. And Iran won't do one of those things. It won't even do one of those things in part. and it's just not going to and even if it did it's not going to honor it I've spent a lot of time here here first on radio going over all these deals with North Korea all these resolutions with the UN all these all these activities involving North Korea and the EU and us all the subsidies we gave them billions of dollars we even denuclearized South Korea They're still denuclearized because North Korea promised it would not build nukes. So they built nukes, and now they have nukes, and South Korea does not. And we can't do that again. And Iran's never been weaker than it is now. That's not to say this would be easy. Nothing's easy. 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Now broadcasting from the underground command post, deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Here are number 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811. DanielGreenfield.org. Virginia begins criminalizing opposition to Islam. There is a big and growing pocket of Islamists in Northern Virginia. And they have a lot of sway. within the last 10 years. And because every one of these counties in Northern Virginia is controlled by the Democrats and left-wing Democrats, they work closely with the Islamists on zoning, on school lessons, on hiring and firing. We've seen this throughout Europe with the left. And of course we saw in Iran when the left worked with Khomeini, he took over the country and then he slaughtered them. The left is quite stupid. Senator Saddam claims that Virginia is in the middle of an Islamophobia crisis. The second Muslim selected for the state Senate, Iftigazala Hashmi, who is now acting as Virginia's lieutenant governor, the Bangladeshi immigrant from a country where non-Muslims are being murdered in the streets, has made complaining about Islamophobia in his new home his signature issue. Senator Saddam Azim Salim His first priority has been a bill to define Islamophobia The most notable thing about his bill, SB 624 Quote, assault and battery, definition of Islamophobia, unquote The penalty is now completely unnecessary Virginia already has multiple layers of hate crime enhancements For assaults motivated by race, ethnicity, and religion During Governor Glenn Youngkin's term, the legislature has already passed SB 7, that's Senate Bill 7, and its counterpart, enhancing the assault charge for anyone who intentionally selects the person against whom a simple assault is committed because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or ethnic or national origin. Does that include everybody, including Caucasians, Mr. President? I don't know. People of uncolor? That should cover Islam and Muslims, he writes. And yet, Senator Saddam introduced a three-page bill with ten clauses. The first section, a whole lot of whom do nothing more than add, including Islam, where it is remotely needed or useful. For example, quote, because of his race, religious conviction, including Islam, I'm quoting from it, gender, disability, gender identity are because of his race. So he keeps putting in Islam, Islam, Islam throughout. Why provide Islam with this privileged status? Doesn't say anything about Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus and so forth. because it makes Islam distinct, which is a step toward making it superior. And making Islam distinct and superior is the religious mission of believing Muslims, he writes. This isn't about making sure that attacks on Muslims are prosecuted, but about providing Islam with special privileges. And it's about using supposed crimes against Muslims as bait for Islamophobia indoctrination. the Islamophobia switch in SB 624 comes after the debate about assaults first the bill sets out a definition of Islamophobia which transforms a term created by Islamists seeking to impose their religion on society into an official legal term remember Christopher Hitchens warned us about this he said about 15 years ago actually more like 18 years ago, they've invented this word Islamophobia. It's not a real word, but they've invented it. And now, Daniel Greenfield's pointing out, now they're legalizing it and using it as a club. Notably, the definition in SB 624 in Virginia states that Islamophobia means malicious prejudice or a hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims, unquote. The distinction is legally significant as prejudice, quote-unquote towards Islam is distinct from prejudice towards Muslims. For example, in the UK, burning a Koran has been prosecuted as a form of hate towards Islam, and that opens the door to blasphemy laws. Anybody with the First Amendment? No, not now. Well, these are all recent immigrants into this country now, playing the system. You understand? having malicious prejudice towards Muslims, he writes, is perfectly sufficient in prosecuting an assault or a case of discrimination. Islam, however, is a religion, and just like any religion or any other belief system, people have the right to be opposed to it as long as they don't mistreat others. The use of Islam or Muslims, quote-unquote, embeds the first stage of blasphemy law inside Virginia law. But that's the whole reason why Islamophobia, so-called, was manufactured as a political term. Unlike racism or anti-Semitism, it's not hatred towards a group, but towards an ideological abstraction. Islamophobia legislation isn't protecting persecuted individuals, but the status of an ideology. and those forms of protection invariably turn out to ban blasphemy against Islam for censoring cartoons, art, at least one of the professors who was fired from showing paintings of Muhammad in a class, and any public criticism of the Islamic persecution of women, minorities, and all non-Muslims. The point he makes is a brilliant one here. this is a legal sanction for speaking against an ideology for speaking against an ideology SB 624 claims it's not trying to regulate or restrict any speech expression or belief but by including a definition of Islamophobia that mentions Islam and puts it first it's laying the groundwork for doing exactly that and his other point is important too which is Islam gets a higher status than every other religion or race or whatever compare this to HB 2261 under Yunkin which Islamist and leftist groups urgently opposed which defined anti-Semitism and which does not mention Judaism but rather define it as a hatred toward Jews and includes rhetorical and physical manifestations of hostility or hatred that may be directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property, the Jewish community or Jewish institutions and religious facilities. In all of these cases, anti-Semitism involved hatred against Jewish people or against Jewish synagogues or other facilities, not Judaism as a belief system. Why doesn't Senator Saddam's Islamophobia bill use that as a model? Because it's not about protecting Muslims from violence, but about imposing Islam as a legal concept on Virginia. And I assure you he got help with the legal team over at CARE, but if not at CARE, one of these other radical Islamist groups. Because the object of SB 624 and every effort to define Islamophobia isn't Muslims. It's Islam. The pretense that Muslims are facing violence and need a new bill to protect them falls apart because the very definition is aimed at protecting Islam, the religion, not Muslims as individuals. Virginia's extensive hate crime codes already amply protect Muslims from anything and everything. The only gap, so-called, from the Islamist perspective, is the status of Islam. The Islamophobia definition of SB 624 gives a distinct and special status to Islam It defines Islam as an entity that must be protected by the government And the law enforcement agencies whom the bill obligates to use this definition of Islamophobia When prosecuting hate crimes And that paves the way for criminalizing Quran defacement and Mohammed paintings It's telling that Virginia's highest profile Islamophobia case was a lie. And it happened in Fairfax County, which is represented by Senator Saddam Adan Salim, the author of that bill. Darwin Martiz Torres, an illegal alien MS-13 gang member, killed Nabra Hassan, a Muslim teenage girl. and rather than blaming Fairfax sanctuary policies that enabled Torres to be there roaming the streets, Islamist groups and their radical allies falsely blamed Islamophobia and intimidated local authorities, including prosecutors, into propping up their hoax, he writes. Police initially correctly stated it was a road rage killing before being forced to spread the lie that it had been motivated by Islam. The evidence that it was a hate crime? Well, in the words of the Washington Post reporter, hitting a 17-year-old girl with a bat and dumping her body in a pond would be an act born of hate, perhaps, but not of Muslims or of Islam. Nebra Hassanin's murder was used to promote the myth that there was an Islamophobia crisis in Virginia, in SB 624 is the next stage in which Islamists profit by creating a distinct legal status for Islam. That is how one lie about Islamophobia becomes a state law. This is a real connivance here. It's one thing to get in the face of somebody and start trashing them because of their faith or hitting them or doing worse. It's another thing to raise questions about a particular faith. That can't be criminalized, yet in Virginia it's going to be criminalized. Look what's happened to Virginia. Look what's happened to Virginia since the swearing in of all the Democrats in the Assembly, in the Senate, in the Governor's mansion. Look what's happened to Virginia. It took no time at all. They're destroying it. At breakneck speed, Virginia I think has five or maybe six Republican congressmen. They're going to have one. One out of 11. In a state that voted 47% for Donald Trump. One. Hakeem Jeffries is demanding that the Senate leader in Maryland eliminate the one Republican seat Maryland has. Eliminate it so there's no Republican representation. as in Massachusetts. That's why I said he's the George Wallace of our time. He doesn't believe in one man, one vote, one woman, one vote. And at the same time, of course, illegal aliens, they want to protect them. He even said the other day, and I brought it to your attention here, that there needs to be a pathway for citizenship for these people. So they're going to destroy our electoral system. They're going to destroy our legal system. They're going to empower themselves, the Democrat Party. And you're not going to recognize this country. A country of civil liberties, a country of diversity, a country of tolerance. You're not going to recognize this country. And it's not going to take 25, 30, 50 years. It's going to happen during the lifetime of your children and your grandchildren. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? President's Day. Because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln to be exact. For $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk, text, plenty of data. Now compare that to Big Wireless. They'd rather celebrate Benjamin Franklin Day so they can charge your family hundreds every month. And he wasn't even a president. That's not right. You deserve better. Pure Talk is an American wireless company that supports our veterans and invests in a U.S.-only customer service team. 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They would never allow a Jew to serve in any office, appointed or elected. And the only Christian they allow is the mayor they appointed to Bethlehem, who our dear friend, the former ambassador to Israel, David Freeman points out as nothing but a stooge for the Palestinians. So there's that. And yet we have people come to this country, Islamists, who want to rewrite the hate crime statute in, among other places, Virginia, to make it a hate crime to effectively criticize Islam. talk about Islamophobia. They don't talk about Jewophobia or Christianophobia, of which there's a ton. Where exactly is this widespread violence against Muslims in the West? Where is this? The widespread violence against Muslims is in Muslim-majority countries by Islamists who brutalized them in Syria, in Yemen, in Iran, in Jordan, in Egypt. I'm sure I left out about 12 countries. So I watch this as these ideologues come into our country, seek to use our freedoms, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our electoral process, to impose their tyranny. And the Democrats are perfectly happy with this, as long as these people are voting Democrat. And so as long as they vote Democrat, like in 10 of the top cities in England, like throughout France and so forth, throughout Western Europe, sure. But then there's a little bit of a problem when the Islamists turn on the left. But in our country the Islamists are not going to turn on the left because they haven gotten far enough yet There will be a point at which they do Because the Islamists do not believe in gay marriage The Islamists do not believe in LGBTQ anything The Islamists do not believe in free speech and freedom of association. The Islamists. The Islamists do not believe that there should be a diversity of viewpoints. One viewpoint. They can't always agree on that. And the Islamists don't believe that the West should exist. They don't believe the United States should exist. They don't hide it. Now, some of their politicians do behind Islamophobia. But it's amazing to hear this. You want to know where Islamophobia is? It's in Qatar. It's in Saudi Arabia. It's in Syria. It's in Yemen. That's where Islamophobia is. Notice they don't call it Muslimphobia. Do you notice that, Mr. Producer? Islamophobia. Because we're talking about the worst of the worst. The jihadis. The Islamists. Islamophobia? It's not a phobia. It's a reality. You could go to these countries, probably wouldn't live, but you can go to these countries and actually interview Muslims on the street and they're going to tell you how they detest these Islamists. I'll be right back. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? President's Day. because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln, to be exact. 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Is it February 16th? it's been 10 months since I decided to take after Katarlson Third Reich Bannon a few months later after Megyn Kelly what's the other guy's name Prosbiak or something or other I don't remember Prosbiak Fuentes and you were with me every step of the way and it was very lonely, wasn't it America? I'd get these phone calls from people you know and I won't humiliate them. Keep it up Mark, you're doing a great job. And my wife would get very angry. She said, well what are they doing? They're doing nothing. And all over the internet and I spent a little time there having fun but it is a cesspool. they thank each other Mr. Perdue for what they've done in the last three or five months have you noticed that? I want to thank so and so the true voice of this oh he had Bannon well that's fantastic the true voices of conservatism where were they? that's why we do things differently here that's why this radio audience, you are massive, you're loyal you're red-blooded Americans just like me, I'm the same as you Bannon's really taking it now because the Epstein files which he said he wanted released, which his supporters said they wanted released have been released, and his DNA is all over that damn thing he was a kiss-ass to Epstein He was conspiring with Epstein to take out the president's family, Ivanka and Jared. A big leaker, apparently. Ehud Barak, who apparently they worked with, who is a radical leftist, a failed prime minister who has spent years trying to destroy Netanyahu. And will do anything to get rid of Netanyahu. And he comes off as a complete sleazeball in there. and Epstein and Bannon are supporting the guy. This is why Bannon, day after day, night after night, was trashing Netanyahu. This is why Bannon flipped from being a Christian Zionist to being, in my view, an Israel hater and an anti-Semite in many respects, if not all respects, in my opinion. But listen to the guy. I think Katar is the big reason why Katarlson is Katarlson. These are very sick and evil individuals. Candace Owens is a mentally unhinged buffoon. I barely talk about her because I figure why? She's destroyed herself. I don't care what kind of following she has. She has a legacy her children will have to live with. This guy Fuentes, he doesn't know who he hates and who he loves. It just depends on the day. Why? Because he's another mentally ill mental midget. So he doesn't know whether he should put on his brown shirt or his white robe but what the hell he's supposed to do? Of course, Fuentes is very embarrassed by his heritage, which includes being Mexican, claims to be Italian. Did you know that, Mr. Producer? Oh, yes. Much like the idiots in the street a couple years back outside of Colombia were busy waving the Italian flag when they meant to be waving the Palestinian flag, such as it is. This is what we're dealing with. All these people have at root, an IQ of a cucumber. They're all failed drama queens and drama kings. They've all failed at real media. At real media. Some have been fired. Some have had to quit. Some have been forced out. And they have determined that the best way to get rich and infamous, I guess, is to be as racist and bigoted and anti-Semitic and anti-Christian, as foul-mouthed as possible. Because there's a certain percentage of the audience who wants to listen, particularly overseas. They have a big overseas phone. So we were duking it out here alone for a very long period of time. and now we have a lot of people who are duking it out with these reprobates, and that is a damn good thing. And I urged that, and I encouraged that. I just wanted people to show, rather to show people, who have a microphone or a camera or both, you can do this and you'll survive to the next day, so do it. I just posted the speech I gave at the Republican Jewish Coalition. Take a listen to that. Before that, I gave a speech to Christians United for Israel, another fantastic group. Take a listen to that, if you care. I'm just explaining. And in each one of those cases, I said, speak out, stand up, particularly if a microphone and a camera, what are you waiting for? Because these people are destroying the Republican Party. They're destroying, or trying to, the President and MAGA. They have their own agenda. They have massive narcissistic egos. They don't have any principles whatsoever. Think about these people. From Katarlson to Fuentes to Owens and on and on. Along the list with Bannon. They have no principles. But they're slick talkers. They all talk fairly quickly. Slick talkers. That they know how to do. Because that's what they were trained to do. Bannon was in Hollywood for years Katarlison has been in the talk business period, nothing else, he's never done anything else Fuentes is still pre-bubescent but that's pretty much all he does Kelly's been bouncing around and broadcasting for a whole career except I think she was a lawyer for about five minutes I don't know, I don't care but you can't point to anything these people have done that is profound or lasting in a substantive way. Nothing. Zero. Zero. And so the Epstein papers, I've said, you know, they're just trying to get Trump with this thing. There's nothing in there on Trump. And there's nothing in there on Trump, except in the last group of papers that were released, he contacted the Palm Beach County sheriff and said, you've got a problem with this guy Epstein. And he said, we're looking into him. And Trump basically said, good, something needs to be done about him. Wow, that's pretty compelling, I would say, wouldn't you, Mr. Producer? But there's nothing in there about him in any sinister way, none. That's why the Biden regime never released this stuff. Then you have Massey in this idiot row, what's his last name again? Kana. Roe, con man, and Messi. This guy goes to the floor, this con, and I think Messi did too, but it starts reading names of individuals, four of them in particular, who never did anything wrong. They were actually working for the prosecution. I think they were part of a lineup. You know how you get these guys in a lineup who haven't done anything wrong, but they look a certain way, so they want to, they said, well, you watch TV enough, you've seen that. So these poor guys who did nothing, this Roy Conner goes to the floor of the House where he's protected under the speech and debate clause and starts reading their names out. One of them gets fired. And this is why you need to understand from a legal perspective, this is why you just don't start releasing people's names, even though the politicians want it released, because they're trying to get people and they're trying to get Trump. But this is why names are redacted and so forth. So finally, justice said, okay, here you go. Now, to me, Roe Conner and Massey should be expelled for what they did. You believe in civil liberties? You believe in due process? This is basic stuff. They won't be expelled because there won't be enough votes, but they should be expelled. This is why Tlaib should be expelled, not because of this per se, but because of her association with terrorist front groups, which has now been reported. She should be expelled, but she won't be because the Democrat Party, the whole damn thing, is now associated with various terrorist front groups, care and so forth, with Hamas. So we do have an enemy within, And we do have a Democrat party that is really an alien entity within our Republican system. Small r Republican system. And now they want to destroy the way we vote. They want to make sure illegal aliens are counted for the purpose of empowering them, the Democrats. That's why the border was open and that's why they would keep it open. Look, if they win, they're going to keep the border open and they're not going to deport anybody. It's over. and if they get the court to do what they want the court to do which is to say there's some constitutional right to birthright citizenship that is a as close to an arrow to the heart of the republic as you can get it's very very damning and dangerous so Bannon is now persona non grata among a lot of people who took him seriously. The war room. I told you, it's the fraud room. How do you take a guy seriously? He was arrested by the feds when he was on a boat with a communist Chinese guy. He gets a pardon for any federal offenses related to this scheme where he was ripping off people for, I'm going to build a southern wall. Trump won't go up, but I'll raise enough money. So maybe some of you got ripped off because the audience was who he sought to rip off. But the state prosecution, he agreed to plead guilty because he didn't want to do any more prison time. He pled guilty. He didn't have to. He did. And people still watched him and quoted him. Now he's all over the Epstein files. He was giving advice to Epstein even when he knew Epstein was a complete sleazeball. and then when you read some of this stuff he was like a yes man for Epstein and he was thrilled when a federal judge threw some case out involving a poor young woman victory you know Bannon there's a reason he doesn't work at the White House anymore folks seriously and he never should be anywhere close to it and I don't know why any of you are listening to him or following. You know, I love this line, we shouldn't de-platform people. My view is they de-platform themselves. We're the market. We just want nothing to do with them. It's like Katarlson. You know, oh, you must be Israel first. Let me say this. At least Israel's an ally. They're a democracy. We support each other. Qatar was involved in 9-11. Saudi Arabia was involved in 9-11. They're destroying our school system, K-12. They're destroying our colleges and universities. They're pushing the Islamist radicalism onto our country. Which side would you take, America? Or is this show flying by? We'll be right back. Mark Lovin. You know what Pure Talk's favorite holiday is? President's Day. Because they believe wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents. Just a Jackson and a Lincoln to be exact. For $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk, text, plenty of data. Now compare that to Big Wireless. 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We have Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on in about 15 minutes. I'd like to discuss with him, what is it called, Rich, the Religious Liberty Council, I think, the President's? this Carrie Parisian Buller who had to leave and she should have left she shouldn't be on the Religious Liberty Council she should be on the the Palestinian Council I think don't you Mr. Producer we know how they treat women and Christians particularly Catholics I'm sure she'd be very welcome on that no she wouldn't obviously and really Dan Patrick has conducted himself with a lot of class. I don't believe, have we ever spoken to Dan Patrick? Maybe once? 20-some years? I've always admired this guy. He's a man of deep Christian faith. He's a solid conservative. I've always been impressed with him whenever I see him or read about him and so forth. That's why, again, I don't know him. Certainly not well. I think he owns a radio station or two, doesn't he? Or he did. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But I believe so. Let's see here. You know what, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to play Chuck Schumer. He's such a jackass. He's such a snake. There's no evidence of voter fraud. ICE can't go to bowling places. No more secret police. This is a sick man. You know, I got to play Gavin Newsom. The president put up a nice post, a good post. He says, you know, these three, AOC, Newsom, and Hillary Clinton going overseas, trashing the country. I just posted on this myself. This guy Newsom is actually a very, very stupid man. But he is sinister. And he's a snake oil salesman. and everybody's picked up on the fact that his hands never stop moving. Remember we used to talk about that, Mr. Producer? It's with his hands. He keeps moving and moving and moving. What's with this guy? Here he is, cut four, go. Oh, by the way, before we go, at the Munich Security Conference, last time I checked, that's in Germany. Cut four, go. But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. All those images of masked men, remind them of secret police. You mean during the pandemic? Oh, yeah, all the men in the country had to wear a mask. Remember that, Mr. Producer? Masked men. You got to wear masks. And, of course, we learned later they were irrelevant. It didn't matter. You got to wear a mask. Mask, mask, mask. Mask industry, mostly Chinese, made a fortune. now they're against masks when it protects law enforcement officers from being identified having their spouses identified having their children harassed and identified now they're against masks because it reminds them of the SS so when we were forced to wear them it didn't remind them of the SS but now when law enforcement wears it to protect themselves It's the asset. May I ask a question? Why do people need to see their faces if they're illegal immigrants and they're bringing them? What is that all about? Why is that important? Because they come up with these symbolic issues and these propaganda slogans, and they just beat them to death. Anyway, start at the top. Here's Newscom at the Munich Security Council. Hey, California, everything going okay? Newskam seems to be spending a lot of time overseas. Hey, Palisades, how you doing there? You getting the buildings back up, the houses? The water coming through the pipe system? The hydrants getting any water? How's it going out there, everybody? Go ahead. But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Can I stop? I don't remember masked men in Germany. I remember the Nazis, including their SS, they weren't masked. Were they, Rich? They were open. They were notorious. They were doing it. They were proud of it. They were psychopaths. I don't remember the masked Nazis in Germany. I don't remember the images of masked Nazis in Germany. I remember the images of Nazis in Germany with their faces shown in Germany. So what the hell is he even talking about? Let's do it again at the top. Cut four. Go. But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state, the second largest city in the United States of America. We saw 4,000 National Guard federalized. First time. We've never seen anything like this. Hold on. Yes, we have, you dumbass. And in California, too. The Rodney King situation. Maybe there were 2,000, 3,000. I mean, in fact, I remember Reagan calling in the regular Marines, not just the National Guard. Or the regular Marines. I should say were called in to help. The Insurrection Act has been used 2,000 times or more by both presidents of both parties. The guy makes statements that are just outrageous. Go ahead. Duty Marines sent not overseas but to the second largest city in the United States of America militarizing the streets of my city. Masked men. Listen to this psychopath. Listen to these Democrats who hype up their base, which is illegal aliens, Marxists, and Islamists, and criminals. That's their base. That's their base. Not you, Mr. and Mrs. America. The thugs, the criminals, the illegal aliens. There would be thugs and criminals. The Islamists, that's their base. They got them all worked up. They urge them to go into the fight, to be violent, to obstruct, to intervene. And then when you call in law and order, you call in the police or you call in the National Guard. They're the thugs. They're the Nazis. It reminds me of those black and white pictures. Germany, you should be familiar with that. How sick is this? Trashing our country, trashing our law enforcement personnel on foreign soil. This guy has no business even thinking about being president He horrendous He had some of the strictest mask rules in the country in California Do you remember Germany back then, Nuskom? When people lost their civil liberties? When they were ordered not to leave their homes? When they were told they'd be arrested if they went out in the public? Remember that? Remember that, Nuskom? You dumb bastard. That's right. I said it. Go ahead. Ask men showing up unaccountable. No idea. Unaccountable. Unaccountable. Of course they're accountable. Cut five. Go. 27% of the state is foreign-born, which is an important point. We practice pluralism. You don't practice pluralism, you creep. They practice pluralism. No. The Democrat Party practices power-grabbing. That's it, power-grabbing. It's not pluralism. Pluralism is an organized, managed, lawful. immigration system. Pluralism isn't illegal immigrants up the wazoo paid for by the taxpayers of California. Go ahead. Might be even banned one day in the United States, but not currently. We're a universal state. My state of mind is in that construct. I come from San Francisco. Oh my God, what a blithering idiot. he would do well on the far left in Europe, actually. He would. The far left in Europe. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. It's a pleasure to have Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick with us. How are you, sir? Mark, I'm great. Great to be with you tonight. We have big time coming up here in Texas. Primary opens up tomorrow night, early voting. A lot of big races in Texas that will impact particularly the U.S. Senate race in America. Hold on. I didn't know. That's tomorrow night. Tell the American people who's running. Yeah, so early vote. We have two weeks of early voting in Texas. The election is two weeks from tomorrow night, so early vote starts tomorrow. We've got Ken Paxton running against John Cornyn, and Wesley Hunt is also in that race. So it's tight right now. Paxton's ahead by several points. Cornyn's in second, and Wesley's in third, looking at all the polls. But that will be a big race. That will be a big race to keep the Senate in November. Let me ask you something while I have you here. A lot of talk on this program and elsewhere about these Islamist communities that are starting to get established in Texas. What's that all about? So, as a matter of fact, we have what are known interim charges. You know, Texas is a little bit different. we meet every other year. And considering we're almost the seventh largest economy in the world and we all make $600 a month to work part-time, you're kind of government. We show up every other year. But in the even years, we'll go back January of next year, we have interim hearings. So the first interim hearing I put at the top of the list of about 90 that we'll have is on the, we call it Epic City, and all these Islamic neighborhoods and Sharia law, because we really need to dig into it. Look, we had this situation, Mark. You may remember something called Colony Ridge a few years ago. In fact, that was just settled in court, and that was another huge development of basically illegal immigrants that started with like a few hundred people in 2013 and was growing to over 100,000. And so we're going to have our hearings. We'll investigate it. We'll see what the facts are, and we'll go from there. But we're not going to have Islamic Sharia law in the state of Texas. It's not going to happen. Good, because, you know, my residence is in Florida, but we spend time in Virginia, too, and Virginia's going to hell in about three weeks here. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Have you seen this? Yes. Yes, I have. It's crazy. And I just fear the Democrat Party, once they get power, man, they don't intend to let go. and you see it in all these states you got hakeem jeffries now he's threatening maryland they want to get rid of the one republican seat they have no republican seats none in massachusetts illinois is a joke california is a joke whatever happened to one man or one woman at one vote so republicans are going to vote they have nobody to vote for yeah you know mark it's interesting because this we passed you know five additional seats in redistricting last session uh we were there in extra sessions last summer when we did it. And so we kicked it out of the Senate, and the House passed it, and we moved forward. But I think what was shocking to America is all the Democrats were complaining about we wanted to redistrict. And one of the reasons, we're just a fast-growing state. We had 18 million people in 2000. We've got over 31 million now. We're scheduled to go to 45 million in another 15, 20 years. But when we redistrict and the Democrats started complaining, then then you looked at Illinois 14 to three. You looked at, I think, Massachusetts with one. And now you look looking at this has none, has none. So it's it's amazing where we have Republicans in all these states and they have no one to vote for. And the Democrats, you know, we expose them. But but it doesn't stop them. Like you're saying, they're pushing the envelope, and that's what happens when you have a corrupt mainstream media that doesn't tell the people the truth, what's going on. Let's talk about this controversy that was resolved fairly quickly, I thought. You are chairman of, it's called the Religious Liberty Council, is that correct? Yeah, the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission, correct. And what's the, I mean, other than the obvious title, what is the mandate? so mark this is interesting i wouldn't tell the story except the president told the story so um after the election in november when he won uh i got a phone call by accident it was kind of an accidental call and the president and i were on the phone and and we were talking and i've chaired his campaign here for for three times in texas which is an easy job by the way if he lost texas i'd have to leave the country you know so it's like the maytag man you know if anyone remembers the bank tag, man, had nothing to do. So, and so I brought up. By the way, you're self-deprecating, but you did a good job. Go ahead. Well, thank you. So anyway, I talked to him that, you know, the Biden administration, they didn't only go after people of faith, they punished them. They punished them. And I said, you know, Mr. President, let's do a committee on religious liberty because Americans don't know where to pray, when to pray. And it's an all faith community. And so, I mean, committee and, you know, in terms of the issues, it's not just about Christians. And I have an outstanding committee. There are 13 of us. They're now 12. But Cardinal Dolan, Reverend Graham, Rabbi Slovichik, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Phil. And so we bring in, we focused on K through 12. We focused on higher ed. We focused on the military. and this hearing that we had last Monday, I wanted to do a hearing on anti-Semitism that is happening all over the world, but in this country that I think shocked a lot of people, what happened on the college campuses and elsewhere. And the next hearing in March is on health care. So we're looking at this. And Mark, the testimony has been just, it's mind-numbing. You think this can't happen in America, what's happening to people. for their faith. And so we're going to issue a report because it's a presidential commission. It doesn't go to Congress, goes right to him with suggestions for executive orders, legislation, et cetera. So in every one of these hearings, Mark, we bring in people. This is not supposed to be a controversial issue. We bring in people. We bring in our witnesses. Most of the witnesses are from cases that are either in the court or one in the Supreme Court, and we have them tell their stories and and we're you know we we ask them questions this is not like like we had a navy seal that after 19 years of service was thrown out of the service because he wouldn't take the vaccination for religious reasons and he lost everything but we didn't ask him well well do you think maybe the navy was right i mean it's not a contentious hearing it's tell the story and then we'll issue the report and we'll look what we need to to do to to continue this great inheritance we got from our founding fathers and on the First Amendment and the first freedom. And so in this hearing, it was teed up to go on anti-Semitism. It's been on the schedule. And and one of our one of our members decided to make it about Israel and Gaza. And it was totally inappropriate. She didn't listen to. And we had incredible testimony from Bruce Pearl, the former Auburn basketball coach, from Seth Dillon, the CEO of Babylon B, and just regular folks who are Jewish who had their rights taken away. Heartbreaking, Mark. Our first witness was a UCLA student who had to show a card to be able to get around campus, and he brought, Mark, he brought his grandfather's Nazi card because his grandfather was in one of the prison camps and had changed his name. So anyway, he stayed alive. And he had this little card and he said, you know, I never thought 80 years later what my grandfather went through. And here I am at UCLA and I have to carry a card around. I mean, it was just these things are heartbreaking. And people are punishing people in this country, whether they're Jewish, Christian. We've had different faiths before the committee. But Kerry Bowler. Hold on, Governor, don't stop. We have a break. I want to continue this. I don't want to stop it here abruptly so we can get into this more deeply after the bottom of the hour here. We're here with the great lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick. We're going to get into this issue that was a controversy, but it was put to bed quite quickly. We'll be right back. Mark Levin, the thunder on the right. Call in now, 877-381-3811. We're here with Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick. So, Governor Carey, I don't know if I'm pronouncing this, Prejian Buller, is that the name? Yes, correct, correct. So what happened? You're there, did you know her, and it kind of blows up? So, I didn't know her before she joined the committee last June, and I knew by some text or tweets, rather, that she had put out, that she may have been going down this direction. And so I tried to meet with her along with Ben Carson and Paula White, who's on our committee. And she didn't want to meet. And I'm only sharing this because, once again, this is public. Eric Metaxas, a great writer, came in the meeting. She invited him in the meeting. And if you read his tweet, he says it was so combative. and you know we were paula and ben and i were being you know very polite very respectful we just said what's your plan for the day and um so she was just um she was her motor was revved up to go so i kind of expected what was going to happen um and so we went out in the committee we had a few witnesses and and and she hit her mic to talk and when she did she didn't pay any attention to what their stories were she didn't ask any questions about that her questions about were questions about, well, the Catholics, she's converted to Catholicism, and they don't support Israel, and trying to conflate Zionism with, you know, being anti-Semitic, and just went after our witnesses. And at one point, I had to gavel her down to stop her. And she was sitting to my right, so I could see her phone. She was getting questions from the audience. I could see the questions coming in, someone in the audience. And she put a panel. Hold on a second. Somebody was planning questions? Yeah, someone was giving her questions, planning her questions and telling her what to say. And she kept going back to the Jews killed Jesus, the Jews killed Jesus. And at one point, Franklin Graham, who doesn't say a lot, but he says a lot with a few words, he just leaned forward. He said, no one killed Jesus. Jesus is alive and the tomb is empty. And then a priest that was one of the witnesses on behalf of the anti-Semitic issues that we're dealing with, he spoke up and said, look, we're all guilty. We're all guilty of killing Jesus. We're all guilty. That's why he died for all of us. But she kept coming back to that theme, kept coming back to that theme. And then she really got in a row with Seth Dillon, CEO of Babylon Bee. And she started talking about Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. And it just went south. Good Lord. And she hijacked the committee. That's not what it was for. And so after after the hearing, after it was over, I just made the decision that she had to be removed and she was removed. But, Mark, we have a you know this. I am preaching to the choir here. You know this. We have a real problem with a very small group in our Republican Party and the anti-Semitic group. And as and as I've been now, I was a senator for eight years, lieutenant governor for for going on 16 years when this this time or 12 years when this is over. And I'm running again. So I'll have another four years here. But I'm not going to put up with this. This is going to destroy our party. You know, in both books of the Bible, in Genesis 50, Joseph talked about, you know, what his brothers meant for evil, God made for good. And then it's in Romans 8, 28. And then if you go back to the Bible, a house divided against itself cannot stand. Well, Sam Houston said that. And Abe Lincoln said that. And right now, our Republican Party, if we don't come out and fight this scourge of anti-Semitic attitudes by a small group in our party, we will fall and the nation will fall. And I'm willing to be in the fight all the way. You know, Mark, it's interesting. And again, going back to Genesis or Romans about what some people mean for evil turns out for good, is that Kerry, in essence, brought this to the forefront. Because of her behavior and her combativeness and her disrespect of the witnesses, we really dug into the issue more. And now it's become a big issue, and people are really looking at it. And if people go to YouTube or the justice.gov website and watch this, they'll see it. We had a great discussion on this issue. And, Mark, we cannot have this on our planet. We cannot have this in our country. And we dang sure can't have it in our party. And I'm not going to put up with it. First of all, I want to thank you. You have millions of listeners here who agree with you. It's number one. Number two, are you running against anybody in the primary? I have three opponents in the primary. And we always take everyone serious. They're not major challengers. We'll have a battle on Texas. In November, we're still a republic state, but the winds are shifting. We lost a state Senate seat that Trump carried by 17 points in a special election. And so the Democrats will say, see, we can win this. They'll pour money into, you know, if it's Jasmine Crockett who wins their primary, that's going to be one heck of a race on our side. But we, you know, Mark, this is, things happen. And this happened for a reason. And she's now dismissed. And by the way, I want to say something when she said my Catholic faith. She just converted to Catholicism. She said that in the meeting. But her Catholicism is with a group called Catholics for Catholics. And get this, Mark. On Saturday, Catholics for Catholics announced they're giving her the Courageous Champion Award. Great. But I found out because Ryan Anderson, who's on our committee who's Catholic, and the priest who was there. Cardinal Dolan wasn't there that particular day. But they refuted everything she said. But Catholics for Catholics is not recognized by the church. It's not recognized by the bishops. It's just a it's a fringe group. It's Candace Owens. It's, you know, other people who are in this little cabal with all these conspiracy theories and and this and this attack on the Jews. And I'm going to call them out. It's about time they're called out because in my heart, I know that's not where America is. In my heart, I know that's not where our party is. And I heart my heart. You know, my wife's Catholic. I'm Baptist. You know, we raised our kids back like they're very confused. But but in my heart, I know where America is. And we stand with Israel and we stand with it. And we stand with the Jewish people in this country. And I stand with you. Not that it'll matter. I'm going to endorse you for lieutenant governor. I think you're fantastic. I've been watching you. I've talked to Mr. Producer about you. You're just a great lieutenant governor. That's a great honor. And you come on here whenever you want, Governor. Well, any time I'm happy to. You know, the lieutenant governor in Texas is different. Most lieutenant governors are like vice presidents, but in Texas, our founders didn't like the carpetbagging governors the north sent down. So the governor and Governor Abbott is still very powerful. But as lieutenant governor, I get to appoint all the committee chairs, all the committee members, write the budget, which is $170 billion a year, pretty big, with my team, and then also decide which bills come to the floor. So the lieutenant governor in Texas is like a majority leader. So I love what I do. I'm passionate about what I do. I have a great staff. I have great senators, work well with the governor, and we have a new speaker that we work well with. So, look, we know in Texas we have to lead. We cannot lose Texas or we'll never elect another Republican to the White House because of the electoral vote count. And as we like to say in our speeches, Texas is America where all America used to be. And we have to get it right in Texas because there's not another Texas to move to. No, no, there's not. And there's a reason why people want to go to Texas and a few other states, and that's about it. Listen, you're terrific, and I want to thank you for coming on the program. And if people want to help you, where do they go? danpatrick.org then go to danpatrick.org prayers prayers are needed courage is needed and uh and funds are always needed but um uh you know we'll uh we'll have a pretty big race come november it's gonna it's gonna be a battle here we'll win it but we're gonna have to fight for it we can't take it for granted and mark i'm a i'm a big fan of yours i'm a very very big fan of yours seldom to miss the show, and thank you for always telling the truth and not leaving anything in doubt of where you are. Well, you're very kind. Thank you. Well, thank you, sir. All right, and God bless you, and we endorse Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor. Not that he needs it, but why not? He ought to be reelected. God bless you, sir. I need everybody in the Army. I need everybody in the Army. There you go. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. All right, you be well. You too. Man, I tell you what, he's just fantastic. I'm a big Abbott fan too. And that's why people move to these states. The problem is this effort by the Islamists and others. It's got to be opposed. It's got to be fought. I'll be right back. Mark Levin. All right, let's get a few calls in here. Let us go to Tony, Silver Springs, Maryland, the great WMAL. Go. Hey, Mark. I'm talking about the importance of voter ID. I can just tell you my personal experience the last time I voted. When I got to the desk where you check in, she asked me my name and address. I told her and she told me where to, you know, where to go, cast my ballot. And I said, you don't need my ID. And she said, no. And I said, how do you know that I'm not someone claiming to be me, but really isn't? And her response, I see no evidence for that. And she kind of dismissed me. And of course, they don't look at any evidence. That's how they don't see it. Well, I'm going to tell you, Maryland is one of about 11 Democrat states that have absolutely no voter ID. And that's your point. Yeah. They're almost all Democrat states. Even if the issue of undocumented people was not there, anybody could claim to be me and I lose my vote. You know, legal, illegal, whatever. In fact, they're counting on that. They're counting on it. This is such a scam. And the idea that the Democrats think they're going to get away with this and they might is really appalling. I mean voter ID is not complicated it's just an identification that demonstrates you are who you say you are and we need it in virtually every walk of life every age group everything you do whether you get a hotel room or rent a car or buy a car or get a loan or open a bank account or get some booze or go into a casino or get some cigarettes I mean the whole list try to get into any government building without an ID You can't. You can't get into the Capitol building where all the Democrats are saying you don't need an ID. But they would require you to have an ID to go in and meet them for security. Well, voting needs security too, but they don't care. These people are evil. They're just plain damn evil. Thank you for your call, friend. And they get away with it. Let's be honest. They get away with it. So they do more of it. They're not, they don't have a conscience. They're not circumspect about stuff. This is a power grab. They think them being in power, them getting wealthy, that that's good. That's good. Let's go to Bridgeville. I don't know where it is, Rich. Where is it? Where? In Delaware. The great WGMD. Go. Yeah. Mark, this revolution against Western civilization, Israel, the Judeo-Christian heritage, and our constitutional republic is brought to us by the Marxist mullers. These are people motivated by their pathological ideologies. And what they push for in Europe and here is two different systems of law. In Europe, it's increasingly Sharia. Here, it's sanctuary cities and entities and also the beginning of the infiltration of Sharia. It was Obama who said at the UN that the future does not belong to those who would blaspheme Mohammed. So his dedication to the First Amendment is nonexistent. Then we have the case, which should be a carcinery tale to Americans, of Tommy Robinson in England. He is the working class Charlie Kirk, the blue collar. He's terrific. I've become a huge fan of his. Yes, he stood up for Israel. He stood up for the indigenous people of England, not the Pakistani grooming gangs. And do you know what just happened to him a couple of days ago? the police called to tell him that there was an imminent assassination attempt on him. This was authenticated by their counterterrorism and intelligence agencies. They said it appeared in a Pakistani manual, manifesto online. Tommy said, can I bring it up to see what they're saying? They said, no, if you do that, it will be construed as a terrorist act. He said, well, how did we lose that woman? she dropped, oh my God, I was listening to every syllable. Feel free to call back tomorrow, please. And Mr. Bedusa, let's see if we can track down Tommy Robinson. I know he's in England. There's got to be a way to find him. Let's see if we can get him on the show tomorrow. Let's give it a shot. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget tomorrow's the day. It's tomorrow noon Eastern time. you can get us on YouTube YouTube, remember it's Liberty's Voice, me and you can get us on Rumble at Mark Levin Show, please check us out tomorrow's the day I can't wait, hope you can't too we'll see you then