On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the central AI debate is between freedom and government, and between knowledge and idiocy. These politicians, bureaucrats, and regulators think they know more than inventors, creators, and innovators, and are trying to make people fearful of technological advancement. We need to remember the politicians who oppose this progress; they’re populists, nationalists, Marxists, and socialists who seek greater control while presenting their actions as protecting “the people.” Government control of AI would be a power grab and would benefit Democrat political interests and favored groups, while also helping Communist China. Government and politicians need to keep their hands off and allow advancement to move forward. Also, Arkansas Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner says she would trade five Americans for one ‘undocumented immigrant.’ Hardworking Americans pay taxes and contribute significantly to the country. Schaffner is ineffective and out of touch. Meanwhile, Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s pastor says that Talarico will return to his previous radical views after being elected. He is changing his message solely to gain political power. Later, gas prices are high but voters should not be discouraged from supporting Republicans in the midterm election. Electing Democrats by staying home on Election day will not lower gas prices. Democrats support policies that would raise costs, increase taxes, expand government power, and advance a radical agenda. Republican victories are necessary to maintain control of the House and Senate and prevent investigations, impeachments, and Democratic control of government. Low voter turnout could lead to the destruction of the economy and our republic. Afterward, Deuteronomy was the most widely read and cited book during the Revolutionary period, appearing more frequently in speeches, writings, and official documents than any other source. Figures such as Madison, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson repeatedly referenced the Hebrew Bible, not to promote Judaism, but because they saw parallels between ancient events and their own circumstances. Ideas from the Hebrew Bible helped shape arguments about natural law, natural rights, and the Creator, while also overlapping with Enlightenment thought, particularly that of John Locke, although Deuteronomy was cited even more frequently. Finally, Ben Shapiro calls in to discuss Daily Wire’s new film – Run Hide Fight: Infidels.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. While the debate continues, Do we believe in freedom or government? Do we believe in knowledge or idiocy? And I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty tired of these politicians self-righteously telling us to choose them over everybody else. This will be the first time. The first time. When the government. And the bureaucrats and the politicians will be smarter than the smartest people on earth. And they want you afraid. And they want you in fear. And they want you scared. Scared of knowledge. And I want you to remember their names. I want you to remember their names. Josh Hawley. The Bernie Sanders. The other is names I can’t even remember. Because they’re out there protecting you, you know? And so when we have new cures for various right now, incurable diseases and illnesses. Alzheimer’s and cancer and God knows what else. You know, we have brand new industries being created that we can’t even imagine. Good jobs. Good paying jobs with good benefits. Blue collar jobs, white collar jobs, jobs across the board. When this industrial revolution creates more economic growth. And wealth creation. Four more people than ever before in human history. I want you to remember who these politicians are. They are populists and nationalists, whatever the hell that means. It doesn’t mean they’re conservative. I know that. They’re Marxists and they’re socialists and they’re ganging up and they’re teaming up. And they want you to believe. Then in this instance. They know more. They know more than the inventors and the creators. Then the technicians when they know nothing. Zero. They don’t even know how to balance a budget. They don’t even know how to use your tax dollars wisely. But here they know everything. Everything. And they used the usual phrases We want guardrails and we want to protect the people. I think Holly was saying these businesses, they have to work for the people. The people are. It’s a very good phrase. I’ve heard the commies use it all the time. I’ve heard the socialists use it all the time. The people we the people are the inventors. We’re the creators. We’re the customers who use this stuff and want more of it. We’re the ones. Faster, faster, faster. Fine. Fine. Cures for for these horrific diseases that are killing us and our family members. Find better ways to create the great crops, to grow them, to harvest them. So many ways in which more knowledge and technology can benefit us. But then they tell you. But then they tell you What about a runaway actor who may create a nuclear weapon? And many of them are the same people. When we have a regime in Iran, Islamo Nazis who have created have created weaponized weaponized uranium. Are building nuclear warheads. Have already built intercontinental missiles in the hands of suicide bombers from the seventh century. Want to blow us up the face? They are. They say, Oh, this was a war of choice. What are you worried about? Look in front. I hear these morons on radio right before an election. You go to war with Iran. What are you thinking? What are you thinking? What a bunch of schmucks. We’re thinking there is an enemy that wants a nuclear weapon and we’re going to deal with it. They don’t work on our election cycle. And yet many of the same people going on and off. What if somebody is working, you know, nuclear in the basement? Nobody can do that. Not so easily. But ladies and gentlemen, we already have criminal laws against. If you were making a nuclear weapon in your basement. We’ve got antitrust laws, we have the Federal Trade Commission, we’ve got anti-competitive laws, we’ve got criminal laws up the wives. We have civil laws up the wazoo. States have the same type of codified laws. They want you to think that this is just open and notorious and there’s nothing anybody can do about anything. Now, nobody believes that, do they? Do you? This is a power grab. Remember I told you about power? You got to think of politics through the land. You see it through the lens of power. There’s positive power and there’s negative power. I heard Governor Ron DeSantis, I thought he made some very good points on HANNITY last night. He said, look, I think we have to protect children and this, that and the other. Okay, I’m all for that. I don’t have a problem with that. It’s probably already happening, but I don’t have a problem with that. It’s okay. I do not agree. I do not agree that you you could have trial lawyers bringing class action suits and putting these businesses out of business. That’s not something I can accept. No redistribution of wealth through litigation. I’ve never been for that and I’m not going to start. But he’s had some good ideas, but he’s not. Typical of some of these politicians who are going on about what it is that they want and what they want to do and they want to control it, and then they make it sound. So we just want to slow down. We just want to put a check on what’s going on. Who’s we? Hakeem Jeffries. I mean, seriously, who’s we? Jamie Raskin. Who’s we? Chuck Schumer. Seriously, folks. Really? They have an IQ of a come quite collectively. They can’t keep their damn hands off of anything. And they see wealth. They see power. And as politicians, wealth and power, it’s like flies on. Spaghetti. Now they don’t earn it, but they want to control it and distribute it. The Democrats, it’s clear what they want. It’s clear what they and the communist Chinese want. They want the federal government to control it, which means. Giving our benefits to their. To their favorite front groups, to their favorite groups to themselves in order to create a power source for them that that can never be defeated. Just think. Just think of the control that they would have. The communist Chinese, obviously they can’t keep up with us, so they count on the Democrats and the populist and the nationalists. Whatever happened to America first? Do they sound like America first today? Do they? Let’s go forward. Let’s get this done. Keep your hands off, except in the most extreme circumstances. Let’s get this now. Now we got to look at it for the people, of course. Was George Orwell who says everybody uses the word democracy, especially those who don’t have a democracy. Fascists used democracy, communists used democracies. Real democracies use the word democracy. And so there also we the people for the people, Bernie Sanders For the people. HAWLEY For the people were for the people. I don’t know. Did you the people did you communicate with Bernie Sanders today? Did you communicate with Josh Hawley today? I didn’t. Did you? So who do they think they represent? They just create this image. We stand for the people. Bernie Sanders at the so-called pro human assembly yesterday. Were there big fat slob? Who pled guilty to a felony and also got a pardon from the president. That’s right. Third Reich. Bannon Cut one go today. Eight models can already escape human control, commit felonies by hacking into all the computers and create viruses that have never been seen before. And someone can. They can do all these things today, Mr. Produce. Well, are they doing them? Are they doing them? If they’re doing them. Well, tell us about them and why are we learning about it today, since this technology has been in existence for 20 years at a minimum? Well, it’s happening all of a sudden. What’s going on, folks? Are our prisons filled with these people? Are they even people? Are they filled with these machines? What is he talking about? He doesn’t know what he’s telling about talking about somebody wrote this for him. His concern as a commie is this. It’s very simple. This eliminates the entire reason, even the rationale for communism. The wealth creation, the opportunities that are provided for all levels and all tiers of the economy, all aspects of the economy. This is capitalism. This is how capitalism works. It’s going to create cures and do all these sorts of things. And what are they going to run against? They can’t run against affordability. That won’t even be an issue of in any significant way. What are they going to run against? That’s his problem. Karl Marx. Well, he didn’t figure this out way back in the 1830s, forties and fifties. Oh, no. In fact, he wasn’t even around for the second Industrial Revolution. He got it so wrong. So what did they come he’s going to do? Kill it. Kill it, Killer. We need redistribution of wealth. We need a static economy. We need to rail against the economy. That tends capitalism. That’s right. That’s what he wants. Go ahead. Here is what is most extraordinary about the transformative and unprecedented changes that he is making to our society. Well, let’s stop. Can I ask you, Mr. or Mrs. America, what are the transformative or unprecedented changes he’s made in your life? Only to the better. Only to the better. You all have iPhones or most of you cell phones of some kind. We have cell towers. You can thank AEI. You have laptops are computers. Whatever you use, you can. Thank. I. Your automobiles. I. I mean, everything. Hearing aids. The fibula. And on and on and on. So what is this horrendous thing that they’ve created? What is this horrible thing that they’ve created? Isn’t it interesting? We’ve never seen a concentration like this in two weeks of an entire movement. They came together like overnight in two weeks. All of a sudden, I don’t know. I don’t want to go on. I don’t know. This area, the data centers, they’re using all our water. And you find another, not whether they’re driving up the costs of our in it how they’re not. Okay? They’re making all these noises. I don’t like noises. Even though I got the TV on morning, noon and night that I don’t like them. No, they’re not. Unless you live within 100 feet of them. Oh, well, they killing Japs. No. And that 800,000 jobs have been created. Oh, well, what about the nukes? They’re going to create nuclear weapons. Got you on that one. Got you on that one. No, they’re not. Go ahead. Despite living in a so-called democracy. Here we go. A so-called democracy. We don’t have plebiscites. We’re not a democracy. We’re republic. I have to educate this moron over and over again. That’s why I won’t come on the show. He wouldn’t get away with this crap with me. Are these so-called democracies putting down our country? Putting down our country. First of all, we’re a republic. But that aside, we don’t vote. We don’t have plebiscites and referenda. We don’t do that at a national level. This company, yes or no, America? Well, I’m yes. And I’m. No, that’s fine. Yeah, we don’t do that. That’s called a mob. Go ahead. The public has had virtually no input. So what? We don’t have public input into private sector activity. Would you like public input on whether you should be able to buy that house or not? America. Or that business, you work for public input. The public decides through spending money what it wants. That’s the great thing about capitalism. Do you know why AI is being developed and they have all this money? Because you would purchase products that many of these companies are involved in. You have the final say, the customer, the customer. That’s what capitalism is all about. That’s what freedom’s all about. You don’t have any say. What does that mean? We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
So we’re seven weeks before an election and the Democrats, they’ve moved on from affordability because they have no answers for that. They’ve created a situation that’s. Unaffordable, affordable when it comes to fuel and so forth. But let me tell you something. Here’s the big news today that nobody’s talking about. The poverty level. Listen to me, is the lowest today in the United States than any time in recorded history. You got the administrative. The poverty rate, slightly over 10% was hovering forever. Around 12, 14% is the lowest in recorded history. Want to hear something else? The wealth of the American people. The American people. Is higher today than any time in recorded history. The wealth and I’m talking about trillionaires, millionaires and billionaires. I’m talking about average people, the highest it’s been in recorded history. The poverty level, the lowest it’s been in recorded history. There’s a lot of good things going on in this economy. We’ll be right back.
Segment 3
By the way, from the Jewish insider, New York City Mayor Zoran Mandhana, a man Dami Kami, told reporters today he does not intend to participate in any demonstrations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance at the U.N. General Assembly next week. And he maintained he did not endorse protests against the PM’s arrival. So he’s ratcheting down his earlier remarks from earlier this summer. Obviously, he couldn’t arrest he never was going to arrest maybe Benjamin Netanyahu or this man, Netanyahu has said has a spine of steel. He stared him down and he said, go ahead, give it a shot. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nassir Bourita in New York today, alongside U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mike Walls, where Jerusalem and Rabat agreed to a series of measures to boost bilateral ties. So that’s Morocco and Israel. Saudi Arabia appears to have escalated its fight against the Houthis by launching a Chinese made ballistic missile for the first time. Based on debris recovery in Yemen and analyzed by Yemeni officials and weapons experts until now regarded relied on fighter jet airstrikes against the Iran backed militants. Well, there you have China who’s who’s selling missiles. Or parts or fuel to the Iranian regime that’s attacking Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia is firing back a ballistic missile that’s Chinese made. What do you think of that, Mr. Producer? Hello. Hello. And not goodbye yet. Let’s get back. How come Bernie Sanders has never been investigated under fire or anything else as he represent a foreign country? It certainly seems like he represents all of our enemies, doesn’t it? When you love to know if he gets calls from our enemies, or at least communist parties in other parts of the world, wouldn’t you want to know that? I’d like to know that. I would like to know that. How come? How come? He’s always calling for an investigation. He’s always calling for somebody’s head except his own. Bernie Sanders at the pro human assembly yesterday. They come up with these jackass names as opposed to, you know, I intelligence. Whatever new health discoveries there are for me, I. Bernie Sanders should be banned. From getting them or he should himself boycott all of them. All of them. Cut to go to the CEOs of the major companies who have told us recently that they are concerned about the dangers inherent in the technique. There’s a handful, a couple in particular, most of which are left wing Democrats. And this is what we’ve called here. And I wrote about it Liberty in tyranny, crony capitalism. That is when big companies go to the government for regulations. That they claim are for safety and security and health and so forth and so on, when in fact the purpose of the regulations is to create an oligopoly, if not a monopoly. That is to eliminate all competition from smaller companies. That’s what they want. That’s not what they get. There needs to be a market system at play. There is right now. There should be no regulations that benefit a handful of these companies against the rest. And no regulations that are intended to handicap and cripple our industries. America first. Maybe America first. Go ahead. They are developing. If you believe in democracy. There he goes again. First of all, the man does not believe in democracy. How does he believe in democracy? Does he believe in democracy in Gaza? No. Does he believe in democracy in China? No. In Nicaragua? No. In Cuba? No. They believe in one election and out if there’s an election at all. If you believe in democracy, why can’t our guys call this stooge out? Instead, he’s up there with the with Third Reich Band and Third Reich Band and is there because he was told this free donut. You know that, Mr. Producer? Sky shovels marched, doughnuts in his face. It certainly looks like it. Go ahead. Believe that the people have a right to determine their future. Stop. Hold on, hold on, Hold on. A. We, the people, have a right to determine our future. Each of us as individuals, we don’t have the right to determine somebody else’s future. I don’t go to my neighbor and say, here’s what your future is going to look like. Well, I don’t go down the street to an office building and I say, What are you guys doing? We have a right to decide how you do it and determine our future. That’s not how this works. That’s not how it’s ever worked. That’s not what I is about. That’s not what it’s been founded on. There’s private property rights. We have copyright laws. We have. Trademark laws. We have patents. If you invent something, you have a property right in it. So, no, it’s not a matter of having some kind of a a claim or vote. We don’t even have a vote on what somebody else is doing. Their future. What does that have to do with anything? Go ahead. Groups of millions of dollars into superPACs. So what? So what? So what? Political action committees. They put hundreds of millions of dollars in PACs. Another guy puts hundreds of millions of dollars in a different PAC. We got PACs all over the place. So what? That’s called competition in an election time to. Well, they’re buying elections. Don’t you love it when politicians tell you that PACs are buying elections when every damn one of them is associated with their support? Some kind of a PAC? Seriously? Seriously. Go ahead. Trying to defeat members of Congress and candidates who are fighting for serious guardrails on guardrails. Guardrails on serious guardrails on a what are they even talking about? I need guardrails on big government. A $40 trillion debt, soon to be 50 trillion before you know it. Over trillion dollars just on interest on the debt bigger than the. The entire defense budget and that’s that can’t. Be sustainable. Social Security going broke in six years, according to the trustees. Medicare in seven years. This guy wants Medicare for all, which will kill Medicare immediately. What’s the plan? There is no plan. But they want more and more power, more and more control because we, the people, we demand that the federal government get bigger and fatter and spend more money and borrow more money and get their nose under every tent that’s imaginable. Isn’t that what we’re demanding, America? A ubiquitous federal government said it’s not ubiquitous enough. Rules and regulations and taxes and user fees. And sales taxes and property taxes. Real estate taxes. Taxes on your death. That’s right. The death tax. Never ends. It’s not enough. All we’re talking about here are companies that want to develop new technologies. Into the future. And look what they’ve turned it into because the commies oppose it, because the Democrats want to control it, because we have a PSYOP operation by communist China, and then we have morons, so-called populists and nationalists. We’re a populist. They sound just like Bernie Sanders. That’s not a mistake. They do sound like each other. Go ahead. Cut three. I think we have a mentally unstable president. All right, that’s enough. I don’t need this clown who’s truly mentally unstable. He seems to do a Professor Irwin Corey act every day. Who’s that doodling? The mentally unstable. This old guy, he’s the one who’s unstable. He’s never created anything. He’s never built anything. Never hired anybody in the private sector. Has never worked in the private sector in any significant way. But he can manage the entire country. He knows every industry. Why is it that everybody in the private sector to this guy’s crap? Correct. Why don’t we celebrate our businesses? Why don’t we celebrate our advances? Why don’t we celebrate our investments? Why don’t we celebrate these opportunities that are in front of us like no other generation before? I mean, folks, if the Luddites had won out in the early 1800s. We would never have had the cotton gin, for God’s sakes. The second Industrial Revolution. Incredible. Oil. Among other things, the railroad systems connecting one part of the country with another. And on and on and on. And then the third industrial revolution, the automobile. Lights, steel. And on and on. And now this industrial revolution. It’s a technological revolution. No, no, no. We can’t do that. Can you imagine? And developing booster rockets. Now, they might put nuclear warheads on or we can have booster rockets allow. That’s right. You heard him on nuclear energy. And we can’t have nuclear energy now. We can’t have this. We can’t have that. These are the Luddites. Look it up. It’s a real work. I used it the other month, and now it’s all over the Internet, people. Hey, look at that. That’s a new word. Well, it’s an old word, actually. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Apparently. China’s dictator Xi fell ill in India. People have said he looks ill. He’s looked over for a period of time, they say. Rumors are circulating, according to Pacific Wire. The G departed the BRICS summit in India after suffering a medical episode. There has not been officially confirmed. The South African president returned from the summit ill. His office confirmed footage shows Modi pausing mid speech to check if he is okay. We don’t have any more information than that. Who knows? Who knows? President is going to be speaking in North Carolina will pick up some of that. I love to listen to that, too. So don’t be nervous. Don’t leave your spot. Stay where you are. Well, you might say, you know, Mark, I’m tired of hearing about air and data centers and all. Well, don’t be. I’m trying to do this in a measured way, trying to pace ourselves. But this is a big deal and it’s good versus evil and it’s right versus wrong. That’s what it is. That’s what it is. It’s capitalism versus socialism. I don’t care how many pseudo conservatives have sold out. They’ve sold out. We don’t need to follow them. They’ve sold out. And I’m not going to follow the. The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang. Here’s what he had to say yesterday. Cut for a go. I was I was the first CEO to come out, not in the software industry to say the end of software is nonsense. This is going to be a layer on top of software. This was it was a layer on top of software. This new layer on top of software is going to be a gigantic it’s going to make you use the software so much better. And so so that that’s the first idea. The second idea is air is going to destroy jobs. That’s also completely nonsense. It’s so ridiculous. It is a job creating machine. It’s already happening. We’ve had people call in here. Cement truck drivers calling in here say they’ve never had it so good. These are massive buildings. You need electricians. You need people in the trades who know what they’re doing. David Sax, the presidential science and tech adviser with Politico today. Cut five. Go. You have the president, though, who is very bullish on on AI, and he’s been pushing back at the skeptics, saying that anything bad about AI is a hoax. Do you think these safety concerns are a hoax? I think the hoax is promoting this idea that humanity is going to be extinct. What he said and his true social he said anything bad about AI is a hoax. Well, again, I think specifically what we’re talking about is this idea that A.I. is going to end civilization within a very short amount of time, and that is specifically the fear that’s being pumped through the media right now and promote. I mean, Elon Musk said about 10 to 20% chance that A.I. destroys humanity. Well, he also just said that, you know, abundance is a is it’s something that we’re not focusing enough on. Meaning, the probability of creating a world of great abundance is something that we’re not promoting enough. Instead, everyone’s just focused on their, quote, doom. So, you know, look, I think that we can have a more balanced conversation about this. What’s happening right now is that the media is pumping out all this fear that makes the public alarmed, and then they pull on that. And then sure enough, the polling reflects that sense of alarm. Then they take those polls to the politicians and say, see, the public is afraid. So then you got all these politicians saying, Oh, we have to do something. Yeah, yeah, exactly right. And politicians, if they’re anything, they’re gutless. They’re gutless. There’s a few exceptions, but the vast majority of them are utterly gutless. And so they see this and they’re playing into it and playing into it. And then they pat themselves on the back about how righteous they are. They’re not righteous. They’re opportunists. They’re about power. They’re about self-promotion. They’re narcissists. That’s what politicians are for the most part. Not all of them. There’s some great ones, just not enough. Just not enough. I want you to look at the. At the goals, the political goals. Involved in trying to kneecap this industry before it’s even really. Shown even enough ankle to demonstrate how incredible it’s going to be. And I want you to remember, because I may not be around back now, this time. That’s what I’ve said about this entire industry and how it’s going to change your lives and the lives of your children and grandchildren for the better. If the Communist Chinese control it, it’ll be a disaster. Then you have a lot to worry about. But if we control it, we’re a good people. We’re a good country. You’re not going to have a lot to worry about. And to the extent there’s any miscreants, they will be handled lawfully. We’ll be right back.
