On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945 was a terror campaign targeting civilians in a non-military city, resulting in massive casualties via firestorms from British and U.S. air raids. The modern hypocrisy from U.K. and French leaders, who pressure Israel over Gaza—blaming it for starvation caused by Hamas, demanding ceasefires, and threatening Palestinian state recognition—while ignoring their own countries’ declines due to open borders and radical Islamists, and applying impossible standards to Israel that no nation, including the U.S, would accept for itself. Later, On Power is out in stores today! The core struggle in humanity, particularly in culture and government, is over power, which determines liberty and rights—this is the essence of the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, and ongoing battles in places like New York and Minneapolis, as well as globally. America is uniquely better, founded as a blank slate without feudalism or other isms,” as John Locke described, which makes it hated by Marxists in academia and the Democrat Party, along with political Islamists. These groups despise liberty, individuality, free will, merit, and success, seeking to divide America through racism, wokeism, non-assimilating immigration, and destroyed education systems. Everything they touch fails because they aim to destroy society, fundamentally transforming individuals into obedient servants of a ruling class. The Democrat Party embraces Marxism and Islamism, stealing free will by controlling groceries, housing, property, and accusing merit of racism. Also, Sen Chuck Schumer accuses Republicans of preventing poor people, people of color, and Democrats from voting and rejecting democracy. This is agitprop—negative language serving negative power, akin to Leninist and Marxist tactics—using slogans and half-truths to exploit grievances, subvert civil society, corrupt harmony, and manipulate populations by creating jealousies and hate, rather than fostering rational policy discussion or positive language that encourages debate and truth-seeking.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. It’s official. Ladies and gentlemen, my new book on Power is out today. And those of you who are purchasing it, I want to thank you on Amazon.com in any retail bookstore or any of the warehouse stores that they currently have it. I want to thank you. Barnes and Noble has a lot of them. And Wal-Mart and Costco has some and BJ’s and Sam’s and Target. And on and on and on. And of course, the surest way is Amazon.com, your local bookstore. But I want to thank you all. It’s it’s it has received a fantastic reception. I want to thank all of the radio hosts and TV hosts who have thus far. Interviewed me and have read the book and are very have been asking really good questions. And I think we’ve had excellent discussions. This is what this is what broadcasting is all about. It’s not just paint by the numbers. It’s not just go to websites and pick up the five top subjects. It’s not just guests and guests and more guests. It’s this talking about things that are substantive and matter. There’s really few other formats in which you can be done truly. We can do it on Fox. We can do it on conservative talk radio, and we can do it in some other, you know, methods and modes and platforms, but few others. And this is this is the advantage of freedom of speech. This is the advantage of these industries. And so we’re doing exactly what we should be doing, talking about smart things, substantive things, I hope entertaining and interesting things. And it shouldn’t be boring. It shouldn’t be monotonous. I mean, these are really new ideas and new applications of old ideas, as far as I’m concerned. So on Power is the book. I hope you’ll acquire yours tonight or tomorrow or soon, and we can jump in again. I want to thank all the hosts from today and many tomorrow and in the next several weeks. All the broadcast companies, Fox, Westwood One has been fantastic Blaze. All the rest. I want to thank you all. We’ll get into that a little bit. We have two big book signings coming up, too, that I want to mention. But before I do, I want to go over a few facts with you, and it will soon become apparent why I am. Every year, the bombing of Dresden, America. The bombing of Dresden during World War Two, the Allied bombing. Two and a half days of bombing, February 13 to the 15th, 1945. The desire was just to bring an end to the Second World War. And this bombing was a terror bombing campaign against Germany that was specifically focused on civilians. Civilians. Dresden had no real military threat or application. It was a mid-size city. And the goal of the British and the United States was to Obama to smithereens. The Smithereens. And throughout the war, Churchill had called for increased British air raids against the population centers of Germany in order to swamp German authorities and services. And as the allied forces closed in on the Third Reich in 1945, these targets became more feasible, as Britannica points out. Before World War Two, Dresden was called the Florence of Germany, considered one of the world’s most beautiful cities because of its architecture and its treasures. Having never been previously attacked in any war, the city offered increased value for a terror bombing against an inexperienced population. On the night of February 13, the British bomber command hit Dresden with an 800 bomber, air raid, 800 bombers. They dropped 2700 tons of bombs, including large numbers of incendiaries. And they were aided by weather conditions. A firestorm develop, incinerating tens of thousands of people. The U.S. Air Force allowed the next day, followed the next day with another 400 tons of bombs carried out yet another raid by 210 bombers. At this point, Germany was basically in the air defenseless. The estimate is as high as 250,000 people died as low as 35,000 in two days, given the influx of undocumented refugees that had fled Dresden. Almost all of the victims were women, children and elderly, since all the men have been drafted into the war. Dresden. A historic benchmark that demonstrated the power of strategic bombing of civilian centers. Critics say the military value of the bombing did not justify Dresden’s near obliteration. The city could have been spared. Like Rome and Paris and Kyoto. And given the massive number of civilian casualties. And the relatively few strategic targets, some even called the bombing of Dresden a war crime. Though both the British and American militaries defended the bombing as necessary. Any idea why I’m mentioning this, Mr. Produce? I have to listen to the weasel Quisling, Prime Minister of the UK go on and on about Israel. Starving Palestinians in Gaza when we all know that Hamas is behind it. I have to hear these phony influencers. You know what an influencer is. It is a self-anointed, narcissist, self-righteous. They influence nobody. They babble, they talk to each other. They interview each other. I have to listen to these British. Podcasters and broadcasters condemn Israel. Really? And this prime Minister. A Britain. Really? And he threatens he’s going to recognize a Palestinian state like his French. Quisling weasel friend Macron. An individual who, I don’t know posted and I retweeted it. This would be like. Awarding the Third Reich. A new state after the Holocaust. And that’s what France and the British and the Spanish and the rest of them, the Norwegians, that’s what they’re doing. And to hear podcasters and others in our own country. To side with this insanity, we’ll never be forgotten. That will be their legacy. No matter what else they say from today to tomorrow, no matter what else they say in the future. They will be remembered. As The Voice has said, a post preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons. They will be remembered as the voices that turned on our ally. Were they anti-Semitic capitals throughout? Europe and beyond are turning on the state of Israel. They will be remembered for their hypocrisy when they claim America first, when they don’t even know what it means. What they’re demanding that Israel do is surrender. That’s the only thing Israel can do to accommodate their demands as they sit on their fat asses, collect their clicks and their hits in their eyeballs and their millions going on and on about what somebody else should do. We would never do. What they’re demanding that Israel do. Never. And we didn’t. We bombed Dresden into obliteration. And not just Dresden. We dropped two atomic bombs. And when you add the number of people who died in Dresden and the number of people who died. From the dropping of the two atomic bombs. And we were involved in all three, and rightly so. No apologies. A world war where we were attacked, where it was life and death. Makes Gaza look rather small, even though it’s not. Doesn’t it? Dresden. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Those are only three. Those are only three. There were others. There’s no talk in our country. About feeding the citizenry of the enemy. In fact, it was a military decision. Then in order to stop. These regimes. In order to defeat Imperial Japan, in order to defeat the Third Reich. The population was fair game. And the population. City after city needed to be destroyed in order to put the pressure on these governments. The either surrender or collapse. Almost since the beginning, Israel has been told. Not to do this and not to do that. Almost since the beginning. Cease fire. Cease fire! Cease fire! If they’d been left alone, this would have been over a long time ago and the hostage with the hostages would be out. Labor out, but Israel’s being asked to do the impossible. To feed the people of an enemy territory. While those who run the enemy territory are trying to starve their own people. And at the same time they’re being told. That they need to enter into a cease fire. But the prime minister of the United Kingdom says. But Hamas can’t remain in charge. You tell me how all this is to be achieved. You tell me. You tell me how to accomplish that. The moron who runs Britain. Has destroyed his own country, as have other prime ministers before him, with open borders. Britain has a real problem now. With these radical Islamists, one of whom is the mayor of London, but the mayor of several cities in Britain. Britain is in decline. Britain’s Western standards are being usurped. Free speech is allowed as long as you attack Britain, but you better not question radical Islam. France’s President Macron. Believes he owes his presidency to the radical Islamists. And ask yourselves, what has France done? What is Britain done? But try and defeat Hamas. What did they do with Iran other than appease Iran? We’re perfectly willing. For Iran to get nuclear weapons because they weren’t willing to do anything about it. Should the United States go the way of Britain? Should the United States go the way of France? Should Israel destroy itself? A Palestinian state. Exactly. Who would run this state? Exactly what would it look like? Exactly what would its boundaries be? Exactly how would you stop it from being another Gaza, but worse? These are proposals. These aren’t rational policies. Israel is not going to surrender to its own destruction. No matter what the hell anybody says. But these people in our country. These influencers who influence nobody, including President Trump. Nobody. They stand with the Islamists. They stand with the quisling prime minister of Britain. They stand with the quisling president of France. They stand with the communist Chinese and Putin. They stand with the United Nations and UNWRA. If they know any history, and most of them are too stupid and illiterate to know anything. But if they know it, they also know they’re lying. They’re applying a standard to Israel that we would never, ever apply to ourselves. Nor should we. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
Hitting civilian targets, infrastructure hitting cities. That was part of our military strategy in World War Two and not just ours. Britain still, and of course, Stalin’s. Major target for our bombers throughout the war was Berlin. The capital with the biggest population in Japan. We heavily bombed Tokyo 1944 and 45 in the most aggressive raid. March nine, March 10th, 1945. I talked about Dresden. I talked about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But they’re not. They’re not the only ones. So we hit civilian population centers with everything we had everything. And we hit. Their infrastructure oil, food. Electricity. With everything we had, we sure as hell didn’t feed them. We sure as hell didn’t feed them. And we sure as hell didn’t award the Third Reich with its own country. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Thank God for the free world. The real free world, including the United States and Israel that Donald Trump as president. The United States. He’s on Air Force One today. And, of course, the media. Are obsessed with bailing out Hamas. That’s the bottom line. Cut. Eight. Go. I mean, is there any use to Tony pressuring Israel now to come to some sort of longer term solution or at least could make the case that you’re rewarding people, that you know, you’re rewarding Hamas if you do that. And I don’t think they should be rewarded. So. I’m not in that camp, to be honest. We’ll let you know where we are. But I am not in that case, to protect you, as if you knew that you really are rewarding them. And I’m not about to do that. You know how clear thinking is that? Let’s look at the West. Look at these quislings. You wonder why Marxism is on the rise. You wonder why Islamism is on the rise. You wonder why these hitherto parliamentary democracies are crumbling. This is why. There are two strong. Democracies left where Republic Constitutional Republic. Israel is a parliamentary and parliamentary democracy. Because they’ve two strong leaders. Two strong leaders. I mean, it’s easy to throw in with the crowd. Easy and the overwhelming evidence that Hamas is starving its own people. The way Mao starved his own people, the way Stalin starved his own people, the way Putin is destroying his own people. This is the nature of these ISM regimes communism, fascism, authoritarianism. That’s what they do. Because the rulers. Exists for the rulers. Now, keep in mind. The political radical Islamists believe that the next life is the better life that you’re dying for the cause. Suicide bombers as an example. So if you’re directing. Let other Muslims, Palestinians, die for the cause. You’re actually undertaking a very holy act. A very holy act. This is what the morons like the British. This is what the morons like the phony influencers, podcasters. This is what they don’t get and they’re never going to get. They’re not serious thinkers. They have no guts. They’re not profound in any respect. They don’t understand history. They don’t understand political, radical Islam. They don’t understand Marxism. Worst of all, they don’t understand Americanism. Here’s this Keir Starmer today at a press event about recognizing a Palestinian state. Now, let me ask you something. When Hamas hears that, what do you think Hamas is going to do, Mr. Producer? We all know they’re going to quadruple down on the death of their own people, because for the people who run Hamas and are Hamas, it’s their existence that matters. They’re righteous. They’re holy. They’re serving God. And if more people have to die, the more people have to die. If children have to die, then children have to die. They’re stealing the food. They’re stealing the medicine. They’re killing people who are trying to get to the food. They’ve killed ten volunteers associated with the United States in Israel, trying to get the food to the people who need it. Israel has given data provable evidence of the amount of food Israel has moved into Gaza. Tons and tons and tons of it. The only nation ever in the history of war to feed the citizens of that with whom they are worrying against when they were attacked. We never did it, nor should we have. The British never did it. The French, while the French never did it because they were never on the winning side. But you get the point. It’s never been done. We didn’t Bob Dresden and feed the people in Dresden. We obliterated them. We didn’t attack Berlin and then feed the people in Berlin. We didn’t attack Hiroshima and then feed the people in Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Tokyo. Crazy. Israel must do more. Must do more. Tiny country. With a small economy. But they must do more. They’re still fighting Hamas. They still can’t get their hostages out. Their hostages have been brutalized, murdered. They’re starving to death. And they have to feed the citizens of the enemy, which they’re trying desperately to do. Well, Hamas, which began the whole thing, is stealing the food, selling the food, threatening the Palestinians and killing the Palestinians. I would ask this. To the podcasters. In the narcissist. This phony influences how many IDF soldiers died today. How many? There are the foggiest idea how many died yesterday. Fighting this war. With how much? How many? They have no idea how many have died all together. Almost 2000. Almost a thousand. A thousand in Israel. It’s like 40,000 in the United States. Have any of these people given a damn about the young people? Who came out of. The restaurants as waiters and waitresses. The young people who came out of their high schools and universities. I had to put on the uniform to fight these barbarians. Do you ever hear them talk about them? Ever? Never. As the prime minister. Britain talked about them. Now the president of France? No. Have these phony fraud podcasters with their stupid little videos. Have they talked about them? Not once. Never. Never. Israel has traded what? To 3000 prisoners for hostages, including murdered hostage bodies. We would never do that. They’ve done that. They’ve done that. But they have to do more. It’ll never be enough. It will never be enough. Hamas knows how to work the American media in the European media. They know how to work the wire services like AP and Reuters. They’re out of work. The New York Times and The Washington Post. They want to work them all. They know how to work the isolationists, anti-Semites in our country. They want to work the Democrats and the self-hating Jews. They do. They have their front groups here like CARE Students for Justice in Palestine. They’re all over the place. Thank you. Democrats reopen borders. They’re all over the place. And with this blood libel constantly, incessantly being used, this explains the wild expansion of anti-Semitism. As I’ve said, as I’ve written in American Marxism. Now Israel is the oppressor, even though it’s attacked, even though they want to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth, even though they talk about the river to the sea, even though they’re trying to get nuclear weapons, to blow them off the face of the earth, even though they say that even though they are attacked, they are attacked by Hezbollah, they are attacked by the Houthis. They are attacked by Hamas. But the backing of Iran. But the pressure’s on Israel. I’m not going to play this. This PM Keir Starmer. Who always talks like he’s burping. You know, there’s very eloquent. People who speak the English language in Britain. It’s it’s almost melodious, isn’t it? But then there are the crude ones who sound like they’re burping all the time. And that would be this guy Starmer, who’s hated in his own country. Who’s Hayden in his own country. So the UN. Is organizing to demand a two state solution. Hmm. Said okay, and that Israel must do more. But whatever it does. He must do more. Get out the hostages. Prevent Hamas from from running Gaza. Doing all of it while it basically agrees to a cease fire. You folks realize that Steven Wyckoff has been no fan of his, has tried to get a cease fire, that the Qataris, a terrorist state that has bought off more politicians in America than I care to count more businesses, more lawyers and lobbyists, more talk show hosts that they can’t supposedly get their client terrorists to agree. So that the United States walked away and Israel had to walk away and they didn’t want to walk away. They want their hostages out. But as I said weeks ago, what is it that’s holding Hamas back? If the Israeli hostages get out? Then Hamas has no leverage. They were never going to give the hostages all of them back. President says this now, too, but it’s Israel’s fault. It’s Israel’s fault. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Tomorrow I will be on WJNO West Palm Beach, but our buddy Brian Mudd. I’ll be on FOX News Radio with me. My buddy Brian kill me. We will be on the Fox News Channel America’s newsroom with Hemmer and Perino at 1030 on Fox will be on WB AP in Dallas and we’ll be on Katie in Seattle. I want to thank all of our friends. We are now in Barnes and Noble. We’re in Books-a-million, Sam’s Club, Costco. We’re in Target. We are in Wal-Mart and, of course, Amazon.com. And I encourage you to grab a copy as soon as you can. I want to talk about it more at length. You know, Sean HANNITY has said everybody’s interviewed and he has made the point where Larry O’Connor today, he made the point we had just just great, great folks and. And they all were making the point that this book is quite different. This book is is remarkable in many respects. The one hand it is. It’s a lasting explanation, a deep explanation, philosophical and historical, about this issue of power that people not discuss enough and certainly don’t discuss it in the right application. And it at the same time is shown, says it’s ripped from the headlines. There’s a reason for this. Liberties ripped from the headlines. Tierney’s ripped from the headlines. But this is deeper than that. The struggle that goes on in humanity, especially in culture and government, is a struggle over power. That’s what it is. It’s not even a struggle over liberty and rights. It’s a struggle over power that determines whether you have liberty and rights. And that’s what the Revolutionary War was fought for. And that’s what your Constitution is all about. And that’s the battle taking place in New York with Mamdani taking place in Minneapolis, taking place throughout the country, throughout the world. What makes us different. This country different. We are different. This country is better. Thanks to the nature in which it was founded. We were a blank slate. As John Locke said, We didn’t have a history of feudalism. We didn’t have a history of any of these isms. America was a blank slate. The continent was a blank slate. And so the Marxists in our academia, the Marxist and the Democrat Party. They hate it. They hate it. The political Islamists. They hate it. They hate it. They hate your liberty. They hate your individuality. They hate your free will. They hate what you accomplish. When it comes to merit and success, which is why they attack it. They try and control how we speak of each other. It’s always through the eyes of racism and wokeism and some ism. They don’t want a united America. They want a disunited America. The import individuals into the country who are not assimilating into our country, they destroy our educational system, which has as its main feature, the assimilation of people into the country. To build support for our founding and the morals in this country. Everything they touch turns to crap. Why? Because they’re trying to destroy the society. That’s the fundamental transformation. Not of government, but of society. And what does that mean? That’s the fundamental transformation of you. Into free thinking, able bodied. Vigorous individuals. Into obedient people, into people who are on the take and on the dole. Where you serve essentially at the direction of your masters. The ruling class. That’s the battle the Democrat Party’s all in with Marxism, and it’s opened its doors to Islamism. She wrote the book American Marxism. That’s what they are. That’s who they are. Everything they proposed is intended to steal your free will. Still the fact that you’re the sovereign, not them. This is why they want to control the grocery stores, the housing market property. This is why they want to eliminate successful people. It’s not just billionaires. It’s why they hate merit. This is why they accused Merritt of being racism. You’re going to learn about this and a ton more in this book on power, why these things are happening, what we can do to push back, because we have to. The question is whether the tremendous presidency of Donald Trump. Is a respite. Or is a new trajectory. My fear is it’s a respite. But it will be a respite. If we don’t organize our arguments and go on the offensive, because all of this is a battle of ideas. That’s what it is. It’s a battle of ideas. Either will win the battle or we’ll lose the battle. And running around and just saying liberty and free markets isn’t going to be enough. That’s the point of the book on power. All right. We’ve got tons more and I shall return.