On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, it’s shocking that Sen Tim Kaine’s said that our rights come from government, which is a Marxist and buffoonish view. The Declaration of Independence’s concept of unalienable rights from God is rooted in eternal truths and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Kaine rejects the American founding, which is based on divine sovereignty bestowed on individuals. Kaine’s view is emblematic of the Democratic Party, which rejects America, embraces Marxism and Islamism, and supports initiatives like the 1619 Project. Chapter 5 of On Power says that human rights, liberty, and equality are inherent, God-given through natural law, predating and transcending governments, as affirmed in the Declaration of Independence and echoed in state declarations like Virginia’s. These views, shared by Founders such as Jefferson, Mason, Franklin, and Adams, emphasize governments’ role in securing these unalienable rights via consent of the governed. In contrast, 19th-century philosophers like Hegel and Marx—influencing modern progressives, American Marxists, and figures like Woodrow Wilson—reject these principles, creating an irreconcilable clash of worldviews at the core of ongoing power struggles, where liberty depends on rights preceding government. Also, anonymous judges are complaining about the Supreme Court to NBC News. They say that the Court overturns lower rulings on Trump administration cases with insufficient explanations, undermining judicial integrity amid rising threats and criticisms from Trump allies. These judges are cowards and activists, and the NBC article is propaganda. Later, Robert Kennedy Jr. fought back in the latest hearing. Democrat Senators refused to let him answer a question. They hate him because he rejected them. Finally, Trey Gowdy calls in to discuss his new book, The Color of Death: A Novel. The story follows assistant DA Colm Truesdale, who, after losing his wife and daughter, becomes apathetic about life but excels in his prosecutorial role.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Something remarkable happened at a hearing today. I know that’s unusual. Most people won’t pick it up. That’s okay. I do. Very remarkable. As a matter of fact, we’re going to lead off with it. And it’s not the Robert Kennedy hearing. And although we want to deal with that, to have the Democrats didn’t even let the man finish her thought. And but I want to get into some of what was done here with respect to. This debate that took place between Ted Cruz. And Tim Kaine wasn’t really debate. Tim Kaine had left the room, but nonetheless. Let’s see here. Mr. Producer. I know I just saw your Tim can cut. All right, here we are. So they’re at this hearing today and Tim Kaine announces, well, rather than me tell you, got to listen to this. Listen very carefully. Cut six. Go. The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the creator. That’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha’is, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. I think the the motto over the Supreme Court is equal justice under law. The oath that you and I take pledge to support and defend the Constitution of the United States not arbitrarily defined natural rights. This is stunning. Anybody who’s listened to the show for 30 seconds knows how preposterous. I’m going to let Ted Cruz provide his answer, which he did. He came into the hearing room and Cain had already left. And I want to elaborate on this myself. But here’s Ted Cruz at the hearing at seven go. I would actually encourage observers to go back and listen to what Senator Kaine said, because I have to say it I think was disturbing and showed much of where today’s Democrat Party has gone wrong. So Senator Kaine said in this hearing that he found it a radical and dangerous notion that you would say our rights came from God and not from government. I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair because that radical and dangerous notion, in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. And if you do not believe me and you made reference to this, Mr. Barnes, then you can believe perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. And that they are endowed by their creator. Not by government. Not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have to say, it is stunning to me that the principle that God has given us natural rights is now deemed by Democrats some radical and dangerous notion. Mr. Jefferson was right when he wrote those words. Government exists to protect those rights. But slavery was not okay. When U.S. law allowed it, It was wrong then. It is wrong now. It is always wrong. It is stunning. At a United States senator. And not just from any state from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Would make the statement he made. Their rates come from government. Anybody who believes that. Is a Marxist. And a buffoon. Now let’s break this down. Those of you who have on power know about this already and listen to this program. But it’s certainly worthy of emphasizing. Unalienable rights. That’s what it says in the Declaration. What does that mean? But you have certain rights. From God. That are unalienable. There are certain truths. Better eternal. Again, I write about this on power. Tim Kaine rejects the entire founding of the American experiment. The entire founding of the American experiment. He thinks equality. The idea of equality comes from government. The idea of liberty comes from government. No, that’s not where it comes from. Here’s what he won’t say. It comes from the Judeo-Christian belief system. I’ve explained that Islamism. As others have pointed out, who are Muslim. That Islamism, radical Islamism is stuck in the seventh century. Has it gone through the Reformation? He rejects the Enlightenment. So when Tim Kaine talks about Sharia law. And this is the problem with Sharia law. He’s right. But he completely rejects the American founding. Which is based on the sovereignty of God. And that sovereignty, which is birth to his children on Earth. Then the question is what does all that mean? Which again, I explain in the book and I’ve spent three and a half months talking about it here. This should shock the hell out of you. And yet it is, in fact, as Ted Cruz says, illustrative. Of the Democrat Party. A party? That clearly rejects America and the American founding. This is why they have no problem with the 1619 project and no problem destroying our monuments. This is why the Democrat Party. Is the house of Marxism and Islamism, among other isms. This is why. Tim Kaine doesn’t even comprehend how America came to be or he rejects it, one or the other, both of which are damning. Damning. Your rights come before a government. The idea of free will and liberty. Cain before there was a government in this country. This clown has it backwards. He speaks like the Marxist. And it’s his position that is akin to Sharia law. Except. His God. Doesn’t come from the Koran. It comes from his own mind. From his own mind. This is why these Democrats are egomaniacal, narcissistic, power hungry, because they believe they are in charge of determining what your fundamental liberties and rights are. Now they can destroy them. That’s why I wrote the book on power. But they don’t have the slightest idea or they completely reject. The notion that this is bigger than them. Bigger than them. Sharia law is nothing like. The law and a constitutional republic. Notice we talk about Judeo-Christian values and morals and beliefs, but we don’t talk about Judeo-Christian law. There is no law. There’s belief. There’s faith. There’s values. There’s morality. But there is no law. In Sharia. There’s law the most. My new law. The imposition of that law on all people, regardless of their faith or any faith or no faith. That’s not. Judaism and Christianity. Tim Kaine is a coward. He’s a fraud. He’s a low IQ moron who’s been in government forever. Here’s a guy that was attorney general of Virginia, lieutenant governor of Virginia, governor of Virginia, a United States senator now going on I don’t know how many decades and he either doesn’t know or doesn’t believe in the most fundamental core founding principle of our country. That your rights come from him. He’s in the government. Your rights come from him. We wonder why so many people are utterly illiterate when it comes to the founding. Utterly illiterate when it comes to the Declaration in the Constitution. How many members of Congress think like this man, either because they’re utterly stupid and illiterate or their ideology is such? I dare say many, particularly in the Democrat Party. More when I return. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
You know, you think they write these books, they don’t have any purpose. They certainly do. And if you’re in Costco or you’re in Wal-Mart or Barnes and Noble, and you walk by and you see the book and I don’t need that book, I really think you ought to give it a second thought. Really have an entire chapter, Chapter five on rights. I begin with the premise underscored by the Declaration. Of independence. I’m quoting that individual and human rights, liberty and equality predate governments because they do not originate from governments. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Unalienable Rights endowed by your Creator, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Tim Kaine turns it completely on its head. Mr. Producer. I want to play Tim Kaine again now that I’ve read this from the Declaration, and then we’re going to continue. Go ahead. The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government but come from the creator. That’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha’is, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it. The significance and magnitude of these two straightforward and concise sentences in the Declaration are impossible to overstate. Rights. Four moral truths. Our God given through natural law and therefore our transcendent and universal. Through. Right reason, right reason. Man discovers these truths. Was innately aware of them. Thomas Jefferson, who authored the original draft of the Declaration, was certainly not alone in this view. Was the collective belief of the founders, including George Mason, the primary author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Benjamin Franklin, the primary author of the Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights. John Adams and Sam Adams, the primary authors of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and others. Now. The 19th century philosophers who informed the Democrat Party, its progressive American Marxist ideologues and their Western contemporaries are among others. Hegel and Marx, of course, Woodrow Wilson. His influence as a scholar and president was enormous. Their views were contemptuous of the foundational principles relied on at that declaration and the consensus view of the founders. So as you can see, Tim Kaine is a Marxist, He’s an American Marxist. He is he ascribes to Woodrow Wilson’s view. And so I say clearly, the basis for America’s founding and the ideology of American Marxism are utterly incompatible. Indeed, this is at the heart of the competition, at the competition between governing power, or more accurately, the power struggle that exists today and has for 100 years or more. That is two opposite and irreconcilable worldviews about the individual and humanity competing for power. And there you had it. In the voice of Tim Kaine and the voice of Ted Cruz. There is no liberty without rights. And rights precede government. Rights precede government. Whatever the government is, whatever the government is, you have rights. As a human being. Tim Kaine doesn’t believe that whatever rights you have a privilege you get from government. If that’s the case, we are in very, very serious trouble. This is a stupid man who doesn’t even understand our history and our founding. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You know, ladies and gentlemen, what we’re talking about here is Tim Kaine basically is comparing the American system. Which was founded in such genius. To Sharia law. That’s what he’s doing. He’s so stupid. He’s such an ignoramus. That’s what he’s doing. It’s quite shocking. This man ran for vice president of the United States with Hillary Clinton. With Hillary Clinton. And he thinks he’s godlike. And apparently all these Democrats do. They think they’re godlike. They decide what your rights are. And now you know why I’ve I’ve said that they really are the epitome of an defined negative power. Governmental power. They are power hungry. Power hungry. Chapter three on positive power. I write Positive power starts from an altogether different premise than negative power. God is the sovereign and through God is children. That is the individual and the people are sovereign. This power, properly understood and exercised in the context of government, is about the well-being of the people, not the rulers. The people are the sovereign, not the governing authority. And importantly, the belief in God given eternal truths, natural law and unalienable rights is the basis of a moral and virtuous society that transcends any ruling class. Tim Kaine is the epitome of what I’m condemning. One approach to life, one’s approach to life and role in society. Files, practices and decisions and so forth that you make. And I discussed that at some length. The founders did not believe they owe their origin to men and through men, but to a transcendent prominence that is to a higher source than man God. Faith was fundamental to America’s founding. The Christianity was and is our nation’s dominant religion. And without Judaism, there would be no Christianity together. Judeo-Christian values and beliefs rebounded throughout our society from the earliest days of the colonists, and still do today. That is before there was any government, even colonial governments. So how is it that we didn’t wind up as an Islamist hellhole? How is that possible? Why said Judeo Christian belief system did I not? I said the Enlightenment, did I not? Tim Kaine won’t say that. Well, because they say it is to make abundantly clear. That the Democrat Party, the American Marxists. The Islamists who they now open there tend to. I completely. At odds with American is completely. So as I said, either Tim Kaine is truly a stupid, stupid man. And that’s possible. It’s not a defense, by the way, for him. He’s a true believer. Now, maybe Tim Kane’s not aware about this, but the United States is about the most religiously tolerant nation on earth. Fact matters. Not at all what one does or does not believe to enjoy the freedoms and security that American society offers and which are explicitly protected by the Constitution. That’s right. As America became a nation of United States, it was never intended to be, nor would it ever become a fundamentalist religious state or theocracy, as one sees throughout the Muslim world and elsewhere, was never to be a repressive religious state that smothers alternative religious beliefs or a state that punished or silence nonbelievers, atheists or agnostics. On the contrary, early on, religious tests and requirements that existed in some of the colonies would quickly disappear. Why? Well, among other reasons, Judaism and Christianity do not seek to compel, let alone demand, doctrinal purity. But he can’t say that. Because he’s a radical left Democrat. The distinction recognized in American society between the relationship of faith in the individual, faith in the community, and faith in the actual operation of government. In short, faith, properly understood, creates a spiritual, moral and psychological foundation. Which affects. How the individual lives as life in America is typically a moderating force. Mr. Reducer, I want you to send one of these books to Tim Kaine. Actually, you know what? I got to sign a book. I’ll send it to him myself. I feel like writing. Dear Senator, read this book, you damn moron. But, you know, they probably send the Capitol Police after me. Even though he is a damn moron. It’s really quite incredible. And yet you heard it from his mouth. His mouth. Unalienable rights, the right to life. The government. Give us that right. No. No. The right to life. It doesn’t mean that all regimes adhere to it. A matter of fact, many regimes don’t adhere to it. Many regimes don’t adhere to it. Well, I spent the first 40 minutes of this program addressing it. I could spend another 40 days on it. But there are other things I want to get to. But Tim Kaine is. Is a prime example of the problem. Shocking as it is. But I’ve written about it in On Power. And those of you who’ve acquired a copy, open it up. Take a look. Read it. Because before Tim Kaine opened his big mouth, I wrote the book. And I’m right about these people. I’m absolutely right about these people. All right, let’s move on. Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism. Now, this is extraordinary, and it’s extraordinary because we’ve never had a judiciary that this that is this radical. At the lower court levels and at the appellate court levels. We’ve never had one that is this radical. Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court. Look how NBC writes this. Lawrence Hurley, whoever that is, federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation. There’s been a lot of explanation. With some worry the practice is undermining the judiciary at a sensitive time. Some judges believe the Supreme Court, in particular Chief Justice Roberts, could be doing more to defend the integrity of their work. As President Trump and his allies harshly criticized those who rule against him as violent threats against judges are on the rise. Violent threats against judges are on the rise. Violent threats against Donald Trump have been carried out. In rare interviews with NBC News, a dozen federal judges. Oh, it’s not ten. It’s a dozen appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump and serving around the country, pointed to a pattern. They say has recently emerged. You know what, ladies and gentlemen, if they don’t go on the record specifically with their names, and as I’m looking through here, I’m not finding any Mr. Produce. Producer Not one. And yet they say judges appointed by including Donald Trump. I have no idea if that’s true. I would love to know the names of these judges, but they don’t provide a single one. Cowards. All. Lower court judges are handed contentious cases. Now they’re lecturing us involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly researched the law to reach their rulings. Now they don’t. Now they don’t. When they go against Trump. Administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. You know, this is again, this is just shocking to me. You’ve heard me criticize the judge, these judges, in a harsh terms, and I explain in great detail why. Great detail. And then the Supreme Court in emergency ruling swiftly rejects the judges decisions with little to no explanation. They don’t need a lot of explanation. But they have provided explanation. This is extraordinary. First, we have a senator comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia, who’s a moron or worse. And now we have at least 12 federal judges whose names are not noted in this article. Who are attacking the Supreme Court majority. Ten of the 12 judges who spoke to NBC News said the Supreme Court should better explain those rulings, noting that the terse decisions leave lower court judges with little guidance of how to proceed. That is a lie. They know how to proceed. They know they’re activists on the lower courts. It’s inexcusable, a judge said of the Supreme Court justices. They don’t have our backs. They don’t exist to have your backs, you jackasses. They exist to uphold the Constitution. This isn’t a fraternity. Apparently it is, but it’s not supposed to be. Having the backs of lower court judges because the lower court judges. Judges are increasingly targeted with some facing bomb threats, swatting another. It’s not the fault of the U.S. Supreme Court. I wonder how many of the conservative justices have had their lives threatened. We know Kavanaugh has. But what does that have to do with anything? And so what this propagandist pretend reporter at this pretend news organization, NBC News, is horrendous. What they’re trying to do. Is painting majority on the Supreme Court in the most negative way possible. That the criticism of these activist radical left wing judges is causing death threats. With tensions so high for the judges, said they believe the Supreme Court, specifically Roberts, the head of the judiciary, should do more to defend the courts. They’re focused on Roberts because they know he’s influenced by the press. The Supreme Court. A second judge said it’s effectively assisting the Trump administration and undermining the lower courts, leaving district and appeals court judges thrown under the bus. They are overruling in some instances, in many instances, these lower courts, because these lower courts are out of control. It’s not a matter of throwing them under the bus. Not all judges who were interviewed shared that view. Some were more reluctant to criticize the justices. A judge appointed by President Barack Obama said that while the Supreme Court could do more to explain itself, some lower court judges had been out of line in blocking Trump’s policies. How do you like that? But you got to go halfway through the damn article. Certainly, there’s a strong sense in the judiciary among the judge’s ruling on these cases that the court’s leaving them out the dry. They’re partially right to feel this way, but the judge added, The whole Trump derangement syndrome is a real issue. As a result, judges are mad at what Trump is doing or the manner he’s going about things they are sometimes forgetting to stay in their lane. Now, I wonder if that Obama judge, I’d love to know who it is. God bless him or her. Has now created death threats. Mr. Produce. I would urge the U.S. Supreme Court majority not to be influenced by this. This is a set up piece by the. By the NBC News radical left wing reporter who’s pushing an agenda, as they always are. As they always are. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You want to wonder why Jamie Raskin won’t come on this show now? You know. Stick with me. Page 118 on On Power. Tell me. Tell me if if Tim Kaine doesn’t sound like Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto, quote. Says Marx, The selfish misconceptions that induce you to transform in the eternal laws of nature and of reason, the social form springing from your present mode of production and form of property, historical relations that rise and disappear in the progress of production. The misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you. What you see clearly in the case of ancient property, what you admit, and the case of federal feudal property, you are, of course, forbidden to admit, in the case of your own bourgeois form of property. And he dismisses the declaration. He condemns the whole idea of eternal truths and natural law. And this is why I wrote this book in American Marxism, because Tim Kaine. He’s such a jackass, he may not even know it. Speech like Karl Marx wrote. And the vast majority of Democrats do. In the House and in the Senate. This is why I say, please stop calling them democratic socialists. Please stop calling them progressives, call them Marxists. The president calls them Marxists. I started it on Fox, called them, and on this show, Marxists. They reject this. It’s also why. When Barack Obama would quote the Declaration of Independence, he would purposely misquote it by leaving out references to God. And again, you don’t have to believe in God or maybe you’re not sure about God. That’s up to you. That’s that’s your deal. But that’s not the deal that the founding. And it has nothing to do with Sharia law and Islamism. And you just had a United States senator. Compare Thomas Jefferson to an Islamist. To the whole American experiment, an experiment in self-rule and experiment and human sovereignty. Compare it to Islamism. Because of his utter ignorance and contempt for the American founding, a complete, in one word, putz. I’ll be right back.
