On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, the Democrat Party government shutdown is the best evidence why the government should never, for example, take over our healthcare system. It’s not controlled by Democrat politicians (senators) abusing the filibuster rule to blackmail the country and do as much damage to the economy as possible to further government control of the economy and leftwing political agendas. Also, the U.S. air traffic control system and TSA should be privatized. It’s unacceptable that our air traffic could come to a halt because air traffic controllers wouldn’t show up for work during the shutdown. Later, the media is ignorant for mischaracterizing the pardoning of 77 people involved in challenging the 2020 election results as an attempt to overturn them. Challenging elections is a longstanding legal right, dating back to John Adams’ era, and includes demanding recounts, lobbying state officials like the Secretary of State, and submitting alternative slates of electors to the Archivist of the United States to preserve potential wins. These actions are neither obstructive nor criminal. Afterward, Rep Chip Roy, who’s running for Attorney General of Texas, calls in and explains that Texas is under attack by a network of radical Marxists and Islamists seeking to seize it from America. The nation is rooted in Judeo-Christian principles, the Constitution, and Western civilization, which directly conflict with Sharia law. He also explains that Democrats are exposing their scheme by admitting Biden’s temporary COVID subsidies are essential for Obamacare to function, as even the Washington Post acknowledges it was never affordable. Finally, Tucker Carlson platformed a guest who downplayed Christian persecution in Nigeria and had previously represented an accused Nigerian figure involved in targeting Christians.
AP
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
Front Page Magazine
Texas: Sprawling 150,000-Square-Foot Islamic Center Opens in Houston
NY Post
Upstate NY city one-ups Zohran Mamdani by electing communist student, 20
Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP
The podcast for this show can be streamed or downloaded from the Audio Rewind page.
Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Lots to unravel, America. Welcome here on Monday evening. It’s always a pleasure to be back on radio. I love radio. The government shutdown. 41 days. The Democrats didn’t get a thing out of this. They were blackmailing the Republicans who were blackmailing the president. They said we want 1.5 trillion and more spending. We want health care for illegal aliens. We want health care for able bodied Americans who refuse to even volunteer 20 hours a week. We have all kinds of money we want to pour into non-governmental organizations on the hard left. All kinds of money for left wing causes. In other words, we want $1.5 trillion put back into the budget. That’s what we want. And by the way, the unaffordable care act that would be Obamacare. We want hundreds of billions of dollars in additional subsidies for that. Even though the plan could never work, 12 years ago, we told you that all Democrats voted for it, all Democrats supported it, all Republicans voted against it. It is a disaster. They expanded it four years ago to make sure it would collapse even faster. Then they extended it to cover people who are more than four times the the poverty level. So it’s imploded. And their answer is more money. And by the way, we want it now, not just a vote. We want an outcome that we demand. And for this, they did what they did. Now, a couple of things about this, and I posted on this the other day. Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany all have privatized. All of them. They’ve all privatized their air traffic control systems. Before there was a TSA. We also had private security at our airports. They didn’t have the authority and there certainly weren’t as numerous as we have in TSA to ensure a protection after 911. But I think we can take a very, very good look at privatizing our air traffic control system. As well as our TSA. And I’ll tell you why. There’s two major reasons for this. Number one. 41 days. Too many who work as air traffic controllers decided. That they retired. The job was too much. That they weren’t getting paid anyway. They got to take care of matters at home. And they called out sick. That is utterly unacceptable to me. They’re in the process of shutting down. Our air traffic control system. That’s what they were doing. Of course, you can have sympathy for their situation. But the cops don’t do that. The military doesn’t do that. Doctors don’t do that. Nurses don’t do that when there are issues in specific hospitals or areas of the country or what have you. It’s unacceptable, period. And I don’t care if I’m going against the grain. I have nothing personal against any of these people. I don’t know any of these people. But that’s unacceptable. It’s a heavily. Unionized association. In 41 days. These guys are tougher than that. These girls are tougher than that. They were tired, worn out. You got to be kidding me. Seriously? They’re tired and worn out because people were staying out sick leave and vacation leave all at once. So that it pick up where some of their colleagues left off. I suppose. But to me, no great nation can put up with that 41 days and you collapse and that’s that. No. There are men and women in this country who have backbreaking jobs, literally backbreaking jobs, whether they’re working in mines. In construction. God knows what. But to me this is utterly unacceptable. Period. Something needs to be done about it. That’s number one. Number two. Bernie Sanders is very upset tonight, and I want you to keep something in mind. Seven Democrats and one independent who’s really a Democrat are voting with the Republicans all by Rand Paul. So that means the overwhelming majority of Democrats still still want to cripple the air system, the air control system, and still don’t want to feed the needy under the food stamp program. Among other things. Among other things. The Democrats don’t care about the little guy, whether it’s illegal immigration, whether it’s crime, whether it’s this. They created this situation in the first place. They took really a ministerial act that’s not controversial and they blew it up. They blew it up like legislative terrorists. They want the economy to collapse. They want airlines to come to a halt. They don’t want to pay the military. They want ice to surrender. This is the Democrat Party. That’s what they want. So I ask you a question. More and more takeover of the private sector by the federal government. More and more centralization of decisions by the central government. Fewer and fewer Americans in the public sector making these decisions. Instead, we’re getting politicians and bureaucrats. Who are not driven. By expertise. We’re not driven by public service, but are driven by power and politics. Can you imagine if the entirety of our health care system was run by the government? What the same people would do? Shut down the health care system. Make sure doctors and nurses aren’t paid. Make sure hospitals aren’t receiving the moneys they need. When you have Kaiser Kamikaze Democrats who are prepared to blackmail in order to get what they want to expand their power and further centralize government. Removing it further and further from we the people. And you see their mindset. It’s on display the last 41 days and beyond. If it wasn’t for these eight Democrats, seven Democrats, one phony claims to be an independent. None of this would be resolved. Do you really want Bernie Sanders and Talib and these people? They have this kind of power, because the more power the government gets, the more power they have and the less power you have. If we had the kind of health care system that they demand top down iron fist, a government run health care. A relative handful of people could shut down the entire system. For wages, working conditions, or even unrelated to this. Remember the teachers union in Chicago? Heather is shutting down the schools, really having nothing to do with their own salaries, but a whole laundry list of radical left wing ideas that they wanted funded. That same mentality. Applied in health care, applied in all federal areas. Can you imagine? 1.5 trillion they wanted to spend. 1.5 trillion. So this should demonstrate and it won’t, but it ought to demonstrate once and for all why you don’t centralize services economic decisions in the hands of a relative few power hungry politicians and bureaucrats, especially the mind set of the Democrat Party, which is to burn down our system, burn down our economy. Burn down whatever you have to burn down to get what you want. And now we get to hear from the Marxists and Islamists in the Democrat Party who say Schumer needs to go. Now, I don’t understand this one, Mr. Producer. I’m certainly no fan of Schumer. I’ve been on his ass for a quarter of a century. But Schumer didn’t vote for this. Did he know? Schumer didn’t agree with the other eight. So Schumer has to go. Schumer is a disgusting person, a disgusting political hack. There’s no question about it. But they want to punish Schumer. Why America. Even though he’s a quisling. Even though he was silent in the face, a man army, he didn’t endorse him. And so it’s time to purify. Because that’s what Marxist Islamists do. They purify. It’s time to purify. They want a leader in the Senate. Who’s a saboteur. They want a leader in the Senate. He will bring down the whole country. Because they believe that’s how they get power. You and I should stick by our conservative principles. We should demand a consideration of the privatization of the FAA and the TSA. We should fight every effort to centralize any further services. And. Decisions of the government. To the government from the private sector as this is more evidence. And those. Those who conducted a sickout. Because pretty much what happened at the FAA, in my humble opinion, should be punished. Those who stayed, as I believe the president has suggested. Should get a bonus. You reward good behavior and you punish bad behavior. Now it’s my intention to fly from Florida to Virginia tomorrow and to do this radio show. But if not on the air. And we will have a sub. If that’s the case, it’ll be because I can’t get a flight back. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
You know, folks. I’m not trying to pile on, but this has me very disturbed the fact that. That our airline system came to a halt or was coming to a halt as a result of. Air traffic controllers. Not showing up for work. And let’s be. Yeah, that’s what happened. Putting all the politics and everything else aside. The difficulties. Having to watch the family. Thousand reasons. You know, Mr. Producer, Mrs. Imus, America, this this is what concerns me. If we ever have a draft. We have to go to war. These sorts of things. Can you imagine? Having to leave your family for months at a time, maybe even a year, year and a half. Losing your pay. And getting paid what soldiers get paid. But putting your life on the line, can you imagine? Now that is real sacrifice. I look at the AEF. You have men and women. And almost nobody in that society is unaffected. They have to leave their jobs as doctors and nurses and. They have to leave their jobs as electricians and plumbers and. Construction workers, whatever walk of life. And they have to leave at a moment’s notice. In order to defend their country. Tremendous dislocation and not for 41 days, not for two or three weeks. For two years. Nobody’s asking. Air traffic controllers or anybody else. Do so thoroughly and completely. You know. Change their lives and change their livelihoods. The fact of the matter is. That over the course of a year we’re talking about 41 days and. People are leaving on their own accord. Well, they’re not getting paid, you know. I think what these guys do in the towers is really heroic. I think what happened here is really. Problematic. If you live in this country or any free country, at least for a period of time, you’ve all had to struggle hard. Not everybody, but a lot. I don’t count myself among those who’ve had to struggle life and death. But I do know that I was out without a paycheck for 11 months. I went through my IRA. I had to refinance my mortgage. Lost almost everything. That in Blame it on anyone else. In fact, they work harder and harder and harder to find something, anything. Several decades ago. Nothing was handed to me. I’m just saying this does happen to people in the private sector. It rarely happens to people in government, but when it does. And you’re not a paper pusher. And your job does affect safety. It does affect the well-being of the country. Now, it’s not acceptable to walk off your job under cover of sickness or vacation or whatever it is. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. This is unacceptable. And what the Democrats did here is absolutely unacceptable. But this has no basis for an excuse that just none. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Oh, my goodness. We have a lot to get into. Marjorie Taylor Greene was on to her months ago, really long time ago. She’s a she’s a moron. She’s an egomaniac. She likes the limelight of the left. How do low IQ people do for some reason? Mr. Producer, I don’t know what that’s all about. What? Get into that. President had to deal with it today. I’ve told you, these people stabbed the president of the back guitar, Elton. You know people like that. Third Reich. Bannon. No pants gates. These are morons. They’re there. They are what they are and we have to deal with. Because they keep using the media to promote themselves. And the media want the world to think that we are defined by them, which of course we certainly are not. And we never will be. And I want to play some audio if I can get my damn email working. Let’s see. I did it. No, of course not. Anyway, I. Well, at some point here, I want you to hear Bernie Sanders and some of the other. But before we do, I think the next major subject I want to hit and then we will circle back. The parting of 77. I think people I think it was related to the 2020 campaign challenges. The media are filled with ignoramuses. Filled with them. Who do not understand the law, the Constitution, our history. You see, America. Let me try and put this so even a left wing goon who will regurgitate what I say and then twist it left and right will understand, even though the law ignored. You’re allowed to challenge election results. The first time it was done was under John Adams campaign. And it’s been done almost every time since, in different ways, in different forms. You’re allowed to challenge the result. Especially if they think the results are wrong. It’s your right. To demand recounts. It’s even your right to have a set of or a new slate of potential electors sent to the archivist of the United States. There’s actually a legal reason to do that. If you challenge and you win and you don’t have that slate of electors with the archivist of the United States, then you’ve won nothing because there’s nothing to counter. But there’s nothing obstructive about it. There’s nothing illegal about it in any way. In fact, it’s been done before. The challenges to the election in 2020. We’re legal. It doesn’t matter what a state attorney general says or a D.A. says. It doesn’t matter what Crooked Jack Smith said. It doesn’t matter what our media say. They are partisan. They are demagogues and they are stupid. So yes, you can send. A substitute slate of electors. That doesn’t mean Congress will approve them and it certainly doesn’t mean their activists will count them. But the act of doing that is not criminal. In any way, which is why they could never really come up with a federal statute. That said it was. You can have recounts. Yes, you can ask the state. Secretary of state. Depending on the law, depending on how it works in a particular state to do a recount. You can urge them to that. You can lobby them to do it. There’s nothing illegal about it. Nothing. And I could go on and on. And I have over the years, haven’t I? But the scenario has been created, at least a mindset, I should say has been created. And you can hear the reporting today that Donald Trump pardoned 77 people who sought to overturn the 2020 election. No, they challenged in various locations. The 2020 election results. That’s what they did. That is legal. That is constitutional. That is free speech. Tom, what did Mark say? What did I do? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. What? The Democrats have done it. The Republicans have done it. Third parties are here. Neither of those parties have done it. There have been challenges on the floor of the House multiple times, including by Democrats, mostly by Democrats. Against every Republican elected in my lifetime, as a matter of fact. Okay. There are procedures in place. Really very specific procedures in place on whether to entertain them or not. The state has procedures in place on whether to entertain them or not. So why is it illegal? It’s not. It’s not illegal. Here we have Bernie Sanders after the vote last night in a video message. This guy is a true blue Stalinist. He’s very upset. Very upset because they tried to sabotage our country, tried to grab power, blackmail the Republicans and the president, and thought it would be a voter juggernaut on their behalf. Here we go. Cut. Five, go. Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution. And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote. Okay. So, ladies and gentlemen, let us be clear. He has made it. Very, very clear. But the funding that was stopping for food stamps, the funding that stopped for the FAA and so forth, has shown the military that couldn’t continue forever. He did not want those. Those funding measures to be to take place, you understand? So this is a guy who wants to centralize government and then use it to blackmail his opponents no matter the cost. No matter the cost. Okay, Go ahead. What it does, first of all, is it raises health care premiums, does not raise health care premiums. He’s a good. You know, he is a Stalinist, but he steals the Goebbels playbook. He really does. That’s right. I said it because he’s a detestable, detestable commie. It raises health care premiums. No, it doesn’t. Obamacare raises health care premiums. Bernie Sanders raised health care premiums. They’re the ones who put this in place. This vote has nothing to do with raising health care premiums. Is there a legitimate reporter left anywhere in corporate media besides the handful that we talked to? Is there, who’s going to report on what a liar this thug is? Go ahead. Million Americans by doubling and in some cases tripling or quadrupling people. So how did that happen, Bernie? You voted to do that when you expanded the unaffordable care act, Obamacare, to cover more people, including those who are not in poverty. You voted to increase the benefits during the pandemic, which was unnecessary. And then you voted against bringing the numbers back down to where they should be in normal times. You broke the back. You broke the back of the health care system. You did this, Bernie. If people are without health care, that’s due to you. Premiums have doubled and tripled. That’s due to you. Go ahead. We are already paying the highest prices in the world for health care. No, we don’t. About 17% on the dollar. You spent on health care. What else should we spend it on? The issue isn’t whether we we do or don’t, actually. With the best health care system on the planet. You know what they pay for health care in Venezuela and nothing because they get nothing. So this jackass would have you compare our health care system to Venezuela or to Cuba or to Bolivia or to these these hellholes, these poor hellholes, Marxist, socialist hellholes. We pay the most than anybody else. You know what else he’s not considering? In Britain and France and the rest. What about the tax rates in the amount of that money that goes into their so-called health care systems? He doesn’t count that either. Now he just blew the lid off of Obamacare. He and they. And then he has the gall really in the next sentence to talk about how we have the most expensive health care system in the world. He and his Democrats blew the lid off of Obamacare. They’re demanding that hundreds of billions of dollars be poured into it rather than changing it and fixing it. And then he has the gall to talk about. How we spend more on health care than any country in the world. Go ahead. It’s the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid. And the Affordable Care Act study show 14 million people are not going to be thrown off Medicaid now. What is he doing here? What’s the trick? Mr.. Producing. He’s combining Medicaid in affordable and Obamacare, right? Obamacare is not Medicaid. This trick took $770 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare. When he voted for it 12 years ago, they stripped Medicare. You who paid into Medicare and still pay in into Medicare and insurance program. He took nearly $1,000,000,000,000 out of that and put it into Obamacare. And now he talks about the Republicans wanting to take 15 million people off of Medicaid in the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. They want to take illegal aliens off of Medicaid. And they weren’t able bodied Americans who won’t even put in 20 hours and volunteer work a week, take it off the system, too, because the incentive is for them to stay on the system and not contribute to it. That’s what he’s defending. Go ahead in there. Some 50. Shut up, you bastard. I can’t stand you anyway. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, we’re winning the battle back in D.C. right now, as you can see, because it was unsustainable for the Democrats. You know, blackmail is not going to get you that far, not with Trump. Not with the speaker and not with Thune. And they, quote unquote, got nothing. People understand it’s impossible to reduce the debt if you add $1.5 trillion for illegal aliens and all the rest of it. I see Sergio Gore, the assistant to the president for presidential personnel, was sworn in today to be the ambassador of India. I didn’t get my invitation, did you, Mr.. I wonder why. I couldn’t get there. Obviously, I’m in Florida, but that’s not the point. I mean. Well, of course. I think he was sworn in by the vice president. Is that right? Yeah. Okay, Well, we wish our friend Sergio all the best. Depending on what kind of Indian food you eat. Some of it’s really good, don’t you think, Mr. Produce? He’s going to be ambassador to India. Yeah. So from afar, we wish our friend Sergio all the best. All the best. He’ll be heading out there in January to a big job. Very, very important. As far as I’m concerned. I’m sure he’ll do a fantastic job and we wish him all the best. Let’s see here. We have, uh. Uh. Hold on, folks. There’s this guy, Conner. What is his first name? I don’t remember. Mr. Roe Carney always wanted to come on the show. He pretended to be a moderate, but I. I could tell he was a fraud and a fake and a phony. A fraud and faking a phony. It’s time for Schumer to leave. Look, I don’t give a damn if Schumer leaves or not. That’s not my point. My point is, it’s not clear to me why on this issue he should leave when he was doing their dirty work. But here he is on the floor of the Senate, face up for once. Cut three. Go. Therefore, I must vote no. This health care crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this C.R., that it fails, that fails to address the health care crisis. But let me be clear. However, this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight because of millions of millions of families will lose health care coverage. We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage. Now, you do understand, folks, a day they blew up Obamacare, right? And they’re trying to project it on to somebody else. They blew it up. They blew it up. Go ahead. Citizen cannot afford to pay $25,000 a year just for health insurance. No, they can’t. So it’s not the Affordable Care. Why don’t you admit it? Schumer and all the other goons on the left. All the rest of the Democrat and their friends in the media that push like now for Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. When people like me said, this can’t work. When you were told you’re going to get a 20 $500 reduction in your premium, it didn’t happen because they lie and they lie and they lie again and they’re lying now. And the Republicans have said, let’s get through the continuing resolution. These premiums will go up in a few months. Let’s see if we can’t replace this, a reform that we just can’t keep pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into it. And they won’t do it. Go ahead. To keep millions from financial ruin. Hmm. So this is like the arsonist, you know? It’s burning down the house, not his, of course, the neighbors. And then starts lecturing everybody about. Good habits when it comes to using fire. Cut three. Go and make no mistake about it. The American people know who is inflicting this health care trauma on them. Let me be clear. So it’s their program. They imploded it under Biden. They expanded it and increased the subsidies. Under Biden, they were in charge up to eight months ago and they expanded the subsidies for one year, meaning it ends December 31st. They and Biden, there’s a continuing resolution vote coming up. In late September. And then they say, no, no, no, no, it’s time to fix this. Fix it now. And the Republicans say, no, we’ll fix it at the end of the year. We’ve got to get the government right. And that’s where they take their stand. And that’s not originally why they took the stand in the first place. Health care for Americans. They originally took the stand because they wanted health care for illegal aliens. It’s pretty sick, isn’t it? And who do they blame it on? Donald Trump and the Republicans who kept saying, open it up, open it up, open it up, open up. No, no. It’s the it’s the fault of Donald Trump and the Republicans. Now, here’s the truth. The vast majority of Americans are unaffected by this. The vast majority of Americans are not on Obamacare. But it is a big issue because these people have destroyed a big chunk of our health care system and it spreads like cancer metastasizes into all health care, private and public. And so the Republicans know they have to fix what the Democrats blew up, what they started and blew up. But they have to do it wisely. Be right back.
