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00:15:29.780Well, there's a law that was passed in 1954 that was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower on August 24th, 1954, that prohibits members of communist organizations from serving in certain representative capacities and for other purposes.
00:15:52.760And I don't hear anybody talking about this law.
00:15:56.260and i'm wondering if the president go ahead it's uh hello yeah go ahead you're wondering if the
00:16:06.780president knows about this law and or ted cruz or any of our senators that are republicans
00:16:16.620let me look it up myself give me a couple of minutes and let me look it up myself and see
00:18:05.480I'd like to take issue with your assertion that I know that in a theoretical sense there's a difference between an Islamist and a Muslim.
00:18:18.900However, in World War II, do we fight the Nazis?
00:18:22.740No. When we bombed Dresden, did we bomb the Nazis? No. We fought the Germans. We killed the Germans. The Nazis would have had no power whatsoever if it weren't for the average Germans who built the—you know what I'm saying, Glenn.0.70
00:18:43.040Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a violent religion. It is antithetical to every Christian preset. And if we have them in our midst, okay, you never know.1.00
00:19:04.060Maybe, you know, Muslim A is a Muslim, but his son reads the Koran, he gets radicalized, and he's out killing people soon.1.00
00:25:34.200You know, I think last time we spoke, you know, I know I said at the time that if we don't have serious arrests, we're going to lose and we deserve to lose.
00:28:07.060Federal employee loyalty and security programs during the late 1940s and 50s were used to screen government employees for alleged communist affiliation.
00:28:14.100Many of these programs were later narrowed or abandoned.
00:28:18.480Constitution sets out all the qualifications for members of Congress and presidency and political ideology.
00:28:44.340If you want to, you know, your oath is I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
00:28:52.140I don't know how you do that if you want to overthrow it,
00:28:55.340and I don't know how you do it if you want to violently overthrow it.
00:28:59.520so uh let me go to uh eric in pennsylvania hello eric hey glenn how are you great hey i just want
00:29:10.620to uh give you a little insight um and everything i want to tell you is actually comes from the
00:29:16.660people that were involved but this is not like seconds you know secondhand stories this is
00:29:21.460actually from the people who lived through it my mother my grandfather my uncle and my grandmother
00:29:27.300uh well they were in east germany when the communists came over and um the first thing
00:29:33.980they did was they got people together and they were like listen this is going to be good for you
00:29:38.860like everything we're going to do is going to everyone's going to be fed everyone's going to
00:29:42.380be working everyone's going to you know it's got you know you're going to everything can be okay
00:29:47.140yeah great so the first thing they did was they took our farm i mean like no one had a farm anymore
00:29:54.500You, as a farmer, were ordered to work on, you could be working on, you know, Mr. Gruber's farm or Mr. Stolzfus's farm, but you're not working on your farm.
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00:40:08.520I believe so. I don't know if it's from June when it was first published. I can't determine that. But it's from 1936. And I'm looking around now at all the books that I have. I have an extensive Civil War history collection. Nobody's going to watch those.
00:41:52.760You're a couple of months younger than I am, but we're both born in 64, the last of the boomers.
00:41:57.380Um, yeah, I'm a, I'm a history nerd myself. Um, I, I, I spent three years in Berlin from 1986 to 1989 as a soldier. Um, I guarded Rudolph Hess before he died. I, I, we left the state of Berlin wall fell. We, you know, I went to where Hitler hung up the generals by, um, their necks, you know, by the piano wire.
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01:30:47.540He is the executive director of both of those, the Center and the Citizens for Renewing America.
01:30:52.380He's just written an essay, if you will, or a white paper on the Red-Green Alliance.
01:30:57.720I read it the other day, and I think it is so important that you hear it because what I put on a chalkboard now is proven to be true by people who are much smarter than I am.
01:31:23.080You know, I'm just glad that it has a name now.0.97
01:31:26.520The red for the communists, the green for the Islamists.0.96
01:31:31.740And, you know, if I would have known history, especially of 1979, I would have had an answer for that.0.95
01:31:39.480And now we know that because of people like you.
01:31:43.620Tell me what this alliance is and why it is so dangerous, even for the people who are in it.
01:31:50.840So it's, you know, the paper goes into much more detail, of course, but it's essentially a fusion of the Marxist left and the Islamist movement, you know, doctrinal Islam, as I would really define it.0.75
01:32:06.900And so these two forces, yes, and these two forces basically have every single barrier and every single goal shy of their in-state desire is virtually the same.
01:32:19.320So there is a political convenience to them both aligning and working together because it requires the toppling of Western civilization, of capitalism, etc.0.86
01:32:28.680Now, of course, at the end of this, what the Marxists never really quite figure out is that once they've achieved their goals, the Islamists kill them.0.93
01:32:38.660They execute them. They get them out of the way.0.96
01:32:41.480So it's not a durable alliance. It's a short-term means to an end.
01:32:47.320And I think that at the end of the day, the Islamists are playing the Marxists.0.90
01:32:51.000And you see this manifesting itself in the form of Mamdani, who's kind of both.0.89
01:32:58.100But you see people out there like Hassan Piker and other Islamists out there who are saying a lot of things.0.79
01:33:03.420And I think that fundamentally the mistake we made, and some of it's understandable at the turn of the century, which is weird to say, but at the turn of the century, the focus was on Islamic terrorism.0.66
01:33:14.420And when the focus is on Islamic terrorism, that's 3% to 5% of the population.
01:33:20.860And so then, therefore, the other 95% becomes victims, and they become asylum seekers, they become refugees, they're displaced, they get sent to Europe, they get sent to the United States.0.93
01:33:31.800And so now, in the last 20 years, almost incomprehensibly, we have a large population of Islamists.0.88
01:33:38.980And the problem is that Islam is radicalized culturally.0.88
01:33:43.660It does not align with classical liberalism. It's a conquering ideology. It seeks to displace0.65
01:33:49.480our system and replace it with Sharia and its own religious political ideology. And so, you know,0.99
01:33:56.720that form of radicalism looks different if they're not a terrorist per se. So, for instance,
01:34:03.620you know, if you believe that if you leave the religion of Islam, that you should be tried in1.00
01:34:08.480a court, you know, you get due process, you get a lawyer, but you should be found guilty in the0.98
01:34:13.100sentence for that should be death, you don't belong in America. You never should have been
01:34:17.460allowed in America in the first place. And so we have this radicalized cultural Islamist movement0.98
01:34:22.560that is in league with the Marxist left. And of course, now we're seeing all of these DSA0.89
01:34:28.180candidates pop out of the woodwork for the left and they're winning elections in Democrat primaries.
01:34:32.960And so we're seeing a surge of this entire movement.
01:34:36.120so yesterday um congress or the senate held a hearing on the influence of the muslim brotherhood0.97
01:34:45.140which is a nasty green organization um the influence of the muslim brotherhood and the dsa0.78
01:34:52.800not a single democrat showed up for that hearing that should tell you something shouldn't it yeah0.97
01:35:00.620Absolutely. And the unwillingness, frankly, even of our side in many respects, to admit that the problem is much bigger than three to five percent or even acknowledge that there's a problem, even if it's just three to five percent, which is way more than that.
01:35:14.480The left won't even acknowledge the three to five and try to address that through public policy and national security means.
01:35:20.360They ignore it. They'll call you a bigot for highlighting it.
01:35:22.960But the problem is, is that the radicalism is way more than that.
01:35:26.840And it could be 80 percent of the population.
01:35:28.620that's just not suitable. But our side is politically unwilling to admit that. And I
01:35:33.300understand that, you know, the average person is not yet quite willing to say that it could be 80%
01:35:38.780of the population that's radicalized, that has been coming over in recent decades. But first,
01:35:44.860you have to admit you have a problem. And then you can start talking about the solutions. And
01:35:48.360the white paper we wrote was just admitting we have a problem. What comes after that is we need
01:35:53.260to start working with our allies on Capitol Hill and state legislatures to figure out what is the
01:35:57.840policy solution to this. And the problem we're going to run into, Glenn, is that a lot of people
01:36:03.840on our side will say, well, the First Amendment and free speech and, you know, well, the answer
01:36:09.080to a conquering ideology in our domestic space cannot be that we have no recourse and that we
01:36:16.340just have to allow it to happen. I'm also not saying that we should violate the First Amendment
01:36:20.380or religious liberty, but I think that we have to figure out how do we treat Islam as a political0.87
01:36:24.880ideology, unlike Sikhs, Judaism, Christianity, etc. To me, this is really easy. It is not0.99
01:36:32.560simply a religion. If you want to practice your religion, that's fine. But if your religion
01:36:37.660teaches that the Constitution must be replaced, now it is a political organization. You're now0.86
01:36:45.800saying it's a system of governance. I'm sorry, but that's incompatible. I mean, you say in your
01:36:52.700brief red green alliance is an existential threat to the republic uniting neo-marxists and radical0.82
01:36:57.900islamists around the shared goal of destroying america's constitutional order capitalism and0.79
01:37:03.980western christian tradition how can we continue to let people serve if that's their goal when0.88
01:37:12.260they are standing there taking an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states
01:37:18.660if their goal is to overthrow the Constitution.
01:37:21.600I agree, and I've publicly said that I think that these DSA candidates
01:37:25.620who are specifically saying that, that we should refuse to seat them.
01:37:29.340That's fundamentally different than AOC, who we just disagree with
01:37:32.480and we think that she's wrong on virtually everything.
01:37:35.060But even AOC is careful not to say that we should overthrow the Constitution generally.
01:37:38.980I mean, if we dig deep, maybe we can find that.
01:37:41.060But these new candidates, they just proudly proclaim it all over the place.
01:37:45.300And I think that Congress should just refuse to seat them
01:37:47.940If they do, in fact, end up winning their primaries, we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
01:37:52.900And I think that it is a relatively easy line to draw to say, if you're overtly arguing to destroy Western civilization, the Constitution, you cannot take a place on the floor and vote on legislation affecting Americans.0.92
01:38:07.720So I found good news in El-Sayed's victory because it was predicted to be just a wild, you know, wildfire.0.87
01:38:17.200And it wasn't. It was within, I think, 14,000 points in the end when they stopped counting.
01:38:25.240So I find some good news that maybe the Democrats are not all sold on this.0.85
01:38:32.100And if you look at the numbers, it's all intellectuals and white rich people that voted for Al-Sayed, along with the Muslims.0.59
01:38:41.980The working class, they didn't vote for that.
01:38:45.620So are you seeing signs of hope on this, that maybe Democrats are going to wake up to this?
01:38:52.300Yeah, I mean, I think that if you're a left Hispanic family Christian, you see this, you're horrified.
01:38:59.080I think that if you are a left black family Christian, you're horrified by this.
01:39:04.840And I think that ultimately, at the end of the day, those families are going to increasingly vote their interests.
01:39:09.640And they may not vote for Republicans, but I think they're going to choose rational, more rational and moderate Democrat voices.
01:39:16.640I mean, even James Carville is kind of apoplectic at what's happening to his party right now.
01:39:22.020And Elon's been saying this for years now that the Overton window is just moving so far to the left that what used to be a centrist is now considered radical right.
01:39:30.400And I think that that's playing out in politics as we see it. But, you know, we can't rest on our laurels that their own radicalism will just self-destruct itself and that we can just wait.
01:39:42.920I think that we have to proactively go out there and make the argument against it.
01:39:47.700OK, so I want to talk to you about I mean, you said and we're not going to have time to go into it.
01:39:53.060Let me just say, you say that there is a three-headed hydra, the enablers, which are the influencers in the media, the legitimizers, intellectuals and institutions, and the backers, the financial networks.
01:40:03.780So you get into, in your paper, how we can dismantle or kill this three-headed hydra.
01:40:10.760I want to get into that in 60 seconds.
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01:43:48.280And they have been swept up into this.
01:43:51.540And I don't know what it is psychologically that happens to people,
01:43:56.400But this is using the people who many of them are honest in, you know, hey, let's live in love and everything else.0.98
01:44:07.200And they are so blind that they are standing with people who will slit their throat or throw them off of the top of a building like they do in Iran or hang them for their lifestyle.0.92
01:44:22.760I think the leftists are looking at this through an oppressor versus oppressed viewpoint, and they think that if we can correct these historical injustices and show these oppressed groups that we're willing to do better and change, that they will be rational and thank us.
01:44:39.780And I think this is just part of the problem with woke ideology is that it's just not rational and logical.
01:44:45.580It doesn't comport with our understandings of human psychology and human sociology.
01:44:49.820And so it's just a huge amount of naivete.
01:44:52.540Of course, I don't think that educated and intelligent, both, I think, need to be there.
01:44:58.880People are really, you know, are Marxist to begin with.
01:45:03.920So, you know, I think part of the problem is that in order for Marxism to be attractive to you, you just have to be missing something, either intelligence or education, one of the two.0.89
01:45:15.200And that bleeds into their naivete on the impulses of radical Islam and that it is doctrinally, you know, doctrinally their mission is to destroy them and recreate Islam in its place.0.82
01:45:30.120And the left just refuses to even acknowledge that that's the case.0.87
01:45:35.600I mean, there's so many parallels with Nazi Germany, too.
01:45:38.420I mean, this happened in Iran, but it also, in a way, happened with the Nazis where they would bring people in and say, no, no, no, we're on your side.
01:45:45.800And then they'd kill them when they didn't need them anymore.0.69
01:45:50.320And it's so frustrating to see history repeat itself.
01:45:56.460But, you know, there were a lot of Jewish people in the 1930s that really kind of, some of them actually started almost, in a way, a pro-Nazi organization.
01:46:10.160It wasn't very big, but they were like, look, we're Germans, they're Germans.
01:46:13.900If we just show them that we're just like them, then we'll be accepted.
01:46:19.220And no, no, they were accepted for a very short period of time.0.92
01:46:22.880And then 1933, Hitler's like, okay, we don't need you anymore.0.91
01:46:26.460And part of the solution here, part of the solution is we're going to need to look at Israeli nationalism because Israel and to some degree Japan are really kind of the only two countries on the planet right now that have kind of figured out how to deal with Islam at the public policy level.0.75
01:46:43.280So regardless of whether you like Israel or not, you should be looking to them to learn how they're dealing with this problem.0.91
01:46:49.840Because even if you take the most wildly ridiculous anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, it comes nowhere close in terms of scope and danger to us as Americans, as Islam, just as it exists naturally.
01:47:03.580And so I think we need to wake up and figure out who the real enemies of this country are and figure out who our allies are and work with them to solve the problem.0.89
01:47:11.240So what can a listener in my audience do to help? What would be the most effective thing
01:47:16.880the individual can do? I think read the primer so you fully understand it. For those who already
01:47:21.360do, and a lot of your listeners will be familiar with this, I think we have to start thinking at
01:47:25.120the public policy level, the state level, the municipal level. How do we actually start solving
01:47:29.080this? How do we solve the call to prayer problem? How do we solve the creeping Sharia and Marxist
01:47:34.880ideology that is trying to be implemented and start coming up with public policy solutions and0.86
01:47:39.460then insist that our elected officials take it seriously and start moving forward. Otherwise,
01:47:45.220in action, in 15 years, we're going to look like Europe. We're going to have a rising Islamic1.00
01:47:49.860population that is increasingly radicalized, and the entire fabric of our culture is going to start1.00
01:47:55.680to unwind. We're seeing it happen in Europe right now. We have to wake up. There may be 10 or 15
01:48:00.180years ahead of where we are if we don't start taking action now and get over the politically
01:48:05.660correct arguments that we'll run into from kind of the centrist republicans we have to admit that0.79
01:48:11.160islam is doctrinally a civilizational level problem and it has to be addressed wade thank
01:48:18.140you please say hi to russ everybody on my staff such a fan of everything you guys are doing
01:48:23.520anything you need you please reach out to us we're big big fans wade miller thank you god
01:48:28.400bless thank you you can check it out at americarenewing.com americarenewing.com i'll also
01:48:35.120tweet the report out so you can read it it is well worth your time and well worth the read
01:48:41.140all right more in a minute dishes are done the house is finally gone quiet you turn off the
01:48:46.120lights you realize that for the first time all day nobody needs anything from you you walk into
01:48:51.120a cool dark bedroom pull back the covers you slide into a bed that feels like it was made to welcome
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01:50:47.960I'm going to be taking the next two weeks off.
01:50:49.780I'm leaving in just about an hour or so.
01:50:52.960And I won't be chronicling this in real time because we'll be in some places that I just don't need people to know that I'm there while we're there.
01:57:22.920I don't think it would be remotely close.0.99
01:57:24.020I think you could go all the way down, by the way.
01:57:25.800As soon as you get testosterone, as you well know,
01:57:28.420as everybody out there who's ever raised a boy,
01:57:30.800knows um it changes the game substantially heck if you've ever coached if you got a you got a kid
01:57:36.540uh in 13 you that already has a mustache i mean he's going to be a lot better than most of the
01:57:41.840other 13 year olds and so i think you can get an eighth grade boys team uh that would beat the best
01:57:46.500wnba team a team at wnba all-stars i don't even think some of those games would be remotely close
01:57:51.560so can i ask you i i've not been able to figure out why caitlin clark is not supporting sophie
01:57:59.520Cunningham. Why has that not been a dynamic duo here? So I'll defend Caitlin Clark in this way,
01:58:07.160Glenn. You and I and most of your listeners out there, we grew up and watched and loved sports
01:58:12.500in the 80s and the 90s, what I would call the Jordan era of basketball. Jordan's most famous
01:58:18.180quote in my mind, I wrote a book with this title, is Republicans buy sneakers too. And I think
01:58:23.780Michael Jordan's perspective, and it was followed by Tiger Woods in golf, and it was followed by
01:58:28.040Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, a lot of other big time athletes was, I'm not going to get involved
01:58:33.000in politics. I want everybody, Republicans, Democrats, independents, to be able to be fans
01:58:39.040of my brand. Republicans buy sneakers, too. I think Caitlin Clark is rejecting, in many ways,
01:58:45.300the LeBron era, which is, you need to know everything that I think about politics, which
01:58:49.740has, I think, made him incredibly polarizing. And instead, she's trying to go back to the
01:58:54.400Jordan-Tiger Woods era of appealing to everyone. And Glenn, the example of this I would give is
01:58:59.880she was asked who she was going to vote for in the 2024 presidential election, Kamala or Trump,
01:59:06.440and she said she didn't want to answer. She didn't think it was her business to tell people
01:59:10.220what her politics were. And so I think what has actually happened here is the WNBA has put a lot
01:59:16.480of coaches and players in tough spots who may well agree with us on the absurdity of this premise.
01:59:21.980All they have to do, and she said this basically in her answer is, that's a question for the league. And the league, the commissioner, should, if they had any backbone at all, come out and just say, hey, this is a league for women. If you are born male, you can pursue life to the furthest of your happiness as you desire. You cannot become a women's basketball player.0.51
01:59:45.300They haven't said it. They won't say it, I think, because the league itself is committed to identity politics.
01:59:51.000But I do think that that is that is the reason why she has avoided joining Sophie Cunningham on her side.
01:59:57.940That makes total sense. Total sense. I just feel like, you know, Caitlin's been, you know, just pounded in the head for so long.
02:00:07.900And you would think when you'd see somebody else being pounded in the head, it would just be your instinct to go say, hey, knock it off.
02:00:16.240I don't have to agree, but knock it off.
02:00:34.600I think her base, if I were sitting down and talking with her, I would say, look, your
02:00:39.500base is Trump America, whether you like it or not.
02:00:42.280And also a lot of other sane people, because remember, Glenn, this is an 80-20 issue nationwide.
02:00:48.760I actually think it's a 95-5 issue for sports fans.0.95
02:00:52.360I think the 5% who are Looney Bin members get a lot of attention.0.96
02:00:56.740But I think for men, like nobody makes this argument, right?0.84
02:00:59.860Like, there isn't a dad in America listening to you right now who thinks that a grown man should be able to compete against his daughter or his granddaughter, right?
02:01:17.500If I were advising her, I understand the perspective of I'm just going to avoid all politics because if you answer this, next thing you know, people are asking you what you think about every issue.0.65
02:01:27.020But I think her base is actually would overwhelmingly support her if she said, yeah, this is only for women.
02:01:33.920One more thing, because I know you got to go get ready for the show because you're on here and right after my show on premiere.
02:01:39.360But what do you think of the the coaches that are now saying that, you know, men are going to start coming and taking their jobs and men shouldn't be coaches for the WNBA?
02:03:47.980Clay Travis, Outkick founder and also co-host of the Clay and Buck show that is on the premier radio network immediately following this one.
02:03:57.920By the way, if you did not hear the show yesterday, the after show, it is now on demand.
02:04:05.720It is something that I believe I'm not doing it on the regular show.
02:04:10.640I'm going to do it in bits and pieces because it is something that requires a little bit of thinking.
02:04:19.240It requires real deep thought and explanation on it, but it's what happens when the past disappears.
02:04:27.460And I show you that this has been done before in history, and it is stunning.
02:04:33.460It is stunning what was said in 600 that's being said today.
02:04:39.260The exact same thing, just different tools.