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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

All right, America. I am Rich Valdes and we reserve our national anthem, of course, for the great one, Mark Levin and the Democrats are ruining our republic.

That's right. The Democrats are calling for the destruction of the democracy that we know. And I don't even like to use the word democracy.

I like to use the word republic because that's what we are. We are a constitutional republic. And we have to stay one. That's kind of like a quote from Benjamin Franklin.

But welcome to the mark within show. I am Rich Valdes Valdes with an S at Rich Valdes on all of the social media. And we're going to get into several topics tonight.

I'm going to give you our phone number. It's 877-381-3811-877-381-3811.

I want to hear your thoughts on lots of different things. But the reality is regressive progressives are trying to raise the republic. And I mean R-A-Z-E-Rays.

They're trying to do away with it and get their own way. We've seen hearing after hearing, they're saying they're not hearings, all sorts of things.

They're in a rush. The other day I made a comparison. And I said, you know what? When not you, but when someone walks into a store and steals something, they're shoplifting.

They put something down their pants in their jacket, whatever it is. Don't get fresh, mind out of the gutter. And they're trying to steal something and get out of the store. And what happens?

They're trying to get out of their quick, fast, and in a hurry. They do not want to stick around to see what's going to go on for somebody to say, hey, what's going on? Is that a pot or a pan?

They just put into your bag. They're not going to stick around for that. So they're trying to get out and they're trying to get out fast. And that's what the Democrats are doing. And that's why they continue to keep piling things on, pushing their fake news narrative so that they can put their story out and guide this.

But this is a problem. And I got to say, we got to just say, you know, hold up. Wait a minute. Chill. Relax.

Again, my name is Rich Valdes with an S. I am your Liberty Loving Latino Amigo right here in New York, filling in for the great one, Mark Levin. I am also known to so many of my proud Levinite brethren as Mr. Call screener.

I host a show in New York City on W ABC.

I'm Monday through Friday on their Long Island station and I have a podcast there called this is America and I want to encourage you to check it out. And I bring that up not for the shameless plug, which I just did. But more so because this is not something new.

Because you live in it's are the smartest audience in talk radio and because you can appreciate these higher level concepts. I want to share with you some research that I've done for a podcast that I did and you can listen to it later if you want.

But I want to share with you a little bit about how male imbalances were part of a plot to deny Abraham Lincoln the presidency back in the election of 1864.

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