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America is down, but she's not out the leftist within the Democrat Party or trying to reimagine a new America.

Their version of America, and that's a really bad idea.

What's up America? I am Rich Valdes, Valdes with an S, your Liberty Loving Latino Amigo,

and some of you guys know me as Mr. Call Screener. I am the host of America at night with Rich Valdes.

Formerly the Jimbo Hanon Show, we're on hundreds of wonderful radio stations across the country,

and it's my pleasure to fill in for the great one Mark Levin tonight.

So turn up your volume, get comfortable, put your feet up and get ready for the best three hours in talk radio,

and they're not going to be the same. They're going to be different every hour, so don't miss a single minute of it,

because I think you're going to enjoy it. And not because of me, but because of you,

and because of the conversation, because of the critical times that we're in now.

When it comes to ideas, it's good versus evil. Good ideas versus bad ideas.

I say, love your neighbor, love your fellow man, but don't love bad ideas. Now, we should always,

always discriminate against bad ideas. And perhaps learning how to separate the two is a little bit of a

task, but it's a task worth taking on. Our civil society depends on that. We must be able to sit in a

restaurant, go to the doctor, go to the bank, without worrying about getting canceled because of our beliefs.

Of course, it's also appropriate to choose where we conduct our business as much as it is within our

rights to push back on those bad ideas. For example, adult men dressed as women performing drag queen

shows with sexual innuendos for minor children. That's a bad idea, in my opinion, right? It's

I'm going to say objectionable for some people, especially when it's facilitated by a teacher or

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