LINCOLN AND TRUMP? - #934

0:00And now the world's most exciting podcast, the Savage Nation, home of borders, language, culture. Here he is, Michael Savage. Dictatorship or Liberty. Is it either or? Well, we're going to be talking about that today and many other things on today's very brief discussion as it turns out. Let's begin with the question. Dictatorship or Liberty. Well, we all say what we want, Liberty. How about Abraham Lincoln? He's considered by most Americans to be one of our greatest presidents. Yet Lincoln acted like a dictated during the Civil War. Many people don't know this. Sometimes it takes extreme actions to counter entrenched policies, which were enforced by partisan judges over many years. You know, it's been said that freedom is not free.

1:03And sometimes we have to give up some of our freedoms to free ourselves from the yoke of a naked left wing dictatorship, which has dictated American policy for decades against the will of the American people. Most people don't know this, but during the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, allowing the detention of thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial. People don't know that. Honesty, really. Lincoln also implemented martial law, used military tribunals to try civilians. He didn't like. He censored newspapers and supervised elections to maintain control. This was not taught to you in grade school. Some of the key actions that were tanked by the great Abraham Lincoln against civil liberties included one suspension of habeas corpus in 1861 Lincoln authorized military commanders to arrest and detain people suspected of disloyal practices without trial initially in Maryland

2:06and later expanding nationally by 1862. Military tribunals in 1862 Lincoln proclaimed that anyone guilty of disloyal practices such as aiding the enemy or discouraging volunteer enlistments was subject to martial law and trial by military courts rather than civil courts. What did he do about freedom of speech and freedom of the press? The Lincoln administration through military officials shuttered several anti-war newspapers and arrested editors criticized the war effort. Keep listening, you may learn something. He supervised voting. In border states, Lincoln's administration oversaw elections, sometimes employing armed troops to ensure that unionist wins and suppressed perceived disloyal voting. Without immediate congressional approval, without immediate congressional approval, Lincoln expanded the army

3:07and ordered a naval blockade which was described as exercising power, typically reserved for Congress. Are you paying attention now? These actions were very controversial and led to charges that Lincoln was acting as a dictator, but he argued that they were necessary wartime measures authorized by the constitution and cases of rebellion to preserve the union. Now let's continue to our times. Seven Michael seven almost like no other. Have you dabble in investing here and there but haven't been happy with how things are going? Stash helps turn good intentions into consistent progress. Stash isn't just another investing app. It's a registered investment advisor that combines automated investing with expert personalized guidance. So you don't have to worry about gambling or figuring it out on your own. Stash is simple, smart, and stress-free. Choose from personalized investments. Let Stash's award-winning

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8:27You know and I know that we've been suffering under a Soviet style dictatorship for decades before Trump came along. I wrote one book after another. Perhaps the most interesting one is liberalism is a metal disorder where I disclosed how the ACLU destroyed America's moral spine through judicial actions. I also wrote a book called Trichol down tyranny, crushing Obama's dream of the socialist states of America. Sound familiar? Well let me tell you something. We had a tyranny under Obama. We had a naked dictator dictatorship under Obama. We almost became not the USA, but the USS of A, the United States of America or the Union of Social Estates of America. That's the question I raised. Obama was a naked dictator. He had America by the jugular and I tried to warn America then just as I'm warning us now. As I said, we've been suffering under a Soviet style dictatorship for decades. Judicial dictatorship.

9:30A dictatorship of the press. There was almost no opposition to the rubbish that was being fed the American people by the left wing press. So I studied communism since I'm 18 years old. I have studied communism since I'm 18 years old. I've read all of Marx, all of Lenin, all of Trotsky. I've read people you never heard of. And you should know that Lenin taught that in a passage that Soviet school children were forced to memorize. He taught this. Listen to what children had to repeat in grade school in the Soviet Union. Our morality is completely subordinate to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. In the foundation of communist morality lies the struggle for the strengthening and completion of communism. The children had to repeat that over and over again. And very little known Russian terrorist from the 19th century named Neckayev who you never heard of wrote one line that you should pay close attention to.

10:36Everything is moral that expedites the triumph of the revolution. Think about that and what we're living through and what Trump is trying to reverse in this country. There's a publication called communist with a K and they wrote this. Once everything is evaluated from the point of view of some class, then there is no moral trial and no personal ethical responsibility. Now you understand why there's lawlessness in Democrat run cities. Now you understand why they have hijacked the voting system without any moral conscience whatsoever. Now you understand why they've unleashed the trans maniacs on our babies. Now you understand why D.A.'s like Alvin Bragg and New York City have sympathy for the devil, meaning the criminal, not the victim. Now you understand a lot more than you may have understood before. And now you may understand why I'm talking about dictatorship or liberty.

11:38I recently talked about crime in America. And I said is crime in America a result of no punishment. I said look at left wing cities and what happens to crime rates after Trump sends in the national guard. Crimes go down. The leftist communist falsehood put forward by the newspapers as well is that crime is a result of too much power in the hands of the rich, the lack of empowerment of minorities. That is total BS. Everyone knows that without punishment crime goes up. I used to be a school teacher many, many decades ago. And if you let the kids do what they want, the classroom becomes unmanageable. You can't teach anything. They run wild in the classroom the way they run wild in the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles to name just a few cities under the vice grip of left wing district attorneys and courts. So this question is much bigger than it may appear to be. So who is on the side of crime in this

12:42country? Years ago, I wrote a book called liberalism as a mental disorder. And in it, I have a chapter entitled, Head of the Snake, the ACLU, which in my opinion is worth reviewing in part. I don't want to read the whole chapter to you right now. But everywhere you see a crazy lawsuit in favor of crime or disorder, it's a lawsuit that was brought or is brought by the vermin in the ACL. I also wrote, way back when this book was written in 2005, I said, this decade is a graveyard for politicians whose thinking was molded by the myth of the 60s. And I predicted something. I said, as a result, a time may come, a time may be forthcoming when the majority in this country will elect a far right leader who will win office on a promise to protect Americans from the continued agitation, social upheaval, and abuse of our courts by the hard left. I wrote this in 2005.

13:43Hear me. I was not really advocating such an action, but I said, mark my words. The dark clouds of retribution are looming on the horizon. And my predictions are not as far fetched as you might not think. I said, Americans are generally a tolerant people. But even American style tolerance has its limits. I knew people were pushed to the breaking point back when this book was written. They couldn't take it anymore. I said, Americans have stretched the break point by the anti-democratic, self-serving behavior of left-wing leaders and their communist socialist leaning front groups. I said liberals like to portray their desire for continuous social revolution dressed as a noble enterprise, wearing this clothing does not diminish the evil and danger unleashed by 40 years of trolling down the blind alleys of progressive policies. And the people are starting to see the light. This was 20 years ago. The sheep will not walk around forever with zippers on their mouths

14:49while the left systematically dismantles our great nation and everything that gave rise to this shining enterprise of freedom. And that was then, and this is now. And I said that the left has placed freedom loving God-fearing people in a straight jacket. I also said that liberalism continues to poison the well of liberty. Just look at the wreckage the left has caused upon our children, drugging them into compliance while bending their minds into perversion in the name of tolerance. Or their efforts to strip God from the pledge of allegiance. While jackhammering, the cultural stones upon which this nation was built, the Ten Commandments. And every turn I wrote, these human tics snapped the crosses from our churches and warm memorials and whitewash Judeo-Christian heritage from the history books. I wrote then that I packed many New York Times best sellers with examples of a liberalism run a muck to ignore the enemy within as to do so at your own risk.

15:52Tries they have to silence me. I for one will not bend my knee to the hard left. These progressives I wrote are dangerous to your survival. They'll stop it nothing to silence those with whom they disagree. And they are relentless in their efforts to disrupt the free flow of ideas. That was just a little bit of what was in liberalism as a mental disorder, which is a classic, by the way, that should live in a long time in many libraries, but it's not even seen in American libraries. I wrote this, given the failed state of our public education, most of you might not know the difference between Mussolini, Tortellini, or Lingguini. I thought that was funny, but it wasn't funny when you consider the tyranny of Obama and the tyranny of Joe Biden. Joe Biden hated white men, even though he was a white man, he made believe he hated white people. He steamed up the minorities against white people, justifying virtually any act of crime in the name of racism. You remember living under Joe Biden's

16:58hatred for white people? He found that that worked. He was a moderate many, many decades ago, but he found out that hate works and he used it to the end to agree. Just as many on the far left today are continuing that legacy of hatred against everything decent in this country. So the nation is on a precipice and we don't know which will prevail. We really don't know which will prevail. Will it be dictatorship or will it be liberty? As I said at the beginning, both may be occurring simultaneously and we don't know which will prevail. I ask can the center hold while being pulled in both directions? I'm not sure. Well, I know is that we've been suffering under a Soviet style dictatorship for decades and truthfully as rough as he may be and as let's say disturbing as Donald Trump may be at times. He's the only thing we have separating us from this dictatorship of the left.

18:02I think I finished. That's all I really want to say. There's not much more. I want to say right now there's a lot more I can say. Sure, liberalism is mental disorder. I wrote that and it's turned out to be unfortunately very true. Yes, I said there was trickle down tyranny under Obama and it was stopped by Trump. And now we have a situation where everything is being reversed. Every time a criminal arrested, he's called an oppressed minority. We saw it just the other day. An innocent child, 18 years old was with her friends in Chicago. A Chicago run under that lawless maniac, Brandon Johnson. I don't know which side he's on. I'm pretty sure he's on the side of the gangs because everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like it's been written for him by the ACLU. An innocent child, an 18 year old girl was with her friends in Chicago and she was shot dead by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Do you know what the Chicago left as politicians had the nerve

19:06to say? Well, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She may have said something to startle the gunman. It was the gun that did it. Do you realize how sick these liberals are? But they're really not sick. They're following a script. That's where I've been trying to teach you today. They're not sick. You may think that they're sick, that they're mentally ill. Some of them may be, I don't know what drugs they're on. We know that occasional cortex spent $18,000 of campaign money on ketamine went to a ketamine doctor. But if you take to heart what I taught you today, what Lenin was teaching in the Soviet Union, what the communists were teaching, everything is tomorrow that expedites the triumph of the revolution. Then you can understand some of the statements that come out of the mouths of the far left politicians and media in this country. Make no mistake about it. America's future hangs in the balance like a loose tooth. I'm Michael Savage. And I've tried to give you what is known as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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21:13places. We all need a break from politics. I know I do. I've involved with it for someone of years. Long before I began in radio in 1994, I was caught up in this turmoil called America. I need a break from it. I think you need a break from it. Those of you who've known me for years know that I'm famous for my storytelling. My childhood stories in particular, which are all contained in this amazing book of Savage Life. It's basically my autobiography and what I love about it is it has pictures of me actually wearing dead man's pants in here if you look careful and things like that. I asked on Twitter, what would you like me to talk about in my favorite childhood stories? Do you like fat owls, tuna, lewie, and the monkey? Which story do you like the best? And I decided I'm going to take a break from the news and I'm going to be Michael telling stories. I don't know why maybe I'm getting older and I'm thinking back on some of the childhood stories. I guess you do that when you get older. You start reflecting on your whole life and your childhood

22:16comes back strongly. I have no loss of short-term memory and I have no loss of long-term memory. I'm just thinking about my childhood stories. Nympho and Alipond Park they love. That's a great touching story. A lot of women related to that. I mean it's a very touching story but I want to talk about the stories that I think made me kind of well-known. For 30 years Savage has captivated listeners on his radio show that was then which reaches a loyal audience of more than 10 million. It was more than 20 million. In a Savage Life the usually private man tells his own compelling story in 46 vignettes that span his childhood to today. These tales are Savage's journey from poor immigrant son in New York City to media star a deeply personal and revealing. He writes it being so poor as a child that he had to wear it. Dead man's pants it's true. Of the various trials that he set his parents and his silent brother Jerome by the way who was sent to an institution of his botanical expeditions to Fiji in the 1970s and most of all of his family his sustaining

23:18force throughout. The New Yorker called it called him a marvelous storyteller. Washington Times called a vivid storytelling. I'll let you decide for yourself. So let me think back to some of the childhood stories. Here is a picture that a listener sent me years ago of my father's antique store which was so influential in my life. It's still there in New York City at 137 Ludlow Street. The last I checked it was a nightclub and next door is the funeral Paula that was where I saw my first stiff down below. I haven't been back there in many years but I want to tell you some of my childhood stories just to break up the news cycle a little bit. Now I could read from the book or I can just tell you the stories as I remember them. So which shall I begin with? Louis and the Monkey Fat Al's Tuna. Let me start with Fat Al's Tuna. Catskill Mountains. Late 1950s I suppose. I was a busboy in the Shanks Paramount Hotel

24:18and I love kitchens. I've always loved kitchens. Whether it was my mother's little kitchen and queens or a bustling kitchen that prepared food for 400, 400 starving Jews and none of them was starving. But when they paid for their one week vacation and these hotels in the in the borched belt they wanted to eat every ounce of food that they paid for even if they were at hungry and boy did they eat it was six meals a day. I mean three regular meals then breaks between the meals with meals then meals on the meals meals on wheels then they were we worked 16 to 18 hours a day as busboys and I loved every minute of it. I was never tired. We'd work from breakfast till the midnight snack after the entertainment in the casinos and then of course the people would come in for a midnight snack they had to be fed. That was one of the appeals of these hotels was the amount of food they got and they would eat at midnight. So we weren't through till two in the morning cleaning up. We'd had to get up at six in the morning. We didn't complain. We all slept in barracks housing. Today they would be illegal. All the guys were together. We had a

25:22wonderful time. In fact we'd often go out partying to the other hotels and between the meals shifts you know between dinner and the midnight snack. It was a great time for me but I remember fat owl. So fat owl was a big Italian. He must have weighed about 350 pounds. One of the big guys with 25 inch arms. I don't mean muscle arms. These were naturally big guys. They didn't work out but they could knock you across the floor with the back of the hand like a bear. They didn't have abs. They had big fat bigger bellies. Owl was this big Italian guy and he was making the tuna fish and I was young kid in the kitchen. I was fascinated. He had this huge terrain and he says, let me show you kid how you make tuna. Now picture this. He always had a cigarette, dangly from the side of his mouth like a pellamel or a camel and he'd ask me, oh you fall it out. Let me show you how you make tuna kid and he had his big arm and his big Italian arm in the terrain and he would throw in the tuna in these big commercial cans. Then you'll put in your mayo, Mike. Let me show you how you do it. He'd put in tops of mayonnaise. I don't know whatever the hell else he put in there

26:23and he starts mixing with his arm. There were no mechanical mixers and he put his arm in the terrain and his arm was up to here in tuna fish. I swear to God. And as he's talking, the ashes are falling into the tuna fish. He didn't do it on purpose. He didn't even care. So he's mixing his arm. His arm is mixing the big tuna. Here's how you make it kid. You move it around. You move it around till it gets a creamy consistency and the arm is now pulled out and he says, that's how you make tuna. So I swear that's a true story. Now no one ever complained about it. It was just fat else tuna. It was that simple. So that's one story that became very popular on my radio show over the years. There are others. I can I can recall them. I don't even have to read them. I may read some of them. No, he didn't have hairy palms. I don't know of any mammal that has hairy palms. By the way, other than Rosie O'Donnell, is that why she moved to Ireland? I don't know. Maybe they like Rosie O'Donnell's hairy palms in Ireland. Another story that everybody seems to remember from those of you who were new to the Savage Nation. Another story that comes up is Deadman's

27:27pants. Now I actually did wear Deadman's pants. And that's kind of a story that's icky. I don't like it that much. I don't think it's clever. But children have a way of accepting whatever's done in their lives without getting upset over it. So my father was an immigrant. Came here at age seven or something. I don't know from Belarus. And he had to have a hard scrambling life, you know, whatever he could do to make a living. Laurie started New York. And he told me some of these stories. He once got a job. He was 13 years old or something driving a laundry wagon pulled by a horse. Can you imagine that horses were still drawing wagons when he was a kid him in Hatton? And the horse bolted and started to pull the wagon and got away from him. And he tried to get the horse and couldn't and slipped and a spike went through his leg. I don't remember the whole story. But kids did what they had to do. He didn't sue anybody. There were no shyster lawyers that ran

28:28after the owner. He was glad to have a job. So, okay, big deal. He worked his way up out of poverty to an extent. And he opened a little secondhand goods store at 137 Ludlow Street. And in it, he sold antiques along with the used goods. And when I say antiques, 19th century French bronzes, clocks, paintings, which I still love paintings and bronze statues. One day I'll do a whole show on bronze statues and my cleaning bronzes in the basement with cyanide solution. It's a true story, nightmarish story, again, out of Dickens. I don't know how I survived all of these. I had no idea that it was bad for me. All I know is my face would turn red from using the cyanide solution. So, anyway, he worked his way up out of poverty. And that's only a little antique store. So much went on down in the basement of that store. You see, there were 10 stores in one.

29:29Each of the poor people had a stand in the store. Some sold basically stuff from auctions that they got when people died. And whatever it was, clothing, if someone died, a guy would come in and bid for the whole lot, the clothing, whatever the man left behind, whatever it was, they took it all for a certain amount of money that we don't want to get rid of the clothing. And he would bring it in to the market. And I dreaded when he did it. This I'm going to have to read because it's written so well. And I think this is the Deadman's pants story that where I talk about I really was poor and I really did wear Deadman's pants. I have to find it for you. There's so many good stories. Happy and sad cufflinks. Deadman's pants here at his page 179. I have to read this to you because I wrote it better than I can actually narrate all the details to you. It's not too long. So indulge me if you will. So here we are with Deadman's pants on the Savage Nation. Growing up in the Bronx as I did, the manchild in the Promised Land, I didn't have many of the luxuries. Most kids

30:31with their hats on backwards take for granted today. My father was an immigrant. He worked this fingers to the bone. We simply didn't have the money to afford more than the basics. So as you might expect, I cherished and took care of the things I had. As a kid, I'd line up my shoes under my bed at night, neat, like in the military. I made sure they were polished too. I'm sure some shrink today would say I suffered from ADD or other compulsive behavior disorders and should have been put on a regimen of riddle in because I kept my shoes lined up and polished them. I wonder what they'd say about the fact that through most of my youth, I wore secondhand pants from Deadman. Many of the pants I wore as a preteen came off of stiffs and were cut down to fit me. Now don't get me wrong. My father was a good man. He ran a small antique store with mostly 19th century stuff. On the side, at least in the beginning, he sold used goods as well. A man's got to do what a man's got to do to make ends meet, right? Occasionally, he would go to an auction after a man died and buy the entire estate, the clocks, the dishes, the mirrors, whatever the man had,

31:34the pants, the shirts, the whole deal. You'd get the picture. Well, back at the store, as he sorted through the stuff for resale, he'd take a closer look at the suits. And once he got a hard shaft remark suit from a dead man, now what's he going to do? Toss it in the garbage like they do today? In those days, it wasn't in him to throw out a good, worsted fabric in study brought at home for the pants for me. I remember my father called me to the bedroom and showed me, showed them to me like the head tailor at SACS department store and he said, now Michael, get a good look at the fabric. I wanted a vomit. I got a migraine because I knew what was coming. Take a look at the quality of this fabric. He's working me like a salesman. He's unrolling the pants on the bed. I can see it to this day. He unrolls them like he's selling me a bolt of hand woven cloth and he says, you can't get fabric like this anymore. I wanted to say, of course, not dead. They don't sell stuff like that for men who died. You know, it was like special clothing for the undertaker. Even if I had said something that wouldn't have changed anything, he'd go downtown and the pants would come

32:37back fit for me, you know, shortened without the legs taken and properly. They ended up baggy like an abbot Castello pair of clown pants. Even if they had fit me properly, there was something repugnant about the whole idea about wearing dead man's pants. Like I said, I knew how to make do with whatever was in hand. There's an old saying, the man with no shoes complains until he meets the man with no feet. Years later, the fact that I didn't have much more than a place to sleep in my first little apartment after college was okay with me. At least I wasn't wearing dead man's pants. Little did I know that one day those awful pants would serve as a metaphor for the shift in my political orientation. You might find it interesting that I wasn't always an independent conservative. I was raised in a Democrat home, blue collar home. My dad was a Democrat. My mom was a Democrat. All of my relatives still vote Democrat. To an immigrant family whose parents came of age during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the great white savior. Aside from being

33:38the only U.S. President reelected the office three times, he gained lasting political mileage with the relief that his new deal offered. As you might expect then, my father used to tell me Michael, all I know is this. The Democrats are for the little guy and the Republicans are for big business. In a way, his attempt to sell me on the political leanings of the Democratic party was no different than his sales job with the dead man's pants. He was selling me a failed etiology that should have been buried long ago. So as a young man not seeing things as clearly as I do now, I voted as my dad did since I didn't understand politics. As I grew older, that view would change completely. The turning point in my thinking can be traced back to my first job out of college as a social worker in the Upper West Side of New York. All of my so-called clients were minorities. Now I was a good liberal at the time having had my brainwashed at one of the city universities of New York City by a whole slew of European immigrants who instead of kissing the ground when

34:38they got here, urinated on the sacred soil and the flag and immediately sought to instill communist philosophy in the minds of the young. I didn't know it at the time. I was just a wide-eyed liberal kid with an eye on changing the world. There I was fresh out of Queens College, having minored in sociology. I figured I'd take a job as a social worker to save the oppressed minority. I was always an idealist. I still am as a matter of fact. But the abuses of the welfare system that I saw back then nauseated me and started me on my slow road to recovery. Day after today I found person after person who was working, who had a job, but who claimed they didn't so they could get their government hand out. Worse, they knew they were ripping off the welfare system and didn't bat an eye. How could I be so sure these Hucksters weren't swindling Uncle Sam? I mean, you could argue that they were were oppressed and didn't know the rules, not me. At a young age I learned a valuable lesson on how to spot people who smile to your face while robbing

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