THE SAVAGE NATION

00:06 And now, the world's most exciting podcast, The Savage Nation. Home of borders, language, culture. Here he is, Michael Savage. 00:17 Today I want to talk about a tweet that I recently posted entitled, I'll read it exactly so we get it right. 00:29 Here we go. America first, Americans last, question mark. 00:36 Do all muscular, dominant foreign and domestic policies translate into a betterment for the citizenry? 00:45 As I woke this morning, another great morning here in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I guess I kind of like, I can't take the heat. 00:56 I lay in bed sometimes at dawn, and before I get out of bed, I kind of run through the thoughts of the day, personal, political, and others. 01:06 And some of them I dismiss as just morning mucus, mental mucus. 01:13 Some I think are worthy of discussion. 01:18 And so I have a little pad next to my bed and I wrote this down. 01:25 I learned this technique a long time ago. For those of you who want to know how I was able to write 30 books, earn a PhD, two master's degrees, create a business, have a family, and still be alive at 84 with, let's say, genetic inheritance that was not the finest in terms of longevity. 01:47 I learned to write the ideas down next to my bed. 01:52 But someone just wrote something interesting. They said, dismissing thoughts is a skill. That's right. 01:57 Which thoughts do we dismiss? Which thoughts do we save? I'll save that discussion for another time. But this is the thought for this morning. America first, Americans last. 02:08 Now, at first, I posed it as a positive statement, meaning muscular, dominant foreign and domestic actions do not always translate into a betterment for the citizenry. But I then changed it into a question because it's not 100 percent true one way or the other. 02:24 Savage. Michael Savage, a host like no other. 02:29 Can I ask you something? 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That's rougiette.com slash savage now. 05:48 So if you look at the economic indicator, let's start with the economy. 05:53 Let's start with the primary indicator. issue so you read an ai overview says the u.s economy shows resilient growth coupled with cooling but elevated inflation major recent indicators reflect of 2.1 percent annualized first quarter gdp growth rate an unemployment rate of 4.2 percent and an annual headline inflation rate of 3.5 key economic metrics i usually get bored with this stuff but i'm going somewhere key economic metrics include gdp expanded at a 2.1 annualized rate in Q1 2026 driven by business investment and consumer spending. 06:30 National unemployment rate is 4.2% with steady albeit moderating monthly payroll growth and wage growth at 3.5%. 06:39 Inflation consumer prices fell 0.4% in June bringing the 12-month headline inflation rate to 3.5%. Core inflation excluding food and energy. That's not accurate. 06:53 How can you exclude Food and energy from a core inflation data point. How is that possible? Because it's the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And whichever government is in power has their own people in the Bureau of Economic and Labor, in the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics. In other words, they fudge the data to make themselves look better. Because if you were to include food and energy, core inflation is not cooling. Go to the gas pump. 07:22 California, it's $6 and some odd 50 cents a gallon for gasoline. 07:29 So we now see that the economy is really not that good for the average American. 07:38 In fact, if you look at food and gas, it's terrible, actually terrible. And the main reason is, cut to the chase, Michael, war, war, war. Trump was elected and from my point of view, because he was a businessman, not a politician initially, that's why I backed him in 2015, because I am a totally anti-war conservative. 08:01 And as far as I can tell, this war against Iran has nothing to do with national self-defense, nothing, zero, nothing. 08:09 Iran is a terrorist state run by fanatical Islamists who have invaded and conquered Iran The Persians never wanted these invaders to run Iran, but run Iran, they do. 08:29 They are Arab invaders. They're not Persians. Make no mistake about it. But having said it, what does it matter? 08:36 You have to know history to know what I'm talking about. 08:43 Excuse me, I guess it's de classe to drink coffee on air, but something like that. 08:48 Coffee, cinnamon, chocolate powder, almond milk, morning brew. 09:01 You may be watching this two days later at night, but for me, it's a morning. 09:08 It's morning in America. 09:11 Is it morning in America or is it evening in America? 09:17 Is America's light dimming around the world or is America now still the shining bright light for the whole world? I don't know. It depends upon where you sit on the industrial scale of economic indicators. 09:33 If you are tied into the administration or in the military industrial complex, this has never been a better economy. 09:42 If you're an average Joe, not so. 09:46 So the other night, President Trump gave a speech, which I watched, and I asked the question, did it win new hearts and minds? 09:55 Did it win, I said new hearts and minds, new. 09:59 Of course, the true believers, the followers of Trump and of MAGA will say he could never do wrong and anything he does is right. 10:11 which certainly is how these things work for people who are followers, not thinkers. 10:20 But I asked, will the endless war in Iran, the war in Ukraine, and the price of goods catapult the far left into office in America? You betcha. I don't need to read anything about things to know what's going on. 10:34 I started out as an immigrant son, and I have to keep repeating that so you understand. I still remember what it's like to be struggling and poor. 10:43 And I'm not cut off from those who are struggling and poor. 10:48 So I ask, will the endless war in Iran, the war in Ukraine, which he said he would end overnight, millions of men, several million Ukrainian, just the most beautiful, strongest men in Ukraine and Russia have been macerated by this war. 11:09 They don't even come home in a coffin. 11:12 Because of modern technology, there's not even a body to send home to the mother. 11:17 Nothing. 11:19 The drone runs after a soldier hiding under rocks and macerates the soldier. And we celebrate this in America as great technology. It's sickening. It makes me throw up. 11:32 There's no dignity. 11:35 There's no heroism in war. 11:39 Hamburger. 11:42 hamburger and we celebrate this that we can mass we look at how many Russian soldiers are macerated every day and Wolf Blitzer celebrates on CNN the bloodthirsty scum of the earth in the media talk to you about how many Russians have been killed last week as though it's a data point we should be celebrating along with the madman in Ukraine how did he suddenly become our hero how did Zelensky who was the enemy of America when Biden was in power, suddenly become the greatest friend of Donald Trump? 12:14 How did this happen? 12:16 How did Zelensky become a hero of Donald Trump? I don't understand it. Yes, I do. Of course I do. 12:24 So will the endless war in Iran, the war in Ukraine, and the price of goods catapult the far left into office in America? Yes. 12:33 According to CNBC, which is a moderate leftist, moderate leftist outlet, More voters will be more likely to support a Democratic Socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey released Friday found. Take it for what it isn't. 12:54 The results indicate that even with the number of self-described Democratic Socialists on the ballot, Democrats will have the upper hand heading into November's midterm election, which is widely viewed as a referendum on Trump. It also suggests voters are warming to the idea of a more muscular federal government that provides additional services in exchange for higher taxes. 13:16 Increased taxes on the wealthiest in America to fund universal healthcare mainly for illegal immigrants and bums and drug addicts. 13:24 A higher minimum wage and universal basic income. Now I could dissect that for you because I've worked for minimum wage and I will tell you from the bottom up, raising the minimum wage does not always improve people's lives. 13:41 Case in point, restaurants in California. 13:44 The socialist morons who came out of Stanford and Berkeley pushed for a higher minimum wage for restaurant workers because they said it's not a living wage to work in McDonald's or Wendy's. So they pushed for a $20 an hour minimum wage. We all warned them that a minimum wage in California like that in the restaurant industry would drive many restaurants out of business. But the psychopaths at Berkeley and Stanford who've never held a job in their lives, said, no, but we have to give them a living wage. 14:15 So they raised the minimum wage and the restaurants went out of business. Restaurants are closing like flies are being swatted in Uganda in the summer. 14:26 Because you can't make a living as a restaurant owner if you're paying your workers more money than you're making yourself as a restaurant owner. It's impossible. But go tell that to the psychos at Stanford and Berkeley. They know nothing. They never had a job. 14:43 So this is the same with Democratic Socialists, with Bernie Sanders. Millionaires and billionaires. I'm going to bring in the millionaires and billionaires. The millionaires and billionaires. Bernie Sanders' mother should have aborted. He should have had an abortion before he was born. He was the worst curse in American history. He's a hypnotist of millions of young morons. who have never understood the first thing about socialism. 15:08 The first thing, they don't understand the first thing. Margaret Thatcher's great line, they never read it. 15:14 Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money. You can't tell that to the stupid people who graduated from Stanford and Berkeley and Harvard and NYU. They don't understand anything about anything. First of all, they were raised on drugs. That's the first. Their mother was a drug addict in utero. The mother of most of these morons who are Democratic socialists were drug addicts. Oh, I don't mean shooting up dope. The mother was a drug addict, a doper, probably was smoking dope while the baby was gestating. 15:46 So the baby was born, it looks like Greta Dumberg. Mentally, a Greta Dunberg type. 15:52 So the child's born drug addicted, and the mother doesn't even know she addicted the child through marijuana and or Valium and or Ativan and or antidepressants, which transfer through the placenta into the baby. So the baby is born as a drug addict, and now they're all democratic socialists. An army of democratic socialist drug addicts who don't know the first thing about anything, nothing. 16:20 That is how you wind up with an Islamist scumbag like mom's dummy running New York City, a man who has never held a job in his life, a complete product of his mother's TV movie making. He's a creation. 16:37 Dummy has never run a hot dog stand in New York City. 16:41 Mom's dummy in New York City has never run a business. But that's true for most Democrat politicians, by the way. 16:48 They never rent a business. They don't know what it is to make a payroll. 16:52 They have no idea. They're dummies from the top to the bottom. Has Charles Schumer ever had a business? 16:58 If Charles Schumer, that old ossified corned beef salesman, if that corned beef salesman from New York was a deli man in Katz's, for example, Charles Schumer, imagine him behind a counter with a dirty apron on and you ask for a corned beef sandwich. And you try to lean over the counter and you say, could you cut some of the fat off? He'd smile at you and he'd say, sure, I'll cut the fat out of the corned beef. And why do you blink? He puts more fat in between the slivers of meat. 17:28 That's Schumer, the deli man. 17:30 But they're all the same. The type that slipped fat in between the meat and tell you that they're more honest than the guy who doesn't do it. 17:39 So that is why you see somebody drug addicted from the placenta onward. 17:46 young people voting Democrat Socialists because they don't know what it is to hold a job and they don't understand what it is to make a payroll. Nothing. 17:55 All they want is something for nothing. 17:58 They were told that the last generation made housing unaffordable. That's the latest lie that they have. Housing is unaffordable. 18:08 Unaffordable. Under Bernie Sanders, you're going to have a beautiful house. You're going to have a house in Great Neck if you live in New York. Or you're going to have a beautiful home in the hills of Berkeley. Not a big home, but a little home, a small home on the hills. Just a small home on the hills of Berkeley if you vote for a democratic socialist. That's what they tell these morons. They don't know what it's like to have struggled all through the generations. Every generation has struggled to buy a house. I did. 18:36 I had to save every penny I earned since I was selling used comic books as a kid in New York City until I was married with a child in my 30s to buy my first home in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had to save every penny I ever earned along with my wife who saved every penny she ever earned since she was a child. We put all our money together What was it? 19:07 $9,000 or $9,000 to buy in 1974 to buy a $45,000 house. We had to put down 20%, not 10%, not 5%, not 1% because the reason the 20% down was so important was to make sure you could make the payments and not default. 19:25 So you had to put down 20% on 45 grand, which is, of course, $9,000. So we put down every penny we had to buy a little house on a hill in Northern California. It was facing the wrong way on a hill, and it had no sun in the winter. It was horrible. 19:44 But it was a house, and I had pride of ownership. 19:48 I took care of it. 19:49 That's where the kids grew up when they were young. They loved it. The children loved it. There was a creek down below with blackberries. The children don't see the struggle and they don't see the darkness of the winters. 20:01 They don't see the mother's and the father's struggles. 20:05 But the idiots who believe that they're going to get something for nothing think that they're entitled to a house. 20:12 Of course they have no house because it never worked. 20:15 And if they did work, what'd they do with their money? Went up their nose and they smoked it? 20:19 Where'd the money go? where they buy nice clothing. Well, I want nice clothing. I need nice clothing. 20:26 They need everything for nothing because they're drug addicts. They don't know the first thing about economics. 20:33 You want a nice house? You can't afford it? Move to towns and cities that nobody wants to live in. I named them once. You can still buy an affordable house if you're willing to work in this country, but it's not going to be in Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills. 20:49 It's not going to be a small apartment in the West Village of New York. 20:54 It's not going to be a small pad in San Francisco. 20:57 You have to move up into the country where, let's say, you don't want to live it because it's not cool. Because if you ask for coffee, you get black coffee. 21:06 They never heard of a double espresso mocha sashahuku made with mountain water from the 9,300 foot level in Uganda with a spritz. 21:18 A foam. They don't know what that is. They'll throw you out of the store if you ask for that. 21:24 You want to live in cool places. You can't afford it. 21:29 You're not supposed to be able to afford it. It's people who came before you, who built it, who could afford it, who are there. They didn't take it from you, you moron. 21:39 You're just stupid and you're not hardworking enough. That's why you can't have a house. No one took it from you. So if you want to believe mom's dummy or Bernie Sanders or the other scumbags who are lying to you, that they're going to give you free housing and free health care and free this care and free that care, go to Cuba and you'll see how it ends up. 28% of registered voters polled viewed socialism positively, a leap up from 18% in 2024. 22:07 50% of registered voters viewed capitalism positively. Little change from 51% of 2024. Are these dated points? 48% of voters viewed socialism negatively, while 27% viewed capitalism negatively in the poll release Friday. What does that all mean? 22:24 It means tax the rich and take what's not yours and make believe you're a genius. That's all it means. 22:31 Believe scumbags like mom's dummy. 22:34 who has never held a job in his life. He's never provided a product or a service that anyone ever needed. Mom's dummy in New York. 22:41 His mother's a filmmaker who made a movie to make him look good on TikTok. 22:46 And the drug addicted girls in New York went for it. It's that simple. 22:50 So Beware the Ides of August. You know, August is coming. It's getting darker with the war in Iran amping up. The maceration of young men and old men in Ukraine and Russia getting worse. 23:09 The price of goods, particularly gas, going up. 23:14 No matter what Trump says, it did not win new hearts and minds the other night. 23:19 As we can see from this war on a slightly... 23:23 different track this morning. 23:26 I started a, I was going to do a separate podcast on this. I could stop right now. Want me to stop or go on? 23:35 Where are you listening from? Put it up. Answer me. Where are you? Is anyone listening from anyone outside the Bay Area? 23:42 I was going to do this, Muslim versus Muslim. I wrote some notes on it. 23:47 I prepare my notes sometimes weeks, sometimes days, sometimes months in advance, and I don't do shows. 23:53 I save them to do shows for another time. This might fit now, it might not fit now. 24:00 How many minutes have I been with you? I should cut it off and do this as separate. 21 minutes is enough. 24:05 the morons who vote for democratic socialism listen to me for 15 seconds and then turn the show off and then flash over to a girl showing her behind and selling some salve to rub on her behind to make it look i never saw anything like this no attention span stupid idiots democratic socialism there's no such thing i've taught it to you over and over and over again Do I have to read Mao Tse Tung again to teach it to you again? That even Mao said there's no such thing as democratic socialism. 24:38 Mao Tse Tung, the worst murderer in human history, worse than Hitler. He killed more of his fellow countrymen than any other psychotic dictator in history. Mao Tse Tung killed his own fellow Chinese who were not sufficiently revolutionary enough for Bernie Sanders and Mao Tse Mamdami. 24:57 Muslim versus Muslim. 25:00 So I got this from a listener named Bakuri Samir. 25:05 He says, as a Muslim, at first I just thought you were an Islamophobe. However, as time went on, I started recognizing that some of these so-called Muslims who are rising into power in the States are a bit suspicious with their rhetoric. 25:20 They subtly sneak in non-Islamic dialogue, such as retaliatory hate crimes and war crimes of unaliving and of unaliving non-combats. 25:33 As Muslims, he says, we are not to unalive non-combatants under any circumstances. That's a sentence that's very hard for the average American to understand. The word unalive, he doesn't say kill. 25:45 He says, as Muslims, we are not to unalive non-combatants under any circumstances. Listen to this carefully. 25:53 These Muslims are fooling the normal everyday moderate Muslims with their well-put rhetoric and advanced vocabulary. They are most likely from the Muslim Brotherhood. They were banned as a group in Egypt and were known to be educated and well-spoken with the rhetoric and sentiment that lead people from the core of Islam. However, he writes, a lot of moderate Muslims will wake up to their insidious ways and will fight against them as they did in Egypt. 26:21 That's a hell of an answer I got to a tweet from a listener of mine, Muslim. I call it Muslim versus Muslim. 26:30 So he knows as a true Muslim what the real interpretation of Islam is supposed to be as opposed to the militant, psychotic interpretation that we are getting from the Muslim Brotherhood followers here in America and around the world. 26:49 He says a lot of moderate Muslims will wake up to their insidious ways and will fight against them as they did in Egypt. So you bring it down home now, Mike, and we go to Kuwait and we go to the moderate Muslim nations that are being attacked by the psychotic Muslim Brotherhood Nation of Iran, run by the invaders who have conquered Iran and taken it away from the Persians. The IRGC are not true Muslims. They are militant psychotics who are not even following the Islam that is followed in the moderate Muslim nations, relatively moderate Muslim nations, for example, of Kuwait. 27:28 I'm giving you an example. I'm trying to simplify this for you. 27:33 Why would the psychotics in Iran be launching missiles into Kuwait, knocking out a desalination plant? 27:41 Why are they attacking moderate Muslim nations who are friendly to the West? Because they're not following the dictates of the best part of their religion. They're following the dictates of the psychosis of their religion. 27:57 This battle has been fought in Egypt, which is why we have a great man running Egypt. 28:03 We didn't always have a great man running Egypt. Sometimes we had fanatics running Egypt. 28:08 We had fanatics running Syria. 28:11 You look at Lebanon. Do you know what happened to the Christians in Lebanon who were once a dominant force in Lebanon? Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East. That's when it was run by Christians and moderate Muslims. 28:25 And then the Yasser Arafat types invaded Lebanon and created the PLO types in Lebanon who are called Hezbollah, funded by Iran. 28:36 And they destroyed the country by fighting the Christians in Lebanon and destroyed Beirut and the whole nation. 28:44 You don't know any of that because Bernie Sanders didn't teach you any of that with his hypnosis. And my dummy had never taught you any of this because he doesn't know the first thing about anything. All he knows is that he's a smiling, good-looking putz. Savage. 28:58 Home of borders. Language. Culture. The Savage Nation. 29:05 That, my friends, is the sermon for the morning here. 29:11 on the savage nation. I've gone from America first, Americans last. And I asked the question on Twitter, at a savage nation, does a muscular dominant foreign, or do muscular and dominant foreign and domestic actions always translate into a betterment for the citizenry? The answer, of course, is for you to make. No, the answer is, of course, no. The question's loaded. 29:35 Just being mean and tough to everyone in the world doesn't make you strong and smart. Let me be very clear. 29:41 Bombing everyone doesn't make you the smartest leader in the world. 29:46 Invading every nation around you or threatening to take them over doesn't make you a great leader. 29:53 No, no, it doesn't make you a strong leader either. It makes you a leader who is making the citizenry very nervous. 30:00 And America right now is in a very perilous place. 30:05 No matter what the government may be telling you, people are frightened. 30:09 because of the war and because of the prices at the gas pump in plain English. Let's not get too esoteric about it all. 30:18 Forget anything else. 30:19 Go take a look at the lines at the discount gas stations. You'll get an answer for what's going on. 30:25 There's one near me. The lines are always backed up and they're getting longer every day. If people save a dollar a gallon and you figure they're 20 gallon tanks. So you say the average guy who's on that line, I don't go to it. I don't really need to save that amount of money. I'm not going to wait online. I'll go to a regular station. I'll pay through the nose to Exxon and the other crooks in the oil business. They're waiting an hour to get gas because they're saving a dollar a gallon, 20 gallons at $20 a tank. So what does $20 buy you? A meal. 30:55 $20 will buy you a lunch, for example. It's that simple. 31:00 You know, I'm a foodie and I do a lot of cooking on Michael Savage on YouTube. I like to cook and joke around and curse politicians. 31:08 That's one of my greatest satisfactions and hobbies is cooking and cursing politicians. 31:15 So without going into details, I'm in a family crisis at the moment, which you haven't heard much from me recently. I don't want to go into it now. I will go into it maybe or maybe not. 31:27 No, I'm not going to go into it. Someone very close to me has been in the hospital in the ICU for five days. 31:34 Not a very good time for Mike. 31:38 Visiting the hospital is not a very good, happy place to be. 31:43 But it sobers you up as to the way of all flesh. 31:49 And but for the grace of God, there go I. You'll be in that bed one day unless you just drop dead and hauled off and thrown into an oven and the ashes scattered in the toilet. 32:00 So you go into these hospitals and you see all of the broken, sick people. 32:05 And there's someone you'll live with your whole life. 32:09 It kind of wakes you up real fast. 32:13 It's not that I wasn't there. I've been there myself five years ago in the very same ward. 32:19 where you hear the beeping of the thing every minute. You don't know if you're going to live or die. 32:24 And then you come to ask yourself the same questions you've been asking for so long. 32:29 And then you come back to the political world and you ask yourself, is a nation unlike a person? 32:37 After all, a nation is composed of more than rocks and minerals and animals and plants. 32:45 A nation is composed primarily of people. 32:49 So you say borders, language, culture, my creation. Thank you, Michael. 32:54 But it's the people that define a nation, not so much the landform. 33:00 You can define a nation by its borders, language, and culture, but the soul of the nation is defined by the people. 33:09 So I ask you, as fellow citizens of this great nation, Do you have great hope for the future with a war raging with Iran that's going up, not down? 33:21 Who the hell is advising Trump to escalate a war at this time? I said months ago, declare victory, get the hell out of there and go back after the midterms. Who the hell is advising him to keep bombing like a lunatic madman? Why is he doing this over and over and over again? As we get closer to the midterms, he's escalating the war instead of de-escalating the war. We're finished. 33:44 if this keeps up. 33:46 Nobody wants to hear about bombing Iran right now. They want it over with. 33:53 And sure, it's too far away from the election. 33:57 He thinks he's going to get it over with quickly. That's what his advisors told him. 34:01 The other genius, Hegseth and the other military industrial complex lunatics in the Defense Department, sorry, Department of War. 34:10 are telling them you can bomb them into submission. How many times do I have to tell you and everyone else listening to me that you're not fighting a normal population and it's not Venezuela that caved in overnight with a bombing mission? Who told them that bombing is gonna make them bend? These are fanatics like the Japanese who would not give up until two nuclear bombs were dropped on the civilian population, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and only then, did Japan surrender? 34:47 And even then, not all soldiers surrendered. They were fought to the death even in the islands they were fighting years later. Some Japanese soldiers fought to the death years after the bombs. So you're dealing with fanatics who are not gonna give in because you're bombing their dams and their bridges. It's not gonna happen. They don't care if the population starves or starves to death. They don't give a , pardon me. These are not normal, rational people. These are Arab invaders of Iran. 35:13 of the most militant kind, not the most moderate kind. 35:19 And they are fanatics who will not stop until they themselves are dead, all of them. And you can't kill all of them. There's too many of them. 35:28 So what the next level is have Israel drop an atomic bomb on Tehran. That's what your solution is. I see morons on the Internet showing pictures of Tehran with it like a hole, a bomb hole. Are you people sick? You want to kill everyone in Tehran, most of whom don't support the IRGC. That's your idea for solving the problem, killing everybody. You got to kill for peace. Is that it? 35:49 So bombing is not going to get what you want in Iran. 35:53 It did get what you wanted. 35:55 in Venezuela because they're not fanatical. They were just gangsters, it's much different. 36:00 There were criminals running Venezuela. 36:06 Criminals are reasonable people. 36:09 They made a deal. 36:11 They're probably still robbing the country blind without us knowing it. 36:16 But it's not quite the same as it was that we took a victory lap and Rubio's now running it from a laptop somewhere, I read. 36:23 But that's what they thought was going to happen. Who advised Trump that by bombing Iran, you're going to knock them out in a day or two? Who advised them? 36:31 I know the big eye in the sky, the big eye that hangs over the whole conversation. 36:38 They did it. 36:40 Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. Oh, Israel, Israel. Well, maybe it's true. Maybe Netanyahu did advise Trump. Maybe it is Israel behind all of this madness. Maybe it is. Could be. 36:53 But even most Israelis are not behind this madness, incidentally. 36:57 Don't assume that all Israelis back Netanyahu because they don't. 37:01 There's a huge divide in Israel itself. And as I've said to you many times on these broadcasts, there are liberal war heroes in Israel who don't agree with Netanyahu. Not all war heroes want to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb every Arab on Earth and didn't want to bomb Iran, by the way. 37:22 There are Israeli war heroes who are four star generals who are just as brave, if not braver than Netanyahu with a better track record than him. I don't want to hear any more about Entebbe over and over and over and over again. It's too long. And I will say this again at great risk to my credibility among certain listeners. 37:41 I will say it over and over and over again. 37:44 War is not always the answer. War does not make you tough. 37:49 Being militant doesn't make you strong necessarily. 37:53 There are peacenik generals in Israel, four-star generals who are very brave. 38:00 They fought in the Golani brigades. They fought in some of the other most, the riskiest missions you could ever imagine who totally opposed Netanyahu's policy, but you never hear about that. 38:12 So now Netanyahu has become synonymous with Israel. 38:17 just as Trump has now become synonymous with America. 38:21 This is the way it goes. 38:24 There are factions in every country, and we need to hear from the other factions. 38:30 Of the heroes, not the other side. We're not talking about hearing from the communists and the socialists. They could drop dead at all of them as far as I'm concerned. I deport them all if I have had the power. I deport Mamdami and Bernie Sanders and everyone like them. I throw them out of the country. I'd make stories up and throw them out. I can't take it anymore. 38:49 They are the enemy within. 38:51 Mamdami can easily be deported. 38:54 He was born in Uganda. He's a foreign national. It was naturalized. 38:58 And he is a seditious who is preaching the downfall of America. 39:04 If you're an anti-capitalist and the mayor of the biggest capitalist city in the world, you are an enemy of this way of life. Therefore, I would deport you. 39:15 as an enemy of the state that's what i would do thank god i'm not a politician that's all you you should be thankful that i with my power of mind and my voice and my ability to motivate people never went into politics i've always hated politicians i never trusted any politician ever i've backed politicians who i thought would be less militant and less thieving than others yes but i never wanted to be a politician it's the dirtiest job on the planet. 39:48 It's very hard to be an honest politician, if not impossible, almost impossible. 39:54 So this brings us back to the end of the beginning of the beginning of the end. 40:01 And I ask the question, I'll end the same question with America first and Americans last, because Americans are not first right now. 40:12 Americans are now last. We don't give a about Iran. Do you think the average American gives a about Iran? We're not Sean Hannity. We're not Mark Levin and Benny Shapiro. 40:23 Most Americans don't want a war with Iran. 40:27 Most don't want the war with Iran. They want it over with. 40:31 Most Americans don't want to invade Canada. 40:34 Most Americans don't want to take Greenland. 40:37 Did you know that? Did you run a vote on it? Did you ask Americans if you wanted to constantly provoke Canada and make a mockery out of the Canadian people and thereby elect a liberal? This is the interesting part. The conservatives were winning in Canada and were about to take the country back until Trump threatened to annex Canada and started putting down Canada. And then the liberals won. The Connie guy, whatever the hell his name is. I don't even know his name. That's how they got a leftist government. People will coalesce around their national identity when they're threatened. 41:11 Did you know that? 41:13 Which is, by the way, where the America First movement came from. The politicians who have cynically used it, not really believing it. 41:20 If you use America First, most people will rally around you as patriots in a time of war. Well, that's the opposite is happening in America. 41:27 Most Americans are not rallying around America first with this war against Iran. In fact, they're turning on America first with the war on Iran, incidentally. So if I, as an American patriot, believe in borders language and culture, a phrase I created to define a nation, tell you that war is not the answer, what are you gonna call me, a communist? 41:48 You'd be wrong if you did. 41:51 America first, Americans last. 41:54 I don't think Americans are considered at all every time they make a decision to bomb another city in Iran. I don't think anyone asked you whether you wanted more bombs dropped. 42:04 Tell me what the end game here is in Iran. Does anyone know what the end game is? 42:10 To make them more peaceful? 42:13 To make them want to live with us? What's the end game here in Iran? 42:19 You can't kill the whole IRGC. You can't kill them all. What's the answer then? 42:25 You're going to nuke the country and turn it into a glass parking lot? Is that the joke you want to tell yourself in the darkness of the night? 42:34 Drop nuclear weapons on the Iranian people and kill 90% of the innocents? 42:39 90% of those you kill, 95% of those you kill will be innocent? Because that's where this is going. 42:44 If this is not stopped, the only solution logically is a nuclear weapon on Iran, in which case 99% of those killed will be innocent people. Is that what you're looking forward to? 42:56 So here's where we are in America right now. That's why democratic socialism, which is a myth, is rising amongst the drug addicts and the other such fools in America. Because they think that they're going to bring you peace. 43:12 Did Stalin bring you peace in Russia? He was a socialist. 43:16 He was a socialist. Did he bring peace? 43:19 Did Mao Zedong, a communist, first socialist, bring peace to China? No, he killed 50 million of his fellow Chinese. 43:27 Did Hitler, a socialist, bring peace to his fellow Germans? No, he brought the destruction of his nation and the death of millions around the world. These were all socialists, by the way. Hitler was a national socialist. 43:40 Stalin was a socialist. Mao Zedong was a socialist, communist slash. 43:45 Socialism has always brought death and destruction to the world, whether it's from The hypnotist Bernie Sanders, who says he's only after the millionaires and billionaires, and he only wants the fairness of the millionaires and billionaires, while he has three houses of his own, him and his fat, disgusting wife, who have ripped off everyone they've ever encountered. They're crooks, they're thieves, they're mooks, they're bums, and they'll destroy this country with their rhetoric just as sure as I am sitting here in front of you. So don't be taken in by the genie of socialism. 44:16 It will only bring death and destruction and you're not gonna get a free house. You'll wind up on a bread line is where you'll wind up, like in Cuba, where they don't have food and medicine. That's what socialism will bring you. 44:29 So in conclusion, on the savage morning broadcast. Maybe you're going to be watching this three days from now in the evening on the savage broadcast. I've told you about Dr. Zhivago. I've told you about Boris Pasternak. I love that people tell me on the comments what I told them. They don't even know I told them. I like that. It used to happen on radio. I would say something, and three days later, they'd call me and tell me what I said, like they thought it up. If you want to know what will happen under Momdami, Read Dr. Zhivago. I know you can't read anymore. No one reads a book. Books are dead. It's the end of books. 45:00 A man who's published 30 books. 45:02 And by the way, I'm about to publish a new volume. I haven't given up in the belief in books. 45:07 I have an editor putting, I actually just got it, getting it back from my editor today. I told him not to edit it anymore. Just send it back. I'm publishing them raw. It's called Becoming Savage, The Lost Stories of Michael Savage. It's about stories I wrote many, many, some decades ago. 45:26 that I decided finally to release. They're not pretty, some of them at all. 45:31 They're pretty, pretty risque or such. Yeah, that'll be out. And it won't be a big bestseller. You know, it's for my people who follow me and know that after many a summer dies the swan and there's only a certain lifespan to everyone. They want my writings. I'm doing it for them. 45:48 It'll sell at most a few hundred or a few thousand copies in a small edition. I don't care. 45:53 It's better than them being thrown out in a barrel like most Americans are thrown out when they die. No one remembers them. They lived. No one even knew they lived. Can you imagine having a life and leaving nothing? 46:08 Not even a child. 46:10 There's no legacy for most Americans. Nothing. Nothing. Never mind creations, a sculpture, a piece of music, a poem, a book, a painting. Most Americans don't even leave a child anymore. They're so selfish. 46:27 Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. They're so selfish they don't even leave a child behind. Me, me, me, me, me, me. 46:39 The me generation. 46:42 What's yours is theirs. 46:47 Have a nice day. 46:50 So folks, I would like to conclude with a positive note, but these are very trying times in America. 47:00 And people don't know where this is going to go. 47:03 We're not going to crush them on the anvil of war. 47:09 You mark my words. 47:12 This is going to get so bad, you're not going to believe what happened. 47:17 And we were told the opposite. 47:21 And look where we are. 47:24 Okay, blame anyone you want because there's a lot of blame to go around. 47:29 Thank you for listening. 47:31 And if you like what you see and you see what you like, subscribe to Mike on X, on Facebook, on Instagram, on YouTube. 47:42 I always forget that other site that I'm on. Rumble, Rumble, Rumble. Very small outlet for me. 47:49 Rumble's kind of like it had a big thing a few years ago now. It went down. 47:54 Since he went into the FBI and came out, I don't know, the whole thing went down. 48:00 So I don't have a great day to look forward to ahead of me today. I got to go back to the intensive care unit and listen to the beeping. 48:09 And... 48:11 It's the way of all flesh. 48:13 You have to be strong to deal with life. 48:17 If you're weak, you're not going to get through life. You're going to want to take it from someone else or blame everyone for your problems. 48:23 If you're strong, you blame yourself for your problems and you take care of what you have to take care of when you have to take care of it. It's that simple. 48:30 Life can be really hard and really ugly. 48:35 And what you got to do is grit your teeth, take a deep swallow, and beg God for the strength to go on another day. 48:46 Savage. 48:49 Well, thank you very much for listening to today's podcast. I hope you've enjoyed it and learned something from it. 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