Manufacturing Delusion – Freedom, Indoctrination & The Fight for America
"Manufacturing Delusion" dissects the Left’s alleged indoctrination via DEI programs, comparing it to Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot’s regimes—100M+ deaths—while citing Trump derangement syndrome and Patty Hearst as examples. Trump’s economic policies cut inflation, boosted wages, and attracted $36B from Japan, while ICE arrested violent illegals in California, exposing ties to Epstein’s network. Kash Patel revealed Antifa’s fundraising, contrasting Trump’s DHS (6 fugitives in one year) with Biden’s (4 in four). NYC’s $127B tax hike risks exodus, and Trump’s potential Iran strike looms amid Iranian defiance. The episode frames liberty as a divine right, not government privilege, urging resistance against perceived manipulation. [Automatically generated summary]
Hard to imagine five years ago, yesterday, that Rush Limbaugh passed away.
The president paid tribute in a video that he released last night, and we'll play for you later in the program.
I said at the time, I'll say it again: there's nobody that will ever be able to replace him.
His wit, his tongue-in-cheek style, his humor, his insights.
I mean, just second to none.
But I will say this: I know what Rush would want.
He'd want every one of you that loved him to go out and keep fighting for the cause of liberty and freedom, our God-given rights, not government-given rights, limited government, greater freedom, human ingenuity, and brilliance.
And he would want this country to be the greatest, best place God ever gave man, which it is now.
And America is reestablishing its role as the world leader in so many different ways, both economically and in terms of you see freedom on the march.
Unbelievable.
Remember, you used to do gorbasms back in the day, Linda.
I mean, it's hilarious, but it made a point.
Wasn't wrong.
No, he wasn't.
Nope.
I'm looking forward.
We have all things simple man Bill O'Reilly coming up later in the program today.
You know, by the way, as I'm coming on the air today, because we announced the video podcast thing that we're doing a couple of days a week, which I'm excited about because it's going to be different than this radio show.
It's video.
It's going to be big name guests.
And what's a little bit different from TV is you don't have five-minute segments where you have to press people for answers and get out.
For example, I've been doing that podcast.
I did Sly Stallone and his wife Jennifer.
They were amazing.
I did Tony Robbins.
I did Montel Williams.
I did Jillian Michaels.
I did Stephen A. Smith.
And you just get to Gary Brecker.
I mean, there's so many different people, and you get to have real conversations.
And we're calling it hanging out with Hannity.
I mean, some of the comments, by the way, on X are just brutal.
These keyboard warriors naked in their parents' basement.
They have nothing.
I mean, nothing better to do than just, you know, comment on how much they hate me.
And some of them are hilarious.
I was working out with Sensei this morning and he starts reading them to me and he's crying, laughing, and I started laughing my ass off.
It was so funny.
So we're looking forward.
We'll talk to O'Reilly a little bit about that.
And then they're trying.
Somebody's, I just got a note from the Fox people.
Oh, they're trying to say that you're trying to compete with this person or that person.
I'm like, okay, no, I'm not.
I've got nothing to prove.
I wish everybody well.
You know, the day and age of these, you know, petty, often contrived rivalries for me and my life and my career is over.
I don't really have anything to prove to anybody except that I want to do the best shows I can possibly do.
And I'm a big believer.
We're starting from scratch in that space.
That if you build a good show, that people will come.
I might even get Linda to come one day.
I mean, can you imagine Linda unfiltered?
I'd probably have to edit.
It's pretty much the same thing, just a lot more cursing.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, I gave something different up for Ash Wednesday this year.
Oh, last year you gave up cursing.
No, every year I give up cursing, and I fail epically.
So I'm not doing that.
No, you fail on day one, usually within an hour or two.
It's terrible.
This year, I have given up chocolate.
That is a true love, and I've given it up.
Don't you want some delicious dark chocolate right now?
Watch me get a chocolate sponsor.
I'll be like, I can't talk about it.
Can't talk about it.
Sorry.
No, I'm going to tell you right now.
You're going to see the box is a box of chocolate right there.
You're wrong.
Ethan, I am ordering you as your boss, go get that box of dark chocolate, and I want you to put it right next to Linda.
For my Lord and Savior, I can resist.
No, you can't.
Yes, I can.
No, just like every year, you would say, no, I'm really going to give up cursing.
And I'm like, no, it's impossible.
You can't.
It's not.
Well, I'm trying something new this year.
So, because I feel like we're spectacularly, why don't you try to conquer the first thing that you were trying to give up?
Because there's too many liberals and I got too much to say, and I need my curse words.
It's urgent.
I think God approves.
So I gave up chocolate.
I love that too.
So you think God approves every word, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, just run down the alphabet and you got some cuss word for something.
Potentially.
Yes.
Potentially, God supports those cuss words.
He knows what's up.
I'm not surprising him.
He knows what's up.
Oh, really?
Hypnosis and Indoctrination Pressure00:09:00
The creator of universes within universes, within universes that knows how many hairs are on your head.
And in my case, how many are salt and how many are pepper?
That God that gave you a unique fingerprint.
It just was a little distorted.
And, you know, I pay the price for it every day because within that fingerprint is this element of anger that occasionally comes out to piss me off before every show.
True or false?
Potentially true.
Yes.
No, no, no.
Potentially true is not an answer.
Now you sound like a liberal.
Isn't that irritating?
True or false?
Do you like to piss me off before a show on paper?
Yeah, I'm doing it right now.
It's working beautifully.
It is working beautifully by you not answering a question that becomes infuriating.
I know.
I know.
You're welcome.
Oh, boy.
You know, Buck Sexton is going to join us with Clay, you know, Clay and Buck Show.
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, both are friends of mine.
Like them a lot.
And this is a topic I've been interested in my whole life.
And it's called Manufacturing Delusion: How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You.
And if you don't know this about Buck, he's an interesting guy, very, you know, it's amazing.
His personality comes out on the radio, but he's kind of quiet in real life.
Former CIA analyst, very, very smart.
And his experience was combating jihadi terror movements like Boko Haram, for example.
And he gives a history of totalitarian regimes to show citizens how they basically mass hypnosis is a very real thing.
I mean, you can see it.
Ask yourself this question.
How in the last century did we lose over 100 million human souls to some ism?
Mao, China, communism, Stalin, Russia, let's see, Hitler, Germany, Mussolini, Pojo, Pol Pot, the killing feels.
How is it possible in this day and age?
For example, take radical Islamists.
How do they indoctrinate a mass population into believing that if they strap bombs on themselves and they go kill, quote, the infidels, innocent men, women, and children, that they're actually doing the will of quote Allah and that they will be rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins?
How does that happen?
If you look at old footage of Hitler in Nazi Germany and the people indoctrinated, it's mass indoctrination, mass hypnosis.
How does that happen?
Now, you can look at it on the macro level, like what Hitler did.
I mean, because we've all seen those images, and you see these massive crowds, and they're howl Hitler crap and all this evil.
And yet people follow this guy and would kill their fellow human beings, you know, being subservient to a madman and somebody that is just nothing but pure evil.
How do you have indoctrination camps?
How is that possible?
Is the Stockholm syndrome?
Remember the Patty Hearst case?
I mean, classic example of the Stockholm syndrome.
And there were Americans that did not believe it was possible that somehow the pressure of being held captive can cause psychologically somebody to begin to sympathize with their captor.
And back in the day, that was a big debate.
You know, hypnosis is real.
I don't know if you've ever read a book on hypnosis, but hypnosis is very, very real.
You can hypnotize people.
Maybe you've seen a show where you have a hypnotist on stage and he'll bring a bunch of people up.
And what the hypnotist will do before they ever get up there, he will, you could look at people and people that have, at least on the surface, a lower level of situational awareness are usually more susceptible to hypnosis.
And then he'll point to the crowd.
You come up, And, okay, stand in a row.
All right, everybody sit.
And then he'll say, take off your rings.
Take off your shoes.
Everybody put their hands together in prayer-like fashion.
And I want you to interlock.
Everybody interlock their fingers.
And on my command, I want you to squeeze your hands gently.
Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze harder.
It's harder, And then he'll build to a point, okay.
Now, the harder you squeeze, you're going to squeeze so tight the blood is going rushing through your head.
And the harder you squeeze, the more you're not going to be able to open your hands again.
That's actually called the law of reverse suggestion.
Now, that is, you're thinking when you're watching the show, there's no way that's real.
Oh, it's real.
Linda, you know that's real.
I don't think you would be particularly susceptible just knowing you.
Because the idea is.
I actually would do it, but I would do it for past life regression.
Oh, you would allow yourself to be hypnotized.
Oh, yeah.
See, but you don't allow.
But now.
The real question is, would she allow you to hypnotize her?
No, I would not want.
First of all, he's like, I don't want that danger.
I don't want, no, I don't want that job.
He's like, I'm out.
No way.
It's happening out.
I'm done.
Yeah, I wouldn't.
Different kind of thing.
Think about what I just did.
I said, the hypnotist gives commands.
He's not asking people to volunteer.
He's looking at the crowd.
You come up.
You stand in a straight line.
All of you sit with your backs in the straight up chair.
Take off your shoes.
Take off your rings.
These are all commands.
The process began the second he said, you come up here.
He didn't ask you to come up there.
You come up there.
I mean, but that's on a very small level.
Then they have these indoctrination camps where they will indoctrinate young, in some cases, young men into whatever radical beliefs they want people to come into.
And, you know, I think there is a certain and has been, and Buck kind of gets into this in his book, and I just got a copy of it.
I mean, I was having a hard time prepping today.
I couldn't put it down.
And how they indoctrinate young people in schools into DEI, how pressure plays a part of it.
If you're in a class and you're the only conservative and it's like groupthink pressure that people feel and then they begin to sympathize and their whole mind gets taken over because you have a captive audience, that's why schools are, I call them little indoctrination centers because they really are.
And you begin to believe things.
I think Trump derangement syndrome, there's a certain degree of indoctrination.
These people that are paid protesters against ICE, either they're doing it because of the money or some of them actually have come to believe the words that they're Nazis and fascists and that they're evil and that they think in their mind they've been conditioned to believe that they're doing God's will by killing people.
I know this may sound nuts, but ask yourself, how did, you know, between Mao and China and Stalin and Russia and Hitler in Germany and Mussolini and Tojo and Pol Pot in the killing fields, how is it that you're able to hypnotize entire societies?
Years ago, I read a synthesis of Russian mind control techniques and it goes into relaxing on the beach, just a little Russian synthesis.
Well, because I was interested in it.
I mean, because don't you want to know and learn how it's possible that in the name of some ism, 100 million human souls were slaughtered in the last century alone?
I mean, how is it you can have an entire population almost indoctrinated, brainwashed into hating a group of people or multiple groups of people, and that they feel the pressure to be accepted that is so great that they compromise their very own heart, mind, conscience, and soul and give in to the pressure and give in to the suggestion and give in to the indoctrination.
And then they feel more at peace within themselves because of the pressure that has been exerted upon them.
Great American Tax Conundrum00:15:37
But I think that's the ding, ding, ding, right?
So they're not actually hating the group.
They're just so desperate not to be the hated one.
So they succumb to groupthink, mind control in the groupthink mantra, in my opinion.
But it doesn't take away individual responsibility.
At the end of the day, human beings are responsible for the choices and decisions that they make.
And that is the beauty of liberty and freedom.
You live in a free society.
Every day you make choices in your life.
I am going to get up.
I am going to go to work.
I'm going to work extra hours.
I'm going to do A, B, C, and D to stay in shape.
You make choices.
I'm not going to do drugs.
I'm not going to allow myself to become an alcoholic.
Whatever it happens to be.
And that's what freedom is all about.
And I believe the natural state of man is God-given, and that is the free state.
But with freedom comes responsibility.
Anyway, I got off on a little bit of a tangent.
Linda, did you see the DC water manager, a guy by the name of David Gaddis?
We've had too many white men in charge.
The executives should reflect this city.
Okay.
The infrastructure problem is in Maryland.
It is not under the jurisdiction of Donald Trump and the hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage flooding into the Potomac is not Donald Trump's fault.
Period.
End of sentence.
Not a bit.
Well, did you see the other person that's in charge of it?
No.
So the chair of DC Water is unique and Morris Hughes.
Her previous experience include a lot of water experience here.
So get ready.
National Forum of Black Public Administrators, Women in Government Relations, American Education Research Association, and the International Leadership Association.
A lot of big words that say nothing about water for what it's worth.
Nothing about water.
Nothing about water.
Not one word, actually.
Or sewage.
I would take either one at this point.
We've had too many white men.
What does that have to do with Wesmore?
What's his name?
The governor.
Yeah.
Wesmore.
He's the governor.
Last time I checked, he's African American, and a lot of Democrats were looking to him as a possible candidate to be Democrat, the Democratic nominee in 26.
I'm not one of them.
I'm not that impressed with him.
Stephen A. Smith wrote me and said, I want you to check out this interview on CBS with Wesmore.
So I turned it on, and I wrote him back.
I said, at best, slightly above-average, typical liberal politician who says nothing.
Good news, and we've had a lot of good news on the economy.
Interest rates down, inflation down, wages up.
The largest tax refunds people are now getting when you file your taxes this year.
Less money being taken out of your take-home pay because of the Trump tax cuts that every Democrat voted against.
If you're in the service industry, no tax on tips or overtime if you're in the trades, no tax if you're older, no tax on Social Security.
And now we have trillions in manufacturing coming online with these companies that are building.
They're being incentivized.
It's like pouring gasoline on a trillion dollars, if you will, and exponentially more impactful by giving one year.
And in year one, you can have 100% depreciation of the money that you spend building out a manufacturing facility, which is great.
Renters now are expected to see some relief from prices this year with the pace of rent growth expected to slow as the market stabilizes and affordability now hits a four-year high.
Oh, why would anybody in the corrupt media ever report this?
Lower gas prices, that impacts everything you buy at every store you go to.
We have most favored nation status when it comes to buying prescription drugs, thanks to President Trump.
All of this is good news for the American people.
Japan agreed to invest $36 billion in U.S. energy projects as part of the president's trade agreement.
Again, there's going to be a lot of high-paying career jobs for people in the energy sector, in the manufacturing sector, as we build out automobile manufacturing and pharmaceutical manufacturing and semiconductor chip manufacturing.
I mean, these are going to be great jobs.
In the next six months, do you think inflation will go up a lot, go up a little, remain the same?
You know, some people, lower inflation keeps surprising a clueless media because the media has been reporting, oh, no, it's going to go up.
And every time we turn around, it goes down.
The Trump Labor Department is sending a strike team of investigators to probe California's rampant unemployment fraud.
I mean, when we get to the heart of fraud and taxpayer dollars being spent and how it's being spent out in California and where the money's going, in many cases, it's going to illegal immigrants.
I think the country's conscience is going to be shocked.
I do have a message because the left-wing media, I told you they were not telling you the truth about the drawdown that Tom Holman announced.
Tom Holman drew down less than maybe 25%, 30% of DHS, their presence in Minneapolis, but they still have over 2,000 people in place, and they're not going to stop doing their job enforcing the law.
We have the supremacy clause, and that means that federal laws are enforced by federal agents.
That's not going to stop.
Now, it turns out on President's Day, when was President's Day?
It was Monday, right?
We worked.
It was.
You know, we didn't pay a lot of attention to it.
We should have.
Governor Tampon Tim and Mayor Small Fry, they've got to be beside themselves with rage because ICE was able to round up dozens of dangerous, violent, illegal alien criminals on President's Day in their own backyard.
The Department of Homeland Security telling justthenews.com, that's John Solomon's group, that ICE officers arrested multiple illegal immigrants, aliens who have been convicted of, quote, heinous crimes, including false imprisonment, sexual assault, strangulation.
Oh, why would we want them off the street?
It's terrible.
Nobody ever, 20, last year alone, we arrested illegal immigrants, 2,100 charged with killing American citizens.
There's not one Democrat that can name one of the people that were murdered.
Not one.
Over 5,400 victims of rape and other sexual assault, American citizens by illegal immigrants in this country.
And ICE every day puts their ass on the line and risks their lives to get these dangerous people.
Not saying they're all perfect, but they're doing a pretty good job.
And we keep, you know, scrolling, you know, all these names, hundreds of thousands of people now out of the country.
Most preventable national security disaster in history.
Turns out, I don't know if you saw this, Democrats were all into this Epstein thing.
Democrats, now, meanwhile, Joe Biden could have released all of the Epstein files for four years, and not one time did Merrick Garland, the AG, ever get asked a question about releasing this.
Turns out, the Washington Times reporting today, Jeffrey Epstein had already become, you know, he was, this is after he was convicted of recruiting underage girls for sex.
By the early 2000s, Epstein had become a major political donor, primarily to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who claimed, oh, we don't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein.
Meanwhile, we got pictures of Bill Clinton in hot tubs with like Ghislaine Maxwell and other women and taking pictures with young women and in swimming pools with young women and chronicled all these trips on the Lolita Express.
But anyway, Epstein.
And John, wait, one thing.
Ghislaine Maxwell was at Chelsea's wedding.
I didn't know that.
Thank you.
In all the pictures.
Jeffrey Epstein registered as a high-risk sex offender.
Didn't matter to the fundraisers working for the Democratic leaders, Chucky Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, who sent VIP dinner invites and sought private meetings with this guy for their quest to control Congress.
DOJ, latest release of their long-hidden Epstein files, that's in there too.
You don't hear about that from the media.
Kash Patel says the FBI has uncovered the major fundraising network for Antifa operations in the U.S.
He was on with our buddy Dan Bongino yesterday, and he said the Bureau has made a major discovery regarding the funding networks behind Antifa.
Wait until you see what is coming in the next month or two.
These organizations don't operate alone or in silence.
They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding.
And we started looking into it, and guess what?
We found it.
Patel's doing a great job.
He doesn't get enough credit.
Dan did a great job.
He didn't get enough credit.
I mean, it's actually sad that there are people in their underwear in their basement that always criticize me too, but I don't care about me that have no idea.
They were tasked with cleaning up an agency that had gone rogue for forever.
That was their task.
And a deep state operatives.
And simultaneously, in the last four years before they got there, you had 12 million plus unvetted illegals from over 200 countries, including terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, other known criminals, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers.
And like they have to deal with all of this at once.
And there was like no slack given to them by even people that claim to be conservative.
Unbelievable.
There was no appreciation of the statistics.
In one year, they got six of the ten most wanted on the FBI list.
In four years, Biden got four.
You know, you get no credit.
All right, we finally found out how New York City mayor Zoron, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani, intends to solve what he's calling the affordability crisis.
Very simple.
He's going to raise taxes through the roof on the middle class.
Mamdani says that if New York State won't play ball on taxing the rich, he will have to impose higher taxes on his own, and that could hit middle-class New Yorkers.
Kathy Hochl doesn't go along unless she goes along with his budget ideas and his tax increases.
He said he would increase city property taxes by a whopping 9.5%.
Who do you think?
Now, for all the people that rent in New York, which is a lot of people, what are they going to do?
Once the cost of this 10% tax, it is going to go through the roof.
And all because this guy has a one, he has a $127 billion budget proposal.
And then he's promising free buses and free everything.
And here's the problem: $127 billion is more than the entire budget in my free state of Florida.
Florida, less crime by a long shot, better law enforcement.
Sorry, New York City.
There are some great cops there, great law enforcement there, but not even close because a lot of good people have come down here.
They get trained in New York.
They come down here.
They get a bonus.
And Florida has law and order.
And they are free to do their job with the support of a governor that supports them.
And they have better schools in Florida, ranked usually number one or number two in the country.
And they don't have a state income tax.
They have lower everything taxes.
It's pretty incredible.
And this property tax hike, all it's going to do is lead to mass migration.
We'll get into more of those later in the program.
Gavin Newsom is out there.
I mean, this guy's a world traveler.
He was hanging out in Munich.
He was hanging out in Davos, full-time Trump stalker, tweety bird.
He's out there, you know, just stalking Trump with his ex-posting.
He's out there, podcaster.
He's out there now, author.
I'm sure that's a book full of how great he is and how great his life is.
It's amazing to me, but people can't even get a building permit, and they lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades a year and a half ago.
All this green rhetoric on the left.
How come nobody on the left is outraged when you have all of this raw sewage because of Democratic neglect and poor infrastructure?
How is it possible?
You don't blame them and you don't talk about the environmental disaster that is now the Potomac in Washington, and Donald Trump is going to fix it for them because it's just awful.
Wait till next summer.
It's going to stink.
Terrible.
This is kind of frightening.
I don't know if you saw this update.
It was on FoxNews.com as it relates to what's happening with Nancy Guthrie.
Apparently, they were able to discover some internet user that searched for Nancy Guthrie's address and Savannah's salary before the mother vanished.
Now, think about that.
Why would anybody ever do that?
Unbelievable.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, I hope we find this woman.
I really do.
Every life matters.
And by the way, final pieces moving in place.
Looks like the president gearing up.
The Iranians, saber-rattling, is going to backfire.
Now they're putting out videos of destroying Americans.
That's not going to go over well with Donald J. Trump.
They have picked a fight with the wrong guy.
90% chance, according to a top presidential advisor, that there will be, Trump will launch a military strike on Iran because he's not going to let them have nuclear weapons.
And any negotiation with them, I think, is, you know, useless anyway.
You can't trust these people.
And they'll never give you any place, anywhere, anytime inspections by American inspectors.
They don't give that, then Donald Trump's not going to let them have nukes.