Right-wing activist Wayne Allyn Root joined Iowa talk radio host Simon Conway on Thursday to discuss the reported FBI investigation into the fantasy sports business, which he said, along with restaurant owner Danny Meyer’s decision to ban tipping in his restaurants, shows that “socialism is just filtering into everything we do in this country.”

Root recalled a detailed story about being refused an off-menu item at a restaurant in Great Britain, which he attributed to the lack of tipping, whereas tipping is “what makes America great.”

This led him back to the topic of the fantasy sports investigation. “Socialism is just filtering into everything we do in this country,” he said, “and to go after a business that’s a hot business, fantasy sports, simply because a bunch of people are making millions of dollars is more of the jealousy of the Obama administration against anyone who actually profits in the United States of America.”