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Aug. 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Great to have you with us, folks.
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Barack Obama, it's getting bad out there.
Uh he's saying some things here, folks, that are really stupid.
Nah, let me retract.
Impolitic.
And that were he anyone else would have him laughed out of the race.
By now.
Thank you.
Now to put this in uh the uh recent spat here in some historical context from uh yesterday in the UK Guardian, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who questioned her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling the issue nonsense.
Uh Michelle Obama said, We're we're we're still playing around with the question, is he black enough?
Stop this nonsense.
We're we're messing with the heads of our children.
She said that raising the specter of whether her husband uh was sufficiently black sent a confusing message to kids.
She also told several hundred people that she hoped her husband serves a role model and how he helped raise their two young daughters.
If you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
Okay, so she's upset that they keep asking, is he black enough?
Well, here we go to the Washington Post today, and we got a headline.
The black enough question.
Who's asking?
In case it wasn't clear enough the first time, Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have each said separately and increasingly forcefully in recent days that they're fed up with the black enough debate.
Well, I've been fed up with it since the first time or read about it in the Los Angeles Times.
I think it's demeaning, it's insulting, and it is indicative of who the real racists in this country tend to be, and they are liberals.
The people who see a human being and note skin color, sexual orientation, or other factors first, more often than not are gonna be liberals and form judgments based on it.
If you dig deeper in this Washington Post story, you say campaign aides didn't cite a specific example of this not black enough criticism that they hope to put to rest, noting instead that reporters have questioned both Obamas on the issue.
They've done more than question Obama, they've written pieces.
They have written stories.
Why the LA Times, a black columnist, actually wrote a column entitled Barack the Magic Negro, and his point was he hadn't been around long enough.
Nobody could possibly know what he stands for.
So a bunch of guilty white liberals say they're gonna vote for him because he's the magic Negro.
Uh why they can make themselves feel really good about themselves.
And then there were all these, there'd been the Chicago uh papers, Indiana Papers, a number of papers who've kept this question alive.
Is Barack Obama black enough?
Is he down for the struggle?
And of course, he got into a little uh uh dispute early on back in March with the Reverend Sharpton.
The Reverend Sharpton wouldn't sign on to his campaign real fast.
The Reverend Jackson did.
Uh, but uh the Reverend Sharpton was uh you know, he was not he was not yet convinced.
Uh he's getting a little jealous.
In fact, you know, Joe Biden, another Democrat went out and said about O'Biden about Obama said, you know what's really great.
We finally have a clean and articulate black guy in our field in our presidential field.
It's really good.
Now he's trying to be complimentary, of course, but if you think we finally have a c and a clean and articulate black guy, what must you think of other blacks who've been in a race like uh the Reverend Jacks, and the Reverend Sharpton.
So Sharpton, he's sitting there saying, hey, what do you mean?
I'm I take a shower every day.
I'm clean, I'm articulate, I can speak.
I've been doing it for a long time.
I could even be understood through the bullhorn at the public Protest.
So it inspired a tune here based on everything in this stems from what we found said or written by liberals.
Paul Shanklin has Reverend Sharpton.
It's just typical.
A Reverend Sharpton could not stick to the lyric line and uh ended up protesting.
Outside the song.
It went off script.
Everything in that song.
Spawned by liberals.
And they're not through.
Now in Newsweek, how does Obama woo downscale Democrats?
He charms the elites, but how does Obama woo a must-have downscale Democrats?
Now what's a downscale Democrat?
If they were talking about Republicans, they just say rural hayseeds or rural pro-life Christians or some such thing.
Downscale Democrats.
We're talking about poor.
Downscale poor and stupid Democrats.
That's what we're talking about.
And now Newsweek's asking, how does Obama woo them?
On a sunlit Friday afternoon in July, Barack Obama stopped by Beverly Van Fosson's farm in Adele, Iowa to speak about rural issues.
It was standard Hawkeye State stumping until the Senator took a stab at sympathizing with farmers whose crop prices have stagnated.
Anyone gone into Whole Foods lately?
See what they charge for arugula.
Now, in Iowa, where he was, there's not one whole food store.
Number two, how many people in Adele care about arugula?
I don't think that it's arugula country.
So he's, there isn't a Whole Foods store in Iowa, I read.
Andrew Romano, the author of the piece here, said, Someone near me whispered, What's arugula?
Oh.
Said Van Fossen, 74 years old.
You can't find that in Iowa.
Same goes for Whole Foods.
The closest locations reported the New York Times that night are in Omaha, Kansas City, Kansas, and Minneapolis.
And of course, the bloggers all pounced out there.
So he's got to go out and develop a solid base among downscale Democrats.
If you don't get the downscale Democrats, it's very hard to get the nomination said.
So now, in addition to not being black enough, he's not poor enough.
And he doesn't know how to relate to the poor.
And then there's this.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was warned by a friendly voter Monday to avoid public spats with his Democrat rivals, but remarks he made later could add fuel to the criticism against him.
Maggie North of Claremont, New Hampshire, told Obama he risks becoming part of the usual political scene if he keeps being drawn into well publicized disputes with rivals.
Now how how ridiculous is this?
It's in a isn't a presidential primary campaign.
He's got to argue with these people.
He got a campaign.
I guarantee you that uh, you know, independents, moderates and so forth, ask them what they're all about, what they care for.
It's me.
They just they just everything's about them.
Me, me, me.
I want to feel good.
I don't want to be a real ranker, I just want to feel good.
Can't you all just get along?
And I suspect that this what Maggie North of Claremont was attempting to convey to uh Barack Obama.
He says, uh you can be it, North said at a small gathering in a Hanover restaurant Monday morning that drew eight people.
Let me read that to you again.
This complaint from a supporter came at a Hanover, New Hampshire restaurant Monday morning that drew eight people.
You can be the nominee, but you gotta stop.
Excuse me for being blunt, you gotta stop getting involved in the way people are fighting each other, chewing you up a little more.
Obama said, that's what you do when you run for president.
But during a later appearance before about 800 people in Nashua, Obama made a comment likely to further the spats that he's warned about, asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere.
He brought up Afghanistan, said, Look, we got to get the job done there.
That requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Okay, so out of the blue comes this allegation that the U.S. military is bombing villages and killing civilians.
Now I know why he's saying it, because if you go read your average kook left wing blog, that's what they think.
And so he's just trying to appeal to them here.
But that was very impolitic, folks.
Uh seasoned, intelligent.
Presidential candidates, even in primary circumstances, well, especially in the general, but even in primaries.
No more you haven't heard somebody say.
I mean, the the the closest we've got Tom Tancredo said he would bomb Mecca, and and you know, that that that's about the same thing.
This is you just don't.
Obama's also said he'd you know, go in there to Pakistan, whether Musharraf knew we were coming or not, and so forth.
This is just he's not he's not racking up points.
I ha I have to tell you, uh, he's getting away with it a lot more than say if uh Hillary had said this.
Or if uh oh John Edwards had said it.
You I mean the the the static that would have descended upon them would have uh been pretty loud.
He's getting a little bit of a pass on some of this stuff.
Not a total pass, but he's getting a little bit of a pass on it.
But this isn't it, this ain't this is not good.
I mean I'm talking talking about in terms of just being smart, something to say in a Nova campaign.
You just don't say stuff like that.
We're back in a I know we're gonna get to Elizabeth Edwards.
You're gonna get to Hillary too.
Hillary's uh Hillary's got her presidential uh papers, uh presidential records uh in her own testicle lockbox at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, and they're not gonna be released until after 2008's election.
Uh or the 07 election or whatever.
Yep, there it is.
We'll get to that in just a second.
I gotta get to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting, Chicago.
And Jim, thank you, sir, for your patience.
Hey, welcome to the program.
Good afternoon, Russ.
It's a pleasure to speak with you again.
Thank you.
Um, you know, what you said about the liberal media and uh Obama black enough.
Yeah.
Well, it's really the liberal white media for the most part, because the the democ liberal whites in the Democratic Party have always been able to to tell the blacks who their leaders were, like the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
This goes back to Clarence Thomas for uppity black people, so Obama is not black enough, so who do you vote for?
You vote for Hillary.
He's not poor enough, so who do you vote for?
Hillary.
They want to keep their power.
You know, white liberal power, so they will bat down any black candidate, uh any black uh person that wants power in that democratic power.
But you make a good point.
Uh you you make a good point, and I I'd I'd say that the percentage of what you're saying is accurate, that the that the those in the drive-bys are doing ever they everything they can to boost Hillary.
Although the last couple days she's taken a couple hits.
But I also think that there is a a systematic narrative uh in all these Barack stories, as written by white liberals.
And uh the question is he black enough is something they really are curious about, something they're really wondering about.
And you touched on it.
You know, being when have they ever supported a black candidate?
Um you've touched on it many times in your program.
Well, I gotta tell you if you're gonna have a black candidate, then they have not supported.
They left them lurking out in the way.
I'm gonna I'm gonna answer the question.
Barack Obama is where he is precisely because of pop star treatment that he got early on from the drive-by media, building this guy up, crafting an image for him.
He couldn't have done it himself, not been around long enough.
He's been in the Senate less than two years.
He hasn't done enough to have this image of himself.
He gave one speech at the 04 Democrat convention.
The the drive-by's built him up.
Now, I know what you're saying.
When did they ever wanted a black person to actually win?
But what they're what they're afraid of, and they've promoted the guy, but he's got to be a certain kind of black.
He has to have roots to slavery, civil rights movement, and all that, because that's a fundamental element of the liberal Democrat coalition.
No, he has to he has to give the power to the white liberals, and that's why Jesse Jackson is the liberal white black leader.
Because whenever there's an issue about the uh uh minorities or black issues, the uh white liberal media turns to who?
The Reverend Jesse Jackson or L. Sharpton.
You know, d name.
When Al Sharp.
When Al Sharpton wanted to be president, what would they do?
They put up Caramoldy Braun against them because they were worried about South Carolina and Washington, D.C. After that, she she bowed out.
And he went back and made a speech and they gave him some money and he went away.
Yeah.
Mama told him not to run.
Well, I was I really called about the uh 25 cent bottle uh uh tax.
Uh being here from uh Chicago, the highest volume gas station in the country is right here on the Indiana border with Illinois.
The the thriving business is sale of cigarettes because and that's not on the Illinois side, it's on the Indiana side.
So these ill idiotic politicians from Illinois have destroyed the gasoline industry on the Illinois border, the cigarette uh business on the Illinois border, and I got one even better for you.
And Alderman went to a Cubs game and saw all those uh fans up on the rooftop.
And guess what, Rush?
Sure enough, there's now a tax on those uh people that watch the games from the rooftop in the Chicago.
Is it a city tax or is it a Chicago Cubs ticket?
Is it Chicago No, it's a Chicago City tax.
So the people saw those people up there and said, wow, they're not being tech.
And this is an honest to God truth brush.
I look at you don't have to tell me I'm uh uh the a liberal will see anything walking and moving, and if he discovers that it's doing pretty well, it will tax it.
Uh it just it's the way it is.
I want to go back to thanks thanks for the call, Jim.
I want to go back to his point here about uh the Democrat Party and the white liberals.
And I've often described uh uh white liberalism and the Democrat Party as a as the as the plantation.
Because he's right.
The the way this works, the reason why Clarence Thomas was such a threat during his confirmation hearings, because Clarence Thomas is a conservative, would thus become the most powerful black man in America as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He's not an activist in such a sense, but he threatened the prescriptions necessary to get anywhere if you're black in this country, because he didn't go at affirmative action.
He didn't he didn't adopt the uh procedures that liberals demand and the people like the Reverend Jackson demand, made him a huge threat because the the civil rights coalitions in this country exist the Democrat Party grants them positions at the power table.
So the Reverend Jackson is a prominent and well-paid Democrat.
Uh his job is to make sure that he keeps the thinking in the black community the way it's been for the last fifty years, to make sure that it vote turnout remains ninety percent or more Democrat, and then he gets repaid.
Uh Obama, when it when it comes to the drive-by's now, they've built him up and so forth uh and and it they'll take him out in time, as will Clinton Inc.
But there is a genuine concern here uh that he may not be black enough.
He doesn't have the roots that the Democrat Party requires of black leaders.
Back in a second.
Hey, you left out Nobel Peace Prize nominee in that list.
And that I am.
Rush Limbaugh, the uh cutting edge of societal evolution.
We have uh quoted on several occasions in this program stories from the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Their Spiegel is as virulently anti-America and anti-war in Iraq as any American publication, as any British publication, if not uh more so.
Thus, the following story is fascinating.
Der Spiegel, this is from uh uh Ed Morrison, his Captain's Quarters blog.
Their Spiegel has reflected and uh led overwhelming German opposition to the war in Iraq practically for the moment of the invasion in 2003.
Bush has been on a cover a lot.
Unflattering pictures, negative headlines like power and lies.
But the magazine finally, Der Spiegel decided to uh send their own reporter for an in-depth tour of Iraq, and they realizes that the world media has missed the story.
Now, something's happening here, folks.
When when a magazine like Der Spiegel does a 180, which they're which they've done, I'll read you the relevant excerpts here in a second.
The New York Times, well, we can't get out of Iraq now.
I mean, it's gonna be there for quite a while.
You know, we know all that's to give cover for the Democrats, or to the Democrats, to help rescue them from their untenable position of defeat for the United States military and the United States.
And uh these two guys from Brookings with their story in the New York Times a couple weeks ago about how the surge is working, and everybody's coming to the conclusion that the surge is working.
And so it's uh it's regroup time.
Here's Der Spiegel.
Since June, Ramadi residents have known the war only from television.
Indeed, U.S. military officials at the Baghdad headquarters of Operation Iraqi Freedom often have trouble believing their eyes when they read the reports coming in from their units in Ramadi these days.
Exploded car bombs, zero.
Detonated roadside bombs, zero.
Rocket fire, zero.
Grenade fire, zero.
Shots from rifles and pistols, zero.
Weapons caches discovered, dozens.
Terrorists arrested, many.
Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq.
It is proof that the U.S. military is more successful than the world wants to believe.
Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq, not just Anbar province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are essentially pacified today.
This is news the world doesn't hear.
Ramadi, long a hotbed of unrest, a city that once formed the southwestern tip of the notorious Sunni Triangle is now telling a different story.
Story of Americans who came here as liberators, became hated occupiers, and are now the protectors of Iraqi reconstruction.
That is well, it's news to them because they discovered it.
They actually sent a reporter over from Der Spiegel and discovered this.
Not all is sweetness in light in this lengthy multipart dispatch.
Parts of Baghdad worse than one might imagine, Ulrich Fichner writes, and one can sense the civil war that awaits when outside authority disappears.
Other parts of the Capitol have improved in ways that exceed expectations, but both have this in common.
Only the Americans could keep the lid on Baghdad long enough to keep war from exploding in the city.
Only Americans can keep the lid on this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take a big bold leap here.
I'm gonna tell you what's driving this.
It is groupthink, and it is groupthinking the part of all of these media people in capitals around the world.
And it's quite simple.
They understand the Democrat Party in this country who they want to win the White House because they want a weak United States.
They want people running the United States who will give up our treasury to the United Nations.
They want a Democrat in the uh in the White House who will consult the rest of the world before taking any action whatsoever.
They do not want another Republican.
They do not want a Rudy Giuliani, for example, or a Fred Thompson or a Mitt Romney in the White House.
They don't want a tough, no nonsense leader and man in the White House.
They prefer a Democrat, such as their hatred for George W. Bush.
Even though he's not running, they hate him, and any other Republican to them is gonna be just like him.
So the world media has got to save the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party has gone, as I keep saying, over the cliff.
It has to be reported that this is working.
And they I'm sure they cringe at saying only Americans can keep the lid on Baghdad.
Americans have done the U.S. military is doing great things in Ramadi and the Sunni triangle.
It has to grate on them.
Because in their hearts they want us to lose.
But if we if we don't, where does it leave them and the people they prefer to be running this country?
It leaves them out in a cold.
So I'm telling you, you've got the New York Times here offering cover for the Democrats to come back from the abyss, to join the call for victory.
I think also, and you got the world media doing the same thing, and I think also they know what this Petraeus report's gonna say.
They're hoping against hope that he issues a report says things are hopeless, but that doesn't quite jive with uh what everybody is seeing over there.
So I think I think what's what uh what what what they think Petraeus is gonna report is that there's great success, so much success that we can actually start bringing some troops home.
And who's gonna get credit for that?
George W. Bush.
And that's the Democrat Party's issue.
Bring the troops home, get us out of Iraq.
If the Petraeus report says, you know what, we don't need as many troops here.
We're doing great, the surge is working, we can start a little bit of a drawdown.
I mean, not a mass exodus, don't misunderstand.
But if if he says in any way, we can get by with fewer troops, why Bush plan successful?
Democrats have to find a way to get in on that because that's their issue.
And so this is a prelude to the report coming out in September.
It's why Dingy Harry shelved all the Iraq timetable withdrawal bills.
It's why you're not hearing him.
Has anybody heard from Dingy Harry on the war in Iraq since the recess started?
Anybody heard from Nancy Pelosi?
We haven't, or have we?
Because there's nothing they can say that would be uh commensurate with their line of attack prior to the recess.
So what's gonna have to happen here is if if Petraeus' report says, don't need as many troops here.
this is really working well.
Democrats are gonna have to have a position which they can say, see, we did it.
We made it happen, we brought it about.
We've been calling for less troops.
They're not gonna get away with it because they they we've got Dingy Harry on tape, everybody else does too.
He proclaimed defeat, Pelosi.
We got him say we don't care what Petraea says.
Not gonna matter what's going over there, is it work?
We got that lunatic Murph.
We got all these sound bites, we can remind everybody, but they're gonna have to recast their position on this.
I can't emphasize that when Dare Spiegel does this, folks, it's like the BBC changing its mind.
And I wouldn't be surprised if that happens down the road as we get as we're closer to September.
Not predicting it, but I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised.
Uh Los Angeles Times story here.
Full force of troop surge hits militants.
Helicopter gunships attacked sites suspected of being insurgent height outs, and U.S. and Iraqi soldiers staged simultaneous raids across Iraq on Monday as coalition forces unleashed the full force of the U.S. troop buildup with Operation Phantom Strike.
The U.S. led commando operations targeted Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
And Shiite Muslim militants by striking at what were suspected to be safe haven.
They blew up a huge safe house.
Saw the footage on television.
At least 17 militants suspected of being insurgent leaders were captured.
Coalition officials said dozens of insurgency strategists and financiers were arrested.
A senior source in the butter militia near the southern city of Najaf said a man uh detained in uh in that holy city uh was a key figure.
So Al-Qaeda and MUCI Al-Sadr's boys are being targeted here.
And it's working.
Full force of troop surge hits me.
When's the last time you can remember a story in any drive-by media publication of valor and great success and tremendous strategy and victory by the U.S. military?
I'm telling you, something's changed.
And don't, when is the drive-by's folks don't believe me?
I don't believe that they're doing this to help the military to help George Bush.
This is about saving the Democrats who have gone off the clip.
Even this.
This is stunning.
There's another Los Angeles Times story in Iraq, another summer of power shortages.
I saw the headline, I said, Well, you know what?
I don't have to read this.
The U.S. military failing to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure.
It's in bad shape, and we're destroying it, as Obama says, by bombing from the air.
Raiding and destroying civilians, U.S. military, U.S. operations, Baghdad uncivilized, no chance of being held together.
Why?
Infrastructure falling apart, the electricity grid is in bad shape.
But that's not what the story is about.
Well, it's about the failing grid.
But get this.
And early on in the story, decades of corruption, neglect, and war have left Iraq's electricity grid on the verge of collapse.
Iraq's electricity grid was already in severe despair, disrepair before 2003, which is the invasion date For those of you in Rio Linda.
So corruption and neglect, the Saddam Days outweigh war as the cause of the electrical grid problem in Baghdad.
A burst of truth, another burst of truth from the drive-bys.
The power is on in the South and North because Baghdad sold what Saddam was there, he stole all the electricity from the south and north of the country and made uh and gave it all to Baghdad where he was.
Now they've distributed some of that power to the north and southern parts of the country.
Uh and there's uh uh not as much in Baghdad, but they're distributing it throughout the country.
They're making improvements.
War has improved the electricity situation.
It's time to save the Democrats, folks.
Back here in just a second.
All right, back to the phones.
We still have to come uh Mrs. Clinton, who actually did a nurse ratchet uh type appearance yesterday.
We have the audio sound bites.
And uh Elizabeth Edwards uh all over the place.
And you know, I I tell you, I you have to shake your head in amazement at this.
The Bret girl has his wife go after his enemies again.
Um this time uh she's uh she's she's going after you know all these other Democrat uh nominees.
Well, the Bret girl who I don't know, I don't know what he's doing when she's doing this, but he's never around.
You never seem always pops up later.
I'm really proud of Ma Wap.
She went after Ann Cola, or whatever.
Tom and Neebs, Minnesota, welcome to the uh EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I'm glad to be on your show.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
Yes.
Um got a question about something I was brought up yesterday, okay.
And uh on the news I was listening to this, how they're having a toothpaste recall that was made the toothpaste was made in China.
And it has a little bit of radiator coolant in it.
And this made me start thinking about the dog food and these toys that have been recalled as well, too, with the lead paint on them.
Yeah.
Okay, now this all comes about, you know, with the dog food killing the dogs, the lead paint that's bad for the kids, the toothpaste is bad for us.
It's only bad for the kids if they eat the paint.
And you know, when I was a kid, my mom did not let us lick the windowsills.
You know, this is this is um the the reason lead was in paint.
There's a reason they used Freon on the space shuttle tanks so they didn't damage the I'm off the beaten path.
I'm uh what's your complaint?
That they're they're they're sending all these inferior products here, or why are we trade with them?
Yeah, why are we trading with them?
Well, because in general, uh trade with foreign countries like this is good.
It provides cheaper prices for consumers, makes the dollar go farther, uh it sponsors international uh uh cooperation.
Uh it's a good thing.
You know, free trade is a is uh is an excellent thing.
Uh now you have incidents like this, and they're all being bundled together, but the Chiccoms are taking care of this.
They execute the company's CEOs uh who screw up, and the other day the one CEO uh the toy company guy uh killed himself.
They have a different sense of honor over there uh than uh CEOs around the world.
But but it these are anomalies.
Uh I don't you are you uh there's I'm gonna dirty little secret too.
I'll tell you something.
Now this is there's a there's they're always political reasons for things as well as economic.
Right.
One of the problems we face with the Chicoms is that they are a giant communist country, and they have a military, and uh uh they uh uh they present a formidable military foe should such circumstances arrive.
One of the purposes of the U.S. uh government, any any any government well I would say this is not true if if the wrong Democrat ended up, but one of the one of the ways that you destroy a totalitarian regime is by trading with it.
By introducing capitalism, by exporting capitalism, say to a closed society.
You know, China now has a billionaire.
They've got multimillionaires, that their whole the biggest challenge that the president of China has every day, Hu Xin Tao is his name.
His biggest challenge when he wakes up is finding and creating twenty-five million new jobs a year.
And the reason he has to do that is because he has to peek keep the majority of the Chinese popular, well, a lot of it that lives in the countryside in the countryside.
If those people can't find work and means to support themselves and live, they're going to flood the cities.
And that would that would cause the Chikoms to lose control of their population.
They don't want to lose control of their population any more than the Soviet Union did under Glasnost and Perestroika.
But when you introduce capitalism and you start trading, and you give them this grip big disc this this uh this trade uh balance that they they have a surplus with us and they're invested in our in our treasury bills.
It's weakens us in in some sense, but but without without the United States, they're nothing in an economic sense.
That's true for much of the rest of the world, too.
So uh this is a slow but steady process of actually opening up that country uh to a less totalitarian regime, freedom for the people, economic freedom, and economic uh opportunity advancement for the Chinese people.
And that's a theory behind it.
Now, these, you know, tainted products that come in uh those are anomalies unless unless the Chicoms are actually trying to kill uh our kids and our and uh dogs and cats.
And some people some people wouldn't put it past them.
Well, that's kind of what popped in my head when I sit there and think, well, you know, it happened with the dog food, then the toys, now the toothpaste.
I mean, you know.
Yeah, but nobody died from it.
Uh, some people got sick.
The dogs did, and some of the dogs and cats did.
I don't mean to call them nobodies, but uh the recalls are happening, and we we've got we've got enough inspection systems here that uh Mattel knows when they're getting lead-tainted toys in.
Believe it, I I'm gonna tell you the the the uh over when the when the Chicoms start executing the CEOs that do this stuff, it means they don't like this either.
This does not help them.
They're gonna have people saying the qua the you know, a different version of the question that you are asking.
Uh and they're afraid that a lot of Americans are gonna stop buying Chinese stuff because of this.
So they will try to try to get a handle on it pretty quickly.
Try this headline from the UK Daily Mail stab proof, stab proof school uniforms go on sale to protect pupils from uh knife attacks.
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