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Nov. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in, honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever, and uh and always a great thrill for me to be here, but don't worry, don't worry.
All American boy, Mark Belling will be here tomorrow.
And Rush Returns on Wednesday to take you through the end of the week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Just one just one final thought.
We were talking about uh the looming the alleged fiscal cliff and uh and whether or not we all actually already off it and uh this little shadow play that's going to go on now between now and uh the inevitable bipartisan agreement uh just before Christmas uh actually means anything.
And and and people seem to think you'd get the impression from these guys sitting down in Washington, uh that there's the basically there's no money to cut.
That basically everyone's uh the belts have been tightened.
You know, it's been a tough four years, tough five years since Lehman Brothers slid off uh over the fiscal cliff in uh September 2008.
We've all been tightening our belts.
We've all the United States taxpayers spent one point four billion dollars on staffing, housing, flying, and entertaining President Obama, the first lady and their two daughters last year.
One point four billion dollars.
Uh by comparison, the royal family cost British taxpayers just fifty seven point eight million dollars.
And that's if you remember we had uh Patrick uh from the Turks and Caicos Islands, uh talking to Patrick down in the uh British West Indies in the last hour.
That includes, by the way, that's his head estate, uh Majesty the Queen, the Royal Family down in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, that fifty-seven point eight million uh extends from London to Glasgow to Belfast and all the way over to Turks and Caicos Islands for the entire royal family.
The cost of staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama is more than every European royal house combined.
Uh which makes you think, well, hang on a minute, why do these guys?
You know, and you those guys have got like uh over in Europe, like Windsor Castle is uh from the twelfth century.
You know, that's a hard place to heat.
That's that's tough.
That's not built uh that's not built to the latest federal insulation codes.
That's a tough place that's a that's a that's a tough joint to to heat.
The cost of uh housing the Obama family, flying them around in Air Force One, more than the cost of the House of Windsor in Britain, but also the Swedish, uh Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian royal families, Spanish royal families, the whole lot combined.
This guy costs more.
This presidency costs more.
It's not even this isn't even a partisan thing.
When you're broke, the guy in charge ought to ought to take a lead.
Why why does he have a man permanently on staff uh there round the clock in case he wants to see a movie?
There's a movie projectionist on staff at the White House round the clock in case uh Barack Obama wakes up at two in the morning and decides he wants to watch Ice Follies of 1934.
What is this guy, by the way?
He's supposed to be Mr. Cool, he's the guy uh with uh with all the latest gizmos, the iPods, the iPhones and all the rest of it.
Why can't he watch his own movie?
You know, if I wake up at two in the morning and I want to see Ice Follies of 1934, I stagger along and see if I've got it in the shelf and uh uh slip the DVD in the player, and if I haven't got it, uh I go on Netflix or whatever and uh see if I can uh download it.
Why is there a full-time movie projectionist at the White House?
This is basically the equivalent.
I mentioned Windsor Castle, twelfth century building.
Back in those days, they used to have something called the groom of the stool.
And the groom of the stool was someone who was paid to attend in very personal ways to the King's Toilet.
They got rid of the groom of the stool.
I don't know what it's something like in the fifteenth century they had to make budget cuts, so they they eliminated the position of groom of the stool.
I think the idea of White House full-time White House movie projectionist.
So that uh so because the President of the United States is incapable, is the only man in the country incapable of pulling a DVD off a shelf and slipping a movie into uh and watching it on his TV screen, I think is completely preposterous.
At some point, at some point you know, the the uh just again uh to make another regal comparison, at the start of the Second World War, King George VI, the King's speech guy, uh from the Oscar winning movie, this was before he was in the film, when he was back when he was a nobody and he was just uh King of England and Emperor of India and a couple of other things, be b before he hit the Hollywood big time.
King George the Sixth, Second World War breaks out and he needs uh decides he needs to set an example to the people.
So he decides he's not gonna have his marmalade at breakfast served in a little silver uh serving dish, but he's going to spoon his own marmalade onto his toast direct from the jar to show he's a man of the people.
Uh when you've got a one when you've got a so-called republic with a so-called citizen executive and it's costing one point four billion dollars one point four billion dollars to shuffle them around the country, uh to fly them uh to Martha's Vineyard and then the forty car motorcade so they can pretend to visit an ice cream parlor.
That's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
It doesn't impress anybody.
You know, when you when you when you're wealthy having a forty car motor gate says, hey, I've got it, so I flawn it, baby.
When you haven't got it and you're still flawing it, you look ridiculous.
At some point we've got to get real about that stuff.
At some point we gotta uh those things are not small things.
Uh the fish rots from the head down, and in this case the fish spends from the head down.
When you've got a one point four billion dollar head of state, that is decadent and it's a problem.
Now I want to I want to talk uh because, you know, we got nowhere basically complaining about Barack Obama for the last four years.
It was a complete waste of time.
Complete waste of the election was a waste of time.
I think uh uh the two parties each spent a billion dollars, and it was a con total waste had been better giving it to you know starving children in Africa or whatever, and I don't believe it would actually have made any difference to the result.
And and people living in uh living in so-called swing states like my own state of New Hampshire where we were bombarded with attack ads nonstop.
Instead we could have just enjoyed the same self-lubricating catheter ads that the rest of America enjoys.
Uh and because of that, because of that, uh we gotta think again about where we go from here.
And I think Obama uh Rush, a a week or so after the election uh said some very interesting things about this.
He was he was talking about essentially not just what you do in the voting booth, not just giving your money to a political party, not just getting a guy with an R after his name elected every other November, uh but actually changing the culture, actually getting out there on the battlefield where the real big battles are won.
And Rush was talking about this because he talked about it in his hi his terms, uh and he loves going on, he's a big technophile, uh as Rush said, he's a big technophile, he reads every tech blog there is, particularly those related to Apple, he loves Apple, he gets all the latest products,
and all the people contributing and writing and posting those blogs are under thirty, and they'd probably be horrified that Rush is actually uh going on on their blogs and reading them and enjoying them, uh and uh and in terms of his tech enthusiasms actually no different from them.
Uh but he's profoundly different from them politically.
Uh those people live in habit, as Rush said, an entirely different world.
And a lot of them aren't even political.
And the problem is is that if you aren't particularly political, if you don't think about political issues, then the default setting of our society is liberal.
If you're just a tech guy who likes the latest toys from Apple, if you're just uh somebody who likes going to the movies, uh listening to downloading songs onto your uh uh onto your uh iPod and all the rest of it, uh and you're not particularly political, the easiest thing to do is to be a liberal because it's the air that you breathe.
It's the air that you you've you've been breathing since kindergarten now.
In kindergarten they're told that oh we have to pretend to to save the planet, that the environment, we all love the environment, and we have to pretend to save the environment.
Look at businesses even.
It's not even it's m when I say culture, I'm not just talking uh uh about nor was Rush not just talking about movies and pop songs and uh technological websites and all the rest of it, but even businesses, hard headed businessmen.
You look at the way businesses all pretend they want to save the environment.
They've all got green initiatives.
Uh if you go into the stores, they've got, you know, you can give a couple of bucks for this and that.
That's telling you something.
That's telling you about where they think the default setting of society is.
Uh and the default setting of American life today is liberal.
It isn't a center right country.
It isn't a center right country.
Uh the the reality is that you cannot raise a couple of generations uh in liberal air from kindergarten through first grade.
I mean, really, by it doesn't really matter the cra the the stuff gets crazier in university, because by the time they're in fifth grade a lot of the damage has been done.
Uh and you cannot uh uh when you have motion pictures, when you have television, when you have newspapers, when you have the mainline churches, essentially in a default liberal setting.
You the the chances of being able to save the country by a guy in a voting booth punching the tab of the fellow with the R after his name on a Tuesday every other November.
The idea that in the end that will make a difference to the r to the ratchet liberalization of the country, uh I think is very short sighted.
We live in a world now uh where a majority of Americans, even given the last four years, even given the extraordinary debts, even given the lack of anything to show running up six trilli it took the first two centuries of the United States to run up a trillion dollars in debt.
The President of the United States is the first man in history to have spent six trillion dollars in four years, and as if that's not accomplishment uh enough.
He's the first man in history to have spent six trillion dollars and left no trace.
And yet people say people vote for more of it.
Because somehow they think he's on the side of women.
He's on the side of the environment, he's on the side of all this other stuff.
And so if we are not in, as Rush said, if we are not in the game playing on those battlefields, if we're basically not even having a conversation with those techie guys under thirty, uh, if we basically surrender the movies and we surrender the pop songs and we surrender all the all the cultural space in society where ideas develop and people's point of view develops and all the rest of it.
And if we just focus, we wasted a billion dollars and trying to dra drag a guy with an R after his name over the finish line.
Uh maybe we should have spent that billion dollars making five two hundred million dollar avatar sized blockbuster movies that that uh that essentially uh uh r f framed conservative message in great big budget block busting storytelling.
But we need something else.
You can't lose or w we're you can't retreat to that little Tuesday in uh every other November and let uh and let the Democrats control the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year and then be surprised that you're losing the country.
So we have to have a strategy for getting back in the game on all those other fronts.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Let us go to Ferris in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Ferris, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
to have you with us.
Good day, Stein.
There's Fluke from the Gold Coast here.
Hey, good good uh which which which bit is Fairfield County again?
I beg your pardon?
Which bit is Fairfield County in Connecticut.
I I'm missing a word, Mark.
You're saying which something is Capital County?
Yeah, I was just asking which part of Connecticut is Oh, it's the it's the Southeast Corner.
It it's it's the part that is more New York than it is Connecticut, but it's equal to it's equally morally vappet and and uh idiotic.
You're talking about the physical cliff, Mark.
But really People talk about being physically conservative and and socially liberal or socially moderate.
Uh Such idiocy is remarkable because it's the moral cliff.
It's the social cliff that we went over some time ago.
And the physical cliff, therefore, had to follow it.
Because you can't become as busted and broke and and uh hopeless as we have become without the loss of morals.
You're talking about these fourteen car motorcades, you're talking about going to uh Edgar Count at Martha's Vineyard for an ice cream cone at the at the cost of one point nine million dollars per ice cream cone.
Uh these are moral issues, Mark.
And one thing, and I I'm sure I sing for for all of your listeners when I sing uh nobody does it better than you.
Well nobody.
And and the the ability to be entertained and laugh when everything that that's right says we should be crying.
Well, you know, I love my country.
My friend from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Jeff.
Yeah.
Has nailed it.
When he said this thing is gone.
Well you you've put No, no, no, it hasn't it hasn't gone, Ferris.
But I will say I will say this, you're right that it is not it is not a bookkeeping issue.
It's not a bookkeeping issue, Ferris.
Uh in other words, if we were he he's calling from Connecticut in that little bit in the southeast uh corner of Connecticut on the coast where it's all the Tony uh houses and they all commute into New York every day.
Uh and that's how we think of Connecticut now.
If it was the guys who settled Connecticut uh three hundred years ago, uh the fellows who hacked out homes in the wilderness, uh the Jacksonian Americans that Tocqueville admired when he went to town meetings in Connecticut, these guys would not have run up sixteen trillion dollars of federal debt and a lot more at the in other words it's not a bookkeeping issue.
This is where Warren Buffett and the rest of them uh are are wrong.
It's not about getting a bunch of the green eight eye shade guys sitting around in a room and figuring out, well, if we move this from column two to column seven, uh column B to column Q, uh we can we can sort of get by for another six months or so.
It is, in the end, uh the the brokenness is a symptom.
It's a moral it's a moral issue.
Previous generations of Americans would not have let this happen.
They would not have done this to themselves uh or to their children and grandchildren.
And Ferris used that phrase, you know, uh fiscally conservative and socially liberal, which people always like the sound of.
Uh people always, you know, Christie Whitman in New Jersey, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, Bill Weld in uh Massachusetts, fiscally conservative, socially uh liberal.
Who was the guy in New York, say?
Pataki.
I can hardly remember these guys.
Fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
And of course the greatest of them all, Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
It's the winning combination.
You know who can be fiscally conservative and socially liberal?
Rock stars can.
Rock stars can be socially liberal.
They can sleep with anything that moves and a lot that doesn't.
They can drive their Rolls-Royce into the swimming pool, uh, they can they can uh st stick anything up their nose they want to stick, uh and uh then they call their financial advisor like David Bowie.
David Bowie sells bonds in himself.
You can buy a Bowie bond.
I don't know how it's doing these days, but you probably get better interest than you do buying a U.S. treasury bond.
Uh rock stars can do the the uh uh socially uh liberal fiscally conservative thing hardly because they've got people to fix everything for them.
Hardly anybody else can.
It all comes it all comes with huge uh huge costs.
It's it's like what what what side of that argument does free con contraceptive uh come in?
Because I got no problem with uh with uh with contraceptives.
I got no argument about contraceptives, nor did Mitt Romney, nor did Paul Ryan.
All we're saying is we don't want to pay for it.
Uh that uh somebody else should pay for your contraceptives.
You should pay for your contraceptives.
Uh I'm happy to pay for my contraceptives.
I just want you to pay for your contraceptives.
Uh uh and and that's uh but but but you try and frame it in that terms, and then suddenly contraception, free contraception has become a human right.
So it falls on the socially liberal side of the fiscally conservative, socially liberal thing.
These guys left no trace.
What what was the point of Arnold Schwarzenegger being governor of California.
The big tough guy, the terminator.
He couldn't terminate anything.
He couldn't terminate a Bureau of Compliance.
He couldn't terminate the agency of regulatory oversight.
He couldn't terminate the Department of Environmental Impact Studies of Studies on the Imact on the Bureau of Compliance.
He couldn't do a thing.
He couldn't do a thing.
These issues are tied.
And Farris is absolutely right that in the end, in the end, uh the the spending is a symptom, not the cause.
Previous generations would not have done this to America.
In in Rutherford B. Hayes' time there were fifty million Americans.
Now the entire population of Rutherford B. Hayes' America lives on food stamps.
It's not a bookkeeping issue, it's a cultural issue, and it's a moral one.
Mark sign in for Rush, lots more still to go.
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But uh here on the radio, uh I'm here today, Mark Belling is in tomorrow, and Rush returns Wednesday.
And I was talking about this uh uh terrific thing Rush was saying about a week or so back when he was talking about the long game.
Basically, the left led a huge march through the institutions and the right let them get away with it.
Because since Ronald Reagan's victory in nineteen eighty, uh we thought, hey, well, you know, we're electing Republican presidents, and once in a while we elect a Republican Senate and a Republican House too, and Republican governors.
And meantime, the left were taking over everything else.
The um that guy Bill Ayers, uh who's now some educator in Chicago.
You know, Bill Ayers is a very smart guy.
And you can understand why Barack Obama would value his counsel.
Uh because Bill Ayers, back when in the sixties, he uh he uh was a guy who was a sort of uh he was a wannabe terrorist.
He was an incompetent terrorist.
He tried to blow stuff up, but he didn't do it very effectively.
He says like uh the only difference between Osama bin Laden and him is that actually Osama bin Laden was good at it.
Uh and Bill Airs was an incompetent terrorist.
But he tried to blow stuff up, real stuff up, and uh which uh if he'd succeeded would have killed large numbers of people.
He was he was serious about it.
And then he wised up.
And he figured, why try to blow up the buildings when you can burrow into them and hollow out those institutions from within?
And that was that's what has happened to American education.
Uh that's what has uh happened to uh the American media, that's what has happened to the American uh American entertainment industry.
It's even uh to a degree, it's even what has happened to uh the American military when when the uh the the chief of the army says that as bad as Major Hassan gunning down fourteen people would be, it would be an even worse loss if we were to lose our quote diversity, unquote.
That guy said that.
How do you think how do you think the the loved ones of those fourteen dead people feel about his genius insight there?
How do you think they feel about the report classifying that as uh the that a guy standing on the table uh uh mowing you down and screaming Alahu Akbar is workplace violence.
Uh what happened is that the US military is like every other institution in the country.
It's been hollowed out by political correctness.
Because you can't let uh because you can't just uh look after the the voting booth uh on a Tuesday in November and let everything else go to hell.
Uh the result is what happened last week.
People vote uh in their broader cultural sphere.
Uh and Barack Obama fit into that fit in fit into uh their overall view of the cultural horizon, and uh and and and poor old Mitt Romney didn't.
Now one of the most interesting things Rush did in that monologue.
He was talking about humor.
And I think if I if I recall correctly, H.R., I think Rush told a mother in law joke, did he?
He told when he was talking about that uh when he was talking when he was doing his little riff.
As far as I know, I think it's he said something like uh you know what a a dichotomy is.
Uh it's when you see your new Cadillac going off the cliff, but your mother in law's inside it.
Right That was Rush's mother in law joke.
I like it.
I'm laughing about it three weeks after he told it.
That's how much I like it.
And uh uh cathy Shadel, a Canadian blogger, uh Kathy made a great response to that.
She said, you know, almost anything from a Deed Martin roast on TV in the seventies would now get you pulled up on hate crime charges.
And she's not wrong on that.
Uh people if you go to s so many of the so-called cool hip edgy comedy sites, because they have all these c blogs for stand-up comics.
Uh they have all these comedy blogs where they talk about who's appearing at which club and where all the hip edgy, cool transgressive comedians get together to be hip edgy and transgressive.
And the fact is they're a bunch that they're they're basically cowering quivering wrecks.
They're terrified.
Oh no, you can't say that, that's not funny.
Oh look, he made a joke that some gay people might interpret as possibly stereotyping gays.
We can't say that.
I ha I was in a uh uh uh a bookstore in uh in Vermont uh uh a few weeks back.
I stopped, uh I wanted to have a coffee and and pick up a book.
And uh a couple of young guys were sitting at the uh at the joining table and they're like picking out what movie, they're thinking about what movie they want to watch.
Because unlike Barack Obama, they don't have a full-time movie projectionist uh to cater to their so they're talking about what m and they and they said uh some th th they were looking at the list and The Dictator came up, which was a film that Sasha Baron Cohen made, I think it was last year, basically about a Gaddafi like crazy dictator.
And they said, Oh no, that's a terrible film.
That's not funny.
Oh no, and the other guy agreed, no no, no, that's not funny at all.
That's not funny at all.
It's not it's not great art, but it is funny uh because he's ma he's mocking he's he's mocking both Americans and he's mocking uh crazy Arab dictators.
And you're not supp and and the mistake he makes is mocking left wing Americans.
So you have a crazy Arab dictator like Gaddafi who winds up working in some lesbian vegan uh whole food store in uh somewhere in Brooklyn uh with uh women of a particular hers.
And you're not allowed, so he's making jokes.
He's an equal opportunity offender, Sasha Baron Cohen.
He's uh he's rude, so he's being rude about left wing American women, and he's being rude about crazy Arab dictators, and you can't be and the left says, Oh no, no, no, no, you can't be funny about that.
You can't be funny about that.
So instead they they practice this self-nutering eunuch uh c you know, it's okay, you can make it's if it's Sarah Palin's kid, you can make all the jokes you want about Sarah Palin's baby.
You can do that, yeah, who cares about that, because it's like a conservative.
If you can if you want to make a joke about uh you know, if you want if you want to make a joke about Sarah Palin's uh uh daughter, Bristol Palin, like David Letterman.
Well, she wasn't Bristol Palin, it was one of the other ones, even younger.
You can do all that kind of stuff, that's fine.
But but there's whole kinds of areas of life you're not allowed to do observational comedy about on the left.
They say, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
And that's fascinating.
Rush was right to draw attention to that.
Because i do know the amount of culturing cultural rewiring required to actually change people's sense of humour so that they actually look at something and they say, Oh, wait a minute, uh somewhere in the back of their head uh even if they're a a a titter may be rising in their throat, but they catch it just in time because they know they're not meant to find that funny.
That's the result of forty years of indoctrination uh to teach people to shrivel the bounds of what people are allowed to find funny.
And it is an incredible it is in its way an incredible achievement.
And that's why the the the left wants to confine us to a ghetto.
They don't want us breaking out into that wider cultural space.
If you notice Rush gets into trouble for what he says on this show, you know, he gets in people will pick on him for saying this, for saying that, but they go absolutely bananas.
They go absolutely bananas when he gets on ESPN or if he uh it's uh there's there's talk, there's rumors that he's buying a uh a a a football uh franchise or whatever.
Uh that's when they go really crazy, because they don't want the right breaking out into the wider sphere, into the into all that land into that big landscape from the churches to the schools to the boardrooms where left wing ideas predominate and they're and they're and they that's why uh they'll they'll bash Rush and they'll try to get him kicked off the air and they'll do sponsor boycotts and all the rest of it for this show.
But they go nuclear when he turns up on ESPN or when he tries to buy a football franchise or when he's guesting on some animated sitcom or whatever because they don't want him out in that broader, wider cultural world at all.
And Rush is absolutely right about that.
We've surrendered all this turf and we have to start spending the next four years taking it back or it's going to be the same thing all over.
Next time around, we're going to have some flawed candidate.
They're all flawed.
just the way it is and we're gonna be and he's gonna be goofy and he's gonna be square and he's not going to be as cool as their guy and we're going to be trying to drag him over the finish line uh to the same effect as happened in November.
We got to take back all the turf that we have surrendered to the left in their long march through the institutions.
Mark Stein in Farush more your calls straight ahead Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to John in Peoria, Illinois.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show uh yes Mark it's an honor to talk to you.
It's actually my fourth time on Rush but my first time with you.
And um having spent time in and out of the military since nineteen eighty three I can attest to what you said is happening to the military.
But what I called about was in in 1996 David Horowitz wrote a book called Radical Sun and he described exactly what you talked about and in the twenties he his parents were communists and discuss all that but their plan was is to essentially and this sounds conspiratorial but this is exactly what he wrote about in 1996 the plan was was for the communists, socialists, Democrats, whatever you want to call them today, to take over the New York teachers union and they did that.
And then their plan was a five or six generation plan where essentially they were to take over the educational system and essentially re-educate our children like Ko Chi men or Mao Saitong had done and essentially they've accomplished that.
And he wrote about this almost twenty years ago and at the time I read the book I thought oh that's crazy.
That really can't be happening but but it is happening and it's happening in the military it's happening everywhere.
These kids that are coming out now I mean unless you send your kids to a private school and you know they're coming out indoctrinated.
It's just it's a scary thing.
Well and and and often John actually when you talk about the uh the private school uh in fact um you the only difference between a private school and a public school is that the private school will be actually able to indoctrinate your kids uh that much more lavishly you know whereas in least it's a broken I had different college one went to Notre Dame and one's at Alabama and um the sad thing about it is I think my son that's at the University of Alabama's in a more conservative school than University of Notre Dame.
Right, right.
I know and that that's the thing because in some the the uh the elite institutions have all the money uh they want to do this uh to do this thing a money no uh money no object all the craziest courses are at the most expensive colleges.
They come out in so much debt that essentially they have no options and i it's it's it's a it's a trick.
I mean it's it's basically a form of of uh slavery.
I mean these kids are just not going to be able to come out with a hundred thousand two hundred thousand dollars debt.
Now granted they don't live on Ramen anymore they're taking tricks to Jamaica and whatnot but uh you know they they just come out with this incredible amount of debt they're behind the eight ball so a government job looks great to them.
You know maybe they'll forgive their debts in twenty years like they say they will.
It's it's it's actually ten ten years on that for govern you if you take a government job uh you will you will have your college debt forgiven in ten years.
You know I was talking to a college student the other the other night and he said in this kind of generational so superiority way.
He said you know what our our generation have more of our generation want to work for non profits than any other generation in history.
Well that's because like they didn't have non profits as a category uh half a century ago.
I mean there was the Red Cross and one or two other things.
But non profits hadn't become a big sprawling part of the the you know, this country's in massive debt.
Somebody has to make a profit to pay off the debt.
If everybody works for a nonprofit, the thing's over.
America is the world's biggest non profit right at the moment.
It's the most non profitable entity that has ever existed in human history.
So the idea that people will take on six figures of college debt uh and then come out and say, oh, you know, my ambition is to work for a non profit.
Uh that's that's a real that's a real tragedy.
And just to go back to what we were talking about, how eventually it infects everything, including the military.
Including the military.
Uh I I I some reason some guy uh put me on the the uh US Navy newsletter.
Uh and uh I d I didn't know what this thing was, but it started turning up in my inbox every day.
And I thought this would be great.
I'll be tales of daring do on the high seas.
I thought the US Navy newsletter, they'll be saying, Wait, we got some Somali pirates uh last week, and uh here's here's some thrilling I thought it'd be like that.
It's like one anodyne eunuch diversity story after another.
Uh I just read you assemble headlines.
Uh Naval History website highlights Women's History Month.
Senior Navy Leader receives Black Engineer of the Year Award.
David Alexander receives Diversity Leadership Award.
Navy women in aviation show diversity is rising.
Top Pentagon official discovers model of diversity at Corona Warfare Center.
This is the United States Navy has swallowed all this stuff.
The United States Navy newsletter, senior Navy letter, senior Navy you know, one diversity awareness story after another, you know, senior Navy leader receives most diverse engineer of the year award.
You know, it's uh there's no end to it.
Appointment of first Somali pirate to joint chiefs of staff shows diversity is rising, says Top Pentagon officer.
Okay, I made that one up, but how can you tell?
Uh that's all it is now.
That's all it is in the in the US Navy newsletter.
So obviously, if that's if that's how the brass, if that's how the people who run the US military think, then obviously uh when some uh when when some jihadist guns a j a a uh US Army psychiatrist guns down uh a bunch of people uh because he believes in jihad uh and he's getting his orders direct from uh Ayman al Waqi in Yemen, people uh half half the brass think, oh wow, that's great, that just shows how diverse we are.
You can't get any more diverse than having the enemy inside your base.
That's pretty diverse, isn't it?
There's two sides in a war, and we've got both of them, right in our own bases.
That's celebrate diversity right there.
And and and that's the point is that it these guys, the fact you we think of generals, we think of generals, you know, like uh Patton, right?
Just Sherman.
These are kind of these are generals.
They're not.
Generals are people who have been raised in the same American schools as everybody else.
And when you look at what American schools uh are are uh inculcating in uh America's youth, why be surprised that the US Navy newsletter is just a wash in celebrating diversity and celebrating this and that.
Mark Steinin for Rush, the EIB network 1800-282-2882.
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You know, I used to joke uh that sometimes uh a couple of times I was coming down to New York to do this show, and I couldn't get out of Burlington because Vermont Airspace was closed due to unusually high levels of bovine flatulence.
But don't knock uh bovine flatulence, because I see that the Mount Killington Ski Resort in Vermont is now powering its gondola on bovine flatulence.
Methane, cow methane, is now powering the gondola to get you up Mount Killington in uh in the the ski the big ski resort in Vermont.
So bovine flatulence is the wave of the future.
You know, we don't want to have that Keystone Pipeline coming down from uh Canada because we've got all the bovine flatulence we need right here.
We don't need that's that's America.
That's one of the jobs American cows will do.
Bovine flatulence.
We don't need to get any Canadian cows in that.
We don't need those European Union over unionized cows, uh the uh your uh your Holsteins and your jerseys and you're all those flatulent European cows.
Sure, they're more flatulent than our cows, but it's not like all American flatulence.
Bovine flatulence is now powering.
So if you're if you're planning a ski trip in new in uh in uh New England ski vacation, think about going up Mount Killington.
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