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Sept. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, it is I, Mark Markson filling in for Mark Stein who fills in for Rush Limbaugh.
I I'm I'm kind of the backup to the backup, I guess you could say.
It is Friday, which means it's open line Friday.
We will get into phone calls.
I promise we will.
But first, we're gonna talk about this Hillary Clinton thing.
You know, Hillary, Hillary this.
My how the mighty fall, at least she's making bucks.
There's that story on Drudge, she's going to Mexico.
She's, you know, she's making a lot of money on the speaking circuit.
She was, where is this?
This is the Associated Press.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called for the United States to become what she called the world's 21st century clean energy superpower.
Notice the phrasing here, not the world's superpower, but the clean energy superpower.
And remarks Thursday at the annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.
Clinton credited Northern Nevada's selection for a $5 billion Tesla automobile battery plant to work in recent years for the state to become a leader in solar wind and geo.
Do you know they've built one of those plants out in California?
It's a solar plant where they've got a bunch of mirrors in a circle of blinding pilots taken off from LAX and from Nevada from Las Vegas.
Yes, yes, so yeah, certainly the beams of light are reflected off mirrors to a water tower that heats it up, generates steam, to turn turbines, and as birds fly over these mirrors, they're turning into fireballs.
So the environmentalists who love the animals and hate the people are incinerating birds in the name of helping the environment.
By the way, there are some endangered species of birds and their migratory pattern through there.
But hey, hey, at least it's not coal.
Yes, barbecue, endangered barbecue.
I i they should start selling buns out there as the birds fall out of the sky on fire, land on the bun and have lunch right then and there.
I mean, it'd be it'd be hey, new fast food chain for minimum wage workers.
Gonna get myself in trouble.
Clinton's speech to a standing room crowd of more than 800 marked her return to the Las Vegas strip hotel where a 36-year-old woman was arrested.
Oh, nothing.
I I was getting there.
Nothing.
She said nothing about ISIS ISIL, the SOBs, nothing.
She said nothing about Ferguson.
She said nothing about China.
She said nothing about Ukraine.
Nothing.
She, the former Secretary of State, Hillary Rod.
Are we allowed to say Rodham?
I mean, this is in this press report, but if I said Barack Hussein Obama, they'd call me a racist.
So I I'm I'm not sure.
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She thinks that we should be a clean energy superpower.
This, my friends, is how she thinks she's going to get elected president.
I'm still not completely convinced that she's going to run.
I I'm not.
For a number of reasons, I'm not, but she certainly is going through the motions, which leads me to believe they think it's viable.
Hey, as long as Republican consultants are out there saying bring back Mitt Romney again, she probably does think she's gonna run for president.
A buddy of mine, Dan McLaughlin, he writes on the front page of redstate.com with me where I'm the editor.
He he also has written a great, great piece at The Federalist.
I've just put it on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson.
You can go find it.
He writes about the the historic odds of even Hillary Clinton.
Even Hillary Clinton winning.
Let me read you the little snippet of this.
Despite the increasingly grim outlook for their party, in the 2014 midterms, conventional wisdom holds the Democrats will head into 2016, favored to win the presidency for the fifth time in seven elections.
There are reasons for the optimism.
Democrats have carried the national popular vote in five of the last six elections.
Like Republicans in the years for their dominance of the White House from 52 to 88.
Democrat control of California gives them a natural head start to win the electoral college.
Democrats appear likely to unify behind a nominee, Hillary Clinton, who would start out not only with historically unique status as the first woman not a nominated for the presidency by a major party, but also massive name recognition, a strong fundraising network, leads in most early polls, and jack on her resume other than scandals.
I will, I'm adding that one.
Seriously, you strip away all the scandals from Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State and in the White House's first lady.
She's got nothing.
Nothing.
But then again, she looks sharp.
Democrats putting sharpness over substance.
In any event, back to McLaughlin's piece.
All these factors, da-da-da-da-da, but an intelligent discussion of 2016 must begin with the fact.
History is strongly against the Democrats.
Now pay attention to this.
This is this is Baron level analysis here from my buddy McLaughlin.
In the modern two-party era, beginning with the first Republican presidential campaign in 1856.
He's gone back a ways.
There have been 16 elections following the re-election of an incumbent president.
In eleven of those races, there was no incumbent on the ballot.
An analysis of those elections shows a startlingly uniform pattern over time.
The incumbent party, the party that won the last election, consistently lost ground relative to the challenger party, especially when running without an incumbent on the ballot.
And in nearly every such election, that loss of popular support was evident in closely divided battleground states rather than confined uncompetitive states.
The trend has persisted in winning and losing elections, in elections with and without third party challengers, in times of war, in times of peace, booms and depressions.
It has become more rather than less pronounced in the years since World War II.
And at all times has been more pronounced when the incumbent party is the Democrats.
This, my friends, goes back to something I said yesterday.
What did I say?
The Democrats come to power when things are fine.
And Republicans come to power when things are bad.
Because the Republicans are the adults, and the Democrats are the low F information voter pot smoking hippie FM types who come to power in good times, run it all to hell, and then we need the grown-ups to come back and fix everything.
That's the truth.
You may not like it, but that's the truth.
Maybe I could have couched it a little more politely for you so as not to hurt your feelings, get your knickers and knots and panties and wads, but it's the truth.
The Democrats come to power, and things just go down the drain over time.
And the adults have to come back.
Look again.
Look at Nixon after LBJ.
Look at Reagan after Carter.
Look at Bush after Clinton.
What did Bush run on in 2000?
What was his motto?
Help is on the way.
Help us on the way to the middle class.
Help us on the way to the soldiers.
Help us on the way.
Within nine months, we got 9-11 because people have been asleep at the wheel during the Clinton administration.
And now with the Obama administration, the Democrats and the President, they score worse on health care.
They score worse on education.
They score worse on military.
They score worse on national security.
They score worse on foreign policy.
They score worse on immigration.
Obama is ruining it for them.
And lo and behold, back to this story.
The former Secretary of State is reduced to talking about being the world's 21st century clean energy superpower...
And I bet she did it for cash.
I mean, she is a puppet.
Let's hope it's strings and not the other way.
As she stands up on stage and mouse off what these people are paying her to say.
Let's be a clean energy superpower.
And she's going to go to Mexico and talk about Carlos Slim and whatever down there and technology.
Not that she has any experience in any of this stuff, but she's a former Secretary of State.
We can get her on stage and pay her cash to say it.
And she'll say virtually anything you tell her.
But she won't talk about the things that matter.
She can't talk about ISIS because they started rearing their ugly head while she was Secretary of State.
She can't talk about Benghazi because she was Secretary of State when it happened.
She can't talk about Ukraine because she was involved with the Russians.
Remember she sent the reset buttons to the Russians.
She and the Russian foreign minister, they had a press conference where she presented the reset button with the translation spelled wrong in Russian, by the way.
That I mean, that right there says everything you need to know about Hillary Clinton.
The translation is wrong.
And see, here's the thing.
Say what you will about Barack Obama.
Say what you will.
But Barack Obama, he's got a high opinion of himself.
Anyone who runs for president has a high opinion of himself.
You don't run for president without thinking you're just gosh darn good and and the country needs you.
What?
Uh I do.
Oh, an un Oh, yes.
Yes, Nerdley just told me there's an unresponsive aircraft flying over the Atlantic.
The plane headed from Rochester, New York to Naples, Florida.
It's a business utility aircraft.
Well, that's interesting.
Uh yeah.
I don't know.
Let's let's I tell you, I got all these friends who are hoarding stuff with September 11th coming.
Let's hope it's a technical malfunction and not something else.
I I tell you, people, on this Hillary thing.
Particularly if something does happen, something bad happens.
She's got nothing.
And Barack Obama, she's gonna have to throw him under the bus.
Well, guess what?
He's the sitting president.
He's gonna be throwing her under the bus.
Do you really think Barack Obama wants a Democrat elected again who might undo what he's done to fix things?
Or would he rather be the indispensable party, but for whom the Democrats can't get elected if the name Obama is not on the ballot?
Do you think Barack Obama wants the Clintons to reestablish themselves as the leader of the Democratic Party and send him out to the pastor?
I this is gonna be fun to watch.
It will be soap opera level.
Eric Eriksen in for Rushland Ball.
Welcome back, Eric Eriksson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson, E W E R I C K S O N. CNN's been running the the story.
This plane has been it's a Sicata TBM 700 single turboprop.
It left Rochester, New York on its way to Naples and has just kept flying unresponsive, no radio contact, no idea what's going on.
It's a single turboprop lane.
The cool thing about the internet, the internet just I tell you, it brings can bring a collective of of crazy people together, but it also you can get on, you can put in the information and see all the stuff yourself.
It just fascinated the flight aware website.
I love it.
You can go see all this stuff.
Let's go to the phone show.
It is open line Friday after all.
Let's go to Tom calling from Tampa, Florida.
Tom, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi, Eric.
Thanks for taking my call.
My this is my fifth call, and I've always had agreement from Rush, and I think you're going to agree with me as well.
I have two points to make.
One is in regard to Hillary and the clean superpower.
I'd like to direct people to today's Wall Street Journal.
There's an article there by Matt Ridley, who's a member of the British House of Lords that totally debunks all the science on global warming and just shows what a sham it is.
Oh, but you can't believe him because he's an uneducated rube with the British accent.
There you go.
Of course he's not.
He's actually quite smart.
What's really to move forward on Sean's point earlier...
The end game of these socialists, just to put it in very succinct terms, the end game of all this is to get us all stop to stop working for ourselves and start working for them.
That's what this is all ultimately about.
Oh, yeah, look, they are building a new aristocracy, Washington is.
They're building a new aristocracy, Tom.
And you know what an aristocracy needs?
Well, the lords need vassals for their manor houses.
They need us parked on the farm, picking their organic fresh straight from the farm within a 50 mile radius of their house, so it's super fresh vegetables, and that they're organic, no hormone chickens and beef if they haven't gone all vegan.
That's what they need us for.
Maybe they shouldn't be giving us pitchforks, but by God, that's what they want.
What's that?
There's nothing wrong with going vegan if that's what you want, but I swear Michelle Obama would make us all do it against whether we wanted to or not.
That reminds me, so there's a story out there today.
More schools ditching her program because it turns out kids would rather starve during school than eat a bunch of cardboard garbage ordered up by some bureaucrat somewhere.
The school cafeterias are an absolute revolt over the stuff.
I I I don't blame them.
I wouldn't want to eat some of that stuff.
It's just crazy.
All right, Bob in West Virginia on an open line Friday.
Let's go to you next.
How are you?
I'm just fine.
This is a double thrill for me because I used to listen to Young Wisby before I got adopted to West Virginia.
Oh my goodness.
And I the the double thrill is first I made it through.
And second, I have an opportunity to tell you personally how much I appreciate you helping me understand a concept.
You had a young lady call in uh back in Atlanta, and she you were discussing some issue, and she was offended.
And uh you responded, and for a moment there I said, Well, gee, that that doesn't sound very sensitive.
Uh this lady's offended.
And then you talked a little bit more, and I began to understand that oh well, her offense is not any more important than anybody else's.
Just because I call up and say, I'm offended, what I'm really saying is you have to agree with me.
Yes.
I I I vaguely remember the situation, Bob, and it happens all the time in radio.
And this again, one of the things I'm of the bad thing about the internet, is people who have they nurse a sense of grievance, and they don't stand outside holding picket signs demanding more money.
They just get on the internet and complain about people.
And they find a small minority of people who are also on the internet, and they decide, hey, we must be the majority because we're all here on Twitter together.
And then they go off and they try to to construct society based on that.
They realize the majority of us think they're nut jobs and they get all upset about it.
That happens more and more.
You know, Bob, there's a story out today.
This is a perfect segue into this, and unintended people, but I'm a professional.
I can do this.
So I I'm not gonna give the name of the person because they clearly got mental issues.
Slate, apparently, the slate, this liberal website caters to these people.
There's this person, she hates kids, she doesn't want a family, and she also believes that the home cooked family dinner is somehow psychopathic.
I the headline of her piece is let's stop idealizing the home cooked family dinner.
Apparently, it's just it's bad.
It stresses people out, and it costs money to cook for your family.
I mean, this must be a deeply misanthropic, sad individual with some clear issues.
You don't like kids.
You you don't like the home cooked family dinner.
I people, believe it or not, I do more with my life than talk about politics.
I talk about cooking.
In fact, I taught a cooking school a couple of weeks ago.
I love to cook.
I've got a big green egg, I just got a giant, giant grill with a 50-pound rotisserie.
Uh, it's the start of football season, which means my gumbo pot is coming out.
What?
I uh yeah, I do have an apron.
It's a leather hardware apron with holsters for hammers, and I can use it for spatulas.
I I do have an apron.
Yeah, all right, snurdley.
I I like to cook.
I I made my wife a great pot of chicken curry the other day, and and they I find these misanthropic people.
I cook my wife dinner, believe it or not, my misogynist self, I put myself barefoot in the kitchen to cook supper.
I let her be the one who's pregnant, though.
we we we're we're not going that far to San Francisco.
Nonetheless, I like to cook.
I I find it's relaxing.
I find it's rewarding.
And if you got a problem with cooking family dinner, you you may think that you've got voices online who agree with you, but you're just pathetic and nuts.
I'm continuing to watch CNN is going all in with another airplane.
Now, I I I gotta be honest with you.
This is I I will confess my one crazy kooky conspiracy theory in life.
I'm still waiting for a Malaysian Air 77 to fall out of the sky.
I'm just not completely sold that the the pilot committed suicide and and drove it into the Indian Ocean.
I I'm I'm still waiting, but I'm watching this CNN coverage of this unresponsive plane in Cuban airspace.
Maybe it's Fidel's corpse going home.
I don't know.
Sneaking it back from somewhere.
I have no idea, but I keep waiting for a black hole to open up on the screen and make the airplane disappear.
I I'm the I d y you never know.
All right, it's Eric Erikson, it's open line Friday here, 1-800-282-2882.
I was telling Snurley, I'll finish this thought about me and cooking.
I am a native of Louisiana.
Before I moved to Georgia to go to school, my mother insisted I learn how to make jambalaya and gumbo.
I do.
I taught a cooking school to make my gumbo.
It's football season, football season in my house means gumbo and cold beer.
That that's that's what you do for football games when LSU is playing.
All right, since it's open line Friday, I will be generous and I will go back to the phones.
I will go to Joanne in Virginia Beach.
Joanne, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Eric.
Nice to talk to a substitute, Mark.
You're doing a good job.
I I appreciate it.
And call me Mark if it makes you comfortable.
No, it comes I'm comfortable with Eric I've heard you on WSB many times before online.
Um, you know, I I heard that guy.
I've been at the same job for 20 years, and I'm only making eight bucks an hour.
Well, you fool, that's your problem.
Look in the mirror and say, All right, what is my sorry butt not done to get myself up in the minimum wage is an entry-level.
Yeah, listen.
Let me Joanne, let me read this to you.
This is from the Associated Press.
Uh Tyree Johnson also was among those hauled away in Chicago, got arrested in the protest.
Johnson earns eight dollars forty-five cents an hour after working at a Chicago McDonald's for more than two decades.
I've been there twenty-two years and can't help my family.
I just minimum wage is not designed for maybe in Obama's America, people have to depend on minimum wage jobs.
In fact, some of the people who are mad at me for saying you failed in life for this are people who they are stuck.
And and those are people I specifically exempted from the statement.
But if you're gonna go out and get yourself arrested because you've worked at a McDonald's for 22 years and you're only making 875 or 845, my friends, I I think that's more on you than the government.
Oh, I I I agree.
I mean, when you go into a place, you know, you you start out with your entry-level position, you get trained, you get good at that, and then you start asking for more responsibility, so you get moved up.
And if you don't want to ask for more responsibility, if you come in with a crappy attitude every day, oh God, I gotta go to this crappy job.
Well, it doesn't have to be a crappy job.
If you don't want it to be a crappy job, it's all up to you what you make of it.
And I am so sick of the government stepping in and saying, you gotta do this, you gotta do that, you gotta do this.
Well, you know what?
Screw you.
Go work out for go go do something for yourself and quit asking me to pay for your kids, your food, stamp your electricity, your rent, whatever.
I'm tired of it.
I work for I I I provide for myself.
My husband and I provide for ourselves.
Get out there, get up off your rear end and go do something.
Joanne, uh, you know, I think one of the things people miss is the Democrats uh they use one of their favorite words is empowerment.
Women's empowerment, minority empowerment, L G B T Q, A, B, C, Y, and and P empowerment.
Empowerment for for everybody.
And yet, what is empowerment look like to the Democrats?
It looks like you are addicted to government.
It looks like you are dependent on government.
It looks like you are empowered to take other people's money to make do in life.
It looks like you you are supposed to be comfortable in a minimum wage job.
People i i I it is a fact.
I must concede the fact that in Barack Obama's America, many people are stuck working multiple minimum wage jobs to make do.
They cannot get ahead in Barack Obama's America.
And the Democrats' response to this is well, we will give you more of other people's money to make you comfortable where you are.
Not we will get out of the way so you can go improve yourself.
The Democrats are so convinced that government must be involved in the equation.
They are so convinced that government will improve your surroundings.
Look, I heart goes out to people who are stuck flipping burgers for minimum wage and they can't get ahead and they can't find a better job.
But I don't think the solution to that is for the government to jack up their wages through law, through fiat.
That's not the solution.
The solution is not for people to go protest.
The Democrats want the solution to be complacency.
The Democrats want everyone complacent.
The Democrats want everyone sitting down, not worried about where the next paycheck is going to come from because it's going to come from the government.
But where's the government going to get the money?
The government's going to get the money from other people.
What the Democrats are doing, it is a long-range intentional plan as they create their new aristocracy of trust funders and snobs in Washington, New York, and the coast.
They want to create a society where we are stuck somewhere hanging out, working on subsistence wages subsidized by the federal government, where they can jet set around and occasionally pull money out of their trust fund and send it to the government or let the government write checks.
They don't want the competition.
They don't want it.
What is your name?
Tyree Johnson in Chicago, making $845 an hour, working at McDonald's for two decades for 22 years.
The Democrats don't want you to get another job.
They don't want you to be inspired to work harder.
They don't want you to go out and improve your lot in life because they don't want the competition.
The Democrats don't want a middle class.
They want as huge a gap between the poor and the rich as possible, with no one in between because they don't want the competition.
They don't want creative destruction.
The Democrats hate the idea of the creative destruction of the free market.
The Democrats hate the idea that you may come along, Tyree Johnson, with a better idea than a Democratic donor and show some initiative and put it to work and bring down that Democratic donor system because you may not then feel like you've got to write checks to the Democratic Party once you've done something on your own.
The Democrats do not like creative destruction.
They do not like the free market system because in the free market system, they are not guaranteed to stay on top, and they want that guarantee.
As much as they want to guarantee you a subsidized existence at the bottom of the economic food chain, they want to guarantee that they never have to worry about losing it all.
That's why they do what they do.
That's why the unions are fighting for $15 an hour job.
And by the way, what's going to happen?
Let's say they do raise it, uh government fiat, they raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
What's going to happen?
I bet you're not going to get the same health care.
I bet the college scholarships from McDonald's are going to go away.
I bet the free parking and some jobs goes away.
I was reading a story, this has been a while back in Washington State, some area out there, they raised the minimum wage.
I think they raised it to $15 an hour, and suddenly all the workers who were supporting it were shocked.
No more free meals from their employer at lunch.
No more free parking.
No more bus passes.
No more health care.
No more retirement benefits.
All those things went away to make up for the $15 an hour.
Folks, I know the Democrats want you to believe this as they foster grievances in society.
I know they want you to believe this.
But your employer is not out to screw you.
Your employer is not out to take advantage of you.
Your employer is not out to be rich and make you poor.
The Democrats are.
The your employer's not.
Most employers, in fact, I would say virtually all employers, they're gonna pay you before they pay themselves.
Before they make a profit, they're going to meet their payroll.
And they're going to reinvest dollars in their business.
And many of these small businesses, we talk about McDonald's or Burger King or whatever raising wages, but you're actually talking about franchisees.
So you're talking about small businesses that own a handful of stores.
You're not talking about the McDonald's Corporation, which is basically a glorified real estate company to begin with.
Talking about the local franchisers.
And they're paying you first.
And then when they have money left over before they pay themselves, a lot of times they're reinvesting in the business to keep the business upgraded so people keep wanting to come.
They're cutting their margins so that they don't have to raise prices on the public so the public keeps coming, so you can still get a paycheck.
This isn't an us versus them system.
The Democrats, though, are desperate for you to see it as an us versus them system where your only savior is the government.
And what is the government saving grace to you to keep you in the existence that you're instead of showing you that if you work harder in America, you can get ahead.
Eric Erikson in for Rushlin Ball.
Welcome back, Eric Eriksen here, open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm going to fit in another call because I can, and I'm a nice guy.
Cole and Tyler, Texas.
Everything's better in Texas, Cole.
This call better be.
Well, uh, I own a uh small business in Tyler.
Uh it's a coffee shop.
We've been in business for a year.
And uh I you know, you talk about employers who would uh would rather make payroll first than make a profit.
I'm l I'm living proof of that.
Uh we have uh so much money coming in and uh so much money going out, and time after time, I'm working hours and I'm not getting paid for her.
Uh we started with four girls, uh great employees.
Um now we only have two because that's all we can afford.
And I'm still going without a paycheck.
It's not it's it's difficult.
And I don't know.
Particularly in this economy.
Okay, so Cole, uh let me pivot here for a second.
Because it is really difficult, and it it it's they say it's really difficult for guys like you running coffee shops because you've got the these mega chains.
I gotta tell you, I would prefer when I go out and get a coffee from somewhere to go to an independent chain than one of these these mega coffee places where the coffee's been brewed all day and doesn't taste very good.
Absolutely.
I mean, it makes it so my wife and I, I don't want to say we're coffee snobs, uh, because a friend of mine would dispute that given I've got one of those espresso machines, but we've got our our standard coffee pot, grinds the beans.
It sounds like a jet engine going off in the morning.
We we get the beans and makes good coffee and th I mean these mega chain places, it's terrible coffee.
Sure.
People go for the go for the drinks with the caramel and the flavor.
I just think if you got to flavor up your coffee that much, you're not really drinking coffee.
Now let's let's talk about your business.
You've got two employees.
How late are you or how long are your hours working?
Uh we we're open from eight uh sorry, seven in the morning until five in the evening.
And you got two employees?
I've got two employees, yes, sir.
And so I assume you're there all day too working.
Uh, me and my wife, yeah, we trade off.
Um I actually own another business that I'm trying to start up right now.
But uh good so wait, wait, wait.
So you got a coffee shop and you've got another business that you're starting.
Yes, sir.
Well, that that's kind of American of you.
Uh you're you're probably hated by many leaders of the Democratic Party for doing that.
Uh yeah, sometimes.
So we get in part of future discussions.
So when you now you granted you're in Texas and everything's better in Texas, but it just dealing with the startup costs of a business.
I'd bet you just get really frustrated with with the forms and the bureaucracy, even in a place like Texas.
Yeah, it you know, Texas is one of the easiest states to start a business, but there's still the endless amount of uh regulation and just uh the corporation startup costs to sales tax to health codes, uh and I'm not saying that all that is bad.
I'm saying that it it could be a lot more streamlined, make it easier to own a business if that's what we truly want as a country.
It just well, you know, God bless you for all the work you're doing and and putting people to work, put yeah putting more people to work as Barack Obama's putting more people out of work.
I look, Cole, I appreciate the phone call.
It It is a remarkable thing to hear a story like this.
He's got a coffee shop.
He and his wife are there with two employees.
He's trying to start another business.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
The Democrats, they don't want this.
Now I know some of you think I'm being dramatic.
No, no, no, no, no.
The Democrats, they don't want this.
They don't want guys like Tyree Johnson who earns 845 an hour after working at a Chicago McDonald's for two decades to see that this is possible in the country.
Or if he does see it, to see himself as a victim.
That's the other thing the Democrats are obsessed about doing making people look like a victim, making people feel like a victim.
See, if you've decided you're a victim, then what are you not responsible for?
Your actions.
Because your actions are in response to you being a victim.
We see this so much in the rhetoric of the Democratic Party and how it pursues issues, social issues in this country, cultural issues, economic issues.
You're all victims of someone else.
I'm sorry, people.
If you go through life viewing yourself every day as a victim of someone else, you're probably a miserable person.
And it's probably not your fault.
It's probably someone has convinced you of this.
There are real victims in society.
There are victims of crime.
There are victims of fraud.
There are victims of bad actors in this country.
The Democrats would have you believe that everyone who stands against you is somehow your victimizer, and the media does this too.
You want to understand every story in the media.
Take out the liberal bias.
I realize the liberal bias is there.
Take out the good government bias.
This is why they never sell conservatism as good in the evening news, because they believe government is good, and if you want less government, you must be bad.
But the the grand scheme of things, they weave all these together with a narrative of victim versus victimizer.
It's always the white Christian male who's the victimizer.
And this is why Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and then the like throw them all off because they're not actually white men.
But yet they're the victimizers because they're in bed with the Republican Party, which is the old white men party.
Never mind Nikki Haley, never mind Susanna Martinez, never mind the like.
The entire media narrative, the entire Democratic Party apparatus is built around the idea that you are a victim.
You're not responsible for your actions because you're reacting to being a victim.
When the media tells a story about economic success in America, it's Cole, the small business owner who owns the coffee shop and is starting a new business.
He's the victimizer because he's not paying his employees enough.
Never mind he's not getting paid.
They don't tell you that side of the story.
It's all a scam from the Democratic Party to convince you you need more government.
When more and more polls are showing, in fact, people realize we need less.
Eric Ericson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome back.
It's Eric Erickson here, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush will be back next week, by the way.
It's also an open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
I I feel like I should point this out.
You know, talking about all the crazy angry Democrats.
Of all things, those of you in the in the Nashville area, I'm actually going to be up there on the 16th for an event with Russell Moore.
He's the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Joe Scarborough from MSNBC.
The three of us are going to have a discussion about crazy not winning in politics.
crazy.
I just, I reread the story.
This goofy person who is upset with home-cooked family dinners.
How...
I don't understand liberals.
I mean, I guess I I understand them, but these are some malcontented souls, kind of like the global warming people.
If global warming is your biggest issue in life, you are probably a deeply malcontented soul.
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