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July 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Okay, we've reached that point where we reach seemingly in every show where I am slowly being overtaken by I've got five minutes ago I knew what I was going to start with.
And now it's out the window.
Because of things that have happened in the last five minutes.
But I don't want to forget those things I was going to start with.
So I gotta I gotta delay them.
Because other things have uh taken just a little bit of precedence here.
Stock market, they are saying it's not a cyber attack.
Don't anybody panic.
There's no cyber attack here.
It is a technical glitch.
Rudolph Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, was on with Neil Cavuto moments ago on the Fox News channel, and Cavuto said at the stock exchange, they're obviously taking their time.
They're not resuming trading now, first of all, because they don't know what's going on, which is understandable.
But I think they'll delay going back online until they are sure those systems are able to handle the traffic.
That is certain to follow.
They have to be ready to trade and have their systems up and able to trade when things resume, right?
This statement is a rather useless uh statement.
It's gobbledygook.
Crisis management 101.
You give out specific information.
Look, if they don't know something more than this, then the place is really being run very poorly.
The crisis management here is atrocious.
I mean, from the moment this happens, somebody should explain it, even if they don't know exactly what it is, exactly what you're saying, which is explain what we're doing working on it.
We've got 45 people working on it.
They don't know what it is.
Isn't that somewhat obvious?
They don't know what it is.
I can tell you, no, I I I know you all get tired of hearing this.
I'm sorry, I apologize in advance, but I'm not going to stop doing it because as I say, it's my direct link to millennials.
But I checked the little tech bloggers here during the break, and they're saying, how stupid do you think we are, that this is not a cyber attack?
How stupid do you think we are that there's nothing to see here?
And that is the reaction a lot of people have, whether it's right or not, the fact of the matter is that there has been so much obfuscation and secrecy, and the government's been spying on so many people and so forth, and you know, you there's a context to everything.
And people distrust the stock market anyway, because they think it's a rigged game.
They think it's same day, along with the ChICOM stock market plunge.
You got United going down, Wall Street Journal was down and it's trying to come back, but it's iffy.
Uh that's a click-by-click proposition, even out the Wall Street Journal.
Dow Jones goes down.
People already, I mean, some people have a distrust of the stock market, they think it's a rigged game for the rich to stay richer.
It takes a lot of people a stock market is a subset of the way the country was founded.
Do not doubt me on this.
They think the country was a rigged game by white elitists when it was founded, just like the stock market's a rigged game today.
And you can't blame them for thinking that when the Federal Reserve prints three trillion dollars and it all goes to the stock market.
So that all those guys continue to hoard their summer houses in the Hamptons and the SAG Harbors and the Montawks, and wherever.
So anyway, Rudy's saying, you guys, this is lousy.
Crisis many, if you don't know what it is, say so.
If you if you have some idea, say that.
Lousy crisis management.
Now, I want to uh zero in on one more thing, because I got a note from a friend of mine pointing out that uh once again I was right in ways that I didn't even imagine I was right.
In characterizing Trump and his comments about the Mexican immigrants, the the idea that Trump was trying to denigrate an entire population or ethnicity, I don't know.
I I didn't take it that way.
Primarily when Trump says they're not sending us their best and brightest, he is saying they have a best and brightest.
So how can he be denigrating an entire ethnicity if he acknowledges that there is a best and brightest in Meiko?
That's number one.
Number two, where is the presumption of intelligence here?
Who who in the right mind would say that an entire country is nothing but a giant criminal gang.
Don't look at me that way, when you put it that way, Russia sounds believable.
Well, you talk about, well, that no, not all of Russia.
The oligarchy, yeah, maybe, but not all of Russia.
That's my whole point.
You think maybe the power structure.
The note that my friend sent me says, look at Rush, look at look at the Mario boat lift back in 1980 from Cuba.
When what did Castro do?
Castro took advantage of a SAP president, Jimmy Carter, and released his prison population.
Called them freedom fighters or whatever, put them in ragtag boats, and said, Leave.
You're free.
You're out of here.
1980, Mario Boat left, Jimmy Carter was president.
Jimmy Carter, by the way, who said, Jimmy Carter, who said.
I know he's 90 now, but no excuse.
Jimmy Carter said that, I'm paraphrasing, in some cases, Jesus would favor gay marriage.
If you want to know what Jesus thought of all that, just look up Lott's wife.
Solomon I say.
I get, I don't want to go all theological on you.
The Merriel boat lift, no one who complained about this was saying that all Cubans were bad people.
They were what they were saying was that the regime had basically emptied the jails and sent us the dregs of cuman society who promptly committed that a huge crime wave began in Florida when the Merriel boat lift landed.
Now, if we if we said that today, go back to 1980, the Cubans admitting letting their prison population out of jail, putting them on boats, sending them to America.
If we simply called that for what it was, we'd all be called racists.
Even though it is now well known exactly what Castro did.
Why it's even in the Wikipedia entry.
The exodus was organized by Cuban Americans with the agreement of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
The exodus started to have negative political implications for President Jimmy Carter when it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities.
You know what a Cuban mental health facility is?
It's the gutter.
They don't have any mental health facilities.
Well, they might.
But the Mario boat lift was ended by mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Cuban government in October of 1980, but by that time, as many as 125,000 Cubans had made the journey to Florida.
But back then nobody was saying that the whole Cuban population was a bunch of ragtag misfits, and Trump was not saying the whole Mexican population was.
Here, by the way, just to back it up, uh Grab sound by 26.
This is uh Donald Trump last night with Greta Van Sestrin on Fox.
And I mentioned that he's now, in addition to L. I need to make one clarification.
Folks, I I checked the email during the break.
Now, just like, you know, I'm not, I make great efforts, go to great pains not to mischaracterize what other people say.
Please do not do that.
I did not say that every Democrat is now demanding sanctuary cities be in.
I did not say that every Democrat is joining Trump.
I didn't say that.
I said he has shifted the debate to the issue away from himself.
That is undeniable.
People are now debating whether or not sanctuary cities are any good or should they be legal, should we have them?
And some Democrats are now speaking out against them.
Trump is the one who did that.
Yesterday Trump was the issue.
The day before that, Trump was the issue.
Today, the issue is the issue.
Even to the point now that what the California Attorney General, a woman named Kamala Harris, who, by the way, Obama thinks is hot.
He went all Clinton on her.
I mean verbally when he saw her.
Like Clinton did when he saw that mummy.
Clinton said he would have asked that mummy out if he'd have been alive whatever thousands of numbers of years ago the mummy lived.
And then remember when that basketball team, that female basketball team showed up at the White House, and there was this six foot three inch, whatever, pretty good looking female.
He he went Cosby on her.
He could not take his eyes off.
Oh, speaking of that, Jimmy Walker.
Jimmy Walker was on CNN this morning, and he put this Cosby thing in just two quick sound bites, but put it in perspective.
You know, I've met JJ.
JJ is a good guy.
He's smart, he's funny.
Uh had dinner with him one night at Elaine's.
Oh, should have seen the stairs that night.
S T A R E S. And Colter, part of the group, too.
Should have seen the stairs.
They wanted to kick her out.
Anyway, Jimmy Walker and his soundbites are coming up.
Here's what Trump said.
Because he's brought common core into this now.
This is what Trump said.
This is last night on Greta Van Susterin.
I watch Jeb Bush.
I think it's pathetic what's going on.
His stance on common core.
He's in favor of Washington educating your children.
His weak stance on immigration.
He said it's an act of love.
I mean, what kind of stuff is that?
That's baby stuff.
So my only point is that Trump is shifting all these things he's talking about.
Up till now, he's been the issue of it.
Can you believe he's saying that?
Donald Trump, idiot, Donald Trump extremist, Donald Trump racist Donald Trump.
Now people are talking about what Trump is talking about.
They're debating the issue.
That's not what the left wants, by the way.
Now, delayed, but nevertheless, gonna get to it.
As I've mentioned, I ran across this piece at the Federalist.com called the New Totalitarians.
And it's one of those pieces that I'm sure this has happened to you.
Read it, it's just exactly what I've been thinking the last couple of days, or close to it, but I haven't quite put it that way.
This I'll tell you what this is.
It's almost like, not quite, but almost as dramatic for me.
You remember uh Angelo Cove and the ruling class that ran in the American Spectre, remember how good that was?
Cited that left and right.
This this is in that genre, or uh in that vein.
And then I ran across this right here, my formerly nicotine sane thing.
I ran across this over the weekend, and I thought, should I or shouldn't I?
Should I mention it or should I not?
Because the website where this appeared is having trouble, and they'll do anything to get clicks.
And this could be a clickbait story, I thought.
But then I said, no, it's not clickbait.
These clowns actually believe it.
The website is Vox.
And by the way, Vox with some millennials is the greatest website ever.
It was, it's it's owned, I think, by the people that own the political.
I'm not sure about it.
I think the all Britons.
I'm not sure who finances it.
The big star of this website is Ezra Klein.
Remember the Wonder Kind at the Washington Post?
The guy who started the journal list, secret list.
And if you don't know what the journalist was, the journalist was a chat room, a chat room, basically, of all drive-by media people, where they actually got together and planned the agenda for the day every day.
It was actually an and a tan-about admission, the existence of this conspiracy that the media gets together and coordinates what they all think and what they're going to say.
That was journalist when it was discovered it was shut down.
Well, Ezra Klein is the lead or the quote-unquote star of this place.
And a lot of young journalists uh in sports and in tech just salivated the chance to work there.
They think it's the latest tip, and it it's just not what they think of it.
Anyway, the post.
Three reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.
Serious piece here by Dylan Matthews, and there's a little picture of this guy, and he looks exactly like what you would think somebody who wrote this looks like.
And he basically says that we'd all been better off if America hadn't been founded.
And he gives three reasons why.
And the first reason is slavery would have ended much sooner.
There might in fact here's how it begins American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake.
We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom not cheering it.
Now, and it ran on July 2nd.
The guy's dead serious, folks.
I'm telling you, this is this the kind of stuff that 25, 20, 15 years ago we'd look at it, laugh at it, think it's fringe.
It isn't fringe.
This kid's in his early 20s, obviously, he sincerely believes this because he has sincerely been taught this.
And it is one of these pieces written with just ladles and ladles of guilt.
This poor kid has been made to feel guilty over the fact that he's an American, that he's white, uh that he has money.
It's just it's obscene.
So slavery would have ended.
We would never have had a democracy, we would have had a parliamentarian government, which means we would have been paying a much higher and fairer rate of taxation.
And there would not have been this massive mistreatment of Native Americans.
And the world would have been a better place if those three things had not happened.
I'm telling you, this is not a one-off.
You can sit in there and shake your sternly, I'm telling you, I'm trying to I'm mentioning this because I want everybody to know what's going on, particularly in classrooms out there.
Nobody is talking about it.
Well, few are, I think more and more beginning to.
But that's there are many routes to the assault on America that are taking place right now in the culture uh politically, but one of the places that it is being fueled, where the army is being created for this assault on America is in the classroom.
It's what they're being taught.
And the parents are afraid of doing anything about it because they're afraid if they go to the school authorities, their kids will be punished with bad grades or what have you.
Same form of intimidation as everything else the left does.
And that dovetails with the whole thing about the new totalitarians that I ran into that I want to try to explain in as few words as possible, all coming up when we get back.
Time to work in another phone call here just to be even with the elements.
Fred Burlington, New Jersey.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
And hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Great, great to speak to you, Maharashi.
Thank you, sir.
Um the reason I called, I was watching Hannity last night.
He had Rick Perry on.
And Hannity pressed him pretty hard.
He kept playing Trump's comments.
And asking him, you know, what exactly is it that you object to?
And he he kind of uh hemmed and hard and just said, well, you know, it's just you know, I making outrageous comments, um, but it didn't really get specific.
And my question for you is I'm wondering with all these candidates uh condemning Trump.
Is there a coordinated effort?
As like Ryan Spreebus sent out a memo saying we don't want Trump in this race, so ask candidates all to condemn him.
And and if if you think it is a coordinated effort, why do they not want to uh address immigration?
Uh you know, what what's the the reason behind it?
Well, I don't think it's a coordinated effort because it doesn't have to be coordinated.
They're all seeking the same office, so they're all going to be opposed to Trump anyway.
Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, they're all going to oppose each other.
Um, as to the specifics of the way they're dealing with immigration, I it's an interesting question because there's the potential here for something momentous to happen.
And it is exactly as you ask.
Will what is happening because of Trump's stick to it, will it change the Republican Party's approach on this?
Right now, the Republican Party approach on immigration is predicated on what they think they need to win the presidency.
And you know it as well as I do.
They think they need an increase in Hispanic support.
They think they need an increase in African American support.
They don't think they need to turn out the conservative base.
They're cockeyed on this.
And the way they think to get 30% additional support from the Hispanic community is to pander to them.
And they think that the Hispanic community would probably be in favor of whatever Hispanic people are doing.
And right now, Hispanic people are trying to get into America.
So the Republicans want to associate with that.
Their donors also want that immigration to work for cheap labor.
But here comes Trump and has changed the whole focus of this debate.
It's a golden opportunity, and I'm going to be interested to see what happens.
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Look, Republican Party and uh immigration.
I think most of the Republican Party establishment believes and hopes, but they believe that Trump is not in this to be president.
I think they think that Trump is doing something else, whatever it is, and that what they have to do is weather the storm.
I think they're hoping that Trump comes and goes.
Probably sooner the better, that he gets out.
I would think they were probably hope to be out by this fall, certainly by the end of the year.
And if that indeed is their attitude, then they are going to ignore whatever Trump is doing.
The fact of the matter is that the Republican Party is locked by virtue of donations and donors to supporting amnesty.
This is the frustrating thing.
I mean, the money and politics talks.
The Republican Party is not look at we've won two landslides.
We have given the Republican Party control of Congress.
What do we got to show for it?
We have given them in 2010 and 2014.
We gave them.
They've got the House and the Senate.
Now, they don't have 60 votes in the Senate.
But they run both places now.
The American people have done what they think they can do.
Most Americans feel impotent other than their ability to vote.
And they have let it be known every which way they can, what they think, what they favor, and what they oppose.
The Republican Party appears to not be listening.
Okay.
So here comes Trump, enduring all of these attacks, losing whatever he's losing in his businesses, having all of these efforts made to slime him, impugn him, to ruin him, whatever.
He perseveres.
And he has changed the subject of the debate from being about him to about illegal immigration and amnesty.
Many of us think it's a golden opportunity for the Republican Party to pivot on the basis of massive public support for what is happening.
They could say they have been dragged kicking and screaming.
Clearly there hasn't been any leadership for the Republican Party on the direction Trump is going.
My take is, my wild guess, all it is that given they think Trump is a short timer in this campaign, they are not going to follow anything Trump does.
That would be my wild guess.
I don't wish it were something else.
We keep hearing that what we're absent and what we're missing is leadership, but we're seeing something here.
I mean, this is what leadership is.
I mean, this is a guy taking the arrows.
Pioneers take the arrows.
You've heard the old phrase.
Yeah.
I can't make too much of that either, folks.
It doesn't the fact that Trump's a billionaire fine, you think you think that he's got the money, he can lose it.
Don't look at it that way.
How many people, this is the way to look at it.
How many people do what Trump is doing in the face of an onslaught like this?
Can you name somebody else?
Off the top of your head.
Can you name somebody who just perseveres despite all of this?
Look at Univision canceling Donald Trump doesn't speak.
Donald Trump is this is it's not just they're canceling him, it's what they're saying about him when they do it.
NBC, a partner of his in that TV show, The Apprentice, and then the Miss USA pageants and so forth in this world.
All of it.
Bye-bye.
See you later.
Univision Ditto.
Macy's.
Guntless wonders, all of them.
You might say, well, he's got a billion dollars.
You can afford it.
Not the way to look at it.
The effort is being made to ruin him, folks.
This is what look here.
He's got billions or millions or tens of thousands.
The effort's being made to ruin him.
And he is not buckling.
And don't doubt me that the effort underway is to ruin him.
It is to ruin him, to make sure he never tries things like this again, and to also send a message to anybody who might be thinking of joining him.
You want this treatment?
Just come on in.
Water's warm.
You want to be destroyed?
We'll equally and just as much fun have it, you two.
I mean, that's the implied message here.
And I don't see anybody else getting in the water.
Not in electoral politics.
Now, given that the moneyed interests in the Republican Party support amnesty and want all of this immigration for their own specific reasons, cheap labor, we're told.
The Democrats want it for the potential voter registration drive that it is, and I think the Republicans want their slam or shot at that too, but the only people that do not want this happen to be the voters.
And they seem to be wielding the least amount of power here.
So we'll have to see.
But I I'll be I'll be surprised.
I mean, how many Republican candidates have even spoken up for Trump?
The only one I can think of is Ted Cruz.
And Cruz has not endorsed the specifics of what Trump has said.
He has simply applauded Trump for not cowering and leaving the issue under assault.
But then again, you wouldn't expect these other candidates to join Trump.
They want to be president too.
That's why they're in the race.
So it's if you think that there ought to be candidate unity behind Trump, that's never going to happen simply because of the competitive nature of things.
Just isn't going to happen.
But don't think anything of that just because Rick Perry or Jeb or Scott Walker or any of them, take your pick, just because they don't join Trump doesn't mean anything.
If they do, it's it's uh people are gonna say, well, then we don't need you if Trump's carrying your banner.
But the the answer to this lies in the fact that they think Trump is temporary, they don't think he's serious, they don't think he's gonna be around very long, and so this is a storm that they think they can withstand.
Not much more to it than that.
Now the new totalitarians are here.
Federalist, Tom Nichols, who is Tom Nichols?
Tom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, he's an adjunct professor at the Harvard Extension School.
And he wrote this piece at the website called The Federalists.
And it's titled The New Totalitarians are here.
And he says a basic difference in the traditions of political science between authoritarians and totalitarians.
People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they're using the words they may not always understand.
They have real meaning, however, and the difference between authoritarian and totalitarian is important.
Simply put, authoritarians merely want obedience.
They just want you to agree with them.
Totalitarians, on the other hand, want not only obedience, they demand obedience and conversion.
You will not only agree, you will love them while you agree.
Authoritarians are a dime a dozen.
Your average boss is an authoritarian.
Totalitarians are rare.
The authoritarians are the guys in charge who want to stay in charge, and they don't much care about you or what you're doing so long as you stay out of the way.
They are the gefe and his thugs in a brutal regime that want you to shut up, go to work, look the other way when your loudmouthed neighbor gets his lights punched out by goons in black jackets.
Live or die, it's all the same to the regime, just stay out of their way.
Totalitarians are a totally different breed.
These are the people who have a plan, who think they see the future more clearly than you, or who are convinced they grasp reality in a way that you do not.
They don't serve themselves, or they don't serve themselves exclusively.
They serve history or the people or the idea, or some other ideological totem that justifies their actions.
There's always some grand cause justifying their totalitarianism.
They want obedience.
They demand that you obey them, of course.
But even more, they want their rule and their belief system to be accepted, loved, and self-sustaining.
And the only way to achieve that is to create a new society of people who share those beliefs, even if it means bludgeoning every last citizen into enlightenment.
And that's what makes totalitarians different and more dangerous.
They are totalistic in the sense that they demand a complete reorientation of the individual to the state and its ideological ends.
Every person who harbors a secret objection or even so much as a doubt is a danger to the future of the whole project.
And so the regime compels everyone, not only to obey, but to believe.
This is what George Orwell understood so well in his landmark novel 1984.
His dystopian state doesn't really care about quotidian obedience.
It already knows how to get that.
What it demands and will get by any means is a belief in the party's rectitude and in its leader, big brother.
If torturing the daylights out of people until they denounce even their loved ones is what it takes, then so be it.
That's why the ending of the book 1984 is so terrifying.
After the two rebellious lovers of the story are broken and made to turn on each other, the wrecks left by the state are left to sit before the leader's face on a screen with only one emotion, still alive in the husks of their bodies.
They finally truly love Big Brother.
Americans are getting all too comfortable with thought control.
And on that, we'll take a brief time out here to let you think about all of that, because I've just described a whole lot of people you know.
I have just, with the assistance here of Mr. Nichols explained a whole lot of what's going on right around you, each and every day, from the local bakery to the photo shop to Supreme Court justices who dissent.
It's not enough that the losers lose.
In their defeat, they must be humiliated, and they must be converted, and they must be taught never to dissent again.
And it's all happening right in front of our eyes here.
And everything that I have described so far, read from in this piece.
You can cite me examples.
Just having had listened to this program in the past two weeks is all you would take.
It would take.
Back after this.
Okay, back quickly to the New Totalitarians by Tom Nichols, Professor National Security, U.S. Naval War College.
Americans are getting too comfortable with thought control.
He says, I've gone down this road of literary and academic exposition, meaning he's written this piece and all those other things, because I fear an increasing number of my fellow Americans are becoming totalitarians.
Now, I don't mean America is creating a bunch of Nazis or Stalinists.
Now it's true that both Nazism and Stalinism were species of the genus totalitarian, but both have since died the deaths they deserved.
What I mean is that ordinary people, not just a few opinion and thought leaders, ordinary people are adopting the same insane belief that human minds can be molded and shaped and made to think in new simultaneous ways by sheer force.
Now I grant that overall American political debates on all sides become nastier and less tolerant.
What makes these kinds of attacks, however, smack of totalitarianism.
And I could reel off dozens more examples, but your computer would run out of pixels.
People like George Takai and Bennett Smith are lighting their torches and demanding rough justice even on issues where they win.
Other words, it isn't enough that Clarence Thomas was in the court's minority, or that no college in America is bothering to listen.
They want Clarence Thomas silenced, stripped of his status in his peer group, and to recant, even after being defeated in public on the issue at hand.
Now you remember the George Takai Clarence.
Clarence Thomas is just a clown in blackface.
He has no business being on the Supreme Court.
Even pointing out, how many times have I pointed out no matter how much left winds are never happy?
No matter what they get, they're never happy.
No matter what they get, they're never satisfied.
The reason is that there's always dissent.
They are going to be miserable as long as their people disagree.
Just the fact that there is disagreement depresses them, angers them, outrages them.
That is intolerable.
That's what totalitarianism is.
It's not enough that Clarence Thomas's side was defeated in that gay marriage case or in the Obamacare case.
No.
What mattered was that he dared write his disagreement.
And what mattered was that his disagreement was an affront to what we think.
How dare he?
And so Clarence Thomas is going to be punished.
And Everybody like him is going to be punished until they see the light and stop disagreeing with us.
You will support gay marriage someday, and you will love it.
And furthermore, you're going to end up thinking that it is superior to traditional marriage.
And if you don't, we are going to continue coming after you.
It doesn't matter what you think.
If it disagrees with us, you're finished.
And they make it plain in all of these very public efforts they make at destroying people.
The new totalitarian is terrifying because it means that for a fair number of people in what's supposed to be a democracy, winning simply isn't enough.
They are not really trying to capture something as pedestrian as political equality, nor are they satisfied if they get it.
They are not really seeking a win in the courts or a legal solution.
Those are all just merit badges to be collected along the way to a more important goal, and that is you will agree.
And you will love them, and you will believe them, and you will support them, and you will recant your dissent.
And we're gonna keep pounding you until you do.
And that is what is happening.
And we will be back.
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