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July 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 13, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Okay, you can stop sending me the the alert, folks, that Obama's commuted the sentences of 46.
We just announced it like 10 minutes ago.
We had a call when I got the story.
So we've known for about 10 minutes at Obama.
What I secretly want to be able to say is I told Rush.
I told Rush, and that's that's why he said it.
But no, we had it here.
Obama has commuted the sentences of 46 people convicted of nonviolent offenses.
And this comes as a prelude to his visit to the Oklahoma prison on Thursday.
I dare say, folks, you heard it here and you were warned about it here while everybody else thought about El Chapo.
By the way, everybody's wondering what El Chapo went.
Anyone looking in San Francisco?
What better place for the guy to hole up?
He can have the best of all worlds.
He'd go to San Francisco, the city by the bay, be shielded and protected against any U.S. law that a sanctuary city uh refuses to obey.
They would love him there.
They would love El Chapo in San Francisco.
I doubt that he's had time to get up there.
You never know.
But everybody's obsessed.
El Chapo, I still, folks, I just find it just delicious that one of the first things El Chapo does when he gets out of prison when he escapes is go to Twitter and attack Trump.
By the way, you know what El Chapo means?
And I don't have exactly it means small.
It means short.
Yeah.
Uh so El Ch El Chapo, well, he might have a little Napoleonic problem.
Uh who knows.
The UK Daily Mail, there's no jail for such a big midget.
Mexico's billion-dollar drug lord taunts the world and threatens Trump after his dramatic escape from a maximum security prison in a tunnel dug under a shower block.
He fled a prison in Meiko City through this tunnel.
He has reportedly taken a Twitter to gloat about his escape.
And he's posted threats about Donald Trump, who had criticized El Chapo's escape.
And he's gloating.
He's gloating out there on Twitter about his escape.
And he's a billionaire.
He's the head of the powerful Siniola cartel, made his jailbreak Saturday morning, is on the run from Altiplano, the Altoplano jail 50 miles outside Meiko City.
His audacious escape saw him dash through the mile-long ventilated tunnel, which led to a building under construction next to the prison from where he collected clothes left for him by his conspirators.
And everybody's marveling at the engineering feat it was to uh build a tunnel.
And then El Chapo goes to Twitter, tweets directly to Trump, telling him he will eat his words.
So El Chapo apparently is at least a Democrat when it comes to amnesty.
And he's livid at Trump for what Trump is saying about him.
And uh also about amnesty.
Will cable news call this the battle of the billionaires?
I don't know.
Probably wouldn't be surprised.
Uh if they if they did.
Uh now Trump, Trump's not an innocent here.
Trump previously said that El Chapo embodies everything wrong with Mexico.
Said he was kick his ass.
Trump said, see, this is I'm exactly right.
This is exactly what's happening.
So these kinds of people are coming to America.
He used El Chapo's escape to prove his point.
And it's ticked off El Chapo.
El Chapo doesn't like being compared to illegal immigrants, apparently.
So uh he's he's he's he's told Trump he's gonna kick his ass.
He used Twitter, hit back at Trump, because Trump says that uh El Chapo embodies everything that's wrong with Mexico.
Now, to be honest, El Chapo's Twitter account is administered by his son Yvonne.
And uh reportedly wrote, if you keep ticking me off, I'm gonna make you eat you words, you F bomb blonde milk excrement.
You blonde milk excrement.
He also took aim at the Mexican president, Enrique Pignonieto, saying, and you don't call me a delinquent because I give people work unlike you, you cowardly politician.
So El Chapo's claiming he's a better employer than the president of Mexico.
And uh dare I say El Chapo is going to become a hero.
He's gonna become to some people, he's gonna become a popular hero.
People are gonna say, yeah, he does give me work, man.
I get plenty of work.
Other people are gonna come up and talk about the job opportunities that exist.
Now, Chapo is uh is supporting Mexico and he's making sure that dollars earned in Mexico stay in Mexico.
I can hear it all now.
Anyway, uh the other item, I mentioned two items here that I don't think are going to get much play today because of all this El Chapo stuff going on.
Um was Obama's trip to the prison on Thursday, and his announcement here that he's commuting the sentences of 46 nonviolent uh drug prisoners.
By the way, I think he commuted uh back in March 15 or 20.
I mean, this today's not the first time he's done it this year.
This is at least the second occasion that Obama has commuted the sentences of uh nonviolent uh drug prisoners.
I just don't remember the exact number.
I think it's 15, 15 or 20 back in March.
But the second story is this neighborhood business, folks, and I it's a little bit, if not carefully properly done, it's gonna come off as being in the weeds.
It's my challenge here is to make the complex understandable.
I guess at the outset, let me give you an idea of what we're talking about here.
You remember forced busing?
Forced busing back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, was designed by liberals to bus students to schools very far away from their homes in a compassionate effort, quote unquote, to integrate communities and the races.
And in some cases, young black students would be bussed to white neighborhood schools, and white students would be bussed to black neighborhood schools.
And they were far away in most cases.
It was farther away than most parents could take the time to drive their kids to school.
So the busing was the only opportunity.
And it is like most of these things are at the outset, um, there was a mixture of opinion.
You had people that were automatically opposed to it because it was folly and silly, which it was.
And then you had the the good intention, the well-intentioned multicultural crowd who thought it was like every other liberal plan.
What a wonderful idea.
What beautiful intentions.
The melting pot in each and every one of our school.
Yes, it's a beautiful thing.
Except it didn't work.
And it didn't work, not because people didn't want to be integrated.
It didn't work because it was a profound inconvenience.
It was expensive, and it was misguided.
It was seeking to fix a problem that only existed in your average liberal Democrat mind.
And what wasn't said at the time, which is still true today, is that urban inner city schools weren't nearly as good as suburban schools, and so it was just not fair that the kids in the urban areas didn't get to go to the good schools.
So Bussing came along to try to fix it.
And of course it didn't work.
And it withered away on the vine after way too long a period of time.
But the left isn't through.
The next idea to come along instead of bussing kids is essentially moving people from one neighborhood to another.
Today, the housing and urban development secretary, Julian Castro, or Julio, depending on your pronunciation preference.
Julian Castro announced the finalization of the Obama administration's affirmatively furthering fair housing rule.
It is the AFHR, the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule.
It's a front-page article preemptively defending the move on the front page of the Washington Post today.
The final rule in this mess is 377 pages, longer than the preliminary version of the rule that was promulgated in 2013.
The affirmatively furthering fair housing rule is one of Obama's most radical initiatives.
It's on a par with Obamacare in the way it's going to transform things.
In effect, look at me.
I want you to hear this.
In effect, the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule will give and does give the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood.
It gives the regime a lever to impose a preferred racial and ethnic composition.
If they want your neighborhood to be certain percentage black, certain percentage white, certain percentage female, certain percentage Hispanic, whatever, they now, after this rule will be able to do it with just a stroke of their pen.
They will be able to densify the neighborhood.
They will be able to put more people in a neighborhood, put housing there and make it more dense.
They will be able to affect transportation and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities from zoning to transportation to education.
In other words, this rule allows the federal government to trump local communities in zoning, neighborhood makeup.
It basically takes away the power of a local county or a local city or a town council in such areas as ethnic composition, racial composition, transportation, business development, and either to weaken or just cast aside totally the authority of local government over responsibilities like zoning, transportation, and education.
Not only the policy, but the political implications are immense at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.
Now, this is a scandal, folks.
This is happening without a single vote from Congress, as most everything with Obama in the last year and a half has been.
It has not been reported on in the mainstream media.
There have been some books written about it.
Stanley Kurtz, as I said, National Review has been trying to get everybody to listen to pay attention to this.
He's written articles and he has written books about it.
But the drive-bys have not reported on this until the day of its release.
Now the rule, the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule, has been out in preliminary form for two years.
And well before that, the regime's efforts in urban and suburban policy were evident.
Now, three years ago, Stanley Kurtz wrote about Obama's policy blueprint in a book called Spreading the Wealth, How Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities.
And if you're not aware of it, you should know that just as a matter of course, the left does not like the suburbs.
They resent the suburbs, and for the obvious reasons.
Beyond the fact they exist, the left hates them for why they exist.
As far as the left is concerned, suburbs exist because only a select few wealthy people have been able to escape cities and move to and build and develop suburbs away from cities and create neighborhoods more in tune with what they would like to live, more in tune with how they would like to live.
And the left resents this freedom, the financial ability to do it and the mobility to do it.
The left thinks that the people who've done this are basically a bunch of racists who have simply fled cities because they don't want to have to live next to minorities.
And they don't think people should have that ability.
That kind of freedom the left looks at as racism and bigotry.
So the purpose of this rule is not to force people to move back to the cities, but to rather take control of their suburbs away from them and enforce on the suburbs the same kind of lifestyle and existing conditions that exist in urban America.
And that is the get even with them aspect of the scheme.
And that's why the regime wanted to keep this under the radar.
They're not getting any news on this.
It's just now being talked about toward the end of the Obama administration, while the zone's being flooded with all kinds of other things that are distracting people's attention to the point that they're not even really aware of this.
It was just last month and admission of all of this and the stealth required to pull it off was caught on video.
Let me take a brief time out here.
We'll continue and close this out, the fundamental aspects of it that you should know when we get back.
Don't go away.
Now let me read a little bit here from Stanley Kurtz's piece on this whole affirmatively furthering fair housing rule in national review.
He says that Obama has downplayed his policy goals in all of this, i.e., taking over suburbia and imposing his vision of what life in the suburbs should be.
He has downplayed all of this and delayed the finalization of the rule for years because he understands how politically explosive it is.
Stanley Kurtz writes that once the true implications of the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule are understood, Americans will rebel.
And that's where I have to kind of pause and say, that would be wonderful, but would somebody show me the evidence.
There's a lot going on now, primarily economically, that you would think the American people would rebel over.
They may express their disagreement in polling data, and they may show up and vote in midterm elections and send Democrats packing, but rebelling, as is meant here, I don't know.
The uh the only prospect, this is Kurtz again, the only prospect for making this work, i.e., Obama taking over the Democrats taking over the suburbs, is the frog boiling strategy of gradual intensification.
Put a flog, a frog in a pot on a stove and the water's cold, and you turn the heat on.
And very gradually the water warms up and does the frog doesn't care because it starts to feel good and good, and all of a sudden, the frog realizes it's boiling and can't get out of there.
It's too late.
That is what Kurtz says is the Obama strategy here.
He points out the Washington Post piece today focuses on race, but Kurtz says the real story of the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule is an attempt to force integration by class, to densify development in American suburbs and cities and to undo America's system of local government and replace it with a regional alternative that turns the suburbs into helpless satellites of large cities.
Now, I happen to know that Kurtz is right about this.
I don't think there's any dispute that this is an Obama dream.
This is an Obama general.
The Democrats hate the suburbs for every reason I gave you.
They resent people in the suburbs, not to mention the fact that suburbanites genuinely generally there's some exceptions, but they tend to vote against Democrats.
But once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, then no policy area is safe.
Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and new regional bodies that the feds will empower according to the rule that it'll be unelected.
And this is going to happen overnight practically, with nobody knowing it happens until it does happen, therefore it's too late.
Got to take another break.
There's more, not much.
Hey, folks, don't doubt me on this.
There was a story in the Daily Beast, September of 2012, almost uh three years ago.
Headline, America's last politically contested territory, the suburbs.
Subheadline, Barack Obama dominates the big city vote.
Mitt Romney rules the countryside only in the suburbs, writes Joel Clatkin.
The candidates face off on even ground.
It's not look, it's uh it's it's not just the sub the whole South is considered a suburb of America, by the way.
If you want to look at it the way the left does, the whole South is considered an American suburb.
But and it's look looked at as a geographic Republican stronghold, and it has to go.
It has to be blown up, and they're in the process of doing it.
Now, back to Stanley Kurtz and the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule.
It is happening.
You haven't heard about it because nothing's been made of it.
On purpose, it's stealth.
It's flying under the radar, while all these other soap opera stories, and they're important too.
I don't mean to denigrate their importance.
Gay marriage, Obamacare, uh, amnesty, all that stuff quite obviously is drawing all the oxygen.
That this is happening.
And Kurtz says that municipalities across the country can avoid this, but it's going to be really, really hard.
They're going to have to seriously consider refraining from applying for community development block grants and other grant programs sponsored by housing and urban development, because if you take any money from HUD, you are then obviously going to be forced to submit to its demands.
That's how the school lunch program works.
If you take federal money for your school lunch program, they get their hooks into your curriculum.
Now, when you have a Republican president, conservative government, that's not a big deal because the desire is not to take over everything and run it.
And those kinds of things wouldn't happen anyway.
But when you've got a liberal Democrat or socialist president whose party and his objective is to control everything and everybody, then stuff like this matters, and it's serious.
But not taking HUD money, that's not an option that most communities have because nobody has any money anymore.
When we're talking about governments, nobody's got any money.
Everybody runs deficits, other than those places constitutionally required to balance, and even they are floating dollars all over the place.
It's an accounting gimmick.
Some of them are not even in balance.
You know that somebody comes along offering you money and you're a municipality, a city, so you'll take it.
A recent Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs versus Inclusive Communities Project provided the federal government with another weapon to use against municipalities.
Municipalities who want to escape the control of or By the Housing and Urban Development Department.
Now, let's get to the politics of all this because this is what matters and where it's going to manifest itself.
As pointed out earlier, this affirmatively furthering fair housing rule is underneath the radar.
It's stealth.
It's an unacknowledged, by the way.
Right now, you don't even have anybody in the regime admitting to this.
That's how volatile it is.
I mean, Obama feels perfectly kind.
Perfectly fine with running around promising to commute the sentences of felons.
He doesn't think that's going to be any big deal.
He doesn't think anybody's going to object to that so much.
So he's perfectly fine being public about his intentions there.
But this, you probably haven't heard much about it, if anything.
You may be hearing about it for the first time from me.
And you may be thinking, nah, this can't happen.
Just like you've thought Obamacare couldn't happen and amnesty couldn't happen.
And the law, the reason that you always thought that is the Republicans will never let it happen.
But the Republicans don't try to stop any of this.
Sadly.
But I'm sure many of you think, come on, well, I've never heard of this.
I can't believe it.
If federal government take over the suburbs, come on, folks.
If if that is your attitude, try to try to get rid of that thinking because it's it is a full-fledged attempt and a crazily held desire on the part of these people who do want to control everything.
They want to control, they want to control your thoughts, not just be able to mandate your actions.
They're going to take over and you will love them.
They're going to take over and you will not be disappointed after they do.
They're going to take over and you will support them.
If not, you're going to be buried.
You're going to have an example made of you, your business shutdown.
Take a look at how they deal with photoshops and bakeries of the gay marriage debate.
So this rule permitting the federal government to basically take over the ethnicity makeup, the economic makeup, the class makeup of your neighborhood and every other neighborhood is something they haven't admitted to, but it is an effort to force economic integration on every neighborhood in America.
Just like they tried to force busing, this is to force the same kind of economic integration, which will also result in class integration on every neighborhood in America.
In a recent Rasmussen poll, 83% of respondents said that this was not the government's job to diversify neighborhoods by income level.
8% say, eh, okay, fine with me.
This is why, according to Kurtz, nobody's talking about it, because there is such massive opposition to it.
But the opposition to it is in theory, because the respondents of this poll had no idea it's actually going on.
Now, Kurtz uses an example here.
His point in writing this story, by the way, he thinks that this represents the best opportunity for rebellion against all that is Obama.
Because this is something that once people in suburbia learn about it, in no way, shape, manner, or form are going to sit idly by and let happen.
And he cites Westchester County, New York as his example.
Westchester County, New York, where the rule has had a dry run.
The affirmatively furthering fair housing rule has been implicated or implemented there.
Westchester County, New York is now administered by Republican County Executive Robert Astorino.
Now, many people forget that before the Obama administration tried to force Westchester County to cast aside its zoning laws and to build high-density, low-income housing at its own expense, which is what this rule will do.
Westchester County was a liberal Democrat county run by Liberal Democrats.
Bill and Hillary lived there, Chappaquas in Westchester County.
At the local level, this rule drove Westchester County into the arms of the Republican Party.
Just the fact that the Department of Housing and Urban Development was going to come in and cast aside Westchester's zoning laws and force Westchester at its own expense to build low-income housing in well-to-do neighborhoods.
That's essentially what this rule does, by the way.
That's what integration by class means.
That means it's not fair that if you live in a very nice house, that somebody should not be able to build a shack next to you.
And if somebody wants to live in a comparative shack next to you, then they're going to have the right to and the and the community is going to have to build it.
Because the government's going to mandate these rules.
They're going to integrate these counties, suburban areas by class.
When Westchester County got wind of it, they voted Democrats out, and Republicans now run.
And this is the evidence that Stanley Kurtz says could be extrapolated into an event happening nationwide.
He says the same thing can happen nationally or nationally at every political level, but only if the frog wakes up and jumps out of the boiling water by November of 2016.
That's the time frame everybody has here.
November 2016, the election between now and then, if enough communities are made aware of what's coming their way and have the ability to vote Democrats out of power so as to have an opposition to the federal rules.
And since it's happened in a place that used to be run by the Democrats, Westchester County, Kurtz believes it could be the thing that finally causes a natural eruption against Obama and the Democrat Party.
I'm just telling you what he says.
I just want to basically get the ball rolling on informing you of this, so that you will not be a frog on a stove in a pot of intensely heat heating water that uh you don't realize is a danger until it's too late.
We'll see what happens.
I m this you know I've been asking the question for the past month.
Where is the rebellion on anything?
Where's the rebellion on gay marriage?
Where's the rebellion on Obamacare?
Where's the rebellion on amnesty other than elections?
Where is it?
Kurtz thinks the rebellion in elections is enough to take the wind out of the Obama sales, at least in this policy area.
And taking over the suburbs is a is a thing.
I think it is correct to classify it as a Democrat Party objective as they launch their efforts to basically take over the country.
Remember their their objective, the Democrat Party objective is the elimination of opposition.
They're not interested in people who cross the aisle, they're not in a little compromise, bipartisanship, working together.
They're totalitarians.
They don't want there to be an other side.
They don't want there to be an other side that can win.
If the Republicans would agree to a hundred members in the House, occasionally go to a committee meeting and maybe get to play golf with a Democrat now and then the Democrats would accept that.
But they do not want there to be an opposition.
They don't want to have to debate in the public arena of ideas.
They don't want to have to prevail because they don't want there to be a serious opposition.
And that's what all these attacks on the South are about.
That's what these attacks Confederate flag.
Now suburbia, you name it, that's what all of this is aimed at is the elimination of opposition.
And I must take a break.
We'll come back and uh zoom back to your phone calls after this.
Don't go.
And back to the phones we go.
This is uh Mike in Long Island.
Hey, Mike, great to have you.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hello?
Rush?
Yeah, I'm right here.
Hi.
I'm sorry.
Didn't hear you there for a second.
Um, I just wanted to find out your opinion on having Donald Trump in the race.
Yes.
What is that doing for the the Iran nuclear talks?
Is that putting pressure on them to sign something and get something done quick?
Because the lingo that he's using is pretty much what we're all saying around the dinner table.
But he's saying it out loud, and I think other people are listening to him.
Uh you mean is the nature of your question that the Iranians want to sign a deal now because they're afraid Trump might be elected president and he would have been.
Yes, right.
And when he uses the lingo, we'll bomb the hell out of them.
Hearing a United States president talk like that, especially a multi-billionaire like Donald Trump, I think that might put a little juice in having them sign an agreement.
Well, I look, I uh I don't actually think that Trump has anything to do with this.
I think the Iranians are about to sign a deal because they can't believe how damn lucky they are.
Obama's giving them everything they want.
Obama's lifting sanctions.
In 10 to 15 years, they're going to be able to develop nuclear weapons.
Uh I would sign this tomorrow.
And the longer they wait, by the way, the more advantageous things are for them because the sanctions have been lifted.
Uh I I don't I don't think that the Iranians at this stage are doing anything other than thanking their lucky stars that it's John Kerry and Marie Harf that they're dealing with.
And uh and Obama.
I actually hadn't even considered your your theory.
Um, so I guess I'll have to put it in the hopper here and and bandy it about.
Uh but I I I think it's the regime that's the one acting in haste to get this done.
It's the regime that's trying to limp limit Congress's ability to the Senate's ability to review it.
Uh, you know, the argument over 30 days or 60 when normally it's 90 or longer, maybe even 12.
Um The Iranians ought not want to sign anything.
If it's a if it's genuinely a deal that benefits us in Israel, the Iranians ought not want to sign it.
That's how we would know it's a good deal.
The fact the Iranians want to sign this to me is evidence of the fact that they think it's a great deal for them.
And I think Obama, folks, this is can you say the word legacy?
But that's all this is.
Look at when Obama finishes, he wants to be able to say he's the first president to do national health care.
In 200 some odd years, every president theoretically has wanted to do this, but who got it done?
Barack Hussein oh.
And in the midst of terrorism and an uneasy world that is teetering on the edge of terrorism daily, who is it that got a nuclear arms deal with her?
What the hell that it allows them to have them that won't get mentioned.
Who got a deal with Iran?
Not Clinton, not Bush, not Reagan.
Obama got the deal.
That's what he wants.
He wants the legacy.
And remember the old saying, the victors get to write history?
Well, in this case, the victors are the ones that get to pervert it.
So Obama and his merry band and the drive-by media are going to be able to write this great, great presidential legacy of great, great Barack Obama achievements.
And right up there at the top is going to be a nuclear deal with Iran that nobody ever thought possible.
He doesn't really care what's in it.
He wants to be able to say that the Iranians uh are going to postpone their development of nuclear weapons.
And the Iranians may even publicly say that, but they're not going to stop that.
The Iranians are not going to stop short.
And the bottom line is this deal gets them there anyway.
But Obama is going to protect Iran from bombs for 10 years.
Or however long it's going to take Iran to actually build up a sufficient nuke arsenal.
That's what this deal does.
There's no reason under the sun that the Iranians would not sign this.
The symbol of New Orleans is considered racist.
The Floor de Lee that dates back to the 13th century.
Now said to be racist.
Scientists say that a mini ice age is on the way.
The sun will go to sleep in 2030.
Mini ice age.
How do you keep up, folks?
How in the world are we supposed to keep everything straight here?
We will.
That's what we do here.
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