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Dec. 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, waiting to have you back, folks.
Welcome back.
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Speaking of Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday.
The most recent episode.
Actually, this was on Fox uh news channels Fox and Friends Weekend on Sunday morning.
Tucker Carlson spoke with Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, about the upcoming program.
But in fact, Wallace talked about the previous Sunday's episode on which I appeared.
Tucker Carlson said, what percentage of Syrian refugees would move here if they could.
As opposed to being in refugee camps in Jordan.
I would think about a hundred percent would like to be in this country.
Let's face it, this is primarily about Ben Carson, who's been under real fire in the wake of the attack on Paris and a new focus on foreign policy and national security, uh trying to show that he has uh some foreign relations chops, that he's fit to be commander-in-chief.
Last week on Fox News Sunday, Rush Limbaugh, who's very praiseworthy about Ben Carson said he doubted that he was ready to be commander-in-chief, and this is clearly Ben Carson trying to show that he is ready.
Yes, so uh uh synthesize that.
I did say that on Fox News Sunday a couple Sundays ago.
And what Wallace is saying here is my saying that is what uh motivated or caused Ben Carson to start taking his foreign policy trip here to Syria to talk to the refugees and so forth, which he did.
I don't know whether Carson uh Wallace is right about that.
I'm not that's not the point.
The point is Ben Carson was on the Today Show today.
Mount Wower interviewed him, and he talked about his trip, Carson's trip to the Middle East.
And Mount Wower said, You said that you want to bar them from coming into this country.
You've spoken to some of them face to face, the Syrian refugees.
Do you have the same opinion of that group of people now, or have you changed your policy at all?
You say that I say I want to bar them from coming to this country, so I don't accept that premise.
What I have said is that bringing them into this country does not solve the problem, and it exposes us to danger.
ISIS has already said that if we bring tens of thousands of people here, they will infiltrate them with their people.
I asked them specifically, what would you like to happen?
Two questions.
What would you like to happen and what can the United States do?
And the answers I got were pretty consistent.
They would like to go back home to Syria, number one.
And what can nations like the United States do?
They can support the efforts of places like Jordan and other places that might offer them a safe place to inhabit until such time as they can return home.
So Carson goes and talks to these refugees and comes back and says what he learned is they don't want to come here.
They would prefer to be able to go back home.
And until such time as they can go back home, Carson thinks pr uh neighboring countries ought to ought to take them in.
Makes far more sense for neighboring countries to take them in, close proximity.
And if the circumstances in Syria improve, then they can go back home.
Now have you heard this anywhere else?
I haven't either.
But I don't think I don't think anybody but Carson's actually gone and talked to them.
You know, we're hearing it from Obama, we hear it from the media, we hear from the Democrats, and it's always compassion based.
Well, we simply we have to open our borders to refugees.
We've always done it.
I mean, that's what our country is.
That's who we are.
That's what we're about.
And the assumption is that anybody in the world would rather be here than in their home country.
Particularly a war-torn area in the Middle East.
So Dr. Carson goes and talks to him, and he says the most of them have told him they don't want to come here.
They want to they want to stay in their home country.
They'd rather be able to go back home.
Which home is home, folks.
I don't care where you're from, home is home.
I don't care where you go.
You always look forward to getting back home.
Well, there are exceptions to everything, but it's pretty much standard human behavior.
And it it makes it makes perfect sense to me.
Uh regarding uh all of this, the border and some incredible news about borders and immigration from all over the place.
Let me give you an idea what I mean.
New York Times.
The irony here, this is so rich.
The New York Times reported recently that the influx of low skilled, undocumented immigrants is hurting workers in Turkey.
You saw it.
Many here in Eskeshir, a city in Turkey experiencing tough economic times, say that an influx of refugees from Syria and others without Turkish work papers is making the economy worse.
Even though this city is 400 miles from the Syrian border.
It's a major problem, said the mayor.
The number of Syrian refugees is increasing by day, and they're adding to our unemployment problem.
Well, imagine that.
And the New York Times, by golly by gosh, acknowledges it in Turkey.
I mean, it's one of those Shazam.
Who would believe this?
And so the New York Times is very sympathetic to Turkey, yet we must be very cognizant of the economic damage these immigrants, they're illegal folks, could be doing to Turkey.
The next story from the Wall Street Journal.
And this is stunning too, because the Wall Street Journal, you'd have to say, is part of the open borders coalition in this country.
Wall Street Journal, U.S. urges Turkey to seal border.
The Obama administration is pressing Turkey to deploy thousands of additional troops along its border with Syria to cordon off a 60 mile stretch of frontier that U.S. officials say is used by ISIS to move foreign fighters in and out of the war zone.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
The Obama administration says this is impossible to do here.
The Obama administration says this is silly.
You can't have walls.
You can't seal borders.
That's silly.
It's silly to even try.
You can't do it here.
But the regime is suggesting urging Turkey to do this.
You know, it's a wonder the regime doesn't choke on all of its irony.
And these the the uh open borders lobbyists at the Wall Street Journal, they buried Turkey's retort at the bottom of their long artery.
You know what Turkish officials said when Obama urged them to close their border?
Turkish officials pointed to Washington's inability to seal off the U.S.-Mexico border as an example of how difficult such operations can be.
U.S. officials chafe at the comparison.
If we were at war with Mexico, we'd close that border, a senior administration official said of Washington's response.
Wait a minute.
So that's it?
We're not sealing the border because the regime doesn't think that we are at war with Mexico, but if we were at war with Mexico, we'd seal that border left.
What about the drug cartels?
If you ask me, DEA operations look a lot like warfare.
It seems to me.
But anyway, the irony here is rich, and for the Wall Street Journal to be running the stories even better.
So Turkey, the New York Times is worried that Turkey is having employment problems with this influx of illegal immigrants from Syria.
And now the the American administration's urging Turkey to seal their border to keep ISIS out, while at the same time we're opening our borders to ISIS and whoever else wants to infiltrate the Syrian refugees who It turns out do not want to be here.
And that we're not sealing off the southern border with Mexico, even though we're telling everybody else around the world, particularly Turkey in this case, to seal their border.
And then there's this, folks.
This is from Breitbart.
The Action Man Mayor of Hungarian frontier town, Asilotham, has invited all active Europeans to visit the border fence his government created so they can learn how to protect their own countries.
Praising the remarkable success of the Hungarian border fence, which reduced daily illegal migrant incursions from 10,000 a day to 30 a day in just one week.
Mayor Laszlo Tarazke acknowledged the fence hadn't actually solved the migrant crisis.
Instead, blocking Hungary off, it just shifted the migratory stream westwards to Slovenia.
But at least it fixed it for his country, his city.
Shazam, look at all these news stories about how what works.
We got a border fence, and it's working.
In a frontier town in Hungary, where 10,000 illegal migrants a day were crossing the border.
They build a fence, and in a week, 10,000 becomes 30.
And what do the migrants do?
They just shift down the road to Slovenia.
They don't try to climb the fence because fences work.
So this is four stories in a row in the drive-by media, which totally destroy the administration's position on illegal immigration and borders and fences.
It's amazing.
National Review Online, Andy McCarthy back on November 30th.
In Europe, Muslim refugees are being recruited to radical Islam.
It's something he's written about before, postulating it, theorizing it.
Now he's documented that it's happening in his weekend column on the controversy involving refugees from Muslim majority countries in the Middle East.
I explained that even if our government had access to the background information necessary to vet them, which we don't, we would still be inviting a national security catastrophe for two reasons.
One is we vet for the wrong thing.
And that is only for whether the immigrants have known connection to terrorist groups, not whether they are adherent to Islamic supremacist ideology.
We don't ask them that.
Did you know that?
We just ask them, do you have ties to terrorism?
Nope.
Whoof, cool, man.
Come on in.
We do not ask them what they think of ISIS.
We do not ask them what they think of jihad.
We don't ask them if they're tempted to join.
None of that.
We just ask them if they're terrorists, or if anybody in their family's terrorist, or if they know any terrorists, or if they Instagram would be terrorists.
And if they say no, which of course, what are they going to say?
They're all going to say no.
And of course, the main issue is not whether refugees are already terrorists, but whether they're likely to become terrorists after they get here.
And it's now been learned and confirmed that Muslim refugees are recruited to radical Islam after they arrive in the United States.
And then this from back on November 27th.
More than 14,000 foreign nationals told to leave Sweden have gone underground.
Police saying there is little they can do to enforce deportation orders because they can't find the 14,000.
A total of 21,748 people had been given deportation orders by the Swedish migration agency at the end of October.
It's the largest number of deportations ever ordered.
Of those, 14,140 are registered by police as departed or want to mean they've lost them.
I don't know where they are.
They've gone underground in Sweden.
They have disappeared.
They can't be found because they don't want to be found.
All right, got to take a break.
We'll come back and uh get started on your phone calls, as promised.
Sit tight.
It looking good here.
Back to the phones with uh Aaron in Russellville, Missouri.
It's great to have you, sir.
I really appreciate your waiting.
Hello.
Megadeth was rushed.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, regarding your comments earlier about millennials' obsessions with suffering and the way that shows through and the entertainment they like and the way they behave on campus, unlike the baby boon boomers that you say had to make up their suffering.
I think millennials really have had suffering, but it hasn't been existential suffering caused by the real threat of war or the real threat of poverty.
It's been suffering caused by the culmination of all the factors in America breaking down the family.
They're suffering as a result from the bad decisions that their parents have made, and then that they've made because they haven't had good examples, and they've been taught moral relativism, you know, to go do what you feel is the right path for you, which is a recipe for misery a lot of the time.
You could be right.
You know, I I haven't uh I haven't taken the time to delve into it deeply enough to form my own conclusion as to why this is happening.
I'm just at the stage where I've just observed it.
And it it's one of these things that uh I have been sensing, but never even put words to it in my own mind was I was pondering it, until this weekend.
And it it was just a a couple things happened at the same time, came together.
I happened to watch some television, had happened to read some reviews of these shows that I have seen, and it all came together, and it and and if you're just joining us, folks, one of the first things I mentioned at the top of the program was uh an observation I've made that with millennials and television entertainment movies, what have you.
The more trauma and the more suffering, the better they think it is.
I mean critically, artistically.
I'm not talking about how entertained they are.
I'm not how critically, artistically brilliant it is.
And it's because, as they plainly write, they're suffering, and they're trying to find ways to cope, and all the trauma and all the suffering in all of these TV shows that they like and watch, hold the key to dealing with all of this suffering and trauma, and and uh maybe not overcoming it, but at least uh understanding it.
So you are giving us your reasons as to why they might be in this uh frame of mind.
Right.
I'm I'm 36, so I don't think I'm technically a millennial, but I have friends who are, and these are kids who have grown up with massive insecurities, you know.
They didn't know their dad, they've been through divorces, their parents got never got married, they've had mom having boyfriends over different ones every weekend that's a recipe for abuse, and so I think and I think if you see in the entertainment, a lot of it is psychological trauma, not just physical trauma, but you know, these people suffering psychologically, and that's what they can relate to.
Well, you're right.
In fact, most of it is psychological or or mental or emotional.
But the thing that I've noticed, and let me let me add to this, there's a valor in it.
There is it it this is they're not so much complaining, although they are, is that they they are it it it's just the way things it's their reality.
I I think I think you're right.
The valor associated with it, these aren't people who've been out and have, you know, fought against some enemy, and that was their heroism.
It's they've put up with this, and they think that's their heroism.
That's a good point.
The heroes are those who suffer the most.
In in these TV shows and movies that I'm getting my input from.
The people that suffer the most, the people with the most trauma, not how they deal with it, not how they overcome it, not how they defeat it, just they had they're the heroes.
And it really is it's it's uh if if you had to summarize it, you would say the attitude is that life sucks, and it's only going to suck.
It's never going to do anything but suck and be bad.
And so, this is our lot, and how we deal with it defines who we are.
There's no optimism whatsoever.
None.
Now, I haven't, as I say, I haven't taken the time to to really delve into the cultural reasons why this might be, but I will bet you that any If anybody honestly tried to dig down deep into it, they would find at the root level liberalism.
And all of the various aspects of it.
Liberalism is a personal failure, it's an institutional failure.
But what does it contains all this promise?
Liberalism is where utopia is.
Liberalism leads to utopia.
What's utopia?
Utopia is unbridled, never ending, almost incomparable, and happiness, contentment.
And of course it's not possible.
There is no such place.
And yet the dreamers dream of it.
And when it becomes paramountly obvious that there is no utopia, that's a crushing, crushing blow.
And who is it that promises this utopia?
Democrat Party promises it.
College professors and so on promise.
But but in addition, at the same time, all of this utopianism is preached.
You can't escape the fact that these kids are beat over the head every day with how rotten things are, how unfair things are, how mean, how this or that.
And it's uh it's a bad thing as an identity.
So I just checked the email during the break.
Rush, what what's this big deal about suffering?
What look, I understand I'm I'm incomplete in this.
Here's the point, folks.
And let me just restate it.
I uh all I've said was, and I think I'm at the beginning here of noticing a trend here that's been going on for quite a while.
You know, we're cutting edge here.
Cutting edge societal evolution.
And if if I'm right in what I'm noticing, this is not good.
We're talking about young adults who are already prominent in media, and they're going to grow even more prominent.
And it's just something I've noticed as I read things written by millennials, whether it's reviewing TV shows and movies or commenting on the latest tech or the latest politics or whatever.
It is draped in suffering and trauma, and the more the better.
The more trauma, the more suffering, the greater they think something is.
It's as if that is what their lives are now.
Trauma and suffering.
And television shows and movies exist now to demonstrate the suffering and trauma that everybody is going through and how to cope with it.
And the modern American heroes, the superheroes to this group of people, are not people who accomplish great things.
They're not doers.
They're mental cases who cope with suffering and trauma.
And I don't know how healthy that is, frankly.
I mean, it's it's mind-boggling, and it's it's something I've I've I've stumbled into.
Maybe I'm wrong about it.
Time will tell.
But the fact of the matter is, you can't escape it.
These people act as though it's something new.
It's deep and darker than it's ever, ever been.
It's generational.
Um we've all go through tough times.
Everybody suffers, everybody deals with trauma.
You overcome it.
You get past it.
You have to.
But they don't seem to want to get past it.
They want to wallow in it as a as an identity of their existence.
A badge of honor is attached.
The more suffering and the more trauma the more notorious or noteworthy you are, and the more worthy of fame you happen to be.
Not how you overcome it.
Not how you beat it back, but but how you just are able to continue and go on.
And I I'm not one of these get off my lawn old guys.
That's not the point here.
But life is filled with obstacles, and it's always been, and it's been that way for everybody.
And when you become consumed by that, and I think there are reasons for it.
I think what they're taught, their politics, I think the uh the doom and gloom.
I mean, look at look at the version of their own country that They're taught.
Their own country's guilty of all this horrible stuff, torture and racism and all these horrible rotten things.
And they're all taking it personally as though they've engaged in it.
They've got the personal guilt for it, and there's no redemption from it.
And so all that's left is to cope with it.
And they don't want to hear anything that disagrees with it.
They don't want to hear anything that challenges that view.
That makes them feel unsafe.
They feel safe in their trauma.
They feel comfortable and safe and secure in their misery and suffering.
But anything that shows them it's not necessary, they don't want any part of.
That's what's sick about it.
You've heard the old phrase, I never get this right.
People who are miserably happy or happily miserable.
I mean, that's not new either.
Here, but here's I'll give you an example.
It's somewhat related.
It's not 100%, but you won't believe this.
From just moments ago on the floor of the House of Representatives, one-minute speeches, Representative Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from Florida.
It's a woman, yes.
I know we have to.
Just the name does not indicate anymore the uh the sex, the gender.
Frederica is a woman, Wilson, and here just listen, self-explanatory.
Tomorrow is well red Wednesday to bring back our girls.
Boko Haram has been declared the world's deadliest terrorist organization.
Boko Haram has actually murdered more people than ISIS.
I urge Congress to pass my bill, H.R. 3833, which would require the U.S. government to develop a regional strategy to assist Nigeria in defeating Boko Haram.
Please continue to tweet, tweet, tweet, hashtag bring back our girls.
And remember to wear something red tomorrow, Wednesday.
A tie, a pin, a flower, just wear something red and tweet, tweet, tweet.
Hashtag bring back our girls, hashtag join Wilson.
Tweet, tweet, tweet.
And there you have it.
So we got a bunch of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram how many years ago now?
And we're still tweeting about it.
Tweet, tweet, tweet.
Well, of course, none of this ever solves anything.
At the time they engage in the behavior, they think they're really mattering.
They're tweeting, they're doing all this, they're hashtag here and there, and Michelle Obama comes out, save our girls, bring back our girls, whatever it is, and they think they're doing something meaningful.
But of course they're not.
And eventually enough time goes by where whether they want to admit it consciously or not, they have to know that what they're doing is meaningless, is irrelevant, and nobody wants to be meaningless.
But it's the slap in the face of reality that all of this symbolism and caring and tweeting and hashtagging doesn't mean diddly pfft.
Um...
There's Mr. Snerdley.
They snorley just asked, do these kids you're talking about know that they have it made?
There's not a single one of them that thinks they've got it made.
There's not a single, not none of the ones I'm talking about.
I'm sure they're millennials who think they've got it made.
I'm sure they're well adjusted, pretty normal, upbeat, positive.
I'm not talking about the whole generation here.
I'm talking about the generation here that is writing and in media and is going to have a fairly decent shot at shaping opinion of others.
Anyway, let me I could spend the rest of the uh hour on this, and I'm I'm not prepared to do that yet.
This is just the very beginning here of a philosophy or of a thought process, what have you.
Here's Derek in Houston as we head back to the phones.
Derek, I'm I'm appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Russia.
Yes, sir.
It seems to me that Obama spent his entire presidential career telling us how America is not exceptional and how we need to give the rest of the world a chance to show how great that they can be.
Yet whenever there are people in the world who need help, suddenly we need to bring all these refugees to America because as Obama says so proudly, that's who we are.
Well, why would Obama not want to give the predominantly Muslim countries surrounding Syria a chance to match the great love and charity that our Christian nation has set the example for?
Now now no.
I know you're asking this facetiously.
Of course.
Because you know as well as I do that Obama is not importing all of these refugees because he wants them to discover American exceptionalism.
Because as you rightly note, he doesn't believe in it.
That's not what he wants them here for.
He wants the Syrian refugees here so that we, Americans, get a taste of our own medicine, so that we see what the other people of the world live like because of us,
because of our guilt, because of the way we have stolen resources, because of the way we have forced ourselves on the world, we've taken the best every country has to offer and taken it for ourselves and so forth, or we've just we're i unjust and immoral in our founding, what have you.
But no, I the question nevertheless makes the point.
If America isn't exceptional, why is he bringing all these people here?
If the real exceptional countries are elsewhere, why does he send them there?
In this whole subject of Obama today, uh, and it as it relates to the global warming this climate change thing in Paris and what it signals that we face in his final year.
That's uh that's worthy of some discussion.
All of that coming up, so sit tight, doing our best to squeeze it all in here today, folks.
Hang in there, be tough.
We'll be right.
Randall and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Yes, uh, my question is a simple one, actually.
When I hear the president and the liberals say that we have to fix our climate, global warming, because it's going to destroy the earth and it's going to uh hurt our children.
But I don't hear him saying anything that uh the national debt is going to destroy our children before global warming will.
So why do they care so much about global warming and then they put our kids in there saying it's going to destroy the earth and our kids will have no place to live and this and that, but they have no problems taking a credit card from China and and destroying our country so that our children aren't going to have anything anyway.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant question.
And let me endeavor to do your question justice in explaining the answer to you.
Because you are exactly right.
There are far, far greater immediate threats to the people of this country than climate change.
I mean, even going on what the climate change believers say, we're still talking 30 years down the road.
Or 50.
You've noticed, haven't you, that climate change predictions are never for next year.
They're never for the next two years.
They're certainly never not for tomorrow and next weekend or next month.
They're long after most of us have passed away.
And there's a reason for that.
What this is all about, all of this stuff in Paris, all of this climate change talk is about one thing, folks, and it isn't climate change.
It's about a carbon tax.
The United Nations is chairing this meeting in Paris, much as they chair other meetings, and the purpose of the United Nations in the modern era is to fleece the United States.
Now, I realize saying it that way can not be productive in terms of uh persuading people, but believe me, that's what the United Nations is for.
It's made up of people who think the United States is too rich and doesn't share enough.
And since we don't share it, it has to be taken from us.
We happen to have a president now.
We've elected a president who happens to agree with him.
That's what's new.
We have a president who agrees with those people.
The United States has too much, and it's unjust and ill-gotten.
We don't deserve it.
There is no American exceptionalism, there's just a bunch of accidents peppered with racism and bigotry and slavery and fraud that have enabled us to become the big superpowers.
It's time we gave it back.
And the way to get it back is taxes, global taxation, particularly here, a carbon tax.
That's what really is on the agenda.
That will be the solution.
Because look, there isn't going to be any agreement coming out of there.
The one thing, China's never going to go along with it, and India's never gonna go along with it, and we won't.
All of which Obama knows.
As I mentioned at the top of the program, most Americans are bored by this now.
They don't believe it, and they don't care about it.
And that is what makes it ideal for Obama to pursue.
Do you realize the damage he'll be able to do in his third year using climate change as the excuse for every other policy implementation or executive order he signs?
And he'll do it under that guise because he knows nobody cares.
When nobody cares, they're not paying attention.
This is an unobstructed path to more Obama power.
And using it as he sees fit.
Under this false premise of climate change, it's saving the planet.
He'll be able to implement all the other zaniness that he happens to believe in while he thinks nobody is paying attention because they don't care.
Climate change is actually a fraud.
There is no warming.
The temperature record has been uh uh tampered with and faked, and that has been proven.
It's all a ruse, folks, a 100% ruse designed to extract money from the American taxpayer.
Back after this, don't go away.
Hang in there, folks, and be tough.
I honestly, I still haven't even scratched the surface today, which is frustrating for me.
I want to try to get to so many things here.
I've got to move fast when we get back.
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