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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Yes, sir.
	Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
	It's great to have you with us as we kick off.
	2016 here on the EIB network.
	Rush Limbaugh, as always, dependably so, behind the golden EIB microphone, the telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-28282, the email address, lrushbow at EIB net.com.
	So I've been thinking, what's the best way to attack today?
	I mean, there have been a lot of things that happened.
	It was this is not your standard uh December anymore.
	It's not your standard Christmas or holiday season anymore, in the sense that there's a whole lot of news made now, and uh it's compared to the past, the past, I mean, just maybe even three, four years ago and beyond, when December showed up, things slowed down.
	I mean, it was it was noticeable, and particularly the uh the holiday season, Christmas, New Year's, and the week uh in between, veritably nothing happened, not the case, uh, as evidenced by this voluminous audio sound bite roster that I have been presented today.
	And I'm thinking, you know, one of the things to do just to catch up might be just go through this.
	Because I mean, everything that happened of note is here, including, I got once again, even while not here, while barely in the country, in fact, I find out that I'm still a focal point in many of these cable news shows and Sunday morning shows,
	and am uh the usual source of blame and uh defamatory accusations and stuff, but it's all captured here in the audio soundbite roster today.
	And then, of course, there's some things that are happening just broke today, such as the stock market at the moment down over 400 and plummeting, they say it's because of what's happening in uh in China with the ChICOM market.
	Uh many think the ChICOM market's rigged artificially propped up and that the bottom is falling out of it now.
	That may be, but ours is not exactly not been rigged.
	Uh what with all the quantitative easing, the printing of money, and that money printed all being funneled into Wall Street at the end of the day.
	Um my two cents on this is that whatever they want to claim, the uh the reason for this market plunge is always what they don't say.
	And what they're saying is, yeah, it's what's going on in China with their stock market, but there's another factor here, and that's our own economy that I think is a factor as well.
	So there's that to get into.
	The Middle East has uh has exploded yet again.
	Uh, and I'll tell you why.
	You sum all this up very quickly, the details to come later.
	But the the I guess the simple explanation.
	You think that the reason the Middle East is blown up is because the Saudis decided to X execute 47 people, one of them some revered respected sheikh.
	And while that's a factor, that's simply the public excuse.
	What really has the Middle East on fire is Obama and his decision to sidle up with the Iranians in picking that version of uh Islam Shiite versus Sunni.
	That has spooked the Saudis like you can't believe we have always I mean the Saudis are no great sheikhs, but they've always been our ally, lesser of two evils, uh more cooperative, take your pick.
	I mean, there's not a gold star among them, but never have we allied with Iran before.
	Never in the we've since the Ayatollah Ruallahominy back in 1979, we have never aligned with Obama with Iran until Obama came along.
	And that's one of the reasons the Middle East is continuing to explode and uh and and and be aflame, so explanations for that uh will be forthcoming.
	In addition, I have been shocked, pleasantly so to see some in the drive-by media recognize our Al Gore countdown clock at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Back in 2006, Al Gore said that we had ten years remaining.
	Ten years.
	Humanity had ten years left to save the Earth from what was then called global warming.
	And if we didn't, if we didn't save it in 10 years, it was all lost.
	It was hopeless, and the fate of humanity would be hanging in the balance.
	Well, that 10-year anniversary comes up this month.
	January 27th.
	He said we have 10 years left before the Earth cooks.
	January 27, 2006.
	Let me read from that program that day.
	Try this one from yesterday's stack.
	I don't know if you people know this or not, but Al Gorsman out at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
	He working on a movie, uh Inconvenient Truth.
	The movie will document his efforts to raise alarm and the effects of global warming.
	So he he brought Tipper and the kids out there, tending parties, posting for pictures with his fans, enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel soiree, paling around with Laurie David of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, husband of Larry David.
	And he said that we've got ten years left.
	This followed Ted Danson's 10-year prediction in 1988 that we only had 10 years to save the oceans.
	And if we failed to save the oceans in ten years, that would mean the end of humanity, essentially.
	Well, that 10-year anniversary came in what.
	We decided to start the Al Gore countdown clock.
	Right there on the front page at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Now you may have a scroll down to see it, but it's always been there.
	And lo and behold, a Daily Caller actually picked up on this Limbaugh's Al Gore Armageddon clock about to hit zero after ten years.
	Former Vice President Al Gore made a prediction for the Earth's point of no return ten years ago.
	Rush Limbaugh held him to it since that day in 2006.
	The countdown clock on Limbaugh's site's been running for nearly ten years since Gore's apocalyptic prediction about the Earth as a result of a greenhouse gas emissions.
	Less than a month remains in the countdown.
	Gore predicted when his movie was first released at Sundance, the Earth would be in a true planetary emergency within the next ten years, unless drastic action was taken to reduce greenhouse gases.
	And of course, drastic action has not been taken.
	And we do not in any way face a true planetary emergency except in the minds of people on the left and in the drive-by media.
	And the Daily Caller goes on to add a little story here about our countdown clock and how we're nearing the uh the moment of truth.
	Now, this leads into something I I try to avoid getting too deep or or heavy on this program, but I had a lot of free time over the last ten days or so just to sit around and think as things came to my mind and ponder various things that just jumped in and jumped out of my mind.
	I didn't purposely focus on anything.
	I just reacted to whatever thoughts that I had that might have been stimulated by things I was reading.
	Didn't watch much television while I was gone.
	So you look at this countdown clock and Al Gore and the environmental left and their predictions of apocalyptic doom for the planet and humanity, and you see nothing's happened.
	And then you look at how they choose to deal with it, such as that worthless conference in Paris, where they put on this giant show, and nothing binding comes out of it.
	And yet big to-dos were made about it.
	And then I'm watching various other things happen with reactions in the adult world to various things, some of them cultural, some of them political.
	And it really has struck me that, and this is nothing new, by the way, and nothing I haven't spoken of before, but there just don't seem to be too many adults around anymore.
	Since everybody adults, where you would expect people to reside with maturity and common sense in positions, some power that could defend and protect attacks on institutions such as university presidents, just to give you an example.
	It doesn't seem to be that there are very many of those people actually left in in Western nations, not just ours, but in the UK, any number of uh Western civilization oriented countries.
	And it just it just strikes me that there's no there anymore.
	There's no basis, there's no foundation, there's no bottom line.
	Uh it in it seems like we're in a free-for-all when it comes to any kind of values you want to talk about.
	Cultural, political, pop culture.
	Uh you name it.
	And all of it, when you when you examine it, there's it explains why the Trump phenomenon is happening.
	He's the one guy speaking out against all of this in a consistent way, this decline was a ta I look.
	When I say Trump, there's there are others too.
	I don't mean to just single him out, but I he's he's leading in the presidential polls right now, and I'm just trying to offer an explanation or reason why they get substantive.
	I don't think it's related to celebrity when it's a factor.
	Uh, but I think that there's a sizable percentage of people in this country that are frightened, scared at the at the lack of values, the lack of anything solid to depend on.
	When a downward spiral happens, there's no nothing to put the brakes on it.
	There's nothing to stop it.
	It just everything just keeps descending with uh very little end in sight.
	And nobody in the political culture is talking about it.
	They're just running along like it's an average ordinary day each and every day.
	I'll give you a little example.
	I was thinking of something else.
	I don't remember what it was that the jog this thought.
	But it occurred to me what a pointless exercise it is to collect taxes.
	Now, don't misunderstand, I'm not advocating anything here.
	But we're 20 trillion dollars in debt.
	Our budget deficits are just out of control.
	And the entire political class, I Democrats are the worst offenders, but looking at this latest budget deal, you can't exempt the Republicans.
	We're spending money that we don't have at a faster clip than ever.
	And we're spending it on things that only accomplish one thing, and that's the further entrenchment of the political class in power.
	We're not even spending money on decent things that improve people's lives.
	We're spending money on things that are critical uh criticizing or actually causing harm to people's lives, such as whatever entitlement spending we are engaging in to pay for all of these undocumented people that are showing up, continuing to show up and draw.
	We don't have the money for any of this.
	This last budget deal shows that when it comes to budgeting in this country, there is no thought given to how much money is collected and whether or not that ought to be a factor in how much money is spent.
	The only thing that determines how much money is spent is how much people think they can get away with.
	That determines your spending.
	Your ability to fund whatever it is you want to pay for, the ability to service debt for things that you can't afford outright.
	None of those things matter in the budgeting process.
	And I know baseline budgeting is not a new thing here.
	We've explained it countless times over the years.
	But I mean, there doesn't seem to be even any relationship to how much money is collected in taxes and whatever other sources of income the government has compared to what is spent.
	We announced half a million over here, two trillion over there, half uh half a million over here, with no thought to being able to pay for it.
	And I was thinking, well, what's the point of collecting taxes?
	Doesn't seem to matter uh the tax collection seems to exist only as a way to keep people in line, but it certainly has nothing to do with the budgeting process in this country.
	If it did, we wouldn't have annual decisions, deficits like we have.
	We wouldn't have a 20 trillion dollar national debt if it mattered.
	If the amount of money we spent was predicated and based on how much money we've got, and the government doesn't have a dime until they take it from somebody else, via fees, taxes, and you name it.
	So over here we have taxes, all forms.
	We have collections, all forms, that produces X amount of money, and that money is not related to how much we spend in any way, shape, manner, or form, except as to calculate the deficit every year.
	But big whoop, we calculate it, it's out of sight, it's astronomical, national debt continues to expand, and nobody seems to, it's the political class nobody seems to care one whit about it.
	Now, to me, that can only happen with an with a total loss of values that have as their primary objective responsibility.
	So the people who are elected to have positions of power in this country are they're exhibiting no responsibility whatsoever.
	We all know why.
	The spending of money is how power is purchased, the spending of money is how power is maintained, the spending of money of how it's how power is entrenched.
	I mean, I get all that.
	And I'm not, don't misunderstand, I'm not making a claim here that we should cancel income tax, none of that.
	I'm just pointing out it doesn't matter.
	There's no responsibility.
	There is no relationship whatsoever to how much money is collected in determining how much money we spend.
	It's just out of control.
	And therefore, everything's rigged when you're 20 trillion dollars in debt.
	I mean, the idea of being able to repay that is out the window.
	We're getting close to the point where servicing that kind of debt is going to become difficult to do.
	And then doing it, but that doesn't stop anybody.
	There's nothing.
	There's no level of irresponsibility that puts the brakes on any of it.
	And none of it affects the people that live in Washington.
	They're doing just fine.
	They're living off of what they're spending.
	Washington's where the treasury is, Washington's where all the money ends up before it then gets redistributed.
	Everybody there's got their hands in that pile one way or the other.
	And growing that pile, which is created by spending, not by collections, which goes to show you how rigged and artificial it is.
	Anyway, uh just one of the things that I was I was pondering, and then it it goes deeper than that, uh, which I will of course explain further as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
	And there's Clinton's now officially out in the campaign trail for Hillary.
	I watched it and I don't believe it.
	And Trump, of course, talking about how, hey, you know, you gotta be careful, Hillary, you send him out there, you better not be start playing your vagina card, but she's playing that card, and Trump's saying, hey, wait a minute, if you're gonna send him out there and you're gonna start talking about a victim to two don't go together, we're gonna hit you on it, he is.
	And uh Democrats are worried whether she can win or not.
	They should have been worried about that a long time ago.
	Be right back here, folks.
	Don't go away.
	Take you back to this program, November 23rd, last year.
	We're fast approaching Obama's last year in office.
	I want to warn you again.
	In all likelihood, there are going to be things this president does in the next 12 months that you can't even think of or conceive of now.
	It's his last chance to have personal stamps or fingerprints on the transformation of this country.
	And he knows nobody's gonna stop him.
	He knows the Republicans have taken impeachment, it's late for that anyway.
	There's not going to be any effort to stop him.
	The Republicans are looking beyond Obama and focusing on trying to win the White House themselves, and they've just chalked up whatever happens this next year happens.
	And Obama knows all that.
	And right on cue.
	Obama set to unveil curbs on gun sellers via executive action.
	He is going to make another end run around Congress in the ongoing liberal quest to separate you, the law-abiding from your guns.
	Obama's bid to assert himself in his final year will begin with long-awaited executive actions on gun control, expected to be released this week.
	And right on schedule, there's CNN.
	CNN has announced they're going to host an Obama Town Hall on guns in America.
	It's going to happen this Thursday.
	And they're going to make it appear like there is popular support in the country for Obama to take executive action on limiting guns and their legal sale and use in this country.
	Stand by.
	Greetings, welcome back.
	Great to have you.
	El Rushbone, cutting edge.
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	So Obama is going to announce executive actions and orders to impact negatively the free flow of guns and ammunition in our culture, basically.
	And this has been long a quest of the American left, and he doesn't care about Congress.
	He doesn't care about doing it constitutionally, doesn't matter.
	Transformation of the country is all that matters.
	He's got one year left, and this is just item number one.
	And I'm I'm telling you that the things that are yet to come this year will be anything but lame duck in status.
	And you have yet to be shocked to the degree you're going to be as this year unfolds.
	The White House is putting finishing touches on several measures in an effort to make progress on curbing gun violence.
	There's nothing they can do to curb gun violence.
	They've shown it.
	They run Chicago.
	They run Detroit.
	They can't do a thing to curb gun violence.
	They don't have the slightest idea how.
	In fact, as Wayne Lapierre, the National Rifle Association once said back during the Clinton years, they profit from the violence.
	They're comfortable with a certain level of violence because it encourages supporters of this kind of unilateral action.
	The more violence, the more frustration, the more people raise their hands in frustration and say, go ahead, relying on the federal government to do things that it was never intended to do and can't do, particularly when populated by leftists who are incompetent.
	I mean, they're incompetent from this from the standpoint that what they believe doesn't work, and the evidence is daily on display.
	According to gun industry insiders and others familiar with the proposals, the changes that Obama's going to make include requiring an expanded number of small-scale gun sellers to be licensed and therefore conduct background checks whenever selling a weapon.
	This would not close the so-called gun show loophole, though it has the potential to narrow it.
	The regime is also expected to impose tighter rules for reporting guns that get lost or stolen on their way to the buyer.
	Now keep in mind that nothing they are going to do.
	All of the guns used in recent mass shootings were purchased legally and after background checks, and none of what Obama is going to do would have stopped any of that.
	By definition, gun control will not stop crime.
	And that's what we're talking about.
	But no, the left isn't talking about crime.
	They're talking about removing guns from the hands of innocent people.
	Which is the only thing they'll be able to accomplish.
	They're not going to be able to get the hands of the criminals to turn over their guns to them.
	They can pass law after law after law, and by definition, people that want to get guns illegally going to break those laws, whatever they are to get them.
	And everybody understands this.
	So the objective here isn't to stop crime.
	The Objective isn't to curb gun violence, because none of this could do that.
	Those are cultural problems that go far deeper than the fact that guns are on the street, that guns are available for sale.
	The fact that guns exist does not explain criminal behavior.
	The fact that guns and ammunition exist does not explain why people grow up with no value base whatsoever, with no respect for life, whatsoever.
	The guns exist has nothing to do with that.
	And right on schedule, here comes CNN promising to host an Obama Town Hall on guns in America.
	Here's how CNN reports it.
	Obama mounting a final year push to make gun control part of his legacy, just like Obamacare.
	Make it worse, but be the first to do it and have your legacy, first president, only president ever, to reform America's health care system.
	Never mind the fact that it didn't need this kind of reform.
	Same thing, legacy, first president ever to do whatever it took to do whatever the left wants done on guns, so they could have a legacy for historians to talk about the greatness of Obama.
	When the end result means everybody is at greater risk.
	Safety goes out the window.
	Because the only people affected by this are the law-abiding and the quote-unquote innocent.
	Obama will join Anderson Cooper Thursday for an exclusive one-hour live town hall on gun control at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in hopes of mounting a final pitch to the public.
	The public has nothing to do with this.
	In fact, I'm holding here my formerly Nicotine Spring police.
	A Gallup poll that shows only 2% of the people say guns and gun control are among the nation's most important problems.
	As President Obama prepares to announce new executive actions on gun control, a newly released Gallup poll shows that guns and gun control ranked near the bottom of Americans' most pressing concerns in 2015.
	You know what's right next to?
	Climate change, global warming.
	Now, interestingly, what are the two things Obama seems hellbent on focusing on?
	Two things nobody cares about.
	That's one of the reasons he's doing it.
	If nobody cares about it, nobody's going to be paying attention to it.
	He's going to have even more freedom, leeway, and latitude to do whatever it is he intends to do because he's tackling things about which the American people don't care much.
	Now this don't be misled, and I'm not either.
	This poll does not say that only 2% of the people care whether or not the government wants to take their guns away.
	What the poll says, only 2% of the people think that guns and gun control are issues of importance that they ought to be factors in the presidential race.
	And even fewer percentage of people think this about climate change.
	Doesn't matter.
	The point is Obama takes advantage of the fact that people don't think those are important issues.
	Theory being nobody's paying attention.
	You have an even greater opportunity to do what you want to do.
	According to Gallup, only one percent of respondents mention guns and gun control as a concern for most of the months in 2015.
	Now, what Gallup could be doing here, in fact, I if if somebody were to tell me this, I would have no doubt about it.
	They're trying to put out in this poll that people don't care that Obama may take their guns away.
	If he does, so what?
	I don't care.
	One percent, two percent.
	That's not what this poll obviously says, because that isn't true.
	That question is not asked.
	If you ask the question, do you support the president's efforts to remove guns and ammunition from the hands of innocent people in violation of the second amendment of the Constitution, you're going to get a far different answer than 2%.
	What the respondents in this poll are saying is that all of this that's happening as a result of the crime and so forth is that does not rank near the top of things concerning them as we head into a presidential election year.
	I think it'd be a mistake uh to look at this poll and suggest that you know somebody needs to tell Obama nobody cares about this, nobody nobody cares.
	He ought to leave this alone.
	That's precisely why he's zeroing in on it.
	Fewer people paying attention.
	And it doesn't mean people don't care about it.
	It simply means there are things of vastly greater importance to them in this a presidential election year.
	But again, uh none of what Obama claims to want to accomplish can be accomplished by this.
	Because the guns are not the problem.
	The existence of guns, guns in shows, guns in stores, guns in people's homes are not why.
	People pick up those guns and start shooting them at innocent people.
	I think gun control is if if gun control really worked, why are we allowing the Iranians to nuke up?
	I mean, that's just you want to talk about a gun, a nuclear weapon is a gun extraordinaire.
	And Obama's going out of his way to make sure that the Iranians have a stockpile of them.
	Now, if the existence of guns, in this case, nuclear weapons, is what causes the problem.
	Why in the world let a regime like that have them?
	And the answer is even Obama understands that what he's saying isn't true.
	That the existence of guns is why there is crime committed with them.
	But the point is, it doesn't matter what you think anyway, Obama is going to do this.
	Because what the real objective here is the further erosion of liberty and freedom.
	But even more, the more Obama and the left can render the Constitution irrelevant, you talk about an objective, you talk about something that would just make them orgasmic.
	If they could get the American people to a point where the Constitution is just some piece of paper over there that doesn't matter to a hill of beans, that's what they would love.
	And to the effect that they can ev that they can violate it, that they can avoid it, they can pretend it doesn't exist, that they can wantonly in public spit on it and get away with it.
	That's the objective.
	Because these people are looking long term.
	And it's further and truly about the transformation of this country away from the way it was founded and the way and the things about it that make it the greatest nation ever.
	So Those characteristics, those fundamentals, those institutions, they are the target.
	Using guns and climate change and health care things that scare people every day.
	That's just the technique.
	That's just the tactic that is being used to create the least amount of resistance to their actions that they can.
	Back after this, folks.
	Don't go away.
	And we return back to this program back on December 22nd.
	You will remember that Hillary Clinton uh claimed that there was an ISIS video of Donald Trump being used as a recruitment tool.
	And of course, there wasn't.
	There was none whatsoever.
	I mean, Obama's the biggest recruitment tool that ISIS has.
	But this is something the left has been saying ever since George W. Bish Bush and Gitmo.
	Yeah, this isn't a something else I was really steaming about it when I thought about it.
	I raised it a little bit before we left.
	This idea that all it takes for your average ordinary minding their own business, peaceful Muslim to join the jihad, is for somebody to criticize Islam.
	It's absurd.
	And how on the one hand, people can say it's a religion of peace and they have no relationship to violence what so they have no relationship to terrorism.
	Then on the other hand, we're told that all you've got to do is utter one critical line, one critical syllable of Islam, and those peaceful loving Muslims become terrorists.
	How the two go together.
	They don't.
	It's absurd.
	It's an absurd claim.
	It's an absurd prediction.
	It's just as flimsy in non-existence as the so-called war on women that the Democrats mounted.
	And then of course Trump comes out and says what he says about wanting to put a moratorium on the um immigration of Muslims and refugees and so forth until we get a handle of what's going on here, this after San Bernardino, and Hillary starts squawking like this clucking hen about the fact that there's a video now that ISIS has put together of Trump that they're running around showing it to otherwise peaceful Muslims that makes them so mad they joined the jihad.
	And there wasn't such a video, but I predicted that there would be.
	When Hillary lied about Trump, about ISIS making a recruitment video out of Trump's comments on the moratorium of Muslims in America.
	I had a thought, and I was gonna mention it today, that if I know the Hillary camp, they're making that video now.
	They have gotten hold of some Muslims, and they're going to make a video, and they're going to produce it as though it's legitimate.
	This is why I wanted to mention it at the top of the program, because that video is going to be produced.
	It's not gonna have Hillary fingerprints on it.
	There will be a video.
	You watch a recruitment video of the Trump comments, and it will be uh claimed to be legit.
	December 22nd, I, your host L. Rushwell, predicting that an ISIS Trump recruitment video would materialize.
	Lo and behold.
	With the dawn of the new year, ABC News, Al Shabab releases recruitment video featuring Donald Trump.
	CBS News, terror group uses Donald Trump's soundbite in purported propaganda video.
	There wasn't one.
	Hillary says there is and there isn't, and then all of a sudden the ISIS guy say, oh man, there's an opportunity, go create one.
	Because they know the media in this country sidles up to Democrats.
	So the media in this country will sidle up to ISIS and its claims in order to impugn Trump or any other Republican.
	We have a montage yesterday and last night, ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, all lying about this.
	Donald Trump targeting Hillary after he appeared in a terror propaganda video.
	Something she said would happen.
	Clinton recently warned Trump's statements about the Muslims would be used by the militants.
	She said they're using his video to recruit.
	Well, subsequent to her saying that, they began to do it.
	We were all asking for some proof.
	I was asking for some proof, you know, wondering whether this was Clinton just kind of letting her words get away from her.
	And, you know, lo and behold, here's the video.
	Well Clinton said last month, Islamic terrorists were using video of Donald Trump as a recruiting tool.
	Now those savages are in fact doing that.
	Hillary Clinton has to be tempted to say told you so when this video emerges.
	That was Rick Klein.
	Rick Klein, I think that's it's ABC News.
	What is he?
	Yeah, political director.
	I mean, I mean Hillary Clinton has to be tempted to say, I told you so when this video emerges.
	There wasn't one.
	Hillary did not say there was going to be one.
	She said there is one when she made this claim, and there wasn't.
	This is one of the easiest predictions in the world to make.
	But again, go beyond this.
	Ask yourself.
	All it takes for peaceful non-confrontational Members of the religion of peace minding their own business, trying to hover there in the background.
	All it takes for them to lose their minds and join the jihad is for Donald Trump to say what he said.
	It's absurd.
	And it exposes what they always say about the religion of peace being a religion of peace.
	If this is the case, which it isn't.
	Back after this, folks.
	Don't go.

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