I'm not going to tell you any more about it until tomorrow, okay?
Snurdly keeps hassling me to know what the deal is with my battery lay.
Let me just illustrate it this way.
Have an iPhone 6S Plus here.
Normal usage, I have to charge it every other day.
Normal usage, great battery light.
I have to charge it three times a day now.
It gets about six hours on a charge, meaning it's never shutting down.
And I had to ask, okay, why is it continuing to run?
Even when it's asleep, it's not asleep.
The screen's dark, doesn't matter.
I've narrowed it down.
I'm running Beta Soft run it, so I can't be mad.
I'm running beta 9.3, the next operating system, which is really, really cool, folks.
It's not going to be out till March.
This is Beta 1.
I've narrowed it down.
There's something happening with iCloud.
Something's trying to sink.
I'm never going to isolate it.
I hope beta 2.
I was hoping for today, but probably next week fixes it.
This happened last June when they released Beta 1 of 9.0.
The problem is it's bleeding over to my phone that is operating on the released version, which is 9.2.1.
It's behaving the same way.
So it's obviously an iCloud problem.
That's what I was doing last night was trying to do all kinds of testing to isolate where it was.
That's the first step.
Anyway, that's that.
Greetings.
Great to have you back here on the EIB network, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
And the email address, Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Your beloved host is all over the audio soundbite roster yet again today.
And I could have started with these in the opening hour.
No, I zeroed in on the issues and relegated myself not to second-class status, but realizing that it was more important to talk about the issues out there than it is to talk about me.
since everybody else is already doing that.
Now, let me finish with the Hillary stack, because there's some good stuff in here.
Oh, and we've got folks like the ISIS stack.
Wait until you hear some of the stuff we have from the ISIS stack.
The way they are tribute or are celebrating Jihad John, the dead ISIS beheader.
Well, here, headline, sharing his sex slave and other highlights from the Islamic State's obituary to Jihad John.
They're talking about what a great guy he was.
When an injured jihadi would come from the battlefield with an injury, he would share his sex slave with them.
This is mentioned in a tribute to him at what passed for his funeral or memorial.
What a great guy.
Shared his sex slave with injured jihadis.
Anyway, I mentioned earlier that the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock is set to make public nearly 500 pages of records pertaining to Donald Trump, according to an official notice from the National Archives.
This is a story in the Politico.
And the headline, Clinton Library is set to release Donald Trump records.
They don't tell us who, but somebody obviously has made a Freedom of Information Act request.
Somebody wants to get as much documentation as they can from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor detailing whatever happened, whatever dealings they were between Donald Trump and the Clinton White House.
Whoever is not identified.
But it turns out it's about 464 pages.
464 pages of records are being prepared in response to the Freedom of Information Act request.
There's another request back in 2011 for correspondence from Trump to Clinton or his aides.
That one yielded no records according to the requester, the person that sought it.
We still don't know who that is.
That person hasn't been identified.
The requester, not identified.
It's probably, you know who it is.
It's going to be Media Matters or some Hillary front group because the Clinton Library Massage Parlor is not releasing the records until April.
Well, therefore, it's not the cruise campaign.
It's not the Republican establishment.
Well, it could be the Republican establishment, but it certainly isn't a Cruz primary opponent because releasing whatever news there is in April isn't going to do very many of them any good.
But if the release of these 464 pages of whatever it is detailing the goings-on between Clinton, both Clintons and Trump, when Clinton was in the White House, they released that in April.
The presumption is that the Republican nominee will be known by then.
And if it is Trump, what an ideal time to make the document dump after he's won the nomination when there's nothing anybody can do about it.
So if you come across this story, don't think it's happening tomorrow.
All of this is being held until April.
And many of the experts, including Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee say that the nominee will be completely decided by April.
So Hillary Clinton in the New York Post today is blaming the vast right-wing conspiracy for her email woes.
The vast right-wing conspiracy has its anti-Clinton tentacles all the way into the Obama administration.
That's the new excuse from Hillary's team on why this email mess keeps getting worse.
Fox News this week got its hands on a damning letter from President Obama's Inspector General for the U.S. intelligence community, Charles McCullough.
In it, he notes that some of the stuff that Mrs. Clinton kept on her home email server wasn't just classified.
It was more secret than top secret stuff.
At least two of the emails were at the beyond top secret level of special access programs.
So secret is special access programs that not even McCullough can see it without special clearance.
McCullough and his aides need to get special clearance before even they, the inspectors, the investigators, can view the messages.
And so the Clinton campaign obviously thinks, hey, you know, we did it once.
Let's go back to the playbook and then blame it on the vast right-wing conspiracy.
So Hillary's press secretary, Brian Fallon, said, it is alarming that the intelligence community working with Republicans in Congress continues to selectively leak materials in order to resurface the same allegations and try to hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Come on, the Republicans don't have any access to what's this is a total Barack Obama-run government.
The Republicans can't get into theirs.
But that doesn't matter.
Hillary got away with this vast right-wing conspiracy business back in the 90s with Monica Lewinsky.
Before it was all over, she actually had people believing that Republicans hired Lewinsky, ordered the pizza, delivered the pizza, delivered the pizza to Lewinsky, told Lewinsky to take the pizza to the Oval Office when Clinton was in there, and then somehow get him to get a cigar out there, take him into the private bed.
Republicans did all of that.
And then after they did, then the Clintons went after Ken Star to try to make him out some big sex pervert of all people to try to tag as a sex pervert, and they succeeded.
A guy who may still be a virgin.
At age 70, they tagged this guy as the biggest sex pervert the nation's ever seen.
And they were accusing him of selling cigarettes to kids, working with big tobacco.
So that's what they're going back to here.
Daily Caller has the same story.
And then there's this from Breitbart.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has released a campaign advertisement video that features close-up footage of two men kissing.
Clinton tweeted out a link yesterday to a campaign video called Fighting for Us.
In the ad's Money Shot, two men kiss at an apparent gay wedding while Clinton's voiceover talks about how you can succeed in America no matter who you love.
Except unless you run a bakery or a wedding photography or a pizza business.
You can get destroyed because of your religious beliefs.
So Mrs. Clinton's commercial is not exactly true.
You can see, succeed in America no matter who.
Notice they have to put love in there.
It's all, this is how this is legitimized.
This is how this is sold.
Oh, yes, it's just.
I have no qualms with who somebody wants to love.
I wouldn't stand in the way of anybody loving somebody.
When the world needs much more love.
Who am I to suggest that you shouldn't love who you love?
As though that's all that's going on here.
But I think there's something else that needs to be said or commented here.
If Mrs. Clinton is openly running commercials featuring gay men kissing at a gay wedding, isn't this going to incite Muslims and militant Islamists?
Isn't this like a poke in the eye at Sharia law?
Isn't this the equivalent of Mrs. Clinton saying to them, you, and your backwards views?
And couldn't Mrs. Clinton's commercial end up being a recruitment tool for ISIS?
I mean, this is openly flaunting what they believe.
And we're not supposed to do that.
We're not supposed to challenge what they believe.
We're not supposed to mock it.
We're not supposed to make fun of it.
We're not even supposed to comment on it.
And we know they don't approve of homosexuality.
And they don't approve of gay marriage.
And here's Mrs. Clinton with a commercial, two guys kissing right in their face.
Look out, folks.
Who knows what's going to come of this?
Okay, time to go to the phones, people.
Another great roster of people, at least on paper.
We'll find out as we actually get there.
We're going to start in Kent, Ohio.
It's Daryl.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
I'd like to thank you for your career being an author and philanthropy you do.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that very much.
I am a well-known philanthropist.
Well, no, I'm not a well-known philanthropist, but I am one.
I appreciate that, sir.
Anyway, my point is, and I've been waiting for someone else to make the point, is about the behavior of Americans and Donald Trump's popularity.
And I'm your age, no college, made a lot of money.
And growing up, and this is something incrementally that the baby boomers saw, was you just had to keep your eyes open.
And by me in Cleveland, it was steel mills, car plants, residential, commercial construction, working on the freeways.
In other words, it's all jobs, Rush.
And people had that sink into them.
Like I say, the baby boomers as they grew up, and their families felt it.
It's all jobs.
I think the people understand that.
And that's my point, is that the people grew up, and slowly you don't see it.
You don't see the car plants.
You don't see the new construction.
And jobs are so important, it would reduce crime.
It would reduce this epidemic, depression, and the drug problem.
It all revolves around jobs.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
Let me put it this way, folks.
He says he's my age and important.
He did not go to college, but he's always done well, made a lot of money.
And what he's taught, he had all these job opportunities.
There were car factories, there was construction, all kinds of work to support development going on.
There were careers.
If you wanted to educate yourself, you can go in that direction.
And he's grown up and he participated in that.
He saw that that economy supported him.
Now, he's old enough to be able to look at it now.
And that's not, those kinds of things are not there for people.
People that were his age when he first left home became an adult.
Those jobs are not there now.
While that's the reality, what do people today hear?
They hear the current president hailing this economy.
In his most recent State of the Union speech, Obama was out there bragging about what a great economy this is.
And the Democrat Party is routinely taking credit for it.
All this unemployment that we've fixed, we've got, well, it's only 5%.
We've got job creation left and right.
And the fact, the reality on the ground is none of that's true.
doesn't match what people's lives are.
The reality that people are living doesn't match what they're hearing from Washington, D.C. It doesn't, on the Democrat side of the establishment or the Republican side.
And so there is this, either it's a conscious awareness or a subconscious fear that things aren't right.
Now, it's not that things shouldn't change.
I mean, things constantly change.
Everything's changing.
The nature of work changes.
Things modernize.
Plants, factories use more robotic technology for manufacturing.
Certain jobs leave the country and go overseas where it's cheaper to manufacture something which matters for consumer prices here.
But even considering all of that slow evolutionary change, this is a dramatically different landscape today that young people, millennials, are graduating from college or high school and entering.
There isn't that much.
You know, the New York Times on the Drudge Report here, let me click over here real quick.
It is a New York Times story that actually acknowledges America's best days are behind us.
Now, it's not an anti-Obama.
Don't misunderstand.
I clicked on it and only read the first paragraph.
It cleared during the radio program, so I haven't had time to dig deep into it.
But that's not a story that I would have seen growing up.
That was not, it might have been an edge fear.
It might have been always a far-flung possibility, but we never lived it.
I mean, we had opportunity out there.
Wazoo couldn't wait to leave home to strike out.
I mean, not strike out and bomb, but strike out and start living our dream.
And today, there's abject fear of that.
You've got people still living at home for as long as they can.
So it is dramatically different.
And nowhere in Washington is it acknowledged.
The opposition party doesn't talk about changing it.
The opposition party doesn't talk about improving it.
Or if they do, it's with oddball policy wonk phraseology.
We must energize and activate the free market so that the upside, downside makes sure it permeates the outer sector so that the fourth quintum.
What are you talking about?
I just want a freaking job.
But there's no criticism of this economy.
There's no acknowledgement that it's bad.
Instead, there's just a bunch of lies of how good it is.
Enter Donald Trump, who, whether by accident or by design, happens to be saying things that reflect the very anger, fear, beliefs, whatever else that people like Darrell here are noticing it.
So it's just, it's his way of trying to explain the Trump phenomenon.
Obama's still out there blaming ATMs for job losses.
He really is blaming ATMs, symbolic modernization, technological modernization, as one of the reasons for significant job loss.
Look at Flint, Michigan.
Look at what we're learning about Flint, Michigan, and before that, Detroit.
All of these places run by the Democrat Party for all of these years with no counterpunch.
And people live it.
They can't escape it.
And they can't be told that what they're feeling and living isn't true.
So, anyway, that's his attempt to explain the Trump phenomenon.
I don't think it's as complicated as many people are trying to make it out to be.
And there's the ear-splitting tone.
Well, we'll get back to the phones when we get back, so hang tough.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
You want to give you, let me give you another example.
I've talked about this earlier this week.
It happened yesterday.
The establishment of both parties, I guess, just assume that people are not paying attention or are not capable of understanding, but it's the exact opposite.
Now, what is one of the things that's foremost on people's minds right now?
The open borders nature of our country.
But it's not just that the borders are open.
It's that we're making no effort to stop it.
And that those who are arriving are uneducated or ill-educated.
Many do not even spink the language.
They are poor.
They are not qualified for most work.
As such, will not find any because we already have 94 million Americans not working.
So what's going to happen here?
They're going to end up in what's called the American hammock.
Well, that's what I call it.
It's called a safety net, but it's become a hammock.
They're going to end up on the public services roles.
And that is paid for by the people who are working.
And the people who are working are beginning to get fed up with this arrangement because at the very essence of it, it's not fair.
And you can poo-poo it all you want, but people, big believers in fairness and Democrats have learned how to make big political hay out of the whole concept of unfairness.
And the people that are still working and playing by the rules, but fearing they're going to lose their jobs, fearing that they lose their jobs and they'll eat up their savings staying alive, do not think about getting in this hammock.
They don't think about joining the welfare state.
They don't want to get in the hammock or join the welfare state.
And they don't see anybody that seems in any way interested in their plight.
It's everybody else that the government and both parties seem to be bending over backwards to please, to satisfy, to welcome.
And they've about had it.
And it's not only illegal immigration.
Now it has to do with these refugees that are pouring into the country from parts of the world where mass terrorism is taking place.
And once again, the United States government doesn't seem to care, not at all concerned about who might be entering the country and what they might end up doing after they're here.
And so it is a continued dilution of the essence of this country's greatness.
It is an attack on the institutions and traditions which define this country and the people who make this country work.
And it's been going on for years.
There have been two recent elections in 2010 and 2014 where the voters clearly stated they voted and elected people who had promised them they were going to work hard to stop this.
And nothing has changed.
If anything, it's getting worse.
More people are pouring across the border.
Fewer people are being deported.
More people are joining the welfare state.
And at the unspoken end of this, there's a great awareness that many of them are magically going to become registered Democrats before too long.
It wouldn't be so bad if there were some pushback.
It wouldn't be so bad if there was some effort to stop this.
But there isn't.
The Republican Party, which is the natural institution you would suspect would stand up and try to stop this, seems to be hell-bent on joining it.
And if not joining it, they certainly aren't making any efforts to stop it.
What we get are shows of intent, such as meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare, so that they can, hey, hey, we're trying to repeal it, man, but we can't.
You know what?
We didn't have the Senate for the longest time, and Obama is still up there.
And why he's going to veto it?
I mean, there's nothing we can do.
We can't do it until we get the White House.
Before that, we can't do it till we get the Senate.
Before that, we can't do it until we get the House.
And with each new attraction, achievement, new accomplishment, the winners have continually said, sorry, we still don't have enough to do what you want us to do.
And during it all, they make no effort to stop it.
Well, guess what?
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats successfully blocked what many conservatives described as a show vote on refugee admissions.
It was called a show vote because it's the plan of the new speaker, Paul Ryan, that even if the president had signed it, it would still allow the president to bring in an unlimited number of refugees from unlimited number of countries.
The Democrats filibuster on the motion to proceed to Ryan's vote comes one month after the Speaker sent Obama a blank check to fund visa issuances to nearly 300,000 temporary and permanent Muslim migrants in the next year.
Ryan's decision to fully fund Obama's immigration agenda arguably ceded any leverage he may otherwise have had over the Democrats and ensured the large-scale migration into America would continue and grow.
The name of this bill was called the America Safe Act.
It was blocked 55 to 43.
On Wednesday night, the major broadcast networks failed to even cover any of this.
The major broadcast network, the drive-by media, failed to cover the move by Senate Democrats earlier in the day to filibuster the supposed bipartisan Syrian refugee legislation that had passed the House in November with the help of 47 Democrats that would have tightened restrictions to more thoroughly vet refugees from war-torn regions in the Mideast seeking to enter the U.S.
The vote failed to hit the 60- votes needed to overcome the fatal blow by Senate Democrats, final tally 55 to 43.
So the bottom line was everybody is upset that Obama wants to bring in all of these refugees from Syria and elsewhere, and there aren't any women and there aren't any kids.
They are just military-aged, able-bodied young men.
And with everything going on the southern border and all the acts of terror taking place, San Bernardino, you name it, all the war going on in the Middle East, why in the world are we bringing in these refugees, knowing full well what's happening in Europe because of this?
The American people have spoken.
Donald Trump, speaking for the people in this, we need a moratorium on this to figure out what's happening and what's going on.
He was poo-pooed.
But we can't vet them anyway because many of them are not known.
They are not in possession of public records at the county courthouse in Damascus, for example.
There's no way to find out who they really are.
It's a continued attack.
It's viewed as an invasion of the United States of America by the people who make this country work.
And there's literally no sensitivity to this by elected officials in Washington.
And instead, what comes up with, they tell us we're going to get to the bottom of this.
We're going to have a piece of legislation that makes it not possible for this to happen.
And it turns out the legislation is just for show.
And the American people are aware of all of this.
They're perfectly aware.
This is the kind of stuff, and this is not isolated.
It's just one of a long line of such events that is putting people at their wit's end because it doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any logical common sense.
None of what's happening when it comes to immigration policy or refugee policy or anything else, it doesn't make any common sense.
But it's helping somebody.
Clearly, there are people benefiting from this, but it isn't the rank and file population of the United States of America.
Hence, they're angry about it.
And the angry is justified, it's justifiable, it's warranted.
And then we have to listen to people inside the beltway tell us they don't understand.
And it's silly for people to be thinking the way they're thinking.
If the Republicans had been serious about stopping this, there's one thing to do, just defund it.
If they were serious about stopping Obama's importation of endless refugees, just defund it.
They have the power in the purse, but they won't do that because if they even made one move in that direction, you know what would happen next?
Allegations and accusations of shutting down the government.
Anyway, brief time out, my friends, as the EIB network rolls on.
Wait till you hear.
You're familiar with what's happening in Europe.
These Muslim, I don't know what to call it, Islamist men, whatever these, these refugees are pouring into European Union nations, and they're literally committing rape left and right because they think it's their right.
Wait till you hear how some of these governments are dealing with this.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones to Michael Lake City, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
How you doing?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Thank you.
I just wanted to ask you a question.
If you think that Sarah Palin endorsing Trump actually hurts her credibility as a conservative.
I don't know that that's the question.
I mean, it's an interesting question, but here's the question.
Let me, are you a Trump supporter?
No wrong answer.
I'm just curious.
No, I'm not.
Okay, you're not.
Well, I can still ask you.
Does Sarah Palin's endorsement of Trump actually help him or hurt him?
Well, for the in-between voters like the Independents, probably not because it's split down the middle 50-50 with the whole country.
So, no.
But also, on top of that, the reason why I think it hurts her credibility as a conservative is I don't see Trump as being a conservative.
He's never said outright that he's against universal health care.
I'm so glad you called out there, Michael.
Because, look, it could well be.
Only time will tell on this.
There's no way to know right now whether Sarah Palin is hurting herself.
How would that manifest?
How could this hurt Sarah Palin?
Would it result in selling fewer books?
Would it mean people less likely to see her if she shows up and does a public appearance?
I don't know if she ever wants to run for office again.
If she does, does this hurt her there?
I don't know how that hurts her.
But if you put it in the framework of conservatism, and you assume that she's a lock-steady rock-solid conservative, and you think Trump isn't, and here she is joining forces with some guy who's not and abandoning somebody who really is, does that hurt her with conservatives?
And you might on paper, yeah, but it would have to.
If conservatism is what's happening here.
Now, this is where a lot of people apparently have understood me this week.
I got a couple of notes this morning from friends who work at various publications who said they had editorial meetings about me yesterday because somebody told somebody that I had said that the days of conservatism are over and that the future is populism and nationalism.
Well, I didn't say that.
I haven't said anything.
I'm analyzing what I think explains why people are doing what they're doing.
I take the complex and make it understandable.
And there's a bunch of stuff happening out here that has all kinds of people confused.
Like Dr. Krauthammer, last night, when we got the audio coming up, Dr. Krauthammer said he's perplexed because Trump can say anything and get away with it.
That he can contradict himself left and right, and it doesn't matter.
Nobody cares.
Nobody holds him to it.
He can't figure it out.
That's just one example.
How in the world can Trump say what he said about Megan Kelly and grow?
How can Trump say what he said about McCain and expand his lead?
There are people scratching their heads.
It doesn't make any sense to them.
It violates everything they've ever been taught, everything they ever believed about politics.
It violates everything they have put into practice when in politics themselves.
I'm trying to answer all those questions for them after engaging in deep analysis.
And it is clear the point, his question, does Sarah Palin hurt herself with conservatives?
Because I don't think Sarah Palin signed up with Trump because he's conservative.
I don't think Sarah Palin's doing what she's doing to advance conservatism here.
I mean, I don't want to put words in her mouth, and this is probably going to be misunderstood.
What has, I don't know, this is, in trying to explain, and I'm not trying to justify anything.
I'm just trying to explain it to people.
If you look, and I touched on this yesterday, there are a lot of people that tried to do great damage to Sarah Palin, and some of them are Republicans, and some of them call themselves conservatives.
What does she really owe them?
She has been mocked and made, and even today she's being laughed at and made fun of and mocked because of her speech two days ago when she endorsed Trump.
I still haven't seen it.
I read the transcript.
I told you what I thought of it yesterday.
But she's being laughed at, mocked, and made fun of in conservative blog after conservative blog over her speech and her jacket.
But I don't think when Sarah Palin decides to endorse Trump, it has anything to do with conservatism.
I mean, it may be as a factor, but she's not endorsing Trump because Trump's carrying a conservative banner.
This is what I've tried to tell these people in the establishment for the last two weeks, what I've been trying to explain to everybody who's trying to understand this themselves.
And this is what I think has got the conservative intelligentsius so, well, not panicked, but so concerned.
It isn't about conservatism.
They want to believe that the conservative movement exists because everybody understands the letter of the law on conservatism.
Every policy, every philosophy, all the great conservative thinkers.
And that's clearly not why people are calling themselves conservative.
There's all kinds of other reasons that have nothing to do with the smartest conservatives in the room.
So conservatism is not specifically the only glue that's putting this coalition of people together.
And it's not why Sarah Palin signed up with Trump.
Quick timeout.
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