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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
	Just a friendly little uh warning uh here, folks, for all of you anti-Trumpists out there.
	If you think that all of this going on right now is going to grease the skids for Ted Cruz, you need to be cautioned.
	That may not be what's going on here.
	I'm sure the cruise people are aware of this, so don't they're not gonna get tricked.
	They're not gonna get outmaneuvered like Trump has been.
	Anyway, greetings, great to have you here, the EIB Network, Rush Limboy, and a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
	Uh great to have you with us as always.
	Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
	Before we get started with the um election coverage and everything else that's going to make up the content portion of the program today.
	Uh an update on the leukemia lymphoma society radio thon that we did on Friday.
	Um I don't have the final numbers in yet, I think they're still being tallied, but it was another record amount donated.
	And folks, it is phenomenal.
	Uh the the let me put this in perspective for you.
	The final number is going to come somewhere north of three million dollars in our twenty sixth year of doing this.
	That amount of money generated essentially in a three-hour radio program, but it wasn't three hours because we didn't go wall-to-wall content on the radio.
	I bet you if I went and tabulated it, we probably spent 45 minutes total, because we did the rest of the program as well.
	And we, of course, had our obscene profit timeouts.
	And local news breaks.
	It's even more phenomenal when you look at the we had more donors this year than the previous year.
	We always uh make a note of that.
	But per capita donations were up.
	And as I said, going into it on on Friday, I'm always anxious about this because we've done this for so many years, and every year, you in this audience triumph.
	You you you outdo yourselves uh the from from the previous year, and there is so much appreciation for it that it's impossible to explain or properly thank you.
	But let me just try again, because it's it's overwhelming, and all of us here are are truly humbled by it.
	Now, uh something about I remember my first book came out, and it was going gangbusters, and it shocked everybody because nobody knew who I was.
	Well, they were starting to, it was 1992.
	And the publisher had arranged a book party at 21.
	And this is back in the days when the New York establishment, the elites, uh showed up at events I was going to be, because they weren't yet uh aware of who I was.
	They were curious.
	Who is this guy?
	Who is this guy that's ever written a book before that outselling some of our dream authors in their whole careers?
	So they come and they show up and they ask me how I'm doing and what I think of it and so forth.
	This one guy from Time magazine or Time Life, maybe.
	Maybe not particularly a magazine.
	Came up to me, and it was it was nice, but it was it was clear he thought he was talking down to someone.
	He was looking down his nose.
	He thought I was a pretender to the literary world, and he said, So how does this make you feel?
	And I said, humbled.
	He looked at me with this crazy expression on his face.
	Humbled.
	You have a book that's selling millions of copies, and you're humbled.
	I said, Yeah.
	What do you mean humbled?
	Well, he had no idea.
	I said, I am I'm humbled that that I write a book and so many people would go out and buy it and read it.
	Humbled?
	You you you should be exultant.
	You should be strutting around here like you own the room and you're humbled.
	I say, Yes, I'm humbled.
	And he didn't get it.
	And that should have been my first indication of the kind of people that make up that elite world uh in in establishment circles.
	The idea of humility in a circle situation like that totally escaped the guy.
	He was a nice guy from what I'm told.
	I mean, he was not a it was not mean, he was not rude, he just different set of values.
	Humility to him was not a virtue.
	The weakness.
	And Nora Efron asked me the same thing once at a book party in New York.
	Well, it wasn't a book party, it was a dinner party where I was the circus act and didn't know it at the time.
	Yeah, I was the new who is this?
	It's like they were able to invite an exotic animal from the zoo to come to dinner.
	Oh, I can't wait to tell the stories of some of this stuff when some of these people pass away.
	You wouldn't believe the stories they have.
	One dinner party hosted by well, I'll just give you an example.
	There were about 30 people there, and me and one other circus act.
	I had a handler.
	And the 28 people who were the well, the 28 people who were the normal attendees of these kind of things, kept telling stories about how they'd all slept with each other.
	And I'm sitting here listening, and they're laughing and yucking it up, and they're getting detailed and specific with the and they're married, and they're talking about other people.
	And I'm thinking, after a while, you know, they've this is a put on.
	They are seeing what they they hope I'll go nuts, walk out of here in anger or whatever.
	Because I'm a conservative uh animal from the zoo here.
	So they were just really late, and they were talking about the drug use that they've done.
	It was clear that that they were trying to get a rise out of it.
	I don't, I didn't believe 90% of it.
	Because at one point, one of the esteemed guests, a former member of the Nixon administration, finally called a halt to it.
	I said, I'm I'm getting very nervous with this.
	I think we should stop.
	And uh and my handler, who they seated next to me, uh, I jabbed him in the elbows.
	I told you this whole thing they're putting us on here.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I couldn't be accepted to show up alone.
	They they gave me, they gave me a handler, somebody who was also conservative, but that but that they knew.
	And uh, you know, like a like a lion tamer.
	You you don't just delight the lion, you invite the tamer too.
	Anyway, but but the the I'm humbled by what you all do here every year on our on our curathon.
	I really, really am.
	Uh and I'm so grateful for it, and I'm so honored to be a part of it, and so are all the people at leukemia and lymphomas.
	So uh thank you once again from the bottom of our hearts.
	Now, let's dig in.
	Let me tell you what happened to me on Saturday.
	Uh on Saturday, I was supposed to play golf, and I just said, you know what, I'm gonna sleep in.
	I'm just, I was zapped.
	I was tired, so I decided to sleep in.
	I had a, I was getting Saturday was kind of like Christmas because I was expecting a big FedEx of cigars.
	And when they come on Saturday, I have FedEx hold them rather than deliver them because sometimes nobody's home, don't trust the delivery on Saturday, don't want the stuff staying over the weekend somewhere because it's tobacco products.
	So uh I arrange for it to be picked up at a local FedEx office.
	Now on Saturday, FedEx generally arrives around noon, but I wasn't expecting FedEx because I was going to go get or have picked up what I was expecting.
	And 11 o'clock, the the gate buzzer rings, and I look out there, and it's FedEx.
	Oh no, what's this?
	And it was one box.
	So we got the box in, and I looked at the box, it was from Dorchester, Massachusetts.
	I did not recognize the name of the sender.
	I opened the box, and inside were two copies of the Sunday editorial section of the Boston Globe, dated one year from now.
	They were, it was obviously fake news.
	And I originally, you know what I thought at first.
	I thought this somebody has sent me this, that it's a gag, somebody's trying to make money, they're producing these fake news things to make it look like they're real, and I got an advanced copy.
	Whoever did this is hoping I will talk about it on Monday and rave about it and sell them, and I set them aside as junk.
	And if for some reason, half Hour 45 minutes later.
	I said, well, there's something about that.
	I don't know what it was.
	Maybe go back and look at these two copies of this single section of the Boston Globe.
	I looked at it and I said, whoa, this is this is really from the Globe.
	This is so I went and got the box and I looked at the name of the center, did not know the name.
	I looked at the address it came from, Massachusetts.
	So I started reading it.
	And inside were legit news stories, current news stories.
	And in there was a column there by Jeff Jacoby and the front page, which is what everybody has seen now, the fake news, what it would be like with Trump as president one year from now.
	Deportations begin, economy and tailspin, wall construction halted because of lack of funds or what have you.
	And then the second page was the full-page editorial from the Globe, anti-Trump, and this is the second time the Globe was demanding that the GOP stop Trump.
	They did it during the New Hampshire or Massachusetts primary as well.
	And Trump ended up winning the Massachusetts primary in a landslide.
	And then I thought, you know what?
	I have never seen any one of these that we got all kinds of uh evidence somebody could put together a fake news detailing the current administration's failures.
	I have not seen anybody do a fake news front page or editorial on Democrats must stop Obama.
	You know, for me it always comes back to that.
	What's what are people really ticked off about Donald Trump?
	When you stop and set this down and just look at this outsized rage.
	There's some people who've truly become discombobulated in their opposition to Trump.
	What is it about?
	Caution, this is not a pro-Trump statement.
	Don't anybody misunderstand.
	I'm looking at this and I'm trying to understand just what is it that has caused this full-fledged derangement, not just in the drive-by's, but of course, some on our side too, have become totally unhinged over this.
	And I can go down the list of reasons for died in the wool conservatives, big big threat.
	Trump is, he's not a conservative, would undermine years and years of toil and labor in the basements of think tanks and magazines and whatever else.
	Can't have that, can't have a guy like this, an outsider get the nomination when we've had nothing to do with it.
	There's that.
	Then there's also the oh my God, he doesn't know what he's doing.
	This guy's dangerous.
	Oh my God, we got the country being horrible.
	There's that.
	And then he wants to build a wall.
	He wants to deport.
	Oh, but people panicking over that.
	And yet, deportation and a wall are existing American law.
	They are United States statutes.
	There is already a statute requiring a wall to be built.
	And immigration law clearly defines when and how and who deportation is to take place.
	And so this level of uh of anger and disgust over Trump.
	I mean, he threatens a lot of things.
	I understand he threatens a lot of people.
	Some people think that he is a dire threat to the country.
	But then I compare any of this to Obama and what we've had to live under the last seven years and what it's going to be if we have seven more years of it.
	And I don't.
	Why is there no Obama derangement?
	And I'm talking about Goodyear.
	Why why isn't there anybody as hellbent on stopping what the Democrat Party is doing, is doing, not is going to do, is doing.
	Why isn't there somebody in the Republican Party, the Republican establishment, the DC elites?
	Why is there no energy, much less deranged?
	Why is there no energy whatsoever to stop Obama?
	Why is there no energy to stop Hillary?
	Why is there no energy to stop the current Democrat agenda and replace it?
	So many things here seem out of whack to me.
	Again, asterisk, this is not a pro-Trump statement.
	I'm asking questions.
	It all seems out of proportion to me.
	Yeah.
	Now, somebody has produced a uh uh an answer to the Boston Globe fake news thing.
	Drudge, by the way, posted it on Saturday afternoon.
	And Drudge had it posted all the way Saturday, well up until I think sometime yesterday.
	So somebody on Twitter, and I'm sorry I didn't get I printed this and it didn't print who it is, has created their own parody of the Boston Globe.
	Sunday, April 10th, 2016, present day, not what might happen.
	74 lead story, lead headline 74% of Americans don't recognize their country anymore, believe we're on the wrong track.
	Islamic terrorists rampage through Boston, race riots, looting, cop murders in urban areas, prolonged recession feels like depression, IRS targets political opposition, medical bills quadruple, high taxes, bad trade deals drive industries out of U.S. President gives 100 billion, 150 billion to our arch enemy Iran.
	Obama blames climate change for ISIS.
	All of that's real.
	It may be a fake news front page, but all of that is real.
	Everything, every headline here is based on actual news that's taking place.
	I don't mind fevered passion about Trump.
	I don't mind fevered passion about Cruz, but I'll tell you, folks, I'm getting a little worried here that there seems to be far more anger and opposition and energy to stop both Trump and Cruz than there is and ever has been to stop Obama.
	I'm talking about from people on our side.
	We're dangerously out of proportion here.
	And uh you look at the the Boston Globe fake news front page, all about the dangers of what will happen if Trump and the stuff that they are worried about, it's all based on emigration.
	Everything that they headline and parody or warn us about is rooted in immigration and their opposition to it, and what they think's gonna happen to the economy and everything.
	It's just it's it's it's it's obvious.
	But it pales.
	It pales in comparison to what is already happening.
	Now there's something else about these delegate fights that have taken place over the weekend where Cruz has just skunked Trump.
	It isn't even a contest.
	It is fascinating to watch.
	And of course, the Trump people think that uh games are being played and that uh tricks are being pulled, but that's not happening.
	This is just somebody who understands the system using it.
	You know, we can go into a little discussion if you want about insider versus outsider.
	And I I've I tried to tell people these insiders are not just gonna let this stuff go, folks.
	They're just not gonna sit idly by and let you take it away from them.
	I gotta take a break, but we'll continue here in a second.
	Don't go away.
	Publishes this great parody of the Boston Globe.
	We will link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
	It was predictable this was going to happen.
	I'm sure, you know, the globe's out there saying, you know, the newspaper business trouble, so we'll save ourselves, we'll cause a lot of PR, a lot of attention.
	People will be very impressed with what we're doing here.
	But there, you know what?
	Uh it it many media analysts are accusing the globe of getting into fake news, not saying it was parody.
	There are a lot of people not happy with the globe, even though the globe is, they're very happy with the attention that they're getting.
	But this parody response by the People's Cube is right on the money.
	And you know what it does?
	When you look at these two things side by side, then you should.
	You should look at the Trump parody for the Boston Globe and this one.
	And it plays right into the angle That all of these people so bent out of whack by Trump have been silent for seven years while Obama has transformed the country and in many people's estimation sought to destroy it.
	Not a word, not a serious word, not a serious effort to stop it.
	And compare that to this deranged unhinged energy to stop Trump.
	You know, people here seem a lot more upset by the notion of a Trump nomination than a Hillary presidency.
	You know, I know a lot of people don't want Trump nominated.
	But but I don't I don't know why.
	I really don't know why he has people on our side more hysterical than Obama or Hillary have had them.
	That doesn't make sense to me.
	It really, really that's why I say so much of this is personal, this opposition.
	The views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.8% of the time.
	This morning on the Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends, the guest, the Trumpster, during a discussion about Trump's loss at the Colorado Republican convention.
	Ainsley Earhart.
	By the way, congratulations to her for getting the gig.
	Did you hear about this, Brian?
	I know you're a big Ainsley Earhart fan.
	Mitzi should know.
	Ainsley era, just kidding.
	Ainsley Earhart started out at Fox doing little bits for Hannity.
	Uh the news updates at the bottom of the hour, and now she is the female anchor of Fox and France.
	Anyway, um talking here to Trump, and Ainsley Earhart says, Look, over the weekend you lost the state of Colorado.
	And you tweeted about it.
	You said you were angry, you said it was unfair.
	Why do you think that?
	The Denver area at Colorado itself, they're going absolutely crazy because they weren't given a vote.
	It's a crooked deal.
	And I see it.
	And honestly, I see it with Bernie too.
	I've gotten millions more votes, millions, not just a couple, millions of more votes than Cruz.
	Now they're trying to pick off those delegates one by one.
	That's not the way democracy is supposed to work.
	And you know, they offer him trips, they offer them all sorts of things.
	What kind of a system is this?
	I'm an outsider, and I came into the system, and I'm winning the votes by millions of votes.
	But the system is rigged, it's crooked.
	When you look even at Bernie, I'm not a fan of Bernie, but every time I turn on your show, Bernie wins, Bernie wins, Bernie wins, and yet Bernie's not winning.
	That's true.
	That's true about Crazy Bernie.
	They have rigged it over on the Democrat side.
	They're using their superdelegates.
	It's not rigged on the Republican side.
	This is just the establishment taking advantage.
	You know, they've what they've done, everybody, is is fake everybody out here.
	And look, this is multi-leveled here to get an idea what's going on.
	The establishment has had everybody looking at Rule 40, for example.
	I mean, there have been all kinds of leaks in politico.
	I mean, in the last series of months, we've had story after story about how supposedly the establishment is panicking and the steps that they're going to take to try to stop Trump.
	And we hear about maybe a third-party candidate that we've never heard of being nominated on the floor in a in a brokered convention or everything but the one thing that nobody leaked, the one thing that nobody had a heads up on was how Cruz was going to go into all of these states and arrange to get most of the delegates, we're talking second and third ballot here on the first ballot.
	The delegates, for the most part, they're exceptions, are pledged to vote the way the people in their state voted.
	Pennsylvania, however, is different.
	Pennsylvania's coming up.
	You want to hear about Pennsylvania?
	Only 17 out of Philadelphia's 70 or Pennsylvania's 70 some odd delegates vote the way the voters in the primary go.
	54 51, 54, I don't have a number right in front of me.
	Over 50 delegates, Pennsylvania are unbound on the on the first ball.
	If just use an example, if Trump wins Pennsylvania by 75%, he likely will only get 17 of the 60 or 70 delegates.
	Because the vast only 17 are pledged and bound to whoever wins the state primary.
	Well, Trump has not been working any of these delegates.
	Why?
	Who knows?
	It could be that he didn't think he had to.
	It could be he didn't even know.
	Could be he has nobody on his staff that really knows how this works.
	You do, because you have been treated to in-depth explanations of how this whole delegate process works, particularly once we get the second and third ballots.
	And even I pointed out to you that it's it we very possible, we won't know actually until the convention starts.
	Very possible that a lot of delegates that have to vote Trump on the first ballot don't actually support him.
	And if we get the second or third ballot, then they'll abandon him and go for whoever.
	Or right now, Cruz is calling Dibbs.
	Now, what happened in Colorado is, I'm sorry to say it's not a trick.
	What happened in Colorado is not something it's wide out in the open.
	Everybody's known how Colorado runs its affairs.
	Everybody has known, nobody just chose to look at it.
	But it's no secret that Colorado is going to have a convention and they're going to choose their delegates before the primary.
	It's not a secret.
	It's just nobody leaked it.
	Nobody talked about it.
	Nobody bragged about it.
	So it was left to be discovered by people who didn't know.
	And it turns out that people on the Trump campaign didn't know.
	Now I can understand how they might feel tricked here.
	I can understand how they might feel buggabooed because millions of votes theoretically are going to happen that aren't going to count.
	Hey, welcome to establishment politics.
	We have played for you the sound bites on this program of delegates.
	I'm sorry, officials, rules committee officials.
	We've played the soundbite of one of these guys that hey, what you all have to understand is the people don't select our nominee, the delegates do.
	We do.
	None of this is a mystery.
	This is the definition of insider versus outsider.
	This is a classic illustration of how an outsider has to learn the insider game to play it.
	Every business has its rules and laws, bylaws, and specific ways that you have to climb the ladder of success.
	In addition to that, people that run the club, in this case, the Republican establishment, just not going to sit idly by and let a bunch of outsiders, the peasants with pitchforks, however you want to visualize them, they're just not going to sit idly violent if people come in and take it.
	It's too valuable.
	In most cases, this is how all of these people value themselves.
	This is from which they derive their self-worth as their membership in this club.
	So I don't see Ted Cruz lying and cheating his way to the convention.
	I see a lot of hard work.
	I see some people who know what they have to do given where they are.
	They're in second place in both the vote count and the delegate count.
	They're serious about winning.
	The Cruz team is serious about winning.
	They have made themselves fully aware of how the process works, and they've been out working it for quite a while.
	They went into Louisiana where Trump scored a massive win, but they've come out of there with many more delegates than by appearances they should have.
	Ted Cruz had goals.
	He worked the problem till he got the result he wanted.
	What he's demonstrating, folks, you know, he's demonstrating he knows how to work himself within this insider labyrinth.
	He knows how to navigate it.
	He knows how to work it.
	He knows how to turn it to his advantage.
	You have to look at this and say, okay, what does this tell us about Cruz if he should become president?
	No matter how enamored you are, and a lot of people are, no matter how enamored you are of the notion of a total outsider with no links to the establishment, no links to insider politics, nothing whatsoever.
	You're fascinated by that happening.
	Somebody coming in and just totally wrecking the castle.
	You're finding out that you can't do that without getting inside the castle first.
	Because the people inside the castle are not going to let you crumble the walls.
	You know, being an outsider, it has benefits, but it has drawbacks too.
	And knowing the rules inside out and outworking the competition is not cheating.
	If you happen to be more knowledgeable of how things work and are able to work it to your advantage, that's just hard work.
	That isn't cheating.
	I I think the the entire lesson.
	And the cruise campaign, organization matters from the grassroots on up.
	Trump has loads of charisma.
	They connect with their audiences.
	But I think what happened to Trump, and I'm just while guessing here, I'm thinking I think the assumption was made at some point that our lead is so massive and that our love is so great.
	And we're just skunking everybody.
	If you go back to the early months of the prime, we're skunking every day.
	We're getting all this free media, we're getting all these votes, we're winning in every one of these primaries, most of them that count, losing some of the caucuses, but our poll numbers were getting double digit leads over people.
	And it was probably assumed that that would translate to delegates, and translate, maybe even assumed it would translate to massive public and inside the party support.
	But of course it doesn't.
	People who don't want Trump to win are going to get even more worked up about it and do what they can to stop it.
	And they're going to use the tools that they have available, and they happen to be the tools that they wrote.
	It happened to be the tools that they who run the establishment put in place.
	And every business has them, folks.
	Every business, every every uh career, every industry, no matter every organization, even planned parenthood, there is a way you get to the top in that crowd.
	At every homeless shelter, there's a structure.
	There's a way you get to the top there.
	There's a way you get to the top in Harvard.
	There's a way you get to top in a professional sports organization.
	There's a way you get to top in politics.
	People who don't like certain rules may call them loopholes and may say somebody's cheating.
	But that's just people using the rules as they have been written.
	Politico has a story, Trump's Saturday delegate disaster, but it's interesting, there's no mention of Cruz in this story.
	That's quite telling to me, because remember, the political is the chosen receptacle for GOP establishment leaks.
	And this is a long story.
	Trump's Saturday delegate disaster, and there's not a single mention of Ted Cruz.
	Why is Trump having a delegate disaster?
	It's Ted Cruz.
	It isn't the establishment.
	And I'm going to remind you again, I don't know how many times, but I'll say it again.
	If the establishment or Cruz succeed in denying, if Trump doesn't get his 1237 before the convention, it may be over.
	The way this is going.
	Because what Cruz is sewing up is delegates on the second ballot.
	But my humble belief is that after and if, if and after the powers That be dispatch Trump, they will then next seek to dispatch Cruz.
	Over there, Paul Ryan's running a campaign for something, and everybody's marveling at it.
	Was just an Israel talking to Bibi Netanyahu.
	And there are people whispering Kasich, Kasich, K sick.
	So this is by no means settled.
	I have to take a break.
	Sit tight.
	Back and continue after this.
	Back and continue after this.
	No, I don't need to correct anything about Colorado.
	I said what I said, and it's right.
	I said everybody knew what Colorado did.
	They changed their procedure.
	They changed it in August.
	Everybody knew this doesn't sneak up on anybody.
	What happened was the um uh Colorado Republican Party canceled the party's presidential straw poll in August, purposely, specifically to avoid binding its delegates to a candidate who might not survive until the convention in July.
	So they purposely did this.
	Now, they probably did it because of Trump.
	I have no doubt that they made this switch because of Trump, but they didn't do it last night.
	Or Friday night.
	They did it back in August.
	They're also shouting at me in Louisiana.
	You really misstated what happened to Louisiana.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	We have a statement here from the chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana.
	He said, I want to assure everybody Trump received the number of delegates that he earned.
	Nothing unfair to him is occurring in Louisiana presidential preference primary.
	Trump got 40% of the vote, and he gets about 40% of the delegates in Louisiana.
	Additionally, you can be confident that Senator Rubio has not awarded an excessive number of delegates.
	He got about 10% of the vote, 10% of the delegates, Louisiana proportional state.
	So all I said was that Cruz has gone in there and is attempting to work some magic and delegates second and third ballot and so.
	But everybody really sensitive about this.
	I understand it.
	Here's Jerry.
	I want to grab a phone call.
	Always try to do that in the first hour.
	Jerry's in Long Island.
	Great to have you on the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Rush, how are you, buddy?
	I just want you to know you are the best.
	Out of all of them, you are the best, my brother.
	And this is why I listen.
	This is why I listen.
	Thank you, Jerry.
	Very appreciate that.
	But listen, um, this is important that you know this.
	Um I've been telling all my friends, and I've been listening to you since the early 90s.
	That's the truth.
	And um, I've been telling all of my friends, because everybody's talking politics now.
	Um, you know, but with all this that's going on, I say you have to tune into Rush.
	And uh, you are the man to listen to uh with all of this, you really are.
	Well, I uh I what prompted this, uh Jared, because this is true every day.
	What what prompted this?
	Yeah, I know this already.
	I you know, I'm already adding on to the pile, I know.
	Um, and all of these AM guys, I love them.
	Um I tune in, but they all have you know, you are the man.
	You will you led the way.
	And um, and just to let you also know, I never watch O'Reilly because years back he took some daggers at you, and I don't forget it, and I do not watch a show because of that.
	But everybody, Jerry, you can you I look it, I appreciate it.
	I but you can't take that stuff personally.
	They everybody throws daggers.
	Um that's just talk about the rules of the game.
	I mean, that's one of the first rules you learn is that everybody throws daggers.
	Um I I think uh wK uh Mr. Snerdley, the official program observer, who happened to screen uh Jerry's call.
	Jerry's obviously so nervous that he can't get to the ultimate point.
	By uh by nervous, I mean in awe.
	And Mr. Snerdley says that his point is that the reason I am all these things is that I understand fundamentally that it's in nobody's interest to destroy the Republicans right now in this process, because the real problem we've got is the party governing the country right now.
	We can do all this stuff about Trump cruise, which ones are no good or but but I uh if that's Jerry, if that's your point, I appreciate it.
	Because it to me it is.
	I mean, I even even those of you who are just steadfastly opposed to Trump, intellectually, you know, I understand all the reasons.
	But where is all this energy for opposition to things and people that are really doing great damage to the country?
	Why isn't it showing up?
	That's what concerns me.
	And let me close with this thought, which I'll expand on if you want.
	But if Trump is defeated in this entire, you can say goodbye to any outsider making any noise for a long, long time.
	People who think Trump represents the beginning of a new wave.
	I kind of have my doubts.
	I'll explain it.

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