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April 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Indeed, it's Buck here in for Rush today.
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All right, Hillary time.
Ooh.
Get excited.
So now my Hillary impression is not particularly accurate, but I feel like it captures the essence of things that's Hillary.
I've been told it sounds a bit like Iago from Aladdin.
So if if I fall into that by accident when we're talking about Hillary, I at least you know where I'm coming from on it.
I like to give speeches for a lot of money.
You know, it's sort of like that.
It doesn't really sound like her, but you know who I'm talking about.
So people have also said, well, Gilbert Godfrey was the voice of Iaga from from uh Aladdin.
Uh so Hillary, she's able to sort of escape by, and there's this this pretense now that the sort of the pantomime, the uh the the theater that's going on between Hillary and Bernie continues because I at this point it's just useful for her, really.
I mean, I know that she's spending money and there's all this analysis of how, oh, it's gonna hurt her in the general.
Look, if if it was just Hillary, maybe people would spend a little more time looking into who this person is that is uh the Democrat nominee.
I don't do we have to keep saying presumed.
This is like saying alleged when there's you know a signed confession and a video tape and everything else is but you know, you technically have to say alleged.
I guess we technically have to say Hillary is the uh is the likely Democrat nominee.
She is the Democrat nominee, so that's what's gonna end up happening here.
But there's a very interesting piece on her that just came out, uh, I think it was let me see, when was this published?
It was the last 24 hours.
It was yesterday afternoon.
And this just solidifies what we already know.
To borrow from the uh French novelist Flaubert, she is a woman who is so corrupt she would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling herself.
I mean, she just cannot get enough checks from enough corporations.
Can't find a way to get around it.
Um loves it.
Absolutely loves to get the big money from these companies.
So the Associated Press has done a review.
This is the piece, a review of federal records.
And what they found, and this will shock you not at all, but I think that we need to overcome the numbness that has set in across America for all things Hillary, that she can lie about anything.
She can disregard rules, whether it's about you know email and the classification system or or she can be involved in her husband's uh horrific character assassinations of women who bring very real charges against him for either sexual harassment or worse, by the way.
Um and just escapes with all this.
It's like, ah, well, you know, it's the Clintons.
You know, what are you gonna do?
Clintons are gonna be the Clintons.
No.
That is not okay.
That should not be the thinking.
The AP has gone in.
Because her speeches, I mean, she has a rapacious lust for money and power.
I think that's that's fair to say her and Bill, both of them.
And Bill's got lust for a lot of things.
But I mean, she has you know, really a desire to amass tremendous wealth.
And you'll hear the sort of the sycophants, I mean the Hillary supporters, and oh, sometimes I have to go on TV and listen to this stuff either face to face or across a satellite feed.
But they're like, well, that's what the market will bear.
I'm like, oh, well, you know, I mean, drug dealers could technically say the same thing, right?
That's what the market will bear for my product, but their product is illegal.
Now, what Hillary's doing is not necessarily illegal, although I want to see what's in all these emails on the private server.
We'll have to wait on that.
But it is certainly gross.
It certainly looks corrupt, and in some places at some times, the mere appearance of corruption, not necess not necessitating legally speaking a quid pro quo, a what for what?
You do this for me, I do this for you.
Just the appearance of corruption, absent that quid pro quo is enough to bring charges against people.
And yet Hillary Clinton is on the speech circuit, which are people say, oh, lots of people are on the speech circuit circuit.
No, usually the people that go on the speech circuit are uh, first of all, none of them are getting paid what she's getting paid.
And they're also not the spouse of somebody who's getting obscene amounts of money while that person is a very prominent public figure with business.
Okay, let me get into the Nitty Griddy's AP story, and then I'll step back a little bit for the what this means.
So the APs looked at these federal records and regulatory filings, and they found out that almost all of the 82, this is from the piece, all of the 82 corporations, trade associations, and other groups that paid for or sponsored Clinton's speeches,
have actively sought to sway the government, lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal policy, and in some cases we're in direct contact with State Department officials or Hillary Clinton herself while she was Secretary of State.
So people are giving her money and are then calling her while she's the Secretary of State, and these are people who have business before the United States federal government, and in some cases, specifically the Secretary of State or the State Department, the department, as it's called.
Because presidents come and go, but the department is forever, as they say.
True thing about the State Department.
I used to work with a lot of state guys, you know, used to come across them down in the uh my DC, my DC days, Langley State Department.
We used to hang out sometimes.
So anyway, where were we?
Um Love You State Love You State Department.
What?
C CI, you know, that's how we roll.
We we do some fun stuff.
So I will say this.
Uh, she's getting all this money.
She's getting paid for these speeches.
The sycophants are saying, well, that's what the market will bear.
And call it, you know, other other public officials go on the speaking circuit when they're done, right?
They wait to cash out when they're done.
Clinton realizes, wait a second, I can cash out while I'm still in the game and get so much more cash.
It's a brilliant strategy.
Look at that.
Who could have thought such a thing?
And as I pointed out before, the whole notion that her spouse, Bill Clinton, can get paid, I'm worth at least $800,000 an hour for speeches.
You know, that he can give a speech for $800,000, and that his wife can be the Secretary of State, and he can be giving these speeches to foreign entities with business before the State Department.
That he even considered giving a speech to North Korea at one point.
That came out on the records.
I mean, he didn't do it, but he was like, eh, I mean, you know, North Korea needs speeches too.
You know what I'm saying?
They got cash to throw around.
Not for their people or anything, but for me.
And and he's doing this whole thing, and we're supposed to think that this is normal, this is acceptable.
This is completely insane.
The problem with the Clinton, the corruption is actually so apparent and so rampant that you're sort of overwhelmed by it.
You're like, wait, wait, what?
This is what goes on?
This is what's happening.
It's what the market will bear.
Why does the market bear that?
This is has anyone heard a Hillary Clinton speech who's telling me this is what the market will bear?
You know, we're gonna bring jobs back, and I care about the middle class and women's access to health care.
It's like, oh, brutal.
Brutal, just straight up.
Brutal speaking voice, boring, not a good presenter.
I look, I'm just saying, I'm just telling like it is.
Yeah, it's a brutal speaking voice.
That's right.
It's rough.
It is it is an auditory assault every time.
I'll say it.
It's definitely not worth 225 grand or whatever.
But what they found, going back to the records here, because I just this stuff drives me insane.
This is who, you know, if Republicans can't get their stuff together, okay, if conservatives and sort of, you know, the the the Trump movement, if we can't figure all this stuff out, everybody, this is who, you know, and we can figure out what that means, but this is who your next president's gonna be.
Maybe you think that's not a big deal because you know, she's it's it's it really is business as usual for the most part, but it's a continuation of business as usual under Obama for the last eight years.
So don't whine to me about how terrible Obama's been for eight years, but say, yeah, you know, if Clinton's, you know, more important to show the conservative base who the real boss is by making sure that Ted Cruz doesn't get elected or Donald Trump does, or whatever.
Just never Hillary, all right.
Just can we just agree on that?
Just never Hillary, and we'll work from there.
We'll figure out all the rest.
So she gets paid, you know, you got Bernie Sanders coming out, actually, saying somebody gets paid 225,000 for A speech.
It must be an unbelievably extraordinary speech.
And you know what?
Sanders, I'm feeling the burn on you, my bro.
You're correct.
You are correct.
That would have to be one heck of a speech.
And it's not like she gave a couple of them here and there.
They looked at over the course of two years.
She got 26.21.6 million dollars from public interest groups.
She spoke to Wall Street groups.
Now she's all, you know, I want to reign in Wall Street.
I'm going to show them who's boss.
And then she's she's telling you this, and she's essentially holding one hand behind her back for the brown paper bag full of cash from Goldman Sachs.
I mean, this is preposterous.
Who could believe this stuff?
I'm going to reign in the banks.
Really?
I, you know, I don't know why she'd be doing that.
She loves the banks.
She loves some Wall Street cash.
And what's funny is the Bernie supporters are calling her out on it.
And everybody knows.
But they also know that, you know, even a Democratic socialist is kind of a tough sell to the American electorate.
So they're just gonna all just sort of eat their peas and pull the lever for Hillary, and that's the plan.
They're just gonna do it, even though they know.
So phony baloney.
The whole thing, it's just all nonsense.
I mean, I love it.
She's talking about I love Brooklyn.
It's like, yeah, you moved to Chappaqua as fast as you possibly could, and really spent most of her time either in DC or on private jets flying around the world to give speeches to people or as Secretary of State, where her biggest accomplishment seems to be, seems to have been how much time she spent on taxpayer funded private jets flying all over the world to go to, you know, basically a lot of fancy cocktail parties and dinners.
What was her big her big accomplishment as Secretary of State would have to be uh the complete destabilization of Libya, which is currently a failed state with warring militias of various sort of various degrees of jihadism.
And yeah.
And also an ISIS affiliate has popped up there because things are so bad.
Controls they estimate a hundred miles of coastline, but that's her big accomplishment, which she now, by the way, throws at Obama's feet.
And everyone's kind of okay with that because you know, Obama's not running again, right?
So whatever.
If Obama's got to kind of rhetorically speak, take the fall for that.
That's why she can say, you know, wow, I didn't really do it.
I know it does sound like Gilbert Godfrey, but you know, Hillary, Gilbert, whatever.
There's some similarities in the voice.
This is what the market will bear, though, these Hillary speeches.
Uh, the financial services and investment industry paid Hillary Clinton 4.1 million dollars looking at this review of her of her speeches.
This is, by the way, just between 2030, wait, it's not just Wall Street banks.
This is the AP, this is the header, the or the first paragraph, rather, on the on this associated press piece.
It's not just Wall Street banks.
Most companies and groups that paid Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to speak between 2013 and 2015, have lobbied federal agencies in recent years, and more than one-third are government contractors.
Okay, a third of the people giving Hillary money, essentially exist at the uh exist at the beck and call, exist at the behest of the federal government giving them money.
What are you gonna tell me?
That they didn't they didn't know that Hillary was running for president?
And now she's gonna say that she's gonna stand up to the corporations and she's for the little guy.
She loves she loves Brooklyn so much, she moved to Chappaqua as fast as she could, because you know, she's of the people.
This is just nobody can buy this, right?
I mean, look, if you if you really if all you care about is you want the fur you want sort of the the baby boomer generation and the the feminists from that generation feel like Hillary is the uh is the you know the the culmination of of the dreams of that generation and you know uh abortion on demand and uh sort of leftism a la carte and all this.
I get it, right?
You vote for Hillary because that's what you're gonna get.
But it don't don't sell me all this crap about how she cares about the little guy.
She cares about the little guy if the little guy has about 200 G's to write her a check to come hang out for a bit.
Other than that, doesn't care about the little guy much at all.
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Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh back after the break.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh today.
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You can be like, hey, Buck, um, don't ever do that scary Hillary voice again.
It makes my children cry or in the car, and I might take that under advisement.
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Uh it is me responding to you.
I don't have some staff.
I wish I had some staff to do that kind of stuff.
I do not.
It is all me.
I don't I don't know.
Yeah, I don't have, quote, people to handle anything.
I'm the guy who came in here with a knapsack on full of granola bars.
That's me.
That's that's it.
I can't talk about what the Langley buddies helped me do.
Can neither confirm nor deny.
That's all some secret squirrel stuff there.
Allegedly, I'm trying to, I'm trying to take over.
Uh I'm a CIA plan to take over conservative media.
I don't know if anyone out there has heard that.
There's a certain host.
He's naming names.
He's naming names.
He's he's held about the dossier.
He's naming names.
He's coming after me.
He's had enough.
He's based based out of Austin.
That's all I'm gonna say.
It's all I'm gonna say.
Okay.
So he's named names, the guy with CIA because he says he's CIA.
Uh, where was I?
Oh, yes, wait, before we get into calls, and I will, if you're on hold, please stay because we will get to your calls in just a second here, but I just want to give you one more little bit of Hillary Fun.
Yeah, that's right, Hillary fun.
Words you don't usually think of together.
So the Hillary there's a Hillary pack out there.
First, let me I want to set the table a little bit with this.
You hear a lot of complaints and left about Citizens United.
A Supreme Court decision that has taken on this sort of uh the effect on the left of being the equivalent of a boogeyman.
It's like, you better, you know, you better recycle, young man, or else the Citizens United's gonna come out of the closet for you.
I mean, you know, they're gonna attack you.
Uh hiding under your bed.
Citizens United was a Supreme Court case that said the government can't decide that there is an artificial constraint before an election that all of a sudden eliminates the First Amendment.
I.e.
you can't make an anti-Hillary documentary three months or six months or whatever before an election.
That's what it was about.
And during that case, when it was being argued, it was asked.
The government was asked.
So what could can't you then ban an anti-Hillary book?
What's ever seen a book in a movie?
And they're like, well, well, I mean, yeah, I guess, I guess theoretically you could ban a book.
So uh you anti-Citizens United people are the pro-book banning people.
Just putting that out there.
Meanwhile, they complain about it because people don't know anything.
And they're just like, yeah, Citizens United's terrible.
It's Citizens United's funded by the Koch brothers and Halliburton, Dick Cheney, you know, just throw together a bunch of things that scare people on the left who get their news from the from the Daily Show and other uh places where they should spend.
Uh it is still on.
It has a host who is so unfunny, it's almost funny watching him try to be funny, but it is there is still a daily show.
They just it's no it's no longer intentionally a comedy, really, I think you could say.
It's sort of unintentional comedy.
It is not funny.
John Stewart was a propagandist for the left, but he was a talented guy.
I he was talented at what he did.
I will say that.
Uh sometimes I found myself laughing even though I knew it was a pile of lies.
I haven't even gotten into that never happens anymore, but this the guy who's on now is just not funny.
Um I I haven't even gone to so Hillary.
Do I have enough time to do that?
Yeah, I've got a minute here.
So Hillary always talks about Citizens United.
I hate Citizens United.
You know, meanwhile, they're like, you know, Goldman Sachs is like throwing cash up on the stage to or not just gold, but I don't want to just pick on Goldman, Morgan, all.
They're all throwing all these private equity guys, too.
They're all throwing cash up there.
Everybody's throwing cash up there.
Okay.
Government contractors, as we know.
Um, but she has a pack that is spending a million dollars.
This is the Daily Beast writing this, which is a left of center site.
Uh, but Hillary has a pack that's spending a million dollars to quote correct commenters on social media platforms like Facebook.
They're spending a million dollars.
This just applies to all of you.
Any of you who are writing, you know, Hillary is the worst dot ever.
Um, you might get a response from this pack called Barrier Breakers.
Uh, and is that what it's called?
I think that's what it's called.
Correct the records.
It's called Oh no, it's called Correct the Record.
I don't know.
Correct the Records Barrier Breakers project.
Says in a press release that it has addressed more than 5,000 people who have personally attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.
So that's right.
There's a pack that's spending money that, oh, by the way, is directly coordinating with the Clinton Campaign because technically online comments are free and are therefore not covered under some of these rules somehow.
And they want to make sure that you don't say anything mean about Hillary without getting a slap down on Facebook, on Twitter, on Reddit, on any internet platform where you can post your comments.
This is the sort of thing that Pravda wishes or wished it could have done in its day.
But Hillary's one-upping them left and right and spending a million dollars coordinating with this pack to do all this.
Buck Sexton for Rush, we'll be back in a minute.
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Marcel, calling from Southern Brazil.
Thank you for your time.
What's up?
Hey, Mr. Sexton.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
Uh I've been listening to the show for quite some time now, and uh I've been following the primaries as closely as I can, and there's this one thing that is bothering me.
Uh which is some of Trump's uh justification when he's asked about his past contributions to the DNC, Hillary Clinton and so on.
You know, w when people ask him this, he says simply, uh, you know, I'm a businessman, uh, I do what I have to do, I have obligations to my family, to my employees, so yeah, I'll do what I have to do.
But the truth is uh that you don't need to fund dishonest people in order to be a successful businessman.
You don't need to bend the law in every single manner possible in order to provide for your family.
Uh look, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna say this, and I it's funny because I feel like I'm doing something right because the the Trump haters don't think I'm hard enough on Trump at all, and the Trump supporters think that I'm some like Cruz crony and whatever.
Even though I mean I I've tried I didn't come out for Cruz until uh you know a after Rubio dropped out of the race, to be honest with you.
So I mean I've I've waited quite a while for this whole process.
I'll say this about Donald, because you raise a very salient point.
Here's what the Trump supporters say about this.
And I I go on CNN and have to and not have to, I like doing it, but I I deal with the uh the the Trump supporters, some of the the most prominent Trump surrogates, the ones that you would probably know from TV.
And what they say and what others say is, well, he knows the system, right?
And this is kind of like if you want to stop uh, you know, check kiting or fraudulent financial practices, you need to bring in Frank Abignell, right, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie.
Not to say that what Donald did was illegal, I'm just saying you bring somebody in who understands the sort of the the the dark side of of what's really going on.
That's the excuse they give, and that he was a businessman and it didn't matter.
Now I'll say this your point about how you don't actually need to do that to do business, I think is is a fair point.
You don't need Hillary Clinton at your wedding to be a successful businessman, right?
That's I I think that's been well established.
No, you the guys here are giving me a look.
I'm like, I don't think you need Hillary to show up and be like, oh, for endless love and happiness, you know, oh gosh, horrible.
For me, it's like the music stops and everybody wants to leave.
Uh you don't need that.
I think that Trump spends money on this stuff because he can, because he's a guy that likes attention.
He likes fancy famous people around him.
And that's what it really was.
I so I I think it was more about narcissism than quite honestly, even than politics in some cases for him.
Uh but how much do I really how much should somebody really care about this, I think is a is also a fair question to ask, right?
Does it really does it really matter all that much uh that he was giving, especially as somebody who was doing a lot of operations and and living here in New York City, you know, you can give money to Republicans, but in New York at least, but then you're definitely wasting your money, unfortunately.
So I I could see I could see your point though, Marcel.
I think that the Trump supporters brush this stuff all off too easily.
I mean, it's one thing to say, yeah, I don't think that Trump should have done that, but I'm still supporting him.
What bothers me is when they say, well, no, what he did was great.
It's like, no.
I we don't have to go to that extreme.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, sure, it does make sense.
But um, what you say about uh knowing the system, Hillary knows the system too.
That that doesn't that doesn't mean the uh uh the the Republicans should like I I don't think there's also any secret sauce here to knowing you know you don't have to write big checks to a politician to know the system.
I mean to know that like that's a way to curry influence with people, right?
So no, I think it's a very fair point, but I I just wish that the Trump supporters out here would stop trying would stop trying to explain away.
You know, here's a perfect example.
Ted Cruz comes out and says, I'm not I'm not the first guy.
I admit it, I'm not the first guy I'd want to have a beer with.
I'm not some hilarious, you know, amazing storyteller.
I'm not gonna yuck it up with you, but I'm uh I'm a fish, I'm smart, and I'll get things done.
You know, and so when people say, well, if someone comes on TV with me and they say, well, Ted Cruz isn't like the most uh charming, charismatic politician of the last fifty years, I don't say, yes, he is.
He's the guy you want to have beer with.
I say, no, he's uh guy who is is principal, you know, I make all the sort of pro-cruz arguments, but I don't pretend that there's no there's nothing you can criticize about Ted Cruz, and that's what bothers me about the Trump supporters is that there's uh not all of them, right?
Now I'm speaking generalities, but there's an unwillingness to face up to some obvious obvious truths about their case.
You can still support Donald Trump and say that he's made some mistakes or done some things that weren't great, right?
You don't have to be this sort of absolutist Trump supporter, because that is something I always identify with the Marcel, thank you for calling in from Southern Brazil.
Cool to get a caller from Brazil.
That's a first for me.
Um thank you.
You know, that's something I always identify with the left, and you saw this with the Obamaites in a very profound way, and and still do.
That there's not everything he does is brilliant.
Everything he does is evidence of some sort of higher uh strategic intellectual capability that we're just us normal people just can't comprehend.
It's like, no, sometimes Obama makes bad decisions.
I think he makes a lot more bad decisions than good ones, but I'm just I think we could all admit that, you know, he's he's a fallible human being, and the moment you cross over into this weird political worship, I just always identify that with the left.
What's funny is that Hillary is so flawed that unlike with the Obama worship with Hillary, there is a sort of intransigence on the issue.
I even saw a poll that I think it showed forty some odd percent of Democrats, and this was a while ago, would still vote for Hillary even if she was indicted for the email, uh the email situation, which to me is just crazy.
I mean, you're gonna have you're gonna have her, they're gonna build a cell in the White House for her.
I mean, how is that supposed to work?
But Democrats are like, yeah, we'd still vote for her even if she was indicted.
Um they're instead of pret uh uh instead of uh pretending that everything Hillary does is perfect and brilliant, which is what the left did with Obama because hero worship of politicians, I'm skeptical of all politicians.
And I hope many of you are with me on that.
You know, these are people, they're fallible, they make mistakes, they're there's a certain it's also with politicians true that there's a certain degree of necessary narcissism.
There really is, because it's a rough, you know, I want to be president, you want to run for Senate, you want to do these things.
I mean, you're putting yourself through a lot.
You have to really think that you are the best person for the job, and that requires a degree of confidence bordering on arrogance, and it's it's uh it's a balancing act, right, between somebody who is has the right level of honestly right level of swagger to actually go through with this, right?
What was Mitt Romney lacking?
You could say a few things, but he was lacking in the swagger department.
He was lacking in charisma.
Certainly not lacking in in uh in in intellectual ability, in uh proven track record, in uh, you know, leading a squeaky clean life.
I mean, you know, his family is like something you'd construct for a TV show in, you know, in the 70s, like, we're so happy, we're all smiling and hugging.
I mean, you know, that was kind of the that was the reality of that guy's life, and yet you know he was missing some things.
You need a politician who is between megalomania and doesn't have enough confidence in swagger, right?
You need somebody who gets in the in the middle there.
So I I I'm not and that also means you've always got to keep an eye on them, right?
Uh so I don't do this hero worship thing.
I don't understand.
And you do see this on the left all the time.
With Hillary, though, it's not that they think everything she does is brilliant, it's everything bad she does doesn't matter because they're just on board because it's Hillary.
They they'll excuse everything.
They won't try to pretend nothing is bad.
They'll just excuse everything.
So it's a little bit of a different flavor, but the same idea, which is that reality doesn't matter, it's just all about their side winning.
And I don't like saying this with the hill with the uh with the Trump stuff either.
I see it with the Trump stuff, and it is disheartening to me.
Not all Trump people.
I know some crazy smart uh people who are huge Trump supporters, but they're very quiet about it.
They're always like, I'm a Trump supporter.
And I'm like, your secret is safe with me.
I don't judge you.
They're like, shh, my colleagues would, you know, here in New York City.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot of that.
Peter in Greenwich, Connecticut.
What is up, sir?
Uh, thank you so much for your service to keep me and my family safe with the CIA.
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much, sir.
I I tried.
I I um I'm uh my name is Peter Alexander.
I'm a landscape architect, and I've kind of shaped my life around the environmental movement.
And uh I have to say, uh, borrowing from uh sh one of Shillery's uh sayings, I think there is a vast left wing conspiracy that includes Earth Day being Lenin's birthday.
And uh I wish that was funny, but really feel glad to meet Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lennon for the river that runs through Siberia.
Which is in fact his birthday.
Landing is named for a river Stalin, not actually his name either.
Stalin means man of steel, like Superman, except that this was a very bad Superman.
Very, very mean person.
Go ahead.
They kind of fit in with the environmental movie because that horrible concept killed about a hundred million people just because they knew what they were doing better than anyone else.
But uh I I want to uh kind of get to the point that uh the there's a a movie coming out, it's only gonna be out for a day called Climate Hustle, and it really exposes that going back to the Clintons, the hatred for CO2 has uh been totally made up as a political issue, and the whole point is what Obama signed today.
That really one worldwide government, one worldwide uh currency, and we really should take this seriously.
Yeah, but radical environmentalism gives the state control of everything, literally everything.
That's why the left likes it so much.
There's nothing the food you eat, the clothing you wear, the house you live in, the car you drive, everything, the electricity in your house, all of it controlled by the radical environmentalists if they in fact get what they want.
And what we see now from some of the other progressive movements, the sort of transgender rights movement, everything, is that they if given the opportunity, they will take they will go all the way to the mat on these things.
There's no sort of governor, there's no slowdown.
It's not like they'll go, you know, we might have pushed too far.
If you're a true progressive, there's no such you you go there and then maybe you try to you try to think about it after you've gotten there, and with the environmentalists, I think it's no different.
Peter from Greenwich, thanks for your call.
We got to go to a break, but I appreciate I appreciate your time.
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Mike, what's up?
Nothing in, sir.
Good afternoon, sir.
Hoping you can share your thoughts on something with me.
That's what I do.
We have a lot of people that are angry about the um delegates voting against the will of the people.
Mm-hmm.
Now, even though the system is set up to work that way.
Could not the people go out and initiate a recall and send a message back to these politicians and say we are in control, not you.
Vote against us.
We will recall you.
Well, in what in what context are you asking about the recall?
I mean, I can speak about the delegate issue, but what do you what do you mean recall?
Recall delegates.
Delegates choose to ignore the will of the people.
Say here in New Hampshire where Trump won, for instance.
Right.
Now I'm not necessarily Trump supporter, but the Trump voters should have the Voice, not the delegate speaking and um voting, casting their votes.
I I hate being I feel like I'm I I'm always forced to be a stooge for the system when I say things like, you know, well, these are the rules that are in place.
We have a a representative form of of government, we have a republic, we do not have direct democracy.
Uh, one of the very interesting conclusions that came, uh, you know, there were two conclusions that came out of New York with the most recent primary here.
One is that Trump crushed the opposition.
Uh another one, side note is that Kasich won Manhattan, Manhattan, you and I have got to have a talk.
I mean, I was born here, I was raised here going for Kasich.
I don't even want to get into it right now.
It just makes me sad.
It hurts me on the inside.
But nonetheless, I like to call him karate chop casey because of all the all the hand gestures up on the uh up on the podium.
Uh but you you the the point about Trump is this.
I mean, he won, what was it, about five uh roughly five hundred thousand.
It was roughly five hundred thousand votes, I think was what Trump got in New York State, something like that.
Close to that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he won every yeah, every county except Manhattan, and he got five hundred thousand votes.
I think Cruz in Texas got one point uh two million votes, and because that was a proportional state, Trump still came out of there.
So, you know, we can play this game all day and we can just point to the ones we like and then point to the ones we don't like and say, well, that's not fair, or this isn't fair.
You know, is it fair that Trump got what was it, 95 delegates in Florida?
He didn't get he didn't get 95% of the vote.
So what's up?
Well, it's fair because it's the rules, right?
But right, but those are the rules.
So people need to understand that you know, if the rules are the rules, then that this this becomes tautological.
It becomes what it is, right?
These are the rules of the system.
And and I I'm not trying to uh pretend like there aren't people who are using the rules to their advantage and trying to and trying to you know find a way to stop Trump as a result of that.
But you know, you can't have it both ways.
You can't have Trump saying the rules are stacked against me, it's unfair.
And the RNC, look, they backed down, and that was one of the stories I was going to get to today.
I'll get to that in the next hour, because next hour is gonna be we're gonna have to get a little bit of Trump a Palooza, which I know there's some of the some of Russia's wonderful loyal audience is gonna be like, I've had enough of this guy with his Trump stuff.
But uh anyway, uh the the delegate thing look, I I could I could play this game all day with you, uh, Mike, and say, well, maybe we should have compulsory voting, meaning you have to vote.
And because we don't have that, all elections are illegitimate because you have you know, whatever, 45 or 50 percent participation depends on what election we're talking about and on what level.
Uh or we could say, why do we even why do we not have just sort of direct democracy, right?
You just just everyone vote for their presidential candidate of choice.
We just all show up and anyone can get on the ballot.
You know, the the system is in place.
It's probably it is Byzantine, it's a little archaic.
It feels a little uh it feels like I could use a tune-up, but uh these are the rules of the game, right?
Like why is a touchdown seven and a field goal three?
Because that's what people decided who wrote the rules.
I mean, I I don't know.
I don't know what to say more than that.
I mean, when you say the the the Vox Populi, I mean the will of the people, well, who's to determine what that is?
I mean, is the will of the people determined by you know 40 percent of the GOP that seems to have consistently gone for Trump?
Well, what about the other sixty percent?
You know what I mean?
I I the frustrations I kind of understand, but I think that the narrative has overtaken the reality on the Trump side of things, and people need to look at it much more closely.
Uh you don't have to agree with my answer, Mike, but can we agree that that's at least an answer?
Oh, I definitely agree with what you're saying.
Oh, okay, cool.
Then, sir, you are uh a fellow of excellent judgment and wisdom, and I appreciate your I appreciate your call even more.
Thank you, Mike, for calling in from New Hampshire.
Thank you very much.
Um That was wait, I think Oh, yes.
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It's open line Friday, so we gotta take another call here.
We got Jason in North Dakota.
Jason, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You are speaking to Buck.
Hi, Buck.
I think you're doing a great job filling in for Russ, and I appreciate you doing it.
Thank you very much, sir.
I always enjoy it.
All right.
Well, I what I wanted to say is I wanted to kind of respond to the previous not previous, uh a couple callers back who was saying that it wasn't necessary for Donald Trump to um to contribute to all these demos.
You got about thirty seconds, but go ahead.
Okay.
First of all, I'm a cruise supporter, but I think the Democrats, especially in New York, have set up a system where they have made themselves the gatekeepers.
Everything is practically illegal, and the only way you can get anything done is to greet the skids with these political contributions.
It's a pay-to-play system.
So in that sense, all right.
Well, I got I gotta cut it there because we're going into the third hour here, but thank you for calling in Jason.
I'll respond to that on the flip side.
Hour three, the GOP throwdown, Trump Cruz and more.
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