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June 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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All right, here we go again.
So I checked the email during the break.
Rush, why aren't you talking about Trump and Susanna Martinez?
Because it's gonna work out.
It's gonna work out in the end.
You know, all this up and down roller coaster stuff right.
You get caught up in that, you're falling for the soap opera script every day.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I don't have time for it.
I tell you, if you want to throw me talk about something like that, you need to focus on Nikki Haley.
Do you see what she said today?
Oh, what is it?
She said something about Trump that makes it look like it's impossible she's ever going to be with him.
Something like his rhetoric.
I don't know.
It's it I don't want to guess.
I'm gonna have to find it.
I just saw it on a Chiron graphic on a on a news story on TV.
I haven't seen anything in print on it.
But I don't want to guess.
But it was she compared Trump rhetoric to, you know, like terrorist rhetoric or some such thing.
It was really strange stuff.
This Susanna Martinez stuff.
Trump's walking it back.
He says, Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have her endorsement now.
He was in New Mexico, he ripped into her for whatever reason, what have you, and people say, why would he rip in?
He's gonna need he wants to unify the party.
Why would he rip in his instincts or his instincts?
She got a nose out of joint, understandably so, but it's all gonna work out, but time's all said and done here.
Look, I'm a positive thinker.
I can't help it.
I just I just I hate to get caught up in this roller coaster stuff of, you know, the controversy of the split second that that's gonna have a resolution in a day or two or a month or what have you.
There's other stuff out there.
Open line Friday, great to have you, 800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
A story from the Washington Times.
Yale students, Yale University students, students say, Oh, that's what it was.
Nikki Haley, get this.
Nikki Haley compared Trump's rhetoric to the guy who shoot shot up the Charleston Church.
Dylan Roof, that's right, the guy who walked in and shot up those eight African Americans that were in a Bible study group.
He walked in there and started studying the Bible with him and opened up, and she compared Trump's rhetoric to his.
Now that's that's way beyond Susanna Martinez's territory.
And then the well, welcome, you're not talking about Paul Ryan and a very tipid endorsement.
Because what Ryan, folks, there's a it all makes perfect sense at this stage of the game.
Ryan's got a whole bunch of different people he's got to keep happy.
He's got to keep the donors happy.
He's got to keep Trump supporters happy, happy majority of the party.
Um he's got a lot of irons in the fire.
I just think I understand all of this.
And it it may well be that you're gonna have a lot of Republicans that are not gonna be fully on board with Trump.
After the convention into the election, that wouldn't surprise me either, but it isn't going to matter.
It's not gonna affect Trump's chances.
Look, I hate to say this, and I could be wrong, but I don't think Trump's winning the White House depends on an endorsement from Nikki Haley.
Well, Rush, you know what, he may need South Carolina.
I just think you have to throw all that out.
Look, one of two things is gonna happen in this campaign.
One of two things, book it right now.
Aside from either Trump or Hillary's gonna win.
One of two things.
This campaign is either going to continue to be outside the standard operating procedure political playbook, or it is going to eventually meld right into it, and it's gonna end up being as traditional a campaign as any other campaign has been.
It's either not gonna matter, electoral counts, states and so forth, and how Trump's gonna win because of party affiliation or what.
All that stuff's either out the window, and Trump can rewrite the electoral map and put states in play that normally would not would not be if it's a standard Republican nominee, or it is gonna matter.
One of those two things is gonna happen.
And I I at this point in time, I don't know which it is.
Trump's either gonna maintain this outsider status throughout and is going to continue to benefit from every assault thrown at him.
It's always going to bounce back and be more damaging to the people launching the attack.
That's been the story since the campaign began.
But one of those two scenarios is going to happen.
And that's why Ryan is keeping his powder dry.
Nobody knows yet what how this is all going to end up.
We have no clue.
That's one of the reasons as much drama so excitement.
We don't know what's going to happen at these conventions.
We can predict riots.
We can predict a major, major show at the Republican convention, unlike the Republicans have ever put on.
And I don't, and I mean Hollywood type show.
I mean a produced extravaganza.
And the Democrats, what are they dealing with?
They're dealing with the biggest dry ball to come down the pike.
They're dealing with somebody they dare not let loose without a teleprompter in Hillary Clinton.
Tensions are going to be wound tight on both sides.
But I think it's one of two things is going to happen, as I say, and we won't know until things start coming together.
And it's way, way early right now.
So I'm just sitting back and I'm digesting it all as it transforms before my very eyes and ears.
But have no doubt, when I think it's important to talk about, I'll be there, leading the pack on it.
No doubt.
Yale students.
Studying white male writers creates a culture hostile to students of color.
A Washington Times story here.
In something of a Shakespearean twist, English majors at Yale do not want to study the great English writers.
That's what a group of undergraduates at Yale said in a petition started last week.
They are demanding that the English department decolonize the curriculum by dropping a pair of major English poets and required courses that feature works by dead white men.
The petition says it is unacceptable that a Yale student, considering studying English literature, might read only white male authors.
A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk are absent, actively harms all students, regardless of their identity.
The petition says that forcing students to read the works of Shakespeare, John Milton, and T. S. Elliott, among others, creates a culture that is especially hostile to students of color.
How exactly is that?
How does that happen?
Why what why is there hostility in teaching Shakespeare?
You know what Shakespeare is?
Look, I did not.
When I was in junior high, yeah, no, it was high school.
High school they start for I I just I wasn't ready.
I just, I knew what I wanted to do, and quoting Shakespeare was not in the in the in the in the list of things for me.
So I got into Shakespeare later on by myself.
But um at the time I just don't make me do this.
I there's really other things I want to learn right now.
Anyway, Shakespeare is nothing more than philosophy in prose.
That's what it is.
It's brilliant.
It's timeless, but there's nothing racist about it.
There's nothing there's nothing hostile about it, unless your young skull full of mush who has been raised to believe that anything having to do with white European history is intrinsically bad.
And that is part and parcel of what's happening.
The all-out assault on Western civilization.
Washington State, this is the Daily Caller, Washington State is going to start teaching transgenderism to kindergartners.
Washington State, I guess, is going to start acknowledging mental illness.
Well, that's what the Johns Hopkins guy, the professor says that this is.
Not me, the Johns Hopkins professor emeritus of psychology up there.
John McHugh, I think is his name.
Washington State Public Schools will begin teaching gender expression to kindergarteners under newly appointed health education learning standards that designate sexual health a core idea of public K through 12 education.
While some aspects of sexual health are not taught K through 12.
One component of sexual health titled self-identity does begin in kindergarten, where students will be expected to understand there are many ways to express gender.
The state's health education glossary defines gender as, quote, "a social construct based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached to a person's assigned biological What a bunch of hooey.
I read that to you again.
You didn't understand it?
Okay, well, let me read it to you again.
Washington State, health education glossary, defines gender.
You and I think gender is male or female.
No, no, no, no, no.
No longer, ladies and that's not what gender is.
In Washington State in the educational system, gender is, quote, a social construct.
Period.
A social meaning it's a social idea.
Somebody's idea came up with it.
It's based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics, which are attached to a person's assigned biological sex.
Assigned.
Who assigns?
So a couple have a baby, it's a little baby girl.
Who assigned that that baby's a female?
Who did that?
Who assigned?
Well, you and I both know it's God, but some might say the chromosomes.
Some might say genes.
But whatever.
But no, no, society eventually does, folks.
That's what society eventually says.
That that little girl's a girl.
But what if that little girl emotionally isn't?
See, this is where we get into problems.
The original assignation of female might have been entirely wrong.
Even though it is a little girl, that doesn't mean diddly squat, because we now have to factor in the emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached to the biological sex, the assigned biological sex.
Gender expression, meanwhile, is defined as the way someone outwardly expresses their gender.
So we have gender, which is assigned, which is a social construct, which is based on emotional, behavioral, cultural characteristics.
That's gender.
Now at gender expression, which is the way someone outwardly expresses their gender.
And this is being taught to kindergartners.
You wait till they bring homework home.
Mommy, mommy, I need some help.
I need some help with gender expression, mommy.
I'm confused.
Can you imagine what this is going to lead to?
Of course they're not going to understand it.
They're going to end up being confused with what's the objective here.
By third Grade.
Still here in Washington State from their manual.
By third grade, students will be expected to explain.
This is now in quotes, explain that gender roles can vary considerably.
And they will, by third grade, understand the importance of treating others with respect regarding gender identity.
And this is all taking place under the self-identity component of sexual health.
And gender identity here is defined by the state as someone's inner sense of their gender.
So in the words of Thomas Friedman, if you've got balls and testosterone, you could easily be a female, depending how your inner sense of your gender is.
And if you can be made to resent balls and testosterone, even though you have them, then you can learn to present.
And they're trying to get all of this started at kindergarten level.
What?
Recruitment?
What do you say recruitment?
Oh, recruitment.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Recruitment.
Recruitment.
Interesting.
Yeah, that might explain why they want to get started in kindergarten.
Hey, folks, you know what Uber is, right?
Uber, you got an app.
Uber is not a car service.
Uber is a software.
It's a software system that deals with transportation at a great at a great level of scale.
So you have your Uber app and you need a car, you want to go somewhere, you put it all in the Uber app, and the nearest car shows up, and you get in you go.
How would you like to be able to do that on an airplane?
How would you like to be able to have an app?
Let's say that you are here in Florida and you need to get to New York.
And there's an app that treats private plane travel the same as Uber.
If some private pilot happens to be flying to New York on his plane and has some seats available and is part of the program, it'll take you for a hundred dollars instead of 500.
Would would you do it?
A lot a lot of people would do that.
Well, a guy came up with the idea.
Company was called Flight Now, F L Y T-E-N-O-W, and the FAA shut it down.
FAA shut it down because these pilots are not compliant with federal regulations.
Part 91, where they're carrying paid passengers.
They have to have the same qualifications as airline pilots, and of course they don't, they don't work for airlines.
As such, they don't meet safety regs, and so you can't.
FAA will not let this business start up.
Have to take a break back after this.
All right.
I knew it was going to happen.
I was just watching CNN, and they had somebody who is apparently the handler for Coco the gorilla that picks NFL games so forth.
And the and the and the graphics said Coco's handler talks to Coco about gorilla shooting at Cincinnati Zoo.
Folks, Coco doesn't know what a gorilla is.
Coco doesn't know that she's a gorilla.
Coco doesn't know that there was a gorilla in Cincinnati.
Coco doesn't know there is Cincinnati.
Coco doesn't know that there what a zoo is.
Coco doesn't, Coco doesn't know what a gun is.
Coco doesn't know what a little kid is.
Coco doesn't know that there was another gorilla that was shot in the Cincinnati Zoo because Coco doesn't know from anything.
And yet, CNN has a story, CNN story with the Coco handler doing sign language of Coco, and we were being told what Coco thought of the gorilla shooting in Cincinnati, and Coco doesn't know.
That today is even Friday.
You're so mean.
You're so mean, Mr. Limboy, you're so mean.
People are just trying to get crazier with fine get closure, but Coco doesn't.
Do we know what Coco said?
Well, there was there was nothing we're hyping the story upcoming.
I wasn't there long enough to know.
But Coco wasn't sign language.
And I guess Coco was was gonna tell the handler what she thought of uh Harambe being shot at the Cincinnati Zoo.
And and of course, after the after report's over, I guarantee the CNN audience is going to think that Coco has weighed in on it.
No, no, no, no.
Coco is going to demand the end of zoos.
Coco is is is going to uh demand the end of uh large animals like her in captivity.
Coco is gonna think, well, the guy was a brute, probably deserved it, glad I wasn't married to him.
That's not what Coco will say.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
Striving working hard to maintain my sanity as I find myself exposed more and more dribble in the drive-by media.
It's open line Friday.
Let me turn it back over to you.
This is uh Rebecca in upstate New York.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Hi, I'm a Reagan baby and a rush baby.
And I'm very upset with the Bushes and McCain's and the Romneys.
Over not supporting Trump, you mean?
Right.
Um, you know, many of us have supported them, held our noses.
They didn't fight.
George did, but McCain didn't, and Romney did not fight for us.
And even if Trump lost, I would have held my nose and I would have fought right along for the votes of the Republican nominee.
Right.
And I'm very mad.
And I will tell you, this is what's discussed among family and friends, and that's why you see people out there in full force.
We're tired of it.
It's like they don't care about us.
Uh yeah, it's i it's that, but I think I think there's I think there's uh even even more to it.
Um can I say something?
Yeah.
I I'm sure there is something more to it.
You know, I understand they're in they're out in the public eye, they're in the spotlight, they're on the news, and you know, they they got hit around, punched, name called.
You know what?
That's real life.
Okay.
I th my husband and I we thought we were living large until Barack Obama became president and told us that we were poor.
When he put a dollar amount to what we made every year.
And come to find out, we only make ninety thousand dollars a year between the two of us, and I guess we're poor.
But we thought we were rich.
We thought we were living the American dream.
Well, wait a minute.
How how did Obama talk you out of that?
He he put a dollar amount that middle class was two hundred and fifty thousand a year.
Oh, oh well in in money.
Well, that's just that's just so they can have a floor.
I understand raising taxes market.
I get it.
Yeah.
But the point is, it's like we are the working class people that the Bushes, the McCain's, and the Romys have snubbed.
And not just them, you know, the Bill Crystals of the world, the Krautheimers of the world.
We're tired of it.
What Krauthammer?
You throw him in there too?
Oh, yes.
Really?
I do.
I do.
And you know, you never thumb your nose at us.
That's why we listen to you.
I'm too dependent on you.
No, but I I am you.
I I am all of you.
We know that.
And you know what?
We love your success.
We love Donald Trump's success.
We want our country to have success.
We can't give it all away.
We need to be.
See, that folks, that's that right there is gold.
That that's exactly that's the way most people have always looked at.
There have always been the resent resentful, and there's always been people envious.
And uh I uh I've been aware of that, by the way, since I was a child.
I I I have always been exposed to people who resented the successful people in town, or when I get became an adult, the successful people we knew.
Other people appreciated, but the resentment grew and grew, and there became to be something that was that was uh uh actually promoted by the Democrat Party started promoting that resentment and and jealousy and and so forth, and then started telling people it wasn't fair, and that the that the successful really weren't successful, they somehow cheated or stolen from you or what have you.
Right.
And that that's a that's a fundamental change.
You're exactly right.
Most people that are healthy and and and and self-contained look at this kind of thing.
Like I give you this illustration.
In any town, you're gonna have upscale neighborhoods, middle class neighborhoods, lower lower neighborhoods.
And the people in the middle lower cost neighborhoods would drive around and and and visit the upscale neighborhoods and say, what do these people do?
What do I have to do to eventually live here?
Instead of driving around wanting to burn it down.
Right.
And that doesn't happen as much anymore.
No, because they want a handout.
Uh I it it's it's as yeah, but there's more I think they want punishment to be meted out against the successful as as much as they want to be uh compensated.
I I think it's it's it's reached uh uh it's one of the reasons why there's not unity and it's hard.
It's it's one of the reasons why Obama's had such ease in dividing people.
It's that uh people now who resent the successful want the successful punished as much as they want to be taken care of.
I I I know what you're saying about that, but yeah, you you're your your part and parcel of what you're saying is like you're talking about Trump.
You believe Trump's earned a success, nobody handed it to him.
That's why you respect it, and why they don't have any problem with it.
He worked hard for it, right?
Correct.
And everybody makes mistakes or everybody falls, and you lift yourself back up.
And that's what he has done.
To me, he's a known entity.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
He and he doesn't pretend.
There's nothing they can say about him that people don't already know.
That's exactly right.
Hillary can go out.
Do you know she mentioned his name in a foreign policy speech?
She mentioned Trump's name sixty-two times in that speech.
Do you think Trump's living rent-free in her head?
Sixty-two times.
The thing you're you're exactly right.
There's nothing there is no APO research that can come up with anything on Trump that people are either going to be affected by or don't already know.
Correct.
And he's sticking up for us.
He's saying what we think.
See, that's that's what they don't understand, Rebecca.
They don't understand the connection.
I've tried to explain it for six months or longer.
They don't understand the connection Trump supporters have with him.
They don't view Trump as an elitist, lording things over them, even when he brags about how rich he is.
They laugh at it.
Because he's laughing too.
Uh he doesn't come across as braggadoches.
Uh to me it's simple to understand, but there are people who are uh still obstinate in in choosing not to understand it and and making no effort to.
I appreciate the call.
I need to go, Rebecca.
I need to get as many people in here as I can since I'm gonna be out next week.
Mark in Los Angeles, you're next, and it's great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you for uh um thank you for the call uh taking the call, right?
Yes, sir.
Um I wan I want to uh punctuate a remark you made earlier in the show about the potential pushback that is going to occur based on what happened in San Jose the other day.
And I believe that the people that were behind it have made a very serious miscalculation on what they're uh trying to achieve.
So I want to stretch a historical analogy and uh make an observation.
Sure.
Historically in the in Weimar Germany, right after World War One, there was enormous street battles initiated by what they called the Red Fighters, which was the communist organization.
At first there was very serious, unorganized, but rather violent pushback.
This was like about 1919, 2021, when the uh communists tried to take over Munich and they're basically liquidated.
Then it occurred throughout the twenties of a little more organized called the Brownshirts.
And then basically the political ramifications were they lost the streets and they lost the Reichstag and they lost the country.
I believe that what they're trying to do by is they're trying to take over the streaks to intimidate the people that are interested in supporting and are supporters of Trump.
And here's where the miscalculation goes.
They lose both ways.
One, if there is pushback, it's not going to be necessarily as violent as it is.
It was in the twenties, but push back nonetheless, and they may not be prepared for that.
If there was no pushback, and uh that remains to be seen, then if the Trump supporters stand down, then the people that are trying to upset and control the streets will look extremely negative in the rest of the population in this country, and that this will have either way an enormous support for Trump.
That's you cannot go out there and burn the American flag and raise the Mexican flag and say America was never great and F bomb Trump and suc and secure support for Hillary Clinton.
You might be able to do some of that, but you're also gonna awaken a whole bunch of people who may even be ambivalent about Trump right now, but don't want to see that bunch anywhere near power in this country.
So in that sense, there is the pushback is gonna manifest itself in any number of ways.
What he's talking about here, folks, just bringing up speed.
In the first hour talking about the San Jose riots, I made the point that the Trump people haven't pushed back yet.
They come out, they are attacked on their way to their cars or on their way to uh uh cafe, restaurant, bar, whatever.
And these people burning the American flag and raising the Mexican flag and saying California, turn it back over to Mexico, uh F bombing Trump and this kind of stuff.
The Trump people just continue walking.
They get beat up, they haven't, they haven't pushed back yet.
And at some point they're going to.
And what's amazing about this is all these people trying to blame this on Trump.
They're trying to say that Trump's inspiring a Trump with his racist and hate-filled rhetoric, and meaning that the rioters are to be understood.
Why it's totally makes sense that these people would be out there burning the American flag.
Are you listening to Trump?
It makes sense that they would be raising the Mexican flag.
Have you listened to Trump?
So they're trying to lay it off on Trump.
That ain't gonna work.
It isn't gonna work.
And if the Trump people ever push back, then it it's gonna it's gonna be uh even worse than what it is now.
As of now, they haven't.
This is the big myth.
The Trump people aren't doing any of this.
Now, pushback can happen on the streets at the time the anti-Trump uh rioters begin their attack, or the pushback can come at a ballot box that nobody will see until election night.
But yeah, you're you're on something, Mark.
I appreciate that.
And we have another obscene profit break.
We'll take it right here, be right back.
Hey, folks, get this.
They ran a piece of paper here.
You've seen this the Democrats on the Federal Election Commission have voted to regulate political jokes.
They are going to sanction anybody that tells a political joke.
The Democrats on the Federal Election Commission vote to regulate political jokes over objections from their own staff.
Two top Democrats on the politically divided Federal Election Commission voted to investigate, investigate Huckabee for joking that he hoped supporters would shower him with million dollar contributions.
I'm telling you, one thing I've learned from college students that want to have sex a thousand times a month to whoever what you you they you can't tell jokes about them.
They do not laugh, they don't get it, they don't want to, they just they have no sense of humor whatsoever.
They can joke about you all day long.
They can mock, satirize you all day.
You can't tell a joke about them.
Gonna shut it down.
And now federal election.
So here's Ron.
Here's Huckabee out there.
He's on the camera.
Yeah, I would love for all of you to send me a million dollar donation.
That's gonna be made illegal.
What the Clintons are doing, nobody's even investigating.
Freedom of speech, anybody?
Thank you, folks.
Always a pleasure.
And again, a reminder, not here next week.
If the Republican primaries were still ongoing, things were undecided, I'd have canceled.
But since it's the Democrats, I know what's gonna happen.
Bernie Sanders may win the California primary.
The same night Hillary Clinton will be proclaimed the Democrat nominee.
I mean, there's no other way this can happen, other than superdelegates abandoning her if Crazy Bernie wins and going to Joe Biden.
We shall see.
It ain't gonna be crazy, Bernie.
It was never in the cards, they're not gonna permit it.
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