Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in and honoured to be here.
Rush is taking a well-deserved break but it's always a thrill for me.
It's always a thrill for me when I get to be behind the golden EIB microphone.
A great honor for a foreigner and I hope when Trump builds his wall on the southern border and one on the northern border and he talks about that big beautiful door he's going to have in the middle of it that one of those doors will have my name on it and I'll get to come still get to come here.
The US says a Chinese fighter made an unsafe intercept of a spy plane yesterday.
This was in international airspace over the East China Sea, the U.S. Pacific Command said, as China again demanded an end to U.S. surveillance flights.
Since the end of the Second World War, the Pacific Ocean has generally been an American lake in the way that until the 1960s the Indian Ocean was a British lake.
The Chinese are contesting that.
They're getting more and more brazen, as indeed are some of the Russian military as they buzz and harass NATO forces up in northern Europe.
So this is the world that one of these two presidents is going to inherit next January, where the Chinese are getting more and more brazen.
An unsafe intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet happened over the East China Sea yesterday.
And the question is, you know, Obama isn't going to do anything about that.
So the next time around, they're going to be even more brazen.
And one of these days, something's going to happen, and some guys are going to die, and there will be a big international incident.
But there's a lot of what's going on at the moment is that everyone, the Mullers, the Russians, the Chinese, have spent this period probing and testing American will.
And they've reached their conclusions on it.
And I would imagine they would not have much trouble getting the run of the planet under a Hillary Clinton regime if she's taking the oath of office next January.
There's one thing people say about Trump that is like the disqualifier about her.
And something is like, something is obviously happening here because essentially the Republican elite, the Republican commentariat, the Republican intellectual class is detaching itself from the bulk of the party.
From the party, in fact, because these guys don't appear to represent anybody, which is why they're having difficulty finding anybody to run as president.
And Mike Petemra, for example, who's an editor at National Review, revealed late, I think it was on Tuesday, that he'd voted for Hillary Clinton in the California primary.
William F. Buckley's National Review.
I went to the 50th anniversary birthday party of National Review, and Rush was there too.
Rush was sitting next to Bill Buckley right at the top table at that 50th birthday party in Washington.
And Mike Petemra, an editor at National Review, has voted for Hillary Clinton in the California primary.
Jay Nordlinger, an even more senior editor at National Review, has revealed that he's quit the Republican Party over the nomination of Trump.
I said in the first hour that I thought Trump was not the action, but the reaction.
The reaction to what the Republican establishment has done.
But I think it's bigger than that.
The rap on Trump is that he's a bully.
I mean, let's go, let's walk it back a bit.
Let's start with the most basic thing, that he's the new Hitler.
No, he's not.
He's not Hitler.
And if you call him the new Hitler, and if you're talking about fascism, you're insulting millions and millions of people around the world who know what real fascism and real Hitler looks like, including my mum.
My mum didn't have a childhood because she grew up in Sintnerklas in Belgium under Nazi occupation.
And the only reason I'm here is because her town happened to be liberated by the Royal Canadian Artillery.
So after the war, her parents thought they'd moved to Canada.
But she knows she didn't get a childhood because the Nazis ran the town.
And that's what her childhood memories were like.
Her memories were of SS officers in the streets.
So it's stupid to compare Trump.
Trump is a guy who has a reality show and he owns some casinos and he likes beautiful women.
He's Berlusconi.
He's not Mussolini.
He's Berlusconi.
He's not Mussolini.
So take a deep breath and mothball the Hitler comparison for the, hopefully, for an occasion when you'll actually need it, which, if you're lucky, is not going to be.
So mothball the Hitler talk.
Whatever he is, he's not Hitler.
Is he a bully?
That's the thing.
Oh, Trump is a bully, narcissistic bully, vain bully, vain bully.
Well, I mentioned this little story just before the break about a boy who identifies as a female and therefore became the high school girls track champion of Alaska just the other day.
And this story is from Pajamas Media.
High school girls in Alaska do not appreciate losing track and field events to a biological male, even if he identifies as a girl.
This year was the first time in the state's history that a male athlete competed in the girls' state championships, and not everyone is celebrating the transgender milestone.
Haynes High School Senior Nataphon Wangyot competed at the state championships in late May, running the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and competed in girls' volleyball and basketball in the fall.
So these girls, now, this guy, this girl, Nataphon Wangyot, identifies as a girl, but has still got his full meat and two veg down there.
So in other words, the girls' track champion in Alaska is someone with male genitalia.
And we are told, and by the way, my youngest boy is very mad about this.
He had to go to his lousy school commencement thing.
And he was, the principal got up and made the girls' track team, who just won the big championship, he made the girls' track team stand up and take a bow.
And my son was furious because he came faster than any of those girls.
But because he was racing with boys, he only came fourth.
So if he'd been racing in the girls' team, he would be the state track champion.
He would be in the New England finals because of the physiognomy, boys run faster than girls.
But if you're a boy who decides to identify as a girl, even if you've got all your male genitalia, they now let you run around the track.
What was the point of feminism?
What was the point of feminism?
Glamour magazine made Caitlyn Jenner woman of the year, even though she's got a penis.
If you'd said if you'd said to these these if you'd said to the first generation of feminists in the 1960s, you enjoy it while you can, you little gals, because we got a real surprise cupboard for you around about the beginning of the 21st century.
Oh, sure, you can write all your plays, the vagina monologues and all the rest.
Enjoy it while you can, baby, because the patriarchy is going to reassert itself in a way you can't imagine.
Dennis Miller was on television the other day, and he said, I had no idea about this.
Jessica Lang, Jessica Lang, great film star, great screen siren.
She was in the remake of King Kong, and I believe she, a little bit of topless scene there.
She's a great pin-up, great beauty.
She went into Starbucks the other morning, and the guy said, Has anyone ever told you that you look like Caitlin Jeddah?
Right, this is Jessica Lang, and she's being compared to a 67-year-old woman with a penis.
And Jessica Lang says, oh, that's awfully nice of you.
I'm so flattered.
Oh, do tell.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You've made my day.
I look like a 67-year-old guy with a penis.
You flatterer.
Can I have your phone?
Oh, I shouldn't say this.
Don't give me your phone number.
This is the world that we now live in.
So the transgender female, Wang Yacht, Wang Yacht, wins the Alaskan track.
And everybody is supposed to celebrate this, and everybody is to think it's perfectly normal.
This is totalitarian.
This is how the communist societies were.
They told obvious lies.
You know, when the Soviet Union used to have all its five-year plans, and they used to tell you that the harvest was more spectacular than ever, and then you went to the Moscow supermarket where every checkout line was for nine items or less, and there was nothing, nothing, nothing on the shelves,
and they didn't care that the lies were totally obvious because the point was to make you submit to the lie, to make you live with the lie, to make you live with the lie.
And that's what this story about this Alaskan track event is.
Now, there's, you know, there's situations where somebody starts transitioning and they go the full way and they have all their body parts rearranged and turned inside out and all the rest of it.
This person hasn't done that.
This person is basically has the physiognomy of a male and has chosen to run as a girl and is therefore winning all the races.
And that is the official lie.
And we are being bullied.
America is being bullied.
And that's why it's not about bathrooms or anything like that.
It's not about bathrooms.
was about bathrooms people would work it out from town to town business to business it's about making you live with that's what's totalitarian about it It's about what's making you live with the lie.
And that's the bullying.
That's the real bullying.
Is Trump a bully?
Is Trump a bully compared to bakeries that get hounded because they don't want to make a gay wedding cake?
They get fined $100,000 over a wedding cake when there's four dozen other bakers in the phone book.
That's the bullying.
That's the bullying.
The idea that things that were unknown to human history until 20 minutes ago are now suddenly the law of the land that you cannot question.
That is totalitarian.
And in this case, it's particular nonsense.
Nobody says you don't even have to be on hormone treatment now.
You don't have to do anything except just identify as a person of the other gender.
And it's about making – it's exactly the same thing that's happened in totalitarian societies.
They don't care.
It doesn't matter if the lie is an offense against reality, is an obvious absurdity.
The point, that makes it even better, because the point is to make you prostate, prostrate before the lie.
And that's the real bullying.
And compared to that, Trump's a pussycat.
Trump's a pussycat.
What does he bully about?
He calls some ABC reporter a sleaze.
Big deal.
Big deal.
He's not telling you that the guy with the penis is the Alaskan ladies' track champion.
Which is the more bullying?
And actually, which tells you more about where society is headed?
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Let's go to Nathan in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Nation, your Nathan.
Nation.
Nation shall talk unto nation.
Nathan, great to have you with us.
Good to be here, man.
Hey, I just wanted to make some predictions about what's next.
You said it earlier in your segment.
Okay.
Hillary Clinton is pretty much going to be ruined if that doesn't happen.
And I don't mean going to jail or anything.
I think she'll get away with whatever.
But the fact of the matter is, the public knows about it now.
Now they don't trust her.
Even some of the Democrats don't trust her.
The only thing that's going to save her or redeem her, as far as that's concerned, is if Bernie Sanders runs underneath her, which I doubt he will do, because the Sanders fans, if they think that the Republicans are distraught and whatever, the Democrats are much worse off than the Republicans could ever be.
As far as Donald Trump, if he could just keep his mouth shut, he's got it.
You know what I mean?
It's all downhill from here.
You basically feel it's Trump's to lose then just because Hillary has got so much stuff that has attached to her that is malodorous and she has to explain.
And even if she's not prosecuted by the Justice Department, the fact is it's all out there and it's all sticking to her.
Yeah, it is.
And you know what?
There's a lot of Sanders fans.
I know I have some liberal friends.
I know I shouldn't, but I do.
And they're all Sanders supporters.
And they're telling me, look, we're not voting for Hillary Clinton, especially since she stole it, is how they view it from Sanders.
They're going to vote either not, they're not going to show up, or they're going to vote for Trump.
And there's some of them that will vote for Trump.
And it's just, to me, Hillary Clinton doesn't have what it takes.
I think, honestly, I think she's a cancer.
And I think that the cancer is going to come out in her.
And I don't think her health is going to be so good in the upcoming months.
Do you know what I mean?
Well, it is interesting to me that she doesn't appear to campaign as a healthy person.
She has good moments and bad.
It's all very it it is alleams.
It's also yeah, it's all very variable.
I don't know and and again, I don't think she's actually in control of herself a lot.
That's what was interesting about last night's speech, where she was actually talking in a kind of moderate voice without doing the whole screechy screech thing.
Well, thank God.
You know what I mean?
Thank God.
Yeah, no, no.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The thing is, she is a charmless stiff.
And wherever she campaigns, people, there's a certain type.
You mentioned Diane Ream, who's the morning host on NPR.
And that's basically who likes Hillary.
It's like if you're women in your upscale women in their 60s and up who earn over $200,000 a year, Hillary is your dream candidate.
And she's nobody else's dream candidate.
And certainly not all these rampaging snowflakes who are hunting down Associated Press reporters, the Bernie supporters, the hardcore, the paramilitary wing of the Snowflake Party.
They got no use for Hillary at all, Nathan.
I know.
Hey, can I make one more comment?
Yeah, certainly.
Donald Trump's comment about the judge was not a racist comment.
It was a political comment.
Yep, absolutely.
He's not the most articulate person in the world, but it was 100% political, not racist.
And as soon as I heard him say that, I knew exactly what he meant.
Right, right.
So, I mean, he has no worries about losing any of his supporters.
I don't agree with everything.
No, no, no.
No, no, it means nothing, Nathan.
And you're absolutely right.
I'm glad you brought that up because I meant to mention it.
It's very important, this.
It's going nowhere.
And the idiots in the Beltway and on the news shows can talk about it for another two weeks if they want.
But nobody else cares about it because people understand what it means.
There's a difference between saying, oh, all white judges are racist and saying, oh, I didn't think this judge liked me because he was white.
I didn't think this particular judge liked me.
We live in a racially charged judicial system.
This is a very highly politicized system as well, which is not what judges are supposed to be.
Paul Mirsky has a great piece on this.
He's someone who was on the New Hampshire's Judicial Conduct Committee.
He's a state representative down in Concord, New Hampshire.
And the most important obligation of any judge, he says, is to see that the court remains impartial through its proceedings.
And we have fewer and fewer judges like that in this country because we have all these activist judges who are members of organizations that judges should not be members of.
There's the famous statue of justice holding the scales of justice equally.
Justice is blind.
Justice isn't supposed to see what skin color you are.
Justice isn't supposed to know whether you're black or Hispanic or transgendered or anything else.
And we now live in a country of hyper-activist judges who are highly politicized and belong to political organizations that it is not appropriate for judges of any kind to belong to.
And this idea that somehow it's okay to say, well, as a wise Latina, I'll be better than a white man, supposedly that's okay.
But it's not okay to say, well, I don't know whether the judge is biased against me because she's a wise Latina.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, it's great to be with you.
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You know, one of the interesting things about none of us know, none of us know where this election is going to go.
And it makes – you know, if you go back and you look at what people were saying back in the fall and everything, it's – you would have – it's almost as if there's no point actually analyzing what's going to happen now because who knows what will happen next.
There is a real issue here though and that is that there are people who feel that they don't have – basically the argument of Bill Kristol is that the Republican Party needs to take a kind of four-year timeout to – it's got this Trump fever.
And if it just takes a four-year timeout and you strap it down in the sanatorium and surround it with nurses and you put the Republican Party in a white coat, the fever will pass.
And 2020, the ship will right itself and the country will elect Ben Sasse as a great Republican president.
And then there's people who feel we don't have four years.
The most interesting thing that Trump has said, or the most revealing thing that Trump has said, is that he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.
You recall that this was the big rap against Obama shortly after he took office.
He was asked somewhere whether he believed in American exceptionalism.
And he said, sure.
He said, I believe in American exceptionalism just like the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism and the Brits believe in Brit exceptionalism, which means it's like whatever they said in that film in The Incredibles.
When everybody's special, nobody's special.
When everybody's exceptional, nobody's exceptional.
And Trump offered a modified version of that same argument that he said he didn't think he didn't want to go.
He didn't like the phrase American exceptionalism.
He said, we owed $18 trillion.
He said this, I think, last year.
We owed $18 trillion.
It's 19 now.
So we were exceptional in that sense, and that we're the brokey, broke, brokest nation in the history of brokenness.
Nobody has ever been this broke.
But he said he didn't like the phrase.
And this is what makes it so hard for philosophical conservatives, philosophical American conservatives to swallow Trump.
Because it's not enough that he is not one of them.
He has to remind them that he's not one of them every time he opens his mouth.
And there's two approaches to it.
The approach is to say never Trump.
The approach is to vote for Hillary Clinton, like this National Review editor did yesterday.
The approach is to leave the party as another National Review editor did.
Approach is to hole up at somebody's yuppie, play farm of a Romney Bundler in Woodstock Vermont and brood about whether you should jump into the race, as another National Review writer did for a week last week in Woodstock Vermont.
Uh, and then there's but.
But in the end, you know, we the it is not going to resonate with the majority of ordinary American voters going to the polls, who will be faced with the choice between Clinton or Trump.
People feel here they're losing their country.
Let's go back to the first call we had today, Debbie.
And Debbie said that in the end, everything, illegal immigration, is at the heart of everything.
When you open up your borders to say whoever can get here can be here.
And they had an, I think it was Megan Kelly who was doing some show from San Diego live with an audience.
And she had somebody say, oh, well, this is the story of America.
We're all immigrants.
We all come from somewhere else.
So basically, she's saying that there's 7 billion people on the planet, and if you can get here, you can stay here.
And when you put it in those terms, it sounds insane.
But the head of Davos said he thought that 1 billion people, 1 billion people, were ready to move to Europe.
There's like 500 million people in Europe, and he thought there were 1 billion people from the developing world who were ready to descend on Europe in the next few years.
And at that point, there's no Europe because it's two to one.
The one billion people outnumber the 500 million people.
Now, what we have here in the case of unlimited illegal immigration is that the Republican establishment doesn't care enough to do anything about it.
Paul Ryan is basically takes the Jack Kemp view of this.
Paul Ryan has a sentimental view of it.
That no matter the numbers, everybody can be turned into an American.
You go to the schoolhouses of America.
There's no assimilation.
You read every day of the week that people are told, oh, you can't wear your American flag shirt on your t-shirt when you come to school because it's offensive now to all the other people from different backgrounds who can't relate to that thing with the stars and stripes on it.
So what do they got to assimilate with?
What are they assimilating to?
How you can't assimilate with nothing.
And if you're told that the flag, the flag of the nation, is offensive to people from other cultures.
Well, you know, they should have thought about that before they came here.
Because actually, when they came in, there's a big line, that big line in the sand that they came scrabbling over has got like those flags posted on big polls up there.
So if it was that offensive, they could have turned around then.
They could have looked across the Rio Grande and said, I'm heading north.
Oh, wait a minute, they got that wacky.
What's that thing with the stars and the stroll?
I don't want to go there.
They could have turned around there and then.
But so we don't have assimilation in the schools.
We have increasing indulgence of a bilingual mentality.
I say this, I come from a bilingual country.
Everybody knows that there are actually very few bilingual countries.
What you have is two unilingual countries occupying the same space.
That's what you have in Canada.
You have English Canada, you have French Canada, and a tiny little elite that speak both languages and run everything.
That's the same in Belgium.
In Belgium, you have French speakers and you have Flemish Dutch speakers and a tiny little capital where the elite run everything.
There's very few bilingual societies.
And you know that.
When you go to Dunkin' Donuts, it's hard enough to find anybody who can speak even one language without the idea that they're going to ever be fluent in two languages.
But somehow every school district, every schoolhouse now has to grapple with this idea of English as a second language.
This is Debbie's point, that the problems with the schooling, the collapse of the school system, the problem with the hospital emergency rooms that have turned into the de facto family doctor for vast numbers of illegal aliens that collapsed the California healthcare system.
The lack of economic opportunity, The lack of economic opportunity.
And this idea that this globalism, the view of Jeff Bezos, I was looking at a business story today.
Jeff Bezos from Amazon has basically invested $3 billion in something to do with India.
Amazon's going to be the biggest company in America, I think, within a couple of years.
And that's great for him.
That's great for him.
But at the local level, you know, think globally, act locally.
And the more the elites think globally, the less and less people at the bottom of the heap find there's any way they can act locally.
And the view of Jeff Bezos and Co.
is that if the smart people who design the smartphones and the little trinkets can make these trinkets available to everybody, then the vast mass of people can be given welfare and they can be given little cell phones that they can play Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber on and they'll be happy.
They'll be bored stiff.
They won't be leading productive lives.
They'll get hooked on heroin and all the rest of it.
But if we just give them big enough welfare checks, then the fact that they don't have anything to do to lead lives, responsible lives of dignity, will not matter.
And what this election is coming down to in and there's similar phenomena in Europe is the conflict between this globalist vision, the borderless world of John Kerry, where John Kerry flies around, John Kerry is a yacht, John Kerry is a private plane.
The borderless world is a reality for him and works great for him.
And for those on the receiving end in the broken down parts of the Western world, it just means that your job is given to somebody, your $30 an hour job is given to somebody else, and you have to make do with a minimum wage job working the night shift at the quickie crap.
And that's the reality of that's the dynamic that fueled both the Sanders side of this and the Trump side of this for the last 12 months.
And unless they address that, unless Bill Crystal and these other people address that, unless they actually sit down and seriously address it, none of these other plans are going anywhere.
It's just generals without armies.
They're playing a board game and thinking that their little counters as they move around the board actually represent millions of votes.
They don't.
And that's why it's going nowhere.
Mark, sign for Rush.
We'll take your calls in a moment.
Hey, let's go to Robert in beautiful Orange County, California.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show, Robert.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mr. Spine.
You know, I just, first-time caller, a little bit nervous, but I'll try to get through here.
You know, a lot of people might think of this open border in a different way and how ridiculous it is because we close our borders at home every day.
Windows, doors, the trunks of our cars, the doors of our cars, just because we want to keep people out.
And it isn't a racist thing.
It's just understanding that there are people in the world that shouldn't be trusted, and that's why we do that.
And it goes beyond that as well.
Our pin codes for our ATM machines and our personal computers and all of that stuff.
They're all borders, whether they're obvious to people or not.
It's designed for security, and that's all it should be about.
And if you can get that through to people, they might change their ideas of thinking it's a racist thing, and it's not.
It's just simply that we have to understand that we can't trust some people in the world.
And that's just my view of things, I guess.
Well, it's also, as you say, when you talk about your ATM number and the rest of it, it's also about personal sovereignty, Robert.
And as you say, the people, it's interesting to me, the people who do all this utopian pap about a borderless world.
You know, John Kerry doesn't live in a borderless house.
If I show up in his conservatory and slide into the seat next to Teresa and order a nice pot of tea, she'll call the butler to throw me out.
They have borders in their own lives, Robert.
And you make an excellent point because it starts with your life, your house, your yard, the fence around your yard, even if it's like a decorative one, like a picket one, it represents something real.
Borders give you choices.
And in that sense, borders give you freedom.
If you don't like the grade school in your town, you move 10 miles up the road to the next school district.
If you don't like the property taxes in your county, you move 20 miles up the road to another county.
And that goes for state lines.
And ultimately, it goes for nations, too.
Can imagine if there were a borderless world, what the tax rate would be.
In other words, if there were no Cayman Islands and there were no Ireland with a 12% corporate tax rate, you can imagine what the tax rate would be if there was a borderless world, Robert.
And that's why borders give you choices, as the abortion ladies like to say, I'm pro-choice and I vote.
And when you have borders, borders give you choices, and I'm pro-choice and I vote with my feet.
And the minute you have, as we've seen with the transgendered bathroom thing, the minute you have a national toilet commissar passing toilet laws from Maine to Hawaii, your freedom shrinks.
So you're right, Robert.
It starts with your yard.
It starts with your house.
It starts with your car.
It starts every time you close a window at night.
You're setting your space.
And a nation, the nation which is the organizing unit that has enabled the greatest prosperity in human history, the nation-state, sets its own space, delineates its own limits.
And when John Kerry, when these nuts like John Kerry want to dissolve that, they're condemning us to an ugly, vicious, violent, and brutal future.
Mark signed for Rush.
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