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June 24, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And there's all kinds of ways to look at what happened here, folks, and we're going to look at a lot of them.
We're going to look at a lot of the reasons why it happened.
We're going to look at the panic.
We're going to look at the reaction to the elites, seeing it all slip away.
We've got all kinds of stats and figures.
We got your phone calls.
It's Friday, so let's roll.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
51.9% of Great Britain voted to skip out of the European Union.
That's a bigger number than Americans voted for Obama.
And Obama went over there in April and lectured them not to do this.
It's been a bad couple of days for Barack Hussein, oh, the Supreme Court shafts him on immigration.
The um the British vote to leave the European Union.
And what else happened out there that's not great for Obama?
Oh, well, there are three things I can't remember them.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks, as we wrap up another week of broadcast excellence.
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First thing I want to try to, and my opinions here, um, using intelligence guided by experience.
If you turn on the drive-by media today, and it really doesn't matter, even if it's the non-drive-by media, the basic theme that you're going to see is panic, disbelief, doom and gloom.
Oh my God, how stupid are those people in Great Britain?
Do they know what they've done?
No, they can't possibly know what they've done, the idiots.
It's going to be portrayed as uh the beginnings of the world economic crisis and plunge, and none of that's accurate.
You know, they talk about stock market was going to start uh at minus 500 today, gonna be down 500.
Well, okay, let's see where it ends up today, as that's really going to be the important number.
And maybe even uh even not today.
Uh I just I I think it the the great thing that's going on here, the interesting thing is the realization that it's not just happening here in America, that people all over the world are rejecting whatever they think it is.
Now, some people are calling this a left-right split, you know, the right wing rising up and rejecting liberalism.
I don't think that's actually what this is in the uh in the UK.
I think I think more than anything, this is a uh it's it's about nationhood.
You know, everybody talking about how the how the British now are the it's the end of Great Britain, they can't survive economically.
Look at what they can't get out of the European Union.
People have forgotten.
The sun used to never set on the British Empire.
The British Empire ruled the world.
The idea that the British people are hopelessly lost now is another of these never-ending insults aimed at people who want to be self-reliant.
I think it's quite it's it's it's natural as it can be that people would reject cronyism, which is what the European Union is, which is what the United States government has become.
It has become cronyism and it's exclusionary.
It doesn't include everybody.
The old order that the middle class, we discussed this at length yesterday, used to trust and believe in is shot.
In the old standard uh uh philosophies of work hard and try to live the best life you can, and there will be a payoff at the end, less and fewer and fewer people trusted anymore, because to them the game is rigged and is being rigged by the elites and the people in power to benefit only at the expense of everybody else.
And the one issue that illustrates this better than any other is immigration.
People imbued with common sense cannot understand why.
Either in Great Britain or in Germany or in the United States, the people that run the show would want to leave the borders wide open and allow the nations to be flooded with people who are not going to end up advancing the nation.
They don't understand why the elites and the cronies would leave the borders wide open in such a way as to actually do damage to the nations where this is happening.
It's not racism.
It's not sexism.
It's not bigotry.
All of the things that the elites and their media cohorts are going to try to chalk this up to.
It's not about any of that.
It's about a desire to be self-reliant because they just don't trust the people who claim to have all the answers and solutions for all the problems.
They don't trust the elites anymore.
They don't trust the ruling class.
The ruling class has made a mess of pretty much everything.
And the middle classes in all of these countries have been very patient.
They have invested, they have voted for, and they have supported all of these efforts made by the elites.
They have believed what they have said.
They've believed that these trade deals, for example, were going to improve life, we're going to raise incomes.
They've been patient.
They've waited 20, 25 years for the elite's promises to materialize, and they haven't.
And not only have the promises not materialized, situations are deteriorating.
To the point that in this country you've had 94.7 million people not working.
In the European Union in places like France, you've got 14% unemployment.
But none of the pain and none of the so-called suffering, none of the obstacles seem to affect the ruling class.
None of the challenges, none of the problems seem to impair the elites in any way.
And it's taken a while, but people have finally figured out what Trump is talking about.
That things are rigged.
And even if they don't specifically understand it, they specifically understand it, even if they're not specifically able to point out situation by situation, it's inescapable by virtue of living your life, that there is a rigged game going on that you're not allowed to play.
So I I really think it's important here to be uh correct as we can in understanding why this happened.
And I would love to tell you that I think this is a bunch of uh people becoming conservatives overnight and rejecting liberalism.
And I really understand some of that clearly is uh involved here.
But I I think this uh a lot of it is simply I don't want to say populism, but it's certainly there's a lot of nationhood going on.
A lot of people who simply want their country to be great.
And isn't it amazing how that is now under attack?
People that desire a strong nation where they live, somehow that's a negative.
Somehow we must attack that.
We call it populism, we call it uh nationalism, and it's it's it's horrible.
Nationalism, what what how do you explain the British Empire?
How do you explain the United States becoming the world's lone superpower?
We didn't do it by joining some group, we didn't do it by having elites run the show.
That's uh that's not at all how we attain greatness, and this is what people are finally realizing.
There's nothing great in the EU.
France wants out.
Number of other nations want out.
Now, it's interestingly, uh, in Scotland, the vote in Scotland was to remain part of the EU.
But you know why?
Because the problems haven't reached that far north in the UK.
The immigration problems haven't reached that far north, and a number of other they simply haven't experienced the problems.
And I also think I'm not I'm not fully informed, I've spent as much time as I can on this, but I think Scotland is hugely dependent in a welfare sense on um uh on the UK and and wherever they can get it.
It's not to meant to be a slight.
I'm just trying to give you an accurate political and economic analysis of why people voted the way they did this talk here that Scotland may now vote to CC from the United Kingdom.
They're so upset about this.
But here's another thing to keep in mind, too.
It is going to be rough.
This is this is not a magic overnight solution where tomorrow is a brighter day.
This is the beginning of a process.
It's going to take two years.
And it's it's fraught with many, many pitfalls.
And I'm going to tell you to look out for this too.
From this point forward, anything that goes wrong, be it economic, be it cultural, I don't care what it is.
Anything that goes wrong, if there is a rise in the crime rate, if there is a if there is an increase in the murder rate, I don't care what it is, it's going to be blamed on this vote.
It will be blamed on the exit from the European Union.
What happens now is we have a two-year process where by or wherein Great Britain will disentangle itself from the European Union in Brussels.
There will be terms that have to be negotiated here.
And by the way, don't expect the elites to just sit by and let this happen.
This two-year process here, this disentangling process, is I'm sure the elites are going to look at it as plenty of opportunities to thwart this whole thing.
Many American companies that do business in the UK and use their business in the UK as the starting point or the entry point for business in the European Union at large are now going to have to decide what they want to do.
If they were doing business with the UK simply as an entree to the European Union at large, do they stay in the UK?
Do they abandon it and find some other launching pad, if you will, uh, for business and trade, what have you, within the uh European Union.
Uh you're going to have up and down stock markets, roiling uh markets, and the the doom and gloom, pessimists are going to be in full flower form.
They are going to be predicting the absolute worst.
They are going to guilt trip the people that voted to exit.
They're going to try to make it look like this is the worst thing that could ever happen, maybe the worst thing that has happened.
Already, Alan Greenspan is out there saying this is the worst calamity for the markets since 1987.
He thought he would never see it again, he says.
1987 is when the stock market lost 23% of its value in one day.
And he's saying this is the absolute worst that can happen.
In point of fact, the opportunity here is immense.
And the statement is powerful.
This is a nation of people rising up against the ruling class and the elites, and make no mistake about it, cronyism.
By cronyism I mean EU leaders in bed with each other and powerful forces within all the member countries to grease the skids for their own existence, to make sure they are protected and taken care of economically at the expense of everybody else.
It's exclusionary.
It's almost a caste system.
You have the upper class, and this is a big difference from the way it used to be.
Even in this country, and even in the Great Britain, even in the days of the aristocracy.
Certainly in the post-aristocracy days in Great Britain.
One thing, and it's true about this country as Well, the upper class or upper classes were not aloof from the other classes.
They socialized together.
They intermingled.
They intermarried.
They went in many cases to the same schools.
But in recent decades, the elites and the upper class, the rich, whatever you want to call them, both here and around the world, but particularly in the Western European socialist democracies, have drawn clear lines of demarcation that dare not be crossed.
The elites, the rich, the ruling class, have finally made no pretense about it.
They they act as though they're betters.
They treat everybody else as though they are lessers.
There are lines of demarcation.
There are no intermingling social activities.
They don't go to the same schools anymore.
They don't go to the same churches.
The upper class and the elites are now officially snooty, looking down their noses at everybody else, and it's reached a point now where people not in that august small group are not going to be take, they're not going to take being ignored and impugned and laughed at and used and lied to anymore.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
Now, if you want to toss in ideologies at this point and discuss, well, how much of this is liberalism, well, you could say that much of it is uh in terms of the attitudes and the arrogance and the condescension, that's clearly part and parcel of liberalism.
But I don't think the people that voted to leave the European Union did so on liberal conservative grounds.
I would love for it to be the case, but I and certainly may be an element of it, but there are other things that I think are a little bit more relevant than that.
And of course, it's openline Friday, so you're going to be able to weigh in on this.
Be interesting to see what you think about it.
We've got a lot to untangle and explain here.
We'll get started with all the rest of it right after this.
Welcome back, L. Rushball Cutting Edge, Societal Evolution.
Happy to have you here.
Another uh broadcast week coming to a exciting conclusion.
Make no mistake about it.
I mean, look at folks, the I'm I'm trying to uh explain the central thing that causes immigration, but the why is also fascinating to me because I think this is a teachable moment.
I think this this is uh this is truly, truly momentous, what has happened here.
And the elites know how momentous it is.
They are in abject panic today.
This is the kind of thing they think they are able to control.
This is precisely the kind of thing that their power and their cronyism in their minds is designed to stop an uprising of common people.
This is not supposed to happen.
And the central issue here is immigration.
Up until this flood of refugees and illegal immigrants from war-torn areas of the Middle East.
I if you want to pinpoint who's really to blame for this, because this is the result of an accumulating series of events.
Angela Merkel welcoming 800,000 illegal immigrants, military-aged males from war-torn Syria with the news that many of them were ISIS sleepers and so forth, and bragging about how she needed that many in order to rebuild the German labor force.
That opened everybody's eyes.
There were some on the fence about immigration.
Immigration is one of these issues that you can be easily guilted.
You can be guilt-tripped into supporting it.
All they have to, you somebody hears that you're opposed to it and they call you a name.
They call you a bigot or a xenophobe or a nationalist or a populist or a racist or what have you.
And it's designed to intimidate you into shutting up and not expressing your views On this.
And for the longest time, those practices worked, and they've worked in this country as well.
But there's always a tipping point.
Angela Merkel was the tipping point, and then that just illustrated Greece, it's a series of things.
But the central occurrence, the central seminal event is out of control immigration that benefits the elites somehow, and is an abject, inarguable detriment to the vast majority of the people who live and get up and go to work every day.
Same thing in this country.
The elites don't care.
They are not responsive to public opinion on this.
They instead want to force their own desires on everybody else.
And after a while, even the tolerant, even the absorptive, even the patient people of Great Britain had reached their boiling point.
And then all these other things that cumulatively occurred before this massive latest round of immigration began to have greater resonance, and we got what we got less today.
Welcome back.
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Let's go back to 1990, October 30th, 1990, in London, in Parliament.
And...
Margaret Thatcher, during a debate on rejecting a move toward a more closely united Europe.
Do you know what it was costing the UK every year to be a member of the European Union?
Let me get it real quickly here.
Was uh something to the tune of $18 million a year.
And to pay them $18 million a year for privilege of membership in the European Union.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm aware.
I've I've got I've even got some some stuff I printed out here show prep websites who think this has nothing to do with immigration.
I'm telling you it has everything to do with it.
There are other factors as well, like this accumulation of things.
I think the British people have been very patient.
I think the American people have been very patient.
And during this period of patience, of course, there has been an evolution.
More and more people have simply decided they like the idea of a gigantic centralized government managing and controlling everything.
But there you get into cronyism again.
You know, the one of the you know, competing is hard, folks.
Winning and losing, the prospect of losing, it's hard.
Competition has become a dirty word to the American left and the worldwide left.
And the reason is it's hard and it's not fair, and not everybody can do it, and they're gonna be losing and I'm not exaggerating at all.
So centralized governments that determine outcomes and attempt to distribute assets, the wealth of a nation, attempt to distribute all that fairly and equitably.
It never works because it is in utter defiance of human nature.
Human nature is what led to the United States of America, this yearning desire to be free, unfettered, the competitive spirit, it is the it's the it's the quickest route to wealth to success to excellence, the pursuit of excellence.
You turn everything over, you cede everything over to a central authority, command and control, which is there to limit the pain of losing.
And a lot of people decide that's a better investment than naked competition.
Naked competition, I might lose.
I I I might get the short end, I might be in pain, I might suffer economically and other ways.
So people sign up.
Plus, there's this corrupt, perverted now, almost worship of the whole concept of large centralized government.
Never mind the fact that it's never worked anywhere.
It still obviously ends up being sold successfully on the cum on the premise that, well, we just haven't had the right people do It yet, but if we ever get it done the right way with the right amount of money, it's going to lead to utopia.
It's immediately susceptible to young people.
And but it never works.
And the vote, the Brexit vote is the realization by it's a it's a 50, basically 5248 majority.
It's the oh, that's another thing.
Keep a sharp eye out for this.
There are people already saying, wait a minute, that vote's too close.
That that's a lot of people that don't want to leave.
We can't just randomly implement this thing because 48% of the people don't want to leave.
And this is always the way the elites do it.
They never lose.
They set things up to where they can never ever lose, appealing to people's emotions and fairness and this kind of thing.
But if you are of that opinion, I'd like to remind you of the famous words of our current president.
When uh in a meeting with the joint congressional leadership a couple of weeks after he was inaugurated in 2009, and he had made a big deal out of being open to all kinds of ideas.
If anybody had a great idea, he'd gonna listen to it.
So the Republicans in the House and the Senate went up and they had differing ideas on his stimulus plan.
His reaction was, well, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to do it.
I won.
Which means I got to do what I want.
So when they win, it doesn't matter how many people voted that disagreed.
When they lose, it does matter how many people were on the losing side.
And if it's close, then they try to essentially say we should wipe out the result.
Here's Margaret Thatcher.
Two bites warning her nation about turning British power to Europe.
The President of the Commission, Mr. Delor, said at press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community.
He wanted the Commission to be the executive, and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate.
No.
Very simply, here's the next one.
Perhaps the Labour Party would give all those things up easily.
Perhaps they would agree to a single currency to total abolition of the pound sterling.
Perhaps being totally incompetent with monetary matters, they'd be only too delighted to handle the full responsibility as they did to the IMF, to a central bank.
The fact is they have no competence on money, no competence on the economy.
So yes, the Vice Honorable Gentleman would be glad to hand it all over.
What is the point in trying to get elected to Parliament only to hand over your sterling and to hand over the powers of this house to Europe?
And we mentioned this quote of hers yesterday.
What's the point of even having a British Parliament if you are going to cede your own sovereignty to some gigantic European association?
And especially if you're ceding it to a bunch of incompetents who don't know what they're doing.
And that is patently obvious.
They don't know what they're doing.
They are guided by sleeves and emotion.
Whatever is uh on their sleeve, the emotion on their sleeve, they're guided by it.
I hear talk today about what a great trading block the European Union is.
That's in their dreams it's a great trading block.
That's what they were trying to do.
You know, here you want the European Union exists.
There are many reasons why.
And at the middle of all the reasons is the big one, and that is a desire on the part of giant elites for central power they control.
Secondary and tertiary reasons are it was thought by some that if all the nations of Europe would combine into one giant bloc for trade and other things, that they could compete more easily with the United States, which was of course 50 states, and with the ChICOMs, and with the Soviets, and with all the other larger nations.
It was thought that Italy had no chance, a Great Britain had no chance, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, no chance to compete individually.
But united European Union, why, we would be world powers on the economic stage.
And they thought, especially since United States and NATO provide our defense, we don't have to spend any money on that.
We can do wonderful things and become a major, major trading partner, but they didn't know what they're doing, and they don't know what they're doing.
Margaret Thatcher was right back in 1990.
But this is how long it takes for realizations to occur.
They grab a quick phone call here.
We try to get them into the first hour on open line Friday.
Who's up first?
Coronado, California.
Bob, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you here, hi.
Oh, thanks.
Uh elections have consequences, ditto, Rush.
Um there's my comment.
Um you mentioned that following the Brexit vote, if anything bad happens financially or whatever, um, it will be attributed to be due to the Brexit vote.
And I thought you were going to say something somewhat different, but I think it's just taking it one step farther.
If there is turmoil in the financial markets that's ongoing, and there's perceived to be um just bad outcomes.
I think you'll see people start to say this is what we'll have with Donald Trump.
Xenophobic, anti uh Muslim, so forth, perhaps what in the way that Britain implemented theirs, they're gonna say, see, we don't want this to happen with Trump.
And I was just curious to see what your thoughts are on that.
Well, I I think they're gonna I think they're gonna blame as much as they can on Trump anyway.
I think you're right.
My my my point was not to exclude Trump, but I was speaking within the confines of this specific event, the Brexit vote.
The opponents are gonna blame everything that happens on the vote.
This and they're and they're gonna have the media with them for the most part.
And I it's gonna be a great thing to watch, lesson wise.
You know, I've I've I've tried to make the point here that winning an election is not going to change in it.
The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election.
And then it's not just one election, you have to keep winning elections, you have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.
This is this is one vote, but they've got two years now, and there's a lot can happen in these two years.
The elites can do a lot to gum up the works in these next two years, and then have it all blamed on the vote.
All blamed on the attitude to separate from the European Union.
Now, I have no since immigration is central in this, there's no question uh that that uh Democrats here are gonna try to blame uh similar things on on Trump.
But they don't under Trump Trump is is a is a different um ball of wax.
I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump.
Because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a candidate that's very popular.
Reagan had the connection.
Uh but but you take take some of the most popular presidents we've had in recent Kennedy, JFK had the connection.
LBJ didn't, even though he won an massive landslide.
And I'm talking about with his Clinton had it for a host of Hillary doesn't.
Hillary Clinton, no matter what.
Do you know what she did yesterday?
She was reading her response to Trump on the teleprompter.
And the teleprompter had the word sigh in parentheses, meaning she was supposed to sigh.
She read the word.
She she she read the word, not realizing, I don't obviously they didn't even rehearse it.
But she read the word.
It was in parentheses, and it was meant to tell her sigh after this one.
She read the word.
She does not have this connection.
So these people that think that they can take something, even even Trump today.
With what happened.
Trump's happened to be in Scotland on the very day, the morning after the Brexit vote.
He's there to open his golf course in Turnberry.
And lo and behold, the first thing he talked about was not the Brexit vote.
He talked about his golf course.
Now damn good it is.
He pointed to the lighthouse behind it.
You know what?
I've even built suites in the White House.
Nobody else has suites in lighthouses.
But I have suites in the Lighthouse.
And the media says, how in the world can you do this?
You're here.
You're in Great Britain.
You're in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you're talking about your golf course?
Trump says, yeah, and you know what?
The falling pound is even going to help my business here.
And they're saying, you can't do that.
You can't in the midst of calamity talk about how it all benefits you.
Trump says, why not?
It will.
It's not just going to benefit me, it's going to benefit other gr businesses here in the U.K. It's going to help tourism.
It's going to help exports.
And then he got on to what it means.
He supported the people taking their country back, exactly what he's talking about doing here.
But they try to attach these standard political theories and and and playbook procedures to it just does not.
Oh, yeah, the polling data was all wrong.
The polling data had the had had to leave people losing.
This is another thing that's got them out of whack over there today.
I mean, all these institutions, they think they control the elites.
They seem less and less solid, less and less dependable.
There's a lot of head scratching going.
Okay, El Rushboat talent on lawn from God.
Why do I think the polls were wrong?
People were lying to the pollsters.
It was the Brexit effect.
I think there's a Trump effect, too.
I think people are lying to the polsters about Trump.
A story on the on the Brexit vote from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
You familiar with the von Mises Institute.
It's a real place, a bunch of libertarians.
You thought the Ludwig von Mises.
What do you mean, Joe?
You thought it was like an onion site?
No, no, no, no.
The von Mises.
Ludwig von Mises was a was a seminal character in uh in economics.
I've had my ups and downs with these people over the course of the many years of this program, but I just want to read to you an excerpt from a piece that ran on their website, Mises.org, and it's not M-E-E-S-E-S.
Uh it's M-I-S-E-S.
People mispronounce it Lugwid von Misus, but it's von Mises.
You have to know foreign dialect and language to understand that.
Here's the here's the pull quote paragraph.
Ultimately, Brexit is not.
These are libertarians, for the most part.
Ultimately, Brexit is not a referendum on trade.
It is not a referendum on immigration.
It is not a referendum on the technical rules promulgated by the awful European Parliament.
What it is is a referendum on nationhood, which is a step away from globalism and closer to individual self-determination.
Libertarians should view the decentralization and the devolution of state power as ever and always a good thing, regardless of the motivations behind such movements.
Reducing the size and the scope of any single or multinational state dominion is decidedly healthy for liberty.
Now, very little to quibble with in that philosophical sense, but I disagree with them when they when they say that Brexit is not a referendum on trader immigration or on even the technical rules promulgated by the.
I think there are a lot of things, as I say, that that were having cumulative effect on the but it was it's this massive open border policy that brought the whole thing down that awoke everybody.
Uh in uh not just in the in the UK either.
I mean, this is a sentiment, you know, leaving the European Union is uh is something effervescing throughout many nations that are members.
But they're right about the nationhood aspect of this.
And isn't it, I'm gonna have more on this as the program unfolds, but isn't it fascinating to watch most of the media and most of the leftists decry the whole concept of nationhood, criticize and rip the whole notion that people should even think as members of nations.
That's just so yesterday.
And it isn't by any.
We have to take a brief time out here at the uh the top of the hour.
More on Trump and his uh appearance at Turnbury in Scotland, opening his new golf course on the very day of the results coming from the Brexit vote.
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