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July 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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What, Peter Thiel?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I like Peter Thiel.
I know Peter Thiel.
Yeah, yeah, I got into a sort of an in-depth conversation with Peter Thial and Conrad Black about China a few years ago.
I got a little ticked off at it, in fact.
I told him so.
But yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if I'm going to have time to get the deal today and what he said the speech last night, but, but yeah, I'm aware.
Sure.
He's a PayPal co-founder as I'm sure you know.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Now I kind of have to get to it, don't I?
But really, there are other things.
But there's always, if I don't get to it today, there's always Monday.
This stuff isn't going away.
I know.
I know there's going to be more stuff.
I guarantee you, the drive-bys are in panic when they see a total of 75% of people that watch Trump's speech liked it.
It's a combination of approve and somewhat approve.
It's 75%, and they're having a cow on CNN and everywhere else about it, so much so that they're now not even talking about it.
We have a mass shooting underway in Munich, Germany, and we don't even know how many people have been killed yet.
The authorities can't find the shooters.
It's a mall with 135 stores.
German TV is saying several people are dead and wounded in a shooting spree, and that's all that's known.
They haven't been able to get anywhere and actually count the dead.
And of course, this, I'm sorry, this is not, I refuse to accept this as the new norm that we just have to put up with this.
Or, well, it's Germany.
Russia doesn't affect us here.
Folks, not true anymore.
It ought to bother us just as it represents the state of the human condition for crying out loud.
We're in the midst of a gigantic deterioration, and very few people have the courage or ability to stand up to it.
It's just amazing.
But I know why.
By the way, welcome back, Openline Friday.
Final hour here at 800-282-2882.
Let me stay on this global warming business thing for a little while, but not the way you're used to hear me talking about it, because I know you know everything I've said about that.
I've talked about that enough that you remember that.
But it's different here.
In the context of millennials, and let's now expand this to this phenomenon on college campus that, frankly, you and I, when we look at it, we're perplexed and we just want to laugh at this need, this concept of safe spaces where kids need protection from words that make them uncomfortable.
I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear it.
They cover their ears and they demand the university construct or denote safe space where they don't have to hear anything.
It makes them nervous and it makes them uncomfortable.
We're looking at this.
What the hell is this?
And why are we accommodating it?
We've even got a name for this kind of student.
It's called Innocent Snowflake or some such snowflake.
And they're all over the place.
And they appear to be dominating and running college campuses from the Ivy League all the way west of the Mississippi.
So what in the world is going on?
Well, you'll find the answer if you have the patience to dig deep into how the left has sold global warming.
And again, I'm bouncing off Hillary Clinton's complaint that Trump's speech last night was dark and foreboding and filled with nothing but anger and hate and fear.
And my friends, I'm here to tell you that we cannot even compete with the Democrats when it comes to scaring people.
It is their stock in trade.
It is in their how-to manual to acquire power.
They frighten their own voters and as many people in this country as often as they can.
And they ratchet it down.
They double down.
They triple down on it.
Irrationally so.
If you have a millennial child, you probably are familiar with their almost Paranoid concern with the concept of sustainability.
And their need or their paranoia of sustainability derives from what they've been told about global warming.
And remember now, they've been told this from the most impressionable years of their lives.
Age three, four, five, pre-K, kindergarten, they haven't escaped it.
It's in every class that's taught.
It's in every movie they've watched.
It's in every song they listen to.
It's in every book or whatever they read.
They can't escape that their parents and grandparents and even great-great-grandparents destroyed the planet or set up the process of destroying the planet.
And that's the use of fossil fuels.
Why are these electric vehicle gurus so heralded?
Why are they such heroes?
These guys that haven't really done anything but put a battery in a car are considered the future.
They're brilliant.
These guys are their heroes.
And they can't even do it on their own.
They have to use government grants or contributions or donations to build their businesses because the market for this stuff is still so tiny.
But yet these are their heroes because they really have been told and they believe it that there isn't going to be an inhabitable planet before they die.
They believe all of this.
Every lie that has been told about climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, temperature increases that are not possible for humanity to deal with.
They have bought it.
They couldn't help but buy it, particularly if they don't have parents at home who can refute it because they're pummeled with it.
And it has made them scared to death.
You talk about using fear?
Why, we can't even hold a candle to the Democrat Party and their leftist interest groups on this.
And the whole thing, this is the kicker, is a hoax.
The world is not even warming.
And it hasn't for the last 18 years.
But the fear is so deeply ingrained, they can't afford not to believe it.
So even if it isn't warming, they believe cockamamie lies constructed to explain it.
Such that, well, the ocean's really swallowed a lot more of the heat than our models predicted.
Oh, that's why, but it's still there.
Yes, it's still there.
It's still going to kill us.
Yes, it's still going to kill you.
It's a hoax.
It's a total hoax.
And when they hear me say it, they think I'm a lunatic.
They think that I have the biggest closed-minded whatever because it's in their world.
I'm talking about the young people of millennials that believe it.
And not all of them do, but the ones who do are like every other leftist.
They run media, they run blogs, they're at entertainment, they have the ability to use mass media to expand on their beliefs.
And that's why there's such fear on college campus.
They've been, their whole lives, they have been raised with the idea that countless forces arrayed against them are destroying the very infrastructure needed to save and produce life.
They're not liberal.
They're not conservative.
They just, they're pessimistic.
But anybody that comes along that doesn't want to deal with climate change is not going to get their support.
Anybody that comes along and doesn't acknowledge the threat, doesn't acknowledge the danger.
And look how successful the use of fear by the Democrat Party and the left has been on this.
It's gone way beyond global warming and climate change.
Now, now it's gotten to the point where on college campus, these little flowers, these little wallflower, whatever, what's the name I used a minute ago?
What's the they need protection from words that make them nervous?
Snowflakes, isn't it?
They're running around literally afraid to breathe because there's CO2, and that's a destroyer.
CO2, you know, that's a climate change gas.
That's a greenhouse gas.
I said, we've got to be careful how we even breathe.
So I just, there's a lot to explain this.
So they're going to watch a guy like Trump last night, and they're going to go one of two ways.
They're going to, oh, my God, this guy doesn't get it.
He's going to destroy us.
This guy is just going to start slashing and burning forests.
He's going to slash and burn whatever that's going to see it.
Others are going to see him as a fix.
And it will go both ways.
But in fact, grab audio soundbite number two.
I got so caught up in what was happening to millennials, and I figured a lot of this out just by watching the TV shows they think are great.
You couldn't handle 10 minutes of them.
You'd say, what in the world am I wasting my time here?
These shows are devoted to characters that are under assault from everything, and the whole point of life is just to survive.
That's all it is.
And the better you are at suffering, and the better you are at dealing with your own misery determines what kind of human being you are.
The idea of accomplishing anything, who's got time for that?
We don't have time to accomplish.
We've got to get through the day.
And they live in the greatest, the most prosperous, and the freest country on earth, and they haven't been told about it at all.
They haven't been taught about it.
They haven't been taught about opportunity.
They haven't been taught about accessing it.
And we can lay all of this right at the Democrat Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and you take your pick, any name you want to mention.
This is from December 1st of 2015.
Wow, it's that long ago?
I thought it was.
Yeah, it would be.
Also, it's almost a year ago, December 1st, 2015.
And it was, again, I want to use this to bounce off the drive-by calling Trump's speech dark and dystopian.
But Trump is trying to connect to millennials, and I hope he can and talk them out of things like this.
I watched a bunch of television shows that, through the process of reading, you know, my tech blogs, and I'm focusing more and more on reading things written by millennials, TV critics, sports writers, and this kind of stuff.
I'm really trying to get a handle on that generation.
I have picked up on something that is, to me, upsetting and disturbing.
And it's very simple.
Once I point this out to you, I think if you pay attention as you go forward, you'll notice it too.
It ties in with everything going on at college campuses today.
Student protests and so forth.
They don't want to be upset.
They want these safe areas.
They don't want anybody disagreeing with all this childish little immature demands that they're making.
What I have noticed is the more trauma in a TV show, the more personal trauma, the more suffering, the better.
These young millennials, they love television shows and movies depicting stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, the worst, the better.
Suffering.
And the purpose of television these days for them is to demonstrate how to cope with all of this.
And the reason that I have concluded that they enjoy this is because that's what their lives are today.
I'm not saying all millennials.
I'm talking about these media-oriented critic TV movie critics.
I don't know how representative of the entire generation it is, but it's got to be pretty sizable.
The more trauma, the more suffering, the greater they think the TV show or the movie is.
Because that's what their lives are now.
Trauma and suffering and how to cope.
And a great TV show to them is one that demonstrates how to cope with all this trauma and suffering.
And then I found, I ran across a book called Ready Player One, written by a millennial.
It's four years old now.
And it's dystopian and it's rooted in life in 2040, I believe, where major cities are gone.
They're just, they're there, but they're garbage.
Buildings are half torn down.
It looks like a Mad Max movie.
And everybody lives in stacks.
Trailers and RVs stacked on top of each other.
Take up less space.
And it's so bad that a video game made up of augmented and virtual reality if everybody survives.
They can't deal with the real world.
It's gone.
It's been destroyed by climate change.
It's been destroyed by people that believe in God.
There is no God.
That was a giant con game.
There is nothing.
There's nothing when you're alive.
There's nothing when you're dead.
You're just nothing, ever.
So the most popular guy on the planet in this book has created a video game that everybody plays where they can actually go to a beach or they can do this or that, places they could never, ever go in their real lives don't exist anymore because climate change.
And it's all about how, well, the concept is winning a prize by finding some hidden treasure that the author of the game is hidden somewhere.
But here's how I described them.
This was just back in June.
Sound like this.
I was told about this book on Saturday, and that Spielberg is producing, got the movie adaptation.
Production starting in the fall.
Now, normally people, come on, Rush, they all biked the Beatles at one point, but they grew out of it and so forth.
I don't look at it.
I think it's important.
This stuff's important.
You want to figure out why they vote, why they think what they think.
More importantly, you want to know what.
So when I was reading this book, I had no idea what it was.
When it was told to me, it was Rush, I can't explain it.
You just got to read it.
But you'll be dazzled with the writing and so forth.
It's okay.
So, Ready Player One is from 2011.
It's science fiction.
It's dystopian.
It's so popular, Spielberg has optioned it for a movie.
And media is different today than when you and I were growing up.
It's much more impactful because it's everywhere and it's all the time.
And everybody can be in the media now in one way or another.
So this is not a phase you grow out of.
This is actually formative stuff that determines what you're going to believe the rest of your life, and it's poison.
And Trump is making an appeal to reach to him.
And that's what his daughter was doing with her speech last night.
I know for a fact that was an outreach to him.
We'll take a break here and be back after this.
Back to the phones, Haley in Pittsburgh, 13 years old.
Great to have you on the phone.
How are you?
Hi, Rush.
I'm good.
How are you?
Very well.
That's good.
I had, well, I read your books, and they were excellent.
I really enjoyed them.
And I'm really excited to be on the show today.
And I had a question for you about what's been happening the past couple days at the RNC.
And I wanted to know your opinion on it.
All right.
I'd be happy to help.
You're 13, is that right?
You're 13?
Yes, I am.
That's incredible.
Okay, shoot.
Well, my family were very strong Cruz supporters until he dropped out of the race a little while back.
And we were really disappointed of what he did with his RNC speech a couple nights ago out of unforgiveness with Donald Trump, with his wife, and his father.
So I wanted to know your opinion about why because Cruz said about voting your conscience and not endorsing Trump.
Could this give his supporters the idea to vote for Hillary Clinton and possibly allow Republicans and other viewers to have Trump lose voters and even bigger than that to lose the election?
Well, because the next day, he attended the Texas delegation breakfast and he clarified that he's not voting for Hillary.
He wasn't intending to say that.
Now, one thing, Haley, that we learned today from a Donald Trump press conference was that apparently Ted Cruz did change his speech.
You know, they submitted, the Cruz people submitted the speech to the convention and it was approved.
Apparently, Cruz added something to his remarks that they didn't know was coming.
I don't know what it was, but I do know I was watching it and I saw Ivanka and Donald Jr. stand up and start pointing at the cell.
What the hell is this?
And I think it may be that that's when he inserted something that had not been vetted.
I don't know what it was.
I didn't learn about it until today.
Now, look, I've got to take a break here.
Can you hang on through the break and we'll continue?
Yeah, sure.
Excellent.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back before you know it.
And we're back with 13-year-old Haley in Pittsburgh.
And I heard you trying to interrupt me, and I didn't let you because I was running out of time.
Did I misunderstand the question you were asking me?
Was that what you're trying to correct me on?
No.
No, Roger, actually, you got it.
Great.
I just, yeah, I just wanted to clarify that I am a supporter of Donald Trump, and I just.
But you were, you and your family were supporters of Cruz, right?
Yes, sir.
Yes.
And so now, but you're upset with the way Cruz did what he did.
And you're afraid that what Cruz did might end up having people that supported him vote for Hillary.
Is that what your concern is?
Well, yes, because we thought he could.
Well, I thought that he could, what he could have done at the Republican National Convention, which he didn't, is he could have tried to unify the party because we need to, we want to win in November.
And so our party could be unified to so he could have supported Trump by and he could have unified the party by making a decision during his speech, which he didn't do.
But I was saying about how if it could, we're not sure if it could affect Trump's votes in November.
Let me run an alternative theory on Ted Cruz's speech at the convention by you, because there are some who are saying that Cruz didn't do anything wrong, that the real incivility was the New York delegation when they started booing him and when they started hissing at him and when they started shouting,
endorse Trump, endorse Trump, that it was the incivility and the mean-spiritedness of the New York delegation led by Peter King, who hates Cruz, that led to everything thereafter happening.
The booze, Cruz having to leave the stage in disgrace.
And some of the pro-Cruz people are saying that Cruz had the New York delegation left him alone, everything would have been fine.
But they started booing him and they started treating him with incivility.
And it's typical of what Trump people do.
And that's the problem we really face: Ted Cruz is a great, virtuous guy, but he ran up against these uncivil, mean-spirited Trumpists from New York.
What do you think of that theory?
I think what you're saying could be true because he could have felt some pressure from the crowd, especially the New York delegation.
But I think he came out and said he wasn't going to endorse Trump at the Texas delegation breakfast because of what he did to his, what he said about his father and what he posted about his wife.
But I think your theory could be correct, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's not mine.
It's not mine.
It's a theory that is running around amongst some of the very devoted Cruz supporters.
Right.
Yes, I agree.
I do agree with that.
I just think if Cruz could have chose a different way to with his speech, I think he could have unified the party more.
Well, you know, you're not alone.
I got to tell you, Haley, I have a lot of Cruz people have shared with me their disappointment over how it was perceived that he did what he did.
So you're not alone there.
Okay.
But look, I still can't believe you're 13.
Honestly, I can't believe you're 13.
Thank you.
You sound more intelligent and more mature than some college kids that I know.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
And you've read the Rush Revere books?
I have.
I enjoyed them a lot.
I still have to read the third one.
I read the first two, yes.
Oh, you haven't read the third one.
Oh, well.
And there's a fourth, too.
And there might even be more.
Awesome.
Wait.
I can't wait.
Yeah.
So I'll tell you what.
Why don't you hang on and Mr. Snerdley will get your address and I'll send you the anti-will sign a couple of them maybe.
And do you have an iPad?
I have an iPod, actually.
You have an iPod?
Yes.
Well, that's cool, but I want to send you a 9.7-inch iPad Pro.
Oh, my gosh.
Thank you so much.
If your parents wouldn't mind, I don't want to do it.
I don't think they would.
I've been trying to squeeze up for an iPad.
Okay, cool.
Well, I'll throw that in.
So don't hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get your address, okay?
Okay, thank you so much.
You bet.
And make sure it's an address FedEx delivers to, not a post office box or something.
That's incredible.
13 years old.
Don't I what?
She's really smart.
Smart.
Well, that's obviously her family.
I'm convinced that a little girl like that can be pummeled with all this global warming crap, but it would not.
It would not permeate her boundaries.
It wouldn't penetrate her boundaries.
She's got a solid upbringing and so forth.
But anyway, you never know.
But yeah, that's incredible, 13.
Not just the ability to speak, but the intelligence, the knowledge, the poise.
Incredible.
And we have time to squeeze in yet another exciting phone call.
And behind the blinking lights here, it's Frank in Boston.
Frank, welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Royce.
To talk to you.
I happen to love Ted Cruz.
He's a good man, and I was very disappointed when he didn't make it.
But Ted Cruz was in a no-win situation the other night.
If he comes out and endorses him, he's a fraud.
He's a phony.
He said all these things about Trump.
Now he comes out and endorses him.
He doesn't endorse him.
He gets the abuse that he got.
So Ted Cruz was going to lose no matter what he did.
But he spoke with mind, and he's a man of integrity.
And that's why people like him and support him.
And I'm going to vote for Donald Trump, okay?
I'm going to hold my nose and do it.
But I'd rather do that than vote for that diseased rodent on the other side because I would never do that.
Diseased rodent, did you say?
Yep, diseased rodent.
I could say something more, but I know this is a family hour show.
What do you want to say?
Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.
No, I'd say worse than that, but I can't do that.
By the way, Trump getting credit for a lot of class last night.
Said crowds going to lock her up, lock her up.
He pauses.
Let's defeat her.
Well, she deserves to be locked up in more.
She's a treasonary, in my opinion.
Yeah.
Look, let's go back to Cruz only because time is dwindling here.
I think that there is a way Cruz could have done this and not had what happened happen.
I think he could have done, he could have made a speech that would have satisfied his supporters and not angered the Trumpists.
And then frankly, that's what I thought he was going to do.
All he would have had, he wouldn't have had to mention the actual words, I endorse Trump.
All he would have had to do was make an appeal to unity.
And he could have done it when he talks about vote your conscience.
He added something like, and that cannot include voting for Hillary Clinton.
It would have been real easy.
There obviously something deeply going bothering Ted Cruz here.
I think there's something to the fact that if the New York delegation hadn't started having fun here, it might not have ended the way it did.
But he could have done this in a way that would not have angered one group or the other, which, again, is what I thought he was going to do.
I thought that was the objective of his speech.
Folks, if you're anything like me, you're worn out on this.
And even finishing the program, I have such some pangs of guilt.
There's so much stuff I wanted to talk about today that I didn't get to, and there was no way I was going to be able to get it all in.
But see, there's always the next day, so it's okay.
There's always Monday.
Thing is, loads of stuff's going to happen between now and then.
So we just keep plugging away and working it all in eventually.
We'll be back on Monday.
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