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Dec. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America is afflicted by the season of guest hosts.
There are guest hosts everywhere.
We need to build a wall on the southern and northern borders to prevent the guest hosts from sneaking across.
It's the secondary guest host, Mark Stein here.
Buck Sexton will be in uh later in the week.
Uh and then I think Andrea Bocelli is uh has uh provisionally agreed to guest host the show on Monday uh until his celebrity pals all beat him uh into withdrawing from it.
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As I said at the beginning of the show, this has been an historic year.
Uh, because this was the year when people had decided that essentially the post-Cold War consensus uh was not enough for them.
Uh that that uh that they wanted to go back to a uh a a uh a world in which it was possible uh to work hard uh build a nice home on a nice sized lot, raise your children in a safe neighborhood,
uh and not have to watch your communities get hollowed out by illegal immigration and heroin addiction and uh see your kids with nothing to do apart from be a drug dealer except do some uh lousy old uh service job during the night shift at the quickie crab,
and they push back and they push back in the United States, they push back in the United Kingdom, they're pushing back on all the stuff the th that the smart people say is in is inevitable, such as that uh uh the most advanced, wealthiest, prosperous societies in history can no longer control their borders.
You just have accepted as a feta completes multicultural, or more to the point, the entire Western world becomes multicultural, uh, but a Jew uh can't build a house in the West Bank.
Uh that's got to stay unicultural.
That's gotta under the genius strategy of uh of all these people uh uh you uh a Jew can't build a house next to a Muslim because the Muslim is entitled to live in a unicultural world, but the entire Western world has to become multicultural.
And that's uh that's when that's when millions and millions of people this year push back against that, saying, This works great for you.
I mentioned on this show last year, earlier this year, I think uh it was in the summer, uh graduation time, and John Kerry was giving a speech at some prestigious Massachusetts University, I forget which one it is, because there let's face it, there are so many prestigious Massachusetts universities, aren't there?
Uh who can keep track of them all?
Uh John Kerry was giving a speech there, and he was uh saying to the graduates, you live in a borderless world.
And I pointed out that if uh that's true, then the world is going to go to hell because borders have been the organizing principle of the world in the modern age, and they're why some countries work and other places don't work.
Uh they're uh why uh the Bahamas work and Cuba doesn't work.
Uh they're why uh Malaysia works and uh m many parts of say Indonesia do not work.
Borders enable people to make choices within their communities about the organizing principles of their societies.
And as I said, it's the organizing principle of the modern world.
And so when John John Kerry says these people it's gonna be a borderless world, and they're all sitting there because they've been through uh what passes for a uh whatever it is, a nine year bachelor's degree in America these days, they think that means the world's gonna be like Sweden.
It isn't.
If it's a borderless world, it's gonna be a lot more like Sudan than it is like Sweden.
Because actually even Sweden is trending uh remarkably Sudan like these days.
Uh and and after a couple of months later, I was uh giving a speech uh somewhere, I think it was in Arizona, and a uh gentleman came up to me and said, Well, don't forget, from the point of view of John Kerry and the people he's talking to, it is a borderless world.
These people uh think nothing of, you know, taking a job in Hong Kong for a couple of years or Vienna in a couple of years, and then they'll move back to New York or Los Angeles or whatever, and the world is their playground, and they jet here and they jet there, and it and at that level it's a fine borderless world that works for them.
It's great.
You go and uh you go and uh do a uh job in uh London for a couple of years, maybe then you go down a Kuala Lumpa, uh eventually you end up in America, but it doesn't really matter.
You're a citizen of the world, like John Kerry's a citizen of the world.
He flew his uh this castle he bought in uh France, uh, and he uh flew it all brick by brick to rebuild as his ski lodge in uh Colorado or wherever it is.
And that's how John Kerry thinks of the world, like some attractive building that he sees on the other side of the planet, and he can just fly it around and stick it down wherever he wants it to.
But it's not like that for most other people.
Most other people are getting screwed by the so-called borderless world.
Because if you're saying or sixty-three, and uh you live in a neighborhood, you bought your house and you paid off the mortgage a long time ago, and uh uh and the factory is closed, the mill is closed, there's no jobs in town except crampy service jobs, uh, and the uh the illegal immigrants are all undercutting everybody's wages, and your son is on heroin and your daughter's doing some crummy job at a convenience store.
You're downwardly mobile.
Millions and millions of people are the first downwardly mobile generation in American history.
What can you do?
Uh Kevin Williamson at National Review says it's you losers, it's all your own fault.
These communities deserve to die.
And that sounds cute when you're sitting in New York passing judgment on some schlubs on the other side of the country that you'll never get to see.
But the reality is that if you're fifty-eight or sixty-three and you're underwater on your house, you can't get what you paid for it.
You can't sell.
You're trapped.
You everything you everything your assets are there.
That's all you've got.
You're stuck there as it's getting worse.
And you don't even have the consolations of culture.
Because uh in Europe all the smart people think, well, we'll uh we'll uh we'll bring in uh million and a half ref so-called refugees.
Uh so now there's uh mosques all around town uh and uh the the bars are closing, and there's no Christmas decorations in Woolworths.
Uh they've still got Woolworths in Germany, but the uh the branches of Woolworths over there don't sell Christmas decorations anymore because uh there's no call for them and they're going uh all uh all Islam all the time.
So you don't even have the consolations of culture of dying in a decrepit town uh with the familiar cultural markers that you knew and loved.
And this year millions and millions and millions of people pushed back against that.
That's the most significant development.
Whether it's just a spasm, and then we continue on this uh essentially uh suicidal dissolution of the civilization that built the modern world, or whether it's actually a meaningful thing and we are arresting uh certain trends that privilege millions and millions of people over the interests of our own citizens.
Uh whether this is actually a consequential year remains to be seen.
But it starts in this country on January the twentieth, and Trump has to follow through on some of this stuff, otherwise he will be a blip.
He'll be a spasm.
And all the people who say he's uh he's the new Hitler will be wrong because he'll be like uh the uh other Austrian fellow, uh Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was the terminator and couldn't terminate nothing when he became governor of California.
We have some breaking news.
That's the biggest story of the year, but some some of the big stories start small.
And this is a small story, I just happen to see, but it it's revealing nonetheless.
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This is from the Daily Mail in London, and it says that a new survey has revealed that men who eat lots of food containing soya, such as tofu.
Do you know what how it is now when you go into like a little coffee place in in Manhattan?
Uh Mr. Snerdley, who's minding the store uh down at EIB in New York, if he wanders out into Fifth Avenue, he'll get a dose of this.
And you're standing there waiting to get a coffee, and the guy ahead of you is ordering uh a soy cappuccino and a tofu salad.
Well this also explains why the Western world is going out of business.
Uh they've found that tofu may harm your chances of becoming a father.
Fertility Experts have found evidence that natural chemicals in soya can damage your sperm.
It's increasingly being consumed as an alternative to meat and dairy.
Cow's milk sales have fallen, for example, as demand for milk made from soya and almonds has surged.
And researchers in Spain believe the issue could lie with chemicals called phytoestrogens, which mimic female hormones and are found in soya.
So if you're having the tofu salad as you're listening to this, you may not think you're transitioning.
You may have no plans to become Caitlin Jenna, but it's happening as you sleep.
These phytoestrogens, don't call it.
If you f if you're finding it hard to, if you say, I like the tofu, I like the uh I like the soy macchiato.
Call it the phytoestrogen macchiato.
Call it the phytoestrogen salad, and you'll know what you're getting into.
They mimic female hormones and they uh appear to reduce the speed of your sperm.
So your speed slows up to something closer to a uh a the presidential transition period.
You have s yeah, slow moving sperm.
It's like driving around here when there's a stop sign, a head sign, a head sign ahead.
And it's exactly the same, it's like the same principle.
Just as your sperm is getting into second gear, the phytoestrogen kicks in and it slows down, and that's what's killing uh the sperm count in the Western world because sperm counts are falling.
They've they've they did this survey in Sweden uh by which they discovered that they had more record levels of defective male sperm.
And the only reason they found out was because lesbians who wanted to have babies were going to the sperm clinic and signing up for this uh sperm and then def and then finding that the only thing you need these useless Swedish metrosexual man bun handbag carrying men for, which is a little vial full of the bodily fluids, the stuff doesn't work anymore.
It doesn't work the last thing you need a man any every who needs a man for anything else with you know mincing around you with his man bag and his man bun and his uh in his little metrosexual uh clothes, and you don't need them for anything.
All you need is a little beaker of fluid, and that doesn't work.
These guys can't do anything right.
And it's all down to too much tofu.
Too much tofu is putting basically putting us out of business.
That's it.
That's it.
It's over.
Uh free parent babies have been approved in the United Kingdom.
Uh this is because, again, of all the uh the gay parenting.
Uh because like men uh you know, men uh it's like Barry wants to have a child with Eric, uh, and they keep trying and trying, trying, and nothing seems to work, and then Barry says, uh, do you think that's because we're both men?
Uh and so they go and see a doctor, and the doctor says, Well, uh, we've got some you can go on the internet and rent a fallopian timeshare from somebody on the other side of the country, and uh we've got a great deal, they've got a great deal at Eggs R Us.
You can get some eggs, you can get a fallopian timeshare, and uh it's all uh and all you need to do is FedEx uh your little contribution to the process over to the other side of the country and pick up the baby in nine months' time.
And Barry and Eric say, Well, wait a minute, that's uh I I was hoping for something more romantic, you know, uh Johnny Mathis on the stereo and the lights down low.
What's up with this?
And so they've now decided the UK's fertility regulator has given the green light to uh to make it possible for babies to be made from three parents.
And it's something to do with the donation of mitochondria, mitochondria.
So we are really moving deep into deep into brave new world territory.
There are millions of kids growing up with only one parent.
Uh, but there will be a whole new class of persons who will be genetically made under these new rules from the UK's fertility regulator from three parents.
We are moving deep into brave new world country.
And the tofu story is important because basically what what all this stuff is about is actually uh the abolition of man, Literally, literally.
Eventually they'll figure out a way for two women not to have to go to the Swedish fertility clinic and get the defective Swedish male sperm.
They'll figure out some way.
Actually, that's what this is.
There's a way to use genetic material from two women.
So they're getting nearer.
So that's the last thing you useless guys are needed for.
You got a m yeah, you can get a mommy mommy daddy combo.
That's right.
No, but they're gonna get a daddy daddy mommy combo.
Because uh Mr Mr. Snudley is getting all is getting all confused.
He's the last guy in New York, by the way, who likes to do it the old-fashioned way.
He's like uh everybody else has moved on.
Everybody else has moved on.
They're doing I like I thought I'd have the Mommy Mommy Daddy special tonight.
Uh but he's still he still likes the old-fashioned way.
He hasn't yet got with the program.
This three this all what all these things have in common, these genetic modification is the abolition of man.
Man has outlived his usefulness in as far as the people who are building the day after tomorrow have decided.
1-800-282, 288-2, we will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
In in one of my books, I have a uh section called Last Laughs, and I say that in the future there will be no jokes.
And we are moving toward that future, actually very fast.
Uh particularly if you have a look at those leaden late night shows that are dying in the ratings at the moment.
Uh Steve Martin, who is a genuinely funny man, and he was upset by the loss of Carrie Fisher.
And so he tweeted out, when I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.
She turned out to be witty and bright as well.
It got thousands of thousands of likes.
And then Claire Lansbaum of New York magazine uh just tweeted in that solemn and plonkingly humorless way of uh the age of the social justice joke police.
Steve Martin's tweet about Carrie Fisher is extremely bad.
Uh Steve Martin's tweet about Carrie Fisher is extremely bad because Carrie Fisher had spent her life speaking out against the sexualization of her most famous character.
So it's important not to objectify her in death.
And so immediately he gets bombarded, bombarded by all the Steve Martin gets bombarded uh by all this nonsense uh from people agreeing with this plonkingly humorless, talentless dweeb at New York magazine.
Steve Martin, just I'll just repeat his tweet again.
When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I'd ever seen.
She turned out to be witty and bright as well.
What he means by that is when you're a young man, this was before they began eating tofu and the sperm count headed south.
When when when young men were young men, they were attracted to women uh because they were beautiful, dazzling creatures.
Uh and he's saying uh he's saying as he aged, that's uh then he came to appreciate her other qualities.
It's essentially the equivalent of the old joke, uh, you know, when I was seventeen, I thought my father was an idiot.
Uh by the time I was twenty-three, I was amazed at how much he'd learned.
Uh, in other words, the jokes on you.
He didn't appreciate.
He's saying he didn't appreciate her other qualities at that time.
And he's also saying, as a lot of guys do when they get old, that the the women you fall in love with at an early age are always beautiful to you.
It's like if uh if you were young in the 1940s and you saw Ava Gardner or Rita Hayworth, they were always as they were when you first saw them to you.
That's what beauty is.
Uh that's what charm is, that's what seduction is, that's what appeal is.
Uh so he's making two points here.
He's he's mocking his own callous youth for not appreciating his Carrie Fisher's other qualities, but he's saying how much he loved her as well.
It's a beautiful, sweet, honest, sincere tweet.
And uh we no longer appreciate anything like that.
All that matters is that you take the correct line on things.
Uh all these the the reason New York magazine is unreadable, by the way, now is that Claire Lansbaum, for example, essentially writes like a cult Marx thesis.
Um, basically like a cultural Marxist thesis full of these set phrases, oh, sexualization of her character, uh outspoken feminism, moving commentary on mental health, not the way she looked on.
Nobody, nobody with respect uh is upset by Carrie Fisher's death because of her moving commentary on mental health.
Good for her for doing it, but that's not why they remember her.
And the idea that we have to be dishonest about people in death is totalitarian, ultimately totalitarian.
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We have guests, we have no point.
We can't get guest hosts to not agree to guest hosts.
Uh some days next week there are guest hosts, guest hosting for the pre-scheduled guest hosts.
That's how bad it is here.
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I mentioned this uh Steve Martin being forced to delete his tweet, because in America today you're only allowed to mourn Carrie Fisher in the right way.
That's according to this this this woman at New York magazine who does decided to uh take the tire iron uh to Steve Martin's charming and sincere tweet.
And as I pointed out, uh what this woman says uh is actually is actually fake.
Um that uh while uh the awareness Carrie Fisher raised about mental health issues is worthy and uh public spirited of her, it's not why everyone is upset uh at hearing um uh uh of her death after a heart attack on a on a plane from uh uh London to Los Angeles.
Uh and so to and so to go along with that, to go along with the official reasons that this that this uh writer uh uh Miss Lansbaum at New York magazine is saying are the only reasons we can we can mourn.
They're the official reasons.
You've got to you've got to subscribe to the official reasons to mourn Carrie Fisher.
You can't say it's because you like the cinnabon cinnamon buns on her head in uh in Star Wars.
Uh that's that's cute, but it diminishes her.
Uh and uh it's it's you you you're supposed to talk about the great work she did for mental health instead.
Steve Martin gave a charming and sincere, a sincere tweet.
In other words, everyone understood what he meant, that he he was a horny young teenager and he thought she was hot.
And then as he as he grew older, he came to realize that she was smart and insightful and witty and bright and all the rest of it as well.
So he's talking about himself.
He's talking about the reasons you fall in love and the reasons you stay in love.
And it's actually in a hundred and forty characters, it's quite a sophisticated tweet.
But that's been obliterated and uh and the cultural Marxist totalitarian garbage, uh unreadable garbage of New York magazine uh has obliterated it, and instead that is the official version.
And you should always listen very carefully when someone is telling you to shut up.
Uh we we look around and we wonder why, you know, Republicans win elections, but America keeps drifting left, left, left.
It's because the it's because uh the social justice warriors have gotten very good at shutting people up.
And eventually, every time you shut people up, every time and Steve Martin is as wealthy and as uh powerful as anybody is in the United States.
He's got all the work he needs, he's got all the money he needs, and yet even he's scared of these social justice warriors.
Uh and what they uh uh and and eventually if they persuade you to shut up, if they can force you to shut up, uh and this ties back to forcing Andrea Boccelli to pull out of the inauguration and all the rest of it.
Uh what they're effectively doing is forcing you to live a lie.
They're forcing you to buy the official lie on small things, such as the reason that everyone's upset about Carrie Fisher is because she did such great work raising awareness of mental health, um uh rather than because uh if you went to the movies in nineteen seventy seven and saw Carrie Fisher in Star Wars, you never forgot it.
It was one of the great cultural markers of late twentieth century America.
Um likewise George Michael.
If uh if if if uh you you're upset about George Michael's death, it's because of all the great work he did raising awareness for the LGBT quirty community uh and not because you used to bop around to wake me up before you go go uh uh or the the first dance you had uh to the saxophone bit in careless whisper.
Uh you're not allowed to mourn him for that.
You do you the the the left is e even in death, the left is insistent on what you're allowed to like about people.
That's what totalitarianism means.
It means there's no aspect of life that isn't under their control, including uh whether you're allowed to comment on uh on the passing of a celebrity.
Even that has to be controlled by the social justice left.
And what that means is that that's why we live in a world where rockettes are traumatized at the thought of having to dance at the Trump inauguration.
Uh that's that's that's why uh uh schools and universities are still traumatized, whatever it is now, six weeks after the election.
Because if you keep feeding people the official lie and permitting no deviation from the official lie, uh then eventually you will socially engineer people who can't actually handle differences of opinion.
And that's the world we're moving into.
And it's actually evil.
It's actually wicked.
Um and we should resist it.
And every time somebody tells you you can't say that.
I had I was uh just looking uh at uh the Twitter uh a moment ago, and a lady uh treated me that uh I shouldn't be making jokes about mitochondrial disease.
I couldn't even remember making jokes about mitochondrial disease, and mentioned mitochondria in connection with the British government's decision uh to introduce law permitting uh three parent babies.
And I suggested uh that i along with the declining levels of uh male sperm and all the rest of it, that these were markers of a brave new world we were uh we were moving into.
I wasn't uh I wasn't talking about mitochondrial disease.
So even someone who listens to this program has gotten into the habit of just uh uh of an initial reaction that says, Oh, you can't say that.
You can't say that.
If you're saying you can't say that, that's what you shouldn't be saying.
You can't say you can't say that.
And people have to stop it.
People have to stop thinking that the first uh the f the the most dispositive argument is well, I'm deeply offended by what you've said, so you shouldn't be allowed to say it.
And it doesn't matter what it what subject it is, it doesn't matter whether it's Carrie Fisher, it doesn't matter whether it's Islam, it doesn't matter whether it's George Michael, it doesn't matter whether it's climate change.
If you're the person saying you can't say that, you're in the wrong.
Steve Martin should be free to say what he wants, uh and uh uh and Donald Trump should be free to say what he wants and Van Jones should be m free to say what he wants uh and Andrea Bacelli should be free to sing what he wants and may the best man win.
But we spend too much time uh saying you can't say that.
You can't say that.
You can't say that.
And my view is the guy who says you can't say that is always the one in the wrong.
And I take that all the way to the DC Court of Appeals, which in my climate change case has ruled that the case can now proceed to trial because they basically uh have said to me that I can't say what I think about the global warming hockey stick which I regard as a fraud uh they've said I can't say that because the Penn State University and some or other official body have pronounced on it so uh a a mere citizen a mere member of the public
shouldn't be permitted to disagree with official bodies.
This is what three judges at the D.C. Court of Appeals said the other day.
They basically said you can't disagree on matters of public policy once an official body has ruled on it.
And this is the territory we're moving into.
Ideological enforcement on everything, whether it's George Michael and Carrie Fisher or Islam and climate change.
It's evil.
It's totalitarian.
And every time somebody says you can't say that, all you have to do to say to them is you don't say nothing.
you can't say that to me because I'm just going to say it again twice as loud.
Mark Stein for Rush back in a moment Mark Stein in for Rush let us go to Ken in uh Kingman Arizona one of those good morning Mark.
Hey great great to have you with us Ken what's her new I have a question for you do you think the enemies of Donald Trump mainly the globalists or the Democrats would intentionally start a collapse of the dollar so they could stop Trump and throw a monkey wrench in his uh agenda well I I think there is I'm not sure they'd they'd want to collapse the dollar because if you collapse the dollar you basically collapse the global order.
Basically once once the dollar I mean the Americ the only reason America is not Zimbabwe well not the only reason but one of the reasons is that it's debt is denominated in its own currency.
So uh if you debauch uh the value of the dollar you'd be giving a lot of other countries a problem long before you gave America a problem uh because Mr Obama's administration tells us telling us the national debt the low GNP the the bond market that's going on now the QEs the dollar's not in really good shape though.
No no I I I understand that.
What I mean is that the fa if you're if you're Zimbabwe for example you your debt is denominated in US dollars.
So you can't when you debauch your own currency, it doesn't really solve your problems because you've still got a fixed amount of U.S. dollars that you have to pay back.
Whereas so if you if you destroy the U.S. dollar, there's countries ahead of America in the line that would have very pressing, very pressing problems.
But I do think you're right in the larger point, Ken, which is that I think they do not want they do not want Trump to succeed.
Basically, there are people who all the all the people who meet at Davos in Switzerland for the Global Economic Conference.
These are all the people.
big political figures from around the world so all the wealthy oil shakes not just the uh uh the the Americans and the Europeans and whatnot uh and all the big industrialists the big multinational guys and the uh the the A-list celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio uh they will Mr. Trump I I voted for him I'm not put in the same position as Herbert Hoover he took over as president and then less than a year later there was Black Tuesday and he was blamed for
It was a depression, which he didn't create these.
No, no, they're not.
They wanted to do that.
And that's Paul Krugman's thing on the night after the election in the wee small hours when he said the stock market is already collapsing.
It's going to stay collapsed and it will never recover.
And in fact, as Trump likes to point out, it's just a smidgen at shy of 20 trillion.
20.
That's the debt.
20,000.
That's that's the Dow.
mustn't get those confused uh twenty thousand and it's put on over ten percent since since the uh uh election.
The the the the world there aren't enough of them to be able to pull that off, Ken.
There really aren't.
It's not like the forces.
Uh it was a much more localized economy in nineteen uh twenty nine, and it was a much smaller uh group of forces uh that was able uh that was able to act in concert then.
And here they do not have the ability to do that.
I think it actually what we've seen on the Dow will be what happens if Trump acts in his first hundred days.
That uh for example, if he starts to roll back regulations, if he starts to roll back the cost of hiring an American, if he starts to roll back the cost of hiring an American across state lines, which is very difficult, as uh I've spoken on this uh show about if you if you want to hire if you're based in New Hampshire like me and you want to hire someone in New York, it's actually a lot easier to hire somebody in India or somebody in the jungles of Papua New Guinea.
It's a lot easier, and that's what's incentivized.
And I think I think Trump understands uh that the global forces are arrayed against him and are lining him up for a spectacular fail.
And people have always bet against Trump.
And now they've got the biggest ever.
They they bet against him for thirty years, and he has always survived.
He's a great survivor.
And he didn't embark on this at a time when he could be sitting on his golf course at Mar-a-Lago if he wanted to go down as just another placeholder, as just one of those guys who presided over who sat there and kept the seat warm as America declined.
Uh, or as, for example, I think uh the lost opportunities of the George W. Bush presidency.
I wrote about this a year after 911, that George W. Bush had failed to use the moment, the time when he had people can't even remember it now, but he had 90% approval ratings in the fall of 2001.
And yet he still let the Democrats roll him on a lot of itsy bitsy stuff like drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
He still let nobody's like Pat Leahy uh uh tell him at a time when everybody was saying the world has changed, the world has changed, you can't drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Even when every dollar you give to the Saudis is going to build mosques all over the planet and indoctrinate people into coming out of those mosques, strapping on a suicide belt, waddling into a market and blowing up a bunch of people, even then, when all that was nobody remembers it now, nobody cares, it's just you know, a few dozen people in an Orlando nightclub or a Berlin Christmas market or a Nice Bastil Day parade now.
But back then people it was new and people took it seriously.
And even then, George W. Bush couldn't use the cultural moment to reframe the argument and say uh there's nothing going on in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The folks who live round there want this development.
Uh the uh the only uh natural inhabitants of the area are uh golf ball-sized mosquitoes who uh under the heat from coming out from the pipeline will now be uh basketball-sized mosquitoes, so they'll love it.
But other than that, there is no reason why America uh should not be producing its own oil, and there are compelling reasons why we should not be putting more and more dollars in the pockets of our enemies.
And it was the failure to use that cultural moment, I think, that that it that is was one of the great tragedies of the Bush presidency.
Mark Stein in for us, more your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Ush, just as a postscript to what uh we were talking about with Ken in uh Kingman, Arizona a moment ago, um there's a phrase that uh John Bolton, I think, was one of the first people to use this to be.
And he said, There's a lot of people who believe in the European unionization of the world.
By which they mean they want the entire planet to be governed the way the EU is governed, where decisions are made at a supranational level, uh and the only difference is there would never be a Brexit referendum allowing you to just get the hell out of the whole thing.
And I don't di I don't deny that.
I think that's how these guys have got used to carrying on.
That essentially uh there is a uh a transnational consensus uh among uh the all the clever people who jet around to Davos and all these other things.
And they are not gonna want Donald Trump punching a hole in that.
Uh and they will try to obstruct him, but they're gonna have to find a subtler way to do it than just collapsing the dollar.
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