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Feb. 17, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2017, Friday, Hour #2
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Half my brain tied behind my back every day, just to be fair.
Just to make it fair.
Big big believer in fairness here.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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This essentially there aren't any.
Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I'm interested in, or you don't get through.
Because uh I I don't want to sit here and be bored and it doesn't help anybody.
You're gonna talk about things I care, but a Friday we broom all that, and I'll either fake being interested, or you're gonna be on your own.
But it's at least uh a way for callers to bring things up other than what might be out there.
It could be anything.
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I mentioned early, and you probably have seen it, that the president tweeted out uh thanks to me today for uh my comments on his press conference yesterday.
It was thank you for all of the nice statements on the press conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever, fake media not happy.
Now, this has been written about in several drive-by news sites.
The Politico has made reference to it in a relatively long story.
The UK Daily Mail has characterized it in a bit of a snarky way, very, very tiny snark, but nevertheless.
And the Hill.com has written about it.
Not only that, it became fodder for many on morning television today.
We put together a brief montage of people from CBS, ABC, CNBC, uh, and C SPAN all talking about the Trump tweet, quoting me.
This morning he's already tweeted that Rush Limbaugh told him it was one of his greatest.
Praising his own performance, he writes, thank you for all the nice statements on the press conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever, fake media not happy.
This morning he said, thank you for nice statements.
Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever.
Fake media not happy.
So the president had a strategy here.
Did he succeed?
Thank you for all of the nice statements on the press conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said it was one of the greatest ever.
Fake media not happy.
Exclamation point.
Thank you all for the nice statements on the press conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever.
He's got Limbaugh.
Thank you for all the nice statements on the press conference yesterday.
Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever.
Fake media not happy.
They came out at 6 43 this morning.
Right.
Uh it it just is it's amazing to me that of course that makes news.
I mean it actually is not amazing to me.
Presidents have been talking about me ever since I've been doing this program.
Remember this one grab audio soundbite number six.
This was this is really one of the well, it also happened at a campaign, but this was when Bill Clinton was already president.
This was June 24th, 1994.
And Clinton's aboard Air Force One, he's flying into St. Louis.
He's gonna dedicate some new something or other somewhere.
And he's on the phone with the morning team at our blowtorch affiliate in St. Louis Camo X. And he says this.
After I get off the radio today, with you, Rush Limbaugh have three hours to say whatever he wants.
Would you like to leave a message?
I won't have any opportunity to respond.
And there's no truth detector.
You won't get on afterwards and say what was true and what was it.
Here's the President of the United States on Air Force One.
He's the most powerful man in the world.
He can say whatever he wants whenever he wants.
He's got the drive-by media in his pocket.
And he goes on KMOX to complain that I have three hours unfettered to say whatever I want to say, and there's nobody at KMOX That will correct what I get wrong.
And then Obama, he had uh his own references to me.
We have, let's see.
We just pick a couple of them here.
This is uh January 13th, 2017, NBC deadline.
It was talking or date is it date?
It's dateline, not deadline.
Could be deadline if things don't change for NBC.
Anyway, he was talking to Lester Holt.
And Lester Holt said, given that the recovery was as uneven as it was, with the people on the bottom slower to recover than the people on the top.
Some way plant the seeds in your mind for the election of Trump.
Well, what is true is that the ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base, helped along with by folks like Russell and Log.
Some commentators on Fox News, I think, created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with them.
That hot house of back and forth argument and really sharp partisanship, I think it has been harmful to the country.
31 seconds of that answer, Trump would have answered a question three different ways in 31 seconds.
Number one, didn't that answer seem slow and rambling and exactly what uh Northeastern liberals love, this faux intellectualism.
But nevertheless, here is Obama ripping the media.
And he constantly ripped Fox News.
He really had it in for Steve Ducity.
You know, people may not know this, but I mean, because Deucey's a happy go lucking guy, and Obama in his deep dark crevices of his mind really wanted a level on Ducey.
But he didn't want to he didn't want to, he didn't want to single anybody out there.
He's constantly ragging on Fox, constantly ragging on me.
Did the media ever have a problem with that?
I mean, look at the way they're going after Trump for calling them fake news and this.
I mean, they're beside themselves.
They don't know how to react to this.
And I'm gonna tell you, you know, one of the things I said about Trump's press conference yesterday that Trump obviously didn't tweet, but some here in the drive-by stumbled across my quote, and I said, I think it was one of the most effective press conferences ever.
And to my surprise, there were a couple of news outlets that understood exactly what I meant.
When I said it was one of the most effective, what I meant was effective in rallying his voters, effective in rallying his supporters, because they needed it.
The Trump supporters, Trump voters been watching this past month go by with these incessant, endless allegations of incompetence.
And Trump had been tweeting and reacting to it, but they needed this.
And they I'm that's that's why I referred to it as effective, because it clearly, clearly was, and they were they were discombobulated by it, flabbergasted by it.
And I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump.
I don't think the majority of them are ever going to be even in the same universe.
They they live in two separate worlds, and they don't understand Trump's, and they have contempt for it.
They have contempt for people that voted for Trump.
They have no desire to understand who they are.
They already think they know.
They have no desire to drill down and find out why people would reject the woman they loved Hillary Clinton.
It doesn't compute.
They just decide that these people are not worthy of any kind of curiosity or respect, and they continue to hold them in contempt and disgust.
And so they live in this world.
And I think this question was fascinating yesterday from uh Jim Acosta at CNN, where he asks Trump, and he's he's dead serious.
Don't you think that you're doing a terrible damage to the First Amendment by criticizing the media?
Don't you think that you were undermining the First Amendment?
Don't you think that you are undermining our great democracy by attacking the media?
So what do we have here?
We we have a media that lives in its own universe.
They live in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize, they're able to destroy.
They're able, in fact, it's one of the ways you get a bonus.
Take somebody out.
They are fully fine and hunky dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the job description.
But you turn around and criticize them, and that's not permitted in the vacuum in which they live.
They have free reign over you because I guess this is how they define their constitutional responsibility.
And since they have constitutional recognition, somehow they've all been taught at journalism school that nobody may assail them, that nobody may criticize them.
If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure.
Have you ever seen a stuck pig?
Because that's what the journalist looks like.
Like if you assign somebody to follow a journalist around and to dig deep and find out how many illegitimate kids he had, how many times he got drunk in school, do you have any DUIs?
How many people hate the guy?
How many people from his junior high, high school, college days are willing to go on record and talk about what a bully he was?
You try that with a journalist.
And they they you can't do it.
They go bonkers, they go berserk.
We're journalists, I'm not, I'm just a journalist.
I'm not, you can't go after me like that.
I'm immune.
No, we're gonna go after you like that.
This is exactly the way you go after people.
We have a constitutional responsibility to hold truth to power, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so the the idea that Donald Trump would even gain, you know, a lot of people have criticized media, but he's the president.
And in their world, presidents and political people are supposed to defer.
Such is their power.
Everybody's supposed to be deferential, and Donald Trump is not.
And he's not intimidated by them, and he's not frightened by them.
And in fact, he loves toying with them.
You know, while they're sitting there wringing their hands and taking things so seriously, and it's the end of the world.
Trump is laughing and having the greatest time.
He'll go out and say, Yeah, and I got more electoral votes than anybody since Reagan.
That's what they tell me.
And the media starts fact-checking immediately, and they they just blare.
They shout, Trump lied, Trump made it up.
George H.W. Bush got more electoral votes than Trump.
And they think Trump's going to be devastated.
They think Trump's going to be embarrassed that he's been exposed as a liar.
Doesn't matter to Trump.
They don't understand why Trump says things like and what they really don't understand is how Trump supporters don't care about any of this.
Trump supporters like it.
Trump supporters know when the guys be they know when it's time to listen to him and when it's time to laugh and maybe not take it so seriously.
They're having fun with it.
And part of the reason is to just watch how tightly wound the people in the press court are, and openly, vividly demonstrate their utter inability to understand or relate to Trump.
Let me give you another example here.
I have here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
A story from CNN.
It's by somebody named Dan Merrica.
Most memorable lines from Trump's press conference.
And now the purpose of this story is to appall people.
They're going to mention these lines, these quotes.
They fully expect everybody who hears this story or to read it to be appalled and offended and outraged and demand that Trump something happened to him.
They're just supposed to be livid that we have a president like this.
Here are the lines that they mention.
Trump's most memorable lines, according to Dan Merrick, on how things are going, this administration's running like a fine-tuned machine on leaks and news.
The leaks are real.
The news is fake.
On picking his next question, I want to find a friendly reporter.
Those three lines have been cited by CNN as the reasons you and anybody else should have been appalled.
You should have been outraged.
How dare a president act this way?
And they're shocked when people are not appalled by it.
They're shocked when people laugh at it.
They're shocked when people are amused by it.
They're angry when people are entertained by it.
And what they don't understand, when Trump says, for example, this administration chaos?
I remember the chaos.
I get up, I look at the media every chaos?
There's no chaos here.
We're running like a fine-tuned machine.
The way a Trump supporter hears that is not at all with Trump's words.
What the Trump supporter hears is screw you and your reporting on me.
They want people like Trump and others to fight back on these attempts to damage the media's trying to damage Trump, just like they damaged George W. Bush and George W. Bush and Rove never fought back.
Trump does.
And people are standing up and cheering for that alone.
I don't think I don't think the press, and believe me, this is fundamental.
I know that the Washington establishment doesn't, and I I know the press doesn't.
I don't think the entire universe outside of Trump and his supporters has any way of understanding how many Trump supporters thought, and maybe still do think a little, that we're on the verge of losing the United States of America forever.
And that is a big deal.
The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it.
That was the country.
Say goodbye to it.
She would have had the Supreme Court nominations, or all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else.
It would have been the the ongoing, you know, opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders who are called immigrants.
You realize what's been done, this whole definition of immigrant.
The way Democrats and the left talk about immigration, immigration is anybody who wants to come to the country.
And so if you're opposed to anybody coming in, then you're anti-immigrant.
The American people love immigration.
They just want it obeyed.
They want the laws obeyed.
They want there to be assimilation.
Nobody I know is opposed to immigration.
What we're opposed to is opening the borders and let non-citizens pour in here and call that immigration.
Because that constitutes the diluting of the very foundation of this country, and they saw it being done on purpose.
And that's why we're on the verge of losing this country.
And Trump represented the giant stop sign.
And they're not going to throw Trump overboard because he might get it wrong on who won the most electoral votes.
And they're not going to think less of him because he might have gotten it wrong.
And they're not going to think less of him because he might jokingly insult a reporter.
But in their world, lose the country.
Why we were making the country modern, why we were making the country better.
Why we were we were getting rid of all the old traditions that made this country what it was was bad, and we're modernizing it, and we're turning this country over to the people who really should have it.
Outsiders who don't live here, blah, blah.
Two different worlds.
But they don't understand.
They laugh at the idea that you think we might have been on the verge of losing the country.
They laugh at it.
So if you if they don't understand that, if they mock that and laugh at that, they're never going to understand Trump or why people voted for him.
There's no way they can.
Our next caller was on hold for two hours last Friday.
We didn't get to him, so we asked if we call him back.
Is this Stephen from Murray, Utah?
Stephen, I have about 30 seconds here.
Hi, Rush.
I'm just kidding, I'm gonna we're gonna get you started here, but I'm gonna hold you during the break and we'll continue after the break.
But you're calling a you read a book by Steve Young, the uh foreigner quarterback, right?
That's true, and I made a connection between his story and a quote of yours where you talk about most of the reasons people say they can't do something or reasons they've made up.
Uh would you like me to power that my my belief that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.
Did Steve Young write that?
He wrote that in his book.
No, no, it's not in the book, but in the book, he talks about becoming an NFL quarterback.
He said it was a great opportunity in my life.
It was also one of the most challenging things I've ever done.
Right.
Okay, hold your thought right there.
We have to take another obscene profit timeout.
We make a lot of money here.
We'll be right back.
And we'll get back here to Stephen and Murray, Utah, just a brief moment.
President Trump now speaking in South Carolina, just north of Charleston at the Boeing plant.
And he's standing right in front of a brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
And what's memorable about this, Boeing voted this week not to unionize.
It was a huge blow to many of the organized labor unions all across the fruited plane.
I don't know that Trump's visit is coincidental with that, uh, or is is because of that, maybe coincidental.
Uh but uh Boeing is is is one of the companies that has agreed to cut the price on the next round of uh Air Force One aircraft and to do what they can about building plants in the United States and creating American jobs, and the vote not to unionize was clearly part of that.
President's on its way down here for the weekend.
He'll be back here in South Florida for the weekend, and he's stopping in South Carolina on his way here.
And I think he's probably going to be here through Monday since it's President's Day.
He's either leaving at 11:30 Monday night or 1130 uh Sunday night or Monday morning.
I'm not sure which.
I saw the itinerary, and I can't remember specific.
Anyway, here's Stephen in Murray, Utah.
So you're reading Steve Young's book, and the challenges he faced coming up reminded him of the quote you heard me say about not quite rush.
It reminded me of your quote.
Uh it reminded me of your quote where you said most of the reasons people think they can't do something or reasons they've invented.
Right.
Everything you do in life is up to you.
Part of life is realizing you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know.
But it's up to you to face the fears and unleash that, which really drives you.
Now, as I read this book by Steve Young, his path to the NFL wasn't easy.
At BYU, he was number eight on this team depth chart.
And he said, Well, I could have thrown a pity party and just given up and gone home, or I could have chosen to have a positive perspective on life and let my play prove people wrong.
People told Steve Young he'd never make it as a left-handed quarterback.
His accuracy wasn't there.
Well, he worked on his accuracy, and I mean, look at the way his career turned out in the Hall of Fame and his Super Bowl ring.
So that just reminded me of that quote from you.
And I've noticed that quote to be true in my own life.
You see, I was born premature, and I have some challenges, and I used um this quote of yours in college essays or during some lectures and journalism classes.
And my professors are pretty impressed.
And I've noticed that quote of yours to be true in my own life.
And so I wanted to thank you for that.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do.
I I I love having things come back like this because that's uh that's always great to have affirmation like that.
You know, the speaking of Steve Young, I mean, he's he's overcome a lot, there's no question.
He had and he's achieved a lot.
But I think one of the things, he probably would admit this if if if he were here.
Um, and I think people in the sports media, people follow NFL are pretty much aware of this.
But he was second string to Joe Montana for a number of years.
It's like being second string to Babe Bruith.
It doesn't matter who's next.
There's no way they can measure up.
I mean, Joe Montana was was mythologically huge.
In fact, Joe Montana, that was one name.
I mean, Joe Montana was such a big deal in San Francisco.
It wasn't Joe Montana, it was Joe Montana.
He just owned everything.
And Young was on the bench.
I can remember I was in a game, the uh Fortners and the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome, and Montana was hurt.
And Young was the starting quarterback, and it was it was not yet his job because Montana was going to come back and reclaim the jog, but soon thereafter would be traded or released and go to the Kansas City Chiefs.
But during the pregame, Joe Montana was granting interviews on the sideline to anybody that had a camera.
Even though he wasn't playing, he was a bigger deal than Steve Young, who was going to be starting that day.
Now, I don't know, I know Steve Young.
I I've got I got to know Steve Young during my stint at the pre-politicized days of ESPN on the Sunday NFL pregame show.
And I've only met Montana once.
But folks, the reason that I have all these things about such philosophies is the only limitations we have in life, for the most of them are the ones we place on ourselves.
When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat competitive nature of things.
And make no mistake, and this is not a cut, I don't want anybody calling Montana and telling him that I was real, because it's not.
But Joe Montana on a day that Steve Young's gonna start because Montana's hurt, and Montana is still trying to soak up all the oxygen with all the pregame interviews.
Now, not, I mean, he could turn them down, but that's not gonna happen.
And the press wanting to talk to Montana was quite natural, he wasn't seeking them out.
But it was a way to keep the light shining on him.
He wanted the job back.
It's just the way it is.
It wasn't mean, it wasn't cruel, it's just the nature of competition.
And my fear is we're not teaching competition, we're shielding people from it.
For the longest time, children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything or participation trophies.
But when you get to real life, and if you really want to amount to something, if you're when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.
That's why the phrase rarefied air.
Uh and it is cutthroat.
The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends, and you have to be able, by virtue of experience, to be able to deal with it.
You're not gonna win every outing.
You're not, and I don't mean game.
You're not gonna beat everybody out for the top job.
And there's all gonna be sometimes you're gonna be the best, but you're not gonna get the gig because there are other factors.
People making the decision might like somebody more than they like you.
It's vicious.
And you have to be totally singularly focused on yourself.
Not in a bad way.
You have to believe in yourself.
You have to believe there's a reason you're trying to pursue the highest levels you can go.
That's because you can do it and you can do it well, and you can do it better than anybody else.
The minute you carve out that life for yourself, you are making enemies.
Because a lot of people are going to be fighting for the same thing, and they're gonna try to be beating you out and denying you uh what you want.
You're gonna be doing the same thing to them.
There are gonna be others who just resent you for thinking you're that good.
They're gonna resent you for even having the audacity to try to climb that high.
I mean, folks, it is vicious out there.
It's also very healthy.
All of these things are things that successful people have to go through in order not just to reach the pinnacle, but then to stay there.
Because I'm going to tell you, getting there while fraught with stress and competition and never-ending assaults, getting there is not even half as hard as staying.
Because once you get there or close to it, everybody wants what you have.
And there's really it's much easier to go south than north when you're at the top.
And so that's why I have this philosophy about limitations.
It's easy to be a victim.
Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.
And what happens to you when you're a victim?
Well, when you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure.
When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault.
When you're a victim, success is not possible.
When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're going to get, and you can't get any further because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.
And the Democrat Party does this on purpose.
The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are.
And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty.
It makes them resentful.
If you're a victim, you're not happy.
You can't be happy.
It's impossible to be happy.
It's even difficult to be content.
If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself.
You're mad at somebody else.
The Democrats have parlayed this into one of the biggest political movements in human history.
And that would be of the victimized.
Look at how many victim groups there are.
And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups.
They all are on the protest march.
They're all angry, they're all enraged.
Some of them are women, some of them are minorities, some of them are illegal immigrants, you name it, but they all have one thing in common.
They have given up on the notion that they could be somebody, and instead have descended into full-fledged victimhood and the comfort of being in a group of like-minded failures.
Why isn't everybody a victim?
It'd be easy if anybody could choose that if they wanted to.
Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal.
It's one of the most gutless choices you can make.
Doesn't take much.
Built-in excuses for failure, built-in excuses for being miserable, built in excuses for being angry all the time, no reason to try to be happy, it's not possible.
You're a victim.
Victim of what?
Well, you're a victim of discrimination.
Well, you're a victim of America.
You're a victim of America's past.
You're a victim of uh of uh religion.
You're you're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever.
You're a victim of something.
The Democrats got one for you.
If you want to be a victim, call them up.
You know, call Schumer.
Tell him, hey, I want to join you, I want to be a victim.
Do you have a group for me?
He'll have one.
He'll ask you what color you are, he'll ask you what your sexual orientation is.
He'll ask you uh what your gender is.
Uh, he'll ask you any number of questions, and he'll give you your choice of victim groups that you can join.
And then he'll show you where you go to get a food stamp allocation here or this or that there, how you get emergency health care if you need it, all on the Democrats, and it can keep it flowing if you just do two things.
Stay victim and vote Democrat.
But the people that don't choose that end up being the ones victims hate.
The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up, the people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be,
and if that's really what they do want to do, victims are gonna hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment.
So if you think, for example, that well, let's say you you you want to do a job and you want to be really you want to rise really high in that career, but where you live, that job doesn't exist.
Your town's too small.
Or maybe the business is in your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, it's not because it's a small town, it's it's not nearly as high as you could go.
If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you.
That's a limitation you're placing on yourself.
Now that's fine.
If that's if that's what makes you happy.
I'm not criticizing things.
I'm just pointing out that it's not usually anybody else's fault when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes it is.
There's exceptions to everything, but it's usually the self-limitations that we attach to uh to ourselves.
I wanted to be a success in radio.
There was no way it was ever going to happen if I stayed where I was born.
It was not possible.
Nothing against where I was born, nothing against the people there.
It just wasn't possible.
I knew when I was 15 that I was gonna have to leave if I was serious about what I was doing.
And back then I knew that that every climb, every rung up the ladder was going to involve another move.
And it did.
And it's I wanted it badly.
I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was, only twice for legitimate insubordination.
Look, I could go on here, but I can't.
We have to make some money, which we do a lot.
Be right back.
Back to the phones.
This is Bob and Merced, California.
Great to have you with us, sir.
What's shaking?
What's happening?
What's up?
God bless you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Wanted to say megadidtoes from Merced, California, a steadfast and unmovable, deplorable.
Yes, there are a bunch of them there.
I happen to know.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just wanted to thank you for the influence that you've had over our family.
My dad turned me on to you back in the 90s.
I was in my twenties.
And I knew that I was a Reagan Republican, and and uh but my dad said, no, son, we're conservatives, and if you want to understand what it means to be a conservative, you need to listen to this man Rush Limbaugh out of Sacramento.
So I started listening, and it took me a little while to understand you being in my twenties because of my age and so forth, but I finally did, and then I was hooked.
And and so you have shaped my dad, myself, my three children are all now uh very dedicated conservatives, and now they're having children to their own, and and so we're believing that a fourth generation will be shaped by by the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
So I want to thank you for that.
Yeah, it's just a beautiful thing.
That's that's wonderful.
I can't.
Well, my granddaughter, my granddaughter will be read the the uh Rush Revere books, I can assure you that.
And I can't wait until she's old enough.
She's only two, got another one on the way.
She's in the she's in the in the making, she'll be here in May.
But uh anyway, I can't wait to read those books to them and shape them.
But the reason I called was I was wondering if you, you know, having seen these states that had previously voted Democrat uh come on board with Trump, those of us who in California who thought in 2012 that we had lost the country and that it was over and that there was no hope,
having seen this this turnaround now, even people like us here in California uh have some renewed hope and vigor, and I was wondering if you could offer a strategy, some advice to us here in California to maybe inspire some hope that maybe we can uh affect change uh here in California, and maybe you might even have to unfetter that other side of your brain to answer this one because I know it's huge California.
California is a huge challenge, and here's the here's the it's easier to explain what happened to California than it is to tell you what to do to fix it.
When I lived in California in 1984, and he said it was a Republican state, the Sacramento where I lived, it was 73% Democrat voter registration.
When I got there, it was in the 60s when I left, we had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento.
But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, he's all people elected governors and so forth.
It's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we've lost California, if I might say.
And now it's just gone so far left, they're seriously talking about seceding.
They're seriously.
Just got an email.
You're really being so philosophical today.
I'm just answering Friday phone calls, just open line Friday.
And we've got an hour of it remaining.
Illegal immigration is what changed California.
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