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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. Here we go. Greetings to you. Music lovers and thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the. Bountiful fruited plain Rush Limbaugh on the Humpday, it's a middle of week, it's great to be with you. On the telephone number is 800 to eight two two eight eight two. The email address, Rumbo FIP net that U.S.. I'm just, Wolf, one thing here. OK, we're going to need sound bites.

Twenty three. Twenty two sequestered at some point as well, Mister Broadcast Engineer. Hey, folks, before I get started with everything on the program today and including how about a Democrat who was on the House Intelligence Committee who has now been outed as being manipulated by a chain com honeypot. The woman's name is Fang Fang. Some call her F'ing Fang. Some call her Funt the fang. Some call her Fang Fang. Some say it's fang thing regardless.

There is a thing in there somewhere. And she's got her hooks into Eric Swalwell, congressman from California. And this guy is as smarmy and as unlikable as anybody you could meet. And he is. He is he was leading the charge about how Trump needed to be impeached. Trump was cavorting with the Russians. He was the guy leading the charge on the golden showers story. From the Steele dossier, which we all now know is true or false, there never was anything about the Steele dossier is true.

In fact, it was all made up, bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. But Eric Swalwell.

Was the one leading the charge on it. Now we find out. That he and this is an axios story which is friendly media as far as Swalwell is concerned, so he's on the House Intelligence Committee and he has been compromised. He has actually been run by a Chinese spy. A very attractive Chinese skycam honeypot may have given him the money to run for the House of Representatives seat that he has. So you know what, folks? What's becoming apparent to me?

We spent four years. This entire country spent four years having to listen every day. I mean, and four and five times a day, The New York Times, for example, sometimes had four different stories a day. They had whatever story made the print version of the paper, and then they had their digital version. And that story wouldn't appear there. It would be updated a number of times. So you could have during the course of a single day, four different stories that were all lies.

I mean, there wasn't a single shred of truth to any of these stories, and yet they quoted famous intelligence community sources. Most were anonymous. We had spokesmen like Clapper and Brennan who were lying through their teeth on television. But when they were testifying under oath, they were telling members of Congress, no, no, no, we've not seen any evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.

And the Republicans on the committee knew they were saying this, but then they go on CNN live through their teeth about it. Trump is a he's an agent. He's our he's a traitor. Trump is working for Vladimir Putin and nobody is doing. Trump's an idiot. Trump's youthful. I mean, just making it all up. And we would for four years of this. Four years of having to fend off and deal with this and knowing the entire four years that there were a bunch of Americans who were believing it.

And more and more Americans were believing it every day because they just kept piling on, the more you hear something and there was never any correction to anything that was wrong and there was never any apology. And even when all this blew up, even when all of it was exposed. There has yet to be. An apology from the mainstream media to their consumers to their customers for having gotten the story wrong, they just moved on to the next one, which is why we call them drive by.

They roll into town, they shoot something up that caused a gigantic mess. They ruined people's lives and they get back in the car and they head on down the road to the next thing. And meanwhile, law abiding people are left to clean up the mess that's the drive by media and Eric Eric Swalwell. Was pushing. Every one of those lies. Throughout those four years, we were told that it was Trump. And by extension, the Republican Party.

They have had deep ties. To the Russians, Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself because he had lunch. With the Russian ambassador. A bunch of Republicans had to recuse themselves, apologize, resign, retire because of the appearance of impropriety that somehow had been. Mixed up with the Russians, meanwhile, what was really going on all those same four years, what was really going on in the story that was really missed was it was the Democrats and China.

It is obvious now, folks, the Chinese own the Democrat Party. The Chinese own much of American pop culture, if you include sports in it. They own the NBA, they own individual players in the NBA and in certain other American sports. They're responsible for their endorsement money, they're responsible for, in some cases, their contracts with the individual teams for whom they play. I mean, we know the story of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. It is the Democrat Party and the trichomes who have long been colluding.

Against the entrance, our interests. Of the United States, we get to this and unpack this further, but before I go any further, I mentioned yesterday on the program that a very prestigious honor was bestowed upon me yesterday and last night in Washington by the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is one of the longest. Surviving conservative think tanks in the country, they have been around longer than I have. They've been around 50 years, 35 or 50 years.

As long as there has been conservatism, there has been the Heritage Foundation. And they they have been a bulwark. And they have they have stood strong and they have not wavered. And they never turned against Magga. They didn't do any of the things that you find that maybe some individuals there did on the rare occasion. For the most part, the Heritage Foundation has always been dependable. They are what you expect them to be. They are what you hope them to be.

And I have had an ongoing relationship with them since. Shortly after this program debuted on August 1st, 1988. Well, last night in Washington. They dedicated some new studios, they're expanding and they they they built a new broadcast complex. And they created new radio studios. They're actually going to have radio programming originating from the foundation rather than have to traipse to various radio stations around town or around the country. And they dedicated those studios to me. In addition, they gave me an award, the Titan of Conservatism Award was presented to me.

Last night, and I want to share with you a couple of audio sound bites from Kay James of the Heritage Foundation who. Made the announcement last night, here's the first of two sound long before I became president, I used Rush Limbaugh as my true north. For decades, I've been listening to his show since the very beginning. I even remember going to the dedicated rush rooms and restaurants where you could listen to the show on your lunch hour. In his first few years with a nationally syndicated show, I always marveled at how people could call him up and say Thank you for speaking up like you do.

I thought I was the only one who had those beliefs. The fact is, Rush helped bring the conservative movement together three hours a day for a family meeting.

That's Kay James of the Heritage Foundation. You know, all of this is happening without any strategy behind it. I mean, I'm trying to just make my mark as a broadcaster, as a radio guy. And I have my own goals as a radio guy that I am attempting to accomplish, achieve, maintain and hold. And it happened to dovetail with the conservative establishment in Washington at the time, most of whom I didn't know. I didn't know them personally.

I got to know them over the years. And not just at Heritage, but a number of other different places, and it it it's it's interesting to me how here I am doing what I'm doing without knowing about the existence of any of these other organizations. I mean, I heard of Heritage, but to me, they were they were not what I was doing. They're a think tank. You know, I'm a broadcasting tank and. The interests nevertheless coincided and it helped firm up.

A movement and give it legitimacy and so forth, and there was I got to tell you folks at the at the beginning of the radio program.

You had traditional human behaviors that nominated some people, ecstatic that there was a radio program out there that was. Properly, correctly, identifying and promoting conservatism, you and others in the conservative movement who were jealous and then you had others who didn't like it at all because I didn't go to college and didn't have a pedigree, didn't have a reputation that they can point to with pride. Like, who is this guy? Where do you come from, what university you go to?

He didn't go to you? Oh, no. So our leading spokesman on the radio doesn't even just barely went through high school. Yeah, that's about it. Oh, no. There is that kind of reaction. But Heritage never had that reaction.

They never once had any airs about them, they they Ed Fuller was the chairman, the president, the Heritage Foundation when I was first starting the program, and he welcomed me in and got me introduced all kinds of people there.

And I would get people otherwise wouldn't have met had it not been for for heritage, here's the second James Bite.

The extraordinary reach of his number one radio talk show has allowed him to convert millions with his common sense, everyday language, explanations of why conservatism works and how every American benefits because of it. Everyone in America knows that the conservative movement simply wouldn't be where it is today without the venerable Rush Limbaugh, the venerable Rush Limbaugh, K. James of the Heritage Foundation.

So I got the Titan of Conservatism Award last night and they renamed. When they renamed, they named their brand new broadcast complex. The Rush Limbaugh radio studios. And that's forever. That's going to be forever going to be people walking in. They're recording things and they will know that they are in the Rush Limbaugh broadcast complex at the at the Heritage Foundation. So I guess I'll thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Snugly saying well-deserved. I wanted to take just a moment here at the beginning to thank everybody at Heritage for both of these honors, because that's that's what they are, the Titan of Conservatism Award and the Rush Limbaugh broadcast studios.

And very appreciative. And I cannot thank them enough for over 30 years of a very good and close working relationship that we've had. And look forward to too many more. Now, my friends, we take a brief time out. And then we'll come back with all the rest of today's exciting big broadcast right after this. No, no, no, I'm here just waiting for the printer to spit something out. Greetings and welcome back.

Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone, the Swalwell story. I'm going to try to cut to the chase. Let's go to audio sound bites. No, no, no. Do a story first and then we'll go to Swalwell trying to talk his way out of that. They headline Suspect Didn't Become a spy. This is the now famous fing thing, Fang, Fang, whatever her name is, slept with and courted U.S. politicians. She's being called a Tricon Mata Hari nickname, Fang, Fang, Fang thing you have, however you wish to identify her.

And her innocent little dupe, Eric Swalwell, now notes that congressional.

Well, there's more on the blame here. The congressional leaders, presumably including Nancy Pelosi, were told about this.

And yet Swalwell was still put on the House Intel Committee after they told Pelosi that this guy was being run. By a trichomes, fine, I guess we shouldn't be surprised Dianne Feinstein had a Sheikdom spy who was her chauffeur. For 19 years, I think the guy also Stockton Pacific Heights refrigerator. The guy was very close to defy, and she claimed. I didn't know the guy worked for the Chinese. You didn't you didn't know your husband had business dealings with the trichomes.

You didn't know that your husband was benefiting from legislation you helped pass as a senator. The Chinese ladies, they are they are so all over the Democrat Party. You'd be stunned if somebody actually get a tree diagram to show you. So they tell Pelosi that Swalwell. Is being run by a trichomes by Fang Fang, very attractive fang fang, by the way. And yet Swalwell was put on the House Intel Committee despite having no military or any other background in intelligence.

He was put there because he is a raw partisan and he knows how to play raw partisan politics.

Suspected spies slept with and courted U.S. politicians. Chinese Matahari allegedly slept with at least two Midwestern mayors while cozying up to a slew of politicians across the country in a bid to infiltrate the U.S. political system. She was on a mission, a U.S. counterintelligence official set of Fang Fang, and it included plenty of seduction before the feds got wind of her antics. And she vanished in 2015, and the idea was for Fang Fang to maneuver herself into key government circles.

Sometimes into politicians beds in order to gain personal information about them, while ingratiating herself with unwitting potential up and coming heavy hitters, intelligence sources told Axios U.S. officials. No, of at least two mayors who had romantic relationships with Fang Fang. She's now probably late 30s or early 40s, had these relationships for three years or so. She had sex with an Ohio mayor in a car. An incident caught on FBI electronic surveillance and intelligence officials said the mayor asked Fang Fang at one point why she was into him.

She said, well, I needed to improve my English. I can't laugh because of pain in my sides here, but I have to tell you, this is hilarious. She was indeed the mayor because she needed to improve her English. Well, let's go. No, no, no, no, we don't have enough time to get the first sound by then. Well, Eric Swalwell suggesting that after the break. At the bottom of the hour now, Swalwell is saying that he didn't do anything here, that he's clean and pure as the wind driven snow, that this is all Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is doing this. Donald Trump and the Russians are doing this. Now, anybody with a brain understands that Swalwell was compromised by the skycam spy, just like Dianne Feinstein was. He refuses to say whether he had sex with the honey trap because he says it's classified. Is that not great?

So I check the e-mail during the break and I guess this e-mail doesn't surprise me. Guy says, Rush, you singlehandedly informed us about the Texas case before the Supreme Court. They end up taking the case after your show ends yesterday. And what are you talking about today, Eric Swalwell? You realize we don't care about Eric Swalwell. Let me tell you something. I don't either. But let me tell you why this matters. See, we do things here for the long term, folks.

We do things building a foundation of things that will survive as history examines the program for years and years and years. And we've as I just said, we just had four years. It's still going on of lies, character assassination. We've had four years of people like Eric Swalwell. And everybody in the Democrat Party, everybody in the news media trying to destroy Donald Trump over things that didn't happen. They had to make up the golden shower story that Trump hired a bunch of prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a hotel in Moscow, that Obama and Michelle, my Belle, had slept, that they made that up.

They had to make up everything. There was not a single shred of evidence that Trump had done anything illegal at any time, anywhere. They've been able to prove nothing. They've had to make it all up. They had to lie to get warrants to spy on Carter. Well, you know the drill. So now, during those four years, what was going on? The Democrats were in bed with the Chinese, and I'm telling you, the Chinese pose a much greater threat than the Russians.

The Chinese are so much more advanced when it comes to tech. When it comes to cyber hacking, I mean, the Russians, they're not slouches, but the China comms. I mean, just leave them in the dirt and here we have the Democrat Party was standing there, sitting there, all the hoity toity, all filled with this phony confidence and bravado, telling the people of this country that their president was a Russian agent. Their president was a Russian spy.

Their president was illegally elected, their president needed to have the president taken the presidency, taken away from him. While all of that was going on every day for four years, the Democrat Party had various members literally in bed with Chinese spies. And who knows what they were giving up, who knows what state secrets Swalwell was giving up in pillow talk? Who knows? That if you think nothing, you better think again, Eric Swalwell is not anywhere near smart enough or good-Looking enough to keep Fang Fang hanging around for real.

Fang Fang could be hanging around because he is worth her time. She is an agent, she is a spy. Dianne Feinstein had a spy for 19 years on her personal staff, was her driver, stocked her refrigerator, made sure kept ice cream for Nancy Pelosi in the fridge, in the freezer. Trichomes economically outpace the Russians like you can't believe the Russians have a smaller GDP than Texas is the devil cam on or off? It's on. It's on.

OK, thanks. What was it offer on? All right. OK, well, no, I can see it fine. I got a note here saying Ed Cam is off from somebody who can't see it out there and I'm sick and tired of it. So that I would ask you yesterday, same guy told me to get the cameras off and it was on. So is it is it on right now? OK, fine, thanks. So anyway.

These people. Have these close personal relationships with Chinese spies. We know that Biden Biden owes whatever wealth he has to China, his son, Hunter, all kinds of sleazy deals with the guy comes and in Ukraine. Now, this was real stuff, that stuff actually happened, all the Trump stuff was made up. It had it had no basis, in fact, whatsoever, so that's why I'm spending time on this. Because we're having we're having games played with us.

Ongoing needs to stop. If it's not going to stop, people need to know exactly how this is happening and why.

I just it's it's extremely frustrating here, folks, what the Democrat Party gets away with and they get away with everything because there is no media. It's that simple. They get away with everything because there isn't a media. Tracking down Eric Swalwell. If a media tracks, Eric Swalwell finds out that he's in bed with a child, comes by. They'll cover it up for him. They don't care. If they think he's valuable to the cause, they'll cover it up.

There is no media. Let's go to Sam Swalwell soundbytes. He was on CNN this morning with Jim Sciutto. Question, did you have any concerns about Fang Fang before you had a defensive briefing from the FBI to make you aware of her threat?

I was shocked. I was told about this individual. And then I offered to help and I did help. And I was thanked by the FBI for my help. And that person is no longer in the country. At the same time the story was being leaked out is the time that I was working on impeachment, on the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. And if this is a country where people who criticize the president are going to have law enforcement information weaponized against them, and that's not a country that any of us want to live in.

And I hope it is investigated as to who leaked this information. So what is he talking? I was shocked, I was told, about this individual, this is Fang Fang. I offered to help. I did help. I was thanked by the FBI for my help. And that person is no longer in the country first, no longer in the country because they got caught, not because you had nothing to do with it. You're still not out of the woods.

Next question, are you concerned that you shared any information with this person before you were notified by the FBI?

Well, I know that I didn't. Again, I can't talk too much about the details of the case, even though others may have violated their oath. I'm not going to violate mine. The people who did share classified information were the people who leaked this story. And to do that against a critic of the president, they may think that they're going to silence me. They're not going to silence me.

Nobody wants to silence you. You have nothing to say anyway. You're just a hack. You're nothing more than a predictable party hack. Nobody is trying to silence you, Mr. Swalwell.

You're not that important.

What people are trying to find out is what you gave up. What kind of state secrets did you volunteer, you didn't even know you had a spy in your midst, in your bed. Next question. This is textbook Chinese influence operation. Congressman Swalwell, they happen frequently inside this country. What does this tell us about the degree of the threat from China today in our congressional offices, Jim?

We don't have the technical capabilities, you know, to run background checks on people who are around us. And my district has a third people of Asian descent. And so, you know, you don't also want to stereotype people as spies. And so I think this means we need to invest more in our intelligence resources, that we don't have people who can do this.

He doesn't have enough money in his offices in order to run background checks. And since so many people in districts are Asian, he cannot accuse any of them of being spies because that's bigotry and prejudice. No wonder the guy was targeted. He's as stupid sitting duck, he's not going to turn anybody in if he finds out that they happen to be spies. We don't have the technical capabilities to run background checks on people who are around this. This is ludicrous in this day and age.

And how about that excuse? Well, so many people of my district are Asian, and I don't want to stereotype people as spies. You're not.

You think it's more important if you're dating a spy, if you are sleeping with a spy, don't you think it's more important for this to be? Learned and acted upon instead of covering it up and hiding it because you might offend some Asians in your district. But we know the answer. Of course, you're not going to want this news out, you're not going to want it revealed because it points out how easily duped you are.

Anyway, that's that's Eric Swalwell, and he's been one of the most hateful critics of President Trump in the past four years. And everything he accused Donald Trump of doing was baseless, nothing, not a single word of things Swalwell accused Trump of doing happened, and yet at the same time, Swalwell was actually in bed. With an official state sponsored spy of the Chinese government, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair. This is Rush Limbaugh Excellence in Broadcasting Network in the Limbaugh Institute for the Advanced Studies of all things that matter.

Here's Herb in Youngstown, Ohio, as we go to the phones. Herb, it's great to have you. Hi, Rush.

Mega Midwest gurgling Codd dittos. You remember the gurgling cod that's gone pretty far back.

It's going back to my first trip to Boston. That would easily be in the early 1990s.

When you first started talking about that, I thought you were referring to Senator Kennedy's driving skills. But apparently I was wrong.

I know what it is. It's it's an actual ceramic work of art, in a sense, because it's the way it's designed. I it's it's about 15 inches high and it's white and it looks like a codfish. It's a pitcher. And you fill it with water. And as you pour water out of the thing, it gurgles like a stump, a stuck toilet, like a stopped up. It's the funniest thing that you hear.

And as the more you pour, the more the gurgle sounds happen. It's a brilliant design and we always associated it with Senator Kennedy. But but it was given to me by my host on that tour to Boston, and it's somewhere in the various office complexes of EIB. I just don't know where it is now. We haven't we have a demo gurgling cotton decades. I'm glad you reminded me of that. What what else is up?

So what's up is I wanted to dovetail my comments with your comments about the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese have been trying to buy off American Democrat politicians going all the way back to the Clinton administration doesn't appear that they want to, you know, try and buy off Republicans. But, you know, you mentioned Peter Schweitzer's book. You know, the Biden the entire extended Biden family is into the Chinese for millions of dollars. It's not just Joe.

It's not just Hunter.

It's Joe's brother. I know. Yep, exactly.

Not only that, the Chinese are buying off Hollywood. They're paying off major media, not just in the United States, but Europe and the UK. They're sending all kinds of money into the American University system. You wonder why our kids are being taught socialism is good. Well, if the universities are getting tens of millions of dollars from these people, there's one plus one equal to. One plus one equals. Yes, it does. So, you know, my comment is, you know, the Chinese, you know, obviously they want to be number one in the world and to be number one, you got to beat number one.

But apparently the Chinese are taking the strategy of instating instead of trying to beat number one, they're just going to pay no one off under the table. It seems like that's what they're really trying to do here.

Well, I think they're trying to do that without having to engage the military. But but they are prepared for that if it were ever to come to it. And if you talk to U.S. military people, if you can get them to be, you know, shoot straight with you, which is sometimes a tough thing to do because so much of what they deal with is classified. They will tell you that the far greater threat. Faced by the United States, is China, both militarily and economically?

The economics that they do want to be the lone superpower economically, that's one of their objectives, and they know to to accomplish that, they have to weaken us. And they are they are well on the way of implementing various aspects of their plans or strategy to. To to pull that off, you're right about them buying off so much of the American market, they literally they own the they own Nike, for example, and they own all the people Nike endorses.

This is Chinese money. That is, that they own Colin Kaepernick. I mean, these these people are all bought and paid for by Chacao money made to look like. The Chinese are not even part of the equation, and they accomplished that by infiltrating these various American corporations, keeping them afloat or having enough of a financial presence in these companies that they can't be ignored. It's been a slow but but purposeful evolution the Chinese have had and it's ongoing.

I'm glad you called. Herb, thanks so much. Nan, The Villages, Florida, you're next. It's great to have you here.

Hey, Russ, I just want to let everybody know, you know, I'm not giving up. And there are 74 million people that feel the same way. And if the Dems and rhinos think that Trump is going away, if he by some chance doesn't make it in he their. They know he knows where the bodies are buried. He is going to be their worst nightmare. What Trump knows Trump. I'm a Trump looking.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Trump knows where the bodies are buried.

You better believe he knows everything that's going on in D.C.. And he's so smart, so much smarter than anybody he's dealing with out there.

So what's he going to do with the knowledge of where the bodies are buried? Well, that's up to him.

But I'll tell you, you know, it's just funny. Everything that they accused Trump of doing, they're doing so he he knows. Exactly. I've just got faith enough in him that to know that he's going to know what to do to handle everything. And I believe that he is God's anointed for a time as such as this and he will be reelected.

What do you want him to you mean what do you want him to do if if he's not if he doesn't win this Texas thing, if he if Biden becomes president, what do you want Trump to do the next four years?

I want him to get in Vestergaard investigations go on paying as a private citizen. I love to see him start a new news network and all the other fake news will go by the wayside, except for a little bit of people that still watch Fox News and Drishti.

Interesting. So you want Trump to spend his entire fortune building a news network and investigating all the Democrats. I can go for that myself and welcome back, just enough time to wrap up the broadcast hour, I have got a photo of the gurgling cod that I will be able to show you on the dino cam when we come back from the break here at the top of the hour. And we'll get into the Texas lawsuit and what the odds are that it will be successful.

So sit tight. We'll be right back.

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If this is what I think it is, this is Rich. Let me read something here real quick that we should explore. Well, don't overdo it, but. Why, this is. I have a sound bite here by Marie Harf. You know, Marie Harf is she's the female version of John Osthoff, female version of Pajama Girl, you know, an Obama ad for for Obamacare.

And she was on Fox earlier today, the program they call outnumbered. And it's like five women and one guy or four women and one guy. It's hosted by Harris Faulkner. And the one guy is called the luckiest guy in because he's on TV with four women and they're supposedly all gunning for the guy, at any rate. Here, let's just play the bite. Marie Harf was very distressed, very distressed over all of the things being said about Eric Swalwell and being in bed with the child comes by Fang Fang.

Even some of the comments that have been made on this show that they had a close relationship, that he was compromised. None of that is borne out by the reporting. None of that is backed up by facts. None of that is backed up by evidence yet. So I think when we are reporting these very sensitive national security stories, we need to focus on the facts. I think all of us covering this story need to actually be a little more careful with our language.

Members of Congress have tens of thousands of donors that give money to them, and there's no evidence that this one donor impacted anything he did in Congress.

So let's not say that on air when we don't have the money to be looking for four years, people like you can lie through your teeth about about Donald Trump being in bed with the Russians, being a Russian spy, being a traitor. And worse, we had to listen to four years of people like Marie Harf. Go on and on and on about how Trump was compromised. He was a Russian agent, some of his administration was too close to the Russians like Flynn.

We had to get rid of these people. And now we can't say that Swalwell did any of this on the air. We don't have any evidence. But this is the hypocrisy and it's times 10. And she, believe me, folks, she has no awareness. What a big hypocrite she is, she thinks that she is just uttering brilliance here, she has no idea. Of the gigantic level of hypocrisy she's engaging in here. For years, this we know what this Chinese spy did.

We know she did it with other Democrats as well. We know she's a honey pot. She was there in order to attract guys, to put them in the heat. She knew how to do it. She's in there getting all kinds of state secrets from Swalwell, kept denying it or not, if they're going to be able to run around and say the things they said about Trump when they knew they were false, by the way, they knew they didn't have any evidence.

They knew there was none ever.

As evidence of that, again, a reminder, we've got we got James Clapper and Brennan and they're both testifying before various House committees and under oath, they are saying we had never seen any evidence that Trump and the Russians had anything to do with each other, never seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And they leave those hearings after being under oath and they go on CNN and say just the exact opposite. Just say the exact opposite.

That Trump is a Russian spy, that there's evidence in Trump's going down. Trump's not going to be able to survive, Trump is going to go down and you can take Vladimir Putin with him. Trump is guilty, all this stuff. And they never had a shred of evidence because they were making it all up.

And by the way, I don't know that anybody ever said that Fang Fang was giving Swalwell any money except for half. Is saying she did, but I don't know anybody else saying it. And she just did in that sound bite. This is folks, this the kind of stuff that it just it really grates on me because these people I don't know how they get positions on TV and why they are not held accountable. She can sit there for four years and she's not alone, you know as well as I do for years, and literally have a free rein, a license to destroy Donald Trump.

With any kind of lie or distortion that she wants to use, then you come up with something with close to evidence on Swalwell, you can't say that on the air. That's very unfortunate. Very unprofessional. That very unkind. We don't have any evidence for that anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, here's the gurgling card. We had a caller in the last hour who wanted to ask me about the gurgling Chod. And that's it.

It's a ceramic. It's it's a work of art, persay. It's a picture of you. I guess you could put a long stemmed flowers in it if you want. But traditionally it is a picture and you put a beverage in their water and the attraction of the gurgling Codd. The reason that it sells is because of the noise that is made when you pour water or whatever liquid is in it.

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Oh, I thought it was louder than that, but anyway, I hadn't heard that sound in a long time, but it is loud and gurgles and to see it happening while it's happening with the water flowing out of it, you can't help but laugh. So that's what the gurgling cut is. Now, will this Texas lawsuit, will it overturn the 20 20 election? Julie Kelly has a has a story at once.

Great, great, great American lives. Yeah, great American, great something and a mental block. And as usual, it didn't print, but grab audio, sound bite number one, just to set this up, this is me from yesterday explaining to people what's important about the Texas lawsuit. This is a very serious allegation because in these states, any election, any changes to election law must come from the state legislatures. They have what's called plenary power over election law.

Individual officeholders in these states cannot arbitrarily change election law, whether there's a pandemic or not, whether there is some kind of a natural disaster brewing out there or not, they just can't do it. So people have said, well, why does Texas care? Well, because if these four states are allowed to get away with basically undermining the United States Constitution, then all existing election law is moot. It's out the window. And that's why it is thought that the court here almost has to take it.

Look, they don't have to take anything, so it's risky to put it that way. But the ramifications of not taking the case are pretty high. So they did take it. They announced late in the day, close to the end of business, that they were going to take the case. Julie Kelly riding an American greatness in a lawsuit filed Monday before the Supreme Court. The state of Texas accuses four other states. Currently won by Joe Biden of using the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to violate the electors clause and the 14th Amendment.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin for usurping the sole authority of state legislatures to create election law and charges that millions of absentee ballots were unlawfully processed by local election officials. The bill of particulars against the four rogue states is quite damning. Unelected bureaucrats like Pennsylvania's Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and members of the Wisconsin Election Commission changed rules at the last minute. And without any authority, local election workers flagrantly violated numerous state election laws.

Rejection rates for mail in ballots were far lower than in the primary elections, despite the unprecedented volume of absentee voting and the statistical probability of Joe Biden's victory in those four states as of three a.m. November 4th. Twenty twenty. Was less than one in a quadrillion. The statistical probability of Joe Biden winning in those four states. As of three a.m. on November 4th, that's. Tuesday, that Wednesday after the election, it's early in the morning, given Trump's substantially lead 8000 vote lead in Pennsylvania was less than one in a quadrillion.

It really is amazing. Trump has this 800000 vote lead in Pennsylvania, massive leads in other states, these four swing states, and then the votes all of a sudden. I stopped counting the counting and stopped around 11 o'clock in these four different districts or cities in swing states. Everything came to a screeching halt. And it's it's a it's a real puzzlement that. Trump outperforms himself to 16 to 20. He gets far more votes from Hispanics and African-Americans and women in 2020 than he got in 2016.

Biden under. Under reports Obama in terms of certain voters, but yet in these four swing cities. In four swing states. Joe Biden ends up with a massive number of votes after the counting has resumed, after Republican observers are sent home. Thinking that the counting is over for the night, why was the counting ever stopped? Well, the answer is obvious. They needed to go out and find votes. I'll tell you what really happened. In my view, I think what really happened is that they had no idea just how big a victory Trump was going to secure here.

I think they I think a few of them bought the notion that he was going to lose.

Maybe they believe their own polls. They thought it might be close, but I don't think any of them thought that Trump was going to get the number, the amount of votes that he got. So their task the night of November 3rd, the morning of November 4th, was far bigger than they had ever imagined. They needed to come up with millions more votes than they ever planned on needing. They had to stop the count. They had to keep Trump's lead in Pennsylvania, 800000, it couldn't go higher, it couldn't get up to a million.

They had to stop. It had to stop in Wisconsin, they had to stop in Michigan. They had to stop at a number of other places.

And then they had to do some real dancing to get these. Dominion machines to spit out. The number of votes that they needed for Biden in order to stop what was happening for Trump. The bill of particulars against the four rogue states is quite damning, the unelected bureaucrats like Kathy Boockvar. Members of the Wisconsin Election Commission changed the rules at the last minute, and without authority, only the state legislature can change election rules. Nobody else can do it, but they took it upon themselves.

Here's a quick bunch of highlights in Pennsylvania. Kathy Boockvar. Who was appointed by Governor Tom Wolf, Democrat in 2019, unilaterally and unconstitutionally ditched Pennsylvania's signature verification verification statute and extended the deadline for receipt of mail in ballots, including envelopes without a postmark until three days past Election Day. She just arbitrarily did this. That's how long it was going to take them to come up with the votes they needed. Unilaterally and unconstitutionally ditched, just eliminated Pennsylvania's signature verification law.

Then extended the deadline for receipt of mail in ballots, including envelopes without a postmark that normally would make them illegal. She extended that deadline until three days past Election Day.

Now, Julie Kelly has explained in previous columns, Pennsylvania election law expressly prohibits the processing of mail in ballots until seven a.m. on Election Day. That rule was clearly violated. Pennsylvania also does not permit ballots to be cured. Cured is yet another law local election officials ignored. Cured can mean need it fixed, examined. This number of constitutionally tainted ballots far exceeds. The approximately eighty one thousand votes separating the candidates in Georgia. Paxton at all claim that the number of unlawfully handled mail in ballots in Georgia far exceeds the margin of victory between Biden and Trump.

Biden is purportedly ahead by fewer than 13000 votes. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who wrote an op ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal claiming that the 2020 election was the most secure in history, accused President Trump of running the Stacey Abrams playbook by refusing to concede Raffensperger made unconstitutional changes to George's election law. In March of twenty twenty, he and the state's Democrat Party reached a settlement that made it much harder to challenge signatures on absentee ballots. That change was not approved by the state legislature, meaning it's illegal if the court.

These are just two states now and with with two little tiny illustrations of violations of law. They're not tiny. They're major. And if the court does hear this case, if they actually hear it. I don't know what they're going to do, I don't know what choice do they have. There are so many violations of state election law here. I mean, this is some of this stuff is you can't ignore it. I wouldn't think I got to take a brief time out.

My friends will be back after this.

Hi. Welcome back. Back to the phones, wego. Charles in Oakland, Maryland. It's your turn, sir. You're up. Great to have you here. Hello.

Long time listener since August of 88. I've enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you, sir. And best to you. I'll get right to my point. If SingSing was drilling a dry hole for four years with Eric, she would have moved on to another congressman. I mean, I can't believe that that Eric thinks that she was just working there. She is a spy. Spies glean information. That's how they get be. That's how their masters like them.

Exactly. What was there for four years wasn't getting any information. She would have been canned or moved on to another person.

That is an excellent point. It's exactly right. They don't have time to waste on this. And if Swalwell is a dry hole, as you say, we already know he's a dry ball. The idea that he be a dry hole is not a big stretch. And so he must have been providing something is the point. Or she wouldn't have hung in that long. You know that the people that work for the Chinese government, I don't know if you see how they're portrayed on on television shows, if you watch the show called NCIS Los Angeles, and because of where that show is set, it's set in Los Angeles.

They often use Chinese spies as characters in story development and they portray them all. They're obviously beautiful, both men and women. They're beautiful. They're they're great looking. They are young. They are classically intelligent, so forth. And all that may be true, but the fact of the matter is, they are nothing but employees and they have to produce. They are as under the gun as any other employee of the Chinese government is. Now, some of them rank higher than others.

Some of them in some of them are in what we would call management. But this woman like Fang Fang. The American media might portray her as a honeypot and and somebody who's running around compromising American and political officials.

All that may be true, but the truth be known, she is. A, no, she is simply an employee, she has a job to do, she has got results that she has to provide, and if she doesn't, she is in big trouble. They all are. And so if you're just long way around saying if Swalwell isn't giving her anything, she's out of there, she'd have time to mess around. She's not in this for love or any of that other stuff.

Swalwell had to be worth something because of how long she was there.

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Hello. Thank you so much. Rush, mega dittos, mega prayers. Thank you. What you have done for this country is just absolutely unprecedented. We are truth seekers. We've been hearing you learning from you and watching all of this. We know it's a globalist, communist technocrat, Democrat takeover. It's treason. And they've been able to take us over by marketing, distracting, entertaining and a huge propaganda machine. The extent of their evil is really unimaginable.

I believe this is a pandemic and I'm afraid it's too late. But I think it's time we mobilize. It's past time. We've sought the truth and we know it's clear what's going on. We need a way, though. And my idea for that is to fight the lies and to take action is to look at the Democrats, how they handled all this, how this all came about. They implemented community organizers, think tanks, special interest groups.

I think we have to get creative and united. And like the prior caller said, yeah, news organization, media new, you know, putting our energy and money towards that. But we have to get our brilliant, resourceful, truth seeking, freedom loving heads and hearts together and fight like our future depends on it. I'd love it if you could help us unite somehow so that we patriots can just rise up and fight this evil. Thank you so much.

God bless you.

Well, thank you, Jamie. What do you envision me doing? Well, I know you know, people and I don't know, I'm just trying to be creative here, but maybe if, like, say, you know, some group that you could advertise that would be interested in maybe even just accepting applications for creative, resourceful people in different communities throughout this country to on different levels work to market against this. I mean, everything from bumper stickers, powerful ways like where we can analyze who our audience is, i.e. these people who believe in all this junk, we have to convince them of what's true.

I don't know if that'll matter for us in the end, but I think that's the right thing to do, is to get more people to see the truth. Yeah, that, in fact, has been if you wanted to try to narrow down my purpose for 30 years, that's been it. And people see the truth, get people see the truth about the left. My whole purpose for being here. Well, aside from the business demands and requirements that have to be met, but as far as content is concerned, it has been to educate and inform people.

About the American left and the Democrat Party and give them sufficient information that would allow them to reject the Democrat Party, to abandon the Democrat Party, to believe and to understand that the Democrat Party is a black hole. And once you end up in it, you end up in a place that's going to be dark and dank and it's not going to provide you anywhere near what you think this country is capable of. Now. I don't know how you would judge me in terms of success or failure in that objective over the past 30 years, but I if I look at it honestly, there's still a lot of work to do.

There's still a lot that has to be done. And it's it's 30 years. And by the way, when I started, I was it. From 1988. To about. Well, let's since 1988 to 1997, it was me and then some of my guest hosts got their own radio shows, and then about 1996 or 97, here came Fox News. Then the blogosphere sprung up and websites and the so-called conservative media was was born, and that's when the left began to lose their monopoly on everything.

And that's when they became when they lost the monopoly. That's when they became partisan participants. That's actually when ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times decided that playing at being objective and fair was not going to do it anymore. They had to take out this new conservative media, they had to destroy it, so they began this this instant course of character ruination, character assassination of all of us on the so-called right who they deemed to be effective.

And I think that was the beginning of the perception of partisanship. You know, the media has such a powerful impact on. Our culture on our society, when the media was as it was up to 1988. Some people thought that they were fair, balanced, objective and all that, and it was just the truth, whatever Cronkite said, whatever Howard K. Smith said, Peter Jennings, it was the truth. And they had their commentators and so forth.

And John Chancellory that Peter or rather Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, all these people.

But then when they lost their monopoly. The people at the networks, ABC, CBS, NBC became partisan combatants, not just. Playing the role of an objective journalist, they abandoned that, and I think that's when the so-called partisanship in our culture, that's when it began. I've often raised my hands. I'll take the blame for it. I caused it until I came along. The mainstream media was able to pretend. That they were news people, that they were journalists, they were able to pretend that what they were doing was the news and that if they didn't cover it, you didn't need to know about it.

Nothing to see here. If they did cover it, it was important. But when they became combatants. You know what I mean by that, Mr.. When they became when they became combatants, when it became their mission not just to be seen as reporting the news, but when they came to be seen as. People participating in the partisan warfare in America. On whose side did they fall, they obviously were Democrats, so when the media became obvious Democrats and advanced the Democrat agenda, that's when the so-called partisanship in this country, I think, began.

Now, it was actually began many years before that, but that's when the perception of it beginning happened.

And so the reason this is important is because. We get blame for this partisanship. They sit there and say, hey, everything was fine in this country till you came along. You with your lies and your distortions and your racism and your bigotry, that's what they say, everything was fine. We had the three networks, we had the newspapers. Everybody trusted what they said in the media and every trust in what we said in the media. And then you come along and you start telling people that we're making this up and making that up when we were right.

Yeah, yeah, I know. But you didn't have to tell people that. So that's when the partisan divide began and it's only intensified. And Trump gets elected president, we call a bunch of years off the future here, when Trump became president, that was the epitome of the people on the left thinking they were losing everything.

And so their partisanship became as mean spirited as it ever has. So now we're in this situation where there isn't any media anymore. We don't have journalism anymore. There's no news. And if that's the case, where do you go, where do you go to get news? If you're on our side of the aisle and you know. That the mainstream media is nothing but the Democrat Party. Nothing about the American left. It's nothing but the cattle call leadership of socialism, then where do you go to get news?

It used to be not that long ago you'd read The New York Times or your local newspaper. Maybe USA Today, maybe you read The Washington Post. I don't know, you'd turn on ABC, CBS, NBC, but now where do you go? Because I guarantee you turn on The New York Times or read it, read the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC. It's all going to be the same stuff.

They may present a different order, it's all going to be the same stories with the same take and the same commentary. Where do you go? To find the news. Because there still is news being made out there. It's just nobody's covering it. We do, actually, that's what we have done, and that's what the way we we cover the news, we tell you things happening out there that they don't. The things they don't tell you were happening are things that are damaging to them.

Anyway, I'm a little long, I must take a brief break, we'll do that. Be right back after this. Don't go away.

So during the during the obscene profit time out mere moments ago, Mr. Sturdily, the official program observer, peppered me with a question. The question was, what exactly are we ever going to win the.

You know, you talk about when elections are just. OK. All right, Mr. Sturdily is asking if we're ever going to be able to win, and he's talking about elections. Votes. Are we ever going to be able to win without taking back some of these cities? He's talking about blue cities like New York. Philadelphia, I assume you mean Detroit. Do you include no wonkiness, definitely. All right, what about Oakland, California? Too far gone.

San Francisco. Well, you think we get San Francisco? Look, we won election after election after election without winning the cities or the states there in. I thought you were asking me something else when you said, well, can we win? I mean, can we can you can we win the culture? Can we dominate the culture?

I, I actually think. And I've referenced this I've alluded to this a couple of times because I've seen others allude to this, I actually think that we're trending toward. Secession. I see more and more people asking, what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York? What is their. That makes us believe that there is enough of us there to even have a chance at winning New York, especially if you're talking about votes.

I see a lot of bloggers, I can't think of names right now, a lot of bloggers have written extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming politically. And that it can't go on this way, there cannot be a peaceful coexistence. Of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can't be in this dire a conflict. Without something giving somewhere along the way, and I know that there is a.

Sizable and growing sentiment for people who believe that that is where we're headed, whether we want to or not. Whether we want to go there or not, I myself haven't haven't I haven't made up my mind. I still haven't given up the idea that we are the majority and that all we have to do is find a way to unite and win. And our problem is.

The fact that there are just. So many Reino, so, so many Republicans in the Washington establishment who will do anything to maintain their membership in the establishment because of the perks and the opportunities that are presented for their kids and so forth. But I can't expand on this at the moment because I've got another break.

But we'll be back and continue in a moment.

So every day people call here with ideas what we all have to do, and every idea requires everybody else doing something. And I you know, I politely listen to these ideas and I try to figure out how best to restructure them and analyze them in some meaningful way, and I keep doing it.

Hi, folks. Welcome back. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh, middle of the week, Wednesday. This is Hump Day. It's December. It's Christmas. It's the most wonderful, beautiful time of the year traditionally. And a lot of people are trying to make it so again this year. You got to love them. You got to love the people trying to keep tradition alive because there are so many people who are doing just the opposite.

They're trying to destroy every American tradition, tradition and get their hands on every American institution they can get their hands on. It is. For some people, it's depressing, for other people, it just makes them mad. Others just scratch their heads and say, why can't people just be happy? Why does everybody have to be so mad all the time? Well, everybody isn't mad all the time. The people who are mad all the time are people on the left.

And I know it sounds simplistic to say, but just ask yourself something if you doubt me. When's the last time you ever saw one of those people literally happy? Even after they have won something, they claimed to have really wanted some legislative ideas, some new government benefit, whatever it is, when's the last time you saw them happy?

When's the last time you saw them smile? You cannot satisfy them. You cannot give them enough, no matter how much they want. You give it to them. They always want more.

They are perpetual victims, which is why they cannot be happy. They are perpetual victims, they are victims of this country's racism and bigotry, its unfairness, and they infect everybody with their pessimism. They infect everybody with the negativism. And they are relentless. I have a column here by Jason Whitlock at the the website is out kick. Dotcom, China's ban on Twitter might be its single greatest advantage over the United States of America. China's ban on Twitter social media has accelerated America's transition from a competition based society to an attention based one.

This acceleration can be mostly easily seen in the world of sports. This is a key point, folks, so stick with me here. Social media, which is poison. Has accelerated America's transition from a competition based society to an attention based society out of the words competition is bad. It hurts people's feelings because there are people who don't win. It is not fair. So what if we transition to notice me, notice? Hey, hey, notice me, I'm here, I matter.

Hey, and as long as you notice somebody and they can get your attention, they're happy, but don't expect them to have to compete for it. Now, Whitlock says that this acceleration can be most easily seen in a world of sports. The modern day Muhammad Ali, he says, is Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick has the resume of Jimmy Young, a heavyweight boxer most famous for losing a controversial decision to wildly, you no longer have to be the greatest to even be compared to the greatest.

You simply need to win the social media attention competition. The young ladies at Vanderbilt University have been inspired by the Kapper Nick model, the Commodores women's basketball team announced via Twitter on Tuesday afternoon that they will not be partaking in the pregame national anthem. They will sit inside their locker room and mourn racial injustice while the national anthem is being played in the arena. Yeah, that'll fix it. No one cares all that much about the Vanderbilt women's basketball team they have in advance of the NCAA tournament in six seasons, they've never won the SCC regular season title.

Their current coach, Stephanie White, has a lot in common with former football coach Derrick Mason. She's under a lot of pressure entering this season in her previous four seasons at Vanderbilt, the Commodores have never finished higher than tied for 12th in the FCC.

Last month, Mason tried to save his job by recruiting a player from the school's women's soccer team. To squib a second half kickoff, he wanted her for one play. The publicity stunt worked to perfection, Sarah Fuller's 30 yard kick was treated like the left hand shot Buster Douglas delivered to knock out Mike Tyson.

You remember that, right, big story. Thirty yard kickoff, not even four points. Just a squib onside kick, but a woman did it. She joined the she joined the guys football team. She proved that women can play with the guys. All she did was squib kick a football off a tee.

But the kick heard round the world did not rescue Mason, Vanderveldt fired him two days later, his virtue's signal and the attention laddered on. Sarah Fuller did, however, inspire young women on the Vanderbilt basketball team. They publicly announced their decision to privately mourn racial injustice. You see, it's an attention grab attention, not competition's becoming the point of sports. This week's Sports Illustrated named five activist athletes, Sports Persons of the Year. NBA star LeBron James, NFL star Patrick Mahomes WNBA player, Breanna Stewart, tennis star Naomi Osaka and retired NFL lineman Lauren DuVernay Tardif.

Whitlock says here is a Chiefs man. Mahomes and DuVernay Tardif are and were chiefs players, Mahomes my favorite athlete at the moment, he writes, Mahomes activism comes down to fronting a couple of Black Lives Matter commercials and tweeting in solidarity with LeBron. DuVernay Tardif, a doctor, didn't play football this season, he wrote on Twitter that he opted out over concerns about covid and fear that he could unintentionally transmit the disease. Sports Illustrated claims that DuVernay Tardif opted out so he could work on the front lines of the medical pandemic.

The reality is he's no more heroic than Avery Bradley, the Lakers guard who opted out of the NBA bubble for the same reason DuVernay Tardif did. What's being promoted by Sports Illustrated, the mainstream media and social media is media approved activism and attention holding competitions being deemphasized. And I'm supposed to be ashamed that I'm that I'm bothered by this. But I'm not an attention based society cannot compete with China, folks. And attention based society cannot compete with the trichomes.

Communist run country, rapidly changing American culture. No, I don't support banning Twitter. That's what communist and the freedom countries do. What we used to do in America is break up monopolies, especially ones that operate as undemocratically as Twitter and Facebook. The activist athlete isn't changing America for the better, he or she is simply building a brand to be monetized domestically and globally. And the global monetisation process stops first in China, the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, the political apparatus running China financially rewards leagues like the NBA, corporations like Nike, athletes like LeBron and Kaepernick, and entertainers like movie stars willing to smear America as inherently racist, sexist and evil.

China doesn't care about American winners, it cares about athletes and entertainers who can bring the most attention to their anti-American propaganda campaign because it's now an attention based. Society. So the more people you can attract to you by being anti-American, the more valuable you are to the Chinese and they will underwrite you and they will fund you and they'll make sure you don't need to be hired by the NFL. Colin. In order to have a lifestyle lifestyle. China bans Twitter because it wants its citizens focused on competition with America.

China manipulates our social media apps because our competition for attention undermines the competitive spirit that used to define our culture and made us the envy of the world.

Whitlock has been on a roll lately about what's happening to the United States, and he's using the world of sports as the looking glass. And he sees a rapid. Deterioration of the essence of sports, and that's the competitive nature of it. And it's being replaced by notice me, notice me attention grabbing things that are then used for for political purposes. Back to the audio, sound bites have Trump lawyer Jordan Sekulow was on Newsmax last night and they were talking about the Texas case that we referenced earlier that the Supreme Court has taken.

And, you know, it's going to be real fascinating to see what the court does with it. They've taken the case. We don't know how that is going to manifest itself. But, man, there are so many clear violations of law. That are obvious in the case as it's been written in the lawsuit. And it's going to be real hard to ignore. These are serious violations of law, so let's listen, this is one of Trump's lawyers, Jordan's skill, the question, OK, we got the Pennsylvania case basically thrown out, but Texas and just a snowballing effect of states joining Texas.

That's got to hold weight with the Supreme Court. Right.

The states that were named, they have to now respond by Thursday at three p.m. to this bill of complaint and they have to respond to very specific items. So the Supreme Court is not just considering what Texas filed today. They are now going the next step, which is saying we want a response from the states named. Again, I think it's very clear this is the case we've been talking about to reach SCOTUS. This is the outcome determinative case, 62 Electoral College votes at stake, enough to change the outcome of the election.

This is the be all end all case. This is the major challenge, the one we were waiting for.

Now, this is Team Trump. This is the one team Trump has been aiming at all along, that the Pennsylvania case was the campaign. The Trump campaign had nothing to do with that case. That was the other people were behind that. And that case is unfortunately it's been dismissed or thrown out, which was just too bad. But Sekulow is right here. This this case and Alito. Alito signaled that they were interested in this way back when he gave them the date of today, that a number of things had to be rectified, these votes had to be sequestered.

Finally, they had to be separated. They weren't when the mail in versus the same day election. But there are enough electoral votes up for grabs here to change this election, and there were clear violations of law in these states, the constitutions of these states clearly. Say that only the state legislature can make and or change election law. State secretaries of state cannot yet they did it in Pennsylvania. In Michigan. Secretaries of state and other state officials arbitrarily changed the way votes were counted, changed the way mail in ballots were dealt with.

All of that is against the law. Putting in a common vernacular. Here's Ken Paxton this this morning on Fox and Friends, this is Texas attorney Ken Paxton. And the question, why? Why is Texas getting involved in this in the first place?

These elections and other states where state law was not followed as required by the Constitution affects my voters because these are national elections. And so if they're fraudulent activities or things that affect an election and state laws is not followed as is required by the Constitution, it affects our state. It affects every state. A state on state action has to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. The only place we can go. So we're very hopeful that they'll at least hear our arguments.

Look, that's a very key point as well when it's state versus state. The case can and has to go to the Supreme Court first Supreme Courts, an appellate court, the Supreme Court never hears a case for the first time. It's not a trial court, except in these circumstances, state versus state has to go to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court took it. And Paxton here is saying, look, if they get away with this in these four states, they're corrupting election law everywhere, we've got to stop it.

Next question, is the horse out of the barn? No, I mean, it's been five weeks. A lot of these judges, 50 cases without a victory.

A lot of these courts are saying, I don't want anything to do with this.

OK, back to where we were, where the broadcast engineer just had a brain fart and stopped paying attention. What I intended to play here was audio sound bite number five. The second bite from Ken Paxton is the horse out of the barn. It's been five weeks. A lot of these judges, there's been 50 cases. And without a victory, a lot of these courts are saying, I don't want to hear it, even though the genie is out of the bottle.

Our argument isn't necessarily directly about the fraud argument. Is that because the states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin did not follow their own state law and these orders were by other elected officials to change the law or by other judges, that is unconstitutional. Therefore, we can't go back and fix it. But we can say, OK, let's transfer this to the legislature, which used to do this and other states and let them to decide the outcome of the election. That would be a valid constitutional situation.

And it's exactly right. So what are the objectives here? The remedy is to is to send the election back to the state legislatures.

Since they were aced out, they really were ignored and election law in these swing state cities was changed. Now, given that the state legislatures in these states are likely going to be Democrat, they probably don't even care. As long as the end result happened, the end result, Biden wins as far as they're concerned, that's fine. But Paxton said, look, the genie is out of the bottle, our argument isn't necessarily directed to the fraud.

Our argument is because these states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, didn't follow their own law and that these orders were by other elected officials to change the law or by other judges. That's unconstitutional. He says we can't go back and fix it, I disagree with that, but nevertheless, we can say, let's transfer this to the legislature. Now, Trump has has tweeted that he's going to be intervening in the Texas case and many others. He said this is the big one.

Our country needs a victory that was from 844 this morning. Now, Texases challenge. To the Supreme Court, it really isn't a partisan issue, it's always been about the rule of law. There are governors in states that are overriding state legislatures with orders that change the rules passed into law of how elections are conducted. Now, I realize that there this is a sad state, but I realize there are people come on, Rush, you realize this drop, this isn't nothing's going to change here.

You just got to learn to let these things go. I understand the sentiment you think all is lost, it's too late in the day and there's not enough time, but man, the Constitution has to matter if it's this easy.

And it always has been it's amazing this country's lasted as long as it has. I marvel at it. I really do. The Constitution is just a bunch of pieces of paper with words on them. It does not have a military. The Constitution is not persay armed. If we elect somebody as president. Who wants to become a dictator? All he's got to do is ignore the Constitution, and yet nobody has. In all of our history, that constitution somehow.

Has kept people out. Now the left has tried to find little ways around it here and there while making it look like they still support it. But given human nature, the quest for power, a lot of people have, the idea that we still governed by that constitution is amazing.

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Well, now begin. You begin. I'm just appalled at what's going on. I mean, William Barr, who's supposed to be a wonderful conservative. The Dorham report and the investigation went nowhere. No one seems to be punished for this. It's all kinds of illegal happening. And then on top of it, Mr. Barr says that he sees no fraud in this election.

Why didn't he walk that back somewhat? I'm not aware of it, if he did, I think he tried to I didn't see it, but I've read that he had tried to walk it back somewhat. Don't lose your train of thought here. As to the Durham report, we are all scratching our heads over this. Everybody, I think even the president was expecting a report before the election. And it didn't happen, but what BA has done, he has named Durham a special counsel in that meeting.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. That means the investigation is going to go on. It means that Biden is going to have a real tough time firing Durham if he wants to. It it would be akin to if Trump had tried to fire Mueller.

I heard that he was going to. Terminate. I heard on the news that he was going to terminate the special counsel once Biden came became president. Now, I don't know how true that is, but that's what I heard. When did you hear that? A couple of days ago.

You heard that that bar was going to terminate. Terminate the special counsel once Biden was sworn into office. Oh, wait, you mean but I have something else to say about this.

OK, OK, we'll just leave that out because I don't usually was going to terminate Durham or the special counsel law.

The special counsel. Not to her, but, you know, it would go nowhere. In other words. You know, what's what's what's your other point? Now I continue with. The the decision, you know, you'd have to be dumb or blind. Or deaf or mentally retarded to not realize that there was some fraud in this particular election. Here we have five conservatives on the Supreme Court and they didn't take the Pennsylvania case, there definitely needed to be some investigation, but they didn't want to get their hands dirty.

I understand that they don't want to make a decision about the election, but where does that leave us as a people? Now, the Texas thing is now you're saying that they took it, but I don't know what that means because they're asking for the other states that are involved to have some kind of response, which is exactly what they did in the in the Pennsylvania matter. They asked, you know, Pennsylvania to have a response and then they just dismissed it.

My point is, if they don't take this Texas, Texas case and hear arguments and do something with five conservative judges, what difference does it make if the court is packed? They leave us to this broad to again, breaking of the law and all this nonsense. When you talk about succession, which I never thought of, it gives me a little piece. But otherwise I'm just appalled at all of. Well, I can imagine you are given what you think the Supreme Court has taken the Texas case.

What does that mean exactly? It means they're going to hear it, they're going to hear arguments. Oh, that's that's going to happen.

That's apparently I mean, unless I don't know the language anymore.

No, that's that's that's, you know, entirely possible. But they're going to take it trumps all excited about it. He's going to intervene. He meant he's going to join the case. Trump actually had another tweet this morning, he said, we will soon be learning about the word courage and saving our country. I receive hundreds of thousands of legal votes, more in all the swing states than did my opponent. All data taken after the vote says that it was impossible for me to lose unless it was fixed.

This is the case, they've always wanted to go before the Supreme Court. This is the campaign's case. This is the Trump campaign's case.

And they were given the signal late yesterday afternoon that they are the court is going to take it up.

So that's next on the docket. Up next, Greg in Polk County, Tennessee. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

Hi, Rush. Dittos and prayers and Thanksgiving for you. Thank you, sir. You do. After seeing all the things that they missed, the FBI, the NSA and the CIA, they missed the 9/11 hijackers. They missed Vongfong and they missed they sat on Hunter's laptop and then they persecute the president. And General Flynn, I think we need to have an amendment so that civil servants can only serve 10 years and they have to go and get a real job in the private sector that basically it's like we have a whole other country running us and we're just the helots, the vassals, the the people, the underlings that they view us basically as peasants.

And they need to go after 10 years. OK, and I'm sorry, I just we we got people staying in Washington for too long, they need to get away from Washington after 10 years, not come 100 within 100 miles of Washington. That culture is killing us. It needs to be uprooted and sent away. All right, all right. I'm glad you called. Thanks. Thank you very much. But now I'm being told that I got a guy says he's not sure the Supreme Court's taking the case.

So I don't know what's going on, folks.

I haven't the slightest idea. We'll take a break and be back right after this.

OK, welcome back, my friends. Wrapping it up for our final big moments of the EIB Network today. This is John in Cheshire, Connecticut. Welcome, sir. It's great to have you with us.

Thank you very much. God bless you. You know, you've said on many occasions in the past that we are not going to fix all these problems in one election. And as we're seeing, the problems are so much deeper than almost anyone can believe. And it's really a worldwide thing. And the bottom line for me is I trust President Trump 100 percent. And I know that he has a plan. You know, people look at him and he shoots from the hip and all this stuff, everything he does, he plays a strategic card.

And, you know, to me, it's brilliant. And you just said that, you know, he got the case that he wanted now and here it is. And I remember just a couple of weeks ago, everybody getting in a tizzy over the fact that, you know, the lawyers got up there, the three lawyers, and they didn't present any evidence. Well, they said in the very beginning and they and they said it multiple times, that the purpose of that presentation was not to give specific evidence, but just to do an outline of what was going to happen.

And here we are a few weeks later and we're seeing everything shake out, you know, the way it's shaking out. So, I mean, I want to tell people to, you know, to believe in him. You know, he has a plan. He set them up every step of the way. He's come out on top and everything. And to those people who wanted the arrests to happen right away and, you know, Hillary and all this other stuff, it wouldn't have worked.

There's no way it would have worked because all I have to do is point you to Emmet Sullivan, OK? And we're also seeing the corruption that's in the jury judiciary, you know, throughout the whole country. Obama had a long time and even George Bush failed us in terms of putting the right people in those roles. Mitch McConnell has done a great job as far as putting judges in place that will follow the law. There's still a lot of work to be done.

And, you know, we have to hope that the Supreme Court does the right thing, including you, Mr. John Roberts, on this, because pretty cut and dry that, you know, the country is being disenfranchised here. And a lot of props here to Texas and all these other states that join in. You think Trump has a master plan? Oh, no question about it. I mean, he's been a step ahead of them.

He has a master plan for what? Well, the thing of it is the important thing is that the people had to be shown this, the depth of the corruption, and that's what's happening. It's really not rush about the 30 million listeners, you know, that you have. I mean, we're on board, but it's the fight for the minds of those people that are, you know, maybe on the fence. And we saw that with 75 million votes.

And I have a feeling it's probably more than that because, you know, I'm here in Connecticut and, you know, some of these other states, I'm sure that there were plenty of votes that were, you know, still in there to get those that popular vote up. But the idea is, is to get those people that are on the fence win their hearts and minds over one at a time. And I think he's been doing that over a period of four years.

And now it's coming out, you know, with with China. And what we're seeing, you know, is happening there. That's, you know, for many people, that's going to be a bridge too far and.

Well, yeah, if they hear about it. Well, that's I mean, we have that problem right now because people are being censored all over the place, you know, on Twitter and Facebook. And that's just going to continue and that's going to up the game. So the lady before said, well, you know, what can we do? I mean, we're if this is information warfare, really, and we really need to find ways that people that we're close to to get these messages out, you know, that's why they don't want us together for Thanksgiving or the holidays or, you know, stuff because, you know, we'll be in front of our friends and relatives and those people and, you know, we might influence them or enlighten them to the things that are actually going on here.

So a lot of this, you know, that mask is really a muzzle. And, you know, they really, really want to keep us muzzled.

Right. Well, you you say Muslim or muzzled. Muzzled. Muzzled, honest to God.

Sound like he called the a Muslim to me. That's why I had to ask. It's my hearing. All right.

Thanks out there, John. I'm glad you glad you got to Huntsville, Alabama, next. Scott, great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.

Hey, Rush, make it dittos from Huntsville. We love you. Been a listener since 1988. Wow.

It's great to have you here.

Is great beyond have been great. Thank you. And make it prayers. Thank you, sir. I think that Durham is being protected by being appointed the way that Bart did so that he can protect Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Obama and Clinton's. So I'll take a little different approach to that, don't you think?

Sure. You think that Barr appointed Durham to basically protect Clapper? Call me Brennan, the Clintons and Charlie Tree. Yes, sir.

I certainly do. So we're being lied to about that, that Brennan's Durham's not out there trying to find the details in Trump's campaign was spied on.

Exactly. That's exactly it. Why why would why would Durham have to protect anybody? There was no investigation of these people to begin with. I think holding the investigation off until after the election was a mistake. I think that what William Barr did in his public announcement of no fraud, no no apparent evidence to turn the election, I think that it was all predicated upon his next move, which is to protect Brenan Klapper comi from being indicted even after the election.

Well, after the election is now, we don't even know we don't even we don't even know if Durham's alive. Has anybody seen the guy? We don't even know where the guy has been. We know that there's a grand jury, but we don't know, Jack, about what Durham's been doing. And now now Alabamans I mean, folks, they know.

They know. And if Durham's there to protect Klapper, it's worse than I thought.

OK, well, I'm being told by two or three people here, the Supreme Court is not taking the Texas case. All they've done is ask the states for a response.

And they make up their mind after I guess they see that, so anyway, have a great rest of the day and tomorrow, see, you're right back here.

Same time, folks. Thanks for being with us.

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