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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. It is great to have you here today. Great to be with you. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Studies. Of all things that matter, telephone number, 800 to eight due to a two. If you want to be on the program, we're going to do a version of Open Line Friday today, Mr.

Snootily, whatever people want to call about, whatever they want to ask about, whatever they want to say anything about, let them have at it.

And it's since we're not going to be here on Friday, this is in fact the last program of the year for me. And folks, I want to tell you at the outset here. To me, this is a very important program I have very much. And I want to say to all of you today, and I'm feeling very pressured, not pressured, I'm feeling stagefright kind of thing. I so much I want to say and I want to say it correctly.

I want to convey my feelings and I want to do it right. I want to do it to the to the best of my ability. And I have found in circumstances like this that the best thing to do is not to think about it. Don't don't make it more pressure packed than it already is. But it's very important. You all are very important. My family is very important to me. I've had I've had a year now to reflect on the things that really matter a year to reflect on the things that are completely relevant and important to me.

And all of you were in that large. Conglomeration of people and things. That are very important to me. I want to go back at normally, by the way, I wait until the third hour of the program to, as I always said, that I, I usually use the Christmas program, such as this one, to engage in my thankyous and my thankfulness for the year rather than at Thanksgiving. And I don't know why something about Christmas, my childhood memories of it, the family is getting together and the the children making it what it was.

My feelings of thankfulness always surface. My feelings of great gratitude always surface at the Christmas time of year. And it's no different this year now. In January of this year, toward the end of the month, I received a diagnosis, you all know, but there's something I want to say about it.

Stage for advanced lung cancer. Terminal diagnosis. The objective of everybody involved was to. Extend life. For as long as possible, as enjoyably as possible, now, many of you have been through this. Lots of you have been through this as individuals, as families. And you know what that means? Medical treatment that is designed to. Attack the disease. As greatly as possible while maintaining a quality of life that makes it worth it. Some people can't deal with the side effects of chemo or other forms of treatment.

Well, back in late January when I received this diagnosis and I was shocked. I was stunned and I was in denial for about a week. I mean. I'm Rush Limbaugh, I'm. I'm Mr. Big, the vast right wing conspiracy. I mean, I'm I'm indestructible. This can't be right. But it was. And what I didn't know. At the time that I learned later in the course of the year was that I wasn't expected to be alive today.

I wasn't expected to make it to October and then to November and then to December and yet. Here I am and today. We've got some problems, but I'm feeling pretty good today. God's with me today. God knows how important this program is to me today. And I'm feeling natural in terms of energy, normal in terms of energy, and I'm feeling entirely capable of doing it today. I have been blessed, I mentioned to all of you back in the early days sometime, I guess this might have been in February, it was around.

It was, I think, either during or shortly after I had received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

At this year's State of the Union address by President Trump in the House chamber, by the way, something I really hope that president he have a marvelous speech last night, four minute speech on the covid relief debacle coming out of the Congress that should be studied in a master's course in communication. It was clear, it was concise, it was well paced. It was powerful. It was on brand and it was classic. It was the kind of speech only an outsider could have made.

And I really hoped that Trump would sit down and start ripping up the bill as Pelosi ripped up his speech. You know, when she began to rip up his speech is when he began the presentation of the medal to me seated next to his wife, the first lady, Melania and I, I turned my back to her, which is proper. She was the one who actually put the medal around my neck. And I thought it'd be great if Trump would have ripped up that bill.

But he didn't. And that's that's understandable as well. But I remember I remember saying to all of you at that at that time.

That I had a a little bit of understanding of something that had perplexed me for a lot of my life, and that was Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig, the Ironhorse, New York Yankees. Set the record for consecutive games played until Cal Ripken came along decades later and broken, and on the day that Ripken are the day that Lou Gehrig announced that he had his disease, that was forcing him to retire from Major League Baseball. He said.

To the sold out Yankee Stadium today, I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the Earth and I I didn't understand that. I mean, here's a guy who had just been.

Diagnosed with the most terminal of terminal diseases. And I said this, this can't be you can't really think he's the luckiest guy in the world, this is just something that he's saying. Because it will play well, it'll I don't I don't mean to be insulting Lou Gehrig, don't misunderstand. I'm just thinking how in the world, if you're being honest, can you feel like you're the luckiest man on the face of the earth? Well, when I got my diagnosis and when I began to.

Receive all of the outpouring of. Love and affection from everywhere in my life, from from so many of you, in so many ways and and from my family who.

And they have supported me my entire career even. During times, it would have been understandable and easy for them to say, Rush, who we don't know this guy, but that never happened. I mean, I've been totally supported by virtually everybody in my family. I've been propped up by I have been defended. I've been made to look better than I am.

My. My lovely wife, Catherine, has done so much in that regard. She has done so much with Rush Limbaugh dot com and with the charitable efforts that we have engaged in. And all of it has been to my benefit.

All of it has been for the yours. It's the benefit of people who are the recipients of our efforts.

So many people have put me first. In all of this, I understand now. What Lou Gehrig meant, because I certainly feel like that I feel extremely fortunate and lucky. And because I have outlived the diagnosis, I've been able to receive and hear and process some of the most. Wonderful, nice things about me that. I might not have ever heard. And I not gotten sick again, think how many people. Who passed away, never hear the eulogies, never hear the the thankyous.

I've been very lucky folks, and I can't tell you how many how many ways. You. I when this kind of thing befalls you. It's hard not to become self focused. It's hard to not just think of yourself and it's hard to. I think that everybody is going to drop what they're doing and deal with with me, with you, you have to guard against that because this is to the family. This is as. Disrupting. It's as upsetting.

As it is to me, and in some cases even more so. So you can't I can't be self-absorbed about it when that is the tendency when you are. Told that you've got a due date, you have an expiration date. A lot of people never get told that. And so they they. Don't face life this way. This is not a complaint, I'm simply this is why I said so much I want to say today and so much I want to say.

Well, so much I want to say exactly as I'm as I'm feeling it. Because my my point in all of this today is gratitude. My my point in everything today that I share with you about this is to say thanks and to. Tell everybody involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still beating heart, and there's room for for much more. All because. I have I've learned what love really is during this.

You know, I have a philosophy there's good that happens in everything that may not reveal itself immediately and even in the most dire circumstances, if you just wait, you just remain open to things the good in it. Will reveal itself, and that has happened to me as well in countless, countless ways, you know, I mentioned Catherine, don't misunderstand. She's done much more than. Just redesign Web site in the and Shepherd, the Rush Limbaugh com store, she shepherded the charitable efforts, the Betsy Ross stand up for Betsy Ross, that amount of money we generated for the tunnel to Towers organization, just incredible stuff.

And it was all done for me. Well, and the beneficiaries that it was all done for me, all of this was done. For me, so many people have done things this year for me. And it's I know it's not embarrassing, it's just gratifying and it has helped me to see. So much so clearly not the goodness of people and their and their decency, and it's confirmed so much of my instinctive beliefs about people.

For example, the alleged president elect Joe Biden holiday message, our darkest days are ahead of us.

Well, for some of us, that's absolutely true. But folks, I have to tell you. If I were president elect of the country, it's the last thing I would say, and even if I believed it, I doubt that I would put it this way. But I don't I don't believe this anyway. Darkest days are ahead of us. What a bleak way of looking at things. This is during a press briefing yesterday said the worst is yet to come in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Which is weird, given that Biden has repeatedly claimed that it's Trump who's killing Americans with covid, and so Trump's going to be gone soon. So why are our darkest days ahead of us when Trump is leaving? If Trump's responsible for all of this? But my point is. Yeah, the virus is what it is, but we adapt I talked about this yesterday, we Americans have adapted to our problems. We've adapted to changing evolutionary things. In our lives, in our country, because of our freedom, our freedom has allowed our adaptability.

If disaster is coming our way, we don't just sit there and endure it, we come up with ways to avoid it, to beat it back, to overcome it. But we don't just sit there and accept it.

And as such, we don't. Just resign ourselves to the fact that we're living in the darkest days, because we, at least to this point, still have the greatest degree of freedom of any people on earth, now it's under assault and under attack. And we all know this. But I don't believe our darkest days are ahead of us. I never have my people have been asking you do, Varghese told us, would be time to panic this time.

But it's never time to panic. Folks is never, ever going to be time to give up on our country. It'll never be time to give up on the United States. It'll never be time to give up on yourself.

Trust me. So. We're going to do a real program today and in the process of the real program, I'm going to be sharing the thoughts I want to share with you today. I'm going to just do it at random whenever it hits me, whenever I feel it. I got to take a break right now. I'm a little little long here. We'll be back. We will continue. Thank you so much for being with us today. And and thank you for for being part of this audience for 30 years, 30 to whatever it is.

It's just mind boggling. But we've got to go be back right after this. I mentioned President Trump's four minute video last night for the White House and how awesome and classically outsider master class and communication it was, we have 40 seconds of it here that I can share with you to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it. I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low six hundred dollars to two thousand dollars or 4000 dollars for a couple. I'm also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package.

And maybe that administration will be me and we will get it done.

Go ahead and attack that on at the end, as though still may have something up his sleeve. So Trump slammed the so-called covid relief bill because of all the pork. And we went through yesterday how much money is in this thing? And it's actually over two trillion because the 900 million gets added to one point four trillion to keep the government up and running. And so the American people get six hundred dollars each. Trump said, no way. We got to up that to two thousand dollars or four thousand dollars for a couple.

And guess what? Pelosi and the Democrats are welcoming the change. Pelosi, Alexandria qualities and even Crazy Bernie are cheering Trump's call for a two thousand dollar payment instead of six hundred. Now, why do you think that is? And before you answer, there's a there's a couple of possibilities of this, oops, look, we've reached another obscene profit time going to take it.

Be right back and resume after this.

And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the end of the year broadcast here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. So great to have you with us, my friends. Thank you for today and every other day that you have been part of this growing astounding audience, the largest, the greatest audience in American commercial talk radio history. Now, politically speaking, Trump goes out four minute video from the White House saying the hell with this. Six hundred dollars, the average American, while listing all of the pork, all the money going to all these countries for crazy things, 15 million dollars to repair a patrol boat in Sri Lanka and other ridiculous things.

And so Pelosi. Immediately comes out and agrees with Trump, we need to have 2000 or 4000 per couple rather than this measly 600 not, why would she do that? Why would she not come out and criticize Trump for this? Because politically. He crushed her, I guarantee you that I don't think Pelosi or any other Democrat have the slightest idea that Trump would react this way. They still don't know how outsiders think, they still don't know who Trump really is, they're not interested in finding out.

Trump did what no other Republican managed to do. And he did it brilliantly in four minutes. He showed America. Who and what Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues are, selfish, entitled, uncaring, elitist, remember who Pelosi is? Pelosi is the the woman we saw standing in front of a twenty five thousand dollar refrigerator eating gourmet ice cream during the middle of the pandemic. While Biden says our darkest days are ahead of us, while millions of Americans stood in food bank lines because their jobs were shut down because their governors and mayors were shutting them down because of the China virus.

So now there are a number of things that the various supporters of the president are suggesting that he do. Some say he should veto this bill, as he threatened to do. Last night, he did not say he was going to veto it. He held out the possibility. There's also the possibility of a pocket veto and pocket veto is pretty much what it sounds like. And it is a way that the president could prevent this this this this idiocy of a bill from becoming law, pocket vetoes don't happen very much.

Congress has to be in the proper parliamentary posture for it to be in play, but that parliamentary posture could very well be existing right now. We could be in those circumstances right now under Article one, Section seven of the Constitution, the president has 10 days, some days excluding. To either sign or veto a bill after it has been passed by Congress. Now, got to remember that because of the massive nature of the campbellsville, that the nine hundred billion dollars of covid relief and the one point four trillion dollar appropriations bill keep the government open, the bill has not even been enrolled yet, meaning it has not even been sent to the president.

So the 10 day countdown hasn't begun. Now, here's where the pocket veto comes into play, the latest the current congressional session can end is eleven fifty nine a.m. on January 3rd. That's the drop dead time for the 100 16th Congress. This current Congress, that's when it ends. A president. Can, in effect, veto a bill by keeping in his pocket by not signing it. He doesn't have the right veto on it. He puts it in his pocket, figuratively speaking, and it just dies there.

And if it comes too close to the end of the congressional adjournment. Congress must adjourn. Without. A return date specified no later than 11, 59 p.m. Eastern Time, January 3rd, in other words, Congress would have to get the president the bill by two day. To prevent a pocket veto. If he doesn't get the bill by today, the president could run out the clock on the current congressional session, which would effectively block any potential override attempts so you can override a pocket veto.

The president doesn't sign it in 10 days. Congress has to come back. And that would be that would be the killer here. Pelosi would have to call Congress back from their vacations over Christmas to deal with this.

President would have to send it back to Capitol Hill with a veto if he didn't do that in 10 days, then the bill would automatically become law. Now, the president didn't outright threaten to veto. It's unclear that the president's demands could even pass the House and the Senate. But it's nevertheless, it's something that a lot of people are recommending simply to some people want to inconvenience the Congress forced them to come off their Christmas break to deal with this. And remember, as I've been pointing out, attach the covid bill is a one point four trillion dollar spending package to fund the government through September 30th next year.

If the president vetoes the covid bill and the one point four trillion spending package, or if he fails to sign it by December twenty eight, there's a government shutdown. We still have that to deal with. And the Democrats love when that's on the table.

So all of this. As Chad Pergram, Fox News writes this, this has the potential to get really, really interesting and there's any number of ways for the president to deal with this. But last night was classic. Here you have. Congress passing one of these these typical bailout bills, six hundred dollars for the average, Humaira, six is nothing.

As one member of Congress said, it won't even pay 25 percent was Tulsi Gabbard is what you pay. Twenty five percent of the average rent in my state of Hawaii. So Trump vetoes it and says nothing less than yet another possible veto rips it says 600 bucks nearly, not nearly enough. We need 20 per individual, 4000 dollars per couple in doing this. Here's Donald Trump, the outgoing president, sending a message to the American people who he is.

That even after having been allegedly rejected by the American people, he is still looking out for them, he is still. Representing them, he is still putting them first. I mean, it would be easy for an outgoing president if I don't give a damn, I don't give a damn 600 bucks, 600 shmucks, whatever we're going to do, I'm out of here.

But no, the president made a point, recorded a four minute video masterclass in communications. And did something that I don't think there's another Republican on Capitol Hill in the House or Senate. Who would have done this, but Donald Trump did, he criticized Congress for giving coronavirus relief payments to family members of illegal aliens. They're going to get up to eighteen hundred dollars each box while you get six hundred. Trump also pointed out that the bill failed to provide aid to restaurants and small businesses, and that's another thing didn't get in today.

This is this is just what is happening to restaurants and small businesses in a lot of these blue states is inexcusable. And I've got two different stories today. I've got a story about somebody who was in Florida.

And I was just amazed by how much different life is in Florida, which remains open from the state. She lives in Virginia, this is Ellie Rennolds, intern at the Federalist. I moved from Lock Down Virginia to open Florida and faces came back to life. It was till I came home to Florida, where covid-19 restrictions are much freer and usually left to local government, that I noticed how different life was. My family went out to dinner the other night at a patio bar overlooking our downtown square, all lit up for Christmas.

Families took Christmas photos in front of the lighted trees. Others caught rides in horse drawn carriages circling the block. The patio was packed with guests from a wedding that had just taken place. It was a huge party. Unlike the sweet but limited ceremonies my friends are forced to have in Virginia, where, of course, the governor is none of them.

She says, I've flown in and out of the Orlando airport all my life, I have never seen it half as crowded as it was this month. I can only guess people are coming down to Florida because it's open. People are taking precautions, sure.

But they're also continuing to live their lives. We've never shut down like this for any pandemic or anything in the history of our country. He said, we're having friends over, we're going to church, we're going out for dinner and drinks for supporting local farmers and artisans, we're celebrating marriages and smiling at strangers.

Life goes on. Dennis Prager. Has a similar piece called A Sovietization of California, it's a GraphicLy dynamic piece. So darkest days ahead of us don't have to be it doesn't have to be the case, it's all how you decide to live your life. But if you live in a state where they're shutting you down. If you live in a state where you happen to own a small business that is a restaurant or a bar, good luck. Our hearts are with you.

I got to take a brief break. We'll continue and we'll start on the phones when we come back. Don't go away.

And welcome back. Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.

And there's always talent on loan from God. And that, by the way, has more meaning to me than ever before. Here is John in Jamestown, North Carolina. We start on the phones. I'm glad you called, sir. Hi.

How are you doing, Rush? It is a total honor to speak with you, sir. Listen, for 30 years and this is the best Christmas present I could have ever asked for. So thank you so much. I wanted to hit on a couple of points. It's interesting that Nancy Pelosi said months back that 100 dollars was Crum's, but now 600 dollars is is pretty good. And it drives me nuts that we see this level of hypocrisy and we don't.

And it just continues. It just keeps getting worse. I mean, Trump was spot on in his four minute speech yesterday. And I hope whether it be a pocket veto or a flat on veto, that something is done to shoot this down because it's obscene. I mean, you know, a 700 million dollars to the Sudan, you know, ten million dollars a Pakistan, one point three dollars billion. Egypt is crazy. It's crazy. Rush.

No, it's it's well, it is. But the thing is, as I said yesterday, welcome to the way things used to be. This is exactly why we elected Trump to end this kind of thing. And he did. He ended it. We stopped giving away money, particularly the nations that do not support us. We we turned it around.

We said to the Trump turned it around. We said that these nations it's you who owe us.

After a fashion, but this is that's why I made the point yesterday that this is the way it used to be, how quickly, how quickly the establishment reasserted itself. With this bill, this is the way it's always been, this is the way it's going to be again, and here comes Trump while still president. Stopping it somehow threatening a pocket veto, threatening a straight up veto. You know, here's the thing after Trump called on Congress to increase.

The payments from six hundred dollars to two thousand, Pelosi tweeted, she agrees with it. Oh, yeah. But then she had to lie and blame Trump for the six hundred dollar figure in the first place. Pelosi tweeted last night the Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the president wanted for direct checks. Democrats are ready to bring this to the floor this week by unanimous consent. Let's do it. But Trump had offered a comfort relief deal a couple months ago that was twice as large, this is what you you people probably know what Trump offered and wanted a one point eight dollars trillion dollar covid relief bill, not 900 billion.

He wanted one point eight trillion. He wanted to double the amount to go to the American people, and Pelosi, the Democrat, said, ain't no way, buddy, not before the election. We're not giving you this. We're not going to let anything happen to show the American people you're looking out for them. And so Pelosi refused, didn't want any part of it. And now she's claiming that all of this is Trump's fault because Trump wouldn't specify the amount of direct payment that he wanted.

Pelosi turned it down, she didn't want to do anything that might help Trump get re-elected, and now she's more than eager to sign on to 2000 dollars because she is lying and making it look like the reason she didn't support this amount before the election is that Trump wouldn't specify it and Congress couldn't work with it. It's not they weren't going to say they were going to pass anything. That would be beneficial to Trump before. And by the way, that's politics 101.

I'm not suggesting she should have, but when they're out there talking about how much they love the American people and are looking out for the American people, the American people matter more like the Democrats, looking out for the little guy, Democrats making sure the little guy doesn't get squashed and stomped on. It's B.S. The Democrats are not looking out for the little guy. They haven't been looking out for the little guy since vested moneyed interests led by big tech became the bankrollers of the Democrat Party.

I mean, it had to be frustrating as hell here is the president trying to do everything he can to help people through this because he's dealing with a bunch of blue state governors that are keeping their states locked down, which is preventing an all out American economic recovery. It's being done, he knows, to harm him politically. He knows these Democrats are engaging in policy matters that are designed to harm the country, that are designed to retard the rate of growth of the US economy.

So it'll redound negatively to Trump. He'll be blamed for it. And so that the Democrat nominee would it was all about presidential elective politics. Pelosi is not the only one now cheering this 2000 dollars, Chuck Schumer, Alexandra Augusto Cortez, Bernie Sanders, almost enough to make me think it's a bad idea, but not.

Not. And the fastest three hours in media continues to be demonstrated as fact, that may have been the fastest opening hour I can recall in a long time, but we have two more to go here. It's our Christmas show, the annual Christmas show. And I am so thankful I'm able to do it and share the sentiments and the joy and the festive ness of the season with all of you.

We'll be right back and continue.

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Greetings and welcome back, my friends. It's great to have you here. This is Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio talk show in the country. You made it so I have eternal never ending gratitude for all of you for so much. You have meant so much to me. You've meant so much to my family. You have meant so much to the happiness and joy that I have been able to experience. You have been integral in my dreams coming true, my wildest dreams when I was a young kid pretending to be a deejay on the radio when I was eight years old.

There was a device called a Remco Caravel. It was a brand name, Remco was the brand name. Caravel was the name of their product. Somebody sent me one. We actually have one of these things back in and one of the supply closets here. And it was the most amazing thing. It it's it's plastic. It was about three feet long and two feet high and it transmitted. Over a.T.M. Within the confines of a I don't know, a small house, the quality was horrible, but it worked.

All you had to do was set it for a frequency that was open. In other words, there wasn't a real radio station in your town that was broadcasting on that frequency and you could do it. And so I pretended to be a deejay with this thing. My parents got it for me for Christmas.

One year I pretended to be a deejay and my mother actually.

Had a radio that you can you can broadcast on a real radio, I mean, this was an amazing thing. I can't believe it was licensed to operate. We're talking here, folks, in the in the. Well, this would have been the late 50s. Around the turn of the century 1960, and my mother would dutifully put a radio on her lap and I would go up the stairs where the bedroom was and I would have my phone, and you had to have an external microphone to put it to the speaker of the phonograph that you were playing records on.

You had to move the microphone to your mouth when you were doing deejay stuff, and then you'd hold the microphone near the speaker for the phonograph and play the record. And my mother would dutifully sit down there and listen to this. And the quality was just was was horrible. It didn't have a whole lot of power. It wasn't like listening to a real radio station, but it allowed me to pretend it allowed me to get started on on living out my my dreams.

And so many people have been a part of those dreams coming true. I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight years old. How did I know? Well, you know the story, I hated school, it was prison. I just hated it. It was it was a room with windows, and I could see out the windows, I could see where I would rather be here. I'm locked in this place. I'm having to learn about whatever you learn about in first grade, you know, how to pace things and stuff.

In the last place I wanted to be, I just looked at it as as denial of freedom. But being out there so every morning, getting ready to go to this prison, the school my mother had the radio on and she's listening to the guy, a local jock. And this guy sounds like he's having fun doing whatever he's doing. He's playing records. He's doing commentary on the weather forecast. It sound like he's having fun. So that's how I want my day to be.

I don't want to begin my day in drudgery and something I don't want to do. But I had no choice. You have to go to school. Either that or the truant officer comes and it's even worse for you. But that that was how I decided I wanted to be in radio, had a natural affinity for liking music and wanting to be the guy on the radio, playing it for people and so forth.

But up until that point in my life, I had I had quit pretty much everything else that I had tried. Like I was a tenderfoot Boy Scout for a year. That's unheard of. You move on from being a tenderfoot, you have to do anything. When I was a 10 or whatever, whatever the the least amount you have to do to stay a Boy Scout. I did the first campout. I got the Goldbrick award. The Goldbrick award went to the person least useful on the campout where it was nothing.

I didn't want to do it. So there you got to go do this. I don't want to do that. Well, you got to do it's going to be the Boy Scouts are really going to camp out. It's going to be cold. You got to learn about camp fires. You got to learn about brushing leaves up at the bottom of your tent. So that keeps a cold air out survivalist kind of stuff because back then, Soviet Union nuking this was a real possibility.

I just am not into this. Well, why did you join the Boy Scout? Well, because other people thought I needed to do it anyway, things like that. I had quit everything but radio.

I didn't quit. And even though the family didn't understand it. The fact that I hadn't quit, it was enough for them to encourage me to stay in it and I did and all that happened, happened and it's it's been so rewarding. It has been so.

So meaningful to me, and there have been so many people that have made it possible among them, all of you.

And so I take the occasion of the last day of the year that I'm here, our Christmas show, to try to thank you and to share with you the depth of gratitude and appreciation I feel for all of you and what you have.

And I by the way, this is not.

It's not something it's just perfunctory to do, I genuinely have a deep appreciation for all of you. I feel that I feel the bond of connection that exists between. All of you and me, it's why, by the way. I recognized immediately that Donald Trump could win the presidency if he was serious about it when he began his campaign in 2015, when I saw those first rallies, I had I lived that the Rush to Excellence tour, the first two years of this program, I did those things that Trump was doing and to somewhat similar crowd sizes, 10000, 15000, I think was the largest I'd had in Sacramento.

But they were there and it was every weekend for two years, 48 weekends and holiday weekends. But it was the way I was building the program and establishing a relationship with all of the affiliates that were signing on and carrying the program. And I had lived it and I saw the way people were reacting to Trump. And because I had had the same thing happen to me, I said, this guy can go all the way, he can win it.

And I expected him to.

And he did. And also, I learned that this is something exceedingly important for Donald Trump, even today when the media.

Has nothing to do with making you when the media has nothing to do for your success. Nothing to do with it.

For example. There are a lot of people that the media, for some reason gloms onto and starts doing puff pieces about showering with praise and telling everybody how big they are, how important they are when nobody knows who they are.

The media makes these people. And then there are others like me who snuck up on everybody because I was I didn't come from the traditional places that successful establishment people come from. So I snuck up on everybody. Nobody knew who I was. And when my program began on August 1st, 1988, it immediately took off and the media had nothing to do with it. All they had to do was report on it. But the important thing about that is if the media doesn't.

Have anything to do with making sure they can't break you out, they can try, but if you as a personal or a public figure in media or in anything that you're doing, if you develop a successful business enterprise that that involves a significant portion of the public supporting you. And if you've built that yourself without any media assistance, they can't break that bond. Only you can. And this is something that Donald Trump has proven. The media has tried to kill the guy for four years and they can't because his support is genuine.

It is real. It isn't fake, it isn't manufactured. It did not end up being created by the media who were telling people, hey, this Trump guy is great. You need to experience Trump. You need to listen to this guy. You need to watch this. They didn't do that. Trump built himself himself with his Apprentice TV show with any number of media efforts that he engaged in. By the time he ran for the presidency, he was already well known.

And the media loved him when he was when he was just an average guy in media, not oriented toward politics, not not thought of as running for office. They loved him. But then he runs for office. And, of course, we know what happened. They tried to kill him for four years and they couldn't. They're still trying to wipe them out and they can't. So much so that the Republican Party is now Donald Trump's the Republican Party may as well be the Magga party.

And it's been the same for me. In a in a much smaller context, the media has. It's been a combination of things they have attempted to destroy me and they have been amused by me and they have been supportive at times and they've been destructive at times. But the point is they have not broken this bond. They have not been able to convince you that I'm not worth it, that I shouldn't be getting your attention. Now, they have been able to limit the growth by convincing people who don't listen to the program, the things that are not true about me, but they have not been able to break the bond.

And even despite all of that, this audience has grown the the. Ratings were not supposed to talk about this, but the ratings that happened in the month before the election across the country for this program were unprecedented. Even during the high points of this program, we didn't even come close to the ratings we had in the month before the election this year, larger than ever, like from noon to three in New York City, the most listened to show.

We always the most listened to talk show, but this was most listened to, period. The most listened to stations in New York are usually music stations, the top three or four. And here we come. But this we were on top of the top of the heap and it couldn't have happened in a better year and it couldn't have happened.

In a more rewarding period of time and so one of the things that I have, I've attempted to. Use today's program for for is to convey my gratitude, my appreciation and my and my thanks. For everything that you have meant, you've enabled my dreams to come true. I'm not saying that I had nothing to do with it. Don't misunderstand. But it wouldn't have happened without you if it weren't for any of you. All of this would just be an academic exercise.

And I'm so appreciative, more appreciative of it than I ever thought I could be given the circumstances of my life this year. And so I. I have the I have the opportunity here of using my own program to try to convey all of the love and the gratitude that I have. For. Well, it's over. It's the numbers of millions of people are just astounding, particularly for largely A.M. radio. Let me take a brief time out here, folks, before I start choking up.

I'll be back here in just a second. We'll continue with you on the phones right after this.

OK, let's go back to the phones. This is Robert in Hughes Ville, Maryland. I'm great that you. It's great that you called. And welcome to the program, sir. Hi.

Merry Christmas, Rush. And God bless you and your staff. Thank you. Thank you very much. We all we all very much appreciate that.

You know, I got to thank you for teaching me how to read the grain and these greens about my question for you today. Is it Mrs. Loffler and Mr. Perdue in Georgia would commit to challenging the electors on I believe it is January six. I could be wrong if that wouldn't maybe help their case. I mean, as me and you both know, that's the one on the first tee. And I believe the this election is fixed already. But it would certainly have to help their case if they could come up and challenge those say they would challenge the electors, at least the ones in Georgia, what perhaps, you know, help the Trump voters to come out and try to head off this this debacle.

But. Well, why let me.

What are you hearing? You're in huge ville, Maryland. Obviously, you can't vote in this. What are you hearing? That there's trouble in Georgia and that the Loffler and Purdue have to come out and do something to generate support from Republican voters?

I rest my personal opinions. They're they're just they're RINO, just like, you know, the rest. Mitch McConnell, they're just rhinos. But, you know, we're all pretty upset about having this election stolen.

I mean, and and that's I believe the fix is in on this. But anything that they could do to help stand, you know, stand up for us as Trump supporters, which they they haven't done, I think would certainly help because we both know they lose the Senate. We're in deep, deep doo doo. Well, here's the thing.

We can talk about these two people.

Perdue let me know.

It was a year ago, I think, Katherine, I had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Trump. President Mrs. Trump at Mara Lago.

Oh, right.

Before Christley. Two or three days, maybe the weekend before Christmas. And Senator Perdue and his wife were there at the table. I don't think you should have any doubts about Senator Perdue's support for President Trump. You seem to think he's a RINO. And I understand the the.

Tendency that people have to categorize people this way, but I got to tell you something, it's worth the risk because if these to lose you, it's sit around and batten down the hatches until twenty, twenty two when these people screw so much up that the Republicans win in the midterm elections.

But that's two years of abject torture that we're going to have subjected to us because there's going to be no stopping Biden and and the Democrats. And believe me, they're going to be hell bent on turning this country as radical left as they can. And the one way to stop it is with the election of these two even I mean, it's the only thing, even if it doesn't work. It's still something that ought to prevail. Now, I've got an interesting story here, John Solomon, just the news.

Trump adviser Peter Navarro is urging Georgia, which he is calling a cesspool here to delay the Senate runoff election until February. Navarro says that Republican concerns about the state's November election need to be addressed before the next vote. And this kind of dovetails with what you're what you're getting at here is that, well, if the election in Georgia is already tainted and we can't trust the results, then why are we going to trust the next election? And a lot of people have had this this thought.

Peter Navarro, he's a key White House adviser to President Trump, is urging Georgia officials to delay by a month the January 5th runoff races in that state that are going to determine control of the U.S. Senate. And he is saying this because of Republican concerns about the November election and the irregularities there that need to be resolved. First, he says it's a cesspool.

Now, Navarro is the president's chief adviser, manufacturing and trade issues. He recently issued a report as a private citizen entitled Immaculate Deception that catalogued six categories of irregularities in the presidential election and of concerned Republicans. And he just told John Solomon that Georgia encountered problems in all six categories and that Georgia needs to restore confidence in their electorate, especially Republicans, before proceeding with the all important Senate runoffs. It's it's an excellent point. Now, I don't expect anybody to pay any attention to it.

And but still, he's raising the issue that if we had problems with the November election and we're still not dealing with them, why do we have confidence in the runoff?

We need to delay it. Got to take a break. Back in a minute.

Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day. A household name in all four corners of the world. Rush Limbaugh. That's the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Let me share with you this piece before I go back to the phones. Dennis Prager today at the daily signal dot com website, The Sovietization of California. And I just want to share with you some pull quotes, not read the entire thing because it is it's well done. It's well written, and it's extremely relevant and poignant for most Americans.

The very name California elicited excitement, wonder, even envy of Californians. Most of all, freedom. While America always represented freedom within America, California exemplified freedom most of all.

Now, as somebody who grew up in Missouri and spent the first 20 years of my life there, and the only I mean, I never went to California, didn't get to go to California to see 1984, 1984.

So I would have been twenty three, four I ever stepped foot in California. And it was not Southern California, it was Sacramento, which turned out to be one of the greatest movies, greatest breaks I've ever had. But I can confirm when you say California, I just I knew it from television. I knew it from movies.

I had this image of it. The people that live there I thought were were hipper.

And I thought California was just an advanced culture and state. And it was in many ways and for most of that time, the Republicans ran that state. It's such an amazing thing what's happened politically to California and actually so rapidly. It continues here. Prager continues. Here I am sitting in a state where corruption reigns. And where for nine months, normal life has been shut down, schools have been closed, small businesses have been destroyed in unprecedented numbers.

Now, during my last five days in Florida, a state governed by the pro Freedom Party, I went anywhere I wanted. First and foremost, I could eat both inside and outside restaurants at one of them. When I stood up to take photos of people dining, a patron who recognized me walked over and said, I assume you're just taking pictures of people eating in a restaurant. Yep, that's exactly what I was doing. We don't see it in California is not permitted anymore.

I even took my two grandchildren to a bowling alley which was filled with people enjoying themselves playing myriad arcade games as well as bowling. None of that's allowed almost anywhere in California. It's becoming a police state rooted in deception and irrationality. Restaurants have been shut down except for takeout orders, even for outdoor dining and for no scientific reason. After ordering Los Angeles County restaurants closed, the health authorities of Los Angeles County acknowledged in court that they had no evidence that outdoor dining was dangerous.

Yet they ordered restaurants closed, even to outdoor dining solely in order to keep people home.

As a graduate student majoring in communism, Mr. Prager writes, During the Cold War, I would travel through the countries known as the Soviet satellites go to Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. In the middle of my trips, I would stop in Austria. To breathe free air, never did I imagine. That I would ever experience anything analogous to the Soviet Union in America, the land of the free, the land of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell.

But I did yesterday when leaving Florida and returning to California. This is second article that I have shared with you today about people.

Leaving Florida after experiencing the freedom and joy of being there for four or five days and going home to their respective states, one woman back to Virginia, here's Prager going back home to California. And in both instances, they are. Revealing the freedoms, the availability of services in restaurants and nothing being shut down in Florida and how life is going on, it's unnecessary. To live the way they're being forced to live in Virginia and in California, two states run by Democrats, Prager says there's no question that America is becoming, if it hasn't already become two countries.

Oh, are we talking about something here? Are we talking about something that I got ripped to shreds for last week? There's no question America is becoming, if it hasn't already become two countries, one that values liberty from small businesses being allowed to operate, to people being allowed to say what they believe. And one that has contempt for liberty from eating in restaurants to free speech. I am asked almost daily by friends around the country and by callers to my national radio show whether I intend to stay in California, you know, were it not for all those close friends who live here and the synagogue that I and a few friends founded, the answer would be no.

But at a given point, I'm sure that I will leave this Soviet satellite. For a free state, the bigger and far more important question is how long will the Soviet states of America and the free states of America remain the United States of oil? Are we are we raising this subject again? Here is Mr. Prager bringing about the dreaded s word that your host was beaten up so roundly over.

I wasn't even suggesting it, I is simply referencing all the other people who are how long will the Soviet states of America and the free states of America remain the United States of America?

It's Dennis Prager space. Let's let's go back to the phones. Tom in St. Augustine, Florida, you're next. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.

Hi. Rajani Donovan says it best a tradition unlike any other.

Well, I appreciate. Thank you very much. And I did attend your Rush to Excellence tour in Orlando. And I've been with you a very long time. I wanted to ask you, what do you think or how will the Republicans react with the president going along with Aoki and Pelosi? I just read on Politico they're going to push back. What are your thoughts?

Oh, wait a minute. Now, you want to know how Republicans would react if the president goes along with AOC and Pelosi on what the 2000 dollar check for myself and my wife?

Pelosi's idea was 600 dollars, it was Trump. You're making me wonder if you're setting me up here. Well, let me rephrase that then. Trump came out last night and said he wants 2000 dollars. Pelosi came back and said, yes, we're with you. My question, sir, is how will the Republicans react to the 2000 dollars? Oh, do you think they will oppose it or support it because it's wasteful, because it's government giving money away to people and that shouldn't happen, or are you worried that they'll judge it in some other way rather than the comparison to 600 to 2000?

That's a very good question. I believe Senator Ron Johnson opposed the 100. He was very vocal about it in the media. And so I believe the Republicans are going to oppose it for whatever reason, especially now that it seems like the President, Pelosi and AOC are on the same track. Interesting perspective.

Look, I appreciate the call grabs. Sound bite number seven, Rand Paul weighed in on this, in a way, on the on Fox and Friends this morning. Katie Pavlik to fill in co-host, asked him this question. President Trump last night said he wants two thousand dollar checks going out the American people. Is that something the Senate and Congress can do before next week?

I saw the president's speech. He was unhappy with all the spending to Pakistan and Sudan and all these far flung places where we aren't taking care of our own. The problem is, is if we were to get more money to Americans, we would add it on top. I hope he vetoes it. But the only way I would vote for any spending or any additional spending is if it came out of existing spending. So I part ways with the president on giving people free money.

The cash payments is a ridiculous, terrible, foolish, no good idea because you're just printing up money to give to people. Why not do it all the time? Give people thousand. Ten thousand. Why not a million. It's a terrible idea.

So Rand Paul continuing the logic that he had opined with yesterday, says, where does this stop? It's kind of like the minimum wage. You're going to raise the minimum wage from 15 to 20 an hour. Why not 25? Why not 30? And at some point, even advocates say, wait, you can't give that much away. And when Rand Paul is pointing out, is that six hundred dollars, two thousand dollars, it's still money we don't have.

And if you're going to start giving money away, then why are there any limits on it? Why not just give everybody a hundred grand to be done with it? And of course, we're now 30 trillion dollars in debt. We don't have the money that we are giving away now. We haven't had the money for anything we're doing, starting with the Obama administration. Even prior to that, we haven't had the money for any of this. And what's become blatantly obvious is that all of Washington doesn't care.

We're just we're doing a budget. We don't have the money. I mean, we technically can't afford anything that we're doing. We have a printing press I've heard all of my life. That the national debt was eventually going to eat this country alive and destroy. I heard this from my grandparents growing up that my parents, they had lived through the Great Depression and they were they were terribly alarmed at all of this debt. Well, now we're 30 trillion dollars in debt and there doesn't seem to be anybody concerned with it.

We even the current administration, if you go back earlier this year, we shut down the country because we are facing two million deaths, we're told two million deaths, according to computer projections, covid virus. If we don't shut the country, yes, we shut the country down. It became clear that we were going to start bailing people out after two months of a shutdown.

We didn't have the money for that. And we don't have the money now for any of this, but we're printing it and we're spending it. And if somebody is going to print it and spend it, then do you want to get in on that or not? Who wants to be the one to raise their hand, say, wait a minute, we don't have any of this money. What are we doing? People are dying out there. People are starving out there.

People are experiencing things they've never experienced because we've shut down the economy on them. The government has shut down their economy under this.

Silly belief that this is the only way to stop the virus, it isn't it isn't going to stop the virus. Shutdowns never have. We've never done this.

But Trump comes along, there's a bill, Congress passes a bill that happened. It contains six hundred dollars per American while giving far more money away in toto to all of these other countries. And the American people are getting a tailwind. So Trump announces the hell with this. I think every American ought to get two thousand dollars for thousand dollars for a couple. So with just the politics of it just within those confines. Yeah, to me, that's that's the president winning.

It's not the president agreeing with Pelosi and AOC. It's them agreeing with him. Now, if your question is, does Trump doing something that the Democrat leadership says right on dude, where wicked does that hurt him?

You tell me the American people are going to say they're going to say, I don't want six hundred bucks and I don't want two thousand bucks. I don't want anything. I want you people to stop spending this. Is that what the American people are going to do? Because I'll guarantee you, if they're not, you give them a choice of six hundred bucks or two thousand.

They're going to take the two thousand and they're going to be grateful for whoever they think is responsible for it, which in this case would be Trump.

And welcome back. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB. And so what do you think?

You think faced with six hundred dollars, two thousand dollars or zero, what do you think the American people would choose?

And if it was Pelosi that said six hundred bucks, then a Democrat, we'd look at folks. That's the way things were.

The one thing you've got to understand about this when you have the Democrats now running things in their mind.

They're already Pelosi's already acting like, well, she does run the house and they're acting like they're going to win the Senate. So here comes this relief bill after the election and it's got a measly six hundred dollars in it for the American people.

All this other money for pork, various countries, various just wasteful spending, Trump comes along as is the hell with six hundred bucks for the American people, we're going to make it two thousand and four thousand for a couple.

This is the way it was. This is why Trump was elected the. And this signifies a return to the way this is what the Democrats want is what the establishment want. This is what. It's going to be going forward, this is how the government is going to operate and it's going to be on steroids, you tell me. You want 600, you want 24000, you want nothing, you want to tell them to pound sand, you want to tell them get responsible.

In their spending, you tell me, here's Randy in San Luis Obispo, California. Great to have you, sir. Hello.

Yeah, good morning, Rush. Hey, listen, blessings and prayers to you. The first person that's been willing to have the wherewithal to go against the political correctness. You know, I'm a physician about 200 miles north of Los Angeles. I was born and raised in L.A. I trained in L.A. hospitals, the county hospitals down there. And I've been dismayed to see that no one seems to be connecting the dots with regard to immigration, illegal immigration and the covid-19 pandemic.

I follow the sites, the Los Angeles County sites as far as hospitalizations and have been doing it ever since March. And, you know, 72 percent of the hospitalizations in Los Angeles are Hispanics, 71 percent of the ICU hospitalizations are Hispanics. And that's from March 1st to December 19th.

You know, Randy, Randy, I need to interrupt you. I, I took your call prematurely. I'm out of time, but I really want to talk to you. Can you hold on through the break? It's going to be about 10 minutes. Or if you'd rather not. Hold on. Give Mr. Snootily your number. We'll call you back, because I do want to hear about this.

Yeah, no, I think it's really important. Yeah. Work it out with Mr. Sterling.

How we're going to stay in touch with him. I'll take a break here. We'll be back and continue with the second.

OK, we got a brief break here at the top of the hour and we will come back in mere moments and continue with today's excursion into broadcast excellence. Thank you so much for being with us.

Well, there we have the headline right now. Democrats to propose 2000 stimulus checks after Trump calls for it. So they're eager to sign on to it. Greetings to you. Music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. It's Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone, telephone number 800 202 282. And the e-mail address is Rush Limbaugh and EIB net dot U.S.. OK, we have Randy here from San Luis Obispo who held on through the break.

He is a doctor in California for much of his life and has studied the connection between the high incidence of covid and the illegal immigration traffic coming over the border. And Biden talking about this opening up even more. I want to go back to him now. Welcome, Randy. I'm glad you hold on. Continue to make your point here.

Yeah, thanks for us. And I want to make it real clear right at the start here. My wife is Hispanic. I have no problem, nothing against Hispanic people. So I just want to make that real clear. But they are the large, large majority of people. They're being hospitalized in Los Angeles, which means they're basically a reservoir, if not the main reservoir, for passing the covid virus around. And and that's because they can't work distantly.

They can't work remotely. The vast majority are boots on the ground, agriculture, you know, domestics, chefs in restaurants and cafeterias. And and they also tend to live in very dense homes where where you can pass viruses around very quickly and easily. And if anybody in one of those households is illegal, it's probably unlikely that any of them are likely to go in to seek care until they're very, very sick. The interesting thing was back in I think it was March or April, I started thinking about this and I looked the Pew Research showed that the the large majority of illegal immigration was along the entire southern border of the United States, California, Texas and Florida, where the highest numbers.

But it was pretty much all the southern states. And as you've watched over the course of time, that is kind of, you know, gone up to all the throughout the United States. And that's obviously because of migration and then, of course, a passage of the virus. So, you know, I kept waiting for somebody to make this point, and I've never heard anybody making this point. And to me, it seems very obvious and and it's particularly scary when I saw last night on the news, them showing these caravans ramping up down in Central America, kind of waiting for Biden to take office and thinking that they can start coming across the border again.

I mean, if we are already overwhelmed, which we are. I mean, that's going to be the final deluge, you know, these people coming across are a lot of them have have the virus or will be in situations where they'll pass the virus around. So I just I'm glad I had a chance to bring this forward to you because it's extremely worrisome to me if if the borders start opening up for.

Well, let me while I have you here, I have the stories that you're talking about involving Biden. And I've got one from The New York Post and one from the The Hill Dotcom the first. And Biden says fast immigration changes could cause a rush at the at the border. Now, this was during his press briefing yesterday, and he said that restoring the U.S. immigration system would be an overwhelming priority. And what folks and I know, Randi, you'll agree with me by restoring our immigration system, he means he will no longer enforce the immigration law.

That's what he means.

He means he's going to go back to the Democrat Party interpretation of immigration, and that is there are no limits on it. But Biden also said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he's not going to be able to do away with the southern border. On his first day in office, he was sending a signal to leftists because doing that might cause a rush of two million people coming across the border. But he said that he'll get it done within the next six months.

And he says it's going to cost a lot of money to not enforce the immigration law. Now, all of these illegal aliens, will they be tested for covid before they're allowed to enter the United States or that's going to be given priority to get a vaccine? What do you think?

Well, of course, that's a very big and important question. You know, they've been prioritizing it to first front line caregivers. In fact, I'm scheduled get my vaccine next week and and then kind of down down the line and they talk about essential workers. I, I hope essential workers means the people that I'm talking about. But I really think if you were going to aim at one particular source, you want to you want to get the source that is passing this around most frequently.

And and that, of course, is is the illegal immigrants and the people who have to work in person. And they can't they can't do it from home. So I, I, I would hope that they would start immunizing those people because it's you know, it's actually very much akin to, you know, back in the early 1980s when they tried to get control of yellow fever. You know what what they found when they finally realized that it was a mosquito that was passing this, they started putting a.

. Mosquito agents into all the ponds and lakes and the places where they breed. And that is how they finally got control over yellow fever. And this is kind of a similar thing. And and I don't mean to be in any way of degrading people and saying they're like mosquitoes. But but just like the mosquitoes that were the reservoir for the for the disease in this same situation, the people that are the reservoir for the disease are the groups that should be, I think, approached most aggressively and and and on, you know, and very well.

It's one thing is and I could be wrong about this, my perception is that in all discussions of covid-19 and and reading, where it's the United States is the epicenter now, more people are dying from it here than anywhere else per capita. More people are contracting it here than anywhere else in the world, per capita. But in the in all of this, we never hear about why and how and other than the people who are attempting to shut down the economy by saying that it is spreading in these ways that really can't be established or proven.

And it's being used as an excuse to shut down economies and shut down various business. It's being used to exert control over the American people by primarily Democrat governors and Democrat mayors. But the one thing I was going to say that doesn't come up, which is why I was fascinated talking to you, is the role illegal immigration plays in the spread of this. I know you're not comparing people to mosquitoes. Don't don't misunderstand here. But still, if you if you have a known.

Source that is a problem, doesn't make sense to do something about it. Well, that's exactly my point and that's exactly my concern. And, you know, I still have a lot of friends down in Los Angeles. And, you know, I am in contact with them. I mean, they're just they're just, you know, who are in the medical profession. And I mean, they're just overwhelmed. And, you know, I can't imagine as bad as it is, I can't imagine it getting worse.

And quite frankly, you know, I think I think we're approaching and this is just my opinion. I think we're approaching the the apex of this. And I think, you know, if if you keep doing what we're doing from the standpoint of getting vaccines out there, you know, you'll get to herd immunity more, more rapidly. And herd immunity is not a strategy. It's just a reality. You know, the the the way that epidemics and pandemics end is with herd immunity.

And so the faster that we can get herd immunity, the more we can get control of this.

And I remember I was I happened to be somebody who brought that up back in March or April. I was ridiculed profoundly for it. And as were a lot of other people who because it requires people to be infected, it requires the spread of the disease, but not among people who are going to survive it. And already, correct me if I'm wrong. Do we still not have is it still not true that the survivability rate is 99 percent?

Yeah, you're right. In fact, because I'm in just over 70 age group, you know, I was just reading on it just yesterday. It's still ninety four point five percent. Was the survival rate in the in? I think it was in the statistic I saw. I think it was 65 and up. So, I mean, you know, it's still very high survival rate even in, you know, the older age group. And yes, for everybody all over, it's 99 and in a fraction.

I don't remember what the exact number is percent. So, I mean, it's still very survivable. But the fact is, is that, you know, you can you can at least kind of get some kind of control. So you flatten the curve as they talk about. So you don't have the hospitals overwhelmed by getting more rapidly to herd immunity. And I think the way that you do it now is that we do, in fact, have a vaccine.

But the thing is, is that you've got to get those people vaccinated and you've got to get them out there. And if they're kind of hiding away because they're illegal and they don't want to be identified as illegal and suffer the repercussions, then they won't come forward. You won't get control of the reservoir and it will drag on longer.

Doctor, thank you for the call. That's Randy in San Luis Obispo, California. I appreciate the the perspective. Meanwhile, on the same subject, Susan Rice, who has been chosen by Biden as his domestic policy chief, told a Spanish language news service on Monday. And again, I'm paraphrasing here, that the border will not be able to be erased overnight, due in large part to the damage done over the last four years. But Rice said the Biden team are committed to erasing it as soon as possible.

Members of Joe Biden's White House transition effort cautioned on Tuesday he would not undo all of Trump's changes to the immigration system overnight explained that incoming administration officials would need time to pursue the effort. They really want to roll back every thing. Trump tightened down illegal immigration. They're admitting that they want to reopen it back up. But they cautioning everybody going to take time because of the possibility of covid spreading widely. But they're still going to do it.

Susan Rice, the president elect's domestic policy chief, we will be able to take some steps to change policies right away. Others will take time to put in place. Situation at the border will not transform overnight, due in large part to the damage done in the last four years. The damage done the last four years was to clean it up. The damage done the last four years was to fix it. Elections have consequences. Got to take a quick time out.

Be back and continue right after this.

Back to the phones we go. This is Angie Big Lake, Minnesota. Great to have you with us. You're up next here on the EIB Network. Hello.

Hi, Rush. I just want to say I'm praying for you every day, and I wish you and your family a merry Christmas.

Well, thank you. Thank you very much.

And I have a comment. And to kind of piggyback on on earlier when you were talking about the Georgia runoff with another caller. And what I think is I really and I hate to be the Debbie Downer here, but I really think that this is a takeover and this runoff in Georgia in January, you know, get out and vote. People want to get out in March and and, you know, really take it to the streets. And Trump is trying to do rallies and whatnot.

And I think it's just unfortunately a big waste of our time. The Dominion machines are here. They're in place. They're here to stay. Nobody's changing it. All the lawsuits that we're bringing forward, they just keep declining. We have thousands of people, election workers, poll workers that have come forward and said, you know what they've seen? It's just everything's declined. Dominion is here. They're not going to change it. And if we can't clean up the election in November, it's really pointless for the January.

I think this is a takeover. I really I know everybody wants to get out there and get their votes in. And I think people are forgetting that these machines are programmable and they are they're going to continue with no matter how many votes come in for Trump, no matter how many rallies he does. They're going to take the votes, they're going to steal the seats and we're going to watch it happen because we don't have any we don't have any help.

We just have Trump, who is one person, and he has so many people in his own party that aren't helping. And he you know, I get text messages from the Trump team, you know, about let's, you know, vote, let's get out, you know, and rally. Unfortunately, the American people like myself and most regular citizens aren't in any position of authority to do anything. We can take it to the streets. But ultimately, these machines are programmable.

And if you go and vote, they're going to steal the seats anyway. That's my comment, and I just feel like I know everybody is upset. We all are. I am. My family is. And Trump says, well, I'll run again in four years. Well, it ain't going to matter if he runs again in four years or not. Why not? What what happened in 2016 when he won and they did not plan on that.

They're never going to let that happen again. And we're watching it. And they're going to take this election. They're going to take the Georgia runoff. And we will never it'll be pointless. I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but I feel like I'm the realistic here.

So what are you going to do? I mean, you're basically just established a scenario where we are cooked, we're finished, it's over. And there's nothing we can do because there's no way we can ever win another election.

We correct.

I mean, at this point, if our president can't overturn what has happened with some of these states, if we can't even go to the Supreme Court, if we can't even go to the judges, to the to to these courts and these states and present evidence. Of all things that have happened, of things that have been fraudulent and nobody will listen, nobody will look, nobody will do anything. What the president can't even do anything. He's going he's bringing lawsuits.

I mean, and and he's not gaining any ground, you know, I mean, we're watching this happen and Biden didn't even you know, he didn't want to work his rallies, you know, a couple people here and there. He wasn't even doing rallies. Trump had he had the whole country just united and excited and get out and vote. And we did. And it doesn't matter because these machines are in place. And this was the machine that Hugo Chavez said he never wanted to lose another election and now they're here.

And if we don't get Trump in the White House, if he can't get this all overturned and we don't have him for four more years to remove this this Dominion system. Biden is not going to remove it. Nobody's going to remove it, this the virus was sent here from China, you know, on purpose, I believe this is my belief. And then these machines are in place. They were programmed people. We have witnesses that people have risked their lives.

I know we're gonna come forward.

Hundreds of thousands of them. Yeah. And they've come forward with what they've seen and we can't gain any ground. So I believe it's a takeover. I think we're watching it happen. Takeover by who? Got 25 seconds. Takeover by who? By by the left. By Biden. By the left. It's not even Biden. It's it's it's people that we don't even know behind the scenes.

All right. OK, understood. I. I'm glad you called Debbie. Debbie Downer. Angie is her name and she's in Big Lake, Minnesota.

And we'll take a brief break here, come back and continue right after this way.

And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Studies of everything it's important to see. Here's here's Aaron in Provo, Utah. Welcome. Glad to have you with us. Hi. Hello, Ross. Hope you're doing good today.

Well, we moderately so. I got I got for the most part. Yeah.

You've been my father in law, Duane's favorite for 30 years. And now mine. He's home suffering from emphysema and hopefully listening right now. I just want to get to it real fast. We were part of the 5.1 million people that lost everything in the mortgage crisis under Obama and Biden. We still voted them in the primaries, but not for Biden, of course. And it was our first time voting. But after realizing it was going to be Obama's third term and how willing they were to smear and cheat their own party members and to destroy the economy again, we ended up voting for Trump.

I just wanted to thank you for helping us see that Trump was going to be the right choice for our family, even though we've been attacked in public and on Twitter and everything else called names and racist. And, you know, I still feel like it was the right choice. And I just wanted to say thanks to you for helping us see that.

Well, you are. You're more than welcome. How did how did I do it?

Just by sort of opening our eyes to what was really happening. You know, it was our first time ever voting. We weren't really sure. We were just kind of going with what everybody around us was going with, I guess. And when I started to listen to your show with my father in law, I started realizing the right choice was not Democrats. The these guys are nasty people and they're just not what we need right now.

I'm glad to hear that. You know, I've I've for 30 whatever number of years. Folks, I consider how, but I consider how to say this. And on one hand. Looking at me from outside, you think, wow, overwhelming success, successful radio program more. Most listened to show history. AM radio people thought I was dead, Limbaugh comes along and it's. Saved, they say, and I can't you know, I'm not going to sit here and deny that, but folks, I can there's a large part of me that feels like I have failed in such a major way.

In a political sense, I've had I've had 30 years here. To try to convince people, trying to persuade people. To try to encourage people to think critically, think on their own, to realize the difference between conservatism and liberalism, the difference between a Republican Party and the Democrat Party as it relates to conservative versus liberal. I know there's rhinos and I know that the Republican Party is a and in the establishment wing of Washington, it's it's not that different for the Democrats, but conservatism versus liberalism.

And then I got some help, you know, starting in nineteen ninety six, here comes Fox prior to that talk radio with other hosts than we got the blogosphere. And there's an entire conservative media now called the alternative media. But it's big and it is successful.

And even with all of that. There are still far more people than should be voting for Democrats, voting for the left and I.

I chalk it up in part to having failed to. Convince people, persuade people of the truth. This guy is a success story. Well, the Mr certainly is saying we wouldn't even be in the fight if it were, yeah, that's probably true, but I was in the fight and I am in the fight and like this this this last caller, this last not not not the guy, but the guy, the lady, the Debbie Downer, you know, she could be.

It's a stretch, but she could have been a very classic seminar caller. You you talk about somebody who might have succeeded in depressing voter turnout. What if she was a seminar caller? What if she was not really being truthful about what? I know she sounded truthful. I know she sounded very bummed out. I know she sounded like she really believed. But what if she wasn't? These are all things that as a host, you have to you have to judge and decide a moment's notice whether to put up with it, whether to deal with it, whether to call her out on it.

But she couldn't have been a better seminar caller to discourage people from voting if that's what she was. I don't think she was. I think she was dead certain and serious and.

Well, you heard her, I mean, she's she's nothing. Nothing was new. Well, no, you can't you can't erase can't erase what we've done and so forth. And I know it may have taken tampered with voting machines and fraudulent turne all this stuff in order to taken it away from us.

But look, it's a look it's a very thin line here because I'm not I'm not trying to evoke any sympathy from anybody, but.

It just there's a part of me just continually amazed that the Democrat Party, that the left gets even 30 percent of any vote. But then I have to grab myself a slight rusher, missing reality, reality is the lifelong meaning of the D next to somebody's name, the unions, that they have constant support over the money. And so I understand all this. It's just it's just that I've I've had my opportunities to get into people's minds. I've had the opportunity to influence the way people think about these things and.

It's. What reminded me of it was this guy, this current caller I got through to him. I got through to him and. But there's so many things that I look at that I don't understand. If I'm successful. Here because of A, B, C and D, then how in the world is my side? Losing, especially after these four years now, let me answer it myself, why don't we have these last four years, we have nothing but full fledged all out character assassination of our guy.

And all of us. No need to recount at all the Russian collusion hoax, the coup, all it never ended.

But then again, we counted it every day, we blew it up, we told everybody it's a bunch of hooey, it's a bunch of lies. And yet. There are smart people who believe it. That I have been unable to reach and I have been unable to. Changed their minds. Let me let me talk about being a Debbie Downer, I don't mean to do that. Let me take a brief break, because I have to. We got to.

Got to do it. I'll be back here in just a second. Folks, don't go away.

OK, let's Minneapolis's next. This is Kim. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.

It is truly a surprising honor. Mr. Limbaugh and I will do my best to remedy as I express to you why I listen to you. But it is truly an honor to hear your voice. I remember back a while ago, you've always said that you would never get married, and to me when you say never, that just opens up the door. Forgotten to show you that you will. And Catherine has changed your life so much. And you and I think alike.

Well, not not all of life, but how she really has.

You don't know the half of it. You don't. You you don't. But your instincts are right on the money we have.

And thanks so much. Don't pouring the cream before the coffee and the summer in January, me and my son were out in Colorado with my daughter spending time moving around there and like what clockwork? I plug you in and I turn you on. And I had my kids come down on me wireless and they had wireless saying and we all think alike politically and stuff like that. And that forced me to take an honest look what I really listen to and.

And like I said, it comes down to I already know what you're going to say, sometimes it even comes down to corn, the cream for the coffee that is that little away. And I realized at that point that I just need to hear your voice. I listened to you because you remind me of my dad. You are a dad to me and. I don't hear your voice and I'm down on my knees praying for you all the time, and I try to lift you up in prayer and it's like that definition of love.

How do you how you how you spell love. And that's called who I am, because there's nothing that you have that I want more than just to hear your voice. And I just wanted to let you know that I, I listen to you because I need to hear your voice because it reminds me of a dad and there's only one thing they would ever regret today is that like being a Paul Harvey Jr. that I a junior. That's how much I look upon you, sir.

And like I said, this is a really surprising honor that I was able to just pick up the phone and get through. But I just wanted to let you know that, sir, I honestly, I'm speechless here.

I cannot thank you anywhere near appropriately.

For that, I can especially relate to it.

I know how important it was for me to be reminded of my dad and many people and things over the course of my life have been the same thing with my mother as as well. Well, folks, this is. Here I share with you the fact I think that I have failed and and here you all come riding to the rescue.

I've got people no, you haven't failed, Trump's victory was a triumph of you and your show and conservatism. You put Trump over the over the top. You can't think that. Well, I do it. Look, folks, it's a I told you, it's a tough thing to. To understand, because in the broad scheme of things, who can deny that what's happened to me has been overwhelmingly successful? But I'm not doing that, but I've had all of these years to get to people.

To explain the wonders, the beauties of freedom and liberty and how that is conservatism. And yet, despite all that, there are Americans who are willing eagerly voting to lose their freedom, to give it over to politicians who want to control them and don't care about them. And I wonder, how did I miss them? How did I not reach them?

And of course, there are answers to that question to look, I got to take a break. We'll be back here and wrap it up in just a second.

My ongoing attempts to thank everybody in the audience, all of you, for everything. You mean to me, that last call.

That's. Reminds me how much I love all of you, how much I. So appreciate everything you've meant to me and my family. You don't have any idea how I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for the better. You have no idea what you all have meant to me and my family. That day is going to come. Folks are I'm not going to be able to do this. I don't know when that is.

I want to be able to do it for as long as I want to do it, I want to, but the day will come where I'm not going to be able to.

And I want you to understand that even when the day comes. I'd like to be here. They have this sense of. Needing to constantly show my appreciation for all that you have done and meant. To me, so I hope you all have a great. Christmas, a great new year, and I hope that the things that are in store for all of us in the coming year are certainly better than what we have endured in 2020. I don't know.

Too many people have enjoyed 20, 20, probably some sickos out there who have, but 20, 21 has to be better. We're going to try to make it that way here at the EIB Network again, folks. Thank you so much. I wish there were a way to say it other than thank you. You're just the best. My family, it's just the best. Thank you, Merry Christmas, everybody, from all of us. To all of you, make it happen.

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