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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. It is wonderful to be here in the beautiful queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show, the gold standard in talk radio, the most important radio program, I would argue, in the history of the media. It is a huge day as we journey into this next to the last day of 2020. I am winnable and I'm happy to be here.

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I have great news for you out of the box. Great news for you. You still have another day to meet your New Year's resolution. I mean, you've got to look at the upside on these things, OK? You can still achieve it. They want you to be bummed out and think that you blew it by January 3rd or 4th or fifteenth. You've got it until the year comes to an end. And what a year it has been. Greetings and salutations.

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Our phone number to be a part of the conversation, one 800 202 today to 800 to a two to eight two. As you heard.

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I am Brett Wytheville from in Charlotte, where I host Afternoon Drive. I'm one of the great radio stations of all times one of the heritage radio stations in this country that is making up the backbone of the EIB Network. Look, before I was in Charlotte, I was in San Diego. Before that, Los Angeles and before L.A., I was with Rush Limbaugh at the EIB Network in New York City. And I started with Rush in nineteen ninety five.

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I was a much younger guy, a skinnier guy, as well as part of the business office staff. It was a dream job. This was a dream job just being near that show, just being near this program and this legendary broadcaster. More on that in a moment. Let me tell you a little bit about my journey to this place and to this place today. I grew up in West Texas, El Paso, Texas, in the dark of night.

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That was where I first discovered talk radio. With the skip signal coming into the desert southwest from places like Denver, San Antonio, even Los Angeles, sometimes I got lucky. I was immediately hooked on this medium. Twenty five years later. More so than ever before. I'm in love with talk radio every single day. In fact, my most formative adult years. Came after I joined Rush and his team there in the studio, the very studio that that team is, is working in this very day, I joined Rush as a screener.

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I was the guy who answered the phones, so many of you may have already heard me, but you didn't know who I was and I certainly heard all of you. I was a nordley, although technically both Nordley is the only spurtle, I mean, the reality is both inertly is the only nordley. He is the gold standard. He was the one who helped blaze this trail. Rush would refer to me as Mr. Winter, but that's Winter Belly, it's like terrible, but I'm not that bad.

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It's winter belly is how you spell my my last name. And during that journey, when I started at the show about nineteen ninety nine. I got to work with the legends on this program, the names you know so well, Maiman, both Nordley, Cookie and Coko and of course, the legendary HRR, Kit Carson, the official chief of staff for Rush Limbaugh, who we lost way too soon. Now, during my run from nineteen ninety nine to twenty six, which is when I left the show to kind of strike out on my own, to go back out west, to go out to California to see what would happen.

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Well, before I did all that, I got married. Rush announced the birth of my two kids, my son and my daughter, and I still get goose bumps thinking about getting to do this today. Let's be honest, you're feeling a little bummed out about things politically, socially, culturally, right?

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You're a little worried. You're a little concerned. You're thinking, what's this fight going to be like? Where's it going to go? What's going to happen? To understand where we're going is to understand where we've been now, I get it, I get it.

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Nobody wants to hear the substitute teacher. Nobody wants to hear the alumni from the from the program. They're behind the mic. But, look, Rush takes time off every year at this time from Christmas to New Years. This is a normal winter vacation.

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I get it. There are challenges and things like that that that Russia's is fighting. But here's the deal.

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This is a regularly scheduled vacation, I expect he's going to be back next week and in between now and three o'clock Eastern Time, I'm going to keep you company. But I mentioned talk radio being special. Talk radio is special. Because Rush. Makes it special. Look, the reason why progressives and the elites decirte hate it, try to copy it or ignore it, minimize it, you name it. The reason why they do it is because they want you to feel isolated.

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They want me to feel isolated, you probably sat at home over the weekend and you thought to yourself, Christmas was awesome, New Year's is going to be great. I can't I cannot wait to get to twenty, twenty one. But we've got these elections at these two Georgia Senate elections taking place there in Georgia. And it feels like the very soul, the very future, the very stakes of our republic are in the balance.

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Truth be told, I went down to Georgia over the weekend. I'll give you details on that across the program, but. You may feel a little bit uncertain, but you shouldn't be. This is Rush Limbaugh's show. Rush Limbaugh is the eternal optimist. He's the Maha Rushy. He's the doctor of democracy. He built this. The left hates talk radio because talk radio really is synonymous with what Rush has done and continues to do to this very day, he has impact.

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He has weight. But you know what he really has that makes. Everyone nuts that doesn't like this. He has the ability to relate to America, to America. To the people in the cities and the towns across this country that are often overlooked, whether by the elites in Washington, D.C. or New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago.

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You're overlooked, you're not respected, you're dismissed as deplorable and people that they can smell inside the Wal-Mart right away, we know that routine. But you see. Rush. Built this. He was the first guy to really take phone calls not just from the big cities, but from America. Rush was a trailblazer and is a trailblazer to this very moment. He used to take emails on CompuServe, CompuServe.

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I mean, tech geeks across the country just gave big thumbs ups because I referenced CompuServe. He did the Dedeaux can let you watch him in the studio. He first published a newsletter, the Limbaugh Letter, that actually mailed to your house. I know people, good personal friends of mine who have them all. That kind of loyalty, that kind of love, that kind of respect, you can't create that, you can't create it like you're some wife of a Hollywood star creating a new identity, like suddenly you're from Spain.

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No, no, no, you can't do that. That's the kind of thing that happens organically. That's lightning in a bottle. I got to see that lightning up close and personal, see what we are as a country today in 20, 20. In so many ways. Rush is the glue and the foundation of our principles and our politics in this time, anybody who doubts it knows they're not being honest about it.

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They want to dismiss it. So, as I said, we in talk radio are the original social media. You can come and exchange ideas, debate big stuff, just make fun of the craziness in the world, right? Take a look at any of the TV channels, look at any of the networks. You tell me that you can reach out to one of these news anchors and tell them why they're wrong on covid-19, on on the elections, on whatever it is you want to challenge them.

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Good luck. You'll call a main switchboard. You'll be put in voicemail jail. You call the EIB Network any day that the show is on at one 800 to eight to Tuesday two, you're going to get your voice heard.

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Unless, of course, you're just kind of boring or not entertaining because you see, that's that's the principal secret that I learned sitting across the glass from Rush.

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Many people have this mistaken notion about talk radio that if you call the talk radio show, whether it's your local show on the amazing affiliates that carry the Rush Limbaugh Show, they they will sit there and they'll say something to you like this. Oh, you won't put me on. You're censoring me. No, no. We're saving you from potential embarrassment because you're not bringing a great point. But I know talk radio screener's worth their weight in gold, including those on this program and those who have been on this program.

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We'll help you get to a better spot, something more interesting with more of a hook. Why? Because this is ultimately about entertainment.

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It's information, it's opinion, it's passion, it's fun, but at the end of the day, you want to be entertained. Why do you watch a sports game? Why do you watch a golf tournament? Why do you watch a tennis tournament? Why do you go watch a particular movie if that's your your bag of tricks? Ladies and gentlemen, you want to be entertained. And I intend to do just that over the course of the next two hours and 45 minutes.

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We are the original social media. We don't censor. We don't we don't cast you aside, we don't look for the for the better options out there, we together this audience, this staff, but most importantly, the man who operates as the north star of this program, who gave me my start in the medium that I love more than any, and the man who I respect more than any in this business. That man is Rush Limbaugh, and I'm stoked to be here today.

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This is a dream come true. I'm Brett, we're in for Rush Limbaugh. This is the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB. I am Brett Wytheville, in for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show, our numbers eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. Don't forget to check out Rush Limbaugh Dotcom for all the latest information, all the greatest information out there. This is a great day to be an American watching the politics unfolding in front of us.

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I know. I know. There are people were nervous. Just stick with it. I got faith in the American people and in our country. I genuinely do. And we've got a little bit of of a developing story right now that we're going to be tracking and watching closely over the next couple of hours.

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And that is Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri or Missouri, depending on what part of Missouri you live in, announces he's going to contest the Electoral College certification next week.

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So this is Josh Hawley, he's one of the young guns, one of the young conservatives there in the Senate.

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Overnight, there was a lot of chatter back and forth about whether or not McConnell, Mitch McConnell would would put up with any of this stuff or just the news is reporting, among other outlets, that Josh Hawley announces he's going to contest the Electoral College certification next week. At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. That's what the Missouri Republican had to say. He goes on to say, but unfortunately, Congress has so far failed to act.

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Now, any member of the lower chamber joined by at least one senator, can contest the certification of the Electoral College vote. Now, for several weeks, Republican members of the House have been announcing their intentions to contest the certification. But it was unclear until today that any senator would co-sponsor their efforts, although incoming Alabama Republican that Senator Tommy Tuberville has said he would consider signing on to a challenge. So once the challenge is seconded by a senator, a floor debate would be prompted, followed by a vote in each chamber.

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Now, one of the people who's been leading this charge right is Mo Brooks. Mo Brooks is one of the folks who's out there leading the charge.

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We have a newly to be minted congressman right here in North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn, who has said he's interested in making that push as well, that challenge as well. And really what this comes down to, what this comes down to is the fact that we need to as a as a republic, as a constitutional republic, which means I get it. It's popular to say we're a democracy. We have democratic institutions. We vote, we do that sort of stuff.

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But we are a constitutional republic, which means we follow the rules of the constitution. Whether you like it or not. We're following the rules of the Constitution. I get it. It's just easy to say, OK, forget it. Let's everybody go. Let's do our own thing. Everything's going to be fine. Let's ignore what's happening now.

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We have rules. We have rules. You have a Twelfth Amendment. It's hugely important to understand that the integrity of the election is vital. And I would hope that people on both sides of the aisle would at least put the results to a test to see if it is, in fact a legitimate vote representing the legitimate interests of the American people.

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Isn't it curious that you have such confidence on the other side of the aisle, such confidence on the on the cable news programs in the morning and at night?

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You have you have such confidence in the results that they don't even have to take a look at it.

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We don't even we don't even have to look at it. And I'm going to tell you what's driving much of this, because it does feel like it's a super accelerated pace to shut this thing down, put Joe Biden and Kamala Harris there behind the desks there at the at the at the White House and at the vice president's residence. It does feel like there's an acceleration here for that. And you want to know what that's based on. I believe that your average progressive out there who saw the election results knew that something might not be right.

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But more importantly, because we're driven by this odd media culture. And I don't mean the news media per say, but I mean the media culture where everything is resolved, 30 or 60 minute episode of something. And so if this were a program, if this were Grey's Anatomy or some show like that, this would be where the president is declared the loser and he is sent away immediately. I guess they forgot that there was supposed to be a cooling off period that takes place between November the 3rd and January the 20th.

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You have to certify on the 6th, but you still have these different elements that are out there kind of moving. You have folks who are so steeped in current culture that they think that, well, once the election is called. Bring in the moving van, get the president out of that White House. It's not how it works. It's not it's not how it works. There is a process and a procedure.

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It's so interesting to watch, especially progressives out there talk about how much they love Abraham Lincoln, how much they love these Republicans, not named Trump. And what's interesting is you've had Republican presidents make difficult decisions and stand by them regardless of the blowback or the pushback. I assure you, I assure you that the people who are represented in the Senate from the state of Missouri want answers to what happened in the election, want answers as to the results in that election, and want to see that the constitutional republic is kept sound.

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Here, let me go to Marcella in Crosby, Texas, first up to comment on this. Marcelo, welcome to the program. I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh. Yes, you know, I've never been a political junkie like I have been watching this fairly closely and it just blows my mind and I can speak for probably everyone around me, especially in our state, you know, that's watching everything that's going on, all the evidence, you know, whether it's coming forward or numbers or even statistics, you know, and the one big lingering question that nobody probably can even answer, but I'd like to kind of hear your input on it, is how are they even getting away with it?

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I mean, they're doing it out in the open and the cheating and, you know, dismissing these court cases and just, you know, getting nowhere at us, know, being the Trump and, you know, team and our president. And are they really going to get away with it?

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I mean, I can't I can answer that for you, Marshall. I can help you out. Here's the thing. We have to remember, there's a process that's going to play out between now and the 6th. And there's a lot of of maneuvering and movement that is going to take place. The process moves in a slow fashion, but it moves in a deliberate fashion. I'm not ready yet to throw in the towel. And I've got further thoughts on this straight ahead.

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I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network.

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Thank you, Johnny. I am Bret winnable. You can follow me on Twitter at Winterville Show, Winter Blee show and hear me every day, Monday through Friday from three to six p.m. here on News Talk. Eleven, ten, nine, nine, three in Charlotte, North Carolina. I want to flesh out the answer to Marcellus question there in that last in that last break before we went out for a break. And it was this. We have got to wait and watch how this process plays out.

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We also have to operate with an eye towards what's going on in Georgia, because it's going to be immensely important. That election is coming up right around the corner. And I'd be curious to get your thoughts, your sense, your gut take on what it is it's going to happen in Georgia. Do you feel like Lefler and David Perdue are going to prevail in that race? What's your sense? Are you a little maybe. Are you a little are you a little gun shy now or we have to say gun shy.

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Is that is that been the Strickland phrase? But are you a little bit gun shy now? Are you a little worried because you've seen chicanery in other places? Maybe I have some doubts about the the setup of things there in Georgia. But I can tell you just from some of the anecdotal stuff I'm hearing about, and I'm certainly heartened by watching Josh Hawley say he wants to challenge inside the Senate these these these results.

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I am heartened to hear some of the buzz that's out there, things like, well, maybe Chuck Schumer, who famously declared that first we first we take first we take Georgia and then we change America. Sounds like he may be pulling out a little bit. Sounds like he may be backing down a little bit in terms of the fundraising and the tempo. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, I want to be clear about that, is going to be going into campaign for Leffler and for Perdue.

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That's significant. So significant that Joe Biden, who represents the office of the president elect, that's what the banner says behind him, is also going to try to go in there. I'm just wondering if you're going to see a huge crowd of people in one place and a and a car party over here in this other place. It's just going to be kind of interesting to watch play out.

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But this is going to be instrumental moving forward as you look to the the challenges that may be coming on the 6th of January. There's a lot of pieces that are moving again, my admonition from that last segment when I said these are not 60 minute procedurals that get resolved like, OK, and the bad guy went away, they're going to drag this out.

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Think about this for a quick second, we're talking about the power of talkradio going to go back out on the phone here in just a second.

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Think about what it took to mount a full scale beach landing against the current administration. Think about it. Talk high tech, big tech, Wall Street, entrenched swampers. It took the swamps in the various states. It took Hollyweird, Silicon Valley and the whole lot of them with the networks to get together to attempt to demoralize you. That's what a high bar it was to try to bum America out. Oh, and a little thing called covid. Just because.

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Isolated from from your friends, your family, don't think that there's an absence of passion out there, there is not don't think there's an absence of concern, an absence of willingness to sacrifice and fight in the best political ways. That reservoir is still is still brimming full. In large measure because of the man that hosts this program Monday through Friday, Rush Limbaugh. Let me go out and talk to Jim. Next up, Jim, welcome to the program.

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What about. Hey, Brett, how are you doing? I'm doing well, sir, long, long time to see the original 790 Houston, Texas listener.

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Wow, that is awesome. 20, 25 years old.

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You're your monolog motivated me to call in your passion for radio, your passion for Rush. The last 33 years I've listened to Rush have been truly inspirational. These formatted my mind, my ability to portray a good conservative person to the country, my friends. I just my prayers are with him. He's always had an all star list of support like yourself. Thank you. To sit in and take the golden microphone and do your job. And I want to give a shout out to the man to Turned Me On the Rush in 1985, a good friend of mine from Lafayette, Louisiana, Jim Daku, he said, Buddy, you've got to listen to this guy.

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Turn the radio on now. So that's a big thank you for what you do. Hey, thank you.

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I appreciate you being out there, Jim.

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And and checking in the passion that is out there is it's an amazing thing, because when you go to these these dark moments or these concerning moments or or a sense that you can't do it, well, you can.

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It just takes figuring out the best way to get to those steps. That's hugely important, Don in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. Oh, Pennsylvania, right there in the midst of so much. Good to have you on the program, Don. Welcome. And what's on your mind? Well, I want to tell you one thing, I found Rush the second week he was on, and I've been listening to him ever since. I'm a truck driver, retired now.

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But I want to know if the news media is going to be looked at real hard for the reason why there's going to be so many riots when Rush actually polls this hour, not Rush. Trump pulls this out because they're not saying that there's any possibility they've already put Biden in and when he pulls it out. They're going to go nuts because they're nuts anyway. So what I want to know. OK, all right, Jim, Don, I appreciate you calling from Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.

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So one of the greatest pieces of advice that I've ever gotten from anybody was this do not live in the wreckage of the future. Don't live in the wreckage of the future, Michael Jordan in the 30 for 30 series that that he was a part of just just a number of months ago said that he doesn't worry about the shot he hasn't yet taken. So you can't worry about what the reaction is going to be from people as a means of dissuading you from pushing forward on a noble path or a righteous path.

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Why? Because essentially you're creating a heckler's veto, right? That the heckler's veto. We know that this person is going to come and speak at a college campus, but we can't let them do it because they're going to offend us. So what do you say we we get together and cancel them? Because, you know, people might get upset, people might get angry, people might disagree, there may be an argument, somebody may act inappropriately. So let's just not have the debate.

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Let's not have the discussion. I mean, I'm old enough to remember nineteen ninety five Bill Clinton, who showed me just a couple of seconds ago, Bill Clinton coming out and saying that talk radio was the reason and Rush Limbaugh was the reason for what happened in in Oklahoma City. And that that when I get off the airwaves here and in St. Louis, the Rush Limbaugh is going to have three hours to say, yeah, it's called speech. It's called debate.

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It's called having opinions, every American in this country is entitled to the same thing, the rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights free speech. Free assembly, redress of grievances, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, those rights are afforded to every single American in this country. But for the reaction from a group of Americans that might be unpalatable, scary, frightening. What have you, we should not defend those rights. We go all over the world fighting wars to ensure free and fair elections, don't we?

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Well, let's find out, we're not saying the outcome is going to be this or that, what we're saying is let's look at it, let's not give in to the heckler's veto. Let's not give it in give in to the potential rioters veto, because that's a huge mistake. We need to understand the single most important lesson living in America today, we live in this country. We are stewards of this country, but this country does not belong to us.

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It belongs to the generations who came before us, plus us and the generations. Still to come, do you want to hand your nation to a free born generation with the rights and freedoms that you have today? I think you do.

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I do. I wouldn't be optimistic like this if I didn't have kids and thereby skin in the game. One hundred to eight to to eighty eight to one in four Russian. It's great to be here with you.

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Let me jump out and take another call here real quick. I want to talk to Sylvia in Fresno, California, a very important part of the state, a vital part of our of our nation when it comes to the AG that we get in the San Joaquin Valley being starved of water by Dianne Feinstein because of the Delta smelt, et cetera. Sylvia, welcome to the show. What's on your mind? Thank you. Thank you. I am a Hispanic, and I just wanted to say I was a registered Democrat until 2016.

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I did switch, I became a registered Republican. And I just wanted to say that, you know, in addition to the stop still sign and the stop the still slogans, I want to see some signs that just say Trump won. That's just signs that say Trump won and have it at the rallies, that have it at the rallies the next week. And we need to repeat that and keep it in the positive. You know, keep it simple, because that's something that everyone can latch on to Trump once.

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And then when they start saying, you know, we're going to we're trying to overturn an election, we're not overturning an election. We're correcting the fraudulent results from an election. We're just correcting that. We're not overturning it. So I just wanted to put that out there. I wanted to let people think about that and make their signs as they trump one when they say, you know, he's a dictator. No, he would, period. So we could keep it just so simple, so simple.

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Messages worked the best, no doubt. Right. Build that wall. Make America great again. Yes. No more endless wars, those sorts of things.

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So let me ask you first one. But there you go. Trump on what was your transformational moment? What was it that got you to say, OK, this is not paying me the dividends I want in the state of California. Instead, I'm going to go in a different direction. What was that moment that did it for you?

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Well, I've always been a pro-life Democrat. I very much wanted the Democratic Party to to recognize the pro-life movement in 2016. I was actually wanting to switch over for Ted Cruz. And when Ted Cruz didn't win and I started listening to the message of Trump, then I realized, you know, this is the way I have to go. We saw so I, I registered we saw so many Hispanic Americans come around to to Donald Trump's messaging, to President Trump's message and going into this election, and there was a hard fought sale that took place with with trying to marginalize Latino support, Hispanic support.

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And it was striking to me, because you are behind the blue curtain, you're in a red spot in the state of California, but you're behind the blue curtain and you are there in a newsstand and you're having to live with these lockdowns and you're having to live with being outnumbered and outvoted and all that sort of stuff.

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But, you know, one of the bright spots is about the state of California. I just left it in February to come here to Charlotte. One of the bright spots is, I believe if I have the math right, California produced the most Trump voters of any state in the country. And that is a hugely important thing to. To understand and I want to talk about this for a quick sec. Thank you for the call, Sylvia, and a very happy New Year to you.

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I left the state of California in February and came out here to Charlotte, I jumped at the opportunity I had. I had lived in L.A., I lived in San Diego. I love the state of California. I absolutely do.

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But I understood the realities of what it is that's happening in the state of California there. Twofold. One, overtaxed, overregulated. There's no bigger manifestation of that. As I speak to the great radio stations across the state of California today, there's no bigger testimony of that than the lockdown's and the explosion of Kovik. But we remember what the topic was before the explosion of. The topic was. Homelessness, the inability to control your streets, drug abuse, mental illness on the streets, a committed state government that wants to release people from prison out onto the streets, a state that was committed to suing the administration so that immigration laws would not be enforced.

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I mean, all of this stuff works in tandem to the demoralization of a state and of communities because you don't have the civic pride that, you know, you should have you let in anywhere in the state of California. You look at that state, it is beautiful. It is uniquely blessed, but cursed with horrible policies. So here I am in the Carolinas. I've moved here, registered my vehicles, purchased real estate, I am registered to vote in the state of South Carolina.

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And in October, I receive at my address here where I live. I receive a ballot from the state of California to vote in the election. It was addressed it wasn't forwarded with a sticker on it, it was addressed directly to my home address in the Carolinas. And I said to myself, how would they have gotten my address? I don't know how they got this address and I realized I had to send an attestation to. The DMV to prove that I had registered the vehicle, not in California, moved it out and I registered it here in South Carolina.

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Show them proof. I sent them a form and by title and all that kind of stuff. It means they pulled ballots randomly out of the DMV database, which means in the state of California, you may be a hotbed for fraud because everybody who has a DMV connection would have gotten the ballot that was sent out and mailed out. You want to talk about wholesale institutional disenfranchisement? All the while, the state still produces the most Trump voters of any state.

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Oh, yeah, we're taking a look, we're taking a long, hard look. Because if it happened here, it can happen there and they're and they're and they're and as long as we the people are not unified in this effort to get to the truth. They'll keep us weakened, refuse to be weakened.

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Eight hundred twenty two, twenty two Brett would have been for Rush Limbaugh and the idea Brett would have been for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Radio Network. It is great to be here. I got a question that came to me that I'm going to answer the question. I'm going to answer this question, Mike. It came to me in a direct message on Twitter, and it's this. What was it like the first day you screened for Rush? It's actually a pretty good question.

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That was that's a pretty good question, Mike, so let me just tell you what it was like. I was sitting in the studio, Kit Carson was actually doing the screening. He looks at me because you want to screen some calls. I jump in, I start screening calls, and the rest is history. Literally. I had so much fun talking to people that I would like end up getting kind of caught up in the conversation. And kids like, put them up, put them up.

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He wants calls, put them up. And so I would put them up. And it was it was an exhilarating and exciting time to be alive. It really was it was the end of the Clinton term. And we were heading into George W. Bush. And I was thrilled and addicted and I still am to this day.

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Now, thrill and a pleasure and an honor to be here for Rush Limbaugh, by the way, folks, this is the normal wintertime break that Rush takes every single year, usually Christmas to New Year's. We expect him back next week and he'll be fired up and ready to go. What a busy week it's going to be next week. But I mean, you've got Josh Holly coming out. Earlier today, we were talking about just the News.com reporting this number of other outlets are reporting this, that there's going to be a challenge inside the Senate.

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Tommy Tuberville, the new the new senator coming in at all of them. He was he was kind of hinting that he joined the effort. But you actually have Josh, Holly, that youngun out of Missouri making the argument that, you know what, I think I'm going to challenge and then you've got these House members who want to challenge in the House.

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So this is going to get very interesting, folks. This is going to be the story to watch. And then you compound that with Georgia, the Georgia Senate race. Let's go to the 50000 foot view here for a quick second. We need to understand something about the covid. Epidemic pandemic virus situation that we're dealing with in our country, and this affects Georgia directly. We are currently living in a man made disaster. Think about all the shutdowns, the unemployment, the calls for two thousand dollar stimulus checks, the calls for six hundred dollars stimulus checks, that the calls for money to Pakistani transgender studies or the money that's going to go to Cambodia or the money that's going to go to Egypt or any of these other places around the world.

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Think about all this mess. And when you really boil it down. It's a manmade disaster brought to you by the governors and bureaucrats who created all of this, all of this, why do you have mail in ballots? Why do you have mail in voting? Why do you do it? France got rid of it in 1975. Why do you have mail in ballots, why do you have mail in voting? Why do you have controls? Over what time of day you can be out on the street?

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How many people can be in your house, whether or not you can worship in a church? Why do you have these restrictions? Man made disaster. The governors and the bureaucrats created every bit of this. Local authorities created misery, and now they look to the feds to clean up the mess that the locals made. I'm not diminishing covid-19 at all. I know people. I know people personally who have lost their lives in this fight. I get it.

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I take it seriously. I wear a mask, I wash my hands. They're cracklin dry right now from all the washing I'm doing. And that's not just because of the normal winter weather. I'm doing all that stuff. I'm doing all I'm social distancing. It's a great excuse not to be around people I don't like. I'm kidding. But it's it's I'm doing all the stuff that you're supposed to do with the protocols. I'm doing it. I take it seriously.

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Don't worry. Breadwinner sitting in for Rush Limbaugh does not say neither did Rush. Neither did Trump that this is a hoax. What the Democrats did with it was a lot of the hoax involved. Steve Green Dot. In Reason magazine back in 2012 had a piece called Government is Not Your Friend, it's important to remember this front and center in your mind. Businesses need to earn a profit, but the price of its products is determined by competition, which relentlessly drives down costs and increases efficiencies as the less able providers go out of business.

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There's no place to offload private costs onto the public in a free market, even though some businesses will despicably lobby the government for special privileges and bailouts. You just saw that in this new covid. Advocates for government efficiency need only look at the Soviet Union, where thousands of unneeded tractors rusted and vacant lots as the public waited in line for toilet paper.

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Private industry creates wealth. Government efforts consume wealth. If my neighbor starts a business, he must win over customers without coercion. He can't force them to patronize the businesses or to pay his expenses. He was 100 percent right when he said that back in 2012. Steve Green on. But what do we have we have government at every level, local, municipal, county, state, federal, picking winners and losers. You and I both know that I've watched.

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Dozens and dozens of businesses go out of business here in Charlotte and in cities around the country. Why is it? That people are able to go to the big box store, but you can't go eat a hot dog in a fast food place if you control the number of people that are in it. Why is it that you can eat a hot dog at the Big C store that everybody loves to go and buy the 40 gallons of mayonnaise that you can eat hot dogs and pizza there, but you can't go to Mama's pizzeria and have a slice of pizza because the government is picking winners and losers.

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Government knows one thing, control government understands one thing, control and spending your money, and if you don't have any kind of a veto, that's all to the good for the government. By the way, while we're at it. Now that you have a loaded gun to the head of the economy, what comes next? If we do a two trillion dollar bailout bill, a four trillion dollar bailout bill? Where does it end? Where does it end?

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Debt is piling up, deficits are piling up, and you have a presidential candidate in Joe Biden and a vice presidential candidate in Kamala Harris who want to do a four trillion dollar tax bill. Hey, let's take an economy that's struggling and now take two 50 pound bags of cement and make you run across the Sahara Desert barefoot with it. That's four trillion dollars in tax hikes. And yet the one thing you never hear from the big government types, especially at the federal level, you don't hear it from Pelosi or Schiff, you don't hear it from Swalwell or Defy.

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You don't hear it from Ted Lieu or any member of the Democratic congressional delegation in the House of Representatives. You don't hear a single word of blame going to the Chinese Communist Party. Oh, China's doing an investigation. We got this story that's come out. China's doing an investigation. They're going to investigate the source of the covid. Let me short-circuit the investigation into the source of covid the People's Republic of China. Xi Jinping will figure out that the people that deployed the covid were the wiggers in the concentration camps out in Xinjiang province, out in western China, where you actually have people who are commanded as slaves, impressed into service with no human rights.

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And the Chinese have them picking cotton. They'll blame the people least able to sustain the blame, they'll blame the freedom and democracy protesters in Hong Kong. They'll blame everybody, but where the blame belongs, the fetid, rotten, rotting, crooked system of CCP politics and economy in a brutal fascistic combo platter. You don't hear a single Democrat going out in front of a television camera and blaming China. I watched him blame Trump. I watched him blame Mitch.

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I've watched him blame Republicans. I've watched him blame everybody under the sun from from the governor of Texas to the governor of Florida. I watched it all, but I've never heard a word about China. So we have this election coming up. We have this election coming up in Georgia, this is a central issue, the reason why Lefler. And Purdue need to be returned to the Senate is to thwart another four trillion in tax increases. Georgia, I'm talking to you.

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You need to thwart the reinstatement of the Iranian nuclear deal, the suck up Paris climate accords, you need to thwart what is likely going to be an explosion of court packing and granting state status to. Territories and areas like Washington, D.C., you have Washington, D.C., you got Puerto Rico going to make them state, so we create a permanent majority of Democrat control inside the Senate. That's what's at stake inside the state of Georgia. That's what's at stake.

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And I get it. People are mad at camp. They're mad at Ruppersberger. They're mad at all these people. The fact of the matter is, you don't cut off your nose to spite your face because ultimately Georgia can determine the direction of this republic. And we're not even I'm not even addressing the issues involving reviewing the election results. I'm talking about the long term damage done to the American economy, a long term damage done to the United States of America.

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So I think you have to answer this question. What do you want in a senator? Do you want them to be smart, to be woak, to be competent? What do you want? When the NFL wants a smart player, a quarterback, they give him the Wonderlic test, no such thing exists in politics. I'll tell you what you want when it comes to what, Senator? You want a senator who, by design, is supposed to represent the state's interests in the Senate?

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Sure, we come up a bit short. But I want someone who won't kill the economy, I want someone who's accountable, but most of all, I want someone who's going to follow the Constitution and not read some secret special messaging inside the penumbra of the moon, yada, yada. So when we come back, as we do for break here, we come back.

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David Perdue is pulling an amazing strategy against John Orsa. He's treating the progressives exactly like they should be treated like wayward youngsters who really don't understand what they're playing with. He's putting out the word that China is a very serious and dangerous threat. And you can't be sucking up and you can't be cuddling up with Xi Jinping because it will come back to bite America eight hundred two eight two two to eight two.

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I'm Brett. We're in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Radio. Wonderful.

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That's me. I got to say the name. I'm sorry. I have to say it. I'm a place in Dallas. I'm a place in Tampa. And I'm all over the place. I'm on the entire EIB Network right now. And I'm having a great time. If you don't know who I am. Well, I'll tell you who I am. I'm an alumnus. I'm an alumni. Am I actually an alumni of of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies?

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Do I count do I count as an alumni of that because nobody ever graduate? I know that nobody ever graduates, but I'm an alumni. I was a I was a screener with the show. I worked on the program for for a number of years. I started when I was a wee small, young and twenty five years old and then spent a whole bunch of time with Rush. This is this is the honor of my lifetime to talk to this amazing audience.

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And I am going to go to the phones. But first, I have to praise one thing that's happening in Georgia, and I'm curious to get your thoughts on this upcoming Georgia special election that's taking place with with USCIRF facing Perdue and Warnock facing Lefler. Are you feeling optimistic or you may be feeling pessimistic? Are you worried they're going to steal it? Are you worried we're going to come up short? What's your feeling on this election? Because you do have a contrast to consider between these these two challengers to the incumbents.

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Right. In the case of a Raphael Warnock, you've got a lot of baggage and questions about things like his support for Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the the the the famous homily or, you know, sort of a speech that he gave there in the church that people were offended by what the GD America you have on the other side of the ledger, of course, John USCIRF, who's a 33 year old coming up, has a media company.

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But it turns out, John, USCIRF also has business ties with the PRC and that is no God, that's no good. You don't want to have that happen. I told you I was. I was in Georgia this past weekend driving around, checking things out. And David Perdue has figured out a great way to call out the impressionable young liberals like John USCIRF and even Eric Swalwell, as The New York Times even covered. Swalwell, I don't think they have well.

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John Asaph has really only done one thing. And he calls himself a documentary journalist, his biggest client in the last nine years in a business that his father bought for him was Al-Jazeera. Shows bad judgment. It shows that it's a dangerous thing on the back of the Swalwell scandal, the Hunter Biden scandal. What is it about these young guns like Swalwell and Asaph that bang, bang, bang fun and the rest of the folks trying to compromise members of our congressional and senatorial delegations?

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What's going on here?

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Well, David Perdue is is laying these charges and he's saying essentially this is this is a naive and impressionable young liberal. John Asaph is just like Eric Swalwell. Here's a here's a little bit of sound on this team.

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I'm David Perdue and I approve this message. News reports recently uncovered the channel sophs being paid by the communist Chinese government through a media company with ties to a tech giant accused of spying. Asaph didn't disclose to federal authorities that he's personally profiting from the same Chinese government that gave us covid. Unbelievable, but absolutely true. John. USCIRF won't hold China accountable. He works for them.

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I mean, that is a but I'm here to tell you that there is a document and I have it right here. This is his joli filing where he disclosed to the federal government. He, in fact, did work it. Now, there's a responsibility here he needs to own up to because sooner or later, we need somebody, United States Senate that will stand up to communist China.

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That's a hugely important point. That is a huge. You have to call it out look, past is prologue, and it's important to understand that if you're willing to get in bed with that, with that country on any level, you have got to understand that you need to be operating as an American, first and foremost, a patriot. First and foremost, you shouldn't be chasing a couple of bucks because you're able to get it from the CCP. That is a huge, huge mistake.

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That is a huge mistake, that is a huge error in judgment, and so as a consequence, I don't think you can trust these young, these young guns like Eric Swalwell, who pulled America into an impeachment and kept saying the Russians were the thing and not the Chinese. And in addition, distracted us from from the reality of covid coming this way towards our country, putting us in jeopardy. You never heard Eric Swalwell give a single speech about China.

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You never heard Adam Schiff hold a single hearing about China and the covid virus. That's the Intelligence Committee that Swalwell is also on. You never heard a single speech given by Speaker Pelosi or any of the other leaders in that in that end of things. And Dianne Feinstein was compromised for better than 20 years by a driver of hers who was working for the PRC. So these are all deadly serious things with deadly serious consequences. And so what is what is Joe Biden have to say about this?

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Well, Joe Biden says the way we're going to secure America is a massive mandate. This is cut number 20 go. Today, challenge, I'm going to be asked as part of the 100 day challenge, I'm going to be asking the American people to wear a mask for the first 100 days of my administration. It's not a political statement. It's a patriotic duty. Our administration can require a mask wearing where I have the power to do so for federal workers in federal facilities and interstate travel light planes and trains.

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And we've been working directly with county officials, mayors, governors to implement mask mandates in their cities and their towns and their states. Maskin has been a divisive issue in this country because it is a killer in red states and blue states alike. So I encourage you all to wear a mask, encourage your family and friends to do the same. It's one of the easiest things we can do that will make a huge difference to save lives. Sure it will.

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OK, fine. But can you take off the blinders when it comes to China? I get that you're going to put on the mask to save yourself from the covid, but can you take off the blinders when it comes to China? Is a very serious issue at hand here. And I want to hear from you folks in eight hundred twenty two to 80 to 800 to eight to Tuesday to optimistic, pessimistic about what's coming out of the Georgia results.

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20 more Rush Limbaugh show straight ahead.

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So as we know, it is. A tough time to be living in American cities, it's a tough, tough time to be living in American cities and deal with the covid and the desperation that has set in because businesses have been shut down, people are having a tough time paying their rent. All of that, as I mentioned, because it's a manmade disaster. It's a manmade situation. But The Washington Post has a very interesting story that's just out there in their paper.

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And the headline kind of tells you everything that you need to know. And it's this in D.C., black families real from the death of hundreds of people from covid. That's a very serious point. But absent in the equation, absent in the conversation, is any recognition that that there is also an epidemic of violence organically taking place in America's cities. All you have to do is cue up the great Google machine or the the Firefox or whatever it is you want to use and punch in.

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Murder spikes in cities, in fact. You can name a city and right murder spike or crime spike, and it's going to come right out. You have got. Thousands of people losing their lives around the country. And the media is silent, why?

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Because covid is easier to sell, because covid is easier to point to covid is is is more desirable as a narrative than is street violence caused by the fact that the police have been have been.

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Told that they're going to be defunded and that they can't police in the way they have in the past. As early as August of this year, there was a headline in The Wall Street Journal is that homicide spike hits most large U.S. cities. Why is that? Why would that be the case if, in fact, U.S. News had four theories about why homicides are spiking in U.S. cities? Twenty twenty murder increase is unprecedented, but it's a blip. That's December 14th in the Christian Science Monitor.

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Consider these headline. They minimized, they diminish, they reduce the importance of public safety. Now, why does this matter to you?

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I'm sitting here in Charlotte. I do my show from three to six right here, having a great time. And I'm going to tell you something. It's incredible when you really think about this. We've got a record number of homicides here in Charlotte. Now, some of them may end up being reclassified as not murders, but but for for the numbers right now, coming out of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department in Charlotte, North Carolina, you have a spike in this violence on the streets.

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This community, like so many others, were shut down for seven weeks, so you're not even looking at a trending 52 week number you're looking at. A much reduced footprint. So you've compressed these these homicides into maybe a 10 month window. One hundred and twenty three, ten month window. I can still do math, twelve point three homicides in a month. Twelve point three homicides in a month across four weeks, three homicides a week. Where is that supposed to happen, how is that supposed to happen?

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New Orleans saw a spike of over 50 percent this year. It's a blip. Homicides in Baltimore exploding, it's a blip. What are these cities all have in common? They all have in common blue city politicians. You've got typically district attorneys who are looking to get rid of bail, looking to toss any sort of felony gun stops, any of that sort of stuff. Let people out, let them run through that revolving door, go right back out onto the streets, rinse and repeat.

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New York City is a disaster. It is a disaster for the violence and the hopelessness again, man made disasters. Everything, everything that has happened. Has been caused. By politicians. Andrew Cuomo is the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo put 6000 patients into the nursing homes right with the covid and you ended up losing 6000 people, they lost their lives because of the covid. Is there no responsibility? I hear these truth and reconciliation commissions being talked about.

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We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We need. We need. To make a list of all those who enabled Trump and hold them to account, how about we hold to account Mayor Litefoot de Blasio? The mayor of Baltimore. Los Angeles, San Francisco. S. Lewis, how about we hold those people to account, the people in charge, the district attorney's? Because ultimately, who pays the price? Yes, it's communities of color, yes, it's people who may be on the lower economic scale.

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Yes, it's residents who don't have any options to get out of a community. At the end of the day, it's the most vulnerable who bear the greatest burden because of the WOAK fantasy's. Of Ivy League graduates. You know, I've been sitting here thinking about my Harvard degree and I think I'm going to remake policing. I think I'm going to make it more gentle, more kind, more understanding. Do you know that in Ted Wheeler's Portland, Ted Wheeler has told the cops, sorry, you're not getting any money, you're not getting any more support.

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You're on your own in the Rose City. What what are you doing? Who ends up suffering kids? Women. The elderly unable to defend themselves, and it makes the cops go bonkers because they want to respond to calls for service, they want to come out and protect people. They want to come out and make sure that the streets are safe. That's their calling in life to run to the scene of the trauma, to save lives, to protect the innocent.

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And they're told that that's out of line. Oh, those things that are happening on your streets, Mr. and Mrs. Law Enforcement Officer. Those are blips, every blip with those statistic statistics represents a life lost, represents potential destroyed, represents a family traumatized, represents a message to the American people that these folks pushing these policies are not to be taken seriously as leaders of communities, but instead only look to carve off the different portions of the community that will add up enough to their vote count so that they will continue to be able to serve in that capacity.

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In short, it's a war. On the least fortunate, it's a war on the individuals most vulnerable. And the politicians just want to look the other way right in the town car, go to the workout session, go to the restaurant, not wear the mask and look down on the little people. The secret sauce. Of what President Trump did when he got elected in 2016 was really easy to understand. You heard it. You heard it laid out by a caller from Fresno, Sylvia, just a just about an hour ago.

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Simple messaging, direct messaging, it doesn't have to be a complicated policy paper, it has to be the recognition that people who live in communities have a right to go to and from work without getting shot. They shouldn't get covid. They shouldn't get shot. And we ought to take that as seriously as we take anything else. It's such a simple message that's never going to work. Absolutely not a simple message, it's a message that resonates. Twenty sixteen, Donald Trump becomes president elect, Trump becomes President Trump, do you know how he ran his campaign essentially when you dial it down?

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He ran the campaign like you would a mayoral campaign, safe streets, lower taxes, better infrastructure, and that rocked the swamp. That was a bridge too far. Twice fighting for his presidency right now, and it's why Georgia is such an important place. One 800 202 280 to one 800 two eight two two eight eight two will go to the phones. Straight ahead, I'm Brett Wonderboy for Rush Limbaugh. On the EIB, it is great to be here with you.

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What about eight hundred to eight to 280 to sitting in for Rush Limbaugh? The highest honor that I've ever been paid in the in the world of broadcasting is the opportunity to sit here with the with the smartest, most influential audience in all of talk radio. And Rush has built it every single brick of the way. So what do you say we go out and talk to some of the great listeners, including Jeff in Janesville, Wisconsin. Jeff, welcome to the program.

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Good morning. Good morning. Georgia not an optimist, it's it seems as long as conscientious red counties, the majority report that out of blue counties don't know just how many votes to print. And then a bigger and a bigger sense. Here's my concern. Civil litigation is slow. It's got to go through a series of Democrat judges before it finally gets before a Supreme Court justice who doesn't appear to have a spine and cares more about what The New York Times thinks than he does about the law.

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Congressional hearings equally slow, rather toothless. And even if they come up with a bombshell, the media is not going to report it. This is it's not the Republican Party versus the Democrat Party. It's the Republican Party versus an organized crime syndicate that happens to go by the name of the Democrat Party. This is a Justice Department issue. This needs to be investigated. The RICO organized crime statutes. People need to be threatened with jail time if they don't cooperate with the investigation.

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How many agents to be sent to a new supposedly hanging from a garage door? Come on, get your act together. Justice Department. This is your your act to follow.

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Look, that's the first I understand this frustration. I hear it myself in my daily travels. And the reality is, how are you going to fix it? I get that you're you're pessimistic about the Georgia elections. How what are you going to do to fix it?

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How do we go to fix this? Because I can think of what I can think of only one remedy. But go ahead. You tell me what it is.

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I think of one remedy. Rush suggested voter ID. That's great long term, but even even that can be made fraudulent. Red counties. Hold your votes. Do not report your votes if that's a violation of some Georgia policy or law. Since when did Democrats care about policy or law? Hold your votes. Let the blue state blue counties report first. The corrupt ones. They won't know how many ballots to print. And this is a great setup for the Justice Department.

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They can be laying in wait because the Democrats are just brazen enough to try and do it again.

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Listen, I think that's a fantastic idea. Hold back. Let's see you show your cards on the table before we show our cards on the table. I respect that a lot, Jeff. I think that's a that's a great way to approach it. And let's hope that those red counties, those red districts are going to hold him back in it in reserve until we see what's coming out of the blue counties. And again, I'd have to ask the question, what time, what time the night of the election will the pipe burst?

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I mean, because we all we all we all got the banana in the tailpipe on that one little Beverly Hills cop reference. Let me go back out and talk to Kirk Kirk. You're up next. Welcome to the program, Lake Ozark, Missouri. Thank you very much. Real quick, I want to personally thank Rush Limbaugh for changing my life, for helping me learn to not be afraid of success. And I hope he hears that because it changed my life.

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On a second quick note, I was listening to a substitute talk show host out of Jefferson City who was a liberal and admitted that there was fraud in the election, but not enough to turn over the election, you know, to invade Syria. My point is, if you're going to cheat, what's the point in cheating unless you're going to win? Why would you cheat and lose or just, you know, didn't make a difference kind of thing?

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If I'm going to cheat at something, which I wouldn't do, I'm going to cheat. So I win, not cheat and then lose. So obviously, you know, he's misinformed. And I was so frustrated to listen to him because he said that he said that all the evidence can be refuted if it's allowed to be cross-examined.

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And let's say you listen, I think we should work to squeeze out any any of the fraud that's in there. We should work to get a clean election. And if we're going to go in and say, well, it's not really enough. Right? Is that a lot of fraud? Well, how much is an acceptable amount of fraud? That's the number I'd like to get from that progressive talk show host. How much is a is is an acceptable amount of 20 votes?

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50 votes? One hundred votes. Tell me tell me again how how it is that counterfeit votes add to the process of participation. Neal, you're up next. Welcome to the program. In Gig Harbor, Washington. We really need to change our messaging on what's happening with voter fraud. I keep hearing people say that, you know, dead people voted and talking about it like it just happens like it's a machine, but it's not somebody filled out that ballot.

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That's right. Somebody's got to and actually colored it in sign someone else's name. And they're not doing it on Mondays and Tuesdays. They're doing it on thousands. Since we can track down that person and try and flip them, then we can start to figure out who they're working for. And these people, these this voter fraud also has victims. Somebody had their vote stolen. The best thing I saw was down in Georgia during the the the hearings down there, a 22 year old girl stand up and say, I went to go vote.

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And they told me I had already voted because someone ordered an absentee ballot in my name. Well, who did that? That's a great question.

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And that's just a tragedy. I mean, for this girl to not be allowed to vote, she voted provisionally, but we still don't know whether it was the first one that was fraudulent or whether it was her vote that was counted. These are victims and someone's doing the crime. We need to find out who.

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Bravo, Neil in Gig Harbor, Washington. You absolutely nailed it. There can't be the system failed. We've heard the system failed constantly as sort of the generic excuse. We have to know who failed in the system, who hacked the system, who committed the fraud and hold them to account. Straight ahead, a thought on how real I.D. could play into this.

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I what about for Rush Limbaugh?

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But the idea OK, so we know that there was a problem with people getting driver's licenses that shouldn't get driver's licenses. So you ended up with a real ID program, right. You got to get that real ID to fly on a plane to rent a car, do all the sorts of things that have to happen. Well, listen, here's a good way to fix that problem. What do you say we work voter integrity into the real ID program or something like that?

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You must to participate in the real ID program, purge your voter rolls every 10 years and make people reregister. How many times do you register your vehicle? Every single year? You pay the fee to reregister, don't you? So what do you say we purge the voter rolls every ten years like the census? When the census comes around, we're going to purge the voter rolls. And if a state decides they don't want to comply and they don't wanna be a part of it, well, then guess what?

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We're not going to certify your residents and citizens to be users of real ID. I think it's an amendment that you can put together once you get to twenty, twenty two and you have the the Republicans take back over, you're going to get redistricting, you're going to get reapportionment, all that sort of stuff. I think that's a good way to go. I know it's it's going to take time to work, but remember, all we got is time.

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All we have is is our industriousness and our energy. Look, the host of this show, Rush Limbaugh, doesn't give up. I've watched him overcome a ton of adversity. His very career was based on overcoming adversity and doubts. It's important to believe in yourself and to believe in your cause. Answer me this. Are your children, are your children worth fighting for when it comes to future elections? If the answer is yes, get to work.

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Start working to flip the house another hour straight ahead on Brett, whatever information we are already.

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And our number three, this has been such a joyous and fun excursion into broadcast excellence, if I may borrow that phrase, for for the purposes of reintroducing the hour. Again, I want to invite you to be a part of the conversation at eight hundred two eight two two eight eight to get your thoughts on the Georgia race, whether or not you're optimistic or pessimistic about it, what you expect might be happening, how do you think this is going to play out as we get into that January 6th window?

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If you're just tuning in, Josh Hawley, the senator out of Missouri, has come out and said he's going to challenge inside the Senate these these results that are coming through these elections. You've got people inside the House of Representatives. Mo Brooks is one of them. And and, of course, our own Madison Cawthorn, plus others around the country. Madison Cawthorn is here in North Carolina where I am sitting at the great studios, having a wonderful afternoon.

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As soon as I get to host the dream of my life hosting for the for the great Rush Limbaugh. And it is so spectacular to be here with you.

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Let me just say this as I look back over my radio career, but especially during the time that I was here at the EIB Network, one thing that I want to share, I'm going to peel back the curtain just a little bit for you. We'll get back into the brass knuckle politics. Don't worry. But one of the things I want to pull back from the curtain for you that you may not know is the amazing, legendary amount of work that Rush puts into every show.

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Now, got a great staff. It's got amazing people that help him out. But Rush drives this show. It's his vision. It's his it's his art history that is painted on. That canvas every single day and what he's speaking about are the issues that are important today but are also going to be important tomorrow as well. In a lot of ways, he is, by definition, the cutting edge when it comes to the big stories that are out there and the issues that are going to matter, as he says on open line Friday shows or has in the past, you know, don't call in and complain about the phone bill or the electric bill.

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You know, it's a chance for you to to call into the program with a question, with an observation that you otherwise wouldn't wouldn't get to do. Right. And he's he's so dialed in on the stuff that is happening out there. And he understands the importance and he has never forgotten what it means to be an American. Now, that's a term that's thrown around. I get it. I understand it. But the idea of being an American, it means that you believe in the values of this country and you believe that this is a special place.

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The notion of American exceptionalism, that we were the exception, that we created the nation by by breaking, breaking free of the chains of of bondage in the and the royal family there in London. We were the exception. We didn't form together because we were Norwegians or or people from France or Japan. We came together bit by selection. We chose to become a country. And that country is an incredibly vital and vibrant place. He's an eternal optimist in so many ways.

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And, you know, people are talking and chattering and wondering and all these sorts of things.

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But let me make it abundantly clear, if you don't know, he takes this week off every every winter for a winter break and he goes from from Christmas Eve till just after New Year's. And he's going to be back next week. That's what we expect. And he's going to continue this fight and he's going to land right in the middle of this big fight that's going on on January the 6th.

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Hugely important story, hugely important story about the direction of our country. But in addition to being an incredibly hard worker and an incredibly proud American, a great American, an American who was saluted by by President Trump there at the State of the Union address when Nancy Pelosi famously threw a fit and tore up the copy of the State of the Union address itself in a in a fit of pure petulance. Rush was honored there with the with the Medal of Freedom for the contributions he's made to this country.

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And whether you agree with him or not, whether you disagree with him or not, Rush wants to see the country succeed. And we on the team all did and all due to this very point. Our default position is freedom and liberty. Our default position is success, taking the chance.

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And we've had a couple of callers over the last couple of hours talk about how much rush means to them as a motivator to get them to make a decision to to take a risk, to take a shot, because it's the only way, you know, whether or not you've got it in the tank. There was a time many years ago, if you had said to me, hey, you want to sit in on the Rush Limbaugh show? I said, Yeah, absolutely.

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And then I would have been like, I don't know what I'm going to do. It's by watching him as a professional, as a show prep machine, as a kind and generous man who who you only have to look at his association back in the day with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation fundraisers that he would do in New York to bring out to help out to the national audience to see that sort of stuff, the support of the different foundations for for for wounded vets and the families who had lost people, any number of efforts and many, many efforts that are known only to him and God.

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You see, I believe we are ordained to be here in this place in this time for a reason, at another station that I worked at, I was once asked, hey, if you could live in any time, any time of of of history, when would you want to live?

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And my answer was, I want to live now. I want to live now. They said, why? And I said, because I don't know how this turns out. I know how the 15th century turned out, I know how the 17th century turned. I know how the 1940s turned out. But I want to be alive now because I have no idea where this goes. But I do know it's a country worth fighting for, it's a country not to be embarrassed by, not to feel ashamed because you wave the flag, you thank the police officer on the beat or the firefighter or the first responder, because you want justice and freedom for everybody, regardless of how they vote.

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We are called to be here at this time in this country, in this place, and were called to keep it safe and keep it alive. It's why giving up is not an option. You look at this race that's coming up in Georgia and you have to understand the stakes of what's in play here. Your basic fundamental rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights are right there. In the gunsight. They are right there being targeted by people who don't want you to have the right to defend your family, choose your health care, choose not to support the Chinese Communist Party, choose not to do business with Iran, choose not to submit American ingenuity and greatness to the whims of unelected, corrupted United Nations bureaucrats and heads of extrajudicial and extra governmental non-government organizations.

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That is not what we want. We want to determine our own future. So that's a lot of the secret that I saw when I was with Russia on a daily basis and that I have listened to over these many years since I left, the idea that we want to determine our own fate. We want to roll the dice our own way. We want to take the money and take the risk and see what happens. America's exceptional. Because the people of this country.

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Are exceptional people. Charitable, kind and good. One question I never heard asked during this past presidential election, and I say it every time an election comes around, I say the same thing. I want one person that's a moderator of the presidential debates to look at the two people on the stage in the presidential debate and ask one basic easy question. What do you. What do you like about America? What do you love about America? What is it?

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You have a wife, girlfriend, husband, a boyfriend, a significant other, and I ask you what you love about them. I ask you what you like about them. I ask you you can go on and on and on. You don't often hear that from politicians, what they love about America, what they'll tell you is what's wrong with America? We are a racist, divisive, evil, imperialistic, mean country conceived from the worst instincts of humankind back in.

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But then you look at them and you say, what do you love about it? Could you imagine if you were asked that question in front of your significant other your spouse? The child, what do you love about your child? What do you love about your spouse? And you gave an answer that said, well, I really like her, but she could lose 35 pounds. I love him, but he is a terrible dresser with bad breath, and that hair has got to go.

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What do you love about it? No, no, I love I love him. I love him mostly. I love her, but I just want to change them fundamentally. I would like to make them 20 years younger in better shape and and really just somebody who does everything I say now. The Act of the Act of Love, we should understand this as we get to the end of the year, the act of love, the fundamental act of love, is an act of sacrifice, sacrificing yourself to your other, sacrificing your interests for the good of the country, sacrificing everything but your free will and independence, because that's what makes you a free person to freely love, to freely sacrifice, to freely donate.

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That's what makes you. The unique person that you are. So whenever I hear from people rush this, rush that. Smile to myself and I think. They have no idea the depths of his generosity, his kindness and his goodwill, even for people who fundamentally disagree with him. Because he still wants the country to work for them as well as they wish him ill. One 800, 202, 282. I'm Brett, we're in for Rush Limbaugh, the EIB.

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Let's go back out to the phones and speak with somebody. I want to talk to Ivey's in Greenville, South Carolina. Ivy, welcome to The Rush Limbaugh Show.

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Thank you. I just would like to make a quick comment about how it seems that our conservative Republican senators and representatives are not taking a stand for President Trump. And I just I voted. I held my nose and I voted for Lindsey Graham in this last election. Right. And he has not I don't believe he has publicly taken a stand saying that he's going to stand for President Trump on January 6th. I don't think Tim Scott has. I know my my state representative has not said that he's going to as well.

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And what is up with these people? Why will they not stand for President Trump and fight this election garbage?

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Well, listen, people are going to make their own political calculus. In the case of Lindsey Graham, he is somebody who just got another six year term. And so he's going to feel free to do what it is he wants and take the sort of stands that he wants. Have you called their offices, though? Have you called Senator Scott and Senator Graham being that you're in South Carolina and asked what their positions are and what have you heard from their staffers if they're even answering the phone?

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Nobody's answering the phones and their voice emails are conveniently full.

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See, this is this is the frustrating part of this because it feels like people come to us every two, four and six years asking for our votes and they're going to be our best friend forever. And then they got us. So I think what what needs to happen is this is a large audience. Everybody's in a different state. Everybody's in a different location. If you have not satisfactorily heard from your elected rep, especially, obviously the Republicans, then you need to you need to work the phones, send the emails, make the phone calls, tell them you're a constituent.

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Tell them that you want to know where they stand for January the 6th and that, you know, if if they're not going to be forthcoming with telling you their position, you have to assume that they have given up and that will affect your decision making in the future. They're really the only shortcut here is to do that, do that sort of legwork, write those letters, send those emails, make those phone calls. It's literally all you can do.

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But bounding together with the tens of millions of people in the audience, you can execute a change that way. I mean, I believe me, I understand your frustration and I wish you a very, very happy new year and keep up the pressure. Bill is up next in Cobb County, Georgia, right there at Ground Zero. Bill, welcome to the show. What's on your mind today, sir?

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Well, I was going to tell you that my wife and I and none of my immediate family are going to vote in the Senate runoff here in Georgia, really. And we we vote every election. We always have come. Like I said, I don't feel that the Republicans are fault enough for my vote. So I don't think it would even matter.

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So you're going to sit it out. You're going to you're going to sit this thing out.

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And yes, that's that's that's a that's a tough thing to do, given the fact that it's got implications for the whole country and our future. What's what's your sense about that decision, the fact that, you know, in many ways you have the ability to cast a vote that can thwart a lot of what is ultimately going to be coming this way?

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If you end up with the with the Democrats picking up both of those seats while they still have not changed anything where they stole the election in the presidential race. So they're going to do the same thing. They did an audit of Cobb County knowing that Cobb County is run by Republicans, they're not sure sure yet. They stayed away from Fulton County. They stayed away from it. They still got drop boxes all over Fulton County. It's going to be the same issue.

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And I say they pack the Supreme Court where Supreme Court hasn't stood up for us now. So who cares? Oh, boy.

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I see. Again, this is this is this is a tough bit of calculus. Look, everybody's got to vote their conscience. I would encourage you to vote. He just from a civic exercise. If if you lose, you've lost. But at least you've made your your your preference known, I guess, is what it comes down to. And I understand you're frustrated probably with the Republican leadership. Are you frustrated specifically with Leffler and Perdue? I mean, are they specifically frustrating?

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You have contact to Perdue by email, phone call, no response. So I think even those two. Yeah, in their commercials, they'll come out with a little 30 second sound bite. Sure. Behind the scenes, they're not doing anything and they're really not going to do anything. Once they get their six year term. That'll be it. All right. I appreciate that call, Bill.

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Let let us know that the audience know if you do change your mind, that you can call back tomorrow or next week. Obviously, with Rush, I'm just very curious to see how that's going to shake out.

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I mean, look, it's tough. It is really tough. I remember what it was like living in California and hoping that the good people of the rest of the country would make Nancy Pelosi not the speaker, any more. Because I couldn't my vote wasn't going to matter in California, I was getting outvoted, but I knew that if you were elected enough Republicans, you could unseat Pelosi from the speakership. We got pretty close this time around. We got pretty close this time around.

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But the reality is sitting this thing out, I think is potentially dangerous. Protest votes are rarely effective, and I don't know that that's really the way to go about it. We've got plenty of room for your phone calls as well at one 800 to eight to to eighty two, especially you in Georgia.

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You folks thinking about these Georgia races. We want to hear from you on what to believe for Rush Limbaugh. And the phones are blazing and we want to go out and talk to Sherry in Brooklyn, Michigan, wants to check in on that call that we just received out of a Cobb County, Georgia. Sherry, welcome to the program.

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What's on your mind? Hi, Brett. Well, sorry, I'll probably be a little nervous because I don't like calling into radio stations, but it is pretty frustrating. And I know the cheating and everything going on, and it doesn't sound like they've made much changes. But to not do anything just because of that, we're going to let them win. And to my point when I called in was that we donated I mean, not a ton of money, but a substantial amount of money here in Michigan because.

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I mean, we have the most Democratic. Sure, angry governor, so we can't do anything here, but in Georgia, when they still have a chance to change the outcome, I mean, I'm just my heart just goes out, everybody there to get out and vote, even if it looks like they're going to cheat, you know, just as bad not to give up as my point.

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So it's that look, it's a hugely important point because you're playing into that same category that I was talking about. When you live behind a blue wall, when you live behind the blue curtain and you're hoping that there's that a change is going to come, that something will prevail. You are absolutely in lockdown mode there in Michigan because you've got you've got Gretchen Whitmer, you've got a lieutenant governor. You've got Nessel.

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There is the AG. I mean, you are you you are essentially California, Midwest, the way you guys are having to live even and be calling our senators.

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Here is a big wall and writing letters. So literally, I have written every Republican U.S. senator. That's not my state, you know, hoping that somebody will listen because we are just, like you said, behind that wall and we are helpless. But in Georgia, they still have an opportunity to get out there. Every single one of them donate like here in Michigan. If you feel like you can't do anything right. You know, there's a website for GOP U.S. senators that you go through and hit every contact email.

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Again, a previous caller said that it's frustrating because they're either full or, you know, they don't have an email, but they're probably three quarters, 80 percent. You can still send an email. I don't know if they'll listen to you because you're not in their state. But we need everybody to write letters, call donate money to fight, because, I mean, that's what the Democrats do. Why can't we do it? Oh. Oh, no.

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Are you kidding me? If this was reversed and you had two Democrats up for election and being challenged by Republicans, this would be a revenge. This would be revenge time. This would be we don't care will crawl on our bellies across broken glass to to make sure that this thing retains it. But I think if people if people want to really express themselves the best way, the best revenge, in my opinion, politically speaking, would be to say to to say to Nancy Pelosi, you've got a diminished majority.

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If things don't work out for the president and you end up with Biden in there, you end up with Mitch McConnell, who who is at least going to slow him down. It's at least going to be linked in the lint trap. Otherwise, it's Katy. Bar the door. It's unbelievable, Sherry. God bless you. I so understand what you're talking about from from your point of view. Let's go and talk to to Jim in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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The Queen City's probably it's probably out here parked right out here outside the studio. What's going on, Jim? Welcome to the show, Jim.

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Jim. Yeah, right. You're doing an excellent job. I think I talk to you once before a long time ago. But, you know, there's for every one of these individuals that has come forth with affidavits about vote fraud. And in the November election, there's probably 20 people that knew something and saw something, but it just wasn't worth them risking it to report it. Well, you can write do all this writing and calling. It's a waste of time.

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If the police want evidence, they want credible reports. They offer a reward. The Republican National Committee and PAC Group should have been out there offering a reward for evidence leading to successful prosecution of voter fraud perpetrated for the benefit of Democratic campaigns in any state in the country. And I remember there was a gentleman that ran a rather unsavory magazine years ago to a million dollars and caught a couple of congressmen. But if you want to if you want to put a chilling effect on this and have people think about it and there's a lot of people that great matters more than loyalty, there's no loyalty among thieves.

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They should consider doing a reward. And if the Democrats want to run their own radio ads, let them do that. But the Republicans have basically missed it. As far as I'm concerned, the boats votes already gone.

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This is this is an important point you got there, Jim. It is important to incentivize people to try to help out with the cause, to try to straighten stuff out in that regard. It's up to people to root this out. There's not going to be a cavalry riding over the hill. We have to do it ourselves. And on this very point, because I understand the frustration people have with covid and the covid bailout packages, there's going to be more.

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Listen, if you if you like what you're seeing from government with the endless spending and regulation and lockdowns and all that sort of stuff. And I'm getting pushback on Twitter off of this. I see it. I see this stuff coming in. I don't care because we're on the side of right here. We need to gain control of of this run that is in front of us. You know, you saw last week money for the Pakistani gender studies, money for Cambodia, money for Egypt, money for this group and that group.

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Can I just posit. Posit? Something that I think is desperately in need of doing, and it may be the sort of thing that might actually unify people in this regard. When you get a bill, a bill like the five thousand page monstrosity that came out last week with Coburn, when you get a bill. Every provision in that bill needs to be accounted for and it needs to be accounted for in a specific way. When you write a research paper or you write a paper for a class in college or high school, you have to cite your work.

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You have to say this, that this study was done by Professor Bill Smith in 1964. And here's a link to it. Every item that goes into a spending bill we have to demand is only if it's a constitutional amendment or if this is something that gets done at the state levels to hold him to account. Every item that goes into a bill must have a lawmaker's name attached to it in parentheses, so that when we get Pakistani gender studies, we get, oh, Dianne Feinstein wants that.

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Oh, you want to send money to Cambodia? Mitt Romney once I'm making these names up. But you see what I'm saying? That's how you hold them to account. You want to get them focused on things that matter to you, make it so that down the road, two months, three months a year, when you go to an event, you're able to say to the person who sponsored Pakistani gender studies in the covid relief bill, you get to look at them and say, what were you sending money to Rawalpindi for?

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What did you what do you fund? And programs over there. You got homeless veterans under a bridge here. Like, we need to know names to shame the offenders. That's the only way you're going to get deterrents to politics. Politics is the one arena where. Accommodation. Is misinterpreted as weakness, you should make the other side fight for every inch of beach that they're trying to take, make them make the argument, make them press the cause.

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It gives you a couple days to put out into the press, hey, this guy or this gal wants Pakistani gender money. Sorry, stores closed. Dawn in Pocahontas, Arkansas. That is an amazing name. Don, welcome to the program.

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Thanks for taking my call. Thank you for all you've done and prayers. Amen. My point is, I used to live in Georgia and I heard the Georgia caller about not his family. They're not going to vote. Yes, sir. My question is, President Trump apparently thinks it's valuable to do that. He's down there spending his time to campaign and he thinks it's worth it. And and my question is to them, you know, or we're going to waste President Trump's time and not show support, win, lose, whatever may happen.

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Oh, that's my concern. Such a great point on that. That is.

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No, it's a great point. If the president feels like it's a big enough deal to go down and spend his political capital on what could be one of the last fights of his of his 2020 career, who knows? Then it's absolutely worth it. I agree with you. I co-sign this idea. One hundred percent, Don, you're right.

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If the president's willing to get down there and sacrifice, get off your fannies and vote on it would have been for Washington. Eight hundred twenty two twenty two, Wytheville in four, Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh, honestly, a round of applause is some great stuff that we've got coming down the pipeline. One thing I can say with full certainty. I'm authentic. I am who I am and I'm proud of who I am. I'm no Hilaria Baldwin.

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Hilaria Baldwin, who has gotten herself caught up in this scandal in which she somehow has portrayed herself as being Spanish, as in from Spain, Majorca. I mean, this is this is a terrible story to take a look at, but it speaks volumes. The New York Post noting that Hilaria Baldwin, the epically thirsty self-identified Spanish housewife of Alec, has been outed as a basic white woman from Massachusetts. Real name Hillary Heywood.

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Thomas who? The craziest piece of piece of evidence is a clip from the Today Show in which Hillary is speaking in some kind of a Spanish accent while coast playing is some kind of a culinary expert says. We have very few ingredients. We have tomatoes, we have. How do you say in English cucumbers? Well, they'd be peanuts.

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I mean, so so you're out there portraying yourself as somebody that you're not. I understand why actors sometimes do this. They do this because they're not comfortable with the person that they are. But this is insane. This is lunacy, the AB comparison. This, by the way, to the shabby treatment of one first lady, Melania Trump, who is actually a multilingual, successful person who emigrated to the United States and has been nothing but great as first lady taken on children's charities and bullying issues and all that sort of stuff.

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I'm sorry. All day every day, I'll take Melania Trump over the fake, phony, fraudulent fugazi, Hilaria Baldwin. Let's talk to Lisa in Burlington, North Carolina. Lisa, welcome to the program. Bret, what happened for Rush? Thanks. I guess I just wanted to comment on the gentleman that called in earlier regarding he and his family that said that he was going to choose not to vote because he felt like that it was kind of a feeble attempt.

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And I just want to send out a plea to the entire state of Georgia and to he and his family to rise up to this occasion and know that it must seem like a very daunting thing in front of him. But if as a Christian, I look to David and Goliath in the Bible and David had to look at the situation, he was in a pretty tough situation because, you know, there before him had been countering that Goliath and he went out and he stood with his hands full of rocks and, you know, took his enemy with his enemies also.

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So I just want to encourage people to go out and to vote and to stand. You know, we have to walk on faith, not on feelings. And I know right now a lot of people are overcome with feelings, but they just need to step out in faith and believe that truth will prevail. Amen.

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Lori Alessa, thank you so much for that point. It's such a hugely important point. It's hard. It's why you should do it, because it is hard. We have to stand up for what we believe and have a very happy new year. Lisa, let's go out and talk to Lori next up in Oregon City, Oregon. Lori, welcome to the program. Hello, Lord. But I think we lost Laurie. Let's go to a country in Romney, West Virginia, coal country.

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What's on your mind?

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Yes, sir. I want to make a quick comment about the spending bill thing that you were talking about. Yes, I was having these the representatives names attached to them. In reality, they voted for the bill. Their name is attached to it. Just a simple point on that. But the other big point. Yeah, like I hear a lot of frustration in all the other callers, you know, comments and whatnot like that frustration needs to be turned into motivation.

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Like I hear people calling and writing and emailing with no no response. No. Any kind of. Look out of that, sure, it. That's obviously that's not working, so we have to as Americans have to make our voices heard somewhat, I will be in D.C. on December or January 6th. Good. If people can't make it to D.C., they need to, in their state, go to their state capitals. The more people that are out and speaking out and speaking up and standing up for what's right is the only thing that's going to make this work.

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Amen. Great point country. That's a great point. All you can do is take action. So take action in a smart, political, important way.

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We're in for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Jobina. All right, listen up, folks, here's what we got coming up tomorrow, Mark Stein, Mark Stein is going to be doing a tremendous end of the year, kind of review a look at all the big stories that have happened and what to expect coming coming forward, obviously.

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And then, of course, Rush Limbaugh is going to wrap up the the year itself. And it's going to be a tremendous, tremendous next couple of shows. I can't thank the amazing staff here enough for allowing me to come back as an alum and host this program today. I would be remiss if I didn't think so many superimportant people, including, of course, my very good friend Bosna James, both Nordley Mike Maimon, who's been on the board throughout this excursion, Ali, who's been working the phones and everybody else who's a part of this team.

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You have meant so much to me and it has meant so much to me to be able to come back here and keep the greatest audience in radio company. And so if you're of a mind to by any chance and you want to check out, I'm going to be doing another three hours on WBO in Charlotte. And it's been a high honor and a tremendous excursion today.

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I hope you've enjoyed it. I have enjoyed it. And I want you to have nothing but the best when it comes to 2021. And we'll get back together all together listening to Rush Limbaugh right here on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Radio Network.

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