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Yes, America's anchorman is away. You know why that is. Rush continues to recover from. I think last week was treatment week. He's resting up and we hope he's feeling better. And we'll be back behind the Golden EIB microphone very soon. You can do your best to make him feel better. You can go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and you'll see above the banner that says The Rush Limbaugh Show. On the horizontal menubar. There's a button called Share Your Stories.

And if you press that button, you can send a message to Rush and help cheer him up and ensure he will be back behind the Golden EIB microphone sooner than previously thought. But he had his treatment last week, I believe, and it's going well. And we hope to have him back in at full strength.

And as you know, if you've been listening through the 12 months since he told you what was going on, you'll know that there's no improvement on full strength rush. You need to stand well back from the receiving apparatus. It's not something you don't want 80 percent rush. You don't want 40 percent rush. So we're going to leave it until Rush feels like he is ready to return.

But we will we will have a word from Rush a little later. If you're missing the sound of his voice and many people do, I would also like to give our best wishes if any of them are listening.

Any of you are listening because I would imagine that there are some people whose whose normal device for listening to this show isn't working. If you're in Texas and certain other states today, 150 million Americans, little under half the country, are under severe winter storm warnings. In the great state of Texas, there are millions and millions of people without power.

When I look at this county map of where the power outages are, it's incredible to me. There's basically no corner of the state unaffected except that far northern bits that sticks up above all the rest. And that's that's the only place that's I can't see a single power outage there at the moment. But as you head south, the map starts turning all the scary shades of yellow and orange and red and red means that 60 percent of the people in the county without power.

And there are quite a few red counties on the Texas map.

And there's something faintly ridiculous about this, because Texas has been blessed like almost no other place on Earth by a tremendous rich bounty of energy in the form of oil and gas.

And unfortunately, by the time this storm hit, 23 percent of Texas is energy. I was provided by wind by wind turbines, which most people are now familiar with.

You can see them all over the top of a mountain not too far from where I am right here and in the far north east.

And similarly, they stuck them in the middle of the California desert.

Well, I believe they're known as the Condor Cuisinart because they're so good at slicing and dicing all those attractive birds, but Texas had them to 23 percent of Texas's energy came from wind and all the wind turbines froze.

And that's the principal reason why they're out of energy. And I was thinking, you know, the other day of. The Bible, which ought to think of more often, really, because there's a lot of good sense in there when Pharaoh calls in Joseph and they start talking about the seven fat years and the seven lean years and how important it is when you're enjoying the seven fat years to make provision for the seven lean years. And we do that.

We talk about that all the time. We worry about sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century.

And so we have to make provision for it.

Now, we're totally focused on on on on the future and the lean years and the prospects are made. And it turns out we've been planning for exactly the wrong kind of seven lean years.

And that's how you wind up with a situation as in Texas, where 23 percent, an oil rich state, an oil rich state where 23 percent of the of the energy supply is dependent on wind turbines that freeze my my dear old friend Boris Johnson, who due to some typing error, wound up becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom, said on CBS the other day that he wanted the UK to become the Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi Arabia of wind is all by himself, could be the Saudi Arabia of wind, frankly. But that is that is why that kind of talk is is why you wind up with exactly the wrong kind of planning for the 17 years.

I would say one other thing about Texas, too, is it's amazing to me how so many red states.

Well, it's not really amazing. I think it's the logical it's it's basically the natural result of Republicans and the broader right folks focusing their energies only on electoral results.

And meanwhile, even in red states, all the other levers of power fall into blue hands. So even though you have the reddest of red states, don't mix, don't mess with Texas. All hat, no cattle. Ten gallon had drilling an oil well all the way. All the Texas is image. You've got 23 percent of the state's energy dependent on the these wind turbines. And that's not just true in terms of that particular issue. The reddest of red states anywhere in the country is full of blue school districts indoctrinating your children all the time.

And so occasionally something happens. And I wish we didn't have to talk about it like this, but occasionally something happens where that reveals how a an ostensibly red state that elects red congressmen, red senators, red governors, red legislatures, nevertheless, all the important levers of power are in blue hands.

And that is something, particularly after November, that the Republicans need to give some thought to.

I said we were going to have a word from Rush. The other big story around at the moment is the Democrats turning on Andrew Cuomo. New York State is a one party state. So the only way you're going to get rid of Andrew Cuomo is when Democrats decide they loathe him and the Democrats stuck with him. And then eventually, because he's not a he's an arrogant, unlikable person, eventually they decided, screw it, let's I'm sick of this guy.

It's driving me nuts having to live with him. Let's totally stab him in the back and screw him and get him over.

And so Andrew Cuomo, who whose policy of actually warehousing covid positive patients in long term care facilities absolutely accelerated. The death rate in his state is now on the ropes. And whether or not he he will survive remains to be seen. But Rush had this guy's number in the early weeks of the covid crisis, his rush from May last year.

The blue state idiocy is epitomized by Andrew Cuomo. Good grief, what this guy has done, folks tried this headline here, New York City starts historic overnight subway shutdowns for virus linked disinfecting. Now, this comes after Trump was laughed at and mocked. And made a joke of for finding ways to use disinfectant to help out, so Andrew Cuomo goes to a subway car, many of which have been taken over. By blue state homeless who are infecting people left and right.

And he goes out there and he starts spraying disinfectant on the subway car and he starts talking about why this is revolutionary, why we've never done this before. Who knew that you could disinfect a subway? Who knew you could disinfect them? Do you disinfect your toilets at home, Governor? Did you grow up not knowing how that happened, did your mom disinfect the toilet or did a maid come in? And do you have any idea? How cleanliness have the guy was shocked and stunned, you can disinfect the subway car.

So now he's getting heralded as being a great governor for disinfecting the New York City subway after not disinfecting it after it was it was one of the greatest concentrations of close proximity people. It was a breeding ground for the virus. And this ace kept it open, so they had to keep it all because all the essential jobs and services people need the subway to get to work. Well, that in his nursing home debacle is why New York leads the country in infections and deaths, and yet this guy is heralded as the next Democrat savior, the next Democratic nominee.

It's absurd. It's obscene. The media makes heroes out of genuine dunces who have put people in this country at great risk. And it mocks and laughs at and impugns genuine, competent, serious people who have been doing a great job, as in these red state governors, many of whom who didn't even see the need to shut down. New York City subway system, the nation's largest, went silent in the early morning hours Wednesday. As the normally round the clock system shut down for train, disinfecting service was curtailed in late March, but is now being stopped entirely from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. every day.

Get this, it's the first time in 115 years. Service hasn't been 24/7 except in times of emergency, and Governor Andrew Cuomo says that there's no way to know when service will return to normal. Of course not, he's only the governor, he doesn't know Jack. I mean, this is just flat out amazing and then we haven't even talked about this guy put infected people in nursing homes, nursing homes, it's like putting them into the crypt. It defies explanation.

Nursing homes are the single greatest upside of New York subway, greatest concentration of noted cases and deaths. And not just in New York, it's happened in other blue states where blue state governors have decided to people they didn't want, let's pack them off to the nursing homes. So Cuomo, he put infected people in nursing homes that led to thousands of deaths and now he's just figured out that cleaning, disinfecting, you'll remember what an idiot Trump was. Remember what a fool Donald Trump was.

But what a genius, what a compassionate, caring, empathetic genius Andrew Cuomo is. Because he's got the idea two months after the fact that he's going to clean the New York City subway. The Democrats in the media have been literally fawning all over Cuomo. He was just named, you know, this Mr. Stern. I know this is going to issue out, he would just name the most eligible man in New York. That's right, that's right.

Well, I know. And see, the thing is, these blue state failures, these arrogant, conceited liberal elites who have caused this country more trouble than you can possibly imagine are built up, heralded, converted into heroes, get nothing but great publicity and great coverage in the media. And they pose actual dangers. That was the one and only Rush nailing Andrew Cuomo to the wall nine months ago in the early weeks of this thing, May 6th, 2020, right here.

And I know this has been a long break without the man himself, the big voice on the right. And it is a big voice. And I had so many notes from people who said that apart from anything else, and not just because there's a foreigner behind the mic, but they they said they wanted just to hear Rush's voice. They missed Rush's voice.

That is Rush's voice, nine months ahead of everybody else explaining the insanity of what Andrew Cuomo was doing in New York while the court eunuchs of the American media.

I can barely the court eunuchs of the American media. They've got some CNN has got some story today about how Biden likes a log fire in the Oval Office. And he's such a man of the people that occasionally he even puts his own logo on the fire. Can you imagine that in the the citizen representative who heads a democratic republic and yet and yet he's capable of actually walking to the fire and putting a load on himself without calling for the deputy assistant undersecretary of log, adding to do it for him.

Amazing. The Court Eunuch's of the American media who fretted this butcher, this blood soaked butcher in the state of New York with over an obviously insane policy.

And Rush got it right. Rush got it right. May 6th, 2020, 800 282 to 82.

Marc Markstein on America's number one radio show. Lots more ahead.

Markstein in four rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. For the benefit of residents of New York City, I should just clarify a bit from what Rush was saying last May. He was referring to the hitherto 24 seven New York subway being shut down between the hours of one and five in the morning. The government of New York has now decided to loosen the chains a little.

And in fact, the subway is only shut down between two and four in the morning.

But it is still, as Rush mentioned, this is the first time in over a hundred and fifteen years that the subway has not been running 24/7.

Actually, you know, you could have ended a lot worse. I mean, so many places around the world have serious curfews in France, in Paris, not just in Paris, but in all of empty rural France, too.

There's a curfew from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. That's 12 hours a day. You have to you have to be inside by 6:00 p.m. You know, in other words, if you're like 10 miles from home and it's getting to five, 30 p.m. You have to think, oh, wait, I've got to get over back home before 6:00 p.m. don't want to be caught out after curfew during the German occupation of France, the curfew was only seven hours every night.

Now it's 12 hours every night. I mean, I don't do the Hitler comparisons because I think they're cheap and glib and too easy. But actually, in this case, I don't do the Hitler comparisons because they were unfair to poor old Hitler.

The present the present curfew in France is almost twice as long 12 hours a day as it was under German occupation when it was seven hours a day.

And we are now approaching the second anniversary of this thing and there is no end in sight and there's no plans for there to be any end in sight.

It's basically the Afghan war of public health crises. You go in two weeks to flatten the Taliban and 20 years later you're still running around there. And that's exactly the way it is going to be with this particular public health crisis.

And the reason the Cuomo thing is important is because. He exemplifies the great failure. It's not just that we've locked down millions and millions of people, unnecessary people who are no threat to any, it's it's not just that we've managed to make our children even more stupid, which is actually, frankly, given the levels of public education, a rather astonishing feat by taking them out of school for a year.

Socializing them and all the rest of it. But it's that we've utterly failed to protect. In other words, we made things worse for those who were the most vulnerable.

Are we killed far more old people?

Andrew Cuomo killed far more old people than he should have.

Hey, great to be with you. Rush is out today.

And you know what that means if you want to send a quick greeting to him and you get through on the telephone at one 800 202 282, you can always just say mega prayers, which was something a listener came up with when I had the misfortune to be here the day following Russia's announcement of his cancer over a year ago now.

And a listener said, well, you know, in in the old days, someone came up with mega dittos. And so now we should do mega prayers. And we have been to mega prayers. And Rush believes in the power of prayer. And your prayers mean a lot to him. So if you want to do the mega prayers or if you want to put you on the website directly, you can go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and click the Share Your Stories tab.

You know, we are all a bit guest host it out, including the guest hosts, because I.

I get it like a guest host.

It's kind of cute to have once every three months or whatever, but a guest host like actual guests could quickly outweigh where welcomes and particularly when the guest host is a foreigner.

Byron Williamson says to me, I was talking about Texas, the one bit that is unaffected by these power outages from the frozen wind turbines.

I said it's the bit that sticks up north out of the as if it's protruding from the rest of the state, David Williamson says Haibach, that bit that extends far up north in Texas is called the Texas Panhandle. Here you will meet some of the most conservative people in the US who pay us a visit any time.

I have actually been that a for some reason I wound I was going to Oklahoma, but I wound up flying into Texas, I guess would come in at Dallas Fort Worth.

And then I drove up. Through the through what did I call it, the bit that sticks up north from the rest of the state to get to to to head up out of there. And I did I had a I had a lovely time.

I actually stayed a couple of nights there on the way back with some friends who were in that area. But I'm as you can see, that's I'm a bit like those customer service things. When you dial customer service and you come through to Rajeev and in Bangalore and they pretend to be Budden Chip, and eventually, although it's very cleverly done, eventually you start to suspect that they're not quite as red blooded and all American and located in the lower 48 as you might have thought when you first style that one 800 number and didn't realize you were coming through to a call center on the other side of the planet.

I'm a bit like that, too. And we regret that. And it's just it's just the way it is.

But I love the privilege of getting to guest host this show.

We are all here. We all serve at Russia's pleasure. That's the only reason we're here. And Russia's been kind enough to let me do this for almost 15 years now, which is I never thought I'd say this either.

But that's that's pretty close to half the history of this show, which is extraordinary to me. So I thank Rush for that great honor. We were talking about what's happening with Andrew Cuomo. And the likelihood that he is going to be impeached or recalled only because the Democrats have decided. That they that they've had enough of him because he's such a personally unpleasant person, it's not they don't really mind how many people he kills, how how much blood he's got on his hands.

They've obviously got a high tolerance for that kind of thing.

But because he has. Basically being just too personally repulsive to them, because he's basically such a loathsome, arrogant slug that they can't stand him for that. Now, the person who's just been kept on and on and on. With with Andrew Cuomo is Janice Stein, who does the weather on Fox and Friends on the telly in the morning, and Janice is my fellow Canadian.

It's like a whole secret network of covert Canadians out there all over the place. Tannis Dane is Canadian. She's going to be the first Canadian governor of New York. Sadly, she's my fellow Ontario ad and she's had as I said, we're like everywhere where like everywhere.

It's it's like Eric Swalwell. Yeah. No, it's on. It's like it's not it's not. It's like when you get beyond all the conspiracies, you've got the Freemasons, you've got the Bilderberg as you've got the international Jewish conspiracy. And above the international Jewish conspiracy comes the international Canadian conspiracy. The Canadians are all everywhere. And Janice is going to be the first Canadian governor of New York because what happened to her was absolutely I mean, basically the policies of New York State killed her father in law and killed her mother in law within a few days of each other.

And we've got we've got something that is completely insane going on here. Is that because lockdown has failed, essentially because lockdown has failed, the world can never come out of lockdown.

And it doesn't really matter if a jurisdiction here or there comes out of lockdown like Florida is out of lockdown, Sweden's out of lockdown, South Dakota's out of lockdown.

Estonia, Belarus, no lockdown because because they'll quarantine those from the rest of the world or even in the United States. Rhonda Santurce has been having to deal with this absurd plan of the Biden administration.

Two, to quarantine his state from the rest of America. Now, there's actually no difference.

Florida is the nearest thing to normal life on this continent, Florida and I envy I've had I've got a couple of friends of mine who live mostly in London and Quebec, but they happen to have, like a lot of Canadian snowbirds, they happen to have a home in Florida rather than their rush, in fact, to Palm Beach.

And they couldn't wait to get there. And it took them ages. They had to. I forget how many countries and fake passports sewn into their jackets. They had to eventually get to the free state of Florida, where they were immediately vaccinated by that state's sufficient vaccination program.

And and and they're enjoying the as close to normal life as you can get on this continent. And meanwhile and same with Lisa Boothe from Fox News, Lisa, who always struck me as a like a very New Yorker kind of gal, love the city, love to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep. And then one day she woke up and found that the entire city had gone to sleep. It was in a coma and it was never going to come out of the coma.

And she moved to Florida because she wanted normal life.

And the the Biden administration, you all you need to know to recognize how sick the court eunuchs of the American media are is that Cuomo has been venerated as a hero. He's got an Emmy Award. He got a book deal. He's fawned on by these these ludicrous late night comedians that afflict the networks. It just awful people, people who don't tell any they've got huge writing staffs who sit there all day to come up with jokes and they don't write any jokes.

Instead, they write something that advertises the host has the correct attitude and you, the audience are expected to applaud him because you also have that attitude and he's reflecting the attitude you have back at you. No jokes? No. Who was that lady I saw you with last night? No. Why did the chicken cross the road? No. How many public health officials does it take to change a light bulb? No actual jokes. Just striking the correct attitudes and inviting the audience to applaud for seeing their own attitudes reflected back at them.

It's the I'm always amazed at the things that contemporary progressivism can kill, including jokes, which is real because a society without jokes is basically that's as good a definition of a totalitarian society as any.

And that's and that's the world. That's the world we that's been built for us now.

And so they have. Promoted Cuomo is the savior and the Santas as the guy who's doing everything you're not meant to do. I've just been looking at these this comparison between Florida and California. California went into super mega hyper lockdown, except for that idiot, Governor Newsome, getting to dine at his fancy French restaurant with the 325 dollar appetizers.

And basically, there's no difference because the violinist does what it wants to do anyway, so you can look down and you cannot look down and and you look down controls the citizenry. It doesn't control the virus, which is why the numbers and the curves and the trend lines are all exactly the same. The only difference is that the Biden administration has no plans to quarantine California from the rest of the country, whereas they're building they they got plans to build up a Berlin Wall on the southern border of Georgia to pen Floridians in their crazy stuff.

Mark Steyn in for us, one 800, 218 280. We'll take your calls.

Straight ahead, the best part of this show, it is, of course, you, the listener, and even more specifically, you, the caller on one 800 202 282. First up today on America's number one radio show is Gary from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. What's on your mind, Gary?

Great to have you with us. Yes, hi, Mark. Megaproject Rush. Thank you for that. Well, what's on my mind is Como's getting a lot of attention in New York, which he deserves. But I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm right outside of Pittsburgh. And my mother's in a nursing home that he was there. He just followed Carmen's footsteps. He did everything come on it. They just followed whatever he wanted. And they're all in the nursing homes here.

My mother, once she's in, all the patients around her died. That had it and she survived it. She didn't get a bad name, but his here's how this wound his health secretary, Rachel Levine, she he ordered her to put the you know, these patients covid patients into the nursing homes. And before she did it, she pulled her mother out right after her mother, a nursing home, and put her in a hotel and in.

And then and then Rachel must have graduated because she moved on to be I guess she got to raise she moved on to be Wolf's House secretary. I guess she needed help up there in the middle of this mess. So she moved from here up and now she's his assistant. There was more from my I'm understanding.

Yes, she's actually in she Biden has made her whatever she is, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services or whatever it is.

Yeah, she graduated Biden. Yeah, she's he's he's she's history in the making because as Jen Psaki said, she is the first transgender appointment to a U.S. administration to require the confirmation of the Senate, whatever that means. She's an historic first that Biden is boasting about, when, in fact, she ought to have been impeached and removed from office for making making the making your mother undergo something that she was not prepared for her own mother to undergo. In other words, she yanked her her mom out of there and and told your mom, tough.

The the the gates have been locked and you're stuck. Best, best, best, best of luck with the covid. I got mine out of here. And for that it was God.

We thought she was going to die and we couldn't even see her. We haven't seen her here.

No, I mean, this is so what happened and this is what is so horrible. And people say, oh, well, don't don't worry. You can you can still you can still talk to the kids, can still talk to grandma and grandpa by Zoom. You think you think you're 93 year old grandma is hip to zoom. I mean this has been terrible, terrible, terrible. What we have done would be regarded as elder if we were a civilized society as opposed to something turning into a monstrous and depraved society.

It would be regarded as elder abuse to do what we've done to the people in these homes and the people on the seniors wards and in hospitals this this last year. Gary, terrible.

It's horrible. I just pulled his mother out because they had covered in air and a whole nother place and he got her home and then a couple of days and she got over the cover, but she died a few days later because of it. I don't know. Hmm.

No, but you have to you have to ask you know, there's a some survey out, I think, that shows a third of a third of people. Well, no, I was going to say a third of Americans. But I think this surveys people in 19 countries and a third of them overall are suffering from depression.

And why wouldn't they be? You told your you're an 87 year old lady and you're told you can't see any of your loved ones for a year. So they're keeping you alive for what? Are they keeping you alive? What's the point of spending when you're 87 and you well, you've got 12 months and you can't see anybody and they say, oh, don't worry, we're just entering the second year now. But if you lived to 97 or 103, you might be able to see your family again.

I mean, these are the worst kinds of sentences. It's not like being sentenced by a judge. You know, it's a five year sentence. And for good behavior, you'll be out in three or whatever.

This this is just going on without end every every day. And just a final thought on that, Gary.

You know, I remember talking to someone who was detained without trial during the Second World War, and her thing was that that was the worst thing about it. You can't do what the Count of Monte Cristo does and make scratches on the wall.

You know, for how long you've been here, you have no you have no idea when it's going to end. You have no idea whether you're halfway through your time, only a tenth of the way through that. And that's what we've done to the old people in your state of Pennsylvania and in New York and in all kinds of other places. It's absolutely outrageous.

Thank you for that call, Gary. Lots more of your calls straight ahead.

Markstein in Russia on the EIB Network. By the way, I mentioned Janet Stein earlier. Janice is very keen for New Yorkers to sign the petition to impeach Andrew Cuomo. It's a one party state. The only reason anything is going to happen there ought to be done to him is if Democrats turn against him, as they are doing. Democrats have decided they're sick of him.

And it doesn't hurt for Republicans to pile on and sign the petition to impeach that guy.

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And you use satellites to communicate. I'm doing more virtual in-home closet designs, but I wouldn't say I salute you, astronaut Nina, for helping us find space.

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But you explore space. I help you find space with our alpha closet systems. And you're an expert, pretty good at it.

And you use satellites to communicate. I'm doing more virtual in-home closet designs, but I wouldn't say I salute you, astronaut Nina, for helping us find space.

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Yes, America's anchorman is away. And this is your undocumented anchorman, Markstein, thrilled and honored to be here, as I have been for wow almost a decade and a half. We have crash monitoring things from the disease heart of New York City.

And we have the one and only Mr. Snowden is screening your calls. You have to get past him in order to get on the air, but give it a go, because just speaking to Mr. Snowden is an honor in itself. One 800 202 282 is the number to call. I said a word about Rush at the beginning of the show about how he's doing and how he is. And it's never enough for people. I think it's a gentleman called Mr.

Leininger who wanted to hear an update on his own. Yeah. Matthew Leininger lining up who listening, I think, to KNUS Radio, who wanted an update on Rush today.

And I gave one at the top of the show he had. His treatment last week, he's recovering from treatment, and when he's fully recovered, he's going to be back because he likes to do the show at full strength. And I can only tell you.

What my doctor and I discussed a few years back when I was guest hosting from Ice Station EIB, and I suddenly needed to go to the hospital and get in there at two hours before the show and have the docs checked me over and they gave me these pills that said, do not take these pills if you're operating heavy machinery.

And I said, I'm just like an effete Nancy boy pansy writer. I never operate heavy machinery.

But is it a good idea to do a three hour national radio show on these pills?

And they said no, that requires that's actually way crazier than just if you get the urge to do that, go out and operate some heavy machinery instead, because you can't do you can't. I know Rush makes it sound easy, but you surely have grasped when you hear certain gashouse, I'm not mentioning any names that it's a lot harder than it looks. And Rush has to be at full strength to be able to do the show at full strength. He has he it takes a lot to make it sound that easy.

And so Rush comes back when he is at full strength and that varies. And we have been so blessed this last year because he's had this situation where he gets the treatment on Tuesday. He rests up on Wednesday and he comes roaring back on Thursday. And then there's other times when it takes a little bit longer and please bear with him on that he rush.

The most important thing to rush apart from his family is his extended family, which is you guys, tens of millions of you people who have been listening to Rush since you were saying some cases since children. My friend Cat Timothe, who's on FOX News on the Greg Gutfeld Show, and I was talking to Cap the other night when she I think she was homeschooled when she was in fourth and fifth grade.

But her dad always stopped the homeschooling at at whatever it was, midday Eastern. And they listened to Rush together. And and that's actually where cats political views were formed or actually not. And not just that, because she disagrees with Rush on all kinds of things, but cat sense of how to argue.

About politics and public affairs was formed, and we've got people all over the country now who haven't been in school for a year and they expected to make do with stupid interpretative dance videos by completely talentless people. I mean, interpretative dance is a is a difficult thing at the best of times. But if I had to just name a category of people who shouldn't be even attempting interpretative dance, I would say it is public school teachers unions on the evidence of their videos of interpretative dance.

So if you're if your kid's been stuck at home for a year, throw out those stupid interpretive dance videos and make the kid listen to Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show between noon and 3:00, because they will thank you for it.

Maybe not now, but they'll thank you for it in 10 years time. Who's the president of the United States? I know we are expected to believe that Mr. Biden is the president, even as 42 percent of Americans believe there was widespread fraud in the last election. Apparently, you're not allowed to mention that. Apparently one of the major radio station owners. Well, what's this one?

What's it called? Cumia, old Cumulus Media, yeah, they say if you say that there has been there has been widespread election fraud, they got a five 42 percent of Americans think there was widespread election fraud. Can even the the control freak at Cumulus Media fire 42 percent of Americans as they come frantically through his doors, filling and refilling the the slots of talk radio hosts that he's fired? So evidently 42 percent of America? That's quite a that's actually an ad, actually, in a functioning society that would be regarded as a disturbing number that you'd want to do something about by not just forbidding them from even mentioning the subject, but maybe by addressing their concerns about the subject.

Mr. Vice President of Codswallop at Cumulus Media.

So those that's that in itself is an issue why we have to as you can tell, I'm gingerly sidestepping this issue in order to avoid being taken off the air and replaced by light instrumental versions of Wind Beneath My Wings. And I'm tiptoeing very gently around this. But putting aside the question of whether this guy, Biden, is actually the elected president, he sits in the Oval Office and every couple of hours they shove a royal proclamation under his nose and he signs it.

He's like Governor Lapita Maine in Blazing Saddles.

And we're all trying to figure out who they Hedley Lamarr character is one of the interesting things. Jen Psaki at her press conference a while ago was asked whether. The alleged President Biden would be speaking to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. He's he's supposedly the power behind the throne in Saudi Arabia.

He's the guy who had that that Saudi journalist Khashoggi chopped up in the Saudi consulate in Turkey and then the body parts taken out in suitcases and buried around the yard.

So he'd actually make a fairly his fairly qualified for a high ranking job with the Democrat Party because he shows attention to detail their having all those suitcases ready to take the body parts out and buried in the parkland.

So that's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Would Joe Biden be speaking to Crown Prince Mohammed any time soon? And Jen Psaki said rather snootily, well, the president's counterpart is King Salmen.

So he'll be speaking to the king because the president's the head of state and the king is the head of state. So they talk to each other. And it's a little bit complicated because in the American system, the president is supposed to be both the head of state and the head of government. Those functions are combined, whereas in Saudi Arabia, as you can see, they've they've separated them slightly.

But what is fascinating is that Biden. I don't even know whether Biden has a telephone, is he allowed to telephone, but what is interesting is that he's not actually making a lot of these calls. For example, yesterday Vice President Harris spoke with President Macroom of France. So Jen Psaki wasn't doing any of her thing where, you know, oh, the president speaks to his counterpart because the president of America and the president of France are counterparts in this case.

It was Vice President Harris who spoke to President Macron in France. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today with President Emmanuel Macron of France and expressed her commitment to strengthening bilateral ties between the United States and France. So she's committed to strengthening bilateral ties between the United States and France. We have no idea whether Joe Biden is equally committed. It doesn't really matter. He doesn't need to have a commitment to strengthening bilateral ties because Vice President Harris has spoken to President Macron and expressed her commitment to strengthening bilateral ties.

The vice president thanked President Macroom for his leadership on the issue of gender equality. He's led by example. He's such a perfect dinky little metrosexual. He's leading by example on the issue of non binary gender identities.

Anyway, so. So the vice president, Harris, is the one who speaks with the president of France. That's a very odd thing to do. In the first three weeks of a new administration, don't you think, oh, what's this? Oh, she also is the one who spoke to Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, and reassured the prime minister that Prime Minister Trudeau, that the United States would do everything it can to help bring home two Canadians who have been seized by chairman he and his chums on the Chinese Politburo.

So, oddly enough, oddly enough, the truthful answer to Jen Saffy's question would appear to be that the question that was asked of Jen Psaki would appear to be that is now Kamala Harris, who is engaging in privilege, state to state relations with other sovereign nations leaders, which is odd. I made a joke with Tucker Carlson, I think, almost a year ago now when he was saying, you know, is this guy really up to being President Biden if he even got it?

And I said, well, I think he'd be more of a ceremonial head of state, you know, like the Canadian system where he'd be like a ceremonial monarch and an Komala would be acting as a prime minister.

I did it as a throwaway gag. It's actually happening. And again, the somnolent court eunuchs don't seem terribly interested in who's actually running the who writes up the royal proclamations that they shove under King Joe's nose every morning for him to govern by.

This is not this. There is nothing normal about what is going on. And that's why, you know, it's not just the case of election fraud. As I said, 42 percent of Americans think there was widespread election fraud. It's not actually a matter of doubt because these are the least efficient. This has the the American system, because of these systemically multigenerational, corrupt precincts, has the least election integrity of almost any country, actually, of any country in the so-called free world.

But it's it's the reason for the election fraud. Who is pulling the strings, who's got his hand up the dead husk of Joe Biden and wangling things around? Why is the vice president a position that historically in American life hasn't been worth a picture of warm spit to euphemize the famous expression on the value of the vice presidency? Why is it now the vice president who is engaging in talks with the I mean, we were in the Trump era. We would know this because when he telephoned the prime minister of Australia or the president of Mexico, the whole transcript was leaked and on the front page of The New York Times the following morning.

So perhaps somebody helpful, the perhaps the guy who like to leak all the stuff during the early days of the Trump administration would like to leak some of these transcripts of the new regime, because the first question President McCombe surely has to Kamala Harris is, hey, why isn't it your boss who's calling me to discuss all this stuff? Why don't I get to speak to my counterpart?

And yet this call yesterday suggests that it is now the vice president who is taking the lead. On all the big calls to the other G7 leaders, and you can ask Jen Psaki, but she'll have to circle back to March nine for us. Your polls in just a moment.

Markstein on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Let's go to West Chester County, just north of New York City. James is in West Chester. What's on your mind today, James?

Hello, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. My pleasure. Recently, I flew home to New York from Florida after being subjected to another lamebrain makes no sense directed by King Cuomo. And what I'm getting at is he's got this directive where if you fly into New York from Florida, you have to get a covid-19 test. So being a good taxpaying citizen in New York, I figured I'd better go do it. No symptoms whatsoever. So I go I get tested and I'm online with all these people.

And I'm looking around and I'm saying to myself, now, are all these people here because they're flying back to New York or are they possibly here because they have a fever, they have the chills, they have symptoms. And now I'm being subjected to stand on line with people that could basically probably be sick. Yet I am not sick. I have no symptoms. And this is similar to what he did to the nursing homes, putting perfectly well people with sick people.

And it has to do with his his king mentality. And they need to take away his emergency executive powers because this makes zero sense. Now, I have to get another covid test once I'm in New York, but I got to go with people that might be sick again. No sense whatsoever. I mean, why don't they say to people, listen, we're going to trust you to take your own your own temperature, your own oxygen level, which I do all the time since this started a year ago.

And, you know, you go to the doctor when you have a sore throat, it takes a stress test. But if you don't have a sore throat, you can't call your doctor and say, hey, doc, give me a stress test. You know, I feel fine. The doctor will say, well, you don't need a stress test right here. I was online with people that probably maybe 80 percent of them, they're not flying to New York.

They probably felt lousy and sick. Yeah, and in fact, you don't even you don't know that I mean, they could just they might not know that. They could just be people who, as you said, you're standing there in line with them. They that's the biggest group of people you've been with in two months or six weeks or whatever. And and you're standing with them because Chromeo says you go to prove that you don't have the virus before you can come back to New York.

And your best chance of getting the virus is to be hanging out with tons of people you don't know in a long line waiting to get you, get you. That's that's officialdom all all the way down. And it's just this box checking. It's just this kind of control freak box checking. You could have been you could have been perfectly responsible, James. You could have said, well, I'm I'm just at home with my close circle. We all know each other.

We all know where we've been and all the rest of it. And you made me go and stand in a long line of people. I don't know I don't know what their precautions that you know. Again, he's basically Cuomo says you can come back to New York until I've expose you to the virus in some way. That's essentially what he says. Yeah. Yeah. Come on.

You have to interrupt you. But how many people are driving back? You know, I mean, it just makes no sense. It seems to me that this is his way of getting, you know, back at a Republican governor. It's all politics. This guy thinks he's a king. He for what he did to the nursing homes is despicable. He should be removed from office. And if at least they should do is they've got to take this Emergency Executive Powers Act away from him because he's just run wild with it and he's got no humility at all whatsoever.

No, no. He's out he's out of control. And also, it isn't an emergency now because what's coming up to the second year, so emergency provisions doesn't cut it. Thank you very much for that call, James. You're actually right.

I'll pick up and say a couple more words of that when we return with much more on America's number one radio show, the one and only number one radio show for a third of a century, the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Yes, Rush is out today. I don't want to. I don't want to forget this story because it's my favorite story of the day from the Daily Mail in London, the headline, 30 Taliban militants killed in explosion during bomb making class at Afghan mosque. The blast happened on such a workplace accident for these guys, 30 Taliban guys blew themselves up during bomb making class at their mosque in Cool Tark, a village in bulk province. Six foreign nationals were among those killed, according to security services.

I like the way they put that we're developing. You have to decode. English language media these days, because they're trying to tell you something here, six foreign nationals, what that means is that these are guys who are holding. You know, American or Canadian or French or Belgian or Australian passports, but that if you were to say, you know, also six people from Australia, Belgium, America, Canada were killed, people might get the wrong idea.

They might they might be figuring why is why is Earl, who runs the feed store, going over to take a bomb making class in Afghanistan? And it isn't Al who runs the feed. So it's just a slightly more sinister figure who happens to have acquired a Western passport. But anyway, they all 30 Taliban militants at a bad workplace accident blew themselves up during bomb making class at an Afghan mosque. Don't worry, though. This is this is the old just anything could happen to anyone.

I mean, for all for all I know, they have a bomb making class at your local congregational church. You know, it's just apparently something that goes on in houses of worship these days.

But I didn't want to let that story go, particularly as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance will not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, quote, before the time is right.

Trump actually ordered the troops out of Afghanistan and the generals just ignored him. The Pentagon ignored him and said, we, we you're going to be gone. Like, what is it now? You're going to be out of here in four or five months. We think we're just going to leave the troops there. In other words, they're no longer subject. To a meaningful political control by, by the way, the same people who have kept us in Afghanistan for 20 years now, the swamp is back and that means the endless wars are back and that means the expansion of the American military presence in Syria is back.

These are not places you know, I as I have said, if he is, I'm basically a 19th century imperialist, a hundred years past my sell by date. But America does not have an imperialist bone in its body. And therefore, there's no point wasting time running around Afghanistan for 20 years and what will likely be now another 20 years, because what NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg means when he says the alliance won't withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. And actually what he means by not withdrawing his troops is that they're overwhelmingly American troops.

You get participation from a few others, such as the Germans, who nevertheless have some deal whereby they don't go out at night or into any provinces where there's any actual fighting going on. But they're great.

There's no loyal ally. If you want someone back at the barracks manning the photocopier, there's no one better than these guys.

But what this basically means is that NATO has now said that they will not withdraw their troops, meaning American troops from Afghanistan, quote, before the time is right and the time will never be right.

It's like we're not going to send those teachers back into public schools, quote, before the time is right and the time will never be right.

We're not going to allow restaurants to open up more than 25 percent capacity before the time is right and the time is never going to be right.

We're not going to allow you to walk around in the open air. Without a mask before the time is right and the time will never be right.

That basically is now the slogan of the way we are governed in the formerly free world.

Ron Johnson, do you know him? He's the senator from Wisconsin. And he said, this is very interesting to me.

He said the capital attack, quote, didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me. And he points out that, of course, when you hear the word armed, don't you think of firearms? Here's the question I would have liked to ask. How many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I'm only aware of one. And I'll defend that law enforcement officer for taking that shot. It was a tragedy, but I think there was also there was only one if that was a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots.

And Ron Johnson is stating the obvious. Hey, we had an armed insurrection. In which there was only one shot fired and it was by a policeman at close range killing a Trump supporter.

Five people died that day. There was a heart attack. There was a stroke. There was a poor lady who got trampled to death. This is what happens when large crowds are incompetently policed, as they certainly were by the Capitol Police.

Huge. It's either a huge failure by the Capitol Police or something darker.

And the only the nearest thing to a kill by this Trump mob was that policeman, Brian Cesnik, who died the following day and for whom no cause of death, official cause of death has ever been announced by the District of Columbia pathologist. And this is not only bizarre to me, but deeply unsettling, one of the most unsettling aspects of the event, he was laid in state at the Rotunda and I have no idea.

I take it the body, obviously, for that to happen, had to be returned to the family, which is old again, odd when no cause of death has been determined. And I take it that the body is either being interred by now or possibly cremated so they can never be any more tests on that body. But they knew one thing, that this story about the fire extinguisher and blunt trauma and the gash in their head were lies.

And yet they let The New York Times, The New York Times published its story on on the 8th of January, by which time they knew it was a lie.

And officialdom's still permitted that lie to be disseminated around the world. I just like to ask the District of Columbia, maybe I should file a Freedom of Information request to release all the information that because essentially the the cause of death has become a matter of public dispute. The Homeland Security Committee of the House Homeland Security Committee has now filed a civil suit against Trump.

Rudy Giuliani, the proud boys who are basically founded by Canadian and have apparently been the most effective force in the American capital since the War of 1812. Yeah, it's more Canadians, Mr. Sadly, I don't even get it. It's like supposedly a right wing from mob sacked the capital of the United States. And you say, yeah. And he actually turns out to be these proud boys, which is some kind of Canadian group formed by Gavin McKinnis, I believe, who is a Canadian so and so.

I don't even get that even they basically say they're basically what's going on. What's going on here is we have had we whatever you think of what happened on January 6th and Ron Johnson goes, he does all the thing. Oh, well, obviously I oppose this and I oppose that. But it didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me. I spoke to my friend, the former presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann. Michele was in the rotunda, so she was several blocks nearer than AOC and Rasheeda Talib and all those other people who were doing the post-traumatic stress routine on the floor of the House a couple of weeks ago.

She was actually there in the rotunda and in the little chapel holed up in the little chapel that's immediately off it. So she actually was close up in the face of the action. At no point did she think this was some right wing coup, nor did Ron Johnson. We are basically being we are basically witnessing the construction of an official lie and we are governed by lies. Now, you know, I mentioned at the top of the show this terrible, unprecedented blizzard that hit Texas.

And if you're not used to a blizzard, it's not like here where if you're up in northern New Hampshire, Mother Nature spends half the year trying to throttle the life out of you. So by the time you're 38, you're pretty much used to it because that's just the way it is. They're not like that and they're not like that. In Texas, it took them by surprise. Suddenly there's a winter storm everywhere. There's ice, there's snow everywhere.

It's all swirling everywhere. The power lines are crashing. The the ice is freezing on the electric poles, on the utility poles and bringing them crashing down. You're out of everything. That's actually a metaphor for this loss nation. One half of the country is demanding. We live with its blizzard of lies and they've constructed so many lies for us that November the 3rd was perfectly on the up and up, but January the 6th was an attempted coup.

Oh, yes.

Wearing masks would have done nothing last March. But now they're so necessary that you should be wearing three or four masks.

Oh, yes. It's totally racist to call it the China virus, but it's not in the least bit racist at all to refer to the UK strain or the South African variant or whatever's next. Florida is in trouble because apparently it's got the UK strain and next thing you know, a Tadjikistan will have the Florida variant and then Montana will have the Tadjikistan strain and then the South Sandwich Islands will have the Montana variant until the end of time. We are living in a great swirl, a blizzard of official lies coming so fast and from so many directions and actually having the clarity to see your way through them.

But take small things, small things like why a supposedly functioning jurisdiction, like the. Government of the global superpower cannot give you a cause of death for a dead policeman over a month after he died, that is deeply weird and not just weird, but disturbing.

Markstein for Russia. We'll take your calls.

Straight ahead, Markstein behind the Golden Æon EIB microphone. Let us go to Springfield, Massachusetts, and talk to Steve. Steve, you're up next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Hi. Hi, Ben. How are you doing? I hope I got it right. Sometimes I get your name confused, but you do a great job. Your analysis are really good.

And yeah, I'm not. I'm not I'm not Colbourne. I don't know you figure out of there, but no, I'm not Ben.

OK, but but anyway, many prayers for Rush. Absolutely. He's like an old friend of mine. I started listening to him in in 88. But on one of the things that's been bothering me is this election to me has been like extremely alarming. And, you know, I was reminded that a lot of keep your friends close and your enemies closer. So I have, like, drastically increased my reading of fake news, like CNN, MSNBC, CBS for that very reason, because I want to know what they're up to.

And one of the things that I found is I really think that this impeachment is like a steady drumbeat for something more sinister, which is the criminalization of conservative speech, because they go from the they they they keep beating this drum about insurrection, the hate speech, violence. I'm talking about voter fraud and just on and on. And of course, they also include conservative rhetoric going back four years, probably the most egregious articles, the longer articles that you have to really read deep into are the ones from CNN.

Yeah, I don't I don't disagree with that.

W I mean, it's bigger than that, actually, Steve.

We're watching the hallmark of all soft totalitarian societies as they become hard totalitarian societies, which is the criminalization of opposition.

That's what George Stephanopoulos, you say you've been watching a lot of what you call opposition media or enemy media.

What George Stephanopoulos was hammering Rand Paul when Rand Paul was saying, oh, I don't know. I don't know whether there was enough. And George Stephanopoulos is demanding. You can't say that you've got to come clean and admit that this election was on the up and up. And Rand Paul is saying, why? Why can't I have my own opinion on the election? And George Stephanopoulos, like any two bit kommissar in in any Bolshevik society, is saying, no, you can't run.

We can't we won't be able to have you on the show unless you agree to spend a couple more months in reeducation camp. That's actually that's actually what this that's actually what this is all about. It's the criminalization of opposition. And the worst aspect of it is actually with relation to the covert. You know, you might have thought the experts were the experts when this thing started in January and February last year. Then it became clear after two, three months that the the best of them didn't really know much about this thing.

And the worst were actually just China's bagmen and doing their best to ensure that China didn't get the blame for it. And what you have now is you have basically Facebook and Twitter and all these other the rest of the billionaire Cartwell actually saying, no, you can't disagree with the official version, the pro China version on our platforms. So we're saying it's not even a particularly political thing. That could be all kinds of reasons. It might be that Andrew Cuomo killed your grandma.

Janice Dean isn't a political person and yet in the least bit and yet she's just enraged that Cuomo slaughtered members of her family. But but you're not allowed to disagree with the official version of events. And so it's the criminalization of all opposition. Stav. Well, you know what else to actually, it's even worse than that, it's the legitimizing and mainstreaming of the criminalization of opposition, right?

No, no, absolutely. It's going to get a lot worse. We've just heard this we've just heard Eric Shadwell, a man who has literally been penetrated by Chinese intelligence. Fang Fang had him doing her bidding. And now he's the guy telling us that in Congress proposing that Congress start up a white nationalist task force, a task force to look into white nationalism. We're now seeing the diversion of the Department of Homeland Security with all its mighty powers from from created to to stop the Djihad boys 20 years ago.

Oh, well, enough of that. We've been fighting for the jihad for 20 years.

And we we've got to go. We'll pick it up in just a moment.

Markstein in for on America's number one radio show.

We have lots more to come in our final hour.

Yes, America's anchorman is away. And this is your undocumented anchorman.

No supporting paperwork whatsoever. Rush is recovering from his treatment last week, which is. Tough going even when it goes well, even when it's one of those weeks where they do what they have to do and he comes roaring back to the microphone 48 hours later, but Rush is resting up and he will return when he is fully recovered from that treatment.

I tell you what, you know, I always I usually say this back in the days when I used to guest host once every two or three months or whatever it was, I used to say, if you're a if you're a liberal.

I'd love to hear from you at one 800 to to 282, if you think things are all going great and things are looking peachy. I'd love to hear from you.

And that goes. That goes if you're so inclined more to the Susan Collins end of things, if you inclined more to the side of those.

What what was it?

It was was it six or seven GOP senators. Seven. Oh yeah. They got an extra fellow. Who was that? Pat Toomey. They picked up an extra one seven senators who voted for the conviction of.

And again, you know, under no suck, I mean, it's Qosi to to continue to credit those guys with genuinely believing that that was an insurrection and that was an insurrection incited by the president of the United States is is a tough sell to me. But if you're one of those guys who inclines to the Pat Toomey, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney side of things, give me give me a call. I would love to hear from you in this last hour of the show, one 800 282 two eight eight two.

I always have sort of you know, if you're not talking about China, you're not really talking about anything that matters because it's China's world. We just pay for it. I spoke to Peter Navarro, who's one of my favorite Trump administration officials. He could actually do the interpretative dance stuff, too, because he has such expressive and expressive arms. They always waving them around. But he drew my attention to the fact that it's the Chinese Communist Party's 100th birthday.

I drew his attention. I can't remember. We were both up on it. Oh, it was me. And then he said bingo as I drew theirs. And they would be wanting to give themselves a real super special 100th birthday present.

Like Taiwan, armed Chinese ships into Japanese waters as tensions flare over disputed East China Sea islands near Taiwan. China today has sent two vessels into Japan's territorial waters amid rising tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea. They intruded into the waters near the Japanese administered Senkaku Islands on Tuesday morning.

The Chinese are restive. They know that just in the fullness of time they will be the global dominant power. Even if they're not already. They certainly will be formally by the end of.

What we are supposed to regard as Joe Biden's first term, although we don't really know whose first term it is yet, but they're in a hurry, they're in a hurry, and whether they can restrain that is is not clear to me.

I'll tell you, I just would like to do a brief recap, because we we're now in one of those phases that comes along every time the Republican Party loses an election, which it may or may not.

If you don't worry, if you're that senior executive vice president ready to fire anyone who queries the integrity of this election? Well, yes, I am querying it, but I'm I'm like, Tony, I'm trying to be a bit dispassionate about it here.

So I'm I'm saying that every time the Republican Party loses an election, which it may or may not have done this November the 3rd. So go ahead, Fabi, if that's going too far, whatever happened to that First Amendment free speech culture of free expression? I don't know.

Anyway, the history of the with a conservatism thing, which they have every time the Republicans lose an election. And then there's all this with the conservatism. So there's now some people saying we need to go back to the pre Trump Republican Party. No, no, no. We need Trump to run again in 2024. No, no, no, no, no, no. It'd be nice to have Trump ism without Trump, which I'm not sure is entirely possible, because you need a Trump sized personality even to be able to talk about this thing.

Remember when he came down that escalator and he said Mexico isn't sending us his best? It's best. Do you think do you think Mitt Romney is ever going to talk about anything like that? Do you think Pat Toomey is ever going to talk about anything like that? Here's a quick history of American conservatism. In the 21st century after 9/11, we had the national security right, had become war, had come roaring back. We'd had the holiday from history since the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain.

And so the national security right. Didn't seem that important anymore because it was supposedly a unipolar world. It was supposedly America's world, and there were no great global national security threats. So national security conservatism got a little bit eclipsed. Then came 9/11. And so all the national security guys, all you Bill Krystal's and those kind of guys were suddenly big again in Washington. And we had the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And given that there had been a spectacular attack on the American homeland, one might have assumed.

The Republican Party would be serious about it and would would be attempting to expunge the ghosts of Vietnam once and for all, and instead they just became the usual dithering, ineffectual semi colonial policing operations, going nowhere with no serious strategic goal, certainly.

And almost immediately all the talk of exit strategy, exit strategy, as if the object of going into war is not to win the war, to crush the enemy, let the enemy know by God he's been defeated and he ain't ever coming back. And apparently there's no one at the Pentagon who does those kind of wars. I don't know what wars they do do, but these dithering, ineffectual type two decade wars.

Apparently, the only thing that so eventually they exhausted people's patience because people couldn't see the point of it, people didn't. People didn't get it. And so the national security. Right. Faded. And in the meantime, the Republicans who had not also seen what happened on 9/11 as a profound challenge to the cultural relativism of our time.

You know, so that in a sense, we couldn't afford the self-loathing, people kept comparing, for example, within a few months of 9/11, the teachers unions were already preparing school programs for the first anniversary, comparing America's post 9/11 treatment of Muslims with FDR internment of the Japanese during the Second World War. So in other words. Oh, yeah, enough of the big smoking crater in the middle of lower Manhattan. Let's get back to our self-loathing, because that's really what we do best.

So then came the Lehman Brothers crash and suddenly fiscal conservatism, which had been on the back burner, came roaring back. And you had the Tea Party movement and you had people concerned about, as I put it, a nation that had to do something that no other society in human history, in human history had ever done before. It had to pay back 20 trillion dollars just to get back to being broke, just to get back to having nothing in its pocket.

It had to pay 20 trillion dollars back. Now it's that you can do the joke 10 years later. Only now it's 30 trillion dollars. No one's ever done that before. No one. And there are countries that do pay down government debt under the Liberal Party. Canada paid down government debt in the 1990s. In the aughts, New Zealand paid down, as we call it, in Commonwealth countries, crown debt, public debt. The New Zealand government paid it down.

But when you talk and I just say this personally, when you talk about this subject with anybody in Washington, any kind of Republican, you look in their eyes, you know, they have no serious, no serious plan ever to pay down government debt. They're just not going to do it. They're not interested in doing it. It's never going to happen. It's a pretense. And you can do that pretense when you're the United States and the U.S. dollar is the global currency.

That's the difference between the United States and Zimbabwe or even the United States and Greece. You know, Zimbabwe has to pay back its debt in in U.S. dollars. So if you have hyperinflation and Abuk is suddenly the 100000 dollar note is only worth, what, five dollars was a year ago. You're in big trouble because you have to pay back the debt in the global currency, which is the U.S. dollar.

And the only country that doesn't have to worry about that is America. Until China yanks the rug out from under the U.S. dollar, which it's thinking about. I'm not saying it's going to happen in June, but it's thinking about it. It's thinking about it. And then you had Trump, who came along. The Tea Party was a powerful force. Then you had Trump who came along and he didn't talk about national security, conservatism, fiscal conservatism. He was really a culturally conservative candidate.

He said, well, look at you. Look at your communities.

They've been hollowed out by meth and heroin and all these other things. And your sister has to do the night shift at the quickie crap and you're just like some pathetic drug dealer. And that's all that's going on in a lot of these towns where the the mills and the factories closed because everything was shipped to China. And he didn't make that so much as an economic argument, but as a cultural argument that it would be nice. It's actually part of having a life of dignity and value to make something of worth in the United States, not not just to you know, we get to play with the toys that are made in China.

We get to wear the t shirts that are made in China. We get to put on the socks that are made in China and use the smartphones that are made in China, but wouldn't be nice to lead a life of dignity and worth where instead of just doing the night shift at the quickie crap or being a small time heroin dealer, there were actual industries and factories and he made that as a cultural argument tied to the rise of China and to mass immigration and.

I think from my own point of view, that's the sweet that's actually the sweet spot people people want the consolations of culture. They don't want to live in a transformative society where some guy with a green eyeshade has written off millions and millions of people because he can he can get child labor around the back of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to make everything you need much cheaper than any American can make it in the Rust Belt. And that's why Trump won.

And if we forget that, as I said, that's just my brief, brisk history of American conservatism in the 21st century. First, national security conservatism came running back, but we blew the wars, frankly, with no strategic clarity. Then the economy, the global economy went belly up and we had the Tea Party and fiscal conservatism. And then Trump, I think, tied it all together. The failures of the national security conservatism and the restricted vision of homo economicus, the fiscal conservatism with this big a cultural conservatism.

He did the American conservative movement, a huge service in that. And that is definitely something I don't want since I'm Susan Collins, no contribution to make to that debate. Mitt Romney has no serious contribution to make to that debate. It looks like Pat Toomey, who's a very smart guy or who was has no useful contribution to make to that debate.

And it would be hugely destructive for Republicans to go back to, you know, oh, we agree with everything the Democrats do, except we'd like a little bit of a tax cut, too. That isn't going to be enough. It's never going to be enough. As I said, if you're a liberal, if you're the big RINO squish, give me a call.

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The Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Markstein sitting in for Rush. The Oregon Department of Education says that asking students to show their work in math class is a form of white supremacy. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false. These are people who have never read. 1984 by George Orwell, where the salient point about 1984 is that two plus two equals five, two plus two equals five, and they know that the citizenry don't actually believe it, but they don't care about that initially because the point about any totalitarian society is to shove the lie of the lie down your gullet and make you live with it, make you live with it.

So you say two plus two equals five. You know, it's not true. But they've made you swallow the lie. You hear that a lot of the time. A lot of the things like even Ron Johnson, when he said this didn't seem like an insurrection to me, but was careful to qualify that he wasn't going to question that policeman firing a gun at point blank range into Ashley Bobbitt. You know, he knows that's not true, but he feels he has to say it.

The next stage, which is what we're approaching here, is that people have been living the blizzard of lies so long. Two plus two equals five. There is no objective mathematics anymore, according to the Oregon Department of Education, at that point you're advancing onto the next stage where people have just been choking on the lies so long, it's actually easier just to believe, as these guys do.

Let us go to Cameron in Springfield, Florida. Cameron, you'll live on the Rush Limbaugh show. What's on your mind today?

Hi, Mark. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty good now. Actually, I've been pretty happy about what's going on since the administration's changed over and and what's making you so happy.

Then one thing is the first person who made a mistake and got caught screwing up, he's out already. He was forced to resign. I think that's an appropriate way to run an administration.

What you're talking about this deputy assistant under press secretary who who was threatening a female reporter from Politico, is that is that what you're talking about? Yeah.

And I'm glad he was gotten rid of just as soon as they brought it public.

OK, aside from the fact that they they're firing people expeditiously. What else do you like about this new regime?

I love the fact that people are getting vaccinations quite quickly. And I think that the rate at which it's going now is pretty good. Now, I'm not saying that they can take full credit for that.

Well, no, they can't. What makes you think that's anything to do? Right before the last few weeks, we had a fantastic energized and actually this is something that if you believe in big government, you should like a big government that's energized enough to achieve a goal like getting a brand new vaccine. They got the brand new vaccine. They shipped it to the states, and then a lot of these states botched it. Like New York, Cuomo had old people standing out in the street for hours in line in chilly December and January trying to get a vaccine.

And then they'd say, sorry, we haven't we can't do anymore. We're going home for the night. They basically botched the vaccine rollout in New York and some of these other states. So what's that got to do with Biden?

I agree. But now that Biden has come forward and started just hammering vaccines down their throats, I don't think they're going to be able to screw it up. Even if they try, states like New York will just have so many vaccines, they won't have a choice but to start giving it out.

Well, actually, they've been they've had so many vaccines. That's never been the issue. They've had so many vaccines. So they're actually throwing them away. Once you open the thing up, you go to use it. And they had this usual thing, which is what I can't stand, frankly, this kind of hierarchical, regimented thing where if you're a lawyer of all people, you belong to one of the privileged groups that gets the vaccine in advance.

I don't know why all the courthouses are being closed. That was a complete example. That was actually a complete example of how these Democrat states botched it, botched the the vaccine rollout. If you compare to, for example, I mean, they don't even understand the photo op thing like Angela Merkel, the first person she gave the vaccine to was a 100 year old survivor of the Spanish flu a century ago. So she said, well, you survived the Spanish flu.

The least we can do is see you and show the covid. There's like Foushee, AOC, politicians, public health officials, lawyers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, all these idiots taking precedence over old people. And that that's on the state governments. What else is the Biden gang been doing?

Great. What else is Biden been doing good. Yeah, actually, I believe that his press conferences have been great under his administration.

What do you mean? He doesn't do any press conferences.

They've answered every question that every group has brought to him. Fox News brings questions every week trying to get them to trip and they just answer it. They don't trip. Oh, I don't think it's been in many of them.

But OK, I'll have to circle back to you. You mean these Jen Psaki thing saying she'll have to circle back? Yes. Yes. Do you do you know how to circle back? It was a novelty dance from the 1960s. That's what that's the envy. Come on, everybody, do the circle back. Other than that, I have no idea what it means.

But so far, they've come back to every question, either a day later or a week later whenever they have an answer to give them. Might not be the best answer. But OK, you're giving answers.

What else? Oh, you mean like when she trashes space force and then circles back 24 hours later and says, no, no, no, no, I don't mean to laugh at it. It's it's a very sad. Yes, enterprise, and we're all in favor of it. You mean like that? I don't believe she trashed it, but it was it. She laughed at it. Of course she did. I'm former military and I laugh at the idea because it was all controlled by the Air Force before.

It's just changing the name.

No, that's that's saying that actually is a is a true space force is just as the United States was one of the last countries to get a separate Air Force as a branch of its military, not until after the Second World War.

I think the first was South Africa, oddly enough, under Field Marshal Smuts, who was very far sighted about that kind of thing. And it's time and sometimes it is time to be farsighted about separate branches. But what else do you like about them? Do you like how about do you like these new troops in Syria?

How's that going for you?

Do I like troops in Syria personally? Right now, as a veteran, I believe there's a lot of stuff that we don't know and we shouldn't necessarily voice our personal opinions about.

Well, the reason we don't know is because we're tourists in the heart of darkness, which is why we put boots on the ground in countries we don't have a clue about what's going on about and where, in fact, there are not good guys and bad guys. But there are Fifty Shades of Grey. That's basically all Fifty Shades of Grey. I'm actually Fifty Shades of bad guy in some of those places. So why is it in the interests of the United States to send more troops into Syria?

You know, you know, Trump the despise Trump and you're so much more comfortable under the new regime. Trump's like the first guy. I don't know how old you are, but I would estimate from the from the healthy vocal timba in your voice that Trump is the first guy in your lifetime not actually to be starting more wars.

That's incorrect. But I appreciate you picking my voice. Yeah, well, OK.

Well, what don't you like about Trump not starting wars, but we can't win.

Oh no, it's not that I want more war started. And it's not that I think that I personally I don't think Trump has any idea about warfare. He's never been in the military. He does not have a good idea about what the military does.

Well, tell me something else. Do you think the last twenty years of Pentagon parade generals have had any idea about warfare? You know, in other words, Afghanistan, the world's most powerful military, has been tied down for two decades by goatherds with fertilizer.

Who's running that war? It's very, very interesting perspective you have. Well, it's not it's not an interesting perspective. It's it's the truth. We have shock and awe for 48 hours and then a long, slow bleed out because of a very incompetent general staff. I mean, why why would you think, for example, that the Afghan war is a model for anything?

I don't believe the Afghani war is a model for anything. I think it's foolish to go to war with a group instead of a country that it's very hard, as you've seen, and it does not tend to go very well. It's different when you're fighting a nation because it's one nation versus another. But if you're fighting an insurgency, that's a that's more of a policing action. It's hard for the military to police.

Well, you know, there's there's this that's what wars are.

The idea that we're going to be you know, the idea that Russia is going to declare war and we're going to have tank battles on the East German plane is so stupid that only the I mean, right now we're at war with China, Cameron and China is fighting that war, which is what you do if you want a war. You said you preferred wars nation to nation. China regards itself in an adversarial position from us, and it's using every aspect of its natural national power.

It happens to have the largest surface fleet on Earth. They've overtaken the U.S. Navy in that respect, but they also use things like intellectual property theft and they use the they certainly weaponize. However, this virus originated. They certainly weaponized it to their advantage. You know, if nations go to war, one difference is that you have to use all elements of national power and we haven't. Kameron, final word.

You can have the final word and you're going to give me the final word. I'll take it. I think that we should we should deal with China in a way that does not come to blows, I think. And I believe that having them build our stuff for us isn't necessarily good for their economy because the pollutants from it, they have to deal with all the way. Oh, yeah, I like the idea of them getting the waste.

Yeah. Yeah. You should fly over that. Take a bath in the Yangzi. They couldn't care less about the pollutants. I'll be great to talk to you, Cabra. Glad you enjoyed the first three weeks of the new regime. I can tell you something at the end of it, if we don't get serious about China, as I said at the top of the hour, it's China's world and we just pay for it. How stupid is that?

We are we are basically we we still treat China. China still gets foreign aid from America. That's how nuts this is. We treat China as a developing nation was. Instead, it's bought out half our universities. It's running ports across the planet. And we still treat it as a developing nation worthy of foreign aid from the United States State Department.

Thank you for your call. Kamran Markstein in for us. We got more straight ahead.

Markstein in for us. Let's go to Neil. Let's go to Neil in New Smyrna Beach, also from Florida. Neil, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. What's on your mind?

Hi, Mark. Thanks for having me. And thanks to Russ and all my prayers, one of the greatest Americans of my lifetime.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you for that, Neil. The reason for my call is there's a the far and away the biggest scandal of the whole pandemic was the the whole handling of gain of function research. And Foushee was the one pushing gain of function research during the Biden Obama administration. Right. And about midway, they were actually conducting it, even though many scientists didn't want to do it because they were afraid that a pandemic could result. Right. And so in the mid middle of their administration in 2014 15, there were a couple of mishaps at our government labs with smallpox and with anthrax.

And so they suddenly said, why are we doing this here? And so they could have they could have stopped it. They could have fortified the labs so that they didn't have the problems. But instead, they made probably the biggest mistake in the history of America. And they moved the research to Wuhan, China, and funded it with three point six million dollars at a minimum. And now we have two and a half million people dead and growing and nobody talks about it.

Absolutely, Neal. It's this relationship between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and powerful figures in public health in the West, including Finchy. And the U.S. sky on this World Health Organization Commission, it's that relationship that is central to this, as you say, basically they offshore this racket to Wuhan because it would be easier to do it there.

And the Chinese are relatively heartless about this. Things have escaped the lab. They don't care. And as a result of that, we got two and a half million people dead across the planet. And you remind me of something we don't talk about, people we wear focused because life has been shut down. And so you focus on why a local restaurant or your hair salon or whatever isn't open.

But the thing about this is if we the all of that, all these lockdowns, all these restrictions, all these masks are a complete waste of time unless we punish China for this and we ensure that this malign relationship between Western public health, including the poster boy Foushee and what's going on in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, unless we actually break that link, the whole thing has been a waste of time and we're ending our lives by giving up on the richness and variety of life for absolutely nothing now.

And we need to point the finger of blame at the Obama Biden administration who allowed it to happen.

Yeah, you're right on on that, too. You know, what's so weird about this is Foushee has been working for the United States government since 1968. Essentially, he's been in I think he's had the same job title for the last 40 years, but he started presumably in a lower title in 1968. So in a certain sense, he's immune. To anything like transient governments coming and going, but you're right that this was a for some reason, this is not something we should ever have been mixed up in and we are now stuck with and now we're being asked to swallow a completely ludicrous official lie that the that the coronavirus originated with frozen food on the packaging of frozen food that came in from Australia or India or Slovenia or Papua New Guinea or anywhere, basically, except everybody.

But China is to blame for this. And it's one of the most disgraceful things. Thank you, Neal, for that call and for saying us out today.

We will close it out in just a moment.

Just want to correct something I said earlier. Apparently called the lady the pole lady who died at the Capitol, shot at point blank range, Ashley Bobbitt.

Her name is, in fact, Ashley Babbette. And I should remember that you should remember that she seems to be memory hold by the rest of the U.S. media.

And we should remember her name used to be a famous name a century ago after Sinclair Lewis wrote his novel, Babbette.

And then Babbette became the name for a kind of middle class conformist used by a snare as elitist for the next half century or show so. But at least they didn't actually shoot them dead. This has been Markstein, my thanks to Crash. And Mr. Snidely, the Rush Limbaugh Show returns tomorrow.

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