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Rush hopes to be back tomorrow, but don't blame me if if if he's not. We got tired of all that stuff months ago, but he hopes to be back tomorrow and we hope he's back tomorrow, too. It is a momentous day, supposedly, because for the first time in history, there re impeaching the president as we speak in the House of Representatives. The impeachment of the president is proceeding. It's going to happen. It's going to happen with Republican votes and it's likely to happen.

They're a little ahead of schedule on this thing. It's likely to happen. Before we close things out in three hours time today, so we're going to keep an eye on that. I can't I choke on the sanctimony of the United States Congress, to be honest, so I can barely bear to watch it.

But the significant development.

Is that Liz Cheney, who is we'll see the House conference manager, whatever that is, Liz Cheney has said she's voting to impeach the president and Mitch McConnell is reported today as being more than likely to vote for the president's conviction should impeachment come before the United States Senate, 800 202 282.

If you would like to be on the program and I would love to hear from you, whatever side of our divided political culture you belong to. And I'm just speaking about the Republican Party, because in case you haven't noticed, they're all trying to calibrate the precise moment at which it's best to act, which is best to slip the shiv to President Trump. Liz Cheney has done it openly.

She's pretty much like her dad when her dad, whatever he did to that guy he was hunting with, peppered the guy's face with buckshot.

And and Liz has basically decided to do that openly to the president.

But these people now that the thing that's more significant than anything, by the way, if you're a Republican, underdo, particularly with whether you like the president or you loathe the president or you liked him for a bit, you don't like him now or any of that.

It's the fact that in the wake of all this console culture, the people that are of most interest to America's political class are the donors.

And when I'm getting people saying we're not going to give money to Trump and Josh to Cruz and Josh Whorley, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, because they objected to the certification of the election.

So that's a serious thing for these guys.

If the money dries up, that's a that's a more important calculation than anything else on the substance of what they're, if you can call it that of what the re impeachment is. About a week ago, I said on FOX News, on to Tucker Carlson on Fox News, I'd been watching all this stuff. It started in the middle of the afternoon. These guys go into the Capitol. And when you looked at it, there's the guys walking through the velvet rope lines and you saw a couple of people smashing windows and all the rest of it.

And then next thing you know, everyone I'm not even talking about the politicians here, the media going on the citadel of democracy and all the rest of it. I said to Tucker, look, you know, all these people saying, oh, this is not who we are. This is not who we are. This is this in case haven't switched on a TV since Memorial Day. This is exactly who we are. There's those guys who happen to have some lousy Wendy's franchise in Atlanta and it gets burned and torched to the ground.

There's guys who happen to have a pharmacy in Minneapolis and it gets burned and looted.

There's there's a police precinct that happens to get incinerated on and on and on. And and some people push back. Some people push back. There was a guy in downtown Omaha, Jake Gardner.

He had a bar called the Hive and Gatsby's in downtown Omaha. And the looters came and broke his windows and started shoving his dad around. And so he walks outside to talk to the people who are shoving his dad around.

A bunch of people jump on him, Jake, and they jump on Jake Garner. And Jake Gardiner fires two warning shots.

And then another person jumps on him and he fires another shot, and this time the guy is shot and he's dead.

And as he fires that last shot, he's saying, get off me, get off me, get off me. He was subject to a politically motivated prosecution. He's got a mob smashing his windows and he does, just as the Capitol policeman did to that Air Force veteran. He winds up shooting somebody dead as the mob, not and not the mob that sticks to the velvet rope lines, but the mob who are pushing his dad around and breaking his windows and all the rest of it.

And he resists them.

And he's subject to a political prosecution and he winds up committing suicide. Two weeks later, he he he kills himself. Jake Gardner, remember his name? I remember the names of the little guys, the ones who don't count, the ones that nobody goes and says, oh, this is this is not who we are. This is not who we are. And I reiterate the question I asked a week ago, what is the difference between the looting and burning and torching of the WENDI'S or of this poor guy, Jake Gardiners Bar and Grill in Omaha?

And and the very light comparatively, they didn't destroy they could have smashed all those statues in Statuary Hall, all those beautiful statues in Statuary Hall could have been toppled and smashed because after all, Nancy Pelosi has already said, oh, she doesn't care about statues. Right. We don't care about property. If you loot the Wendy's, they have insurance. If you burn the CVS, they have insurance. If you trash Jake Gardiner's the Hive and Gatsby's bar in downtown Omaha, he has insurance.

Well, doesn't the United States Capitol have insurance? Why?

I repeat the question I asked a week ago, why after what's happened since Memorial Day, is the Capitol building any more important than a Wendy's? If you believe that this is a republic with equality before the law, why does the guy who the Wendy's franchise guy just have to suck it up while the the Capitol building is the most terrible thing since whatever the last terrible thing was, I haven't had a good explanation for that.

If you think you've got one 800 to eight to to eighty eight to I would, I would just I would just like to I would just like to know that people visit the gulf between the the rulers and the ruled has widened to something the size of the Grand Canyon.

Now on the one side, we have people who have been told they couldn't work. You couldn't go and open your gym, your restaurant, your hair salon since March. Meanwhile, then, just to to add to the fun of it all, we're told that while you can't go into your hair salon and cut someone's hair, if some mob wants to come and burn down your hair salon, well, that's just a social justice movement. And in fact and in fact, racism is a bigger public health crisis than the covid, as the public health guy said.

So so people are put up with this. They can't go. You can't go and open your gym since March. You can't go and open your business since March. There's another group of people who, while you're not allowed to go to your business, are looting and burning your business. And then just to make that fun, because it's been a bit of a tough year for you. We haven't given you a check since I think we sent you that 100 bucks in the spring.

But now we've been negotiating for eight months to send you a check for 600 bucks and the check for 600 bucks, if you're wondering why it's taking us eight months to negotiate, are you getting a check for 800 bucks? It's because we've also been having to figure out how to get in Lindsey Graham's gender rights promotion program for Waziristan into into that covid relief bill.

And yet suddenly they have two, three hours of idiots tramping and trashing their sacred hat, the hallowed halls, as some boob just called it, in this in this House of Representative things this morning.

And suddenly the citadel of democracy, the beacon to the world. I'd like to know, you know, the great issue in America is there is no longer any equality before the law. If you belong to one group, you can't go and run your gym, your restaurant. You got to stay at home for months on end until they tell you when you are permitted to leave the house and reopen the business. There's another group of people who can do anything.

They can loot and burn whatever they want, whether it's your business, whether it's Wendys, whether it's this poor guy Jake Gardiners bar in Omaha, whether it's a police precinct house, they can set up breakaway republics, they can kill people in those breakaway republics, and then suddenly they go to the one building in America you're not allowed to violate. Oh, really? That's very interesting. We now see.

Congressman objecting to having to go through metal detectors to get into their House of Representatives, and we're supposed to admire that, their free spiritedness in that when when right now.

It's not safe for anybody anywhere to do anything. You can be yanked from your car and beaten to a pulp. You can just happened around the wrong bend in certain cities and boof.

You've attacked, but somehow this building, the building that took eight months to negotiate 600 bucks for you is more important than any other building. I don't I don't get it. And if you do get it, I'd be interested to hear your explanation.

I mean, that 800 to eight two two eight eight two. If you can explain to me, because I don't actually I don't claim to have my pulse on the finger of the American people. All I know is that in my particular broken down neck of the woods, I don't know anybody who thinks of what is happening in terms of the way the official narrative is being imposed. But it has had certain consequences, not least for the president, the purpose of the first impeachment.

A year ago, because it's like it's like Ramadan now, is is it just me or does impeachment's seem to come around earlier and earlier every year? So the purpose of the first impeachment was to was to for the Democrats to take out Trump the purpose of the second impeachment. This is why the Liz Cheney Mitch McConnell stuff there, all the intrigue is very interesting, is it's not just in that he wants to be, as we've talked about before, he wants to be Grover Cleveland.

And that's what the McConnells and the Chinese don't want. They want him out now. They want the reason they're going along with this is because they want to purge Trump from the party now.

So as I said, I'm interested in hearing from all points of view today from the many factions of the American right on where we if you got some ideas on where we go from here, because I'd be interested to hear them because we're going to need them.

Markstein in four rush to eight two two eight eight two. We will be back in just a moment.

Markstein Information America's number one radio show. Certain members of the Republican caucus have sent a message to Liz Cheney, their conference chair, calling for a special meeting, basically to force her out of her position in in the Republican leadership.

So, as I said, there's there's differences within the Republican Party in Congress, although, you know, the usual opportunists have put their finger in the wind and are abandoning President Trump.

So the movement is away from the president.

And in that respect, as I said, I, I, I am I can't stand the self-importance and pomposity of Congress. It's just utterly repellent. I was there for the the Clinton impeachment trial all through stand at the Mayflower Hotel with Monica. No, no, don't worry. We had separate rooms, but we were both happened to be at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. I was there for the whole trial.

And I never want to spend a single moment in the United States Congress again. I testified before the Senate before Ted Cruz's committee a year or two back. And after that, I'm not going back because, again, it's just these these marionettes, these these husks like Ed Markey, who can't actually formulate a thought unless it's whispered in their ear by their vast, bloated Gulfam styled entourage's. It's the most repulsive place on Earth. I can't stand that. I mean, I'm sorry.

And I gave a lot of thought. You know, we all want to pinch hit for Rush and help him out because he's had a hell of a year. And I want to do my bit as long as Rush wants me to do my bit, but I did have a bit of a thought. I got a bit carried away and I was incredibly rude about this citadel of democracy nonsense.

And I believe the words actually used were citadel of crap and they were picked up by such newspapers. But some Canadian loser had called the citadel of democracy a citadel of crap.

But that's how I feel about it. And I can tell some people don't want, you know, some immigrants saying to send things like that.

But there is no more dysfunctional legislative body, not just in the Western world, but in many parts of the developing world. I mean, I don't know what Sudan needs that entitles it to whatever it got in that covid relief bill, the 700 million bucks, 700 billion bucks, whatever the hell Sudan got. But whatever it is that Sudan needs, it isn't the United States Congress. But I filled it. I understand people don't want. Don't want some foreigner coming and talk him out their hallowed halls like that, but they shouldn't be in the least bit hallowed.

This is a body that before it started doing the citadel of democracy schtick about what happened on Wednesday, had just passed a bill, a 5500 page, so called bill into so-called law. If it's 5500 pages, it isn't a law by definition because there isn't anybody on the planet who could read it and grasp what it means. So it's rubbish. It's a pseudo legislator legislature. It's a perversion of a legislature. And now suddenly we are supposed to take after this terrible year, this last terrible year in which people have been prevented by law from her or by, you know, governors royal proclamation from having granny over to Christmas dinner.

Oh, you know, Granny loves coming over to for New Year's Eve to see in the New Year. And we all sing Auld Lang Syne and. Oh, no, sorry.

You can't have anybody who's not living in your household over for New Year. Now, some guy has just say he just tweeted Paul Lemoigne, I think it is says did you just say that the Capitol building is the same as a is no more important than that, really? Well, in case you don't get it, there's supposed to be Mr. Genius Lemoigne equality before the law so that in law, a Wendy's enjoys the same property rights as the US capital, just as Paul Lemoigne enjoys the same rights before the court as Katy Perry does.

So so you actually you're just making a chump of yourself, putting it that way.

The fact is, this has been a lawless land, a land beyond law since Memorial Day.

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And above that, there is a horizontal menubar and you go three or four buttons along and click on share your stories and you can nowish rush a happy birthday. We live in strange times. I'm as you know, I come. I come from the wastes of far northern New England ice station EIB in about 40 minutes north of Ice Station EIB, a Sherbrooke, Quebec and the province of Quebec just a couple of days ago issued a curfew from 8:00 p.m. to five a.m. You can't leave your home from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 AM except to walk a dog for a certain number of minutes within a kilometre of your home.

So the Chabert police come across nine p.m. They're out checking that there's nobody breaking curfew. Can you imagine that now? There's nobody breaking curfew. That's that's a form of words that actually just used to apply either to World War conditions or to Soviet Eastern Europe and the like.

But they now apply everywhere. So these this they're checking.

Nobody's breaking curfew, 9:00 p.m., they come across a woman. Walking with her husband, her husband is on a leash.

I don't know whether he's has a poor fellow, has to wear a leash when he's actually in the house. But but the woman claims that this creature, this human looking creature on a leash is actually her dog and that she's just walking her dog.

As I said, I don't know whether this poor man as to where the leash when he's, like, just curled up in his basket in the living room or whatever, they each got fifteen hundred dollar fines.

That's 3000 dollar fines for a woman walking a man on a leash. That's normally the sort of kinky sexual speciality that that that governments have taken to encouraging in recent years, but not any more fined 3000 dollars.

We have a situation where government can't do anything, government can't do anything. The bureaucracy has sent out and has sent out something like 27 million of these vaccines and only a third of them have actually been given to people.

And as you know, selected persons like AOC all decided they like to get the vaccine first, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other jihadists on Gitmo, they got the vaccine first in an Andrew Cuomo in the blood soaked Grim Reaper, Andrew Cuomo, New York.

They've actually been throwing away vaccines because they've instituted such a complex social hierarchy of who's entitled to the vaccine, that nervous pharmacists and the like can't figure it out. And they know that it's they're at risk of a million dollar fine if they give it to a vaccine. Who is not in the line of succession for the vaccine because the vaccine starts, you know, like the speaker of the House is in the line of the then the president pro tem of the Senate, then they will go.

And your Auntie Mabel is number three hundred and 21 million and 42. And so because the line of succession for getting the vaccine is been so, so complicated, pharmacists have actually been paralyzed into not giving it. And they wound up it doesn't last long once you take it out the fridge and they've wound up having to throw it away. So we have a time. We actually live in the say in a situation now where government can do anything but somehow and government certainly can't do it, can't legislate.

As I said, a 5000 600 page bill when you voted into law, unsign, it was voted into law. I don't even know why they need the Capitol building. I don't even know what difference it would make if they burned to the ground because we have virtual government now. It was impossible to it's not just that they didn't read the bill as happened with Obamacare and all that garbage. They didn't actually see the bill because the bill has no corporeal existence.

They tried to print it out and it broke the the congressional printer so they couldn't actually see.

It has no existence. This thing they voted on. Well, if the if the 5500 page covid relief bill that has a page and a half uncovered relief and all the rest is for Take Your Child Bride to Work Day and who gives a stand, then they can print that out.

They vote on it, unsign, they don't. So that's not actually a thing they're voting on. Why do they even need a building? What's the difference if if the U.S. Capitol it wasn't there, what is the difference? As I said, I'd like it. I'd like an answer. After eight months in which every kind of violence has been excused, there's no equality before the law. If there's no equality before the law, there's certainly no republic or nothing that meets anybody's definition of a republic.

So what what's what's the point? But this awful, ghastly, portentous self-importance, citadel of democracy, beacon to the world, the beacon where the beacon don't shine. This is this is this is a perversion, a travesty of self-government.

Let's go to Alan in Chicago. Alan, as they re impeach the president, what's on your mind today?

Mark, I have a prescription for the Republican Party, and that is to take the the Trump doctrine of being anti the swamp, combine it with the Reagan doctrine, that is to promote the Tenth Amendment, the sovereignty of the individual, the primacy of the state. You live within the limit government. You know, as a business graduate and a steward of the economy for half a century, my fear is that debt load is reaching a point and it will get so much worse under this administration.

They want to nationalize state and local debt. They want to take on college debt. Our debt currently is equal to that of World War two debt at the end of the war. But we have a great society and the New Deal that are dragging us into so far into the ditch, people will begin to realize the only ones benefit are the arbitragers, the right crowd and the oligarchs. And the common man is getting nothing.

Let me ask you about what you said. You want a combination of Trump ism and Reaganism. What about what about those Republican leaders between Reagan and Trump, the ones who didn't have isms? What do you make of that period?

Basically, the period from I have no love. I have no love for the Bushes. The Bushes to me were moderates. They were even progressive in my mind. Yeah. They were government types that were just they grab that government. They had to fight. Reagan understood that the individual is really what the government is. The purpose of government is to protect the individual. What government has been. For so long is protecting itself. Yeah, and which is which is why they got mad about what happened at the Capitol and they don't get mad about what happened in American cities for the previous six months.

But but the reason I ask you that question, Allan, is because it's become clear just in the lingo they're using that way, that the the the the Republican leadership in Congress wants to go back to small ball Republicanism. In other words, the Republicanism of Mitt Romney, the Republicanism of Bob Dole, the Republicanism of all those other splendid losers, these last few election cycles, that they they just want to go back to a a supposedly fiscally conservative Republican Party, which isn't fiscally conservative at all, because, as you point out, Alan, the debt is accelerating and at some point the Chinese is not even going to be our decision.

The Chinese will just decide that the moment has come to kill the United States dollar and they will take action accordingly. But but the Republican Party, if you just listen to the way some of these people are talking, has decided to go back to small ball Republicanism.

You know, in other words, where they talk about a little bit of a corporate tax cut and, you know, they might launch a war in some Stan, you've never heard of.

But but other than that, they're not really interested in anything. And that actually that actually is a big problem for me. Setting aside anything about the current moment is I'm quite clear on one thing, though. When I listen, you notice certain phrases have been, oh, we need to talk about keeping taxes low. That's code for saying we're going back to Paul Ryan Republicanism.

And if you want to say that anything scuttled the Trump presidency, you can go back to those first two years when Paul Ryan decided that whatever Trump was elected on, he was interested in the Paul Ryan agenda and nothing and nothing but and I'm not going back to Paul Ryan Republicanism. It's it's not enough. It's not enough. Thank you for your call, Alan. That's an interesting thing. Trump Trump Reaganism is what Alan is advocating for. As I said, the Republican Party is just breaking up into factions now.

So whatever faction you are. Give me a call and tell me what your take is on it.

And if you're a Democrat or an independent or whatever the hell it is, give me a call to one 800 two eight two two eight eight two MARKSTEIN.

And for us, just for the record, has if it needed to be said, I'm not into. Violence, political violence, I mean, random bathroom violence is a different thing, but I'm not into political violence. I'm on the record for that. In fact, I testified under oath, under penalty of perjury in a court proceeding. One of the many cases I've been involved in in the last few years of my opposition to so-called right wing paramilitary groups, because you don't become Rush doesn't do what he's done for 30 years.

If if you don't think that words matter and that in a civilized society, you can persuade people by your words and your words will then change people's minds and people will vote or act accordingly. And if you if you thought that smashing windows and burning buildings was a better way of doing that, then you would do that. And that's why the left do that, because the left have checked out a debate. They don't want to have a debate. They want to cancel the debate.

And again, so again, if you're saying, oh, is is this is the United States, Congress's firm stand against the violence of last Wednesday, a sign that we will have a more peaceful land? No, because and here's my big thought for the day. We are seven days away from the inauguration of the president of the United States. Now, you know that a one party state is the merger of the party and the state. That's basically what is going to be happening on Wednesday.

In fact, it happened during the Obama era in significant respects, which is why the president was never really in control of significant elements of the executive branch. He was never really in control of the Department of Justice, the department or the FBI or certain other key agencies, because they had basically merged with the previous ruling party and they did the previous ruling party's bidding, not least on the Russia investigation. And that's that's a pretty serious thing. You see it all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the Department of Justice has moved at lightning speed and charged 170 people for what happened on last Wednesday.

One of those people they charged has already committed suicide. That's how fast they moved. Meanwhile, how long have we been waiting for? How long have we been waiting for the Durham or. The Durham report is coming any year now. And that's really going to stick it to me and stick it to Brennan and stick it to the Durham report. Takes four years, but all of a sudden the Department of Justice can swing into action and charge 170 people in nothing flat.

OK, that's one thing. The one party state, what we're going to be seeing next Wednesday and we've had in the banning of the president from Twitter, Instagram, Spotify. So you can't even listen to YMCA and dance around the room now. They what we are witnessing, what we will witness next Wednesday when Joe Biden takes the oath of office as president of the United States, is the merger of the state and big tech. And we have had a taste in the days since Wednesday of what that means.

So we've basically imported the Chinese system, the Chinese system. You have a social profile school.

So if you want to get a job or you want to get a promotion in China, they look at what you've been saying on social media and decide whether you're going to get it. Curt Schilling is claiming that AIG, his insurance agent, has dropped him over what he's been saying about politics and so forth on social media so he can't get insured.

Apparently, this is I haven't seen I've spoken to AIG. So take this for what it's worth.

But Curt Schilling is saying that he has been dropped by AIG, his insurer, this people. Now, if you if you went to the Trump rally and you flew back on certain U.S. airlines, are you on their no fly list for life? You know, you're in the same category as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

You can't get on board their planes if you if you suddenly crippled up with terrible appendix pain and you oh, my God, I'm going to have my appendix to appendix taken out and you're driven to the hospital.

Are you entirely confident that your Blue Cross Blue Shield card will work because people are losing their bank accounts, they're losing their insurance, they're losing their right to fly? And what and if you think this is going to get better, know next Wednesday, the state, big state and big tech merge when Joe Biden takes the oath of office.

This is Mark signed in for Rush as the House votes to re impeach the president of the United States.

We will keep up to date on that and all the rest of today's news straight ahead.

Mark signing for Rush. The Democrat Congress lady, Zoe Lofgren says the reason why this drive thru impeachment is perfectly fine. That's what I mean, by the way, comparing the U.S. Capitol to Wendy's. They both do drive through drive thru cheeseburgers, drive through impeachment. But Zoe Lofgren says that doesn't matter because hearings aren't necessary, because the actions happened in public. So it's not necessary to have a hearing where you present the evidence for why the president should be impeached.

None of that is necessary because he did all this stuff in public in the plain light of day. Do you not actually realize this is what happens when you have a totally stupid, parochial, insulated political class? Do you don't realize how much like totalitarians you sound? You know, the systems where they say, oh, we don't really need to have a trial, we don't really need to have any evidence presented because the case is so obvious, you know, what kind of countries they say that in?

And you realize that's who you sound exactly like and in fact, the kind of legislature you ought to be sitting in. Zoe Lofgren. No, no, no. It's also obvious we don't need to present any evidence. Let's just vote him guilty right now. Drivethrough as I said, Wendys got burned.

You can get a drivethrough cheeseburger there at the U.S. Capitol. You can get a drive.

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Hey, great to be with you. America's anchorman is away.

And this is your undocumented anchorman, thrilled to be with you, coming to you live from ICE Station EIB, just a stone's throw from the Canadian border. As I mentioned earlier, across that border, they now have a covid curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. every night.

And you get a 1500 dollar fine if you breach the curfew, as this couple did by pretending that she was a lady walking her dog.

She actually had inside the dog leash, not a dog, but her husband, they were fined 500 dollars apiece, 3000 dollars curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., just about 20 slots, about 20 minutes north of where I'm sitting right now. That is these are very bizarre times around the world and never more so than in the United States, which as we speak, is really impeaching President Trump. He is going to be the first president to be reemploy.

If you care about these things, I get the sense that people don't anymore because these historic first, you know, impeachment used to be quite an unusual thing.

Our friend, the great Louie Gohmert, you know, he's been on this show many, many times. He's saying you'll never find another love like mine for my amusement.

A couple of years back on this show, Louie Gohmert has just said during these re impeachment hearings, it's a very good line that in the entire near 250 year history of the United States, half of all the impeachments, half of all the presidential impeachments that have ever taken place have taken place under Nancy Pelosi.

Half of all the impeachments have happened in in just over the last year, the last 13 months under Nancy Pelosi, the re impeachment of Donald Trump.

In response, the Democrat, Rep.. Hakeem Jeffries, said Donald Trump is a living, breathing, impeachable offense. And, you know, that actually gets to it. Thank you, Congressman Jeffries. Thank you. That actually gets to your objection. He doesn't have to do anything. He just has to be. And he is an affront to the ruling class, his view of itself. And he has been ever since he came down that escalator in Trump Tower five years ago when all the smart people said he wasn't getting in any way.

It was just some some joke to self promote and he was going to be gone before the Iowa caucus. He was going to be gone before the New Hampshire primary. And he wasn't and so he was an affront to the entire political process of left and right. Because he made a fool of the whole all the conventions. He didn't have this I'm talking about Trump 2016, 2015 now, not Trump 2020, where too many of the usual pathetic, disgusting, contemptible Republican grifters from conservative ink sucking up all the money, sucking up the best part of a billion bucks actually on nothing so that the campaign was broke in the weeks after Labor Day, which is when you see cash on hand for adverts.

So they had to yank all their advertising from Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota because they didn't have any money.

I was I was just complaining about the grifter's of conservative voters.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The fact the fact that he mocked the entire conventions of the presidential process.

Now, I'm backing up here because, as I said, these are these are terrible times, absolutely terrible times.

And I come here only to help rush out in his particular circumstances. And it's difficult circumstances.

And I serve at Rush's pleasure so that if I'm not wanted, I don't have to be here. But I'll just back up and say I want to be in my I do the things I do and my come on the radio and I go on television, I write books and all the rest of it.

You know, to me, the big 30000 feet issue is that Western civilization is sliding off the cliff and most citizens of most Western countries are entirely aware of that. They don't even see they like those people in the canoe on the Niagara River and they're just taking a gentle summer's day canoe ride and the the young ladies in the canoe with you and you've got your ukulele and your singing paddle in Madelin home. And you have no idea. You don't see the falls ahead.

And until at some point before it's too late to make for sure you suddenly. Hey, wait a minute. What's that big wooshing sound right now? Most people don't get the big washing sound. So I'm interested in politicians who talk about something that matters. And when those whatever it was, 1721, 37 Republican candidates all came along. None of them talked about anything that mattered. Jeb Bush didn't talk about anything that mattered. Marco Rubio was talking about the second American century.

The Chinese are taking over the world. It's hard to have a second American century when China is the dominant global power. I didn't hear then you have John Kasich doing all that. I'm proud to say I was born the son of a mailman, but whoop de do I'm not that interested in personality politics. I don't even know, you know, who's your favorite film star? Tom Cruise. I'm not even interested in who Tom Cruise's dad is. I don't see why I should be interested in who John Kasich state is.

I mean, these are not. Nobody was talking about anything that mattered, and then all of a sudden this figure comes down the escalator and he starts injecting real issues into the campaign, like mass immigration, like the death of manufacturing. The death of manufacturing isn't a small thing. A country that doesn't make anything can go to war because everything it doesn't matter.

Even if you say, oh, well, we'll still be making our tanks and everything, it doesn't it doesn't matter if all your medicines are made by China, you know, so so Trump by talking about China, by talking about manufacturing, by talking about mass immigration, he was the only guy actually talking about any issues that mattered now. Is he a flawed figure? Yes, he's a completely flawed figure. But how bad then do you know? Let's just again step back, because they're building the post from Republican Party right now.

The the point the point about the election was for the Democrats as as as Rush was saying yesterday. So they won the election or they stole the election according to taste. And yes, I'm aware that some radio executive I saw it yesterday says you're not allowed to say that or he'll yank off the air. So if in 10, I can't remember which network it was or whatever, but if your station you're listening to right now is one of them, and in 15 seconds, they stop playing Celine Dion, singing the theme from Titanic, that'll be why.

But some guy so according to tapes, whether he won the election, whether he stole the election November 3rd was about the Democrats. January the 6th was the opportunity for the Republican Party to go back to the small ball Republican Party, the Republican Party that wants to go off the cliff in second gear as opposed to full throttle. And as I said, it's it's not enough for me.

So Trump Trump was important because he wanted to talk about things that mattered. And to go back to that guy who was saying, how dare I say that a Wendys is as important as the U.S. Capitol, he says, I shouldn't have said that because I'm just some Canadian.

You know, again, I'll say this. As I said, I serve Russia's pleasure. So the moment Rush doesn't like anything I say, I won't be here and so be it.

But I. I want to live in truth. Terrible things are happening in the United States and people need to talk honestly about them.

And people need to be able to talk honestly about them. And nobody you don't have any you're not going to have any listeners. You're not gonna have any viewers. You're not going to have any readers if people think you're not talking honestly about them. And what's shocking to me.

As I said, we were witnessing this merger that will be completed on Wednesday where in where in those in a kind of slow motion docking of some little spacecraft with the satellite station, it just comes to click perfectly into its base on Wednesday when Joe Biden takes the oath of office, we will we will witness the full merger of the big state and big tech. And each one thinks he's controlling the other. In fact, big tech is bigger than most countries now.

So when the president gets bounced from a not just from Twitter and YouTube and Facebook, but he gets bounced from Spotify, he gets bounced from Pinterest. Have you ever been to Pinterest is where people post their knitting patterns? I don't know why Trump is on Pinterest.

Perhaps he posts, you know, attractive ideas for quilts showing with with stop the steal on the center quilt and then attractive quilt patches of Michigan and Pennsylvania and Georgia and all the other jurisdictions where democracy goes to die. I have no idea why he's on Pinterest, because on Pinterest anymore, he's back.

And what's interesting to me is I looked say, well, wait a minute, this is very disturbing the way the president of the United States is being vaporized from all the media from which people in the modern era get their news around the planet.

And I look to see who's speaking out on that. Who's speaking out on this? Angela Merkel. This Monsieur Maku in France, Emmanuel Macroom, the president of France, this he's he's speaking out against it. The president of Mexico is speaking out against it. The Australian government is speaking out against it. The French finance minister sounds butcher, then 90 percent of Republican senators. This said this is something very dark and disturbing. And I'm not I'm no fan of Macfarlane.

He's some like little globin globalist Goldman Sachs Dinkie boy. I'm no fan of Angela Merkel. She's like an insane the worst chancellor of Germany since you know who. And I've got no time for any of them. But they're actually on this issue. They're actually sounding boutcher than most Republican senators and most Republican congressmen. The Republican Party is saying, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let's just let big tech and big state merge at the inauguration of Joe Biden and then we'll be able to rebuild the the post Trump Republican Party, just like the pre Trump Republican Party.

To hell with that.

Who the hell wants to go there? Who wants that party? Well, it's a two party system. So if you don't like Biden's party, Harris's party, this is going to be the only party left. So suck it up. Yeah, I don't like that. Doesn't really work for me is a plan. Mitch. I know it makes perfect sense to you. Liz doesn't quite work as a plan for me.

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Markstein in four rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Let us go to Dave in tri cities Washington. Dave, it's great to have you with us on America's number one radio show. What's on your mind today? Well, I was just calling to tell you that maybe what was so important about the Capitol building as it was full of Democrats and had the meetings been had Republicans been holding meetings about going off the cliff in third gear and they were the only ones there, maybe, you know, Nancy would have looked at it like a Wendys and just said, well, people are going to do what they do.

Right? But it's the fact that they're sitting in it that makes it important, makes it a symbol of democracy, a beacon to the world, is the fact that Nancy and CO are in it. And it could be the U.S. it could be the US Capitol or it could be Fred Stein out on Route 47, two miles past the grain elevator hanger left. It just is it just so happens to be where powerful Democrats are sitting.

Being a little bit sarcastic, yes, but their smug self-importance is what their goal is to protect their careers, to protect themselves. So any time something happens directly to them, like the people that you know, to go into the neighborhoods and start shouting, well, that's not a big deal as long as that person is a Republican. Right. Right.

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I mean, that's again, gets back to the point I made earlier. It's a question of equality before the law we live in. We live we live in a country now where there's no equality before the law. If you perform a certain act on the streets of Minneapolis and it's a it's a violent act, you'll get bailed out by a Joe Biden staffer.

You'll get praised by Kamala Harris. You might even get bailed out by a Hollywood celebrity like Seth Rogen if you torture, incinerate a certain building. But if you tried to do the same thing in Washington, D.C., and Nancy Pelosi's inside that building, then the then the FBI, the world's slowest investigative agency, the Department of Justice, the world's slowest so-called Justice Department, will swing into action and nothing flat. And as happened to this one guy, apparently he was charged in this thing and has already been driven to to suicide.

What I find what I find interesting about that, though, is, you know, there's hundreds of legislators in there and by all accounts, there were only hundreds of these so-called insurrectionist going into the place.

And we've yet to actually see anybody brandishing anything that could do serious damage. Sometimes there are you know, I think I was trying to think back to trying to think back to previous assaults on politicians. I've known Jean Chretien, the Canadian prime minister, a few years ago, lefty, no fan of mine, and he was attacked in the street by some guy. And as usual, in Canada, he had a security detail. He didn't have a 40 car motorcade.

He just had a couple of Mounties. And they were like off having a smoke round the corner and didn't notice he was being attacked by some guy. And the prime minister had to throttle the guy back to get him off him. And it became a thing in Canada, the Shawinigan handshake Márcia question was from Shawinigan. And he throttled the guy and it became a thing that he'd performed the Shawinigan handshake on you.

I ran into him in Ottawa like a year later, and because I attacked him in the press, he came up to me and did a theatrical Shawinigan handshake on my neck because he worked for him attacking back, attacking the guy back. There was a terrible BBC newsreader. I never really cared for him.

He's I think he's the royal the court correspondent, as in the royal family. And the prince of Wales loathes him. He was attacked by militant lesbians in the middle of his news broadcast on the BBC. And he wasn't going to let the militant lesbians distract him from the news broadcasts.

So he he sat on the militant lesbian and and got the headline, I think it was in The Daily Mirror the following morning. BBC Man sits on lesbian. You know what? My the point here is, if there had been anyone if Steny Hoyer had just gone, just gone and got in the face of the guy with the Viking horns, he'd be the favorite for 2024. Right now, it's slightly old. The narrative that's being imposed here is weird and creepy.

It would be creepy in absolute circumstances.

But after everything that's gone on here since Memorial Day, after the murders of people in this Chope Chaz autonomous zone, after the the Jay Gardner, the barman who resisted the assault on his bar and as a result was politically prosecuted and driven to suicide, that's the narrative that's being imposed here, would be weird and creepy in a totalitarian society, but in a supposedly free society, after what we've seen on the television screens, heard in radio bulletins, read in our newspapers since Memorial Day, it is very dark and disturbing.

Yes, America's anchorman is out today. Markstein thrilled and honored to be with you.

I very much appreciate over all these 14 years your indulgence of my my.

Weird and foreign thoughts on this show, it's been very kind and generous of you, I'm sure you might have detected a certain impatience with the spectacle unfolding before us today and the United States House of Representatives, the impeachment of the president, as Donald Trump now has half the impeachments of all the impeachments that have taken place, presidential impeachments in American history, which is quite something they're basically just messing with us now.

Nancy Pelosi has appointed the House impeachment managers.

They include Eric Swalwell. You know, that guy who was briefly a presidential candidate. From California, California Congressman Eric Swalwell and the guy who it was revealed a couple of weeks ago has been penetrated by Chinese intelligence, which is odd to me because he's never shown any sign before being penetrated by any kind of him intelligence. But he was apparently penetrated by Chinese intelligence in the shapely shape of this Chinese honey trap, Fang Fang.

So he ought to be a laughing stock.

Fang, fang, fang, fang. She shut me down. Who's that? Cher. Nancy Sinatra. Someone like that. Can't remember that. Anyway, Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang. She shot me down. He's he's on the House Intelligence Committee, even though he's been penetrated by a Chinese spy. And he says this president has inspired future plots. America is still under attack, and that is why Donald Trump must be impeached. You know, this guy shouldn't be on the Intelligence Committee, he certainly shouldn't be on any House impeachment committee, and yet he is because we now live in an age when most people, unless you listen to this show and listen to a couple of other shows and follow a couple of fellows on the Internet, you don't actually know that Eric Swalwell has been penetrated by Fang Fang.

She shot me down. Eric Swalwell has no credibility. He had this absurd thing where he questioned Comey. Before one of these congressional hearings, by the way, I made a decision that I'm giving up hearings. For a new year, I sort of broke it a bit for the for this ludicrous re impeachment thing, but hearings are a waste of time.

Nothing comes from hearings, at least not when Republicans are involved.

And so we now have a situation where Eric Swalwell, speaking to Comey, listed the various kinds of entrapment there were. And he talked about honey traps.

You know, this is something, you know, if you watch seven movies or you read thrillers where the Soviets send some comely alluring a dolly bird to to make eyes at you, and then you have this exhausting session with her for about 20 minutes or as long as you're good for and the headboard is shattered and you lie there absolutely exhausted and go to sleep. And then she ruffles through your thing and steals the microfiche from out of the toothpaste tube, you've hidden it in the bathroom.

That's the honey trap. So he's like talking about all this in the note. And this is a form of it is a form of corruption and entrapment is would that be what is known as a honey trap?

And James Comey said, oh, yes, that's a honey trap. At the time, Eric Swalwell knew he'd been compromised by a honey trap. He knew he'd been compromised by Fang Fang because he was given a heads up so he could get Fang Fang out of the country before she was testifying as to how she'd compromised Eric Swalwell. They're laughing at us. This man has been penetrated every which way by Chinese intelligence. And yet not only does he sit on the House Intelligence Committee, he's now one of the House managers who will be impeached.

The president at his Senate trial.

This this is what Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat Party, has actually been compromised.

A oh, we got a thing now where Barbara Boxer is a server was serving on on behalf of a Chinese surveillance agency.

And she's now said that she's resigning from that position because not Dianne Feinstein, Eric Swalwell, Barbara Boxer, all the most powerful figures in the California Democrat Party seem to have been compromised by the Chinese. It's almost like it's a wholly owned subsidiary of China. It's like this five walk away. It's like Huawei. The California Democrat Party is like Huawei. It's actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Politburo. Rush was, as you know, if you were listening to this show on Monday, Rush was in superb form.

He was in brilliant form. If you're one of his guest hosts, it's inspiring. But it's also faintly depressing because, you know, you're never going to be that good, Rush was here on Monday and he gave a masterclass on why he does this better than anybody on the planet. And as always, when he absolutely soars into the stratosphere, there are things that stick with me. And this was one of them. This is Rush a couple of days ago.

Now I hear a lot of people talking about I've got a problem with this, a lot of people talking about the upcoming midterms in 2022. I'm hearing people on our side, you know, the traditional political junkies, well, let the Democrats do whatever they're going to do because they're going to be swamped. Maybe we're going to wipe them out in the midterms. You're going to win the House back. We're going to win the Senate back, man. It's going to be beautiful.

I said, wait a minute. You people not get what's going on here. The days of traditional American, the Democrats are setting it up. They're never going to lose elections again. Got what do you mean we're going to win it all back in 2022? Who in their right mind thinks that that's in the cards? Well, Rush, it's going to be so massive they can't stop it with a gene. They're going to be so rejected. They're going to be so rejected.

They're going to be sorry. How the hell did they win? They didn't win Rush. They cheated. Folks, you're making a big mistake if you think that all of this success that they're enjoying is simply due to cheating. There are gazillions of Americans who've bought into this. There are lots of Americans who have gone over to the dark side. This is not simply because the Democrats fraudulently stole an election. Even if they did, they still got plugs, still got enough votes to enable them to go over the line by cheating.

We have a I don't know, I think a serious problem here, but the idea that the American people didn't know what they were doing and in two years are going to be running to the ballot box to reverse their decision because they had no idea they were electing a bunch of commies. When did this happen in Georgia? That was Rush just a couple of days ago. And I agree with every word of that. I don't even get this. Oh, this sets up this catastrophe.

The thing about this catastrophe is it puts us you know, it puts us in absolute pole position for 2022. You know, for a start, it happened because we had an election conducted under rules that no sane polity would ever hold an election under. But as it worked for the Democrats, as it worked for the Democrats, it's hard to unless you're naked and brazen about it.

In the words you're in the way you have to be in a real hardcore dictatorship, you know, in Saddam or Kim Jong un style dictatorship. Unless you want to steal it that brazenly, you've got to get enough votes to be within reach of stealing it subtly. And what in voting does is enable that. Now, we're told, as I mentioned earlier, I'd seen some senior executive vice president or something say, you know, that if you talk about this on the radio, you're fired.

But on the other hand, here is a story from CBS News in Austin, Texas. A woman has been arrested for multiple charges, including election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people, voting by mail and unlawfully possessing an official ballot. Each charge constitutes a felony under the Texas election code. This is Rachel Rodriguez, who has been taken into custody stemming from an investigation after a Project Veritas video surfaced.

And all I've tried to do is say. Almost all the time I've been on this show that these are not normal elections, these are not fair elections, they have scope for vast fraud.

And and we now have found a system that enables mass fraud in perpetuity because the covid enabled mass mailing voting and it worked for the Dems.

So do you think that if the covid were to mysteriously clear up the day after tomorrow, that in 2022 we're going to go back to holding the elections the old way with minimal voting as they have in Canada with no male, minimal Maylin voting, no mail in voting, as they have in two thirds of the European Union mail in voting under extremely special circumstances, as they do in France, where you actually have to be out of the country on business on Election Day.

It can't be just because you're going to Greece to lie on a beach. You got to be there on some where your boss has ordered you to be at a business meeting in Germany. So you can't vote in person.

No, we now have a leader of the free world who in certain parts of this federation of states, those states have checked out of the free world because you can't be part of the free world if you don't have fair elections.

So you can't have a leader of the free world who is there because of unfair elections, whether whether the fraud made a difference or not, we will never know because it's never going to be investigated.

It's going to be like the Durham report, the Durham report. They might have an investigation and you'll be lucky to live long enough to see its its conclusions.

So Rush is absolutely right. Oh, well, this sets up. Oh, that's fantastic. We've been so comprehensively defeated that this really puts us in a good position for 2022. I mean, come on. Oh, it doesn't matter to this, but I send money now to send money now don't come. No send money now to send money. Now don't call me. I'm going to work. You're going to need a better plan. I'm going to need something else.

You need something else. So when I listen to Liz and listen to Mitch saying, oh don't worry, don't worry, the post from Republican Party is going to be exactly the same as the pre Trump Republican Party. Sorry, Liz. Sorry, Mitch.

Include me out. Markstein for us. Your calls straight ahead. Markstein infamous.

Let's go to. Nerika, I hope I've said that right in Locust Valley, New York, to tell us how you pronounce your name, because I'm sure I botched that terribly. How do you how do you pronounce it. Yeah, give it a mark.

My name is Hi Mark. My name is The New Yorker and Erica République.

And I am an immigrant from Santiago de COVA and a Hispanic Jew. All right, people will not serve anybody else but an honest election. President Trump is my president. We the people will create our own radio, our own Internet, our own state if we have to. I will not serve anybody else but President Trump.

So your your position is that this impeachment is a crock. This election was a crock. And they can ban you from the Internet and they can you can have people saying you're not allowed to express this view on radio and you banned from television. But but you think that there's millions and millions of like minded people and that's enough to sustain your own radio shows and your own television networks and all the rest of it.

Yes. Yeah, that's that's the way a lot of people feel.

Now, you've you've seen, though, you've seen on television today and on radio and in the newspapers that the the Republican you know, the way the tides moving these people, there's a kind of groupthink among these a lot of these opportunist congressmen and all the rest of it. And they're all jumping ship and they're bailing on Trump. And we've told that Mitch McConnell, it's reported that Mitch McConnell is going to vote to convict Trump when this impeachment trial moves to the Senate.

What does that mean for you then and the Republican Party? It sounds they're trying to put fear in the people, because if they know the laws, they cannot impeach a president that is outgoing. Yeah, well, he'll be out, gone. No, he'll be out, gone. That's what's so weird about this. The the trial is supposed to determine whether the Senate wants to remove him from office.

In this case, they'd be removing him from office, an office he'd already be removed from, which is the sort of absurd sophistry like travesty that only happens in these in these bizarre circumstances. It's a it's a very bad thing. Nick, thank you. So you're with you don't care about this. You how do you feel, by the way, about they're using the US capital to claim that Trump is about to start a civil war, which is what Maxine Waters says.

They're now saying he can't be trusted with Nancy Pelosi's, told the chiefs of staff, give me the nuclear codes because he can't be trusted with them. And that's why they're saying they need to get him. Get him out now. You don't, do you?

What do you think about what happened on Wednesday where those guys were, you know, marching around the the Senate and the House of Representatives? I was there and it was a setup. It was a house set up. That was a Hollywood set up and we the people voted and we the people will win. OK, Nyaka, thank you for that. That is the view of someone who reckons that the Trump is the legitimate president. Trump has done nothing to warrant his own party.

It was never really his own party. I mean, these guys went along with it because he won the nomination and he won the election. But but people like McConnell, people like Paul Ryan, people like Liz Cheney loathed him from the get go. But Nyaka says she's looked she's not interested in this impeachment. She was there on Wednesday. She's not interested in being called a domestic terrorist by the likes of Maxine Waters. And she is going to stick with President Trump.

As I said, he was the only guy five years ago now that when he came down that escalator, I'm listening to this rubbish, complete codswallop. Nobody told Jeb Bush, you know, a Republican, 350 million people and the establishment wanted a competition between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, between between the wife of the previous president and the son and brother of the previous presidents. I mean, who needs a banana republic, a republic of 450 million people?

And that's the best they can do. And Trump was the only one talking about anything, talking about any issue that mattered. China manufacturing, mass immigration and open borders. Where's Liz Cheney on that? Where's Mitch McConnell on that?

What's the point of a party that doesn't talk about anything important? Markstein for us, lots more to come. You want some good news?

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Markstein in for Rush. The final hour still to come.

Yes, Rush is away today. It was his birthday yesterday. And if you haven't sent him birthday greetings, well, you should because it was a significant birthday. And the way you can send about a greeting and he checks in on these and he really appreciates them is to go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and above the big Rush Limbaugh show baño. You will see a thing, a what do they call a horizontal menubar? I I'm kind of detaching myself from the Internet more and more.

But if you get a Rush Limbaugh dot com, you see that horizontal menubar right at the top. You go booboos three or four steps along.

You'll see, share your stories and you can send Rush a birthday greeting and he can even upload a a a birthday card because they've got one of those little JPEG type things there.

And you can you can stick that there and send Rush a happy birthday greeting for today.

Mitch McConnell has now said that the trial, any trial to convict President Trump following his re impeachment by the House. I can't believe I'm actually reciting these words because the the checks and balances of the United States Constitution have now descended into utter derangement.

He will now be scheduling the trial to convict President Trump and remove him from office after, in fact, he has been removed from office only in America.

Oh, that is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant constitutional device there.

So we will now be and as Professor Jonathan Turley and how he can do this with a straight face is very impressive. He says that we will now be setting precedent which will enable the impeachment of people from the offices they hold, even though they no longer hold any offices.

So Mitch McConnell is supposed to be reassured by this that Mitch McConnell will be holding the impeachment trial because the impeachment is for the House House impeaches the guy and then the Senate decides whether to remove him from office. And they've done this once before in I think it was Andrew Jackson's secretary for war.

If memory serves and it doesn't terribly well back in the 19th century in which he had ceased, he had left office in disgrace.

But nonetheless, the Senate convicted him and applied the penalty of removing him from office after. I can't believe it's all rubbish.

I would be very surprised if you're wondering whether former President Trump and they won't be calling him that because they say that their mission is to make him the exist ex-president that has ever existed in American history, far more of an ex-president than Richard Nixon ever was.

And I will be very I would be very surprised if Donald Trump is is even living in America by the time McConnell schedules his trial, because there's rumors that he's going to be living at Turnberry, his beautiful golf course in Scotland.

I'm not sure of the various extradition agreements between the United States and the United Kingdom.

He might have to go a bit further than I might have go to Belize, might have to go to to Abkhazia or Transnistria holed up in Nagorno Karabakh or somewhere to put himself beyond the reach of the United States extradition motions in court.

But that's that's you know, I'm not I'm not joking here. I'm not joking here. They are they talk about a time of bipartisan healing and all the rest it the only bipartisan healing is that the Democrats and the Republican establishment, the McConnells and the Liz Cheney's, they don't want the Trump. They don't want Trump around. They don't want Trump as the prince across the water promising to run in 2024. They want him out and expunged and they'll take the hit.

They'll take the the hit from Nerika.

I think that was the lady's name from New York. And I spoke to they'll take the hit from Trump loyalists because they figure that by 2022, 2024, those people will come back because they got nowhere else to go. Meanwhile. Eric Swalwell, who's going to be the guy who was penetrated from top to toe by Chinese intelligence, he was penetrated by Fang Fang. He's known he was penetrated by Fang Fang for years. But nevertheless, he sat there on the House Intelligence Committee, dissembling all during the Russian collusion thing.

He he knew he was penetrated by Fang Fang because the the investigators gave him a tip off.

The FBI tipped him off that he'd been penetrated by Fang Fang. If he didn't know. I would be surprised if he didn't know, actually. And so he gave her a heads up and she left the country, just as if you recall those fellows with all the money, that Pakistani family who'd penetrated all the Democrats computers were given a heads up. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a tech guy who in all the Democrat congressman's computers were given a heads up and flew back to Pakistan just as Eric Swalwell penetrator Fang Fang, this Chinese honey trap, flew back to see Chairman Ji in Beijing.

So this I think, again, no one knows this unless you listen to this show, unless you listen to a couple of other shows, unless you check out a couple of websites on the Internet.

But if you just watch CBS, NBC, ABC, they won't tell you that Eric Swalwell has been penetrated by Fang Fang, just as they won't tell you that the upper echelons of the California Democrat Party have all been penetrated by the Chinese.

That's actually a big thing. It's a big state. It's a big state.

It's not like penetrating the New Hampshire or the Vermont Democrat Party doesn't bring quite as many rewards with it.

So Eric Swalwell, who's been compromised by the trichomes, knows he's been compromised, says he can't discuss his shagger delicate relationship with Fang Fang because it would be breaching national security. So Eric Swalwell, sex life in what pitiful state it exists is now a matter of national security. I'm just doing the build up here because he's just compared Trump to Osama bin Laden. He's explaining, right, that even though Trump himself did not storm the capital, he's still responsible for it, quote, when Osama bin Laden well, Osama bin Laden did not enter U.S. soil on September 11th.

But it was widely acknowledged that he was responsible for inspiring the attack on our country, Swalwell told the PBS News Hour.

So he didn't his true Osama bin Laden did not set foot in the United States wasn't like Fang Fang to have sex with Eric Swalwell, you have to set foot on American soil and and and and use your Chinese intelligence wiles to penetrate it if you want to have a shag, idyllic relationship with Eric Swalwell.

But Osama bin Laden is quite correct. Did not set foot on U.S. soil on September 11th. But it was widely acknowledged, says Eric Swalwell, that he was responsible for inspiring the attack on our country. Just as Donald J. Trump did not penetrate the citadel of democracy, as he would call it, the citadel of crap, as I would call it, just as Osama bin Laden did not set foot on U.S. soil. So Donald J. Trump did not set foot in the US Capitol, but they're both responsible for these appalling attacks on our country.

This is a man who's been compromised by Chinese intelligence and he's one of the House impeachment. Managers, let's go to Eddie in Queens, New York. Eddie, it is great to have you with us. What's on your mind today? Hey, Mark, good afternoon. Blown away by that update from Mitch McConnell. But I was going to say was, you know, my mom and my wife used to be Democrats and they actually joined the Republican Party after President Trump ran for office, you know?

All right. I became I knew I was a conservative after I served years ago in the Air Force myself. That's when I woke up and realized I was conservative. But I want to tell you, as of today, all three of us are now officially registered as independents because of what's going on, because of these spineless Republicans and their refusal to stand up to Democrats. They only had the heart and intensity that the Democrats have when they fight for their ludicrous values.

Maybe we would be coming back into the Republican Party, but it's just disgusting what's going on. And I also just wanted to ask you, before I got shut down on parler, I seen a lot of talk about this. People were talking about this Patriot Party coming up. I just wanted to see if you heard about it in what you think about it, Mark.

Well, I'm in favor of more political parties. I mean, I agree with AOC, the great political scientist AOC said that in a sane world, AOC and Joe Biden would not be in the same party.

We have had a situation where we've had this frozen two party system now for a century and a half.

And and in some ways, as we've seen in recent hours, in effect, when you have a two party system, it de facto becomes a one party system because basically we have the dynamic, the entirety of the Democrats and significant powerful figures in the Republicans ganging up and operating as the Washington unit party. So I would be in favor, you know, everything every time I talk just in the by the foreigners have mentioned in the last couple of hours, Emmanuel Macron, his party didn't exist until a couple of years ago.

That Quebec regime that's just imposed the all night curfew, 20 minutes north of where I'm sitting right now, they didn't exist until a couple of years ago. Northern Ireland, I think, has 17 active political parties represented in it's, you know, between local councils and the parliament in London has 17 different political parties who've all won seats at one or other of those bodies. So a healthy sign of a healthy country is to have political parties that shift to reflect the people they were.

You know, to a certain extent, the Democrats represent the Democrat base and deliver for the Democrat base. And it would be interesting to know what the Republican establishment, you know, they ran four years on repealing a vote for us will repeal Obamacare, Tea Party, Tea Party, Tea Party, Tea Party. Don't set up your own party. Vote for us and we'll repeal Obamacare. They raise tons of money and suddenly now and then suddenly when they had control of the Senate, the House, the Oval Office.

Oh, yeah. So I never pay no attention to anything we've said for the previous decade.

You know, it's a frozen party system for a century and a half. That's not actually a citadel of democracy. That is terrible. That's a terrible, useless frozen system. And if there is not motivation now, if we're just going, oh, yes, OK, we don't have fair elections and we got stiffed and we've lost everything. But that sets up sets us up in a really good position for 2020 to send money now, to send money.

Now, Dotcom, I know if this isn't enough to actually make us step back and think, what do you want to achieve in the next two, five, ten years and what is going to be an effective vehicle for achieving that? You know, 450 million people? Oh, whatever it is that votes, you know, 155 million people.

Well, five million of those are fake votes, 150 million. I don't know.

Let's just what what can 150 million people do to can two parties accurately reflect all the views? Why can't we have it like a Bernie Sanders thing? Bernie Sanders is a huge player in the Democrat Party, even though he's not even a member of the Democrat Party. He's an amazing independent and he's the biggest one of the biggest forces in that party. Are you going to kiss Bernie's ring? Are you going to keep Bernie happy? Why don't we have a few conservatives like that?

I'm just throwing it out there. But a frozen system for I want to pick up on this on the other side, actually, because it's it's worth a bigger point to a frozen system. A frozen two party system for 150 years is not a sign of a healthy polity. Thank you for that call.

Eddie in New York, one of the most dysfunctional parts of this union, whether the Grim Reaper has absolutely bungled the last 10 months, yet is hailed as a hero and wins an Emmy Markstein.

And for us, your calls straight ahead.

The preacher's boys promising to bring the post Trump Republican Party into line with the way it was in the early 21st century and the 1990s. Let us go to the mellifluous named TLT, Alan Hope. I've got that right from Corona, California, which I think is just 10 minutes away from Yorba Linda, Yorba Linda, of all places. Talin, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Did I say that correctly?

Yeah, one. But it's close enough to Allentown and.

OK, my apologies. That's that's a lovely name. That's that's that's a great, great name.

Well, my point was, I mean, to you, you've been so justifiably critical. And I have to say I would support President Trump forever, but he's been justifiably critical about all of the other politicians and political parties in our country. And we just wondering how you would compare them to other systems that you're familiar with, like the House of Lords and Commons in England?

I don't know exactly how Canada runs it, but and I don't know how we can ever proceed even if we had different parties. I don't know how we can ever trust our election again. And even if we had 17 different parties, how could they ever get past the entrenched bureaucrats and deep state? Yeah, three part question.

Yeah, I think that is a huge question. I said in a in a book of mine about a decade ago that you don't need a president for life if you've got a bureaucracy for life. And certainly when you look at the actions of the bureaucracy that you said you don't know how the Canadian system works. Well, they have a House of Commons just like in London, and they have a an upper house called the Senate, but which is actually closer to the House of Lords and the way it's run and so does Australia.

And so it's like the Westminster system is and, you know, dozens of places around the world. And the one thing about it, I'll tell you an anecdote. One thing I like about it is that it makes politicians less important. The very first time I went to the House of Lords, I was there as a guest of Lord Moyen, who's the family.

He's a Guinness there, as in the beer, you know, the great Irish beer. And so he's from the Guinness family Lord Moyen and was invited to the House of Lords. And we go there and he's sharing an office far smaller than the studio I'm sitting in right now with some 17th Marquis and twenty third Viscount or whatever it was, whose ancestors have been in the House of Lords since the 12th century. And the three of them are in this box and sharing one very little old, very old and not terribly with it secretary between them.

And that's it. Now you take senators. Senators have dozens and dozens of staffers and that's why you wind up with the situation that you and so do members of the House. And that's how you wind up with this situation to Allen, where you have laws that are not written by the lawmakers. I mean, that's what's so repulsive about the bill. That is the covid relief bill. It's not that. It's just not written by law makers. It's not written by civil servants.

It's not even written by staffers and interns. It winds up just being written by lobbyists who all get their particular little carve out into the bill. And then I take it a few clerks like mad women knitting at the guillotine during the French terror, stitch it together like Frankenstein's monster to stagger about and terrorize the land.

And that's actually one of the core differences. Hey, this is America's number one radio show, Markstein in four rush, as I have been very intermittently over 14 years now. It is a great privilege, one of the great honors of my life. A rush does this better than any man on the planet, as he demonstrated just on Monday with a cracking three hours.

I played a little bit of it in the last hour where he just brilliantly surveyed the scene and laid it all out for us.

There is there is nothing like Rush. It's it's terrific to be with you when I'm not here. You can find me at Stijn online dot com. That's Stijn with a Y, study y and study Y, as in, why do I have to listen to this snooty hoity-toity foreigner all the time on my favorite radio show. And I'll also be on the telly tonight on on the Tucker Carlson show.

I'll be with Tucker a little bit tonight.

The other thing I'm well, you know, things that happen. Have mostly happened before because that's the nature of life, that's the cyclical history of civilizations, the modes through which things happen vary.

But for, as I've said, what's going to be happening next Wednesday when the president takes the oath of office is that we are going to be witnessing the total complete merger of big state and big tech. And big tech is itching for that after November the 4th. They didn't want to wait, so they started banning this figure. Well, they actually started before that. I mean, absolutely incredible to shut down, say, Kayleigh McEnany, Twitter feed to decide that.

If you try and link to the New York Post story about Hunter Biden, you got to be vaporized.

All this was laid out in a novel by George Orwell, very famous novel. We get a lot of our lingo for today's politics from it, like memory hole, the idea that someone's been memory hold, it's been disappeared.

All that's from George Orwell's novel, 1984.

And I've been serializing I've been doing an audio adaptation, a kind of what do they call it, an audio book of 1984 that we started just three or four nights ago over at Stijn online.

And Newt Gingrich very nicely said a few complimentary words about it and about why I think 1984 is so important at that time.

He wrote in 1948. And it was at a time when half of Europe had just been gobbled up by the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union was hungry for more for countries like Greece.

Now, these were countries that had always been part of Christendom, of the western world of Europe. So they're not places you think of.

As you know, places like Hungary thought of as as nations of advanced, developed citizens who've produced great art and high culture. And suddenly that presence states. And George Orwell was interested to apply that model to what he termed the English speaking countries.

And that's what this book is about. And the great thing that he didn't foresee everything, but he foresaw a lot. So, for example, he has this this way. This way. As I said, he wrote in 1948. So it was after television had just sort of got going. The BBC had had it before the Second World War, but after the war, it all came back again. And so in America, this would be the time when, you know, Milton Berle, very early days of television, but it was television and you had Uncle Milty and a couple of other things and he came up with this thing.

What if instead of you just watching the television, the television could also watch you? And that's actually what we have now. We call it the smart phone. And the only thing that Orwell didn't get right about it was that he didn't foresee his telescreen in which Big Brother watches. You could actually be made portable so you'd slip it in your pocket so that what you were doing could be determined by the people observing you any time of the day or night.

And what we have seen now in the last couple of months, I've got a story here.

There's like all kinds of stories here by people who basically we have the social credit score, which was introduced in China, where, in fact, whether the state watches you or not is determined on what they call your social credits or whether they you whether you sutin words online that indicate you're a bit of a problem and then they surveil you even more.

We've actually got that now. OK, we let the weird beard who runs Twitter do it. We let Zuckerberg do it at Facebook, we let the Google guys we get and all.

We heard them all into one place like Parlo and come to power. It's not like Twitter, like Facebook.

Come to Parlo where the free speech thing and then Amazon and Apple and Google all gang up and and shut that down. So we're actually living in George Orwell's. World as far as government surveillance and electronic surveillance is concerned, as I said, the only thing he didn't.

Forese was the telescreen in 1948 where they have to have them, you know, in certain positions in all the apartments so that it can see the whole living room and it and it can see the whole bedroom.

It can watch whatever you wanted, whatever you're doing at any time. They even have versions of it in the countryside where they have microphones. He didn't foresee that that would become unnecessary because we'd all wear our security chains voluntarily because they in Orwell's book The Telescreen, also has pleasant, soothing music. And you can watch amusing things going on on the screen. So we all look, I've got this smartphone and look, it's terrific. I can keep up to date on Kim Kardashian.

This device records everywhere you go, everything you do, you tweet, you make an infelicitous tweet, you'll you'll lose your job. You say the wrong thing on a Facebook post. You say like this poor Vermont schoolteacher. I think it was Windsor, Vermont. You say you say, oh, yes, Black Lives Matter.

I'm all for love. Martin Luther King hears me at Martin Martin Luther King Day, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And it's not just Black Lives Matter, but I think all lives. I like everybody. So I think all lives matter. And you lose your job as the school teacher in Vermont because now we have Big Brother. They wouldn't say Big Brother, it'd be big non binary sibling. Now, big non binary sibling is watching you, knows what you do, knows what you tweet, knows what you Facebook knows what you Pinterest knows all of it. And they are able and they have told us initially, just by vaporising Hunter Biden stories before the election and then since the election in saying you're not allowed to criticize, you're not allowed stop the steal is now a forbidden phrase.

Why shouldn't you object to the election? Why in a. In a so-called free society, should you not be entitled to say that there seems to be a bit more monkeying around in the results than there should be in a free and fair election? But oh, no, no, no. If you say stop the snail, Facebook is taking away all those posts. YouTube is taken away all your videos.

We are actually living in 1984. As I said, Newt was generous enough to say some kind things about my observation about that book.

It's currently the top selling book on Amazon and I'm serializing I'm doing my own audio adaptation of it every night over at Stijn online. We also have a Markstein cruise at Markstein Cruise dot com. We're trying to get Mr. Snidely to commit to coming on that. But he says he's only going to come on it if we can arrange to hold the Monte Carlo Grand Prix around the time he's doing it.

So I may have my work cut out on that. But but, you know, I go back to my point sometime. The thing about the the the interest, the fascinating thing to me, and I've said this for some time, you know, I get very bored when I watch a lot of these futuristic sci fi things where everybody's walking around with glassy eyed expressions in identikit clothing, wearing cat suits from a 1970s variety show and sleeping in pods and all the rest of it.

Because to me, the interesting thing is how do you get there from here? In other words, how do you get from free societies to these totalitarian lockdown societies where people are walking around on eggshells, afraid, as in Orwell's 1984, that a facial expression might betray you? Or in today's world, where an infelicitous A. on a tweet or a Facebook post might betray you. The most interesting part of all these dystopian, futuristic sci fi things is how did we get from here to there?

Well, we are on the path from here to there and everything you see now where basically the media have agreed a fake narrative. And any dissent from that narrative not only is not reported by those media, but has to be banished and vaporized from even the most inconsequential Twitter account, I think I've lost something like thirty thousand Twitter followers in the last week since this thing on Wednesday, because Twitter is shutting down all these people all the time. Boom, you're gone, boom, you're gone.

Boom, you're gone. Well, actually, we're actually these these companies to the telescreen, the Orwellian telescreen company. These are companies are bigger than any almost any nation on Earth.

They're certainly bigger than Belgium or Slovenia or Tajikistan or Papua New Guinea. And actually, when they have the full merger, that's going to occur next Wednesday because all these big tech guys are going to be working in Biden's in Biden's team, as far as he's been announcing for the last couple of months, you're going to witness the full merger of big state and big tech.

And as I said, the interesting point of all these sci fi dystopias is not the dystopia, not when it's too late, not when you're walking around with the glassy eyed expression in the 1970s variety show cat suits.

But how you got there, the road from here to there and next Wednesday is a huge leap on the road from here to there.

Markstein in Farraj, thrilled to be here. We will take your calls in just a moment.

Let us go to fill in Reno, Nevada, fill your live on America's number one radio show. What's on your mind today?

Hello, Mark. How are you doing? I'm doing good. No, Rush Limbaugh is always saying that sports analogies, that the game is rigged. And what I like to suggest is we're no longer in a rigged game. We're watching an exhibition game. And the Democratic Party is the new Harlem Globetrotters.

And the Republican Party is the second stream college team that so far is that no one, no one in American politics will ever need another sporting analogy fail, because that's what it is. You are absolutely you are absolutely right on that. Thank you for that. It's a brilliant ploy. So when the Democrats or the Harlem Globetrotters, it's an exhibition game and the Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, Republicans are just the second straight college team. I like that you like their chances for 2022 and then you suddenly turn up at the start of the game and they're playing that whistling version of Sweet Georgia Brown or whoever it was he did, I think it was.

What was the guy's brother, Bones? I think it is. We really ought to get Rush to drop the Chrissie Hynde music at the top of the show and replace it with that whistling version of Sweet Georgia Brown. Thank you for that, Phil. That have you have you copyrighted that sporting analogy because you should maybe put it on a poster or a T-shirt or something? Because it's absolutely it's absolutely brilliant. Thank you for that, Phil. You and Arush, yeah, thanks, thanks, thanks a lot.

What these he's he's on top of that. Do you know what was the most disturbing or the creepiest thing today? The revelation that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have sent a memo.

To all US troops condemning the Magga riots as sedition and spelling out that they should only follow lawful orders.

Now, this is after Nancy Pelosi got on the telephone to General Milley, the chairman of the the Joint Chiefs, and said that he should give her the nuclear codes because Trump can't be trusted with them. Trump is actually the only president in however many. I was trying to work this out, depending on how you define it, who actually hasn't launched any new wars and who's kept trying to bring the troops. He's the least warmongering president in in American's lifetime.

All he's trying to do is bring the troops home. And every time he says he's bringing the troops home from Afghanistan or he's bringing the troops home from Syria, they ignore him. He's the the one thing you can rely on about Trump is that he's not going to launch a new war and he's the only guy who doesn't want to launch a new war. But instead and this is creepy, we actually are now really in serious. You know, weird, creepy country, because we got the generals telling the soldiers not to follow any rogue orders from their commander in chief.

So in one of these moments, a Ceausescu balcony moment where the the military have decided to go over to the revolutionary side and the lawful commander in chief is being told, no, the troops aren't going to obey your orders. Very weird and very creepy.

The Joint Chiefs sent a memo to all U.S. troops condemning the Magga riots as sedition, weird and bizarre because women weird and bizarre times because of that.

This is Markstein in. I will see on the telly with a Tuka tonight coast to coast across America.

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