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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

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Yes, America's anchorman is away. You know the way this works. This is one of Russia's treatment weeks, and sometimes the treatment goes all spiffy. And he comes back midweek and retakes control of the show. And sometimes he's a bit clobbered by it. And he comes back a day or two later. We stay flexible here, as we hope you will, and we wish Rush all the best.

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As you know, he was here every day last week and on absolutely killer form. And when Rush is like that, you need to stand well back from the receiving apparatus because it is radio like you don't hear anywhere else. And that's the rush we want.

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So if he wants to take one day to day, three days, whatever, where we're looking forward to having him back at full strength, 800, 202, 282 is the number to call.

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Always like to hear from the lefty guys. If you feel the if you feel the Biden administration's going swimmingly, do do give us a call.

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And I'd love to hear what you have to say. It is an historic day in the United States.

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The very first article of impeachment in the history of this republic is supposed to be delivered by Nancy Pelosi to the United States Senate in the next couple of hours.

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And at that point, they swear in all 100 senators as jurors and they begin to make preparations for the trial.

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The trial is scheduled to start on February the 8th.

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No where in history can you find an article of impeachment?

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It's really quite a spectacular innovation on the part of Nancy.

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As you know, she's responsible now for half of all the impeachments in the last quarter millennium of American history.

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That is very impressive. She sent over this article of impeachment. It's not like the last impeachment trial, whatever it was. Oh, remember when that was 11 months ago when we were all supposed to be excited about that bow tied twit tying himself in knots over the Ukrainian phone call?

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Even as the Chinese virus slithered around the world, the government of the United States, the United States Congress, the second branch of government, the coequal branch of government, stayed focused like a laser even as the covid slithered around the world out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the coequal branch of government stayed focused like a laser on the Ukrainian telephone bill.

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This time around, they've got they were too many white men last time around. So this time around they've got. What Nancy Pelosi calls the most diverse impeachment team in history. Isn't that a breakthrough? And it includes, you know, it's got whatever it is, transgenders and Muslims and all the other members of the diversity coalition. And it is very diverse. It also includes the first the only white guy on that is the first guy to be first impeachment manager, to be penetrated by Chinese intelligence by Fang Fang.

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That's Eric Shaggs.

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Well, he is on the impeachment team that will be delivering any moment now. Will Will will take note of it if it happens while we're on the air.

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He will be delivering. Yes. Yes, Mr.. Sadly. What.

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Right. Mr. Snidely asks, This is why Mr. Snidely is not on the Supreme Court. He just asked me, how can you impeach a president who's not the president anymore? You're not thinking big enough. Every every single law, every single provision in history starts off small and finally focused.

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Every every law in the United States has a particular focus, and then it just metastasizes and applies to anything you want it to apply to. So like those RICO statutes, which are supposed to be about organized crime, Rush's friend and my friend, the great Conrad Black, he was eventually charged under Rico, as if he's just Sammy The Bull Gravano or whatever.

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So they all metastasize. And in this case, yes, it would seem fairly obvious that to hold a trial of the president would require the accused, the guy in the dock, the alleged perp to be the president. But it is not so. So this is the first post in post impeachment post presidential impeachment trial. And John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, has recused. He says he's not going to be presiding over this trial.

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This is what's fascinating about this. He's not going to be presiding over the impeachment trial because he's read the Constitution. Remember that.

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It's like it's I don't know what it is. It's like a little notebook people keep in the bottom drawer. It's all covered in dust. But he got it out, blew the dust off, and he looked at the Constitution. And it says in there that the chief justice is only required to preside over the trial of, quote unquote, the president. And this guy, Trump, is not, quote unquote, the president. So John Roberts says nuts to that.

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I'm going to play golf. I don't have to bother wasting my time. So the person who's going to be this this is actually why Mr. Southerlies brought up the interesting point without hearing that the trial is going to be presided over. Either by the president of the Senate or the president pro tem of the Senate, and if you're wondering, you've never heard of those titles and you're wondering who these guys are, that's either Kamala Harris or Patrick Leahy, senator from Vermont, who I ran into a couple of times during the Clinton impeachment trial.

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And as you know, from one of the special promotions on on the Rush Limbaugh Show, he only leaks when he wants to.

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So it's either going to be Pat Leahy and Kamala Harris and I would bet they go for Komala because they're they're serious about this, the idea. And just so we will have the vice president of the new regime presiding over the trial of the head of the previous regime on a similar note.

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The National Guard, you know, this thing, this domestic terrorism situation, you may have heard about it, it's all over the news. Domestic terrorism, there's a big insurrection, there's a big insurrection against the government of the United States. And President Trump, as Rush noted on Friday, has been accused by Chuck Schumer of inciting the erection, in the words of Chuck Schumer.

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And so they are going to have the National Guard remain in Washington, D.C. through the impeachment trial. They're going to have to get an extended lease on those parking garages where they're parking America's military.

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They initially were supposed to be checking out the morning after the inauguration. Now, they said, no, no, we'd like to take the rooms or the parking spaces for an extra couple of weeks and we will be there through the impeachment trial.

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So we have a fantastic situation here. You know, if this was happening in Latin America or some ramshackle part of Africa, you have you have a situation where the the new regime is putting the old regime on trial and just to make sure nothing happens while they're putting him on trial, they've got the capital city under military occupation. And if you've just woken up, you're thinking, what's he talking about now? Is that Chad? Is that Rwanda? Is that Burundi?

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Is it some little bit of Central America where the generalissimo is suddenly back? No, that's the United States. The military occupation of the capital will continue through the impeachment trial. The actual judge, an actual judge, Judge John Roberts, that's what he is by profession. A judge has said, no, I want nothing to do with this trial. And let's face it, you don't need a judge because it's not actually a judicial proceedings.

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So instead, we're going to have Kamala Harris or Pat Leahy presiding over the impeachment trial. They this is basically if you're if you know your little old bits of history, what they're mad about here is that Trump completed his term. They never from the moment he was elected, they wanted to show this man is not as other presidents. So he cannot be elected to a four year term and serve out a four year term. He has to be removed.

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And the Russia investigation was initially supposed to remove him.

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That's when all the the CIA and the FBI and all that they had their guys running around London and other parts of the world insinuating themselves into the Trump campaign. And that didn't work. So they weren't able to get him out with that. And then they tried the Ukrainian impeachment. And that didn't work because no one cares about who's telephoning whom in the Ukraine doesn't. It's of no interest to anyone.

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And so then right at the end, they seize this violent revolutionary terrorist attack on the United States that went on on January 6th with the guy in the Viking horns and the other guy, the guy who took the zip ties. Eric Munsell, he's just been denied bail.

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I believe he's going to be remaining in federal custody, even though there's a story out that he didn't bring, you know, these zip ties. They like state of the art handcuffs, but you don't need the key or anything. They're these sort of plastic flex restraints that the the the more lavishly funded police departments use now. And he was seen with the zip tie, flex tie things and was arrested.

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He apparently just found them, which means this is like just another example of the 24/7 security state that's totally insecure. He apparently says he just found them. But anyway, he and his mom are being accused of leading this violent insurrection against the United States. I believe this is the first time in history that a revolutionary uprising has been led by a guy and his mom.

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So that's keeping it in the family.

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But these this story is taken off. And so now it's the pretext for everything.

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So it's so literally the because because this guy with the zip flex thing, restraints and his mom showed up on January the 6th is now going to be National Guard through the impeachment trial, which will be presided over from Kamala Harris.

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But don't worry. Don't worry. There's nothing unusual about this at all. This is the return to normalcy that Joe Biden promised Markstein for us. We will follow the re impeachment of the president and all the other news. That's going to be a busy going to be a busy news week. As I said, the senators are supposed to be sworn in as jurors the day after the very first historic article of impeachment is delivered by the most diverse impeachment team in history, laid over to the Senate by the guy who got penetrated by Fang Fang, the Chinese secret agent.

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So there's nothing unusual going on in America at all.

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Markstein for us, one 800 202 282 is the number to call loves to come on the Excellence in Broadcasting America's number one radio show.

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Markstein sitting in for Rush on the day the Soul article of impeachment is delivered. I said that they're mad at Trump because he got to complete his term. And this guy just tweeted me, Major King Kong is his Twitter name, possibly not his real name. And he says, How long until Democrats begin disinterring presidents for impeachment? As you know, Mr. Snidely was wondering how you could have a presidential impeachment trial when the guy isn't president. And this major King Kong would like to know how long it's going to be till they begin digging presidents up to impeach them.

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They did that with Oliver Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, who was overthrew the monarchy and was styled Lord Protector of England. He lived out his natural life, so he finished his term as Lord Protector. He died in. Whatever it was, eight, 16, 57, 16, 58, something like that, and he he died of natural causes and he was buried and then the monarchy was restored three years later and the first parliament of King Charles, the second decided to dig Cromwell and two of his closest associates up from their graves where they'd been like Cromwell had been in his grave a couple, three years or so, something like that.

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And they decided to publicly execute a guy who'd been dead for three years.

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And they decapitated him and they chopped off his head and they stuck it on a spike. And it was on public display for a considerable length of time until one night it happened to fall off it. There was a strong wind and the head fell off it. Spike and nobody it was on its whereabouts unknown until.

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Oh, the 1960s, and it's now when it was found, it reemerged and is buried somewhere at Cambridge University, but this is this is a restoration to this is the restoration of the swamp.

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And because Trump completed his term, despite all that fevered, fevered talk to invoke the 25th Amendment, he served out a normal four year term and that cannot be permitted to stand.

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So like Cromwell, he's being dug up and they're going to publicly execute him and stick his head on a spike. And nothing about this is normal. It's never happened in American history. Used to be. I covered the Clinton impeachment trial in Washington two decades ago.

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That's that's when I gave up on the United States Senate. I found it an utterly repulsive body because I was exposed to it all day, every day, five days a week.

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But I know all the ins and outs of impeachment and impeachment has evolved under Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.

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So we will now be having a trial that will not be presided over by the chief justice because the chief justice quite reasonably takes the position that you're only supposed to preside over the trial of the president and this guy is no longer president. The trial is due to begin on February the 8th.

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And as usual and Mitt Romney is on board with it. By the way, this is a a a precise a very precise calibration he's making. He's saying he's not yet decided whether he's going to convict.

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He's going to wait to hear the evidence, but he does support having a trial of a private citizen.

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Now, the penalty for, you know, in Illinois, in the normal course of events in civilized jurisdictions, for example, if you are accused of robbing your local general store and they decide that the policeman decides there's a case to answer and he's going to bring it up with the county attorney or whatever, and you then keel over from a massive heart attack.

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They don't bother holding the trial because the penalty for robbing a general store would be a fine that you're no longer alive to pay or a prison sentence that you're no longer around to serve in the case of impeachment. The penalty is removal from office. And obviously, President Trump can't be removed from office because he removed himself from the office a few days ago. So we are now in one of those things that lawyers love, where they will be arguing about the nuances of the way it's particularly phrased in the Constitution, which is written in plain English.

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The guy who wrote it wrote in plain English whose meaning is clear, but the guys who interpret it as we see every day in American courts across this land can divine things in there that nobody had thought of before.

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Hence the first re impeachment trial in American history. You know, when I was here a couple of weeks ago, toward the end of the show, there was a story I mentioned about a killer squirrel in Brooklyn. This the squirrel wasn't just holding his nuts, protecting his nuts. He was savagely attacking ladies in Brooklyn, New York. The squirrels are now taking it to the next level.

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From my hometown of Toronto, a lady was confronted with the bizarre sight of a squirrel holding a knife.

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This is Andrea Dimond, who lives in Rosedale, which is the fanciest part of Toronto.

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And she said she'd left up a left out, a paring knife, a pairing, an apple or whatnot.

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She left it outside in the garden. She looked outside, went outside into the garden, and the squirrel had picked up the paring knife.

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And was a marching on I, for one, if this is a thing, if if the violent killer squirrels in Brooklyn have now learned to pick up knives and advance on their prey, I, for one, welcome it. It's it's a killer knife wielding squirrels that is going to be the only thing that'll save us from the bite and terror. What did they say? Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a squirrel to a gunfight and give him the knife.

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That's the only way to win. Rushes out today. You know, there's a cure for that. You can go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and subscribe to the Limbaugh letter. The Limbaugh letter is the most packed newsletter in the United States, and it has a terrific cover, an inspirational cover after what happened a couple of days ago.

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It's Scott Rush standing tall. In front of a giant American flag and the headline right there on the front page, never stopped fighting for America. You know, he's got a picture in here. I love reading the I love reading the Limbaugh letter. It's like it's like so compressed.

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It's brilliant compression.

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It's just they like take all this stuff that's going on around the world and they just concettina it and distill it into what you need to know. And he's got one picture here from rioters in Minneapolis, I believe, on the night of the election, actually.

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Yeah, it is. They got the Christmas lights and everything up and they're holding the banner. They're celebrating the election result by saying America is over.

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They're not shy about this stuff. They're not shy about it at all.

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And Russia's got this fantastic picture of these Minneapolis rioters celebrating the election with the big banner America is over.

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And Russia says, never stop fighting for America.

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As I said, it's brilliantly distilled all over the planet. There's all this stuff going on and Rush takes it all and distills it into the perfect encapsulation of the situation we face. Never stop fighting for America. It's an inspirational issue. You can get it by becoming a Rush Limbaugh subscriber. All you got to do for that is go to Rush Limbaugh dot com. You'll see the button there in the drop down menu, I think it is.

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And you simply click on that.

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And if you subscribe today for one year. You'll actually get not 12 issues, you'll get 13 issues because we have extended the definition of a year to have 13 months. The Democrats do this with everything they can abolish biological sex. Well, we can abolish the constraints of the calendar. So you'll get 13 monthly issues.

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But your one year subscription to the Limbaugh letter, by the way, don't forget, if you go to Rush Limbaugh commonly subscribing to the Limbaugh letter, you should also go to that little button that's just above the big Rush Limbaugh Show banner that says, share your stories and you can send a get well greeting to Rush and even upload a favorite amusing cartoon or heartwarming homemade greetings card or whatever's on your mind.

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You can do that by clicking on the share your stories button. I'm saying.

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That they were actually doing a Cromwell to to Donald J. Trump, he's not the president, but they've decided to use a constitutional provision to remove the president from office to impeach a private citizen. And why are they doing this? Well, for one thing, they would like to get Trump. They don't want Trump hanging around, coming back in four years time.

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So they want to try Trump up in knots. And Trump is tied up in knots at the moment. He's got banks and he's got a couple of deposit accounts at various banks in Florida.

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One of them's the call the professional bank, and one of them's called Banks United. I think no bank has a normal name anyway.

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It's not like the first National Bank of Miami or anything like that anymore. They've just they've just all got weird names.

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But anyway, these banks, professional bank and banks united are saying that they're not going to have anything to do with Trump anymore. And they're even when he's just got depositing, he's got a couple of money market accounts at one of these banks. And they're not going to let him.

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They they've decided they're not going to let him bank with them anymore. The Democrats and the media would actually like to get him in jail. They don't care what they get him in jail over. They just like to get him in jail. The Iranians, the supreme ayatollah and those guys have said they're charging him with murder over the Sulimani thing. Again, they don't they don't care what he's you know, whether he's actually killed, they would just like to get him to as part of their revenge.

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And that that that's not a thing necessarily to dismiss. You know, I don't entirely rule out Biden joining the International Criminal Court just so he could extradite Trump to Tehran for that.

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We live in seriously weird times. But the point is. They're out to get him. Everybody's out to get him and they really don't want him running again in four, you don't know. I mean, after four years of being hounded, having his bank accounts closed, having to be careful when he's flying around on his private plane, he might be planning on visiting his properties abroad. And it happens that touch down in a country to refuel in a country that has an extradition treaty with Iran.

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You never know what can happen with those kind of things. They and there were precedents for that, too. I'll I'll mention one of them a little later in the show.

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It's a serious you seriously have to think about this.

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I once had I won't say who he was, but he was an extremely distinguished American political figure at the highest level, talking to me about the dangers when you just fly in here and there for a one week vacation or a two day business trip and you happened to touch down somewhere where some magistrate showboating magistrate would be happy to enforce an Iranian extradition application.

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You've got to be careful about these things. So who knows what kind of mood he's going to be in in four years time?

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But the Democrats don't, the Democrats, yes, Trump incited the erection, as Chuck Schumer said, and he certainly incited the Democrats in that respect because they're their slaver there in that Viagra ad situation where if the erection persists for more than four years, you should see a doctor, because that's what they've got over over Trump and they'd like to get him.

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But they're also thinking ahead, as the president himself said, as the former president himself said, you know, the object isn't to get me, it's to get you there thinking ahead to, oh, what if there's another Trump out there? What if there's someone out there who fancies being the next Trump?

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Well, what are you going to do to him is you got to like executing Oliver Cromwell when he's been dead for three years.

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You've got to make clear to these guys that that's not going to happen again. But what they're going to they're going to inflict so much on Trump that anyone who thinks he wants to be the Trump of 2024 says, no, thanks. I'd rather just stay in obscurity, run my feed store and not catch their eye, because they if they if you catch their eye, they will destroy you totally.

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They're teaching us lessons here. John Brennan, what we've seen is the restoration of the swamp. John Brennan, an awful man who should be in prison himself.

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John Brennan is now warning all kinds of people that this new domestic terrorism situation and again, you might think that January the 6th was just sort of the day before yesterday, but the United States Congress, which can't get 600 bucks of covid relief to you without negotiating it for over eight months, has in nothing flat put proposed domestic terrorism legislation out there that as if there's a domestic terrorism movement that is within your borders, like the IRA in the United Kingdom was for many years, who we've got a domestic terrorism movement.

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There's no domestic terrorism movement, but they're now putting into place after the 9/11 security state. They're putting in a domestic. It's not just like. Again, this is all from George Orwell in 1984. In 1984, Oceania has always been at war with East Asia because there's a permanent war and it's happening somewhere out on the far fringes of the map.

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He doesn't actually say Afghanistan, but it could be Afghanistan. And you just hear about it once in a while. It's not terribly important, but it's enough to mean that things like air travel are a lot more complicated than they used to be.

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But even better than that is if you say no, no, no, no, it's not the Allahu Akbar crowd sitting in a cave in Helmand Province.

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No, no, no. It's far closer to home than that. Now, we've actually got domestic terrorists there, maybe up to 74 million of them all over the map. So we need big domestic terrorism legislation to take account of the domestic terrorism threat. The Democrats, this is the difference. I read something today and and instantly fell back to sleep for another six hours that the there's some breaking news about the Durham report about the 20 something to do with the 2016 election.

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Right. Right. Well, now. Still arguing over the election before the election. They just stole from us.

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Meanwhile, the Democrats have moved on to stealing the next election marked time for Ushakov.

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Straight ahead, you know, the National Guard, I said the National Guard has now been ordered to stay in Washington, D.C. to secure the Capitol through the Trump impeachment trial.

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They've interviewed in the Hill some of these rank and file guard members who say they've never been in a situation. There's no mission, it's not a combat zone. So they don't understand why they're under combat regulations. There's no defined mission. There's no defined situation. The guys say this is very unusual. They don't understand what's going on, but they're there. It's it's impressive when you look at them in the parking garage to see all these thousands of National Guardsmen.

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In their camouflage, the camouflage obviously is designed to blend in with trees and shrubs and foliage, which helps if you're going off to a combat zone that happens to be in a forest or a jungle. But it's a little bit odd when you're in a virtually treeless city such as downtown Washington, D.C.. I don't understand if when I'm going to have military occupation of American cities. I don't understand why they don't have camouflage designed to blend in with the city streets.

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They're patrolling so that they have like 7-Eleven logos and and Taco Bell and other common chain store types. So they blend in. If we're going to have a permanent military occupying force of American cities, they're going to need to be some new designs in the camouflage.

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Let's go to Neal in. Oh, he's a compatriot of Joe Biden from Sussex County, Delaware. Great to have you with us, Neal. What's on your mind?

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Great to be with you, Mark. I just when you were talking about impeaching the non president, it sparked a question in my mind. Let's say they go through with it and let's say they're successful and the sanction is removal from office. Who determines the date that former President Trump was removed from office is?

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Yeah, carry on. And would it be January 1st, 2017?

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So he was never a president. All the legislation he signed is now moot. All the regulations he changed are imposed by his administration. No longer fact are we going to basically have the Hillary Clinton reset button and say Trump was never president?

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You know, something that is a brilliant point to nail because they're basically making it up as they go along here and people who say, oh, well, the Supreme Court will weigh on this. No, the the Supreme Court has generally said impeachment is a purely political act. So it's not subject to judicial review. And that's what Roberts will do. We'll know he'll do. That's the equivalent of the royal prerogative in Canada or Britain or what elsewhere.

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So you're right, if they want to, they can say since they're not there isn't any in real world terms, there isn't any actual office to remove him from. What matters is the date you remove him. And when they if they go back to he was removed at one minute past midday or one minute before midday in January 2017, then there never was a Trump presidency. And he can never have his portrait hanging anywhere.

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And all these laws that he signed are unlawful. That would be a that would actually explain a lot about what they hope to accomplish. Neil, that's when did when did this point occur to you?

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Because it's an absolutely brilliant one, as I was listening to you.

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Well, in that case, you're a genius and you should be guest hosting, because the thing I've learned no, I mean, the thing I've learned from watching Democrats is they're far sighted, they're forward sighted, and everybody thinks whatever they do is a joke. So when it was all these pudding guys in transgender changing rooms and all the rest of it, everyone thought, that's rubbish.

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Everyone knows it's rubbish. Nobody who matters is laughing. And it came to pass and they abolished biological sex. Likewise, everyone thinks, oh, you can't remove a guy from office has already removed from office and everybody laughs and thinks it's nonsense. No, there is some purpose behind it, Neil, and you may have identified it. Thank you very much for your call. Neil was first up a neighbour of Joe Biden's from the state of Delaware or a former neighbor, because I'm not sure Joe Biden's back in the basement, but I'm not sure whether it's his Delaware basement or his White House basement.

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He'll come out and sign some executive orders in a bit more signing for us. Lots more. It's a long list of people coming forward, John Brennan, who should be in jail. I mentioned him a few minutes earlier, a few minutes ago. He talks about American ILD intel agencies cracking down on religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians, he says. So that's a kind of long list of ideological persons they're targeting.

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He could easily have and he could by now have added to it excitable centrists, moderates who've had a third cup of coffee, whoever you are, if you're not fully on board with the program. John Brennan says American intelligence agencies have got you on their list and they're focused on you like a laser ensuring the insurrection stops.

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Big tech is doing everything they can to silence conservative news stories and conservative voices. So you might wonder, what am I not saying that they won't allow me to see on their platforms? The good news is our podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast, covers the news stories every day that they won't let you see. That's right. You'll get the news stories they're hiding from you. So be sure to listen to the Ben Ferguson podcast on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today. And this is your undocumented anchorman, Markstein. No supporting paperwork whatsoever. I used to say at this point in the show that we are live from a station, EIB, just in far northern New England, about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, and always used to say, if you're fleeing the country, do swing by and say hello, because we got a big sign on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border.

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But I can't do that joke anymore because thanks to chairman of the Canadian U.S. border, the so-called longest undefended frontier in the world is in lockdown and nobody can flee across the Canadian border anymore. So Chairman G has killed my joke among all the other things he's killed. Thanks a lot, Chairman.

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Speaking of which, did you know that Dr. Anthony Fauci is the highest paid employee in the entire U.S. federal government in 2019? This is from Forbes magazine. In 2019, his salary was 417 thousand six hundred and eight dollars, which makes him not only the highest paid doctor in the federal government. I don't know why they put that. Actually, I don't know whether he's ever actually.

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Performed any surgery or examined your prostate or anything, but it's been a it's been a long time and I'm not sure I'd trust him to take out my appendix or examine my state now. But in 2019, his salary was 470000, 608 dollars, which makes him, as Forbes puts it, not only the highest paid doctor in the federal government, but the highest paid out of all four million federal employees. The president of the United States gets 400000 dollars.

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But doctor found she gets 400 and 17000 dollars plus six hundred and eight, he was interviewed a couple of months back by Matthew McConaughey, the distinguished thespian.

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Matthew McConaughey asked Dr. Fauci as a bit of a joke if he personally had millions of dollars invested in these new vaccines. And Dr. Fauci laughed and replied, Matthew, no, I got zero. I am a government worker. I have a government salary. He didn't mention that the four hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred dollars he gets is, in fact the largest salary of all four million federal workers in the country.

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It's it's pretty. I don't actually know why this guy is still around. He's been. At the NIH, he started there in 1968, that's 53 years he's been working for the poor guy.

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He he's he's just told us he never he doesn't need I don't know when he's eligible for early retirement, he's now 80 years old, but he earns more than anybody else in the federal government, including the president. He earns 400 and 17000, 608 dollars, which is almost as many as the number of Americans who have been killed by the coronavirus.

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It's up.

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Well, Dr. Jill Biden, Mr. Snidely, is even more. If Foushee is getting 417, 608 dollars, she should be good for half a million at least. And as I said, Fraunces is just appears to be pegged to the covid death rate. So there's more almost over 400 and 19000 dead Americans now under the Foushee regime.

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Miranda Devine, my old pal, Miranda Devine from Australia. You have to read the foreigners to find out what's going on.

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Miranda has a great column in The New York Post about how Foushee needs to be held responsible for his covid-19 mistakes.

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You know, the guy getting 470000 dollars or getting more than the president.

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The president at that time waived his salary for which he doesn't waive his salary.

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And he, as you know, when he came in initially said mask's. Nobody needs to be walking around with a mask. Then he three months later, he does a back flip and says, no, no, we need masks. He says in January 21st, the covid isn't something that anyone in America should be worried about. You know, he's supposed to be follow the signs. If you follow the science of Dr. Foushee, you'd have whiplash from changing direction that fast so often.

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But it doesn't seem to impact the fact that this this revered genius makes more money than anybody else in the federal government.

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The good news is the covid appears to be clearing right up now that the inauguration simply Gavin Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is saying that it may be think he might be giving a big announcement today, saying they're going to reopen, it'll be safe to reopen restaurants, even though the rationale for closing the restaurants was that there would otherwise be too much pressure on the ICU. The. Intensive care units, there are, in fact, three times now three times as many patients in the ICU as when he announced his restaurant.

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And but he doesn't he doesn't care. He says it's safe now and that there was a well, he was under threat of a recall petition because everyone in columnist USA is right to point this out, because everyone in California has got nothing to do. So they're all sitting at home bored. They've seen everything on Netflix. So there's nothing actually anything to do in California except fill in a recall petition for put your name to a recall petition to get Gavin Newsom removed.

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So he thinks he's seen that off now. Oh, they've lifted their stay at home. California, just about in the last hour has announced it's it's lifting its stay at home order for all regions. Get out there. Don't stay walled up in the poky little apartment filling out the recall petition. Get out there in the open and go to a restaurant, go to a movie, go to a Disney theme park ride and have a socially go to.

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Yeah, go to Disneyland, get out there. Don't sit at home. Just filling in the Gavin Newsom recall petition all day long. So The Cove, it looks like it's clearing up in California. This is a tragic and again, Foushee. And all the while we listen to scientists. We listen to scientists. No, sir.

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No, sir. In self-governing societies, we elect citizen representatives to take into account all the fat, all we prostrate ourselves before scientists. I get down on my knees and found she must be the most important man in the country. He makes 470 608 dollars, even though he gets nothing right. But he's been there for 58 years. And you can't. Apparently, it's the restoration of monarchy. I prefer George the third. As you know, if you've heard me a long time, a big George, the third guy he was running in any election, he'd be the small government guy.

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But you've managed to restore divine right, the divine right of Foushee to rule until he drops dead and he's carried out by the handle's. Anyway, this is another this is why this whole, you know, absurd veneration of the scientists is such of student suicides.

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Pushes Las Vegas schools to reopen rising mental health emergencies. In Clark County, Nevada, a spate of student suicides. This is a tragic this is a truly tragic story.

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And the quotes here from teenagers who feel, you know, who felt life wasn't worth living because they can't see their friends anymore. Do you remember if you're a teenager, you know what they like. If you're getting on in years like me, you can still remember what it's like. You know, when you're that age, when you're 15, 16, 17, 18, when days last forever so that you're you're in love, you're in love with the girl, but you can't see it to the weekend.

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And it's only Tuesday. And every day is like an eternity.

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That's adolescent time. That's child time. Every day is an eternity. You know, you're living in a hyper present tense.

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Oh, you know, it's it's it's going to be a week and a half till the school vacation starts. And that seems to stretch on and on forever.

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And then you get older and everything is the years fly by.

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The decades fly by. When you say, oh, remember that guy who said five years ago, five years ago, turns out to be ten years ago. When you say that and when you say, remember, ten or so years back, that turns out to be 25 you, but not if you're a student, not if you're a teenager. Spate of child student suicide pushes the Las Vegas schools to reopen. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the teachers union said, no, no, no, we don't care how many.

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It doesn't matter. We don't have the problem with youth suicides in Chicago because they tend to get shot by gang bangers at the weekend anyway. So they got no time to commit suicide. So that's why the Chicago Teachers Union is voting not to go back to school. This is a headline. From the Telegraph in London, my old newspaper, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, says that currently there are more children admitted to hospital for mental health than medical reasons.

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That's that's about the who knew if you shut down the whole world, if you make perfectly healthy teenagers, stay inside and not see their friends for a year. Well, coming up to the first anniversary now. Oh, and then you're surprised that it has mental health consequences.

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You know, all these things are coming together. The Biden administration, we've now accepted basically that in large parts of the United States, the state has the power to tell you what to wear in your own home. They can make you wear masks in your own home to tell you who you can invite to your own home. What? I was thinking of having granny over for Christmas. No, no, you can't have granny for Christmas because you can only have people living in a single household as they did in in Vermont and various other states.

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And now we're seeing the consequences of that. And yet, instead of actually saying we've done instead of actually saying Foushee, are you out of your mind? Maybe back in March you can get away with 15 days to flatten the car, but 15 months to flatten every psychologically healthy, well-adjusted teenager and walk them up in a prison that is nothing like teenage life that's going on in any healthy society. And it doesn't have well, we still have to venerate the great foushee.

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Mark Steyn in for us. We are in the first week of the new regime, as I said any moment now, Nancy Pelosi's most diverse impeachment team in history, including all the fashionable minorities and for the first time, an impeachment manager who was penetrated by the Chinese spy Fang Fang.

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That's Eric Chigwell, they will be walking over the Soul article, the first ever article of impeachment in American history to the United States Senate.

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The senators will be sworn in as jurors tomorrow and the trial will begin on February day.

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Markstein for us your poll. Straight ahead, Markstein and for Arush.

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Miley Cyrus is taking heat because Miley claims to be attracted to women and said as an aside, that she prefers breasts to male testicles, prefers breasts to testicles, and as a result, she's now being hammered as a trans fat stay away from both of them.

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It's all too complicated now. You don't want to get mixed up with breasts or testicles or any of it because you'll be whichever way you pick. This is nice young lady who says she's all for the lesbianism and she's now attacked for her transphobia. Stay, stay. Miss, miss, miss. This goes. Why why do they tell us this? Mr. Snidely, if you were to start giving interviews on which body parts you like, you would you know, that's that's how you make it big.

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Who remembers Miley Cyrus's last record? I couldn't I can tell you she's famous for other things. That's how you do it now. But my advice is steer clear. Just don't have any claim of body parts entirely. Michelle from Park City, Utah, is next on The Rush Limbaugh Show.

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Great to have you with us, Michelle. Hi, Mark, it's so great to talk to you. A big fan of yours, love your books. Oh, thank you. I wanted to get your thoughts and what you could what you perceive could possibly be the logic of this. I just read that Joe Biden removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and replaced it with a bust of Cesar Chavez. Right. And that's true. We call Cesar Chavez had quite the interview on PBS back in the 70s.

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And I don't know if I can use the word he referred to as illegal immigrants on the radio, but he called illegal immigrants. Quite a derogatory term. Yeah, he did I. Yeah, he did. You're right. So what is the point of Biden putting that, what is it? I can't I can't even process what logic that would be. Well, see, hoping that that the Latino community or so-called Hispanic community doesn't have a memory as to what Cesar Chavez really thought of illegal immigrants.

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Well, I just as a serious answer to that, Michel, I don't think anybody has a memory anymore. Basically, we we live in a place, literally Orwellian society, where everything gets memory hold. Now, obviously, people remember that Churchill is someone you're not supposed to like because he he was something to do with the Second World War is not the one or was it the Third World War or and I forget which side which side he was on.

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But he he started the whole thing. And besides, he he wears a bow tie from the same haberdashers as Tucker Carlson. So we can't have we can't have Winston Churchill. We can't have Winston Churchill in the White House. They replaced because Winston Churchill is just like you hate figure.

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But Cesar Chavez is actually a more interesting thing because as he said, he didn't believe in mass immigration because he didn't think it was good for the people he purported to represent, is not good for American workers, which is the way that people who used to claim to be the champion of the working classes used to think.

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But but they to someone like Biden and the people waggling the sockpuppet Abidin, the people telling him things in his earpiece, because I doubt he picked that thing for his desk that just sort of turned up.

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He was walked into the office and told, this is where you're sitting for the next four years or three months or however long it is. And they sat him in the chair to them. Cesar Chavez. Nobody knows who he is. We live in a present tense culture. He has a vaguely a Latino name. So it is assumed that he's on the side of open borders, which isn't even true of today's, as we saw in the election. That's not even how when all those Texas border Hispanics in the most Hispanic communities in America voted for Trump, that's not even how today's Hispanics felt feel.

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And back in Chavez's day, he was quite open. He didn't want mass immigration. Nobody needs no advance. Society needs mass immigration, particularly a society where you've been told you can't open your hair salon, you can't open your gym, you can't open your restaurant for the last ten months. Nobody needs mass immigration. But the Biden camp basically declared full open borders far worse than anything Obama did. And Chavez is supposed to be the sort of heart warming, vaguely remembered heroic name that he uses to justify this.

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Michel, it's it's it's quite extraordinary.

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But whoever's waggling the sock puppet of Biden is moving pretty darn fast because just in a lot of these executive orders, he's transformed some fairly basic things like like American immigration policy.

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It's not very difficult. You know, you can't have a you can't have open borders on the Rio Grande, but you're banning international air travel, there's no consistency about any of this, except and this is the only consistent point is that it serves the Democrats purpose.

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So people arguing about inconsistency and hypocrisy, if it suits the Dems, it's in May.

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And that may be the worst bit of news bumper music I've ever had in all the years I've been guest hosting for us. I don't like the cut of that jib. It sounds like some last order is all we know now. It is that some last orders knees up in a bar on the Mexican Riviera.

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Oh, OK, that's better. Oh, yeah, it's double bumper music Monday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, twice, twice the bumpers to mitigate for the guest host. Rush is out today. You know how this works. He has his treatment weeks. This is one of them. And if he's feeling back at full strength, he'll come back in a couple of days. If not, it might be a day or two later. But give the guy a break.

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He was here every day last week and on super full strength, as you all know, if you heard.

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So if you may. Oh, yeah.

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What's this, Mr. Snottily? Yeah. Yeah. What's that. Oh yeah. You need a vacation. OK. OK, Mr. Hadley is reminding me, because I used the word Riviera, that I've got a Markstein cruise coming up and that's in October and where cruise in the Mediterranean.

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So we'll be watching the either the complete implosion of Europe as it finally enters its death throes, or in fact, it will be quite a nice break from whatever state this country is in. After nine months of the Biden Harris administration, we've got all the great spots, Florence, Monte Carlo, Gibraltar, the Rock of Gibraltar, hitting France, Spain, all the great spots. You can find out more about it. Markstein Cruise, dot com and Russia's pal and mine, Conrad Black will be there.

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He's both a member of the House of Lords and a pardoned jailbird in the United States because President Trump pardoned him. I didn't know this. He's Canadian and he was ineligible for a minimum security prison in the United States.

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So when I went to visit him in Miami, he was with a lot of hard core kind of guys, gang gang kingpins and the like. Rather intimidating place if you on a foreigner such as myself. But President Trump pardoned him. And it's not often you get to cruise with a guy who is both a member of the House of Lords and has served time in federal prison. So Conrad will be there.

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And I spoke to someone who said that I spoke what is there to dirigibles? You can see the you. Yeah, there's a big rock there. There's a huge rock and it's full of Barbary apes.

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And they always say, Mr. Snidely, that when the Barbary apes leave Gibraltar, that's when it will fall from Her Majesty's dominions into Spanish hands.

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So the apes are there.

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You can check them out. You say, what is there to do in? Well, I don't know whether you've left the house in the last year, Mr Snarly, but what is there to do in New York City? You walk down Broadway, it's dead. The glittering marquees, Times Square, it's all gone. There's nothing. There's plywood. It's like a plywood theme park, New York City. So Gibraltar's got more going for it than Plywood City.

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Yeah, I want to I want to wake up in the in the city that just hammers in another piece of plywood. That's New York these days. Anyway, you could go to Bogside Cruise. Don't call.

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I spoke to someone on Alaska Cruise a year or two back who came because he hears me on the show and he said that he went on Rush did a cruise. This was like the first year Rush was on the air. So we're talking late eighties now. And he said Rush had done one cruise and then after that, rush was too big. So he was so he said to me, I've covered this because there's never going to be a second Rush Limbaugh cruise.

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So I'm going to have to do with a Markstein cruise. I said, that's a fantastic endorsement. Can we get that on tape and use it for promotional material so you can go to Markstein Cruise dot com if you would like to know more?

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I feel, you know, one of the reasons why I think I use this phrase before the election, but I mean it a blizzard of lies, you know, when everything's a lie, when it's just all swirling all around you.

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And as you'll know, if you've ever been in an actual blizzard, if you live in my neck of the woods, it becomes hard just to keep going. You can't really see the way. Straight ahead, the the blizzard of lies swirls all around you. And you don't know whether you're detouring off into some little cul de sac that you'll have to try and see your way through the blizzard of lies to walk out of. But that is what we that is what we are seeing now.

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And the reason the reason for it is interesting to me.

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It's more than interesting, actually tragic. And it's a disaster.

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But what's been going on, for example, starting with January the 6th, the idea of converting this thing into a domestic terrorism attack.

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Is the idea that domestic terrorism attack became the words you can't use, you have to use, you have to use, and if you disagree with that, you can't disagree with it. Rand Paul was on TV with George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning and he started talking. He was asked a question about election fraud. Basically, just like in Soviet reeducation camp George Stephanopoulos wanted Rand Paul to come out on TV with a glassy eyed look on his face and renounce any claims of election fraud.

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And Rand Paul didn't want to do that because the other side has admitted they've said, oh, well, no, election is an exact science, but no, no, no, there's no evidence that there's any any fraud that would have changed the results. So the the the opposition's position or the state's position, state media's position, the Democrats position, the new regime's position is that there was of course, there were no no election is an exact science, but there wouldn't have been enough forward to change the result, although, of course, there's no need to look into it.

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We've had a fraud going back a long time now, so we don't need any looking into it. And Rand Paul said, I'm not going to stand here and do that. And George Stephanopoulos basically called him a liar on air. And Ron Paul said, I'm not going to be called a liar by you. And he said in the old days. You would have got some lefty on you, you got some Democrat on Democrat senator or governor or whatever to disagree with me.

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Now we have this situation where the host of these shows is demanding that Rand Paul prostrate himself before the official narrative and Rand Paul said, I'm not going to do it. You should go. You can go to whatever network George Stephanopoulos is on and you can probably find the clip. It's out there. But it's worth watching this idea that supposedly independent neutral television moderators are demanding that dissenters simply sign on to the official narrative. This is something new and phenomenally creepy, and it's everywhere.

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I was looking at a an industry publication that publishes television ratings because I'm. I'm doing my little bit of guest hosting on Fox News in a week or two sometimes I was just interested in having a look at it, seeing what the ratings were and all the rest of it. And they use the term that they're talking about how CNN has done terrifically, CNN scored its best numbers in years and saying they've shot up even more so since the domestic terrorist attack on the 29th.

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This is being called a domestic terrorist attack. As I said, it's being run by some guy and his mom first first revolutionary uprising that's ever been led by some guy and his mom. Lenine never got his mom mixed up in it now. Never got his mom mixed up in it. Hitler never got dear old Froud, Hitler mixed up in it. But this is the first revolutionary uprising led by Guy and his mom. And if you dissent from the official and even as I mentioned the last time I was here on the radio, whoever it was of, whichever network it was, the senior deputy assistant under vice president of telling you what to say, said that any radio hosts who suggested there was fraud wouldn't be would be removed from their jobs and whether that applies to a guest guest host.

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But the last time I was here, I told him to take a hike. Everyone knows we've had seen the sanest calls. I've taken no disrespect to the native born, but the saneness calls I've taken well from a South African and a Canadian because I felt I've been in like a an utterly demented environment. Everybody from anywhere that's not the United States knows that they're the crappiest least reliable elections in the Western world. This idea, the left's defense. Oh, well, yes, that was Ford.

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There's always Ford. It's not an exact science. You can't expect Foushee like levels of accuracy when you're talking about election in Denmark in the entire history of Denmark, they've never had a case of election fraud. You know, you can say they elect the lunatic governments, although, oddly, Bernie Sanders wants to be like Denmark, but they don't have fraud. They come by there. They come by those governments, honestly, which is not true in this case.

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And I'm disturbed, too. I don't know quite why. And God bless Rand Paul for pushing back on this, too many of these milquetoast Republicans don't actually shove it back down George Stephanopoulos face. What sort of in what sort of creepy world does the host oblige you to sign on to the official narrative? This is what's changed just in the in the restraints on free speech just since November. The third actually since a little before that. Little before that.

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You know, at one point, like at American universities, they said, oh, you can't say that about you can't say that about the war on terror or you can't say that about transgendered bathrooms or you can't say that about same sex marriage because it makes the Muslims or the transgender community or the lesbians a bit unhappy. So it was done. It was framed when they restricted free speech until mid-October last year when when they restricted free speech was done in the name of sensitivity to minorities, there were changing cultural mores.

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And you have to accept that it's unfair to say that about Islam or same sex marriage or whatever it is.

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And now then suddenly with the Hunter Biden laptop thing, it changed. It's now now we have a a situation where you can't say things that dissent from the official narrative, whether it's on the effectiveness of covid lockdowns or whether it's on these dirty, disgusting, totally, totally insecure election procedures that are like nothing else anywhere in the developed world and indeed in the better functioning parts of the developing world. And and as that's the form of election that the Democrats are going to insist on keeping in place now and forever because of the covid.

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And you don't believe me. There's a there's a new study here that shows dogs and cats are big spreaders of covid. So even though it clears up among the human beings, the covid, they're still going to need to have mail in voting because there could be some cat out there sitting outside the polling station in 2024. You're never going to win another election again. Mark Steyn in for Rush. This is serious. They're serious. And we need to get serious.

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I don't even. Yes, they behaved appallingly in 2016. They're investigating and putting spies and using MI6 and using Christopher Steele and all the rest of it. But for God's sake, that's gone. 2020, he's gone. The Democrats are moving on to stealing 2024.

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We got to be forward looking. I'm excited for us. Your post straight ahead.

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The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Markstein sitting in for us. Let's go to Greg in Charlotte, North Carolina. Greg, you're on America's number one radio show. What's on your mind? Mr. Stein?

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This honor to speak to you? I believe you, Rush. And Mr. Trump shouldn't give up on the Republican Party every two years. We have thirty plus senators up for re-election. This half of them are Republicans. We as voters have a chance to get rid of the rhinos cycle of ten years. We could potentially have 70 plus new Republicans and Mr. Trump being a kingmaker. This can easily happen. That's why I think the Patriot Party is such a bad idea.

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That's that's sad, though rumored to be his idea that that that Trump himself wants a Patriot Party. You think that's just going to, what, split the vote?

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Yeah, because exactly 75 plus million voters voted Republican aren't necessarily Trump supporters, but they don't like the Democrats. So I don't know why you would throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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Well, the problem here, Greg, you know, I would have any I wouldn't have any doubt in saying if you want to start a new party, start it. But there's so many obstacles to it in America, for example, just getting ballot access, you know, it's a racket by the Washington Union Party and in the States that it's very hard to get a third party on the ballot. They the two big parties gang up because they're not sure who's going to be taking votes from whom and they don't let you get on the ballot.

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But the problem here, Greg, is that, as Rush was saying last week, that if it is not going to be possible to have a fair election again, then in a sense, that idea that you split the vote and let the Democrat in isn't as big a threat as it. Was until all these shenanigans started, and evidently, you know, Trump, to a certain extent feels betrayed by the Republican establishment, certainly in Georgia and in other states, too.

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What do you do about that, Greg?

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Well, we we already know who those people are, so we go ahead and vote them out on this next election run. They've already exposed themselves as being anti-terror jumpers or rhinos. So we just we get rid of them by just by exposing them. And they've already been exposed.

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OK, don't don't keep saying the word expose, because for some reason it reminds me of Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer inciting the erection. So I don't want to have too much. That's enough exposure. Greg, you make you make a good point. Any want that this is another reason why they want to keep impeaching him. They want to keep prosecuting him and all the rest of it because they want to tie him up, the Democrats, so that he does not become a force.

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So they don't want a Patriot Party either.

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But these are things at some point we have to map out a way ahead that doesn't just ensure we're going to be the fall guys for the Democrats every two years, which is, you know, the Tea Party agreed to work within the dead husk a decade or so back. They decided they'd work within the dead husk of a Republican Party they largely loathed. And they got no thanks for it except to be investigated by Lois Lerner and the IRS. So people have serious choices to make.

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But you make a good point there. Greg, thank you for that.

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We'll explore it later in the show. Markstein for us.

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Lots more Hildago Markstein information I've just been asked. Any thoughts about the proposed 40 percent capital gains inheritance tax?

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Yeah, get used to this kind of stuff. Look, there's a lot of people whose incomes there's millions and tens of millions of people whose incomes have collapsed in the last year because they were prevented from working. Not Dr. Foushee, as you know, he makes more than anybody else in the federal government, 417 grand a year hasn't lost a penny over the last year. Other people have no income. So it's hard to there's not much point raising income tax rates when nobody has income.

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That's why it's the other taxes they got to go for. They can't pay for what they're doing otherwise.

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Yes, America's anchorman is away. You know how this works. It's a treatment week, which means Rush has some fairly excruciating things to get through for the first couple of days.

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And if he feels okay by midweek, he comes back and if he's still feeling clobbered by this stuff, he rests up for an extra day or two because Rush only wants to be here when he is at full strength, as he was last week, as you'll know if you were listening.

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So this is your EIB anchor baby. Delighted, thrilled to be here. It's a great honor.

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No supporting paperwork whatsoever.

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But I am a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. I'm actually a Canadian honey trap. I was sent here to seduce Eric Chigwell, but so far he doesn't want any of it. He's having no part of it.

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I mentioned this story. Which is from the prestigious peer review journal Virulence.

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That's actually the name of thing that's actually a name of a peer reviewed scientific journal, Virulence, and not the designated term for Joe Biden's collected executive orders against the American people.

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But researchers at the University of Minnesota and the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute have said that cats and dogs may need covid vaccines to curb the spread.

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So just in case, if you're in California, where people were threatening to recall the guy. And get him out of office, the governor. He's now reopened restaurants toward that off so so human beings are free again in California, but don't think this thing, the covid seems to be clearing up now that Joe Biden's in office. But it's still very serious because you're going to need to get your cats and dogs, maybe your hamsters and gerbils. I don't know how this affects Eminem, but he may need to get his gerbil.

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He may need to get his gerbil vaccinated against the Corvette there.

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Now that this is there will never be a reason for life to return to normal. And it's all peer reviewed. It's all science. It's in this prestigious science peer reviewed journal called Virulence. While there are no cases, no known cases in which a human contracted covid-19 from a domestic dog or cat. The professor of evolutionary genetics, Cok Vandersloot, please, please, no twittering, that's his name cockup Vandersloot says we have to be prepared for any eventuality.

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So if you think it's if you're in New York where they're making the old people line up up the streets, the incompetent boob, Andrew Cuomo is making you line up on the streets to get your appointment, you've got an appointment that says be here at 245 and you get there and you find you have to stand out there on the streets. You poor old aged Auntie Mabel is going to be there standing on the street for three and a half hours while Fido is ahead in the mangled pooch from the next door neighbor is ahead of her in the line.

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I call this a blizzard of lies half an hour ago.

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And it's very. Weird because we've gone into kind of overdrive in the last two months since the election was won, I was pessimistic. I said on this show that if Biden wins, then things are going to get real bad, real fast. On the free speech front, I assumed that they would delete Trump's Twitter account on January 21st. I didn't realize that just accelerate and actually put this stuff in beforehand because they're so anxious to do it. Victor Davis Hanson has a terrific piece.

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Victor, Victor's always very incisive on this stuff in American greatness today in which he's talking about.

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He makes the point that this new totalitarianism is coming from all these WOAK hipsters, and he's right, it's actually a form of totalitarianism, which is the way you have to sell it.

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So what it is, is that, you know, we all look at that weird beard who runs Twitter and we see him testifying.

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On at Congress, and we wonder why anyone takes that guy seriously because he looks like he's been sleeping in a dumpster for the last six weeks.

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That's exactly why they do take him seriously, because this is not the form in which fascism is supposed to be presented. It's supposed to be presented by hard faced men.

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I mentioned earlier 1984, which I'm actually serializing over at my website at the moment, that nine online dot com, because I hadn't read it in a while.

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And people always know the bits from from Orwell that everybody quotes like memory hole, you know, which are all a big brother is watching you and all the rest of it. That's the only thing he got wrong. Now, it would be a big non binary sibling is watching you, but everything else is amazingly detailed.

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And what it is, it what it's some of the interesting asides. For example, Winston Smith, the protagonist, is trying to find out what would what would what was it like before the party took total control, because all he's been told is about capitalist's in top hats. So he's asking this old timer who remembers the days before the revolution. What was it like? Did they really wear top hats?

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And and it's a clever thing because it makes the point that you have enduring clichés about who the evil doers are meant to be. And then you have people who are meant to be nice and fluffy.

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So when when you see somebody like like that guy who runs Twitter, when you see Zuckerberg who had to buy a necktie, I believe, for his first appearance before Congress, because he's not a guy who wears neckties, and you realize that the left has got like a monopoly on all on all the people you meant to think nicely of. So, for example, Biden has actually, in these executive orders, done things that are way in his first 72 hours, did things that are way more radical than anything Obama contemplated, because with the Obama regime, Obama was the novelty.

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He was the great God come down from the heavens to dispense wisdom. So he would just say things like, you know, let this be the day that the oceans cease to rise because the oceans would be so stunned by the ascent of Obama to the White House, to Barack him palace that the oceans would immediately withdraw from menacing the coastlines of the world because of Obama himself. There's nothing of that with Biden. No one's enthused about Biden. And that's why they had to have this concoction about the domestic terror attack shutting down the District of Columbia and all 50 state capitals because otherwise so there was nobody there to see Biden inaugurated.

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That would have been nobody there anyway, even if even if you hadn't had the National Guard, there would have been far fewer people than saw Obama. Also Trump. There had been nobody there. And it would have betrayed the lack of enthusiasm. But precisely because of that, they don't cut him the slack that Obama has. He doesn't have any of the identity politics bonus points. He has to just act radical. And he's done that in these first executive orders, I used to say.

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On on this show, when all this stuff started about the abolition of biological sex, for example, when they would just be putting in some young lady who's like six foot three with a faint touch of five o'clock shadow and muscular thighs and biceps and budding hormone generated breasts to trash your daughter in these CallNet Connecticut athletics championships that the Democrats are paying for the big stuff. Now, Biden is actually and people would say, including listening to the show, that everyone knows that's crazy.

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Why are you wasting time talking about this? Well, Biden has just actually gone way farther than that. You just have to identify as a guy and you get to shower with the chicks. I mean, you just you just have to identify as a girl. You don't have to be on treatment. You don't have to see a doctor. He's just said basically, if you wake up in the morning and you decide, oh, my God, I said this to my kid who used to do the state track events here, my my youngest kid.

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And he was like, okay, but he'd always come fourth or fifth, fourth, fifth, sixth. So when this transgender thing started, I said, why don't you just identify as a girl? And you'd come first in the girls events and you can always transition back once you've won the trophy. That's actually it was a joke. And he didn't want to do it because he wimped out of it because he thought his friends would laugh at him if he was to wear a dress to school.

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But that's actually the world that Biden is just licensed that from. From now on, if you simply self-identified, you can you can go and have a shower.

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Now, people say, well, why didn't they say that beforehand? Every because Biden is telling you who the people there's this very naive union, whatever whichever union it was, because the Keystone pipeline, everything. We cancel the Keystone pipeline. Hey, that's good. He's just sticking it to the Canadians. Who doesn't want to stick it to the Canadians? Justin Trudeau. Biden's treating him the way he treated Colin Pope. He's given he's gotten out his rusting bicycle chain and he's thrashing Justin.

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And then the unions point out, well, wait a minute, we endorsed you. And this has gotten rid of 11000 union jobs. Yeah, because you don't matter. You don't matter.

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Then we have the the Indian tribes who are who who are also likewise furious about this thing because of a 60 day moratorium on on energy exploration and drilling that extends even to a native reservation.

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And they said, whoa, wait a minute, we supported you two. Why are you screwing us over? Because Biden is basically the creature of whoever's got to him.

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And if you think there's some old type Jimmy Hoffa union guy who's whispering in his ear and telling him what to say and know those things, then like last year's their last season's Democrat constituencies, the new Democrat constituencies are running this show and people put up with it because it's totalitarianism, because you think the fascist guy is going to be like they used to say about Trump, that trumps Mussolini on the balcony. He's looking into the the sunlit uplands as he stands with his chin out, gazing from the balcony.

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No, we've got a world of woak, tall Italians, hipster totalitarians and people think, oh, they seem so nice. And it's just a question now.

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So we've actually had an extraordinary shut down of dissent. Just in the five days we've got a bill that is basically going, if you think what they bought in 9/11, the TSA security theater, taking your shoes, shuffling like a great bovine herd through the airport now and forever, that's because some guy in a cave on the other side of the planet. Now they're planning to domesticate the war on terror and they're serious about it and way and at a certain point we have to get serious about it, too.

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We have to use, you know, one reason why the Chinese took over the world, for example, is because they use all the levers of national power. You know, the United States has more carrier groups than anybody.

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So you can be in some shallow lake on the other side of the world. And look, here's a here's a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier coming by that the the Chinese happen to have now the biggest surface fleet in the world, bigger than America's.

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But they don't they're not interested in policing, having boots on the ground in over 100 countries.

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They understand you win wars by using all levers of national power and they're actually establishing their dominance without sending a carrier armada.

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That to me, is a good analogy for where we are. We think that it's about dragging a guy with an R after his name over the finish line.

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Every other November on a Tuesday evening, and the Democrats instead again use all levers of national power there are there out there creating the conditions in our culture whereby it doesn't seem odd that a 15 year old boy has the choice of whether he showers in the boys locker room or in the girls locker room. They establish the cultural conditions. And in fact, if you ask a Republican about any stuff, they don't even want to talk about it. Oh, no, sorry, I.

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I'd rather not get into that. I've got this new capital gains tax cut I'm interested in proposing.

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You know, they create the conditions. And to go back to what I was saying, rush push back against me. And they didn't really. But when I said, you know, every hill ought to be the hill to die on because that's how Democrats don't want to surrender anything.

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And Republicans, on the other hand, you know, keep thinking that there's this mythical last hill that's out there somewhere, even as all the hills within sight become occupied by Democrats.

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No, you have to defend you have to defend that ground because these things that don't seem to mean anything are actually the means by which they lay the ground for these massive cultural transformation. Now that Trump's gone, he's Mara Lago, do you think that's going to be a lot of Republicans talking about mass transformative immigration?

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No, they they put that one to bed. It'll go with the wall. It'll be something they don't mention. So in other words, when people don't want to hear, Frank Luntz has got all these focus groups on it.

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If you if you say you against illegal immigration, it sounds like you mean to foreigners. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to say that. Best not to talk about it. I'll talk about a capital gains tax cut instead.

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No, the Democrats defend every Hill and they advance themselves. And if you look at all these, you know, so it's not even just the abolition of biological sex. Even the showdown with China is over now because Biden said, oh, yeah, we're happy to have the trichomes own parts of our nasch critical parts of our national infrastructure. You fight for every hill. If there's only two parties and one party fights for every hill and the other doesn't fight for 90 percent of the hills, don't be surprised.

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You wake up to see Joe Biden signing one executive order every 45 seconds.

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Markstein for your straight ahead, Markstein for Rush. A TSA agent, Jonathan La Mely, has been sentenced to 60 days in county jail for tricking a woman at L.A. X into showing him her breasts. He claimed he had to look inside her bra to ensure she wasn't hiding anything in there. And then, after examining the breasts, told her that she had nice breasts. He's now going to serve six years in jail. I don't believe this may be a new no no.

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Sixty days in jail. Sixty days in jail. Let's say new Biden executive order that if it's 34 B, that's fine. You can take them in the cabin with you. Anything bigger than that has to go in the hole. There's now maximum, maximum size. He gets one month per mammary. That's right. That's that's a it's three strikes.

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You're out. But fortunately for him, she didn't have a third one. Let's go to Joe in Kensington, Maryland. Joe, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

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Grey markets, Jason. Actually, I think it's back in the year before.

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Oh, really? So it's Jason. It's inaccurate on my call screener. I recognize your mellifluous antipodean tones.

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Yeah. And I just a bit of a comparison on this covid virus. The the Australian sort of locked down, but they keep comparing the numbers here to Australia being so much better than Australia. But they don't realize is that we have about a fifth of the population and also they're locked down to psychiatric like recently in Brisbane. They had they had one person who came in from overseas that had it. They literally locked down the whole state of Queensland. Right.

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One for one person. So they started doing the stop start lock and which is basically just dragging it out. And they're very strict.

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I mean, now busted in your house arrest, you if you even talk about breaking the rules, say, oh, no, the Victorian Constabulary, that's Melbourne, they're absolutely bonkers. They're like, if you're if you're handicapped, if you're disabled, if you're a pregnant woman, they, like, kick you to the ground. There's all these and you're not allowed to travel more than three miles from your home. So whenever, you know, whenever these people say, oh, they Australians, they're doing a fantastic job, travel from state to state, it's like actually being turned back.

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If if. You decide you're going to go from Maine to New Hampshire. It's it's it's crazy, this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that call. We got to we got to go, Joe. I'm up against a hard break, but thank you for reminding us that there's a price to be paid for getting the covid back locked down.

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Hey, great to be with you. I should apologize to Jason, our Australian friend from Kensington, Maryland, just a couple of minutes ago, because I think when we came up against a hard break, I called him Joe again.

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But he's actually Jason's I've reached the Biden I've reached the Biden stage where I can no longer tell the difference between Kamala Harris and Geraldine Ferraro. So I didn't mean to call Jason Joe.

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And I should also wish him a happy Australia Day. It's actually Tuesday, but it's already Tuesday. The Australians are so much more advanced than the rest of us that it's already Tuesday over there. And it's Australia Day, which is their national holiday. Don't get too excited because they've got a bad case of what's going round among us, the ABC, which is their national broadcaster.

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So it's like the BBC and the CBC in Canada.

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The ABC is calling it Happy Invasion Day, because that's the day of shame of when the white man landed in Australia.

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So it's it's the same thing.

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Happy invasion day. They'll be having that here. If you if you think it can't happen here because people do so well, it couldn't happen here.

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The Treasury Department is taking steps. This is the White House press secretary, the Treasury or possibly the Treasury secretary. No, it's the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki.

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The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new twenty dollar notes.

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So Andrew Jackson, he's the guy with big hair bursting out of the oval on the twenty dollar bill.

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He's on his way out and Harriet Tubman is going to be on the way in Markstein for Rush, if you missing Rush, you can go to Rush Limbaugh dot com.

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We we probably ought to introduce a Joe Biden unity watch in this on this show just for all the heartwarming stories that are out there.

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This one is from Portland, Maine, where the Portland police have arrested two people who say who who attacked a man because his car had four license plates.

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They yelled at the victim and told him he shouldn't be in Maine and then assaulted him on Friday afternoon. They damaged his car and damaged him as they tried to pull him out of the vehicle.

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The suspects had fled by the time the police arrived, but they were subsequently arrested. Nathaniel Glavin, 41, and Vanessa Lazaro both face assault and drug charges. Lazaro was taken to the hospital and Glavine was held on. These are basically held on 10000 dollar bail. So he had Vermont license plates. This is this may actually be some in some subtle way.

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There might be some good news for the right in this, because Portland, Maine, is a very liberal city and Vermont is a very liberal state.

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So essentially what happened here is one pair of Biden supporters beat up another Biden supporter because he had Vermont license plates. It doesn't the identity politics thing, it doesn't just have to be Muslims and transgender, whatever. Now we've got competing groups of Biden supporters beating up each other.

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This is the world. That the lockdown has has made with another mean nothing like this in human history, nothing like this in human history, where they healthy populations have been told normal life is suspended for a year. We have things like we go into lockdown for a bit and then they say, OK, you can come out of lockdown now as long as you're only at 25 percent capacity in your business and do that.

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And then four weeks go by, you're getting used to living on 25 percent of the income you previously had in your business.

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And then they bring in a whole other bunch of rules, like the for example, the outdoor dining in San Francisco where they mandated outdoor dining and everyone built these things on the sidewalk that are where canopy covid and you can have your outdoor dining in.

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And then they say, no, no, no, no outdoor dining off, too. So having paid for these things, the outdoor dining places in San Francisco then just became homeless shelters, so were filled with human fecal matter and all the other things that make San Francisco such a delight to perambulate around these days. We've now had it for a year, the domestic violence in Iraq. I think this is in New Orleans and Louisiana is at record highs for the last decade.

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You're telling people to live as you know, even if you go back to the great plague of London. Sixteen sixty six, it was it was a few a few months, nobody has tried to suspend reality even in wartime, in wartime, you could still go out to a pub or a cafe just to make sure you inside before the Luftwaffe started bombing you. Nobody has ever actually even if you are occupied by the Germans, you could still go out to a cafe.

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In some ways, this is actually worse than than World War two occupation in terms of its suspension of normalcy.

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So now we've got situations where we're seeing these spectacular rises in teenage suicide, spectacular rises in domestic violence. OK, we're supposed to be following the science. We're supposed to be following Foushee, who bestrides the world like a colossus. So what's he got to say about this? You know, nothing exists in isolation. And putting up with as Jason and I were talking about, the things they've done in Australia, particularly in the state of Victoria, are things that are absolutely nobody should have to live like that in a in a free society.

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And most of it is actually come here to where they're dictating that you have to wear masks indoors. They're dictating that you can't have family members around again.

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Why do you think let's just Rush was asking. This is a serious question. Last week and actually, Rush blamed himself in part because he was staggered by the purported numbers of people who voted for Biden.

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Because Biden, as we've just seen just in the last three days, is full throttle over the cliff of American liberties, and I followed fairly closely that awful Senate runoff thing in Georgia just because I had to be here.

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And I think I think the actual day of the election, I was on the air here and I didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy it at all because they weren't terribly prepossessing candidates. And it in terms of their public persona and how they think on their feet and how they act in debates and things. But whenever they were asked about things, they had these fearful, lame talking points and they kept going on about radical socialism. We didn't want radical socialism being introduced.

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And so you had to vote for Kelly Love in order to stop radical socialism.

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For most of the last year, we've accepted that the state can forbid you from having granny round to over for lunch on the weekend. We've accepted that the state can forbid you from leaving your home. We've accepted that the state can tell you what ghab you have to wear in your home in certain states you have to wear a mask.

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And that we've accepted that the state can command you to stand in a circle out on the sidewalk. Six feet from the guy in the next circle in order painted a circle in order to get some takeout coffee from Starbucks, we've accepted all this. And so why would you think that Kelly Luffler warning, warning us that she's the only thing that stands between us and radical socialism is going to work?

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Because all those things even I spent some time in Romania, Bulgaria, a couple other Warsaw Pact countries before the Iron Curtain came down, and they didn't do things like that.

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They didn't make you stand in a sidewalk circle on the painted circle on the sidewalk to get a cup of coffee. They didn't say you can have granny round. They didn't say you have to wear a mask inside your house. Why would anyone be terrified of radical socialism?

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That's mega radical socialism. Marxism for us. Your calls straight ahead.

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America's number one radio show. Let us go to Mel in Durham, North Carolina, an ancient municipality named for the inventor of the Durham report due any day now.

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Mel, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Great to have you with us.

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Hey, Mark, good job as always. And of course, health jitters to rush. Absolutely. As are as Rush. And you always point out and you did today, third parties just can't work. The deck is too stacked against it. There's just too much slop to to swim through. So we would like to see what I would like to see is Freedom Caucus type people, are people running proudly in the GOP primaries as Trump Republicans. OK, spell it out, spell it out loud and clear.

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And I really think considering Donald Trump got so many votes in the election that we could we could pull it off in a lot of districts across the country.

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Like, yeah, I'm going to say this is sort of like what the Democrats did to Eliot Engel in New York. He didn't hate America enough to be a Democrat anymore, just to be in the Congress anymore. So they primaried him out. No. And and I really think that this would be the route to go in the election. In the past election here in North Carolina, we had a vote for Richard I'm sorry for Thom Tillis for Senate.

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And you really had to swallow hard to do it because he's such a RINO. He's so pathetic. He's so, so gutless and so spineless. But the choice was another Democrat in the Senate. So we did it. I really think that with a good primary campaign, hopefully supported by President Trump, we could we could get rid of some of these rhinos and really make a huge difference. Absolutely.

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MALON Here's the thing. As far as the president says, he got more votes than any incumbent president ever. And we're supposed to accept that he lost. Okay, well, one thing a party has to do when it's lost is have a serious thought about where it goes, what it does, all the rest of it.

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And if that conversation is honest, given what Biden is doing this kind of week tea, you know, we yeah, we we're not like the Democrats. We just want to go over the cliff in second or third gear. That isn't going to be that isn't going to be enough. So you should have an honest conversation about where the party goes.

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You should recognize that Trump accounts for this spectacular, huge rally on November the 3rd. And as you say, these these these squishy believe nothing. People just get dragged along in the in the general undertow should and shouldn't be part of that conversation. Let's go quickly. Thank you for that call. Let's go quickly to Rose in Jackson, Mississippi. Rose, what's on your mind today?

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Hello, Mark. I love you. But look, I love you, too. But just before we go any further, I love you, too. I've never had a rose on this show. And that is one of my very favorite names, as Rush used to say when he had his top ten favorite names. So I may be singing Rosie, you are my posi to you before the show is over, OK?

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I propose that Rush takes Trump under his wing and mentor him to become a radio talk show personality Rush. I mean, Trump could even guest host or maybe co-host with Rush while he teaches him the ropes.

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That's a very yeah.

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I've heard the way the two interact with each other and they are very, very well together. Yeah, no rush.

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That's true. They have a chemistry. Do you know I'll just say this, Purslane, I understand why you would you would appreciate having a little bit of variety in the guest host. The thing is that it's not about Trump not having the personality. He's got a fantastic personality.

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It's actually that the focus required to do this for three hours, day in, day out, the way Rush has done it, it's actually very it's very grueling.

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And I that that's what you need. That's what you need to learn to be able to come on here, do 15 hours, day in, day out, months on end, years on end. I don't know. I don't it's quite it's a bigger I know you listen to some of us guests. So something any any old chump can be dragged off the street and do this, rose. But it's actually tougher than you may think. But I get your point.

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They do have a great chemistry. And if he wanted to do the the Russian trump a double act like the Sonny and Cher of talk radio, you might be old.

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You might be on to something that they could put that to him. I'd be interested to see.

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It would be a bit like that radio rally that Russia did with the president just before the election. But that's a great suggestion.

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I will pass it on to the powers that be. Markstein for Russia will close it out in the moment.

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Quick headline before I go. Migrants increasing it concerning rates on southern border says CBP agents. I wonder why you think that is. Joe Biden is basically invited all seven billion people on the planet to come on down. He can get to the Rio Grande. You got a skiff and you get over it, you can stay. This has been Markstein information. I would like to thank the one and only mr. I would like to thank Mike in New York, the best team in radio, no doubt about it, and make sure you are here tomorrow on the Rush Limbaugh Show because and Matthews will be here for us.

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Have a good day.

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