The Rush Limbaugh Show Podcast - Jan 26 2021
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- 26 Jan 2021
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 1:
Mark Steyn guest hosts for Ken Matthews and Rush on Tuesday. Trump creates “Office of the former President.” Rasmussen poll: Patriot party would knock Republicans to third place. Why is everyone married to a two-party system? The Turtle folds on the filibuster. It’s China’s world and the U.S. taxpayer funds it. Portland mayor pepper sprays citizen. China is laughing at Biden’s executive orders. Only the American left can beat the American right. Wuhan is the last party town left on Earth.
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 2:
Mark Steyn interviews My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell following his Twitter ban. Trump’s third party would make the Republicans the third party. You should be able to speak freely about the election. Woke billionaires are more powerful than most G7 nations. Chuck Schumer calls on Biden to declare a climate emergency. Twitter stole Lindell’s online identity. The Wall Street and woke-left alliance. Paid protesters, corrupt bureaucracies, and made-up trolls. The Worst Governor of the Year award. Transfer of power and wealth to the elites. Mission Impossible 37 isn’t an essential business. A state of permanent emergency.
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3:
Roger Koops’ “Year of Disguises.” The Orwellian psychosis of Twitter’s identity theft of Mike Lindell. Boston Globe’s “Fresh Start” program to change old stories. We are literally in year zero. This is the time for a third party. Instead of the Patriot Party, how about a Paper Ballot Party? Extreme orgasm is something you can die of that won’t be counted as COVID. Moving from soft totalitarianism to hard totalitarianism. Media mimics Soviet-style ideology enforcement. Get in the Democrat Party and hollow it out from within.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. Yes. Yes, I know I said Ken Matthews would be here yesterday. Ken was supposed to be here today, but an hour ago, Ken called in sick. So I'm guest hosting for the guest host. It's come to this, I'm the guest host, guest host. Can a guy sink any lower? My agent won't take my calls. He says try his guest agents, guest agent. It's Russia's streetman week.
So you know how that works.
We present a variety of guest host for your edification, but it's only Tuesday and the system's falling apart. So I'm winging it today. No show prep, no. Sorry.
I feel like Evel Knievel when they used to say to him, hey, do you want to jump over 12 school buses? And he'd say, sure, let me finish my beer and get the bike with the wonky handlebars up to the roof, one 800 282 282 is the number to call. If you would like to fill up 40 minutes or so of valuable air time today, I got nothing. You might as well run the Hunter Biden show, take away the crack pipe, pay off the hooker and shove the guy in front of the microphone.
That's what we're done today.
The good news, the good news you don't want to miss this is that in the second half of the show, we will have a special guest for you, the latest victim of the big shut up enforced by the billionaires of a social media, the my pillow guy, Mike Lyndell. You can't find him on Twitter.
So if you're missing him, he will be here in the second hour and the third, God knows what, we'll be down to light orchestral versions of windmills of your mind and just the way you are, probably Mr. Snidely is called screaming.
Mike is running the board in an abandoned midtown Manhattan amidst all the plywood.
He is there running the show as he has.
Then what what the hate articles for BIID in the mainstream. I know it's starting early. It's almost like it's not a real presidency, Mr. Snidely, but we'll get we'll get to Biden's the first few days of Biden's presidency. Oh, before I forget it, the President Trump has created something called the office of the former president. If you'll recall, for two months we watched Joe Biden standing at a podium saying office of the president elect, well, you know, anyone can have an office.
In fact, in most American cities, there's a lot of available office space if you've got an office you'd like to have. So President Trump, former President Trump has created something called the office of the former president. We'll get to that later today.
And also, I would like to said the top of the show, if you would like to send a message to Rush, he does appreciate them. The only reason we're still here after a third of the century is because of Russia's connection with the audience, which is a very special thing, like nothing in the history of broadcasting this last century. And if you would like to send Russia message, you can go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and just above the banner saying the Rush Limbaugh show, you see a little button on the menu board.
And if you click on that, you can send Rush a message and even upload an amusing Jeff. If you're one of those people who likes amusing Jefe's, I find them very tiresome. I send people a communiqué. We're losing human communication thanks to these chumps at social media. Some people just communicate in tedious hashtags and now it's wrecking everything. It's destroying our civilization.
We'll get into that with Mike Lyndell in the next hour. Now, while on the subject of the office of the former president. You may recall that yesterday I took a call from someone who objected most strenuously to the idea of starting a third party, the Patriot Party is the one that's been talked about. And in fact, I think it's been registered somewhere in Georgia or somewhere such as that because you have to register things here in order to get on the ballot.
So it's a two party racket.
Basically, the Washington unibody has got this racket called ballot access, which no civilized society should be doing.
It's the people's determination as to whether someone should be on the ballot, not not the two existing parties crowding out alternatives, but his people can disagree on that. Here's the here's the scoop from Rasmussen. A poll taken in the immediate aftermath of of King Joe taking the throne, Mad King Joe. Shows that Trump's Patriot Party would win almost a quarter of voters and drop the Republican Party to third place. So in other words, what are called yesterday said is correct, that if you have a three party system, the Democrats win.
But what's interesting is that it's the new party led by former President Trump that would come second, a hypothetical Patriot Party led by former President Donald Trump would win the support of almost a quarter of the electorate, 23 percent, bumping the GOP down to third place with just 17 percent. So the question then becomes really well, if if you don't want to split the vote on the right, if you don't want to. Have three parties delivering the presidency to the Democrat that maybe it's the Republican Party that should get out of the way and let this new party, which appears to be firmly in second place, ever have a run at it?
The question the question I have I've said for years on this show, I don't understand why everyone is wedded to a two party frozen system. That has been unchanged since the civil war, everything else from those days is gone. Look at all the empty podiums and plinths around your town where once generals and presidents and the like you and they're all gone. Steven Foster, all those nice old songs from the 19th century, way down upon the Swanee River, they're all gone because he was some kind of a hater.
Kate Smith singing God Bless America. He's gone. Pretty much everything from the last 150 years is gone except the same. And and by the way, all these people who can't be on statues anymore were members of political parties like these. These guys were mostly for the most part, they were Democrats, the Confederate generals, the slave owners, the racists. They were all Democrats. Democrats pretty much had a monopoly on that kind of thing. But they've been taking down Republicans, too, I mean, taking down Lincoln and McKinley.
So what I don't understand is why if all these individuals have to be consigned to the garbage can of history, why the institutions, the Democrat Party and the Republican Party that enabled their wickedness are the only thing that can survive from the mid 19th century.
So this poll. Shows that if people had a ballot on which there were the Democrats and on which there was the Patriot Party of former President Donald Trump and on which there was the Republican Party, the Republicans would come a rather distant third place, which raises the question that if you are going to start, you know, and as I said, I dislike this frozen system entirely. All around the world, people have got people form new parties. New parties come and go.
It's more difficult to do it in a straight up and down presidential system, although not necessarily impossible. And in fact, in the late 19th century, there were a plethora of third, fourth and fifth parties in in America that that gave it a go. But everywhere, everywhere else has you know, some people some people are one party states like North Korea or China.
And other countries are multi-party states where parties come and go when they've outlived their usefulness. But America is the only frozen two party state and in some way it operates as much of a racket as China's one party state does. It doesn't kill as many people, obviously, as China. So I don't want anyone to get too excited about that comparison. But it freezes it institutionally freezes politics in an unhealthy way.
And so to return to that theme of yesterday, a Trump Patriot Party would push the GOP into a fairly distant third place. Now that the question.
So the question there is as a practical matter, if you ever did want to start a third party, if you don't buy into the you know, we've got to stick with Susan Collins. We got to stick with Mitt Romney. We got to stick with Mitch McConnell, because that's the only thing that stands between us and the apocalypse. Well, the apocalypse is pretty much upon us.
So maybe, you know, Suzy and Mitch, one that useful in preventing the apocalypse. But this poll is very striking. And I'll make I'll give you one foreign comparison, Brexit. As you know, the British people voted for Brexit and then a lot of powerful figures in the United Kingdom started trying to obstruct Brexit, not just a a nonsupport sitting Prime Minister Theresa May, but also the judges, the media, the BBC, all all kinds of forces started trying to obstruct Brexit.
And eventually it looked as if they'd succeed and that Brexit would not happen. And so a couple of months before the European election, Nigel Farage formed the Brexit party and he entered that European election. I think about I think about a month before the election. And he drove the UK Conservative Party to its worst electoral result in over 300 years. And that's when the Conservative Party thought, oh, my God, it's the end for us. And they got rid of Theresa May and they actually agreed to get on board with Brexit and ensure that Brexit happened.
Is this an equivalent moment here for the American right, because it was exactly the same situation, you you had people who were opposed to Brexit, parties that were opposed to Brexit over there, the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, all the Celtic nationalist parties, Scottish National Party, Sinn Fein, the revolutionary Irish Republicans, all of those were opposed to Brexit.
And the Conservative Party was sort of trying to pretend it was in favour of Brexit, but not really. So it was very much where the Susan Collins Mitt Romney types are. I mean, if you really want to advance conservatism, how many Susan Collins is and Mitt Romney's dire need for that.
So I quote I quote this poll that if you can force the issue and we don't know, there's not going to be an election until 2022, there's not going to be a presidential election until 2024.
And the fact is that power drains remorselessly if you're not in power, so that the luster that President Trump has now, he is going to have his work cut out, maintaining that level of support as the months and years go by.
It's just going to be tough for him. But on the other hand, why not give it a go? What are you got? What do you got left to lose? You're not going to be free to fly off and live in one of your properties overseas. They're going to throw everything at you. They're going to try and put you in jail. They're going to re impeach you and all the rest of it.
And what this poll shows is that there's a market for it. Having 25 percent of anything is a viable share of the market in any activity except American politics. So if there is a third party moment, this actually might be it. This is a shock poll.
But, you know, we've just seen Mitch McConnell cave today. He was supposedly, you know, it's a 50/50 Senate, which means that Kamala Harris on any 50/50 tie, Kamala Harris gets the cast, the deciding vote. So they've been trying to organize how they're going to how they're going to run things 50/50.
Schumer's the majority leader, but McConnell is supposedly a very powerful minority leader, just like 20 years ago, happened 20 years ago.
He's just folded on the filibuster. He was saying he wanted a commitment that they wouldn't remove the filibuster. He lost Mitch McConnell.
It's only what is it now? The third day forth, working day for business, day of the Biden administration. And Mitch McConnell has already caved, so make of this poll what you will, but I'd be interested to know your thoughts on that one 800 282 288 to Markstein winging it on a totally non show prep.
Rush Limbaugh, Markstein in four, Rush America's number one radio show. I want to say a couple of things before we get on to the Republican Party and the Democrats and the so-called Biden administration and all the rest of it. I just want to I just want to say a couple of things about what really what really matters. You know, it's China's world and American taxpayers just pay for it. That's the the nutshell of the last year. It's the Davos World Economic Forum right now.
And normally the way that works is everyone flies in on the private planes to Davos in Switzerland and has a grand old knees up with all the APEC and the music and all.
It's all terrific, but they're doing it virtually. Nevertheless, the lead speaker, the keynote speaker is guess who? Chairman of Beijing. You would think, given that he's managed to spread the last time I checked, he'd managed to spread the coronavirus to every nation, state and territory or colonies, as we used to say on Earth, except for North Korea and Turkmenistan. And that's pretty much and you know, who knows?
Who knows whether they've got it in North Korea or in Turkmenistan.
But that's basically he's got a full set. If he were like collecting stamps in the covid stamp collectors book, he's got he's got one. He's got at least one covid case in every nation on Earth. So you'd think they'd be a bit annoyed with him because he's totaled their economies, at least when it comes to the developed economies. But no, not at all. Chairman G. Chairman G do come. And Buchanan, keynote speaker at Davos, and what did he tell them, no problem can be solved by any one country alone.
Particularly not a problem caused by China, then he says there must be global action, global response and global cooperation, globalism all the way down. Another news story from The Wall Street Journal. China has overtaken the United States as the world's leading destination for foreign direct investment. Flows into America have nearly halved this last year as the Tricom 19 virus clobbered the economy.
Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan airspace days after Biden takes office. China flew eight bombers and four fighters into Taiwan's airspace.
Just to let Joe Biden know what's likely to be happening. The Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th birthday in June. And unlike most centenarians, they're not walled up in the old folks home. And you can't see them. China's out there. And it and it has big plans to celebrate its 100th birthday. And you can bet those 100th birthday plans. Once they figured out just how weak and feeble the so-called Biden administration is, you can bet that those plans will include some provocation, maybe even the ultimate provocation in Taiwan.
The New York Times, The New York Times was trying to find somewhere in the world where life isn't dead, where life is in lock down and miserable, and all the things you used to be able to do, like go to nightclubs, go to parties, go to concerts, go to shows, is still going on. And you know, when it is big story in The New York Times. This is Wuhan. Wuhan is the only party town left on the planet.
The Chinese are are laughing at us.
All these stories, any one of these stories, but suddenly all four together are far more important than anything that Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or any of those guys do today. As I said, its chairman G's world.
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So make the most of that while you can one 800 202 202. Markstein has as say, I got the I got the call about an hour before the program started, so I'm winging it today. I will just say this. The news is as new to me as it is to you. The I do like this story, though, Ted Wheeler. Do you know this guy? He's the mayor of Portland, Oregon, which is a lawless land.
This is where Antifa.
Rampaged through the streets every night and have done even before George Floyd and all that stuff around about Memorial Day last year. Well, one of the many people who loathes Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon. Who was having a drink at a pub with another Portland mayor, Sam Adams. That's his name.
They were leaving the McMenamin Brewery and public house. If you know how to say if you're in Portland and you know that place, do give me a call. I wouldn't want to mispronounce it. But again, I didn't have time to check the pronunciations today.
So when you call in, I'm going to get all your towns wrong just on principle, around 8:00 p.m., when a man they will these two males were leaving this pub, Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland and one of his predecessors, when a man video recording him approached him and said he'd been sitting in the restaurant section of the pub without a mask. And Ted Wheeler said that under the current covid regulations, you're allowed to take your mask off for the purpose of eating and drinking.
My word rulers are so enlightened and kindly, you're allowed to take your mask off for the purpose of putting food or beverage in your mouth. Ted Wheeler didn't really like the cut of this guy's jib, so he pepper sprayed him and the man fell back in agony and then said, I can't believe you just pepper sprayed me.
And and Ted Wheeler then threw a bottle of water at the guy, allegedly, so he could rinse his face. The water bottle bounced off the guy. And I don't know where it wound up, whether he did get to wash his face with it.
But, you know, if we're going to have if we're going to be defending the police, if we're going to be abolishing law and order, as the Democrats are in large part minded to, then we might as well have guys like this who just decide they're going to be their own security. They're going to be their own 40 car motorcade. Well, what's interesting is that Joe Biden, for example, Joe's always threatening to beat people up. If you recall, before he went into his basement in March, he'd be out there on the campaign trail always saying he wanted to take the take President Trump behind the bicycle sheds, as he would have done at school, and and take the old rusting bike chain to him like he is alleged to have done with the famous corn pump.
And he was always threatening to do that to the president. But if there were no presidents around for him to threaten, Joe Biden was just as happy to threaten, you know, a 19 year old coed. I think the the dogface pony soldier thing was to some young lady, and she was a college student in New Hampshire, I think then or whether she was at the University of New Hampshire or Dartmouth or wherever, but he basically she's like a 21 year old petite coed and he threatens to take her outside and give her the thrashing of her life.
So he's full of great violent energy, but he doesn't actually use it like the mayor of Portland, pepper spraying one of the many people who object to his rule of Portland. So that was an interesting development to me. And perhaps we'll begin to see more of it if they're really serious about the defund the police business.
Just to go back to what I was saying about China. Which is, you know, China is the dominant power on the planet now you pay for the WTO, but China decides what the WTO does.
And so when you look at what's going on in Washington, when you look when you look at, you know, where to all where Biden signed an executive order on this and Biden signed an executive order on that.
And so we will now have no more no more fracking and we're going to have an end to the Keystone pipeline.
And and biological males are going to be competing in all the girls sports. And they do. You know, what's what's interesting to me is that China is an issue and we're going to have big and we're going to spend more and more time circling the drain by talking about identity politics issues.
Diversity is our strength as one must bow down before. But one also learns that the more diversity you have, the more time you just spend talking about all the fractious differences between all the identity groups you're inventing night and day. China doesn't care about any of this stuff. China looks at everything that Biden has signed and laughs its head off, not least the executive order permitting China to own big chunks of vital American national infrastructure. And this is the point to bear in mind and just to tie it back to what we were talking about, whether it's time for a third party.
Which this poll shows that a third party would, in fact, come in second. So the third party would be the Republican Party who would come in a distant third just to tie all that together. What is interesting about the American left and the Western left in general is they can't beat anyone except the so-called American right and the western right in general. They know none of these things. It's like it's for chairman gee. It's like watching a couple of hamsters running around the cage and maybe there's a hamster who's slightly more thuggish than the other hamster and wallops the guy occasionally.
But then either way, they're neither neither of them are a threat to him.
China has ascended to the dominant power status with the consent of both parties. And China isn't worried about anything Joe Biden's going to do about anything because the only people the American left can beat are the American right. And that is why, you know, sometimes people people say, what is the function? Of they show such as this.
What is the function of conservative punditry, because Rush and Susan Collins clearly would not have a lot in common if they were to sit down and plan a legislative agenda.
Some somebody like Rush exists in order to prevent the people who believe nothing, the Mitt Romney's of this world from simply caving in and being dragged away over to the left side of the aisle.
You have to have some countervailing force that helps keep genuine conservative ideas in play and pulling over and pulling, pulling, pulling to the right. Now, if you're lucky, you sometimes get that guy in government.
Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher were both people who believe that you didn't move to the center. You moved the center toward you. And they did. And that's actually the kind of Republican Party we need right now. Instead, we've got a Republican Party that has already gone back to small ball Republican policies.
Oh, yeah, we don't want to talk about anything that, you know, makes people think where, you know, icky or might get us bounce off Twitter. So we don't want to talk about illegal immigration. We don't want to talk about China because they'll say we're racist. So let's just talk about some little tax cuts.
So we're back already. Biden's already only been in so-called office for four for business days. And already we're back to small ball Republican Party politics.
And as this poll shows, whatever, whatever they want, whatever the 74 million people want, they don't want just small ball, pre trump Republicanism.
That's the issue we've just lost. We got two years. We got four years. Let's thrash it out and let's have somebody win. If you want to keep this two party system.
If not, let's open the whole thing up, one 800 202 282. Your polls straight ahead.
Markstein in four rush on America's number one radio show I mentioned. Woohoo, hon. It's the only party town on the planet now because the covid has cleared up their chairman G has in fact, installed waxworks around.
Woollam This is from the Daily Mail in London, showing medics and soldiers in praise of the city's success and eliminating the old take home nineteen from its town so waxworks in full PPE personal protective equipment suits adorned with the hammer and sickle army medics wearing facemasks and wax fumigation teams in wax wax.
Fumigation teams are now all over Wuhan for a grateful people to admire. So maybe Joe Biden should fire the useless foushee as his chief medical advisor and just as chairman. Gee, if he'd be interested in the job because he's done a bang up job going by these new exhibitions of waxworks in Wuhan.
Let's go to Wade in Houston, Texas. Wade, what's on your mind today?
Hello, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. My pleasure. So I want to say with the highest level of respect to you, to rush to to other folks who who talk about a third party would only cause the Republicans to lose. That's just that's just flat wrong. You're trying to approach a situation logically that is actually 100 percent the most popular thought.
OK, your line, your lines, your lines gone. All wacky, Wade. So actually losing it's very hard to take you on a cellular telephone or some such because it's all it's all gone, all distorted. I just want to correct you, though, there.
Oh, no, you're back on the badali. OK, what's you know, you're back with us. Wait, give it a give it another go.
OK, so this notion of a third party, it is it is wrong to think logically that it will be a spoiler for the Republicans. So why bother politics? Mark is driven by emotion and sentiment. That's what we have to focus on. And it's a little counterintuitive. OK, but let me give you the reason the American populous, like any other distribution, is a bell curve. The great majority, whether you call yourself a Republican or a Democrat, fall in the middle of that bell curve in the extremes, what I'll call the establishment fall on the ends of the bell curve.
Democrat, Republican Trump already started the movement of capturing the middle. I'll give you an example here in Texas, the Rio Grande Valley. Which has been a bastion for decades of reliable Hispanic Democratic voters switched to Trump in the last election. We cannot lose sight of that trend now. We have to capture that trend. And there's another thing happening here going back to this point about sentiment and emotion, people. There are people, Mark, millions of people who are dyed in the wool.
I'm a dyed in the wool Democrat. My daddy was a Democrat. My grandpappy was a Democrat. I'll never vote for a Republican. They need a new party that they can walk away from those old religious emotional attachments. I'll never vote for a Republican if they can move to a new party. That's where the opportunity lies. Evidence of this is already right under our nose what Trump just did in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. But it's going to take a third party to make this happen.
Quit thinking logically. Start thinking around emotion and sentiment. Mark.
Yeah, I don't I don't disagree with that. Wait, I've I've never said that. I didn't say that a third party can work. In fact, I read out that poll to show that, in fact, it would be the Republican Party. That was the spoiler. I as I said, I dislike this frozen two party system. It's it's completely outlived its usefulness.
And I agree with you, too, that the bell the bell curve, you know, you want to be on the bell. You don't want to be out on the ends of those those calves. So I'm I and as I said at the top of the show, if there is ever a moment, OK, it shows him coming in second place, a Trump led Patriot Party or whatever you want to call it.
And it shows the Republican Party in distant third place. So you've got two years to the midterms, four years to the next presidential election. Nigel Farage, who created a party and won that election within a month, a month before the election, Nigel Farage would love to have two years or four years to build a party. That's all you need. That's all Trump needs. So I've never been one who believes in this frozen party system. If you have to pick the moment when you're going to destroy the system.
But on the evidence of this poll, the moment is now. Thank you for that excellent analysis. Weight very important.
Mark Steyn in for us. We got lots more still to come. Mark Steyn in for us on America's number one radio show, a little bit of a last minute gig for me because Ken Matthews, who was supposed to be here, is feeling unwell. But we do have a treat for you. Coming up in the next hour, the latest victim of the big shot up that the WOAK billionaires are inflicting on a nation that once knew free speech. We will have Michael Lyndell, the one and only my pillow guy.
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Yes. America's Anchorman is off for Treatment Week, and his prescheduled guest host, Ken Matthews, was taken ill about an hour before the show. So this is Mark Stein, the guest host, guest host, the guest host, guest host. It doesn't get more pathetic than that somewhere or other. My parents are saying, oh, my God, where did we go wrong?
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I'm I I mentioned just because it struck me as interesting, that shock poll that showed that, in fact, the third party is right now the second party. In other words, if Trump formed a Trump party, you could call it what you want. That the Republican Party would come in third place, so there is a third party and and right now the so-called Patriot Party or whatever you want to call it, would come in second place.
So there's never and we've heard varying views on this over the last couple of days.
But the fact is, you know, when you've had as catastrophic a setback as this.
You should do some serious thinking about where you go and what your future is. Do you see any sign of from the so-called Republican establishment that they want to do any serious thinking? Do you see any sign of that from Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins and Mitt Romney? Or are they just relieved, as I said, to be able to go back to the small ball Republican Party and forget about all the populism when you have a setback as devastating as this, which it is, you know you can't.
You can't say otherwise then this is a good time to actually start and and think some big thoughts about where you want to go. You got four years to do it.
So it might well be that this poll that shows. You know, 25 per cent support for the for a new party. Goes down, or it might just be that if you build it seriously. And you keep faith with your voters that, in fact, that increases, and let's not forget either that for everything other than the than the presidency. You know, you have no idea how these permutations would play out. That was a very good point.
In the last hour that there were people when you have these tribal Democrats and tribal Republicans, it becomes very hard for them to move to the party they've opposed all their life. But it's not so hard to move from the party. You know, Grandpa was in your grandpa supported and your great grandpa all the way back and then actually say, no, I'm going to go I'm going to go to this brand new party. It's an easier move to make.
Furthermore, the one thing you can guarantee as the vaporization of Mike Lyndell from Twitter makes plain is that we're in for a rough ride and I'm not talking about where we're going to be two years, four years down the line.
I'm talking about why we're going to be two months, four months down the line. Chuck Schumer has called on.
Alleged President Joe Biden. Yeah, you know, when we're told we're not allowed to say that, but to be honest, I don't care in any free society, if you've had an election that's as big a stinker as this one in terms of its operation, you're allowed to say what you like. And if you don't like that, then this whole idea that. No, you can't say that. No, you can't say that. Go go back and look at that thing I mentioned yesterday, George Stephanopoulos telling Rand Paul trying to trying to do Paul, you know the show.
What's that show called? I haven't watched it since Sam and Cokie used to be on it this week.
Yeah, yeah. This this week with with George Stephanopoulos. It's it's not reeducation camp with George Stephanopoulos. You don't invite conservative guests some to to make them the party mantra that everything was on the up and up over that dirty, filthy, rotten, disgusting, corrupt election. That's a laughing stock around the planet. And you should be able to say that. And I don't I'm not interested. I wouldn't even be even as a guest host, guest host, I wouldn't be interested in guest hosting for a guest host if I was told you can't query the electoral integrity of a vote run as badly as this last one was.
But here's here's my I got I wandered a little off the point there, but particularly when it's being used as a pretext to shut people up. So, for example, Mike Lyndell is banned from Twitter in perpetuity. Because because he queries the election, what kind of who are these people? It it's like a criminal conviction that somehow these people are judge, jury and executioner, these five this cartel of WOAK billionaires that the Republican Party, the useless party, did nothing about when they had the chance.
And in fact, people who are so-called rock ribbed conservatives on many issues and were complete patsies and pushovers for so-called big tech. I'm looking at you, Mike Lee in Utah. You know, you talk a good game on a lot of this stuff, but the fact is that in the in the last four or five years, this cartel of WOAK billionaires, they're more powerful.
Than almost every nation state on the planet now, it would require immense coordinated action between the antitrust division of the Department of Justice here and the equivalent in the European Union even to downsize them in any meaningful way. Now, that's how big they've gotten.
But it's not just that they're bigger than Slovenia and they're bigger than Papua New Guinea. They're bigger. They're getting to the point where they're as big or bigger, more powerful than many members of the G7, including possibly the United States, judging from the gutlessness of our legislators. Now, Chuck Schumer.
Has called on President Biden. Alleged President Biden to declare a climate emergency, he said this on The Rachel Maddow Show last night. He says the president can do many, many things under the emergency powers that he could do without legislation. And he says, look at what Donald Trump did with the emergency powers, quote, for a stupid wall, which wasn't an emergency, unquote. If ever if there ever was an emergency, climate is one, Chuck Schumer told Rachel Maddow.
So he wants Biden to use emergency powers for the climate emergency, which is apparently pressing. I thought the rising sea levels were going to wipe away the Maldive Islands in the 22nd century, but apparently it's going to happen a week on Thursday now. So Biden needs to take emergency powers because this is the most pressing emergency.
This we've had a year of governments taking unprecedented emergency powers so that they presume to tell you how many people you can have in your home, whether you can go and swim in a lake, whether you can celebrate Christmas, whether you can go to church. We have had formerly civilized governments taking extraordinary emergency powers, and it's done nothing for the so-called problem.
The problem being the the Chike home 19 virus, because as I should really credit this guy, it's a very good IPID epidemiologists line, but he basically says you can't force a virus to stop being a virus by forcing humans to stop being human, which is what we've done, walling people up in their apartments for a year on end.
So we've got but but the bad thing about this is that generally speaking, there have been no great court cases. There been no Supreme Court jurisprudence on this matter. After a year, we live in a judge's republic, which is a contradiction in terms and is something else. I'm not minded to waste my time on much in the next four years. But even in the judge's republic, the at the highest level, at the highest court in the land for almost a year now, the state has presumed to take extraordinary powers that have had real world impacts, increased youth suicide, increased spousal violence and battery, increased depression, people skipping cancer treatments because they don't want to go to the hospital in in case they get the governor.
And we've had no jurisprudence on this. So we've had extraordinary emergency powers that have softened people up for living under a regime of emergency powers. The thing about climate change is it isn't actually an emergency. Nothing none of the remedial efforts that from the Paris accord that Biden's just put us back in are going to do anything for the planet. We're just it's just a massive transfer, as if we needed any more of American money to China to to clean to clean up the dominant global power pretends it's still a developing nation.
So we have to pay for China, where basically paying our mob boss to put in a water filter in his home. That's how stupid that is. Mark Steyn in for Rush.
We are going to talk to the one and only my pillow guy, the great Mike Lyndell, in just a moment.
Mark Steyn in for us on America's number one radio show. What a pleasure to welcome to the show.
A guy everybody must be one of the most famous guys in the world. Everybody knows his jingle. Everybody knows him and his pillows. The my pillow guy, Mike Lyndell, famed around the world, but not on Twitter anymore.
Mike, what happened that is that something? Well, about 17 days ago or thereabouts, there was this company, they dropped this news media, dropped a bomb about this machine, election fraud, new evidence. So I reposted that. And when I reposted it, Twitter took me down. And what they did now, this is very important for like 12 or 15 days has been now that my Twitter has been down. But people can see it. I just can't do anything on it.
So Twitter was retweeting stuff that wasn't me. So they were acting as though they were me and it was horrific. And I tried to take the stuff down that they were putting up. And Twitter sent me a thing, said it is against our our penal code. This came from Germany Twitter that I couldn't take down the stuff that they were retweeting. And I'm going, you guys are using my name and stuff. And yesterday they put me back in full Twitter.
I got my Twitter back. I posted one post and it was a good letter written about the real Mike Wendle, who I was. It was from a director of mine. Three minutes later, they took it down permanently.
So you are out of Twitter permanently. You you also I don't know what the extent of this is, but you've also said that some of your vendors for my pillow, that if you want to go to Kohl's or Bed, Bath and Beyond, that they've also taken against you.
How's how's that going?
Let's add HCB shopping channels. You know, I mean, let's had all these out there. And what happened there was that once again, because I spoke out about this election with these machines, the machine people drop the thing on TV saying that they were going that they were going after me, the Dominion people. When I did that, the controls came out against these big box stores and threatened saying, we're going to boycott you, we're going to boycott you.
But they're not real people. These are hip hop people that. Right, that work for a company called Sleeping Giant and stuff. And and then so these box stores, chicken out cancer culture, dropped my pillow. And now what's happened is it's what's going to happen, because this has happened to me three other times. And what's going to end up happening is they're real customers are going to be upset with them. I'm getting a look on social media and emails are going.
We're cutting our cards in half at the box stores that did this to my bill. And they're buying more from my store or they're buying from the other box stores has stuck with me. And I did nothing wrong other than say I want the truth to be told about these machines. So for future elections and. Yeah, but, you know. Yeah, but it might well, you got to realize we're survivors. When I first back this great president, Donald Trump, I first met him in 2016.
I was never political. I went back to Minnesota, did a press release that I met him and didn't even say what we talked about. We were attacked, then called I was called a racist everything else. Then last spring, I went on from the Rose Garden and I did a speech about getting back in the word and our Bibles and getting with our families and talking about Jesus. Well, you think that I committed this crazy crime or something.
I was attacked then by huge. And then this summer when I when I had my oleander dotcom, I had this thing this guy brought me this thing for the purpose that worked against the pandemic. And I was attacked then by and my vendors were even attacked then. And I lost some of them then. So we've been down this road before and and I'm not going to back down to cancel culture. And this is crazy.
Let let me ask you about the double standard, because you know that like left wing CEOs woke chairman and woke presidents of companies can do anything they can. They can fly off to Venezuela. They can pal around with with all kinds of disreputable people around. They can actually have their products made by slave labor in China and Twitter and Facebook and all the rest. Cool with that. How long can this how how long can this survive this double standard?
Well, it's not going to survive. I believe God has his hand in all of this. And I do believe that this is what's happening to me right now because I have such a big platform that this is exposing it to everyone. If it can happen to me, I'm telling everyone out there it can happen to you. So many of my friends and people I know that have their YouTube channels taken down, they've had their Facebook channels taken down and their Twitters.
And what happens is one of the guys had twelve employees with two million followers. That's all he was, was a podcast. And he said one thing about the election fraud with the machines and now he's lost his channel for good. So I'm like the voice and I'm not backing down. And I think it's all going to we get through this, it's all going to change because and the people will go to different platforms. But I really believe that Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg should be up for crimes when this is all done.
Because what can you imagine? You're acting like you're Mike Mindell. You're controlling my Twitter and you're putting tweets out there or retweeting people's things. That's like that's like identity fraud. That's like. Yeah, you know, that's criminal.
That's that's passing off. You'd have a very good lawsuit in even in corrupt American courtrooms with lousy judges if you were to bring suit over that Mike, because they can't they can't just seize your identity and then pass themselves off as a new neutered, politically correct. Mike Lyndell, that's that's actually straight out of George Orwell, that kind of nonsense. And you can you win in court.
Right. And that's exactly what they did for a while. There are people who can't. Mike, why aren't you giving us news and Twitter? I said, well, my Twitter suspended. They go, no, it's not. We can see it or whatever. And then they see these retreats once in a while that I was like like you said, politically correct. I'm not politically correct. I'm the opposite of that. I'm going to speak my mind no matter what.
So you're right about them lawsuits when this all manifests like like just yesterday I had to put a lawsuit up against Daily Mail that. Oh, anyone familiar with that? Did you see that? I'm going out. But these guys are doing a hit job on me. And you know what? Because of all the great people that live in this country and I'm not talking Democrats, I'm talking people, one nation under God, everybody has stood up and they're realizing I'm both political sides, that we can't have this cancer culture and we can't have what they decide to erase a company because of embrace free speech.
They hold hold that. Hold that thought. Hold that thought.
Mike, we're going to come right back on that America's number one radio show. Let's go back to Mike Lyndell. Mike, I just want to ask you this. You know, what's incredible to me is that basically in this election, the alliance between the left and Wall Street, the big business community, the global multinationals, has been cemented and solidified. Why do you think that businessmen, successful businessman who made. Products that become household names. Why do you think they've all gone not just to the left, but to the crazy left in just a few years?
You know, I don't get it. It's a I don't understand that part. Is it out of out of fear that that's where their base is now? I mean, I don't get it, but you know what they well, it's they're going to realize it's all going to be found out now and they're going to be they're going to be the losers on this. And, you know, I don't understand that. I think it's a big spiritual battle in our country and the world of good versus evil.
And and they chose they chose a bad path. That's all I can say. And it's a corrupt path, a lot of it. And and it's it is the crazy left in there. And, you know, all this stuff that's going out there. I just found out why we were I was on break there. Another shopping channel. It looks like we have one of my guys texted me and said we always look for deviations, housing disorder in a week.
Well, I hope that that was just a mistake because I will put it out there publicly. These companies that are doing this, that are succumbing to cancer culture there as much as the problem as the people that are doing it, you know. Yeah, yeah.
And and you and you know about social media. So you know this I mean, most of the chairmen and CEOs just responding, as you said, to 17 tweets from people who don't really exist. They're basically responding to 17 Balts who say, oh, I'm mad as hell about you carrying my pillow and people. And these these craven, gutless CEOs somehow think there were four million people out there who hate my pillow. And it's just totally faked up fakery.
Absolutely. And they and I actually had to go through that with a couple CEOs and a couple of Simos companies that did stick with my pillow. And they said these aren't real. I said, go to the social media. I said, see how many friends they have? Zero one 10 quanti. And I said, these are guys sitting in a room and this is what they do. And how do I know this firsthand? And the summer of 2016, you know, I was the next crack cocaine addict.
I had never, never paid attention to politics. And I end up meeting Donald Trump in a private meeting. I get back to Minnesota after this half hour meeting. And here's your biggest business in Minnesota employs 2500 people. All this stuff I get back to Minnesota and I go, I did a press release and I go, hey, you guys, I met Donald Trump. I said, you want to hear what we talked about? It was crickets.
And then the Boston trolls came out and just attacked me, called me a racist and brought up my, you know, my ex drug use and stuff. And they, you know, they they put lies out there that I was a dealer, not just a user. I was never I never dealt a drug in my life anyway. So they did this hit job. That was my first time going, what is this? Does everybody hate me?
I couldn't believe it. I felt like, wow, people. I walk down the street and I, you know, it seemed like everybody hated me. Well, then I find out that their make believe people their make believe. Right.
I want everybody to know that's not how it is out there. I can go anywhere in this country. I can go in the middle of protesters on the left and they want I made a movie unplanned. I had this guy behind this movie. It's it was a pro-life, true movie. And these guys were protesting in Hollywood. I'm going to take. Oh, hey, Mike, can we get your picture? And I walked across the street where we are at the world premiere.
I walked across the street and they said, you guys put your signs down. Yeah, you can have my picture. I said I said, what? Are you guys pro-choice or what are you picketing for? And they go, No, no, no, we're getting paid for it because we don't we could care less. And yeah, this is what goes on out there in our country. You're letting these few crazy companies that that are attack.
They should be illegal. And most of them are like watchdog group truth in advertising dog, one of the most corrupt groups in the world, you know, and the the and it goes right. Don't even bed, bath and Beyond. That's not a bureau are not bed bath Beyond the Better Business Bureau. That's not the bureau. That's that's a crooked organization that, you know, they took me from an A plus to inept back when I back Donald Trump back in the day when I got in sixteen.
So, so nothing just just to be clear on that. Nothing to do with the pillow, nothing to do with the sheets, nothing to do with the towels. They just downgraded you because of your politics.
They downgraded me because of my politics and they said that I ran my ads too much for there is exactly what they said. Well, you ran your ads so much, and according to our internal bylaws, that your sale now becomes the regular price. And I said, what do you mean? Everybody has a regular price? And then a, you know, a special price, like a regular suggested retail. They said, well, you manufacture your own stuff.
I said, so you telling me this is a quote, you're telling me if I make it in China that I would be OK if they said it's your regular suggested price? And she said, yes. And I said, well, now I know it's all political. They. I met with them on November 15th of 2016. I walked out and they said, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I said, you just won't give me an F because nobody will believe that.
Well, the publicity for publicity, they did a national press release on January 2nd, 2017, and gave my pillow an now. And that's where it sits today, because that's just fantastic. This Better Business Bureau and and all these hit groups like Truth and Advertising Dog Sleeping Giants, dot org and on Twitter, I mean, all these places, they're just there to bring down the American business and the American dream.
Let me let me ask you finally, because you've been very supportive of President Trump. And after January the 6th, all these so-called establishment Republicans and all just went, whoa. And they more or less instantly backed off Donald Trump and began planning a post Trump Republican Party. You've seen Liz Cheney and all kinds of other people turning on the president. You're still sticking your you're still the Donald Trump. You met four or five years ago. You're sticking with him.
Absolutely.
He's the best president we ever had. You know, all the stuff he kept saying all the way from November 4th on this election was stolen. Everybody even knows that. And now we have 100 percent evidence it was done through machines. And you know what? All the great things he did for our country and these Republicans, all of them are stuck their heads out like rats, like Governor Doug Doocy in Arizona, corrupt Governor Brian Kemp in Arizona. All these all the this is what's wrong with our country and politics.
Politicians, most of them, I would say 99, 90, some percent either have a political agenda or a personal agenda. They worry about themselves. The government is supposed to be for the people, one nation under God. And we only have the only politician I seen that was like that that I seen 100 percent was Donald Trump. He did stuff, problem, solution. But he knew it was going to manifest to help the people. And he had no other agenda.
When I first met him, I go, wow, he doesn't have his only agenda is to help. He loves his country and loves people and wants to help people. I went and talked to his employees back in 60 and everyone said the same thing. Great man, great leader, great person. And he had done something for them personally. All these people before the election that were all his friends and everything else, because you know what? They all had something to hide.
So, you know, when this comes through, when this gets all said and done, all those Republicans that turned on our country and our president will all be found out and they are done, those guys are done. I'm telling you, that goes down to the legislatures in the states that didn't do their job. That goes down to the crooked governors. And I need two of them. And then and the other Republicans, the Democrat governors, they should all I mean, at least we know and there are four there are four.
The worst governors of the year, governor of Minnesota, was the governor of Michigan, the governor of California and New York. All of them have used the people to keep the people propped up.
Thank you. Thank you for that, Mike. The worst governor of the year award. I look forward to the Hollywood ceremony at which you hand out the statuette for that. That is a great idea for the world. Mike Lyndell, he says stuff like that. And apparently in the United States, the land of the First Amendment, the land of absolute freedom of expression, the land of free speech, you are not allowed to say that on one of these Cartwell social media platforms, banned permanently for life, but still permitted here on the Rush Limbaugh Show, the one and only my pillow guy, Mike Lyndell Markstein information America's number one radio show.
Lots more.
Still to come, Markstein in for Rush. You know, I was talking to Mike Lyndell, the my pillow guy who has. Not getting the best night's sleep in the whole wide world because people are out to get him, so I'm sure he wakes up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, maybe, maybe not.
I may be doing my pillow an injustice there. And he sleeps like a baby until he rises in the morning and finds out that overnight half the planet is mad at him and is trying to take him down.
But at Twitter, he is sleeping the big sleep because Jack Dorsey, that weird bed who runs the thing, has banned him permanently.
What we've seen during these last this last year, and this is why I find something like Mike Lyndell and the My Pillow company actually quite interesting in this respect. We have seen a massive transfer of wealth to to the big mega national multinational global businesses. At the human level. We've seen a massive transfer of power from the individual to the state and that the state can now tell you who you can have around your house, whether you can have a birthday party, whether you can sit in your garden without wearing a mask, things that, as I said, it's interesting to me that after a year of this, we haven't had the high court weighing in on whether or not you can do any of these things.
The Supreme Court doesn't seem in any hurry to take any cases on this matter. But at the business level, we've also seen a huge transfer from all the small businesses to all the people like Jeff Bezos, particularly Amazon. He's so much richer now than he was back in March last year because all the little mom and pop places, whatever it is now, 25, 30 percent in some places, 40 percent in some places, they've gone out of business and they're not coming back.
And instead, there has been a massive transfer to these huge corporations that are more powerful than many nation states to Jeff Bezos and Amazon and to the Zukerberg and to the Dorseys of Twitter.
And it's interesting to me that states, jurisdictions and governments that think nothing of terrorizing their people, they think nothing of bullying hair salon owners and gym owners, but they cave to to to people from the more influential industries.
You may have seen that little clip that was out, somebody leaked of Tom Cruise yelling at people who weren't social distancing on a movie set. He'd apparently received permission from Her Majesty's government in London to allow him to film Mission Impossible 137 there. And he didn't want that deal going south. So he's caught on camera yelling at two of his lowly crew who aren't social distancing. Nobody needs Mission Impossible 137. Why does that guy get to fly halfway around the world and make his movie?
And you can't go two miles down the road and open up your gym? Well, because Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise and you're not. And there's another story. This is from St. Catherine's, Ontario. If you're listening on our Buffalo affiliate that's about 40 miles up the Queen Elizabeth, way of 40 minutes up the Queen Elizabeth way from you. But don't bother trying to go there because the borders are closed.
This is a barber shop in St. Catherine's, Ontario. She's not allowed to to cut hair, supposedly. So she turned herself into a movie studio. She set up cameras, lights and microphones in her shop and said that the people who come in and get haircuts are now auditioning for a part in a future TV show. You think of this insane world we live in. You cut your hair dresser and you've been deemed non-essential, even though Tom Cruise's hair still looks great.
So in order for you to be able to do the perfectly routine, normal job you haven't been able to do for months, you have to go. It's actually makes sense for you to go and buy expensive cameras and lights and microphones and pretend to be a film studio in which you happen to be filming a scene in which someone gets their hair cut. This has gone on now.
This has gone on now for 10 months. Nobody even talks now about a return to normalcy, to use Warren Hardings phrase from a from the 1920 Republican landslide election. Nobody even talks about a return to normalcy every day in the papers. They when it gets a bit too bad, like in California, when there are people trying to basically take out the governor and he thinks it's getting a bit serious, hold ill, he'll take his thumb and his hand from around your throat and he'll let you maybe open up your restaurant at 25 capacity.
But we live now in what what all revolutionaries almost always like and all powerful states like is the permanent emergency, just like the endless war in George Orwell's 1984. But in this case, it's a permanent domestic emergency, which is even better, which is why Chuck Schumer is now trying to supersize it by demanding that Biden take emergency powers to deal with the climate.
This is a guy you know, we have government, we have totally incompetent government. If you say to them, can you stop Honduran caravans crossing the Rio Grande coming into America? Thirty million people marched into America while it was on orange alert. In other words, since 9/11, half the people who supposedly got it are not 30 million, but maybe 15 million people walked into a country on orange alert. We can't prevent them doing that, supposedly. But Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer now says that Joe Biden has the powers to change the very heavens he has to recognize the climate emergency and take emergency powers.
So we're going to have the Andrew Cuomo regime or just to be bipartisan about it, the useless Charlie Baker regime in Massachusetts or the Gavin Newsom regime in California. And we're now going to do it coast to coast with special powers in perpetuity. This is what this has to stop. To quote that epidemiologist. I'm going to find his name. Yeah. You don't make a virus stop being a virus by forcing humans to stop being human.
Markstein in Paris, we got lots more still to come.
Yesterday, Joe Biden was giving a speech and he said it's not enough for me to come up to you and say, I like this. I expect you to support it. I want to explain to you why I think it's so important.
And he went on like that I II and then he turned to Vice President Harris and said, no, no, no, I should have said what we think the priorities are.
And he said, I apologize to her. So they're officially a double act now.
He's been he turned he was saying, I know it's not enough for me to say I like this. I expect you to support it. I want to explain to you. And then he turned to Kamala Harris and he apologized and started saying, we know I don't know what this is all about. Is was all that theatrical business written into the prompter?
At any rate, we now apparently have two presidents in America just to be technical about it.
I am, in fact, filling in for Ken Matthews, who was supposed to be filling in for Rush. This is one of Russia's treatment weeks. You know how that works. We try to present a variety of guests so so that none of them out stays is welcome. But it's all gone to pieces. And it's only Tuesday. Ken was supposed to be here today. He was taken ill an hour before the show and he feels lousy. So get well soon.
Ken and I am basically winging it today. I didn't have any time for any show. Perhaps if the show's a bit ropey, I apologize for that. And I know you're saying, yeah, it was ROOPI on Monday and you had all weekend to prepare. Don't give us that excuse. Well, I'm doing my best. Before we go any further, I keep quoting this line because it's a very good line.
I've been paraphrasing it and I really should give credit where it's due because I kept saying it was from an epidemiologist and the epidemiologist in question had slipped my mind because there's so many of them around now and but this one was particularly well phrased. He said stopping humans from being human will not stop the virus from being a virus. We have learned we we have had to relearn, although actually our rulers haven't found.
She hasn't, Joe Biden hasn't, the Joe hasn't. What was perfectly obvious to people during the Great Plague of London in 1966 that whatever they say now, Aviva's got a virus, the virus is going to do what it's going to do. It'll work its way through you. You can try and take certain measures. All the measures we take, the measures they use back in 66 is really nothing new. But the virus is going to go on and be a virus.
And so trying to stop the virus being a virus by stopping humans from being human is a fool's errand. That was formulated most powerfully as stopping humans from being human will not stop the virus from being a virus.
And it is by a gentleman called Roger W Koops KW P.
S, who is a an eminent chemist. He's got a PhD in chemistry from the University of California and he has co-authored.
Several papers in the areas of pharmaceutical technology, so it's not just some blowhard on the radio sounding off, you can read his piece, I think it's at AAII dot org. But that's how Roger Koops put it, that stopping humans from being human isn't going to stop a virus from being a virus. And that has been borne out this last year. Something else I wanted to mention talking about.
The weird world we're living in, when I was talking to Mike Lyndell to my pillow guy about half an hour ago, Mike was saying that when he was suspended from Twitter, he's now been banned from Twitter for life. But initially they'd suspend they do this thing where they say certain features of your account are not available to you. So he couldn't get actually into his Twitter account to tweet. And what he found instead was that the account mysteriously developed a mind of its own and was retweeting this and retweeting that under the name of Mike Lyndell.
So, in effect, someone hijacked his identity where deep. We're deep into Orwellian psychoses here when people can do that. So in other words, he's got the blue checkmark, which is supposed to say you're the authentic guy because there's all kinds of fake accounts out there.
I had a bad hair day on Fox News a couple of weeks ago, and my hair was like seven inches higher than it's supposed to be. And so somebody started all these fake accounts. There was a Mark Steines hair account out there on Twitter, and that's why they have the blue checkmark so that if you find an account saying, Mark Steines, you want to know it's actually Stine's authentic hair and not just some hairpiece trying to pass himself off as Mark Steines.
That's why they have these blue checks.
So the blue check guy, Mike Lindale, the authentic Mike Lindale, the authentic my pillow guy, Twitter suddenly starts retweeting all kinds of things on his behalf. Now they're taking it to the next stage.
I mentioned this in passing yesterday, but it's like, well, you know, it's worth actually thinking about its implications. The Boston Globe.
Is starting something called the Fresh Start initiative in which they will change news stories from the past according to whether you think you're you know, you're now a reformed person and you don't want it in there in the archive that you held up a liquor store in 1987 and it's still in the Boston Globe archive. And so people can find out that you held up the liquor store in 1987.
This is literally out of George Orwell. That's what 1984. Winston Smith, the central character, his job under the party, under the totalitarian state, was to go into the archive and rewrite old newspaper stories to make them conform with the needs of the present. So The Boston Globe has now announced that they will rewrite.
News stories from 2003, 1996, 1984, 1972, if it if it happens to disturb you that you are present in their news stories, it's it's but as I said, that's literally Orwellian and.
If you can actually, if the past is now conditional, that things that happened in the past and were reported on in the past are no longer part of the permanent record, we now live basically just in a hyper present tense in which the news stories will be rewritten to conform with the needs of the day, just like George Orwell predicted it. You know, you never know when you read a newspaper archive. There was a guy. Who did some work at a station EIB for me a few years ago, he was putting in a new bathroom and doing some other work.
He was pretty good carpenter. And we then discovered that he'd been adding a zero to check. So if you gave him a 200 dollar check, he'd write another zero on the end and make it a 2000 dollar check. And even though he wasn't that great a forger, his girlfriend was the clerk at the bank. So she cashed them all. It all worked out viscose when we discovered what was going on. Of course, I made a complaint to the county attorney, to the to the sheriff's department.
This is Grafton County, New Hampshire. And they investigated. The whole thing was that the guy didn't have a criminal record. We pay. We then just sort of Googled and pulled up news stories about what was a fairly extensive criminal record, because Google happens to be more efficient than the New Hampshire law enforcement computers. They're using Windows 98 or something. So they're not really up to the up to the minute.
And we had this big back and forth. I mean, he was like, break everybody. Nobody wanted to put the guy in jail because I'm the unlikable foreigner. And everybody was saying, well, you know, he's it's all petty crime. He's not going to do anything serious. He murdered a guy.
Now, he eventually did go to jail when he got out, he murdered a guy in Vermont, totally incompetent, a very brutal crime, actually, is a drug thing gone wrong. He pumped every bullet he had into the guy and then pistol whipped him so hard till the till till till the gun broke.
And then he tried to sell. This was where he got caught. He then tried to having buried the gun somewhere in the woods of New Hampshire on the I Magus Highway.
He then was short of money and offered to sell the guy to some people. He offered to sell the gun and the guy said, OK, let's see the gun. And he said, I have to go and dig it up. And that was the giveaway line that resulted in him now sitting in a federal prison on a murder charge. The only reason we knew this guy was a career criminal, unlike the sheriff's department in New Hampshire, unlike the county attorney, the only reason we knew this guy was a career criminal was because the archives were reliable.
Now, the Boston Globe, which is still laughably the biggest newspaper in New England, The Boston Globe, says, oh, no, no, if there's something embarrassing in there for you and you you know, you've turned your life around since you held up the liquor store, do let us know and we'll take that out of the news story. We are in literally Orwellian times where the past is conditional. And I and this is this is so and it's very again, this is a classic line out of Orwell.
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. Because if you have no past, you have no future. Basically, you've got nothing to build on. And what we see and what Mike Lyndell was talking about and what Donald Trump has experienced and what all the people who went to Parlo and got instantly vapor. I mean, that was a great feint, wasn't it? Oh, yes. If you don't like Twitter, set up your own thing.
OK, we're going to go and set up Parlo. OK, that's great. Let us know when all the conservatives are over. And Paula. Oh, wait a minute. I think there's fear for having moved there yet. Oh, wait a minute. No, no, no. They're all going to, Paula. OK, all the conservatives in power, let's vaporize them en masse. That's a lot easier than picking them off one by one.
So we have now total hammerlock of the present by the billionaires. And now as we see with the Boston Globe, they're moving on to the next phase, which is to rewrite the past, to bring it in line with the needs of the present.
This is all happening very fast. It's all it's all accelerating, galloping farther and farther and farther along. You know, why should Michael and Michael and Dell has basically been 86 these he's sleeping the big sleep. Because he questions the election I who passed a law saying you can't question the election, these are monopoly platforms, there's Twitter there, which does its thing, Facebook does its thing, Instagram does.
They all have a little niche. They all have a little niche. And but they act as a cartel. That's why Donald Trump, when they banned him from Twitter for life, he also found himself getting banned from Spotify. OK, so if he wants to if he if he wants to go and listen to YMCA by the Village People on Spotify and dance around the room like he used to do on stage, he can't do that anymore. He shut down on Spotify.
He's shut down on Pinterest, which is this thing for knitting patterns. I didn't I didn't know Donald Trump knitted, but apparently he had some thing on Pinterest and that's gone, too. They all have their little niche and they act as one and having dominance of the present. They're now moving on to controlling the past as well. We are we are literally in year zero right now.
Mark, signing for us your calls right after this.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Markstein in for Rush. Let's go to Chris in Charleston, South Carolina. Thank you for waiting, Chris. What's what's on your mind today?
Hey, Mark, thanks for taking my call. I checked around you the best feeling guest host on the air right now.
So great. I'm filling in for the fill in, so I've got down to category or two. I've been demoted to whatever. I'm out of the Premier League and I'm down to Division three or whatever it is. But thank you for that. Thank you for that, Chris.
Hey, I just want to say prayers for Rush and his recovery. I just want to kind of touch on what you're talking about with the third party. You know, I think now's the time. You know, the best thing that you know, that Trump really that he did is the biggest accomplishment has really been, you know, not only exposing the left and their agenda, but, you know, kind of identified all the rhinos that are willing to do anything.
Yeah, it's you're right when you say this is the time to do it, because if you don't, the question is, you know, people are obviously depressed and demoralized.
Whatever, you know, these these twits at Twitter and Facebook and radio, vice presidents say that you can't talk about electoral fraud. The fact is that the vast majority of Trump voters don't believe that the election was fair and that's a necessary condition of accepting defeat. If you if you lose an election, the only reason you stay and fight again is if you think you're going to get a fair shot at reversing that defeat. So people are depressed and demoralized.
And and it may be, Chris, that actually one of the things that would enthuse them would be a project to launch a new party.
We've seen in this poll that there's a demand for something other than the Republican Party. And it's like slow work. You know, you'd have to do it for two years.
But there's but but you know what people are talking about primary being Liz Cheney or whoever, maybe actually it would be one of these situations where you identify certain candidates you don't go against, you know, whoever it is that Trump likes, he quite likes Rand Paul these days. So he wouldn't primary Rand Paul say, because he thinks Rand Paul makes makes a lot of sense generally. But if there's other people who he thinks are not of interest to advancing the ideas, she doesn't have to be Trump.
If a new party, a new party only has to run candidates where it wants to replace the incumbent with someone better so they don't have to compete in every necessarily against Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or George Bush. Only they can they could be more selective than that, Chris. But but but if if there is a time to do it, then this would make then suddenly this is the time to do it. Chris.
Yeah, no, I agree, because I think, you know, the other thing, too, is, you know, I typically don't always like my candidate, but since he's a Republican and Democrat and I hold my nose, Lindsey Graham, who who I usually hold my nose for and I'd love to get him out of there. But, you know, when you don't have an option, you know, you tend to just kind of go with the flow.
And I'm I'm at the point where I'm done kind of go with the flow because that doesn't get us anywhere. So it's just I mean, I'd even vote Democrat just to show him just to prove a point, you know, but yeah, I'm not going to not going to vote over for these guys if they're just going to do nothing.
Well, that's the interesting expression, Chris, going with the flow, because it might be that you're just going with the flow and then you just suddenly notice a giant roaring in your ears and you're 100 yards off of Niagara Falls and about to go with the flow all the way to the bottom of the to the bottom of the cliff.
And and that's actually the going with the flow thing is, is a big. Problem here, because, you know, I don't I don't quite know, I don't quite get Susan Collins Republicanism because it boils down to, you know, I'm like a Democrat, but 10 years later, in other words, whoever the Democrats are today, I just take a little longer to get there.
And and and that's true of Mitt Romney, too. And this is this is a time where if we don't have some energy and urgency in the opposition party, we're going to be winding up in a really dark place, a really bad place, because the last thing you want actually is just this thing. You know, you want to put again to go with the flow thing.
You want to put deep blue water between you and the other guys because that's what excites and energizes people and gives them something to vote for Chris. Yes, I agree, I agree that just I think Trump did a great job, you know, just kind of bringing all this stuff to the surface where it always just kind of, you know, floated, you know, just below and nobody really saw what was going on. And I think he he didn't drain the swamp, but I think he brought it down a couple of feet.
And you could start seeing some of the, you know, some of the monsters that are kind of hanging out there.
Well, if you didn't if you didn't before January 20th, you do now. Chris, thanks very much for your call. I mean, that's basically what happened on January 20th. The swamp return to Washington supersized. I mean, they're like these like the swamp creatures that that suddenly like in the creature features. You do something to them or they blend with some chemicals and they emerge from the swamp 10 times higher. This is all swampy. This is all swamp creatures.
And the Washington Uni party is minded to to to to go along with all of this.
But it can't it can't keep going. When I was approaching a crisis point, you know, everybody's broke. We're at 30 trillion dollars in debt. That used to be thought, a lot of money.
It's so much money, in fact, that no one in human history has ever had to pay back 30 trillion dollars just to get back to being broke, just the way back to being having nothing, just to get back to having a couple of bucks in your pocket to afford a decaf latte with Starbucks. Nobody's ever paid back that much money.
Either it means something or it doesn't. And we have to act urgently.
Yeah, Rush is out today, and Ken Matthews, who was supposed to be in, is also out today. So this is Markstein Press ganged into service at very short notice. It's Russia's streetman week. You know how this works. We always hope it'll go well. He'll just be out for a couple of days and then he will come roaring back at full strength.
Russia's Russia has developed over the last terrible year a way of coping with this, which is that he doesn't try and struggle back when he's at 60 percent strength or 30 percent strength or whatever. He waits till he feels like it's he's just like feeling great. And it's Bustan to get out of him, as you know, if you heard him last week.
And so Rush will come back toward the end of the week.
And if he decides he doesn't need a day or two, he needs a day or three.
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Thirteen issues if you go to Rush Limbaugh dot com, you know, I, I'm getting a little excited by all this Patriot Party or whatever you want to call it. Talk. I did say actually.
On this show, not long after November the 3rd that I wanted to form the paper ballots party, single issue party, single issue party, just dedicated to paper ballots, because if the idea is that this new election system where Election Day stretches out over months and where you can vote by mail, which again, nobody who seriously gives a thought to the integrity of an election would ever go for the Democrats aren't going to give up on that.
So you're going to have to have some kind of. Movement to restore the election system, otherwise the Republicans are just going to keep losing, they're just going to keep losing because there's always an element of this. There was a pollster who was on, you know, sort of mid-October, late October, who said that Trump would win Pennsylvania in actual votes, but that he needed to be five points ahead. In other words, he needed to be five percent ahead to prevent that victory being stolen from him.
Now, I think he rather underestimated it. I think he is probably closer to seven or eight percent ahead. And once once you're on that trajectory, it becomes very hard ever to hold a fair election again.
Whatever all these people say that you're not allowed to question it.
I only question it as a foreigner because I've never seen anything like this. I just like paper ballots with the names of the candidates and their parties. And you put an X in the box and they are hard paper ballots. They're not. And they're counted where the votes were cast. And that's what the paper ballot party would be arguing for. Anything other than that is a racket, you know. So 3am drop offs of uncounted votes that have been delivered from the other end of the state is a racket.
And Americans should be ashamed of themselves for going along with it, because all the countries, the Bernie Sanders wants to be like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, they'd never go. They'd never go along with it. Anyway, I'm all a bit enthused about that. But they talk about a new party. And if basically if the elections are racket, you might as well start a new party.
Why? Why not? I was. I was thinking about all these covid deaths because we're in lockdown forever now and the covid deaths, the statistics are said to be all a bit unreliable.
I talked to a couple of people from Minnesota who who have actually been going through it, and they found like, for example, there was a a motor car accident where the this guy was in a some kind of motor vehicle accident and was thrown from the car and died.
And that was counted as a covid death because he he happened to have the take home 19 at the point at which he was thrown from the car. So it's literally you can throw yourself off a skyscraper. And if you've got the ICOM 19, that will be put down to a covid death, you can be shot in a drug deal gone wrong.
And if you've got the covid-19, that will be put down as a covid death.
And so I was looking for something that you could die of that wouldn't be put down as covid. And the best I've got is from Malawi, which to 19th century imperialists like me is Niassa Land and will always be Niassa Land.
But in Malawi. A guy, a 35 year old man died and the post-mortem this is from the Malawian news quote, The post-mortem report revealed that the death was caused by extreme orgasm. He had died while having sex with a sex worker and was enjoying himself too much. So the post-mortem says he's the cause of death is, quote, extreme orgasm.
Now, you you you might think, you know, if you're 47 and your cholesterol's a bit high. Whoa. Holy cow. I'm not going near that. That's that's terrible. The Malawians don't think like this. Ever since this man was reported as having died of, quote, extreme orgasm, Malawian men have been heading toward in huge numbers are heading towards Farlam Palombi, which is the district in which this so-called sex worker is working. There's all over social media for Lomé.
Here we come. These Malawians can't get enough.
They all want to die of the extreme orgasm that's that's in Malawi.
There's nothing wrong with that. Know necessarily wants to know if the Bogside groups will be putting in there. I think it's rather landlocked. Yeah. Putting in there. We I don't know when we pull out, but hopefully he wants to know whether the Markstein crews will be putting it out for a lobby in Malawi.
I think it's landlocked, but if we do put it, you can rest assured that we'll be pulling out before the extreme orgasm.
Anyway, as Mr. Certainly reminds me, the back side, you get a box side cruise. Don't come.
This this things this normalcy is not on the agenda, I don't know what's going to going to be happening in whatever it is six or seven months time, but nor do you it's a crazy world that planning for us by then, Joe Biden will probably have taken Chuck Schumer's advice and and locked down the nation in the interests of saving the planet.
So come on, come and do your bit for the planet. Bye bye, partying on the Markstein cruise, you can go to a dark side cruise dot com. By the way, I should say, in case anyone wants to bring us up before the truth in advertising, guys or the Better Business Bureau, that's Mike Liddell was going on about that was a joke about putting in and pulling out of by mulloway. If you're interested, like Malawian men in giving up on lockdown and going for the extreme orgasm, you'll you'll have to do it on on some other guys cruise.
You have to do it on the Rachel Maddow cruise or something like that. You can't do it on the Markstein cruise.
We don't garenne we don't guarantee that this is this is actually. Mike, Mike Lyndell is actually at the heart of this, you know, the funny thing about it is he was saying he's got the the statue was talking about people who just have a YouTube channel or whatever, and the YouTube channel is suddenly wiped out. They've taken out.
You know, this is this is what's so weird about this whole situation is that they're not even shy about what they're doing.
They're forcing us now. And this is the whole idea of it. They don't even care whether you say because it's the essence of totalitarian regimes. And I regret to say this. I'm not someone who goes, oh, you're Hitler. You'll hit your Hitler, your everyone in the future. Everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes. I don't do that. My mom lost five years of her childhood because she happened to grow up under Nazi occupation.
So I don't bandy those kinds of comparisons around, but we are actually moving from soft totalitarianism, which some of these guys have been operating for quite a while into hard totalitarianism.
And the point about the point about totalitarianism isn't to persuade you that you're wrong. That's why Stephanopoulos was going on it. Rand Paul, he wanted Rand Paul.
He wanted Rand Paul to confess on this totalitarian week with George Stephanopoulos. He wanted Rand Paul to confess on camera. He doesn't care whether or not Rand Paul actually believes that. The point is actually to make you live with the lie. And that's all.
That's always a Soviet. That's always been a Soviet, a communist, a fascist thing. The point is to know you're being lied to and yet and the lies choke in your throat, and yet you have to accept the official lie anyway. And that's what that's what happens when they talk about the nonsense of the capital as being a domestic terrorist attack like 9/11, justifying the imposition of domestic terrorism legislation impacting tens of millions of people. That's where they get the justification for John Brennan identifying people with ideologies that the state has to crack down on.
Now, what is an ideology?
An ideology is a series of beliefs, thoughts. So John Brennan is actually advocating that the most powerful security state in the world, the United States, the United States government, should direct its powerful agencies. On the American people, not for anything they've done, but just for thoughts they might have now anyone who actually was looking at the television. On January the 6th knows that it's not 9/11, it's something else entirely, it may not be a good idea.
It may not be something one would approve of.
But it is also not what the media are telling us it is, and they don't care that we know it's a lie. The point of all such totalitarian efforts is to make you live with the lie because that defeats you. Oh, I'm being lied to, but I got no choice but to go along with the lie. And that's what Stephanopoulos was doing to Rand Paul on this totalitarian week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC.
Disgraceful and totally ridiculous for someone who claims to be a journalist.
Mark signing for us. We got your calls straight ahead.
Markstein for us. Let's go to Danny somewhere in Oregon.
Danny, you're live on America's number one radio show. What's on your mind? Hi, Mark, it's such a pleasure and an honor to talk with you, and I thank you for taking my call.
Oh, that's that's my that's my pleasure. Danny, don't don't do too much of that. You sound like Barack Obama prostrating himself before the king of Saudi Arabia, and we don't want any of that. Thank you. Thank you for that, Daddy minimum.
OK, I also want to let you know we're praying for us and we're grateful for him.
Thank you for that. So this is a bonus call for you because I'm calling from Oregon and I wanted to let you know that the bar in Portland is pronounced McMeniman.
OK, OK, that's good. Thank you for clearing that up. I mentioned it two hours ago. You not one of these people who goes down and gets in the mayor's face and then the mayor has to pepper spray you and throw bottles at you. You're not one of those kind of people, are you, Danny?
No, unfortunately, I don't have the courage for it. It took just enough courage for me to even call you calling here from Oregon behind the Iron Curtain. And I let you know, I'm calling for my hatriot grandson, Ethan, who's 14 years old and listens to Russia's show and is listening now. OK, excellent.
What's what's what's your grandson's name? Ethan. Ethan. Yes. OK, good to have you with us. Ethan, you have a great grandmother. I mean, not a great grandmother, but you've got a grandmother who's great.
Claire, I make it a real mess. Yeah. I think that a real mess of this aside from aside from all that.
Daddy, what what what what else is like causing you to think great thoughts today?
Well, so I wanted to talk with you about you ask the question just a little bit ago about why not start a new party and that something that you said yesterday when you were talking gave me an idea. And as I listened to people across the nation talking about what we should do and how disappointed they are with the outcome of the election, people keep saying, oh, you know, we should do this. We should have a new party, we should all kinds of great ideas.
And it's great that everybody is thinking. But I feel like people don't understand what it is like to live in a state that has basically basically been under the oppression of the last US. And Oregon is one of those states we haven't had. Democrats have been in the majority and in power for basically 20 years since. Coincidentally, you mention this also since we started the mail in voting. Right. And we have come to realize that that's never going to change.
And I think the people of the nation have high hopes for. Well, you know, they well, I know we can't talk about what happened in the election, but people think that they can change it and correct it and things will happen. But our experience in Oregon is once a state goes Democrat, it never goes back. And we can talk about all of the reasons why and debate that. But I think that people don't understand how kind of scary it is to live under that sort of oppression and live under it for 20 years.
And actually, I'm amazed that my grandson is turned out as he is with our school system. And we it is we have to we have to run now.
Danny, we're up against a hard break. But your theory basically is that people should get into the Democrat Party and hollow it out from within. In other words, in these one party state subverted from within. That's actually a big thought, Danny. And I hope that Todd Harmon, who's from your neck of the woods, will actually pick up on that tomorrow.
Thank you for your call, Danny. Closing it out on the Rush Limbaugh Show in just a moment.
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