Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. I am Rush Limbaugh, the big voice on the right back at it for Friday.

Let's hit it Monday from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida. It's open line Friday. A mystery opened late Friday, great to have you with us, as always. If you want to be on the program, you just have to call it 800 to eight two two eight eight two. That's been a number for over 30 years. And it doesn't spell anything. There's no vanity in the phone numbers, like one 800 dial rush or whatever it is, just 800 two eight two two eight eight two.

I don't even know what it spells. If it smells anything, it doesn't matter. The point is an open line. Friday, you can talk about whatever you want. Very, very few restrictions placed on callers. So the GameStop story has continued and folks, I have to tell you something, it's been somewhat gratifying, if I if I may explain, my lovely wife Catherine had an observation last night and some members of the staff today had a similar observation.

So, you know, it's it's uncanny. Here you are, you're away for three days, you're not here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Where are you? You are getting treatment for stage four advanced lung cancer. You don't even know if you're going to be feeling well enough to show up on Thursday or Friday. It turns out that you are you show up on Thursday. You haven't been there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and you end up dominating the analysis of the big financial story of the week.

And then one of the staff members here said in addition to that, that's a great compliment, by the way, and I'm very grateful for that. One of the staff members here said, you know, you are your own best PR person.

And that's a you know, that's true, but it's a bummer that in 30 years, there isn't anybody but me who can explain what I do. There's nobody but me who had to explain how I do it. I remember when I first. When I first entertain the idea of of hiring a PR firm, because that's what you did, so I went through the motions and I was interviewing these guys, various companies, and I noticed that every one of them said, what were you need to do?

You need to call such and such at The New York Times and explain who you are and how you doing, what you're doing. And then you need to call the wife.

What are you going to do? Why just did it? I just advised you what you've got to do, I said, why do I have to make the call? Why do I have to call The New York Times? Why do I have to call it? Why don't you do it while you're you're seeking our advice?

You want to hire us as your PR firm.

We're telling you what you need to do. So what you're telling me is I don't need you.

And if you're just going to add to my workload, I don't need you, and so I've never had a PR firm, I've never had an agent, I've never had, quote unquote representation, because there isn't anybody out there who can explain what I do and how I do it, even after 30 whatever one years or however many it is. And it's probably a good thing all in, I guess it's one reason why I'm still doing it and still unique after 31 years, that there's not a soul out there displaying what I'm doing.

And I'll tell you what, this GameStop story give you an example. There is a piece here by Frida Powers at Bismack Review Dotcom. And this story is basically nothing but quotes of what I said yesterday. The first paragraph explains what the story is and then every paragraph after that, well, the next four, five paragraphs, six paragraphs of what I said, they didn't even try to rework it in their own words. And I need to thank Freeda Powers because I have never been this accurately quoted in this long story.

That I can remember. It's uncanny. Normally, in a story this long that quotes me, they're going to get a bunch of things wrong, they're going to misinterpret, they're going to Miss Analise or they're going to misquote this thing. None of that. It is accurate from beginning to end. Radio host Rush Limbaugh compared the surging GameStop shares in the latest frenzy on Wall Street to the political battles between the establishment and everyday Americans in politics. The host told his listeners on Thursday that the surge in trading volume and GameStop stock price, it skyrocketed thanks to a group of Reddit users, was the most fascinating thing to occur in a while.

Noting the similarities between today's political landscape and the way platforms such as Robin Hood and interactive brokers stepped in to restrict trading. And then they quote me accurately, folks, is not just politics. Now the elites are bent out of shape that a bunch of average ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires. And that, quote shows up all over cable news last night and this morning. Now, what's the latest on this?

Well, it all depends on how deeply you want to go. I was watching Charles Payne today. Charles Payne goes back and forth between the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Network. And I think I saw him being interviewed by Bill Hemmer. I think it was on Fox Fox News. And he was he was talking about you as an example, the financial crisis in 2008. Does anybody remember that? I mean, that's 12 years ago now.

That was a central seminal event that led to the election of Barack Obama because remember what McCain did, McCain canceled his campaign and it wasn't blazing any trails anyway, that McCain suspended his campaign to go back to Washington to monitor events, suspends his campaign.

The financial crisis is more important. His campaign now, your campaign is how you're going to fix this. But he suspended the campaign and Obama didn't. And Obama was left to own the issue and, of course, the financial crisis of 2008. When Charles Payne was discussing it today, he used it as one of the examples of why people today are so ticked off still at the elites in finance. Now, remember, what's going on here is all this GameStop story from from my standpoint, I mean, the financial aspects of it are fascinating.

And the idea that people can, for example, the people that knew what they were doing in one day earned their kid's college education in one day. This has not been possible. Well, it's been possible, but it's not been as. As accessible as it is now in one day, a lot of people trading in this in this stock were able to earn enough money to pay their kid's college education four years in one day.

Which will lead me to further analysis of this here in just a second. But Charles Payne was talking about how people with memories of the financial crisis 2008, and he was right about this. He said the reason why there's still a lot of noses bent out of joint is if you go back to the financial crisis of 2008, the people who got us in trouble are the people who got the bailout money. And everybody knew it. The big banks who overextended on the subprime mortgage crisis, who had continued to underwrite worthless paper there, the subprime mortgage crisis was the foundational not building block, but it was the foundational cause for the for the 2008 financial crisis.

And these banks substitute hedge funds in the GameStop story, the banks in 2008. We're going to be wiped out. And so the Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, when there gathered them all in a room at three o'clock one afternoon and told them what they're going to have to do if they want the bailout money and they got their bailout money, the people that caused the got us in trouble at the same people got the bailout money and Americans knew it and recognize it and were livid about it.

It was one of the things that led to the creation of the organic creation of the Tea Party two years later in 2010, along with Obama and his stimulus plan and Obamacare, and this just the continuing slap in the face, it was that Washington continued to make sure that the people who think they're smarter than everybody else. Got in trouble because they're not smarter than anybody else or everybody else, but they are in the establishment, they are in the the elites, the deep state, what are you going to call them?

And they got bailed out. And people remembered it, but. These people at GameStop and Robin Hood and all the Reddit users, they're too young to remember, they might remember it. They're millennials now. They're probably around 30. So they might remember they might have been old enough depending on their parents. Parents might have been running around talking about how unfair it was and how rigged the game was. But it remains a big reason. Why people are mad, it remains a big reason why when you explain to people what the GameStop story is really all about, why it resonates.

And why, when you explain, it's nothing more than. The same kind of elite behavior in politics where if you don't agree with them, you're going to be shut up, you're going to be relegated to insignificance in irrelevance. Same thing is going to happen to you because you're going to assume you're not smart enough to do the right thing with your money by people who think they're smarter than you, who actually aren't. So this is an area where there's been a pent up frustration.

And it led to just one of the many things that led to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

It's not a mystery at all why Trump was elected. And I'm going to tell you at the same time, these people were not that just wasn't going to help. Trump was not going to win in 2020 no matter what. It wasn't going to happen no matter what. They spent four years. With this phony hoax and this coup attempt is for years they didn't matter, didn't care whatever it took, he was not going to get re-elected. And now that he has not been re-elected, what are they doing?

They are reversing everything he did. They are tearing down the wall at the border and building a wall around the United States Capitol. Have you heard that? They're building a restraining wall around the U.S. Capitol, like there is around the White House. But they're tearing down the wall at the U.S. border. What's the message? The message is that illegal immigrants are far safer, far more dependable, far less of a threat. To our country and to our culture, to our society, then conservative right wingers and Republicans are.

We need a wall built around the capital to keep them away from their own governments, No.

One building. So on the GameStop story, folks, there are still so many layers to this. One thing to keep in mind, Robin Hood and the other brokerage platforms. Decided to allow traders to buy GameStop again on their platforms today when they opened, they stopped trading of shares yesterday.

Well, they didn't. What they really only prevented by orders selling of the stock was still permitted because that drives the shares down and helped save their hedge fund buddies, which is what this story became, how to bail out and save the hedge fund friends, just like bailing out the banks in 2008 was the number one objective. So in some cases, Robin Hood forcibly sold GameStop shares owned by account holders to drive the share price down even lower. Robin Hood and other firms are going to try to save face today, and it's already underway.

And they claim that they halted buying because it was unprecedented and they needed to make sure that they were able to handle this sort of meaning. They had to make sure they had enough capital on hand to handle whatever was going to happen. But now they're back open and they are here to serve the little guy again, the little guy is winning again in this story.

Now, all they needed to do was to stop by orders for just one day that would cause the stock to plummet, which is what their hedge fund buddies wanted to happen in the first place. So what's basically taking place overnight, and this is where the layers get deep and I'm not going to explain to you how. So the market opened today, the price of GameStop goes up. The hedge funds won't get hurt anymore, at least not as much, because they got out of their short positions.

They were a. Machinations were taken overnight to allow them to extricate themselves from their short positions and so the Robinhood app and other brokers. May have saved Wall Street and screwed Main Street today. We'll just have to wait and see how it plays out and if that is what happens, it's because pressure was brought to bear. Think of Robin Hood as Trump in a sort of not not not totally. But they could think of Robin Hood and these other apps as Trump or Mahgoub under deep pressure from the elites and threats and so forth.

And so that's basically where we are.

But there's another way to look at this that I want to share with you. We get back. So hang on, don't go anywhere.

So wherever the GameStop story ends up, what it is and the way it should be seen is as the ultimate illustration. And you might even go so far, say, endorsement of the free enterprise conservatism over liberalism or progressivism. And let me explain why. The guys on Reddit. Who did all of this, the normal people, as they were referred to in the drive by tech media, the tech media as part of the media elites as well? Folks, my little tech bloggers, they think that they are special and smarter than anybody else.

They fashioned themselves as being part of the elites and they're referring to these Reddit guys as normal people.

They talk about people in terms like normal people, special people, elites. So these normal people on Reddit, they saw an imbalance. And inequity in the market. Hedge funds were selling a stock they didn't own. Now this is key. This is what short selling is, in addition to everything else, it's selling a stock you don't even own in this instance. Their objective was to drive the price down. They were perfectly willing to destroy this company.

And then reap a profit. At the same time, because of their own actions. None of what they were going to get rich off of was of any innate value of the company underlying the stock. The company involved, GameStop, was actually immaterial. They just saw a target that if they could short sell and drive its value down and be the reason the value went down and they could score amazing billion dollar profits, they folks, they were literally making their own weather.

And this is how hedge funds have been making money for a long time, not only this way. But you pick out a company and you drive its price down, you sell short. You're not brilliant, you're not seeing a company with incredible growth value and trying to get on that gravy train. No, you're trying to manufacture a market event. By creating a company that is going to lose its value, because you are going to make that happen and that's why you're smarter than everybody else.

And these guys at Reddit saw what was happening and saw an opportunity to thwart the smartest guys in the room and on the back in a second.

So guess what, folks? The governor of Massachusetts has called for an immediate return of kids to the classrooms. Isn't this amazing how this happens during the entire year of the Trump administration? Whatever Trump suggests, whatever the Trump administration authorizes, whatever they think we can do and should do, the left to say no way, no way, we're not opening schools. We're not opening classrooms to risky, too dangerous not doing it. Now they're going to open restaurants in California.

They're going to open restaurants in New York. They're going to open 25 percent. That's just the beginning. They're going to now open the schools in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is one of the major states that was locked down for a good part of 2020 during the pandemic era. And they did this in order, just like they they they they withheld Hydro Clark.

When they withheld that, it was it's perfectly fine. It's not going to kill you. It's not going to hurt you. It's not going to harm you. It works. And they withheld that drug from the market.

They had to do as much as they could to stymie the Trump administration's progress on covid, on the economy, on the on the on the build back they just had to do. And now that Trump is gone. Guess what?

Everything they oppose throughout 2020, why they're going to reopen for business yet, including the schools.

Let me get started. I'm going to finish my analysis of the GameStop business, but I don't want this to become the primary thing of the program. And we'll get back to it in just a minute. Let's start with Steve here in Birmingham, Alabama. It's open line Friday. Great to have you, sir, on the program today. Hello.

Thank you, sir, for taking my call. Good morning. Mega dittos, mega prayers going back to nineteen ninety. I love you. Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it very much. You're right to my point.

So I am perplexed and I'm disturbed by some of these Republicans are doing primarily impeachment and I don't get it. In my case in point is Liz Cheney, whom I used to respect tremendously, but her statement on impeachment could have been written by Nancy Pelosi. And I don't get it.

Wait now. No, seriously, I don't. Don't misunderstand my tone. I'm not trying to be condescending. I'm just a little someone surprised. You really don't understand why Liz Cheney has the opinion she has.

Well, no, and not just her. I mean, some of them I do understand like Romney, I guess, but so many of them I don't. I mean, if they're trying to unite, they're doing the opposite. They're turning off millions of people unnecessarily. They're currying favor with people who don't like him in the first place, who are going to throw them overboard at the first chance they get. I just don't I don't see the endgame in doing this.

And it's the end game for the people that you have mentioned that you're talking of the end game is the destruction of the entire mega movement. Even if it means the Republican Party is adrift in the wilderness for 30 years, we're going to get rid of Magga. It's going to have nothing to do with the Republican Party going forward. That's the battle within the Republican Party. The Republican Party has its own establishment types. They have members that are as pro deep state as Democrats are.

And the names you mentioned are people who are and getting rid of Trump and now getting rid of magazines, Trump is gone now. We're going to get rid of Trump's agenda. That's what this is. It's no different, it's no different than when you go back to 1989, when Reagan left after two terms, what the Republican Party do. I don't know how old you are, Steve. The Republican Party immediately began to eliminate anything that Reagan had to do with anything in terms of policy.

George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush ran for re-election and ran for election, I'm sorry, claiming to be Reagan's third term, and he got elected on that, but he started raising taxes. He did everything the opposite of what Reagan did, started making deals with the Democrats. But the reason was that the Republican establishment back then had no use for conservatives, no use for us, no use for conservatism. Reagan was so popular, though, that they had to hide and they had to they have to vanish into the tall grass for as long as Reagan was around.

But when Reagan's two terms were over, they roared back and attempted to take hold of the party. That's exactly what's happening now. And it's you can talk Magga conservatism. The Republican establishment does not like upstarts.

And that's what you're watching happen here. Can't you do that without going all in with Nancy Pelosi? I mean, you can take a little milquetoast approach to it without being so, so far gone.

Not if you're afraid of her, not if you're afraid of Democrats dominance, not if you're afraid of being expelled from the establishment, not if you are afraid of being denied the benefits of being in the establishment. No. But look, the hatred for Trump among Washington established types, be they Republican or Democrat, is so virulent. It is so powerful. It's so all consuming. It takes precedence over everything else. It's just it's a sign of Trump's effectiveness, it's a it's a it's an example of how good he was, how effective he was.

They're scared to death of him still. After he has retreated and is now holding court, Admiral Longo, they're still scared to death of him. That's why they want to impeach him. That's why they want to run around claiming can never run for office again. Everything they're doing to Trump is unconstitutional, but they don't care. If they can pull it off. They'll pull it off. Well, I just I'm disheartened, but I'm hopeful.

Tell me why. Tell me why. This is interesting to me. Again, as I say, please don't misinterpret my tone. I'm not trying to be critical at all. I'm just being passionate in my explanation here. What what is disheartening about this to you?

It's disheartening because Trump, President Trump, excuse me, built an enormous coalition that brought people from outside the party.

Inside the party. Yes. And we could I mean, even if Trump not President Trump, is it going to be the leader going forward? We can build on what he's done and make it even bigger and stronger rather than completely tear it down and go bring square was exactly right there, 75 million bare minimum, 75 million people who voted for Trump.

That's a political party right there, my man. That is a political party. And it's got to be dealt with if you if you are part of the Washington establishment, the 75 million that voted for Magga, that voted for Trump.

But we can't have that. So not only do you have to take out Trump. You have to destroy his agenda at the same time, you can't let somebody else pick up the mantle, but there are lots of Republicans who want to Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, Matt Gates, there's a bunch of Jim Jordan, there's a bunch of them that want to pick up that MAGGA vote base and grow it. And similarly, the long knives are out for them within the party.

So there you go, I mean. Exactly, exactly right, exactly right. I wouldn't look at it as a disheartening thing.

I mean, you can if you want, if you want, but it's not really new, which is my point to you. The Republican look for a better word than establishment, but it works the way the Republican establishment. Has always opposed conservatism and conservatives, but when it is obvious that conservatism and conservatives are the dominant force in the Republican Party, they are smart enough to attach themselves to it and try to benefit from it for as long as that period of time lasts.

But they never convert. To conservatism. They do their best to make you think they are, but they don't and they aren't. Now, the reason that so many people, the names you mentioned are so bent out of shape is because Trump really is or was the antithesis of what these people think that successful people in their business are.

They were royally offended by Trump's very life, the fact that he was breathing air and was doing with it what he was doing just offended the hell out of them. It's as though Trump was going to define them and they didn't want to be thought of as Trump. They didn't want to be thought of his acolytes. They didn't want to be thought of as supporters. They didn't want to be thought of as kindred spirits. Because Trump's mannerisms were so offensive, it's not even about.

In large in large part, it's not even really about issues, although it is, but some of the anger at Trump and resentment at Mega exists because of Trump's personality. Anyway, Steve, I'm glad you called.

I appreciate it. We got to go. We got to come back. We'll do that after this. Don't go away.

Hi, how are you? Welcome back. Great to have you. Hey, folks, if you have thought that somebody has got to go to jail over this fraudulent Russia call business, that the FBI and Brennan and Comey and Clapper and all these people ran on Trump. If you've thought that some people got to go to jail for this, I. I hate to tell you, I don't think anybody is going to go to jail because one of the number one perps has just been given 12 months of probation.

His name is Kevin Kleinsmith. He's 38. Who is he? He's the former FBI and lawyer who admitted. He admitted to doctoring an e-mail that other officials relied on to justify secret surveillance. Of a former Trump campaign adviser. He admitted. Prosecutors had asked that Kleinsmith spend several months in prison for the crime, Kleinsmith attorneys said probation would be more appropriate. This is a guy who literally doctored an e-mail to make the FISA court think that there was actual collusion between the Trump's Trump campaign and Russian.

Literally made it up, just doctored the e-mail, made it wide. I don't know how else to describe this, and he's getting 12 months probation and this is the establishment taking care of their own. Here's Jeff in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here with us. Hi.

Megadose Rush listener since 2000. Thank you. I want to ask what your opinion is on why the tech industry is left leaning. I'm a tech industry person. I've been here working in this industry for 30 years. It's very entrepreneurial. There are no unions. I'm curious as to why it leans left when it seems to me it should be lean. Right.

You know, this is a question that I have been asking myself my my whole life, because I have been under the impression that all of these people self-made, very wealthy. Are natural born conservatives, but they obviously despise conservatism and they despise conservatives, conservative people and despise them, I have to think a large part of this is the education system they've grown up under. They've been lied to about conservatism and conservatives. They believe that conservatives are racists. They believe it.

Jeff. I mean, it's not that they think it and they believe it to their core, they believe that we're bigots, they believe that we're homophobes, they believe all of these character assassination charges and they can't. They can't stomach being thought of that way. You can almost chalk it up to marketing and branding that the left has done a great job of rebranding or misbranding Republicans and conservatives, but there are also other reasons for this. And it's nothing more complicated than they survey the land and they see that the real power brokers in politics, people, they identify with power brokers.

Are the Democrats. And so they naturally align with with with that group, but even these two answers I've given you are not solely satisfactory to me.

I, I look at it this question constantly because it's one of the greatest bugaboos that I encounter on a daily basis, because we're not anything like we are accused of being. And yet the number of people who think all those things they say about us are true would shock you. But it takes me to one more just concluding thought. I want to use your question to illustrate what happened here with GameStop. And let's look at it. If the credit raters if the guys on Reddit.

Who were considered the normal ish people, not nearly bright enough to do anything on their own. That makes sense. They're not bright enough to even deal with the hedge fund guys if they had been a bunch of leftists. If they had been a bunch of progress's, what would they have done after discovering what had happened when they discovered that the hedge funds were short selling, were trying to destroy the value of a company they didn't even own, they were just trying to wipe it out to make big money in the process.

What would they have done if they were left? They would have started a protest. They would have started a boycott. They would have started Occupy Wall Street twenty twenty one. They would have been so righteously offended over what they were seeing. They would have tried to shut down the market, they would have tried to force the hedge funds out of business. That's not what happened. Because they're not liberals, the Redit guys, the average ordinator, millennials, they may not think that they're conservatives, they may not believe that they are political, they may they may not believe that they are not leftists.

But they are classic free market conservatives, they understood. That they had something the hedge fund guys couldn't match. They used a free enterprise market to go into competition with the hedge funds, hedge funds get a better idea. And they decided. To destroy what the hedge fund guys are trying to do, they were competing. They decided the credit raters decided to compete against the people that they're supposed to bow down to. They decided to compete against them and they ran rings around them and destroyed.

The original intention of the hedge fund guys, and that would not have happened if these people were a bunch of progressive lefties. It's a good sign folks will be. Rush, why aren't you talking about the Cuomo story more, you know why I'm not focused, nothing's going to happen to him. I'll be stunned if anything happens to him. I've learned my lesson, there's nothing going to happen to Andrew Cuomo over what he did and lied about it regarding the nursing homes and covid deaths.

You just wait and see. We'll be back here in a minute.

I couldn't see a way out, we were completely surrounded and they all looked like the same person, zombies itching to convert us into their weird Hollywood cult everywhere we turn. There they were and more were coming, spilling into every opening around us. It seemed like they were calling out to each other telepathically, get them fresh meat. I thought the only way out was to give in and go with them. But just as I started to follow their leader, it hit me.

Adriana's hand met my cheek. Yeah, I slapped him with one quick strike to the face. SNAP out of it, Patrick. Let's get the hell out of here. And that's when we made a run for it through the only opening in the crowd. We were only a few feet from making it out. When they blocked us in again, we were goners. Redfield America is a storytelling show, the kind Hollywood doesn't want you to hear, listen to read pilled America on I heart radio or wherever you get your podcast that's read pilled America.

The answer to your question is kinesiology. Look it up.

The official program observer just asked me. So I got an open line Friday question. How can anybody. Tom Brady's age. Be so damn good. How can he still be better than anybody else playing the game at age forty three? I said, look it up. The answer is kinesiology. What did you say, passion, passion, passion, smashing, that's not that, doesn't it?

From a Southern Command in sunny south Florida, it's open line Friday. I will guarantee you that Ben Roethlisberger has the same amount of passion that Brady has, doesn't have the same kinesiologist. You got to look it up. At any rate, I am the big voice on the right, a household name in all four corners of the world. Great to be with you. It's open line Friday. Look, I'm being half serious about kinesiology. I just thought of a one word answer, but it is a factor.

There's no question that it is.

Some people are freaks of nature. And you and you can't you don't know who they're going to be. You can't identify them. Warren Beatty, Warren Beatty, in many ways, a freak of nature. Anyway, my friends, open line Friday.

We try to take more phone calls on Friday because we're expanding the universe of things that could possibly be discussed. But today, you know, my voice is teetering here on and flat out straight hoarseness and not being strong at all. So I may be depending on you on the phones a little bit more than than normal. Great to have you. And again, open mind Friday. People can talk about whatever you want. It does not have to be politics or the usual subjects that you would expect.

People wanted to. It can be. But you have the freedom on Friday to expand way out of some GameStop details, some offshoot news stories. Maxine Waters.

Oh, yeah, that's a good point. It's a good point. I want to go back. There's one more answer. We had a caller. Great question. Why do these entrepreneurial tech guys. Like the Facebook, the Googles. Apple, why, you know, how in the hell can these people be leftists and be Progressive's? Folks, I have to tell you that they fashion themselves as elites and they want to be elites and they have learned they can see you are not going to be an elite, you're not going to be acknowledged as an elite.

You will not be thought of as an elite. If you are conservative, you're going to be thought of as a disease. You're going to be thought of as something that's terribly wrong.

Look, there a whole bunch of answers to to that to that question. But I really do think that it all traces back to education. These people were all young.

And when they were young, they were propagandised. Rather than talk. They literally had conservatism ripped to shreds, ridiculed, criticized, and individual conservatives did the same thing. Who wants to be thought of as one of those? The fact that they are entrepreneurial and self-reliant and self starters, yeah, but folks look at them, you may think that, but they. Are able to do what they do and earn what they earn because the government is enabling, the government is protecting them.

You heard about rule to 30, these people have been allowed to set themselves up where they are not liable for anything said on their platforms, you can't sue them for anything that's said on their platforms. That's such a big protective cloud that they are able to operate under and behind, but there are other things like that. This is why, you know, I've tried to make comments all last year, how many times were these tech people dragged up to virtual hearings?

Some Senate committee or some House committee was going to get to the bottom of what they were doing. They're going to bring them up there and they're going to really face some hard questions and they're going to be read the riot act and they were going to be told that they better shape up or else and nothing ever happens. And why? I'll tell you why they've got so much to offer, they got campaign contributions to offer, but more importantly, let's say that you are Congressman Foghorn Blue Horn from pick your favorite state and the guy that runs Google.

The guy that runs Facebook can assure you that when anybody puts your name Foghorn Blue Horn into the search window, that nothing but positive stories are going to come back. What would that be worth to you?

Might it be worth looking the other way at what the tech guys are doing when they're censoring conservatives, when they are literally preventing the viewpoint of over half of the people in this country from being mentioned, discussed and promoted? I think you'd make that deal if you're Foghorn Blue Horn and you promised positive search results and maybe a campaign donation here and there, that's all it would take. These people are so big, they're so powerful. Plus, what can they offer Foghorn Blue Horn when his legislative career is over, when Congressman Foghorn blew, Horn decides that it's over and he wants to go into the private sector.

Why? Guess what? There could be a big position open at Facebook or Google in their legal department, and he doesn't have to do any work. He's got a no show gig. He's a rainmaker, foghorn blowhard, no part of the legal community at Google Bambo. He's supposed to generate business and he might. And so Foghorn blew Horn, who makes 150 grand, is a congressman. Leaves Congress, ends up a millionaire, and all he had to do was look the other way when conservatism was being slimed.

All he had to do looky here, Maxine Waters. Has announced that she is going to have hearings on GameStop. She's going to investigate the GameStop scandal, she's going to reign in the corrupt practices of hedge funds. It'll never happen, folks. She doesn't even know what they do. Maxine Waters, do you think she can explain to you what a hedge fund does, you think she can explain why a hedge fund is different than a brokerage? But she's going to investigate them.

And don't forget, her husband is named Sydney. Sydney used to play for the Oakland Raiders. And he was a banker. Yes, Sydney, her husband got bailout money during the TARP business, his bank was never entitled to that. No similar bank got all because he was Mr. Maxine Waters. Hedge funds have a long history of predatory conduct, and that conducts entirely indefensible, said Maxine Waters hears this. Speaking of the swamp, Max. Janet Yellen, Janet Yellen, who is the treasury secretary.

In the Biden administration received eight hundred ten thousand dollars in speaking fees from the hedge funds that bailed out one of the primary losers in the GameStop story, her financial disclosure forms showed that her made she made three hundred thirty seven five hundred dollars for multiple days in October 20 20 from Citadel. She also made two hundred ninety two thousand dollars in October of twenty nineteen and one hundred eighty thousand dollars in December of twenty nineteen. The Senate confirmed Yellen on Monday. She's the first female secretary of the Treasury.

And so it was asked by Jennifer Psaki, the White House press secretary, was asked if Yellen is going to recuse herself from any investigation involving. GameStop and Kazuki dodged the question, it was a Reuters info babe, who asked Soki if Yelena's connection to Robin Hood would cause her to have to recuse herself from the administration's response to all this, Sukie and the Biden administration of a broad economic team. The S.E.C. put out a know we probably won't have to have recuse herself.

Yet she was paid off eight hundred thousand dollars from one of the hedge funds in the game stock scandal. Just amazing. Let me grab a quick call before we have to end the segment. This is Tammy Tammy in Rockville, South Carolina. Thank you for calling. Hello.

Hi, Raj. It's great to talk to you. Very excited to talk with you. Thank you. I want you to know where we get much encouragement, listening from you and education. And we're praying for you, of course, and all you're going through. I just wanted you to know my son. I started reading your review books to my son and my daughter. My son is 11, my daughter's eight, and they are a hit. I enjoy reading them, but my son got so into it that we were watching the playoff game with the Bills and the Chiefs.

And he looked at me and he goes, because it was Sunday night and it was almost time for bed, we had school the next day and he says, Mommy, can we go head on up so we can get our reading in? So he was willing to give up watching for.

You mean that's not going to say he wanted to read the Rush Revere books instead of watching the chips and the Bills playoff game? Yes, that's amazing. Told him. I said, you realize there's only two games left this season. And he he was fine with that. He said, that's OK, I want to go read. And so we went upstairs and read. We finished the first book and we read about half of the second one.

Well, that is that is fantastic. You know, I love getting feedback like this. Those books were a you know, they were they were a godsend. The the inspiration to do them. And the feedback that we got on those books is just over the top. Fantastic.

And they are worthwhile because so many people have been ill educated on on the American founding and the people who founded our country and what they went through to do it and so forth. And this is an effort to combat that. And the fact that it's it's getting through to so many people is a reward unto itself.

And I tell you what I want tambe I want you to hang on because we have a little nice package of stuff from the Revere neighborhood that we send out to people that love these books, young readers who love the books. We need your address to send these things out. So if you can hang on, Mr. Snootily, pick the phone back up, get your address while I have this stuff set out soon and and you'll have it just a little addition of things that are part of the books and a little Liberty doll here and there and some other goodies that we throw in.

So I just appreciate very much that your kids are liking the books and enjoying them.

I'm glad you got through it. Tell me a brief break. Don't hang up. We'll be back after this.

Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, this is Open Line Friday. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Not yesterday, ladies and gentlemen. I made a point that the Democrats know what to do with their power. They use it when they have it. And for the most part, the Republicans do not.

And I mean, raw power, I don't mean the power that you have in majority votes in the Senate or in the House. Clearly, the Republicans will use that kind of power, but they will allow it to be watered down during debate and they'll make every every vote closer or what have you. It's a you know, it's a it's why so many Republican voters are constantly nervous. The Democrats, however, when they win and when they acquire power and even when they're out of power, they use it as though they've won it.

You know, people ask about a third party, third party would not be necessary. If the Republican Party would simply coalesce around principled conservatives who don't fear anybody, especially radical leftist in Washington. And this is part and parcel of using power when you have it. Now, we've got some people on our side who know how to do this, one of them is Kristi Noem. She is the governor in South Dakota. And she said at BIPAC Review that Republicans need to toughen up, the party needs to toughen up and self evaluate for not following through on key issues.

Now, here's an elected Republican who gets it. This is the blueprint, this is this is using power when you have it, which is what we're up against. And Democrats use it constantly. They bludgeon us with it. Kelly moved on to former President Trump, touting his accomplishments despite tough Democrat opposition before asking Norm to respond with her thoughts on his term. President Trump, she said, did things of great magnitude for this country, what he did on tax reform, on trade deals, his support of Israel, his protection of our national defense, his enforcement of our laws.

This man got up every single day, Donald Trump. He fought for the common everyday American so that the common everyday American could have a chance to be successful and to pursue the American dream. She added that she believes Trump's legacy is going to be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in our country's history. That's due to the actual policies that he pursued and the fact that he actually did what he campaigned on and he followed through with it. So she believes that the Republicans need to toughen up.

What are the Democrats doing? Try this. Democrat lawmakers introduced Bill for nationwide mail in voting necessary, they say, to make real progress. I the big voice on the right, I warned everybody this was coming, it should not be a surprise. I told you, Democrats are hell bent on making elections meaningless. They know they can't eliminate them. They know they cannot wipe out elections, they'll never succeed with that, but the next best thing is making elections foregone conclusions.

Therefore, making elections meaningless, that means using whatever they can, such as mail in ballots, mail in voting. To give themselves an advantage now, some of you might be in a rush. Wait a minute, why does mail in voting automatically give them an advantage? Republicans can do it to you. Republicans are trying to stop it. Republicans and I don't blame them, by the way, Republicans are standing against mail in voting, we ought to have one election day like we did for decades.

We've had Election Day where all you did was show up at the polls and vote. There was no early voting. There was just Election Day and absentee for people who literally couldn't make it.

It was a very tiny percentage of voters. And we were able to do it and we were able to count the votes and know who won. By the end of the night on Election Day and then all of a sudden we stopped being able to do any of that. For whatever reason. We weren't able to have. Show up in person voting no, we needed we needed early voting and then we needed mail in voting and pretty soon there was going to be some other kind of virtual voting because of culvert.

Well, Rush, that's what mail in voting? No, they'll come up with something in addition to it, they never stop. Their objective is to make elections meaningless. There's a way it happens. And they have got it down pat, so now they've introduced a bill for nationwide mail in vote. They're expanding on it. They're not content for how it worked in 2020. Mail in voting and voting for several months before and after Election Day. This is what they're aiming for.

What do you mean after election? Oh, yeah, they're going to move for this. Some people can't vote on Election Day, even with mail in ballots. We need to make sure every vote counts.

You've heard their mantras. This is called using their power as a bludgeon when they have it.

We'll be back. Stay with us.

You know what our greatest illustrations of the Democrats use of power? Vs. the Republicans is look at all the hypocrisy, they get away with hypocrisy, don't even touch them. It doesn't even attach itself to them yet. It can destroy a Republican. How is this? And in large part, it's not solely this, but in large part, it's the way they have marshaled the use of power. They're not afraid to use it. They're not afraid of the blowback to it.

And I really think Republicans are I think Republicans, it may be afraid, is too strong a word. They're just uncomfortable with the media constantly yapping at their ankles. They're just not they'd rather have the media not questioning their motives and their actions and what they're doing. And so the Republicans do not use power even when they have won it. The Democrats are totally different, they're not afraid at all. They're not afraid of the backlash against it. They don't care.

It's all oriented around the fact that they, in their minds, are entitled to the power that we aren't, that unity is only defined by us, excepting they are the legitimate people entitled to power that we are not. That's what unity is. Unity is us conforming. To them. We have to be a bunch of conformists, we have to agree that unity means them in power and using their power. Now, there's a piece I can illustrate this before we get back to the phones.

There's a piece here at Frontpage Mag, which is David Horowitz's magazine, when resistance became sedition and sedition became resistance is simply a story on how the Democrats get away with rank hypocrisy. Here's the full quote, the difference between resistance and sedition, the difference between protests and insurrection, for example. None of what Antifa did is ever an insurrection, none of what Black Lives Matter is ever, never is it an insurrection. But when the people protested at the Capitol, it was not a protest.

It was an insurrection. And those people need to be flogged and they need to be put in jail and any be tried. They need to be convicted and need to be sent packing. The difference between resistance and sedition, between protests and insurrection is who is in charge? Democrats resist Republican elected officials. Republicans, however, they don't resist, they are said to be committing sedition when they criticize Democrat elected officials. Oh, yeah, this is how it works.

Democrats protest. Republicans riot. These are not distinctions in law, the only real distinction is who is in power and who is on the barricades. Political hypocrisy is not a new phenomenon, but the Democrats. Have weaponized the national security state to suppress political opposition over the same behavior they engage in.

As a serious threat to the survival of the country, the very things they do are said to be no big deal. They are simply practicing dissent. When Republicans do those same things. It is said to be a serious threat to the survival of the country and the people of this country. What do you Republicans think you're doing? And they gin up even more hate.

And this is all about knowing how to use power when they have it to define us. When is the last time you ever heard a Republican seriously tried to define the modern day leftist, liberal or progressive? I mean, maybe throw around words like socialist or Marxist or what have you, but.

Actually explaining to people how they are bad for the country, why they if any of them try that, you know what would happen to them. And yet they got away with doing that exact thing to us. And we are left to have to defend ourselves and to explain it or to say that now the charge is bogus. You don't understand. And he boiled down, it comes down to power and the use of it and how they are not afraid to use it anyway.

Let me get back to the phones. This is Tony in central Pennsylvania. Welcome. Great to have you here. Hello.

Clyde Ross. So good to hear your voice. Thank you. You're welcome. And I pray for your healing on a very regular basis. So I wanted to ask you, you're on the topic that I wanted to ask a question about, and that is the Republican Party. You said the governor knows that we just need to toughen up the Republicans. But I view the Republican Party largely as rhinos and elite, not willing to really get a backbone. I haven't seen a backbone in the Republican Party since I've been a Republican.

And your first caller?

I think that's what she means. But she can't come out and say it as you want to hear it. OK, well, I think she means I think she means the same thing you're saying here.

OK, because I can say it because I'm on your program and I'm just an average person. I personally think that the 75 plus million voters would certainly entertain the idea of a third party, one that is basically the America first party, the the people who believe that the established political parties are failing us or working against us.

But now, I could be wrong on this, Tony. I'm not I'm not certain I'm I'm somewhat confused because I've read.

A bunch of different things that my. My my my opinion is it's based on what I've read, that Trump is not in favor of third party, am I right about that? Is that Trump is not in favor of a third party? Excuse me? And the reason is that there's already a party that he can say that he has commandeered or is the leader of. And believe me, having seventy five million voters, it's no accident. It took a lot of hard work.

And if you have a third party based on a presidential candidacy, then you don't have a third party on congressional seats and Senate seats, and even if you're third party president wins big. He still isn't going to have any infrastructure in the Congress, in the House and the Senate to help him legislate. Because starting a third party means you would have to start a third party among the Senate and the House, you'd have to have these people all running for re-election or election on this new third party and Trump is looking at it.

Why do that when we already have it? And he thinks that he has already succeeded in I say, commandeering that that implies taking over, but he leads it. And I think the real question that a lot of people are asking. Right now, when I say a lot of people I'm talking about friendly to Trump, is Trump the guy to carry us forward? Trump the guy to lead us forward?

Or is the agenda enough for me to find somebody to advance the agenda that Trump is? Trump has been so damaged. I mean, it's it's an ongoing conversation. It's not it's not about selling Trump out. It's not about cutting me off at the knees. It's not about disloyalty or any of that. It's it's about how viable is Trump going forward, particularly if these Democrats succeed in this asinine ability or attempt of theirs to make sure that he can't run for office ever again.

But that's another that discussion is for another day. And I don't want anybody misunderstanding me on this. I'm just telling you, there are some people who love Donald Trump who think he's the greatest thing and want to grow what Donald Trump did. They want it to be bigger, they want it to win more elections, they want it to become dominant, and they're talking about how to go about making that possible. And when you get the Trump, you'll find he is not in favor of throwing all that away and starting from from dead stop to create a third party.

Quick time out. Back with more in a moment.

Hey, folks, there's one sure bet. And you can make this year, and that is you're going to use your cell phone more than you did last year. You're going to make more calls. You're going to get and send more text messages. You are going to have more data usage. That translates to bigger cell phone bills. You're going to be paying more for it unless you are proactive and do something about that.

And this is why so many people in this audience are switching their cell phone service from one of the big providers to pure talk, pure talk offers you unlimited talk, unlimited text and six gigs of data for just thirty dollars a month. And if you go over on data, they don't charge you for it. Well, how can that be? Well, get it and see. You'll find out how it can be. They don't charge you if you go over your six gigs of data.

And you compare that monthly price 30 bucks a month to your current cell phone bill, just compare it to your current cell phone bill. I mean, I would make a guess, but 75, 80 bucks, depending on how many lines and phones you have, don't know what it is, but 30 bucks a month for unlimited talk, unlimited text, six gigs of data. Now, here's the real icing on the cake. Pure talk uses the same cell phone towers as one of the biggest cell phone service providers in America.

Can't name that provider. But pure talk does not have the expensive costs of retail stores. They don't have an infrastructure, they have to maintain that they use the same cell towers on the big providers, they focus on providing great service and support with every pure torque employee located in the U.S. from your cell phone, do this, dial down 250 and say pure torque, get started. You'll say 50 percent off your first month. That's a pound to five 00 and say pure torque.

Just pick up your 500 pound 225000 and say pure torque. Guess what? Somebody from there will answer and you're off and running. Folks, I have to tell you, I'm references a minute ago. My voice is teetering here. It's it's it's extremely weak. And I'm having to speak from the back of my throat rather than diagrammatically in order to have this voice even be usable. And that is the worst way to speak in the world. It's the it's the way that causes it just puts a lot of pressure on the vocal chords.

And my point in telling you this is whenever my voice is like this, it becomes a big distraction. I'm not able to forget about how my voice is feeling or sounding, and I end up speaking faster than I should be to try to complete my point before I lose the voice. So I just wanted to explain the impact of it to you in case it continues to worsen.

I just ran into this story during the most recent commercial break. It's in the UK Guardian. The headline says it all Black Lives Matter movement nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

A Norwegian nominee has cited the global impact of Black Lives Matter and raising awareness and consciousness of racial injustice. Yeah, I mean, they are an avowed proud Marxist communist organization, they say so on their website. Now, it doesn't mean that it's going to result in them winning the peace prize because anybody can nominate anybody they want for this thing if you go about the process the right way.

Kim in Cary, North Carolina, you're next. It's great to have you. Hi.

Hi, Rush. It's great to be on your show. I just my question is, is we as Americans are are being asked to make all these sacrifices in the name of global warming. You know, everything that Biden's been doing. Who's going to make sure that we do our part, that China, with their mass pollution and Korea and all that, you know, how are we going to you know, we do our part, but they don't.

So, you know, what we do doesn't really help. So, you know, who's going to make sure that China and them do their part and we're being asked to make all these sacrifices?

Nobody. And it's a brilliant question. You know why the question the reason the question is brilliant, because it illustrates the utter hypocrisy here, the effort that the the the point they're making and demanding that we make sacrifices, we sacrifice what we want to eat. We sacrifice where we want to live. We we make total sacrifice. It's about controlling us. It isn't about reducing carbon emissions. It's not about saving the planet. That's all a ruse to get people to again conform.

It's all about getting people to go along with the conventional wisdom and not question it. It's it's all designed to make people agree with the premise that we are destroying the planet as the greatest economy in the world. The trichomes can't be they don't have nearly the economy. We do, even though they are far bigger polluters than we have been. And I don't know how long.

But there will be no effort that we're scared to bring that to the Chinese to do anything. We're not going to tell the North Koreans have got to conform. We're not going to hound them like the American people are going to be hounded. No, your your question is really great because it illustrates. The phoniness of the entire movement. Well, what about India? You know, India is a democracy, the largest one in the world. They are one of the greatest polluters in the world because of the number of people live in a relatively small place.

China has done more to pollute water and air and foul it up.

OK, I get it. Somebody wants to ask me what I think Republicans ought to do about electing the next nominee and all that. I want you to listen to what the drive by media thinks the Republicans need to do. This is McKay Coppins on NPR last night. The gatekeepers that used to be in charge of making sure their party didn't nominate somebody like Donald Trump have lost power. They've been overrun by people like Rush Limbaugh. I do think we need to start thinking in the post Trump era more about how to reinstitute gatekeepers to our politics, how to make sure that there are still guardrails in the Republican Party so that the party doesn't continue in this kind of stuff.

Take a look at this guy is a writer. He's a journalist for The Atlantic. And this guy is presuming to tell the Republican Party what it needs to do. Reburn overrun by people like me, he says, we need we need to start thinking in the post Trump era about how to reinstitute gatekeepers in the Republican Party to make sure they go off the rails again. A journalist presuming to think this is what the Republicans actually want everybody else needs to do, despite what the Republicans want to do.

Anyway, we got a break. We'll come back and continue after this.

And welcome back, my friends. In the fastest three hours in media, I, Rush Limbaugh, a household name and all four corners of the world on Friday, my from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida.

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A question, ladies and gentlemen. How many millions of jobs will be lost if the Democrats raise the national minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, the national a federal minimum wage, not state. Not neighborhood, not city, not local, federal minimum wage, because back on Tuesday, Democrats introduced a bill that would raise the minimum wage nationally. To fifteen dollars an hour over five years. It would more than double the current minimum wage of seven dollars, 25 cents an hour.

It's called the Raise the Wage Act. Not so simple. Raise the Wages Act. Sorry, I said rage the ways, raise the Wage Act. It would increase. Pay from nine fifty an hour in 2021, 11 dollars in 2020 to. Twenty twenty three would rise to twelve dollars, fifty cents an hour. It would hit 14 bucks an hour in 2024. It wouldn't be until 2025 that it hits 15 bucks an hour. You know, how many jobs have been lost?

This is guaranteed to be true, but this is not speculation, it's not conservative theory. We have enough data with the imposition of the minimum wage in various states and cities, various local levels. We know what happens. With the implementation of a minimum wage. And the number of jobs that will be lost would be at least one point three dollars million, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Which means that members of Congress are OK with it. They're going to move ahead with the legislation anyway, even though their own budget office says you're going to cost the country one point three million jobs.

Truth is, it's going to be higher than that. Most economists who are not socialists think the number will be much higher. Now, I have attempted over the 30 years of this program to explain the minimum wage and why it's a bogus proposition countless times and I'm going to do it again. I have found over the course of my hosting the program that the minimum wage is something that a lot of people are just sympathetic to the way it's presented to them.

Well, you can't feed a family on a family of four point fifteen dollars. Well, then why isn't it higher than that? Is the question I always ask, what is the minimum wage? The minimum wage is an arbitrary amount of money that business owners, the majority of whom are small business owners, will be required by federal law that they have to pay whether the people they hire are worth it or not. The reason the minimum wage costs jobs is because if a business small business currently is paying people entry level at eight bucks an hour and all of a sudden they're told they have to pay them 10.

Well, they don't have the money laying around in a vault. That they're not using, but a lot of people think that if you are a business, that you're a millionaire, if you're a business, you got all kinds of money that you're not spending. You're hoarding it and you're keeping it for yourself rather than giving it to other people and your employees because you're a cheat, because you're you're selfish. Such as the damage to the reputation image of business people that the left has succeeded in creating.

So what has to happen in the real world? Business owners have to let employees go. They have to fire them. Because they don't have. An endless pile of money they could be paying people with, but aren't. Most small businesses have very small margins there. They're. Not just barely getting by, but it's not. They're not a bunch of hedge funders, let's put it this way. But the real problem is it's an arbitrary number that is mandated on them.

It has no relationship to the business that they're in. It has no relationship to their profit and loss. It has no relationship whatsoever to the business they're in and help. The cost of doing business are what the current profit margins are. They just slap on an arbitrary figure. It has nothing to do with market conditions. And the arbitrary figure is one that is created by politicians that they can get behind as compassionate and understanding and they care about people, well, people end up losing their jobs because of the minimum wage.

It's much easier. To trim your workforce than it is to go out and somehow make people more productive and making people more productive is how you end up being able to pay them more. Your business growing. But the arbitrary minimum wage. Is a direct assault on small business growth, which is the primary bottom line to why isn't it just a guaranteed failure? It's been tried, it's been proven over and over again. It doesn't matter. This is a Democrats using their power.

When they have it and the purpose of this is to create failures in small business, to run them out of business, to make sure that they have all kinds of trouble making their ends meet. You might say, well, why would anybody want to do that, because it'll turn them into dependence on the government folks, it always circles back to that. In addition, the nationalization of a fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage, which again will not hit until twenty twenty five, if fifteen dollars an hour is what's needed, why not do it this year?

Why have to wait on twenty twenty five? And at fifteen dollars an hour is good, why not 20, you know, try and experiment with somebody, this always works. Talk to somebody who is in favor of the minimum wage. You won't have any trouble finding people there. They've been brainwashed on this for a number of years and keep asking. OK, well, at 15 bucks an hour is good. Why not 20 and then agree with you?

Oh, yeah, I could go for that and just keep bumping it up. OK, you're like twenty what about twenty five dollars. And they'll agree with you at some point when you keep bumping up the number. You'll reach a number where they will say, no, no, no, no, no, we can't do that. It may be 35 an hour, maybe 25, it may be whatever, but you'll reach a point where the person you're talking to who loves the minimum wage will tell you, no, no, no, that's too much at that point.

You, Pownce. And you say, why? Why is 35 too much wind, 30 isn't. Why is 35 too much? When 25 isn't and they will not have an answer for you. Some will actually, and the answer they have will make your point. Well, I mean, that's just too much to mandate that somebody be paid for that before, you know, whether they're working. Aha. Well, why did it take thirty five to get you to realize that.

Why didn't you realize that at 25. Why didn't you realize that at 15 or 20. The point is, you're not really arguing with them about a specific number. The reason you're doing this exercise is to get them to finally react. At whatever number that it's not right to put that kind of a burden on business at that point, you've won the argument.

Here's what else it does, though, it destroys youth and minority employment because the minimum wage is not designed to support a family of four.

There is no way. It never has been. It's entry level, it's designed to pay people who don't have any experience doing the job. It's just. And what it does, it wipes out entry level jobs, and that's what people that have never done work before need, they need entry level jobs to learn how to survive in the work culture. They need to learn how to show up and to show up on time. They need to learn how to follow directions.

They need to learn how to engage in productive behavior. They need to learn the satisfaction of doing a job. Well, that's what the whole point of entry level work is. Entry level work is not designed to support a family. You weren't you weren't ready to support a family when you were 16 or 17, you left home, you wanted to go get a job that you weren't capable of it. You had to learn the work culture. That's one entry level work is all about.

But, of course, wiping out entry level positions, destroying minority employment, that's kind of the plan, isn't it? It just forces businesses to move to automation, that's what's going to happen, businesses eventually. You know what? I can't deal with this hassle. I can't deal with you people telling me how much I have to pay people when you don't even know what the work is. You don't even understand what I do in my business. And I'm not going to put up with that.

I'm going to try to automate as much of this work as I can. Andrew Yang of all people, has laid this all out. They want to destroy John, why would they want to do that? That's a tough thing to say, right? No, it's not. They want to destroy jobs by replacing as many as they can with automation. Why? Well, that's how Andrew Yang believes that he can get his universal basic income of a thousand dollars a month passed into law when people do not have any job.

When they don't have work to do, when they don't have a job to go to, they still need money, they still need food, still need to pay the bills. Hey, I got an idea. How about a guaranteed universal income? One thousand dollars a month, universal basic income. Not to mention this will wipe out a lot of restaurants. Who managed to make it through 20, 20 still alive? And they're going to raise taxes in the midst of this.

They're going to raise taxes while they are raising the minimum wage. I don't know if folks here is and in in Hudson, Wisconsin, we head back to the phones. How are you doing? Great to have you.

I'm doing great. Right. Such an honor to talk to you. We thank you for all your words. Thank you, sir, very much. Basically, I'm a 63 year old United States Air Force veteran. Some are retired contractor. And when I was, we lived right on the border of Minnesota and we experienced the Al Franken Norm Coleman fiasco. We all knew what was going to come with this election. We elected not to do anything about it.

It's our fault. I'm involved with several groups. My wife's big time involved with the local Republican Party. And we suggested the third party thing. And everybody's like, let's go, let's go, let's go. So I went to the state of Wisconsin to find out what I needed to do to get people on the ballots and start a third party rush. Its impossible. People have no idea what I was involved with, even getting somebody on the ballot.

So and then I looked into some third parties that exist out there. We've got one called the Constitution Party that actually cost Walker the governor election and not. We got Ebers who's you know, we're not quite as bad as the people in Minnesota, thanks to the Supreme Court that Walker put in there. But we don't need a third party. We need to clean up the Republican.

Well, that's a third party. Just gives people another option to vote for. That ends up watering down the Republican Party's chances of winning like the libertarians have always done. Right.

And but you're right, creating a third party that has tentacles with Senate and House of Representatives, all its people do not know how difficult it is to literally start a third party that that stretches beyond the presidential race.

Yeah, just local. We've been going to the school board. You know, they had a meeting here to vet the conservative people for the school board, the city council, the county we've been going to all those all those meetings we in my wife and I and what we're finding, there were 300 people that are at a political party here two weeks ago Friday. There's 60, 70, 80 people going to vet the people that are running for the school board.

People are active right now. And somehow we need to figure out a way to unify that come together and we need to clean the swamp up. And we need we need President Trump. No doubt he needs to be our leader. So, anyway, thank you so much. You bet.

I'm glad you called. We got to take a quick time out. We'll be back and continue after that.

Back to the phones we go. Open line Friday, Fort Worth, Texas. This is Laurie. Great to have you.

Hello, how are you? I'm good, thank you.

I had to call in Idaho a thousand times because there's a small business owner. It isn't just the effect of the employee, the bottom line employee or the entry level employee losing their jobs. What people have to understand, if they're way past entry level and they think, well, this doesn't apply to me, is that the cost of absolutely every single thing they put in their grocery cart, every single thing they buy will skyrocket. And then you also have employees that have worked for years for you that are loyal employees that may be paying, being paid ten, twelve, fifteen dollars an hour.

And you also have to raise them a commensurate amount. And so it's just absolutely skyrockets. Well, everything that you'd buy.

Yeah. If you take on new employees, that's true. You do have to raise the the compensation for existing employees. But isn't it true that what you normally do, the easiest thing to do is you just for lack of a better word, you fire people in order to maintain what your cost of doing labor, your labor costs are. That's what your primary outgo flow is. And you've got to maintain that. You know what that is? You want to be able to calculate that for as long as you can.

Labor cost are the number one expense you've got.

And so it's easier just to let people go well, except that it harms your productivity because then you're stretching all these other employees to cover what was being done by entry level positions. You're having them having to either pay them much more because they're making more hours or they're doing other jobs. And so it affects everything all the way around. It is not just an entry level position. And as somebody that is employed, entry level position people, it takes a long time to get them trained to do, as you said, the the culture of business.

Right.

And all, by the way, with the Biden administration, we're going to do all this while importing the Third World and via the southern border. Yes. I mean, how much sense does this make? None. Exactly right. Zip, zero, nada.

Thank you for all you do. I'm glad you called. Really. It's a great, great addition to the point. So it's not very often a caller is able to add additional salian. Points to any issue discussed by me, the big voice on the right, but Laurie here, Dennet, here's League City, Texas. Jim, great to have you with us. How you doing, sir?

Fine. Happy Friday to you. Right. To my point, I'm not a radical person, but I have a radical idea for elections. Much thought I would throw it out there for you if the voters if we were if there was an amendment that said voters have the right for U.S. Senate and the U.S. House to choose none of the above and rather than, you know, the candidates on that with a with a with a procedure, whereas if the none of the above selection got a plurality, certain processes would then take place, like namely for a U.S. Senate if the none of the above.

Got the plurality, then you'd go back to pre 17th Amendment, where the state legislator would then choose a senator to serve one term and for the House.

Why do you want to do this? I would just like for people to have that choice, because I think you have situations where people go into Congress and with maybe the best of intentions and they become a part of the the elite. The establishment.

Yeah, but you don't you don't you can you can make bets on who is going to do that and who is going to resist it. But you don't know before the election who's actually going to succumb to those pressures and become a denizen of the deep swamp. You just don't know who's going to do it. And I guarantee you what would happen in a circumstance like this if you put. Well, it would never happen. This would never happen. But if you did, since we're discussing hypothetical, if you put none of the above, whoever ends up getting the most votes is going to be said to have won.

And you said, well, but not if they don't get a plurality. Well, I guarantee you, if we change the law that people can vote none of the above the law would include whoever ends up with the most votes still is going to win.

Nothing's going to change.

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Andy in Clarksville, Indiana. Glad you waited, sir. Your next. Hello. Great to have you here. Hello, Russia.

I love your show and I've been listening to it for years and I just pray. And in my suit, my heavenly father and Jesus Christ be healed this second. And my question is. Is one of these governors in the Democratic state able to walk around Trump's executive orders and and I don't understand why the Republicans say a great point, a great point.

I mentioned this. I think it was the week before last. I'm Andy. I'm so glad you reminded me of this. The point that I made was whenever Trump tried to do anything via an executive order, what have the Democrats found? Some wacky judge. In Washington state or in Hawaii to issue an injunction preventing Trump's executive order from going into effect, so Trump would rewrite it based on the judge's objections and resubmit it. And I asked the question last week, how long will it be before the Republicans do the same thing?

How long before the Republicans go find a judge anywhere? To grant an injunction against any of Biden's executive actions are executive orders and guess what? And he hasn't happened, has it? No, it has it, but the thing is, is the Republicans need to gross margin. Remember that we are one republic, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And then I think Americans forgot that. Well, well, I don't know.

I'm sure many of them think that this is this is a matter of pure politics. This is illustrated. They don't want to go to the trouble. It it may be a lot of it may be a hassle to go out and try to find a friendly judge and then ask the judge for an injunction against the Biden executive order. I guarantee you. Well, I'll get as close to guaranteeing you as I can that the Republicans don't want the hassle of the media ripping them to shreds for doing it, because I guarantee you, again, if the Republicans did this, the media would cream them.

Now back. When the Democrats went out to find friendly judges. To invoke injunctions against the Trump executive orders, the media praised the judge's praise, the Democrats made them out to be great heroes. Republicans know that if they try the same thing, the media is going to rip them to shreds and they just don't want to have to deal with that. So that is I'm so glad that you reminded me, because this is another great illustration of how they use power even when they don't have it.

They were doing this in twenty seventeen after they lost the 2016 election. I do believe that in Texas, I do believe a judge in Texas put a temporary stay on Biden's executive order ending deportations. And I think I think that's Greg Abbott. The governor I just had the story in the stack here. Yeah, I put it in the back of the. It was the age, it was a joke, Paxton, the AG did it well, but I'm not surprised that it's happening in Texas, but it I'm glad that it happened.

I'm glad you reminded me of that. I'd seen that in the stack and I had I'd forgotten it. But still, the Democrats get it with every Trump executive action, every Trump executive order. So we'll see. Andy, thanks for the call and I really appreciate your your prayers. Everybody's prayers. More than you know. Ladies and gentlemen, I have something I want to get into here before the the hour ends and therefore the program ends. There is, as you well know, there is growing evidence.

That the capital assault on January 6th. Was planned. It was something that was in the works long before Trump made a speech that day. And the point is. That the evidence that the capital assault, the protests we're going to call it was planned weakens. The incitement case against Trump, which weakens the impeachment. It undermines these claims that rioters were responding spontaneously to Trump's speech, that was never true, it was never the case. Trump did not encourage any of the behavior that happened.

He didn't ask anybody to do anything that those people did. The Democrats didn't care. They knew this. They know the timeline doesn't work. But they were going to they were going to bullrush this and stampede this thing and make sure that they could impeach him so he couldn't run again, ever. The short version of this is. That the FBI. Is going to bail the Democrats out on this impeachment, this impeachment may not actually happen.

As Professor Dershowitz said, Professor Dershowitz said, if Trump didn't know about the attack on the capital, if they planned it without him, then you're missing the causal relationship.

It would have happened without his speech as well. So that would be relevant on the issue of causation. And they're not going to be able to link Trump to this. And his lawyers are going to make sure that this is known. For the Trump speech to Miach to meet the threshold of incitement. A speaker like Trump must first indicate a desire for violence, and second, the speaker must demonstrate a capability or reasonable indication of capability to carry out the violence.

This according to Kevin Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI and former principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Trump's case. Said Kevin Brock, there were neither, so the FBI is asserting itself here and basically telling the Democrats, you don't have causation. For Trump's speech. To meet the threshold of incitement, Trump must indicate a desire for violence. He did the exact opposite. Trump asked people to go do what they were going to do peacefully and then to go home.

Second, the speaker, i.e., Trump, must demonstrate a capability. Or indication of capability to carry out what he did, none of this. And so the spokesman for the FBI, former assistant director of intelligence. Deputy director, National Counterterrorism Center Kevin Blackistone Trump. Did neither. So this is the FBI signaling to Pelosi and Schumer that you don't. You don't have causation here, you can't link Trump to the violence because it was planned, it was planned long before Trump made his speech.

It began while Trump still was speaking. And we know that many of the people involved were antifa and other Savitar's trying to make themselves look like Magga people when they weren't. So just keep a sharp eye on this. They don't have the votes to convict anyway, it doesn't mean Pelosi and gang give up, but it's going to get more difficult and problematic for them, which it always was by.

Here are the details on the Texas judge. It's a Trump appointee guy named Drew Tipton granted a temporary restraining order sought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, saying that the state had demonstrated the likelihood of facing immediate harm from Biden's pause in deportation. So I was getting this confused with something Greg Abbott was asking. But this is the equivalent of the Republicans trying to stymie a Biden executive action or executive order with a federal district court injunction. Again, Drew Tipton, federal judge, Texas Trump appointee, blocked Biden's 100 day deportation pause executive order on Tuesday.

It's a ruling that says may point to a new phase of conservative legal challenges to the Biden administration's immigration agenda. We shall see. Don. In Detroit, your next open line Friday. Hi.

Hello, Russ. What a pleasure this is. I've been listening to you since 1988 and recently even got my mom to finally see the light. She's from South America. And finally, I was wondering who that's entertaining. Guy was on the radio one day. I tricked her and I said, oh, the guy you hate, Rush Limbaugh and way to go.

He took 31 years. You got it. Did it was a long whatever, but she took her on the radio and she says, this man, that man is so entertaining. I heard laughing.

That's a beautiful thing. Thank you very much. Anyways, I'll get to the point here. I got so many, but let's stop talking about the I heard you about the fifteen dollars an hour. And, you know, and I wanted to talk about the, you know, as a construction contractor here, how tough it is, all these burdens that are placed on the employer and that fifteen dollars an hour, whether it's my experiences, whether you know, I'm talking even entry level, just like you're saying, like maybe laborers and so on.

I don't care if it's ten dollars an hour or if you give them fifteen because they got to buy the whatever or it's the middle of the summer and you just need warm bodies to keep the keep the projects going. Or if you pay them twenty dollars an hour, I still got the same output, I still got the same employee that comes in with a thousand dollar iPhone. They got they call them sleeze, they got tattoos on both arms and that costs a fortune.

They're 20 some years old, you know, grown adults still living in the mom's basement. And I mean, it's true. A lot of people make fun about that. But it is true.

I know it's true. And you've got a great point. You're basically saying no matter what you pay them, you still get the same productivity out of them, which is not much the same thing.

And or you'll get the older guys that, you know, they're crying about their no name diapers and the feed to the court, but they're smoking brand name cigarettes. And and they got the same ones, too, with a thousand dollar iPhones and everything. None of them have a work ethic. And the burdens on me is just basic basic math computations, teaching a guy how to how to read a tape, measure a hold holda a grading stick. You know, we did a lot of excavating, grading work and so on.

And, you know, the new guys will fly like an eagle for a week, ten days. And then it's the same thing. I've become the loanshark, the camp counselor, the bail bondsman. I'm a psychologist. I'm sorry. I can't tell you how many times I'll take. I got I get Pirates' and I got Turnham. Try to turn them into choirboys here. And this young, old the young ones, they can't handle the heat anymore.

You can't you can watch how you talk to him. I got to talk so soft or whatever. I'll have a mom called me up and tell me I need to learn how to talk to her adult child.

And because, you know, he was late for wait a minute, you had a mother call you and tell you you need to learn how to talk to her adult child.

He was 24 years old, Russ, living in the base, but at least three and a half hours late to work. We're doing a swimming pool. We need guys just warm bodies to kick around.

What are you paying this guy? Fort Lee said that time was fourteen dollars an hour at the start 14. That was two years ago.

And his mom, of all the things you said, you would have to sit there and your phone rings and it's the mother of one of these guys living in her basement and she is complaining to you she be itching at you about the way you're talking to her son?

Well, that's it for today, folks. Open line Friday is Feni. But there's always the next time, I really hope you have a great weekend and we'll be with you next time and hopefully you're going to be Monday. But keep in mind, everything's day to day here.

Just remember this. You wake up every morning.

I do. And I thank God that I did. Still on the right side of the grass here, folks.

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