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Eight hundred two eight two two eight eight to the e-mail address is Rushville at EIB Net Dot U.S.. It's amazing how things don't change. I mean, they do and then they don't. And it is all tied together with the fact that Donald Trump was not re-elected or had the election stolen from him. Whichever you choose to believe, I'm in the latter camp on this. I just I too many oddities here to be flat out coincidental. But before I get to the essence of what I'm referencing here, Trump tweeted something out today and I just I just want to share it with he said distribution of both vaccines is going smoothly.

It's amazing how many people are being vaccinated. Record numbers, our country and indeed the world will soon see the great miracle of what the Trump administration has accomplished. They said it couldn't be done and they did. Trump promised that we would have a vaccine by the end of the year. I mean, sometimes he said we'd have it before the election by the end of November. Whatever we do, we have a vaccine to offer them now for the covid virus much sooner than anybody.

With feet planted firmly in the establishment, even acknowledged was possible, they said it wasn't possible, Trump is right about that. This is American exceptionalism on display. This happened because an outsider. Was in charge of this kind of operation, warp speed. This is something you have to understand and a person from the Washington establishment, the deep state, however we refer to it, wouldn't have even tried this Vogues. They wouldn't have even thought it possible, they wouldn't have believed it possible to have a vaccine in less than 10 months, now we've got two of them, but we would have never even had this on the table as a possibility because people inside the Beltway are not interested in solving problems or solving them quickly.

That's that's just like the nature of all bureaucracies is not to fix things, thereby eliminating their own need.

Why? When you fix something, if it would mean the end of you or your plan or your program or your maybe even your very bureaucracy, your department. And so the track record on the creation of vaccines for you, we still have a vaccine for AIDS.

I wonder how people with AIDS feel about this. I mean, we have shown here that if we use what we Americans have at our disposal, that we can accomplish a lot of things that many other Americans tell us we can't do.

And we do it at warp speed.

I think I think Trump is going to make a big deal out of this event in the Georgia Senate campaign, which he says he's going to make one more trip there soon or very near the actual runoff election itself. But then back to the area where things do not want one one one more thing about them, about the vaccine. Wall Street Journal story, just to confirm this, US starts delivery of modernises. covid-19 vaccine trucks carrying the shot will start rolling out Sunday, yesterday or two days ago, with injections slated to commence on Monday.

Immunizations using the newly authorized covid-19 vaccine from Moderna Inc. are slated to start yesterday, boosting the mass inoculation campaign that was launched last week. So I just wanted to establish not just Trump saying it. It is actually happening, but turn the page and you go back to things that still are not changing, things that do not change when the establishment again reasserts control. The media today, as is the case every day, is full of fake news. Oh, by the way, grab audio, sound bite number one.

I am glad to see that there is an echo out there. Sharyl Attkisson this morning on C-SPAN Washington Journal. The the host is Pendrell Etxebarria and he spoke with the host of the syndicated political affairs program, Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson. She got a new book, Slanted How the News Media Taught US to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism. Now, Echeverri says you have written books taking a look at the media. What does this book have apart from the in other words, how is this book different from your others?

The evolution of the death of the news as we once knew it right there.

There is no news anymore. Hallelujah. A second voice. There is no news, folks. This is so crucial to intimate, to comprehend, to understand.

There is no news, everything is. Oriented toward the advancement of the Democrat Party agenda. OK, re redo the bite to the top and here it is.

I promise I will not interrupt it this time, but the evolution of the death of the news as we once knew it, which has been observed probably by most of the people who are listening and watching today, but they don't necessarily know what's behind it. I posit that this trend and censorship and social media is borne of the same types of political and corporate interests that have successfully controlled news narratives the first 15 years of this century before they then focused on social media and the Internet because they saw in 2016 that the public could still get unfettered access to studies that powerful interests don't want us to see and viewpoints and people.

So they decided to figure out starting then, and they have done so quite successfully how to control the information we see online.

It's not just online, it's the information we see anywhere. But it's crucial to to understand and no, I didn't play this because I wanted to sit here and brag. You people know that I don't brag because it ain't bragging if you can do it. I'm just happy to see the the sentiment spread. There is no news. It is so crucial to understand what we see. I don't care where you get it. I don't care if you get it on CNN.

See MSNBC, ABC, CBS.

And there is no news anymore. There literally isn't any journalism. And that began even further back than twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen. It just it just hit light speed after the election of Trump, but things were trending that way.

She has been observed probably by most people who are listening and watching today, but they don't necessarily know what's behind it. She she says that the the trend in censorship in social media is borne of the same types of political and corporate interests that have successfully controlled news narratives. And that that pretty much sums it up. There is a vested interest here in using the medium. To advance the agenda of the left and have people still think what they're watching is news, and if that's all people watch, then and if they don't figure out that it's not news and why wouldn't they unless they're told persuasively?

And so there's some more of it here today. The media is full. Of B.S. fake news today, you probably heard there's a covid relief bill, if you heard that, Mr. Inertly is covid relief and you know that much about Verbruggen. Nine hundred billion. I write about this nine nine hundred billion dollars, covid relief bill. But that's not what this is. This is things don't change. Congress did not pass a massive covid relief bill. They passed a massive giveaway.

To questionable socialist nations and sketchy Democrat Party constituencies, Georgia, part of the old Soviet Union, got millions of dollars for something that's not even specified. Vietnam got one hundred sixty nine million dollars.

Egypt. One hundred one point three billion dollars Pakistan or as Obama says, Pakistan. Got millions of dollars for something to do with gender, I don't know, are they in favor or opposed to it, whatever, they got millions of dollars worth Srilanka. Fifteen million dollars to fix about. Not kidding, 15 million dollars to repair about Ukraine. Our old friends in Ukraine, four hundred fifty three million dollars, I guess that is so they can keep paying Hunter Biden and his dad.

Why? Four hundred and fifty three million dollars to Ukraine. What this is, is classic income redistribution or money laundering.

Ukraine could well be. But guess what, folks, restaurants and bars, people are places where people meet and congregate the hardest hit. Of our small businesses. I mean, this, this, this. Division of our economy is being wiped out almost purposefully in blue states, restaurants got nothing in the nine hundred billion dollar covid relief bill.

But you know what? Chuck Schumer got relief, he got money for comedy clubs. You know why Jerry Seinfeld lobbied him? You hadn't heard that? Well, what are you reading? Jerry Seinfeld basically lobbied Chuck Schumer, hey, the comedy bill, the comedy clubs are being really hit hard here. So Schumer threw in some I don't know how much it is, but it's it's it's a it's a little bit of a tap. But the point is that the hardest hit.

Of all of our small businesses in a covid relief bill got zilch, zero, nada. That's restaurants and bars. The Kennedy Center for the Arts and whatever else, 40 million dollars, meanwhile, Americans. Six hundred dollars each. Now, if the covid relief bill consisted only of giving each American six hundred dollars, they left it at that. Then the cost of the covid relief bill would have been one hundred ninety eight billion dollars, but. The covid relief bill, which is five thousand pages in which members of Congress didn't read, which they never do read, nothing's changed.

Nine hundred billion dollars. So six hundred dollars for every American would equal to one hundred ninety eight billion dollar bill.

Yet this bill is more than nine hundred million. Do the math. We've give it away seven hundred billion dollars to corrupt cronies, corrupt countries that are allies of the Democrat Party. It needs to be vetoed, Trump needs to veto it. I don't know if he will. I don't believe he will. But it needs to be vetoed. Now, the bill is being touted and I can't wait to get this bill is being touted as the as a major, major achievement in attacking climate change.

I kid you not they are bragging about how this bill is going to do so much for climate change. It'll take me a little while to explain all this. I've got all the time in the world, I think you do, to hear this gender programs in Pakistan. Fifteen million dollars for democracy programs, 10 million for gender programs, Pakistan. Sri Lanka, up to 50 million dollars for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter, it's a patrol boat, 50 million dollars to fix a boat.

Mr. Inertly. There it is in Sri Lanka. Five hundred and five million dollars to Baily's, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama to address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied undocumented minors to the US. Five hundred five million dollars to these Central American countries to, quote, address key factors that contribute to the migrant. So we're going to five hundred five million dollars to study. To find out why unaccompanied undocumented minors come to the United States, we can tell them that today I'll out, I'll do that for one hundred mil.

I'll cut them a break, I will tell them why undocumented, undocumented, unaccompanied minors migrate to the United States for one hundred million, not five hundred and five.

Let's see here what else? Yeah, there's four hundred fifty three million dollars for assistance for Ukraine. There's a tax break for race. Horse owners wonder how that ended up in the bill.

Meanwhile, you and I, we get 600 bucks. Oh, and they extended unemployment benefits for a few weeks and so forth.

But see, nothing changes when the establishment asserts control. And we've got listen to this now.

I've I better take the break, otherwise I'll have less time on the other side. It's a type of. Be right back. Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone. And yes, today is like all other days, folks, I woke up. And in a few split seconds, I realized I had woken up and at that very moment I thanked God that I did every day is day to day.

Some days are good, some days are bad. You don't know from day to day how it's going to be. So you accept each day as it is given to you and what you can make of it. One other thing in this bill, family members, I kid you not on this. Family members of illegal immigrants are now able to get stimulus checks. And it's retroactive. So they can also get the previous twelve hundred dollars that was given out way back when, this is a tweet from Ryan fornia.

At 10 a.m. this morning, family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks, you know, let me reread that with proper emphasis on proper words, family members of illegal.

Aliens, it says here family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks under this new covid relief bill, and it's retroactive so they can also get the previous twelve hundred dollars. Given out, so they're going to get 18, the families of illegal aliens, it seems that in every piece of legislation it comes down the pike that involves government grants to individuals. It seems like illegal aliens end up being at the top of the priority list. Which should not surprise people who have been paying attention to me and people like me for the recent years, now I'm back to the climate change aspect of the of the bill.

I like John Barrasso folks. He's the senator, Republican senator from Wyoming.

But this he said Republicans and Democrats are working together to protect the environment through innovation. That's his comment on the Kofod relief bill.

This historic agreement includes three separate pieces of legislation that will significantly reduce greenhouse gases. We're going to capture and store carbon dioxide produced by power and manufacturing plant life. This is the way Democrats talk. We're going to authorize a 15 year reduction of hydrofluorocarbons that are used in everything from cars to air conditioners to considered a major driver of global warming and are being targeted.

And we have a Republican senator touting this in a comic relief bill. And we're back on the EIB Network. Great to have you with us. Let me let me get started on the phones here. We got David in St. Louis. Welcome, sir. Great to have you. Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Just fine, thank you, sir. Good. Good.

How are you doing, David? How is it going with you?

I am just a little upset with there's not one politician at one on either side of the aisle that's willing to say what you did today. You know, the president should have a news conference where he goes up there and tells everybody about the ridiculous amount of money being spent everywhere besides our.

Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now, I hear you on this, but we are now because of covid and all the spending, we're 30 trillion are on the way there, 30 trillion dollars. And it doesn't matter anymore to these people. It literally there are no limits is like debt is irrelevant. It isn't a problem. We haven't seen the economy crash from debt in our lifetimes. So why would it crash now? So there's there are no guardrails.

There's no red light on spending, whatever they need. So. Nine hundred billion now they know that you're sensitive to it. But the reason that they won't tell you this is they may not know. They haven't read it. It's 5000 pages. Five thousand pages to give every American six hundred bucks. That's not what the bill does. And look, folks, I'm not one of these budget hawks anymore because of what I've just told you, the idea that there is some kind of limit.

On federal spending for the sake of the economy, for choking off the private sector's access to capital, these people and you have to admit that it started this year, the Trump administration, there was there was literally no limit on the spending covid-19 came along and we weren't going to be hassled.

We're not going to have our hands tied by any budget limits. We had to do what we had to do to deal with this. And we got operation warp speed and we now have two vaccines out there. We also have bailed out the American people throughout the year. Not sufficiently, but we've done it. We've bailed out certain businesses, certain business sectors and so forth. But point is, thirty trillion in debt.

I remember when the Tea Party formed 2010 because they were upset at the amount of spending in Obamacare, which was less, at least on paper, than a trillion now.

And look, I'm not trying to be a harbinger or a messenger of negativism. This is just the way it is. Let me read you a tweet from somebody. I'm going to tell you who the tweet is. I want to ask you if you agree with the sentiment here. Are you ready? Here comes the tweet. This is why Congress needs time to actually read this package before voting on it. Members of Congress have not read this bill. It's over five thousand pages.

It arrived at 2:00 p.m. yesterday and we are told to expect a vote on it in two hours. This isn't governance. It's hostage taking. Who wrote it? That's exactly what Mr. Snidely correctly identified. The author of this tweet is not a hundred days. Do you agree with the sentiment? You do. So you agree with AOC? One hundred percent. It's hard not to. I will. I'll admit hard not to.

So that's that's the answer, David, is that this is welcome to the end of the Trump experiment. That's what this means. This is the establishment going back to doing things they love the way they love. This is exactly why Trump was elected. I think this is exactly why Trump was re-elected. But he's had it taken from him stolen. I will always believe that no matter how difficult it becomes to to prove this is they're celebrating this. The establishment is celebrating this Republican establishment, celebrating this accomplishment as somehow a great attack on climate change.

It's a Colvard relief bill. It should cost no more than one hundred and ninety eight billion dollars if the objective is to give every American six hundred dollars, which, frankly, if we're going to start giving money away to deal with this enough.

Now, we might start, well, the budget, Mr. Limbaugh, we're going to be very careful here about budgets, can't break them all. Now, it's a little late for being concerned about that, not as we approach 30 trillion dollars. There are there are there's terminology in this bill like promoting technologies and creating jobs. The technologies involve carbon capture, emission reduction, replacements for the hydrofluorocarbons used as coolant and air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

As Jazz Shaw and Hot Air writes in a post on this, you see that's how they like to describe such initiatives to put a pleasant spin on them. A better translation of those passages would be to say that taxpayer money will be shoveled into green energy and carbon reduction companies. Who will ostensibly be working to achieve those goals while just coincidentally making a ton, ton of money for a small number of people this big? This is the prelude to the Green New Deal and it's in the covid relief package.

And we've got Republicans out there singing its praises.

There's a great deal more than just climate change jammed into this thing to nobody in Congress or the media had a chance to read it before it was passed. And that is an answer to guys. Lewis's question, why? Why am I the only one telling? It's because they didn't read this before. They they couldn't have ever given two hours. It's five thousand pages. Come on. Not even their clerks or their legislative assistants could have read it. I mean, like there's money for invasive species mitigation, water management on the Tibetan plateau, gender programs in Pakistan and piles of money, India, Tibet, other nations dig in if you want, but don't doubt me, it is all in there.

But it has turned into a climate change bill. That is the primary sales point and how they're getting around excusing it.

And there is there is no climate change there. They need to go through this again, but there is no man made climate that there is no way to stop it. But you know what I'm going to ignore? That's been my that's been my reaction to all this for 30 years. But I'm going to go a different way. In an in an attempt here to once again be persuasive to those of you in this audience for all of these years, I have tried to beat the truth into people.

Well, I haven't beaten anybody. But I mean, I have consistently attempted to point out that there is no man made climate change. It's not possible. We do not have that kind of power. We don't have the power to affect the climate of this planet. We just don't.

But that apparently doesn't doesn't permeate.

So let's attack it from another direction. Let us assume that they are right. Not in fact, we can do two things at once. Let's assume that man made climate change or any kind is happening. And. Then what is the second part of that? Here comes Biden making a big deal, he's got a huge climate change agenda. It's one of the first things he mentions every time he gets into his agenda. And the purpose of the reason for that is to create or extend the idea that there's a crisis, Democrats need crises and they need demons.

And we're going to go back to the way things used to be for four years. For four years, we had somebody in the White House who was defeating this this kind of thinking, this kind of agenda every day, Donald Trump. Now we're going to go back the way it was for all of those years prior to Trump and Biden's effort here with climate change.

Let's I'll take a break and we'll come back and we'll play. OK, let's assume that there is climate change that's going to happen and we can't stop it, which is part and parcel of their claim. Let's remember now we have the power to affect the climate. We have the ability to change it and make it worse.

But somehow there's nothing we can do to stop it. Except spend a lot of government. You just sit tight and I'll explain to you exactly what I mean. Hey, welcome to Christmas Week here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, a return to the old way of doing things which was so problematic.

And yes, even in the good times, Rush Limbaugh at eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. And Rich Lowry has a column today on the Biden climate change agenda, which, again, like Sharyl Attkisson, I'm glad to see it because it is like I don't mean to sound.

It's well, it's it's great to see a certain way of thinking amplified out there. So it's more than just one place. Here's here's the thing about the way the left is going about approaching climate change. They give us this horrible. Snapshot of the future climate change going to raise the temperature, it's going to do this, it's going to do that, it's going to have hurricanes and volcanoes and all kinds of horrible, rotten things. And what are we going to do?

Why if you if you listen, we're just going to sit there. And lived through it, we're just going to sit there and suffer. This is how the Democrats never understand the dynamics of a capitalist economy. They pass a massive tax increase. Remember the yacht tax? They came up with a massive tax on the people who make boats and massive individual tax increase and the people that make boats. And what did people do?

They started buying boats in foreign countries where there was no tax, no additional tax. So who got hurt? The people that actually make the boat, the people that work making boats were laid off because there were no boats being sold because there was a new tax. The Democrats think they raise taxes on California. California is just I can't wait to tell you this. California has just passed a wealth tax. On people who are leaving the state because of high taxes already, wait till you hear how they're doing it so they tax and tax and tax people leave the state.

The Democrats think they're just going to sit there and pay the punishment. That's not how people are. Well, the same thing with climate change, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, I'm still watching enough to ask me every 10 minutes talking to my TV.

Not anybody. So I'm not being rude, not where I can talk to my TV. Anyway, I want to talk to now.

To maintain that these rapidly increasing climate temperatures are a threat to human existence. Entails believing that human beings are going to be snuffed out, we're just going to sit there and die if the planet gets a few degrees hotter. What are they talking about? A couple of degrees Celsius? And what are we going to why we're going to die? Why would we die? Because we're going to sit there and we're just going to suffer. We're going to sit there and we're going to sweat to death.

We're going to sit there and we're going to thirst to death. We're going to sit there. And because climate change is going to kill us. But that's not what happens. Human beings have this marvelous ability called adaptability. Human beings have the ability to adapt to hardship left it. It's the name of the game for the human existence who are the only species that can do well. We're not the only ones. We're the only ones knowingly doing it.

Some species evolved to deal with various challenges to their lives and they don't even know what's happening because they're they're stupid animals. But we have the ability to purposely and with a design structure adapt. The Democrats believe, for example, that if the sea levels rise, which is not going to happen like they say, but let's say they do, we're just going to stay there in our homes and be flooded. One day you will read the story, how Rush Limbaugh, famous radio talk show host, died today as the sea level expanded and swallowed his house.

Limbaugh did not have the sense to leave his house before the high water got there. Is that what we're going to do? People living in the way of oncoming ocean just going to sit there and drown.

If the summers, which is where it gets hot. If they if it gets much hotter in places that are unaccustomed to it. Do you think we might install air conditioning, like, let's say let's take a place, let's got to pick a favorite place, there's all kinds of places that even in the summertime, don't get all that hot.

But let's say climate change makes it get two or three degrees hotter. Well, do you think people live there might install air conditioning in their homes or are they just going to sit there and sweat to death? It's not what we do when faced with arduous circumstances, when faced with challenges to our lives, what do we do, why we invent a vaccine or we find ways to mitigate the oncoming destructive force, whatever it is, it's the name of the human game.

Let's say that there are droughts out there. Let's say that it gets dry. Let's say that it gets parched. You think we're just going to sit there and die of thirst? Are we going to find a way to deal with it? When we find a way to divert water to these newly installed, newly created drought areas, are we just going to sit there and suffer and eventually die? If some of these areas become unlivable, we're just going to sit there and die.

No. We are wealthier, we are more technologically able than ever we have been. And we are not going to sit there and allow if this list of disasters actually were to happen, we're not going to sit there and allow ourselves to die or suffer. We're going to adapt, which is what we've adapted to this point. There have been changes in our climate, every changes in all kinds of life circumstances. We've had to adapt.

And there's no but they never calculate that in any of these crises. Extending threats.

Heck, my friends, even the polar bear polar bears, remember, they were we were told that they were dying out. There's more polar bears today than ever, by the way. Even the polar bears adapt. They find bigger ice things to lay on. And there are plenty of ice things to lay on out there.

They're not melting, as we are told, anyway. Anyway, sit tight. We'll be back. Our number two coming up.

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And here we are back at it, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy. You know what? We actually do the news on this program. There is journalism taking place on this program. Now, I myself would have to say that I am a reporter in the sense that I report what I learn that's going on out there that you may not know otherwise. And evidence of that in our first busy broadcast hour today was some of the elements of the covid relief bill.

We have a nine hundred billion dollar piece of legislation called the covid Relief Bill, in which every American is to be given six hundred dollars. Now, if that's all the bill contained, it would cost one hundred ninety eight billion. So let's round that up to two hundred million. But it doesn't cost two hundred billion, it costs 900 million, so if the covid relief bill has basically 10 percent of its money for the American citizens, what the heck else is in this bill?

And that's what we reported. That's what we demonstrated. And it is for the usual senseless, funny, oddball weirdo things that end up in every piece of legislation that happens to be timed right before a possible government shutdown every December.

It's loaded with pork. It's loaded with giveaways to. Friendly socialist nations, there's far more money in this bill for other countries, and there's 15 million dollars in this bill to fix a boat, folks, a military boat in Sri Lanka. I'm not kidding. One boat 15 miles to fix it, to repair it. So in that sense, we report there's probably more actual journalism happening on this program than you'll notice that the drive by media, pick your network, grab audio, sound bite number thirty one Fox Business Network, Cavuto coast to coast.

This is Neil Cavuto who remember chastised President Trump for taking hydroxyl. Clark, when he said, you take that, that's irresponsible. Irresponsible for you to be telling people to take Hydroxycut. People die. It will kill you. It will kill people.

You shouldn't. We found out last week that the. Whatever the government health agency is found out, there's nothing wrong with it. In fact, it may actually work. Isn't this amazing after the election, after all this is over with? Yes, it may actually help some people. That's right. The AMA. That's right. American Medical Association. At any rate, here is Gasparino.

They have just figured out the NFL has taken a poll, National Football League. They found out they have lost 17 percent of their fans. At least 17 percent, here's the report, the league's embrace of social justice issues apparently is resonating with enough fans that the ratings are off. And they found that of all the things that people are listening to while you're boycotting sports, why you might not watch a sports game, 17 percent of all the respondents, and that was the highest number, said it was the embrace of social justice issues that all sports are doing that's turning people off.

Now, does that mean Americans are largely racist? I don't know if you can make that point. I'm someone who doesn't care about one thing. I support it. I don't think it's the most provocative social justice statement in the world. But a lot of NFL fans who generally trend conservatives, heavily military, middle class, not rich, they don't like it. And, you know, you've got to know your customer out there.

So all of us are racist. Charlie Gasparino, just think, well, I don't know, but maybe does this mean Americans are largely racist? I don't know if you can make that point, but for me, I'm not somebody who doesn't care about one niece of Charlie. You know, all the other things you talk about your reasonably bright and intelligent. This isn't hard to figure out. This is not hard to understand. That explaining this to people for a couple of years, I actually think it's.

More than 17 percent, and so does the league. There is a there's a and I keep this story on a separate I must not there's a there is a separate story on the NFL's ratings problem, and I have to. Yeah.

Put it somewhere else. It'll it'll come up as I as I go through the stack here on the on the program.

The league does not know its customer. The league wishes it had a different fan base or at least a certain percentage of the fan base they wish were different. And they are running their business as though that difference existed, as though that that that they're running the business, though, that that section of the fan base doesn't exist is the best way to to explain it. So 17 percent in a poll they conducted are boycotting them.

And it's probably, as in the case of any poll, is going to be a higher number than that. People don't like this stuff forced on them in areas they go to to escape it. It's no more complicated than that. People do not watch sports to be preached to politically. They go to sports to escape that. For three hours a Sunday afternoon, six hours maybe, or nine if they watch all three games. But they go to escape it, they don't want to be lectured and they certainly don't want to be blamed and they don't want to be told by multimillionaire's.

How unfair things are and how racist things are when they can't possibly be that bad, otherwise these people wouldn't be living the lives they are living, which are far more lucrative. And far more wealthy than the average American who is a fan or a customer earns or has to be lectured to and preached to and then blamed, you know, an NFL player decides to take a knee because cops are murdering black people. And we're told we have to believe it and we're told we have to accept it and we have to understand it and we have to oppose it.

Otherwise, we're racist pigs or what have you. It's not the way to grow the fan base, just isn't. You're not going to build support for star athletes if those very star athletes serve a new role of antagonizing the fans.

But the owners have decided or they have they have concluded that if they don't support the players, the players will strike or walk out and not play and there'll be nothing. So they have to go through the motions of supporting the players and letting them put signs on their helmets and jerseys, racism, socks, whatever it is.

That's not why people tune in to watch. But Gasparino is.

Little last statement here, a lot of NFL fans generally trend conservative. So what does that mean? Well, they're heavily military.

Oh yeah, they love murder and they love guns and they love missiles and rockets and they love looking people. Right. And their middle class, well, that means they're stupid. They're not as wealthy as we are. They simply don't know enough. They're not rich, which he covered. And they don't like it. They don't like social justice. And, you know, you got to know your customer. It's not that. Conservatives don't like social justice, it's that they don't accept that it's real as a Democrat Party political plank.

Social justice is simply an excuse to censor, it's an excuse to go in and deny people their freedoms and their rights and a whole lot more. And it is conservatives who are very much aware of this. This is a funny by Pete Hegseth of Fox News. This is last Wednesday. He was on Hannity and they were talking about what to expect from the incoming Biden regime. And this is what Pete said.

When I look at it by administration and the infighting of a Casio Cortez and all of that, our dear friend Rush Limbaugh, who is in our thoughts and prayers right now, wrote an op ed about the Obama administration in 2009 for USA Today. He was supposed to write two hundred words. Instead, he wrote four words. I hope he fails. And ultimately, because Joe Biden is the Trojan horse for the left, I hope he fails. I hope he's mired in that infighting that a Cosio Cortez is going to bring in, capable of delivering for the left, incapable of finding the false unity he claims he's going to bring after what they've done to Trump supporters.

That's Pete Hegseth. That was on Hannity last Wednesday night. I'm not mistaken, I think it was The Wall Street Journal that then asked me to write four hundred words. They reached out to a number of opinion and media titans. Well, media leaders and one titan, that was me. And they asked for four hundred words on the incoming Obama presidency, as though we were all enamored, as though all of us were simply overwhelmed with with emotion and in disbelief.

We had finally we had finally elected an African-American president where we're going to rip that racist monkey right off our backs. We're going to get rid of it.

And they wanted to know how these media big shots and Titan were reacting to it. And I said on the radio, and I've responded to them in writing, I don't need four hundred words. I could do it in four. I hope he fails. So Pete decided to repeat that with with with Biden and say the exact same thing. We'll see if there is a similar reaction to Pete Hegseth saying it about Biden, as there was to me saying it about Obama.

Here's a quote from Rand Paul, a sound bite from Rand Paul who was upset about the covid bill. And this was on the Senate floor yesterday.

If money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at six hundred dollars a person? Why not a thousand dollars? Why not two thousand dollars? Maybe these new free money? Republicans should join the everybody gets a guaranteed income caucus. Why not twenty thousand a year for everybody. Why not thirty thousand to so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the socialism of Democrats? If you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better.

He's exactly right, folks. I have used the same argument on the minimum wage. Minimum wage advocates come out there. We need to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour. We need to raise the minimum wage to eighteen dollars an hour. And I have. I've told you. You'll finally, if you keep if you raise it to these advocates, if you if you suggest no, that's not enough, we need to spend more. You'll eventually reach a point where they will say, no, that's too much.

Well. You used to be able to do that, for example, you have your minimum wage increase advocate, you're talking to him. We need to raise the minimum wage at 20 bucks. And you say that's not a 20, but why not 30 dollars an hour? OK, I'll go 30 bucks an hour. Fine. Wait, let's not stop there. How about fifty dollars an hour? Well, that may be a bit much. Well, why?

Why is 50 dollars too much? And 30 bucks is fine, and you'll eventually learn that they have. No basis. For making their claim or their demand for 30 or 20 or 18, it's nothing more than a political football that they kick around and they use it to point out how mean spirited and unconcerned minimum wage opponents. I don't care about people. And Rand Paul is exactly right, if we're going to give every American nine hundred billion, why not give every American thirty thousand?

Well, I can't do that a bit too much. Why? We've got the guaranteed national income bunch out there that's proposing something similar. Why is it he's exactly right about this? Why not thirty thousand? Why not twenty thousand? Instead you're going to get six hundred dollars. Which would cost one hundred ninety eight billion. But the bill spends nine hundred billion there, 700 billion dollars in this bill. You are not getting a quick break. Back with more after this.

OK, let's go back to the phones. You get Andy Vista, California. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the program today. How are you? You are a great rush.

Merry Christmas. God bless you. We pray for you every day so we know you're going to pull through this, my friend.

Thank you, sir, very much. Of course. Of course. So, you know, part of what we've been trying to keep the faith in every way possible here with everything going on. And, you know, the part that really has bothered me the most has been the indecency of the last, the indecency of the modern Democrat Party and how they how to behave towards us, towards conservatives. I've been trying to think through what the source of this and you know what?

As we go back, I lay this at the feet of Bill Clinton and I go back to the 1990s and I think back to not just how he got away with it through the whole impeachment situation of lying under oath, but even the weaponization of the agency of Hillary destroying the life of Billy Dale and the top political office people. And I just go back to that lack of decency. So Bill Clinton wants a legacy. That's his legacy. He's the one who's brought this level of indecency because he's taught the Democrat Party they could get away with anything that they they pull through because they're still not being held accountable.

Well, now, the last thing you said there might be in a blanket way, agree, because I think it precedes Clinton and a lot of ways they got away with barking Robert Bork.

They almost got away with destroying Clarence Thomas. I mean, the Democrats have been I think it starts with the Borking of Bork, Ted Kennedy. I think this goes back to the 1980s. This if you if you're looking for a point where the Democrat Party switched into an attack machine as a political strategy, I think it's Ted Kennedy and his lies about Judge Bork. And then they attempted to. And by the way, who who ran the effort to destroy Biden, I'm sorry, destroy Clarence Thomas.

It was Joe Biden.

Joe Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the effort to destroy Clarence Thomas began. I remember I was in Oklahoma City or Tulsa, I forget which I was doing a Rush to Excellence tour stop. And it was a Saturday show that I had. And I remember I broomed everything.

That I had on my note cards to remind me, and I did an hour and a half on how they were destroying Clarence Thomas and I could see on the faces of the thousands and thousands of people in the audience, they didn't know much about what I was talking. What's I said, OK, I'm I've got to stay focused here because I may lose them unless I find a way to connect this to them. They had no idea this was a C-SPAN show.

At this point in time, it had bled over into some.

Of the CNN cable news networks, Fox News wasn't on the air then in 1990, as before, nineteen ninety seven, ninety six. So I remember I had to explain exactly what the effort to destroy Clarence Thomas was, who he was. And I think it worked because the nobody left. Everybody stayed at rapt attention. Now, the thing you said that is that they're not being held accountable and so forth is is true. And in it, Clinton did probably.

Contribute to the Democrats learning that they would be given cover by the by the media, and even that, though, would I think would predate the Lewinsky story, which is what I was primarily talking about. But it's nevertheless an interesting theory that you have.

You want to go out and tie the indecency of the Democrat Party to to Bill Clinton, how it began. The thing that you've got to remember here is that some of it includes the Republicans now. I mean, they never trumpeter's former conservative intellectuals, just signed on with eagerness to whatever the Democrats were doing in their effort to destroy Trump.

And so it's it's a tough thing to just say it's the Democrats that are responsible for the indecency.

I've always asked myself, well, when are the American people going to stand up and punish this at the ballot box? When are they going to stop rewarding this kind of decency? And I thought the election of George W. Bush might have been close to being a marker for them.

It turned out not to be anyway. Quick time out. Back with more in a sec.

Lisa in State College, Pennsylvania. Hi. Great to have you here.

Hey, Rush, this is the best Christmas present ever. God bless you. Well, thank you. Thank you very much, Elizabeth.

Hey, listen, I wanted to talk a little bit about the order that that vaccines are being given out. Obviously, the health care workers should be first. And having said that, you know, people talk about the people in nursing homes and seniors getting it as a priority. Well, I'm a senior 69. And as far as the nursing homes go, if you give it to the workers that are going into the nursing homes, I don't think you really need to give it to the seniors.

They're not going anywhere. They're not going to work and so on. And as a senior myself and retired, my husband and I have the opportunity and are blessed enough that we don't have to go to work so we can stay home. So so we're up to me. I wouldn't get it. I would say let's go.

Wait a minute, wait. What I'm going to confuse. Are you in a nursing home?

No, I'm sorry. I'm not I'm just saying that priority that people are talking about are seniors and people in nursing homes. And I watched the first day that the vaccines were being given out and they had all of these elderly people, you know, in nursing homes getting the vaccines. And, yes, I want to protect them. But I think the way to protect the people in nursing homes is to give it to the workers who are coming in.

Rather than them, you know, to the senior house, the devil's advocate, let me OK, because nursing homes have been like Andrew Cuomo has used nursing homes to hide in the herd of senior citizen now.

But they're getting the people in nursing homes are getting it from their workers and the people coming into the nursing home. So if you're giving it to the health care workers, including the maintenance people who work in the nursing homes. That should cover the people in the back, but people in nursing homes are the most vulnerable. The elderly are among the most vulnerable now. Now, the way this would work under it, under Obamacare is they would be the last to get because their days of productivity are finished.

But but see, that's in a way, kind of my point, because I'm retired. OK, let's go on to the people. Not necessarily nursing homes, just the elderly. I'm retired. I would fall into that category. And what do you think about what do you think about reporters in the drive by media? They're claiming they're demanding that they should be at the front of the line because they're so essential.

No, forget them. But what my my point is, as a retired senior, I have the blessing of being able to stay home and to not go out. And if if it's a if it's a question of the number of vaccines available, I would rather my vaccine go to somebody who needs their job, somebody who's working in Iran.

OK, I got I. So you basically are you want to sacrifice your dose. Exactly. Yeah. OK, you want to sacrifice your dose to somebody who is in a greater need for it.

Correct. That is correct, especially school teachers. Know we want or we want our grandkids, we want our kids back in school, they should certainly get it before me. As I say, I'm blessed. I'm retired. I'm able to stay home and not go out to work. You know, I have a next door neighbor, her daughter both work in restaurants. OK, yes, I hear you.

Well, that's that's very thoughtful of you. That's extremely, extremely thoughtful of you that you would like to sacrifice your dough. So I appreciate it and I understand it.

I got a note.

I got a note from a from an acquaintance, 60, 70. Sixty seven years old. And because he's 67 years old, he's behind one hundred eighteen million people who are in line ahead of him the way it's currently established, which means he might get the vaccine a year from now.

But do you know that employees in liquor stores are ahead of seniors in the way this is being handled right now? And I'm I'm just getting up to speed on the on the nature of the allocation, how it's how it's being done. And some of it, frankly, to my eyes, doesn't make any sense. But I don't know that you could probably have that reaction to any system that that they came up with. Members of Congress are trying to boot people out of line and trying to jump the line.

I've heard. And they are also saying because they are essential. I mean, they are America's lawmakers. They need to be vaccinated so that they can continue to make laws because that's crucial.

That's what teachers should be ahead of. You in line, Lisa, would be another way of illustrating this.

But the fact is, we can't give everybody that wants a vaccine a dose right now. It's there's got to be some method of doing it. I appreciate the call.

Barbara in San Antonio, you are next. Welcome to our show. Hi. Hi, Rose.

First of all, I want to say that I've been praying for you. And after being married for 37 years to my husband, who passed away eight years ago, I really haven't prayed much. But thanks to you, I'm praying more again.

Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I sincerely appreciate that. I am one of the 75 million people who voted for Trump, and I'm very angry about the corruption of our election in the process of our stolen election. And I would like to know, is it possible for those of for the rest of us to get a list of the politicians who are supporting Trump through this and the politicians who are not so that we could know who we want to vote for in the next few elections and who he would not like to or maybe who we would like in money to do.

I don't know what you would eventually or you would have to you would have to get a list of people that voted for Trump and voted against him. And I don't know how you're going to do that now. If you're if you want a list of people who were verbally opposing Trump, who tried to make people think they hated him and didn't, but then voted for him privately and quietly and didn't want anybody to know. So I don't know how you're going to get the list that you want because we don't generally divulge the way people voted.

And that's the only way you're really going to know who supported him and who didn't.

OK. All right. Well, we just want to do something, and it's hard to find anything we can do.

Well, you know, there are so many people that that are seeking additional things that they can do to want to have some kind of help, to be some kind of assistance to to Trump. And it's it's very sweet. And I you know, you look at any number of things that I think. In one sense, give you a just a possibility rather than things like, look, if you want to find the people that oppose Trump and vote against them, that's cool, too.

I don't want to talk anybody out of that, but. If people really want to do something above and beyond voting, I'll give you a suggestion. How about. Trying to recapture the public education system in America now, this is a very, very important thing and it's very frustrating to me to see how.

People have allowed the public education system to be stolen from them right in front of them, they know it's being stolen. They're afraid to do anything about it. They're afraid that their kids would be adversely affected if they speak up. And so the left has been able to basically steal public education and turn it into an indoctrination. Of our kids rather than full fledged education, I'll explain in greater detail in a moment. Got a quick time out for. Back after this, I want to share with you what Tulsi Gabbard has, in fact, a couple of things.

Tulsi Gabbard, audio, somebody number five. This is Tulsi Gabbard last night on her Twitter page. She's a member of Congress from Hawaii. And she posted a video explaining why she voted against the covid relief bill.

There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or the time to go through and read this bill to know exactly what was in it. I've been here long enough to see how provisions are snuck into these bills. Here's what's left for you. You get six hundred bucks, I'll tell you in Hawaii that in most cases won't even cover twenty five percent of your rent. It is an insult and a slap in the face to every single American in this country who is struggling because of this covid pandemic.

Frankly, that encapsulates my sentiments on this. Six hundred bucks when we're spending nine hundred billion and some would say it's well into the trillions if you factor everything in here.

Six hundred bucks. And this is Pelosi using her.

This stuff could have happened before the election where there's so much to say about this. This stuff could have happened before the election. She withheld it. And now Tulsi Gabbard, six hundred billion, six hundred bucks in Hawaii won't even cover twenty five for the average person's rent there.

And she makes a valid point. So the Democrats don't care about you in the idea that they do and Republicans don't continues to be one of these frustrating things. There's something else Tulsi Gabbard has posted. Listen to this now. For months, the CDC has been telling us that the elderly are the most vulnerable, but now they're recommending that one hundred million so-called essential workers, which means healthy people working in anything from liquor stores to telephone companies, that they can get the vaccine before our grandparents can, that members of Congress like me, we can get the vaccine before at risk.

Seniors can. Now, why do you think this is? Mr. Snowden, would you? Well, he's not he's screening calls.

Let me ask, why do you think that seasoned citizens in nursing homes or otherwise wherever would not be high on the list for vaccines? Now, you might want to say, well, if you look at Obamacare, they they said that they are not going to be productive. There's no reason to spend a lot of money on keeping them alive because their days of productivity. That's what Obamacare said.

That's why people came along and considered the death panels, Sarah Palin death panels that were death panels on Obamacare. And there were. But I don't think that's the explanation here, because the vaccine, while it does have some relationship to productivity, being able to work, most seasoned citizens, it is thought, are conservative. Most of them vote Republican.

No, I'm just throwing it out. I don't even know that that's necessarily true. But I know that a lot of people believe it to be. Here's here's Bob Bob in Coronado, California. Great to have you, sir. Hello.

Hey, Rush, I want to do some very simple math on the radio, which you are often cautioned about. You started to do it about an hour ago, and that is basically with this covid relief package of nine hundred billion dollars you take if you let me round our population to 300 million people and divide that into nine hundred billion dollars, that comes out exactly to three thousand dollars per person. Twelve thousand dollars for a family of four. And if I was Trump, I would veto this bill.

I would say, look, pick a number. And say, we want it, I would rather give mine. I would rather give 3000 dollars to all these people, which covers five times more than six hundred dollars covers. And I'm not going to sign this bill. And Trump would become the most popular president of both parties instantly. No money to Pakistan for gender studies, no money to the Sudan, none of the other B.S. stuff that's in this bill.

Your thoughts?

I think it's interesting that when you get up to three thousand dollars per person, if the whole thing were devoted to the American people and you round the population of 300 million and you figure that each one would get three thousand dollars, that's that would be fascinating.

Missioning Trump, making the speech where I disagree.

Excuse me. I don't think that he would become the instant hero of the Democrats. I think the the hatred of Trump is so ingrained that there's nothing he can do to turn Democrats other than the ones he's already converted into supporters of his. I think it'd be great if it happens. But I think that they've been so successful in manipulating the emotions of Democrats to just hate the hell out of Donald Trump that even if he did that, I don't I don't think that would be the end result.

But even if he I don't think that's to be the reason he shouldn't do it either. It'd be a great point to make. It would wake people up whether they end up supporting him or not. And of course, it's a little late to support him because the election's in the rearview mirror now.

But if you tell people that if they committed relief, Bill, are actually aimed at the American people, each American would get three thousand dollars.

But instead, you're getting six hundred. Would be powerful. Oh, yeah, that's right, I got to explain to you, I teased earlier California, they passed this massive tax increase on the rich so the rich start moving away. California says, oh, no, you're not. You do that. And we are still going to find you and we're going to get your money.

And I'm going to tell you how they're going to do it as a lesson, as a precursor. Stand by. Hey, welcome back, folks, great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh back. And the Excellence in Broadcasting Network telephone number, if you want to join us in our final big broadcast, our today is eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. One of the asked a quick question. What do you think Donald Trump's greatest legacy will be?

What's that? Supreme Court.

Well, here's here's here's my list, and I think I'm gonna have to add that to it, because that's none of my favorite Supreme Court three conservative justices.

Right. Giving us, I suppose, it six to three majority operation warp speed, i.e. the vaccine.

Oh, by the way. Every unit, Pelosi back in twenty eighteen. Referred to a one thousand dollar tax cut. As crumbs, we remember that, and she's she's out there calling six hundred dollars. Per citizen for covid relief, significant, significant, six hundred bucks today is significant. A thousand dollars, two years. Crum's as she attacked Trump. OK, so Supreme Court operation warp speed highlighting the need for national election reform, identifying the Tricon that that is such a big one.

You realize Trump has been hammering the Chinese since he was opening his campaign 2015 even before that.

Trump is the guy who literally made news, what made it be news that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had a relationship with common business interests? How about identifying the deep state problem? Exposing the fake news media. How about creating the greatest economy in American history by way of massive? Reductions in regulations and tax cuts. I think one of the biggest legacies Trump's going to have is making us energy independent. I tell you, I worry that this is going to be lost.

I worry that Biden is going to reverse this. I think Biden's going to come up with a way to reinvigorate the Iran deal. And I think it's going to result in the United States losing its energy independence. Believe me, the United States becoming energy independent. That was not on the drawing board for globalists. The Obama crowd that was no, no, no, would not not know that we can accomplish our goals if the US becomes energy independent, if the United States becomes a net exporter of energy, of oil, that that gums up the works like you can't believe you watch.

I don't know how long it's going to take, but if we lose our status as energy, it will require purposeful strategies to bring that about.

And if that happens, you'll have if that happens, if the Democrats literally if Biden and his crew actually. Succeed in revoking our energy independence. Folks, that would be the biggest indication of what we're up against.

How about bringing an unheard of level of peace and cooperation in the Middle East, and how did that happen, by the way? Why, I think moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, every president had promised to do it. Trump actually did it. And I think finding a way to get all of these Middle Eastern Arab states to unite with Israel because of Iran. And I'll guarantee you this, the the Biden administration or Obama, too, is going to do everything they can to reignite the Iran deal, which will get Iran nuclear weapons.

They're going to do everything they can to unwind what Trump did with Iran, including these. Remarkable new relationships with Middle Eastern Arab states and Israel. Now, my my point is that only an outsider could have achieved all of that. There's nobody that that works in the Washington establishment, there's nobody that is part of the Washington careerist establishment that would have even wanted to accomplish anything, that it wouldn't have even been on their radar.

Operation warp speed, like I said earlier, they would accept the notion you don't get vaccines for four years, five years takes a long time. What you even tried. China was not a problem, they wouldn't do anything, it upset China they wouldn't even think of. The deep state, why nobody was ever supposed to have heard of it, nobody was ever supposed to have discovered it, they would not have facilitated that, they would not have created the greatest economy in history.

They wouldn't have cut regulations. They wouldn't have cut taxes if Hillary had won.

Why we would have a continuation. Of the Obama economy, which was stagnation and a belief in the in the theory that now is a new era of decline economically and the days of kids doing better, their parents are over. The American economy is not going to be strong enough to do that anymore. We don't deserve to be strong enough to do things like that. So you better get used to the new America constant state of decline. But we're here to manage it for you.

So they would have never thought to make us energy independent. They would not have thought it was possible. My point is and of course, the Supreme Court.

I don't even think a standard Republican president would have stuck in with cabinet. They would have broomed cabinet, the first sign of trouble, for example, and they would not have tried for Amy CONI Barrett before the election. So right there are two of these three new judges would have never happened even if there were a traditional Republican in the White House. So my point is only an outsider could have achieved all of this. Fresh set of eyes, indefatigable spirit, relentless work ethic, this is a hell of a lot to get done.

In essentially three and a half years. And only a bunch of collectivist socialists would stop at nothing to cheat this incredibly successful, helpful person out of a second term because they are threatened by this very list. Of things where you seek to identify Trump's greatest legacy. OK, California. A California plan. This is The Wall Street Journal has the story.

This is from four days ago. I'll bet not many of you have heard about this. California's legislature is considering a wealth tax on residents, part year residents and any person who spends more than 60 days inside the state's borders in a single year. Even those who move out of state would continue to be subject to the tax for 10 years. The California Constitution probably, it says here, probably allows a statewide wealth tax on residents, but any effort to create a tax capable of reaching across state borders is likely to run afoul of the US Constitution.

Well, who's going to care about that? We've got a Democrat in the White House, a Democrat out in the state House in California who's going to care about the Constitution. Here's here's the point. In California, that created a wealth tax. They're out of money. They can't print it. They can't go into debt like we can, like the federal government can. So they're constantly in need of money. And the way they do it is the way the Democrats always do it.

Go after the rich, go after the wealthy. So they create this new wealth tax, which is forcing people to leave. Like, I left New York in nineteen ninety seven. Now, the Democrats had not figured out how to. Well, actually, they did. They pursued me for over 10 years. Phantom audits and demands and claims that I was secretly living in New York when I was anyway, they have now said that if you think you're going to escape this tax by leaving California, you better think again because we're going to tax you the same world tax.

We're going to tax you wherever you end up. For 10 years. The California Constitution probably allows a statewide wealth tax on residents, but any effort to create a tax capable of reaching across state borders is likely to run afoul of U.S. Constitution. Do they not know at the Wall Street Journal that the Democrats don't give a rip about the U.S. Constitution? Don't they know at The Wall Street Journal that nothing the Democrats or the left ever want runs afoul of the US Constitution?

Now, the range of people. That California proposes to ensnare with this tax is staggering, for example, every student attending college in California. Anyone having a major medical procedure at a California hospital and needing an extended in-state recovery period and those who spend two months in California away from New York or London, Winters'.

This is the 60 day thing that they're imposing if you are in California for more than 60 days, not one hundred and eighty. If you're in California for more than 60 days, we're going to tax you as a resident, essentially. You see, under this tax law, there is no distinction between a non-resident from Minnesota and a non-resident from Dubai. The proposed wealth tax would fall on a star high school or college athlete who grows up in California, becomes a wealthy professional in another state after graduation.

It would grab a scientist who develops a drug to cure cancer years after leaving California. I mean, it will basically. Allow California to slap a tax, unproductive people. Who leave the state to get away from these taxes for 10 years. I mean, it's just incredible.

So this is how they're going to do it, other states will then pick up on this and institute the same kind of thing because leftists. Cannot stop taxing people. I want to see how they're going to deal with this. Have you heard about the Rose Bowl moving from Pasadena? Well, you can't do the game because they're shut down. So the Rose Bowl is being moved to Jerry Jones Stadium, AT&T Park. In Dallas, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and the strict wide shut down orders from Gavin Newsom, the college football playoff game known as the Rose Bowl will not be played in Pasadena.

It's going to be played in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T Stadium, home of the Cowboys. State of California may not want your money, but Texas is going to be happy to take it. This decision was reached Saturday by the Tournament of Roses and the CFP management committees. It's all about playing the game in a venue that will allow family and friends into the stadium to watch it. So these people, they're on their own, they are on a roll, they are being who they are, the American people will have no excuse not to know.

This is not going to take a break. We'll be back. Stay with us.

Hi, how are you? Great to have you with us, my friends. As we celebrate Christmas Week here on the EIB Network, we go back to the phones. Pendleton, Oregon, this is Richard. Hello, sir.

Yes, it's an honor to talk to you. I'm so happy that guy. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate that. For 30 years. My question is, if the Socialist Party ends up stealing this election, would President Trump run in twenty, twenty four? Well, I don't know.

He says he's going to he's he's he's made that clear on a couple of occasions, but yeah. Who knows what's going to happen. Twenty, twenty four. Who knows what's going to happen. Twenty, twenty two or twenty, twenty even. Twenty, twenty, twenty one. We don't even know. So what is your, what is your point. You don't think he should.

I think that he should and I'm kind of thinking that they might wish that he would have been able to win the election fairly, which is what he should have done. But that way they would be done with him in their mind in four years.

Now they're going to have to listen for the next four years if they get away with this about him running in twenty twenty four way, the they are going to have to listen to him for the next four basically as he as he continues to constantly campaign for it, you mean.

Yes. Yep. OK, so how could they have prevented that or is that not your point.

Well they might have been in they might look back and think they would have been better off had he had they not stole the election from him, they would have been able to, in their minds, get away. You know, they wouldn't have to deal with him anymore after twenty twenty four.

Oh, there is no way the only people think like that are us. We are the only people who think we win by losing the Democrats don't think that way. It would never occur to them to let Trump be president for two terms so they can get rid of him once and for all would never occur to them. Now, we do this all the time. Back in nineteen ninety two people calling me Rush, we need to let Bill Clinton win, we need to show people how rotten socialism is.

We need people to learn how rotten and how destructive the Democrat Party has become. Therefore, we need to win by losing. And I have heard this from countless other people through the years about other Democrats. We need to let that guy win Rushville a week and let people know how bad socialism or Democrat Party politics is or what have you.

I don't think that the left I don't think the Democrat Party would ever think there's anything on the upside to letting Trump win in twenty twenty just so they can be rid of him for good in in twenty twenty four. I guarantee you this, they were scared to death that if Trump had another four years that they might not win anything again. There might be such great things happening in this country after four more years of Trump. That the American people wouldn't have wanted any part of the Democrat, that would be a distinct possibility.

It's also possible that the Democrats would have.

Literally pulled out all the stops to defeat, to impugn, to wipe Trump out in these next four years, but they weren't going to sit by and even let him win. And had he won, they weren't going to sit by and let him govern. We've already determined that. This is Christy Christy in Springfield, Missouri, your next. Hello.

Merry Christmas, Rush Limbaugh. You're a true American patriot, sir. Well, thank you very much. What an honor. And I just have to say real quick, let's add one other accomplishment to President Trump's endless list, and that is his stand for life. He will be blessed for that. But my the main reason I called right was to say I agree with the gentleman that called earlier. I don't want this. Six hundred dollars. They can keep it.

It is an insult, a slap in the face to give all that money to other nations. I don't want the money. And I would urge the president, please, sir, don't sign this bill. Yeah.

I mean, if there was ever something that bad to be vetoed, it's this absolutely no question about it.

I have this list and it's been two hours since I ran through that list. And there may be people listening right now that don't know exactly what you're talking about, not no fault of theirs other than that they weren't listening here when I did it and we could blame them for that. But I also could go through the list again after the break here, coming up at the bottom of the hour, which might be wise to to do that because you hear what I said about Pelosi.

Twenty eighteen. She called a one thousand dollar tax bonus. Peanut's called it Crumb's. Now says the six hundred dollar coronavirus benefit is truly great.

I mean, it's she knows and she can keep her money. Now, I understand the sentiment on a lot of people probably does, but even even if there wasn't this money going elsewhere, six hundred bucks, we're going to start giving the money away.

That's. That's an insult. And welcome back. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.

OK, let me very quickly run through some of the additional spending on this covid relief bill and actually, my friends. The spending in this bill is actually much worse because this bill, which is five thousand five hundred some odd pages, is not just a covid relief bill. The. Nine hundred billion dollars, covid relief bill was just tacked on to the year end, one point four trillion dollar appropriations bill, and that keeps the government from shutting down.

Don't you know, we always go through this every January. So there was a threat of a government shutdown. We had a one point four trillion dollar appropriations bill to keep the government running. You add the nine hundred billion dollar covid relief bill and what do we have? Well, that's like two point three trillion dollars. And that's even pretending that the nine hundred billion dollars is all for covid relief, and it isn't. It's an absolute boondoggle, and it's typical the point that I made at the beginning of the program going through this is welcome to returning the way things used to be.

This is exactly the way things used to be before Trump was elected. It's right out there in the open starts with this. Family members of illegal aliens are now able to get stimulus checks under this new bill and it's retroactive so they can also get the previous twelve hundred dollars that's given out. So family members of illegal aliens. Are able to get stimulus checks, nine hundred dollars, 600 bucks plus the previously allocated twelve hundred eighteen hundred for them family members of illegal aliens.

There is billions of dollars going to foreign aid.

One hundred and sixty nine million dollars to Vietnam. Unspecified amounts to continue support for nonprofits, for higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan, one hundred ninety eight million dollars to Bangladesh.

One hundred thirty million dollars to Nepal for development and democracy programs, Pakistan, 15 million dollars for democracy programs and 10 million dollars for gender programs. This is in the conflict relief bill that gets you six hundred dollars Srilanka, you ready for this?

Up to 15 million dollars for the refurbishing of a high endurance boat.

A type of patrol boat, a cutter. I kid you not Sri Lanka is getting 15 million dollars to repair one of their patrol boats. Five hundred five million dollars to. The Central American superpower, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama to address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied undocumented minors to the U.S..

Are you kidding me?

Five hundred five million dollars. To address what's that? Key factors that contribute to the micro, so 505 million dollars to these nations in Central America to stop it.

Ha! To address key factors that contribute to the migration of money, maybe it's to increase it, the Democrats think we need to increase the numbers of illegals white. Five hundred and five million dollars, four hundred sixty one million dollars to Colombia for programs related to counter narcotics and human rights. Seventy five million dollars to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. I just tax breaks for racehorse owners. It's the way things used to be just four short years ago. Back to the phones.

We call Jonathan Mission Viejo, California. You're up next. I'm glad you waited. I rush.

Merry Christmas. We're we're praying for you and we love you. I think and I thought about this the other day, you know, you're as important to my generation Gen Xers as George Washington and John Adams. Thomas Jefferson were to the founding generation. That is, you you make that big of a difference and you're that important. And we love you. We're praying for you.

Thank you very much. It's overwhelming. I can't thank you enough for that.

So, listen, Rush, I'm I'm the CEO of a small business here in Southern California. And we've been working remote for the past almost year. And we've not had a very good year. And I think a lot of that has been related to covid. We made a strategic decision to have people come back into the office on January 4th. And then at the beginning of December, this bureaucratic body called the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, they released their guidelines for coming back to work and what we're supposed to follow and rush.

This is the biggest bunch of B.S. I've ever read. Unbelievable. What they and this this is for every business in California. You are required to follow this. Let me let me tell you one of the things that what we're supposed to do, all right, we're supposed to we're supposed to check the quality of our outside air with our air conditioning units to make sure that there's enough outside air coming into the offices was.

Yeah. How the hell are you supposed to do that?

That's that's a great question.

I would like to know good quality of your outside air with your air conditioning units to make sure there's no outside air coming in the offices. Yes. Well, how the hell is air conditioning work if it doesn't make sure that's happening?

I don't I don't know. I mean, I guess maybe they want us to put, you know, 100 dollar HEPA air filters on each of our registers and it's going to be something like that.

Unreal.

So here's another good one. So we're trying to bring people back, right. And they tell us we're supposed to physically distance. And here's one of the ways that we're supposed to physically distance by eliminating the need for workers to be in the workplace. And you want to bring them back, you want to relocate them in the office, read that to me again, eliminating the need for workers to be in the workplace. Exactly. Haven't you already done that?

Haven't you already demonstrated, you know, how to do that?

Exactly. So we're supposed to bring people back by eliminating what we're supposed to just shut the company down, let them go.

You know, I mean, this is if you eliminate the need for them to be in the workplace, then, of course, you're signing on to not bringing them back, right?

Yeah. I mean, it's a completely asinine what they've written here. And this is unelected bureaucrats who have the power to control every business in California.

Yeah, yeah. I know it for well, I mean, it just it makes me sick.

And here in the left coast, beautiful California where we have to deal with this kind of stuff.

And well, I'm curious why what has changed out there to make you think you could even without these these OSHA regs that you just said, what made you think you could bring him back anyway? Because I aren't most California businesses not yet ready for that.

Well, you know, the rush we have been told that the kind of business that we're in, we're essential. All right. So we've been deemed essential by the state. So we have the ability to bring people back. We had decided not to do it for a little while because people were scared. And, you know, you do want to keep morale up. And so for the first couple of months, things were fine. But as we've gotten into the year, we've noticed a huge difference in the way that we communicate in the morale of the company and the way we interact with each other.

We can't continue to run the business this way. We need people here in the office. Right. And I think a lot of companies are figuring this out. You know, at the stars, like, great, I'm going to work from home. Yeah, well, you know, one other things distracting.

I don't know what your business is, but I saw that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, said within the past couple of weeks that they're not going to be bringing people back at the earliest until July. Yeah, 20, 20.

I don't know. I don't know how that's feasible. And especially for a small business. How are you supposed to get people to adapt to your culture when you don't have them around you? It's not possible. You know, we have a way we need to do things, we need to train people, we need to bring him on our show and what we do, you can't do that remotely. That's very difficult for a small business to do that.

But the state of California seems to think it's completely possible and fine and all the businesses are going to run just fine.

That's the office that these these bureaucracies that have never, ever had to make a payroll. They've never run a business, slap these regulations on you that are just nonsensical. And they illustrate a flat out total ignorance the way the business world works in their own state. Yeah.

Anyway, you know, one thing one thing I've thought about a couple of times, I don't think people have made a good point of dealing with even President Trump when he was doing his campaign for for the election. You know, there is no danger for any of these unelected bureaucrats or even our elected senators, representatives in California, federal government, none of them are going without a paycheck. None of them.

That's exactly right. To no matter what the people making these regulations are never going to face. A loss of income, they're never going to face it, these government, you know, staff pukes and so forth, you're absolutely 100 percent correct. I wish I had more time, Jonathan, but I got to go on a little long now. But I'm really glad you got through.

And I very, very much appreciate your your words at the beginning of the call. Got to take a quick time out. Folks, we'll be right back.

It's the fastest three hours in media. And let's see, let's make the most of it. Back to Adam in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Hello. Hello, Rush.

Thank you so much for taking my call. Merry Christmas. And, sir, you are definitely family to me. No, it's not open lines Friday, but I need to tell you what I mean by family. Grow up, lifelong listener, thanks to my father, Jeffrey, and my grandfather, Monroe.

We've always listened to you and my grandfather was fortunate enough to go see you live in your studio TV show.

Yes. Yeah. He passed away when I was in high school. And when I think of him, I can picture him clearly. I picture him in your studio looking up at the monitors like he's not supposed to licking his lips. Three years ago, I was driving with my wife after a particularly rough year. I turned on the radio and you were there. Started to tear up and my wife said, what's going on? I said, because why listen to Rush when I listen to you.

I remember my grandfather. And I remember my father who lives in South Carolina, and every time I hear you. All three together, your voice, sir, transcends time and space and whether you're listening in heaven or you're listening on this earth, we all thank you.

That is heart stopping. That's that's that's incredible. And, you know, I. I happen to know. What you mean, which is why it's so meaningful. I've had I've had similar things happen. Just a short example here. I remember one of the reasons I like Mannheim Steamroller is I was in an airplane around Christmas time and I was I was flying out to California. I had a rush. Jackson's tour stopped, had to do. My father had recently passed away.

I was thinking about him and I'm looking out the window. I've got a window seat and. It's a crystal clear night with the moon just as as visible as it can be, and Manheim Steamroller is on my my tape deck, that's what we used back then to listen to music.

There was no such thing as I pods or things that.

And so I've had this I had marvelous remembering remembrances of of my dad while I'm listening to Mannheim steamroller. And it made me every time I heard Mannheim Steamroller, what made me think of my dad? It was that we all have these connections.

I am so honored and flattered to be yours that I don't want to say I just have a profound appreciation.

I'm glad you got through. And I really, really do appreciate very much all of. Well, that's it, my friends, we we have one more day before the end of the year before Christmas and that'll be tomorrow and don't miss it. Looking forward to it myself. So, again, appreciate very much all of you, your patience, your understanding and your excitement over what's to come.

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